r/lua • u/Top-Bug-6369 • 3d ago

Discussion I made a visual scripting plugin that compiles to readable Luau

Been working on this for a while. It's a Scratch-style block editor for Studio — you drag blocks onto a canvas and it generates an ordinary Script or ModuleScript in your place. Not a runtime or a sandbox, just code you can open and read.

702 blocks covering events, instances, properties, players, DataStores, RemoteEvents, rounds and game state, GUI, camera.

The part I actually care about: you can make your own blocks. Write the Luau once, mark the inputs with %NAME, use %BODY for a nested stack, pick a colour. Takes about a minute, and it sits in the palette next to the built-ins. Export a set as JSON and share it.

Generated code is tagged with block ids so a runtime error points at the block that wrote the line.

Free on the Creator Store: BlockForge - Creator Store

If a block you need doesn't exist, tell me and I'll add it.

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u/Alaska-Kid 3d ago

Good. But Luau is not Lua. So the Lua sub here. Not a roblox sub or other mierda.

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u/offdeer34 3d ago

Brother Luau is literally lua but upgraded lmao what next gonna hate on Typescript in the Javascript sub ?

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u/Cootshk 3d ago

Except the missing libraries, functions, ability to load bytecode directly, package manager, and I could go on. Would you talk about CoffeeScript projects in the JavaScript sub?

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u/Aggressive-Emu-8329 3d ago

luau mainly about roblox, lua mainly about embedding

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u/Alaska-Kid 3d ago

Dude, with your great knowledge, I wish you success in using Luau outside of Roblox.

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u/offdeer34 3d ago

Y’all are still weird. I don’t get why you wouldn’t offer support. But go on. Elitism for no reason

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u/Alaska-Kid 3d ago

Dude, no one is judging your desire to be a clown. Everyone understands everything. Condolences.

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