August 15, 2025 The Great Pug

  • Upgraded to VRC Light Volumes 2.0.1! – This release is intended to address avatar loading hitches related to LV being used on Avatars. Be sure to upgrade your avatar shaders too! - Thanks @lilxyzw and Sacred!
  • Fixed an issue causing the pool cues to be occluded - Thanks DrBenStoneSage!
  • Rebaked lighting to address some minor light mapping issues near the front door - Thanks Wasmachineman-NL
  • Fixed missing collision on some back staircase doors. - Thanks Wasmachineman-NL
  • A few minor adjustments and changes.

August 10, 2025 The Great Pug

  • Upgraded to VRC Light Volumes 2.0!
  • Added a toggle for disabling Light Volumes. - Known issue: some objects will appear black or dark with LV disabled.
  • Update patron flyers
  • Improved the performance of various scripts related to pickups.
  • Fixed an issue that was causing most walls to be smoother than intended
  • Upgraded the shader used for the walls. It’s now based on Filamented instead of Unity Standard! – Thanks @hackspanner and @boatfloater!
  • Adjusted Udon Voice Utilities to address avatar sound issues
  • Improvements to the liquid system
  • New features in the liquid system
  • Fixed an issue causing the bucket to not drain
  • Minor improvements to Pickup Management scripts
  • Recompiled all Amplify Shaders with Amplify 1.9.9.1
  • Improved occlusion on various objects throughout The Pug
  • Improved batching and instancing on a surprising number of objects throughout The Pug
  • Addressed a few negatively scaled box colliders
  • Fixed an issue preventing the ‘Transmitted’ light from flashing when saving persistent data
  • Rebaked lighting
  • Rebaked occlusion
  • Thank you to @g17123, @jebuzjack, Wasmachineman-NL and @REDSIM for reporting performance issues and helping test!
  • Misc minor changes and fixes

July 29, 2025 The Great Pug

  • Upgraded to VRC Light Volumes 2.0!
  • Added a toggle for disabling Light Volumes. - Known issue: some objects will appear black or dark with LV disabled.
  • Update patron flyers
  • Improved the performance of various scripts related to pickups.
  • Fixed an issue that was causing most walls to be smoother than intended
  • Upgraded the shader used for the walls. It’s now based on Filamented instead of Unity Standard! – Thanks hackspanner and boatfloater!
  • Adjusted Udon Voice Utilities to address avatar sound issues
  • Improvements to the liquid system
  • New features in the liquid system
  • Fixed an issue causing the bucket to not drain
  • Minor improvements to Pickup Management scripts
  • Recompiled all Amplify Shaders with Amplify 1.9.9.1
  • Improved occlusion on various objects throughout The Pug
  • Improved batching and instancing on a surprising number of objects throughout The Pug
  • Addressed a few negatively scaled box colliders
  • Fixed an issue preventing the ‘Transmitted’ light from flashing when saving persistent data
  • Rebaked lighting
  • Rebaked occlusion
  • Thank you to g17123, jebuzjack, Wasmachineman-NL and RED_SIM for reporting performance issues and helping test!
  • Misc minor changes and fixes

June 20, 2025 The Great Pug

  • Fixed an issue where voice audio was unintentionally being strongly occluded by other players. Fixing #252 - Thanks Skuld, @Wiqery, @Wasmachineman-NL

June 16, 2025 The Great Pug

  • Added initial VRC Light Volumes support - Testing things out! Thank you @REDSIM and @pema99 for putting up with my questions and suggestions!
  • Added a new system to manage active objects!
    • Light Volumes are disabled when you can’t see them; hopefully minimizing their performance impact
  • Updated Filamented to the latest version - Thanks @Silent for the Light Volumes support and recent bug fixes!
  • Updated from Guribo’s Better Player Audio to Guribo’s UdonVoiceUtilities! - finally - Thanks @Guribo!
  • Improved toilet functionality!
  • Updated Patron flyers
  • Added LOD levels to a few objects
  • Fixed redundant LOD Groups on some tables
  • Addressed all missing LOD references throughout the scene
  • Misc minor changes and fixes
  • Updated to com.vrchat.base 3.8.1
  • Updated to com.vrchat.worlds 3.8.1

April 16, 2025 The Great Pug

  • The rats seem to have vanished…
  • Rebaked lighting
  • Misc minor changes and fixes
  • Updated to com.vrchat.base 3.8.0
  • Updated to com.vrchat.worlds 3.8.0

April 1, 2025 The Great Pug

  • Added animation to the bell system
  • Updated patron flyers
  • Updated log prefixes on various scripts
  • Updated the PoolTableMonitor to reduce simultaneous ownership requests
  • Updated the Red Phone
  • Rebaked lighting
  • Misc minor updates and changes
  • Oh, Rats!

