animation

[tawdry flame]

i'm trying to make a Particle System that emits from a Mesh Renderer and it seems to just completely stop emitting particles when i switch the Shape to Mesh Renderer. the Mesh Renderer is coming from a Capsule that i created in the Scene. any idea what the problem could be? i'm new to using PSs so don't know if this is the intended workflow

OBS didn't capture the dropdown menus 😛

[nova rover]

hey i need some help trying to set up some transitions for my avatars sound animations, basically i have a couple of dance animations that has a start (aka intro) animation and a (looped) animation, i got the starting animations to transition to the looped animations but im having issues with the song animations, i got the intro of the song to work but it doesn't transition to the looped animation of the song, it just reloops the starting animation

[nova rover]

if anyone does know what is going on and how to fix it, I would appreciate it alot, I've been stuck on this part of my avatar for a few days now trying to figure out how to get it to work properly

[steep panther]

(animation was finally recorded)

this was recorded by a friend bc im way too laggy

[steep panther]

working on a new animation ( u can tell what is is by the screen)

[shell oxide]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/833184276241317889/1224808803308933260/Never_Goon.mov?ex=661ed716&is=660c6216&hm=e88cc68fdbe1df0252e114281990328655446d538d3d636ad4bab2ba1388120a&

[muted prairie]

[steep panther]

Group logos are in place

Plan to add more but idk

[flint bison]

Does the new audio state behavior allow "play oneshot"?

[clear yew]

Hey this is more of a “looking for” but I saw this animation on an avatar that basically broke away the vertices/face of your mesh but it traveled through the entire avatar clothes, if anyone knows where I can get something like that please let me know!!

It kinda looks like this but instead of highlighting it, it would separate the faces and then move them back after a while

[dusky jewel]

Thats vilar

Its his shader on github. Vilar24 and the one in the video is his personal one not the one on github. Also use the fork for spi.

[dusky jewel]

This^

Also side note for other shader google his name backwards.

[spiral sand]

i got quite the hefty question and I KNOW its gonna be difficult for a beginner but heres me question....

so i wanna add a spring joint to one my avis, thing is i want to know if theres a video on how to animate the spring joints to where i can throw them for a far distance and have them recall back to me. ive seen some avis with that as a thing but this avi i have dont and just has a normal one that im not to sure where its attached to on her body as ive tried messing with it in game and it kinda just floats there and move around?, but i want one like i said that i can throw around and mess around with for more fun that i learn to animate myself through a guide or 2.

[white ridge]

Hey,
I've seen few avatars having animated tears/crying animation that is 3d (or at least looks like that)
And I've been thinking of implementing something similar for my avi, but I don't seem to be able to find anything about how that works by searching on yt&google

So my question is, that does anyone here have any idea what kind of black magic is used to do that
Just some 3d model with shape keys and toggle on animator or some plugin that does liquids or some weird technicality I haven't thought off

Oh, and by this I DON'T mean particle emitter

[flint bison]

Anybody have this issue where sometimes when I press play to test my avatar, it creates a new floating animator window, but when I try to delete it, it breaks my existing one? I've had to start collecting them...

it's super weird

[nimble ridge]

What the, I don't think you are even supposed to be able to open multiple animator tabs

[fading nimbus]

What are some methods of creating complex avatar animations such as the example here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9NRcc8ICf8) ? Did they animate it by hand in unity using some sort of tool, in blender, with mocap? I haven't tried anything outside of of animating some non-humanoid bones and blendshapes by hand in unity and the tooling makes it seem like a daunting task.

[fading nimbus]

Or if there is a guide on how to setup blender ik based animation using vrchat rigs

[unreal swan]

maybe ai camera mocap, mixamo has sitting at camera typing you can use that @fading nimbus

computer*

@fading nimbus

[unreal swan]

I had the same issue just set windows default to reset it fixed it

[flint bison]

I did and it still happens

in fact setting it to default didn't fix it at all, it just seems to delete my scene window

it's very odd

okay it seems to have worked this time, though I expect the animator windows to come back eventually xD

[unreal swan]

yeah either two avatars in same scene is the issue or switching between different layers like action and fx

Yeah forgot to mention deleting all the windows til they all have errors and everything looks wrong lol @flint bison

[narrow oyster]

For sprite sheets, how big or small does each frame have to be to be centered?

The sprite sheet itself has to be 1024 x 1024 but what about each frame?

[steep panther]

finally making a new animation

[stone drift]

https://ultrakill.wiki.gg/images/4/4a/MP_overhead.gif

I would love to replicate something like this with a particle system

i made from scratch a skull model which i've set as 3d mesh for a particle system

but i have no idea how to do the trail

i tried with particle trails and ribbons but not ideal for what i want
sub particle system emitted with 3d mesh?

[karmic dome]

I like the use of the ray march shader in the background 🙂

[stone drift]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1088238461808541757/1238492682125312090/Unity_K8iqTy5iGe.gif?ex=663f7bb1&is=663e2a31&hm=4b803e736b230e5d2c4283a67b015c20fed16c675a8e31f36e73daa77efb9416&

Thoughts?

[steep panther]

Fr it's done

[analog girder]

https://fxtwitter.com/Chegg_Chegg/status/1790639325568438581

[topaz summit]

Can I make Unity's Animation Controller stop scrolling the window to top when updating the layer settings?

I didn't find solution online, maybe my keyword is wrong...

[lament jolt]

Hey, I want to add a gesture to my avatar that will let me stick out my tongue, but the blendshape I want to use for the animation is being controlled by another animation on a lower layer of my animator. It's an animation that makes my tongue stick out when someone touches my nose. Is there any way to get them to both work? To have both the gesture to stick out my tongue and the animation to make my tongue stick out when someone touches my nose?

[quiet basin]

Hey all; I'm having a bit of a weird issue with an animation. Basically I want to do a simple glowing pulse in sync with the wings moving (and I've done it before on an older avatar) but for some reason the animation is working fine in Unity but goes out of sync in VRChat. The wing movement and glow are all in the same animation so I'm not really sure what's causing it. Any help would be appreciated

[quiet basin]

I've made some progress by changing it so that it changes the emission colour not the intensity, but it is still waiting a second before turning the emission off instantly instead of smoothly going back -_-

[quiet basin]

Finally fixed it. For the sake of anyone else who may be stuck in the same problem in the future, the solution took 2 fixes:

1. Changing the colour saturation of the emission not the emission intensity

2. I had to move the animation pause to the END of the animation not the start of the animation

WHY these fix it is beyond me... apparently the first is a glitch Unity has had for years, the second.... maybe has to do with how animations loop? Honestly I'm a bit lost as to WHY it works but it works and that's all that matters!

[heavy creek]

https://github.com/rrazgriz/RATS

That scrolling is a unity bug

This fixes it and adds some other features

There's also another paid tool called MACS that also fixes this bug and adds even more features

[nova rover]

hello guys, im having another animation issue where im trying to make a ear pulling animation play whenever someone pulls my ears, i set everything up correctly but the aniamtion for the blendshapes does'nt work, any ideas on how to fix it?

[ornate ember]

so question if anyone knows, does the unity VFX graph work in vrc

[hearty gust]

https://youtu.be/_SaBXY-Ejqo?si=TmP9ya6yeC9XupT1

Would this work for vrc

Like the setup of it

[dense mesa]

How do you enable something in an animation, such as a buffer?

[fallen oracle]

How do additive animations work? and do they work with game objects

[wary basin]

On each layer, you can specify the mask and the Blending type. The mask specifies the body parts on which to apply the animation. The Blending type specifies how the animation is applied.

Select Override to use the animation on this layer, replacing the animation on previous layers.
Select Additive to add the animation on this layer on top of the animation from previous layers.
For additive blending to be successful, the animation on the additive layer must contain the same properties as the previous layers.

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/AnimationLayers.html

basically for animations that add something extra to whatever's being animated, like blinking. And yes they work with gameobjects since everything in a unity scene is a gameobject

[lucid ocean]

What is happening?! I press play and it switches the material and I dont know why.

[nova rover]

hey i have a question and if anyone knows how to actually do this please help me out with this, so basically im trying to have "NPC's" on my avatar (not world) and i want them to spawn in whenever i toggle a emote it'll do the other animation of the emote, i got the avatars to spawn in when i toggle on the emote but it doesn't actually do the animation when i emote

[steep panther]

chat i think im cooking 😭 (just kidding i suck at cooking)

[bold mural]

hi i am trying to add this middle finger to an avatar but idk how to add it, does anyone know how?

[errant bridge]

is it a hand gesture to replace the usual 🤘 one

[full fox]

can someone help me set up animators for my avatr

[glad crescent]

probably #avatar-help ?

[steep panther]

animating a character for a animation part

[torpid kestrel]

can someone inv me to the lating gang dc? dm me if you can. ty

[muted lance]

Hello frens, just got an issue. I have an avatar I got, already has everything and I'm experienced with editing/uploading/creating etc but for some reason, in this specific case, I can't seem to get my expression changes to work in game. I've changed the animation, in this case it's fist expression being changed from just pouty lips and the brows going down to a full blink. I've tried remaking the anim, backtracing through all the layers/params and making sure the save is changed, using the emulator it literally works in engine but in game, the expression will go back to the original expression already despite otherwise. Edit: have also tested using 3.0 emulator in-engine and it literally shows her eyes closing on the fist, just will not happen in game. It's like it's engraved into the fist gesture despite those blendshapes not existing in the anim.

TDLR: Toggle works in engine, does not work in game

[tiny marlin]

You have the bikini material in there twice

[lucid ocean]

How do I fix it so it doesn’t happen when I press play. It’s clearly not like that beforehand.

[tiny marlin]

Check your animations, you might’ve accidentally added it there

[lucid ocean]

Mmmm oki, I’ll get back to you, right now my computer is in the shop so I’m gonna have to duplicate this project all over again because my pc was also wiped

[tiny marlin]

oh dang! Sorry to hear that :<

Best of luck!

[steep panther]

flashy flashy. coming to an avatar near you in uhhh few days i think 😭

[steep panther]

fixed synced voice flash/unsynced kick flash and much more smoother+ got charges in

[grim glen]

Hey yall, I’ve decided to take on the challenge for myself to create a completely custom avatar, and Im currently in the process of trying to add custom animations. My problem arises here: Whenever I try to add any new animation clips to record something going on, the avatar goes into a “bike pose”. but when I try to exit out of the preview or stop recording, it stays in this position indefinitely until I force it to preview the TPose animation from another animator to essentially reset it. I dont get what I’m doing wrong because Im finding that other avatars dont do this, and instead return to their T-Pose state when you turn off preview. Could I get some help solving this? Ive tried ripping out all of the animators and starting anew and its come with nothing in my favor.

