ChilloutVR 2025r179

We have just released a Stable update to ChilloutVR that includes various fixes and improvements, including but not limited to:

Main Menu Improvements

• Color palette adjustment (not UI2)

• Updated Support page

• Easily copy GUIDs

• Bunch of other small fixes

Content Discovery Page

• Find & explore random Avatars, Props, & Worlds

Hud & Reticle Improvements

• Smooth Hud

• Gesture Indicator

• HexReticle & SmartReticle native

  • Reticle only displays when needed

  • Desktop throw indicator

Steam Screenshot Integration

• Easily add & share screenshots taken within ChilloutVR via Steam (if enabled)

Legacy Content Mitigation

• Prevented potential mass-delisting of content broken during the engine upgrade

• MultiPass in Non-SPI Worlds

• Many small fixes & mitigations after mass review of majority of Legacy content

New Ways to Interact

• Can now select Props while the Menu is open in VR

• Can now hold Control to unlock the mouse in Desktop

  • Allows you to select Players, Props, interact with UI, and manipulate held objects

Several New CCK Components

• CVRWheelHubController & CVRWheelController for building vehicles

• The beginnings of the CVRLeg & CVRMovementDriver

• Advanced CVRSkyboxManipulator

• Exposed Object Health to Props

Reduced Game Installation Size

• Removal of bunch of assets & shaders we shipped

  • In part due to the new MultiPass rendering in Non-SPI worlds

• Improved our build times & development workflow greatly

Full Changelog:

• Added a basic Gesture Lock SteamVR binding

  • You will need to bind this to make use of it

• Added back the preload complete notification cause someone ate it again

• Added Discover page to the Main Menu shortcuts

• Added event filtering for Health System Components

• Added gentle align upright to PhysicsInfluencer to use force to align an object to gravity

• Added gravityFactor to PhysicsInfluencer to scale gravity and simulate thigs like lift etc

• Added Health DealDamageManually function

• Added input and output transforms to CVRLeg Component

• Added Manual DownBehavior to ObjectHealth

• Added more components to the prop whitelist

  • NavMeshObstacle

  • OffMeshLink

  • ObjectHealth

  • Damage

• Added NavMeshAgent related parameter streams

  • Added new 'CVRSkyboxManipulator' component

  • This allows you to manipulate how the skybox renders for a target camera (rotation, material, mesh, origin, ect)

• Added new damage system parameter streams

• Added new Component 'CVRLineRendererHelper' to help using a line renderer to connect transforms

  • Component is in its early stages will be expanded on in the future

• Added new ParameterStreams

  • LegIsOnGround

  • RigidBodyAcceleration

  • RigidBodyAccelerationX

  • RigidBodyAccelerationY

  • RigidBodyAccelerationZ

  • RigidBodyLocalAccelerationX

  • RigidBodyLocalAccelerationY

  • RigidBodyLocalAccelerationZ

  • WheelHubControllerGrounded

  • WheelControllerGrounded

  • WheelControllerRPM

• Added object health functions to Callback whitelist

• Added optional persistent zoom level

• Added ParameterStream update method onlyUpdateWhenOwner (usable for props and later on worlds)

• Added Pitch Randomization for ParticleSound Component

• Added portal dropped on top of you HUD notification

• Added sanitization to character controller velocity

• Added steerMultiplier to CVRWheelController to reduce steering input and allow for back wheel steering

• Added toggle zoom setting and made it the default

• Added torqueCurve to WheelHubController

• Added UDIM discarding support to the Highlight shader

• Added 'UnityEngine.SkyBox' component to Avatar/Spawnable whitelist

• Adjusted controller line renderer to always display when the menu is open

  • Also now visualizes the active UI ray (inactive ray is dimmer)

• Adjusted default pointer placement to not be skipped if missing third finger bone

• Adjusted Desktop LookAt distance to scale with playspace scale

• Adjusted Desktop Menu input to be done via Controller Ray instead of being fed in from mouse screen position directly

• Adjusted DesktopRayController to not run when window is not in focus

• Adjusted DropProp to allow spawning props in the air

• Adjusted 'CVRWorld.ConfigurePostProcessing' check to ignore volumes found outside of the world scene

• Adjusted how Magica Cloth 2 gravity direction is applied on avatars within gravity zones to address a major performance regression

• Adjusted outbound core parameter syncing to always send MovementX/Z

  • Should fix case where Emote parameter can get stuck looping on the remote side if running anims are disabled in FBT

• Adjusted player controller trigger touch input to also be true if trigger value is more than 0

• Adjusted project skinning quality to enforce 4 weights per vertex

  • This has been enforced on the local avatar for a year or so now

• Adjusted Mature Content Visibility handling to hide irrelevant UI elements when disabled

  • The Search & Filter options will no longer appear when mature content is unlocked & disabled

