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Breakthrough that changes everything
🕑 Added 2021-10-27 21:22:37 +0000 UTCIt took me 7 years to learn the workaround of a limit that's been constricting me for all this time.
All the people that chose to abandon me for my "inability to deliver" - I feel sorry for you.
Watch this:
Many of you know Judgement model as the most heavy duty one in terms of clothing. Previously you had to spawn and lock all the clothing pieces to the main model, and if you were to use any bodyshape flex, you had to copy its values to clothing one by one. Now you can spawn the model with all clothing options already on it, and switch them on and off which will save you tons of time.
Now this is really big and opens up a lot of possibilities. However, my current body (and all previous ones) were built with this limit in mind. Now that it's no more, I want to work on something else that isn't as fundamental as the main body base. And for that I've chosen...
Shortstack body base
I know there is a mighty need for one, and there are a few characters I wanted to do that would not quite fit the current body. Whilst making this one I'll try to stray from the current flex setup to try new things that I've learned over the year, so it would operate different. I'm also going to run a poll for the first character I will do on this base, and every patron will be able to vote. Speaking of which...
Reward tier changes
I'm reworking the current two tiers to better represent what they offer. The previous SFW Mate tier was pretty underwhelming with rewards, especially since I don't make too many SFW things nowadays. It's being changed into ReVAmped Clothing Emporium and will offer exactly what it says - clothing, the making of which I sometimes stream at the Discord server or at Picarto. Keep in mind that it won't stay Patreon exclusive forever, and eventually will be released in clothing packs with other stuff developers make, or on its own.
E.g. the theme of this release are various bikini and swimsuits models from all the previous model lines, converted to the current one and ready to use. I will post them later this week.
Oh, and by the way, signature clothing for the currently exclusive models will also be included in the clothing tier - rejoice if you really wanted that Stella dress. I will also be changing my character pipeline so that you get clothing for existing base faster.
NSFW Mate tier has been renamed into ReVAmped Modelworks. Nothing much changed, but now it correctly states that Blender releases are also included.
As for VRChat releases...
Switching to Gumroad
I decided to move all my content to the new platform. There are several why's:
- It's easier to access for people than Patreon, especially if your card is not accepted here for stupid reasons
- It gives clearer "value for product" meaning
- It allows me to be more flexible with prices, allowing me to offer certain models individually at a discount.
- It lets you, my influential(ish) friend, spread the word on how good my models are, for a portion of their worth, via affiliate program
- There's an option for custom profile CSS that I will definitely make use of.
If you're currently supporting me here, there's no need to rush and switch to Gumroad. All the content I'll upload there is already here. However, since I started some VR development earlier this month (and already made some progress with it), I will be distributing my VRChat content at Gumroad exclusively. Why not here? Well, it's a completely different pipeline that I can't really fit in here, and there's not much actual content for it yet. This is another reason why I want to make a custom base character this time - to test how well and efficient I can optimize my models for three separate branches when I'm not constrained by the current standard.
If all goes well enough, I may switch to Gumroad entirely one day, but that day is at the very best one year away.
I'll start preparing updated character models with this new bodygroup feature, as well as the first part of the clothing pack and updating the goals and description of this profile. As for Gumroad page launch, I'll be announcing it on Twitter soon. Thank you all for sticking around.
Chase the perfection.
