No wayyyy! After all these years of “mobile doesn’t support it” it’s coming!?
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We already toggle whether or not something can be hit by raycasts (CanQuery) so I don’t think an occlusion property is a crazy concept, especially for devs who are into optimization.
tl;dr - lots of the arguments made in the past (including my own post above from 10 years ago) don’t apply anymore, so it’ll be exciting to see how this is implemented.
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guys, Roblox is not a general-purpose video game engine, it is a scriptable RAD platform, that’s it
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Let’s change that! Some developers have been on here for 10 years, I think they deserve some revolutionary improvements by now.
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I hope there’s a related public API for this too.
I’m looking for an API that will return an array of BaseParts within the camera’s view frustrum that are unoccluded in order to reduce the amount of parts being cloned into ViewportFrames (the use case being something like split screen, picture-in-picture, mirrors, etc.).
Something along the lines of Camera:GetUnobscuredPartsInView(farPlaneZ: number): { BasePart } would be absolutely ideal! It’s currently causing me great pain trying to figure out a speedy and efficient software occlusion method.
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It’s 2024 now so add this feature
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It’s coming now 
watch the RDC24 keynotes!
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I see it but i don’t know when it’s coming still
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It’s already out to some extent. Select games have it enabled, so I expect it to be out for other games soon.
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Yeah they said it’ll be rolling out in the next few weeks
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Is there some sort of select timeframe they have, in case anyone knows, like before November or December, of course before new year would be their goal since this is planned for 2024 in the roadmap
Occlusion culling on Roblox is a godsend and despite my grumps and gripes against the engine (for it lagging 10 years behind mainstream engine standards) this is something I can definitely welcome. Just… Wow. Look.
Isn’t that just beautiful? Imagine what the engineers could do if mobile players didn’t exist…
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Is this the occlusion culling Roblox talked about at RDC?
Yes, it’s available on Studio as 2 fastflags (MaximumADHD found them):
FFlag EnableVisBugChecks27 : true
DFFlag UseVisBugChecks : true
And you should know the old adage of ‘at your own risk’ by now… 
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I have no idea how to enable FFlags, is that a file on my PC?
If that’s the case you shouldn’t really mess around with fastflags; everyone likes to say that changing them will summon some sort of crystal shaman that will corrupt your saves, and I have no doubt that it can and will happen, so please, really, unless you want to wake up one morning to a baseplate, I’d advise against venturing into the unknown that is fastflags.
Fine with the risk? Get MaximumADHD’s Roblox Studio Mod Manager here. Install Studio and override the 2 fastflags as mentioned above.
Again, please heed the warning as even Roblox themselves don’t like it when you do stuff.
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This feature is added as a fastflag for now i guess and it’s a pretty big leap forward. But what I don’t like is that it doesn’t cull terrain, which is also pretty important (in my use, I’m not saying a big word for everyone, but this would be a nice thing to have)
i think that it will cull objects that are hidden and not triangles that are hidden because checking for every triangle might make a performance loss even worse than without using occlusion culling ( I may be wrong )
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You seem to be right. Best way I have found to check this out is in Wireframe View.
Very interesting to play around with.
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Hm, seems a bit buggy rn, but hopefully that’s fixed in the future!