User:Quenty/How To Receive Help From Scripters
What not to do (Scripters Helpers)
In the Scripting Helpers forum, there are several things you shouldn't ask for or do. These are taboo, and doing it will result in people raising eyebrows, doing fake *coughs* and just plaining tell you no. Here is a list of 'do nots'.
- Ask for a script - Don't go and ask for a script. Don't say 'Can someone give me a leaderboard script. Not only can you usually find it in free models, or find it somewhere else, they usually don't do stuff for free for strangers. Would you?
- Copy your whole script too a forum and ask 'What's wrong?' - Not only will you also irritate people, who have no idea what is going to be wrong, you also have released your whole entire script to a group of people. Also, they have no idea where the error is, so if your script is 1000 lines long, no one's going to scroll through the script and find the error. Instead, include output, along with the segment of script that is erroring, along with any variables used in that section of the script.
- Hack a game and then ask for someone to fix it - Seriously. Not only is hacking against the ToS (Terms of Service), no one, NO ONE is going to fix your hacked game. Please. The kindest response you will receive will be a 'Go learn how to script'.
- Spam - Your account may be deleted.
What to do
- Include output - Include output, people will be 50% more likely to help, especially if you tell them what you think is wrong, or the line that seems wrong. A post without output looks like this...
Posted: 01-02-2012 07:40 PM
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local p = workspace:GetChildren()
for i=1, #p do
if p[i].className == "Part" then
if p[i].Material == "Plastic" then
local bm2 = p[i]:FindFirstChild("Mesh")
if not bm2 then
local bm = Instance.new("BlockMesh")
bm.Parent = p[i]
end
end
end
end
It doesn't work for parts that have no mesh.
It seems to break somewhere around line 4... I think...
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Re: Please show me what I'm doing wrong...
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Posted: 01-02-2012 07:45 PM
Did you get an output from the script?
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Re: Please show me what I'm doing wrong...
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Posted: 01-02-2012 07:47 PM
Can you copy and paste the output here please?
At this point, you will probably post the output, but you will have wasted valuable time, and you will be less likely to receive a post.
- Have a specific title - Don't use a title like 'Help' use a title like 'Leaderboard script - Math problem', which will attract all the smart math people
- Indent your script even though you can't really tab your script (or use white space to do it), you can do fake tabs on the forums. This can be achieved by pressing alt+0160: holding down the alt key, then pushing the 0 (zero) key, then the 1 key, then the 6 key, then the 0 (zero) key again). This types the Non-Breaking Space character. Using four of those instead of a tab will work. Indented code looks like this:
x = 3
if x == 3 then
print(x)
end
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