worn night Aug 8, 2023, 5:16 AM

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@sour nimbus your kingdom has returned

sour nimbus Aug 8, 2023, 5:18 AM

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worn night <@702734522201931796> your kingdom has returned

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sour nimbus Aug 8, 2023, 8:58 AM

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RobloxStudio | Recordings in Change History Service

Roblox is introducing an evolution of the ChangeHistoryService API, which will make undo handling in Studio more robust and open up additional undo-related capabilities.

Previously you would call ChangeHistoryService:SetWaypoint after making changes to the DataModel.

Now you:

green_dot Call ChangeHistoryService:TryBeginRecording before making changes to find out whether your plugin is allowed to begin making changes to the DataModel.
Call ChangeHistoryService:FinishRecording after making changes, with parameters controlling what happens to the changes you’ve just made.

Read more: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/recordings-in-change-history-service/2512500 | <@&1138234013006430329>

sour nimbus Aug 9, 2023, 8:21 PM

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RobloxStudio | Creator Homepage: All your Important Updates in one Place!

Roblox has introduced the Homepage on Creator Hub. Today, this page will pull together your most critical assets, key analytical insights, actions to improve your content and learn new skills, as well as updates from the community.

sour nimbus Aug 10, 2023, 8:53 PM

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RobloxStudio | Analytics: Audience Demographics for your Experience

Roblox has launched a new Audience page that lets you break down your experience’s monthly active users (MAU) by country, language, age, and gender. You can use this data to prioritize content updates and get brand sponsors.

To view your Audience page:

Navigate to your Creator Dashboard and select your experience.
Select Audience in the Analytics section.

Read more: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/analytics-audience-demographics-for-your-experience/2519182 | <@&1138234013006430329>

sour nimbus Aug 11, 2023, 5:31 AM

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RobloxStudio | Rig Visualization in 3D Importer

Roblox has announced the latest QoL improvement to the 3D importer: Rig Visualization in the import preview. This visualization creates a skeleton highlighting attachments and their relationships to each other in the importer’s 3D preview, helping you ensure that your rigs are properly interpreted before committing to an upload.

Read more: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/rig-visualization-in-3d-importer/2519873 | <@&1138234013006430329>

sour nimbus Aug 16, 2023, 8:51 PM

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RobloxStudio | UGC Program: Expanding Creation and Monetization with Avatar Bodies and Heads

Roblox has announced that by tomorrow, UGC Program members will be able to create and sell full avatar bodies and standalone heads.

RobloxStudio | Sunsetting the Legacy Computational Solid Geometry (CSG) Engine

Roblox has announced that due to a potential third party security vulnerability, the legacy Computational Solid Geometry (CSG) system will be sunset from Studio on September 18, 2023.

sour nimbus Aug 17, 2023, 8:57 PM

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RobloxStudio | RDC 2023: Submit Your Question to Builderman!

RDC 2023 is right around the corner, and as usual, some of your most interesting questions will be asked to Builderman. The form can be found through the DevForum announcement link below and will be closed on August 25th, 2023 at 12 AM PST / 3 PM EST.

Read more: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/rdc-2023-submit-your-question-to-builderman/2533252 | <@&1138234013006430329>

sour nimbus Aug 18, 2023, 7:56 AM

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RobloxStudio | Updating Creator Roadmap - 3 Months Later

Roblox has announced progression regarding their Creator Roadmap which was launched in May, 2023. A large update to the Creator Roadmap right after RDC is planned to share Roblox's revised roadmap featuring many of their RDC announcements.

Read more: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/updating-creator-roadmap-3-months-later/2533769 | <@&1138234013006430329>

sour nimbus Aug 22, 2023, 5:41 AM

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RobloxStudio | 3D Import Recap [Jun-Jul 2023]: Saved Settings, In-Workspace Preview, and More

The June -July 2023 recap for the 3D Importer has arrived. Since the first update in June, Roblox has had several announcements, exciting features, and important news they’d like to share.

New Features:

green_dot Saved Settings from Last Import.
Insert Context Model.
Gltf Avatar and Animation Support (In Beta).

sour nimbus Aug 23, 2023, 8:58 PM

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RobloxStudio | Reference Roblox Integration for Blender

Roblox has created an open-source reference Roblox integration for Blender.

With this add-on, you can:

green_dot Upload 3D Models to Roblox, without leaving Blender. This includes rigged models, and Roblox will be adding animation support soon.
Iterate on these models in Blender, and see your updates translate to Roblox near instantaneously thanks to Package Auto Update 63. Be sure to enable this!
Work on large scenes made up of multiple models, and upload them all simultaneously.

Read more: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/reference-roblox-integration-for-blender/2546753 | <@&1138234013006430329>

sour nimbus Aug 24, 2023, 5:43 AM

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RobloxStudio | TextChatService now Supports Autocomplete for Emojis and Commands

Roblox has announced that TextChatService now supports Emoji and Command Autocomplete on Desktop.

sour nimbus Aug 26, 2023, 2:53 AM

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RobloxStudio | Camera & Navigation Improvements [Beta]

Roblox has announced a suite of Camera and Navigation improvements as a Studio beta. These changes to the Viewport Camera make it quick and frictionless to navigate around your workspace and focus/edit objects. These features have been released as a Studio beta feature under the name New Studio Camera Controls.

RobloxStudio | R6 to R15 Adapter [Beta]: Enable R15 Tech in R6 Experiences

Roblox has announced the Studio beta release of the R6 to R15 Adapter, a product for developers who build R6 experiences. This is the first step towards their goal of unifying their avatar systems so that all developers can create avatars in any style they choose and still access advanced avatar features, such as animating your avatar.

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RobloxStudio | Protecting Creativity by Understanding Intellectual Property

Roblox has posted an article regarding Intellectual Property (IP) and how to protect your IP as well as the rights of others.

RobloxStudio | Upcoming Changes to Fields in CatalogAPI

Roblox will no longer be returning genres and purchase count in the MultigetItemDetailsRequestModel (basically anywhere you are expecting item details). There is currently no way for users to search by genres, and Roblox will be replacing it with something else even better. More details on that to come.

Today purchase count can only be returned for users who happen to be creators of those items or members of a group who created that item and also happen to have the right permissions. You can continue to get purchaseCount information from the MarketplaceService.GetProductInfo method in the engine API (Swagger UI).

RobloxStudio | Malicious Packages Targeting Roblox API Users

Roblox has identified more than a dozen malicious packages targeting Roblox API users on the Github npm repository. These malicious packages reproduce code from the legitimate noblox.js package but add malicious code. This was identified on August 22, 2023 but it is believed to have begun early August.

Read more: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/malicious-packages-targeting-roblox-api-users/2559934 | <@&1138234013006430329>

sour nimbus Aug 28, 2023, 8:59 PM

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RobloxStudio | Studio Beta for Experience Controls Available Now

Roblox has announced the Studio beta release of updated experience controls and the Roblox menu.

The Studio beta includes early access to a new API that gives you the power to adapt your experience UI as you see fit, ensuring optimal spacing with the new controls. For this beta period, the new UI will only be visible in Roblox Studio - there will be no user-facing changes.

Read more: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/studio-beta-for-experience-controls-available-now/2567355 | <@&1138234013006430329>

sour nimbus Aug 29, 2023, 9:05 PM

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RobloxStudio | Introducing Aerodynamic Forces [Beta]

Roblox has announced that Aerodynamics is now available in Studio Beta! This new fundamental system is integrated into the Roblox physics engine. You can now bring realistic aerodynamic forces like lift and drag into your creations.

RobloxStudio | Open Sourcing Creator Docs

Roblox has announced that the documentation at create.roblox.com is now open source on GitHub. Starting today, you can submit GitHub pull requests to tweak confusing wordings, correct inaccuracies, fix typos, or even add whole new pages. Permissive licensing means you can incorporate writing and code samples into your own projects.

Read more: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/open-sourcing-creator-docs/2569346 | <@&1138234013006430329>

sour nimbus Aug 30, 2023, 5:33 AM

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RobloxStudio | Monetization Foundations [Playbook]

Roblox has shared their new Monetization Foundations playbook. A one-stop shop for learning about:

green_dot In-experience items
The shop
Merchandising
Starter packs
Season passes

And more!

Read more: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/monetization-foundations-playbook/2569495 | <@&1138234013006430329>

sour nimbus Aug 30, 2023, 9:04 PM

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RobloxStudio | Update on Verified Badges

Starting today, Roblox is expanding the eligibility criteria for how the verified badge is issued. Some of the notable changes to the eligibility criteria include:

green_dot Brands must have 100K+ followers on a major social media platform.
Experiences must have 1M+ hours of playtime in the last 90 days.
Creators of avatar items must generate 2M+ Robux in revenue in the last 90 days with at least 200K items sold.

Read more: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/update-on-verified-badges/2571089 | <@&1138234013006430329>

sour nimbus Aug 31, 2023, 8:58 PM

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RobloxStudio | Luau Native Code Generation Preview [Studio Beta]

Roblox has been been working on native code generation support for Luau. Today, they shared an early technical preview, available in Studio on Windows via the beta feature “Luau Native Code”.

Read more: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/luau-native-code-generation-preview-studio-beta/2572587 | <@&1138234013006430329>

sour nimbus Sep 1, 2023, 11:35 PM

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RobloxStudio | Announcing New Error Reporting and Cache Opt-Out for Data Stores

Roblox has announce that you can now view Data Store error messages in real-time on the Error Report Dashboard to debug issues. Additionally, you can opt-out of using the cache in GetAsync to fetch the latest data immediately.

RobloxStudio | New SurfaceGui.MaxDistance property

Roblox has enabled a new property on SurfaceGui, MaxDistance, which lets you limit the distance that SurfaceGuis will render at. Before, SurfaceGuis would always render no matter how far away they were.

Read more: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/new-surfaceguimaxdistance-property/2574715 | <@&1138234013006430329>

sour nimbus Sep 5, 2023, 8:38 PM

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RobloxStudio | CFP & Roblox Research Panel: What You Need to Know

Roblox has created an announcement regarding their Roblox Research Panel and how it's used.

RobloxStudio | Sort by relevance and post age-restricted jobs on Talent Hub

Roblox has implemented two new features for the Talent Hub. These being:

green_dot Relevancy sorts. By default, all search results for Jobs and Creators are now ordered by relevance
Age-restricted Job Posts. Roblox has now added the option to mark your Job as 18+. By doing this, you can rest assured every applicant is age-verified by Roblox as 18 or older.

sour nimbus Sep 7, 2023, 8:45 PM

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RobloxStudio | 3D Importer - glTF file support [Full release]

Roblox has announced the full release of glTF support for the 3D mesh Importer. The 3D importer supports glTF files containing 3D meshes, textures, rigged models, skinning, and animations. glTF support has been in beta for the last few months, and Roblox has been at work addressing stability issues, and adding new features.

Read more: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/3d-importer-gltf-file-support-full-release/2584034 | <@&1138234013006430329>

sour nimbus Sep 8, 2023, 11:20 PM

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RobloxStudio | What Roblox announced at RDC 2023

Roblox has created an article regarding everything that was announced at the Roblox Developer Conference (RDC).

Read more: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/what-we-announced-at-rdc-2023/2585405 | <@&1138234013006430329>

worn night Sep 22, 2023, 1:36 AM

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Controversial Marketplace Policy Update

 Due to recent heat, ROBLOX has paused the new policy change and assured users that nobody will be "subject to moderation". This major announcement showcases the outage expressed by the community and investors, which they followed u by saying "We will thoroughly consider all your use cases and feedback, and refine the policy as appropriate while respecting creators’ rights".

This led to continuing outrage from the community and investors as they emphasized that the policy is still planned to be pushed through but they're just figuring out a more efficient policy and giving creators a grace period to meet requirements.

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pastel pier Sep 30, 2023, 11:55 AM

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RobloxStudio | Releasing Character Physics Controllers

Yesterday Roblox released a new set of instances which are designed to make it easier to customize character physics and locomotion. These Controller instances give you more flexibility over the physics of a character than the Humanoid did, while ensuring the Parts in your character follow the same physics laws that every other Part does.

Within this update Roblox has also provided the ability to disable the internal physics and state machine of the Humanoid, so you can implement your own version of them, using these new physics controller instances and your own scripts.

Read more: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/releasing-character-physics-controllers/2623426 | <@&1138234013006430329>

pastel pier Oct 2, 2023, 7:30 PM

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RobloxStudio | Important Script Source Update and New ScriptEditorService APIs

Today, Roblox has an important update regarding the use of the source property of scripts. They are working towards adding more advanced script editor features and extending our support for third-party tools. It is highly recommend you use the two new API's they have now added which can be found in the post to help with further development due to limits with the old system.

As of today, the Source property is:

green_dot Replicated, persisted, and executed source code of the script.
The content of the script editor that is shown to users and edited in the UI.

pastel pier Oct 4, 2023, 10:53 PM

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RobloxStudio ** | Video uploads [Beta]: Add short-form video to your experience**

Today, Roblox announced the beta release of short-form video uploads, accessible to ID-verified developers that are 13+. Now, you can make your experiences more engaging by adding videos up to 30 seconds long. Use it for cutscenes, background decor, or tutorials to take immersion to a deeper level.

Here’s how to get started with video:

green_dot Your account must be 13+ and ID-verified
Enable the “Video Uploads” beta feature 64 in Roblox Studio
Your videos must be 30 seconds or less
You can upload 3 videos every 30 days (refreshes 30 days after your first upload)
Each video upload requires 2000 Robux

pastel pier Oct 6, 2023, 7:59 PM

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RobloxStudio | Users will only be able to paginate through first 500 of their most recently favourited items

Roblox has unfortunately run into a situation where they have to make some trade-offs. Starting at the end of October 2023, Roblox will be removing support for our public APIs to paginate past the top 500 of the most recent favourite items for a user.

API's Effected:

green_dot GET catalog.roblox.com/v1/favorites/user/{userId}/favorites/{subTypeId}/bundles 31
The user’s favorites page 28 on Roblox website. (this also includes a user’s personal favorite games).

pastel pier Oct 6, 2023, 8:18 PM

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RobloxStudio ** | Immersive Ads Publisher Learnings and Insights**

Earlier this year, Roblox launched immersive ads 10 as a new way for publishers to monetize their experiences and for advertisers to reach their audience on Roblox. Over the past few months, Roblox ran experiments to understand the impact of Immersive Ads. In the spirit of transparency, they are now sharing some learning, insights, and product updates that may be useful for developers considering adopting immersive ads in their experiences.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/immersive-ads-publisher-learnings-and-insights/2634804 | <@&1138234013006430329>

pastel pier Oct 10, 2023, 8:26 PM

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RobloxStudio | Live Scripting Beta

Today Roblox is introducing Live Scripting beta! This has been a long time coming and they are super excited to finally share it with you all! Collaboration results in more sophisticated Roblox experiences and the goal has always been to make it as easy as possible. Live Scripting is a big step in this direction enabling you to code together in real-time.

Live Scripting automatically saves your scripts every 5 minutes and upon closing (similar to Team Create). You can also save your scripts any time by pressing ctrl/cmd + s. These saved versions will be accessible in the Script Version History.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/live-scripting-beta/2640607 | <@&1138234013006430329>

pastel pier Oct 11, 2023, 2:35 PM

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RobloxStudio | Roblox available now on PlayStation

Roblox is excited to announce that Roblox is now available on PlayStation! They will also start rolling out our Roblox app update for supported Xbox devices on October 12th.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/roblox-available-now-on-playstation/2641044 | <@&1138234013006430329>

pastel pier Oct 13, 2023, 10:23 AM

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RobloxStudio | Automatic Text Capture 2.0

Roblox is excited to announce that they are launching a new and improved version of Automatic Text Capture (ATC) to localize your experiences. Over the course of the next few days, we will be slowly rolling out this new version of ATC. While ATC is useful in speeding up the translation process, we know that it sometimes produces inconsistent results, so we wanted to improve it.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/automatic-text-capture-20/2643775 | <@&1138234013006430329>

pastel pier Oct 18, 2023, 11:23 PM

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RobloxStudio | Email notifications for Team Create invites

Roblox is excited to announce email notifications for Team Create users that inform you when your access permissions for an experience change. Your collaborators can now immediately see invites to edit in Team Create or to playtest your experience!

RobloxStudio | Quality of Life improvements in Studio Scripting

Roblox is excited to announce several new improvements for Scripting in Studio. These improvements shipped over the past two months, with more on the way!

New Improvements:

green_dot Rename Document Symbols
Ability to turn off Language Features for Scripts of Extreme Size
Go To Declaration for Built-ins
Debugger Run To Cursor / Temporary Breakpoints
Debugger Selected Expression Evaluation
New Exception Notification UI

RobloxStudio | Bring real world creation to your experience with Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) improvements [Studio Beta]

Constructive solid geometry (CSG) is a foundational system in Roblox and is central to our long term vision for Geometry on the platform. Today Roblox is to announce a whole slate of new additions to the in-experience CSG engine that opens up a new range of possibilities for your experiences while supercharging existing ones.

pastel pier Oct 20, 2023, 2:29 PM

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RobloxStudio | Creator Documentation: Subscription Design

Our team is excited to share our new Subscription Design article 82 where you can learn about some key design concepts, best practices, and use cases for subscriptions, including:

green_dot Earning and maintaining user trust
Providing clear value
Designing engaging subscriptions content
Bundles, Memberships, Season Passes

Leverage these concepts in ways that fit your unique creative vision and cater to your specific players.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/creator-documentation-subscription-design/2652494 | <@&1138234013006430329>

pastel pier Oct 25, 2023, 1:23 AM

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RobloxStudio | New benefits for adding subscriptions within your experience

Back in September Roblox started allowing developers to add subscriptions within their experiences – creating new ways to earn on Roblox through subscription-based offerings and business models. Roblox now have some exciting news for developers who integrate subscriptions within their Roblox experience before December 15, 2023.

Here are the new benefits for incorporating subscriptions before December 15, 2023:

green_dot The platform fee will be reduced to 15% on subscriptions (usually 30%) for developers who create active subscriptions by December 15, 2023. This discounted fee will last through March 15, 2024.
Your experience may be spotlighted on our Discover 60 page in a dedicated subscription section for a limited time, potentially increasing awareness and driving users to your experience.
green_dot You may also have the opportunity to be reposted on our marketing channels if you post images or videos of your subscriptions and tag @Roblox on Twitter

pastel pier Oct 29, 2023, 9:48 PM

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RobloxStudio | Guilded community integration

As made clear by what Roblox said at RDC 2023, cheating and exploiting are not welcome on there platform, and they are using every measure within there power to combat it. To take another step towards this goal, Roblox are pleased and excited to share that they have entered into a close partnership with Synapse Softworks LLC.

RobloxStudio | Guilded community integration

Three days ago Roblox has introduced the ability for users to join a Guilded community from your experience details page. This feature is opt-in for creators with additional details in the post on how to enable it.

RobloxStudio | Sponsored Experiences moving to Ads Manager

As Roblox shared in the “Ads Roadmap and Upcoming Changes” post earlier this week, they are building toward an Ad system that is objective-based, drives advertiser value, and respects the user experience. Roblox are excited to announce that Sponsored Experiences will move to Ads Manager on November 8th. Starting today, you can begin creating Sponsored Experiences campaigns using Ads Manager with a start date of November 8.

