Asset/Experience: Post-Party Simulator (Patreon)

The past year has been hard on everyone, and I keep finding myself missing friends, gatherings, and parties, especially the part where I force people to listen to me play Radiohead at 3am.

With the use of technology, perhaps together we can produce a crude facsimile of this beautiful microcosm of the human experience.

I made it specifically with Eevee-based VR inspection in mind (I have mine so it lines up with the actual couch I photoscanned, so it's sufficiently immersive), but also works in the viewport.

Just open the file, change it to rendered mode, and hit play. If you have a blender-compatible VR rig, activate the "VR Scene Inspection" addon and activate it in the "N" popout menu in the viewport.  

And don't take off the hat.


Download Blend File Here
(right click, save as)

Okay so I made this as a quick joke, but it turned out okay (first time syncing audio and the Rokoko suit- the guitar taps at my favorite bit), so I kept refining, so it's in this awkward area where half of it is decent and the other half is joke-quality (I SHOULD HAVE DONE BETTER HANDS. That would have been a bigger project than the rest of it put together, though). But maybe it's still fun, and heck there's a small-room's worth of assets in there. And a singing man.

NOTABLY: This is one of those times where I don't know to what level me having a good GPU is affecting the experience; it runs great on my machine, and I've tried to keep stuff optimized, but still, there's a deforming mesh in the middle of the scene, and a a lot of textures. Very curious to hear how it runs on your machines, if you try it out!

Also for *maximum immersion* you can bake the irradiance volume in the render settings (I don't THINK bakes pack. Audio does, though, fortunately).