• Fixed poster materials that were rendering incorrectly in some maps
• Fixed NPC's clipping into the floor on the tower maps first floor
• Fixed the console prop, agents shouldn't get stuck in them now

• Updated DPG, fixing various issues with penetrator analysis for modded characters.

We have a small update for you all agents. This ones not a big content patch but it contains some new stuff and a lot of under the hood changes for better modding support (see the end for details)

Patch Notes

• Added some new NPC animations for vending machines, computers and other electrical devices
• Fixed some existing animations not looping
• Corrected some NPC interaction points being offset from the floor or objects nearby
• Updated some breeding stations to better position the player
• Some minor tweaks with NPC starting positions and grouping

Modding changes

• Fixed issue where penetrators could turn inside out. (Whoops!)

• Penetrators now spawn their jiggle rig at the correct scale, even when armatures have non-neutral scales.
• (Modding) Foliage no longer requires Blender 4.1 to import.

• Fixed mods being built with clashing builtinshaders bundles, preventing them from being loaded properly.
• Fixed issue with Penetrators that weren't part of the "root" armature. (Fixes the Altea mod).
• Deleted an invalid audio file, and moved missing prefabs to the SDK. (Fixes some modding errors).

• Fixed issue where the Dragon on City would automatically select the player as a usable and perfectly track them.
• Fixed elevator on tower having overlapping navmeshes.
• Fixed City being too bright in general.
• Fixed some idle stations on Tower being misplaced.
• Fixed button placement on tower upper floors.
• Fixed SDK missing the glory hole animation assets.

Hello agents, it's spring time here and what better way to celebrate than with a new update! We've been hard at work on some new content for you to sink your teeth into as well as a bunch of tweaks to how characters see and move within the game world. Happy spring hunting agents!
8d9b39de changes:

• Added a new map, Tower! (Surely this will be a simple mission, right?)
• Added a new pred enemy, the Maned Wolf! (Find them within the new map.)
  
• Added foliage to some maps. It's spring!
• Added a new visibility indicator to the HUD.
  
• Visibility is now in discrete levels. From 1x to 4x. Sprinting while holding someone gives you max visibility. Having larger balls permanently increases your visibility.
• There is now a small buffer before NPCs begin to notice you. This prevents the audio/VFX "tickling" that happens when just briefly being visible.
• Minimum and maximum detection time for NPCs has been drastically shortened. To help overcome the buffer, and to make them more predictable.
• NPC count has been reduced for most maps because they are now much better at seeing the player
• Characters now face where they're sprinting rather than where they're looking.
• Moved the Player's spawn on City, and made the objective more obvious with some lighting.
• Fixed audio VFX from not spawning due to not being included in the build.
• Loading a level quickly renders 60 frames of various locations to reduce stutter while playing.
• Characters now lean into which way they're moving. This negatively affects FPS mode a bit, but overall feels worth it.
• Jumping no longer temporarily breaks NPC pathfinding.
• NPCs will now turn left and right while searching for the player.
• Fixed a few cases where NPCs would get softlocked trying to path to an unreachable area. (Staying at a high alert level.)
• Fixed issue with splurting inside of objects causing clipping.
• Fixed a bunch of broken NPC idle/sit stations on most maps

• Fixed clothing rip VFX from not appearing in build.
• Fixed one of the player vore animations from not having any expressions.

• Fixed possums not moving and being in the floor.

• Fixed characters not properly getting inflated when they're capable of vore.
• Added some lighting tools to assist with map development for modders (Found under Tools->ChurnVector).

• Fixed shark being inflated by default.

• Fixed instances where characters could rotate when they weren't supposed to.
• Characters that don't specify a vore container type, or a vore type, will get generic versions assigned.
• Characters that don't specify any penetrables will get some automatically generated when necessary.
• Nerfed NPC detection speed by about 15%, as it was still overtuned.

• Added a water shader for modded maps.
• Bulges are no longer configurable, and are automatically configured via math.
• Removed a vast amount of redundant options for both materials and penetrator inputs for modding.
• Added some generics for vore types and vore containers. It's not quite ready yet but technically OV is possible with modding now.

• Fixed issue where the modding category of levels failed to display, preventing custom levels from being playable.
• Added logs for when mods load.

