Mobile graphics have always been lacking, not sure if this is the classic “for older and slower devices” (thats why we dont have UI blurring yet) or just the mobile rendering engine doesn’t support it. I think we should be able to do what we want in terms of performance, if the performance sucks on older devices or phones then it’s the developer’s issue, we shouldn’t have features held back because of it.
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To follow up on this, they do bring up an interesting point about how different games need different ideal configurations and it might be a hassle for both Roblox and the user to manage.
This is fair, but it’d be awesome if we could have profiles per-place, developer controlled performance balancing, and in general… full visual parity with all graphics quality levels as much as possible.
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I have a lot of friends that are low spec players and they keep talking about this limitation, because in some games render distance matters a LOT. Roblox Staff, please, stop ignoring good and reasonable requests
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In theory it might even be possible to hack Roblox’s shaders to accomplish this.
I know the spec for the shader pack format, so maybe it could be… forcefully nudged in specific directions? We’ll have to see.
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I know the spec for the shader pack format
Really? Have you published any experiments with that sort of thing yet?
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Zfeatureharmony existed for a bit and then they just abandoned it. it was gonna do this exact thing but roblox sucks ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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At least add rez scale so the Ui still looks good then just upscale using FSR
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My desktop is the opposite, the GT 710 I had to throw in due to a dying GPU loves AA but doesnt like running fancy things at higher resolutions so I can seriously enable max AA and lower game resolution if its seperate from UI resolution
Things like this are why its important
I remember tweaking the studio settings when I had a bad PC and it changing the client too in 2019 so it did that up until recently
Interesting. I thought it stopped when they revamped the settings UI.
The settings API page went unchanged into 2020 and I swear I changed the studio settings for the client as recently as 2022
The recent creator AMA had this to say in response to a question about more graphics settings than just the existing 1-10 bar for the client:
The point shouldn’t be to continue locking clients into a simple bar and simply improving the backend and automation of how those settings applies. Roblox has a terrible bad habit with black boxing and automating things that either don’t need to be automated or where fine tuning should also be supported. It’s really disappointing that a simple slider is the future of client graphics options.
Clients really need to be able to adjust these graphics on their own so they can build and enrich the graphics experience on their own. I’m fortunate enough to have a high-end device to always run everything at maximum but if I didn’t, I would at least want to be able to turn off very specific graphics features while retaining the rest to ensure I can enjoy the various worlds made by creators.
I maintain my own modular settings menu in my experience to assist clients with improving performance while encouraging them to also keep their graphics settings high to enjoy the feeling of our worlds. The work of graphics fine tuning should not be entirely offloaded onto developers while also trusting Roblox to make sane decisions and working around said decisions about how the graphics slider should act with no room for compromise.
Discrete graphics options are needed. The future of graphics tuning should not be strictly limited to engine optimisations, but giving power to clients to adjust their experiences as well. So many games support this; Roblox not only drags their feet here, but won’t even entertain the idea.
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Yes, I agree. I actually posted the question asking if they had plans to add it. I was very disappointed, and a bit surprised, that they don’t plan on adding it. It is very needed!
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Posting here again in the hopes that Roblox staff see this is an essential feature.
Roblox isn’t going to successfully “age up” with a 1-10 slider for graphics, no matter how smart or advanced it is.
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I still think respectively this feature would be a neat additive.
Why is Roblox more focused on long-term projects, rather than easier achievable short term projects.
Most games or platforms to this date handle graphics in this unique advanced way that it has become a standard in the industry.
This would improve the overall experience for all players, and if it’s due to users using mostly phones or tablet devices, then keep them the standard slider.
This is a need, rather than a want. It could help developers expand on their experiences a lot further without crappy graphic limitations. And if they don’t want to incorporate it themselves, why not give us the ability to do it ourselves?
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This feature needs to be added, wether roblox likes it or not.
it is so embarrasing as a developer to only have 2 ways to mayor ways to “turn down” graphics, which are removing textures and global shadows.
Why can’t we just access the graphics settings on clients and have more control over them, I would literally like to be able to a play a game with minimum render distance but max quality for everything rendered or viceversa.
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what’s dum is it used to be in a beta version of the game,
look up “ZFeatureHarmony” or Click Here For DevForum Link
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note that it says at top “enable/disable” and disable is defualt, if disable is on you get the slider, so lil kids dont accidently bump something
i really wish i lived in a world where i could raise the render distance above 3 nanometers without also enabling shadow casting lights in the process, instantly detonating my GPU like an egg in a microwave
actually, roblox already supports changing resolution scale separately from window size/UI scale!
…only on mobile though.
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Minecraft is roughly as old as Roblox and supports discrete graphics options. This is a bad excuse in favour of retaining a 1-10 gauge for graphics, whether you’re speaking from their perspective or not, and I’m not having it. There is no reason why Roblox can continue to push the future of graphics and not work on discrete graphics options longterm.
Please can we stop using this “Roblox doesn’t profit from it” excuse for complacency, it’s damaging to conversations about improving the experience for players and developers alike.
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…Yeah, I didn’t notice that the thread was solely about the idea of having more options for graphic settings at first.
I just assumed that this was another thread about people wanting the option to have more photo-realistic graphics on the platform, despite the game engine not really being capable of this.
So I’ll just go on to state that I do support the idea since I’ve had issues with building large cities in Studio due to my low-end computer since it does take up 75% of my RAM at times.
It’s been pretty frustrating to work like this, so it defiantly would be a useful feature.
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