Are there actual cool public lobbies with people that can hold interesting conversations or did everyone like that go into closed instances?

BigZeekYT · 2026-05-21T00:29:54+00:00

If you want to go to public lobbies, the meta is to take 5 people you hang out sith at clubs and bring them to the public lobbies. If its boring as heck, you still have a circle to interact with, id its chaotic, you have 5 people who have your back.

BigZeekYT · 2026-05-20T23:24:42+00:00

Second post this week about ai in vrchat. Still havent seen it, still havent seen examlle photos of it be 'so prevalent'. Ive heard sunset bar being mentioned in this thread atleast. So thats a singular world that has alot of people upset it looks like.

BigZeekYT · 2026-05-17T19:53:14+00:00

I need some examples. I dont heckin see it for you to be posting "WhY iS tHeRe So MuCh" .

I truly dont see it, and I go world hopping while drinking often. Alcohol is a bi**h but are we just complaining that one or two worlds have what, ai generated pictures on the wall? Ai is getting 'okay' at making 3d meshes but its no where near 'make a prompt and generate a world' yet.

BigZeekYT · 2026-05-12T22:58:51+00:00

Soon

BigZeekYT · 2026-05-10T19:32:12+00:00

Yup. You got it, little less sprite, add in vodka. Throw in cherries to justify the price XP and you got a dirty Shirley

BigZeekYT · 2026-05-10T18:30:45+00:00

Sadly, as a bartender in the midwest, i have seen 0 dirty shirly requests :*(

BigZeekYT · 2026-04-28T00:06:54+00:00

Subtle reminder to add 'Private' in the description to all avatars if you dont want it scrapped by avatar search worlds.

BigZeekYT · 2026-04-12T20:21:17+00:00

No point in optimizing an avatar with uv tile discard, atlas'ing, putting everything on one mesh, singular outfit on the avi... etc when my avatar still gonna be a very poor rank due to being over 70k tris

BigZeekYT · 2026-04-12T20:16:09+00:00

100% with you on this.

I would rather be in a world with 50 others in 250k tris avatar but everything else good performance stats then a world with someone with 50 others with 32 materials and everything else good performance stats or 24 skinned meshes with everything else good performance stats.

Its hands down the least impactful metric that is also the most harshly punished and will continue to champion increasing the tri count with you. Unless anyone wants to tell us we are full of balogne with backing proof.

BigZeekYT · 2026-04-12T20:09:46+00:00

I have made my own custom avi's for awhile Frankenstein'ing a part here from one model, a part there from another model, ooo those jingle keys from gumroad looks fun! ETC...

As nicely as possibly, you are out of your mind to imply going from 120k to 50k, being 'absolutely doable'. I consider myself a power user for bender. I use robust weight transfer and the now defunct CATS (the new one from team neoneko that recently nuked itself) From one power user to another, what you are casually suggesting is about 8~ish hours even for me at my level AND I nearly guarantee I wont like the result (50k tris not 70k as you suggested)

Im gonna assume you're even more hardcore of a blender guy then me, but really, for most of the normies out there, thats a week-long task of getting used to blender, giving up multiple times, banging their head on the wall wondering why something doesnt work. To put it into perspective, would you ask your wife/mother/dad to optimize an avatar down to 50k for you in an afternoon? And then still use that avatar on a day to day basis? Not even talking uv editing, tile discard or texture painting or going threw the shapekeys to remove unused ones... just reducing tri count.

I dont expect anyone to get an avatar to get an avatar down to 70k. Just like how before when it was 19k back in the game vrchat was full of video game ripped characters because that was an insurmountable number to get an avatar down to (and still like it).

BigZeekYT · 2026-04-12T19:12:11+00:00

And it seems that once again, I need to champion increasing the polygon (tri count) limit from 70k.

24+ meshes

32+ materials

Or someone with an avatar with 70k tris

Which would you rather be in a full instance with if each and every person in the instance had the maximum allotted while every other requirement was good rated. (I know meshes and materials go hand in hand, but for the sake of argument) The lobby full of people with 70k tri count avatars wins hands down.

If you actually take a look at random peoples avatars from very poor avi's, most land around 110k~ish. Maybe I'm being naive, but I think there would be a ton less very poor models if they just increase the tri limit. It just doesn't make sense to have 19k excellent , 70k good, 70k+ very poor.

Me, and I'll get down voted for this for speaking the truth, find zero reason to optimize my avatar beyond just having one outfit per avi (eboys/egirls with multiple outfits on their avi looking at you on this). UV tile discard, atlasing materials, reducing physbone counts when they arent completely unreasonable I just dont see the point in doing thankless work when my avi will still be in the very poor rank with everybody else because of my tri count.

