animation

[half minnow]

Anyone? :S

[clear yew]

does anyone know how to make images come on your screen when you join a lobby along with music

[violet moss]

Just ask everyone to block you. Same effect without any unity work

[tacit sapphire]

why doesn't the action layer aka emotes not play sounds with animation

[noble shell]

enabling objects ect goes on FX

[steel belfry]

hey yo does anyone have access to the Eves Motion Empire discord?

[atomic bay]

how would i set a gun slide anim to a 3.0 avatar ive made all the anims and t5he gun toggles on and has a face gesture to shoot how do i add the additive animation on top of the particles and stuff

[woeful solar]

I’ve been looking for an animation file that works on humanoid rigs.
I’ve seen some avatars with it, it’s basically a wolf run animation that can be applied to human models to run on all fours.
Does anyone have it? Would greatly appreciate it ❤️

[clear yew]

blocking cuz of how an avatar looks or an intro is such a weak mindset to have

[violet moss]

Nah man, block my screen, get blocked. Lol

It's usually desktop users that don't know how bad that is in VR

[clear yew]

its not even bad in vr kid use safety settings or stay in ur private worlds if your that sensitive to block someone over an avi

[violet moss]

I'm not using safety

Blocking inconsiderable people works just fine

Not going to let a few people being spammy with shaders prevent me from seeing decent peopel's avatars and animations correctly

[clear yew]

blocking someone has the same weight to it as a report in terms or ranking if your gonna cry over an avi hide the person. thats whats wrong with the blocking system in vrc you get snow flakes like you thatll block anyone for any reason when theres other things you could do besides block

[violet moss]

Nah, I just block. I don't like seeing grey robots

[clear yew]

probably some cringe trusted user who sits in mirrors all day aswell huh with that mindset you gotta be

[violet moss]

You seem upset

[clear yew]

not upset just disappointed because its people like you that ruin the experience for new users weather it be having them banned or holding a trust rank over newer players like it makes you any better than them

[violet moss]

That's pretty much why the system was designed like it was

[violet moss]

It's meant to be delayed until you learn how to behave.

[verbal tundra]

can someone tell me how to do an afk aniamtion ?

[verbal tundra]

:/

[verbal tundra]

Help

[violet moss]

Does anyone know if root motion works on action emotes? Using motion.t.x instead of root.t.x ?

Like what is the difference between the two

[violet moss]

Replace proxy_afk with a different animation file in the example action layer controller and put it on the descriptor

[verbal tundra]

Thank for your response man :D but I asked how to make one

Like when I do an animation and move the arms and add a keyframe unity act like he don't understand that and doesn't care about my keyframe

[violet moss]

Oh, just generally how to make any unity animation? Marie sure record mode is on, go to the place on the timeline you want to edit (the white line) and then you edit things. All your edits get added at that location on the timeline

[compact marten]

that's not how you animate humanoid bones

you have to animate the "Muscles", as defined in the rig config

you can either do that through the "Add property button", which is kinda tedious

or, you can use the Muscle animator unity addon

[violet moss]

Oh, humanoids. Yeah, unity doesn’t have good humanoid animation tools, better to make those in blender. But you can also animate in unity as a generic and there are some paid tools on the asset store to convert it to humanoid for you

But really you are better off learning to animate humanoid motion in blender

[compact marten]

^

[verbal tundra]

well how do I animate then import my animation to Unity xd

[molten mirage]

Everytime I try to convert a mmd motion the fingers are broken. Has anyone thats done this know how to fix?

[slim barn]

Hey everyone, my avatars don't lip sync with the songs in the MMD worlds but the lips move when I talk, even during songs. Is there something that I'm missing when exporting from blender to unity? or something in Unity?

[shy drift]

You previously said you converted a PMX to fbx through blender, did you translate the blendshapes, are you using the JP named blendshapes as the visemes in Unity? If the MMD worlds require JP named blendshapes and you are using them for the visemes, that is most likely the problem. You should duplicate all of them in Blender and use the new ones as the visemes

or at the very least, try this to see if that fixes it

[slim barn]

Oh you mean having BOTH the EN and JP blendshapes? I translated the visemes with CATS. can I get them back by importing the pmx model and merging?

[shy drift]

If you did any editing of the model then the vertex order would be different and I don't know if you could or how to fix, you could just rename them yourself by matching them up, more time probably to do it that way, maybe less time than starting over with editing model

[slim barn]

at this point I'll try anything, thanks so much!

[slim barn]

The face animations in MMD still won't work after both EN and JP translations of the blendshapes. I've noticed most 3.0 avatars can't lip sync as well. I've talked to a creator who did make avatars that are comparable but they don't know what they did. Maybe something about the new SDK vs an old one?

[soft hatch]

Hey what framerate should you animate in? Or should I just animate it and then adjust the timing in unity?

[muted prairie]

30/60 is alright from my experience

[soft hatch]

Alright thanks!

[violet moss]

Can we please get this one looked into? On Index, hip translation doesn't show up remotely. Animations are locked in space when they should be walking around https://vrchat.canny.io/avatar-30/p/bugbuild-1004-avatars-30-emotes-on-index-do-not-have-root-transform-applied-prop

Action emotes as well

[hybrid merlin]

is it possible to make a poiyomi dissolve animation on a 2.0 avatar?

[potent grotto]

Sort of an animator/animation question;
Is there a variable I can tap into for how hard someone squeezes their grip on the Oculus Touch controllers?
I noticed on a lot of avatars it goes nice and smoothly if you go slow on the grip.
Was thinking if that was a parameter on the SDK already, if I could tap into it as an extra point of control in my locomotion

[half minnow]

Question which is the official way to convert mmd to animation? Actually I am using a Chinese converter on unity but I wanna ask if there are better methods now

[hollow gyro]

Hello there~ is this the right place to ask questions about dynamic bones? I'am looking for a similar method in UE4.. I read sth about PhAT, but there are so less tutorials (o x o). Does anyone know anything about it or has tips?

[violet moss]

Since Unreal has no use for VRChat I wouldn’t expect too many here to have any experience with it.

[sturdy jay]

Nested Sub-State Machines or Nested BlendTrees

any one can explain wut that means?

[violet moss]

Blend trees were one of the elements of the blend tree is an entirely different blend tree!

Similarly layers on a controller can have a node that represents an entirely different controller. Sort of like a box in a box

If you don’t know why you would want to make one, you probably don’t need one! :p

[fierce terrace]

i animated this........

and this......

[half minnow]

hi i got a issue with a animation basically is a mmd converted

but the animation include also a "fall" where character go down of 10 yard

i wanna delete this "fall" and prevent character go down

[half minnow]

that is a gun, not a mp4

[short tusk]

I’m making a quadruped avatar and I am thinking of using a generic rig rather that trying to use a humanoid one. Of course, I will have to use entirely self-made animations. Is this feasible?

[clear yew]

Here's an animation i is working for the hell of it still a heavily wip :3

[radiant ore]

Hello everyone! Not so long ago I faced the problem of choosing a theme for 3D motion video for my portfolio, after a long search I came across Oculus. I found it interesting to create a video for them, starting from the very beginning, from the very bottom, by polling the audience and talking with the fans of these devices in person.
Three weeks ago I started thinking about ideas, scenes and environments. Now I have a couple of sketches that I want to share with you and get your opinion on this. At this stage, everything still looks very damp, there are few details and elaboration, there is still a lot of work to be done! But I'm really very interested to hear your opinion!
In the first video (Gif 1 See below), I want to show that Oculus 2 has won the hearts of true fans of certain games and the gaming industry in general.
In the second draft (Gif 2, see below) I want to convey the idea that while at home you can be anywhere with the help of a virtual reality headset from Oculus, in this case I decided to show VRChat, a place where you can meet friends in virtual reality and have fun from the heart!
Your opinion is very interesting! This will give me an incentive to go further and develop the idea from other angles. Thanks to everyone who responded!

[muted prairie]

Very cool WIP !

[half minnow]

Supercoool

[plucky chasm]

looks amazing dude!

[radiant ore]

Thanksssss🥰

[blissful oak]

Anyone seen an issue where when on layer moves to another state, all the other current animations on that controller run again?

[nocturne osprey]

can anyone help me with my problem. am trying to make a toggle animation for 3.0 but when ever i try to toggle in game nothing happens?

[fallen thistle]

someone know grounded animation or particle like if touch the ground=play

[half minnow]

i would like to animate the "guy" inside the body, there is a tutorial for how do it?

[analog bronze]

🅱️ ictor

[grizzled plinth]

You will need armature for him specifically

Which is easier to do in blender

[short tusk]

How am I ever going to get any animation done when simply wiggling my rigged model around to play with inverse kinematics is so much fun?

[sterile sentinel]

the curse of the animation wigglies

[onyx copper]

Hi ! Is it possible to add some shapekeys to an avatar fbx without breaking existing animations ?

[proper carbon]

Hi I'm fairly new to making avatar animations but i was wondering if there was any documentation for doing something like summoning a persona or another character model and having it do its own animations

[frozen slate]

yes, all of that is by name. so if you add a shape with a new name you'll be fine. if you have any "reset" animations (to turn off all shape keys) you'd have to add it there, of course

[onyx copper]

thank you Ben. It makes sense

[near garnet]

how do you make a entrance animation? i tried to make one where i come in on a broom but when i played the animation in game my character was stood still but the broom was still doing what is supposed to

[frozen slate]

to take over your character's animation you either need to use (and fade up) the action layer, or you need to use the "animator tracking control" behavior to disable tracking (turn on animation) for the affected body partsa

[violet moss]

(Semi-biweekly whining that hips locked at origin in dance worlds when you have index controllers)

[short tusk]

So I have some animations baked in Blender, every transform for every bone keyed on every frame, etc. but in Unity and VRchat the bones twist and rotate haphazardly on certain frames and overall it looks a bit glitchy and terrible. Does it for both baked and unbaked animations.

[short tusk]

Why are the back legs doing that

Here it is at 1x speed

And this is what it looks like in Blender, how it is meant to look

I know the head movement difference is because Unity refuses to acknowledge the second neck bone.

But I don't know why the back legs go brbrbrbr

[tired veldt]

Does any1 have an animated Stand Idle pack they could send me?

