Rec Room

Read the title.

• For real.
• Did you even read the update name?
• Nothing to see here. It's in the title.
• Totally not gearing up for something in the future.
• Literally no updates are in here today.

Are you still reading these?

• Last week's update was large.
• The shipnotes were like a mile long!
• That's a lot of scrolling.
• Don't you wanna take a break?
• This is your chance to find a new favorite room.
• Tell your friends you love them.
• Maybe get some boba from the place nearby.
• Are pumpkin spice lattes back yet?
• I've never tried one but I think this is the year.

I swear there's nothing substantial here.

• Seriously.
• Stop reading.
• Fine, I'll give you what you want.
• A little glimpse into our dark and twisted reality.
• It's an update in preparation for some stuff coming later.
• Stuff that's, like, cool and lit and stuff.
• +10,000 aura type beat.
• Definitely not anything sus.

I'll be honest

• We are working on some cool stuff and can't wait to share it with you. Might not be the next ship or the ship after that, but this ship is here to help us make some upgrades to do those things.
• Make sure to RSVP to RecCon and Gribbly's keynote for a look at what's coming Soon(tm) (and beyond!)
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  Thanks for reading all this.
  
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  Especially you, Sk0l ;)
  
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  tt4n, see y'all at RecCon!
  

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) :)

TLDR

• Fixed some bugs and issues.
• Cleared out old code.
• Starting a new experiment for some players that will show their entire FBA on the Title Screen instead of just your torso!

General Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that would show an extra light strip above the "My Dorms" tab.
• Fixed a bug where the 'free gifts' screen would cause the client to become unresponsive.
• Fixed an issue where when trying to buy a gift, it took you to the 'item details' page instead of picking out who to gift.
• Fixed an offset issue in the Watch UI that could happen anywhere, but most often on lower end platforms.
• Reduced the amount of 401 errors players were receiving - the threshold for these errors is now higher, so you shouldn't see them as often!
• Did some fall cleaning and cleared out some old dead experiment code.
• Also fixed some memory regression with store pages in the Watch.

Experiments

• Beginning an experiment with changes to how the avatar appears on the Title Screen, showing the entire Full Body Avatar rather than just the upper torso. Now you can admire your legs in all their splendor and glory - before even signing in!

TLDR

• Added Music Mode B)
• We fixed a large performance regression with R2 rooms, and performance should be back to where it was a few weeks ago.
• We fixed a longstanding issue with room reports - you can now include all the details you need or want to include with your room reports. Thank you rec roomers for flagging this one!
• It's now more difficult for loading players to break rooms and we're providing better logs for loading issues.
• A whole lotta chips are out of beta, check the list below!

Full Body Avatars

• We've convinced the hand grip animations to stop being stubborn and actually update the grip values when you change your grip. It's, it's, it's, hmm... Grippy !
• Beginning a new experiment for some new players to start as a Full Body Avatar when loading into the game for the first time.

• We fixed a performance regression where players would lose a significant amount of performance in R2 rooms compared to R1 rooms. Let us know if you're seeing improvement this week!
• Multi-selecting components with the connect tool now properly parents the object boards without causing any existential crises.
• Ribbon tubes from R1 rooms now have their passports and can travel safely to R2 without getting lost in the code.
• Fixed an issue where R2 invention containers and shapes were playing hide and seek and not tracking to the correct invention. They've been caught and are now behaving.- We made external parent wires hidden when in a lower scope. This fixes the behavior of "Hide Higher Scope Boards" so that the wires of higher scope boards are hidden in addition to the chips, now you'll no longer get floating wires.

General Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Fixed the broken room report UI where there was an aggravating text bug that would make it difficult to type a lot of details in a room report. you can now include all the details you need or want to include with your room reports. Thank you rec roomers for flagging this one"
• Spammers be gone, we disabled the "Go To" button for non-friends in all situations.
• Leaguers can now sign in relief, we fixed an issue where teleport and snap rotating players could send items through the ground.
• The maker pen menu buttons now have a consistent font size and won't go through identity crises when clicked.
• Expanded out a white bar UI issue with the Friendotron.
• Made it more difficult for loading players to break rooms.
• Improved the messages for circuit errors you get when a player receives CV2 events before they've fully loaded.
• The Gun Handle Released event was feeling shy and refused to fire after reloading, but we've boosted its confidence with a pep talk and some bubbly. It's now firing as expected!- We have removed Portrait Mode! You will enter the game on mobile in Landscape mode from now on.
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  We've added a new voice chat setting for those of you who like to play music or have their mic tuned just the way you like it. You can find "Music Mode" in the "Advanced Microphone Settings" section of the audio settings page.- Improvements to the 'copy code' and 'share link' buttons.
  
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  "Copy code" button copies just the code now.
  
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  Changed the text on the "copy link" button to "share link".
  
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  Screens and mobile players can now press buttons even when you're reeeeeally reaaaaally close to them. Like super close.
  
• Fixed scroll snapping when changing pages in the Watch, so now it'll look silky smooth B)
• Added a "view invention details" button for both R1 and R2 inventions. When you have any part of an invention selected, a menu option will be available that says "View Invention Details", which will then take you to the invention details page. Pretty neat, huh?
• When deleting points from a curve shape (MakerPen), you can delete all but two points instead of one so that the bad things don't happen :)
• The report button should now appear on player profiles that are blocking you. No spam reporting for being blocked please, but do report if you've experienced CoC breaking behavior.
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  The following chips are now out of beta! (including some event ones ahead of RecCon!)
  
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  NavMesh Sample Position
  
• Objective Marker
• Objective Marker Attach To Player Or Object
• Objective Marker Get Color
• Objective Marker Get Current Distance
• Objective Marker Get Distance Enabled
• Objective Marker Get Enabled
• Objective Marker Get Fade Threshold
• Objective Marker Get Label
• Objective Marker Get Label Enabled
• Objective Marker Get Position
• Objective Marker Get Target Object
• Objective Marker Get Target Player
• Objective Marker Set Color
• Objective Marker Set Distance Enabled
• Objective Marker Set Enabled
• Objective Marker Set Fade Threshold
• Objective Marker Set Label
• Objective Marker Set Label Enabled
• Objective Marker Set Position
• Quick Chat Table
• Quick Chat Table Set Enabled
• Leaderboard Get Projector Enabled
• Leaderboard Set Projector Enabled
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  Spawnable tools: Leaderboard Projector
  
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  And some chips have been added to beta ahead of this year's RecCon!
  
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  Add Chip: Destination Event Constant
  
• Add Chip: Destination Event Variable
• Add Chip: List
• Go To Event

RRStudio

• Added a new field to the Canvas Interaction component in Rec Room Studio to let you force control hints to show up for all platforms on a canvas. You can also use this to suppress control hints on all platforms, in case of an extra dense UI.
• By default, Screens players always see control prompts for UI, and touch players do not. This default is not new behavior, but is subject to change in the future.
• The Grabber template in RRStudio got a little TLC to stop those pesky non-serialized component issues.

TLDR

• Bool chips are now lazy but also faster and more efficient!
• Your saved outfits with custom shirts can be worn again. Show me that fit!
• The Pathfinder will make better choices on where it is going (or not going).

Full Body Avatars

• Addressed that pesky issue where custom shirts in saved outfits were playing hide-and-seek. They're back, front and center where they belong.
• Fixed an issue where VR players in Full Body Avatar could experience minor hand jitters under certain circumstances.

General Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Bool chips got smarter and lazier, now they'll stop working as soon as they know the answer, saving heat and preventing circuit errors. Bool chips will now 'short circuit' when possible, such that they do not evaluate the remaining inputs when the output can already be determined. This includes 'And', 'Or', 'Nor', and 'Nand'.
• Put an end to the twisty-turny drama with tube and ribbon curves snapping. You can no longer snap grid point rotation when creating a curve with a tube or ribbon. When grid snapping was on, the curve control points could end with rotations that did not match user expectations.
• Added a new Circuit Board Maker Pen "Scale Control Panel Offset" tool setting. The setting defaults to true/on - maintain current behavior. When it is set to false/off, the control panel will maintain a constant distance from the object when the object is uniformly scaled.
• Squashed the bug where tapping a deep link might take you on an unexpected detour to your Dorm instead of where you wanted to go. Now you'll land where you intended, no surprise pit stops!
• Eliminated a persistent autocomplete dropdown bug where autocomplete options appear persistent on the screen even when players aren't actively interacting with the input text field.
• We uncrossed our wires to fix a bug where when using wire on an input circuit pin, the config menu wouldn't always pop up on your maker pen UI.

Rooms 2.0

• Taught Pathfinder to listen better to the Rec Room Object Reset chip, it's finally maturing :,)
• Pathfinder also learned to think before acting. If it gets two requests during the same frame, it'll now go with the most recent one, like the true multitasker it is.

RRS

• We optimized slow Studio Function Animator method calls to Animator.SetFloat(string name, ...), Animator.SetBool(string name, ...) and Animator.SetInteger(string name, ...) to substantially reduce performance impact when these are called frequently.
• Squashed an exception that could occur during a domain reload when the Asset Palette tab is open.

TLDR

• Updated grabbable items and consumables for Full Body Avatars, now you can finally pour water into your mouth (instead of your eyes) on Screens!
• Touchpad component changes
• Patched glitch-grabbing exploit for longbow and goblin wand

Full Body Avatars

• Sometimes hands felt a bit clunky when releasing grabbed items, like there was a kind of ghost collider getting in the way of whatever you were holding as soon as you dropped it. We found the ghost and exorcized it. (Who you gonna call? Coach busters!)
• We took a pass at the 500+ items you can grab in the game and updated how they look in your hand and how you look when drinking and eating. For example, you'll no longer pour the water bottle into your eye when trying to take a drink on screens. There are just a few challenging outliers (like the Rec Royale Glider) that need some special love - we'll get to those in a future update.
• Fixed watch lag and anchoring in VR for FBA.
• Repositioned FBA seated positions to align with bean offsets.

General Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Reduced temporary memory allocations during circuit execution by removing extra enumerator allocations in foreach loops caused by the interface.
• Function definition nodes can now be cloned and put into inventions.
• When wiring together incompatible ports on chips in a beta room, a conversion chip will automatically be inserted between them when possible.
• Fixed a bug that could cause issues with Player Boards for joining players with a custom voice rolloff player trait.
• Added a setting to Interaction Volume V2 to allow creators to hide/show the outline while hovering.
• Fixed a bug where party or club chat would be un-selectable when switching tabs.
• Fixed the size of room and item card loading placeholders that were loading in at the wrong size.
• Fixed an issue where bogus VR tracking data could cause rendering issues
• Okay, don't get too mad at us, but we had to patch the glitch-grabbing exploit for the bow and the wand in VR. Sorry, gang.
• Fixed broken behavior after unlinking an account from a device. Don't worry, guys - we turned it off and back on again.
• Fixed a bug where some text validation was not run on Xbox input prompts.

Rooms 2.0

• Baked a fix for issues with non-hierarchical NavMesh baking in R2 rooms.
• Fixed an issue where when using the connect tool to reparent objects in R2, a selected item may go out of scope and should no longer be selected

RRS

• Fixed issues with the copying of Clamp, Rotator, and Piston content from legacy rooms and pasting them into Rooms 2.0 rooms.
• Square up! Cubemaps will now have a more optimal texture format automatically applied for mobile platforms.

TLDR

• Starting Tuesday an experiment for "My Dorms" is starting - check your creation tab on the watch!
• The crafting cost of the Stone Axe has been lowered in MLM.
• 10x more recording time in Holotars V2!
• Loading and networking issues have been improved.

