Smash-ter

what I can do with my mustache right now

Got the avatar cam to override the face mirror adequately

Who gave you the mega mushroom?

Tried ZZZ last night. I didn't realize that when you get an S-Rank they just drop them lyrics and my god 👌
Also got this weird labubu and I forgot i preregistered for ZZZ and got a free maid

I don't like how some of the songs I listen to nowadays are just made explicitly for edits (under a minute) and they really have a good melody and shit, but they are way too short. Like let me get immersed in the music instead of just edging me off like that bro 😭

Me wanting to learn how to make my own multichat tool that can separate chats and alerts based on platform and not have them fucking merged

Forgot to add blendshapes as those also factor in the memory costs. As for the custom shader bit, varies on how feature rich they are and if they need some jank work arounds given the current limitations of the SDK without factoring worlds with shader functions that effect avis (like audiolink).

there's 3 options that VRChat could do:
1) Make components available in the Avatars SDK for creators to use so they could make their own custom spout output that's different from the face mirror.
2) add more settings to the Face Mirror to have it mirror your model differently
3) a mix of #1 and #2

This is a scene in OBS where the user is testing the Spout output option for the face mirror in VRChat. The red box in the corner is showing the user's avatar in the corner.

A month ago, #VRChat released an update that outputs the face mirror to Spout. I honestly like this idea as this would reduce the need to calibrate the VR view everytime I get a new headset. The main issue with this though is that, well, it's only for the face with no options for tracking the body.

they feel so fragile when you hold them.

A thing that's interesting is Twitch isn't really enforcing this ToS. At the same time, I need to look for multichat tools that splits multiple chats properly to avoid ToS violations.

I did a bit of digging on this subject because my plan is to stream on 3 platforms (Twitch, YT, and Kick (because platform diversity is good in the long term)). My concerns about multiple chats were wrong. Per Twitch ToS, you could show other chats but "unmerged"

legal.twitch.com/legal/terms-...

The balloons are always malicious that one time of the year

Happy birthday

Me listening to the funk/brazilian funk (formerly called "brazilian phonk") genres, especially looking at the edits on YT shorts

Same English voice actor

GitHub - Smash-ter/SmashterNeutral: A simple neutral tonemap in HLSL that preserves all the colors in the scene when desaturating colors to white. A simple neutral tonemap in HLSL that preserves all the colors in the scene when desaturating colors to white. - Smash-ter/SmashterNeutral

done!
github.com/Smash-ter/Sm...

I'll work on making a sample shader available on Github later today

Both of these have HDR values of (8,0,0,1) with bloom enabled in the scene. Left uses my tonemap additively directly in the emission shader. Right is without the tonemap.

So I found a way to make emissions look nicer with a neutral tonemapper I made. To get it working with bloom I have the original color added with the tonemapped result. The tonemap in general is good for preserving colors in the scene with it only desaturating high intensity colors.

When someone interrupts your train of thought

"I left VRChat because drama" mentality is the dumbest thought I've ever heard yapped when drama in much larger communities can be far, far worse. Meanwhile I see them cozying up to some of the most toxic ass mofos and believing in the slop they yap

I honestly would get an AMD GPU since they're improving a lot on driver stuff. The only thing I would like for them to do more of is to continue to improve on the creator side stuff. DaVinci seems to favor AMD more and more, so it's a no brainer for me, but still.

For my birthday I guess I'd want a Unity shader bible or a steam frame, or a GPU with 16gb on it :/

I honestly like the concept of Addcon as it's adding more functionality to existing hardware, albeit for Quest controllers. I hope the consider making versions for their existing controllers (especially the GripVR controllers) or for dinosaurs like the Vive wands.

Did you see any booths with interesting VR tech? The AddCon+ from Shiftall seems interesting since it adds more buttons to the touch controllers

I hope in 2026 we can expect more in the Avatars SDK Last year, one of the major requests I’ve made on the feedback website for a Stylized Shader for Mobile was finally implemented as at the time I felt the SDK lacked a custom shader for people on mobil...

Yesterday I wrote a post on the ask vrchat forums in relation to the avatars SDK. My hope is that this year we see some more priority to it and add features that avatar makers and shader authors for avatars can both benefit from.

ask.vrchat.com/t/i-hope-in-...

My brother got me the Razer Blackshark V3 X. Mic is great, but out the box it needs EQ tuning for listening to stuff. The gaming preset is good. Battery is very long. Longer time is needed to see the damage but it's really good

Increase muh character limit 😭

My ID came in yesterday and now I'm +18 verified. Now I can steal the pizza in those lobbies

Bart if Marge smoked crack during pregnancy

I tried Cumberland Farms pizza. Cheese doesn't taste good. Sauce is a bit sour. Dough oddly tastes like a soft pretzle. Saving grace was the pepperonis. 4/10