[muted prairie]

When exporting/importing, make sure you're paying attention to the settings, a few of them remove keyframes and you end up weight this kind of issues

[twilit topaz]

whenever I deselect a gesture, the facial expression doesn't go away

this is how all my nodes and transitions are set up

[short tusk]

Yep I have made sure to look out for that too, I thought the simplification setting might’ve done it but disabling that didn’t seem to fix the issue.

[twilit topaz]

I fixed the expresion stacking thing (idk how), but now the gestures don't work on the left hand, even though it's set up exactly the same as the right hand

[teal cave]

I’m trying to make an animation in unity, but whenever I play it in vrchat, the sound comes on but the jaw doesn’t move?

[pearl quartz]

Is there anyway to get a facial animation from one character to another? i made an animation with software but the character doesnt have the blendshapes the software generated

[random nebula]

no particularly it's highly unlikely the two avatars share identical typology

which is a bit of a requirement for the blendshape transfer

[pearl quartz]

ffs

[violet moss]

Can I make a gameobject go invisible for myself, but not for others, and not for myself in a mirror?

[frozen slate]

possibly parent it to your head

might have to have a tiny amount of bone weight on the head?

[wary basin]

IsLocal parameter for 3.0 might help

[violet moss]

Yeah but it’s still invisible in mirrors. Wondering if you can get something that only appears in mirrors without a special shader

[slim barn]

I want to have a rotating halo on top of my avatars head but the transform values don't move the object. I've tried making a gameobject and moving the halo out of the avatar hierarchy into it but it still won't move. Is there something that I'm doing wrong? The values change but the object stays in place

[warm sleet]

How are you recording the movements in the animation tab for this object?

[slim barn]

I add the rotate transform parameters of the halo, start at 0, move the keyframe to 30 and z(or y or x) to 180 add a keyframe. I just never see any part of halo move...

[warm sleet]

If you go in the keyframes, does the changes you make reflect there?

[slim barn]

the numbers change in the panel but the object itself doesn't move.

[hasty spoke]

Saw an idle animation on an avatar where they curled up and did little front roll's in a circle. Can't find it on any sites sadly, any ideas? Or should I just try and make it myself (seems a little complicated for me though)

[twin epoch]

You can't move an avatar out of position with an animation while tracking is enabled, so it may be more difficult to get this to work the way you want than you might think

I have this forward rolling animation

Which I got from somewhere public, don't remember where

You can turn the avatar by 360/n degrees in the same direction between rolls n times and theoretically they should go back to the starting position, ignoring other difficulties

[sullen lance]

Unless by idle animation they meant AFK animation.

Then yeah, I have a public Rusk avatar fav'd that uses that kind of animation.

[hasty spoke]

Yeah afk is what I meant

I'll see if that one similar when I'm home

[ivory laurel]

Hi folks, I prepared a button with animation in blender, I'm trying to use them, but the button is now in my main avatar's armature:

So now I'm trying to change the "path" in the animation file

damn it's small as heck

but I changed it to what i think is the proper path, yet the animation doesn't play

Anyone got any clues on what could it possibly be?

I also changed the path for every "path" i could find in the .anim file

[frozen slate]

from the hierarchy it doesn't look like Button is in Bone.001, it's in Hand.L. But the easiest way to figure it out is to just animate any property on button in a new animation and check that file to see what the path should be

[pallid radish]

Hey, I've been trying to animate an object on my avatar so it rotates 180 degrees but no matter what I try, I keep getting unexpected results.

So far I've used rotation & position constraints with various configurations as well as animating the rotation properties and transforms of the object with both euler angle and quaternion interpolation.

A bit stumped as to what approach to take to accomplish this....

Made a couple clips of my settings and how it behaves in-game:

the victory gesture is supposed to turn on the flip animation, but in this case it just moves down a bit

[frozen slate]

parent constraint would do what you want. then make sure your flipper empty is facing the desired way. (if there's nothing to see because nothing is drawn, just mind the axis arrows).
also you don't need multiple constraints enabled/disabled. you can set multiple sources and then change (or even cross-fade) the sources with the animation

[mighty willow]

i have hierarchy editor if you still need help

[sturdy jay]

i been trying to work on animation and i put write defaults but it not turning off when the i change the parameters value

[median knoll]

whenever i try to edit the 0 number to 100, i cant change the number

its confusing

[chrome marten]

Hey guys does anyone know a good Patreon to buy crazy particle animations? I learn about things via dissection, would love some leads!

PLZ LMK!

[eternal nimbus]

yo, sorry to bother y'all, i don't like askin for help, but i cannot figure out how to make my custom prone animation stop breaking when it's idle.

when i move (as shown in the gif) the legs extend and the body rises out of the ground,(which is what it's supposed to always be) but when not moving it just sinks into the floor and breaks. avatar is 3.0.

(the preview in unity does not show it sinking in any animation, only in game)

[eager jetty]

Hey, I have a simple question - Is there a way in unity to make an animation's auto lerping between two keyframes roll over to the beginning of the animation again?

Right now I'm doing basically the following:
value: 0 -> 1 -> 0
while the first two keyframes move correctly (and curve over the 1 basically) the return to 0 does not take this curve into account to go back up to 1 afterwards.

Visual: (as you see at the end there's an abrupt motion, I want to get rid of that)

(Note: I'd like to avoid curve editing >< but worst case I guess that's the way to go..)

[compact marten]

if you right click a keyframe, you can change these

[half minnow]

any idea how to make a "toy" laser effect?

without using trails and performance friend

[mighty willow]

if you loop it properly i dont think there will be that abrupt motion https://i.imgur.com/RRGUHPx.gif

idk look at mine

[eager jetty]

I wonder.. I think one way would be to loop it in a state where linear translation is good enough. Might be a bit cheaty, but that's how you get perfect loops for music and seamless transitions for repeating textures, too so.. I might try that next time I get to work on it.
Thanks for the advice!

[mighty willow]

this is how it looks

its a perfect loop

[eager jetty]

Maybe I'll have to force it to recalculate somehow.. Worst case I'll have to look into the curves a little more.

[mighty willow]

why you make it sound so complicated xd

you just place funny boxes on the timeline animation in right order

[eager jetty]

If it worked out of the box I'd not have that much of an issue xd

some parts of the animation actually work smoothly as wanted, just really one part doesn't so I needa look into that.

[mighty willow]

https://i.imgur.com/8rzAijV.png

move your frames like this

so that where is the red line is empty space

its choppy because it moves too fast

if it moves slower it shouldnt

hmm i think i drew it poorly

basically instead of small space in the beginning

u do this

[half minnow]

questions. i make 4 character but i wanna add a dance animation where all 4 character will appaer, and dance, how i do it?

[sly quiver]

anyone know why when i preview an empty animation, it teleports the avatar hundreds of feet away?

[sturdy smelt]

which of these are the strafe and which on is left or right @muted prairie was told ya might now

[muted prairie]

R is right and L is left

[sturdy smelt]

thanks good sir also is there a turning animation

[muted prairie]

nope, it blends between the strafes

[storm moon]

how do I animate my hand such that it always stays at the side of my head?

like this, but where if I look straight up or down, the hand doesn't lag behind

[muted prairie]

You'd probably need to constraint a dummy arm bone to your head

[teal cave]

oh god

[storm moon]

By 'constraint' do you mean parent constraint? And where would the dummy bone be on the arm?

[muted prairie]

rotation constraints

they would be on the dummy bone that has the arm weight paint

your real arm bone wouldn't do anything

[merry cedar]

im having a problem where my animation works, it switches materials and objects in the animations in unity just fine but when i toggle it in vrchat it wont switch the materials, im working on 2019.4.31 and it worked just fine when it was uploaded on 2018 but now it wont work

[flint hatch]

so when i animate in unity my body tighens up, how do i stop this as thats fairly annoying

like i dont want my body to crunch together but still be able to have my preview

[muted prairie]

make a duplicate and animate on that instead

[flint hatch]

ah yes

thanks that should work just fine

[flint hatch]

ah great, toggles wont work and im clueless to why

[muted prairie]

You should get Lyuma's avatar 3.0 emulator, it helps for that a lot

[flint hatch]

Interesting

[flint hatch]

so the buttons work its just im guessing the transition or the animations themselves, i feel like i should of learnt this stuff awhile ago but laziness tends to defeat me

[storm seal]

how do i do character animations on pc

[flint hatch]

You can try making an animation in unity, YouTube is your friend

[storm seal]

dont some charatcers have pre set ones?

[flint hatch]

If you import them, yes

[storm seal]

i got a character from a character world how do i check if it has any

but what is the keybind for it anyway

on pc

@flint hatch

[flint hatch]

I’m not sure I’m the person to ask

I’m not able to do them at all lol

[storm seal]

really why?

[flint hatch]

I’m a noob at custom animations

[storm seal]

oh

do u know anyone that knows the keybind on pc?

[flint hatch]

Nope sadly

[quartz root]

Trying to use 4 dissolve animations to toggle 2 colors and 2 states using 2 bools each on a toggle. I can't figure out a method to have the color toggle only trigger when changing and my attempts at a solution are getting ridiculous.

Another version of the same problem is having an avatar spawn into a state and only play a related animation when the toggle is then changed

For example the first 2 would be single frame color changes where the second two would be the animation

[dawn verge]

I've tried so many things, I have 1 of two choices... the Return Doors animation remains aniamted on it's last frame as it should but if so I cannot enable any other animations here.
Or, I can have the Return door in an infinite loop and enable other animations.. Anyone know a fix?

[raw dune]

Some progress on anims.

[compact marten]

very nice

using bones I hope? :p

[raw dune]

[Sweats}

Y-yeah. bones.

[Hides shpekeys]

[compact marten]

:thonk:

I can show you how to do it with bones, like how every shooter game does it

[raw dune]

No, yeah, it's set up for it, and I'll have to do it that way

[compact marten]

from valorant

[raw dune]

ye

I just hate importing animations to unity. But I should.

[compact marten]

kek

[raw dune]

Especially since this is all going to be joined to the main model, and shapekeys are ass for that.