My Little Monsters

• The Stone Axe crafting cost has been lowered to 1 Wood, 1 Stone, and 1 Crystal.
• Objective markers display on wood, stone, and crystal right outside the first portal.

General Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Players shouldn't fail to load into rooms as frequently.
• The maximum Holotar (V2) recording duration has been increased from 30 seconds to 300 seconds - that's 10x more time for recording brainrot!
• Pressing the 'Clear' button on a Holotar recording window will now display a confirmation button before deleting the recording.
• Moved the Animation gizmo controls to their own Maker Pen menu tab.
• 'Toggle Button Set Is Pressed', 'Print Text To Screen', and 'Clear Screen' chips will now consume the correct amount of "network heat" when used. Network heat is the name we use for how much data is sent over our network, and because these chips weren't counting correctly, the networking in some rooms was breaking. Yay, thermodynamics!
• Cloud lists are now out of beta!
• Fixed a bug where functions without exec ports could return incorrect values if multiple calls were made during the same exec.
• Monitor rooms for corruption and refuse to save them if corruption is detected in rooms, invention creation, or invention spawning.
• Pressing the 'Clear' button on a Holotar recording window will now display a confirmation button before deleting the recording.
• Fixed up some old bugs around fist bumps and high fives making them easier to trigger.
• Removed placeholder text when the UI is loading.
• New LocalPlayerSetGravityDisabled node will let you turn off gravity for the local player!
• Once you're floating around you can use custom locomotion or the new PlayerGetPhysicsVelocity, PlayerSetPhysicsVelocity, and PlayerSetSteeringVelocity nodes to finely control your movement.
• Fixed an issue that prevented 'Data Table Get Column Count' and 'Data Table Get Row Count' from being configured to a data table.
• Toggle Button components now have a 'Synced' toggle, allowing their pressed state to be unsynced between players.
• Translated an untranslated Progress tab label in the profile page.

Rooms 2.0

• Fixed the issue where Equip Object to Dominant/Off Hand chips failed when used on a handle not in a hierarchy.
• Replicators can now be included in inventions.

Experiments

• We're trying out some Token Store layout changes over the next few weeks. We've also fixed a few bugs and made some general improvements related to token purchasing.
• We're launching an experiment this Tuesday on adding "My Dorms" to your creation tab in the watch. Make multiple dorm rooms, save them for later, and swap out the look of your room for the seasons or events!

Rec Room Studio

• Added new Asset Palette UI to streamline creation workflow.

Cross-room Party Voice Chat

• Cross-room party voice chat is now available! Communicate with your friends in different rooms and keep in touch no matter what you're up to, all within Rec Room!

Rooms 2.0

• The Eyedropper tool is now available!
• Custom Locomotion: Request Steering chip now supports instant acceleration (zero acceleration duration). 0-60? More like 0 to the digital future, amirite?
• Players can now rename containers from the MakerPen Hierarchy window.
• Fixed the reset bug for Reset Room and Rec Room Object Reset chips.
• Reparenting multiple objects at once will now maintain any circuit connections between their Object Boards.
• Fixed an issue where clicking the edit button would edit out of circuit boards.

Full Body Avatar

• There were some discrepancies with how floating bean and full body items looked, especially for glasses items. We wrote some automation to seek out these offenders and discovered mismatches in how the shaders were authored between our floating bean and full body items - so now they're fixed!
• Fixed a bug where head scale wasn't displaying correctly on FBAs when changing rooms.

General Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where the Holotar scale did not match the player avatar size when scale was 1.
• Text may be a little sharper on some platforms (but shouldn't be too noticeable).
• Hands will no longer sync if you are typing into a sensitive text field in VR (passwords, personal info, private messaging, etc.). Does not apply for insensitive text fields, though. They wouldn't really care anyways!
• Restored the avatar snapshot as your default profile photo for new players.

