/vrg/ - Virtual Reality General #428

>>239871529 (OP)
first for CES excitement I see.

xth for trannies, socks, attentionwhores, jelly, arrowslash, tfw no vrfu(female), faith, lhun, cat, pink pills, and flat being blocked by bote

>>239871529 (OP)
Please god announce Half Life VR

If Gaben passes on the opportunity to save VR by making the half life VR project for their in house headset be actual Half Life 3, I'll never trust Valve again for missing such an opportunity.

>>239871905
God I wish they ported L4D1 to VR

I love cute VR Cats!

>tfw no denwafu feeding me vrpills

>>239871994
I love cute VR cocks!

>>239871905
>>239871940
Valve is a money printer, not a game dev. HL3 will -never- live up to the hype and expectation people have piled up for it, so why would they risk it when they don't need to?

What are some good giant avatars?

>>239871940
The consensus among the valve dicksucking community is that it's a prequel featuring Alex.
If she does not speak I'm fine with it, although playing as a girl would feel strange while doing kickass half life things.

Hey /vrg/ just got a rift and wanted to ask what would be the best way to play regular non vr games from steam? Big screen beta or virtual desktop?

>>239872158
Because it will move systems regardless.

>>239872228
a computer monitor

>>239872368
and play in reality? Instead of space?

>>239872228
There is one solution but it's not pretty.
It's called VorpX and it's expensive, but pretty good.
The depth levels feel good and some games are seriously improved from it.
If it was half price I'd recommend it even.

>>239872228
>>239872368
This, you are looking at a flat screen either way, and the quality is higher on a desktop monitor.
VR is for VR games and watching videos

>>239872158
VR is the only way they could pull it off, but they can't make HL3 VR exclusive, nor can they really make a good VR game that can also be played on Desktop.

>>239872228
Virtual Desktop feels like something that could be very well part of Windows.

>>239872675
HL3/Valve is powerful enough to do that sort of shit.
I can't image a more earth shattering announcement in the modern era than HL3 being VR exclusive.

That alone would light a new fire in the VR industry

>>239872808
Valve has business sense, so there's no way they'd do it.

>>239872808
>HL3 is VR exclusive
Imagine all the poorfag tears

>>239872808
>>239872952
Valve doesn't give a fuck.
No matter what it's not going to effect the empire of a distribution service they have going.

>>239873148
Limiting the sales of a title to 1% of what they would otherwise be is way too far.

I made a world, but when I log in and scroll to the bottom of worlds, it's not there.
I know for a fact it's uploaded, I see it on the site and followed the video.
Any ideas on the issue?

>>239872808
It wouldn't happen, but there's definetley a good chance they'll release a VR halflife experience like a teaser/demo before the release of the actual game.

>>239872808
>I can't image a more earth shattering announcement in the modern era than HL3 being VR exclusive.
I mean this is really the whole crux of the thing innit.

>>239873249
Valve makes f o u r b i l l i o n dollars a fucking year.
They don't care about the 100 Million that it would make.

>>239873249
>>239873398
Not to mention it would be a MASSIVE hardware seller

>>239871529 (OP)
https://twitter.com/GalacticoHD/status/1080847473567035392

>>239873267
Please respond

>>239873769
Good video

>>239872952
Artifact and paid mods shit especially prove that

Old fags of January rise up

Is this more standalone gay shit?
https://twitter.com/htcvive/status/1080826574549639169

The third box says Vive CL***** Probably Cloud. If that's the case it'll be really gay.

>>239873398
This is why they're going to make a VR Console that comes with the headset and the hardware to run it.
They've cornered the PC gaming enthusiast market completely from casual to hardcore and they started by going after the hardcore.
They will corner the future of VR the exact same way. HTC was a mere sacrificial pawn. Wouldn't even be surprised if Valve is the one that buys out their Vive VR division if it does get spun off.
The future of gaming is VR. Valve will do whatever it can to keep it's dominance of whatever the future holds for gaming.
I'm going to get shitted on for saying this and called delusional but I wouldn't even be surprised if Valve goes public in order to achieve it.

>>239874436
>wouldn't even be surprised if Valve goes public in order to achieve it.
I'm not really sure why Valve would want to be publicly traded but I agree with everything else you said.

>>239874565
massively increase liquid funds so they can go full acquisition mode and go toe-to-toe with facebook and samsung in advertising and ramping up their VR RnD
it might also be necessary for their first run of hardware manufacturing
-t. /biz/raeli

>>239874248
January oldfag only meetup when? Only era accurate avatars allowed as well.

>>239874991
>tfw literally the same avatar since then
I'm set

>>239873004
That would be the best part, Id scroll right to the comment section on the reveal trailer

>>239875105
Same. First pick best pick.

>he didn't join /vrg/ in 2017
>he doesn't wear the /vrg/ badge

>>239874920
Eh, Facebook makes 13 billion a year. Significantly more than Valve sure but not enough to pit them against shareholders for every single decision they make, and losing control of the company in the process. That fat fuck would never allow it and he'd rather die.

>>239875105
>>239875171
Same. Making a shota variant though.

>>239875194
December vrg was like 3 anons joining vrca meets.

>>239874248
Lewd me dot

Anyone got a torrent for honey select?

I'll be damned if im gonna spend 100 dollars on porn

Why are there so few VR fetish games?

>>239874248
>ywn dot dot's dots
Why even live?

>>239875791
>Why are there so few VR games?

Because poverty mostly

>>239875750
I bought it thinking I'd get a lot more out of it and be able to make models, not realising that it was cm3d2 I was meant to be going for and that shit's free.

Reminder that people wearing badges are niggers, especially if it's the /vrg/ one

>2019 update of VRoid has males
yfw even japan knows about the shota uprising of 2019

>>239875237
awesome can't wait!

>>239876285
That's a pretty mature looking shota, like it's actually just a manlet. I don't know why though. Is it the facial structure?

Working on adding an item shop. Trying to get some comfy lighting down

What worlds do you guys normally frequent?

>>239876734
Great Pug
McFeet
Brap Canyon
Void Club
Sometimes Box but not really

Anyone know what the 1mb vrchat update did?

>>239877269
see >>239876060

>>239876490
i think so i haven't really played around with all the sliders yet and it starts off with a pretty adult or at least high school looking male as the default
but you can always edit it more once you get it into blender
and yea it might also be the face
VRoid are pretty decent bases but i really don't like their ears on the males and the females

>>239877475
Gives the ability to stick items on your avatar like badges in game?

>>239876060
The only acceptable badge

>>239875698
Call me on discord

how does the badge thing work? is it real?

>>239878620
its virtually real

>TFW you wear a massive buttplug every time you play VRC but you dont lewd so everyone thinks youre pure

>>239878324

>>239871529 (OP)
Still feels good

>>239879083
Based

>>239878054
The badge for the socksniggers

>>239879379
I'll one up you

Announcement for Rift price drop to tree fiddy ($350) maybe happening soon.

The $350 is stated as a price drop on Best Buy
>https://www.bestbuy.com/site/oculus-rift-touch-virtual-reality-headset-bundle-for-compatible-windows-pcs-black/5989502.p?skuId=5989502&intl=nosplash
whereas there are other on-sale items that don't have that wording.

A self-proclaimed Best Buy employee confirms that this means it is a price drop which is permanent:
>https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/comments/accdyi/vr_headset_oculus_rift_350_50/ed6v73l/

And finally, Amazon just simply lists the Rift at $350, without any amount cut or crossed off:
>https://www.amazon.com/Oculus-Touch-Virtual-Reality-System-pc/dp/B073X8N1YW/

>>239879083
How massive we talking?

>>239879930
Also, yeah, it's almost CES.

>>239879932
Three inches

Gen2 vr when?

>>239880267
I'm hoping Valve announces something at CES, but even if they do, I doubt they'll release it this year.

>>239880143
Post link. Now i want one

I think I got a hang of world building but how do I start from scratch? Like where do I get the very basic bits like the floor, or walls and such?

>>239874436
>sell your niche product segment that you have a market leading product in to compete in fucking chinkoland saturated smartphone market
Hmm

>>239880403
Even theirs is only a Gen1.5 like the Odyssey+.

>rip my second life avatar
>start rigging it for vrchat
>realize that it's 82k tris without an outfit, even

Well fuck, that puts a damper on that unless I feel like trying to retopo the whole thing. I've never done a vrchat avatar before, what's the acceptable polycount for these things? I saw that it was 20k, then 50k, but then apparently you can bypass it with a trick? If that's the case, where's the acceptable line to not lag other people's shit?

>>239872146
How about vr cats with cocks?

hold me /vrg/

>>239880887
tris dont matter that much but people will hide your avatar because it will be rated very poor
if you're not going to decimate at least atlas and use very few or no dynamic bones
you get a good boy rating for your avatar with less than 32k tris

>>239879930
I thought the Rift has been 350 for months.

>>239880664

>launch VRchat
>set Lovense to sound detection
>join NA meetup
>Lovense vibrates when people are talking
>end up twitching on the floor with how loud NA people are
>orgasm multiple times while people think that I probably passed out
>it finally stops after Yuru drops a portal and everybody hops in
>left alone in the world in my own pool of cum
>too exhausted to move
>pass out and wake up a few hours later
>ass sore and cum dried

>>239880887
middry is that you

give me an av

>>239881374
yes

no

>>239879379

This made me lol hard. It looks like something from early internet era.

>>239881415
;(

>>239880887
here's an edited sdk that lets you go up to 200k. you can have it if you want https://mega.nz/#!KLRhCCDT!_gPY5rcwImOm8OknIi8ybiDpiYyzwfi6A6b-J7e2_8o

>>239878054
Neck yourself flat

https://streamable.com/tw8j3
https://streamable.com/jkjel

I've been neglecting my Cumtractor posting

>>239882023
I should get a streamable from one of Ragesaq's recent streams where I kill him and then wipe the rest of his team off the point.

>>239876285
I would love to see more cute boy models but I don't want to come off as gay. I'm glad some people are making shota avatars and convincing others too so I can use one and look like a bandwagoner instead.

>>239882050
this is a good image

A couple screenshots.
Played pavlov again tonight so I don't have many.

>>239880143
Nice anon, very nice.
What do you get out of it though?

>>239882050
Is there a 3D model of this cat yet?

>>239881672
>just up to 200k
Fuck that I need more than that

uguu

>>239882023
>Unstoppable force at close range
>Literally shooting blind at long range

>>239882470
When you put on an outfit you can delete everything that the outfit is covering since you can't see it anyway. It'll save you a bunch of tris.

>>239882470

How much?

>>239882608
Unless you're me and you need to preserve the lewd things underneath for shenanigans

>>239882675

it’s not like you can take off your clothes or show what’s underneath without animations.

>>239882470
No you dont faggot. You dont need over 50k polys when youre just gonna slap a faggy toon shader on it.

>>239882846
Precisely

>>239882104
Do it!

are you mafuyu?

