animation

[pearl scroll]

Since talk about avatar masks came up, Does anyone have a good tutorial on how to add those? Ive never messed with them before

[pearl scroll]

Okay, I figured out how to make an avatar mask for the wings and tail, and fixed the plantigrade legs to be in line and straight. Now to figure out where to go from here

[pearl scroll]

@compact marten Would it be possible if we could jump on a call and have you show me how correctly hook up the animations with the avatar mask? Ive been banging my head against the wall for hours trying to find how to do this online to no avail or Im just not understanding how it works.

If not, I totally understand. Im just a bit out of my element here

[compact marten]

1: right click somewhere in your Project window, click Create > Avatar mask

2: click on said mask, go to the Inspector, and click the circle besides "Import skeleton". choose your avatar's Avatar definition, and click Import skeleton

3: click right outside of the humanoid figure to turn every part red. expand the armature in the lower panel and select the bones that you want this mask to affect. for example, if you're making a tail mask, select all of the tail bones

4: to add this mask to an animation layer, click on the gear icon besides the layer and select your mask from the list.

5: the top most layer should contain every transform that the controller can affect. if you're adding a tail layer, then your main mask should also include the tail, on top of just the hands. to do this, I recommend making a duplicate of the Allparts mask, adding the tail bones to it, and selecting your new mask in the layer

[pearl scroll]

I wanted to make it so that the poses for the tail and wings transfer to the locomotion states. So would I duplicate the locomotion controller, and add the mask to the locomotion layer? (since in the animation I have the wings and tail posed)

Or should I make a new layer(named tail-wing), put the avatar mask on that, and then copy and paste the blend trees from the locomotion layer

[native sluice]

how do i create my own crouching animation

[compact marten]

I'm not sure if the Base layer can have non-humanoid transforms in it

but maybe?

if it can, you'd probably be better off putting it in another layer

[pearl scroll]

I get an error in the Control Panel that the first animation layer in the Gesture needs to have a mask when I create a new layer for tail and wing anim poses 🤔 Maybe I can make an inversed mask for everything but the wings and mask and use it for that duplicated Locomotion layer. Then duplicate that layer and put on my wing-tail mask

[compact marten]

are you making a new controller for Gesture?

you should probably be modifying a copy of the default controller

vrc_AvatarV3HandsLayer

[pearl scroll]

Oh, I duplicated the locomotion layer. figured that made the most sense for trying to overlay it on locomotion animations vs hand gestures

[compact marten]

Gesture is where most people add non-humanoid bone transform animations

doesn't have to be related to the hands at all

you can definitely try to do it in Locomotion, but can't guarantee it'll work

[pearl scroll]

If I put it in the hand controller, how would I get unity to recognize to pose the tail and wings with the idle and crouching states?

[compact marten]

you could duplicate the layout of the base Locomotion controller, and strip it of all of the animations, aswell as the states you don't need

then just plug in your animations for the wings/tail

[pearl scroll]

At which point, wouldnt that be the same as using my duplicated locomotion controller with custom animations added? (just with the addition of having the avatar mask on the locomotion layer)

Since I made my animations to pose both the body and the wing/tail

[compact marten]

"Since I made my animations to pose both the body and the wing/tail" again, you can't use those animations

_proxy animations get replaced

so nothing you do to them will work

your animations should only contain the keyframes for the wings/tail

also, the Gesture layer is still responsible for the fingers and hand poses, so you need to add the logic for the rest on another layer within the Gesture controller

again, I'm not sure if you can do the tail/wings stuff in the Base layer

if you can, then good. otherwise, Gesture it is

if you can do it in the Base layer (btw, using Locomotion and Base interchangably since they're the same), then you could duplicate the layer, and set it to Sync

[near delta]

Is it possible to have an animation affect the value of, like, a float in the expression menu? Possibly additively? Say I have the float set to 0, I play the animation and it slides to 5... then I play again and it slides to 10... I roll it down to 7 manually and play again and it slides to 12...

[compact marten]

that's what Parameter drivers are for

[pearl scroll]

@compact marten I just want to thank you so much for your help earlier. I finally got my wing/tail issues sorted! Apparently my avatar mask needed some fine tuning on both the FX and Gesture layers.

[compact marten]

nice, glad you got it to work 👍

[pearl scroll]

Anyone know a good length to make a custom walk animation clip to overwrite the default animations?

[keen plover]

does anyone know where to get those animations that seem to come with many new avatars? ;o;
stuff like the specialist dance, phut ton, rage of dust running meme, etc.

[violet moss]

Can you animate a particle system's Max Particle Count? If so are there downsides to the rating system for doing this?

[lament light]

yes, it will probably take the highest value it reaches and set that in the avatars descriptor.

though what a weird value to want to animate 🧐

[violet moss]

i want ithigh locally and lower remotely

@lament light

[pearl scroll]

Check out fiver

[split gull]

Hey anyone know how to make animations so that it doesn’t slowly ease out

Just being able to make it smooth

[bold sonnet]

i try to make custom facial expressions but it breaks my lip sync any sollutions

[clear yew]

Not sure if this counts but anyone know how to make snow particles for a world?

[vapid jay]

Does anyone have a good video of how to add this kind of animation to an avatar

[quartz granite]

I'm trying to add a Parameter Driver to an animation so that when it triggers it adds +1 to the parameter that activated it, but it doesn't seem to be working
is there any set up you need to do specifically to get parameter drivers to activate?
It effects Bools but wont effect Floats or Int which I wanna be able to count up with

[plucky escarp]

@quartz granite
This really really depends on what exactly you want to do

And how high you want to count

And whether or not you want to be able to subtract

Or if you want to save the score and sync it up to late joiners

There's a lot of ways to make a counter

Also vanilla Unity isn't capable of displaying Parameter Drivers, you NEED Lyumas Avatar Emulator to make them function in Unity

[jagged kite]

guys what do i do??? i messed up an animation without thinking about it and now i cant get the old animation file back, what do i do? it took me hours to make it! my avatar has the animation uploaded on it but obviously the animation in the unity project is the one i messed up

[plucky escarp]

Define messed up

[jagged kite]

i deleted all the keys in the animation just for the pose that i have in my profile picture, so only the keys of the first frame remains...

[plucky escarp]

Well just Ctrl Z then

[jagged kite]

thats the prob... i did the animation changes last night. i turned my computer off since then. i can't just "ctrl z", it doesn't work

[plucky escarp]

Well then you're screwed

[jagged kite]

great

[pearl scroll]

I keep having this issue with my avatar that when he is moving at run speed, the avatar basically goes into a superman pose and floats(head and hands are still tracked) I am not using full body tracking. This isnt an issue at lower speeds. Anyone know whats going on?

[sharp heart]

I'm snooping through the files of cherub bot and I'm wondering if anyone recognizes this kind of animator tree. I'm assuming it's made as a result of some sort of tool or workflow but I'm not sure what that tool might be.

[gentle briar]

anyone know where i can pull this tab back up?

i closed it in unity and i dont know how to pull it back up

[fervent fulcrum]

Does anyone know If there is something that lets you animate to music in unity? I mean like being able to hear the music play as you scroll through keyframes or something like that?

[twilit fog]

Probably this or something similar. https://github.com/hai-vr/combo-gesture-expressions-av3

[sharp heart]

thanks for the info, I'll look into possibly using this for future projects.

[mortal needle]

i use an animation to change the offset of a texture in the shader but for some reason it also overwrites the tiling when i change the material of the object ive tried removing the property of the tiling parts but doing that forces it to 0 does anyone know a way to keep the tiling different tilings and only change the offset?

[plucky escarp]

https://surfknasen.gumroad.com/l/XccBE

There you go

[fervent fulcrum]

Thanks, already bought it yesterday haha

[dreamy skiff]

The bitanimator has a lot more options and settings, and besides, it's free.

[fervent fulcrum]

Wel darn

I searched but couldn't find anything.

[dreamy skiff]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/661452877545340934/903664974377910292/BitAnimator_v1.3.2_dev.unitypackage

[lunar sky]

question. im in unity and most of my models bones are green expect for the ears and tail how can i fix that?

[mint sun]

bcs you can't map ears also your chest can't be empty

looks like you are missing it

[lunar sky]

could i put the spine as the chest? this model doesn't seem to have a chest bone

[mint sun]

you need to have chest bone

nothing can't be empty

only upper chest

[lunar sky]

so in blender i just make a new chest bone but what would i parent it with?

[lunar sky]

i meant could i just assign the spine to where its telling me to put chest because the spine bone hasnt been used

[mint sun]

if the parenting won't be right than it's problem too

[lunar sky]

jeez this might be to complicated for me. is it possible for me to just import the model to mixamo but save stuff the ears and tail bones to use for animations later

[tough nebula]

You'd make the new chest bone in blender and then parent the chest to the spine
I'm surprised it wouldn't have a chest bone though... it sort of looks like there is a bone there that isn't registered but maybe I'm not seeing it correctly

[lunar sky]

yea i keep checking there isn't a chest bone

im super new to blender so i dont want to mess anything up with the bones but i have no idea where exactly to put it without messing up

[tough nebula]

Send me a DM, I can take a look at the FBX if you'd like and explain the process

[fervent fulcrum]

Thanks I’ll check it out!

