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Rec Room PATCH - the "Look, Ma! My Hands are Reoriented!" edition

[h2]Full Body Avatars[/h2]
  • The watch for full body avatars got some love! We added back in the clock face and fixed the quick chat menu on the right hand so it showed up properly when you turned to look at your inner wrist. Also, the watch band will properly change color to match your party's color now. Yay, colors!
  • New FBA Item Fixes: Updated sleeves for the Cozy Winter Coat, Overcoat, Blaster Suit, and Frantic Rabbit Vest.
[h2]Rooms 2.0[/h2]
  • Fixed issue in Rooms 2.0 where players could sometimes select objects outside of their current scope after undoing/redoing.
  • Added a storefront prop to the Rooms 2.0 palette. More details below
  • Storefront V2 only supports Offers
  • You can change the color and material of the background
  • The background of can be hidden (from the Config menu)
  • Storefront V2 includes a circuit board for Enabling, Disabling, and inputting a List of Offers
  • Storefront V2 can be Synced or local (from the Config menu)
  • The watch page from the View More button on Storefront V2 shows Offers listed in a vertical-scrolling grid (rather than a horizontal-scrolling carousel)
[h2]General Improvements & Bug Fixes[/h2]
  • We're continuing to iterate on the new third person mode with lots of bug fixes and gradually expanding the rollout to more players. This update also brings support for driving vehicles in third person!
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the PSVR calibration room to load incorrectly.
  • Added a setting to Interaction Volume V2 to allow the creator to hide/show the outline on hover.
  • Fixed a rare bug which would cause invention creation to fail.
  • We tidied up a whole bunch of throw animations across the game. Throws should all work the same mechanically, but just look and feel better in all cases.
  • Fixed a bug that occasionally prevented RRO storefront purchases from being claimed.
  • Tweaked the size of the buttons on the Dialogue component.
  • Fixed bug where Player Prompt Text did not filter out bad words. No more saying cuss words, guys!
  • Players on recent generations of iPhones should notice that they sound MUCH better when talking to others. Now you can eat your mic in 4K!
  • Fixed issue where undoing an auto-connected tube piece would delete the entire tube.
  • Updates to Player Prompt Multiple Choice and Player Prompt Text nodes:
  • Fixed prompts not working if some other dialogs were up (e.g. the friend online notification dialog)
  • Added a configurable option 
    Replace Existing Prompt
    (defaults to false) that lets a new prompt squash an older open prompt, instead of failing immediately.
  • Fixed prompt not working if the player was on an old UI menu (e.g. change outfits)

Please see here for convenient links to controls, tutorials, comfort options, etc.:https://recroom.com/community

We love to hear your feedback, so please don't hesitate to let us know what you think.

Rec Room PATCH - the “Look, Ma! My Hands are Reoriented!” edition

[h3]Full Body Avatars[/h3]
  • All level 40+ players should have access to FBA now, check it out in your dorm room mirror!
  • FBA Beta fix: For items that are supposed to hide ears (ear covering hair items), or completely hide hands (ex: boxing gloves), the full body avatar will now do the right thing and properly remove that part of the player.
  • We fixed the strange "mouth askew" issue that you could only see on other players, and while fixing it, we improved the range of adjustments you can make for the full body avatar. You can still smirk if you want to!
  • We also did some work to prevent face features from colliding, so an avatar always has the right order of features from top to bottom: eyebrows, eyes, nose, then mouth… heeeeeead, shoulders, knees and toes (knees and toes!)
  • We gave our full body avatars the power of telekinesis! This will fix the issue where held objects are restricted by the length of your arm. We can’t wait to find out the unintended consequences of this!
  • More FBA item fixes for Steampunk Gloves and Dragon Knight Wrist
  • Sometimes when switching between avatar types, your avatar's ability to push buttons or trigger volumes with your hands stopped working. Fixed!
  • Swatted a bug where if you are previewing custom shirts using full body, you could then go to the Rec Center with the unowned custom shirt and see it in your local view (other's couldn't see the bug).


