Welcome to the first Creator AMA summary of 2025! I hope everyone is ready for a new year of Roblox development! This summary will have a new section called “Asked & Unanswered,” which will include some of the most-liked unanswered questions (which will obviously only be valid as of when I collect those posts). I’ve also reordered things so that the summary is first, considering that the “Asked & Answered” section tends to go into the replies anyway. Just like last time, this post automatically collected everything you’ll see before, so I apologize if there are any issues or missing content. Lastly, any AI-labeled section may not be accurate and should be taken as unreliable information.
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AI Summary
Features Currently Being Worked On:
Accessory Adjustment Expansion – Adding accessory scaling and placement to neck, shoulders, front, and back .
UI Styling System – A new UI styling system is set to release before mid-year, with UI Blur capabilities expected later this year.
Experience-Level Avatar Scaling – A new Avatar Settings tool will allow creators to control minimum and maximum avatar scaling in their experiences.
Experience Chat for Consoles – Gradual rollout of TextChatService-based chat for consoles is planned in the coming weeks.
Server Authority for Anti-Cheat – An opt-in system is being developed to combat movement exploits like speed hacks.
New Unified Script Type – A script type to unify client and server scripts with prediction/reconciliation support is being explored.
Animation Editor Improvements – Major animation workflow improvements , including an Animation Compositor for better animation layering.
Granular Experience Permissions – Upcoming permissions system will allow edit access without publish rights and view-only analytics access .
Discreet Permissions for Ban Tools – By mid-2025 , experience owners will be able to grant specific users moderator access to the ban tool.
Improved UGC Moderation & Accountability – Enhanced moderation systems will hold groups and group owners accountable for DMCA and other infractions.
Asset Privacy & Permissions Expansion – New privacy options for decals, images, and meshes launching in beta soon.
Roblox Studio Mobile Creation – A mobile-friendly creation tool is in development, separate from full Roblox Studio.
E-Commerce on Roblox – Physical merchandise sales are being tested with Shopify integration ; broader rollout expected in the coming months.
Roblox Studio Redesign & Stylesheets – Next-gen Studio UI and Stylesheets are set to fully launch in a few months .
Alt Account Detection for Exploiters – Improved alt detection will integrate with exploit actions .
Brazilian Servers – Roblox is working on regional servers for Brazil but has no launch date yet.
Features Under Consideration / Exploration:
Tool Interaction Property – Devs might get a property to control whether equipped tools interact with objects (e.g., ClickDetectors).
Custom Tampering Events in Hyperion – Allowing developers to respond to exploit detection signals .
mTLS for HTTPService – Still being explored as a potential feature.
Physics Scripts for More Control – Internal discussions about higher frame rate physics scripts for custom physics.
Creating Custom Object Types – Not a priority, but feedback is being collected.
Dynamic vs Static Faces – Exploring letting users choose between static or dynamic faces .
EditableMeshes for Avatar Customization – Permissions rework could allow applying real-time effects on avatar meshes .
WebSockets Support – Not currently planned but being explored for future development.
2D Engine Features – Tilemaps, sprite support, and parallax scrolling are being reconsidered as Roblox expands its content capabilities.
Paid Access Flexibility – Considering allowing both Robux and local currency options along with free trials and lower price tiers .
Better Marketplace Sponsorship Tools – Acknowledged as a problem but not yet on the roadmap .
Expanded Server Authority Controls – Rollback netcode and physics stepping adjustments are being considered.
Improved Roblox Recommendations – Internally evaluating how the discovery algorithm ranks experiences .
Deferred or On-Hold Features (Not on the Roadmap but Open to Feedback):
Shader Engine for Developers – Not planned but remains a high community request .
EditableImage on Third-Party Decals – Being reevaluated , with more control for asset creators expected.
Node-Based / Block-Based Coding – Roblox is open to feedback but focusing on making Luau easier rather than a full visual coding system.
New Post-Processing Effects – No plans for effects like dithering, posterization, or chromatic aberration this year.
Rendering Objects in Separate Layers – Not planned but noted as an interesting feature.
Dedicated 2D Engine with Tilemap Support – Not currently planned but being reevaluated .
Key Takeaways:
Many highly requested features are actively being developed (e.g., UI updates, server security, avatar customization, animation improvements).
Security and moderation improvements are a big focus, particularly alt detection, server authority, and UGC accountability .
Feature flexibility is improving, such as paid access in multiple currencies , better permissions systems , and granular avatar scaling .
