Creator Roadmap 2024: End of Year Recap

[nothing_1649 (gom_a)]

i am once again asking about the status of ControllerManager.UpDirection, it’s been promised since february and i’m still waiting for it, i’ve had a game on hold for almost a year now because of it; just enable the fflag already or tell us what’s happening since it wasn’t addressed in the last roadmap post either

[XenoDenissboss1]

@Roblox

• Instance Streaming - Multi Replication Focus - For experiences with Instance Streaming enabled, this will allow you to designate multiple areas for streaming and simulation. For example, you could set critical regions of your map that you frequently move players so they’re never streamed out. (Early 2025)
• Instance Streaming - Streaming Excluded Mode - For experiences with Instance Streaming enabled, this would prevent replication of models to all or some clients. This means you won’t need to hide instances under the camera or the PlayerGUI anymore! Additionally, if there’s sensitive state that might give one player a competitive advantage in your game, you’ll now be able to ensure that data isn’t replicated to that player. (Late 2025)

Cool. But when we will be given control over replication outside of instance streaming? I don’t plan in using instance streaming at all personally and i wish to make my own custom solutions which perform better for my use cases. I believe the ability for developers to control replication is something we’ve been asking for quite a while now.

@Roblox

Acoustic Simulation - Automatically brings immersive soundscapes to life by simulating how sound interacts with materials and environments, with customizable options for added control. Sounds can more naturally echo (reverb), be blocked by walls (occlusion), and bend around corners (diffraction), adapting to unique structural designs. Provides easy settings to decide which sounds follow the simulation and adjusts how materials influence audio, creating richer, more realistic sound. (Early 2025)

Cool.

[TimeFrenzied (big _jimmy)]

@Roblox

Team Chat is being removed from Studio - In keeping with our effort to drive safe chat on the platform, we’re removing support for Team Chat from Studio by January 30th, 2025, as it does not integrate with parental controls. We believe that creator team communication within Studio will be better served by the ability to annotate and add comments directly within the workspace.

This will be worse

People can bypass this AND all filtering with textlabels and surfaceguis anyways, you’re just making it harder to develop

[TechyPlains (Techy)]

A lot of great features to have this year and the years to come!

[TNTUP]

I don’t see anything about Friend limit increases so i guess I need to wait in 2025

[EnigmaticDevil]

@Roblox

• Instance Streaming - Streaming Excluded Mode - For experiences with Instance Streaming enabled, this would prevent replication of models to all or some clients. This means you won’t need to hide instances under the camera or the PlayerGUI anymore! Additionally, if there’s sensitive state that might give one player a competitive advantage in your game, you’ll now be able to ensure that data isn’t replicated to that player. (Late 2025)

This confuses me. Does this mean we can choose which stuff to replicate to players?, or are developers actually using the camera/playergui folders to hide server sided instances? (I’ve never heard about this but that’s kinda weird, and such a bad practice…). Because whatever “hiding” is, I can just simply fire-client specific players then on their client they spawn the instance no? that way its “hidden” from other players…?

[TheMemerMonkey]

@Roblox

Instance Streaming - Streaming Excluded Mode - For experiences with Instance Streaming enabled, this would prevent replication of models to all or some clients. This means you won’t need to hide instances under the camera or the PlayerGUI anymore! Additionally, if there’s sensitive state that might give one player a competitive advantage in your game, you’ll now be able to ensure that data isn’t replicated to that player. (Late 2025)

Is it possible we can get more control over streaming terrain? Currently it appears terrain will never be streamed out even at extreme distances. I’d be nice if we had something like a max radius in which terrain will be streamed per player.

[yotoro100]

@Roblox

Avatar Settings (Early 2025): Enhanced controls for player avatar size, collision, clothing and accessories to balance player identity with consistency and fairness in your experience.

This is great!!! Can’t wait for this to ship.

[MaybeHoshi (BarelyHoshi)]

This year has been pretty neat features-wise i guess. Can’t wait for 2025.

[I_thykingXx (Spyte)]

Insane stuff to look forward to! Just want to say, thank you to everyone at Roblox working so incredibly hard to get these systems out to us so swiftly. You guys are amazing

[fouroul94 (Nurfed)]

Right now the only way to stop replication from an instance to clients is by putting it into the camera on the server side, that will stop replication from an instance

[baackup_1st (Backup)]

May want to swap these to be the correct way around.

Otherwise lots of cool features on the roadmap can’t wait to see them added!

[Diangamertv (PhoenixLegend)]

Hourly engagement might be kinda OP, instead of waiting 24 hours to see data from an update just wait an hour and you can see if the players liked it or not, W

[jake33231316 (bobo_ko)]

Cannot wait for what is to come in 2025!

[Kotium_I (Kotium)]

@Roblox

• Server Authority (Beta) - We are building native support for Server Authority. If a Creator enables this feature, the server will become the single source of truth for game actions, logic, and data; this should reduce cheating and improve fairness. Due to the additional latency incurred from a server authoritative solution we are also working on techniques like speculation and rollback to keep games feeling super responsive for your players. This feature is early in development, and we’ll be running tests through 2025. (2025)

Yay no more movement exploits hopefully

[kalet14 (moririririri)]

Kind of disappointed that graphics related updates always get delayed. Things like clouds and fluids for example alongside other lighting updates… Maybe one day we’ll get these things updated right?

[onlyalexicon (Askathomist)]

I’d like to ask some questions in regards to the Audio Simulation

1. Will HRTFs be added?
2. How will the material absorption work? I.e what database of materials are you using? What will be the accuracy of said absorption, i.e levels of frequency absorption.
3. Will distance based sound attenuation be added?
4. How will the natural reverb work? Raycasting to determine room volume or determining the decay time through raycasts?
5. How will you account for much more complex situations?

[onlyalexicon (Askathomist)]

I’m pretty sure clouds are finished, i.e there wont be any future changes or additions

[Extuls]

Clouds had multiple planned phases that Roblox was very open about. It is clear that further updates aren’t a high proprity at the momet, but I doubt we will never see more updates.

As much as I really want more features for clouds, I hope their being on hold is to get work on them again at a more appropriate time relative other features. The features we have for the sky right now feel very limited. I would love to see control over sky colour, custom celestial bodies, custom cloud placement, etc. There is a lot of work that can be done on the sky that all have feature requests in the past.

Clouds in their current state are not all they should be, and Roblox knows that. Updates will happen when they happen. Hopefully more control over the sky can come sooner than later.