Board Games VR

• Users using WMR controllers can use the built-in menu button to open/close the main menu. • Freshly written XR Interaction System to handle actions, haptic, interactions as well as upcoming (in future releases) hand models. No longer depending on the built-in systems provided by Unity. • By default, users can grab objects using either trigger or the grab button on the VR controller, instead of having to choose only one button in the main menu. • Physical mouse object is now visible in local multiplayer mode as well as Non-VR mode. • Command line support to select vr mode: `-xrmode`. Options: `none`, `oculus`, `openvr`, `openxr`. Example: "board-games-vr.exe -xrmode openxr" will force the app to use OpenXR. • Radio and the small table with the radio on top in the default environemnt. • Waterfall SFX and lake water SFX in the default environment. Update • Using the latest Universal Render Pipeline (URP version 12.1.4). As a result all previous 3rd-party environments (scenes, skymaps, shaders, materials, etc.) must be updated by their publishers to use the latest URP. • "The Void" environment is renamed to "Green Nebula" with id "green-nebula". • The dynamic day/night cylce in the default environment is replaced with fixed daylight. • Reduced game runtime memory usage. • Reduced game assets loading times. • Reduced overall game size to require less than 1GB of disk space (used to be almost 2GB). • Improved all textures in the default environment. • Improved responsiveness of the main menu. • Updated icons in the main menu. • Removed the menu option for grab, since the game is now supporting both trigger and grab buttons on VR controller. • User can drag objects using mouse in Non-VR mode against surfaces, instead of only in a straight line. • Reflection probes now use box projection to allow more realistic reflections based on object position within the probe. • Improved locomotion/teleportation using joysticks and touchpads (where controller supports it) to allow users to cancel the action by turning the stick around to the back. Fix • Rendering issues in skymaps of the built-in environments. • Rendering issues when using WMR headsets. • Occasional post-processing issues when starting the game. • Light intensity, shadow, ambient occlusion, reflection and baked textures in the built-in environments. • Touching the Valve Index (Knucles) touchpad accidentally teleports the user. • Touching the Vive wand touchpad teleports the user (instead of clicking the touchpad). • Snap turn immediately (accidentally) turns the user, as soon as the controller stick is slightly moved to either left/right. • Menu button on Oculus and WMR controllers do not work as intended. • Haptic feedback only works correctly on Valve Index and Vive controllers, but no other devices. • Backgammon board triangles are not correctly positioned. • Sometimes the main menu disappears right after it becomes visible to the user. • Some texts in the scene flicker when being rendered, based on type of headset and VR video resolution. • In Non-VR and local multiplayer mode (where supported by user's machine and VR platform), mouse interactions might have an offset to the actual position on display. • Interacting with interactable objects do not work after a teleport, where the user hand ends up inside that object. • Grabbing an already grabbed object with another hand, causes the object to jump and incorrectly change position. • Grabbing an object containing multiple colliders is not easily possible. • Throwing objects using Oculus controllers has extremely reduced velocity, in compare with Valve Index controllers. • Throwing objects using WMR controllers has reduced velocity, in compare with Valve Index controllers. • Sometimes the game log file gets filled up with errors related to Unity XR Interaction. • Sometimes the user could not scroll the list in the main menu, using the laser pointer. • Sometimes the user teleportation blink does not work. • Teleport anchors are positioned incorrectly with a small vertical offset below the ground. • Sometimes audio/sfx does not play from the correct world position and instead plays back at the player's head position. Known issues • Core: Chess AI takes between 3 to 10 seconds when making decisions. This is too long in compare to other chess games available on the market. Chess is only available in multiplayer, until the AI is fully improved. • Core: The score system is disabled. This will be published once it is decoupled from Steamworks. • Core: The hand models and interactions are disabled in this build (will enable them again once the new input system and custom interactions are fully implemented). • Multiplayer: Players cannot create private rooms. This feature is disabled in the current release due to bugs. It will be released once the bugs are fixed. • Multiplayer: In online multiplayer, the interactable room objects might disappear when the room host leaves the room. • SFX: When interacting with checker pieces and boards the SFX is not audiable! • VFX: Guide poster does not show the Tic-Tac-Toe rules (side note: this might change in the near future with the upcoming tutorial content). 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