[Realization that I have to make hand poses and constraint setups]

[compact marten]

kek

wish I could use custom emoji

[raw dune]

Im tempted to try to learn finalIK, and set up a proper two hand grip controlled by the main hand.

[compact marten]

don't even need final IK for that, but perhaps you could use it

[raw dune]

Oh?

[compact marten]

you typically use an Aim constraint

well, a parent constraint + aim constraint

setup consists of 3 empty objects as targets:

• back
• right hand
• left hand

gun by default is at 0,0,0

gun is parented to an empty of its own

(so that you can adjust its position)

parent constraint on the gun empty is set to weight 1 for the "back" target by default

when you want to grab it with one hand, you change it to be weighed to the right hand

to do a 2 handed grip, you enable an Aim constraint on the gun so that it points towards the target on the left hand

[raw dune]

Right, but I want the pistol grip hand to not control the gun position; irl, you mostly drive the rifle with shoulder and front hand.

So, it'd be parented to front hand, aimed at shoulder.

And back hand has animation/ik overrideen to IK to the pistol grip.

[compact marten]

the position can be controlled by both hands

but if your right hand is steady, it's controlled by the left hand

when the aim constraint is active, it's always pointing to the left hand anyways, so the left hand controls where you're aiming

the downside is that the left hand can slide

and ruins the effect a little

so in that case, you'd need finalIK to fix that

[raw dune]

Here, video demo. When you run a rifle, the actual main points of control are your shoulder and offhand, your dominant hand only really does minor stuff and runs the trigger. I wanna set up that the main hand is IK driven, when the offhand is gripping (gesture) and then transition to a more standard constraint setup when held only in main hand.

Yes, this is absolutely not necessary. Lmao

[opal wadi]

Yo guys how do we use alembic file VRChat? any work around?

[muted prairie]

Convert them to VAT

File size will be insane FYI

[opal wadi]

thank @muted prairie it would be amazing if u could share how to convert alembic to VAT.

[muted prairie]

https://github.com/Gaxil/Unity-AlembicToVAT

[opal wadi]

@muted prairie thanks!

[granite vector]

Hello! This bug has been driving me crazy. Found your post while looking for a workaround. Before I rope some friends into testing yet again, does your workaround work if I leave "eyes & eyelids" as tracked in VRC Animator Control? Or does it need to be a body part that's tracked with a controller/tracker?

[violet moss]

No.

It needs a body part that would actually effect its appearance in network ik

It is not an a useful workaround in nearly any situation except AFK poses which shut off tracking anyway

[granite vector]

Ah 😦

I see, thank you

[violet moss]

I did post a test avatar showing the problem at Ruuubik’s request, hope it gets internally verified as a bug. It’s one of my biggest nags. I’m considering getting a headset other than index just so people see my dances correctly

If only it was not remote only, everyone would be complaining

People just don’t know they look broken

[granite vector]

Hm, I guess I could try leaving only fingers tracked.. but that still wouldn't be ideal.
Yes, I observed the problem in my sdk2 world sometime last year I think. In a station with sitting animation overrides. I had the dances working fine initially, and then the bug appeared in some update, but no idea which one it was. I was hoping the issue would be gone when I switched to sdk3, but nope.

[violet moss]

Enabling finger tracking won’t do anything

It has to be head or hands, or if Fullbody, hips and legs also work

[granite vector]

oh, I thought that would be included with network IK

right, that makes sense

[violet moss]

Like I said it’s a useless workaround. I was just pointing it out to try and sluth what the cause is

My best theory is that there’s just a different IK state when you have all IK sources set to animation that has the bug

[granite vector]

yeah not useable for us, but it's a starting point for them to identify the cause at least

[violet moss]

Maybe @muted prairie would have insight.
Gonna risk the ping

[muted prairie]

We're aware of the bug, but doesn't have a very high priority at all, so can't give an ETA on a fix

[violet moss]

Hey! Aware of it is more than I assumed so that’s good by me

[granite vector]

yes, glad you are aware at least

[violet moss]

@granite vector horizontal motion doesn’t seem play remotely at all. Vertical (Z) root movement does seem to play remotely but it is scaled by some amount. I have been trying to figure out the exact amount, just so the animation can be “fixed” by playing a different animation for only remote users that is of a different height. Of course that will all break when the bug gets fixed

And it only works in the case of animations that only need to modify Z height

Walkaround dances are unfixable

[opal wadi]

I keep getting this error @muted prairie

[granite vector]

hmm, I hadn't noticed the vertical height being wrong myself, just the horizontal motion. I suppose the vertical could also be fixed by changing the root motion offset instead of a different animation altogether. But yeah, my dances have walkaround and similar stuff

[muted prairie]

follow the steps in the github repo

[violet moss]

Tried it, no difference

[granite vector]

oh, that's really weird

[opal wadi]

@muted prairie Turns out its the VRC SDK3 causing issues. If I remove the sdk it works fine... I guess I will jz have to import the converted file?

[muted prairie]

You should do this in your project yeah, you only need the shader and texture in your actual project

[opal wadi]

Got it thanks again

[opal wadi]

How do you destroy game object using button in world SDK-3 ?

[opal wadi]

Send help plz : (

[sterile sentinel]

#world-development message - don't need to post in multiple channels o:

[opal wadi]

didnt find solution yet :''(

[shadow knot]

Can someone help me with a tail wag animation using 2.0?

[opal wadi]

@muted prairie cud u help with this plz?

[muted prairie]

That would be a question for #udon-general

[haughty mesa]

Can anyone help me figure out how to make it so that when I hold the trigger down my avatar is animated? I'm looking to do like a human torch type flame hands thing thanks

[dawn verge]

My avatars default blinking animation on the animator doesn't work in VRchat but works in Unity, whats up with it?

[chilly kernel]

how would i go about making animation thats speed is based on your locomotion speed?

basically how fast you move would set the animation an sound speed. being able to rewind/forward it

i mean maybe even just the speed of the animation

actually lemme rephrase this. how do i make animation with sound thats speed is controlled by speed youre moving

[muted prairie]

#avatar-help would have more answers

[chilly kernel]

alright ill ask there thankies

[ebon heron]

I got a weird question, its more of an audio question but there isnt a channel for that.
I am trying to time an animation to very precise frames to match an audio clip I put together in Audacity... The unity animation editor does 60fps but Audacity doesnt seem to have the ability to display timecodes in anything but 24, 25, 75fps... Does anyone know a way to see a wave form, click on a specific spot and see what frame that would be in 60fps?

[lament light]

||https://youtu.be/yd2b5PoFQp8||

custom script to add a audio waveform under your animation window

makes it easier for hand animations

i use it all the time 😉

[ebon heron]

oh god brilliant thank you

I ended up slowing the audio down in audacity to match the 60fps but this looks much better

[lament light]

yea comes in handy when keyframing to music

good luck brother! 👍

[ebon heron]

oh boy that much more complicated than my simple reload animation

[lament light]

lol

[ebon heron]

omg this is amazing

thank you so much lol

banging my head against google trying to find the best way to do this for like 3 hours

[quick oasis]

I've set a custom objects mesh for my particle systems renderer while set to mesh mode and it doesn't render anything, i've tried scaling and everything nothing shows up. However it does show the mesh when i set it as a shape. Any ideas?

apparently having any object with any sort of insets is the cause, or it could be the seam i marked maybe, unsure but i've removed both and it now renders

[ivory atlas]

im having trouble with the outfit toggle i have

i would like them to not fade in from start

right now im using dissolve

is there a way to have the animation run from 0 > 1

and not 1 > 0

i tried -1 in the value but it makes it get stuck

o wait

ya im lost

[ivory atlas]

for some reason just testing an animation is breaking it for the model when its toggles worked before

im about to lose my mind

so animation decided it wanted to be normal again now the toggle is not working

no changes made other than entering and exiting play mode

[tulip vale]

anyone have this idle?

[echo wraith]

My 3.0 toggles are acting like an old 2.0 inventory system on my avatar. If someone looks away it won't untoggle the previous prop. Anyone know what could cause this? It works if they're looking at me.

[agile fulcrum]

Hey all. Would anyone know if it’s possible to use the pens to write on objects instead of air and if there’s a tutorial for it? I’d like to have a sketchbook obj for my avatar and a white board for my world

[echo wraith]

I fixed it, simply had to make all the toggle on animations toggle everything else off. I usually do that but I guess it was just late.

[digital lichen]

I've seen a model in some worlds that has a Magnetic Drawing board. It's pretty cool, but I have no idea how it's done. Possibly look in that direction to see how that creator did it?

[agile fulcrum]

Thanks

[chrome marten]

How many particles is too many?

I heard stay under 1 Million by someone

but thats all I know rn

idk anything about optimization of particles but I know how to use and make them well

[fiery pulsar]

anyone know where to find a certain animation...? I dont know where to find it nor its name but i know its a standing idle. Its cute and give a shy appearance. sometimes the hans goes in front of the face

this one? TuT

[clear yew]

It’s on YouTube on a downloadable list of packages in a tutorial

[tulip vale]

wow thanks, time to search all of youtube! got any specific videos?

[clear yew]

Yes actually you probably came across something like this before but it’s in the 60+ one that you can install for free the link—> https://www.ask-amber.com/downloads

[tulip vale]

kk thanks

[clear yew]

No problem and good luck

[violet moss]

bone break sounds

[slate silo]

So every time i add the fx layer, the gesture layer just disappears and I'm extremally confused

[quick geyser]

Hello I have been working on a project, I finished the modeling and rigging, I also managed to make quite a few animations already, however I have been having a really hard time getting the controllers to work how I intend them too. If anyone could dm me if they think they could help it would be greatly appreciated.

[lavish scaffold]

You can post your issue/problem here. People who know about it will help you with it. I dont think many are comfortable with DMs.

[quick geyser]

Its somewhat difficult to explain without showing. Basically the vr sdk3 controllers are not working, I can get a basic animator controller to work though, but for some reason the base layer and action layers will just straight up not work. I made an expression, and it literally showed up in the menu, but when I hit play it wouldn't play, despite the animation working in unity.

The controllers themselves are not working for some reason, but if I just use a basic blend. to control my animations they work just fine in vr chat. I can't understand what im doing wrong, but I must of tried over 30 times to get this thing to work.