[h3]Rooms 2.0[/h3]
  • Fixed an issue where a hierarchy could have different authorities for different objects within it. Just like the mitochondria is always the powerhouse of the cell, hierarchies will always match the authority of the root object.
  • Loading into a subroom from another subroom in the same room can now show the subroom name in the loading screen in addition to the room name.
  • Default custom locomotion graph now contains wall run and players now are able to perform wall run out of the box on the surfaces that are configured correctly. PARKOUR!
  • Supporting the pricing of Offers with Inventory Items. Offers priced with Inventory Items do not require RR+ membership. The price icons for these offers are customizable, similar to room currency in Rooms 1.
  • Added a new 'Get All Inventory Items in Room' chip. All your inventory items are belong to us (teehee).


Released the following from beta:
  • The Gun Handle and all related chips
  • Trigger Volume Get and Set Player Filter Tags chips
  • All Rooms 2 Moods chips
  • Player Aim Assist Tag chips
  • Player Get Is Room Contributor
  • Parse Time (what is… Time?!)
  • Not Equals
  • Modulo
  • Player Get Crouch Speed, Player Get Is Wall Running, Player Get Slide Speed, Player Get Steering Speed, Player Set Wall Run Enabled, Player Set Crouch Speed, Player Set Prone Speed, Player Set Slide Speed
  • Local Player Override Player Voice Rolloff, Local Player Clear Player Voice Rolloff
  • List Add If Not Contains, List Except, List Intersect, List Intersection, List Union, List Distinct
  • Instance Get Is Multi-Instance Event
  • Instance Get Lifetime
  • Handle Get and Set Player Filter Tags chips
  • Get HUD Element Enabled
  • Animation Get Frame, Animation Get Time Stamp, Animation Set Time Stamp


[h3]Touchpad Component (in beta) [/h3]

  • Interaction Started/Ended events - On Screens this is when you start/stop using the Touchpad. On VR it is immediately before/after the Touch Started/Ended events.
  • Your Screen mode avatar is hidden from your own view while using the Touchpad, relying on the cursor rather than the hand.


[h3]General Improvements & Bug Fixes [/h3]
  • Fixed an issue where in some cases one explosive might not properly detonate another explosive. KABOOM! And then also another KABOOM! And then also another KABOOM!
  • Squooshed a bug where swapping store pages would not restore your position on the page.
  • Scaling tubes & ribbons no longer leads to wild size changes
  • Added room-level events for interaction volumes! Note: these events, like their circuit board versions, only fire for the local player.
  • Started an experiment with a new invention saving menu UI. If this is you, make sure to give us feedback!
  • Added 'Gun Fired (All)' event to ranged weapons, including the projectile launcher. This event will run for all other players in the room when the weapon is fired, at no additional network heat cost.
  • Added 'Update' event in beta to run circuits at the current frame rate.
  • Unless the local player uses the maker pen, Rec Room will no longer automatically backup the room for them.
  • Deleted the redundant "Set Object" button for the Spawner Component.
  • Added a new chip in beta ("Rec Room Object Get All with Tag (new)"). This is similar to the existing "Rec Room Object Get All with Tag", but will return the objects in the same order for every player in a room. Just in case you didn’t like the randomness!
  • Fixed room cards (the thumbnails in the menu) not scaling properly on non-PC platforms.
  • Squashed a bug where the back button on a UGC storefront would redirect to a blank page.
  • Stomped a bug where games ended early in ^Legacy3DCharades. Guess you gotta earn your dailies the hard way 😤
  • Smushed a bug where canceling a purchase on Android would prevent you from attempting any more purchases.
  • For You rooms will start being recommended based on different data, let us know if you like the rooms you see!
  • We’re tweaking how Similar Rooms are recommended to you to prefer rooms that are similar, but also have players in them.


[h3]Rec Room Studio [/h3]
  • Added new “Anchor UI” studio functions (Anchor & Detach) to the “Rec Room Canvas UI Interaction” component that allows creators to anchor a screen player’s camera to a worldspace UI, or move a menu to be anchored to a screen player’s camera and enable interactions using a cursor (PC/Console) or touch interactions (Mobile). VR is not supported… Yet.
  • Fixed "Paste as Child" for Maker Pen scene objects to ensure that the pasted objects are correctly initialized.
  • Our create (sub)room buttons now match the in-game behavior and will automatically open the newly created (sub)room
  • Include data for terrain in memory explorer (some painted tree & painted detail data still not included)
  • Fixed memory explorer estimates for some rarely used render target formats.
  • Crushed bugs where using the "Create Empty Parent" menu in the Maker Pen scene would not create a new Container in R2 rooms and would instead create an invalid state by moving the child objects to the main scene.
  • Resolved issues that caused some harmless error messages when setting default values on input ports using the Circuit Editor.
  • Improved accuracy of the CV2 row in the Memory Explorer.



