3d-modeling

[tough plover]

yea doing a normalmap to correct for blendshapes would work

I did that for my chest, same for AO

[tidal rover]

Can someone please help, I am trying to make my first avatar and every time I try to connect the head to the body it does this.

I’ve tried everything I feel like

[tough plover]

first off, don't merge the vertices one by one. make sure the two loops you're joining have the same amount of vertices, then select both of them (alt + click to select a loop, hold shift to select the second one). then right click and select Bridge edge loops. if you want the two to be "welded" together, tick Merge in the box in the bottom left

if the shading looks weird, select the entire area affected, and do alt + N > Reset vectors

[thorn mango]

Is anyone really good at uploading models

And can help me out

[harsh saddle]

Uploading is just pressing a button so I'm not sure you can be good or bad at that. Are you looking for avatar optimization tips?

[thorn mango]

Its telling me i have tuns of stuff to do

[thorn mango]

Boop Me Installation:

1. Import the latest SDK, Poiyomi 8.0.426, and the Boop Me! Unity package
2. Drag in the Prefab, Unpack it, and then drag it under your avatar
3. Drag the Boop, Headpat, And Pull Game objects to underneath your avatar's head bone
4. Size the contacts to your liking and position them so they are at the top of your avatars head and around your avatars nose but not overlapping to prevent hitting both contacts at once
5. Plug in the bone that you desire to be pulled in the Root Transform for the Pull object
6. Plug your avatar's head bone into the parent constraint on Boop Me!
7. If the bone you are using already has dynamic settings, be sure to copy the settings over (keep the Parameter as Pull and allow for grabbing) and remove the existing physbone from the original bone.
8. Merge the FX layer using the Avatar 3.0 Manager by VRLabs
9. Copy over the parameters from the parameter list.
10. Add the Boop Me! Sub menu to your expression menu.
11. Enjoy!

I am new to this

[tidal rover]

I do not see the bridge edge loops option when right clicking

[harsh saddle]

Sounds like the process is pretty well documented but it's a lot more helpful to know you're looking for help in adding a specific prefab instead of just looking for someone that knows how to upload avatars. I've uploaded dozens of avatars but this is the first I'm hearing of this prefab.

[thorn mango]

Damn

Ok ty

[tough plover]

make sure you're in edge selection, or use ctrl + E

[tidal rover]

Thank you! I figured it out

[red glade]

Working on a new fit, Any ideas on how to make more optimized Neck chains

Because something like this wil easily build up to an abnormal amount of vertices

Jewelry in general is kinda high poly,

[harsh saddle]

My first inclination would be 2 planes with inverse normals with transparent link textures, then just duplicate and rotate 90 degrees. Won't work for Quest if that is a concern. In that case, I'd use simple cylinders with a dark grey color on the inside so you don't need to model the inside of the chain and with how small they are, the lack of an actual hole would likely be hard to see unless you got really close.

You might not even need to duplicate the faces if the backfaces are always up against the model.

[red glade]

Yea thats roughly what i was thinking,

Uhm, Thing is you have the problem as you said with qeust then again. I wouldnt really mind.

But wdym with cylinders Like this?

[harsh saddle]

If you use cubes like that for Quest, then you're going to have black space all around the rings which might look bad, if you used cylinders instead, just the inside would have that black space. And I would have then intersecting at different angles to give the impression they're overlapping, maybe not at 90 degrees, that 's more of what you'd have if the chain was hanging down vs lying on a surface but they should be overlapping and be at some sort of angle

[tough plover]

for quest, I would just ditch it entirely tbh

for PC, you can do it in quite a few ways

the cheapest one would be to have a series of flat planes with a cutout texture and a normal map

[harsh saddle]

Yeah, it might still be kind of polygon heavy for Quest but I guess it's up to you were you want to spend your polygon budget and you probably just want to model the part of the chain that will be seen. It could also just be part of the shirt texture.

[red glade]

Thats what im thinking right now, Just making it part of the shirt texture

[tough plover]

yea that would work too

bake the normals and it'll still have depth

[red glade]

Yup exactly

Lemme test that

[azure rain]

baking it onto the shirt would probably be best for Quest

[red glade]

Not bad,

Lemme add AO rq onto the base color

[azure rain]

cool

[red glade]

Honestly it ill do

Thanks for the ideas 🙂

[azure rain]

glad to be of help figured most people aren't going to be stuffing their nose in close enough to notice the difference

[red glade]

Yea exactly, At that point its just for the illusion

And if they do most people whont even notice it, Unless they also know about baking/3D stuff

[weak ermine]

Does anyone know how to move part of a UV map to another UV map

For example a model I'm working on has 2 UV maps and I need to move the UV shell for one part to the other UV map, overriding where the UVs are and how they deform on UV set 1

[tepid knot]

Anyone know how to mask parts of a mesh in Substance Painter? I'm trying to retexture a model for myself and I'm alright with drawing most of the details on. But if I could learn to mask parts of the model I'm sure I can get cleaner lines lol

[safe ferry]

Not sure if I'm gonna use it in vrc as a world yet, but using it to learn hard surface Modelling, the hanger door is the detail level i will be going for.

[tough plover]

would moving the UVs from the 2nd UV map to the first cause them to overlap with existing UVs?

[spiral sigil]

if i make a uniquely shaped room or structure in blender and put it into unity for a vrc world, does unity follow the shape in terms of collision or should i chop it into individual pieces to simplify and import those instead?

[jagged moat]

if you attach a mesh collider it will make any object have collision no matter its shape however mesh colliders can be quite performance heavy so make sure to not use them on complex meshes or you'll find your performance will take a hit

[spiral sigil]

hmm so its better to import say each wall individually instead of importing the room structure as a whole? its pretty complex, its like a 2 story building with a bunch of stairs and stuff

[jagged moat]

Thar, or another way would be to have a bunch of gameobjects with colliders on seperate to the world which you position in the right place. So if you have to reimport the mesh you don't have to add all the colliders again

[spiral sigil]

i see i see, i'll look into that :3 i never made a vrc world so you might see more of me, thanks :D

[tough plover]

afaik, you would add a bunch of primitive colliders like cubes and planes to "outline" the room

mesh colliders essentially check collision against every triangle

you can probably imagine how bad that would be

you don't need to export the room as different things, just line up colliders in unity and keep them organized

[spiral sigil]

ohhh i see, yea i know that concept, that makes sense, i can outline it with primitives, not every nook needs collision, thanks a lot for the info!! getting more of an idea of how to do this :3

[spiral sigil]

yes yes i'll do this :3

[hot leaf]

Is this W.i.p valid.

[karmic storm]

does anyone know how to add valve Index gestures to an avatar?

[tough plover]

I don't know what you mean by that. the index controller's finger tracking works with basically any avatar

[hot leaf]

I think he means like adding a Middle finger gesture.

[tough plover]

that

[hot leaf]

Or a pinky finger gesture.

[tough plover]

is an entirely different question lol

which has nothing to do with the valve index or its controllers

[karmic storm]

nah so like I have oculus quest controllers but I wanna do it so it has Index animations

and gestures

[tough plover]

that's not how it works, the quest controllers do not have sensors to track your individual fingers

[karmic storm]

ik

[tough plover]

when you're using index controllers, it doesn't use any animations

VRChat grabs the hand pose directly from SteamVR, it overrides any hand animations you have set

[karmic storm]

animations so you know how when u stretch ur fingers with the valve Index and the fingers are straight I wanna make it so it does that animation but it's not actually tracking my fingers

I have avatars that when you close your hand it has a valve index animations

[tough plover]

I mean isn't that already a thing? the Open Hand gesture?

[karmic storm]

I just wanna change the finger positions to something different

[tough plover]

ah, so your question is you want to change the hand gesture animations

[karmic storm]

yes

I heard there was a script that would do that but I can't find it

[tough plover]

alright, cool. you do that by editing the Gesture controller (can make a duplicate of the default one), and changing the animations it uses for the gestures you want

if you already have animations made, you stick them into the correct animation states for the left/right hand layers

if you need to make the animations, you can duplicate the default proxy_ animations, and change up the values. note that you'll have to rename them to not start with proxy_ so VRC doesn't replace them

[karmic storm]

wow this is confusing

[steady zealot]

Does this work with Index? I thought Index overrode the existing gesture animations

[red glade]

Swag

Need to do a bit of detailing on the flannel and fix the texture on the turtle neck

Starting to get pretty efficient on texturing/modeling stuff iam happy 🙂

Oh and also the pants need the belt holder thingies

[toxic verge]

bruh Im jealous at how good you are

[red glade]

😅

Thanks 🙏

[toxic verge]

Bruh I have been trying to do stuff like this and then make it into a avatar

tried today and It ended a failure

[red glade]

Ooo feel free to share!

And look at it like this. Ive been doing 3D stuff since i was 11. Thats roughly 8 Years ago now even more at this point

I only got into avatar making half a year ago. And well having a bit of experience helps for sure

But dont feel detered? Is that the word im not sure.

If something fails ive had to face those hardships head on too.

[toxic verge]

damn

I have the 3d model ready

I just cant put bones and stuff on it at all

cuz I am too stupid

[harsh saddle]

Mixamo.com does a decent job of rigging most humanoids. It won't be perfect with a bit of clean up but it's a start

[toxic verge]

Mixamo?

[red glade]

I saw a bit of software that also looked fairly promising for rigging

Happen to know what it is?

[harsh saddle]

Not sure about a dedicated program. I use auto-rig pro which is a plug-in for Blender and I think works a bit better than Mixamo but it costs money and still needs a bit of weight paint work to get a great result.

[red glade]

Ill do some googlin I saw it on my twitter feed a while ago

Accurig by actorcore

[harsh saddle]

Looks interesting but the free version seems to have a fair amount of limitations and I can't begin to understand the payment structure, it looks like you need to buy individual models or maybe it's a plugin for character creator? If you can figure it out, let me know, the website seems to actively be trying to make that information hard to find.

