3d-modeling

[swift jolt]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/992472096250794144/1061699548684243045/image.png

only head and neck soo far

[hushed leaf]

oh very nice!

[swift jolt]

thank you

just no idea what to do for the rest of the body.... so ill be looking too much at pintrest tomorow ig

[fleet orchid]

Anyone know how to fix this please

[swift jolt]

broken weightpaint i assume?

[fleet orchid]

Do u know where i have to go?

Idk how

[swift jolt]

blender

this mode

[fleet orchid]

What it's called?

Oh weight paint

Thanks

What i do now after please @swift jolt

[swift jolt]

uhm.... weight paint the part thats wrong to the correct bone

[fleet orchid]

Okey will do tomorrow thanks

[swift jolt]

yea and im done with my stuff for today aswell

goodnight

[pearl cobalt]

can i get any thoughts on what in the world this is? I have tried clean up and everything

[swift jolt]

stray verts id assume

[steady zealot]

https://skfb.ly/oCxWI

[steady zealot]

https://skfb.ly/oCxXr

[leaden jacinth]

this is a nice door

[spiral sigil]

amazing

Like out of a dream

[arctic obsidian]

game ready fur go brrrr

[spiral sigil]

Floofn

[leaden jacinth]

thats really cool

yea thats impressive tbh

well done sir!

[opaque coral]

do i merged my vertexs together my distanse seemed to fix the holes but now it looks all wrinkly

how i fix that the vertexes doent even look like that

there all straight

[quaint jasper]

That's sadly not how not how vertex normals work

You would have to select all those edges in edge selection mode, and mark them as sharp with Ctrl + E

@opaque coral

[opaque coral]

thank youuu

[opaque coral]

but would that be together

thats the thing

there wernt merged

so there was holes everywhere

[quaint jasper]

You said you merged by distance, which means you changed their normal information

So now you have to fix them

In edge selection mode, you can open the search command and type "select sharp" and you might be able to automate most of it

[opaque coral]

how i do edge

??

and theres only mark sharp

and it makes it look dmb

[quaint jasper]

You're only supposed to make edges between colours to be sharp, not everything

Or any sharp angle

[opaque coral]

what like justh the lines sharp

[magic badge]

Added my custom shader to my Sans model.

Everything from scratch by me.

[quaint jasper]

All the edges that weren't connected before you merged by distance

[opaque coral]

and it would conect them??/

[quaint jasper]

It would not no, that's why they were disconnected in the first place, unless there was a problem with that, you should probably leave them disconnected, it's easier

[opaque coral]

no thent thers holes and i cant have that

[quaint jasper]

What kind of holes ?

[opaque coral]

from inbetween my model

[quaint jasper]

Weird

Might want to merge by distance and try to have auto normals fix it

[opaque coral]

yeah so joining the vertexes ficed it

[opaque coral]

and i did no difrent

[opaque coral]

but i like the way the edge face looks so im doing that

[quaint jasper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXbfcFu1oPc&ab_channel=TutsByKai

[opaque coral]

thanks ill look at it

[opaque coral]

OMG TURNING AUTO SMOOTHING OFF FIXED IT

[quaint jasper]

[opaque coral]

THANKSSS

[indigo sun]

Hello! I was wondering if someone could help me. The avatar I'm working on has fishnets on her legs that I want to toggle off, but the only way to do that is to change her skin mesh, so I decided that I was just going to change the skin mesh permanently so that she doens't have the the fishnets. Period. But when I upload her with the new skin mesh without the fishnets, she still uploads with fishnets. Am I doing something wrong?

[pure dagger]

check the animations might be a material that overwrites the one you made

[swift jolt]

Really dumb questions but

1, did you export it as the same file format? (Hopefully with thr same name)

2, did you replace the model in unity?

[pure dagger]

If all they did is change the skin mesh then its only changing the texture

[arctic obsidian]

Retopology go brr

[spiral sigil]

In VRChat do you manually grab and move the light when you are in a world to match up with the sun in the map?

Or wait you'd have to remake that shader logic in unity first

[wraith harbor]

whenever i try to sculpt, NOTHING changes - but when i change back to edit mode, i can see the sculpting change. anyone know why this happens?

[pure dagger]

Do you have any blend shapes active?

make suer your on the basis layer aswell

[bold grove]

So I'm pretty dumb when it comes to all this but I need help optimizing my model for Quest. I need help with reducing the poly count, the skinned mesh renderers, and the material slots

I tried using the Cats Blender Plugin but using the "Fix Model" button just messed up the look of the model by putting the wrong textures everywhere

[hushed leaf]

Yeah the automated things don't work well. You could start by manually selecting and eliminating edge loops that won't overly break the topology

[harsh saddle]

Simplest way to reduce the poly count is to just use a decimate modifier, the results won't be great but good results take a lot more work. To join meshes, just shift-select then and ctrl + j to join. This plugin usually works alright for combining materials but the better option is manual atlasing and moving UVs https://github.com/Grim-es/material-combiner-addon

[bold grove]

I’m getting an error saying no mesh data to join

[harsh saddle]

Are your meshes parented to empty game objects or something? Seems like you're probably trying to upload something that wasn't made for use in VRChat which is going to make things difficult. It might be possible but I wouldn't start there if you have limited experience with creating avatars.

[bold grove]

That's because the model came from SFM

Me and a friend have spent the last few days trying to get it ported into Blender and today we got to where it was able to be imported to Unity and reached the part where we just look at what it says needs work to determine from there

[harsh saddle]

Yeah, it's very possible the rig won't work for VRChat either and fixing that is going to take a fair amount of time and watching tutorials. I'd recommend picking a different model, maybe something off Gumroad that is designed for VRChat and work your way up to completely reworking models to get them to upload.

[bold grove]

I just wanted to have a way to port over my Sonic Forces avatar to VRChat but the SFM route was the only thing I could find due to having trouble finding tutorials on ripping the models from the game

Anything about ripping the models says the rigs aren't available so I'm pretty much screwed either way

But in theory if I rerigged it, I could make it work right?

[harsh saddle]

If you rerigged it then you would also have to fix up the weight painting to make it move well but then you'd just have to fix all the other problems and yeah, in theory.

[bold grove]

Well, time to binge tutorials and spend a lot of time messing around with every possible option to fix the issue until something works

[harsh saddle]

Good luck, I'm sure you'll learn a lot but I'd still switch my focus to a model that didn't have so many problems so you can get a successful upload under your belt but you might be able to get this one working with enough tweaking. I don't know if you're on PC or Quest but PC has far fewer limitations when it comes to number of mesh renderers and materials. It's still better to optimize but you can get away with a lot more on PC.

[bold grove]

I decided that even if the model isn't working right to put it in Unity to see how it turned out and sure enough, putting any texture on it covers the whole model

Checking the VRC stuff just to see how this version of the model is doing

[harsh saddle]

Seems like you somehow ended up with only 1 material slot.

[fallow osprey]

Came back to old tonk project

Still WIP

[past drum]

ah

how do i reset the oprigin point

[hushed leaf]

Do you mean the 3D cursor, or the object's origin?

[thin zenith]

Wait, did someone just delete my message?

Whyyy

[fallow osprey]

If you mean the yellow dot, click on Object in the top menu and locate Set Origin. You can then decide to set it to the 3D Cursor

You cannot be in edit mode for this

[devout orchid]

how do i store poses other than rest, switch between them and where to get t/a/relaxed poses or how to rip them from unity to blender. i'm on 3.2

[elder flame]

⛓️🪚

[small sky]

does anyone knows how cats work?
explaining my problem:
Im trying to use CATS on Blender and it wont save me the Atlas i dont know whats the problem but it just give me that:
Im also following a specific video tutorial which is 1 year old because i dont know how to do anything at all and because its the only video with the specific avatar type i want

[winter vale]

Love and PEAAACE

[trail spruce]

I've been having issues with blender and importing models

I take a model from unity, import to blender, and export back into unity without changing anything, overwriting the fbx and unity spits this shit out. I haven't had issues doing it this way before, idk what changed

(The reason without changes, is because I wanted to see if adding blendshapes was causing this, because I'm wanting to add MMD blendshapes)

(I also uncheck add leaf bones when exporting)

[chilly talon]

Dose anyone know how i can do split hair textures? Im trying to make like orange streaks on this hair

[pure dagger]

@chilly talon what's the bug look like?

Uv not bug

[dull sun]

heya please could anyone help? i used the separate by loose parts thing in the cats blender plugin and it made my mesh all spotty and weird. This affects the texture and makes it all spotty too and I don't know what to do 🙏 I tried to CTRL Z but I'd already done too much for it to go back that far and I've done so much work on this mesh, please, does anyone know how to fix this?

[quaint jasper]

Might just be a matter of resetting normal vectors with Alt + N in edit mode ?

[dull sun]

ill try that real quick, thank you for the reply 🙏

[dull sun]

thank you so, so much, it worked 🥲

[quaint jasper]

[pure dagger]

@quaint jasper saving the day once again

[past drum]

getrting through the learning curve, slowly but surely, my progress after 3-4 days of practice

[trail spruce]

anyone know a solution to this?

[storm wren]

anyone know how to fix this?

[arctic valve]

I'm trying to get a quarter of pipes following a corridor interior, but when I apply the curve modifier to gets... a little messed up size and shape-wise. Am I missing something?

[azure harness]

Are you trying to bake from a detailed mesh onto an optimized mesh?

Usually it has to do with the ray distance set under "selected to active". Try lowering it.

[past drum]

OMFG

im gonna cry

how do i reset this

[quaint jasper]

Shift + S

[past drum]

which one do i select

[quaint jasper]

Cursor to Origin

[past drum]

oh my lord ty been looking on google b ut couldnt find an answer

[devout orchid]

@storm wren theres extrusion parameter when baking normal maps, it should be equal to max height difference between high and lowpoly.

[pure dagger]

" HOW TO RESET WHITE AND RED CIRCLE IN BLENDER" I can already hear the frustration

[storm wren]

Thanks ill try it when i get the chance

[storm wren]

Ill check it out with i get the chance^^

[past drum]

oh you dont know, i was even typing in "how to reset origin point" and was getting answers but non answers

[harsh saddle]

That's called the 3D Cursor, for future reference. The origin has a couple different meanings, either the object's origin or the point 0,0,0 on the grid.

