- You can now auto-play a video when one joins the area! Copy a video URL to the clipboard, then go to a thing part's "..." options, press the 🛈 next to "Video screen", and hit the paste button there.
- Similar to above, you can click the 🛈 next to the "Video button" option to have a video be auto-played when that button is pressed!
- The backside of the video control dialog now lets you copy the currently playing video URL to the clipboard!
Fordring Starport by Thifa & Nic
- There's the new Me "..." setting button "Lock features"! It will guide you to setting up a features.json file with which you can restrict certain features, like the ring menu, creating or changing the area, useful for e.g. demoing Anyland to a group of people or in a VR Arcade! Thanks Lichen & Toshi!
- The new command "show chat keyboard" opens the text chat keyboard, useful for instance as an attached button if you want to use text chat when in VR! Thanks Thifa!
- You can now press "e" to use the walk laser in desktop mode, in case WASD doesn't suffice in a situation! Thanks Bulb & Gamedrix!
- You can now have a specific sound be played with surround sound (the same volume at any distance) using "play with surround"! Thanks Lynk!
- You can now use "When told by body jumping" for desktop mode! Thanks Nebula!
- There's a new thing attribute: "Avoid auto sounds"! It will mute sounds like the bounce for bouncy things, or shatter sounds. Thanks Michael, Nic, everyone!
- Another new thing attribute is "Avoid auto haptic feedback"! It will avoid the controller vibration when holding something that emits. Thanks Michael!
- There's a new "resize nearby to N%" command so you can shrink or grow people! Thanks Lynk, Walker, everyone!
- There's a new Me Settings button at the back of the Create dialog, taking you right to toggle options like "stop scripts", "show grid" and so on even while creating! Thanks Spelled & everyone!
- We fixed an issue with the inventory freezing for the session when it's paged or closed too fast! Thanks Nic!
- There's a new keyword to repeat any played sound a specific number of times! Use e.g. "When touched then play doorbell with 2 repeats" to have it be repeated twice after playing (up to 50 times; note you can also use the singular word as in "1 repeat"). Thanks Nic & Lynk!
- The [Esc] message on desktop mode now automatically disappears after 5 seconds. Thanks Spelled, Nic, everyone!
- The characters "' & ," are now allowed in area renames!
- When playing sounds, you can now combine reversals with pitch changes! Thanks Howls!
- In desktop mode while entering text, you can now use the left/ right arrows to move back/ forward a letter (or a whole word, if Ctrl is held)! You can also keep the key held to move in fast succession.
Delco, Jinx & Emily
- Creation tools trials are now 1 month instead of 1 week, and newcomers are immediately set to the first trial month without having to go through the payment options dialog! (Also, the payment dialog now makes it clearer that the free trial is extendable again after the month.) Thanks Bboy, everyone!
- We revamped how headlights work (headlights are the invisible lights above your head to shine even when it's dark)! They are now much brighter if the sun isn't up, and follow you around instantly & precisely (as opposed to softly delayed & in a grid as before). This allows a clearer look on dialogs and while creating even in dark surroundings. Thanks Bboy & everyone!
- No Skynet!
Thanks everyone for your suggestions & feedback & being in Anyland!
New: Desktop Mode!
Hi everyone!
In the latest version, you can now also explore & chat using just a PC, without VR!
It's the same app, but you just press one of WASD or Esc at anytime to switch into keyboard mode. (Press F9 to go back to VR mode, if you have VR device.) For building, you'll still need Vive or Oculus Touch.
Fazzi's Home in desktop mode
Please give it a try, and feedback welcome! Thanks everyone!
Shrink & Grow!
Hi everyone, here's what's new recently!
- You can now shrink to tiny sizes... or become giant! Check it out by pressing Me -> "...", and paging to the last settings page.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OXkmCSNMHU
- You can now copy & paste thing part position, rotation & size during editing! Just click on a part's "..." dialog, the last page there contains the buttons. This also allows you to reset a state to its original first state position if you accidentally moved it in a succeeding state.
- There's new trumpet sounds in 3 octaves you can use!
