Developer Update - 13 August 2026

[Dexvoid]

I’m sorry for the frustration. To be clear, I was just aiming to explain what this new Udon API is being designed to handle compared to the current method, which I hope is generally still seen as an improvement compared to that method. Thanks for bringing attention to your related feature request.

[mikeyvrchat]

You are doing your job Dexvoid keep up the good work.

[vavassor]

Billboarding is interesting! Does it have rotation limits? Also is the yaw rotation relative to the world up axis or object’s up axis? I’m thinking like robot arms or turrets that could mounted different ways.

Also you can’t target the camera, right? Because there are multiple cameras and mirrors that couldn’t be tracked simultaneously.

[SVoicesKarmaEX]

@strasz

Billboarding… But Make it Performant

As a world creator, you may have found yourself in need of a way to make an object always face the local player, sometimes called Billboarding. Doing this with transforms requires update loops in Udon, which are expensive. We’re adding native support for this to make it easier and more performant to implement!

that is really spooky eyes colors xd

[Nekotaku]

Please make the text on the friend list and my own profile on the wings bigger… Now it’s too small I can hardly read it.

[WubTheCaptain]

@strasz

Website Performance Rank Consistency

We’ve shipped an update to vrchat.com/home which makes the avatar performance ratings displayed on the website more closely match what you see in the VRChat client.

You should see fewer unexpected “Security Checks Pending” results, as previously it would sometimes choose the wrong version of the avatar to display the performance rating for. It is now using identical logic to the VRChat client!

Thank you for fixing this bug!

avtr_8b503513-1cb8-4001-9e1f-ec8fffdb6e89: Stuck in "Security Checks Pending"...

[NekoTiki]

@strasz

• The velocity and speed of the contact sender relative to the contact receiver.

Omg was wondering if this would come one day, and it did !!
This is an amazing addition to the already really really good contact system <3

[ni1chigo2115]

A large number of official items were released before the “Item” feature itself became available to users.
The sheer volume of items far exceeds the capacity of the radial menu, leading to an overwhelming amount of content that is difficult to manage.
Do you have any plans to add a folder organization feature, similar to the one available for stickers and emojis?

[samirin33]

@strasz

今後のSDKアップデートでは、連絡先に関する情報をさらに提供するために、さらにいくつかのパラメータを導入する予定です。

With the number of optional parameters for Contacts and Physbone increasing, it’s become a bit of a hassle to register them in Animator. Would it be possible to add a button that allows users to select the text in this parameter list or copy it to the clipboard?

I look forward to hearing more!

[WubTheCaptain]

@4Bakers

Anything to address about the ever-increasing unread notification bubble for the Inventory on the website that I can’t figure out how to clear?

You can upvote this bug report on VRChat Feedback to receive update notifications:

Inventory ping not going away | Website | VRChat

[WubTheCaptain]

What is the bug status of avatars with -2,147,483,648 max particles? A bug report about this was marked as “available in future release” for a fix, but I’ve not noticed any immediate changes since the original report date and the label added three weeks ago.

-2,147,483,648 max total particles (Excellent): Nested avatars/armatures can...

If I recall correctly, these avatars act like “Good” performance ranked avatars with nearly infinite total max particles (when the Particle Limiter setting is disabled).

[Lupiee]

the electric pulse nameplate doesn’t display properly

[WubTheCaptain]

@dark

By the way, small side note: It’s a bit frustrating that if I do cancel VRC+ because I’m financially strained for a month or two, that I need to go back and re-enable/configure all of my VRC+ things. It functionally works as a mechanism to keep me paying, since I don’t want to deal with that.

I suspect it’s partly done this way because of a previous bug incident, fixed in VRChat 2026.2.1p3:

• Fixed a bug that caused issues traveling and loading content for users that had “Random Warp Effect” selected without owning any.

Warp random effect bug | Bug Reports | VRChat

If it wouldn’t be reset, you would keep VRC+ effects and such which likely isn’t intended, or you would end up failing to load/attach the VRC+ content on your avatar, which would lead to the abovementioned issues.

[WubTheCaptain]

@Lupiee

the electric pulse nameplate doesn’t display properly

This is a known issue, tracked on VRChat Feedback.

Profile decoration has incorrect scaling in preview | Bug Reports | VRChat

shop item | Bug Reports | VRChat

[Smash-ter]

@strasz

In an upcoming SDK update, we’re planning to intoduce several more parameters to give more info about the contact. These include:

• A “sender type” parameter that identifies what kind of content the contact sender belongs to.
• The local position of the middle point of the contact sender relative to the contact receiver.
• The velocity and speed of the contact sender relative to the contact receiver.
• The rate at which the proximity value is changing.
• Up to sixteen Boolean parameters, one for each tag the receiver uses, to indicate which tags the sender has in common with this receiver.

this is the closest thing I’ve wanted in a long time. This seems useful for some object based stuff, and even though we’re still utilizing animators to do this, I think a need little addition for middle point stuff would be local euler rotation values for the box-based/capsule-based contacts.

[ElfMom]

because they largely dont care, not unless you are a notable content creator. then theyll listen. theyve always been this way.

[AsrielDreemurr]

Curious, Will there ever be a Toggle for VR Players to allow them to Control when they are walking or running in VR.

In Desktop, You used Shift to Run. While in VR, You have to hold the stick at a certain angle to walk, and if you have drift issues, It makes ‘Walking’ harder. Like what if the Joystick Click was used.

Joystick Click is basically the L3 and R3 on Playstation Controllers.

[GHOST_OP]

@strasz

Soba!

FINALLY! Some news and goodies. Thank you for the hopium.
The “I need an object to manage this and that state” is way overdue for a refactor.

@strasz

We’re planning to add native support for this as well, so you can attach a transform to a bone on a user’s avatar by doing something like this instead:

Networking.LocalPlayer.AttachTransformToBone(transform, HumanBodyBones.Head);

You only need to do this once – after the transform is attached, VRChat handles tracking the bone for you. If you need to remove it again later, you’ll be able to detach it by doing this:

That is very nice, but the real question is: will bone rotation ever be normalised across all avatars?
I’m currently fixing this issue in a project of mine because some players arm bones will not be oriented correctly. The current solution is to make a calibration step and point transforms to the next child bone if any. Wondering if that will ever get addressed?

@strasz

These are being planned in response to community feedback surrounding a need for this info and the potential to improve the performance of existing avatars by eliminating complex work-arounds used to derive this info in other ways. Thanks to everyone giving us feedback!

And finally…Thank you for listening!