3d-modeling

[edgy finch]

how am I gonna merge the hair? I understand merging the hands and arms and the feet to the ankles but

the hair's really big

would just joining it save me the hassle or no

[tough plover]

don't "weld" it to the head, just combine the meshes with Ctrl + J at the end

[edgy finch]

Oh ok cool

[swift jolt]

Blockout

[snow linden]

Don't know if this is the best place to ask but I'm looking to get something made in blender, It shouldn't be to much work (I think at least) I just need something to be resized in a way to fit my avatar

[hushed leaf]

oh

go to the VRC Traders discord if you want to commission people, you'll get scammers around here.
Link is in #1204490664637890580

[snow linden]

Bros thowing me around xD

[hushed leaf]

sorry, didn't realize this was what you were after 🙂

[noble bough]

well better that, than getting scammed

[edgy finch]

hey question, how do I go about modeling the teeth

[heavy sonnet]

honestly up to you, but i usually just make a rounded cone shape. If you're using a subdiv workflow, just add a cube, then you can make the bottom face smaller, extrude it down, and then merge the vertices at the center and add a vertex crease (increase this until it's sufficiently sharp per your liking). Then you can kinda just duplicate this and move it around, scale it, to make all your teeth

[edgy finch]

Oh ok!

[snow wyvern]

work in progress

[edgy finch]

how do I make a good armature for this and how do I put it in unity?

I'll probably color it first but I do wish to have some advice before jumping in the deep end

[hushed leaf]

re: Put it in unity, export it as FBX.

[gray mica]

the mesh doesn't seem to be symmetrical, as Kazin said export it as FBX. you can use https://www.mixamo.com/ to rig your models

[hushed leaf]

Otherwise, standard rigging concepts apply, see #avatar-rigging for sample of what a VRChat compatible armature should look like - and yeah tools like that might work.
you don't need it symmetrical though, people aren't exactly, but it'll definitely make it easier

[edgy finch]

oh wow my fault ig

I didn't even notice I thought it was symmetrical

[faint bronze]

started a new project

[edgy finch]

do I join everything together before or after the weight painting?

I'm really having a hard time

[hushed leaf]

depends what it is - I would probably do it before, so you don't have issues trying to match vertices at edges. you can always setup dummy materials or vertex groups to make it easy to re-split later for things you want separate.

[edgy finch]

true true

I set up the bones and got excited and joined everything together and forgot about weight painting and instantly started having a hard time

[edgy finch]

what would I do for the hair here? do I just add a bone for each tuft?

[tough plover]

you could, or you could have some bonees that affect multiple to save on bones

[edgy finch]

oh ok cool!

[edgy finch]

I put four bones for the back of the hair, two for the front, and one called the root

[hushed leaf]

<@&397642795457970181> spammer

[swift jolt]

blockout

[meager lotus]

Yo

[heavy sonnet]

yo makoto naegi from danganronpa trigger happy havoc!

[primal oasis]

Anyone know camera settings for Blender that might better match VRChat's player cameras? Just wanna be able to check things in perspective in Blender to have a better idea of how they'll appear once in Unity/VRC

[waxen ivy]

You tiled the normal map under color and normals correct? What value did you use? 1000? May I see your Matcap-0/Values as well?

[waxen ivy]

I'm also curious if you might have some recomendations for the lighting/anisotropics, the lighting isn't looking good in its current state

[viscid birch]

I used 300 and 600 for the normal map.

And I somehow lost the matcap from before. So these settings aren't exactly the same. But basically the right side is opaque black. Left side is skin tone and more transparent. Another option would be to make the whole thing black and use a different "blending" mode for the matcap.

[waxen ivy]

Is your shading flat?

[viscid birch]

Yes, it's flat

And anisotropics depend on the "tangents" of your model. So in FBX import settings I changed Tangents to "Import" instead of "Calculate Mikktspace"

[waxen ivy]

How did you manage to make the skin tone transparent? Im going to check my tangents now

[viscid birch]

Alpha isn't in the color picker. Instead you click on top side of the gradient and add marks there to control alpha separately.

[waxen ivy]

Oh I see, let me do that now, I can't tell but I think this looks a lot better now, I'm going to adjust the transparency, something I would have never found in a YouTube Video or ever think to try/play around with is calc to import

[viscid birch]

Yeah, I'm not 100% sure whether "import" or "calculate mikktspace" is correct for all models. I just know it's involved because anisotropics are shaped like a line and tangents affect which direction the line is flowing. Also "switch direction" turns the line 90 degrees

[waxen ivy]

I'm going to keep playing with the effect, ill probably never get it to be perfect but I think you've helped me enough to get it to where itll be decent eventually, thank you

[nocturne pelican]

What is the best way to model a small building with an interior and exterior?

[hushed leaf]

one part at a time?

[heavy sonnet]

up to, you, but most people find it easier to model the inside and outside (and sometimes even each room) separately, but it really depends on if you want to be able to see through windows and doors

what i mean is that each "area" will be in a different place in the scene and have teleports where the doors line up

[edgy finch]

hey when I'm weight painting it keeps dping this when I move one hand. what is going on?

[hushed leaf]

ideally don't move the hand bone, rotate it.

but it does seem like you have some unfinished painting too

[edgy finch]

I’m really struggling with this I wish I could just pay someone to do it but I’m broke and therefore I must torture myself with this nonsense

No matter what I do the same stuff keeps happening and I’m just getting more frustrated with this stupid program

Nothing is working

[edgy finch]

Even when I do that it drags the other wrist with it too

Please help me

[hushed leaf]

you mean the other side wrist? If you don't have armature mirroring on (so the other side rotates along with it), then you may have that mesh weighted to the wrong bone then.