[keen delta]

I'm just trying to remove some parts of the mesh of the avatar but importing the fbx messes up everything else https://i.gyazo.com/3f95f2da72e0762abd57b413974dccc3.png

In fact, if I just import and export the fbx without editing anything, it breaks. How do I even correctly export an fbx?

[tight quartz]

Greetings,

Not being able to do edge loops on a surface is caused by what? And how do I fix it?

[harsh saddle]

It's caused by the face not being a quad and that's how you fix it, make it into quads. Otherwise, you can do it like you have it there on the other side and then connect the verts using the knife tool

[tight quartz]

Thanks, how do I make them quads.

[harsh saddle]

You would have to slice up the face so that it only had 4 edges. One option would be to collapse all the verts at each of the beveled edges and the connect the verts of that center line using the knife tool but then that would undo your bevel essentially. Or you could connect the verts of the bevel going across the face. There are a lot of ways to do it but since that flat ngon (what we call a face with >4 vertices) I would just make the edge loops like you have on the left side and then use the knife tool to connect them.

Ngons should generally be avoided but they don't cause problems if they're completely flat. Unity will triangulate any faces regardless of how they're imported.

[stable garden]

Helloo, does anyone know how to make clothes? im really confused

[harsh saddle]

There are about as many ways to model clothes as there are anything depending on what sort of clothes we're talking about. You'll often want to start by duplicating the body (or parts of the body like the torso, legs, etc.) and then building on top of that but it's the same modeling workflow as anything, moving, rotating and scaling verts, edge loops, insetting, extruding, etc.

[past drum]

Amy videos yal could suggest on shaping the base? I have a basic understanding of blender

[swift jolt]

I usualy just stay confused, zone out, zone back in after 4h and looking at a model i dont understand how i made

[swift jolt]

thought that was basic understanding of blender but you could either brab the verticies or sculpt it i guese. Just remember to make sure the weightpaints are allright after

[past drum]

yeah, i just need to watch videos so i can understand it better

this is as far as i have gotten

[quaint jasper]

If you're not following Rainhet's tutorial, you should !

[pure dagger]

Texture time, :)

[past drum]

stuck here, at 7:20, how did they get the cut tool to make that indent? i cant figure it out for the life of me after trial and error

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gppL3CfyNec&t=720s

[thin shadow]

K for knife tool

[past drum]

thats it? im talking about tthe indent/bevel they were able to do using it, mine doesent do that or does my face need to be at a specific angle?

also ty, trying my absolute best with learning

[thin shadow]

That's because the 4 vertices themselves are not equilateral themselves. So the cut makes it looks like indented.

[past drum]

AHH ok, thats what i thought ty, so pretty much need to move my vertices around then

[thin shadow]

Your mileage may vary

[past drum]

just glad i can at least manipulate this fuckin cube

trying to find some decent tutroials that arent out of date, any anyone would reccomend?

[thin shadow]

Rainhet chaneru

[past drum]

ooh ok ill take a look ty

[stable garden]

Ohh okk I’ll try thank youu

[spiral sigil]

Hello im trying to find a free female base model but i cant find it, if anyone knows a a weebside that haves pls dm me the page

[golden turtle]

Hey Im trynna download blender for modeling stuff, Is any version of it okay?

I heard 2.9 needed for characters for CATS plugin but I guess it doesn't matter for worlds since itll just depend on if I can export it as fbx right

[harsh saddle]

Yeah, CATS shouldn't be relevant for worlds and you can always have multiple versions if you need it. There also aren't that many new things in recent versions that you'll likely need unless you want to get into geometry nodes so you'd probably be fine with 2.9 for everything.

[golden turtle]

👍 tyty

[thorn gulch]

https://alexkendall9.artstation.com/projects/4XA532

[hardy marsh]

High Quality 3D Model Riggers/Artist

~Sculpts High Quality Model at least 50 people would want.

~Rigs High Quality Model for animation at least 100+ people would now want.

~Guess ill Just take a couple pictures of it and then never think touch or look at it again forget it on my hard drive for years until it eventually lost forever.

~stays poor

[formal rain]

That’s fricken wild, good job it looks spectacular!

[thorn gulch]

Thank you!

[hushed leaf]

The development version of CATS supports Blender 3.x, I'm using 3.4.1 with it. There's really little reason to use anything old.

[spiral sigil]

Cuuute!

[waxen dune]

can some make or teach me how to turn a bunch of pictures of things into a model

if you were to make one then pls be free

im not paying for anything

[formal rain]

There are a multitude of videos to help you out on YouTube, but this is also a journey, it’s not something you just instantly go, “oh that’s how to do it,” and then you make exactly what you are envisioning. That being said I’m totally rooting for you if you decide to try learning 3D modeling and rigging! Anyone got some good starting places and tutorials for Clamzy?

[waxen dune]

i just wamt to make a model of a plushie i have to put in my world

[formal rain]

I don’t really know a good tutorial to point to, sorry. Tho if it’s a plushie for a world and not an avatar that makes it a lot easier to make so ya got that going for ya!

[velvet oyster]

x-caliber complete

[quaint jasper]

Follow Rainhet's tutorial to learn all the basics, and then you can do what you described

[tender kestrel]

Looks like it might have been exported with a different scaling setting.

Generally for Unity, you want to use FBX Units Scale or FBX All.

All Local will result in the avatar being 0.01 times its size (in Unity), and automatically get scaled to 100 in the scene.
If the thing in the scene was FBX All and you export with All Local (default setting), or vice versa, stuff will be messed up.

oh yea, you probably want to disable leaf bones in the armature tab there as well, otherwise the FBX file will have a bunch of unnecessary bones added.

[waxen dune]

Yeah

[trail spruce]

Super cringe that's on by default, like wtf

[tender kestrel]

probably useful for certain industry workflows. 🤷‍♂️

One default setting I'm very happy for though:
Unity defaulting textures to max 2048x2048.

Something Neos did not do. xD

Imagine the amount of 4K/8K textures on avatars where the creator just uploaded without changing settings.

[trail spruce]

I typically do 4k for very detailed normal maps with 80% compression and 2k albedo with 70% compression
My avatars rarely exceed 30mb download & 100mb vram

[tender kestrel]

I consider 100MB a bit high, but it's not too bad.

In a club world with 80 people though, 80 instances of that avatar would exceed my VRAM capacity (excluding shader and mesh memory usage).

[trail spruce]

That's why you enable avatar culling to prevent downloading unnecessary avatars, and limit performance to Poor or better before entering a world like that 👍🏻

[tender kestrel]

Yeah, but there's no perf rank for texture memory. xD

I've limited download size to 55MB at least.

[trail spruce]

There is for avatar download size and performance which helps more than not having it enabled

[tender kestrel]

Gotta love photographing people with brush fallbacks. (and FBT)
I have a collection.
Makes up for not seeing VeryPoor avatars. xD

[trail spruce]

tonosama one is funnier imo -- especially when doing the eye bulging expression.

My fallback is cute uwu
(Ending conversation here before a mod slaps our wrist)

[tender kestrel]

ah, same base as Slade. 🤌

see ya. xD

[trail spruce]

https://booth.pm/ja/items/1417205 free on booth :3 -- there's a feline one called Puddle if that's more taste

[waxen dune]

I found an app that can turn images into 3d models

[harsh saddle]

That's what photogrammetry is but it tends to require a lot of good quality images to get a good result and then the resulting model is often not-well optimized so you might want to watch a video or two on working with photogrammetry and how to do things like decimate the model and bake the normals to retain some of that lost detail

[azure rain]

and the topology photogrammetry outputs is not really suitable for character rigging in the slightest

[harsh saddle]

Oh yeah, if it needs to be an avatar, then you're going to need to retopologize manually.

[leaden jacinth]

at that point you might as well just do it from scratch 💀

[cedar socket]

anyone know any tutorials or guides where i can learn how to create vrc avatars only using unity?

[hushed leaf]

Do you have a model? Because Unity isn't a 3D modelling program, you'll need something else if you're starting from scratch

[cedar socket]

i got a package

all i wanna do is like change the clothes and color of the item

[hushed leaf]

Oh, then that's totally possible

[harsh saddle]

If you just want to do a recolor, you can tint the material in the material settings but using the RGB picker next to the base color but if you want to do anything else, you'll at least need Photoshop/GIMP

[waxen dune]

guys i just need a model for a world not an avatar😭

[azure rain]

then you'll probably be fine then thanks for clarifying

[waxen dune]

np

[harsh saddle]

After decimating and reprojecting the high resolution details as a normal map, anyway.

[waxen dune]

AAHHH

idk how to do that

[azure rain]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzBu5mLBNBs

[harsh saddle]

You can get a model without it but it'll probably be way denser than it'll need to be which is going to tank your performance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhW5wLXDVVY

[formal rain]

When you finally figure out and make this stuffed bear, you should put a little sign next to it saying, “this took more effort then you might first think to make”

[harsh saddle]

I guess the one I posted uses Zbrush so you might want to use the one Rainwolf posted. Blender also has a remesher but it takes a bit more tweaking.

This tool is probably a better option for remeshing than Blender but it can also require a bit of experimentation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISgdREmFO7w

This one uses just Blender https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKo0rWXVAlc

Oh wait, it uses Instant Meshes too

[waxen dune]

well see

sometime tomorrow

[tiny shard]

Not sure where the right avenue or channel is but can someone please assist me why my models legs don't bend or move with auto footsteps. I had been working to replace a blender mesh with my current pants mesh and I made sure to keep all the same bones and everything. From what I can see they are all hooked up. But when I go into vr chat my legs just float around while moving and don't walk.

Any help is appreciated but I am at work at the moment and can't take screenshots but I can later. 😁

[hushed leaf]

Assuming it's rigged fine in Blender, probably #avatar-help, it's more likely a rig setup problem in Unity

[tiny shard]

Thanks

[lean hemlock]

hey there, i got a problem with substance painter, when i try to symmetry paint, the other side is painting with different Alignment for some reason

[hushed leaf]

UVs inconsistent?