[red glade]

Yea ill do some checking as the software itself seemed very good

[weak ermine]

My goal was to atlas the UVs. I figured it out by simply separating the mesh where it used secondary UVs, renaming the UV map of the separated mesh, then re-merging the meshes and merging by distance

The face texture specifically used a different UV map because the texture was masked

[rugged matrix]

Been doing a low poly 2d character in 3d using Crocotile3D. It's far from finished but I'm happy with the resulting style.

[swift jolt]

render of the map im working on with fancy blender cycles

[meager musk]

cool 😄

[wicked shore]

https://twitter.com/mortugues/status/1600501412588306435

Mortugues (@mortugues)

Morton finna Smash your ass cheeks 🦧
#VRChat #VRChatRP #SmashBros #Blender #Blender3D #B3D

Twitter · Dec 7, 2022, 2:44 PM

[leaden jacinth]

alright thats pretty cool, really nice work man @wicked shore !

[winged flax]

any suggestions on how to improve my model? I'd like to improve the way it looks

[harsh saddle]

A bit of beveling on those hard edges would be a start but I personally wouldn't recommend box modeling organic objects like that. You're going to get organic shapes much more easily using sculpt mode and then just decimate or retopologize if you need good topology

[winged flax]

I see, any good tutorials for sculpting? also, I'd like to be able to model more without heavily relying on tracing references and such

I've done another attempt recently and I've been loop cutting and using the subdivide modifier, it looks a bit better but still not great

[harsh saddle]

That definitely does look better but box modeling gets harder and harder as you get to the finer details and you're going to be pretty much forced to get into sculpting at some point if you want any sort of realistic fur texture. This is a good basic tutorial, the tools and workflow for sculpting are pretty simple, it just takes practice. https://youtu.be/8FTRK5uo6T0

You also don't need a tablet for it, I create characters without using one so don't worry about that

This tutorial is a bit more advanced bit covers some additional useful topics. All you really need are the clay, inflate, snake hook, and crease brushes. Everything else just helps refine that process and makes certain things easier. https://youtu.be/Cmi0KoFtc-4

[winged flax]

I see, but how come I see so many videos of people box modeling when using drawings as reference? if sculpting is so much better why don't they just do that?

[winged flax]

What is this tutorial for? It seems like I'm missing something

[harsh saddle]

Some people are just more comfortable with it and certain things can be box modeled reasonably successfully if they have minimal surface details and sometimes it's easier that way like with hard surface inorganic modeling but if you want detailed realistic humans and animals, you're going to run into some challenges with box modeling.

[harsh saddle]

It's a sculpting tutorial, not sure what else to tell you if you aren't more specific about where your confusion lies.

[winged flax]

yes, but it feels like you've skipped over something

the first tutorial, that is

[harsh saddle]

You can try to continue box modeling everything if you like and you might ultimately end up with something you're happy with but it's going to get harder and harder to add more detail vs sculpting.

[harsh saddle]

It's not my tutorial but I'm pretty sure it's a decent into to using the sculpt tools. Is there a specific thing you're confused about? Have you watched it?

[winged flax]

Yes, it doesn't explain anything about any of the different tools and whatnot

[azure rain]

well yeah it's only going to cover the sculpting tools stuff

[winged flax]

it's not explaining any of them though, just the dynotop

also, I don't get how you'd sculpt the body of the character, the tutorials always seem to focus on the face and upper body

[harsh saddle]

He's basically just using the clay tool there. That's one of the major tools along with the move and inflate tools. The snake hook tool is good for building out new parts of the body. The first tutorial is mainly an intro to the process of dynamic topology sculpting whereas the second goes more into the tools specifically but if you just use the tools, you'll figure out pretty quickly how they work.

Here's a video comparing a poly-modeling workflow to a sculpting workflow if you want to know more about that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvzQYzczUH8

It uses Zbrush for sculpting but the concepts are the same

This tutorial does a good job of showing all the tools used https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xypvsf94onc

[winged flax]

also, I don't know if sculpting really works with the style i'm trying to go for, which is a lower poly, cartoonish look, something which sculpting isn't as suited for

[azure rain]

sculpting is still used in production for low poly games you have to get your normal maps from somewhere

[winged flax]

I could definitely make it work with some work, but it would definitely be more difficult

[azure rain]

https://i.stack.imgur.com/VsCAP.jpg

[harsh saddle]

It can do both but if you only need basic shapes and aren't going to be adding detail like fur then you can get away with box modeling. It's still going to be trickier to get nice curves but it's possible. Sculpting is the fastest way to work if you get used to the workflow but it also requires retopology if you want to use it for animated models which takes time. Up to you for simple stuff but yeah, if you want things like surface detail, you need to do some sculpting.

[winged flax]

As I'm making my models for a game, animation is a must, as well as performance concerns

[azure rain]

sculpting is used all the time in-game production

[harsh saddle]

If you're committed to box modeling your current project, it might already be fine depending on how minimalist you want it to be but it would be helpful to know what style you're going for. More beveling would smooth things out and you can inset and extrude to get a basic nose shape or what have you if you want that but it depends on how complex you want the model to be.

If you want an aesthetic like Superhot then everything having hard facets and edges would be fine but if you're going for more of a Pixar look, that's a different thing.

[winged flax]

I think I'd like to target a tri count of around 5k-10k

[harsh saddle]

That doesn't tell me very much, you can have realistic models or very cartoony models with that same poly count, though more stylized models will tend to hold up better to more restrictive poly counts. Normal maps are a great tool to get more detail out of fewer polygons but it sounds like you aren't looking to use those?

[azure rain]

like the models I just posted from Assassin's Creed in that polygon budget https://i.stack.imgur.com/VsCAP.jpg

[winged flax]

I'm trying to go for a PS2/Wii style models, with limited lighting and texture stuff

[harsh saddle]

If you want something like this, then you can box model it just fine without normals

[winged flax]

something like this

[azure rain]

honestly that's not a great screenshot as we can't see the face of the dog at all

[winged flax]

definitely lower poly, but stylized in sense

[azure rain]

so either way you would still need to model a relatively realistic dog

[winged flax]

yeah basically, but lower poly

sly cooper is another example, lower poly, but stylized

[azure rain]

so get to modeling the dog you can can always do the retopology later to get it to your desired polygon budget

[winged flax]

definitely more cartoony though

[azure rain]

I would actually call that stylized the previous picture was just a real dog but low-fidelity

[winged flax]

yea, the first one is definitely more realistic but still not super realistic

[azure rain]

honestly I can't really think of any notable stylization to note with the first picture

[winged flax]

yeah, you're right

I'm thinking probably the best solution would to be to use a mix of both, modeling for the body and general shape, and sculpting for the face and greater details

[harsh saddle]

Sculpting tools were very primitive if they existed at all in the PS2 days so you definitely can accomplish that with traditional polygon modeling, though I still think it would ultimately be harder than sculpting them but you already have some experience with box modeling so there would be less of a learning curve.

[winged flax]

the one thing I'd like to improve on though is creating things without an existing reference, as that is a point of difficulty for me

I can envision things inside my mind, but actually creating them is a challenge

[harsh saddle]

Yeah, that's not a bad option. If you watch the second video, it covers the multires modifier which you can use to non-destructively (meaning you don't change the underlying model) subdivide your model and then you can sculpt in details on the subdivided model and then use that to generate a normal map for greater detail without having to worry about retopology. If your unsubdivided geometry is really simple, in the 2-3k poly range, you can even use a subdivision level directly in your worlds.

[azure rain]

gamedev people use art reference all the time when modeling

nobody is going to try their free hand model the main character of the video game

[winged flax]

I know, but it'd still be good to know how to create things from scratch

for a scenario like this where i'm creating something from real life, should still be using photos as reference?

or is that bad practice, directly using them as reference in the software

[azure rain]

yes especially when trying to replicate IRL objects

[winged flax]

i'm saying shaping my models to be based off the photos

[azure rain]

sorta depends on what your modeling as far as if that would be copyright infringement that you would still want the reference pictures to know what something is supposed to look like so you don't make like the bolts on Machinery like five times too big

[harsh saddle]

I find it hard to make any sort of realistic form from a box using planes as reference which is why I sculpt instead but it is doable, you can have half your model intersecting with the image plane to try and get the contours as close as possible https://youtu.be/gox3WFWrYzs

You're not gonna get in trouble for copyright infringement for using reference unless the outcome is remarkably like an existing unique work. No one is going to be able to claim that your dog looks exactly like an image of their dog because dogs look like dogs. If you're copying a very specific piece of concept art with unique identifying features, that's another matter

[winged flax]

also, I might want to start learning how to draw my own references to use, as that allows me greater freedom as to what I can model

[azure rain]

it would still help to have a decent amount of reference picture to make your reference drawings

[winged flax]

that's what most people use, they use a reference drawing of their character to model

[harsh saddle]

I can't draw to save my life and I make characters all the time but it's a useful skill. But yeah, you're also going to want reference to make accurate drawings.

[winged flax]

yeah, having references for your drawing is useful, especially if it's something like an animal or a person

[harsh saddle]

I'd say artists that don't use reference images as part of their process are the exception and you're generally hampering your success if you try to go without them.

[winged flax]

Yeah

I definitely have the potential to draw references, it's just that I need to harvest it

i'll send you one of my better drawings from a while back

[harsh saddle]

Sculpting is also just way more fun than box modeling so I'd encourage you to at least experiment with it but everyone has their own process.

