We wanted to give you a heads-up regarding SurfaceAppearance. We have been working on improving our backend systems that are the foundation for future development of SurfaceAppearance.
However, due to the nature of the change and the huge amount of textures available in Roblox, there might be some latency when this is first enabled:
For example, you may or may not see the PBR textures (roughness, normal maps, metalness) for your game in the first few times you play (you will still see the color texture though).
We will enable this change in a couple weeks time and will let you know when it’s actually enabled.
If for some reason you are experiencing issues with PBR after this change, that persist after a few game launches, please let us know as soon as possible so we can investigate.
Thank you for reading the post.
P.S. If your game uses SurfaceAppearance heavily, you can leave a comment below with the place ID/URL. We would love to check out and be amazed at your creation!
**Update (5/10/2021): Backend upgrade has been completed. Please let us know if you have any issues regarding Surface Appearance not showing up in game.
edit 3: since a lot of people are asking me how I made this, I used Blender and Substance painter as my only other softwares than roblox studio. This is currently just a solo project by myself.
For example, you may or may not see the PBR textures (roughness, normal maps, metalness) for your game in the first few times you play (you will still see the color texture though).
I feel as if this will scare some people, if there is latency then how long will it be?
edit: roblox if yall seeing this please 4k textures, or at least 2k please i beg. while a good UV unwrap can fix low texture resolution on small items, large environments need to be cut into tiny pieces to not have pixels that are 1x1 studs. https://www.roblox.com/games/6243624116/pbr-testing
I’m currently working on a project that will probably release in a few weeks as well. and it heavily uses pbr… i’m gonna update you guys if something happens with it (currently all files are local and still don’t have a public test place).
My entire game depends on the color texture of SurfaceAppearance, so as long as that gets shown without delay, as usual, then things should be okay for my game.
