TheGatewayOfRealities

Modular Creature Kits

Rrah-rrah! It's been a while, but that is not because of the lack of work on the project, no-no! You see, I keep digging into programming side of things, and while I have some decent progress, it's nothing I can show (yet). However, I realized that if I keep at the same pace, I'd have leave my beloved Patreon without updates for a long time, not ideal.

But while conceptualizing a gameplay-system for bodypart damage & armor, an idea came to my mind: "What if I modeled characters for ...

New Artstyle (Game Continues)

I have finally figured out the art style for the rebooted game project!

Since I recently acquired a superpower of being able to program on C++, I returned back to Unreal Engine 5. The picture you see has Lumen enabled but no Nanine or Megalights - because my old GPU can't handle all the features at once - 6GB VRAM is not enough...

All environmental models are my own - they are simple and fast to model, but together with my shader/material magic, they are elevated to a new level! ...

Planning How to Expand & Avatar Progress

Rrah-Rrah!
I'm a bit late with the post - I'm considering a lot of ideas which I didn't want to talk about before I was absolutely sure. But now I feel like I found my way that is worth talking about.

Levelling Up

First up, here's a short story about my development struggles and successes.

A few years ago, my discontent with Unreal Engine's reliance on a incomprehensible for me programming language forced me to begin a journey of learning. I studied diff...

The Node Hell of Progress

Greetings, beloved creatures!

I have been working hard on the Dragonkin model pipeline, its shaders and tools. While the the progress is slower than I'd prefer, I comfort myself that all the work I do will be reused across many VR-avatars and game-characters in the future.

Even if the model looked almost complete in the previous post, I have already remade the shader from scratch again, all to make it easier for people to customize their appearance without requiring Blender skills...

Dragyren

Greetings, Kin!

For the past month I've been tirelessly working on the Dragyren model, without even taking a single break almost for three weeks straight. As per usual, I don't just make a new model: most of the time is spent on developing new art-styles, writing shaders, and programming tools in preparation for making more models in the future. I've done similar processes in the past, but I wasn't happy with the resulting quality back then. However this time, I fe...

Improvements are coming!

First of all, happy slit day! One day I'll remember about it in advance, one day make some art for it…

I have been working on the Discord overhaul for the past few weeks - It took me by surprise how much more I needed to plan that wasn't even Discord-related, but still affected by what wanted to change and improve. It's not just a "place to talk" for the community, the server will also be a central hub for all the lore, art, models and detailed news of what I'm currently making. The f...

Going Public

I'm working on making my art known in the public once again through various methods.

While attending various VR meetups, I met several people who told me "Oh, you're Salireths! You used to make art, I remember favoriting it!". The focus here is on "used to" - despite that I create more than ever now, people in general think that I stopped?

I suppose that comes down that I don't upload much of anything to Furaffinity and Twitter anymore, so it's something I need to fix.

But w...

Year of the Dragon Rear

First of all, Happy new Year! The best year, the year of the Dragon! (although it technically will start on Jan 29). And may it brings us plenty of Dragon rears to enjoy!

For two weeks, all through the holiday season, instead of celebrating, I was painting this picture in preparation for the big upcoming overhaul! The picture will be used as a new cornerstone for my work going forward. I will use it as a banner in social media sites, so it's main purpose is to introduce people to the wo...

Going Virtual

I got my PC working back a week ago, I have reinstalled windows, and I'm getting back to the working groove again. It also took a while to finish this post, as I kept re-writing it making sure my plans are clearly explained. Now, let's continue, onwards to two last posts of the planned series!

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A collage of what I have created over the years. It's a lot. And I...

2023-12-12 11:52:29 +0000 UTC View Post

Technical Explosion

I interrupt this broadcast because... Well, I can't post anything - my PC stopped working.

Over the course of last 2 days, when I promised the next post would go up (I still have two more posts to go!), my PC just shut off, and a couple seconds after I heard a distant explosion outside.

Turns out there was a spike of power that might have knocked my PSU (power supply) out, despite that I have a UPS (battery backup) with mains filtration and other features. It might have worked for...

Going Wild

During my break I managed to get myself into VRChat even deeper than before. By this, I have spent 900+ hours in social VR (Neos and VRC combined), I have tried dozens (and made a few) avatars, met so many interesting people, but nothing made me feel anything so special there. But that has changed very recently… I couldn't even imagine how deep this VR rabbit hole can go…

Sensual Revelations

2023-11-18 21:10:24 +0000 UTC View Post

Going Forward

I took a long break in-between posts, and while I wish I could be more productive, I also feel I needed this time to gain a fresh perspective and new inspirations.

As of what happened recently: I moved to a different country - unfortunately, the country where I lived has stopped issuing visa extensions, so I had no other choice but to leave. Then, upon arrival I fell very sick for three weeks in an unfamiliar, uncomfortable place, and barely recovered - it was very tough. After that, I ...

The Journey

While I told about the "Dragon Internal Cleaning Co" game idea in the previous post - it is something I might start working on with others eventually, for me it's a side-job (and it hasn't begun yet). I will be making designs, models, textures for it. I will port my existing Unreal Engine work to it as well. But the important distinction is that I'm not going to be the force pushing that game forward - I hope that others on that team will pick up that burden.

However my main goal in lif...

Game About Kobolds Washing Dragons... Sensually!

Last month offered me the most crazy, lifechanging experience in recent memory. So much has happened that just flipped my worldviews upside-down. I feel like I have evolved, a new Salireths has emerged with new creative avenues, new connections, new friendships and a handful of new kinks to enjoy… But first, let me explain!

So it all started with me attending Furality Sylva - I wasn't even aware of it, but then, after a random interaction on Twitter, I suddenly got invited there by a ...

Character Design with Tentacles!

Recently I started re-introducing myself to gameplay programming - and doing it all by myself now. This might be a surprise for you, but I haven't done any real programming in years, instead I've been working on everything that is related to graphics, but not the actual game's functionality. I wish I had infinite time to do art, rigging, animation, design and (learn) coding all at once, oh well. In any case, I've got to show you my progress as it goes, even if it's still quite a way before it...

Easter Egg animation

This is the Hopfel's "missing" Easter Egg animation I mentioned earlier! Enjoy!

The hilarious low quality (as if it's 1998 all over again) of the preview above is all because Patreon does not support modern webm or apng formats, so I have to rely on the obsolete, space-inefficient, resource-wasting gif to show you at least some motion...

🔽🔽🔽🔽 You should download the actual animation from within the attachments ...