[Feature Request] New category in Platform Feedback for avatar-related features and bugs

[colbert2677 (ImagineerColbert)]

I feel like feature requests and bugs for Roblox avatars should be separated into a different category from Engine Features/Bugs. Avatars are a pretty massive topic on their own, even sporting their own dedicated team, yet most of the avatar bugs are all across the Platform Feedback category.

This is also a sample thread that was posted to Forum Feedback that was never addressed:

Where are avatar bugs meant to go?

@chesse20 recently found this bug in the developer forums Discord: [image] This begs the question, if he were to make a bug report, where would she put it? Perhaps a new avatar bugs category could alleviate the ambiguity? Maybe a new Inception thread like the “Report Catalog Errors” thread, which is meant for typographical issues and not actual item issues?

I feel like a dedicated category for avatar feedback would help the Avatar Team and engineers better focus in on avatar-related issues, rather than mashing them up across all threads. There are avatar and catalog issues across web and engine feedback respectively: a quick search can reveal this.

[Mullets_Gavin (Mullets)]

With the recent announcement of UGC, I believe we need an Avatar category. An Avatar category will be beneficial due to threads like those listen down below. The Avatar team would also be able to check this category more conveniently and handle appropriate bugs and features.

Threads that may pertain to avatar may include;

Lock R15 blocky characters by default

Currently R15 bundle-less characters spawn unlocked by default. However, R6 entirely, and body parts that belong to a bundle are locked by default. Please lock the default R15 blocky bundle. In building games or games that rely on parts being locked, developers currently have to write code to lock characters every time they spawn to account for this weird case. This has been an issue since R15 first appeared iirc.

UGC Quality Control Suggestion

UGC Quality Control Suggestion Hey Developers, I’ve taken some time to compile my ideas for UGC into this little post. Feel free to leave your suggestions or concerns below in the comments and be sure vote on the poll attached. Edited: I’m already aware of everything they announced during the session at RDC, these are just additional ideas I had. My Ideas ANYONE can upload UGC Limit of “X” UGC Uploads Per Week (more if you have Premium) UGC items can be "Liked’ by other players When UGC …

Make certain descriptions on the Avatar page more verbose

Right now, some avatar options (primarily “Body Type” and “Proportions”) don’t make much sense. Before writing this post, I had to go into studio and mess with the values on my avatar during runtime to see exactly what they did. I suggest appending tooltips to each avatar option so that editing is more friendly. Here’s what I suggest: Height How tall your avatar is. Width How wide your avatar is. Lower values make you more slim. Head How large your avatar’s head is. Proportions Controls yo…

I am not totally sure if these pertain to the Avatar team.

And adding onto that, this video also shows a pretty good reason to add this category as the Avatar develops more and more:

Future of Avatar | RDC 2019

[PeZsmistic]

I don’t think there’s enough of a use for a category as specific as this.

Humanoid features / issues - Engine
Avatar features / issues ingame - Engine
Avatar features / issues on website - Web
Catalog asset issues - Not worth a whole category. eg. Gear isn’t likely high priority so nobody will read bug reports, and afaik art tweaks seem kind of hard to make (see: Crimson Claw’s wing size still being small despite the demand for them to be made larger again now that collisions work properly).

[buildthomas]

We have one feedback category for each part of Roblox’s deployment (so per application scope, i.e. Studio, client (=engine, all-encompassing for anything to do with run-time), platform (= web), documentation (= developer hub), mobile app (= mobile), xbox app (= xbox)).

Avatar/UGC is not really a separate component of the Roblox deployment so it doesn’t make sense to have a separate category for it. It’s part of the platform (= web), so web features/bugs. I recommend using topic tags to further specify what the topic’s scope is.

If you’re not sure what category you should use you can always send a message to @Post_Approval (even as a Member) to find out the best category for your post.