Unless you’ve been living under a rock, I’m sure that you are familiar with my little Halloween project tradition: Every year, I make a small time-limited project during the first two weeks of October. I make it available (ideally) from October 15th to November 15th.

This year is no different, and I’ll be honest, it took me weeks to remember what I had initially planned to do, but I’m happy that I remembered… Literally 2 weeks ago. Less anxiety.

The Damned Brand

Inspired by one of my favorite visual novel of all times (HENPRI).

The features of the damned brand, so far:

• A proper, scan-able Code38 bar-code in a tattoo/brand format.
• Up to 5 characters, (limited to A-Z 0-9 and a few special characters)
• Configurable color to match your skin tone (or the style you are going for: ink? Laser?).
• Alpha-masked for super sharp & clean scanning.
• An optional “bruise halo”.
• Configurable color & intensity for the bruise effect.
• A public mode to allow others to set/change it. (it acts as a soft-lock too).
• Stealth-mode that makes it non-clickable (you have to right-click and select “touch” in that mode).
• Only 1 mesh total, probably my easiest accessory to handle/edit.

What I’m thinking about adding:

• RLV locking? (A soft-lock to become a hard-lock with the RLV Activator?).
• A “text font” option?
• A way to make it scan-able in-world? (I’m not going to have the time to make a scanner proper, but I could proof-of-concept something)
• “Facility” support? (The scripted system that the Prisoner’s Uniform already uses to synchronize labels)
• More versions with various curvature, for people who would like to wear it on wrists, on thighs… (on their forehead?)

I am open to suggestions and ideas, I still have a few more days, and yes, I’m putting my VR activities on hold to maximize the time I have for this project.