EpikFawx
June 24, 2020, 5:44pm
#1
SurfaceAppearance is in the Insert Object thing, but can’t use it. Is it cause i’m in beta program, or something?
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Just answered in the FiB Phase 3 thread, quoting it here for anyone who searches for this one. TL;DR it’s not ready yet, but pretty close enough to becoming live.
[SurfaceAppearance] was introduced in the Avatar Evolution build and is not yet completed. Aka, it’s not ready and likely is missing most of its functionality in releases and simply exists for save compatibility (i.e. bringing an Avatar Evolution or test build save into normal studio, same with VideoFrames, which, fun fact are enabled in a small list of places).
It’s targeted for 2nd quarter (this month being the last) so I think we can either expect it to release in the next update or two, or it may potentially be pushed forward for more testing. Roblox does intensive testing of new features before release (especially more sensitive ones and especially ones which may have an effect on performance).
[Hexcede’s] personal understanding (and a detailed explanation) around the reason for doing so much testing on all of these new lighting features is that Roblox wants to make sure that lighting is not only consistent across all of the graphics APIs they implement (Vulkan, Metal, etc), but also all of the hardware (such as AMD vs NVidia GPUs, different cards, CPUs with integrated graphics, etc) and OSes (Windows, Mac, Android, iOS) they support. They likely have lots of people who know their stuff reviewing code, lots of tests they run on different APIs including visual and performance-wise, potentially even actual hardware and OS installations they test on to make sure that everything goes smoothly.
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EpikFawx
June 25, 2020, 4:44pm
#3
So, you’re saying it may be coming a day before july or in early july?
Release Notes for 438 announced three hours ago includes the Studio beta for SurfaceAppearances, as well as the un-deprecation of its properties. The changes aren’t live yet, but we’re looking at a very positive soon™.
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EpikFawx
June 25, 2020, 9:59pm
#5
What do you mean positive soon?
The SurfaceAppearance beta will be live soon as evidenced, but I can’t say with any certainty.
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Bloxrrey
June 25, 2020, 10:02pm
#7
Same thing happened to me, I insert it and my studio just closes, maybe my graphics card isn’t high enough, idk.
EpikFawx
June 25, 2020, 10:02pm
#8
Alright. I’d estimate it to be at the end of june or so.