March 26, 2007

This is a sub-page of Roblox (Windows, Mac OS X)/Revisional Differences.

To do:

Add more information about the features listed.
Add citations.
Discover and add more functions with changed names.

Features#

Controller Flags#

Before mid-2007, Controller Flags were 3D flags that would appear on controllable models when the option for it was enabled.

You can use the control toolbar to edit controllers in a model.

Since then in mid-2007, Controller Flags were fully deprecated and removed.

Studio Themes#

Before mid-2007, a theme engine was included with the studio. This was used to make the studio look like Microsoft Office 2007.

ThumbnailGenerator#

This build includes the ThumbnailGenerator service, used to generate thumbnails for games, models and avatars. This service currently only exists on the ROBLOX Compute Cloud Service (RCCService), Roblox's server software. This service will only work when the MESA graphics libraries are included with the client.

Demo code:

-- ThumbnailGenerator:click(string fileType, int cx, int cy, bool hideSky)
-- fileType (output file format): "PNG", "JPG", "TGA", "BMP", "PCX", "ICO"
-- cy (width of the thumbnail) = 1-4096 
-- cx (height of the thumbnail) = 1-4096
-- hideSky (makes skybox transparent) = true, false
print(game:service("ThumbnailGenerator"):click("PNG", 420, 420, true))

Renamed Lua Functions#

The functions and game services in this build use camel case instead of the .NET style capitalization used on newer builds of the game.

However this build also contains functions and services with different names than the ones used on newer builds of the game.

Current Name	Old Name	Function Description
`:GetService("")`	`:service("")`	Returns a service with the class name requested.
`task.wait()`	`wait()`	Yields the current thread until the specified amount of time in seconds have elapsed, with throttling.
`:WaitForChild()`	`:waitForChild()`	Returns the child of the Instance with the given name. If the child does not exist, it will yield the current thread until it does.
`:FindFirstChild()`	`:findFirstChild()`	Returns the first child of the Instance found with the given name.

Extra Game Settings#

This build contains options that allow the user to disable the chat filter and change the lerp of the camera. These options were removed in mid-2007.

Leftovers#

The March 2007 client has a few leftovers from 2006 ROBLOX, Here are some of them.

Bloom and Depth of Field#

This is a leftover from August 2006 builds of ROBLOX. It can be added back into the client with simple HEX Editing.

Studio Icons#

In the client, something else that can be found from 2006 are the Studio icons which can only be viewed in the exe.