#vrchat-general-2

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odd lava
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Yeah it should work

obsidian fern
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Yeah

vocal shard
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OK just wanted to know

obsidian fern
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You also might need a bluetooth dongle

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For the controllers

vocal shard
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I got that for it too

obsidian fern
mighty galleon
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bug

boreal plaza
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i must say.... the annoying af avatar spam got so much worse since the cloning feature is here x.x i am often in public worlds and there only need to be one guy that has some ear and eye raping, effect spamming screen shaking annoying as hell avatar and you can be sure that 2-5 other people copy it and summon the hell on earth. i could just block avatars by default but meh. would be nice if that wouldnt be needed

umbral reef
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Make sure to report all the users using those avatars
Anyone who uses them will get clapped for doing it if you have proof

safe prism
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also use safety settings

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there is no reason not to at this point in the game

static rampart
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🇲 AvarieYay 🇪 KannaWave 🇷 KellySalute 🇷 KannaHeart 🇾
StripesThumbsup 🇨 knuckles 🇭 lanfear_smile 🇷 yay 🇮 Awoooo 🇸 businessdoge 🇹 cirnodabby 🇲 nobooli 🇦 AnimeHeadpat 🇸

safe prism
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merikuri

near saffron
rigid crescent
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yeah there's next to no reason to even have animations on in Publics

safe prism
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Only thing would be mute communication

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but that can be done case by case

rigid crescent
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yeah and you can just say "oh hold up" and show avatar.

safe prism
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Mhm mhm

static rampart
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dunno if someone cant see my marker i just go away, one of the more unfortunate parts of the saftey update

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must suck for visitors and lower ranked users, since they are more likely to have animations blocked

mighty galleon
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everyone for me have those blocked

sour galleon
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I have everything blocked on all ranks expect the avatar

rigid crescent
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I mean nothing wrong with having your animations blocked. Best case scenario, I don't get crashed or particle spammed or have my screen shaken. Worst case scenario, I can't see your avatar wink.

static rampart
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you are restricting yourself by blocking those for everyone. I only block animations and shaders for visitors, since they dont have much of an incentive to not do things that crash people. Since the saftey update i had one person crash me and it was a trusted user too.

rigid crescent
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"restricting yourself" in what way? It's proven to help protect against being crashed. I have animations blocked for everyone who isn't a Friend.

sour galleon
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Not really restricting my self I just don’t care for them I only have everything unblocked on friends if I see the person is chill I unhide there stuff

static rampart
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no one on user or above will crash you, there are a lot of intersting things to be seen that you will block out

rigid crescent
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"No one on user or above will crash you" yikes, that's not true. Most of the crashers I've seen and know are trusted

sour galleon
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I’ve been crashed from users that are trusted users

rigid crescent
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I've actually been exclusively crashed by Trusted lol I can count probably 5 times, and it would be more if I didn't block animations

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and then there's times I've seen them crash others around me

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Fewer people try due to the update, but it's still pretty common.

static rampart
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thats unfortunate, guess i am lucky then. Still I would rather get crashed sometimes than block myself off from the world

sour galleon
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Either way don’t really care for people’s animations and shaders and that if I don’t know them

rigid crescent
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Block....yourself off from the world? By blocking animations? That's a bit of a hyperbole isn't it?

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I've seen a lot of time in publics, even moreso this winter break. Literally the only thing I dont' see is an animation, unless I want to see their avatar.

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You say that as if turning off animations means I've isolated myself in some private world bubble when it just means I don't see someone's avatar wink or say "nyaa"

pliant prawn
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I worked really hard on that nyaa you better goddamn see it

static rampart
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yes, you will see but a shell of what people chose to express themself as

rigid crescent
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A shell? I have them on for friends and barely see any difference when I'm with just them, or with a mixture of friends and strangers.

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People played the game just fine before these overrides even existed and had no problem expressing themselves. I don't need to see someone's ear moving as they mash their "Nyaa" button to move them 50 times while playing the same audio clip to understand them if they simply express themselves with words, assuming they're not mute in which case I just show their avatar

umbral reef
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Tbh- I get not being able to see markers
Beside that... Well no

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Its an addon of who you want to show off

rigid crescent
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Yeah, I always turn on mute's markers

umbral reef
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Not who someone is- As i hope people have more human in them then spamming some commands...

rigid crescent
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never once had one try to bait and switch me either.

pliant prawn
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Yo what do you got against cat girls my dude?

static rampart
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by blocking animations on all people you will overlook people you may have found intersting if you had animations on. You won't know what you potentially miss since you will not see it out of fear being screwed with by a crasher

rigid crescent
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Except I had no choice but to play with them off before the system existed not once have I said "BREEEH SICK MEME DOOD LEMME ADD U M8" lol

sour galleon
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For me I’m not missing much pretty much seen everything at this point people do the same thing

umbral reef
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I dont do it myself- Got nothing blocked myself at all so GWnanamiLaceShrug
If someone just has annoying stuff they get there avatar blocked and if they are annoying by voice you get fully blocked 👏

rigid crescent
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"WHOOOOOOA YOUR EARS MOVE?! LEMME ADD YOU" like that doesn't happen. I add people based on actual interaction, not just some meme.

umbral reef
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@rigid crescent Most of the peeps i talk to ingame talk to me thanks to the memes 👀

sour galleon
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Don’t be surprised people actually did that way back in the old days @rigid crescent xD

rigid crescent
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I meant with me, that doesn't happen. I'm not gonna add someone cause they're a sick memer.

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Someone coming up and opening a box with a 👌 in it doesn't make me want to be their friend lol

true sky
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Got a more comfortable office chair ablobsmilehappy

night lark
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PADORU PADORU

rigid crescent
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Merry Padorumas

true sky
lapis nebula
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Merry Smegmas

true sky
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Merry Clickmas

indigo fern
zinc solar
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 (¸,·´ (¸*ℳerry ℭhristmas!

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Hope everyone has a good Christmas! If someone gives VRBooty for Christmas, you might need to reevaluate your life!

neon flume
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Merry Christmas vrchat!

opaque hawk
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Merry Christmas. Stay safe this holiday

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Don’t forget to install Adblock on your loved ones new devices.

languid beacon
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Merry Christmas everyone! Y’all are my favorite discord. ♥️ keep being you

inner cape
umbral reef
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And change the passwords of electronic devices

lapis nebula
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I have the easiest password to remember, it's **************

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"*******"

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damn thing won't let me put all the asterix's in, oh well

vast tulip
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Merry Christmas everyone tororosleepy

lapis nebula
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ditto

fallow shale
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oof

safe prism
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merikuri~!

vocal shard
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Guys I have a question

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Which is better oculus or Vive

rigid crescent
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Do you want full body ever? Vive.

Do you not care about full body? Rift.

languid beacon
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Everyone's going to give you a different answer. In my opinion, focusing exclusively on VRChat, I say Oculus, because it matches your hand poses. Vive picks them from a menu.

safe prism
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menu is a really strong term

languid beacon
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it's a pie wheel

vocal shard
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I mean full body seems awesome to me but. I don’t have 1 thousand dollar or a big room

rigid crescent
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Then go with the Rift

languid beacon
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I feel missing out on VRC matching your hands really misses out on some magic

rigid crescent
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I mean it only matches your hands if you don't mess with your overrides 😛

safe prism
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i have both and i have no preference

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i just vive because fbt is 345241903945x easier

inner cape
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hashire

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sori

safe prism
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yo

languid beacon
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the headsets themselves are identicle. only the controllers and ability to go FBT are relelevent. VIve has FBT, Oculus has objectively better controllers and no FBT

rigid crescent
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Full Body on the Vive is about 800 bucks, while it's about 950 on the Rift, plus it's a bit more finnicky. If you're not interested in spending the money, then Rift for sure.

inner cape
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kaze

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no

safe prism
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i don't know the rest because i haven't seen the entire thing in a meme in text format

languid beacon
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Yeah i have FBT working with my rift, but running a calibrator every time you start SteamVR is just an extra step you have to live with

inner cape
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rip

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well uuh

safe prism
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PADORU PADORU

inner cape
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was about to say

rigid crescent
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And as always @vocal shard make sure your PC can handle VR before you get it

vocal shard
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Wait I thought rift didn’t have full body

neon flume
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wmr is nice too if it happens to be a little cheaper in your area. It's the same price where I live but I've heard some can be quite a bit less expensive than the vive/rift.

