01-23 Jan Update

🚀 Major Features

🎮 New Multiplayer System Released

We released a new Multiplayer System today, which culminates a long journey of upgrades that started last year. These include the v6 release that made our underlying JSON robust and efficient, and a new multiplayer written in-house, keeping the future in mind so that we aren’t limited by multiplayer scale and room limits - even for the foreseeable future.

Testing performance with a 100 NPCs

The new multiplayer system also brings with it a host of improvements and bug fixes.

• 💡 Developed in-house
• 🌐 Now supports up to 100 users simultaneously in a single room.
• 📍 Fixed issues with initial player positions.
• 🔝 Room capacity increased to 100 for enterprise customers. (Room instances still work like before).
• 🎙️ Combined host and broadcast modes into a ‘Moderator’ feature, in line with other chat systems.
• 🏷️ User display names are now retained across sessions.
• 🚶‍♂️ Enhanced avatar movement for smoother walking. (better interpolation).
• 🚀 Improved performance with multiple avatars.
• 🔔 More effective error notifications.

Editor Updates:

• 📚 GMetri SCORM API now supports multiple SCORM elements within the same scene.
• 🌐 Ability to Show/Hide Groups in the structure tree. (Note: This doesn’t work on colliders currently).

Ability to hide groups (folders)

• 📂 Implemented rules to control visibility of entire groups.

Rules for folders

• ⌨ Shift-select multiple items in the Structure tree (Ctrl-select remains).

⏫ Minor Improvements

• 🖼️ New template for custom Share URL patterns in Product Card elements.
• 📝 Expanded template variables, fully documented here: #what-are-the-values-that-i-can-substitute
• 🔐 Direct passcode entry in moderator URL using ?passcode=yyyy.
• 🎨 UI enhancements in the Structure Panel, including alignment fixes.

🐞 Bug Fixes

• 🔄 Fixed a bug in “Load from another deployment” authentication affecting viewer’s state.
• 💾 Enhanced memory usage with multiple avatars and scene transitions.
• 📺 Fixed screen source switching issues in Screenshare Element.
• 🎲 Addressed multiplayer to single-player downgrades.
• 🔄 Corrected erratic avatar scaling when changing scenes.
• 🗨️ Fixed the order of comments.