Studio SHOULD be able to be used offline.
I literally have most of my game assets on my own hard drive as well, it makes no sense not being able to open a place on my hard drive.
Also I think it would also be a neat feature if Roblox could cache assets offline so you can still see and hear your sound effects, meshes and images when working on a project while traveling in a train for example.
btw guys if you are at the main menu of the studio you can open your autosaves from there and start working
animations,avatars,plugin icons some other stuff that requires internet might not work but at least you can work on your game there
Sorry for bumping this old thread again…
But are there any new solutions, or work arounds? My current situation is being at work almost 12 hours daily, and i bring my laptop for the off chance that i can get my phones hotspot to work properly on my lunch break. It would be a huge convenience to be able to at least read over my code without internet access. Let me know please!
If you only want to use a single place file, then you could just leave it open. The game is still playable, code is readable, but any custom meshes or textures will be invisible. And, your output will be spammed with tons of “Failed to load” errors, but hey, all your code still works.
You can write your code in a real editor and sync it in with Rojo.
You can but, you lose the ability to run your code in studio’s environment.
if you are working on unpublished game you can continue working
if you are working on a published game and your studio kicks you out of the game then use auto save
Bump,
This is not possible yet, all assets are stored on Roblox Servers, while I do agree an Offline studio would be useful when working abroad like on an airplane.
Roblox could experiment with a system that would save the models and images that require a connection to Roblox servers, locally, on my own device which would allow me to access despite being offline.
Matter of fact they are already saved, but not in a Roblox Studio readable format, when you play a Roblox game, frequently they are saved in your AppData folder on your computer, deleting those files would make loading into games slower until Roblox saves those downloaded files again.
So theoretically this would be possible with the current techniques Roblox already uses without creating more problems.
I hate resorting to hacky options like developing a game with an old Roblox Studio build to prevent any issues related to outages, like the one right now. I can’t say much as I am not a developer who works full-time on Roblox games, I make things for fun, but I don’t think we should be experiencing issues like this.
Like how many times it’s been seen through outages, not just on Roblox but on other areas outside of game development, it’s unreliable to depend purely on internet connection for everything.
Personally, all I wish for is to be able to properly build, script and playtest games during outages.
I think even having an option to download a snapshot of all things in your game preloaded (to get around the game-specific issues) is a better solution.
If I am offline, I don’t have any real ambition aside from working on a game. I’m not touching plugins (hell, we can preload those too). I want to load 3D objects, scripts, sounds and press play. I want to develop and test my code as I’m writing it. Iteratively.
Would the snapshot be chunky? Sure. Depends on how big your game is.
Would I be able to save offline? Sure. Save to the file system. Push up when internet is better.
Both of those tradeoffs are fair and what you’d expect.
I think the more ironic and annoying bit is that RDC always focuses on “improving workflows for developers” and has yet to properly address, arguably, the most important one.
This.
It would be nice to be able to at least build without the toolbox offline, since you can just save the file to your computer publish the place later.
There is difficulty using certain features offline due to most of the platform’s base systems needing to be updated constantly for toolbox, moderation, AI generation possibly etc.
I can’t see Roblox making this change any time soon.
Adding onto this,
I would love to be able to use Roblox Studio Offline (especially without an account logged in like people state) mainly due to outages though this is probably just personal preference, but I don’t want all the bloat that’s introduced into Regular Studio similarly to what OP mentioned.
Developers could also lose money or be losing money from these outages or from life-threatening situations.
Hopefully this question will be addressed in the AMA.
I don’t think they are gonna ever add studio in offline mode. Why?
Although unconfirmed, I suspect that roblox has bots constantly looking at us inside Studio, for moderation purposes. And these bots obviously can’t work when there is no internet connection.
How did I come to this conclusion? When I was developing my game in team create, I inserted a guillotine model from the toolbox to make a joke with my friend, with the intent to immediately delete it afterwards.
This happened some time later, when the model was already deleted:
I can see this being due to multiple other reasons. Here’s a few:
Could also be a team-create only check. But I highly doubt roblox has constant checks on what you’re doing in studio. Afaik they only check published assets.
This feature request / proposed solution can be closed out, creator leadership confirmed they will not work on this:
It’s probably better to make posts about specific problems rather than the proposed solution “studio must work off-line”. You could make separate posts about specific problems you are having while not connected to the internet so they can address those piecemeal.
Isn’t the main issue based on the premise that studio isn’t offline compatible? If it is, wouldn’t all offline requests be under the umbrella of that response?
Even the premise of working with patchy connections seems a bit confusing. If I have a period of stable connections and patchy connections in lets say an hour, studio would only ever function, within that hour, when the connection is stable and can connect to all the things studio is using / depend on. When I have a patchy connection, the issue is almost always not being able to connect to Roblox’s services. I feel like its one of the main drives / purposes of this feature request; to be able to use Studio when the connection isn’t stable enough to access those services. I am not sure how Studio can be “robust and performant in those scenarios” (in relation to this thread) when you need a constant internet connection.
That response avoids / dances around directly addressing the core issues of offline compatibility, subsequently any features that would fall under that umbrella and says no.
Genuinely confused why it would be worth even bringing those things to light. Especially, given that answer.
It’s very possible the pin-pointed problem statements would get rejected too, but it gives a different / more focused lens on the problem that could lead to them exploring different solutions.
For example, maybe Studio as a whole cannot be an offline product, but if we had a feature request like “Cannot consistently run play solo on patchy connections”, it might be possible for them to do better caching/mocking of network requests such that if Studio already has things cached, maybe it can just work.
I am not pained by these kind of particular problems myself atm so I’m not the best to describe them, above is just a specific example.
My main concern with the reply right above is I just wanted to connect the latest answer from the Roblox team with this feature request since I happened to see it fly by.
This is great and better for students. Why? You can continue your projects at school ( mostly when you have free time ), and assuming the school doesn’t have free Wi-Fi, then you can just use Roblox Studio Offline.
Here are my theories or expectations if Roblox Studio can be used offline:
It is possible to use Roblox Studio offline but you need to use the internet to open Roblox Studio or the project file, and then you can use it offline.
When I’m offline for periods (often due to work), I can spend free time doing programming projects, be they standalone VBA projects or ones that require a virtual server; it’s very productive to do so.
But not with Roblox Studio! Even momentary internet losses lead to Studio kicking me out, and refusing to load until I’m reconnected. All it does, when I’m connected, is download a load of assets and the like, which it already downloaded countless times before. It’s a symptom of methodology that my instinct tells me is using bandwidth in a rather inefficient and unintelligent manner.
I’m posting this today because I was offline for ten minutes just now, and couldn’t do anything.
If loading from an autosave is a sure and non-lossy manner to continue, then, that’s great. But can we have it as an inbuilt feature, so it feels like it’s the right thing to do?
