In this lecture, we are going to take a look at the very basics of Roblox Studio.
So we're going to take a look at the interface of the menu, which you can see on my screen here.
We're also going to take a look at how to open up a file, and also how to save it and move your camera
around.
So all of the basics really you need to start off with the course.
Really.
Now if you do have any issues downloading Roblox Studio, setting up your account, I go over all of
those in the previous section of the course, so make sure you can follow those through if you are stuck
to get to this point.
Okay, so this is what we're the kind of home page looks like at the moment.
Okay.
Sometimes some of these games change a bit based on, um, what ones they bring out and stuff.
But this is a really good example here.
So there are a couple of different sections to this home page.
So there's knew my games game's recent and Archive new allows you to choose either a blank game or a
template for you to work with.
So the templates are like the base plates, the classic base plate, and the flat terrain.
The only difference with those three is simply just the look of it.
As you can see, flat terrain has like grass.
Classic base plate has the classic materials which are like the older style materials, and then the
base plate looks a bit a little bit more modern.
Okay, so there are three likem completely start from scratch games.
If you want to start from something already pre-made, you have all the other options here.
Some of these options.
Racing modern city your starting place.
All players have one starting place.
Move it.
Simulators a whole wide range of stuff here.
Now I'm going to open up one of these to give you a little example of what these might kind of look
like.
So I think a modern city is quite a cool one.
I'm going to open that up.
So, um, ignore anything on my screen like any of these things popping up.
This is literally just to show you a very brief example.
Okay.
So this is like an example of what you might be able to make or what you will be able to make by the
end of this course.
Okay.
So we've got some nice buildings.
It's still loading in so it doesn't look 100% amazing just yet.
Give it a tiny bit longer.
There we go.
You can see everything loading in now.
So this is the kind of thing you might be able to make.
A bunch of trees, a nice backgrounds for houses, cars, that kind of stuff here still doesn't look
100% amazing.
It's, um, still hasn't loaded in yet.
Sometimes these things take a while to load because there's so much to load in.
But as you can see, slowly things are loading in like that.
There we go.
Looks amazing.
Now I think this is really cool template.
And it is a really example of the possibilities of things you can create with Roblox Studio.
Okay, I'm going to close this by pressing the little X here.
I don't need to save it or anything because it's literally just a template.
But that's just one of the examples.
Don't let that kind of discourage you.
It's literally just a template.
Okay?
We will cover how to create all that kind of stuff throughout this this course okay.
So that will all be to come, but feel free to take a look some of the other templates as a bit of a,
um, introduction and examples of what you might be able to create.
For now, I'm going to take a look at baseplate, just to create a simple game for us to go in and start
playing around with some things.
So let's go over to baseplate.
Simply just left click it and it will open up our base plate for us here.
Okay.
So in the city template and also here I have a couple tabs coming up on my screen to have the explorer
tab, the properties tab, and also the output.
Okay, I'm going to close these for now.
Okay.
Um, if you're completely new to Roblox Studio, chances are they will not appear, uh, when you open
it up.
If they do appear, just close them or you can leave them for now.
They will be covered a bit later on, but for now, we don't need to worry about those.
So let's take a look at the basic interface here.
So Roblox Studios has a pretty simple interface.
It has all of the options and stuff we want at the top.
So here are all of the options.
They have different sections.
So this is the home section.
There's a model section an avatar section a test section a view section and also section for plugins.
Okay.
Plugins might look a little bit different.
Plugins are additions you can make which you can download and add in.
So by default you won't have some of the ones that I do.
But anyway, that's just a very, very simple overview.
Of course we will go through all this in much more detail.
Before we start anything, you're going to need to know how to save your game.
Once you've done any progress with it, you're always going to want to save it.
So to save it, just like lots of other things, I'm going to go in the top left corner and click on
file.
Here you got a bunch of options okay.
You can create a new file open from a file you have saved on your computer, open from a file on roadblocks
and also to close it as well if you wanted to close it that way as well.
And what we were interested in here are the options down here.
So save to file, save to Roblox and published Roblox.
I'm not going to publish our game just yet.
That puts it on the, um, live Roblox marketplace, so I'm going to put it on there just yet.
But, um, there are options here to save our game.
So there's two options you can save to file or you can save to Roblox.
Save to file basically means it's going to save to your computer.
So the file to your game is saved on your computer.
So you actually have the copy of the game stored yourself.
This is great.
As you know, if you want to.
If you're opening up with a different Roblox account, you can use that and perhaps also on a different
device.
You can just you can just send the file over that way.
However, be careful with it though, because obviously if you if you actually delete the file or somehow
lose it, you will lose your game.
So, um, that's the only thing there.
Saving to Roblox is another option.
This will save it to your Roblox studio account, so it's not saved in your computer at all.
It's just saved on the account for test games and stuff.
I usually just saved a Roblox for Semi-important games, save the file, and for very important games
or like projects that you're wanting to a lot of work on, save to both.
But yeah, it's nice and simple.
If you want to save the file as it just comes up for you, some options for you to pick and save into
Roblox.
If we try that Save to Roblox just comes up saying I'm going to save it to any of these games.
These are some games tests that I've done.
Um, you're going to create a new game, put in there the name, ignore the rest of settings.
You don't need to change those around just yet.
And then click save and your game will be saved.
You have you won't have to do that every single time.
That's only the first time.
Future times when you're saving, you only have to click one button and it will save it either to your
file or to Roblox studio.
So yeah.
Okay, so the final bit we're going to take a look at in today's lecture is how to move the camera around.
It's very important.
Obviously there's lots of ways on methods of moving the camera around.
So first off to actually move it like forward and backwards left and right you can use the wasD keys
so W to move it forward, A to move it to the left, S move it to the back and D to move it to the right.
You can also use the arrow keys.
So the arrow key pointing up to go forward down to go backwards.
Um left to go left and right to go right.
Okay.
So you can use either the wasD keys or the arrow keys.
There's no difference between the two.
It's completely up to you which one you prefer.
I think wasD is a bit easier to use, but again, it's completely personal preference to rotate the
camera around.
You can right click, you hold down, right click and then move your mouse around.
And you can see here just rotating around this point here so you can look around um, like this here.
Now typically for myself, I just use a combination of the wasD keys and holding down right click.
So I, I usually just hold down right click when I'm moving around just so I can very easily just move
around like that.
Uh, where I want to go, really?
There is another option though.
If you have a mouse and a mouse that has a kind of middle mouse scroll wheel that clicks down.
You can pan the camera around by holding down the middle mouse button holding down the scroll wheel.
Okay, I don't really use this too much myself, so you won't see me using this, but you might see
other people using it and it might be useful for you as well.
You can move around and rotate while you're doing that as well.
If you do have access to a mouse and a mouse that has a clickable scroll wheel, that is an option you
can use there as well.
So hopefully this has been a good, very basic introduction to what kind of Roblox studio looks like.
In the next lectures, we're going to take a look at the key tools that you can use to start actually
creating things and adding things in.
Okay, so make sure you're happy with all of this, and you can join me in the next lecture, where
we'll start taking a look at how to add objects in and move them around.