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Tuesday, 14 February 2012

Tutorial: How to install plugins.


Oh hello there! Welcome to my second tutorial. Before I start, I would like to say a very big sorry. The reason behind this is that I haven't been posting much as I wanted to. From now on, I PROMISE to try post at least once or twice a week. Now, on with the tutorial. In this tutorial, I will be showing you how to install plugins.
Plugins is a feature that ROBLOX implemented a little while ago, in around November time. What this allows you to do is to use scripting to do certain things which could take some time without a plugin. For example, CFraming in studio. This would take quite a while because before plugins came along, you had to use the command bar to cframe. Believe it or not, plugins are VERY easy to install. Just follow these steps and you'll be doing it in no time. ;)

Step 1
The first thing to do is to open up ROBLOX Studio. To do this, click on the start menu, head to all programs, find ROBLOX and click on ROBLOX Studio. Another way to do this is to open the start menu and type in the search bar "ROBLOX Studio".
Searching For ROBLOX Studio.












Step 2
The second thing to do is, once you have ROBLOX Studio open, go to Tools > Open Plugins Folder
This will open your plugins folder. Another way to open the plugins folder is to, on a windows 7 computer, search for C:\Users\YOUR_COMPUTER_USERNAME\AppData\Local\Roblox\plugins. Obviously, replace YOUR_COMPUTER_USERNAME with the actual username your logged into the computer with. I'm logged in as "Liam" so I'd do C:\Users\Liam\AppData\Local\Roblox\plugins.
Inside the plugins folder.








Step 3
Once you are inside your plugins folder, you are now ready to actually install plugins. To do this, you must have some plugins to install. I suggest going to either ironnoob.com and finding the roblox section of the forums or searching the internet for some. But, whilst searching for plugins through google or anything, be aware that not all plugins are legit. Some people get them and then put viruses in them. If you do download a plugin that you do not think is legit, scan the files with an anti-virus. Once you have downloaded a plugin, if it came in a .zip format, unzip it. A great place to find good plugins could be from Crazyman32's website: http://crazyman32.weebly.com/plugins.html
Step 4
Once you have unzipped it, open the folder that is created from the zip being extracted. If there is another folder inside that folder, check if there is anything inside. If there is files inside such as an icon and a .lua file, go back to that folder by clicking the back button and then drag it into the plugins folder.
Step 5
To test if you have installed the plugin correctly, close and reopen ROBLOX studio and then open a blank place. If you have installed the plugin correctly, you should see the icon that was in the folder along with the .lua file. If not, follow these steps again and see if that works.

I hope I helped you with this tutorial! If you have any problems, post them in the comments below or message me on ROBLOX, my username is RobloxianFire2.
Remember, I will be posting tutorials like this around every week so keep checking back. ;)
Thanks for reading!!!

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