New Tower Types - Tower Defense Tutorial #9

We add more more defensive tower units to the game, each with their own damage, cooldown, and range values. Also, a fancy new UI to go along with it.
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0:00 Intro
1:05 Creating GUI
7:22 Creating images
8:00 Dynamically creating buttons
12:12 Tower Config
16:20 Scripting Config Values
19:45 Testing
20:40 Tower Limit
24:50 Outro

[@apollondev]

Hey everyone! If you want to put decimals into your cooldown/damage/range use a NumberValue instead of an IntValue!

[@xinfu1934]

thanks really helped a lot

[@Tophat_Noob]

thanks!

[@FrazdYT]

i try

[@Alexmow]

Helpful!

[@silcat_]

thanks!

[@zFrost]

Tutorial for an Ice tower (permanent freeze or speed-up) : 1) Add a Bool Value inside all of your towers and call it "Freeze", if your tower can slow down enemies mark the value as true (blue check) if your tower has this value and does not slow down enemies, mark it as false (empty box) (You can also NOT add the bool value in the towers that don't freeze, and you specify on the code later to set freezing as true when it finds the bool, else, if it doesn't find it, set it as false!) 2) Add a Number value (or IntValue) inside all of your enemies and call the value "Frost" (or anything you like, but remember it!), the value of "Frost" will be the victim's WalkSpeed once it is hit by the tower, so if your enemy has a WalkSpeed of 6 and the Frost value is 3, when the enemy is hit by a tower that can freeze the enemy then it's WalkSpeed will become 3 instead of 6 (theoretically, you can also use this to make a tower that can make enemies faster!) 3) Inside the Tower script, in the tower.Attack function and after the target.Humanoid:Takedamage, Add this piece: target.Humanoid:TakeDamage(config.Damage.Value) --(target takes damage) if newTower:FindFirstChild("Freezes").Value == true then --(if the tower can freeze then...) target.Humanoid.WalkSpeed = target.Humanoid.Frost.Value --(The target's WalkSpeed becomes Frost Value) target["Body Colors"].HeadColor = BrickColor.new("Steel blue") --(this will change the victim's head color) target.Head.Transparency = 0.3 --(this will be the victim's new head transparency to imitate ice) else --(if it can't freeze...) end --(Then Don't freeze and end!) Side Note: as i've already said, this is permanent, so if an ice tower freezes an enemy, such enemy will stay frozen for it's entire lifetime (either until it dies OR until it reaches the base) As a heads up, target["Body Colors"].HeadColor = BrickColor.new("Steel blue") is assuming that your enemy has a Body Colors object and a Head, make sure to add them to your enemies (or mobs), this is a purely optional cosmetic change! You can delete it, or change to any color, change transparency, or any properties!

[@Jaden-CD]

Thank u, will be credited in my game

[@Jaden-CD]

@Flex a tower defence game, but I'm making a lobby with different games, the idea is so people can play the different games with the same themes and maybe to make people try other game types, also some arg stuff. But ofc it's gonna fail cause I'm small yt

[@Boomerlol]

hey, ur me

[@zFrost]

@@Boomerlol No, We're me

[@Jaden-CD]

@@PhantomicRBLX don't worry I've finished it all

[@KurzOfficial]

These tutorials haven't just taught me how to make a tower defense game, they're also teaching me well in depth how to code better since before these tutorials I only had a decent understanding. These video's have also encouraged me to continue trying to be a developer, and I want to thank you so, so much for making these videos. You deserve so much more than 50,000 subscribers. 10/10 well in depth amazing tutorials. Edit: Also to everyone who keeps asking for extra stuff like certain detections or different types of enemies, he has to get the core functions of the game down to start adding extras like that in or it'll just be all messy.

