Thanks a ton for making this! I’m in the same boat as many others struggling to wrap my head around the drastic changes.
An issue I seem to be having is that the Cut, Copy, Paste, and Duplicate tools on the left of the recreated Home tab don’t seem to be doing anything when I click them.
At first I thought this was because these were script-related functions that didn’t do anything to parts, but comparing the tooltips between the new and old UI, they’re exactly the same (both the Copy and Cut tools directly refer to text in the tooltips themselves), yet the old ones work and the new ones don’t.
Any chance this could be looked into/any tips on how to go about fixing this issue myself if that’s necessary?
Yeah, this is also an issue with the buttons on the View tab. Nothing I can do about it as JSON just defines the layout of the components, not how the components should work on the Ribbon.
Bookmarking this for whenever they make it no longer optional. Is the Script tab included? I use the format buttons in particular a lot.
Also, uh, how do I actually use this? The last time I tried doing anything with adding stuff to my Studio files was back when plugins only existed as text documents you had to download outside of Roblox’s ecosystem, lol
This looks much better than the “Explorer” button being dumped in the middle at the top of the screen for Roblox’s version, although it could do with some physical “undo and redo” buttons like in the old UI. I might have to try this out at some point when they force the new update on us. Shouldn’t have to take a person to come along and make something better than what a whole cooperation should be able to develop on their own. But anyways, this one looks like a better alternative according to the pictures .
Does this allow me to put tools directly into where the tab buttons would be yet? That was my main gripe with the new UI and I haven’t been following the development progress.
Unfortunately Studio currently only lets us control the number, names and contents of the tabs (outside of some kind of mod). You could have one single tab with many small buttons though
Finally getting around to this since some of my test servers/clients are just… using the new one at the same time as the other uses the old one? anyways, that post doesn’t appear to actually include where to find that folder, in fact it links back to this very post in a circular fashion.
I have no idea why they didnt make that the default layout for the new UI. It would’ve been the best! @MeshOfPaul Roblox should definitely consider making this the default! It will help everyone get on board with the new UI update
The old UI was a kitchen sink full of tools that tried to satisfy everyone at the same time. Especially for new users, this was problematic, as those users would struggle to understand what each of them do and if they ever need them.
This is the reason why they kept it simple with the new one. You can also customize your own tabs, so the responsibility has been lifted from their arms.
An easy solution would be that Studio keeps the old layout (in the new UI) for existing users and setting the new layout on fresh studio installs. I’m sure this can be easily done
An easier solution would just be that users who really want this old layout can find community-made templates like this one instead of relying on Roblox to hold their hands here. In fact to my knowledge they’ve even been directing developers to this forum post if they had any complaints about the new layout being so different from the old one.
The only thing they could do to make things simpler is some sort of interface that lets a user specify JSON files to be inserted into the CustomRibbonTabs folder without them having to go out of their way to locate it themselves.
Not exactly, and would not be worth it for the same reasons I provided above. You have customization, spending a couple minutes to make custom tabs will outweigh waiting or asking for Studio to do it for you.
They’ve grouped it in with all the testing buttons in the top left corner in the new UI. If you click the “Test” dropdown you can switch between the different modes like Servers & Clients and Test Here.
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