v3.5.1

- Fixed the avatar brightness setting, this had to be reworked because of the new avatar lighting system, the setting now works again.

- Reworked the events panel, we now have more comprehensive countdowns to all our weekly events.

- The filter display now specifically mentions the names of the tags that are selected/excluded instead of just mentioning how many tags are selected/excluded.

- Added a new avatar made by @Alryca! She made the Marshall Plushie made by @LiaChiii into an avatar! (It's slightly scuffed but that adds to the charm lol)

- Fixed the bug where the wrong username would be displayed above the videoplayer. This could still happen in crowded instances if some data reached the client quicker than other data.

- Fixed a bug where entering a code after playing a URL would not open the info for the selected video but would instead still display the URL options menu.

- The Activate Timer Display button that appears after playing a URL works again.

- Small DB update keeping up-to-date with all your suggestions and our subscribed channels! Ty @megumi and ty @Silentt.!

v3.5.0

Added a Day/Night cycle!

- It can now be daytime in VRD!

- The original creator of the instance determines the timezone that the instance is in. The time is set for everyone according to their local time.

- The sun rises and lowers, the moon appears during nighttime and the stars move slowly.

- Sunset is currently around 21:00 - 22:00, this will change depending on seasons.

- The moon is now an insanely cool picture of the moon that @Chocobo took a while ago! Ty chocooooooo

Added a dynamic weather system!

- At randomised intervals the weather will change for randomised durations, all of this is synced.

- The cloudiness can change over time.

- Wind directions and speeds get randomised for each new instance.

- It can start raining, clouds form as it starts to rain.

- A rare aurora borealis may appear at night.

- All effects are lightweight and get disabled as soon as you start dancing to ensure no performance impact.

- Added a radio outside, when turned on (global) it will quietly play the music that is playing inside. Ty for the suggestion @Scolly!

- Added an instance statistics system for our event hosts.

- Fixed a bug where the incorrect username would be displayed behind the video title if multiple custom URLs are played in succession.

- Fixed Play URL button being displayed incorrectly.

- Fixed a bug that could cause the options menu to crash. Thanks @Drusiton!

- Fixed a bug where the automatic door to the garden would remain permanently open if someone standing in the door opening left the world.

- Fixed a bug where the preview would be enabled unintentionally if someone else was using the handheld cam.

- Potentially fixed that bug where the camera resets to one of the stationary cams when a new player joins while you use the handheld cam.

- Fixed fires being heard through windows.

- Fixed a bug where the outside ambient could be heard for a brief moment when joining the instance.

- Fixed Event Rules tablet having incorrect tooltips. Thanks @EinGamer22!

- Fixed VRChat menu still appearing in one of the mirrors.

- Reduced logging.

- Reduced network traffic.

- Security updates.

- Updated credits.

- Updated Patreon bench, ||I'm running out of space aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ||

- Small database update! Now at 7912 videos! Ty @megumi for keeping the DB up-to-date and ty @Silentt. for maintaining our CDN!

v3.4.2

- You can now go outside and touch grass in VRDancing! The doors leading outside are now permanently open.

- Its a nice space to relax and take a break from dancing! The music fades out and relaxing ambient fades in.

- Sit by the campfire and tell your wildest stories ||or perform your daily sacrifice.||

- Features sky and campfire shaders by RED_SIM, these are absolutely beautiful.

- The cloudiness and wind directions randomise for each instance that you make and sync for everyone.

- The weather systems will be expanded upon later, many components are already in the works but not ready for release just yet.

- Colliders can be toggled on in the settings. Default to off for VR users, default to on for desktop users.

- Changed keyboard shortcut to get into the Director to **ALT+K** since the previous shortcut was conflicting.

- Reduced downloadsize to 68MB.

- Removed a lot of Marshallthon craziness, see you next year!

- @Chatmans added posters around the world to show that we managed to collect 13.5k!!!

- Fixed a bug where automatic background music would fade in unintentionally even if TV audio was turned off.

- Updated Patreon bench.

v.3.4.1

- Fixed avatar lighting: avatars have more depth again, are slightly darker, emissions are more visible and reflections don't show up completely white anymore. Ty for testing @Kamizhou and @MinzLeaf!