Rea More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/sponsored-experiences-moving-to-ads-manager/2661756

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RobloxStudio | Dragger QoL Improvements [Beta]

Today Roblox bring you a beta feature adding many long awaited dragger quality of life improvements. View below for a few of the features;

green_dot Improved hotkeys
Soft snapping to edges
Grid snapping guides
Distance measurements
black_dot And Much More

RobloxStudio | UGC Program: Updates to avatar bodies and heads + opening up creation

Roblox launched the ability for creators in there UGC Program to create avatar bodies and heads in August. This included the option to create avatar bodies and heads without an upload fee, no price floor, and the ability to sell them for free. Starting today, no new bodies and heads can be sold for free and avatar bodies and heads, like all other 3D asset types, will have a price floor.

pastel pier Oct 31, 2023, 1:38 AM

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RobloxStudio | Introducing Account Session Protection

Roblox are excited to introduce Account Session Protection, a new feature that will bolster the security of your Roblox accounts. Accounts can fall victim to compromise as a result of the theft of the “ROBLOSECURITY” cookie. Account Session Protection is designed to help prevent cookie theft by associating your account’s cookie to your device. Although it is recommended to have enabled Roblox have created a way to opt out of this feature also for developers who use cookies for applications.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/introducing-account-session-protection/2668306 | <@&1138234013006430329>

pastel pier Nov 3, 2023, 1:16 AM

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RobloxStudio | Analytics Home: View Avatar Item Analytics and Monitor Experiences Across Groups and Your Account

Today Roblox are excited to launch a new Analytics Home that lets you monitor key information for your creations in one place, including:

green_dot Avatar item sales and revenue
Experience insights and stats across all of your groups and your account
To visit Analytics Home, click the link above or tap the new Analytics button in your Creator Hub left nav at the group or account level.

RobloxStudio | A clearer way to navigate Creator Hub

Roblox have been adding a lot of features to Creator Hub for all creators, and as it increases in size and complexity, we want to make sure it is always incredibly easy to navigate. To that aim, we have recently rolled out a refresh of some key menus, with visual upgrades as well as improvements to information architecture!

RobloxStudio ** | Immersive Ads: Video Ad Format**

Earlier this year, Roblox rolled out Immersive Ads as a new monetization opportunity for publishers and a new way for advertisers to reach their audience on Roblox. Today we are testing a new ad format, Video Ads, which we expect will increase developer pay-outs and advertiser value per impression.

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RobloxStudio | Introducing Package Diffs!

Roblox are thrilled to introduce package diffs, a step forward in expanding the diffing capabilities in Studio. From today, this feature is available to all for any package you can access.

With package diffs, you can:

green_dot Compare any two selected package versions
View the 3D visual diff of the final output
View the properties diff for any instance
View the script diff across all scripts
Understand changes to the package hierarchy

RobloxStudio | Introducing MemoryStore SortedMap SortKey [Beta]

Roblox are excited to announce the Sorted Map Data Structure in the MemoryStore Service now supports sorting the items with a special field, in addition to the key! This feature is fully backwards compatible and will not disrupt your existing usage of MemoryStore Sorted Maps.

With this new sort key field, the data in your Sorted Map will be sorted using this optionally supplied sort key. Some details on this parameter:

green_dot The sort key can be up to 128 bytes in size
It can be a string or a number (integer or floating point)

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/introducing-memorystore-sortedmap-sortkey-beta/2673559 | <@&1138234013006430329>

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pastel pier Nov 4, 2023, 1:42 AM

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RobloxStudio ** | Luau Recap: October 2023**

Roblox are still quite busy working on some big type checking updates that they hope to talk about soon, but they have a few equally exciting updates to share in the meantime! View some of these below:

green_dot Floor Division
Native Codegen Preview
Analysis Improvements
Autocomplete Improvements

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/luau-recap-october-2023/2685332 | <@&1138234013006430329>

pastel pier Nov 8, 2023, 1:29 AM

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RobloxStudio | Engine API documentation added to the open-source repository!

Roblox are excited to announce that we recently added the Engine API reference content to the open-source documentation repository! If you’re reading the Engine API documentation today, you should now see an Edit button on each page that takes you to the appropriate YAML file.

RobloxStudio | Aerodynamics Studio Beta Updates

Today Roblox is introducing three highly requested capabilities for our existing Aerodynamics studio beta:

green_dot Aerodynamic forces now include buoyancy!
More control of performance tuning with FluidFidelity
A whole slew of debugging visuals

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/aerodynamics-studio-beta-updates/2691594 | <@&1138234013006430329>

pastel pier Nov 9, 2023, 2:28 AM

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RobloxStudio | Luau Libraries available for use

Two years ago, Roblox released Luau into Open Source 95. Since then, they have had an incredibly collaborative relationship with the community through Luau RFCs 61. Today they have released some libraries for Luau to help developers while using the language.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/luau-libraries-available-for-use/2692468 | <@&1138234013006430329>

pastel pier Nov 9, 2023, 5:33 PM

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RobloxStudio | Exciting Physics Engine Usability Improvements!

The physics team at Roblox have been working tirelessly to enhance the usability of the physics engine and its features. Today, Roblox are excited to give you a sneak peek at the first batch of improvements that are centered around Mover Constraints.

View below some of these new improvements:

green_dot Limit AlignPosition and LinearVelocity Max Forces per Axes
New LookAt Mode for AlignOrientation
Enhanced UI/UX for AlignOrientation

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/exciting-physics-engine-usability-improvements/2693642 | <@&1138234013006430329>

pastel pier Nov 10, 2023, 1:11 AM

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RobloxStudio | New UIListLayout Flex Features [Beta]

Roblox are excited to announce new flex features for UIListLayout, available now in a Studio Beta! Flex allows your UI content to effortlessly fill a dynamically-sized UI container using these new features:

green_dot Multiline wrapping
Growing items to fill empty space / shrinking items if they don’t fit
Distributing empty space between elements
Custom per-item line alignment options

The goal is to make authoring UI across platforms, screen resolutions and aspect ratios much more seamless. Ideally, you should only need to create a single UI that looks amazing everywhere. Flex allows you to accomplish this goal by allowing your content to changed based on screen size.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/new-uilistlayout-flex-features-beta/2694081 | <@&1138234013006430329>

pastel pier Nov 11, 2023, 12:00 AM

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RobloxStudio | Roblox Innovation Awards 2023 Highlights

Roblox is home to one of the world’s most passionate and innovative creator communities. Your commitment to raising the bar and pushing boundaries is an inspiration and has also been the driving force for the platform’s vision. As Roblox couldn’t hold the Roblox Innovation Awards at RDC this year as planned here it is, the 2023 Roblox Innovation Awards. The video below contains the awards (you can also see it in-game in the game on the DevFourm post.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3AD_dk7MgQ

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/roblox-innovation-awards-2023-highlights/2695113 | <@&1138234013006430329>

pastel pier Nov 14, 2023, 4:02 PM

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RobloxStudio | Upgrades to Model Streaming

As Roblox have discussed previously, they are dedicated to keep improving Streaming because we believe it’s the best way to improve join time and reduce client crashes. Today, they are pleased to announce updates to Streaming Enabled that further optimize how models are sent to clients as well as how models can be streamed out when no longer needed.

RobloxStudio | DevEx Processing - Thanksgiving and Winter Holiday 2023

With Thanksgiving and the holiday season right around the corner Roblox want to inform you of some important dates that may impact your DevEx requests.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/devex-processing-thanksgiving-and-winter-holiday-2023/2700365 | <@&1138234013006430329>

pastel pier Nov 15, 2023, 8:02 AM

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RobloxStudio | The future of immersive communication on Roblox

Today Roblox are excited to launch Roblox Connect and calling APIs for creators! They previewed this launch at RDC in September. Connect is an experience on Roblox where users can call friends and have a conversation as their avatars – together in a shared immersive space.

Alongside Connect, Roblox are releasing new APIs:

green_dot SocialService (Call, SelfView)
PlayerView

With these APIs and Connect’s open source code, you will be able to integrate calling capabilities, explore new camera modes, utilize environment assets, and incorporate modules such as the EmoteBar into your experiences, just like Roblox Connect.

| How Names Are Evolving on Roblox

As part of our broader vision of reimagining the way people connect, communicate, and express themselves on Roblox they are excited to share our next step towards fostering rich relationships both in the real world and on our platform. Today, Roblox are sharing two ways to customize names on Roblox. These features are completely optional for users. What was previously referred to as “DisplayName” and “Alias” has been simplified and is now referred to as a “Name”.

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RobloxStudio | 3D Import Recap [Aug-Oct 2023]: Avatar Workflow Improvements and More!

As always, Roblox are excited to share with you about what we’re working on to improve your 3D asset workflows. They will highlight some new features since our their last post, bug fixes, and other news.

New Features:

green_dot Open Avatar Previewer after Import
Improved Lighting in Preview Window
Dynamic Heads in glTF

pastel pier Nov 18, 2023, 3:40 AM

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RobloxStudio | Purchasing In-Experience Limited Items from Resellers

Over the past few months, Roblox have seen creative and exciting use of Limiteds. Previously, purchases of Limiteds within an experience have only been possible for the original quantities of an item. Roblox are excited to announce that starting today, people can now purchase items from resellers within an experience.

RobloxStudio | The beginning of our passwordless journey: passkeys login

We all recognize the pitfalls of passwords: phishing, credential stuffing, social engineering, and data breaches, to name just a few. Plus, who hasn’t struggled to remember their complex password? That’s why Roblox believes in a passwordless future for our community. Roblox are excited to share that our journey towards passwordless begins today with passkeys! Starting today, we are rolling out passkeys to some of our users.

Passkeys are an easier and more secure alternative to passwords. Instead of remembering complicated passwords, you can log in using the same method that you already use to unlock your device, like a numeric PIN or biometrics such as a fingerprint or face scan.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/the-beginning-of-our-passwordless-journey-passkeys-login/2703919 | <@&1138234013006430329>

pastel pier Nov 21, 2023, 12:25 AM

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RobloxStudio | Subscriptions within experiences: Livetopia Implementation

Roblox wanted to give you a reference of how a popular experience on Roblox, Livetopia, successfully integrated subscriptions into their monetization strategy. They hope that sharing how they did it will provide some tips for you to reference when considering your own implementation.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/subscriptions-within-experiences-livetopia-implementation/2710072 | <@&1138234013006430329>

pastel pier Nov 23, 2023, 12:06 AM

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RobloxStudio | Analytics: Sunsetting Developer Stats and Migrating Engagement-Based Payouts Data

Roblox want to remind you that we plan to sunset the Developer stats page on January 10, 2024. To make this transition as smooth as possible, we want to call out three things:

Download your historical visits data for the last 4 years
Engagement-based payout reporting will move to a new page
New per item reporting for developer products, game passes, and avatar item commissions is coming soon

RobloxStudio | Testing shopping experiences in Marketplace

Since allowing creators the ability to create items and sell them either in Marketplace or experiences, Robox have seen exciting growth and interest in shopping experiences that are dedicated to selling avatar items. Starting today in the Roblox Universal App, they will test including shopping experiences in Marketplace to drive more discovery of these experiences and the avatar items they sell.

RobloxStudio | Removing ThumbnailConfigurations During Character Loading

Roblox will release a change to remove ThumbnailConfiguration objects during the character loading process in the coming weeks. Once they have a date, we will be sure to give you a heads-up before officially removing the feature. These instances are used to configure accessories thumbnails and don’t have a use-case at runtime. Removing these instances will reduce the bandwidth needed to replicate an avatar by reducing the number of instances inside avatars.

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RobloxStudio | Empower Luau creation: Public Luau Dataset initiative needs your help

As Roblox announced at RDC 2023, they are building a public Luau dataset for training AI models. Their goal is to ensure that existing and future AI tools understand Luau and Roblox development. AI tools that deeply understand Luau can help you to work more efficiently, thanks to a new wave of integrations, AI assistants, and tools.

RobloxStudio | New Player and Character Destroy Behavior

Today Roblox are adding a new opt-in behavior that automatically destroys Player and Character Instances on the server when the player leaves or respawns.

They will be rolling this feature out in three stages:

Yesterday: PlayerCharacterDestroyBehavior is set to Default, which behaves the same as Disabled, the new behavior is now opt-in.
Early 2024: Default behavior is updated to behave the same as Enabled, the new behavior is now opt-out.
Mid 2024: We will remove the PlayerCharacterDestroyBehavior property and it will no longer be possible to opt out.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/new-player-and-character-destroy-behavior/2711317 | <@&1138234013006430329>

pastel pier Nov 29, 2023, 1:32 AM

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RobloxStudio | Activity History for Experiences in Creator Hub

Roblox have launched a new concept called Activity History in Creator Hub! It is a history log that enables Experience owners to easily review, troubleshoot, and audit key configuration, collaboration, and publish activities for an Experience and its Places. We believe transparency into creation activities gives creators a sense of accountability and control, and empowers teams to communicate and review work more effectively.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/activity-history-for-experiences-in-creator-hub/2723019 | <@&1138234013006430329>

RobloxStudio | Deferred Engine Events: Rollout Update

Earlier this year Roblox announced Deferred Engine Events, a feature which will allow us to improve the performance of the engine and therefore, your experiences. The original goal for 2023 was to change the default (which is to say, the behavior of places with SignalBehavior set to Default) from immediate mode to deferred mode. Roblox has decided to take a slightly more incremental approach and today we’ll be sharing what this means for you.

Updates:

green_dot This afternoon Roblox will be enabling deferred events by default in our template places.
Roblox are are pushing back the date that we change the default SignalBehavior to Deferred until February 2024.

RobloxStudio | Introducing Accessibility Settings

Roblox are excited to announce several new settings for the Roblox app - you can now enable Reduced Motion, set your preferred Background Transparency, and enable or disable the shortcut for Keyboard Navigation.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/introducing-accessibility-settings/2723187 | <@&1138234013006430329>

pastel pier Dec 3, 2023, 1:53 AM

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RobloxStudio | Input Method Editor Support for MacOS

Roblox are excited to announce that we are adding support for Input Method Editor on MacOS, including the support for (but not limited to) the following languages:

green_dot Japanese
Spanish
Simplified Chinese
Korean

RobloxStudio ** | Introducing Assistant in Studio [Beta]**

Today, Roblox are excited to bring Assistant to Studio as a beta feature, following the release of Assistant for Docs in October. In addition to answering documentation questions, the Studio version of Assistant can create and insert scripts in targeted cases, explain highlighted code, and generate new materials. This is just the beginning. Over time, Assistant will take more actions to help you accelerate your creative process.

RobloxStudio | Studio Notification Tray Overhaul [Beta]

Roblox are excited to announce the beta release of our Studio Notification Tray Overhaul. This is their first step in making it easier to receive updates about your creations from inside your workflow. In this beta, you’ll be able to:

green_dot Sample our new Studio Notifications UI
Receive notifications about Developer Forum announcements
Get access to new notification types as soon as they’re released

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RobloxStudio | Introducing in-experience Mesh & Image APIs [Studio Beta]

Roblox are very excited to finally get Mesh and Image APIs in your hands as a Studio beta. This has been a highly requested feature and really opens up what you can allow your users to do in your experiences.

RobloxStudio | New Asset Privacy and Permissions Features for Audio and Video

Roblox are excited to launch new asset privacy and permission features for audio and video assets to make collaborating with friends easier. You can now share your private audio and video assets with your creator friends so they can use the assets in their experiences. View these changes below:

green_dot Sharing with friends in the Asset Permissions Page
Experience Permissions page
Granting access during cross-publishing

RobloxStudio | Introducing Contextual Recommendations in Creator Marketplace

The Creator Marketplace team is excited to launch Contextual Recommendations, a new feature to help you find the assets you need to accelerate development. They shared a sneak peek of this at RDC, and are excited to start rolling out today.

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RobloxStudio | Avatar Setup [Studio Beta]: Updates to Previewing Your Avatar

Today, Roblox are releasing the Avatar Setup (renamed from “Avatar Previewer”) beta feature to everyone. The Avatar Setup tool lets you quickly preview how an avatar looks, animates, wears clothing, and more. Roblox hope you will find it useful for things like creating custom avatars for players or creating NPCs.

RobloxStudio | Introducing Luau buffer type [Beta]

Today, Roblox are releasing a new built-in Luau data type called ‘buffer’ under a Beta feature in Roblox Studio. This will provide a simple and faster way of working with compact binary data. To enable this beta, head over to File, select Beta Features, and check Luau Buffer Type item in the list to opt-in.

RobloxStudio | Introducing UnreliableRemoteEvents

Roblox are excited to announce the release of UnreliableRemoteEvents! This is available immediately and adds a new creatable instance, UnreliableRemoteEvent, that sends the event unreliably and unordered through the network. This is in contrast to RemoteEvents which are sent reliably and ordered.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/introducing-unreliableremoteevents/2724155 | <@&1138234013006430329>

pastel pier Dec 4, 2023, 6:02 PM

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RobloxStudio | Updates to Invites: Joining Friends Just Got Easier

Today, Roblox are releasing improvements to invites, aimed at eliminating the challenge of joining friends. Earlier this year, they revamped Player Invite Prompts 9, and they where thrilled to see that over 8,000 active experiences have already implemented them.

Updates:

green_dot Send invites in one cohesive way
Never miss an invitation
Always join the same server as the person who invites you
Know when you’ve joined your friends successfully
Easily reunite with friends if they are absent.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/updates-to-invites-joining-friends-just-got-easier/2729692 | <@&1138234013006430329>

pastel pier Dec 5, 2023, 2:08 AM

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RobloxStudio | Docking Updates [Studio Beta]

Today Roblox have released a new docking system for your testing and feedback. This release is primarily to resolve the layout corruption issues that some people have experienced over the past several months. In addition to being extremely stable, this new system is meant to be easier to use while supporting your preferred layout. We hope you will agree!

RobloxStudio | Improving Creator Marketplace Search with Spell Correction & Facet Suggestions

The Content Understanding & Creator Marketplace teams joined forces to launch two improvements to search on Creator Marketplace! Spell Correction and Facet Suggestions!

green_dot Spell Correction catches common spelling errors and suggests a correction.

green_dot Facet Suggestions provide suggested terms to help narrow your search or suggest related ideas.

Together, spell corrections and facet suggestions make search more efficient and help you find what you are looking for!

pastel pier Dec 6, 2023, 1:32 AM

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RobloxStudio | Analytics: View Sales and Revenue by Product for Your Developer Products, Passes, and Avatar Item Commissions

Today Roblox are excited to show you a breakdown of your experience’s sales and net revenue by product for:

green_dot Developer products
Passes
Avatar item commissions

They know this has been a long-awaited feature, so we’re really excited to bring it to you before the end of the year!

RobloxStudio | UI Improvements for Camera Controls to Animate your Avatar

To address some UI concerns when a users’ camera is enabled to animate their avatar Roblox have made some changes. It used to be that once enabled the camera button was permanently located above an avatar’s head which used up valuable in-experience space. Starting today for camera enabled experiences, users who are only camera enabled (without voice) will no longer see the camera button above their avatar’s head.

pastel pier Dec 7, 2023, 2:25 AM

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RobloxStudio | Discover outfits in Marketplace [Test]

Roblox whish to make it easy for people to discover what they love in Marketplace by making it easier to shop and complete an outfit. This is why starting today, Roblox will be testing the ability for people to discover outfits (a set of clothing and/or accessories) through search and recommendations.

RobloxStudio | Let there be light… on Creator Hub!

There has been an internal joke for a while now called ‘TTLM’ - time to light mode. It’s the number of comments we get on a Creator Hub announcement thread before someone requests light mode - the number is never very high.

Well, request no more! We heard you loud and clear, and the team’s been working super hard on bringing 💡 light mode 💡 to all of Creator Hub. We’re excited to be rolling this out to everyone, today!

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/let-there-be-light-on-creator-hub/2731806 | <@&1138234013006430329>

pastel pier Dec 8, 2023, 12:13 AM

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RobloxStudio | Announcing Server Prewarming

Today Roblox are announcing a major improvement to how we start new servers: prewarming. Sometimes players need to wait for a new server to start up when trying to join an experience. This feature allows players to join new servers just as quickly as if they were joining an existing server.

RobloxStudio | Important changes for the Animation Clip Editor AnimSaves folder

In January 2024, Roblox will be making changes to how the Animation Clip Editor saves local animations and how published animations are handled to improve experience loading times. The Animation Clip Editor currently saves its animation data under the animated rig in the data model. Unfortunately, those saves can add significant weight to an experience’s size and load time, resulting in a weakened player experience, especially on lower end devices. So, we are making three changes to how the Animation Clip Editor manages local animations in order to improve performance and load time, explained below.

pastel pier Dec 9, 2023, 9:57 PM

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RobloxStudio | Creator Roadmap 2023: End of Year Recap

Before we end the year, Roblox has one last Creator Roadmap update to share to everyone. In this post it contains features which were launched since 2023 RDC, new ideas added to the roadmap and roadmap ideas which have been delayed.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/creator-roadmap-2023-end-of-year-recap/2734136 | <@&1138234013006430329>

pastel pier Jan 17, 2024, 7:31 PM

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RobloxStudio | Updates to the Roblox Terms of Use [January 2024]

On February 15, Roblox will update their Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. The goal of these changes is to be more transparent about the policies and ensure that safety remains the foundation of everything we do on the platform.

