Fantastic Contraption: The Social Update (v1.1.0) now live

GIF-generating-cameras, Twitch-chat-integration, Director Mode controls, Twitter integration... So much is new! A heap of bug fixes and minor features, too. Check it out!

Check out our blog post on v1.1.0 for a goofy video and longer explanation!

Here’s the full changelog:

Twitch Chat: Show emotes, number of viewers. Alert for followers and subs. Two-hands resizable. Throw to reset.
GIF Bug: A happy, bumbly, fly that wanders around your play-space and the level. Grab it to record 8 second gifs and, if you want, upload them to Twitter. GIFs are saved to the autosave directory, max 10 at a time named with incrementing numbers. After grabbing the bug it will stay in place. Throw it to return it to “roaming” mode.
Undo/Redo: Small buttons on controller now access undo/redo. Undo is batched for similar actions happening in quick succession.
In game camera controls: added buttons to change cameras in-game (activated when Director mode is turned on)
Integrated webcam mode: webcams will be recognised by the game and composited between foreground/background automatically to make mixed-reality videos simpler to make.
Camera Delay option for streamers in Director Controls. The Slider will delay the game rendering so you can match the delay of your camera. Greatly improves mixed-reality streaming.
Hand-held camera offset now settable with arrow/wasd. Also shift-arrow now “rolls”
All cameras are now represented by little flying bugs. Can grab them to move and rotate, will show preview of what they see until thrown.
Added hats to in-game avatar. ~f to toggle between hats. Also works in mixed reality.
Menus: Fix bug applying settings on startup. Add menus for integrated webcam settings, improve streaming menu generally. Add twitch setup to menus including a button to go to oauth key generator. Sign in to Twitter menu (for the GIF bug). Reduce arrow-key moving interfering with menu options.
New Sounds: New sound effects for berries, dice, twitch follows/sub, throwing rod, berry bounce, save tables
Music: You can now create flat notes by attaching sticky-balls to rods
Grab your eyes out of your head and put them on a contraption. Also eye’s rotation matches parent when moving parent object in both editing and play mode.
Save Tables: Faster loading from server. No longer show friends first in non-friend results. Show empty friends table if you have no friends. Improved table flipping. Small server improvements and admin tools. Minor fixes.
New colouring of wheels that are out of bounds
Warning messages now pop up on the companion window when no hands are present or twitch credentials are not set while using twitch window
Adjustments made to the Vive controller models.
Optimisation: Batching of maquette and static level geometry. Fixed some memory leaks. Skip rendering of some off-screen effects. Objects cache some internal data instead of recalculating it. Loading level is now faster and less likely to cause hitching.
Change some graphical settings while streaming for performance reasons
Fix horrible bug that makes the game unplayable if you attach a sticky ball to a glow-berry.
Possible fix for missing shared replays bug. Server side improvements.
Add extra logging to track down missing replays bug.
Grab models off the dark-world maquette more easily
Better data sanity-checking on contraption load.
Reduce hitching when a replay transitions back to playing live
Small improvements to feedback form
Minor tutorial fixes
SteamVR Update
Fix for things getting stuck in the ground causing joints to disconnect
Fix light-world maquette interfering with dark-world save tables
Handle Oculus headsets better (still not officially supported yet)
Fix to physics glitches when pausing game with steam button
Better sanity checking around settings loading
Setting companion camera smoothing to zero will now improve performance
Physics stability improvements (changed wheel-on-wheel behaviours)
Fix for building pieces/outline not appearing properly in the Goal tutorial level