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Hyeve
@sakurashaders.bsky.social
Hello! I'm Hyeve. I make I make various shader-y and computer graphics-y projects :3
Find them here! http://discord.gg/f3caRnHfCG
yknow sometimes you intend to have an actual social media precense and then months later realize your brain is really bad at coming up with things to post consistently

anyway my VRC shaders have light volume support now you should try it :) (its free btw?!)
September 3, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Sakura Toon is now FREE! (and has built-in documentation)

I haven't worked on it much recently, so I decided it wasn't fair to keep it paywalled anymore, and it is now freely available!

I also have some new projects that I might post about, and my Ko-fi is still up if you'd like to support them :3
April 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
unity is great I love unity there's no way they could possibly make FUNDAMENTAL BREAKING CHANGES to how their shader processor works in unity 6 nope no never no way.

anyways my shaders work in unity 6 now :3
March 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
ASGHJJHGF MY SHADER SUPPORTS URP NOW

I wrote an entire shader compatibility layer (which I might release separately sometime) to allow any shader to easily work across different unity render pipelines, and it is WORKING!

also I reworked my LTCGI integration a bit :3

Available RIGHT NOW :3
March 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Shader update! I've reworked how patterns/masks display in the editor, and added some more options for reflections and matcap - take a look at these funky materials!

Available now :)
March 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
AAA sorry for being absent for a while, I've finally put together a slightly-longer-form video about my shader!

It'd be incredible if you'd check it out and maybe share it around :)
youtu.be/UozOOy8Uqzw
I made my own VRChat Shader.
YouTube video by Sakura Shaders
youtu.be
March 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
And by "soon" I mean RIGHT NOW! Shiny reflections & matcap support are available now in the latest release.

Here's a selection of all the different kinds of possibilities you can achive with my shader currently, reflective and otherwise!

All from just a small set of straightforward settings :)
December 22, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Reflections & Matcap support coming to my shader soon!
December 22, 2024 at 4:12 PM
got distracted rendering millions of voxels on an igpu... (realtime 60fps)
December 15, 2024 at 11:56 PM
Heya! Been too busy to post recently, but I wanted to let you know that the third release of my toon shader is now available!

Most notably it includes LTCGI support and editor material property groups, but there's been a bunch of small fixes and improvements too :)
December 8, 2024 at 1:27 PM
My toon shader now supports LTCGI lighting!

No special configuration needed, just a single checkbox to enable it, and it automatically supports most of my regular lighting effect settings :)
November 30, 2024 at 7:42 PM
Been super busy lately, but I was sanity checking some lighting setups, and daym.. I should really have set up an HDRI for testing before!
November 28, 2024 at 9:55 PM
I'm too tired to make a clip talking about it today, but I added material property syncing, so that property values can be shared between multiple materials without having to multiedit them every time.

Also let you name the sync groups so that you can actually know what one you have open :)
November 24, 2024 at 11:32 PM
I've been *actually* in VRC (like, socializing) for maybe a few hours total at this point.. but I'm already considering full body trackers :sob:
November 22, 2024 at 11:12 PM
Heyo! Recently finished making an optimized version of my VRC avatar, but now I need places to hang out.. I don't actually know a lot of VRC people yet and joining places alone is scary ><

If any of you VRC folk wanna hang out and/or introduce me to more frens, send me a message :3
November 21, 2024 at 10:50 PM
I love it when hlsl decides that no, actually, this line of code needs to be exactly here and cannot be moved to make it more efficient.

if anyone has any idea how to stop the compiler from exploding randomly i would love to know..
November 20, 2024 at 5:06 PM
I promised cool things, so here they are! Many improvements and several new features - more custom UI, emission, transparency support, and Patterns..

I couldn't quite fit them all here since bluesky only allows 1 minute clips, but I have a longer clip up on youtube and tiktok :)

#vrchat #shaders
November 16, 2024 at 9:22 PM
I've been super busy working on my shaders this evening, and I have some new things to show off, but I need to sleep and don't have time to make a clip tonight.

Cool things coming tomorrow :)
November 16, 2024 at 12:54 AM
Today my day has been taken up by putting this thing together, but it is finally done! Behold, major pc upgrade:
November 13, 2024 at 10:34 PM
No update on shaders today, buuuut I am building a new PC this week once all the parts arrive!

Current one isn't bad, but realllly struggles with busy VRC worlds, so once I get this new one built I should be able to hang out in VRC a lot more comfortably :)
November 11, 2024 at 11:18 PM
Hai! I've run out of features to showcase for the moment, so instead I'm going to be posting lil' dev vlogs and screenshots of the new things I'm working on, whenever there's things to show.

Today, I started on custom editor UI!

#vrchat #shaders
November 10, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Hai! Today I'd like to show off the rimlighting in my VRC toon shader. It's nothing incredibly special, but it does have a couple of unique settings that let you do just a little bit extra with it.

Take a look!

#vrchat #shaders
November 9, 2024 at 6:21 PM
I've been super busy today and don't have any toon shader clips ready to showcase, so instead here's a look at something else I work on; shader art!

There's no models or meshes here, only a pixel shader and code creating an audioreactive experience.
November 8, 2024 at 9:32 PM
Almost forgot to post today.. But here's a look at the extra controls the new VRC toon shader I've been working on gives you for realtime lights!

You can have standard soft falloff as normal, or you can give even the lights themselves toon banding and hard edges, for a fully-toon style!
November 7, 2024 at 8:44 PM
Outlines are a big part of toon shading, but doing them usually comes with a big performance hit or a lot of artifacts.

For my new VRC toon shader, I took the standard cheap & messy technique, and managed to develop some significant improvements to it - take a look!
November 6, 2024 at 5:45 PM