[edgy finch]

I have it mirrored

Or well I don’t have the weight paint mirrored because it doesn’t work for me

[hushed leaf]

then that should be expected behavior

[edgy finch]

It literally just wouldn’t work

nothing seems to be helping me

[edgy finch]

I don't have the armature mirrored, I thought you meant that it was symmetrical

[hushed leaf]

no, there's a mode where if you move one side, it'll also move/rotate/etc the other side the same way.

If that's not on, and when you move the right wrist bone, the left wrist mesh moves, then you'll have to fix that weight paint. You can simply just remove the vertices from the vertex group to clear weights.

[edgy finch]

I have repainted it several times and nothing workd

works

[hushed leaf]

okay... but remember weight painting is relative, and that you can't actually see small differences in value by looking at color alone

[hushed leaf]

yeah you have that vertex on the other side weight painted to the bone you moved

select that whole arm and remove those vertices from the other side's vertex groups

[edgy finch]

also very sorry I sound a little rude I have a hard time with tone

[hushed leaf]

no worries, this is really frustrating when you're starting out 🙂

.... and then often later too.

[edgy finch]

how would I do this btw? this sounds like a really stupid question but I've mostly been selecting the bones and have been painting them slowly from the arm to the finger

[hushed leaf]

You change vertex groups in edit mode. Tab usually goes from weight paint to mesh edit, but you may have to select that specifically.

Anyway - go to edit mode, select vertices, find the vertex group, and click "remove" under it.

Best way to remove weight paint since the weight values are stored in the vertex group.

(and if you didn't notice, vertex group names match bone names)

[edgy finch]

yeah I notice the vertex group names match the bones for them, I'm just having a hard time isolating them

[hushed leaf]

it helps a LOT to have reasonable names for bones

rather than spine.003, spine.004, spine.078....

[edgy finch]

I do have them named appropriately

I just don't know how to do what you said

[hushed leaf]

which part?

[edgy finch]

WAIT

ok now I feel stupid

oh ok that worked thank you

[hushed leaf]

nice

[edgy finch]

okay so how do I do the eyes/eyelashes n eyebrows n stuff?

[hushed leaf]

?

[edgy finch]

like how am I supposed to weight paint it/bone it/etc.

because I remember someone saying that you're supposed to only have one mesh unless you want to disable it

and I keep finding tutorials that are like "keep the eyes, eyebrows, and anything you wanna track separate"

and I don't know what to do

[hushed leaf]

I'd paint those 100% to the head bone and move them via shape keys

And yes, merge them with the head mesh when exporting.

I keep a lot of things in separate parts (clothing especially) in Blender, but merge down to usually two meshes for export: body & clothing

[timber bay]

i want to place belt loops along a curve with an array modfier, but my plane thingy looks like this.. what do i do wrong

[heavy sonnet]

kinda old but here's a low poly model i made for my friend's omori world based off of the last resort casino from the game :]

[edgy finch]

Yall should I go back and actually model a tongue

[edgy finch]

I ended up doing so

[faint bronze]

I LOVE the colors. It's so cute
Lovely model

[flat kelp]

Mesh fused

[edgy finch]

makin a new project

[edgy finch]

this looks so good!!!

[flat kelp]

Thank chu :÷3 your project looks good too! I like the concept

[edgy finch]

thanks so much!!! I just saw it and it looked really good so I thought I'd drop a compliment :)

[winter iron]

big headed goober

[edgy finch]

goober!!!

[winter iron]

Im currently working on funny skeleton and I just finished fitting the clothing to its proportions

which the scarf I had on my model fell into the ribcage

[edgy finch]

love the trans scarf it's so cute

[winter iron]

old photo cause old hair texture but

Im particularly proud on how the model turned out for both of the versions

[edgy finch]

it looks really good!!

I've been seeing a variety of ways to model and honestly I wanna explore sculpting something and then retopologizing but the box model is looking really good so far

[winter iron]

usually I just polygon model something then subdivide surface once and then sculpt that after

[edgy finch]

hands are such a struggle oml

[winter iron]

hmmm

[toxic cradle]

Hello guys, small question here.
I'm new to anything related to 3D and decided to learn a bit creating a simple collar for an avatar. I have spent a shameful amount of time doing the simpliest thing in the world but I unable to understand why this is hapening.

As you can see in the images I have a simple tag and 2 bones and the idea is that the lower bone (same name as the vertex group of the tag) wiggles the tag and the upper bone moves the tag along side the torus.

But when I rotate the bones, they deform the tag in that weird way and when it goes beyond 180º it flips

Could anyone help me a bit understanding what's going on?