- Overvisor has been streaming Anyland a lot! Check out his channel https://go.twitch.tv/overvisor and YouTube
- We fixed an issue where "tell" triggers on holdables would cause haptic buzz! Thanks Nic & Pickles Baby!
- We've added missing new materials for the "do creation parts" command!
- We fixed an issue where you weren't able to delete thing parts during editing if you had minimized the Create dialog!
- Now when you context-laser a thing part to edit it, or switch its states using the top number buttons, its current animation transition will be stopped & reset so you don't have to wait for long current transitions! Thanks Lynk, Jinx, everyone!
- We optimized scaling of a whole thing during editing by not having it try to reposition!
- If your favorited area count allows, the area favorites teleport buttons are now spaced out more for quicker clicks & less misclicks!
- There's the new commands "send all to" and "send all onto"! It affects everyone in the area without the need for them to be nearby the thing. Also, all "send" commands are now sorted in their own group for easier use!
- You can now like/ star forum comments!
- There's a new script command: "... then all parts face nearest [thing name]"! Thanks Nic, Michael, Fazzi, everyone!
- By default, the two old particle-material buttons will not show anymore, as particles are now handled by the particles tab. They'll appear though if the thing you're editing used them, or if you fully page through the material buttons 5 times :)
- You can now grip-delete objects stuck on you!
- There are new transparent material variants, from very transparent to slightly transparent to more shiny and reflective ones! Thanks Nic & everyone!
- CoverBrowser.com is now also allowed for pasting images onto shapes! It's an archive I made with over 400,000 covers of books, magazines, music albums, comics and more. As with Steam images, just copy the image URL (like http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/bestselling-sci-fi-fantasy-2006/2632-1.jpg ), then context-laser a thing part, and hit the Paste button at the bottom of the dialog.
- A new inventory button which appears when paging takes you back home to the inventory home page in one click! Thanks Fazzi, OP, Lynk, Jinx!
Thanks everyone for feedback & suggestions, and hope you enjoy!
Nearing Halloween news bulletin!
Hello everyone! Here's what's new recently, and thanks to all of your feedback & suggestions!
- For Halloween spooks & parties, check out the fantastic newly opened area Haunted Woods Trails by Delco & Jinx! Here's a behind the scenes gallery of how they created this area over the course of months:
https://imgur.com/a/Cthib
- We have a fresh Steam image! Thanks everyone! http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1174256558
- There's a great new time machine hub with keys taking you to different locations at Time Keys, created by Graphics. Also, check out Axel's area Stretching Room.
- You can now paste Imgur and Steam screenshot & artwork urls into Anyland boards! Copy a URL similar to the following, and hit Ctrl+V while typing a comment:
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/868491307803722045/30C9AD76B94AC49120B72125C319EC58385B1D4B/
https://i.imgur.com/sPQUfVt.jpg
- The backside of the main ring dialog now also includes today's date!
- You can now use the following placeholders in text: [year] [month] [day]!
- The following new thing "..." options are available: "Don't cast shadow" and "Don't receive shadow"! Thing parts also have the "Don't receive shadow" option now.
- You can now give Nifts! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gHNXdpK6UI
- We fixed an issue where deleting a script line wouldn't properly immediately remove that functionality from the thing part while editing! Thanks Lynk & Jinx!
- We increased the maximum times you can rename an area from 2 to 4!
- We fixed multiple instances of dialog texts (like forum descriptions or area names) sometimes overlapping with buttons!
- You can now paste Steam screenshots & artworks onto every shape, not just the cube! There's also a new "Paste image" button at the bottom of the thing part dialog if your clipboard contains a Steam URL
- We've slightly optimized some sounds which might have been too loud, like the teleport laser. Thanks Jinx & Delco!
- Bullets now don't have to be made sticky to take effect on someone, like by using "Send one nearby"!
- The following body tell commands will now automatically arrive for you, usable with attachments or holdables (we also fixed issues with old auto-tell events not showing for others around): "When told by body someone was born", "When told by body ping received", and "When told by body ping sent"!
