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Tabski @tabski.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

All of the assets are available open source on the GitHub: github.com/TBartl/Yingl... But just to warn ya: 1) It's not setup in a .blend file or anything - you'd need to reconstruct it out of the .fbx's and .png's 2) All the vertex colors are added in-engine - they'd be hard to get into blender

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Tabski @tabski.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Ah good catch. I just pushed a stealth-fix so the folder will get created.

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Tabski @tabski.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Reminds me of my first yinglet creator model from ~1 year ago. Keep it up, you got this!

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Tabski @tabski.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Export functionality was added around 2 weeks ago: steamcommunity.com/app/3954540 However, it only gets you a .blend file. Some users like the talented @hirsuta.bsky.social have figured out how to take it all the way to VR Chat but it takes a good amount of work: bsky.app/profile/hirs...

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Tabski @tabski.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

when I asked the mods they said it was free to invite anyone to (hence why I link to it from yinglet creator). the only caution was to take care to not post it toooo publicly that bad actors / bots catch on

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Tabski @tabski.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

But that's just for blender. It still doesn't help with getting it into VRChat. I'm not sure the custom material that drives all that can be recreated in VR chat. Someone who knows more about VR chat shader support would have to speak to that.

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Tabski @tabski.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

For the mouth to open like the wiki shows: all three of those things must be done (updating the `ExpressionOpen`, the `ClosedToOpenUV`, and rotating the `mandible` bone).

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Tabski @tabski.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

It's actually loosely based on some official Val artwork:

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Tabski @tabski.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Shout outs to @midas299.bsky.social for suggesting a way this could be implemented: bsky.app/profile/mida...

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Tabski @tabski.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Yinglet Creator v1.1.1 has been released! This update adds experimental export support. Full patch notes: store.steampowered.com/news/app/395...

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Tabski @tabski.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

That's actually a pretty pragmatic way to go about it. I'm out of town right now but I'll sleep on that idea for when I'm back.

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Tabski @tabski.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Official model export support is very unlikely to happen unfortunately. To get into the boring technicals: I wasn't able to find a runtime .fbx or .gltf exporter that could handle the workflow. And creating something like that myself is a bit above my paygrade.

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Tabski @tabski.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

it'd still take a lot of effort and blender knowledge, but now that the project is open source you could manually re-assemble your ying out of the raw .blend files github.com/TBartl/Yingl...

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Tabski @tabski.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Also, the project is now open-source: github.com/TBartl/Yingl...

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Tabski @tabski.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

The first major update for Yinglet Creator is out now! v1.1.0 brings Steam Workshop Support - users can now create and publish content for other users to download. Learn more here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/395...

store.steampowered.com

Yinglet Creator - Workshop Support is Here! - Steam News

Workshop Support has been added to Yinglet Creator with the 1.1.0 update.

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Tabski @tabski.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Yeah I'm not sure how much I want to say just yet. Not because I'm trying to keep it a surprise, but because I want to be confident that I can actually implement it before committing to anything.

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Tabski @tabski.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Hmm, there's nothing implemented for that right now. I'm currently focused exclusively on adding modding/workshop support. Once that's in, I'm hoping things open up to allow for more cool features like that.

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Tabski @tabski.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I'm impressed you staged all this without accidentally clicking off of pose mode 😅

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Tabski @tabski.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

I've had a grin on my face all day seeing everyone's yinglet creations. Gonna grab some sleep, but I'll be addressing some of the reported bugs and quality-of-life issues shortly. Thank you all for checking out my little project!

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Tabski @tabski.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

You can click this little folder icon to jump their immediately but yeah it's a little unintuitive. I'm not sure what's going on with the steam pictures. I usually have the steam overlay disabled but I'll check that out 👀

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Tabski @tabski.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Yinglet Creator is out now, for free, on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3954540/...

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Tabski @tabski.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

There's no in-app texturing I'm afraid, nor do I plan on adding any. Down the road I'm hoping to add modding/workshop capabilities, with texture upload support for things like this.

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Tabski @tabski.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Ah. I've got something like that for Poak. I didn't realize Narklet had something similar.

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Tabski @tabski.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

not at launch, but that's something i'm considering. probably won't be for a while though since there's a few other things I wanna prioritize post-launch

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Tabski @tabski.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

nah, give your money to val or something instead

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Tabski @tabski.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Thanks for sharing! I love seeing all the feedback. Also - I just added a trailer to the steam page.

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Tabski @tabski.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

There's some (limited) hair highlight support. I might build on it if there's enough interest

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Tabski @tabski.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Announcing Yinglet Creator - a small character creator I've been working on based on @valsalia.bsky.social's fictional species. I'll be releasing it for free in like 2 weeks. Steam link below:

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