- Enabling desktop output as a desktop user now switches you to a tiny invisible avatar and puts you inside of the camera drone or the handheld camera depending on which is active. The desktop account used to be frozen in the middle of the room but by moving it with the camera we can get better IK and correct directional audio.

- Adapted keyboard shortcuts to not conflict with the new VRChat chatbox feature:

Press **ALT+H** to enter the Director mode. (useful if you're in VR, AFKing at your desk and you want a cool view of the world)

Press **ALT+G** to repair the videoplayer.

Ty for pointing this out @EinGamer22!

- Added 4 times as many zoom adjustment levels on the handheld cam, testing showed that we needed to be able to zoom further and with more precision.

- Added the VRDancing Camera Drone as an avatar. You automatically switch to this when you exit the director as a desktop user to prevent you from staying invisible.

- Potential fix for a bug where the handheld cam would sometimes reset when a new player joined.

- Added a new tag for the channel bake! Lots of fun JPOP choreographies!

- General UI colour improvements.

- Improved dancing pole materials.

- Fixed VRChat menu showing up in mirrors ||vrc pls stop stealth changing your renderlayers oh my god||

- More Marshallthon prep.

- Security updates.

- Updated quoteslist, credits, Patreon bench.

- HUGE database update! @megumi added 312 new videos! Lots of new JPOP choreos, tons of 1MIL choreos and we now have all choreos from Golfy! @MinzLeaf updated a lot of Just Dance entries with higher quality videos! We're almost at 8k! Thank you all for your work and thank you @Silentt. for maintaining our CDN!

v3.4.0

Heyaaa! This is a big one! I added a new handheld camera which has tons of content creation and meme potential! Lots of additional and improved visuals in the world some of which will be revealed very soon! And a lot of funky Marshallthon features so be sure to attend and don't miss out! :D

- Added a handheld camera!

- This can be enabled in the Director panel.

- There is a preview panel on the camera itself so you can see what you are filming.

- Press trigger while holding the camera to toggle the camera on/off. When turned off the director reverts back to the previous stationary camera.

- The camera can be zoomed in and out smoothly by moving the right joystick up/down. (Zoom is unavailable on desktop)

- The camera position has an additional layer of smoothing to ensure it looks good even if the network lags.

- A LED at the front of the handheld camera indicates whether it is on.

- There's a button to respawn the camera at the director panel, in case it gets lost.

- The access settings in the admin panel also apply to the camera pickup. Depending on the access level people can or cannot pickup the camera.

- A **ton** of marshallthon prep that you will all have the chance to experience this weekend!

- Another compression and optimisation pass. Download size is now **69MB(!)** and the world uses way less VRAM.

- Added the Marshall Plushie made by @LiaChiii! Thank you so much for sharing this asset with us!

- Changed the skybox, this is part of some big preparations, more info on that soon.

- Foliage now uses a new foliage shader by Silent (not our silentt), its more efficient and the foliage now also moves slightly.

- Added Dance Studio Dust by @8Spark to the portal system! This world is perfect for recording dance videos, lots of nice visuals here! This is also home to the VR Dance Academy. You can now quickly hop between VRD and Dance Studio Dust

- Tracking calibration balls appear in mirrors again.

- Improved drone visuals.

- Decreased intensity of AudioLink world effects.

- Fixed bug where going through the portal system would not fade the screen to black.

- General UI improvements.

- Fixed a bug where audio would not fade in correctly if video audio was turned off upstairs and you respawned.

- Fixed collision on event rules tablet.

- Updated credits panel, patreon bench, quotes and health warnings.

v3.3.2

- @Chatmans added banners as we approach the Marshallthon!

- Background music works again, this stopped working due to google blocking VRChats youtube requests.

- Added small props in-world to make it feel more alive.

- Added a pickup tablet with event rules translated to Korean and Japanese. Thank you @Buck Wild and @megumi for helping out with this!

- Fixed an issue where avatar lighting was setup incorrectly. Avatars were lit more from one side instead of uniformly as was intended. It was also affected by the skybox rotation causing a small performance hit. Now avatars and dynamic props are lit better and more efficiently.

- Updated AudioLink to the newest version, it now supports theme colours that get triggered by the music. This allows you to setup your avatar such that it changes colour depending on the mood that the music portrays. These colours can be customised globally on the AudioLink tablet.

