Custom Chest Cosmetic to play as several Novabeasts.

ATTENTION:

The Devs are investigating the morph target issue!

Comes with custom logic and extra features:

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• Becomes wet when swimming or in rain, slowly dries when not.
• Custom damage overlay when hurt, scars and cuts appearing, (((facial expressions changing,))) ears going down and goggles cracking.
• Goggles cracks are semi permanent and can be fixed by sleeping.
• Goggles are pulled down while underwater or in a sandstorm.
• Physics for tail, ears, mane, fluff and body all interacting with terrain and structures.
• Emissive stripes glowing in the dark, like aberrant dinos.
• First Person view model support.
• Female and Male version available.
• Random eye movement.
• Some available with a tribal feather outfit.
• Different variations available.

Future Plans: (If i figure out how to do these)

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• Add coloring regions to allow recoloring
• Split cosmetic into pieces to allow wearing goggles optionally.
• Radial wheel customization.
• (Possibly) Several versions for the different armors.

Known Issues:

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• Morph Targets which are required to play facial animations currently do not work outside of the Devkit/Editor, the Developers are investigating the issue and it seems like its a Devkit/Cooker issue. As soon as this is fixed i will push an update to fix the facial expressions (and probably add more)

Changelog:

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Version 38 (Applied for Whitelist)

• Packed and optimized base Metalness ,Specularity and Roughness into one texture.
• Optimized Purple and Cyan emissions, reduced them to greyscale and combined both models to use one texture.
• Fixed Tribal Sunday being wrongly named Tribal Dakota.
• Fixed Tribal Sunday and Erin using the wrong body physics.
• Packed and finetuned Regina's Metal, Specularity and Roughness textures into one.
• Packed Wolfstrike's Metal, Specularity and Roughness textures into one.
• Fixed a texture or two using the wrong texture group.
• Optimized several more textures by removing alpha channels and lowering them from 16bit to 8bit to save in disk space and in some cases VRAM.
• Modified several texture's compression format for better quality and/or lower VRAM usage.
• Removed several now unused textures.

Version 37 (Officially supported)

• Revamped Amethyst's textures for massively more detail.
• Added Cyan's revamped textures for massively more detail.
• Added Aaron's Novabeast.
• Optimized lots of textures down from 16bit to 8bit to save on disk space.
• Optimized a lot of textures by removing unnecessary alpha channels to save on disk space.
• Re-rendered icons for Amethyst (normal and tribal) and Cyan with new the textures.

Version 36

• Fixed Wolfstrike broken materials causing missing textures.

Version 35

• Fixed Novabeast fluff master shader having slightly different roughness and specularity than the rest of the body resulting in a slightly brighter than intentend fluff.
• Added Tribal Outfit variant of Amethyst.
• Added Tribal Outfit variant of Dakota.
• Added Toxas's alternative hair.
• Added Regina's Nova.
• Renamed all Novabeasts for a shorter proper name.
• Made Dakota and Sunday public Novas as per request.
• Updated Dakota and Sunday UI icon.

Version 34

• Manually downscaled all textures.
• Fixed some oversized 4K textures on Dakota.
• Fixed some oversized 4K textures on Wolfstrike.
• Fixed wrong texture pools being used for Wolfstrike's textures. (World -> Character)
• Internally organized folder structure more.
• Removed unnecessary extra textures.
• Added AO bakes to Wolfstrike's body textures.
• Added Fur normals to Cyan Novabeast.
• Fixed Cyan Novabeast using male normal for female and female for male.
• Added missing Cyan Novabeast emissive map so now Cyan actually glows cyan.
• Fixed Erin using wrong texture pools. (World -> Character)
• Fixed Erin having some wonky texture compression settings on the eye textures.
• Added Fur normals to Erin's Novabeast.
• Added Fur normals to Toxas's Novabeast.
• Fixed Wolfstrike's Novabeast using the wrong normal for the male version.

Version 33

• Added Novabeast fur normal to Purple Nova.
• Added Novabeast fur normal to Default Nova.
• Added Novabeast fur normal to Erin's Nova.
• Added AO to the Default Nova.
• Added AO to Erin's Nova.
• Added new Novabeast variant: Toxas.

Version 30/31/32

• Cleaned up the mod by removing all extra mesh copies and using the override material entries instead.
• Added simple random eye movement to female purple nova.
• Added bone scaling to tail, physics however do not scale and still bug around, no idea why they don't scale
• Added slight flowing water effect when wet.
• Added Wolfstrike's comissioned Novabeast as new selectable costume.
• Added Erin's comissioned Novabeast as new selectable costume.
• Added different icons for all Novabeasts.
• Lowered glaring reflectiveness of glasses a bit, less blinding now.
• Renamed unavailable cosmetics and clarified that these are private ones for people who opted to not share them.

Version 29

• Improved First Person weight painting of hands, less crunchy arms.
• Greatly cleaned up how custom material properties are applied (wetness, bloody)
• Created instances of all materials and upgraded the master materials to allow for easy texture swapping.
• Removed all instances of runtime normal generation and replaced them with hand made ones.
• Altered bloody overlay, much more blood and wounds, tweaked colors a bit.
• (Experimental) Enabled Virtual Texturing for most textures.
• (Experimental) Allowed mipmaps and streaming again for almost all textures (this previously caused the emissive map to blur randomly)
• Added alternative Novabeast that allows bone overrides. Trust me you will not like it but people asked for it.
• Added second Novabeast colored Cyan (aka the original Novabeast). Currently very basic, no AO bakes.
• Wetness and bloody textures are now applied in first person too.
• Tweaked fur darkening effect when wet slightly (darkens 1% more).
• Tweaked fur wet specularity (capped at 50%) to make it look less super reflective in indirect light.
• Lots of internal cleanup.

Version 28

• Fixed normal map that got deleted out on upload for some reason resulting in a material compilation failure causing "missing texture" glasses.

Version 27

• Wetness has been upgraded with generated normal maps this should give the effect some depth.
• Glasses now become wet too.
• Wetness now darkens the fur color to simulate .. well wet fur (obviously).
• Male version of the Novabeast has been added, currently if you are playing as male character you will get the male version instead. I might make this choosable later.
• Following a report from a user i refined the breast topology a bit and managed to smoothen the normals more, making it look less like nipples under very specific lighting conditions.

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It's main purpose was intended as a personal mod but with official permission it's now a public mod for use and might actually turn into something bigger with more features.

Here's the discord for my cosmetics (looks like more are to come), it is currently very basic though: https://discord.gg/RuEjm7crJP

Credits:

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Novabeast Avatar - Made by Kittomatic (Gumroad)

Permission to upload was acquired from Kittomatic. If you like the Novabeast you can get the original model (for VRChat) above.

Alternative Textures - Provided by Kittomatic, Wolfstrike, Erin, Toxas, Regina and Dakota respectively.

Fluffy Texture Overlay - Made by Wolffie on the Novabeast Discord.

Feathery Tribal Outfit - Made by Dakota's Studios.