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Welcome to this lecture on Studio basics.

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We're going to be looking over the most important tools that are available to you as a Roblox developer.

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It is crucial to be able to utilize these many powerful tools inside of studio.

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So before we get started, obviously you're going to see this giant window open, giving you a glimpse

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into the world of your game.

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In order to move the camera around, we can use our mouse and hold down right click to rotate the camera,

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and we can also move the camera around easily just using w key on your keyboard, just like you would

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in any other single game.

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We can also use the Q and E keys to move the camera up or down.

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So if I press Q, my camera goes down and if I hold down E, my camera goes up and this moves in the

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local up or down direction of our camera.

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So if I had my camera facing directly downwards and then I pressed.

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Q As you can see, we are moving basically backwards.

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And if I press E now we're moving forwards.

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So the Q and E keys work with the camera's local axes inside of the home tab.

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We have access to several tools here, such as selecting parts, moving parts, scaling or resizing

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parts and rotating parts, and each one of these tools has their own keybinds.

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So for example, I can select the Move tool with control and two, or I can do scale with control and

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three and rotate with control and four so you can independently move between these different tools without

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having to select them up here.

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So as an example, what I'm going to do is I'm going to select this part button here to place a part

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into the workspace.

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So if I look down right here and I click this button, now we have this part inside of our game and

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currently we have the scale tool enabled and you see these different balls pop up around our part,

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which signify the different directions that we can resize our part in.

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So in this direction for the red is the x axis of the part, the blue is the Z axis and the green is

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the y axis for this part.

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So as you can see, we are able to resize this part to whatever size or shape we'd like.

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And if we hold down shift, we can resize the entire part at the same time to scale it up or down.

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If you want to resize this part in a particular direction on both sides, you can hold down the Ctrl

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key.

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And as you can see, we're resizing this part in both directions and we can do this on every single

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axis.

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The home tab has some other buttons, such as accessing the terrain Editor.

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We're not going to worry about this tool too much for right now, but basically this is just the tool

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we use to generate terrain in our game.

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Some other important buttons, for example, is a color palette.

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So if you wanted to change the color of this part, we can open up this color palette and select a color

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like green.

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And now our part is green where we could switch it to be red or any of these other different colors

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inside of this predefined color set here.

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This home tab is also home to some other buttons, such as grouping things together, locking a particular

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thing and anchoring parts.

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So if I had multiple parts and what I'm going to do is I'm going to select this part and duplicate it

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using Ctrl and D, So now I duplicated it and I can move this newly created part around and I can duplicate

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it again using Ctrl and D, duplicate it again.

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And then what I could do is I could select all three of these parts by holding down my Ctrl key and

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then clicking each one of them.

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And then I can go up to the top here and hit this group button.

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And now these parts are joined together into a single model, which means if I click it, I move the

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entire thing together in unison and I can also resize the entire thing together in unison.

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Now what we're going to do real quick is we're going to head to the View tab and we're going to open

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up a bunch of important panels.

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As you can see, there's a lot of different menus we can open up, but the most important ones we'll

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want to open up is our Explorer window.

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We're going to want to open the properties window, the output window, as well as the toolbox window.

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And you can easily grab and move these different windows around and adjust them to whatever you like

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so you can have them just sit here freely or you can have them move to a predefined position.

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You can of course resize them to your liking and just kind of customize studio in the way that you think

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is best for you.

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So we're going to take a quick peek at this Explorer window.

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And this explorer window basically shows you or stores every single object inside of your game.

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As an example, that model we just created with these three parts appears underneath our workspace.

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And this is a service that stores all of the parts inside of our game.

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So as you can see, here's our model and here are the three parts that are inside of our model.

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And these different parts would be considered children of this model.

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So this model is the parent of these three parts, and each of these parts is a child of this model.

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If I were to duplicate this part right here using Ctrl and D and I made this part a child of, let's

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say this part.

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Now, this part right here would be considered a descendant of our model.

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It's not a child of the model because a child means it's directly underneath our object here.

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But since it is a child of this part, which is a child of our model, that means it would be considered

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a descendant.

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So this part is a child of this part and this part is a child of our model.

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Now, you might be wondering what exactly is a service?

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Well, a service in Roblox is a top level class.

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And a class is just a blueprint for creating custom objects with their own unique properties and functions.

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Each service in Roblox has its own unique properties, functions and events that we can access and use.

