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Quick update on things

Added 2021-10-04 22:37:35 +0000 UTC

Hello everyone, you may have noticed I was unable to make my September goal. I mentioned it on twitter but if you haven't seen: mid September we had a member of my family pass away unexpectedly and unfortunately made me unable to finish my plans for that month. I really appreciate everyone's patience as we worked through this and after taking a break for a while offline I'm starting to get back into working again. So here's what I've gotten since the last update:

First off, I found a fix for my FBT setup with k2vr, aka I found out I need to swing my arms around in front of the kinect to wake the software up ( I kept thinking it had crashed lol) Needless to say this makes FBT development WAY quicker and easier for me.

With this massive boost in productivity I was very quickly able to hammer out more issues with the Phonodroid FBT and I think its now in a place where I'm satisfied with it.

After tweaking the skeleton a bunch following various guides and some help from my girlfriend who provided a skeleton of one of her models for me to use as reference, this is where I've gotten on the hip tilt issue!

(This is what i looked like before for reference)

There is just a tinyyyyyyyy little bit left but in all my tweaking I can not iron it out completely, which while frustrating I've also noticed happens on other models I test including the official legacy avatars, so at this point i can only assume its an issue beyond my control. But all that aside, I am pretty satisfied with the result and hopefully the new skeleton will provide a much improved experience for FBT users!

So whats next? The plan from the last update is unchanged aside from the goal now being October, so now I gotta port the new skeleton to the other Phonodroid variations. Hopefully any frustration from that will be minimal (Hopefully....) And then its on to rebuilding the avatar properly in unity and ironing out whatever things are left there.

When I'm finished with that, I will release Phonodroid 1.2 here on Patreon and from there focus on the public release and world to try and have out by the end of October!

Thank you for reading!