Major Update October 2019

It's been a long while since the last major SculptrVR update, since I've been focusing on Quest launch! Well all those features are ready for PC!

Full notes below:

New stuff:

• New exploration option: Thumbstick motion with rockets and rocket jumping

• New tool: Stabilized Sphere Brush

• Voice chat now works!

• Can undo the actions of players after they are kicked or leave to prevent griefing

• New layer selection eye-dropper in the layers panel

• Save reminder pops up after 10 minutes without saving

• Previous tool hotkey (Touch press on Vive, B/Y on Rift)

Cool Improvements:

• Switch to forward rendering and MSAA for better, cheaper visuals

• Faster mesh generation by 15%

• Very large worlds no longer get large hiccups in mesh generation when zooming in

• More efficient particle collision calculation allows 50 more particles

• Added arm swing walking to the climbing tool

Miscellaneous Other improvements:

• Only export visible layers

• Smarter bounding boxes attach to the selected layer, and only display when your head or hands are outside the bounds

• Fix a bug where placing large color spheres sometimes would leave colors behind even after undo

• Prevent overwhelming the action buffer with massive smoothing/blend painting actions over the whole world

• Improved quality of pasted material

• Impose a limit of 320mb per player for the undo/redo stack

• More stable Level-of-detail updates with reduced poping as you move around a sculpture

• You can now edit your avatar within multiplayer games

• Improve the quality of mini-preview sculptures

• Now default each layer to "polygonal" rather than smooth

• More intelligent particle spawning now tends to create larger particles

• More memory efficient when exporting OBJ & FBX files

• Only count visible sculptures toward your graphics detail limit

• Fix a bug preventing the user from changing tools in explore mode

• Optimize dotted boxes to use a single draw call instead of 13.

• Instead of a busy spinner, you now get a notification informing you exactly how many actions are backed up

• Switched from dedicated servers to Steam servers. This saves me money and fixed voice chat, but breaks cross-platform play.

• Fix teleport to player in the players panel so thate players are guaranteed to be the same scale and orientation

• Reduced computational expense of all menus and basically everything ever

• Reduced draw calls in the color panel from 19 to 2.

• Add LoDs for all hand meshes and a few other meshes

• Split the climbglider into a climbing tool and a gliding tool

• Hidden "virtual camera mode" by hitting ctrl+shift+J to enter and ctrl+shift+H to exit

• no frame drops on the host/client when sending new levels over network

• Fix situation where teleporter would always become invalid

• Much better explore mode icon

• Improve smoothing brush tooltips

• Added a delete confirmation when deleting a saved sculpture