The cookbook is a book to teach new users to program on Roblox. See Chapter 0 for more information.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 0 – About & Preparing Studio
• Chapter 1 – Terminology
• Chapter 2 - Newbie's Guide
• Chapter 3 - Beginner's Scripting Guide
• Chapter 4 - Intermediate Scripting Guide
• Chapter 5 - Advanced Scripting Guide
• Chapter 6 - Expert Scripting Guide
• Chapter 7 - Advanced GUI Tutorial

Concepts Covered

Below are the main concepts covered in some of the chapters.

Newbie's Tutorial

• The Home Tab contains several tools to insert and manipulate shapes.
• Three-dimensional shapes in Roblox are called parts, and you can modify its shape, size, colour, texture and name.
• A script contains the code.
• The Explorer window is the list of all the objects in the game, and it has a hierarchal structure.
• To create a path to an instance, you start with the word game then work your way down the hierarchy.
• In the Explorer window's hierarchy, a parent is one step above its child.
• A complete statement must perform an action to an instance.

Beginners Tutorial

• The properties of an object determine its visible characteristics.
• The output window is the primary tool for fixing coding errors.
• A variable is a piece of text representing numbers, text, booleans or instances.
• Variables can be declared, updated and accessed.
• The .new() constructor creates a new value for certain properties.
• Vector3 is a value type that determine the coordinates of an object in a three-dimensional space.
• A function is a piece of code that can be used multiple times.

Intermediate Tutorial

• An if statement performs an action if a condition is met.
• If statements can be nested and paired with else and elseif statements.
• A service is an instance of the highest hierarchal level in the Explorer Window.
• A function can be paired with parameters, and multiple parameters are called tuples.
• Functions can return values in the form of variables.
• An event is an action that the scripts detects and reacts to by firing a function.
• Many instances have built-in functions for the scripter to use.
• A table is an array of values wrapped by curly brackets {}.
• A loop executes code multiple times.
• Scripts are indented according to its blocks.

Advanced Tutorial

• A value is an instance that acts like a variable.
• Tables can be used to form the player leaderboard.
• ClickDetectors detect a mouse click on a desktop or a tap on mobile devices.
• Enum is a type of value that is from a given list of values.
• A ScreenGUI is a two-dimensional banner that appears on the screen.
• Roblox uses a client-server model, where users each have clients that are all managed by a server.
• Local scripts perform actions only on the client side.
• Remote events and functions allow client-sided actions to be replicated to the server side and vice versa.
• A CFrame contains 12 numbers, three for position and nine for orientation.
• Orientation values are expressed as radians rather than degrees.
• Player progress in games are saved with DataStoreService.
• Debugging requires the use of several techniques, and output messages take various forms.

Expert Tutorial

• Tick is a function that finds the Unix time.
• Tweening and linear interpolation are two methods of animating a part's properties.
• UDim2 is the GUI equivalent of Vector3. It takes in four values: X Scale, X Offset, Y Scale and Y Offset.
• The player's camera can be manipulated using the Camera instance in the Workspace.
• UserInputService is a service that detects when a certain key is pressed.
• Players can be given tools in the game.
• MarketplaceService is the service that manages gamepasses.
• Animations are ways to make humanoid characters move.
• TeleportService transports players from one place to another.
• A region is a specific piece of 3D space.
• Threads can allow scripts to run multiple pieces of code simultaneously.