[azure rain]

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Vk2O4 an example from a professional artist as far as how they go from reference pictures to a finalized design

https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/004/198/139/large/tyrone-alarcon-nova-edge-moodboard-references.jpg?1481246737

[winged flax]

rome wasn't built in a day, and nobody learned to draw in an hour

[azure rain]

so yeah you're definitely want reference pictures for the dog

[winged flax]

it takes time, practice, and most importantly determination

[harsh saddle]

You're going to want to get good at drawing a consistent image from a few standard angles, particularly straight ahead and to the side if you want to use it for modeling, things like posing and perspective are nice but not for reference

[winged flax]

yes, the two most important angles to learn how to draw are from the front and the side

for references, that is

[harsh saddle]

If you want to model something in a t-pose (and you do for avatars) then you probably want to have your reference in a t-pose or else you're going to be doing a lot of guesswork

[winged flax]

A more simplistic drawing from back as well

[winged flax]

yes, it's important to draw in poses like that or else it makes modeling a challenge

for animals, it's not as difficult as their pose is just standing usually

[azure rain]

https://danielwhiskinluck50184015.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/rick.jpg like this model sheet for Rick would be pretty decent for referencing from

like it's got all the Angles and it's to scale if each other

[harsh saddle]

It's up to you whether you're more focused on modeling or drawing. If you just want to get to making good models, I'd just google reference and use that directly. If you really want to improve your drawing, then you can find references and draw from them.

[azure rain]

gamedev most of the folks doing the modeling is not doing the reference drawings

[harsh saddle]

Seems like it would be hard to set up image planes from that many angles but maybe open up the front back and sides in Blender and keep the other angles open in another window

[winged flax]

I'd say learning to draw might be more important, as being able to create good references for yourself allows for the basis of great things

although both are important skills

[harsh saddle]

It certainly can. I do my "sketching" in my sculpture and figure out how I want things to look by building up forms but a 2D to 3D workflow is very common.

[azure rain]

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

[winged flax]

metaballs are cool

[harsh saddle]

And that's another option entirely. Not a bad one for organic modeling.

[winged flax]

yes

[ruby rivet]

is crunch compression advisable to use for optimization? ive heard mixed things

[azure rain]

it helps file size but not vram

[red glade]

Finished the fit, decided to untuck the flannel

[leaden jacinth]

SEAMS

N I C E

[red glade]

🙂

Thx

[hexed bear]

how make charater that deforms right when i rig it

[tough plover]

that's called weight painting

tools that claim to do it all automatically will only get you so far. you need to know how to do it yourself

[hexed bear]

no like my arm dosent folow mt elbow bone good it just deforms too much

[pallid bobcat]

yess weight paint it

make sure the bone has the correct weight with the skin/clothes

[wicked shore]

https://twitter.com/mortugues/status/1601301608914374657

Mortugues (@mortugues)

For @IceToonz's 17th birthday, I made him not one, but three Brawl renders of his RP character in each major progressive stage. Happy birthday bud!
#VRChat #VRChatRP #SmashBros #Blender #Blender3D #B3D

Twitter · Dec 9, 2022, 7:43 PM

[hexed bear]

the model dosent work

i might just stop trying

amd find something else to do instead

[harsh saddle]

That's an option. If you want help, you'll likely need to post an image of what's going wrong but it's probably weight paint related

[hexed bear]

i give up

i fricking quit

im just too stupid

[hexed bear]

i might go as far as doing something bad to myself

[quaint jasper]

The geometry you're trying to weight paint is really not making it easy for you. There are plenty weight painting tutorials that you should check out, if you think you're missing steps

[hexed bear]

ok

[lofty river]

I just got a model and from far away the mesh is just visible from the inside, Is this something i need to fix or not?

[quaint jasper]

In edit mode, select everything then press Alt+ N and chose flip normals

[spiral sigil]

anyone have a base model which i could edit and add stuff? just a human base model but more cartoonish

[opaque solar]

I've used Blender reset vector, sharp edge and averages but looks like it still doesn't produce any normal map yet, any idea how to fix this?

[graceful sky]

I'm making an asset and figured out how to have the holly be transparent in render but now I have this kinda border around it, how can I not have it show when rendering

[opaque solar]

Why my diffuse baking is weird?

[tough plover]

make sure you pack your UVs with enough margin

16 pixels should be good

then in your baking settings, set the margin to 8px

[opaque solar]

I think it's an Ambient Occlusion problem instead

And I have no idea how to fix it

[marsh sandal]

Hey quick question... I have a tail mesh that whenever i move the bones for that mesh... nothing happens. How would. How would I fix that?

I can send a video if you want

[uncut imp]

Sounds like you need to weight paint the mesh to the bones

[marsh sandal]

yeah thats what im trying to do rn

but its a learning process im new to blender so

[empty fox]

I can't remember what key combination it was or what it was called, but I remember there being a way to inflate in Blender that could from a plane create two sides and balloon it.
Anyone happen to know how you do that?

[tough plover]

solidify modifier, or alt + E > Extrude along normals. the latter will only keep one side filled though

you'll need to manually fill in the other side which is pretty easy

[empty fox]

Thank you.

[spiral sigil]

why when I press Y to split I get these extra verts instead of a hole?

[tough plover]

try using edge selection instead?

alternatively, you could try doing a bevel and deleting the created faces

or you could use the knife tool

[spiral sigil]

I got sick of fighting with it and used rip region instead

weird it was being difficult though

[quaint jasper]

Isn't it V to split ?

[subtle jackal]

Try adding a simple subdivision to the model before baking. If simple doesn't help Catmull Clark might work better, but with Catmull to keep the model in the correct shape you'll have to add some supporting edges and creasing, just make sure those don't affect your UVs too much.

[opaque solar]

Thank you

I will try it

[opaque solar]

:/ the result is still strange

[subtle jackal]

there may be other problems with the geometry then, make sure you don't have any strangely intersecting or interior faces

also make sure your surface normals are pointed in the right direction

[opaque solar]

It faces the right direction

No weird intersecting faces too

[subtle jackal]

I am not sure then, it should bake properly

[opaque solar]

Welp, I guess I have to live with it 😅

[subtle jackal]

Ah actually I have one other idea. Are there custom normals set on the object? Those could be done wrong.

[opaque solar]

How do I check if there are one?

[glossy lagoon]

https://i.imgur.com/oaqENvS.gif Any ideas what's wrong with my model to make this happen?

It's using the cursor as the point of symmetry not the model... why... how...

ah, no, that's not it.

[glossy lagoon]

https://i.imgur.com/Ic7LcjS.gif

[hushed leaf]

reading this I just realize I didn't do it on a project of my own and that's the cause of a problem I was having, so thanks 🙂

[subtle jackal]

You'll have a button here that will say "Clear Custom Split Normals Data"

[pure dagger]

Just finished my Legend of zelda pins lmk what you think

[opaque solar]

Ooh I see, I will try it later

[spiral sigil]

anyone mind helping me with an avatar issue?

[swift jolt]

I cant right now but maby say what part you want help with, should make it easier for other ppl to know if they can help

[opaque solar]

It will only remove selected mesh custom Normals and not the entire mesh with the same materials right?

[subtle jackal]

It will remove them for the selected object, regardless of materials. or what faces are selected

[opaque solar]

Oddly it does not want to bake now

Bake process seems to run but there are no results

[opaque solar]

I guess it literally deleted the normals and lightning data does not exist anymore XD

(On cycles)

[subtle jackal]

should only remove custom normals, not the base normals

[opaque solar]

Christ sake I just realize I put the output on Volume!

[brazen minnow]

Anyone have a video on how to connect a head to a base

[leaden jacinth]

its like two button presses if you have the CATS plugin for blender

[quick thunder]

at last, a face that doesn't resemble a semi-realistic bratz doll. Great work

[random turtle]

funny funky hat for my avatar idhrgxdliughridghsgiehlsertdghsltrgstlrg

[random turtle]

Awesome model :DD
Btw I recognise a vroid studio model whenever i see one, is this a vroid model?

Like the pc version not mobile the mobile app is so limited 💀

[tough plover]

might wanna set it to smooth shading and mark some edges as sharp

(and turn on Auto smooth)

[random turtle]

I tried that, but it messes it all up :(

Plus low poly can be better for the quest compatible version for when I’m traveling :)

[tough plover]

what? the poly count stays the same

you just fix the shading to not look blocky

in edit mode, select everything and do alt + N > reset vectors. that will also automatically turn on auto smooth

from there, you can unmark/mark the sharp edges as needed

[random turtle]

Oh epic, I didn’t know that xD

[random turtle]

Ohh I see ty

I’ll try that

[dawn aurora]

Guys I Need Help With My Model I Cant Do Sculpting On It

[harsh saddle]

We're gonna need more info than that. Can't sculpt how? Can't go into sculpt mode? You also don't need to type in title case, that should save you time.

[proven plinth]

Soon ™️

I’m sorry, the process has already begun. She’ll be ingame soon to terrorize everyone

[harsh saddle]

I'm a bit of a broken record on the value of the sculpt tools but I think you'd have a much easier time using them for the fur and maybe the body. There are a lot of tutorials for this, you might want to start with an intro or beginner tutorial but this covers fur. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwUlYr477Wo

[tough plover]

yes, that is the point

you make a very high poly mesh (upwards of millions of tris) to create all of the detail first, and then you do a retopology where you create a proper low poly mesh on top of it

and then bake the detail to a normal map

you end up with a lot more detail though

and it's honestly not that much more work

[harsh saddle]

Yup, sculpting adds a retopology step but trying to box model hair and fur is pretty challenging to make it look nice.

You don't even really need clean topology in certain areas, only if they're going to be deforming with the avatar. You'll want clean topology on the neck fur, for instance, since that needs to bend with the neck but it isn't that necessary on the head since it's all just going to be weighted to the head bone unless you want to add physbones

So sometimes you can get away with a quick and dirty decimation

Can't say I've used those in over a decade, can you convert them to a mesh? I don't think Unity can used NURBs

[meager iron]

Hello everyone

[tough plover]

example, 5 million poly mesh

retopo to like 15k

same low poly mesh but baked

@spiral sigil

the high poly FBX alone was 27mb

[harsh saddle]

5m tris for an unclothed model seems like a lot but I guess if your PC can handle it, why not? Is this using multires or dynamic topology? I feel like I can get as much detail as I need using dynamic topology in under a million.

