I'm pushing out a quick hotfix for YouTube videos not loading. Unfortunatelly it seems they're blocking the method we've been using to get higher quality videos. I'll have to look into alternatives, but right now my goal has been to just get the videos to load in the first place.

Also the new faeture & fix in this are actually in the previous build, I just forgot to copy my release notes from my laptop on my main PC so they were missed, sorry!

The plus side is, this build is compatible with previous!

- Added AngularVelocityDelta node
-- This accepts angular velocity (in euler angles per second) and deltaTime
-- It outputs a delta quaternion, which when applied to another quaternion will rotate it by given angular velocity over given delta time

- Disable mediaconnect option for yt-dlp due to increase in issues with YouTube videos not loading (based on report by @natosaka, issue #3183)
-- Unfortuntely this means that YouTube videos will likely load in lower quality for now. We'll have to tackle this separately, but the main goal was to get videos to load right now

- Merged French locale update by @j4.lc
- Merged Chinese locale update by modimobeikete

- Fixed logging results when Discord SDK throws an exception on success (based on report by @nytra, issue #3143, fixed by @probableprime)

Hello everyone! I got another build for you! This is mostly cleaning up a number of things, as the main focus is currently on the PhotonDust (new particle system), but there's a number of goodies here.

The locomotion animation system defaults were finally updated! Sorry it took so long. I'd like to give big thanks to @vrbat, @orange3134 and @rhenium_nv whose parameters were used for the new defaults as well as @bluecyro for going through the community tunings and integrating them into Resonite.

We also now have latest yt-dlp which should fix issues with loading videos as well as new version of Opus, which improves the quality of voice and has much better handling for lost packets!

There's also a number of bugfixes for several issues as well as some new nodes that should simplify a few things.

- Added ComposeColorX node
-- This lets you compose a new colorX value from color and color profile
- Added ColorXToProfile node
-- This converts a colorX value to a color value in a specified target color profile
- Added GetColorXProfile node
- Added GetColorXBaseColor node
-- WARNING! This gives you the raw base color in whatever profile it is, with the color profile information removed. You're responsible for maintaining that color profile information externally when you work with these values
- Added DecomposeColorX node
-- This gives you both the base color and color
- Added GetLocomotionArchetype node
-- This gives you the "archetype" (Walk, Fly, NoClip...) of given locomotion node as a nullable enum
-- Note that some locomotion modules might not have one assigned and the value will be null for them

- Added UniFesta 2024 & VKet 2024 badges (requested by @orange3134 / Weaverse (our partner), implemented by @probableprime)

- Replaced default locomotion animation tuning parameters with community based tunings (integration handled by @bluecyro)
-- The new defaults are a combination of @vrbat 2.2 animations with idle foot turning values from IKANJI 1.08 by @orange3134 and @rhenium_nv
-- Big thanks to everyone helping us tune these values and improve the animations!
-- Please note that this only changes the defaults - if you're already using custom settings yourself, the system will use those. If you prefer different animation style, you can always override the defaults

- Updated yt-dlp from 2024.10.07 to 2024.11.04
- Update opus library (used for encoding voice & audio streams) from 1.3.1 to latest 1.5.2 (issue #3125, huge thanks to @j4.lc for creating CI/CD scripts)
-- This has a number of improvements for audio quality, optimizations and significantly better handling for packet loss
-- Our fork is available here: <https://github.com/Yellow-Dog-Man/opus>

- Merged German locale update by @muppeq
- Merged French locale update by @j4.lc
- Merged Korean locale update by @mirpasec
- Merged Japanese locale update by @.aesc
- Merged Chinese locale update by modimobeikete
- Merged Polish locale update by @foxobread
- Merged British English locale update by @bredo
- Unified key names for tooltips/tools (based on report by @whippersnatchpumpkinpatch, issue #563 in Locale repo)