The following of the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy will be changing:

GreenDot User Terms
green_dot Creator Terms
Appendix C (EU/European Economic Area and the United Kingdom)

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/updates-to-the-roblox-terms-of-use-january-2024/2795905 | <@&1138234013006430329>

pastel pier Jan 30, 2024, 8:24 AM

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RobloxStudio | Launch of Recommendation Feed on Roblox Web

The team at Roblox are excited to announce the rollout of the Recommendation feed to all users on January 29th! This comes after they experimented with a dynamic feed of recommendations on web. This change not only brings parity to the user experience across mobile, desktop, and web but also sets the stage for new and improved home tiles.

RobloxStudio | [Temporarily disabled] Get/Update Metadata for Open Cloud Asset API

Following up on a previous launch, Roblox are launching an update for the Open Cloud Assets API. This update introduces new APIs that enable you to access and modify Assets metadata. This includes:

GreenDot Getting the asset name, description, creator information, moderation status, asset icon etc.
Updating the asset name, description etc.
Listing all versions of an asset. Get or rollback to a specific version.

RobloxStudio | Updated Verified Badge Criteria for Contributing Developers

Starting today, Roblox will update how followers are counted when assessing if a user who is contributing to a top experience (one with playtime exceeding 1M hours in the last 90 days) has met the criteria to gain the Verified Badge 232. Specifically, we will only include genuine followers and exclude any followers our systems have identified as bots. The threshold for the number of followers required will remain at 10,000.

pastel pier Feb 6, 2024, 2:28 PM

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RobloxStudio | The Big Bug Reporting Update

Roblox has made major improvements to there flows in an effort to improve communication and increase bug resolution speed. You may have noticed some of these additions such as new report subcategories, statuses like Open and Fixed at the top of bug threads, and more responses from staff as we work to address all of your reports.

All of this, and a lot more behind the scenes, means we’re ready to open the report process further to support even more creators!

RobloxStudio ** | In-Experience Text Chat Translations**

To further the mission of connecting billions of people, Roblox are excited to roll out automatic chat translations, enabling users worldwide to seamlessly communicate with one another in real-time, across language barriers.

Starting today, users across the globe can chat with other community members in their preferred language. For example, a user in Japan can type a chat message in Japanese and an English-speaking user will see it in English, while at the same time a Spanish-speaking user will read and respond to the message in Spanish.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/in-experience-text-chat-translations/2823894 | <@&1138234013006430329>

pastel pier Feb 9, 2024, 8:41 AM

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RobloxStudio ** | Introducing Experience Notifications**

Roblox are gearing up to launch Experience Notifications, a new way for 13+ users to keep up with the most important moments in their favourite experiences. Next time their newest pet hatches, their base faces an attack or they need a reminder to complete their weekly challenge, they won’t miss out!

This will be rolling out in various stages:

GreenDot Dev-Facing API Release
Late February: Improved Notifications Opt-In Flow
March: User-Facing Launch

| New Voxel API to work with Shorelines

Roblox have been hard at work solidifying the Shorelines technology and setting up the foundations that will allow us to make voxels more customizable in the future. To address your feedback on Shorelines, they are releasing some exciting updates today:

GreenDot Two brand new APIs to modify Voxel data
Tooling updates to better edit water, especially at the shores

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/new-voxel-api-to-work-with-shorelines/2828798 | <@&1138234013006430329>

pastel pier Feb 16, 2024, 12:17 PM

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RobloxStudio | Enhanced MessagingService Limits

Roblox are thrilled to announce that MessagingService 314 now has significantly higher limits, which gives you more flexibility to build features like global announcements and cross-server messaging exchanges!

RobloxStudio | Open Cloud Engine API for Updating Scripts [Beta]

Roblox are thrilled to announce the beta of Open Cloud Engine API for updating scripts. Previewed at RDC’23, this beta introduces a way to interact with the scripts in your experience outside of the Studio UI. This technology allows you to create integrations with various third party applications. For example, you could use Google Sheets to update items sold in a shop.

RobloxStudio | Changes Roblox Are Making as The Digital Services Act (DSA) Takes Effect

Roblox are sharing an update on key changes users and developers in the European Union (EU) will begin seeing on our platform in response to the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA). These changes generally apply to developers and users located in the EU and do not require any action to be taken.

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RobloxStudio | New Features in ScriptProfiler

Recently the team at Roblox have been working on improving ScriptProfiler. They have made many improvements that are available today, as well as several features coming soon.

Available Now:

GreenDot Display total wall-clock duration of the completed profiling session
Focus on subtree
Higher Sampling Frequency
Functions View
Live Update
Searching
Averaging
Timed Profiling

Coming Soon:

GreenDot Export profiler data

RobloxStudio | Captures APIs are now available!

Today Roblox are launching some new APIs for captures, allowing you to control how the captures feature integrates with your experiences. The Captures APIs will allow you to include pre-set moments within your experience where a screenshot is automatically taken for users. Users will have the option to save, share, or delete the screenshot.

There will also be a new APIs called CaptureService that allows you to automatically capture a screenshot for a user in your experience.

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pastel pier Feb 17, 2024, 3:06 PM

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RobloxStudio | Terrain Editor Update [Beta]

Roblox are excited to announce the rollout of a beta update to the Terrain Editor Studio plugin! They are updating the Terrain Editor with lots of small improvements and a completely new architecture, which will greatly improve our ability to provide future feature updates.

Terrain Editor Updates:

GreenDot UI Update
Persistent Settings
Time Estimates

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/terrain-editor-update-beta/2841125 | <@&1138234013006430329>

pastel pier Feb 25, 2024, 1:32 AM

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studio | Subscriptions: Expansion & New Features

It’s been 3 months since Roblox released subscriptions within experiences for users to purchase, and they are excited to announce the first of a series of product expansions and new features.

Starting today, all experiences regardless of when they were created will be eligible to offer subscriptions, as long as the creator has an ID or phone-verified account. We have also addressed a common pain point we heard - you will now be able to edit your subscription description to fix typos or improve the subscription offering without having to delete and re-create the product.

studio | Code Assist Full Release: AI-powered Code Completion

Roblox thank you for your feedback and invaluable contributions throughout their Code Assist Beta, which have helped them improve Code Assist and prepare it for full release. Since beta launch, creators have adopted about 300 million characters of code suggested by Code Assist.

Roblox are committed to helping you improve your scripting productivity. In addition to Code Assist, they have launched beta features like Assistant with script insertion and code explanation , designed to help you script faster.

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RobloxStudio | New Audio API [Beta]: Elevate Sound and Voice in Your Experiences

Roblox are excited to unveil the beta release of our new Audio API, which includes highly anticipated controls over sound and voice that was previewed at RDC! Have you ever wanted to emit a single sound from various 3D locations simultaneously? What about altering players’ voices? The new API finally empowers you with the control over sound and voice chat that you’ve been asking for — and much more!

RobloxStudio | Improvements to Play Solo load-time [Beta]

Roblox is very excited to announce improvements to play-solo loading as a beta feature! This should make loading times significantly faster (around 35% for most places). This is made possible by heavily optimizing the loading mechanism. You can try it by enabling Faster Play Solo in the beta features menu.

RobloxStudio | International Search Engine Optimization

On March 11, Roblox will update roblox.com to allow search engines to index localized experiences and catalog pages in all languages supported on our platform. This will greatly increase the visibility of your creations through off-platform search results to users with non-English browser language preferences.

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zinc walrus Apr 6, 2024, 6:38 PM

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RobloxStudio | Automatic Translation Now Available Between 16 Languages!

On April 4th, Roblox announced the release of the automatic translations for 16 different languages as they strive to provide localization tools that make every experience available to any user, regardless of language.
You will be able to easily translate your experience into 15 other languages and make it available for users worldwide.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/automatic-translation-now-available-between-16-languages/2912942 | <@&1138234013006430329>

neon peak Apr 7, 2024, 12:37 PM

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| Player Count Changes on 16:9 Experience Tiles!

Previous month, Roblox had announced their brand new 16:9 experience tiles which allowed to provide users with a more immersive experience whilst browsing their favorite experiences.

Starting April 8th, Roblox has decided to eliminate player count on these tiles as a favor to their new meta data system. Roblox has also reported a 6.79% increase in users discovering unique experiences and a significant increase in engagement for new and emerging experiences along with a 8.24% hike in performance of their recommendations system.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/player-count-changes-on-experience-tiles/2914339 | <@&1138234013006430329>

zinc walrus Apr 8, 2024, 7:12 PM

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RobloxStudio | Notifications in Creator Hub and Studio

Roblox released a notification tray for creator hub aswell as studio after a successful beta last year.

The Improvements made to the Studio Notification Tray are:

green_dot You can now mark all notifications as read
Light Mode support
More compact layout
Higher quality icons
Reading a notification in one tray will mark it as read in the other one (Coming in a few weeks)

zinc walrus Apr 10, 2024, 8:59 AM

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RobloxStudio | Resolving “No Network” Errors on iOS

After a mass amount of problems with the IOS app not properly functioning, roblox rolled back the update to resolve the issue.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/resolving-“no-network”-errors-on-ios/2921428 | <@&1138234013006430329>

neon peak Apr 11, 2024, 8:25 AM

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| Creator Store: Buy and Sell Plug-Ins with Real-World Currency!

ROBLOX has decided to enforce a real-world currency tag (US$) on all the Plugins hosted on their creator store! Allowing users to make up-to 3 times the revenue with a reduced 10% tax instead of the standard 30% platform fee.

As of today:

green_dot All plugins with a USD price set are live and available on the Creator Store.
Plugins with only a Robux price have been privated.
All Creator Store transactions occur in real-world currency.
Creator Store earnings are no longed taxed by platform fees. 90% of earnings are directed to the creator.

zinc walrus Apr 11, 2024, 9:52 PM

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RobloxStudio | Pausing Physics in Studio [Beta]

Starting today, you will be able to opt into the Studio Beta for the improved Studio Pause behaviour.
With this Studio Beta, you will be able pause the simulation of your scene without disabling rendering. This can help with debugging ephemeral scenes and mechanisms by allowing you to dive deeper into what’s visually going on in that moment..

Read More: | https://devforum.roblox.com/t/pausing-physics-in-studio-beta/2925013 | <@&1138234013006430329>

zinc walrus Apr 15, 2024, 5:13 PM

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RobloxStudio | Opening up Marketplace to More Creators

Roblox are happy to announce that starting later today, they are rolling out the ability to publish 3D avatar items to more people. Until now, the ability to create and sell 3D items on Roblox was by application only. Over the last year, they have seen a growing increase in interest to create and sell avatar items in Marketplace from 3D artists and developers of experiences.

The news post contains the following information:

Who is Eligible?
Making Creation Easier
Promoting a Safe and Vibrant Marketplace
- Raising the Bar on Publishing
- Protecting Creations
- Our Policies
Videos to help you get started
Additional Resources

Read More: | https://devforum.roblox.com/t/opening-up-marketplace-to-more-creators/2931299 | <@&1138234013006430329>

zinc walrus Apr 16, 2024, 4:46 PM

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RobloxStudio | Analytics: Understand the Value of New Users By Roblox Acquisition Source

Today, Roblox is updating their Acquisition page to help you understand the value of new users acquired from Roblox organic and ad sources.

This includes two things:
green_dot View top 5 Roblox sources for new user plays and revenue
See how new users retain, engage, and monetize by Roblox source

This also includes a future plan to explore ways on helping you track external campaigns and sources (e.g., generating an unique URL for your experience to track metrics) later this year.

neon peak Apr 17, 2024, 4:49 AM

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| Lower Minimum Part Density Rollout

In order to test out the new lowered minimum part density of 0.0001, ROBLOX has released an update to studios allowing for an option to appear which facilitates an opt-in beta feature for the new minimum part density. Users who do not decide to partake in this testing will still be subjected to the minimum density being 0.01

| Aerodynamics [Studio Beta] April 2024 Update

ROBLOX has rolled out a new live beta studio update introducing quality of life changes into the aerodynamics physics engine of ROBLOX in an attempt to increase the realism of the system. One of the few changes are:

green_dot Improved force model.
Ability to set FluidFidelity directly in geometry APIs.
green_diamond Much more!

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neon peak Apr 18, 2024, 7:58 AM

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| Sunsetting LinkedSource Scripts in Studio

On May 20th, 2024, ROBLOX will sunset LinkedSource scripts for ROBLOX Studios. After this change, creators won't be able to:

green_dot View LinkedSources in Script Editor
Publish new versions of existing LinkedSource scripts
See LinkedSources in Asset Manager

ROBLOX has made an update to convert existing LinkedSource scripts for the convenience of the developers.

***Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/sunsetting-linkedsource-scripts-in-studio/2934824 | <@&1138234013006430329> ***

neon peak Apr 18, 2024, 6:05 PM

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| Introducing Translation Feedback

In favor of their recently developed, and improved translation system. ROBLOX has added a new menu in the game client settings which allows users to provide feedback for ROBLOX powered automated translations.

***Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/introducing-translation-feedback/2935975 | <@&1138234013006430329> ***

zinc walrus Apr 18, 2024, 9:22 PM

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RobloxStudio | Assistant: Enhanced Script Insertion Unlocks New Use Cases

Today, Roblox are expanding Assistant’s scripting capabilities to generate and insert scripts across your entire Datamodel to help you be more productive. This expansion also presents an opportunity for newer creators or non-scripters, who often struggle with script placement in Explorer, to efficiently complete scripting tasks by interacting with Assistant.

Read More: | https://devforum.roblox.com/t/assistant-enhanced-script-insertion-unlocks-new-use-cases/2936134 | <@&1138234013006430329>

zinc walrus Apr 20, 2024, 11:15 AM

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RobloxStudio | New Top Navigation Bar: Easily Switch Between Creator Hub Pages

Roblox is launching a new navigation bar at the top of the DevForums page — just like the one on the Creator Hub! With this update to the Forum and Creator Hub navigation, we hope that going between the two feels smoother and more intuitive.

zinc walrus Apr 23, 2024, 6:21 PM

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RobloxStudio | German Language now Available in Studio

Roblox is happy to share that German is now a language available in Studio.
To select this new option, open Roblox Studio, go to File > Studio Settings and search for the Language setting. You should see “Deutsch” as an option available to you.

Read More: | https://devforum.roblox.com/t/german-language-now-available-in-studio/2943313 | <@&1138234013006430329>

zinc walrus Apr 25, 2024, 11:36 AM

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RobloxStudio | In-experience Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG)

Roblox is ready to announce that the CSG APIs and capabilities are now available in published experiences!

Bugs may still occur with this feature while they actively fix and push updates to resolve them.

neon peak Apr 25, 2024, 7:56 PM

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| Change materials faster with the new Material Picker [Beta]

A new BETA update released for ROBLOX Studios allows users to change, manage, and preview materials directly from the upper hotbar ribbon of the Studios UI.

***Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/change-materials-faster-with-the-new-material-picker-beta/2945587 | <@&1138234013006430329> ***

zinc walrus Apr 26, 2024, 6:54 PM

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RobloxStudio | Creator Roadmap: Spring 2024 Edition

Roblox are excited to share the Spring 2024 edition of the Creator Roadmap, showcasing the progress made on a number of launches that shipped this year!
All the Roadmap Items are displayed within the post below!

Read More: | https://devforum.roblox.com/t/creator-roadmap-spring-2024-edition/2946605 | <@&1138234013006430329>

zinc walrus Apr 27, 2024, 2:47 PM

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RobloxStudio | Integrate Your Roblox Marketplace Items Into Guilded

Roblox has just rolled out a new feature for your Guilded communities that lets you showcase Marketplace items created by you and your Groups from a new dedicated server section.

If you’re a Roblox UGC creator, this means you can now showcase, announce, and chat about your creations with your community all in one place!

Read More: | https://devforum.roblox.com/t/integrate-your-roblox-marketplace-items-into-guilded/2946736/1 | <@&1138234013006430329>

neon peak May 1, 2024, 6:03 AM

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| Shorelines Full Release

ROBLOX Has just released an update to their terrain editor, which allows developers to set shorelines with water bodies in games. This allows the water physics to act upon the set point as water in real life would do at a shore!

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/shorelines-full-release/2952103 | <@&1138234013006430329>

zinc walrus May 1, 2024, 9:40 PM

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RobloxStudio | Immersive Ads: Video Ads Launch and Publisher Eligibility Requirements

Today, Roblox are expanding access to video ads to any advertiser with an Ads Manager account, so that you have more opportunities to earn incremental revenue from adding ads to your experience.

zinc walrus May 2, 2024, 5:40 PM

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RobloxStudio | Animating Your Avatar In VR

Today, Roblox are adding a new API: VRService.AvatarGestures. When true, this API will allow VR players’ avatars to follow their movement in first and third person. Other players around them will also be able to see their movements.

Read More: | https://devforum.roblox.com/t/animating-your-avatar-in-vr/2954399 | <@&1138234013006430329>

zinc walrus May 2, 2024, 9:42 PM

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RobloxStudio | Testing an Enhanced Discover Page: Top Charts and New Sorts

Starting today, Roblox will begin testing an updated Discover page to introduce top charts and additional new sorts, including but not limited to the following: Top Trending, Top Revisited and Fun with Friends. These sorts are not personalized, meaning everyone will see the same sorts and they’re based on statistics. Additionally, Roblox will also start testing updated ways to highlight experiences through feature themed sorts and genre-specific sorts.

zinc walrus May 6, 2024, 9:40 PM

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RobloxStudio | Introducing 8 New Base Materials [Studio Beta]

Roblox are releasing eight new Base Materials for parts and meshes that you can start using as-is or create Material Variants!

First Row:
GreenDot Cardboard
Carpet
Roof Shingles
Clay Roof Tiles

Second Row:
GreenDot Leather
Plaster
Rubber
Ceramic Tiles

Read More: | https://devforum.roblox.com/t/introducing-8-new-base-materials-studio-beta/2959559 | <@&1138234013006430329>

zinc walrus May 7, 2024, 9:17 PM

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RobloxStudio | Developer Deeplinking Update

Today, Roblox are announcing a slight change to the format of those links. You will need to add a “deep_link_value” query parameter with the same link value that was used for af_dp and af_web_dp, previously. You can update to this new format today, and your developer deeplinks will continue to function.

Taking the previously shared example:

ro.blox.com/Ebh5?af_dp=<encoded developer deeplink here>&af_web_dp=<encoded developer deeplink here>

The new format would be:

ro.blox.com/Ebh5?af_dp=<encoded developer deeplink here>&af_web_dp=<encoded developer deeplink here>&deep_link_value=<encoded developer deeplink here>

Read More: | https://devforum.roblox.com/t/developer-deeplinking-update/2960548 | <@&1138234013006430329>

zinc walrus May 8, 2024, 6:01 PM

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RobloxStudio | Avatar Auto Setup [Beta Release]

Last month, Roblox launched Avatar Auto Setup, which makes creation easier by automatically rigging, caging, segmenting, and skinning your 3D models with the click of a button. Using the power of AI, setting up an avatar can now take just a few minutes, eliminating hours of manual work.

Starting today, Avatar Auto Setup is in open beta and includes the ability to publish your avatars to the Marketplace.

RobloxStudio | Improvements to Play Solo [Full Release]

Roblox are pleased to announce the full release of our Improvements to Play Solo beta feature. This release reduces the median time to load Play Solo mode from ~5.50s to 2.35s (down from approximately 3.19 seconds during the beta), a 57% total decrease.

Read More: | https://devforum.roblox.com/t/improvements-to-play-solo-full-release/2961533 | <@&1138234013006430329>

neon peak May 8, 2024, 8:50 PM

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| Luau Native Code Generation Preview Update

Roblox has released a Studios preview which allows users to utilise Native code generation.

