Upgraded Materials, Material Manager, and More!

[DrCrowded (Crowds)]

oh right lol thats probably why then. Silly me

[Avtixe]

A bit confused, is there no Neon/Glow material included in the new materials?

[minkmink]

wow, this is pretty cool… but this isnt intuitive in the slightest and completely disrupts workflow.

Previously, you could just select a material from a dropdown menu, and the further parts you spawn in had that material. pretty simple, and easy to use.

Now you have to click the material manager, open a window, select the correct material, select the parts you want to change , and then hit “apply to selected”

Please give us back our convenient dropdown menu

[poohler]

I have a question, I don’t know if this was asked here or not, and I cannot find it. So forgive me if this was already asked and answered.

Will you be able to make new terrain textures instead of replacing the existing ones, this really would be useful since it limits creativity and it would be hard to make huge maps with variety of textures if you could only replace. Ty

[ziplocBag]

Ok sooo, this is pretty cool, but, i just want to change the gray into a shade of black, without overriding the texture in the entire server (this stuff makes great coal!). I also noticed that material manager replaced material selection. Otherwise, enjoying this update

[SimonEnderB]

You currently can make new materials.

[ziplocBag]

Also wish to have gravel as a terrain option.

[Zabrikzi (Zab)]

Totally can’t wait to vibe with 500+ various concrete and brick materials.
In all seriousness though, I’m honestly pretty hyped about this update and feel like this was executed WAY better than it was initially. I still hope the classic materials can still co-exist with the new ones somehow.

[ona2000]

• Is it possible to have the parity between terrain and parts be optional?

With how it currently works, if you override a material it overrides both the part material and terrain material. It would be nice to have the ability to choose what to override, either overriding the terrain material, part material, or both.

@JoshSedai

Whether you use the 2022 or pre-2022 materials, you will receive new “parity” materials ensuring that materials that were formerly terrain-only are now available on parts. Note there are only 2022 versions of these, so they won’t perfectly match pre-2022 terrain materials.

• Will perfectly matched parity of the legacy materials be eventually introduced?

With how it currently works you cannot set parts to have legacy terrain materials or set terrain to use legacy part materials. Its currently only limited to 2022 materials, if you wanted to use legacy pavement terrain material alongside the pavement part material it is not possible, legacy pavement terrain material doesn’t exist as a part material. It is also not possible to use for example legacy sand terrain material alongside legacy part sand material they are two different textures. It would be preferred if both legacy part materials and legacy terrain materials are preserved.

• Is it also possible to introduce both Legacy terrain/part and 2022 Materials into the Material Manager as a way to use both simultaneously?

Currently, when you toggle 2022 materials it just switches out with Legacy materials. The new 2022 materials are amazing but not all fit in with what you want to achieve. If you wanted to use the 2022 foil material in one place and the legacy foil material in another it isn’t possible.

@JoshSedai

Preserve flexibility by making these a choice, rather than a required upgrade.

Though this isn’t a required upgrade it’s disappointing that 2022 materials aren’t being introduced as additional variants of legacy materials but rather still replacements. You’re forced to choose between either having 2022 materials or Legacy materials. You have no freedom to use 2022 materials simultaneously side by side with legacy materials.

[A_ngelics (Angel)]

I can’t stress how much I agree with this,

The dropdown was very useful and it is so much more tedious to have to go into properties and select what material you want to make it, I’ve also noticed they have updated the color change tool and I cannot say I like it, the convenient dropdown menus for color change and material change were so much more user friendly and simple.

[ThatLazyBucket (Just Bucket)]

Personally like the new one, and i doubt they’ll ever revert it back. You’ll have to deal with it cause they worked hard for it and they aren’t just gonna change it back cause you liked it

[Varonex_0 (Varonex)]

You can change the material for this specific part only. (Or group of parts)

Simply create a MaterialVariant into MaterialService, and then go on the part, and change the MaterialVariant property !

Yes, you can apply MaterialVariants to a specific part, that’s what makes this new MaterialService is so powerful !

