This is one has been a long time coming and brings compatibility of Unity 5.6.3p1 to our SDK, so your custom content in VRChat will be even better! It also includes a lot of under the hood work that will improve any updating of Unity versions in the future.
The largest improvement you will notice is the better framerate overall in VRChat, along with Vive Tracker support for full body tracking! For those with less than ideal internet connections, we got you covered too, as we have dramatically improved support for people with severely degraded connections.
New Features & Updates
Note: For a full technical breakdown see the VRChat 0.12 Release Notes
- The HTC Vive Trackers are now supported for additional motion tracking. We support a single tracker for hips, or three trackers for hips and feet, allowing a full range of body motion including sitting down, crossing legs, laying down, kicking and dancing! (note: This feature is still in development)
- Future-proofing your upload ensures your content will be upgradable to newer Unity versions without your intervention.
- New avatar menu allows a full 360 preview of your avatar. Confirmation with the “Change” button allows you to browse gracefully without interfering with other users until you've made your selection.
- Added a new international compatible keyboard, so you can type in all sorts of languages.
- Full SDK support of the new Unity VideoPlayer component, that allows for synchronization, playlists and interactive control of the video playback.
- Avatar animations can now be fully customized. Change how your avatar walks, crouches, emotes and gestures by replacing any animation with your own.
- Mirrors now show your facial animations including eye look and blink as well as lipsyncing.
- Voice prioritizing that lets you better hear the voices of those you’re focused on in crowded rooms.
Web Panels
- While we work on bringing you a new and improved video viewing experience, our web panels are not working in this update. We’re aware they’re used by the community in various key content. We’ll have more news on this in the near future.
Going Forward…
Now that this major update is out of the way we’d like to give you a glimpse into some of the fun things we’re working on next.
- We’ll be starting our visual scripting beta soon to bring even more interactivity to our user created rooms. News of that we’ll share out with the community in our Discord when we’re ready.
- Also coming soon - keep an eye out for our brand new built from the ground up Hub! The new hub is designed to put the spotlight on user created content, events and helpful information for all users.
- Events are an important part of VRChat and we’re in the process of updating systems to hook into the HUB and the menu that will make events easier to find, request and more.
Thanks and Enjoy!
The VRChat team