Kay Ohtie @ceralor@blimps.xyz

Updated #introductions!

Hey there! My name's Kay, and I'm a gay, demi, shiny-puffy, nerdy-dorky inflatable coyote! I run the blimps.xyz instance and try to keep it chill! My posts on here will consist of:

- yelling about capitalism
- technology rambling excitement
- coyotes
- technology rambling rage
- giant inflatable animals and other inflation
- food fun and learning
- soft things
- coyotes
- big puffy soft squeakiness
- dorky nerdy yapping

Really wish VR Chat avatar base listings on Gumroad actually included polycount and blendshape names. If I can't find that out before I buy and can't find a way to get in touch, I'm not buying the base.

Started to use the first one in redoing the irises to look less flat and lifeless, but realized that, in action in VRC, they don't look as good as the smaller irises do. So I tweaked with a gradient; I'm really happy with the result on that and it looks great in VRC! #vrchat

Finally got the collar tag fixed for my #vrchat avatar! Also put a normal map and specular and subsurface scattering on and I think the result looks really nice! Closeup for detail.

Been quiet while prepping for and away at FWA, was a great con ^.^

Aaaa I need to fully re-texture my avatar, I wanna get proper normals on it for a squeaky texture to work well with Poiyomi. And another version with a shirt!

Sleepy gay nerdy balloon here good morning

Vibrating heavily wondering why my final interview is requesting 2-3 hours for it versus the coworker and manager ones being 45 minutes each and also hoping I'll do well aaaaaaaa

Big latex air-filled balloon tums on the mind uwu

But valve on belly if merged into body mesh would require retexturing to avoid adding a material slot and there's probably too many as-is :/ really I just need my hair separate, and if I can mask that off so that the Poiyomi latex matcap won't apply to it I'd be happy with a single mesh and material! Would make it way easier to then turn that into a Quest-compatible one rather than re-painting an existing Quest variant.

Polyreduce is because it's like 69k poly right now with the collar, tag, bracelet (low poly) and valve (unsure).

May also, with a lot of help from friends AAA, be able to fix how material slots work on it. The collar, D-ring, and tag and I think both tag links have their own material slots. If I can reduce that to use the parent mesh that'd be awesome, or even just the collar itself mesh to collapse that down!

Would be even cooler if I could merge valve onto belly!

Been doing a lot of work in Unity learning about animations and how they work for VR Chat, and was able to tweak and even fix a broken one for a collar tag position, and edit a blendshape animation to better look 'puffy'!

Even added toggles for my gay bracelet, the glow of it, and a new glow on my collar tag itself! Next up is to fix the shape animations to be less broken or janky and start adding more features ^^ may try to polyreduce the FBX too.

So I'm probably gonna add an animator value to this that plays rubbery stretch sounds when it passes X amount of stretch aaa, so cute and toony!! I wonder if I can tweak other avatar params based on those interactions; booping the nose making it or belly fwoomp a bit x3

But seriously this plus help learning about params and animations from a friend has me reinvigorated in this space and eager to do fun stuff and spend time with friends in VR more often ^^

OH NO

OH NO THIS IS TOO GOOD AND FUN OH MY GOD

#vrchat