Rec Room Studio

• New projects created using the Rec Room Studio launcher will now include default assets from My Little Monsters! We also have a new kit-based Template Room available from the Create menu in-game, so even if you can't use Rec Room Studio, you can find all these assets and use them!
• Added the new "Instance Recolor" component which allows you to have different per-instance colors without using multiple Materials to do so. Instance Recolor can also be used with Studio Functions to dynamically change the color of objects from Circuits!
• A new validation error will appear when the AudioMixerRegistry specifies an invalid Studio Mixer object.
• Fixed an issue where textures used by Terrain, RawImage, or ParticleSystem components appeared at a lower resolution than intended.
• Prevented an issue with cameras in VR by ensuring that the camera doesn't have 'Target Eye' set to 'Both"

Experiments

• Some new players may start out in third person (with the option to toggle to first person, of course!)
• Some players may have access to the new pinch feature, which can change the camera perspective and zoom on Touch.

Full Body Avatars

• Oops, we accidentally broke some hand poses for FBA. Here's some fixes for the camera, frisbee, and mug hand poses used across a variety of tools, let us know how they look!
• Fixed some annoying bugs when using the makerpen while in a full body:
• Your hands still function when going to the smallest self-scale size.
• Your other hand won't be blocking your view anymore.

General Improvements & Bug Fixes

• We changed the 2FA login field type to numeric digits, so typing 2FA codes is now more convenient! (Especially on platforms like Android)
• Fixed the color of certain banners on the home page. Ooooooh, pretty!
• Fixed a bug where players had a chance to get stuck in the "play" door in Orientation. Door stuck!
• Fixed a bug where the Charades Pen becomes stuck in players' hands in VR.
• Fixed a bug where players could equip a full-body costume via circuits while it was being edited.
• Fixed a bug where Room Inventories would not sync in time in multiplayer instances.
• Fixed a toggling bug that could cause toggle buttons to be toggled multiple times when pressed in VR with other players in the room. Now you'll be able to toggle correctly to your heart's content <3

Experiments

Rooms 2.0

• The Link Button and Creator Feedback Buttons are now available!
• Improved the reliability of inventory item transactions.
• Fixed the bug where Dialogue UI does not work properly with Room Reset.

General Improvements & Bug Fixes

• We adjusted the hand animations on VR and screen mode for full-body avatars. Opening and closing your hands in VR should now feel less "sticky." Jumping, climbing, and prone hand positions now look more like you would expect. Have fun with your new clean hands!!!
• Adjusted foot animations to be more grounded when idle and turning in place.
• We eliminated the ability to mute other players while on a junior account, since juniors aren't able to hear other players anyways.This saves some memory and also clutter from your UI!
• Added a fix for blocky avatars on Quest 2. Avatars were incorrectly being selected for low quality settings.
• Added a fix for the holotar projector momentarily displaying the previous holotar recording when multiple holotar recordings are assigned in succession to a single projector. Clarence won't randomly appear in other storefronts anymore, Press F to pay respek :,(
• Fixed a bug that prevented the 'Split Shapes' button from working in Costume Dummy props.
• Fixed room settings UI appearing to allow changes incorrectly.
• Fixed a bug that made it hard to grab or put objects in your backpack.
• Helmet hair now works for the Skeletor Hood and S. Hoods
• Removed some unused textures in \^Park.

RecRoom Studio

• Fixed a bug where Undo and Redo after creating a new Studio Object prefab could result in incorrect room save states.
• Improved Studio Function UI to handle cases where changing the method call target can preserve which method is called.

Experiments

• Ended our experiment with . Now you should have a visible shadow when using the bean avatar to help you navigate the world!
• We're testing variations of the room chat bubble visuals again. This time, the new look should still remain visible and clear to read. Let us know what you think!
• We're testing variations of a new feature where tapping players opens a with a few quick options instead of going directly to their profile in the watch.
• We're trying out a few more variations around the Picture-in-Picture view of your avatar, including layout/icon adjustments and making the resolution higher again on certain graphics settings.
• We will be testing a new "Across Room Voice Chat" feature in the future, which will allow you to speak with members of your party while in a different room. Look out for notes about it soon!