Please see here for convenient links to controls, tutorials, comfort options, etc.:
https://recroom.com/community

We love to hear your feedback, so please don't hesitate to let us know what you think.

Rec Room UPDATE - the "Look, Ma! My Hands are Reoriented!" edition

[h2]Full Body Avatars BETA Fixes[/h2]
  • Fixed a bug where full body custom shirts do not appear immediately in the mirror after purchase.
  • Grabbed objects while using Full Body should now have the same orientation as when using Bean Body, and we restored all original orientations so it should feel just like it did in 2023.
  • Added a toggle in Miscellaneous Settings to allow players without full body access to still view and purchase full body items.
  • When seeing your full body on the title screen, during the loading screen, and in the avatar customization menu, your hands will pose and animate similar to how the bean body does.
  • Fixed a bunch of bad sleeves and skin gaps on the following: Pullover hoodies, Skeleton hoodies, Hoodies, Untucked tee, Tucked tee, Raincoat, Trucker Jacket, Royal Lady/Lord, Turtlenecks, Golfer shirt, Pioneer dress, Mirrored Glasses, Casual Cardigan, Bard shirt, Fortuneteller shirt, Mobster, Retro gamer, Shredder, Hiker shirt, RecFly vest, Cosmic Hero, Oversized Cardigan, Witch Hunter, Animal Sweater, Quarter Zip, Cupid, Male tee.
[h2]Dialogue UI improvements[/h2]
  • Dialogue options are now larger and easier to press. I guess size does matter -_(tsu)_/-
  • Rich Text is now supported (e.g. 
    italic text
    )
  • Fixed dialogue billboarding to properly face the camera
  • Reordered configure menu to be more configured
  • Fixed bug where dialogue weirdly snaps when configuring X offset if billboarding is enabled
  • Added default output exec port to object board: Text Finished Animating
  • Added default input exec port to object board: Clear Button State
  • Newly placed dialogues are now disabled by default
  • Fixed bug where dialogues always get enabled when loading into a room
  • Added configure option to disable dialogue options from showing up while the text is animating
  • Added configure option to automatically shrink the dialogue box to fit the text inside it
  • Fixed bug where dialogue never fully vanished when disabled for room owners
  • The hover effect on dialogue options is now more subtle - I didn't know they were chill like that B)
  • Fixed bug where Message Animation Finished event didn't fire if the user skipped the text animation
  • Non-interactable state is no longer semi-transparent
  • Added two new options for Speech Arrow Position: Top/Bottom Automatic. These decide if they should use left or right arrows based on the Billboard Pivot X Offset
  • Added two new chips: Dialogue UI Set Billboarding Pivot Offset, Dialogue UI Get Billboarding Pivot Offset. Use these to flip which side of a character a dialogue is on! Also added a new Billboard Pivot Offset Synced option in the configure tool to go with these new chips
[h2]Player Prompt Text & Player Prompt Multiple Choice Chip Updates[/h2]
  • New "Player Prompt Text" chip in beta - this is an updated version of the old Prompt Local Player chip, which will be deprecated once this new version leaves beta. This version works more like the Player Prompt Multiple Choice chip, using the new UI and the same port layout. There are several more updates to Player Prompt Multiple Choice in this update which also apply to this new chip.
  • Updates to Player Prompt Multiple Choice:
    • Hitting "OK" now closes the watch if the watch was closed when you received the prompt
    • Hitting the X button now works the same as hitting the Cancel button
    • A warning now shows in the maker pen log if the chip is run while a prompt is already open
    • Newly placed chips now immediately pop open the watch by default instead of sending a watch notification. You can switch back to the old behavior with the configure tool, and you can switch old chips to the new behavior there as well.
    • Newly placed chips now dismiss the prompt if the player closes their watch after seeing it. You can turn this off with the configure tool, and you can turn it on for older chips there as well.
[h2]General Improvements & Bug Fixes[/h2]
  • Fixed an issue where the bow and crossbow could not be holstered in quest RROs
  • Removed slideshow from Rec Center, we're hoping to use that space for something different
  • Fixed an issue where inventory slots behaved differently in the lobby of Crescendo than they did in the game.
  • Fixed an issue where the PSVR login screen would appear backward for some users.
  • A new 
    Local Player Is VR
    node has been added to the palette to assist creators in detecting the player's display type.
  • The Code of Conduct poster has been added to the list of allowed props in Rooms 2.0
  • Hid Rooms 1 specific features from Rooms 2.0 in the port picker and Rewards configuration UI.
  • Currency and Consumables is now InventoryItem in the Rooms 2.0 RoomHUD.
  • Active accounts created before 2024 should have received the Class of 2023 Shirt, keep an eye on your gift boxes!
[h2]Rec Room Studio[/h2]
  • Open your existing rooms or create new ones by clicking the "My Rooms" button on the Rec Room Studio window. You may remember this button was recently called the "Open a Room" button. Names were changed to protect the innocent.
  • Circuit Editor bug fixes and improvements
  • Fixed a bug where the "Keep Local" option was not honored when downloading Maker Pen Objects.
  • Memory explorer now provides an estimate of the memory required for the max player count for a room.

