Developer Update - 11 August 2022

would be nice to have teleport to friends in big vrchat worlds.
just in case we get lost.

I think it would be reasonable to say that non-VRC+ should have the first 2 lists for favourites, and the rest for VRC+. I think that would balance out well and seem less stingy.

This is absolutely fantastic to hear! Finally getting an actual response as to why the 3.0 beta system was scrapped is a blessing - however in retrospect, it would have been better to just implement the partially working feature to keep people satisfied in the meantime.

Oh my god, that is the golden ringing i’ve been waiting to entre my ear canals (through my eyeballs because it’s text lol). This is by far one of the greatest things that is extremely lacking in VRChat, and always has been.

Hey, I reply to you through here because I can’t reply to the old dev update, I talked about that paid and/or private assets being uploaded publicly is an issue.

I don’t think I explained my point properly, I fully agree with you in that all paid assets should be uploaded privately.

The issue is that there are A LOT of people who upload paid avatars full of paid outfits publicly on purpose, just because they don’t care and want others to get to use that stuff for free. And many of them do it over and over, multiple avatars per user, every time a new one comes out they upload it publicly, that’s malicious.

And I’m not talking about small numbers, it’s in the thousands of paid avatars uploaded publicly.

Those people should get their uploads locked to private as they are directly affecting creators, having paid avatars as public is NOT a good thing for creators, because everyone would get to use your product without paying you for your hard work, why spend so much money on an avatar plus outfits when you can literally just search for it?

I am an outfit creator myself, I make and texture clothes from scratch, I found multiple public avatars with my outfit on them, not only it’s bad because I see people using it for free, but also too much use of it by people that haven’t bought it gives a negative image on the clothes as in “Everyone has that, not gonna buy it”.

You would say “Report them” and I have, for the last 8 months I must have reported more than 100 people, but their avatars are still up and are still being used in public worlds.

I bought an avatar and a couple of outfits for it, I must have spent over 120USD on it, I really like it, but before EAC all the people with modded clients were able to just search for avatars like mine, and more than once it happened to me that someone would ask me the name of my model and when I replied they searched it up with their mod and just copied a public version with more outfits and paid stuff than mine, how is that ok? That’s malicious.

After EAC not only that hasn’t happened again but the number of people that use public paid models went down significantly because the people that used mods can’t search for them anymore, if everyone got the hability to search for avatars it would be REALLY bad for creators, imagine this:

You are a creator, you release a new model, it only takes a couple of minutes for one person to upload it publicly for EVERYONE to have free access to use the model you worked really hard on.

The argument of “But you don’t get the files” doesn’t make sense because most people use models as they come or at most do a recolour, and many of the already publicly available models have colour changing and outfit toggles…

I can only see this going a couple of ways:

A) They enable fully open public avatar search.

This would seriously harm avatar creators, both from Booth and Gumroad.

People need to realize that if creators are affected in this way there won’t be many new avatars to search for to begin with as their profit goes down significantly with people just searching for the model instead of buying it.

Not to mention that a great percentage of these avatars have r18 NSFW content without any warning in the name or description.

Asian communities WILL NOT be happy about it, they are extremely invested into paid avatars, it’s almost like their VRChat culture. I don’t think they know about the recent comments about public avatar search due to the language barrier, but I’m sure most of them will be against it.

Also enabling avatar searching makes the hundreds of avatar worlds pointless.

B) They make it so people can mark their avatars as “searchable”.

Over time this would still be a huge issue for the same reasons unless there’s A LOT of moderation to keep things under control, but that’s unrealistic.

C) They enable public avatar search but limited to certain mod-picked avatars.

This would also need a lot of moderation effort.

Plus the team would get constantly bombarded with “I can’t find this avatar even though I know it exists!!”.

D) They don’t enable public avatar search, literally nothing changes.

VRChat never had avatar searching, it was only a mod that is against the TOS, people knew this.

To find avatars you go to avatar worlds, sometimes with friends, laugh at the stuff you find.

That’s it. The modding community will be angry, yes, but they have no reason to.

They accepted the TOS when they started playing, then they knowingly broke the TOS and when the VRC team put a stop to it they got angry.

Only a few percent of people have a real reason to get angry and it’s those with accessibility mods.

Sorry for the long reply, I’m surprised there isn’t a character limit. :sweat_smile:

Anyways, I hope you understand my point of view.

Could you please consider looking into this once more, or at least responding to it? It’s really important to some people.

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may i suggest part of the more fav update, allowing us to rename our avatar fav groups?

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Will the new way to grab the personal mirror by a beam, mentioned in one of the earlier posts, be also implemented in this new beta coming this Friday? I was so curious for this feature as it looked so handy in the video. :smiley: (or is it already? Been offline since the last weekend unfortunately)

Any chance of adding a function that allow us to create buttons on both quick and radial menu for “Custom Bindings”?
Really useful to quick mute Discord, manage streams/OBS, skip/pause music, etc…

Also, we can specify a color to customize menus?
I really like the idea of making my menus pink/purple

I still want to say the limitations for physbones in quest could do with an increase- as well as the mb limit… 8 components and 64 sections is nothing. Itd make it so much mire fun! Maybe 15 components and 125 sections? :o

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One thing to take into consideration for whenever you make the native avatar scaler. Is that i think it would be good to also make sure custom animations affecting scale still work. Besides a simple slider, some people had some really cool stuff on their avatars. Like custom smooth animations to change how quick or slow to grow. Or a system with avatar contacts to control other peoples size with the system set up.