[@correctspeling2805]

Same here, I went from asking for help in his Discord to helping out sometimes in his Discord just from these videos. Can't thank him enough

[@mobileobbygod2589]

@Gius432 rude

[@YungNoahX]

Can any of you guys like give me your GameController code? I have had this error for a couple days now where whenever I clicked anything, the ImageButtons duplicate each other. PLEASE HELP

[@Splffo]

AWESOME tutorial gnome code! I cant believe you responded to my comment before. Thanks for Tower defense tutorial #9!

[@tinpothead6586]

This is a very good series! You are the first person that makes this series without free models full of scripts!

[@valoAir]

true that those models are efficient, but they are bad if something breaks most people won't know how to fix it, yet from Gnome's tutorials we will understand most of the stuff that's happening!

[@YungNoahX]

Can any of you guys like give me your GameController code? I have had this error for a couple days now where whenever I clicked anything, the ImageButtons duplicate each other. PLEASE HELP

[@mrflovs754]

this gnome has the coolest personality AND makes good tutorials perfect

[@canonau6090]

Tysm for making this series, I have wanted to make different towers for so long and now I can!

[@YungNoahX]

Can you help me out with the GameController code? I have had this error for a couple days now where whenever I clicked anything, the ImageButtons duplicate each other. PLEASE HELP

[@dashychicken5201]

here since 50 subs! You deserve far more than 50k :D

[@tesla.1413]

Please never give up this series, you are my favorite youtuber because of this.

[@sjoerdgaming876]

Yeah gnome, please never let this series down

[@roadyelle1731]

​@@sjoerdgaming876 Exactly, Gnome please dont run around and desert this series

[@creamking69]

Never make this series cry

[@jayden3107]

@@creamking69 Never gonna make this series say goodbye

[@alexanderwalschaers6852]

Thank you so much for being clear all of the time :) You really make this easy It works really well You REALLY deserved your sub

[@mranip__8209]

Great! I like this, I'm getting into more tower defense and strategy games. I'm looking forward to when this game is released to the public!

[@YungNoahX]

Can you help me out with the GameController code? I have had this error for a couple days now where whenever I clicked anything, the ImageButtons duplicate each other. PLEASE HELP

[@shahidshafiq2207]

Awesome tutorial gnomecode! Also, if anyone wants the cooldown of the towers to be lower than 1 then use a numbervalue instead of an intvalue cuz intvalues only store whole numbers

[@blackknight3689]

Thank you so much!!! After my time break I return to work! You the best!

[@Fletch12345]

Amazing! This is a really good tutorial, can't wait to see more! You earned a sub from these easy-to-follow tutorials, thank you!

[@TheRealOderless635gnat]

Hi eclipse scout

[@ValidityValue]

I only child why not.

[@HquvlyRoblox]

by far the BEST series ever made

[@zyelexx]

YES I NEED THIS SO MUCH! I LOVE YOU! !!

[@robloxiancuber3119]

This series really have o get a Best Tutorial in the world

[@number6565]

Thanks so much for the tutorials!

[@akiprox7]

Amazing series!

[@RydanMurray]

Amazing content Dud!

[@Dusty2763]

Beautiful i can't wait for the next video

[@despwned_PL]

I love your videos and thanks for episode 9!

[@juniworld-2542]

Incredible! you deserve more subscribers than you have! I always wanted to make a game in roblox studio, and more about tower defense !, I would literally like to thank you in a very big way for everything you do! I love your videos!

[@glob1212]

thank you for all the help i really really do appreciate it😄

[@Stalkerbug7765]

while watching this i kept of thinking of ideas he could do he helps so much i cant wait to start my tower defense game tdd

[@eee_eee]

finally a relaxing episode

[@TopDuck521]

thanks gnome amazing tutorial

[@NoobsOfNoobs69420]

There is gonna be a whole lot more tower defense games after you finish this lol, but great explaining keep up the good work!

