Roblox NYSE: RBLX outlined a broad set of planned platform, Studio, avatar and engine updates at its developer conference, emphasizing AI-assisted creation, collaborative workflows, testing tools, improved game fidelity and new infrastructure for competitive and offline games.
The company said package overrides are scheduled to arrive later this year, allowing developers to publish updates to packages while maintaining local changes on individual instances. Roblox also announced that native branch-and-merge workflows are planned for Roblox Studio, with an early release targeted for next year. The tools will allow creators to work on separate branches, review changes and conflicts in Studio, and merge work back into a main branch. Roblox said the functionality will be backed by APIs for use in agentic workflows.
AI Tools and Studio Testing
Roblox demonstrated Studio tools intended to speed up 3D creation. The company showed a workflow in which developers can generate a segmented 3D mesh from a text prompt, then use another prompt to add behavior, such as making windmill blades spin. It also discussed texture-generation tools that can update textures across multiple mesh parts, including support for 4K physically based rendering, or PBR, texture generation.
For terrain creation, Roblox highlighted custom terrain materials, native terrain paths and projected decals. Developers can create up to 64 unique terrain materials per game, according to the presentation. Terrain paths will allow creators to draw splines that modify terrain to create roads and other routes, while projected decals will add images and visual details to terrain surfaces.
The company also previewed expanded testing capabilities in Studio. Upcoming tools will enable simultaneous client and server views in a single testing session, let developers add and independently control multiple clients without restarting Studio, and support direct real-device connections to Team Test. Roblox said remote debugging for connected devices is planned for an early preview later this year, while testing teleports directly in Studio is expected early next year.
Avatar Scalability and Creation
Robert Melly, senior director of product at Roblox, said the company is investing in technology designed to support worlds with larger numbers of characters. Roblox’s Character Controller Library, a Luau-based replacement for the humanoid system, shipped in April, with version two released during the event and a third version planned by year-end. Melly said the system can reduce unnecessary simulation work for distant or inactive characters.
Roblox also discussed extending its SLIM technology to non-player characters. The company said SLIM, which uses lightweight proxy representations, reduced the number of displayed triangles by 93% and memory use by 60% in a simulated scene. Planned upgrades include support for NPCs and automatic regeneration of SLIM representations when an avatar changes equipped items.
Shiu Pei Luu, senior manager of product design, said Roblox is modularizing Avatar Auto Setup into backend services, preserving Studio access while enabling API-based integrations and manual overrides. The company also plans to release Prompt to Avatar by the end of the year. The tool is intended to generate compliant avatar meshes, dynamic R15-plus rigs, layered clothing and modesty layers from concepts and prompts.
Roblox said 1.7 million items have been created through in-experience creation since that capability was released last year. Separately, Oren Jacob, senior director of engineering, highlighted planned animation and rendering enhancements, including twist bones, multi-character animation timelines, motion generation from prompts or videos, AI-assisted animation upscaling, improved clothing behavior, and object interactions for avatars. Emissive support for eligible user-generated avatar items is already live in the marketplace, he said.
Game Infrastructure, Safety and Offline Play
On the engine side, Roblox said native persistence for in-game content is coming soon. The feature will allow developers to persist arbitrary models, images and meshes created inside games, producing asset IDs scoped to the relevant game.
The company also plans a safety callback API. Josh Anon, senior director of product, said Roblox has automatically shut down more than 1.8 million servers after detecting policy-violating content. The new API is intended to give creators an opportunity to remove problematic content or players before a server is shut down.
For competitive games, Roblox plans to introduce a device-integrity API that uses hardware-level security signals to indicate whether a device can be trusted. Taylor Russ, senior director of engineering, said an experiment with Roblox Rivals that blocked low-integrity Android devices reduced cheating prevalence by 97% on Android. Initial support is planned for Android and the web player, followed by other platforms.
The company is also targeting early access next year for queue services and cloud-based compute functions that can support queue-based matchmaking and other systems, such as global auction houses. Roblox said it is developing offline play capabilities, including downloadable games and assets, local gameplay servers and cloud-based backend servers for functions such as purchases. A new Player Data Store, targeted for early access by year-end, is intended to handle transaction management, session locking, schemas, privacy requests and offline player-data workflows.
Engine Fidelity and Terrain Improvements
Roblox said it will begin releasing new primitive shapes later this year, including cones, capsules, discs and rounded versions of primitives. The company also highlighted mesh streaming, texture streaming and cloud-generated levels of detail as tools that can help developers increase asset fidelity while managing memory budgets.
George ElKoura, senior director of engineering, said Roblox is increasing the engine’s minimum draw distance to 500 studs from 200 studs on low-end devices. The rollout has begun, he said.
Planned terrain improvements include virtual textures, signed distance fields and a customizable scattering system for objects such as rocks and trees. Roblox also expects to make a new collision-generation approach available in the coming weeks, using a Voronoi-based convex decomposition algorithm and more granular Studio controls. Additional material improvements, including enhanced shading for surfaces such as skin, car paint and fabrics, are targeted for early access by year-end, alongside a material-layering system.
About Roblox (NYSE:RBLX)
Roblox Corporation develops and operates Roblox, an online platform where users can create, share and play interactive experiences. The platform supports a broad range of user-generated content, including games, social spaces, educational activities and entertainment experiences, and is accessible across computers, mobile devices, consoles and other supported platforms.
Roblox provides development tools through Roblox Studio, while its virtual economy uses Robux, a digital currency that users can purchase and spend on virtual items, avatar customization and other platform content.
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