Bit of a wall but please i really need help solving this…

[grim glen]

update!: im just stupid lmao

figured it out alas

[steep panther]

this is going straight on an avatar soon but its finally done! 😄 | Cosmic Conquest 3D Laser Animation

[cerulean apex]

Howdy folks! 👋🏻

I've been working on a companion mod of my own for FNV with western themes and a pretty extensive questline. I've made quiet a lot of progress but I'm starting to realize a lot of what I wanna do might be beyond my current skillset and/or might be too large of a workload for myself alone. I am looking to focus more on the story elements of the mod and hopefully collaborate with a few people on the more technical aspects of the mod. If you or anyone you know might be interested in collaborating on this project with me please reach out to me!

Follow up with me via DM if you're interested. It's quiet a large project considering it's my first real attempt at a big mod.

I'm looking for some people who might be able to help me with the following mod elements:

- Voice acting

• Custom armors/outfit meshes

• Custom armor/outfit textures

• Custom armor/outfit world models with collision

• Custom weapons (potentially with custom animations)

• Custom weapon meshes

• Custom weapon textures

• Custom weapon world models with collision

If you're interested in learning more feel free to reach out via DM! 👍🏻

[slim plume]

any tips on how to animate a chainsaw anyone?

[steep panther]

The story isnt over yet... Part 2 (17-18 minute long animation)

[steep panther]

and yes this is going on an avatar lmao

[austere monolith]

making a world with these in it as animations would make more sense

[steep panther]

I like to test the limits on what can and can't go on an avatar

[steep panther]

^ about this. I got a animation that brings even the best computers to its knees (it was to mimic what I get when I played the original animation)

[shut fern]

https://youtu.be/JoubcidwQJ4?si=iqKOQvvanv0k8FbQ

[steep panther]

finally learned blender :p only using it for lyrics rn lmao

[sacred jacinth]

Hello!
I'm a tf2 animator
But I like vrc so I figured I could use my blender knowledge for this game

Any suggestions on what I should do first?

[bleak merlin]

Ive added added Full Body Biped so i can animate the hips but when i upload it doesent work. I thought it was the ik execution order but that didnt work either, im not entirerly sure how to troubleshoot this

[sacred jacinth]

welp this is my first test for doing vrc animation
trying to work out the unity stuff now! ^^

[bleak merlin]

why does Full Body Biped work in desktop but not in vr?

[sturdy kindle]

Does anyone know how to animate the parameters in a phys bone? I'd like to be able to change the gravity of one on the fly.

[glad crescent]

either make two and swap which one is enabled, or disable it, tweak the parameter, and re-enable (which probably resets position)

[warped oasis]

Can anybody help me with my avatar toggles? Whenever I'm on quest, pc users cant see my toggles, but when im on pc, quest users cant see my toggles. This just makes things so much more hard to do

[civic sparrow]

the parameter list needs to be identical between the avatars

[warped oasis]

they are the same

[warped oasis]

could we call so lyou could help me

[civic sparrow]

no

but if they are the exact same synced parameter lists then they should just work

[warped oasis]

but it doesnt

[eager sand]

hello people! i tried looking around but couldnt seem to find any info on the issue that im having. in unity i created an animation and wanted it to stop on the last frame. i did the animation in unity and looked up how to stop it, i found two ways, both of which dont work. i turned off "loop time" and make the wrap mode "clamp forever" neither of which seemed to work

[steep panther]

gonna put it on a new avatar like soon so i can test it

[fading nimbus]

Is there a way to edit hand muscle animations without having to tediously type in the values one by one and then carefully copy and paste the values so that both hands are mirrored? There has to be a better way moment.

[glad crescent]

I do it in Blender with mirroring on, it's kinda annoying in Unity

[fading nimbus]

Any tooling or is it just native blender animation?

[glad crescent]

just plain blender

[fading nimbus]

Do you need to do anything special to use a looping animation for custom hand gestures? None of my animation clips play fully when replacing existing hand gestures.

[violet moss]

what the best way to make the transition between walking and standing take more time? i want to have a "started running" and "stopped running" transition animation but it's difficult because moving is a blendtree

everything i've tried does not make it a smooth transition

(i use a running animation that entirely takes over tracking control)

i'd like a way to smoothly bring back the tracking control instead of having the hands snap back to being controlled by controllers

[bleak shuttle]

i can do for you

[violet moss]

I'm more interested in learning how it's done rather than requesting work. No need to explain if you don't feel like it, just hoping for someone who is.

[bleak geyser]

when i add a dance animation with vrcfury it breaks my walking animation in vr chat

[weak sapphire]

https://vrchat.com/home/world/wrld_eb4eb6dc-0202-4953-910e-6b23a1c62119

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmH-G804fHY

[lime raptor]

Does anyone have experience converting vmd animation files to something I can use in vrchat

[cosmic ember]

better as a world instead.

[civic torrent]

does anyone know why this happens, it not staying in place and keyframes not saving?

[steep panther]

transition to next song almost done

[civic sparrow]

You cant animate humanoid bones using transforms

[civic torrent]

how can i animate then?

cuz i needa use those bones for a transform animation

that and new gesture animations

[civic sparrow]

Animator keys rather than transform keys

[civic torrent]

will i be able to animate the bones with that? like not the fingers or arm, the bones in control of the panels and stuff for the transforming arm

[civic sparrow]

So the rigged bones require animating using animator keys like the gestures or other locomotion/pose animations
But for nonrigged bones you animate by transforming

[civic torrent]

how do i find the animator keys for these panels? and if they dont have any, can i make some?

[civic sparrow]

Click the add property button

[civic torrent]

k then?

[civic sparrow]

Just scroll through till you find the bone you need to animate

Usually they come with multiple properties for different rotations

[civic torrent]

these are the bones

thats for the entire right arm

[civic sparrow]

You pick whatever its rigged as in the humanoid rig

[civic sparrow]

The animator properties are entirely used to have any animation using them work with any model without much need to edit them

[civic sparrow]

Whatever you rigged it as in the rigging menu slots

That image tells me nothing

[civic torrent]

What image would help?

because these bones im trying to animate will open the arm up and let out a minigun

where am i supposed to put that in the rigging menu

[civic sparrow]

You dont put anything in the rigging menu

The bone you tried moving was probably the bone you rigged as one of the arm bones

[civic torrent]

the bones that control the arms hands legs spine and everything is fine, the problem is that im trying to animate the extra bones on the model, that turns the arm into a minigun and those extra bones are considered as part of the humanoid skeleton, which wont let me animate those extra bones without animator keys

[austere monolith]

toggles go brr

[flint bison]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1238281964037865473/1273535638821539873/Cyber_Eye_Overlay_Animation.gif?ex=66bef7fd&is=66bda67d&hm=935ca9b57c858824171407de144a16c04531e19804ae8b7cfeadde9c0099403c&=

Just made this cyberpunk inspired effect for when my oculus or steamvr overlays are open

(it's my afk animation so triggered automatically)

[flint bison]

Is this using an int?

[austere monolith]

bool

[civic sparrow]

my question is why you didnt just use the any state

[flint bison]

or this

[austere monolith]

its just the way i prefer to do it

[hearty gust]

If I wanted to learn how to make a beam for an avatar, would I just use a video on how to make a beam in unity?

https://tenor.com/view/hyper-beam-pokémon-hyper-beam-rayquaza-pokémon-rayquaza-rayquaza-uses-hyper-beam-gif-26711799

For reference

https://youtu.be/_SaBXY-Ejqo?si=8lNntJCYGSR2LsnE

Is this still good if it’s from 2 years ago.

[torpid marsh]

should be fine :3

unity doesnt ever really get rid of stuff in updates, just moves stuff and adds new things

so it should still work just fine

[flint bison]

Just remember, unless the video is for VRChat specifically, sometimes they will use scripts and things that are not allowed in VRChat.

[hearty gust]

This is the best I could find. Can’t find a single video on how to make beams or particles in vrc

[flint bison]

Does the state behavior "animator play audio" not work if placed on the same state that has an animation enabling the audio source gameobject? (Audio source is a child of the Heart Sword Gamobject)

[glad crescent]

you can just leave the audio source object enabled

[flint bison]

There is a hard cap of three active audio sources. I would not like to keep it active.

And as I said it is a child of the sword which is disabled.

[glad crescent]

ahh

[steep panther]

i just need charges and im done with the 1st half of the animation finally 💀

[livid echo]

I click the button, and it toggles the Intro On, but for some reason, everything else works, But the actual Animation,

so in short
Button Pushed -> Intro Bool gets Checked -> Transistion Turns on - > - Animation Doesnt Play

Fixed.

[idle orbit]

I have a Direct blendtree with a number of subtrees that drive humanoid finger movement, which works fine.
I'm trying to animate transforms instead of the humanoid rig. This works, but result in smoothed movement lagging far behind what the animation controller is doing.
All the animations are a single keyframe, and nothing is different from the previous setup that used the humanoid muscle params, other than the layer masks. Single state that leads to the Direct blendtree.
Behaves the same in-game.
Anyone familiar with this issue?

[idle orbit]

Cause was write defaults not being on for all states in the controller. I don't see why it should cause any problems, and having it off also results in animated values being multiplied depending on the number BlendTrees in the controller, which is really bizarre. Presumably nobody ever switches it off and a lot of really wonky behavior with it off has gone unnoticed.

[dim ice]

did they change how viseme parameters work or something? trying to do 2D visemes the same exact way i used to and it just. doesnt work now
but 2D expressions work the exact same
(animating texture coords, not blend shapes)

[dim ice]

ok ive found more info on my issue! the visemes and the emotes on my avatar work (viseme parameter only using an int) and the visemes only work when either using a toggle using my emotes int, or when the layer using the emotes int has 0 weight
any idea how to fix that? two animation layers like battling for weight??

basically tldr
my viseme layer and emote layer are using the same animation controller so they can both be plugged into the FX layer of my avatar descriptor. however the visemes only work when the layer using the emote int has 0 weight, or the viseme are set to a toggle using the emote int ( when the emote int has weight)

[wind forge]

Lower layers will override higher ones.
If you actually have both the layers in your controller, you can put the visime layer below the expressions layer, and move the sil viseme to the expressions layer when your emote int is 0. In the Visemes controller, you will want to be in an empty state when Viseme is 0

Otherwise, you'll probably have to reference the previously mentioned built-in Viseme parameter (int) in the FX controller, and have the expressions layer switch to an empty state whenever Viseme Not Equal to 0

[dim ice]

what is sil viseme?

if its a specific shape, this avatar has 2D visemes and only 1 mouth shape

i did move the viseme layer to the top, but now the expressions dont work (unless theyre blendshapes)

[dim ice]

ah i fixed it!

[wind forge]

Ebic

[dim ice]

the viseme layer had to be at the top, and the emotes transfer to an empty like you said

i had moved the viseme to the bottom and then tried and it didnt work :T

now at least i know, thank you so so much!

