MINOR RELEASE - Game Maker / Game Client 0.8.10

It looks like Dr. Bomkus has been tinkering in the back-end. What is he up to? 👀

This minor update brings you some cool new features and a few fixes to make your life just a little bit easier in both the Game Maker and the Game Client! 😉

Let’s get into it!

Game Client - Features & Additions ⭐

• Ethos points and Event Tracker system to better keep track of your progress.
• A wild Dr. Bomkus has appeared on the Game Client splash screen - check it out!
• Dr. Bomkus tightened some screws and enhanced Single-Player performance.

Game Client - Fixes & Bugs 🐞

• Fixed the quest timer - it is now visible at the end of a quest!
• Begone crashes! Fixed crashing issues when many crowd events are active simultaneously.
• Additionally fixed other issues causing crashes in the Game Client.
• Askers were not triggering when various askers are chained with the "only once" setting.

Game Maker - Features & Additions ⭐

• Increased performance for Single Player [SP] Behaviors.

Game Maker - Fixes & Bugs 🐞

• Crash fix: Our “Prey” were so hungry they tried to eat targets that were already destroyed, causing the Game Maker to crash. We have added more food for them in the back-end to ensure that they are well-fed at all times.

MINOR RELEASE

0.8.9 - Game Maker

A small but sweet update is here for the Game Maker! Better performance and fewer crashes for all.

Features & Additions ⭐

• Increased performance for Single Player [SP] Behaviors.

Fixes & Bugs 🐞

• Crash fix: Our “Prey” were so hungry they tried to eat targets that were already destroyed, causing the Game Maker to crash. We have added more food for them in the back-end to ensure that they are well-fed at all times.

Bug Fixes

• Fix for minimap disappearing when switching between edit and play mode.

Features

• Added necessary songs for upcoming events.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash when loading or creating an experience after loading a previous one.
• Fixed avatar animation glitch.
• Resized pagination elements of the asset library.
• Fix application hanging after trying to load a shared experience.
• Fix for UI information related to multiple assets physics.
• Speaker Component not being triggered upon Speak Condition is now working.
• Animated Decoration was sending messages at start when play count was Zero, that has been addressed.

Features

• Added necessary songs for upcoming events.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where some or all assets appeared red.
• Crowd Events fix where the events took more than a minute to be triggered.
• Fix for Bird Behavior where the asset was disappearing.

Features

• Added necessary songs for upcoming events.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed various UI bugs.
• Fixed several bugs that caused system instability.
• Fixed an issue that was causing the workspace to not be updated after updating a draft experience.
• Fixed an issue that prevented from locating assets on the hierarchy panel.
• Fixed a crash when returning from a shared experience to the main menu.
• Fixed a crash after restarting an experience.
• Fixed an issue that was only allowing players to pick up dropped pickable components from it's original placement position.
• Fixed an issue that was causing the multiplayer collectibles to not work if they were childs of another asset.
• Fixed an issue that was mixing components' parameters if they were being added to more than one asset.
• Fixed an issue that was showing "Exit play mode" from draft gallery experiences.
• Fixed an issue that was causing speaker component to send the messages twice.
• Fixed an issue that was preventing presets made of 2 or more assets sharing the same pivot point to be shown in editor or play mode.
• Fixed an issue that was showing the speaker component of a curio asset after being picked up.
• Fixed an issue that was not allowing the messages of a pickable component after being picked/drop to be sent.
• Fixed an issue that was stuck the GM on a 0% load.

Behavior and Componentes Performance Categorization

The behaviors and components have been categorized depending on their impact on performance in 4 different groups:

• Null
• Low
• Medium
• High

An informative tooltip has been added as well with recommendation on the usage of the behavior or component.

Features

Pickable Improvements

• Slider to regulate transparency.
• Broadcast messages immediately before pick up and after dropping the actor.

Instance Locker Improvements

• Support for locking experience based on the amount of players that joined in.
• Broadcast message after lock triggered.

