In 2026, I’m going all in on creating ❤️

A comparison of special characters before and after input sanitization in VRChat

#VRChat, please review your custom input sanitization! For years, it's been heavy-handed to work around a rendering bug.

The relevant feedback thread was marked "complete" in 2018, where Tupper responded "This is intentional and is typical string sanitization."

feedback.vrchat.com/bug-reports/...

As far as I know, the tech available to consumers still requires brain surgery to get a reliable signal. AutoHotkey isn't very user-friendly, and Macro Creator (based on AHK v1) is unmaintained and has bloatware. But a SWE at MSFT maintains a clean fork of Macro Creator: github.com/mark-wiemer/...

Went to update my Poiyomi shaders for VRC Light Volumes support but updating each material by hand was too much effort, so I ended up making a new tool for it:

github.com/hazre/Materi...

Love the new look! Great job making the most of your tools

happy day

Greeble is the visual extension of this

A catastrophe, calamity or cataclysm

VR Controllers should have scroll wheels

You can right click the Empty and Convert to Mesh Plane.

I think the point of this change was that on a Mesh, you can only see its texture in Material Preview or Rendered shading, but you can see an Empty's texture in any mode.

90% of images of either VRCat or VRRat on the wiki can be clicked to pet btw

it's all just been a GLSL shader by Inigo Quilez the whole time

Original design documents for The Sims (2000) shared by Don Hopkins among other interesting links and insights (🧵2/2)

Direct link to the documents: donhopkins.com/home/TheSims...

#TheSims #TheSims1 #TS1 #sims

Original design documents for The Sims (2000) shared by Don Hopkins among other interesting links and insights (🧵1/2)

These have been public for a while, but word seems to have never spread much beyond techies. He stopped by HN to chat.

Full discussion on HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4306...

Original design documents for The Sims (1997) shared by Don Hopkins among other interesting links and insights (🧵2/2)

Direct link to the documents: donhopkins.com/home/TheSims...

#TheSims #TheSims1 #TS1 #sims #lifesim #gamedev

How Ugandan Knuckles has reached AO3 but not VRCat/VRRat has me floored. It was right there

A handy soft normals trick I learned from the source mapping ppl and also reminded of recently by @kronok.bsky.social who seems to be making an UE mapping addon

In blender press Ctrl+Shift+R to make extra edges and RMB>Smooth. Unlike bevel it wont mess up orthogonal geo and its also easier to undo

Replay Mod in Minecraft has prepared me for this moment 🙏

It's so valuable to have a common space to get real-time human feedback from experienced creators

I just wanna say I've been running the Community Meetup in VRChat for 7 years now and thanks all for showing up every week to make it possible c:

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