Took you long enough! At least we can now hopefully have high quality materials without the need for downloading any.
Edit: Although make it an option to be able to use the old materials as well since lower end devices would just die on the games.
I’ve never posted here before because I’ve never had such an issue with anything, however with this update some textures have completely had their style changed, ruining some things which relied on the way the textures looked.
For example one of my games completely revolves around a railway, and the pebble texture used for the track has completely changed and has ruined the track.
Old texture:
New texture:
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The new texture looks better to me…
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I was joking? I obviously know they don’t make updates for ruining people’s experience, they wouldn’t be a thriving company if they did 
My reply was an exaggeration pretty much, or a joking way of describing how they do their updates. I know for a fact they actually plan updates, its just that they don’t do a good job communicating with devs to see what we actually want in the platform.
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Why doesn’t roblox use a system like this? We could have multiple styles, not just realistic. And if we kept multiple “archtypes”, we could appease everyone by giving people more choice.
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You can’t really use the new pebble texture in many situations. But with the old one it can be used in a lot of other situations.
it’s like you jumped into a different game!
I for one hope they don’t give the choice for it to be on or off. It will give much more freedom to everyone to keep the old materials and still give us the new ones, and have them all exist in the same place.
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Just to reiterate an important point that a lot of people have already brought up: Please, have an option to use/revert back to the original part and terrain materials.
Gorbachelli and I are the creators of Fantastic Frontier, one of the largest worlds (I believe) ever created on Roblox. We also have a huge update coming with new areas. Changing the part materials and terrain materials will completely change the look of our game for the worse, and if we were to even attempt to change the new materials to somewhat match what we have already created, it would take most likely dozens and dozens of hours of work. Possibly hundreds of hours of work. Changing these materials also negates all the time and effort spent tweaking colors, parts, and material usage to blend into a seamless product. If you just randomly throw out and replace old materials, you are completely throwing away the art direction that our game, and plenty of other games, have relied on. Please consider the work people have put in to make the old materials look good and beautiful. Gorbachelli has put in hundreds of hours doing just that.
So to answer “If you open a place you made 3 years ago, your materials will automatically upgrade with no way to revert to the current ones. Is this acceptable,”? No, it’s not acceptable. We 100% need a way to have access to the old materials. Wait to push this update until custom materials for both part materials and terrain materials would be added, or add the option to revert back or use the old materials. If we can upload our own materials, we could reuse the old textures and everything would work perfectly. You would get the best of both worlds, and you wouldn’t be compromising the artistic vision of so many games like you otherwise would by having no option to use old materials. There are so many examples already in this thread of why this is an issue for developers. Please, just allow an option for the old materials to be used. I know it may not be simple (though it seems like it could be a very simple thing to do), but it is truly something that is 100% necessary. What confidence can we have in Roblox that these materials won’t be changed in the future, and everyone once again has to spend countless hours tweaking their art just to have a semblance of what they had before (and in all cases, likely with a worse looking product than before)? I truly believe that if you were to update the materials without allowing developers access to the old materials, it would be highly upsetting, and outrageous even, to most artists who have seriously taken time to make good looking games on the Roblox platform. Please consider how important that is.
To make this simple, please do not push this update without an option to use the old materials. Ideally an option to upload custom materials for parts and terrain would solve both problems. Then you can always add new materials without depreciating anyone’s existing work.
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ok, but how do i start using it? all im seeing is a readme file…
Why not add a toggle? Its only a good idea if the new textures AND the old textures co-exist. They are both in the materials menu.
This isn’t how the update works, they replaced the old part textures when they released this update. People want an option to revert the change / use the old materials.
I’m saying change how the update works. If you have to toggle your entire game between one set of materials or another, you will have much less freedom than if you could use all of them. Obviously this is more of a stretch, but the way I see it, the developers are mad about a problem and that is a solution.
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I think I actually agree with @Blue_blockhead , If the textures could peacefully coexist so that we could have the old AND the new textures, without being forced to chose one set or the other, this would massively benefit everyone. You could use the high quality PBR wood with the familiar and very convincing look of the old sand for bedsheets. Again, this assumes they fix the fact that Quality 3 or below textures suck.
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Ill say make the old materials and terrain legacy at some point so people can keep the look of past roblox if they choose to.
Download WinRAR for starters, go to the github, download the code as a zip file, unzip it into a new folder in your downloads or something, go into that new folder, find the RobloxStudio.exe and click it
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Ah, I misunderstood. Infact I like this idea more. Just have all the materials, classic and new. Roblox should do this idea.
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This is amazing!! As a developer I’m beyond excited to see this update come live. Roblox staff have done an amazing job with this update, I have no other words to describe it except that it’s amazing. 
How can I download this to test it out? I have already downloaded the Github file. Thanks!
Unzip the folder and then open RobloxStudioBeta.exe
This is so true. Roblox is turning into another generic game because it doesn’t, or barely, listens to what the community wants.
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