User: Hackebein
Hackebein (any). VRChat Wiki maintainer, Crowdin proofreader, aerial hoop (lyra) and pole dancer, occasional reason for a hotfix.
I collect data wherever I can reach it, build pipelines that turn it into something useful, and automate anything I refuse to do twice. If it is broken, undocumented, or nobody else wanted to finish it, that is my kind of project.
Badges
Badges I currently hold on my profile:
VRChat Wiki
I have been here since this wiki started and I am one of the maintainers on VRCWiki:Team. Full paper trail at Special:Contributions.
Edit count or line change count are bad metrics. A page written from scratch and a fixed typo both count as one edit. A rewrite eats an afternoon. A lot of my heavy lifting is template plumbing and translation units that never surface as prose. So here is what I actually work on:
- Platform documentation — Getting Started, Instances, Groups, Menus, Social, OSC, Avatar Dynamics, Items, Badges. Several of them started on my keyboard.
- German localization — my largest single share of edits. German page versions, and proofreading on Crowdin for VRChat itself.
- Community tooling pages — Community:VRCX, Community:Vrc-get, Community:ALCOM, Community:Manage VRChat, VRC Quick Launcher. The tools everyone uses and nobody documents.
- Community:Potentially Upcoming Features — my most edited page. Started as a dump for datamined and pre-announcement findings, then got renamed and restructured after a long argument about where that kind of information belongs.
- Events and community pages — seasonal events, exhibitions, dance and photography, including Community:VRDancing and Community:VR Photography Exhibitions.
Automated contributions
Not everything I contribute is typed by hand. I run bots on HackebeinsBot, the account the Music Truck project used in-game before it got a second job. Those edits are data feeds from other sources, so manual work stays reserved for things a bot cannot do yet. Public list at Special:Contributions.
The bot keeps VRChat data updated for:
- World data pages behind the world infoboxes, including visits, favorites and heat values
- The VPM package version summary and the per-package version templates
- Client build metadata for Steam, Meta Quest, Pico Store, Google Play and Viveport
- Creator tool versions for the VRChat Creator Companion and VRC Quick Launcher
The same service can write marketplace shelves and paid avatar listing pages too. Those show up less often than the world and build syncs.
Software I wrote for the wiki
- wiki.vrchat.com — full MediaWiki to Git mirror. One commit per edit, resumable, bootstrapped from a snapshot. Built because I stopped being sure how freely readable this wiki would stay behind bot protection. Git history is cheap insurance.
- vrc-api2wiki — the service behind the bot above.
- VPMM-connector-VRCWiki — bridge between VPM Manager and the wiki.
Projects
VPM Manager
The VPM ecosystem is decentralized by design: anyone can publish a listing. In practice that means a pile of repository URLs to maintain, transitive dependencies and removals nobody can follow, and paid assets travelling as loose .unitypackage files.
VPM Manager is my answer. One license-respecting catalog that aggregates public listings, free and paid, and mirrors the archives so a package survives its original host. Searchable from inside VCC or ALCOM, with richer metadata on the site itself, dependency graphs included. My own listing domain vpm.hackebein.dev points at it and generates my listing page on its own.
Publishing side is hackebein.vpm.packager, the Unity editor tool I package my own releases with.
Object Tracking
Track your real-world objects and bring them into VRChat, with any tracker SteamVR and OpenVR support. Cups, chairs, poles, aerial hoops (lyra), guitars, decks, pets, cameras, or your entire room. Communities are forming around exactly this [1].
It began in mid-2022 with one goal: make my pole spin in VRChat at the speed it spins in my flat. One axis was enough for about a week. It now does full six degrees of freedom. Demos live on my social media, like this one.
It is also the rig behind my performance art. Aerial hoop, pole and swinging bench, in VR, on the same trackers.
The desktop application ships on Steam as an auto-updating build. The avatar side installs from my VPM listing. Companion packages cover an aerial hoop, a simple dance pole example and the tracking host.
Bug hunting and quality assurance
I file bug reports and break things before you do. Not a hobby, it just happens when I touch software. I am part of the Community Testers program described on Quality Assurance. Next up is a GitHub runner driving one VR and three desktop clients at once, so world and avatar tests crash on a schedule instead of at random.
I also run a scraper and search index over the VRChat Feedback boards:
- feedback.vrchat.com — the scraper, the data, and everything else this project needs
- vrchat-canny.hackebein.dev — full-text search, push notifications and Canny integration
VaOBS
VaOBS grabs the video playing inside VRChat and hands it to OBS as its own media source. Keep it on a separate track and shift the audio in post instead of fighting it live.
Citizen of VRChat
An idle game that is not trapped in a single world. Points and unlocks for being online and joinable, with bonus unlocks on Christmas, New Year, Halloween, Valentine's Day and similar occasions, or for showing up at special events.
Associations
- CitizenofVRChat
- Citizen of VRChat - VRCCIT.3881
Your World
Your own persistent world without ever opening Unity. Built collaboratively, then decorated with photos, videos and holograms from wherever you have already been. Some unlocks tie back into Citizen of VRChat.
VRCRecords
Automated capture of instances and events in 4K at 30FPS, with camera movement instead of a headset on a tripod. Live out via Spout, NDI and RTSP, which makes it usable for streaming or VJ visuals. Self-hosting and a proper video and movie production path are on the list.
Associations
Music Truck
Collaborative playlists with friends and strangers, played into your instance by a separate user, so music volume stops being welded to voice volume. Touchscreen for search and playlist management, a road you can paint on the ground, and a hitch for more trailers.
On hold. VRChat's mic output does not carry music well enough to be worth shipping.
Associations
Extended Groups Limit
Adds and removes public groups on the fly, so the list stays focused on the ones that matter right now.
Associations
Alt accounts
An incomplete list. I lose track too.
Abandoned accounts
Accounts that do nothing anymore.
Communities
Where you can run into me.
Own Communities
- Hackebein - HACKY.9999
Sport Communities
- VR Pole Dancers - VRPD.5833
- VRDancing
Social Eating
None public, sorry.
Music Communities
- CONCRETE - CONK.7570
- dieselworks inc - DIESEL.4831
- Midnight Luv - MIDLUV.7515
- Night Under Light - NUL.9012
- Raindance Immersive - RAINVR.4881
- Sanctum - SNCTM.7109
- Terkoiz N Friends - TNFRDZ.9139
Links
- hackebein.de
- Hackebein's Research Lab at discord.com
- GitHub
- Bsky
- X/Twitter
- Telegram
- Patreon
- PGP key - DE68 1625 8EC5 0065 7141 3536 358C F569 8DDD 556E
