How to Make an Office Building

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Overview

This basic tutorial shows people the fastest way to make a model in Roblox Studio. I'm going to make an office building in this tutorial, but the technique shown here can be used to make any type of model.

The trick to building models very quickly in Roblox Studio is to exploit the symmetry in what you are trying to build in order to avoid placing every brick in your model manually. The idea is to build one repeatable element by hand, then copy and paste it many times to create a large structure.

Keyboard Shortcuts make building big things like this really fast. Rather than have to right click and go through menus, you can just press two keys to copy, and two more to paste. Expert model builders uses these and other shortcuts all the time, it makes building really fast.

Building the building

1. Find a nice empty space to build and insert a single brick into your level. Use the Insert Menu.

   

2. Deciding what the repeatable element should look like is the trick. You have to imagine what the element will look like when it is copied and placed next to itself. In this tutorial, I have done the thinking for you, so make this L-shaped window pane. The exact size does not matter. Create the glass by clicking the brick, then going through the settings until you find "Transparency". Change that to 0.4 or experiment to find the right one for you.
3. Using the Arrow Tool to select the repeatable element. The best way to do this is to click with the arrow and drag a rectangle over all the parts. You should see them selected like in the picture.

   

4. Copy the selected elements by pressing on your keyboard CTRL and C at the same time. That copies the parts. Then press CTRL and V, that pastes the parts. Move the parts next to the original ones, just like in the picture (you can move a selected group of elements using either the Arrow Tool or the Axis Tool). If they become unselected, don't worry, just select them again.

   

5. Instead of making your building one window at a time, we are going to think big. Select both windows, using the same drag to select method you used in the previous step. Now use the same keyboard shortcut, CTRL and C at the same time to copy, and CTLR and V at the same time to paste. Line them up so you have them all in a row.
6. Do this until you are satisfied with the size of your wall.

   

7. Now copy your entire wall. Select it, then use the keyboard Copy shortcut. Paste it, then move your new wall on top of your old wall. Make it go up a few times.
8. The wall is looking pretty cool! Decide when your wall is tall enough. You only have one wall, but believe it or not you are almost done.

   

9. One wall on an office building looks just like any other. So rather than building 4 walls, we are just going to copy. Select you entire wall. Copy it. Now drag the new wall over next to the old one, and while dragging, press R to rotate it. Place the wall like in the picture.
10. Now do the same process again twice. If you are clever, you will see a way to get from the previous screenshot to this one.

    

11. You are almost done, but we need at least two more things: a roof and a door. I did something simple for both. Make a roof but putting a big brick over the top of the building. Make a door by deleting some of your windows. There are other details you could add to this building. Put some furniture or stairs inside. Add a flag to the top. Add a floor. Put some trees around it. Expert builders know that attention to detail makes a good model great.