Add a whole new upload category: Props
Kadeko
Honestly, the biggest thing VRChat is missing is a whole new way to upload things through SDK: Props. Props are items that players can upload, use and share it with other players. For example, you can have a very cool sword with effects, but you do not want to use it on your avatar and maybe you want to let your friends try it!
This also helps us make avatars performant and world creators do not always have to add things like markers in every single world, or maybe it does not exist in the world at all! This would also create another new way to sell assets!
I understand it requires more moderation however with improved instance moderations like disabling emojis, stickers, pedestals, drones and prints - we could do that with props as well! This would be the least concerning.
Performance wise, it may add more problems like lag and latency but just like how we can hide avatars, we should be able to hide props as well. Depending on how avatar creators will take use of this new method, the benefits of having it will increase the performance. Even if you have toggles on your avatar and can hide them, they are still contained inside of the avatar. However with props, they can be removed and spawned.
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Frenetic Furryǃ
this would likely make the network overhead so much worse on vrchat ngl lol
some avatar creators probably wouldn't want x prop to be used with their avatar either and some world developers wouldn't want some props to be used aswell (eg. a prop that allows you to fly as some creators clearly dont want that happening in their world.) if the bad things like colliders was removed from avatars and props have a way harder limit then avatars then this could be a decent thing probably
Kadeko
Frenetic Furryǃ I agree about the networking problems and also think there should be hard limitations to it. It does not have to be on the same scale as the avatar or world. Maybe adding a spawn limit like they did with prints. So if world creators want to disable it to avoid problems in the future, maybe it should be an option?
Unfortunately for avatars and world creators, inevitable things can happen regardless of their wish.
This would kind of support in reducing the performance stats on avatars. Although you may have some things toggled off, the performance stats don't change. So that's why we should keep props separated as it just becomes a different performance ranking that can be spawned or removed from the world instance at any time.
Frenetic Furryǃ
Kadeko
"This would kind of support in reducing the performance stats on avatars" while it might reduce its ranking on a avatar it would still produce the same performance if you was to just upload the props and use them with the avatar and if anything would make avatars appear better then they actually are and the performance system ranking might need to adjust for this. (old avatars and new avatars are still likely to package their own props into the avatar regardless so it would be more of an issue + them not being packaged into the avatar means lower performance regardless.)
"Unfortunately for avatars and world creators, inevitable things can happen regardless of their wish." for props its a easy fix, as seen on other platforms such as Roblox you can put limitations on what types of gears/ props can and cannot be used and if it really comes down to it a world creator should be able to outright delete it upon them spawning.