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LumKitty @lumkitty.uk · 2d

We're live! Not doing my usual Peak collab today as Neocortex is busy, and since I'm unable to do #VoidStranger on Saturday due to LemonDingo's birthday stream, I'm doing it today instead!

Continuing my playthrough of EX mode over on twitch.tv/LumKitty

#VTuber #ENVTuber #VTuberEN #Catgirl #Twitch

LumKitty - Twitch

EX mode first playthrough

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ISS Piss Tracker @iss-piss-tracker.bsky.social · 4d

The piss tank on the ISS is now 69% full.

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LumKitty @lumkitty.uk · 5d

Pushed out a quick update to 0.7b - It turns out the Spout2 sender I'm using no-longer requires OpenGL, so I removed the dependency on OpenTK.GLControl and no-longer initialise OpenGL at all.

This means the timer starts much faster and the EXE has dropped from over 9MB to under 4MB

LumKitty @lumkitty.uk · 5d

0.7 of my Stream Starting Timer is out, and unless there's any issues I haven't spotted, this will become RC1 next week. Changes are all internal

- Automate events in #VNyan and #MixItUp (e.g. Twitch ads)
- Use images as your clock font
- Spout2 output
- 100% FOSS, no monetisation

#VTuberTech

Screenshot of a Windows application showing a timer (time: 4:20)
Overlayed over it is a transparent pixel art purple & cyan clock showing the same time

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LumKitty @lumkitty.uk · 5d

Changes:
- Convert images to RGBA at load time instead of run-time
- Only re-draw digits that have actually changed
- VNyan and MixItUp connections moved to self contained classes
- Use data bindings for connection status labels
- Check all PNGs are present before loading an image font

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LumKitty @lumkitty.uk · 5d

0.7 of my Stream Starting Timer is out, and unless there's any issues I haven't spotted, this will become RC1 next week. Changes are all internal

- Automate events in #VNyan and #MixItUp (e.g. Twitch ads)
- Use images as your clock font
- Spout2 output
- 100% FOSS, no monetisation

#VTuberTech

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LumKitty @lumkitty.uk · 8d

All times in BST (subtract 5 for EDT, 8 for PDT)

Mondays
20:00 - Beat Saber (with user song requests)

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LumKitty @lumkitty.uk · 8d

Tuesdays
18:00 - The Song of Saya (18+)
A 22 year old horror visual novel from the creator of Madoka Magica. I don't know too much about it and will be going in spoiler free. Content warnings for gore & psychological horror.
(Note: This is the Steam version which I'm told has been made twitch safe)

LumKitty @lumkitty.uk · 8d

Wednesdays
19:00 - Psychonauts (and sequels)
An classic platform adventure from legendary point & click creator Tim Schafer. The original now counts as Retro, which is my excuse for playing it on Wednesdays. The sequels (Rhombus of Ruin VR and Psychonauts 2) are not retro but continuing the story

LumKitty @lumkitty.uk · 8d

Thursdays
18:00 - Open collab slot
Collabs with the VNyanbassador crew, currently Peak but may include other games

Fridays
18:00 - FFXIV collabs

LumKitty @lumkitty.uk · 8d

Saturdays
13:00 - FFXIV: Shadowbringers on @LemonDingo 's channel with @Linokii, @Rywek, @UnabashedlyAsh, @Sky
18:00 - Void Stranger (EX Mode)
Delving deep into the void with some post-game ridiculously hard puzzles
22:00 - FFXIV: P10S (raid night)

LumKitty @lumkitty.uk · 8d

Sundays
18:00 - Software dev (honestly the biggest horror can be found here!)
23:00 - FFXIV: M6S (raid night)

LumKitty @lumkitty.uk · 8d

It's spoopy month, and that means it's time for my spoopy schedule.

Text description, times and more details in the replies

Stream schedule for twitch.tv/LumKitty
Please see the replies to the original post for times listed in this image

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LumKitty @lumkitty.uk · 8d

Having issues with BSky not showing a proper #Twitch thumbnail when you post? Here's how I it to work (on desktop Firefox):

First type a link to e.g.
www.twitch.tv/LumKitty (not HTTPS)
Remove the embed, edit the link and remove www e.g.
twitch.tv/LumKitty

This should give you a working embed!

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LumKitty @lumkitty.uk · 9d

A quick 0.5a release of my Stream Starting Timer. It's the exact same binary, but a slightly older version of Spout.dll which appears to have resolved the occasional crashes on startup!

github.com/LumKitty/Str...

