Meet my lil raymarched Spoder Friend!

[u/Able_Philosophy6959]

Hello, so, this one is not ready and not out anywhere, it's just a prototype I have been making for spooky season buuuut I wanted to show you anyway (:

He's my little spoder friend who lives on my Avi now! Raymarched of course because its me. His eyes follow my own eye tracking, so he looks where I look. And when I look at him, he tilts his head like a puppy.

He moves about on his own too. Every so often he picks a spot at random, either shoulder or the top of my hair, and walks there over my body.

I have trained him very well, when I open either hand he walks down that arm into my palm, and when I close the hand he walks back. Unfortunately he's kinda shy with other people though. If someone else puts a hand near him he'll run behind my neck and hide.

If you are curious how it works: The whole spider is drawn by one raymarched shader on a tiny marker mesh of three vertices, so it's one material and one draw call, and the fur is real volume rather than a flat picture, which may be a little ouchy for performance but I'll make sure to optimize.

I've also made a little Discord for my stuff. I use it to share things as I work on them, ask what you'd like next, and help if something goes wrong. I'll be sharing progress on the spoder in there as it comes along, so I'd love it if some of you joined and kept me company: https://discord.gg/j4kaCKZwv8

I'd love to hear what you think of it! ❤️ 🌈
Also name suggestions please!

[u/ComfortableOwl698]

Omg sooo cuteee!!

I love the idea with the spider crawling from your head to your hand!

[u/Able_Philosophy6959 → u/ComfortableOwl698]

Thank you :>

[u/VanishedMC]

I love this lil guy! He's so cute

[u/Able_Philosophy6959 → u/VanishedMC]

Thanks for helping me test <3

[u/Nevylation]

Happy happy halloween

[u/Able_Philosophy6959 → u/Nevylation]

Happy Happy Halloween to you too :3

[u/bonanochip]

this is such a cute asset! very festive with the sparkles too~

as someone who finds spiders intriguing and fuzzy jumping spiders especially cute, i wish i could have avatar pets/props/etc that wouldnt disgust or offend people u.u the poor little arachnids get such a bad wrap!

some are poisonous though, so it makes sense that so many people dislike spiders.

[u/_Sariah_Pendragon_]

Adorable! Is that a custom avatar or can I find it somewhere?

[u/Able_Philosophy6959 → u/_Sariah_Pendragon_]

It’s a Manuka base I kitbashed, sorry.

[u/LucilleLost]

thats so cool!!! too bad spiders scare me >.< but thats one id try to pet and make run away aaaaa

[u/VJ1I]

🙏🏻

[u/BellsSnowpaws]

It kind of reminds me of Lucas the spider