Bug Fixing

Multiple bug fixes have been made to stabilize the product and get some improvements in performance:

• Significant improvements with rubber banding in Gallery Experiences.
• Saved experiences loading issue was fixed.
• Victory / Defeat screen - Restart button was missing.
• Image Display Component - Thumbnails are now working.
• Image Display Component - Image wasn’t changing when selecting 'None'.
• Experience Duplication Cycle - Infinite loading when you try to duplicate an experience was fixed.
• Camera clipping through the environment while approaching walls issue fixed.
• Multiple Behaviour / Component fixes and stabilization.

Bug Fixing

• Fixed server disconnection issue when loading experiences.

Bug Fixing

• Increased timeout value to avoid disconnections from complex experiences.
• Added Rabbids sounds / music.

Features

The following changes or additions have been introduced for this GM version:

• Volume shapes for the Speaker component.
• Pickable [SP] support.
• Multiplayer Simulator: Allows testing within GM Editor how an experience should behave if published as social.
• Instance Locker: New behavior to prevent new players from joining a social experience after it’s triggered. Only available for admin and moderators accounts.

BUG FIXING

Multiple bug fixes have been made to stabilize the product and get some improvements in performance:

• Fixed missing audio/music icons.
• Fixed audio looping on disconnection.
• Added new Splash Screen animation.
• Fixed animation missing from equipment.
• Fixed exceptions and nullrefs when editing behaviors.
• Fixed race condition when loading streaming assets.
• Fixed asker to listen to UI events.
• Fixed several issues when transitioning between Play and Edit modes.



Known Issues

• The volume slider has no effect on audio streaming in edit mode.
• VFX attributes modification can't be seen in social hub experiences.
• The 'Exit Play Mode' button is available on experiences from the Drafts Gallery.
• Chat service provide error might trigger problems to load an experience.
• Duplicating experiences might have an infinite loading and it may take some minutes for the experience to be duplicated.

BUG FIXING

Multiple bug fixes have been made to stabilize the product and get some improvements in performance. These fixes affect:

• Fixed several crashes and exceptions
• Added support for [SP] Play Sound Component.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the “Rarity” VFX from working.
• Added back the “Heal: X” and “Damage: X” messages, this way you can heal and damage the character via message.
• Combination of behavior errors was addressed.
• Fixed an issue with the Lights component vanishing when deleting the textbox.
• Fixed an issue when reaching the maximum capacity of lights supported.
• Fixed an issue that all behaviors and components stopped working when you “restart experience” for the draft gallery.
• Fixed saved presets issue that switched behaviors and components from [SP] to [MP].
• Fixed the animation decorator not working correctly in Multiplayer experiences.

READ BEFORE

• Many behaviors now appear with the [MP/SP] prefix in the selection window. This means the behavior was (re) made under the new MP compatible solution.
• Only [SP] and Legacy behaviors can interact with the rules/quest system.
• When opening a 0.7 save file, the ported behaviors will be automatically upgraded to the new version while keeping the same configuration. They should work as closely as possible to the legacy version, and the idea is to minimize the impact of this upgrade as much as possible.
• If you save an experience with new behaviors on a 0.8 build, you won’t be able to open it again in 0.7.
• “Alternative” functionalities (different from the ones each behavior was originally designed for) shouldn’t be considered features and won’t be necessarily maintained in the new versions.
• Support and bug fixing won’t be provided to the legacy versions of behaviors that have been ported. Only will be provided to the new versions, and to the legacy behaviors that aren’t ported on 0.8.

BEHAVIORS SP/MP SPLIT

The SP/MP split only affects **Multiplayer** experiences. Single-player experiences shouldn’t get affected by the distinction, although is always encouraged to be thoughtful and consistent at the moment of selecting a network type for behaviors. In the behavior/component selection window there’s a new “Type” dropdown that allows for selection of:

• [SP] behaviors can work “locally”: Affects each player individually in multiplayer experiences. It’s main purpose is to allow communication with the Game Objectives in MP. The state of the actor will be independent for each player.
• [MP] behaviors work “globally”: Every message exchanged between actors happens for all the players. All players will see other actors in the same state.
• The following are some considerations and highlights from the behaviors SP/MP split documentation. It’s encouraged that everyone reads the full extent of the documentation if possible.

