#vrchat-general-2
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OK just wanted to know
I got that for it too

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i must say.... the annoying af avatar spam got so much worse since the cloning feature is here x.x i am often in public worlds and there only need to be one guy that has some ear and eye raping, effect spamming screen shaking annoying as hell avatar and you can be sure that 2-5 other people copy it and summon the hell on earth. i could just block avatars by default but meh. would be nice if that wouldnt be needed
Make sure to report all the users using those avatars
Anyone who uses them will get clapped for doing it if you have proof
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merikuri

yeah there's next to no reason to even have animations on in Publics
yeah and you can just say "oh hold up" and show avatar.
Mhm mhm
dunno if someone cant see my marker i just go away, one of the more unfortunate parts of the saftey update
must suck for visitors and lower ranked users, since they are more likely to have animations blocked
everyone for me have those blocked
I have everything blocked on all ranks expect the avatar
I mean nothing wrong with having your animations blocked. Best case scenario, I don't get crashed or particle spammed or have my screen shaken. Worst case scenario, I can't see your avatar wink.
you are restricting yourself by blocking those for everyone. I only block animations and shaders for visitors, since they dont have much of an incentive to not do things that crash people. Since the saftey update i had one person crash me and it was a trusted user too.
"restricting yourself" in what way? It's proven to help protect against being crashed. I have animations blocked for everyone who isn't a Friend.
Not really restricting my self I just don’t care for them I only have everything unblocked on friends if I see the person is chill I unhide there stuff
no one on user or above will crash you, there are a lot of intersting things to be seen that you will block out
"No one on user or above will crash you" yikes, that's not true. Most of the crashers I've seen and know are trusted
I’ve been crashed from users that are trusted users
I've actually been exclusively crashed by Trusted lol I can count probably 5 times, and it would be more if I didn't block animations
and then there's times I've seen them crash others around me
Fewer people try due to the update, but it's still pretty common.
thats unfortunate, guess i am lucky then. Still I would rather get crashed sometimes than block myself off from the world
Either way don’t really care for people’s animations and shaders and that if I don’t know them
Block....yourself off from the world? By blocking animations? That's a bit of a hyperbole isn't it?
I've seen a lot of time in publics, even moreso this winter break. Literally the only thing I dont' see is an animation, unless I want to see their avatar.
You say that as if turning off animations means I've isolated myself in some private world bubble when it just means I don't see someone's avatar wink or say "nyaa"
I worked really hard on that nyaa you better goddamn see it
yes, you will see but a shell of what people chose to express themself as
A shell? I have them on for friends and barely see any difference when I'm with just them, or with a mixture of friends and strangers.
People played the game just fine before these overrides even existed and had no problem expressing themselves. I don't need to see someone's ear moving as they mash their "Nyaa" button to move them 50 times while playing the same audio clip to understand them if they simply express themselves with words, assuming they're not mute in which case I just show their avatar
Tbh- I get not being able to see markers
Beside that... Well no
Its an addon of who you want to show off
Yeah, I always turn on mute's markers
Not who someone is- As i hope people have more human in them then spamming some commands...
never once had one try to bait and switch me either.
Yo what do you got against cat girls my dude?
by blocking animations on all people you will overlook people you may have found intersting if you had animations on. You won't know what you potentially miss since you will not see it out of fear being screwed with by a crasher
Except I had no choice but to play with them off before the system existed not once have I said "BREEEH SICK MEME DOOD LEMME ADD U M8" lol
For me I’m not missing much pretty much seen everything at this point people do the same thing
I dont do it myself- Got nothing blocked myself at all so 
If someone just has annoying stuff they get there avatar blocked and if they are annoying by voice you get fully blocked 👏
"WHOOOOOOA YOUR EARS MOVE?! LEMME ADD YOU" like that doesn't happen. I add people based on actual interaction, not just some meme.
@rigid crescent Most of the peeps i talk to ingame talk to me thanks to the memes 👀
Don’t be surprised people actually did that way back in the old days @rigid crescent xD
I meant with me, that doesn't happen. I'm not gonna add someone cause they're a sick memer.
Someone coming up and opening a box with a 👌 in it doesn't make me want to be their friend lol
Got a more comfortable office chair 
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Hope everyone has a good Christmas! If someone gives VRBooty for Christmas, you might need to reevaluate your life!
Merry Christmas vrchat!
Merry Christmas. Stay safe this holiday
Don’t forget to install Adblock on your loved ones new devices.
Merry Christmas everyone! Y’all are my favorite discord. ♥️ keep being you