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These services allow your game to function correctly, and each service has its own unique purpose.

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So, for example, our workspace is a service that's responsible for storing all of the objects in our

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game that's going to be visible on the map.

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And we also have a bunch of properties inside of our workspace, inside of our properties menu, such

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as the origin point of our world changing the gravity, adding wind to our game and a whole bunch of

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other different properties.

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Another example of a service in our game would be something like the lighting service.

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And this is responsible for controlling, you guessed it, the lighting of our game.

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The service allows us to change different color properties for the lighting, the time of day and a

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bunch of other neat stuff.

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So for example, if I wanted to change the ambient lighting, I can move this thing around and change

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the different colors for the lighting in my game.

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But we're just going to leave it at the default for now.

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So the main thing I want you to take away with this is that our explorer is basically a container to

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show us all of the things in our game.

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And the property menu allows us to access each unique properties for every single object in our game.

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So each service has its own unique properties, and each part inside of our game also has its own unique

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properties such as the color of the part.

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Whether or not we'd like the part to cast a shadow, we have the name of our part.

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What the parent of our part is.

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We have the size of our part, its current position in the world, and a whole bunch of other neat properties,

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such as whether or not other parts or our players can collide with this part, whether or not our part

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is anchored, and a whole bunch of other neat stuff like that.

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And we'll actually go back to the home page here because if you remember, another one of our buttons

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here was to anchor a part, and this adjusts the anchored property for our part.

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So if we hit this button here, as you can see, our part is now anchored.

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What does that mean?

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Well, basically, it means that our part no longer has physics acting upon it.

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So as a quick example, I'm going to show you exactly what happens when I playtest the game.

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And we have this part right here that is anchored.

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And these two parts here that are un anchored.

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So in order to test our game, we can go to the test tab and we can go ahead and move to this play button

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right here.

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And we're going to select this dropdown menu and hit run.

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Or you can press F8 on your keyboard.

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So when we run our game here.

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As you can see, this part is floating and these two parts right here have fallen down.

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Now, ignore this other part.

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That's just the duplicated part that popped out of our other part.

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But as you can see, these parts right here have physics acting upon them while this one doesn't.

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These ones were affected by gravity and this one is still floating in the air.

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So when we anchor our parts, we're basically disabling any types of physics happening on it.

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And when we anchor a part, then we allow whatever physics to happen to that part based on that part

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size and its mass and things like that.

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Now, another quick thing I would like to mention real quick is that if you have a model in your game

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like this one and you want to select a specific part inside of your model without having to go into

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the Explorer menu to select that part, what you can do is you can hold down your alt key, and this

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will allow you to individually select a certain part in your model.

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So, for example, if I wanted to only select this part, I can click this one and if I want it to select

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multiple parts, I could hold down control and alt, and now I can select two different parts inside

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of my model.

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If I don't want to have this model anymore, then I can simply use the keybind control and you.

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Or we can go back to the home page and there is the option to ungroup a model.

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Now another button we have in the home tab is the lock button.

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And this one is pretty simple.

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All it does is basically locks a part and disables the ability for us to interact with this part while

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we're editing things in studio.

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So as an example, when I hover over this part, as you can see, this border appears around it and

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I can select this part and I can move it around and stuff like that.

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But if I decide to select this tool and then lock this part and then I disable this tool again, as

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you can see, I am no longer able to select this part and when I hover my mouse over it, we don't get

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the border over it anymore.

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I am completely unable to interact with this part.

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It is locked.

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If you want to unlock it, then you can simply select the tool again, hit unlock or you can also locate

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this part that is locked within the workspace and disable the locked property.

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Now, the next tab we can go ahead and take a look at is going to be our model tab.

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And there's a whole bunch of other tools in here that we can mess with.

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And this is mainly for when you're building things or modeling things in studio.

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As you can see, we still have our select move scale and rotate tools, but we also have a new tool

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in here called the Transform Tool.

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So if we open this up here, what this tool basically is, is that it takes all of these tools and combines

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it into a single tool.

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So we're able to resize a part in here.

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We're able to move a part around such as moving it up.

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We can rotate a part in here and things like that.

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Most of the time nobody ever really uses this tool because we just use the individual tools such as

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the rotate scale move and stuff like that.

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But it is a neat tool available to you if you'd like to use it.

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Another extra feature that the model tab introduces to us is the ability to customize the movement and

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rotation of parts in our game.