- Adjusted AudioLink tablet to fit in with the other VRD UIs and their colour schemes.

- Reworked community info panel behind the desk. Now featuring partnered communities: Virtual Reality Dance Academy, Calibrate and Just Party!

- Fixed UI overlapping issue, the custom URL options menu now no longer blocks the buttons at the top right.

- Added a new Just Dance Fan Made tag. Use this to filter specifically on fanmade songs, or exclude fanmade songs while filtering on Just Dance.

- The camera drone got a small visual upgrade.

- Compressed all mesh data, lowering RAM usage and reducing world download size.

- Optimised a few materials.

- Compressed a lot of UI icons further.

- Updated credits, patreon bench, posterwall and staffwindow.

- Marshallthon prep

- DB Update! Now at 7575 videos! Ty @megumi for keeping everything up-to-date! Ty @MinzLeaf for tagging all fanmade songs! And ty @Silentt. for keeping our CDN running!

v3.3.1

Heyaaa! Some QoL, lots of maintenance and some fun RP/immersion in this update!

- Added a separate mirror setting: the dancefloor mirror and the hangout mirrors are now separately controlled. Having performance issues due to mirrors dynamically activating as you move through the world? Just disable those specifically.

- Added a button to clear the URL input field, no need to fumble anymore for the backspace button on your keyboard when you mess up a paste.

- Modified bathwater drinking: the drug effect is now permanent because you degens want to be permanently drugged.

- Added a waterbottle, drink this to remove the drug effect you get from drinking bathwater.

- Added a soundeffect to the fridge.

- Added a synced typing sound effect that plays when you touch the keyboard at the desk.

- Added a synced clicking sound effect that plays if you touch the mouse at the desk.

- Added sound effects that play when you slam the locker doors or fridge door closed.

- You can now play catch with the mysterious reflective ball idk why lol.

- Fixed a bug where the mirror would still do its fading animation even if it was disabled.

- Fixed a bug where the changing room mirror would display incorrectly when turned off.

- Fixed a bug where the drinking sound effect could be heard everywhere.

- Adjusted health warning on the DB, its bigger and no longer blocks the "Enter Code" and "Select Current Video" buttons at the start.

- Fixed some tooltip overlapping issues on the DB menu.

- Fixed some consistency/alignment issue on the DB entry display panel.

- Added some missing sounds and tooltips to DB menu.

- Improved bathwater bottle materials, logo is more readable.

- Huge compression pass over the entire world reducing filesize from 105 MB to 87MB!

- Clarified marshall countdown timer.

- Updated credits.

- Updated Patreon bench.

- Updated pictures of staff peeking through window.

v3.3.0

Heyaaa!

This is uhmm by far the most cursed update I've done in a while.... Lots of uhmm bathwater related things hahaha So yea sorry not sorry

Also, with this update I introduced a lot of tech I developed for The Mighty Gym back into VRD. I learned a ton from commissions the past few months allowing for more optimisation, better networking and most importantly: really fun interactivity. A prime example of this are the locker doors that are now fully interactable and synced. More of this tech will be integrated as soon as I have time

- The locker doors are now interactable and fully synced using a custom door system. Let's not awaken childhood trauma and let's refrain from shoving people into lockers lol

- We added a fridge with interactable door to store our bathwater supply.

- The bathwater is now drinkable, we are not responsible for any effect this might have on your mental state. ||( I AM SO SORRY BUT THIS HAS BEEN HIGHLY REQUESTED )||

- The hottub has returned! A little after the heatwave but oh well, better late than never. ||I pinky promise we won't collect the bathwater this year!||

- @Chatmans added the hottub back in, optimised meshes and added a fridge.

- For desktop users the sync offset now defaults to 0.4. Since desktop users are primarily there to watch other dancers this should give them a better viewing experience since dancers will look in-sync with the video. You can set this setting manually in the settings panel.

- Added a countdown to the Marshallthon on the events panel! ||IM NOT PANICKING YOU'RE PANICKING AAAAAAA||

- Updated the session grouppictures! Did you make it in this time? (:

- Updated credits.

- Security updates.

- DB Update! We are now at 7482 videos! Shoutout to @megumi and @Silentt. for their continued amazing work on the DB and servers

v3.2.2

- Added a button to display the database entry of the video that is currently playing, it as the top right of the database.