And change the passwords of electronic devices
I have the easiest password to remember, it's **************
"*******"
damn thing won't let me put all the asterix's in, oh well
Merry Christmas everyone 
ditto
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merikuri~!
Do you want full body ever? Vive.
Do you not care about full body? Rift.
Everyone's going to give you a different answer. In my opinion, focusing exclusively on VRChat, I say Oculus, because it matches your hand poses. Vive picks them from a menu.
menu is a really strong term
it's a pie wheel
I mean full body seems awesome to me but. I don’t have 1 thousand dollar or a big room
Then go with the Rift
I feel missing out on VRC matching your hands really misses out on some magic
I mean it only matches your hands if you don't mess with your overrides 😛
yo
the headsets themselves are identicle. only the controllers and ability to go FBT are relelevent. VIve has FBT, Oculus has objectively better controllers and no FBT
Full Body on the Vive is about 800 bucks, while it's about 950 on the Rift, plus it's a bit more finnicky. If you're not interested in spending the money, then Rift for sure.
i don't know the rest because i haven't seen the entire thing in a meme in text format
Yeah i have FBT working with my rift, but running a calibrator every time you start SteamVR is just an extra step you have to live with
PADORU PADORU
And as always @vocal shard make sure your PC can handle VR before you get it
Wait I thought rift didn’t have full body
wmr is nice too if it happens to be a little cheaper in your area. It's the same price where I live but I've heard some can be quite a bit less expensive than the vive/rift.
RIft doesn't have full body, you can just buy vive's trackers and a base station and use them without owning an actual vive.
I have an Alienware, GTX 1060, i7 computer with 16 gb of ram
also you don't have to worry about setting up towers
It's more expensive doing that.
Oh. So I’m guessing you have to work around for that
wmr is literally plugin and go
it's not more expensive if you already own an oculus
Oh then you'll be fine, I'd maybe look into some form of cooling though. I've heard a lot of stories about gaming laptops running hot with VR.
this guy's asking what headset to get, so he owns nothing 😛
Anyway my pc is also built to play vr
get oculus 💤
get oculus
Get Oculus, or wait until Vive Pro gets cheaper.
they have good exclusives
So I’m good.
If there’s a work around to get full VR with oculus then I’m getting oculus
The problem is it's also a laptop, and while plenty are advertised as VR Ready, VRChat definitely is a whole different beast. You'll probably be fine for the most part but definitely look into cooling
What model of i7 are you on Pious?
@vocal shard The "work around" is to buy the vive sensors to work with the vive trackers, so it gets expensive.
i7 7700 quad core
I mean, if you wanna spend triple digit $$$ on vr just to move your legs about and have tons of stuff hanging on your body, go for vive 
Yeah, Full Body on the Oculus is basically "Cheaper now, more expensive later"
Well I don’t have the money for Vive now
If I'm being 100% honest though, I own Rift + vive trackers, and most days I don't use them. I just use my rift without the full body, it's easier to set up and jump in real quick, i don't feel like putting on my belt and shoes, lol
Yeah then mgiht as well go Rift
Imma go for rift
I'm hybrid full body and I've probably spend 90%+ of my hours using the full body setup. When my trackers run out of power I stop playing 😅
imagine having to stop playing every 4 hours 
Do keep in mind. Soon, Vive is getting a thing called Knuckle controllers and when they are out, Vive will have better controllers than Oculus.
still shit energy solution
oh yeah, vive charges, oculus just drops out batteries and puts in fresh ones, easy to get back in as soon as they battery warning pops up
Yeah I need to buy a bunch of usb batteries. I can tether myself with some long usb cables currently but it's kind of a terrible solution.
Do we know if knuckle controllers will use batteries?
no idea myself
I'm so tired of charging my trackers

