VirtualSociety 2.2.2

VirtualSociety

• Characters and NPCs
  • Character names
    • NPC names are now displayed above their heads
    • New World Editor option to show or hide each NPC’s name
    • Improved nameplate styling using theme settings
    • Proximity detection is now disabled when an NPC’s nameplate is hidden
  • Fixes
    • Fixed character portrait saving
    • Fixed characters remaining attached to their seats after standing up
    • Reduced movement jitter in multiplayer
• Gameplay and interactions
  • God mode
    • God mode can now be launched from the phone’s Map app
    • New toolbar for restarting scripts that run at the beginning of a game
    • Added the ability to pause or resume the simulation
    • Added the ability to speed up the simulation to x2 or x3
    • Added the ability to stop active scripts, movement and animations
    • New button to focus the camera on the selected character
    • Added a ghost mode that allows the camera to move through objects
    • Improved camera rotation, zoom and movement
    • Added keyboard shortcuts and tooltips for the main controls
• World Editor
  • Dynamic terrain
    • New voxel terrain that can be edited in real time
    • Tools for raising, digging, flattening and smoothing the terrain
    • Added advanced tools for creating noise, erosion, ramps, terraces and plateaus
    • Added tools for drilling, filling or deleting terrain areas
    • Choose between circular, square, triangular or hexagonal brushes
    • Adjustable brush radius, intensity and falloff
    • Preview of the brush shape and affected areas
    • Persistent saving of terrain changes with the world
    • Improved terrain data synchronization
    • Optimized terrain loading, collisions, levels of detail and serialization
  • Stairs
    • New spiral staircase creation tool
    • Adjustable height, width, radius and number of steps
    • Adjustable height per turn for spiral staircases
    • New controls for rotating stairs and adjusting each endpoint independently
    • Added parameter limits to prevent invalid geometry
    • Fixed material application on stairs
    • Improved character navigation on stairs
  • Walls, rooms and floors
    • Improved the creation and editing of straight and curved walls
    • Fixed several wall connection and intersection issues
    • Walls can no longer be added twice to the same intersection
    • Fixed inverted normals and distorted textures around certain intersections
    • Added visual indicators for wall direction and intersection points
    • Improved floor creation, movement and deletion
    • Fixed upper-floor creation and floors that could disappear
    • Improved undo and redo support for room edits
  • Roofs
    • Added roof snapping to walls
    • The eyedropper tool can now be used between walls and roof gables
    • Added a preview when automatically creating a roof
    • Improved the creation and editing of curved roofs
  • Tools
    • New duplication tool in the toolbar
    • Duplicated objects now preserve the source object’s position, rotation, scale and parent
    • Fixed duplication with the Alt key so that the copy, rather than the original object, is moved
    • Objects can now be duplicated with the eyedropper tool
    • Creation tools can now place several objects in succession
    • Improved snapping to the grid, walls and intersections
    • Added snapping points to windows
    • PointLight, SpotLight and RectLight now have separate creation tools
    • Added a new arc shape to the catalog
• Scenario / scripting
  • New nodes
    • Sequence
    • Gate
    • SwitchOnInt
    • SwitchOnString
    • MakeBool
    • MakeInt
    • MakeFloat
    • MakeString
    • IntToFloat
    • FloatToInt
    • ToString
    • GetArrayItem
    • GetArrayLength
    • ListContains
    • FindListItem
    • AppendListItem
    • RemoveListItem
    • Divide
    • ClampFloat
    • MinFloat
    • MaxFloat
    • AbsoluteFloat
    • RandomFloat
    • GetTime
    • IsTimeBetween
    • GetObjectLocation
    • GetObjectDirection
    • Interact
    • OpenPopup
    • SetEnableGravity
    • SetSimulatePhysics
  • Node editor
    • New curve editor integrated directly into compatible pins
    • Improved nodes with dynamic inputs or outputs
    • Improved node search and autocomplete
    • Fixed the SetObjectTransform node
    • Added an option to preserve world-space transforms
  • Dialogs
    • The OpenPopup node now provides a typed result and an execution output
    • Added buttons for playing or replaying voice lines in dialogs
    • Added audio controls to dialogs containing illustrated choices
  • Characters and movement
    • The Speak node now accepts a curve for precise control over mouth movement, with or without an audio file
    • Improved the Patrol node for more reliable movement along open or looping paths
    • Gravity and physics simulation are disabled by default in their new nodes
• Rendering and performance
  • Added Lumen support for dynamic terrain
  • Added Lumen support for procedural meshes and glTF objects loaded at runtime
  • Improved the rendering of wall openings with Lumen
  • Improved support for translucent materials and glass
  • Improved the rendering of procedural materials, skin and emissive colors
  • Adjusted Lumen rendering on macOS for improved compatibility
• Interface and miscellaneous
  • Added a visual cursor to the phone
  • Improved phone navigation with keyboard, controller and mouse
  • Fixed dialog focus when displayed over the login form
  • Improved the styling of search lists and several icons
  • Fixed several crashes in the World Editor, development tools and packaged builds
  • Various stability and performance improvements