MIGRATION AND UPGRADE

• Opening an experience from an v0.7.x version in GC or GM Gallery will keep the legacy BEH/COM. The experience should work the same as 0.7.x.
• Opening an experience from an v0.7.x version in GM Editor will upgrade each BEH/COM version to their respective [SP] version. If the behavior doesn’t have a [SP] version they will be upgraded to the [MP] version.
• IMPORTANT: This can result in mixed bag [SP]+[MP] situations for some actors, which isn’t allowed and needs to be manually fixed by the creators.
• Opening an experience from an previous internal v0.8.x version in either GM or GC will upgrade each BEH/COM version to their respective [MP] version.
• v0.9.x versions will not be able to open experiences older than v0.7.x

SINGLE-PLAYER VS MULTIPLAYER

There are considerations to be aware of before start creating experiences with the new behaviors, specially in a MP environment. The list of behaviors below contains all the ones that were re-implemented. All of those new implementations are [MP] compatible, but there also some [SP] versions as well. Any legacy behavior outside that list still works with the legacy SP-only architecture.

SINGLE PLAYER EXPERIENCES

This includes GM Editor + GC Single Player + Gallery Single Player

• Both new and legacy behaviors should be able to co-exist.
• There are no communication restrictions:
• Messages could be sent from [SP] behaviors to [MP] behaviors and vice versa.
• Messages could be sent from legacy behaviors to new behaviors and vice versa.
• New and legacy behaviors can communicate with the game objectives.
• The new “toggle” component should be able to pause legacy and new behaviors.

MULTIPLAYER EXPERIENCES

This includes GC Multi Player + Gallery Multi Player

• AVOID using legacy behaviors in MP experiences.
• [SP] can only communicate with [SP] behaviors and game objectives.
• [MP] can only communicate with [MP] behaviors.
• Every [SP] behavior works “locally”.
• Every [MP] behavior works “globally”.

LOGIC ACTORS

Logic actors are a new feature to allow the creation of gameplay without the need for asset placement in the world. The actor presented with a placeholder model will be completely invisible during play mode. To make more efficient experiences and boost performance as a result, is encouraged each time an asset is solely functional as a “gameplay gear” and doesn’t need any mesh presentation, use a logic actor. There are a number of options already loaded in the library to allow quick logic placement with some of the new common use cases.

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SWIMMING

• When the avatar enters any liquid, it will start to swim.
• This new behavior is disabled by default on already existing experiences.
• This new behavior will be enabled by default on new experiences created with the 0.8 version.
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• There is a toggle switch at Global Parameters/Controller/Behaviour at the end of the list of field.
• The toggle switch allows the creator to switch swimming on or off.

CROUCHING

• Tapping the C key will make the avatar crouch.
• Using this movement, the avatar can enter new places with a lower ceiling.

CRAWLING

• Holding the C key down will make the avatar crawl on the ground.
• This movement, while slow, enables the avatar to go through smaller openings.

SLIDE

• After sprinting for a second or more, tapping the C key will make the avatar drop to the ground and start sliding.
• The avatar can enter the same openings as when crawling but the movement is faster and limited.
• When finished sliding the avatar will start crawling or crouching if there is not enough space to stand.

SHEATHING

• Tapping the Z key will make the avatar sheathe its weapon and/or shield.
• Tapping the Z key again will make the avatar unsheathe its equipment.
• The equipment is still equipped. So starting an attack will unsheathe the equipment automatically.

NEW BEHAVIORS & COMPONENTS

This is the complete list of new or ported behaviors that have been implemented in the new MP-compatible solution. Any behavior that doesn’t appear on the list is out of the 0.8 scope and will still exist as the legacy SP-only solution.

ASKER [SP][MP]

• Functionality The behavior should maintain the same features & configs as it did in 0.7
• Retro-compatibility No changes to the features & configs should be seen upon upgrading from 0.7
• Multiplayer [SP] Can be triggered by any text message. The messages sent in a MP experience can only be listened by other [SP] behaviors and will affect each player individually. [MP] The UI is displayed only to the user that triggered the behavior. It means that it will only react to the “Interact” message. All the other messages will be ignored. The messages sent in a MP experience can only be listened by other [MP] behaviors will affect all players.

