VRChat Avatar Rexouium Review

[@RaccoonRezillo]

I want to give a big thanks to all that supported this avatar and glad so many thought it was made well ^-^

[@RaccoonRezillo]

I am honored you do nice review video for my avatar even after been out all this time ^-^ It been very interesting with seeing how at first thought to be personal avatar but then decided to share with so many said they were interested in it which then explode in popularity when I released it XD It also a reason how the full body rigging was designed because I was thinking about fitting as close to my own body so I would move the same with it. I measured my self and where I believe the joints are to my proportions and height to fit that in Maya. Thanks again for nice explanation and review of the Rexouium! ^-^

[@rocy9789]

heya, lucky to meet you here. May i ask you a creator question about some unique feature only your Rex avatar has? It is about the animation of the eyes. no other avatar in existence has this pretty feature: What i mean is when looking up or down, the eyelid window changes automatic for a while depending on where the avatar has looked at a moment ago. This makes your avatar look already more alive even with litte vr equipment, without any additional facial controll input. I am fixed on learning how to do this. Can i ask you for a hint?

[@RaccoonRezillo]

@@rocy9789 Not too sure what your meaning? The look up and down has a blendshape that adds movement when the eyes go up or down. I believe even skin weighted the eye joints a little to the eye lids or was later avatars I done that which helps. If talking about when the eyes just dart around that just VRChat eye tracking? I may of changed some attributes to it like how much it looked certain directions but that all done with their SDK.

[@rocy9789]

@@RaccoonRezillo thank you, you understood me right. i expected the feature to be like you mentioned. maybe i am overcomplicating things in my mind. But now i feel sure in the way of with what to experiment. i am going to check it out. My private avatar eyes look very stiff at the moment, so thanks^^ its an amazing underused feature

[@RaccoonRezillo]

@@rocy9789 Your welcome XD I'm surprised if not many use their eye animation system because it not too hard to setup and the animations is done well with it.

[@KLARIZsaf]

The Jex originates from Secondlife and is its own original species created by Orange04 over on Furaffinity back in 2011. Kurai kitsune (as far as I am aware) was the person who started texturing the Rexouium with the Jex original design In order for old SecondLife users to have their characters again on this new plattform in VR. The Rex just looked like the closest fit though its obviously missing the Jex feathered ears.

[@20nik]

Interesting! Thank you for the comment!

[@NUCLEARARMAMENT]

Thank you for the review, I've owned this avatar since July 2020 and it's the only one I've liked enough to buy.

[@princechippy4151]

Someone should make a For Real Fursuit of a Rexouium that would be cool.

[@20nik]

there already is one out there, they have a Jex pattern on it

[@kiboshinari6111]

Good video :3 I personally love the Rex and I changed the tail and plan on changing the ears so you can customize it it just takes time x3 but I see all your points but if you really care to be unique then you can definitely achieve that with the rex as well~

[@20nik]

Thanks! Yes ofc but most ppl don't do that sadly.

[@clarabel_adoring]

It’s pretty neat in my opinion, and I love rexes

[@matthewkeel203]

Yo creo que al final es una base de entrada muy vista y el porcentaje de fursonas son animales cánidos cosa que al ver el rexo de la gente se dan cuenta de la inmensas posibilidades que da la base y toda la popularidad que tiene detrás pienso que las sobre población del avatar a roto ese encanto de tener algo diferente y no no se base es un asset que llame la atención

[@20nik]

Gracias justo! El avatar es realmente bonito y genial, pero no me veo usándolo. ¡Gracias por el comentario! :)

[@MLekord]

great review, thank you for the work you'we done!

[@20nik]

Thanks! :)

[@blazinwulfplaysgames9236]

Things I dislike about the Rex; they all look the same, and it's the most common choice of furry avatar. It's not user-friendly to alter the shape of the Rex, as it lacks pre-made blendshapes, hence why most of them look basically the same. Most Rex users seem oblivious or unwilling to acknowledge that there are other choices, like the Canis Woof, which would make a lot more sense for furries with wolf or dog fursonas. I will even argue that you can actually get a more accurate-looking fox face out of the Canis woof if you take the time to alter the blendshapes. Half of the Canis Woof users I have encountered haven't bothered to adjust any of the blendshapes either. So most of them look samey too... So I actually have less of a problem with the avatar itself. It's the users that don't really want to tweak anything about the avatars and don't really care if it actually looks like their fursona beyond the color pallete. They're satisfied with looking exactly like everybody else.

[@20nik]

That is fair yeah

[@RaccoonRezillo]

I think it either laziness or unaware of how to do such things. I heard of some that perhaps that just figure out how to simply upload an avatar just with texture change so might not even know how to work with blendshapes let alone 3D editing. I'm impressed that not more got the Canis because yeah I tried to put lot more effort and quality into it to make as much editing you can with it. I found if others like to personalize I try make it easier to make those different shapes. I think in the end it knowing something exists so when something arcs so high in popularity then it just snow balls and becomes the trend. That basically what I see what happened with the Rexouium. I simply shared it at a good time and many saw it and jumped on it.

[@Meowserz.]

Could you make a video on the vrchat heat system

[@20nik]

Huh?

[@Meowserz.]

for world the heat system @@20nik

[@Sir-Meldrid]

World?

[@20nik]

There are multiple worlds used in the video. Whitch one so you want to know? Give me the time stamp

[@aunabreslingaming3279]

Goofy looking fox thing