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Re: [Toturial] How to build a classic place!

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RexBox is not online. RexBox
Joined: 12 Jun 2009
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15 Oct 2011 03:28 AM
Ever felt nostalgia and wanted these goog ol' days places back?

Well, here I have a guide!

First of all, remember these 3 things:

1.Keep it simple.

2.Bugs=/=Bad game.

3.Dont allow gear.

I’ll explain this later.

---Style---


Use a lot of studs, even on water, and try to use no material types. Don't work to detailed, and be scarce with meshes. Bright colours (Bright green, bright yellow and such) look well in classic styled places. Simply, just don’t use things that weren’t there such as fire, sparkles, smoke, ramps, truss, badges or special-meshes(Spheres and such). If you build a small game, you should make walls from different blocks instead on one. Remember, this might start to lag. Also, don’t use terrain.


---GUI's---


You should use next to 0 GUI's, because they look to smooth to be classic. Instead of things like a reset GUI, use a Reset-tool. Basically every game had this in these old days. If your using GUI’s, don’t make them to advanced.


---Scripts---


Make simple scripts, not to difficult. Actually, everything in the place should be 100% simple. Don’t bother making difficult scripts in your game, they ruin the classic feeling and cost allot of time. Of course there were advanced games, but that’s not really the goal of this tutorial.


---Gameplay elements---


These thing were used a lot back then:

-Lava. Kills you instantly when you touch it.

-Hat donations boxes. Boxes, where you can throw your hat in, and grab a hat from someone else. Used a lot when hats were still rare.

-Classic styled givers. A giver with the look like this: http://www.roblox.com/Sword-Giver-plz-Fav-before-take-item?id=44789268

-Zombies. You had a lot back then, they just walked toward you and made you a zombie or killed you.

-Teleport pads. Step on one, get teleported to the other. Glitchy, but fun and simple.

-Cars with simple vehicle seats. Allot more simple then cars with tools, and easier to control. Use this as basic: http://www.roblox.com/Chassis-item?id=10479801. Now give it some color and pimp it!

-Simple secret doors. Just uncancollided walls where you can walk through. Or a painting where you can walk through. In classic games, you also had much grave fields, and you would fall through one and find a present.

-For a building game, only use the remove, move and clone tool. At the spawn, put different kind of building blocks.

-Trampolines! They are very fun and were commonly used in old obbys.

-Classic flag stands. They were just plain awesome: http://www.roblox.com/Yellow-Flag-Stand-item?id=82354

Classic spawns. They look better then the new ones: http://www.roblox.com/Neutral-Spawn-Location-item?id=53326

---Weapons---

Don’t. Use. Animated. Swords.

They remove the classic feeling instantly and you can’t really fight with it, they make it a luck game.

Actually, everything I have to say is:

The brickbattle tools.

http://www.roblox.com/BrickBattle-Weapons-item?id=31748752

and

http://www.roblox.com/Sword-Fights-on-the-Heights-Sword-Pack-item?id=50082461

Both are awesome.

[Disclaimer:I don’t want you to use these free models, I want to state that the brickbattle weapons and the SFOTH-swords were used a lot back then.]

---The 3 things---

1.Keep it simple.

2.Bugs=/=Bad game.

3.Dont allow gear.


So, ill explain it.

1.Keep it simple.

Speaks for itself. The most games weren’t that complicated, and that’s not really the point of this guide.

2.Bugs=/=Bad game.

Believe it or not, but bugs CAN make a game more fun. I also don’t know why, but they can. Don’t make a 500 lines long script to fix a minor bug, just let it in to let people play with it.

3.Dont allow gear.

Also speaks for itself. Why? Because there were in the first place no gear back then, and the gear nowadays are way to overpowered. Also, if you have guys in your classic place with animated swords, it is a bit strange.

