Geometry Dash's glitched object, explained

Object 3800 in Geometry Dash appears to be a small square with a glitched texture. But how did this happen, and why?

[Xanderanium]

wulzy on his way to make a level with only that object:

[EduardoFerreiraRandomAutist]

the fact you went out of your way to replicate to edit and crop together the sprite sheets to make an exact replica of the glitched square particle sprite because you wanted to just shows your big love for coding, yet another point of why everyone in here wants to have the exact same amount of dedication as you have. and also we love you GD re- *cough* i mean cologne

[xevolutionx]

Don‘t wanna yap to much, but i just wanna say we all love ur content and i could listen to your voice for years.
And the fact the object changes depending on your quality settings is so logic that it‘s kinda funny.

[diquoks]

The first rule of programmers and Rob: if it works, don't touch it

[RenRenNumberTen]

And the Lord RobTop commanded the player, saying, “Of every particle of the editor thou mayest freely utilize: But of the particle of the square, thou shalt not make use of it: for in the day that thou employest thereof thou shalt surely die.”

[quijequije]

Gotta love how Rob leaves some ids with nothing and doesn't even replace them 💀

[imfrostii_-]

it even shows as a square particle if you take the glitched object and put it in the custom object section

[ThatOneCoolDoge]

I did some experimenting and found out that if you add it as a custom object you get a square

[EI-zo]

By the way if you add the object to your saved objects the image for it shows up as a normal square. Meaning the image for the object is correct

[MorseLevv]

Changing on your quality settings is so cool and i wish creators would take advantage of it

[TheRealTreener]

Square is love, Square is life. Also very cool short, explains the object in an efficient and accurate way.

[panthererousse]

hell yeah finally this object gets mentionned

[nullkid]

Interesting! I always love to see test objects left in by devs. Thanks Colon

[MinimumDashers]

can't wait for it to be used in a level

[Dummigame]

Cologne is a 2, 000-year-old city on the Rhine in western Germany and the cultural center of its region. The city's landmark is the Gothic cathedral with its two towers. It stands in the rebuilt Old Town and is famous for its Shrine of the Epiphany and the view over the Rhine. The nearby Museum Ludwig exhibits 20th century art, including many works by Pablo Picasso. The Roman-Germanic Museum houses objects from Roman times.

[boyvikingYT]

I've had this in my custom objects tab for a while and I didn't have a clue as to what it was or where it came from. Thank you for explaining this

[TacocatYT]

The "glitched object" is in fact the object known as square.png in the game files.
It is the particle that is in the portal, pads and orbs. It is also in the particel trigger since its a particel!

[Henry-bo]

Using that block in a actual level would give spu7nix a seizure bro💀

[ZazuEnthusiast]

I love these types of things. Code will never do anything you don’t tell it to do. So bugs in your code will always have a reason that makes sense as to why it happens

[robgames]

I always wondered where the square was, thanks !