Bruh if your monitor is 144p and it can handle 4k literally almost every monitor can handle 4k. Or not.
account deleted for uploading too much decals in 5 seconds
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When will we have 4k support? We uploaded our studio intro, and itâs 480p or 720p and looks horrible.
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2k Robux for 2007 YouTube videos. This still hasnât changed? Why use this over decal frame-by-frame animation, with a bit of technical work which results in more quality AND FREE progress?
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Is it possible to re-upload a video if i want to make a small adjustment?
Maybe itâs time to switch engines after seeing that at max you can do 720p videos for 7-25$, thats just insane.
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Why Roblox 
, only want money, 2000 robux is so much
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i spent a good chunk of my time designing a video to be used for the intro+loading screen of one of my games just to be stopped by a 2000k price JUST for a short video, Iâm able to pay the fee but I choose not to because of how unnecessary it is just for a single 12 second video. roblox pls fixâŚ
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To be honest, I think a video feature is a great addition to the engine. It allows us to do a lot more with our games and starts to get us on par with other engines that already have this feature. I guess I could complain about the price-tag, but it makes sense that it would need one.
However, at the current state, Iâm not sure how reliable Videoframes really are. As of a few days ago, my opinion of them was very positive. They worked as they were described and I had no issues. I made a very nice intro-cutscene using video frames and was able to hide the fact that I was playing a video in the first place:
Thereâs no box or outlines or anything that you can make out that reveals that Iâm playing a video as part of my studio introduction.
This changed an hour ago, when my videoframe began to bug out. Iâve tried remaking it, putting it into different games, etc., the issues still occur.
While hard to see, you can make out that the video frame is actually there because its color has changed. Thereâs also some weird green bar at the top that completely reveals everything. Also, the video starts to completely glitch out with random colors a split moment before playing at times. This is inconsistent, so I have not gotten a video of this yet. Again, this was not the case before and only began occurring an hour ago.
âŚWell, this sucks, cause now itâs no longer a cool experience and instead feels very âthrown togetherâ. Iâm wondering if this is a compression issue, because if so, it should be made a little more clear that you may experience a sudden change in your video later down the line instead of instantly. Iâm not sure what to do in this position regarding my cutscene, and Iâm 2000 robux short.
@phri , do you have any insight as to what happened and what I can do?
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The downscaling is intentional, however it still looks like a bug that artifacts are coming up; if you PM me I might be able to post a bug report for you, but you should request to join the @AllowBugReports group in the meantime!
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Iâm fine with the downscaling, but it gets frustrating if it means the actual content of the video itself is shifted. Like the colors, I mean. Iâll send you a PM in one moment!
Thank for reporting the issues!
Weâre currently looking into it.
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This is such a stupid take on the last part. My type of game requires cutscenes and Iâm planning on making them sort of pre rendered as in a video so that they seem more professional and so that they look more realistic since theyâll be taken outside of Roblox. The game canât be done unless the cutscenes are finished as theyâre an important part of the game and they canât be implemented later on as itâll be weird to suddenly go from live cutscenes to pre rendered. $20 worth of Robux on a single video is INSANE.
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Have you already released the game before it has been finished? If so, that would fall under early access and still be heavily under development. If not, for what reason could those pre-rendered cut-scenes be added at the end of development?
My point was more that there are lots of developers who want to do the pretty things before they have an actual game. One thing I donât see many developers doing is creating a gameplay demo where it uses exclusively placeholder content to purely test if their core gameplay loop is actually fun or not. Imagine spending months on a gameâs visuals only to realize that the game just isnât as fun as you thought it would be, all because you didnât test the gameplay from the start.
I wrote more about this in-depth here:
https://devforum.roblox.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-the-most-efficient-order-to-develop/2205460/13
Now letâs say youâve already done that and know you want to go through with your project. Letâs also say that you have actually completed the rest of your game and all you have left are these pre-rendered cut-scenes that need to be added. Obviously nobody wants to be paying any amount of money to upload assets, so that doesnât need to be said. You could look at why it costs money, which Iâve also talked about earlier in this thread. In summary, this is a new feature that they want to rate limit and it also costs Roblox money to store, host, and stream such content. As far as I understand it, this is only a temporary measure that will eventually be lifted when Roblox finish optimizing their platform for video content. So with that out of the way, all thatâs left is figuring out how to solve the issue at hand. You donât have time to wait for Roblox to wait for Roblox.
So what are your options? You can get funding for your game. Once your game is either all complete except for those cut-scenes or at least mostly complete, itâll be much easier to show it to investors. If thatâs not something youâll be interested in, look what other methods of getting these cut-scenes into your game. Itâll be a lot more hacky, but you can create âGifsâ in Roblox and sync audio to it. Itâs more time consuming right now as there isnât a tool, at least that Iâm aware of, to automate that process. But at the very least itâs a free option.
If that wonât work for you either, you might want to evaluate if you really need pre-rendered cut-scenes. Youâve set those requirements yourself, but games donât require pre-rendered cut-scenes or even normal cut-scenes to be good. Gameplay is more important than anything else, without exception. Thatâs not to say that you shouldnât do what you want, but donât back yourself into a corner if it doesnât work out for you.
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Game isnât released but I have everything I need done EXCEPT the cutscenes and the voice acting for it. Iâve written down exactly EVERY cutscene I need to add into the game with everything rigged in Blender. I planned on doing pre rendered cutscenes which would look a million times better than ingame cutscenes since theyâd have better graphics and visuals without all of the visual effects needing to be implemented and I wouldnât have to do as much scripting as a live cutscene would.
