Ever since we made the request for your ROBLOX “Top Three,” we’ve been combing through the feedback and responding to your most insightful comments and pertinent questions. This week, John Shedletsky, ROBLOX’s Creative Director and Content Lead, elaborates on a variety of topics, including non-player character (NPC) functionality, scripting tutorials and environments, character “outfits,” particle effects and more.
madscientist42: More NPC functionality – walking destination, backpack, target, alliance – would allow games to always have enough players for a specific objective and/or make RPGs a whole lot more fun. (For example, instead of walking to a NPC that stands still, perhaps the NPC journeys with you.)
You’re totally right – better NPCs would bring ROBLOX worlds to life. This is an ambitious, multi-layered project. First, we need to build awesome NPCs; then we need to build a series of plugins that make them easy to customize. There is already some work being done in this area. Our Physics Team is currently addressing performance issues that we observed in our 100-bot test level. In the medium-term future, the Content Team is going to try to build a ROBLOX RPG and better NPCs will obviously be a cornerstone of this project.
Itachi500: I would like ROBLOX to create a series of videos to help beginners learn scripting. The Wiki is nice, but many people can’t understand it and would prefer a more visual aid. Creating a “How-to-Script” YouTube video series will help beginner ROBLOXians create more high-quality games.
For much of its history, ROBLOX has been a very small company with limited resources for producing professional-looking tutorial materials. This is rapidly changing, however. I have four new individuals joining the Content Team this summer and one of the projects we are going to tackle is creating a collection of help materials that should get more people scripting in ROBLOX. Until then, you can reference Luke Weber’s series of scripting videos from last year to get started on the basics. Click here to watch the first.
EpikYummeh: I would like to see a more efficient and scripter-friendly scripting environment to increase productivity and make good programming format require less effort. I program in Visual C# a lot and having IntelliSense to auto-complete methods and field identifiers makes it easy to get a lot done in a short period of time.
IntelliSense is a tricky feature to provide for typeless languages like Lua. However, we think it might be possible to do something here. Most of the Content Team uses SublimeText to write code – partly because of its super-handy code-complete features for Lua. We understand that this is an important feature for scripters. There is actually a whole raft of new scripting features that we’re planning on adding to ROBLOX Studio 2.0 once we ship the first version.
Luckymaxer: Place Teleportation Interactable Mirrors. These would enable a user to see what is going on in another game before joining it. Also, a user would be able to interact with other users through different places. They would also allow data, such as bricks or stats, to transfer from place to place.
Yup. This is something that we’ve been thinking about for a long time. I also imagine being able to build a spaceship, fly it to other levels, and abduct hapless players for use in science experiments.
333333333: An “outfits” tab in your character customization. Once you’ve made an outfit, it would give you the ability to save it and wear it at any time without recreating it again. You simply go to My ROBLOX > Character > Outfits > select the one you want to wear.
We’ve thought about bookmarks for character outfits. They will be especially useful once we have shipped in-game wardrobe changes. We’re having trouble figuring out what to call them. Costumes? Outfits? Get-Ups? Post you favorite suggestion in the comments!
Skrall2: Gravity controls. I would like to be able to set the distance to the central point of an object and control how strong the gravity is.
Gravity and magnetism are going to have to both wait their turns. I think the next physical phenomenon we want to try to simulate is either light or fire. (Or both!)
MettaurSp: Create more Events for classes, such as some sort of “touched” event for Sparkles, Fire, etc. Also, introduce new classes, such as Electricity, for more effective electrical effects (Sparkles don’t work for everything).
Adding additional particle effects to our library is on our list. I agree; sparkles, fire, and smoke are definitely not enough.
Jason5000: ROBLOX Game Awards. These would be hosted at ROBLOX Game Conference, or at the end of the year, and give users a thrilling, heart-pounding reason to create games, and feel accomplished for their creativity. It would also be a fun way for users to vote and have fun. I would suggest categories like ROBLOX Game of the Year, Best Platformer, Best Strategy and more, with nominees for each. There would also be a section in a game, just like a description of the game, that would show what awards the game has, if any.
We actually did this at last year’s ROBLOX RALLY and we intend to repeat this event at the ROBLOX Game Conference this year in Santa Clara on July 14th. It’s already listed in our official schedule under “ROBLOX Hall of Fame.”
As far as recognizing the awesome games that our users are building on the website with a special badge or accolades, this is something that we are thinking about. If we did implement something, it would probably happen on a more frequent schedule, like once a month.
