What an interesting day, but at least I better than before. Got to finally hang out with
Cola (who was watching movies). But instead of hot virtual sex afterwards, I got to see a side of him that is kind of interesting (and also a bit worrying).. but not the way you
think.
On the side, I also helped my son with his avatar, and as ‘payment’ I wanted him to fully understand the pain and to freely come to me if he ever has to deal with another heartbreak.
And finally, I found another way to annoy Kovo (when he starts spitting out nonsense). 🙂
Let’s start.
First off it started with helping my son. And honestly I should leave this for the Games blog (however I’ll be very brief). But I made the avatar shorter and fixed a few bugs with it. Uploaded it to his account and, well I didn’t hear much if he liked it or not. Later that evening, Kovo noticed the view point was messed up. I told both of them that I made sure it was set correctly, and he believes the issue has something to do with his Unity installation (obviously, because it isn’t happening with my work). Disappointing though.
But I told my son that I could do a Dutchie for him similar to the way Azure did. Haven’t fully worked out all the details yet (still asking if he wants it more Dragon-like, or Wolf-like(like Frost and Wufy’s avatars)).
Once I get those figures in, it’ll take me a few days (mainly of the texturing). It’s not as ‘advanced’ as BTD (mainly one color), but it’ll take time.
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Now let’s talk about Cola. As I said, he was in the movie world (in a Friends+ instance). So that’s why I couldn’t really do it with him as someone could join. Tried to encourage him to go to a private instance of this world, but he had different plans. He got up and ran over to the mirror, and showed me what he’s been working on (avatar-wise). Compared to his previous work, this one looked quite.. basic. Still cool though.
We then went to Avatar Testing (another Friends+ instance). He kept making a strange motion with his hands, and I tried my best to understand what he was trying to say. Ahh Cola, I don’t want to upset you for not really getting sign language. Could you please use your voice? And he did just that, explaining it was a commission for someone that never gave him a ref sheet (just said “I want a wolf”).
As we talked, he gave me a good look and said “can I ask a question?” I said “sure!” And he said “..have you ever considered upgrading your avatar?” Mmm.. you and a lot of others have asked the same thing, wondering if I’m going to branch out and put these textures on a Nanachi or an Avali. And my answer is the same: this is my sona.. or as close as I can get to it without paying a huge sum of cash as a commission for someone to actually make it as an avatar.
However his vision of upgrading is going with ‘the new Dutchie’. Lol, another one that’s confused of Fluffy’s Dutchie and Kaelygon’s Dutchie. Explained to him the differences between the two. Yet he was still sort of confused and showed me a version of his
model, saying how the long nose makes him look like a mouse. Said he mainly uses Best Boi 2.0, “hating” the new version as it makes him do the same thing by looking like a mouse.
Then he saw my scale shader, and wanted it. Told him where I got it from and how I promised I wouldn’t give it out. Yet he persuaded. So.. hey, you can pay with virtual sex. Fine, just please don’t tell anyone I’m doing this (or show it in public), or Sarge will have my head. He thanked me and was blown away with how detailed the texture
looked.
He then ran into the dark room of the world, and I’m thinking ‘well this is where you’re not going to like it any– wait.. they AREN’T GLOWING?! HOW?!’ He said he used another shader that wasn’t Naito’s. Okay, you GOT to give me this shader!! Told him that I tried everything to get rid of the glow, but to no avail.
But before I could ask, someone was trying to join us and say hi. That someone was
Sir Rivers. Fuck, if he sees Cola with this shader, he might tell Sarge. But I did my best to play it cool. And after a long random discussion of random things, Rivers actually did notice the scale shader.
We ran to the main area, where he said “Benie gave them to me”. I stood there shocked at Cola for saying this. I thought I told you NOT to tell ANYONE I gave them to you!! But he trusted Rivers to hide the truth, and I’m glad I didn’t say anything negative. Don’t know what I was thinking before.. just need to relax. Rivers is a really good friend who would never, ever fuck me over.
I’m just scared what Sarge would do, because he trusts me (even though I got an old version, and I’m not even trusted to receive updates to it). God damn this BS overprotection with their group. “Let’s show it off and laugh in people’s faces that they can’t have it!!” Meh.
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Final moment of the night was coming to Kovo’s world and again not really knowing what to say. But also the thoughts of what happened with my son and with Cola were going through my head didn’t really help the mood (but overall, I felt alright). Saw Kovo and his ‘pet’ on the other side of the mirror talking to eachother.. having no idea I was watching and listening to what they’re saying.
When I hear Kovo say “I’m glad Ben didn’t hear that”, I decided to shove my fist through the mirror which freaked both of them out! HAHAH.. and on top of it, they thought I wasn’t there anymore (yet was writing down Kovo Quote after Kovo Quote).
So much hilarity of that morning. Someone asked “Benie, are you recording this?!” How I wish I was, but I don’t know how to record the audio from my headset… until now!!
Yes, I learned how before I went to bed at my normal time, to use Audacity and use Windows’ internal software to do so. Now, Kovo cannot run from the quotes. 😀
Just go to the world and hit the Record button when he’s online, and wait for something hilarious to happen. The only problem is it won’t record my input, only output. Only way to get around that is to use Fraps or OBS (something that will record both input and output audio), then play it back while recording in Audacity, save it, and there we go.
And honestly… is it really worth all that effort? One side says “yes”, but I would be recording for hours waiting for Kovo to say something stupid.
WMR has a video player mode that works for output, but SUCKS in input for some reason.
EDIT: I got the shader from Cola. And surprisingly it’s the same shader Kovo uses; this ‘Xieve’ shader. He also helped me set it up to use it instead of Naito’s. But what worried me of the switch is not being able to set specific areas of the avatar to not receive the
scales… and the worry was damn legit. Cola had no idea how to fix it (plus he was busy with his own project), so I tried playing around with the settings until I finally hit something.
For the future me, ‘Detail Mask’ under NORMAL MAPS is where you put the ‘reverse emission’ in, and that fixed the issue!
Testing it out ingame, I was so.. so happy to not see myself being a walking dragon candlestick. NO MORE glowing body!! 😀 Moved the changes over to the others, including the blush. It’s all looking really good.. even one thing I didn’t really want to say to Cola as it felt a bit premature. In the Avatar Testing world, I chuckled hard when I saw my metallic dick. lmao… And Cola said “it’s rock hard”. Hahaha.
Then he wanted to have a conversation about it, and I gave him the story of how it has bones and stuff. That was interesting.