Rec Room UPDATE - the "Roomie, Fetch!" Edition

Roomie

• You can now share edibles, drinkables, and throwables with Roomie!
• You're also able to play fetch, catch and throw with Roomie.
• Added the ability to continue spawning Roomie in energy-saving mode where AI capabilities are unavailable.
• Thanks to your feedback, we've made multiple bug fixes and improvements with Roomie behavior.

Circuits

• Fixed an issue where Replicated Objects set to Assign To Player could be picked up by other players if they had a handle in their hierarchy.
• Enabled recursion in Circuit functions.
• Fixed an issue where Circuits and ObjectConfig could become de-synced.

General Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Magnetic Snapping should now work during Create Mode for Inventions with Magnetic Anchors in nested containers.
• Fixed selection visuals appearing on items that should not be selected.
• You can now view inventions details from the Mobile Makerpen.

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Rec Room UPDATE - the "Sub or Dub?" Edition

Rooms 2

• Improved stability of requesting a player respawn while the player is already respawning.
• Added 'Local Player Started Respawn' and 'Local Player Finished Respawn' CV2 events in Rooms 2.
• Added new Local Player Get Is Respawning chip in Rooms 2
• Performance improvements for Rooms 2 rooms.
• Added a filter so you can toggle free Rooms 2 Inventions in your palette search.

General Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Added magnetic snapping for objects! So positives and negatives really do attract...
• Added an energy bar for Roomie so you can see how much energy your Roomie has left.
• Updated Referee to fix compatibility issues with Medal, ShadowPlay, and other capture software that would cause the game to stop responding.
• We've made a big rewrite of the way Shapes are rendered using the new DEQ system, and how we cope with big rooms on our more limited platforms. This should give better quality and higher framerates, but it is a significant change, so please watch for bugs and report them!
• Coach will soon let you know when rooms you have reported have been removed, with a fancy new message and a cheer! Thanks for all the reporting you do to make Rec Room a safer place :)
• Fixed a case where interactions with objects in VR would get stuck or wouldn't allow you to interact.
• Slight visual fixes for Roomie.
• Made some fixes for voices and subtitles.
• As part of the above, Roomie's subtitles are also now synced with their speech better, and the subtitles will be in batches that make more sense.
• Fixed the Season Pass notification unintentionally appearing each time you respawn - now it only appears when you load into a room.

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Rec Room UPDATE - the "Welcome, Roomie!" Edition

TLDR

• Roomie has arrived! Your brand new robo-buddy is ready to roam the Roomiverse with you, exclusive to RR+!
• Maker AI can now generate circuits that make other objects in the room spawnable in hierarchies, plus wire them together.
• Added push to talk settings for Maker AI so that you can toggle between talking with friends and friends + AI.

Circuits

• Added "Turn Speed Multiplier" to Rec Room Object Move (In Direction) and Rec Room Object Move (Toward Point) chips.
• The 'move' chip now respects the motion of moving platforms (we forced it to press F).
• Fixed a bug where the Is Valid chip would not correctly output false for invalid Audio from Studio Audio Constants and Audio Object Properties.
• A new 'Rec Room Object Get All of Type With Tag' node allows you to get all tagged objects in the room of a particular type.
• When Event and Message Senders execute their Receivers, they will now execute all Receivers, even if one errors, and will continue to execute their execution output. Error information will still be properly surfaced and visible for every error that occurs.

General Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Roomie has arrived! As part of RR+, you can explore, chat, and customize with Roomie anywhere in the Roomiverse. Try asking Roomie for tips and tricks in your favorite room, or for help changing up your style!
• Maker AI can now generate circuits which can make other objects in the room spawnable in hierarchies and wire them together. For example, in a room with a basketball and a button you can select the button and ask Maker AI "Make this spawn basketballs when I press it".
• Added Maker AI push to talk settings for everyone or everyone + AI.
• Fixed the bug where you could no longer turn on and off "Show Your Torso" in the Bean options.
• The inventions in the 'this room' carousel in the maker pen now automatically update with inventions added or removed from the room.

Experiments

• Added a direction navigation prototype for mobile maker pen UI. You'll be able to navigate between toolbar items with the left and right bumpers on gamepad or q and e on keyboard.

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Rec Room UPDATE - the “Aura Maxxing” Edition

TLDR

• Add to your aura with player auras, exclusive to RR+ and available today!
• Added a plethora of new chips.
• Avatar Studio creators can now make their own combo avatar items.

Rooms 2

• Pathfinders can no longer move if they are the Target Object of a Replicator. No more runaway Replicators.
• The Pathfinder will now give you a warning if you try to tell it to path and there is no Nav Mesh generated.
• Fixed an issue where the Pathfinder will not move to a location or rotate towards a direction it was already at before being moved with the maker pen or circuits.
• Fixed an issue where the Pathfinder could move while it is selected with the maker pen.
• Fixed some artifacting that affected giftboxes in some Rooms 2 rooms.

Avatars

• Added Auras exclusively to RR+. Maximize your aura anywhere and leave different trails behind you, check them out today!
• Customizing your Avatar from the Store is now easier with a new shortcut in the upper-right hand corner of the store page.

Circuits

• Added a new Circuits type called Player Account. Added new chips that use this new type to show profile and portfolio pages, get information about a Player Account like the Display Name, profile picture, etc.
  • New chips:
  • Get Player Account By Name
  • Get Player Account From Player
  • Get Player From Player Account
  • List Variable
  • Player Account Variable
  • Player Account Get Details
  • Show Player Portfolio
  • Show Player Profile

General Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Added Vulkan support for Oculus Quest and Android devices!
• Updates to Referee for stability and performance.
• Added a forgiveness buffer to beacons to improve the chances of hitting your target, making it easier to coordinate with others.
• Fixed an issue where using the Transform tool without using the handles would not be undo-able.
• Fixed an issue where you could not spawn the Desktop Share Screen or Audio Sharing props even if you have access to those.
• Fixed an issue where various events would not run after a room save, including Room Reset.
• Fixed a bug for wishlist items sometimes not appearing.
• Fixed an issue where bringing your hands to your head in VR caused lag.