Native code generation is a feature that allows Luau scripts that have been previously executed by interpreting bytecode inside the Luau VM to instead compile to machine code that the CPU understands and executes directly.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/luau-native-code-generation-preview-update/2961746 | <@&1138234013006430329>

zinc walrus May 10, 2024, 5:00 PM

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RobloxStudio | DevEx now shows your estimated eligible balance

Developer Exchange (DevEx) now shows a more accurate estimate for earned Robux before you initiate a cash out.

RobloxStudio | Increased Payouts for Subscriptions Within Experiences

Roblox are making improvements to how you can earn from subscriptions within experiences. Starting on May 15th, subscription earnings will be based on the price a user pays, regardless of which platform they use. Additionally, Roblox will no longer take a platform fee on earnings for subsequent subscription renewals.

Read More: | https://devforum.roblox.com/t/increased-payouts-for-subscriptions-within-experiences/2963619 | <@&1138234013006430329>

zinc walrus May 10, 2024, 5:18 PM

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RobloxStudio | Expanding the Skin Tone Color Picker

Roblox are excited to announce that we’re expanding our Skin Tone Color Picker to allow colors beyond the previous color palette selection.

Read More: | https://devforum.roblox.com/t/expanding-the-skin-tone-color-picker/2964644 | <@&1138234013006430329>

neon peak May 17, 2024, 12:44 AM

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| Enhancements to Sponsored Experiences and Ads Manager

Inorder to make their sponsored experiences more effective alongside with making their ads more manageable. ROBLOX has made some Quality of Life changes to their advertisements and sponsorship systems.

zinc walrus May 17, 2024, 7:16 PM

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RobloxStudio | Adding the Audio API Roll Off Curve Editor [Beta]

Roblox recently released the new Audio API, which added a bunch of new audio instances for controlling sound in your experiences.

Today, they are excited to release our newest addition to the Audio API beta: a distance attenuation API for AudioEmitters.

Read More: | https://devforum.roblox.com/t/adding-the-audio-api-roll-off-curve-editor-beta/2973392 | <@&1138234013006430329>

neon peak May 21, 2024, 4:50 PM

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RobloxStudio | MemoryStore HashMap [Beta]

The Hash Map is a key-value store with no sorting guarantees, making it the ideal data structure for a simple high-throughput data cache.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/memorystore-hashmap-beta/2977379 | <@&1138234013006430329>

neon peak May 22, 2024, 4:30 AM

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RobloxStudio | Creator AMA (Economy) with Antoni & Enrico Tomorrow!

The VP of Engineering and VP of Product from ROBLOX Corporation will be doing an AMA on 22nd May 10 AM to 12 PM PT and will go over several changes that will be made on roblox. Like the creator marketplace and etc.

RobloxStudio | CSV Management For Translations Now in Creator Hub

Listening to and taking in consideration popular demands, ROBLOX has launched a new feature option in ROBLOX Studios that allows creators to upload game translations vis CSV (Comma Separated Values) files for ease of operations.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/csv-management-for-translations-now-in-creator-hub/2978465 | <@&1138234013006430329>

zinc walrus May 23, 2024, 9:16 AM

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RobloxStudio | 3D Import Recap Mar-Apr 2024

Roblox released the Recap for all thing 3D Import related. Take a read if this is for you!

New Features
green_dot glTF Support in Cloud Import
Improved Dragging in Importer and Other Tools
More Bug Fixes

Read More: | https://devforum.roblox.com/t/3d-import-recap-mar-apr-2024/2979668 | <@&1138234013006430329>

zinc walrus May 26, 2024, 12:22 PM

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RobloxStudio | User Mentions in Experience Notifications

Roblox are excited to share that you can now mention users in your notifications. This feature allows you to set up triggers to notify a user when their friend takes a relevant action in your experience. This way, the next time a friend gifts another friend an item, beats their high score, or attacks their base, your users won’t miss out.

RobloxStudio | Public Sound Effects Upload Are Now Available for Creators

Creators can distribute free sound effects under 10 seconds via the Creator Store provided you meet the criteria (are 13+ and ID-verified, and in good moderation standing). Once distributed, these sound effects will be available for any creator to use inside their experience(s).

RobloxStudio | Documentation Site Updates Roundup

Roblox have updated the look and feel of the Engine API reference page to make these resources easier to read and navigate, especially on mobile devices. We added some missing content like code samples and API tags throughout our documentation, and implemented semantic search to make it easier to find resources like guides. We also made our docs more accessible and easier on the eyes, added better interfaces for documenting explanations, and more!

Read More: | https://devforum.roblox.com/t/documentation-site-updates-roundup/2980893 <@&1138234013006430329>

neon peak May 30, 2024, 8:29 AM

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| Deprecating the Avatar Importer

ROBLOX has decided to deprecate their existing Avatar Importer plugin in favor of their better built, 3D import feature.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/deprecating-the-avatar-importer/2994923 | <@&1138234013006430329>

zinc walrus May 31, 2024, 11:36 AM

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RobloxStudio | Introducing the Maximum Framerate setting

Players can change the maximum framerate on the app through a newly introduced game setting. PC players that can achieve those higher framerates will get a smoother experience on monitors with higher refresh rates by increasing this setting. For now, this setting is limited to Windows devices but will come to Mac at a later date.

RobloxStudio | Groups Now in Creator Hub, With New Roles and More! [Beta]

Roblox are excited to announce that you can manage groups including improved roles, permissions, and invites systems in Creator Hub through an open beta.

By streamlining group management, they want to empower you to focus your time on creating. Previously, you had to use the user-facing Groups page to control who could collaborate on your creations; they wanted to bring it into Creator Hub to provide you with a one-stop-shop for all of your creation management needs. They are thrilled to announce the first chapter of the future of groups!

Read More: | https://devforum.roblox.com/t/groups-now-in-creator-hub-with-new-roles-and-more-beta/2996360 | <@&1138234013006430329>

zinc walrus Jun 5, 2024, 10:15 AM

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RobloxStudio | Sunsetting User Ads and improvements to Sponsored Experiences

Last year, Roblox shared their plans to permanently remove User Ads to make ads on Roblox more relevant and integrated with the user experience while also working towards simplifying and consolidating all Roblox ad purchasing to Ads Manager.

Today, they are sharing the timeline for sunsetting User Ads and ways they're testing to improve Sponsored Experiences and ultimately make them a better and more effective solution to advertise your experience to potential users.

Key Dates For Sunsetting User Ads
green_dot June 16, 2024: Last day advertisers can create new User Ads.
June 17, 2024: Last day User Ads will be displayed on Roblox.
July 31, 2024: Advertisers can access previous User Ads campaign reporting and data on the User Ads page until this date.

zinc walrus Jun 7, 2024, 1:46 PM

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RobloxStudio | Temporary Process For Archiving Avatar Items

You can request a one-time permanent archival of your own items by filling out the support form here and selecting DMCA under the Type of help category, then selecting Asset Archive Request. This process supports both trademark and copyright requests.

Please include the following information, and we will work to permanently archive it:
green_dot An explicit request to archive your content
URL links or asset IDs of the content you wish to archive

This process can be used to archive both 2D and 3D avatar items.

RobloxStudio | Updates to Notification Rate Limits

Today, they are excited to share that we will be relaxing the max limit of notifications to 1 per day per user for each experience. Previously, the frequency limit was 1 notification per 3 days per user for each experience. We hope this update provides you with more agency to engage and retain your users.

RobloxStudio | Migration to Shorelines and Old Water Deprecation

With Shorelines now fully released, they'll be migrating all places to Shorelines and will fully deprecate our old water technology on September 16th. This means that on that date, all experiences will get automatically upgraded with Shorelines and benefit from its enhanced water quality, making your experience even more immersive. 🌊

Read More | https://devforum.roblox.com/t/migration-to-shorelines-and-old-water-deprecation/3007235 | <@&1138234013006430329>

zinc walrus Jun 14, 2024, 8:52 AM

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RobloxStudio | Introducing 2-step verification with a second device

If Roblox detects something suspicious about your login attempts, you will be challenged with a new login attempt prompt even if you don’t have a 2-step verification method explicitly enabled on your account. You will be asked to use a mobile or tablet device that is already logged into your Roblox account to approve or reject the login. The prompt will also provide details about the login attempt like device type, regional location, IP address, date and time. This prompt serves as an extra layer to help secure your account.

RobloxStudio | Update to Non-Limited Avatar Items Published Before April 4

Starting on June 20, we are making a backend change that will allow all non-Limited items published prior to April 4, 2024, to use the latest publishing interface. Previously, only non-Limited items published after April 4 had access to the new interface.

zinc walrus Jun 18, 2024, 4:44 PM

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RobloxStudio | Path2D Full Release

After being a beta feature for three months (previous Beta release announcement ), we are excited to announce the full release of the new Path2D API and tooling to support this API!

Path2D allows you to create, edit, and visualize 2D splines and provides a 2D spline instance, enabling you to create UI elements and effects like graph editors and UI animations.

RobloxStudio | ** [IMPORTANT] 3D Avatar items: asset and bundle moderation approvals temporarily paused**

Roblox have recently identified an issue where avatar items are affecting experiences and are actively investigating this issue.

zinc walrus Jun 20, 2024, 6:14 PM

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RobloxStudio | [RESOLVED] 3D Avatar items: asset and bundle moderation approvals temporarily paused

Roblox have investigated the issue with 3D Avatar Items and has resolved the issue and thank the community for their patience.

RobloxStudio | [Limited Availability Beta] Asset Privacy and Permissions for Meshes, Images and Models

Roblox will offer early access to asset privacy for meshes, mesh parts, images/decals, models and packages for a limited number of creators by purchasing a 30,000 Robux Game Pass. In the future, they plan to make asset privacy generally available to all users without cost.

RobloxStudio | Updated In Experience Controls on Roblox

Roblox are testing another series of layouts for our updated experience controls. In this new test, we’ll be exploring in-experience control layouts aimed at enhancing user personalization and reducing friction.

Read More: | https://devforum.roblox.com/t/updated-in-experience-controls-on-roblox/3028958 | <@&1138234013006430329>

merry badger Jun 22, 2024, 2:08 PM

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RobloxStudio | New Laser Tag Studio Template

Roblox has recently introduced a new studio template known as “Laser Tag” that includes built in features such as a customisable blaster system, a customisable round system with team death match and a ready made map with various PBR materials.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/new-laser-tag-studio-template/3033810 | <@&1138234013006430329>

neon peak Jun 25, 2024, 7:08 PM

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| Testing Personalized Thumbnails in Home this July

Starting 8th of July, ROBLOX is launching a new system on how thumbnails work. In this experiment, ROBLOX will attempt to push thumbnails personalised on a user-to-user basis, in an attempt to boost performance and engagement.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/testing-personalized-thumbnails-in-home-this-july/3039419 | <@&1138234013006430329>

neon peak Jun 26, 2024, 9:10 AM

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| Filtering to Find 3D Models in the Studio Toolbox!

ROBLOX has introduced a long new list of features available now in the Toolbox 3D Model sort function. Some of these sort tools are, Triangle Count, Themes, etc. They've been introduced so users can surf smoothly and precisely through the thousands of models present in the Toolbox.

| Introducing the Ban API and Alt Account Detection

Following popular demand, ROBLOX has finally added a new feature to their engine which allows experience owners to effectively ban clients from their games. This API also consists of a module that can effectively detect and takedown alt accounts made by blacklisted/banned users.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/introducing-the-ban-api-and-alt-account-detection/3039740 | <@&1138234013006430329>

neon peak Jun 28, 2024, 6:28 PM

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| Data Stores Observability Dashboard

The new Observability Dashboard introduced by ROBLOX allows for live time feed and debugging for datastores.

| Open Cloud Memory Stores API [Beta]

The new Open Cloud Memory Stores API by ROBLOX allows the usage of memory endpoints outside of ROBLOX engines.

| Upcoming Changes to Data Stores Versioning

ROBLOX is bringing changes to the datastore system which allows for version to be available for longer, guaranteed backups, and reduction in key saving frequency.

| Retaining High Fidelity Images

To improve user experience. ROBLOX has increased their image resolution limit to 8000 from 1000.

| Experience Events thumbnails, curation, and the future of events

Devs can now define thumbnails and event types for their experience events, making it easier for them to tell their players what is happening within their experience.

| Introducing Today’s Picks on Marketplace

Commencing 28th June, ROBLOX will offer a "Today's Pick" sort for their marketplace.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/introducing-today’s-picks-on-marketplace/3042725 | <@&1138234013006430329>

merry badger Jul 2, 2024, 9:42 PM

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RobloxStudio | Improved Mover Constraints: Enhancing Stability and Network Ownership

After several reports of common issues around Mover Constraints in regards to lag, inconsistent network ownership, and non-intuitive assembly formation, Roblox has decided to address these issues by making improvements to Mover Constraints that may impact existing mechanisms using constraints and will be released in 3 different roll-out phases that will last from the 2nd of July to the 26th of August so that you can test and adjust your mechanisms accordingly.

merry badger Jul 9, 2024, 8:43 PM

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RobloxStudio | ** Highlights now support Outlines on Mobile [Client Beta]**

Roblox has recently announced that Highlights Outlines are now fully supported on mobile devices in which Highlights on mobile differed significantly from their look on other platforms previously, resulting in some outlines not rendering at all. With this update, all Highlights with visible OutlineTransparency will render Outlines on mobile devices! Additionally, several fixes and improvements to Highlights were made to make them visually similar across all platforms.

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| Manage Group revenue in Creator Hub and split profit per experience [Beta]

Roblox has now added new features that would allow you to manage your Group revenue within Creator Hub more efficiently. This includes single payouts to your collaborators, as well as recurring percentage splits and can also define your percentage splits per Experience, rather than for the whole Group! This would make group collaboration and
group revenue easier to manage.

merry badger Jul 10, 2024, 11:58 AM

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RobloxStudio | Analytics: Track funnel and economy events to grow your experience faster

Roblox has recently launched new Economy and Funnel event analytics to help you grow your experiences faster with the help of newly introduced lines of code to unlock new dashboards specifically for Economy events (to track how users gain and spend currency/in-game resources) and Funnel events (to understand where users drop off in your onboarding, shop, and other funnels). These events can also be segmented by age, gender, platform, OS, and up to three custom fields.

merry badger Jul 11, 2024, 7:28 PM

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RobloxStudio | ** Review Your Generative AI Data Sharing Preferences**

Roblox has recently launched an AI data-sharing program that allows you to set your preferences over how your anonymized creation data is used to train their generative AI models with the goal continue to accelerate creations whilst complementing creators’ skills. Even though AI tools can’t decide what the best experience or avatar is, or what will resonate with users, it is up to the creator – to apply their skills, intuition, and data using tools like Analytics to help them design the best content where necessary.

RobloxStudio | ** Outfit Shopping with the Bulk Purchase API**

Roblox has announced that they are launching the Bulk Purchase API which will allow users to purchase multiple items in one transaction inside an experience. This will be especially useful for avatar shopping experience creators who like to merchandise entire outfits at once and will only work for avatar items, such as curated outfits.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/outfit-shopping-with-the-bulk-purchase-api/3062312 | <@&1138234013006430329>

merry badger Jul 11, 2024, 9:57 PM

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RobloxStudio | Progressive Rollout of Future Lighting on Android Devices [Client Beta]

Future Lighting is coming to Android devices as a Client Beta and will be supported on all available platforms! Roblox will start rolling out Future on Android progressively over the next 2 months, culminating in a full Beta release in September. This means that if you have an experience using Future Lighting, some of your Android users will start seeing your experience properly rendered with Future!

merry badger Jul 13, 2024, 2:17 PM

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RobloxStudio | ** Enabling GrassLength in Production [Client Beta] **

Roblox has launched the GrassLength Beta (is subject to changes), allowing users to publish experiences with global custom grass length, and are consistently adjusting the grass density for optimal performance.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/enabling-grasslength-in-production-client-beta/3064300
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RobloxStudio | Improved Visibility of Package State and Actions

Several improvements to aid discovery of Package actions and Package states as you’re working in Studio have been made including improved icons in Explorer to clearly show the package state and that package actions will be available from the 3D viewport context menu which will gradually be rolled over the next two weeks, and all Studio users will see the changes by late July. Additionally, a bug where packages shared with you didn’t show up in Toolbox was fixed.

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RobloxStudio | **Generate avatars from images with Avatar Lab Preview [Demo] **

Roblox has released an experimental "Avatar Lab Preview" to test its avatar generation technology which can be used in your own experiences. The demo includes 3 APIs for users to generate 2D preview images, 3D avatars, and publish personal copies for a fee. Future APIs will allow users to EditableMesh and EditableImage on the avatar itself, so that users can potentially paint, form, and sculpt a completely custom avatar via in-game experiences.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/generate-avatars-from-images-with-avatar-lab-preview-demo/3065610
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RobloxStudio | **Introducing OpenTypeFeatures **

Roblox has recently introduced the OpenTypeFeatures, a feature that allows glyphs to be rendered in different styles based on user selection (as long as the font supports the specified feature). Be aware that this new feature may not suit all fonts but does support the BuilderSans font.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/introducing-opentypefeatures/3065736 | <@&1138234013006430329>

neon peak Jul 16, 2024, 3:06 AM

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| Upcoming Changes to Experience Guidelines

ROBLOX is making changes to the Experience naming guidelines and default settings. These changes are intended to update how the younger users access experiences and to provide parents and users more clarity into the types of content available on ROBLOX.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/upcoming-changes-to-experience-guidelines/3070343 | <@&1138234013006430329>

merry badger Jul 18, 2024, 11:13 AM

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RobloxStudio | **Update on Paid Random Items Restriction for UK Users Under 18 **

Roblox has updated its Paid Random Items Restriction for UK users under 18 to comply with regulations in regards to experiences containing paid random items, making these contents unavailable to underage users.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/update-on-paid-random-items-restriction-for-uk-users-under-18/3072183
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RobloxStudio | Material Picker [Full Release]

Roblox has announced a new Material Picker with visual previews, powerful search, and intuitive filters, finding and applying materials to be more faster and easier as well as integrating Material Manager directly within Material Picker, to access all things Materials from one location.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/material-picker-full-release/3073844 | <@&1138234013006430329>

merry badger Jul 18, 2024, 5:46 PM

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RobloxStudio | **Analytics: Recommendations Qualified Play Through Rate and Similar Experiences Benchmarks **

Roblox has improved its analytics to provide more transparency in how your experience is recommended via Qualified play through rate (measured based of engagement rather than plays) and similar Roblox experiences by comparing your KPIs with similar experiences that your audiences may also play.

merry badger Jul 18, 2024, 7:22 PM

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RobloxStudio | Next Gen Studio UI Preview is Here! [Beta]

Roblox has released a preview of there “next generation Studio UI” which is currently being rolled out in its beta phase which includes simplifying the existing UI for newer creators, making the UI more customisable for existing creators, consistency in looks/style of UI and much more including improvements to plug-in workflows and technical architecture that reduces the changes of hangs.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/next-gen-studio-ui-preview-is-here-beta/3075390 | <@&1138234013006430329>

merry badger Jul 19, 2024, 9:23 AM

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RobloxStudio | Data Stores v2 Open Cloud APIs are Now in public Beta

Roblox has released a Beta version of a new and improved Data Stores Open Cloud APIs which includes stylistic changes to increase consistency with the rest of Open Cloud endpoints as well as adding various quality of life changes which should make working with the Data Stores via Open Cloud to be seen as a convenience.

merry badger Jul 19, 2024, 6:23 PM

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RobloxStudio | Semantic Search for Models in Studio Toolbox Inventory

Roblox has recently announced a semantic search for models in your Studio Toolbox Inventory as part of some upcoming improvements being made to the search and discovery experience. Instead you can now find your models in your inventory by describing your asset and will appear in your results supporting longer queries, queries is with more visuals and multilingual queries.

merry badger Jul 22, 2024, 10:49 PM

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RobloxStudio | Non-sequential Asset ID Generation Coming Soon

Roblox will be changing the logic for Asset ID creation in order to help the scalaibilty of the system aswell as safeguarding aginst asset leaks followed by other privacy changes that are yet to be made. These changes will be rolled out on the 5th of august and will be released later on following system performance and quality checks.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/non-sequential-asset-id-generation-coming-soon/3082004 | <@&1138234013006430329>

merry badger Jul 23, 2024, 11:05 AM

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merry badger <:RobloxStudio:809171113615556638> | **Non-sequential Asset ID Generation Coming...