While other users have wireless headsets, I have 4x the number of wires.
Make a marionette avatar.
Merry Christmas vrchatters 
Knuckles don't use batteries
Merry Christmas MoriMori!
I have a big play space walls are far
I should get a new mic. Having to use a shotgun mic sucks
People that have an issue with charging something sound so lazy...
i have good news ghosto
I'm honestly a little surprised since the Steam Controller runs on AA batteries. Why not also run each Knuckles controller on a AA battery too?
someone completely unrelated posted this and now i remember https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/197871921855987712/527156787418234891/97uylhg8v8621.png?width=678&height=1075
I've heard of battery issues with 2.0 things on 1.0 Lighthouses also so not sure how true that is.
Because it uses a different tracking method, basically.
This is new info to me. The fact that knuckle controllers are not using batteries is pretty much a deal breaker to me. I need to reassess my hype. This is a big deal to me. ._.
I thought FOR SURE that after seeing Oculus's touch controller's they'd realize batteries are better.
i hate feeling timed
so long as they last as long as my trackers
I can probably just test it some time since I've got friend with both, but if it's true then the battery life of the knuckles would most likely be lower as well
Lower battery while on 1.0 lighthouses that is
My trackers are supposed to last 8 hours on a full charge, but in reality they tend to only last 4.5
are they 2.0 on 1.0 lighthouses?
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yes, 2.0 trackers, 1.0 base stations
i pass out and/or need to just stop well before they die
take an hour break for food or whatever, and come back. /shrug
Yeah, then that assessment is most likely true.
vive wasn't selling standalone 2.0 lighthouses at the time (i don't even know if they are yet)
So I'd hazard a guess that that 8 hour battery life on the Knuckles (as of EV3) would be closer to 4 on 1.0s as well
Maybe it's just the prototype knuckles that are rechargeable? There's supposed to be at least one more hardware revision afaik
also where was it ever listed that trackers are meant to last 8 hours 
why is the battery shorter just from using a different kind of lighthouse?
Because it uses a different kind of sensor or something. I've heard it repeated multiple times but I forget what its called
@vocal shard I was told they are supposed to have similar battery life to a vive wand, which is 8 hours isn't it?
i have never heard that
they do less than a controller
bra i think you msged wrong person
my vive wands last around 6-8 yeah
yeah oops
Why not both master race.
how about, vr master race 
mind blown
Oculus? The headset that's been bricked twice in the last year? 
The issue with 2.0 lighthouses is that if you have them, then you need 2.0 everything
in the near future where the poly limit is now 70k but everyone is poor when you go into worlds one man 1 avatar can he save the day
"bricked" yes
They didn't work for like, what? a few hours? still worth the superior controllers if you don't want FBT.
I mean I can say "Vive? The headset with controllers that break within a few weeks?"
im not replacing my original vive. maybe for vive 3 or something else better that might show up, i dont think the jump to the pro is worth it at this point.
"Vive? The company that hasn't replaced people's sent in products for months at a time?"
Everyone I know with the Vive Pro regrets it lol there's really no point.
regrets?reasons?
The increase in quality isn't equal to the increased cost
( i need to reasons to not end up buying it until the next version = lol
id believe it would be worth it only for the increased bigger pixel density...coz thats a big plus in vr terms imo
But anything better than desktop and either are better than wmr
It's really not that big of an increase
I think wmr is pretty good 😅
(rift user here)
any diffrence is a big diffrence regarding pixel density lol, unless you are one of those that can forget them while u play
ive still havent managed to ignore past the pixels sadly 😦
I mean, not enough to justify the price
oh yeah, on that i agree
After a year of wmr..... it has some glaring limitations that really break immersion all the time.
vive pro here complete is almost the price of my pc lol
I know two people who got a Vive pro as their first headset, never wore any modern headset or dev kit before
i could never see myself with wmr lol
A lot of people thought it was the Vive 2.0 so they got it
Using only two people to go on doesn't make a good sample size, but as the two people who spent the most in VR... they seem to be into VR the least.
"it's neat"
lol
Also if not sure if someone was curious about the difference between steam vr 1.0 and 2.0 tracking but this post has a pretty decent explanation.
https://skarredghost.com/2017/06/07/need-know-steamvr-tracking-2-0-will-foundation-vive-2/
better tracking means less jittery movements in vrc? coz if not i cant care less lol
person who just bought a Vive Pro, 3 days later "I'm probably gonna get an oculus for beat saber, I'm afraid of sweating in the vive pro"
I'm wondering if having 3+ 2.0 lighthouses might help mitigate reflection issues
lol
Maybe it would make it worse? More places for the light to scatter around from.
Oh right, the 2.0 stuff can have more than 2 lighthouses
Tbh if you’re not addicted to vrchat I’d find it hard to validate getting vr
I got VR before I hit 50 hours lol
well, I'm thinking that right now it has two sources of data: the IMU and one lighthouse (if only one is visible), so it can't reject the bad sensor
however with two lighthouses visible, it can detect which one is an outlier
and having 3+ lighthouses increases the likelihood of having multiple visible
I got 4 hours in VRC before I bought a headset
and if you're careful with placement you can maybe make sure that only one is reflecting at a time
being pet on desktop does it
I played 2 hours of vrchat then decided I would get vr before playing anymore
@languid beacon headpats are the VR killer app
Please remember to pet your desktop users ~
One thing I did that I think was probably weird was make my own avatar before really playing more than 3 or 4 hours
make desktop users wear a smaller avatar than you, and pet them. It's like cheating.
well it's awesome that vrc in vr makes it feel like you are really close to your friends ( that in rl u cant be near ), so its rly nice
I uploaded a really shitty one before I started, then did a custom before I went any further
@rigid crescent it's harder to do that early now that visitors can't upload
yeah i have like a group of 10+ second life buddies i've known for +11 years, we all ditched SL for VRChat, and we all got rifts. it's made us much closer than we've ever been in a decade of knowing each other
we feel like we've met.
IMU is used in a very useless way atm
thats lovely Adeon c:
yeah, I hit almost 24 hours before I got new user, but that was mostly because it took me a while before I stopped browsing invite only avatar world instances and got some friends ¯_(ツ)_/¯
@safe prism I'm sure it's used as an input to a kalman filter or something at least
like.. helps for <1s losses in tracking but it stops caring after that
i imagine it's used for smoothing too yeah
you really don't want to integrate IMU output over a longer interval
but it's essential since the headset framerate is faster than the lighthouse scan interval
Doesn't the IMU handle most of the "tracking"? I thought the lighthouses were essentially to fix the position and give it a point of reference but then it uses dead reckoning in between light flashes?
the problem with the IMUs is the error accumulates over time
the lighthouses have error too, but the error doesn't accumulate, so it can be used as a fixed reference to correct IMU error
and a kalman filter is a common mathematical technique to combine the two
I was placed into "User" with 131 hours when the trust system came out, so I don't know when I got new user or user. but I got known at 153, and Trusted at 302.
I was Vet along with probably 75% of my friends and their close friends.
I'm very glad Vet was removed. I know most vets would disagree
Lol vet didn't matter just like none of the other ranks matter.
the registry has a bunch of extra ranks too - eg NegativeTrustLevel, NegativeTrustLevel1, NegativeTrustLevel2
also VeryNegativeTrustLevel
Very negative lol
Well at the choice of having Vet rank or Friend rank, I think friend rank is a better system
Yeah friend is more convenient
BACK IN MY DAYS OF BEING A VETERAN USER I WAS ALWAYS THE PEAK OF ATTENTION EVERYONE CAME BEGGING FOR ME TO ADD THEM but now as a filthy trusted user im seen as a normie
#bringbackveteran
Lol
Vet is still there just not visible
As the genie of the lamp, I will grant your wish. Vet rank is back exactly as it was. Your wish is fulfilled. It's also still yellow, and no one notices.
needing to feel superior over other people in 2018
if you want to feel superior over other people just put on full body trackers 😉
^
i have em
unless you're around others with it too
now excuse me back to erping with desktoppers
then its either camaderie or pro-level dancers that playfully flex
or just sit around with them on 🤦
Desktopper erp 
seated mode with trackers 
I will admit, i bought trackers just to sit on the floor
if a headset is too expensive, just buy a tracker for your head and hands and play with desktop controls
^^^
Dancing? full body motion? No, i just wanted to sit on the floor

