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⚡ Cutievirus Ella 🦠 @ella.cutievirus.com · 01/01/2026

my new year’s resolution is to finish the rewrite!! i’ll do it i swear!!

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Chevy Ray @chevyray.dev · 05/11/2025

if u like pixel fonts i sell a huge fucking pack of them chevyray.itch.io ain’t that somethin

youtu.be

The 175 Pixel Font Megapack!

YouTube video by ChevyRay

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⚡ Cutievirus Ella 🦠 @ella.cutievirus.com · 03/08/2025

New color grading feature which uses Look Up Tables (LUT). Custom effects can be made by editing the LUT texture and can be applied selectively to objects. Here I'm using it to invert colors. You can see the color of the shadow is inverted too.

Screenshot from MZ3D Rewrite, showing the new LUT-based color grading feature. Here it is used to selectively apply inverted colors to certain objects.

Examples of color look up table (LUT) textures taken frame babylon's documentation.

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Here is what the default (without filter) look-up table looks like:
(image of default LUT)

Examples of filtered LUT to use for various filters:

(image of inverted LUT)
Inverted colors

(image of high contrast LUT)
High contrast

(image of posterized LUT)
Posterize

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⚡ Cutievirus Ella 🦠 @ella.cutievirus.com · 22/07/2025

implementing blend modes. We have access to more blend modes than RPG Maker normally offers, and you can access them using texture configuration.

from left to right: normal, add, subtract, multiply, screen, exclusion, and two more normal.

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⚡ Cutievirus Ella 🦠 @ella.cutievirus.com · 15/07/2025

Getting effekseer to work on the rewrite is actually pretty hard, it's really not meant to run in a worker thread. (I can do it though dw)

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⚡ Cutievirus Ella 🦠 @ella.cutievirus.com · 11/07/2025

MZ3D Rewrite is getting pretty close to ready for release, 3D model imports are now fully implemented to the level they were before. First release of Rewrite will probably omit the postprocessing features in favor of releasing sooner. Hoping to release in the next month or two.

Screenshot of MZ3D Rewrite displaying the 3D model import feature is fully functional

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⚡ Cutievirus Ella 🦠 @ella.cutievirus.com · 28/06/2025

created a system for warping 4-directional sprites to make them appear 8-directional.

Screenshot of MZ3D Rewrite, the new "diagonal sprite" feature that doesn't require diagonal sprites. It works by creating a quad split down the middle, then shifting that edge to the left or the right to make the character appear like they're facing diagonal left or right.

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⚡ Cutievirus Ella 🦠 @ella.cutievirus.com · 24/05/2025

working on a feature that allows rendering multiple maps at once. No seamless transitions between the maps yet, but they're both rendering. This can also be used to stack maps on top of each other for easier verticality

Screenshot of MZ3D Rewrite demonstrating multiple maps loaded at once. One map has the outdoor tileset and the other has the indoor tileset

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⚡ Cutievirus Ella 🦠 @ella.cutievirus.com · 02/05/2025

i want to get the next preview up soon, just want to add some of the smaller features first

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⚡ Cutievirus Ella 🦠 @ella.cutievirus.com · 04/04/2025

Got looping maps working properly now. The lights from before are actually attached to the tiles but for performance reasons only the main copy of the map will have lights. #RPGMaker #MZ3D

Screenshot of MZ3D Rewrite demonstrating that looping maps now work properly. Several copies of the map can be seen in the distance, but for performance reasons only the main copy of the map will have lights.

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⚡ Cutievirus Ella 🦠 @ella.cutievirus.com · 30/03/2025

rewrote the code that determines which lights a mesh should be affected by. Performs much better now, and no more weird flickering when the lights are recalculated.

Each material has a limit to how many lights it can be affected by at once.

So in order to have more than 4 (or whatever the configured maximum is) lights in the scene at once, each mesh needs to determine which lights it's affected by.

I do this by sorting the lightsources according to how close they are to the mesh, checking whether they're in range, and what the calculated intensity at the current distance would be. Currently it doesn't take color into account, only intensity.

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Victamine D @victamined.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Kirby in pico8 with limitations ! (mix of normal and secret palette) #pixelart #kirby #pico8

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⚡ Cutievirus Ella 🦠 @ella.cutievirus.com · 15/03/2025

the lighting has illuminated an issue with my vertex offsets!

Screenshot from MZ3D Rewrite, a light in front of a diagonal wall, but the wall has bands of dark areas on it.
This is because the vertex normals have not been altered!

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⚡ Cutievirus Ella 🦠 @ella.cutievirus.com · 11/03/2025

my lenovo laptop has transitioned to archlinux

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⚡ Cutievirus Ella 🦠 @ella.cutievirus.com · 27/02/2025

tempted to replay x&y while i wait for ZA…

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⚡ Cutievirus Ella 🦠 @ella.cutievirus.com · 27/02/2025

The holes in the ground are fixed either by putting the diagonal wall on a tile layer above the ground tile, or using the new config layer feature. Config looks like this: vtx(x4:-.5,-.5),-1#top(A2,0,0) #MZ3D #RPGMaker

Screenshot of MZ3D Rewrite, showing the diagonal walls, except now the holes in the floor are fixed.

