Posted April 22, 2024 by Novaclade
General Additions:
- You can now join the project Discord server here:
https://discord.gg/YQp6p4eCx8
- Updated the project to the latest Unity Game Engine v2023.2.
- Locomotion and Interaction systems use industry standard button mappings.
(Refer to the “Install and Run” instructions on the main page)
- Added smooth locomotion and smooth turn to the controller thumbsticks.
- Added the ability to remote grab objects with the laser pointer.
- Added hand models instead of the old controllers to represent your hands.
- The menu layout has been improved and it is now the ‘Red Clipboard’.
- You can now spawn any prop from the menu ‘Props Library’.
- Added a “Credits” category to the menu.
- Added a “Making of” slideshow option to the menu in many of the scenes.
- Changed the corridor Comms Post label from type ”E” to type “S”.
- Made the “RED ALERT” message on the corridor Comms Posts flash on and off.
- The planets are now rotating spherical balls with updated textures.
- The texture on the Earth globe now includes the polar ice caps.
- All analog clocks now display the user’s local time.
- The left digital clock on the Comms Post displays the user’s local time.
- The Right digital clock on the Comms Post displays UTC time.
- Added the Corridor to the Travel Tube / Passenger Pod set.
- Added an Eagle flying outside the Cockpit window.
- Added ambient sound effects to the cockpit in the X5-Computer Pod scene.
- Added additional ambient music tracks to the Diorama scene.
- Added collision sound effects to the interactive props.
- The “2001 Monolith” in Koenig’s office now plays music from the movie.
- The Vernier engines now randomly fire in the Rescue Eagle Launchpad scene.
- Added TV show Screenshots to the Diorama scene.
- Added a grunge texture to the surface of the Launchpad tarmac.
- Updated the “Blood Transfusion” computer panels in the Computer Room.
- Where applicable, I made similar additions to the VRChat Space 1999 worlds.
Known issues:
- The hand models that replace the old controllers are not animated.
- The laser pointers emanating from your hands are not correctly aligned.
- The laser pointer is not obvious when viewed over the clipboard menu.