VirtualSociety 2.2.1

VirtualSociety

• Characters and NPCs
  • NPC Editor
    • New notebook-style layout
    • Added a detailed profile with an avatar and character traits
  • Outfit Editor
    • Improved camera, zoom, and navigation around the character
    • The character portrait is now automatically updated after editing
    • Improved morph controls displayed directly on the character
    • Mobile joysticks are now disabled while editing outfits
    • Improved character appearance editing
    • Added new face and body morph parameters
    • New scene for the Appearance Editor
  • Rendering
    • Improved toon shading for skin and eyes
    • Added subsurface rendering for skin
    • Improved materials and their metallic parameters
  • Animations
    • Fixed looping animations
    • Improved upper-body animations while a character is seated
    • Fixed characters becoming stuck when sitting while crouched
    • Fixed aiming and obstacle detection while seated
    • IK is now disabled while a character is seated
    • Fixed interaction indicators on seated characters
• Game modes and interactions
  • God mode
    • New control mode with a free aerial camera
    • Players and NPCs can now be selected
    • Characters can be instructed to move to a location
    • Characters can be instructed to use an interaction
    • Displays a profile for the selected character
    • Camera movement using the keyboard, mouse, and screen edges
• World Editor
  • Lights
    • New tools for adding Point Lights, Spot Lights, and Rect Lights
    • Lights can now be moved and rotated
    • Color, intensity, and range can now be edited
    • Color temperature settings
    • Spotlight angle settings
    • Advanced settings for shadows, source size, indirect lighting, and volumetric scattering
    • Added a visual representation of light direction
    • Lights are now saved in worlds
  • Saving
    • New save button in the toolbar
    • Added the Ctrl+S shortcut
    • A progress indicator is now displayed while saving
    • Confirmation is now requested before exiting with unsaved changes
    • New option to automatically save the world when exiting the editor
  • Tools
    • New ghost mode allowing the camera to pass through objects
    • Improved room detection and editing
    • Improved detection of interior walls and floors
    • An upper floor can now be created directly from a room
    • Improved room movement and resizing
    • Operations performed on rooms are now better supported by undo and redo
  • Spawn points
    • Spawn points are now editable objects within the world
    • Each spawn point can now be moved, rotated, and configured
    • Added interaction support for spawn points
    • Improved spawn point saving and loading
  • Interactions
    • New interaction selection panel
    • Search through available interactions
    • Interaction graphs can now be opened directly from the editor
    • Improved saving of graphs linked to objects
  • Interface
    • The Design panel now preserves the selected tab and scroll position
    • Improved the editor search field
    • Improved object categories and parameters
    • Fixed preset display
    • Added keyboard shortcuts to tooltips
• Scenario / scripting
  • Node Editor
    • Visual redesign of the Graph Editor
    • Added dedicated icons and colors for the different node categories
    • New search field for quickly finding nodes
    • Improved the creation menu and Properties panel
    • Improved graph framing and navigation
    • Support for array inputs and dynamic pins
    • The OpenDialog node can now have a different output for each answer
  • New nodes
    • MakeArray
    • Speak
    • AND
    • OR
    • XOR
    • NOT
    • SetMobileControls
    • StartActivity
    • StopActivity
    • SpawnObject
    • GetName
    • SetObjectHidden
    • SetObjectCollision
  • Activities
    • New activity system for characters
    • Support for start, loop, and end animations
    • Support for animation events
    • Activities can now be stopped immediately
  • Node improvements
    • The Speak node synchronizes the character’s mouth with their voice
    • Added a scale parameter to the TakeObject node
    • Objects and effects created by a scenario can now be temporary or saved in the world
    • Objects and effects can now be spawned already hidden
    • Improved saving of references and actions embedded in interactions
• Worlds and synchronization
  • Differences between local and remote versions of a world are now detected
  • The version to use can now be selected when a conflict is detected
  • Interactions and additional world files are now synchronized
  • Only modified files are uploaded
  • More reliable world downloads to prevent incomplete downloads from replacing local files
  • Improved duplication of worlds and their data
  • Fixed issues with world creation and loading
• Interface and miscellaneous
  • New loading progress bar
  • Fixed and improved the loading screen
  • Added search fields to some drop-down lists
  • Improved the display of categories and parameter lists
  • Improved thumbnail generation
  • Fixed various navigation, scrolling, and focus issues
  • Various stability and performance improvements