[glad crescent]

silent - should be just a default face

[light granite]

having trouble exporting my NLA tracks - only one animation exports, but the rest don't export.
the difference between the two groups is that one has three keys with a long length, the rest have only one key but for multiple bones (mostly hands).
the track that does export is a track, not the active action for the rig

i will keep tinkering!!

[light granite]

figured it out - strips needed to be on the same track

an hour and a half gone, but a lesson learnt

[static wasp]

You could also use the voice parameter for something like a glowing mask that gets brighter if you talk.

[steep panther]

back to animating i go lol i need to finish this

[carmine lodge]

Woah :0 SO COOL

keep going you got this!! :3

[steep panther]

i think i got it done ;-;

[glad crescent]

wow that's a lot. In a good way.

[steep panther]

If it's small enough it will be public on an avatar

[steep panther]

These were animations I scrapped

Alot of them are really old

The 2ne and 1st of these video chunks are my Cosmic Conquest animation which is fully made. It's just the character model that didn't make it in

Realized I accidentally put Imaginary 2 times

[mild plinth]

Does anyone know how to move an object while animation is playing in blender

[lavish otter]

hello o/ I asked this question in vrlabs as well but i wanted to know if it was feasible to do exit animations in vrchat? one goal of mine is to make assets for it and I'm not sure where to research on the subject. I see a lot of documents for idle/afk animations and spawn animations though but thats not what im looking for

[flint bison]

On an avatar? Not really, afaik. Not unless you have a manual toggle that you trigger before leaving. There isn't really any way to detect that you are leaving the game, and even if there were, your avatar disappearing from the scene as soon as you disconnect would cancel any animation that was supposed to play.

[vocal tendon]

Hmm

[mild plinth]

Nvm got it

[steep panther]

uhhh wonky driving?

[marble quest]

How can change the rotation of parts in the armature in an animation ?

[steep panther]

I ain't cooking

[dense island]

LMFAO what is happening

[steep panther]

Cars

Vroom vroom

[dense island]

is this road rage 😭

[steep panther]

prob lmao 😭

[graceful thorn]

ok i need a hand please

for some reason my animation where i enable and disable an audio source does not play and i cant figure out why

im not sure if its the contact reciver or what

[graceful thorn]

please someone respond

[flint bison]

is the box on the audio source that says "play on awake" checked?

[covert isle]

How do I get an animation I've made in Blender to export correctly for use in Unity? I want to use an animation that's switching between two mapping uvs on my character's face texture to simulate speaking, but I can't seem to get the animation made in Blender to export on my fbx, or anywhere really. is there something I'm missing?

[glad crescent]

I'm pretty sure that's not going to be usable in Unity, the way the two programs do those things is vastly different.

Armature-based animations work great though

[visual matrix]

how do i edit animations from an avatar?

its greyed out for me

this is from an avatar i got off Booth that already has animations that came with it

[sullen summit]

Put your controller on your avatar animator component, then select your avatar

[visual matrix]

....one sec

thanks >.<

[sullen summit]

Np hehe 🫡

[fickle gate]

~.~

[granite fjord]

Questions about Unity and Shapekeys...are they only useable with mouth movements? Or could I use them for animations in general?

Or is that only doable with weight-painting and bones?

[deft meadow]

you can use shapekeys for anything

common uses are visemes, face expressions, customizing body proportions, and shrinking body parts when clothes are on top of them

[granite fjord]

I've got another question about shapekeys, does the animation extend to being able to reposition UVs?

[glad crescent]

I'm pretty sure shape keys don't store that info, but you can certainly have up to 4 different UV maps and with the right shader, take advantage of that

[steep panther]

reference vs what i got 😭

[soft cedar]

is there away to move the ears and tail of an avatar while using combo gesture expressions

[glad crescent]

of course

[steep panther]

casually has to make an animation about climate change for a stupid project

[deft otter]

wip

[white schooner]

I'm trying to have an eye that isn't fully open during normal look, so I set eye.smiling to 50. However, the default vrc.blink on this avatar, when combined with that, makes the eyelids go waaaay down, outside the eye, which looks really cursed. Is there a way to override the blinking so as to only go to 50 instead of 100?

(I don't wanna move it to another blendshape, as I do want to use the default eyetracking methods without hooking that up as well)

[glad crescent]

You can disable the blink action while that expression is active using VRC Animator Tracking Control

But otherwise no, the auto blinking will set that blendshape to 100

[white schooner]

you mean setting the eyelids -> blink from vrc.blink blendshape to none?

[glad crescent]

I'm not sure I understand that sentence?

I mean use this: https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/state-behaviors/#animator-tracking-control

[white schooner]

right, but that will also disable the default facetracking, right?

[glad crescent]

what is "default facetracking"?

[white schooner]

"default facetracking" is the thing, where even if I don't have facetracking added to the avatar, if the "eye look" is enabled, and OSC transmits eye tracking data, the eyelids will close when I blink, and the pupils move wherever I look

without any avatar changes

which I wanna keep

[glad crescent]

okay that. So yes, this will disable that feature as well, according to the page I linked.

[abstract glacier]

Can someone explain to me how VR chat animates speech on avatars. I would like to know more and I can’t think of any logical explanation.

[torpid dove]

Checks mic audio for certain phoneme patterns and tweens between different phoneme blendshapes, simplest answer

Not sure if they use a premade solution or if it's completely custom however

[steep panther]

uhhh flash and loud warning

[fringe hemlock]

Wasn't sure were to put this, but since it's to change the size of the object I guessed animation... sorry if I am wroung, but I am trying to change the size of a object with audiolink using the auio reactive object script on the object but nothing happens....

am I mistaken on what it does, or how to use it?

[agile niche]

Ohh so sorry about that but can I help you to adjust the model of you don't mind

[glad crescent]

well that's not suspicious at all...

[bleak tapir]

🚩 🚩

[manic bone]

xbox should hire me ong

[thorn temple]

not xbox but definitely beat saber

a soul punisher would be crazy

[manic bone]

Lol I think you'll find the rest of the animation interesting, it's a 3 person collab https://youtu.be/grrqdvQaROc?si=dnTjTpM5hTjR1qic

[uncut sun]

eyes killer 9000

[manic bone]

Lmao Vile lives up to his name

[steep panther]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJsQuqkTb3U i finally made a new animation FULLY THIS TIME

[steep panther]

and now i kicking off with another new animation

[steep panther]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeF0tqvzpEo edit: reuploaded and refreshed link

[granite fjord]

Question: any option for changing materials using animations? So like...change the material for a particle effect and reparent it for a different particle effect?

[static wasp]

Material swapping should be doable for animations

[granite fjord]

Where might this property be?

[static wasp]

just record in the animation window and drag the material into the material slot when making the keyframe

[granite fjord]

Didn't seem to work with particle systems.

Oh my god it does

It must've been the specific way I was doing it.

Weird...

[glad crescent]

You have to animate properties on the avatar, so if you clicked the material in the project rather than on the avatar, that'd do it

[granite fjord]

Any way to change these using animations?

[glad crescent]

I doubt it, you'd probably have to make two particle system and swap them

[granite fjord]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/767158106047250443.webp?size=96

[glad crescent]

hmm I wonder now what you can change on particle systems, I suspect not much at all.

[granite fjord]

God damn it! https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/759490016023281685.webp?size=96

[granite fjord]

I love running up against engine limitations.

[glad crescent]

yeah that happens often

[granite fjord]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/835750997111341078/1314829707019288636/Untitled.jpg?ex=677eb956&is=677d67d6&hm=fb5d58fff189423e23c589e98fc654826f3aa91bfba6dc6a38738a3e44e6a373&

I will need...probably a different method of night-vision

[glad crescent]

I use Neitri's wireframe shader for that

[granite fjord]

Neitri's wa?

[glad crescent]

https://github.com/netri/Neitri-Unity-Shaders

[granite fjord]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/782887112844116000.webp?size=96

[glad crescent]

some great stuff there, I use that one often for looking at how other people have done things

[granite fjord]

Low key, the "LiDAR" I'd set up did also tell me very interesting things about the worlds I used it on.

Came for the night-vision, stayed for the education.

The interactions were often very unexpected; interacting with physics geometry rather than visible geometry.

[glad crescent]

100% - I've learned a lot from looking at stuff like this

[granite fjord]

I don't know that I'll be able to reuse the LiDAR particle emitter. Maaaybe if I can make a particle effect that doubles as a bullet trail or the LiDAR emitter?

[steep panther]

this is prob gonna flop

[granite fjord]

Got a link for installing the repository?

[glad crescent]

the what now?

grab a .shader file and put it into your project.

[granite fjord]

Feed it into the creator companion

[glad crescent]

the author of that would have to set that up

[granite fjord]

Alright, the old-fashioned way then

[steep panther]

ok maybe it wont flop

[bleak tapir]

You know they're trustworthy bc they're already banned

[steep panther]

lmao

[sharp shoal]

Hello. Does anyone here have a rokoko license? I'm interested in paying u to process a MP4 video to an fbx file. There will be at least 1 vid per week and it takes like 2 minutes

[glad crescent]

it seems pretty affordable directly

[sharp shoal]

Yea bu I don't use it enough to make it work it. I think

[candid sierra]

I want that as a avi

[steep panther]

its on an avi but prob wont be public

[steep panther]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJRSIO8RlEg this is fully in 4k now. thanks to my friend nekosune ^^

[lapis flax]

Hey! Im STRUGGLING with an animation of this Anyone able to help me?

https://tenor.com/view/sleeping-standing-napping-sleeping-asleep-zzz-sleep-gif-26141229

[glad crescent]

you'll need to be specific about what you're struggling with

[lapis flax]

im trying to make the exact movement so to be specific i need help with how to use curves i guess or asking to see how another creator would go about animating it i need a tiny circle in the middle of the animation

nvm ill just give it up fr, i wont learn if i don't do it myself.

[glad crescent]

that looks pretty good

[livid elk]

Do you guys know how to make a view shader local only?

[glad crescent]

only enable it when IsLocal is true

[livid elk]

how about when avatar

[ionic wren]

Can someone ping me if they know about animating particle system behaviors? I have a particle system that has another particle system as a child, I like it fine the way it is except I want to trigger an animation that makes it “foof out a whole bunch of particles very quickly, maxing them out, and continuing to make new ones and kill the oldest ones for a second, then it goes back to normal.” I have a transformation animation that I want to be accompanied by a glittering cloud, but none of the settings I try to change… do what I want.

My skill level is “I figured out how to animate emission on and off without disabling the system.” I’d really like to briefly animate emission rate somehow.

