Ah! Thanks. I’m not very bright when it comes to these new features 
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Before this feature gets fully released I’m not sure if you have confirmed it further up in chat but are you able to bring it up with your team about creating entirely new Materials? We’ve been limited to a small amount of materials for such a long time It’d be nice to further enhance this feature by allowing us to create new ones as well.
Such as for terrain you have all the current textures but if we run out of textures to override we can create more for things such multiple variations of one terrain texture.
I think the best way we can solve this is for terrain it’d be similar to attributes for creating new objects inside that value (if you understand what I mean) Really there’s a ton of cases for this I’m just not that good at explaining it.
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This might be outside your expertise but do you know when Roblox will ship the new Materials they showed off about a year ago? The new look for materials (and offering terrain materials on parts!) worked so well with a project I was working on and then they disappeared with no communication on what happened.
These custom materials were supposed to be the answer to those who didn’t want the new materials.
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They said something about a Material Marketplace that they’ll be working on which would include those materials, I’ll see if I can find the original post for it but if I do I’ll edit my post with it. 
It’ll be connected with that response, question being from the person he replied to and I replied to his post with a follow-up question regarding it.
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Wil we be able to change the terrain grass decoration?
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We’ve been waiting an eternity just to be able to tint surface appearance, which alone has been a big detriment to my game. I am waiting on this functionality to be able to support character customization with skinned meshes.
So naturally this means that I’m worried we won’t get five star support for material tinting when this releases.
I’ve brought this up a few times so I apologize for repetition, I just want to make sure this is heard because IIRC none of this has been acknowledged.
Currently you can tint terrain materials but this happens as a hue rotation. Parts cannot do this, color is applied in a different manner (additive?) that totally overwhelms material colors. This means that it is impossible for part materials to match recolored terrain materials unless you replace both of them yourself (for inferior versions that are one single hue all the way through; it is very boring for reusable materials to all be one color).
It would be great to hear if there are plans to address this issue.
Further, the new materials in the old beta build had the ability to mask parts of the albedo to keep the original color (e.g. for brick grout) and I think this is also currently in use for the brick material. This is a very important feature for us as developers because we will also obviously want to make our own materials for brick, tile, etc.
Will we be getting access to something like this?
This would allow us to make materials like corroded metal, and further if paired with the previous feature request would allow us to have two-toned materials which dramatically increases the reusability of any one material (i.e. change the color of the corrosion separately from the metal underneath).
It would be amazing if we could have more transparency on where these features are going and plans so we can give continuous feedback, rather than it all coming out as a surprise months later when Roblox is tired of working on this and wants to pivot to something else for the next 2 years.
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Not suuuper hopeful with the wording, “We plan to” is vague.
Any ballpark on this exiting Beta?
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This would be an awesome feature! I’m tired of the spiky-pointy grass, it looks unrealistic and unnatural.
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I agree and with this ugc terrain material update i think that should be a feature
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There’s a reason we’re also working on a new user-friendly Material Manager. New features should never make a user feel “not very bright!”
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If I’m understanding your ask, you’re specifically interested in having terrain materials that are more of a “blank slate” that you can define/control beyond what Material Service allows? (I think our plans for the expanded material library and per-part variants will address any other needs: let me know if that’s wrong.)
Assuming that’s right, we’re aware of this ask, but it’s not an immediate priority for us.
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Sorry if the communication wasn’t clear before: the thread about the upgraded materials got quite large. Delivering UGC materials became our priority after seeing community feedback on the original upgrade plan. But if you look at the phasing list in the top post above, you’ll see “upgraded materials” listed as part of this project. We’ll be doing so via a switch, too.
We’re aiming to have a beta to you soon. We’re doing extensive internal testing to make this a good release!
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We have this on our radar, but there are some other terrain improvements we decided were more important that we’re working on first.
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Its more of both Parts and Terrain, for parts it would allow us to have a set texture such as roads to use in mass production and as for parts it would finally fulfil the biggest request people have been asking for terrain for ages (aside from fixing the shoreline)
Now as for other objects such as recreating a rock effect if we had a the depth map you could use that as the tool it uses, I’m not really sure how yall have that part of the system setup but it’d be really neat.
Here’s a better list of what this could be used for
Terrain
- Support for multiple colors on one material type (although you’d need to duplicate the material then change its color it’ll still get the job done even though it would be a hacky method of doing so)
- Allow developers to create multiple variations of one ground, such as mixing different types of grass together whether it be flowers mixed with grass or just grass.
- Will add more later
Parts
- PBR Road Textures
- Ability for building games to allow its players to use PBR Textures without having to create a new UV for each object
- Will add more later
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To give you a peek behind the curtain as to why we’re being vague, we’ve found every aspect of this project has more nuance than you could imagine. For example, defining the internal structures we use to reference material variants seemed obvious at first but as we worked through key use cases (per-part materials, materials in packages, materials in models), we found that each option for something that we thought would be simple had pros and cons: there’s no one solution that worked for every need. Figuring out the right approach adds unexpected time to our schedule. And we picked one way to do these references initially, but we think we need to switch approaches to support per-part variants. Because this beta is Studio-only, we can make that change with minimal impact to you. That’s just a hint of the nuance 
But please do know we are working hard, and we know you’re excited to use this in production experiences!
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I know this is a bit off-topic but while we have you here do you happen to know any information on what happened with this update and why it was never finished? I know you weren’t apart of the team who worked on that update but I’m curious why it was abandoned at its current stage?
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A new Vector3 property has recently been added to workspace (this week’s update, in fact) called GlobalWind. So, hopes up that it’s being worked on!
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Finally!!!
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Also an another feature
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