Roblox

Fixed read only check box in dark theme

There’s now a settings under “Studio/Advanced” called “Debug Client in APS Mode”.
If this is true, and Accurate Play Solo is enabled, then when you run play solo the debugger will attach to the client data model, and not the server.

HttpService:GetAsync and HttpService:PostAsync now internally use the same code as HttpService:RequestAsync.

Specifying assets by hash was never intended to be used. If this was done for obfuscation purposes stop doing it.

Improve core script loading performance in Studio.

Fixed solver warning showing while places were loading. Improved load times for PGS enabled places.

Fix rare rendering artifacts on Android phones with Mali GPUs

Fixed hats. Accessories will not become root while welded to other parts that have mass.

Fixed issue where Welds and other JointInstances with one invalid part could randomly join to other random part or crash.

Fixes spot and surface lights with incorrect lighting, and with range 0.

Improve stability on PowerVR SGX devices on Android

Fixed indentation issue in script editor

Location of ‘Run Script’ action has been changed in Ribbon UI, from ‘Test -> Simulation’ to ‘Model -> Advanced’

Changes to neon in experimental Future is bright stage 1

Servers will reject Touch events from Clients that do not own the interacting parts.

Fixed bug where Humanoids didn’t honor Terrain’s collision group

‘UI Theme’ has been deprecated and it must not be used anymore. Use settings().Studio.Theme instead in Plugin script code.

iPhones with FaceID do not detect accidental home swipes

Fixed a bug that caused characters to warp briefly if something they were standing on got deleted.

Fix bug: AlwaysOnTop UI appeared dark with Voxel Lighting Technology

Fixed an issue where accessories on a player character model was not replicating for other players in StreamingEnabled games

Improved bandwidth usage for streaming enabled games

Fixed a bug with small MeshParts and UnionParts having absurd collision boxes.

Fixed an issue where changing the Size of a part in Workspace would not properly update it’s root sort size, which could cause physics replication to stop working for it’s assembly or mechanism.

Added StudioService for plugins, and the StudioService.ActiveScript property for plugins to get the script the user is currently editing.

Updated Game Settings with theme support and additional options

The Model object now has a new method: GetBoundingBox. It returns the CFrame and Size of the bounding box of the model.

Switch to a new internal shader compilation pipeline for OpenGL (mostly affects low-end Mac, Android, iOS devices)

RenderFidelity property for CSG objects: Precise (no LOD switching) and Automatic (2 levels for new CSG objects).

Fix an issue where your active Tool could drop from your hand when rapidly switching your active tool when Workspace.AutoJointsMode = Explicit

Fixed a bug where parts of large mechanisms would get stuck floating the air and detached for everyone but the person simulating it.

Humanoid Platforms logic should no longer improperly warp players when you set the Parent of the platform they are standing on to Nil and back to game.

Fix lighting (in new mode) when global shadows disabled.

Fixed an issue where accessories on player characters do not replicate correctly when streaming enabled is on.
Fixed an issue in streaming enable games where instances may get replicated multiple times.

Updated warning messages for Constraints not functioning without PGS mentioning the old Workspace property instead of the new one

Updated Studio Tutorial widget to launch the Developer Hub in an external browser instead of an embedded view.

Introducing a new menu in Studio for setting the locale of the player while testing.

Make getting up from Ragdoll much easier.

Proactively clean up some internal character state of the Player when that player leaves, to lessen the total memory leaked if a game script or core script accidentally leaks Player object references.

Updated internal JSON parser library. Finally RFC 7159 conforming. About time!

Fixed Gradient Editor crash issue

Fixed mouse events for PluginGuis on Mac

Added a new error message to DataStore::GetSortedAsync for when it is called with incorrectly ordered minValue and maxValue parameters.

Modified scaling for BodyType and BodyProportions

Improved PGS Humanoid stair climbing and fixed some vibrations when standing near objects.

Fixed incorrect voxel shadows when resizing parts

Fixed a bug with small MeshParts and UnionParts having absurd collision boxes.

Made LocalizationTable import errors due to invalid encoding not silently look like they succeeded

Players:GetUserThumbnailAsync() now has a 500 call per minute throttle.

Fix Studio showing a warning about needing to enable PGS for Constraints when PGS was already enabled.

Weld Constraints should now let you properly modify positions of individually welded parts.

Automatic simplification of complex CSG objects to 3000 triangles or below, both Studio and in-game.

Fixed an issue where bodies waking from sleep would not wake other bodies connected by AlignPosition/AlignOrientaiton constraints

ChatService:RegisterChatCallback(Enum.ChatCallbackType, luaCallbackFunction) will now allow you to set callback to interact with specific chat message processing steps.

Added IK support for R15’s in animation editor

Fix places that were last updated before TemporaryLegacyPhysicsSolverOverride was added not automatically converting to PGS

New Lighting mode option which enables:

• Anisotropic occupancy (allows thin walls to block light)
• HDR + tonemapping (allows for brighter range of lights)

Apple mobile devices with retina screens and iOS 8.0 (iPad Air, iPhone 5S) will no longer use antialiasing or high-quality shaders when rendering 3D content; players need to upgrade iOS version to 9 or above to get these effects back.

