# Hyperfy Discord - 2025-09-28

## Overall Discussion Highlights

### Technical Developments
- **Gaussian Splatting Improvements**: mrtzhckr updated their GitHub fork with several enhancements including upgraded spark.js to 0.19, consistent asset loading/caching logic, fixed "invalid gzip error" for splats persistence, and resolved color/opacity issues.
- **3D Gaussian Splatting Implementation**: hiroP shared inspiration from a Twitter post showing examples running on iPhone, generating interest in the community.
- **HyperWorld.Host Marketplace**: szjanko shared updates about the marketplace, highlighting features like hyp updating, tagging, search/filtering, and a tipping system for creators.

### Design & Animation
- **VRM Animation Sources**: Community members discussed alternatives to Mixamo for VRM animations, with mentions of ActorCore and SayMotion by DeepMotion.
- **Blender 5 Feature**: Brief excitement about manual sorting of objects in the outliner in Blender 5, which appears to be a long-awaited feature.

### Community & Events
- **Upcoming Hyperfy V2 Presentation**: A community member announced they would be demonstrating hyps they've created on a show/podcast, potentially taking requests for in-world AI generations.
- **World Sharing**: Multiple users shared links to various worlds built on the Hyperfy platform, using domains like hyperworld.host, xyz domains, and hypercity.app.

## Key Questions & Answers

**Q: Besides Mixamo, what are other sources of animation for VRM?** (asked by Cayden0207)  
**A**: SayMotion by DeepMotion was suggested, though it may have bone mapping accuracy issues (answered by mrtzhckr)

**Q: Has anyone had experience with SayMotion?** (asked by mrtzhckr)  
**A**: Cayden0207 tried it but found the bone mapping not very accurate

**Q: Anyone got any pointers for vibe coding hyp files?** (asked by emotionull)  
**A**: Dhin suggested keeping it simple and iterating one thing at a time, referencing a non-destructive workflow with dot's diner. Gert-Jan Akerboom recommended feeding it example scripts.

## Community Help & Collaboration

1. **VRM Animation Sources**
   - **Helper**: mrtzhckr
   - **Helpee**: Cayden0207
   - **Context**: Looking for VRM animation sources besides Mixamo
   - **Resolution**: Suggested SayMotion with a link, though noting limitations with bone mapping

2. **Discord Link Accessibility**
   - **Helper**: Shiffty
   - **Helpee**: Enryt
   - **Context**: Links not being clickable or copyable in Discord Android app
   - **Resolution**: Added links below each post as a workaround

3. **Hyp File Coding Advice**
   - **Helper**: Dhin
   - **Helpee**: emotionull
   - **Context**: Advice on coding hyp files
   - **Resolution**: Suggested iterative development approach referencing dot's diner as an example

4. **Gaussian Splatting Implementation**
   - **Helper**: mrtzhckr
   - **Helpee**: Community
   - **Context**: Updated GS fork with improved splat handling
   - **Resolution**: Fixed several issues and shared GitHub repo and demo link

## Action Items

### Technical
- **Implement custom OpenAI API endpoint support in ServerAI.js** - Add AI_BASE_URL environment variable to support Azure OpenAI, vLLM, Ollama and other OpenAI-compatible APIs (Mentioned by mrtzhckr)
- **Develop Hyperfy splats implementation** - Create splats from videos/images for Hyperfy (Mentioned by hiroP)

### Feature
- **Improve clickable/copyable links in Discord interface** - Address difficulty accessing links on Android Discord app (Mentioned by Enryt)
- **Create a fly .hyp for aerial viewing** - Requested for testing splat viewing from above (Mentioned by mrtzhckr)
- **Upload more hyp files to HyperWorld.Host marketplace** - Move content from Discord thread to organized marketplace (Mentioned by szjanko)

### Documentation
- **Information about compatible animation sources for VRM** - Compile reliable animation sources that work well with VRM (Mentioned by Cayden0207)