You’re asking for too much lol
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As a programmer who works with very confused designers, modelers, and other artists, this may be my favorite Roblox update all year.
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It’s because for example if I have a lot of bushes, and trees, but they’re in different folders I could simply add tags and I’m then I can do whatever I want
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Ah yes, better organization. Thanks.
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How know chat gpt from this future
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Finally! The old tag plugin was very janky and literally broke for me.
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Thanks for taking time to explain the background on the delay. Great QOL feature for anyone tag based systems.
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LOL now I can see all the tags in my game
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Ok, this is a W
This is something I randomly brainstormed about 2 years ago when I looked at all the kill scripts in all my kill bricks, glad to see there are somewhat like-minded people over at Roblox, I was beginning to think that developers and the board were basically a different species
Big McThankies from McSpankies.
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While you guys are working on this can we get a way to quick rename attributes? The process of clicking the cogwheel then renaming that way is kinda jank
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LETS GO!
This update will be useful for my projects and I will tell my developers about this too.
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Meanwhile changing the value type of attributes not being possible.
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That kind of makes sense though?
but yeah renaming should be as simple as clicking the name, remove the cog wheel and replace it with an X like tags do currently.
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It’s also not possible to rename tags.
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so how exactly do you connect this to a script? lets say i had a part named bob, would i get to the tag using the directory/path bob.tag (or bob.[tag name] or a different way???
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as a person who barely knows anything about scripting and can only design very simple stuff, i would much prefer tags over giving myself a migraine because I can’t figure out indexing or ipairs
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Haha, you still have to use ipairs to get the items which are tagged, which is why I was confused on the use. Also, I was confused by ipairs at first but it really isn’t complicated AT ALL if you read about it. Now, I’ve used ipairs in probably 20 different situations throughout my scripts.
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local CollectionService = game:GetService("CollectionService")
local function onFoo(object)
-- Do stuff with the object
end
-- Handle static Instances existing at startup with the tag
for _, foo in CollectionService:GetTagged("Foo") do
onFoo(foo)
end
-- Handle Instances which get dynamically added later on with the tag
CollectionService:GetInstanceAddedSignal("Foo"):Connect(onFoo)
Note that the engine is optimized to make GetTagged / GetInstanceAddedSignal very performant, and this code is significantly more efficient than searching for Instances in other ways would be.
Games which use a lot of tags normally wrap this setup in a wrapper so they can do something like this for each tag they care about:
bindTag("Foo", function(fooInstance)
-- setup for the Instance
end)
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Let me copy the Tag from property window
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Curious of me, why are small changes like this considered a beta feature if it’s working flawlessly?
Also say I have a game that works for both dummies and actual players, should I assign a tag in players’ characters and dummies as a way to get them easily without utilizing an iteration loop in workspace to fetch them?
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