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Meta Is Shutting Down Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-is-shutting-down-horizon-worlds-on-meta-quest/

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A progress report of sorts?

Over the past week I spent a lot of time and bothered a lot of very talented people on my quest to figure out Blender, Unity, and, in particular, proper/advanced Unity lighting techniques to deliver stunning lighting at a fraction of the cost of realtime global illumination, all aimed at overhauling my VRChat world which was based primarily on assets from Second Life which used full-bright diffuse maps with baked-in lighting and shadows. The goal was simple: change it from day to night, bake lights myself, simple as heck, but in the end it spiralled out of control with a lot of UV optimisation work and some custom items I modelled, unwrapped, and textured entirely from scratch.

Below is going to be a thread of pictures I took as I worked towards completing the overhaul.

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Started reworking my VRChat home world I carried over from Second Life because I got tired of 1024x1024 maps and because all the diffuse textures came with baked lighting and shadows, and I wanted to change it from day to night.

This bookshelf is complete and total nonsense and I realised I now absolutely must research, model, and stack on shelves roughly 300~500 books I read over my lifetime with accurate sizes, thickness, and bespoke covers. Hoo boy.

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