Heat 0.3.5.3 Milestone - New Hand Engine, Spanking Tools, Character Thrusting, Marina Poses (Patreon)
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AUTH ISSUE HAS BEEN FIXED. Old version should work againThere was an auth issue on Patreon's end that broke all authing and I've scrambled to put in a workaround. Hopefully they fix it on their end soon. I apologize for the trouble.Likewise, sorry for the all tiny issues. We'll be making steps towards a patcher soon as well.
The main feature this month is a complete overhaul to the hand engine! It dynamically creates grab poses, allows you to grab things from any point and with both hands, and allows your hands to remain visible when grabbing character parts. This feature is an important step to a full player body, as well as many other improvements down the line.
It also kicked our ass and required massive rewrites to huge chunks of the game's code, so a few things are likely to be a bit buggy. We've done our best but we apologize for any issues. One of these issues has created the need for a hand strength option in the settings. If the toys are too hard or too easy to insert change this setting to your preference. Somehow the hand's physics are tied to the headset's refresh rate of all things and we're still trying to figure out why. Until then, this options should keep things feeling good. If something you like doesn't work quite right, the previous milestone has the old, working hands you can play until we get everything ironed out in this system.
Another of big things this build are the new spanking tools and redness, we've added some spanking paddles and a riding crop for all your spanking needs ;). If you have the option enabled and you spank a character, they'll get a bit red!
We've also added a radial menu toggle to have the characters thrust much like the glory hole characters when you grab them, suck them, or use the penetrable on them. Get your mouth ready! Unfortunately this had to break existing saved poses so they'll have to be remade.
Check out the full changes below and please provide feedback in Discord! Thank you everyone for your continued support of Heat! Your support allows this game to exist!
How to run Heat(Remember you need SteamVR to run the game in VR, and 7zip(recommended) or WinRAR to unpack it.)
New Patrons: Patreon is really slow at the beginning of the month and may take a few hours to acknowledge you're a patron for the authentication. Patreon is not updating a handful of user's pages and is failing to auth even after a long time. If you can't auth, try relogging into Patreon. If it still doesn't work, go into your Patreon profile and change any setting, such as your Patreon name or pledge privacy setting to force Patreon to update your profile. The auth should work after that. If it doesn't message me on Discord or Patreon.
Controls:
Oculus/Index:
B: Menu
A: Radial Menu
Thumbstick press: Kiss/Lick
Left Joystick: Move
Right Joystick: Rotate/Teleport
Trigger whilst holding toy: Shoot
Vive:
I've completely run out of buttons on this thing so you may need to customize the controls in the SteamVR overlay. If you have any suggestion on how best to bind everything, let me know on Discord please.
That weird button close to the pad: Menu
Grip: Shoot w/ toys
Bottom of touchpad: Kiss/Lick
Left Touchpad: Move
Sides of Right Touchpad: Rotate
Top of Touchpad whilst holding toy: Radial Menu
WMR
WMR controls change depending on the model, and some actions may be unbound entirely. You can see/edit your bindings by going to the settings in the SteamVR overlay and adjust the bindings and add any missing actions there.