ASSET SPAWNER [SP][MP]

• Functionality The behavior should maintain the same functionalities & configuration as it did in 0.7 except for the “visible” toggle which was removed. The actor visibility setting should be used instead.
• Retro-compatibility If the actor had the “visible” toggle disabled, then the visibility of the actor will automatically change to hidden in the editor. Other than that, no changes to the functionalities & configuration should be seen upon upgrading from 0.7
• Multiplayer [SP] The actor spawned will be seen by each player individually. The actor will spawn with [SP] behaviors. [MP] The actor spawned by the behavior will appear to all the players in the experience. The actor will spawn with [MP] behaviors.

BIRD [MP]

• Functionality The behavior should maintain the same features & configs as it did in 0.7
• Retro-compatibility No changes to the features & configs should be seen upon upgrading from 0.7
• Multiplayer [MP] The state of the bird should be consistent to all players in the experience: they’ll see the platform doing the same movement at the same time.

BUTTON [SP][MP]

• Functionality The behavior should maintain the same features & configs as it did in 0.7
• Retro-compatibility No changes to the features & configs should be seen upon upgrading from 0.7
• Multiplayer [SP] The Each player will be able to trigger the button. The messages sent in a MP experience can only be listened by other [SP] behaviors and will affect each player individually. [MP] All players in the experience will be able to interact with the button. The messages sent in a MP experience can only be listened by other [MP] behaviors will affect all players.

CLIMBABLE [MP]

• Functionality The behavior should maintain the same features & configs as it did in 0.7
• Retro-compatibility No changes to the features & configs should be seen upon upgrading from 0.7
• Multiplayer [MP] All players in the experience will be able to climb the actor, same as in 0.7

COLLECTABLE [SP][MP]

• Functionality The behavior should include the same features & configs as it did in 0.7 Some new parameters related to the message broadcasting were added.
• Retro-compatibility No changes to the features & configs should be seen upon upgrading from 0.7 The broadcasting type should automatically be set to “All”
• Multiplayer [SP] The collectible can be collected by each player and won’t affect how other players perceive it. [MP] The collectable can only be collected by the first player that reaches it. After its collected the actor disappears for everyone in the scene.

CURIO [MP]

• Functionality It’s a MP collectable that can be picked by every player.
• Multiplayer [MP] The curio can be picked by all the players inside the experience. This means that if you pick it, all the other players will still see the collectable available to be picked up.

DOOR [MP]

• Functionality The behavior should include the same features & configs as it did in 0.7 On top of that, the fields for animation on “open” and “closed” where added, as well as some broadcasting configurations.
• Retro-compatibility No changes to the features & configs should be seen upon upgrading from 0.7 The broadcasting type should automatically be set to “All”
• Multiplayer [MP] A door can be opened or closed by any player on the experience. The current status of the door is global and consistent for all the players.

DROP [SP][MP]

• Functionality All inputs that allowed collectible configuration through the drop were removed. This is due a lot of inconsistencies presented with this design. The remaining features & configs from 0.7 should remain the same.
• Retro-compatibility To compensate for the removed inputs, upon loading an old drop, a new preset with the collectible component should be created and the configurations should be applied. The drop will be set to spawn that preset. The remaining features & configs from 0.7 should remain the same.
• Multiplayer [SP] The drop could be triggered by messages or death in MP experience. When the asset spawns, it appears for each player individually. [MP] The drop could be triggered by messages or death in MP experience. When the asset spawns, it appears for every player on the experience. (NEED TO ESTABLISH HOW DEATH CAN BE ACHIEVED IN MP)

IMAGE DISPLAY / NFT IMAGE DISPLAY [MP]

• Functionality The behavior should maintain the same features & configs as it did in 0.7
• Retro-compatibility No changes to the features & configs should be seen upon upgrading from 0.7
• Multiplayer [MP] All players in the experience will be able to see the same image as it happened in 0.7

INDICATOR [SP][MP]

• Functionality The behavior should maintain the same features & configs as it did in 0.7
• Retro-compatibility No changes to the features & configs should be seen upon upgrading from 0.7
• Multiplayer [SP] All players in the experience will be able to see the same indicators as it happened in 0.7 [MP] Currently non functional.