Avatar Studio

• Creators can now make their own combo avatar items (everybody loves a paint suit)!

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Rec Room UPDATE - the "Vrooms 2" Edition

TLDR

• We've fully moved to the upgraded bean and added a few changes and options to make the experience closer to that of the classic bean.
• Drivable vehicles are now available in Rooms 2!
• Custom locomotion updates, new chips, and more!

Rooms 2

• Start your engines, drivable vehicles are now available in Rooms 2! Find the Rally Buggy, Classic Coupe, Wolf Ride, and Trusty Pickup Truck in the MakerPen palette.
• The new Particle VFX Constant and Play Particle VFX At Position nodes allow you to play a particle effect using Circuits! You can even create your own custom Particle VFX in Rec Room Studio and then use those effects with Particle VFX Constant.
• Added a set of chips to attach objects to player avatars. This enables costume functionality in Rooms 2!
• Added missing chip descriptions for Rooms 2 chips.
• Share Camera polaroids can be printed in Rooms 2 rooms.
• Audio values can now be set for object properties directly from the config panel.

Avatars

• Beans now locomote smoother (they're less bouncy).
• The bean avatar head has been moved forward by 4cm to replicate the old bean look.
• Idles stand more up-straight. The hip/body moves around a bit rather than being "land-locked" producing less leaning/bending.
• Hands are animating again when idle (this goes for full body as well!)
• Suggested items in the Avatar Customization menu now include popular items made by our community.
• Added a fix for the mouthbrows!
• Added a fix for eye gleam on bean avatars.

Circuits

• Circuits Messages have been delivered! They're an alternative to Events that are much easier to reuse across rooms and inventions. They're as flexible as the "Generic Room" event is, but with a LOT less boilerplate circuitry needed to filter actions and fetch parameters. Let us know what you think of them in the Discord or Creator Forum!
• Custom Locomotion updates:

  • Input events are now available in the global scope, e.g. On Locomotion Sprint Button Input.

    • Added local player variants of locomotion state events, e.g. On Local Player Jumped.
    • Added the "Rec Room Object Try Get Property" chip to beta. This chip combines Rec Room Object Has Property and Rec Room Object Get Property - it outputs both a bool for whether or not the property exists on the given object and the value of the property itself. If the property does not exist, it outputs a default value set by one of the chip's inputs.
    • Added the "Find and avoid Edge" and "Find and avoid Obstacle" chips. These will have some more detail in the comments on the creator forum if you wanna know more about how to use them!
    • Fixed a bug that could cause the 'Audio Player Set Time Stamp' chip to break when used without an active audio clip.

    General Improvements & Bug Fixes

    • The Maker Pen now only blocks custom locomotion when you're flying, making it easier to mix creation and play!
    • Fixed a bug where disabling jump input while flying would leave you trapped in the air.
    • Dropping the maker pen will now make you stop flying so you can get right back into the action.
    • Weapons with configurable object damage now have a default object damage value equivalent to their default player torso damage value.
    • MakerAI Day Pass redemption fixes.

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Rec Room UPDATE - the "Standing Slide" Edition

Rooms 2

• Added the "Raycast All" and "Spherecast All" beta chips.
• Fixed a bug where Raycasting/Spherecasting a ranged weapon may return an invalid object instead of the weapon.
• Fixed a bug where Raycasting/Spherecasting detects circuit boards and container pivots.
• Boolean Object Properties now show up properly in the config menu in Advanced Creation Mode.
• The Shift+Drag Marquee Select now selects only objects in scope again when in Advanced Creation Mode.

Circuits

• Allowed around 130 more types of chips inside of Function Definitions!
• Chips can now be locked and unlocked.
• The lock icon will now always show up on locked objects.
• A new Is Rec Room Object of Type node allows you to check if an object is a specific kind of Rec Room object.
• Added a new Show Room Details chip that shows the room details watch page of a given room for a given player.

Mobile Maker Pen

• You can now view your inventions in the Mobile Maker Pen palette!
• The Mobile Maker Pen Palette will now resize vertically to make better use of screen space available on your mobile device.
• Mobile Maker Pen now includes Play/Pause and Reset buttons. Pause the room to stop gizmos and update events. 'Room Get Is Paused', 'Room Pause', and 'Room Resume' chips are also available in beta rooms, with circuit events that fire when they're run.

General Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Added Player Properties in beta. These work similarly to Object Properties, but exist on all players in the room.
• Custom Locomotion: You can now request a slide while standing, crouched, or prone without sprinting first. Also added these global and player level events: On Crouch Stopped, On Prone Stopped, and On Clamber Stopped.
• Rooms in the 'Saved For Later' carousel now show the most recently saved first. Fixed issue preventing all rooms from displaying when viewing the full list.
• Automated invention moderation actions should now be more clearly messaged in the warning popup.
• Fixed a bug where inventions with recolored objects did not show the color when previewing the invention.
• Fixed an issue that caused reparenting objects to fail when using the Connect tool.
• Fixed a crash that could happen when another person deleted a spline point while you were looking at it.

Experiments

• Starting an experiment to improve your search experience in the palette.

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Rec Room UPDATE - the "National Hydration Day" Edition

TLDR

Pathfinders will navigate based on the component inside the container instead of its root pivot. There's now an icon to denote when your gift boxes are waiting for you. My Little Monster Holotars now appear on Quest.

