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@poiyomi
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1 year
You can do size over distance and use it more deliberately to spawn clothes and objects.
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@poiyomi
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2 years
Today I'll be releasing a built-in penetration system for Poiyomi Pro 8.1 It works with all existing DPS avatars. There may be bugs so come help test and cover your carrots in dip :)
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@poiyomi
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2 years
Updated the old shatter wave shader to the new poiyomi 8.1 format. It's a neat effect that should pair well with audio link.
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I've been messing with geometric dissolve and it's getting pretty neat.
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2 years
Poiyomi 8.1 has gotten a ton of new features and improvements over the past few weeks but we haven't been posting enough cool videos. I'm going to try and go through what's been done and post a bunch this week!
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@poiyomi
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4 months
Booth preview images are getting creative.
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@poiyomi
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2 years
Average vrc players complaining about the game running poorly and how it's the fault of the developers.
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2 months
You can test video decals with audio link now! Awesome work! #VRChat
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3 months
@VRChat So.... uh, if anyone wants to come help with the shader, we can uh.... work something out.
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7 months
This is just a normal map, reflections, and a clear coat in poiyomi. You can do a lot with just a little.
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A bunch of people were asking for it, so here it is.
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2 years
I've seen a few ZZZ models running around VRC. Turns out poiyomi SDF shadows just work with the original lightmaps. Saw this model in:
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7 months
I was messing around with my avatar and I did something neat! It's "Truchet Tiling" in the special fx part of the shader but I stacked materials and made a floating layer.
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@poiyomi
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2 years
The newest patreon build of poiyomi now supports auto locking on upload with both #ChillOutVR & #vrchat If all goes well with the chillout stuff I'll push it into the public build of poiyomi toon soon.
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3 years
Today we tried networking animations from one avatar to another using OSC. It's networked outside the game so it even works when we're in different worlds.
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@poiyomi
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11 months
I like using stenciled outlines on cute models. It makes them look like stickers.
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10 months
I'm so used to seeing stuff like this in VRChat that it's become normalized for me, but honestly, I'd be blown away if I walked into a room like this in a regular game with audio-synced platforms, avatars, and a ray-marched audio-synced sky haha. Take a step back sometimes and
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2 years
Finally got a chance to get geometry and tessellation shaders working properly as 8.0 modules. I was testing with a geometry dissolve shader and it turned out pretty neat. (WIP)
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@poiyomi
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2 years
If you ever want to slap a texture on like a sticker then decals are what you're looking for. Poiyomi supports up to 4 decals which can be individually positioned, rotated, and scaled. Decals are great when your textures are atlased but you still want a spot to be high res.
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1 year
Rindo materials will be out soon!
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1 year
Colors and styles can vary greatly, but it's still a WIP. I want it to be super versatile and easy to use in the end.
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2 years
Poiyomi 8.0 presets are awesome! Presets are stored in materials that anyone can create and share. They can be previewed, stacked and undone before applying them. Here's a sneak peek of the few I've made already.
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2 years
Vertex glitching isn't a new feature, but it is one a lot of people don't know about. If you're making a hologram or something like that this can be a cheap and easy sci-fi effect to use.
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1 year
Avatar LTCGI support soon! Club worlds are going to need to update because this is awesome! Ignore the right one that's an old test build...
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1 year
3 avatar material packs and the toon shader should be released on booth tomorrow at As long as nothing terrible happens...
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2 years
Flipbooks are an easy way to put gifs on your avatar. You can use a gif or a set of images. Flipbooks can be positioned, rotated, and scaled on their own just like decals. You can manually control the frames with animations as well making flipbooks super versatile.
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@poiyomi
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3 years
Updated the shader to support the "Oriface" part of @RalivDev 's shader. It uses blendshapes to modify an object's geometry as something enters it. Now someone go make an avatar that can pick its nose :)
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1 year
People constantly DM me about ripping, telling me not to go to public worlds. Do this: Enjoy yourself and have fun in the game you enjoy. Don't worry about people taking your model. Instead, just have fun and come hang out with me in The Great Pug :)
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@poiyomi
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7 months
Glitter in 9.0 has visual upgrades as well as audio link support. In example video: Sparkles on the treble rotates, spins, brightens and gets bigger on the bass
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11 months
I made a little slime Mamehinata with a skeleton from @Melting3D
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Thinking out loud: Poiyomi's shading modes are great, but they don't always mix well. In 8.3+ I want to make it easier to choose different shading styles without the final look seeming mismatched. I always want to use the cool cloth shading because it looks amazing but the
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@poiyomi
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2 years
poiyomi 8.0 has an option to make matcaps double sided. This makes the image show up on both sides and no longer follow your camera. The video is a camera rotating around the model not the model rotating.
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5 years
Here's something you can do with the new dissolve shader. Sync a magic circle to it and you've got yourself magical girl transformations. #VRChat
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6 months
Doing some R&D for 9.1 while 9.0 gets finalized. Got the ProTV3 video texture working with decals. I look forward to seeing what people do with this once it's done.