[winter iron]

did you weight paint it to both bones or only one?

cause you should only weight paint it to the lower bone in the chain

[toxic cradle]

Just one, the upper one is the parent of the lower one

[winter iron]

doesnt look like it with how thats shrinking when you rotate the one bone

make sure its not weight painted to multiple

[winter iron]

squish the index closer to the middle finger
and stretch the middle and ring a tiny bit so they are just tad longer than index and pinkie like an actual hand

[edgy finch]

it looks so much better thank you so much

[winter iron]

its helpful to just look at your hand and fan out your fingers to see how they sit

[edgy finch]

yeah true, it's just tricky because I do want them to be chunky paws

[winter iron]

ye

funnily enough

because of how you are stylizing it

might I recommend alex the lion

[edgy finch]

that's actually a perfect reccommendation and I'm mad I didn't think of that

[winter iron]

although alex's thumb is a bit short

[edgy finch]

y'all ever stop to look at your model and feel really proud of what you've made? like idk this guy is so stinkin cute

[winter iron]

I mean people should feel proud of what they made

you went from nothing to having something with real progress behind it

[edgy finch]

true but like sometimes I'll just take a little break and go "this is so stinkin cute I wanna squeeze it in my hands"

[toxic cradle]

AHHHHHH, I spent 3 hours trying to understand was going on and now it works!!!!
I'm using vertex groups instead of weight painting and the neck bone had the tag vertex assigned too

Thank you so much, o my god!!!💖

[winter iron]

oh wait

this isnt gen 1 I can use my stickers

[edgy finch]

that is such a cute sticker oml

I love mlp I should make a ponysona

[edgy finch]

:0!!

[hushed leaf]

haha that IS a funny skeleton

... failed to reply, ah well

[winter iron]

assuming talking to me yes

[hushed leaf]

yep

[winter iron]

I love the expressions being exclusively the pupil

well and the ears

[hushed leaf]

yeah - you can do so much with that. Grommit is a great example

[winter iron]

well no

he has his very thicc forehead/unibrow

[hushed leaf]

oh true

[winter iron]

his eyes dont change shape

[hushed leaf]

hmm been a while since I looked, but yeah that sounds right

either way - you can do a lot without using a mouth

[winter iron]

ye

[edgy finch]

yo would y'all say this face looks like a capuchin monkey or similar or nah

[winter iron]

definitely monkey shapes head

those are some scrawny arms

[hushed leaf]

haha, very nice

[noble bough]

working on gloves

[edgy finch]

how would y'all retopo this hair?

I am having trouble since it's not symmetrical

[noble bough]

Dont know what to tell you. Just retopo like you always did just without symmetry. Loops along the strands of hair ending in a Single point (or quad) in the tip of the hair.

Dont really see the problem tbh

[noble bough]

any zbrush users got an idea why the upper and lower straight lines have different sharpness and strength, despite the fact that I used the exact same amount of pen pressure? upper one is right side of model, lower the left side. this also happens to me, when I do the underside of shoes and feet

[noble bough]

made some huge progress again

[edgy finch]

nice! looks really good!

I got a lot of progress done myself!

[faint bronze]

Amazing work!

[edgy finch]

realizing that the eyes look kinda off from the side so I come to y'all and humbly ask if I should just try and model ball eyes or should I stick with 2d

[old hamlet]

in my humble opinion, 2D looks great with cartoonish characters like this one, also it looks amazing!

[edgy finch]

Thank you so much!!!

[noble bough]

got some more work done

now can make it gameready

[noble bough]

retopology my beloved

[noble bough]

bake went well >D

also texture xddd

[jagged moat]

🫦 Lookin gooood!

[edgy finch]

which one looks better

[noble bough]

2nd one, hair has better shape

[edgy finch]

Oh ok thank you

[swift jolt]

2 looks best! 1 looks like he going bald

[primal oasis]

ima lose it

for so long I've thought I'm just bad at baking/making cages as my normal maps I'd bake in substance would have such ugly seams

but it turns out

as a default

Blender marks all edges sharp of any object that's set to Shade Flat when exporting to FBX

you know, Shade Flat, the default shading mode for any mesh made in Blender, and the one you'd want to have on for a low poly object that hasn't had a normal map from a high poly baked for it yet

:)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

anybody happen to know if any of these FBX export options change that behavior? I don't want Blender to mark ANY edges sharp for me when exporting lol

[heavy sonnet]

you could just set it to shade smooth?? why do you need it set to shade flat?

ofc it's going to export the normals how they are, shade flat literally creates split normals on your model

shade smooth vs shade flat

[primal oasis]

I have now been setting it to Shade Smooth before export. But the reasons I'd prefer to keep it as Shade Flat & simply have the exporter not mark anything sharp are:

• Shade Flat is blender's default; it's one less thing to worry about changing
• The lowpoly geometry is MMO/mobile-game style topology where as little geometry as possible is used- it does not subdivide/shade smooth properly, as reinforcing loops are intentionally left out, and so it will not look right set to Shade Smooth until a normal map baked from the high poly is applied

[heavy sonnet]

yeah it doesn't look right, but it doesn't have any impact on the bake, correct?

even if there was a solution in the FBX export settings, then you have to worry about it there

[primal oasis]

sure- but in the FBX export settings I always have to choose my export preset regardless, and could simply add the "don't mark sharp" setting to said preset

I'd much rather work on the lopol looking at this first image rather than the latter, but I ain't wanna toggle back and forth between shade flat / smooth as it's one more thing to potentially forget

[hushed leaf]

I use Face there, and then Import normals in Unity (rather than calculate or legacy), seems to be working well

[hushed leaf]

what a coincidence, I happen to own a Lincoln Electric Mig Welder

[edgy finch]

so I messed up here. I have NO idea how I'm gonna model the head tbh

I started with the body like a usually do but I was following a different video than I usually do (was human ofc but I was trying to make an anthro) and they made the head separate and I have no idea how to tackle it

I feel really stupid

[edgy finch]

I feel so powerful y'all

idk if the head looks any good but I made it entirely with polyquilt

[edgy finch]

here's an extra picture but yeah idk how I feel

[noble bough]

What am I doing wrong here with the baking ? I created several baking groups to avoid intersecting errors of the plates, but they still occur.

[hushed leaf]

It sounds like a pain, but have you considered separating the plates and baking them separate, then joining later?

