Addressing The Rumours 

Production value here is awsome!

The cypher at the end credits reads: "REALITY SHIFTS / EVERY MOVE UNKNOWN / TERRAIN HOSTILE / INSTINCT SHARPENS / REALM ALIEN / ESCAPE"

@smeaf i meant that i was tryna make an action sequence with a guy in a helmet

He didn't answer my question either

And would that be a problem

I am and love him. 😁

He answered both with money

@@EsburitoI think you just answered your own question

Justin Maller pfp is wild. Love that

When you go frame by frame when there is that text at the end there are some symbols in between glitch effect I need help with decoding that or anything

@@Nvvvvvvvvvvvvvm It's "I'm lost" in the wingdings font

@@NomadRProductions nice. The Morse code after that is I think 100 / J or 100 / #J but I am steel checking

@@Nvvvvvvvvvvvvvm it says 10s Videos

@@NomadRProductions and there is that weird frame at 13:10 when the camera recording time changes to 0:00:21 and there is CHO3 written in the right top corner but that might be just editing mistake or smth EDIT: nevermind this is just a specific of this overlay I found other videos with the same thing on yt

A....void to a lake portal idk?!!

The safe to the secret formula

@@Zenithanimations you onto something

aye you i've seen you before in some disocrd lmao

@@andrewphoto4750 hehe Probably from Kaizen or Polygoniq

@@PrinceEagle both lol

I think Polyfjord is already VSauce but Smeaf will be his partner in crime

@@andrewphoto4750 nice 😄 You have the same username there ?

i was about to comment the same thing

Where did you get the key? From what I already know from PigPen Cipher, this is just gibberish using the standard.

@@jonathansmith114 I also just used the standard and got the same result as his

​@@jonathansmith114 It is shown in the video

First letter of eac line spells R E T I R E, maybe he is retiring

I really put this guy to work 💥

did you also listen to the morse code or not?

@@wydua2049 i am just reading it and trying to translate and I think it is 100 / J Or 100 / #j You said listen so maybe there is something that I didn't hear or you just meant read?

and there is that weird frame at 13:10 when the camera recording time changes to 0:00:21 and there is CHO3 written in the right top corner but that might be just editing mistake or smth EDIT: nevermind this is just a specific of this overlay I found other videos with the same thing on yt

@@Nvvvvvvvvvvvvvm i am too tired for arg oh god

and he's somehow captive.

When you go frame by frame when there is that text at the end there are some symbols in between glitch effect I need help with decoding that or anything

Literally learnt so much from you Peej 🔥 Resolve Gang for life

thanks bro

was that supposed to be a Japanese nuclear plant?

I can't find it

@@newtplays989 I only saw a backrooms Reddit post with these coordinates.

​@@supercalifragilisticex right??? like i didn't get the reference honestly

I ussed whatthefont to decipher it but couldn't find the right font.

Using Google Maps looks to be a water holding tank. You click on it and label reads "Backrooms".

Yeah, I thought it was a llama thingish.

Yes, everything works with or without the embedded media files lol I can’t say anything else without spoiling it

@@Smeaf lol nw thanks for the reassurance!

Did you find the hat? I only see others commenting about it

@@theblindbandit_76 Hi! Yes I did find the hat, I still do not know its significance but oh well. You just have to go to frame 291, then in any node editor look a little to the left and down. I'm taking a bit of a break from the whole Default Smeaf thing, might brew in me new ideas to try. What about you? How's the treasure hunt going?