Centaur is working! Check it out in game.
okay that's my last screen

>>239883020

Why do you need the stuff under it when the clothes are on? Just use the one with tits or a vagina for when you trigger the animation.

>>239874248
>>239875698
>>239878324
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHH

>>239882470
>>239882608
>>239882675
Make an optimized version for hanging out with people and a special version for when you want to do shenanigans.

Downloading VRoid right now, is it all in nipshit or is there english translations. If its moonrunes is the UI good enough that its still possible to understand and use?

>>239883365
FUCK ME OH MY GOD LOOLLLL L AFUCK NO FUCKJIKNG STOP I T

>>239883636

If your local is us or an English country it will be in English

>>239880753
This.

But man, can you imagine how darn good VR will get once we have legit eye tracking capable of foveated rendering? It'll allow:
>revolutionary, paradigm shifting UI and interaction systems for both work and entertainment
>varifocal
>foveated rendering up to 95% reduction of pixels
>cheaper and lower PC requirements
>higher possible graphics, possibly with photorealistic fully ray traced scenes instead of hybrid rendering becoming possible or near possible depending on the graphics cards by that time
>higher resolution, possibly to 20/20 vision with Varjo-like techniques of which they as well as Oculus both have a patent on
>higher FOV
>less lens distortion
>actually cheap wireless adapter capability with foveated transport

>Looking up models for shit
>All these people with "rules" and requiring you to jump through hoops to even ask them if you can get a download

This shit has to be hands down the most autistic egotistical corner of artist on the internet

>>239883802
So literally, if it's a true high end headset at like 800 bucks, then we might be able to get, from some company, a >120 degree FOV, human eye resolution, varifocal, wireless, PC VR headset. And that's not to mention all the other developments happening unrelated to eye tracking, which are, needless to say, a lot.

>>239883387
>implying im not lewd and optimized
11/10 made me reply

>>239883926
xd nice selfie browlowski

>>239881248
No, it was often still $400, but also had sales often.

>>239881315
Now do the same thing at an EU meetup and it never vibrates because of how quiet/comfy EU meetups are
Instead the EUs just control your lovense

Holy shit. Someone made a custom spiderman avatar that webswings, sticks to walls, the whole nine

>>239884232
If I wanted quiet and comfy i'd just not play VR chat and read a book or something

>>239885089
So, got any videos?

>>239885423
Nope, didn't have any recording software

>>239883926
>0 dynamic bones
>with a skirt, loose scarf, and sleeves
I bet this looks awful in motion.

>>239885089
Is it public? I want it. I at least want to webswing in VR.

>>239886143
Nah, I would've cloned if so. Faggot was very obstinate about no one using his model but himself

late night chill hours

I've unironically dreamt of sucking big long cock belonging to 2 different /vrg/ anons this week. Pretty nice honestly.

>>239885692
Well then, any screenshots, or a name, perhaps?

>>239886707
Don't selfpost

>>239886707
>MisplacedNope cumming on NilhFaith

Good night /vrg/. I love you all.

>>239887885
Good night anon. I love you, too. Sweet dreams~

I miss the gap, I hope the author revives it.

>>239887754
>nope is black
>faith is a bbc slut
arrow couldn't compete

>>239888731
>faith is a bbc slut
What? Really?

I have a whole bunch of eye materials and some of them are transparent, I'm manually atlasing for the first time. To prevent the transparent materials from turning into black shit should I impose them over a non-transparent material in an image editor prior to atlasing?

dynamic bone face misadventures

>>239888949

>>239886737
namedrop. now.

>>239889041
god i love him

How fucking retarded can things get?
Can I just have real gen 2 VR?

https://variety.com/2019/gaming/news/ian-bell-mad-box-1203097617/

tfw blender-chan keeps you up all night
worth it

I just want to hold them anon...

>>239889190
hey, that's where I take mine too

>>239883639

>>239889190
Thats actually pretty nice, just need horde variants for non-nigger elvish anons.

>>239889190
>>239889341
What map is that again, I keep forgetting the name

>>239889445
Safehouse by (or at) the lake, by Synlogic. Pretty comfy!

>>239889058
coke and knight chase

Just played sairento vr for the first time
thank fuck I got this game for 1 $

>>239888815
unironically yeah faiths a sizequeen

>>239886737
>tfw saved everyone's dick pics from the vrsocks discord and fantasize about them every time I see them in vr

>>239889698
>tfw afraid of asking cryptic coke to become my vrmaster despite him mentioning it

>>239890085
kill yourself arrow

please post only wholesome vrfu pictures thanks

>>239890085
Coke's not very good, pick someone better that isn't mine.

I swear listening to the EU meetup talk is almost like listening to NPCs in Elder Scrolls

>>239890316
namedrop EU NPCs

>>239890130
Snako....

>>239890445
and their roles

>>239890085
>wanting to become the vrpet of someone who's already in a relationship
Yikes Arrow. I know that you are a cuck, but this is fucked up.

>>239890125
>>239890558
what does arrow have to do with cryptic?

>>239890301
Namedrop good VRmasters.
Namedrop potential VRpets.

>>239890685
He thirsts and orbits all the brits especially cryptic because he’s a gay furry

My VRcrush recognizes me every time they see me and they go out of their way to greet me. It feels good to see how much closer they stand to me now.

>>239891346
>secretly hoping that posts like these are about me
>then I realize that I'm an uninteresting loser who no one truly likes
haha

>>239891221
He's probably after Cryptic's big dick. Reminder that Arrow is a size queen with bad dragon dildos like Faith.

>>239890685
Cryptic is mad he never got to fuck arrow.

>>239891695
except faith can get real dick and arrow never will

Is Vox Machinae any good?

>>239891852
it's good for demos but has no content

>>239890929
>Namedrop good VRmasters.
Me.
>Namedrop potential VRpets.
My VRCrush.

>>239891346
hintdrop right now

>Virtual Reality General

>>239892004
>VRmaster
>VRpet
>VRelationship

how do i get into the vr socks discord

>>239891707
he could fuck him now that arrow is no longer with spats
he could even make him his vrpet, if that makes arrow feel less lonely and if cryptic can teach him to stop being an angry baguette

>>239892294
Do you take VRpills?

>flat sperging out over bote in the discord again
yikes...

>>239802734 (Cross-thread)

>>239892294
>vr socks discord
it's on full lockdown right now, good luck getting in

>>239892484
Which discord?

>>239890929
Arrow would be a good VRpet desu

>tfw multiple vrcrushes
helo what do i do

>>239892787
It’s not vrsocks anymore tbqhwy. It’s about 30% polfag discussion, 30% tranny/muh liberalism, 30% dickpics and unironic macho gay shit that isn’t cute and 10% gaming discussion.

>>239892915
Have your favorite VRcrush become your VRbf/gf and keep the others as VRpets

>>239892892
t. arrow furiously crying as you typed that because you have nobody to talk to on discord

Anyone tried PT VR?
https://radiusgordello.itch.io/unreal-pt

>finally get vr
>meetup doesn't exist/is dead as fuck
at leas tI got tomorrow

>>239893090
Oh no you got me...
You want to become my VRmaster? UwU

>>239893161
I could barely get through the normal demo without shitting myself, I'm not sure if I want to try this in VR

>>239893274
I'll get on I guess, I'm pretty bored.

>>239893161
Mentioned it in the Discord but it seems kinda fucked for Rift.

tfw no succubusfu who ravages your tiny manhole with their giant futa horsecock on valentines day

>>239893339
You was just hoping I could find some Aussie streams or something. The one time I could use a RLM theater.

>>239876490
Manly lack of dick

>>239892942
>30% polfag discussion
I thought that arrow was banned

>>239893978
Yeah that’s why he’s furiously raging and something out nearly 24/7 like a tumblrfag

>block 75% of niggers I see in public worlds including but not limited to desktoppers, very poor avatars, poor avatars, particle spammers
>use nearly max safety settings
>optimize all of my own avatars to excellent rating
>still crash after 15 min spent in a public world
fuck you tupper

>>239875750
check /h/ there should be a general thread for it.

cryptic... let me be your vrpet...

>>239894542
hahah nigger
I do none of that shit and still have fun with buddies in public worlds for an hour+ on 8gb of ddr3

>>239894542
I get the feeling this is one of those posts where you have below minimum specs and still blame the game.

>>239892294
join and post socks. it's literally that easy anon

I have two materials for an avatar, one had to be separate due to transparency problems. Is there a method of changing the visibility of a material in game like regular animations or are textures permanently glued where they are. If the texture itself cannot be changed, is the only method for changing components of a texture visemes?

>>239892294
>>239895413
Picture has to contain VR gear, unironic VRsocks (girls socks), and not a single person to veto you
So far only Jelly, Arrow, Orb, Who?, and Flat are not allowed to join

>>239895749
how can they tell if you're wearing women's clothing ironically or not?

>>239895817
Before, it used to be regular socks with VR gear, now you have to pose with girls socks (like thigh highs), you can wear then ironically or unironically
People who initially got in with regular socks still have the role but anybody wanting to join or rejoin now has to obey this rule now

>>239896084
So it’s literally and unironically a tranny server?

>>239894542
>do none of this
>no safety settings
>just block people their avatars if they're spamming particles or sounds
>99% of my playtime is spent in public worlds
>literally never crash
Your PC is probably just very shit Anon

>vrc is dead, either no one is on or everyone is in private worlds or sleeping
>check discord
>15+ faggots in voice chat
vrg discord was a mistake
fucking circlejerk niggers

>>239896146
>new IP
how are those ban evasions going for you, arrow

>>239896146
Yeah, you have people like Denwa who unironically take pink pills

>>239896245
Some of us were playing elite

>>239896245
Maybe you shouldn't have gotten yourself banned when you had a tard fit. :^)

>>239896245
Unironically kill yourself flat

>>239896245
go surf some public worlds then you spastic

arrow x flat could be a good couple, they're both angry spergs

any 970 fags here? been thinking about getting a rift for gamedev but i'd have to start with my current graphics card.
Can a 970 handle it, given the other parts are somewhat up to date?

i7 7700k, 16gb DDR4, random SSD.

Redpill me on VRoid to VRchat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A-LldprfiE
Happy Birthday Blender-Chan thank you for being powerful, full of features, extendable, open and free as in freedom!

Is there simple way to remove this from cm3d2 hair? Just hate the look of it

So any of you got a wireless on i7 and regretted it?

>>239898458
Is it a textured highllight or a shader/lighting thing?

>>239899030
That looks like it's baked onto the texture. Probably would need to edit the texture yourself. Honestly I like the look of that type of shine when it's a matcap instead.

>>239899354
Just use the clone tool in gimp, easy peasy.

>>239897296
I have an rx480 and I'm doing great. You probably won't be able to do crazy supersampling, though.

>>239899427
Yeah, things like that aren't too hard to do at all. Same with colour edits.

vrchat is full of lolcows

>>239900620
that's not what a lolcow is

>>239900710
They are.