• Fixed some animations having FootIK disabled.
• Fixed balls clipping through the floor due to trying to depenetrate from the player's collider on spawn.
• Breeding stations now analyze the model you have and attempts to place them with their penetrator aligned to the penetrable. This allows custom models to align better.
• You no longer need to penetrate deeper than a certain amount to get stimulated, this allows regular sized penetrators to just-- rub the outside of the hole to release.
• Fixed issue where you could build infinite hip velocity while using a controller, making penetration simulations feel laggy and unresponsive on the Steam Deck.

• Fixed issue where the game stalls attempting to download workshop items.
• Fixed issue where the game breaks when workshop items were deleted or moved.
• Removed defunct hand print option for balls shader.

• Fixed issue where it became impossible to unload characters, causing them to spawn tiny condoms.

• Improved math on balls IK so that they don't collapse on certain rigs.

• Fixed issue where Glory Hole station users would get their limbs stuck.
• Fixed issue where all custom mods built to the same bundle, causing conflicts when enabling more than one. (Modders please pull these changes!)
• Fixed issue where feet would sometimes get stuck at the tip.

• Fixed completing two levels in a row causing the completion cut-scene to get stuck.
• Fixed the city dragon's breasts deflating when they grabbed another character.
• Fixed naga plush from being invisible.
• Fixed player's head from permanently shrinking after pausing during FPS mode.
• Fixed condom placement objectives from being impossible to complete.

• Fixed some instances of the new dragon incorrectly acting like a normal civilian.
• Game no longer permanently stalls when Steam isn't running.

Hello everyone! We know its been quite a while since we released any updates to Churn Vector but for very good reason as we've been hard at work preparing it for today major update! Were thrilled to announce the Churn Vector modding update is out now! This update comes with a lot of changes and fixes to the base game, the release of modding tools, steam workshop integration and a new friend to sneak past.

Modding support

Game Update

• Penetrations now involve both friction forces and knot forces.
  
• Penetrators now feature inherent curvature.
• Jiggle physics are now generated to match the length of the penetrators automatically.
  
• Blendshapes now properly interact with friction and knot forces.
• Penetrables now have an effect on jiggle physics, causing them to "flick out" and wobble on removal.
• Added a back-projected spline point that improves bending for penetrators.
  
• Penetrators and penetrables are deeply simplified, making it easy to set up!

First person mode

Patch 1807e40f Notes

• Modding support and Steam Workshop integration
• Replaced Penetration Tech with DPG, for ease of modding.
• Cop animation polish, they can aim, walk, and shoot without sliding around as much.
• Cops now properly predict your movement and clearly display where they're thinking of shooting.
• Replaced Shapes addon with regular images.
• Level selection now has categories, allowing users to organize their levels.
• Fixed bug where player's balls unintentionally started at 1.5x its intended scale.
• Fixed bug where NPCs couldn't detect you when using a need station.
• Feathered NPCs vision at the edges, now that they're much less distracted by need stations.
• New NPC, the maroon dragon.
• Corrected Archival's name from "Archical" in the credits.
• Lots of small map adjustments
• Many small bug fixes, many added bugs.

Some minor bugfixes, SteamDeck support, and model pack!

Patch b83ca484 notes

• Possum cook's detection circle no longer is inside their big hat.
• Added boobs and donut to the Dragon.
• NPCs falling off the navmesh no longer permanently move randomly.
• Added smooth damping to Camera movement. This should help with it flickering in tight spaces.
• Camera near clipping plane has been made smaller. This fixes the Camera thinking it's colliding with walls that the player is simply near.
• Fixed Buridan's donkey issue with NPCs trying to return two condoms.
• The player and NPCs now get flaccid over 48 seconds if nothing's going on.
• Fixed issue where the player would get softlocked when holding a condom that got recumbobulated.
• We've got full Steam Deck compatibility now!

Another week and we've been hard at work squashing bugs and getting ready for full steam deck support!