That's not gonna work well, try a TI-86

[jagged moat]

I'm stuck running blender on a stonehenge 😦

mf thing takes ages

[kindred quail]

is there anyway to make a flat back of the foot? anytime i do it i always resize it and its just a triangle..b ut the back needs to be flat! and i dont know hwo to do that

example

[harsh saddle]

So you basically want to turn that bottom part into a cube? You can select the back verts and then press s y 0 to get them all lined up on the y axis and then move them into place, and the select the side vertices and press s x 0 to get them lined up on the x, might do what you're looking for

You'll want to scale the side verts one side at a time

[harsh saddle]

That'll get you something like this. Not the cleanest topology but it seems like roughly what you're looking for

[cyan stump]

Finally finished this bad boy :3

[pallid bobcat]

I made an extra shirt in blender for the avatar

and the toggle works perfectly in unity

I've quadruple checked everything

but the toggle doesn't work in vrchat

is there a specific way I upload something hidden?

Rn I just have it like this

[tender kestrel]

The checkbox in the inspector on the object.
Alternatively, Alt+Shift+A to do the same with a shortcut.

The eye just hides the object in editor.

[arctic obsidian]

Just wanna show my models

[spice spear]

Yes!

[random turtle]

Epic

[pure dagger]

just some legend of zelda pins for avatars

[tall epoch]

very nice

[copper rampart]

Hi, when I want to upload, at the end of the loading, it say "error saving blueprint". Why?

[leaden jacinth]

post your entire console in #avatar-help @copper rampart

screenshot preferred

do not crop

[copper rampart]

I’ve fix it, thank :)

[leaden jacinth]

👍

[steel stirrup]

im trying to export this medal type thing
i want the inside to spin in one axis, with phys bone
but when i import into unity it's like, broken

did i just do somethin wrong

i exported it as fbx

[hushed leaf]

with scaling FBX_All and -Z forward?

[steel stirrup]

wha-
probably not, it's exported from blender, never heard of those settings...?

[hushed leaf]

Yeah there's a standard set of export settings you want to use from Blender, those included. Also under animation you can turn off leaf bones.

[hushed gyro]

I'm not really well versed in unity rigging but I don't think unity can tell where a bone "ends" on its own

[steel stirrup]

🤔 ok lemme try

[hushed leaf]

Physbones can have lengths though so if you're doing Physbones that's okay

[steel stirrup]

i think it's working?

now im getting compiler error 😩

unrelated tho

[steel stirrup]

is the thing supposed to be in the avatars hierarchy or should it still work regardless?

im trying to grab it in playmode and it's not working

and the collider is funky looking

[hushed leaf]

really not sure what it is you're doing here specifically

[steel stirrup]

i want the center of the ring to be interactible with phys bones, on one axis

so, it'll spin

[hushed leaf]

hmm neat.

[steel stirrup]

i rigged it, hopefully correctly

but idunno it's not doing anything

also, in unity, im able to move the "body" around despite the fact that im not supposed to since it's rigged
i think that's kinda strange

wait

armature just isn't here

it's working nowww

[hushed leaf]

There's nothing called Armature in your Blender project, but there is Badge

[steel stirrup]

wait

it's, sensitive to naming?

[hushed leaf]

No, but you said "armature isn't there"

[steel stirrup]

oh i renamed it 💢 AAA-

[hushed leaf]

🙂

[steel stirrup]

oh ok ok

[glossy lagoon]

https://i.imgur.com/d5cXlub.gif Any idea what this is?

Edit mode: looks right. Object mode: nope.

[heavy parcel]

Check your bones from pose mode, looks like something there is wrong

[modest apex]

Is there some sort of public listing or marketplace of VRC creators? I wanna team up with someone (paid) to help me make modelling part for avatars. im unity dev (new to vrc tho)

[pure dagger]

vrc traders

[obsidian nova]

VRCTraders is a bit of a mixed bag in my opinion.

I hate to say it but Twitter is actually a great resource for finding creators with commissions often.

[fleet jetty]

I have some good creator that could help because they have been working for a year now and never disappoint

[vital drift]

Hopefully this is the right place to post, making a customizable project playtime avatar, will include every cosmetic in the game. Most likely not on quest unless I dumb it down by 95%

[spiral sigil]

does anyone know why when I apply the mirror modifer it doesn't create the R vertex groups for me?

I have "Vertex groups" checked

nevermind. The vertex groups need to already exist for it to copy the data. It won't make them for you

[quaint jasper]

Yeah, that's by far the most frustrating part of that modifier

[spiral sigil]

it's like I forget it every time I have to rig something

speaking of, does anyone know a way to quick search vertex groups?

sometimes I'll have like 100 groups and I have to switch between them

[tough plover]

you can sort the list by name or by hierarchy. when weight painting, you don't even need to look at the list

select your armature first, shift click the mesh, go to weight painting mode. ctrl + click on bones to select them and their associated vertex group

only works if you don't have face or vertex masking enabled

that way, you can also test your weights without even leaving weight painting mode

just by using R to rotate bones

[spiral sigil]

yeah this is what I usually do

but I would like to search them by name

[tough plover]

you can also enable auto IK in pose mode and switch back to weight painting to be able to move entire bone chains

[spiral sigil]

but I don't think it's possible

[spiral sigil]

I thought they got rid of this wtf

just tried it out, works very cool

[quaint jasper]

FYI you can also just generate empty groups

[analog frost]

Can someone help me with my blender scene? the shadows don't look right.

[empty fox]

Should look fine when rendering, but personally prefer using cycles, is grainy the first few seconds, but I think it just looks better while editing (just click that drop down).

[analog frost]

gotcha thank s :)

[proven plinth]

Huge respect for people who've mastered retopology, my mind is actually melting

[tough plover]

using a modifier stack like mirror, shrinkwrap, subdivide, shrinkwrap can help speed it up a lot

because of the subdivision in there, the actual mesh you need to make is a lot lower poly

and having tris or pentagons in a subdivided mesh results in 3 or 5 quads respectively

useful for changing edge flow

[proven plinth]

Got an addon that applies all that, it’s just such a time consuming process and kinda overwhelming lol. I’ve only dabbled is smaller edits, never anything from scratch

[harsh saddle]

Yeah, retopo isn't really that hard to do decently but it does take a long time. Just have to put on some music in the background and get into the flow.

[leaden jacinth]

bro

thats sick

id love to see the wireframe

[arctic obsidian]

I'm not home right now to show it x)

But I can show it

[quaint jasper]

Sick looking renders

[analog frost]

Left side is viewport, right side is camera
Why is the camera producing a lower quality image than the viewport? Shadows are broken and ambient occlusion is not working

[quaint jasper]

What are your camera settings, and what mode are those two on ? Eevee or cycles ?

[analog frost]

HEY! problem solved, turns out I was using a camera imported from another model by accident

[quaint jasper]

[tough plover]

arms with that many bones won't work without FinalIK in vrchat

and you'll still need a proxy arm rig

FIK won't work on quest, you'll need to do it differently for quest

[vital drift]

ive seen huggys work on quest just fine

im not about to do some weird funky ik thing, that sounds like id have to make an entire armature for every extra arm bone

guess it wont work then, thx for letting me know

[tough plover]

no, you would need extra shoulder, upper, lower and wrist bones for each arm

and use those to drive the movement of the other chains

[vital drift]

welp

i deleted it already so...damn

[leaden jacinth]

bro id have a fucking blast animating this lol

[arctic obsidian]

Its anatomy is difficult to animate, I tried x)

[formal rain]

I wanna play and mess around with it regardless of the difficulty, that’s an awesome model, nice job!

Stuff like that sometimes showin up is the only reason I check this channel

[vital drift]

It’s fine honestly, it can work for VRChat it just won’t be very flexible like in game

I’ve done many avatars with tons of bones in the arms before and they all work fine

[vital drift]

Almost done with it! Just need to make the colored variants since those textures aren’t in the project playtime files.

[analog frost]

why does it need that many bones?

[pure dagger]

twistbones

[analog frost]

o

[waxen dune]

Does anyone have a model of David from cyberpunk

I can’t find any and I want to put him in a world

[pure dagger]

https://xetirano.gumroad.com/l/dvdmrtnz

my friend josh made him

its free

[pure dagger]

use cycles but watch a tutorial to set it up properly otherwise itll take you over 3 years to render something

[waxen dune]

Thank you so much

[pure dagger]

np

[spiral sigil]

Anyone do commissions? I'm trying to see if anyone could make a cool avatar for me

[pure dagger]

check out vrc traders

Its really the only place to avoid getting scammed

like 90% of the people here who do commissions are scammers

[spiral sigil]

Do you do commissions lol

[pure dagger]

I do but I dont make avatars from scratch

i do edits and retextures

I make my props from scratch however

[spiral sigil]

Oh that's what I need

[pure dagger]

Send me a dm with what you need

[spiral sigil]

Ok will do

[fleet jetty]

I can make your avatar perfectly from scratch Dm me to see my portfolio

[quaint blade]

That's true but how are we going to separate scammer from professional one because this kind stuff is affecting some modellers

If admin can make any arrangement to give professional modeling Tags

By checking out there works and other aspect

I believe this kind scam stuff we reduce

[harsh saddle]

Most websites that provide services have ratings, not sure if there's anything like that at VRC Traders but there definitely isn't here and I doubt the devs want to take the time to vet and vouch for individual creators

[quaint blade]

In VRC trader you must get verified before you can get any commission

So here also admin can do so by verify good modellers

[harsh saddle]

Then I'd probably use that for hiring people for commissions. If the devs were to implement that sort of system here and essentially say that someone is trustworthy and they went on to scam someone, it would reflect badly on the devs as a whole so I wouldn't get into doing that if I were them.

