Hello there lovers of some sports that I am worried about mentioning due to copyright laws that I really don’t want to have to deal with, WoodReviewer here to take a look at Olympic World presented by Visa by the Olympics. Yes, 16 years after Roblox played with fire by doing some slightly questionable copyright infringement, the Olympics now have an official game on Roblox, presented by Visa. So, with the largest international sporting body behind it, does Olympic World presented by Visa have proper wood grain?

No.

The first example of bad wood grain that I found in the game was right near the spawn in Olympic World presented by Visa, specifically the small weight lifting area. The issues here are on the pergola over the actually exercise area. The vertical supports have bad wood grain, and additionally the the top of rafters have improper wood grain, going front to back relative to me in the picture, instead of side to side like the front face of the rafters. From my years of experience of yelling at devs on Discord, I believe this is likely due to the pergola being made by duplicating bricks and resizing them to make the structure, rather than rotating the rafters so the grain faces the proper direction. This would be a quick fix with part flip, or an even quicker fix if they were properly rotated while building when duplicating the rafters.

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