languid beacon
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RIft doesn't have full body, you can just buy vive's trackers and a base station and use them without owning an actual vive.

vocal shard
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I have an Alienware, GTX 1060, i7 computer with 16 gb of ram

opaque hawk
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also you don't have to worry about setting up towers

languid beacon
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It's more expensive doing that.

vocal shard
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Oh. So I’m guessing you have to work around for that

opaque hawk
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wmr is literally plugin and go

inner cape
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it's not more expensive if you already own an oculus

rigid crescent
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Oh then you'll be fine, I'd maybe look into some form of cooling though. I've heard a lot of stories about gaming laptops running hot with VR.

languid beacon
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this guy's asking what headset to get, so he owns nothing 😛

vocal shard
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Anyway my pc is also built to play vr

inner cape
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get oculus 💤

opaque hawk
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get oculus

languid beacon
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Get Oculus, or wait until Vive Pro gets cheaper.

opaque hawk
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they have good exclusives

vocal shard
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So I’m good.
If there’s a work around to get full VR with oculus then I’m getting oculus

rigid crescent
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The problem is it's also a laptop, and while plenty are advertised as VR Ready, VRChat definitely is a whole different beast. You'll probably be fine for the most part but definitely look into cooling

neon flume
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What model of i7 are you on Pious?

languid beacon
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@vocal shard The "work around" is to buy the vive sensors to work with the vive trackers, so it gets expensive.

vocal shard
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i7 7700 quad core

inner cape
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I mean, if you wanna spend triple digit $$$ on vr just to move your legs about and have tons of stuff hanging on your body, go for vive forsenE

rigid crescent
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Yeah, Full Body on the Oculus is basically "Cheaper now, more expensive later"

vocal shard
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Well I don’t have the money for Vive now

languid beacon
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If I'm being 100% honest though, I own Rift + vive trackers, and most days I don't use them. I just use my rift without the full body, it's easier to set up and jump in real quick, i don't feel like putting on my belt and shoes, lol

rigid crescent
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Yeah then mgiht as well go Rift

vocal shard
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Imma go for rift

inner cape
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then you wouldn't have money for full body in near future

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good choice

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god damn it

neon flume
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I'm hybrid full body and I've probably spend 90%+ of my hours using the full body setup. When my trackers run out of power I stop playing 😅

inner cape
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imagine having to stop playing every 4 hours OmegaPill

languid beacon
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Do keep in mind. Soon, Vive is getting a thing called Knuckle controllers and when they are out, Vive will have better controllers than Oculus.

inner cape
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still shit energy solution

languid beacon
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oh yeah, vive charges, oculus just drops out batteries and puts in fresh ones, easy to get back in as soon as they battery warning pops up

neon flume
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Yeah I need to buy a bunch of usb batteries. I can tether myself with some long usb cables currently but it's kind of a terrible solution.

inner cape
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exactly

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that's why it's so bad

languid beacon
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Do we know if knuckle controllers will use batteries?

inner cape
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no idea myself

languid beacon
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I'm so tired of charging my trackers

inner cape
neon flume
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While other users have wireless headsets, I have 4x the number of wires.

languid beacon
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Make a marionette avatar.

uncut bluff
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Merry Christmas vrchatters xmasRainbowDance

rigid crescent
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Knuckles don't use batteries

neon flume
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Merry Christmas MoriMori!

languid beacon
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Ok 100% get a Rift then. Charging sucks.

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Sorry to Vive fans

rigid crescent
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it really doesn't lol

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"Welp, I'm done." literally plug a thing in

languid beacon
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I have a big play space walls are far

opaque hawk
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I should get a new mic. Having to use a shotgun mic sucks

rigid crescent
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People that have an issue with charging something sound so lazy...

safe prism
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i have good news ghosto

neon flume
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I'm honestly a little surprised since the Steam Controller runs on AA batteries. Why not also run each Knuckles controller on a AA battery too?

safe prism
rigid crescent
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I've heard of battery issues with 2.0 things on 1.0 Lighthouses also so not sure how true that is.

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Because it uses a different tracking method, basically.

languid beacon
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This is new info to me. The fact that knuckle controllers are not using batteries is pretty much a deal breaker to me. I need to reassess my hype. This is a big deal to me. ._.
I thought FOR SURE that after seeing Oculus's touch controller's they'd realize batteries are better.

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i hate feeling timed

safe prism
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so long as they last as long as my trackers

rigid crescent
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I can probably just test it some time since I've got friend with both, but if it's true then the battery life of the knuckles would most likely be lower as well

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Lower battery while on 1.0 lighthouses that is

languid beacon
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My trackers are supposed to last 8 hours on a full charge, but in reality they tend to only last 4.5

rigid crescent
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are they 2.0 on 1.0 lighthouses?

opaque hawk
languid beacon
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yes, 2.0 trackers, 1.0 base stations

safe prism
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i pass out and/or need to just stop well before they die

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take an hour break for food or whatever, and come back. /shrug

rigid crescent
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Yeah, then that assessment is most likely true.

languid beacon
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vive wasn't selling standalone 2.0 lighthouses at the time (i don't even know if they are yet)

rigid crescent
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So I'd hazard a guess that that 8 hour battery life on the Knuckles (as of EV3) would be closer to 4 on 1.0s as well

neon flume
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Maybe it's just the prototype knuckles that are rechargeable? There's supposed to be at least one more hardware revision afaik

safe prism
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also where was it ever listed that trackers are meant to last 8 hours InabaConfused

languid beacon
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why is the battery shorter just from using a different kind of lighthouse?

rigid crescent
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Because it uses a different kind of sensor or something. I've heard it repeated multiple times but I forget what its called

languid beacon
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@vocal shard I was told they are supposed to have similar battery life to a vive wand, which is 8 hours isn't it?

safe prism
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i have never heard that

languid beacon
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they do less than a controller

vocal shard
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bra i think you msged wrong person

safe marsh
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my vive wands last around 6-8 yeah

languid beacon
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yeah oops

vocal shard
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oculus master race'

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lol -dab-

languid beacon
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Why not both master race.

safe marsh
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how about, vr master race smart

vocal shard
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mind blown

earnest harbor
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Oculus? The headset that's been bricked twice in the last year? lul

rigid crescent
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The issue with 2.0 lighthouses is that if you have them, then you need 2.0 everything

vocal shard
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in the near future where the poly limit is now 70k but everyone is poor when you go into worlds one man 1 avatar can he save the day

rigid crescent
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"bricked" yes

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They didn't work for like, what? a few hours? still worth the superior controllers if you don't want FBT.

languid beacon
rigid crescent
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I mean I can say "Vive? The headset with controllers that break within a few weeks?"

safe marsh
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im not replacing my original vive. maybe for vive 3 or something else better that might show up, i dont think the jump to the pro is worth it at this point.

rigid crescent
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"Vive? The company that hasn't replaced people's sent in products for months at a time?"

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Everyone I know with the Vive Pro regrets it lol there's really no point.

safe marsh
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regrets?reasons?

rigid crescent
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The increase in quality isn't equal to the increased cost

safe marsh
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( i need to reasons to not end up buying it until the next version = lol

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id believe it would be worth it only for the increased bigger pixel density...coz thats a big plus in vr terms imo

earnest harbor
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But anything better than desktop and either are better than wmr

rigid crescent
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It's really not that big of an increase

neon flume
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I think wmr is pretty good 😅
(rift user here)

safe marsh
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any diffrence is a big diffrence regarding pixel density lol, unless you are one of those that can forget them while u play

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ive still havent managed to ignore past the pixels sadly 😦

rigid crescent
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I mean, not enough to justify the price

safe marsh
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oh yeah, on that i agree

earnest harbor
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After a year of wmr..... it has some glaring limitations that really break immersion all the time.

safe marsh
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vive pro here complete is almost the price of my pc lol

languid beacon
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I know two people who got a Vive pro as their first headset, never wore any modern headset or dev kit before

safe marsh
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i could never see myself with wmr lol

rigid crescent
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A lot of people thought it was the Vive 2.0 so they got it

languid beacon
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Using only two people to go on doesn't make a good sample size, but as the two people who spent the most in VR... they seem to be into VR the least.