MESSAGE BROADCASTER [SP][MP]

• Functionality The behavior should maintain the same functionalities & configuration as it did in 0.7 except for the “visible” toggle which was removed. The actor visibility setting should be used instead.
• Retro-compatibility If the actor had the “visible” toggle disabled, then the visibility of the actor will automatically change to hidden in the editor. Other than that, no changes to the functionalities & configuration should be seen upon upgrading from 0.7
• Multiplayer [SP] The messages sent in a MP experience can only be listened by other [SP] behaviors and will affect each player individually. [MP] The messages sent in a MP experience can only be listened by other [MP] behaviors will affect all players.

NFT DETAILS DISPLAY [SP][MP]

• Functionality The behavior should maintain the same features & configs as it did in 0.7
• Retro-compatibility No changes to the features & configs should be seen upon upgrading from 0.7
• Multiplayer [SP] The UI is displayed only to the user that triggered the behavior. It means that it will only react to the “Interact” message. All the other messages will be ignored. The For Player Only behaviors/components will enable to work-around this limitation to be able to receive messages coming from those behaviors/components. [MP] Currently non functional.

PICKABLE [MP]

• Functionality For the most part, the behavior should maintain the same features & configs as it did in 0.7.
• Retro-compatibility No changes to the features & configs should be seen upon upgrading from 0.7
• Multiplayer [MP] When an object is picked by a player, all other players will see the object being carried around. When the actor is picked it cannot be grabbed by another player until the first one releases it and the actor becomes opaque again. A pickable can only be picked up by a single player at a time. A player can only pickup an object at a time.

PLANT [SP][MP]

• Functionality The behavior should maintain the same features & configs as it did in 0.7. The only difference is that new behaviors don’t come with pre-set tags. So if you want the Plant to be gathered by a farmer for example, you’ll have to make sure that the tags are setup properly.
• Retro-compatibility No changes to the features & configs should be seen upon upgrading from 0.7
• Multiplayer [SP] When the asset gets destroyed, it will disappear only for the player locally. [MP] When the asset gets destroyed, it will disappear for all players in the experience.

PLATFORM [MP]

• Functionality The behavior should maintain the same features & configs as it did in 0.7
• Retro-compatibility No changes to the features & configs should be seen upon upgrading from 0.7
• Multiplayer [MP] The state of the platform should be consistent for all players in the experience: they’ll see the platform doing the same movement at the same time.

PLAY SOUND [MP]

• Functionality The behavior should include the same features & configs as it did in 0.7 Some new parameters related to the message broadcasting were added.
• Retro-compatibility No changes to the features & configs should be seen upon upgrading from 0.7 The broadcasting type should automatically be set to “All”
• Multiplayer [MP] When a sound gets triggered, it will play for all the players that are able to hear it.

RARITY VFX [MP]

• Functionality The behavior should maintain the same features & configs as it did in 0.7
• Retro-compatibility No changes to the features & configs should be seen upon upgrading from 0.7
• Multiplayer [MP] All players in the experience will be able to see the same rarity vfx as it happened in 0.7

REPLACE ASSET [SP][MP]

• Functionality The behavior should maintain the same functionalities & configuration as it did in 0.7.
• Retro-compatibility No changes to the functionalities & configuration should be seen upon upgrading from 0.7
• Multiplayer [SP] The actor replacement will be seen by each player individually [MP] The actor replacement will be seen by all the players in the experience.

SPEAKER [SP][MP]

• Functionality The behavior should include the same features & configs as it did in 0.7 Some new parameters related to the message broadcasting were added.
• Retro-compatibility No changes to the features & configs should be seen upon upgrading from 0.7 The broadcasting type should automatically be set to “All”
• Multiplayer [SP] The messages sent in a MP experience can only be listened by other [SP] behaviors and will affect each player individually. If “look at” enabled it will look towards each player. [MP] The messages sent in a MP experience can only be listened by other [MP] behaviors will affect all players. If “look at” enabled it will look towards the closest player.