[severe loom]

How does VRChat locomition work?
I see the blend tree with the animation slots for diferent movements expected from the velocity X and Z

but the animations inside those slots only have 1 singular frame

Where is the rest of the walk cycle?

I want to change to a more personalized walk but even if i make my own walk cycle, i dont know how to replace it

[finite light]

I've created an animation with 3rd party software that uses "Animator" properties, like in the attached image. I'd like to attach these to a toy robot that I have as a prop, but the animation plays on my root avatar and not the robot. It's my understanding that all animators get squished down into one when you build the avatar, so is there no way to keep an animation on the nested robot/avatar?

This works fine in a world by the way. I'm just trying to set it up as an avatar prop.

[alpine meadow]

Hi, I have an issue with my face animations. I've created some animations for my gestures that includes not only face blendshapes but also state changes of the ears and the tail. I can see the animations just fine in game for the face, but the ears and tail dont change like in my animation previews. I've tried turning write defauts off which only made my face animations blend into each other, still without the ears and tail moving. I've also tried applying an "is animated " state into the VRC Phys Bones controller I added for the ears and tail but it also didn't change anything. How can I fix this ? ( For example here the same animation in Unity and in game : see pics )

[vagrant hearth]

I need to find and overwrite the default finger idle animation. I have no idea how to find it, or override it. It doesnt play in the editor.

[finite light]

I have recorded an animation in Mocap Fusion that I would like to apply to a toy robot prop. When I try to use it however the animation applies to my avatar, not the robot. I know that there are some limitations for VRC, like all the animators getting squashed into one when uploading, but is there a way to do this?

[void cloud]

Any wants to do Donation let me know its about trillion of people's life

[glad crescent]

?

[slim plume]

i already sent on avatar-help, but im also sending it here just in case, so the arm isnt supposed to glitch like that, and in unity, it looks fine, what did i possibly do wrong??

this is how its supposed to look like

[sand prairie]

Hi!
I have a technical question.

if for what ever reason I make an animator controller that has 10K animation states that are in the same layer, does the inactive animation states affect the performance of an avatar?

[sullen summit]

https://vrc.school/docs/Other/Benchmarks/ only thing I can point you towards

[obsidian vector]

Anyone got a good kneeling animation they could toss my way? One knee sort of thing.

https://tenor.com/view/for-honor-knight-sword-warden-kneel-gif-16620185541262559922

[glad crescent]

mixamo.com has a TON of stuff like this

[hollow sun]

Is there a way to immediately turn off an animation or does it have to play out to completion if it spans around 3 seconds?

[civic sparrow]

Disable exit time on the transitiob

[brave zodiac]

does anyone know how to make a model go invisible after it plays an emote toggle animation? I did make a invisible toggle that work by itself.

But I made an animation where the avatar digs down and he was supposed to go invisible after the animation ends, but nothing happens. The rest of the animation works, but only the invisible part doesn't.

[glad crescent]

how are you doing the invisible part though?

[brave zodiac]

https://youtu.be/9wQnmhpojsc?si=8EQW3-rP_qZTJTyv

just like in this video

Im also having a problems where animations only play when people look at me even when I already played the full animation.

[glad crescent]

can you summarize in once sentence what method that uses for being invisible so I don't have to watch the whole thing?

[brave zodiac]

I did manage to make the model go invisible after he plays the dig down animation and go off invisible before he digs up, but this only work when people are looking the me.

[glad crescent]

oh

okay then that works

[brave zodiac]

so for now the problem is the animation not playing at all when people dont look at me

and Idk why

[brave zodiac]

it makes a bool parameter with a toggle that makes the model parts no render and make you invisible, and when its off if renders you model again.

[glad crescent]

hmm yeah not sure I'd toggle the mesh renderer, that way tends to lose sync

[brave zodiac]

how would you do it?

Im new to this so Idk much

[glad crescent]

I do it with Poiyomi's dissolve feature, which uses alpha and cutout rendering.

[brave zodiac]

got it, I might try it If my backup plans dont work, because I also tried to be "invisible" by making the avatar animation drag it very very down under the map, but again, It had the same problem of people seeing me go out of the ground only when they look at me.

the animation only plays for them when they look at the model

[brave zodiac]

does anyone know what this problem can be?

[glad crescent]

it usually helps to explain the problem in words - we don't know what you intend, so we don't know what is right or wrong here.

[brave zodiac]

Sorry, but I found out after trying everything, it looks like I need to add an exit time number after the blend out

[glad crescent]

ah nice, glad you solved it then

[brave zodiac]

But I found a new problem, every time I leave out from an emote, it locks me from using any other right after for a few seconds

So if I want to go to from emote 1 to emote 2, it makes the avatar just stand in idle for a few seconds before changing

[brave zodiac]

does any one know to remove that?

[glad crescent]

not without understanding the cause

[brave zodiac]

well, thats the problem, idk what causes it, that why I need help

I already tried changing a lot of things, but nothing works

my action layer is just like vrc default

so even the default has this problem

[glad crescent]

ahh

is it the Playable Layer Control possibly?

iirc they do that over some time, though it's small

[brave zodiac]

I have 2 animation that complement each other, and this delay just make the animation not work as intended

I will show in a vid

[glad crescent]

If those are in the same layer I'm not sure why there would be a delay other than exit time or transition time

[brave zodiac]

you can see the delay that make me go into idle for a few seconds

[glad crescent]

I'm not sure which one you're referring to

[brave zodiac]

wdym

When I click the block emote, it plays just fine, but when I turn it off and on very fast, it waits before playing the block again

you can see very clearly when I go from block to block grab

it just forces it do Idle again before playing the next emote

[glad crescent]

ok, I wasn't sure from this if that was you doing it or an inherent delay

[brave zodiac]

so I just want to make the animation change instant

[brave zodiac]

ok, it looks like Int parameters have this delay, if I make an emote using a bool parameter it can change from ON to OFF instantly

[glad crescent]

huh

never expected that

[brave zodiac]

yep, I found a solution, I made the animations with a bool parameter and each one on a different layer in the action controller.

so now that each one has their own layer, they can play on top of each other.

with no delay

[glad crescent]

ahhh, yeah ok that'll work

[civic dragon]

Go to the transition and set it to exit time zero or turn off exit time and go into transition settings and set the other number to 0 I don’t quite remember the name but this will remove all delay between animations

[brave zodiac]

I found a solution, If I make the animation with a bool parameter and each one having their own layer, they can play on top of each other.

but still thx for trying to help

[civic dragon]

Valid but take up a lot of space, if it’s a pc avi completely understandable

[brave zodiac]

its a full desktop avatar, but I upload to both pc and mobile so everyone can see

so most of it is just the animations

[civic dragon]

Ahhh alright you do you, I just give suggestions on ways to improve if I know them, Everyone has their own style! People who complain about others style or call it a rat because it isn’t in their format are painfully annoying

[brave zodiac]

I do need help with something else, do you know how to make screen shaders? I trying to make a night vision for this model but theres no tutorials for this

[civic dragon]

I do not exactly have an idea on screen shaders but I do know you could put a cube over your players head and have your material on that this causing the effect to be on your camera but I could recommend asking that in #shaders

[brave zodiac]

thx, that chat wasnt showing for me

[brave zodiac]

does anyone know about a animation synchrony problem? For some reason animation that I play when someone is not looking at me only starts playing for them and they look at me directly.

I have absolute no idea why this happens

animations only play for people that have visual of the model.

heres a vid on how this problem work, the videos were recorded at the same time, from my perspective, and my friend perspective.

[brave zodiac]

here is even worse because for my friend the second animation didn't even play and I would be perma invisible unless I reset the avatar

I dont even know what to do anymore

[sullen summit]

Avatar transforms are culled when not rendered. If you want to prevent this, you may need to have a mesh renderer with a big cube that covers a wide area around you and prevents culling. Or you could animate the bounding box of your avatar to be bigger during that animation to achieve the same effect.

[brave zodiac]

so when someone doesn't look at the model, its stops the render for them people? because this problem also happens with normal animations, like a backflip, no turning invisible or anything else, just the animation

[sullen summit]

Transforms specifically don't update

[brave zodiac]

so even if I set the culling mode to always animate, Vrchat changes it ?

[sullen summit]

Yes

[brave zodiac]

my model has multiple parts, do you recommend I extend the bounding box of just one of the parts or all of them to make the animation play even when people don't look at the model?

[sullen summit]

Try just the main one see if that successfully prevents culling, if not, do all

[brave zodiac]

got it, thx for the help, I was almost giving up

I'll come here again it it work or not

[plain magnet]

Would anyone know why my animation wants to move the whole character instead of just the mask?

[civic sparrow]

What did you animate

[brave zodiac]

Didnt work, I will try making all the parts have the same bounding box range

[brave zodiac]

since the armature controls multiple parts that are separated

[neon kayak]

wip for rotten girl miku :]

[clear yew]

how do i fix this?

[glad crescent]

put a mask on the first layer in the gesture animator.

usually you can use the included vrc_HandsOnly, but it depends on what you're doing.
(it's usually not findable by default when you pop open the dialog to select one, click the eyeball to show them all)

[slim plume]

is there a way to change the velocity of certain animations? Like how to change the "smoothness" of how a certain object changes its position in an animation. I know it has something to do with curves, but i cant figure out how to change them...

[civic sparrow]

theres an entire curves tab

[muted cloak]

I´m currently in search of some animations that I see are used often on funny avatars like the "seizure" animation and such. Is there a collection of these? Cuz I keep finding the same ones with no similar point of origin.

[glad crescent]

Mixamo has a bunch

[steep panther]

progress is back up and running. the animation is now 11 minutes and 30 seconds long.

the new name is Back to Infinite Power

[opaque parcel]

Could someone please help me?
I'm trying to add poses and emotes to my avatar, but since I don't have much experience, I'm following video tutorials. I always get an error, but I'm trying to solve it.

However, now I'm facing a more serious problem:
After I tried to add Kali Locomotion, my avatar simply stopped working properly. I can't change clothes anymore, Gogo Loco is bugged (the avatar starts sinking into the ground), although the Kali Locomotion poses are working.

If anyone knows how to solve this or can give me any tips, I would be very grateful

[olive lintel]

I made this animated pfp for my client ^^

[civic dragon]

doom chainsaw revving based on bone stretching WIP

[steep panther]

i finally got part 3 done.

[glass juniper]

https://youtu.be/0wb3rAzVb7U

[civic sparrow]

made this a bit ago but I made the funny pikuniku dance not really shown in the short but it has an intro and looping animation
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mXU0Fl28Jko

[wheat lance]

https://youtu.be/d2WZPTqiI1Y

[glad dune]

I successfully implemented MotionMatching in vrc!! Here's my demo。It's a little rough, but it looks good, right?

[indigo tendon]

Idk exactly how you're controlling the avatar or exactly what's going on but that type of walking and turning animations would be so nice to have with a desktop avi!

