Projects

A project is a collection of places, assets, settings and other resources that together represent an experience on Roblox. Roblox stores your projects in the cloud for convenient collaboration, editing, and version control. You create and manage projects with Roblox Studio, an all-in-one IDE that provides building, scripting, testing, and publishing tools. The key components of a Roblox project include:

• Places - Every experience has one or more places, or individual 3D worlds. Each place is represented by a data model that describes the place's 3D world and logic.
• Assets - An asset is a resource stored in the Roblox Cloud, which include meshes, models, images, audio, video, and more. Because they're stored in the cloud, you can share and reference them from anywhere in your experience.
• Settings - Your experience settings define metadata about your experience, like its description and genre, and other important behavior like who can edit the project.

Places

Experiences contain one or many places, which are comparable to scenes in Unity or maps in Unreal Engine. Every experience must contain one default place, but can contain many places depending on how you want to structure your experience.

As your experience expands, you can choose to create additional places and teleport players between them for scenarios such as:

• An experience where players gather in a lobby to socialize, then gather into teams to be teleported to a specific place for competitive combat or cooperative play.
• A futuristic adventure with multiple vast environments that you want to compartmentalize with unique world mechanics, such as a "planet surface" with heavy gravity and an "orbiting station" with reduced gravity.

Data Model

Every place is represented by a data model, a hierarchy of objects that describe everything about the place. The Roblox engine uses the data model as a source of truth for a place's state, so it can simulate and render it on client devices. For more information on how the Roblox engine interprets the data model, see Client-Server Runtime.

Proper, intentional object organization within the data model is essential for functionality and maintenance of your project. For more information on what objects are available and how to organize and use them, see Data Model.

Assets

Roblox is a cloud-based platform and stores all objects that you create and import in your project as assets with associated asset IDs. You can create assets directly in Studio, such as models, or import assets like images, audio, and meshes from other tools.

By default, assets are private to your experience and you can use them in any place by referencing its ID. You can also publish and share them to the community in the Creator Marketplace, so others can use them as well.

For more information on how to import and publish assets, see Assets.

Packages

Packages are reusable object hierarchies that you can define and reuse across multiple places across multiple experiences. For any large project, packages offer the following benefits:

• Packages can be used as asset kits, allowing developers to duplicate a set of objects as needed. If an experience also has multiple places, asset kits can be reused between places to provide consistency.
• Packages make it easier to update assets. For instance, a package can include a tree that's duplicated many times in an environment. If a developer needs to make a change, such as swap textures for the tree, it can be updated once in the package instead of for each individual instance.
• Packages make grayboxing quicker. A package can start with graybox assets, and eventually be replaced with final art assets. When assets are replaced, they retain all original positions and orientations.

For more information, see Packages.

Settings

Your experience defines settings that you manage in Roblox Studio, which include:

• Basic Info - Define basic information about the experience, such as its name, description, and genre. Much of the information here is used in your experience's listing.
• Permissions - Configure who can access your experience. New experiences begin as private and can only be edited and joined by you and members of your group with the correct permissions. When appropriate, you can release the experience to the public.
• Monetization - Define how to can earn revenue from your experience, such as with badges or developer products.
• Security - Set various security settings for your experience.
• Places - Create new places associated with your experience.
• Localization - Configure different languages and regions.
• Avatar - Configure settings related to avatars, such as avatar scaling and clothing overrides.
• World - Configure settings such as gravity, character jump behavior, and walk speed.
• Other - Contains miscellaneous options for your experience, such as collaborative editing and spatial voice features.

For more information, see Managing Projects.

Collaboration

With Studio's built-in collaboration tools, team members can contribute to experiences independently on their own time, or alongside others. Key features include:

• Group admins can manage which members have access to collaborate and which do not, effectively maintaining proper roles within a large team.
• Collaborators can build alongside other team members in real time and automatically see changes made by others.
• Collaborators can independently edit the same scripts that others may be editing, test locally, and commit their changes to the cloud-based project when ready.

For more information, see Collaboration.

Spatial Voice

Chat with Spatial Voice is a proximity-based voice chat feature that simulates realistic communication based on how close you are to other users who are speaking. The closer you are to another user, the louder their voice; conversely, the farther away you are from another user, the softer their voice.

For more information, see Spatial Voice.