Weekly Recap: August 4 - 8, 2025

Updates Announcements
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Hi Everyone!

Omg it just clicked that we’re one month away from RDC. Time’s moving too fast :person_running::dashing_away: Let’s slow things down a lil and go over what we’ve shared this past week!

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Betas and Tests

[Studio Beta] In-Experience Build-a-Texture: EditableImage Support for SurfaceAppearance

  • EditableImage support for SurfaceAppearance is now available in Studio.
  • You can now use the EditableImage API to create your own custom Color, Metalness, Roughness, and/or Normal maps to create a SurfaceAppearance

Announcements

Updates to Our Maturity & Compliance Questionnaire

  • We’re introducing a new content descriptor and parental control on experiences that are primarily themed on a sensitive social, political, or religious issue.
  • This descriptor goes live on August 11. Please fill out or update by September 29, 2025.
  • If your experience receives a sensitive issues descriptor and you would like to appeal, you can follow these instructions here.

Top Songs Available On Your Experience Detail Page

  • Music Top 100 Charts has been fully launched and a “Top Songs” section on your Experience Detail Page will be rolling out in the next few weeks.

Introducing Improvements to Directional UI Selection on Gamepad

  • Thumbstick navigation is now truly analog, allowing for precise, fluid selection that no longer locks to cardinal directions.
  • We’ve also added smarter UI grouping, preventing selection of covered elements, and a more logical default selection entry point.

Introducing Verification Level for Communities

  • Community owners can choose from one of four options for Verification Level that serve as a prerequisite to joining the community: None, Low, Medium, High.
  • All existing Communities will automatically be set to None, but you can easily adjust this at any time to best fit your community’s needs.

Introducing Custom Start Places for Events

  • You can now set custom start places for Experience Events. If users join via the “Join Event” button or RSVP, they will enter your experience at a specified location.

Avatar Creators Can Publish and Sell Emotes on Marketplace

  • You can publish and sell custom emotes on Marketplace and inside experiences.
  • In the future, we will also allow you to publish locomotion bundles, giving avatars a distinct way of moving - whether it be walking, swimming, jumping, or dancing - through the world.

Updates

Ads Manager Updates: Acquire New Users, Continuous Campaigns and More

  • We’ve upgraded Ads Manager with the Acquire New Users objective to help you attract players who haven ‘t visited your experience before.
  • You can also now set campaigns to run without an end date.

An Update on Using Third-Party Emulators

  • We are restricting general player access from emulators to better protect the user experience.
  • We know that many of you use emulators to test your experiences across different devices. To ensure you can continue this, you will be able to join and test experiences where you have “edit” permissions while using an emulator.

[Pilot] Apply for the Video Discovery Pilot!

  • Thank you again for your video submissions. We’re excited to share that we’ve started an experiment that displays your videos on your experience details page.
  • We will share results and next month and also expand self service access to all creators soon after.

Release Notes

Deprecated Web Endpoints

Official List of Deprecated Web Endpoints

Community

DevRel Virtual Prize Series 2: Chronicles of Developer Magic

  • Keep an eye on the DevForum for upcoming challenges and events to earn DevRel Virtual Prizes.
  • Prizes in this series are awarded sequentially.

Roblox Learn

SmoothDamp

  • Smooth out movement towards a target value by… simulating a critically damped spring? You know what, it’s probably best to just watch the video.

Documentation

Input Action System (IAS) and Input Type Detection

  • The cross-platform Input Action System lets you connect actions and arrange bindings across various hardware inputs at edit time, and a new input type detection API helps you determine the primary input type a player is using.
  • Both of these help you support an expanding suite of platforms that seamlessly adapt to touch, gamepad, mouse/keyboard inputs.
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The week is good, :roblox:Roblox.
Can’t want for next week to spark new features in Roblox.

Can’t wait for Roblox to become a music app.
:computer_disk:

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Roblox is the next Spotify hehe

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Ugc emotes were the highlight this week but we need a better reporting system for them.
A bunch are blatantly sexual or just suspicious (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8j9-9AUbho) - the fact we can still use them after they’ve been deleted is not super great either…

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All these emotes feel low quality and stiff. But I can say “Verification Level for Communities” I felt was a really good update and “Introducing Improvements to Directional UI Selection on Gamepad” was also was good.
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:sparkles: My rating: 64/90

UGC emotes can cause so many issues like clipping and inappropriate being played like when a “push up” emote is played and someone is using the “laying down” emote. Also if you buy a emote then Roblox won’t take it away if it is bad and moderated is what I heard. There was also sensitive topics announcement which also felt like a whole mess because you want creators to be moderated before they know that their gameplay is bad.
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Topics I feel should be mentioned:

Server list not showing correct players: Server list showing +1 Players compared to Max Players

Allow creators to have private servers for free: Allow creators to have Private Servers for free

Add a way to hide past usernames: Hide Past Usernames On Profile

A bunch of feature requests:
https://devforum.roblox.com/t/whats-a-feature-you-want-added-to-roblox/2622128/97

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See you next week, Robloxians!

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TweenService:SmoothDamp, how did i miss this

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This week on Roblox was very good! Thanks for a lovely day! :slight_smile:

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We really need a way to disable the Music player in Experience Controls. It’s just an extra button that does absolutely nothing for games that don’t use music from the DistroKid library.

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Custom emotes on Marketplace is a W :raising_hands: finally. Also that editable surfaceappearance thing is gonna be fun to mess with in Studio.

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Another great week, keep it up.

The verification level for communities is probably the best feature I saw this week. :+1:

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That update is fart doodoo ^, and the UGC update is just full of moderation issues. Deleted animations are still usable so it’s completely pointless moderation, as well as letting a lot of stuff slip by.

Please work on a moderation overhaul of some kind it’s a serious issue.

The rest of the updates are fine : ) Although as others have mentioned some long standing feature requests and issues should be fixed instead of adding stuff like “top songs” which might be underused.

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you’re gonna invite me right guys?

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isn’t it a dating app? i though thats what they were doing

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It’s the metaverse. Roblox is the site for everything including music and dating.

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I agree :frowning:
One moment it’s 2025 then the millisecond I blink it’s already 2125

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Why do you have to brag this to GOD?

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#Keep Hotdog $1.50 #John Pork is alive

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I’m curious if yall are scared of the fact that you shot yourself in the foot, roblox safety man and roblox CEO

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