- Fixed TwitchChatMessageEvent and TwitchSubscriptionEvent node interfaces not generating properly (reported by @shuisho, @amasteramaster , @nytra, @grand__, o6uipi, UnskilledWolf, issue #2597)
-- This also fixes not being able to use their CheerBadge & Plan output values in the data model due to not being marked as data model values
- Fix TwitchChatMessageEvent & TwitchRaidEvent color outputs not being properly upgraded from color to colorX
-- Existing instances that use color should be auto-upgraded to preserve functionality. If you run into issues with this, please make a report!
- Fix being unable to switch locomotion modes after a locomotion module is deleted (reported by @jackthefoxotter, @3x1t_5tyl3, issue #3156)
- Fix record asset manifest getting cleared when changing username (based on report by @shiftyscales, issue #3152)
-- Added a mechanism to prevent partial entities from being written back to the database to catch similar problems early next time
- Fixed scrollwheel speed being framerate dependent (e.g. when sliding items) (reported by @bluecyro and @copygirl, issue #2451, fixed by @bluecyro)
-- This also fixes the Scroll Wheel Grab Move Speed setting not being visible in the settings
- Fix WAV files with AAC encoded audio data resulting in crash of all users when imported (reported by @ceekur, @waterphox, @applebutter180, @troyborg, issue #3167)
-- Currently we do not support these types of files
-- This has been done by removing any Media Foundation based decoders from CSCore library to prevent similar crashes - these decoders are not cross-platform and seem to cause crashes when used in combination with Unity

Hello everyone! I got another build for you. This is mostly bugfixes and merging some things in, since my main focus right now is on the new particle system as part of the performance updates.

This should fixup a few of the issues, some of the recent ones that cropped with the SteamLink update, but there's still more to do.

There's a few goodies too that stem from the particle system work - 4D Simplex Noise!

This also fixes all the procedural textures handling their color inputs incorrectly - ignoring the color profile of those. In most cases you probably wouldn't encounter the problem if the color and the texture are the same color profile. However if this fix results in some of your procedural textures looking incorrect, please make a GitHub issue with report and we'll sort out system to fix those up!

- Added "Spawn Visualizer" to procedural 3D textures in the inspector to allow easily visualizing them
- Add SimplexTexture3D procedural texture
-- This generates a procedural 3D texture with simplex noise
-- You can control the offset/scale of the noise and the two colors it interpolates between
-- You can also switch it to use 4D SimplexNoise algorithm, with a WOffset - this lets you evolve the noise "in time"
- Added Simplex 4D node overload
-- This samples a 4D simplex noise function using a float4 coordinate
- Add ExcludeHeadless to Boolean/NumericUserOverrideGather (requested by @3x1t_5tyl3, issue #3132)

- Hoisted color profile conversions in several procedural textures out of per-pixel operations to only happen once
-- This should slightly speed up the procedural texture generation, especially for textures with heavy color interpolation math
- Remove unnecessary color profile overhead when generating UVTexture pixels

- Merged English locale names for the tools by @rueshejn
- Merged Korean locale update by @mirpasec
- Merged Polish locale update by @foxobread, @torrndraws
- Merged Japanese locale update by @.aesc
- Merged Chinese locale update by modimobeikete
- Merged French locale update by @j4.lc
- Merged German locale update by @muppeq

- Remove ExternalCameraSeparationPoint component
-- This is no longer used by any systems and was obsolete

- Fix ResonitePackages getting corrupted when overwritten (reported by @989onan, @dustysprinkles, @karasutengu, @epiceaston197, issue #3109)
- Fix SimplexTexture ignoring the color profile on Background/Foreground inputs instead of converting them to the color profile of the texture
- Fix SolidColorTexture ignoring the color profile of its input
- Fix StringQRCodeTexture ignoring color profile on Color0 and Color1 inputs
- Fix GridTexture ignoring the color profile of BackgroundColor &
- Fix NoiseTexture ignoring the color profile of MonochromeMin/Max inputs
- Fix AudioWaveformTexture ignoring color profile of Background/ForegroundColor inputs
- Fix GradientStripTexture ignoring the color profile on the gradient inputs
- Fix logs getting spammed with "Error running discord callbacks: NotRunning" (reported by @nytra, issue #1522, fixed by @probableprime)
- Fix SteamLink face tracking not initializing after recent update (reported by @modernballoonie, @zahndy, issue #3067)
-- This would happen if you at any point switched to hand tracking on your Quest headset before launching Resonite
-- Please note that in order to fix this, SteamLink OSC face tracking is now initialized for any Oculus headset, even when not running over SteamLink. This is due to SteamLink changing the headset identification from SteamLink to Quest 2 (even if Quest 2 isn't used) after hand tracking activation. We're not currently aware of another way to reliably detect SteamLink use
- Fix Black Body Color node returning colors in the wrong color space (reported by @pjb, issue #1402, fixed by @bluecyro)
- Fix TimeSpanFromX causing crash when being fed NaN values (reported by @mpmxyz, issue #3081)

