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A few new things have popped up since I made that post. Usually VRChat isn’t that interesting for me. Though, that’s mainly because I had restricted myself to private and Friends+ worlds (over the fear of having my avatar stolen).
Understandable, right? Well, this is no longer the case (how one can clone someone’s public avatar). And the true beauty of VRChat comes though in these worlds. Such as this disturbing thing of a bunch of guys as spiders in The Pug;

How I missed this craziness when I was on Desktop. I was lucky enough to not overly lag in VR.

Anyway, time to talk about what has happened recently. First off, a bit of happy news for a new couple. Klaus officially has a girlfriend, who’s name ingame is ‘MelBlueyes’ (nice name). I’m extremely happy for them, while also at the same time… *sigh* You know. A bit saddened I still haven’t found an RP girlfriend. But at the same time, I don’t want to feel tied down by one.
Plus, who would want someone that bitches about things they can’t control? ..Exactly.

—Speaking about things I can’t control, someone called me a “Best Boi reject” last night. I sort of know their name, but unfortunately there’s no ‘Blocked Users’ option to get the name.
Basically what happened, I visited Sarge and the others only to ask one of them a specific question (related to what I said yesterday about BTDB). A long time ago, this person managed to chop off the Dutchie tail and glue on the Best Boi one. I want to do this in reverse, but only for this model.
Then I get distracted by someone asking “where’s the Best Boi’s?!?!” Showed mine, then this person walked up, pointing at me and laughing, saying “this is a Best Boi reject!!”
That really hurt, even though I tried my best to not let it bother me. And I love how none of them defended me. Though, I’m just going to assume that they just didn’t hear it (or were too busy talking to eachother infront of another mirror).
Well, I got someone willing to show the blocked person that I’m no reject. All I need to do is just find this guy again and give them their name.
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In addition, the guy willing to set the other one straight, pretty much told me what I already know (about having someone make my own BenieTheDragon model). He said that yeah, it would cost hundreds of dollars. But he said that I have to talk to someone about it.
I dunno, though. Would be nice, but… mmm. It’s good to pay for someone’s effort, but the fact they take advantage of people like me. Yeah.
Just don’t want to be taken advantage of, and be charged a ridiculously high price for a model that may or may not look anywhere close to the picture.

—And this leads me to the final topic of discussion.. the whole tail thing. Decided to ask the original person I was going to ask (in Discord), and they responded “I just used Unity”.
The.. fuck?! Are you serious? I can preform surgery on a model in Unity? How in the fuck, is that possible? Don’t you need Blender for that?
Turns out you don’t. You first grab the model you want and attach it to the model you want to replace it with, then take the texture of the first model (the Dutchie) in GIMP and erase everything but the tail.
Then you do the reverse with the Best Boi (removing only the tail), and finally you resize the model to make it fit with the one you’re trying to replace.
And this is the result (after painting the new tail;

Voyalia! Dutchie tail on a Best Boi! Yes, the spikes are floating of where the tail was, and.. I don’t know what I’m going to do (as I have to have the spikes as they’re part of my scalesona).
But I’m also looking at this;

Staring at it for the longest time, I could feel a sense of calm that I’ve never felt before, since the Dutchie started becoming popular. I had just took a Dutchie, attached it to my beloved BTDB, to give it a tail closer to my scalesona. And it works ingame; like an attachment.
Seeing the wings (missing), and remembering the person that says I could do it in Unity also saying that you can hide the horns on the head and nose (in Unity).. what’s there to stop me from finally making this into a custom built ‘Dutchie’? Is it time to finally let go of the pride I’ve bottled up for months?
Yes. Yes it is. But it isn’t just the model, but what I was told about my scalesona (that it’s not supposed to be a Best Boi). It’s like, he saw through my pride and managed to pierce it with something… something ‘warm’ and ‘comforting’ that I’ve never felt for a long time.
But due to the texture sheet being completely different from the Best Boi Phoenix model, I might do it this weekend (as I’ll have to recreate the texture from scratch).

