# \[DAO:e8529bf\] Update #3 for project "Protocol Squad - Alternative Explorers (Desktop, Mobile & VR)"

**URL:** <https://forum.decentraland.org/t/dao-e8529bf-update-3-for-project-protocol-squad-alternative-explorers-desktop-mobile-vr/23653>\
**Category:** Governance\
**Created:** [February 1, 2025, 11:34pm UTC](https://forum.decentraland.org/t/dao-e8529bf-update-3-for-project-protocol-squad-alternative-explorers-desktop-mobile-vr/23653 "2025-02-01T23:34:19Z")\
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Author: 0x83f9192d59b393c8789b55d446e5d4a77075c820  
Update Status: Late  
Project Health: 🟢 On Track

## Introduction

Welcome to the second grant update. This team has the primary goal of developing an explorer version using two different technologies:

- Bevy targeting to Desktop: featuring experimental and developer features to enhance the creator’s possibilities
- Godot targeting to Mobile and VR: pointing to have a reliable and production-ready explorer.

## Highlights

### Bevy (Desktop)

We’ve added two new features for creators in the sdk `protocol-squad` branch:

- Render to texture: it enables to create a camera and shows it in the world/UI as textures
- Pointer drag events: it enables implement events based on drag (hold a button and capture delta pointer position)

**Details:**

- render to texture
  - add/manage protocol components TextureCamera, CameraLayer, CameraLayers
  - add UiVideoTexture ui helper

- Pointer drag and info
  - add/manage PrimaryPointerInfo protocol component
  - add/manage PET\_DRAG, PET\_DRAG\_LOCKED, PET\_DRAG\_END pointer events

### Explorer Scene UI

**Fixes**

- resize issue in some icons

**Released**

- Settings integration with the API

**Work in progress**

- Scene Info (side card):
  - Overview, Photos and Events tabs are completed. (need to catch when the active parcel changes to update data and implement like, dislike and favorite buttons using signedFetch) - needs review/rework

- Scene Photos (panel):
  - Load all scene’s photos - done
  - Load every people with theirs wearables. - done
  - Show each wearable and link to marketplace to buy it (using openExternalUrl) - needs review/rework
  - General UI and buttons

### Godot: Mobile and VR and others

- Fix profile generation pipeline, viewport size was incorrect and face zoom was not as expected
- Refactor protocol friends messages for cleaner protocol definition
- Asset optimization pipeline
  - Implement processing one asset per file
  - Implement metadata optimized, for knowing the dependencies and optimized assets per scene
  - Optimize .ZIP by removing unused files
  - Add original size image to the metadata for knowing the size of the images for the SDK6 UI
  - Setup on AWS for Queues for multiple consumers downloading

- Working on imposter generation pipeline (processor-side), for upload imposters
- Working on Portrait/Landscape UI
- Working on iPhone requirements for approval in the Asset Store

## Blockers

## Next steps

We will be working on:

- Implementing the new comms that Foundation has prepared in Bevy in the coming weeks
- The Explorer Scene UI and its integration in Bevy
- Roll out asset pipeline process for Godot Mobile

## Additional notes and links

- Join us on our Discord server: [Decentraland DAO Explorers](https://discord.com/invite/6mGqPnjujT)
- Public home page to get links: [https://dclexplorer.com/](https://dclexplorer.com/)
- Public roadmap: [DAO Explorers · GitHub](https://github.com/orgs/decentraland/projects/43)
- Godot project: [GitHub - decentraland/godot-explorer](https://github.com/decentraland/godot-explorer/)
- Bevy project: [GitHub - decentraland/bevy-explorer](https://github.com/decentraland/bevy-explorer/)
- X Account: [https://twitter.com/DclDaoExplorers/](https://twitter.com/DclDaoExplorers/)

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