Marsh
Mallow, Studio's Assistant can now generate 3D models "segmented into multiple parts." Why is "parts" the headline — isn't AI 3D generation old news by now?
Mallow
Because "parts" is the difference between a toy and a tool. Until now, an AI-generated mesh arrived as one fused blob — impressive to look at, painful to edit. Now the Assistant breaks a generated model into separate, named parts you can edit individually. That's the upgrade that makes it usable in real production.
Marsh
Walk me through how it works.
Mallow
You run
/generate_mesh or /generate_procedural_model. Before it builds anything, the Assistant proposes a segmentation plan — a list of part names. You can adjust that list: rename the parts, provide your own part names, or regenerate the suggestion. Then it generates the model split into those pieces. The cap is up to 8 parts per asset. Marsh
Why do separate parts actually matter for us?
Mallow
Control. Each part can take its own material, its own script or behavior, or be swapped out — without regenerating the whole asset. Picture a skateboard generated as a body plus four wheels: now you can make the wheels spin, recolor just the body, or replace a single wheel, independently. That's editable production, not a one-shot you either accept or throw away.
Marsh
Can we feed it a reference image — like our actual product?
Mallow
Partially, and the rules differ by command.
/generate_mesh now takes a text prompt or an image — not both yet. /generate_procedural_model takes text and an image together. So yes, you can prompt from a reference image, which helps when you want an asset to resemble a specific real object. Marsh
Is this production-ready? Can we ship with it today?
Mallow
Careful here. It's an early preview, explicitly "still in development." It's available now in Studio's Assistant — make sure you're on the latest Studio — but treat it as iteration speed, not a guaranteed final-art pipeline. It's also limited to generated meshes and procedural models for now — and currently focused on a handful of object categories like vehicles, tools, and weapons — while the full release is slated to also segment meshes you import into Studio.
Marsh
So what's the realistic use for a company game team?
Mallow
Speed in the messy middle. Concepting, greyboxing, filling a world with editable props, spinning up variants — far faster than modeling each by hand. Your artists shift from "build everything from scratch" to "direct and refine." It compresses the cost of trying ideas, which is exactly where most game teams bleed time.
Marsh
Any catch we should flag to the team?
Mallow
Three. (1) Quality bar: AI assets still need an artist's pass to hit a polished look — between the 8-part cap and the preview status, it's not for hero assets yet. (2) Consistency: generated assets may not match your art style out of the box, so budget cleanup time. (3) Governance: have a policy for AI-generated content — review, ownership, and a check that you're not generating something resembling a real brand or IP you don't have rights to.
Marsh
How does this fit the bigger picture?
Mallow
It's one more step in Roblox making creation AI-assisted end to end — procedural models, the Assistant, and the longer-horizon Roblox Reality work. The direction is unmistakable: more of the grind becomes "describe and edit." Teams that learn to direct these tools will out-iterate teams that keep hand-building everything.
Marsh
Executive summary?
Mallow
(1) Studio's Assistant now generates 3D models split into up to 8 named, individually editable parts via
/generate_mesh and /generate_procedural_model. (2) You edit the segmentation plan before generating; each part takes its own material/script or can be swapped. (3) Image prompts: /generate_mesh = text or image; /generate_procedural_model = text and image. (4) It's an early preview (generated meshes only for now; imported-mesh segmentation at full release) — great for prototyping and iteration speed, not yet a hero-asset pipeline. Add an AI-asset review and governance policy. Marsh
So the AI does the blockout and our artists do the magic. That's a real workflow, not a gimmick.