[@candykid44]

LETS GOOO!!! perfect timing also first :)

[@WearWQLF]

Another Great episode

[@randomdude1730]

For anyone looking to make a traditional tower defense spawn GUI (on the bottom), you can use the position {0.15, 0},{0.85, 0} and size {0.7, 0},{0.13, 0}. You can change some decimals or values to your liking, but this is just what I used.

[@akiprox7]

This was very helpfull! Thank you!

[@HibachiTheBee]

Awesome video! Helped me a ton, but I had a random question about the base health system, is there anyway to make the HP bar (above the base) like an image on the players screen (like at the top of the screen) if so, how would you go about doing it?

[@ToasterDuds6000]

you can change the offset value in the properties window

[@jaikwss1848]

Cool, keep going!

[@MadnessNull]

Is there anyway of making a tower does splash damage (which deal damage to multiple mobs nearby ) and also keep up the good work really liking the series i learned so many stuffs!

[@ProBaby72]

cliff/ area damage enemies? like a value that you can check for CliffTower --- you can only place them on a folder in map that restricts it to be placed on the ground instead u put parts in the folder that you want him to be able to get placed ExplosiveTower --- he has area damage MeleeTower --- swings its melee weapon so he can deal damage to multiple enemies at once but its different to area damage

[@jhkz]

such a good video!

[@internetuser8129]

suggestion: tutorial on how to make a tower inventory system, difficulties and more about choosing levels

[@captainpeluche3787]

I love these tutorials gnome!, after the important stuff can you do a video on how to do admin commands like tower defense simulator? i'd feel like they'd be pretty fun to mess around with

[@AIO0110]

I just thought about it, I guess I know how to do it but I don't consider myself advanced enough to do that lol

[@RichRBLX]

Great video Gnome! Once I have time I'll do episode 6 since that episodes long 😥

[@That_stupid_guy]

Hey thanks for making these vids

[@henrythehyperrips]

Thank you so much for this! You work very hard on all of these videos I’m sure and you make us happy by helping make a td game!

[@FakeyRoblox]

Everyone there is a flaw in the tower limit system, if you reset, the limit also resets, so if you don't want that, disable the reset button and you're good to go

[@Mircu1987]

I hope there will be also towers spawning units and also as well damage/projectile type so we can make immunitys, along with different kind of enemies like "camoflaged" so many roblox developers can create their own attributes to enemies! These tutorials are really usefull and easy! Hope your channel keeps growing, it's wholesome to have people like you that help a lot so other people that are developers on roblox can share thanks to you!

[@officialcappo]

u really want to copy tds lmao?

[@CheddarEpicGamer]

@@officialcappo Enemy atrributes are a mainstay in tower defence games and is not just TDS with immunity think of other tower defense games like Bloons tower defense

[@Simply_King]

@@officialcappo its not just in tds lol

[@Bro-vs5mk]

@@officialcappo you know tds isnt the only tower defense game right

[@officialcappo]

pov: shitty drama starting over shit

[@toxicott9291]

some more niche things I would love to see. Summoner enemies, spawning towers and bosses with a giant health bar. Also it would be great to know how to add health bars to all enemies

[@butterdgato]

yes, because my enemies don't have "Head" objects, so it doesn't display a health bar

[@edgysotherchannel2891]

cant wait for this game to come out

[@shadylawyer7274]

Let's go episode 9!

[@janssenhulzink]

For the next video you could make a currancy system for buying, and maybe upgrading them, love ur vide and goodluck with everything😁👍

[@domrous9934]

Cheers :) This helped a lot developing my indescribably stupid game.

[@Yoshikage_Clips]

Great Tutorial Btw GnomeCode! Just One Question, Is there a way where if a player places max units and tries to place another, a TextLabel pops up on their and says “MAX UNITS REACHED” Thank you!

[@Sckee_Real]

This is my fav coder no cqp

[@insertusernamehere8125]

When the tutorial is done you should publish your sample game and call it "Gnome Tower Defense" we would all love to play it.

