Hello there wedge lovers of Roblox, WoodReviewer here with day 15 of my 2024 Advent Calendar. If you couldn’t tell, today’s gift is going to focus on wedges and various oddities with them So, what gift am I going to use to demonstrate these oddities?

Why this odd table thing.

For those of you who have never played Roblox and have no idea what a wedge is, how did you end up here?

For those of you who have minimal developer experience in Roblox, this triangle thing is a wedge.

The easiest way to think of a wedge is as a brick that was sliced in half diagonally, so the wood grain should follow the brick it was cut from. Take this trim board, for example.

You want to imagine it is cut from this board, and the wood grain should match any usage you have for the transparent green brick.

And for any board that are wide, this is fine. But what if a wedge is tall and thin? Then this falls apart.

Here the back side of the wedge should have vertical wood grain on the back like the transparent green brick should have.

So, how do we fix it? Well, you can’t. You see the direction of the wedge is dictated by the same value as the direction of the wood grain so to change one you have to change both. So, how does one fix it? One way is to hide the back and hope I don’t somehow manipulate the camera behind it. Another way is to make every wedge into a union and rotate change the direction of the union, but making every wedge a union may displease a certain chicken man. The third option, and the one I chose, is to make a wedge part and upload it in a way so that the wood grain is correct.

“But WoodReviewer, how.”

Oh calm down, this is the wedgepart part of the Advent Calendar. I mean, technically this is the part shapes part, but for the purpose of wood grain wedgeparts and parts with the wedge shape act the same. Anyway, there is the odd table thing built with both tall wedges and long wedges.

Here is a closer look at both wedges, some acting as the bottom support for the tabletop and others acting as the slopped bottom for the tabletop.

And more importantly, here are both wedges pulled out with proper wood grain along their backs.

So that is all for today. Tomorrow my look at part shapes will continue, and come back some time later and I will explain how to change wood grain orientation of mesh parts in a dedicated post.