hello & welcome to the thing where i tell you what's going on.

first of all,

TronBot Series

things are going well in that department. slow progress is being made, despite the fact that my schedule recently has been very hectic.

the choreography in this scene is INSANELY fast, by the way.

[TronBot 0.5 Revision]

[TronBot Zero]

Am I being truthful to the poll, & prioritizing TronBot Zero?

yes.

Other things

i've been working on a clip for a collab. not going to say much about it yet, but know that i am working on something.

Me

i've been exercising for a while, now. currently, i just do a real quick thing late in the night, that's currently 150 pushups, plank until i can't hold myself up, alongside a couple of other things, such as all of the walking that i get done during the day. things are going well in that department. i plan on slowly progressing things over time. i'm decently shredded already.

speaking of myself, this is me, smiling on a discord call;

weew, where ARE you, bro?

please note that i otherwise look very unimpressesd.

i recently got a new webcam, the ankerwork powerconf c200. i messed with the settings to make it look like i'm in a void here, but the truth is; it works really well in the dark.

i heavily recommend this camera, to be honest. the software's lightweight & easy to use. it'll ask you if you want to make an account on the first launch, but you can just skip that prompt and it never bothers you again. an honest webcam for $59.99 USD.

also, my birthday was recently (21st of march, remember?). happy birthday to me.

That's all

see you when i decide i've been quiet for too long again.

you're going to make it, bro.

• Blooperino

There is a poll currently being held on my website, weewdiedrich.carrd.co.

THIS POLL HAS CONCLUDED! TronBot Zero won.

The question is as follows:

What would you rather see get done sooner?

There are three options:

• TronBot Zero
• TronBot 0.5 Revision
• Continue working on both at once.

The poll will close on february 3rd, 2025, or when I decide that there has been enough votes.

with a new icon, comes a new persona.

character bio:

Intentionally forgetting his past in hopes of a better future, he finds new ways to strive. Average height, above average strength, but he's slightly underweight and is always fatigued; this man should probably avoid getting into too many fights; disregarding the fact that he's a pretty decent fighter.

The only advantage that he has is his condition, known as Defect R241; it gives him immunity against sedatives such as benzodiazepinel. While this could provide some support in dangerous environments, if he ever has to get surgery? Poor guy has to be on insane pain medications and be awake the entire time. Ouch.

He also has a couple of permanent injuries; his kneecaps are a little bit loose due a combination of hypermobility and a history of dislocation. Because of this, he occasionally wears knee braces under his outer pants layer. He can do fine without them, but they help prevent further incidents. He wears two layers of pants, the inner layer, & the outer trench layer; because wearing trench gear all day may eventually start to feel uncomfortable.

he's incredibly similar to how i look in real life, the only differences being that i have frizzier hair & thicker eyebrows.

MADNESS SPRITES

click here to download. credit upon use, please.

as always, shading layers should be at 25% opacity.

VRCHAT AVATAR

avtr_389d3932-5969-4ff3-9a5d-33eb3096aecc

OUTFIT

customized trench coat

trench pants

trench boots

basically, all trench stuff.

weapon of choice: Chiappa Rhino 60DS (Black)

you can download the sprites to that gun here.

OK, BUT WHY?

like i've said, this whole deal is making tronbot more independant as his own character.

he's still cool as fuck, and will always be cool as fuck. progress on tronbot series will resume.

i mostly just needed something that represented the author himself, that being me.

this post will be updated if any changes or additions occur.

MOST RECENT UPDATE: JANUARY 21 2025

• added a toggle that makes the skin monochrome.

felt like making the tronbot emblem ONLY represent tronbot, to further tronbot's independance as a character. i have my own emblem now.

past media that used the tronbot emblem to represent the whole of myself will not be changed.

happy madness day! i want to provide some updates on tronbot 0.5 revision and tronbot zero.

more specifically, i want to talk about the backgrounds. for a long while now, i've been using blender and its respective "freestyle" addon to produce backgrounds. this is probably obvious from the jump in background quality from my old works to the part i made for the dog.fla remake collab.

