v5.0.1 (2024/12/20 - Current)

[Changed]

GrabbableProperty no longer requires a TouchableProperty on the same game object. Since touch is now handled with poking and requires different component, a grabbable object is no longer automatically touchable as well.
Changed the GUID and name of FresnelHighlight.mat to ControllerPinchPointer.mat. Previously created VR Builder 5 scenes will need to reassign it in both Pinch_Pointer_LOD objects inside the XRI Rig.

[Fixed]

Fixed the wrong orientation of the left controller of the XRI rig (demo scene and prefab).
Fixed filtering for label groups.

v5.0.0 (2024/11/11)

[Added]

Included the existing paid add-ons: Animations, Menus, Randomization, States & Data, Track & Measure.
Outline highlighter and associate behavior, as an alternative to the material highlighter provided in the core package.
Point at Objects behavior, displaying an arrow (or alternate prefab) that points at a specified object.
Play Video behavior, which lets the user play 2D or 360° videos from a Resources folder.

[Changed]

VR Builder now supports Unity 6 out of the box. Unity 2022 and previous versions are not officially supported by VR Builder 5.
Since Unity 6 uses URP by default, we now consider URP as our default render pipeline as well, and updated our content accordingly.
The default interaction component is now based on XRI 3. This entails a completely new rig (based on the XRI default rig) and some updated interactions.
The default raycast and interaction layers for teleportation are now named "Teleport" instead of "XR Teleport" and set to layer 31 if possible.
Teleportation anchors now have two more options: Add Snap Volume and Add Interaction Affordance, respectively auto configuring the anchor so that the teleportation ray snaps to it and so that it provides affordance when hovered.
Changed and tidied up namespaces. This can result in API breaks on custom content, but it should be a simple case of pointing to the new namespace.
Merged Text-to-Speech and Basic Interaction assemblies in the Core assembly, in order to simplify the architecture. Custom content that referenced these assemblies now needs to reference the Core assembly.
Removed obsolete code.

[Known issues]

There is no automated upgrade path from VR Builder 4 processes. It's technically still possible by manually editing the JSONs, but we recommend not upgrading a project in progress.
While this package still includes the demo scenes from the old paid add-ons, the demo scenes from Randomization and States & Data have been temporarily disabled as they have not been converted yet.

v4.4.0 (2024/10/31)

[Added]

The Object in Collider condition now supports multiple object references and lets the user specify a number of objects that needs to be in the collider.
Every text-to-speech provider implementation can now have custom configuration fields. This makes it easier to implement custom TTS providers.
UserSceneObject now has a Base property corresponding to the position of the user's feet.

[Changed]

Standardized component configuration sections in Project Settings (like the SnapZone settings) to make it easier to create more.

[Fixed]

Fixed automatically focusing the Step Inspector window when recompiling.
Play Audio behavior now stops playing before aborting.
If a condition is a lockable property provider, lockable properties are retrieved using the condition's API instead of a helper method. This makes it easier to implement custom conditions that return a specific set of lockable properties.

v4.3.0 (2024/09/12)

[Added]

The Parallel Execution node now lets you create optional paths. You can make a path optional by clicking the new button next to its name. An optional path will be interrupted when all non-optional paths have completed, and execution will immediately proceed to the next node. This can be useful to create background looping animations, recurring hints and so on. An optional path can even be an endless loop and it will still be interrupted.
Added advanced user settings to Project Settings > VR Builder. Advanced users can, for example, skip the "adding Process Scene Object" dialog or automatically add properties when an object is dragged in the step inspector, effectively auto-pressing the "Fix it" button.
VR Builder components now have a custom icon instead of the Unity script icon.
Added API to abort entities to entity lifecycle. Calling the Abort() method on an entity lifecycle will enter a short Aborting stage where all child entities are aborted as well, then will revert the entity to Inactive. Note that while every lifecycle can be individually aborted, it mostly makes sense to abort entire processes or chapters.

[Changed]

The Set Next Chapter node has been renamed to End Chapter node. It now actively ends the current chapter (by aborting it) instead of just setting the following one. This means it now also works reliably in nested nodes, so we made it possible to create this node inside step groups or parallel execution nodes, where it was previously greyed out.

[Fixed]

Fixed warning in Unity 2022+ when using the Move Object behavior to move a kinematic object.

v4.2.1 (2024/07/29)

[Added]

Added resource drawer for animation clips, in order to support the new Play Animation Clip behavior in the Animations add-on version 2.1.0.

v4.2.0 (2024/07/05)

[Added]

Added support for copy/pasting behaviors and conditions in the Step Inspector. The Delete button has been replaced with a Menu button which allows to delete, copy and paste behaviors and conditions, similar to the Unity inspector. Additionally, a Paste button has been added next to the New Behavior/Condition button to allow pasting into an empty inspector.
New Load Scene behavior letting you load scenes with options to load additively and/or asynchronously.
Generic dropdown drawer that can be used for your custom behaviors/conditions: your class should extend DropdownDrawer and should be passed a string in the attribute [UsesSpecificProcessDrawer("YourDrawerName")] above the property you want to select via dropdown.

[Changed]

The Process Editor now displays a message when it is open in a scene without a process. This also displays warnings in case the process has been moved/deleted.
The Runtime Configurator now handles a moved/deleted process by displaying a message in the dropdown instead of silently defaulting to the first selectable process.
Improved the UI of the dropdowns showing scene object groups.
Improved error handling with having multiple instances of type RuntimeConfigurator in all loaded scenes.

[Fixed]

Black text on the "drop object here" box of scene object references in Step Inspector.
Fixed exception when attempting to create snap zone highlight from multiple large meshes.
Fixed a build error.
Small editor performance improvements in behaviors/conditions that let you choose between a data property and a constant value.

v4.1.1 (2024/06/07)

[Changed]

Significantly improved editor performance when deleting a step in a chapter with many steps.
The user's position in the graph is now persisted between sessions.
The selected tab in the step inspector (Behaviors, Transitions or Unlocked Objects) is now stored globally, so it will stay the same when cycling through steps.
HasGuidValidation no longer accepts any object if no guids are specified, but will accept no object as is logical instead. While this can result in an unusable snapzone, it makes it possible to potentially add valid objects at runtime.

[Fixed]

The progress bar doesn't get stuck when the TTS provider fails to generate a clip, an error message is displayed in the console.
Fixed language settings not being saved correctly in certain cases.
Fixed process controller prefab so that unnecessary components are not present when Standard is selected.
Groups created from a Process Scene Object are persisted correctly.
Fix for occasional ArgumentOutOfRangeException causing the wizard not to display correctly when importing VR Builder for the first time.
Fixed the bug where an outdated process is executed when pressing play.

The full changelog can be found here: https://github.com/MindPort-GmbH/VR-Builder/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

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