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- <li><a href="#creating-the-rojo-project">Creating the Rojo Project</a></li>
- <li><a href="#building-your-place">Building Your Place</a></li>
- <li><a href="#live-syncing-into-studio">Live-Syncing into Studio</a></li>
- <li><a href="#uploading-your-place">Uploading Your Place</a></li>
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- <h2 id="creating-the-rojo-project">Creating the Rojo Project<a class="headerlink" href="#creating-the-rojo-project" title="Permanent link">¶</a></h2>
- <p>To use Rojo to build a game, you'll need to create a new project file, which tells Rojo how to turn your files into a Roblox place.</p>
- <p>First, create a new folder to contain the files for your game and open up a new terminal inside of it, like cmd.exe or Bash.</p>
- <p>It's convenient to make the folder from the command line:</p>
- <div class="codehilite"><pre><span></span>mkdir my-new-project
- <span class="nb">cd</span> my-new-project
- </pre></div>
- <p>Inside the folder, initialize a new Rojo project:</p>
- <div class="codehilite"><pre><span></span>rojo init
- </pre></div>
- <p>Rojo will make a small project file in your directory, named <code>default.project.json</code>. It matches the "Baseplate" template from Roblox Studio, except that it'll take any files you put in a folder called <code>src</code> and put it into <code>ReplicatedStorage.Source</code>.</p>
- <p>Speaking of files, make sure to create a directory named <code>src</code> in this folder, or Rojo will be upset about missing files!</p>
- <div class="codehilite"><pre><span></span>mkdir src
- </pre></div>
- <p>Let's also add a Lua file, <code>hello.lua</code> to the <code>src</code> folder, so that we can make this project our own.</p>
- <div class="codehilite"><pre><span></span><span class="nb">echo</span> <span class="s1">'return "Hello, Rojo!"'</span> > src/hello.lua
- </pre></div>
- <h2 id="building-your-place">Building Your Place<a class="headerlink" href="#building-your-place" title="Permanent link">¶</a></h2>
- <p>Now that we have a project, one thing we can do is build a Roblox place file for our project. This is a great way to get started with a project quickly with no fuss.</p>
- <p>All we have to do is call <code>rojo build</code>:</p>
- <div class="codehilite"><pre><span></span>rojo build -o MyNewProject.rbxlx
- </pre></div>
- <p>If you open <code>MyNewProject.rbxlx</code> in Roblox Studio now, you should see a <code>Folder</code> named "Source" containing a <code>ModuleScript</code> under <code>ReplicatedStorage</code>.</p>
- <div class="admonition info">
- <p class="admonition-title">Info</p>
- <p>To generate a binary place file instead, use <code>rbxl</code>. Note that support for binary model/place files (<code>rbxm</code> and <code>rbxl</code>) is very limited in Rojo presently.</p>
- </div>
- <h2 id="live-syncing-into-studio">Live-Syncing into Studio<a class="headerlink" href="#live-syncing-into-studio" title="Permanent link">¶</a></h2>
- <p>Building a place file is great for starting to work on a game, but for active iteration, you'll want something faster.</p>
- <p>In Roblox Studio, make sure the Rojo plugin is installed. If you need it, check out <a href="../installation">the installation guide</a> to learn how to install it.</p>
- <p>To expose your project to the plugin, you'll need to start a new <strong>live sync session</strong> from the command line:</p>
- <div class="codehilite"><pre><span></span>rojo serve
- </pre></div>
- <p>You should see output like this in your terminal:</p>
- <div class="codehilite"><pre><span></span>$ rojo serve
- Rojo server listening on port <span class="m">34872</span>
- </pre></div>
- <p>Switch into Roblox Studio and press the <strong>Connect</strong> button on the Rojo plugin toolbar. A dialog should appear:</p>
- <p align="center" class="feature-image"><img alt="Rojo plugin connection dialog" src="../../images/connection-dialog.png" /></p>
- <p>If the port number doesn't match the output from the command line, change it, and then press <strong>Connect</strong>.</p>
- <p>If all went well, you should now be able to change files in the <code>src</code> directory and watch them sync into Roblox Studio in real time!</p>
- <h2 id="uploading-your-place">Uploading Your Place<a class="headerlink" href="#uploading-your-place" title="Permanent link">¶</a></h2>
- <p>Aimed at teams that want serious levels of automation, Rojo can upload places to Roblox.com automatically.</p>
- <p>You'll need an existing game on Roblox.com as well as the <code>.ROBLOSECURITY</code> cookie of an account that has write access to that game.</p>
- <div class="admonition warning">
- <p class="admonition-title">Warning</p>
- <p>It's recommended that you set up a Roblox account dedicated to deploying your game instead of your personal account in case your security cookie is compromised.</p>
- </div>
- <p>Generating and publishing your game is as simple as:</p>
- <div class="codehilite"><pre><span></span>rojo upload --asset_id <span class="o">[</span>PLACE ID<span class="o">]</span> --cookie <span class="s2">"[SECURITY COOKIE]"</span>
- </pre></div>
- <p>An example project is available on GitHub that deploys to Roblox.com from GitHub and Travis-CI automatically: <a href="https://github.com/LPGhatguy/roads">https://github.com/LPGhatguy/roads</a></p></article></div></div></main><footer class="md-footer"><div class="md-footer-nav"><nav class="md-footer-nav__inner md-grid"><a href="../../../installation/" title="Installing Rojo" class="md-flex md-footer-nav__link md-footer-nav__link--prev" rel="prev"><div class="md-flex__cell md-flex__cell--shrink"><i class="md-icon md-icon--arrow-back md-footer-nav__button"></i></div><div class="md-flex__cell md-flex__cell--stretch md-footer-nav__title"><span class="md-flex__ellipsis"><span class="md-footer-nav__direction">Previous</span>Installing Rojo</span></div></a><a href="../existing-game/" title="Porting an Existing Game to Rojo" class="md-flex md-footer-nav__link md-footer-nav__link--next" rel="next"><div class="md-flex__cell md-flex__cell--stretch md-footer-nav__title"><span class="md-flex__ellipsis"><span class="md-footer-nav__direction">Next</span>Porting an Existing Game to Rojo</span></div><div class="md-flex__cell md-flex__cell--shrink"><i class="md-icon md-icon--arrow-forward md-footer-nav__button"></i></div></a></nav></div><div class="md-footer-meta md-typeset"><div class="md-footer-meta__inner md-grid"><div class="md-footer-copyright">powered by <a href="https://www.mkdocs.org">MkDocs</a> and <a href="https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/">Material for MkDocs</a></div></div></div></footer></div><script src="../../../assets/javascripts/application.b260a35d.js"></script><script>app.initialize({version:"1.0.4",url:{base:"../../.."}})</script></body></html>
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