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@lightling.space
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alex (lightling.space), mid-20s, 🏳️‍⚧️ they/them, ΘΔ wolf of warm sand/ocean water
webdev by day, gamedev/composer/artist/streamer/gremlin by night
https://twitch.tv/itsLightling
sometimes nsfw art 🔞 (labeled); spicier posts @werewolf.porn
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love when ffz has a setting within days to disable or reduce whatever nonsense of the week twitch has made

(immediately did the one to disable gigantified emotes and other message effects back when they did that)
Display GIFs in chat. New Twitch subscribers (Tier 2 and 3) can post animated GIFs. When this is disabled, those messages are shown as a link instead. GIF Size. New How large GIFs should be, in pixels, as their maximum height.
September 4, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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surprised after the buyouts that this based-AF blurb from bandcamp's help articles is still here
get.bandcamp.help/en/articles/...
While we have your attention, we would like to discourage you from doing one-penny-off pricing (e.g., $0.99, $9.99, $11.99). Though it may be an effective tactic for selling waterbeds, when we see that sort of pricing, we do not think “wow, this is a good deal” but rather “what we previously thought was a person/band is actually a marketing department, and they’re subtly telling us they think we’re idiots.” Present a straightforward price, let fans pay more if they want, and they’ll reward you.
September 3, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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not me digging through my nextcloud archives to find this fake splash art i made a couple years ago and still manages to come up every now and then in convo
need to breed in nfs font
September 3, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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my os drive which it says is ok for comparison
smartctl 7.5 2025-04-30 r5714 [x86_64-linux-7.0.5-arch1-1-bsb] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-25, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Number: WD_BLACK SN850X 2000GB Serial Number: 23405T802716 Firmware Version: 620331WD PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID: 0x15b7 IEEE OUI Identifier: 0x001b44 Total NVM Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 [2.00 TB] (rest is trimmed since it's just info about the drive) === START OF SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02, NSID 0xffffffff) Critical Warning: 0x00 Temperature: 38 Celsius Available Spare: 100% Available Spare Threshold: 10% Percentage Used: 1% Data Units Read: 79,192,403 [40.5 TB] Data Units Written: 136,635,655 [69.9 TB] Host Read Commands: 767,070,789 Host Write Commands: 1,320,303,470 Controller Busy Time: 1,195 Power Cycles: 1,365 Power On Hours: 13,438 Unsafe Shutdowns: 165 Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0 Error Information Log Entries: 0 Warning Comp. Temperature Time: 0 Critical Comp. Temperature Time: 1 Error Information (NVMe Log 0x01, 16 of 256 entries) No Errors Logged Self-test Log (NVMe Log 0x06, NSID 0xffffffff) Self-test status: No self-test in progress No Self-tests Logged
September 3, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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got a random warning when i logged in saying my nvme was degraded and may fail soon.
doesn't elaborate at all where it's getting that claim, just shows stats that don't really mean much to me.
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Number: WD_BLACK SN850X 4000GB Serial Number: 23135R800616 Firmware Version: 624311WD PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID: 0x15b7 IEEE OUI Identifier: 0x001b44 Total NVM Capacity: 4,000,787,030,016 [4.00 TB] (the rest is trimmed because it's just very specific tech stats about the drive) === START OF SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED! - NVM subsystem reliability has been degraded SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02, NSID 0xffffffff) Critical Warning: 0x04 Temperature: 32 Celsius Available Spare: 100% Available Spare Threshold: 10% Percentage Used: 0% Data Units Read: 37,831,870 [19.3 TB] Data Units Written: 46,048,589 [23.5 TB] Host Read Commands: 192,562,679 Host Write Commands: 188,609,115 Controller Busy Time: 329 Power Cycles: 1,354 Power On Hours: 13,484 Unsafe Shutdowns: 159 Media and Data Integrity Errors: 1,408 Error Information Log Entries: 1,408 Warning Comp. Temperature Time: 0 Critical Comp. Temperature Time: 1 Error Information (NVMe Log 0x01, 16 of 256 entries) No Errors Logged Self-test Log (NVMe Log 0x06, NSID 0xffffffff) Self-test status: No self-test in progress No Self-tests Logged
September 3, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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forgot to mention it yesterday but i re-did the styling a fair bit on my site and also finally got around to adding the latest avatars i've worked on for myself.
