As a Roblox developer, it is currently too hard to create & sell UGC Faces accessories, Shoes, Holdable items & Heads
If Roblox is able to address this issue, it would improve my development experience because this would improve the experience for many developers and UGC Creators
As many of you know, currently Roblox only allows users to create Heads in a Category called “Dynamic Heads”, holdable/handheld items & shoes as layered clothing.
Many users on Roblox prefer non-dynamic or static heads over Dynamic heads, because most of them are looking too “Cursed” for some people’s taste.
Gears (Holdables):
Currently the only way people can make “holdable” items is by making them a layered clothing.
This is currently a very effective method of allowing users to “hold” swords, plushies, hammers, etc. in-games. However, this also comes with it’s drawbacks, because these being a “Layered Clothing” instead of an accessory “glued to an attachment”, will cause serval issues when wearing this item.
(holding a “holdable” item in r15 Blocky/default)
(holding a “holdable” item in a different bundle)
This is very unfortunate there’s no category for this, because there’s a lot of potential into this category, and we already have the “attachments” needed for this. Discoverability for this is also hard because people would look in the “Gears” section for handheld/holdable items.
A good example for this, is the overseer teddy item, which is attached to “RightGripAttachment”
Shoes:
At the moment, creators can’t create “Shoes” accessories in the specific category, and can only be made by making layered clothing. It would be nice to have the ability to create shoes bundles or just standalone shoes, and having them in their own category.
Eyebrows:
Currently, we can only sell eyebrows accessories bundled together with Dynamic heads, however this doesn’t allow customization whatsoever, and can only be worn with the specific head. Would be nice to be released as a standalone “Category” and be able to be individually worn through the avatar page.
2D Faces:
Would be nice if WE as creators could be allowed to make 2D Faces & Static heads that can be RECOLORED.
Right now, the only way to create 2D Faces, is by making a face as an accessory, which is very inconvenient for both the creator and the user.
- Users can’t recolor this in their desired color
- Users have to sepnd robux for each recolor they want
- Creators have to spend 750 robux for each upload
- Creators have to spend more time to color the accessory in each desired color to have it uploaded into the catalog (There’s currently 75 available body parts colors, this means we would need to create 75 recolors and pay to upload 75 recolors)
This would make it easier for 2D artists not to have to deal with the 3D accessory uploads, and would allow users to express themselves even more.
Static Heads:
Static heads would also be a needed addition into the catalog, many users would prefer to make custom shapes for their heads to mix and match with 2D faces. Currently this is impossible to do, and players are basically forced to upload their heads as Dynamic Heads but in a static variant just to be able to make recolorable heads.
I noticed there’s a very big increase of deleted “Static” dynamic heads, which is honestly very disappointing to see, because many people used those because they have no other alternative.
Without such UGC categories, there SHOULD NOT be a rule for UGC creators to not upload static heads as Dynamic heads, because around march, when the miscategorization update was re-intrdouced, all creators were promised that we will be able to upload those items in categories that don’t have a better alternative. There’s currently no better alternative for static heads and 2D faces…
Conclusion:
I’m not sure why there’s currently no UGC category for these types of items!
I understand roblox is trying to move on from 2D heads, but forcing players upon this, is a very bad way to introduce this feature, and would make people hate this feature.
Please allow people to make static heads and 2D faces as UGC categories, and possibly in the future release the “Holdables” or gears category into the UGC.
Shoes shouldn’t be sold under the “Skirts” or “Pants” category, because this would be harder for new people to discover these items in their respective category. If I want to look for “High heel shoes” in the shoes category, I will only see pre-made accessories, created by roblox, instead of discovering everything that the creators had to make.
Allow people to bundle Dynamic heads with heads & 2D faces into a “Bundle” so players can choose whichever they prefer.
There’s tons of creators out there that would love to showcase & sell their creations by making gears, shoes, 2D faces, Static heads compatible with faces & body colors, etc. All of this is limited because of what are creators able to upload into the UGC marketplace.
This would be a very welcome and highly loved update by many users on Roblox, by not only opening a big door to 2D face artists, but also giving a market to people who are looking to buy these sort of items.
A very similar topic, for 2D faces & heads can be found here (by @Onogork)