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Whaling About Updates
“Why do I have to update ROBLOX all the time?” askes one uninformed user. Well, unlike most other games you might find on the internet, ROBLOX is still under active development. This means that we’re still in the middle of making the game. Every 2-3 weeks the ROBLOX team packages up their latest work and makes it available as an update to ROBLOX. Sure, we could hold onto all our cool improvements and only release once every 6 months. But who wants to wait? We’ve got major improvements right now, and you get them today! strong strong We have made important changes to how uploading shirts works. In order to make our site safe for audiences of all ages, now every uploaded image is vetted by our crack mod squad before appearing anywhere on the site or in-game. When you upload a new shirt, it will not display on your character. If you go in-game, you will see it, but no one else will. All uploaded shirts images go into a queue that our moderators inspect. Inappropriate images will be filtered out at this time and accounts that upload bad images will be deleted. After a moderator has inspected your shirt and marked it “Ok”, then it will show on the site and on your character. Some people will be unhappy that they no longer get instant response to their new shirt uploads. However, this is a necessary step we have to take. strong ROBLOX Lua is still under heavy development and prone to rapid changes. This often means that we are adding new stuff, but occassionally it means taking stuff out. For instance, the DHTML Window has proven to be unworkable in its current form and had to be removed from this release. We try to give our scripters some idea of what is “preliminary” or “deprecated”, so that they know which functions to avoid if they are trying to build a ROBLOX Lua script that will stand up to multiple reversionings of ROBLOX Lua. In this release, we’ve taken the further step of hiding these experimental or dying objects in the Object Browser and the Insert Object/Service menus so that new users don’t stumble upon them. Players who really know what they’re doing in ROBLOX Studio will want to unhide these objects by changing the two new settings, as shown below: - Telamon a
| January 16, 2008 -
Great things from ROBLOX players
This HolyMAC has made a There’s also the And of course everyone is always asking about Clockwork’s Level calculator, considered the standard for figuring out how awesome of a Robloxian you are. You can find the level calculator on ROBLOX players are great! -ReeseMcBlox a
| January 14, 2008 -
New Forum Moderators
The Forum Moderation Team is… -ReeseMcBlox a
| January 11, 2008 -
New Forum Moderators
I’d like to welcome our two newest Forum Moderators, Anaminus and Gamer3D. We’re looking forward to their help keeping the forums mellow and useful. The Forum Moderation Team is… Sirloin HolyMac Jacobxxduel Rombom Anaminus Gamer3D ...
| January 11, 2008 -
Winter Wonderland Winners!
Twenty winners was not enough to reflect the quality of places we saw in this contest, so the following It was very hard for us to judge the places. There were so many great entries! I am pleased to say that the ROBLOX users are very creative. These users have received the Helm of the Frozen North for free. Thanks to all who participated in this ROBLOX building contest! -ReeseMcBlox a
| January 8, 2008 -
Winter Wonderland Parade 4
These are the final images for the Parade. Thanks to all the users who entered the Showing category. We appreciate all the work you did just to show off the theme of Winter. strong strong strong It was a lot of fun to visit all these places and take pictures, just like a tourist would! -ReeseMcBlox a
| January 7, 2008 -
Winter Wonderland Contest Update
1. We are not accepting any more entries. 2. The 3. Don’t change your place yet. We are still judging them and visiting to take screenshots for the Parade. We will be judging until and including Monday. 4. The winners of the Competing portion of the contest will be announced on the evening of Monday January 7. 5. Places that relied on DHTML will judged by Admins, who can go into the places solo and see what was made. 6. There will be another Parade post to close out that part of the event! strong The 20 best Competing winners will be receiving an awesome hat and $1200 ROBUX! -ReeseMcBlox a
| January 5, 2008 -
Winter Wonderland Parade 3
This is the third parade of Winter Wonderland Showing entries. These are the entries that are Here are some more of the entries. The rest will be shown in another parade. These were a lot of fun to visit! I hope other people will check them out as well and maybe get ideas and have a good time. Click on the picture to go to the place page. Entries will still be accepted until Jan 4. See the -ReeseMcBlox a
| January 2, 2008 -
ROBLOX Holiday Gift Survey
a a If you’re a new user and joined after all the gifts went out, you can still page through our survey and give us your opinions on our array of gift hats. Can’t wait to hear from you guys! - Telamon a
| December 26, 2007 -
Winter Wonderland Parade 2
This is the second parade of Winter Wonderland Showing entries. These are the entries that are Here are some more of the entries. The rest will be shown in another parade. These were a lot of fun to visit! I hope other people will check them out as well and maybe get ideas and have a good time. Click on the picture to go to the place page. Here is a list of all the Entries will still be accepted until Jan 4. See the -ReeseMcBlox a
| December 25, 2007 -
A little help around here?