Hello everyone!

I've got a smaller-ish build for you, but with some goodies! I was originally hoping to release this before BLFC, but since there were some issues with the changes that needed to get resolved, it got pushed until now so we can resolve them.

This is the first build that was made with a new SDK-style project style which @bluecyroand and @geenz switched us to! This doesn't change any functionality on itself, but it makes building Resonite easier by using a more modern pipeline, which saves all coders time and allows us to spend more of it on implementing other things!

There's a bunch of smaller additions and bugfixes in this as well. This includes fixes to the handling of controllers when switching between controllers and hands with SteamLink. There are still some lingering issues with that, but none of them should be new.

Big thanks to everyone who helped test the updated SteamVR input handling in prerelease to make sure that controller inputs do not break with these fixes: @zahndy, @bigredwolfy, wisemagick1, @rockstarraccoon, @troyborg, @krzeszny, @nytra, Mhowser, @dustysprinkles, @gamethecupdog, @foxobread, ko-tengu, @stellanora, @foxbox., @shdw_x, @siderealscout

- Switched internal project files to more modern SDK style (implemented by @bluecyro and @geenz)
-- This is an internal change with no functional difference for Resonite itself
-- It is an important change, because it uses newer tooling for building Resonite and its components, which in turn simplifies the overall development process

- Added notifications when your permission role in the world is changed (requested by @moonbase__, @draconas_rayne, @modernballoonie, issue #3057)
-- You can configure the notification level (or disable this completely) in the settings under "User Interface"

- Exposed 2D versions of Slerp and SlerpWithMagnitude to ProtoFlux (requested by mpmxyz, issue #3010)

- Upgraded yt-dlp from 2024.08.06 to 2024.10.07
- Upgraded SteamVR Unity Plugin from v2.7.3 to 2.8.0 (SDK 1.14.15 -> 2.0.10)

- Merged Russian locale update by @shadowpanther
- Merged Chinese locale update by modimobeikete
- Merged German locale update by @muppeq
- Merged French locale update by @j4.lc
- Merged Korean locale update by @mirpasec
- Merged Japanese locale update by @.aesc

- Fix earmuff transition range not scaling with the user (based on report by @shiftyscales, issue #2230)
- Fix RelayName network statistic not being correctly populated (reported by @bredo, @zyro1331, issue #2958)
- Fix Slerp not interpolating properly when the vectors are exactly opposite each other (they will now be slightly biased in the positive dimension)
- Rebuild bindings whenever the registered controller changes
-- This fixes changes in active controller resulting in the controls being broken in some cases
- Fix users with usernames containing slashes and other symbols not being able to be fetched from the cloud API (reported by @mvak, @nepushiro, issue #3085)
-- This fixes those users not getting assigned proper default roles with headless
-- Note that this is fixed by using different endpoint internally that makes the username a query: `users?name=<NAME_HERE>&exactMatch=true`
- Fix ComposeFinger node throwing an exception when given invalid inputs (reported by @modernballoonie, issue #3112)
-- The node will now return -1 value when the inputs are invalid
- Fix Resonite controllers not tracking anymore when switching between hand tracking and controllers with SteamLink beta (reported by SilvyPaws, issue #2945)
-- The SteamVR input handling has been rewritten partly to fix these issues and make controller handling more robust
-- Note that there are still Unity crashes present when switching between the controllers/hands. This is likely coming from Unity side and needs to be handled separately

I'm pushing out a smaller build which has a bunch of bugfixes. I'm now mostly busy with designing the particle system, so these are just few things that didn't take as much time and should fixup some problematic issues.