Well what the experienced players like myself want is this: Real water, dynamic lighting, and maybe lightmapping/bumpmapping, If you gave lughtmapping people could make the water themselves, or lava, or acid.
In my opinion, Free Accounts should be able to make shirts and pants
They can it’s just they can’t sell them!
Try to lessen lag by using server clusters.
Maybe ROBLOX can make an alternate website based on 2006-2007 for the 55% of ROBLOXians who miss old ROBLOX. That may be a good idea.
Something you might consider is adding is sound control in the game settings menu. Sometimes game creators make sounds that are obnoxiously loud or make a sound the is repeated many many times (like weapon’s fire) that is played throughtout the map instead of just emanating from the weapon itself. A simple slider that controls how loud the sounds coming from a given ROBLOX game would fix this problem.
TRADE LIMITED HATS
They’re actually thinking of a trading system already.
Heres another idea I think you should be able to send a message to multiple pepole also be able to make 2 messages at the same time for example let’s say your in a hurry but you can only wright 1 message at a time alternitive be able to send the message to multiple pepole or write 2 messages at the same time .
YAY, LUCKYMAXER, FINALLY SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS! WHAT I WOULD LOVE ROBLOX TO DO!!! We could gather huge armies and fly enormous jets and planes to the enemies place and destroy them and have a REAL War. Been thinking about.
I think that place creators should have the ability to modify the in-game menu (the one that opens when you press the escape key). For example, if I’m making an adventure game (or an obstacle course), I would want to replace the reset button with something that simply teleports the player to the last checkpoint.
i think roblox should add tags….for example you join an active clan group and you see a button that says CHANGE TAG…when you change the tag you will have above you name when people see you you have a 1-4 letter tag above your name like if you joined rat there tag would be probably RAT. You can modify the group options where certain ranks can only have tags and the ability to change color of the tags
You should put in a Best-FRIENDS only feature alongside with the Public and Friends only selection in the place configuration.
You should make an easy-to-use AI path screen so you won’t have to go to properties or a certain object tons of times.
I think that you should allow meshes back, but you have to check to publish them, they will be like t-shirts of shirts and pants, etc. You check it so its not inappropriate. I want the user meshes back :)
Add an easy-to-edit AI path script, so enemys or allys in game can find paths, for instance, in many many games, if players run across a bridge over a ditch, the AI chasing them could jump into the ditch, and thus give the player an easy escape… many games are ruined by this fact. Although some games, like ROBLOX EVIL 5 [Version 3.4] by Brickman637, have an AI PATH script, many people still cannot script such a path script. People who cannot script this deserve a realistic game, for instance, RPG game enemys usually do not have this kind of script, thus if a player goes to high ground, the AI cannot follow, and will just stand there, and be easily killed by the player, or someone else.
I would like it if you allowed people to make their own sounds, Games really need decent sound effects for the game, like good music, good sound effects for custom-made weapons, and good sound effects for events in the game.
Can you fix roblox studio D4rk’s Base wars is broken due to the updates fix it please!
The mirrors are cool but there needs to be a way to disable place to place travel so people wont have a place that is on the mirror that has place breaking weapons and such
Shouldn’t be called outfits. They should be called “Suits”
How about “Costumes”, and BC members can sell theirs… If you buy a costume, you get the pack thats in there…
i wish robloxian 2.0 would be for everybody
Yes, so everybody can OD.
Agreed. Non BC bodies are better anyway.
May you make a page where you can choose your top 10 gear that you want in games?
Why not RT Awards? :…(
Call it clothing, overcomes a very very VERY (dust sized) hurdle :D. :3
Is not fair that asia places like hong kong does not have game card, if I need to buy one it cost like 19 U.S to just buy one normal 4 dollar game card, can roblox you guys also be fair and make the game card worldwide to help outer needs in our cintries
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pleas ………ho and one thing tell me how
to get robuxs more often. thank you good bye.
It would be great if Roblox gives the ability for players to gift shirts, pants, gears, etc. to friends. Maybe they can trade their things also? But all I’m saying is add a gift item button and a trade button.
Is ROBLOX considering a search bar for the wardrobe? I was hoping it would be up here.
Well for outfits… I’d rather make an option to name it any name I want(except profane words). Oh and it would be nice if you respond to thousands of users saying to PATCH THE EXPLOITS.
Well in all truth, the exploiters would be extremely hard to patch. Several different programs are hard to all be blocked at once.
