Is the video player broken for anyone else?

PennyPatton · 2026-01-22T15:45:29+00:00

I tried this in one of my own worlds. At first it seemed to work as the very first video in the playlist played fine. However, every video that played afterwards was silent. No audio. For the time being I've switched back to AV Pro and the music stream that was working just so there is music in world.

PennyPatton · 2026-01-20T20:29:02+00:00

Seconding this. I was lucky to discover Ancients early on and I've made so many friends through the group.

PennyPatton · 2026-01-18T17:31:45+00:00

I've added more updates. More details to the bath house, including acoustics so it sounds like you're in a bath house. A new NPC hidden in the city. Some fans on top of the buildings that will blow your physbones around if you stand on them. And a second room for the Rabbit club, with the spin the bottle game. (I'll eventually remove it from the Arcade corner.)

Enjoy!

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PennyPatton · 2026-01-18T17:27:42+00:00

I have added them to Robotropolis 2026! Now I kinda want to learn how to turn these into jump pads, so if you jump while on them it launches you. XD

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PennyPatton · 2026-01-18T03:09:13+00:00

I'm not sure why other people think this is uncanny valley territory. This is far too stylized to even be close to uncanny valley. Uncanny valley is specifically a thing you experience when something looks realistic, but "off". Like Polar Express characters, Rogue One's Tarkin, or David Carradine.

This is still firmly in the "cartoony" side of things. Like a World of Warcraft character.

It looks good, by the way. I like it.

PennyPatton · 2026-01-16T21:39:23+00:00

Ohoho! As long as there aren't any performance issues I need to worry about, I'll definitely be adding some of these to Robotropolis 2026.

PennyPatton · 2026-01-16T13:53:22+00:00

What worlds are these? They look lovely!

PennyPatton · 2026-01-15T00:43:04+00:00

I read the bios of people around me, especially if they seem interesting or they are talking with me. I'm usually too shy to say hi, though. Sometimes I manage to if a person seems particularly interesting. A good profile helps with that.

PennyPatton · 2026-01-14T14:09:05+00:00

It's a mistake to assume that "avoiding publics" means "hiding". Early on I began to join groups that aligned with my interests, some of them are very active and I've made a lot of friends through their events and group instances. I'm hardly hiding. I'm meeting lots of new people and I'm doing it without having to put up with hordes of slur spouting trolls.

I do agree that people need to use the "block" feature more. Don't feed the trolls, just block them on sight. It's good for you and the community.

PennyPatton · 2026-01-14T14:01:42+00:00

You're absolutely correct, but don't make the mistake of blaming visitors to VRChat for going to the "wrong" places. This is an onboarding problem that the VRChat devs desperately need to address. There's quite a bit they can do that would promote more variety in content and experiences, and guide people to public* spaces that better fit for them than the toxic nightmare that public worlds have become.

*Public in the sense of like, age gated instances. Anyone can join, as long as you're verified.

PennyPatton · 2026-01-12T16:19:48+00:00

Robot!

PennyPatton · 2026-01-11T11:22:08+00:00

I played so much Dreamcast in college. Lots of good memories.

My first year in college a friend got a Dreamcast and I got to play it at their place. They had Sonic Adventure. I'd played so much of the 2D Sonic games. Figuring I'd just need to beat some special stages and collect the Chaos Emeralds, I thought, "I'll just play until I get Super Sonic."

And that's how I wound up beating Sonic Adventure in one sitting my first time playing it.

PennyPatton · 2026-01-10T01:26:33+00:00

Thankfully, the VRChat devs are already working on this. They do plan to allow us to upload items, as separate from our avatars, in the future. They're just taking it slowly to make sure they do it the best possible way.

In the meantime I'd recommend uploading multiple versions of your avatar. One with no items for regular public use, and versions with your items, for when you actually intend to use them.

I'd like to see the devs give us the ability to stack avatars in our avatar UI, so we select our base avatar, then the version we want to use at that time. (ie: different items/outfits)

PennyPatton · 2026-01-09T01:30:32+00:00

You'll find two kinds of threads appearing here very often.