[PeZsmistic]

With respect to widget size complaints, please see here:

Reduce minimum height for most built in widgets

As a Roblox developer, it is impossible to make my output widget taller in my layout configuration. [image] First and foremost, this is because the toolbox has an enormous minimum height in comparison to the height of my 1920x1080 screen. I don’t need to see 2 and a half rows of the toolbox when I’m not actively using it. I want to be able to shrink it all the way down to at least one row, or even just the controls header so I can expand other docked panels of Studio so I can see e.g. more of…

Would be great for the above to be an accessibility standard in all built in studio tools.

[Sketch_RO (Artocrates)]

lucky guy to be regular XD, i tried to make a post in studio features but couldnt

Ability to have a material visible underneath a surface apperance that is set to overlay

As a Roblox developer, it is currently too hard to customize my meshes without uploading a lot of textures, I want to have the ability to customize the underlaying texture under the surface apperance. the problem when i try to change the material of the parts of the mesh that is is actually transparent : [image] when i set it to transperency the mesh becomes transparent, and when i set it to overlay it only gets the color and not the material what i want to achieve: [image] the surface a…

[3rdhoan123 (Future Noob)]

Don’t know if anyone mentioned this but it is a small oddity I’ve found:

When you press the plus icon, the image of the material changes in terms of orientation or UV position? Don’t know how to describe it. You can keep repeating it by clicking off the material and clicking back onto it, then clicking the plus symbol again.

It will also happen if you just spam click back and forth on it again and again. No need to click the plus icon for it to happen.

Happens for all materials
Doesn’t really impact anything, just wanted to note about it

[idelww]

I believe we should have some sort of “overlay” for the material as well, similar to how pre-made materials behave, for example the Corroded metal and the Leafy Grass

As shown in this picture is how my custom Corroded metal material looks like on a while part, compared to the other 2, which are pre-made.

In this second picture, everything is greened out.

Before the latest change on this update, the more alpha a pixel had, the more powerful it’s color was, however, it was still a pain to work with.

In my opinion, we should be able to add some overlay somewhere in these settings so materials like corroded metal or leafy grass can be re-made as well, for people who intend in changing them.

And for the 2022 Materials, these suffer from the same problem as well.

So I believe, it would be awesome if something will be done about this.
Overall, this update is so good and I can’t wait to work with the finished version and be able to see the updates not just in studio, but the player as well.

[ssl_Skymaster07 (Sky)]

Honestly, I don’t think that the 2022 CorrodedMetal’s corrosion colour change is a huge issue. The fact that there was no way to change the corrosion colour on the pre-2022 CorrodedMetal texture always bothered me, because there are metals such a copper which don’t turn brown when they corrode. I think this is a good change for 2 reasons:

• The contrast on CorrodedMetal is no longer as great as before, making it more visually appealing
• CorrodedMetal looks more different when recoloured. as recolouring pre-2022 CorrodedMetal hardly change the look of it.
  Same goes for the other 2022 textures.

However, I do agree with you that alpha overlay should be added.

[ssl_Skymaster07 (Sky)]

Here’s some feedback regarding the textures:
I noticed that the 2022 Brick texture is aligned seamlessly, which is awesome! However this does not apply to the Pavement texture, as shown in the picture. I would like to see the Pavement texture being slightly scaled so that there is no longer a noticeable seam between 2 parts with the pavement texture.

[Nasa_155]

I have a build that the new ice texture is almost-perfect for. Unfortunately…

The tiling is really obvious, especially on the handful of more blank spaces. (stairs at the bottom are 2, 1, 20 size for scale, it’s a large/grand build so the open space doesn’t stand out)
Similar issue with a few other textures like Cobblestone, CorrodedMetal, CrackedLava and Marble, which is a shame because I’d love to use them in builds but they really just don’t look good on any part that’s even slightly large.

[TheCrypticRunner (Cryptic)]

My custom “Grass2” material is glitching out, confusing itself with other materials:

The issue fixes itself when I disable Organic tiling. It seems like Organic tiling has a big rendering issue on parts.