Its nice to see all these new features, but it’s really unstable, at least on my hardware.
I can’t play on certain worlds now that I used to be able to play on. The game times-out my GPU driver after about 5 minutes of use on Spirit of the Sea (my home world). I use an RX 6600 XT with a Ryzen 5 5600x.

An UI change would be good thing for the World, Friend, List because (FavCat mod) used to be put the favorite list to the top of every thing and would be good if this feature could be change able in the normal game UI to.

An UI Lock feature for the Settings menu and Customize to because It is annoying to go to the setting then every time turn of my HUd because of the mic icon is annoy me and I just want to see the gestures and face mirror. And the lock for locking all of the changes for every session. Incluiding the Near clip and evry little feature because infuriating to change it every time to 0.01 :slightly_smiling_face:

For the IK team Would be cool if the colliders 1. Not stop my avatar if I go inside a collider (It can be abused But FUN) OR 2. push me back if I hit a collider (It can make you VR sick). Because every time If I lean over something it is not allowing it because the avatar collider move whit the body and not with the feet. and leaning over like a fence it is not possible if it has collider.

Advanced invite where you could drop a portal for friends if somebody invited you! Or Self invite portal drop.

Camera Local/synced flashlight. Good for night maps If we want to make pics

Join notification. ( I don’t like to be scared because somebody is behind me. I have heart problems!!! And don’t want to die because of VR :slightly_smiling_face: RN using VRCX for it)

Panorama screenshot with the camera and with this 3D camera because In (Shh in Neos) it is realy good to watch back image memories in 3D :relaxed: (Steam VR) Has it but it is 1:1 would be cool if it is 16:9 full image.
Loading screen Random Screenshot Pics (Choseable default is the about and stuff) Behind the same as it is right now! And Loading screen Music Change! Playing the game from 2017 and it is not changed scince then it is time to chose our music for it! but left it for default the original.

Nameplate Stats as an user Trust rank and avatar detail default without opening the menu! And Colored user plate with the trust level!

Quick Menu Clock! And session time. With Fps and ping what is availabe right now.

QR code reader.

That is my list. Thanks VRC devs if you read it :slight_smile: Hope you guys have a great day.

Liking the progress, and am excited y’all are acknowledging the big demand for avatar rescaling. Really hope that and a camera animation system becomes part of the base game.

This is just a small request : hopefully the clock will be added in the lower left corner of the quick menu

Because in the case of desktop mode (full screen) or VR mode, people can quickly know the time

Need some things added:

  • Save pins, and make it full pin rotation (on your handheld camera) This is useful for streamers who have often fixed setup and every time by starting VRChat, camera pins should ready to use. Can reset if needed with button.
  • Full pin rotation, means it will rotate to all stored pins, depends on 2 or 3 pins you stored, at each trigger on camera. It makes me much easier to quick swap pin setups instead open menu again and again. The pin swap works ofc only in stream mode.
  • Photo mode - Stream mode quick switch is also extremely welcome feature, because it’s now with long way clicking through menus… bruh. With visible button just bit below, and a indication it’s in photo or stream mode - because THAT is poor visible as indicator - i don’t always see in which mode camera is right now.
  • Update warning message must split in 2 different indicators / warning: Yellow update warning means you don’t need update immediately because update is network compatible. Red update warning means new update is not network compatible - so you should update soon as possible to see other friends. That is more clear. Now with default yellow update warning message i see is not so clear enough in network compatibility.
  • Small “friend request” icon below nametags of the player send you a friend request. If you click on player, you can confirm it easier or denied it. Because … how the heck are you gonna check through 100+ requests some players (especially famous people got a lot requests!) so this helps a lot in visual check and you meet also the player visually, so you can check it much easier.
    The reason of this feature is i never accept requests without see the player itself and see myself it’s good person or not. The current feature with list of friend requests is way too hard to decide, and i am not gonna spend time in 100+ requests. But i don’t remove all immediately, because i store them in list first and wait until i met the player/person visually in the world, talk first to person and can decide better by accepting it or not.
    And THAT will much better with visual icon - just a small one - below the nametag player. Then i know player send me earlier friend request, so i can check it and make decision.
    This is also good idea to disable friend request icon popup below your HUD, thanks to this requested feature to keep small icon visible under nametag player.
    In streamer mode, both indicators can visually turned off.
    This is still very needed feature due the big problem of huge friend request list… please!

As I am super excited for VRC to natively support avatar scaling there is one thing I am afraid of. That if it will be implemented in a way that every avatar can use it this many people, most likely kids will abuse this “for fun” what will lead for wave of complains and in result taking away this option. I rather prefer it being usable by only these who want use it and can implement scaling. Every time when tool ends in wrong hands bad things happens.

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I remember that before it was enough to enter the full screen and re-enter the game to disappear stripes. Now I checked it doesn’t work :disguised_face:

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Calibration Confirmation Dialog
Not sure if I like that, personally. Would probably prefer an option to double-click the CALIBRATE button instead. Like a “press the CALIBRATE button again if you’re sure” kind of thing.

Also, why do you add more Avatar favourites groups, yet just increase the size of the Friend favourites? Wouldn’t doing it the other way around make more sense? More slots in avatar groups, and more friend groups?

retro filter? yeah im playing vrchat with auto resolusion so you could say that I’m already playing with this filter
unlimited drone range and allowing the camera to clip through walls is basicaly noclip :face_with_peeking_eye:. So no more private rooms?

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Fantastic work Dev team and thank you Tupper for keeping everyone informed and taking feedback from the community. I hope this style of communication continues into the years to come.

I would like to remind the DEV team that the steam workshop is also an option.

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I don’t think reshade works with EAC but i havent tried. Also i dont think reshade would disable post processing, just add more on top