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'''Beta 2025.3.11.1347''' is a Resonite version released on 2025/03/11.

The following notes were sent by [[User:Frooxius|Frooxius]]:

: Hello everyone!
: I've got another chunk of Gaussian Splats support work for you, significantly improving their performance! Resonite and the asset variant system now supports generating VRAM compressed variants - these use significantly less VRAM (up to 18.62x times less), load faster (the files are smaller) and render faster too (less memory bandwidth usage on the GPU).
: This also means that you can now import bigger splats than before without them killing your VRAM and performance as a result. My own 3 million splats render quite noticeably faster with this and make my computer die less. 
: And the best part, it all fits into our asset variant system - you don't need to do anything extra! Any already uploaded gaussian splats benefit from this automatically as well as any new ones you upload - our system will generate the variants as needed.
: You can select the quality of splats (and how much VRAM they use) in settings - the system should pick a good value based on your VRAM amount by default though, so most of the time you might not need to change anything at all.
: There's some other extras! Because some of the compression variants use k-Means Clustering algorithm, I've also adapted it as a texture processing method! You can palettize/stylize your textures with a new processing option as a small bonus!
: There's also some privacy oriented features - you can now selectively disable/allow platform interfaces like Discord/Steam thanks to @ProbablePrime's work.

New Features:
* Added support for VRAM compression for gaussian splats to improve their performance
** This is a lossy compression that reduces the size of the gaussian splats in the VRAM (as well for download)
** This also significantly improves rendering performance at lower quality levels due to less GPU bandwidth usage
** Quality levels are: Very High (uncompressed), High (2.94x smaller), Medium (5.14x smaller), Low (14x smaller), VeryLow (18.62x smaller)
** You can set your quality level in the Graphics settings
** Default is automatically determined by amount of available VRAM in your system
* Added "Minimum locally compressed quality" setting
** For locally imported splats, the quality will never go lower than this setting
** This is due to the very low qualities being very heavy and time consuming to compress and they should only be compressed in the cloud
** The VRAM compression implementation is a port based on this project: https://github.com/aras-p/UnityGaussianSplatting
* Added GaussianSplatAssetMetadata for providing stats for a Gaussian Splat assets (requested by @Raidriar🐧, issue [https://github.com/yellow-Dog-Man/resonite-Issues/issues/3871 #3871])
** Those stats are visualized on StaticGaussianSplatProvided in the inspector for currently loaded splat
** This currently provides: Number of splats, VRAM usage (raw value + formatted) and actual loaded variant
* Added KMeansCluster method for processing textures
** This will cluster the colors/pixel positions using K-means clustering algorithm.
** This can be useful for stylizing & creating various effects
* Added disallowedPlatformInterfaces and allowedPlatformInterfaces to Config.json (requested by ko-tengu, issue [https://github.com/yellow-Dog-Man/resonite-Issues/issues/3780 #3780], implemented by @ProbablePrime)
** This allows disabling/allowing platform interfaces by name
** This can be used to completely disable Steam and Discord related functionality by specifying the value ["Discord", "Steam"]
** The disallow list will specifically block particular platform interfaces, but allow all others
** The allow list will disable all interfaces other than specified ones. Specify [] if you want to disable all of them. Specify null to allow all of them (other than explicitly disabled ones)
* Provide universePublicDashOnly which allows universes that only want to use the default dash layout

Tweaks:
* GaussianSplat Quality Settings is now per-machine
* Rendering Quality Settings are now per machine
* When in a Universe, the Universe's primary group ID is used in the world browser for filtering (implemented by @ProbablePrime )
* When in a Universe, the appName in locale strings now uses the universe name (implemented by @ProbablePrime)
* Added filter preset name to buttons' slot name within the filter facet (implemented by @ProbablePrime)
* Renamed GlowingSphereToggle to LegacyGlowingSphereToggle (based on report by @Venport, brecert, issue #3886)

Locale:
* Merged French locale update by @Jae “awa” J4
* Merged Chinese locale update by modimobeikete
* Merged German locale update by @Muppeq
* Merged English locale fixes by @Muppeq
* Merged Japanese locale update by @Aesc

Fixes:
* Fixed SPZ gaussian splat imports being inverted on the X axis (reported by @shininghero, @Anquietas System, @bredo, @Venport, issue [https://github.com/yellow-Dog-Man/resonite-Issues/issues/3872 #3872])
* Fixed SPZ files not being decoded fully in some cases (e.g. when running under .NET 9)
* Fixed bug that prevented worlds from being opened when in a universe and not using port restrictions (fixed by @ProbablePrime)
* Fixed deleted user accounts not being removed from groups on wipe (reported by @Ardes, @Dante, issue [https://github.com/yellow-Dog-Man/resonite-Issues/issues/3867 #3867], fixed by @Dante)
* Ensure that additional metadata (supporter, entitlements, old username changes) are wiped when accounts are deleted
** All previously-undeleted data for wiped accounts has now been deleted with the above changes

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