Broken Thumbnails - Allow Creators to fix their thumbnails after an item was published

The thumbnails shown in Roblox Studio for UGC items are very innacurate. They look really bad and they don’t reflect the item.
There’s no way to accurately see your item’s thumbnail. There are Plugins made by the community but those are also innacurrate.
Please add an official way to make thumbnails, allow creators to adjust their thumbnails if an item is not on-sale yet OR Just display them accurately before publishing so creators know what to fix about them.

The shading in thumbnails is also a big issue that should be fixed. Due to a game’s settings, the lightning might not show up accurately on the item & the creator will end up with an item that looks really dark.

Studio View:

Result:

Thumbnail using 3rd Party Plugins:



Credits: UGC Maker's Kit plugin

Expected behavior

I expect Roblox to have a built-in thumbnail maker by now because the UGC Catalog was released in 2019. Or atleast a way to fix the thumbnails once the item is published, because 3rd party plugins will never be 100% accurate.

4 Likes

Adding onto this, I think FieldOfView should be added to ThumbnailConfiguration since most creators rely on this trick to get perfect camera angles but lack of a preview until it’s too late is frustrating.

2 Likes


There is an official plugin published by the Roblox Resources group which should maybe be more accurate?

1 Like

Unfortunately that plugins offers the bare minimum, which is not enough to make a good looking thumbnail

2 Likes