TOGGLE BEHAVIOR [MP]

• Functionality The behavior should include the same features & configs as it did in 0.7 In SP experiences the toggle should allow pause/un-pause new and legacy behaviors.
• Retro-compatibility No changes to the features & configs should be seen upon upgrading from 0.7
• Multiplayer [MP] All the players will see the behavior being paused/un-paused in a MP experience, as well as the actor’s animation. An important clarification is that it wont work with legacy behaviors on a MP experience, only on SP experiences.

ANIMATED DECORATION V2 [SP][MP]

• Functionality You can set a number of different animations that can be triggered to play at different moments based on condition, and with several customizable configurations allowed.
• Retro-compatibility For old experiences with Animated Decoration, the behavior will be automatically upgraded to the new version while keeping the same animation selected as well as the loop policy.
• Multiplayer [SP] The animations triggered by the behavior should be seen by each player individually. Different animations could be playing for different players. [MP] The animations triggered by the behavior should be seen by all the players in a experience.

AUDIO STREAMING [MP]

• Functionality You can select a variety of audios hosted by The Sandbox on a selection window. Admin users will be able to upload audios through the [backoffice](https://www.notion.so/4bd6c1ca25c946949e7cfbbc761812b6) tool. If the audio is played/stopped/paused by any actor, it will affect all other actors that show the same audio.
• Multiplayer [MP] All players in the experience will be able to hear the same audio playing in sync.

CROWD EVENTS [MP]

• Functionality This new behaviors allows to start a event-based sequence that can be used to create gameplay mechanics based on progression
• Multiplayer [MP] All players in the experience should be able to participate of the behavior (based on the selected criteria for participation). The rewards should be visible for all players as well.

LIGHT [MP]

• Functionality This new behavior allows to create lights in the scene. Can be configured for both point lights or spot lights. Comes with a set of parameters to define how it should glow up the surroundings. Supports preview display on edit mode. Its recommended to be used on logic entities.
• Multiplayer [MP] All players in the experience will be able to see the same lights with the same configuration behaving in the same way.

VIDEO STREAMING [MP]

• Functionality To be used solely in frame actors (like image display). You can select a variety of videos hosted by The Sandbox on a selection window. Admin users will be able to upload videos through the [backoffice](https://www.notion.so/4bd6c1ca25c946949e7cfbbc761812b6) tool. If the video is played/stopped/paused by any actor, it will affect all other actors that show the same video. Allows to configure the way the video should be displayed/fit into the frame. Supports preview display on edit mode.
• Multiplayer [MP] All players in the experience will be able to see the same video playing in sync.

SLIDE [MP]

• Functionality Will force the avatar to slide over the asset.
• Multiplayer [MP] All players in the experience will be able to slide over the actor.

TIMED EVENTS [SP][MP]

• Functionality Allows setting messages to be send based on the elapsed time since the behavior (or the experience) started running.
• Multiplayer [SP] The time tracking is local to each player. The messages sent in a MP experience can only be listened by other [SP] behaviors and will affect each player individually. [MP] The time tracking is global for the whole experience. The messages sent in a MP experience can only be listened by other [MP] behaviors will affect all players.

VFX [SP][MP]

• Functionality This new behavior allows placing one of the available VFXs for selection in the actor’s position. Can be turned on/off by message.
• Multiplayer [SP] Each player could see different VFXs. [MP] All players in the experience will be able to see the same VFX.

WEATHER SWITCHER [MP]

• Functionality This new behavior allows configuration of the weather for the scene (skybox, colors, clouds, etc). Can be enabled through messages. Supports preview display on edit mode. Its recommendable to use on logic entities.
• Multiplayer [MP] Applies the weather configuration to all players in the experience.

POST PROCESSING [MP]

• Functionality Allows to apply full screen post process effects. Its recommendable to use on logic entities.
• Multiplayer [MP] Applies the post processing configuration to all players in the experience.