Rooms 2

Newly placed Pathfinders will now navigate based on the Pathfinder component inside the container instead of its root pivot. A legacy position setting has been added to preserve the old behavior. Backpack tools will now be highlighted when hovered over in R2 rooms. Fixed an issue that made containers invisible.

General Improvements & Bug Fixes

Added an icon to denote when you have gift boxes waiting! We took a magnifying glass to an issue where the font could be tiny on mobile maker pen menus. Fixed some issues with the maker pen when using a gamepad. Improved PC boot times. We stepped on potential sources for memory leaks, which will help prevent out-of-memory crashes. Delete means delete; we uncrossed our wires on a bug that could prevent objects from being deleted when using multiple object properties. Added confirmation dialogs to Circuits' Message Senders and Receivers to warn you whenever changing a message would disconnect wires or alter default parameter values. Holotars in My Little Monster should now appear on Quest.

Experiments

As part of an ongoing experiment, some players may now see a new player card instead of the full profile page when selecting another player's avatar.

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Rec Room UPDATE - the "Find your Path" Edition

Rooms 2

• Moved Object Properties to the top of Maker Pen config pages.
• The pathfinder component can now be properly set to be visible when circuits are not.
• Fixed an issue where sometimes objects wouldn't mirror-clone properly, and would just leave a copy in the same place as the original.
• Fixed a bug where the R2 connect widget would not be hidden when opening the chat menu.

Circuits

• Fixed an issue where running the Grabber Get Held Object chip could cause a player that's stolen an object from a grabber to drop that object.
• Fixed a bug where deleting a port group would sometimes make other ports disappear

Avatars

• For avatar faces, we managed to reduce the limitation on placement of big eyes.
• Fixed a bug with palm color for players currently using body paint.

General Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Fixes for voice calls, including the profile picture talking indicator and background button flashing.
• Fixed thumbnails in UGC storefronts.
• Fixed a bug where UGC items would show the wrong cost when in the Widget Watch.
• Added exclusions to the Reset Maker AI button on the MakerPen to not show up during audio sample editing.
• Room mods (and higher roles) now have the ability to kick players from a specific room instance. An optional reason can be provided, and a unique dialog will inform players that they were kicked from the room instance by a room moderator or owner that shows the reasoning.
• Updates to Referee.

Rec Room Studio

• Fixed a bug where recoloring Studio Objects that have textures and then saving the subroom or loading other versions of the subroom would result in broken materials for the recolored objects.
• You can now register your own custom projectile prefab, and use those projectiles with the Projectile Constant and Projectile Fire chips.

Experiments

• Added a new Widget Watch experiment that always shows the Portal panel.
• Added gyro-based camera rotation as an option in experiment.

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Rec Room UPDATE - the "Bye Bye Bear!" Edition

TLDR

• Rec Room has parted ways with EAC.
• Moved the Reset button to be more visible and now in the room details page.
• Added the ability to spawn free Rooms 2 inventions without downloading them, straight from the palette.

Rooms 2

• From the maker pen palette, you can now spawn free Rooms 2 inventions without downloading them.
• Replicators and Player boards are on their way to becoming cheaper! Watch for removal of memory limits soon.

Circuits

• Added "Global Explosion Hit Player" CV2 event
• Added a "Hit Player" port to "Global Projectile Hit Player" so you don't have to extract it from the Collision Data

General Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Removed EAC files. Look out for an upcoming blog with more details, but for now, have fun with the extra disk space!
• Moved the Reset button - previously buried in the Maker Pen settings - to the room details page. This does not fully reload your room, but will return all circuit and object settings to their Home Values.
• Fixed a bug where you could attempt to save updates to invalid inventions.
• Fixed an issue where, on Screens, the interaction distance is abnormally short when flying in third person mode.
• On Screens, when holding an object while flying in third person mode, you can now also use the jump and crouch buttons to ascend/descend.
• Fixed an issue where voice lines are not properly displayed on other players when you hear them talking.
• Fixed an issue where Show Voice Lines toggle in Settings menu isn't applied properly.
• Fixed an issue where, on Screens, switching between 1st and 3rd person while waving/reach out your hands makes the hand jitter afterwards.
• Fixed a bug where the control points for tubes and ribbons would sometimes stick around after you were done editing them.
• Added a visual for a tutorial step that was missing in the dorm
• Added a config button to mobile maker pen.
• In Create mode, the beta mobile maker pen now pre-populates the contextual toolbar with the current room's inventions. In Classic maker pen mode, this manifests as a new carousel in the Inventions tab.
• Fixed an issue where just-in-time tutorials stop working after switching accounts.
• Changed the app store icons back to normal.

Avatar Studio

• Fixed a bug when placing an Invention that contains Studio Audio Constants where other players could not use the audio until the room is saved.
• Fixed a bug where deleting materials that are generated from an FBX can cause a Studio cloud build failure.

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Rec Room UPDATE - the "See Yourself in Rooms 2" Edition

TLDR

• Maker AI can now generate circuits!
• The mirror has arrived for Rooms 2!
• Avatar Studio clothing can be tried on in your dorm!

Maker AI

• You can bring objects to life with Maker AI's new circuit generation features.

  • RR+ subscribers can test our experimental Maker AI circuit generation update inside the Maker AI dorm environment. For the best experience, we recommend checking out Maker AI with circuits in a newly created dorm.
  • You can now use Maker AI's new text chat option for commands - no voice required.
  • New Rec Room Object Move (In Direction) and Rec Room Object Move (Toward Point) R2 circuits make it easier for players and Maker AI to create physics-driven object movement without needing pathing systems.
  • Try using these examples to unlock a new level of creativity: "Make the robot chase me" - Will give an object autonomous behavior. "Make this ball jump once per second" - Will add periodic motion. "Have this bucket change between red and blue frequently" - Will create dynamic visual effects.

