The first of the announced tools, Avatar Auto Setup, automatically handles the rigging of humanoid models, which prepares the model for animation—in this case, for use as a Roblox avatar.

Image Credits: Roblox A creator could also use the feature to easily generate multiple versions of an object in different colors or textures. For instance, you could take one model of a trophy and ...

Over time, Roblox plans to add this model to the assistant tool ... interactions between the 3D game elements. This means that animations between objects would be built-in, and the 4D tool ...

Roblox is also giving developers beta access to what it calls “dynamic heads” — facial animations for avatars that could even be interwoven with facial tracking to make a character model’s ...

To get around this issue, Roblox will use a second AI model that has been trained on ... an associate professor in the animation game design program at Kent State University.

It'll be a long time before facial animations become an official part of the game, though — Roblox has only given developers access to it right now, so they can play around with it and test it out.

Roblox announced Monday that it’s launching the first iteration of its 3D model, dubbed “Cube,” to allow creators to create 3D objects using generative AI. The company also launched an open ...

The model, Cube 3D, creates 3D models from a text prompt. Jay Peters is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Roblox ...