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