Import Game Asset References to new Game

As a Roblox developer, it is currently too hard to move asset references to a new game, such as when you want to create a copy of your game.

My game currently contains over 600 rbxgameasset:// references which point to an image that is uploaded via the game browser. All of these references break when the scripts that use them are moved to a new game.

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If Roblox is able to address this issue, it would improve my development experience because I would be able to create new versions of my game, such as a community testing version or a version modified to have a slightly different experimental gameplay experience.

Alternatively, I would welcome the ability to convert my existing rbxgameasset:// references to rbxassetid:// references which would not break upon being moved to a new game. If I could get studio to output a table of rbxgameasset → rbxassetid references, I could use the command line to replace all of these references in my scripts and the problem would be fixed.

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