lightling.xyz/avatars
screenshot of my avatar page on my site. the previously uploaded ones are blurred, the new ones (pepper imp, kobodal, dergotoy, toscanine, and tarragon) are highlighted with a red outline
August 25, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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(slight spoiler warning just in case, tho it's not really tho) ain't no way outer wilds gettin posters from someone deadass chargin $300 for 5 8x11 pieces of standard screen-printing paper

i may go hard on getting game merch but even i gotta say hell fuckin no somewhere lmao
outer wilds new posters available announcement on steam with 5 posters pertaining to the planets in game the posters listed on cook and becker, individual ones are $80, full set $300
August 18, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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the map menu now features a list which informs where different players are. i opted not to include the ability to TP directly to a player because i/others have found that to be jarring in other worlds. instead the locations will match up (with a bit of extra verbosity) to the TP buttons on the map.
screenshot of a map teleporter with a scrollable list of player locations listed below, matching players to house upper bedroom, walkway center paths, bathhouse sauna, and other locations. above the list is a screenshot of the world in isometric view, with labeled buttons on top of key locations of the map.
August 16, 2026 at 10:34 PM
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finished up the bath house last night~
screenshot of a sauna in a vrc world screenshot of a locker room in a vrc world screenshot of a shower room in a vrc world screenshot of an onsen and a room with pools in a vrc world
August 16, 2026 at 10:34 PM
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started working on the bath house today~
screenshot of a vrc world in unity of an unfinished onsen screenshot of a vrc world in unity of an unfinished room of 3 bathing pools screenshot of a vrc world in unity, overhead view of a bath house with labels for sauna, hallway, locker rooms, private/general/rain showers, onsen, and pools. a cafe is connected to the other side of the bath house, and some dining seating is located outside
August 10, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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and now they have been prefabbed and added to the world
view of the bar in the cafe with a bunch of drink bottles on shelves behind the bar view of some seating/tables in the cafe with plates and utensils and cups on them view of some dishes added to the kitchen in the world
August 8, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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with a little somethin somethin for alternative versions~
kobodal laying down facing up in latex with a cutout for balls out kobodal presenting rear in latex with a cutout for butthole out pupper laying down facing up in latex with a cutout for balls out pupper laying down with rear visible in latex with a cutout for butthole out
August 7, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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made a little somethin for my kobodal and pupper :3
kobodal laying down facing up in latex kobodal laying down facing down in latex pupper laying down facing up in latex pupper laying down facing down in latex
August 7, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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textures (including normals/metallic/specular/roughness) done
various dishes in unity close-up of some of the dishes, pup cup written on the side of some to-go cups close-ups of a set of pots and pans another angle of all the dishes
August 6, 2026 at 1:42 AM
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blocked out the colors for everything.
a set of dishes in blender with flat color textured on them
August 5, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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some progress on some dishes. many of the dishes were meant for the kitchen in the vrc world (later milestone), but a few models would be useful in the cafe, so i decided to work on that now since the dishes set would be one atlas. bottles/their labels were a separate plan & are thus their own maps.
a bunch of dishes (pots, pans, plates, bowls, cups, mugs, and utensils) uv unwrapped to a single grid texture in blender the uv unwrap of the dishes, all packed into one single atlas, organized in different sections so that islands are near their respective dish and dish types are within a section of the atlas glass bottles and wine glasses in blender. highlighted are labels overlayed on top of the bottles, each with two variants. everything is currently untextured. the uv atlas shows the highlighted labels all packed into an atlas. the glass bottles and wine glasses; the glasses are uv unwrapped in a cylinder/cube wrap which means overlapping uvs because they are meant to share a singular glass material instead of an atlas-based texture.