  Rooms 2

  • Connected a few dots (literally) - you can now undo and redo connected tube segments in Rooms 2.
  • Squashed a bug where objects being scaled while a room is saved ended up in incorrect positions.
  • Added "inventions in this room" carousel in the palette in Rooms 2.
  • Mirror, mirror on the wall... it's finally here in Rooms 2!
  • Unstuck a sticky situation where your small objects could get stuck when scaling.
  • Fixed Get Velocity always returning 0 in Rooms 2 rooms after setting, adding, or reflecting velocity. It's now actually reporting... velocity.

  Circuits

  • Fixed the new Projectile Hit Player beta events firing off multiple hits for one shot when a Projectile Launcher is used with the Projectile Launcher Set Firing Player chip.
  • Smart Circuits should be easier to open, especially when pointing at objects that are far away.

  General Improvements & Bug Fixes

  • Store carousels received a small tidy-up for a cleaner and more consistent look.
  • Fixed a glitch where -1 token avatar items appeared in the store. Negative pricing is sadly not a thing.
  • Improved load times for recently built RRS rooms.
  • "This Room" inventions are now available in the Mobile MakerPen palette. Handy!

  Avatar Studio

  • You can now try on UGC Avatar Items right in your Dorm! Hit that "TRY" button to give your outfit a test drive. Just remember - trial fits don't leave the dorm unless you buy them!
  • Creators can update their live avatar items directly. No middleman is needed; fashion freedom achieved.

  Experiments

  • We're testing ways to make placing large objects feel smoother and more magical.
  • Item cards are getting experimental facelifts: clearer "limited time" badges and descriptions that fit each item's size.

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Rec Room UPDATE - the "Golden Week" Edition

TLDR

• You can now publish Rooms 2 inventions that include beta content!
• More creator moderation tool improvements.
• You can now add UGC items to your wishlist!

Rooms 2

• Enabled invention publishing for Rooms 2 inventions with beta content.
• Fixed an issue that could cause Object Property chips not to show up in the palette as expected.
• Object Property chips and event receivers are now supported in inventions, even when not including an object with that property.
• Fixed R2 hierarchy view ordering of root objects.
• Fixed bug where Rooms 2 rotators/pistons could permanently stop moving on authority change or on player leaving.
• Deprecated/Replaced Piston/Rotator Get Speed chips to now be accurate in containers.
• Fixed a bug where CV2 rotator speeds were affected by scale - this fix will only affect newly placed rotators, existing ones will need a new option "Scale Affects Speed (Legacy)" toggled in the config menu.
• CV2 Pistons are still affected by scale by default, though they also now have this setting to turn that off.
• Fixed a bug where the CV2 event "Target Hit" on the Piston did not consistently fire.
• Fixed a bug where CV2 pistons with a configured nonzero default speed might not move when the room loads.
• Fixed a bug where CV2 pistons that are already moving on room load might not fire their first Target Hit event.
• Fixed a bug where CV2 pistons/rotators would stop on Rec Room Object Reset even if they had default speeds configured for them to start moving immediately on room load. This bugfix will apply to all new pistons/rotators, but will need to be manually enabled in the config menu for existing ones in case your room relies on this behavior.
• CV2 Rotator max speed raised to 360 degrees/second.
• You can no longer clone pivots.
• Immortal objects have been made mortal again.
• Fixed a bug where the invention store was sometimes empty in Rooms 2.
• Fixed a bug where you couldn't close your watch after switching to the select tool.

Circuits

• A respawning player will no longer fire a stale On Player Grounded event with the surface they were standing on before respawning.
• The Respawn chip will no longer have players inherit the velocity of the platform they were previously standing on before respawning.
• Reduced default rolloff distance of the Play Audio At Position chip. This change will only apply to newly spawned chips. Existing chips saved as part of a room will not be changed.
• Added the Root Object Hit by Melee Collision, Root Object Hit by Explosive, and Root Object Hit by Player Events.

General Improvements & Bug Fixes

• More creator moderation tool improvements!
  • Adding a link to a player's room ban history from their profile.

    • Ability to unban a player from multiple rooms at once (rooms I moderate, co-own, or created).

      • Adding a button to refresh the current room instance if things are getting too hairy.
      • Added a room reset button to the room details page.
      • Added support for the new Widget Watch profile panel.
      • Updated the app icon on mobile.
      • You can now add UGC avatar items to your wishlist!
      • Made signing up for RR+ a bit more accessible.
      • Quaternion ports and variables now default to a valid quaternion with no rotation.
      • Quaternion and Vector3 port previews are now more compact when viewed with the maker pen.
      • You can now switch between classic maker pen and mobile maker pen without flying ending or your maker pen selection canceling.
      • Fixed the gift button being incorrectly disabled for some items.
      • Fixed an issue where any AGOnly tags would cause the invention tag updates to fail.
      • Fixed the Fly Vignetting option getting incorrectly applied to non-flying movement.

      Rec Room Studio

      • All Rec Room Studio Objects are now able to be recolored! You can use the Maker Pen's Recolor tool, the Rec Room Object Set Color chip, or the Configuration panel for the Studio Object to change its color. If your Studio Object contains any Instance Recolor components, the object's color will apply only to the Renderers specified by Instance Recolor. If there are no Instance Recolor components, then the object's color will apply to all Renderers inside the Studio Object.

      Classic Bean Update

      This week, if you are using the classic bean, you will automatically be upgraded to the new bean when you log in. You'll still have the option to switch back for a limited time, but we wanted to see how this nudge may encourage more players to upgrade.