- This button also allows you to copy the URL that is currently playing if someone uses a custom URL.

- Added display shaders to all screens in VRD. The displays now actually look more like displays with simulated viewing angles and pixels if you look at the displays from up close. I tweaked the main videoplayer to have a slightly more vibrant colour profile that is a bit more representative of how YouTube displays the content, previously the content was slightly more gray than it should be.

- Added 3 new background mixes! The two original mixes by megumi are back and another mix from 10XX has been added! Ty @megumi for rendering the videos!

- Added a new tag for Golfy Dance Fitness!

- Fixed a bunch of materials, some were a bit too reflective.

- Updated the grouppictures! Did you make it in this time?

- Added subtle effect outside to give a bit more depth.

- Updated credits panel.

- Fixed some spelling errors.

- Security updates.

- Reduced worldsize.

- Enormous database update! We are now at 7386 entries! @megumi did a ton of work on the DB adding all your suggestions and adding all from a new channel called Golfy Dance Fitness! They have really fun videos, really recommend checking it out! Ty @Silentt. for keeping our servers up-to-date and running!

v3.2.1

- Added automatic mode for the director. This automatically enables the camera output when you are on the dancefloor and disables it as soon as you leave the dancefloor. Very useful for streamers that want a different camera angle when selecting songs.

- @Chatmans updated community references.

- @Chatmans optimisation of poster displays.

- Desktop output exit hint no longer appears for VR users since its not relevant to them.

- Improved reflection probe configuration, now uses a better projection method to make reflections appear more accurate.

- Adjusted reflective properties of several materials.

- Improved materials of the floors and walls, they now have much more depth.

- Optimised a lot of shaders and fixed misconfigurations.

- Videoplayer now displays the URL that is being played when someone uses a custom URL.

- Background mixes now jump to a random timestamp to make the music more varied and prevent people from hearing the same song over and over.

- Background mixes now slowly fade in when they start playing.

- More efforts to improve Director sync consistency in crowded instances.

- Updated loadingscreen quotes.

v3.2.0

Heyaaa! This update brings a code system to VRD as has been heavily requested since lots of other dance worlds have it too! Each video now has a unique code that is guaranteed to never change. At the top right you can press the "Enter Code" button to enter a code. Furthermore, lots of quality of life, bugfixes and some visual additions. Bit delayed due to covid but here it is!!

- Added a system to select videos by a code.

- At the top right of the DB menu you can press the "Enter Code" button which reveals a panel to enter codes.

- VRD video codes are guaranteed to never change or shift, they are permanent for those who want to learn a few by heart.

- The code to a video is displayed when a video is selected, it is also displayed above the videoplayer.

- The codes can also be found in our public database, useful for song requests on streams: https://vrdancing.club/database

- Tweaked both the simple and advanced database UI mode to improve readability.

- You can now press the "H" button to immediately go into Director mode. Useful if you took of your headset, are sitting at your desk and want to see the people dancing, just press H and you'll get a view of the dancefloor.

- Added AudioLink to a few lights in the world, this is on by default and can be toggled off in the settings menu.

- @Chatmans added community references and some themed assets for SlyFest!

- Added tooltips explaining the keyboard shortcuts VRD offers.

- Fixed healthwarning not displaying anymore on the database.

- Fixed player leave notifications incorrectly displaying that someone was a desktop user.

- Fixed breaktimer not mirroring when all UI was set to be mirrored.

- Fixed incorrect tooltips in database UI.

- Fixed misaligned logo's in the large room variant.

- Fixed a bug where people always had to repair when joining late, videoplayer will initialise after a small delay.

- Fixed a bug that required you to activate preview mode first before enabling desktop video output in the Director, otherwise the camera wouldn't update.

- Simplified camera drone behaviour, it will no longer start flying when you are watching TV or at the preview panel. It only starts flying if someone is actually actively in Director mode and outputting the camera to their desktop.

- Fixed a bug that would cause camera drone positions to be completely incorrect.

- Fixed a bug that would cause the camera drone to get stuck after the instance had been up for a long time.

- Fixed a bug that would cause the camera drone sync to be significantly delayed in crowded instances.

- Fixed pickups not being visible in mirrors.

