Why delete my message
#BRING BACK OLD BEAN
grizzled fossil
uncut ore
The updates possibly being shipped tonight so there's not really a point (not being rude)
native kelp
Yeah at this point just give up trying to change the devs mind and just accept that they are just gonna remove the classic bean
And I’m not trying to be rude
cerulean halo
They also explained why the classic bean body is being removed in the first place.
native kelp
And they have done that so many time to the point where they don’t really say the reasons anymore
sacred tide
Few reasons: internally, dev time was slower since old bean kept breaking with every features added, it started being unstable due to being old
The avatar system used for new bean is not the same as the avatar system for modern rec room, a change needed to be made to keep up with the new system
- to add to this: the new avatar system downloads the items from the servers themselves, but the old bean has to get its items from updates themselves since it was built with that system in mind, that is why the old bean is not getting any new items
Another thing is that the benefit with downloading items from servers instead of putting the items in the game's file is that if the game is unable to render those items for whatever reason, new bean has a backup that is just to keep the avatar into the "Loading" outfit, but old bean could just possibly crash the game
And also the items in the game's folders take quite a bit of place so the removal of old bean will probably ease that up a bit
But anyways, not only is the avatar system different. But also the rigging system, the bones of the avatars
Well.. old bean did not have any rigging, they were literally 4 separate animators built with a simple game in mind, but since rec room is not that simple game anymore, keeping it like that is just not beneficial for the memory of the game, that alone is one of the reasons why the game's memory keeps "leaking"
I'll also mention a few extra things such as the old bean not having any culling optimisation and the hands using different models for the normal hand and the pointing hand
Now about the hands, they could also never add grabbing animations before because it was just not possible with the hand models that were for the old bean body, but idk if you care much about that
In conclusion: avatar system is not up to date, it has some optimisation issues, games can crash because of it and it's just a hassle to keep fixing it constansly internally for the devs