qualiawhat's #resonite like? well:
fluffy 💜@qualia if I could figure out how the hell to actually escape my home environment maybe I'd have fun bathing in a 7 storm
@fluffy like the default starting home area?
for that, opening your dash (square menu; one of your controller buttons or esc on desktop) and going to Worlds will let you see what worlds you're in & also visit/launch other ones
totally down to show ya around & go exploring around sometime if you'd like!
@qualia like I could figure out how to launch worlds but not how to find friends or even like. Look them up. And I also would want to at least try to import my avatar before I do anything major but my understanding is that’s a lot easier than VRChat.
But also all my music stuff is in VRChat and that’s mostly what I use it for now
@qualia that said I do worry about having all my eggs in the VRChat basket especially with what I know about them as a company and also their dependence on an obsolete Unity that they can never really grow past (plus being stuck on a Unity assetbundle pipeline forever)
@qualia resonite is way closer to how I’d design a social VR platform if I had my druthers. Just wish they’d take UX more seriously.
@fluffy i'd be down to lend a paw with any aspect of gettin set up in reso if you like :3 i am an official mentor, if u ever have any q's abt it i'm totally open
curious, when's the last time you tried it out? quite a lot has changed, some stuff's improved a Lot, some things are still deep in the to-be-fixed queue, and of course some things are intrinsically more complicated by virtue of it being a collaborative creation engine
hyratel@qualia being power-user-focused UI like Reso is as of last I tried (year or more ago, because headset problems) design tends to result in a very ... *steep* Learning Curve
@hyratel yeah, no argument there. some of it is, or is growing out of, a real bad case of "programmer UI" syndrome. a lot of organic rapid growth has happened so what exists isn't always intuitively laid out, and a few pain-point changes are blocked on subsystem reworks
since the dev team is small and getting pulled in a bunch of directions at once, the platform relies a lot on a team of volunteer mentors (hey!) to help bootstrap new folks into it (and as a general knowledge resource) because of this. things have improved & will keep improving; sometimes there's a method to the madness, but there's still a long way to go, for sure
@hyratel also worth mentioning -- the desktop-only mode works quite well, and is sometimes a preferable interface for some tasks! no headset necessary :3
i'm certainly biased; i think there's a lot to love here, but i don't wanna downplay the actual issues either. imo it's pretty cool rn & im pretty hopeful for the future too
@qualia What I HAVE seen and understood of Reso (mostly before the rebrand), I like the bones of. you can do *attachments* more like Second Life's principle which the lack of just... *baffles* me in VRC.