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"it's neat"

safe marsh
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lol

neon flume
safe marsh
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better tracking means less jittery movements in vrc? coz if not i cant care less lol

languid beacon
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person who just bought a Vive Pro, 3 days later "I'm probably gonna get an oculus for beat saber, I'm afraid of sweating in the vive pro"

torn nebula
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I'm wondering if having 3+ 2.0 lighthouses might help mitigate reflection issues

safe marsh
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lol

neon flume
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Maybe it would make it worse? More places for the light to scatter around from.

rigid crescent
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Oh right, the 2.0 stuff can have more than 2 lighthouses

crisp ruin
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Tbh if you’re not addicted to vrchat I’d find it hard to validate getting vr

rigid crescent
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I got VR before I hit 50 hours lol

torn nebula
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well, I'm thinking that right now it has two sources of data: the IMU and one lighthouse (if only one is visible), so it can't reject the bad sensor

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however with two lighthouses visible, it can detect which one is an outlier

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and having 3+ lighthouses increases the likelihood of having multiple visible

languid beacon
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I got 4 hours in VRC before I bought a headset

torn nebula
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and if you're careful with placement you can maybe make sure that only one is reflecting at a time

languid beacon
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being pet on desktop does it

crisp ruin
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I played 2 hours of vrchat then decided I would get vr before playing anymore

torn nebula
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@languid beacon headpats are the VR killer app

languid beacon
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Please remember to pet your desktop users ~

rigid crescent
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One thing I did that I think was probably weird was make my own avatar before really playing more than 3 or 4 hours

languid beacon
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make desktop users wear a smaller avatar than you, and pet them. It's like cheating.

safe marsh
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well it's awesome that vrc in vr makes it feel like you are really close to your friends ( that in rl u cant be near ), so its rly nice

rigid crescent
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I uploaded a really shitty one before I started, then did a custom before I went any further

torn nebula
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@rigid crescent it's harder to do that early now that visitors can't upload

rigid crescent
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Oh that's true, some people aren't getting New User for days lol

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even weeks

languid beacon
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yeah i have like a group of 10+ second life buddies i've known for +11 years, we all ditched SL for VRChat, and we all got rifts. it's made us much closer than we've ever been in a decade of knowing each other

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we feel like we've met.

safe prism
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IMU is used in a very useless way atm

safe marsh
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thats lovely Adeon c:

torn nebula
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yeah, I hit almost 24 hours before I got new user, but that was mostly because it took me a while before I stopped browsing invite only avatar world instances and got some friends ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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@safe prism I'm sure it's used as an input to a kalman filter or something at least

safe prism
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like.. helps for <1s losses in tracking but it stops caring after that

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i imagine it's used for smoothing too yeah

torn nebula
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you really don't want to integrate IMU output over a longer interval

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but it's essential since the headset framerate is faster than the lighthouse scan interval

neon flume
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Doesn't the IMU handle most of the "tracking"? I thought the lighthouses were essentially to fix the position and give it a point of reference but then it uses dead reckoning in between light flashes?

torn nebula
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the problem with the IMUs is the error accumulates over time

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the lighthouses have error too, but the error doesn't accumulate, so it can be used as a fixed reference to correct IMU error

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and a kalman filter is a common mathematical technique to combine the two

languid beacon
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I was placed into "User" with 131 hours when the trust system came out, so I don't know when I got new user or user. but I got known at 153, and Trusted at 302.

rigid crescent
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I was Vet along with probably 75% of my friends and their close friends.

languid beacon
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I'm very glad Vet was removed. I know most vets would disagree

rigid crescent
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Lol vet didn't matter just like none of the other ranks matter.

torn nebula
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the registry has a bunch of extra ranks too - eg NegativeTrustLevel, NegativeTrustLevel1, NegativeTrustLevel2

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also VeryNegativeTrustLevel

rigid crescent
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Very negative lol

languid beacon
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Well at the choice of having Vet rank or Friend rank, I think friend rank is a better system

rigid crescent
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Yeah friend is more convenient

hasty wedge
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BACK IN MY DAYS OF BEING A VETERAN USER I WAS ALWAYS THE PEAK OF ATTENTION EVERYONE CAME BEGGING FOR ME TO ADD THEM but now as a filthy trusted user im seen as a normie

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#bringbackveteran

rigid crescent
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Lol

dapper stump
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Vet is still there just not visible

languid beacon
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As the genie of the lamp, I will grant your wish. Vet rank is back exactly as it was. Your wish is fulfilled. It's also still yellow, and no one notices.

safe prism
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needing to feel superior over other people in 2018

hasty wedge
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yes

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it increases my ego 💪 chinoplz

torn nebula
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if you want to feel superior over other people just put on full body trackers 😉

safe prism
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^

hasty wedge
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i have em

safe prism
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unless you're around others with it too

hasty wedge
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now excuse me back to erping with desktoppers

safe prism
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then its either camaderie or pro-level dancers that playfully flex

subtle prawn
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or just sit around with them on 🤦

indigo fern
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Desktopper erp heuheupog

torn nebula
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seated mode with trackers thonking

languid beacon
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I will admit, i bought trackers just to sit on the floor

torn nebula
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if a headset is too expensive, just buy a tracker for your head and hands and play with desktop controls

safe prism
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^^^

languid beacon
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Dancing? full body motion? No, i just wanted to sit on the floor

subtle prawn
torn nebula
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heck I just want to sit in chairs without sinking into them

rigid crescent
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In gonna be hype as fuck when I get leggies

dapper stump
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Dancing? I thought people were just really drunk while throwing yhe legs

safe prism
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buy a realsense camera, invest some time into getting it tracking your head and possibly your hands

languid beacon
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It is nice. get a full body avatar prepaired in advance

safe prism
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profit

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that's the same thing wulfie-kun

torn nebula
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@languid beacon step one: figure out how to use unity

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I suppose

neon flume
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I got trackers because my kinect wouldn't track hip rotation 🤷

languid beacon
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Blender. Unity is cake.

safe prism
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dancing while sober is a great way to get hurt

indigo fern
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Time to put fbt in your name then LUL

languid beacon
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As far as VRChat goes. you really don't need to "learn" unity, just the few things VRChat lets you do in unity

dapper stump
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Im too cool for full body fix, i want to be set at 4’3 before my ava works

rigid crescent
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All my avatars are fbt ready, no reason not to 👌

safe prism
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mood

indigo fern
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Just set your irl height to 4'3

safe prism
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why fix when i can just scale my world down and jam my head into position

torn nebula
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I need to get into avatar making anyway, the public avatar i was using before apparently has too many dynamic bones ¯_(ツ)_/¯

rigid crescent
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Just become 4'3''

safe prism
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yes please

dapper stump
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Exactly, such stupid people in this world when you dont even have to fix it at all

languid beacon
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Protip lie about your height and say you are an inch, or maybe 2 inches, shorter. it kinda assumes human eyes sit at the top of their head

safe prism
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lock in so it's perfectly where your eyes are then drop the height 2 inches so your ass shakes more

torn nebula
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I found a calibration tutorial on YT earlier that effectively forces vrchat to calibrate to height instead of arm length

languid beacon
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What really i'd love that

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how

torn nebula
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@languid beacon playspace adjustments

rigid crescent
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Imagine putting your viewpoint orb anyway than slightly inside the head/between the eyes.

torn nebula
languid beacon
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I always place the orb between eyes

dapper stump
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I dont want to calibrate at all, game cant force me to pose

languid beacon
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When you are not stretched out, the target will be matched perfectly where you put it on the geometry, so really, between the eyes is the correct location

safe prism
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wait this is exactly how i do it

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i assumed everyone did that way of calibration

rigid crescent
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I know people putting it on their nose. Plebs.

languid beacon
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unless it has a big ol cartoon head, then just pretend the giant head is a mascott mask, and put the eyes lower and inside the head where a real human head would be

torn nebula
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@safe prism maybe they do, I don't have trackers yet so I'm just in the research phase

safe prism
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it's so much easier .-.