[flint bison]

this looks so natural

[patent cradle]

Made this lil guy in flipaclip.

Transparent BG ver.

[silk jacinth]

how to create wind effect? using physbones, or shader, or etc.

[gentle token]

Lil thing (I have like zero progress done 💔)

[dusty nacelle]

People please help me I want to record an animation of an avatar for vrchat but I can't figure out how to do it I'm looking for and trying everything but it doesn't work

[glad crescent]

do you mean, in unity?

[somber fable]

do you mean in blender, unity?

[unreal sigil]

Is there any tutorial I can find or a prefab I can take apart and analyze for creating a functional gun in VRChat that is specifically for a world?

I have seen a lot of tutorials covering gun animations and stuff for avatars, but those are NOT what I am looking for. I'm creating a world that is intended to be a functional shooting range and this happens to be my first time learning how to code scripts.

Obviously this will involve making custom scripts for guns that fire particles and targets that take damage. Much like Avi Wars.

[unreal sigil]

Update:

Big thanks to @covert girder for finding me the references that I was looking for!

https://youtu.be/Sl4PpFpMcAM

https://github.com/Toly65/UdonCombatSystem

https://github.com/MMMaellon/P-Shooters

https://x.com/MMMaellon/status/1550273666088259584

MMMaellon (@MMMaellon)

#VRChat P-Shooters Demo Video

Prefab includes high quality gun models, working scopes, grips, grenade launchers, rockets, shield and health system, and automatic setup so everything is pretty much drag and drop.

also guns aren't floaty, they like actually stick to your hands

X · Jul 22, 2022, 12:16 AM

[tired wharf]

is there any videos on how to add cool abilities to your avatar with a pixel/animation tutorial to???

[scenic siren]

hey how i can made a toggle which active a costum animation of locomotion

[spice pike]

you can found one on youtube

[civic sparrow]

one of the layers on my avatar has enough animations to unironically do this

[sacred jacinth]

making a face rig is gonna be a pain TvT

[tepid yoke]

So I'm trying to get my locomotion animations to slowdown on a couple of factors.
Some worlds have faster movement, and there's the matter of scaling the avatar up (either through scripts, built in scaling, or a world that allows scaling upwards of 100m)

I'm trying to get my locomotion to slow down based on the inverseScalingFactor, this much I have figured out how to do. However, I have the issue that it only works with built-in scaling and Udon worlds. Most of the Udon worlds also increase movement speed, which would end up making my avatar look slower than the movement would suggest.

Though I'm also still working out some of the animations themselves. Walking animations appear spot on, so long as my movement speed isn't adjusted as well.

[mild spruce]

Hello guys I have a quick question in regards to properly importing a rig from Blender as the humanoid rig seems to not be set to a T-Pose when being imported even after I enforced it (was redirected here).

[abstract glacier]

I’d ask about that in avatar help there’s some people who know the process thoroughly who could probably help you

[mild spruce]

I appreciate that, ill give it a look

[hybrid sinew]

so im trying to change the the constraint objects animation to the elevator object so my game object so the animator does not have the animation im having a hard time explaining this and dont have a recording softwere so i hope the picture and text help

[balmy walrus]

oh get outta here, that's really cool!

[primal dirge]

A little complicated but what you would have to do is set a default you want to base everything on.

Let's say an avatar size of 2.0m which has animations matching the runspeed of 2 (walk) 4 (run) and 6 (sprint). This is your 100% scale (1.0).

You'd then factor in the scale. For simplicity's sake let's assume your avatar is scaled to 4.0m. Now your avatar would be twice as big but it's animations would have to run at half the speed (roughly) to match the movement speeds. This would be 200% scale, you'd take 1.0 / 2.0 = 0.5 (this is your motion speed scale factor).

To test:
5m = 250% = 1.0 / 2.5 = 40%
6m = 300% = 1.0 / 3.0 = 33%
10m = 500% = 1.0 / 5.0 = 20%

Regardless of how the world is scaled or what the world creator set the movement speeds to, these will always match up. However normally you only go as far as 5 (i think was the default), you could keep adding motions up to whatever arbitrary number you think a world could implement, let's say 20. As long as the motion for 20 speed matches the actual movement in VRChat (at which point you'd be flash) it should match back up if you keep slowing it down with bigger scaling.

At 10m scale and a run speed of 20 it would visually behave like runspeed 4 with the 20% speed scale assuming that your 20 velocity motion is set to use the run animation at a 5.0 times speed multiplier (20 / 4 = 5)... or if you use the sprint it would be behave like at 0.66 times speed now assuming the sprint animation was running at 3.33 times speed multiplier at 20 velocity (20 / 6 = 3.33).

The problem here is that you can't switch back down to the run animation if the sprint becomes too slow for when you scale up too much. A workaround would be simply not using a sprint animation (i'd recommend not using it anyway) but the same could apply to the run animation too.

[primal dirge]

Another alternative would be multiplying your velocity value with scale and using the result for your locomotion layer... but i'm not sure you can even do this kind of math in an animation layer... not that i've tried it yet

[tepid yoke]

Math I can figure out, the problem is getting it so the variable that determines my speed remains constant with both height and overall movement speed.

As it is right now, it can only scale based on my size.

I only can set one variable for the animation speed within the Animator.

[primal dirge]

Don't scale the animation speed via your scale, what you'd have to do is scale your velocity directly.

Well and there's the problem.

[tepid yoke]

you have to inversly scale with ...scale

[primal dirge]

right

but not the animation speed

you want to scale the velocity value (not the actual velocity but a parameter that would then be used to plug into the locomotion blend tree)

[tepid yoke]

As it is right now, in a world which does NOT adjust movement speed, my animator is set to scale off the ScaleFactorInverse parameter. And it works fine. It just gets weird when it does increase speed, because my avatar still animates the same speed, thus slower than my steps ought

[primal dirge]

sounds like something is wrong with the ScaleFactorInverse parameter then, it does not account for the other way around

you could probably fix this tho

[tepid yoke]

it also does not account if I have an avatar that's able to go beyond the normal limits.

[primal dirge]

you could have to locomotion blend trees and switch to the other when Inverse hits its max and the normal scale factor goes above 1.0

ohwait

no my brain just stopped working

[tepid yoke]

but in worlds that do allow scaling up to 100m still scale the animation

just not when my own animations scale the avatar

[primal dirge]

wait....

so you scale animation speed with inverse factor

[tepid yoke]

that is what I said, yes

[primal dirge]

why does it not scale with movement speed?

[tepid yoke]

2x normal size = half animation speed.

[primal dirge]

i... fail to see what the issue here is

right

[tepid yoke]

I dunno, that's a question for VRchat devs. it never has.

[primal dirge]

so you just add another motion with double speed and double the required velocity

if 4 is the default run speed

and the world changes it to 8

simply have another motion set at 8 velocity with the same animation but twice the speed

when you inverse scale this down to 50% it ends up being normal run speed again but still moving at 8 velocity with an avatar twice as big

so it should match up again

[tepid yoke]

what I'm trying to do is actually have animations that Match walk/run movements, so that when I use joysticks to walk, my avatar's feet don't just float over, like the default animations do. (IE: Running faster than I actually am moving)

[primal dirge]

right thats what i did too

but you are also scaling it with avatar height

[tepid yoke]

okay... How? How do I set an avatar to pull info from the world I'm in?

[primal dirge]

to automatically match it back up when your avatar scale changes

you dont need to

you already use velocity

Velocity is your movement speed

if the world changes your movement speed, so does your velocity

in VRChat if you open the debug display you can see that if you move your Velocity values change depending in how fast you move

and worlds in which you move faster have higher velocities

[tepid yoke]

so which parameter should I use?

[tepid yoke]

VelocityX
VelocityY
VelocityZ
AngularY
VelocityMagnitude

[primal dirge]

VelocityX being left/right and VelocityZ being forward/backwards

the default locomotion layer already does this

what you want to do is simply add MORE motion entries

that scale higher

[tepid yoke]

that's all fine and dandy to get an animation to a specific point, but the speed the animations play are still not affected by those values.

[primal dirge]

they are

heres an example

[tepid yoke]

they are set animation speed when Velocity reaches a certain point, and if I have an animation at a set speed, and velocity goes over that value, the animation caps out on how fast it plays

[primal dirge]

i play the backwards run animation at 80% speed if i move at -3 velocity

and i play it at 100% speed if i move at -4 velocity

i could keep adding more

120% for -5

or something like 200% for -10

[tepid yoke]

that's a LOT of animations you'd have to account for.

[primal dirge]

and simply let unity linearly scale that up

[tepid yoke]

especially at the larger sizes.

[primal dirge]

not really

[tepid yoke]

because in those worlds you DO end up going what would be super sonic speeds

[primal dirge]

you technically just need 1 extra motion entry

and that is the fastest you are willing to configure

[tepid yoke]

but at that size you APPEAR to not go as fast, but the animations DO NOT scale properly.

[primal dirge]

unity will linearly scale them depending on how far it is between the two motion points you have

[tepid yoke]

that's not what I've been seeing in VRC

[primal dirge]

so unless linear scaling is not enough here, you only need one extra motion (far away from the others)

well have you tried adding another run/spring motion at twice the velocity?

say your last run is at 4 velocity, you add another at 8 with 2.0 the speed multiplier

your inverse scale will scale this down to 1.0 speed at twice the size

[tepid yoke]

by default the animations do not scale. Sure they'll scale in a finite range if you have enough animations in the blend tree, but at that point you're just being unoptimal by having 30 or whatever animations to try and compensate for a given speed, and at best you can only compensate for what might be a given partiular world's speed settings for giant avatars at 100m

[tepid yoke]

I did, but Twice the velocity was not enough

[tepid yoke]

see? that's a problem.

[primal dirge]

not really

this is normal range for my current scale, i'm not scaling in size

all i'd have to do to accomodate for that is add the inverse scale as multiplier to the state and add another motion at all 8 directions you can go

and choose something insanely fast (like velocity 40)

which you will never reach

but wouldn't matter, unity would scale all the way from 4 to 40

with just a single extra motion per direction (and you have 8 basic directions)

the rest is done via blending

which unity once again does automatically if you set the motions up in the correct spot

[primal dirge]

So taking this as example, i'd take all the outer motions and extend them once

20 velocity at 5 times speed

boom

done

[tepid yoke]

with that logic, you'd only need an additional point for each of the 8 directions, at that speed, and it would transition to that speed on a sliding scale. but the problem is... is I also want to appear like I'm WALKING while big as well.

if I scale up, adn the world scales up movement based on size, that makes my velocity go up too. I'd still like to run when I actually am running, or walking when barely moving the stick forward.

the way you're addressing it, says that if the world scales up movement speed, that puts my velocity into running range, even if barely tilting the stick.

