Hi, today I’m gonna be teaching you, how to make a “Capture the Flag (CTF)” game, make sure to follow my steps exactly, to get a good result.
Your game could look like this: Capture The Flag - Roblox!
If you don’t know how to create places in roblox or if you don’t really know the interface of roblox, this article should help real quick: Roblox Quick Start
Step 1. (Import teams and other settings)
To start, we first need to import the teams service, so that we can handle both team sides easily.
To do this, navigate to the “Model” tab and click the “Service” button.
After you the service window popped up, you need to import the “Teams” service.
Click on team and press “insert”.
If the window closes and a “Teams” Instance appears in the Explorer, you did everything right and it’s time for the next setting.
I recommend turning your Lighting to Future Lighting (it looks very very good), to do this, head over to the Lighting Instance in the Explorer and select it.
Go to the Properties window, and search for the property “Technology” and set it to “Future”.
The rest of the Lighting settings are your own decision.
Let’s head to a setting, that is needed later in the game, the “CharacterAutoLoad”. To find this, you should head over to the “Players” Instance in the Explorer and go to the Properties window. Easily find the “CharacterAutoLoads” property (it should be the last one in the list, if not just search it) and set it to false (so basically untick the option). Lets continue to the next step.
Step 2. (Team balancing)
To let the teams balance right, we need to create an own service for it.
To start, create a script in “ServerScriptService” and name it however you want, I’m just gonna call it “TeamBalance”. So let’s start scripting
We need to create some variables first:
local BlueMembers = 0
local RedMembers = 0
The next part mainly counts the members and prints new ones out:
game.Teams.Blue.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player) -- Detect when a player joins the team
BlueMembers = BlueMembers + 1 -- Count the player to the variable
print(player.Name.." joined blue team! Member count is now at "..BlueMembers.."!") -- Printing out the player's team
end)
We have to do that for every event:
-- I'll just leave the first block commented, it should be easy to understand
game.Teams.Blue.PlayerRemoved:Connect(function(player)
BlueMembers = BlueMembers - 1
print(player.Name.." left blue team! Member count is now at "..BlueMembers.."!")
end)
game.Teams.Red.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
RedMembers = RedMembers + 1
print(player.Name.." joined red team! Member count is now at "..RedMembers.."!")
end)
game.Teams.Red.PlayerRemoved:Connect(function(player)
RedMembers = RedMembers - 1
print(player.Name.." left red team! Member count is now at "..RedMembers.."!")
end)
Let’s continue to add new players to a team:
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
wait(1) -- Wait for the block above to finish running
if BlueMembers > RedMembers then -- Detect which team got more players
player.Team = game.Teams.Red -- Setting the player's team
elseif BlueMembers < RedMembers then -- Detect which team got more players
player.Team = game.Teams.Blue -- Setting the player's team
else
if math.random(1,2) == 1 then -- If the teams are the same size, the script will set the player to a random team
player.Team = game.Teams.Red -- Setting the player's team
else -- If the random number was 2
player.Team = game.Teams.Blue -- Setting the player's team
end
end
player:LoadCharacter() -- Load the players character
print(player.Name.." joined!") -- Print out, that the join process is done
end)
But when a player is (unfortunately) leaving, we have to refresh the teams, to let the game stay fair:
game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
wait(1) -- Wait for the block above above to finish
if BlueMembers <= 0 or RedMembers <= 0 then -- Detect if there are no players in one team
for i,v in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do -- If there are no players in one team it starts to loop trough everyone
if BlueMembers > RedMembers then -- Doing the regular team assigning (explained in the block above)
v.Team = game.Teams.Red -- =
elseif BlueMembers < RedMembers then -- =
v.Team = game.Teams.Blue -- =
else
if math.random(1,2) == 1 then -- =
v.Team = game.Teams.Red -- =
else
v.Team = game.Teams.Blue -- =
end
end
end
end
print(player.Name.." left!") -- Print out, that the leave process is done
end)
Since we disabled AutoCharacterLoad, the Character doesnt load after death, we have to manually do that:
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(character)
character.Humanoid.Died:Connect(function()
print(player.Name.." died!") -- Print out, that a player died
wait(0.2) -- Respawn time, so it doesnt look like, the player teleported away (your decision)
player:LoadCharacter() -- Load the character in
end)
end)
end)
So, that’s it for this script, take a break and head to the next step!
Step 3. (Map designing)
So the main map design is yours, but I still have to say these things (Don’t even think about skipping these):
:-: You should use the exact same model for both bases.
:-: You HAVE TO separate the two bases in models, that are called like: “BlueBase”/“RedBase”
:-: In the base models, there has to be a Part called “CapturePart”, for me, it is the tower where the flag is standing on (on the picture below). It will be the part, that you have to touch with the enemy flag on you.
:-: Your flag model should look like this: (Ignore the “FlagScript” Instance, we are gonna create this later)
:-: The “Pole” has to be anchored, the “Flag” not.
My map looks like that:
TO BE CONTINUED!
!