EventBlocks Devlog 5 | Making a visual scripting plugin in Roblox

[NeoBuilds]

@Xsticcy

@NeoBuilds

making a way to get player’s graphics level from their settings? It is possible to do so in script, but what about blocks?

Possible in Lua? Then it’s possible in blocks too! Blocks are pure Lua code, nothing else. When you drag blocks around, you drag lua lines around.

I meant “what way will you do it?”.

@Xsticcy

@NeoBuilds

Will you make a global variable

Yes, of course. It’s actually planned for the next devlog.

@NeoBuilds

Will you make a global variable to get player’s speed, account age, jump power, display name

I don’t need a seperate block for each of them. I can just have one block called ‘get ___ of player ___’
And you can choose what property you want from a dropdown, and drop you player object into the block.

@NeoBuilds

Will you make a global functions to set each of those?

I’ve explained already, no.

You though that these were separate questions, but no.

@Xsticcy

It’s your opinion. But I know a lot of people who can’t understand real code and miss visual scripting from Roblox.

I too! The reason is… they didn’t even try.

[Xsticcy]

@NeoBuilds

what way will you do it?

I’ll do it the same way I did it with every block. It’s just a minute to add a new block.
But keep in mind the plugin still lacks client sided scripting. There will be client only blocks.

@NeoBuilds

I too! The reason is… they didn’t even try.

Well, they might try this then! They’ll will literally be able to read english sentences. Also they will see a lot of colored blocks, they might get interested!

[NeoBuilds]

I honestly didn’t need answers anymore. Good luck with you project!

[NestofThornz]

I’m new to Roblox and was kind of overwhelmed with trying to learn lua until I started using this plugin. I’m very thankful. I’m starting to become more confident in my manual scripting thanks to seeing how the blocks were organized. Also, I’m pretty old for just coming into the game dev world so my age causes my hands to cramp with all the typing but this helps with that as well. For anyone that says something is easy, remember that easy is subjective.