The Bar, TronBot ZERO, in Blender. The rectangle that's to the left is for scale.

being able to use blender to make your backgrounds allows you to not have to worry about messing up perspective, and it gives you more freedom to do whatever you want. when using blender to make your backgrounds, the only limitation is how good you are with 3d software.

The Bar, TronBot ZERO, in Adobe Animate. Note that all people were removed from the scene for this image so that you can more clearly see the actual background.

it also allows you to animate in 3d, which can lead to animated backgrounds or entire sequences that are 3d.

good man SolidP made an excellent, more verbose document on how to put blender backgrounds into flash, which you can read here.

i believe that madness animators should move more towards 3d backgrounds, as they open up an entire new zone of background production. an example being, if you make your background in 3d, then all you need to do to make new angles of it is just move the camera in blender; as opposed to redrawing the entire thing from scratch.

Carnage, TronBot 0.5 Revision. This background was also originally 3D. Shoutouts to Doug.

creating the backgrounds in 3d, at least in my experience, can actually be faster. try it out!

that's all for now. see you soon!

tl;dr: "i was looking for a cool model to use because nothing fit me. i found this one thing. i liked it so much that i started animating it, too."

for those unaware; tronbot is a repurpose of a vrchat base avatar, named sbot. i think the model is cool as fuck; so much so that i made the compilation of madness animations and lore about it (that i'm still working on to this day).

the reason why i called it tronbot instead of continuing to call it sbot, is everyone calling it "a tron robot".

this is the original upload: https://vrcmods.com/item?id=7668

(it is quite unfortunate that there are some not very good things on this website.)

smoopy0240 my beloved. this dude is cool as fuck because he dropped this model, gave people that wanted it rights to do whatever they want with it as long as they don't monetize it, and then promptly disappeared from the internet without a trace.

another thing about why i use this model specifically, is because i saw it and was like "yeah; this is cool as fuck. i'm gonna use this.". i was browsing for something to use on vrchat since i had difficulties finding something already on there that fit. this was january 2021, after making my vrchat account in july 2020 but not using it much; and i've just been rolling with it since; occasionally updating into what it is now.

even though i may now have my own, separate persona, tronbot will remain as a character.

avatar id: avtr_0d55303c-daae-4874-9069-6916b19c1807

TronBot Series

vrchat stuff

hey all, just some minor updates to my vrchat worlds, basically my version of valve's "updated localization files" patch note:

The Rift:

* removed the weird easing from the fan animations. the fans now run continuously without slowing down.

Magification Room:

* changed name from "MAG Hank's Room" to "Magification Room" to be more accurate to what it was made for

Experiment Facility:

* changed name from "An Experiment" to "Experiment Facility" to be more accurate to what it was used for

* changed description to be more accurate to what it was used for

The Penthouse:

* removed all implications that the world be exclusively used as a home, by removing mentions of such from the name and description

tronbot

still working on it, but the script for the whole series of animations is done, start to finish. progress is going well, granted, i've been taking it easy recently to recharge. new stuff will be out when it's ready, so just, be patient, mkay?

outro

yeah that'll be all for now, i'm gonna go back to bed. seeya

hello all! weewdiedrich here, sorry it has been so long since my last news post. life has just gotten very, very busy. despite that, i've managed to push out a couple things, starting with...

DOG.FLA Remake part

i did a part for that new dog.fla remake collab! you can view that here. working on my part was pretty fun. i encourage you to check out the full thing as well! link's in the description of my part. nearly 20 minutes of nonstop action!

tronbot tronbot tronbot tronbot tronb

i've been doing some work on tronbot series as a whole. i now have storyyboards that go up to.... a good number of animations from now. even then, i'm still working on it. i've mostly been doing that alongside creating new characters and further developing existing ones internally. as a result of a combination of that and my current priorities, progress of the actual ongoing animations (tronbot 0.5 revision and tronbot zero) has been pretty slow. however, i intend on picking up the pace relatively soonish if not right now.

oh yeah, i've had work for other projects, too.

while i'm still on the topic of tronbot, i've recently uploaded the track that i've made to be used as the soundtrack for tronbot 0.5 revision. you can listen to that here!

