SurfaceAppearance Texture Tiling

[Fire540Games (FireForge)]

As a Roblox developer, it is currently not possible to tile PBR textures. Right now, the SurfaceAppearance texture stretches across the entire mesh, whereas in many cases it would be better for the texture to tile, just like the Texture instance does.

A good method of fixing this is to add each of these properties from Texture to SurfaceAppearance:

This feature was actually announced by @Homeomorph back in June (6 months ago)

@Homeomorph

We split the whole “custom PBR textures” project into 2 parts:

1. SurfaceAppearance only for UV-mapped MeshParts - will launch a Studio only beta in a few weeks and enable in games once it’s stable
2. Generic tiled materials that work on all Part types - will release a few months from now

See #2, where he said that tiled materials would be coming. That was 6 months ago, and nothing has happened with this yet.

If Roblox is able to address this issue, it would improve my development experience because tiling PBR textures would be possible, and the SurfaceAppearance object would be functionally similar to the Texture object.