heck I just want to sit in chairs without sinking into them
In gonna be hype as fuck when I get leggies
Dancing? I thought people were just really drunk while throwing yhe legs
buy a realsense camera, invest some time into getting it tracking your head and possibly your hands
It is nice. get a full body avatar prepaired in advance
I got trackers because my kinect wouldn't track hip rotation 🤷
Blender. Unity is cake.
dancing while sober is a great way to get hurt
Time to put fbt in your name then 
As far as VRChat goes. you really don't need to "learn" unity, just the few things VRChat lets you do in unity
Im too cool for full body fix, i want to be set at 4’3 before my ava works
All my avatars are fbt ready, no reason not to 👌
mood
Just set your irl height to 4'3
why fix when i can just scale my world down and jam my head into position
I need to get into avatar making anyway, the public avatar i was using before apparently has too many dynamic bones ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Just become 4'3''
yes please
Exactly, such stupid people in this world when you dont even have to fix it at all
Protip lie about your height and say you are an inch, or maybe 2 inches, shorter. it kinda assumes human eyes sit at the top of their head
lock in so it's perfectly where your eyes are then drop the height 2 inches so your ass shakes more
I found a calibration tutorial on YT earlier that effectively forces vrchat to calibrate to height instead of arm length
@languid beacon playspace adjustments
Imagine putting your viewpoint orb anyway than slightly inside the head/between the eyes.
I always place the orb between eyes
I dont want to calibrate at all, game cant force me to pose
When you are not stretched out, the target will be matched perfectly where you put it on the geometry, so really, between the eyes is the correct location
I know people putting it on their nose. Plebs.
unless it has a big ol cartoon head, then just pretend the giant head is a mascott mask, and put the eyes lower and inside the head where a real human head would be
@safe prism maybe they do, I don't have trackers yet so I'm just in the research phase
it's so much easier .-.
aa
well yeah, you tend to learn what bases match up in what ways
like for me, TDA proportions are 4'4 for flat feet, 4'5 for heels iirc, shimakaze/waterdemon proportions is 4'11
So what happens if you calibrate upside down does that count ur head as legs
for me
I don't recommend using playspace movor to fix your floor height. Get Oculus/SteamVR's floor height and VRC's matched up properly and EVERY avatar will work for you. Using playspace to fix it means readjusting it for every avatar
I use a modded luka so it's got some long legs, and I added heels on top of that
i have to match it up every time anyway
Dont worry, hopefully within this year we all can become walking robots with 9 trackers and 12 batterypacks
if the floor is too low, change both oculus AND VRC to be a inch lower
All strapped around us
once i'm in, i never really lose it
We might be getting to 7 supported trackers some time in 2019
@rigid crescent plus finger trackers for knuckles maybe
Where will the extra 4 go
and i move my playspace far too much and my zero position is somewhere in space uwu
knees/elbows?
trackers tend to work on bones rather than joints
I just wish playspace mover didn't move the x-z position of the chaperone bounds
there are other tools, besides playspace mover, that can interface with input emulator, some specifically for adjusting floor height only
well for floor height you can just enter numbers, right?
oh, you can make it not do that
you can type in a floor height, yes
but it's still based off of your true floor height you put in OpenVR / Oculus Home
i can't remember if setting in ovras or just a line of code or two to also move the chaperone bounds with the universe
yeah the problem is due to employer limitations I (probably) can't release anything I write for openvr ¯_(ツ)_/¯
so for example, SteamVR's floor height of 72 inches with a -2 inch playspace movor offset, is not the same as a SteamVR floor height of 70 with no playspace mover offset
so that kind of saps motivation a bit
ask for a waiver
@safe prism they don't do waivers for the game dev policy. for some reason. it's stupid.
Don't tell anyone? Release under an internet handle?
I can work on just about anything else open source. but not games.
VR isn't specifically a game platform, and neither is OpenVR
personal project waivers are how innovation happens uwu
I guess? I mean, I guess it depends on how I justify it.
I can probably argue that vrchat isn't a game I suppose
but it's veeery borderline
VR is an input/output device. it's not a game, it's not a game engine, it's not a game console
it's a monitor and a mouse.
well... I suppose it's technically not a game, and the personal participation system is a self-certify and auto-approve system, soooo.... we'll see?
Well nothing you are doing has to be FOR VRChat at all. You're just making stuff for OpenVR
so justifying VRChat isn't even relelvent
VR movies 10/10
wait
half reasonable (and more importantly, enforced,) personal project policy
seattle
are you a microsoft nerd
n..nooo?
He's specifically not allowed to work on games
yeah if you work in the company you know exactly who I work for with that hint lol
ehe
(but seriously, not MS)
adjacent?
It's Bunjie isn't it
I can neither confirm nor deny any of these rumors
gottem
Hmu with those Destiny codes pls
good luck :D
Lol you worked on Ark/Atlas didn't you
no i'm just really not going to push into my second pick
Ensemble studios! Oh wait... 😭
i finished both hat kid and bow kid, they can both switch through all hats
Wait wut
Don't pressure him to break his NDA's lol
^^
Oh on a gestures? Post pics
I mean, nothing actually prevents me from mentioning which company I work for, I just don't really want to say in a public chat channel is all
it's not a games company, just a company with a stick up its ass about games for some reason ¯_(ツ)_/¯
VBucks
It's Unity then.
lmao
that would make avatar creation much easier for me if it was true I guess?
I mean, when I play stellaris I always make sure to gather plenty of unity
there's only two choices in SEA for companies with copyright liability as a major concern
sssh
Wait is it Twitch
twitch is SFO
It must be Valve 🙃
I mean there's the one starting with M, the one starting with A, the one starting with G, the one starting with F...
also the one starting with V I guess yeah
Any of the regulars up for some vrc? 👁
alas, I have no VR until mid-next week 
Hm?
I'm doing family stuff now
I can't right now
I did so much VR last night
Would be nice to have a leg tracker for my other foot
anyone want to play vrchat with me all of my friends basically dumped me
alright, hold up, starting up vrchat
Can't get on rn tho I'm dead
how come?
add me
I played Vrc until 6am
lol
cant get on
hey atleast i got a friend so i ain't complaining
Learning to make avatars in the day and playing vrc at night
High noon
where do photos I take with the camera go?
Try your pictures folder
Yeah!
👌
If anyone wants to play with me, add me: "Soupcan" im the guy with the monkey avatar

ugh, someone with a hacked avatar kept placing portals on me after I blocked him -.- grumble
er, hacked client
does anyone know of any worlds with optimized avatars?
thank you!!
not all of them are green, but most should be
I'm using an Acer Mixed Reality headset and for some reason my hands are crossed in VR and my position is weird
I've had vrchat mix up left and right controllers on vive. Try restarting steamvr and turn on left first then right. Your position being weird no idea
Tried that. I may have to deal with it
You can fix issues like this with Openvr input emulator
It will add an openvr settings page to your steam menu and you can swap controllers for example or even apply offsets relative to head to fix position issues
But it really shouldn't be necessary for an off the shelf setup
Just tried floor adjustment in MR so I'm seeing if that helps
@inner cape Do you know who the regulars are?
Heh, we need a specific list with names and sleeping schedules
Anyone else of you guys not being able to add friends to your favorites anymore?