Several potential features are under discussion , but community feedback is still shaping their development (e.g., Hyperion exploit detection signals, custom object types, and EditableImage API changes ).
Reminder that AI generated content is unreliable.
Asked & Answered
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Hey there, thank you for answering our questions, I will leave my questions below in more replies!
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Yes! We’re working on additional categories for accessory adjustment now – neck, shoulders, front, and back – and we expect to enable these categories for accessory adjustment this quarter.
Just like the initial launch , these will be available via API as well as in the platform Avatar Editor.
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A few questions regarding UI and UI Design.
Are the plans for having styles in UI still on the table to arrive soon? Because frankly we can all agree that the current UI development experience is quite difficult.
And, are there any plans to add UI special effects like UI Blur anytime soon?
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Thanks for the question! Yes, we are working on styling and aim to release a system before mid-year. UI capabilities like blur are on our roadmap and you should expect to see them late this year, so stay tuned!
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A question for Creator AMA - Shader Engine
Now there is a great demand for direct access to the shader engine. Has this topic been raised and are there any plans to implement the creators’ need for a customizable shader engine? This would make the visual component of roblox billions of times more diverse. The latest update with the new editable Mesh and Editable Image APIs has expanded access to the engine. But they don’t provide the full range of features as a shader engine and lighting.
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Hello Nick and Greg! I have a Roblox news account on a social media, and I constantly see people asking me about news regarding the chat for consoles.
Is there any information you can share with us about this, especially a more concrete date, since the creator roadmap says “early 2025”?
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Great news — we’re planning to roll out experience chat (slowly) for console users in the coming weeks!
Creators who use TextChatService will be able to seamlessly enable experience chat for their console users, and it supports things like automatic translation. If your experience still uses legacy chat , it’s not supported on console, so you’ll need to migrate (instructions here ).
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This is a nice idea. We are not working on Tool at the moment, but this totally makes sense to add as an option. We’ll add it to the backlog (no timeline to share). Seems straightforward, but share any additional color on how you would like to see this implemented for our consideration.
Thank you!
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Sorry if it’s off-topic, but a few fellow creators and I are wondering if/when the Verified Badge waves continue. We are all well over the requirements, but so far haven’t seen any verification taking place after Oct, 2024. Could you give some clarity about that?
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We’ve started issuing badges again for those who meet the qualifying criteria here .
Of note, we’ve paused issuing badges to group contributors as we’ve seen some abuse with group owners selling badges to group members. Badges for group owners will continue to be issued.
That said, if you meet the criteria outside of being a group contributor, you should see badges on your account soon.
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Yes, we’re working on an experience-level tool called Avatar Settings that puts body-scaling controls directly in the hands of our creators. This tool will allow creators to set a minimum and maximum avatar scale to ensure consistent and competitive gameplay. At the platform level, body scaling is set to ensure standardization for avatars entering experiences.
After rolling out Avatar Settings, we will explore easing platform-level restrictions to enable even more user expression.
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We’re focused on automatically detecting tampering and leveraging our platform policy system to take the appropriate action, and doing so across all platforms we support, but we are also exploring ways to give creators control and input based on what we detect. Could you share what specific things you’d like to do with a tampering signal?
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Hey guys! Thanks for doing another one of these.
I’m mostly interested in the work being done on server authority. This will be massive for preventing cheats in games. Are there any further details you can share on this at this time, such as timelines, API details, et cetera?
Anything you can share about how this will work would be awesome!
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Thanks for the question! We’re hard at work on server authority and aim to have an opt-in system for server authoritative avatars to help address many client-side movement exploits (e.g. speed hacks). We’re also exploring a new script type, designed to unify client and server scripts, which can be run in either location and support features like prediction/reconciliation. This script type will make building experiences simpler, leading to more secure gameplay. We expect to have more details to share with you by this summer!
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Can you share any updates on the progress of Server Authority? Is it utilizing rollback netcode, or does it follow a different approach? Additionally, when can we expect it to be released or made available for testing?
Will game developers have more control over physics simulation, such as the ability to adjust the physics time scale or manually call physics:Step()? This would be incredibly useful for features like slow motion (by stepping physics intermittently) or implementing rollback netcode (by stepping multiple times within a single frame). Are there any plans to support these use cases?