[hushed leaf]

that's a texture, are the actual UVs correctly mapped to that?

[lean hemlock]

oh sorry i just started using it today and got stuck, where can i see the UV?

[hushed leaf]

I know nothing about Substance, but you could check in something like Blender

[lean hemlock]

ye it looks good to me

[hushed leaf]

yeah that does - ok then I'm not sure 🙂

Usually that kind of thing is due to weird UVs

[lean hemlock]

the symmetry paints on the top mesh for some reason

[spiral sigil]

Bake mesh maps and see if it still does it.

[lean hemlock]

i decided to just accept it and repaint the eye after, im mostly done now, im modelling the details currently

[spiral sigil]

👍

Baking mesh maps also bakes a location map so it knows where in world space things actually are.

Glad it worked out well

[lean hemlock]

ty

[devout orchid]

Once again what i have/What I want. Simple repeatative object,I want to snap every fragment on top of each other. Second ss will work as of now, but it loops only if I have separate material for it, it impossible to include it into other texture as a single square UV.

[pure dagger]

@devout orchid add seams around the top middle should give you what you desire

[devout orchid]

@pure dagger 'around the top middle' - what

i tried to add seams on every loop but it unwraps to some abominations

[pure dagger]

Just add one

[devout orchid]

and ill get first image, what

[pure dagger]

What the entire model look like

[devout orchid]

its a loop

[pure dagger]

Then yea you just need the one seam

[devout orchid]

how on earth it would help me to overlap my uvs?

[pure dagger]

Oh I'm sorry I thought you was trying to unwrap it differently

Just delete half of the verts and use a mirror modifier

[devout orchid]

try again

thx for trying to help tho

[velvet oyster]

my own version of the demon slayer sword from black clover.

[sudden jackal]

How do I mirror this to the other side

I want to copy one side and then mirror it to the other side

[quaint jasper]

use the symmetrize function in edit mode

[sudden jackal]

Where's that at?

[quaint jasper]

you just type symmetrize in the search bar

[quaint jasper]

No, the search bar that you bring up by pressing F3 or space

[sudden jackal]

Both space and F3 don't bring up. Search bar TwT

[quaint jasper]

You might have to google it then, maybe F2 or F1 ?

[sudden jackal]

Do I have to download something???

[quaint jasper]

No, it's the most basic feature of blender

[sudden jackal]

I'm still not finding it

[quaint jasper]

https://youtu.be/9ky8nqyKW5Q?t=988

[sudden jackal]

See I tried everything YwY

[quaint jasper]

Unsure how you're not finding it

[sudden jackal]

I'm in edit mode TwT

[quaint jasper]

Get used to google things otherwise you'll be stuck quite fast

[sudden jackal]

I press f3

[quaint jasper]

Look at the video

[sudden jackal]

And nothing YwY

[steel niche]

Blender does have fully editable keybindings, if you're still having trouble you can go into the preferences and search "search" in the keymap tab to see what it's set to or change it to something else

There's a chance that you might have set the spacebar action to "play" (as in play animation) while you were setting up blender, in which case you can just change that setting here. Not sure what to tell you about the F3 key if it's not working though

You might also want to enable the auto mirror addon, it's one of the many useful addons that comes with blender and I find it to be more intuitive than symmetrize for most things. It cuts the mesh basically down the middle and puts a mirror modifier on it so you can see how your edits affect both sides in real time. You can't put it on just one part of an object, but you can select the part you want to mirror, press P and separate by selection, then mirror the new object. When you want to join it back with the main mesh, just apply the mirror modifier, select both objects in object mode, then ctrl+J to make them one object again

I like to have my mesh mirrored when I first start working on it because it provides a solid base to work off of, I can tweak and add details to the individual sides later on

[arctic obsidian]

👁️👁️

This boy 🐦

[prime obsidian]

is there a way to mirror the knife tool so the verticies could also appear on the other side?
if not then is there a way to mirror those mouth verticies i made?

just screwing around and making my first test model

[prime obsidian]

aight i found a workaround, duplicated the verticies and separated em

aight nvm i'm having a trouble connecting them back properly so maybe not

[kindred turtle]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/133803633518182400/1066729392572743710/image.png

hello, I need some tips on how to make good fur, I feel like it doesn't look very good

I want something like this

[steel niche]

https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/modeling/meshes/editing/mesh/knife_project.html Use the duplicated verts and do this

[jagged bronze]

how can i remove all those vertices/faces? its feathers or something and its like 70% of the polygons on the model, i have been trying different stuff for like 2 hours now, im new to blender and would love to get some help

[hushed leaf]

oh wow

first guess is box-selecting them and just deleting them, and recreating the topology, but that's not great 🙂

[jagged bronze]

yee i tried that like 5 times, it turned out full on wonky

i also tried sculpting but that just messed stuff up more

[hushed leaf]

ugh yeah

[cerulean shoal]

hide the bits you dont wanna remove and then select all those feathery bits and delete

[jagged bronze]

can ya explain how, or do you know a vid/article on it?

[hushed leaf]

select stuff, hit 'h' to hide

(alt-h to show hidden stuff)

[cerulean shoal]

you can select everything connected to that mesh bit by pressing ctrl + L

[jagged bronze]

well 1 more issue is that the feathers are all mixed up with the bottom of the tail, like some of them are inside the bottom

[hushed leaf]

I'd consider just re-modeling using the existing tail as a guide

[jagged bronze]

yee, but its also in the groin, between the legs, and im not good at modeling at all and it just turned into a full on wonky low poly weird model

why cant i select anything now? i took and undid all i did by restarting without saving, and now i cant select anything

[hushed leaf]

are you in object mode or editing a different object?

[jagged bronze]

idk, im new to blender lmao

tf did i do now

https://tenor.com/view/laughing-dying-gif-24782560

@hushed leaf

[hushed leaf]

Just because I had one answer doesn't mean I have them all 🙂

I can't tell at all what you're doing from the image, sorry

[jagged bronze]

yee, i just wanted to send it lmao

ohh that pic

well im in the modeling tab

i can only select the bones

[hushed leaf]

seems like you're editing the armature then

go back to object mode and select the object you want to edit, then go into edit mode

[jagged bronze]

ok

so uhhh

[steel niche]

You don't need to delete it. Select all of the fluffy bits in edit mode, make a new vertex group, and press "assign." Then make a new decimation modifier and select the vertex group you just made. Now you can decimate just the fluffy bits.

[jagged bronze]

ok

i found some vertex groups, some of em with tail and a number

[steel niche]

Those are for the weight data to make the mesh follow the bones. You need to make a new vertex group for just selecting the fluffy parts. You don't want to use one of the existing vertex groups because you'll need to delete the one you use for decimating later

[jagged bronze]

ok

but i still cant select anything, idk why

and 1 more issue is that the fluffy bits are merged into the bottom as well, so i will also end up deleting the bottom of the tail

[steel niche]

It looks like the fluff is separate from the body actually, so that will make it easier to get rid of actually than what I was suggesting. I'm not really sure why you're not able to select things. Could you show a screenshot of your full blender window?

[steel niche]

Oh, the other person was right, you're in edit mode on the armature not the avatar. Go into object mode and right click on the penguin to select it, then go back into edit mode

[jagged bronze]

ohh

ok i can select stuff now

what next?

this is how all the fluff looks from the inside btw

[steel niche]

Press L with your mouse over the main body of the penguin to select all of it, then press H to hide it (this is temporary and only makes it invisible in edit mode,) keep doing that on the parts of the penguin that aren't hidden until all that's left is the fluff. When you only have fluff left, press A to select everything, then X to delete. You can press alt+H to unhide everything you had hidden earlier.

[jagged bronze]

hazah, it worked!! thank you!!

[steel niche]

You're welcome!

[jagged bronze]

also, how can i check how many polygons there are?

[hushed leaf]

You can enable that display on the status bar, one sec

preferences -> interface -> status bar -> check "scene statistics"

Then it's in the bottom right corner

[jagged bronze]

ok

is it the tris?

[steel niche]

Yes, that's it

[jagged bronze]

ok

7k less, nice

[hushed leaf]

I'm not sure that's going to match perfectly with Unity but if not it'll be pretty close, yeah

[steel niche]

Tris is the part you need to look at, that's what Unity checks

[jagged bronze]

ok

im gonna try and lower it to 7k, so it can be excellent on quest and be used as mah fallback

[hushed leaf]

ooh, good luck, that's a ton of work 🙂

[jagged bronze]

isent it just decimating?

[hushed leaf]

decimating isn't always the best path to not looking awful

edge-loop dissolving is a good one too

[jagged bronze]

thats what i did on the first version i made, it did look awful yes, had some cracks

[steel niche]

I think a lot of the remaining triangles are in the beak, so that's the part I'd suggest focusing on. You could do what I was suggesting earlier with the vertex group and decimate modifier, just selecting the beak. It's still not the cleanest solution, but it'll probably be better than decimating the whole body

[jagged bronze]

ok

i think the eyes as well

[hushed leaf]

yeah you can probably simplify both a lot

The beak ought to be pretty rigid too, so you don't need anywhere near that many polys

[jagged bronze]

why cant i decimate it? i put the modifier in, lowered the ratio and it did nothing

[steel niche]

Go into object mode, I'm pretty sure you can't see it in edit mode

[jagged bronze]

ok

when i change into object mode it just goes away

[steel niche]

Huh, that's strange

[jagged bronze]

ok i managed to decimate it even when i couldent see it

it still looks good, i dont think theres any cracks either

[steel niche]

Yep, doesn't look like there's any cracks. It might've been messing up before because of the fluff

[jagged bronze]

yeee

[steel niche]

Good job!

[jagged bronze]

:D

i havent been this motivated to do something in years tbh

thanks for all the help

umh, ik this isent the right place but what

[empty fox]

Read/write isn't turned on, will be a auto fix above.

[jagged bronze]

ohhh

[empty fox]

It just assumes worst case scenario if it cannot read how many polygons actually exist.

[pure dagger]

mm my cpu can cook steak

[mental temple]

yeah, um, a need a quick summary on how to create an avatar

<- not good at modeling

[harsh saddle]

If you want to create an avatar from scratch, you kind of have to get good at modeling, also rigging, weight painting, texturing, and shape keys. There aren't really any shortcuts unless you're fine with using an existing model and then customizing it, then you only need to know as much as is required for your edits.