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⚡ Cutievirus Ella 🦠 @ella.cutievirus.com · 18/02/2025

getting a lot of headaches lately that make it difficult to work on my projects 🙃

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⚡ Cutievirus Ella 🦠 @ella.cutievirus.com · 18/02/2025

Added a placeholder background and alpha transparency feature to my #picotron visual novel engine

The background color for the text box and choice buttons blends with the images behind it and selects the closest color in the palette

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⚡ Cutievirus Ella 🦠 @ella.cutievirus.com · 14/02/2025

Added a bit more detail to Carbuncha's textures, including toenails and some pink under the ears

Added pink to the texture under Carbuncha's ears

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⚡ Cutievirus Ella 🦠 @ella.cutievirus.com · 14/02/2025

added skins to the choice buttons in my vn engine for #picotron and made the layout more responsive.

Screenshot of my vn engine for picotron, demonstrating the changes described in the skeet

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⚡ Cutievirus Ella 🦠 @ella.cutievirus.com · 08/02/2025

before the migraine hit this morning i managed to add eyes to my carbuncha model

carbuncha is an armadillo bunny creature with long ears, large claws, and small horns on its head. it likes to dig, curl into a ball, and leap with its powerful legs.

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⚡ Cutievirus Ella 🦠 @ella.cutievirus.com · 07/02/2025

Want tiles you place on top of a slope to conform to that slope? It was difficult before, but that's the default behavior now. #MZ3D #RPGMaker

Screenshot of MZ3D Rewrite demonstrating how tiles placed on a slope now conform to that slope by default.

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⚡ Cutievirus Ella 🦠 @ella.cutievirus.com · 03/02/2025

i put a lot of thought into how i wanted to implement diagonal walls. i could have simply added a “diagonal wall” shape, but the vertex offset feature is much more flexible and can also be used to create height maps.

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⚡ Cutievirus Ella 🦠 @ella.cutievirus.com · 03/02/2025

new feature, diagonal walls, work in progress :> This is accomplished using the new "vertex offset" feature, which will let you offset the positions of any of the 8 corners of a tile. This is also how slopes will be implemented internally going forward. I still need to fix the culling a bit.

Screenshot of MZ3D rewrite, demonstrating the new vertex offset feature being used to make diagonal walls.

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ɴᴏɴᴀɢᴏɴ。 @robononagon.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

the no.1 princess in the world 🍰🍮♥︎₊˚⊹｡୨୧˚⋆

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⚡ Cutievirus Ella 🦠 @ella.cutievirus.com · 19/01/2025

water shader I made for @cupcake-rebel.anarchist-bakery.com's game

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⚡ Cutievirus Ella 🦠 @ella.cutievirus.com · 15/01/2025

*pushes one line of code* wow I'm being so productive today

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⚡ Cutievirus Ella 🦠 @ella.cutievirus.com · 06/01/2025

does anyone else even play mabinogi

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⚡ Cutievirus Ella 🦠 @ella.cutievirus.com · 31/12/2024

Working on a game together with @cupcake-rebel.anarchist-bakery.com. Really like this sand texture I made

Low-poly sandy dunes rendered in blender. The texture is pixelly and features a normal map to accentuate the ripples in the sand.

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⚡ Cutievirus Ella 🦠 @ella.cutievirus.com · 26/12/2024

made a character sprite to import into my #picotron visual novel engine

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⚡ Cutievirus Ella 🦠 @ella.cutievirus.com · 26/12/2024

got 9slice working for the message box background

Screenshot of VN engine in picotron, demonstrating the message box background constructed using the "9 slice" technique

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⚡ Cutievirus Ella 🦠 @ella.cutievirus.com · 26/12/2024

decided to work on my picotron visual novel engine a bit more for christmas. Still don't have anything worth showing on that front, but it interprets the script using coroutines. Today I got line wrapping, a responsive text box, and error handling set up.

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⚡ Cutievirus Ella 🦠 @ella.cutievirus.com · 21/12/2024

Added a new tiling mode that maps tiles according to the map coordinates. This will allow a technique similar to "parallax mapping" in regular RPG Maker (a commonly requested feature)

A screenshot of MZ3D Rewrite, showing the new tile mapping feature. Each tile is mapped to the texture according to the map coordinates. The texture coordinates are displayed on each tile.

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⚡ Cutievirus Ella 🦠 @ella.cutievirus.com · 02/12/2024

There's a visual bug with the autotile textures when the quads don't line up properly. I'll probably fix this later but for now I'm going to not worry about it

Screenshot of MZ3D rewrite. The textures here are supposed to connect, but because the quads don't line up properly they don't connect properly.

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⚡ Cutievirus Ella 🦠 @ella.cutievirus.com · 30/11/2024

The tile culling in the rewrite is a little more aggressive than the old version. Normally this is a good thing because it removes things that will never be visible, but since the table is transparent it causes a problem...

Screenshot of MZ3D Rewrite. The floor under the table is improperly culled, leaving a hole in the floor under the table. In cases like this, the floor should be visible under the table.

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⚡ Cutievirus Ella 🦠 @ella.cutievirus.com · 28/11/2024

Stuck in loading screen and no errors in console, the worst kind of bug :(

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⚡ Cutievirus Ella 🦠 @ella.cutievirus.com · 26/11/2024

Getting some use out of that error texture at least

Screenshot of MZ3D Rewrite, on the side of the building where the ladder should be, instead is a texture with the words "ERROR" repeating.

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