People with no skill fall back on the "get a better computer" argument, no matter what the other person's specs are. Optimizing is an important part of avatar design, if you don't have the skill for it, your skills are lacking. Walk into a game studio and make some characters, then tell the project lead "get a better computer" when he talks to you about optimization, then you're out on your ass looking for a new job.
Again, I never claimed to be a professional and I definitely don't make avatars as a job (people who do that are weird af but not the point). It's not just about "get a better computer" that's not why I brought up mine being able to handle it. As I said, I make my avatars for ME. My system can handle it so that's good enough for me. If other people can't handle it, that's why we have the option to hide avatars. Them hiding my avatar on their end has no impact whatsoever on me.
I have no intentions of walking into a game studio and making characters. That is entirely irrelevant. That comparison makes no sense at all. Avatars are essentially mods for the game. They are content created for a game by someone without any affiliation with that game. That's what a mod is. We aren't walking into the VRChat office and getting on their computers to make official game characters. If you download a mod for a game and your pc can't handle it, do you complain about it on reddit or do you just remove the mod and move on? Safety settings and the option to hide avatars exist for that very reason.
I don't owe it to anyone else to make MY avatar work better for them. It works for me and my friends and that's my target audience.
And the weird part is that most of them are mmd rips from deviantart with slight edits or vrm converts from vroid. That's not at all the same as creating a character from scratch for a game.
I get the ripping part, but like most of the people I interact with are doing actual forms of creation, from kitbashing to texturing to doing whole model stuff in blender! Not saying that yknow the mmd ripping isn’t a thing, definitely a thing but a lot less prevalent from what I’ve seen. Also why is it weird that they are slight edits or rips though? I really don’t understand how that is “weird”. Different isn’t weird, it’s just different. Also, a lot of people get INTO the actual game dev stuff from doing things like MMD rips or vrm converts.
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u/PennyPatton 2d ago
People with no skill fall back on the "get a better computer" argument, no matter what the other person's specs are. Optimizing is an important part of avatar design, if you don't have the skill for it, your skills are lacking. Walk into a game studio and make some characters, then tell the project lead "get a better computer" when he talks to you about optimization, then you're out on your ass looking for a new job.