honestly, i cant name you all, I dont remember every single name, but i will recognize if I see you
I'd happily join you but I'm in holiday mode with guests 

which channel do i go to to ask questions about gameplay?
What do you mean gameplay? @steep reef
I've been happily reminiscing about the first time I ever used vrchat, no hub, no home, hardly any worlds, avatars on marketplace, about 20-30 users, had to download vrchat off a website, not on steam, no body tracking, only vr was oculus dk2, no vive back then, oh, those were the days
This one ;p
You can talka bout general VRC stuff and if you need support with a bug or something else its #user-support-old
i mean like, how to do stuff in vrchat. i don't know how to add people as friends if they aren't in the same world as me
that's easy
just search for their user name
then send them a friend request
you can send a friend request even if they ain't on vrchat at the time, they will be notified when they next log on
okay, thanks! i think i may have figured out why it wasn't working- i was in the Worlds tab when i tried to search for them before, but now that I'm in the social tab it's working.
there ya go, simples
oh yeah, something else that was different 3 years ago, no discord, we all used Skype, lol, times have deffo changed
Same thing if done right beside that one is more optimized
the high one?
@native gull higher polygons = more lag , lower polygons = less lag but looks crappier
AHHH
Not sure why it would need to look more crappy?
Its legit not true unless you just flat out decimate it all without caring
theres a skipper one with super low poly so i was wondering
@umbral reef made it simple in noob terms so dont confuse him
oh wow thanks for that
@native gull lower Polygons just mean less laggy
1mil poly sphere should be fine.
...
When people say polygons don’t lag they are really saying polygons don’t lag as much as other things
Everything lowers performance, however tris are the lowest impact that people complain about
Does anyone know where I can get this birb avatar? It looks so cool. I have it favorited but it doesnt show up in my favourites https://i.imgur.com/dBHYbKJ.png
You can probably find a birb avatar then add that hat to it. Sorry if that isn’t much help. I’m not actually sure :x
I like and support the weighted performance feature request, so that just because one area is “poor” doesn’t meant the whole model is poor
If your avatar is poor due to dynamic bones, it will be poor in general. But some of the values are a bit weird
I agree, but not all of those effect the performance the same or as much
And that’s what the feature request attempts to fix
yeah basically everyone agrees that it need to be weighted
You ever just wanna play VRChat and have the urge to play it but cba to actually put on the vr even though it's right there ?
Yeah, when I get home from work. Basically me
Is it normal to not be able to favorite avatars that are public, if they are not from a world?
its a commitment
Anyone else been having connection problems lately?
I’ve been having loading loop issues and stuff like that. I want to say that it’s the Ethernet cable I’m using but the only application that’s really affected is VRC. I have perfect ping and perfect download speed outside of these issues so I’m not sure
Yep, known issue and it's not on your end
I have as well @hoary spruce
Does anyone have the issue where the game tries to log you in with your new name ( changed it since your original ) but it can’t register it because you still need to log in with your old one? I used to have a different name before Mysticcia, so whenever I log in I need to use the old one to get into the game. Recently it’s been trying to just log in using Mysticcia and it can’t get in because it’s not registering my old one
So basically every time I start the game, I need to log in
OwO
So apparently kicking yourself will demote your rank.
OOF
I mean, I didn't do it, but someone on reddit did lol
I wonder how this game works exactly same with my social relationship in my real life
If you can't talk to people irl, you can't talk to people in vrchat
Lol yeah I saw that Adeon
I highly suggest against kicking yourself, no matter how much you think you deserve it!
there's issues with animations deactiving -_-
everytime i try logging into my acc, it just says ''Unauthorized''
Copy paste ya login information instead of typing it
still same problem
And you are using your Account name and not Display name?
what exactly do you mean, im using the data that is my name ingame aswell
Did you change your name
Then try logging onto the website
same, just says "Unauthorized"
Can try changing your password might work else no idea
merp
@umbral reef nvm im retarded, i used the wrong email
He's asleep now...
he can still see the ping when he wakes up
so he can know that i'm dumb i suppose


Co-Ne-Chi-Wa
Oof.
"You have been banned from public world instances until Dec 29, 2018 01:13. Reason: Repeatedly setting malicious avatars to public (very loud, fullscreen shaders, etc)"


NO FUN ALLOWED
too bad
epicn't
Depends on how bad it was tbh
If you go out to be loud just to be loud and have those cancerous screen shaking effects it's well deserved in my opinion
that's just obnoxious tbh
lets enforce really strict guidelines on public world avatars
lets also start making ANY avatar set to public cloneable, no matter what
it escaletes
pikachu :o face
Ban is a bit too far as you can just block the avatars
but meh
atleast give us an option to share with friends.
Yeah that'd be cool
fucking shit. i don't wanna sit on the shit i make, when people really enjoy it
i want other people to have fun with it too.
it was way better before the gay ass cloning update
dumb ass shit. actually annoys me
people came to me who really loved the avatars. they were genuinely really happy to have them.

