Instrument Tutorial (By Jim D: )

How to make Instruments

OK, so last time you made a door. So what? A door’s easy Making a musical instrument in Roblox is slightly harder!

STEP 1

You make the main frame of your instrument. For examples sake, lets say a piano. Make everything but the keys.

STEP 2

 As we are making a piano, make a white block, however large you want, so that it will fit inside your piano (How big your piano is decides how many keys you want.) For this example we will call the key *C*

STEP 3

Now that we have the white block click on it, then go to Insert, Object… and click on the Click Detector.

STEP 4

Now you need to insert a sound into to the workspace. To do this unselect any objects, and go into Insert, Object… and click on Sound. Now you can add the sound you want to play when you  press the key

(If you are having trouble finding some sounds, I have uploaded the .Zip for my place, inside it are 17 piano notes, 4 guitar notes and some drum sounds. http://www.mediafire.com/?yjsc3iy4gxj is where it is.)

STEP 4

Now select the sound and the ‘C’ object and group them together as a model. Give the model a descriptive name, like ‘Ckey’.

STEP 5

Click on the model and go to Insert, Object… and click on script. Now open up the script in the model and get rid of the Print Hello World script and paste in this:

function onClicked()

script.Parent.C.BrickColor = BrickColor.new(21)
script.Parent.Sound:play()
wait(0.25)
script.Parent.C.BrickColor = BrickColor.new(1)
end

script.Parent.C.ClickDetector.MouseClick:connect(onClicked)

STEP 6

Now go into solo mode and try pressing the key. It should make a noise and change color if you did it right.

NOW LETS TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT THE SCRIPT!

function onClicked() –This says if the user clicks on the brick

script.Parent.C.BrickColor = BrickColor.new(21) –This changes the color of the key when it is pressed!
script.Parent.Sound:play() –This plays the sound

    wait(0.25) –Wait for a quater of a second
script.Parent.C.BrickColor = BrickColor.new(1) –Changes the color of the key back to normal.
end

script.Parent.C.ClickDetector.MouseClick:connect(onClicked) –This makes sure the Click Detecting process works.

Now just one more thing. If you need the color codes so you can have all sort of color changes in the key, here is a link to the picture in the Roblox Wiki:

http://wiki.roblox.com/images/2/28/RobloxColors.PNG 

Right, with some imagination, you can use this tutorial to do a WHOLE LOAD of things.

Good luck! (If you liked this tutorial, please visit my place! It is full of musical instruments: http://www.roblox.com/Place.aspx?ID=301773 

Toodle-oo!

Jimjambo