      Please see here for convenient links to controls, tutorials, comfort options, news, and more: https://rec.net/creator

      We love to hear your feedback, so please don't hesitate to let us know what you think using the Creator Forum here: https://forum.rec.net/

Rec Room UPDATE - the "Paint Your Body" Edition

TLDR

• Body paint is now available with RR+!
• Over 100 props are now available in Rooms 2!
• Added Studio Objects and Studio Audio Constant chips so now you can share Studio content with others!

Rooms 2

• More props are now available in Rooms 2!
• Pathfinder, touchpad, and collision detection volume are no longer in beta!
• Added Stage Light V2 in beta.
• Fixed a bug where the Rec Room Object Reset chip would silently fail (and cause havoc) if you tried to reset an object which isn't able to have an object board.
• Fixed crash issues caused by using the Delete Everything button.
• Fixed an issue where players could get stuck in Rooms 2.
• Completed some additional optimization work.

Avatars

• Body Paint has arrived exclusively for RR+! Change up your look in an all new way, add some extra color to your favorite outfits, or find new ways to express yourself. All RR+ subscribers gain access to all 19 colors. Body Paint is distinct from skin tone - you can swap or remove Body Paint without changing your avatar's stable identity!
• Fixed an issue where pushing some of the new advanced customization sliders to their extremes looked a little too wonky.

Mobile MakerPen

• Added vertical toggle buttons.
• Added a fix where if the precision mode is toggled on in Mobile MakerPen, it stays on when switching to the Classic MakerPen and back. It will also stay when you drop and re-equip the Mobile MakerPen.

Circuits

• Vector and Quaternion inputs on chips can now be configured to a default value.
• Opening the Smart Circuits menu will no longer leave behind a sound as if you are still trying to connect something.

General Improvements & Bug Fixes

• You now have access to the people tab in your watch during ^SocialOrientation.
• In the 'Create' tab of your watch, your rooms list will now default to showing your most recently created rooms first. Previously this was alphabetical.
• All small text entries in the configure menu are now wider. No more poking at tiny text boxes!
• Made the following changes to invention tags:
  • Tags now save only when you click the 'save' button, no more autosaving
  • Added some descriptions to category tags.
  • Made all tags case insensitive, so adding upper or lowercase characters won't affect the tag. They should also cry a little less often now.
• Gift box data is now tamper-proof.
• Fixed a bug where chat threads didn't consistently open with the most recent message focused
• Fixed some wonky back button behavior on the Load Room Save page.

Rec Room Studio

• Studio Objects and Studio Audio Constant chips can now be placed into an Invention! This allows sharing RR Studio content from your room with others.

Experiments

• We're testing out a new 'Featured Creator' carousel in the Play menu that will show up for some players. One manually selected creator at a time will be featured.

Please see here for convenient links to controls, tutorials, comfort options, news, and more: https://rec.net/creator

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Rec Room UPDATE - the "Appendage Collision" Edition

TLDR

• Tomorrow we're launching Mobile Makerpen!
• New props and invention search is now available in Rooms 2!
• No more competitive disadvantage for FBA players in PvP rooms (we disabled appendage collision)!

Rooms 2

• Several props are now available in Rooms 2: Bell, Marker (Eraser), Bottle (Water), Disc, Coffee Mug, Coffee Pot, Bucket, Speaker, Concert Speaker, Dodgeball, Chair (Basic), and Table (Basic).
• You can now search for inventions in Rooms 2!
• Fixed issues that could lead to desynced object positions.
• Fixed an issue where a compound object could have different authorities for different parts of its hierarchy.

Avatars

• New eye, eyebrow, and mouth sprites have been added!
• Full body players, you can now play Paintball, Laser Tag, etc. with no competitive disadvantage compared to bean players. We have turned off collisions on your arms, legs, and feet.
• Arms and wrists would sometimes get twisted up as you viewed your avatar. No more of that!

Mobile MakerPen

• Later this week, we're launching a new beta version of the Maker Pen on mobile devices, designed to make creation more approachable, delightful, and streamlined! We're aiming to allow you to focus your attention on the creative process and less on the mechanics of tool selection and menu navigation. This is just the first release - we're still working on simplifying more of the Maker Pen features, but we wanted to prioritize what is used most like the movement and palette tools for this first version. You can also toggle back to the classic Maker Pen at any time. Make sure to let us know what you think on the creator forum!

Circuits

• Added a new "Projectile Hit Player (new)" event in beta to both ranged weapon boards and the player board. This event is better than the old version at reliably detecting player hits in multiplayer contexts. With this version, you should no longer need to network between players for reliable hit detection. This will fire for all players if either the player getting hit or the player firing the gun detects that a projectile hits somebody.
• Added a new "Global Projectile Hit Player" event in beta that uses the same system as the above new event.
• The 'Rec Room Object Set Authority' chip will no longer error if the Target object is held but the input Authority is the same as the current Authority, resulting in no change.

General Improvements & Bug Fixes

• We've improved visibility of your rooms by highlighting their Beta or Updated status in the Watch Menu.
• Added indicators and warnings for beta content in inventions.
• Tweaked some of the depth control settings for Place.
• Opening and closing your watch won't cause it to reset back to the Widget Watch home.
• Oculus Quest will now display a splash screen while loading the title screen. Players will now spend less time staring into the void.
• Fixed an issue with the bowling ball consistently making the rolling sound.
• Fixed trail effect on several explosive weapons to only be active when thrown.
• Removed tiled background from store items to make the thumbnails pop out more.

Experiments

• Split test: Screen players can Give a held object and let another player Take it, without throwing it on the ground. It gets the job done! Look for it in the gesture radial menu.

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Rec Room UPDATE - the "Get rotated" Edition

TLDR

• We added Party Flags for easier partying!
• Added categories for Rooms 2 inventions, you can use 16 tags per object and player, and more Rooms 2 additions and fixes.
• Holotar bugfixes and playback improvements.

