Applying polished assets is the last step in building your final environment, in which you swap out your greybox placeholder assets for high-quality polished assets in order to meet your game's aesthetic goals and design requirements. This exciting section of the curriculum is where you see your world come to life into a cohesive environment that is complete and ready for publication.
Using the Island Jump - Final file as a reference, this section of the tutorial teaches you how to use the Creator Store to find and add a sample asset library into your project, continue your organization structure to sort your new assets into meaningful categories, and apply the asset library to the 3D space.
This chapter involves a lot of precise positioning and property configuration. Each section includes a Build with Assistant option that places assets using the exact CFrame.Position and Scale values from the tutorial, as well as an Apply your own option if you'd prefer to create your own layout.
Assistant is particularly effective at this kind of repetitive, deterministic setup, making it a useful way to speed up the building process.
Get asset library
The Creator Store is a tab of the Toolbox that you can use to find all assets that are made by Roblox and the Roblox community for use within your projects, including model, image, mesh, audio, plugin, video, and font assets. You can use the Creator Store to add an individual asset or asset library directly into an open game.
Asset libraries are collections of assets you can place into a central location of your game for easy access and reuse. The asset library you will use for your project from the Creator Store includes six 3D assets, two custom MaterialVariant materials, and the final particle effects from Create basic visual effects. The six meshes are as follows:
These assets are either single MeshPart objects or Model objects containing multiple meshes. They use custom materials and physically-based rendering (PBR) textures for realistic shading. For more information, see Materials - Custom Materials and PBR Textures.
To get the asset library from your inventory into your game:
Open the asset library's details page on the Creator Store and click Get Model in the top-right corner. The library is now in your inventory, and you can reuse these assets in any project on the platform.
Back in Studio, click Toolbox in the Home toolbar tab, switch to the Inventory tab, and click the Core Building and Scripting tile. The library appears in the viewport.
A few meshes might look gray instead of textured becasue their materials reference MaterialVariant objects that aren't installed yet. To fix this, drag Moss_Lumpy_A and Moss_Strata_Noisy_A from the asset library into the MaterialService container in the Explorer. The textures snap into place.
Continue organization structure
Before placing assets, extend the folder structure you started in Greybox a playable area:
- In the Explorer, add two new folders inside World and name them Platforms and Mountains.
- Inside Platforms, add a Model for each sea stack level and name them to match your greybox levels. For example, the sample game has 18 individual model containers for every platform in the environment.
Apply asset library
Now place the polished assets over your greybox. Each section gives you three paths: Build with Assistant (which lets Assistant place every asset at the sample's exact coordinates), Apply your own (where you place assets to fit your own custom layout), and Recreate the sample (where you place them by hand at the exact coordinates of the sample).
The screenshots make the placeholder assets semi-transparent so you can see your progress between steps.
Platforms
The library includes two platform Model objects (each made of two MeshPart children):
- PlatformA — Includes a metallic circular base, used for the first and final platforms.
- PlatformB — Includes basic terrain cap, used for the in-between platforms.
Place all platforms
Sea stacks
The sample asset library includes two types of sea stack rock formations you can stack in creative ways to form the pillars of your sea stack platforms:
- SeaStackMesh – Includes a solid rock formation.
- SeaStackCaveMesh – Includes a tunnel and solid top.
Both platform types are MeshPart objects.
Place all sea stacks
Coins
The sample asset library includes a single Coin asset, which is a MeshPart with a child SurfaceAppearance that gives it a shiny metallic finish. Place one wherever you added a placeholder coin, then adjust its position and orientation as needed.
Place all coins
Mountains
The asset library's single MountainMesh decorates the background, hides the edge of your water terrain, and encloses your playable area. Rotating and scaling each instance breaks up the repetition so players don't notice you're using the same mesh over and over.
Place all mountains
Playtest
Polished assets can change the shape of a sea stack just enough to affect a jump that worked in the greybox version of the level. Take one final pass through the game to identify and fix any issues before publishing.
Select Test from the dropdown and click Play. Climb to the flare at the top of the stacks; if a jump suddenly feels off, nudge the offending mesh and try again. Click Stop when you're done.
Congratulations on completing the Core Curriculum! From here you can extend your project with new gameplay features or levels, browse Studio's full feature set, or move on to another curriculum like Environmental art. Happy creating!