[@RichRBLX]

epic face emoji

[@MunchyLX]

Great video as always! Just one question tho, for me the images don’t work and the towers placed thing works but not the text do you have any solutions gnome? Thanks as always!

[@MaratRusX]

I have same problem - it says that there is infinite yield thing for images

[@BucketBloxxer]

Heres some ideas: Add a wave gui Add a lobby with a shop inventory etc. Add a dialouge that tells you what is coming before the enemies spawn, so you can get prepared. Add even more enemies! Like a Final boss and stuff. Add a Tower with a Gun. call it Pistoleer. and also add a Tower called Heavy Gunner, which would shoot with a minigun. also add a Miner to give the players cash. (add money to place towers) Add Upgrades Add Modes. (Easy, Medium, Hard and Extreme. add another tower called Knifer, Hits enemies with a knife and has a ability to Attack faster. Add a Billboardgui that appears above the enemies telling how much hp they have left

[@respondedvip2094]

Not sure if he’d do all of them, since if he did so it’d be enough to make an entire game, and the basic idea for tutorials is to learn something, but nonetheless, good thinking. Looking forward to see these, especially excited for the dialogue system and lobby, economic tower that you mentioned,

[@potgaming1801]

the whole abillity thing would be a good suggestion but it will take some time for him to do it. but also the towers like "pistoleer" and heavy gunner which you can customize the towers you had made from that tutorial

[@BucketBloxxer]

actually im not using it but im giving him some ideas!

[@rl4503]

the bill board gui is too simple for a tutorial, i made one in 3 minutes lol

[@hunterhall1632]

Much helpful thx

[@antify9785]

my timestamp: 8:20 great tutorials keep up the good work!

[@phrode2]

Tutorial on how to use ViewportFrames instead of decals cuz I ain't doing allat; 1. Get a plugin called ViewportEditor or make your own viewport frame using a camera and your tower model 2. Add this finished frame to your config folder instead of the decal 3. Clone the frame and add it to the button. Set the size to (1,0,1,0) 4. Tweak anything else!

[@FlimyGamer]

Gnome code is the brute of coding

[@Meetsu]

For some reason all accessories that I put on my defending npc (tower) detach from it and drop on the npc's foot where my cursor is while I'm in a placing tower state, but when I place the tower everything goes back to normal and accessories are on their place. I have no idea how to fix it. EDIT: To fix this issue I just had to manually rig every handle in accessoriess to humanoidrootpart. It solved the issue however it was really time consuming and it worked fine before this video. But it was me who made the mistake somewhere in coding becasue in the tutorial everything works as it should.

[@thuboiz999]

im learning new towers and enemies mechanics without you, its actually works

[@darkedgd1038]

Hey gnome I want you to make like special effect something like stunning enemy and maybe like upgrades and every upgrades can add like special effect and more range or more damage

[@charkio9955]

Can you please make a video on how to make a working cctv? Where if you are infront of a camera whatever is seen through the camera will project on the tv or screen? Just like a live tv news! I will really appreciate it!! Keep up the good work 👍

[@CallumP06]

This series is so useful. I have a problem with my animations though. The noob and mech walk as normal, but the zombie and Teddy animation don't play.

[@doggo6024]

you have to export them

[@RichRBLX]

he covered this on episode 3, to get the zombie animation, load up the animation editor. the animation should be there, so publish it and copy the id of the animation. teddy however doesnt have the animation so make your own

[@butterdgato]

is it looping?

[@Boomerlol]

This is where im stopping for the night, btw, keep up the good content (12:12)

[@thehyperfire12]

Guys the animation of the other towers I made to attack ta in infinite loop when attacking no longer as it solves, I'm trying to make tower aoe, damage in the area!

[@historytowerdefense4159]

Episode 10 idea: Super simple lobby with teleport to the game , Thanks gnome for making this series!