Rooms 2

• Added categories to Rooms 2 inventions! This lets you choose which carousel your invention best fits into.
• You can now use 16 tags per object and player!
• Fixed the visibility of the yellow dotted tether lines which connect object boards to their target (this line is supposed to be visible when either the object board or its target is selected).
• Shapes now properly show their Tags and Is Frozen settings.
• You'll no longer be able to accidentally delete a container's pivot point.
• Fixed the Handheld Streamer Camera being unable to spawn via the menu Watch > Settings > Misc > Streamer Camera.
• Fixed an issue where R1 inventions were excluded from the local player's portfolio in Rooms 2 rooms.
• Fixed an issue where we'd try to respawn objects while a player was holding them or near them.
• You'll no longer be able to accidentally delete a container's pivot point.
• Fixed a bug where exiting a container would incorrectly save the current position/rotation/scale. This caused inadvertent edits such as when a Rotator is rotating while a container is being modified.

Avatar

• Expanded head and nose scale ranges for both full body and upgraded bean.
• Holotar recording and playback bugfixes, plus new recordings will playback body rotation and animations properly regardless of how your projector is rotated. Get rotated (correctly), Holotars!

General Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Party up faster with the new Party Flag! Drop a Party Flag to invite nearby players to join your party instantly, no watch open needed! Whether you're exploring, playing, or just hanging out, gathering your squad is now easier than ever. Look for the Party Flag option in the gesture radial menu and start making new connections at the speed of play!
• If you have UGC Progression enabled in your room, new players will only receive a "Level Reached" event the first time they join, not every time.
• We've disabled EAC. Be on the look out for our latest dev blog detailing what's next with Referee.
• Fixed Synced Object Properties not showing up correctly for join-in-progress players.
• Players now sync correctly in Object Properties
• You can now sync Rec Room Objects in Object Properties!
• Trigger Volumes now clear properly when a player leaves the room while still inside the trigger volume.
• Fixed an issue where players could get stuck on a black screen when kicked back to the login screen.
• Improvements and bug fixes for the Widget Watch.
• Refreshed the RR+ sign-up page.
• Interaction Volume v2 is now out of beta.
• Clarified error messages when spawning an object with the maker pen fails.

Rec Room Studio

• RRStudio objects now behave like containers (can have child objects) in Rooms 2.
• RRStudio objects now use the common Rooms 2 physics properties/settings in Rooms 2.

Experiments

• We'll be rolling out some rotation and depth control improvements for Place as an experiment, to help players place objects faster with more precision when using the feature, especially on mobile.
• Edited an ongoing experiment that produces smoother motion for remote players.

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We love to hear your feedback, so please don't hesitate to let us know what you think using the Creator Forum here: https://forum.rec.net/

Rec Room UPDATE - the "Pick your nose" Edition

TLDR

• New nose customization options are here!
• Custom tags for Rooms 2 inventions.
• Expanded room carousel widgets for the Widget Watch.

Rooms 2

• The default tags for newly created props now appear correctly in the object config.
• Added the ability to add custom tags to Rooms 2 inventions.
• Fixed On Reset Event for Objects when Rec Room Object Reset is run.
• Added Dictionary nodes for working with string-value pairs.
• Added Generic Events to Circuits, a single room-level event in inventions!
• Debugging output for dictionaries is now displayed when ports are hovered.
• Dictionaries can now be used in synchronized events.

Avatar

• New nose customization is here! With new nose customization properties like nose width, nose tip angle, and nostril flare, you can pick your nose so that it best suits you.

General Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Added a "New" Badge to the HUD on mobile so you know when new items are in the store!
• Added expanded room carousel widgets for the Widget Watch.
• Added new event: "Root Object Hit by Projectile".
• We've improved the UI for the Avatar Item Chip and made it easier to search and set avatar items.
• Fixed an issue where your 'Bean Avatar Settings' would sometimes be hidden in your experience settings.
• Fixed an issue where the Bonky costume wouldn't appear on classic bean players in MitM.
• Fixed the club events carousel in the play menu.
• Fixed a bug preventing share cam use while wearing a private custom shirt.
• Fixed a bug where different players could see physical objects grabbed by a Grabber in different positions.
• Fixed an issue where Tools with no active colliders return incorrect bounds while using Place.
• General stability improvements.

Rec Room Studio

• Fixed a bug where in rare cases, some rooms would fail to build on the build pipeline.
• Fixed some performance issues when opening rooms with Maker Pen shapes.
• Fixed an issue which caused some foliage in Rec Room Studio rooms to disappear. Don't worry, your vegetation isn't out to haunt you - as far as we know.
• Fixed missing information on Circuits memory usage in the Memory Explorer window.

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Rec Room UPDATE - the "Eyes and Eyebrows and Mouth and Nose" Edition

TLDR

Our update notes provide a lot of information on individual fixes and features but don't always tell you why we've worked on that thing. This week we're trying out short explainers on the why.

• We've got a bunch more R2 fixes and features in this update. Why? Because 90% of dev time is going to R2 but 90% of player and creator time is R1. That's a bad place to be because it creates a mismatch between where our community wants changes and where we're making those changes. We're improving R2 so y'all can move over and we can all be working on the same platform. That will mean all players and creators can benefit from weekly improvements. This week - Room Door is now supported and you can publish inventions in Rooms 2.
• A smoother creation path - we've made it easier to create, but it's still not easy for everyone. This has been one of the biggest themes for us in recent months. The magic of Rec Room is that anyone can create with in-game tools and the device they have. But there's more we can do to help players during their first few interactions with the Maker Pen, so you'll see some improvements this week and more in coming weeks.
• We've talked about the future of you in our dev blogs - this week, more avatar customization features are dropping with eye, eyebrow and mouth options.