[noble bough]

The plates are actually separate parts, but I want the plates to also cast AO shadows onto each other. I already made one bake where I created entirely different texture sets for the plates, but that is inefficient

[hushed leaf]

ahh

[noble bough]

you see my pickle here

[hushed leaf]

I do, yep

[noble bough]

normally doing bakes like this should work, cause you split objects up into differnt group to avoid afore mentioned intersecting errors, but for some reason, they still occur

And I WANT them on just a singular texture set

plus I dont want the hassle to later on combine the pngs into one png, cause they still share the same uv map

[edgy finch]

does this look like a cat or nah?

I keep looking at it and thinking it looks rat like

nevermind I think I fixed it

[edgy finch]

There needs to be like 500 handpaw tutorials because I am so sick of wanting chunky paws and not having furry anatomy represented much in tutorials

[edgy finch]

Heyyo i really like this model! It looks so stylized and it’s so good. How did you make the hair if I may ask? It looks so good

[flat kelp]

Two curve objects

Start with a path object.

1. Shift + A > In the new object menu go to curves

2. Add each a path and circle curve object

3. On the path curve, select it in object mode. When highlighted orange on the right sub-menu explorer, navigate to the curve sub-menu (green squares connected by a line)

4. Scroll down the sub-menu to the bevel of the path curve. Instead of extrusion, use an object bevel by clicking on the option (it's one of three options).

5. Select the object to point the reference to via the eye dropper on the select object input box

6. You now should be looking at a high poly horizontal cylinder shape. You can control the resolution (smoothness via triangle count) on both the path and the circle curve.

7. I recommend a resolution of 2-3 on the path curve and a resolution of 1-2 on the circle. Each path is a section of hair you can manipulate and extend. The circle is the original shape that defines the shape of every path tied to it (do not move or change it without applying transformations to it prior to modeling the hair, otherwise the hair will move and act funny)

8. Simply Shift+D to duplicate the hair or a single segment vertex and press E to elongate the hair. Curves move differently than normal objects in blender so it takes time to get used to. An option at the top right view menu allows you to view a curves direction as one end of the curve will manipulate the rotation of the entire length while the other end will simply cooperate and drape where you want it.

9. To shrink a segment vertex or multiple, press Alt+S to scale the segment. To rotate, manipulate the curve segments or press Ctrl+T to rotate a segment or segments.

10. Tip: Keep the curve resolution very low and add a subdivision modifier with 2 or more resolution. This let's you easily shape hair while keeping it smooth. Once ready to apply, select the curve and right click to open a sub-menu tooling. There is an option named 'convert to ->', select this then mesh. The modifier for subdivision is destroyed, not applied. Simply readd the modifier to the new mesh you converted from a path curve to the same resolution or whatever is desired, and apply.

[edgy finch]

Thank you so much!!!!

[steady zealot]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1353182612046348382/1380527093997109330/HMD_better_way.gif?ex=6844338c&is=6842e20c&hm=297873a8ebbb44e69a62f633885aa847e228e48a310fab8ef8c5c056f16e29a4& I was trying to make a strap for some HMD thing I made for my avatar but my HAIR...

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1353182612046348382/1380533782196523018/HMD_better_way_2.gif?ex=684439c6&is=6842e846&hm=db55409b258e3104d8874a8a7a631d121d3374a4fd54b57e9f0a02022608ea46&= I GUESS this works 😭

[primal oasis]

topology enjoyers: is having a tri like this truly bad for the low poly

I realize it disrupts edge flow and subdivides poorly etc etc but it's also the way to cap this off with the least amount of geometry & all of the normal detail will be coming from the high poly bake anyways

I feel like this is what MMO/mobile devs do? but I also have no formal gamedev experience, just hobbyist playing around

[jagged moat]

If you're not gonna be subdividing I wouldn't worry about weather it will subdivide well.

It doesn't like you're using excessive tris so you're probably fine

[primal oasis]

alright, thank you

[gray current]

Question in Blender, what would be the best way to hide/shrink clothing into the avatar using a shapekey? Finding issues where sometimes it is too much or too little and it clip like hell.

[hushed leaf]

I use UV tile discard for this, but if you must do it via shrinking, try as hard as you can to shrink along the bone that the mesh is along. I.e. don't shrink to a point, shrink to a line.

[gray current]

Isn't UV tile discard heavy as fuck tho, its why I was avoiding it

[hushed leaf]

depends on your shader, but generally no that I can tell, it basically returns before a lot of the processing

[gray current]

I use poi

[hushed leaf]

same, mostly

[obsidian vigil]

The actual process is extremely cheap

It's very similar to what an alpha-clipped shader is already doing

The main issue is that you're still rendering those pixels

So if you have many overlapping faces covering a big chunk of your screen, you can start to chug

I have an effect that spawns in a very large spiderweb-like mesh. It's alpha-clipped and kind of expensive per pixel (expensive noise calculations).

It's fine when it has fully spawned in, but you can feel your gpu screaming a bit when it's appearing

Both shrinking and discarding the mesh would be great

This would prevent the fragment shader from being run unnecessarily

[hushed leaf]

Seems like Poiyomi does indeed discard in the vertex shader, which is what you ought to do.

[edgy finch]

how y'all likin the model

[tepid cedar]

Pomni what the hell

[noble bough]

Coming along great

[steady zealot]

Anybody know how to reduce these artifacts when baking in Substance Painter?

[noble bough]

which artifacts ?

