Ethyriel

Ethyriel

@ethyriel.bsky.social

Level 25 - Aro/Ace Engineer by day, lizard on the internet by night. I make VRChat assets! Check them out here -> https://ethyriel.gumroad.com/ Icon by Deriaz

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The first batch of Furality Ultra VODs are up on YouTube! 🥳🎉 All of the panels and events from Day 1 are up with more coming out daily. Keep your eye out 👀 Link 🔽

For the Mudwing's customization, you can now copy/paste settings between the different parts of the avatar. i.e. copy color from Underbelly to Wings. Additionally, you can save/load three appearance presets, so you can have multiple different looks! (I am hopeless in regards to feature creep >w>)

You have no idea how happy it makes me to meet folks and to hear how excited people are for the Mudwing's release- It makes my day, really 💙 There's still things I want to tweak and features I want to add before the public WIP release, but I'll be sure to share as soon as I think it's ready^^!

After about a day's work, the dragon's hue shifts are complete! Here's an example of the degree of customization you can do with it :>

When adjusting sliders, there is zero sync delay- i.e. adjusting a slider Locally will update it immediately on the Remote side. The new parameter compressor works beautifully, and I'll have to see about leveraging it for future projects. All of the dragon's floats (34 total atm) use just 14 bits.

"How many hue shifts do you want?" me: "y e s" Working on adding lots of customization sliders to the Mudwing, so folks can adjust colors, saturation, etc. for different parts of the model to their heart's content. "You're blue now!"

On a technical level, I built a custom parameter compressor capable of syncing 512 bits (64 floats) using only 14 bits of synced memory. I'm quite proud of it, heh. ...I told myself I *wouldn't* build another parameter compressor after the Arcane Lantern, but here we are lol

being an adult means being able to pack as many pretzels I want as a snack for work (I have already eaten like half of the bag since taking this photo)

breaking news: the mudwing can now be tiny I still need to adjust the step paramaters some more to make it look at least moderately less derpy, but it is oddly amusing running around like this heh

thinking about FinalIK and the Mudwing during breakfast… I *may* be *at least slightly* hyper fixated ( Picture taken by Bulvej on VRC)

If I had to put a number to it, I'd say the Mudwing edit is ~50% complete. I've decided to focus recently on polishing most of the existing features + adding things like the hue shifts and menu icons for everything, in anticipation of the public WIP. (image related)

The WIP will not have all of the features of the final model, but I want to make sure the features that *are* there work well.

Spent the past few days working on lots of small bugfixes and QOL tweaks for the Mudwing. Still no ETA on the public WIP, but we're getting there! (picture related)

Slowly but surely, the Mudwing edit is progressing to the point where I'd be ready to post a public WIP avatar. There's still a lot of stuff I need to do between now and then, and even more to do between then and a final release, but several big features (like wing control) are progressing nicely!

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Alexstrasza blender rig is now available for free download on my page. This model has been in development for a bit of time now, and I'm very happy to be able to release it for people to try out. If you're interested, feel free to check it out Download here: ko-fi.com/s/81a021207e