We are very excited to announce improvements to play-solo loading as a beta feature! This should make loading times significantly faster (around 35% for most places.)
As a part of the optimizations that made this improvement possible we removed non-testing-related built-in plugins from the loading procedure. We don’t expect this to affect most users but we will have a studio setting for enabling them back in case your workflow depends on it (coming before the end of the beta period).
Just timed the difference, looks like it saves around 2-3 whole seconds in a production game. Including the saved 0.6 secs from disabling the loading screen, these changes will save a lot of development time!
And some people want faster loading time… we all have different needs, AND the engineers don’t all have the same job. Some work on datastores, some on the website, some on Open Cloud, you get the idea.
You might be surprised, but a 35% improvement can make a big difference, especially on large projects.
Oh thank you! We totally would have missed your sarcasm if you hadn’t pointed it out.
One important point to note is that there are multiple Roblox teams working on different features for the platform. Just because one team is focusing on improving Play Solo, it doesn’t mean that all other features are put on hold.
I don’t see the point going into announcements, feature requests, and bug reports just complaining because something you wanted didn’t got released yet. Doing that won’t change anything. If this isn’t useful for you then it definitely is useful for many others. And as others have pointed out, different teams work on different things.
Thank you so much for these changes! I’d like to ask though - does it improve loading times by memoizing studio-only data, or things that would be reflected in-game also? I’m mainly interested as it could potentially misguide developers into believing their games load fast not just in studio, but also in-game.
Studio is already very optimised compared to other engines, but everyone knows Roblox is mean’t for (mostly) optimisation. Very good update. Honestly, I can’t imagine what will come next, colouring SurfaceAppearances? Shaders? EditableSounds?
You can already create innappropiate stuff with EditableImage and EditableMesh, so EditableSound would still be appropiate. Moderators may just ban these games anyways.
I was half expecting this to be an update to life games that have 1 player servers but this is also super neat!
Play testing projects gonna be a lot more seamless I feel, less hanging!
I wonder if this is hardware spec dependent because my PC already is pretty fast, I’m not complaining though, faster is always better!
Speak for yourself, but this update is extremely useful. Those ~3 seconds add up super quickly when you constantly have to fix bugs & make changes that need tested again.