[half minnow]

question what is the official way to convert a mmd to anim?

[violet moss]

Is there a work-around to temporarily disable blinking on AV3 without disabling eye tracking?

[flat wolf]

anyone know Japanese and know how to setup toggle menus and setup finger/facial gestures?

animation and other languages is not my best so i wanted to ask if anyone can help me on a screen share

[noble shell]

I dont use cats blinking, only blendshapes so thats easy to stop, just detect something turn off the animation

[violet moss]

All right that’s a good point so my next question is is there a way to detect when the avatar would have system blinked and then choose to play your own or not?

[tardy oasis]

When i enter a submenu on my 3.0 radial menu, an animation activates and doesnt turn off till i leave the menu

any idea on what causes this?

[tardy oasis]

nvm i give up, 3.0 is dogshit lmfao

[hardy bolt]

Is it possible to make a toggle sitting animation for an avatar and still be able to move the hands? i just want to sit on the grounds and still be able to move the arms like i was standing

[dull ridge]

Is there something missing?

it became like this after I tried w/ the other animation

[violet moss]

Yes. you'd use animation tracking control to disable the IK on your lower body, play a sitting animation, and also activate temporary pose space so the camera moves down to your new head position.

(there is currently a long-standing bug where temporary pose space won't activate if you have fullbody - so these features only work with non-fullbody)

[molten mirage]

Tried creating an animation a few months back, couldn't get the timing right for it to repeat. Anyone know what I can use to see exact time on a video to time in unity? Because unity does by 60 frames while videos go by 100ms.

[graceful wave]

Got a question, does anyone have a link to an easy 3.0 animator tutorial to make a pistol/firearm for an avatar? At the moment I have some issues where the sound is a bit less than desirable and non interruptible, and the slide on the pistol is messy.

[earnest lagoon]

So I’m creating an avatar with toggleable wings that, when the wings are toggled on, are supposed to have an idle animation.
When I put the idle on a gesture layer with a full mask out and put aanother full mask out on the FX layer, everything works fine.
When I set up the toggle on the FX layer, it doesn’t work unless I remove the mask out. However when I remove the mask, the toggle works, but the idle animation is broken
Is there a way to both get the toggle and the idle to work?

[violet bramble]

im having a serious issue with an audio toggling animation
basically because animators dont update off screen the running sound of my avatar never gets toggled off if i run behind someone
even if i stop running it will not stop playing on their end untill i get back into their view

nobody has notably complained about this before now so i do not know when it started being a problem
needless to say this could be a genuine bother and i really need to find a fix or workaround for this
any help would be seriously appreciated as im on a bit of a deadline on this one

[gilded trout]

Anyone know how to fix this?

[muted prairie]

You add an animator component to the top object

[night crown]

anyone with the gun hold idle animation pls?

[molten blaze]

Any idea why the animator doesn't play when the player enters the trigger collider?

[molten blaze]

Never mind, I got it, but the animator sort of loop back once when it was played. The loop is checked off. It's only played once, but it would loop back once when it was played. How do I fix this?

[dawn verge]

So I put a blendshape on a pedestal to raise up the player via animation but the collider and mesh just raise inside the player rather than raising them up.
What's the trick to this?

[arctic kernel]

I need help, I literally cannot figure out how to make two animations combined in blender whilst having the second animation not snap back to its original location

It’s really frustrating and I have no idea why it’s doing it

[soft hatch]

Hey how many animations are needed to replace every animation (Not counting emotes)? I'm working on a character that doesn't have completly humanoid anatomy so I need to animate everything by myself.

[pseudo crystal]

I'm trying to use FinalIK with a spider avatar and I'm trying to get auto foot stepping to work, but I can't seem to get the feet to step along the plane. I have a grounder set to the default layer and tested on a plane and it does ground itself properly, but no auto foot stepping. What components do I need to use for auto stepping?

guess I can just animate some IK followers

[half minnow]

question, which is the correct way to convert a mmd dance?

i am using a tool on unity but it don't convert mouth and eyes

[ionic wren]

@slim barn did you ever fix this? My MMD blendshapes only work in dance worlds with my custom FX layer removed, but I...NEED my custom FX layer.

[thick crypt]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/730948173379535022/901213599119339591/unknown.png

So, got this issue while trying to scale portions of an avatar with animations.

[soft hatch]

Oh never scale any animation! I know it would make things easier but the issue is that you only scale the model, not the other animations, meaning all your movements would either smush or stretch out.

I know it sucks, trust me I study this and I want to so bad sometimes but if you could you would mess up the entire animation

[thick crypt]

No no I'm trying to use it to make sliders for models in VRChat.

Like, scaling specific parts.

[soft hatch]

What types of parts are we talking about here?

[soft hatch]

Because depending on what you want to scale you might be able to rig it so that part doesn't have to be a humanoid rig

[thick crypt]

I feel like if it's diving into NSFW territory I should take this to DM's.

[soft hatch]

It's fine. Hop into my DMs and we can figure it out

[clever plover]

You can't directly animate any bones used in a humanoid rig in Unity. You have to animate the muscle groups. You would also get that warning if you tried to manually rotate, or move a humanoid bone.

[thick crypt]

How do I animate the muscle groups instead...? Is there a way to do that?

[clever plover]

Under the animator component when you add a property, there'll be a lot of options to animate a humanoid rig (if the rig is set as humanoid)

[clear yew]

how to add a custom animation in sdk 3 i am totally lost all the tutorials i found are outdated and use CustomOverrideEmpty which doesn't exist anymore

[thick crypt]

Right.

[soft hatch]

Hey I'm trying to get an animation into unity but something screwed up along the way? The top part of the character moves just fine but not the bottom half. Here's what it look like in blender

And this is how it looks in unity

[tardy sedge]

are animations (such as custom gestures) not able to be made in unity? i get the keyframe warning

[clever plover]

You cannot directly animate bones used in a humanoid rig in Unity. Instead, you have to animate the muscles group properties under the animator component.

[tardy sedge]

How do I go about doing that? If there is a helpful video or link, please tell me~

[clever plover]

When you go to add a property to an animation, expand the main animator component, and then select the appropriate property (for hand gestures, the finger groups (yes there are a lot of them))

[tardy sedge]

Oh, so you add a property instead of manually moving the body

Too bad I can't just modify the proxy_hands, even a duplicate is all grayed out

[tardy sedge]

so i tried that, but after i hit record and move the finger manually on a different frame, it resets once i stop recording, undoing all the work I did

still says the same keyframe error after following those steps

[clever plover]

You can’t move the bones at all, you have to adjust the values under the animator’s properties

[tardy sedge]

Yeah I went under armature in the animator properties, unless there was "muscle group" I didn't see it.

[raw dune]

Anyone have ideas on how to animate tank treads or chainsaws?

Plotting a new avii

[clever plover]

The muscle groups are more theoretical collections of the movements that a person can do.
Here's some examples of the names of them.

[tardy sedge]

ohhh it's named animator. I was only grabbing armature in there based off of youtube tutorials

[raw dune]

Can additive layers effect tracked limbs? I want to add some recoil/secondary motion without adding fakebones.

[hollow bobcat]

Is it possible to have my avatar's chin bone mapped only during an animation? his face is connected to his chin bone and I want use it only for animations. Problem is that I can't have his chin bone mapped otherwise I'd have an avatar who has his mouth always open. Is there a way when I toggle the animation it'll use his face animations that I have on the animation file?

Without the chin mapped I would have a face that isn't doing anything and is just using his default face, this is with his face animations and I want to use them.

[night crown]

does anyone have like a dj performing animation file?
i couldnt find one in maximo

[proven talon]

???

[soft hatch]

Is it possible to have two animation clips going at the same time? I'm trying to animate a non humanoid part of my character and I can't figure out how to do it

Nevermind I'm dumb

No okay I'm not dumb in that way is there any way to edit animation in unity?

[pseudo crystal]

Is it possible to override the entire IK system used for a humanoid rig so that local defined takes precedence over VRChat's?

[tardy sedge]

Is there a list of parameters for the animator for muscle groups depicting generic things (like fingers straight, or the default gestures?)

[violet moss]

Yes. If you provide your own finalIK components.

I believe that is not a free asset

But it is whitelisted

[hollow bobcat]

Okay so to make my question a bit easier to understand, can you have the chin bone mapped on animations only, is that possible?

[violet moss]

If you want to manually animate a bone don’t bind it as Humanoid

Keep the chin bone unbound and then you can animate it

[hollow bobcat]

@violet moss Well actually the animations are already done, body animation does it’s job but face animation with that body animation doesn’t work.

Face doesn’t do anything and it isn’t a facial expression either, but when I bounded the chin bone it does work with the animation hence when I’m asking if there’s a way to have that chin bone bounded only when I toggle an animation.

[hollow bobcat]

@violet moss What can I do from here? The animations for body and face are already in but the face animations uses face bones to make them work.

Isn’t there a way to only have the chin bone bound to the avatar when that animation plays?

[violet moss]

I assume you want this for viseme’s with voice chat or do you want it for something else

If so you said the viseme mode to “viseme parameter only”

Make a controller paramter called int Viseme

It will be 0 when not speaking and 1 to 14 for the various vowels and consonants sounds, so make a condition to play different animations for a few or all of those values

[hollow bobcat]

Oh it’s just for an animation toggle, that goes with that body animation. So here’s the animation I’m putting on my avatar from 0:23 to 0:37 https://youtu.be/d1_T37_iIks

That’s the body animation with the facial animation which is the result I want. Not for when I’m talking

Already got visemes taken care of for my avatar. This facial animation is going to be something completely different.

Pretty much just for show for when I trigger that animation toggle.

@violet moss So as you can see here, it’s possible for the face animation to work because this is what it would look like with the chin bone bounded on the avatar which is part of the whole animation.

(I hope this makes a bit more sense😅)

Without that chin bone bounded, his mouth would close and his face would just be blank haha

[tardy sedge]

So I made animations, followed tutorials to add it to gestures, yet it either does nothing or does half of what it shows in unity preview

[upper bone]

how does one go about an animation where i want to lets say, hold a lolipop in my hand by doing a gesture. do i just add that to the gesture animation?

