What are the biggest hurtles for svg support for roblox?

[Wally_Surlaw]

I have to say, with Github being used more within the community, I think we could certainly find a pre-existing Lua library out there that gets us started. I have already found several that include a parser. Also, don’t you think treating Studio like a raster image editor (for UI) is a bit outdated? Besides, the .svg file format does not require the need for additional HTTP requests (unlike images: PNG, JPEG, ect), which takes some load off the server.

[posatta (pasta)]

There’s been a feature request which had a good staff explanation of why it’s not coming very soon. It’s a bit old, but I’d assume the same still applies.

SVG Support for ROBLOX

There’s a few reasons we won’t be doing this for a while: Rasterizing SVG is incredibly complex, we would only ever be able to support a tiny subset of the format, which might not match up with what your favorite SVG editor will export. Fundamentally, we need bitmap textures to render with. Which means an expensive process to rasterize SVGs to bitmaps, dynamically depending on which sizes you choose to display them at. It would require a web new asset type, and a new import pipeline in studio,…