As promised from last night, it’s time to talk about something positive for once. And that positive thing, is I made my first test world in VRChat. 🙂
DMing Oliver, was able to put a weeks-long concern to rest; Unity’s Asset Store. I remember long ago, taking a peek and seeing nothing free (which is what’s been keeping me from making my own world). Yet he said that when you search for something, you have an option of ‘FREE ONLY’ (which only shows models that are free).
And with this video he showed me (that took me three days afterward until I got to a point where ‘everything else is boring’), watching it actually delivered on Oliver’s promise (that it’s quite easy to learn).
Once you lay down the foundation for the world, all you do is.. simply pull out a model and plop it into the world! It’s that easy!! Within 10 minutes, I had made a small-ish world (with a small shack, a barrel, and a box with a bottle on it).
And loading into that world (in VRChat), I felt a slight sense of pride and accomplishment. For I didn’t follow the tutorial exactly, and made my own concept.
“I.. built this.” kept going through my mind. I actually made something in VRChat, that I CREATED FROM SCRATCH MYSELF (that’s not 2D)!! 😀
And thanks to the VRChat Discord’s #world channel, I was able to (eventually) learn how to turn an object into a throwable object! Something that took Oliver days until he figured it out, took me only an hour (as I didn’t know half the things they were telling me).
Due to the complexity of needing to add a total of five scripts (just to make an object throwable), I made a ‘cheatsheet’ listing the names of these scripts.
And after several attempts (including getting some help from Oliver), I was able to make a ‘bed chair’ (like he has it in his first world). Aka, to simulate sleeping in a bed. Apart from the fact the player is in a ‘sitting’ position (instead of a ‘laying’ position..sadly there’s nothing I can do about that), as stated it works pretty good.
I also made a bedside carpet…. and went a bit nuts with the texture. This is the fixed result, creating another 2D plane and slapping the gif art down (and scaling it to fit just inside the carpet below, to make it look like it’s part of the actual carpet). I absolutely love the results.
Before I stopped working on it last night (due to following Oliver to Best Boi lands after he showed me another world he was working on), I tried to import a couch from models-resource. And.. um. It took a bit until I feel it’s more of a realistic size.
But this is all part of something I plan to do in the near future (that is.. whenever my brain decides to eventually think of a way to realistically shape the terrain). I plan to completely wipe it clean and make it bigger, faster, and stronger (by making a custom house (with a path leading down to a large river). The only thing that bugs me, is if its possible to actually have a basement for it.
If it is, then that’s where I’ll store my uploaded avatars. Probably put them in a storage room.