[Beta] Cube 3D Generation Tools and APIs for Creators

[pjhinthehouse]

Definitely… like emission maps for SurfaceAppearance!

[777PerfectPlayer777 (NightPlayer)]

It is not easier to just create a meshpart editor??

[7Wapy (thunder)]

This is an incredible feature that will surely change how Roblox game development is done.

[Goldthyr]

all the ai tools are amazing but they need to be improved for the tiny details for it to be usable

[7z99 (cody)]

Don’t worry 3d modellers, y’all are safe (for now).

Anyway – with no disrespect to anyone specifically, just the feature – this is overall not a good thing to be made public and a complete disrespect to 3d modelers in my opinion. Resources should’ve been used elsewhere given the engine’s current state. You (Roblox as a whole) should be encouraging people to create things for themselves instead of generating AI slop and slapping “game asset” onto it. At the end of the day, who is even benefitting from this? AI is not the answer to everything. Certainly not for game assets.

[Vikko151]

I prompted “Vikko151” and it gave me this as a result:

Face reveal I guess.

BONUS: Here’s the result with something of copyrighted: TF2 scout

[crusherfire]

Cool tech experiment and open source!

But how about fixing bugs that have been around for over 6 years?

AnimationTrack.Looped Does Not Replicate

The AnimationTrack.Looped property does not replicate across the client/server boundary. Changing the looped property on the server, does not replicate the property to the clients. I discovered this when trying to set the looped property on an animation track on an NPC via a server side script. Changing the property only affects the looping behavior on the server.

Or over 5 years?

VehicleSeat Unreliable - Sometimes Doesn't Work

VehicleSeats seem to have an issue where they don’t always work when using VehicleSeat:Sit(humanoid). This does successfully “sit” the character, but the controls don’t seem to be capturing. For instance, the HUD doesn’t show up & trying to steer/throttle the vehicle does nothing. I haven’t been able to properly reproduce this yet. It always happens in a game server – I haven’t experienced this in Studio yet. And it seems sporadic. I don’t know what triggers it. Sometimes it works, sometimes it…

Or over 3 years?

Permissions bug - Group-made animations do not load for Team Create members in Studio

Reproduction Steps On your main account, publish a game to a group that you own, and turn on Team Create. Upload a custom Animation to that group, and set up a script in your game to play that animation. In Game Settings > Permissions, give a second account access to edit the game. Log into the second account, and open the game in Studio using that account. Test the game in Studio on the second account and attempt to play the custom animation. The following place file can be used, just replac…

Or adding useful engine features?

@TimeFrenzied

Here’s a list of features (and associated feature requests, if applicable) that I believe should be added to the platform, in order from most to least important.

WorldRoot:BulkResize

DataModel:BulkSet(propName: string, instances: {Instance}, values: {any}, eventsToFire: {string}?) It would be so awesome… it would be so cool…

SurfaceGui.Wrapable

Setting the property to true would make the SurfaceGui wrap to the surface it’s adorned to like a decal. I want to be able to do this: [image]

Increase Highlight Limit

I love using highlights for creating visual effects, highlighting important game elements, and making parts of the world feel independent. It’s been incredibly helpful. This feature was “added” in 2021 and you can still only have ~31 persistent highlights in the world at one time. This is possible to work around, culling/models for example, but builds up too much technical debt. I don’t believe this should be a problem for developers to tackle. In a situation where highlights would be a great …

Scaled text without wrapping

I want my text to scale to fit its container, but it is only one word. I do not want the single word to be wrapped over multiple lines, I simply want the text to become smaller so that the word fits on a single line. [image] Currently the only way to achieve this is to manually configure the TextSize with TextScaled off until TextFits is true, or, calculate the undocumented properties of different fonts and derive some formula.