[wanton dome]

dont spam this crap in every channel

theres a specific channel for advertising kiddo

[sullen blaze]

Quick question regarding fbx animations in unity: When I view the animation in the "clips" section of the fbx file it applies all the rotations properly but as soon I view it by itself the tail rotations seems to not apply. Any tips on how to fix this are greatly appreciated

[muted prairie]

Did you set the model to Humanoid before exporting the animation clip from it ?

[sullen blaze]

yeah and created the rig from the same source that I use for both the previews as well as the posing in blender

[muted prairie]

Can you check that there are even any generated keyframes for the tail bones in the animation clip once exported ?

I feel like Unity is discarding non humanoid stuff

[sullen blaze]

Yeah, you are completely right. As soon as I export it from the fbx into an anim it discards all the keyframes for the tail.

do you know a workaround for this by any chance?

[muted prairie]

I feel terrible for suggesting this, but you might need another separate animation for the tail specifically, given that's it's generic, and drive it through the additive stuff

I'd suggest reaching out to any furry friend you may have first, because it might be something they could know the workflow for in the first place

But it's the only thing I can think of

Or actually

[sullen blaze]

Thanks a lot for your time, I will check up with them and see if they got any other ideas. If they dont I guess I will have to split the animation and do the tail separately 🙂

[muted prairie]

Copying the keyframes manually might just work ?

[sullen blaze]

Do you mean copying them inside of unity from one animation to the other or from blender into unity?

cause I cant seem to find a way to open the keyframes of the animation that I can see in the "clips" section

[muted prairie]

Even when you export it as generic ?

[sullen blaze]

ahhh, that works. Thanks a lot! Gonna have to try out a few things but this should fix the issue

[sullen blaze]

Literally as easy as dragging a box over the keyframes and just doing a copy paste into the other animation, cheers mate :3

[muted prairie]

[brazen mango]

Completely new to all of this. How do I find "playerable layers"

[mint sun]

in avatar descriptor .

[brazen mango]

Ah,,,where does one find that

[compact marten]

consider watching all 3 of these videos in order https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk5rOzOFIIX5tjozbU9hWZg

[paper fractal]

Hi I tried animating some water on blender and exported it as a FBX file

But when importing it in unity it says there is no animation

[ocean canyon]

why does it crash when I try to double click an animation tree?

[shadow pebble]

Question would I animate on Unity or Blender

I'm going to try to add a custom emote animation to my current project

[compact marten]

what do you mean by custom emote exactly

[pseudo tiger]

When I try to add a parameter in the expression menu nothing shows up

It say nothing

[compact marten]

your menu and your parameters file must both be in your avatar descriptor

[shadow pebble]

I was going to animate a custom animation but

Seeing as I can't add jaw bones without the entire model sinking into the floor

I uh-

I don't really think I will

[pseudo tiger]

How do I fix my avatar mouth only moving some times when I talk and then sometimes it doesn’t work when I talk

[shadow pebble]

Ok now I actually do want to try and animate the custom emote... 😅

Would I use Blender and import the animation to Unity?

And also how would I add any graphical effects?

[compact marten]

you can animate in blender and import to Unity, or you could use mocap software to use your VR gear for mocap

like Mocap Fusion

[shadow pebble]

Oh cool

Sadly I don't have VR stuff yet lol

My pc can't run it

[sleek zenith]

Does anyone know how to make a projectile

with physics

[muted prairie]

https://github.com/newyellow/Unity-Runtime-Animation-Recorder

[brazen tundra]

Not sure if this is the right place to ask but can anyone tell me where I could get dances and such for avatars?

[fervent fulcrum]

Is there a way to loop a animation based off its last animation key?

as in a box moving and then moving again but from the ending positon.

[nova pagoda]

Yo, quick question for playing a custom emote animation in vrc. Ik this is probably asked alot but I can't seem to find an answer. I have the animation for the music video for "Specialist" (Persona 4), and when I upload an avatar and play the animation + sound, it just stops playing at the 1 minute mark. How do I fix this?

[pearl scroll]

Alright so I have an issue with my Gesture layer. So I have my wing and tail on a new layer, with a mask for those bones, everything works fine when it comes to locomotion positioning. HOWEVER, if I play an animation emote that moves those components (example: I changed wings for a custom dance animation) that positional state of the tail/wing will use that last emote's positional data will be shown in the subsequent animations played (So the position of the wings for the custom dance animation would be present in say the cheer animation). Resetting the avatar fixes it until that situation occurs again. I assume its an issue with how the gesture layer is set up

[wild river]

(just a quick question does anyone know where some splatoon animations are cause i wanna use them on my model)

[pearl scroll]

Found the answer to my question. If anyone wonders what the solution was, ping me

[tawdry pelican]

hey, i'm having an issue where my custom emote animations are not staying in place (character moves and slides around) even when bake into pose is checked; i don't know what's causing it because i tried loading some older animations i made from an older vrchat avatar project to test and they are doing the same thing, but those same animations worked on the old project just fine

the animations look fine in unity editor, just not in vrchat itself

[tawdry pelican]

never mind, i think i figured it out

[keen harness]

I am guessing I put this here. I am working on gestures to update an old avatar of mine. Why am I coming across an issue where left hand gestures/expressions, are not working? For a while they were dependent on the right hand using a gesture, but the left hand is not using gestures at all for facial expressions when placed in Unity. Is there something I am missing?

[carmine pilot]

how did you figure it out plz?

Im having the problem of every animation looking fine when i make them, but teh second i press "play" in unity and activate the animation, it just breaks.

[carmine pilot]

how did u do it my guy? 😄

So my problem is, ever since I used the new SDK to upload, only "half of my animation" is playing. Meaning the facial expressions are changing, but my ears foreaxmple arent moving to the spot as defined by the animation.

I found out how too lol

nvm 😅

[tawdry pelican]

for me the problem was the playable layer control behavior in prepare standing

the blend duration was too long so it was blending the previous animation with the emote and making it all wonky

so either shorten the blend duration or add exit time/increase transition duration between prepare standing and your emote

[drifting widget]

Is there a way i can make the offset change by the rotation of an bone?

[candid pulsar]

is there any possible way to make a animation local? as in only i can see the animation go

[compact marten]

you can use the built in IsLocal parameter as an extra condition

[candid pulsar]

much obliged my friend

[candid pulsar]

but how do i do that

[compact marten]

add it in the parameters list as a Bool in your FX controller

[candid pulsar]

god im feeling stupid where is that sorry

[compact marten]

well what are you trying to do exactly?

[candid pulsar]

well im trying to make an animation that shows an object for me but no one else

[compact marten]

create two states in your FX controller, one for the Off, and one for On. add a transition from Off to On, with the only condition being "IsLocal" equals True

then add your animation that enables the object to the On state

[candid pulsar]

ah okay

[compact marten]

you don't really need any returning transition back to Off, unless you also plan on adding a toggle for it so that you can choose to hide it

[candid pulsar]

wait just to make sure

we are talking about unity

[compact marten]

yes

[candid pulsar]

okay then im just stupid right now

[candid pulsar]

could you perhaps show me

[compact marten]

I'm going to bed sorry

[candid pulsar]

ah its cool

[compact marten]

this video covers how to set up menu toggles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD2jlZC8FmA

you only need to do the menu and parameters file thing if you want to also be able to toggle it

[candid pulsar]

i can set up menu toggle i just dont know how to do the islocal parameter

[wary inlet]

ok wait maybe i should ask here

anyone know a good spot to get like crouch animations and such?

[sturdy jay]

my animation is taking few milli secs to activate ig is there way to fix that

like when toggled

by few i mean noticable delay

[deep talon]

idk if this is the right place to ask, but how do I add ADDITIONAL EMOTES/animations? I'm putting an emphasis on "additional emotes" since EVERY video tutorial that I've checked out, simply shows you how to add an emote that is already in the SDK example folder.

for reference, I know how to create a submenu, but idk how to add the other emotes

also for reference, they are facial expressions, and not actual actions. I already have the faces, I don't know how to add them to the submenu

[fervent fulcrum]

^

"Transform translate"

[sullen summit]

Late answer but you'll want to add your sub-menu to your custom one (or the default one) and drag and drop the sub-menu in it.

For that you should be able to select the main menu, click on "add" and in the list of things (toggle, etc...) select sub-menu

Oh wait sorry you wanted to add your emotes the the menu

To do that you will need to do multiple things (assuming you have your animation files) :

• Add those animations to an animation controller (Probably the one you use for the FX layer)
• Setup variables in the parameters
• Then find the menu (default or custom one) you use and add new controls
• Give them a name and specify the variables they will change upon interaction
• Select your avatar and drag and drop the parameters file and the menu one in the appropriate fields in the VRC avatar descriptor

(Keep in mind you'll still need to build the logic that dictates how your animations play and with what variables in the animation controller, idk if you are familiar with it just giving you the base steps)

[pure mulch]

https://gyazo.com/c1a04c83da90696451121f7c405480f8 Does anyone know why my character is not fofilling any of these animations?

