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The Studio, or ROBLOX Studio, is the program that ROBLOX Places are developed with. Using the Studio you can build, script, and test Places. ROBLOX developers update Studio to add in new features to ROBLOX.

ROBLOX Studio was originally programmed for Windows, and could not be used on any other operating system. In mid-2012, a cross-platform version that worked on both Windows and Macintosh was introduced. A Linux compatible version has also been discussed, but there are no current plans for it. On February 1, 2013, the new, cross-platform Studio 2.0 was released and renamed to Studio 2013. As of that update, studio 1.0, the Windows only version, is no longer available.

What to use the Studio for

The Roblox Studio was built to be your all-inclusive Place editing program. Using the Studio you can script, build and test your Places all before you show off your Place to the rest of the community. If you want to make any kind of changes to your Places, then you should use the Studio to make those changes. Rather than playing in Solo mode, using Edit and Studio allows you to edit the Place while time is frozen. The map will not run, so scripts will not run early and bricks will not move around while you're trying to work with them. The camera can move around freely so you're not limited to the movements of a character. Serious builders and scripters use Studio in Edit mode.

Launching the Studio

It's easy to find Roblox Studio, open up Start, click on All Programs, and scroll to ROBLOX. Then click on ROBLOX Studio 2013. After updating if it needs to, Studio will open the Projects page.

Interactive Tour

Instead of using a lot of text to explain everything, here's a picture of what we like to call the Standard Studio View. This is the window positions, toolbars and settings that people tend to use, and we will assume that you are using for any tutorials on the Wiki. If your setup doesn't look quite like this or is missing things, then you can to go the setup guide to make it look like this.

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Toolbars

Menu Bar

This is the top title bar of the Studio. There are many options in this bar, it's encouraged that you try them out

File Buttons

These are your basic buttons, which you'd find in any program.

	Name	Description	Keyboard Shortcut
	New	Opens a new, empty Place.	CTRL + N
	Open	Gives you a window to open a saved Place from your computer.	CTRL + O
	Save	Lets you save your current Place to your computer	CTRL + S
	Cut	Copies something, then removes it. Lets you paste it elsewhere.	CTRL + X
	Copy	Copies something and lets you paste it elsewhere.	CTRL + C
	Paste	Takes something you've copied or cut from somewhere else, and puts it wherever you want.	CTRL + V
	Paste Into	Takes something you've copied or cut, and puts it into a specific object in the Explorer.	CTRL + ⇧ Shift + V
	Undo	Undoes the last action.	CTRL + Z
	Redo	An Undo for the Undo, lets you redo an action.	CTRL + Y

Group

These are two buttons here, Group and Ungroup. When you select several different bricks you can use the Group command to make them into a Model instead of separate bricks. This is very very useful, and something that you will use a lot of the time. Models can be selected at once, instead of having to select hundreds of tiny bricks, and they can be moved as one unit.

Ungrouping is as easy as selecting a model, and hitting the Ungroup button. This will make the model come apart, and each brick will be separate.

	Name	Description	Keyboard Shortcut
	Group	Takes single bricks and puts them into a Model	CTRL + G
	Ungroup	Takes a Model and breaks it into single bricks	CTRL + U

Brick Movement

These buttons let you move bricks in specific directions.

	Name	Description
	Rotate	Rotates an object counterclockwise
	Tilt	Tilts an object
	Move Up	Moves an object up 1 stud
	Move Down	Moves an object down 1 stud

Camera Tools

These buttons allow you to move the camera around to look at things

	Name	Description	Keyboard Shortcut
	Pan Left	Rotates the camera 45 degrees to the left	Hold down right click, move mouse
	Pan Right	Rotates the camera 45 degrees to the right	Hold down right click, move mouse
	Tilt Up	Rotates the camera 45 degrees up	Hold down right click, move mouse
	Tilt Down	Rotates the camera 45 degrees down	Hold down right click, move mouse
	Zoom In	Gets closer to the camera's subject	I (Mouse Scroll Forward)
	Zoom Out	Gets farther away from the camera's subject	O (Mouse Scroll Back)
	Center on Object	Centers the camera on the selected object
	Zoom to Extents	Fits the screen to the size of the selected object

Run, Pause and Reset

These buttons let you start and stop the actual Place if you're in Edit mode.

	Name	Description
	Play	Starts running the Place.
	Pause	Temporarily stops the physics in a Place. Note: This does not stop scripts, they will continue to run.
	Reset	Sets a Place back to the point right before Play was clicked Note: Clicking this will erase any work done while Play was active.

Brick Properties

This set of buttons lets you alter the properties of a brick. Things like color, position, etc.

	Name	Description	Property
	Drag	Lets you select and then drag around bricks
	Move on Axis	Puts orange arrows around a selected object. Click and hold one to drag only in that direction.	Position
	Resize	Puts blue spheres around a selected object. Click and drag one to resize in that direction	Size
	Anchor	Makes an object become frozen in Place, and not move at all.	Anchored
	Lock	Makes an object to where you cannot select it.	Locked
	Fill color	Select a color and click on a brick to set it there.	BrickColor
	Pick color	Click on a brick to set the fill color tool to that color.
	Material	Like the Color, select a material and click on a brick to apply it.	Material

Surface Types

These buttons let you select what type of surface an object has. Click on the type of surface you want, then on the specific surface you wish to change.

	Name	Description
	Smooth	Does not connect with inlets, studs, glue or universal surfaces.
	Glue	Higher friction than a Smooth surface, otherwise the same.
	Weld	Creates a connection with any surface.
	Studs	Creates a connection with Universal, Inlets, or Welds.
	Inlets	Creates a connection with Studs, Universal, or Welds.
	Universal	Creates a connection with Studs, Inlets or Welds.
	Hinge	Creates a rotation point, allowing a brick touching the yellow pin to rotate.
	Motor	Creates a powered hinge joint. See Motors

Window Elements

Tabs

Right below all of the toolbars you'll find the Tabs. These let you move between different windows. When you open a Script it opens up a tab next to the Place tab. You can reorder tabs by clicking and dragging them, and close individual tabs by clicking on the tab, and then clicking the X icon in the right corner of the Tab area.

Game Window

This is the space where you can see the 3D view of the level. You move bricks around and edit things in this window. When you open a Script, this 3D view is replaced by the Script view.

Gear

Inside and in the bottom left corner of the Game Window you will see the Gear list. This lists the different items that are in the StarterPack, which is the set of items each player gets when they enter the server, and when they respawn.

Status Bar

The status bar is at the very bottom of the window. This gives you information relating to how the Place is running. It's mostly program information that you don't need to worry about.

Output Bar

Main article: Output

This is the section of Roblox Studio that displays manually or automatically printed messages.

Plugins

Plugins were introduced on 2011-08-11, which allows users to develop their own building tools that will appear on toolbars in ROBLOX Studio. Currently, there are many default plugins made by ROBLOX. To learn more about plugins, and how to make your own, visit here.

See Also

Uses

• Scripting
• Edit
• Online mode
• Solo mode

Settings and Other

• Place
• Bevels
• Settings
• Usage Report Window

Similar

• Tutorials
• Class Reference
• Lua Objects
• Service-level