[Part6.5] Easy Roblox Combat System for Beginners | Episode 6 Summary & Minor Additions — Transcript

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1. 0:00All right, welcome to 6.5.
2. 0:05Little intermission between the seventh
3. 0:07episode and the sixth one.
4. 0:10So, last episode, it was honestly really
5. 0:13kind of a mess. So, this episode is
6. 0:15mainly to
7. 0:16have some little additions and some
8. 0:18fixes,
9. 0:19as well as reiterate on what we did in
10. 0:23the previous episode to hopefully make
11. 0:25it more concise and have a better
12. 0:27explanation for it.
13. 0:28So, yeah, let's get into it.
14. 0:31So, the first thing I want to address is
15. 0:34the state service.
16. 0:36So, you'll notice last episode, we have
17. 0:39a lot of these
18. 0:41if and or statements over here that we
19. 0:43could definitely condense into like a
20. 0:45different
21. 0:47state service that we can access. So,
22. 0:50we're going to move the state service
23. 0:52from
24. 0:53the service script service to the mouse
25. 0:56rules, like so.
26. 0:58And here, we can keep it the same.
27. 1:01And one thing we want to add is the run
28. 1:04service variable in here.
29. 1:07So,
30. 1:08basically, when we created the folder
31. 1:11for the status folder,
32. 1:13we don't want the client to be creating
33. 1:15this. We only want the server to be
34. 1:17creating this.
35. 1:18So, we can say something like if
36. 1:21run service is server, then we create
37. 1:23it.
38. 1:25Otherwise, we'll just return and
39. 1:29so, we'll just end the script because we
40. 1:31only want the status folder to be made
41. 1:32on the server if there's none.
42. 1:34So, that's going to be the first
43. 1:36addition.
44. 1:37And the next one is actually changing
45. 1:39every
46. 1:41variable we created for a state service
47. 1:43to the new parent.
48. 1:45So, if you press control, shift, and F,
49. 1:48you can view all of the locations that
50. 1:50you put for it.
51. 1:52So, we can look up state service and
52. 1:53we'll see all of the places we have.
53. 1:56So, the first place we'll look is the
54. 1:59combat system,
55. 2:01which we know that is a script up here.
56. 2:04We'll just change this to modules
57. 2:06{dot} state service, like so.
58. 2:10So, that should be fixed for that.
59. 2:12And then, let's see what else.
60. 2:15Over here, we'll also change this to
61. 2:17modules {dot} state service.
62. 2:21Like so.
63. 2:23Let's see what else right here.
64. 2:28Modules {dot} state service and
65. 2:33over here.
66. 2:35Modules {dot} state service, and that
67. 2:37should be it for that.
68. 2:42So, if we exit out all of these scripts
69. 2:44and we
70. 2:47play the game,
71. 2:48let's see
72. 2:50what happened here.
73. 2:52Character is not a valid member of
74. 2:56Duh, duh, duh.
75. 2:57Let's see
76. 3:00what this is. Oh,
77. 3:02this was moved to configuration for some
78. 3:04reason. We always want it to look like
79. 3:05this.
80. 3:07And now, if we play the game,
81. 3:09everything should be running fine.
82. 3:12And if we let suck, you'll see that it
83. 3:14works.
84. 3:18Everything should be working fine.
85. 3:23There we go. Like so.
86. 3:27All right. Um, so, next thing we want to
87. 3:29do is
88. 3:32implement the new state service add-on
89. 3:34into the input script.
90. 3:39So,
91. 3:43we will do that.
92. 3:46So, over here, we can require the state
93. 3:48service. So, we can say
94. 3:50state service equals require
95. 3:52modules.state service.
96. 3:55And then, instead of doing all of this
97. 3:57like extra things, we can just say
98. 4:00if state service.check state, character,
99. 4:03{comma} let's say
100. 4:05stunned, blocking,
101. 4:09attacking,
102. 4:10no sprint,
103. 4:12no move, dashing,
104. 4:15that's cool down,
105. 4:16then we just return false like so.
106. 4:19I will leave it at that. And we can do
107. 4:21the same thing for here.
108. 4:24So, we can say stunned, blocking,
109. 4:26attacking, no sprint, no move.
110. 4:31And there we go, like so.
111. 4:36And if we do that,
112. 4:39there we go.
113. 4:42And now, let's see if there's any other
114. 4:44places that we want to do that at. Let's
115. 4:46see.
116. 4:49Nope, that'll be fine.
117. 4:52And okay, another thing we want to do is
118. 4:54we want to fix the
119. 4:58Well, I want to reiterate what we did
120. 5:00for the idle, the run, and things like
121. 5:02that.
122. 5:04So, first things first is that we want
123. 5:06to remove previous idle cuz in previous
124. 5:09run cuz we're not We're not using that
125. 5:11anymore cuz if you see that if we press
126. 5:13Ctrl F and look it up, the only places
127. 5:16that we have it are in the function.
128. 5:17We're not We're not calling the same way
129. 5:19we were else.
130. 5:21So, we can just remove this and we can
131. 5:25remove this.
132. 5:29Remove this and remove this, like so.
133. 5:33And if we go down here to change idle,
134. 5:36we look it up.
135. 5:38And let's see. All right. So, let's
136. 5:42start from the place where we actually
137. 5:44started playing the animation so I can
138. 5:45hopefully explain it for you.
139. 5:48So, right here, we we're checking if the
140. 5:51player is either jumping or in the air
141. 5:53or anything like that.
