Xentha

Oh hey, so this is what I've been missing in my absence from bluesky. Two months late on noticing, but nice~ ^^ Honored that I could be included in something like this, thank you. 💙

Poon (rabbit species) tail texture is tied to the back of the ears on the head texture, resulting in the odd pattern on the ears.

So, I was reminded that this is a place that I can post my nsfw artistically inclined things.

Recently got Atlyss and decided to make a custom texture! [And inevitably, a lewd version~ (Shown in the last gif!)]

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I like how it lets you put in gifs as a file upload, but they're not actually animated. Here, this is what the left one is supposed to be; i.gyazo.com/81b7218473e3...

Progress!
Alongside some fake texturing via colored polygons, I've got enough blendshapes done that face tracking is showing results; 34/54 to go!

Once the shapes are done and rig weights are fixed on my arms/paws and ears (they don't fold properly), I can finally use this model for PC streams!

A quick dump of pictures and gif links before I head off to visit family for the holidays, of my christmas outfit and using a new shader's fur and glitter properties, and some snow I made for my avatar scene!
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Hey! I'm not dead by the way!
Motivation troubles, obligations and time sinks is all I can really say.

I have, however, interspersed through the last several months, made some progress. More toned proportions, some basic workout clothes, a mockup on the intended textures. But still much left to do.

It's finally happening!
After far too long, the final significant update to my avatar is actually under way!

Progress so far;
- Creating the missing body mesh under the sweater. ✔️
- Making little updates here and there. 🟡
- UV mapping. 🟡
- Fur texture making. 🔴
- Clothing modeling/texturing! 🔴

Oh hey, I forgot I said I was gonna post sketches here.

Furry bait? Furry bait. Every mon-like is gonna have 'em and I'm a-okay with that.

Suffice to say, I seem to have gained an odd fascination with Palworld's Katress mon.

This sketch was done in only 2 hours.
Def' gonna finish it eventually!

Brakken is just a shy, lonely boi. He gets upset if you don't pay attention to him, but he gets panic attacks when people stare at him too much.

It's not exactly full scale art, but it's still completed pictures, in the form of new Twitch emotes!

With Monday becoming my 'free' stream day, which includes art, off-schedule games or whatever else, there'll be a lot more of these coming down the line any time I choose art for that day!

Just tossing in a mention that, yes, a bunch of posts are missing. Specifically, Going Live posts as it seemed a bit cluttery. Significant ones will stay, along with whichever becomes the most recent.

In other news, I'm working on art commissions again! So look forward to some posts around that. :3

Further detail is that I do plan to work in the winning VR games; Pistol Whip, Pavlov, and HL:Alyx on non-beatsaber days due to their limited nature of physical activity, depending on my capacity that day.

Also I've got VNyan working for non-VR games! VR will take more time though.

Results are in!
1st) Hollow Knight
2nd) Ori 1 & 2 and Celeste
3rd) Cult of the Lamb and Pistol Whip
4th) Sonic Mania, Pavlov, Half-Life Alyx and Skyrim
5th) TBCTE, Portal Reloaded and Ancient Dungeon

Plan going forward is to alternate Beatsaber and Ori 1/2 each stream. (As Ori 1&2 are very short.)

Have your say: What games would you like to see on stream? What games would you like to see on stream?

It would seem I had the wrong link for the poll today because I was in a bit of a rush. That one leads only to the results, not the poll itself. Here's the correct link.

take.supersurvey.com/poll5019590x...

Xentha - Twitch Artist, gamer, and furry. I enjoy drawing, building things, doing precision gameplay and being fluffy! I primarily stream BeatSaber as Midspeed and Tech player, but I've streamed other VR games as wel...

Hey! For those who watch my streams, you may be interested to hear that there's something new coming along! To combat Beatsaber burnout I've started a multiple choice poll on alternative games to stream!

take.supersurvey.com/results50195...

[BeatSaber] For now though! 🗡️ 🟪 🟦 www.twitch.tv/xentha

What's this, a second post?
Yep! I had implied it before but I'm following my intention to share art here, SFW or not.
This is a hastily rough-colored sketch I made in ~3.5 hours, of my 'sona as a taur trying a wing design adapted from an AI art aberration. Not quite keen on it though by comparison.

Expand floof!
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Figured out radial dial usage for scaling avatar parts in VRC. Can never have too much floof, right?

Finally finished converting my avatar for VRC! Seems I have a lot left to fix, but it's functional.

Spent a little time hanging out with @writerfluff.bsky.social as the first time I'd logged into VRC since July 24th '22! Had so much anxiety but managed to acclimate and have a nice time chillin'. ^^

It's truly incredible how finnicky the systems involved in Unity are, let alone trying to set up an avatar for something like VRC.

After like, 8 hours of the worst rigamarole ever, I've finally uploaded an offline test of the avatar to try.. After I sleep. As it is 7am now.

Gon' be late.. Again..

Progress! I've finally figured out how to get animations and dynamic bones working via using a VSF avatar file for VNyan!
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I haven't yet gotten tracking going, let alone the websocket stuff for beatsaber, but it's nice to at least have my idle animations functional!

Xentha - Twitch Artist, gamer, and furry. I enjoy drawing, building things, doing precision gameplay and being fluffy! I primarily stream BeatSaber as Midspeed and Tech player, but I've streamed other VR games as wel...

Not been a lot to post since a lot of what I've been working on is converting stuff from one avatar to another for VNyan, but I can report that it's definitely comin' along!
For now though-

[BeatSaber] It's time to eviscerate some bloqs! 🗡️ 🟪 🟦 www.twitch.tv/xentha

Good news! In the meanwhile of me figuring out VNyan, I think I've determined how I can do expressions (assuming it works of course), so maybe I can get some of that going before stream tomorrow! (After sleep, because it's 4:30am.)

Xentha - Twitch Artist, gamer, and furry. I enjoy drawing, building things, doing precision gameplay and being fluffy! I primarily stream BeatSaber as Midspeed and Tech player, but I've streamed other VR games as wel...

[BeatSaber] Avatar update! But neither the lipsync nor expressions work so bear with me as I vent frustration on blocks. www.twitch.tv/xentha

What as frustrating morning. I get everything ready for the avatar update and lo and behold putting it into beatsaber presents a slough of issues, including tracking (that I fixed thankfully), lipsync not working, and expression conflicts that I can't sort.

I really need to just switch to VNyan..

It begins! The avatar is finally back into Unity!
Unfortunately though, there's lots to do before it's functional:
- Recreate eye, ear, tail, and wing anims.
- Dynamic bones and colliders.
- Expressions.
- Saber hilts/hand poses.
- VR tracking points.

In the mean time, have some tail piccies!

Smol post.

Blep and mlem acquired. :3

Hey, being sussy is Writer's job, you can't do that! D: [But who's gonna stop ya? x) ]

One extra that didn't fit!

Expressions!
Messing around with a few of the blendshapes I made to showcase.

Just a few steps remaining now!
- Fix remaining rig weight issues.
- Improve body texture.
- OC texture variant.
- Remodeled and new clothes.
- Unity import!

I may do the rig fix and unity port first to use in Beatsaber.