Basically, I’m having an issue with loading asset Ids. #1 works while #2 doesn’t, and there’s no errors in the output window when this fails.
http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=<Asset ID>rbxassetid://<Asset ID>My question is why? I remember reading something awhile ago about something about asset Id URLs being depreciated, but I can’t find the announcement.
They both should be working
This is probably the preferable way though as it’s shorter than the first URL you provided.
I don’t think there was a deprecation announcement. If there was, it was probably in a release note a while ago (so what I’m saying is that they probably didn’t make an official announcement if they did deprecate it)
I do remember loading in an animation recently using the rbxassetid notation, and it did work. Strange how it doesn’t now apparently (cant test it since it’s like 10PM)
rbxassetid:// is more appropriate and may result in faster loading times because it’s a direct reference within the Roblox environment. On the other hand, if you’re sharing links outside of Roblox or need to access assets from a web browser, http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id= is the way to go.
When you provide the id number or the entire URL, it gets automatically converted to
rbxassetid:// automatically.