August 4, 2026 at 12:32 AM
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finally got around to writing july's blog post, which in turn is primarily an AC recap.

i also pushed a small change to my SSG and thus the site which renders markdown image titles as captions under the primevue image embeds. been meaning to do that for ages but kept forgetting.
state of the wolp: 2026 july
August 1, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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new lighting fixtures (with aggressive LOD (bulbed/ringed chandeliers go from 1800/970 to 470/220 tris when viewed from across room, even the emissive wall rings go from 190 to 60)
view up close of a chandelier in a cafe with many bulbs inside glass cups hanging from straight metal poles view from floor of cafe looking up at two styles of chandelier, one has many bulbs, the other comprises of three metal rings stacked and scaled like a cake with LED in the middle view of the back wall of the cafe with three stacked/staggered/scaled marble semi-circle blocks with an emissive light going around the center of the rim of each block view of the lower LOD versions of the two chandeliers, the bulbs and emissive parts of the meshes are gone and so are some of the redundant bottom faces, much of the remaining mesh is also decimated for the bulb-based chandelier with much more square cones/poles instead of round.
July 29, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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system shock 2 finale perhaps?? www.twitch.tv/itslightling
July 27, 2026 at 11:18 PM
lightling.space
obsessed with the look of this model like dog damn woof hi.
also just the way it moves in vr like barkbarkbark growl woof.
it's giving twink androg/semi-masc rock star.
kobodal vrc model in sona colors nude kobodal vrc model in sona colors nude kobodal vrc model in sona colors nude
July 27, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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apparently just hit 1000 hrs of steamvr last night
1000.1 hours usage time for steamvr
July 27, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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got some work done on the bar and tvs the other day, and today got work done on dining tables and chairs, bookshelves, and remaking the round sectional booths to fit in the spots where the original base's were.
screenshot of the inside of a cafe/bar in a vrc world screenshot of the outside of a cafe/bar in a vrc world
July 27, 2026 at 1:31 AM
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completely rebuilt the other building for the vrc world. the railing, outermost left/right walls, and cafe sofa insert wood are from the original file (with modifications), but all the windowing, doors, and floors/ceilings/walls are rebuilt from scratch. view in unity doesn't yet have baked lighting
screenshot of a large circular two-story building in blender high-up view of the same building in vrc world unity scene closer lower alternative angle of the same building view of the building from the inside on the "cafe" side of the lower level
July 20, 2026 at 12:31 AM
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Forgot to write about it last night but I added new sound isolation zones to the world. The world base came w/ one that was coded to only really work with one, so I wrote my own version that works with many.
Being outside a zone defaults to global volume, & individual ones can overlap with priority
screenshot of the parent audio zoning script/object selected with zones assigned to its script and parented to its object, and default global values set for when players aren't inside any of the zones screenshot of two audio zones for the lower and upper floors selected in scene with an audio zone class on each with values and colliders set on them to define the zone snippet of code that is unfortunately too long to paste in alt text itself, but basically has a refresh mechanism with SendCustomEventDelayedSeconds that gets players, figures out what zone they are in if any, and calls SetVoiceDistanceFar based off of if they are inside or outside the local player's zone if they are in one (or defaults to default values on the main script if they aren't in one). zone determining comes from Collider.bounds.Contains player position, takes priority into account if they were found in more than one. audio zone script that holds serialized fields and wrapping getters for collider zone, voice distance outside/inside floats, and priority (should be an int but i wrote it as a float out of habit lol)
July 16, 2026 at 9:39 PM
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returning to stream with more system shock 2 and hoping my internet isn't acting up~
www.twitch.tv/itslightling
July 16, 2026 at 12:08 AM