Features

Drone Customization

When we released the Camera Drone, we heard almost immediate feedback that folks wanted to customize their drone. Well, now you can!

• You can find the Drone under "Cosmetics" in the Inventory.
• Here, you'll be able to customize the appearance of your Drone.
  • Change its color!
  • This will change the color of your controller, too!
• You might be able to find more customization for the Drone very shortly... hmmm...

Changes & Fixes

• Added a Reduce Menu Animations toggle under Accessibility settings. This eliminates a lot of the larger menu animations/fade-ins/fade-outs to allow the menu to be somewhat snappier.
• Menu alerts should now render on top of all UI elements, including the yellow "new feature callout" flags.
• Instance and population indicators on menu world/instance cells should no longer occasionally overflow or look jumbled up.
• The Depth-of-Field effect is now available on Android Mobile and Standalone VR.
  • Note that this can be a very performance intensive option, so uh, keep that in mind when trying to take an 8K picture in a full 80-person rave instance, you know?
• Added a Microphone Test Button to the audio settings page!
  • This allows you to hear how you sound to others, featuring a neat UI showing your level.
    • CAN YOU HEAR ME?
      • GUYS??????
        • IS MY MIC WORKING?????????
          • STATIC NOISES
• You can no longer click through the Main Menu header background onto selectable objects behind it.
• New Inventory shortcut icon button added to the top of the Quick Menu to open up the Inventory Main Menu.
• New Calendar shortcut added to the top of the Quick Menu to open up the Event Calendar.
• Bundles & Packs tab in the Inventory menu now remains accessible when empty.
• Clicking a Launch World link on the VRChat website while VRChat is running will now navigate to the World Instance's details in the Main Menu.
• Sorting Avatar Lists by "Date Added" now refers to the date that the Avatar was added to that list rather than the upload date of the Avatars themselves. Avatars will appear in order of newest added to the list first.
• VRC Avatar Parameter Drivers can now use VRChat's built-in Parameters as Sources.
• Fixed the "View Fallback Details" button on the Quick Menu's selected user page. It should now be fully interactable when viewing a user wearing a fallback avatar and should no longer display a slightly transparent performance indicator within the button.
• Fixed an issue in the Main Menu Social tab that allowed users without instance moderator privileges to see which users were blocking them.
  • Users that do have instance moderator privileges, like group moderators or instance owners, should still see the "blocked by" list.
• Adjusted the position of the "try on" button for Marketplace avatars.
• Added a tile at the end of avatar lists that redirects to the "Explore" tab.
• Fixed Main Menu World Author and Instance Owner text layout sizes so that their click area is more consistent.
• The Quick Menu is now the correct size for VRCat when flipped.
  • He's just hanging out, man.
• Fixed a bug where group toggles would not load immediately in the Event Calendar filters.
• Fixed a few issues with text wrapping during the VRC+ Gifting process.
• Added an Items wing menu that you can use to quickly place and remove items you own from the wings of the Quick and Main Menu.
• The side list on the Event Calendar page now remembers its scroll bar position.
• The "Added" event tag now updates when backing out of the event details page after adding or removing the event from your calendar.
• Increased the resolution of the group icon outline on the Event Calendar.
• Long group names and languages now truncate correctly in the event filter settings for the Event Calendar.
• World Favorites List name max lengths in client now match the website (20 characters).
• Fixed an issue with the buttons within the World Favorites List settings side panel that prevented them from registering clicks consistently.
• Slightly adjusted World Favorites List titles within the Wings and Main Menu side bar buttons so that they fit better.
• Region options found within the Create New Group Instance flow now have tooltips that properly reflect each region's name.
• Adjusted the size of the Report and Expand to Main Menu buttons on the Quick Menu header to be more consistent.
• Added new labels on individual products to clarify what type they are (Avatar, World Perk, etc.)
• Info UI text on the camera is now clickable. When selected, it will cycle through available options for that setting.
• The Send Invite button on a user's profile page should no longer be blocked out by default if they have sufficient permissions to join your Group instance.
• The Avatar Details page preview window has been adjusted to match more closely with the My Current Avatar page.
• Adjusted Avatar Height text field to prevent it from colliding with the Impostor Preview Toggle.
• Added tooltips to the Main Menu Avatar page navigation bar buttons.
• Fixed an issue with world portals that could cause them to sometimes try and send you to a closed instance.
• Optimized object highlighting when an Interactable/Pickup object and an Item removal in the Action menu are selected at the same time.
• Slightly improved VRChat's launch time.
• Various UI styling fixes.
• Assorted localization updates.