[silver tendon]

is there a converter somewhere that adds the basic animations for you? Not sure if I ask here but I cant find a video on how to make an avatar ready for vrchat basic animation wise

[main moth]

For some reason, after I import animation from blender, there are some rotation problem

[muted prairie]

what import settings do you have ?

[main moth]

Foot is what I have issue rn

I'm tring to figure out how can I record gif

I tried mess with every setting in the import setting

[muted prairie]

Open "Import messages" in the first window

[main moth]

I tried turn on translation DOF. didn't help

[muted prairie]

wtf is that clip name lol

Did you bake the animation in blender before exporting ?

[main moth]

Yes I did

Most animation works fine

But a few is having issues

I'm pretty sure unity tried to convert rotation system

[muted prairie]

What were your bake settings ?

[muted prairie]

ah so you didn't change the default

Alright you'll have to bake action first

[main moth]

Oh I have apply transform on

[muted prairie]

once you've baked the action correctly, you can move sampling rate and simplify all the way down on export

[main moth]

Where can I bake action?

[muted prairie]

typing bake action in search

[main moth]

k thx

I think I might know why it's having this issues now

The original animation is 30 fps but exported fbx retargeted it for 25

[muted prairie]

You can change that in the blender scene settings

[main moth]

Yes but it doesn't actually fix it. it interpolate 25 to 30 for me I think

I just manually scale the animation

[muted prairie]

Should probably reimport with the correct frame rate then, otherwise it's asking for artifacts

[main moth]

Yea

Well, time to re process all animation

This is what I got from import

Change it to 30 doesn't realign the keys

[muted prairie]

Where is the animation from ?

If it's mixamo it should be 30, and can be imported in Unity directly

[main moth]

From noesis

Which fixes fbx frame rate to 25 for some reason

[muted prairie]

Welp, might get away with it by setting the framerate back at 25 in unity as well ?

[main moth]

I will just process them in blender. I had to do them anyways

For some reason unity is still getting 14 frames

Is the correct export setting?

[muted prairie]

How many keyframes do you have on import ?

in blender

#animation message

[main moth]

I'm so confused lol. Something is majorly wrong

My code reading the raw animation told me there are 16 frames

I got 15 in blender

And unity got 14

👍

[muted prairie]

might be due to the simplify and sampling rate defaults

[main moth]

lol

I will check what's happening between each transition

Thanks

[main moth]

I fixed the framerate issue but the problem remains

I tried to bake action but it seems just removes my animation completely

Actually I think I got it to bake

But unity still has weird rotation issues

[chrome marten]

Does anyone offer a controller cleanup and modernization comissions?

I have a jungle

[main moth]

oof

[muted prairie]

Is it very visible in the curve view ? As in if it's something you can manually fix or if there would be too much to do

[main moth]

Yea

[muted prairie]

If it's a few keyframes, might be faster manually fixing tbh

[main moth]

I have 344 animation clips

I would rather figure out why

[muted prairie]

Is any transform name in yellow in the animation tab ?

[main moth]

Nope

[muted prairie]

what do the Q and T for the foot mean ?

[main moth]

Quaternion and Translation I think

I tried to set up constraints in blender, no luck

I think just delete twist works but I need to compare the animation

[muted prairie]

If it has its own quaternion that might be problematic since it's supposed to be converted to euler ?

[main moth]

How unity animation works is beyond me now. I’m gonna give up for now and work on other parts

[celest plover]

Hey question What Animation Formats can VRChat use? (SMD, FBX or another i don't know)

[muted prairie]

whatever can be imported by unity

[celest plover]

Ok to FBX?

In that case, how do i convert .SMD to .FBX?

[clear yew]

Does anyone know like a specific site or seller for already animated guns? (I'm looking for guns that already have a shooting animation but I have no clue where to even look for them)

[raw dune]

Is there a way for bone rotation to drive a parameter?
I've looked, seems unlikely, but I'm double checking

[raw dune]

I'm actually just about to clean up my Hegao P10R as a standalone with animations.

[clear yew]

is there away to fix this i have an emote for my model that makes the main model dance and then makes other models also apear doing the same dance but the other models are always frozen locally and im not sure how to fix it

[pseudo crystal]

If the animation is affecting humanoid bones, they have to have their muscles affected and not affecting bones in the humanoid rig

[summer spruce]

I really want to join the animation squad lol. I think we need more animators in the VRChat community.

Yall's animations look amazing. 👍

[lone venture]

I started talking about this in #shaders but I think it fits here better. Shift + F8 animation shows up fine on Unity and VRC Quest, but not VRC PC

It's not the FX file since debug says it's working

Never mind there was a blend shape oversight

[muted prairie]

I'd recommend Lyuma's AV3 emulator to test things more easily in editor

[clear yew]

does anyone know how to fix this only my middle avi starts dancing for me but for anyone else they can see everything moving and then i can only see the front side avis moving when i move my veiw in game either up or down just right

everything else seems to stay frozen locally unless like i said if i move my head up or down just right then the front two on the side will move

[muted prairie]

@hollow fjord This channel is meant for character animation, not 2D You can ask for feedback in #shameless-self-promotion

[hollow fjord]

Well I wouldn't exactly put it that way. But Ok.

[violet moss]

Unity animations are pretty straightforward it’s only the humanoid muscles that are confusing

Humanoid is like one level abstracted from it all

[summer spruce]

How do I create an animation? No good tutorials online-

Do I really got to go in and change EVERY NUMBER, just to make an animation?
Or is there a way to basically click and move body parts, then put it on the time frame.

[muted prairie]

You enable recording and then move things around on the bones directly

[summer spruce]

Ohhh

That helps so much-

=w=

[tardy sedge]

anyone know how to use shaders to make an object appear/disappear as a flat plane passes through it?

[muted prairie]

#shaders ?

[tardy sedge]

im blind xD

[clear yew]

How can I but animation on my avatar?.

[flat wolf]

Anyone know how the ghostly mamagen animations work? im having a hard time trying to change the idle crouch and prone

[flat wolf]

or rather any animation work related to the 3 aside from the model

[tardy sedge]

Is it possible to make an object play animation on awake?

[muted prairie]

what kind of on awake are you referring to

[tardy sedge]

like my avatar hides itself in an animation, then unhides another rigged humanoid to dance

[muted prairie]

Well if you toggle a gameobject with an animator then it'll play its animation

[tardy sedge]

I've tried pasting the keyframes from the pre-made animation into my avatar's animation, but it moves the musculature of the main avatar, not the 2nd one

it has an animator and animation, but in the main animation, it is frozen on the first frame

is there a setting in the controller for that

oh nevermind it works fine, the preview doesn't allow for full-body animation previews

[tardy sedge]

is there a way to make the blendshape lipsync to audio source?

[muted prairie]

You would have to set that up in unity yourself afaik

[tardy sedge]

ah, so either manually via animator+blenshapes or via a self-made script that would export keyframes in an anim file. Oof. I will scour for pre-made scripts. Thanks for your help!

[clear yew]

Is it possible to animate dynamic bone?

[sour gust]

dynamic bone is a script. You can animate bones, cheanging materials , particle system, rotation, scale, position, toogle some objects and manny more.

[sour gust]

Another question i am trying to fit already existing particle system in my avatar, but the particle (2D shield) is too big for him. Is there an option to resize or make the rendered shield smaller?????

plis ping me

[lament light]

particle system has a "Start Size"

[raw dune]

Do we have a good guide on importing animations from blender to unity humanoid?

[muted prairie]

You'll have to remove all scale channels from unity manually though

and this in unity

Then you can duplicate the anim out of the model

[sick loom]

I am having animation problems as well

I made some idle animations for my tail and I am trying to export them to unity

I export them on the same model that I intend to use in game

In this window the animation plays fine and looks correct

but If I actually look at the keyframes of the animation none of the bone transforms are there

and if I put the animation on a model in my scene it doesnt animate the tail like it should

[mellow lava]

Without like, really reading over what you posted because I'm tired and lazy. Why not just do the animation in Unity? A tail wag animation is exceedingly easy to do. Just create a new animation, enter record mode, and move the tail left then right and set the animation to loop.

[sick loom]

because I am not hand animating wiggle physics

blender let me bake my wiggle physics

[muted prairie]

Make sure to disable the compression and keyframe resampling

[sick loom]

@muted prairie where is keyframe resampling located?

[muted prairie]

Should be above, unsure why it isn't for you

[sick loom]

@muted prairieTurns out it was because the animation was on the same FBX that I was using for my avatar

I think the fact that its rig was set to humanoid ignored those bones in the animation because they werent part of the humanoid configuration

once I set it to generic it works

[muted prairie]

That makes sense

[sick loom]

kinda upsets me that I have to import the same fbx twice just to use an animation with it

thank you ❤️

yea seems to be working well now

[cursive spear]

Damn, I have a super similar question... I can't get my 3.0 tail wag animation to work. The animation plays fine in the animator; but not when I try to "run" my avi. Trying everything, I'm probably making a simple mistake, but I'm not sure where I've gone wrong.

I posted my question in Avatar Rigging...

[cosmic timber]

yo been having a problem with my animations on my model that i havent been able to figure out for like 2 days straight, most of the animation plays correctly in vrchat but the limbs wont pose correctly. Kinda fairly new on this stuff

[clear yew]

Alright question - is there some sort of rule I should follow when using animations from online on my personal model?

I don't want to break my model with animations that are incompatible, so would I just have to rework them or should they work out of the box?

[tardy sedge]

inside unity, if you click on the .anim file in the assets, you can then click and drag your avatar over to preview the animation to see if it works with it.
If you are afraid of breaking your model, only use the animation on a duplicate of your model.

[agile coral]

Does anyone w]know of a way to have an object with its own animation controller work on your avatars animation controller. I got an object with an idle-> active-> idle_2 animation loop. I would like to know if there's a way to toggle the animation loop on the other model from my own (Edit: I forgot to set the weight to one in the layers tab it works now)

[gloomy valve]

does anyone have the free time to explain the process of making a custom animation for vrchat?like mixamo i dont think i can import them anymore

[muted prairie]

why can't you ?

