git-gud

how to git gud

High Level

Step 1. Mindset

Think like a mad hacker scientist. Psyops your own brain through fashion if you struggle with this, get a dress shirt and tie and nice jacket from a store or for your vtuber avatar (search booth.pm).

Read Snow Crash

Step 2: Start a journal

Get into the habit of making documentation along the way, it is the best way to scale one-self. You can use hackmd and track your progress as you learn for easy sharing - notes make it faster to receive help and can become useful community contributions too.

Step 3: Make stuff

Make avatar

1. Create an avatar using vroid studio https://vroid.com/en/studio
2. Customize the clothing
3. Export 2 versions: high quality and more optimized VRM of your vroid

Search aroun vtuber youtuber for advanced tips

3D scan

Photogrammetry guide: https://rd.nytimes.com/projects/an-end-to-end-guide-to-photogrammetry-with-mobile-devices

Get a camera and 3D scan something, can be an environment or object Export 3D model and upload somewhere (sketchfab is fine)

Blender

1. Download blender https://www.blender.org/
2. Download VRM plugin https://github.com/saturday06/VRM_Addon_for_Blender
3. Import your VRM into blender
4. Optimize it further

or

Optimize your 3D scan:

• cleanup loose geometry
• decimate without losing much quality
• Export as glTF

Then optimize the textures:

• convert png to jpg
• compress the textures without losing much quality

Take note of before and after with screenshots or clips, triangle count, and file size Finally, convert glTF to glb: https://github.com/CesiumGS/gltf-pipeline

Create world

https://github.com/msub2/awesome-webxr#frameworks-and-libraries

Make a virtual world in a webxr framework, vrchat, or neosvr

webxr recommendations: janusweb / aframe

Bonus if its in a multi-user avatar space

Note: Can do Mozilla Hubs for fun / practice, just know that you can't host it on the decentralized web

Decentralized hosting

Check out https://fleek.co or https://pinata.cloud for ez mode IPFS hosting

Bonus: ENS

(you'll need an ETH wallet for this step)

Buy an ENS address, point to the webxr experience with it

can use testnet if you don't wanna spend ETH

gj if you made it this far

Promotion

Important to capture your demo / experience in the best light Learn how to take good quality screenshots and video clips of your experience Then make a 20-30 second sizzle video combining clips

If you want to present as vtuber see https://github.com/madjin/vtuber-podcast

Marketing: Building an Audience by Lakuza | TLX Spring 2021

DM jin on M3 discord when you're done share your work (hackmd notes / video)

You will get a M3 POAP for completing

g'luck