One of the new characters, intended to be used in future installations, but I'm making them public now because why not, introducing...

the P.E.R.A. Unit!

description: The Personnel Emulating Robot Agent‚ or P․E․R․A․ for short‚ is a combat machine manufactured by the Agency Against Hank Wimbleton for use in extreme scenarios where they need all the firepower they can get․ The unit was originally modelled and designed for TronBot Series.

VRChat avatar: search "P.E.R.A. Unit" or "WeeWDiedrich" in an avatar search world. if the searcher hasn't indexed the avatar yet, the id is avtr_1f930914-c099-4f67-891c-2a39c8c20f19 . Model incluides the ability to fire its cannons, overhead out of the vent on the back of the head, and change the color of the infared sensors; among other things that my avatars typically ship with, such as emotes, emote speed settings, and laying/sitting poses with respective settings for those.

note; the head can be detached and used as a turret.

madness sprites: click here to download!

btw the shading layers should be at 25℅ opacity

credit upon use will be thanked!

previews for both the vrchat avatar and the madness sprites:

by the way, that's a backpack it has on its back. it stores things, typically even more firearms.

Closing

that's all for now! at least, that's all that i'm prepared to publicly share right now. to the recent people that have came here from the dog.fla remake collab; wow! i didn't know there'd be so many of you!

there i am!

right next to the countdown too lol

GEN1.3395

this is in the vrchat new years eve 2024 world!

i know people come to this page for madness stuff so here's my previous post that has madness related news

hello all! sorry for the slight inactivity. i've been getting busy with life and all of that. here's what i've been working on;

madness shit

so far, i've got two tronbot-related projects ongoing;

tronbot zero

tronbot zero is gonna be the "lore" animation, yknow, shows you how tronbot was created n shit.

tronbot 0.5 revision

the original tronbot 0.5, the OLD one, is pretty shit; so i'm remaking it. tronbot 0.5 revision will be its own upload.

progress on both of these things is going very good! although it's a bit slow because again, life... progress is

still happening. they'll be out when they're ready!

oh yeah, i make vrchat stuff too i guess

vrchat upgraded their sdk to support the new version of unity that vrchat runs on, 2022. for the occasion, i've updated a few things that i've uploaded on vrchat.

avatars

added things and changed things in multiple avatars. go to an avatar search world (like prismics!) and type in

my username, WeeWDiedrich, into the author search box. why do this? because i don't have an avatar world

for my stuff, and probably never will. i don't see a reason to create one

worlds

The Penthouse

fixed weird texture looping on the walls.

MADNESS COMBAT: Mag Hank's Room, MADNESS COMBAT: The Rift, MADNESS COMBAT: An Experiment

made the mirrors proximity based in all 3 worlds., they'll turn off when you walk away and back on when you

approach.

also added a toggle button near the spawn in all 3 of these worlds that turns off the music.

if you want to view these worlds, simply go to my vrchat profile, they should be on there; WeeWDiedrich

speaking of vrchat...

i got into a poster that'll be featured in the new years eve 2024 world!

for context; vrchat hosts a yearly NYE event, and usually puts in posters submitted by the community member into the world. it's like the real new years eve event in new youk; ads everywhere...

here's the poster. if you're looking for where i am on it, i've added a red circle and two red arrows, youtube clickbait style.

this poster is for the "gen-1" group, people from the respective channel "vrchat-general-1" on the vrchat discord.

shoutouts to these two for actually submitting it, and eoghhan for compiling the images(?) to make the poster.