Please ping me if you have any suggestions

[quick oasis]

if i have an animationclip set to 120fps would that be limited by vrc at all? like can vrc only handle 60fps for example?

lets say for example i have an object moving 10 distance over a single second. Do i see half the frames updated or all 120 of them along the path

I'm guessing for client side that depends on their game fps, how about network wide. what's the limits if any on frame updates/sec

this is specifically on an avatar not world if that would make a difference

[wintry furnace]

im wondering what the right property would be to start playing from an audio source?

both "enabled" and "play from awake" dont seem to do it

[quick oasis]

have play on awake enabled by default along with source, just simply enable the gameobject it's on when you want the audio to play. That's how i normally do it

if in a script you can use play one shot in editor. ofc not for animation though

[lunar ether]

I’m trying to add a punch sound effect to my fists in VRChat, however I think I might be messing it up. Does anyone know a good tutorial video? I’ve tried looking but I have no luck

[severe dock]

Since you think you are messing it up, if you show how you are currently doing it that will help give you direction

[lunar ether]

Brilliant, I’m out atm, but when I’m back I’ll send you it. Also it did work in play mode on unity, but when trying to upload it said it couldn’t find animator control parameter

I set up the parameter in the main menu

[severe dock]

I look forward to seeing it. I got some contact based sound stuff made so it should be quick to trouble shoot

[lunar ether]

Really appreciate it mate 🙏

I’ll be home in an hour and 30 mins

[candid pulsar]

question how do i apply the "islocal" parameter

[fervent fulcrum]

So I keyframed something rotating from 0 to 360. Does anyone know why it starts rotating into the negative for a little bit and then starts rotating the right direction midway?

There's no keyframes between the two to effect the values.

[versed spoke]

Are animators in the playable layers the only ones that can access avatar parameters and parameters set by av interactions?
If there's any intricacies to those, I'd like to know

[clear hill]

help

ok so

go werhe for what

[supple maple]

look up how to do Animation clips in unity n shit

[bleak merlin]

Anyone know how to set up multiple layers that share animations with the same shapekeys without it messing up?

[candid pulsar]

real quick anyone know a way to do a weapon toggle with menu and gesture

[balmy bronze]

I need help to create a animation to best mimic the world constraint, how can I do that?

[clear yew]

https://youtu.be/8KH4fJjYpdE

[clear yew]

can somoen help me

[stark ocean]

so my face visemes aren't working properly in game they work fine in the editor and unity but in game only one works right dose anyone know how to fix this?

[raw dune]

I'd like opinions on how I'm setting up my animation controllers.

[raw dune]

The upside of this system is that it pretty reliably syncs things across multiple layers and controllers, for more complex stuff, and is expandable.
The downside is, setting up all those transitions. Which is a pain.

[sharp heart]

Check all your animations and make sure none of them are using your visemes. I had the same issue and I fixed it by removing visemes from my animations.

[silk portal]

For avatars, how would you recommend setting up lip flaps with UV maps?

I've got a character I've been commissioned to do, and I've got an image with 3 states for the mouth: open, half-closed and closed. I'm wondering how I'd set this up so whenever audio is detected from the mic, it animates a UV island

[steady dust]

hello is anyone available who knows how to put animations? i have them downloaded but i cant do it myself

[worthy flame]

I'm trying to set up some toggles that aren't compatible with each other, and I'd like to know if there's some way for one to override another. Two are float type opacity and glow radial puppets, and the other is a bool invisibility toggle. The invisibility uses the opacity and glow parts of the shader timed properly with a sound effect. I'd like the invisibility to override the radial puppets if possible.

[simple reef]

Hi this is a repost that posted on the avatar 3 help i dont know if it is here or there but yea any help would be appreciated . So i created 5 emote or dances in the parameter VRCEmote on the action layer and it work fine but when i try to add music on another controller it seems to work on that controller whit same parameter but not on vr chat any advise?

on vr chat the emoted runs whitout the music*

[novel bloom]

I made more things
https://youtu.be/6jqTQZd9INA

[stark ocean]

I have animations that require blend shapes is there a work around?

[sharp heart]

Not that I know of. The only way I could think of would be somehow making your own viseme animator which overrides the animation breaking the visemes.

[broken phoenix]

Are a rig's range of motion and constraints determined by the muscles tab in the Unity rig section, or does VRChat overwrite the contraints because of IK stuff?

[compact marten]

the values in the muscles tab do affect the model in VRC

[broken phoenix]

Nice. Can you pose the rig in Unity and it obeys the contraints? I want to test how the weight painting works but I don't have VR

[cyan chasm]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/515673984197459971/975706558438727760/VRChat_95WM7AeOZp.gif

It ain't much but I think it's uber cute

[autumn flame]

how does changing the walk animation on an avatar work? I have a walk animation made, but I'm not sure how to actually apply is or if there's anything specific that needs to be done to make it work, I'm just confused because this is all new to me

[clear yew]

I need some help, I bought an avatar today and I'm stuck. I wanna remove 2 facial expressions and I don't know how to do it

I believe I'm somewhat on the right track of actually doing it but as I said, I'm now stuck.

[tight forge]

What do you want on your avatar?

[clear yew]

Sorry! I’m okay now, I think I managed to figure it out. At least what I did worked

[clear yew]

question on trying to make audio with a gesture

and the animation

[severe dock]

Question about baked vs unbaked animations (because googling this seems to require knowing terms I don't know). I believe I understand that baked means each frame is stored as a key frame with no interpolation (constant curve) and uses more memory (and download size) since its storing every frame. Unbaked has key frames and interpolates between them with curves. My question is: Is the interpolation adding load to the GPU or the CPU. Is it a trade between VRAM and GPU load or VRAM and CPU load?

[young hearth]

Is there an addon or package that allows for easier animating humanoid models in Unity? I could've swear there was one. If there was one, idk whats it called or how to go on about it.

[restive tangle]

generally humanoids are animated in blender and then the animation imported to unity. Or they are animated using some form of mocap. Ruuubick has a tutorial on using vrc as mocap software if you have some sort of fullbody tracking and are interested.

[young hearth]

I saw Ruuubick's tutorial awhile back on that, but that was going to be my very last resort. I do got fbt just recently, but i haven't set it up and i don't have the best room to go about doing it.

[compact marten]

there's Muscle Animation Editor

which works quite well for editing static poses

for moving animations though I would recommend using blender

[young hearth]

yeah i use mae

[quick wing]

i havent done any complex animations for avatars yet, just bone manipulation. is it possible to add the vrc visemes to an animation without breaking anything? i want that my avatar talks while doing a certain movement and i dont know how to do that

[compact marten]

if you animate any of the blendshapes used by the lipsync system, you will break lipsync

your best bet is to make duplicates of those blendshapes in Blender, and disable lipsync via Tracking control whenever your animation plays

[quick wing]

i somehow messed it up. how do i get the character to move ingame like in the animation preview. also, the items (sword and sheath) didnt appear in vrc

[young hearth]

the safest way to add talks(i assume moving mouth) while your character doing a certain move is to Animate the Action or animation that you are doing and basically add the mouth movement into the said animation action like that sword slash you showed in the video. In the animation tab, you basically have to go to each point of the diamonds and add the viseme blende shape into the animation timeline. You should be using AA, OH, or CH and then mess with the values from 0 to 100 until you reach the end of the timeline.

tedious, but safest route

[quick wing]

i figured. but that isnt a priority rn since the animation itself is scuffed in game and idk how to fix

[young hearth]

okay so from what i am looking at your avatar in-game, it looks like you messed it up in-game already and then tried to activate it again. Try reseting your avatar in-game and do the slash emote again. The head being stood still like that with janky body is due to when you use an emote and then you jump in the game. Example, do the default dance with hand going around and then jump. You'll see that you have replicated the same issue and its a small bug.

[quick wing]

doesnt matter, even if i reset my avatar, as soon as i activate the slash animation this happens

[young hearth]

then something went wrong within the controllers

because if it shows that it works in preview within Unity

the fault is vrchat

vrchat is trying to read the slash animation

but something went wrong within Unity specifically the controllers

i would keep messing around with the controllers and the animation settings as well, center the mass or something like that

[quick wing]

ok, i know one thing that messed it up, now it is better but i still have 2 problems. one is, that the items dont activate

[young hearth]

the items? you mean the sword?

[young hearth]

what is the second problem

if its the sword, then you add the sword in the animation as well

[quick wing]

the first problem is (now after restarting my pc, its now the same in unity so the game interprets it right, i just dont know how to set it up) the animation is two different animations that are connected, the slash, and then a idle fighting stance. the character dashes forward with the slash, but then moves backwards with the stance. how can i make it that the stance position is the same where the slash move ends. the second problem is the items. i have them added to the animation with IsActive attributes, however, it doesnt work in the game, i need to toggle them on manually.

and i just scrapped the idea with the talking because you cant see her face anyway because she is lookign down

[young hearth]

fair enough

anyway in unity for the slash animation click on it

you'll see those dots like green, yellow or red on the right side

mess with the settings that says Center Mass or

i'm not in unity right now, but you should see it

you can also look at the preview dummy animation on the bottom right

[quick wing]

oh yerah, that makes sense. so if the root pos is set to original, it should start from 0,0,0 but if its set to center of mass its using the current pos

[young hearth]

yes

so mess around with those settings and look at the dummy preview and see if it fits to your liking

you'll know what to do next after all this

[quick wing]

this is jsut weird

nope, fixed itself after saving

now its just the items left. they show up in the animation, but not ingame

is it because i also have a toggle for them? i imagine if one toggle says they are turned off, but an animation says they are turned on, there could be conflict.

[young hearth]

yes that could be it, also well done

[quick wing]

hmm, how can i make it that a parrented object stays still in worldspace and doesnt move with the object its parrented to in the animation editor. is there a way to automate that or do i have to manually put it back in place every single frame

[quick wing]

could it be that vrchat cant toggle objects or animate non bones in the VRCEmote int?

