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.
Make it so you cannot see names through bricks. It gets kinda annoying to see someone coming in a certain type of game. And release a certain kind of brick that allows names as well.
How about you ROBLOX people stop listening to the positive, and actually READ and LISTEN to the negative? Sure, you can’t make everyone happy, but you guys don’t even listen to the negative.
WHY U NO FIX FALLING BRICKS OR PYSHIC?!
Y U NO RELEASE TRADE SYSTEM???
Dynamic lighting is a really good thing to have in horror, Roleplay, and many other games. Lighting could work similar to how fog works where it is. You could control it’s time length, how dark or bright it is. You could make lighting optional by adding a little check-box for it. Lightbulb is an “element” that will make light. You insert it into a brick by: Insert > Object > Lightbulb. In the properties of Lightbulb you could control it’s brightness and the area it shines. You could also use Fire as a light source but that is optional too.
I would like to see a new type of mesh. This mesh would serve the same purpose as a block mesh, removing the bevels, but keep the material of the block visible. This would make it possible to build clean, bevel-free structures while still keeping the artistic quality of the various materials.
When we die in build mode in roblox studio, the roblox crashes. Please fix this. I build a place and then died!
Roblox, why not make Roblox studio as easy to find as it was in march of 2011? You used to just have to press a button on the left corner in build mode… If it hadn’t been like that I probably would have never found out about it. ROBLOX is one of my favorite video games (yes I count it as a video game) because of being able to build with Roblox studio. I think you should make it like that again so more people can discover it.
please please when is the ingame wardrobe coming out i want it soooooo bad you should call the clothes short cut outffits it just sounds better please make the in-game wardobe come out soon PLEASE!
1. In the studio properties, you could change the bricks gravity (Rises slower but higher, falls slow, ext)
2. The abblity to block a player (Cant hear anything they say, Messages and ingame. Maybye a list too to unblock them if you accdently block your friends.
3. In the Character changer, ad a 10 block bar representing your hotbar, with a box whitch one square witch each of your gears in it. You can drag them into the hotbar. If you equipt a gear to hold, its in your first part of the hotbar always.
Where do I post for feedback?
Here.
Please bring back the Roblox studio build mode. This is a big issue since building is the main thing I do on Roblox and I use Roblox studio build mode to build. Please Roblox please fix this.
I want it back too. I am used to building with my character in game so I can reach places I can’t in edit mode. PLEASE BRING THIS BACK ROBLOX!
I figured out that there is a way it’s just harder…
here’s how: Open Roblox studio in edit mode press Tools>Test>Play Solo
and when you want to save go to
File>Publish To ROBLOX…> then select the game you want to save.
I still would like to just hit build…
Mah name is unkown wanna know why???I aint telling it to you >:D
1. I think there should be able to change render distance or particles because alot of places are laggy when there is alot of bricks and stuff like that in one place.
2. Fix the way how people walk on unachored bricks because when you’re on a moving train in ROBLOX, it is kind of glitchy.
3. Add animals :)
I agree with MadScientist42 about NPCs.
I have one thing. Make all the RoBlox 2012 Easter eggs open into a little something. Nothing big. That way Non-BCers who got the egg can get get some free gear and hats. Just make the items like the ones you see in those little plastic eggs. Candy and cheap toys. If you got them all (By a non-exploit if you want to look through everyone’s eggs) They get like. An egg of completion wich has a little picture of every egg on it. :3
I would love to see roblox make NPC’s work less buggy, I’m sure every player has seen a NPC spawn in a game with the MakeJoints function failing (resulting in either death or non existant arms and legs), and Character Meshes seem to be very glitchy when used on non player. Character Meshes also seem to bug on players, when you edit them with a script there is a good chance it will be reset when the player goes into first person.
thats would be awsome…
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I would like to see ROBLOX work on making the engine more functional. Some of the most Vital problems I’ve noticed would be that MakeJoints function only works half the time, and when used on an NPC results in either death or non-existant Character Motors (legs and arms don’t connect)
another problem I’ve had trouble with is Character meshes glitching. On NPC they may not load at all and when changed on a player, may reset when the player goes to first person
please work these bugs out.
Roblox admins, please let us open ROBLOX studio with our character again… recently your update (not sure if this is on purpose or not) doesn’t let ppl open it with their character…. This was how I liked to build. PLEASE FIX THIS!!!!