- When you picked a play sound command and add "with", there's now auto-completion help! Thanks Lynk!
- You can now change heads & bodies with the "change head" commands! Here's more info on how to have the head then auto-position itself & attach a full body: http://steamcommunity.com/app/505700/discussions/0/1484358860937963911/
- The friends dialog has been redesigned! Check out all the details here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/505700/discussions/0/1489987634023705095/
- If someone pinged you but you didn't immediately follow to their area, you can now still find more ping info logged in your friends list to go there later!
- We fixed issues with 12-hour type clocks at midnight and noon! Thanks Overvisor & Jinx!
- We fixed an issue where when placing snapping objects from the inventory, they'd sometimes be dropped in the wrong spot! Thanks Jinx & everyone!
- We've added a new dialog showing people currently in the area, and people you recently saw! Go to the Area "..." page, and click on the new people icon in the bottom right. Thanks Fazzi!
- Special areas which want to allow hide and seek games or similar can now use the script command "allow invisiblity", like "When someone new arrives then allow invisibility"... this will hide body spheres and name tags! For privacy reasons, a warning dialog will pop up if you enter such areas.
- We now have a clearer warning message when a required update restart is ahead, with more time given to prepare! Thanks Captain Spesey & Graphics!
- Thing parts can now be locked during editing, just click the new lock icon on their dialog! Locked parts cannot be touched or moved during editing (your hand will go right through them, also useful if you want to reach other parts inside them), they can't be accidentally painted on or changed by scripted commands, and they'll also guard against adding new states or pasting states into them.
- There are two new thing part "..." attributes: "Snap parts to this angle" and "Snap parts to this position"! Only one thing part at a time holds these attributes, and all other parts of the thing will then adjust themselves in relation to that part when moved. Thanks Axel & Kung!
- We fixed an issue where when consuming objects which are then destroyed, they'd sometimes linger on for others!
- Flag icons are now glowing (with a red label text) when active, this should help clarify that you can click them again to delete the report! Thanks Wiiplay!
- We optimized the display of body spheres! Now, body spheres will turn invisible in several contexts. For instance, you won't see the arm sphere if you have something attached there.
- Placed holdables are now merged to optimize graphics speed in the area (picking them up will retrieve the unmerged version as before)!
- Check out the Undertale speedbuild by Emily & Pigsty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmNNkG2bOVU
- There's a new creation attribute: "Replace instances in area (one-time)"! It's just like the existing "Replace instances in area", except the setting itself will not remain ticked for the saved version. Thanks Jinx!
- There's two new metallic material variants! Thanks GraphicsMonkey!
In other news, Anyland turned 1 year old! Congrats everyone, and see you in Anyland!
Updates!
Hello everyone! Here's what's new recently!
- You can now move the text cursor while typing! Just tap the 4 new hit boxes on the text input field as shown here http://anyland.com/image/textCursor.png
- Putting on body attachments has been made easier! Thanks everyone!
- We fixed an issue with area renaming validation! Thanks Rage!
- Amplified speech is now with a 3d origin position, so it's easier to know who's speaking if they carry a microphone item or ate a telecookie!
- We fixed an issue with typing underscores in texts!
- The friends dialog now has proper area people count icons, like in the area dialog!
- You can now delete placements from afar! Just context-laser them, then press the grip (Vive) or thumbstick (Oculus), and a Delete button will appear in the dialog.
- You can now create 12 hour format clocks! Thanks Overvisor!
- You can now tick "Replace instances in area" while creating to have the thing's new version be automatically used for all other same things in the current area! Thanks Fazzi & everyone!
- You can now go to http://in.anyland.com to see who's on! (If you don't want to appear there, you can unselect Me -> ... -> I'm findable. This will also hide your current area in the friends dialog.)
- There's a new thing attribute "Invisible to me when worn"! Thanks Fazzi, Jinx, everyone!
- The text of something you just editor-placed will now always show, even when it was previously hidden by the distance-optimizer! This also solves a "Cards Against AL" issue with cards not showing their text. Thanks Sakhado!