Rooms 2

• Room Door is now supported in Rooms 2. Door un-stuck!
• Rooms 2 Inventions can now be published! Check out our forum post here for details!
• Game Start (Generic) & Game Stop (Generic) Events have been added to Rooms 2. These are predefined room events that can be invoked using the Event Sender and configured in the Event Receiver. They don't have any inherent effect, but they will always be there as an easy, reliable way to start or stop your custom game logic. If you're sharing game logic in an invention, this will make your logic more portable!
• Fixed drop line visuals for Maker Pen Hierarchy View.
• Seats that are in Replicator Target Objects can no longer be sat in.
• Interaction Volumes that are in Replicator target Objects can no longer be interacted with.
• Swapped two face shapes that got accidentally mixed up.
• Fixed a long standing bug where moving or scaling shapes in Rooms 2 rooms on low end devices would not update the visuals correctly.

Avatars

• We've added a few new Eye and Eyebrow options to customize your avatars' faces! We're excited to keep bringing you new and fresh ways to be your true self in Rec Room.
• Added rotate and pinch settings for your eyes, mouth and eyebrows, so you can get your own personal look!
• Added more responsive sliders when you customize your face.
• Fixed the Avatar Studio avatar shader to honor the hair detail map baked into the basemap alpha channel (your hair won't have wonky lighting or coloring now!)
• Fixed the head scale ranges on upgraded beans, which had its range accidentally limited.
• Increased the max number of custom avatar items visible on a player's portfolio from 100 to 1000.
• Increased the max number of custom avatar items returned via search from 100 to 1000.

General Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Storefronts in Inventions wouldn't properly port their Room Offers and related Inventory Items to other rooms.
• Fixed a bug where the SFX Set Volume chip would ignore the "Value" port and always set the volume to 0.
• Added tooltips to Widget Watch buttons.
• Added a feature for a new room load flow to load older versions of a room, which means Nintendo Switch users can play versions of a room that are compatible with their game version.
• The invention details page accessed from the makerpen palette no longer truncates description text.
• Synchronized circuits events will now be properly received when they are executed on room load/room reset.
• Fixed an issue with switching makerpens while in the new makerpen tutorial.

Rec Room Studio

• Reduced UI hitches when the Avatar Items list is open in projects with thousands of assets.
• Fixed a bug where custom file extension handlers (e.g. for GLTF files) added in Rec Room Studio could prevent building rooms from succeeding.

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We love to hear your feedback, so please don't hesitate to let us know what you think using the Creator Forum here: https://forum.rec.net/

Rec Room UPDATE - the "1Hz Donut" Edition

TLDR

• Bean body customization sliders are here!
• Basketball, campfire, and microphone props are now in Rooms 2.
• Arrows no longer hide your view when they cover your eyes.

Rooms 2

• The basketball, campfire, and microphone props are now available in Rooms 2.
• Custom Locomotion is coming out of beta in Rooms 2 along with over 100 chips!
• Rearranged the invention palette in Rooms 2 so downloaded inventions are closer to the top.
• Added the invention store carousel to the maker pen palette.
• Fixed an issue where child objects in pooled replicator-created objects and replicator target objects were still getting picked up by Get All With Tag and Get First With Tag queries.
• Fixed an issue where Replicators were breaking after being cloned.
• Improved messaging for the Rooms 2 invention store.

Avatars

• Bean Body customization sliders are here! Customize your body to your outfit or to you, in bean or FBA.
• Fixed an issue where you couldn't see body property changes when using the Customize menu outside of the dorm.

Avatar Studio

• Fixed the TestAvatar's body shapes to look correct (ie: match real body shapes in-game) by increasing the project-wide mesh skin weights quality setting to "4 Bones".

General Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Added the Update1Hz Event - an event that executes at 1hz frequency, configurable in the Event Receiver chip in Beta Rooms.
• If you get hit in the face by an arrow, it'll no longer hide your view! Just like if you take an arrow to the knee you'll no longer be able to be an adventurer like me :^)
• Added extra safeguards around whiteboards and holotars in junior-created rooms. Non-junior co-owners are limited to what owners can do in junior-created rooms.
• Fixed an issue where variables inside object boards are sometimes not reset by the Rec Room Object Reset chip.
• Fixed an issue that caused the surface snapping offset to be very far away from the targeted surface.
• You can no longer attempt to offer a gesture while you are in Place mode with an object.
• VR players will no longer crouch when updating body properties in their dorm.

Experiments

• We received lots of positive feedback last year regarding how Place really improved the experience manipulating MakerPen shapes! We are now experimenting bringing Place to work on Rooms 2 and Rec Room Studio objects.
• Added an experiment that consolidates the Play menu into fewer tabs with each tab having clear responsibilities. This should help you find the right content quicker without needing to scroll endlessly on the main play highlights page.

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Rec Room UPDATE - the "FBA Sliders and Torso Chips" Edition

TLDR

• Starting soon we’ll be rolling out a new set of Avatar Customization updates, starting with body customization sliders for Full Body Avatars. Check them out in the customization tab!
• Added Torso chips so now you can attach and detach objects from your body.
• We’re launching a new Widget Watch as an experiment later this week!

Rooms 2

• Added new Player Torso chips to beta. Prepare for some awesome back accessories for your games!
  • Attach Object to Player Torso
  • Detach Object from Player Torso
  • Detach All Objects from Player Torso
  • Get Objects Attached to Player Torso
• Fixed an issue causing replicated objects to not properly return.
• Replicator target objects set via the connect tool will no longer snap to their original positions after a Room Reset.
• Fixed a few crashes caused by memory issues.

