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We have really exciting news to share with you today. We at ROBLOX are putting much effort into enabling, encouraging, and rewarding our developers and creators — and we think you’ve only scratched the surface of what can be done. Today we’re launching Developer Central, a hub on ROBLOX.com for all things development-oriented.
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Ever since the release of dynamic lighting last spring, our gamers, builders and developers have united in requesting that objects blocking SpotLights and PointLights – in addition to sunlight – cast shadows. We received so many requests for this unarguably intuitive improvement that we prioritized it in our development pipeline and pushed it to production as quickly as possible. While it’s a simple advancement on the surface, the Rendering Team poured significant time into making it happen without a hit to your performance.
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Every week, we’re busy telling the stories behind our community, our technology and our place in the gaming and technology industries. For those of you who catch up with ROBLOX over the weekend, the Weekly ROBLOX Roundup collects the best stuff to hit our various avenues of publication in the last week. This time: you can now upload your own sounds, the price floor on clothing assets, the end of the BLOXcon season, the new outfits feature, Island by Wheatlies and Team Rudimentality, a pair of video reviews, and other bits and pieces. Enjoy.
The time has arrived! One of the most requested features of all time, the ability to upload your own sound effects and music clips, has gone live on ROBLOX.com. Hundreds of sound effects have already made their way into the database, and many of them have even been made free for the taking by their generous uploaders. For more information on uploading and inserting a sound, see our Wednesday announcement of the feature.
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The ROBLOX game engine interweaves multiple jobs to create an accurate on-screen representation of your multiplayer, physically simulated games. The primary jobs are physics, rendering, networking and Lua scripts, and each job is updated at a frequency that balances performance and fidelity. We are working on rolling out an optimization to those update frequencies – particularly in relation to the physics and rendering jobs – to boost ROBLOX’s max framerate to 60 at almost no cost to performance.
In an ideal world, each of the primary jobs would be updated at exactly the same frequency (let’s say 120Hz), your computer and network would be able to manage the load, and the framerate would stay locked at 120. However, in an online game as complex and variable as ROBLOX, that’s a dream. Instead, we have to optimize the frequency at which each job provides new data for the best possible experience. This is what we’ve done to increase ROBLOX’s framerate to 60: optimize the frequency and distribution of physics updates, and ultimately synchronize the physics frequency with the render frequency.
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Customizing your character has become a significant part of the ROBLOX experience. The catalog is overflowing with hats, clothing and other accessories, all of which you can combine in your own way to add a personal touch to your character. But let’s say you have a group uniform, a nice suit, casual Friday attire and battle armor, and you want to switch between your vastly different looks on a whim.
Our new outfits feature makes it a breeze.
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On Tuesday morning we implemented minimum pricing on shirts, pants and t-shirts. The response from the ROBLOX community has been passionate and insightful. All of us at ROBLOX HQ have been busy the past two days talking with ROBLOXians, scanning the forums, and reading our Twitter feeds and personal messages.
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Get your headphones ready.
We are always listening to the ROBLOX community and taking your ideas to heart as we prioritize projects in our development pipeline. One of the top requests we’ve heard from builders and developers over the years is the ability to upload custom sounds. Starting today, you have the power to upload sound effects in MP3 format and use them in your places and games, giving you more creative freedom than ever before. Let’s explore how this works, and go over how to add sounds to your favorite ROBLOX creation.
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