ZEP Update Notes / 2022.11.10

✨ New Features

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🎉 Sidebar Update

• BEFORE
• The old sidebar had no descriptive text, making it difficult to figure out what each icon meant.
• It was inconvenient to teleport to a specific point or another map in the Space.
• The UI designs of the mobile and desktop versions were not consistent.

• AFTER 🤩
• The new sidebar helps you understand what each feature and app mean by showing the title with descriptions.
• You can share important notices, teleport locations, and useful links more visibly to users.
• The UI designs of the mobile and desktop versions have been unified, which will reduce confusion.

• Sidebar Cover Image Feature
• How to set: Sidebar > Edit > Space Settings > Sidebar Cover Image



• With your own cover image, express your Space's ✨identity✨.

• Notice Feature

• Teleport Feature
• You can set your avatar’s current location as a teleport location.

• You can not only move to target areas in the same map you are currently staying on, but also to another map in the Space.
• Also, you can add emojis at each location in the list to make them easier to distinguish. 🪑⚽🏃‍♀️🌟

• Link Feature
• You can provide reference links, such as web pages or social media sites, to users.

• Those with permission roles of Editor or above can edit, delete, and change item orders by clicking the Edit button in each part.
• In the mobile app, only the Owner can set the features.
• If the Notice, Teleport, or Link feature has not been set, the corresponding field is not shown to guests and general users.
• For Spaces where you do not want to expose the Sidebar by default, such as a Space for games, you can hide it by going to Settings > Space Settings and clicking Hide Sidebar.

🎉 Simultaneous Transmission of System Audio and User’s Audio/Video When Sharing the Screen

• Many of you may have been looking forward to this feature! Until now, to share the screen and broadcast the sharer's audio/video at the same time, you had to connect to the Space twice and set it up separately, which was quite a hassle. With this update, you can share the screen and your voice simultaneously. 👏😆

• When sharing a screen, a new box named Nickname’s screen is added to share the screen, and you can send your own audio/video (microphone) together through the existing box.

• If you use [Share My Screen & System Audio], you can send your own audio from the microphone and the system audio at the same time.
• The difference between [Share My Screen] and [Share My Screen & System Audio] is that the latter can share system audio.
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Note: A video box is created based on the users close to your avatar, and the maximum number of active boxes in the map is 16. Therefore, please use the Spotlight and Private Area features as well when there are many participants in the Space.

Mobile App

🎉 Featured Videos Added to Home

🎉 Sidebar Update

🎉 Video Background Playback

• If you enable video background playback, the video still plays even if you run another app or turn off your mobile screen.
• The name of the audio is ZEP/Space name and is no longer “no sleep.”

🎉 Mandatory Update

• Using older versions may cause bugs. In order to prevent this issue, we've added a mandatory update page.

🎮 Content

Mini-Games

🎉 Avoid Poop v2

• The mini-game Avoid Poop has been updated!
• The poop objects fall in a smoother way than in the previous version.

✨ Official Apps

🎉 Stamp App Update

• The app’s applicable scope is expanded. (Map > Space)
• You can place stamps and use stamp checkers all over the Space, not limited to the current map.
• The previous stamp app has been renamed to Stamp - Map only and moved to the Asset Store.
• To use this new version, install the app again from the App Management menu.
• The tiles where stamp checkers have been installed are changed to “impassable.”
• A blocked keyword filter has been added to the notice.

🎉 Quick Note

• Enter any text in a Quick Note and save it.
• It comes as a notepad and can only be viewed by the author.
• Quick Notes are saved within a Space. You can check and edit the notes even when you re-enter the Space.

🎉 Teleport App Update

• The Teleport app has been moved from the official app to the Asset Store.
• You can keep using the app if you’ve already installed it.
• If you don’t have or reinstall the app, please go to the Asset Store and get it for free.

🪄 ZEP Script (A detailed notice will come soon)

• moveObjectWithKey
• This function allows the object to pass through even impassible tiles, when ”path” is “false”.
• If “pass” is “true,” the object can detour the impassible tiles.