[quaint blade]

If any body post commission it will easy for him to direct them to the verified person with tag

[harsh saddle]

But what if someone gets verified and then scams? And what is the incentive for them to take the time and money to open up this verification process?

[quaint blade]

Good it we easy to remove them asap

Because 80% are scammer yes accepted but the remaining 20% buyers we still doubting in them

You can bring ideas how it going to work now

[harsh saddle]

I just don't think they want the bad press of "VRChat Verified Official Avatar Creator ™️ is scamming people." When you start vouching for people, that opens you up to liability and it provides them no tangible benefit. Maybe they could get a cut of the profits but then you're getting into the territory of having to get people to sign contracts and it's not a simple process with all of the other things they need to do.

[median pike]

Working on a game ready fur solution. It's mostly hair cards. No fur shader or hair particles

[azure rain]

cool

[lilac escarp]

can somebody help ive been trying to work on a model and i finally managed to get everything together but for some reason when i put the viewpoint under "Material Preview" the model's body becomes transparent and super glitchy

[lilac escarp]

(heres some other screenshots because for some reason i cant record blender)

[tough plover]

set it to Opaque instead of alpha blended under viewport display under materials

[pearl swan]

Can someone help me with the armpits of this jacket? I think I need more loops because it keeps stretching when I weight paint it. If not direct help I'd appreciate any reference videos.

[quaint jasper]

I can't see the issue tbh

[pearl swan]

Sorry I didn't send a picture of it stretching. That was before weight paint.

sec

[quaint jasper]

Oh, the topology is terrible, more loops would not help. Should smooth the weight paint instead

[pearl swan]

Yeah I know haha. Don't have the skills to do retopology yet. What do you mean by smooth it?

[quaint jasper]

Use the weight paint tools, like blur/smooth, on the shoulder/chest/upper arm in that area, to avoid the stretch

[pearl swan]

Alright ill try that out. Havent messed with those two yet.

[azure rain]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2GNyEUvpD4

[arctic obsidian]

Oh, it looks very good! You can show topology and then how do you make a rig for that?

[spiral sigil]

bro someone got a tip for blender ? im a begginer in the modeling community
and i made 2 FUCKING CREEPY THINGS
i tried my best the old i made there is a half year

and this is the new that i made today

[median pike]

you make a rig before you make the fur

the fur is created from the base mesh using geometry nodes

the topology is nothing special, its just hair cards

[arctic obsidian]

Oh, and the fur remains tied to the mesh if you export to fbx?

It would also be interesting to know what your nodes look like x)

[spiral sigil]

someone have a tip ?

for a human-like model

[arctic obsidian]

I only have this picture

But it's good for topology, I always use it х)

[harsh saddle]

I recommend sculpting and then retopologizing your sculpt but traditional polygon modeling can work depending on what you're doing. You can just look up Blender sculpting and retopology on Youtube if you want to know more about that.

[spiral sigil]

i don't have a tablet

[quaint jasper]

Check out Rainhet's beginner tutorial series on youtube

[harsh saddle]

Neither do I, you don't need one

There are better sculptors than me and I could add some additional texture and fine detail but this was done completely with a mouse along with all of my characters

[spiral sigil]

holy shit

i can't do anything

[arctic obsidian]

I suck in modeling people, but for her I'm ready for anything x)

Usually the sculpting of the head ends with a nervous breakdown...

[spiral sigil]

bro this is too good

holy shit

[arctic obsidian]

^^

[spiral sigil]

different of me...

[arctic obsidian]

I love its wings, I spent a lot of time creating them. Only their rig was more complicated, but I found a way to make it simpler (so as not to add feather to the bone), it's just a mesh deformer modifier. Maybe it will be useful to someone. In this way, you can make a simple rig for hair physics

[arctic obsidian]

To make a human you need a looooot of practice, maybe a few months, it's difficult.. Animals are simpler x)

[harsh saddle]

Do those things transfer to Unity? The mesh deformer?

Animals are probably easier to model as people are less able to scrutinize anything that is off but they're harder to animate.

[arctic obsidian]

I don't know, I thought about it, but I never had time to check it out

I don't remember if I deleted the unity 🤔😬

[median pike]

Well since the mesh I am making it from is already weighted. I am preserving the vertex groups yes. Also it's kind of an interesting technique that I have seen only once before so I kinda want to keep the workflow private

[spiral sigil]

i give up

[arctic obsidian]

Day off is needed to rest 👁️

[arctic obsidian]

What a magic?! Is it something like a vseeface in blender?

I watched a lot of tutorials, but I don't remember that there was such a thing that the model could move in a blender (at real time)

[leaden jacinth]

he’s beautiful

such an innocent face

such beautiful topology

thats such a nice facial test

he looks really good

[scenic prairie]

Does anyone have any experience turning source filmmaker models into VRM to make into VR chat and Vtuber avatars?

[quaint jasper]

No need to force it, embrace the energy when it pokes its nose, but I've personally only ever got tired of projects when trying to force myself to work on them

[tough plover]

that's interesting, do you plan on releasing it?

I can probably figure out but it would be cool if I didn't need to start from scratch

[median pike]

not really

I am basically just extruding planes from the main mesh. Its not something worth releasing

it does require a shader that supports multiple UVs per mesh unless you want to bake everything tho

[pure dagger]

added some glasses to it aswell

[analog frost]

How can I fix a material doing this in blender? it's rendering stuff behind it

[quaint jasper]

Flip it's normals with Alt + N

[analog frost]

doesnt work

[exotic obsidian]

Shift+N works for me

[analog frost]

that also did not work

[quaint jasper]

Did you invert its scale maybe ? Apply its transforms and that hopefully fixes it, otherwise I have no idea how you did that

I don't know if meshes can be made to render that way specifically in other ways

[analog frost]

i downloaded this model from the web, and imported it. i have no clue whats up with it

[royal frigate]

Could it be the blend mode of the materials settings if it's on Eevee engine?

I have no other idea

[analog frost]

it was the blend mode.

[analog frost]

Changed from Alpha Blend -> Opaque to fix the issue. thanks

[swift jolt]

Material is transparent

Oh nvm he fixed

[hexed bear]

omg I finally figured out how to do arms 🤯

he watchin u

[hexed bear]

but he now looks like this…

[tough plover]

yikes, that's a bit high poly lol

[harsh saddle]

Yeah, I don't really get whats' going on with that topology. The arms are just cylinders but the edge loops just suddenly get a lot more dense for no apparent reason. You really won't need extra edge loops where you need more detail or you need the model to deform.

[hexed bear]

well this actually inst for vrchat

this is uh for my own game

but i might get some of those edge loops off

But this character will be used only in cutscenes because my game is first person

[azure rain]

still lots of unnecessary geometry even for a cutscene

[hexed bear]

I honestly didnt know how much i needed for it to deform right

im not very great with rigging rn i mostly just model

[azure rain]

you would need the extra Edge loops where the geometry actually bends

[hexed bear]

ok

ill keep that in mind when i model motherkitty

[hexed bear]

And all the other characters that have arms and legs like that

[azure rain]

sounds like you need a lot of work on your character modeling

[hexed bear]

i do

thats all i can say

i use to model just hats and accessories

this is one of my other characters

his geometry is pretty simple

hes just cubes and 2 spheress

[analog frost]

why are my area lights not working in blender cycles?

[analog frost]

issue was the Y height of area light, fixed now

[arctic obsidian]

can anyone help with the problem? I downloaded blender 2.80.74, entered the ip of my phone into ifacial mocap, clicked on the connection in blender and in the program, but nothing moves. Why can this be so?

I use meowface on my phone, I entered the IP of my PC and the port ifacial mocap (49983)

[pure dagger]

Made a hrny license!

[west depot]

Question for anyone here that can help i added some bones to this model for someone i know, the model started in 3 pieces and i added the bones to each peace then combined them, the problem is that the tail (and chain if i don't go down one bone) doest work right and moves on its own even though its one body. there a way to fix this or am i stuck?

[arctic obsidian]

I also tried new versions of the blender (3.x), but nothing happens. Yes, I installed the plugin in the blender. Maybe the problem is that I'm using android, but the vseeface worked perfectly

[golden forum]

Unity is doing this thing I can import files but I cant drag and drop models or textures into the scene and I have no ability to move the camera i dont know how to fix it

I cant even use the tools on the square

I dont see the camera indicator or anything

[tough plover]

you're in the game view, not in the scene view

right click game window, add tab, scene

[golden forum]

Ohhhh thank you so much

[golden forum]

So I want to edit a chara sfm model in unity but what I want to do is so specific i cant find videos for it

I want it to be slightly taller and I want to replace the model of the knife prop, however When I adjust the height its always way to big and all the coding for the hand gesture expressions, toggleable props, the toggleable physbones scarf, the custom crouching animation, and the toggleable ability to summon pngs of magic attacks with certain hand gestures

It just comes with the default menu and expressions

[arctic obsidian]

I turned on meowface on my phone and as shown in the video, first connect in blender, then in the program, and nothing happened 😦

maybe I missed something?

[golden forum]

Am i going to have to redo all the props, hand gesture, and sitting pose coding? If so I just need to know what video tutorials would help

[arctic obsidian]

Sad.. I don't have an iPhone

[unreal creek]

ayo lads how do u get the model ur tryna upload into the prefab? or is it just luck

[pure dagger]

What

[willow minnow]

Was stuck on this and remembered this server, would like some lessons and tips on rigging and uploading to VRChat. (I like to model in roblox, then export the model to blender :) ) Anybody know a fix to make it not become an eldritch horror?

if you are willing to teach me, hit up my DMS!

[harsh saddle]

Robots like that are usually pretty straightforward to rig as the parts are associated with different bones. Are all of the faces of the upper arm assigned to the upper arm vertex group, the lower arm with the lower arm group, and so on?

[willow minnow]

The rig is okay as far as i know, i just dont see why this is happening

[harsh saddle]

Seems like an issue with your weights, especially the hand and fingers not being properly weighted to the hand and finger bones. Could also be them getting weighted to other bones they shouldn't be.

