Okay, so today we are going to be having a look at plugins.
Now plugins are a really cool addition that you can make to Roblox Studio.
And that's what they are.
Basically they are additions that you can make.
So what a plugin is, a plugin is a piece of code which someone else has written, which is designed
to make whatever you're making on Roblox studio easier to do.
Um, this could be, um, doing things like being able to add something in easier or being something,
being able to do something automatically.
And these are designed just to make your life easier.
Really.
Um, and they can be added in and turned on if you want to use them.
Um, there's a lot of different plugins.
There's probably thousands of different plugins.
We're going to have a look at how to add some of those in, and I'm going to go over a couple that I
would recommend that you get.
So plugins are in the plugins section.
So go all the way over to plugins and you can see all of your plugins over here.
Now you most likely will not have any plugins or you'll have the default plugins, which I believe this
one here is default and this one here, and this one here.
Some of them are default plugins that you will have starting off, but you will not have as many that
do.
Um, so let's see how to add a plugin in because you probably want some plugins.
So how to add a plugin in?
You actually go to the toolbox.
So open up a toolbox or go over to where it is just under the properties tab.
And you can see here I've already been looking, but um we where it says model up here.
And we changed it last time to go to images to find images.
You also want to change that to find plugins.
And here you can see a bunch of plugins for you to choose from.
Now some plugins can be free, other ones can cost Robux.
I feel like um, most of the good ones now do cost Robux.
Um, so it might be worth considering if you want it, but um, I would, I would still recommend some
of these.
Um, so the first one I'd recommend is Moon Animator two, which is actually the first one here.
If it's not first you can just search up moon.
Um, animator okay.
And click on the first one with a little moon there.
Okay.
Um, it's by x x I x x.
Okay.
Um, this is really good as it gives you three main things.
It gives you it's easier to make animations.
I know that's not something we haven't, we have done yet, but we do get onto animations.
It's a lot easier to use for that.
Um, character insert.
You can add characters very easily into your game and also easy world, which means you can easily weld
parts together.
Now this stuff probably you don't haven't heard of before, which again, it's completely fine.
Um, but it's something that I would recommend going forward.
Um, I bought this one when it was free, luckily enough, but I don't believe it's free anymore.
Um, I'm not sure how much it is.
Um.
But I would recommend if it's 100 Robux, 200 Robux, I would recommend it.
If it's something crazy, like a thousand Robux, I probably wouldn't.
Um, but it depends what the price listed it, and the price can change as well.
After this recording.
Um, another one I'd recommend is 3D text if you type that in.
This one here.
Oh, they got a second version of it now.
But this basically allows you to write 3D text into your game and change letters and numbers and that
kind of stuff, which is really good actually.
So that's another one I'd recommend.
Um, and also let's also go for, um, auto anchor.
Okay.
This one here.
So auto anchor is a really good one because basically it automatically anchors your parts.
Um, because a lot of times when I'm making things, I forget to anchor them.
And then when I play the game, um, they all, all the buildings and stuff kind of just fall down to
the ground because they're not anchored.
So again, it's a really good one to have.
Okay.
So how do we install one of these?
Well, I've already installed this one.
I'll install another one just for the sake of it.
Let's find a free one that I could use to show you.
Um, that's, that's let's do this one here.
Okay.
So let's click on this one.
Oh that's already installed okay.
Uh this one.
Okay.
So there'll be a button called install.
You want to just click install and it is installed it for you and it will come up there hopefully for
you.
Okay.
Um, you can see when you click on that it comes up with a different menu.
Each one will come up with a different menu for you to use.
Some will be tabs, some will be other stuff.
Um.
But it's up to you which one you use.
There won't be anything.
This is a camera light.
It's just if you're working in, like, a dark game, for example, it can be easy to use.
Um, but if you want to manage your plugins and say, um, turn some off or delete some, you can very
easily do that just by clicking on Manage Plugins just right at the start.
And this allows you to bring up a little tab for you.
I wouldn't recommend putting this anywhere because it would be up for maybe ten 15 seconds, and then
it would be pulling down again.
So I wouldn't recommend putting this anywhere such.
But um, here you can see all your plugins.
You can turn them on and off like that and they appear and disappear.
