AnaminusTop 100 PosterJoin Date: 2006-11-29
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> Just make sure that you publish thorough documentation on the new format
This. And throw in some docs for the terrain format while you're at it. |
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@Anaminus
I managed to figure out partially how the terrain format (in ClusterGridV2) was encoded, but that was before they added run-length encoding, so it's probably not right any more.
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DesistingJoin Date: 2010-02-06
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Anaminus = An a minus |
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Anaminus = Anim̶a̶t̶e̶ minus
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uyjulianJoin Date: 2012-11-29
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Roblox made a blog post about the new binary format they are using
I don't know if it will make it impossible from stealing places from memory, through... |
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Tj3Join Date: 2008-03-12
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A friend and I wrote an image-to-colored brick converter a long time ago... I was also just starting to write a tool today that would need to parse existing place files.
As many others said, it should just be well-documented so that people can continue to write tools that read/modify place files. |
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As8DJoin Date: 2009-12-24
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^ Oh... a decal-to-colored brick converter?
Or... just a bunch of GUIs converted.
Tried to make a PNG converter on ROBLOX once... gave up, impossibru. People tell me to make a BMP converter though. Hehe...
I shall make a better parser than you! This is my goal o-wuuush!
- As, Rolling On the Floor Living. |
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How could anyone oppose an update that makes things more efficient? |
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As8DJoin Date: 2009-12-24
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Hey you...
Do you want to play in a playpen all over again, or try make some cool stuff?
Really, Sorcus is Sorcus. Don't feed him.
- As, fire ROBLOX employees and make CurruBlox. That's our vision. |
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As8DJoin Date: 2009-12-24
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oh. Sorry, wrong thread ): I thought of Sorcus' thread. Damn.
- As, honto gomena sai. or whatever it is. |
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I suppose my operation of downloading an asset from the website.
Appending a special container that requires a modified reflection meta-data to see
And putting admin commands inside it before re-uploading it and watching it spread
Is over :D |
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^You'll just have to modify your reflection metadata yourself? |
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NB3Join Date: 2009-12-27
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@triston220
Exactly, it's not that hard. It uses XML. |
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Bubby4jJoin Date: 2008-12-25
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I sometimes manually edit the rbxl file to create bricks that are smaller than actually allowable. Very useful. |
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AnaminusTop 100 PosterJoin Date: 2006-11-29
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Ooh, that's right. The ReflectionMetadata file, which I parse the heck out of, uses the exact same format (it's basically a model file). I bet it's read using the exact same process, too. |
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So no more easily updated/generated ReflectionMetadata? Also, last I checked using the latest version in your models crashes studio on startup...
At least you can probably still generate one via a parsed API dump, since they actually documented their protocol for once =P |
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@RenderSettings
> At least you can probably still generate one via a parsed API dump, since they actually documented their protocol for once =P
The problem with doing this is that you will not be able to access information that is only available in the original ReflectionMetadata.xml file, such as descriptions and icon numbers.
I guess the solution is really just to create a decoder and parser that will transform ROBLOX files into a memory format or a file format that is easier to manipulate. That got to be pretty complicated to do, though, especially since ROBLOX created its own compression algorithm and since they didn't document it much.
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AnaminusTop 100 PosterJoin Date: 2006-11-29
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> So no more easily updated/generated ReflectionMetadata
That depends on whether they'll provide a specification for the new format. I won't have the patience to reverse engineer it. |
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coploxJoin Date: 2008-06-07
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It is a very good idea to post specifications. That would definitely help out a lot. |
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zappata1Join Date: 2012-03-26
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SHEDLETSKY GAVE ME A TRADE LAST NIGHT! I accepted it! |
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digpoeJoin Date: 2008-11-02
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@cd
No one cares.
Get out. |
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I have .rbxl files saved on my computer. When this is released, will my files become unreadable? |
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Roblox could always provide a studio API... But naaaah, that'd be too nice of dem... |
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MerelyJoin Date: 2010-12-07
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@kingkiller1000 You will still be able to open .rbxl files. |
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