{"id":8630,"date":"2022-01-07T04:46:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T09:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/?p=8630"},"modified":"2022-01-08T18:55:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T23:55:02","slug":"christmas-part-two-a-new-totally-didnt-get-a-45-avatar-for-free-avatar-jeros-got-a-backache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/2022\/01\/07\/christmas-part-two-a-new-totally-didnt-get-a-45-avatar-for-free-avatar-jeros-got-a-backache\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas part two \/ A new (totally didn’t get a $45 avatar for free) avatar \/ Jero’s got a backache"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christmas part two<\/strong><\/em>
\nMeteorologists had predicted 2-4″ of snow since Tuesday of this week for myself, and today was the day it would happen. Now, 2-4″ of snow is nothing to a city that’s prepared to handle snowstorms, and my city is.
\nSo… can someone possibly tell me, why THIS was going on with food delivery websites?!
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\n‘Delivery paused’ all across the board. It wasn’t just Grubhub, but UberEats and Doordash were all showing similar things. Look, I get it. It’s dangerous out there (according to Meteorologists)… but to have every. single. restaurant (that delivers) CLOSED on a work week?! Christmas is over, people! And I’m pretty sure the term ‘adult snow day’ doesn’t exist for businesses. So what gives?!
\nStill don’t know what happened, only that things should<\/em> be back to normal tomorrow (as other services will be as well). Still don’t get it. If anyone that works in a business that was impacted by this, could please inform me what the Cinnamon Toast Crunch happened…? Thanks in advance.
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\nA new (totally didn’t get a $45 avatar for free) avatar<\/strong><\/em>
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\nAround 9pm (why I didn’t do it sooner is.. I dunno), I installed the latest Unity version and the latest SDK3 version (against my will because Avatars 3.0 is complicated), and went through fun trying to find this Drexouium model of the four I’m seeing. I’m also noticing.. the official Rexouium model. Well, this is interesting. Didn’t expect to literally get a model that costs $45 on Gumroad<\/a>.. for free. \ud83d\ude32 Oshi–!
\nUm… Blender? I really hope you know what you’re doing, of distributing a premium model. You can get into a lot<\/strong><\/em> of trouble if anyone found out. Yet all he told me was to “be careful”. Still felt bad, and feel I should just pay for the model to help my guilty
\nconscience. It’s only fair.
\nEDIT: I did the right thing and paid for it (in full).\u00a0\u00a0 Now I can legitimately say I paid for the model, and Blender gave me the textures for free. This is the way it should’ve been. He should had told me “I would give you the model, but I didn’t pay for it. So if you want the texture I did for you, you’ll sadly have to pay for the base model.”
\nFunny thing about this model– it’s the first premium model I’ve ever seen (which seemed to have jumpstarted the whole premium avatar craze). This model was everywhere back in
\n2020 (mainly used by full body users, though). and I really liked how it looked but didn’t like the $40 pricetag for it (while others felt it was ‘fair’). Plus, I dunno how in the fuck to make it look like my sona.
\nYet I’ve been on the fence of if it’s truly worth the pricetag. And after what I saw of the Drexouium, I say “yes”; it is very worth it. I absolutely love the visemes, as it shows off Avatars 3.0 so well. Infact I’ve been thinking of using it to make BTD 3.5 better, to make a maybe possible BTD 4.5 (with Avatars 3.0 gestures).
\n—
\nAnyway, enough about that. Now Blender didn’t give me any instructions on the textures, or even a .prefab that has everything pre-set and ready for upload. I went with what I could see. Thankfully the model uses XSToon as it’s shader, so I was familiar with it.
\nGot to a point where I was forced to ask Blender if he could walk me through setting up the textures, to make them look just like the pictures I took of what he did. And with time he was able to help me set everything, even made sure the emissions all work.
\nTold him I’d join him later in VRChat after uploading it.
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\nAfter he left the call, I booted up Unity 2018 and looked at BTD 3.5, and the simplicity of SDK 2.0. I’d like to learn 3.0, I do. But I don’t think I can<\/em> as it’s just too complicated for my simple mind.
\nNeed someone to really sit down with me in a Discord call, and has a lot of patience to help me learn and remember how things work. I’ve somewhat learned (thanks to Kovo) how the Gestures system works. Similar to 2.0 but has a bunch of extra steps, but the rest.. the rest is way over my head. I wanna learn this shit, so badly. But.. hell I dunno how long it took me to learn how to do basic animations and posing in SDK 2.0. Weeks? Months?
\nI still cannot thank Twitchin enough for taking time out of her busy life in offering to do a stream for anyone (when we were still part of the original Best Boi community.. not the one ran by Rusty) that would be interested in learning animations for 2.0.