Changing the Part.CFrame setter to move the assembly relative to the given part instead of moving the Mechanism root in a nonsensical way.

We now leave scripts open when transitioning to/from play solo and when toggling between client and server data models.

If you try to open a script while in Client or Server mode, and the ‘edit’ version of the script was already open, we will raise-to-top the ‘edit’ version of the script.

If no edit version of script is open, we open the version belonging to current data model (Client or Server). Scripts belonging to a particular data model are marked with a colored dot in the tab indicating which data model they belong to.

PluginGui now has BindToClose.

pass in a function.
When user clicks the “close” button on Plugin Widget, if BindToClose has been called, instead of closing, we just trigger the bound function.

Converted Studio Game Settings window to Lua

Improve performance of parts and decals with Transparency=1 in the new instanced renderer

Game server can now control clients to automatically collect untranslated text and send them the platform back-end for further processing.

Fixed problem with Ctrl-Shift-F not working after Play Solo.

Players:GetUserThumbnailAsync() now has a 500 call per minute throttle.

Roblox can once again be successfully uninstalled on Windows Xp!

Uninstalling Studio should no longer leave a stray file behind.

Fixed unstable behavior of cone limits on BallSocket and angular limits on Hinges in presence of other forces like Motors or Align constraints.

Fix flickering with click-to-move texture dots

Fixed issue with BindToClose and Accurate Play Solo.

Fixed issue where scrolling frames on surface guis did not behave properly with mouse input.

Fixed an issue were Sounds might play even if they are outside of the MaxDistance if they have Attachments as parents

Fixed an issue where a Sound RollOffMode would sometimes not take effect if the parent of the Sound was an Attachment.

Fixed a bug affecting ball raycasts.

Fixed a bug where reading Humanoid.Health sometimes returned outdated values.

Improved accuracy of packets/sec stats in network stats display.

Fixed unstable behavior of cone limits on BallSocket and angular limits on Hinges in presence of other forces like Motors or Align constraints.

TeleportData will now be available to the server from GetJoinData

New API for PluginGui:GetRelativeMousePosition(). It will return mouse positions relative to plugin gui if it is inside gui or it is a drag and leaves gui

PluginGui now has BindToClose.

pass in a function.
When user clicks the “close” button on Plugin Widget, if BindToClose has been called, instead of closing, we just trigger the bound function.

Added in properties PrivateServerId and PrivateServerOwnerId
Deprecated VIPServerId and VIPServerOwnerId
Added new return value to ReserveServer, privateServerId.

Fixes a networking issue where some instances have inconsistent property values between players already in a game and players joining that game. The issue is believed to manifest rarely because it requires moving instances from a replicated service (like Workspace) to a non-replicated service (like ServerStorage) and then back again.

Changed Ctrl+Shift+Fn stat panels to use the renderer that’s used by microprofiler, which results in less overhead when the panels are active.

Fixed regression where changing surface type would remove explicit joints like Motor6Ds in addition to auto-joints

Fixed a bug where slowly rotating thin objects would cause severe latency when using Streaming.

Fixed legacy Enum integer values not being correctly mapped to supported values in some cases.

Introduce server-side In-Game CSG API for performing Union and Subtract operations.

Improve rendering stability on Galaxy S7 and other phones with Mali-T880

Improve rendering geometry generation performance on Android

A confirmation dialog now appears when you try to close a Team Create-enabled place in Studio via closing the place tab.

Added ability to scale parts of the animation

Fixed RunService:IsEdit for start server / start player. Again.

Fix lag spikes in games with high rates of in-game chat messages.

Fixed Inner Box collisions bouncing around after character death.

Fixed a bug where characters would vibrate when Gravity is 0, but the character is kept on the floor with a Body Force.

Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause a crash/freeze when dropping tools.

Fixed part geometry sometimes not being updated when moved by a joint becoming activated when anchored state changed.

Fixed an issue where manual network ownership set as a player spawned would not properly replicate.

Fixed an issue where bodies waking from sleep would not wake other bodies connected by AlignPosition/AlignOrientaiton constraints

Fixed RunService:IsEdit for start server / start player. Again.

Can box select attachments in 3D view if they are visible

Make arrow keys in textboxes move the cursor by whole grapheme clusters so that editing text containing emoji is more intuitive.

Fixed a problem in AlignOrientation with RigidityEnabled where the target orientation would be achieved in unpredictable time. The motion is now much more consistent.

Fixed a bug where throttling was was causing explosions to be ignored.

Fixed Motor6D.Transform to work reliably on any client, even if they don’t own the assembly.

Allows the developer to get the teleport GUI which was shown to the player during a teleport after they have arrived without needing to wait for LocalPlayerArrivedFromTeleport

Image button now have the property of “PressedImage” and “HoverImage” that you could directly assign to for the texture of pressing down and hover over the image button.

UserOwnsGamePassAsync result will be cached

Adds a collision groups editor to the Advanced tab of the Model page.

coroutine.yield is no longer automatically resumed by our internal scheduling system