Developer Update - 3 November 2022

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@kazy

Guess I’d better get off my butt and finish the VRC music video I’ve been working on for the past 6 months.

Please do!!!

@blackrobe

Any chance that when the username API drop happens, we also get some sort of function like Steam profiles have, at the same time? Where it lists “This user has also played as:” with a dropdown menu?

People change their names constantly.

Mayyyybe, the Steam implementation can also be cleared at-will by the user so that’s another function we’d have to add in (and UI for it and etc), dunno if I can sneak webdev/API time for that >_> they’re mostly busy on Groups atm

@TeH_Venom

Any news on VRS / Foveated rendering after that demo from a previous post? I recently aquired a pimax and have been desperately needing a little something something to help me get better frames lol

No new news, those projects have all stalled or stopped completely due to being unfeasible or being blocked behind things like “doesn’t work on this engine” and “everyone would have to output motion vectors from their shaders, which is not going to happen”

I could talk about it in a future dev update but it just tends to make people argue about it for pages, which isn’t what I want to do

@AzureOnyxscore

Has the team considered of integrating LODs (Level of distance) into the game?

LODs already exist in worlds, they don’t exist for avatars mostly because the people that have avatars performing poorly enough to need LODs are also the ones least likely to implement LODs

We have other solutions on the way but its a big, long term project

@AzureOnyxscore

I feel like that’s what’s causing the performance to tank, especially when in large events with at least 15 other avatars.

nah aside from just really badly made avatars, its mostly animators and setting remote poses last I checked. mostly animators. wowee there’s really bad animators out there. wowowowo

@Dauw_Jonas

Will these be implemented soon?

1. no plans but the feature request is tracked
2. filed, tracked, but no movement, as no resources are available at the moment
3. wait don’t we already cull things outside of view

@shiro

There’s no button for creating a Group anywhere in the video. Is creating a group will be website/api-only?

I think so, yes

@ikbenmathijs

One thing that could be done to make it more obvious on how to block users is just making how to select users more obvious in the tutorial, the current tutorial world just picks an avatar for you, tells you how to walk and then spawns a bunch of portals to public worlds, which the experience of the new player might vary a a lot from there. The only way you can really know without asking other people is either by dumb luck or taking the time to read all the posters in the default home, which not everyone does. It’s not really made obvious how to use it unless you know already

Also explaining what all the buttons do would be helpful too, because most times when there’s a new player I have to explain that they have to press the eye to show someone’s avatar, the microphone to mute someone, ect…

This is good feedback, thank you!