Ideas to learn lua

a backdoor

I made a box

a box with a backdoor

That's just a house

I made a shitty un-optimized bailing system and sold it on SF #noRagrets

I made a cheat with copy + pasted code and my own menu and shit

skidded for like 6 months

got bored

made fun things

made useful things

started scriptfodder

now I'm here

darkrpdevs.org I heard these guys are pretty good ;)

ByAlek ☕at 15th of February 2017 20:38:05

I made a shitty un-optimized bailing system and sold it on SF#noRagrets

I feel like this was to me...

ByXxLMM13xXgaming™at 16th of February 2017 19:52:08

I feel like this was to me...

unoptimized is the nicest word to use for your code

ByMeejaat 15th of February 2017 12:38:21

After many months of just editing code and basic shit, I decided to start to actually learn how to create my own stuff. Yesterday I created a system that rewarded players for picking up trash that spawns randomly around the map and now I'm pretty stuck for ideas.So I ask you, what were your first projects when you started out? I'm looking for the sort of thing to add gameplay, i.e. not HUD based etc. What were your first projects when you started creating scripts for Garry's mod?

You talk about wanting to make things that add to gameplay?

Well you could do some entity based things. I think when really learning to "create your own stuff" it's still fine to take inspiration from other addons so don't worry about being original it's still your code and your execution of an idea.

Here's an example of how you should come up with an idea and add things step by step.

Alright I want to make a cake baking addon, what do I need to do?

1. Make ingredients that go into the oven.
2. Make cakes that pop out the oven once you put the right ingredients and right amount of ingredients in.
3. Make the cake that pops out edible.
4. Make it health the player when eaten.

Great now our addon works! But we can still make things better.

1. Let's add a fire effect in our oven.
2. Let's make the player have to manually fetch their finished yummy cake out of the oven.
3. Now the player has freedom as to when when they take the cake out of the oven we could make the cake burn resulting in lower quality.
4. Oh no we have burning cakes now! Maybe burning cakes should heal us for less health.
5. Player left his cake too long? BLOW UP THE OVEN!!!

TL;DR

1. Find an idea, it does not need to be original!
2. Think about the different steps you need to get a WORKING addon.
3. Carry out those steps.
4. Got an idea that can make it better? Refine it!

By!Vloxanat 19th of February 2017 11:22:00

You talk about wanting to make things that add to gameplay?Well you could do some entity based things. I think when really learning to "create your own stuff" it's still fine to take inspiration from other addons sodon't worry about being original it's still your code and your execution of an idea.Here's an example of how you should come up with an idea and add things step by step.Alright I want to make a cake baking addon, what do I need to do?Make ingredients that go into the oven.Make cakes that pop out the oven once you put the right ingredients and right amount of ingredients in.Make the cake that pops out edible.Make it health the player when eaten.Great now our addon works! But we can still make things better.Let's add a fire effect in our oven.Let's make the player have to manually fetch their finished yummy cake out of the oven.Now the player has freedom as to when when they take the cake out of the oven we could make the cake burn resulting in lower quality.Oh no we have burning cakes now! Maybe burning cakes should heal us for less health.Player left his cake too long?BLOW UP THE OVEN!!!TL;DRFind an idea,it does not need to be original!Think about the different steps you need to get a WORKING addon.Carry out those steps.Got an idea that can make it better? Refine it!

or you could copy and paste from stack overflow.

kek

ByPifftingat 19th of February 2017 13:42:31

or you could copy and paste from stack overflow.kek

He was actually being serious. No need for shitty memes.

ByHagmeowat 19th of February 2017 17:23:53

He was actually being serious. No need for shitty memes.

ur content creator rank is a meme

Bydisabled 15 year old sheepieat 20th of February 2017 09:56:11

ur content creator rank is a meme

gmodstore will purge false profits

ByLunaversity.xyz 💮at 20th of February 2017 10:15:33

gmodstore will purge false profits

Off topic but how do people get Content Creator without any scripts like at all?

ByQuackDuckat 20th of February 2017 16:22:41

Off topic but how do people get Content Creator without any scripts like at all?

Simply uploading a script ( even when rejected ) will give anyone the tag.

Bynvs2000at 20th of February 2017 16:56:19

Simply uploading a script ( even when rejected ) will give anyone the tag.

No, they actually had a script accepted, but it was then disabled/removed/banned and the tag stayed with them.

Actually, I was given my tag for assisting in making a script currently in the submission process, I don't know why, but even if it's denied, I still have my tag. Anyways, the script submitted was only denied for having little to no description, so it may or may not be accepted as there was no actual other reasons for the denial.

Bytypadat 21st of February 2017 00:10:21

No, they actually had a script accepted, but it was then disabled/removed/banned and the tag stayed with them.

people who bought a dev sub and didn't submit scripts kept their ranks including declined scripts gmodstore will remove these