>>239900737
no
lolcow =/= anyone worthy of derision or mockery
lurk moar

>>239899427
I'm a brainlet who has never used gimp before.

>>239900760
But they are exactly that. Maybe you just cant see it yourself but the majority of people in vrchat fit the definition of a lolcow

>>239900994
no you fucking retard unless they're widely known as being worth mockery by a large amount of people they're not a lolcow
you can't just make up meanings for words because they sound good
kys newfag

>>239901090
stay mad. You can look up the word if you dont understand it.

>>239901175
t. just washed in from kym and wants the epic ownage

>>239900942

>>239890316
I swear listening to the NA meetup talk is almost like listening to normalfags in real life

>>239897296
970fag here, seeing how nothing is worth buying currently unless you want to shell out a lot of money, it's still a really viable card for gamedev.
If you're going to use Unity to dev, please use 2018.3.
I have not had issues with VR games using a 970 besides from being crippled by my 4th gen i5.
A lot of people in /vrg/ who bought VR in 2016 still use a 970, remember that, and if you're going to dev for VR, the 970/1060 should still be your minimum target, so definitely don't ditch the card.

The actual real life performance difference between the 1060 and 970 is negligible.

>>239901658
>>239890316
I swear listening to the SEA meetup talk is mup da do didda bix nood po mo grub.

>>239900760
imagine thinking the average vrchat user is a normal functioning not cringy human being
yikes

>>239901816
Redpill me on SEA meet ups.

>>239901959

>>239901818
imagine thinking that has anything to do with being a lolcow

>>239902067

>>239897296
I have a 970 and its perfectly fine, i cant get the absolute max settings on some vr games but overall its really okay, i was expecting worse

>had an argument with vrfriend
>said vrfriend has been offline for quite some time now
hope you're doing alright

>>239898136
Blender-chan is cute! Cute!

>>239902865
should have kept him away from sockfags
I'm sorry I couldn't protect him either

>tfw it's been over a year and I still find it difficult to make conversation or intervene with a topic to anybody.

I try to add my thoughts on what people are talking about but in reality I get too nervous to speak and just circle the smaller circles of louder anons actually talking.

so what would be a good shader for these bottles and glasses? it comes with spheres and textures.

>>239898458
just use Gimp and color it out

>>239903602
standard with a bit of smoothness will probably suffice

>>239901974
A bunch of suicidal weebs who just watch anime the whole time.

Who can I find to lick and kiss my feet?

>>239905480
step on me anon-kun

>>239905480
Lol this takes me back.
I used to shitpost with this and a couple of similar images in a different /vg/ thread back when that show was airing

>>239905654
I'm not shitposting, kiss my feet

>>239905480
Ashei

>>239905985
I wish.

i just got my rift and i'm currently trying to set it up but after the installation it's just endlessly looping on this
any idea why?

>>239875194
I tend to toss various badges and logos onto my avatars, subtly, of any community I've helped or been helped by or just enjoy hanging around generally speaking, it's a nice way to show your appreciation.
It's not always good, though:
If you're fairly well known and show up in other media, that causes people to google those logos and can invite both newfriends and asshats.
So yeah, sometimes it's nice to do, other times not so much. If you never hang out in pubs, nbd.

>>239906124
Have you unironically tried just restarting your PC?

How much time has it been doing that? iirc it took like 1h when I first installed it. Try to restart and leave it doing it's thing for 1h and if it doesn't then reinstall. Worst case scenario contact customer support

>>239906260
waiting for about 15 minutes now, i'll try restarting

>>239905985
lmfao ashei is an overweight hairy leaf thats a submissive cuck

>>239906124
Took like 3 hours when I installed the Oculus Software, just chill.

>>239905301
This unironically sounds so much better than the other regions

>>239875512
I was in vrg meets without realizing I was in vrg meets because I tend to friend people that I get along with that I recognize are actually making contributions to the game.
For all the shitposting that goes on here, /vrg/ is one of the most active groups in the content creation and feedback department for vrchat, and there's less than 2 deg of separation to devs and inner circle community people.
/vrg/ is more than vrg thinks vrg is.

redpill me on Natek

>>239906260
>>239906430
pretty stupid that it would take so long, let alone with no message of what it's even doing
thanks for the help anyway, guess i'll wait for now

>>239875791
there's actually a ton if you know where to look. Even the vrporn "3d games" section is loaded with various full productions and tech demos.
Also japan is all over that like crazy - and vr in general. Japan and china may save vr for the rest of us just like they did with video games generally speaking.
Even their smaller newspapers ALL have vr apps and they produce content DAILY. http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201712230001.html

>>239875750
get koikatsu, "she is a sexroid" and let's play with nanai too.
>>239876676
this is looking awesome.

Events announcement.

/vrg/ anniversary - January 12 through 14
Gangster day - first avatar event of the year, January 19, 20.

>>239907257
>Gangster day
https://youtu.be/HWqKPWO5T4o

Hey you I hope you're safe, happy, genki and had a great christmas and new years.
I miss you. Every time I turn around in a movie theater I hope to find you there behind me grinning. Remember that time we had that talk? I just wish we could do that again just once. It would really mean a lot to me (about as much as that first talk did) but It's really just a wish. I understand if that can't happen and I just hope the continued best for you. Happy New Year my good friend.

>>239876734
usually where other people are, but I have a soft spot for mmd stage 1, it's a really old map that has been around since at least the steam release (maybe earlier) and was one of the first well performing and properly lit "night" maps. It's cozy and has ambient sound and a smart locking system to prevent people spamming the dancers.
Also it's a lot more than dancing mmd avatars, there's fully scripted stage effects with meshes that the developer tossed in that goes along with each song.
https://www.vrchat.net/home/world/wrld_1ba88a1e-426c-404b-9554-3e4a793e48b5

>>239880664
>>239881296
Hi anon.
The best way to do the basics is probuilder, and you can use unity itself!
Probuilder allows you to create volumes like a big square, and then you just "flip normals" to make a box. There's your walls and such.
floors are just a material, so find yourself a carpet texture and slap that bitch on.

>>239902452
>>239901804

glad to hear that, thanks for the info!
>>should i wait until Quest is released tho?

>>239908285
ok

>>239908354
Don't wait for that, just make sure your project is ready to work with VR controls and make it work with the Rift, then make sure it's optimized (build your game on Unity's Entity Component System and use GPU instancing).
If you're an Unreal dev, I can't suggest you anything, if you're one of those people who likes to make their own engines then I don't have to tell you anything since I assume you know everything already.

If you're going to be using Unity and the Oculus SDK, all of that should be covered, all you're going to have to meet is a performance target for Oculus Quest since it's a mobile system on a chip system (Snapdragon 835 iirc), so look up on how to dev for that and what your limits are.

>>239880403
My hope is the following:
Knucks revealed as both a seperate lighthouse compatable product AND as the default controller for the valve in house HMD
HMD comes for sale with a VR version of the Orange box, which includes a bunch of special titles that steamdb revealed last year in a bundle that includes the "who's who" of good vr games.
Fade to black, Half Life VR: which is basically half life 1.5 where you play the role of alex vance during or around the 6 hour war.
2 other exclusive for vr titles are announced as well, made in vr by valve and bundled with the headset.

So, this is my hope, but not only that, it's INCREDIBLY LIKELY. The leaks and steamdb have all but confirmed that's what's going to happen.
Plus, the chief writer of half life 2 just started working at valve again Q4 2018, and is credited in the artifact game credits as well.
Valve has been busier this and last year than any other year since dota2 came out. There's some major shakeup going on there, and HLVR has been in the game code leaks for source 2 engine for some time now.
Erik Wolpaw just returned to valve as well.
Big things are happening and CES is where HARDWARE, not software, is typically announced.
https://steamdb.info/sub/61/apps/
see this here? https://steamdb.info/app/823500/subs/
that might be hlVR.

>>239908354
Sorry if I misunderstood your question though, you can't seem to connect the Quest to PC and use it (I may be wrong), so until someone hacks that together, the Rift is meant for desktop use, Quest is for wireless lightweight mobile VR, and to dev for that Unity 2018.3's LWRP is perfect.

whats the point of vrchat when second life exist?

>>239908867
I don't see Valve on the CES page.

>>239901532
Wouldn't work on CM3D2 models I believe because there is shading around those "shrines". Wouldnt know because kemono.

>>239900942
use krita instead.

Where's Kirsch?

niggers

>>239909134
Ofc it works, cloning is especially good for color gradient textures because you can simply copy the gradient from a similar spot instead of recreating it by pen. You just need to chose a smaller area and work a little longer on it until it's perfect. In my webm, the texture also had a small gradient I guess you can't see it because of the video quality.

>>239909068
SL has VR support?

>>239909265

>>239908905
>>239908737

Was thinking something along those lines. Thanks for the opinions, gonna roll with Rift for now.

>>239909362
it does

>>239909373
black niggers

>>239909362
Source?

>>239909537
Of my question? My ass

>>239909537
what do you mean source, even googling just second life it tells you

>>239909482
blacked niggers

>>239909442
intradesting. Why did it not take off?

>>239909735
darkies

>>239903602
there's a special shader that actually makes the glass empty when tilted. I can't fucking find it for the life of me and I'm sorry, but I know it uses a stencil shader to accomplish it.
http://halisavakis.com/my-take-on-shaders-stencil-shader-antichamber-effect/

I highly recommend anons check out shadergraph or amplify, you can do some amazing things with it.

>>239907584
Hey this isn't me if you thought it was me alright anon.

>>239909759
because it's banned on twitch

>>239905480
you know one of the interesting reasons why the japanese tend to have strange fetishes like this?
They GENETICALLY don't really have body odor unless they're significantly jomon admixture. I know it sounds crazy, but it's true. (south koreans even more so) Not only is it difficult to find deodorant there, their earwax is DRY.
I often wonder what the heck in prehistory caused this adaptation, and what benefit it would infer, but it explains the look of mmd and vr 3d models and some of the fetishes found within their artwork generally.
They don't smell, and even though they don't smell and many of them are so clean on a daily basis that they get allergies from lack of exposure, they still bathe daily. One thing I really miss is the deep soaking tubs they all have, and I've been meaning to convert my bathroom to have one.
Many of them think/say westerners have an odor, too, you have to be really careful on public transit or they get pissed off.
It's surprisingly easy to pass as halfu though with a little bit of makeup and a haircut.

What's /vrg/ offical discord?

>>239906124
depends on how laggy their servers are at the time and how close you are to the facebook node it's delivering the software to you on.
Sometimes it takes 10 minutes, other times an hour or two, but rest assured you just need to wait. There really should be some kind of indication as to what the fuck it's doing, but they designed it to be done by the time you were done doing calibration and setup, though it doesn't always work out that way.

>>239909362
Used to, for a short while.

