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Bevels

Blackrock Castle in Crossroads displayed with bevels.

Bevels are a partially discontinued graphical Roblox feature, which rendered smooth, 45-degree edges on meshless Part light iconPart dark iconParts. They were a prominent graphical element, contributing to the Roblox aesthetic over a period of five years.

Bevels were introduced to the Roblox client on October 30, 2007. Similar to many of Roblox's graphical elements at the time, they were automatically enabled or disabled by default depending on the user's graphics card—however, they could be manually set in the Studio settings, in addition to optional antialiasing.[1]

Deprecation[]

In early 2013, Roblox began undergoing a gradual shift towards a more modern visual aesthetic. As a result, part bevels were removed on April 4, 2013[2], ultimately being replaced by outlines (which would later be deprecated as well). In a Roblox Blog post by Gemlocker, the following reasons were stated:

We’ve turned off bevels–they hurt performance and don’t fit our vision for the future look of ROBLOX–and shipped new rendering code that improves performance, particularly in the context of rendering static environments on slow and/or dated hardware.

The now abstract (removed) instance Bevel Mesh (BevelMesh) instance existed, which was a mesh instance that served to bevel parts, similar to how they were prior to bevel removal.

Bevels on characters[]

Bevels were historically responsible for the same rounded edges as seen on the R6 Roblox character, with no distinction being made from the character limbs and other parts in the world. However, after they were disabled on Parts, code was retained for the limbs in order to preserve the existing character style—as such, they continue to have a limited presence on Roblox, and may not be considered entirely deprecated.

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References[]

  1. Shedletsky, John (2007, October 30). "Getting Better All the Time". From Roblox Blog. Accessed March 23, 2022. Archived from the original on March 8, 2013.
  2. Kozlov, Simon (2013, April 4). "Bye Bye Bevels: The First Step Toward Our New Look". From Roblox Blog. Accessed October 10, 2022. Archived from the original on April 7, 2013.
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