[quick wing]

i am so confused. the 2 objects i added are turned off in the scene view but are activated in the animations. i have the animations playing fine if previewd in the animation section, however in playmode, they get funky. gameobjects dont disable after the animation played. idk what to do anymore also, adding that object made it that its strange in vrchat again.

[quick wing]

i dont get it. why doesnt it work

[quick wing]

fixed most things, biggest problem now is the items not toggling. i guess its not possible to toggle stuff in the action animator controller with just VRCEmote Int. how can i make the objects appear then

[quick wing]

the first clip is how it looks in unity, the second one ingame. the other 2 are the settings of all 3 animation clips ( they are the same). why isnt it moving iin the same way ingame? and how do i get the objects to toggle in the animation. i am about to go insane, ive been binge working on this animation for almost 9 hours in a row now and i just cant figure it out

im just minutes away from commisioning someone to fix that

[tardy sedge]

go into the animation, hit record button, click on the object you want toggled, click the checkmark to toggle it on. Make sure the objects are included in the hierarchy of the avatar. also uncheck it in the exit animation as well.

[quick wing]

that literally is what i already have

[quick wing]

i dont get it im going insane

[quick wing]

im so clueless, you can see the "toggles" are working in unity, but they dont in vrchat

[young hearth]

So you probably didn't know this but if there are One Too Many animations using the same blendshapes or toggles, then it will not show for either.

So for example if used an animation with the Blendshape Blink, i cannot use Blink for another new animation.

It has to be another blendshape entirely

Example given from your character:
Character + Sword1 as toggle with animation
Cannot use Sword1 as any new animation at all even if its separated.

[quick wing]

hmm ive been reading into playable layers and it made me even more confused. can the action controller even toggle objects? in my animation i have toggle objects, blendshapes and transform animations and bones. currently i have it in the action controller and only the bone animation works. if i animate and object that is parrented to a bone directly, it doesnt work. and i cant toggle anything even if i use that object in only one animation

[young hearth]

well i never done action animations with toggles before, but i do know that it works because of all those vrchat avatar meme spammers back in the day.

you know like sword art online magic spammer or transformation and all that stuff

[quick wing]

yeah

[young hearth]

its probably just alot of animating

[quick wing]

i imagine that with one click on the animations, it sends a signal to different playable layers and animations? because from what i tested, i think its simply not possible to toggle stuff on with the action layers "VRCEmote Int"

[young hearth]

no it is, you just kinda have to make the animation from scratch i believe. Theres alot of complication to it.

[quick wing]

hmm, but for expressions, i can use the same blendshape as much as i want

[young hearth]

oh hm..

[quick wing]

i made it from scratch

[young hearth]

hm....

[quick wing]

and i found no documentation on how to do it. all i see are simple on/off toggles in the FX layer or simple bone manipulation in the action layer. never have i seen anything that explains both together

[quick wing]

have you found an answer? because im stuck with a similar problem

its so frustrating, i dont get it to work

[tardy sedge]

Keep toggles to fx layer, armature movement to action layer

[nimble portal]

You can animate values in the same way you can animate a toggle. Just click record and set the value

[rose folio]

How do I make a projectile particle that works properly, what are the basic features the projectile needs so that it goes far and is disconnected from the avatar such that when moving my arm it is still going in the same direction

Currently i'm trying to make an animation for a bow to fire an arrow

[quick wing]

that is literally what im doing

[nimble portal]

Set the simulation space of the particle from local to world

[rose folio]

is that all?

[nimble portal]

Yep

[rose folio]

i've had issues before with it going the wrong direction and stuff, maybe some other settings I had on a previous attempt

i'll try it thanks

[nimble portal]

Local means the particle moves relative to its origin, if that origin moves, so does the particle. World means the particle moves relative to the world, which means the origin of the particle no longer affects its position

[craggy gazelle]

Does anyone know how to animate limbs to stay in one particular position and locking it there? Everytime I try to animate it, it snaps back to its original position

[quick wing]

you need to click the record button (right next to the animation preview button, the red circle)

[clear phoenix]

so I've got a problem with a push animation: I'd like the head to be over the origin rather than the legs (so move back the entire body along the z axis)
any simple way to do this?

[celest lichen]

https://twitter.com/funnyboijulius/status/1529486561150128128?s=21&t=RCFDrcRkrjs-CpENmOO5cg

FunnyBoiJulius (@FunnyBoiJulius)

FunnyBoi Scared Stupid

Model&Render: @KennethCrooker1 Animated by Me

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[soft monolith]

Anyone know why my model does this the moment I hit to record animation?

it is not normally a super thin monster

it also scaled WAY up

like, maybe the bones actually expanded out super far, and that's the vertices trying to keep up?

but why would the bones do that?

[compact marten]

bone scales are off by a factor of 100. ensure you're always exporting your model from blender with "Apply scalings" set to FBX All

when you go from one scale setting to another, I recommend exporting as a new FBX, and using Pumkin's avatar tools to copy everything you did on the old model to the new one

[soft monolith]

that fixed it thank you

I have a new problem now though.
I'm trying to animate the gravity for a bone changing, and I have the animation, and I tested it, and the animation is correctly setting the value for the bone gravity, but it doesnt actually take effect unIess I click the parameter. Like it isnt checking that it updated and then when I click it it does.
Has anyone gotten animations with the new bones to work?

[mint solstice]

Does anyone know if you can place an object at the local player's position? For instance, have something show at the local player's feet in a non-synced way.

[mint solstice]

Better question, is it possible to make something face the camera and be able to make it go towards or away from it.

[dull cosmos]

Like moonwalking?

[obsidian kindle]

I've imported some animations from Blender into Unity but it doesn't seem like my avatar holds the transforms from last frame of the animation when it ends. Anyone know why this might be? If I create the animation in Unity then the last frame is held but I'm trying to import from Blender as an FBX.

[graceful thorn]

can someone explain to me how to make an animation?

[sweet sundial]

Hello. Need some help. I having a little trouble with an animation where it kind of works, but not entirely. Someone suggested the IK might be getting in the way, but I can't get the tracking controller to work on the locomotion layer no matter where I put it. Help?

[hasty crescent]

Does anyone know how to do an animation where you use the slider to make your avatar taller and shorter

[restive tangle]

You can do this, however you do not scale with the avatar, meaning that if you become super large it is similar to piloting a mech of sorts

I believe there is a cany asking for this as a feature so you should stop by there and vote on it as a lot of other people as well desire such an ability.

[oak vale]

for some reason, my friend cannot see my animations (they are not local) and they have my avatar fully shown

im using custom contact for both sender and receiver

[oak vale]

i got it fixed by updating sdk. ill leave my message here so that people with similar problems can look it up.

[austere jay]

Hi! Im making an animation in blender. The issue is that the animation can't be baked because of the modifiers. I've tried other methods like exporting it in mdd file or skrinkwrap framing but those two don't work as im animating a water mesh. I would love to hear some suggestions like blender addons that can bake all kinds of animation or other methods.

[muted prairie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgXzNyxzeDk&ab_channel=VowganVR

Be aware that it's going to be massive in filesize

Even with compression

[austere jay]

i am very aware of that

thanks for the reminder

[nimble portal]

Oh good god use a shader instead of that mess of polygons

[burnt epoch]

I'm trying to learn how to add particles to animations and I watched a tutorial how to add them but it does not work like on the video https://gyazo.com/efcd0dae73e8434c7ad430b3326f0000

Is there other way to add them ?

[restive tangle]

Particles systems will not be active unless you are in play mode

or you have the particle system selected in the inspector

[night parrot]

feedback on lighting?

[modern flax]

looks like little parts of the character and a bit of the table hit by the same light might be a little over exposed but im not a professional at all, im just saying as an guess. although the background and most of the table look great

[night parrot]

yea i tried to get around that but im not great at lighting

and this is kinda why i dont use 3 point lighting that much

[modern flax]

still tho, that environment is really well lit

at least looks well lit

[slim pelican]

was wondering why all(but one) of my animations weren't being animated properly and were reverting back to idle values when played

well Unity had the bright idea to map a few random bones as fingers for some god forsaken reason which caused 20 minutes of confusion

anyone else having this issue there's your answer

[restive tangle]

Looking at it, it looks like you have one large overhead light.
I would change that because it makes all of the shadows quite monotone and all go in the same direction.
Since this seems like an office of sorts, could you make a grid of lights like the florescent ceiling lights in office buildings, the ones with long tube bulbs.
The button also could have a slight red emission which might vie the character a more menacing look. If anything, it would add more lighting and shadows to the scene which it could really use.
More clutter probably would make the scene more interesting, but that could be out of the scope of this.
Lastly, moving the camera might be a good idea. Try to place it in a way to emphasize something about the scene. If you are going for the menacing look, having the character be staring down at the camera would show that a lot better than currently.
Hopefully that was what you were asking about.
Also sorry for the double ping it was an accident

[night parrot]

That’s ok for double ping and I do understand what you said about the grid lights. I did a large key light because I want to light the whole area so that you can see the other scenes more clearly. I only did 3 point lighting. It isn’t supposed to be like scary it is supposed to be a dinosaur reviewing an anime

That’s why the file name is called vortex reviews ex arm

[silk portal]

How do I add and edit FX controllers? I've got a character where their entire face is a texture and I have different face states on the texture sheet. I'm looking to offset these textures and animate them as part of the viseme parameter. I'm making this as a commission, so I'm trying to find a way to get it to work.

