Changelog

New

• Added backwards compatibility implementation for dataobjects, allowing characters, scenes, etc. to remain compatible with newer versions of the game
• Added bloom, vignette, antialiasing, ambient occlusion effects and configuration
• Added camera presets in the studio that are saved into the scene and hold field of view, view distance, position and rotation of the camera
• Added character creator presets for settings like the background, pose, expression etc. Changing the default preset will apply it upon booting the creator
• Added copy/pasting of various character settings in the studio
• Added copy/pasting to material customizer
• Added face and body overlay categories to the character creator
• Added keybind (F) to focus camera at selected object in the character creator
• Added keybind setting for camera resetting
• Added launch options --start-studio and --start-maker to start the game directly into the specified mode (suggested by the community)
• Added mods hot reloading (suggested by the community)
• Added object name in material customizer to help differentiate material sources
• Added pause screen when opening the Steam overlay, unplugging a game controller or pausing manually via the pause keybind
• Added skinned accessories support
• Added skybox background (panoramic, 6 sided) support to the character creator and the studio with options for intensity and rotation
• Added steamworks integration to pause the game when opening the Steam overlay
• Added studio object blendshape editing (suggested by the community)
• Added studio room objects set mod
• Added texture quality graphics setting
• Added toon outline to shaders

Updates

• Improved background image and music managers allowing you to pick bgms and holding multiple custom images/bgms in cache
• Improved some UI elements visual consistency
• Removed some unused settings to clean up space
• Studio objects parented to a body part of a character will now follow rotation as well
• Switched to using hardware cursor implementation (suggested by the community)
• Various performance improvements
• Rewrote shaders from the ground up for lighter memory footprint and faster rendering

Fixes

• Gizmo and studio object / ik targets no longer are rendered into screenshots
• Performance panel RAM counter now displays the correct memory usage (reported by the community)
• Starting the game with an unsupported or too big resolution in settings now correctly resets to the largest available resolution (reported by the community)
• Trying to load a corrupt or incompatible dataobject no longer hard locks the game
• Various bugfixes

Known issues

• Skybox image might render white. We are currently investigating why it happens.
• Notifications boxes will appear, complaining about mods being updated and that can bring compatibility issues. Do not worry about that, it's a bug that will be patched in the close future.

Mod Creator

New

• Added face and body overlay texture types

Updates

• Saving a mod with the same filename now overwrites it instead of creating numbered copies (suggested by the community)
• Current mod creator version is now appended to the window name