<@&1138234013006430329> (pinging again because I had no clue it didn’t register.)

merry badger Jul 25, 2024, 1:03 PM

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RobloxStudio | Embedding Events on your Groups page

Roblox has added a feature where you can now embed your Roblox events onto your Roblox group. From the Events tab, you can feature an event, via the “About” tab within your Groups page ensuring that users are notified of upcoming events, boosting awareness and participation within your community.

*Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/embedding-events-on-your-groups-page/3085563 * | <@&1138234013006430329>

Developer Forum | Roblox

Embedding Events on your Groups page

Hi Creators, We’re working on driving event discovery across the platform. In addition to improving how events are curated and, later this year, improvements to how they will appear on Home and Experience Details Pages, we’re excited to introduce another way for your users to discover events. Now you can post an event directly on to your Groups...

merry badger Jul 26, 2024, 9:42 PM

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RobloxStudio | Place Open Improvements [Test]

Roblox is making various improvements with their open place process in Studio with the sole aim to reduce hangs and waiting times when opening Studio. These features will only be tested on a small portion of Roblox creators.

*Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/place-open-improvements-test/3086811 *
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RobloxStudio | New Platformer Template!

Roblox has released a new Studio template "Platform following their modernized templates such as "Racing" and "Laser Tag" with functional mechanics and systems.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/new-platformer-template/3088494 | <@&1138234013006430329>

Developer Forum | Roblox

Place Open Improvements [Test]

Hi Creators, We’re testing improvements we are making to the open place process in Studio. Our primary goal is to reduce hangs and the time it takes to open a place so you can spend less time waiting and more time creating! With this being such a critical part of using Studio, we want to carefully deploy this into production. During the testin...

merry badger Jul 30, 2024, 1:17 PM

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RobloxStudio | A Rainbow for Your SurfaceAppearances [Studio Only]

Roblox has recently launched their SurfaceAppearnce Tinting which would allow you to multiply a Color property with your SurfaceAppearance’s ColorMap to create color variations enabled to all users within Studio.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/a-rainbow-for-your-surfaceappearances-studio-only/3093048
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RobloxStudio | New StepPhysics Plugin API

To improve the usability of the Roblox Physics Engine and make creating physics-based systems easier and faster, Roblox has re leased a Step Physics Plugin API that enables you to advance the world, or part of it, forward by a specified amount of time available on Workspace and WorldModels.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/new-stepphysics-plugin-api/3093140
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RobloxStudio | Data Stores Versioning Changes are Going Live

Roblox is making changes to there datastores in which they will be more optimized and fewer versions of these datastores as well as being available for longer time periods (30 days) instead of what it is currently and the CreateUniverseSnapshot is to be available on the Open Cloud. Changes made will be rolled out o all experiences.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/data-stores-versioning-changes-are-going-live/3093227 | <@&1138234013006430329>

merry badger Jul 31, 2024, 8:26 PM

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RobloxStudio | Introducing Step Forward Physics

To enable more precise debugging workflows and address the issues in regards of the usability of Roblox's Physics Engine, Roblox have released a new Step Forward Physics button that will be added to the existing Simulation Pause Studio Beta and will be available to those who have access to Studios Beta features.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/introducing-step-forward-physics/3094522
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RobloxStudio | Flex Features for UIListLayout Client Release

Roblox has announced the release of Flex for UIListLayout that that offers features such as multiline wrapping, growing/shrinking items, empty space distribution, and custom per-item line alignment options allowing you to enhance your experiences with dynamically-sized UI containers.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/flex-features-for-uilistlayout-client-release/3096190 | <@&1138234013006430329>

merry badger Aug 1, 2024, 11:30 AM

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RobloxStudio | In-experience CSG Performance and Robustness Improvements

After the release of the Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) API, Roblox has decIde to make various changes and improvements towards the performance and robustness of these API's.

merry badger Aug 1, 2024, 9:56 PM

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RobloxStudio | Vietnamese Language now Available in Studio

Roblox Studio now supports Vietnamese and can be accessed via File > Studio Settings and Language setting under “Tiếng Việt".

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/vietnamese-language-now-available-in-studio/3097835
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RobloxStudio | Improvements to Badge Privacy

To help prevent your disabled badges from being discovered or leaked, the API endpoints used to fetch information about badges associated with a specific experience will no longer return information about disabled badges to consumers and they will no longer see any information about disabled badges from that experience unless they are authorized unless they have permissions to manage that experience.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/improvements-to-badge-privacy/3098281 | <@&1138234013006430329>

neon peak Aug 6, 2024, 9:08 AM

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| Improved Mass Properties: Decoupling Collision Geometry and Mass Properties [Beta]

To make the engine more realistic and convenient. ROBLOX has brought changes to how the physics engine deals with meshes in phenomenons like mass, velocity, moment of inertia and etc.

merry badger Aug 14, 2024, 10:41 PM

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RobloxStudio | Reach More People With Search Ads

Roblox has now given users the the ability to reach more of that audience via search ads allowing users to search for experiences or genres of experiences using specific keywords. This additions gives more ways to drive discovery of various experiences.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/reach-more-people-with-search-ads/3118241
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RobloxStudio | New Base Materials available in production [Client Beta]

Roblox has released 8 new material variants including Leather, Plaster, Rubber, Ceramic Tiles, Cardboard, Carpet, Roof Shingles and Clay Roof Tiles.

neon peak Aug 15, 2024, 7:10 AM

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| 2024 H1 Physics Recap

ROBLOX Has released a list of all the changes made to their physics engine in the year of 2024 as a summary to shed light on their course of direction for their future updates.

| Introducing Studio Visualization Modes

ROBLOX has released "Visualisation Modes" which allows users to work in a distraction free and clear workspace, putting focus on only the domains they're working on. Like GuI, pathfinding, and etc.

Read More: | https://devforum.roblox.com/t/introducing-studio-visualization-modes/3118441 | <@&1138234013006430329>

neon peak Aug 19, 2024, 10:31 AM

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| 3D Import Recap (May - July 2024)

ROBLOX Has released a list of all the changes made to their 3D asset import in the year of 2024, from May to July, as a summary to shed light on their course of direction for their future updates. This summary contains alot of bug fixes that were rolled out by ROBLOX and also contains the new features that were planned and brought by them.

Read More: | https://devforum.roblox.com/t/3d-import-recap-may-july-2024/3120975 | <@&1138234013006430329>

neon peak Aug 20, 2024, 5:35 PM

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| Check Badge Awards in Batches with CheckUserBadgesAsync

ROBLOX has launched a new function for the BadgeService system of the ROBLOX Studio Luau language. BadgeService:CheckUserBadgesAsync() will now allow developers to check the ownership of upto 10 badges at a time for the users they like, to implement better stability, optimization and overall performance for their games.

Read More: | https://devforum.roblox.com/t/check-badge-awards-in-batches-with-checkuserbadgesasync/3125886 | <@&1138234013006430329>

merry badger Aug 26, 2024, 7:41 PM

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RobloxStudio | New Tutorials and a Staff Article Collaboration Updates

Roblox announce new content additions to our Creator documentation including various tutorials covering a variety of different curriculums of Roblox game development. This includes the core curriculum for building and scripting, environmental art, UI, gameplay scripting and much more

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/new-tutorials-and-a-staff-article-collaboration/3128176
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RobloxStudio | Compatibility Lighting becomes Retro Tone Mapping [Sunset + Migration]

Roblox has announced that Compatibility Lighting will be sunset over the course of the next 2 months and migrated to their new Tone Mapping Preset so that you can achieve a similar visual look for your experience allowing Roblox to consistently make improvements to the studio lighting system, such as better lighting scalability, which were constrained by the maintenance of Compatibility Lighting, while maintaining that similar look.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/compatibility-lighting-becomes-retro-tone-mapping-sunset-migration/3128560/3
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RobloxStudio | SurfaceAppearance Tinting is live in production [Client Beta]

Roblox has launch SurfaceAppearance Tinting as a Client Beta today in which SurfaceAppearance Tinting would allow you to multiply a Color property with your SurfaceAppearance’s ColorMap to create color. This feature is live in production, meaning that you can publish places with it, however, it is still subject to changes or even rollback before its full release.

merry badger Aug 28, 2024, 8:04 PM

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RobloxStudio | In-Experience Phone Verification Experiment

Roblox is running an experimental verification feature in which users can verify their phone number in a Voice Chat experience instead of having to leave the experience to verify their phone number in settings.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/in-experience-phone-verification-experiment/3135286
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RobloxStudio | Hiding Avatar Particle Effects in First-Person

Roblox as introduced a change that hides particle and similar effects parented to characters when zooming into first-person affecting your experiences if you use such effects parented to characters and use the default camera scripts. This is so that issues in regards to obstruction in certain bundles and accessories can be addressed accordingly.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/hiding-avatar-particle-effects-in-first-person/3136706
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RobloxStudio | Introducing Text Scaling Setting [Studio Beta]

Roblox has a new setting within the roblox app that allows you to change the size of a text according to your preferences. This feature is in beta and is only available in-experiences.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/introducing-text-scaling-setting-studio-beta/3136967
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RobloxStudio | Direct Joins to Non-Root Places with Teleports

Roblox has announced that direct joins for non-root places now support teleports. This is because Roblox did not support direct joins into non-root places with teleports because direct joins could only be configured at the experience level. Now that you can configure direct joins by place, these restrictions are removed and can now enable direct joins via teleports

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/direct-joins-to-non-root-places-with-teleports/3137041 | <@&1138234013006430329>

neon peak Aug 29, 2024, 12:49 AM

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| Introducing Gamepad and Keyboard Support for the Desktop App

To promote better accessibility for their platforms, ROBLOX has decided to launch UI navigation via keyboard and gamepad on their desktop app. To enable, simply use your WASD keys to navigate or perform an input with your gamepad controller.

neon peak Aug 31, 2024, 9:33 AM

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| BindToClose API Improvements

ROBLOX has improved their BindToClose API. Now, BindToClose API will provide a “closeReason” argument to functions called after being bound using "BindToClose()".

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/bindtoclose-api-improvements/3139159 | <@&1138234013006430329>

royal sun Sep 1, 2024, 4:17 PM

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| Activity History in Studio

Activity History is a history log that enables creators in Studio to easily view and react to a shared log of key configuration, publish, and edit activities within the place they’re working on. Roblox is gradually rolling out the feature over the next few weeks, and all Studio users will see the changes by late September.

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/activity-history-in-studio/3139210 | <@&1138234013006430329>

royal sun Sep 5, 2024, 2:14 AM

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| Upcoming Experience Events Discovery Test

Starting this week, Roblox is experimenting with surfacing events more prominently on the Experience Details page. This is the first of several improvements Roblox is making to help users discover relevant updates and events that you share.

Roblox will be testing upranking the event in experience details pages to various positions, as well as upranking with a total redesign of the tile, using the new metadata features. Initially this will just be on the web, with an experiment afterwards focused on all other platforms.

| Introducing New Resources for Creator Programs

Roblox is excited to provide you with an official resource for the various programs they offer Roblox creators.

Their new Creator Programs overview page 304, you’ll see a list and short description of the programs that are publicly open to creators. Each program also has a live status description, indicating if a program is open, closed, or paused.

When you click into each program page, you’ll find information, such as eligibility requirements and how to participate. Roblox will be updating these pages as needed.

Read More: [https://devforum.roblox.com/t/introducing-new-resources-for-creator-programs/3146442] | <@&1138234013006430329>

royal sun Sep 10, 2024, 5:49 PM

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[🚨 BREAKING NEWS]

RobloxStudio | [Pilot] Creator Affiliate Program: Apply to Earn From New Roblox Users

Today, Roblox is excited to invite you to apply to the pilot of our new Creator Affiliate Program 2.1k. Content creators’ “creativity” has helped fuel Roblox’s growth, and Roblox wants to reward them for bringing new users to the platform.

If accepted into Roblox’s pilot, creators can earn up to 50% of spend when new users sign up via their affiliate share links and purchase Robux.
Earnings are capped at $100 USD per new user and based on their first six months of purchasing Robux. Roblox is starting with a pilot through the end of 2024 and intend to expand to all eligible creators by mid-2025. Since this is a pilot, Roblox may adjust revenue share and terms as we learn.

Learn More: [https://devforum.roblox.com/t/pilot-creator-affiliate-program-apply-to-earn-from-new-roblox-users/3152093]

[🚨 BREAKING NEWS]

RobloxStudio | Launching Age Correction for Users Under 13

Today, Roblox announced that they are allowing users under the age of 13 to correct their birthday within Settings. This will allow all users the ability to correct their age, as users over the age of 13 already have this ability. Roblox hopes that enabling all users to correct their age will help creators serve age-appropriate content and better engage with their community.

Since children under five are still building the cognitive skills and coordination needed to fully enjoy Roblox, you will no longer see birthday options for children younger than five when setting up an account on Roblox.

Read More: [https://devforum.roblox.com/t/launching-age-correction-for-users-under-13/3153534] | <@&1138234013006430329>

neon peak Sep 13, 2024, 5:24 PM

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| Update on Paid Random Items Restriction for Australian Users

ROBLOX has made some localized permission and feature changes to the users in the country of Australia in congruence to the users in the United Kingdoms.

| New Type Solver [Beta]

ROBLOX has made changes in Studios revolving around the Type Solver function and has updated many properties pertaining to it like Type states, functions and etc.

Read More: | https://devforum.roblox.com/t/new-type-solver-beta/3155804 | <@&1138234013006430329>

neon peak Sep 18, 2024, 5:08 PM

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| New Player and Character Destroy Behavior Enabled by Default

The new system for ROBLOX's player and character destroy function which was in use when called via a script or when a player left will be permanently enabled for all studio instances starting from next year. Removing it's opt-in functionality.

| Dragger QoL Improvements Enabled by Default

The Quality of Life Dragger Beta version is now sunset and enabled by default as a new version of the dragger tool for all studio instances.

| All places are now migrated to Shorelines [Old water sunset]

The new shoreline feature that was introduced as a beta previously, is now sunset and transformed into a default studio function for all instances. The old shorelines are now purged and changed to new shorelines for all experiences.

| Get Ready for Updated Experience Controls

ROBLOX will be updating their app UI to better integrate newer features like voicechat, camera controls and other such functionalities. All devices apart from VR and Consoles will be effected.

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| Analytics: Track any custom event you want and use custom fields for segmentation

ROBLOX has launched a new feature which lets you track custom events in your games for analytics, like KD Ratios, UI clicks, Abilities used, and other custom features able to be set by developers.

royal sun Oct 6, 2024, 6:50 PM

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| Español Video Assets

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Video assets can now be uploaded in Español / Spanish!

Roblox’s plan is to add video upload coverage for all Roblox-supported locales in the near future.

| Localization Table Updates

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Roblox has recently shared two updates for localization tables:

Roblox is deprecating the older real-time ingestion system for Automatic Text Capture, as they have had two capture systems running simultaneously 339. Roblox will now only be using the offline process in experiences, but you will still be able to capture strings in real time while playtesting in Studio.

All localization table assets are now private. This update automatically applies to all existing and future experiences and is separate from the asset privacy beta 86 Roblox announced for other asset types earlier this year.

| Introducing Gamepad Controller Emulator

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The Gamepad Emulator is now available in Studio Beta!

Roblox developed the Gamepad Emulator to streamline your development process by removing the need for physical controllers, allowing you to iterate faster and test your game’s controls in real-time, directly within Studio.

You can simulate inputs from PlayStation, Xbox, and generic controllers directly in Studio, so you can refine controls and gameplay seamlessly across multiple platforms.

| New Studio Start Page

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This week, Roblox is rolling out a new Studio Start UI that has improved performance and efficiency.

This new Start Page is built on the same modern frameworks Roblox has been building for Next Gen Studio. Their ultimate goal is to make the Start Page a place where you can quickly get into your creation flow and discover resources relevant to you.

Read More: [https://devforum.roblox.com/t/new-studio-start-page/3181233] | <@&1138234013006430329>

royal sun Oct 11, 2024, 9:28 PM

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| Analytics: Top Selling and Grossing Plugins and Models for Creator Store

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Roblox is excited to announce the release of Creator Store analytics for plugin and model creators!

Through this dashboard, you can access transaction and revenue analytics on your free and paid Creator Store items. It currently supports plugins and models, with plans to support all Store asset types in the future.

| Sunsetting User-to-User Inbox Messaging

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Last week, Roblox announced that the Inbox feature within Roblox user communication will be sunsetted, ultimately due to low participation and usage in tandem with the minimal updates released for the inbox service. The sunset has now been postponed to October 29th.

Read More: [https://devforum.roblox.com/t/sunsetting-user-to-user-inbox-messaging/3187502/2] | <@&1138234013006430329>

royal sun Nov 26, 2024, 1:10 AM

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| Introducing Updates to Our Safety Protections and Parental Controls

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Roblox has recently introduced significant updates to the built-in protections and updates to content access policies for users under 13.

Creators are required to to fill out the experience questionnaire for each of their experiences by December 3, 2024; otherwise, such experiences will not be accessible for users under 13.

| [Client Beta] In-experience Mesh & Image APIs now available in published experiences

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Creators can now publish experiences with the EditableMesh and EditableImage APIs. With this update, these APIs are now available in Client Beta. This means that Roblox does not foresee any more breaking API changes and you can confidently publish experiences with these APIs.

royal sun Nov 26, 2024, 4:30 PM

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RobloxStudio | Moderation Notifications & Appeals in Studio
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Roblox has released a small but important update to Studio that will let you know if your account has received a moderation warning or ban. Until this update, if your account received a moderation action, Studio would simply log you out without providing a reason. Now Studio will let you know the details of the moderation and, when possible, you can resolve this completely within Studio.

| [Studio Beta] Avatar Joint Upgrade: Enabling Physically-Simulated Characters

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Roblox recently announced the Avatar Joint Upgrade Studio Beta — setting up physical avatar interactions, like ragdoll effects, becomes significantly easier. This upgrade introduces force and torque-limited constraints directly into avatars, allowing you to create realistic, physics-driven movements effortlessly.

royal sun Nov 27, 2024, 4:31 PM

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RobloxStudio | Asset Privacy and Permissions: Share Audio and Video With Groups
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You can now — as recently announced by Roblox — share your private audio and video assets with your groups. Group members can use the assets you share in any of the group’s experiences. For private audio and video assets you or your group own, you can now navigate to Creator Hub > Creations > Asset Details > Permissions. To share an asset with a group, you must be a group member, and have a “Create and edit group experiences” role.

| Users can enjoy up to 25% more Robux on computer, web and gift cards

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Roblox has an exciting update for the community: users can now receive up to 25% more Robux when purchasing through gift cards, computer, or web. If a user already has a Roblox gift card and redeems it on their computer or web, they will also receive up to 25% more Robux. This new pricing will be available for all global users moving forward.

spark pond Jan 26, 2025, 12:29 AM

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Hidden Recaps

| Let There Be (Unified) Light! Unified Lighting Enters Studio Beta

What is Unified Lighting?