• Can now hold Control to unlock mouse in Desktop mode

  • While unlocked, you can select Players & Props to open their Details Pages

  • You can also move held pickups around & interact with the world

    • This can be disabled in the Controls setting category

• Changed the default index bindings for the left 'A' button to be the gesture toggle instead of the skeleton input toggle

• Changed the Main Menu theme to match company color palette

  • This is not UI 2! Colors were just tweaked to match the ABI landing page

• Changed WheelController to now stop updating transforms if the vehicles rigidboy is set to kinematic

• Clicking a prop while the menu is open will now open the details page for it

• Clicking on the icons in the Support page now prompts to open them in browser

• Disable Magica Cloth culling for the local player avatar

• Don't needlessly 'tex.GetRawTextureData()' on downloaded portal images

• Dynamic Bone & Mesh Cloth are now separate filter options

• Exposed 'CVRSharedPhysicsController'

  • This component is automatically added onto the same object as 'CVRPickupObject', 'CVRAttachment', 'CVRObjectSync', 'CVRSpawnable', & 'PhysicsInfluencer' and is used to manage the default RigidBody state to restore once the mentioned CCK components are done overriding it

    • SetDefaultUseGravity(bool useGravity)

    • SetDefaultIsKinematic(bool isKinematic)

    • SetDefaultPlayerCollisionMode(CollisionWithPlayer collisionMode)

• Exposed 'CVRWorld.SetPlayerPropVisibility' & 'CVRWorld.SetPlayerRemotePlayerVisibility'

  • These APIs are purely for experimentation to see if such functionality is desired.

• Fixed 0G controls being incorrectly activated during the gravity zone alignment warmup

  • The 0G controls now only activate when in real 0G

• Fixed an issue where taking a Steam Dashboard Screenshot while multiple other clients connected to Steam were open would take the screenshot on all of them

  • Fixed Avatar Overrender UI feature not respecting UDIM discard properties that were not animated

• Fixed avatars not loading default profile from AAS on initial load

• Fixed case where local user could not make changes to a CVRSpawnable when network lerp timer got stuck

• Fixed center of mass shifting not working for physics influencers

• Fixed clicking any tab not closing details pages

• Fixed controller line renderer not displaying in worlds with nameplates disabled

• Fixed 'CVRSnappingPointManager' nullref when reference point is null

• Fixed CVRSpawnable interpolating from the last network state when the local user has made changes

  • This should fix subsyncs snapping back when alternating sync when using a prop like a chessboard

• Fixed Desktop & Halfbody IK root angle not being maintained on movement parents

• Fixed force applicator runtime gizmo

• Fixed game icon being incorrectly colored

  • 'e41010' to 'e43600'... absolutely game-changing

• Fixed LoginRoom scene load unintentionally skipping some game initializations

• Fixed Main Menu detail pages being broken after logout

• Fixed Main Menu drag scroll not disabling while holding dropdown & toggle inputs like the Quick Menu

• Fixed Main Menu haptics

• Fixed main menu not playing hover & click sounds

• Fixed menu auto-refresh causing applied prop/avatar/friend list filters to not reapply

• Fixed never releasing Grab sync type on subsynced kinematic pickups

• Fixed not being able to raycast to the Quick Menu if launched into VR with only Left Hand and not yet raycasted to another collider on UI internal

• Fixed objecthealth down logic

• Fixed performance issue when replacing default clips on avatar load

• Fixed potential race condition where menu wouldn't mark itself ready because authentication occurred too fast

• Fixed prop spawn placement not correctly facing player when spawned in Gravity Zones

  • Example: spawning a prop on a gravity wall would not correctly face towards your direction

• Fixed rotatechestbyhands being reenabled in the spine solver when toggling FBT >:(

• Fixed RuntimeGizmos to correctly display more characters

• Fixed Vive tracker interaction profile for OpenXR

• Fixed window focus detection failing when there was multiple ChilloutVR windows open

• Fixed User Details button not functioning on Request Invite element in Main Menu

• Highlight Profile Updated:

  • Is now constant width

  • Changed the quality of it so that it is significantly faster

  • Made it overrender everything, this may or may not be good, need feedback

  • Changed the color to be the ABI orange

• Implemented a basic gesture indicator after chopping the old filtered avatar's hands off

• Implemented a system to manually render both eyes in Legacy (NonSpi) worlds

  • This system has replaced the automatic shader replacement when entering NonSpi worlds in VR

  • Issues with terrain foliage are mitigated, and will kick in when loading Unity 2019 bundles

  • This is far from perfect, but it is much better than opaque grass & flowers!

