Yttreia

Bought PC parts (SECOND TRY)

Whew. I'm giving this another attempt, I did the research, picked the parts and bought them. They'll be here on the 13th-14th.

I played it a bit safer this time, focusing on stability and compatibility, so it's far less likely I'll run into trouble than last time.

Total cost is a smidge over the budget, honestly. ...

Switchdog Sym name poll

 Part 1: https://forms.gle/PnzU2vQDZXRHvGH69

Part 2: https://twitter.com/Yttreia/status/1291940988898824192
 

Kinda early, but I wa...

Small update on the model updates

https://trello.com/b/hcRj4iks/model-update-list

Nothing new here really, so far I've only gotten Laela, Dettna and the original Switchdog model done. Right now I've been playing on and off with Lyyona and the other Switchdog (who sho...

Model download updates

I'm working on getting all my characters' models updated and uploaded to the MEGA folder. If you don't have direct access to the folder itself, nab the individual links on dA, FA, Twitter or Pillowfort.

To keep myself a bit more focused, I made a Trello for this singular purpose: 2020-07-21 05:19:33 +0000 UTC View Post

Recent happenings?

Whatever shady stuff Patreon's staff has been getting into lately hasn't hit this account, but if anything comes up, I'll let you know.

I doubt anything will happen, but I have a Subscribestar that I can switch to if they get too crazy: htt...

Tweaking a couple little things

On my video uploads on dA and FA, I'm going to link people to the Youtube video, instead of including the MEGA download alongside it. I think I'd rather prefer people watch my videos to boost their visibility on the Youtube algorithm instead of downloading them.
Max quality, fully-buffered videos on Youtube don't ...

I joined Pillowfort

... but it doesn't seem like there's a lot of activity there.

https://www.pillowfort.social/Yttreia

The site has a paywall to get in, unless you ask a Pillowfort user for an invite, and I think that's probably scaring people off.
I've...

Recap:

Bit of everything here:

1. In the last poll, the Patrons were basically unanimous about wanting more content with my current characters, and the non-Patrons aren't as unanimous, but still agree.

2. Out of curiosity, I ran a little poll on Twitter about what people's favorite ways to fill a belly are, and ...

Patreon's changing a couple things

I don't think it'll change anything on THIS page, but I figured I should mention it:
Patreon's changing how sales tax is calculated on certain goods through different tiers on people's pages.

As far as I can tell, they're making it so Patreon creators who actually have tiers where you GET something, a tangible reward...

Next?

Just gauging interest here, kinda curious what people want lately.

I'll run this for the upper tiers for a few days, then unlock it for everyone, but I'll keep tabs on what the supporters think and weigh that against the votes after that.

Updates:

In no particular order:

1. Laela update is nearly complete-ish.

2. Switchdog model has been fixed and updated (at least probably fixed, people don't seem to download those models too much, so there's a chance it's still broken and nobody has told me yet, ha.)

3. Finally got around to changing the oil on my m...

dA Eclipse

It's buggy as heck, broke two GIF uploads in a row, and removed a lot of features I liked for no apparent reason.

I'm basically a 50/50 split on leaving dA permanently, but I post all my stuff on FA, Twitter, Youtube and my Mega folder, so I'm probably fine for now.

MEGA link updated

Like I always say, I'm not really going to *obsess* over people potentially stealing the link, but at the very least, I'll update it every now and then.

https://mega.nz/folder/Hf4glY7a#hNAU9gbiu1Cgd7kxDG9CgA

Side note: as you can see, I kinda ...

Still shopping around

Pssshhhhh, basically everything's sold out. Hoping I don't have to wait until the virus is over to buy the parts I want.

Total cost for the last half of upgrades will probably be $500-$600.

Bah, online shopping, COVID stuff, and money.

I was looking around for computer parts to try to find deals and maybe start buying some for the final round of upgrades for this computer, but nnnnnooooooOOOoooo, we're having a global pandemic right now, so a lot of parts are either out of stock, delayed for months, or cost twice as much.

Heh.

Anyway, speaking o...

