Rec Room

App Leveling

• Progression Profile: a dedicated tab in the Player Profile that tracks your Rec Room level, the XP needed to reach the next level, and daily progress
• How To: An info page on the Progression Profile so you can see how to earn in-game XP
• Watch Home Presence: View your level and progress on the home tab of your watch, and access the Progression Profile page by clicking it
• XP Gain Tracking: Track the amount of XP you gain as you earn it

Rec Room Studio

• Dramatically reduced loading time for rooms with many Maker Pen Shapes.
• Don't show 'Fix Me' option on materials validation errors that don't have an available upgrader.

General Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Adding a new Aim Assist Enabled config option to the Swing Handle.
• Spaces and special characters are now allowed in port and chip names.
• Fixed an issue that could cause the port types inside boards not to update properly.

Rec Room Studio

• We found that Studio Functions are a bit more unstable & error prone than we'd like. We're temporarily disabling Studio Functions & re-enabling Unity Events until we can fix the issues. Existing Studio functions can still be edited, but new Studio functions cannot be added.
• Making it clear that MobileVR devices like Quest and Pico use the same asset import and build settings as Android, so you can check your room's MobileVR memory estimate and download size by looking at the Android sizes.
• Fixed a common cause of 'RecRoomObject' destroyed errors.

General Improvements

• Fixes avatar not showing up in room load screen and new outfit thumbnails on Quest.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that could cause the CV1 spawner chip to move to an incorrect location.
• Fixed a bug where the ACM palette menu would sometimes crash.

Rec Room Studio

• Use the "Test Room" button now to test your room locally without having to wait on a cloud build. We also made it easier to upload and save your work to Rec.net as many times as you want, and then later go back and choose which saves to actually build.
• Made it easier to find the Room Save Inspector, which lets you build any unbuilt save and tells you the in-game download sizes of your room on different platforms.
• Fixed up some UI bugs with the Rec Room Studio Room Creator Chat and Circuit Palette windows. Now it's easier to send messages to fellow-creators who are in the room in-game.
• This change avoids an exception thrown when loading a Studio Function Chip that references a Studio Function that is no longer defined in the room.

General Improvements

• Animation Controller improvements:
• Added the following chips into Beta: Animation Get Time Stamp, Animation Set Time Stamp, Animation Get Frame
• 'Animation Set Frame' now generates the correct amount of network heat, and no longer scales its frame index with the animation speed.
• Added a speed configure field.
• Added confirm delete dialogs for frames and object connections.
• Added 'Rec Room Object Reset' support to stop the animation and reset it to the first frame.
• Increased frame cap from 49 to 100.
• Reduced the ink to match the Animation Gizmo V1
• New beta chip: "Request Velocity Set Over Duration". This is equivalent to "Velocity Set", except it will continuously apply the velocity until either the input duration elapses, the authority of the input object changes, or another impulse is applied from a different CV2 chip (whichever is soonest)
• Added the new "Collision Detection Volume" component into beta! This is similar to the trigger volume, but works better for detecting at fast speeds and getting more data when hitting players or objects. This component is what is used in Make it to Midnight to detect Bonky's hammer hitting players, and we expect players will be able to pair this with the Swing Handle to make great custom melee weapons!
• Added a new beta spawnable tool Dialogue UI, which is a floating text box with some optional labels, an optional directional affordance, and up to four buttons.
• Beta update: Removed Throw Handle from Spawner components
• Editing curve and ribbon control points improved
• New to Beta: Swing Handle Component
• Tweaked support for emojis and extended Unicode in chat

Bug Fixes

• Players should see improved stability when suspending the game on Xbox
• Fixed blurry text for PCVR players
• Fixed a bug where switching back from ACM forced the Maker Pen creation mode to "Move"
• Enabled Advanced Creation Mode on the Oculus PC build
• Shapes in Advanced Creation Mode now have labels
• Arrow key navigation is available for all searchable tabs in Advanced Creation Mode
• Saving a room with the Paste tool equipped no longer disables UI navigation on room load in Advanced Creation Mode
• Runtime edited tags will now display properly when in Advanced Creation Mode.
• Running 'Add Tag' chips with an empty string will no longer add an empty tag for Advanced Creation Mode
• Fixed a bug with Disable Physics option that prevented it from working for some players in multiplayer scenarios
• Fixed a bug that caused the Log String chip to not continue execution after saving a room with a synced Text Screen component
• Fixed a bug with Swatch UI so that it updates correctly
• Weapon prop beacon settings should now update properly between players
• Fix object highlight outlines in mirrors on iOS
• Cat Hat and Yeti Hat can no longer be adjusted to completely cover the player's eyes