  • NonSpi Avatars & Props loaded while this system is active will also not be shader replaced

    • Loading into a Spi world after a NonSpi world will run shader replacement for any loaded Avatar or Prop

    • This is to ensure the currently worn avatar is properly shader replaced when the mitigation is inactive

• Implemented Desktop FOV & UI Scale sliders

• Implemented fix for remote avatars causing a native crash when animating a camera off on the first frame

• Implemented HexReticle (Thank you SketchFoxsky!)

  • The reticle is now a hexagon that reacts when hovering anything interactable

  • It also displays an indication of the Desktop throwing multiplier when holding 'G'

• Implemented known mitigation for AMD GPU wireless vr stutter

• Implemented new local avatar clone

  • Addresses a huge hitch when loading a local avatar with many renderers on it

  • Shadow casting mode is now properly respected & can be changed at runtime

  • Projectors targeting the local player layers no longer hit the head hidden mesh in first person

  • Generic avatars can now use the 'FPRExclusion' component

• Implemented scroll to change zoom level

• Implemented Smart & Disabled modes for the HUD reticle

  • In Smart mode, the reticle will only display when hovering something interactable or using a mouse input

  • While in Disabled mode, the reticle is... disabled

• Implemented VR HUD smoothing option

• Improved CohtmlHud to not needlessly allocating every frame

• Improved CVRPathCamController to also not allocating every frame

• Improved the VR Intro display of errors when the initialization fails

• Increased contrast of the reticle

• Made applying NetIK less stupid

• Made clicking author name in Avatar & Prop detail pages bring you to the authors details page

• Made double-clicking Avatar/Prop/World/User detail page image to copy guid to clipboard

• Made HUD unaffected by zooming

• Moved Cosmos Controller evaluation before Vive Touch Controllers

• Moved cursor lock to shortcuts 2

  • Added push notification to tell you the lock state

• Moved Use Telepathic Grab option to Controls setting category

  • This addresses somewhat the Logout button not being visible once mature content is unlocked

• Portable Camera captures now save to Steam Screenshots when available

• Removed Aura 2 due to several critical issues, like not supporting SPS-I

• Removed deprecated 'PuppetMaster.OnAvatarInstantiated' event

• Removed Desktop Free Look while in Menus

• Removed loads of unused assets from the compiled game

• Removed most shaders that we compile

• Renamed "Mature Content visibility" toggle to "Show Mature Content"

  • Added subtext to better explain the option

• Renamed the setting 'Control Enable Gestures While Finger Tracking' to 'Finger Gesture Recognition' under 'Controls' -> 'VR'.

  • With Gesture Lock implemented, this naming makes more sense

  • AddedAdded the description to the settingWhen finger tracking is enabled, infer the avatar's gestures using your finger positions

  • Also it's now enabled by default

• Reworked cursor lock management so there should never be a scenario where the mouse incorrectly locks

• Reworked when controller smoothing is applied, this should feel better

• Separated HUD notification settings under its own category

• Steam Dashboard captures (F12) now saving to the ChilloutVR pictures folder

  • Steam Screenshots have their location tag set to the current world name

• Switching Main Menu tabs now closes ui confirmation dialogs

• Unwhitelisted 'UnityEngine.Cloth' from Avatars & Props

  • It was incompatible with Gravity Zones, Avatar Scaling, and the local Avatar Clone

• Updated Avatar/Prop Detail & Avatar/Prop Pedestal responses

  • Detail responses IsSharedWithMe is now correct

    • Was returning true when had permission to switch/spawn (ex: when content was Public)

  • SwitchPermitted & SpawnPermitted are still returned

  • Pedestal response now returns IsPublished

• Updated Support page in Main Menu to not be horridly outdated & useless

  • It was pointing at an old forums page which has been dead for years ;-;

  • eat bread

• Updated Magica Cloth 2 to 'v2.14.2'

  • Release Notes available here

• You can now confirm FBT calibration when only one hand is connected

Communications Changelog:

• Added Push-to-Mute option to Mute Bind Modes

• Added Noise Suppression and Mute Bind Mode to VR Aware settings

• Adjusted Pipeline Objects to fix several issues with Positioning and Playback

• Adjusted Positional Tracking and Handling

• Adjusted TTS to fix an issue with artifacting in the transmitted Audio Data

• Fixed an issue with Audio Normalization not being active by default

  • Thanks DDAkebono for identifying and helping to fix this issue

• Fixed an issue with Microphone Toggle keybind still being active during Desktop Login

• Fixed an issue with Mic Toggle being active while Text Inputs are focused

• Fixed an issue with not being automatically muted when switching Input Device to "No Device" while unmuted

• Fixed an issue with the Audio Capture thread sometimes not restarting when changing Input Device

• Fixed an issue with the Audio Capture thread sometimes not restarting when Connection Recovery occurs

• Fixed an issue with TTS not broadcasting when "No Device" is selected as the Input Device

• Fixed an issue with Voice Data sometimes not being sent to the Server

• Reworked Push to Talk into Mute Bind Mode