How To Get A Template In Roblox Studio

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Using Studio Templates

When y'all first open up Roblox Studio, nether New, you meet 3 tabs: All Templates, Theme, and Gameplay. Templates are prebuilt projects, and you can use them equally a guide to build your own game earth.

All Templates

The All Templates tab (Effigy 2.3) is a combination of the Theme and Gameplay tabs. Yous can use these templates as a outset for your games. For case, if you're building a medieval game, the Castle theme is equipped with feudal details, or if you want to build an interactive obby, yous can build off the Obby gameplay template. Two simple templates are a skillful place to start:

Baseplate: This is a popular selection to start with. The baseplate itself is easy to delete, leaving a blank canvas to piece of work with.

Flat Terrain: Has a flat airplane of grass terrain instead of a baseplate. Yous can modify or clear the terrain using the terrain editor.

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FIGURE 2.3 Roblox Studio habitation screen lists various templates available, such every bit elementary templates Baseplate and Flat Terrain.

Themes

Themes are a combination of gameplays and more than, and together they make a new world. It sets a mood for your game—for example, a space combat game volition have asteroids and other galactic components. Roblox provides some prebuilt themes that are ready to utilise and alter however y'all would similar. As you lot explore the game world, descriptions betoken out its use case or features, including tips on how the effects were created in case you desire to re-create them yourself.

An case of a prebuilt theme is Village (Figure two.iv). Yous can explore the houses in the village and move along the pathway through the town, which leads yous to a river, a bridge, and finally the dock, beyond which you lot can see small islands.

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Effigy 2.iv Example of a prebuilt Village Theme available in Studio.

Gameplay

Some templates include interactive gameplay. For example, this can include Team Deathmatch, Control Points, Capture the Flag (Figure 2.5), and more. A great thing about these templates is that developers tin can have them apart and excerpt any specific facet that they want—for example, using in-game radar or team spawn points. These templates assistance with components such every bit what a histrion tin do in a game, what the goals are, and how a game can be modified.

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