Rec Room Studio

• Studio Functions provide a new way to author custom chips that interact with your Rec Room Studio prefabs. You can add Studio Functions to the Rec Room Object component on your Rec Room Studio prefab, and each Studio Function you create can be called by a Studio Function Chip that you can create and configure in-game with your Maker Pen.
• Remove options from the Render Pipeline Converter that could break materials if used incorrectly
• Fixed a bug where bloom/emissive materials weren't showing up correctly while in RRStudio.
• Validate that cameras have an output texture set to prevent drawing directly to the main screen buffer
• Improve camera validation messaging & add help links
• Performance improvements for Playing or Uploading rooms
• Fix the error "Could not initialize the Rec Room API. The type initializer for ... threw an exception"

General Improvements

• Room Tag Update: Enhanced tagging system in Rec Room for better room discoverability and clearer genre categorization.
• New chip: "Vector3 Inverse"
• New beta chip: "Add Velocity (New)". This is equivalent to the existing "Add Velocity" chip, but when run against remote players it will immediately simulate the impulse locally to make it feel more responsive. Eventually, we plan for this chip to replace the existing Add Velocity chip. This chip makes Bonky's hammer delightfully thwacky in \^MakeItToMidnight.
• Added beta events for the following player actions: Jumped, Landed, Grounded, Sprint Started, Sprint Stopped, Slide Started, Clamber Started.
• Added the following player state getters to beta: Clambering, Crouching, Grounded, Prone, Sliding, Sprinting, Normalized Steering Speed.
• "Player Get Equipped Objects" chip now properly outputs root objects in rooms with Hierarchical Building enabled
• Get ready to build fun new content around players using the Share Camera! We added the "Player Took Share Camera Photo" event in Beta, which outputs position and direction at which a Share Camera photo is taken, and lists of players and objects in the captured photo.
• On top of that, get your players posting about your room with the "Player Uploaded Public Share Camera Photo" event that invokes when someone in the room saves a public photo to RecNet
• UGC storefronts in cloned rooms will no longer display room currency packages from the original room
• Shapes in a container with an Interaction Volume will be highlighted when the player looks at the Interaction Volume
• Players on some Android devices will see an increase in framerate
• When sending a gift to a player, the selected player will now be highlighted
• We revised the config menu for circuit and object boards to improve the experience of adding and managing ports. You can now see the type of existing ports, change a port's type without deleting and recreating it, and search the type assignment screen to cut down on scrolling. Plus those pesky plus buttons are gone, and it all looks better in Advanced Creator Mode!

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that would cause scrolling to immediately stop when the scroll was ended -when it should have maintained some inertia and slowed to a stop gradually.
• Fixed missing objects on some low-end Android devices.
• Fixed a bug that could cause Moods V2 elements not to update properly.
• Fixed missing circuit connections not rendering on Quest 2.
• Resolved a disabled interactable slider that did not function in avatar customization. The slider will now correctly appear disabled.
• Fixed colors on Cyber Skeleton avatar items.

Rec Room Studio

• Put the new "Rec Room Studio Disable Render In Share Camera Photo" component on objects you want to hide in Share Camera photos.
• RecRoomObject prefabs can be opened directly from the hierarchy.
• Running out of chip allowance in your RRStudio room? Delete the Object Board for a Studio Object using the Object Config menu accessed with the Maker Pen.
• Ever wondered how your room is performing? Now there's an easy link to all of that info from RRStudio! Just click on the "link" icon next to your loaded room's name in the Room/Scene window.
• Component types now show different instances on the Misc page of the Memory Explorer menu
• Memory Explorer details view makes it easier to select the resource being displayed.
• When 'Play' fails, the Console window comes into focus to display the errors that caused the failure.
• Previously all the materials, textures, and meshes that are used in the provided RecRoom Prefabs would show up in the Project window, but you would get an error if you tried to use anything other than a prefab in your room. In order to reduce confusion, we've hidden those assets that aren't usable.
• Fixed a bug that caused some rooms to fail to upload & build after running a validation fix.

Room Progression, now in Beta!

Room Level HUD, now in Beta!

New Chips in Beta!

• Player Is Holding Maker Pen (useful for having different logic while creating vs playing)
• (Float | Vector3) Smooth Damp
• Vector3 Clamp Magnitude
• Vector3 Closest Point On Plane
• Vector3 Move Towards
• Vector3 Project
• Vector3 Project On Plane
• Data Table Get Row Count
• Data Table Get Column Count

General Improvements

• Contributors are now included in room earnings! The room owner can make any necessary adjustments to the earnings.
• Currencies displayed on the progression page will now correctly display currency icons and images, and the colors will match the currency color.
• Added 56 new sound effects from our melee weapons to the SFX Constant chip.
• Quaternion Create chip now defaults to [0,0,0,1], also known as the "Identity" rotation (basically meaning "no rotation")
• Added room permission settings to automatically assign player tags.
• Saving the room after updating a data table will now automatically add a save description.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that sometimes resulted in invisible avatars.
• Fixed an issue where the mirror would distort in VR.
• Fixed a bug with the Save an Outfit Challenge.
• Fixed various issues with player locomotion in corners:
• Players cannot glitch climb up corners or small gaps
• Improved behavior for getting stuck in a crevasse
• Reduced frequency of duplicate landing sounds causing a weird noise
• Fixed an issue where the "Set Velocity" chip would clear out rotational velocity on the object. All existing chips will become "Set Velocity (Deprecated)" chips that maintain the old behavior.