- Director system uses way less bandwidth now.

- Security updates.

- Updated QVPens, sync should be a bit better and its possible to write on surfaces now. If you want to draw in the air again after drawing on a surface, drop and pickup the pen. You can disable this feature with one of the buttons where the pen spawns.

- Updated Patreon bench.

- Updated loadingscreen quotes.

- Struggled through covid lol.

- @megumi added 4 new background mixes! Two existing ones from @Anks and @medlish and also a brand new DnB and a new Synthwave mix by @medlish! More background mixes will be added in over the following weeks as we convert our old videos to use the new logo!

- Database update! **We are now at 7K+ curated videos!** @megumi added tons of new suggestions and newly released content! @Scolly a series of broken links. @MinzLeaf added all the new custom timers made by the community. @Silentt. kept our CDN up-to-date. Thank you all!!

v3.1.0

Some Quality of Life features for the database in this patch!

- Sorting by artist is now possible!

- Added a button to toggle an "advanced mode" that shows more info in the list, should make videos easier to find in some cases without having to click the info button multiple times.

- Added a button to instantly select a random timer from the database, nice for when you want to take a break.

- Added a new menu when you play a custom URL that allows you to globally active the timer overlay, poles or mirror the video for everyone for that custom URL. These settings are deactivated when the next video/URL is played.

- Fixed / updated some information here and there.

- Updated session pictures! Did you make it in this time?

- Updated VRCSDK.

v3.0.1

- Videoplayer works again!

- Reworked the videoplayer to use less bandwidth.

- Cried a lot because the VRC update broke VRD.

- Fixed that one rare bug we had for ages where sometimes the wrong video would play for someone.

- Updated VRCSDK.

- VideoPlayer now goes all the way to the edges of the room even if its downscaled. Ty @HolowVictory#5535 for the headsup!

- Fixed pop-in in changing room when the room was upscaled.

- Fixed spelling error.

- Fixed a bug where the "Dance!" sound effect would not play for people that were past the dancefloor mirror.

- Reduced logging.

- Reduced filesize.

v3.0.0

Heyaaa! This update has been in the works for quite a while. A lot of different parts are coming together here to improve the general experience in VRDancing. There are no big new features. This is mainly a big maintenance update, a lot of stability and performance improvements and a lot of work from the community being added.

Huge shoutout to @Dully Dummy for providing us with our amazing new logo!

- Added our new logo to the world! This beautiful logo was created by the wonderful @Dully Dummy! Find him at https://twitter.com/DullDummy !

- Added manual culling system. At first we would solely rely on occlusion culling, but culling some components manually was better for performance in some scenarios.

- All hangout areas are now manually culled when you walk through the dancefloor mirror, this was first done automatically, but doing it manual turned out to be better.

- Most hangout areas are now permanently disabled when the doors are closed for events, the windows in the doors have been turned opaque to hide this.

- Completely redid the occlusion culling it is now much more simplified and drastically improves both CPU and GPU performance and general performance consistency when walking around the world.

- Recording mode is now a thing of the past due to the reworked occlusion culling. You no longer need to enable Recoding Mode to be able to put your camera behind the mirror. The UI Mirroring aspect of recording mode has been moved to a new setting.

- Drastically improved performance of mirrors.

- The grass outside is now no longer reflected in the mirror, instead a simplified plane is seen in the reflection.

- Director preview is now disabled by default to improve performance. The preview would activate as people walked past it to enter the dancer room, and it would also be active when someone was sitting close to the director panel when in front of the mirror. The preview is not actually used in these cases and just hurts performance so it makes more sense to disable it by default.

- Added more noticeable UI when the director is not rendering since people were convinced that the camera was still rendering while it was not, resulting in false bug reports.

- Completely restructured the VRD project. After a year of continuous development we had built a lot of technical debt. The scene has been restructured, deprecated background systems have been updated or removed and the enormous amount of files has been reorganised.

- Improved database initialisation performance. More pre-processing is done before I build the world, there used to be a lagspike 5 seconds after joining the world, this is now completely gone.

- Improved song selection syncing, the video can now be changed with a cooldown of 2 seconds instead of having to wait 20 seconds.

- Improved performance by correcting lots of badly set static flags introduced in recent updates.