Probably should cut back on setting things that could be abused in the wrong hands to public. I, assuming it was the emoji man? Cuz I had to block a crowd of them yesterday
It does suck though, but what else could they do?
They def don’t want people leaving the game due to spam. Specially when a lot of people might be using vr for the first time today :x
Just because you are tasteful doesn’t mean everyone else who uses your avatar will be
I simply think that the avatar copying needs a redo
The way that it is now is not optimal
Should be on a case by case basis, like a notification appears like a friend request and you have to click yes
I think the new public avatars, cloning, included, is fine, we just need additional options besides public/private. But public really should mean public, cloning included.
Agreed
I want to have a private world with public avatars that only my friends can use
From a technical standpoint I understand why they have the two options. Private is easy. Uploader only check. Public with cloning is also easy, you don’t need any security at all, very hands-off. But anything in between like friends only / pedestals only / world only, is going to require some extra security work for people not to be able to break, and that makes them liable for protecting content use.
But a peristalsis-only setting, forcing cloning off regardless of user selection, aka old public, is needed
I don’t think it should be tied to friends, personally
The issue isn't the memes, it's the malicious aspects: music set overly loud (some avatars bypass limits set by the sdk), screen shakes are almost never acceptable
That stuff probably shouldn't be allowed on private avatars either, but I think they are holding off on enforcing rules on private avatars, for good reason (same reason people don't look at my private data) - no reason to assume public avatars have privacy
You are free to make memes if they use reasonable volume levels and acceptable screen effects: if you really think a screen space effect is "tasteful" put a reasonable distance limit on it and make it obviously centered on your avatar or particle so people can walk or turn away if they don't like it
I think they don’t really care what goes on in private instances between people who are ok with whatever is happening, so they don’t want to make rules that would curb what you can do on your own computer. They just want public to be safe and not get on the news as someone dying in vr on their platform or something.
Also: personal space should block ALL screen shaders.
Just saying
Give people options to protect themselves, then others can go crazy without worry
That’s how I’d do it anyway just spit balling
@umbral oracle that's what the safety setting is for
dont need a modded sdk to make loud music, but why i dont keep avatar and sound effects at 100%
Use custom to only show friends fully and individually "show" avatars of others as you want. It's what I do. I keep avatars on others but not shaders, animations, particles and such
i keep them at 50% or lower so my headset speakers dont blow out
So wait can you get banned by setting a rule breaking avatar as public now?
Rule breaking? As in?
I'm pretty sure if it violates tos you could always get banned
That's not new
From jawbones ""You have been banned from public world instances until Dec 29, 2018 01:13. Reason: Repeatedly setting malicious avatars to public (very loud, fullscreen shaders, etc)""
crash avatars, earrape at 1% volume, malicious shaders, other TOS breaking avatars
So I have an avatar that has a really short chromatic abberation and bass boost sound, but you can only see and hear it around me, that's fine right?
I believe so as long as you comply with audio limits set by the sdk
There are no official word I know of on malicious shaders but I think a distance or size limit on weird effects imho. Some shaders are intended to make you nauseous foe xample
Also I can't believe how easy it is to make really weird shaders
Thoughts on people playing music through their mics?
can be okay depending on the situation
can also be annoying, in which case mic mute them
Like I once had an avatar that I deleted because the shader I put on it inverted the color depending on the eye, which caused general discomfort for any VR users
The shader was super easy to make
And to any desktop users it looked fine
thing is, the avatrs got set back to private.
atleast fucking give me word about which avatar and what on it is not okay.
maybe i can share SOME avatars, so people can enjoy them?
but no, lets just make this flawed system a thing without letting the community test it, and ban people without actually giving them a notice before.
refine ur system before you actually shit it out.
I'd advise against having avatars with loud noises/ malicious shaders in general. If they're public they can be reported by a user and be forcibly set to private.
Alright cool stuff
merry christmas
Merry Christmas
Some of my avatars have bass boosted stuff but nothing you can't walk away from
I dunno the details of that though, try emailing moderation@vrchat.com
If your avatar can be annoying, subjectivity, i would avoid making out pubic
literally, every avatar can be annoying
🤔
i don't know what the huge fuss is about, there's hide avatar features, theres muting (if you mic spam) and there is blocking
fucking furrys always with their uwu shit Ima report them
see? Anything can be annoying
If you have an issue, email moderation@vrchat.com. This isn't the place to argue stuff like that.
@sudden nacelle it's really hard to hide avatar features while the world is spinning around you
agreed
plus there is some shaders that still hide the menu
I mean I suppose there is panic mode, as long as you know how to trigger it
aev, i am freaking begging you to implement a system, where you can share avatrs with friends. not asking to get unbanned, i mean, shit happens.
but i really wanna share my stuff with friends, that i do care about that enjoy the stuff.
@torn nebula you make it sound like i would use shaders that overrender the menu, which i would never do. if you legit cant see theres the safety mode.
no, I mean in general. I don't know what you got banned for specifically.
@finite kraken Please ask in #avatars-2-general
but I've seen shaders that (intentionally) spin the world in both eyes, or (probably unintentionally) squash both eyes into the left eye
and that's super disorienting in VR
dont forget the targeted zoom in
Can we outlaw grab pass shaders?
can we not
what are grab pass shaders
"no fun allowed"
things that can take in the current screen as a texture
Is anyone else having an issue where a world will load all the way but then not give you the Go button
Many edgy screen space shaders use it
oh
I've also seen more tasteful stuff that just changes colors a little bit. That's not so bad in my opinion.
So far, I've only messed with render queues and such
A friend made a mosaik shader... So I made an anti-mosaik shader
could be annoying if you're not in the mood for that but I wouldn't call that stuff malicious
It's how they make your screen shake or rainbow or zoom
@tall laurel happens to me on occassion, sometimes its just wait a long time
Its just been with three different worlds now in the last ten minutes, I wonder if something is wrong
Never had my screen zoom, and my shader treshold setting is quite low
@limber anvil i have the zoom in shader, but adding color to it is quite annoying for vr users, so i dont use it anymore
Wont even let me go home
plus distance is really short
personally, i dont mind the zoom in shader that much. There was this penguin that was doing it every now and then but it was only, like, twice, and there was comedic timing on it
Why have them to begin with?
e
zoom does come in handy for comedic type animations
I never made or used an asset which could annoy anyone
particle spam usually is funny
Do you guys know how to make shaders?
nope
It's really helpful to know
literally everything can be used for bad or good things. it's just how you take/make it
And not because I hold back, but because I don't see the point in it.
You might find that zoom video funny, but chances are you will just annoy people in game
but if the bad heavily outweigh the good there is a problem
@tacit plank why friends+ is a thing
zoom is as funny as screen shake, it's funny the first time until people spread the prefab and everyone and their mom starts to do it
i dont use them in public
Well, my avatars can't do anything bad.
I can't really make shaders. I can edit shaders and mess with things like renderqueues and stencils, but those things are 1 or 2 lines of code
@tacit plank try shaderforge it's a lot easier than coding if your making a complex shader
i usually insta deactivatethe avatars for those that use the 😅 emoji avatar
you know the one with all the shaders
I've seen screen shake shaders 2 times this week. Both times I was crashed shortly after seeing the effect
I remember seeing a neat avatar in fantasy shu-kai-jou the other day that had a shader that overwrote the entire screen.... but only as seen by world cameras, not for player vision
sadly hadn't had the time to really get into it.
usually just change som small things up, like max values, render queues and such.
i might get into it the next few weeks, since i have time off of work and i usually use it to make shit for vrchat since the last few months. could definetly come in handy
wait so @torn nebula you mean, like, noone in vr is effected, but if they looked at a camera the effect would show on that screen?
@limber anvil the map in question has two rooms, and each room has a camera showing the other room. the avatar overwrote those cameras
and only those cameras
ok that's actually neat
@torn nebula i know who made it, i have access to it, and i know the intention it was made for.
i can imagine some maps that utilize that
like a hide and seek game where you can only see someone if theyre in the frame of a camera
90% of times when I meet people with annoying shaders or effects, they didn't make it themselves. If you're going to fuck my screen, you should at least be original
It's not that hard
like the 😅 avatar
My chromatic abberation shader was made myself
@tacit plank it's not hard. and it probably uses the same technique anyways. it's what you make out of it
It's hard to find any documentation on shaders
No it isn't
i really wouldnt mind that avatar that much if it didnt have the screen freeze/shaky zoom in
😂 avatars are quite hilarious ngl
@tacit plank google "unity shaders" and all kinds of stuff comes up
like, remove that one thing and we can place it under "harmless cringy avatars"
instead its currently in "cancer avatars"
It's all shit. Either the shaders need a script to function, or they just give you a bunch of code without explaining how or why it works
No
@tacit plank scripts are for the interface.
why would they explain the code in the file they publicly give out.
if it were something that is amde for tutorials, it has the explaination it in, yes.
you think GTA5 (for instance) has fucking comments on everything everywhere, and why it makes it work?
the difference being is making shaders is a development thing
I was told to google "unity shaders", which gives code, not learning material. The code makes no sense on it's own, which is the problem with shaders
"where my free shader megatutorial at????? REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
that's like saying "I would like to know what ingredients work in this cake" vs "Why should i know the exact steps to making this cake im eating"
that is the metaphor you gave
I was told making shaders was easy, so I said that finding material was hard, to which somebody disagreed
finding materials
Typo. Material, as in learning material
@wintry crag there's plenty of reference material out there, and plenty of less-reference tutorial material e.g. https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/topics/graphics/gentle-introduction-shaders
but to some extent you'll want to know how to code a more normal programming language first
because shaders are just really weird sorts of programs
if you can't be bothered to read go to a youtube video.
if you cant be bothered to spend time on it, don't even start.
Applying a color, or stitching together boxes in one of those shader UI programs is easy
But tell me I can read this page, and then sit down and make a spinning cube with a geometry shader
oh my god
@tacit plank you're gonna want to read up on vertex shaders then
I can already program, but programming languages have good variable names
"gentle introduction"
when can i recreate fricking poiyomi shader???
better be soon 😠
You know what types you're dealing with in programming
I don't mind spending some time learning, I just want to be able to
hey, so i just had the gentle introduction into HTML
i will now commence on programming my own facebook
I learned HTML in 4 hours when I was 14

