A Strong Ally for Building Japanese Worlds! 4 Japanese-Style Prop Sets by “IKA 3DCG art studio”!
Hello! This blog is brought to you by the GeekJack VR PR team and everyone's assistant, Cosmo. It's a must-read for players, sharing the latest VRChat trends with the world. Today, for everyone who wants to build a “Japanese world” in VRChat, we're introducing some wonderfully Japanese-style prop sets!
Torii gates, lanterns, cherry blossoms, delicious food... there's so much you want to place in a Japanese world! But modeling everything from scratch is tough, right? That's where “IKA 3DCG art studio”'s Japanese-style assets come to the rescue! Today, we're introducing four of them that are perfect for building a Japanese world, all at once!
■ What's so great about a “Prop set”?
VRChat professionals may already know this, but... A prop set is an asset that bundles together small items and objects you can place in your world. Torii gates, lanterns, food and more come all together, so just placing them instantly completes the atmosphere! Even if you're not good at modeling, you just plop down a prefab and you're done! This is the first step to building a Japanese world!
1. Start with the “foundation” of your world! “Shinto Shrine Environment Pack”
First up is the star of any Japanese world, the shrine! “IKA 3DCG art studio”'s “Shinto Shrine Environment Pack” is an environment pack of 23 items including torii gates, shrine buildings, lanterns, guardian statues (komainu), and bulletin boards. Everything is modular, so you can freely combine them to build your own shrine, which is wonderful. It comes with PBR textures (2048×2048), so the quality is superb! Compatible with Unity 2021.3 and later, and the Built-in Render Pipeline. “I want to start with the framework of my Japanese world!” This is the perfect foundation for you.
2. Decorate your shrine with offerings for an authentic touch! “Offering Assets (23 items)”
Once your shrine is ready, let's decorate around the altar! “Offering Assets” is a set of 23 Japanese “offerings” including vegetables, fruits, fish, sakaki branches, and sacred sake. Daikon radish, cabbage, sea bream, dried squid, even sakaki branches... it's incredibly authentic! Perfect for groundbreaking ceremony scenes and Shinto ritual staging! Actually, this set is a collaboration offering set with “Kudaranai Stores.” Combine it with the “Shinto Shrine Environment Pack” from earlier, and you'll complete a “real shrine” from the torii gate to the altar in one go! Getting the shrine pack and this set together is Yoriko's top recommended combo! It's also confirmed to work in cluster as well as VRChat, which is a happy bonus.
3. Add a seasonal feel with cherry blossoms! “Sakura Hideaway (66 items)””
What a Japanese world can't do without is, of course, cherry blossoms! “Sakura Hideaway” is a gorgeous set of 66 items including a cherry blossom tree, lanterns, tatami stands, noren curtains, floor chairs, and Japanese umbrellas. You can create hanami (blossom-viewing) and tea party scenes with just this one set! The lanterns even come in glowing (Emission) types, so nighttime cherry blossom scenes are covered too. Laying tatami under the cherry tree, lighting the lanterns... just imagining it is exciting! This one is also VRChat & cluster compatible.
4. Welcome guests with a playable gimmick! “Onigiri-Making Assets (58 items)”
Last up is something a little different! “Onigiri-Making Assets” is a “cooking-gimmick” asset that lets you make onigiri, plate them up, and enjoy them together with everyone! It's built around Japanese home cooking and washoku (Japanese cuisine) culture, while really focusing on that VR-only “touch it, move it, play with it” experience. It's a gorgeous lineup of 58 items, including table companions like ochazuke, teapots, pickles, and umeboshi! What's great is just how intuitive it is to use. You can cook and place things simply by touching them, so it's easy to jump right in and play even without any explanation! You can put the onigiri you made on a plate and serve them to friends and guests, too! And it's full of playful charm. Since they're onigiri, they might occasionally drop, roll around... and even explode?! (lol) Those little surprises become a nice spark for conversation and laughter on the spot! It's perfect for Japanese-style worlds and traditional-house worlds, of course, and also for roleplay kitchens and dining scenes. It's sure to shine as a prop for streaming and video shoots, too! *This is a gimmick for VRChat worlds. Note that you'll need a VCC World project to use it.
■ Conclusion
Today we introduced four Japanese-style prop sets from “IKA 3DCG art studio” that are perfect for building a Japanese world! Build the foundation with the shrine, add seasonal feel and authenticity with offerings and cherry blossoms, and add a playful touch with the onigiri gimmick... Combine them, and your very own original Japanese world is sure to be complete! The “Shinto Shrine Environment Pack” and “Offering Assets” in particular are on a whole different level of authenticity when used together!
Grab the shrine + offerings together here
If any asset caught your eye, be sure to take a look on GeekJack VR!
See you next time!