[mental temple]

oh god

Y I P P E E

I'll have to practice

all for this:

[harsh saddle]

That would be relatively simple to make as avatars go but you're looking at probably ~$200 on the low end to commission an avatar creator to make that or you will have to learn some stuff.

[pure dagger]

If you plan on getting a commission id recommend joining vrc traders in #community-servers-old

[mental temple]

which I why I wanna learn

tryna save for college

[pure dagger]

Youtube is a really good way to learn!

[kindred turtle]

any tips...?

[harsh saddle]

Depends on the type of fur. Some can be sculpted, some works best with hair cards and some should be modeled separately and combined with custom normals. Any examples of what you're trying to do?

[kindred turtle]

yeah like this

[harsh saddle]

Not everyone is a fan but I think the donut series is a good overview to start with, just look it up on Youtube

[harsh saddle]

That could either be sculpted directly with the sculpt tools (move, snake hook, inflate) or using fur objects with custom normals https://youtu.be/jgVEdS6sZsk

[kindred turtle]

yeah thats what ive been doing but thx for the vieo!

[spice harness]

so some people take parts of a mesh and put in on another mesh, like taking an arm off of something and putting it on something else. how do I do that?

[harsh saddle]

You can either just line it up and leave it unattached if you don't mind seams or you can make sure where it's connecting has the same number of vertices on both sides and merge the vertices to make it one model

[spice harness]

how do i cut it from the mesh though?

[harsh saddle]

You can select the faces and press P to separate it to a new object

[spice harness]

oh ok thanks

[loud pivot]

Just some WIP of the sculpt. Going to start retopology soon

[prime obsidian]

god he looks AMAZINGGGG

[exotic wagon]

idk where else to ask this, but is there, somewhere out there, a 3D model of this legendary hat?

[pure dagger]

I got a hat that you can pretty easily texture this on lmao

[exotic wagon]

Where 👀

ah I see your gumroad

[pure dagger]

its not on my gumroad, i made it for a com ill look for it

[warm mulch]

Mmm with the new iterations of blender, is it not possible to "xray" to see both sides of the wireframe when weight-painting? (Not referring to painting both sides)

[azure rain]

well you have bowls for eyes not eyeballs I'm guessing that Avatar was more intended for toon shading

[steel niche]

Have you checked to see if the normals are flipped?

[old island]

i figured it out and idk what kind of shading i want yet but ill probably put like celshading

my first furry model lol ive only ever practiced making people

cuz furries are hard to make

i put it off for so long\

lol

[jagged bronze]

ok so, after decimating my model i got these small cracks/holes, mostly around the penguin's beak, i tried the fill holes in clean up tab but it dident do anything, im not good at modeling, i did try and patch em up myself but yee that go well, is there any way to easily fill them?

ik its not that noticeable but me being autistic i easily get annoyed by it lmao

[quaint jasper]

Did you merge everything by distance in edit mode ? If not, give it a try

[jagged bronze]

hm?

[old island]

@jagged bronze this might help

if you select 2 vertices and press m

you can cvonnect the

[jagged bronze]

yee ik, but theres alot of them and their super small

[old island]

it could patch up holes in your model

[jagged bronze]

like 100 of em, all small and very hard to find

i did try to do that at first but after like 20min i gave up lmao

[old island]

how much did you decimate it lol

[jagged bronze]

cant remember

i know it had 17k polygons, now it has like 11k or 13k polygons

[quaint jasper]

The point of merge by distance is that it's automatic if you select your entire model in edit mode

[jagged bronze]

ok

[nova saddle]

does anyone know the dimensions of VRCBillards in meters?

just making a world and need the dimension of it to scale correctly

[jagged moat]

Probably just as easy to import the model from the package

[pure dagger]

Yea just copy the fbx in the unity package

[nova saddle]

running it on a mac rn because im at uni

so i dont have the unity or anything on here but i found a pool table model with a blender file just having the same problem with axe throwing now

[hushed leaf]

@golden lynx So you want to use the DataTransfer modifier - for each part, make a vertex group that contains just the edge you want to make seamless. add a DataTransfer modifier to each object, where the source is the other mesh, and the Vertex Group is the edge. Check Face Corner Data and under that, enable Custom Normals and Mapping should be Nearest Face Interpolated. That ought to do it.

original question, in case anyone else is wondering: #avatar-general message

[golden lynx]

Ok! i'll try thx

[hushed leaf]

you're welcome! This one bugged me for a while too 🙂

[river kelp]

I rigged it n then i realized that the hair was on the same layer(idk what its called im rlly new to blender) so i merged it but now the face is the only part of the head that moves, any ideas on how to fix it?

[hushed leaf]

weight painting surely

[sick marten]

does anyone know the hotkey to zoom back in to the object? im trying to uv unwrap bnut for some reason im 100000 miles away and when i zoom in I cant get my camera into the building or rotate without it swinging the view another 10000 miles xD help

I've been trying to fix it for 30 mins

[azure rain]

" / " key will have it seem into focus on a singular object

[river kelp]

no dice with weight painting, there was only painted areas on the feet everything else all blue

[spiral sigil]

why is that sometimes, even when my model has seems when I try to select an island it selects verts from an adjacent island?

how do I not select the other island

[mental temple]

got it, thanks!

[harsh saddle]

Are you in face select mode or vertex mode? If you're selecting verts and those verts are on the border between islands, they're going to get selected on both islands.

[spiral sigil]

ooooh

[harsh saddle]

That's a very broad question. Anyone with any 3D modeling experience can probably fix some things and I'm not sure any of us can fix everything so it would really depend on what needs fixing.

It would be hard to say what they needed without doing the work and I'm not sure if you're going to find someone willing to do that for free. We can give you advice if you run into issues optimizing them but that's probably about as much as you'll get without paying.

[harsh saddle]

You might find someone that can do that but I've got my own projects to focus on and there's no telling how much work might be required. Your best bet is to just ask questions here but I guess it doesn't hurt to try to find someone to walk you through the entire process.

[nova saddle]

does anyone have any idea if theres an asset pack for the drinks and stuff used in the black cat? Thank You!

[sick marten]

thank you so much, that fixed it ❤️

[spiral sigil]

Not many people will do this for free

It's very tedious

what specifically is wrong with the models?

[leaden jacinth]

he has failed to answer this questions ince yesterday @spiral sigil

since*

[spiral sigil]

Oh well

[merry trench]

does anyone know if there is an asset pack of all the tf2 unusual effects?

[oak hatch]

Robodoggo

[tiny shard]

Can anyone please help me out. I'm trying to figure out why this keeps happening to my shoulders. Any advice is appreciated as I'm still new to blender.

[lilac escarp]

just decided to play around with a model i downloaded from a game i play and for some reason the character's wings dont show up in the material preview but they do in the solid mode anyone know whats going on

[thin shadow]

perhaps it's a one sided mesh. check the face orientation.

[prime obsidian]

first time making my own model from scratch, any advice on connecting the hair strands together? rn it's all deparate meshes

i'll be weight painting it later so if yall have any tips that could make stuff easier for me lemme know lmao

would be good to lower the amount of polys in them as well (made them from cones) but idk there's a quick way anymore to do it for only vertical edges

[harsh saddle]

You can select one of the vertical edge loops, then go to select -> select loops -> select rings to select all of the vertical edge loops, then checker deselect to deselect every other one and dissolve, that's probably the best way. Actually merging all of that cleanly would be a nightmare so your best best is to look into custom normals to help it blend better. Luckily, it's hair so you're probably just going to want to weight it all to the head so you can just select it all and assign it to the head vertex group once you've added the rig. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgVEdS6sZsk

[prime obsidian]

the vertical edge loops was exactly what i was lookin for thank u

i'll try it out in a sec

and yeah it defo would be hell to combine them, i will have them just assigned to the head but wouldn't that mean that they'd stay as separate meshes?

i want to make the model vrchat compatible so having the hair strands be 16 different meshes would be terrible for it

unless i can combine them after i'm done weight painting

[harsh saddle]

You can join the meshes without welding all the vertices, just select all of them and Ctrl + J

It won't change the geometry but it will make them all a single mesh as far as Blender and Unity are concerned.

[prime obsidian]

yeah but it will be extremely hard to make any edits to them afterwards

is there anything i can do about that or do i just deal with it

[harsh saddle]

I would recommend waiting until you've made all of the necessary edits to do that, yeah. You can weight paint and do all of that and then join later if you like. You can also weight paint and then separate out certain points and join them back if you like, it won't ruin anything so long as you aren't on a shape key with either model when you do it, keep it on the basis shape key and ideally have all of this done before you start adding shape keys

[prime obsidian]

alrighty gotcha

[devout orchid]

no it wont, just select one vertex, press L and only this strand will be selected. Then P if you want to separate it to own object

[harsh saddle]

You can just hover over any unconnected part of the mesh and press L to just select that part of the mesh but sometimes it can be helpful to separate if you want to be able to do box or circle selections without impacting other parts of the mesh.

[prime obsidian]

nvm the select thing is not working out for me

whenever i do checker deselect it doesn't deselect properly

idk what's up with the verticies at the top but they don't get selected together when i do loop ring

do when i do checker deselect it's not doing what it should

[glad fiber]

how looks ? 70k vertices (to high i know but.. ) xD

[steel niche]

Looks good! You can always lower the polycount later, so it being 70k isn't too bad for now

[leaden jacinth]

nice topology

well done tbh, that does look good

[mental temple]

I mean wow

Nice job

[glad fiber]

someone know why this weird line appears ?

[devout orchid]

@glad fiber cause mirror. when you apply it should dissapear.

[glad fiber]

i try it but not dissapear

[devout orchid]

recalc normals?

