Hey Creators,
We’re excited to announce that performance upgrades and quality-of-life improvements for the Explorer, currently in beta, are now rolling out to everyone. With the new Explorer, you can build much larger places without worrying about lags, hangs, or crashes, and it will be quicker and easier to manage instances in the explorer. Since our beta release, we’ve been working hard to incorporate your feedback and are excited to release the new explorer more broadly.
What’s changed?
Check out our beta announcement for specifics on the improvements! In short, we’ve rebuilt the Explorer in Luau with a much more performant architecture, allowing you to manage millions of instances without Explorer being a bottleneck. We’ve also added tons of quality-of-life improvements, including better selection highlighting, hierarchy lines, an overhauled context menu, and better drag and drop, to name a few.
What’s new since the beta was released?
Firstly, we fixed almost all of the known bugs from our beta release, including box select, custom icons, and scrolling improvements. We’re still running into some issues with blurriness, specifically on high DPI monitors, which we hope to address soon. Moreover, we’ve made even more fixes and improvements based on your feedback, which include:
1. Information density
We’ve increased information density based on your feedback. Here’s what the beta originally looked like vs now:
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2. Drag-and-drop
We’ve made it easier to drag objects in the explorer; simply hold the object at the top or bottom of the explorer window to automatically scroll the Explorer until you hit your drag target.
3. Shortcuts and keybinds in the script editor now work
4. Performance fixes to support higher refresh rates
5. Package Icon and Status
6. Various bug fixes for scrolling, context menu, and insert object menu
When can I expect to see the changes?
We’re rolling out the beta to all users today, and we plan to remove Next Gen Explorer from the beta feature menu in the next few weeks.
What’s Next
We’re planning to release even more improvements this year to make organization and quick editing easy from the Explorer. The Properties panel will also be receiving some performance and quality upgrades in the near future to make finding and editing properties easier, so stay tuned. In the meantime, we’d love to hear your continued feedback on the explorer in the comments below!
Special thanks to @Dogekidd2012, @tnavarts, @pensive_penguin, @CaiusCosades0, @jimjamjomj, and @wengawenga for getting this feature off the ground!