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11 months
Video example of dissolve being able to apply to global masks. I swap emission0 back and forth in this clip. More info in the previous tweet.
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7 months
9.0 beta bug reports are slowing down and it's almost ready for full public release. I'm excited to be done with it so I can work on fun effects and not just polish and bug fixes. I want to do hair strand emissions in 9.1
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1 year
We worked with lilxyz a long while ago to implement liltoon lighting in poiyomi. For a really close fit just set these settings to match lil toon lighting. Then use this preset to make it so you never get too bright in worlds.
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The best part about VRC updates are the gamer detectives who come out and fearmonger with the ToS Scary things like vrc tracking your eyes and body movements just to update your avatar on the screen Here's a spookier one. They record your voice and send it to other players.👻
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Vertex AudioLink is super undervalued. I added a 20-degree rotation on the bass hits and got AudioLink head bobbing. Think outside the box, and be creative!
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4 years
Now this is what the shader was missing...
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6 months
Here's a super easy fix for tricky face shadows using only poiyomi shaders.
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2 years
Thry added the texture size beside each texture so you can quickly estimate how much vram each texture uses.
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2 years
Locking and unlocking are now super fast. Thanks, @thryrallo and everyone that helped with this.
@thryrallo
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2 years
We got some very significant material locking speed improvements coming in one of the next versions of the @poiyomi shader. Locking: ~1s / Material Unlocking: Almost Instant
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1 year
The next patch will bring a lot of versatility to the Grabpass shader. Currently, there are a lot of limitations due to how lighting and alpha are handled, but soon, you'll be able to do so much more.
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Just finalizing booth examples. I'm trying to keep the audio link simple but use a few different things so people can learn. (Emission won't be this bright in-game) Left to right: liltoon poiyomi with liltoon-style lighting poiyomi lighting setup poiyomi with simple AudioLink
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We've been slowly converting all the popular booth models to poiyomi toon 8.1 and have noticed no matter the skill or popularity of the artist most are definitely lacking in fundamental shader knowledge. I'm going to start making super short videos that cover common problems.
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@VRChat I quit my job at AMD to work on VRChat full time.
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The material packs are up on Each one comes with 3 prefabs 1. Matches liltoon as close as possible. 2. Same as above shading but higher quality light maps and better matches world lighting. 3. Same as the last, but it also has Audiolink fully setup.
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The newest version of poiyomi automatically removes all unused textures from the final upload. You no longer have to worry about random textures being left in slots you aren't using. Smaller download sizes! (random picture because text posts get no views)
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You can randomize textures in poiyomi with stochastic sampling. Tiling a lower res texture until it looks incredible sometimes results in super obvious repeating patterns, but with a few clicks and a lil performance loss, you can make it look really great.
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This isn't related to poiyomi, but if you want really high-quality tiled normals that don't look like artifacts and sandpaper when you move away, consider using fade to grey in the mipmap options so they fade out when you shouldn't see them.
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4 years
Soft is using Poiyomi Toon Shader to make a really pretty waterfall. Couldn't have done a better job myself! @nsc_soft
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3 years
Audio link integration is coming along. Should have something out in the Patreon build by Sunday. This will let you sync various parts of the shader to the world's audio if the world supports it.
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2 years
Working on my cute Halloween zombie girl and the clothing dissolve turned out really nice so I thought I'd share it. Special thanks to @jingo_1016 for the Imeris model.
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I wish it didn't take me so long to make these, but the thumbnail/pics turned out pretty good. I'll post the audio link portion in the comments.
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The geometry dissolve is taking longer than I expected, but it's also turning out better than I expected.
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If you're using The Avatar Studio and your avatar seems dark, you've either changed your additive settings, you're using things like pcss which may alter how you receive additive lighting, or you're just on an old version of the shader.
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@NEXTracer3110 The world uses point lights to light you up. Default additive settings work well, but many users change them and end up darker.
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Along with all the new features for grabpass in 9.0 there finally comes a fix for blur and refraction consistency at different ranges. It looks so good now! I'm so happy it finally works the way I've always wanted it to.
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I seeing a bunch of posts saying FFFXIV's new lighting is worse because the faces don't have specular reflections. You have to actually face the sun now. Welcome to proper lighting. This is why everyone in VRChat uses matcaps. Facing away from sun | Facing sun
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I sincerely hope a system like this is never implemented. I play this game because I love seeing what people make and making things for people. Seeing half the players in the game as default avatars because I'm not their friend would entirely ruin the only reason I play this
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The next patreon and free builds of poiyomi are going to include a texture tool made by @thryrallo It's pretty and easy to use. Enjoy!
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The Free Poiyomi 9.0 beta has begun. For now, the download is only in , so we can get quick reports and squash bugs. When upgrading from 8.X to 9.0 there'll be a button to fix any settings that've changed. If you don't see it then just click the shader
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1 year
And a simple audio link example material to go with it.