[spiral sigil]

Well i guess im going to have fun trying to rigging up this model

[willow minnow]

How do i change my weights

[harsh saddle]

You might want to delve more deeply into it from here but this is an overview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fICQmBEt4Y

If you're just using automatic weights, you'll probably have to do a fair amount of clean up to make it move right.

[willow minnow]

The brush strength is at max, but its really weak and struggles to paint on the mesh. Thoughts? @harsh saddle

[harsh saddle]

It looks like you might have some pressure sensitivity on the weight which might be effecting things. For a robot, I would tend to just go into edit mode, select the faces I want to assign to that bone and assign them in the vertex groups menu (it's in the inverted triangle tab near the bottom of that menu)

[tough plover]

make sure you're painting vertices. painting the middle of a face does nothing

[willow minnow]

How do i select faces

Oh okay, i got it.

button top left

how exactly do i assign them

to i select all the faces and then join them to the bone?

[harsh saddle]

Yeah, you might want to watch a beginning blender tutorial if you want to use Blender proficiently. In edit mode, if you go into that inverted triangle menu, there should be an assign button under the vertex groups.

[velvet stag]

What FIFA Qatar 2022 stadium should I make in Unity?

[harsh saddle]

Are you including human rights violations for added realism?

[hexed bear]

he look good?

[tough plover]

everything besides the ears is too high poly. you should dissolve most of those loops

besides that I mean it looks fine, as long as you also did the rigging properly

[hexed bear]

ears?

[tough plover]

well what does it have on top of its head? I assume it's bunny ears

[hexed bear]

yeah but the gemometry isnt that high poly

for it

[tough plover]

I know, I said the ears are fine, but everything else is not

[hexed bear]

ok

im also zoomed out lot alot though so i can fit him

in the picture

i add too much poly

[harsh saddle]

You want to think about what you're actually accomplishing with your geometry, not adding more just to add it. If the shape of the leg is like a human leg where it balloons out a bit at the upper leg, then tapers in at the knee then coming out again for the shin and tapering towards the ankle, you need edge loops to be able to define those changes in volume. In this, the leg is the same shape from the hip to the ankle so these faces aren't doing anything, you'd be fine having hardly any geometry for the upper or lower leg and saving that for some edge loops at the knee so it can deform cleanly there.

[azure rain]

basically if it doesn't contribute to the silhouette or rigging get rid of it

because that's what normal maps are for

[nocturne steeple]

On the off chance there's any Transformers Fans in here... BEHOLD! A HYPERACTIIVE FLYING CHILD!

I'm really proud of my progress so far. Modeling transformers characters is tough but I'm having fun!

[harsh saddle]

But does it transform? I'm not sure you're allowed to call it a Transformer otherwise.

[nocturne steeple]

Maybe! if I get around to modeling her alt lol. Its a lil drone so its nothing too difficult

[spiral sigil]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sfTEBAl8sA

This is a video I like

For VRC rigging

See a general video on fk rigging if you're new completely

[harsh saddle]

That doesn't show the topology at all but the rig looks fairly reasonable from what I can see.

[tough plover]

it has too many toe and finger bones

and the ears should probably have separate bones, as well as a root bone so one physbone script can be used for both ears

[spiral sigil]

I never though about root ear bones

Show yours

[tough plover]

it's just this

[white moth]

Are there any side effects of doing this like slightly different motion?

[tough plover]

the only drawback is that you can't grab more than one chain at a time. you can grab one, pose it, grab another, etc though

it's also good for organization though

[hexed bear]

ima dm you the animation test

[harsh saddle]

Posting it here would be more useful, ideally in #animation

[hexed bear]

uh ok ill have to screen record it because its on my pc and me on phone rn

and its on yt

just posted it

[dim canopy]

I wanna make an original avatar that I fully make not using any pre made models but I have little to no experience modeling anything so how should I start (also I’m using blender)

[opaque oyster]

yea i was gonna ask the same too, anyone know any GREAT tutorial videos/guides that are easy for a simple minded person like myself to understand? lol

[dim canopy]

I just found this vid that Is great so far https://youtube.com/watch?v=9xAumJRKV6A&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE

[opaque oyster]

Ill have to take a look at it! i think iv seen it before, but i dont think i watched all of it, im too scatter brainy lol. ill try again sometime

[ashen forge]

Wip of a model remake I'm doing of one of my old models

New on the left, old on the right (2018)

[opaque oyster]

lovin the style!

[calm hatch]

(Not sure which chat this question would go in) How would i get rid of these seams in substance painter?

[tough plover]

I see you have a curvature generator. try setting the sliders for the larger ones like "Huge" to 0

[calm hatch]

Does nothing to the seams, unfortunately

[tough plover]

can you try hiding layers until you find the one that's causing the seams?

[calm hatch]

I noticed the seams only appear when i have blur slope on.

[tough plover]

the Blur filter is in UV space, not in 3D

so it will produce seams

there is a paid addon called 3D blur which uses voxels to blur masks in 3D

[calm hatch]

Ah, okay. Ill see if I can find a workaround first. Thank you for the help!

[tough plover]

https://actiondawg.itch.io/3dblur

[dim canopy]

this is my first ever thing made in blender i know its not much and its very simple but im proud of it

just gave him thumbs so now i will be able to do thumbs up in vrc

[untold idol]

hell yeah you can be proud of it! great work!

looks good for a first thing you made!

[dim canopy]

Thx!! 😁

[untold idol]

keep up the good work!

and never give up!

[azure harness]

yeah holy cow, this is actually really solid for your first thing. keep going, you'll do awesome things

[untold idol]

^^

[red glade]

Hello Im planning of redoing the hair. as you can see i feel like its a bit off looking. I was looking at references and saw Fortnite has a cool way of doing low poly hair. Anyone have a rough idea of how to achieve that style?

Like. Would you be best off sculpting it and retopo after?

Then baking all of the depth that ive sculpted into the low poly id imagine?

[calm hatch]

New question. How would I make this part of my texture invisible? I am using substance painter, and I am only using the base color channel

[harsh saddle]

If it has a checkerboard, it is invisible. You need to enable transparency in the texture import and check the "alpha is transparency" box. Also, transparency doesn't work on Quest avatars so you would need to model the eyelashes for that.

[calm hatch]

Thank you! I accidentally unchecked opacity

[simple vigil]

I’m on the body rn and I’m not sure if this is at a good place for the avatar I’m creating

[harsh saddle]

It's not too bad, you might want to add some more edge loops to the knees and elbows and move some points around/add some edge loops so your faces are more square as there are some long, slender faces that won't subdivide very well.

[indigo sun]

Hi, I'm trying to transfer my unity files from one computer to another new computer but no matter what method I try, somehow not all of the assets transfer over, including VRCSDK...I've tried a harddrive, google drive and even discord but nothing works. Does anyone know why?

My other avatar model transfers over perfectly so I'm thinking it's cause the one that's not transferring over correctly is bigger?

Can anyone help?

[quaint jasper]

If you're talking about a unity project, just turn the whole folder into a zip file

[reef mantle]

When doing blendshapes do I copy just the head or the entire body when doing multiple expressions?

Better yet. Anyone got a free model that's highly optimized for VRC so I can get a better grip on how to make quality assets?

[quaint jasper]

You're not meant to duplicate the mesh for blendshapes, and there are a lot of free models on booth/gumroad

[reef mantle]

Ah thanks. Some of these tutorials makes a terrible attempt at showing how it's done properly.

[harsh saddle]

Pretty sure the Sippbox tutorial for blendshape animations has you duplicate the mesh and it seems to work but no idea if it's actually necessary.

[hollow sundial]

Hello there, I am having an issue with the shading of my model and I dont know how to fix it.
Here is what I have:

• a sphere with 2 shape keys
• the sphere vertex are randomized
• unless both shape keys are are at 100 (100%) the mesh doesnt resolve back to a sphere.

Now I have artifacts all over my mesh and dont really know what to do.

blend shapes at 0:

And here is the problem, blend shapes at 100:

Does anyone know what I can do to fix the shading? (The base mesh needs to have randomized vertex)

[harsh saddle]

Pretty sure that blendshapes are inherently tied to vertex number so if the vertex numbers are all randomized, then the blendshape is going to explode. Not sure what you would do about that. You could maybe use an armature but I'm not sure how weighting would work with randomized verts.

[hollow sundial]

Do you mean amount with number of vertex?

I dont quite understand

[quaint jasper]

You could probably use the transfer data modifier to copy normal data from a sphere that doesn't have randomized vertex position?

[hollow sundial]

Okay, can you elaborate? I have blender open with both the sphere with both blend shapes at 100% and another copy sphere with no blendshapes.

[harsh saddle]

What I mean is how shape keys work (as I understand it) is they tell Blender to move vertex x1, x2, x3...xn a certain amount. If you swap the position of all of those vertices, then it's going to move them in a completely different way than what you want it to do so shape keys seems fundamentally not designed to work with randomized vertices but maybe Ruuubick's idea would work

I think this might be what he's referring to? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOi8h5UE21s

[hollow sundial]

The Position of the individual vertex arent the problem, the problem is forcing the model to have proper shading when both shape keys are maxed.

It is not important how the shade looks like when the model is scrabled either.

[hollow sundial]

I ll take a look at this now, thanks!

[hollow sundial]

Hmm, it seems like this might be getting somewhere, but I havent been able to achieve acceptable results just yet, still thank you both.

[arctic obsidian]

👁️

[quaint jasper]

Cool creature

[exotic wagon]

I am looking for fur models but I cant find anything

Basically fluff that I can add to an existing model in unity

[harsh saddle]

@waxen ivy You wouldn't need to use 2 materials if the cube was UV'd but that is an option. Are you sure that the material with the texture you want for the back of the card is actually assigned to that face?

