[Studio Beta] Reference Instances Directly with Attributes

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Amazing update. Thank you so much!

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This is a huge win! Will these work as expected in Server Authority mode/ BindToSimulation loops?

I am so unbelievably happy. I’ve been wanting this since day 1 of attributes coming out

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Huge!, One of the most awaited and requested features is finally live, Thank you guys for the progress, this allows us to be more focused on handling physicals instances as states and data

Needed this 3 years ago, fire update! Great work

Hi everyone, I like this feature but making a new type for it is very interesting and I want to see what others think Thank you everyone

I used to pray for times like this

This is huge. I LOVE IT! Cant wait to update my code to use it

This is amazing!! Question: What is the lifecycle management setup for these InstanceHandles? Do we need to destroy/disconnect them? How does that work w/ Attribute-based InstanceHandles?

Extremely happy to see this! Will we be getting enums added to the dropdown anytime soon? Setting them via command line or scripts only is a pain (outside of plugins such as this )

Here i was just wanting an Instance type for attributes, but they went and made it even BETTER for replication purposes. FIRE UPDATE!!!

I always wondered how this feature would be handled when it was finally added, and my first impression is that everything about this feels right. I really like the addition of InstanceHandle and that it has uses outside of attributes. This is a very exciting update.

They hold a weak reference to the instance itself (if it is present) and will be cleaned up automatically by the garbage collector when they are no longer referenced in your scripts.

i genuiney cannot contain my excitement, but i guess i have to or else the devforum will tell me that i need a structured sentence or whatever.

Finally! Thank you Roblox for making such a good and highly requested update! I can’t wait to use this!

Are there any plans to provide some sort of API to get an Instance’s underlying ID? local workspace_id = Instance.toId(workspace) local workspace_reference = Instance.fromId(id) Since most people nowadays use network modules that automatically serialize outgoing data, doing so would be more convenie