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So as an example, when I went to resize these parts, as you can see, it only resizes our parts in

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these certain increments.

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So if I were to drag this part and make it flush with the ground, you can see each of these little

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squares here and each of these squares represents one stud.

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And currently, since my movement is set to three studs, when I resize this, it should move over these

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three units right here or these three measurements.

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So when I move it, we just moved three studs.

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If you want to reduce it, then you can enter in a custom number.

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So for example, if we only wanted to move one stud, we could do exactly that.

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If we wanted to move half a stud, we can do that as well, and we can even go as low as 001.

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So one, I believe 1/1000 of a stud.

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We can move our part.

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And if you made a change that you didn't like and you can just do Control Z to revert your changes and

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if you accidentally undid something, then you can use control, shift and Z to redo a certain action.

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This is also available at the top where we have an undo button and a redo button.

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But it's also good to learn the keybinds for these different buttons.

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So to undo it's control Z and to redo you can do control Y or I like to use control shift and Z.

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Now another way to gain more precise control over the movement or resizing of our parts is we can uncheck

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this box right here, which will disable snapping to our grid.

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So even if I had this set to something like one stud and I had this disabled, as you can see, we're

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able to completely and precisely resize and move our part around.

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We're not confined to snapping to each of the different grid positions.

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We can also do the exact same thing with the rotate tool.

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So currently it's set at four degrees.

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So when I open up my rotate tool.

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Every time I want to rotate it, it's going to rotate four degrees every single time.

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So if you see in our properties window as I am rotating this part, it is updating the orientation of

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it in that respective axes four degrees each time.

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If I want to reduce it, then I can set a lower number like one.

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And now we're only rotating by one stud each time or one degree.

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I mean, and if you want to have complete precise control over the rotation of your parts, then you

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can just go ahead and uncheck this.

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And now we can rotate our parts extremely precisely.

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This tab also introduces to us the ability to edit the pivot of our parts or basically editing this

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origin point within our part.

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So for example, if I hit edit, pivot while I have this tool selected, I can change the pivot of our

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part or basically change.

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As you can see, it's updating this pivot offset here.

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I'm changing the local axes of this part.

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So now when I exit this tool and I select this part and I use the move tool, as you can see, our Move

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tool has updated to respect this parts new local axes.

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It's not following the global axes that's defined in the top right of our screen here.

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So for example, this direction is positive in the Z direction and this direction is positive in the

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X direction and then up is positive in the Y direction and down is negative in the Y direction.

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But as you can see, our arrows are not matching up with the global axes of our game.

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And that's because this part has its own unique and local axes.

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So we're able to move that part in its own local axes.

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And we can also continue to edit this pivot.

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Or if we made a change we didn't like, then we can go ahead and hit the reset button, which will restore

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the pivot back to the default of this part.

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Now, if you don't want this part to move in its local axes, so for example, maybe I want this part

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to move directly upwards in the global y axis, then I can right click this part and I have the ability

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to select this button that says Use world space and the keybind for this is control and L.

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So if I click that, as you can see, the pivot has changed and now we can move this part in the global

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y axis and the global Z axis and the global X axis.

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And then if I keep this part selected and do control and L again, as you can see, it resets back to

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the local axes of our part and you can tell which mode you're in because in a corner of our part, as

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you can see, there is an L here which stands for local.

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And if I hit Ctrl, L again, as you can see, that disappears and now we are in the global axis of

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our game.

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Some other tools we have in here are something called the Align tool, which we're not going to worry

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about right now.

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And we also have this section called Solid Modeling, and this allows us to create something called

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a union.

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And a union is basically when we take a bunch of different parts and combine them into a single part.

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So it's kind of like models, but it's also not like models at the same time, because when we have

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a model, we still have a bunch of separate parts in our game.

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But when we use unions, those parts that we combine together become one single cohesive part.

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So as an example, what I'm going to do is I'm going to duplicate this part here and move it out and

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I'm just going to make some weird shape like this, and then I can select this second part again by

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holding down Ctrl and then I can go ahead and click the union button.

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And when I click this, we get a new part inside of our workspace, which is called a union operation

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or a union.

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And as you can see, our parts have transformed into a single part with its own unique hitbox.

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As you can see, it has cut a hole into this other part to join it with this other part.

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And now we have a union between these two parts, we can also do the opposite.

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So what I'm going to do is I'm going to separate this union by hitting this separate button.