The fact is that they DONT use programs, they use ROBLOX itself to do this.
the roblox card exclusives should be included in canada, its unfair otherwise.
u should add admin commands and teleporters in part selection, and add glass to high scalability.
u should add leaves so then u can make a tree generator along with the terrain generator and water generator.
u should change backpack so then u can make choosing gear faster, otherwise each you respawn, the enemies have planty of time to pwn me before i get my good gear out.
like i said before: teleporters and admin commmands[such as kill/(playername), teleport(playername)/(playername), and give/(playername)/(tool)],glass and leaves for high scalability(for tree generator), but now im also thinking that u should change how the backlpack works, cuz each time i bring out my favorite gear, and someone kills me, i have to search through my backpack all over again. and by that time, someone has killed me again, its SO annoying!
The “Outfits” one is the same idea i wanted for Roblox,I called it “Costumes” instead of Outifts. but Outfits sound more casual than Costumes :D
I have an idea for the bricks that produce light. For the illusion of the players looking at the brick, the brick will simply look like a brick with light around it. But the scripting, or something else, behind the brick, can be a change of ambient. Like, besides the ambient being normal, if you want it to produce blue light, simply change the ambient to something that is a blue ambient.
Roblox on ipad should be the current top responsibility as it would open a whole new level for the game.
Heres an idea- Cameras. You would be able to watch live video from whats happening in the game from a different point, like in a tower or inside a secret lair. EXAMPLE: There is a camera at Base Billy. Evil Joey watches the camera on a TV from is evil lair, about 1 baseplate away.\
I totally agree with cameras. You could use them for almost enything:
Servellance Cameras in a base
Camera on an RC Car that you control
Camera to control a turret thats in a different room
And all sorts of other ideas you could think of!
Those already exist. Unless you mean a camera that can record, then just serach “Camera” in freemodels. Most are a tool that you use, but some require you to sit in a specific chair.
it should be called “my outfits” it seems good
I think that Roblox Studio 2.0 Should take you directly to a list of your own games, and not take you to the normal roblox page. I also believe that we should not be able to have another instance of roblox running while studio is open. This could reduce the amount of exploits dramaticly.
the rewards u offer for being the best are pathetic, i mean, were talking about the best here, “the BEST”, takeovertom is a good friend of mine, and he sees me as more then just another fan, i think, hes a good guy, and he isnt the oldest guy around, but still dose some awesome stuff, and all u gave him was a gear that makes sounds and changes colors, he should atleast get a free ride to the award serimony, and a paper machei trofy uin real life
sorry about the grammar and some spellings, but I was in a hurry, and when I said paper mache trophy, I meant 1 that looks like his gear, like a souvenir, the reward should be an honor, gear aint an honor, getting something directly from the admions, now THATS a true honor, and real life scaled gear, that is something that should be marketed
1.Better animations
2.Username Changer
User-name changer would be bad; although admins can identify someone by the id, users won’t do that as well. I could scam you, change my name to T340985034985 and you’d never find me again.
the tele mirrors would really work well with njay’s universe project.
“Outfits” sounds like the best of the three. I would go with that.
My only problem with roblox right now is that I can’t bring terrain past a certain area away from the middle of my game, and I wanted to make large game with terrain(not too large, though). I noticed that terrain has the properties of a brick, which it is not! It should be able to go farther, and have its own properties. It would make more sense that way.
To be a little more exact, I can’t bring the terrain past that certain part without generating terrain in edit mode, but that still wouldn’t go far enough for me.
And generating terrain would mess up what I have built within that limit
I understand that generating a terrain AFTER you built would mess it up. Roblox should change that. If the terrain senses a brick, then maybe it will seperate it from the brick by 50 studs or so? And make that open area flat. That would be a big help.
I forgot to mention that “what I built” refers to a volcano that i’m changing from bricks to terrain…
Then I tried to generate terrain, and it didn’t work…
Wow the outfit idea was my idea, I started the idea on the forums lol.
I think we should be able to choose the color of our ingame usernames. When you register a account at Roblox it should ask you your favrouite colour. The colour that you pick will be the colour of your in-game name!
Yeah, tough guys don’t type pink. Lol.
The sets of clothing should be called outfits
I think you should have some type of minigame that NBCers can play to get R$/Tix. The better they are at the minigame, the more money they get, up to an infinate amount. Make the game start off easy, then get harder and harder. This way, NBCers can earn money fast if they are good at the game, so they won’t have much to complain about. Make it so that you start of with around 1 ticket and every level you beat it gets doubled. Or make it so that you have to pay 5 tickets to play it or something so that they are kind of gambling, but with virtual money. If that’s illegal, then never mind lol.
ROBLOX is generous enough as it is giving NBCers 10 Tx a day. ROBLOX is a company. It’s here to make money (and provide a entertainment).