You'd also need to make sure the materials were properly assigned in Unity

[waxen ivy]

Im sorry i dont quite understand your question. I created a cube and shrunk it down to look like a card. I unwrapped the mesh, then made two materials. I put down an image, and was able to use that image on the mesh, however the second material / image. Does not show on the mesh, I hope this makes sense, I'm a little out of my element

[harsh saddle]

Well, if the mesh is unwrapped, you could just combine the 2 images into 1 texture and move the UVs over the appropriate image but if you don't want to do that, you need to tell Blender what texture goes with what faces by assigning those faces in edit mode. So, you need to go into edit mode, select the face that is supposed to have the back texture on it, and then go into the materials and there will be an assign button to assign that face that material

[open scarab]

plane ( 2 poly ) , duplicate it , flip now you have 4 poly and 1 mat total - on both sizes

[harsh saddle]

That's also an option. Usually having intersecting planes causes z-fighting but I guess it wouldn't if the normals were flipped but I still think a card should have some thickness. But yeah, that would work.

[waxen ivy]

Ok so in UV editing I have faces I can select, when I click on any face, then click assign the new material, the old material gets covered with the new material

[harsh saddle]

You click one face and assigning the material to that one face assigns it to the rest of the model?

[waxen ivy]

Yes this is what it appears to be doing

[harsh saddle]

I guess I'd just ask you to show your work at that point, post a screenshot of the model with the face selected, ideally with the material panel open.

[harsh saddle]

I think I see the problem are you just selecting the face in the UV panel or are you selecting it in the 3D view?

[waxen ivy]

Im selecting the Mesh in 3d View / edit mode, which allows me to select the face in the UV Panel, where I am then selecting a face, then clicking assign, however whatever material I assign, overwrites the other

[harsh saddle]

Okay, your picture isn't very helpful as I can't see if any other faces might be selected.

[waxen ivy]

if I select a diff face, then click assign, the new material will overwrite everything

[harsh saddle]

Given that the vertices on both sides of the edge of the card are selected, it doesn't seem like just that face is selected.

Are you in face selection mode and just clicking the one face?

[waxen ivy]

I'm not sure how to fix that, in order for the faces to even show in the UV editing tab, in Edit mode on the 3d viewer I hit A to select all which then shows the faces in the 3d viewer

In the UV editor I will however, click on one face

Bruh

[harsh saddle]

There's your problem, don't hit A, just click a face in 3D view and hit assign. We're concerned about what is selected in 3D view

[waxen ivy]

It all just clicked, I understand now, thank you

[harsh saddle]

Cool, happy to help.

[waxen ivy]

Simple mistake, causing me a huge headache, I appreciate the help and the patience

[harsh saddle]

You might want to scale your UV islands, by the way. The faces are taller than they are wide but the UVs are squares so you're going to get some distortion unless the texture has been squashed to compensate.

Ideally, you'd probably want to fill most of the UV map with the two faces of the card instead of having all of the faces be equal sizes as the edges aren't very visible and just need to be a single color whereas you want as much space as possible for the images on the faces of the card.

[dawn lion]

I need help with post processing, why isnt it givng me to option to do post processing ? it only lets me go to the post processing guid in unity.

does anyone know why is happening?

[harsh saddle]

I don't know but you don't need it to set up post-processing. First, you need to make sure the post-processing stack is installed from the package manager (maybe why this isn't working?) then you create a game object and add a post-processing volume to it, then go to your main camera and add a post-processing layer, and finally, set the main camera as your reference camera in VRCWorld, that's all there is to it aside from adding and tweaking the various effects.

[limber ferry]

I need someone to make a character for me

[harsh saddle]

Google VRC Traders and you can find people taking commissions but you probably won't get very far if you aren't willing to pay a few hundred dollars

[limber ferry]

I’m gonna go check

Thank you

[exotic obsidian]

Working on a from-scratch avatar, and I am really proud of it so far.

[exotic obsidian]

*Censored because Discord saw it as NSFW

[leaden jacinth]

lmao

discord is being stoopid

[steep galleon]

https://tenor.com/view/reverse-card-uno-uno-cards-gif-13032597

Now your the one being stupid :>

[willow minnow]

anybody know how to fix this?

@harsh saddle You were a big help last time, any input?

I got the weight map done

[harsh saddle]

Clavicles aren't part of the humanoid rigging system so you'd need to get rid of them and parent them to spine 3 which is your upper chest. You'd also need to assign the clavicle weights to the appropriate bone. I think CATS can merge bones or you could just assign the weights of the clavicles to the shoulder using this method (never used it but it looks like it should work) though you might have to do some editing as some of those weights might belong to the upper chest. https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/42778/how-to-merge-vertex-groups

[willow minnow]

The clavicles dont have any weights, they just extend the shoulders out

should i remove them in blender

and just parent the shoulders to spine3?

weight map is done btw,

But yeah. the clavicles lack any weights

is this better? @harsh saddle

[harsh saddle]

Ideally, it's best if the character is in a t-pose when importing but the rig configuration can mostly deal with that. If the upper chest is assigned and the shoulders are both parented to it, you should be fine.

[harsh saddle]

Where is spine 2 in the configuration? I would figure spine 2 would be chest and spine 3 would be upper chest but I guess if it's working alright.

It probably will move strangely, though, as the the chest bone (or upper chest if you have it) should be level with the arms and this is quite a bit below, probably because they should be connected to spine 3

[willow minnow]

VRchat seems okay with it, Except from the fact that my view is around the lower legs

[harsh saddle]

If it's moving alright, then I guess you're fine. The view position is defined in the avatar descriptor, you have to set that manually

[pure dagger]

hey i love lucifer's cosy room! I recently purchased it my self and fixed the video player for questies

[devout orchid]

What I get/What I want. How to extrude vertices as a normal (average) to existing ones?

[harsh saddle]

That should be the default behavior but I don't usually use the extrude tool to actually move verts, I just press E, then enter, then I move them with the "normal" transform mode selected. Worth trying if extruding normally isn't working as you'd like.

[devout orchid]

normal mode doing literally same stuff.

maybe youre talking about extruding faces, but im trying to extrude edges

[harsh saddle]

What I'm saying is don't extrude it with the extrude tool. Just press E to add the new geometry with 0 translation and then move it with the move tool. Also why the flat shading? That seems annoying to work with.

[devout orchid]

@harsh saddleG doesnt seem to do it either, enabling normals mode just sticks it to flat surface (same as shift+y), relative position of new verticies remains the same. So I think were talking about different stuff. How flat polygon with all verticies being flat can be NOT flat shaded .

[harsh saddle]

Oh, I see, I was thinking I was looking at a cube, not a single hexagon, my mistake. When you have those edges selected and extrude them without moving them, is the transform in the direction of the normal as you would expect? Have you tried using the translate arrow instead of the G key?

[devout orchid]

when i extrude it without moving its not doing a thing, no new verticies created. Once again, I dont think were talking about 'normal' normals as of perpendiculars to the faces so I dont think any of 'normals' modes will be of any use. " is the transform in the direction of the normal" what does that mean.

[harsh saddle]

If you press E and then enter to confirm the extrusion and then move what is selected, you should have additional geometry and I believe we are thinking of the same normal, as in the orientation of the transform. In the case of your last image it would seem you would just want to use global orientation since the direct you're trying to extrude is parallel to the grid if I understand what you're going for.

[devout orchid]

i dont have any additional geometry created. auto merge disabled.

[harsh saddle]

This is what you're going for, correct?

[devout orchid]

no

im going for someithng more like Scale modifier

but for more complex surfaces

where scale related to the center wont work

ok, lets go with more real case scenario. Complex mesh, I wan to add like extra 1-2cm border for idk, frills etc. It should look like extension of existing mesh as long as im not going too far

[harsh saddle]

Okay so the second image is what you want. I think you just need to extrude, move along the normal and then scale the edges at the end, like this?

What you could potentially do for your example is select the boundary loop, press F to make a face, and then inset that face.

[devout orchid]

that makes it inside of mesh, not along it

oh, 'individual' option seems to do it

nah

[harsh saddle]

That's the insetting process but I'm still not sure I know what you're trying to achieve

[devout orchid]

just looked a bit close

[harsh saddle]

?

[devout orchid]

as a continuation of existing mesh, not perpendicular to it

angle between old and new vertices close to zero

[harsh saddle]

?

[devout orchid]

no no no

Wait

I got some solution tho.

[quaint jasper]

Alt + S can't do that ?

[devout orchid]

no

it will scale to the middle

i extruded roughly in right direction quite far, then scaled it to zero, subdivided new edges and slid verticies along them to get desired width

but will work only if your edge being interpolated supposed to collapse, not expand

OK, ffs. Scale can do that same thing and result isnt great. Some faces looks ok, some have too much of an angle to original one🥲

[harsh saddle]

I think I'm finally getting what you're after and I have a way to do it but it's a bit of a hack and not completely precise. Basically, it allows you to extrude at any angle using a plane as the angle of extrusion. Add a plane in edit mode, put it at the center of the area you're trying to extrude, then select your loop and finally the plane, and set the origin to active element and the orientation to normal. That will extrude everything at the angle of the plane's normal, then just press L to select the resulting box created by the plane.

If that isn't it, then I don't know.

You could so the same thing using view orientation and orienting the view the right way but it would be more finicky.

[devout orchid]

ofc for real mesh it wont be flat all the time but it should be interpolation of existing polys

Well, thanks for trying to help. Hope someone knows the trick.

[harsh saddle]

Good luck, I don't think there is only simple operation that's going to get you what you're looking for but there are things in Blender I don't know and at least this helps make it more clear that you're trying to achieve

[spiral sigil]

This was a fun read

[quaint jasper]

Yeah, I don't think extrusion can be done that way

[spiral sigil]

Maybe if there is a common point they converge towards, and you can place the 3D cursor there, but that shape I don't think converges.

Fun of 3D is trying the different things until they work.