>>239909759
Developers put in a half-assed effort, and it ran awful, as if that was going to be a surprise to anyone. Performance was a disaster, and they just gave up quite quickly. Decided to move their efforts to Sansar instead.

dunkelhäutige neger

>>239908354
quest is a normie meme. Just spend 150 on a windows mixed reality headset and splurge on whatever valve is releasing at ces later.

>>239909068
Second life isn't full of cute anime girls. What anime they do have looks absolutely awful.

>>239910514
thats obviously a lie, even better than vrchat

>>239910358
>they designed it to be done by the time you were done doing calibration and setup
but how? i can't even start the fucking program so i haven't even touched anything yet
it's literally TRYING to start the program now, for over an hour already

>>239901532
>not using heal selection

>>239910418
be very careful not to go into a pub with that on and make sure your avatar icon contains nothing that shows that unless you're on a throwaway and don't care.
Any normie sees that and you'll be reported and then instabanned.
which surprises me a little, since vrpill uses a literal red pill and might be sympathetic, but they require banning for "optics"

>>239910784
run netstat, find the one

>>239910870
Dot is already ban on sight and ban evading.

>>239910784
run netstat -f, in a command prompt, sorry. You'll see that the app is sending traffic back and forth.

>>239910870
You are replying to someone who has been banned at least 50+ times.

>>239906575
get a better computer.
>>239906313
just leave it alone for a little bit, jesus. ADHD is strong in this thread. I can't wait for %75 of you to break your headsets in the first 2 months.

>>239910721
Post literally one good anime screen from second life.

>>239911240
google second life anime or whatever you fancy, do shit yourself, the models in sl are 100 times better than vrchat even on average

>>239910981
>>239911109
supposedly it's still doing something
i unironically think fb is scanning your entire pc/harddrives for whatever reason

>>239911340
I find that hard to believe. Only game with better animu is Gal Gun, and thats because of only one artstyle

>>239910512
I'd just wait a week to see if they even announce anything. If he's going to have to wait a while, the Rift is probably worth the extra money.

>>239911164
Pretty sure he's over 80 by this point.

>>239911340
this

It's cute that someone thinks vrchat has better avatars. good one. It's 99% the same 15 MMD models with retextures, or a few ripped from games with no customization.

>>239911340
>left = 'second life anime'
>right = 'vrchat anime'
Second Life is disgusting.

>>239912079
>unique and highly detailed anime
>vs unlit shit lowpoly mmd rips

>>239912079
>Everyone looks like standard shader
God no!

>>239912323
MMD rips are usually pretty high poly (for no reason since 90% of people just use a completely unshaded avatar)

>>239912079
>>239912323
I see several MMD models you can see in VRChat on the SL side too, except that they look terrible because of shader choice (is there even choice? It all looks the same), and those that aren't simply look terrible.

That image certainly isn't supporting the notion that SL has "better models".

>>239912323
Your taste is unbelievably bad.

>>239903602
I can't remember but there was a VRchat video on you tube where some guy is fucking about with friends, near the end he goes to a really nice world and gets trapped by some guy.
The glass in that world looks realistic and warps the surroundings when you look at it, and the light bends differently at different points of the glass.

>>239912620
I don't know what shit tastes you've got, but it's easy to see which community actually creates original content more. I don't know how you think VRChat avatars can compare to the ones I can find from SL.

I BOUGHT AN OCULUS USED FOR 350 LAST YEAR AND NOW OCULUS DROPS THE PRICE TO THAT PERMANENTLY

NO NO NO NO NO WHY

>>239912762
Or do you like more realistic looks? I can't tell how someone has such an opinion.

>>239912762
This looks fairly good except for being a little furry and the face being a little weird.

>>239912903
This looks awful. The face is ugly.

>>239912762
>>239912903
Or just looking it up on Flickr shows enough good results.

>tfw no koikatsu shader in VR

>>239912903
Too bad SL is dead because everyone’s hiding in private instances so you can’t fucking find anyone other than AFK accounts on Waifucku etc. and making your own avatar is fucking confusing and archaic and it’s easy to mess up with how shit the inventory system is

>>239912762
>but it's easy to see which community actually creates original content more.
How does one measure that systematically?

You are making general statements and use particular proof to extrapolate from, with a current n=3.

>>239913082
Then tell me how I can make my Second Life character look exactly like the catgirl on the left.

>>239913097
And a front lit one.
>>239913082
>>239912903
>>239912762
Those are really bad. This has to be bait.

>>239911109
>>239911403
just an update, after some more googling it seems like a bunch more people had the same issue
basically you to uninstall, reinstall and clear all the registry and shit and now it loaded instantly

itt vrchat animu faggots with no taste vs cute niggas with good taste

>>239912762
second life has over a decade to attract people who can actually model or have learned to model.
Shonzo literally just started making from scratch avatars and a bunch of actually talented modellers are finally starting to port stuff into vrchat. Sadly, many of them were lured by sansar.
It's only been a year since vrchat has become a nearly known name among socal virtual world applications and there's quite a few players in this space.
VRChat has had the worst marketing of them all, but due to the scrappy nature of the devs and actual usability of the platform it has the best word of mouth.

Have you seen the INSANE marketing behind high fidelity, sansar, and other virtual worlds? If you were a normie, and comparing all the different apps out there, wouldn't it look like High Fidelity for example has their shit together compared to what they find on vrchat??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=eAtCCNkcPN0
we live in a bubble, but vrchat has the benefit of viral marketing to hardcore gamers, which is the core demographic of vr headset owners right now. It's winning because they've embraced that (finally). It's very likely ron and pill wanted to be more like sansar and second life to capture that demographic instead of the anime and meme fans, but what they got instead was a massive japanese fanbase along with worldwide weebs, which I think they're finally realizing is far, far better for growth.

can we export koikatsu to pmx yet?

MOM, /SLG/ IS SHITPOSTING THE THREAD AGAIN

>>239913082
this is literally a nekopara rip and might as well be mmd, it's not what prevails in second life.
>>239913359
koikatsu is unity, the shader could be obtained I bet.

>>239913628
No. There's still just the broken exporter.

>>239913207
>everyone’s hiding in private instances
Not really, just find the right groups and places to join. Of course you're not gonna be finding a ton of active people at a literal afk fucksim. C'mon now.

>making your own avatar is fucking confusing and archaic
Nothing is as confusing and archaic as literally having to use blender and unity to set up your avatar lmao. You've got the option to make everything in SL from within the game itself, OR upload it yourself the same way VRChat offers. There's simply more options. And over a decade for a virtual market to grow and offer products.

>>239913294
No, I'm making my own observations from having been on both for years, dumbass. The points I'm making are incredibly obvious if you've ever tried SL. It has its own marketplace, it has a community that's been around making custom creations since the day it existed. It has an actual avatar system with sliders, and rigged meshes and clothes that you can fit to avatars, you know, like a proper social game should allow.

>>239913628
You don't even have to, there's even a koikatsu shapekey/bone fix button in cat's blender plugin.

>>239913757
Using Blender to Frankenstein a model is way the fuck easier than trying to use a head, body, apply skin, apply hair, apply eyes and so on. Then you likely gotta manually resize and rotate the hair to make it fit and look right.

>>239913628
just use ninja ripper and rig it

>>239913932
>what is fitted mesh
Sure, if you wanna go full babby mode, buy Utilizator's bodies and you've immediately got a marketplace full of choices that requires zero of what you just said. Or Maitreya. Or a dozen other options.

>>239914031
Still has the problem that a lot of the model does not use textures.

>>239913757
Second life's avatar system is LITERALLY archaic you troglodite.
A TON of virtual world apps recently realized that allowing people to break out of the proportions and wear a "costume" instead of making clothing and shit for their ugly uncanny valley default avatars was the way to go, since vrchat was that from the beginning.
even high fidelity's new tutorial literally mentions vrchat and mmd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixLydcWrxjA

>>239914091
or fyze or makehuman...

>>239914091
Fair enough I’ll give you those points. However I still stand by the community being fucking dead. It’s 90% normie/furry shit with the remaining 10% anime people all hidden away in private instances that you have no way of knowing how to get into

>>239913082
>>239912903
>>239912762
Okay, now rip these from SL for me to use in VRC

>>239913796
I don't know what that button is meant to do because koikatsus don't even export with shape keys.

>>239913757
>Nothing is as confusing and archaic as literally having to use blender and unity to set up your avatar lmao. You've got the option to make everything in SL from within the game itself, OR upload it yourself the same way VRChat offers. There's simply more options.
> It has an actual avatar system with sliders, and rigged meshes and clothes that you can fit to avatar
These two statements sound highly conflicting to me.

When I think of sliders, I think of Bethesda character creators, and nothing sounds more restrictive and counter to creativity to me than being limited to sliders and a bunch of prefabs.

Being able to make stuff directly in Blender and Unity is not "archaic", it is liberating and leads to more diverse characters.

But hey, maybe whatever that "avatar system" entails is great, but you aren't making a good job of marketing for it.

>>239910279
>tfw mixed and have wet earwax and body odor
Shit sucks landing on the wrong side of the coin flip.

>vrg.png

>>239911010
>>239911164
I'm not Dot tho

>>239914247
I joined SL three years ago, and it's still kicking strong. If I can get in everywhere, so can you. Learn to talk to people, same as getting in the right places irl, same as vrchat. If you can't find the community of people you're looking for, you're not looking hard enough.

>>239914334
You're overlooking an enormous point being a learning curve and effort required. The amount of work one has to do to even upload anything at all to VRChat is a steeper learning curve than almost anyone will ever care to do, and learning to "customize" a VR avatar is teaching yourself 3D modeling, essentially. Almost no one will bother, and so most will look like shit. Restrictions exist because of convenience, not to limit options. SL allows you to upload in almost the exact same way as VR, but how many actually do? Very few. It's effort, and there's a convenient market for most items/avatars that anyone could want already.

>>239914687
imagine wanting purity from man pretending to be a little girl

>>239914771
>still hasn't posted a single SL anime screenshot that doesn't look completely horrible

>>239915063
>guys my subjective opinion can't be proven wrong so I win
What do you want me to post? If you think Koikatsu is the best you've ever seen, then go fucking play that instead. I don't share that opinion.

>>239912762
this looks like some FNAF nyan color edit this is ugly

>>239915223
Something that isn't deviantart with standard shader aesthetics.

>>239912762
This is the setup of that character.

Does this sound like uniqueness and creativity to you?
No, the creator didn't sculpt, rig or texture anything either.

It's frankensteined together like a generic TDA edit, except that it was done within the narrow restrictions of SL, rather than allowing the choice you get in Blender and Unity.

I agree that it is easier for people to frankenstein something together within SL than to frankenstein it in Blender or Unity, or actually really create something on their own in Blender and Unity, though.
At least if you only want exactly what is offered there. I'll give you that.

>>239915356
Because unlit MMD aesthetics is so much better? Yeah, okay.

