Summer Music Jam Winners!

The Summer Music Festival Jam winners are here!

As a reminder, the Summer Music Festival Jam was open to world and avatar creators, encouraging both to create content that was season-appropriate, full of vibes, and accessible to our entire community.

You can find a list of all the world and avatar winners here 1. Alternatively, you can check out the default home world to see them, too! Speaking of Summer Music Jam…

What’s a bunch of party worlds without a party?

We’ll be hosting a music event in one of the winning worlds featuring DJs from the VRChat dev team! You can catch the event on August 26 from 5PM PDT/8PM EDT to 8:45PM PDT/11:45PM EDT! To get into the event, you’ll have to join the Ministry group 3. Big thanks to them for helping us host this event!

(You’ll also be able to find it on vrc.tl 7 – which, by the way, is an incredible resource for seeing what music events are going on in VRChat on any given day!) VRChat Creators Roadmap is Updated for August 2024!

It’s almost autumn! Time for an updated roadmap for Avatar and World creators.

Since our May 2024 roadmap, we’ve shipped 7 out of 13 of the announced features for creators. Not bad!

Now, of course, it’s time to look to the future.

You can find the full roadmap here 45. Go check it out! Avatar Size Limit Enforcement

We’ve been talking about avatar size limits for a bit! They are now enforced by the latest SDK release. If you try to upload an avatar that breaks our maximum download or uncompressed size limits, it will tell you and prevent you from uploading it!

In the next week or so, we’ll start enforcing this server side. That means that even folks on older versions of the SDK will no longer be able to upload avatars that break the limits.

The final step to this plan will roll out on November 1st. On or around that day, we will change it so avatars over the size limit will no longer load in VRChat, even if they were uploaded before the limits were in place.

There’s also Creator documentation that discusses this!

Last week, we released 2023.3.1!