August 19, Build 1692

Fixes & Changes

• Customizing a drone while it is deployed will no longer kick the user. (Sorry about that.)
• The Color Picker is now easier to drag when customizing a drone.
• The UI Themes and Backgrounds shortcuts in the Quick Menu now lead to their new home in the Inventory's Cosmetics tab.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented the Color Picker from updating the drone preview.
• Fixed a bug that caused colors to be applied incorrectly to non-VRC+ users' drones.
• Tab buttons in the Inventory menu now fit a little better.
• Placeholder text is no longer displayed when selecting another user's drone.
• Fixed up some tooltips on the Color Picker.
• Clicking back from Avatar Details can now return you to a specific category list in the Explore tab.
• Group Instances with friends should display properly in the menu again.
• Fixed an issue that caused events to go missing from the Calendar after returning from Event Details.
• Fixed a bug that could cause the search textbox to appear when not needed.
• Fixed a bug that could cause error robot avatars from the menu to persist after the menu was closed.
• Fixed a bug that allowed alert messages to persist after the Main Menu was closed.
• Security and stability improvements.

August 21, Build 1693

Fixes & Changes

• Added a new toggle to the Camera UI that controls whether World/Author metadata will be attached to photo files.
  • This toggle is enabled by default.
  • This toggle only affects the XMP metadata that is attached to photo files when saved to your local device.
  • Only the ID/Name of the user that captured the photo (the author) is recorded. We do not write other players' information.
    • If you are seeing this sort of data written to your photos, it's probably another tool you're running.
      • Don't blame us!!!
  • If a world is private, its ID and name are not written.
  • Prints still send World and Author information to the server to support sharing features. When you save a local copy of a Print, this toggle determines whether that information is written to the file or not.
• Fixed a bug that caused some avatars to show conflicting performance rank information in Avatar Details.
  • This was because avatar bounds can be slightly different in-client vs. during server processing. The client now properly displays the server's bounds calculations.
• Fixed a bug that could prevent the Main Menu from showing Avatar Details after selecting a marketplace avatar pedestal.
• The VRC Quick Launcher can launch multiple clients again.
  • To use the new behavior where a launch link opens the menu in an existing client instance, it now needs to contain &launch=1, making it opt-in.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Drone Controller to cause visual issues when held in front of the Drone Customization menu.
• The correct text and icon are now shown when claiming a Drone from a bundle.
• The "new" badge should now appear on the Cosmetics tab as expected, when a bundle containing a Drone is claimed.
• Improved UI visual styling in the Cosmetics menu.
• The Report dialog no longer animates in from a strange direction.
• Quick Menu alerts disappear properly again when the Reduce Menu Animations setting is enabled.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes made world tags non-interactive.
• Fixed missing haptics on some UI components.

August 26, Build 1694

Fixes & Changes

• Photos will be saved locally again on Quest. (Sorry!)
• Lighting is now more consistent when previewing 3D objects in the Inventory menu.
• The Drone's Color Picker will now update properly after you click Restore Palette.
• You can now select a month to view on the Group's Events tab.
• The calendar will no longer forget its scroll position after following or unfollowing an event.
• Fixed an issue that prevented some events from appearing on the Group Events page.
• Fixed an issue that caused the camera to flash when moving the viewfinder quickly.
• Minor refactors to PhysBones.
  • Not compatible with live, so grabbing PhysBones will not work between live and beta clients until 3.2 is live.
  • Trying to get these in right before we go to live to minimize the inconvenience.