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Patron Release | Feb. 2021 | Excesapet, the VRChat Virtual Pet System

Hi, patrons! 

This month, I bring you a fully functional(hopefully) virtual pet for your VRChat avatars!

This functions similarly to the old Tamagotchi games of the late 90s, if you remember those, and infact, if you can't tell, is totally *not* heavily based off of them.

This release is pretty involved, and requires some setup, have no fear though, I've tried to make the process fairly straightforward.

This Excesapet changes form based on how good of care you tak...

XSFur 2.0 update

Hi all! Been awhile, but I'm here with some new stuff!

This is an update to XSFur - and fixes a lot of bugs. Some features (such as toon shading / transmission) are currently missing, and some wont be making a return (such as the fake light direction)

Toon shading / Transmission will be re added tomorrow (ran out of steam today), and will be posted as a 2.0.1 update!

The shader is now based off of my new templates in terms of its lighting model and features, meaning that ...

Patron Release 11/5/2020

This months release includes two things!

The first thing is an Avatars 3.0 update for the Block Pen shader that I released awhile back. This streamlines the process of placing blocks, and makes it so that its all through the AV3 menu. Now, you may be asking "But Xiexe, what about our custom animators, won't it be annoying and hard to set both up!?"

The answer is: NO! It will be very easy! (And mostly Automated)

It will be easy to set up because of the SECOND things being ...

Patreon Release : September 2020 : Locomotion, Visemes, and More!

This month's Patreon release includes more than usual --

With the release of Avatars 3.0 on VRC, I realized a few things:
1) Avatars 3.0 is pretty good, opens a lot of stuff to the user.
2) Man, those default animations really blow. (Sorry guys.)

So, with the next few releases, I'm going to aim to solve that. I'm going to be spending a lot of time animating new animations sets from the ground up. 

This month, I am including a few things to really kick this off.<...

Patron Shader | 8/6/2020 | Block Pen

This release is a geometry shader that allows you to draw in blocks.

Included is a texture sheet that resembles the Minecraft textures.

This will require a bit of setup, so I'll detail how to get this working on your avatar now:
1) Put the prefab under the root of your hierarchy (it's in the prefab folder!).

2) Right click prefab, unpack.

3) Move "Anchor" to be a child of your hand.

4) Position the "Anchor" somewhere where the blocks are close to your hand, b...

Patreon Shader : 6/9/2020 | Taken Effect

Greetings! This month, I'm going to start transitioning into a new, higher effort style of content creation for you all. As I experiment with this, the format will probably change a bunch, until landing on a format that I'm comfortable with, and that you, as patrons like!

I will likely try Video / Text tutorials after this month.

This month, I'll be providing you all with the source code and files to make any model look like it has the "Taken" effect from Destiny!

Within...

Patron Shader 5/6/2020 but actually its 5/7/2020

I was a day late, but I'm giving you all the "classic" hologram shader, capable of high quality, or gritty low quality hologram effects!

Distortion, scan lines, glitching, it's got it all!

Enjoy!

Here's a preview!
https://gfycat.com/creativegloomybluegill

XSFur Patch v1.2.4

This is just a small update to XSFur, to fix a bug where Cutout was not behaving properly. It should now work again.

Patron Shader | April 5th 2020 | Dat Voronoi tho

Hey all! I realize that I missed a month last month with the shader releases!

This month, I'll be aiming to release an extra shader before the end of the month to make up for that.

As you all know, I've been really caught up in stuff recently with the release of XSOverlay, but things are finally calming down, and I feel that I can now better manage my resources to once again provide monthly shaders/assets/etc!

This months shader is a fun little flashy thing - It's 3D Vo...

Patreon Shader | 2/6/2020, but one day late | Slime Time

Hi all! This month, I bring to you my very own take on a slime shader! 

-The feature list is as follows:
-PBR Reflections
-Matcaps
-Pre-integrated Subsurface Scattering

-Transmission / Translucency

-Refraction, with cheap, performant blurring

- Scrolling normal map support for all the distortion needs!

Included are two example materials! Enjoy!

Patreon Shader 1/6/2020 | That Playstation Mood / Announcement

GREETINGS PATRONS!!

This month, I'm providing you all with a "Playstation" shader - this will allow you to round your vertex positions to provide the jittery look of old playstation games, as well as lower the color depth and resolution of your textures. 

Not only that, the shader also utilizes "Affine" texture mapping, which provides a slight distortion to the texture at steep angles to the polygon.

This shader does support lightmapping - so you can use it in you...

Patreon Shader 12/6/2019 | Grass Grass Grass! Edition

Hello cuties!

Today is finally the day - the day that the grass becomes available to all.

I will warn you all now, this should be used CAREFULLY and in moderation.

Do not expect to just be able to have a bajillion blades of grass with no performance cost!