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Thanks for the question. Could you share what type of control you’re looking for? One idea we’ve discussed internally that would provide extreme control is physics scripts, where you could create scripts that run at much higher frame rates to implement your own custom physics. However, we don’t have this on the roadmap, so any more info on your preferred use case would be helpful!
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Great question! Attributes were our first big move towards ‘custom objects’, but we know there’s stuff still missing like custom events, class names etc.
Unfortunately - this isn’t something we’re currently prioritizing, but we’d love it if you could share your use cases with us so we can learn a bit more.
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Unified lighting was the first step in our plans for lighting — with this release, we’re aiming to improve scalability and lay the foundation for future improvements. After this, we will address some long-standing requests like expanded light ranges. Our improved mid-range lighting model, which we previewed at RDC23, will provide improvements to shadow quality for most users, but this is on-hold right now and we don’t have a timeline to share on release.
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We want avatar heads on our platform to be dynamic and expressive while respecting the broad range of aesthetics that our community loves.
To do this, we’re exploring ways to create dynamic heads from classic faces in a way that retains a face’s original look and feel. We are also exploring letting users choose if they want their faces to be dynamic or static.
Ultimately, we want to do all of this in a way that maximizes user expression while making things easy for our creators.
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What progress is being made to make it safer and easier to run untrusted, user-generated (in experience, ie, scripting games), Luau code inside experiences without the need to rely on the deoptimising and deprecated functions loadstring and setfenv.
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Great question! Currently in Preview, Script Capabilities allow you to sandbox code to control what it does and doesn’t have access to in your experience. We don’t currently have plans to make it easier to run code written by users in your experience beyond APIs such as loadstring, but it is something we are open to exploring. Let us know more about your specific use-case.
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I really like all of the work thats happened over the years regarding the analytics of experiences. There is a lot of really powerful stuff that has been added but for Developers working on a game in a team create, this (and other game settings) are restricted to solely the game owner, making it impossible to view this information.
I work on a game that cannot be moved to a group and hence me (and everyone else) cannot view the analytics for our game. Is there any plans to fix the permissions for teamcreate games to allow added developers to view critical analytics data for their games?
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Yes, we are planning to expand the granularity of access permissions for Experiences, starting first with the ability to give Edit but no Publish permissions. We’ll then expand to View analytics permission as well. These permissions are already available if you are managing your collaboration through Groups.
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Will we get the ability to set a pixelated resample mode for instances like Decal, Texture and SurfaceAppearance? Currently, it’s hard to use pixel art without having to upscale the image, which in result still gives a blurry look.
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Thanks for the question! Improving Animation workflows is one of our top goals for the year.
Here’s a couple things we’re up to this year:
Improving our animation tools in Studio to allow creators to animate anything in their experience and make it easier to share animations.
An Animation Compositor is in the works to improve animation layering and blending at runtime.
These launches (and more!) will improve the default avatar this year. We’d love to hear more from all of our on more pain points so we can make releases great!
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Good question. Sockets in generally, and websockets are currently not planned or on the roadmap, but we think this is an interesting feature with many use cases and are exploring it. Please feel free to share your use cases, and be on the look out for future surveys on this topic.
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We’re constantly working to improve our moderation including on items uploaded to Marketplace. We’re using a bunch of metrics to improve both our human and automated safety systems, and this is something we’ll continue to prioritize. Please continue to report the content you see that violates our policies – it’s extremely helpful in making these systems more effective.
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Question regarding free UGCs: Are there any plans to change per-unit fees for free UGC limiteds? We were promised about this almost a year ago and no changes at all… Opening up Marketplace to More Creators
(also its becoming harder to keep up with the fee
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Will there ever be a system where infractions, such as DMCA strikes on UGC assets, are applied to groups rather than just individual users? Right now, it’s possible to easily bypass the (rather light handed) punishments by using multiple uploading accounts under the same group
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Hi Nick and Greg!
Will there be an ability to grant specific users/roles “moderator” access to the ban management panel of an experience?
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Thanks for the question!
We know there’s been a lot of great feedback about the initial restrictions on our EditableImage and EditableMesh APIs.
There’s a balancing act here - we know there are so many powerful use cases still to unlock, but we want to move forward in a way that keeps creators in control of their own IP. We want to get to a place where there’s one consistent set of rules for what you can and can’t do with an asset, and where as much of this is controllable as possible by the asset creator. We’re actively working on this and hope to share more detail in the next few months.
We’d love to understand more about your use case. Which third party decals would be useful for you, and how are you using them?