>>239915458
Standard shader is much worse than unlit. That model is also disgusting. Look at the nose.

>>239915426
>No, the creator didn't sculpt, rig or texture anything either.
Wow, I can't believe the clothes you're wearing IRL aren't ones you've sown yourself, what a pleb. Can't even make your own genetic modifications, so had to rely on your parents' appearances.
Here's how many items are for sale on the marketplace. There's a lot more than this, as it costs an additional fee to put things up to the main one, and some prefer you going to their own stores instead.

>>239915634
Sorry, can't help your shit tastes then. You win. VRChat looks so much better.

>>239915673
>for sale
the absolute state

>>239915426
just spend 10 dollars goyim and make a ~COOL~ unique!! AVATAR~
>not ripping from second life and using it in vrchat
I've ripped maitreya, kuroo, m3, m4, kemono, and many others, including better special snowflake accessories than stupid krankhaus shit. and they all look great in VR. and the best part is that I didn't spend any money.

>>239915872
You think people are going to put hours of work into giving out free shit? That's cute. You'll have a hard time when you finish school, though.

>>239915872
This is probably the autist who was shitposting months ago about everything costing money in SL leading to higher quality standards. They spend thousands on these shit assets: >>239682482 The delusion is unreal.

>>239915996
no, that's why I rip their shit
go on and pay good goy

>>239915980
Something else I'd like to add: Animefags are hated by slg so this anime faggot is just shilling because no one likes him and he's trying to get you fags to join him in SL.

>>239914771
>there's a convenient market for most items/avatars that anyone could want already.
there's literally dozens to hundreds of avatar worlds that provide a "market" like experience with variant avatars based on a base mesh or several base meshes for people who don't want to roll their own in vrchat. I know you like SL but it sounds like you should be playing sansar or high fidelity if that's what you want.

MMD models thrived on the fact that pmedit and MMM/MMD is literally like playing with paper dolls for the ease of modifying and attaching various body parts and accessories, but without any body size restrictions.
literal 13yo's popularized mmd in the west, so your argument is invalid.
Since mmd basically imports directly into unity and vrchat perfectly and it's become the common aesthetic of the game NATURALLY rather then forced, with no restriction on a new aesthetic becoming the norm if the users decide that's what they want, it's automatically ahead of the game.
There was a time when vrchat was going to adopt avatars from morph3d or ready player one avatar creator. I'm sure as fuck glad that didn't happen or was enforced.

>>239916157
Animefag here. No, I prefer VRChat. It's still shit and in infancy compared to SL as a whole, but it has VR, so that alone is keeping me here.

>>239915458
there's no reason why you couldn't import this exact same avatar into vrchat, with the same shading.

>>239914771
>The amount of work one has to do to even upload anything at all to VRChat is a steeper learning curve than almost anyone will ever care to do
I don't have any stats on that, but I have the impression that far more than "almost anyone" cares enough to upload "anything at all", which could as well be a readymade Unity asset file.
"Almost anyone" of whom are you talking about anywas? All of humanity, or the current hardcore population of VR enthusiasts? Or of the VRC players?

I knew literally nothing about Blender and Unity when I first uploaded my avatar. Took me 2 minutes to upload the avatar someone had set up for me. Would've taken me two clicks more to add simple prefabs like glasses, like we did on New Year's. I met dozens of people that wore the glasses posted here, and many of those had no technical expertise either, so I am again wondering how you can say something like almost no one bothering to upload anything at all.

>>239916310
At this point I don't know if you're just deluding yourself to try and win this argument. After all I've said, do you still really think that VRChat has overall better customization and avatars, than the literal millions of variety that SL has? Because I sure don't, and I've been on both for a long time. I still prefer VRChat, but for other reasons.

>>239916475
First of all, you're comparing adding a single item onto an avatar to creating a whole avatar, and secondly, you've got a strong bias as /vrg/ is already way more technically competent than the average vrchat user. Since they've all uploaded avatars before, of course they're gonna know how to add an item to one by now. I was referring to the full VRC userbase.

>>239916157
Can he even be considered an animefag when he likes these pseudo-western creaturas? Even basic Tdas look better.

Reminder that you can actually have sex in sl!

>>239916845
The only limitation I'm seeing is everything in SL using the same bad shader.

>>239916965
Can I become a VRpet for a VRmaster in SL?

>>239916965
God I love watching terrible models repeat canned animations from a third person perspective. VRC completely BTFO

>>239916987
I'll give you that. Shaders aren't quite customizable the same way as in VRC. You've got the freedom to adjust the lighting in any location at any time, but it works differently.

>>239916965
>he doesn't know

>>239917080
Fuck off Arrow

i just tried my rift for the first time and completed the tutorial
is it normal that the text is extremely hard to read? it's so blurry... my vision is close to perfect for things up close, but i do wear glasses if i want to focus on details to see things far away, so i tried using my glasses but even then it was still quite blurry
is there any setting i'm missing or something? i figured that since the lenses are practically on your eyes, it wouldn't matter that my far away vision isn't great, am I wrong here?

>>239918082
Everything is focused at 2 meters in VR. Otherwise you might have the IPD set wrong or the headset tilted at the wrong angle.

>>239918082
Wear your glasses. It might be the case that your glasses aren't strong enough, get an eye test.
Also get an eye test because you can get prescription lenses for headsets - without a recent prescription they're meaningless.

Also get your IPD right.

>>239918395
>>239918463
it seems like a big part was not wearing the headset down enough, i just adjusted it a bit and it already was much better
false alarm

>>239918082
adjust your ipd and the rift on your face so your eyeballs are in the sweetspot. Learn to move your head rather than your eyes most of the time to look around so what you're looking at stays in the sweet spot.
No, it's not normal for text to be extremely blurry unless you need glasses for things beyond 3 to 6 feet away, I suspect you have a combonation of those two issues.
Oh also there's the issue of focal planes. Anything closer than arms length will actually not do correct stereopsis so your eyes will attempt to converge (go crossed) but the image doesn't change in current hardware to accommodate, so it'll be harder to read. Text at arms length is generally perfect.
This may sound like a big deal but it really isn't. Do the "green cross" calibration thing carefully.

Also when a scene is first loading sometimes the supersample and graphics settings are turned way the fuck down, make sure you opt into the beta and your gpu drivers are up to date, that you're using (if nvidia) "prefer performance" in the power settings in the control panel and that "vr pre-calculated frames" is set to auto instead of 1 which is the default (stupidly)

>>239918560
as I suspected. You actually want the strap of the rift or vive to be basically lower than you would expect, and your nose should be practically against the nose hole.
If you look closely at the lenses you'll see that the absolute center of them is perfectly clear.

If you have astigmatism or separate prescriptions for each eye (or both like me!) there's actually a method to get it perfect. first, use the green cross to adjust the position of the hmd so that it's as sharp as possible, with one eye covered. Adjust the IPD knob until you start to see the screendoor effect when you're looking for it, that's how you know it's absolutely sharp. Then, cover that eye and do the same for the other. You'll find something that works equally good for both eyes without glasses if you don't want to wear them .

I'm considering laser eye surgery as soon as it's confirmed that the current methods no longer fuck with eye tracking tech

>>239918871
Added to my wishlist last week m8

>>239903602
If you want actual glass refraction, I ported over the old Unity Pro FX/Glass Distortion shader to a unity 5 surface shader so it'll work in VR properly:
https://pastebin.com/trtLC2vS
Caution that it is a grabpass shader, so it's mildly inefficient.
I also found https://github.com/keijiro/UnityRefractionShader , haven't tried it myself though.

>>239916965

>actually have sex in sl

I don’t know what is more cringe watching your video game character pretend have sex in SL or molesting and humping the air.

Guys molesting and humping the air in vrchat is not sex. Neither is shoving your phone up your ass and having people call it while it’s on vibrate.

>>239913628
>>239914303
Weird, there's no documentation on the koikatsu stuff in CATS, yet there it is
> - Made Koikatsu (.pmx) models compatible
https://github.com/michaeldegroot/cats-blender-plugin/commit/f9e6385f8bdc29cdc8cefa7d4d9e110884770de7
Is there some super sekrit nip tool to convert koikatsu to pmx out there? The only plugin I found on hongfire converted to a weird IQE format. It imported into blender just fine still, but with a fuckton of bones that are all oriented +Y.

>>239918946
what's HMD?

>>239910839
I know only one person on vrg that would make a post like this...

>>239920203
Head-mounted display, so the VR headset itself.

>>239913097
xiexie's smooth and softened rimlighting, with a pink toon on skin and grey on clothes/hair looks remarkably similar
just don't fucking rimlight like mommy did and xiexie's is a great shader, there's tons of options for all the little tweaks you can do aside from solid opaque bars of white around the edges

>expert+ is identical to expert but has unavoidable walls added

>>239920868
Stop playing songs that don't have a PP rank from scoresaber, unless you like the song itself
It sucks that like 80% of the songs aren't vetted by the system, but they all have a certain quality standard once they have an associated score- bar a few

>>239920623
Bear in mind the hair is 100% done by shaders. There isn't a single texture on it.

>>239921006
It has a pp rank. It also has -49 rating.

>>239921161
Time to hit that delete button

>>239920142
I know it's possible. The post popular zero two model for a while was a koikatu rip to mmd. I'll look around.

>>239921028
It would take a bit of slider work but you could probably replicate it pretty closely. The real question is how well will room-temp IQ mapmaker's lighting work with it. Some maps fucking HATE toonramps, to the point of my default Unity scene looking ideal with Xiexie's, but some maps making it look almost as aggressive as Standard with the shadows.
You can do it, you'd just have to do a lot of testing, either uploading every attempt and checking various maps with different lighting styles (simple baked Unity light, probes, point lights, ect) or setting up a sample scene.
Adjusting the limits of the toonramps on hair and skin would allow you to get the bright pink/deep grey shadows, as the rimlights counter the ramp and give you the brightness around the edges of the hair and face.
Shouldn't be too hard really, it'd just be a pain in the ass to get it working consistently.

>>239921331
sorry for the picture for ants
>>239920142

>>239921331
>02 for ants
Well, I found this link
https://mmda.booru.org/index.php?page=forum&s=view&id=44
I'll try it out later i guess, hopefully it won't install a monacoin miner. You'd think there would be more discussion for the CATS change itself, maybe i'll have to poke around their d*scord.

>>239921485
this is true.
keep in mind that most shaders with toon ramps actually react to BAKED lighting illumination values to make you look more toon then flat and realtime lights rarely change most shaders, it's one of the appeals to noe's and mtoon since you can have both.
If you increase the gi ramp and they're using post processing though it can be bad.
>>239921641
https://github.com/3dcustom/tso2pmx for 3dcg.

>>239921641
also holy shit, I just realized we both thought "picture for ants" immediately when I uploaded the wrong link, lol.

>>239921876
>https://github.com/3dcustom/tso2pmx for 3dcg.
er, what? what does this have to do with koikatsu?

