Are there any plans with audio marketplace? Audio needs to be upgraded.
Well about fonts, is there a plan to add more fonts? Moreover, I am unable to delete a font from an inventory. It doesn’t show me all fonts in the properties, and I cannot search fonts in Studio.
Will anyone be able to upload videos?
Can we expect RTL to be released in 2023?
What is the reason behind Roblox’s 2016 decision to remove the Moderation History? In my opinion, Roblox should bring it back.
Roblox Moderation needs to be improved since I’ve been banned several times for false moderation.
What does the devrel team think about doing an “AMA” once every month to provide more transparency to the community about the changes being made to the platform?
Whats in the pipeline regarding plugin integration, could we see Standalone plugins (and its related APIs) again or were these discontinued in the developer space and only used for Roblox’s own plugins, and, generally, what could we see regarding plugin APIs.
How will asset privacy be expanded moving forward, obviously audio is the elephant here, but how and will this increased to images, animations etc.
Will developers be able to reward their own UGC items in experiences when developers are allowed to create them
The friend activity bar was recently added, and has received a lot of hate/ dislike from the community. Is there any chance that this update will be reverted and the friends playing sort will be added back?
Wouldn’t it make more sense for creators to receive the 40%? and for distribution to get 30%?
Or AT LEAST give it a 35/35 split?
where we make it even more seamless for item creators to design their own stores on the platform
Could you add a button to all of our item listings letting us link to an experience to assist with this? I’d love to promote a personal store more, but links in descriptions don’t work for mobile users (and it’s messy). Having a “shop in experience!” button or something would help us create better shopping experiences for players.
Thank you for conducting this AMA, this level of communication is much appreicated. Roblox still lacks many basic features/tools that other engines have (notable ones listed below), will any of these be supported in the near future?
It’s apparently 31 seconds right now. Quite an annoyance for developers, but it would be harder to moderate the longer you allow us to make our trailers.
It’s awesome to see this sort of interactivity between Roblox and it’s community, keep it up! All the new features and the fast pace of them rolling out is lovely and are making the workflow of Roblox more modern. Working with Roblox Studio is so much nicer than it was a few years ago .
Now onto the questions:
There’s seems to be a bug with the Parent and/or Adornee property of Highlights, if you set them from one instance to another, it can cause the highlight to apply to unintended instances. I thought this would’ve been fixed when the selection improvements released as I’m assuming that uses a Highlight and this issue may have been encountered, but apparently not. Is this a known bug? I’ll try to get some example places setup to show this bug.
The Developer Awards program was slowly rolled back, and has been mentioned to be returning by the lead of the program Gmama with the expectation of an update about it’s state in the coming weeks, however it’s been two months and there’s only silence. Is there any chance some sort of update could be made about what’s going on and why it’s been delayed so much?
And finally, here’s a quick-fire list of broad points I’ve gathered:
Look into allowing variable voxel size for Terrain, voxel sizes smaller than 4x4x4 would allow terrain to blend more easily with maps made with BaseParts.
Add better ways to read information from sounds (and not just on the client), the only current property is PlaybackLoudness which is a unitless scale. Information such as decibels, hertz, BPM, etc, would be much more useful data to work with.
Add a built in function for evaluating a value at a specified time in a ColorSequence and NumberSequence, using a custom function is cumbersome and slow.
Maybe add math.lerp(a, b, x) for convenience sake. The :Lerp() function already exists for many data types, but having math.lerp would also allow individual numbers to be lerped too without having to make a custom function with the equation (a + (b - a) * x) each time.
Remove ‘Restart Studio’ prompt for changing studio settings that don’t require a restart.
Allow FaceControls properties to be editable by scripts to allow procedural animation of faces (not just pre-made animations).
Make variants for accessories so re-skins can be bundled together rather than being displayed as individual accessories in the Avatar Store. This should help reduce clutter and discounts could be applied if a user purchases the entire bundle rather than just the base accessory.
Add permission ‘View group funds’ to groups to allow members with certain roles to see group without needing to give spending permission or make them public to everyone.
Make characters move along with BaseParts affected by AlignPosition, if they are standing on them (Works with legacy BodyPosition).
Are there any news relating to potential new networking APIs, like sending unreliable packets? Currently, you can only send information via an ordered reliable channel using remotes, which means that if one packet is dropped, all other requests will be halted. It would be very nice to be able to just send data without having to worry about lag spikes if a packet happens to not arrive. (This especially matters for users that have poorer connections, e.g mobile users connected via public WiFi, people living in rural areas etc.)
There are many ways in which users can discover experiences on the platform, ranging from home recommendations to search and discovery. Word of mouth also plays a big role in experience discovery and features like friend invites and friend activity can help users find the right experiences for them.
All of these platform features can reach any user on the platform, including users under the age of 13.
Sharing revenue is a common frustration for many creators. We are actively working on a complete overhaul of the ‘groups’ system, and this foundation will eventually make it easier to pay your collaborators.
We hope to have more specifics to share later this year.
We are always tuning our search and recommendations systems to improve long-term engagement, monetization and the discovery of new experiences on the platform. The goal of the system is to match users with experiences they will love and to support the growth of our creator ecosystem. Our goal is to remove any limitation in terms of the quantity of experiences that get recommended and be responsive to trends or categories that users are showing interest in.
Recommendations are an area that we will continually iterate on, including not only what we recommend but also how those recommendations are presented to users.
A goal of allowing anyone on our platform to be able to create items in the Marketplace is to drive more innovation, breadth and quantity of content. As a result, this will drive more users to the platform and to the Marketplace.
We believe that with more users being able to discover the things that they love in the Marketplace, all creators will be able to benefit.
Just a quick followup on this - a great example of good communication can be seen with the “Roblox Creator Analytics” guilded server, ran by the product managers on the creator analytics team. It’s active, two-way communication and feedback between developers and product managers, which leads to a better product and assured developers. More of this is what developers want for programs, engine features and platform policies.
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