Allow showing messages/notifications in new HUD send via Udon or/and OSC
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Shadowriver
New HUD not just have join/leave notifications but it seem more stream line way to show messages in the HUD. It would be nice if there was ability to show display custom messages send via Udon or/and OSC. It would make things easier for world creators and OSC software designers, make things feel more unified.
-In case of Udon it would save up time for world creators, make things more integrated with VRC. As adding HUD elements is already advance feature to add to the world it would encourage beginner Udon coders to create more readable interactive/game worlds also allow easier debugging. World already add join/leave notifications which updated HUD obsolutes so why not go all the way.
-This would be really helpful in case of OSC, as it involve external software and you cant see messages (like error and such) from that software when you in VR and don't have any virtual desktop. This would also add moderated expendability to VRC that lot of people seek. Extra argument here is fact that VRC already allows that with chatbox, and this would allow displaying messages direcly to VR user, without showing it to everyone else in the world, adding extra layer to this.
If there any security conserns, messages could have different color to be not mistaken with official VRC notifications, also potentially implementing anti flood measures similar to OSC for chatbox already have.
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Strasz - Community Team
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Strasz - Community Team
We'd love to do this -- but it (along with some other related projects) is currently waiting its turn on our roadmap. Hopefully, we'll be able to get to it, though!
Sayamame
I think it would be interesting if the opposite of this requested feature is also possible!
(I mentioned it in this Canny( https://feedback.vrchat.com/open-beta/p/use-osc-to-bring-notifications-out-of-vrc ) )
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Raphiiko
I would also very much like to send notifications into VRChat over OSC.
As a developer I currently have 3 options for giving my users ingame notifications, none of which are exactly ideal:
- Use XSOverlay's Notification API (Requires the player to purchase XSOverlay)
- Send a desktop notification and have it display through OVR Toolkit (Requires the player to purchase OVR Toolkit and configure it to show desktop notifications)
- Implement my own SteamVR overlay, just for showing notifications.
It would be great if external applications (e.g. VRCX offering all 3 methods) would not have to rely on methods like these just to get notifications to the user.
Being able to send notifications over OSC would be a solution.
sophiа
yes i use xsoverlays popups but i like vrchats more i already have xso showing my discord notifications would be nice to have it show with vrchats instead