Unified Lighting changes how you configure lighting in your experiences. It replaces the existing Technology property in the Lighting Service with two new, intuitive properties: LightingStyle & PrioritizeLightingQuality https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1225922285781782528/1332847419141918802/UL_vs_Future_-_Prioritized_-_Jan_21.mp4?ex=6796be63&is=67956ce3&hm=9d3519b3a267ce8cf170e756beb7db1c3e0aab5af881e22a0ad7b35c79d3bdd6&

| Auto-complete for `plugin` global and changes to plugin script behaviour

Unlike regular scripts, scripts in plugins would only run once if they’re enabled when a plugin loads. With the new RunContext option they now behave the same as regular scripts, automatically running when they are enabled or if they are cloned into the plugin.

| Introducing Require-by-String

With this feature, you’ll be able to use string paths to require modules instead of navigating with Instances, making your code compatible with Luau code written for other runtimes and easier to read and write. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1225922285781782528/1332847418391400459/b91fde76d909adcaabd3a93492d9b1c670627b48.gif?ex=6796be63&is=67956ce3&hm=2ac01ba491e784a52366dcb8fbe4a4e2a5dcdefc459799c045f16347573f4069&

-- these to `require` calls are equal to eachother
local Module = require(script.Parent.Parent.Folder.ModuleScript)
local SameModule = require("../Folder/ModuleScript")

and yes it does autocomplete.
Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/introducing-require-by-string/3405078/1 | <@&1138234013006430329>

spark pond Feb 3, 2025, 3:13 PM

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Hidden Recaps

| In-experience Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) APIs now available in published experiences [Beta]

New service: https://create.roblox.com/docs/reference/engine/classes/GeometryService
This new API replaces most of the old and slow Union operations with faster responses

| Advertising paid access & restricted (17+) experiences

Previously, paid access and restricted (17+) experiences weren’t supported in Ads Manager. Now they are. This update unlocks new opportunities for you to drive visibility, engagement, and growth — especially for new experiences that may need a boost to reach their audience.

| Occlusion Culling Now Live in Roblox Client

The long awaited beta Occlusion Culling has finally released! With it comes a massive performance boost to lower-end devices including Android & Apple devices. (Average of ~33% Increase in FPS while render "The Haunt")

| Update on Verified Badges

The requirement to earn the Verified Badge on Roblox has been increased to:
- Brands must have 100K+ followers on a major social media platform
- Experiences must have 1M+ hours of playtime in the last 90 days (total)
- Creators of avatar items must generate 2M+ Robux in revenue in the last 90 days with at least 200K items sold

Read More: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/update-on-verified-badges/2571089 | <@&1138234013006430329>

spark pond Feb 10, 2025, 6:15 AM

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Hidden Recaps

| Introducing Brand Project API: New Controls for Branded Assets

New API: https://create.roblox.com/docs/reference/engine/classes/PolicyService#CanViewBrandProjectAsync
You can now show branded assets — such as a branded coffee cup or a wrapped race car — to select users within your experience, based on age or location.

| Official Release of long-awaited `math` & `buffer` functions

math.lerp (So far after personal benchmarking seems to take 2.5x longer than the traditional lerp method)
buffer.writebits(b: buffer, bitOffset: number, bitCount: number, value: number)
buffer.readbits(b: buffer, bitOffset: number, bitCount: number)

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spark pond Feb 18, 2025, 6:55 PM

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Hidden Recaps

| Building the Future of Roblox Home and Search: Introducing Personalized Discovery

Personalized positioning places content like People You May Know and Continue sorts on Home based on user preferences and engagement patterns. This ensures users see the most relevant content at the right time. For creators, this means your experiences have a better chance of reaching users who are most likely to engage with them. While placement depends on relevance, focusing on quality content and updates can increase visibility.
This update does not change the recommendation algorithm for “Recommended For You”. Instead, personalized positioning focuses on how sorts are displayed on Home to make it easier for users to find what they’re looking for. While this may lead to minor shifts in impressions as users navigate the homepage more efficiently, the update benefits experiences by improving discoverability and simplifying navigation.

| Right-to-left Text Support

Roblox is now fully localized into Arabic, and you’ll also be able to translate your experience into Arabic with automatic translation.

| Opening Up Price Optimization to More Experiences

Roblox expanded the eligibility to use price optimization from all experiences with at least 100,000 transactions in the last 30 days, to 60,000 transactions in the last 30 days
Price optimization uses advanced testing to analyze user behavior and transactions within your experience. This feature will recommend optimal prices for your developer products and passes that can help you maximize revenue without sacrificing user engagement.

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merry badger Feb 25, 2025, 7:55 PM

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Hidden Recaps :HiddenDevsAnimated:

| New UGC Validation for Caged Accessories:

https://devforum.roblox.com/t/new-ugc-validation-for-caged-accessories/3486799/2

Their is now a new set of UGC validation rules for caging layered accessories. The new cage validation checks will be enforced on new catalog uploads of layered avatar assets this would enable cage setups that negatively impact gameplay from being published to the catalog as well as streamline the cage creation process to eliminate the main pain points for you, our creators.

| [Test] Exact match searches in Creator Store

https://devforum.roblox.com/t/test-exact-match-searches-in-creator-store/3492534

Their is now a new set Roblox feature that lets you search for exact search terms, making it easier to find items by their specific titles. This allows you to your search query (or just parts of it) within quotes to only show results including the exact quoted terms.

| Selling Developer Products On Your Experience Details Page

https://devforum.roblox.com/t/selling-developer-products-on-your-experience-details-page/3494897/1

You can now sell your developer products on your experience details page. This means users can now buy your passes and products outside your experience, making it easier for users to discover what your experience has to offer and create a consistent buying experience for all your offerings.

| Analytics: Track your off platform user acquisition with share links

https://devforum.roblox.com/t/analytics-track-your-off-platform-user-acquisition-with-share-links/3504691

Roblox has announced that you can now share links 114 to help any creator track and grow your audience from off-platform channels (e.g., social media, websites, YouTube influencers).

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| Longer video uploads, more video uploads!

Roblox has doubled the maximum video upload duration to 60 seconds.
Roblox has tripled the monthly video upload quota to 10 uploads.

| Upcoming changes to scroll delta behavior

Roblox's releasing an overhaul of how the engine handles scroll and trackpad inputs. For the most part this is a strict improvement, enabling the trackpad behavior people expect and fixing some nasty bugs, but it has some small backwards compatibility considerations.

| Introducing “Hot Right Now” on Charts

“Hot Right Now” 🔥 is now live on Charts, globally, across mobile, tablet, desktop and web! This new sort offers a real-time view of the most popular experiences on Roblox based on concurrent users (CCU). This means increased visibility for your experiences and valuable data you can use to optimize engagement and retention.

| Analytics: Track your off platform user acquisition with share links

Today, Roblox's excited to launch share links to help any creator track and grow your audience from off-platform channels (e.g., social media, websites, YouTube influencers).
To create a link, visit the new Share Links tab in Creator Hub and tap Create Link. Enter a campaign name and select one of your experiences. Your link will be created in this format: https://www.roblox.com/join/uniqueid.

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| New features coming to Avatar Auto-Setup

Partial Input includes Dynamic Head: Users can provide a R15 rigged face and body to auto-setup, and it will reuse the rigs and produce only the missing constructs (cage, partition, attachments).
Studio Edit Tools: The generated attachment points can be edited in Studio. Users can visualize the result of their edits in the Auto-Setup preview window.
Team Create Support: The ownership of the generated assets is now set to the owner of the placefile being used instead of the user running Auto-Setup. If the placefile is owned by a group then the generated assets will belong to the group as well.

| Improved Avatar Item Analytics

Demographic information of buyers, including age, gender, location, and platform
Sales location breakdown, between Marketplace and experiences

| PathfindingUseImprovedSearch Is Now Restored

With this relaunch, Roblox has made improvements to boost overall stability and performance. Specifically, Roblox has allocated a 40ms time budget for A* search to avoid unnecessary search attempts when a path cannot be found. Roblox will continue monitoring performance statistics.

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| [Beta] Introducing Text Generation API

Today, Roblox's are launching the beta release of the Text Generation API, a highly requested feature that opens up new interactive possibilities for your users to try in your experiences, such as NPC dialogue. For example, you can create fully interactive NPCs, such as a quest giver, who can have a dynamic conversation with a user, or an interactive tutorial where a user could ask questions about how to play your

| Roblox’s 2025 Discovery Roadmap and Ways to Reach and Engage Your Audience

Roblox is launching an improved “Recommended For You” algorithm that optimizes for long-term user retention by prioritizing organic recommendations.
Roblox' data shows that the frequency with which users return to engage, spend, and interact with friends in your experiences are strong indicators of engagement. By showing users content they’ll enjoy, we’re giving more creators like you a chance to reach a wider audience on Home.
Roblox will be updating Creator Analytics to maintain full transparency into the algorithm’s functionality and provide you with the data needed to understand and optimize your content.
In the coming weeks, Roblox will provide you with a deep look into the improved Recommended For You algorithm and will arm you with the insights you need to understand and optimize for recommendations.
The Friend Referral System will soon launch, allowing you to incentivize and encourage users to refer their friends, creating a viral loop that expands your reach.
- This system encourages existing users to bring new users into your experience, increasing user retention and overall engagement. Users can access and share referral links from user invite prompts or directly from the default in-experience invite menu.

| Assistant Updates: Giving you more control of Assistant

Now, when you ask Assistant to tweak your scripts, you can preview all the changes before they’re applied. This gives you complete control and transparency over how Assistant modifies your code, ensuring your vision stays intact. Assistant can also modify multiple scripts at once.

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| Creator Action Required: New Asset Delivery API Endpoints for Community Tools

Starting April 2nd, authentication will be required for for all Asset Delivery API endpoints.
These endpoints currently allow unauthenticated access to many assets. Roblox is making this change to enhance security and prevent abuse of creators’ content, including unauthorized content scraping. This update will allow Roblox to protect your content better and provide a more secure platform.

| New Open Cloud Reference Documentation

Roblox has recently updated the Open Cloud references in order to include the full list of available endpoints
Roblox also clarified standardizations of stability
"All APIs that support API key and/or OAuth 2.0 authentication now use the same stability definitions as Open Cloud v2 and v1. Initially, all Legacy APIs with API key support will be at “beta” stability. We’re looking to add secure authentication and better documentation to many more cookie APIs in the near future, so stay tuned as we continue to build out Roblox’s Cloud API surface."

| Accessory Adjustment APIs for Neck, Shoulder, Front, and Back

From Roblox Staff:
"Hi Creators,

We’re excited to announce the launch of the Accessory Adjustment Tool APIs for Neck, Shoulder, Front, and Back Accessories. Last year, we introduced the Accessory Adjustment tool for Head and Face Accessories in the Avatar Editor and with APIs for adjustment within your experiences.

Today, we’re expanding to include Front, Back, Neck, and Shoulder accessories. Using the upgraded HumanoidDescription API 122, you can allow users to adjust the position, rotation, and scale of those accessories on their avatars – whether they own the items or are previewing them before purchasing. This opens up a whole new level of compatibility between avatars and their accessories."

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solar bear Apr 3, 2025, 5:53 PM

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| New Feedback Dashboard - See Detailed Feedback from Your Community

If you haven’t already noticed it, Roblox has officially added a review section to all games!
Rather than simply liking or disliking, you can leave a compliment on your favorite game or a suggestion on one that could use work!

From Roblox Staff:

”Listening to community feedback is a crucial part of making a great experience, and we know that it hasn’t been easy to track down or understand player sentiment. With this new feedback feature, you will be able to easily visualize sentiment trends over time and view detailed feedback from players who rate your experience.”

| Leveling Up Ads Manager With New Features

Roblox has officially upgraded the Ads Manager system to allow for a more user-friendly option, while still allowing the classic/original style as a option.
This is very helpful for newer creators along with experienced creators that want to further diversify their Ad placements.

From Roblox Staff:

”We believe that advertising should act as a complementary discovery and engagement channel for any experience on Roblox, and we expect these improvements to improve the engagement and relevance of your ads - meaning more high quality users will join and engage with your creations. Whether you're launching your first experience from scratch or trying to take an experience to the next level - we want Ads Manager to be for you.”

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| Revamped Asset Manager

Roblox has initiated a rework on the entire frontend and backend to build a new asset management foundation, doing so to enable better usability and scalability.

| Introducing New Haptics Effects and APIs

We’re excited to give you new haptics capabilities via a Studio beta! Haptic effects refer to tactile feedback – such as a buzz or a rumble – used to enhance immersion in a game. During the Studio beta, you can opt into usage of the API via the Beta features tab. We are hoping to use this beta to gather developer feedback – please let us know if you have any thoughts below!
New API Service

| Next Gen Explorer Stable release!

Roblox has rebuilt the Explorer in Luau with a much more performant architecture, allowing you to manage millions of instances without Explorer being a bottleneck. We’ve also added tons of quality-of-life improvements, including better selection highlighting, hierarchy lines, an overhauled context menu, and better drag and drop, to name a few.

| Launching Data Stores Manager on Creator Hub

This is a new page on Creator Hub that allows experience owners and group members (when configured) to view DataStores Information such as:
- List of DataStores
- List of Entries per DataStore
- Entry Values
- List of Versions per Entry
- Version comparisons
- Storage metrics: additional insights of what is stored in your Data Stores, including the number of data stores, number keys, and total size of your data to assist in optimization of usage.

| Reordering Badges [Public Beta]

Previously, badges were displayed in the order in which they were created. Many have noted how this makes it difficult to create logical and aesthetic badge groupings on the experience details page. So, we have created a new UI to order badges directly on the Creator Hub! For details on how to use the tool, refer to the Creator Hub guide, which is now updated with a section on this feature.

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| Announcing the new Friend Referral System for your Experiences

The Friend Referral System enables existing players to directly invite their friends on and off Roblox to play together. This system allows you, as a developer, to:

Track Referrals: Identify which players are bringing new users into your experience.
Measure Engagement: Monitor which new players join via referral links.
Reward Participation: Create incentives for inviters and/or invitees to foster continued engagement.
Short Tutorial on the new API

| Announcing Roblox Extended Services

We recently updated our limits for DataStores Access and Storage. For those who prefer to focus on building expansive content rather than spending time on optimization, we will offer the ability to purchase additional DataStores Access and Storage usage in late 2025. Instead of having to look to other third party providers, developers can get increased storage and more right from Roblox.

| Introducing Regional Pricing for Passes

Starting today, Roblox will start offering Regional Pricing for Passes to all creators on Roblox and is entirely opt-in. This allows you to offer country-specific pricing for your Passes. By offering country-specific pricing for Passes, creators will give users who live in a specific country more appropriate pricing that reflects their local economy. In turn, users outside your region will be more likely to spend Robux inside your experience, helping creators earn more.

Creators decide which Passes they would like to offer country-specific prices for and set a “default price” for that Pass. Roblox then updates those prices in each region periodically. Region-specific prices are determined using a variety of signals, including a region’s purchasing power, currency exchange rates, and local spending behavior on Roblox.

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| Upcoming Changes to the GetFriendsOnline API

Roblox is implementing some crucial changes to the privacy system between Roblox users. As a step toward promoting the privacy of all users on the platform, all users will have the option, depending on their age, to prevent anyone they choose from seeing whether or not they are online or in a game at any given moment. This is a great idea and very helpful for parents who want to protect their kids from any potential dangers, as well as for known developers and creators who don't want their every move tracked.

| Improvements to the Studio Camera Controls (Beta)

Hey Creators,

Last year, we introduced the Studio Camera Controls beta, which added features like adjustable camera speed via scroll wheel modifiers and smoother interpolation when using F to focus. Thanks to your feedback—especially around how these changes impacted key editing workflows—we made quick updates to address your issues.

We’re excited to share updates to the Studio Camera Controls beta, including new options and controls that improve editing workflows and add even more flexibility. We hope you give these changes a shot – we want to make sure we get it right.

| Next Gen Studio - Preparing for Takeoff! (Beta)

Roblox is fully revamping and reworking Roblox Studio, aiming for a community-oriented and feedback-implemented development program. The article explains the crucial changes and reasoning behind them.

As for when we can expect to see this new version of the studio:
"Our next goal is to leave Beta in early June, when we’ll fully replace the old UI with this one. We have a short list of improvements and fixes to make, but we strongly recommend you leave this Beta feature turned on and start adjusting your muscle memory to the new UI."

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solar bear May 22, 2025, 6:03 PM

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| Improving Sharing and Distribution for Models and Packages

Recently, Roblox expanded the permissions system to let you share images, decals, meshes, mesh parts, and models, with friends and groups. Today, we’re launching improvements to sharing packages and models that contain audio and video assets. We’re also reducing several permission error states (e.g., when sharing) and improving performance at scale.

If you create and share a package or model with a friend or group, they will now be able to load any audio or video assets that were included. This applies whether you uploaded those audio or video assets, they were shared with you, or you got them from the Creator Store. Previously, the audio and video assets would only load if they are also listed on Store. Audio and video assets not on Store had to be shared separately outside of the package or model.

| Expanding How Commerce Can Help You Earn and Grow Your Communities

Eligible creators can add commerce into their experiences through the Creator Hub and implement the purchases with the Roblox Commerce APIs. Creators must be 18+, ID & Email Verified (with 2FA), be a Shopify merchant, and in good standing with Roblox to participate.

To pair the physical purchase with a digital benefit (such an exclusive avatar item), creators must have a minimum of 100K average DAUs and a total of 1M in Robux earnings for their experience in the last 3 months. Creators and brands can also unlock this functionality through $50K USD of advertising spend in agreement with Roblox. This is because we are limited in the short-term on the number of virtual bundles we can create, and large experiences are the most likely to have communities that benefit from Commerce. In the coming months, all eligible creators who are Shopify merchants will be able to do this.

| [Studio Beta] New Input Action System

Roblox is thrilled to bring you our new abstract Input Action System (IAS)! This new approach to input provides you with several new instances you can use to connect to input actions and arrange bindings across platforms at edit time. Those, combined with contexts, allows you to easily configure and edit an input system in your game and make sure that it’ll work on any device.

With IAS, you can connect abstracted actions to multi-platform input which unlocks data-driven actions, contextual enabling and disabling of actions, and input-dependent UI. The Input Action System also makes input modular and reusable, allowing you to easily edit or reuse contexts, actions, and bindings.

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| [Client Beta] You can now publish Haptic Effects in your experience!

As a refresher, haptic effects refer to tactile feedback – such as a buzz or a rumble – used to enhance immersion in a game. Roblox is delivering:

Predefined enum-based haptic effects: We are introducing five out-of-the-box haptic effects for you to add to your experiences. They will work across all haptic-supported input devices like Console and VR controllers. The five effects we’ll introduce are: Explosion, Collision, UIClick, UIHover, and UINotification.
Customizable waveform effects: We are giving you the ability to customize your own waveform haptic effects. This API abstracts away hardware details, so custom waveforms will work across haptic-supported input devices, given hardware limitations.
Integrated Gui haptics: A no-code method of integrating haptics into your game UI, via properties HoverHaptic and ClickHaptic on ImageButtons and TextButtons.
New Class: HapticEffect

| Introducing the License Manager and Catalog for Popular IPs and Creative Works

Roblox will be launching the License Manager and catalog in early Q3.

In the Licenses catalog, you’ll be able to request a license from owners of participating popular IPs for your experience. These licenses enable you to create full experiences based on the IP under the terms and revenue share outlined.
Creating experiences using popular IP can make your content more recognizable and exciting to users! It’s a great opportunity to reach new audiences that already know and love certain characters, settings, storylines, and more. Once launched, all creators will be able to browse and apply for a license in the Licenses catalog for the IPs that they’re most interested in.

| [Studio Beta] Introducing UI Styling!

In the past, visually styling UI elements typically involved manually adjusting the properties of each individual UI instance. In an experience with numerous UI elements, this process could quickly become cumbersome – having to search through the Datamodel tree to locate the right instance, match its properties exactly to another, and repeat the process for each one.

Styling separates defining the structure of UI elements from their visual appearance. This is extremely powerful; teams can now iterate quickly across color palettes, fonts, and other themes without recreating instances. We’ve taken some inspiration from CSS, a common programming paradigm used to style web pages. This page provides an in-depth overview of Styling. If you’re familiar with CSS (or want to learn more), check out this guide comparing Roblox’s Styling with CSS.

Multiple APIs to define and apply UI styles, including:
- StyleRules define styled properties which override properties on the instances affected by the Selector property.
- StyleSheets aggregate StyleRules and can be linked to DataModel trees to apply style properties to instances.
- StyleLinks connect a StyleSheet to the instance tree whose root is the parent of the StyleLink.
- StyleDerives reference another StyleSheet for a parent StyleSheet to inherit StyleRules and token definitions
New Tutorial: https://create.roblox.com/docs/ui/styling/editor

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| Grant publish access to specific Experiences, and more!