Rec Room Studio

• Added more informative error messaging for certain types of room load failures.
• Copy/Paste support now includes Copy and Duplicate operations initiated from the Hierarchy tab's context menu.
• Update the rendering of Maker Pen Shapes in Rec Room Studio to match both the mesh geometry and materials used in the main Rec Room client.
• Fix a bug where the chip palette window would sometimes get stuck in a state showing no data.

Throw Handle, now in Beta!

• Set up various cross-platform throwing behaviors by using the Throw Handle. Configure the Throw Handle to set throw speed and screens animation set, and detect a throw with the On Throw event.## CV2 State Machine, now in Beta!

General Improvements

• Added a new Contributor room permission level between Moderator and Co-Owner.
• Text chat can now be used with MakerPen ACM.
• Modified the Everyone role in newly created Maker Rooms to add the #player tag by default.
• Teleport players using Seated Mode can now crouch via button input.
• Added List Clear chip in beta.
• Added new Global circuits events: On Player Grabbed Object, On Player Released Object
• Added new Player board event: Player Released Object
• Added a new chip Rec Room Object Get Holder Player- ACM toolbar buttons are now clickable.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed players being able to vote kick in rec royale
• Fixed players being able to vote kick opponents in Laser Tag, Paintball, and Dodgeball.
• Fixed a bug where players could wear items they did not own.
• Fixed a bug that allowed ranged aim assist to work through certain types of environment objects.
• Fixed an issue where "Hide HUD" setting would mess up targeting on in-world UI.
• Players should not be able to walk through the wall near the bulletin board anymore.
• Fixed an issue when displaying the weekly challenges page.
• Fixed a bug that could cause chips inside circuit boards nested in Player Definition Boards to contribute to the chip count when duplicated for each Player Reference Board.
• Taking a room cover photo now works properly in PC keyboard+mouse Advanced Creation Mode.
• Taking a room cover photo or event photo now drops all previously held items to prevent undesired dual-wielding.
• Fixed an issue where copying groups of chips would sometimes cause them to have weird orientations!
• Fixed a bug that could cause the 'Create Circuit Board' operation to cancel after 5 seconds with larger circuit graphs.

Rec Room Studio

• Added a bug reporting tool - find it under "Rec Room Studio > Report a bug...". This tool will provide the Studio team with extra logs and information to allow them to fix bugs faster.
• Objects with inactive colliders when the room starts now behave as expected. When those objects are enabled, they have collision!
• When opening a subroom in Studio that contains Reflection Probes and that was copied in-game, the Reflection Probe cube maps are now correctly copied in Studio, and do not need to be re-baked.
• Expanded the capabilities of memory explorer:
• Add a new overview page that provides a summary of memory across all platforms
• Add "Misc Memory" tab that shows memory for components & other asset types
• Change default sorting to sort by size
• Change warnings to more visibly display in the details panel with a full message
• Fix bug on causing miscalculation of the size of android cube maps
• Performance improvements to reduce the amount of time needed to open the Upload & Build window.
• Prevent accidental addition of components to objects in the maker pen scene that cannot have components on them.
• Fixed a bug in the upload window where files were being incorrectly highlighted as too large.
• Fixed a bug where RRS HUD UI would not show up.

Advanced Creation Mode!

• Disabled the Maker Pen's radial shortcut menu when using ACM.
• Added a close button to the fullscreen config menu in ACM to make it easier to dismiss.
• Updated ACM tutorial so it can be completed.
• Fixed the formatting on the gun handle config to fit in ACM KBM config window.
• Fixed a bug where ACM menus would flicker when working with Compound Objects.