- Added SlerpWithMagnitude nodes (requested by mpmxyz, issue #3009)
-- These will split the input vectors into unit vectors and their magnitudes, interpolate each individually (with vectors being spherically interpollated) and then combine them back together
- When Userspace crashes, the state of all hosted worlds will be dumped to disk and Resonite will shut down (based on feedback by @jackthefoxotter, issue #2779)
-- This prevents Resonite from continuing to run with unusable Userspace
-- The paths of the world dumps will appear in the log

- Merged Chinese locale update by modimobeikete
- Merged German locale update by @muppeq
- Merged French locale update by @j4.lc
- Merged Russian locale update by @shadowpanther

- Fix user's head pose being stuck at origin in the Userspace, resulting in various UI's and prompts appearing below the user (reported by @_deltawolf, @modernballoonie, @nepushiro, @akiram_, issue #2941)
- Fix world orb saver appearing below the user in desktop mode (reported by @_deltawolf, @modernballoonie, @nepushiro, @akiram_, issue #2941)
-- Note that we plan to rework the whole UI to be more unified and UI based in the future
- Fix multiple instances of SimpleUserSpawn resulting in breakage (reported by @foxbox., @amasteramaster, @defhammer, issue #3015)
- Increased validity of avatar access key to 5 minutes to fix user's avatar not loading when loading into the world takes too long (reported by @rucio, issue #1386)
- Fixed BezierCurve nodes disconnecting from everything when saved and spawned (reported by blllrpy, @gyztormizirath, issue #3042, fixed by @bluecyro)

Hello everyone! I got another build for you! This one is more of a "cleanup" build, merging in and sorting out some of the issues that have been pushed to backburner for a bit with other stuff we were dealing with.

There's a bunch of new cool goodies in this one! Lots of new nodes & functions for shaping/easing, more access to the eyebrow tracking data. You can now also mark worlds as "Readonly" to prevent accidental saves (e.g. when you archive things).

There's also important privacy improvement in this one, which builds on the recent session networking handling rework: User's ban status is no longer included in the public API that can be queried by anyone - the information is now only accessible once for brief period when joining a session, which helps improve overall privacy.

A bunch of things were fixed up too - issues with the finger posing system breaking, Resonite to Resonite account migration (this actually borked due to security fortification that was done a while back) and more!

- Added a set of new easing/shaping functions (issue #736, implemented by @ryuvi)
-- Following easing functions are now supported: Sine, Quadradic, Cubic, Quartic, Quntic, Exponential, Circular, Rebound (Back), Elastic and Bounce
-- These are available as Tween CurvePreset property
-- There are also three ProtoFlux nodes for each - In, Out and InOut

- Added eyebrow drivers to EyeLinearDriver (requested by @hazre, @gourry.gabriev, @natbard, issue #2303, implemented by @ryuvi)
-- InnerBrowVerticalTarget, InnerBrowRaiseTarget, InnerBrowLowerTarget, OuterBrowVerticalTarget, OuterBrowRaiseTarget, OuterBrowlowerTarget
- Added InnerBrowVertical & OuterBrowVertical to AvatarRawEye data (requested by @hazre, @gourry.gabriev, @natbard, issue #2303, implemented by @ryuvi)

- Added "Readonly" flag for worlds (requested by @stiefeljackal, @rucio, @medravr, issue #2793)
-- You can set this by editing the world's metadata and checking is "ReadOnly" checkbox
-- When checked, you won't be able to save the world in-place or overwrite it
-- If you want to make saving the world possible again, uncheck the flag first, before loading the world again
-- Please note that this is only "soft" prevention and not a security/permission mechanism. The goal is to prevent accidental saves (e.g. for archived worlds)