[devout orchid]

at this point sound like its easier to make an addon. Its very easy math, grab 2 polys, approximate them to plane A, grab their edges we're expanding and create plane B that divides them equally, intersection=new edge, limit it length by some value, fill the polys. why its nonexistent 🥲

[harsh saddle]

Maybe tell that to ChatGPT and it will figure it out for you

Sometimes it's pretty good, when it's not completely confused. I am much the same way.

[spiral sigil]

mood

[ashen forge]

Texturing moment

Right side is without lighting to show textures clearer since they blend in with regular lighting

[jovial seal]

wtf is going on here when i import model into unity it go kabooy and i cant remember the fix

[ashen forge]

Reconfigure your rig in Unity

[jovial seal]

tahnkchyu

[ashen forge]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/605982426342359050/1060106734259154954/image.png?width=560&height=675

Finished texturing, just need to optimize and polish now

[jovial seal]

Serious problem im having

i fucked up the blendshapes in my mouth. how can i fix them?

nvm i just restole it from an old model

nvm

models doing this BUT ONLY in vrc...

Wtf...

[pure dagger]

Using poiyomi anyone have any good ideas on how to add some sort of hue/color slider to this white texture?

[quaint jasper]

There's plenty video tutorials for that specific thing on youtube. I also believe that poiyomi has their own tutorials as well

[pure dagger]

Yea I tried doing the regular hue shift but sadly with the texture being white it doesnt give the desired effects, I have a custom shader set up in blender that allows me to use a CC texture to change the color's but i dont think poiyomi has that feature

[quaint jasper]

I'm surprised the hue shift didn't work

[pure dagger]

Only really affects the bottom areas

[quaint jasper]

If I were you I'd go ask directly in the poiyomi discord server !

[pure dagger]

Just joined to ask there

appreciate it

[hollow sundial]

Uhmm, I dont really know what options poyiomi give you but, can you even hue shift something greyscale?

[spiral sigil]

Wouldn't think so. There is no saturation to affect the hue of.

[pure dagger]

Yea thats why i was asking if poiyomi supported cc

[median pike]

you cant hue shift grayscale, There is no hue to shift lol

only way you can do that is add a color first and than you can hue shift it

[spiral sigil]

https://twitter.com/poiyomi/status/1567313632299565056?s=20&t=ZcILwwNwpmVMQHaLAJ0BgA

poiyomi (@poiyomi)

Poiyomi has 4 global theme colors. You can set any color in the shader to be controlled by a theme color and/or audio link.

This feature is awesome for materials with colors you want to change on the fly. They also have HSV sliders allowing them to be animated super easily.

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Might do what you want

Haven't personally used that feature yet

[pure dagger]

not really what im looking for as im looking to keep the detail, I did eventually find a shader that allows me to do what i want

thank you tho!

[spiral sigil]

[steady zealot]

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/shadow-dagger-2e80b5454a0d4ab7889dc3b54037a76d Made this a little bit ago, but only now got around to uploading it to sketchfab!

[mortal cipher]

How would I make an eyelid?

How does it work?

[harsh saddle]

Model it in Blender, create shape key that has them closed, then assign that shape key to the blink.

[sacred python]

I have always wondered how to create hair cards like these. I can only do simple planes, but nothing fancy like here!

[arctic obsidian]

Oh, it's a particle system in a blender

[sacred python]

Oh, okay, so you turn that particle system then into hair cards, yes?

[arctic obsidian]

I can do this (but sometimes it doesn't work out very well)
it was an commission that didn't require turning into cards

it seems that there is a new hair system in the blender, which immediately makes curves in the plates

[sacred python]

Okay, got it! Still haven't figured out all the tools and which are best to use to make VRC stuff.

[arctic obsidian]

hm... usually only a normal map, specular and diffuse are required

[sacred python]

Well, I'm still mostly stuck in model-remodel-rig-test-dislike-forget-startoveragain -cycle 😛

[arctic obsidian]

I've never had anything to do with a vrchat, but I'll ask for the sake of interest - is it possible to play for a taur there? In terms of the fact that he has several paws and 2 hands.. it's probably difficult for tracking :0

just now I'm making a commission on taur

[harsh saddle]

A lot can be done on PC for multiple limbs using constraints but Quest doesn't have access to those so it would probably only be visible on PC

[arctic obsidian]

it sounds interesting
does not reach the hands to make own character for the vrchat..
I tried to make it for garrys mod, but the compiler doesn't want to work 😦

[arctic obsidian]

In ultra mode, I make commissions for 1 day 😨

[steady zealot]

https://skfb.ly/oC9o6

[hushed leaf]

It is possible, and there is a whole discord for this too.

[spiral sigil]

when using the sudiv modifier is there a way to prevent a part of the model from being subdiv ?

like to have a hard edge

mark sharp doesn't work as expected

and the only solution I can think of is to separate the mesh

[spiral sigil]

You don't want mark sharp, you want to crease the edge.

Shift + E

that's rad

thank you

You can set it anywhere between 0 and 1 too for different amounts

[jovial seal]

ok so um i feel like this par here should be getting shade smoothed but its not?

it jus wont let me shade smooth it

[quaint jasper]

Make sure the normal vectors aren't flipped, but you can reset them with Alt + N manually otherwise

[jovial seal]

alr thanks!

[quaint jasper]

If nothing works in the end, sometimes deleting that geometry and recreating it solves the issue

[jovial seal]

thankyou for the tip flipping my normals solved the issue

[tight quartz]

Greetings,

I'm trying to make an avatar quest compatible, however, these two shaders are locked to Standard and I am not able to change them. Any suggestions?

[leaden jacinth]

create another material and simply assign the same texture onto it

you can always extract the materials as well iirc if you need to edit them

[leaden jacinth]

to edit the shader *

[ornate bobcat]

to all of my pokemon lovers,i made professor kukui`s pokeball ring box (with a shape key to open the box and show the ring ^^)

[pure dagger]

create a new material and assign it to that slot

[tight quartz]

That slot in the avatar body materials?

[harsh saddle]

Yeah, you can also drag it onto the appropriate area

[jovial seal]

just a filthy casual looking for some quick tips on how they can improve there models

[wide cloud]

Heyo, so I bought myself an avatar, it's off the base of the bone wrath, the skull, arms, legs, wings, tail are supposed to be white but the guy I ordered it from says he's unable to fix it because of texturing, is there anyone out there that would be willing to somehow change the bone parts colors to white? I would but idk how to do any of this unity avatar designing stuff 💀

[tight quartz]

That's the thing, I got NO clue where it is lol

[harsh saddle]

You don't know where on your model the material should be applied?

[jovial seal]

anyone know why some of my toggles turn off when reloadin my avi

[tight quartz]

Nah, let me show you the ava.

[harsh saddle]

When in doubt, I just try dragging the material everywhere until it looks right and if you legitimately can't tell, it probably doesn't really matter but I guess if the goal is to get rid of all of the standard materials, you can just drag it into all of the slots in the mesh renderer that have standard materials

[tight quartz]

(Making it quest compatible)

[harsh saddle]

You could also try dragging in a bright purple emissive material so you can see more easily what all of the material slots correspond to. I think if you have more than 3, it'll be very poor quality on Quest and will need to be enabled manually but maybe that's not an issue for you.

[tight quartz]

Ok I got it easily fixed lol. Just drag a new material into "Skinned Mesh Render" ;)

[harsh saddle]

Cool

[tight quartz]

Okay thanks! Got it working. Now back to lego tank building.

[velvet oyster]

latest project complete

my own version of course but if you know this weapon call it out

[quaint jasper]

I tried to find what it is, but no clue

[gritty veldt]

Just curious: Does making a ton of cuts in a model jack up the file size or make it more unoptimized?

[quaint jasper]

Polygon amount does have an effect on the filesize yes, it's best to do a limited dissolve/automatic retopo at the end if it's something you think is necessary

You can see the difference when you export if you do it before/after subdividing or decimating

[limber ferry]

I trying to make a avatar but it’s say click on the version when I click new project

[narrow river]

Hey Guys I'm new here and new to content creation, this is my very first VR360 video on my YouTube Channel "Riven Waters" This is the Start of my new Series Called VR with ME ! In this Scene I've designed a small Home out of three full size Shipping containers, it has two bedrooms and two bathrooms. I've also included an alternative design concept showing that it could also be a small design office while the development is being built. I've included chapter markers so you can skip from room to room. I hope you enjoy looking around ! BEST VIEWED with VR HEADSET
https://youtu.be/k8IDt0bcJZo

[stark radish]

Hey, I wanna bake a matcap texture to my diffuse
How would I go about that with Blender?
I really like how the matcap looks on Quest (and on PC set to Multiply with LilToon)
but would like to make it glow so want to bake it to diffuse so I don't have to use the matcap and can set it as diffuse/emission
Edit: NVM
Found this
https://tohawork.com/en/b-bakematcap#toc2

[scenic gust]

how do you make a skin?

[quaint jasper]

They're called avatars, you can start here https://youtu.be/5JA0f8ZgIw0

[hexed bear]

which one is modeled and which one is the real peice of armature

[quaint jasper]

You really ought to learn how to do screen captures

Obviously the modelled one is on the right

[arctic obsidian]

commission go brrrr

[thin shadow]

i've tried the replacing the fbx directly through the project folder in explorer. It seems that it doesn't update automatically. Are there any settings or anything that i should set first?

[velvet oyster]

my own version of the hero of ages from destiny 2

[still wadi]

@thin shadow not sure, does the trick for me everytime. even if i have to add parts of mesh or bones etc.

[hushed leaf]

Usually takes a second or two for Unity to pick up the change, and you may have to actually click somewhere in the project files window in Unity

[thin shadow]

i did noticed that there's the loading bar pop out when i click on unity to make it active

[hushed leaf]

Yeah that's it loading

[swift jolt]

its been absolutely forever since i modeld something seriously so here we go.... started on a robot