Chapter 102
Chapter 102
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 102
Chapter Title: Not Motion Capture, But Myriad Capture
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⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [Don't worry, it's just an ordinary troll.] That was the title of the latest video uploaded to my newly created main YouTube channel.
It was an edited clip of the first and second matches from the Streamer Random Battle Lounge tournament hosted by Ayase.
Of course, I'd gotten permission from Ayase herself, the tournament organizer, to post it.
She'd uploaded her YouTube video first, and I'd put mine up a bit later.
After all, it wouldn't be proper etiquette for a participant like me to beat the host to the punch.
The video quality was beyond expectations.
Seemed like Lee Jia's shrine manager was earning every penny I'd gritted my teeth to pay her.
...But this editor had such a distinct style.
This video was spicy as hell too.
In the scene where we were chatting with our teammates about the reverse cam, they'd slapped a shot of my reverse cam right in as b-roll footage, complete with the caption "Boom! lol."
— Editor's Note Congratulations. That reverse cam b-roll ended up as the most rewatched moment.
Algorithm's got it locked in.
I checked the comments with a twinge of anxiety.
Thankfully, they were pretty clean.
The manager was deleting any rule-breaking or spammy comments in real-time, it seemed.
Worth every cent.
💬 Comments — Busy Folks' Timestamp [For the busy folks, that scene -> 6:36] — Reply [Thanks.] — Reply [You rascal... May you be blessed with fortune.] — Reply [Boom! lol] — Reply [Thanks for the way of the jianghu.] — Reply [This is it today.] — Reply [Whoa, that's huge.] — Reply [Divine power pouch getting rummaged through] — Reply [No worries about the baby going hungry lol] — Fact Check The fact is, that hopeless gameplay is also thanks to Reflecting Myriad Stars' grace... (Edited) 2k likes on this? Thanks!! 😱😱😱😱
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— 1 min ago [Can't hold it in anymore lol] — Suggestion [Editing seems a bit heavy-handed. Maybe tone it down a notch?] — Pro Tip [At 5:30, that play was no good. Saw someone at 250 direction, should've started with briefing...] There were straight-up mentions of the reverse cam, armchair generals giving advice, and folks just messing around in the comments.
They were chowing down on talk of divine power pouches and baby food bowls like it was a feast.
Surprisingly, for a YouTube comment section, this was squeaky clean.
Totally tolerable for me.
YouTube's hardcore anon accounts—the real deal—dish out comments way harsher than this. This was child's play.
Well.
With a human managing it, they couldn't catch everything posted five minutes ago.
— Concept Check [Concept's intense lol; Hard to play this badly on purpose] — Reply [Not a concept, not even human] — Reply [VTuber weeb trash starting their circlejerk again lol That RP crap or whatever, spouting their insider nonsense lol] — IT Crowd [lol ITV level real? Chest feels majestic...] — Reply [Myriad Stars TV level real? Divine power in the chest overflows...] Mindless VTuber hate.
Adult site ads.
Downright personal insults and sexual harassment.
Definitely glad I'd hired a proper manager.
YouTube comments are raw wilderness.
Without management, it'd turn into a dumpster fire fast.
"Nngh... Haaahhh."
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After checking the video's status, I finally dragged myself out of bed.
Yesterday.
Even after that intense workout and a six-hour stream when I got home, my body felt perfectly fine.
Muscle soreness? Not a hint.
Muscle fibers hadn't even torn in the first place.
No plans with Yoo Euisul today, no Awakener Association visits either.
So I grabbed a late lunch and headed straight down to the basement studio to prep the stream.
Mountains of setup to do before going live.
Today.
I was finally debuting "Myriad Capture"—not motion capture—for the faithful.
Kim Junghwan had busted his ass building this studio.
Least I could do was milk it for all it was worth, right?
About ten cameras dotted the studio.
Not the optical ones costing millions per unit.
Didn't need 'em for Myriad Capture anyway.
Just decent tracking cams would do.
Today's stream wouldn't be in V-World; I'd sourced a separate 3D model map.
Hook me up, Kim Junghwan!
And he did.
Sent it over thirty minutes after my KakaoTalk ping.
Not some top-tier 3D map, just your standard paid Korean street model.
Good enough.
Not putting on a concert for crowds; this was just a Myriad Capture test.
This map quality would let me go to town.
I was a three-month newbie VTuber, no pro modeling knowledge.
But the Omnia Archive program was overkill tech.
One click to slap on the 3D map.
Before the stream.
I ran a test broadcast to check Myriad Capture's performance.
Two viewers hopped in.
Who else?
— GraceOfMyriadEyes : Cult Leader 3D debut, for real? — LeeJiasShrine : Starting to feel pretty great about accepting that editor gig... — GraceOfMyriadEyes : This too — LeeJiasShrine : Is Reflecting Myriad Stars' grace, of course. My employees.
Payrolled ones at that—gotta squeeze 'em when it counts.
"Cut the chatter and properly check if the stream looks good."
— GraceOfMyriadEyes : One thing's sure: sultry voice as always today ;;; — LeeJiasShrine : Fr lol ...Dock their pay?
No audience watching, so why the dumb jokes.
"Hang tight ten minutes. Gotta tweak some settings first."
Needed to preview the Myriad Capture quality before going out live.
Like I'd said a million times, Omnia Archive was peak overtech.
Flip on stream clueless and show movements so fluid they'd blur reality? Disaster.
This was just a test, only my two employees watching.
But even they couldn't see Omnia Archive's overtech.
Myriad Capture was that transcendent.
One click, and the prepped 3D map loaded.
Linked the modeling too.
Korean street, smack in the middle.
There I was.
"Ugh."
Yeah.
Not "VTuber Lee Jia," but "Fervent Devotee Lee Jia" straight up.
Screwed from the jump.
Not modeling—my real self digitized cell by cell and dropped in.
No need to belabor how cheat-like one-click 3D modeling was.
Money wasn't the issue.
...Okay, money was an issue.
But time mattered more.
Top-quality 3D modeling? Minimum six months, up to a year.
Tons of VTubers, few modelers.
Backlog city.
Not wrapping in days—even with premium pay, six months minimum.
But this "Lee Jia" 3D model?
Overwhelming quality no one could touch in ten years, let alone one.
This won't do.
Utterly implausible.
Only VTuber worried about too good modeling? Probably me.
Omnia Archive as a VTuber-eating black company? Retracted.
Support's solid.
I fiddled the program to downgrade quality to "money well spent" believable levels.
Map ready, avatar ready.
Now, motion.
Hit record.
Got up from the chair, walked into the chroma-keyed studio, tried various moves.
Dynamic actions to gauge quality right.
Like.
Arms-out high jumps.
Ten reps.
One, two, three.
"..."
Screw it.
These two heavy, annoying, pointless pouches on my chest were a nuisance.
Record enough here; check the footage.
Back at the desk, played it back.
Blown away.
This.
Not motion capture level—straight-up live-action footage, believable.
No telltale 3D polygon stiffness.
Face and body pure 3D VTuber char, but moves human-natural.
Unsettlingly so.
Way too early for the world to see this overtech.
— GraceOfMyriadEyes : When live? When? When? When? When? — LeeJiasShrine : *static... *crackle... *rapid typing...* — LeeJiasShrine : I'm burning up... — GraceOfMyriadEyes : No choice, gonna loop the reverse cam while I wait. If those two saw this, they'd peg me not as a VTuber, but an Anomalous Phenomenon.
So, Reflecting Myriad Stars.
Thanks for the stellar work, but could you dial down the quality big time?