I figured out a way that it could work, but it doesn’t usually work, so I have to try it like 10 times
I’ve noticed that the edit tools have been taken out of Build Mode. I don’t like this. I’m a CFramer so I need to be able to drag parts around, insert new parts, resize those parts, and insert CFrame tools. I can’t do any of that now using tools to CFrame is usless. The edit tools in Build Mode should come back.
There should be a little button in the bottom right hand corner next to the report button, record button, and all those that allows you to change your character’s shirt, pants, hats, etc in the middle of a game.
What I’ve wanted for a couple days is a water baseplate. Instead it being MegaGrasss, it could be just Water. I think it could help a lot with naval ship battles.
Fix the exploiting problem…
I would like to see a character ‘back item’ section. For instance, you could wear a back-pack or satchel. And like packages, armor, made for standard 1.0 skin. So instead of changing the skin design with packages, it could add padding to the skin, and cost tix and robux, so everyone can get it. It should also costa BIT less than packages, since it keeps the 1.0 skin.
So capes are included in this idea? :D
A massive open world server where the game would be ever changing with events and faction wars and all that stuff.
Make a black canvass Raycast weapon with instructions inside the script pointing out editable things and how something works in the script. To help noobs make better fighting games.
did you just calll my lil bro a noob!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(and my cluless cusin!!!!!!)!!!!!!(and my kinda clueless cusin!!!!)!!!!!!!!!
Actually he never said that, but you just did.
I made an npc that follows a player that meets it and will fight enemies that are not humanoid. If a humanoid enemy attacks the player the npc will attack it and if it survives, it will ask if you are all right or it’ll say ” I don’t feel so good..”. You can also drop items for it to pick up and it has it’s own inventory which you can use to store items. It has a potion to which allows you to switch places wi it or witch bodies. I used some of the body swap script to make it. Even if you swap bodies though, the npc’s scripts go into your humanoid body. It will not attack you even if you switch bodies. Unless you are not in a humanoid scripted body. When I’m in the builders club I’d gladly post it to free models. I did a short test with it too. The only way to have it as your companion is to talk to it and you will either get a nice invitation to be partners or a rude one. You need to talk a little first. You can also say “I don’t need you anymore, leave.” or “I think I can travel on by myself now, thanks for helping.”. If you choose the second sentence which is the nice one it will give you a device which you can change that you can use to call it. It still has some glitches. If you die it will wander off looking for you but you will need to befriend it by giving it an item. It will keep wandering so you need to search for it. If you attack it it will fight back. It’s 10+ speed makes it faster and it’s slateskin
Sorry I pressed post. The slates in makes it hard to kill so it will kill you. The pathfinding is not the best. If you are in a vehicle and there is another of the same type it will go in the second one. You can put it on your back or ride on it’s back to go around. You control it’s legs if you’re on it’s back. I’m almost done with the beta version.I’m @Xyrho5001ae on twitter. The a and the e are together so google it to find it. It looks like an a and e put together.Tweet me for ideas, questions, and updates.
dude thats awsome…..can you make one for me and could i use it…but…ill give you all the credit exept 0.1 credit cuz i put it in the game…so plzzzzzzzzzz btw my name on roblox is cjbjboy
I would like something like Whisper Chat. In a game, you could speak and only one specific player could hear you. And I would like a “Block” feature, where if someone is being mean to you, you can block them and can’t see or hear them.
i would like a somthing where u can choose what gear u take with u if it like a gear wars game, so u dont have gear what ur not gonna use like i have severel gear im not gonna use to fight with,it could be were u costomize ur character like a small gui under the stuff what shows what u wear
I love the “Block” feature idea! SOmetimes people are mean and cyber-bully me and the “Block” feature would take care of that for good! Please listen to this idea Admins!
3 things 1 help hackers be banned all kinds 2 NEW ideas we need new games not classey NEW! like chair raceing was and 3 poeple who been hacked need to be heard if you been hacked like me speak up report or some thing.. my hacked accont is coolshadowblockman thats all
I you should add a join party button so all they have to do is press let join instead of waiting for the party member to go to a level to tell him/her to let him/her join
The guy looks like drake in the picture.
Make hats weightless.
Yes, this ruins all the gears that Add a rising velocity to you, making them practically useless..
UMGYES.
You are smart figure.
AND MAKE THEM ALL CANCOLLIDED AND LOCKED!
1. A Ban list for non-personal-server games. Because hackers can always slip past the scripted ban list!
2. A reason to report in-game for “What did they do?” – Hacking
3. Firewalls – When any locked part of a building non-personal-server place is changed, the server shuts down.
I totally want the ability to fly a space ship into another game. And then get players for a mad science experiment. [Don't worry, it's painless.]
