{"id":8961,"date":"2018-04-15T04:18:51","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T08:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/?p=8961"},"modified":"2018-04-15T16:16:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T20:16:35","slug":"best-weekend-ever-since-joining-vrchat-possibly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2018\/04\/15\/best-weekend-ever-since-joining-vrchat-possibly\/","title":{"rendered":"Best weekend ever (since joining VRChat)? Possibly."},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a half world building post, and the other half compromising of the best thing to ever happen (since joining VRChat). And best of all, there was very little drama (compared to two weeks ago).
\nFirst off, I haven’t even started doing the house. Half of me feels I have to do it, while the other half feels there’s got to be a ‘workaround’ to this. And that ‘workaround’ is to put the whole private world idea on the back burner, and focus on what I’m currently working on (and continue to update it)… and even that<\/u> is facing backlash (in my head).
\nSee, I want to do something with the entrance of the world, but I can’t fully think of just what<\/em> I want to do.. apart from making it where you can no longer see the outside of the world. And that thing would affect my original shack (and has done so since I did the path and the covered bridge). I feel I need to move the furniture to one of those two houses I have at the end of the covered bridge (and then set up a button to reset all throwables).. yet I also don’t want to feel I’m ‘getting rid of’ the shack. In a way, it’s good to move on and move away from things I started with. But I also don’t want to get rid of what I started with at the same time.
\nPerhaps a secret area, where only my very best of friends can go to, would be able to see it. But to keep it a secret, would be a challenge. In any case, I made a prefab of my house (in order to plop it exactly as-is, wherever I want).<\/p>\n

Another idea I had, is doing what Kibble has done for the Best Boi lands. Though it’s not as much as making themed sections, but ‘chopping’ the long path up with teleporters (to make the walk less boring).
\nIn the middle, I’m strongly considering going with the ‘creek and the small picnic area’ idea I had. And the fact the player walk space would be protected by a ‘dome’, I can curl the creek into a corner to where players won’t see its end point (and would only assume it continues).
\nAnd as for the end of the covered bridge, I’m thinking (just now as I type this), to continue the path by wrapping it up in some direction, to where there would be three cabins (and a campfire\/seating in the middle). And I could have this facing the river, with possibly a path leading down to a small bridge for fishing (minus the fishing poles, of course). And as for the cabins, I’ll build these (using the house wall assets I have) to where they’ll closely resemble public cabins from the Cartoon Network TV show; ‘Camp Lazlo<\/em>‘. I’ve already successfully done this on my island (on the MRT Server), so it hopefully<\/em> could be done in VRChat.
\nThe campsite here, would be considered the ‘lobby’ for the world.<\/p>\n

Other than that, all throwable objects would need to be in a centralized area (aka at the ‘hub’), where I can easily reset them. What I have now, kind of feels dumb (yet it was just a test at the time, to set up a reset button for the chairs). In the close future, this will be removed.
\nAnd finally to close this part out, I got Oliver to finally check out my world for the first time ever. He really liked what I did, but suggested I fix the ‘uprooted’ trees. I’ll do this, but he unfortunately was unable to tell me.. why the tree collider thing (when mass-placing trees with the terrain tools), isn’t fucking working.
\nThere’s also another issue with the world. However, this isn’t blamed on me, but the way the game handles loading videos (for video players). The problem, is seeing a black screen for nearly a minute (before the world finally loads up). I was told it’s the fact VRChat tries to load them all at the same time (instead of one at a time). And attempting to convert the files to MP4 (and locally storing them), wouldn’t fix the problem.<\/p>\n

–
\nAnd now, Part 2 of this blog post. Just woke up and I’m a bit tired, but I’ll do what I can. Just a fair warning (from last night), my words may seem fragmented.. because I’m going off of mere thought (and pics I took). I may update when necessary.
\nWith that out of the way, let’s begin. Part 2 started off pretty sluggish, I was disgusted at myself (and at Unity), for not being able to come up with an idea. Decided to just browse the Discord servers.
\nTwitchin suddenly says “GUYS! Telephone is on the server” Thought “hmm, cool! Might as well get in there to meet her!” After loading into my world (and waiting that glorious minute of a black screen), I went to the Best Boi lands, and saw a horde of people crowded around the chapel door. There’s a guy with a big avatar, that I assumed was Telephone. Turns out they weren’t, and instead it was someone named ‘Naruto22661’ who was losing her mind trying all the emotes of the Sword Boi.
\n—
\nSo this is the legendary Telephone; the creator of the Dutch Angel Dragon fursuit. But as she was talking, she got someone else to take over for her (who’s a guy). I don’t know if this is her brother, boyfriend or husband. But he was pretty cool as well. While that was happening, Captain Ruth (on his account) was here as well, and saw me in my Murloc avatar and said how I look awesome (and I said the same to him), and he friended me. That’s pretty cool.
\nTo celebrate Telephone coming to see what she inspired Kibble to make (and after quite the delay), we headed to the Amusement Park (not Funland.. yet). But before we could ride any rides, the people that were there convinced him to create a VRChat account.<\/p>\n