[primal dirge]

Ah. Now i get your problem.

Right if you were to move your stick only a tiny bit and that results in 10 velocity (because crazy world movement speed) you'd still play the run animation because 10 velocity is set to use a run animation. Correct

You could fix this with multiple locomotion blends

but

you'd need a parameter to detect how much you moved your stick

which.... doesn't exist.

[tepid yoke]

when it should, given that's how Unity is by default.

[primal dirge]

I don't think unity actually uses any parameters by default that express how much you pressed anything, it uses velocity too as far as i can tell, simply because on desktop (which is the most common use type) you can only press a button... there's no inbetween.

if you plug in a controller and read the controller inputs, yes those could be surfaced and used as parameters but thats custom code then

[tepid yoke]

I mean for normally using the unity for input, it reads the game controls, granted you'd have to make sure its coded with a normalized function as well, so diagonal directions aren't faster.

[primal dirge]

another way would be OSC

OSC can actually read and output your controller values

and whether you moved or even touched your stick

if i remember correct some people use it to counter strick drift (and lock themselves in place automatically if no touch is detected)

or a certain amount of stick movement

but i never used OSC outside of just a quick haptic vest setup... so... idk

i mean a friend of mine uses OSC for an auto-clicker

[tepid yoke]

not familiar

[sacred jacinth]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1128986795963588671/1404864385712656577/test_of_face.gif

slowly working on the face rig

[sacred jacinth]

welp
I've finally fully rigifed and rigged *(to the extend that I need) * the Chalo avatar!

finally

[gritty whale]

Been working on this for the past couple days

[opaque elbow]

Hey y'all, so I know you are supposed to dupe your model and animate on that, but I may have accidentally let an animation play on my main one? I don't remember if I used the right one. I wanted to check, what happens when you let an animation play on the main model? In tutorials I've watched, they just say it messes things up. What specifically happens? and is there a fix? Thank you!

[glad crescent]

The duplication thing is because new people tend to forget to reset the avatar after making an animation and getting the avatar stuck in "bike pose".

[opaque elbow]

Ohh alright, thanks! So I just need to make sure I don’t leave it in the preview mode?

[glad crescent]

Yeah usually just picking a different animation from the dropdown after you're done will reset the avatar.

I haven't done the duplicate method in years.

though I did actually get stuck in bike pose the other day, first time in a while. Good thing there are reset tools.

I forget what I was doing but it was out of the ordinary.

[graceful thorn]

excuse me but does anyone know how to modify default hand gestures? when i try to make a copy of one and then change it, it wont work when recording the changes

[glad crescent]

hand gestures are done in the gesture animation controller, make sure that's the one in your avatar's Animator component or recording stuff won't work.

[storm moon]

If I have a blendtree, how do I save it off into a file?
I want to make a similar blendtree, with a small change
However, if I duplicate the state, it just references the original, which isn't what I want.

I need to save it such that it appears in my project explorer (but how??)

[glad crescent]

I haven't found a way to do that in the Unity editor. I made a blank animator and an empty blendtree, then edited the YAML file itself to turn it into an empty blendtree file, then I just duplicate that when I need a new blendtree file.

[storm moon]

YAML file? How do I access that?
maybe I can ctrl+c/ctrl+v certain parts

[glad crescent]

most things in unity are stored as yaml files, the animation controller, animation files, materials, etc. You can edit them in a text editor. I don't recommend this though unless you're already familiar with YAML and like tinkering with geeky advanced things.

[storm moon]

I have worked with yml files for git, so I'm hoping I can handle it

However, I can't find any yaml/yml files in my unityproject

When I do look at my controllers, I see extentions of .asset, .controller, and .anim

unless

maybe the controller is a .yml, the extention is just named '.controller'

[glad crescent]

Yes, it's a YAML format file with various extensions. .mat, .controller, .asset, etc.

the .meta files too actually.

[keen pecan]

where are the reset tools

[glad crescent]

Pumkin's Tools has one

[keen pecan]

thanks

was working with animations for like the first time and fucked up ig

[glad crescent]

it happens

[keen pecan]

wait how do i do this

it will reset the pose but then i'll open the sdk and it'll go back to bike pose

[glad crescent]

"open the sdk"?

[keen pecan]

the control panel

the upload tab thing

[glad crescent]

just opening it causes that?

[keen pecan]

yeah

[glad crescent]

huh

[keen pecan]

idk how but i added and removed a pose from animation and it seems to have fixed itself

[charred spire]

I hope this is the right place to post this

I've been having this strange issue in Unity and I'm stumped. Basically, the WhipGrab parameter I set up in the Contact Reciever's parameter box isn't syncing with the parameter with the same name in the FX controller and possibly in the expression parameters too? Either way, this video here you can see the Hand R contact sender touching the reciever, the WhipGrab parameter being set to 1 in its little box, but the bool not being set in the FX controller- as well as what it was supposed to do

[flint bison]

make sure the parameter in the fx controller is a float, not a bool

contacts receivers use only floats afaik

[charred spire]

I'm preeeetty sure I've already tried that but it's worth another shot

[glad crescent]

depends on which way you use it, the simple enter/exit can use any but proximity ones do use floats

[flint bison]

I've had issues in the past using bools with contacts and changing to float fixed it every time, so idk

[glad crescent]

very strange, a number of mine are bools and work fine.

[flint bison]

i dont remember if this was before they added auto conversion

[charred spire]

Yup, tried it, exact same issue

Won't sync

[charred spire]

I think I'm going to try making a script that forces parameter 1 from the contact to set parameter 2 in the FX controller

[glad crescent]

VRC Avatar Parameter Driver?

[charred spire]

Well the problem is is that's in the FX controller right?

[glad crescent]

that's what you said...

[charred spire]

The parameter is never sent to the FX controller so that won't work

[glad crescent]

sent to from what?

[charred spire]

^

[glad crescent]

for some reason that video is a bit blurry but it looks reasonably correct

[charred spire]

Had to send it to my phone to crop the vid length sorry lol

But yeah, there's nothing I did wrong to my knowledge, I've done this entire process before

never had it react like this

[glad crescent]

you crop videos on your phone? Interesting.

[charred spire]

I don't have a video editor on my PC?

[flint bison]

https://github.com/MathewSachin/Captura I recommend this. It's like Gifcam if you've ever used it but it takes video of regions on your screen, so no cropping necessary

(completely off topic, sorry, but I like this software)

[fleet berry]

Anyone have a good tutorial on how I can make a slider that moves an object on an avatar from one point to another?

Like. Just in a straight line.

[sullen summit]

Late reply but easiest imo would be to use a constraint with 2 sources. 1 being the starting point and 1 the end point. Then your animation just needs to swap the weights on the sources.

[flint bison]

Anybody else have an issue using custom animation controllers on avatar stations where when a person sits in the station, and then opens their large menu, their pose gets broken and doesn't return when the menu is closed?

I have an animator on a station for a custom sitting pose and it uses temp pose space, but sometimes the viewpoint snaps to standing even though it shouldn't, and this also happens consistently when the big menu is opened by the person sitting in the station

It's worth noting that I'm using the included sitting example animator in the vrc sdk but with different poses inserted

I assume it probably has something to do with locomotion locking (as opening the large menu locks locomotion similarly to the locomotion control state behavior)

[civic sparrow]

It does a tiny bit more than just lock locomotion

[silk schooner]

This section of particle systems does not work in current vrchat sdk. it ignores the texture input

[sullen summit]

I believe there is a canny about it somewhere, upvote it. If not, create one

[flint bison]

Yeah I discovered this years ago. Figures it's not fixed. I ended up using custom mesh emitters with vertex colors made using blender

By baking colors from a texture to vertex colors

[dusk bay]

Anyone wanna rate my animation skill?

[clear yew]

Does anyone have the otsukare summer dance animated into an emote?

[slim cape]

I'd tell you to learn adjusting the sound intensity

[misty onyx]

holy book from BFDI

[misty onyx]

wait i just realized..

bruh

BFDI fan spotted?!

[keen pecan]

Ok

[dull sleet]

got a question about audio sources. I got 2 spheres of audio triggering, one is for range 0 to 50, the other for 50 to 100.
in unity it works , in vrc, the second audio only does a "blip sound" like it's glitching. I looked and im at the audio limit of 3 so it's not that.

[dull sleet]

This is my 2 assets but i can never hear the longer range one in vrc, i can in unity but not vrc

[dusk bay]

That animation changed alot

Warning theirs flashing in this animation

[frosty wedge]

Anyone happen to know where I can find a collection of gesture animations

[glad crescent]

depends on what you mean, but maybe mixamo.com?

[frosty wedge]

I did not think of mixamo however I asked because I managed to merge Gogo loco with camera guys halo movement and was gonna do with same with a custom hand system

[sage gust]

hello, I need help creating an animation but I don't know where to start. If anyone can help me, thank you.

[glad crescent]

can you provide some more detail?

[viscid warren]

What the animation about?

[fathom stone]

Heyho, i am a bit lost right now.
I wanted to set a global parameter to 1 and then half a second later to 0 again when
MuteSync is on and MuteSelf gets toggeled. How would i detect a state change?
I have done some testing, but always managed to perma turn on my parameter and never turn it back off again / it is maybe being turned off but then spam turned on continuesly.
I have also seen people being able to see which point it is at right now. How would i see that?
https://blackwolfwoof.com/s/mEG3WjGgXQQk2bw/preview
-# Pls ping on reply, ty

[lean ravine]

would anyone be willing to hop in a call and help me bug fix some animations and i really need some help because i am stuck on my contact recivers

[wooden lintel]

got a general question - how do you chain animations?

I'm trying to configure a collar with three animation clips, in the order of off > on > on but big. I wanted to create this kind of behavior:

collarON disabled

• collar hidden
• collarBIG does not enable collar regardless of state
  collarON enabled
• collar shown
• collar maintains normal size on neck
  collarBIG enabled
• collar shown
• collar adjusts in size/rotation on neck

--

I'm effectively trying to make an IF statement, I think, but I don't know how to work it out, and it feels like I'm making it too complex in exchange for saving parameter bits.

[viral ravine]

"If, then." Is pretty much the entirety of unity animators, at least in my 1 percent of experience with them.

It's pretty easy to do exactly what you want here, just set the correct parameters in your transitions and correct animations in your whatever-theyre-called.

How I'd do it:
If you only want to use 4 bits make two bools,
if you want it just easy, make it an int, 0: off, 1: on, 2: big.

You could probably use a float instead but that just feels wrong to me so I've never done it outside of radial settings.

[wooden lintel]

interestingly, I ended up with what I think was called a multi-toggle. got a bunch of states, off/on/big, attached to the any state node, off being default. with that set up, I'm now in a position where it seems the transforms aren't being upheld by the animator - the int works, I know it's working because I can see it changing in the gesture emulator, but it doesn't change in size or position.

makes me wonder if animation clips can move the prefab itself, or if I have to mess with its bones instead for the same effect.

