Technical updates – 8 May, 2020

By Decentraland, , in Announcements

Apologies for the radio silence of late. We hope you’re all staying safe and sane under these extraordinary conditions and finding some solace in our shared virtual world. Despite the lack of updates, we’ve been busy refining a huge range of elements to enhance your experience in the metaverse. Here’s the latest updates from the team:

SDK/Content:

Shipped

  • Video streaming support

  • Fixed several bugs with scene loading and parenting of entities

  • Restructured the docs site and added new docs for the Builder and Marketplace

  • NEW MAP RELEASED!

Working on

  • Font support

  • Support for links to external websites

  • Genesis Plaza relaunch & onboarding experience

World & Platform:

Working on

  • Upcoming release of a new feature for friends and private messaging

  • Improving conversion from GTLF to Asset Bundles in order to improve rendering speed and stability

  • New world chat window

  • World load performance improvements

  • Database storage for the Content Server

Builder & Marketplace

Shipped

  • Marketplace search bar moved out of the filters menu

Working on

  • Builder web3 auth (development ready, waiting to be released)

  • Land Manager (under development)

Until the next update – which we promise not to leave as long – hit us up on Discord if you have any questions or issues.