What is an Aurora Script?

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?

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I was able to find this speculative post online:

So it seems to just be a WIP service

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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.

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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.

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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?

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

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

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

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

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