But let’s get back to the now: the tail spike issue. It still needed to be dealt with.
Manually placing one on the new tail, isn’t doing the ‘it’s too heavy’ thing as the Best Boi tail has. But, it isn’t working like I want to. It flops around instead of being ‘glued’ to the tail. And the only way I can have the results I want, is to contact Erodac and ask him if he doesn’t mind doing what he did those months ago. Aka, taking the fake tail and extending it with more spikes.
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And luck was in my favor. He was willing to do it. I gave him the files that he gave me, and with a bit of a back and forth image troubleshoot sharing, I finally have it!

It looks awesome! So much better and closer to my scalesona than the Best Boi tail. I also wanted to chop off the diamond-shaped part of the tail, and make it straighter. Doing it in GIMP and using Naito’s scale shader, causes a hole in the middle of the diamond.

The fuck is going on.. this isn’t what I wanted! The only thing I can think of, it’s the way the texture map was done for the Dutchie. Going to have to talk to Nappz one of these days, and see if he knows how to take care of this …though I fear ‘Blender’ is the only option he’ll give me (as he has a different tail shape).
So, I’m possibly stuck with it. Also finally set the tail for the other sized versions of BTDB. Took some time for the Giant and Dragon-Sized ones (with the chairs), and had to use actual chairs to re-set the settings.
Testing it ingame (an hour before I went to bed, as the whole chairs thing made me not want to work on it), some people say it does look a lot better than what I had. Definitely agree. Just hope this stops anyone from calling BTDB a ‘Best Boi reject’.

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To close this out, I have also finally re-uploaded Red Boi (including its own Giant and Huge versions). Nearly didn’t come true at one time, with Unity constantly hanging at ‘Processing upload…’.
Turns out I simply forgot to delete the old IDs for the avatars. Trying to upload, looking up the ID, fails to see it, gets stuck in an infinite loop.
Freeing the ID, it knows there’s no existing ID and creates a new one, completing the upload. Wish the SDK would had told me this, though..

So many things that have happened in VRChat, since I came back to it after Warframe burned me. Also, thanks so much for the continued support, with emails stating to wait for a sale of SUPERHOT VR, saying it’s rather short. Given the VR games I’ve played so far, most of them have been (even the ones with a pricetag).
It’s like, they can’t really go that far when it comes to a VR game (compared to a regular Desktop game). But, I keep forgetting that VR is still new, and it’ll still take many more years until devs really notice the true potential of it.
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Speaking of VR– VRChat. As stated, a lot has happened (that wasn’t just of Creepery temporarily leaving the game). Some of it is a bit more personal (and also having to help a friend with another friend).
Let’s stop stalling and get to it…
—First off, chairs- aka the ‘VRC_Station’ script. Having never added chairs to any of the avatars I’ve uploaded (as at the time when they showed up as a glitch, I was still pretty much a n00b at Unity), I went through hell figuring out why things weren’t working right. For the chairs were working, but working wrongly.
Basically, I have five chairs for the Dragon-Sized version of BTDB (one on my head, one on each horn, and one on both hands). Trying it out in various worlds, lots of people complaining they were able to get on them from the other side of the world.
It wasn’t until Foley revealing the reason why. The script is basically an invisible VRCChair. And this poses a problem.. as being invisible, I wasn’t aware that chairs automatically scale themselves when placed on an avatar (as the only times I used a VRCChair was for my worlds).
Spawning in a chair and placing it, holy fuck did I see the issue!! The chair, was HUGE! No wonder people are able to click on it! Scaled the scripts down to a level where this is no longer a problem. I also used the chair to properly orient the script, to get the direction that I wanted to see people sitting.
Testing it ingame, the set orientation still doesn’t work 100% (they don’t look at me when they pop on my hand, but at least there’s no more complaints about accidentally misclicking and appearing on my head anymore! Yay for that!
The Giant version of BTDB also has chairs now. Just still need to work on the orientation of the script (some people are saying “I’m sideways” when on my head).
I do plan to get Red Boi re-uploaded (after doing the same changes I made for BTDB).