Hi Creators,

Roblox has just rolled out granular experience permissions for groups - giving you as a group owner controls to grant per-experience permissions for specific roles in your group. For example, you now have the freedom to create roles that only have edit permissions for a specific experience or can only access a specific experience’s analytics without granting the same access to your entire portfolio of experiences. Previously, role permissions were set only at the group level. Roblox heard your feedback that this doesn’t allow Creators with multiple experiences to set-up diverse and dynamic enough team roles.

Enabling richer and more sophisticated collaboration with you and your team is one of our priorities, and to provide the tools and controls you need to fit the needs of your team. Previously, Roblox enabled experience ownership transfer, after launching the new group permission system. Today, Roblox is taking another major step towards a deep collaboration system that works for everyone, whether you’re a small team of creators just starting out, or if you have a large team managing multiple experiences.

| [Studio Beta] Beyond Static Skies: Rotate Your Worlds with SkyboxOrientation!

Hi Creators,

Get ready to add a subtle yet impactful new dimension to your experiences! Roblox is happy to announce the release of Skybox Orientation as a Studio Beta, allowing you to easily manipulate and rotate the textures of your skybox at virtually no rendering cost (low performance cost and zero memory cost).

Rotate Your World: Introducing Skybox Orientation

This new feature gives you precise control over the orientation of your environment map, opening up many creative possibilities. When enabled, you’ll find a new property, SkyboxOrientation, conveniently located under the Sky instance within the Lighting service. Its Vector3 values (X, Y, and Z) determine the rotation angle of your skybox textures, measured in degrees.

By default, all values are set to zero, ensuring existing experiences remain visually unchanged and incur no additional rendering cost. Once you introduce non-zero values, your skybox textures will rotate sequentially around the Y-axis, then X, and finally Z. This behavior is consistent with how most other Roblox orientation properties function, making it intuitive to use.

| Party API Is Here! Enable Connected Player Experiences and Drive Deeper Engagement

Hi Creators,

Roblox understands the previous challenges of ensuring Party members can seamlessly play, spawn, and navigate your experiences together. This API directly addresses frustrating scenarios like Party members spawning apart or being split between teams or places.

While Party has already made it easier for users to join an experience together with people they know through features like “Join with Party,” the Party API builds on this by providing you with the PartyData of users who play together through Roblox’s native Party feature.

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solar bear Jun 12, 2025, 7:08 PM

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| [Public Beta] Memory Stores Sorted Map & Queue GetSize()

Hi Creators,

Today Roblox is extending their Memory Stores API with a new function for both MemoryStoreSortedMap and MemoryStoreQueue - GetSize()! This function will return the number of items in your data structure. For details on use, see the Creator Hub Documentation.

You may have noticed that this launch does not include the Hash Map data structure. Since Hash Maps are automatically sharded across partitions, getting the total size would require scanning every partition. So, each request would cost as many request units as there are partitions. Roblox is considering a function that allows you to get an approximated Hash Map size based on a sample of partitions, which would lower the request unit usage.

| Introducing Avatar Items on Profiles

Hi Creators,

Starting today, users can find your most recently published avatar items on your profile page. Items will be shown to users accessing Roblox on the mobile app. Roblox will introduce items on computer and web in the coming weeks.

This module will display three of your latest avatar items, with an option to see all avatar items a creator has published. It will be automatically available to all avatar creators and Communities that have published at least one 3D avatar item.

| Updates to Content Maturity and Compliance Moderation Policies

Hi Creators,

Roblox heard your feedback to refine their content maturity and compliance policies, especially regarding moderation. Today, Roblox is providing an update on their moderation process to provide more clarity on they are reviewing content maturity, checking compliance requirements, and applying moderation actions. Roblox wants to reiterate that it’s very important you answer the Maturity & Compliance Questionnaire correctly, and to keep it up-to-date with any changes to your experience, as Roblox uses these answers to provide accurate information to users, parents, and regulators. Their goal is to ensure that experiences on the Roblox platform have accurate content maturity and compliance information so that users around the world can choose what type of content they want to interact with, and parents can choose what is appropriate for their children.

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solar bear Jun 20, 2025, 12:13 AM

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| [Client Beta] Introducing PreferredInput and Improved Touch Capabilities

Hi Creators,

Roblox is releasing a new API today into client beta: PreferredInput. This adaptive property makes it easier to build cross-platform input behavior by exposing the primary input type available to a player, which is especially useful if they have multiple input devices available for use. Whether they’re on a gamepad, touchscreen, or keyboard, PreferredInput is your new go-to for handling button prompts and input labels, UI modes, and device-specific interactions. You can publish PreferredInput in your experience today.

Next week, Roblox will be rolling out improvements to how input is detected across devices, including a fix for which devices are reported as TouchEnabled and improvements to touch & gesture capabilities. If you use TouchEnabled to determine when to display mobile-based UI or touch controls, Roblox wants to highlight how this update might impact you & share how PreferredInput can help, especially for experiences that run on mixed input devices.

| Avatar Auto-Setup Now Supports Clothing and Accessories

Hi Creators,

Roblox is thrilled to announce they are upgrading Avatar Auto-Setup to support setting up bodies with clothing and accessories. Now, you have the option to set up your entire character together with its complete outfit on a single run of auto-setup, and use Edit Tools to fine-tune the fitting whenever needed.

| Introducing the New Experience Event APIs

Hi Creators,

Roblox is excited to announce two new APIs that allow you to prompt a user to RSVP to an upcoming experience event (or update) from within your experience.

Experience events and updates are a great way to notify users about upcoming updates to your experience or to highlight live events happening within it. These new APIs have already started rolling out and you can use them in your experience right now!

View an example of what this new prompt UI looks like below.

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solar bear Jul 3, 2025, 1:07 PM

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| Thumbnail personalization now remembers your existing winning thumbnails

Hi Creators,

Roblox is excited to share an update to thumbnail personalization that lets you test new thumbnails while still sending most traffic on your existing winning thumbnail.

Roblox's experiments showed a +0.19% increase in Qualified Play Through Rate and 21% fewer impressions going to a non-winning thumbnail.

Example of how this change impacts QPTR before and after the change is implemented.

| [Beta] Text-to-Speech API: From text to voice content instantly

Hi Creators,

Roblox's vision is that your experiences can harness the power of natural language to speak, respond, and connect with users using the highest safety standards. Roblox plans to release a series of natural-language APIs to help creators innovate and reach new levels of immersion and storytelling.

Roblox is excited to launch the Text-to-Speech API in Beta, enabling you to create professional narration and character dialogue instantly, without managing complex audio production workflows.

The Text-to-Speech API converts text to audio using up to 10 preset voices in English, with customization options like pitch and speed. Whether you’re building step-by-step tutorial guidance or game announcements for your players, this API makes it easy for any creator to add voice content.

| Introducing The Roblox Learn Experience

Hi Creators,

The Roblox Docs Team is hyped to announce the launch of a new hub world: The Roblox Learn Experience!

Roblox Documentation has a lot more resources than just APIs, and the Roblox Learn Experience is here to give a glimpse into what that entails.

Like other hubs on Roblox, The Roblox Learn Experience is filled with portals that lead to playable versions of a sample project file that’s connected to one of our docs: be they written docs on the Doc Site, or video docs on the YouTube channel. Inside each of the portals is an in-experience, readable, and scrollable tutorial that teaches you how to make the virtual world around you.

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solar bear Jul 12, 2025, 12:55 AM

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| [Studio Beta] In-Experience Auto Setup

Hi Creators!

Roblox is excited to announce a significant leap forward in avatar creation on Roblox: In-Experience Auto Setup! This new feature brings the power of Roblox's Avatar Auto Setup pipeline, previously only available in Studio, directly into your experiences, allowing users to create fully rigged, skinned, and caged avatars from arbitrary models.

Roblox is releasing it as a Studio Beta for now, allowing you to implement it in your experiences within Studio and provide your valuable feedback as they continue to build it out for a full release in live experiences.

To enable this beta in Roblox Studio, follow these simple steps:

Open Roblox Studio and navigate to the “File” menu.
Click on “Beta Features”.
Enable the “In-Experience Avatar Auto Setup” option by checking the corresponding checkbox (see screenshot below) and press Save.

| Introducing Blocked Words: Enhanced Moderation for Safer Communities

Hi Creators,

Roblox is introducing Blocked Words, a new feature designed to give you greater control over your community spaces. This is a direct result of your valuable feedback, and it’s an important step in Roblox's continuous effort to cultivate a more civil and safe environment within Communities. You can learn more about Roblox's commitment here.

Blocked Words lets you filter out unwanted words or phrases from your Walls and Forums (Forums are currently in early access, with general availability coming soon!). While Roblox’s Community Standards still apply, this tool helps you tackle specific issues in your community—things like reducing toxicity, catching spam, or simply curating discussions.

You’ll find it under a new Content Moderation section in Community Settings (see screenshot below).

| Docs Update: Enhanced Search & Navigation

Hi Creators,

Roblox is excited to highlight some recent, significant updates to their documentation site designed to help you find the information you need more quickly and efficiently. These changes, rolled out over the past few months, are a direct result of your valuable feedback. Roblox's goal is to make navigating their resources as intuitive as possible, so you can spend more time building. (see screenshot below)

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solar bear Jul 17, 2025, 2:30 PM

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| Introducing the Licenses Catalog for Game-Changing IP Partnerships

Hi Creators!

The Licenses catalog is now live, and you can apply for a license to start working with some of the biggest IPs available today.

Roblox is launching with four partners: Netflix, Sega, Lionsgate, and Kodansha! Check out the Licenses catalog to see what Intellectual Property (IP) is currently available; Roblox will be working with these partners to add more to the catalog over time.

This launch includes the License Manager, which enables verified rights holders to manage their IP and create a Full Experience license, proactively scan experiences across Roblox for IP usage, and offer their licensed IP to creators. (see screenshot below)

| Analytics: Track new user retention by daily and weekly cohort

Hi Creators,

Retention is one of the most important metrics to focus on to grow your experience. Today, Roblox is excited to launch three updates to give you a clearer picture of how well you’re retaining users:

Track new user retention by daily and weekly cohort
Monitor the same cohort across all your retention charts
Measure industry-standard DAU/MAU stickiness
(see screenshot below)

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solar bear Aug 2, 2025, 12:12 AM

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| “OOF” is back as default sound on Roblox!

Hi Creators!

On the back of releasing the original “OOF” sound, Roblox is happy to say that by popular demand, it is officially returning as the default death sound on Roblox. You’ll start hearing it after updating your Roblox client and Roblox Studio for experiences that have not customized the death sound. Also, the old death sound Store listing and AssetID is still available.

| Texture Generator Beta Update: Style Control

Hi Creators!

Roblox is rolling out two major updates to the Texture Generator beta that give you more creative control: Style Control and Prompt Weighting. These features were developed in direct response to your feedback that it’s been hard to guide outputs, even with well-crafted prompts.

Just like with other image uploads to Studio, all style images are subject to Roblox's content policy. Please only use images you have the rights to, and that follow Roblox's Community Standards.

To view an example of the Texture Generator beta, click here.

| Improving Animation Asset Permissions

Hi Creators!

Roblox heard your feedback on how restrictive animation permissions are and the issues you’ve seen loading them in Studio. Today, they're launching ✨ Animation asset permissions improvements ✨ and transitioning Animations to be consistent with other “Restricted” assets such as Audio & Video. Now, when an experience gets permission to load an Animation asset, any player will be able to load it when playing the experience and any collaborator will be able to load it during a playtest in Studio. This also enables loading Animations in experiences that have a different creator, meaning there’s no need for transferring Animations between accounts anymore. 😲

Animation assets are “Restricted” and cannot be changed to “Open Use”. See Asset Privacy for more details. This is to protect experiences from unwanted Animation behavior that can affect game play.
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| [Beta] Cube 3D Model Updates: Better Quality and Bounding Box Control

Hi Creators!

Earlier this year, Roblox introduced Cube 3D; their foundation model for text to 3D creation. The community’s creativity continues to amaze Roblox with over a million 3D models generated in experiences and Studio since March.

The in-experience Mesh Generation API allows users to quickly generate unique in-game items and props using simple text prompts. Roblox believes this will make creation even more accessible within gameplay and unlock new possibilities for dynamic and custom content within experiences. They have observed that games with creation dynamics result in significantly higher engagement and retention as users become more invested in an experience that they can actively shape and customize.
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| Top Songs Available On Your Experience Detail Page

Hi Creators!

Roblox is happy to announce that they have fully launched the Music Top 100 Charts in the Roblox app and are rolling out a “Top Songs” section in the Experience Detail Page over the next few weeks! This will showcase the top played songs in your experience so your users can see which songs and artists have been trending.
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| [Studio Beta] In-Experience Build-a-Texture: EditableImage Support for SurfaceAppearance

Hi Creators!

Roblox is happy to announce that EditableImage support for SurfaceAppearance is now available in Studio! You can now use the EditableImage API to create your own custom Color, Metalness, Roughness, and/or Normal maps to create a SurfaceAppearance using the new runtime AssetService.CreateSurfaceAppearanceAsync method.
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| Avatar Creators Can Publish and Sell Emotes on Marketplace

Hi Creators!

Starting today, you can publish and sell custom emotes on Marketplace and inside experiences. Emotes are short animations that an avatar performs, making it easier to communicate and celebrate with others, enhancing the experience to feel more social and lively.

In the future, Roblox will also allow you to publish locomotion bundles, giving avatars a distinct way of moving - whether it be walking, swimming, jumping, or dancing - through the world.

Ultimately, this means another way for you to earn on Roblox.
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| Increasing DevEx — Creators Will Now Earn 8.5% More

Hi Creators!

As Dave shared at RDC 25, Roblox is excited to announce that they have increased the exchange rate for everyone in the Roblox DevEx program. All creators will now earn approximately 8.5% more when turning their Earned Robux into cash.

What This Means for You
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If you’re eligible for DevEx, you don’t need to take any action, as this change went into effect earlier today (Friday September 5th, 2025). Any Robux earned from 10 AM PT September 5th, 2025 onward will automatically cash out a rate of $0.0038 for every Earned Robux.

For example:

10,000 Earned Robux previously converted to $35
Now, that same 10,000 Earned Robux will convert to $38
Note that while Robux earned 10 AM PT or later will use this rate, balances of Robux earned before that time will continue to cash out at a rate of $0.0035 for every Earned Robux.

Why Roblox is Making This Change
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Now, creators on Roblox are earning more than ever, and creators are on track to earn more than $1 Billion within a single calendar year for the first time. This change is one of the ways Roblox is enabling the community to participate in the growing success of the platform.

This increase reflects Roblox's continued investment in you, Roblox's creators. It brings more real-world value to the Robux you earn through engaging gameplay, quality content, and passionate fanbases.

| [Studio Beta] Find/Replace All Refresh

Hi Creators,

Roblox is excited to announce that the new, faster Find/Replace All widget is now in beta. These enhancements enable you to work more efficiently with larger numbers of instances and more complex places in Roblox Studio.

Rebuilt in Luau with a more efficient architecture, the widget delivers much smoother performance when searching, navigating, and replacing thousands of matches.
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| Early Preview: Alpha Release of Photo-to-Avatar APIs

Hi Creators,

Roblox is excited to announce new APIs for an early preview of their Photo-to-Avatar technology. Roblox is building new generative AI features that allow developers to create unique experiences and this is an early look at what they've been working on!

These APIs allow you to turn a user-provided selfie into a fully rigged, FACS-enabled, skinned Roblox avatar that users can equip in your experience, and when combined with existing APIs, edit, pay for, and save to the platform. They are designed to help you build a proof of concept for testing photo-to-avatar generation capabilities, and determine how best to integrate it in your experiences.

These APIs are available now, and over time, Roblox will continuously improve them to more accurately represent your photos and provide additional ways to customize and style your avatars.
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| Voice Chat (VoiceChatService) is Coming to Consoles

Hi Creators!

Roblox is excited to announce that, since September 17th, they have rolled out Voice Chat on PlayStation and will bring it to Xbox consoles in the coming months!

This update expands communication capabilities via Experience Chat, allowing players to connect seamlessly without the need to type, and delivers on Roblox's commitment to provide you with tools and updates that enable a consistent experience across all devices. Voice Chat also offers you great opportunities to foster immersive communication, imagine new types of experiences, and boost engagement with players.

Enabling VoiceChatService

If you are already using VoiceChatService, then Voice Chat works on consoles once players enable it, and they can start communicating with others across devices, providing a more unified user experience. If your experience does not currently use Voice Chat functionalities, now is a great time to consider enabling it. Find more details on VoiceChatService here.

| Asset Workflows Recap May-Aug 2025

Hi Creators,

Roblox is excited to share its May-Aug 2025 Asset Workflows recap! ICYMI, check out the previous recap from earlier this year. Roblox is updating this post to include their latest feature: glTF Export!

These posts will now cover a wide range of asset workflows, including import, management, and export. There’s a lot Roblox is working on, and they want to shine a light on some of the smaller things they recently launched.
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| Creator Roadmap 2025: RDC Update

Hi Creators,

Thank you for making this year’s RDC incredible! Whether you joined in-person or online, your energy and passion are what make this community special.

Following up on the Roblox Creator Keynote, Roblox has two key updates for you: their annual “report card” on last year’s progress, and the newly updated roadmap reflecting all the major features announced at RDC.

Roblox Report Card

Over the past year, Roblox has launched 102 items from its roadmap. Their on-time delivery rate was 53%, a decrease from 59% last year. This reflects a deliberate shift to prioritize stability and quality, ensuring new features work as expected on day one. Consequently, the number of delayed items increased to 31% on Roblox.

This coming year, Roblox is focused on tackling fewer projects with higher consistency and quality. They will continue sharing these insights to hold themselves accountable.
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| [Studio Beta] Advanced Video API: Synchronize Video, Control 3D Audio, and More!

Hi Creators!

Around a year ago, Roblox released an advanced Audio API which allows you to define how audio is created and processed in-experience by connecting powerful instances such as Wires and AudioListeners.

Now.. Around a week ago, they have officially released the video equivalent with newer features!

The intent of this API is to give creators additional control and customization beyond what VideoFrame currently offers. (It is also explicitly confirmed that VideoFrame will NOT be deprecated)

There are two new instances:
VideoPlayer → where a video asset is specified and stored, as well as where playback functionalities reside
VideoDisplay → renders a video asset on a SurfaceGui, ScreenGui, or BillboardGui when connected to a VideoPlayer with a Wire
They are used in conjunction with Wires and other wireable instances (such as the AudioEmitter) to control, customize, and play videos.

For more information on how to use these new instances, here are some helpful documentations at your disposal:

- VideoPlayer
- VideoDisplay
(See Synchronize Playback video below.)

| [Client Beta] Optimize your particle animations with custom flipbook layouts

Hello, Creators!

Roblox is thrilled to announce a new feature that gives you much more control and efficiency over your particle animations: Custom Flipbook Layouts! This was a limitation when they originally introduced FlipBooks and has been a frequent community request since. 💥
(See attached video to see Particle Animations.)

Here’s the .rblx file from the attached gif below, demonstrating the use of the new custom flipbook layout:
mouseclick particle-custom-flipbook-demo.rbxl

| [Early Access] Server Authority

Hi Creators!

As announced at RDC, Server Authority Early Access is now open! If you’d like access, please comment on the Devforum post, and they will add you. Details below.

What is Server Authority?
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Server Authority is a new, native system designed to help prevent cheating and enable more realistic physics interactions in experiences. In simple terms, it gives creators more control over the game logic on the server, making it much harder for bad actors to exploit the client and ruin the fun for others. This also opens the door to more complex and dynamic experiences with more believable physics.
(See attached video of Server Authority.)

Watch the talk at RDC25 (Roblox Developers Conference 2025) to learn more.
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| Party Simulator – Play Test Your Party-Based Logic

Hello Creators!

We all have this little problem whenever we want to test party-based systems like Shared rewards and party teleportation, and Roblox has given us a solution for this!

Now, you can simulate a party-based gameplay directly inside Roblox Studio— no need to run multiple clients or have real players to join your test.

Now, with the Party Simulator, you can stay inside Studio and quickly create mock “players” with assigned Party IDs to test logic instantly.

This feature uses Party APIs like Player.PartyId and Players:GetPlayersByPartyId(partyId).

Here is a video that demonstrates the process.