Myself however, was close to the action. I look away for about a minute, then look towards the entrance and notice no one was there. Just assumed everyone went for the rides anyway, and tried to look around for them. Could’ve sworn I saw Darius slinking around the park, like he was up to something. When I eventually confronted him, I quickly realized this wasn’t<\/em> Darius, but someone else with a similar avatar (who was looking for someone). I wished them luck and headed off, then tried to track down my friends. Not many of them were online (apart from Bonnie being in the Hyena World).
\nEventually made it back to Best Boi lands, I spoke to BlitzenReindeer (who was looking for Telephone). Told him what I overheard, yet didn’t realize.. Telephone was already here in her new VRChat account (as ‘Telephone Squeak’)! Ran over to see her (who was still the guy speaking).
\nWe eventually went back to the Amusement Park. And after much more talking, started to ride the rides (with the Tea Cup ride being the first). This didn’t go well, with players falling out of the tea cups. Was quite hilarious to see them flailing around.
\nThe next ride, would prove to be Telephone’s (and the guy’s) first time riding a ride in VR. And it was quite disorienting for them, as you could imagine.
\nThis is also when I had to do it; I wanted to add Darius to my friends list, yet I was unsure how he would react. But I finally talked myself into it and hit the Friend button (then looked away, to ‘avoid denial’).. yet shockingly, he accepted! Nice!! Now I’m friends with Darius (the one that indirectly got me into VRChat with his videos). This is awesome.<\/p>\n

We went back to Best Boi lands (after Telephone had enough of the rides), and spent about an hour there. Then we went to Funland. And after waiting nearly 10 minutes for everyone to load in, we went to my favorite rollercoaster in VRChat; ‘Donkey Kong Coaster’. The reason that it’s my favorite, is just how unbelievably insane<\/strong> it is! There’s several parts where the cars separate from eachother, and two times where the cars fall off the track (yet somehow are still following their respected path).
\nNext, we went on the ‘America, F**K YEAH!!” ride (the entire song is a ride, I’m not shitting you). What can I say, I love this world to bits. And the music for the rides is top notch.
\nRode the bumper carts (well, I<\/em> didn’t, but the others did). One of them is running over<\/a> ‘Grandpa Kel’ (a guy named ‘That Kel’ who acts as everyone’s favorite grumpy grandpa) over and over! HAHA! He acts the part so well, you swear he really is<\/em> an old man playing VRChat.<\/p>\n

Next, we changed course and went to ‘Fever Dream’. I’m not sure if I talked about this world in here, but it’s pretty good at jumpscares. Basically, it’s when you discover a back entrance into Walt Disney Land (to ride the rides for free). But soon, it’s you<\/strong> who gets taken for a ride (by a demented Mickey Mouse).
\nYet I do so love how one of them is all “guys, let’s stick together as a group”, where there was about 10 of us, to where there’s only six of us (including myself) at the end. It’s quite hard to stay as a group in that place, especially at the part where you can’t see shit.
\n—
\nNext, was Gold Rush. I used my typical playstyle (played as a Penguin, ran and grabbed the gold, while the other bandits attempted to keep the sheriffs away). It wasn’t long until the Sheriffs got wise of my playstyle and started going after me personally (putting me in jail mainly). Really got frustrating, yet I do congratulate them working as a team. Good game!
\nDuring our game, I told Creepery I managed to friend Telephone. He’s freaking out (in a good way), and I told him to meet up with me. But by the time the next game ends (we won as Bandits, by the way.. it was like five VS one, with the one being Trigger who was camping spawn), Creepery showed up, and Telephone left for another world. But now that I have her friended, I was able to track her down to this other world (and told Creepery to follow me).
\nGot in the world, Creepery took some time to load in. I was semi-fearing Telephone would jump to another server (and he would miss his chance), but thankfully he got in and I showed him to where I last heard them (which was on a crappy rollercoaster).
\nSoon he was able to meet Telephone, and was beside himself (which made me happy for him).
\nEventually, Telephone went into Ashi’s world. I told the few people that were around me (including Creepery), that I’m not going in there. We went back to Best Boi lands instead, while I monitored Telephone’s movement through the social panel (and told Creepery the moment she switches to another world, I would let him know).
\n20 or so minutes later, she pops up in Avatar Testing (and tell Creepery). I quickly head there, and overhear one of them saying that he had blocked Ashi (from VRChat and Discord). Seems it was a very smart move not to go there, and I told them “that’s why I didn’t want to go there”.
\nThe others joined about 5 or so minutes after that, and this is when Telephone had to go. Though it didn’t end there, as one of the people here started handing out invites to join a Discord server (that’s a fan club to Telephone). I joined it, as I felt I needed to.<\/p>\n

And that’s about it (other than Oliver finally seeing my world after Telephone left, but that’s already been explained). It was quite awesome to meet her.
\nAnd who knows? Perhaps (and this is a personal assumption), if she sees just how much we appreciate the models (and her), maybe she’ll feel so appreciative of what she has done, that she’ll allow Kibble… to allow us to create our own Best Bois!
\nTHAT, would be so awesome. It may not work like that, then again.. *shrug*.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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