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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