Tech Note: Scripted tools and weapons
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Our head gear programmer Deepak Chandrasekaran explains the steps that went into creating The Dagger of Shattered Dimensions.The ROBLOX creative team meets regularly to plan new items for publication in the Catalog. Recently they were inspired to create an Arabian Nights collection which included a Flying Magic Carpet, Arabian Knight Scimitar, Magic Lamp, Desert King hat, and the technically advanced Dagger of Shattered Dimensions. Once ideas have been selected, our team of 3D artists creates the item and hat models using Maya, Blender and 3DS Max. The models are then delivered to the gear programmers.
ROBLOX Game Conference 2012 – save the date
Date: Saturday July 14, 2012
Location: Santa Clara Convention Center
Last year’s ROBLOX Game Conference –ROBLOX Rally 2011 – had one thousand attendees. We would like to double (or more) the number of users attending this year. We are announcing the event as early as possible so users have time to make summer travel plans. Continue reading The dream of LEGO Universe and its subsequent shutdown
Today LEGO Universe will shut down after being live for 15 months. The product is beautiful, and many good designers, engineers and animators poured their hearts into bringing it to life. From afar it appears that an unfortunate combination of organizational issues, high expectations, and complexity may have all contributed to the shutdown.Continue reading
Tech Demo: Video Thumbnails
Tim Brown’s Hack Week project would give ROBLOX developers a powerful tool for engaging players. ROBLOX is about user-created content, and our users have created a lot of content — so much that you’d be hard-pressed to experience all of it in a lifetime. ROBLOX players need to be able to get to the good stuff, fast.Continue reading
Expanded Browser Compatibility
We are pleased to announce compatibility with all leading browsers. ROBLOX games can now be launched from Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari on both PC’s and Macintosh (Internet Explorer is not available on Macintosh). All you have to do is press Play on any ROBLOX game from any one of these browsers.Tech Demo: Dynamic Lighting Exploration
My hack week project was to explore rendering styles and visual effects that would take ROBLOX to the next level. The ROBLOX rendering engine works in a difficult environment compared to traditional games –- ROBLOX places are made by our users
(rather than by hired-on level designers)
Usually game companies can control their content. They can impose a strict set of rules about how many polygons are used, how to place particular items, and how much of a level is static. ROBLOX is different – builders can come up with anything, with no restrictions and no budgets. Continue reading
Tech Demo: Water, Buoyancy and Ropes
Hack Week coverage continues with a unified tech demo by Dan Ignatoff, Erik Cassel and Tim Loduha showing water, buoyancy and ropes working together.