​@@WonderingStuff Oh that's great. I thought it may have been lost due to the version update. I thought there may be more significance to it too. But now after seeing it, it doesn't sound any major alarms. The hunt has gotten pretty much fruitless for me lol, the only clue I wasn't able to find myself that was in the comments was the blue hat and perhaps the spammings of SITK. Maybe there's a clue in the motion tracking but I have no idea how to use that side of blender lol. So I do open the file here and then to maybe see if there's something I may have missed but I can't find much lol... I'm starting to feel like it could may have been a scam but it may be just me being drained from the searching and no results. So I left a comment hoping people will respond and maybe share clues to solve the puzzle.. And also looking at recent comments and I found urs lol. But if you decide to continue checking here are the rest of my discoveries so far(Yeah it's a whole essay lol): Maybe it has to do with motion tracking as there is a tab for it open but I have no idea how motion tracking works. If you do try to render the scene your computer may crash as there are subdivision modifiers that cause the smeaf model and eyes have an extremely high poly count. So if you will try to do some motion tracking from the animation don't forget to turn off those. Maybe that's a sign to him that you don't have to render? But idk. In one comment iirc he says that it should be able to be solved with/without some of the stuff. But he said he can't say much abt it without spoiling too much. There is a grease pencil too but nothing on it. There's red annotation arrows pointing to smeaf and there may be another annotation in hiding in the shader nodes, but you may have to scroll really far for that because I haven't found anything from just moving a bit. I have tried using the first letters clue with the modifiers on smeaf's body but it brings up nothing eligible, but they may be the first letters for clue one. I feel like the youtube video clue (This one "Clue 2: Okay, fine, go to this youtube video (INSERT VIDEO HERE)")may be a red herring because on the blender page it does say there are no outside clues. Meaning all the clues to solve this may be in the inside however I am not entirely sure about this, maybe in the video announcing the default smeaf addon or the one where he makes the smeaf animation will help point you to something in the file. The area lights and object data properties for some of the 3d objects are kinda weird, it may be helpful to look into that as well. There may be a secret in the rig, animation, textures or model. But I haven't seen anything that may be hidden in them yet. But they r the things he lists about the addon. There is an empty smeaf texture in the file, and in the blender market post it says it will be coming soon so maybe that's a hint? But he does say that there are no outside hints so it's possibly one thing to ignore. Maybe purchasing the addons that were on the file may help but I don't know... I think if that was the case he'd probably mention it. Maybe all the things that have 'smeaf' on them will give you the entire answer perhaps? Like the modifiers on smeaf that have dots after them. But most of the stuff have E's on their first letter and is another thing to look into I guess. I don't know if exporting an mdd will help in any way? For the Mesh sequence cache modifier. Maybe it's part of the solution but I doubt it will give any clues. If you'll want to try it don't forget to turn off the edge split and subdiv to be able to use it properly. There are comments in some videos saying SITK, SITP, SITC (These may be related to the first letters clue)etc. and like system is the key or smeaf is the key. However I have no idea if or how it's releated to this. Smeaf did mention one person was really close in the comments, and may have found the person he was referring to in a different comment section. Unfortunately I don't remember which video or community post lol. Some person did mention face maps as a possible clue but with the files update to 4.0 we may have lost access to that clue. He does mention that whoever solves the puzzle will know what to do to claim their prize, so there are more clues to find in the file I believe. It's either they r hidden very well or require some technical knowledge to figure them out. But just in case you haven't found some of these here are the other clues I found in plain text: ===================================================== Clue One: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # LOOK WITHIN ( ͡° ᴥ ͡°) Clue 2: Okay, fine, go to this youtube video (INSERT VIDEO HERE) So close, look right! You found this, nice. Second Clue is 'First Letters' Smeaf is the key, Unlock this and collect your reward ====================================================== Maybe there are more clues in the shader editor's annotations by moving frames? Or maybe from the red arrows annotation. But I legit have no idea. I think there are more text clues somewhere. Be it hidden through some cipher, some obscure part of the blender file or maybe the motion of smeaf. Smeaf will know one has solved the puzzle by performing a certain action so he must have left us a note telling us what to do... Maybe it's the Clue One? Maybe we r meant to play hangman in his comments or smth? Whatever the case, there should be more clues in the file. Must need a technical eye or just a more detailed look to get the key to the puzzle.... lol this is a lot but hope u find it useful

​@@theblindbandit_76 Haha yeah that's a lot. We are on the same page regarding what we've found, also I agree that there are no more plain text clues. I've looked around the blend file more than I'm willing to admit. Other than what you've already mentioned, I've found nothing concrete. A couple of "interesting" useless things, but nothing more. (if you're interested in these, I can fetch them from my notes, I just do not have them at the moment) I'll reveal my cards, It's not much but it's my final guess. ======== What follows is what what I think is the path to solving this. Might be wrong. Trying random stuff in the workspaces I've come to realize is not a realistic way to solve the puzzle, so let's look at the clues: The clue with the mention of a youtube video I would discard completely, it being a "duplicate" clue makes me think that it's a leftover of a different puzzle that was eventually changed to the current one. The hat.. idk lol. The first clue gives us a blank sentence to be solved. The second clue ties nicely to the first, the "first letters" of something(s) that will fill the blanks of the first clue. There is no "third" clue. So, first letters.. first letters of what? The the first letter of the names that are replaced with "Smeaf" counts up to around 15 (the same amount of blanks in the first clue), but with an excess, also with some ambiguous letter possibilities. I think it comes down to this anagram. I've tried for days rearranging letters, trying to make a sentence that makes sense, but nothing that made me think "This is the one". I (momentarily) gave up. ======== What do you think?

@@WonderingStuff Yeah true it may be an anagram in some sort of ways. But I don't know if the first clue will help solve it. Because there are a lot of things called smeaf in the file, so I doubt he would want us to try and figure it out through guessing... unless he's sadistic like that. I think there may just a general anagram since he said it may take a while to solve but I'm not sure. But yes I don't think interacting with anything in the viewport will help too. I think it would be too difficult to implement in the first places. If there are anymore clues it will be hidden in some way... It may be an anagram, caesar cipher or whatever ciphers there r. Maybe there's a clue in the keyframes or animation(But I doubt this). Or maybe it's in plain sight but is just really difficult to solve. I honestly am running out of ideas of what it could possibly be, hopefully smeaf gives us a pointer to something, was hoping he'd mention something then but unfortunately no.

You cannot pack a video file as well as certain other types in a blend file.

When you go frame by frame when there is that text at the end there are some symbols in between glitch effect I need help with decoding that or anything

@@Nvvvvvvvvvvvvvm I saw them too, I'll look for it tomorrow

@@Kutt3r__ someone already translated them and it means something like I am lost or something like that. It is under in replays to other comment