I only see blocky edges of a model

[steady zealot]

The smoothed high poly bakes these weird edges onto the low poly model

[flat kelp]

-# Outfit 1 * Prog ~ 2

[stone cipher]

Working on improving topology and anatomy skills

[swift jolt]

Tris are alot less evil than you think it is. It only matters for highpoly when using subdivision. Or bendy rigged stuff… if its neither. Use as many tris as youd like. The lower poly you go. The more you need to use them

[edgy finch]

texture painting

[peak lantern]

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[hushed leaf]

your work?

[keen sierra]

ye

[hushed leaf]

It looks really great!

[jagged moat]

Rare sighting of a blender cloth sim working first time

[hushed leaf]

wow how the....

[jagged moat]

🤤

[hushed leaf]

This looks great! I'm impressed, usually it takes me like an hour of fiddling before I get something ok

[jagged moat]

I'm using a paid addon called simply cloth pro which is kinda just like a better UI for blender's cloth sim engine, it makes getting set up each time a lot faster. Though it still is the same cloth sim tool at the end of the day

[hushed leaf]

oh cool, I'll have to look at that

[jagged moat]

But instead of messing with settings you can just hit a preset and go, you still have to set up collisions and stuff but it's useful

I think I went with the Lite version which is $9

[jagged moat]

Why is my normal map looking at me like that 😭

[velvet bronze]

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/dKZg4Q

[earnest cypress]

Wow thats rly good

[winter iron]

semipone

[cyan pawn]

help???

[hushed leaf]

I don't use the tool but at a guess, wrong object selected?

[cyan pawn]

figured it out

[edgy finch]

hey what would be anyone's advice for modeling a muscular/buff furry? I'm currently making a model sheet for a buffer character and I cannot get the anatomy down pat

[edgy finch]

I can't find any good tutorials, if anyone could help me that'd be appreciated

[carmine pagoda]

One of my first real Blender projects. Im following a tutorial and my gosh y'all who do this for fun are just built different.

[winter iron]

tis a process

[edgy finch]

hey can someone help me with this model rq? I'm trying to find tutorials for like heavier set muscular bodies but I simply cannot. I'm like really having trouble

I just need some advice

[edgy finch]

hey sorry to tag you on such an old post but how did you do the muscles here? I've been asking for help everywhere and I cannot find any sort of advice or help

I asked yesterday but I only got scammers in my dms from it

[flat kelp]

It took about two years for me to start enjoying blender lol

On and off tho, since a lot of the beginning learning had breaks from either frustration or burn out, you get there eventually u3u

-# Blocking done for outfit 1

[edgy finch]

hey brixen could you give me some advice on my anatomy struggles?

I'm really having trouble and I've been asking around since like yesterday with no results

[flat kelp]

Sure! What in particular about muscle anatomy?

[edgy finch]

I'm trying to model it and I'm having a really hard time because I can't draw it and I'm so frustrated because there's hardly any good tutorials for like bara body types

[flat kelp]

For 3d modeling I recommend searching for preexisting models or multi image references that are in a style you enjoy, or searching through bikini / anatomical models specifically "sport body" or "athletic" body types of real people to refer to muscle locations.

Usually I use real models and images for accuracy of muscle volumes location (clumps or individual muscles) and the placement of joints in relation to each other.

I then use references of images like drawings I find online, and images of 3d models I like the stylized proportions of

.

The type of pre reference you are looking for if you want a front and side view is called a "turnaround reference" or "orthographic reference" like one you'd see on a character sheet 2d artists make

Example

[carmine pagoda]

You just described my exact state of mind for the past three months

[edgy finch]

does this look any good or nah

[carmine pagoda]

It looks good, but I saw it in the first thing I thought of was the thumb people from spy kids

Way better than I could do though

[flat kelp]

torso looks good 👍

[dusty turtle]

I only know you through your various preview posts on various servers, but you really make some fun stuff. Looking forward to this one.

[flat kelp]

I see ya around on Liindy's server too u3u thank you for the kind words :0

[atomic wigeon]

Vaguely cat shaped creature :3 (dont mind the extra bones in the hand theyre not there you're seeing things)

[royal flower]

https://tenor.com/view/femtanyl-spin-cat-gif-13539577798891431038

[flat kelp]

Working on hair variant

[edgy finch]

I really like your style for models!

[exotic jasper]

It looking good already

[flat kelp]

Thank chu so much u3u

[stable rapids]

howdy

[flat kelp]

-# Variant 3

[edgy finch]

ugh I still am having trouble making a model sheet

literally nothing is helping and I keep watching tutorial after tutorial

[flat kelp]

If it helps, I don't make a model sheet unless I'd plan for someone else to do work for me.

You can use a mood board or a wall of multiple references to get a better idea and model around the ideas of items / parts of an avatar one at a time to form it into being

[edgy finch]

Oh true true

[edgy finch]

how do you start modeling it then if you don't mind me asking? you've been the only person willing to actually help me in this situation so I'm like really just trying to get some sort of help with this

[heavy sonnet]

i honestly would make one. At the very least, get a sketch for the proportions, then you can use the annotate tool to iterate sketches inside blender on top of your model

[edgy finch]

I'm legitimately having so much trouble trying to sketch a model sheet and every time I ask for help I get a shit ton of scammers in my dms

[heavy sonnet]

do you have any other images of the design you're trying to model?