- AppConfig can now restrict which login methods are available with `availableLoginMethods` list property (implemented by @probableprime)
-- Currently Login, Register and SAML are supported login methods
-- This is useful for coporations/organizations which want to restrict which methods can be used to login
- Added `forceStartMicrophoneMuted` setting to AppConfig, which allows to override the microphone to always start muted (implemented by @probableprime)

- Bezier Curve node now outputs the tangent in addition to the curve point (implemented by @bluecyro)

- The hyphen symbol "-" is now a legal character in dynamic variable path names (requested by @badhaloninja, @gareth48, issue #3038)
-- This makes it easy to directly use user/group ID's as part of the path

- Restricted access to user's ban status through the public API (based on feedback by @rucio, @stiefeljackal and @dantetucker, issue #2619)
-- This prevents anyone from determining whether arbitrary user is currently banned or not just by querying the API
-- When joining a session, the host is given one-time access key to query the user's ban status. This ensures that the information is available only for a brief period to a single user and only when the user initiates join to a session

- Improve validation when creating onetime access keys in the API

- Fix finger pose processing components breaking when one of the source components only provides rotations with no positions (based on report by @modernballoonie, issue #2964)
- Added filtering to session update events to prevent local status updates being triggered by irrelevant sessions
-- This fixes the underlying issue behind "Session updated, forcing status update" log spam (reported by CZakarya, issue #2909)
- Fix regression causing data migration between two Resonite accounts not working (reported by RuiNtD, @tumnusb, @wattlefoxxo, @mvak, issue #2347)
-- This was caused due to session token security fortification implemented a while back
- Fixed output of Bezier Curve being wrong (reported by @zozokasu, @rhenium_nv, @orange3134, @rucio, @banane9, ColinTimBarndt, Kemono-Kay, issue #1268, fixed by @bluecyro)

Hello everyone! I got a new build for you, with another chunk of performance optimizations - this build fixes the voice/pose hitch when users join sessions, ensuring they stay smooth even when the sessions grow big!

This has been done by rewriting the session networking handling system, which made the code a lot nicer as well, fixed, optimized and improved a bunch of things along the way and opened more doors towards future improvements as well.

There are a number of smaller improvements too, regarding moderation and group management.

I'll be traveling tomorrow, so things will probably be busy, but I hope this build helps quite a bit. There's a lot more performance optimizations to be done, especially to improve the overall framerates!

Also big thanks to everyone who helped test this new update, including: @bredo, @ohzee, @kyuubiyoru, @jackthefoxotter, @orange3134, @readun, @j4.lc, @modernballoonie and @foxbox. !

- When account restrictions are applied, the user will receive an email in addition to Resonite bot message (implemented by @dantetucker)
-- This also fixes issue where full account bans (which are very rare) are not able to learn reason for banning through their account
- `/changeGroupName <group name> <new name>` can now be used by group admins (requested by @zandario, issue #394, implemented by @dantetucker)

- Added mechanism for replacing invalid references in hierarchy to allow upgrading components and nodes with changed structure
-- This is more of an internal change right now, which will help implement backwards compatibility when upgrading code

- Add Account Deletion command-line tool (requested by @CanadianGIT on behalf of the moderation team)
-- This allows you to request / cancel account deletion without needing to log into Resonite itself
-- You will need to provide your login credentials (username & password) to trigger/cancel the deletion
-- Once activated, the deletion process works the same - there is one week grace period, during which you'll receive emails warning about the impeding account deletion
-- This tool also works when the account is currently banned, allowing users with account restrictions to remove them
-- Please note that we do keep minumum information necessary to detect ban evasion even when account is deleted. Deleting your account won't let you bypass the ban and attempting to do so might result in even more severe restrictions
-- You can find this under "Tools" in the Steam installation. It requires .NET 8 runtime to run.
-- Funny anecode - I implemented this while on a train to Prague

