New Terrain, and Parts, and Built-In Materials, Oh my!

Roblox is really making an effort to getting their IDE into modern graphics, I love it!

I assume it will be done the same way as normal Textures and the SufraceAppearance textures. Meaning we will have to upload decals for the colormap, normalmap, etcā€¦ and then paste the IDs into a field. We already know that the above mentioned methods need more time to load in, which can ruin the experience.
And then there is the ever pushing need for higher resolution decals, which would increase the file sizes considerably. Iā€™m interested in how the Roblox dev team will tackle this issue, if they do at all.

A material I think would be cool is a material like glass that doesnā€™t hide transparent parts.
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This looks amazing to see for Roblox developers. Roblox is becoming so realistic and I never thought in the 6 years Iā€™ve been here to ever see these amazing graphics in a blocky game.

This looks amazing I would like to opt-in and check it out!

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Yeah, the resolution of decals isnā€™t that high and ruins a lot of games because of the pixelation or just the blur on the textures.

Sadly you canā€™t create many water-oriented games due to the horrible water fog that you canā€™t even remove.

Sorry for being ignorant about this, but whatĀ“re they planning to release?

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Cool! Letā€™s add FIB 3ā€¦ these new materialsā€¦ PBRā€¦ Facial Animationā€¦ Blocky character~ ummā€¦

Anyway, these looks stunning! Good job Roblox, you are surely on your way to compete with other engines, at last!

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Wow, the first day I come back to ROBLOX Studio, I see this cool update! Iā€™m curious to see how this would work in my game. May you please add this feature to my test place? Thanks.

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Roblox says that this update wonā€™t affect performance for other people. :smiley:

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I am really excited for the new materials! I would love to try them out in the test place of our main game!

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Why not just give us the ability to make our OWN terrain materials? Like Surface Texture for partsā€¦

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When will it come out into beta?

Haha. Definitely not. But I love the way you think!

Unreal Engine is incredibly powerfull and way more customizable than Roblox. Keep in mind, Roblox needs to stay easy to learn and develop so they can get more developers!

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WOW, This is Roblox?!?!
I really like the Basalt, I will probably use that a lot.

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Thats coming. It was confirmed in rdc 2020.

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Thatā€™s the most insane update for a while. :+1:

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Absolutely beautiful. Count me in!
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This is great! My project really needed this.

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Looks cool! Like PBR texture, I hope soon be will be released official, will be a good update for games with purpose is make like the game it is realistic experience!