Please welcome our new A-team moderator PontifX! He’s local to the ROBLOX HQ area and is helping us with the increased traffic. PontifX has a banhammer and knows how to use it! He splits time between ROBLOX moderation and testing for another game company. I bet if you ask nicely he’ll tell you all that he can, you know, without breaking his non-disclosure agreements and stuff. -ReeseMcBlox a
| December 22, 2007 -
Use the Force… Fields.
We put out a new release yesterday. There’s a lot of updates in it: strong A ForceField is an object that makes all sibling and descendant objects in the Explorer invincible, drawing a pulsing boxy field around them. Invincible parts/models cannot be blown apart by explosions. Invincible humanoids do not take damage that is applied by the Humanoid:TakeDamage(amount) function. All official ROBLOX weapons have been updated to use TakeDamage rather than setting the Humanoid’s health directly (using Humanoid.Health = Humanoid.Health - damage). If you want your custom weapons to respect the ForceField, you will need to make this change in your scripts. Contrawise, you can make weapons that ignore ForceFields by continuing to set the Humanoid health property directly. The main purpose of ForceFields in this release is to prevent spawnkilling. By default, all SpawnLocations put a 10 second ForceField on any character who spawns there. SpawnLocations now have a ForceField Duration property, which you can use to tweak this number (or set it to 0 if you want to allow spawnkilling). The concept of Force Fields will be developed more fully in future releases and we will be adding properties to them so you can customize their look and behavoir more. strong We shipped Wookong’s brand new shadows in the last release but didn’t tell anyone about them. They are much more robust in this release, so we’ll tell you guys how to turn them on if you want to experiment. They’re still in development, so there may be some odd bugs. They work great for me. If you screw things up, you can always click the “Reset All Settings” button on this dialog box to put everything back the way it was before. You’ll need a decent graphics card to really enjoy shadows. Anything from past four years should probably work fine. Milage may vary. Some exclusions apply. See support forums for details. - Telamon a
| December 21, 2007 -
Winter Wonderland Parade 1
It’s time to start the parade of Winter Wonderland Showing entries. These are the entries that are Here are some of the entries. The rest will be shown in another parade. These were a lot of fun to visit! I hope other people will check them out as well and maybe get ideas and have a good time. Click on the picture to go to the place page. Entries will still be accepted until Jan 4. See the -ReeseMcBlox a
| December 19, 2007 -
Winter Wonderland Competitors
People have been wondering if we got the emails from competing players. Well, here are the names we have so far. Keep in mind these are the people competing for Fame, Rank, and Prizes. Not everyone will be a winner. The official contest post is The judges will be checking out these places over the next 2 weeks. If your place isn’t done yet say so in the description so they don’t waste time looking around. em -ReeseMcBlox a
| December 16, 2007 -
ROBLOX Winter Wonderland Contest
It’s a building contest. Hooray! The theme is wintery holiday type stuff, so get your creative wheels spinning and show us what you can do with the idea of a Winter Wonderland. Make a place that’s fun for you and your friends to play in!
| December 13, 2007 -
ROBLOX Winter Wonderland Contest
It’s a building contest. Hooray! The theme is wintery holiday type stuff, so get your creative wheels spinning and show us what you can do with the idea of a Winter Wonderland. Make a place that’s fun for you and your friends to play in! strong Each contestant will build a Winter Wonderland. What will go into your Wonderland? Here are some ideas: You can use existing models and anything published to the Toolbox in your creation. Entries will be judged according to: Judges will be pulled from the ROBLOX staff and possibly some of the mod team. strong We have something new for this contest… Two Entry Classes! strong strong All entries are judged by the ROBLOX Team. p Q: Will Builder’s Club be one of the prizes? Q: Can I enter more than once? Q: Can I enter the Competing and Showing class? Q: Can I use my other account? Q: Can we send you a PM instead of an email? Q: Do I have to use the previously published Stronghold? The contest starts now! It ends on January 4 at noon Pacific time. The results will be announced on Monday January 7. I can’t wait to start seeing what you guys come up with this time. Have fun! - ReeseMcBlox a
| December 13, 2007 -
ROBLOX Winter Wonderland Contest
It’s a building contest. Hooray! The theme is wintery holiday type stuff, so get your creative wheels spinning and show us what you can do with the idea of a Winter Wonderland. Make a place that’s fun for you and your friends to play in! Wint...
| December 13, 2007