[wanton haven]

So blender question. If I want a specific animation frame to be where the model parts are even after the skeleton is removed, how would I do that? I have a door that is animated, but I don't need the animation and apparently skinned mesh renders do not like lighting, because I'm getting this after baking, even with generate UV on

[clear yew]

i imported a .anim i made and unity just says its corrupted and i click it and i cant change the rig type or anything any ideas how to import a .anim correctly?

[muted prairie]

imported from ?

[clear yew]

blender in a .anim file

from

[muted prairie]

Did you bake the action into the fbx in blender before exporting ?

[clear yew]

not using an fbx trying to put an animation in to a chair in a weorld

so just the .anim file

[muted prairie]

What are you exporting from blender then

[clear yew]

a .anim file

the camera icon tab animation export you can export a .anim

[muted prairie]

Can you screenshot that ?

[clear yew]

o 1 sec

https://gyazo.com/4a20479ecd66a3ec80ae0cbcbbee3747

that one

[muted prairie]

Ok that's a completely different system that has nothing with object animation

It's for image animation

To export an object animation from blender it needs to be exported with an object

[clear yew]

a .anim works in secondlife as a 3d animaiton why not unity?

and the vrc aniamtions that come in the sdk are .anim

just not understanding why mine wont work

[muted prairie]

Because they're entirely different programs ?

Select the object you're animating, export it, there's an animation export option in the bottom right corner

[clear yew]

the one in blender?

[muted prairie]

Yes

[clear yew]

ok thank you

[ember surge]

Hi all, I created an avatar using Ready Play Me and imported the FBX directly into Unity. In the inspect window I switched it to humanoid. I then applied a Mixamo animation to it (Orc Idle), however, the animation looks like the avatar's foot are sliding/floating, is there a way to fix this? Thanks for your time!

[opal wadi]

I have a prefab (exported form Houdini) that needs Houdini engine for unity to animate. Will the prefab work in VRChat ? 🤔

[lone venture]

Trying to animate with a sound clip, but I don't know how to turn on audio scrubbing in Unity 2019

[timid coral]

Idk what chat to post this on I have one in avatar help but this also is a animation help so is it okay I ask a question here and maybe someone can help?

[muted prairie]

https://youtu.be/1yLgICxIEYw

[muted prairie]

yes

[timid coral]

So I have this avi that works as a generic rig but does not animate when I switch it to humanoid it tells my the hirarchy of my spine is missing an element and I need to rig my chest, the model was made exactly from a humanoid Avi just modified and it has everything to be humanoid like feet, chest, head, spine bones, but I can't figure out how to "map" the chest or to get the avitar to work in either humanoid or generic, hopefully maybe one of you can help me :<

[lone venture]

I don't see a timeline tab tho

[muted prairie]

Did you download the asset ??

[timid coral]

What do you mean asset 🤔

[muted prairie]

That's for the person above

[timid coral]

Oh

[muted prairie]

For your spine problem you just need to click the configure button in the rig tab

[timid coral]

Let me try

[lone venture]

What asset?

[muted prairie]

the one mentioned in the video and the video description ?

[lone venture]

Oh that one

[timid coral]

@muted prairie omg that's the page I was trying to get too thank you so much I'll let you know if it worked :)

[muted prairie]

also you're not right clicking the correct button, animation tab isn't the cog

[lone venture]

How am I supposed to find a cog with no timeline?

[muted prairie]

I'm pretty sure that's what the triple dot button is

[lone venture]

The picture was me clicking the three dots

[timid coral]

@muted prairie it worked thank you so much I was working on that for like 5 hours last night :) ❤️

[lone venture]

I'm still completely lost. I added the assets and nothing

[muted prairie]

It's in timeline, not animation window

[lone venture]

I still can't hear anything

[muted prairie]

Maybe requires to be in play mode ?

[lone venture]

Wait I forgot to add the Klak Audio Preview

I managed to get scrubbing in the animation tab, but now I can't see my model

Wait nvm

[lone venture]

It won't let me hit the little record button

[lone venture]

I still need help

Okay that fixed it thank you

[nocturne knot]

Hi! Nice to see there's an official place where I can get some help. I'm having some problems to make my animations work

I have two animations that I want to run on entry state. Both show perfectly in Unity when I preview them, but not on VRChat. Would anyone know why is this or where could I search for the solution? (I'm new into Unity)

[pastel gazelle]

How would i be able to set the swords child to the chest only while GestureRightFist is false

And then back to the wrist when GestureRightFist is true ofc

[inland cypress]

instead of placing your animation controller directly on the animator in the inspector, place the controller in the FX layer in the avatar descriptor

[nocturne knot]

Oh yeah! It was exactly that!

@sour gust helped me with that! I'm gonna share the solution on the vrchat forum post

Thank you! ^^

[sour gust]

The simpliest way to do IT . Record 2 animatorom on 1 sword on back on the second sword in the hand and make the transition. @pastel gazelle

[pastel gazelle]

Or use constraints

cheaper

found that out a few hours ago

[clear yew]

i think i asked for help in wrong place oop but the shader only works in mirrow anyone know a fix

[hybrid storm]

new to this, how do i change my hand gestures, i want to put my own prefab

[flint bison]

What do I have to do to get my feet from trying to plant themselves on the ground?

[raw dune]

You generally need a plugin called muscle animator. There's a workaround, but I have had very little luck with it.

[raw dune]

I'm digging it.

[wintry wasp]

Wym?

[deep lake]

Tell the people please. I just can't figure out what parameters to set in the Unity animator to make Avatar 3.0. he opened his mouth on dance cards. Give a guide please.

[hybrid wagon]

im having trouble with unity 2019 just not loading my avatar animations? its stuck in t-pose in the inspector and when i look at the animation tab its just a constant with random floats but no curves :\ worked when i was in 2018

[rich wharf]

Rough draft of a whiteboard animation.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/504215904985284610/913544432362590269/0001-0175.mp4

[rich wharf]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/792993755212546089/913577428809568276/0001-0268.mp4

[muted prairie]

Looks great ! Could be a bit more fluid around the pose transitions but other than that it's super nice

[rich wharf]

How is this?

[muted prairie]

Nice, but do you animate your IK control bones ? The ones for the elbows might be relevant for things like that

[rich wharf]

I do but I need to go in and animate them more.

[muted prairie]

It's looking super good already !

Also i'd suggest you look into adding some noise modifiers to your curves, it helps a lot making it all look more lifelike !

[rich wharf]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/792993755212546089/913589774894370867/0001-0268.mp4

Still putting more work into the fluidity of it.

[nocturne knot]

I did that! But I still having some troubles to make the toggles work

Luckily I found this pretty usefull tool for unity that makes toggles automatically for VRChat

https://github.com/CascadianWorks/VRC-Auto-Toggle-Creator

[sour gust]

y know y can dm me any time XD

[nocturne knot]

I did the toggle with that and now it works. Now I'm making reverse engineering to notice what I did wrong

I highly recomend it. It is also easier and quicker

[nocturne knot]

I know Soul. Thak you🤗

[dusty sorrel]

How do i setup animations for my sdk3 avatar?

im trying to toggle a game object on and off

[dusty sorrel]

Nevermind

[noble shell]

@nocturne knot That script doesnt unselect 'can transition to self' so you it hammers the toggle constantly, really recommend turning that off

any state bit pointless with off/on (easier)

[clear yew]

What uses is can transition to self useful for? I can't think of any of the top of my head

[sullen lance]

Self transitions.

literally

Having can transition to self disabled on a transition that connects to same state will act like muted.

[clear yew]

No I just read that and I understand that it does that, I'm asking for a use case practical example.

Because I can't think of any practical examples so I have a less than ideal understanding of the concept.

Like, to rapidly fire a gun? I guess?

[lilac carbon]

So I'm trying to have a submenu with sounds that play when I select them. One of which plays automatically when I load the avatar and doesn't play again even when selected. The other sound plays just fine when selected. I'm very confused and stuck because they both seem to have the exact same settings

I had the parameter as a bool before, but trigger seems to be the same here

when I start witht he audio source disabled in the hierarchy, it doesn't play when selected

the other sound does, however

Both audio sources are parented to the pelvis, and they both have the name audio source, within their differently named objects

when referred to in their animations the hierarchy seems to refer to the same thing Pelvis/Audio Source

would that be an issue?

[high spade]

so your pelvis has 2 "audio source" children, and each of them has an audio source component? just name them differently. the game needs to know what it's supposed to modify. it won't read your mind.

[lilac carbon]

can you rename components?

Regardless, I moved the other audio source off the pelvis and I get the same issue.

This audio source or audio clip is not playing with what seem to be the exact same settings as an audio source that works

it plays in unity, so the clip itself seems fine

[high spade]

how is it "Pelvis/Audio Source", if the game object is called Binaural Knock?

[lilac carbon]

it's the same for the audio clip that does play

do your animations have the game object name in the hierarchy?

[high spade]

yes

tbh i only recently added my first song/actual animation to one of my avatars, and i did it as the song/animation creator prepared, that i enable/disable the entire gameobject that has an audio source component, and not enable/disable the component itself, but that should give the same effect afaik

[lilac carbon]

maybe that will differentiate it here

[high spade]

but in my animations the path says, for example, Music/BrainPowerIntro and the animated property is called BrainPowerIntro : Game Object.Is Active
if i decide to enable/disable the component the path is the same, but the property is called BrainPowerIntro : Audio Source.Enabled then

i have no idea how did you end up with Pelvis/Audio Source, unless some child of the pelvis is called so. or was called so, but then it should tell you that there's no such object anymore

[lilac carbon]

fuck, I see what happened now, I made the animation when I only had one audio source and must have renamed it when I made the second and didn't fix the animation path. And when I went to check the name of the other animation path I must have still been on the same animation. I just needed to rename the path to match the game object

thinking it was pointing to the component, since that was disabled and the game object was enabled.

thanks for your help

[lilac carbon]

I'm trying to animate my finger pulling the trigger, but the finger positions are already animated into a grip position when I toggle my gun on. Adding a finger animation to my gun animation didn't do anything as I guess the animations aren't additive like that. How can I do this?

[violet moss]

Is there a unity way to make a 'one size fits all' sit-on-floor animation? Different heights make it float or sink, is there a proper way to define offset from the floor in an animation?