[viral ravine]

I can't help you there I'm afraid, if you have the sources available I would recommend making blendshapes to animate instead

[wooden lintel]

heck. well I did end up managing to make it move by just tossing the vrcfury stuff on the asset and just merging it manually, but now I have a new issue with my animators c:

video jumpscare, best way to explain what the hell I'm looking at (because I asked someone I knew had like... proper unity knowledge? they didn't have any clue what unity's doing here)

[little chasm]

Does anyone have a template FX controller for vrchat avatar locomotion.
Back in the day I swear there was a template that you could copy to override Base_FX but it doesnt seem to exist anymore (nor can I find much support in the docs).
I just want to override the stand/crouch and prone animations for a 2D avi that im making

[glad crescent]

there's no locomotion in FX?

[spring crag]

can someone help me fix my avatars pose/standing animation because during the animation for a second or 2 the knees bend outward

[nocturne turtle]

lf someone that can create animation/emotes for roblox i can pay

[glad crescent]

VRC Traders discord, you'll get scammers messaging you around here.
Link is in #1204490664637890580

[shy slate]

if you click on the white arrows there may be warning labels
you have to fix these, e.g. set exit timers, even if it is just 0

idk if there's a better way

There's also "Any State"

[fathom stone]

hmm gonna have to try that

[shy slate]

I'd also check on the Write Defaults property

not that it has anything to do with this

but since at least for Avatars, I figured since Scripts are not allowed, that all is just an animation

If Write Default is on, when a block state is left, it will stop the animation completely resetting everything back to default (so the way it was before it started playing the animation)
So when doing toggles. Probably turn that off.

[shy slate]

and this thing

The entire thing gets worser if you make more transitions. Because now you're traveling and can't go back until you reached the destination.
Playtesting is one thing, but idk there's something about replication or networking or how other clients see things on their end. Maybe at a wrong time one player would see you being in the wrong state at the wrong time.

There's also Interruption Source, I don't know if that deals with the issue where you set a state's speed to 0.05, while expecting it to switch to another state immediately once any of the variables change.

[shy slate]

the original example has Exit Time disabled, if it is enabled it will wait until the animation is finished before checking for states again

[fathom stone]

mine are forced on

[main nexus]

I'm sorry if this is not the place to ask! But I more just wanted to see if anyone knew what this animation was called, because it's really funny to me
On the avvy it's called 'WormWalk' but I cannot find it for the life of me

[analog jasper]

accept my freind request ill be happy to help

[analog jasper]

send me freind request im open to help

[bleak tapir]

so obvious it could be ironic lmao

[glad crescent]

wow that's bold

[pseudo edge]

Bros a bot

[stuck zodiac]

So trying to make a halo spin slower but no luck, made halo and such from scratch but wanna animate the spin so how I do? New to all this

Screen rn

[static wasp]

Furina with glasses?

Nerdrina

[lament orbit]

@fresh sail

@fresh sail here is 360 view check plz

[lament orbit]

@fresh sail if you want i can share vrm file plz dm

[pulsar arch]

sus

[pseudo edge]

Don't animate it use vertex offsets in poi they have a constant vertex rotation setting and I think now they have a hover too but don't quote me on that

[chrome onyx]

Further into this Wip

[flint bison]

Does anybody know of/have an animator controller that perfectly/very closely replicates the transition behavior between visemes? I'm trying to make viseme shapekeys for a mask that covers my mouth (soft so it moves with my jaw) and I would prefer not to combine the mesh with my body mesh if at all possible.

[glad crescent]

you could just do all the visemes in that animation, rather than letting VRChat do it

[flint bison]

Yeah that's what I was thinking, but I still want that animator controller layer to be setup as closely to the default as possible

[glad crescent]

I'm not sure there's any useful information about what "the default" looks like

[flint bison]

Unfortunate, but I figured as much

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[heavy jasper]

yo yo anyone know if its possible to have the same animation that i trigger by pyhsbone_is grabbed be affected by a toggle?

[flint bison]

Do you mean like a toggle to toggle the physbone_isgrabbed behavior on and off? If so, just add the togglable bool you create to the transition condition. That way it will only transition to the animation when the toggle is turned on as well

If you want a toggle that does the same thing as the physbone grab, make another transition with that bool as the condition

The first method is an "And" logic system and the second is an "Or" logic system

[heavy jasper]

i got it like this the toggle function works my issue is more like the grab wont work correctly

[flint bison]

Instead of grabbed I'd recommend using stretch but that's not the question you asked

[heavy jasper]

sure idm im just tryna get it to work

[flint bison]

the physbone stretch value triggering the motor would be more immersive I think, as you'd have top actually pull the cord. Make sure you add stretch to the physbone settings too though

[heavy jasper]

i do i do

[flint bison]

Then set the transition condition to look for the stretch value to be over a specific threshold (whatever you'd like)

[heavy jasper]

its just Name_strech right?

Stretch*

[flint bison]

Also, to avoid desync, I'd instead have a different layer where the physbone stretch causes a transition to an empty animation state with a parameter driver
(set to local) state behavior that drives a synced boolean parameter (such as "MotorOn"). Then use that parameter alone to turn the motor effects on

this way, it will never be desynced

[flint bison]

I believe so

It should tell you in the physbone component

[heavy jasper]

ive never done that do you have a ss by any chance?

[flint bison]

one moment, let me open my project

[heavy jasper]

sure sure tysm

[heavy jasper]

Lemme grab my food from the oven and then apply it and see if it works!

[flint bison]

Oh, but make sure not to dead-end the animation layer with the parameter driver on it like I did

[heavy jasper]

ill just apply the anim to turn on the engine in Power up right?

[flint bison]

No, put the animation in Mower On

Or whatever you called it in yours

[heavy jasper]

so basically my toggle

[flint bison]

The one that uses the synced parameter

[heavy jasper]

uhhh Wait so i didnt use the sync para in there?

i thought that was the extra "Sync layer"

sorry im pretty new to physics shit

[flint bison]

No so there are two layers

One for the physbone stretch "trigger"

that sets a synced boolean parameter to true

[heavy jasper]

this one is the trigger i assume?

[flint bison]

Then on another layer (the synced layer) that boolean drives the transition to the animation

[heavy jasper]

for that synced layer would i just create a toggle using that boolean i gave the trigger in the driver?

[flint bison]

Yeah

Like basically you'd make a simple toggle layer like you would normally for an expression menu based toggle

but you drive the toggled parameter with the parameter driver instead of the expression menu

[heavy jasper]

yea i see its completly fine to use the toggle ive created to toggle it on and off with the menu when in desktop as example?

[flint bison]

Yep

That way you can use either to toggle it on

And it will never desync

Sorry, I could have explained it that way to begin with and it probably would have been easier to understand 😅

[heavy jasper]

nono youre good

ive had it a second ago lmaoo and now i messes with the strech values and it broke haha

so do i wanna have the greater than .6 let´s say

and then i would need the less at like 5.9 right?

please correct me if im wrong

[flint bison]

Other way around

Greater than than lower value and less than the greater value

otherwise its possible to get stuck in between and have the states freak out a bit

Like for example Transition to = Greater than 0.5 and transition from = less than 0.51

[heavy jasper]

despite me reaching 0.63 it wont turn on

[flint bison]

Can you SS the transition conditions and the parameter driver

[heavy jasper]

its so weird lol

[flint bison]

Also the parameter driver state behavior

[heavy jasper]

ignore the toggle name that´s the right one...

[flint bison]

let me see the transition between those two as well

Also, enable "local only" on the parameter driver

[flint bison]

Tick the "value" box in the parameter driver

right now, pulling the cord is turning it off

The Value refers to the Bool State. Ticked equals true, unticked equals false

[heavy jasper]

because if i tick it it starts with it being toggled on

[flint bison]

It shouldn't since the "power on" state isn't the default state

[heavy jasper]

maybe its gesture manger and the strech causing it because the avatar moves cause whn i reset it its off

ya it works but i had to reset the avatar via menu once

[flint bison]

In the physbone settings make sure stretch motion is turned to 0

otherwise movement will cause the cord to stretch enabling it when you don't want it to be enabled

[heavy jasper]

yea just did that!

Seems to work just fine now

[flint bison]

Good!

[heavy jasper]

and by chance is there a way to make 1 animation have prioty over the other one?

[flint bison]

Any layer that is lower will override any layers that are higher (in the animator controller)

[heavy jasper]

ah okay wait lemme see

[flint bison]

If they are animating the same things. However, if for example the animation that is lower in the layers only fires once, but the animation higher fires multiple times, it will override it once and then switch back. Probably not intended

[heavy jasper]

im using a mesh in the engine on anim and the engine on anim

thats why

and now its missing in the other animation

wait i may have resolved that issue

[balmy walrus]

importantly, you can't record humanoid animations in unity

you have to import them from an FBX file (so, you make an animation in Blender)

Non-humanoid bones should animate just fine, unless another animation is also trying to control them

[smoky nacelle]

Oh, ok! Sorry to ask, but do you know of any good YouTube tutorials on that? at least a starting point ?

[balmy walrus]

I don't have any good suggestions – I learned Blender a long time ago (mostly through trial and error)

However, if you want a quick animation, you could use a site like Mixamo (and there have to be others, too)

figure it out with a pre-made animation to make sure you can even get it working in the first place

[smoky nacelle]

Haha, I see. yeah. I know the basics of making meshes from scratch, but never touched animations...Regardless, thank you for answering my questions! ☺️

[smoky nacelle]

uhh, that is smart, thanks! Now I have a starting point at least ❤️

[thorn stream]

ive been working on a side project that tries to remove one of the most painful parts of the 3D pipeline: rigging + basic animation setup.
You upload a mesh → it auto-generates a rig and makes an animation pack → you can export it directly into Unity/Godot with animations.
I’m not trying to pitch anything here — I genuinely want to know if this is useful or if I’m solving the wrong problem.

What I want feedback on:
Would you trust something like this in a production pipeline?
Where would this break for your use case?
What’s missing for this to replace your current workflow?

i cant post the demo here, lets talk if you think this will be helpful for you

[devout igloo]

Have you ever seen mixamo?? This has existed for years

If your tool is better than that, not only is it useful, it could become very widely used!

[thorn stream]

Willing to pass honest feedback ? ill DM the video

[mystic wharf]

Sure ill look at the video

[stuck spade]

Does anyone know how to allow head and other bones being moved in a toggle? I tried already setting head to animation in the motion controller but it still doesnt move at all

[glad crescent]

Yes, that but you can't animate the bones directly, you have to animate the humanoid muscle movements in the animator instead

Also do it in base, additive, or gesture layer

[neat fiber]

I don't know where to put this but I am making a VRC avatar and I can't get GoGo to work when I try to test it out. I have an animator but don't know what else I am missing. Someone please help me.

