Release Notes for 661

[IgnisRBX]

661, what a number. What a prime number, and what a prime release! Enjoy!

Release notes for 661 | Documentation - Roblox Creator Hub

IgnisRBX

[RuizuKun_Dev (Kitsune)]

Can we have a list for this please

Changes the Plugin type, as well as many related Instance types, to be plugin-level security.

[Dekkonot]

This is misleading: this is specifically a fix for string.format("%c", 0) resulting in an empty string rather than a string containing a null byte.

[TheGuyWithAShortName (Sam Huckaby)]

The TouchEnabled change might break a lot of games that use this to see if a user is on a mobile device.

Although you should be using dynamic changes to UI/controls based on their last input type, I know there’s lots of games out there that simply use TouchEnabled to swap to mobile UIs/Controls

[TheNexusAvenger (Nexus)]

UserInputService.TouchEnabled will now be set to true for Windows touch devices.

This change will be interesting. I’m glad Windows touch displays are finally getting proper support, but I know so many games will now assume a lot of laptop users are mobile and scale or limit UIs as such.

I do hope this change gets the point across that input options can’t be reliably used to detect a platform.

[weakroblox35]

This is the first time I’ve seen a patch note where everything is Live, what happened?

[metatablecatmaid (metatablecat)]

If glass is being reworked for the unified lighting engine, now is the perfect time to get non-opaque objects (surface guis, billboards, particles and what have you) to render through them.

Its been 7 years, surely the tech has caught up for this to be viable now, if its not, I’d love a technical reasoning on why this still hasn’t been supported.

[Judgy_Oreo (DisplayName)]

Another Release, another set of “Fixes” under the Changes section and “Changes” or additions under Fixes.

[AlreadyPro (Logan)]

THANK YOU, FINALLY!

This was so annoying. I would often have to ask people to repeat themselves with more/less text in order to see their message properly.

[computerph1_DEV]

first release in which literally nothing is pending and everything is live?

niceee release

edit: i think it was a bug cuz now many things are pending

[Hexcede]

These games are designing their input schemes incorrectly though, they are designed to do the wrong thing at the wrong time and so they will do the wrong thing at the wrong time as a result.

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They shouldn’t be trying to check if a user’s device is a mobile device and then changing their entire UI scheme based on that, they should be adapting the UI/inputs based on the capability of the device, meaning the UI should adapt to the resolution, and the inputs should adapt to the input method the user is actually using.

For example if a user has a touch screen but no keyboard it’s safe to assume they are using the touch screen, and if a user has a keyboard and a touch screen it’s safe to assume they are using the keyboard, but if they use the touch screen the touch screen inputs should appear, and if they use the keyboard the touch screen inputs should disappear.

Mobile devices can use keyboards and mice, and they can use external displays. Consoles can use keyboards and mice, and don’t have internal displays. Laptops can have touchscreens, and they can use gamepads. And likewise, mobile devices can use gamepads.

What a device ‘is’ doesn’t ultimately mean anything, because what a user is actually using on any given device isn’t going to follow any specific reliable pattern a lot of the time and if you design your game to make assumptions you’re going to get bad behaviour on some devices or in some contexts.

[foodeggs7 (SubToParcIeDev_onyt)]

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Addresses an issue where the default TextChatService chat window sometimes clips longer messages behind the scrollbar instead of wrapping around to the next line.

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Will this also be fixed for the Dev console

[SyntaxMenace]

There has to be a bug, almost everything is live in every release note.
Kudos to everyone working on these day & night!

P.S: They fixed it, so I guess it was a bug?

[dfmannen]

Some games actually use slightly transparent parts behind glass to make a wall that you can only see through from one side, it would be cool if we got a new instance or material that hides anything behind it instead.

[AMisspelledUsernaem (bleh)]

For people that still use UserInputService.TouchEnabled to check for mobile devices and don’t want to swap over to using input type

local isTabletOrMobile = (UserInputService.TouchEnabled and not GuiService.IsWindows)

IsWindows is deprecated but still works so you should be able to use it in order to exclude windows devices from mobile/tablet UI

[LvieReal (Lvie)]

Since it’s deprecated and no longer maintained, it can break one day, don’t use it for new work, also it works only for Windows OS, it won’t work on Mac and etc.
But if this works for you then I’ve no complaints on my behalf
Maybe try UserInputService.TouchEnabled and not UserInputService.KeyboardEnabled?

[AMisspelledUsernaem (bleh)]

@LvieReal

also it works only for Windows

The release notes only mentioned touch enabled will work for windows devices, so I imagine it wouldn’t be enabled in the first place for Mac, unless that’s already implemented.

Also the Keyboard Enabled is probably a better solution since it’ll work even if you have a keyboard plugged into a touch device. Although I’d probably use MouseEnabled since that’s kind of what you’re replacing

[777PerfectPlayer777 (NightPlayer)]

Blockquote AssetService:CreateEditableMeshAsync() now supports creating an EditableMesh from another EditableMesh via Content.fromObject(editableMesh).

I don’t understand.

[LvieReal (Lvie)]

Here’s what I use

[NPCPlayer2421 (JanGuard)]

If you don’t care about the quality of your product, i’d say go wild using deprecated functions and gaslight your fanbase by fixing bugs caused by deprecated functions and give up and make a remake that costs 2000 robux /s