A “In Game Contact” This will be very helpful for clan wars which players can contact people at other games while their playing, I can imagine when our Fort Clan is being raided we massively need backup and i cant follow the user because of full server. So i think “In Game Contact” will help a lot. Also there should be Block person system that will not allow the person you hate to comment on your game or send you message,Friend Request and coming to your place this will prevent spamming,Exploiting,Cyber bullying and other stuff that will make roblox so worst.
Chicken Is good But
I think wardrobes are right and
Support for linux
NON BC players get 2 places
I agree with this NBC get 2 places idea, It’s hard to experience the benefit of multiple Places with just one place.
OK I’ve posted too many things but this might be my last one so here it is.
When people like buy something but it sucks and they dont like it they delete it but want there money back so there should be something that says TRade back and you click it and when you click it it takes away the item and gives you back your money
Good idea, I also have been think that since I waster 10k robux on lightning orb.
I believe that they need to implement Friend Requests crossing over from games into your normal Friend Request area. It would make it a lot easier if someone you made friends with disconnected from the game and you couldn’t find their name.
I agree with all these new things for ROBLOX. It’s fun to experience how ROBLOX grows and all the brand new things that can be done. I kind of think ROBLOXian players should have a trading system in mind to give other people things they don’t want anymore, but giving a BC items to someone who isn’t wouldn’t be allowed and would take a lot of work, but I bet you guys could do it. I also think there should be an awesome TEST DRIVE or “SEE HOW IT LOOKS!” button, so you can see what the item, that you’re interested in, looks like before you buy it. I don’t really have anything against hackers (Kinda), but I hate how they ruin your place and bother other people in your game. Please find a way to stop the hacking just like you stopped the old Cheat Engine from giving people free money. Also I miss the old brick baseplate, and if I try to keep deleting each terrain block by block, that would waste my building time. Please do something about this. And the last thing I want to have on ROBLOX that I think would make games even more fun is to have background sounds such as waves hitting shore on a beach, windy sandstorm in a desert, or even a jungle with monkey sounds, rain, etc. All these suggestions would make my place and other ROBLOXians’ places awesome.
You do know they are already developing a trade system, right?
Type the following code into your command bar under ROBLOX Studio:
workspace.Terrain:Clear()
This removes terrain
I’d really like to see an update on how a Robloxian walks on a moving brick. I hate how you always fall off even if you are just standing on it. I mean you could stand on a train in real life for peaks sake.
I agree with you. I mean there’s also a issue with cars. Say like your the passenger in a car moving. For some reason it jolts a lot as if the frames were slow. And having the idea of actually walking on a train without colliding into everything is good.
1. Their should be an anti-hack on every game. An Anti-hack is a system used to ban hackers on a server. so hackers get banned. For example
____________________________
hacker: girldontmesswithme
what did they do: hack game servers.
_____________________________________
2. There should be roblox moderators. Roblox Moderators will play or check out games and if someone says something inappropriate they can ban them. put their will have to be a majority of people that are willing to be a Roblox Moderator.
3. YOU can sell your gameplace for a certain amount of money to anyone that wants to buy you place.
1. When creating a game place there should be an object or insert tool that makes objects run automatically like on Kreo battleship the alien ships move and kill automatically.
2. non-BC members should be able to sell and make their own gear.
3.Their should be tutorial on roblox studio or something that teaches robloxians or other people how to make stuff for example : scripts,FPS games, statues, dialogs, and more.
1.Non BC – members should at least get a little daily robux.
2.Non- BC-members should also be able to create more than one game place like this
Free account = 2 or 5 game places
BC = 10 game places
TBC = 20 game places
OBC = 25 or 30 game places
3. There should be a contest every two or three months.
are you trying to mess up my obc 100 places becuase i get 100 groups places and alot more
also i pay alot for y stuff so stop trying to limit it jerk!
Call them outfits, it’s good enough.
Still no Linux support? THIS IS MADNESS!
No, THIS IS SPARTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
no im pretty sure this is just madness
I think it would be EPIC to make an Auto-AFK button that would help people that have to be out for a minute, it could be a button on the bottom and when people need to do something off ROBLOX, they can press the button and it gives the robloxian a ForceField and withstandability from exploiters who say “kill all” because it could happen.
I agree with him because there are to many exploiters and hackers or roblox
I would say that there is a AFK button at the bottom and then if you click it you are basically kicked out of the game, but when the game starts filling up with players, you have a spot cued for you. Like a reservation at a restaurant.