—Hanging out with Creepery’s friends. They’re a lot more fun to hang out with then Sarge, L1ch, and the others (who talk about real life infront of a mirror for hours). These guys, love to RP and play games. And sometimes the RP is quite believable. Just like the day after Creepery left, I saw two Nappies. One of them wasn’t doing what the other was, so obviously one of them was Melancholy.

And… *cough* what an ‘interesting’ show they did, hugging, kissing, and then fighting eachother. It was so hilarious. Got lots of pictures with my VR camera. Some of which I never took.. heh.
Anyway, back to Creepery’s friends. They even have a ‘leader’ of sorts, named ‘Marble_Hornet’. And last night, was a very interesting night. Started off with a fierce argument between her and Chris, over something that happened a long time ago. I wanted to know what was going on, but I never really got a chance.
Ended up with Chris attempting to defuse the situation, by being an adult and saying it happened in the past. Then the two ran off to talk in private (and never came back).
Half an hour later, we went to another world. This was a quite interesting world, with an actual working bar. You can pour your own drink into a glass, and then drink it. You can also grab drinks in cans and use your other hand to pull the tap and open the can.
It felt like Taphouse VR to me. Sadly, you can’t mix drinks (like you can in that game).
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Later that night (after drinking), Marble started being obsessive over wanting her (I would assume RP) husband to join. Apparently her husband is Mr Husky, who I know quite well from the days of the Best Boi community. Suddenly Marble accuses Chris of “taking my husband” and starts chasing him through the world, making hilarious angered noises.
Most of us are assuming that she’s “a little drunk”, either in RL or ingame (aka more RP, why I said how the ‘RP is quite believable’). Which makes me wonder, if this marriage to Husky is also truthful or not. But, that’s none of my business to ask about that.

—Ashi gets more active, and the battlelines are drawn. This has been going on for a few days even before I took my break from Warframe. Apparently, he now has a mod that gives him moderator powers, with one thinking he might be able to visit private worlds without being invited (or being your friend).
Of course, if he does (and is caught by an actual admin).. oooooh hoo hoo hoo! No more Ashi. 😀 Let’s pray he fucks up.

—Wildboy VS Rezzonance. More drama, this time it has nothing to do with RP. A day ago, Wildboy DMs and asks me to talk to Rez about why he was blocked by him. I’m not sure what’s going on, but I will agree that Wildboy is kind of a spaz.. doing weird shit like making noises by beating the sides of his mouth. So, yeah. A bit immature.
Now I’m hearing that Wildboy is stalking Rez’s twitter feed (and everywhere else), and the others like Sarge agree. But Wildboy denies these accusations, calling them complete bullshit.
My guess, he’s been asking everyone to talk to Rez about unblocking him. They all say no, so he comes to me. And they see this as stalking. *sigh* And this just randomly popped into my mind. I have no proof that he was actually doing this, nor do I have proof that he never did it. But from the words I get from Sarge (and Rez himself), it almost feels like this is true.
It got to the point where I was forced to tell Wildboy, to let it go. He wasn’t bugging me, by the way. I really wanted to help him out, because I try (when I can) to be a nice guy. It was Rez’s own words that convinced me, that this is only going to end in a stalemate. It was clear, he was done talking about it and wanted to move on, so I told him that I would drop the subject. And thankfully, Wildboy finally listened to reason.
Again, I have no way to prove his denials (as I wasn’t there when it happened). It disappoints me that I couldn’t help him out, but I’m also glad that I can put this behind me.
UPDATE: Major update after saying this. Here I thought Rezz was going to drop it, only to invite me to a world to personally ask if Wildboy has been driving me crazy.
I wanted this foolishness to end, so I tried to stick these two in a group chat. It would had worked, but Rezz didn’t want to play ball.
…Nearly lost a lot of my friends trying to convince him to join while ingame. I came too close, but just let my frustration over this, go to them. And they completely understood me. I never wanted to be a part of this mess.. I don’t even know how in the fuck it started.
Close to blocking Wildboy for the hell I just went through. He won’t even give me an apology. …That kid needs to understand when no means no, and when to move on He’s 16, but he should be mature enough to know who will and won’t be your friend.
I… whatever. I’m trying to get this traumatic experience out of my head. Shivers me everytime I think about it.

