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NECO HOLIC | DL-1, DL-2 (deleted due to pixeldrain policy changes)
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I'll share more Toribase-related assets when I have the time, or if motivated when people start sharing the stuff that I'm looking for.
I'm looking for Runa body textures. Preferably the updated ones that at least include matching texture & material for the B0-0BA and/or endoskeleton addon, with support for the other addons being secondary.
Here are the few that I've seen so far.
Thanks in advance. Robot girls are hot. 
To answer your first question, I do prefer booth assets and their creators, they're much easier to get along with than the gumroad creators in my opinion and the communities around them feel like actual communities with all the rally events you see frequently.
In comparison, some gumroad creators (or any western creator in general) 'build' their communities by requiring people to join and stay on their discord servers to receive, and get updates to, the assets they paid for. They never feel like communities but rather more like waiting lobbies, and I shouldn't have to give my private info to be put on a list, and hop through sketchy 3rd party sites or private discord servers to receive a product that I've paid for. And I've yet to hear of any rally events being organized for any gumroad/western-created model.
The answer to your second question is most likely money-related for many people. Not everyone has infinite money to throw around on every $20-$40+ asset that sprouts up every day or so. While most people continuously share assets either through public forums or private discord servers with no intention to ever buy, some people like myself do eventually buy the assets legit once we're able to afford it. Personally I make it a self rule to never pirate or share any assets of a creator I've met or befriended in VRC.
The answer to your last question, one option would be to consider lowering the prices of the assets being sold, or provide other methods to pay/support. Piracy will always be a thing no matter what you try to do to prevent it. What you can do is make your products easier to obtain legitimately for the people who do want to buy and support you.
@elinkabelzinka Its been a while since it happened, but I will try my best to recall the events. Get your snacks and blankets, because it's story time.
So around a year or 2-3 ago, there was an incident where it was discovered/announced that the people running the old vrmodels site were part of some group, akisoba llc, who claimed to be working with a number of creators from gumroad to "protect their work", as they like to call it.
Their idea to "protect the creators' work" was to embed the unity packages that were hosted on their server with malware like discord token loggers, key loggers and modified SDK scripts containing malicious code to overwrite existing scripts in a unity project.
Around the time that happened, the old vrmodels was becoming a dumpster fire that people were abandoning and some refugees were going over to the newly created sanctuary.moe website. As it turned out, the person(s) running the sanctuary.moe site was also a part of the akisoba group, or another malicious hacker acting on their own.
There was an uproar about that, and eventually sanctuary moe was shut down.
Someone created a unity plugin called Safe Import designed to check unitypackages for any akisoba, vrmodels and sanctuary-related malicious scripts during the import process. The github page for the plugin no longer seems to be available, (nevermind, I found it) but this one containing text files that were to be used with it still exists. https://github.com/Purple420/Hashes-of-Safe-Scripts/tree/main/Unsafe Files
Some of the refugees from sanctuary decided to create a private discord server to share and trade assets on, but eventually the person who ran the sanctuary site found out about the server and invaded, and during that time they displayed their ability to hack the discord accounts of several of the members in real time. The admin of that discord server decided to nuke it shortly after.
And I was there to see it all. That being said, I'd be wary of vrc garden. I wouldn't even trust the new management of the vrmodels site.
Also, advertisements on an asset leaking site? What dumbass is going to pay to have an ad placed on there?
Looks like someone got upset that I brought up a forgotten event. Unfortunately for you, person from VRModels who made the account to respond to me, you can't silence me here.
@C0-Eve Oh, I do have one suggestion for Runa. If you could make the default Runa have their breasts, chest plate and belly as separate meshes like the RoboGF version for consistency, that would be great. We shouldn't have to pay an additional 45 dollars just to have those parts separable if we don't plan to do naughty stuff with Runa.
If possible, have additional parts of Runa as separate meshes like other booth avatar creators normally do for theirs (like the head, ears and butt plates, for example) so that we don't have to deal with the alpha masking nonsense when adding multiple addons that currently make use of custom alpha masks, and we can choose to disable specific meshes for optimization without having to open up blender.
And for the love of god, please use the "Booth format" naming scheme for the head mesh, body mesh, etc, and bones in the armature as the other booth avatars if you haven't done so yet. That would make things such as performing headswaps onto Runa's body less of a headache.
You claim that Runa's gimmick is to be modular, but having most of the avatar as a single mesh and having to rely on alpha masks or blender work, especially for a Runa that doesn't have the RoboGF addon applied, to do even the most basic things that other models on booth would allow you to do without having to open blender doesn't quite live up to that. And what good is an alpha mask if the people around you have shaders disabled through safety settings?
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