Surface Appearance Textures Backend Upgrade

I’ve got Surface Appearance on every part in this game

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my pbr testing place

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

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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).

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If you don’t mind sharing, What type of backend changes have been made? Performance improvements?

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A desert map I’m working on, which extensively uses PBR textures
https://www.roblox.com/games/6435606181/Desert-cliffs
:smiley:

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We use SurfaceAppearance for our foliage in our test server:

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the game I been working on with my friend is going to use PBR entirely,

https://www.roblox.com/games/5063114695/Physically-based-rendering
https://www.roblox.com/games/6300631262/Perdana-Leadership-Foundation

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Tiled SurfaceAppearance when? Are you at least planning to work on it?

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This is one of my horror games, they all use PBR Texture to look more realistic.

https://www.roblox.com/games/5786591054/Automatonophobia-Nightmare?refPageId=26fb65a4-3a24-4dbf-8ea3-c97af33039b5

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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.

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roblox could add a uv scale / shift u and v parameters which would also be useful for scrolling textures etc

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Bruh. I LOVED NO MANS SKY.
I love this game too! Defiantly fits with these textures.

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great Thats Will Help me alot With other devs

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Roblox looks so realistic when you remove the water texture from the roblox player client folder, look at this beauty!

And this next shot, is with future lighting! This is amazing.

Wow roblox, amazing to what we came to in the past 14-15 years

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Once all these bugs and tests are done, PBR is going to be so good for games, good job!

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We make heavy use of SurfaceAppearance in our game Tank Warfare!
https://www.roblox.com/games/4011063766/Tank-Warfare

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You could try a more urban enviroment?


the map isnt done and PLEASE allow 2k-8k textures and 100k tri meshes

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Can this be turned into a setting or make it so if you have graphics set to 10 it will download PBR textures straight away? If I am promoting PBR materials in my game, I want players to be able to see them when they join.

What about for showcases? Players will want to see PBR the first time they join. Making it so they won’t see them until they play the game an arbitrary amount of times is no good

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Unfortunately, PBR textures are still broken for me, as they have been since day 1. I have filed bug reports, commented on posts, and talked with staff, yet nobody has looked into this. I’ve tried every tutorial and am confident this is an issue with my machine, similar to how atmosphere does not work on my machine:

Here is the bug report:

I would greatly appreciate someone looking into this; I really would like to try PBR out!

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I joined your game and i love it but aren’t the bushes from fortnite :sweat_smile:

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