Weekly Recap: March 10 - 14, 2025

Updates Announcements
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Hi Everyone!

We’ve got an exciting roundup of launches for you this week :slight_smile: BUT FIRST :point_up:—

Save the date for RDC 2025! The Roblox Developers Conference will take place in San Jose on September 5-6, 2025, and the Roblox Innovation Awards will be on the 6th :partying_face::trophy:

And in other fun news, we also launched experience chat on Xbox and PlayStation (woo!!), new analytics for avatar items, our Real-Time Translation API, and more! :point_down:

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.

Announcements

PathfindingUseImprovedSearch Is Now Restored

Experience Chat for Console Now Available with TextChatService

  • Experience chat is now rolling out on Xbox and PlayStation!
  • Console users can now seamlessly communicate with other users on mobile, web, desktop, and VR directly within your experience.

Schedule When Your Avatar Items Go On and Off Sale

  • You can now schedule when your avatar items go on sale and off sale!

Improved Avatar Item Analytics

  • The analytics page for avatar items will now include the following item-level metrics for all your avatar creations:
    • Demographic information of buyers, including age, gender, location, and platform
    • Sales location breakdown, between Marketplace and experiences

New features coming to Avatar Auto-Setup

  • We released a new round of updates to Auto-Setup consisting of the following:

  • Partial Input includes Dynamic Head: Users can provide a R15 rigged face and body to auto-setup, and it will reuse the rigs and produce only the missing constructs (cage, partition, attachments).

  • Studio Edit Tools: The generated attachment points can be edited in Studio. Users can visualize the result of their edits in the Auto-Setup preview window.

  • Team Create Support: The ownership of the generated assets is now set to the owner of the placefile being used instead of the user running Auto-Setup. If the placefile is owned by a group then the generated assets will belong to the group as well.

[Coming Soon] Improved Layered Clothing Fit

  • Today we’re excited to preview some upcoming changes to the Layered Clothing fitting algorithm.
  • These changes will address 3 classes of fit defects (detailed below) and together we believe they will greatly improve the visual quality of avatars wearing Layered Clothing.
  • We intend to roll these changes out to all users by the end of the month (~3/31).

Introducing the Real-Time Translation API

  • We’re excited to announce the launch of our real-time translation API! This will enable you to generate automatic translations for text in your experience without using the standard translation workflow.

Updates

Party Is Here! Unlock a New Level of Engagement

  • We are testing Party voice chat with a small audience of eligible 18+ phone verified users in select countries.
  • We plan to make Party voice chat broadly available to all 13+ users later this year.

Exact match searches in Creator Store

  • We are thrilled to announce that this feature (which was previously an experiment) is now live for all Creator Store Users.

Introducing UnreliableRemoteEvents

  • We’re releasing some improvements to UnreliableRemoteEvents that you might have glanced from the release notes recently.

Release Notes

Deprecated Web Endpoints

Official List of Deprecated Web Endpoints

  • We have an update to a previously depreciated get-details endpoint. Read more here.
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This is great to hear! However, since this system exists for experiences within the site itself, is it possible for the search bar within the Roblox site itself to have a “use quotations for exact match” tag?

It would be useful to let users know how to find experiences by exact name, and not cluttered with semi-relevant results.

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this would be so useful to find games by name

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Thanks for weekly recap?! :slight_smile: I really appreciate it!

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shapecasting still remains inaccurate without a option to toggle between performance and accuracy, causing parts to sometimes be embedded into each other when applying direction * distance from shapecast. this issue halted development of my game where i was working on a custom controller. but because of this issue i am unable to continue working on my project.

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Roblox will never give us shapecasts with margins, let’s just accept it, if they released them in such an useless state, its probably because they didn’t want to finish them on the first place.

But at the same time, you never know, they could drop out tomorrow and this ages like milk.

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Yeahh Roblox you had to, :smiley:
Also how can you map the hide chat button to RB:[
All Real gamers have it broken.

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