Um, and you can also click these three buttons here to be able to uninstall them as well if you wanted
to.
So just because you don't, you don't want them displayed in your plugins section does not mean they
have to be uninstalled.
You can just turn them off and turn them on when you need it.
Again, I think I've got a few that are turned off maybe.
Um, so um, yeah, that's pretty much it.
You also some of them now and then might need updates.
So you can always click on Update All and it'll update your plugins for you and launch, um, new versions
of your plugins.
Um, but yeah, that's pretty much it for how to add them into your game.
Okay.
So add them in through toolbox and you can edit them all using the plugin Manage plugins.
Okay, one word of warning for plugins though, is that the same kind of thing can happen with um,
with scripts from a toolbox in like free models and stuff.
The issue is that some might contain viruses.
Um, it's I don't think it's as major as a thing as it is for, um, models from a toolbox, but it
definitely could happen.
So based on that, I would not recommend getting plugins which haven't been haven't been tried out before
or aren't very popular.
I'd only stick with a popular plugins um, if a plugin has as under like 50 people have brought it,
then it's a bit of a um, like over a thousand people, so that would be fine.
But if something has like these, when you go on to plugins to start off with, these are all the most
popular ones, so these will all be completely fine.
But when you start getting into plugins like if I search up the Moon animator, for example, they're
um, oh, I spelled that wrong.
Animator.
Animation.
There is this one here, but there's also some other ones which are free versions of it.
Now this one here is ten.
This is 80 plus is a bit better, but I wouldn't recommend getting something that has like only about
ten people who have bought like this one here and this one here.
It's just a bit.
I would just stick with the ones that are more popular.
Just so you know, that one, they're good.
And two, but we're not going to have any kind of viruses and things like that inside of them because
these are just made by the community.
Um, less people can make them because they're a bit more advanced to make, of course, but they can
technically be made by anyone.
So again, just be careful with those.
Okay.
So I'm going to run through a couple of plugins which I recommended to you to get Moon Animator to.
I need to restart for that.
Um, but we wouldn't really need to look at that just yet because, um, that's all animation.
Um, the 3D text, if we click on that, you'll need to activate your cursor by clicking on this button
here and now wherever you click.
So if I left click here for example, it's now added in some text.
And I can now by clicking on typography here, I can edit that and put whatever text I want in here.
So I could say welcome to my game for example.
Like that and I can increase the thickness.
I can change the appearance of it.
It's a very cool plugin that I like to use for that.
Um, let's get rid of that.
Um.
Another one auto anchor is a cool one.
If you turn this on for everything, anchor all.
Um.
And that's why it's not working.
But whenever you add a part in it will now be automatically anchored.
If we go to the properties and go down to anchored.
Anchored is automatically on.
Okay, so that's a really good one for you to use.
Must be it must be open though, otherwise it won't work.
Okay.
Um, character insert as well.
If we click on this one, this just allows you to enter a player's username.
There is a different version of this, but you do have to pay Robux for it.
So I would recommend using this other version.
It's called character insert.
Um and you can search for player's username.
I might type in my username.
That's not my username.
There we go.
And spawn in as R6, for example, and I appear there.
Um, again, sometimes it doesn't always work all of the time.
Um, but usually it does work and it's not the best example to show for that one.
But yeah, there are just a couple of plugins.
Okay.
Um, you kind of have to figure out your plugins yourself really, because, um, there are going to
be some that you're going to add in which I haven't used, and you're going to have to kind of figure
out how they work.
Usually they're quite, quite easy to work with, but some can be a little bit more tricky to work with.
Um, so just experiment with your plugins, okay?
Add some in, try some out.
The only thing I'd recommend is just don't add any in which are very unpopular.
I'm talking less than ten people.
Um, because then it kind of gets the risk of one, it's probably not going to be very good, because
if it was good, more people would get it.
And two, it could have the risk of having viruses and stuff like that inside of it.
So just be careful with that.
But, um, have a go with some of those plugins, okay?
I wouldn't recommend buying any just yet.
Just try some free ones out first and if it is one later on in the course that you decide actually this
would be really useful, then do go ahead and buy it, but I wouldn't recommend buying it just now.
Um, but yeah.
So yeah again have a try out of those, find some you like and join me in the next lesson.