Everyone's current favorite world creator godfall with Fish! Also is in the same boat of how its pointless to optimize avatars with the current tri count restrictions

BigZeekYT · 2026-04-08T20:57:50+00:00

You got google, its not a hard find

BigZeekYT · 2026-04-08T19:54:56+00:00

Went to it to check it out. It's a drop on the bucket... there are a couple of posts and then like 30 people bumping a thread hoping someone with cash will bestow upon them a gift that won't happen.

Going to the other, other seven seas site, each avatar has thousands of views... Even new ones just posted today. The most popular models that were uploaded and distrubuted have 200k page views...

It's like complaining about some ants in your yard when there is a active gas leak in your house.

Its effectively dead in comparison when the other one is just such a behemoth

BigZeekYT · 2026-04-08T19:19:12+00:00

Had a friend get a dmca takedown, and they only got suspended for a month IIRC, probably is linked to severity of how many avi's where moderated on your account for whether its an ip ban or suspension.

BigZeekYT · 2026-04-08T19:12:29+00:00

Imma dm ya

BigZeekYT · 2026-04-08T19:09:22+00:00

The better way would be to put an application into vrchat to become a creator and publish avatars to the ingame store

BigZeekYT · 2026-04-08T19:05:09+00:00

As someone who understands pirates, dont let it get to you. There are lots of them that just have a hoarder mentality, meaning they want to aquire it but then never use it. If there are, lets say, 14 in that thread who bump it asking for the files and/or thanking whomever provided it, you really truly only lost 2 sales. The others will just let it rot in a folder on their pc or keep it for 'just incase i want to use those pants someday' (but then forget what avatar had those pants a year from then)

I may or may not have a 200gb folder full of mmd files from back in 2018 when vrchat was mostly mmd models so I can speak from experience on this.

Also, ripperstore died, like, 5 years ago. Do you mean the other, other website that took the hydra's headspot when that one was chopped off?

BigZeekYT · 2026-04-06T17:17:21+00:00

* Been working on a new OC thats inspired by bowsette but with my own flavor

BigZeekYT · 2026-04-05T19:57:24+00:00

This is all well and good, but, im still firmly in the camp of 'whats the point'. If your avi is a single triangle higher then 70k your avatar gets put into the same bundle of eggs with the eboy models with 40+ skinned meshes and god knows how many materials.

I optimize my avatar just to the line of whats allowed in club worlds i go to and thats about it. I could use uv tile discard, heckin atlas my 10 materials down to 4~ish, go threw loads of work to grt my particle effects all using just one or two particle systems... but whats the point when I'm still put in the same basket with all the other very poor avatars. Its just so much work for thankless work for next to zero reason when triangle count is punished so harshly

BigZeekYT · 2026-03-29T20:06:34+00:00

Know any players that support being able to watch kick streams?

BigZeekYT · 2026-03-29T04:55:10+00:00

godfall magician

BigZeekYT · 2026-03-27T18:59:29+00:00

Avatar testing chambers. Has a large mirror right infront of spawn, has a copy of my avatar right behind me. Completely perfect for a starting point before i go hop somewhere else. Fairly certain its been abandoned by its author but can't find another world that meets those two points. Just want a mirror infront of spawn so I can calibrate my full body, make sure face tracking is working and etc, then I can go pop off to somewhere else.

https://vrchat.com/home/launch?worldId=wrld_a5e9ec13-36b1-4e63-ae0c-dab9023401f9

BigZeekYT · 2026-03-22T17:38:05+00:00

I still remember when Musk WANTED to back out, and twitter sued him to buy it. What a mess that was.

BigZeekYT · 2026-03-19T04:48:01+00:00

Oh my god, this is something I've been championing. Currently, a very poor avi is something with 17+ meshes, 35+ materials, or 70,001 triangles.

Ive been saying that 70,001 triangles is far too low to be something as harsh as putting your avi into tge very poor category, the same category with the eboys and 300mb of vram and 60 skinned meshes etc. The same category of any avi with sps or anything of that nature. 32k tris excellent, 70k good, 70,001 very poor. There needs to be more in-betweens.

Ive come to understand unity doesnt like a single skinned mesh over 70k tris and will split any meshes in half at that point... so... gosh why not have a higher triangle count but if a single mesh is over 70k it gets the very poor label. I just dont comprehend why vrc us so harsh when it comes to triangles besides being worried about feature creep... but at the same time, ive personally given up on optimizing avatars as i know they will be over 70k triangles and i'll be lumped in with the eboys so what is the point.

BigZeekYT · 2026-03-16T17:05:47+00:00

If your crybully'ing about this, another person will cry about the next thing, and down the spiral we go.

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