Hello there wooden plank lovers of Roblox, WoodReviewer here with day 5 of my 2024 Advent Calendar. Today’s gift is a bit simple as it is a set up for a better gift tomorrow, so I apologize for the short post today. So, what is today’s gift that will set up something for tomorrow?
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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?
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Hello there chair lovers of Roblox, WoodReviewer here here with day 3 of my 2024 Advent Calendar. If you haven’t guessed by my intro, it is time for one of my favorite days for every calendar I’ve ever done:
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Hello there last-minute update lovers of Roblox, WoodReviewer here with day 2 of my 2024 Advent Calendar. Sorry if this blog post is a bit late, but this blog post was originally going to focus on CSG modeling and how to use proper wood grain with it, but I then discovered 95% of the way through this post that Roblox is working on a new CSG system that completely changes how wood grain orientation is calculated on unions, so I scrapped that post and gift for now. So with that gift gone, today’s gift is much simpler, and should show you the absolute basics of how wood grain works. So, what is it?
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Hello there wooden plank lovers of Roblox, WoodReviewer here with the start of my 2024 Advent Calendar. I know, it is back, and if you are actually here reading this, thank you, I can see the stats and know that more people liked my post about the calendars announcement than actually read the post. This year’s calendar will be a bit different from previous years, as I know people are always wanting me to show them what exactly good wood grain is, the entire focus of the calendar this year will be to show you not just examples of proper wood grain, but descriptions of why it is proper, and to start with that we are going really simple for day 1 this year.
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Do you enjoy gifts in the holiday season? How about useless, virtual tat that you will most likely never actually use but still want because it makes you feel special on the inside? Or do you just want random examples of wood grain from yours truly? If you said yes to any above, I have some good news. Today I am pleased to announce the unveiling of the official WoodReviewer 2024 Advent Calendar.
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Hello there Halloween fashion lovers of Roblox, WoodReviewer here to take a look at Roblox’s most recent event, The Haunt, which should have finished several minutes ago if you have nothing better to do but read my reviews as soon as they are posted. Much like the previous events, this main hub for the event was developed by Twin Atlas, but unlike the pervious events this was was more of a fashion show than badge collection event, with the participating games acting more like a glorified fashion stage than an actual event to complete. This makes my job a little bit harder since I usually review the participating games in events by completing the tasks in a game and reviewing the bad wood grain along the way, but as you don’t need to complete anything in these games there isn’t any reason to visit them. However, I don’t want these games to get off scot free, so I’ve decided on a new way to look at these games: I will have 30 minutes to play them in anyway I want, but if I find any bad wood grain in a game I can stop playing it immediately.
Much like previous events, if I am unable to find bad wood grain before I finish the 30 minutes, that does not mean the game has no bad wood grain, it just means the game was able to hide it from me and it gets a pass for this review.
Oh, and just for some fun, I decided to include how long it took me to find any bad wood grain, and trust me, some of these times are really funny. And with all of that out of the way, let’s get ready for some really scary wood grain.
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Hello there Care Bears lovers of Roblox, WoodReviewer here for my first look at Care Bears: Caring Quest by Care Bears x Exclusible, which totally isn’t a holding group because they didn’t want it to be hosted by the Shovelware Studios and as a result have a laughing banana shoveling a pile of poop as a group logo. Anyway, this is part one of my review because the game isn’t done yet and has no time table for when it will be done so I’m not going to sit on this review for months. But until then, we have part 1. So, how is the game so far?
Hello there game lovers of Roblox, WoodReviewer here, and if you are reading this then that means Roblox’s latest event, The Games by Twin Atlas, is probably over. Or maybe it got extended, but I’m not changing what time this post goes up so if it is still going on than that is great.
“But WoodReviewer, what was the event?”
Good question. The Games was a Roblox event that focused around sports game in a non-copyright infringing way where by completing events you were given points to get hats, and you could also join teams for the event and help your team be number one and win a prize. Or join the Foot team because feet. Anyway, there were 50 games in this event, and like The Hunt and The Classic I took a quick look at each and every one of them to look for bad wood grain.
There is one small caveat though. Usually when I review games I review a majority of the game to ensure the game has no bad wood grain. For The Games, there were 50 games to review over a 10 day period, so instead of reviewing the entire game, I just took a look at enough of the game to complete any of the tasks for the event. If I don’t find any bad wood grain in that time, you get a pass. But if I do find bad wood grain, well, that is a fail. Now I’m sure some of you think this is a bit generous but don’t worry, I found enough in my quick look of the games in The Games.
So, let’s start this, shall we?
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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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