142. 5:55If that's the case, then we want to stop
143. 5:57all of the idle and run animations cuz
144. 5:59we don't want them playing.
145. 6:01The same thing with when the player is
146. 6:02dashing or the player is at the end of
147. 6:04the dash. You want to stop that.
148. 6:07So, the reason return works in this case
149. 6:10is because we have it in a different
150. 6:12thread, which I mentioned in the first
151. 6:14video in the series, I believe.
152. 6:16So, threads basically just create a new
153. 6:19a new parallel for the script to run at.
154. 6:21So, if you do return, it's only going to
155. 6:23return the whole thread. It's going to
156. 6:25stop the whole thread from running, not
157. 6:26the whole script.
158. 6:29So, over here, we commented the idle
159. 6:31section.
160. 6:33So, if the player is moving, then we
161. 6:35want to stop all the idles
162. 6:39because that just makes sense.
163. 6:41Otherwise,
164. 6:43if the player isn't moving, we want to
165. 6:45stop all of the run animations. And we
166. 6:48want to check for the new idle the
167. 6:50player has.
168. 6:52And we're going to loop through all of
169. 6:53the idle animations and stop all the
170. 6:56ones that aren't that isn't the current
171. 6:58idle that we have.
172. 7:00And then, of course, we want to play the
173. 7:01new idle.
174. 7:03And then, moving on to the sprinting
175. 7:04section,
176. 7:06we're checking if the player is moving
177. 7:08and we're sprinting at the same time.
178. 7:11If those if that condition or those two
179. 7:13conditions are fulfilled,
180. 7:15we will stop the idle animation and we
181. 7:17will check for the run
182. 7:20or change run.
183. 7:22So, you see that we initialize a
184. 7:24variable called return table, but we're
185. 7:26not using it anymore, so we can just
186. 7:27remove that and just change it to change
187. 7:29run like so.
188. 7:31And the same thing over here.
189. 7:33Just remove that.
190. 7:36Now,
191. 7:37going back to this, we are doing the
192. 7:39same thing similar to the idle
193. 7:41where we're checking for all the runs
194. 7:43that that aren't named to the current
195. 7:45run value
196. 7:47and we're stopping those.
197. 7:48And then otherwise, we're just going to
198. 7:50play the new run
199. 7:52animation.
200. 7:54And if the player is not moving and
201. 7:56they're not sprinting, we just stop all
202. 7:57the running animations like so.
203. 8:00And that is the condensed version,
204. 8:03hopefully an explanation of how we did
205. 8:05the idle and sprint animations.
206. 8:10And yeah.
207. 8:13So, if we play the game
208. 8:18you'll see that all of our new state
209. 8:20services are added
210. 8:22using the shared state controller that
211. 8:24we see in
212. 8:26modules.
213. 8:37All right. So, you'll notice that the
214. 8:39animation is sort of
215. 8:41causing the player to just flail their
216. 8:42arms in the air.
217. 8:44So, in order to fix that, we can just
218. 8:46add a check statement right here
219. 8:49that's checking if the player is
220. 8:51dashing. So, we can say
221. 8:53if state service that check state
222. 8:55character comma dashing, then return.
223. 8:58Or instead of say saying return, we can
224. 9:01say else.
225. 9:03Or
226. 9:04scratch that, we can say if not state
227. 9:05service that check state character comma
228. 9:07dashing
229. 9:08then remote set up fire server.
230. 9:13We can also add on to this, we can say
231. 9:14if they're not blocking, if they're not
232. 9:17attacking
233. 9:19then we can do all of that. And if
234. 9:21there's no dash and lag, then we can do
235. 9:22that, too.
236. 9:24And lag, I believe, is what we called
237. 9:26it.
238. 9:28Yeah.
239. 9:29And lag with a lowercase L.
240. 9:32Like so. So, this is just sort of
241. 9:33another prerequisite check that we can
242. 9:35do
243. 9:36alongside with the server where we check
244. 9:38for if they're attacking, blocking,
245. 9:40cylinder, no punch like so.
246. 9:43So, we can also say they're stunned.
247. 9:47etc. etc.
248. 9:50Mainly, usually when I do this, I just
249. 9:52check for any client values that are
250. 9:54there
251. 9:55that we want to prevent the player from
252. 9:56attacking cuz the server already checks
253. 9:58pretty much everything.
254. 10:00But, the server can't tell if they're
255. 10:02dashing or not because the dashing state
256. 10:04Yeah, the dashing state is added on the
257. 10:06client.
258. 10:07So, we just check it over here.
259. 10:11So,
260. 10:13when you play the game
261. 10:15and we dash
262. 10:24You see that now we have a smooth
263. 10:26transition for the punches.
264. 10:30And that's going to pretty much wrap up
265. 10:32this sort of shorter video before we add
266. 10:35in different weapons in episode 7,
267. 10:38which is also going to be released
268. 10:39today.
269. 10:40So, just to summarize what we did in the
270. 10:42video, we moved the state service from
271. 10:45service group service to
272. 10:47the replicated storage, the shared
273. 10:49modules.
274. 10:50So, we can access the the service from
275. 10:53both the client and the server.
276. 10:55And we also added a check because we
277. 10:57don't want the status folder to be added
278. 10:58on the client instead on the server.
279. 11:02And we fixed all the values in here
280. 11:05where we just added state service check
281. 11:06state.
282. 11:07And
283. 11:10we went over how exactly animations are
284. 11:13played.
285. 11:14And yeah, it's pretty much it. Hope you
286. 11:16enjoyed this shorter sort of summarized
287. 11:19video and see you on episode 7.