Sharing Animation Assets with Connections and Groups

[BobaMuncher]

Hello Creators!

A few weeks ago, we announced that animations have moved to the asset privacy system and are sharable across experiences. As promised in that post, we have now enabled sharing animations with connections and groups!

How to share animations

You can now share animations from the Creator Hub asset configuration page. On the side bar for animations, you’ll see a new Permissions option. Click Permissions and you will see tabs for sharing with Collaborators and Experiences.

Under Collaborators, you can share with connections and groups. Also, for those of you who asked for it in the last announcement, there is now an Experiences tab where you can grant experience permissions.

Sharing with connections and groups works the same as other private asset types. When an animation is shared with a collaborator, that user or group members with the correct permissions will be able to grant permission to use the animation in their experiences. You can revoke this access from collaborators at any time. Full documentation can be found here.

What’s next

We want to enable animations in shared models and packages next. We also hear you on needing a way to share animations more publicly and are looking into how to solve this. Creator Store is looking like a good option.

Bulk asset permission management is also a big pain point we’d like to help with, so stay tuned.

Let us know if you have any questions and feedback. Thanks everyone!

[WinterStorm_Meow (Winter)]

Seems really cool! So does this mean public animations?

@BobaMuncher

connections and groups

It’s pronounced “communities”. I am starting to think that “groups” is what it is officially called at Roblox HQ.

[airilauz (AlexLikesTrains)]

Distribution of animations to connections and Groups is now, they can now put the animations in a connection or group.

[H0LYC4RTE]

Public animations would be the emotes update pt. 2. Imagine people being able to upload “I’m Dyingggggg” as an emote

[WinterStorm_Meow (Winter)]

Oh yeah, if anyone could use an animation then hackers could easily upload a animation and share it to the public. And once it’s public, hackers could use that animation in any game since animations are client side! Hackers would really like public animations for sure!

But it would be cool if animations were public

[that_guydehzz072]

Great addition! As now, I don’t need to publish animations under my group which saves a little bit of time.

[xRainbowFusionx (Fursion)]

This is amazing, but WHY, can’t we upload public animations yet?

@WinterStorm_Meow

I am starting to think that “groups” is what it is officially called at Roblox HQ.

that’s lowkey wild

[Harrystylesicoo17287]

OMG this is the best! I can’t tell you how many times I put my animations in the wrong group and had to republish all of them.

[jackTabsCode]

Are there any plans to add animation uploads under the Open Cloud Assets API, without requiring the use of a cookie?

[BobaMuncher]

Yes there are! We are working on this.

[keyre124]

@WinterStorm_Meow

It’s pronounced “communities”.

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@Sassiekathy

In addition, while Communities will be focused on engaging with your users, we have been building out a robust system for you to collaborate with fellow creators on what you’re building. This product continues to be called Groups, and will exist exclusively within Creator Hub.

[crusherfire]

Finally.
‘Connections’ still sounds so dystopian. But hey, at least we’re still calling ‘communities’ groups!

[TaylorDev_RBLX (Taylor)]

Friend’s, not connection’s. Seriously this is a gaming platform and even the players need to act corporate

[TimeFrenzied (xand)]

Communities and groups are apparently different things.

[Rhodizites (A_221windshieldhater)]

no way man… now I can give my banned friend’s game animations! :​D

[TheDislikedGamer (Gamer)]

We want to enable animations in shared models and packages next. We also hear you on needing a way to share animations more publicly and are looking into how to solve this

how to solve this

It’s simple: You make animations publicly shareable in the exact same way as models and decals.

[Reditect]

Ah, I thought it was a flat out replacement word. Most probably thought the same with all the friends to connections stuff adding onto the whole games to experiences.

Favorites might be switching to Saved, on marketplace assets more or just audio as it is now, or entirely replacing the word “Favorite.” I’m confused about the direction tbh.

[Riesegarder]

@BobaMuncher

connections and groups.

Man, I’m never getting used to this new language.

So we can now share Animation assets with connections and communities and use them in our shared connection/community experiences.

I feel old. I sound old. I just had to get this off my chest. It’s obvious people still say “make games with friends and groups” both in and out of Roblox HQ. I know there’s some corporate reason, some vision for the platform that I’m yet blind to, that requires Roblox to use this modern corporate tongue that deliberately makes things sound more… “innovative”? Progressive? Politically correct? I don’t know at this point.

But it’s all so tiring.

[A_SquaredAnimations]

good to know that roblox engineers still push out great quality of life updates despite the company completely and utterly imploding

awesome update thanks!