Product Description
# What it Does / How to Use:
Cryptid Shader:
- Turn it on in the menus and you will be distorted in the camera and/or mirror.
Frame Rate Control:
- Enable the system in the menu. By default, you will be only slightly slower frame rate than normal.
- Adjust either the "Time Delay" or "Frame Delay" sliders higher to increase the amount of delay between updates.
- Enable the "Weeping Angel Mode" and in your view, you will appear to have no delay. However, other people will only update your position when they are not looking at you.
The Weeping Angel Mode will check for mirrors and cameras. Keep that in mind when testing.
While in the Weeping Angel Mode, your voice will still emit from wherever your body is for the person looking at you.
You do not need to install anything on other people's avatars for this system to work!
# How it Works:
The Cryptid Shader uses a grab pass and various filters to distort your avatar. An invisible box surrounds your character and writes to the stencil buffer. The shader then uses the stencil information to blur and distort your character, but only in the camera or mirror.
You can use any shader you want on your avatar!
The only requirement is that the shader must have stencil support. Most shaders like Poyomi and liltoon have this functionality.
The Frame Rate Control system uses a custom non-destructive script (As an extension of the Modular Avatar Framework) to make a copy of every bone in your character. It then redirects the skin weights to those bones and attaches them back to their source with a parent constraint. These constraints are inside a world constraint and are updated only when the system decides to update your bone positions. In the Weeping Angel Mode, we are using the "IsRendering" prefab from VRLabs to determine whether or not your are looking at the character and update only when you are not being looked at.
# Try It Out!
Feel free to try out this public model before you buy!
https://vrchat.com/home/avatar/avtr_0198e118-d63e-4dd4-a423-e908967b75af
# Augmented Crux Base
In the demo we are using the Agumented Crux avatar base. If you like the model, take a look at the product page below!
https://jinxxy.com/T0X/AUG-CRUX
# Stats:
Cryptid Shader:
- Meshes: 1
- Material Slots: 1
NOT Quest Compatible
Frame Rate Control:
- MANY Constraints
- Sub Animators: 1
- Contacts: 2
- Skinned Mesh Renderers: 2
Potentially Quest Compatible
# Help!:
If you have any questions or run into any issues, please join the Virtual Limbs Discord for support!
10/17/2025:
----- Released!
Known Issues:
----- The Frame Rate Control does not affect any meshes that are not skinned.
# Credits:
Included Prefabs:
- Is Rendering Detection
https://github.com/VRLabs/IsRendering-Detection
Supporting Systems:
- VRCFury
- Modular Avatar
https://modular-avatar.nadena.dev/
A big thank you to these wonderful beans!
- TheCatnamedFish for editing the videos
- Zidane and Saphria for helping with the video!
- Sacred and Madman for providing the flashlights used in the video.
- Janie Bean for their help with scripting
- Sacred for their help with troubleshooting
- Jellejurre for their help sorting out some issues with the IsRendering detection
- Senky for updating VRCFury to fix some conflicts we found
- The VRChat devs for fixing some scripting issues we ran into during this project
# Terms of Use:
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