Rec Room UPDATE - the "Upgraded Bean" Edition

TLDR

  • We're starting the Upgraded Bean experiment tomorrow - see if you're part of the experiment and let us know what you think!
  • Room contributors can now only be added by invitation.
  • Added chips that detect the player's input type.
  • Added a text filter to Event Sender and Event Receiver nodes which now allow you to sort and filter!

Avatars

  • Some of you will soon have the option to try the Upgraded Bean Avatar, as opposed to your normal everyday Bean. Check it out and let us know how you like it - and if you really want to go back to your normal Bean Avatar, we added a switch so you'll be able to change back and forth no problem.
  • We updated how Full Body scaling works to allow your arms to better fit your avatar. Make sure you have good measurements and enjoy a better embodiment of your avatar!
  • Hat Adjustments work on Full Body. You can finally adjust the hat position of all of your favorite hats with full body avatars. And as part of this work, we also fixed the bug so you can "Use Legacy Position" once again for full body avatars (and eventually for the floating bean ;)
  • Made it so that Upgraded Bean players in VR won't have their camera level scale with their avatar's height.
  • Improved the performance of Avatar Customization windows.

General Improvements & Bug Fixes

  • Made progress shortening the MakerPen's initial load time!
  • Room contributors must now be added by invitation.
  • We implemented a fix for mobile that makes fog more transparent and less harsh.
  • Some custom shirts that were priced under 1000 tokens weren't visible in the Watch, but now they are! :)
  • Added the new chips Local Player Is Using Controller, Local Player Is Using Touch, Local Player Is Using Keyboard and Mouse nodes, which have been added to the palette to assist creators in detecting the player's input type.
  • We addressed an issue that allowed the creation of corrupted inventions by ensuring when the MakerPen is dropped to take an invention photo and then picked up, the editing state of the MakerPen is restored.
  • Added a text filter to Event Sender and Event Receiver nodes which now allow you to sort and filter!
  • In Rooms 1, cloning a simple prop (Ex: basketball) using a directional clone handle would result in the clone being at the wrong position. We implemented a fix which disables collisions on the clone source so the clone won't immediately collide.
  • Fixed an issue where Sawhorse hats weren't appearing. We really had to start busting ghost hats the first week of spooky season?
  • Also fixed Sawhorse item thumbnails not showing up in Gift Notifications.
  • Added fixes for notifications in VR where the menu button wasn't behaving properly. Bad button! Bad!!!
  • Fixed an issue where the 'favorite friend' badge was getting cut off.
  • Added auto-assignable player tags in the updated Room Permissions tab.

Rooms 2.0

  • Fixed an issue where a shape could end up with negative scale values when the scale tool was used. Now scaling will stop and you will receive a notification that you can not scale farther.
  • Increased the maximum amount of inventory items allowed in a Reward from 100 to 1,000,000. That's a lot!
  • Added polish to the MakerPen UX in the Hierarchy Tab.
  • Got rid of some settings in the Rooms 2 Permissions tab that were exclusive to R1.

Rec Room Studio

  • New functionality is now available for Lights in Studio Rooms! The Universal Additional Light Data component now exposes an option for per-light specular contribution. Lights that have been upgraded to support specular contribution that are Spot lights also now can use the Inner Spot Angle to change the light attenuation.
  • Fixed a bug which caused buttons and some other Asset Palette prefabs to appear rotated incorrectly when dropped into the scene view.
  • Added a fix to avoid a bug in Unity that could prevent rooms from loading when the Unity project path contains multi-byte UTF-8 characters.

Experiments

  • You know how on Screens you can pick up a blob of Shapes, pretend to throw it, and it will just stay stuck in the air? Well, what if instead of that you could precisely place the Shapes where you want? Now you can, which we hope makes building blocks and board game type experiences a bit more possible. Currently all Rooms 1 Shapes set to Decoration or Environmental have this as their main action (instead of pretending to throw them) but we hope to expand the capability to more objects in the future.
  • Added an experiment for when opening the customization page in the navigation bar, the page will display a back button, and clicking it will display the last Watch page instead of closing the Watch.
  • Starting an experiment that will replace imposter rendering with item thumbnails in the store. This shouldn't affect what you see, but will consume less memory!- Just putting it in here one more time, but we'll be starting the started an experiment for the Upgraded Bean, with rollouts to more players coming soon. Thanks for reading all the way down here btw, have a cookie (you earned it) :)

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.