Development

On Roblox, the development of a place carried out by one or more users, known as developers, is a process mainly of designing, building, scripting, testing and publishing places for other users to visit. The process is facilitated by Roblox Studio, an IDE developed by the Roblox Corporation. Developers may also use other software used in the process. The engine is based on classes that can be used by developers to design different aspects of the place. Often, monetization is also carried out by developers to earn Robux, using means such as passes, developer products or paid access, as well as marketing such as sponsoring or advertising to reach more users on the platform.

Engine[]

The engine has many classes that can be used by developers to create and design different aspects of the place.

• Parts (BasePart) are the building blocks of the place's 3D world (Workspace). Building is the process of assembling parts.
  • Humanoid is used to make characters that can move without using other physical forces.
  • Terrain (Terrain) is a deformable voxel-based mesh representing real-life terrain.
• Lighting has its properties, and most of them are controllable through the Lighting service. Lighting includes these global effects which belong to the lighting environment:
  • Sky allows changing the sky including its skybox as well as its celestial bodies.
  • Clouds (Clouds) are a global effect representing real-life clouds.
  • The atmosphere (Atmosphere) is a global effect representing real-life atmosphere.
• GUI classes (GuiBase) allow the creation and designing of user interfaces. GUI is categorized into two types:
  • 2D GUI (GuiBase2d): ScreenGui, which must be parented to PlayerGui to work on the client, allows elements to be displayed on the screen, rendering them on top of the 3D scene, while SurfaceGui and BillboardGui allow elements to be displayed within the 3D scene.
  • 3D GUI (GuiBase3d): Most 3D elements have properties that link to a 3D-related instance.
• Sound allows sound playback linked to an audio asset.
  • SoundGroup groups sound together and allows the sounds to be changed through the SoundGroup.
  • Sound effects (SoundEffect) add effects to a sound.
• Scripts (BaseScript) are used to make complex systems controlling the behaviour of the place including parts, lighting and GUIs.
  • Both Scripts and LocalScripts, or the Script's RunContext property, handle both sides of the client-server model.
  • ModuleScript allows code to be modularized.
  • Actor allows child scripts to run in parallel.

Designing[]

Designing of a place covers both the place and the art used.

Game design[]

Developers may focus on user experience (UX) to make the place more accessible. Roblox supports many devices, however, to utilize a variety of devices, developers may use the input services provided by Roblox as well as the built-in emulator for devices in Roblox Studio. Roblox has a set of classes used for graphical user interfaces (GUIs) rendered on the Roblox engine, which can be used by developers to customize user interfaces.

Art design[]

There are many ways art can be used for both places and experiences. An experience has an icon and at least one thumbnail. The creator can upload images to change the icon as well as the thumbnail.

Developers can upload their custom meshes, images, materials and sounds to be used in a place. A place's lighting can be manipulated through the Lighting service.

Building[]

Main article: Building

Scripting[]

Scripting is an activity of writing code designed to be run in a script. One who does this is known as a scripter. Scripters in the development process are responsible for designing systems of the place run by scripts.

On Roblox, scripters are distinguished from programmers in that programmers write code for computer programs in general (such as the engine) rather than scripts, although in the software industry, the terms "scripter" and "programmer" are usually synonymous.

Community[]

There is a Developer Forum category ("Help and Feedback") that users may use to reach out to others for assistance in development. The sub-categories cover many processes of the development including designing, scripting and building, as well as how to use Roblox websites or Roblox software.

External links[]

• Guide to Developing on Roblox on the Roblox Creator Documentation