Rec Room Studio

• Fixed an issue where Rec Room Studio could be used to put Replicators in other Replicators.
• A handful of small RRStudio avatar item fixes:
  • Fixed avatar item bone weighting rules so more bones can be weighted by headwear, eyewear, earwear, neckwear, shoulders/back, tops, and bottoms for that sweet, boney eyewear.
  • Made the avatar item "Request Publishing" button pre-fill more of the form fields automatically, so you can rest your precious fingers.
  • Made avatar item ID a copy/pastable field so you can paste it elsewhere if you need to.

General Improvements & Bug Fixes

• We’re introducing the first set of features for Advanced Body Customization, this time to Full Body Avatars! Starting soon you can use the sliders in the customization menu on nearly every body part to make your avatar more like you. Check out more details in our dev blog coming soon!
• You can now sell any avatar item from the store in your Rooms 1 storefront!
• Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause Maker Pen errors when performing Redo on a deleted object.
• Fixed a bug with the position of newly-created invention instances when using Advanced Creation Mode.
• Added two new Maker Pen settings:
  • Smart Snapping: In the Surface Snapping settings you can toggle this option to minimize movement of objects through walls for screen and mobile devices. This helps reduce objects moving through walls as you place them.
  • Keep Upright: In the General Settings you can toggle this option to maintain the rotation of an object in respect to the horizontal plane when using the grab and move tools (NOT using handles). This setting helps with more natural placement.
• Updates to our tutorials to make onboarding a breeze for new players.
• Fixed Invention cards missing a price on the Buy Button
• Fixed an error that would occur with certain players when using genre-based matchmaking
• Fixed an issue where the Reaction/Emote Wheel would activate in the background when it was not needed

Experiments

• We’re experimenting with a new, faster and immersive user interface with the Widget Watch! On March 5th, a majority of screen, pc, and console players will get a version of Widget Watch. Get quicker access to essential features without having to break the action - and don’t forget to give us feedback in the creator forum HERE
• We’re starting experiments this week with some storefront UI to make the store a little less cluttered and easier to navigate.

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Rec Room UPDATE - the "Replicated Chips & Guacamole" Edition

Rooms 2

• Added a "Center Pivot" button in the Quick Action Menu to move the pivot to the center of the current selected object.
• Fixed an issue with the Replicator that could cause you to get stuck in the "Regenerate" prompt when another player saves the room.
• Fixed an issue where deleted Replicators could continue to generate chips, and leave them generated in the scene on every save. Too many chips, not enough guacamole.
• Fixed the Replicator's Spawn Complete output so it will no longer fire before the object is ready to be interacted with by other circuits.
• Fixed an issue where Regenerating a Replicator that had already made copies with object boards could cause all of the circuits in new objects to not function.

Avatars

• When you're on an avatar item page for an item you've already bought, you'll now have the option to equip that item!
• We updated the "Custom Shirts" button in the dorm mirror to say "Custom Items".
• Fixed a rare issue where avatars would sometimes load as invisible. We see you!
• Fixed a bug where you couldn't see a player's head scale update while in the same room as them.

Rec Room Studio

• Fixed room error detection to flag dependencies on the "RR Avatar Rendering Systems" package as errors, so you get the errors detected before you upload and try to build the room. NOTE: If you want to use assets from that package in your room, feel free to make duplicate copies of those assets in your assets folder. Just don't use them directly out of the package!
• Avatar item tags can now be added directly in the avatar item settings page within Avatar Studio.

General Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where some players with a huge number of friends were having issues with the title screen, so we've hidden the 'online friends' title screen for those people to improve performance. Hey, why did the mushroom have so many friends? He was a FUNGI.
• Made some improvements to search and fixed an issue where certain tags wouldn't show when searching them.
• Fixed an issue where selecting an Object to Pool sometimes would show blank and off-center entries in the list of options.
• Fixed an issue where some Holotars in My Little Monsters would be wearing "update your game" shirts (we told them to update their game and they did.)
• Fixed an issue where your controls will lock up if you are respawned multiple times before you finish spawning. You can finally be set free!
• Fixed an issue with gift boxes not opening properly. Now they should, happy birthday!
• Fixed an issue where Stunt Runner boards will lock your controls if you enable "Respawn on Game Start" in the Game Rules.
• Fixed an issue where the Variable Changed event for a synced Player Variable will not return the player.
• Fixed an issue where the Variable Changed event for a synced Rec Room Object Variable will not return the object.

Experiments

• Started an experiment that adds "Party Cards" to the online friends carousel. Try using it to reconnect with your party friends more easily!

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Rec Room UPDATE - the "You Might Wanna Sit Down For This" Edition

Rooms 2

• Resetting an object will now reset any variables inside its object board.
• Fixed an issue when you edit out of a Tube or Ribbon, you wouldn't be able to select another object.

Rec Room Studio

• You can now configure seats! Where you fits you sits.

General Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where the watch wouldn't close in VR, even when you turn your wrist away.
• Fixed an issue where using Delete Everything would make various menus and your maker pen unusable in both Rooms 1 and Rooms 2.
• Fixed an issue where recently used Circuits chips wouldn't show up at the top of the Palette search menu when the search box is empty.
• Fixed a bug where the announcement page after publishing an invention would automatically close. Maybe we weren't done reading that, y'know?
• Fixed the Maker Pen Tutorial missing the Plan prop step. This prevented the tutorial from advancing to the tools steps, so now you can actually finish the tutorial.
• Fixed a bug where Rooms 1 Storefronts couldn't display custom avatar item images properly.
• Fixed an issue where the invention save dialog wouldn't update.
• Fixed an issue with clone drag stopping due to issues with chips.
• Fixed a bug where you wouldn't be able to gift something after clicking "Give as Gift". So now you can bring someone a birthday gift on their birthday to their birthday party on their birthday with a birthday gift.

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