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OC So before we start creating our games and roadblocks, I just want to quickly show you how you can

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access the services and any objects in your workspace since services are going to be really important

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because you're going to use a lot of functions and properties in them.

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So I just want to show you quickly how to do that before we move on to the other lectures in the course.

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So there's this key word here in Roblox.

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It's called Game.

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And it holds all of the game services.

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It holds all the properties or holds everything in your game.

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It's like the big overarching table that holds everything in your game.

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It refers to everything and you can index it, of course, and you can get access to all the services.

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There's events in here, properties, all that good stuff.

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And you can just type in the name of it.

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So for example, if I wanted to get access to like the lighting service, I could just type lighting.

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But there is a small issue.

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Doing it this way is that if I ever changed the name of leading.

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So for example, if I change it to like l for some reason now the game when I type in lighting, it's

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not going to know what I'm referring to.

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So a better way to do it is that there's this function in this table.

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It's called get service and you can type in the class name instead of the name of the instance of the

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class.

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So I can do lighting and it will get the lighting the lighting service for me, no matter what its name

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is.

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This is just a better way of doing it using this get service function.

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So no matter what I name these services in my game, I will always be able to get them to get the workspace.

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You don't want to do get service workspace that's a little little involved, especially when there's

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an easier way to do it.

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There's a keyword that's just workspace, and I have access to everything in your workspace so I can

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access all the properties of the workspace and then I can access any of the children of the workspace.

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So for example, I can access the base plate by typing base plate, and then I can access all the properties

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of the base plate as well as any of the children of the base plate like this texture.

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So I can type texture, and then I have access to all the properties of the texture.

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So let's just quickly to show you how you can access stuff in your game by using the dot operator and

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using the get service function to grab any services in your game.