[@caliber008]

Honestly the lobby wont be hard to make , so in the same episode he could add cash and prices

[@historytowerdefense4159]

@@caliber008 true

[@DeletoblueXx]

Yes please I rlly need this

[@RichRBLX]

hell probably cover cash and upgrading towers, then hell do the lobby

[@historytowerdefense4159]

@@RichRBLX and difficulty vote system, so you can select easy, hard mode or others

[@sharkylover5462]

Awesome video, Could you teach us how to make a lobby and an elevator to get in the game? And also a shop.

[@WingedFire]

i think i'm going to not have a limit to how many towers you can spawn like in the bloons tower defense series, but I might start ramping up the price for each new tower

[@NacoPercyIsKool]

WOW NEW TOWERS YAY

[@TehEpikNoobKing]

fun fact: you can have outlines on cornered UI, all you have to do is add a UIStroke into the UI object. If ApplyStrokeMode is set to “Border” it will outline the shape, if it’s “Contextual” it will outline text. also you can have customizable thiccness too. ur welcome if i made ur UI 69x better :D

[@hyanmaru8287]

I made mine manually and It was hard lol, maybe after I finished the whole series I will do some GUI tutorials next

[@YaGamerBro]

wow thanks it made it a lot better

[@srijansingh8006]

The last sentence has a deep meaning

[@HR_DL]

Great video as always, but i have a slight problem. The animations are kinda buggy and i don't know how to fix it. I would be glad if you could help me!

[@platypus4]

Maybe you can do a upgrade and delete system for the towers

[@AveragePengu]

I am subscribing

[@icfauh6680]

thanks bro

[@Mysterios964.]

How about an upgrade tower or sell system to the towers? Also a cash gui?

[@bendyzip9111]

Hey this is an amazing tutorial but how do I make it where i can make my own models? Is there a way to do thwt

[@marinanasir4033]

Hey Gnome Code i found this "variable 'mob' defined at line 1 is never initialized or assigned; initialize with 'nil' to silence" when I was coding on the bottom of the text there's a blue line so what does this means?

[@lvuszay]

yo gnome when u reset the tower limit resets can u show hwo to fix that also when you reset with the tower placeholder selected the placeholder stays there

[@TheRealOderless635gnat]

So can you make an upgrade system, cash system and status of the enemy

[@saudamir9363]

Hey gnome i am stuck in part 1, the zombie isnt even moving i used drooling zombie, the script is just fine and it says waypoints is not a part of workspace? can you help

[@letforgaming168]

ngl this totorial serise is good

[@FXZ.950]

this might help a lot of tds fan

[@coolpro-pw3gw]

can you do a tutorial on how to make the buttons a viewport instead of an image i think that would be cooler

[@antify9785]

can you do different tower types i mean placement so example: you could have cliff towers towers that can only be placed on cliffs or towers that go down the track

[@enzosouza910]

a suggestion, because it doesn't increase the life of the mobs and each turret has its damage, and turret upgrades, money to put the turrets

[@seeksvideos9042]

tutorial on making the current wave visible thing. Start by adding a model to your Maps folder. Name this model "Wave". Inside the "Wave" model, insert two things: a. A part b. A BillboardGui Name the BillboardGui "WaveGui". Inside the "WaveGui", insert a TextLabel and name it "Title". Replace your main script with this (you may have to adjust some things): local serverstorage = game:GetService("ServerStorage") local bindables = serverstorage:WaitForChild("Bindables") local gameOverEvent = bindables:WaitForChild("GameOver") local base = require(script.Base) local mob = require(script.Mob) local tower = require(script.Tower) local map = workspace.HopelessPark --- Put your map name local waveModel = map.Wave local waveGui = waveModel.WaveGui local waveTitle = waveGui.Title local maxWaves = 20 -- change this to how many waves you have local gameOver = false base.setup(map, 100) gameOverEvent.Event:Connect(function() gameOver = true end) --- insert your wave code. repeat task.wait(1) waveTitle.Text = "Wave:" .. wave .. "/" .. maxWaves until #workspace.Mobs:GetChildren() == 0 or gameOver if gameOver then break end print("WAVE ENDED") task.wait(1) end

[@universalgames2901]

Question, how would I use a model, just a part with a humanoid and a mesh to make a tower Hope you respond! Thank you!