The “a” was a typo… lol…
Excellent idea, John!
Too right.
I think you should call them Sets of cloth-fiber structures. lol jk, just call them outfits.
thanks for posting my review ;)
Just call the Outfits or whatever just call it “Saved Player Outfits” or SPO for short.
I would like to see contests where there are 4 or 5 contests at once. That way if you don’t like the main contests, there are others to join. I would also like to see a texture creator that when you buy a hat, you can re-texture it to whatever color of design you want. For example: The Racing Helmet. Yes, its fine, but not every racer drives a red and black car. Also, there is really no life in it.
Outfits is the best name, in my opinion.
Yeah, and wtf is a “get-up”?
I think a “Get-UP” is something you wear all the time. I’ve heard it before.
Some of the place hacking has been fixed!
Sorcus told us in Scripters that now server-side scripts STAY on the server and don’t get executed or sent to the client, meaning no script stealing!
333333333,
Brilliant Idea, I think we should call it “Outfits”.
~Fidda
Oh and also for my idea you should be able to name your outfit that you choose. Like you could name an outfit ‘Ninja’ or ‘Cook’ or ‘Assassin’ etc.
I think 333333333 brings up a very good topic, and I actually had this idea with him. :)
When lando64000 was still playing roblox, he came up with the outfits idea. That was before all these suggestions were about.
My Need to Roblox Do it List
1-Hacking… too many hacker in places and they makes bad thigs[bad thing is Guests are hacking]
We need a Fast Hack Report for ban them…
2-Outfits in customize Character (333333′s idea)
3-Better and custom Lightning and weather…
4-Girl or Boy option in game chraracter (easy to group girls and boys and girl/boy only doors.
5- +13 only places :)
I think you should be able to chose the name of the tab, like in google chrome!
First order of business: Fix all the HopperBins you broke, guys!
I think that in-game character change would also be a good feature
We need SimpleRoblox. A watered-down version of Roblox which does away with the fancy in Roblox and brings it back to the basics; low-memory-usage gameplay. I myself run on a Pentium 4, and it does well, it’s just that I can’t do anything in the background without inducing lag on Roblox itself.
Way to over-complicate a problem. Just call them “Outfits.”
id like you guys to change the part selection season, and to add teleporters and some admin commands for admins in personal servers, such as kill/(playername), teleport/(playername)/(playername your going to), and other stuff like that. but most of all, id like you guys to add leaves as a high scalability, so that when u generate terrain on a place, u can select how many trees you want, which will be made out of logs and leaves. also, glass high scalability would be nice to have, it would come useful in many things, such as houses.
I think you should name the “outfits” tab “costumes”, because we are Block Robots, correct?
You wouldn’t put an outfit on, say, a Lego Character, right?
So since we’re not people-like characters, we should have costumes, not outfits.
i have a suggestion/opinion/idea
i think that the stamper tool was a downgrade,no offence,it just seemed harder to use than the easy to use tool menu with blocks,insert,and freemodels,it was pretty simple(yes i know that i can just run roblox in “play roblox” to get theese,but its justinconveniont)
Also,please add in file meshes and custom sounds, the only real possible problem might have been some copywright issues with models and sounds, but otherwise,it was helpfull
I completely agree with the you on the thought that the Stamper Tool was a downgrade.
call the saveable outfits “My outfits”
it wasnt hard to come up with that
Oh, oh oh! adding onto that, you can buy outfits off of other characters too! It could be a BC only feature (Not the buying, the selling)
You need to stop doing all these stupid updates, I cant build at my place with Studio anymore and the new tools cannot compare to the previous. Not to mention guns dont do damage at my forts anymore.
I’m not trying to be mean to ROBLOX because it’s a fun game with (some) great people, and great updates…but your last update dissabled my entire fleet of ships…either they dont fly,dont shoot or both…
1. Kind of combined with my previous suggestion (outfits tab) I would like a search bar in your inventory. You could either search all your items, or just hats/gear/shirts etc.
2. A way to lock billboard GUI’s at a certain size. It’s annoying to be far away and see this massive GUI.
3. Not really an idea on its own, but my own personal favorite thing to call it is outfits. Simple, elegant, can’t see anyone having a problem with it, etc.
Also I really like this user feedback, the more interaction of admins to users is great. Keep it up.
I Think We Should Be Able To Make Our Own Gear/Hat If We Buy something Named ‘Limited Desing” it Mean You Can Change It And Make New Changes ‘! Add Me Too My UserName Is Steve10105
outfits whould be good name.