Shorthand Properties Panel Input

[jonbyte (Jon)]

Are there any plans to allow for simple arithmetic that can be used for numeric properties in the properties widget?

[SubtotalAnt8185]

@bloodbonniekingnoob1

@tnavarts

pane

Minor spelling mistake?

Pane is actually a synonym to panel.

I wonder about property types like BrickColor now. Not being able to type it in manually is a quirk at this point.

[tnavarts]

@OnceCrowned

Feature requests are essentially useless. Most feature requests and bug reports go completely ignored 90% of the time. Is there any reason to why this is? Or any plans to change this?

You don’t tend to see a lot of staff replies on Feature Requests because there’s often a nuanced discussion behind what we would add / when we will get to adding it, with us not wanting to overpromise and disappoint people. But there are very much staff paying attention to the feature requests posts. There’s even explicit tracking of top community asks.

Also, even with good suggestions you won’t necessarily see us immediately jump on them. It usually makes more sense to group together a bunch of improvements related to the same part of Studio under one consolidated effort, especially when those improvements could impact workflow and need to be put under a beta to avoid unexpectedly breaking things for developers.

[bloodbonniekingnoob1 (Brutus)]

@SubtotalAnt8185

Pane is actually a synonym to panel.

They used panel multiple times so it doesn’t makes sense to change it

[2xA_Imagineer95 (2xA)]

@tnavarts

Don’t hesitate to send feature requests

Um, don’t you need to be a regular to post there? Funny joke, Roblox.

[Spectaqual (Ivy)]

Ooh, this is looking pretty great! There is one more piece to this I’d love to see, could we get spaces to count as commas for properties? Being able to type out 2 12 4 instead of 2,12,4 would mean being able to quickly type in a lot of values with only one hand.

[FloofyNezzled]

Maybe a copy option for something like this that outputs a UDim2.new you can easily use in a script would be good

[noahrepublic (Noah)]

This is a great feature I been wanting, I often forget my last “,0” in defining udims and it always felt frustrating

[santafatso28 (TheOlive)]

I just updated studio and for some reason my autocomplete stopped working. Is this happening for anyone else or is it just me?

EDIT : I restarted studio and switched computer on and off which fixed it. Good opportunity to see how well I could code without autocomplete, I found I worked slightly faster on semi complex systems.

[GRIMNO1RE (Noire)]

The UDim2 changes are probably some of my favourite that you’ve dropped this year. Earlier today I was even thinking to myself about how much I hate having to follow the proper curly brackets and precisely placed commas format! Chef’s kiss, absolutely beautiful…

[g_uitarist]

Thank you for implementing such feature into Roblox Studio. This definitely speeds up the process of modifying such properties, especially the UDim2 one.

[MintSoapBar]

When selecting multiple objects, instead of disabling the rename button, make it jump to the Name property in the properties widget if it is already open

[luabarnes (luke)]

hey i would just like to say, thank you so much for caring about us developers. the way you worded this is great and it seems like you actually really care about our suggestions and all. thank you so much for this update as well

[NoxhazeI (HalalBoi)]

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOO FINALLY! I do not have to type 0.5,0,0.5,0 all the time now! good ob roblox!

[leoburk (CannedWither)]

That is a very nice feature!
One thing that possibly could be done, is if filling in a color3 value and you just input a number, say “133” that it would fill that in as “133,133,133”
i think that would be very useful to me as i use grayscale colors a lot

[sanjay2003 (Sanjay)]

Finally, this is great. A nice way to input math.huge , NaN (0/0) would be a cool addition.

@tnavarts

Nobody thought to do it. We were too used to the status quo of painstakingly typing out the full property value to imagine that there might be a significant easy improvement there. However all it took to break that status quo was some creative thinking from the right person.

As an aside – Studio would be great / nice to work with / cause less pain if you were the guy who decided things up top. Your level of understanding on what is needed (and honestly what we like) is spot-on. Lots of people (I’m sure they try their best) seem to overlook things like this. Also like your explanations. Makes me feel less stupid. @tnavarts

[Elttob (dphfox)]

I can finally input short form hex codes! The day has come.

Thabks for fixing these micro-annoyances

[SwitchedDreams]

@tnavarts

Aside: Don’t hesitate to send feature requests

Quite hypocritical if I allow myself to say so.

There’s been a feature request asking for extended light ranges which was made 7 years ago and still isn’t implemented with no updates in sight, except an employee saying “they are looking into it” 8 months ago, however we all know what that means.

The post has almost 23k views at the date of writing this, so there is no way a single engineer hasn’t seen this.

If you guys encourage us to make feature requests, then for crying out loud actually look at them and act upon them, especially if the community supports and embraces the request.

The request in question:
Increase Range Limit of Lights - Feature Requests / Engine Features - Developer Forum | Roblox

If you flag this/take this down for being off-topic, then I don’t know what to tell you, I am simply replying to what an employee stated in this post, nothing off-topic.

[tnavarts]

The thread in question has certainly not gone unnoticed.

Here’s the staff reply for reference:

Increase Range Limit of Lights

Hi everyone! We are aware of the restrictive nature of light ranges. We’re investigating solutions, but as you have already guessed there are some technical challenges surrounding it. I have no specifics to announce around this today, but it is on our radar!

There will always be unfortunate outliers where it’s very hard to get developers what they want even where there’s a lot of demand. Most will eventually come through though even if it takes some time.

A relatively recent example is the granular Streaming controls, which were a very long term ask since the introduction of streaming, and things eventually came together for them to get released.

[flowAces (Flow)]

@tnavarts

UDim2 property 0.5 → {0.5, 0}, {0.5, 0}

this is gonna save me so much sanity, THANKYOU