The Summer Solstice has officially arrived, bringing with it the longest day of the year! Before you head out to bask in the extra sunlight, here’s a quick look at everything we announced this week.
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Announced a new API in client beta: PreferredInput. This adaptive property makes it easier to build cross-platform input behavior by exposing the primary input type available to a player.
Next week, we’ll be rolling out improvements to how input is detected across devices, including a fix for which devices are reported as TouchEnabled and improvements to touch & gesture capabilities.
With the all-new “Detached Attachments" beta feature, Attachments can now be parented to anything.
Even though Attachments don’t have to be descendants of a BasePart anymore, their position & rotation will still be relative to their first ancestor that is a PVInstance or Attachment (if one exists).
Announced two new APIs that allow you to prompt a user to RSVP to an upcoming experience event (or update) from within your experience.
Experience events and updates are a great way to notify users about upcoming updates to your experience or to highlight live events happening within it
This hasn’t been the best week for Roblox as a whole, but I’m glad the people who work on development updates are cooking some great things for their developers.
We (yes we) are going to be using PerferredInput & Detached Attachments.
Very exiting week. We also finally got the release date for the “Join group” prompts!
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My rating: 30/30
In terms of announcements, there was not much this week so not much to rate but still really good. My favorite announcement is “Attachments no longer require a BasePart” as it makes things way easier if you use attachments a lot.