Patch 1f2310b8 notes

• Returned the Dragons hunger for any and all characters.
• Fixed issue where dragon didn't have jiggle physics on their wiener.
• Adjusted possum's jiggle physics.
• Fixed rat priest's tail from vanishing with their clothes.
• Fixed bug where using the warehouse button twice would softlock the game.
• Fixed bug on SteamDeck where getting CV'd by the dragon would bring the game down to 5fps.
• Trying to recumbobulate a map-spawned condom no longer soft-locks the player. (It still doesn't accomplish anything though! This might change later.)
• Fixed lighting in warehouse offices from being unintentionally dark.
• Sitting points for NPC's now have hip-pinning, so that the variety of characters now sit properly.
• Fixed various path finding issues that could cause NPC's to become stuck or pass through objects
• Flaccid states no longer pull shafts down so aggressively.
• Save slot selection menu will now immediately show Xbox controls if you have a Gamepad plugged in.
• Fixed Station map from displaying an old game over screen with generic "Jump" prompts.
• Localization update.

Hello you hungry critters! Its been one week since CV officially launched and we are absolutely thrilled by the positive reception! A lot of the feedback we have received revolves around additional content and we hear you. While we can't make any promises on what additional content we plan to deliver, at the very least we can confirm that modding support is on the way but with no concrete timeline on when it will be ready. On the bug fixing front, we now have a public issue tracker over at: https://github.com/Archival1/CV-BugReporting that users can submit and discuss bugs they encounter. If you find a bug be sure to check it out and you might just see it appear in patch notes like this!

Patch cef91e5c

• Buffed NPC detection rate by about 20%. (Minimum detection rate 8 -> 6.5 seconds, max detection rate 4 -> 3.5 seconds.) Non-authority NPCs still mostly ignore you if you're unladen and not being suspicious.
• Buffed NPC memory by 20%. It's only a few extra seconds, but it prevents them from walking out of the room and forgetting what just happened while still in sight of the player.
• Fixed bug where investigating NPCs would forget about you if it took more than 30 seconds to path to the search location.
• Fixed Navmesh bugs on City, Station, Warehouse. Should lessen the chance of NPCs becoming stuck on corners of objects.
• Buffed Dragon's speed by 20%. Should now have a much easier time getting around when "under load".
• Fixed Dragon being omniscient when deciding on a character to CV. Prevents them from just pathing to the player across the map. This is work to make pred characters more authorable, and we're not quite finished with it yet!
• Fixed receptionist Giraffe clothes clipping.
• Added Condom physics, they now wobble and splat like a real bag of fun.
  
• Fixed Npcs at glory holes thinking they are the boss of the City when freed.
• Added some wet floor signs.
• Reduced vocal volume for Possum characters by 50%.
• Improved animations for most character interactions (sitting, idle, vore)
• Fixed some chairs, and vending machines causing characters to hover when using them.
• Fixed light bleed on most maps' light bake.
• Fixed Thai fonts from having missing glyphs.
• Fixed smashed wine bottle fragments from lacking collision.
• Fixed bug where setting Hint Glyphs to Controller would disable breeding stands.
• Added a small cutscene to a button in the Warehouse to show what door it opens.
• Fixed dialogue getting stuck when leaving a glory hole station early.
• Fixed goop decals ignoring the giraffe.
• Fixed balls not teleporting to their owners on Recumbobulation. Should prevent the Dragon's balls getting stuck half-way across the map when taken to a Recumbobulator.
• Fixed worker Rats ignoring cumflation.
• Removed some generic glyphs (TAB, and JUMP) and replaced with proper controller-specific button prompts.
• Fixed the Game Over prompt from requiring a keyboard space bar press. It has been replaced by a "Quick Restart" prompt with the appropriate controller glyph and controls.
• Fixed getting multiple-game over states simultaneously from breaking menuing.
• Small various fixes.

Churn Vector is on track for release on January 12th, at 9:00am UTC time! We're excited to introduce ourselves, the developers who came together to make Churn Vector happen! [table] [tr] [td]
[/td] [td]Eugene, the 3D artist responsible for all the characters, level art, and props.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]
[/td] [td]Archival, a big dragon who churned out most the animations, level design, and puns.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]
[/td] [td]Naelstrof, the chubby kobold-enthusiast gator-dragon.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]
[/td] [td]Sarah! The cool cat who scratches up the tunes.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]
[/td] [td]BigCozyOrca, who hooked us up with some splashy art![/td] [/tr] [/table] We've just locked down the build so that we (hopefully) don't create new bugs. We're excited to show y'all the game!