automatically reset shown avatars to safety settings
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automatically reset manually shown avatars to safety settings
please add an option to automatically reset manually shown avatars when leaving an instance or restarting vrchat.
currently, using “show avatar” overrides the user’s normal safety and avatar-performance settings. these overrides can accumulate, leaving many avatars permanently shown even when the user only intended to reveal them temporarily.
the setting could make “show avatar” apply only to the current instance. afterward, each avatar would return to whatever the user’s safety settings normally allow, using its fallback or impostor when appropriate.
this would preserve manual control while making temporary avatar overrides safer and easier to manage.
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Frantic Taco
Showing avatar until instance is left is a great idea in my opinion.
How would you suggest the UI reflects this? Have a toggle in the avatar culling quick settings menu perhaps? Perhaps have a toggle similar to microphone with "default off" or "default on" style.
Maybe have a screen hud toast saying "Avatar enabled for this instance" incase you intended to do otherwise and haven't noticed.
WubTheCaptain
Sidestepping on off-topic here: In my opinion, a better way to implement automatically resetting shown avatars to safety settings would be to have avatars that are ranked as "Very Poor" to always have their display managed by VRChat, similar to how these "Very Poor" avatars are managed by VRChat on mobile between VRChat sessions (reset to safety shield settings). No additional option in settings to change or manage.
It's a gentle push/nudge for the community to optimize avatars to at least "Poor" without affecting "show avatar" for avatars that are not "Very Poor". This may also stop many malicious "crasher" avatars from functioning by default, with potential increased user fatigue or confusion about avatars looking impostorized by default and being a potentially unpopular change by users accustomed to Very Poor avatars.
I can think of three primary uses of Very Poor avatars: avatars built with legacy VRCFury haptic socket components (always Very Poor due to lights, but upgradeable in VRCFury beta to no lights), particle/animation avatars, and avatars meant for (solo) photography/filmmaking only.