[dusty sorrel]

Uh i am setting up an idle animation for my avatar, but the legs arent working like they should

This is ingame

this is what it should be

The arms follow the animation, its just the legs that are the issue.

I cant seem to figure it out, so any help would be appreciated

[sullen lance]

You would need to disable Use Auto-Footsteps for 3 and 4 point tracking option in VRC Avatar Descriptor, read this section: https://docs.vrchat.com/docs/avatars-30#use-auto-footstep

[dusty sorrel]

thanks a lot!! it worked perfectly

[zenith lynx]

So I’m not the only one with a random ping

[languid wyvern]

It was a bunch of spam bots.

[proper flare]

Hey so I've been making my own model for vrchat and I'm just adding my own custom animations, but I have run into a bit of a problem. I wanna add a tail wag animation to my model but when I try to rotate the tail to where I want in the animation timeline it keeps snapping back to its default pose, not letting me move it. I'd really appreciate some help TvT

[noble shell]

Got dynamic bone on it? remove that then try again

[proper flare]

Ah, that seems to have been the problem. Thanks!

[pseudo crystal]

I'm trying to make single keyframe animations blend from 1 source in an animator to another based on the gesture weight, but the gestures immediately go full weight and idk how vrc default does it considering I think I have the exact same settings in terms of animations and transitions as I changed anims from the handslayer

[nocturne knot]

Oh yeah! I made it that way the first time but the toggle wasn't working for some reason. Now I fixed it I don't know how and I made it again like you got there and it works perfectlyyyy! Thank you! ^v^

[night crown]

any video tutorial how to use two/four axis puppet

[analog falcon]

I've been searching for a way for my avatar yo create a clone of itself that imitates my movements does anyone know the name

[woven nest]

i think this is right?

[dusty sorrel]

Is there anyway to automate particle animations that can be synced to music?

[sullen lance]

https://dextro.booth.pm/items/3210176
https://dextrovr.gumroad.com/l/DexClone

[analog falcon]

Thank uiu so much :D

[lament light]

keyframe by hand to get best results 🙂
but if not you could use this
https://youtu.be/jVhI5N9TomA

no realtime audio reactivity though, it just spits out a animation clip

[lilac carbon]

Why do people always say not to animate on your main avatar but to make a copy for animating on?

[noble shell]

You can end up 'stuck' in bicycle pose, (just reset or exit preview to go back really) , im still doing a duplicate if im moving anything that has dynamic bones its on a model thats stripped of it

[sour gust]

Teoretical question. Three is a way in unity to play first detect od Avatar is standing or crouching and then Play na animatorom depending of the first state? For context i wanna create some afk animation but i dont like when Avatar is swichingn to it without some smooth some transition and IT woud be different od IT IS standing , crouching or laying down. Plis dm or ping me if you know the anwser.

[fringe pulsar]

Alright so im no mastermind in unity animating so i need a bit of assistance for a somewhat simple thing. How would i make my avatar descend from the sky while spinning in an animation? I have zero clue on how to do it and nothing i find online is helping so

[clear yew]

okay i have an issue... everytime my character 'resets itself' with every jump, movement and everything else, i am stuck with this issue for a long asf time, if anyone is willing to take a look at it with me i'd REALLY appriciate it!

this is the issue in question, so bloody annoying

[sullen lance]

If you mean feet moving around without your input, then you could just disable this option in Avatar Descriptor: https://docs.vrchat.com/docs/avatars-30#use-auto-footstep

[clear yew]

Thank you so much! Unbelievable 1 bloody option was the issue for at least a year

[rain remnant]

what should i use to make my own animations from scratch blander or is there some way to use another 3d software where i can use that and import it into unity

[split flower]

You can make your own animations in unity if you want @rain remnant

Blender animations are really only useful for overly complicated animations or instances where you want to use Inverse Kinematics

or to do stuff like this

Here's my Oc riding a hoverbike for a little film

[rain remnant]

i wanna try and recreate this as a emote

https://tenor.com/view/jay-kay-virtual-insanity-jamiroquai-music-gif-15781717

[split flower]

Ok , well you can create animations in Unity, this one might take you a while though. Good luck

You will need to learn to animate and then all of the work of making the correct custom layers to put the emote on, If you haven't done this before this will be a large learning curve for you.

[rain remnant]

time to learn then lol

[violet moss]

Your knee joints are rotated badly on the FBX

[clear yew]

No, its the option they mentioned, its auto calibrating each time

[violet moss]

That’s just a workaround, and it has side effects

I can fix the problem at the source and not lose your footsteps

[clear yew]

Ah thank you! Would you like to dm or?

[olive remnant]

How do I re edit a animation in unity? It wouldn't allow me to add new property

[lavish scaffold]

You need to add it to a gameobject (on its animator) So unity knows what properties can be added based on the gameobject the animator is on and its child objects.

[olive remnant]

Thanks for the help, I try to test it on a avatar, should I add the animator to the avatar itself? Can I edit it inside vrchat animation layer?

[lavish scaffold]

Yes you can add the controller to the avatar. I would recommend doing it on a clone (duplicate avatar). And what do you mean by "vrchat animation layer"?

[abstract wing]

so the avatar i'm making has a facerig with eyebones that deform the face appropriate to a realistic-ish eye movement, if i import that will those deformations still happen with the moving eye bones?

[violet moss]

Humanoid-bound bones can’t actually have their transforms manipulated directly anymore; but you can get around this by making the eye geometry a child bone of the bone that gets humanoid bound, so you can mess with the transforms under it

Disregard the above if it’s entirely driven by weight painting, it will just work automatically with no changes on your part

[placid tide]

ok so i created a weapon in blender and animated it there, then i exported it to unity where the animation worked fine until i made the weapon a child of my avatar. i dont know how or if its fixable, i literally have no clue why this is happening so if anyone could help me with that

[dull bough]

anyone know how i can run a custom animation from the avatar3 expressions menu

[night crown]

i couldnt find a good laying animation that isnt broken

can anyone send me a good one to use?

[kindred prairie]

I'm currently messing around with setting dissolve alpha toggles. I was wondering if there was anyway I can keep it secluded to just 1 material within the mesh and not all materials on the mesh?

[kindred prairie]

locking said material/shader doesnt exlude it from getting keyframed with all the other ones aswell

[slim barn]

Is there a way to toggle the animator on a spawn object from my FXlayer so I can have an "Entrance" animation, switch to the animator on the spawn object for its cycle animation, then when toggle is off, interrupt the object animation so I can have an "Exit" animation?

I'm trying to spawn a world object with constraints while having its own animations and allowing for people to sit.

[pliant viper]

I ran into this problem too and from what I understand there's no way to index a renderer's material array through the editor UI - you have to do it through code, and unfortunately VRC doesn't allow custom scripts. I had to just separate the mesh so that it could have it's own independent material to reference.

But if anyone has figured out a way around that, I'd love to know as well.

[kindred prairie]

i figured it out

[violet moss]

Is there any way to have a sync layer between the base playable layer and gesture playable layer?

Or any way to duplicate the effect of having one?

[analog falcon]

an Issue I am having right now it with a material change animation I have changed the face material numerous times it continues to go back the original face texture does anyone know where i messed up.

https://gyazo.com/1f1c7c06622d27f062e9110285589887

https://gyazo.com/a479eab982210440cfb16b43d3db6aab

here are pics for reference

[analog falcon]

Sooooooo

No one knows?

[violet moss]

Is there an easy way to rotate an entire generic animation ( That uses positions and rotation) 90° around the world origin?

I have an animation that is perfectly set up except that it’s all sideways

And I don’t want to have to change all the positions and rotation keyframes for every GameObject one by one

Without adding a parent bone because that would break every other animation

[muted prairie]

rotate the root ?

[violet moss]

The animations only animate the root, is the issue. It’s a bunch of position and rotation key frames but it’s 90 degrees on Y off.

Adding and rotating a parent bone means I have the problem for the other animations that animate it

And it’s not just the rotations, the positions would also need to be swung around on the Y axis. Oof

[muted prairie]

Parent that to another object that is rotated 90 degree by default ?

[proper knoll]

I don't think you would have to adjust the positions or rotations of any bone below the root since it's all local space anyways

I'm a newbie to avatar creation for VRChat, but it looked interesting, so I wanted to have a look into it.
I came across the "Playable Layers" in the descriptor script and I wanted to ask, if anyone here knows which animation controllers the defaults for each layer are. There are also two controllers for sitting animations so which one is used in the "Special" section? I wanted to have a look at them to get an idea of which animations are in each layer. (I have read the documentation about it)

There are also two hand layers I just noticed

[unreal gorge]

Anyone know why my expressions are resetting back to default and layering on top of each other? I.e if I have 2 animations one where an eyebrow raises (anim1) and another where pupils get small (anim2) if I change state from anim1 to anim2 my avatar will have both a raised eyebrow and a small pupil? Do I have to reset all modifications that I'll make on every blendshape/transform on every animation or is there another way?

[noble shell]

You copied the gesture controller and used it on fx?, that comes with write default off, you must reset whatever you change or they will stack ( or just enable write default )

[unreal gorge]

Not sure I understand you correctly. There's a difference between the gesture controller and the fx controller apart from what they're used for and the avatar mask?

Think I understand now. Ty 🙂

The tutorial I'm watching shows the WriteDefaults turned on in the vrc_AvatarV3HandController. Just got spun around when they could use their old animations but I couldn't.

[coarse dagger]

Why does my avatar not animate to its original position? I have keyframes for the hip that reset its location and rotation in this standing pose in the state I blend to.

[dull ridge]

I am new too animation so I have a video file for the animation for the model but is there a way too add the video file into animation?

[dull ridge]

Does it apply the animation into the model or no?

[muted copper]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/730948173379535022/921710218826633247/unknown.png

How do I import animations like this from blender to unity

[muted prairie]

Bake Action

[knotty dirge]

https://gyazo.com/ebb05ae61603c012cc34e47c64357bc4
I'm trying to create an animation toggle where mesh renders make the body invisible except for the head and then replaces the body with a world constraint that has an idle animation. Only problem is that nothing is working. Not the mesh renders, the constraint, nothing. Any ideas on what might be wrong?