Look at the chunky bunky

Clothing optional, obviously.
Tried to stick to being as on-model as possible, like all the other Syms, but she's definitely getting lots of belly and breast shape keys to get her off-model, heh.

One thing I'm not 100% s...

Sable from Animal Crossing

-is the winner of that last poll. I'll play around with her model at some point and get all kinds of inflate-y shape keys up and running.

...also dang I wish I was eligible for the stimulus money. I'm poor, but I'm in one of those tax niches that is a sort of a gray area for eligibility, so I'll be poking my face into t...

Quick character poll

Eh, I figure with Animal Crossing New Horizons out, I should jump on the bandwagon, at least a little.
Like with the Isabelle model (before I gave her a new hairstyle, I mean,) I'll make them on-model, but have all sorts of lewd shape keys to make them into any shape or size.

Who should I make?

PC update:

TL;DR: I need the rest of the upgrades for my computer pretty badly. Not an emergency, just would solve some irritation.

Still nothing really WRONG with it, but I'm most definitely bottlenecking badly with the old, janky CPU I'm running.
(If it wasn't clear, "bottlenecking" is when one part of the computer is slower ...

Request/suggestion links:

 Here's the basic (easy, simple) character request form, fill it out if  there's a species or race or whatever that you think I should make a  hybrid of:
>>> https://forms.gle/mrpKekBPgAbdvwX88 <<<
 

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Recent summary +IRL

-Hytie, that hummingbird hybrid I've been posting a lot still has a few issues in her model, and she's kinda messy to use, considering her bird legs and very bird-y wings. Her human DNA's a tad low for my personal tastes, so I'll likely make mini-tweaks here and there to help nudge her a smidge more human. I...

This month, March specifically:

Oof, messy month for sure. I'll toss it all in a list, good and bad, no particular order:

1. I'm a caretaker for my grandparents and we live about an hour away from what the news refers to as "the hot zone" for COVID-19 in the US. None of us have it, but if any of us get it, my grandma is toast, since she's not exactly ...

Polls, surveys, and Patreon

Honestly I have a hard time coming up with things to post here, especially things that are Patron exclusive. I like making things, but I don't want to make any of it Patron-exclusive, so I don't actually post much here.
Sorry if I get kinda quiet on Patreon, or if the MEGA isn't really all that mind-blowing; it's just not ...

Reposting the request links

Sym requests: forms.gle/6TDtzWUd1kTa5SP37

Hybrid requests: forms.gle/ApzaGMv6fu9dePHW6 2020-02-09 20:00:46 +0000 UTC View Post

Update:

I can already tell I'm bottlenecking here and there, but otherwise it's definitely much quicker for rendering.
Like a maniac, I'm running both the new and old GPUs at the same time, too.

The biggest thing I've noticed so far is that when rendering full-blast, it's running a bit hotter than I'd like, but still within ...

New computer part

Just bought a GPU, It'll be here in a couple days.
Assuming my computer doesn't bottleneck it, it should allow me to dive headfirst into rendering in Cycles again (Cycles is the render engine in Blender that has all the fancy lighting and shading effects, with raytracing and such.)

Translation: on Friday, unless some...

Goofy little thing I threw together

I've kinda been throwing these links around too much tonight, but https://forms.gle/mmiCuoas6jgqD1TL7

It's a Google Form for people to suggest/request a character/race for me to make a model of. I don't plan on making too many models, but it'll ...

Recap:

1. Poll finished, the next character will be a Sym, no clue what it'll be of though. I'll try to aim for someone who I have to make from scratch, someone who doesn't already have a model ready to use, like an Aggretsuko character or an Animal Crossing-style human character, IDK.

2. A little busy IRL, but not to...

Next?

Keeping this one simple, should I make someone FROM something, like a character from a show or game, or should I make another original character?

Opening this poll to the $1 guys because I need more voters.

Cleaned up my page

As you can see, I cleaned it up a bit.
I want to keep it more as a fancy tip jar. I mean, I'm hurting for money IRL but I feel like the tiers I wrote were a little too ambiguous; if I want to make some real money, I have to open commissions somewhere.

That said, commissions are still not open, I'm shopping around fo...