Developer Update - November 14 2024

Welcome to the Developer Update for November 14!

Today’s thumbnail features Autumn Flash by DavidsonVROOM.

Our last Developer Update was on October 31. Check it out here.

Announcements

NYE 2025!

VRC NYE 2025 submissions open TOMORROW, November 15!

You can create a poster, submit a video, or tag the walls with your DJ or music logo.

Check out the content guidelines here, and be ready to send it in on the 15th!

Submissions will close on Friday, December 6th.

Minor Patch Releases

Since the last Developer Update, we’ve released two patches: 2024.4.1p1 and 2024.4.1p2.

These are minor patches, mostly focusing on bug fixes. Go read the patch notes to see what specifically was fixed!

Development Updates

Prints Are Coming!

It’s been awesome to see how excited everyone has been using Stickers and Sharing. Over 50% of VRC+ subscribers are using Stickers already. But we’re not done adding extra features to VRC+!

To that end, we have a new one coming very soon: Prints!

Prints are a unique way to share memories with other users in-game.

You can spawn them in game and place them around the world. Users without VRC+ can save and collect prints, but can not create or share them.

If you throw them with enough force and spin, they fly like a frisbee! Enjoy sharing memories and playing Print Golf with your friends.

Prints have a few unique qualities that are worth calling out, outside of being able to toss 'em around. First, Prints carry meta data with them (showing who took the photo, where it was taken, and when it was taken). They also can have a cutomized message written on them.

You can create them directly from the camera, or from your gallery. We also recognize that the gallery’s functionality was lacking, so we made improvements to make creating Prints and sharing photos within VRChat a much better experience.

We also moved the Gallery out of the VRC+ page and onto the User Profile, to allow non VRC+ users to collect Prints. While they won’t be able to create them, they can collect up to 20. VRC+ users, of course, can create them and can collect up to 64.

Finally, as a note, all images will upload in 1080p.

One-Time Purchases and World Stores

We launched the Creator Economy last year! You may have seen it in worlds like The Black Cat, where you can subscribe to a VRChat group to unlock cool perks. Thanks to your support, the Creator Economy has been very successful!

We’re launching two new ways to support creators soon:

  • One-time purchases allow you to buy stuff from creators without monthly group subscriptions!
    • One-time purchases can be permanent! Buy them once and keep them forever.
    • Or they can expire like a group subscription. One-time purchases are flexible.
    • This is the most highly-requested feature from creators in the Creator Economy. We appreciate your feedback!
  • World stores allow you to browse a seller’s store by looking at their world in the VRChat menu.
    • This is where you’ll (usually) find one-time purchases.
    • You can also find one-time purchases directly inside worlds.

We’re looking forward to seeing how creators use these new features!

If you’d like to join the Creator Economy, please use the application form. We’re working on avatars and a new application form for the Creator Economy - stay tuned!

Additionally, it’s important to note that one-time purchases unlock a lot of new functionality within the Creator Economy. This is foundational piece of the system that will enable a lot of really cool future things, like an avatar marketplace (which you’ll hear about more next year).

Persistence is Coming VERY SOON – Creators, Help Us Out!

We are about to update the Persistent User Data Beta with some of our latest fixes to issues with PlayerObjects and PlayerData, and are continuing to work on getting the feature ready for live release soon.

In the meantime, we’d love to hear from you if you have something cool you’ve made with Persistent User Data. If you have a world/tool that uses the feature, make sure it’s listed in our Persistence Showcase thread.

You can follow the same format of the main post to make it easier for people to try. We’ll do our best to surface these examples in our various channels. Video demos particularly welcome!

Holiday Stickers

For Spookality, we changed the default Stickers to be seasonally appropriate. Well, we’re doing that again – but this time, with a holiday theme!

Look, I could sit here and talk about how cute they are, or I could just show you:

Seriously. Look at this guy! LOOK AT HIM.

like honestly what else do I need to add here???

Keep an eye out for them as the weather gets colder (or warmer, depending on where you are in the world).

Build & Test for Android

In October, we added the ability to launch test builds from the SDK directly to your Android device.

This means that testing a change on an Android world takes seconds to reload instead of having to reupload and join the world every time. This greatly reduces the iteration time when testing worlds for Android.

To get started testing your worlds on Android, follow the setup guide on the docs here.

Additionally, it’s worth noting that Quest and iOS support is on our roadmap.

Conclusion

That’s it for this week! Our next Developer Update will be… off schedule, given the holiday!

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Prints look really cool!
I do kinda hope however that when you save them (as the person who took the picture) if you have your pic resolution set to like 8k or something it’ll still save to your computer as an 8k and not 1080p.

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Cool

Now make my canny “Tracked” please

https://feedback.vrchat.com/creator-economy/p/make-purchases-purchaseable-in-world-tab-on-the-menu-without-having-to-go-to-the

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I’m a little disappointed that screenshot sharing in-game is locked behind vrc+. I think that’s something people have wanted for a while

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Wow! Creator economy, avatars and persistence. that’s awesome. could we get an update on age verification? its still on track?

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This time, they won’t sit resident in memory until you close VRChat. lol

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I’m so excited for Prints! That’s such a good idea.

But… the way it is simply another button on the camera menu shows that the camera UI needs to be redone.
A lot of the camera modes should be merged together and simplified. It’s starting to become a mess that’s difficult and takes a lot of time to navigate around.

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Please consider making it so that avatars can be shared privately amongst friends, like how stickers and emoji can now be shared via pedestals that can be placed wherever a user wants. Something like that shouldn’t be locked solely within the Creator Economy or behind VRC+, or be available only to a few people.

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Is there a way to add the metadata on normal screenshot too also?

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Prints pretty cool, like the ability to add extra info to pictures and stuff. Very nice. Looking forward to single purchases fr.

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We’ll hopefully have more info before the end of the year, stay tuned.

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Will Test Builds come to Quest, Android, and iOs for avatars too? And can there be a secondary way to test these builds if we don’t have the platform?

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Prints are neat but can we have the ability to hide ourselves from people’s cameras without needing to use obscure shader settings or outright blocking people. This feature sounds like it could just be used to potentially harass people, especially if they use custom avatars.

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Nice, I’m very excited whenever there are updates like this one. Please keep it up!

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hello prints are very cool but i think youre missing out on some possible features when frisbeeing them; let me papercut someone in half

x

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The old polaroids!

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Prints look fantastic! Love the Polaroid aesthetic you guys went for. I’m not even upset that this will replace the Photoboio camera asset I have on my avatar and make it redundant, this is even better. Can’t wait to try this out!

A few questions though:

  1. Can I use this to print photos I’ve already taken? Like from my computer or VRchat gallery?
  2. Can the font be swapped out? No objection to the current one but I’d love a handwritten font.
  3. Same for the color of the camera, can that be changed?
  4. Will worlds have the ability to disable prints? Like with stickers, I can see this being absolute chaos.
  5. Can the prints camera be set up to print a photo immediately after taking it, like a real instant camera?
  6. Can an authentic 4:3 mode be added, akin to Polaroid film?
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Stickers and now Prints!! VRC+ just keeps getting better and better. I would love to have Android auto export when I export for windows. It is a pain to wait around to switch platforms and not knowing when it finished. And maybe if something is preventing Android from exporting it will only do the Windows IDK. But yah im loving the new updates. Thank you.

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loving stickers and prints look great!

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