[glad crescent]

#avatar-help is a good place

[neat fiber]

okie

[unborn narwhal]

I've recently worked on an animation that was intended to move my model along with a rideable asset up and down. The animation works fine in Unity; but I assume I am doing something illicit as it does not work correctly in VRChat. I've tried various configurations like adjusting the layer it's merged into; as well as setting various parts of the animator tracking controller to animation; but I cannot get it to run in-game.

It is a Y position transform of the avatar root and everything within it like so. Is there some alternative method that is preferred and correctly intended?

[solar basin]

The avatar root is having its position changed by VRChat, I am unsurprised it doesn't work.
-# (likely part of a safety feature as well so you can't animate things outside of your avatar's hierarchy which could be other avatars or the world).

Generally people don't try animating this at all because of how much of a mess it is, you can definitely animate the body moving up and down (try animating the hip bone up and down), but that won't move your view with it, for it to move with you you need to use cameras that override your view which seems kind of complicated to from what I have seen.

The best method from what I have seen is to fake it with playspace moving, of course that only works with some things, stuff like a magic broom, but it works the closest to how you'd want it to work.

[safe inlet]

I'm doing an edit on someone else's avatar and I wanna know why the preview and record buttons on the animation panel are greyed out. Any ideas? 🤔

[glad crescent]

This panel only works with animations that are in the animation controller which is in the Avatar's Animator component, on its root.

So you'll need to drag the animation into that controller to edit it. You can remove it after if you want

[safe inlet]

Thank you broski I'll try that out

[glad crescent]

Is that error message not clear?

seems so to me

[median wren]

ik y im getting the error im asking if theres another way to make it work, want to be able to change the position along the xyz axis

[glad crescent]

Do you understand what the error is telling you?

[median wren]

no

[glad crescent]

Okay. What do you think it means?

[median wren]

idk

[glad crescent]

"VRCFury was told to set a thing to two different values"

You see that line, right?

[median wren]

ik y the error is happening im asking if theres another way to accomplish what im trying to do

[glad crescent]

You haven't really explained what you're trying to do, but the method you have chosen can't work because you can't have VRCFury set a thing to two different values at the same time. So you'll have to rework your logic not to do that.

[median wren]

i want to be able to change the position of the bear , left to right, fowards and backward, up and down

[glad crescent]

yep, that part I get

[median wren]

can it be accomplished, if so how

[glad crescent]

So based on the error message, I'm guessing that this follower package already has some sort of component that's setting those values you want to set.
So you should either disable or remove that before making your own, or alter that to do what you want.

[median wren]

wont that break the asset?

[glad crescent]

it shouldn't "break" it

[median wren]

i was able to add in a toggle to slide it from left to right and one to scale, but if i try to add one for fowards and backward or up and down i get d error

[median wren]

@glad crescent ?

[glad crescent]

what.

[median wren]

set up togs manually, it only lets me have one axis at a time animated the other 2 togs simple just wont work

[glad crescent]

I don't know what you want from me here, I don't have your project or this asset

[median wren]

i dont think the issue is the asset i tried the same toggle set up with a cube and i had the same issues, is there another way to set this up

[glad crescent]

I have absolutely no idea how whatever this asset is works at all, I was just reading the error message you posted and going from there.
So yes, there is another way to set it up, since there always is. You can take this thing apart and rework it however you want

[fervent carbon]

Unsure where this fits, but does anyone know how performant the new Raycasts are? Current plan for the thing I'm making is to toggle them on via menu (alongside the rest of my system), but then they'd be running for as long as the system is enabled.

If they're a potential performance issue, the other plan was maybe to toggle them in "bursts" (i.e. flick on the moment they're needed, then back off again), BUT if they have a sync delay like Physbones do (12+ frames) that might cause issues, so would only do that if it's really necessary. For reference: there'll be two in the scene, set to two-meter distance

[shy fossil]

Raycasters update once per frame in parallel with all other avatar raycasters in the scene, so they should be fairly well optimized. The Very Poor threshold on PC is 15 - you should be fine with 2.

[fervent carbon]

Nice. Figured as much, but thought I'd check. Will still disable 'em when the rest of the system is turned off, but don't need to worry about any more than that

[small haven]

https://global.discourse-cdn.com/vrchat/original/3X/4/a/4adc9c75fa14028e579021ecba298bd0bfa24439.mp4
This is going to be a sick breakdance emote

[robust cloak]

Hey guys I'm looking to get into animating a sit animation for my model whenever I go afk however

Everywhere I go is either not what I'm looking for or completely opposite of what my intended goal is

Any help is appreciated

[small haven]

what are you looking for?

it is just an animation in one of the controllers i forgot which one

[glass panther]

i know you can imply a animation to another rig and i needed to do that since his animation looked weird in unity due to the rigs being not the same
but in this video i did rename the bones to the animation's base bones but nothing happens besides the hip bouncing
is there a way to force this animation to play besides unity or nah ? if not its fine, its not a long animtion but it is annoying

[glass idol]

new channels?

[low knoll]

Yep

[raven tree]

3rd 🤔

[tired hazel]

wut

[indigo jolt]

Sweet

Does anyone have any guides on how to create custom emotes for VrChat in Unity (From scratch, not imported)? I created one through Unity's Animation tool and my character falls half way into the ground when I trigger the emote in game.

[sage lily]

whats next roles ?

@indigo jolt very common error

emotes need keys for whole body

not just hands

[undone glen]

if I could figure out how to do some animation overrides, could I send someone that has VR my model to test them?

[quartz jewel]

Hey anyone got a good tutorial for making animated eyes and mouth for VRChat?

Blender based tutorial. Please dont give me MMD tutorials. They are using messed up chars and are mostly based on 2D texture animation...

I need for 3D mouths and eyes

Nevermind

[obsidian vigil]

Dunno if thats what you asked for but may this help? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0txtOuZtx0&t=774s

[languid lark]

@quartz jewel if you look how to make your blendshape you here tutiroals i learn from the 2 other video just i made show how make blink animation and how use bone in mouth in model https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_VkwE0B854 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdqbJm0BhOc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBIZrRWeBTM

[quartz jewel]

Do anyone have a list of the mouth lip sync visime names?
I know how to do keychapes but not sure how to name them
Ive done lipsync keychapes for facerig before
I just need to name for all of the keychapes used in VRChat

[proud grove]

You can name them whatever
but if you look at the viseme blend shape option in the Avatar Descriptor you can see a list of shapes

thats also where you select which ones are which

[languid lark]

@quartz jewel if you do eye tracking need to make sure 4 first colum in blendshape menu in blender in order

then blink keyshape use in them 4 colum

if you leave them blank and mouth visime get in it the blink animation will use it

[quartz jewel]

I think I got it

I wrote down the list of names the mouth keychapes need

One other question

Will the eye blinking keyshapes work if I use normal jaw drop bone?

Becuase the lips on this char isnt that detailed and I really only need the jaw to move

do I just apply the jaw bone to the jaw drop bone animation?

And what do you mean @languid lark ? Yes I know the eye shapes are on the first 4 collumns

[languid lark]

@quartz jewel it alot work get jaw to work and plus dont work well in mirror

you can use same visime over

just make sil for close mouth

[quartz jewel]

Eh?

I dont really understand what you are trying to say

[lofty radish]

does anyone know how to make a sound play at the beginning of an override animation. id like to have a weapon appear but also play a sound in the start

[ashen sedge]

Parent a deactive soundsource to your avatar, then enable the sound source in the animation view

[clear yew]

somebody tell me if brochaco has an animation or does he actually dab

[undone pier]

which animation number is the death one?

[storm warren]

Anyone know a way of reliably making a sound in an animation override? Half the time either I or everyone else can't hear it

[languid lark]

@tender sierra audio source has limit now

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/388431366020268042/390971831483629581/unknown.png

think there bug with audio

need new sdk to see it

and update client will change it

because it program to do so

but they should give use idea the limit is lol

no one know that anwser really

i knew some day audio source will be reduce because people abuse it

[languid lark]

@tender sierra ONSP get a max distance of 25m and max low distance of 1.

got anwser from Q

[trim root]

nvm I think I got it

[true holly]

Seems my sitting animation override aren't working since i updated the sdk

NVM, one of my animations was messed up and set to 0 frames

[storm warren]

Anyone else have problems hearing their custom animation sounds in game?

I can;t figure out how to get it to work

[languid lark]

ONSP get a max distance of 25m and max low distance of 1.

if it higher the 25m

wont work

need lower that down

https://vrcat.club/threads/audio-source-setup-for-avatar-sounds.179/

[storm warren]

Thanks 😄

And I heard that sounds in game are quieter now, what's the ideal volume for a sound in game?

[clear yew]

super quick question, in unity "handopen" would be waving, right?

just wanna make sure so I don't overwrite the wrong animation lol

[storm warren]

Yeah

[clear yew]

k cool

ty

[storm warren]

grip buttons on vive

[clear yew]

right on 👍

[storm warren]

👍

[clear yew]

still broke it somehow go me

question - what is "victory"

[storm warren]

Peace sign

@clear yew

[remote flicker]

I have a question..if i decimated a model and i wanted to use visemes that was created from the plug in...would i lose the decimation? since i can't use modifier?

[wintry vapor]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/381437429359312896/382008345361383424/Running_Man_Slav.anim

oh yes

if anybody still wanted it

[tawny elbow]

quick question about animation: with mmd models, is the only way to animate it through downloading like, mmd animations, or can i download animation packages from the unity store / animate it myself in unity and have it work on the model

basically i just wanna know if it's safe for me to translate the bones p much if i wanna use animation on my model in future

[versed tide]

if the bones are mapped correctly, you can use that animation on your model

in this case, in unity, they both the model and the animation have to be humanoid or have the same bone structure

[tawny elbow]

so as long as i don't plan to animate it with mmd dances i should be fine renaming them

just making sure there was still another way thanks ahaha

[versed tide]

i used human ik in maya and worked pretty well. i made a simple hello emote and added blendshapes

[tawny elbow]

coolio : )

i realise that was kinda

a dumb question but i thought i just ask cause i dont wanna spend time on a model and then find out i messed it up in the beginning stages

[versed tide]

i think that for the face shapes the mesh has to have the same name and the shapes as well and/or have the same order

[tawny elbow]

ahh alright

[vocal plank]

my avatar sounds are really quiet now and have a tiny range

[ember osprey]

hello, is there a way to generate objects from an avatar in desktop mode such as a vending machine giving a soda? I heard that it involves custom animations

[wintry vapor]

emotes

[ember osprey]

and you include the object in the animation ?