Please see here for convenient links to controls, tutorials, comfort options, etc.:https://recroom.com/community

We love to hear your feedback, so please don't hesitate to let us know what you think.

Rec Room PATCH - the "Reloaded" edition

[h2]General Improvements & Bug Fixes[/h2]
  • Fixed some cursed lookin' Full Body Avatar items that did not appear as they should when toggled to the bean avatar.
  • Fixed an issue preventing toggling between world and local space on the RequestSteering chip.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented Data Table Reward cells from being set back to 'None'. Now you can get 'none data with left beef'! (I know I'm old, Google it)
  • Search on My Events and My Clubs now works - find the perfect roleplay moment of your dreams!
  • We're trying out some changes to the Picture-in-Picture (top-right corner of the UI HUD)
  • Increased maximum circuit list size from 65 to 4096. (4096 number game in Rec Room when )
  • Handles in Rooms 2.0 will no longer "offset" from their compound object.
  • Check out these new chips now in beta: Set Position/Rotation/Transform in Reference Object Space, and Get Position/Rotation in Reference Object Space.
[h2]Rec Room Studio[/h2]
  • Rooms created through RRStudio should now automatically have 
    #beta
    content enabled. You can enable beta content on any existing rooms by changing and saving your 
    Room Tags
    settings through RRStudio.
  • You can now create new custom Studio Props (RecRoomObject prefabs) simply by dragging an existing prefab or GameObject from the main Unity scene or Project window into the Maker Pen scene. You can also convert a Studio Prop instance back into a normal Unity scene object by dragging the object from the Maker Pen scene to the main Unity scene.
  • Fixed a bug that would cause the sub/room settings window to throw an exception under certain conditions.
  • Fixed an issue where auto-generated data could cause room validation to fail.
  • Better error messaging and handling of very loooooooooooooooooong file paths.
  • A couple little improvements to the circuit editor ;)

Please see here for convenient links to controls, tutorials, comfort options, etc.:https://recroom.com/community

We love to hear your feedback, so please don't hesitate to let us know what you think.

Rec Room PATCH - the "Reloaded" edition

[h2]Full Body Avatars Beta Fixes[/h2]
  • Fix for full-body avatars blinking out of existence for a few frames when you move close or far away from each other
  • Fixed a lot of see-through gaps on the body when wearing shirts, gloves, and shoes
[h2]General Improvements & Bug Fixes[/h2]
  • Items will now be removed from your wishlist immediately after receiving the item.
  • Room anchors can now be added to all inventions, not just inventions made in the dorm or rec center.
  • Adding new properties to Room Inventory Items - Set Action Button Text, Enable Equip Button, Show Count in Equipment Slots.
  • Fixed some instances of Out of CPU Heat errors not providing context for which chip they came from.
  • The Player Prompt Multiple Choice chip is now available in Rooms 2.
[h2]Rec Room Studio[/h2]
  • We now indicate whether a room is a legacy or R2 room when selecting a room to open, and in the 
    Rec Room Studio
    window when a room is already open.
  • In R2 rooms you can now place new objects directly into containers, and you can copy, paste, and duplicate objects that are inside containers.
  • Fixing some artifacts when selecting objects in RRStudio.

Please see here for convenient links to controls, tutorials, comfort options, etc.:https://recroom.com/community

We love to hear your feedback, so please don't hesitate to let us know what you think.