Some mesh assets are broken

[isCreator]

A lot of mesh assets randomly broke

[iplaygame_theory]

Can you give more information on what broke (asset ids, experience id) and when?

[Trintatronic (Spookytronic)]

I know that the Personal Rocket is not working properly when deployed, resulting in a massive marshmallow.

Personal Rocketship

Also apparently the bats with the Bat Knight Bat Sword don’t load either.

Bat Knight Bat Sword

[isCreator]

the mesh issue started today at 4:30 PM EST, one of the asset id is 90718350 and experience id is 4522347649, there is many other tools with this issue too

[CraftyDyno (Crafty)]

I believe this issue may be related to MeshType, it’s being set to “Head” instead of “FileMesh” for new special mesh instances.

[SpiffycaiusII (Caius)]

Hi there, special meshes were in fact changed.

It appears special meshes now spawn in as a head by default leading to some amusing results.

This appears to happen now after an update was published today, according to many people before I started testing things myself.

When using the airstrike gear this spawns in.

broken mesh

As many of us know, we’re supposed to actually be seeing a jet dropping bombs, except we’re seeing a UFO drop grey heads.

And for reference, here’s the gear in question.

Airstrike

[Ryanelevatorfire]

Yea, it’s supposed to automatically change to a FileMesh once you input a MeshID.

[wpled]

I’m also having this problem and it’s effecting my entire game.

[drager980]

hi plz fix this it affects a wide range of existing games both newer and older

[Yungwzz]

Hey, i’m also having this problem, SpecialMesh is not displaying correctly on my PC, but somehow it works fine on phone.

Here are the images for reference:
Image On PC:

Image On Phone:

the mesh issue started today at 4:30 PM EST

[Tokaisho]

I can confirm this is an issue at my games such as Pinewood Computer Core which use the mesh for the Personal Rocketship.

[VitalWinter]

My experience A Wolf Or Other is currently experiencing a major issue with meshes. The wolf character in the experience nolonger visually loads, causing them to be mostly transparent. This is very bad.

[AyaDrevisRoblox (AyaSensei067)]

The mesh issue also occurred on Monster Islands.

[Yungwzz]

It’s broken for every game Bro!!! PLEASE FIX THAT!

[JazunOwO (Jason)]

I can confirm that this is the cause and that manually changing the type to FileMesh fixes it.
I hope this is fixed quickly, as my experience relies on it defaulting to FileMesh.

[uvic1rn (Sarah)]

Weirdly, according to the external Roblox API Reference website, SpecialMesh had its default changed to Head in 2022, version-ec81b0ea2163459b (v0.553.0.5530621)

Perhaps this has something to do with it (edit: now that I think about it, this may have just been the point at which Roblox started including the defaults in the API dump)

[SrWildernessXplorer]

Our team is aware of this issue and is currently working on a fix.

[Vysaries (war)]

Not sure if related but I was having issues uploading new texture / image assets within studio earlier also. Those use the same asset delivery process as this I believe.

[AboveOurSquare]

Thank you for your patience! Our teams have pushed a fix to mitigate the issue in new servers. If you are still experiencing any issues, please let us know and our teams will investigate further.