For 2D:
ESC: Close/move menu
WASD: Move
P/L: Switch between VR mode and 2D mode
Q/E or Ctrl/Space: Move up and Down
TAB: Open Radial Menu
N: Extend tongue/kiss
M whilst holding toy: Shoot
Click: Grab something when the cursor lights up green
R/F and Z/X: Rotate item in hand
Mouse Wheel: Move object away or towards the camera
Mouse: Rub something when the hand moves inDebug Keys:
I: Make character erect
C: Make character climax
The 2D interactions are still experimental and limited, but hopefully still enjoyable :)
Changelog 0.3.5.3
Fix irl toy 10hz limit and make it optional
Menu now works whilst possessing a char in a duo pose, allow you to trigger their climax and manage other options
Fix radial menu in Gym
Fix errors when leaving fingers in a hole whilst changing characters
Stop playerbody from colliding with things it shouldn't
2D indicators turns green on grabbable things in gym now
Player can suck on dildos again
Stop players from walking through walls
Fix teleport max angle
Manage inactive hands properly
Fix menu and teleport laser being relative to the physics hands rather than the controller
Fix moving whilst possessing a character
Allow you to rotate toys inside character holes
Added hand strength slider
Fix player scaling, although this may still be a bit wonk
Fix radials in Hera pos 4
Changelog 0.3.5.2
Improve detection of dick grabbing
Fix floaty characters when custom posing
Fix inconsistent spank detection
Sanded down marina's dick to stop causing too much friction on the hand
Added a temp marker for the teleport point
Switch player movement system to a physics based one
Reworked UI options for snap/smoothturn to work with the movement system
Fixed player spawn point
Fixed teleport teleporting relative to the roomspace instead of the headset
Fixed height offset not working at all
Fixed player scale
Smooth out grabbing all the character's dangly bits and make them not spaz out when pulling
Make all character balls stretch a bit when tugged on
Fix grabbing spank tools with 2 hands
Fix the various grab point laser pointer bugs
Remove crappy code that was crappy
Increase failsafe distance at which hands teleport back to your controller location
Fix player colliding with toys
Make more of marina's tail grabbable
Refactor system for grabbing character limbs
Fix male player hands being wonky
Fix grabbing Emmy's tail frills
2d mode indicator will turn when you can interact with the thing you're pointing at
Fixed canine glory hole guest
Improved 2d mode belly rubs
Fix riley boop
Fix grabbing toys with 2 hands
Fix grabbing penetrable toy when it's on a dick
Changelog 0.3.5.1
Entirely new hand engine that has left us husks of our former selves
Fixed Atlas jog pose monstrosity
Changelog 0.3.5.0
Marina boop!
Spank tools and redness
Character thrusting in radial menu! (this breaks previously saved poses)
Marina jog and BJ poses
Added locations to main menu cause too many people miss the door handle
Pose numbers should be more consistent across characters, like pose 3 will always be the animated pose
Refactored some auth code to not use ancient tech (lemme know if there's any auth trouble)
Add 10hz limit to irl toy updates
Duo poses should no longer have synced breathing
Fix character's elbows and knees moving funny when posing in pose 2
Increased max speed for animated poses
Removed unused code
Updated Marina's collision to respect her chub slider
Blocked loading of poses immediately after entering a scene whilst things are still loading
Fixed marina againstwall pose jitter
Refactor character mouths
Fix gloryhole character thrusts
Fixed bottom UI hint text loop properly
Made boobies teleportable
Adjust Marina and Gym UI colours
Fixed open mouth radial option
Known Issues
Laser might not register with UI sometimes, possible fixes are: Game restart, by setting the game window to focus by clicking on it, or by alt-tabbing (let me know if this still happens, I may have fixed it)
Browser doesn't launch when hitting authenticate, or refuses to connect: Try running in admin mode or setting a different browser to default temporarily
Common Solutions to Game Issues
These are common solutions to many problems, ranging from the tongue not spawning to the game not launching in VR, or the game not authenticating. Try these out first if you're having issues, they work surprisingly often. If they don't work, message me and I'll be glad to help.
Right click on verifyintegrity.ps1 and select 'Run with PowerShell' to validate your files. If this fails, redownload the game. The download got corrupted.
Running the game as admin
Make sure an antivirus isn't messing with Heat
Adding the game as a non-steam game then running from within SteamVR (if not working in VR)
If you're using Oculus and the game doesn't launch in VR, sit in launch SteamVR about 30seconds early then run the game from within SteamVR
Reinstall/validate SteamVR
Update video drivers
Clicking on the game window with your mouse when the game is open then putting on your VR headset (if the laser doesn't work)
Make sure the game isn't installed within any folders that have winky faces or other unusual characters in them
Restart the game
MD5 hash for this build: B1D03DCCEA3EF293CAAE7E5609A49220