It's simple, and actually makes sense
no it doesn't
For shaders, you have to guess what the hell Unity is doing, and what all the macros mean
same goes for HTML or any other programming language? 
No, you just write what you want to do, and it will autocomplete a function which does it like 50% of the time
Caffeine, lots of things are decently documented but there are some things not that people copy from others or just have to know. Xiexe has a tutorial properly lit wireframe shader on his github. Lots of good examples around for learning. If there is a specific question you have about something, go ahead and ask here: some people in vrchat community are surprisingly knowledgeable
Cool, I will have to check that out! I don't have any specific questions, but doing some seemingly simple things can be really hard, and when I google it I just end up on some 4 year old forum thread with no replies. For programming, you have stackoverflow, there's pretty much always an answer ready
Ya no real equivalent I have found yet for unity shader writing. Some of the interesting questions actually bring me to vrchat related posts, so this might be one of the best places to find help, at least among public communities
@tacit plank Shader forge
Also I just watched a tutorial on how to make a unity shader online and figured everything else from there
That's just connecting boxes though. It can do a lot of cool things, but you don't really have control of it compared to if you code it yourself
I remember trying to use it to make an outline shader. But I wanted only the outline of my avatar to display, with the rest being transparent. Couldn't do it
You can still start in amplify shader forge as a first draft and keep track of places to special case when you edit the code
I could outline everything, kind of like wireframe, but I couldn't make it show only a 2D outline. The inside wouldn't go transparent
I should try that I suppose. Thanks!
play the game
I have one friend on it ;~;
Make more
Ok
Go to the pug or the box or the presentation room and talk to people
People with lots of shaders and guns are usually a bad sign
Yeah avoid those people
I did go to the presentation room
You'll want to disable "Personal space" in settings so that you can get headpats
very important
With it on, people will fade when they get close to you. It's also important to be cute. And most people with a strange but womanly voice are men with voice changers.
Don't use the knuckles avatar. Russian tanks aren't funny either
I use a lil bird owo
I want a lizard tho
I can’t get on my computer cuz my mom will get mad ÒwÓ
That's fine! Some users use modified clients btw, you should avoid them
Awesome!
Lucky
It was the last set eb games had so im lucky i snagged it
Is your computer strong enough to use it
@sudden nacelle I believe in you
oof avatar poor cuz cloth
Im trying to do lip sync with skeleton model, but how do I get lower bone jaw?
if u dont have a jaw then u dont have a jaw
u might also have shape keys that change mouth shape
if so u need at least one that opens mouth
or a full set of visemes
.
if there isnt a jaw bone u could also rig it
but it should be mapped in humanoid if u want jaw flap
I just crashed myself and im dying on how I even did it.
all I did was spin around with the clapping animation avatar, and I cant breathe that was amazing
So yee



Like Zoinks
Anyone knows what "error saving blueprint" error while uploading avatar?
Hi
Hi
Anyone else not having new favorited avatars added to list?
Just checked if i can play VRchat today and still bugged
Login loop still when going to a private world
sorry public
When is the patch out?
For sure nor during xmas
Dang. unable to play the past 7 days or so
Favorited avatars won’t be added if one of your favorited avatars have gone private. Unfavorite it
I think it’s a bug because it does not always happen
It acts like you favorited but you come back later and it’s reverted
I can't play either 😑
no pepe allowed
👀
every once in a while i need to go on other servers to get dat Pepe fix 

Oh hi Mark
-lightly slaps nass-
mari i drew a christmas card, want it as a late merry christmas saying xD
I saw it though :D
Can't helpt it I am a lurker xD
but mari love me
<.<
Jaffa, Humans, Azguard and more
Next is Star Trek and then a Universal world with avatars from other Scifi shows
We do need more Stargate stuff overall
One of the first things I did in VRChat was trying to set up a Stargate world, never did get very far with it as I was pretty inexperienced at the time.
the hell is stargate
Its SG1 gate room and half the base and part 2 world is Mothership
1 Avatar is only for me
Thor
Can summon an azguard mothership in the sky 1:1 scale with clouds
Star Trek one is Deep Space nine with Quarks and the stores
Side project is a NeoTokyo 80/90s style bar
Will make some avatars colours glow and be tron like
NeoTokyo?
@placid zealot
being Autistic and OCD i want to have even the smallest detail
Such scenery.. 
I am using old school styles i learnt since original doom engine and Quake 1
Sprites with filters to give 3D HD look
Mhm.
Been playing with C++ and engines since Wolf 3d
So Basic coding
I follow John Carmacks style of coding.
AKA Doom, Quake, Wolf