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Release v0.5a-beta · LumKitty/StreamStartingTimer

Update: v0.5a is the exact same EXE but a slightly older version of spout.dll which appears to have resolved the random crashes: AWAS666/Spout.NETCore#1 Added new option "Show Leading Zero" to togg...

github.com

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LumKitty @lumkitty.uk · 10d

I have just now realised that instead of loading my images and doing the pixel format conversion when I write to my OGL texture, I should convert them at load time and store them in that format. Also as the : is only written to texture once it doesn't even need to be stored!

To fix on Sunday :3

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LumKitty @lumkitty.uk · 10d

Next version I think I should add options to enable/disable the integrations with VNyan and MixItUp, so that people who only use one can still use the app.

Maybe I should look into integrations with other software like StreamerBot but that's a bit harder as I don't use it and can't test it

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LumKitty @lumkitty.uk · 10d

0.5 is now out. Visually it looks the same except it now has the ability to hide the leading zero.

Internally we switched OpenGL runtime so the EXE is now 8mb not 32mb! Also made some performance and reliability improvements. Spout is still experimental, but non-spout is stable!

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LumKitty @lumkitty.uk · 12d

v0.4-beta of my Stream Starting Timer is out. This brings experimental Spout2 output with the ability to use images as your clock font.

It still has the ability to fire events in VNyan and MixItUp (e.g. pre-stream ads) on a schedule

lum.uk/SST (GitHub)

#VTuberTech

Screenshot of VisualStudio, showing time code. The timer app is running in front of this, showing the time 4:52 on a greenscreen background. Overlayed in front of that is the same time in a retro 16bit pixel art font made of purple and cyan stripes

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LumKitty @lumkitty.uk · 11d

Live for an extra dev stream. Not starting my new VN until next week and I need to make my Spout image handling not suck. The ideas for how to do it are stuck in my head so here we are!

twitch.tv/LumKitty

#VTuber #ENVTuber #VTuberEN #Catgirl #Twitch #CSharp #Streamer #SmallStreamer #VTuberTech

LumKitty - Twitch

Marshal: Did I *byte[] off more than I can chew?

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LumKitty @lumkitty.uk · 12d

v0.4-beta of my Stream Starting Timer is out. This brings experimental Spout2 output with the ability to use images as your clock font.

It still has the ability to fire events in VNyan and MixItUp (e.g. pre-stream ads) on a schedule

lum.uk/SST (GitHub)

#VTuberTech

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LumKitty @lumkitty.uk · 16d

A little behind the scenes, here's all the trackers I wear IRL, and how they're handled in #VNyan. I'm also using LIVnyan, Lunazera's camera prop and Sjatar's screenlight plugin

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A catgirl VTuber plays Beat Saber. She is t-posing and purple cubes show trackers on her head, hands, elbows, chest, hips, knees and feet

An Ikea Skådis wall board mounted to the side of a staircase. It holdd two Valve Index controllers and 8 Tundra trackers, attached to various straps for wearing the trackers on your body. There are alls 3 Tundra tracker USB dongles at different corners of the board.

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LumKitty @lumkitty.uk · 17d

I think I've fixed my FBT, and also upgraded it to 11 points of tracking. Lets find out with some #BeatSaber since Monday didn't go so well! :D

twitch.tv/LumKitty

#VTuber #ENVTuber #VTuberEN #Catgirl #Twitch #VR #Streamer #Stream #SmallStreamer

LumKitty - Twitch

!bsrhelp | requests | I think I've fixed my FBT! lets find out!

twitch.tv

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LumKitty @lumkitty.uk · 17d

I've finished #KemonoTeatime. What a beautiful game, it's been a while since a game made me cry that much

A few minor translation issues, but otherwise this is a 100% recommendation. It brings up some complex issues, and I have thoughts about the ending, but not anything I can express in 160 chars!

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LumKitty @lumkitty.uk · 18d

Tail Tuesday is slightly more literal at the moment! Continuing #KemonoTeatime - It's almost Macaron's birthday!

twitch.tv/LumKitty

#VTuber #ENVTuber #VTuberEN #Catgirl #VisualNovel #Twitch #Stream #Streamer #SmallStreamer

LumKitty - Twitch

It's almost Macaron's birthday!

twitch.tv

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LumKitty @lumkitty.uk · 19d

Pondering an option for my stream starting timer to use images for the numbers instead of a text label. This would allow those of you with fancy multicolour fonts (i.e. me) to use them, and also opens up the possibility of sending it on a Spout2 source with transparency support.

hmmmm...

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LumKitty @lumkitty.uk · 19d

I found an open source .net library for adding buttons to the titlebar. Gonna use this in the next version of my timer, and also move the progress bar to the taskbar icon. This means no more need to crop the timer in OBS!

After that I just have to figure out how to make it transparent. Oh no!

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