[obtuse oar]

Hey there, I was wondering something. When you're animating an avatar, and you have a property defined in the FX AnimatorController, it just pulls the property from its controller, the avatar; can you do the same thing with the Locomotion AnimatorController?

[knotty dirge]

https://youtu.be/lhTCOXvlSW4
I followed this tutorial, but the constraints are acting as though they’re not there…
The only deviation from the tutorial I can thing of is toggling the lock option, but that should lock the object in place right?

[chrome marten]

What do you guys do when a parameter isnt showing up as an option in the menu

[night crown]

any help?

[unreal gorge]

Anyone got any idea why my animations cause my model to crumple up into a ball? I changed the fbx file of the model to an updated version and now it does this.

Fixed it. It had the wrong "avatar" in the animator.

[unreal gorge]

Did you set up you model as Humanoid? I think you'll only get that issue you have your fbx file set up as generic.

[night crown]

I did

[unreal gorge]

Did you create the idle animation before changing it to humanoid?

[night crown]

It doesnt record the movement of the bones for some reason

[unreal gorge]

Do you have your avatar masks set up correctly?

[dull ridge]

Wondering about the animation video file and is there something I need too put in order too process the animation?

[dull ridge]

so is there something that I need too do

[sullen hull]

Does anyone know how to make an NPC follow you in VR chat?

just like follow player? no animation to their walking motion or anything

[lofty crest]

Honestly looking for someome that knows alot about bools and stuff, i have some animations from the avatar cloning software that clones your avi and makes it 2. Need to change some of the animations to get my desired result, ive tried so much on this stuff but i cant get a grasp of simple parameter drivers and stuff so im looking for someome to walk me through it/ i can pay to change the animations

[sullen hull]

Just to clarify, you believe it has something to do with bools?

I just want even an object to follow my avatar when I get into a close enough range to the object

I cant figure it out lol

[lean wadi]

how would i go about adding a sound being played to an animation?

[noble shell]

Use the same parameter you are using to trigger the animation in FX to enable the sound

[radiant ore]

Guys, hello everyone, I made a 3D motion style fan video for Quest 2 glasses here, please rate it!

• not advertising. I'm really interested to hear the opinion🙋‍♂️

https://www.instagram.com/ne.motion/tv/CXlwCpalzzk/?utm_medium=copy_link

[light coral]

Looks awesome, but doesn't really belong here.. ^^'

[deep pelican]

Hi, trying to get a path working for vrc. Does someone know how to make a bezier path to an animation? It works fine in unity but its not vrchat compatible, so I need to make an animation out of it.. but how?
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/utilities/b-zier-path-creator-136082
Using this^

[vague bronze]

if the tool doesn’t have an option for baking the movement into an animation automatically, i suppose you could look at the coordinates of the path-driven object and use those to manually make keyframes on a second, animation-driven object every 2 frames or so? less than ideal of course lol

im not super experienced so that likely all sounds stupid

[muted prairie]

You can use Unity runtime recorder for it https://github.com/newyellow/Unity-Runtime-Animation-Recorder

[vague bronze]

ahh there we go hahahah

[deep pelican]

Thanks, i appreciate it

[violet abyss]

for context im trying to make the ears go down for when i make a fist in game

[pliant viper]

It looks like you're trying to animate the transform of the mesh object itself, not its corresponding child bones in the armature. When you go to Add Property, expand the armature until you find the ear bones (likely children of the head). If you do want to animate the mesh itself for some reason, you'll need to use a blendshape.

[smoky brook]

im trying to get my animation to work on my avatar in game

ive tried vidoes and everything i cant seem to get it to work

[strange shard]

@restive nymph

[restive nymph]

Does anyone know how to make an emote loop ive made my emote toggles before but they just get stuck on the last frame until I untoggled it

[chrome marten]

Hello, I need to know where to put objects I want to spawn from avatar that don't move (e.g. Couch or rock, sound)

Hips is where I do it now and I hate it

where can I parent the constraint

[graceful canyon]

You need to put onto the model in the hierarchy, not under any armature bones in the hierarchy. Then you put a fixed joint on the object you want to be stationary.

[chrome marten]

So where is the constraint at

The model itself yes

[noble shell]

vrlabs - world constraint , just move ResetTarget to root of avatar, disable the World Constraint / Container > parent constraint < component with a toggle, object stay in world,, fixed joint is a old thing

https://vrlabs.dev/item/world-constraint

[dawn verge]

Anyone know why my animations are playing faster on my avatar than they are in the animation itself?

[pliant viper]

You're sure you didn't accidentally adjust the Speed field or enable the parameter-based Multiplier in the associated layer states?

The only other thing I can think of is that you may be viewing the animations with an altered Samples rate.

[turbid crag]

guys i made an animation which has a toggle part
but when i got into the game
use the animation thing
i cant see it
the body does move
but i cant see any parts
the part is extremely huge
Image
the part
when i test anim it works but when i go into vr chat i cant see it

[dreamy skiff]

It won't work.
Only the part where the descriptor is located, and all nested objects are filled in.
The structure of an avatar cannot be arbitrary

[chilly kernel]

so uh heres a question. i want to make bow for vrc but i have no idea how would i go about the animations? i want the arrow to release particle system when i release my grip but i dont know how to make animations that do stuff on release

[hardy bolt]

Can someone link me to a good tutorial about how to import an animation made in blender into unity?

[mint sun]

@hardy bolt you can save model with animation in it and already have it in assets i think this vid shows it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysl0qYq5p9w&ab_channel=RoyalSkies

[violet moss]

What's the best way to get a animation that contains both humanoid and non-humanoid transforms (so they need to be split on base and gesture/fx layers) to perfectly sync up? I'm having cycle offset issues.

[fierce bane]

any transform animations should be in gesture, not just humanoid ones
From docs:

FX: Same as Gestures, but for everything that isn't a Transform position, rotation, or scale animation.```

you'll see them fine, but they won't sync to others if they're in fx instead of gesture

[violet moss]

Sorry for confusion, my animation needs to animate humanoid musciles + a non-humanoid transform in tandem, prefectly syched. it's a skateboard root animation + humanoid skating anim.

it looks fine and synced in unity, but in-game the skateboard cycle gets offset randomly

since i had to split it into two different layers

[fierce bane]

Ah I understand now, it still doesn't go into FX though if it's a transform (position/rotation/scale) as it won't sync over net.

[violet moss]

yeah, my setup is Base (for the humanoid muscles) and Gesture (for the skateboard, ears, and tail)

not using fx at all

[fierce bane]

so is this for normal motion or just enabling it temporarily?

[violet moss]

it's my walking/running animation

[fierce bane]

I'm...fairly certain you can animate it fully in base then (as long as it's a transform)

[violet moss]

so non-humanoid tranasforms are allowed in base? if so i can just fuse the two animations

docs said it's for humanoid only?

[fierce bane]

as long as it is a transform it should be fine in there

[violet moss]

ho boy if this works you just delievered me from hours of pain

[fierce bane]

I'm not sure where you saw that, I double checked to make sure I didn't skip over it in either of them there

Animations in Base should only affect transforms, and all layers should be using Avatar Masks to ensure you're only affecting the appropriate transforms.```

additive is specifically for humanoid, but I'm fairly certain base has no such restriction

[violet moss]

I just looked it over, and you are right. Wow.

I was bashing my head over splitting animations up and syncing them for absolutely nothing

now i need to join like 20 animations xD

[fierce bane]

I was still questioning myself and checking it over again to make sure too, but was fairly certain

[violet moss]

Thank you very much

[fierce bane]

if you have masks set up you could technically just leave them as is with their own layers, though one combined would probably be more reliable

[violet moss]

yeah i could use a sync layer once they're on the same playable, hm.

[fierce bane]

and it keeps them separated with masked parts so you can have some overridden and not others

assuming this is mostly for desktop since it's moving the arms too?

that animation looks pretty smooth btw, it's nice

[violet moss]

You are free to animate arms for desktop users - when a VR user plays it their arm and head IK overrides it. But it's useful as a backup

[versed karma]

When animation is on its on animation controller https://streamable.com/622wxq
when i add it to my avis animation controller and toggle https://streamable.com/3ibw3m
you can see in the controller its going through all the steps yet no animation happens why is that?

[muted prairie]

#avatar-help

[clear yew]

how do i make hand animations unity wont let me

[analog wyvern]

You can try using the muscle animator in the unity asset store but the cost money but may be worth it

[viscid kayak]

I am able to swap materials using animations on every part on my avatar except the main body, is this a known thing?

It works perfectly fine within Unity, but in VRchat the body is the only material that doesnt swap

[analog wyvern]

Last time I tried that it made me make a material for each part that i wanted changed and i would then make the animation of just me putting those on the avatar

[viscid kayak]

I did exactly that yes

and it works...

except on 1 part

its super weird

it works in Unity but not in vrchat

[analog wyvern]

Try checking the base layer in your fx animator. If theres a animation playing by default then thats most likely why

[viscid kayak]

Looks completely fine 🥲

Or there is something hidden somewhere....

[analog wyvern]

Can you possibly Screenshot

[viscid kayak]

what part?

my animator?

[analog wyvern]

So whats not toggling on?

[viscid kayak]

This happens when I run the animation within within Unity

looks fine

exactly what I wanted

but in Vrchat

[analog wyvern]

Ya

[viscid kayak]

Things are not included

no other animations are on or overlapping

so confused...

[analog wyvern]

That make no sense lol ig remake the animation but try a different order and see if that changes anything

[viscid kayak]

Yea it really does not make sense...

The only thing I can think of is VRchat just not being able to handle 4 materials being swapped out at the same time?

but that would not explain the crazy stuff I have seen others do

I'll remake the animation

[mint sun]

Does other animation use the materials?

[viscid kayak]

I have in total two different animations that swap out materials yes

I have already tested if they maybe overlap

but thats not an issue

[mint sun]

ah ok

[viscid kayak]

Plus, the other animation only swaps out the head materials, it leaves everything else alone

So confusing lmao

it just doesn't want to touch the other things, only swaps out the materials on the gear

The other animation works just fine

[viscid kayak]

I fixed it

[mint sun]

so what is the difference in animation that fixed it