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aa

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well yeah, you tend to learn what bases match up in what ways

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like for me, TDA proportions are 4'4 for flat feet, 4'5 for heels iirc, shimakaze/waterdemon proportions is 4'11

dapper stump
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So what happens if you calibrate upside down does that count ur head as legs

safe prism
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for me

languid beacon
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I don't recommend using playspace movor to fix your floor height. Get Oculus/SteamVR's floor height and VRC's matched up properly and EVERY avatar will work for you. Using playspace to fix it means readjusting it for every avatar

safe prism
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it maps everything to your hip

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i tried it once uwu

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well i mean

rigid crescent
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I use a modded luka so it's got some long legs, and I added heels on top of that

safe prism
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i have to match it up every time anyway

dapper stump
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Dont worry, hopefully within this year we all can become walking robots with 9 trackers and 12 batterypacks

languid beacon
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if the floor is too low, change both oculus AND VRC to be a inch lower

dapper stump
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All strapped around us

safe prism
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once i'm in, i never really lose it

rigid crescent
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We might be getting to 7 supported trackers some time in 2019

torn nebula
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@rigid crescent plus finger trackers for knuckles maybe

languid beacon
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Where will the extra 4 go

safe prism
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and i move my playspace far too much and my zero position is somewhere in space uwu

torn nebula
#

knees/elbows?

languid beacon
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trackers tend to work on bones rather than joints

torn nebula
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I just wish playspace mover didn't move the x-z position of the chaperone bounds

languid beacon
#

there are other tools, besides playspace mover, that can interface with input emulator, some specifically for adjusting floor height only

torn nebula
#

well for floor height you can just enter numbers, right?

safe prism
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oh, you can make it not do that

languid beacon
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you can type in a floor height, yes

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but it's still based off of your true floor height you put in OpenVR / Oculus Home

safe prism
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i can't remember if setting in ovras or just a line of code or two to also move the chaperone bounds with the universe

torn nebula
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hmm

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I'll have to poke around sometime in the code I guess

safe prism
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openvr ultra fun

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please enjoy

torn nebula
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yeah the problem is due to employer limitations I (probably) can't release anything I write for openvr ¯_(ツ)_/¯

languid beacon
#

so for example, SteamVR's floor height of 72 inches with a -2 inch playspace movor offset, is not the same as a SteamVR floor height of 70 with no playspace mover offset

torn nebula
#

so that kind of saps motivation a bit

safe prism
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ask for a waiver

torn nebula
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@safe prism they don't do waivers for the game dev policy. for some reason. it's stupid.

languid beacon
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Don't tell anyone? Release under an internet handle?

torn nebula
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I can work on just about anything else open source. but not games.

safe prism
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wait what

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that's a dumb company

languid beacon
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VR isn't specifically a game platform, and neither is OpenVR

safe prism
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personal project waivers are how innovation happens uwu

torn nebula
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I guess? I mean, I guess it depends on how I justify it.

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I can probably argue that vrchat isn't a game I suppose

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but it's veeery borderline

languid beacon
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VR is an input/output device. it's not a game, it's not a game engine, it's not a game console

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it's a monitor and a mouse.

safe prism
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technically making an openvr app is an app

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not a game

torn nebula
#

well... I suppose it's technically not a game, and the personal participation system is a self-certify and auto-approve system, soooo.... we'll see?

languid beacon
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Well nothing you are doing has to be FOR VRChat at all. You're just making stuff for OpenVR

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so justifying VRChat isn't even relelvent

dapper stump
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VR movies 10/10

torn nebula
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vrchat isn't a game either for that matter

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it's a chat platform, just like irssi

languid beacon
safe prism
#

wait
half reasonable (and more importantly, enforced,) personal project policy
seattle

are you a microsoft nerd

torn nebula
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n..nooo?

languid beacon
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He's specifically not allowed to work on games

safe prism
#

who else is relevant there .-.

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could be xbox/msft games houses

torn nebula
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yeah if you work in the company you know exactly who I work for with that hint lol

safe prism
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ehe

torn nebula
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(but seriously, not MS)

safe prism
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adjacent?

languid beacon
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It's Bunjie isn't it

torn nebula
#

I can neither confirm nor deny any of these rumors

safe prism
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ehe

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yeah you're not too hard

neon flume
#

gottem

rigid crescent
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Hmu with those Destiny codes pls

safe prism
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good luck :D

torn nebula
#

the best part is you're still wrong 😄

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so convinced and yet still missing the mark

rigid crescent
#

Lol you worked on Ark/Atlas didn't you

safe prism
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no i'm just really not going to push into my second pick

neon flume
#

Ensemble studios! Oh wait... 😭

night lark
#

i finished both hat kid and bow kid, they can both switch through all hats

rigid crescent
#

Wait wut

languid beacon
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Don't pressure him to break his NDA's lol

safe prism
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^^

rigid crescent
#

Oh on a gestures? Post pics

torn nebula
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I mean, nothing actually prevents me from mentioning which company I work for, I just don't really want to say in a public chat channel is all

rigid crescent
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Probably smart

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Hmu with them swag codes tho

torn nebula
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it's not a games company, just a company with a stick up its ass about games for some reason ¯_(ツ)_/¯

rigid crescent
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VBucks

languid beacon
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It's Unity then.

safe prism
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lmao

torn nebula
#

that would make avatar creation much easier for me if it was true I guess?

languid beacon
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🤔

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Exactly what a Unity dev would say.

torn nebula
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I mean, when I play stellaris I always make sure to gather plenty of unity

safe prism
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there's only two choices in SEA for companies with copyright liability as a major concern

torn nebula
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sssh

safe prism
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denying msft incriminated you

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:D

languid beacon
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Wait is it Twitch

safe prism
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twitch is SFO

neon flume
#

It must be Valve 🙃

torn nebula
#

I mean there's the one starting with M, the one starting with A, the one starting with G, the one starting with F...

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also the one starting with V I guess yeah

inner cape
#

Any of the regulars up for some vrc? 👁

torn nebula
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alas, I have no VR until mid-next week extrasadmeu

vast tulip
#

Hm?

rigid crescent
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I'm doing family stuff now

inner cape
#

okanoooo menacing

vocal shard
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I can't right now

inner cape
#

Guess I'll ask again

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sooner or later

grizzled pasture
#

I did so much VR last night

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Would be nice to have a leg tracker for my other foot

vocal shard
#

anyone want to play vrchat with me all of my friends basically dumped me

grizzled pasture
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Friend me

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Kattsune Mao

vocal shard
#

alright, hold up, starting up vrchat

grizzled pasture
#

Can't get on rn tho I'm dead

vocal shard
#

how come?

inner cape
#

add me

grizzled pasture
#

I played Vrc until 6am

vocal shard
#

lol

inner cape
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cant get on

vocal shard
#

hey atleast i got a friend so i ain't complaining

grizzled pasture
#

Learning to make avatars in the day and playing vrc at night

vocal shard
#

neato

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what time is it where you live?

grizzled pasture
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High noon

safe yacht
#

where do photos I take with the camera go?

grizzled pasture
#

Try your pictures folder

safe yacht
#

Yeah!

grizzled pasture
#

👌

vocal shard
#

If anyone wants to play with me, add me: "Soupcan" im the guy with the monkey avatar

vast tulip
hidden jewel
#

ugh, someone with a hacked avatar kept placing portals on me after I blocked him -.- grumble

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er, hacked client

steep reef
#

does anyone know of any worlds with optimized avatars?

steep reef
#

thank you!!

opaque hawk
#

not all of them are green, but most should be

vocal shard
#

I'm using an Acer Mixed Reality headset and for some reason my hands are crossed in VR and my position is weird

umbral oracle
#

I've had vrchat mix up left and right controllers on vive. Try restarting steamvr and turn on left first then right. Your position being weird no idea

vocal shard
#

Tried that. I may have to deal with it

umbral oracle
#

You can fix issues like this with Openvr input emulator

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It will add an openvr settings page to your steam menu and you can swap controllers for example or even apply offsets relative to head to fix position issues

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But it really shouldn't be necessary for an off the shelf setup

vocal shard
#

Just tried floor adjustment in MR so I'm seeing if that helps

rough flax
#

@inner cape Do you know who the regulars are?

tiny ginkgo
#

Heh, we need a specific list with names and sleeping schedules

slate thorn
#

Anyone else of you guys not being able to add friends to your favorites anymore?

safe marsh
inner cape
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honestly, i cant name you all, I dont remember every single name, but i will recognize if I see you

tiny ginkgo
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I'd happily join you but I'm in holiday mode with guests shy

inner cape
steep reef
#

which channel do i go to to ask questions about gameplay?

rough flax
#

What do you mean gameplay? @steep reef

lapis nebula
#

I've been happily reminiscing about the first time I ever used vrchat, no hub, no home, hardly any worlds, avatars on marketplace, about 20-30 users, had to download vrchat off a website, not on steam, no body tracking, only vr was oculus dk2, no vive back then, oh, those were the days

umbral reef
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This one ;p
You can talka bout general VRC stuff and if you need support with a bug or something else its #user-support-old

steep reef
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i mean like, how to do stuff in vrchat. i don't know how to add people as friends if they aren't in the same world as me

lapis nebula
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that's easy

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just search for their user name

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then send them a friend request

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you can send a friend request even if they ain't on vrchat at the time, they will be notified when they next log on

steep reef
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okay, thanks! i think i may have figured out why it wasn't working- i was in the Worlds tab when i tried to search for them before, but now that I'm in the social tab it's working.

lapis nebula
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there ya go, simples

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oh yeah, something else that was different 3 years ago, no discord, we all used Skype, lol, times have deffo changed

native gull
#

guys

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quick description, low poly vs high poly avatars

umbral reef
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Same thing if done right beside that one is more optimized

native gull
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the high one?

molten hornet
#

@native gull higher polygons = more lag , lower polygons = less lag but looks crappier

native gull
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AHHH

umbral reef
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Not sure why it would need to look more crappy?