---Inspiration---

Need some inspiration? Visit these:

--- http://www.roblox.com/Haunted-Mansion-place?id=50791

--- http://www.roblox.com/Sword-Fight-on-the-Heights-Original-place?id=487316

--- http://www.roblox.com/Nuke-the-Whales-WHALE-APOCHALYPSE-place?id=110670

--- http://www.roblox.com/Crossroads-place?id=1818

--- http://www.roblox.com/noobss-Place-place?id=232342


That was it, if you have any hints and tips feel free to post them and please post if this helped you ;D!

[Disclaimer: People saying I don’t know these things because I’m from 2009, I joined early 2009 on my account NoLifer and I played ROBLOX with my friend in 2008.]

[Disclaimer 2: You can’t get the 100% old places back because the new lightning.]
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wowzee is not online. wowzee
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15 Oct 2011 03:29 AM
Thanks for that.....
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RexBox is not online. RexBox
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15 Oct 2011 03:29 AM
Whoops, wrong forum... Ill move it.
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MCAmbience is not online. MCAmbience
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15 Oct 2011 03:30 AM
Thanks for the info pretty much knew some stuff here but thank you

-=Spammers gonna spam til an IP ban=-
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RexBox is not online. RexBox
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15 Oct 2011 05:54 AM
Know any things I could add?
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alternat1ve is not online. alternat1ve
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15 Oct 2011 05:56 AM
@rex

old days, they used cars with tools.

cars with no tools is soooo 09

lolpwned
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coolkid121 is not online. coolkid121
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15 Oct 2011 06:02 AM
It's good, this is my 09 account but I have a 08 to
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RexBox is not online. RexBox
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15 Oct 2011 06:52 AM
@Coolkid

They were used, but they also used non-tool cars.

Ny the way...

That wasn't a "Pwn" at all...

Do you even know what that means?
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dreaddraco2 is not online. dreaddraco2
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15 Oct 2011 06:54 AM
I find this insulting and degrading towards my significant roblox experience.
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RexBox is not online. RexBox
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15 Oct 2011 06:55 AM
Wait... What?
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JollyPlop is not online. JollyPlop
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15 Oct 2011 06:57 AM
You spelled Tutorial wrong
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15 Oct 2011 06:59 AM
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RexBox is not online. RexBox
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15 Oct 2011 07:05 AM
@Mini

Your join date says it all I think...

Exept when you are an alt...
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15 Oct 2011 07:15 AM
@Mini

Your join date says it all I think...

Exept when you are an alt...
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RexBox is not online. RexBox
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15 Oct 2011 08:06 AM
8D
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HAXHAXoyea1 is not online. HAXHAXoyea1
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15 Oct 2011 08:08 AM
Great tutorial,but add more like (Blockmesh and make models and you have to add details.)
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0ZNightZero is not online. 0ZNightZero
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15 Oct 2011 08:09 AM
What's a goog?
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LoganB is not online. LoganB
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15 Oct 2011 08:13 AM
Mini, Guess what? Shut up. This is an older account kind-of-thread.

-bOoM...
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LoganB is not online. LoganB
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15 Oct 2011 08:14 AM
Any 10/11ers Get out.

-bOoM...
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Fuutuu is not online. Fuutuu
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15 Oct 2011 08:24 AM
@LoganB

Are you implying that 10/11'ers have no idea about this stuff?
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RexBox is not online. RexBox
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15 Oct 2011 08:27 AM
@Fuutuu

Ofcourse they do.
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RexBox is not online. RexBox
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15 Oct 2011 08:28 AM
(They do have a idea of it because of the videos and talks.
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reboot is not online. reboot
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15 Oct 2011 08:29 AM
Why not check out my places marked [CLASSIC]. They are all classicly built, with old tools, too. Also, my paintball place is classic too, it's just marked as Friends Only for now.
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44isanormalusername is not online. 44isanormalusername
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15 Oct 2011 08:32 AM
Wow, a decent tutorial. :D Are you a banned 07-08er?
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RexBox is not online. RexBox
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15 Oct 2011 08:52 AM
I played with my fiend in 2008, and my first account (NoLifer, Epic name much? :3) was made in early 2009. (It is now my quited brother his account.)
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