[edgy finch]

just a headshot. I wanna make a model of this guy with a bara body type

which is causing me so many issues because I legitimately don't have a good grasp on anatomy I feel

[heavy sonnet]

ah okay, so you could always try finding images of characters with the body type you are looking for. If it's not entirely accurate, you can always draw on top of it or use tools like the liquify tools to modify the image

since you're just referencing anatomy and it's for a totally different art form i think you're fine using other artists as reference - It's like using photos for a drawing reference

[flat kelp]

An example of what I would do just with this single reference:

As you the creator I'd break down the image into sections and key concepts. It sounds redundant, boring and silly but it helps. It can even get you passed using a direct sketch which is useful since a lot of situations don't have perfect references.

• Lion type, bear type, or hybrid head shape (find references of bear / tiger furries and similar head shots of drawings from multiple characters and angles. To break it down further you could even select references for the ears alone, the eyes alone, the muzzle alone, and the fur alone.

• Bara body type, which there are a lot of 3d models, images and animations of bara shaped characters (it even has its name as a style of body :P)

• Small details you might not need references for but simply the foundations to build like the gold tooth, the horns (depending on horn type and many horn references exist), the fur, and muscle anatomy.

• Find avatars with a similar body type and others with similar style to your target idea. Study them with world pens or the avatar test worlds to view it up close and personal to understand how something you like is made, and also why wearing that style of avatar feels "right" to you.

---

For the process of making the body, I recommend low poly sculpting the volumes. Surprisingly the first 1-3 layers of a sculpt that progressively has polys added to it define most of the work for shaping things like a body. Proportions carry the structure of the body (how far each joint is from the others in its bone chain), and volume carries the shape and presence as form and muscle definition.

[edgy finch]

honestly I sculpted something and posted it here and the first thing I was told was that it reminded someone of the thumb guys from spy kids and it actually made me break down

[flat kelp]

I saw that 💔

[edgy finch]

people just talk to me like I know them and it upsets me greatly

[flat kelp]

Ah don't take it too bad, my first models didn't even look like thumbs, just blobs.

[edgy finch]

true I just wish I could get like actual constructive feedback other than a very creative "it looks like shit"

[flat kelp]

I wont recommend anything to the last model directly, but I will mention that you could try modeling it from a much lower poly first

Getting the volume right first make the details buttery smooth to implement

[edgy finch]

oh I usually start with box modeling instead of sculpting, I just did sculpt this time because there's no tutorials on bara bodies without it

[flat kelp]

Box sculpting is useful, it does take a lot longer to make a model box sculpting, and is generally slower

[edgy finch]

ooooooooo ok ok

[flat kelp]

I started with box sculpting until I was tired for spending time on it allll the time, sculpting speeds organic meshing up

[edgy finch]

I keep finding avatars but they cost money :(

[flat kelp]

There are free asets you can find around with enough digging to get what you are looking for in terms of references. Being able to view an image or series of images as references will be an important skill to practice with :3

If you can afford the jumpstart, you can get this pack for like $5 online

Its a wonderful blocking tool to jumpstart model making

[edgy finch]

how much is it

oh my fault

it's 5 dollars

[edgy finch]

hmmmmm

I'm like considering it

I only have like 12 dollars to my name

and I do not have a job

probably not now

I can't comfortably buy it

I hate when things cost money

nothing works

everything I make looks like shit

I'm gonna take a depression nap.

[steady zealot]

I want to jump in here for a second and tell you that you shouldn't give up. You can't make stuff that's "good" without first making stuff that's "bad". Good and bad are in quotations because I don't think it's fair to really separate them into these categories. You can't have experience without gaining experience. Though it may be easy to lose motivation, just remember, nobody is great right out the gate. Some have a head start (natural talent) but you can and will improve with effort and time.

And more to the point, if you're having trouble with anatomy, remember that putting photos in your scene and directly "copying" what you see (in terms of the anatomy of course) is perfectly normal for people learning about it. So don't ever feel bad for still being in the learning stage

[carmine pagoda]

Sleep helps dont give up

[edgy finch]

how am I supposed to gain experience if there's NOTHING to help me?

there's no tutorials

no free shit I could use

nothing

[steady zealot]

There ARE anatomy tutorials, but also, there are endless photos of various different body types.

[edgy finch]

not for the body type I'm trying to model. there's photos yeah but no tutorials

[steady zealot]

You need to learn how to sculpt separately from the anatomy. Then, its all reference images from there

[winter iron]

Dont expect tutorials for every specific thing

[edgy finch]

I just wish there were tutorials for any other body type than “skinny anime girl” or “generic man”

[winter iron]

The tutorials are teaching you how to use the tools not how to make insert specific body type

[edgy finch]

I guess

[edgy finch]

does this head look like a cat at all?

[winter iron]

looks like big cat

[edgy finch]

exactly my intention! thank you so much

[stone cipher]

Sorry, I only saw your message now. Look, to make the musculature, I first studied musculature anatomy, and I made the mesh poly-by-poly. I chose to do it without sculpting or doing retopology, but I believe that is more advanced. In short, I built the mesh and cut it with the knife tool or with edge loops. Then I shaped it as I liked. I'm not very good at explaining, but that was basically it

Obviously I have years of practice too, keep practicing!

Close view from left arm and back (this back design was inspired from yujiro hanma demon back)

[edgy finch]

Circled back around to not liking this model and I might just scrap it. Nothing I make looks good

[flat kelp]

Takes time to work up to stuff. For a base model for my first time making one ever it took a few months of learning each part

The next one took a couple of months, then one month, now I can make a base in a week for a good one and a quick base in a day. Blender is persistence to the max

[edgy finch]

Nothing I make looks any good

[flat kelp]

This was my first vrchat model top to bottom, but was the eighth attempt at making one

The first image and second image are six months apart (on and off blender work since I took a lot of breaks when starting out due to frustration and burn out)

It took two months for me to figure out with tutorials and videos on how hands were properly made.