[glad fiber]

but now i fix it , just deleting actual mirror and create another one

don't know why , but new mirror solve this D: i'm confused

[harsh saddle]

Probably because your merge distance is set to 0 so it isn't welding the vertices in the middle but the new mirror modifier came in with default settings so it did merge them

[devout orchid]

@glad fiber oh, yeah, if you look as first screenshot its not perfectly centered along origin point. so better check if you havent deformed anything with new mirror

[glad fiber]

true its is , 😮 dont maybe i do missclick on merge distance , thanks

[steel niche]

The mirror modifier should be before the subdivision modifier

You can move it up in the stack by clicking and dragging on the :::: in the top right corner of the modifier

You might have also been having some issues from having set something in the "mirror object" field, there's only a few uncommon cases where you would need to use that

[glad fiber]

Yes, I did know this, but the problem was another, the partner above had the solution that specific line came out because it had the merge at 0 instead of 0.0001

thanks for everything people, the problem is solved

[quaint jasper]

Are your transforms applied ? Could also be flipped normals

Oh, thanks Discord for not scrolling

[tiny shard]

Can anyone help me out with my blender issue?

[pure dagger]

What's the issue

[tiny shard]

This.

[glacial cradle]

how can i fix these weight paints?

this is area between legs

[glacial cradle]

already fixed it

i still have no idea how to hide the other leg

[olive burrow]

that shoe has more polys then my whole avatar xD

[azure rain]

hopefully it's just the high poly for normal map baking

[spiral sigil]

Does anyone do comissions

[harsh saddle]

If you google VRC Traders, you can find the commissions server

[lilac escarp]

can someone help so im trying to 3d print a model from one of the games i play but its completely hollow inside. The software i use for my printer doesn't even pick up the model when slicing it before printing. Ive tried using the solidify modifier but no matter what thickness i put it at it just turns into a giant blob. anyone have any other ideas how i can fill in the inside

[quaint jasper]

You're not supposed to fill the inside, you're supposed to close any holes in the mesh

[spare kiln]

lol, yes it will be baked onto low poly

[solar fossil]

I think there was a addon for blender to tell you when a model is manifold or not, and show what edges are causing the issue

[quaint jasper]

You can type "select non-manifold" in the search command bar in edit mode too

[lilac escarp]

i typed that in (Select > Select All by Trait > Non Manifold) and it seems all but a few are selected what do i do in this case

[quaint jasper]

Did you ever merge by distance ? Seems like there are quite a few disconnected pieces

[lilac escarp]

ill try that real quick

just tried it and it really only seems to make the sword wavy (included before to show what i mean)

[quaint jasper]

It lost its normals, which is expected

This file clearly wasn't meant for printing, so if I were you I'd look up a tutorial on what the steps are to make it print ready

It's a bit involved

[ionic current]

not sure if right place to ask but, does anyone have any experience using https://armorpaint.org/ for texture work? what are your thoughts?
i want to look into texturing avatars but i just cannot afford substance painter nor do i want to give adobe any of my money

[quaint jasper]

You can give Marmoset Toolbag a try

[ionic current]

ill check it out! willing to look at any and all alternatives to substance painter

[toxic iron]

The character I'm modeling, his 3D model is literally built with his arm clipping into his back shell

Should I try and modify it or leave it as is?

I downloaded a ripped reference model to make sure I was looking at it right, and it's still that way

[acoustic parrot]

Whenever i do something with normals like using the "Smoothing" option in Blender, it doesnt apply to the blendshape normals in Unity

Almost like its not being exported, but i think i have everything set up properly.

if i just do normals via like edges and stuff and letting blender auto it, those export fine

[thorn mango]

how do i import stuff to blender?

[harsh saddle]

File -> import -> pick the file type

[thorn mango]

tysm!

[edgy shore]

Two different angles
Does anyone know what and why the mesh has these weird shadings/highlights near the vertices? I'm newish to Blender and I've been having a hard time trying to find information about what causes this and how to fix it? Was editing the geometry a bit adding/removing faces and I guess I did something wrong along the way?

Could just be a dumb question, sorry if it is

[harsh saddle]

The topology in general is pretty rough, you might have a vertex that isn't welded in that spot on the breast. The one closer to the neck probably looks bad because it's an n-gon, a polygon with more than 4 sides. Unity will triangulate those (make them into triangles) but not always in the way you might want and they look bad in Blender so it's best to avoid them unless they're on a completely flat surface.

I would use the knife tool to cut the ngon into quads and for the other spot, try moving the vertices around and see if any spots are disconnected, otherwise it could be the normals so you might want to try turning on backface culling to see if any faces are flipped. https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/workbench/options.html

[pure dagger]

Finished my Bovine legs

[acoustic parrot]

Those are called Normals, and the dark spots are usually caused by overlaping faces

[placid hinge]

It looks like a good model software

I'm a Warhammer avatar maker but this blender model coloring is hard

[peak ermine]

I have this weapon here with animation the essentially is just it extending, how would import it into unity properly retaining the animation? Im very new to blender, and got this model off sketchfab

[pure dagger]

Export it as an fbx with animations

Id recommend however just creating a blendshape for it expanding

[peak ermine]

Alrighty

[pure dagger]

lmk if you need any help

[peak ermine]

I probably will at some point lmaoo

[pure dagger]

Dms are open

[clear geyser]

Is it for sale?

[pure dagger]

What game is this from

Wheres the base model from then? It looks very familiar is all

[clear geyser]

Unfortunate, another fiverr scammer. Here is the avatar for anyone who wants to buy it from the actual creator https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/character/man/3d-game-model-low-poly

[cerulean shoal]

i don't want to assume but im not sure that is the original creator either

just because the name is so generic

[hushed gyro]

Anyone know of a way to get rid of these lines? I'm trying not to add more polys and a weighted-normal modifier is on. (548 tri)

[glossy lily]

Retopologize so your mesh looks something like this. Lines like that usually happen when you aren't properly using edge loops and edge rings

Start with the shape with sharp edges. Then select the edges you need to be rounded, and use the bevel tool in edit mode.

@hushed gyro

[grizzled cradle]

So im tryna add this lil circle thing to the leg so that its not just open but the circle isnt moving w the leg properly?

I tried weight painting it differently but i cant get it to work

[hushed gyro]

Just needed some manual tweaking, Thanks for the help!

The artifacts happened after I bent the original beveled cube with a lattice

[glossy lily]

Bevels can be a pain sometimes. It's usually my last step, once I'm happy with everything else

[glossy lily]

As in you're trying to cover the hole in the leg as if it's been amputated, so you can texture on it?

[grizzled cradle]

mhm :>

[glossy lily]

Select all the vertices around that edge where the hole is, and press F. It should create a new face from the existing vertices and you won't need to weight paint anything.

It might mess with textures though, so for the sake of not having to redo textures, you might want to duplicate the vertices and then press F on the new vertices. It should copy the weight paint data. Then UV unwrap the new circle so it can be properly textured

[grizzled cradle]

ok bare with me rq im pretty bad at blender ':>

[glossy lily]

Hang on I'm making another video

To select multiple edges like that, use ctrl+left click. It will take the shortest path from the active vertex/edge to the one click on. To duplicate vertices, press ctrl+D. Immediately after pressing ctrl+D, press F and it will make a face with the new vertices. Swap to UV editing mode, select your new circular face, and press unwrap. Then move the vertices to somewhere on your UV map where they don't overlap with existing vertices.

[grizzled cradle]

ah gotcha! tysm!

[glossy lily]

I just realized I cut off the edges of the screen and you can't see what I'm clicking on. Sorry I usually just show the work space for commission updates I can send another one if you need it

@grizzled cradle Here's another one showing the edges. Also I forgot after pressing ctrl+D, press enter, then press F.

[grizzled cradle]

Sorry im a bit stupid. I tryed that, did the uv unwrapping and assigned it to another spot where other vertices arent using but this is still happening

[glossy lily]

What's still happening? Sorry it's hard to tell from the pictures

[harsh saddle]

Do the textures in these areas not correspond to where the faces are in the UV space? The bottom one looks like it's using an empty part of the UV space but the top one looks like it's covering essentially the whole map. How do they look in UV edit mode?

[glossy lily]

If that's the case you'll need to go to mesh, then normals, then flip in this menu

Though it looks like your UV map is still overlapping a bunch of other textures

[boreal anchor]

Any idea why my avatar is doing this when I import from fbx to unity?

The mesh appears shrunk down across all the bones.

[spiral sigil]

I’ve made a model sheet of my book’s main character, Alex Swordhandle.
I don’t know why, because I don’t have any idea how to 3D model in blender, Or have the money to pay someone to do it LMAO-
It was good art practice tho-

[river kelp]

OK so I redid my other thing and have gotten to the unity section. New issue! The model is listed as low of a height that can be uploaded, .2, but in-game it's listed as 2.75m in height. Which is Way too fucking big. Scaling it down in blender doesn't seem to work either.

[quaint jasper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-yhjgnhaNw&ab_channel=RainhetChaneru3D

Get started and you'll be there faster than you think, especially since you're a good 2D artist, it'll come naturally to you

[spiral sigil]

Why thank you, ruuubick. Ill attempt!
…next week-

[pure dagger]

Yea your not exporting it from blender correctly, Id recommend using this plugin https://github.com/EdyJ/blender-to-unity-fbx-exporter

[jade raven]

Making MurderDrones N model (My 2nd ever model) Rly proud so far

[hushed gyro]

Widescreen or 1:1? I'm having trouble deciding.

[hushed gyro]

LookN good so far

[harsh saddle]

That's the same picture? And it would depend on the application, you're not giving us much to work with.

[hushed gyro]

The bezel to the left and right of the screen is thicker on the second image. I'm asking which one is more aesthetically pleasing.

[harsh saddle]

I see, that's a subtle difference. I guess the top one, slightly.

[desert crown]

Does anyone know why Bones like this happens? Parent bones are unaccessible or unable to select even though in the scene, it shows that its connected?

[quaint jasper]

You can't parent the original bone of an armature, since it's at the top

[desert crown]

hm..but doesn't this look correct?

i just find it odd that i can't parent it, but knowing that its already parented in the scene....i can accept that if it works correctly in unity.

