I remember seeing these types of builds similar to the background of the old xbox roblox menu, where the builds weren’t complicated but also didn’t look simple in a way?; They mainly used neon, brick, smooth plastic and plastic, along with alot of nearly fully saturated but not base color-picker roblox colors. The background of the image below is mainly what im talking about, and is mainly very prevalent in roblox games that were created around 2016-2018, and were never updated past about 2020-ish. It’s honestly probably the style (if you can even call it a style) that i saw the most on my early days of roblox, which is the main reason on why i want to try seeing if its even possible to make anymore. I’ve recreated it one time before, and thats when I was recreating the roblox xbox menu with my own levels.
that just looks like a smooth plastic build with compatiblity lighting
Yes but they use old materials and no EnvironmentDiffuseScale
MaterialService - OldMaterials or something like that (roblox revamped majority if not all materials in 2022)
If you want any colors different from the color picker, go to the explorer tab and properties. Brick color will contain every color from the color picker, and color will contain pretty much the entire HEX, RGB, etc… (or the opposite i don’t remember correctly)
To create it, if you want to achieve something more simple, go for studio. check for references.
If you want to do something a little more complex like in the image i’d recommend doing some on Blender and like walls or simple structures in Studio
I’ve actually been creating a list of things to remember when trying to recreate the style, mostly looking at old games in my favorites, finding uncopylocked old games to see how the style is built, and also just messing around in studio with stuff like style type on guis (only on frames and textbuttons, though they exist on imagebuttons they basically aren’t visible). Tell me if this list seems good at all.
2017 roblox frame/dropshadow: completely black with background transparency of 0.3 OR set style to roblox square
2017 roblox button: style set to RobloxRoundDefaultButton OR RobloxRoundDropdownButton
2017 roblox lighting: ambient and outdoorambient set to black, brightness between 3.5-4, bloom, and colorgradingeffect, technology set to voxel
2017 building style: mix the roblox lighting above, along with materialservice set to pre-2022 materials, with a style between smoothplastic, wood and woodplanks, brick, neon, grass, tiny bit of metal, concrete, cobblestone
2017 color style: not super saturated
2017 regular text: text color of 240 on all rgb, text strokecolor set to complete white (255), stroke transparency = 0.98, fontface set to source sans pro, weight to regular
2017 bold text: source sans pro for font, style and weight set to bold, text color set to full white.
It’s really the only thing I’ve found about this style since its basically unknown to most people. Either they go for straight retro (studs, welds, 1 stud increment), or just realistic. It really seems like a dead style. Nothing documented about it. Can barely even find roblox videos with it in the games (unless its a tycoon.). I wonder if i’m the first person to make a list of tips/guide pieces to this style?
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