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Its legit not true unless you just flat out decimate it all without caring

native gull
#

theres a skipper one with super low poly so i was wondering

molten hornet
#

@umbral reef made it simple in noob terms so dont confuse him

native gull
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oh wow thanks for that

molten hornet
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@native gull lower Polygons just mean less laggy

daring panther
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1mil poly sphere should be fine.

molten hornet
#

...

opaque hawk
#

When people say polygons don’t lag they are really saying polygons don’t lag as much as other things

earnest harbor
#

Everything lowers performance, however tris are the lowest impact that people complain about

sinful brook
#

Does anyone know where I can get this birb avatar? It looks so cool. I have it favorited but it doesnt show up in my favourites https://i.imgur.com/dBHYbKJ.png

winged canopy
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You can probably find a birb avatar then add that hat to it. Sorry if that isn’t much help. I’m not actually sure :x

meager solstice
#

I like and support the weighted performance feature request, so that just because one area is “poor” doesn’t meant the whole model is poor

tacit plank
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If your avatar is poor due to dynamic bones, it will be poor in general. But some of the values are a bit weird

meager solstice
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I agree, but not all of those effect the performance the same or as much

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And that’s what the feature request attempts to fix

rigid crescent
#

yeah basically everyone agrees that it need to be weighted

lean valley
#

You ever just wanna play VRChat and have the urge to play it but cba to actually put on the vr even though it's right there ?

meager solstice
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Yeah, when I get home from work. Basically me

dawn plinth
#

Is it normal to not be able to favorite avatars that are public, if they are not from a world?

night lava
#

its a commitment

hoary spruce
#

Anyone else been having connection problems lately?

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I’ve been having loading loop issues and stuff like that. I want to say that it’s the Ethernet cable I’m using but the only application that’s really affected is VRC. I have perfect ping and perfect download speed outside of these issues so I’m not sure

rigid crescent
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Yep, known issue and it's not on your end

vocal shard
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I have as well @hoary spruce

viral yacht
#

Does anyone have the issue where the game tries to log you in with your new name ( changed it since your original ) but it can’t register it because you still need to log in with your old one? I used to have a different name before Mysticcia, so whenever I log in I need to use the old one to get into the game. Recently it’s been trying to just log in using Mysticcia and it can’t get in because it’s not registering my old one

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So basically every time I start the game, I need to log in

halcyon kestrel
#

OwO

languid beacon
#

So apparently kicking yourself will demote your rank.

halcyon kestrel
#

OOF

languid beacon
#

I mean, I didn't do it, but someone on reddit did lol

vocal shard
#

I wonder how this game works exactly same with my social relationship in my real life

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If you can't talk to people irl, you can't talk to people in vrchat

floral aspen
#

Lol yeah I saw that Adeon

vast tulip
#

I highly suggest against kicking yourself, no matter how much you think you deserve it!

atomic tusk
#

there's issues with animations deactiving -_-

vocal shard
#

My vive is arriving in less than a hour

#

Yay 🎉

torn nebula
#

nice

#

did you get poles for the lighthouses too?

meager plaza
#

everytime i try logging into my acc, it just says ''Unauthorized''

umbral reef
#

Copy paste ya login information instead of typing it

meager plaza
#

still same problem

umbral reef
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And you are using your Account name and not Display name?

meager plaza
#

what exactly do you mean, im using the data that is my name ingame aswell

umbral reef
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Did you change your name

meager plaza
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it used to always worked

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for like a year now

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nope, always stood the same

umbral reef
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Then try logging onto the website

meager plaza
#

same, just says "Unauthorized"

umbral reef
#

Can try changing your password might work else no idea

meager plaza
#

already did that aswell

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xd

gusty willow
#

merp

meager plaza
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@umbral reef nvm im retarded, i used the wrong email

queen mango
#

He's asleep now...

meager plaza
#

he can still see the ping when he wakes up

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so he can know that i'm dumb i suppose

inner cape
halcyon kestrel
#

Co-Ne-Chi-Wa

sudden nacelle
#

so guys

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we did it
3 day public ban

queen mango
#

Oof.

inner cape
#

For what

sudden nacelle
#

"You have been banned from public world instances until Dec 29, 2018 01:13. Reason: Repeatedly setting malicious avatars to public (very loud, fullscreen shaders, etc)"

inner cape
queen mango
sudden nacelle
#

NO FUN ALLOWED

inner cape
#

too bad

queen mango
#

They changed avatar rules now..

#

Ain't as fun as it used to be back then

sudden nacelle
#

epicn't

twin jacinth
#

Depends on how bad it was tbh
If you go out to be loud just to be loud and have those cancerous screen shaking effects it's well deserved in my opinion

that's just obnoxious tbh

inner cape
#

not knowing the biggest memer of all time

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smh

sudden nacelle
#

lets enforce really strict guidelines on public world avatars
lets also start making ANY avatar set to public cloneable, no matter what
it escaletes
pikachu :o face

twin jacinth
#

Ban is a bit too far as you can just block the avatars
but meh

sudden nacelle
#

atleast give us an option to share with friends.

inner cape
#

true

twin jacinth
#

Yeah that'd be cool

sudden nacelle
#

fucking shit. i don't wanna sit on the shit i make, when people really enjoy it

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i want other people to have fun with it too.

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it was way better before the gay ass cloning update

inner cape
#

compromises need to be made

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untill they realise they need friends only cloning

sudden nacelle
#

dumb ass shit. actually annoys me

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people came to me who really loved the avatars. they were genuinely really happy to have them.

queen mango
languid beacon
#

Probably should cut back on setting things that could be abused in the wrong hands to public. I, assuming it was the emoji man? Cuz I had to block a crowd of them yesterday

#

It does suck though, but what else could they do?

#

They def don’t want people leaving the game due to spam. Specially when a lot of people might be using vr for the first time today :x

#

Just because you are tasteful doesn’t mean everyone else who uses your avatar will be

polar bone
#

I simply think that the avatar copying needs a redo

#

The way that it is now is not optimal

#

Should be on a case by case basis, like a notification appears like a friend request and you have to click yes

languid beacon
#

I think the new public avatars, cloning, included, is fine, we just need additional options besides public/private. But public really should mean public, cloning included.

polar bone
#

Agreed

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I want to have a private world with public avatars that only my friends can use

languid beacon
#

From a technical standpoint I understand why they have the two options. Private is easy. Uploader only check. Public with cloning is also easy, you don’t need any security at all, very hands-off. But anything in between like friends only / pedestals only / world only, is going to require some extra security work for people not to be able to break, and that makes them liable for protecting content use.

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But a peristalsis-only setting, forcing cloning off regardless of user selection, aka old public, is needed

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I don’t think it should be tied to friends, personally

umbral oracle
#

The issue isn't the memes, it's the malicious aspects: music set overly loud (some avatars bypass limits set by the sdk), screen shakes are almost never acceptable

#

That stuff probably shouldn't be allowed on private avatars either, but I think they are holding off on enforcing rules on private avatars, for good reason (same reason people don't look at my private data) - no reason to assume public avatars have privacy

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You are free to make memes if they use reasonable volume levels and acceptable screen effects: if you really think a screen space effect is "tasteful" put a reasonable distance limit on it and make it obviously centered on your avatar or particle so people can walk or turn away if they don't like it

languid beacon
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I think they don’t really care what goes on in private instances between people who are ok with whatever is happening, so they don’t want to make rules that would curb what you can do on your own computer. They just want public to be safe and not get on the news as someone dying in vr on their platform or something.