- We fixed another texture-glitch related loading issue that might have made some areas very slow to load! This should vastly improve the loading speed of affected areas, like "Cards Against AL".
- We fixed an issue where the area dialog would sometimes not properly load for you if you aren't editor in the area!
- When pasting a local image path for reference when the Create Thing dialog is open, you can now also use paths like "C:\foo\hello.jpg" (instead of only "file:///c:/foo/hello.jpg")!
- There's now quite a few more characters you can enter for text creations, like "%", "&" and "#"!
- The font shown on the first first font page's center didn't work, that's fixed now! Thanks Fazzi!
- The copy & paste buttons at the bottom of the state script dialog now show info labels when pressed! Thanks Choates, Axel, everyone!
- There were issues with always properly stretching objects with images on them, these are now fixed! Thanks Axel!
- You can now also non-proportionally resize cubes with pasted Steam image URLs, by first picking the Me "..." setting "Disable all snapping"! Thanks Axel!
- We fixed an issue where sometimes, the area creation dialog would tell you that you reached the creatable area limit when you didn't!
- You can now send onto markers at a specified rotation, like "When touched then send nearby to Buildtown onto Marker15 at -45 degrees"! Thanks Fazzi!
- There's now an info 🛈 button to show help for every Thing, Thing Part, Me and Area setting (before, it showed only on some buttons on these dialogs)!
- We fixed an issue where a certain glitchy object would slow down the loading of an area (like in the area "Spiders Arts")! Thanks Spider!
- There are new text placeholders you can use: [local hour] (shows the hour of your local time when attached to the body), and [people names] (showing a list of everyone in the area)! Thanks Sakhado & everyone!
Thanks everyone for suggestions, feedback, and for being in Anyland! Hope you enjoy!
The Party Update!
Hello lovely people! Here's what's new this week!
- When someone new is born into the universe, you will get a special sound & buzz alert dialog (similar to the ping dialog) where you can chose to visit their home now if you want!
- Newcomers who don't have any friends yet will see a special teleport button at the bottom right of their Friends dialog (if there's a public lively area around at the moment): "[ ⮕ There's People Here ]"!
- We've upped the number of lively areas (public areas where's there's currently people, if available) from 2 to 4 on the first page of the areas dialog! Previously, you had to page further ahead to see more lively areas in the list. This is an experiment to see how it goes.
- You can now use up to 50 script lines for each state, up from 8!
- You can now use up to 50 states for each part, up from 20!
- Your name can now be longer, and contain the following new characters: [ ] , . @ " &
- If you export a thing or area, Windows Explorer will now automatically open at the folder's location!
- A selected color will now show as pressed again when you re-open the color picker! [Thanks Styx & everyone!]
As always, your suggestions & feedback are much welcome! Thanks everyone!
New: Snap to Grid + Loading Reference Models
Hi everyone! Here's what's new recently, and thanks to all for suggestions & feedback!
- You can now load local 3d OBJ files as half-transparent references while building. Just copy a path, like "E:\flower.obj", then hit Create Thing and paste with Ctrl+V.
- There are now grid snap options! To enable the grid, click on Me -> "..." -> "Show Grid Lines" and "Snap Things to Grid"! By default the grid lines are at 1m each with half-meter indicators, and you can set other sizes at the end of the Me settings page. You can then optionally have thing parts too snap to the grid during building. Thanks OP & everyone!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHSEnGrk-dI
- You can now make all your creations clonable at once by choosing Me -> "..." -> "All my creations are clonable". You can toggle it off again too at any point.
- There's a bunch of new sounds you can use! They are: buzzer, heavy pages turning, short alarm ringing, mouse click, chime 1-3, fast mechanical tapping, fast mechanical tapping long, charge dissipate, charge up, glass tap, glass tap long, faucet water, wobbly mute synth, door handle 1-4, gun sizzle cooldown, firework pop, sharp explosion pop, sharp explosion pop 2, fun explosion, laser fire, fire starter poof, pneumatic drilling, fan, heavy charge up, distant explosion, techno beeps, scary ki ki ki ma ma ma, violin suspense! Thanks Nic & friends!
