Roblox - Classic Building Guide

Classic Building Guide Update (1/8/25):

  • Added the Furniture Making Contest set in the alignment section for inspiration.
  • Fixed the order of sections.
  • Added proportions order section.
  • Adjusted furniture set models.
  • Improved phrasing in the alignment section.

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Very resourceful guide, I was going to look into this subject more, and when I logged on to find something about it, I ended up finding this. Thank you very much for creating and providing resources for the community to use!

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whoops repost my bad lololol

Classic Building Guide Update (1/25/25):

  • Added examples in Lighting section.

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[Classic Building Guide Update] - 1/29/25:
As the month is coming to the end, the classic building guide is no longer maintained as I’m satisfied with it. :slight_smile:

  • Added author notes, and the guide is no longer being actively updated.

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I was making a plugin just like this actually back in 2023 but fell too sick to finish it.

Awesome writeup! very stylized yet accurate for the time period methods for building.

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the guide appears to be inaccessible. is there another way i could open or read it?

Bumping this, I really need the doc and do not have a copy of it. Would be useful if someone could provide one.

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Shame that the document isn’t accessible anymore. Was a really good resource that had a lot of effort poured into it.

Crawled the WayBack Machine and was able to find some remnants of the document. Not in its full glory, but better than nothing.

IMG_9882.pdf (789.7 KB) - PDF of the latest revision of the document. No images however, wasn’t rendered in the Wayback. If you don’t want to download a PDF, or don’t trust random files, the original WayBack link is here (which lets you click the blue hyperlinked text in the document). Yes, it’s partially Russian, which you can translate. If visiting, make sure the page doesn’t reload, otherwise it’ll revert to an older revision of the document.

If prompted to reload due to an “error”, press the reload button, then go back to the document using the < tab history arrow.

The older revision from WayBack linked here DOES have images, but is not as informative, and also doesn’t allow any hyperlink interaction.

Best I could do :slightly_frowning_face:

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I’ll try getting into contacts with people who I presume have the doc stored.

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I kind of have a copy of this, but the images are too small. Is this useful in any way? :sweat_smile:

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Thx, a lot. I tried looking around in many places for this document. Thx for finding it.

Images are big enough :laughing: Will definitely be using this instead!

Appreciate the link :)

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I’ve got in contact with the OP, Google locked their Gmail account and they no longer have access to anything on it.

Thankfully they did manage to give me a copy of the google doc and transferred ownership of the
Roblox group before any of that happened.

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the google doc link broke, could you resend it?

I made too a guide about the classic ROBLOX build, here! The Old Roblox Ultimate Guide!

its prolly also due to roblox’s trash moderation. I got my account terminated for someone alting a year ago on the same IP, but also two actions against a plugin i made that used roblox editable meshes

the google doc doesn’t work anymore :sob: