animation

[reef mason]

No I wasn't, If you would of been smart enough to actually scroll up a little bit more, You could of seen my question that I'm trying to get asked.

[ocean onyx]

Sorry, I'm not smart enough to know how to use the scroll option ❤

[reef mason]

Well that's unfortunate. But yeah, Just next time, Don't assume quickly. pat pat pat on Sekus head

[ocean onyx]

I did try to apologize for the miscommunications. Thing is, I did scroll up before posting. And could not see a link between your original question, and what I thought to be a correcting attempt. It's just that there had been to many replies from the time you asked the question and now.

xD

But yeah, I may have over-reacted. I need my morning coffee.

[reef mason]

It's alright, It's fine

[ocean onyx]

I have my coffee. Mmmm, Coffee.

[reef mason]

Lol

[eager island]

Hates people who become friends then gone next week :( kinda hurts me as a hearing impaired person

[weak swan]

Can someone @ me when they can help out with custom animating something with me on Unity?

[torn pawn]

@weak swan write down what is your issue or with what u need help, best way

[weak swan]

Basically creating Aura Sphere for Lucario avatar.

Or any move, for that matter.

[weak swan]

@torn pawn

[torn pawn]

i mean.. u need to do your own research on that, basically find prefabs or create particle systems on your own

[dim valve]

I need some help if someone can let me know how I managed to fuck up.

I took the base walking animations from the SDK and edited them so the only differences were the arms being vertical.
But, for whatever reason, when I walk left, the model teleports and jitters everywhere.

What could cause this?

[fickle slate]

gaaaaaaah. cant find a single decent tutorial on how to make rocketlauncher shoot rocket and explode on impact..

[frosty pendant]

Just look for particle systems and sub emitters

[fickle slate]

the thing is.. my rocket is an object http://prntscr.com/j44uve

@frosty pendant

[frosty pendant]

Just use its mesh for the particle

I have a rocket launcher myself and did it like that

[fickle slate]

is it okay if you guide me on how to do that? with pictures? that would be great.

@🎀𝐵𝓇𝟥𝓊𝓀𝑒𝓇 / 𝒥𝑒𝓃𝓃𝒾𝒻𝑒𝓇🎀#2306

[frosty pendant]

?

[fickle slate]

you know... just a small tutorial with pictures on how to do that.. because im kinda new but im a quick-learner 😅

[frosty pendant]

Can't do that right now xD I'm at work and on my phone atm 🙄

But I am available in around 8 hours xD

[fickle slate]

okaie, just tag me by @ whenever you want to show me how

[frosty pendant]

Just DM me later. I bet I will forget it otherwise xD

[fickle slate]

ok

[dim valve]

https://gyazo.com/5cb107ac3f735f665ab21ead2942c3fe

https://gyazo.com/800e0b7c0f06e7b4c3def5bc112850c0

Things arent going well for my animations

[shrewd moon]

@fickle slate git gud

[fickle slate]

?

;_;

[shrewd moon]

:((

Getting the world mesh particle rocket to rotate with your launcher is like impossible

[fickle slate]

everything is possible "if you try". but ill try cuz why not.

i actually saw someone managed to do it... but he said that he cant open his unity because he has alot of shit in his assets and it would take age's to load the file so he couldn't show me on how to do it

[clear yew]

follow the launcher ? can you explain a bit more ?

[shrewd moon]

It possible with local particles

But looks baddd

[novel flower]

Hey, I'm having an issue where a custom emote is ending slightly early in VRChat, but plays full legnth in unity. Anyone know why that is?

[shrewd moon]

It’s reached the 10 second limit?

[novel flower]

most are over 10s. the emote will play for 55s then stop on one of them. The other goes for about 3min and stops 20s short

[obsidian vigil]

@shrewd moon wth are you trying to do? o.o

do you want to shoot the rocket and it flies off in the direction you shot it

or do you want it to still move with your avatar

[fickle slate]

@obsidian vigil I’m actually trying to do rocket launcher as well. And want to shoot the direction that I want it to hit

[shrewd moon]

Well the world mesh particle is easy

[obsidian vigil]

i mean

yeah

[shrewd moon]

But aligning the mesh with direction of the launcher when firing is like impossible

[obsidian vigil]

nah

oh

[clear yew]

oh

[obsidian vigil]

you mean the rotation

[clear yew]

you can't rotate a mesh particle

[obsidian vigil]

id recommend using a particle thats not a mesh

[shrewd moon]

Yea that’s the problem

[obsidian vigil]

wont look that nice but its not possible without it

[clear yew]

there is a shader that make the world mesh turn based on velocity

[shrewd moon]

So firing a rocket launcher will look wonky unless facing the only correct direction

[clear yew]

but it's really wonky

[shrewd moon]

@fickle slate it’s best just to do the cow mangler

[obsidian vigil]

probably

[fickle slate]

But I can’t find the model anywhere

I only found tf2 rocket launcher

[obsidian vigil]

To refresh my knowledge really quick, in order to make a world particle i put the particle system under an empty object on my armature, have a rigidbody on my wrist as an example, then a fixed joint on the empty object, render space world and it would be done

correct?

[fickle slate]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[clear yew]

that's the basis of it yeah

[obsidian vigil]

alright

[clear yew]

you need to lock the x,y,z axis on the rigid body i think

[obsidian vigil]

nope

[clear yew]

and remove gravity and angular drag too

[obsidian vigil]

dont need to 😛

if you want it to move

[clear yew]

it still moves even with the locked axis

[obsidian vigil]

oh you mean on the rigidbody

on the wrist

[clear yew]

yes

[obsidian vigil]

well it doesnt really matter

i actually tried what happens if you dont

and now my pokemon trainers hand kinda falls downwards when the play button is pressed

but ingame hes fine

[dim valve]

Why are animations that activate a particle, and nothing else, causing my avatar to slide off?
None of this makes sense and Ive been stuck on this for a day.

[torn pawn]

posibly added position change in animation for your avatar

[dim valve]

I fixed it

Now I still need to fix my walking animation

Its the default SDK animations, but with the arms out

How does this cause me to spaz out when I walk left, yet not right

Yet left and right animations are the same, but the leg that moves is swapped.

I wouldnt be so confused about this if it werent for the fact my custom, BAD animation worked just fine

Yet the SDK animation completely snapped

[obsidian vigil]

uhm

so i have a light saber

i make an animation that triggers my lightsaber

on gesture trigger i want the lightsabe to extend

then stay that way

i know theres a way to do that via animator

how would i do that

[clear yew]

the light part

is it particles ?

[obsidian vigil]

nope

its a cylinder with a shader applied

[clear yew]

can you animate a gameobject with the light part on it

[obsidian vigil]

technically yes, id just put the light part inside an empty one

[clear yew]

use a hand gesture to activate the game object so it spawn the light and make it stuck on the last frame

[obsidian vigil]

how would i do that

[clear yew]

the animation file

go into debug

check legacy

go back to normal and the wrap mode select clamp forever

[obsidian vigil]

alright

[clear yew]

i used that system to make a sword appear with a diffuse shader and freeze at the last frame

[night crescent]

Okay what the fuck. All of my hand gestures start blending together when I switch between them it's pretty fucking terrifying

like I'll do a smile, then it will slowllllly morph I to a surprised face (or whatever else i press). For every hand emote that ive overwritten too

[obsidian vigil]

@night crescent ayyy welcome to whats is going on with 1 of my avatars xD

[night crescent]

@obsidian vigil all of mine are doing it! Do you have yours one keyframe out?

[lilac cave]

gray you got the anims only two frames long

[night crescent]

i wonder if it's because i have an animation that's several different keyframes as one of my gestures?

oop

[lilac cave]

if its longer then two itll go crazy

[night crescent]

There ya go

Why is that?

[lilac cave]

its not what vrchat expects

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[night crescent]

lol

I see people with moving eyes and stuff so i thought it was a thing

Thanks so much for helping me figure it out tho ❤️

[lilac cave]

all g

[celest pewter]

just remember the gesture animation itself has to be 1 frame but everything inside it can be infinite

[lilac cave]

^^

[lost musk]

I made successfully 2 frames finger animation

Even 10 frames

[night crescent]

what

how do you put an animation inside of another one

[clear yew]

you basically animate an empty game object

and activate that game object with a hand gesture

[night crescent]

Wow

[slim sparrow]

I've seen people spawn knives in midair, which then stay suspended until a certain time. After that, they all start flying simultaneously, and they bounce off of walls or stick to them. How would I go about doing that?

Particles seems like one way to do it, but mesh world particles don't rotate very well. Plus, I don't think you can change a particle's speed after it has spawned. Or can you?

[clear yew]

velocity over life time

[slim sparrow]

Yeah, but the fact that the knives start flying simultaneously is what boggles my mind

Some guy spawned roughly 5 knives, 0.5 seconds apart. Then they all fly out at the same time. I guess you could actually do that with 5 particle systems and some clever animation though

But I was wondering if there was a way to make this work for an arbitrary amount of knives

Like, spawning the knives with one gesture and "releasing" them with the other

And beyond that, I would also need a reliable way to get those damn world mesh particles to work

[clear yew]

basically

it's 2 animations

first animation

is to trigger the emission of the knives

so they spawn

and they will spawn as long as you hold the animation

second animation change the velocity

[slim sparrow]

Ah, didn't know that was possible. Cool

Now I just need to figure out why my mesh particle isn't even appearing at all. The other times I've tried this it worked perfectly

It works with basically every mesh except my knife mesh

When I manually drag it into the world, it's not even overly large or small

[clear yew]

check if the mesh isnt really really small

[slim sparrow]

It works fine when I move it into the world manually

Adjusting the start size to a very high or very low number doesn't work either

It's not the material or shader

Ohh, I might have figured it out. It says "2 submeshes" for some reason

How do I get rid of that then?

Like, the knife mesh literally has submeshes apparently

It's absolutely only one mesh in Blender, and Unity also makes it appear as one mesh. It's just that it says "2 submeshes" in the inspector

And that's the only thing that makes this knife mesh special, I think.

Oookay, I got it. For some reason, the mesh had two materials in Blender, despite the fact that it only showed one in Unity. I merged the materials (they were the same anyway) and now it's fixed.

Argh, now that I finally got the knives to do what I want, they still end up facing the wrong way. Even after flipping the damn mesh in Blender

Whoops, nvm. Forgot to apply the rotation. Great

Sorry to keep bothering you all, but I think I almost got it. The missing key ingredient is collision. The mesh is way too small for some reason, so I had to set the particle's start size to 100. But now I also need to give it collision, and the bounds must be small enough to fit the mesh

But since the particle size is so big, the bounds won't go any lower than a certain point. Can I make the mesh bigger without making the particle bigger somehow?

[clear yew]

can't you use a dummy particle ?

spawn invisible bigger particle

and the knives are sub emitter of it

set to spawn with "birth"

[slim sparrow]

I don't know whether that'll play nice with the shader I'm using (which aligns mesh particles based on velocity), but I'll give it a try. Thanks

Alright, I ended up with a much easier (and a bit more stupid) solution: scaling the model up in Blender. Lol

I don't think I can get the world particle to "stick" in walls unfortunately, at least not without losing its rotation. But at least I can make them bounce

[clear yew]

oh you managed to make that shader work =

[torn pawn]

u can maybe make them stick by changing collission to lose lifetime set to 0

and bounce set to 0

that could make them stick ?

[slim sparrow]

I actually did that initially, but that makes them angled off to the side

[torn pawn]

so u can essentially have a particle system active at all times

[clear yew]

they may start to slide on the wall

[slim sparrow]

Yeah, that's exactly what they do

[torn pawn]

and with 2 gestures u can toggle settings

[slim sparrow]

To make them stick, I would have to make the particles move forward in the same direction, except really slowly, and without any more collision detection.

Sub emitters seem to be the way to go here. If I really can't get this to work, then I guess I'll just leave them bouncy

[torn pawn]

what if u have subemitters subemit 0 velocity particle

that would make them stick in wall

[slim sparrow]

0 velocity wouldn't work, but 0.001 does

I got it :D

They need to have some velocity so the shader doesn't reset their rotation

They still move slightly but nobody will notice

Oh, ouch. Only one problem, the sub emitter follows its parent

Like, the stuck knives will follow the position and rotation of the parent for some reason

So if I move my hand, all the stuck knives move too. Even though they're world particles

[torn pawn]

mb u have inherit checkmarked?

ah nvm

now that's odd

doublecheck if they are actually world

[slim sparrow]

Doesn't matter whether I check inherit or not

Yeah, the sub emitter is definitely world

[torn pawn]

🤔

[slim sparrow]

Ohhh, nvm

That was only in the editor, it works fine in play mode

I guess the editor simplifies simulation somewhat

[torn pawn]

i assume you toggle emission so you can have 2 gestures free to manipulate particles?

[slim sparrow]

Well, my idea was to have the particle system always on, and just toggle emission in a gesture

I'd only need one gesture

[torn pawn]

yea

lets say u could then toggle the velocity to 0.0001 and then activate joint so u can move them ?

idk if it works

[slim sparrow]

Oh, now there's one final problem: the knives are always aligned in the same direction when I "stick" them into something. If pointed up, they'll hit the ceiling and point forward

[torn pawn]

need to set joint to is kinematic tho

[slim sparrow]

Yeah, I know

The sub emitter needs to inherit the particle's rotation/direction somehow, or at least its velocity. None of those appear to be the case

I set inherit to everything in the sub-emitter

It seems to work when I manually rotate the sub emitter, but that's obviously not gonna work ingame

Oh, I can maybe get this to work by having the sub emitter be a sibling of the particle rather than a child, then applying them to the same jointed parent object

Nvm, that didn't work

[torn pawn]

click things till it works

[slim sparrow]

Yeah, I don't think I can do this one. I need the spawned sub particles to have velocity in the same direction as the parent

This all wouldn't be so difficult if Unity supported mesh world particles properly

I think the problem is that the sub emitter triggers on the particle's death (makes no difference when I set it to trigger on collision). But by that time, the parent particle has already stopped moving, because the dampen is 1.

If I set the dampen even the slightest bit lower, the sub emitter slides off the wall instead, since the parent particle gets a new velocity, spawns its sub emitter particles, then dies.

Oh, another solution would be to have the sub emitter receive the same rotation as its parent. Is this possible in any way? So if the parent's Y rotation is 90, then the child should be rotated another 90 degrees.

I'm speaking from a Game Object POV, not necessarily particles

[torn pawn]

rokk ull have to make a gif or short vid when u finish it

if u plan to make something more interesting than just sticking knives in wall 👌

[slim sparrow]

Well, it's really just sticking knives in a wall, but this is turning out to be much, much harder than I thought

I think this might actually be impossible without scripting

The guy I saw earlier made them bounce, I see now why he did that

If I manually rotate the sub emitter in play mode, the knives that stick seem to rotate with it. But despite that, their stick direction does not seem to be dependent on its parent's rotation at all. Only on its own rotation.

I tried fixed joints between the two, but that didn't work either.

[dusk nexus]

How do you override an emote so that you can move your body, even if you're limited to the same spot while the animation is running. For example, setting an emote up to toggle a prop on/off in your hand?

[slim sparrow]

I need it to somehow inherit the velocity that its parent had before the collision, not after. Or I need the parent to not change direction on collision at all

You can't use emotes for that

@dusk nexus

[dusk nexus]

You can though

Wait, there's actually a very good example

Lemme' find it

[slim sparrow]

I've only seen that happen in very long emotes

[dusk nexus]

https://youtu.be/7e7kHiWB0lc?t=309

There you go

[torn pawn]

idk how props toggle would achieve that

it'sbasically the same as having particle system active at all times

which already is the case

[slim sparrow]

Welp, I give up. Guess I'll just make the knives bounce

[torn pawn]

bounce at 0.5 and lifetime loss at 0, tried?

just gotta change them numbers and checkbox the box thingies

[slim sparrow]

Why would that help? That would just make the knives bounce off instead of sticking

I have no problem making them bounce already

[clear yew]

that big picture

is just

a particle system

always active

but emission disabled

extremely easy to do actually

[torn pawn]

no, it's about the phone

which is props toggle

[slim sparrow]

Oh, so he doesn't actually toggle the prop?

It's actually a particle?

[dusk nexus]

Yeah, the phone is what I'm curious about

[clear yew]

the phone part is simple too

[torn pawn]

i use this for my TV

[clear yew]

it's just playing with the prop toggle

[dusk nexus]

I know how to make a phone

[clear yew]

with hierarchy priority

[torn pawn]

ye, it's a prob toggle, but not many ppl know about it

[dusk nexus]

I'm curious to how the emote is controllable. Like, how is he able to move his body when the animation is enabled to actually toggle the phone into his hand

[clear yew]

the meote

[torn pawn]

it's a 1 second emote

[dusk nexus]

Not for a phone specifically, just anything

[clear yew]

is only like 0.1

and activate the emission

to spawn one plane with the camera texture on it

[dusk nexus]

So toggling an object into your hand on an emote can be done as long as it's 1-second, then it'll remain there until toggled again?

[celest pewter]

sec lemme get the copy paste

its something made from hardlight heres the dl https://www.dropbox.com/s/tufu6ndxq5jtc1k/VRC_ToggleProps.unitypackage?raw=1

for prop toggling

[torn pawn]

@dusk nexus u can do it through gesture too

and it can be 1 frame

[sick musk]

That reminds me to add my scythe

[torn pawn]

so as long as u dont touch that gesture

[celest pewter]

putting it as an emote saves a lot of space tho

[torn pawn]

it will stay active

im too lazy to go to emote menu

[dusk nexus]

Ah, I get you.

so the emote is basically there as an on/off switch

[torn pawn]

yes

[slim sparrow]

Argh, I was actually pretty close to getting the particle to work. Gave the main particle bounce, reversed the speed of the sub emitter. It rotates with the parent emitter now, but it's inverse. It only works at 90 degree angles

[dusk nexus]

It only plays for a second and the phone mesh doesn't get disabled

I get you

[slim sparrow]

I dunno if you can toggle objects in emotes though

[torn pawn]

issue is that newly joined people will not see you

[slim sparrow]

I think it's more likely that it's a particle system which just emits 1

[celest pewter]

u can toggle objects

[torn pawn]

that is an object

and yes, u can toggle objects

[slim sparrow]

I mean, I didn't know toggled objects stuck outside of the emote

I did it with a coffee cup once, but the cup was part of my character by default, and disabled on a gesture.

[clear yew]

well

i'm pretty sure

that you can use the toggle sutff for emote too

so you can probably spawn any 3d object permanently until you untoggle it

[torn pawn]

yes, using toggle on an emote is better cuz it saves gesture slot

[dusk nexus]

I mean that's what it looked like in that video for me 😛

[torn pawn]

and u can't toggle it by accident

[clear yew]

it's actually fairly simple

you just need to understand how that toggle thing works

[dusk nexus]

I didn't know it was as simple as setting a toggle in a 0.1s animation

[torn pawn]

from what i understand it's exploiting some kind of a bug

[slim sparrow]

Is there a way to bounce a particle straight back, rather than it being dependent on angle of impact?

I got the effect that I wanted with bounce, but it only works on 90 degree angles

[dusk nexus]

Just one more thing. I'm assuming the animation doesn't require being looped. Saves me some time 😛

[clear yew]

you need to toggle only one time so probably nope

[slim sparrow]

My world particles won't appear in game

They work fine in the editor, but it literally doesn't appear in game

[clear yew]

Does anyone know how to make an audio source play when i do a gesture like thumbs up?

[sick musk]

How would I get particles to align in the direction I'm facing

[shut tusk]

Uhm. I used a Mesh as a Renderer but it's invisible? 👀

https://i.gyazo.com/5f297b871401d0c9bbcaa72232328824.png

it's an arrow

[reef mason]

Is there away, If anybody can help me. Because I'm still really confused about this, But setting an avatar in a ragdoll state as a animation https://i.imgur.com/BhegoOW.gif

[slim sparrow]

@shut tusk invisible just ingame, or in Unity too?

It might be really small

[shut tusk]

well

[slim sparrow]

Crank up the size

[shut tusk]

it wasn't visible at 1000

so idk

[slim sparrow]

Oh, uh

I had the exact same problem

Select your mesh. Does it say "2 submeshes"? Or perhaps more?

Like, you gotta expand the object you imported, and view the mesh itself

Click on it and it'll tell you how many verts/tris it is, as well as submeshes

If there are submeshes, you need to merge all the materials into one in Blender. Texture Atlasing is one way to do that. If your model already has only one texture, just reassign the materials and clean material slots afterwards.

[shut tusk]

https://i.gyazo.com/89d330b31b1fd04536dc868009439ff1.png

[slim sparrow]

Yep, submeshes

The mesh must have exactly one material in Blender

So go fix that. Texture atlasing if the textures are different, for example

[shut tusk]

@slim sparrow oh nice. i got it working thanks

[slim sparrow]

Okay, really

I kept wondering why one of my particles didn't work

Turns out I had forgotten to check "play on awake"

[shut tusk]

@slim sparrow this is so weird. my collision doesn't work properly 👀

https://i.gyazo.com/a55291ba3dad06145626b1ce6c53a537.png

it collides there lol

oh i see why now

[slim sparrow]

Yeah, that's normal

Check collision bounds and you'll see. Just turn em down a little

[shut tusk]

https://i.gyazo.com/6624a9339a852a19032b0416afa3d653.png

[slim sparrow]

Yep

[shut tusk]

it's on 0,01

[slim sparrow]

By the way, in case you ever get the arrows to successfully stick into walls, please DM me or something. Lol

[shut tusk]

my crystals i shoot on touka work like a charm

[slim sparrow]

But do they also work when you don't shoot straight ahead?

[shut tusk]

https://gyazo.com/10eb3ef8a02cf3fd3a6ef407c1692179

[slim sparrow]

I've been trying to get a simple throwing knife to stick into a wall, but it's harder than I imagined

Since it also has to work on other rotations

Ah, cool. But does it also work when you rotate it upwards?

Like 45 degrees

[shut tusk]

🤔

it just works in vrchat no matter where i aim

[slim sparrow]

Problem with world particles is that they have a fixed rotation

[shut tusk]

oh

[slim sparrow]

Oh, is the simulation space local?

[shut tusk]

no

you mean uh

the collision state is the start rotation?

[slim sparrow]

Well, I mean more like

World mesh particles simply do not rotate with their parent. There is a shader that makes them rotate towards their velocity.

[shut tusk]

🤔

they fly straight ahead where i look

[slim sparrow]

Like, if you spawn mesh particles in world space, they will always be facing the same way.

[shut tusk]

my head is the rigid body

[slim sparrow]

Weird

[shut tusk]

i mean they should if it's a cone right

it wouldn't make any sense

[slim sparrow]

How does your setup work? Any chance you could send me a prefab of the particle system?

Yeah, the emission works

But the particles themselves are rotated in a fixed direction

Like, if you have a knife, you want the knife blade to stick forward.

[shut tusk]

i think it works like it should. i'd have to check

i need to make the bounds smaller than 0,01...

[slim sparrow]

World mesh particles don't really care. No matter how you rotate the emitter, they stay in the same rotation. This is not always a problem.

[shut tusk]

on this arrow. how do i do that

🤔

[slim sparrow]

Make the mesh bigger in Blender

Scale it up, then CTRL+A (apply) the scale

[shut tusk]

...

[slim sparrow]

Yep

You're going through literally the same steps that I did

Good luck getting your arrow to work. If you get it to work, please send me a prefab.

Since I need to apply the same thing to throwing knives (they just bounce around currently since I couldn't get them to stick in the wall right)

[shut tusk]

well

set dampen to 1

bounce to 0

[slim sparrow]

That's what I did. Problem is rather complex

[shut tusk]

https://i.gyazo.com/4104b384b6baaa062ad84136cd1cd523.png

that's what i have on the crystals

[slim sparrow]

That method actually works perfectly, but the knife does not rotate one bit. Mesh world particles have their own fixed rotation.

They cannot orient themselves based on their parent.

So if you fired the arrow up, you'd just have a sideways arrow sticking in the ceiling.

If you fired it the other way, you now have an arrow sticking into the wall the wrong way

[shut tusk]

really? 👀

wew

i need to pay more attention to my crystals

[slim sparrow]

There is a shader that rotates mesh particles based on their velocity, which solves my knife flying problem. But to be visible at all, it needs to be actively moving, even if really slowly. So if you want it to stick in the wall, you need to spawn a new arrow/knife in a sub-emitter, triggered on collision or on death.

But the sub-emitter inherits the velocity of the parent particle from after its collision

And not before

So you can choose between an invisible knife (dampen 1), or a knife that sticks in the wall sideways (dampen <1).

Then there's another option, which is to give the parent bounce and apply negative speed to the sub-emitted particle. This actually works in all angles of 90 degrees, but is reversed anywhere else. It'll stick wrongly.

I'm basically out of options here lol

tl;dr sticking non-symmetrical world particles into walls is really difficult. Arrows are one such example. Your crystals are fine since they have rotational symmetry.

You don't notice the fact that your crystals are actually oriented wrongly

[shut tusk]

https://i.gyazo.com/12979076078c5e3b81daca24f2364e23.png

i didn't need to put it in blender

i scaled up the particle (it doesn't scale up bounds) and reduced start size

@slim sparrow

[slim sparrow]

Ah, cool

But either way, don't let my experiences discourage you. If you get the arrows working, make sure to notify me.

[celest trout]

Is it possible for an animation controller to have states that can pass the parameters from the previous state into it?

[shut tusk]

that'd make alot of stuff easier

i mimicked the end of the last one to make a 100% smooth transition with my animations

🤷🏻

like. manually position it the way it was

[celest trout]

I tried making a paint brush that functions like the presentation room Beta

[shut tusk]

🤔

[celest trout]

but whenever Im at the state to change colors, it changes the color of everything already written.

[shut tusk]

i have ppl in my friendslist that use a rainbow snailmarker

idk how they do it i just have 1 color 👀

[celest trout]

Maybe I could have seperate trail renderers for each color I want

[shut tusk]

only thing i can think of is gradient

can you change the color to gradient?

otherwise you can maybe do that in the animation

to make the trailsource gradient through colors

but idk i haven't tried

oh you want specific ones

[slim sparrow]

@celest trout that's the way to go

[shut tusk]

i mean. can't you change the color of the trail source in the animation

[slim sparrow]

You definitely need multiple trail sources if you want the old trails to keep their color.

[shut tusk]

or does it not record the change

oh

[celest trout]

I will keep trail source enabled but the state will have every other trail renderer componant disabled

[slim sparrow]

Look up Snail Marker

[shut tusk]

i'm happy with one color

[celest trout]

I am using snail marker

[shut tusk]

[slim sparrow]

It does all that for you

Ah

[celest trout]

Im using a modified snail marker for my world

im applying it to a world object so it needs to work specifically

[slim sparrow]

You probably don't have to use snail marker for your world

Snail marker sets the Z to -10000 when it stops drawing

[celest trout]

NoeNoe Pen uses dots and they don't look that nice

[slim sparrow]

In your world, you have access to triggers and stuff

[celest trout]

Yes Im utilizing triggers to activate states in my animation controller

Hey when I set the width of the snail marker's trail renderer's to something like 0.05 it makes a weird offset mark when you click and finish writing

Does it normally happen?

http://prntscr.com/j4jzun

[celest trout]

Nope that did not work.

Im stumped again.

When the trail source is enabled but he trail renderer is disabled, the trail all dissapears from view. Which thinking about it kinda makes sense haha.

Does anyone have any tips on making a good world object paint brush effect?

[shut tusk]

@slim sparrow i see what you mean now

for some reason it does not work properly

because the rotation is fixed

so is there a way to make the rotation work?

🤔

[dusk nexus]

How do you prevent your character doing the weird floating in the floor animation when you add an idle animation to a model

I haven't done it in a really long time

[celest trout]

Id recommend using a working idle animation and working off that. Your root has to be set right.

[shut tusk]

so world particle rotations are always f'd? 👀

does it also count towards subemitters on collision

well this sucks

i have to either fallback to billboard particles or make it local

[clear barn]

i need some help with CATS eye tracking

ive done everything by the book from set up to rigging and names, and it still doesnt work

[clear yew]

@clear barn there's three prerequisites you must meet for eye tracking/blinking to work:

1- The bone hierarchy Hips->Spine->Chest->Neck->Head->{LeftEye,RightEye} must exist!
Exact names are required, there can be no in-between bones.
The bones don’t need any vertices skinned to them. They can be “empty”.
2- The blend shapes vrc.blink_left, vrc.blink_right, vrc.lowerlid_left, vrc.lowerlid_right must exist as the first four blend shapes. (index 0 through 3).
Exact order is required, names are actually unimportant though.
They can be the same as the basis shape. They can be “empty”, but blender won’t export empty blendshapes.
3- The skinned mesh must be named “Body”.```

[clear barn]

thats extremely helpful, thank you very much!

the blend shapes part is only for blinking or i need them for eyetracking too? @clear yew

[clear yew]

they do the blinking eyelids, yes, eyetracking only needs the LeftEye and RightEye bones to move around afaik

but if the blendshapes are missing it won't work, they can be empty/basis though if you don't want blinking to do anything

@clear barn

[clear barn]

oohhhh

okay so even if i dont do blinking i need the blend shapes

[clear yew]

yeah, even the lower lids that nobody uses

1001 do you know how to make blendshapes?

[clear barn]

okay that makes sense

thank you so much!

[clear yew]

yw!

[clear barn]

@clear yew in blender, shape keys are in the mesh menu under vertex groups

[clear yew]

yes but i need to make them

[clear barn]

click the little + button

then when the key is done, go to edit mode

and modify it

[clear yew]

i have all my vertex groups made

@clear yew the blendshapes mentioned are generated by CATs after you set the eye tracking values and 'generate eye tracking'

[clear barn]

ignore vertex groups, lets focus on shape keys

[clear yew]

everything is weight painted properly

its not for a face

its for moving parts on a weapon

[clear barn]

okay okay

are your shape keys in the list?

[clear yew]

https://gyazo.com/fda5da9bbbd5e00c6f6a58acf4e69a6a

[clear barn]

perfect

okay

[clear yew]

i just dont know to to move the bolt back

[clear barn]

while having the shape key selected, go to edit mode

now everything you edit will only be edited within the shape key

after you are done, go back to object mode and youll notice your modification is gone

now you can use the slider to blend the key

[clear yew]

how do i select my vertex group so i can move it?

[clear barn]

ignore the vertex groups

those are for weight painting

and other stuff

[clear yew]

i need to grab the bolt and move it to another location right?

[clear barn]

yup

[clear yew]

but how do i grab the bolt?

[clear barn]

if the bolt is separated from the rest of the mesh, click a vertex inside the bolt and then click L

[shut tusk]

so there is really no way to fix the rotation of world particles?

[clear barn]

while your mouse is hovering over the bolt

[clear yew]

ok thanks but its 1 mesh

[clear barn]

okay then just select the faces of the bolt

[reef mason]

DM me if anybody does have the answer, Thanks

[clear yew]

anybody got a link to manual eye tracking set up?

[supple trail]

Hello, I am trying to create an animation override that makes an object appear on my avatar's face/head (Its a mask). I've been having a lot of difficulty getting the Is Active property to function properly. I can get the object to go Active in VRChat only if I place the object under "Right wrist" or rename my "Head"(in Hierarchy) to "Right wrist", neither produce desirable results. The fingers for the FIST override that i'm using work perfectly, its just the Is Active property that won't work in VRChat. I've ran out of ideas on this one and hoping someone might have an idea of what I could try.

[obsidian vigil]

Very interesting thing tho, visemes button in CATS generates eyelid shapekeys

so always first create visemes then eyetracking

[slim sparrow]

@supple trail make sure the mask mesh isn't called "body"

@obsidian vigil doesn't matter

[foggy loom]

@obsidian vigil It does? That's new to me 🤔

[obsidian vigil]

it does

they work as well

used them for an avatar yesterday

[obsidian vigil]

umm @torn pawn so i tired the cloth instead of dynamic bones

that stuff is glitchy as fuck

it ended up becoming a flying tool

[clear yew]

did you lock in place the top of the skirt ?

[obsidian vigil]

nah

i put it on

inside unity my character was put back a few meters for no apparent reason

and ingame i was able to fly on jump

no idea how tf i managed to do it

[clear yew]

you need to check

"is trigger"

on the capsule/sphere collider that you used

[obsidian vigil]

oooh

[clear yew]

or you get launched in space

[obsidian vigil]

well rip

[clear yew]

also you need to lock the top part of the cloth

[obsidian vigil]

will a cloth work on a cape

[clear yew]

yes but it will be pretty hard to setup

[obsidian vigil]

ive got a one punch man cape that is straightened out and even if i have dynamic bones with gravity on there it wont lower

[clear yew]

you can but i don't think you will like it

[obsidian vigil]

hmm

best bet is probably to just rotate it in blender right

[clear yew]

blender or unity

[obsidian vigil]

i tried it in the configuration

it springs back

to its original pos

so probably blender ^^

[slim sparrow]

Is there any way to reverse an animation?

In either Unity or Blender

[obsidian vigil]

good question

[pliant plank]

@slim sparrow you can do it manualy via copy pasting ahead to mirror it, and then delete the old keyframes, i've searched about it before and found no other way aside scripting

In unity that is

[slim sparrow]

Argh

Wait, can't you go into the animator and reverse the speed?

[obsidian vigil]

https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/86293/how-to-mirror-flip-animation-curves-in-unity?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=google_rich_qa&utm_campaign=google_rich_qa

maybe this?

[slim sparrow]

Physically swapping keyframes hurts me

But I guess it's possible in this simple animation

[obsidian vigil]

in the thing they talk about a mirror checkbox on animation files

[pliant plank]

Go ahead and give it a go, so far that's the way i had to go with it...

[obsidian vigil]

https://imgur.com/a/K5gPb

[pliant plank]

That'll reverse the side it's played on iirc

[slim sparrow]

Yeah

[pliant plank]

If finger point is right handed, then on mirror, finger point is now left handed

Here's what i mirrored before https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/393113850909818880/404378568169226250/unknown.png

You can copy entire sections by selecting the very top keyframes

As those select the entire row in that specific time

[unique night]

is there an easy way to delete animation properties that only have 2 keyframes in the timeline (start and end of animation)?

[manic torrent]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/420183681798242304/434318776175951892/20180413184423_1.jpg need help, how can the fog stay in place while i jump

[slim sparrow]

World particles

[manic torrent]

so we set it to world not local?

[slim sparrow]

Yes

[manic torrent]

i'll test it later

[slim sparrow]

@unique night right-click and press the delete button that pops up?

[unique night]

@slim sparrow no, i know about that

i mean a way to automate it

i have like 30 baked animations to go through

deleting all the unnecessary joints in the timelines

like i only need the rotation keyframes, not the position and scale of joints which all have an identical start and end keyframe

https://i.gyazo.com/818a0d76c2964f5e8287f7e50bb71fb6.png

for example, you can see a bunch of joint properties i dont need in the timeline

(but i need them removed for the next stage of what i'm using these for)

(to save on file size)

[sick musk]

The fact that I can’t rotate my hair in animation feelsbadman

[slim sparrow]

I have an FBX animation that I want to duplicate, how do I do this?

It's not a humanoid animation

So CTRL+D doesn't seem to work

[unique night]

I'm importing my animations with the model so not sure when it comes to in fbx animations on their own

(i then chop the long animation into smaller ones in the inspector)

but still have to ctrl+D them to edit them

[obsidian vigil]

you guys think this is usable in any way?

https://blogs.unity3d.com/2017/07/24/animating-inside-vr-mixing-motion-capture-and-keyframes/

[unique night]

i think omega mentioned using something similar to this

where you draw a path and it does it for you

and something to do with motion capture

[obsidian vigil]

that is cool

useful for stuff like background animations

[ashen sedge]

@manic torrent Make sure your particle system isn't parented to your armature, but your avatar game object also

[supple trail]

@slim sparrow the mask isn’t named body.

[boreal trellis]

Hello, how can i add gestures to an avatar with controller? It puts animations on model and makes them read only, i cant add anything

or edit

https://gyazo.com/fb2e218db532cd29d2c1f32f486ce4a3

• it has a lot of frames

[unique night]

ctrl+D the animation file

the copy should allow you to edit

[charred widget]

alright, I hate to be that guy but... but what does LT135 and LT45 mean in the animation override controller?

Left Trigger?

[lost musk]

Arn't they two animation of walk on the left side crounching at different speed ?

[charred widget]

Hell if I know... is that what it means? 🤔

'cause the only videos I found were only about the faces

[frosty pendant]

is it RunstrafeLT135?

[charred widget]

yeah

[frosty pendant]

then its run strafe left 135 degree

[charred widget]

aaaahhhh

ok

[frosty pendant]

and rt is right

its the walking animations in the directions

[charred widget]

aaaahhhh gotcha

so like left 135 degrees is like... backwards or something?

[frosty pendant]

i guess xD

yeah it should be 45 degree backwards left

[charred widget]

and 45 degrees should be forward. 😅

[frosty pendant]

i think 0 degree is directly infront of you

[charred widget]

yeah

I think I got it from here. Thanks @lost musk & @frosty pendant

[frosty pendant]

no problem xD

[lost musk]

np

[round ridge]

So I'd like to get my DekaRed avatar to have an animation for pulling out his badge, as well as an animation of "Judgement Time", where their badge is used to determine a person telling the truth or not, as the Dekarangers are police with high-tech weaponry in the show they're from. Would someone be able or willing to help me out with this? I know nothing about animation, which is why I ask, and I think tutorials at this point wouldn't be helpful. :/

[slim sparrow]

Look up tutorials on how to enable/disable game objects in animations

You'll want to have an object in your hand, disabled by default, then enable in a gesture

[lost musk]

If you wanna learn how to do it, just look tutorials.
If you just wan't tohave this animation on your character bt don't want to take the time to learn you can join the VRCTrader discord, and ask someone to do it for you. It may cost you money though

[clear yew]

anyone know if they can test their avatar in unity with vr? I hate opening and closing VRChat 24/7 for an animation

[lost musk]

You can perform local test loading the last avatar id you had on you

So if you upload this id you'l be fine to local test on the vrchat serv

But you must switch to a test world on unity each time

[slim sparrow]

Yeah, you can actually just alt tab and look at your real screen

If you use Oculus, you need to have more than 8 GB of RAM to do so, since Oculus takes up an extra GB and you won't make it with 8 GB

You can open Unity and work in the background

Then when you upload your avatar, you can switch away from your avatar, expand the avatar list, then switch back. @clear yew

[lost musk]

Im working on an offline unity sdk too to perform this kind of test pressing only the play button

But it gonna take some time

[clear yew]

I thought you had to exit VRChat to see a change 🤔 @slim sparrow

[sterile stratus]

Hey can someone help me?

[lost musk]

No

[sterile stratus]

Rude

lmao

[lost musk]

Cause wedont know the problem

😂

[sterile stratus]

When I do an animation, my hand moves but the weapon isn't in my hand.

[lost musk]

What weapon ?

[sterile stratus]

The one in the animation

[celest pewter]

is it a child of the wrist?

[sterile stratus]

Yea

[celest pewter]

sure u sure it was placed properly

🤔

[sterile stratus]

Yea

[celest pewter]

my mind is empty rn 🤷

[sterile stratus]

I'll send a screen

[lost musk]

And you says to the weapon to activate at start of the animation ?

In the animator you must reccord that you acticate your weapon gameobject

[slim sparrow]

@clear yew yep

You don't have to restart

Just switch avatar, expand your avatar list, and your avatar should be refreshed when you switch back.

You can confirm that it refreshed when you see the refreshed avatar loading in as a blue ghost when you select it.

[molten elm]

Animations are screwing up somehow

https://i.imgur.com/ZxhJVRe.gifv

https://i.imgur.com/V1XwbBE.gifv

fine in unity but not in-game

legacy mode is on

[cursive moon]

If you enabled blinking in CATS but created a blink animation on your own in Unity, it breaks.

[molten elm]

I didn't

It'll even display just fine

In the avatar selection menu

People in-game see the eye just flickering like that too

😩

Doesn't make any sense

[lilac cave]

you got both characters avatar the same?

if one of them has l eye as the eyelid its kinda obvious

[molten elm]

what

[clear yew]

@slim sparrow ooh ok

[surreal iron]

yeah... im having the same issues with my 2B... havent been able to fix it for more than a month already lul

made custom walk animation > works flawlessly as legacy > looks like poop as humanoid

https://gyazo.com/9614de1d9a2b18fb3834640a861c81f1 muh custom walk animation reeeee 😦

[frosty pendant]

could anyone help me with a stencil shader problem i have?

i wanna see myself when using it but i am invisible because the model is part of the stencil mask

[agile ruin]

Anyone knows why Collision isnt working?

I have a particle system with a collider and subemitters

but it stopped working. It no longer emits anything after colliding

[molten elm]

How come blinking isn't working in-game ;^;

[slim sparrow]

Well, there are several answers

First of all, do you have eye bones mapped? @molten elm

[molten elm]

Well.. Yeah

It's all working in Blender and Unity

[slim sparrow]

It might be that VRChat's eye tracking is overriding your blinking, if they use the same shape keys.

If you make blinking yourself

If your avatar has eye tracking, then the first four blend shapes in the mesh are manually managed by the game.

If you're making a custom blink animation, you need to check the Disable Blinking option in CATS eye tracking creator.

[molten elm]

Yes

I only have eye tracking, blinking is disabled

I animated the blinking

[slim sparrow]

Check the first four blend shapes in the mesh in Unity. Manually manipulate them

Ideally, they should do nothing when set to 100. And also, you should not touch those blend shapes in your animation. You need to use the original shapes (winking etc)

If you used CATS, those first four blend shapes will be called vrc.blink_left,right, lowerlid left and right

[molten elm]

Yes I used winking

Like I said

It's showing up correctly in Unity

and blender

[slim sparrow]

Yeah, I know

That's why I'm pretty sure it's eye tracking related

Since that's the only major difference between unity and ingame

[molten elm]

How can I fix that

[slim sparrow]

If you have those first four blend shapes and you're not doing anything with those, then I honestly don't know what the problem is. Did you check the blend shapes in Unity itself? Because them showing up in Blender doesn't mean anything. Just checking.

Unity doesn't import empty blend shapes, I have had to manually add some to models that don't have separate winking per eye

[molten elm]

I mean yeah, I just recorded it playing in Unity too, the animation is working, I deleted the animation component and re-did it all

They'll only blink in the avatar menu

It's so weird

https://i.imgur.com/5T2KkiJ.gifv

[slim sparrow]

I mean, I believe you there

But like, can you post a screenshot of your blend shapes list in Unity?

Outside of the animation window

On the actual mesh itself

Click on Body in your scene

[molten elm]

On the main not the copy, right?

[slim sparrow]

Yeah

Doesn't really matter

[torn pawn]

duplicates do not matter in the end, animation tells what to do on the model it's being triggered

[molten elm]

https://i.imgur.com/LktbOLN.gifv

[slim sparrow]

Well, the first thing I see, which is not necessarily the problem

Right click on all of those bolded blend shapes and revert to prefab

Still, the first four blend shapes are correct, and you only seem to be touching wink

[torn pawn]

question tho, why make your life harder and make your own animation for blink

[slim sparrow]

Anyway, try setting those first four blend shapes to 100 in that list, see if anything changes

[torn pawn]

and then u gotta add extra property for disabling it in every expression

[slim sparrow]

@torn pawn so you can disable the animation, or make it look nicer

I don't want my gestures to still have blinking

[torn pawn]

true, the gesture blink is annoying

[slim sparrow]

Oh yeah, I should have mentioned, don't leave those first four shapes at 100

As a last resort, you can unmap eye bones

[molten elm]

Unmap?

what does that mean

[torn pawn]

in head rig, set left and right eye to none

[molten elm]

alright, I'll test that out

[buoyant cypress]

hello

[molten elm]

https://i.imgur.com/GiRHKnC.gifv

Hurray

[eager vault]

did you actually say hurray? im imagining you were

[granite hound]

would someone on here mind helping me out with animating a generic model?

[primal gull]

does anyone know if theres a way to have a constant animation playing

like something orbiting around my avatar

[dusty canyon]

For those who want to play around with 2GB worth of mocap animations, here's the link (it's legal).
https://forum.unity.com/threads/huge-free-fbx-mocap-library-released.261401/

To make a fbx animation work in unity, you have to assign the avatar definition to your vrc avatar. after you get an error, revert back to the original to fix the mocap offset during preview.

enable root motion and you're set.

[night steeple]

is it possible to activate an animator in an animation?

[night canyon]

anyone know why my avatar falls into the ground using an animation. I duplicated the original and looks fine in unity, but in game it falls into the ground like the duplicated one I originally made.

[clear yew]

So I got some overrides for facial animations

But lets say I go from crying and then to idle face, it goes immediately to idle face

Same goes for my licking animation (didn't know what else to do for now) to idle face

But if I go from crying to licking it takes a while and it slowly morphs from crying to licking instead of instant

[night canyon]

nvm I fixed it

[clear yew]

I'm on desktop though

[celest trout]

Has anyone used OnTimer before?

http://prntscr.com/j52oh1

[clear yew]

Its a bitch

[neon vale]

Does anyone konw how to glitch an animation so it keeps playing even when you stop? (Talking about emotes, not gestures)

I want to do a Full Body Tracking front camera, but I don't want to re-upload another version of my avatar for it so I'm thinking of enabling it with an animation, problem is the camera is still going to be running in the background even if I don't see it and that'll most certainly impact my performance

[wicked garnet]

why do some avatars arms freak out for some people?
some avatars in question don't even have any errors.

[slim sparrow]

@primal gull put an Animator component on the thing you want to orbit around you

Then just animate it

[buoyant cypress]

hello i need help with an animation, im working on a boss fight and i dont know how to animate the npc. if anyone could help me with it it would be nice of you (npc)

[fluid crescent]

I have problem with mmd dance the thing is his hips stay in place so he cant move around or spin,anyone knows how to fix that?

[primal gull]

first off, ty @slim sparrow

second, i have an animation of something spinning but when it reaches 360 at the end and goes to 0, it kinda stumbles for half a second and ruins a smooth loop

jk i found a way

[keen panther]

hello. wierd question. i have a muzzle flash prefab attachet to a gun and its nice in normal unity simulate particle system. but as soon as i upload or go into the live view in unity it wont show there

nvm. in debug mode the "play on wake" was disabled for a wierd reason

[ivory lagoon]

heya!! question! is there any way to use a shapekey as an animation? the mmd model i have has a shapekey that i want to put into an animation

or do i have to save a new model with the shapekey activated?

[lunar pasture]

I think the shapekey's got to exist for you to use it, so yeah, edit your model in blender

[ivory lagoon]

oh cool, so just save a new model with that shapekey on?

[slim sparrow]

@primal gull you need to set the curves to linear

@ivory lagoon ignore that advice

In the model's skinned mesh renderer, you can toggle blend shapes

Body->Skinned Mesh Renderer->Blend Shapes.(key)

In animation

Do not make a copy of your model with the shape key activated

[ivory lagoon]

so only do that in animation?

[slim sparrow]

Yes

Just add property

[ivory lagoon]

do i have to make a copy of the model first in unity?

i'm new to animation stuff, a friend briefly explained it but i can't remember if he said to or not

[sweet zealot]

Animation question: i animated an idle animation where my character's tail sways and the ears twitch and the eyes blink. The whole thing works when in play/test mode, however once im in vrchat only the blink shows up - so it works(?) but why isnt the bone animations showing up? I get rid of the blink and suddenly all the bone animations work again. Can it not handle blendshapes and bone animations at the same time or am i doing it wrong?

[white herald]

had lots of issues with humanoid bone animation overrides and vrchat, don't have a solution

[sweet zealot]

bummer

have that one life detail of blinking, or the other life detail of idle moving ears and tail..... hmmmm

ears are cuter. presses button

[white herald]

there is a setting in fbx import for the animation mask which allows you to enable animation on non-humanoid bones but if you animated it in unity that's a moot point

[sweet zealot]

animating it in unity, yeah

ooooooh i could add bones to the eyelids and force them to blink....

that would work

[white herald]

nice

[sweet zealot]

blinking is literally the only thing missing from the idle, so luckily theres not much else to fix 😃

[white herald]

hopefully works

[sweet zealot]

so far the animation looks okay, now to post and test

[ivory lagoon]

http://prntscr.com/j5a9se

how do i add the shapekey from here?

http://prntscr.com/j5aa3u

this is the one i want to add but it's not letting me add it?

[sweet zealot]

make sure the duplicated avatar is selected

[ivory lagoon]

it is c:

[clear yew]

@ivory lagoon Add property choose the animator, then the shapekey.

[ivory lagoon]

im clicking on the shapekey but it won't add it?

[clear yew]

@ivory lagoon Scroll to the right on the list, there are little pluses next to them you have to click

[sweet zealot]

oh yeah forgot about those

[ivory lagoon]

OH! duh

thank you guys!

wait one more really quick question sorry slkfs

how do i make the light sources stick with the character? instead of just staying in one spot

im trying to have a lightsource in the middle of his forehead but with my past experience in animation, i've only had the light source in one spot

[sweet zealot]

drag it under the heirarchy of his head bone?

that might work?

[ivory lagoon]

but doesn't the animations have to be under one game object?

or the same i mean

[slim sparrow]

You can scroll down the armature list in the animation properties

[ivory lagoon]

oh gotcha! worked!

also how do i make the shake key stay constantly on? it's looping

shape*

[clear yew]

How do I edit my animations

I created some yesterday, but today I want to tweak them, and I can't get them on the duplicated avatar to edit them

[frail ermine]

@clear yew drag and drop the animation on to your duplicate in the hierarchy

[ivory lagoon]

so lighting works for animations but neither my particles, shapekey or music works

but it works in unity? just not in vrchat

my shapekey semi-works but it's flashing rapidly

[ivory lagoon]

shapekey is still flashing and particles/music doesn't show up ;;

i might know my problem

am i supposed to have every animation set to one second?

http://prntscr.com/j5bpgq

[clear yew]

they are set correctly

check if the values are the same

also check at the 1 minute mark if there is a random keyframe

[ivory lagoon]

values? and nope no random keyframes

[clear yew]

yes the value of the keyshape on the keyframe

0.00 and 0.01 needs to have the same value or it will flash really fast

[ivory lagoon]

it looks like it does

http://prntscr.com/j5br3n

it keeps flashing random values when i hit the play button

[clear yew]

that's a blendshape right ?

[ivory lagoon]

yeah

[clear yew]

should go to 100 max

more is useless

[ivory lagoon]

ah gotcha, set it to 100... it doesn't show up at all now though

wait it does

but it's flashing

lemme get a gif real quick of what it's doing

https://imgur.com/B3NQmaz

also particle system and music works here but when i put it in vrchat it's gone

light sources work though

OH figured it out i think, now my problem is getting the particle system and the music to work in vr

[molten elm]

Is it possible to make it so that dynamic bones only activate during a gesture?

[clear yew]

can you uncheck a box in the script ?

[molten elm]

Yeah

[clear yew]

then yeah

[molten elm]

Dynamic bone script

How do I apply that?

[clear yew]

animation tab

press the red dot to get into animation mode

and check the box so it add automatically the property

[molten elm]

ohh

so I keep it turned off in the inspector and it only turns on during the gesture

awesome

[clear yew]

yep

[ivory lagoon]

IM SORRY IM SO PROBLEMATIC question

so i got the particles and shapekey working

BUT NOW the light sources aren't following his forehead? even though they're parented to the head

[molten elm]

oh but

it only works if I'm editing the animator on the main character

and that breaks stuff..

aaaaahhh

how do i get them to stand back up

[ivory lagoon]

how do i make a light source follow a bone?

[slate mortar]

How do I add a .vmd-animation to a model in Unity? I tried to add it in Blender but it never worked out, but I was told to add the animation in Unity - however, the only tutorials I could find were pretty old and don't seem to work anymore.

[clear yew]

Anyone have an idea how to get an audio source and particle systems to work on a separate animation? I have the first animation for a gun and a cocking noise, and the first for a gun fire and 2 particle systems, but the second doesnt activate.

[night steeple]

Is it possible to spawn in a mesh (not using particle system meshes) and have it stay there without moving with you or even to move with you but not turn with you?

[ivory lagoon]

How do you make a light source follow a bone?? i have it parented to the head but when i move my head around the light source stays in one spot

[ashen sedge]

@ivory lagoon Do you have it parented to the avatar game object or the headbone itself?

[ivory lagoon]

the headbone

[ivory lagoon]

someone suggested doing rigid bodies but now there's no lights at all

[opal grotto]

is anyone here good with dynamics bone and everything?
im horrible at it. i have my avatar made and everything. jus need to use blender but its to complicated for me and i cant make it work right if someone wants to help me out if thats cool? i think i posted this in the right channel. dunno if its this or avatar rigging the right place to ask

[dusk fjord]

I'm setting down cards using particles and the texture sheet module by setting a random start frame, but everyone sees different cards. Any way to sync it up so everyone sees the same cards?

[molten elm]

Can anyone show me how to enable dynamic bones only for a hand gesture please.

[agile ruin]

Is there a way to make it so a gesture override hides a mesh for indefinite time?

[ivory lagoon]

i can't figure out why the light sources aren't showing now, they're in my animation and working in unity totally fine? only the actual light is hidden, not the game object

they don't show in vrchat -- it's not clientside because i have a friend testing for me

music and particles work but not lights?

[opal grotto]

anyone able to help maybe?

[clear yew]

Hi im trying to figure out how to trigger animations to my keyboard i have a spider modell i have the animations too and im trying to connect the animations with the animator panel but nothing work im trying this 7 hour checking tutorials everywhere im thinking really but someone pls spend some time on meXD:D .. sorry really

https://imgur.com/a/JGQJo

https://imgur.com/a/hyf5U this two picture so i can't connect my model with the animator panel you can see all animations are there everything is okay so i really dont understand why the tutorials not work when im following them.

[clear yew]

hey guys

which 1 is the chair sitting animation

?

[lilac cave]

none

you replace idle though

[clear yew]

oh

controller + idle

[lofty crypt]

question
why can i animate these as part of a game object animation
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/419689756486664203/435019369496444928/unknown.png
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/419689756486664203/435019451197554688/unknown.png
and not these
theyre both FBX objects
both have the same amount of particle generators, ect

[steep helm]

how come everytime i take out my weapon for the animation it spawns somewhere random around me

not in my hand?

but its in my hand for me not other people

[languid nimbus]

Hey guys! So!

Blender animation

I made an animation I think works pretty well

But now at the end of it I hit somewhat of a snag, the blender curves are controlled by the next pieces of keyframes

but when I delete the keyframes that come after the final actual frame I want in the animation the curve changes

is there any way I can keep the curve while deleting the final frame?

http://puu.sh/A3BUX/0e44d78845.png

http://puu.sh/A3BVs/cceeaacc1e.png

[white herald]

can't tell exactly what you mean @languid nimbus but i'm pretty sure pressing i to insert a keyframe on the second to last frame is what you want

[languid nimbus]

Hahah that's such a janky solution

But hey it worked great

thanks

[molten elm]

Can anyone show me how to enable a dynamic bone script using a hand gesture

[torn pawn]

press record and checkmark/remove box

[molten elm]

it doesn't work

the dynamic bone script does show up in the animator, though

[halcyon carbon]

Hi! I'm creating a non-humanoid avatar (a dog, to be precise), the problem lies in the animations of the emotes. In practice when I press on the emote the animation is played, but it goes in loop. And before you ask, yes, I have disabled the loop from the animation. One thing I noticed is that the loop, regardless of the duration of the animation, lasts exactly 1 minute and then returns to idle. Another thing I noticed is that when the animation used in the emote is finished, it seems to come back to idle for half a second, but then it reproduces the emote animation again. Can you tell me a way to solve this problem? (sorry for the length of the message, I'm trying for like 3 days and I'm literally going crazy lol)

[final gazelle]

i've posted some speculation/tests on why it seems to happen, but i don't think there's a clean solution when it comes to generic rigs:
https://vrchat.canny.io/bug-reports/p/generic-rig-gets-stuck-when-emoting

what i wound up doing was creating a second avatar of the same thing, with added humanoid bones -- the humanoid bones are used to set the model as a humanoid rig.

emotes won't encounter the looping problem if it's a humanoid rig, but you'll probably run into other issues involving your avatar floating/sinking beneath the ground while walking (without playing a walking animation) and sliding around on the ground a bit as you look around

[halcyon carbon]

In fact I had tried so but it is not a great solution, my avatar moves in a strange way and the view is not the best. I don't know if it can be useful as information (also because I don't know much about unity), but if I go into the animator, select my emote and in the exit transition I set the interruption source to next state the loop stops, but I have to still wait a minute before it returns to idle

[fallen crypt]

Hey guys, back then someone said dynamic bones don't effect animations. But this one somehow got effected though. Here's the original animation
https://gyazo.com/a0ea1ee264b499b4a12a3127f169d66b

[final gazelle]

yeah, it seems like it has to do with VRChat effectively keeping your emote button pressed down -- it acts like it's repeatedly pressing the button and sending you back into the emote for a full minute for whatever reason

[fallen crypt]

Ummm, alright now it changed when I play the animation... https://gyazo.com/ef6ffdb4e3ba2940fc87e3b0b8b1466d

[halcyon carbon]

Well, it will mean that I'll have to settle on this for the moment, I hope they'll fix this thing, it's quite unnerving after working on animations and then failing to use them lol
Thank you for the help! 😄

[dusk nexus]

Does someone have an example of an animation toggle in unity? Like weapon toggles on emotes/gesture, rather than having to hold a button

[torn pawn]

use example prefab

and read the readme

[dusk nexus]

The one someone posted? I accidentally deleted it

[agile ruin]

Anyone knows how to make it so a gesture override makes a mesh appear indefinitely?

[molten elm]

https://i.imgur.com/DGtpthy.png

and it's still not enabling the dynamic bone when I use the gesture

what am I doing wrong?

[dusk nexus]

I don't get it

😣

[dusk nexus]

If someone could show me the "wae" I'd be greatful (and never use that in a sentence again)

[slim sparrow]

@molten elm show the dopesheet

The box should stay checked when you drag the red line over the two diamonds (keyframes)

Is it possible to change a particle's velocity after it has already been spawned?

I've got the flying knives thing, but I would like to suspend them in midair until I press a gesture.

[molten elm]

Yeah it stays checked when I scroll from 0 to 1

But the thing is it's acting like it's trying to enable the dynamic bones on the duplicate, even though the dupe and main are the same, blah

[slim sparrow]

You seem to be disabling an animation in the same gesture, does that work correctly?

Then you know if it's an assignment problem, or if the problem is inside the animation

[molten elm]

Yeah cause the eyes shut and it stops the blinking animation

[slim sparrow]

Then I'm guessing the game just doesn't like disabling dynamic bone scripts

Can't you fiddle with the values instead? Set the Stiffness to 1? That way, the bones shouldn't move at all.

[molten elm]

I've been trying to mess with the values, it's just a shame it doesn't translate well into VRchat

It'll look great in Unity, then you jump in-game and it's like it has a completely different set of values applied

[agile monolith]

Does anyone have a solution for animations not working, so far the only thing that works is creating the model from scratch and doing all the animations, detaching the avatar id and then only uploading the avatar

[slim sparrow]

Duplicate your model and see how the animations look there. Also check in play mode.

You should see your duplicate immediately perform the selected animation as soon as you enter play mode

[agile monolith]

yup, it does work in there but vrchat my hand gets stuck and it cant close or open for about 5 seconds after trying to use the animation. Im doing everything the same way i have for the past 2 months but it just doesnt see to want to work

[slim sparrow]

That sounds oddly as if your animation is actually one second long, and not one frame

Could you show us the dopesheet?

[agile monolith]

okay one sec

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/365974069289418752/435150535587528715/ggdfdfggd.PNG

this?

[slim sparrow]

Weird, that actually looks correct.

And you're sure this is the animation you have in your animation controller? You don't have another one by accident, or another with the same name?

[agile monolith]

i keep everything in their own folders, the anim overide has this on its fingerpoint

the only thing i think that could cause this problem is that there is an animation on the object that i activate

[molten elm]

Weird, so I added a new gesture, and now my blinking animation looks less smooth??

[brazen crater]

@agile monolith can you check for me if it's a legacy animation. Cause the absense of the checkbox worries me

[molten elm]

https://i.imgur.com/tH1UBlZ.gifv

https://i.imgur.com/WS5Buch.gifv

like, it just loses the extra frames that make the blinking more animated

[slim sparrow]

@brazen crater oh yeah, that's a good point. Could just be a missing scrollbar but still

Legacy animations are a no-go unless you use them in Animation components and you know what you're doing

[sick musk]

Anyway to change materials in animations