Accessory Adjustment APIs for experiences

Revolutionary! Can’t wait to see how developers use this.

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Hey, loving the recent updates you’ve been rolling out! However, I noticed one potential issue. Like @DrAdministration mentioned (sorry for mention), there’s a chance it could be bypassed. I was also wondering, does this apply to all accessory adjustments such as size, rotation, and position? And is there an ETA on when other in-game accessory options will be available?

Also, I’d love to know is if there are any upcoming features related to avatar customization that we should look out for. Are there plans to expand beyond Head and Face accessories soon? Or even any other accessory types?

Another thing, how does the PromptCreateOutfit feature work with the new APIs? Are there any tips or things to avoid when using this in our games?

Alright, that’s enough yapping. Basically, this is a fantastic update, just looking for an ETA on those additional accessory options.

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we are only allowing Face and Head accessory adjustments at this time.

So that is why it wasn’t allowing me to adjust Back an Waist Accessories. :cry:

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Hello
Can this be used for adjustment of accessories, which exist only inside the given game (and which are not being sold on the Marketplace) ?

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Yes! An AccessoryDescription that references an Instance in your game can have adjustment data and use the data when applying the HumanoidDescription.

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The cursed NSFW-ish tongue UGCs just got a lot more cursed.

But genuinely, nice work, Roblox! This will let me express my avatar creativity far easier then before!

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I’ve been playing around with accessory adjustment ever since it released last month, really amazing feature that we’ve definitely been needing for years. Since there’s finally an announcement thread on this, I want to ask a few things:


[1] Why are position/rotation/scale values automatically rounded to the nearest hundredth of a decimal? e.g. 0.957 would become 0.96


[2] If the Scale parameter is a Vector3, then why does the platform enforce uniform scaling? e.g. why can I not scale my accessories on only one or two axes, instead all 3 values have to be the exact same?

This feels like a seemingly pointless restriction that prevents a lot of potential with this feature, especially once more accessory types (especially ones that aren’t attached to the head) can be used with this feature.

R15 body scaling happens to affect your accessories, and I was hoping that this feature could be used to “reset” the automatic scaling of some of those accessories, by adjusting them back to a normal size. For example:

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This is so awesome.

Currently, UGC creators have to make LOTS of variants of the same hats and stuff to cover all different positions and ways you can wear something but it be super cool if you can just tilt your hat and adjust the position of things.

Some accessories could form amazing combos since you can now just adjust their pose so they no longer clip or obstruct each other.

I recall that some hair, hats and ears don’t fit because they become this muddy mess, but being able to adjust them potentially solves this issue and allows for so much more expression!

Huge W feature.

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30 fps ahh desktop app :100: :speaking_head: :fire: :fire:

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Wait, so this is how people make those cool avatars :star_struck:

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This is a slightly unrelated question, but are there plans for accessories inserted via InsertService to use MeshPart handles? Currently they still insert with part handles containing a SpecialMesh. I think now that we have SurfaceAppearance.Color (VertexColor replacement) and accessory adjustment, it would be great if we could opt into new insertion behavior. Thanks

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The limits would be open to changing in the future! As for the old values, the feature was still WIP at the time so we changed to the current values after discussion.

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YEAHHHHHH

I love this idea, usually to fix this was to try on multiple of similar accessory for one with the right size and position. But this is Golden!!!

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We plan to allow accessory adjustment for other accessories soon! Likely Neck/Shoulder and Front/Back accessories.
For PromptCreateOutfit or PromptSaveAvatar being updated with this feature, you can now save accessory adjustments to the platform or user’s outfits (but they will be clamped within the limits given in AvatarEditorService:GetAvatarRules(). We were imagining a use case for in-experience Avatar Editors where devs could add their own UI to help the user adjust accessories and save to their account. In this case, our advice would be to use the values in avatarRules.AccessoryRefinementLowerBounds and avatarRules.AccessoryRefinementUpperBounds to know the min and max values for adjustments. For example, if you made a slider for Hat position adjustments in your Avatar Editor, you need avatarRules.AccessoryRefinementLowerBounds.Hat.Position.XPosition to get the minimum allowed X-axis adjustment limit, which is -0.25 at the moment. You can also call AvatarEditorService:ConformToAvatarRules() to make a HumanoidDescription clamp adjustment values.

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That one in-game avatar saving function seems to have an issue. Not sure if it’s because it’s using v1, unless it uses v2 now, there was that Fast Flag about it once.

An Avatar can wear up to 10 Accessories of any type, and that in-game saving function cuts that away. Will that be fixed, so it doesn’t cut it away? :thinking:

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Pretty cool adition but I have a question, are there any plans on making adjustments for avatar hair available too?

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This is a truly innovative and amazing update.
Roblox we only wait for good updates like this.
We will continue to wait for good updates for our users.

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Can this be used in games that have custom-character-customisation creation? E.g. selecting a hair to place on their character, can the API then be used to grant users the ability to change the hair’s position and et cetera, and save that information to a database?

Excited to see this finally possible!! But can we please start backfilling features to the website, this is getting ridiculous. The phone app is borderline unusable for me on a pixel 8 pro (a modern phone!!) for how laggy it is to change views and do actions, and everything new for avatars is only accessible there.

We are three features behind at the very least already; accessory adjustment, creating and selling avatars, and setting your avatar headshot.

Sometimes I dragged the wrong slider, and I had to go to the top right just to reset the value back to default…

I wanted to break out of this problem.

So, I made this Step by Step Guide for Roblox Staff to modify AdjustmentSlider Component within Lua App Universal App