[@goldensushi8746]

Could I get some assistance: I have 3 towers and only the slinger one works perfectly fine the other one is the wizard and it does the damage and range and cooldown but the animation never works for attack only idle works. and then the last tower is the gunner sometimes when I place nothing works not the animation not the damage cooldown or range. Other times I place the gunner and it does work the animation and the damag, cooldown, and range but the animation won’t stop even when it’s not attacking. the last scenario for the gunnner is that sometimes the first scenario happens but then the next wave the 2nd scenario occurs. Also the order of the tower gui’s changes sometimes when I leave the play the game and rejoin. I haven’t been able to finish the last 5 minutes of the video because of these issues. Any help would be appreciated! Edit: Forgot to mention that the output doesn’t say there is any errors so yeah.

[@fadora_]

I think it would be cool if you added a necromancer tower or a summoning tower like gnome king who spawns gnomes who go down the track starting at your base the more upgrades the faster it spawn and the more health it has :P

[@InoriVoid]

I think it would be cool if you used the tools daddy gnome has already given to you to figure it out yourself

[@eee_eee]

@@InoriVoidI think it would be cool if you didn’t respond to a year old comment

[@InoriVoid]

@@eee_eee I think it would be cool if you didn't use time to justify an atrocious lapse in judgement

[@eee_eee]

@@InoriVoid 😐

[@realityabove]

@@InoriVoid i think it would be cool for you to respect him and not call him 'daddy gnome'

[@Ryan_Tse]

hello Gnome! I recently noticed a flaw in the targeting, other td games target first zombies are we're targeting nearest, may you teach us how to target first instead? highly appreciated and good job man!

[@soliumi]

im sure he will make a video of this sometime in the future.

[@Ryan_Tse]

@@soliumi yep 😃👍

[@slugger_gladtds9766]

there’s 3 different targets: first, closest / nearest, and strongest

[@Ryan_Tse]

@@slugger_gladtds9766 yes, I’m pretty sure there’s “last” as well

[@Ryan_Tse]

@Under Gaming ah i see, big brain moment

[@Dadamirr]

iv already done these stuff perhaps next video can be about making shop and inventory system?

[@masondoesxd]

YAS!!

[@EpicPlayz420]

@gnomecode what was harder to code Teddy or this?

[@Ranckiw]

Hi, there was an error while I was putting different characters. When I press the gui part, yes, but it comes in the ground, so when I press the gui part of the character is in the ground, when I click it, it comes out of the ground and stays in the air. How can I fix it?

[@GreenTreeGaming]

Hi gnome, the body gyro thing is not working for me! Can u please fix it?

[@zedsdev1202]

you should add a sell button to the towers and upgrades

[@jupiter1337]

Three musketeers, nah, three gnome-keteers this joke was so bad lol

[@mathiasj8461]

Can you make that you can upgrade them that the range is farder?

[@jigglyjosh5047]

for the tower icons, you could try and use viewport frames so instead of using external apps to create icons you can easily just add a tower and it will automatically have an icon ready for you. good luck on future episodes, looking forward to seeing the finished game!

[@wither-gaming6584]

could you help me with this ? it would help alot

[@cobratr1]

@@h470_0 can i have a copy of your viewport frame script because my viewport frame script is always having a trouble..

[@legosomething3998]

Thank you so much now i can do a tower defense game are you doing lobby, range of towers or upgrade towers in the next Video?

[@Crazy4Beyonce]

You can do lobby yourself, it’s only building

[@legosomething3998]

But how to do the tower shop and elevator?