Roblox Creator Roadmap

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The Roblox Creator Roadmap is a roadmap by Roblox that shows features that will arrive in 2023. It's located in this website.

Create however you want[]

"We aim to make it easy and intuitive for everyone to express themselves. Whether you're building experiences or designing accessories, we'll support more ways for you to create."

Easy creation, optimized for hour ideal workflows[]

"Our vision is to provide powerful, flexible workflows for creators to build next-generation immersive 3D experiences and user-generated content (UGC). We are building a foundation that will make it easier than ever to create high quality content, while adding flexibility to your day-to-day tasks. We are also exploring ways we can open the platform in a stable, supported, and future-proof way and will be holding several 'Office Hours' sessions in the near future to share more and answer your questions.”

Selection Improvements, Explorer Search Filter, and Multi-Cursor in Script Editor - Full release thanks to your beta
Drag Detectors Beta - Make objects in your experience draggable and interactive without scripting (Mid 2023)
Camera Speed and Rotation - Easier control while moving the camera (Mid 2023)
Next Generation Studio Ribbon - A completely redesigned Studio Ribbon with easy access to the tools and plugins that best match your unique workflows (Late 2023)
Live Scripting Beta - Script collaboratively with streamlined version history, like editing a cloud document with your team (Late 2023)
Window Context Cues - See the Place name in addition to your current tab name in the Studio window title (Late 2023)
Better Support for Your Tools and Workflows - Upcoming support for your preferred tools and workflows to promote efficient creation, including any external software you may use, starting with glTF support (Ongoing)

Studio will adress long-standing issues and pain points[]

"Studio is a professional tool supporting long periods of sustained creation. We are investing heavily in both bug fixes and quality of life improvements that will make Studio more functional and reliable."

Studio Docking - Improved widget docking thanks to your feedback (Mid 2023)
Faster Play Launch Times - Test your experience in less than 2 seconds (Mid 2023)
Improve Team Create Join Time - Start working on your experience, of any size, faster (Late 2023)
Terrain Customization - Adding the ability to customize the height of grass (Mid 2023)
Script Editor - Better general performance in large code bases and for operations like find/replace all (Mid 2023)
Script Diff Window - Additions like side-by-side view, copy/paste, 1-click merge, and edits in recovery mode (Mid 2023)
Custom Logging - Allowing you to pass error locations through pcalls (Late 2023)

Create Rich and life-like worlds[]

"We are releasing aerodynamic simulation as our first fluid dynamics force, enabling completely new types of physically-accurate content. We're also significantly improving Future lighting's performance so that we can enable it on Android and make it our default lighting model."

Global Wind - A new property to add more richness to your worlds with grass, clouds, and even falling leaves that move with the wind (Mid 2023)
Lift and Drag Beta - Aerodynamic properties, such as air density, to better simulate flight for objects like wingsuits (Mid 2023)
Future Lighting Android Beta - Future lighting model available as a beta feature on Android devices (Mid 2023)
Future Lighting Studio Default - Future lighting as the default lighting model, boosting the visual quality of experiences for more creators (Late 2023)

Cloud Creation Improvements[]

"Large, lifelike worlds will require heavy computational power and vast amounts of storage to create. Offloading these needs to the cloud will ensure that you can reliably create megascale experiences without disruption, while collaborating with teams of any size."

Team Create Invitations - See invite notifications and share URLs to send collaborators directly to your Place in Studio (Mid 2023)
Collaborator Activity - View who's actively contributing to your experiences from the Start page (Mid 2023)
Team Create Assets - Access newly uploaded assets without needing to restart (Mid 2023)
Studio Reconnection - Automatically reconnect after a temporary connectivity loss (Late 2023)
Enhance Drafts - Collaborative Edit for scripts with better data management (Late 2023)

Generative AI accelerates creation[]

"Roblox is building Generative AI tools to scale your creation efforts and let you focus on the aspects that matter most. This technology will help you build faster, iterate more, and augment your skills to create even better content. These are the features currently available in open beta. Please share your feedback in the following forum posts to help us prioritize bug fixes and improvements."

Material Generator Full Release - Quickly generate visually-compelling materials using natural language (Late 2023)
Code Assist Full Release - Powerful code generation tool for both experienced and new scripters (Late 2023)

Avatar creation and Marketplace[]

"Avatars are a core part of Roblox. From using them to communicate to creating your own, our avatar features mimic real-life communication, empower self-expression, and drive creation. Here are some of the features we are enabling to create a community-led Marketplace where any creator can make an avatar that is expressive, communicative, and personalized:"

lTF File Support - Import avatar rigs in standard formats (Mid 2023)
Improved Avatar Face and Body Tooling - Enhancing how you can import, create, and publish avatar assets (Late 2023)
Bodies and Animated Faces - Members of the UGC Program and later all creators will be able to create items in the Marketplace including bodies and animated faces (Mid 2023)
Community-led Marketplace - All creators can publish avatar items to the Marketplace, including Limiteds (Late 2023)