#

Also: personal space should block ALL screen shaders.

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Just saying

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Give people options to protect themselves, then others can go crazy without worry

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That’s how I’d do it anyway just spit balling

vast tulip
#

@umbral oracle that's what the safety setting is for

true sky
#

dont need a modded sdk to make loud music, but why i dont keep avatar and sound effects at 100%

vast tulip
#

Use custom to only show friends fully and individually "show" avatars of others as you want. It's what I do. I keep avatars on others but not shaders, animations, particles and such

true sky
#

i keep them at 50% or lower so my headset speakers dont blow out

polar bone
#

So wait can you get banned by setting a rule breaking avatar as public now?

vast tulip
#

Rule breaking? As in?

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I'm pretty sure if it violates tos you could always get banned

#

That's not new

polar bone
#

From jawbones ""You have been banned from public world instances until Dec 29, 2018 01:13. Reason: Repeatedly setting malicious avatars to public (very loud, fullscreen shaders, etc)""

true sky
#

crash avatars, earrape at 1% volume, malicious shaders, other TOS breaking avatars

polar bone
#

So I have an avatar that has a really short chromatic abberation and bass boost sound, but you can only see and hear it around me, that's fine right?

umbral oracle
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I believe so as long as you comply with audio limits set by the sdk

true sky
#

even though people can use animations

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🤷

umbral oracle
#

There are no official word I know of on malicious shaders but I think a distance or size limit on weird effects imho. Some shaders are intended to make you nauseous foe xample

polar bone
#

Also I can't believe how easy it is to make really weird shaders

halcyon kestrel
#

Thoughts on people playing music through their mics?

torn nebula
#

can be okay depending on the situation

#

can also be annoying, in which case mic mute them

polar bone
#

Like I once had an avatar that I deleted because the shader I put on it inverted the color depending on the eye, which caused general discomfort for any VR users

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The shader was super easy to make

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And to any desktop users it looked fine

sudden nacelle
#

thing is, the avatrs got set back to private.
atleast fucking give me word about which avatar and what on it is not okay.
maybe i can share SOME avatars, so people can enjoy them?
but no, lets just make this flawed system a thing without letting the community test it, and ban people without actually giving them a notice before.
refine ur system before you actually shit it out.

distant charm
#

I'd advise against having avatars with loud noises/ malicious shaders in general. If they're public they can be reported by a user and be forcibly set to private.

halcyon kestrel
#

Alright cool stuff

limber anvil
#

merry christmas

halcyon kestrel
#

Merry Christmas

polar bone
#

Some of my avatars have bass boosted stuff but nothing you can't walk away from

distant charm
vast tulip
#

If your avatar can be annoying, subjectivity, i would avoid making out pubic

sudden nacelle
#

literally, every avatar can be annoying

placid umbra
#

🤔

sudden nacelle
#

i don't know what the huge fuss is about, there's hide avatar features, theres muting (if you mic spam) and there is blocking

polar bone
#

fucking furrys always with their uwu shit Ima report them

#

see? Anything can be annoying

placid umbra
torn nebula
#

@sudden nacelle it's really hard to hide avatar features while the world is spinning around you

limber anvil
#

agreed

true sky
#

plus there is some shaders that still hide the menu

torn nebula
#

I mean I suppose there is panic mode, as long as you know how to trigger it

true sky
#

tru

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but its hard to wild guess and block the wrong person

sudden nacelle
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aev, i am freaking begging you to implement a system, where you can share avatrs with friends. not asking to get unbanned, i mean, shit happens.
but i really wanna share my stuff with friends, that i do care about that enjoy the stuff.

@torn nebula you make it sound like i would use shaders that overrender the menu, which i would never do. if you legit cant see theres the safety mode.

torn nebula
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no, I mean in general. I don't know what you got banned for specifically.

distant charm
torn nebula
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but I've seen shaders that (intentionally) spin the world in both eyes, or (probably unintentionally) squash both eyes into the left eye

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and that's super disorienting in VR

limber anvil
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dont forget the targeted zoom in

polar bone
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Can we outlaw grab pass shaders?

sudden nacelle
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can we not

limber anvil
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what are grab pass shaders

sudden nacelle
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"no fun allowed"

polar bone
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things that can take in the current screen as a texture

tall laurel
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Is anyone else having an issue where a world will load all the way but then not give you the Go button

polar bone
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Many edgy screen space shaders use it

limber anvil
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oh

torn nebula
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I've also seen more tasteful stuff that just changes colors a little bit. That's not so bad in my opinion.

tacit plank
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So far, I've only messed with render queues and such

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A friend made a mosaik shader... So I made an anti-mosaik shader

torn nebula
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could be annoying if you're not in the mood for that but I wouldn't call that stuff malicious

polar bone
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It's how they make your screen shake or rainbow or zoom

limber anvil
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@tall laurel happens to me on occassion, sometimes its just wait a long time

tall laurel
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Its just been with three different worlds now in the last ten minutes, I wonder if something is wrong

tacit plank
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Never had my screen zoom, and my shader treshold setting is quite low

true sky
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@limber anvil i have the zoom in shader, but adding color to it is quite annoying for vr users, so i dont use it anymore

tall laurel
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Wont even let me go home

true sky
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plus distance is really short

limber anvil
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personally, i dont mind the zoom in shader that much. There was this penguin that was doing it every now and then but it was only, like, twice, and there was comedic timing on it

tacit plank
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Why have them to begin with?

polar bone
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e

true sky
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zoom does come in handy for comedic type animations

tacit plank
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I never made or used an asset which could annoy anyone

limber anvil
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particle spam usually is funny

polar bone
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Do you guys know how to make shaders?

limber anvil
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nope

polar bone
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It's really helpful to know

sudden nacelle
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literally everything can be used for bad or good things. it's just how you take/make it

tacit plank
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And not because I hold back, but because I don't see the point in it.
You might find that zoom video funny, but chances are you will just annoy people in game

limber anvil
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but if the bad heavily outweigh the good there is a problem

true sky
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@tacit plank why friends+ is a thing

tidal aspen
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zoom is as funny as screen shake, it's funny the first time until people spread the prefab and everyone and their mom starts to do it

true sky
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i dont use them in public

tacit plank
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Well, my avatars can't do anything bad.
I can't really make shaders. I can edit shaders and mess with things like renderqueues and stencils, but those things are 1 or 2 lines of code

polar bone
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@tacit plank try shaderforge it's a lot easier than coding if your making a complex shader

limber anvil
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i usually insta deactivatethe avatars for those that use the 😅 emoji avatar

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you know the one with all the shaders

tacit plank
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I've seen screen shake shaders 2 times this week. Both times I was crashed shortly after seeing the effect

torn nebula
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I remember seeing a neat avatar in fantasy shu-kai-jou the other day that had a shader that overwrote the entire screen.... but only as seen by world cameras, not for player vision

sudden nacelle
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sadly hadn't had the time to really get into it.
usually just change som small things up, like max values, render queues and such.
i might get into it the next few weeks, since i have time off of work and i usually use it to make shit for vrchat since the last few months. could definetly come in handy

limber anvil
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wait so @torn nebula you mean, like, noone in vr is effected, but if they looked at a camera the effect would show on that screen?

torn nebula
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@limber anvil the map in question has two rooms, and each room has a camera showing the other room. the avatar overwrote those cameras

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and only those cameras

limber anvil
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ok that's actually neat

sudden nacelle
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@torn nebula i know who made it, i have access to it, and i know the intention it was made for.

limber anvil
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i can imagine some maps that utilize that

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like a hide and seek game where you can only see someone if theyre in the frame of a camera

tacit plank
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90% of times when I meet people with annoying shaders or effects, they didn't make it themselves. If you're going to fuck my screen, you should at least be original

polar bone
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It's not that hard

limber anvil
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like the 😅 avatar

polar bone
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My chromatic abberation shader was made myself

sudden nacelle
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@tacit plank it's not hard. and it probably uses the same technique anyways. it's what you make out of it

tacit plank
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It's hard to find any documentation on shaders

polar bone
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No it isn't

limber anvil
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i really wouldnt mind that avatar that much if it didnt have the screen freeze/shaky zoom in

true sky
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😂 avatars are quite hilarious ngl

torn nebula
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@tacit plank google "unity shaders" and all kinds of stuff comes up

limber anvil
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like, remove that one thing and we can place it under "harmless cringy avatars"