Everyone starts somewhere

[edgy finch]

Better than what I’m doing

[edgy finch]

ok new day new me, I gotta lock in

[carmine pagoda]

Are you kidding me? It would take me months to make that thing you made. You’re crushing it.

[edgy finch]

I just have a really bad mindset and I gotta break out of that I feel

[carmine pagoda]

Fellow suffer here I’ve spent months working on my model. Trust me, it will be worth it in the end.

And you got everybody here to root for you

[edgy finch]

started to make this alternate version of the character I'm trying to make and while it's not muscle bara I feel really proud of it so far

which one looks better?

I'm trying not to cover up any mistakes with a subdiv but it's so tempting

[flat kelp]

Subdivision will enhance issues more times than not, the right looks great 👍, even at a lower poly you could uv map and texture that to make something nice

The thing with 3d modeling is, unlike drawing, it doesn't usually look nice or "pretty" for 80-90% of the process. The magic comes out during texturing and rigging. The modeling part makes that last 10% easier and worthwhile as the foundation.

A modeler I enjoy for their use of low poly techniques is Slipdash

They lean hard into textures and keep their models super optimized and simple to work with 👌

I bring them up as an example because for your low poly work sometimes we get lost looking at a gray mesh and stop before getting to the fun part of texturing the model to bring the whole look together

[minor snow]

I've never thought about commissioning someone until today, so if i were to do that where would i go for that?

[flat kelp]

Vrctraders

They are linked in #1204490664637890580 I believe

[edgy finch]

I tried going back and it looked really messed up q o q. I worked for a while with the subdiv modifier and I couldn't undo it sadly. it's only one level though, I doubt it'll be too bad

[edgy finch]

not here. scammers run amok here. block your dms from here while you can as well because they will FLOCK to you

like Brixen said, go to VRC traders

[minor snow]

i believe it

thanks

[edgy finch]

they literally screenshot shit I said while I was breaking down about blender and went "I can make you a better model" like fuck you dude get away from me

[flat kelp]

xP

[swift jolt]

planet of death , fun game:D

[dim tiger]

Hat I made for Practice

[edgy finch]

these look amazing!

how do y'all make the lipsync stuff with blendshapes? mine always look weird and I was wondering if there was anyway I could make them look any better

do y'all make a jaw bone?

[worthy sorrel]

anyone know how to smooth out something with a topology like this without messing up the squished edge loop?

ie: im shaping a body suit to my avi and it has those, and i want to smooth out my work but if i do then itll mess up the UVs there

[flat kelp]

If you provide some more info in the form of arrows pointing or highlights it would help diagnose the issue :3

Rigged 1/6

[onyx oriole]

heyy guys

[worthy sorrel]

here is what i mean.. if i use the smooth tool, it messes with the topology in areas like this

[tough plover]

so you want to make the lines less wavy, but keep the spacing between them?

I don't really see why you would need those extra loops in the first place, you could probably just dissolve them

[worthy sorrel]

erm, sorta. Moreso the mesh itself is bumpy in this region, but a smoothing tool destroys the spacing between the verts

i dunno, not an asset i created. the uvs in this area are pretty important since its a threaded seam on the texture

[tough plover]

dissolving loops won't mess with the UVs

[worthy sorrel]

is that the only method of smoothing out the verts? ill dissolve them if i need to, but i want to try to learn how to non destructively smooth stuff out rn bc its applicable to other meshes i work on anyways. Use case is adapting mesh from one base to another

[tough plover]

with the LoopTools addon enabled, you could use Relax Loops

[flat kelp]

This, sometimes flatten as well.

If you really want to do it by hand, mask the verts you don't want to affect and then paint a smoothing brush set to a low strength across the area. If you want perfect smoothness the relax method will work better @worthy sorrel

[worthy sorrel]

okay ill look into that

[edgy finch]

This looks so good oml

[flat kelp]

Thank chu

[edgy finch]

how would I make this look more like a cat

[torn frost]

U guys are mad talented I've had so much trouble with blender

[sterile owl]

i just joined here (hi!) to get some avatar rigging help

specifically this vertex does not wanna move

same happens here too

something that does not happen on the other side...

[keen sierra]

Its likely already weighted to another bone

[sterile owl]

hmm?

it isn't weighted to the wrist

[keen sierra]

It could literally be any bone

Misclicks happen

[sterile owl]

i tried to erase it by clicking very bone

except ones that does this

but i think you are right

[keen sierra]

Very often, it is the same bone on the other side

That happens when mirror is turned on but not topology mirror and the mesh is not perfectly symmetrical (being off by 0.0000001 is enough)

[sterile owl]

OH

nope still does that

i can't just give up too because i spent way too much time

[keen sierra]

It being weighted to another bone is the only possibility i see

[sterile owl]

so i tried its mirror

(as you can see) left is fine but the right is not fine

i used CATS too but it did absolutely nothing

[keen sierra]

mirroring the arm group will not remove other bones' influence

[sterile owl]

i don't see anything

i think i have to re think this tmr because its almost 22:00 tokyo

[keen sierra]

the issue is that blue could also be 0.0001 weight. thats why i also like to set 0 to black

[sterile owl]

i found it!

[keen sierra]

yep

[sterile owl]

yup you are correct

and back to normal

alr rest is going tmr

[flat kelp]

And from which European country do you hail from Mr Scammer?

Hm.

