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Okay, Let's talk about the roadblocks data types in this video.

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There are several, but the ones I want to mention here are going to be the ones you'll use the most

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often.

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The first data type is vector three and vector three stores, three numbers that correspond to a vector

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in three space.

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What is a vector?

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Well, you can think of it as an arrow in three d space that has a direction basically where it's pointing

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and it has a magnitude, which is the length of the arrow and roadblocks.

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We can use vector threes as a way to define a point in 3D space or define a direction in three d space.

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The vector three data type holds three values that correspond to the X, Y, and Z coordinate.

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The next is much simpler, and that's color three.

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And this data type allows you to hold three numbers that represent the red, green and blue color values

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to make up over 16.8 million different colors.

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You'll use this data type all the time for changes in the color of parts, your eyes and a lot more.

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Instance, is another simple data type, and it's only used as a constructor that it has to create new

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instance objects like creating a new part, a new explosion, a new UI, whatever the case may be.

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The enum data type is short for enumeration or enumerated type.

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What the heck is an enumerated type?

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Well, enemies are used to define constants that represent a particular thing.

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So, for example, when you spawn a part in your game, it usually spawns as a rectangle.

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But what if I wanted to change the shape?

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Well, the part has a property that you can access.

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And it's called Shape, and it takes an enumerated type.

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And based on that, it changes the part shape to a constant defined within the enum.

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Like I have a ball, a block cylinder, and there's other extra ones like wedges in the model menu here

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for spawning parts.

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Another examples that you can use enemies to declare the types of things in your game, like how many

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different types of ores are in your game, like Diamond and Emerald and silver?

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Or what types of weapons are your game like Sword Hammer, whatever else the case may be.

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All it does is hold defined constants.

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The next data type is random, and this one will just simply use to get pseudo random numbers.

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This is better than using math at random because it's more unpredictable.

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And then lastly is see frame.

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And this is short for coordinate frame and it holds two vector three values, one that stands for a

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position and one that stands for the rotation.

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It also holds the look vector, right vector and up vector of the C frame.

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And those define the vectors, the direction that they are facing.

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So one's looking to the left, ones looking to the right, one's looking up, one's looking down, one

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looking forward.

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That's kind of the data it holds.

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We'll learn more about see frames in the next video.

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So let's go ahead and see an example of the vector three data type here.

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To see the vector three data type, I'll create a variable called position, and then I can use the

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vector three keyword and use the dot new function to create a new vector three object.

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And I can pass a value like five, five and five.

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Let's just do that.

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And now this returns to me a table that holds this position as well as a table that allows me to do

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things like add vectors together.

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So as we saw previously with using tables and meta tables, Roblox is doing the exact same thing here

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with their custom data type.

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And now using this position, I can take a part in my game.

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Let's click my game real quick.

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Maybe this big yellow part right here.

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On rename it to yellow part.

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And then I can go back to my script.

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And then I could do workspace, find my yellow part, and then I can set the position of this part to

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my new vector three.

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And I want to make sure that my part is also anchored so it doesn't fall.

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Now, if I run the game, this part should move from its position of 55 6.5 and -51 to a new position

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of five, five, five.

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Let's hit run.

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And you see, my part has disappeared.

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And now it is at the position of five, five, five.

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Now let's say I want to change the color of my part to, well, I can create another variable or actually,

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I won't create a variable at all.

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I'll just index the workspace again, get access to my part.

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And then I'll index the property color.

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And then I can set this color to a new color three value.

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So I'll use the keyword color three.

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And then there's several functions in here.

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We have new from our GB, HSV and hexadecimal.

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And for simplicity's sake, I'm going to use rugby, which gives you numbers to pick from starting at

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zero all the way up to 255 for red, green and blue.

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And they have this little cool button here that I can do.

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And pick my own color so I don't actually have to type the numbers in.

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So maybe I want it to be kind of like neon green, I guess.

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And it automatically puts the numbers.

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And now if I run my game, this part should change from yellow to green.

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Perfect.

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Now the next type is instance.

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And this one is very simple.

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If I use the keyword instance.

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And then access the new function.

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I can pass a class name, which is a string of the new instance I want to create.

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So maybe I want to create another part, a new part, and then I can actually pass another argument

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which sets the parent of the part.

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But usually you want to set the parent after you're done manipulating the part.

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Because if I set the parent immediately to the workspace, this part by default is unanchored, so it

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actually fall.

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Instead, I want to have my part be anchored first so I can store the return of this function in a variable.

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I'll call it new part.

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And then I'll set a new part to be anchored.

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And then I'll set the position of new part.

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And this new position will be a new vector three, and I'll set it to maybe 15, 15, 15.

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And then I can set the parent of my part to the workspace so that way we can actually see it in the

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game.

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Now, if I run the game again.

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We should see our new part somewhere.

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There it is.

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Here is our new part.

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Now let's go ahead and see the enumerator data type.

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So with my new part that I've created, maybe I want to change the shape of it so I can do new part

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and go to dot shape.

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And you can see it requires an enum of part type.

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So I can access these enemies by using the enum keyword.

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I can go to part type and in here it defines three different enemies that I can change it to.

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I can change to a cylinder, a ball or a block.

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So I'll just make it into a ball.

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And now if I run my game again, our new part should be a sphere.

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Here we go.

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And now the last data type I'm going to show here is random.

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And this one's very simple.

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Again, you do random create a new random data type.

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And I'll actually store it in a variable.

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I'll call it R and G.

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And using this variable, I can generate whatever random number I'd like.

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So maybe for my new part, I actually want to change the color to something random, Completely random.

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So I'll do color.

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I'll use the color three data type again.

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So I can pass the random data type and use a function in it that's called next integer.

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And I can pass a minimum number and a maximum number in this case, since we're going to be using actually

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from our GB instead of new, we're going to be limited to 0 to 255.

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So I'll put in zero 255 and it will pick a random number between it and then I can just copy this function.

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And do it three more times or two more times.

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We have a total of three.

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And now the color of this object should be completely random.

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See what color we got.

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We got a weird puke greenish black.

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But if I stop the test and run it again, we should get a completely different color.

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This time, we kind of got a reddish orange.

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Find the test and run it again.

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We get a nice purple color.

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All right.

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So that's pretty much the basics of these robots data types.

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I just wanted to expose you to these data types because you're going to be using them a lot.

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And in the next video, we're going to learn all about see frames.

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I'll see you there.