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Merlin

@MerlinVR_

Does random VRChat interactive shader stuff, also developing the UdonSharp compiler. Discord: Merlin#0001 Abandon all hope, ye who want support through Tweets

Joined October 2018
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Hey! New UdonSharp release! Now with cool new features like non-behaviour classes, lists, and dictionaries! I have it published here github.com/MerlinVR/UdonShar…
Release UdonSharp 1.2-beta1: Non-Behaviour scripts, Lists, Dictionaries, and more · MerlinVR/Udon...

Release UdonSharp 1.2-beta1: Non-Behaviour scripts, Lists, Dictionaries, and more · MerlinVR/Udon...

UdonSharp 1.2 beta 1 Hey all, it's been a while! This release adds support for non-UdonSharpBehaviour scripts to U#. So now stuff like this is valid and supported: public class MyCoolClass { ...

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Really hurts to hear about the layoffs at VRChat, I hope the best for all of my former coworkers who were hit by the layoffs. 30% of the already small team is crazy. ask.vrchat.com/t/an-email-fr…
An Email from our CEO

An Email from our CEO

Below is the full text of an email sent to our team today. Aside from removing some email addresses and formatting, there are no redactions or edits. To: All VRChat Employees Personal and Company...

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I'm sorry once again, I am very burned out.
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I am sorry. Thank you everyone for your kind messages and support in the last few days.
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For now I have reopened my Patreon if anyone wants to provide some support, I have enough savings to be okay for a bit and absolutely understand if you don't want to. patreon.com/MerlinVR

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Get more from Merlin on Patreon. Join for free or become a member for just $2/month. Hi I'm Merlin, I make shader-related stuff for VRChat usually along…

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I will be looking at other potential projects tangentially related to VRC along with other employment.
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I am no longer working at VRChat.
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Check the latest VRC dev update for info on some upcoming updates to Udon! ask.vrchat.com/t/developer-u…
Developer Update - 15 December 2022

Developer Update - 15 December 2022

Welcome to the Developer Update for December 15th, 2022! If you’d like to catch up, you can read our previous Developer Update from December 8th. This is the last Dev Update for us until January 12...

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Okay so how long until a critical service goes down and Twitter actually dies so I can stop reading about Twitter dying on Twitter?
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Jordo@JordoVR1 Nov 2022
New 'episode 4' of the fake anime, featuring an isekai parody & a new character really looking forward to Steam audio #NovelAI
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Jordo@JordoVR17 Oct 2022
Made 'episode 2' of the fake anime from last week, it features the trolley problem, a new enigmatic character that stands behind mirrors, crashing AMD drivers & a breathtaking cliffhanger 4 years in the making. #NovelAI
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NovelAI is pretty fun for attempting outfit design
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Jordo@JordoVR11 Oct 2022
Saw an article about making fake anime screencaps with AI and gave it a try myself using a discord I'm in as the setting, I severely underestimated just how much fun it would be to make those! #NovelAI
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More AI anime art using Waifu Diffusion w/ img2img starting from the scribble in the 2nd picture. This was ~3 hours of iteration progressively increasing the resolution and editing things to make sense. The anatomy is a little messy as I was still figuring out the workflow.
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This was using an interface with more optimized vram usage so I could generate at 2304x1472 for the final resolution on my 3090. When it comes to waifu diffusion at least, higher resolution is about the only way to get better quality in the face with wider shots.
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Probably gonna tweet a bit less now about the AI anime art unless I have some meaningful progression. Just gonna practice more with 'traditional' digital art since I haven't much in the last few months and keep that to myself.
Iterated a bit more with waifu diffusion last night and was able to get better quality by using img2img as an upscaler
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Waifu Diffusion is literally AI gacha
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Once you get a good prompt, there's a good chance you'll get art that looks pretty good. Out of ~3000 images I've had it generate over the weekend, about 70 of them are pretty good by my standards. So ~2% chance, though that rises with better prompts.
most of these are offshoots and specializations on this prompt: a portrait of a beautiful and cute girl with a perfect face and long purple hair in a sweatshirt in the countryside in the style of makoto shinkai movies, anime, incredible detail, full resolution, perfect face, realistic lighting, detailed eyes, realistic shading, sunny, god rays, sharp focus, concept art

ALT most of these are offshoots and specializations on this prompt: a portrait of a beautiful and cute girl with a perfect face and long purple hair in a sweatshirt in the countryside in the style of makoto shinkai movies, anime, incredible detail, full resolution, perfect face, realistic lighting, detailed eyes, realistic shading, sunny, god rays, sharp focus, concept art

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Making custom inspectors in Unity
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Runner-ups include GUIStyle/EditorStyles not being immutable so you have inspectors leaking their styling into the entire editor, and not marking assets as dirty so they don't save.
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