[nimble portal]

Animate a flipbook shader and use the viseme parameter as the motion time

[proper fog]

dumb question but it is possible to make a mesh changing value by grabing a receiver and make it actually changing value by the distance of your hand (example roll up a sleeve in a realist way *)

[worldly coyote]

Hellow thar party people!
How awesome would it be to have a "Superhero landing" pose once you're below a Certain threshold? Let's say. Instead of the Courch position you have the full Superhero landing?
Now I've done some stuff already but I can't get the avatar into the proper pose. It's always a few frames before the actual pose

I abused the Locomotion crouch blend tree for this one. So as soon as she moves she goes right into the "Superhero landing" pose.

Even getting rid of the Standing Locomotion will not make her go into the full Landing pose :/

[worldly coyote]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/831604511230787635/982713879618519060/unknown.png This is how the animation is supposed to look

It's like she'd blending from Standing into Superhero. But the Blending stops at 80%

[worldly coyote]

Got it!

[weak reef]

Hey y'all, reply to this so we can use a reply chain please!

I'm attempting to activate an animation on a double tap of a gesture, does anyone have any tips for creating such an FX loop, my current loop is as imaged, with return2sender being the animation i wish to trigger.

As far as my testing goes this does nothing in-game, im pretty sure it's something to do with my janko gesture detection and frame buffers.

Any tips from past projects y'all?

I should add- the gesture check is done in each transition between newstate to 5 frame and 5 frame 0 to Return2Sender

[clear yew]

Hey, so when i created an animation for an sliding door i smoothened the animation a bit at the end so it is not kinda bumping into the wall but more smoothly rolling to the side and it gets slower at the end. but if i actually playing the animation ingame it seems like the animation is not smooth and bumping the door against the wall. is there an way to fix this?

hope it is understandable what i wrote. i'm not native english

[silk portal]

Is there a way to change the default "animation"? I have an Idle pose set as an action in Blender, but the model imported with a crouch pose instead. It's also difficult to get the eye height with a figure that's crouched.

Not sure if it might pose a challenge for getting a tail animation going later on.

[languid wyvern]

One way I've found is to create a dummy animation of the model in it's rest pose with a name that causes it to be sorted to the top of the actions list, _bindPose for example. Blender exports the model in the first keyframe of whatever animation is at the top of the list for some stupid reason.

A better way to do it though would be to have the animations be in a separate FBX that doesn't have the mesh, then copy the avatar of the main model in it's rig configuration.

[lunar crag]

Some of my animations just are not working, supposed to go between these 2 but only showing the first one. same with trying to have wings and antennae able to toggle off and on, and animation shows them only off

[bitter gyro]

Is this for VR or PC? Because VR could just be like Transition on gesture equals, then on not equals, then on equals.

PC I could understand the difference being you have to tap a different function key to change gestures, so it'd be more clunky.

[tardy sedge]

forgot which FX controller slot is real when 2 show up

[compact marten]

hit Reset to default and put your controllers back

[violet moss]

Does VRChat shrink the head, or the neck locally in first person?

I assumed head but I'm still getting unexpected positional shifts of stuff parented to neck

[weak reef]

hii thankyou for responding, truth be told i've put that project on the back burner as another project has come up but i'll bear this in mind when i revisit it

New problem :D

Anyone got experience with having toggleable high heels? where your avatars root changes with them?

[clear yew]

I would like to have a walking animation

my avatar was made for full body

so the animation was turned off can anyone help me

[compact marten]

there is a checkbox in the avatar descriptor for that

under Lower body

[hexed jolt]

does anyone know the name of this dance
or where I could get the unity .anim file? :)

Edit: okay, found it from this channel actually. #animation message
there's a message above

don't need to pay for a dance thats free and common on avatars lmao
...where are all these common, public dances that I see on many public avatars?

[lime prism]

So, I am now trying to set my tail to wag all the time, but it doesnt seem to animate, i made an animation or this and the anim looks good, I'm just not sure if i set this part up right. I am editing vrc_v3AvatarHandsLayer, and have it marked as Gestures

wait, I madey have fixed it

stand by

nope still not animating

[lime prism]

I got its

[wanton dome]

i dmed you but you have em off, i can help lol

[hexed jolt]

try now :D

[glossy quail]

Anyone know where I can find animations?

[elfin rampart]

Mixamo

[quartz ridge]

had a question about a blend tree issue.
so the problem im having is the animations are blending together before going to separate animations.
was wondering if its possible to make the animations instant
https://gyazo.com/46be7cda5d984f44994d8adb51bf53de

[violet moss]

I made an entire stack of MMD shapekeys on my avatar for a dance world. They only trigger if I delete all my custom playable layers. Any idea what could be stopping the world from animating my blendshapes when i have custom playable controllers?

[prisma blade]

i have a tail swaying animation in my gesture layer, but the animation isn't playing even though the state is being powered. im confused
attached what's going on and what should be happening. yes layer weight is set to 1

dead chat ofc

[calm kernel]

the layer weight is set to 1?

also make a mask for the tail bones only

[prisma blade]

what if it's only the tail bones that i animated

i thought i didn't need a mask

but it doesn't change anything

[calm kernel]

then probably another animation in your animator is preventing the tail animation to play properly

using write defaults can actually break things

[prisma blade]

do you know possible causes
because i dont know what to look for

what i dont understand is everything in my FX layer works just fine
but even if i put my tail animation in there, it doesn't do anything

hold up i think i made a discovery (nvm)

[calm kernel]

in that video I can see your layers are not set to 1 on weight

all 4 layers must have that blue line when you hit the play button

[prisma blade]

that's just GestureManager and it's been noted that it's normal

when im not in play mode they are all light gray lines

the working layers in the FX are also greyed out when in play mode with GestureManager active

[calm kernel]

anyways check the guides online, remember you have to create a copy of your avatar on the hierachy becasue you can break things if you attempt to test animators on your main avatar from the scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNUNOrHmOrQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eiu7jMC7mgg

the creator of that video hasn't submitted the updated one but what he's doing is exactly the same mentioned in this forum entry: https://ask.vrchat.com/t/gesture-layer-animations-not-playing/3624

[prisma blade]

hey it worked
why, idk
is it a bug in the current version?

i basically just copy-pasted the Tail layer from the gestures into the FX and it just works

mesmerizing

[noble shell]

You dont need 'any state' for that one 🔨 🐇 (masks only needed if you use wd off, since thats its 'workaround' )

that one is in gesture controller ^

[terse glen]

Here's a way to fix this issue in an easier way, though not 100% sure what you have there, but this should fix since I had same issue with a friend not long ago.
1- If you have PB in it, at the bottom of the script, there's a checkbox for animated. Check it and it should make it work properly.
2- Use the next bone of the tail as the one that sways.
Try one of the methods, not both.
Also it only needs to be in Gesture Layer, FX doesn't really work from what the doc said.

[prisma blade]

working good for me in the fx layer

[graceful thorn]

im trying to learn how to make an animation i can use in unity and i dont know where to start, i came to decision to make one because i cant find one in other places. if anyone is willing to teach me or give me a link to an explanation i would appreciate it

[elfin rampart]

Maybe start with the sort of animation you're trying to make so we can get the broad strokes of what might be involved. Is this an object animation or a body animation? Or something else?

[graceful thorn]

the thing is i dont know where to start i dont even know where i should make em, blender or unity

body animation

[elfin rampart]

For that, you need to start with a model that is rigged. Simplest way to do that is to auto-rig your model with Mixamo, then you can just select one of the animations from the library (export with skin) and you've got an animated model. There will likely be some weight paint issues but just look up weight paint on Youtube and you can find details about cleaning that up.

[graceful thorn]

i did rig my model and i have tested it in vrc it has full finger traking and all

what im trying to learn is how to make animations for the body to make actions like point up with its hand or down. simple animations to start

[elfin rampart]

Mixamo has most of that stuff available for you already but if you want to learn animation, you'll probably want to start in Blender as animating bones in Unity is possible but kind of clunky. Then you need to set up your animation layers in Unity which is kind of complicated but there are tutorials for that out there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duGHtPOL7VA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs4nYknW5ZA

[graceful thorn]

i have added animations that were premade to my character but i had not found an explanation on how to make animations i have tested mixamo and it has worked but i dont understand how to get the animation and not the fbx file with the model

[elfin rampart]

So long as all the bones are the same (they should be if you're using all Mixamo characters) you should just be able to drag the animation from the one you downloaded from Mixamo into your animator for the character you intend to use.

[graceful thorn]

so i paste the fbx i download form mixamo

into unity and get the animation from that?

this is what i got

[elfin rampart]

You paste the animation contained in that FBX into the animator on the object you want to animate. If that doesn't work, you could just copy all the keyframes in the animation panel from the rig with the animation and paste them into a new animation on the model you want animated.

[graceful thorn]

there are many things i want to do with this avatar and animations is one of em, also the first video makes an anim file?

so i make animations in blender?

[elfin rampart]

Yeah, if you want to make your own animations, I'd use blender. It is technically possible in Unity but Unity doesn't have a post mode where you can easily select and pose bones so the only option you have is to go into the hierarchy to find the bone you want to pose and then once it's selected in the hierarchy, you can pose it with the gizmo if you have the recording button enabled in the animation window. Doable but cumbersome.

