Hello there wooden plank lovers of Roblox, WoodReviewer here with day 4 of my 2024 Advent Calendar. Today’s gift focuses on wooden planks, and how they are not the same as regular wood grain. So, what is the best example I can come up with to show this difference?

Why another fan favorite of things Devs love to use bad wood grain on, wooden crates.

These crates are very simple with just a wooden frame and some wood insets to keep everything inside. This is mainly due to other crate types being slightly more complicated, and we haven’t reached that part of this year’s lesson. On the small cube crate, the orientation of the center inserts doesn’t matter because it is a square so every side is the same length.

But on the longer crates the orientation of the long face does matter, as it needs to go between the two small square sides of the crate.

Now onto the wooden plank segment of this post, much like on the wooden crate the small direction of the planks on the small cube crate does not matter, so long as the end grain on the planks is correct.

And then on the larger rectangular crate, the direction of the planks again doesn’t matter.

Well, how is this possible? For the first crate, it is simple: The planks are just pieces from the wooden crate that are cut smaller, so the grain is fine. For the second crate, it is easier to show it with another crate where the side is made from individual wooden planks. As you can see here the wood grain for every individual plank is correct. This is why wooden planks are different than regular wood grain: You need to consider every individual plank and make sure they are correct, not the entire texture as a whole.

That is all I have for today. Hopefully this helped to explain wooden planks a bit more, and if not hopefully some upcoming days will help explain them even more. And don’t worry, I also hate how wooden planks look here. But the gift to fix that is also coming a bit down the road.