- Improved performance for proximity detection of various systems. Systems activate/deactivate according to where you are in the world, the systems used to check where you are now run faster.

- Improved performance by making better use of batching.

- Improved the performance of the fire effect.

- Fixed bug that caused room scale to switch back to small.

- Fixed bug that caused Director to reset.

- Removed DanceVFX. It was not being used enough to justify the maintenance it needed. It was not causing performance issues, it was just something I had to take into account while developing other systems, which was a waste of time. My custom DanceVFX UI and preset system will return in a different new world.

- Removed a series of unnecessary GrabPasses that were unintentionally part of some shaders.

- Removed AttachToMe pickup systems since they weren't used.

- Removed setting to change physical buttons into legacy buttons, it wasn't used and the physical buttons have been working as intended.

- Removed corrupted udon behaviours that were hidden deep in the scene hierarchy, these popped up due to issues with nested prefabs.

- Reduced the number of nested prefabs, this drastically improved project loading times and stability.

- Reduced number of material slots, @Chatmans#3355 merged meshes for the plants in the lounge.

- Reduced filesize by optimising and compressing tons of files.

- Reduced the number of transparent meshes in the scene.

- Reduced the number of objects.

- Reduced the number of raycast targets and maskable objects in UI.

- Reduced network traffic.

- Reduced amount of logging.

- Updated VRCSDK.

- Updated AudioLink & VRWorldToolkit.

- Started using UdonExplorer for additional optimisation.

- Added a display for video duration beneath the progressbar.

- Added setting to hide the videoplayer.

- Added setting to set the height at which the videoplayer is attached to the wall. As requested many times by SpleT hahaha

- Added setting to set the size of the videoplayer.

- Added player join/leave notification system.

- Added new settings, join/leave sounds and notifications can individually be controller.

- Added desktop overlay whenever a break video is played, it shows how long the break still takes. Useful when you take of your headset during the break so you can see the timer on your monitor.

- Added a setting to toggle off the break timer overlay.

- Added a new Rasputin avatar by @bp326! Thank you for providing this to the world!!

- Added branding for the upcoming MusicVket4 event! Ty @Chatmans!

- Updated event board! Now featuring countdowns for our Wednesday Sessions!

- Updated credits.

- Updated poster board.

- Updated Patreon bench.

- Updated quotes list.

- Updated staff pictures.

- Updated security systems.

- The shark seemingly reached one of its final evolution stages.

- It is time to address the elephant in the room.

- The marshall statue has never moved or made any sound, idk what you've all been imagining... smh my head

- Background mixes have been modified by @megumi to use our new logo! Over the coming weeks we will re-render all these videos, rebuilding our library of background music!

- New background mix by DJ Jigsaw!

- Huge database update! Now at 6875 entries! Our new staffmember @MinzLeaf went through our database improving lots of entries! Titles have been improved, tags have been corrected, video quality has been improved and broken links have been fixed! This is especially relevant for all the JustDance2022 videos, those really needed some work. Thank you so much @MinzLeaf for this amazing effort! We will be continuously working on improving and curating our database.

- Added new tags for Zumba Sulu and Vishal Dance & Fit! Two very fun Zumba/FitDance channels! Let's get some workouts in!

- @megumi and @Silentt. kept our database up-to-date as always for the past few weeks! Thank you very much!! :heart:

v2.6.6

- Winter is over! The area outside our dancing venue is more floral than ever as spring arrived!

- Fixed a bug caused by the latest VRC update that would cause the initial settings of the director system to not load correctly.

- Director system now defaults to 1080p rendering instead of 720p, saw too many people using it at 720p and then never using it again because they thought it looked bad.

- Director system now defaults to medium blending instead of fast blending.

- Updated session group pictures for both EU and NA! Did you make it in this time? :blush:

- Updated pictures.

- Updated event countdown screen to reflect the change in the US timeslot (2 hours earlier).

- Updated Patreon bench.

- Updated VRCSDK.

- Updated to latest version of QVPen (it now syncs for late joiners)

- Yes, the shark finally evolved again c:

- Database update! We are now at 6661 entries! Thank you @megumi for keeping it up-to-date for us! And thank you @Silentt. for maintaining our CDN!

