'Friends/Whitelisted Only' publicity setting for avatars.
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N͘in
With many creators offering uploading avatars to people's accounts as a method of selling them, I believe an option to make an avatar accessible to specific users via their user id or display name would be extremely helpful.
I believe this feature is extremely important, because it allows people to create avatars that only specific people can use, without having to go through the hassle and unsafe method of sharing account credentials and uploading the avatar to their account. Specifically for avatar sellers, this would allow them to release avatars only to their supporters for use in a much easier way. For example, if someone wants to create patreon-only avatars, they would be able to do so by whitelisting them on the avatars that they so please. It would help support creators' monetization more, as well as just offer a simpler method for friends to share their creations with people that they know. It makes sense for people to want to keep an avatar private to select groups, but currently there is none such method other than sharing the asset files or account credentials to upload to others accounts.
For the sake of account safety and convenience, as well as for avatar sellers, the ability to whitelist users to grant (or remove) access to wearing an avatar would be amazing for the game. The same method could even be applied for worlds as well. In terms of implementation, I believe a new setting in the sdk called 'friends only' or 'whitelisted only', with a text box allowing users to enter userid / displayname would make this easy. It would also allow creators to not only add people to the list, but remove them (ex: in the case of sellers, a previous patreon supporter was not subscribed anymore; or the creator simply didn't want someone to use it anymore.) Fingers crossed! Make this happen (:
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Scout - VRChat Head of Quality Assurance
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DarkSwordsman
I feel like a way to implement this is with levels.
You can add friends to certain "levels" and order them in a list. Then you can set your whitelist level to certain rings of friends. These levels can also probably work in a better way with groups, where you can filter friends by levels. It can probably use the existing group data structure on the backend.
It can also possibly be nice to have an opt-in "always" level that is at the top, where someone can join you no matter what.
At the very least, being able to toggle a whitelist for the 3 existing friend groups would be nice.
MissStabby
Would be nice to have options to allow only people to use an avatar based on various requirements:
Only Friends
Only Whitelisted
Only Members (when guilds/groups finally makes its way into VRC)
Only in presence of creator/owner (only in same instance)
Similarly would be nice to be able to "clone/transfer" a avatar to a specific account, with the receiving end getting a message:
"YourFriendlyCreator is sending you Wolfboi57 do you accept?"
ToastTheVikingr
This would also be a big help to people like myself who do avatars for the roleplaying and pvp communities around vrc. I myself am a warhammer model maker, and the stuff i make i put on the description do not reuse nor steal from: (server name)
And even with this warning on there people take it knowing they shouldnt. So iv offered account uploads but as the person above stated this makes people uneasy apart from those that started the community with me and know i mean no harm im trying to stop their avi getting leaked. Please look into this, the communities around vrc not even just the WH40k one would love you for it.