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And what I'm going to do is I'm going to select one of these parts and I'm going to negate this part,

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which turns it red.

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And then if I go and select this part right here and then union.

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Now we have this hole cut out of our other part.

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So this gives us the ability to create some really unique shapes in our Roblox games.

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If you don't want to have this union anymore, then again, we can just separate this and we can negate

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this part by selecting it and negating it again.

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And now we just have our two singular parts.

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We also have the section called Constraints, which allow you to insert a whole bunch of different physics

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constraints.

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We're not going to go quite into depth about these just yet because that would take a really long time.

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But basically these are just a whole bunch of different constraints that you can insert into your game

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to manipulate the physics of parts.

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We also have another section here where we can insert certain effects into our game.

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So, for example, if we wanted this part to be on fire, we could insert a fire effect.

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And it's pretty small.

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But as you can see, here is our simple little fire.

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We can also insert some other effects, like a particle emitter.

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We have lights in here, sparkles, beams, trails, a whole bunch of other neat effects.

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I'm just going to delete this real quick by pressing the delete key, or you can right click it and

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just hit delete.

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And we also have this button to insert objects into our game which will open up a menu.

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And if we drag this out here and let me resize this, it shows you all of the basic objects that we

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can insert into our game.

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All of these objects are known as instances.

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And again, instances is just a fancy word for an object in our game, right?

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An object created by a class in our game.

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So, for example, every time I create a new part in the workspace, if I keep pressing this part here

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and inserting new parts into the workspace, each of these are their own unique objects, but they all

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derive from the same class or the same blueprint.

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You can think of a car, right?

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When a manufacturer wants to create a car, they have a blueprint for that car and then they can use

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that blueprint to create as many cars as they want.

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So the cars themselves are the objects, and the blueprint tells us how to create that object or exactly

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what the properties and functionality for that object is going to be.

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But as you can see, there's a whole bunch of instances or objects in this game that we can insert.

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I mean, there's just tons and tons of stuff in Roblox.

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We got scripts in here, we have sound effects, sound instances, we have these different values in

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here.

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We have different constraints and just a whole bunch of different stuff.

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It would obviously take forever to go through every single one of these things.

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So we're not going to be focusing on this just yet so we can close out of this for now.

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The next tab we can go ahead and move over to is the Avatar tab.

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And again, it'll keep the same tools that we had in the model tab, but we have a few new buttons.

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So for example, we can insert 3D objects into our game.

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So if you ever use something like Blender or Maya and you had custom meshes, they call them or custom

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3D objects from a separate program, you can import them into Roblox.

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But again, we're not going to worry about this for now.

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This is also for importing mesh rigs and stuff like that.

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Again, don't worry about that too much.

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We also have this button here to build rigs and these are just regular Roblox rigs.

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So, for example, I can insert a block avatar here.

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And here we have basically the avatar of your standard character in our game.

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And we can basically use these rigs to create animations.

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And that's what we would use this animation editor for.

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So if we open this up again, we're going to have this new window open and we can select a rig like

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this one, and it's going to tell us to create a new animation.

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And this is where we can adjust, you know, and create animations for our characters and things like

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that.

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This tool, again, we're not going to worry about it that much right now, but it is a tool that you

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will likely use in the future.

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So we can close out of this.

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I'm going to go ahead and delete this guy and we can go move on to the test tab.

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This is a very simple tab.

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Again, this allows us to test our game by either playing it or running it.

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And this play here button is basically the exact same thing as this play button.

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But what it does is that it inserts your player's character directly to wherever your camera is facing.

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So by default, anytime we play our game, we're going to spawn at this spawn location here.

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So as an example, if I hit play right here.

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Here we are.

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We have spawned on our spawn location.

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Just as we would expect.

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Going to stop this test.

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And then what we could do is we could instead use the play here button.

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So if I look right here, then my character is going to spawn in this general area just like that.

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So as you can see, we didn't spawn on our base plate and instead we have spawned here wherever our

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camera was at, we also have the ability to create a local server.

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So in any case, where you needed to test your game out with multiple different players, then you can

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run a local server with up to eight players allowing you to test functionality between other players

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or any kind of functionality you need to test with multiple different players.

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We also have device emulation in here.

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This allows you to basically just test the UI of your game on different devices.

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You can select this dropdown menu here and emulate Roblox on, for example, an iPhone seven or emulate

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it on an iPad, Samsung.

