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WIthin the new avatar menu, it becomes impossible to change fallbacks, whether it's a public/legacy avatar on the Explore tab, or if it's a Fallback avatar uploaded by you.

As VRChat has just introduced its item system, it may still be trying to find its footing and determine what to and not to allow, and how to provide, items going forward. As part of this, I suggest VRChat add the ability for items to be marked as "player only". What this means is: Player-Only Items are only visible to their owner, regardless of any safety settings. Player-Only Items may access an additional set of properties of their owner, via Udon & Soba, which may not be available with "public" items. Player-Only Items may attach themselves to the player HUD, provide additional utility, interact with the VRC Camera, etc. via Udon & Soba, which most certainly would not be available to normal items. Player-Only Items cannot interact with other players. The intent of these features would allow VRChat, and potentially users in the event of UGC, to provide new "utility" items, similar to the VRChat camera or VRC Player Mirror, which aim to enhance the functionality of the VRChat client. Existing systems, such as the camera and mirror, could even theoretically be migrated to such an improved system, providing a uniform way of spawning objects, whether or not they are local to the spawning user. Other possible enhancements could be to provide a separate subsection, similar to the "Exclusive" item sections in Stickers & Emoji, for "My Tools", with a subheading of "Visible only to you", where these Player-Only Items would be stored.

The new "Bundles and packs" feature is not cool. I don't really care if they are meant to be a path towards real money gambling for VRChat or not, it is close enough of a feature that I will be super uncomfortable with even talking about the game to my friends. I am a long time vrc+ subscriber because I love this game and community, but anything even resebling lootboxes are unethical and not cool. this kind of gambling only targets people who struggle with it, not the people who can afford it.

As part of the new item system, and as a companion for Add items & Item Interactions to Shield Levels¹ and Add option for "Allow Item Interactions from" Permissions² it is recommendable that culling options, similar to avatars, are added to the Quick Menu for improved safety and performance. These options should ideally include: Limit nearest number of items to [x] Show items within [x] meters Always show friends' items [boolean] This would allow users to self manage their own experiences with items beyond safety, ensuring that items are not unnecessarily shown and allowing them to have minimal performance impact in edge cases where numerous items are spawned. — https://feedback.vrchat.com/open-beta/p/items-add-items-item-interactions-to-shield-levels https://feedback.vrchat.com/open-beta/p/items-add-option-for-allow-item-interactions-from-permissions

As part of the new item system, it would be highly advisable to add contact senders and receivers to items. This will enhance immersion and interactivity with items, and better align them with existing systems. For example: If an avatar contact receiver responds to the tag "projectile", and a projectile from an item sends this tag, the avatar will appropriately respond and trigger this interaction. If an item, lets say a torch, responds to the tag "fire", a particle system on an avatar which sends "fire" could light the torch As you can see, adding contacts, even to VRChat's own items, irregardless of UGC, would make items more immersive, more interactive, and more functional.

Similar to PhysBones & Contacts, please provide the option to set the interactive permissions of items in the new Item system on a per-spawned item basis. I.E Anyone: Anyone can grab and interact with your item Only Friends: Only friends can interact with your item Only You: Only you can interact with your item This would include the ability to grab said item. A default setting would be added to the Quick Menu, which designates an item's default permissions when spawned from the action menu. When spawned from the inventory menu, there would be an option… Provided beneath the spawn button, as either similar to the "Avatar Allowed to Interact" element, a radio control, or dropdown; or… As 3 separate buttons labeled "Spawn for Everyone", "Spawn for my Friends", & "Spawn for Just Me" Likewise, a similar control would exist in the item management menu (shown when highlighting an item with the quick menu open and selecting it.)

With the new items system, it would be highly advisable to add the ability to manage which items are shown on a player trust basis using the existing shield system. By including items as part of the shield system, under "Items" similar to drones, this can allow players to see items from players they can trust, or even limit item visibility to only friends if they so choose. Additionally, adding "Item Interactions" to shield settings would additionally allow players to manage whether or not they receive events from items (such as through contacts¹) regardless of whether or not the item is shown. This would allow players to opt into seeing items without worrying about unwanted interactions from them. The latter option would be specifically for receiving events. As an alternative to adding the latter to the shield system, it could in theory be added similarly to avatar contacts, as an item in the quick menu. This would increase the safety of the item system as a whole, whilst paving a pathway for safe management and control of user-created items if they are to ever enter into production (TBD). — https://feedback.vrchat.com/open-beta/p/items-add-contacts-to-items

Since VRChat has added many cool new dynamically placed objects in the client, as a world creator I would find it very helpful to have more fine-tuned control of "place-able" things. Currently, world creators can disable portals, items, prints, stickers, drones, pedestals, etc entirely for the entire world. Instead of blocking these features in the entire world, I would like to use Udon to allow these things in certain contexts, and block them in others. For example: Allow placing portals and items in the lobby of Murder 4, but prevent these things from being spawned in the game area. Or: Allow stickers to be placed on a door, but de-spawn nearby stickers when that door swings open. We already have something similar for the avatar eye height scaling feature. World creators could turn this off for their worlds entirely by editing world details on the website, but in the world itself we can use Udon to allow/disallow scaling dynamically, get any player's height, and set the local player's height directly, and set the allowed range. I would like something similar for all these place-able things, allowing them to be fine-tuned within reason without turning them off entirely. Applicable place-able things: Items, Stickers, Portals, Sharing pedestals Useful methods to have: OnItemSpawned --> Tells you the position, rotation, owner GetAllSpawnedItems --> So you can check their positions, rotations, owners DespawnItem() --> Pass it something you want to despawn

As part of the recently introduced Item system, there stems the possibility of future items, whether VRChat made or not, containing cameras. Similar to the VRC Camera, cameras rendering networked players on any item should present themselves as a lens, identical to how the lens on the VRC Camera currently presents itself, regardless of item visibility, to maintain user privacy and safety when items are in use.

My favourites, when showing "Date Added", do not actually sort by the date I added them to my favourites. Most do, a handful do not. Not entirely sure how to consistently reproduce as it just started happening and I can't seem to change its behavior, but it's happening right now for me. My main first avatar, which I always keep up the top by unfavouriting and refavouriting, is now bumped low. Previously, this avatar would always be up the top of my list. The 2 highlighted are usually near the top.