- I somehow built this update while inside ghostclub without crashing???

v2.6.5

- Fixed UI laserpointer appearing when pointing at the Director panel even when it was deactivated. (Distracting while dancing)

- Fixed incorrect rendering on Patreon bench and a community asset.

- Made TV screens a bit brighter.

- Absolutely nothing else..

v2.6.4

- Added new background mix by @Jazzy Senpai! Thank you @megumi for creating the video!

- @Chatmans fixed some lighting issues.

- @Chatmans added some new community references.

- Fixed event countdowns due to DST.

- Added missing icons to the database.

- Adjusted drone behaviour: it will now only start flying globally if someone is using it to output to desktop. It used to also start flying whenever someone was previewing or watching TV. You will still see it fly locally when you're in front of the director panel as a visual aid to see where you are positioning it but this is not global.

- Fixed visual artifacting on desktop output related to the lines on the dancefloor and some specific avatar setups.

- Fixed a bug where the drone would continue to hover at an incorrect location if the player that was syncing its position left the instance without disabling desktop output.

- Updated posterboard.

- Updated credits panel.

- Updated Patreon bench.

- Added new loadingscreen quotes.

- Updated pictureframes.

- Added new tag for the dancegroup Waveya.

- Updated the DB! We are now at 6609 entries! Shoutout to @ElDarkFrost for adding tons of content from Waveya and to @megumi for keeping all of our existing content/suggestions up-to-date! Thank you @Silentt. for the CDN update!

v2.6.3

- Improved the default settings of the Director. This is now based on the settings that @Zaccke used for the past few VRD streams.

- Fixed a bug where the mirror would disappear completely when forcefully toggled off by staff, should cause less confusion at events.

- Fixed a bug that would cause some components to log excessively, causing performance issues for people with slow harddrives.

- Optimised a lot of shader setups.

- Reverted to using Unity default shaders in an ongoing effort to resolve issues with bad GPU frametimes.

- Updated posterboard with lots of community references!

- Updated Patreon bench!

- Huge database update! We are now at 6418 entries! We got all choreographies of the game Dance Evolution available in a brand new tag. We also added a new YouTube channel called Zumba France by Alix! Lot's of new content. Huge shoutout again to @megumi for adding all these new entries and staying up-to-date with new releases and suggestions! Thank you @Silentt. for maintaining our CDN!

v2.6.2

Continued work on improving the new Director system based on all the feedback I got.
This does not cover everything but this should make the overall system way smoother.

- Added expand all and collapse all buttons to the filters panel.

- Added a new immediate camera timer option if you want the camera to always be on the move.

- Added a new cutmode that has an even longer transition for really slow camera movements.

- Added buttons to the Director panel sliders for more fine-grained control.

- Reworked how timers work, the timer to transition to the next camera now starts after the previous transition has ended.

- Fixed a bug where disabling the preview screen would also freeze the TVs in the hangout areas.

- Adjusted drone docking visuals.

- Adjusted wide cam to have a slightly smaller FOV.

- Fixed the near clip plane of the cameras for real this time. In other words, you can get close to the camera without disappearing.

- Fixed an issue where walking around after interacting with a slider on the Director panel would cause its value to change.

- Fixed an issue where the desktop output would not render if the preview was disabled.

- Fixed occlusion issues.

- Updated loading screen quotes.

- Security updates.

Thanks for all the continued feedback @Zaccke!

v2.6.1

- Added access controls to the Director panel.

- These can be set by the instance master from the admin panel, you can set it to: Desktop + VR, VR Only or Master Only.

- VRD staff always has access.

- Someone without access can still get the camera feed and do all the local toggles, they just cannot edit the global settings.

- Added a popup when someone tries to access when they have no permission.

- At the top right of the panel it shows the current access mode.

- Adjusted the near clip plane of the cameras and separated the drone into a separate render layer.

- The UI etc are no longer visible in the camera.

- Having the lobby sound off will no longer affect camera accounts.

- Fixed a bug where desktop output would stop if the progress bar overlay was disabled.

- Fixed a bug where the preview would stop when disabling desktop output while in VR.

- Fixed a bug where laserpointers would hit mirror activation colliders.

- Security updates.

- Updated texture of staff peeking through the window.

Thanks for all the feedback @Zaccke, @Dully Dummy and @metaphira!