>>239922187
It's a character maker in a similar vein, that might give you what you want in terms of export.

https://github.com/BepInEx/BepInEx/wiki is something you might wanna look into as well, you may be able to roll your own, better solution if you know a thing or two.

>>239922420
oh "3dcg" is 3d custom girl. Well, kinda useful, but I want koikatsu specifically atm. I know about BepInEx, that's how the IQE importer works, which fwiw does actually get you full vertex weights and armature and _most_ of the textures. I think I'd rather write another blender python script to fixup the weird bits of the model there instead of in c# though. With enough autism it'd be possible to generate some basic shapekeys from the facial animation bones as well.

>tfw already over VR despite purchasing it less than a month ago, because despite all the "future of gaming" crap, there are still less decent titles on it than you can count on one hand

feels sad man.

>>239922187
>>239922919
From what I've read, IQMBrowser is the tool you want, it can fully export obj and IQE files. Instally bepinex, and find iqmbrowser and bob's your uncle.
>>239922982
There's literally 3000 vr games and well more than 50+ titles I would consider very much A through AAA that are not remakes.
Depends how much money you want to spend or how good of a pirate you are, you're just not looking hard enough.

>>239922919
It gives you all of the textures. I've tried ripping it and there are no more textures aside from what I presume are ramp settings.

>>239923195
>There's literally 3000 vr games and well more than 50+ titles I would consider very much A through AAA that are not remakes.

I didn't say there weren't any games, I said there weren't any decent ones. Over half are "experiences" that have no value. Another chunk are fun for 5-10 hours tops despite costing $30.

There are a few that are decent, like I enjoy Pavlov for what it is, but its still niche and full of 12 year olds. There's no major games on VR that I could sink dozens and dozens of hours into and that just sours shelling out hundreds of dollars for a headset.

>>239922982
I just want to add that I've actually almost completely given up on pancake gaming, it does nothing for me anymore in terms of excitement. I see a new trailer and I immediately check if it's vr, and if it's not, I ignore it.
I go to steampowered.com and hit store, and immediately hit "virtual reality" in the category section. I don't even bother looking at other genres now.
The only flatland games I can stand even for a hot minute are competitive and if there's something in vr instead I immediately gravitate to that.
Oculus, unfortunately, has the better games due to fat stacks of cash in exclusivity deals they do.
There's a fuckton of amazing single player games but most people aren't into that. They want "their game" that is multiplayer and competitive and whatnot and I get that, I can be like that too, and those are a little scarcer.
What kind of games are you into? Let me put you back on the path brother.

>>239923195
>IQMBrowser
I used https://github.com/ccxvii/asstools/blob/master/iqe_import.py this blender plugin to import, worked fine except for textues. The IQE exporter for koikatsu dumps bunch of textures into a directory though and the UVs are intact so you can assign them in blender manually still.

>>239923415
I was missing the nipple texture when I tried, did you get that? It's overlaid on the base skin texture, since you can change it in game

>>239923514
Pavlov is only good with /vrg/. Contractors is the fps to play in public lobbies.

>>239923563
Don't remember.

>>239922982
I'm pretty much in the same boat. I hang in VRChat sometimes and work through my pancake backlog while I wait for a VR game that is to my tastes to appear. I don't regret the purchase, but I think I'm going to be twiddling my thumbs for a while.

>>239923625
>Contractors is the fps to play in public lobbies.
Hard fucking pass on that one

>>239923514
My top play hours besides the vrchat/unity/blender trinity are beat saber and eleven table tennis. beat saber has replayability through new custom songs, and eleven is just a really nice table tennis sim. Which of course is not for everyone, but some people spend hundred of hours playing the real game, and eleven is about the same.

>>239923840
>7 full servers in the middle of the day is bad

>>239923557
>fuckton of amazing single player games
What's your top 5 single player VR games? I'm interested.

>>239924103
Yeah, it is. Its actually terrible. I know source gold games that have more players than this, and there's no telling when it'll eat shit and die, which can happen in a few days when you have less than a hundred players

>>239924401
you should probably kys if this is the capability of your brain

>>239924401
If that was gonna happen, it would have.

>>239924741
You have no idea if it will or not. Because you didn't get hit by a bus today doesn't mean you won't tomorrow

>>239924741
>game exists for two months, therefore it will continue to exist!
I don't know what to say to that

>>239923514
>>239923831
>>239923951
>>239924214

I got into the exact same funk you described in the huge gap in software between the dk2 and the vive, and the vive and the oculus rift, and last gen vs what we're waiting for now.
"Good" games take around 3 years to make and we'll be seeing tons after ces for sure.
But instead of waiting for the future:

Arizona Sunshine,
SuperHot VR,
Budget Cuts,
I expect you to die,
Accounting +,
Virtual Virtual Reality,
Sairento VR,
Raw Data,
the Campaigns in Star Trek bridge crew,
Both of "The Gallery" games

and many others are all worth a playthrough if you can obtain them. None of those feel like a "tech demo".

as for multiplayer,
Creed: Rise to Glory is a crazy top tier game with multiplayer competitive online that is still being worked on by the devs despite being "finished".
Sprint vector, despite is lower player base is similarly top tier and competitive.

there's several games that I would say were released too early and failed to catch on, or were released far too early access (like QuiVr) and seem "old" by today's standards now.

Racket: NX being one. It's one of the best multiplayer sports games I've ever played and it's netcode and sound puts literally everything else to shame. Nobody plays it. It's so sad, honestly, even the devs were posting on reddit asking what the fuck happened, the game was developed by a team spun off of WAVES, the single largest VST and game audio production company on earth, and the people behind the audio in rocksmith and rockband and other games.

So do I actually have to manually apply materials/textures to every single bit of a World?
Are the trees supposed to be weird boxes?

>>239925186
yes, the trees use a cutout texture to get that effect.
You shouldn't have to apply manually, you likely just need to switch to legacy texture import on the mesh objects if you're using unity 2017. Select every single one of the meshes then go to that tab and select "legacy" for the texutre import and I bet it's all good.

>>239925184
I think the biggest tell for me was that the /vrg/ discord has its porn-posting channel move faster than its two general channels combined most of the time.

VRChat is seemingly carrying the entire platform for a lot of people right now, and I have zero interest in it. I'll probably just return my headset, because none of those look like something worth it.

>>239925328
Thanks anon

>>239924401
Gold source is propped up by third worlders.

>>239925184
>Racket: NX being one
I played this about a month ago, recorded a streamable
https://streamable.com/uqrgi

The music and graphical aesthetic is funky, but the gameplay didn't hold my attention that well. It's basically breakout with a racket. Multiplayer is co-op breakout where you take turns smacking it, there's no real player interaction besides competing on score. Worth playing sometime for $5 on sale? sure. Worth $20 and hours of queueing up with randoms to smack their shit in? nah.

>>239925795
Seems to be the case for most Discord channels. If it has an NSFW section, it's usually shit.
Example:
>DDVR has a NSFW section
>Overrun with maximum soibois and tranny streamers
>VR Dance Group doesn't have a NSFW section
>Well some of the people are fags like that one guy with Majora Mask Skullkid avatar, but the group works as intended and it's mostly civil.
I mean, it's like joining an anime club in high school and ignoring the guys touching themselves in the corner.

>>239925795
>porn-posting channel move faster than its two general channels combined most of the time
That's just /vg/ being /vg/. It's a containment board, after all.

>>239924401
>Goldsource games
>You can probably find a scrap PC that plays them flawlessly
>Majority of the players are third worlders
>They've been around for 50 years
Gee, good comparison.

>>239926118
>>239925795
The nsfw channel is a containment channel in a containment discord for a thread on a containment board.
It shouldn't be used as a metric to judge the quality of anything, ever.

t. anon who would happily delete the nsfw channel if given the opportunity

>>239926389
It's precisely what should be judged.

>>239926215
Yeah I don't think you understand thats exactly the problem. Being niche and exclusive when talking about multiplayer only games isn't a selling point.

Having a tiny playerbase even when its a brand new game isn't a sign of long-term success.

Oculus Rift sold out
https://uploadvr.com/oculus-rift-strong-demand-holidays/?fbclid=IwAR288M1MvjHJO2WOWtlmA85PZ6jUBgOsDFkvn_7kmoUuM7kkX1dFphjuHMI

>vr is dead

>>239926389
>containment channel
super effective

Why isn't there a shader that does everything we could want and then optimizes and cuts itself up automatically based on which features you use?

>>239926497
I think as long as there are people who want to be anime there will be vr or something similar to it

>>239926389
We need a NSFW vanilla channel.

>>239926478
If you let a handful of people spamming porn in a channel in some dark corner of the internet turn you off on VR as a medium, I don't know what to tell you.

>>239926497
I wouldn't ever call VR dead, because even if it gets down to 100 weebs they'll never let go of it

>>239924401
vrchat has been out since late 2014 early 2015 and it only caught on in late 2017. That's such a silly assumption to make.
"early access" IS a plague on gaming though, and it's what causes this sentiment. You might have noticed that devs have gone back to for the most part limited time betas or demos and just doing a full release out of nowhere instead.

>>239927307
Nobody was talking about VRChat my dude

>>239925885
<3
>>239925795
the fud is strong in this post. I bet it's the same person shilling second life.
>>239926056
You need to get to a pretty advanced point where the game has all the hazards and power ups active, and getting there takes some time and skill. It's also super tiring.
Would make a good e-sport though much like echo combat and arena.

Saturday night at 11:30pm est/430gmt we are doing a showing of the original 1954 Godzilla or Gojira movie. Brought to you by R Y D E R and mostly meeps. Just join on anyone in meeps' movie map to see the movie.

Miss playing VR with you guys. Ive been getting good at Beatsaber and trying all the shovelware titles on Steam during work for the last few months now but its not the same without the meetups and other fun stuff I used to do with everyone. Photoshop me back in bros.

>>239927531
>the fud is strong in this post. I bet it's the same person shilling second life.
Second Life is old and it was great, but VRChat is a better version of the same-ish concept, there's no comparison.

Still doesn't make the vast majority of VR games not suck dick or have tiny playercounts.

>>239926486
But it's like comparing the population of a small island to population of an entire continent. Even if you handed out VR on the streets, you'd never have the same playerbase as fucking CS1.6
>>239926783
Different Anon.

>>239926717
because the more options a shader has the less efficient it is in game to the point of creating multiple draw calls, and cs shader helper scripts are automatically culled by vrchatsdk, making them harder to use.
The thing you're asking for ironically exists though, and it's the best looking shader for anime style models there is, and it's part of mmd4mechanim.
Unfortunately it uses closed source DLLs and cs scripts up the wazoo as basically a wrapper for the model to accomplish this and is completely erased and blocked by vrchat, and erases and blocks vrchat's sdk generally.
yes, there are ways around this, I've uploaded an example in a world for fun before, but until someone rips Nora's scripts and re-writes the methods used in mmd4mech's shader who is less lazy than me you'll need to deal with purpose built shaders if you want to stay efficient.