[graceful thorn]

ok im using the first video rn to make a simple pose as an animation, to make raise my finger to the sky

[graceful thorn]

hey @elfin rampart im having some problems in animation of blender can i show you in a call?

[elfin rampart]

Kind of busy with my own stuff at the moment, maybe tomorrow if you haven't got it by then. Could you explain the issue? Is the animation not working at all or acting weirdly? To keyframe the animation, you either need to have automatic keying on (which I don't like, personally) or select the bone you posed and press i and in that menu, select the transformations you want to keyframe but that should all be covered in the video.

[graceful thorn]

like imtrying to add the key frames but when i add new keyframes the old ones mecome the same position as the new ones in the later frames

[elfin rampart]

Everything past your last keyframe will stay in the position that the last keyframe was in. If you want it to go back to the initial position, you need to keyframe that and then you can copy and paste or duplicate that keyframe

I would finish the video if you haven't, it seems comprehensive

[graceful thorn]

but the thing is its not working

i have seen the video i was now following what he did

when i add a key frame in a later part of the frames the old one goes to the smae pose the new one is in

and to be honest i dont know why

[elfin rampart]

Is it possible that you didn't keyframe all the relevant properties in the old keyframe? If you just keyframe position in frame 1 and then you keyframe rotation in frame 10, then frame 1 will inherit that rotation because you haven't specified that you want to keyframe rotation on frame 1.

[graceful thorn]

this is the first thing i do

i select all bones

i then use i and select location and add thoes keyframes

but if i try to do the same in a later frame it does not worm

work

it rerwites the first frame

[elfin rampart]

Well, that's rotation so if you're keyframing position, nothing is going to happen.

location, rather.

[graceful thorn]

ok i made it

a fast 15 frames animation

[elfin rampart]

Nice, not too much more to it than that other than using the graph editor where you can change the interpolation type and alter your animation in other ways like smoothing and simplifying keyframes but that isn't strictly necessary.

[graceful thorn]

ye i did smothe it a little but not much

what i want to know now is how is it that i can add this to the unity of the avatar

[elfin rampart]

If you select the armature and the mesh and export FBX with selected game objects only selected in the export options, you should be able to find the animation in the menu to the right of the FBX and then you can move that into your animation layer where your dances are. The triangles are what animations look like

[graceful thorn]

so i make an fbx file and inside i need to extract it now?

if i want to make that animations stay in the salt frame at the end i need to make it a togle animation no?

[elfin rampart]

You're not really extracting anything, just using the animation that's embedded in the FBX but yeah, you export from Blender as an FBX file and the animation should be there.

I think so, I'm not real well versed on the Unity side of animating but there are lots of tutorials on that

[graceful thorn]

ok thank you

ok so it didnt export as 1 animation i see

ill take a min and be back then continue asking for help thanks everyone

[elfin rampart]

You can use the action editor to name your various animations so they aren't all just armature|action.xxx but I didn't want to get into that. Just look up action editor blender on Youtube if you're curious about that. It's probably important if you plan on having several animations and want to keep them straight.

[graceful thorn]

i would like for the animation to be 1 .anim file and not 4 for each change in wich i set cordinates for the bones that then make the frames i hand put bezier so they connect

[elfin rampart]

Yeah, I don't know why you're getting multiple animation files if it's a singe animation in Blender, might have something to do with your export settings. I would look into the action editor, if all the transforms are playing in a single action, then they should export as such as well.

[graceful thorn]

i mean i am doing one single animation no?

mybe im doing 4 and i think im doing 1\

[elfin rampart]

If you look at your timeline and see one set of keyframes that do everything you want to do, then that should be one animation. I don't really know, I might be able to look into it more in-depth tomorrow.

What you could do is copy the keyframes from each animation and past them into a new one inside of the animation panel in Unity but this shouldn't be necessary.

[graceful thorn]

like i got this

[elfin rampart]

That all looks like one action to me. Is it not coming into Unity that way when you play ArmatureAction.001?

[graceful thorn]

ill try to import it again

sorry

export it

nop

still 4

[elfin rampart]

Okay but does one of those animations do the same thing as the same animation in Blender?

You may have made other actions on accident but you don't have to use those.

[graceful thorn]

one is called Armature|ArmatureAction the next is Armature|ArmatureAction.001 next is Armature|Armature|Armature|ArmatureAction and last is Armature|Key.002|Armature|ArmatureAction

i got no idea wich one is for what

[elfin rampart]

From your last image, the animation is called ArmatureAction.001. If you click on that and look in the inspector, does it do the thing when you hit the play button?

It's easy to accidentally create new actions and weirdly hard to get rid of them but so long as one does what you want, just use that one.

[graceful thorn]

so i extract em and how do i see how they look in unity

like how do i test em

[elfin rampart]

You just click on them in your project window (the triangle with the woosh) and then they could appear in your inspector with a play button at the bottom. You can also go through them in the animation window.

[graceful thorn]

ok problem

i cant extract em from prefab

[elfin rampart]

You don't need to extract anything, I don't know where you got this idea of extraction. You just use them for your animations. You should be able to go into the emote animation controller and reassign one of them to use this instead, the dance video should cover that.

[graceful thorn]

but i now have 2 models 1 that has all the stuff already configured but they have the same bones

[elfin rampart]

Are they the same model? The simplest thing would be just to overwrite your original FBX with the new one.

[graceful thorn]

you sure it will work and fuck anything up?

[elfin rampart]

Oh, and your rig should be set to humanoid, that will make it easier to transfer animations.

You can always copy your original FBX to another directory if you're concerned but so long as the only difference is the animations you added, it shouldn't effect anything.

[graceful thorn]

ok i want you to see something just in case

ive put the model i just made with the animation and it looks like the animation in its last frame

[elfin rampart]

You probably exported it posed. Go into pose mode and reset all the tranforms (alt + g, alt + r, alt + s) then export it again.

You should have all the bones selected to reset all the transforms everywhere.

[graceful thorn]

like this?

i had the thing in 0 when i hir alt in all thoes

was that what you meant?

[elfin rampart]

You don't want to be in your animation while doing this, though it should still reset it until you go to another keyframe. Does it start in a t-pose in frame one? You should just be able to export it on frame 1 if it is.

[graceful thorn]

in frame 0 is in tpose in frame 1 is like this

so i do all the alts in object mode?

[elfin rampart]

Frame 0 is fine, export it from frame 0, though that is going to look awkward if it's changing position that dramatically in 1 frame. You do the alts in pose mode.

But they get reset once you got to a different frame.

[graceful thorn]

i dont know of that the video you showed me it didnt explain that

[elfin rampart]

Well, that's how you reset a bone if you've posed it, alt + g for translation/location, alt + r for rotation, and alt + s for scale

[graceful thorn]

i do that in pose mode?

[elfin rampart]

You do

[graceful thorn]

also i meant how to export from frame 0

[elfin rampart]

Go to frame 0 and export using the export menu

[graceful thorn]

ok

now its in the same tpose as my previous versions

and one of the 4 animations in the fbx is the one i want?

[elfin rampart]

Yup, ArmatureAction.001. This is why it's good to name things in the action editor as you don't want to have to remember that but you can always preview them in the animation window

[graceful thorn]

question what if i want to get the animation out of the fbx

[elfin rampart]

Easiest thing is probably just to copy and paste the keyframes to the animations on another rig. You should just be able to drag it into another animator but you might have to have the rig set to humanoid. I think that's probably enough for now.

[graceful thorn]

ok, btw i can test how animations look in unity no? i dont need to launch vrc each time to test

[elfin rampart]

That's what the animation window is for. If it isn't open, it's in windows.

And I've confirmed you can in fact drag animations from different models into other model's animators but these are humanoids so that might make a difference.

Just so long as all the bones have the same names

[graceful thorn]

ok but i mean if i can see it moving and how from the animation window

for me it looks like the same from blender the windrow where i made the animation

[elfin rampart]

You find the animation in the pulldown menu and you play it. That one looks empty, try another one.

It also might not work if it doesn't exist anywhere in your animator

If the animation is deleted in the animator, it just won't show up at all so something must be wrong with the exported animation but you got it working before so retrace your steps, I can't look at every detail of your process.

[graceful thorn]

the hell did i do

i cant do anything

ok fixed it so this is what i see of the animation it wont let me hit play

[elfin rampart]

Perhaps because it's read only, though that shouldn't effect it. Try copying and pasting the keyframes to a new clip.

[graceful thorn]

ok

hm

still cant test it

ill pop into vr

[elfin rampart]

Just know that you have to have your animation layers set up properly and I don't really know that part well, though I have done it a few times.

[graceful thorn]

well

it broke

compleatly

trying stuff

yooo it worked

i have no idea how i fixed it but it works and now im happy thanks

thanks again krampus

[elfin rampart]

Sure. no worries. Pass the knowledge on.

[graceful thorn]

so i just realised my voice-sync broke, blender shows me the voicesyncs but when i load in vrc it does not move form the basic

[elfin rampart]

Your visemes? Those are just shape keys on the model, there should be a button in the avatar descriptor to auto detect them.

[clear yew]

if i made a custom blink animation out of the avatars blendshapes where do i add that animation on the avi so it just had that blinking by defualt?