–Meeting OfficialSayon, creator of the legendary Huggi Dungeon Series(HDS). This was an absolute honor, and it almost didn’t happen. There was a time I was soooo bored and was thinking of going to bed (at 3 in the morning). My left eye was sleepy, my head was sleepy, it was not a fun morning for me.
Then I decided to visit Klaus in this rather interesting concept of a world, that has a room that you can mess with weather, cause it to rain, and it will actually flood the room with water (in realtime). He was by himself, and he just so happened to say “this just might be your lucky night, Benie”, telling me that I just might be meeting the creator of the HDS.
He then gets an invite to join him in a private world, and asks me to join. I do, and meet him.
It was pretty awesome. I even got to talk to a future voice actor of the upcoming Part 3, who asked me who’s my favorite character. Though my personal favorite is Huggi (because of how I felt she was well developed as a character in Part 2), I ‘had’ to pick Alex, or I would ‘die’. Heh.
I was then invited to join a world to test his latest creation, called ‘VRC – Deadzone’.
It’s mainly a PvP world, based on his love for eSport PvP. It currently has three game modes (with more coming);
-Team Deathmatch (self-explanatory)
-CTF (self-explanatory)
-The Glitch (one person hunts down the others)
There’s also a Training Zone. Currently it’s a bunch of moving circular targets that you can shoot at.
Finally, there’s a teaser about the upcoming Part 3. For spoiler reasons, I won’t be showing the pictures I took of it. All I can safely say is, it could come out this year. The teaser also contains subtle hints on what the possible final part of the HDS could be about. And it seems that Alex might not be done with his Project Rebirth plan.
Speaking of teaser, Klaus sent me this video that Sayon sent. This looks really, really interesting. Huggi wants revenge, and it’s up to the players to help her get it.

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So, that’s about it that I can thi— oh, wait. There is one more thing. Mmmm. Something I’ve been thinking of (still VRChat related). Just thinking about BTDB, and what I should do with him. See, even with the scales, people still ask “what are you?” when they look at my avatar. Because I don’t look like any dragon they’ve ever seen. Typically dragons have horns on the top of their head, not on the sides.
Maybe it’s the pokadots, that makes people question if it looks like a ‘toy’? *sigh* Wish I found another scalesona. Though I feel like I’m ‘locked’ into it. But, this isn’t the topic. It’s once again if I should make him into a Dutchie, since Best Boi V2 was based off of Kael’s model, it shouldn’t be that hard to paste my texture file over (with some edits). Mainly, I want that tail (the same tail shape I’ve seen that L1ch and Nappz have, one without the fur).
Of course, pride gets in the way of this. Having Kael’s smug face in it, really turns me off. Yet this hasn’t deterred hundreds of people from grabbing the model, and making their own personal Dutchie; with their only answer being “I just like the model”.
Oh how I wish pride didn’t bother me. Kael and I are both scalies. So why should I feel envy, over the fact he fucking beat me of having a dragon model (all because I don’t know how to do it myself.. and still don’t)?
Fucking pride, man. I can feel it eating at my soul, sometimes saying “just pay $500 or so to have your very own BenieTheDragon model, then you won’t have to use another!”
If I was made out of money, you better believe I’d do ANYTHING to have a personal model off of that pic art I found years ago. Even someone to do a ref sheet of it, would be awesome.
*deep sighs*

Alright, that’s it from me. If you’ve made it this far without skimming through the post, thanks for reading (and your patience)! If there’s anything else that suddenly pops in my head that happened before I make this post, I’ll be editing to include it.