So I’ve completed the basic scripting tutorials and now I don’t know what I should work on in order to advance my skills. I know there are other posts regarding this but I’d like some fresh ideas as well.
I’m not really sure what the right questions I should be asking right now are so I’m hoping an experienced scripter would lead me on the right path here. What I can say is that I definitely struggle with services and events, such as what lines of code I need in order to call them.
Please let me know what would be the best plan for me, since I only know the basics of scripting and I’m not sure how to put everything together in order to make a functional script.
Instead of trying to immediately shove in all of the advanced stuff into your brain, you should take it slowly and only learn & perfect what YOU deem necessary. Here’s my personal way of doing it:
Challenge yourself to build something cool
Look up anything you don’t know on the docs or the forums
Really try to understand what it is and how to use it
Rinse and repeat
But this alone will not cover everything. No matter how complex and ambitious you make your future projects, it probably will not influence your fundamental ways and techniques of coding and game development. That’s when you should start innovating; go explore and research new features and technologies that are coming or are already available. Places to find these include the announcements page and the engine release notes/changelogs.
Also, your own scripting technique may not always rely on the Roblox engine itself, but rather the language. Whenever you’re ready, go master both Lua 5.1 and Luau.
When I first started scripting I had the same problem, so I understand what you’re going through what I would suggest making is making an Obby, add different levels such as Moving Parts the player has to jump on and Parts that Vanishes 1 second after the player touches it and Parts that kills players if they touch it
After I learned the basics to coding I got into creating leaderstats by making datastores and using them to create leaderboards and all kinds of things.