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Getting back into the swing of things after last weekend! I think I managed to get the baton in a state that I am happy with. I don’t have any Chinese characters anywhere, which upsets me a bit, but at least I have the model number, the targeting mark & KDC (which is better than nothing at all). Furthermore, I did an early start of the low-poly version, but nothing worth showing yet.

Oh yeah, I spent an absurd amount of time making that “Chinese military dance” pose in Unity, anyone wants that? 😀

I’ve just pushed another update to the Cell Block D-5 map in VRChat!

Now you should see a pair of floating handcuffs where a cuffed player is if they have you blocked, (or if you blocked them) rather than the handcuffs teleporting to 0,0,0.

A little something I started working on Tuesday instead of, you know… Sleeping?

I’ve reworked the body shape a couple of times, it is a little thicker than the stun prod handle but not by much. I’m still not sure on whether to go for the chromed expanded section or the black one and where to put the gear track (if at all).

The hand grip is getting where I want it to be, and I had to insert a bit of Bakelite, of course. I’m going to be a bit busy this weekend, so I won’t be able to work much on this.

Initially I was going to work on something else today and post that instead, but I actually have nothing else to show. I’m so tired that I’m most likely going back to bed after my doctor’s appointment this afternoon.

I’ve been doing this as a bit of a weight painting/fitting practice, an attempt at making a simple conversion of the KDC Prisoner Uniform to the VRChat “Moe” base. Main reason is that I don’t need devkits and I desperately need more fitting practice. I really want to get over this feeling of dread I get anytime I have to actually finish an outfit, and this is one way to do it I guess.

Plus it would be nice to make it a bit more available I guess.

This week is going to be a bit rough as I have a visitor coming Thursday for a few days. I’ll post again tomorrow if I have anything fun to show.

Happy Halloween everyone! I spent a good chunk of this week refining an update to my VRChat map “Cell Block D-5“, it now features handcuffs!

• Grab the handcuffs and drop them on someone’s wrists to bind them!
• When cuffed, keep your wrists together, or you will be blinded.
• You can’t remove the handcuffs yourself, someone else has to take them off.
• The warden role can “lock” the handcuffs (red state) when holding the cuffs by pressing the trigger/use button.
• Locked handcuffs can only be moved & interacted with by the warden.
• Escaping by re-joining the instance will not save you.
• To cuff yourself you have to grab the cuffs in one hand and put them on your other wrist.

I’ve tested this feature to the best of my abilities, but please report any bug that you find.
I currently can’t think of a good way to make this work nicely for desktop users, so they are currently excluded from cuffing.

I make this map for fun and to satisfy my own twisted curiosity, but if you like it, feel free to subscribe to my Patreon.

This year’s Halloween mini-project has been going at a pretty leisurely pace. I was initially going to do something completely different, but I did not really want to make it a limited seasonal item. And then I remembered that “this” is actually something that was suggested to me a few times.

I wasn’t very inspired by the dirty/sweaty aspect initially, but I feel that the chunky drips coming from the collar really sell the idea. The text? I’m not entirely sure of. But I do feel that something like that is needed to really build the “story” this item should tell.

Does it need a story? In my mind, everything should, ideally. I feel that there might be something much better that I haven’t thought of yet, but I’m trying to avoid specific names or numbers.

Oh… I suppose it wouldn’t hurt to add a Chinese or Japanese option if the characters fit well enough… And maybe a color or two?

Not much real progress today, but I had to bash this floor cage thing to get it out of my head, and do some engineering on the door…

I don’t know where I’m going with this. 3x3m standard so far but that might be too square. The idea is that the ladder to climb in/out is the section of bars contained inside the hatch. Not sure of the depth either, the ladder doesn’t reach that far down.

We’re moving, we’re moving, now it’s time for the skin suit bra to get a bit of love. I’m not sure if that’s enough stitch lines for what it is.

Not shown: Collar is about 90% unwrapped, should I add more stitching or edge detailing or is that enough?

There is quite a bit of space left on the UV map, the metallic parts don’t “really” need texture or UV space given that they are plain chrome (although the strap eyelets will need a reasonable amount of it), and what little normal cleaning I need on them, I could just do at the vertex level.

I also forgot (again) to place the KDC logo somewhere… On the back, on one side of the bra, maybe?

I had some rest on Monday due to a minor eye-related injury I had to get treated. I was going to take another day, but I was getting bored. So I decided to work on the skinsuit textures & UVs, I’ve redone this nearly 3 times now, each time adjusting the texture width/height to try to get everything in at a reasonable resolution. That’s a lot of UV wrangling right there…

Hopefully the current size (512 x 2048) was a good estimate.

I ended up with a really simplified texture sheet that serves all the leather straps, something I’ve only really done on the Micro Bikini and a few other things (like boot laces) before. In essence there are 3 sections to it: Two end pieces and a seamless, repeating center part. Some of the connections that couldn’t be made seamless are hidden behind the retainer loops.

Eyelets will be done the same way I’ve done the back of rivet lately: A little piece of floating geometry and some alpha masking.

This is a lot of work, but it uses a ton less texture space, it will also be independently tint-able.

Oh yeah, and the VRChat handcuffs now blind their victim if they don’t comply with the required wrist position.

I spent nearly 3 days getting these to work. After much frustration and a mini stress breakdown, I ended up settling on a really crude position smoothing solution for when the cuffs are not attached to someone’s wrists (until I can come up with something better). Most of the interesting things aren’t implemented yet: Wrist position compliance (via screen blocking), audio/visual details, Cell Block Warden integration & preventing someone who has been cuffed from uncuffing themselves, but those would just get in the way of debugging.

Due to the way I’m keeping track of the cuffed person, it is probably, already world-rejoin proof, I should probably add that to the cell block cells too.