rbxasset

Installation

Requires Lune 0.9.3+

$ git clone https://github.com/ghostnaps/rbxasset.git

Then define a Luau script to use it:

local rbxasset = require("./path/to/rbxasset")

Usage

Create an rbxasset.toml file in your project with the following content. Replace the environment configuration with values for the creator and experience to upload with.

[assets.default]
name = "Display Name"
model = "build.rbxm"
environment = "production"
description = "Longform project description"
icon = "img/icon.png"

[environments.production]
creatorId = 35175308
creatorType = "Group"
universeId = 7854970752
placeId = 119490202754966

This defines a default asset and a production environment to deploy to.

Then create a Luau script to handle the deployment:

-- .lune/publish.luau
local process = require("@lune/process")

local rbxasset = require("./path/to/rbxasset/src")

local apiKey = process.args[1]
assert(apiKey, "argument #1 must be a valid Open Cloud API key")

-- The rbxm file needs to be built manually. rbxasset makes no assumptions about
-- how your project is setup, it only cares about having a file to upload. Note
-- the filename `build.rbxm` matches the `model` field in rbxasset.toml
process.exec("rojo", { "build", "-o", "build.rbxm" })

-- Publish the `default` asset defined in rbxasset.toml
rbxasset.publishPackageAsync(process.cwd, "default", apiKey)

$ lune run publish <API_KEY>

Where <API_KEY> represents an Open Cloud API key. See below for the exact setup for the key.

Open Cloud setup

To get this all working you will need two things: an Open Cloud API key, and an Experience to handle asset publishing.

Asset uploader experience

Create a new Experience for the user or group that will own the asset. A fresh Baseplate named anything you like will do just fine.

Once the Experience is published, run the following from the command line:

print(game.GameId, game.PlaceId)

Copy both values and add them to rbxasset.toml for the environment's universeId and placeId, respectively.

Note

In the future the hope is to not require an Experience to be created for the purpose of asset uploading. The reason this is needed right now is to close the gap of creating/updating the asset on the Creator Store via CreateAssetAsync and CreateAssetVersionAsync. If/when Open Cloud supports taking an rbxm file as input to create/update an asset, it will no longer be a requirement to setup an experience for asset uploading

API key

An Open Cloud API key with the following scopes is required:

• asset:read and asset:write
• universe-places:write
• universe.place.luau-execution-session:write

The resulting permissions should be setup similar to the following:

Manifest format

This section details the various fields that can be supplied for assets and environments in rbxasset.toml

Assets

Assets define how the asset will be deployed and shown on the Creator Store.

Field	Type	Description
name	string	The name of the asset on the Creator Store
model	string	Path to the rbxm to upload, relative to rbxasset.toml
environment	string	Defines which environment to deploy to. This value must equal one of the environments defined in the environments object
description	string?	The description of the asset on the Creator Store
icon	string?	Path to the icon (png only) to display on the Creator Store
description	string?	The description of the asset on the Creator Store
type	"Package" | "Plugin"	The type of asset to upload to the Creator Store. This must be set before the first publish as asset type is immutable once uploaded. Defaults to "Package"

Environments

Environments define where an asset will be deployed to. Only one environment is required, but more can be added to setup production/staging deployments.

Field	Type	Description
creatorId	number	The ID of the User or Group that will own the published assets
creatorType	"User" | "Group	Either "User" or "Group". This is just to tell rbxasset how to interpret creatorId
universeId	number	The game.GameId of an experience that will be used for Luau Execution. The experience must be owned by the asset creator
placeId	number	The game.PlaceId of an experience that will be used for Luau Execution. The experience must be owned by the asset creator