Fast Fur V5.1.0 is officially released! I actually added a whole bunch of new stuff, but the one feature EVERYBODY wants is the new Light Volumes support, lol...

Hah... I definitely need this! Sacred was showing it off to me this weekened by biting my ears, lol...

Programming is like tennis, I lob a bug fix toward my code, it spikes another bug right back at me. Fun!

VRC Light Volumes! They look amazing! Go find out more:- github.com/REDSIM/VRCLi...

Just posted Fast Fur v5.1.0.Beta.7 on my Discord server, ready for testing! It has a new render quality system that can finally handle FoV properly, which is a technical puzzle that had me stumped me literally for years!

Ooof... dizzy spell! My least favourite feeling! Trying to find somewhere to buy dramamine typically results in additional dizziness, due to 99% of all the "cures" being sold in stores and online just being some form of placebo.

Furality Somna Dealer booths are open for anyone to visit (you don't need to be signed up for Furality). So, please take a look at the three new updated public avatars at my booth! Also, 35% off for the next couple of weeks on everything! linktr.ee/crispycarrots #Furality #VRChat #Furry

Rokoko decided to change their ToS and start selling my motion capture data. Thankfully, I'd already returned the suit and gloves, due to technical issues (my house has major radio interference problems). The staff were very nice people to deal with. Polite, helpful, understanding, etc...

24 hours since v5.0 launch, and only 1 critical game-breaking (ie. ChilloutVR) bug reported! lol... I've posted the fix. I accidentally this line of code:

It’s finally time! youtu.be/zLgmQvF6oyo

I finally have a working proof-of-concept solution for my Vive tracker radio interference problems! I can plug 4 trackers into a Raspberry Pi, which is running VirtualHere. It uses 5GHz, so no interference with the other 4 trackers. Now I just need to clean up the cables!

Finally got some Slime trackers! 9/10 are working, this one, not so much...

My cousin got me this absolutely awesome hoodie.

I FINALLY just posted Release Candidate 1 of "Warren's Fast Fur Shader v5.0" for testing! It's more than a year behind schedule, but I'm confident the extra time was worth it to get it right.

Testing out a new "anisotropic" lighting formula. It's much faster, and makes metallic fur really shine (literally)!

Just had another customer get angry because they tried to force their boilers to 100% heating non-stop, and the equipment refused (because the water was already hot, and boiler explosions in retirement homes are bad). It’s kinda scary how many times people attempt this.

D’oh! My shader’s FPS testing rig has a dead motherboard, so I was going to replace it, but I have no thermal paste anywhere in my house! Rookie mistake!

Woohoo! The installer is here to finally hook me up to fibre!

I’m sure Liz would have approved of the soundtrack for tonight’s programming session. The movie version of, “Moulin Rouge!”, was the first film we watched together, and we were both bawling our eyes out, lol… we were such bohemian romantics!

Darn! I wanted to try the brand new Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 by flying into the "Bomb Cyclone" that's currently just offshore from where I live. Unfortunately, the XBox servers are completely overwhelmed, so after ~3hrs in the queue, I had to go to bed...

"Don't Necro!", bellowed the ~2005 forum moderator. The years-long discussion was guilty of the sin of taking too long between breakthroughs. The ancient forum dwellers were driven away, lost to the past, and with them their eventual solution. [Thread Locked]

“Five Dice, All Threes” is such an amazing album! Not recommended if you are vulnerable to the dark side nihilism, though. I’m taking a coding break tonight, and just enjoying the music.

I've decided it's finally time to update my avatar! Which means re-discovering how Blender's GUI just makes absolutely no sense to me, lol... (but, like, a really frustrated "lol...")

FedEx has notified me that my package has arrived, and I should come to their FedEx facility in Quebec to pick it up. I don't live in Quebec.

Time to re-organize my VR space! I started by clearing everything off of the shelves/desks I wanted to move, so it’s all in piles of random tech at the moment…

I just learned about Rokoko's "Coil Pro" technology. It does what SteamVR lighthouses do, but uses a magnetic field instead of light beams. So you get perfect, drift-free, wireless full-body tracking that doesn't require line-of-sight. Now I just need to justify spending ~$6300 USD, lol...

I bought an OWO suit! I seriously did not expect how much pain this thing can inflict, lol…

I'm finally getting ready to finish and release v5.0 of my shader. It's been almost a full year of working on it, and I'm proud of all the progress. Once that's done, I want to start making tutorials, guides, tips-and-tricks, etc..., on how to use it!

Bleh... my nervous system is absolutely on fire, I'm assuming as an over-reaction to being sick.

Testing a new Beta version of my fur, with some help from a friend...

Time to replace the spicy pillows in my Index controllers.

I've created my first ever purchasable VRChat asset last night! A fluffy santa hat! Compatible with lots of shaders and with very easy setup tools included! Only $5 so I hope you'll all check it out and share about! >.>; nidonocu.gumroad.com/l/santa-hat?...

I've been experimenting with adding "clumps" of fur. Here are some examples of wet, partially dry, and dry clumps:

I just messed up a new equation for clumping the fur, and this appeared instead. I just accidentally discovered how to turn my fur shader into a feather shader!

Time to break out the programming socks…

Unity 2019 didn't mind, but Unity 2021+ is an art snob, and doesn't like my ASCII art. This line of "code" breaks Unity's shader compiler:

Got my copy of “Furry Planet”, and man, I look weird without fur, lol… I met the author, Joe Strike, at one of the Crispy Bunny VRChat meetups and did an interview with him about my person history and about the role VR is now playing in the furry fandom. I highly recommend his new book!

Well, my latest experiment is a bust. I wanted to see if I could use alpha-transparency for the far-away "overcoat". Nope, in VR there are render sorting-order glitches. Oh well, I will just rendering it using MSAA transparency. But it was worth a try!

I’m close to getting pluggable feature modules that people can 1-click install/remove. This should help locate and isolate bugs, and also improve stability by using less GPU resources. I left a note for myself for tomorrow night:

Hanging out with @jayottr.bsky.social. Is there a thing as too much fluff? I think not!

Took my new "Photo Pipeline" fur for its first public test. It looks great! Speed is the same as the regular fur, but when you take a photo it quadruples the fur's resolution.

Dang, I just got called out by Super Auto Pets (this was a team name it "randomly" picked out for me...)

On the weekend I took some 4k photos with the Super Pipeline version of my shader. I am amazed at how far the quality has come. Did I really make this?!?