I’ve recently had an issue where ROBLOX Studio would crash whenever I tried opening a place saved on my computer. The crashing began this on April 28, 2020 around 1:00 AM US Central Time. (I’m a night owl.) I noticed it began to crash whenever I tried to test server the game with two clients. It would only crash. So I closed ROBLOX Studios and attempted to open the same place. Now it crashes on startup.
I believe it has something to do with the atmosphere object I had added to the place. There were two places saved on my computer that included this object. I had two copies of Place 1. One version included the atmosphere object and the other version did not. This was the only difference between the two versions. I ended up saving the version without the atmosphere object onto the one with the atmosphere object. (I know it was silly of me.)
Place 2, I only had one version of. This included the atmosphere object. It’s currently the only ROBLOX Studio place I can’t open without it crashing.
The way I managed to add the atmosphere object was by typing Instance.new(‘Atmosphere,’ workspace) in the command bar. This created the object. Before the crashes began, I could see the visual atmosphere.
Example: I was only able to get a screenshot that I had recently saved.
After the crashes began, when I created the atmosphere object, there was no visuals.
Example: A screenshot of a place specifically made to recreate the crash requirement.
Here are my computer specs.
Intel® … @ 3.70 GHz, 16 GB, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
Yes I believe this happens if you save your place while including the Atmosphere object in it. I also inserted the Atmosphere class into my game, saved the game, and upon reopening studio it would always crash.
It looks like this is caused by having an Atmosphere object in your game and having Team Create enabled at the same time.
Create a game containing an Atmosphere instance and Sky instance under Lighting
Publish it
Turn on Team Create
Restart Studio
Edit the new Team Create game - crash
It’s also important to mention that this crash only seems to happen when you haven’t edited any other places in Studio yet. If you open the TC game from a cold-start, it crashes. If you open a different game, then open the TC game, it does not crash.
I don’t know if you tried this, but if it continues to happen, you could try creating what your trying to build, place the Atmosphere Object in the game, save it/publish it, and then maybe removing from studio, then try re-launching studio, and basically every time you go to build/publish just re-add it…
(Not a very helpful solution, but it might work and even help)
I’m not using team create for this. After a bit of experimenting my friends and I have determined how to create the crash. There are several requirements that need to be met in order to create the crash.
The file must have been created before 28 APR 2020
You must insert the atmosphere object into your game.
Save the file. This’ll brick the file and you will not be able to open it.
As of today I noticed that all the bricked files have turned into studio.lock files.
