Recently when I was designing a train, I noticed I couldn’t find Cylinder meshes in the search bar, I did some looking on the Wiki to find that they were depricated
Any reason for this?
BlockMesh is also depricated but I’ve never really found a use for it
It’s deprecated because you can just use a Cylinder-type part now. If I remember correctly, I think a big part of this was to simplify the render pipeline–or something like that. I assume the same is true for BlockMesh.
If you need the box-like collision box for a cylinder object for whatever reason, just use a Special Mesh instead. You can change it’s MeshType property to Enum.MeshType.Cylinder and get the same result as you would with a Cylinder Mesh.
Further discussion:
https://devforum.roblox.com/t/why-has-the-cylindermesh-object-been-deprecated/110360
Not exactly the same result.
SpecialMeshes have a incorrect representation of the Y axis, resulting in the cylinder pointing left to right instead of up and down.
Neither of these are “correct” or “incorrect”, this is just an implementation choice. I don’t see how this would affect any use case.
Here is one
Whenever I’m building, in particular making a beveled edge, I flip between the two mesh types to get the cylinder that lines up correctly. It’s a pain to rotate and then scale the cylinder especially when working a more complex model.
lol, you just made the OCD me, cringe, while reading that XD
Block meshes had a TON of utility, because this was prior to Offset for SpecialMeshes working properly
You could give blocks a smaller hitbox but bigger appearance, and I needed a lot of the time for things like projectiles or special effects
I used BlockMesh’s offset abillity for ‘seemless’ sliding doors, only problem is that the hitbox doesn’t change