Roblox Studio

ROBLOX Studio is a program that allows users to edit their places with a full suite of tools (superior to the Play Solo gear,) and allows them to be saved to the players local machine, rather than just ROBLOX's server.

Usage
ROBLOX would not be what it is today without the ROBLOX Studio. Users are given much more power of Solo mode, with windows such as the Explorer, Error List, Object Browser, and much more. The Studio allows for on-the-spot place testing, not only in Solo Mode, but also in a Server-Client mode, letting you test events which occur only when a player joins the server. Also in ROBLOX Studio you can Edit your places!

With the click of an edit button you can have whatever you want on your place. All you need to do is search what you would like click and drag it and you get it in your place

Tools http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100509162855/roblox/images/f/f3/Buttons.png These buttons do different things. The new button starts a new place. You can add parts to it. The open button opens up a previously saved place, so that you could edit, test, fix, or do anything to it. The save button saves your place, you can use the open button to open it.

Cut, Copy, Paste The cut, copy, and paste button are used commonly in numerous ammounts of programs, such as Wordpad. They do the exact same thing. Copy will create a duplicate of what you have selected. Paste will put it in your place. The cut, cuts what you had selected, and moves it to the clipboard.

Undo, Redo These also are found in other programs. The undo button reverses anything except changing the position of a brick (unless you move the brick with Properties.) The redo button basically does the opposite of an undo. It will make the undo "undo." This means that it will defy the undo.

Group, Ungroup Grouping is to make two or more bricks one part. This creates a model, models can be in models. Ungroup will break up the model into more models, or tons of bricks. Ungrouping huge models could trigger large amounts of lag.

Rotate, Tilt, Move Up, Move Down Rotate and tilt means to make the brick face a different way. This can be done by moving the brick. Rotate and tilt will appear. Move up means to move the brick one stud up. Move down is the opposite. The Grouping tool can only be used for people who have any types of BC.

Play, Pause, Reset Play means to see your place in action. It could be a nuke game, seeing if everything and everyone is destroyed in its path, for example, pause is to stop the place and, reset is to go back to before you first played.

Drag, Move on Axis, Resize The drag tool moves a single brick, several bricks, models, or several models. Drag on axis is moving it from the center. There will be up, down, left, right, back, and front. Resize is to change a brick's size.

Move Parts
It is the same as the move tool except you can move it 1/5 of a stud. (with the magnet 1/5 selected as well)

Rotate Parts
A new way to c-frame except a little different. pull the arrows to make it go a certain direction.

Resize
Resize a brick with a grid 1/5 (if the magnet 1/5 is selected) by pulling it.

Magnets/Graphs when selected, you can use one of the three new toolbar options to ether pull somthing on a graph 1 stud, pull it 1/5 of a stud, or not pull it on a graph.

Place Testing
Whether you have no scripts, or your entire place is scripted, you will want to test it within in the Studio. So many things can go wrong, and you don't want your place to look bad once it gets popular. Roblox Studio offers two different modes for testing, 1: Solo mode, 2: Server-Client mode. Here is a breakdown of each:

Solo Testing Mode
Solo Testing mode starts your currently-edited place as if you joined it in Solo mode. Note that most leaderboard scripts (or any script that requires the OnJoined or OnJoining event) will not work, or will break, since that function is not called. (Most likely a bug.)

Server-Client Mode
The Server-Client mode is the best, but slowest way to test your map. It will catch most, if not all Lua errors. Make sure the Error window is opened in the Server window once you start it, then restart the server. After you have started the server, you may then start a client. You may start as many clients as your computer or place can handle.

Publishing
Once you are done editing and testing your place, will you want to upload it to ROBLOX so other users can play it. Go to File -> Publish place to ROBLOX, then follow the steps to get it published. Depending on the size of your place, it may take about 15 - 30 seconds for it to get published. Once it says it's done, allow another minute for ROBLOX to generate the place icon. All set!