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You Can Now Toggle Outlines
As announced at BLOXcon London and shortly thereafter in a Comments on Comments article , we’ve decided to make the recently launched outlines feature optional for all ROBLOX builders and game developers. While we do see outlines as part of ou...
| August 13, 2013 -
Developer’s Journal: Raycasting to Make Reflectable Lasers
Hello everyone, this is Catblox –I’ve been a long-time member of ROBLOX (five years and still going) and a scripter for a little over half that time. Today, I’m going to talk about some more advanced ways to use ROBLOX’s raycasting API –...
| July 30, 2013 -
Be a ROBLOX Tycoon: Earn Robux With Game Passes and Gear
ROBLOX users often want to know how they can earn some extra Robux. Fortunately, the way our economy is structured, there is a wide range of things you can do to fatten your ROBLOX wallet. Today, we’ll be focusing on Game Passes and the Add Gear...
| January 28, 2013 -
How to Build a FPS in 15 Minutes with ROBLOX
By the time the ROBLOX Content Team finished developing a, we had accumulated a number of powerful scripts that quickly turn a standard ROBLOX game into a class-based, first-person shooter (FPS). Recognizing the power of the scripts, we packaged them in a FPS plugin for a and put them to the test.
| June 1, 2012 -
ROBLOX Plugins: Power to Scripters
Last night, ROBLOX released an exciting new feature for scripters… My friends, we offer you nothing less than total control of your ROBLOX building experience! It’s my pleasure to introduce the ROBLOX plugin architecture: it allows scripters, ...
| August 12, 2011 -
Teleportation: The Art & The Science
It has been a long journey, people. A long journey. In the beginning, there was no notion of space (or spaces) in ROBLOX. When I joined the company in June 2006, the only playable place there was was Crossroads . Then we allowed the users to host ...
| July 22, 2011 -
Group Relationships Feature!
We’ve released a BC Beta feature – Group Relationships. Groups can declare Allies and Enemies that will be displayed on each group’s page. This feature is just the beginning of an exciting progression of group enhancements. There are exciting things on the way! Here is the difference between Allies and Enemies… strong Group leaders can send an alliance request to another group, but the other group has to accept. It’s like a friend request. Ally requests look like this: strong A group can be enemies with any other group – the declared enemy doesn’t even have to accept. When a group has declared an enemy, the receiving group leader gets a message in their Inbox. Group leaders can share the power to make Allies and Enemies with the ranks of the group. You will be able to see the declared Allies and Enemies of each group on the right side of the group’s page. Everyone will know the associations of each group on ROBLOX! We hope you have fun with these features! You can talk more about these new features on -ReeseMcBlox a
| April 8, 2011