ACTOR PROPERTY SWITCHER [MP]

• Functionality Allows changing properties like visibility and collision on actors. Usage is similar to a message broadcaster
• Multiplayer [MP] The changes applied by the behavior will be synchronized to all players.

MESSAGES WITH ARGUMENTS

Upon selecting a message to send from a behavior, you’ll see there’s a new set of “special” messages that could be used for gameplay mechanics. This messages appear in yellow and allow the customization of parameters to produce a desired outcome on the “targeted” actors during gameplay.

• AudioPlay Allows to start/resume playing the audio with a fade-in duration.
• AudioPause Allows to pause playing the audio with a fade-out duration.
• AudioStop Allows to stop playing the audio with a fade-out duration.
• LightColor Allows to change the color of the targeted lights in the scene with a fade duration.
• WeatherFade Allows to set a fading time for the transition between the currently set weather into the targeted one.
• PostProcessFade Works the same as WeatherFade. Allows to set a fading time for the transition between the currently set postprocess into the targeted one. ONLY for custom postprocesses, not functional for presets.

UI REVAMP

• Menu Framework Implemented a scalable interface for players to navigate through all the screens available in the game (Map | Inventory | NFT Scan, among others). This framework is used as the base for all the new UI/UX created/improved.
• Main Menu New UI and UX for the main menu. Users can go back and forth from the Menu to the Main Menu screen. Some key bindings were added for accessing the Main Menu from the HUD and the Menu.
• Inventory A new inventory window has been designed and implemented: Slot-based approach as in classic RPGs, Inventory and Character sheet displayed in the same screen, Character sheet displays the Avatar stats based on its current equipped items, with the possibility to change the equipment while in-game.
• User Information A new UI section has been added to display the current user information: Name, Sand, Experience
• Mini Map Added a map to the in-game HUD. It displays information about the current experience, and the player position/orientation. It also shows the other experiences that are close in the metaverse.
• Victory Screen Improved our completion screens flow, along with a full-fledged UI/UX redesign.

MULTIPLAYER INVENTORY

• Extended the inventory system to support some multiplayer features. The players are allowed to equip cosmetic items in MP experiences. The items equipped will be displayed to all the other players and work experience wise (they are not carried from one experience to another)

KNOWN ISSUES

• VFX issues - Auto start toggle is not working properly and some related issues
• Weather Fade - Sky Middle and Sky Bottom colors visible through blocks and asset
• Post Processing - Effects have an impact on Speaker dialog boxes
• User cannot exit Quit to Desktop prompt and is forced to quit
• Lunge Attack - Stun duration is approximately 2 seconds regardless of charge duration
• Platforms refactor - Avatar auto jumps when Legacy and New platform goes up or down
• Basic Platform - Platforms don't collide properly with the avatar
• Hierarchy - Unparent + undo is not working.
• Avatar has 950 HP in the life bar
• Water SFX is sometimes triggered randomly when using crouch, crawl or slide
• The player must only be able to jump in the same direction of the slide.
• The avatar gets stuck in the water after colliding with a solid block
• Climbing - The avatar does not attach correctly to Climbable assets
• New or added assets are not refreshed in the library in real time
• New Basic Platform - The platform will go through the avatar, and it will mount it or go underground instead of being moved aside
• Post FX - Motion blur is applied on character movement
• Basic Platform - Platform stutters when being stopped with Toggle Behavior
• Replace Asset - Settings have no restrictions over behaviors, components or physics
• New replace asset behaviour asset error - When the asset it replaces has "new pickable component" with "collision + gravity" the asset flies out
• New asset spawner behaviour asset error - When the asset to spawn is set to bird behavior and "collision + gravity" the asset trembles

BUG FIXING

• Splash Screen UI: A new Splash screen has been added.
• Optimized Size: Files were deducted from the build to make the installer lighter.

BUG FIXING

• Micro Freezes Patch: Fixed disconnection bug which caused micro freezes.

BUG FIXING

• Jumping height was fix to accommodate certain experiences that were failing.
• Overall crash fixes in experiences.
• Chat connection/freeze fixes.
• Infinite loading in experiences fix.