What is an Aurora Script?

[RobocatWasTaken (Robocat168)]

I was scrolling through images in the Roblox Studio app, and an image caught my eye.

I had never seen anything like this before. Seeing that is was supposed to be an insertable object, I tired Instance.new("AuroraScript", workspace) and got an error This type can not be instantiated. There is also AuroraService and AuroraScriptService. Finally, an Aurora Script has the following special properties:

• Source : string
• Priority : number
• Tag : string
• EnableLOD : boolean
• RunInParallel : boolean
• LODDistanceFactor : number
• LODFrequencyFactor : number
• Dump Mispredictions : boolean

I couldn’t find anything online about it. Is this a core feature or some lost idea?

[SeargentAUS (Seargent)]

I was able to find this speculative post online:

What service is Aurora Service

i think its a new service they’ll add some time in the future, roblox tends to add new things into live studio builds but not activate them just like that so people find it and get annoyed at it erroring because its not actually implemented (like BasePart:TorqueToAngularAcceleration() for example — it exists, but errors because its not actually implemented) @GURVB he literally showed a picture of it being autocompleted, which directly means it exists, this has nothing to do with ai I have it t…

So it seems to just be a WIP service

[RobocatWasTaken (Robocat168)]

@RobocatWasTaken

Mispredictions

Doing a further digging into AuroraService, makes me think that this will have something to do with physics. It would explain the predictions part of the script. Aurora Service has a lot to do with stepping physics and predictions. The predictions are most likely prediction where a physics object would go and would explain why you might want to dump mispredictions.

[adudu21 (Null)]

Here’s a video of me running an AuroraScript on a alt i no longer use

It seems to create a folder named “ActorPool” and within that folder, several actors with localscripts in them.

[metatablecatmaid (metatablecat)]

AuroraService itself looks like it has a lot to do with that server authority stuff they teased in the roadmap.

idk why they need a whole script container for it though, unless they’re intending to have a shared script type?

[RobocatWasTaken (Robocat168)]

How were you able to get and run the aurora script?

[SeargentAUS (Seargent)]

I don’t think they were. The video is of an internal build of Roblox (as indicated at the top right of the video), which us plebians do not (or at least aren’t meant to) have access to.

The aurora script (plus its associated services) have the strikethrough in their name, indicating deprecation.

[adudu21 (Null)]

@RobocatWasTaken

How were you able to get and run the aurora script?

Certain roblox flags have to be enabled for it to work.

@SeargentAUS

I don’t think they were. The video is of an internal build of Roblox (as indicated at the top right of the video), which us plebians do not (or at least aren’t meant to) have access to.

I have access, here’s proof via using internal on my main:

@SeargentAUS

The aurora script (plus its associated services) have the strikethrough in their name, indicating deprecation.

It’s W.I.P so they “deprecate” it so developers do not use it.