A photograph of a valve index's side profile. The plastic on the head strap is broken with springs sticking out of it

ok valve you can give me a steam frame now thanks!

Playercount graph for an >8 year live service game looking like this is extremely rare and good.

Yeah… this is a tough thing for sure and if I was in the same boots I wouldn’t know what the best path would be. In order to move pipelines would be requiring deleting all existing uploaded content… unless I they convince Unity themselves to do some sort of monumental engineering efforts.

Oh yeah! I still think bases and accessories can be better optimized (accessories from my experience tend to be especially egregious here, I found a set of glowsticks that was 50k itself!!!) but I do also agree vrc itself should allow us to use that avatar accessory system as an optimization measure

This so much, I've seen so many avatar bases with "easy wins" to net you like 3-4k less tris with like, no impact to it visually at all ;w;

This is fair! I think the bigger issue is there's generally a lack of knowledge sharing / tooling / guides on the subject in the community because optimization is really just an optional nice to have, it lacked true incentive. With further updates that seems to finally be changing though.

Another point of comparison: Valve's deadlock, which admittedly is still in active development, the hero models are a bit more closer to 70k triangles. But, the design for that game means you're realistically not going to have more than 12 hero models in the scene at once.

For VRC that's like 80.

Given that VRChat's rendering setup also doesn't really support proper instancing, a lot of shader processing can't be parallelized too, so compared to most AAA games there's going to be a LOT more drawcalls, and it takes a lot longer for multiple drawcalls to draw the same amount of triangles...

There's a lot of talk around VRChat's perf ranking for avatars this week... people generally think the 70k triangle limit for avatars on PC is too low.

A base body mesh in Cyberpunk 2077 is like only 8k triangles... Surely there's a lot of breathing room for people to design more optimal avatars 😅

Without tools like vrcfury unused blendshapes do impact performance because they lead to additional deform passes and drawcalls. Vrcfury will automatically bake unused blendshapes but honestly this should be taken care of by the VRChat SDK in the future IMO

The issue with polycount is it has exponential impact based on other properties, like blendshapes, and also can vary a lot by shader, since they run per-vertex. As a result triangle count either matters a bit or a LOT.

I would love to see the rank system expanded to key off of these, personally.

A photograph of CyberKitsune in fursuit standing in front of a pier and the ocean

Cozy beach sunset weather~ 🌴🦊🏖️

✂️: @gentlefur.bsky.social
📸: @lankysolv.lgbt

#Fursuit #FursuitFriday #furry

Question for the skyline: Has anyone ported VRChat models into Deadlock mods? I wanna port some of mine and am curious if there's any documentation on the process. I know a bit of Blender, a good amount of Unity, and a tiny bit about s2 tools

This resulted me in debugging dyld and potentially finding a bug in macOS Tahoe's system libcxx -- What a wild ride. Bug report and work around done, haha!

A photograph of CyberKitsune in fursuit looking in a coin operated binoculars

Looking for cuties on the horizon this #FursuitFriday ~ 🦊👀
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📸: @alekthehaugster.bsky.social
#furry

as somebody with 4k hours in VRChat, and still seeing it growing I can't help but wonder what exactly the missing ingredient was that Meta Horizons didn't have. I know there's a lot of potential things but I do wonder what specifically it was.

Time to compile a compiler today, woo!

(Save me)

Been sick the last few days and it's been killing me x.x It's just a cold too, but it's drained me more than when I had covid, haha

It's really cool that the gameplay loop seems really well informed -- the idea that several systems actually keep you rotating between islands (bounties, etc) is really good for a vrc world because it means you'll eventually always meet up with everyone again. Def had thought put into it.

I know some people are a little tired of the new VRChat fishing world being all encompassing right now but it's really cool to see a world with a lot of game design effort put into it. It's for sure setting the bar higher for game worlds in VRC and I'm excited for the future!

A photograph of CyberKitsune in fursuit leaning on a bridge railing

"Come here often?" He asks as you pass him on your morning jog~ 🦊💛

📸: @alekthehaugster.bsky.social
🧵: @gentlefur.bsky.social
#FursuitFriday #furry #fursuit

Feels kinda cool to be @firstname at my job instead of @firstname.lastname

A photograph of CyberKitsune in fursuit on a bridge with a hilly background giving the camera a interesting pose

Crossing the bridge and this fox gives you the look~ 💛
📸: @alekthehaugster.bsky.social
🧵: @gentlefur.bsky.social
#FursuitFriday

Watercolour painting of CyberKitsune’s renou vrchat avatar, a yellow fox with blue hair, eyes and spiral markings on their upper thigh and upper arm. white belly markings. They’re standing with their arms outstretched in front of a blue background

Painted with watercolour for the first time in a looong while and made a lil birthday gift for @cyberkitsune.net !! Happy borkdayyy, keep being an awesome fop!!!

I’m birthday fox today! I wish bluesky had the silly balloons haha x3 (Did Twitter get rid of theirs…?)

A photograph of CyberKitsune in fursuit at night

A night fox on the prowl for cuties~
📸: @flufficillium.bsky.social
#FursuitFriday

I need to get better about managing my time... always so much I wanna do and so many friends I wanna spend time with but not enough time in the day x.x

A photograph of CyberKitsune in fursuit with a Puro fursuiter made by Waffles

I found this creature for #FursuitFriday ! They’re super cute but after I hugged them I kinda feel funny… >w<

Puro: @kitzen-waffles.bsky.social

Ooooh deadlock update added a fun little aram-style mode :3

The amount of people that came up to me at FC and were like "wow Cyber you lost weight! :D" was so fucking rewarding -- I still struggle to see it in myself but now I see it in the pics and others are noticing, it's very inspiring. I still have ways to go but it's very encouraging now!