[quaint jasper]

You can't give a parent to the top most parent in the armature hierarchy yes, because there is no bone above

[spiral sigil]

In this case, you have to connect the child bone to the parent, not the contrary

[desert crown]

oh okay i think i just realize it. Spine is the child, so hips being blank as it is, is correct the entire time. I was chasing after nothing. Thank you fair and ruuubick~

[solar fossil]

Little animation of a character im working on

Bonus points if you know where its from

[spare mauve]

Girls last tour 🥹

[red glade]

back at it again gj

[placid hinge]

I love that

[pearl quiver]

So im looking at Gumroad on some assets

and some of them have prefab what does that mean?

[harsh saddle]

A prefab is like a package of a bunch of different assets so it might include models, materials, textures, scripts, particle effects, etc. It makes it easier to drag a single object into your scene and have it include everything you need.

[pearl quiver]

Oh okay i see thank you

[proven plinth]

Adding fishes to the new Torinyan's avatar, Runa 🐠

[spiral sigil]

Thats some actual good tier shit right there

[proven plinth]

I have a full render, but discord thinks it's explicit lol

[tight quartz]

That's amazing, how long did it take and any videos that can explain this? lol

[proven plinth]

Thank ya! took me about 9 hours on and off. I jumped between texturing and modeling plus I just have a super slow workflow. There's tooons of videos regarding rendering and model editing.

[tight quartz]

Yikes. Also thought it was a shader.

[proven plinth]

Nahh, all Blender Nodes and emission maps

I used poiyomi for the final avatar though

[arctic obsidian]

New model 🙌

[spiral sigil]

Can any1 send me akalis helmet model with visemes if you have it kinda like this one?

[woven bramble]

Too lazy to retype it all lol but can someone help me on this? This my first time 3dmodeing so ya

[quaint jasper]

Blender does not save textures made within the program through Alt + S or the regular save function, it requires Alt + Shift + S iirc, or using the pack all into blend option

[woven bramble]

Aw man ty for letting me know

[devout orchid]

and it warns you when youre trying to close it with unsaved images. at least latest versions

[proven plinth]

Lol that would be neat, I’ve already dabbled in animation a bit to make them swim. Took me longer than I’d admit so trying to trigger an event would take me ages. Unity logic goes right over my head

[dim tiger]

If anyone wants, I made a free black history pin for avatars! https://clubluckyvr.booth.pm/items/4528847

[jagged moat]

Ya'll ever just ignore triangle count and make shit?

WIP of the Corsair HS60s

coming up on 1mil tris

[harsh saddle]

Looks cool. You could probably bake those normals to a 2k tri mesh and then use a transparent texture for the mesh grate but like you said, it's not always about the triangles.

[jagged moat]

tempted to bake it to lower poly just to get a bit more use in substance tbf

[trail python]

thatd be nice but it would probably create more mistakes like vcc

[rigid coral]

Does anyone here know about making vrm's in unity? I'm having a problem and this is the closet I can find to a active vrm discord server 😭

[azure rain]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjUOtdywf24

[rigid coral]

My problem is kind a specific. I can take my model and make it into a VRoid, but when i "export", It just changes some edges from smooth to sharp

But is a VRM problem, so idk if anyone here can help. was just hoping there was some overlap in Vtube artists and Avatar artists

[quaint jasper]

I'd bring it back in Blender and smooth those normals if I were you

[rigid coral]

Its seems like .vrm files might enforce their own auto smoothing or something(maybe forcing UV seams to be sharp edges?). Do you think I could fake the smooth edges with a normal map?

[quaint jasper]

I still think it'll be visible

[rigid coral]

Yeah I think it just something with this vrm exporter, it doesn't understand unity's fbx import setting. I'm not getting payed for this so its w/e

[red glade]

I feel like something is off about the eyes. Any tips for them? They don't really feel... Correct it still feels very uncanny

[red glade]

Adding some makeup on the side and moving the outer eye corners in more works already.

[harsh saddle]

The structure of a real eye is quite complex, you've got the cavity of the pupil which forms a sort of torus/donut shape with the surrounding dilator muscles and that's behind the clear reflective cornea which balloons out in an oval bump on top of the iris and pupil which come together to create those characteristic reflections around the pupil and iris that this character is missing along with the pinkish hues that form along the sides and back of the sclera. So it's quite a technical challenge to create truly realistic eyes that many movies don't even get right but your character isn't all that realistic to begin with so I'm not sure how far you want to go with that or if you're trying to target Quest which is going to limit your ability to be able to build up that reflective layer that will give the eyes a more natural look.

[red glade]

Well generally Im not aiming it to be super realistic. as you mentioned

But it still feels just. Off

[harsh saddle]

It's hard to account for stylization, there's no right or wrong unless you're going for realism but the texture of the iris is quite realistic until you get to the edges and then it suddenly gets super dark and the transition from the iris to the sclera is much harder than it would be in reality so you can try playing around with those factors and see if it feels better.

Though it's often the reflections that really bring an eye to life, hence why many anime and manga styles go ham on reflections but you're not going to get realistic eye reflections by just jacking up the smoothness of the material, you really need an eye shape that concentrates the reflections in the right areas to make those look convincing.

[red glade]

Hm good point. I tried doing a more stylized eye texture but it felt... worse

Besides it being warped. It looks better

[harsh saddle]

The reflection spots definitely help. In reality, they wouldn't completely be locked to the irises like that but it's a good compromise without getting a lot more complex.

[red glade]

Yea exactly I'd rather not have anything uhm. transparent so id probally cut it out.

[devout orchid]

check overwatch eyes for ref, stylized but with quite realistic irises

[harsh saddle]

Another thing you'll see done a lot is darkening the upper part of the iris and then creating a U shape under the pupil that's brighter to give the iris more depth. Might be worth trying.

[grand plank]

Hey, I'm setting up a new FBX to replace one I've been using (same FBX just with some edits made). The original FBX was using cm for the units but when I brought the new one into Unity it's being measured in meters. How can I fix this so that the new one is also in cm?

I'm assuming it's something I need to do in Blender

[devout orchid]

@grand plank fbx units on export

theres dropdown

[harsh saddle]

Scale it down by 100? Unity only has one unit system, meters, so you either have to export to the right scale for Unity or do it inside of Unity.

[grand plank]

Is it "Scale"?

[devout orchid]

@grand plank probly, csnt check

theres like local units, fbx units all options etc. when exporting fbx in blender

apply scslings -> fbx units scale

googled some screenshots lol

[grand plank]

Hmmm, I may not be doing this right x.x It's still using meters

[devout orchid]

then try local

i believe local is cm and it ends up with avatars being scaled 100 in unity, fbx - proper one with meters

[grand plank]

Ah! I figured it out! It was actually in two places. I had to change the Scene Properties > Units > Length to Centimeters and also had to change Overlays > Scale to 0.01

Oh, and had to change Scene Properties > Units > Unit Scale to 0.01

[harsh saddle]

Seems like a lot more work than just S .01

[red glade]

Good call!

The shape of my eyes is a bit off i think

Maybe thats whats messing with me.

[drifting depot]

yo. Anyone have tips for sculpting floofy fur?

[drifting depot]

found something.

[left lantern]

Hello! I would like to ask for help for someone to do a favor for me and fit a clothing into my avatar via blender..

[gentle cradle]

anyone know some really good character tutorials cuz I've had to start over so many times

[velvet oyster]

Spear of the valentines complete

[oak hatch]

Robodoggo

[swift jolt]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/992472096250794144/1073247869831745596/image.png

[languid fossil]

I’m looking for some help making this in 3D since this is the only good image I have. Any tips?

[harsh saddle]

If you can draw, you might consider trying to draw some more traditional angles and use those as reference but otherwise, just do it. I like to sculpt so I would take a cube, subdivide it, and then model this using the sculpting tools but you could also use a more traditional polygon modeling workflow. Not sure how much specific advice I can give unless you have specific questions.

[spiral sigil]

I made this in 2 days. Ik its not good i made it in maya but is there a way to make this into as a vrchat world? Im just curious if i export this as a fbx for unity 👀😓

[azure rain]

yes exporting it as a fbx would allow you to import it into Unity

[spiral sigil]

Oh nice thnks 👍

[azure rain]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLi52YrrDmY

[harsh saddle]

Though the hundreds of sticks might add up in terms of geometry. Might be better to duplicate 1 stick to make use of instancing.

[spiral sigil]

Really? i just used Xgen so i didnt know how much it can affect it

[azure rain]

and maybe set up some level of distance so it's not trying to render far away grass

basically it has to store the geometry data for every single blade of grass but instancing would only store the data for the grass once

[spiral sigil]

Hopefully I’ll remember that 🤣

[azure rain]

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

[harsh saddle]

I think you'd be better off with a layer of realistic grass that just faded into green or using Unity terrain for the built-in LOD. I didn't initially recognize that as grass, looks more like thousands of twigs whereas with LOD you can get high quality grass close to the player that simplifies farther away and ultimately disappears

[spiral sigil]

Well 1 is because the reference i used had brown field grass and 2 the last time i try to change the color of the grass to green it wouldnt show it green when i render it 🤷‍♀️ so idk if it was just me and missed up or something around the maya programming that somehow didn’t render the color

[harsh saddle]

Using Unity terrain, you can edit the textures in a program like GIMP or Photoshop so you can just take the grass texture and change the hue and saturation to make it brown.

[spiral sigil]

Like i even tried to to change the color for that to be lighter but ended staying as a default color 🤷‍♀️

[azure rain]

Unity terrain would also be more efficient as it's not static geometry so we can reduce the triangle count on distance geometry

[spiral sigil]

So would i delete the xgen grass and then import it to unity and then just add grass there?

[azure rain]

basically it would just bring over the metal structure and have the background be made in unity

[spiral sigil]

Ah ok

[harsh saddle]

Yeah, there are ways to convert geometry to Unity terrain but I've never used them, I'd just redo it in Unity.

[spiral sigil]

Thnks for the help guys 😄

[azure rain]

glad to be of help if you have anymore questions feel free to ask

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddy12WHqt-M

albeit the video is for unity2020 but would still apply to 2019 for learning how the Terrain system works @spiral sigil

[spiral sigil]

Thnks!

[oak hatch]

As a person who does occasionally smoke a pipe, I can tell you I would have difficulties with that huge boyo.

[swift jolt]

tbh the pipe is wack, a real design from the 1920s....