[elfin rampart]

I don't have the eyes rigged in this one yet but it shows where you assign the blink shape

[compact marten]

you don't need to make an animation at all, you just need the blendshape

you specify that blendshape in the avatar descriptor

[clear yew]

yeah but i dont want normal blinking im trying to copy the same slow derped eyes as the derp avatars but on a different model

[compact marten]

then set the eyelids type to None, and put your animation in your FX controller in a new layer

[clear yew]

oh thank you it works now

[velvet mica]

im trying to make it play the first one on loop. then when you click the button plays the next animation and when it finishes it plays another loop until interupted by the button press again making it play a non looping animation going back to the looping static animation

[velvet mica]

any advice would be appreciated

[velvet mica]

anyone?

[graceful thorn]

does anyone know how to make it so you can aim your arm in desktop

[ancient ore]

Are the finger positions for index hand presence a parameter that can be used and assigned in unity?

i.e. a float value for left/right idnex, middle, ring, pinky?

or do i have to brute force it with contacts

[compact marten]

not exposed, either use contacts or a steamvr driver app with OSC

[crystal surge]

Does anyone can share some animations? I already got so many but i need much much more.

[elfin rampart]

Mixamo is a good source, you should specify what you need.

[graceful thorn]

does anyone know how to make it so your arm moves with your head? like for my arm to follow my vision and stay in the middle

[young hearth]

Hello, i am trying to animate an animation toggle for alternate outfit/skin whichever you wanna call it. Everytime i tried animating Element 4 shader material and then Element 2, both will use 1 texture only and not separate textures despite i manually chosen each differently.
Does anyone know why its mixing it up and how to fix it? Why does Unity think both of them shares the same "Element" material?

[graceful thorn]

hey how do i make an animation move in the x and y axis when i hit record it does not save for the animation when i play it

cos when i make an animation it make the avatar go down

in fetal position in the middle of the floor

[noble shell]

unity bug, avoid 2 & 4 , not sure if they have fixed it yet on 2021+ version

[young hearth]

bruh moment

[young hearth]

i assume its to animate for an avatar. Move it back up on the axis line and animate it accordingly, once done, just delete the first few keyframes(diamonds) and it will remove the part where the avatar go down.

[remote hawk]

https://gyazo.com/921a0cc971d6508fc152d0f4f1fb89df .....what

That is literally unfixable btw, it works every other way except the way I want it

[muted prairie]

Even by manually setting values for the X rotation ?

[remote hawk]

Yeah, I've tried all I can think of

https://gyazo.com/7be86cad3e55d018b0483c1aa614547b Super cursed!

[muted prairie]

ok but did you actually record a keyframe like that

[remote hawk]

Mhm, I guess I just need to parent an empty to it for now

[winter kestrel]

middle-finger isn't a hand pose, so i made it one q:

[subtle walrus]

https://youtu.be/qKmB8fqyGwY

[bitter glacier]

hello! i recently got into avatar customization and i've been looking through some things about animations in Unity, but it all sounds really confusing...
so i have a question: Is there any way to import animations from blender into Unity? i believe i have a better grasp of Blender animation than Unity so that'd save me quite a headache

[elfin rampart]

Yeah, that's what pretty much everyone does, creating bone animations in Unity sucks. You basically just make them in Blender, export as fbx, and then expand the fbx in the project tab in Unity and look for the triangle with the 3 woosh lines, those are your animations.

[bitter glacier]

Thank you!

[proper wadi]

I looked this up, and it says i need to set the rig to humanoid, but there is no rig tab

[elfin rampart]

You change that by clicking the FBX in the project tab, then you should have a few options in the inspector, one of them being rig.

[proper wadi]

where is it?

[elfin rampart]

Do you have the object selected in your project tab? It still looks selected in the hierarchy.

The project tab is at the bottom.

[proper wadi]

Got it, thanks

[flint bison]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/676269823554224181/994275762385457222/Flip_to_roll.gif

Overhauled my Locomotion layer to let me do parkour

[muted prairie]

That's sick

[flint bison]

Also made a new jumping system, that takes speed, direction, and upward/downward velocity into account for the animation

Higher jump height automatically adjusts the "animation" to always fit

Landing roll triggered by downward speed

Togglable randomized (synced) flips when I jump

[elfin rampart]

That sounds pretty advanced. If you could package that into something reusable, I think a lot of people would buy it.

[languid wyvern]

That is officially the coolest thing I've seen this week.

[crisp dew]

Does anyone here know how to make their avatar look around in the avatars tab

[noble shell]

animate in avatar selection ?

add any animation here it will do only do it before you 'wear' it

[ preview ]

[crisp dew]

What is that?

I also want it to animate while i have it on

[covert dome]

Could someone help me out with my project?

[storm moon]

Does anybody know why my sword resets like this? I use a parent constraint to place it into my hand, but when I toggle it off, and reset its position, it goes here. The reset position animation works in Unity'

[storm moon]

frame 2 is the same

[storm moon]

I'm probably not doing it correctly, but I fixed it by adding another parent constraint to force it back

[tiny mango]

Adding toggles to my avatar but for some reason its stuck in animator pose in game. The first toggle I had added didn't have this problem but when I added this second one it came up. Fixed it by resetting locomotion controller, Still don't know what I changed to cause the problem

Its T posed in the scene as well

[dawn tree]

So I'm working on getting a custom animation working in VRChat. It's a gun with a rotating barrel using bones, initially started out shrunk down until it's deployed...using basic bones as part of the rig. I got the animator working in Unity all fine, but in VRChat it doesn't play.

I tried both action layer and gesture layer in separate instances, simplified the animator to run a single animation...but no dice, tried removing any avatar masks for the gun bones, and I've tried playing the basic VRChat proxy emotes but they don't play either and instead the avatar T-poses as if wanting to play something but missing the animations. When I was using the action layer, I made sure the VRChat playable layer value was turned on during the animation and off when it was done. Also, the expression menu I made for it toggles variables appropriately so probably not that.

The complex gun animator logic is changing the correct variables at the right time in debug view, but the animations don't show it. Any idea what could be happening?

[compact marten]

if the gun is not part of your armature, set it up under FX with an avatar mask on the layer to not allow any bones in your armature to be animated

[dawn tree]

The gun is attached to the base rig and mesh. I want to try to keep it all together. It should work, right?

[lunar crag]

Made a tail wag anim and can’t get it to work right. It either doesn’t wag in game or makes me go into the ground. Show of it paused in Unity if it helps.

I have it on locomotion/ base layer rn

[noble shell]

try tail wags on its own layer in gesture instead

[dawn tree]

WOOO I got animation on extra bones WORKING!!!
I tested a bunch and found out that, if I set the FX layer off in my animator, my animations would play in my custom gesture/hands layer. This led me to make a mask for the FX layer. I then found out emotes on the action layer also overrode my gesture layer, so I masked that out too. WooP!

How to make a custom animation alongside your rig:
Ok, so I put my gun animation on the gesture/hands layer. Then, the most important part, is that you must have a custom action layer and a custom FX layer, and both of those layers need to have a mask that masks out your extra bones so that they aren't overridden.

[hybrid wind]

so i have base locomotion setup and it works when using keyboard short cuts but id like to add poses to a toggle menu so i can laydown and or sit in vr half body

[hybrid wind]

anyone hav any tutorials on how to do poses / idle change

[crystal surge]

Anyone here got some bowing animations? 🙇‍♂️

[elfin rampart]

Mixamo has a couple https://www.mixamo.com/#/?page=2&query=bow

[crystal surge]

You're right. Totally forgot. Only 1 animation there but still. Thanks

[elfin rampart]

There's a formal and an informal bow, they're pretty similar aside from the formality but you can also adjust the settings to tweak them a bit.

[flint bison]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/847027748806590495/997706906917408778/Cloak_Preview.gif

Cloak

When I raise an arm from beside me, it automatically moves the cloak to the back position for that side

there are also manual toggles

[muted prairie]

Very cool use of the system !

[hard heron]

so basically my friend gave me his jonny joestar avatar with tusk the tusk has like fingerpoint animations that toggle the summon animation and the barrage animation but im trying to figure out how to attach tusk with the animations to the luxray avatar that i have here with all of it rigging properly. Can anyone help me? much appreciated

[frail plover]

So I'm looking to convert this animation into a meme thing (Because my stream forced me to) but I'm wondering if it's possible to even stick the animation exported from Blender into a humanoid rig...Last time I did this, it told me the rig wasn't supported, so I'm wondering how to get it functioning
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/801246733732544562/998336676218814524/AHA2.mp4

(Yes, laugh, please.)

[elfin rampart]

You'll want to look into retargeting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLe5zfjJ8Jc

[frail plover]

So do you have any experience with this plugin specifically at all that I could ask a question with it?

[elfin rampart]

I do my retargeting with Auto Rig Pro but that's a paid program. The process is pretty similar, though, and I think Rokoko is pretty popular for retargeting so it doesn't hurt to ask.

[frail plover]

So I guess the main thing to ask, do I have to do the animation inside of Rokoko before doing the animation in Blender? I already have the animation made in Blender, hence why I'm wondering.

Since the animation from Blender of course doesn't actually function in Unity, as far as I can tell.

[elfin rampart]

No, it should work with any animated FBX file. Rokoko is just use to take the skeleton from the animation and assign those bone transforms to the matching bones on the armature you want to bring into Unity.