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instead its currently in "cancer avatars"

tacit plank
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It's all shit. Either the shaders need a script to function, or they just give you a bunch of code without explaining how or why it works

polar bone
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No

torn nebula
sudden nacelle
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@tacit plank scripts are for the interface.
why would they explain the code in the file they publicly give out.
if it were something that is amde for tutorials, it has the explaination it in, yes.
you think GTA5 (for instance) has fucking comments on everything everywhere, and why it makes it work?

limber anvil
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the difference being is making shaders is a development thing

tacit plank
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I was told to google "unity shaders", which gives code, not learning material. The code makes no sense on it's own, which is the problem with shaders

sudden nacelle
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"where my free shader megatutorial at????? REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"

limber anvil
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that's like saying "I would like to know what ingredients work in this cake" vs "Why should i know the exact steps to making this cake im eating"

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that is the metaphor you gave

tacit plank
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I was told making shaders was easy, so I said that finding material was hard, to which somebody disagreed

sudden nacelle
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finding materials
whatWait

tacit plank
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Typo. Material, as in learning material

torn nebula
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but to some extent you'll want to know how to code a more normal programming language first

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because shaders are just really weird sorts of programs

sudden nacelle
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if you can't be bothered to read go to a youtube video.
if you cant be bothered to spend time on it, don't even start.

tacit plank
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Applying a color, or stitching together boxes in one of those shader UI programs is easy

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But tell me I can read this page, and then sit down and make a spinning cube with a geometry shader

sudden nacelle
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oh my god

torn nebula
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@tacit plank you're gonna want to read up on vertex shaders then

tacit plank
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I can already program, but programming languages have good variable names

sudden nacelle
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"gentle introduction"
when can i recreate fricking poiyomi shader???

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better be soon 😠

tacit plank
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You know what types you're dealing with in programming

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I don't mind spending some time learning, I just want to be able to

sudden nacelle
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hey, so i just had the gentle introduction into HTML
i will now commence on programming my own facebook

tacit plank
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I learned HTML in 4 hours when I was 14

sudden nacelle
tacit plank
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It's simple, and actually makes sense

sudden nacelle
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no it doesn't

tacit plank
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For shaders, you have to guess what the hell Unity is doing, and what all the macros mean

sudden nacelle
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same goes for HTML or any other programming language? waitwhat

tacit plank
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No, you just write what you want to do, and it will autocomplete a function which does it like 50% of the time

umbral oracle
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Caffeine, lots of things are decently documented but there are some things not that people copy from others or just have to know. Xiexe has a tutorial properly lit wireframe shader on his github. Lots of good examples around for learning. If there is a specific question you have about something, go ahead and ask here: some people in vrchat community are surprisingly knowledgeable

tacit plank
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Cool, I will have to check that out! I don't have any specific questions, but doing some seemingly simple things can be really hard, and when I google it I just end up on some 4 year old forum thread with no replies. For programming, you have stackoverflow, there's pretty much always an answer ready

umbral oracle
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Ya no real equivalent I have found yet for unity shader writing. Some of the interesting questions actually bring me to vrchat related posts, so this might be one of the best places to find help, at least among public communities

polar bone
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@tacit plank Shader forge

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Also I just watched a tutorial on how to make a unity shader online and figured everything else from there

tacit plank
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That's just connecting boxes though. It can do a lot of cool things, but you don't really have control of it compared to if you code it yourself

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I remember trying to use it to make an outline shader. But I wanted only the outline of my avatar to display, with the rest being transparent. Couldn't do it

polar bone
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That's easy

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Put a 1 into the opacity clip

umbral oracle
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You can still start in amplify shader forge as a first draft and keep track of places to special case when you edit the code

tacit plank
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I could outline everything, kind of like wireframe, but I couldn't make it show only a 2D outline. The inside wouldn't go transparent

meager shell
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Just got vd chat any tips?

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VR*

polar bone
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don't get crashed

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Make friends

tacit plank
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I should try that I suppose. Thanks!

polar bone
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play the game

meager shell
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I have one friend on it ;~;

polar bone
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Make more

meager shell
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Ok

polar bone
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Go to the pug or the box or the presentation room and talk to people

tacit plank
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People with lots of shaders and guns are usually a bad sign

polar bone
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Yeah avoid those people

meager shell
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I did go to the presentation room

tacit plank
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You'll want to disable "Personal space" in settings so that you can get headpats

torn nebula
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very important

meager shell
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I don’t actually have a VRV headset

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VR*

polar bone
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That's fine

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Still turn it off

meager shell
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Ok

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I got the basics down

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Also tomorrow can I friend u guys?

tacit plank
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With it on, people will fade when they get close to you. It's also important to be cute. And most people with a strange but womanly voice are men with voice changers.
Don't use the knuckles avatar. Russian tanks aren't funny either

meager shell
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I use a lil bird owo

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I want a lizard tho

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I can’t get on my computer cuz my mom will get mad ÒwÓ

tacit plank
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That's fine! Some users use modified clients btw, you should avoid them

hollow sluice
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I have acquired a vr headset time to yeet

covert linden
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Awesome!

meager shell
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Lucky

hollow sluice
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It was the last set eb games had so im lucky i snagged it

hollow umbra
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Is your computer strong enough to use it

ember raptor
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@sudden nacelle I believe in you

stone current
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oof avatar poor cuz cloth

vocal shard
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Im trying to do lip sync with skeleton model, but how do I get lower bone jaw?

stone current
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if u dont have a jaw then u dont have a jaw

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u might also have shape keys that change mouth shape

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if so u need at least one that opens mouth

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or a full set of visemes

vocal shard
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.

stone current
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if there isnt a jaw bone u could also rig it

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but it should be mapped in humanoid if u want jaw flap

vocal shard
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I just crashed myself and im dying on how I even did it.

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all I did was spin around with the clapping animation avatar, and I cant breathe that was amazing

queen mango
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Man.. you can't be serious there, right?

halcyon kestrel
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GrievousDance So yee

shy nest
halcyon kestrel
vocal shard
twilit sluice
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Like Zoinks

bold olive
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Anyone knows what "error saving blueprint" error while uploading avatar?

tiny horizon
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Hi

subtle prawn
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Hi

mortal perch
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Anyone else not having new favorited avatars added to list?

weak lantern
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Just checked if i can play VRchat today and still bugged

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Login loop still when going to a private world

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sorry public

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When is the patch out?

umbral reef
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For sure nor during xmas

weak lantern
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Dang. unable to play the past 7 days or so

languid beacon
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Favorited avatars won’t be added if one of your favorited avatars have gone private. Unfavorite it

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I think it’s a bug because it does not always happen

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It acts like you favorited but you come back later and it’s reverted

maiden pilot
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I can't play either 😑

mighty galleon
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no pepe allowed

placid zealot
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👀

safe marsh
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every once in a while i need to go on other servers to get dat Pepe fix Keepo

mighty galleon
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oh hi mari

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oh hi heartlexx

queen mango
tiny ginkgo
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Oh hi Mark

mighty galleon
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<.<

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@queen mango can i slap nass

queen mango
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Umm.. sure... NekoLewd

mighty galleon
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-lightly slaps nass-

placid zealot
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Hi doggy

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But hello Swamp xD

mighty galleon
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mari i drew a christmas card, want it as a late merry christmas saying xD

placid zealot
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I saw it though :D

mighty galleon
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oh ok

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why you lurking

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talk to me more

placid zealot
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Can't helpt it I am a lurker xD

weak lantern
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Im a lurker now that game is not working

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😦

mighty galleon
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but mari love me

weak lantern
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Just been spending my time making a world

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Stargate Avatar world

mighty galleon
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<.<

weak lantern
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Jaffa, Humans, Azguard and more

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Next is Star Trek and then a Universal world with avatars from other Scifi shows

velvet quarry
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We do need more Stargate stuff overall

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One of the first things I did in VRChat was trying to set up a Stargate world, never did get very far with it as I was pretty inexperienced at the time.

mighty galleon
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the hell is stargate

weak lantern
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Its SG1 gate room and half the base and part 2 world is Mothership

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1 Avatar is only for me

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Thor

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Can summon an azguard mothership in the sky 1:1 scale with clouds

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Star Trek one is Deep Space nine with Quarks and the stores

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Side project is a NeoTokyo 80/90s style bar

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Will make some avatars colours glow and be tron like

queen mango
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NeoTokyo?

mighty galleon
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@placid zealot

weak lantern
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being Autistic and OCD i want to have even the smallest detail

queen mango
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Such scenery.. Pixelewd

weak lantern
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I am using old school styles i learnt since original doom engine and Quake 1

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Sprites with filters to give 3D HD look

queen mango
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Mhm.

weak lantern
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Been playing with C++ and engines since Wolf 3d

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So Basic coding

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I follow John Carmacks style of coding.