\nI need to be taught like this again, for 3.0. Learning the Animator tab is the most critical step in learning 3.0, and no tutorial from Tupper is going to help. I need personalized help that is willing to be slow for my simple mind to understand.
\nThe only thing that worries me, is I’ll forget how I did things in 2.0.
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\nJero’s got a backache<\/strong><\/em>
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\nToday, Jero has a pretty massive backache that he’s trying to nurse back to health.
\nHow did he get the backache? He carried my night as Blender lost power. First Jero and now Blender. I factor that it’ll be ‘my turn’ today, because… some unseen cruel asshole trying to fuck with my friends.
\nWhat do I mean by he ‘carried my night’? I had no reason to leave for another world. Joined my homeworld, checking out the new avatar and trying to figure out the gestures. Still having trouble with trying to do a specific gesture. It’ll definitely take me some time to learn them, but I am really liking the cool 3.0 emotes (that would not be possible in 2.0).
\nSo I sent him an invite to join him, didn’t really expect to get a response. At the time I felt I didn’t really wanna be on, wasn’t in the mood.
\nSurprisingly, Jero actually invited me to join him. Went there. It was the same world I met Arth Mota in a few weeks ago. Jero showed up, and was immediately blown away of the new me. Explained Blender gave me the textures to the model and this is something he showed me during Halloween last year, and he thought it was “very cool”. Thank you Jero. I think so too. \ud83d\ude42
\nHe then offered show me where Frost and the others are, and we went there. This world has quite a confusing layout. Frost saw me and said “Oh no, you’re one of them<\/span>.” I said “yeah!” Then he said “it’s going to take a long time to get used to this”. Heh. You and me both, Frost.
\nThey were watching a Halo Infinite meme compilation video at the time. Cool. At least it’s not Destiny 2 and hearing Dusky and Kovo moaning over a god roll (not really), so I’m alright with it. I could also see Jero was really<\/em> starting to get attached to the new model. Some time later, Frost said he needed to go see a friend of his and left. BlueDrago left about 20 or so minutes later, so we waited for them to return. Then Blue shows up again asking if we wanna know where Frost was and to follow him. ..Huh? I thought Frost wanted to be alone with this friend. I didn’t want to bother him. But still we all went there, and it seemed Frost was surprised we all showed up. But we weren’t shoo’d away or anything like that.
\nTime went on and Frost wanted to play UNO again. Everyone but myself, Jero and raccoongamer left through the portal. I asked him if he wanted to go, but he saw the world was full and the portal closed up.
\n–
\nAnd then, the UwU happened. Remember how I said how Jero was “really starting to get attached to the new model”? Hoo boy, was he. He’s all like “now Frost is gone, we can have some good time” and proceeded to lick (and suck on) my right foot, for 45 minutes. Holy fuck<\/strong>, dude!! I played the ‘Ding Dong Song’<\/a> through Alexa, trying not to laugh my head off over all the sexy things he was saying to me (but I couldn’t help myself at times). Just.. wow. He became a real animal (like Fluffy). Even asked if I liked him sounding like “an e-boy”. lmao.. oh my goodness. I was also grinning from ear to ear. It was
\nawesome.
\nAnd this was all during when Raccoongamer was AFK. He came back and was all “oh wow”. \ud83d\ude02\ud83e\udd23 He asked if he “showed up at a bad time”. I said “nah”. Jero said “you missed a real show”, and Raccoongamer’s all “nah, I’m glad I missed it” with Jero chuckling and myself laughing.
\n–
\nThe two then talked about random things while I hugged Jero for the remainder of the night and morning, occasionally getting on my phone and asking Blender in Telegram if he got his power back. He didn’t get his power back until 4am (the same time Jero was getting tired and went to bed).
\nAppreciate Jero ‘taking over the slack’ that Blender was unable to as he had no power. I pray tonight I’m able to stay with him instead of Jero, as he deserves it. Plus he could possibly help me learn all the gestures with this new model.
\n—
\nOh yeah, before I end this, two things.
\n1. I came back as I was doing some things IRL, to a black screen. Couldn’t see anything, like my headset crashed or something. Yet I was able to get into SteamVR and close out VRChat. How odd. Plus, somehow Raccoongamer saw that I had ‘left’ as I was trying to figure out why I couldn’t see anything and feels it’s his fault I left. *facepalm*
\n2. Joined Stray when I got back. He saw the new model and said I look more “handsome” or something like that, can’t remember the exact word, but he felt the model and the skin Blender did for me was really adorable.
\nWent to bed after he left, as there was no real reason to stay on anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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