VirtualGTS

Announcement

Added 2021-08-09 00:47:09 +0000 UTC

It's with a heavy heart that I finally am making this post... but as of right now, I will no longer be making VRChat worlds. I simply cannot do this anymore.

Almost every day for the past month and a half, I've spend 7-10 hours/day trying and trying and trying to make these fucking things work. But I give up. I don't know why, but sometime over a year ago, this has just become technically impossible for me. I'll spend countless hours working on a world, only for it to break 3/4 of the way through, or when I go to upload it. And no matter how many hours I spend scouring forums and asking questions, I can never get anything to work properly without breaking everything. And with every VRChat update, worlds, triggers, animations, rides, and portals just repeatedly break.

This has gone from an activity of immense enjoyment and satisfaction to nothing but frustration, extreme misery, and neverending depression from the thousands of lost hours that i'll never get back. I've said in the past, when voicing these same frustrations, that I would try to balance making the VRChat worlds with my true passion of making VR animations, but that's proven to be impossible, given that making a vrchat world takes about 20x as long to make as an animation, and even then necessitates major sacrifices of quality. And even when they do work, they break whenever VRChat has an update. I just can't do it anymore. I won't.

For the sake of my own mental health, I can no longer make any compromises. I'm going to do what I've always dreamed of doing - make VR animations. I've lost too many thousands of hours trying to make the worlds while putting off my true goals, in an effort to appease patrons who came for the vrchat worlds. I can honestly say that when I began making VRChat worlds, it was one of the biggest mistakes I've ever made. I had no idea the amount of headaches that would accompany such an endeavor.

The next biggest mistake was making all my past 5 years work on sets and clips for only $1 each, at the recommendation of a patron. Which seemed like a great idea, but only wound up reducing my income by 95%. Of course with my luck, immediately after I did that, the shit hit the fan IRL, and with major computer problems I was stopped from doing anything for a few months. Doubling down and working on VRchat worlds to try to compensate only ended in more misery, as it's become incredibly difficult to do that anymore. So I'm done trying.

I WILL be posting much more from now on, because I know without the headache of VRChat, I CAN make the VR gts content that I want to make - in both greater quality and quantity, complete with dialogue, sound FX, special FX, action, etc. VR animations, VR image sets, Non-VR animations, Non-VR image sets, and comics, etc. I am very sorry to everyone who has been patiently waiting for new worlds. But I just can't. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for being my patrons, supporting me, and helping to make some of these fantasies into virtual realities. I hope some of you who were here for the worlds, stick around for what I release. But I understand if you don't.

Love you all, and be seeing you soon.