Hierarchical Building Alpha Preview
The long-rumored Hierarchical Building is now available as an Alpha Preview! You can toggle this on via Room Settings in Beta-enabled Maker Rooms. (Note: this may not be available immediately when the build ships, but will get turned on in the next couple of days.)
For more information, including a tutorial, check out the blog! Participants will be sent a survey around the New Year, and we’d love any additional feedback you might have for us here!
Please be aware that this feature is very much an Alpha. We recommend that you clone rooms you care about before you flip the switch on them, because it’s a one-way trip. In addition, there are known issues:
- Most props will not yet work correctly as the child of a container. There are a few exceptions, like Buttons, but in general, expect functional props to stop working in a hierarchy. (Most components will be fine.)
- Props will not function as the parent of other stuff yet, either.
- Some props don’t work at all. Avoid Seats and Costume Dummies. CV1 won’t work either.
- Not all Maker Pen tools have been implemented yet. Undo/Redo, Clone, editing Tube points, and Copy/Paste are missing in particular. Expect some of these to show up soon!
- The Connect tool and the Create Object quick action menu option (which replaces Merge) do not yet parent circuits to containers in the same way that they do other objects. Create chips directly in the scope where you want them.
- Collision, Grabbable, and other physics settings are not yet implemented. Ink costs aren’t final, either.
General Improvements and Bug Fixes
- Additional language support keeps getting better! The messages and notification screens, and some notifications, are now available in non-English supported languages for some players (English is still available to everyone).
- Creators! Are you tired of players being able to see your work-in-progress? Tired of shuffling subrooms around to keep your secret room improvements secret? Want to remember what it was you did? Want to feel like the Master of Your Own Multiverse by easily loading into different versions of your subrooms? Introducing Room Save Upgrades! Leave comments on your room save and set a specific save version of your room as the public one with Room Save Upgrades available now! Cool space wizard powers not included.
- Updated sign-in support on Meta devices to better follow Meta policies regarding junior accounts. This change will be effective 11/14, See https://recroom.com/meta for more information.
- Taking photos of other player’s cameras is way harder now! Share cameras in tripod mode are hidden in photographs. Others’ cameras will automagically disappear in group selfies.
- Added a permissions toggle for the "Play Gizmos" toggle in the Maker Pen settings, with support for Maker Pen roles.
- Chat is no longer haunted. We think. Fixed a bug where players could send each other empty chat messages, sometimes showing up with random text.
- Fixed an issue where MakerPen does not pick up properly if VR Shortcut Behavior is set to "None."
- See Manipulation tool handles in stereo! Fixed a bug where the handles for the Manipulation tool would only render to one eye in VR.
- But are they, like, Rec Room Famous? All video partner accounts should have their verified checkmark visible in their name tags now.
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.