Meta Horizon Worlds v118 Release Notes: A New Way to Find Assets, Customizable Profile Pics, & More

Meta Horizon Worlds v118 is here! This week’s update includes a new section in the Asset Library where you can discover relevant assets to spruce up your worlds, a new way for you to customize your profile image using your own photos from Worlds, and new controls for world chat. Let’s dive in.

A New Way to Build: “For Your World” Section Added to Asset Library

Following our release of the Popular section, the new “For your world” section in asset library will show you assets that are similar to those in your current world. Browse it to discover more of the types of assets you already use and love and add some extra variety to your world!

New Customizable Profile Picture

Snap a great selfie with friends? Show it off!

Soon, you’ll soon be able to add custom profile pictures to your Worlds profile. Even better, your updated Worlds profile picture will sync with your Meta Horizon profile. We’re excited to roll this out to everyone soon.

From My Profile: Hover over your profile picture and click the edit icon. Select an image from your photo album (or snap a selfie).

From My Photos: Click into the image and open the kebab menu. Select “Use as profile picture,” and you’re all set.

More Control Over Your Experience: World Chat Filter and Parental Supervision Tool

We recently introduced world chat to make it easier to message other people in your Worlds session to trade tips, plan where to go next, or say “Hey!” and introduce yourself to new friends. You can now also control what kinds of words or phrases you see in chats with world chat filter, which hides words that might be upsetting or offensive and is automatically turned on for all players. Parents can also see, change, and lock their teen’s world chat filter setting in parental supervision. To set up parental supervision, visit the Family Center for Meta Horizon Worlds.

To change your world chat filter setting, go to Settings > Safety.

Highlighted Bug Fixes

Here are some of the fixes included in today’s update:

General

• Fixed a typo on the world reporting page.

Creators

• Fixed an issue with the “Delete Single Spawned Object” code block that caused players who joined after this operation had been completed to still see objects that should have been deleted.
• Fixed a bug where assets that had their objects updated wouldn’t spawn at the correct location.
• Fixed a bug where the On Grab Start event wouldn’t fire when a player switched hands with an object they’re holding.
• Fixed an issue where assets updated by changing the object selection would sometimes be offset by the position of the new selection.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented creators from traveling to a world in Edit mode.
• Fixed a bug where grouped objects would move on the wrong axis when moving them while zoomed in.
• Fixed a bug where undo didn’t work when moving a selection of objects while editing a group of objects.
• Fixed a bug that showed a “Something is being edited” message when someone was trying to edit an object that nobody else was editing.
• Fixed a bug that allowed a collaborator to continue editing a world when they had lost collaborator access while they were still in the world in Edit mode.

Known Issues

General

• World volume controls sometimes aren’t working properly.
• Leaderboards and achievements sometimes aren’t visible or fail to load.
• People are sometimes spawning in different instances of worlds than others in their party unexpectedly.
• People are sometimes stuck as the “coin” while in-world.
• Home world names aren’t updating after people change their usernames.
• Avatars aren’t correctly affected by light sources in some worlds.
• People are unable to see a new follower’s profile after clicking on the New Follower notification in the menu.
• People with a lot of friends sometimes see “Unable to load content” in the friends section of the menu.

Creators

• Creators sometimes need to leave and return to Edit mode to see objects that had their deletion undone.
• Creators are unable to link a renamed asset to a variable.
• When using the color CodeBlock, the attributes for the object don’t update correctly on the Property Panel.
• The edit script icon remains active in the properties panel even when the script has been deleted.
• Assets can’t be scaled past a certain value.
• When making text larger in Build mode with the grab anchors, the text appears blurry once enlarged.
• Dark Mode for the achievements panel doesn’t render correctly.
• Gizmo titles can be hidden by objects in the world in Edit mode.
• Undoing the deletion of a door or achievement gizmo prevents creators from building.
• When undoing an array, the first shape creators duplicated before arraying is moved instead of deleted.
• Sometimes an object doesn’t deselect when the creator has the pointer inside the object’s bounding box.
• Resizing objects in a group causes them to move/scale unexpectedly.
• Objects that are snapped sometimes move slightly when the creator returns to editing the world.