- Reworked session networking handling to remove voice & pose hitches caused by users joining a session (reported by "literally everyone", issue #1477)
-- Processing of incoming/outgoing messages - encoding/decoding and so on is now handled in parallel with the task parallel library
-- Majority of processing for control messages (initial join, asset transfers) has been hoisted out of the world sync loop, allowing them to be processed faster and reducing overhead on the world loop itself
-- Improved the security/robustness of the initial handshake when joining session
-- This is a significant rewrite, which significantly improves the overall quality of the code and makes working with this system much easier in the future and will make fixing bugs, security/privacy issues and adding new features (e.g. mesh networking) much easier
-- Note that there is still a data model hitch that happens during the initial capture of the world state. This should not affect any voices and user pose streams. Optimizing this is a different set of optimizations in the future.

- Rework synchronization of time from async stream messages to avoid constant memory allocations
- Rework async stream decoding to reduce memory allocations
- Optimize building a list of users for sync message transmission
- Fix freshly joined users receiving host streams when they haven't requested streams yet, causing unecessary overhead
- Fixed session processing not returning pooled resources, resulting in constant memory allocations and GC pressure

- World configuration changes will not be logged for userspace and worlds with only the host in them to eliminate clutter (implemented by @probableprime)

- Merged German locale update by @muppeq
- Merged Japanese locale update by @.aesc
- Merged French locale update by @j4.lc
- Merged Korean locale update by @mirpasec
- Merged Chinese locale update by modimobeikete

- Fixed failure message displaying wrong port when starting LNL listener fails (fixed by @probableprime)

A quick hotfix for avatars with custom LocomotionAnimationConfiguration.

Compatible with current build! Though update is recommended if you want the parameters fixed. You can also fill them out manually to fix this.

- Fix existing instances of LocomotionAnimationConfiguration values not getting updated with new values (based on report by @jackthefoxotter, issue #2972)
-- This should fix the animation breaking randomly
-- This also fixes the standing still animations not working right on avatars with custom animation configuration due to all the parameters being 0
-- If you've already re-saved your avatar after the previous update, you'll need to fill out the "Standing Still" parameter section manually - you can just copy values from another instance

Hello everyone! Here's a bunch more tweaks and improvements! I'll be at Eurofurence this week, so there probably won't be too many builds during that, but this should help a bit. I still need to pack and prepare for travel, so this is what it is now, but I'll see if I have time for some things later.

The procedural animation should be improved some more too, especially when standing still and while in VR, it shouldn't be moving as much anymore.

Also a bunch of other stuff got merged in, I've been catching up on stuff that's been held by the business stuff.

- Implement special handling for when the locomotion animation avatar is considered to be standing still
-- The feet use different logic to determine when to move around to provide more natural behavior
-- This should eliminate the feet stepping too often while in VR (based on report by @shiftyscales and general observations, issue #2852)
-- This should also eliminate excessive head bobbing when looking around while standing on a spot
-- The parameters for this new mechanism have been exposed on the configuration under "Standing Still" section

- Inspector buttons now require lock in to press by default, preventing accidental changes (reported by @ryuvi, @jackthefoxotter, @readun, issue #2594, implemented by @ryuvi)

**Locale:**
- Merged Russian locale update by @shadowpanther
- Merged Japanese locale fix by @akiram_

- Switched to C# 11 language version, fixing handling of delegates (implemented by @bluecyro and @geenz, related code postprocessing issues fixed by @bluecyro - issues #2107 and #2108)
-- This fixes .NET 8 headless crashing due to Discord SDK not working properly with older versions of the language (reported by @orange3134, issue #2554)
- Fixed DynamicBlendShapeDriver breaking when one of the blendshapes is not filled in (reported by @modernballoonie, issue #2408, fixed by @bluecyro)
- Fixed mesh winding direction on MultiSegmentMesh and the component breaking when sides is set to less than 3 (repoted by @aegis_wolf, issue #1994, fixed by @ryuvi)
-- Existing instances of this mesh will have FlipNormalDirection set to true to preserve old behavior
- Fix VR keyboard not being able to copy any text which contains invalid path characters (reported by @nytra, @sctanf, AlanMoonbase, issue #1206)