This feature is still in Beta, so expect some changes in the future.

| In Experience Creation for Accessories & Layered Clothing Client Beta

Hello Creators!

Roblox gave us a treat; Players can now create accessories and layered clothing! Save them to their inventory as well.

This means we can customize, submit, and purchase avatar items directly ingame. A pretty big step towards UGC creation on Roblox.

You can explore this right now in the official Avatar Creator experience, and devs can tap into the feature using the new AvatarCreationService:PromptCreateAvatarAssetAsync API.

| PlayerFeedback API: Prompt Player Feedback in Experiences

Hello Creators!

We love to see Roblox add new features, especially quality of life features, and that’s exactly what we got this time!!

Roblox just launched an API that lets you pop a feedback prompt within your experience. This allows players to give feedback while in-game, which creators can then view in their creator dashboard. And it's simply done by calling PromptFeedbackSubmissionAsync API to show the dialog.

Roblox has limited it to one feedback submission per player per day to avoid spam.
The feedback system does not have rating or custom question capabilities, but those are expected to be added in the foreseeable future.

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| Rewarded Video ads are now available to all ads eligible creators

Hello Creators!

Roblox has just made reward-based video ads available for all eligible users, with new features and improvements!

Now you are able to let players watch an ad in exchange for in-game rewards.

This update mainly focused on expanding on the Video ads to make it accessible for all ads eligible users, and to help you increase your earnings and monetize more of your players with a predictable, easy-to-implement solution.

(watch this video for more details)

| Roblox launches Self‑Serve IP Licensing for IP Holders

Hello Creators!

Since November 11th, Roblox has opened up their self-serve licensing platform so any eligible IP holder can offer their IP for use on Roblox. This next phase is about further simplifying how creators and rights holders collaborate. By opening access, Roblox has removed friction for more IP holders to make licenses available and increase the variety of IPs you can pick from, all under strict verification and abuse safeguards.

What’s new
The License Manager is now a self-serve platform for all eligible IP holders. IP holders can independently add licenses to the Licenses catalog, making them discoverable and available for creators to apply and use in their experiences. To ensure a high‑quality ecosystem, all IP holders and their intellectual property undergo rigorous, human‑validated verification and automated checks before being made available. Roblox has also updated documentation and launched a new landing page to guide both creators and IP holders.

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| [Beta] Introducing the Speech-to-Text API

Hello Creators!

Another week, Another Roblox development update!

You ever thought if it’s possible to make a game that is fully controlled using the user’s voice? or if you can let players chat with NPCs? then think no longer!

This time Roblox added a new Speech-to-Text API that allows you to convert the user’s voice into text.

For now this feature requires some configuration to be added & it is limited to 10 seconds maximum per audio request.

All generated text is filtered via Roblox’s text-filtering.

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| Age Check Requirement to Chat Now Live Globally

Hello Creators!

Old news first!
Roblox Rolled a new update that turned off chatting for all users who have not already completed an age check.

This update focuses on how there is new age groups for chatting, where people that are from older age group cannot interact with younger age groups.

(the image attached below shows the age groups table)
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| Upcoming Breaking Change to PlayerOwnsAsset and Inventory Web APIs

Hello Creators!

Starting January 27, 2026, using PlayerOwnsAsset (or its Async version) on the Client (LocalScripts) will throw an error if the target player has their inventory set to Private. To fix this, you must move these checks to the Server, where they will continue to work normally.

If your game relies on client side checks for badges/gamepasses, make sure to update your code!
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| PSA: Several common yielding methods have been renamed

Hello Creators!

Now with the newer news,
Roblox has renamed several common yielding methods to include "Async" at the end of them for clarity.

The older names have been deprecated, but will not be changed or removed.
The deprecation is just informational to help you avoid coding mistakes.

An example of this change would be:

Player:LoadCharacter() is now Player:LoadCharacterAsync()

it's highly recommended to use the new names for any new code to prevent any future updates from breaking your code.

(See the full list of renamed methods in the forum official post)
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| An Update on Our Age Check to Chat Fast Follow Roadmap

Hi Creators,

Roblox has been making great progress on the roadmap items they announced on January 14th, and they wanted to share an update.

Their main focus is ensuring chat feels active and engaging in every game, and making it easier to complete an age check so more users can keep chatting. They're currently iterating on and testing these features to get them right, and they'll notify you as soon as they’re ready for public testing so you can jump in and try them out. They will share their next update on February 5th.
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| [Studio Beta] Universal Importer: Import Images, Audio, Video, and 3D in One Place

Hi Creators,

Import Queue now supports image, audio, and video files, transforming the 3D Importer into a Universal Importer. When you enable this Beta, the Revamped Asset Manager “Import” entry point will also route to this new importer instead of the legacy Bulk Importer, so you have a single, modern flow for bringing assets into Studio.

How to use the Universal Importer
You can access the Universal Importer through any of the same ways you accessed the 3D Import Queue. In addition, the Revamped Asset Manager’s import button now routes to the Import Queue.

The Import button in the Studio Ribbon
File > Import menu option
Cmd-M (Mac) / Ctrl-M (Windows)
The Import button in the Revamped Asset Manager

More details about the Universal Importer in the Devforum article.
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| Avatar Joint Upgrade for Physically-Simulated Character Movement is Now Live!

Hello Creators!

Roblox is thrilled to announce that the Avatar Joint Upgrade is officially graduating from Studio Beta and is now available for use in your published, live experiences!

View examples of the new Avatar Joint physics below, details in the Devforum article.
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| You can now switch accounts directly on Creator Hub!

Hello Creators,

Roblox is excited to announce a quality-of-life update for all creators!

Since February 13th, Roblox rolled out a new feature that allows you to effortlessly switch between accounts across all Creator Hub products. This change is designed to streamline your workflow and save you valuable time when managing multiple accounts, whether they are for different projects, testing, or organizational purposes.
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| Text-to-Speech API Update - New Voices and New Languages

Hi Creators,

Roblox is excited to announce some updates to their Text-to-Speech API! Thousands of experiences have used this API since it was first released last June, and it’s been incredible to see the creative ways creators have integrated it into their experiences.

This update includes:

A new preset English voice, adding to the initial 10 supported at launch
Support for 4 new languages: French, German, Italian, and Spanish

Click the Audio recording below to hear the new preset English voice.
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| [Studio Beta] AvatarAbilities Library for a Luau-Based Character Controller

Hi Creators,

For years, Roblox’s default character controller has lived inside the C++ “black box” of the legacy Humanoid. While this has served us all well, its hard-coded nature often felt like something you had to work around rather than with.

Today, Roblox is taking a step toward opening that box. They are excited to announce the Studio Beta of the AvatarAbilities Character Controller Library, a foundational shift that moves character logic and physics into a transparent, performant, extensible Luau implementation.

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| Redesigned Place Version History in Studio

Hey Creators,

Get ready for an upgrade to how you manage and track changes in your projects! Roblox is excited to introduce a completely redesigned and feature-rich Place Version History in Roblox Studio.

Introducing a Revamped Place Version History

Roblox knows how much versioning matters as projects and teams increase in size. That’s why they're building new workflows to make version management in Studio seamless, starting with a complete revamp of Place Version History.

The new Place Version History enables collaborators to tag, search, filter, and manage place versions using metadata such as timestamps, usernames, and notes all in a flexible new interface. Whether it’s for a rollback, development milestone, or stable release, this tool is designed to help you quickly find the right checkpoint every time.

Powerful New Product Features

Roblox has rebuilt Place Version History from the ground up to be more visible, actionable, and informative.

View the first image below to see the new Place Version History interface.
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| [Upcoming Breaking Change] Preventing logged-out users from viewing 3D thumbnails

Hello Creators,

If you are not using Roblox thumbnails Web APIs to fetch 3D thumbnails, you can skip this post and move on to the next one.

Protecting the Roblox creator community’s intellectual property is a top priority. To reduce the risk of unauthorized third parties scraping 3D thumbnail content, Roblox is going to block logged-out users from viewing 3D thumbnails starting March 23rd, 2026. This change will strengthen inventory privacy, make it harder for bad actors to copy assets, and lay the groundwork for Roblox to deliver higher-quality thumbnails over time.
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| New Analytics Dimensions: Get insight into your players’ spending behaviors

Hi Creators,

Today Roblox is excited to roll out more granular breakdowns and filters into how your players spend in your experience and across Roblox. In Creator Hub analytics, they're adding three new dimensions: Active payer status, When user first played, and Platform spender status.

Why do these insights matter?
By using these segments, you can answer critical questions like:

“Why is my DAU declining? Is it a weakness in acquiring new players … or in retaining & reactivating existing players?”
“Are my long-term players spending more than new players?”
“Are Active Spenders spending enough time in the experience to qualify for Creator Rewards?"
"How does my retention look for ‘Active Spenders’ versus players who have never spent USD on the platform?”
“Which acquisition sources are bringing in ‘High’ Robux payers?”
“How are different payer segments responding to my new releases, content and events?”

This can help you decide on what segment of your users to prioritize, and updates you might make to your experience.

View the second image below to see what the new analytics filter looks like.
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| Enabling Regional Prices for All Passes to Grow Your Global Audience

Hello Creators!

Roblox said that regional pricing will automatically be enabled for all game passes on March 30. This change will help creators by reducing their work. It will also ensure that games stay competitive in markets.

Creators will still have control over pricing. They can turn off pricing for any game pass at any time using Creator Hub. They do not need to do anything to keep it on.

Developer products are not part of this change. This is because they can affect things like gifting and trading. So developers must choose to use pricing, for these items themselves.
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| Updates to 2D Avatar Items, Uploading and Publishing Requirements

Hello Creators!

Roblox has shared new requirements for publishing 2D avatar items and fee changes for 3D avatar items.

New 2D avatar items requirements

Premium: An active Premium 1000 or 2200 subscription will be required to publish new 2D avatar items or to keep published 2D items on sale.
Publishing advance: Publishing 2D avatar items will also require a 10 Robux publishing advance. These fees also help deter misuse of the system and encourage legitimate creators.
Dynamic price floor: Like 3D avatar items, 2D avatar items will have a dynamic price floor, starting at 5 Robux, to support healthier prices and outcomes for both 2D and 3D avatar items.

This update will apply to groups as well, with the requirements as follows:

To upload a 2D avatar item - an upload fee of 10 Robux is required.
To publish a 2D avatar item - an active Premium 1000 or 2200 subscription (for both the publisher and the Group owner), and a publishing advance of 10 Robux are required.
To keep a 2D avatar item on sale - an active Premium 1000 or 2200 subscription is required.
Another change that Roblox has made to 3D avatar items is now 300 Robux, reduced from 750 Robux. All other 3D upload requirements remain unchanged.

On March 20, 2026: Roblox will begin delisting 2D clothing from the Marketplace and within experiences if the creator has not met the Premium requirement. To be clear, items purchased by users will remain in their inventories.
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| Improving Text Chat Filter and Introducing Chat Rephrasing

Hello Creators!

We are back with yet another Roblox update to text chat, as they are making significant improvements to the Text Chat filter, introducing a new layer of safety.

As many players know, a string of "## #####" can feel like a conversational dead-end that disrupts gameplay.
With that in mind, Roblox is introducing real-time Chat rephrasing for messages that contain profanity within Experience Chat and are between age-checked users in similar age groups or Trusted Connections.

Instead of showing hashtags for profanity, the new system now automatically rephrases those messages into civil language before they reach other players.

Chat rephrasing is now available across all supported auto-translation languages.

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| How we are improving Home this year

Hi Creators,

You’re building more diverse and ambitious experiences on Roblox than ever before, and the community playing them is growing across ages, devices, and play styles.

Because Home is where most discovery happens, Roblox is evolving it this year to better help experiences reach players most likely to enjoy them. In this post, Roblox walks through what’s changing and what it may mean for the discovery of your experience.

Click here for a video that explains the "Recommended for You" Algorithm.
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| [Studio Beta] Solid Modeling on Meshes & new Fragment and Sweep APIs

Hi Creators,

Roblox introduced a major update to the GeometryService solid modeling APIs through a Studio Beta:

Support for MeshParts: Solid Modeling APIs (Union, Intersect, Subtract) can now work with MeshParts that are solid (watertight meshes) and can return MeshParts.
New Fragment APIs (FragmentAsync and GenerateFragmentSites) for simple destruction scenarios.
New Sweep API (SweepPartAsync) for smoother cutting operations.

View second GIF below, view the post itself for more details.
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| [Full Release] Multi-line Studio Command Bar

Hi Creators,

Roblox is excited to announce that the Multi-line Command Bar is now fully released in Studio! Thank you to everyone who provided feedback and suggestions during the beta.

In case you missed it, the new Command Bar introduces a series of features aimed at reducing friction in developer workflows:

Native multi-line editing
Command saving and loading for repeated use
Undo/redo commands (Note: Some operations like Instance:Destroy and Debris:AddItem are still permanently destructive and cannot be undone)
Integrated script editor features including linting, in-line documentation, and code completion

View first GIF below to see the new Multi-Line Command Bar.
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| [Early Access] Introducing Mesh Streaming and Next-gen Cloud LoDs

Hi Creators!

Recently, following the launch of Texture Streaming, Roblox is introducing early access to Mesh Streaming.

What is Mesh Streaming?
Mesh Streaming is a new engine-level system that dynamically manages the detail and memory footprint of mesh assets, ensuring your experience runs smoothly on everything from high-end PCs to mobile devices.

Mesh Streaming moves away from the “all-or-nothing” approach to loading assets. Instead of waiting for a high-polygon mesh to download and load fully, the engine intelligently streams specific Levels of Detail (LoDs) based on what is happening in the scene.

Joining the Early Access program
To try out Mesh Streaming, simply sign up using the link below. Roblox will be adding people to the early access program in waves, and you will be notified via the dev forum so be sure to check your messages.

Sign up to the early access
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| Level Up Your Community: Assign Multiple Roles per Member!

Hi Creators,

Following the recent major updates to the platform, Roblox decided to give us a massive upgrade to how we manage our communities on Roblox: Multiple Roles per Member is now here!

How Permissions Stack Up
Moving forward, a community member will always have a base member role, plus any other roles you choose to assign them.

Combined Permissions: Role permissions add together. If a user has the “Developer” role (can edit experiences) and the “Community Manager” role (create announcements), they automatically have the permissions for both.
Role Hierarchy: With multiple roles, permissions like “Manage lower-ranked member ranks” will always look at the user’s highest-ranked role to determine who they can assign, kick, or ban.

You can view a user’s full list of roles right now in the Configure Community > Members tab.

API Updates
If your experience relies on roles for in-game logic, here’s what you need to know about the current APIs:

Reading Roles: The current GET ListGroupMemberships endpoint continues to work exactly as it does today, returning the member’s highest-ranked role.
Writing Roles - The legacy endpoint: PATCH Update Group Membership will overwrite a user’s profile. It removes all current roles and sets them only to the single role you specify in the request.

Oh, and one more thing: Roblox has removed the 25 Robux fee for creating new roles!

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| Analytics: Diagnose server crashes with server memory snapshots

Hi Creators!

Roblox has created a new analytics feature called server memory snapshots, designed to help developers to better understand and diagnose memory related server crashes, when a server crashes, a snapshot captures a detailed breakdown of memory usage at that exact moment.

This allows developers to check which systems, scripts, or memory categories were consuming the most leading to the crash, By analyzing these snapshots, creators can easily find memory leaks, unexpected spikes, or long term memory growth that may or not appear during regular testing in studio.

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| Voice Chat is now supported in servers of up to 100 users!

Hi Creators,

Lately, Roblox has made a lot of changes regarding Voice Chat, and today we have a huge one! Now, the Voice Chat supported server size has been increased from 50 to 100 users.

If your experience has Voice Chat enabled and the server size is between 1 - 100, you’re all set! Eligible users will now receive Voice Chat functionality when in-game.

jagged yoke Mar 26, 2026, 2:09 PM

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| Advanced Join Options in Ads Manager

Hi Creators,

Following recent big updates for the Ads Manager, today, we were introduced to the advanced join options. This enables you to control where players land in your experience after clicking on an ad.

Customizing the entry point enables you to create different user experiences for players based on how they play your game!

To get started, simply set your specific start place during campaign setup, and include custom parameters in the join URL to help identify which ad campaign brought a player into the experience.
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| Revamped Server Restarts and Server Management

Hi Creators,

Today, Roblox has announced Server Management, an update to the page on Creator Hub that gives you more control over how you roll out updates!
Previously, restarting servers after publishing an update was an all-or-nothing operation. You could shut down every server, or all outdated servers, but you couldn’t target specific versions or individual servers.

Server Management changes that. You now have a centralized place to browse your servers, inspect their health, and restart them with fine-grained control – all from Creator Hub.

(View images of the new features below)

jagged yoke Mar 27, 2026, 3:42 PM

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| Age Requirements for Team Create in Studio

Hi Creators,

Following Roblox’s global launch of requiring age checks to chat, these changes will now apply to Studio’s Team Create.

Because Team Create in Studio enables collaboration and communication across age groups, Roblox aims to ensure its safety standards are consistent across the entire platform.

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jagged yoke Mar 30, 2026, 9:28 AM

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Hi Creators,

During this week, we've gotten a couple of interesting updates that we suggest you check!

Server size for Voice Chat has increased from 50 to 100 users!
- [Link to original post](#news message) | DevForum Article
You can now link your ads directly to specific places within your experience. Use the new Launch Data parameter via GetJoinData to trigger custom rewards or specific spawn points tailored to the ad clicked.
- [Link to original post](#news message) | DevForum Article
Expanded the options available in the Server Restart APIs to provide more detailed control over your restarts. Server Browser is now on Creator Hub for real-time stats and full server control, available on the Server Management page.
- [Link to original post](#news message) | DevForum Article
Starting May, age checks are required for Studio Team Create. To continue to collaborate with Team Create, you must complete an age check.
- [Link to original post](#news message) | DevForum Article

Make sure to check these updates thoroughly through their respective Devforum articles.
We wish you a happy development week!

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jagged yoke Mar 31, 2026, 11:22 PM

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| [Beta] Updates to revamped Asset Manager

Hi Creators,

Roblox has been rolling out numerous new features and improvements, particularly to the revamped Asset Manager, to help make our Studio work more efficient for all our asset management needs.

This revamped version of the Asset Manager has introduced some new features to us that include:

Recent Uploads.
Asset ID Search: formats for this search would be assetid=<id>, <id>, or rbxassetid://<id>.
Search Query Language: examples for this would be <name> created_after=2025-08-17, <name> createdBefore:08-17-2025, or <item> updatedBefore=[Mar 10, 2026]... etc
Find in Explorer: You can now quickly locate asset instances in your workspace by selecting any number of assets, including those of different types, and then right-clicking → Find in Explorer.

Many more new things have been added, so make sure to check the DevForum article to see everything this update has to offer.

In Roblox Studio, go to File → Beta Features and enable the beta Revamped Asset Manager.

(Check images below for examples of added items)

jagged yoke Apr 6, 2026, 9:03 PM

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Let Your Players Pay for Subscriptions within Experiences in Robux

Hi Creators,

Roblox has given us the tools to earn from our experiences through subscription-based offerings. In other terms, Subscriptions are now a payment option for your experience!

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[Full Release] Universal Importer

Hi Creators,

Roblox has announced the full release of the Universal Importer, which brings support for image, audio, and video files to the import Queue.

You can access the Universal Importer through any of the same ways you accessed the 3D Import Queue. In addition, the revamped Asset Manager’s import button now routes to the Import Queue.

See full documentation here.

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Personalize Player Gameplay: New Platform Spender, Active Payer, and Tenure API Calls

Hi Creators,

Today, Roblox launched a new engine API call, AnalyticsService:GetPlayerSegmentsAsync, that allows you to tailor your game experience based on a player’s platform spender status, in-experience active payer status, and time since when the user first played the game.

Providing a customized experience for your players can improve their retention, engagement and monetization, which in turn helps your game to grow.

These API calls will be available through the AnalyticsService and can be accessed through AnalyticsService:GetPlayerSegmentsAsync(player : Player); passing in the player will return a dictionary of the player’s different segments (if they exist) as enums.
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