Please give us access to 3x3, 5x5, 7x7 particle flipbooks

MrChickenRocket · May 17, 2022, 9:19am

Hi!
I’m sure this was just an oversight in the initial design, but it would be really nice if you could provide us with 3x3, 5x5 and 7x7 particle flipbooks.

There are 3rd party asset packs provided for unity and unreal that would be compatible with roblox if it was not for this limitation.

Thank you!

VitalWinter · May 17, 2022, 7:16pm

Dynamic would even be better. I made spritesheets that use a lua implementation, and was excited to use them in the new flipbooks features, but sad when I realized that I couldn’t.

buildthomas · May 18, 2022, 2:04pm

I think it’s an intentional limitation rather than an oversight, ref the section “About those Flipbook Limitations” in Animated Particles with the Particle Flipbooks Beta

boatbomber · May 18, 2022, 8:35pm

This is already planned, but was not included in this initial release to get it into our hands faster.

Animated Particles with the Particle Flipbooks Beta

The short answer is that adding support for any of those additional features would delay flipbooks longer than necessary. While arguably the process to manually assemble a flipbook texture isn’t ideal, and the 4, 16, or 64 frame animation limitation feels slightly arbitrary – these two constraints allowed us to get flipbook support in the creator’s hands now.

Better support for animated textures in Roblox (both in terms of user-friendliness and flexibility) is part of a larger goal for Roblox Studio. We can’t make any commitments what improvements in this area will look like, or when they’ll ship. But we acknowledge that today’s flipbooks are just the beginning of the kinds of power we’d like to give creators in Roblox Studio – so please stand by.

In the meantime, we hope to have plenty of creative uses for flipbooks, even in their current limited form. The more this beta feature gets used, the greater the likelihood that we’ll promote it out of beta, and the bigger the chances that we’ll make gradual improvements to it. So to some extent, you’re in control of its destiny.