>>239927708
Is this who I think it is?

>>239927986
>But it's like comparing the population of a small island to population of an entire continent

Its actually like comparing the population of two video game userbases, and saying one is tiny. Which is the entire point.

>>239927708
That's one hell of a setup

>tfw still no vrmaster

>>239927708
ho. lee. shit.
I recognize that vr controller stand and it's made by someone I have as a friend in common with a certain billionaire.
>>239928261
If you're thinking who I'm thinking, maybe??

there's a lot of hints in this photo.

>>239928068
>because the more options a shader has the less efficient it is in game to the point of creating multiple draw calls, and cs shader helper scripts are automatically culled by vrchatsdk, making them harder to use.
Unity shaders have preprocessing directives for certain codepaths that you can turn on and off in material inspector though, and custom material GUI scripts work fine with the SDK. Runtime scripts, sure, but you could still do a pretty comprehensive shader, see xiexe, arktoon, mtoon, UTCv2 for examples.

At some point though, you might as well say "just install amplify and make your own shader lol" or "learn HLSL lol", instead of trying to break out every single little option into another slider.

>>239928334
Step inside the pain box friend!
>>239928261
Probably

>>239927708
Are you the anon working at a VR arcade? I haven't seen you online in forever, come back soon.

>>239928507
>>239928261
the "bros" comment and someone who was a regular but doesnt show up anymore makes me think JazKaz

>>239927610
NAMEDROP ME MORE YOU DICK RYDING LITTLE FAGGOT. I'LL FUCK YOUR FACE

>>239928742

>>239928507
Fuuuuck, like you've actually seen this thing in person?

>>239928639
humm, probably not THIS office then.

>>239928671
Thats the plan, schedule has been shit for a while, but what's new?

>>239925795
>most of the time
>The only time general channels are ever slow is 15:00 to 20:00 GMT when the americans are working, EU probably in meetups or getting home from work, and SEA is asleep
>comparing horny faggots looking through their shitty aggregators, ctrl-c ctrl-v spamming in the nsfw channel to a discussion
sounds like you have more issues than your interest in VR games.

>>239928954
Not but that looks neato

>>239927531
>the fud is strong in this post.
VRChat has like 8-9k players average.

Beat Saber? 2-3k
Pavlov? 600-800
Blade and Sorcery? 200-300
Bearing in mind those three are the best selling VR titles on steam, and VRChat has more than double the users of all of them combined, I'd say its fucking fair to call VRC "carrying", it dwarfs everything else.

>>239897296
My 970 handles fine. Much of VRChat is run through the CPU, so that's the real kicker here.

>>239928474
>tfw no crypticfu as vrmaster

>>239929602
Aren't desktoppers also included in that? At least with Beat Saber you're sure it's actually VR users.

>>239928905
I've seen the vr controller stand before, or something incredibly similar. I actually have a pair of prototype skins from I think the same person who makes it, but that's likely just a coincidence.
>>239929184
I'm pretty sure it's not who I thought it was now, I guess I'm relievedbut hello fellow industry friend.
>>239929602
keep in mind that the metrics for VR games are fucked in steam by the fact that they stop being tracked if you run any secondary overlay software, if you're from china, if you run them through viveport, if you're offline, if you have oculus, etc etc etc.
Same thing goes for the hardware survey, it only counts if the hmd is plugged in.
One other thing with VR is that people have the physical ability of a sloth these days. MOST GAMERS get 1 to 5 hours at the very maximum a day to game, and in VR is even less due to physical movement needed. VRChat is low impact. "simultaneous" players is a poor metric to judge how much people are actually in game, it's always going to be less than other types of games due to the average of 1.5 hours people can handle standing in vr at first. Many people pop onto beat saber for 30 minutes until they're pooped and then take the headset off. If you think about it that way, 4000 SIMULTANEOUS beat saber players is absolutely INSANE.
there's a fuckton more people using vr than you think, even if you only count wired vr headsets on pc and ps4.
the growth mimics the early iphone days still very closely actually, but exceeds it in many ways.
Vr headset purchases DOUBLED this year over last year - that's a fact, and Oculus doesn't release it's playtime numbers, and the oculus ecosystem avoids steam.

>>239929602
Unless you can track how much of those are desktoppers and VR users, it's hard to get a gauge if VRChat is carrying the VR section on steam's stats. Then there's PSVR and Oculus store to take into account.
Please return your headset.

>>239929602
>>239930190
The number of desktop users massively inflates that.

>>239930594
I really wish there would be a way to play with headset users only.

>>239928474
>>239929838
Kill yourself Arrow, nobody wants you as their vrpet, especially someone who already has a bf

>>239928742

Someone said my name reeeeeeee. Cringe

>>239930564
this,
>>239930594
and this, to an extent.
Desktoppers and sleepers and the fact that japan uses the app like mad, so there's timezone crossing usage times.

Like I said, vrchat is low impact so people idle in it more.
>>239930318
to further expand on my point: I would bet the average beat saber session is 30 minutes to an hour, pic related.
You can prove that by looking at the average and median playtime in the last two weeks. I bet most people boot the game up twice on weekends for a half hour to an hour or so with some outlier exceptions.
I know some vr arcades are going to inflate those numbers a bit.
there's anywhere from 200k to 500k owners according to steamspy which has been proven to be grossly underestimating on occasion not to mention the game is available on three massively huge platforms that are NOT steam.

Okay, so with that out of the way, think about it.

There's 2420 different pcs on STEAM ALONE playing beatsaber right now in the middle of the fuckin' day for north america with a THIRTY MINUTE average player turnover. That means probably TWENTY THOUSAND PEOPLE booted up and played beat saber and closed it over the span of the last 2 hours.

just on steam. The game is available on oculus, windows mixed reality, and psvr without loading steam at all.

give that a chew.

>>239931207
Cringe on my dick, faggot.

when i'm not using the rift and the program isn't running, it's still showing an orange led and the top of the HMD is warm, but i heard this is normal?
do you unplug the rift to prevent this, or do you leave it like that?

>>239931578
R*der pls go back to work, the old feller cohort is suffering again

>>239931601
you can unplug the rift to prevent it. The warming is on purpose to prevent lens fogging since it's a seal like ski goggles.
Weird eh? Vive does the same thing.

Muscle bushtits.

>>239931601
oh, and I should mention there's a proximity sensor that launches vr the minute you put it on on windows mixed reality and oculus.
There's also a proximity sensor on vive but the valve devs quickly realized people didn't like or use, since there's a button anyway, so it doesn't do anything unless you program your app to use it.
Openvr advanced settings can expose it to mute and unmute the mic and I think some viveport apps will pause when the headset when it's detected as off.

unrelated, here's something that's pretty good looking graphically and free. I'll give it a go after work.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/949420/The_Energy_Lab/

>>239931601
Its on standby, controlled by the OVRService, you can stop this service to "shut down" the rift. I have mine set to manual start up so it doesn't come online when I turn on the computer.

>>239931830
Hey man I only made the movie post and the cat reaction.

Reminder that we're getting serious tonight

AI retopology/decimation tools when?
AI weight painting tools when?

>>239930318
wew, thought you meant you might have been here before and I had talked to an anon from here without realizing it
Also hello, I plan on getting further into the industry later on so maybe our paths will cross someday

>>239932235
>Bought the Serious Sam collection years before VR was a thing
>Have to spend $40 to play games I already own in VR

>tf no ryderfu riding my vrdick as my vrpet

>>239932278
unironically mixamo is this for rigging, it's just pretty... unrefined.

there are tools like this being worked on now, this is part of my field so I'm fairly deeply interested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G63goXc5MyU here's one silly research example.

>>239932278
There's a machine learning black/white bar uncensor tool that works well.

>>239932428
>$40
what the fuck? It was on sale for 16

>>239932428
It was insane for 16 for all the vr ones for a month, these faggots shitposted until people bought it every other day

>>239932278
I can't speak for retopology as I have never done it but decimation is stupidly easy, unless the model is 1 million tris in which case you do retopology
I'm convinced those who fear weight painting are those who look at the whole model at once and try to paint and get very confused, like you are trying to eat a whole elephant at once
you can select verticies and press p then hit by selection to make it it's own mesh and you can do it a little at a time
when I rig entire models I usually have about 60ish different meshes

>>239932234
God dammit, he's sufferin' over there while yer yappin' away on the phone

Post your favorite Beat Saber track. Not necessarily the hardest one you can complete but the one you come back to all the time because you just like it for the fun factor.
>Zephyr- Madeon

>>239932278
More like AI atlasing tool WHEN? That's like 50% of the work of importing most models right there.

>>239932848
>>239932671
I thought I already had all the games
I thought Fusion was VR support for every Serious Sam game when it's just crossplay
I thought I had things figured out

>>239928742
Reminder that the best way to get namedrops is to pretend not to like them. G****k.

>>239932935

>tfw no pet puppy shota

>>239932634

Wait, can I make clothes with that? Like take a picture and turn it into a mesh? I wanted to make some new shirts, jeans, shoes, because I’m kinda tired of working with deviantart stuff and there’s not much that fits my style of model making.

>>239933328

>>239932278
most of the tools use some combination of this, http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2017/papers/Tran_Regressing_Robust_and_CVPR_2017_paper.pdf

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.02246.pdf here's the paper on that instant 2d mesh thing, the key takeaway is:

To construct a 3D mesh with skeletal rigging, we first fit
a SMPL model to the 2D input pose using the method proposed by [6], which additionally recovers camera parameters. We then project this mesh into the camera view to form
a silhouette mask SSMPL. The projection additionally gives
us a depth map ZSMPL(x), a normal map NSMPL(x) and a
skinning map WSMPL(x) for pixels x ∈ SSMPL. The skinning map is derived from the per-vertex skinning weights
in the SMPL model and is thus vector-valued at each pixel
(one skinning weight per bone)

Which is kinda how mixamo does it.

Friendship ended with mtoon, noenoe and xiexe. Now reflex 2 is my best friend

Remember when you forcibly bent me over and turned my ass into a penis shack built for two? Im stronger than that now

>tfw no vrbro, vrfu, vrmaster or vrpet

>>239933552
Noenoe is all you need.

>>239933552
check your drawcalls, reflex 2 is heavy.

>>239933571

Lmao Jesus Christ you guys are odd as fuck.

>>239933709
Noenoe gives no real time shadows. The others do. And reflex 2 seems to be the most subtle one. Xiexe looks alright with the right toon ramp. And despite all the mtoon shilling I couldn't get it to look right in game despite copying the settings posted here. Might have to do with the texture though

>>239933730

Do you know if poiyomi’s are? I haven’t checked them yet.

