Developer Update - 29 September 2022

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@tupper

This has two consequences that players should be aware of:

• Show and Hide Avatar player moderations will not transfer between devices, and can be cleared if you delete all VRChat local data
• If you log on after the migration period has ended, your Show/Hide Avatar player moderations have already been deleted on the server. As such, there will be no Server → Local transfer, and you will not have any Show or Hide Avatar player moderations

This might cause some headache considering how most people tend to utilize showAvatar but I definitely get the need to offload a lot of it.

@tupper

As a final side-note, “Block Avatar by ID” / “Block Avatar Globally” is not the same thing as Show/Hide Avatar. Those are still being stored on the server.

Unrelated but I hope my suggestion for changes to ‘Block Avatar Globally’ is still being considered internally.

@tupper

We’ve got some more improvements on the way for IK – in particular, for those funny --launch-option-only features!

Nice that we’re finally starting to get rid of all those launch options also. ^^

@tupper

That’s not all! There will be more options coming to this section in the future. Wrist and knee rotation offsets will probably be next up.

We’ve also added some more options and improved the User Real Height setting!

You can now swap to Metric for height adjustment! Using this option, the arrows will increment by centimeters instead of inches.

Additionally, User Real Height has a fancy new “Measure” button. Using this button will measure your height by using the distance between your HMD and the floor of your playspace. Make sure you’re standing up and looking straight ahead when you use it! The measure button is available in both the Quick Menu and the Main Menu.

All of this is very good, especially rotation offsets!

@tupper

Hide Avatar by Distance Performance Improvement

Hide Avatar by Distance is getting a performance improvement! We dug in and found a way to improve it even more without any impact to animator state.

These optimizations are best described with our (somewhat hamfisted) test method: in a capped (80/80) instance, the old version would only save you about 5-10 frames with most of the avatar in the instance hidden.

In the new version? We saw improvements of 20-30 frames, depending on your settings and your specs. Potentially a big deal if you use that system often!

This change will make it into an upcoming Live Beta.

This is absolutely massive if it works out especially since I have this on basically at all times. The performance loss from allowing animators to run regardless has been a noticeable hit but if this helps out a lot that’ll be really great!