• Changeable Title Colors
• Basic: WHITE, BLACK, RED, GREEN, BLUE, ORANGE, PURPLE, GRAY, YELLOW, MAGENTA, CYAN
• How to use: Enter the color name like ColorType.WHITE.
• If you use 0xFFFFFF color code, you can set other colors as well.

• The ZEP Script key code can be set to a string instead of a number.
• Available from A to Z.
• E.g., App.addOnKeyDown(KeyCodeType.Z, function (player) {}

• After calling the ZEP Script Widget, you can adjust the size, position, anchor, etc.
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[Example of widget resizing and positioning]

You can adjust the widget size, detailed position, and anchor upon request with postMessage in the widget file (html) as follows.

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window.parent.postMessage({
    type: 'WidgetRearrange',
    width: '300px',  // resizing option
    height: '440px',  // resizing option
    left: '500px', // positioning
    top: '50px', // positioning
    anchor: 'middleright' // changing anchor
}, "*");

• ZEP Script Widget anchors have been added.
• You can use the existing 9 position anchors and a responsive anchor.
• The responsive anchor is automatically added to the bottom for the mobile environment.

middle → middle_responsive anchor setting middleleft → middleleft_responsive anchor setting middleright → middleright_responsive anchor setting top → top_responsive anchor setting topleft → topleft_responsive anchor setting topright → topright_responsive anchor setting bottom → bottom_responsive anchor setting bottomleft → bottomleft_responsive anchor setting bottomright → bottomright_responsive anchor setting

💜 Official Avatars & Templates

🎉 New Avatar Resources

• 7 pieces of hair, 6 pieces of clothing, and 3 faces have been added to ZEP official avatars! 💜
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Hair
• Bungalow hat, straw hat, short hair, snapback, long straight hair, half updo wavy hair, and beanie hat
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Clothing
• T-shirt, bustier dress, short sleeve collar shirt, sleeveless dress, plain T-shirt and slacks pants, and overalls
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Face
• Sad face, silly face, and red irises

🎉 New ZEP Official Templates

• You can find the new templates from the list as shown below when creating a Space.

⚽ Soccer Stadium

Watch the World Cup matches and cheer together with your friends.

🚞 Orient Express

Enjoy a wonderful view from the running train. Create your own unique Space with the objects in the Asset Store.

🧘‍♀️Temple in the Sky

Have a relaxing coffee-side chat.

⛏ Bugs & Fixes

• 🕹️ Play
• A character limit has been added to the Space’s name and description; 30 characters for a name and 80 characters for a description (including spaces).
• When non-signed-in whitelisted users click a Space link, they can directly enter the Space after signing in. Before this fix, they were sent to the [My Spaces] page after signing in and had to select the Space they intended to enter.
• The issue where images didn’t appear when clicking the avatar clothing again has been fixed.
• Nicknames are also recorded in the visit history file, which you can download from [Detailed Space Settings].
• Double-clicking your mouse also makes your avatar move diagonally.
• When teleporting, the audio/video environment is updated to match the changed location.
• For example, if you move outside a private area, you will be disconnected from the conversation with the user in the private area.

• ⚙️ Editor
• When clicking the Save button in the Map Editor, the Space no longer refreshes.
• Tile Effects > Ambient Sound
• The issue where the background sound played only when you stood on the very tile on which the sound file was applied as Repeat, regardless of the active distance, has been fixed.
• The issue where the background sound played even though you moved through a portal installed within the active distance to another map location has been fixed.

• 🎮 Content
• [Stamp App]
• The issue where stamps installed using top objects didn’t work has been fixed.
• [Study App]
• For the app’s safety, the data storage method has been changed. There will be no difference for users.

• 📱 Mobile App
• The header and footer exposed when entering the Asset Store via the Sidebar are no longer exposed.
• The issue where avatars were not displayed normally has been fixed.
• The issue where refreshing in a map other than the entry map would lead to the entry map has been fixed.