[spiral sigil]

does one desire to throw up

[harsh saddle]

It looks pretty but its an awfully small bowl for a pipe with that much heft but I guess it would be good for heat insulation

[swift jolt]

just perfecly fits my robotclaw

[oak hatch]

noice. Also yeah, the 1920's are a wacky time for design.

[spark phoenix]

what is a good modeling service for making avatars? i read the first part of the blender manual but my brain is too small for that... any easyer alternitives? for starters like myself of course

[quaint jasper]

Depends what kind of avatars you want to make, VRoid might be a good alternative.

[harsh saddle]

Yeah, https://vroid.com/en/studio or https://readyplayer.me/

[spark phoenix]

well, somewhat like a simple avatar, one that can do animations and custimizations. (sorry for ping btw)

[spark phoenix]

i kind of want a software where it has more creativity and not chosen presets (sorry for ping again)

[harsh saddle]

There are programs like Daz Studio and Character Creator but they tend to be pretty costly when it comes to buying lots of costumes and customization options and they often aren't well-optimized for game engines, especially given VRChat's avatar limits for Quest.

[spark phoenix]

oh, i see. i had a friend mention a modeling software i dont know how to spell it but it was like "blendo"

[quaint jasper]

VRoid is the most creative one you'll find, aside from that, it's all from scratch

Blender is the software

[spark phoenix]

oh i get it now

still somewhat confusing but i guess i will look into it tomorrow if i remember at least

gn

[harsh saddle]

Blendo was a successful early Battlebot but that's probably not what you had in mind

[swift jolt]

Yea blender is not that hard of a program to use…. It just has a little learning CURB when starting out…. Do donut tutorial and you get a rough grip on the program atleast

[red glade]

I moved the eyes down a bit and changed the shape up a bit. Looks better already

[red glade]

• Eye lids that fixes allot of the issues i had

[devout orchid]

up to you, but i dont really like those eyebrows, too thin (density, not size wise)/realistic

[quaint jasper]

I think they might look ok if they were placed lower, right now it looks like they're raised by default

[serene tree]

My model's looks keep getting messed up in blender when I choose the fix model option

I also can't use the export option

[harsh saddle]

I'm not sure it ever worked completely perfectly but CATS is known to not support anything past Blender 2.9 well.

[serene tree]

That's what I'm using, CATS and blender

[harsh saddle]

Are you using 2.9, though?

[serene tree]

I don't know

I'm using 3.4

[harsh saddle]

Well, unless you specifically went into the download archive to get 2.9 or earlier, it's newer

Yeah, that's not going to work well.

[serene tree]

Ok

[obsidian nova]

This is a poor example, but a little bit of AO along the forehead can help to make the hairline feel more natural.

My avatar is pretty similar.

[serene tree]

Is blender 2.9 and 2.90 the same?

[obsidian nova]

Yes.

[serene tree]

Ok

[harsh saddle]

It's also the same as 2.900 and 2.9000

[serene tree]

What

👀

[harsh saddle]

Trailing zeroes don't change the value of a thing generally

Now 2.91, that's different.

[serene tree]

Which one

[harsh saddle]

2.900000

[serene tree]

No

[harsh saddle]

2.9.0.0.0.0

[serene tree]

Which download, windows, mac, or linux

[harsh saddle]

You don't know what operating system you have?

[hushed leaf]

FYI, The development version of CATS runs fine with Blender 3.4: https://github.com/absolute-quantum/cats-blender-plugin/archive/refs/heads/development.zip

[serene tree]

Nope

[red glade]

Oo good call thanks! Will do

[red glade]

Good point. Probally because i moved the eye’s lower

I feel like if i look at something too long it starts to become uhm… like i cant see the problems with it. Thanks for the assists everyone!

[red glade]

Big swag.

[quaint jasper]

Much better

[red glade]

Thanks I agree!

Now the forehead feels a bit off but. The biggest part has been fixed.

I wanna replicate this hairstyle. which is what i have IRL. Once i have the time to go for it

I think i can take good reference from hanzo from OW2 I think

[swift jolt]

Big ear

[thorn gulch]

https://alexkendall9.artstation.com/projects/aoNOYz

[lucid drift]

can anyone help me and tell me what addons i need for blender

[harsh saddle]

To do what? You don't really need any add-ons.

[lucid drift]

like to edit an avatar and stuff like- add like maybe lets say cat ears or a tail.

my friend told me i needed some addons to be able to do that.

[harsh saddle]

Not really. CATS can be useful but you don't need it. The release version on works with Blender up to 2.9 but apparently there's a development version that works with 3.4. I make avatars and I've never used it but it has some useful tools.

[lucid drift]

oh- i already have cats added so

ok

[lucid drift]

ty c:

[lucid drift]

can anyone help be put clothes on the avatar- lmao

[harsh saddle]

Look up transfer weights on Youtube. If you can line up the clothing and transfer the weights, that should generally work okay

[azure rain]

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

[lucid drift]

thank you

[lucid drift]

i think ima need actual help...

I FAILED 4 TIMES ALREADY MY BRAIN CANT HANDLE IT NO MO

[trail python]

have you ever used blender before?

[lucid drift]

nope

thats why i was asking in the first place

T>T

[harsh saddle]

You might want to watch some beginner blender videos before moving to character rigging. The donut tutorial is a good start.

[lucid drift]

ok ty c:

[trail python]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIoXOplUvAw&ab_channel=BlenderGuru

[jagged moat]

God I fkn love modifiers

before modifiers, this is a cube

[pure dagger]

if your willing to pay id recommend checking out the vrc traders discord, They have a whole bunch of people who can take commissions and have been authorized via their mod team to know what they are doing and not be scammers

[pure dagger]

after modifiers it is church

[jagged moat]

xd

I bet someone more talented than I am could make a cube into a BlenderDonut™️ with just modifiers

[harsh saddle]

If we're including geometry nodes, you could probably make an entire scene from a cube or nothing at all with enough cleverness.

[jagged moat]

True, I guess the only major hurdle would be finding somebody who would stay sane long enough to do it

[harsh saddle]

I think I know a guy https://youtu.be/Xp9i2RSwaP0

[arctic obsidian]

new model!

[leaden jacinth]

now that is sick

those renders are sexy

is it rigged? 👀

[arctic obsidian]

Yep, rigged

[leaden jacinth]

[small canyon]

That's amazing :00

[quaint jasper]

Great outline work ! Topo/weight paint could probably use a pass at the crease areas though ! Also Blender has a "stabilize stroke" feature that would help avoid the shaky lines on the chest!

[atomic hamlet]

I love seeing highly expressive furry avatars, nice work!

[daring rose]

When I go to upload a avatar I keep getting the 3d unity prefab error idk how to fix

[digital jolt]

^w^ my clients fursona is soo cute

[red glade]

That looks SUPER Solid Great job on it!

Especially the facial features

[visual steeple]

anybody here proficient at Blender who can lend me a small hand?

[azure rain]

it would help if you describe the nature of your problem

[visual steeple]

im trying to put these leg warms on this avatar. i was given a tutorial a few years back but 90% of that tutorial is out the window now

i was taught stuff about edit and sculpt mode? but i dont remember anything about it

[azure rain]

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

[visual steeple]

appreciated

wait apologies, i only have 3 options? object mode, edit mode, and pose mode

[harsh saddle]

You have the armature selected, you need to select the mesh.

[visual steeple]

ah, appreciated

im a complete newbie to blender

i just know it's better than putting clothes on an avatar in unity lol

[azure rain]

yes definitely better as the ways to do it with just Unity only results and some pretty unoptimized stuff as a lot of time people go with basically having two skeletons and using rotate constraints to make them behave like one skeleton

[visual steeple]

im just tryna make a cute and simple avatar for myself, one that wont crash people but also useable for quest n' stuff

any guides on optimization?

[harsh saddle]

How many triangles does the mesh have? Do you know?

[visual steeple]

how does one check that?

[azure rain]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MkgXcidxg4

[visual steeple]

ah, thank you!

[visual steeple]

is this gonna cause issues? i simply imported it, the bones were like this

apologies this is after i did fix model with cats

[spiral sigil]

someone pls make a boywithuke avatar pls pls pls

[atomic edge]

I am trying to close the gap between head's chin and neck. Also I want to somewhat "close" the head backside. I am struggling with different kinds of "extrude" - maybe someone can point me into the correct direction, naming the different steps I need to do in order to achieve that. Most of my Blender skills I got from Youtube videos, but currently I am even missing the correct search terms ... is "extrude" even correct for "adding the missing parts of the head"?

[harsh saddle]

There's not really one straightforward method for combining meshes. Extrusion can be part of it but you'll ultimately need to merge the vertices on the edges of the two meshes you're trying to connect which requires the part of the meshes you're trying to connect having the same number of vertices if you want to connect them cleanly. I found this kind of basic tutorial for what you're trying to do that uses a much simpler mesh but the same techniques apply. It's generally better to do this before subdividing and triangulating the mesh so you have fewer vertices that need to be connected.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qgut1rnBR8

[atomic edge]

Hm, thanks a lot - but I guess I explained it the wrong way, sorry for that.
What I really want to do is not combining both meshes but adding vertices to the head (face) mesh in order to make a full head out of it which then also "visually" closes the gap to the neck when using a common armature.
So my intention is to add vertices to the current face/head in order to close the mesh like a "ball". After closing I could easily use "sculpt" tool.

[harsh saddle]

So you basically want to have a full head that intersects with the neck rather than making the vertices of the neck connect with the head? It's basically the same thing, you just don't merge the vertices. Some of it can be done with extrusion but you're ultimately going to get to a point where everything needs to connect in the middle so you'll need to make sure you figure out how to connect the faces in a way that makes sense for how many edges you have. There will probably be some extrusion, probably bridging some edge loops, maybe some cuts to get the number of edges where it needs to be to connect everything, there's not really a straightforward workflow to this task.

[devout orchid]

@atomic edge create ball, edge loop it till you have right amount of verticies in loop (two loops, face-ball, abd ball-neck), shape it so loops located in the right place and then use bridge gap

[atomic edge]

Do I understand this correctly? I can create a ball and use a part of it to close my existing mesh?

