I really need this feature, i’m making a game with a retro artstyle.
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This is an essential QoL feature and it’s kind of outrageous that this somehow wasn’t added when ResampleMode was added to ImageLabels, PLEASE Roblox, do something about it
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It is the 12th of January of 2025, and Roblox is yet to implement this feature in instances such as Decals and Textures. Please, we need this! If it’s not possible, at least give us an answer as to why!
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Please add this ROBLOX I don’t want to keep using image labels on minecraft blocks, They dont render in viewports.
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How hard is it to make this a feature? Like seriously??
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I’ve heard Roblox engineers actively check the Feature Requests tab and look for practical problems developers have.
Here is what I’m currently facing because this feature has not been implemented yet:
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Heavy distorson on
SurfaceAppeareances
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Undesireable seams (texture bleeding) caused by the blurriness of the algorithm used to Sample textures
You tell me if this is an acceptable product you can release.
Not only do I have to invest 3x the time in designing my tilesets/textures to prevent bleeding, but I also have to overload the Player’s RAM and Roblox’s cloud storage with unnecessarily big 800x800 textures, when they could’ve been as low as 180x180.
I genuinely do not believe this request to be unrealistic and hope to see it implemented soon. This is not a “it would be nice” feature, this is a “must have” that other engines like Unity or Unreal already have.
- To prove it’s not unrealistic, here’s how easily it can be done in:
- OpenGL: c++ - How to turn off OpenGL filtering when scaling up textures? - Stack Overflow
- Direct3D: c++ - Nearest Neighbour interpolation for Direct3D sprites? - Stack Overflow
- Vulkan: Textures have no filtering by default.
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What infuriates me the most is that there are clearly engineers browsing/checking this category. I’ve seen multiple of them reply in threads as recent as a few days ago. I refuse to believe they haven’t seen this and yet, for some reason, they choose to remain silent about such a simple yet crucial feature to implement, especially for certain types of stylised games.
I’m going through all this trouble and hoops to jump around an artificial limitation they set up, yet they can’t even give an acknowledgement about how this isn’t on their roadmap on any of the threads about this issue. Genuinely sad they are actively ignoring such an important and requested feature.
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Its not on them. The engineers simply implement what they are told to. The issue is their managers and higher ups. Cashgrabs that bring 99% of roblox’s income doesnt need much or such features to continue grabbing cash. Roblox, in the end is a public company, which is profit first. Frankly if you are in Roblox because you are expecting them to actually improve their engine, you are at the wrong engine. Roblox is for making money or making basic games.
They haven’t fixed a “”“bug”“” that is really a complete nerf of parallel luau since November last year. It is not a bug, the same moment this “”“bug”“” appeared they raised mobile thread cap from 2 to 3, and dropped everything else from 8 to 3.
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From what I have understood, they are a team that assign priorities to different issues based on their “importance” in their internal tickets system. I’m not mad that they won’t “get better”, I’m mad that they won’t even at least acknowledge the importance of this feature by replying with something like “Sorry, this is not in our current roadmap”.
I beg to differ but I understand where you’re coming from. I’ve had a few interactions with some of the engine team and they are genuinely amazing people who do try to do as much as they can. They are clearly on the path to stop this perception of Roblox only being for basic games and it shows, but it’s clear they have a long way to go before they manage that vision.
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Yes, Roblox engineers are amazing people. But the reason Roblox is able to stay afloat is the cashgrabs, which are completely focused on maximizing income vs playtime hours (compute spent). Good features in the engine, are usually either much more performance intensive for server (increasing costs) or client (decreasing access by increasing minimum requirements) and usually in both cases, Egg Simulator 19246194614914680 doesn’t need them to print more money.
Management isn’t going to give up more money for more quality anytime soon. It’s simply how public companies work in the USA.
The issue is that the feature I am proposing here would actually be beneficial for Roblox in both their servers and the client. Consider that I currently have to upscale 180x180 tilesets up to 1024x1024 for all the textures I ever upload to look acceptable. Do you think that is not wasting both server (cloud storage) costs and degrading client performance (overloading bad android phones’ RAM with unnecessarily big textures).
You’re acting like I’m asking for something too unfeasable when all I’m asking for is a toggle for an already built in feature for all the renderering engines Roblox uses (nearest neighbour samplemode aka no texture filtering). It literally took them more work to force bilinear texture filtering instead of leaving it unfiltered/NN.
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I want this exact feature myself. I gave up pixel textures on my voxel game just because I cannot set the filtering to nearest.
What im telling you is, while the engineers are amazing, the management who decides what engineers work on, are just money chasing accountants. They don’t care a thing about quality. They just want revenue up costs down, and there are much more effective ways to achieve that than adding a resamplemode for the (relatively) miniscule amount of people like us that need it/care about it.
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yea its hard to blame the engineers, especially knowing how annoying checking in code can be sometimes.
still though, this is something that couldn’t take more than an hour to add.
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How long will it take roblox to add this ? A lot of people need this feature… 
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I’ve ran into this problem while working on my game which uses pixelated textures for meshes, the mesh looks absolutely awesome in Blender/Blockbench but when imported in Roblox Studio it’s a blurry mess even if I upscale the texture to 5x it’s size.
We really need this as an option in SurfaceAppearance.
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Can we please get this already, its been requested a million times. How many people have to ask for this before its even acknowledged? As far as I can see, not a single word from Roblox about this! It’s crazy to think something fairly simple is being ignored this much. I really hope to eventually see this, as it would be very helpful for builders looking to make a pixelated style.
Roblox for god’s sakes, PLEASE add this feature! We REALLY WANT THIS!!! Please LISTEN TO THE DEVELOPERS! My game is not able to be released because of this one silly bug. Every other game engine has this feature. Please fix this!
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Hear me out, but what if we used SurfaceGUI’s?
Yeah it might not be THE most efficient, but it has a pretty decent impact:
The pro’s with the SurfaceGUI is that you don’t have blurring issues over distance and it doesn’t seem too bad at extreme angles.
The con is that you have to use multiple SurfaceGUI’s to cover the entire block, which may be worse than just upscaling it in general.
For me I’m sticking to SurfaceGUI’s until they add a ResampleMode for decals.
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Do NOT use this approach unless you ABSOLUTELY need to. Reduces performance by a lot. Probably due to the amount of SurfaceGUI?
SurfaceGUIs only work if what you need them for is a flat surface, not anything with a more complex shape. This is absolutely not a solution or workaround to the problem at hand.
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SurfaceGUIs are not an option when working with 3D models that have pixel art textures or tilesets imported from blender, like on my example.
Regardless, SurfaceGUIs are extremely inefficient when used in big quantities. That’s because they’re not just static images—they require an extra off-screen rendering pass for dynamic UI updates and then get composited onto surfaces every frame, which bypasses many of the hardware optimizations that static decals and textures enjoy.
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