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AKA Doom, Quake, Wolf

queen mango
weak lantern
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I am Doing video Optimizations like crazy the past 2 months

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Start room has buttons for how good the PC is for world features

vast tulip
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Hmm?

mighty galleon
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oh hi mimi

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been a while

safe marsh
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Best way for fbt ? i was planing on straping the trackers to my feets with rubber bands x)

hardy basin
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is there an issue with the favourite world category? it doesn't appear in the world's tab. personal worlds don't appear too

mighty galleon
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i hear to strap the trackers to your ankles and waist

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i used zip ties to do it to the shoes

safe marsh
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Ankles? nah, the lower the better

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what u strap em to actual shoes? hm

umbral reef
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@hardy basin favorites and stuff are broken

velvet quarry
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I'd recommend something a bit more rigid then rubber bands, but it might work as a temporary solution

umbral reef
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Use glue

mighty galleon
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i just did it to shoes with zip ties lol

velvet quarry
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I got "trackstraps" myself, but some friends of mine have had luck with tying them to shoes with the shoelaces, or literally sowing together some custom straps.

safe marsh
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hm

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coz no way im buying those 20$ straps -.- what a steal

velvet quarry
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You might want to try the shoelace solution if you have some extra shoes around in that case.

safe marsh
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i do

velvet quarry
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Hip you might have to get a bit creative with though

mighty galleon
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make your own straps? it might be easy, just gotta find the right screw

velvet quarry
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Any camera mounting screw should work.

mighty galleon
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i ziptied the tracker to a belt for hip

hardy basin
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@umbral reef oh okay thank you!

safe marsh
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yeah hip im planing on just mounting a screw on a belt i dont use c:

placid zealot
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I put the trackers under the shoelaces of some old sneakers. Works fine 👌

mighty galleon
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mari love meeee

placid zealot
mighty galleon
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:3

safe marsh
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dunno why i never tought about that

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i have so many shoes lol

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totally doing it

mighty galleon
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do it on shoes you can just slip on

safe marsh
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yep yep

safe marsh
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Btw,regarding avatar creation does the cat's blender plugin does everything one needs to have a full body ready avatar or

umbral reef
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Pretty much yea

mighty galleon
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oclac

median basalt
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Lmao epic

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Devs make avatar cloning feature
Avatar cloning can't be turned off on the avatar
Cloned avatars will be met with the same repercussions as public world avatars
Friend gets BANNED for having his private avatar cloned

rigid crescent
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:0 how'd he get his private avatar cloned nani

median basalt
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It was set to public before the update

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This is the message he gets now lol

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Not even a crasher or anything, just "obnoxious"

sonic verge
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honestly its deeper than that

median basalt
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He got the rules changed from under him and now they're banning him for it, epic dev team as always

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He's the owner of that yellow "emoji" avatar you may have seen around

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Brb setting all of my old avatars to private

near saffron
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They need to set more options for avatar cloning

median basalt
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They should have done so in the first place

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A separate option to allow cloning, off by default

sonic verge
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honestly not just that, they need to get the avatar restrictions a redo

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if it wasnt for the avatar restrictions, most of the avatar creators (and i mean the good ones) would still be here making avatars till now

near saffron
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What restrictions? The public world ones?

median basalt
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@sonic verge the public world restrictions are fine though

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I think colliders are still counted wrongly but I'm guessing they'll never change that :/

sonic verge
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colliders, dynamics, meshes etc i think

median basalt
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You can have three skinned meshes. All it takes is to just join the meshes, it's not hard

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50 dynamic bones is plenty

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You can make short skirts work with three bones

sonic verge
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all my avas usually take from 30-40 dyns

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and that still go very poor sometimes like wot

near saffron
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Yeah I’d say the rules with public worlds are mostly fine

median basalt
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Oh, you mean the rank system lol

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Yeah, the rank system is bullshit anyway

near saffron
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No one takes it seriously cuz of it being fucked thankfully

median basalt
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No distinction made between my instanced mesh particles (that are only on sometimes), and someone with 1000 dynamic bone transforms and 20 colliders

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I'm put in the same boat as people with a hundred meshes lol

sonic verge
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i havent even touched unity or blender since this update, cause im pretty sure il just be crammed for having orang to reds on rank

median basalt
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Literally everyone is marked as poor, therefore nobody cares

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All it did was make nameplates laggier

sonic verge
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i can literally see that even without going to places

rigid crescent
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idunno, my friends have mostly been doing their part to optimize their stuff

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and so have worlds

sudden nacelle
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So, i just read through the community guidelines.

I have not violated them (in my eyes, reading as of like 5 minutes ago)
nowhere does it say anything i did was wrong.
i just send the support team a dispute for my ban.

Let's see where this leads, and if i get a really weird answer to it.

#freejawbones2018

rigid crescent
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they still need to fix the rank weighting, but still

sonic verge
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#freejawbonesemojiavatar

slow lance
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I think I win today on breaking Unity:

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transform.position assign attempt for 'SceneCamera' is not valid. Input position is { NaN, NaN, NaN }. UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent(Int32, IntPtr)

near saffron
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I’ve been optimising my stuff too, but having over 8 rigid bodies still puts me down to very poor

slow lance
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(Also just broke Discord trying to copy paste...)

sonic verge
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lmao

rigid crescent
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Didn't you say you got banned for an annoying avatar?

sonic verge
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i wont say it annoying tho

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i would say its annoying to "normies"

rigid crescent
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I mean it was annoying enough to get reported lmao

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and it was reported enough to actually get noticed

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but yeah, i haven't seen it so i cant really judge tbh

median basalt
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I get knocked to medium for having one (1) worldspace particle attached to my hand. They broke IK Follower so they're not leaving me a choice.

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I've seen his avatar and I can see that people would find it annoying. However, Jawbones has not been abusing it

queen mango
median basalt
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The same cannot be said for all the asshats who cloned his avatar and proceeded to spam it 24/7

near saffron
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Almost any avatar could be used annoyingly if it has some sounds or particles

median basalt
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The ban is bullshit lmao, they changed the rules and then retroactively banned him for it

sudden nacelle
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I am the creator of the emoji ybot, whis people really enjoyed.
i had it set to public, to share it with close firends, as i put a pedestal into my private homeworld, so people could favourite it, also to have fun for it.

the new update enables avatar cloning on EVERY avatar set to public, not even just avatars in approved public avatar worlds.

I myself see this system as flawed, since you cant just share avatars with friends.

either test the feature before just releasing it after a 1 or 2 day notice, or actually think it through before.

i know MANY avatars, that are set to public, that are way worse. like WAY WAY worse. Public avatars with crasers on them, global earrape audio. overrendering of the menu etc.

i just wanted orther people to have fun too, which definetly was the case.

median basalt
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They "tested" it in their closed beta and that made them overconfident

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Of course, only a specific type of person will get admitted to such a closed beta, and that's the type of person who sucks up to the devs

sudden nacelle
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as far as i recall it, wasn't it the beta that was like 2 days until it went live?

median basalt
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So basically the devs ensure that they get zero feedback

rigid crescent
#

the closed beta went on for weeks apparently while open was just a few hours

median basalt
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They had a closed beta several times before. The open beta was live for 9 hours. @sudden nacelle

sudden nacelle
#

even worse, holy fuck

median basalt
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Tupper was visibly panicking at all the issues that popped up because Ron wanted to push it through immediately

rigid crescent
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and honestly, most of the things they knew were wrong were things they already knew

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so the open beta most likely didn't reveal any new issues