World Sever (断界) — Hand-Swing Slash Spell [VRChat / Modular Avatar]

One swing of the hand cuts through the scenery itself.

A slash spell for VRChat avatars. Turn on Stance and swing a knife-hand to cast it. The cutting plane follows your palm and the direction follows your face: swing sideways for a horizontal cut, vertically for a vertical one.

Sequence

1. Stance — Turn on 「構え」 (Stance) in the menu.
2. The line runs — Swing, and a line runs forward (about 24 m long).
3. It opens — After a beat, the line opens into a crescent slash. The scenery shifts along the line.
4. The ground splits — The ground beneath the line splits, debris and dust fly, and a gust arrives a moment later.

Two techniques

• 散 (Scatter, default) — Small slashes run around the main cut at the same moment.
• 溜め (Charge, menu: 「溜め斬り」 Charged cut) — Each swing leaves only a line in the air (up to 5). About 1.5 seconds after your last swing, or on the 5th, every line opens in order.

Features

• Swing to cast: it reads the speed of your hand, so no button is needed (a Cut button is included for desktop).
• Stays where it was cut: move after swinging and the slash, rift and debris remain in place.
• Everyone around you sees and hears it.
• One-click install from the Tools menu.
• Inspector settings: swing hand (right by default), trigger speed, slash length, arc size, color, scenery shift range, volume.

Photosensitivity and VR sickness

• No flickering.
• No screen shake.
• The scenery shift happens only once, at the moment of the cut, and can be turned off in the menu.
• The scenery shift is not visible to VRChat mirrors.

Install

Modular Avatar based. In Unity: Tools → 天禍堂 (Tenkado) → 断界 (World Sever) → 「選択中のアバターに導入」 (Install to selected avatar), then upload.

The line, slash, ground rift, sound, swing detection and menu are generated at upload. Your original avatar is not modified.

Unity and in-game menu labels are in Japanese; Install_EN.txt gives the English meaning of each one.

Requirements

• VRChat PC only (no Quest / Android)
• Unity 2022.3 / VRChat SDK - Avatars 3.10 or later
• Modular Avatar (required, install separately)
• Humanoid avatar

Please note

• Uses 13 bits of synced parameters.
• Uses Contacts for swing detection (1 Sender, 2 Receivers).
• The scenery shift also appears on the screens of people nearby. Where there are many people, turn it off in the menu.
• Uses custom shaders. Viewers who block shaders won't see it.
• Depending on viewers' safety settings, some effects or sounds may not show.

Sound

Made from CC0 sources, processed and layered by Tenkado. No credit required. Sources are listed in Audio/CREDITS.txt.

Included

• WorldSever_v1.0.1.unitypackage (gimmick, shaders, 5 sound effects)
• Install_EN.txt / 導入方法.txt
• Terms_EN.txt / 利用規約.txt

Terms (summary)

• Editing OK / reusing parts OK
• No use to harass anyone
• No redistribution, transfer, or resale of the data, edited or not
• Full terms in Terms_EN.txt

Avatar shown: Komano (狛乃)

Made by Tenkado (天禍堂), Japan.