Vivi's Apartment: Beyond the Tangent Room

 It's been some time, but let's cut to the chase: I've been chipping away on making this room, and now I have expanded the whole thing from beyond just one room, but a whole apartment.

From where we left off, the last pic shown related to the Tangent Room project was the animated billboard. By then, I added some traffic and a working neon sign. The last update from that time was in February 6th, 2025.

Some fine bits here & there.

The RABIT's neon is not only for show, but a proper indicator on where is the room.

Now a good 8 months later, I came back after making some videos and setting up for Lost Legends, and the start is to expand the apartment.

The view of the expanded apartment.

This shot here shows off some Shantae action, which later became the opening shot of the LL Update on the cancelled Shantae games which I eventually got around making it.

There are some books that are just fake, but one thing I had to do is to ditch the one poorly-aged book off the shelf & replace it with a One Piece novel.

I modelled the bathroom, and one thing to criticize is the fact it's too clean.

I know the bedroom is dark, but look: Lava lamp.

Here are some original blueprints for Vivi's bedroom. True to her NIN-fangirl nature: She has a couple posters on her walls... along with KMFDM.

Throughout this whole time, I mainly used the EEVEE renderer for the whole thing... then I decide to man up and start using Cycles, which is much better. 

Images of Vib flipping off in different lighting configurations.

In the new year of 2026, I started working on the living room/kitchen area. The plan here is to model the whole kitchen, set up the living room, finish the bathroom, deal with the bedroom, and lastly: That DVD shelf next to the TV. 

The overview of the apartment.

The plans and end result of the kitchen.

The living room without any windows.

The PC setup, sans lit keyboard.

I added framed pictures. 

One of my autistic hyperfixations is a problem with the lighting. Showing off these pics, I wanted the light to bleed further down to the hallway, but there are indeed problems. Even if I set the sun pointing directly to the hall, the light couldn't reach it. One of my dumb ideas is to make the walls more refractive, which end result kinda ruins the whole thing because of the cracks and seeing through other things. Solution: Make a model surrounding the apartment itself.

After fighting myself to stop worrying about it, I did finish the kitchen with added stuff, replaced the temporary picture frames, and most notably: Changed the lights to have some better temperature.

Later, I also finished off the living room by adding some finishing touches, and more importantly: Fixed the lighting. So instead of ramping up the emission strength until it becomes a mess, I just stuck in an area lamp facing away the TV. This gives off a more cozy atmosphere.

The bathroom only needed some extra objects, texturing and some mild touch-ups. I've no plans to make it grimier.

Next, the Bedroom I added some more things, like adding robots & gundams on the shelf, a portrait of Charlie, some art stuff, Vivi's phone and alarm clock.

The last things I added are blinds for all the windows, replaced the carpet (which I did it sometime before I changed the lighting), updated the vents, replaced the Tangent couch with a futon, and lastly: The DVD shelf.

The perfect position to binge Futurama.

The greatest test of my autism: Rip the spines, and make them unique, even differentiate the ones under the TV's. 

And so that's the latest of my works of progress. The next thing after some final adjustments to the apartment is to rework the outside world. This time using my Linux PC to carry that.