Rec Room News

[h2]Customizable Ranged Weapon Props[/h2]
Many ranged weapon props are now more customizable:

• Projectile and weapon body colors can now be set both through circuits and with the maker pen.
• Damage values for players and objects can now be set both through circuits and with the maker pen.
• Aim assist and auto-fire settings can be configured with the maker pen.
• 'Gun Fired' circuit events will run in the props' object boards when fired by a player.
• 'Reload Started', 'Reload Completed', and 'Reload Cancelled' circuit events will run on supported weapons.
• 'On Pickup' and 'On Release' circuit events will run when the weapons are grabbed or released by a player.
• The 'Projectile Hit Player' events in the Projectile Launcher and Player Definition Board have been deprecated and replaced with variants that output Collision Data.
• 'Projectile Hit Other' and 'Projectile Hit Any' events have been added to all Ranged Weapons, including the Projectile Launcher, similar to the Collision Detection Volume.
• Many ranged prop weapons are now available in Rooms 2.

[h2]Chips & Events Out of Beta[/h2]
Radio, Holding Maker Pen, Data table, Rewards, XP, Levels, and Progression chips are no longer in Beta. This includes the following chips/events:

• Radio: Player Get Players In Radio Channel, Player Get Radio Channel, Remove Player From Radio Channel, Player Set Radio Channel
• MakerPen: Player Is Holding Maker Pen
• Data table: Data Table, Data Table Read Cell, Data Table Get All Rows Containing, Data Table Get Column Count, Data Table Get First Row Containing, Data Table Get Row Count
• Reward: Reward, List, Grant Reward, Show Reward Notification, Show Banner Notification
• Progression/Level/XP: Player Award XP, Player Get XP, Room Levels, Player Get Room Level, Level Reached (Event)

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Fixed scrolling jump when navigating back to the Home page.
• Fixed the VR interaction bug that was caused by the infinite bow bug fix.
• Fixed a bug where your friend would never receive your invites if you appeared offline.
• Fix to prevent one maker pen action from affecting items held by another player's maker pen.
• MakerPen Undo Stack Redo operations no longer fall into the abyss if an operation is already in progress.
• Fixed an issue where MakerPen audio looped.
• We now inform the user when they are using an invalid name when trying to create rooms or subrooms.
• Fixed an issue where "Circuits Transform Behavior" wasn't respected on containers in Rooms 2.

[h2]Rec Room Studio[/h2]

• The

  Rec Room Studio

  window now opens automatically the first time you open a RRStudio project
• Fixed an issue that allowed scaling custom Studio Objects non-uniformly in Rooms 2.0 rooms

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.

[h2]General Improvements and Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Play Audio At Position now logs a maker pen warning when playing the maximum amount of audio clips at once instead of a CV2 error.
• Fixed a bug where the inventions spawned through the portfolio sometimes failed.

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.

[h2]General Improvements and Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Fixed a bug where there was a vignette when a VR player was close to another player.
• Fixed an issue that caused the 'Set as Room Default' button on the Background Objects Constant chip not to work as expected.

[h2]Rec Room Studio[/h2]

• Rooms 2.0 hierarchy editing is now supported in Rec Room Studio! Click and drag orange Maker Pen scene objects in the Hierarchy window to change parent and child relationships between objects. Open the parent Object Board in the Circuit Editor window to edit and connect to child Circuit Boards. Studio Props can be parent or child objects, and interact with parent gizmos such as rotators!
• Fixed an issue with the position and rotation of custom Studio Objects and their children in Rooms 2.0 rooms not being saved correctly in RR Studio.
• "Remake Object Board" and "Remake Object Boards For All Prefab Instances" for custom Studio Objects are now called "Update Object Board" and "Update Object Boards For All Prefab Instances". This new operation incrementally adds and removes ports and chips to the Object Board so that user modifications are not destroyed.

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.

[h2]Third Person Mode[/h2]
We're starting to roll out big updates to third-person mode!

Soon you will be able to pick things up, throw a ball, shoot a gun, and swing a sword (you know, actually engage with the world), all in the third-person mode! And it will be a great way to enjoy your full-body avatar.

• Q: What platforms will support third-person? A: All Screens platforms (Gamepad, Keyboard, and Touch). No out-of-body experience for VR.
  
• Q: When will I get it? A: We're carefully A/B testing this feature over several rounds, hopefully "Soon"
  
• Q: What is happening to first-person? A: First-person mode is here to stay! Third-person will be an entirely optional way to play.
  
• Q: How does third-person work in UGC Rooms? A: By using our cross-platform building blocks like Handles, Interaction Volumes, Locomotion Circuits, etc. most rooms already work great in third-person! Later, we'll add new circuits for creators to customize or restrict third-person if the room is meant to be played in a specific way.
  

We believe "iteration is quality", and we'll be iterating on third-person a lot this year, so let us know your feedback!

[h2]General Improvements and Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Player UIs only show above your own head in third person if you have opted in to Show Own Nametag in Third Person
  
• Touch can now reliably tap on old UIs like the costume equip button. Touch hides the dot reticle while targeting UI since it only uses direct tap.
  
• Fixed a bug where Screens could not interact with Scoreboards from the same distance as VR
  
• Camera shake and recoil are tuned and limited to reasonable amounts in certain cases
  
• While wall climbing, Screens can drop off (or slowly descend) by pressing Crouch
  
• Fixed the infinite shot bow bug.
  
• Fixed a bug in Rooms 2 which prevented you from changing default values for Player Properties on a Player Definition Board.
  
• Restrict KBM Marquee Selection to the current scope in Rooms 2. Allowing selection across scope led to a variety of issues.
  

[h2]Rec Room Studio[/h2]

• Introducing the water shader, one of the tools we've been creating for My Little Monsters! Now you can make your water features POP in all new ways. Check out the new example water assets! Prefabs can be found under `Assets/DefaultAssets/Prefabs/Environmental Assets/Water Examples/
  
• When dragging a new wire from a Studio object board, the Studio Function chip is now included among the list of chips that can be created and automatically connected to the new wire.
  
• Fixed a number of issues in R2 rooms around copying, duplicating, and pasting objects that are children of a container.
  
• The 'Set HUD Element Enabled' chip uses the Slot configuration of the Room Level HUD chip that it is connected to.
  

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.

[h2]General Improvements and Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Transferring room ownership now requires confirmation.
• Fixed an issue that could cause notifications from the Show Banner Notification chip to persist into other rooms.
• Fixed an issue with the Swing Handle where other players could trigger swings for a VR player.
• Fixed an issue where objects with default tags wouldn't keep those tags on clone in Rooms 2.0.

[h2]Rec Room Studio[/h2]

• Studio Objects now have a default Object Board that contains the In and Out ports for its Unity Properties and Unity Events. Default Object Boards for Studio Objects are only available once a room has been re-built from RR Studio -- older room saves will still have an empty Object Board when creating an Object Board for Studio Objects.
• Custom skyboxes are working again!
• Fix RRStudio not relaunching for some users after an update is applied. (Fix will apply on the next release after this one)

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.