Lesse

One of these spheres is an unlit white emissive material

Quite a hack to pull this off. There is a little artifacting though and shaders could still bypass it with a specific setting so we'll find out how common that is on avis I guess.

(video area lighting is super WIP don't worry about it)

HARDLIGHT - DRIIMA BIRTHDAY

2026.03.07 8pm EST

djs:
@transversewithru.com
@ellarisvr.bsky.social
@silentvj.bsky.social
@sirrosevr.bsky.social
@ladybugvr.bsky.social
@driima.com

vjs:
@digitalroze.bsky.social
@razgriz.one
@lesse.bsky.social
Live Feecbacck Machine

vrc.group/HDLT.7117

Most of these things will have caveats. It's not perfectly unified avi lighting but it helps a ton and works with most things. Shadows on emissive mats is insanity but I'm hacking my way to it enough that it helps. Shaders that don't write to depth will not light correctly (semi-transparent looking)

Prototyping new lighting for immersive dark raves

- Unified avi lighting w/ no avi reqs
- Directional video lighting
- Preserved normals
- Dark shadowing (even on emissive mats)
- World fx bypass for full brightness/bloom
- LV compatible (sorta?)

Will not be perfect but its going alright so far

BC, Canada is getting rid of daylight savings time after this one final time change this weekend.

Scheduling is gonna be madness until the rest of the west coast joins us but I'm glad we're doing it finally.

Yesterday I hit some obscure Udon bug where a vector wouldn't normalize and you may not know what that means but it's so fundamental to 3D math that it's basically like if 2+2 stopped being 4 and that's so wild my brain broke completely and I had to call it a day.

I made a commemorative piece for last week's Light Dimension show with @jaimens.com, and it's now on display at the Strange Pear Gallery of Fine Arts along with two other pieces of mine for this month's show

Swing by later today to check em out #VRChat #VRChatPhotography

It's soooooo good

Mood. I think I'm generally at 0.025 on matte materials + a little more on reflective materials. Works great everywhere.

Full worm moon event poster Group: Deer.9508 March 3rd 9pm Eastern

This Tuesday:: Celebrating the radiance of the moon, new beginnings, connection with community and the spiritual.

Indulge in expression:: In yourself and in others.

Ladybug VJ: Silent
Glass Persona VJ: Steph
Vmp VJ: Depereo

Poster: Ladybug

Like I had a five minute conversation with two people, all of us sitting right next to each other under the lights, where we didn't see each others avi's the slightest bit. We were under the lights! A *TINY* bit of min brightness simulates ambient/indirect/reflected light and is less game-y feeling.

There was a ton of "where are you I can't see you" from people right in my face. That's cool & moody more than realistic & immersive. Much of the venue was 100% black much of the time; even under the lights if you weren't perfectly positioned. I prefer it to the usual but it is awkward & extreme.

The children yearn for the lines

(this is a fishing post, get your mind out of the powder)

I have arrived at the most obvious possible answer:

Don't touch it
Fix it in post

I boost shadows and direct lighting becomes higher contrast but all the casted shadows light up like christmas trees like what how does more shadow make shadows stop working what

Light Volume setup: ☀️🌈
Light Volume tuning: 🔥🐶🔥

I've been sitting in blown out clubs running a local postprocess shader on my own view for ages now that clamps overly bright stuff and darkens things. No one knows you can just turn all of VRC into this.

A (compressed for Bsky) clip from my poem "Uncomfortable" that I performed during Light Dimension last Sunday. The full performance can be viewed here: youtu.be/sdv1ttdfZT0

🎥 @szix96.bsky.social
VJ: @spurg.bsky.social LD: @eviltoaster.bsky.social
@lesse.bsky.social
Thank you all!

🕳️🐇

New faces, and friends from Japan join us again at Kaleidosky!

Feat:
Sera Akai
Yukatama
@vrctokage.bsky.social
@hyenas.wtf
@bigshabam47.bsky.social
@lesse.bsky.social
@stroobie.com
Lenz

Join: vrc.group/LOVE.5507

A short clip from @jaimens.com's birthday performance at Sunday's Light Dimension. Such a spectacular moment

@jaimens.com @lesse.bsky.social @eviltoaster.bsky.social thank you... 💓🏳️‍⚧️🖤

Sunday I am taking for me, and I will be performing at Light Dimension at 7pm Eastern. I'd love it if you'd come!
VJing for me will be @spurg.bsky.social , and helping me with lights will be @eviltoaster.bsky.social 🟣

Seriously, Udon is the main thing stopping me from doing more types of VRC content right now. So I'm focusing on shader stuff & editor tooling instead.

I'll be playing some hypnotic IDM tomorrow (Sunday) with VJ @silentvj.bsky.social for the 3yr anniversary of Light Dimension, come by if you can. 🖤🎶

vrc.tl/event/22167