I am Doing video Optimizations like crazy the past 2 months
Start room has buttons for how good the PC is for world features
Hmm?
Best way for fbt ? i was planing on straping the trackers to my feets with rubber bands x)
is there an issue with the favourite world category? it doesn't appear in the world's tab. personal worlds don't appear too
i hear to strap the trackers to your ankles and waist
i used zip ties to do it to the shoes
@hardy basin favorites and stuff are broken
I'd recommend something a bit more rigid then rubber bands, but it might work as a temporary solution
Use glue
i just did it to shoes with zip ties lol
I got "trackstraps" myself, but some friends of mine have had luck with tying them to shoes with the shoelaces, or literally sowing together some custom straps.
You might want to try the shoelace solution if you have some extra shoes around in that case.
i do
Hip you might have to get a bit creative with though
make your own straps? it might be easy, just gotta find the right screw
Any camera mounting screw should work.
i ziptied the tracker to a belt for hip
@umbral reef oh okay thank you!
yeah hip im planing on just mounting a screw on a belt i dont use c:
I put the trackers under the shoelaces of some old sneakers. Works fine 👌
mari love meeee

:3
do it on shoes you can just slip on
yep yep
Btw,regarding avatar creation does the cat's blender plugin does everything one needs to have a full body ready avatar or
Pretty much yea
oclac
Lmao epic
Devs make avatar cloning feature
Avatar cloning can't be turned off on the avatar
Cloned avatars will be met with the same repercussions as public world avatars
Friend gets BANNED for having his private avatar cloned
:0 how'd he get his private avatar cloned nani
It was set to public before the update
This is the message he gets now lol
Not even a crasher or anything, just "obnoxious"
honestly its deeper than that
He got the rules changed from under him and now they're banning him for it, epic dev team as always
He's the owner of that yellow "emoji" avatar you may have seen around
Brb setting all of my old avatars to private
They need to set more options for avatar cloning
They should have done so in the first place
A separate option to allow cloning, off by default
honestly not just that, they need to get the avatar restrictions a redo
if it wasnt for the avatar restrictions, most of the avatar creators (and i mean the good ones) would still be here making avatars till now
What restrictions? The public world ones?
@sonic verge the public world restrictions are fine though
I think colliders are still counted wrongly but I'm guessing they'll never change that :/
colliders, dynamics, meshes etc i think
You can have three skinned meshes. All it takes is to just join the meshes, it's not hard
50 dynamic bones is plenty
You can make short skirts work with three bones
all my avas usually take from 30-40 dyns
and that still go very poor sometimes like wot
Yeah I’d say the rules with public worlds are mostly fine
No one takes it seriously cuz of it being fucked thankfully
No distinction made between my instanced mesh particles (that are only on sometimes), and someone with 1000 dynamic bone transforms and 20 colliders
I'm put in the same boat as people with a hundred meshes lol
i havent even touched unity or blender since this update, cause im pretty sure il just be crammed for having orang to reds on rank
Literally everyone is marked as poor, therefore nobody cares
All it did was make nameplates laggier
i can literally see that even without going to places
idunno, my friends have mostly been doing their part to optimize their stuff
and so have worlds
So, i just read through the community guidelines.
I have not violated them (in my eyes, reading as of like 5 minutes ago)
nowhere does it say anything i did was wrong.
i just send the support team a dispute for my ban.
Let's see where this leads, and if i get a really weird answer to it.
#freejawbones2018
they still need to fix the rank weighting, but still
#freejawbonesemojiavatar
I think I win today on breaking Unity:
transform.position assign attempt for 'SceneCamera' is not valid. Input position is { NaN, NaN, NaN }. UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent(Int32, IntPtr)
I’ve been optimising my stuff too, but having over 8 rigid bodies still puts me down to very poor
(Also just broke Discord trying to copy paste...)
lmao
Didn't you say you got banned for an annoying avatar?
I mean it was annoying enough to get reported lmao
and it was reported enough to actually get noticed
but yeah, i haven't seen it so i cant really judge tbh
I get knocked to medium for having one (1) worldspace particle attached to my hand. They broke IK Follower so they're not leaving me a choice.
I've seen his avatar and I can see that people would find it annoying. However, Jawbones has not been abusing it

The same cannot be said for all the asshats who cloned his avatar and proceeded to spam it 24/7
Almost any avatar could be used annoyingly if it has some sounds or particles
The ban is bullshit lmao, they changed the rules and then retroactively banned him for it
I am the creator of the emoji ybot, whis people really enjoyed.
i had it set to public, to share it with close firends, as i put a pedestal into my private homeworld, so people could favourite it, also to have fun for it.
the new update enables avatar cloning on EVERY avatar set to public, not even just avatars in approved public avatar worlds.
I myself see this system as flawed, since you cant just share avatars with friends.
either test the feature before just releasing it after a 1 or 2 day notice, or actually think it through before.
i know MANY avatars, that are set to public, that are way worse. like WAY WAY worse. Public avatars with crasers on them, global earrape audio. overrendering of the menu etc.
i just wanted orther people to have fun too, which definetly was the case.
They "tested" it in their closed beta and that made them overconfident
Of course, only a specific type of person will get admitted to such a closed beta, and that's the type of person who sucks up to the devs
as far as i recall it, wasn't it the beta that was like 2 days until it went live?
So basically the devs ensure that they get zero feedback
the closed beta went on for weeks apparently while open was just a few hours
They had a closed beta several times before. The open beta was live for 9 hours. @sudden nacelle
even worse, holy fuck
Tupper was visibly panicking at all the issues that popped up because Ron wanted to push it through immediately