While I've optimized as much as I can, the shader is still always going to be a fairly expensive effect, and you'll likely have to optimize around it for larger scenes.

My current benchmarks show a little a...

Patron Shader Release : 11/6/2019

Hey hey! Patrons! It's time for the good old Tamag--- I mean, XSGotcha treatment!

You all know what this is, it's a virtual pet to emulate the likes of Tamagotchi, for VRChat!

It does have support for custom sprites, as well as an included Photoshop template to make your own shell skins!

Inside the Sprites folder is Instructions.txt - that is for creating your own sprite sheets! Trust me, it's different than you think, but still pretty easy! Enjoy!

Patreon Shader Release | October 6, 2019

Hello everyone!

This month, I'm releasing something a bit different.

Extension on top of XSToon in a reasonable manner is something I've been wanting to do for awhile, and I've come up with a method that I think should allow for some pretty cool stuff to be done!

If you've been paying attention to XSToon recently, you'll have noticed the new "Plugins" folder in the newest version, and that's a framework that I'm building out to hopefully allow for customization of the s...

Patreon Shader: 9/6/2019 - Geometry Dissolve

This shader is a fully lit geometry based dissolve shader!

Along with having toon lighting and standard lighting you get a really neat dissolve effect with a few different modes, all that can be controlled by an animation for those fancy spawn in effects or gestures in VRC!

I hope you all enjoy this one as much as I do!

As a side note: All patreon shaders will now be bundled under Xiexe > Patreon in the shader menu. Sorry for the clutter before!

Patron Shader - 8/6/2019

This month, I've taken the time to make a raymarching shader. This is a bit different from the stuff I've posted before, however it's still very cool and sure to catch a few eyes!

It's a raymarched sword. This means you can do cool things, like shift the shape around and other weird things like that.

Currently it has two shapes, the core collapsed version, and the sword fully extended.

If there is interest, I can expand upon this in the future.

Comment if you'r...

Patron Releases have been moved to a better date

I'll be moving the Patron releases to the 6th of each month, rather than the 24th, as with the way I have the payment process set up for being a Patron, some where being charged for the second month directly after signing up for the first. ( I did not realize this until recently.)

 I posted this on Discord as an announcement, but realized I entirely forgot to post it as an announcement on Patreon, which I 100% should have done, as it may seem that I have entire...

Patron Shader 6/24/2019 (but a day early)

Ha! Bet you all thought I was gonna be a day late again. Guess again. ONE DAY EARLY.

NEW RECORD BOYS. WE IN THERE.

Anyways, here's the patron shader for this month. I've included a few example materials to help get you started with how it works, along with a few example textures.

Enjoy being a constellation of stars, or a constellation of memes!

Patron Supporter Listing changes!

As of recently, I've moved to using my Discord bot to keep track of who is and who isn't a patron, for a multitude of reasons.

The first being that working with Patreons API to make a list of Patrons in the Unity Editor is super annoying, as the best way I found to do it was download a csv file containing a list, and that comes with it's own issues, which leads me to my second reason.

The second reason is that this allows people to have whatever name they want on the list, as it...

Patreon Reward Shader (5/24/2019, but one day late)

I know! I know! I'm a day late! Cut me some slack, or yell at me for being a day late on Discord, that's fine too! 

Anyways, this months patreon reward is a voxelization shader. 

The way this shader works is by picking 3 points within each triangle on the model and then generate a cube there, and snaps the cubes to a grid in the world. (Think Minecraft)

Because of the way it works, I recommend that you adjust the Grid Size and the Voxel Size together, otherwise you...

First $5 Patron reward - Cyber Geometry Shader Set

This is the aformentioned Cyber Geometry shader set.

Please note that these shaders were made for fun, and will likely not be receiving very much or any updates.

Updates to Patron reward tiers! (I.E. actually utilizing my patreon)

 I've decided that I'm going to make the 5 dollar tier and higher eligible to get a reward of (monthly?) fun to play around with, smaller shaders.   
This will start today, with a new shader set I'm dubbing "Cyber Geometry."   

Please note that these shaders are only meant as a small bonus who those at the $5+ tiers, and are meant to hold you over until larger projects are ready to be published.

A preview of this flexible yet simple shader can be seen...

Changes to the Patreon

Hi, first of all, thank you to all my patrons. Due to some recent changes to structure I'm going to be making here, new patrons will be charged up front the day they join.   Reasons for this will be expanded upon soon, as I get more details on the upcoming changes.
 

Paid shaders, and the future.

As some are now aware, I've released a paid shader today.

This doesn't mean all shaders will be paid in the future. Only some.

That being said, I want to make it clear that beta testers (and by extent patrons) will get all shaders for free even if they are something I'm selling, as they are either showing support by donating already, or they're helping me test while a shader is in development.

Thank you to you all! Don't worry - paid shaders will probably be limited in th...