>>239933704
>tfw no vrfamily
>tfw no vrcoworker

>>239933398
you could, but it would suck.
The magic of photogrammetry is a better way to go.
https://alicevision.github.io/
You can literally get a mannequin or someone to pose for you in the outfit you wanna wear and then use the resulting mesh as clothing, throw the mesh into mixamo after decimation, and use a toon shader or whatever you want or just clean up the textures yourself by isolating a 2048x2048 square of the material pattern and using that.
It's how a ton of mmd clothing is made.

>>239933819
Shadows look like shit. Stop using them.

>>239933915
>tfw don't live in a vrsociety

>>239934061
That's what I thought too but as I said they are very subtle with reflex 2 and with the right toon ramp on xiexe

>>239871940
To see how far Valve has fallen from an actual gamedev to a "make a game and milk it for everything we fucking can" one needs only look at Dota and Artifact.

>>239934001

Thanks man. I’ll check it out when I get home. If this works it will save me so much time searching deviantart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85DiHTpxGCo

bros...

>>239934252
Time to uninstall VRChat because some boomer made a video I guess.

>tfw cant "play" VRC because I'm so bad speaking in english and it makes me anxious

>>239933001
I was going to but I forgot the name of both the song and the band right now

>>239934436
I can barely speak English as my native language out of anxiety, so you'll be fine.

>>239934061
>>239934147
In my experience, whether shadows look good heavily depends on your model. On most MMD models, it happens that heavy use of shadows looks worse, while a very subtle addition of shadows can in fact make it look better. If you want truly anime-tier shadows, you need to basically paint them on, or if you want dynamic shadows, somehow come up with a way to tell the game engine to use a set of baked shadows mapped around in 360 degrees for every angle that a light source can be placed (not sure if such a thing exists or not).

>>239934668
>somehow come up with a way to tell the game engine to use a set of baked shadows mapped around in 360 degrees for every angle that a light source can be placed (not sure if such a thing exists or not).
Oops kind of confusing there. To be more clear, I mean doing it kind of like Live2D Euclid, where the artist provides a drawing for a set number of angles and the engine kind of just interpolates between them.

>>239934436
I doubt anyone would make fun of you. We're all pretty nice here.

>>239933819
whatchoo talkin' about willis?
>>239934061
no! you just need to use them right.
Noe's shader has Lit and Unlit versions.
Lit is the "main" version, it receives light from dynamic sources and light probes.
PS: using light probes allows you to have baked lights that still affect dynamic non-static meshes (like your avatar) if your shader supports it... like noe's and mtoon does.
You're probably not choosing the correct settings.
Unlit in noe's always appears at full brightness regardless of how the world is lit, don't use that.
"Lit transparent" is the most "pure" and complaint of noe's shader and makes it very close to mtoon, IF your materials and textures are correctly set up.
Here's what you need to pay attention to.
Dynamic Toon Lighting - will use any dynamic lights in the current world for shadowing, but worlds with only baked lighting will cause these shadows to disappear. To elaborate: This uses the TOON RAMP you provide to OVERRIDE the normal soft shadow that the in game REAL TIME or light probe dynamic lights provide, and instead place a directionally correct TOON shadow.
Static Toon Light is an alternative and works everywhere without light probes or realtime lights but it's a FAKE shadow, using the toon ramp and you'll be lit the same way no matter what room you're in, and that can suck on dark maps.

If you're using cutout transparency with an Opaque shader, change the render queue to 2450 if you have layered materials that need sorting.

>>239935009
I use unlit with noenoe's but I darken with the map. I also have light probes off.

mtoon is shilled by the same guy who shills vrm. It's not good and not performant.

>>239934668
>come up with a way to tell the game engine to use a set of baked shadows mapped around in 360 degrees for every angle that a light source can be placed (not sure if such a thing exists or not).
that's literally what mtoon and noe's shader attempt to do in various ways by taking the lighting data and instead applying a toon ramp to that directional information.
see: >>239935009
>>239935174
unlit means the shader doesn't react to dynamic lighting, everything reacts to ambient directional lighting unless you have Toon Contrast and you set it to 0. Anything other than 0 BLENDS the realtime and directional dynamic lighting with fake lighting.

>>239935381
it performs just fine compared to most. noe's is just VERY well performing because it's chopped into several versions that serve a purpose, but they opted to allow users to provide their own ramps instead of baking it in like mtoon does.
VRM makes a lot of things way easier for avatar bone and gesture remapping, and springbone performs a bit better than dynamicbone, thats all.
plus JP people love it and NND and crypton adopted it which means we would get better avatar tools if we had it natively, that's all.
it would also cement the anime look into vrchat.

>>239935009
Noe with Lit just makes your whole model go darker but it doesn't actually 'make' shadows on your mesh

>>239935381
also from what I understand dynamicbone's dev supports vrchat since they're making some money from the huge number of people who bought it for vrchat.
Did you know it's currently one of the most purchased asset packages on the entire unity market?
VRM is a completely open source format and avatar wrapper that uses GLTF, an arguably better performing mesh format.
But the main takeaway is that the springbone element, while not just being at least moderately (debatible) better performing on cpu calls than dynamicbone is, is COMPLETELY FREE. They would potentially sour their relationship with the dynamicbone people which I imagine they don't want to do, so instead, there's a push to have the dynamicbone code re-factored to cause less of a hit in vrchat.

That's all I know about it.

>>239936128
https://vrcat.club/threads/updated-29-5-18-noenoe-shaders.157/
you sure about that? please do be reading the manual.

I am not looking for vrpets, please cease this

>>239936649
seeking vrpets, apply within

>>239936649
furry from /trash/, ew.

Who /dancing/ in VR tonight? Some anons were posting yesterday about finding a good club world and just grooving to the rhythm like we did in the good old days, if any more are down I say we make it happen tonight.

>>239935693
I tried using the settings from that pic you posted some days ago and it looks too pinkish(I guess this can be helped by reducing the shadow color a bit). But it also looks weird and scary in some maps(pic related)

>>239935502
>that's literally what mtoon and noe's shader attempt to do in various ways by taking the lighting data and instead applying a toon ramp to that directional information
Hmm, not sure if I wasn't clear enough or you're saying they literally tried to do what I meant. Because that doesn't really get to the core idea of what makes 2D anime look like 2D anime and 3D look like 3D. And what I mean is that in the end there is no way to do true anime shading because anime shading doesn't use physics nor does it use any calculations that can be done by a computer (yet), so to emulate the same artstyle, we have to do the same thing as we do on a 2D plane, by literally drawing out each stroke of a brush by hand how the character should appear at different angles.

The bad thing is that stereoscopic vision artifacts and blending of a 2D element like a character's face with a 3D environment doesn't look great, at least how Live2D Euclid does it. I believe that perhaps we'll never get a true 2D anime look in VR, but perhaps a hybrid style that looks better than any MMD shader is still possible. To that end, I think the most significant limitation is how we do shadows currently, and I believe making hand drawn shadows in the way I described would probably work.

Then, in the future, we'll get to perfect AI rendering techniques and then we can just have magically anime looking vision.

>>239937542
Toonramp is too aggressively dark, also shit lighting
god i love vrchat

spoon feed me the best settings for noenoe lit shader

>>239937542
ahh, I wonder if that map has no lighting probes or realtime.
You could try using something south or north of 0 for Shade LightColor Attenuation, and maybe give yourself a smidge of emission so you're more consistently lit in environments without a full stack lightmap.
Lots of people don't use lightprobes and reflection probes and just use reflection probes.

What people don't realize when making maps is that light probes allow for dynamic lighting in baked lighting environments without the huge cpu cost of realtime lights.
You just gotta pre-calculate them. Think of them as reflection probes for lightbeams.

>>239937978
that's more the maps fault, and if they were using my settings there's zero emission. might need to blend the settings a bit to suit. >>239937981
what you want to do is make a cube in unity and stick your avatar in it and make a map similar to how maps in vrchat are made, then adjust the shader until it looks great with a variety of lighting settings.
or upload 2: one for properly lit maps like any of xiexe's or the pug, and 1 for everywhere else that isn't.

>>239872808
Do people honestly still care about HL3 at this point

>>239939139
No but only because people accepted it's not happening.
But if it did happen, the hype train would INSTANTLY go to full blast

>>239939218
>the hype train would INSTANTLY go to full blast
and then crash because it'd be impossible for it to live up to the hype
especially when the company isnt a game company anymore

>>239939456
Well it wouldn't crash until release if anything.
Also if it did end up being a VR experience, maybe it WOULD live up to expectations since they can possibly come up with shit never before seen

>>239939139
I still care.
The story is fine, the characters are shit but I want to be wowed again like I was the first time in hl1 and hl2.
Hopefully they do the same transition like they did between hl1 and hl2 and I never have to see those shitty characters again. (kleiner can come but nobody else)

>>239937538
I'm down, anon, especially if it means we don't have to be quite as autistic about framerate as at the live DJ sessions.

Oh I remember now why I never got into vrchat now

>>239939969
You're better off just running a couple odd jobs and using that money to commission someone to do it for you.
that's what I basically do

>>239939969
Because you can't make avatars?

For anyone doing unity VR gamedev, I made this small script to do vrchat-style stick movement and smooth turning with the latest steamVR unity plugin package. Motionlets need not apply obviously.

https://pastebin.com/9zcp8xfB

Works with the Player prefab in the Interactions_Example scene. All it does is translate/rotate a transform though, so should work with whatever. You have to set up "Move" and "Rotate" vector2 actions in the steamvr input window and bind them to joysticks or touchpads or whatever in the input mapping panels first, but otherwise it should work out of the box.

>>239939969
did you just throw in an avatar without running it through blender and wonder why it's giving you all that?

>>239936462
I can't see anything. What do I need to do in order to get real time shadows? It really just looks like prebaked shadows. I rotate the directional light and nothing changes

>>239936649
>tfw crypticfu doesn't want you as vrpet
Who's going to be my VRmaster/VRkeyholder controlling my VRplug?

>>239939969
Blocked

>>239940057
I considered it. I guess I'd have to find someone good at it
>>239940298
I went through Blender first, though I've only made one cobbled together model like a year ago so I hardly remember what to do

>>239939969
>29 mesh renders
Literally

>>239940667
https://i.imgur.com/m68pzUL.png
Jesus Christ how absolutely adorable

gay

>>239940543
did you only hit fix model and export?
your bounding box is big but not that huge, if I had to guess scale it down in unity
29 meshes? did you not know about merging meshes or did they have different UV maps?
30 materials?
ignore the bone comment
you also didnt set up the rig as humanoid
you're getting way in over your head so it's confusing you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P0ljQ6hU0A&t=
presuming you have already downloaded and installed the 2 plug ins for blender skip to 18:27

Friendship ended with VRchat
Elite Dangerous is my best friend now

>>239940343
Just PM me you coward

>>239940343
Namedrop yourself

>>239941232
I guess a lot of it I need to figure out in blender then? And as far as I could tell, the mesh was all one thing but guess it wasn't. And humanoid rig is definitely something I forgot entirely.

thanks anon