- We've added a little "Building without building" video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t7vR0G6q5s
Hope you enjoy!
Area copy & paste and more!
Hi everyone! Here's what recently new & updated... thanks to all of you for feedback & suggestions!
- You can now copy, paste & delete all of the placements in an area!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpocr8BJXw8
- We've increased the distance the camera can see things from 250 meters to 500! [Thanks Loki!]
- There's a new command to double the length of sounds (without affecting pitch), like "When touched then play bell with stretch"! [Thanks Howls!]
- You can now use apostrophes in area names, like "Susan's Lab"!
- The backside of the create dialog now contains a whole bunch of quick-access buttons to easily toggle settings, like Snap Angles or Snap Position!
- There's a new Anyland Areas site, a visual and searchable online directory of the over 1000 areas you all made! http://anyland.com/areas/
- There's new thing attribute "Scale each part uniformly", which will scale each individual part uniformly to itself (as if you had ticked "Scales uniformly" for each part of the creation)!
- Another new thing property is "Finetune position"! It will let you move around things at a quarter-speed of your actual hand movement when you grab them.
- We've improved the display of texts which appear when you click the button help icons, making more way for setting buttons on each page!
- Video playback now also works for very long videos, say those of over an hour!
- There's a new Me -> "..." setting: "Disable thing merging"! It can help you recover & adjust certain items that broke when being merged.
- There's new text "..." settings to right-align, or center!
- There's a new Steam VR Home collectible... look for the Anyland Ring!
- The Shift key now works more intuitively if you switch between upper and lower-case during typing!
- The issue of flickering surfaces is fixed! It occurred for instance when looking from a distance at two flat objects which were close to each other, or when building far from center.
- There's dozens of new fonts to choose from for when creating texts!
Hope you enjoy!
The Underground opens!
Jinx says, "Ladies & gentlemen, and non-descript avatars across the land!
It is my pleasure to announce that [The Underground] Area is now open for the public to explore and enjoy!
\o/
Grab your torches and come in, come in!
Three months of almost-nightly collaborative building by Jinx, Emily, and Delco, [The Underground] features a detailed and vast labyrinth of caves, caverns, vignettes, scenes, dungeon rooms, and mazes... with hidden messages, surprises, easter eggs, and even a few stories to piece together & unfold.
And there's an entire wing of dedicated puzzle rooms if you want a challenge.
Or just come hang out at the beginning, at the Adventurer's Hub, and drink some wine; chill by the fountain and play some fantasy-esque music/videos on the screen.
We even made a Gift Shop for you fine folks to browse and collect toys, trinkets, keychains, and T-shirts as mementos!
Hello everybody! Thanks to all of you for being in Anyland, and here's what was added in recent times... and thanks everyone for the suggestions!
- You can now set any area you made to be your new home! Just click the area icon, then "...", then "Make my home".
- You can now lock a placement! Just context-laser it and click the lock icon, the placement can now not be moved or deleted anymore (until you unclick the icon again).
- As you might have seen, Anyland is now free to try & explore!
- There's a new "by name" area search option, and you can also find a new area icon from someone's profile to list public areas they made!
- You can now favorite an area by clicking the star button on the area dialog! All favorited areas are now visible from the areas dialog.
- We've overhauled the automatic areas dialog selection, it now contains more randomized variety, new sets in the mix, and bigger result pages for easier overview!
- We made this little video you might enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eB7lVPRIZI
- Video results now show a few more results and longer result titles!
- You can now set a variety of desktop stream modes in the Me -> Camera settings page! For instance, you can set the camera to smoothly follow you in a type of third-person view.
- We've added a Twitch chat dialog you can add to your arm, so you can communicate with others while streaming... and they can also trigger commands you scripted into the world, like "!expandclaws"!
- A new "Sittable" attribute for things optimizes what happens when on moves onto chairs, couches and such!
- The new thing part attribute "Doesn't cast shadows" can be useful for light bulbs and more!
Feedback welcome... we hope you enjoy & see you in Anyland!
