on a mostly related note, while I'm obviously not in the market any time soon, does anyone I know do custom 3D models that could be rigged up for VRChat and at least configured properly for kemorig? I can handle the kemorig stuff myself so long that the ARKit values and visemes are mappable and given decent names, especially since kemorig is still early access and stuff'll change over time.
Anyways eventual thing to save up for is a proper custom model that's actually mapped properly for ARKit tracking and visemes and whatnot, instead of this slightly hacked-together setup.
We got motion :3 need to make sure I have the right controls for the various body parts, and also adjust the default arm angle, but! I move my head around and the boi's head moves around.
I think? I have my audio visemes mapped but I'm not sure, I need to pull up the list in the Unity VRChat project to check on things. Need to do the same to make sure I have other things set up... and figure out how I'm going to handle blinking, since I think this model uses eye bones for some reason. At least, this model's revision - so maybe I just won't have blinks unless I can figure out how to map that change to the eye bones (assuming I'm correct and it uses eye bones for Some Reason).
Tomorrow problem, it's almost midnight here. All that matters to me is that the boy is Moving Around and that's all that matters right now.
This is also just whatever default stuff that Blender packed into the FBX object and then whatever stuff Unreal pulled from that. The only real tweaking done was to just get the visor section to be transparent instead of a solid gray block. Even then all I did was say "hey this material is transparent and it's this level of opaque" and called it a day.
He just looks that good basically out of the gate, no major work necessary... just. Wow. I don't have to fuss with packing shaders into VSFavatar or manipulate VRM shaders to look good with my synth, they just... Worked. He just Looks Good and Clean.
Why is it so annoying to do that in anything else.
Working on setting up my avatar with @protowlf's kemorig instead of whichever VRM-based tool works this week (why is blinking broken AGAIN, thanks random tracking update that I haven't been able to diagnose because every tool is a mess). At least got the guy exported to a .pak. It feels SO much more intuitive to work with than the myriad of VRM-based tools.
Also looks nicer, at least because it's using normal shaders and not the cartoony VRM that I didn't ask for (and the avatar wasn't designed for). Eventually* (in way too long) I'll have a proper custom model that'll be designed for everything (TM) (well, at least to work with VRChat, LIV, and kemorig, and look good doing it)
:senFlat:
ugh why is my body like this, so annoying.
It says to ask you almost anything. What can't we ask you?
Anything overtly sexual will get ignored and deleted. Stuff trying to pry too much into my personal life also will get ignored and deleted. Being a lil' kinky is OK but that can easily veer into "too sexual" for me as well. #AskSenil
@Metaph brrrfrrwfff?
Weh. Been a bit over a week since I dislocated my shoulder last and it's still being grumpy with me 😔 stop aching you little shit.
have gotten nothing done
need hugs.
:senFlat:
blegh. kinda moody. wanna cry. brain's a fuck. just wanna curl up in bed and nap all day until it's tomorrow but I can't because I have a kitchen to clean.
It's really fun living on the west coast USA because I get to wake up to news like this. https://www.theverge.com/news/899172/fcc-foreign-router-ban
Ah yes, let's just ban all consumer-grade routers from the US market because none of them are built in the US at all. This will definitely go well and won't lead to the FCC getting sued over this arbitrary decision with little-to-no basis on why specifically moving manufacturing to the USA will make them "more secure".
Also like... why are commercial and enterprise equipment not covered? Why not enforce these companies to support consumer-grade products for X years, or to issue security fixes for slightly out of date hardware that was discontinued a couple years prior?
Why ask every company to either get an exemption they aren't likely to get, or figure out spinning up US manufacturing plants - a months-to-years long investment, in a more expensive country to manufacture, farther away from their parts suppliers - just to appease a single government?
Like... if the secret intent ("secret", let's be honest here this is likely the motive) is to get more manufacturing jobs here, IDK it feels like there are better ways to go about that instead of trying to force large tech companies to relocate even just "country of final assembly" plants far away from their sources, require millions of investment to spin up new plants, all for a single government, knowing they will have to increase prices because that kind of move will be more expensive?
apparently ask.kt didn't like the original token it had to autopost so I had to set that up again :p cause of course.
Are your LED's RGB?
Yep, they are! They can be all sorts of colors, though in general they stick to minty-green 00FFAC. They do change with my emotions, they get red when I'm angry or pissed off, pink if I'm swooning, and even more that I don't really pay close attention to.
https://asking.synth.download/ask/ak7uxm1aqeku01wu #AskSenil
Beep or Boop? Which is better, and why?
How dare you pitch two bad bitches against each other, they're both iconic for different reasons. Also, bip is the superior answer anyways.
https://asking.synth.download/ask/ak7uv2ipp2zc01sk #AskSenil
If you had never heard of Synths, would you have gone Protogen?
Honestly, no. I kinda made the transition from robot-fucker to furry relatively quickly, me falling in love with synths roughly aligns with that stretch between robot-fucker and scalie, so if I didn't become a synth I'd probably be some form of lizard or snake. Not sure what kind it would've been, but I do have a scalie-sona in mind that'd be an Argentine black and white tegu, they're just... such friends.
https://asking.synth.download/ask/ak7uql6w68tg01h4 #AskSenil
Favorite soda?
I am a slut for anything fruity, but especially anything with more unique flavors. Though I will also always bias towards real cane sugar over high-fructose corn syrup, shit's just way better. Which is why I love Jarritos for fruity soda's, Fanta and co. just can't compete.
have you heard.
of the muffin man.