AnimationTrack.Loaded, AnimationTrack.IsLoaded

As a Roblox developer, it is currently too hard to accurately yield for an Animation to load in without using a hacky approach or polling until AnimationTrack.Length is above zero. If Roblox is able to address this issue, it would improve my development experience because then I could make sure that my animations are fully loaded before doing an operation such as the one shown below. AnimationTrack:AdjustSpeed(AnimationTrack.Length / Humanoid.WalkSpeed) Use-case/Scenario I was creating a sc…

It is too hard to get the Parallel Luau Actor that a ModuleScript is running in

As a Roblox developer, it is currently too hard to identify if a ModuleScript is being called from an Actor. The Instance:GetActor() method just returns if the instance is a descendant of an Actor, not if the execution context of the module is inside an Actor or not. Our game (SCI - Pathos III - Roblox) uses shared library code across various games, some of which use Parallel Luau heavily and some of which do not. Likewise, some scripts in the game are not Parallelized or inside of an Actor. T…

[mario123667 (Lamario)]

This is probably where half of the Roblox budget is being spent. Instead of giving us useful features that have we been long waiting for. Such as the comment above

Instead, you’re going to give us some AI tool That may or may not rip the company apart

[iitreyonly (Trey)]

@7z99

complete disrespect to 3d modelers in my opinion.

I appreciate your opinion, but nobody asked. This is meant for users who don’t have experience.

Let’s keep our comments non-biased.

[Fraiixen (Frayxen)]

By your logic, No one asked if you asked.

[Fraiixen (Frayxen)]

Nintendo would like to know your current location.

[Wheatly199]

Aight I just got some questions:
Why is roblox suddenly obfuscating the ID verification part?
Are they aware of the complaints and just trying to hide mentions of it now?
In the past, im pretty sure they have always declared that somewhere on the update post

Why is roblox not optimizing and further improving their platform? Stuff like the forced TextChatService still run like trash, just casually eating up performance

And how can roblox afford to run all this AI stuff? Aren’t they just going to lose even more money from this?

[TimeFrenzied (Broken Spawn)]

@Wheatly199

Why is roblox suddenly obfuscating the ID verification part?

WDYM by this? Are you asking why it wasn’t clarified in the post? If so, beats me.

@Wheatly199

Are they aware of the complaints

Yes

@Wheatly199

trying to hide mentions of it now?

Doubt it, it’s already far too late.

@Wheatly199

Why is roblox not optimizing and further improving their platform?

As @Reditect mentioned, probably just different teams.

@Wheatly199

And how can roblox afford to run all this AI stuff?

good question actually

[Wheatly199]

yeah i do mean the lack of clarification for that first one

but like why can’t someone just forcefully motivate that other team into improving the platform, stopping the performance leaks that they themselves forced onto us, and just fix the platform into being semi reliable for once?

[wickedyboo]

Did you even look at his post, with all due respect such topology should never be used in any projects, it would only set you up for unoptimized failure, especially those who don’t know what they’re doing.
As previously mentioned it encourages taking the easiest laziest route instead of properly learning the basics to get better results, it removes incentive to learn the bare minimum, following this route you will rarely ever find any success and sooner or later you’ll need to learn the basics of these skills regardless, all this does is prolong that realization process for new developers

[MinerB4 (Borange Man)]

i swear the ai is going to misread one of my prompts and get my account deleted…
no thank you.

[7z99 (cody)]

With all due respect, it’s my opinion, of course it’s going to be biased. Inexperienced individuals have online resources to become experienced. I won’t be responding further

[Reditect]

@Wheatly199

Why is roblox not optimizing and further improving their platform? Stuff like the forced TextChatService still run like trash, just casually eating up performance

On the topic of TextChatService, that’s the ‘Roblox Chat Team’ as stated by one of their announcements. @be_nj hasn’t responded to feature requests, but has quite a bit on bug reports like this: (so they’re working on it.)

Script_CoreScripts/ExperienceChatMain Very Slow

I also noticed a lot of waste here, especially when flags were living for a long while. 100 flag checks can sometimes add up to 1ms per frame (This is hypothetical, I didnt see any evidence of 100 flags being called per frame)! I merged a change a few weeks ago that should have been released this week that cleans up a lot of these calls to FFlags.

If you have a particular thing you think Roblox should be “optimizing and further improving”, I could also look into that. I assume more staff read what we say than we think. They just don’t usually respond.

[TomPlays63 (Tom)]

I tested the AI out and it’s not the best. It will take years of training the ai for it to improve.

[Pancake4878 (Pancake)]

I do think this feature will be good for some people, or people who just want to mess around with it. But i wouldve rather you guys put more time into other parts of the site instead of this. It’s not the worst thing ever, but it just feels unnecessary right now.

i take it back. use all your resources on this actually