[frail plover]

Ahhh, so I can take the skeleton of the exported FBX in Rokoko and apply it in Blender with the add-on, then.

Correct?

[elfin rampart]

Yeah

[frail plover]

So then the question lies...how do I make my own custom one through Blender and apply it, or is that not a possibility?

Or do I just have to reverse the process, and "retarget" a skeleton to my armature on the one I animated?

[elfin rampart]

I thought you wanted to transfer the animation to a humanoid rig so the animation you have would be the source and the humanoid rig would be the target.

[frail plover]

Well, so, I made an animation in Blender using pose mode -- Animated it, and turned it into an animation. I wish to use that animation in Unity, on an avatar, as a dance. I'm moreso doing this as a learning experience.

@elfin rampart

It works, of course, with the avatar being a "Generic" rig, but as a humanoid rig, it does not work.

[elfin rampart]

Okay, well VRChat does tend to prefer humanoid rigs so I would recommend rigging your character with a humanoid rig and then you retarget by using the one you have as the source and the humanoid rig as the target.

[frail plover]

Okay so just to clarify this then...

My animation has the skeleton started outside of T-pose,

I use the skeleton of my "Animated" skeleton as the source,

And have another rig that is T-Posed as the "Target"

[elfin rampart]

Yup, then the animation will be stored in the humanoid FBX and you can add the dance in the animation controller in Unity. I recommend watching a video about adding VRChat dances if you aren't familiar with that part.

[frail plover]

I've added dances before so I'm not a stranger to it, I'm just trying to figure out how to get the animation to function properly. Bone movements do not work inside of Unity when exported from Blender, so I needed to figure out how to get it to function properly.

[elfin rampart]

Bone movements do indeed work inside of Unity so long as they're using the correct names for the bones which is why you retarget.

[frail plover]

Yeah, in the preview pane, the ears and tail would move, but the body wouldn't...

[elfin rampart]

Is this post-retargeting? You can maybe check the animation panel and see if the bone references are there but you definitely can export bone animations to Unity.

[flint bison]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/798343475572637706/998354474412294255/Cloak_Hood_Shadow.gif

Hood with shadows

[frail plover]

Well, this was when I just did bone transformations in Blender, exported the model, took the animation, and then applied it on the avatar.

Also, I should note, I just did an animation retarget and for some reason the avatar appears off in the distance somewhere, and it's rotated backwards and in the fetal curled position pose.

But yet in Blender, it looks like the animation has gone through fine and works properly.

It shows that things are missing for transformations.

But everything is there perfectly fine.

I noticed that it looks significantly different to the other MMD things I've worked with, too, honestly.

Everything basically resets to zero when I play the animation.

[elfin rampart]

The model jumping to a particular position is usually caused by the hips being keyframed which control the position of the model in space. You can usually just remove those keyframes. Not sure why it's missing certain bone poses, did the bone list build properly? The process is very similar to the process I use in my program but I just know if all of the bones on the source armature are translating to the target armature, then it should work but I haven't used this particularly program. There are also more complete tutorials for using Rokoko studio if you want something more in depth but if it looks fine in Blender, I'm not sure what might be going awry on the Unity end if you understand the process of adding animations to an avatar.

[frail plover]

I'll show you this, then, might be easier since I'm following how the targeting should work,

Source and target

Built bone list

After I retarget the animation,

Which it then runs perfectly fine in Blender,

I'm exporting explicitly the armature with the animation as an FBX

[elfin rampart]

Are you even using a different armature? All those bone names look to be the same.

[frail plover]

Isn't it just binding the armature to the names of the bones of the source?

Or am I required to use a different one?

[elfin rampart]

It's basically finding the bones of the new old armature and mapping them to the corresponding bones on the new one. If you're using the same armature, you can just open up the animation in the action editor and copy and past the keyframe to the other armature. No need to retarget if all the bone names are the same. I just though the idea was that this was a generic rig and you wanted to retarget to a humanoid.

[frail plover]

The rig is technically already set up as "Humanoid",

Let me show you what happens.

This is currently what is set up inside of the animation, it is bone movements.

This is what happens when I play it.

https://gyazo.com/eeee71f3577ffb549349689525d98413

It plays fine on a rig marked as "Generic" without any further problems.

https://gyazo.com/1ec8f2e1865bf8b664d6e1fa16ac1bf6

[elfin rampart]

Hmm, I'm not sure, there are clearly keyframes in there but you'd have to look at the animation curves to see if they're doing anything. You also might want to look at the rig configuration to make sure all the bones are assigned.

[frail plover]

But yet why do the ears and tail move, but nothing else does?

And for some reason, these bones just simply don't move during the preview, even though there are keyframes.

I just used Pose mode inside of Blender to animate the bones moving.

[elfin rampart]

I'm not sure, it's possible those keyframes are there but not doing anything or the rig isn't configured right. Animations tend to break kind of easily. You would need to look at the curves to see if there's any actual transformation that is supposed to happen.

[frail plover]

Er... ._.

But yeah, even for hips it shows something is supposed to happen.

Same with the knee,

[elfin rampart]

If you expand the FBX in the project tab and click on the animation, does it show in the preview window in the inspector?

[frail plover]

It shows the preview pane, yes.

[elfin rampart]

Okay, well that means the animation has made it into Unity properly, it's just not playing in the scene. I'm a little stumped, I have seen this behavior before but I usually just end up bringing the model back into the scene and it works itself out eventually. Animations are finicky.

[frail plover]

OOOOOO

I DID IT

https://gyazo.com/655c9688d7204e110738ff19f733af74

Okay so,

It's still broken to an extent because the blendshapes are off BUT,

I had to sit and take the FBX of the imported generic model I made,

Convert it into a humanoid rig from its generic state and COPY from the other avatar,

And now I can apply my animation on it properly.

The blendshapes are currently messed up however.

[elfin rampart]

🤷 Whatever works

[frail plover]

Which actually, it's because the Blendshapes in Blender are set to 0.

But it works

I just had to remove the states of the blendshapes from the animation

And on top of that...Things are appearing like normal now.

Still, very peculiar.

It just looks like there's something with Unity that it just doesn't like with humanoid rigs unless you take a generic one initially, convert it over, and use the skeletal rig of a normal humanoid one.

[elfin rampart]

Exporting blendshape animations from Blender is definitely possible but it's even more finicky than bone animations and trying to do them both at once seems particularly annoying. If it's not to complex, I'd just recreate your blendshape animation in Unity or export it out as a separate animation in Blender and then copy and paste those channels from the blendshape animation onto your bone animation.

I've taken animations from Mixamo and retargeted them to humanoid rigs and then played that inside of Unity so it's definitely possible but sometimes you run into confusing issues.

[frail plover]

Scratch that, I'm dumb and just realized what I did, my bad~

[mossy field]

Does anyone have PayPal

[tardy sedge]

I added a dance to my actions layer, yet the animation is locked to the hip. Is there a way to make sure it moves with the animation? The state before entering the animation is checked to animate all parts.

[tardy sedge]

my anim files became like this

[quaint kestrel]

i have a submenu where i can change my size, i basically just made 4 animations where i scaled my model to different sizes.
but the small one is flying in the air and if i move it teleports to the ground.
any ideas how to fix that

[uncut ibex]

is it possible with the sender and reciever stuff to be able to use integers for them? i was told itll only allow bools to be used with it. I want to make a card system similar to wizard 101 where it takes a set amount of cards and shuffles them and allows me pull them out and actually pick the right card
https://gyazo.com/5b846d96adb4fbefcf7149890b6b1199
Gyazo
Gyazo
Gyazo
this is how i currently have it and i have to go through several menus to toggle each one on and off and stuff like that. But im wondering how i may be able to make a more seamless and efficient way of selecting cards and in turn selecting said card activates the spell casting for that card

[steel belfry]

my friend is on a search for some stripper dance emotes

i have a few that are converted from mmd but i was curious if you guys could direct me to some more?

[elfin rampart]

😲 VRChat is a good Christian platform

[severe loom]

Size change in VRchat is not a thing today

There is a desktop limitation since it is one tracker

But FBT or simple 3 tracking system does not support it since your Trackers will not scale with you

[quaint kestrel]

ok thank you

[flint bison]

Anybody know why VRChat likes to break my walk cycle when I'm moving while doing custom movements? (and how to fix it?)

It fixes itself when I stop moving, but I'd like to not have to stop for it to fix itself

[main grail]

Im having issues with animation transitions, When the animation fully plays after it goes to the next animations it replays a bit of the previous one

[solid fable]

Does anyone have a good reference for creating animations? I have done a couple quick searches but all the guides I find are of importing pre-made animations. I want to create my own. At the very least I want to replace the slouchy default idle animation with a more natural looking one. Any help would be appreciated!

[clear yew]

anyone have the walking anim?

or were i can get it

i need it for show cases

[severe loom]

look in VRc folder

something regarding locomotion layer

or blend tree

[elfin rampart]

It's easier and generally better to create animations in Blender. There are thousands of tutorials for animating in Blender, though I don't have a specific recommendation.

[clear yew]

oop thanks

i thought it was a download anims not default

[radiant sphinx]

(For a world) Currently trying to create an animation while listening to the music to sync it up correctly, however I don't know how to have the audio playing in the editor without using CyanEmu, which just plays the whole thing from the start. Is there any way to have audio playing during animation tests?