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I upgraded the hue shift to consider the human perception of color. I'll include screenshots in the comments, but at a glance, you can see that the left side maintains brightness and saturation much better. The right side loses so much data that you can't even see the texture at
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This is a super basic example of using the poiyomi AudioLink integration. You can use maps to better define how it works. I'm releasing a simple version today that lets you pick basic effects and audio bands to use. The plan is to expand it based on user requests.
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I was playing with the vertex shader code and I think this might need to be a real feature in the shader lol.
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Razgriz posted this neat effect in the poiyomi discord. It's made using depthFX and Additive blending on an expanding sphere.
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8.2.017 is out for $10+ patrons. This includes cool decal placement tools, geometric dissolve, and more. I'm going to fall asleep now; I've been working on it for the last 20 hours. Good night. I'll fix the bugs I get spammed with when I wake up :)
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In 9.0.33 I added overrides to the shader for audio link bands. Sooo... if you for example had an OSC app you could trigger audio link with it from any source you want🥰
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Mamehinata is out! Next up is Shinra!
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1 year
Love seeing people use the shader for more realistic stuff. These look great!
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A new Era of Spartans. #VRChat
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Poiyomi 8.1 is officially out on GitHub and discord. There are tons of great changes in there including a full Japanese translation. If you find a bug let me know @ Booth release and content coming soon :) github: model: @LoAF_VR
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I put Kikyo in Fortnite. It's over vrchat
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2 years
Testing the new glasses shader with @notazami
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Poiyomi has 4 global theme colors. You can set any color in the shader to be controlled by a theme color and/or audio link. This feature is awesome for materials with colors you want to change on the fly. They also have HSV sliders allowing them to be animated super easily.
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@ZekkVRC @ryuzamesi You can also use a panning texture if you want a more user-controlled effect. Just set the uv to local space in the texture dropdown. you can also make your entire model emissive and do the same thing with an alpha texture. maybe a little rim lighting and vertex glitching.
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The more correct method for reference
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I set my min brightness to .005. It doesn't look bright in the dark. I fit most of the worlds and if I look out of place amongst friends, I can always animate min brightness to match. .005 is an excellent value if you never want to be pure black but still fit world lighting.
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Being able to have the world's video on your avatar is pretty awesome. It only works with ProTV3 atm but I'd love to open a discussion with other video player creators and create some sort of texture name standard.
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I see a lot of posts like this and honestly it really just comes down to understanding one shader more than the other. Let me put my money where my mouth is: here are 3 models FROM Booth in multiple lighting situations, Liltoon and Poiyomi comparisons. Both shaders can look great
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@Neonie
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STOP. USING. POIYOMI. FOR. YOUR. SKIN. Unless you KNOW what the fuck you are doing or have darker or unusual skin colors, Poiyomi is for special effects on hair, outfits, ect. OTHERWISE, use Liltoon. It's more optimized, and looks better out of the box on regular skin mats.
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We heard all the complaints loud and clear! People weren't happy with Unity freezing up when they enabled things in the shader so now it doesn't. big thanks to @Oli__VR for all the help with this!
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Karin is out now! Next up, Mamehinata!
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Let me show you guys the real secret sauce that's been in the shader for years. Positionally-independent p2p dissolve using vertex colors. If you bake a pose then it'll always act as if it's in that pose.
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Fully VR compatible slime shader I just finished. Bulges up when things go inside it. No scripts required. check it out at
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I've been working on a thumbnail for the toon shader booth page. If only we could have gifs... I figured I'd throw a bunch of avatars using poiyomi on there.
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A ton of people take low res screenshots in unity to show off their models. @notpumkin has a fantastic screenshot tool for Unity that'll let you take much nicer images. Even has VCC support :)
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2 years
Improved pathing module in poiyomi V8. This was made by putting a maze texture in the flood fill pathing tool included with the shader.
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3 years
Working on the parallax implementation for 8.0 (this is a flat plane) Poiyomi may not be a perfectly accurate realistic shader but it looks pretty good in my opinion.
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4 years
Landfishy is using angular fading in the toon shader to fade out when you aren't making eye contact with his avatar. Looks super cool! Discord: landfishy #7839 VRC: landfishy
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A good understanding of UVs can 100x what you can do when making a model.
@rollingmango
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Been addicted to @poiyomi 's audio link spectrum for 2 weeks. Really pushed me to learn more about UVing. Modeled the horns and halo. Very happy with how this is all coming together #VRChat
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9.0 should be going into public beta real soon. People found more bugs than expected and we're doing more work than expected. Thry added a cross shader editor that lets you edit all your poi materials regardless of shader. You can even open all the materials on an avatar at once.
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With the latest build of Poiyomi 8.0 we added geometric specular antialiasing. It cleans up a lot of the sparkly specular and makes it look more like you'd expect. Images below are max smoothness and metallic with reflections disabled to show the specular specifically.
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A certain shader started getting really popular so I added shader addon support to poiyomi pro. Now you can import @RalivDev 's addon and automagically add a new feature to poiyomi pro.
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Don't include 3rd party things in your packages. 99% of the actual errors we deal with are from people importing scripts over themselves and breaking them. Feel free to include legally redistributable packages in your zip or link where to get them. Stop exporting random things.
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