Weekly Recap: January 20-24, 2025

[frecklesnspectacles]

Happy Friday y’all!

This week we released some exciting updates around Unified Lighting and our new Focus Navigation library. Read on to catch up on the latest!

Remember - we keep information at a high level within these recaps. For more information or to leave feedback, please comment on their official announcements linked below.

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Betas & Updates

Let There Be (Unified) Light! Unified Lighting Enters Studio Beta

• We’re introducing Unified Lighting, an overhaul to configuring lighting in your experiences.
• This update brings immediate improvements to how lighting scales, like better lighting for mid-distance objects, while also laying the foundation for many improvements, including increased light ranges.

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Announcements & Updates

[Plugin Update] Script RunContext: Enable Parallel Luau & “Plugin” Global Autocomplete

• Introduce the Plugin RunContext, a new option that can be used for scripts in Studio plugin.
• You’ll now be able to dynamically enable and disable scripts, use Parallel Luau, and access autocomplete for plugins.

Introducing Require-by-String

• Announced a new Luau feature available in the Roblox engine: require by string!

• With this feature, you’ll be able to use string paths to require modules instead of navigating with Instances, making your code compatible with Luau code written for other runtimes and easier to read and write.

Focus Navigation Library Release: Gamepad and Keyboard Helpers for Lua

• Announced the public release of our Lua library for gamepad and keyboard navigation helpers - Focus Navigation!
• This is a library of helpers for building UI with more complex, app-like functionality that isn’t yet natively supported in the Roblox game engine.

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Release Notes

• Release Notes for 657

[Universal_coaster17]

I like the new Unified lighting . Especially the realistic one !
And also here, there is a “E” letter that seems to be not supposed to be here:

@frecklesnspectacles

Announced e a new Luau feature available in the Roblox engine: require by string!

These updates are good.

[TTC3B (Jsod)]

@frecklesnspectacles

Introducing Require-by-String

• Announced e a new Luau feature available in the Roblox engine: require by string!
• With this feature, you’ll be able to use string paths to require modules instead of navigating with Instances, making your code compatible with Luau code written for other runtimes and easier to read and write.

Greatest update of all time!
(Behind 15 other ones ofc)

[frecklesnspectacles]

Thanks for catching that typo! Fixed

[Ovon30650]

Nice innovations studio is great.

Are we ever getting a reply ever on this post? Introducing Today’s Picks - A New Curated Sort on Home [Pilot]

Seems the developer was chosen to features games and featured their own game??

Featured games all with 4 BIL+ visits while the post back in May was originally “to grow your initial audience” not 4 billion to 5 billion?

[Xy_Null (string)]

@frecklesnspectacles

This is a library of helpers for building UI with more complex, app-like functionality that isn’t yet natively supported in the Roblox game engine.

It will save a lot of time on my projects

[zoharee4 (Optiplxrr)]

@frecklesnspectacles

With this feature, you’ll be able to use string paths to require modules instead of navigating with Instances, making your code compatible with Luau code written for other runtimes and easier to read and write.

GG EVERYTHING!!! THIS IS PERFECT

[adamturtle (Adam)]

Are there any plans for another verified checkmark wave to recognize more creators, especially given all the recent updates and community engagement?

[Scrufflord (scruff)]

Will the indoor cubemaps ever be updated? I am sure the devs and the playerbase would appreciate more control for them, with probes similar to the source engine.