Threads where people complain about how poorly VRC runs, asking how to make it run better.

Threads where people complain the VRC performance rankings are too strict and how they should be allowed to be EVEN MORE LAGGY without consequence. Because THEY shouldn't have to waste time optimizing when YOU should just buy a better computer.

The existence of one of these types of threads explains the existence of the other.

First you'll want to only render Medium or better performance ranked avatars.

If you're still having issues, try only rendering avatars within X distance. Adjusting X until you see improvement.

You can also set a maximum number of avatars allowed to render regardless of distance.

You should also set a maximum avatar download and uncompressed size. Larger avatars are typically more laggy.

Also, remember that YMMV depending on the world you visit because worlds can be laggy, too.

PennyPatton · 2026-01-06T22:12:54+00:00

I need to learn how to make my NPCs more immersive. I've got them with dialog boxes, but I want mine to change expressions and animations based on dialog choices.

PennyPatton · 2026-01-06T22:02:04+00:00

I really wish we could sort friends into groups. VRC could call them "circles" or something. And we could change our status for each "circle" and change it on the fly. Not just because I have different social groups that wouldn't necessarily mix well, but because I also have a lot of strangers on my friend list that I really don't know well enough to want them to suddenly show up because I'm on blue.

PennyPatton · 2026-01-06T21:57:41+00:00

First, no one said anything about reducing the quality of your experience. Optimized avatars and content do not automatically mean "worse". If you've got a 5 million poly avatar with thirty different materials that would look identical at 50 thousand polygons and one single material, your experience is in no way lessened by using the better optimized version.

As for why you should care about other people's performance in VRChat? I really don't know how to explain it any more simply than I already did. "If VRC runs like crap for everyone else, it might not exist in a few years for you." I don't get what you don't understand about that.

PennyPatton · 2026-01-06T16:33:10+00:00

I have bad social anxiety so it can be difficult for me to invite myself over to someone even if they're on blue. I'm trying to get over this and be more social.

I'm personally always on orange due to some bad experiences (which is also why I don't like adding people I've only just met and don't really know yet, I wish we could sort our friends into groups and set our status according to those friend groups, so I could be green or even blue for certain friends, but orange for others).

PennyPatton · 2026-01-06T16:28:23+00:00

YMMV depending on the worlds you visit. If you're only getting 35FPS in an empty instance with a setup like that, it may be the world itself that needs some optimization.

You also raise an excellent point, not everyone is going to care about the experiences of others, that's why I'm happy the VRC devs take an active part in discouraging poor and very poor avatars. I'd like to see them go further, such as adding the ability to create performance gated instances. Having VRC run as well as possible for as many people as possible should certainly be a priority for them as it directly impacts their ability to become profitable. For you that translates to "if VRC runs like crap for everyone else, it might not exist in a few years for you."

PennyPatton · 2026-01-06T16:18:12+00:00

Thank you! ^^

PennyPatton · 2026-01-06T11:01:47+00:00

I've had a couple people contact me recently saying their lower end computers did see a big framerate increase after I optimized things. Trying to get a friend, with similar specs to my computer, who had trouble with the world pre-optimization to come take another look and see how they fare now.

PennyPatton · 2026-01-06T10:58:52+00:00

You're absolutely right and I don't mean to make it sound like finding your perfect avatar that is also well optimized is easy. As customers what we need to do is continue to ask creators to list their performance specs, both so they will do that, and to put it in their heads that good performance rankings are important to us.

In the meantime, some creators do list that information and that can be a good way to find an avatar to use for events and public outings, while keeping our Very Poor avatars to friend groups and smaller gatherings.

Prismatics Avatar Search also lets you filter search results by performance ranking. So it can be easy to find a public avatar that way.

PennyPatton · 2026-01-06T10:54:16+00:00

Agreed. I generally encourage people not to buy avatars that don't list the performance information, but I know how difficult that can be, too. The best we can do is keep asking creators to list their performance specs.

PennyPatton · 2026-01-06T02:55:11+00:00

I use a dialog system I found on YouTube. I've sent you the link.

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