Neos VR News

Pushing another hotfix for another problem that came up that could cause session crashes.

Compatible with previous builds.

[h2]Security:[/h2]
- Fixed component type verification not checking rules from base classes, resulting in certain components not being validated
-- This fixes ActiveUserCloudValueVariable being spawnable with invalid types, resulting in session crash (reported by @Fuzy Sidwell)

Pushing a hotfix for an exploit due to reports of it being abused against users. Unfortunately this means a small performance penalty (in most cases should probably be negligible) before we have a redesigned LogiX initialization system in place.

Compatible with previous build.

[h2]Security:[/h2]
- Added guard against infinite recusion in LogiX causing Neos to crash (previously reported by @I'm Erin., @ThomFox, @Balazus and others)
-- Note that's a small performance penalty (depending on complexity of LogiX setup might not even be measurable) for this fix due to time constraints for the fix. This will be replaced by a more efficient system in the future with LogiX rework
-- There's should be no functional difference for valid LogiX setup in most cases, except in cases of excessively long evaluation chains (more than 512 deep)
-- Also please note that using exploits and crashing other users without their explicit consent (e.g. outside researching exploits with consenting participants) is a moderation offense and not a tool to be used for self moderation

Just a patch rolling back Steam Audio to previous version, since the 4.0.0 has some stability issues for some people.

I rolled back to the previous beta version (Steam Audio 2.0-beta.20) even though we previously were at beta.19 to see if it exhibits the same problem or not.

If you have crash dumps, please share them here! https://github.com/Neos-Metaverse/NeosPublic/issues/2697
I'll try to forward what I can on the Steam Audio GitHub.

Compatible with previous build.

[h2]Bugfixes:[/h2]
- Rolled back Steam Audio to 2.0-beta.20 from 4.0.0 release due to crash reports (reported by @Fuzy Sidwell, @Shadow Panther [RU/EN, UTC+3], @H3BO3, @Rabbitsocks and others)

A small, mostly maintenance build, working on some more BEPUv2 stuff now. A few new nodes for setting player position/rotation. Also upgrading Steam Audio to brand major version 4.0.0 (previously 2.0-beta.19) as well as the Oculus Plugin.

[h2]New Features:[/h2]
- Added nodes to set user's position via various body node positions under Users/User Root (based on reqeust by @Epsilion)
-- SetHeadFacingDirection
-- SetHeadFacingRotation
-- SetHeadPosition
-- SetHeadRotation
-- SetHipsPosition
-- SetHipsRotation
-- SetFeetPosition
-- SetFeetRotation

[h2]Tweaks:[/h2]
- Added BodyNode and Chirality to the list of common enums
-- This adds them as templates for EnumToInt and IntToEnum nodes and many others (requested by @Titancube)

- Upgraded Steam Audio (spatializer) to 4.0.0 (previously 2.0-beta.19)
- Upgraded Oculus Integraion to 29.0 from 28.0
-- Includes OVRPlugin 1.61.0 (previously 1.59.0)

- Merged Japanese locale tweaks by @Aesc
- Merged Korean locale additions by @MirPASEC
- Merged Czech locale additions and updates by @rampa_3 (UTC +1, DST UTC +2)
- Merged Russian locale additions by @Shadow Panther [RU/EN, UTC+3]

[h2]Bugfixes:[/h2]
- Split Encapsulate Point and Encapsulate Bounds nodes into separate nodes, rather than overloads of each other, as due to input name differences they couldn't actually be overloaded
-- This makes the "Encapsulate Bounds" variant available (based on request by @Ukilop )
- Fixed HP Omnicept Eye Tracking being inverted horizontally (reported by @CaptainKidd)

Another small patch. Adding some new security options, updating Assimp library to the latest version and fixing up some regressions.

Compatible with previous builds!

[h2]Security:[/h2]
- Added disableDesktop configuration option for Config.json, which allows completely disabling the Desktop functionality in Neos (based on request by @Earthmark, also previously requested by @kazu0617 Neos:kazu)
-- This disables both the Desktop texture, as well as any other components that provide interactions with desktop (e.g. forwarding inputs)
-- Note the tab and components are still present in the data model, but their behaviors are short-circuited
-- This can be useful when you need/want increased level of security, for example in business settings

[h2]Tweaks:[/h2]
- Updated Assimp library to the latest commit from source
-- This includes 278 commits of various additions, improvements and bugfixes for multiple formats (you can check the merge for details at our fork: https://github.com/Neos-Metaverse/assimp)
-- Updated the Assimp.NET library to correspond to the updated ABI of the native library
-- This also fixes a specific .stp file crashing Neos on import (reported by @Cyro)

- Merged Japanese locale additions by @Aesc

[h2]Bugfixes:[/h2]
- Fixed regression causing the ReverbZone presets to not work (reported by @Ryuvi | Technical Artist)
- Fixed regression causing PlayOneShot to not work when the audio clip isn't loaded and there is nothing else forcing it to load (reported by @orange)
- Fixed Neos showing unread message count from non-Contacts (reported by @Fuzy Sidwell and @Shadow Panther [RU/EN, UTC+3])
- Fixed regression where holding item in VR would make you unable to release it when the dash is opened (reported by @AshtonSparx)