[harsh saddle]

You can do that but you're still going to need to shape the ball and then delete part of it unless you want a close ball inside of the head and then you need to make sure the number of vertices around the edge you're trying to connect is appropriate and are generally lined up well.

[devout orchid]

@atomic edge you use ball as a base because extruding verticies by hand is pain. then you cut holes in it and stitch it to the face/neck, now you can just sculpt it while having somewhat decent topo. Not an expert tho, did it once

[harsh saddle]

You could in theory use a boolean but then the topology will be really messy so I would avoid that unless that area will be hidden in which case you could just leave it open and not close it at all

[atomic edge]

Sounds complicated ... but at least I have learned that sometimes there is no easy way of solving this. I wonder why creators offer "open" heads when it's so hard to close them. 😉

[devout orchid]

its probably vrm based so you can try and grab default bald vroid

[atomic edge]

I guess I will stick to some extrusion in order to add a few vertices until everything is hidden under the hair and that's it.

Maybe completely closing the head is just too complicated - at least for me being still a beginner.

Thanks to you guys! 💜

[harsh saddle]

Topology is a tricky thing, you need to do a lot of planning ahead of time if you want the edges to flow cleanly and all line up well. You might want to watch some topology or retopology videos to get a sense for the general workflow but it's always going to be kind of slow and tedious.

[atomic edge]

Being a noob I will put Topology on my list of things to learn next - thankies! 💜

[trail python]

heads often come without the backside bc its covered by hair or clothing/accessories

no point in having extra polys when its going to be covered by another mesh

same reason why like.. boss models from uhh elden ring i guess for example, don't have a body mesh underneath armor
edit* its a poor example but the reason is squeezing optimizing anywhere someone can and laziness (since it gets covered usually anyways)

[devout orchid]

theres chin missing, beard placeholder? 🥲 and id rather have full head to separate it into hair base. especially since it's bases, not complete avatars, so a bit early for final cleanups

[trail python]

yeah if its a full head its easier to work with, facial hair seems exempt to the "hair = hole in head/body" thing

[urban flint]

Is there way to turn bones into a mesh? I wanted to use this as a fallback for vrchat, thought it'd be interesting

[manic spade]

not that im aware of but it wouldnt be too difficult to model over it because the shapes are pretty simple

trying to make some frayed shorts in marvelous/other stuff

with a noisier gradient

[marble stratus]

Sculpt tools only show impact in soild mode and not material mod, any idea how to fix this?

[spiral sigil]

Got a weird issue with blender. Trying to edit some vertices in edit mode and the changes get recorded on all existing shapekeys. Any fix?

[spiral sigil]

Wow those pants actually look good

[harsh saddle]

Are you trying to edit the basis when the mesh already has shape keys? That doesn't tend to work well which is why you want to save shape keys to the end. What you can do if you've got something like a viseme is assign the viseme to a specific vertex group (like the face) so it doesn't influence anything else, set that shape key to 100, then do a "new shape from mix" which should keep the new shape key from influencing anything outside of the vertex group without having a vertex group set on the shape key itself which Unity won't recognize.

[spiral sigil]

I will try that thanks.

[arctic obsidian]

new model 🙌

[fickle tusk]

yoo nice work!

Making a base, hoping to get some FBT compatibility feedback (or just roast my proportions feel free lmao). does this look good?

wrists line up with crotch when arms are alongside body

[harsh saddle]

I'm not gonna second guess Loomis when it comes to body proportions and it looks like yours lines up pretty well.

[fickle tusk]

I made him more buff

Loomis is king for sure

[dark gazelle]

soooo cute

[dusty heron]

That looks sick!

[void temple]

how do I adjust the UV of a model after deleting edge loops?

[cedar shuttle]

started work on lamp posts

[toxic grotto]

is there like a vrchat avatar rig base or like... that skeleton lookin thing?

[spiral sigil]

Lovely lampage

[harsh saddle]

You adjust the UVs by selecting them in edit mode and moving them in the UV editor assuming we're talking about Blender but deleting edge loops shouldn't really do much to your UVs.

[void temple]

it does make a noticeable difference with my experience, sometimes deleting edge loops messes with the UV

[harsh saddle]

It can in some instances if the island tapers or something in that area or if it's on the edge of an island but yeah, you just select the points and move them in the UV editor

[cedar shuttle]

All pro builder no blender still working on it

[trail python]

4 hours later, but hopefully this is what you were looking for lmfao

[exotic parrot]

Anyone tell me why cats baking doesnt work

[toxic grotto]

uh... how do i open it on blender.

[trail python]

file > import > fbx

[toxic grotto]

thanks

[spiral sigil]

So, I got some spare time to work on side assets, now the question is, is it possible to use dynamic bones on the packages to imitate real physics?

[harsh saddle]

Yeah, you can use dynamic bone in worlds. Not sure how you're planning on using that for a coffee maker but if you can figure out a way that makes sense.

[rotund eagle]

Hello, I need some help, I'm a complete newbie to 3D and blender and I'm just following tutorials to try to get an MMD avatar to vrchat. I just found out that one of (if not multiple) texture is missing and I have no idea as to where to go in blender to get it back. I didn't touch anything in the files nor the textures, and when looking inside the texture folder in the files, I can still see the face textures, could you help me ? If it's something too complicated and I would need a better understanding of blender let me know.

also maybe I'm not using the most appropriate channel for this, let me know if it's the case

[visual steeple]

is there an easy way to convert an a-pose to a t-pose in blender? or do i have to guesstimate with pose mode with cats plugin

[trail python]

thats usually how people do it anyways ive noticed

or they model it into a t pose to start with but i dont think A pose is hugely problematic

[quaint jasper]

It's not an exact science, as long as the upper, lower and hand bone are horizontal it's fine

[visual steeple]

hmm, alright. cuz im a newbie with blender and im suffering

[quaint jasper]

It gets easier fast

[visual steeple]

heres to hoping

is there anybody who can help me put this hoodie on this avatar? no matter what tutorial im using, im still absolutely suffering

or if anybody has any good, updated tutorials?

[pure dagger]

Put the hoodie in a tpose using cats and set it as default. Then make sure the bones in the hoodie and body are the same then merge via cats with the only thing checked being merge all bones

[severe frigate]

https://twitter.com/UniverseAcid/status/1626403001232392192?s=20 I just wanted to share this guy

Acid_Love (Comissions open 1/10) (@UniverseAcid)

okay so I am back, and my commissions are open!
Here are some of my works!

for more info & works: https://t.co/ghgUpGX0I6

#blender #Blender3d #RobloxDev
(Baby and lil pinky Designs by @/Snartles
Sun and moon design by a deleted account
Rabbit Lady is a design i found in 2021)

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[visual steeple]

anybody know how to fix this?

the bad clipping at the leg

[arctic obsidian]

You can try the first modifier (ttansfer mesh data, if I remember correctly)
Transfer mesh data - vertex group - generate data - choose body object - apply

[visual steeple]

sorry, im a huge newbie to Blender, learning as i click random things and small youtube tutorials. any specific guide you can give?

[arctic obsidian]

You can give me the file, I will record a video tutorial on how to fix this problem. It's not hard for me 🙌

[solemn elk]

my partner merged layers and now their main model is purple when it states it’s not, we tried closing n reopening it but that hasn’t done much. anyone know why??

this is on blender.

also, it’s only in sculpt. everything else is the same

[arctic obsidian]

try turning it off

Although it can be a color in the viewport (if there are several materials and one of them had a purple color, and the other did not. Although this is unlikely for a sculpt)

[waxen ivy]

I have a blender question, Here I am extruding an edge, is there a shortcut or good method for me to easily match this edge selected with the edge in front of it?

[harsh saddle]

I tend to just zoom in real close and eyeball it but this might help https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p06F1LzTjQ

[spiral sigil]

My friend applied a subdiv modifier to their model and all of a sudden the textures started doing this

There's no duplicated faces or anything, i checked

[spiral sigil]

Found the issue, somehow the wireframe got duplicated (no mesh, just the vertecies)

[marble stratus]

does someone know why is my shapekey reseting in the render?

trying to make an avatar render, and make face expressions using shape keys, but it goes back to basis in the final render

[pseudo pewter]

im debating if i should take a college class for 3D modeling, would it be worth it? for background info, ive already learned quite a bit on my own but that motivation has kinda dried out. im hoping a class would force me to learn + i could learn good habits and unlearn bad habits and such

[harsh saddle]

If it's financially viable then it's probably not a bad option. You can probably learn anything you can in a class online but like you said, a classroom can be more conducive to structured learning and you can get help from your classmates and the instructor if you run into issues.

[pseudo pewter]

ahh ok, thank you. unfortunately im reading reviews about the professor that teaches the course and they look a little dismal :(

[harsh saddle]

Rate My Professor can be a bit harsh since you don't normally bother unless the professor is really bad or really good and I think fewer people rate the really good ones. That being said, while I've never taken a modeling course, some of my worst professors were programming/computer science people.

[pseudo pewter]

ohhh true i forgot about that bias... can confirm tho ive had a lot of horrible cs professors. ill think about it still though!

[spiral sigil]

Anyone know where the "curve from mesh/text" tool is, for making hair? I tried looking it up, but I think the shortcut "alt + C" is outdated since it didn't work when I tried :/

[quaint jasper]

You want to use the "Apply shapekey as Basis" option, I can't recall if that's part of the Cats addon though

[quasi plover]

when texture painting, is there an easier way of painting between fingers without permanently moving a bone?

[thin shadow]

paint using the uv layout

[jovial seal]

Is there a base rig I have to follow when modelling something new for vrchat?

[devout orchid]

@jovial seal #3d-modeling message not strictly tho

but at least in terms of hierarchy

[jovial seal]

Alrighty thanks man

[hardy turret]

any good tutorials out there for hair modelling and texturing?

[swift jolt]

Either paint the uv layout…. Or seperate the finger from the rest of the mesh and hide the body. And then remerge it to the body when painted…. But you will need to merge the seam it creates aswell….

Doing it on the uv layout is the easiest

[quasi plover]

couldn't find it in uv, managed to get through it though

[swift jolt]

Its on the texture paint tab at the top

[quasi plover]

I had the uv layout next to the texture paint, could see both at once