Feedback on "Terrain.Decoration"

[Sylmat]

It would be interesting to make it scriptable. Clearly it doesn’t affect much since we can manually do it in studio from the properties. Doesn’t lag, doesn’t make glitches.

This would allow me to further improve my player’s performances by allowing them to manually toggle off the grass. Doing so easily cut the tris count by couple hundred thousands

Affected URL: Terrain | Documentation - Roblox Creator Hub

[Tavikron (Octav)]

I recommend posting this as a Feature Requests > Engine Features post, but there’s one already:

Allow for Terrain.Decoration to be scriptable

This setting isn’t able to be set by scripts. I would like for it to be configurable from within scripts because I have different parts of the game that sometimes require and don’t require terrain grass & there’s no way to toggle it without using different terrain material types.

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And it won’t get added:

@ConvexRumbler

It is not scriptable for a reason. We expect to remove the Decoration setting with the extension to the whole decoration system and we dont want you to be dependent on it in scripts. This way we are making sure that we are not gonna break games much with its (possible) removal in the future.

[Sylmat]

@Tavikron

I recommend posting this as a Feature Requests > Engine Features post, but there’s one already:

yeaahhh i realized after submitting that this opens a documentation issue post

@Tavikron

And it won’t get added:

It’s 7 years old… the guy also mentions “possible removal”, which leaves a chance it won’t.. and since we’re in the future.. seems like they either abandoned it or taking forever to make something out of it.

In the case they abandoned the idea of improving decorations, this possibility would be a nice to have

[naahchos]

Hi @Sylmat!

You’re correct that the feedback button on the docs opens a documentation issue, so I don’t think there’s much I can action on here.

I would recommend reposting this to the Feature Requests section, maybe even mentioning that older post in it as well. Like you mentioned, it’s been a while and maybe direction or roadmapping has changed. It also helps flag that multiple creators have requested this, which may help with prioritization.

Feel free to use the feedback button for any docs stuff in the future - thanks for reaching out
naahchos