General Improvements

• The Make it to Midnight progression screen will no longer show players empty placeholder rewards in addition to the actual rewards for each level.
• Allow walk input mode swap when a VR player using teleport movement enters a walk-only room.
• Players may now change their sprint input mode with auto-sprint toggled on if they enter a room where the manual sprint is forced.
• The following CV2 Event Receiver configurations have been released from Beta: Consumable Purchased, Room Key Purchased
• Moods constant chips have initial values derived from subroom presets.
• A new Local Player Set Nametag Visibility chip that allows creators to control whether the player sees the nametag of the target player. It takes priority over role settings.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a rare bug that can lock a player's movement when loading into a room.
• Fixed a bug that caused Bonky's HUD to show up in Share Cam and Streamer Cam.
• Samurai hat adjustment parameters updated not to cover players' eyes.
• Shark Rail Gun fins now follow the reload animation in VR.
• Fix radio voices from being 2.5D to 2D.
• Fixed crash that would happen when Chips were extremely far away from the player.

Rec Room Studio

• Previously we added Room Settings, now we have Subroom Settings as well! Now you don't have to tab into RecRoom to change specific subroom settings!
• Automatically fix certain project settings such as which renderer is used if the settings have been changed.
• Performance improvements in Rec Room Studio when opening the Upload & Build window.
• Version number will now display in the Unity title bar.
• IL2CPP is no longer required to test locally.
• Include a link to screen share authorization application on room errors for not having proper permissions for video players.
• Fix to allow RRObjectManager script to compile.

General Improvements and Bug Fixes

• Publishing a room no longer requires a custom photo.
• Door and Welcome Mat can now be added to Inventions.
• Fixed an issue where players cannot move when joining Make It to Midnight.
• Fixed an issue where the Watch sometimes stopped allowing players to switch between tabs.
• MoodsV2 chip configuration can now be updated in multiplayer.
• MoodsV2 Skydome and Sun constant chips config sliders cover the whole parameter range.
• Released the following from beta: The Motion Trail component and all associated chips, Equals (new), If Has Tag, If Player Has Role, If Player Is Valid And Local, If Player Is Valid, Instance Get Max Players, Local Player Disable Interaction with Target Player, Local Player Enable Interaction with Target Player, Player Get Costume, Player Get Seat, Room Authority Changed event, Authority Changed event, Explosion Hit Player event, Explosion Hit Rec Room Object event, Projectile Hit Rec Room Object event.
• Added 'Player Reset Name Color' chip in beta.
• Added an option to send circuit events to a given player. When configuring Event Sender chips to the "Player" option, an additional player port will be added to specify which player to send the event to.
• In Advanced Creation Mode, object transforms can be modified in the Maker Pen config menu.
• In Advanced Creation Mode, an axis alignment widget is available to players in Maker Pen.

Rec Room Studio

• Added a 'Fix me' button in the room errors window for material using an invalid shader that can be converted to a Rec Room Studio shader.
• The correct error now shows in the room settings window if a room name is too long.
• Some errors in the room errors window will now include a help button which will take you to a page that has more info available.
• Fixed a bug where you sometimes couldn't ignore validation warnings.

• Setting animation speeds directly on the Animation Controller board or with the handy new Animation Set Speed chip. Oh! You can play animations in reverse with negative speed values too.
  
• Pausing your animation at will and resuming it from that very same keyframe when you play again.
  
• Snapping your animations to precise keyframes with the Animation Set Frame chip.
  

• New chips: Data Table, Data Table Read Cell, Data Table Get First Row Containing, Data Table Get All Rows Containing
  

• New chips: Reward, List Variable, Grant Reward, Show Reward Notification
  

• The Watch Menu no longer sometimes shows other pages instead of the Home page.
  
• Fixed an issue where players cannot filter and sort custom shirts under their own portfolio. Also fixed an issue where custom shirts would appear on the gifting page despite not being giftable.
  
• Want a Touchpad Component with those chips? It's available (in beta) for real this time!
  
• Fixed issues related to the Maker Pen toggle settings bug, ensuring proper application of snap settings, uniform shapes, and tube settings.
  
• In Advanced Creation Mode, shape merge/split actions now show consistent notifications whether they are triggered by the quick-action menu or via hotkeys.
  
• In Advanced Creation Mode, pressing enter key in the config menu will no longer cause an object to spawn from the search menu.
  
• Objective Marker distance text will now update more responsively to changes in target or player position.
  
• Fixed a bug that could cause chips to spawn in an incorrect orientation.
  
• Fixed a bug where circuit ports sometimes turn black instead of glowing brighter when flashing to show execution.
  
• Fixed the 'Is Valid' chip incorrectly returning true for deleted objects.
  
• Child objects in OM rooms now have the option to have their transforms modified by chips.
  
• Fixed a visual bug that caused bulk purchases of avatar items to display the wrong price. Don't worry, you weren't overcharged!
  

• Most users can now log in to Rec Room Studio and use some limited functionality, even if they don't have full access yet. Full access is still required to upload rooms with Studio content.
  
• Fixed an issue with copying Rec Room Studio subrooms where custom VisualPostProcessing and AudioClipRegistry changes were not copied.