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There's a whole bunch of other stuff in here, including even consoles you can emulate it on.

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And there's just a bunch of different neat little settings that you can do to emulate Roblox on different

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devices.

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In our view tab.

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We were just in here.

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This is where we're going to be able to pop up a whole bunch of different important windows like our

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Explorer window, our properties window, the toolbox, which we'll go over in just a moment.

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Our output window, which displays text from our scripts.

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And there's a whole bunch of other different little windows in here that we're not going to worry about

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too much.

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We also have some other different viewing options in here.

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So, for example, if you didn't like this view selector that shows us the global axes in the game,

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you can hit this button to get rid of it or hit it again to make it come back.

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We also have the ability to show a grid in our game which will display this grid on the map that just

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basically shows you the different stud increments.

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And this will basically just go on forever and ever.

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So if I zoom all the way out, as you can see, this grid just continues to stretch out for infinity.

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And we can also enable this button which will place a grid material over all of the different parts

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in your game.

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So if I go back all the way to my parts over here, as you can see, each of them have this grid on

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them, which represents the global grid of our game.

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And also another thing I'll mention real quick is let's say you're super far away from a part and you

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want to be able to travel to this part instantly.

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Then you can right click it and there is a button to zoom to this part, or you can hit F on your keyboard.

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So if I hit F.

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Or let me try that again.

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If I hit f boom, we have teleported to the part.

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Very nice.

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We also have the ability to enable wireframe rendering, which doesn't really do much, but I mean it

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just looks kind of cool to see all of the different triangles that make up your game.

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I'll just disable these real quick.

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There are some other neat buttons in here, such as viewing network information, render information,

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a whole bunch of other complex kind of stuff.

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And also there's a button in here to toggle the visibility of UI.

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So when you have UI or UI elements in your screen, they're obviously going to pop up on our camera

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and there's going to be times where you may not want to see all this gooey stuff on your screen.

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So that's when you would use this UI visibility button to toggle the visibility of UI elements on your

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screen.

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Now, the last thing that we're going to talk about here real quick is our plugins tab and the toolbox.

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So as you can see, I already have a plugin in here.

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This plugin is called Rojo.

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You don't need to worry about this plugin.

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This is just a plugin I use that I have installed as a file on my computer, so this is always going

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to show up in here.

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But basically what we can do is we can go to the toolbox here and this is an area where a whole bunch

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of developers have uploaded their own models assets.

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You can look through audio assets in here, you can look at other developers plugins.

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And inside of here, of course, there's a whole bunch of paid plugins, but there's also free plugins

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as well.

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So if you wanted to get a free plugin for example, um.

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When we try to find a good free plugin.

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Here we go.

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For example.

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Archimedes is a neat little free plugin.

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You can select this plugin and we can hit install.

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And then our plug in is going to show up underneath our plug ins tab and you can select this plugin

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and this gives you some neat tools for interacting with parts in your game.

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Basically, plug ins are just scripts or extra studio stuff that other developers have created to make

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developing a lot more easy for you when you're creating your games.

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So back inside of the Models tab, we can go ahead and look at a whole bunch of different stuff, including

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categories.

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We can take a look at different categories such as maybe vehicles.

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We can see different vehicles that other developers have made.

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So, for example, here's a working car.

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We can click this and it will insert it into our game.

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It'll tell you that this includes seven scripts.

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Please review the scripts to prevent unwanted changes to your experience.

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Basically, you just want to be careful of any malicious scripts that might be inside of these models.

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Most of the time, if these models have good ratings, then you're not going to have to worry.

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But sometimes you will find models out there in the wild that may have malicious scripts.

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Now that does sound a little scary, but basically those malicious scripts at their worst would just

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make your game either unplayable because they'd be spamming in parts into the workspace or they would

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display garbage on your screen, stuff like that.

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That's why you just want to be careful anytime you're inserting free models into your game.

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But as you can see, here is a model of a car that another developer has made with its own scripts and

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things like that.

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And we can actually go ahead and play test our game here to check out this developer's car model.

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So if we go and hop in this bad boy, actually we can hit E and look at that.

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We have this neat little car that we can drive around in.

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All righty.

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So I think we've gone over the main important things of Roblox studio.

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And in the next lecture, we're going to take a look at inserting a script into our game and writing

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down our first few lines of code.

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I will see you there.