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Our vision is that everyone should be able to create on Roblox, no matter the device they’re on.
Later this year, we plan on releasing a new starter experience that focuses on creation and works well on mobile devices. It’ll be a simpler way to create instead of using the full power of Studio. Our plan for that experience is to make it collaborative, sharable and able to persist creations.
Also, we’re moving more UI components to Lua, which will simplify future integration of Studio tools and features into the starter experience.
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First step in a new era of creation where developers have direct access to meshes and textures in Lua (Live in Studio), and coming to in-experience.
Can we get support for allowing editablemesh and editableimages to be created from player avatar meshes at runtime? Currently, this is not allowed / restricted because a player’s avatar meshes are not owned or created by the experience they are in. This makes it impossible to implement mechanics that make use of an avatar’s geometry & textures at runtime. Some examples include applying visual effects to a player’s clothing & body (like being wet from rain / swimming or burned from lava), creating realistic snow footprints, setting an avatar’s textures to be greyscale, etc. While these are visual polishes, they add a lot of depth to games and it would be great if we could implement them using the editablemesh & editableimage APIs!
I would also like to see MeshPart CSG work with player avatar meshes as well for similar usecases!
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This is an excellent question. We are re-evaluating our permissions models and how they interact with content in an experience (including a player’s avatar), but we don’t have a concrete answer to share right now. As we build out our permission system, we want to unlock additional capabilities while keeping creators in control of their IP. We also want to ensure the system can support the use cases at scale. Thank you for sharing what you’d like to do – we’ll add this to our list of use cases!
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How does Roblox plan to address the recent influx of reports in #bug-reports:catalog-asset-bugs ? To my knowledge, the team that handles the category is understaffed, so they’ve been struggling to meet the new heightened demand. This has led to problems with the handling of these reports. I’ve seen many individuals (including UGC creators) who would probably be willing to help this team address the backlog. There are already reports in the category that include proposed fixes to catalog assets (1 , 2 , 3 ). This category could improve by implementing a program like Retexture Artists where members can grant Roblox the right to fixed textures and meshes.
To see more context and specific issues with this category, please refer to this feature request.
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We understand catalog asset bugs are a concern for the community: we appreciate these reports. There’s always room to improve and do a better job communicating here, and we do intend to act on these.
There are different opinions about catalog asset bugs: some of you want us to leave these items as they are, while others want things updated. So we need to develop a system to determine which ones we ought to fix versus leave as part of our DevForum bugs effort.
That said, with limited resources, we can’t always fix everything we’d like to in a timely way, so we appreciate any patience you can offer. We’ll prioritize fixing the most important assets first and know that we’re otherwise working on the most impactful issues.
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Good question. While we do not have this on our roadmap, we are revisiting this area as we look at enabling more types of content on the platform and as we see creators do impressive things with our UI framework to build 2D content. While we cannot commit to anything right now, please share any further thoughts on what you would like to see!
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Good news here!
Since the RDC announcement , this feature is already live (in closed beta) across a small number of experiences. We’ve partnered with two commerce partners (including Shopify) to enable these creators to sell physical merchandise within experiences, and some of these purchases are being bundled with virtual items.
We’re planning to roll this capability out with Shopify more broadly in the coming months, and are finalizing the eligibility criteria to enable the bundling of virtual items on purchase. We’re still working on the eligibility criteria, and it might include the things you’d expect like ID verification and average earnings/DAUs as we scale the feature.
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We’re prioritizing OpenCloud API additions by community demand, and group membership management is our most recent launch. DevProduct management and timestamps for InventoryItem are in the works. Please share feature requests for new and existing APIs so we can enable you to automate more.
While cleaner API definitions are great, we recognize there is established de-facto use of ‘legacy’ APIs, and automating with cookies is a significant pain point. We are prioritizing better docs and the elimination of cookies over an overhaul of all functionality to OpenCloud v2 resources. For example, we added API key support for many ‘legacy’ endpoints recently and will be expanding on these.
We are reworking the Cloud Reference documentation to be task oriented - e.g. if you want to automate tasks around group management, you’ll be able to see all of Roblox’s groups-related APIs with auth scopes, stability guarantees and so on within a single page.
In addition, we’ll be building on the work we started to enable OpenCloud use in-experience , allowing more APIs to be used. We are proceeding carefully here to ensure authorization is intuitive, but also fully controllable and auditable by the owner.
Stay tuned for roadmap updates as we make progress on shipping these improvements.
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