about me

faq:about ryu:"ryu looks great! what sculpt are you using?"hey, thanks! ryu uses a sculpt that is based on adult varshahn's face / male au ra face 202 and that was made by me! here is a wearable port of varshahn's sculpt if you'd like something similar. ryu's face is a combination of blender sculpting and customize+ adjustments. his scales are a commission i ordered from somebody who is no longer in the community, but if you are looking for somebody who offers scale commissions, i highly recommend snackcookie, who i worked with for hanami's scale recolor!  his makeup is a commission from gaia, and his lashes & brows are from sepha!"is he really on m model?"yes! ryuhiko uses resonance (tbse echo's companion body with a rue-like tummy add-on) with the tbse-b chest and a customize+ scaling i made. i published a half-bust scaler if you'd like a similar chest size!"what's his deal?"here are links to his carrd and rphub where you can read more about his character!"ok, but like, what's really his deal?"mutuals can feel free to dm me if they'd like the 50+ slide powerpoint! i wish i was kidding!"i would love to pose my oc and ryu together! are you open to collabs?"first off, i want to say thank you so much for your interest! however, unless we have established a rapport of how our characters would interact through long talks or roleplay, i am not really available for collabs. worrying about how to portray two characters together and depicting someone else's character correctly tends to outweigh the fun of the interaction for me, and i get genuinely kind of stressed about underdelivering. (while having two characters just standing around looking cute/aura farming/etc is fine, it's not really my style!) i am especially not open to nsfw collabs for reasons detailed in my next blurb, but the short of it is that i'd have to bend ryu's characterization a lot for it and i'm uncomfortable doing that. tl;dr thank you, but no!"who is the 'ray' in 'ryuray'?"ray is played by one of my best friends! he is ryuhiko's husband; they have one (canon) son together. they have a closed relationship and i'm not really interested in shipping ryu with anybody else at this time."why don't you post his full name?"out of respect for my friend's comfort and privacy. neither of us are interested in posting our roleplay out for everybody to see it on social media. i have permission to pose and commission art of ryuray, but i do run everything by my friend before i post it!about modding:"how did you do xyz?"i will gladly walk you through how i did whatever you're curious about if you dm me! i am in the process of trying to put together a video on how to upscale outfits ftm for complete newbies to blender and textools, but as i have no experience with video creation and OBS, it is taking me a long time! i can point you in the direction of the tutorials i reference very heavily though!face sculpting (pre-dt, but a lot still applies. i don't think you need to make faces high poly anymore though)
general refitting guide (this one is ancient but this is literally how i learned the blender UI. take some things here with a grain of salt)
FTM upscales (this is basically my whole method)
vanilla upscales
multisculpt (HIGHLY USEFUL! cannot recommend this enough)"i have a bug report to make!"please dm me on discord or bsky! i can't respond to bug reports to let the reporter know it's been resolved, and this way i can troubleshoot the issue. every report i've received i've either been unable to replicate or has been from somebody not paying attention to the description!"what else are your characters wearing in the mod previews?"i'm trying to include wcif in my descriptions now but haven't done so for a lot of older mods. most hair ryu wears are private refits because of his custom sculpt, but i can at least point you in the right direction of the original! i just feel kind of bad having a wcif section if the answer for most of them is "private" LOL...other things to be mindful of:i work full-time, have chronic migraines on top of chronic pain, and have issues with my memory. if i didn't respond or follow you back, i forgot!