I Would much rather not get funding for the games cutscenes alone as I could devex it and find more useful things to Do with the $20 I would be spending on ONE video alone. Uploading at a gif would be terrible due to the compression on Roblox when I upload spritesheets.
itâd be 2x more time consuming if I were to use thousands of images. I get that they have to stream it or whatever but charging $20 especially to young developers is outrageous for only 30 seconds.
Iâve already gotten plenty of peoples opinions mainly because itâs a spin off of other peoples games and theyâve enjoyed the content and the way I want it to go so far.
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I think thereâs a bit of misunderstanding here. It might cost $20 to buy that amount of R$, however 2k R$ through DevEx is only worth $7. I donât think youâd have any issues getting somebody to invest 2k R$ as thatâs not very much in the developer community. Obviously new developers wonât have any R$ to work with without buying them, but thatâs why you can look towards those that do, if you wish. Now this will definitely add up if you have a bunch of videos that you need uploaded, so I would carefully choose how you want to go about that.
To clarify, I understand that paying any amount is not ideal, but Iâm simply explaining why itâs the case and providing possible solutions as this likely wonât change anytime soon.
The only way that itâll change is if Roblox focuses more on this subject which is VERY VERY unlikely considering they havenât done many of the grand things show in the previous RDC yet⌠Iâve got talents in Modeling, Building, Scripting, Animating, and many more things yet unfortunately due to Developer Discord servers being extremely scammy and toxic and Talent hub being extremely underpaying/Cheap for difficult tasks itâs much harder to get Robux to invest in videos.
You can see whatâs on Robloxâs current roadmap here:
If you want to do jobs for people, Iâd recommend taking the approach of showing your completed work and await for payment before delivering any actual files/assets. I do agree that, even with the Talent Hub, itâs difficult to find jobs or hire people unless you have connections. I donât particularly like relying on Discord servers either. Thereâs also contract work, but youâll mainly only find that from existing professional studios. Meeting and discussing with other developers has been the most influential thing for me, in my opinion.
Alternatively, you can still look for investors. How many of these video cut-scenes do you intent to have anyway? How many do you need to launch? You may also consider what other types of funding you might need, if you want to delve into advertising. Though Iâd actually recommend using social media, word of mouth, and natural discovery, for free advertisement that will also likely serve you better, at least from what Iâve seen.
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The whole game should take around 1 - 2 hours to finish for a new player for someone whoâs trying to complete all the side questing then it should take around 2 hours or longer. I intend to have at least 5 - 7 cutscenes throughout the whole game. Intro (1 cutscene) (The whole game takes place in an underwater facility.
Itâd be better to do it in Blender since Iâm not using Robloxâs terrain water but my own water system which the lighting effects only work ingame which is time consuming). Main Questline Cutscenes (5 Cutscenes) Works better in Blender because of the lighting effects and because most of them will be underwater. Particles/Beams/etc have their limits in studio and arenât well good enough for what Iâm trying to make, and the ending cutscene which is something that I can make in studio, but itâll still be time consuming to script.
I donât need money for advertising. I have my own channel and other ways of advertising the game since itâs a spin off of Another which I got permission from the owner to make.
As for the talent hub and connection things Iâve done a lot of commissions earlier this year, but it was only with the developers who actually wanted me to work for them since theyâre unreasonably Picky and ghost almost all of the people who apply for their posts despite me practically being able to animate anything they want.
How long are these cut-scenes? If theyâre all a max of 30 seconds, youâll be looking at 10k to 14k R$ for all of those cut-scenes. If some cut-scenes are shorter, you could perhaps combine them into a single upload, saving 2k R$ here and there. If theyâre longer than 30 seconds, obviously thatâs going to add up quite a bit.
It really depends on what you want to do about this. If you really think these cut-scenes are required for your game, and you absolutely wonât settle for in-game cut-scenes, I canât think of many options other than investors or taking commissions where you can. I assume you have a portfolio? Is there a reason that you wouldnât look for investors? Investors are normally investing anywhere to 100k to maybe a million or so R$, so smaller investments are typically easier. Just try not to get stuck with a low-ball deal.
The only other thing I can think of is funding your current project with another one, but thatâs likely out of the question as game development is time consuming in general. I typically avoid projects that I canât fund until that changes. But finding investors is easier if you have content to show for the game and a plan for the rest. Investors typically wouldnât want to invest at the start of the project, but it sounds like youâve gotten most things done already, which is ideal.
I know this wonât be in games any time soon yet, but I just saw this post that will improve the ease of using a gif system in the eventual future:
With this, you would be able to fit 16 1080p frames into one 8k image upload. Youâd still need a lot of uploads if you want to keep 30 or 60 fps (in which you would need 60 uploads for 30 fps and 120 for 60 fps for a total of 30 seconds). 24 fps is probably the lowest standard framerate, which would require 45 8k uploads to fit 720 1080p frames, all for 30 seconds of 24 fps 1080p video.
Obviously, Iâm saying this assuming that a tool exists to speed the process up, and that the only thing that would slow the process down is the uploading of 45 8k images. Now if you moved down to 720p, you could do 30 seconds of video with only 20 uploads for 24 fps, 25 for 30 fps, and 50 for 60 fps. Downgrading isnât ideal, and this isnât even possible yet in-game, but I just wanted to mention this as it came to mind.
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