March 19, 2025 The Great Pug

2025.03.15 – The Great Pug

  • ☘️ The Ninth Annual St. Patrick’s at The Pug ☘️

2025.03.18 – The Great Pug

  • Decorations and Music removed
  • Misc minor changes

March 15, 2025 The Great Pug

  • ☘️ The Ninth Annual St. Patrick’s at The Pug ☘️

February 23, 2025 The Great Pug

  • ☘️ The Ninth Annual St. Patrick’s at The Pug is Saturday March 15th at 7pm Pacific! ☘️
  • Banners are up promoting the party
  • Winter decorations taken down
  • Updated patron flyers
  • Addressed some scuffs and marks on the shelves in the back room - Thanks Wasmachineman-NL
  • Improved light mapping near the main stairs - Thanks Wasmachineman-NL
  • Fixed some bothersome collision near the mirror - Thanks Treijim!
  • Misc minor changes and fixes

January 22, 2025 The Great Pug

  • Added a PoolTableMonitor that should reset the Pool Table when all active players leave the instance. – Thanks Celaline, Friskyweed, KiwiFemboi!
  • Updated patron flyers.
  • Updated the taps to hopefully fix an Ownership Transfer issue. – Thanks Friskyweed!
  • Fixed the position of a back staircase collider that was loitering in the hallway. – Thanks Wasmachineman-NL, Friskyweed!
  • Removed the Christmas Trees and Yule Goat
  • Rebaked lighting

December 31, 2024 The Great Pug

  • Updated The Button.
  • Added support for VRC+ Gift Bomb events
  • Brightened the specular captured by Reflection Probes ✨
  • Improved material count on various objects
  • Reduced overall material count by a bit
  • Added LOD1 meshes to some items
  • Improved reflection probe priority in some places
  • Updated Patron Flyers
  • Updated to com.vrchat.base 3.7.5
  • Updated to com.vrchat.worlds 3.7.5

December 7, 2024 The Great Pug

  • Updated Patron Flyers
  • Reduced material and texture count a bit
  • Adjusted overall lighting
  • Improved the batching of walls a bit
  • Adjusted the appearance of the Christmas lights
  • Fixed a hole in the trunks of the Christmas trees
  • Misc minor updates and fixes

November 27, 2024 The Great Pug

  • Added support for the new Persistence System provided by the VRChat Worlds SDK! – This means that settings will save between visits to The Great Pug!
  • The Yule Goat has risen once again! 🐐🔥
  • Decorated for the winter holidays!
  • Fixed an issue causing one of the dice to fall through the world
  • Investigated the fireplace to remove all traces of green fire
  • Brightened up the fire a bit
  • Rebaked lighting
  • Rebaked occlusion
  • Fixed an issue impacting audio occlusion working as intended
  • Tweaked the liquid system - Maybe it’s more reliable? Maybe it’s totally broken? Let me know! Be sure to use a fresh instance when testing.
  • Updated Patron Flyers
  • Updated the notice board to include Bluesky — @thegreatpug.com
  • Updated floor materials to look better in some cases
  • Updated a limited number of surfaces to keep them sticker free
  • Updated to com.vrchat.base 3.7.4
  • Updated to com.vrchat.worlds 3.7.4

November 8, 2024 The Great Pug

  • Updated Patron Flyers
  • Updated to com.vrchat.base 3.7.3
  • Updated to com.vrchat.worlds 3.7.3

November 2, 2024 The Great Pug

2024.10.26 – The Great Pug

  • Halloween at The Pug 2024 is live! 🎃
  • Erected a circus tent in Night View! 🎪
  • Updated Patron flyers
  • Updated to com.llealloo.audiolink 2.0.0
  • Updated to com.acchosen.vr-stage-lighting 2.7.1

2024.11.01 – The Great Pug

  • Decorations and music from Halloween at The Pug have been removed
  • Fixed some LOD issues with the snack bowls - Thanks @LavaSmoke1!

October 26, 2024 The Great Pug

  • Halloween at The Pug 2024 is live! 🎃
  • Erected a circus tent in Night View! 🎪
  • Updated Patron flyers
  • Updated to com.llealloo.audiolink 2.0.0
  • Updated to com.acchosen.vr-stage-lighting 2.7.1

October 1, 2024 The Great Pug

  • Updated Patron flyers
  • Improved light probes in The Roost to reduce incidence of probes being inside of geometry.
  • Fixed minor collision issues in The Roost.
  • Fixed Interact Passthrough - A recent VRChat SDK update did not preserve this setting.
  • Disabled some debug log messages that don’t need to be in the live version of The Pug.
  • Enabled Kaiser Mipmap Filtering for all textures. This should ensure the new “Detail Preserving Image Downscaling” (DPID) mipmaps are active in The Great Pug.
  • Fiddled with the Bell again.
  • Adjusted LOD view distance on a few objects.
  • Updated to com.vrchat.base 3.7.2-beta.2
  • Updated to com.vrchat.worlds 3.7.2-beta.2
  • Work continues on Halloween at The Pug - 2024! Saturday, October 26th 🎃

August 22, 2024 The Great Pug

  • Minor trust and safety improvements - Thanks @DrakenStark!
  • Removed alarm clock
  • Updated to com.vrchat.worlds 3.7.0
  • Updated to com.vrchat.base 3.7.0
  • Updated to com.acchosen.vr-stage-lighting 2.7.1
  • Misc minor changes

August 11, 2024 The Great Pug

2024.07.12 – The Great Pug

  • Rate limiting changes
  • Disabled some debug logging
  • Misc scripting changes

2024.08.10 – The Great Pug

  • Updated Patron flyers
  • Updated Filamented to b32dc9ab - Thanks Silent!
  • Removed log messages intended for bots
  • Disabled some debug logging
  • Work has begun on Halloween at The Pug - 2024! Saturday, October 26th 🎃