v5.6.1 (2025/11/28 - Current)

[Fixed]

Fixed TTS audio not being played.
Implemented workaround for controllers shown upside-down on Quest 3 by Unity XRI.

v5.6.0 (2025/11/07)

[Added]

Added option to not auto-generate text-to-speech audio on build. Improved options to generate audio manually.
It is now possible to enable hand tracking in the Scene Setup Wizard for XRI scenes.

[Changed]

Improved handling of async TTS providers.
Updated materials to the latest Unity specification.

v5.5.0 (2025/10/08)

[Added]

New demo scene showcasing hand interactions. It is possible to open it either from the Tools > Demo Scenes menu or from the VR Builder samples in the Package Manager. VR Builder will automatically import all necessary packages and perform the necessary setup before opening the scene.

[Changed]

Hovered activate is enabled by default on the standard rigs.
SettingsObjects will now show an error when failing to load.
Updated materials to the latest Unity specification.

[Fixed]

Fixed the set localization table being set to null when saving the process.
When disabling gravity in the Interaction Settings page of the Project Wizard, Throw on detach and Force gravity on detach are set accordingly as well on affected game objects.

v5.4.0 (2025/09/12)

[Added]

Added support for hand tracking. The optional VRB_XR_Setup_Hands rig prefab should be used in place of the default one. Please check the included documentation for more information.
The SnapZone inspector now warns the user of misconfigurations and offers the possibility to fix read/write issues, this was previously only displayed as a warning in the console.

v5.3.2 (2025/08/07)

[Added]

Updated the default rig to match the XRI Toolkit 3.1.2 rig.
Added tunneling vignette option to the default rig.
Added animated hands option to the default rig.

[Changed]

Updated demo scenes with new XR rig.

[Fixed]

Fixed exception in WebGL mode.
Fixed API break related to LockOnParentObjectLock.

v5.3.1 (2025/07/01)

[Added]

Added generic control conditions and property interfaces to basic interaction component.

v5.3.0 (2025/06/18)

[Added]

Lockable properties now include a Is Always Unlocked toggle. When checked, the VR Builder process will never lock the object, useful for sandbox environments.
The Release Objects condition now includes a toggle to keep the objects unlocked after completion, like the Grab Objects condition already does.
Added States and Data demo scene.

[Changed]

Maximum zoom scale changed to 300% in the Process Editor. This allows high DPI display to still display the graph at a readable size.
Lock on Parent Object Lock on lockable properties renamed to Inherit Scene Object Lock State, to make its function clearer.

[Fixed]

Fixed usable properties not correctly inheriting parent object lock state.
Dragging an animation clip resource in the Play Animation Clip behavior now automatically sets the clip as Legacy, which is required for using it this way. Also, an error will be displayed at runtime if the behavior attempts to play a clip that is not marked as Legacy.

v5.2.0 (2025/05/19)

[Added]

It is now possible to define a scene object implementation as the default implementation via the DefaultSceneObjectProperty attribute. This implementation will be used for auto-configuring game objects when multiple implementations of the same interface are available.

[Changed]

When multiple RUNTIME_CONFIGURATOR objects are found in the scene, a warning is displayed instead of an error.
Methods returning values in the ISceneObjectManager interface have been made void with the option to pass a callback to execute on completion. This lets them support async logic in implementations.

v5.1.0 (2025/03/17)

[Added]

Added "all objects" option to Used and Touched conditions.

[Changed]

Step description in the Step Inspector now supports multiple lines.
VR Builder is again compatible with Unity 2022. Please note that this version still requires XRI 3+.
Obsoleted RuntimeConfiguration LocalUser property. Please use User instead.
Custom scene setups in the Scene Setup Wizard now can parent created objects.
Custom scene setups can create a scene from a scene template.
Improved editor performance of Play Audio behavior inspector.
Scene objects in scenes without a runtime configurator now throw warnings instead of errors.
Made LockableProperty more extensible.

[Fixed]

Added some missing textures to the controller.

v5.0.1 (2024/12/20)

[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.

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

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