I like that model you're making, I'm curious about the weapon he has on his back it's got a ✨️ neat ✨️ design

Mind showing a wire frame view of just the weapon with a front and side profile?

-# Prikažite svoj 3D model u različitim prikazima. Inače prestanite pokušavati prevariti ljude.

[silver notch]

Hello,
Im working on a new sculpt that I hope to eventually distribute as an avatar base. Im having some trouble determining whether Im ready to move onto retopology. Id like some feedback on the appeal and anatomy if possible. Thanks!

[flat kelp]

Other than thicker thighs on the inner thigh direction and a slightly higher hip, looks good for the style you're going for. A lot of problem solving will happen at the retopo stage when you can adjust those proportions later

[tough plover]

• I think that the proportions are overall a little bit too skinny, but parts that stand out specifically are the hands, hips, buttocks and legs. would recommend looking at other furry/anthro characters for reference.

• you may want to give some parts some smoothing and set your mesh to Smooth shading. after doing the retopo, you're probably gonna want to bake detail from your sculpt, so you need to make sure it's smooth enough for that.

• you may want to raise the ankle a bit, so that the shin is a little bit shorter, and so the foot is at a steeper angle

[silver notch]

@flat kelp @tough plover thanks, I'll take these into consideration.

[plain cairn]

Not my models but I started messing around with some on my phone

[frosty oyster]

i'm trying to delete part of a mesh inside an fbx, so i imported it into blender, deleted the faces then tried to export it, but there's usually an issue like: when i swap the original mesh with the edited mesh, it's either invisible or shrunk. what am i missing?

[tough plover]

don't just swap the mesh. ideally, override the FBX by exporting to the same location.

however, if you were not the one who originally export it, and you don't know the export settings, that may just break things. instead, what you can do (as long as you did not unpack your avatar) is duplicate the FBX in unity, override the copy, then duplicate your avatar in the hiearchy, and then on that one, drag the new FBX into the prefab slot in the top of the inspector and select "Replace and keep overrides". now, you essentially have a copy of the original avatar with the new FBX, keeping your old one intact

then you can try overriding that new copy by exporting from blender

[frosty oyster]

i'll give it a try

also, is there a better way to import an fbx from unity to blender other than just dragging and dropping the file? i noticed the materials assigned to the fbx dont carry over so i have to manually assign the materials again in unity

[tough plover]

no, and you should also only ever have to do that once. keep a persistent blender project for working on that avatar.

likewise, don't expect materials to carry over from blender to unity. totally different material systems. again, you only ever need to assign materials once

because after that, just overriding the FBX will keep those material assignments. if you ever split/recombine the mesh, the order can get shuffled, but you can fix that in blender using Sort Elements

and if you ever need to import as a new FBX and doing the "replace prefab" thing doesn't work, you can just use Pumkin's avatar tools to copy stuff from one model to another, it can also copy materials (need to check a box)

[frosty oyster]

@tough plover how do i override the fbx? is that the same as deleting the copy and then renaming the new fbx the same as the old fbx?

[tough plover]

don't delete it, just export from blender in the same location, and double click the fbx in the folder

[frosty oyster]

got it

[tough plover]

and as always, don't forget to set "apply scalings" to FBX All and uncheck Add Leaf Bones when exporting

[frosty oyster]

managed to finally get my changes done, thanks for the help!

[cyan pawn]

how would i rig this to work as a avatar? (yes i know to use rotation constraints for the back legs) i mean in general where/how would i build the humanoid armature?

[tough plover]

this is going to be quite complex, you'll probably want to join the VirtualLimbs discord for advice

[cyan pawn]

oh could i get an invite?

[vapid panther]

Oh there are some better models out there, and they should be pre rigged too

[cyan pawn]

I made this model. That's why I'm rigging it.

[cyan pawn]

and yes i did manage to rig it.

[winter iron]

Ayo honse

[flat kelp]

What's your mark

https://tenor.com/mzkpSO1WW80.gif

[cyan pawn]

im making a customizable avatar. ill make my pony sona after i have this one all set up :)

but i CANT WAIT to make them! itll be so pretty

[vapid panther]

Ooooh that's awesome! Nice job

[dense shuttle]

my brother how do you retopologize so clean?

a 4k baked map in substance painter 2 is having blocky artifacts

[flat kelp]

They still have artifacts in their model, but it's just the nature of balancing mesh tri counts with the baked details not getting warped

[dense shuttle]

ngl, i get so anxious with retopo

[flat kelp]

Looks like a great start thus far 👌

[thin shadow]

reminds me of Shooting Stars - Bag Raiders

[dense shuttle]

XDD i see it

i mean, it's not even too shabby

and just under 4k tris

[noble bough]

looking clean

[dense shuttle]

if you're saying it then i'm happy

your work is sick dude!

[coarse lynx]

currently a work in progress, planning on doing a tiny bit more work this morning & rigging

[dense shuttle]

retopology done for my new head sculpt, finally can get to making shapekeys

[faint bronze]

Can we see the topo? Looks great :0

[dense shuttle]

@faint bronze i just finished it XD

[coarse lynx]

more WIP stuffz

[hybrid oar]

I'm getting these importing a blender file. How can I fix it?

I'm also getting this alongside it.. this avatar was uploadable before.

I've made a lot of avatars and never came across this.

If I do "auto fix" then I get an infinite waiting for "MouseDown" window

And the rig and humanoid is literally defined

If I drop the base model in and add a VRC descriptor, it will work. But how can I fix my existing one? Even copying the components doesn't do it

Theres no child animators either

It's going to be a heap of work if I have to translate it over to a new avatar model because I have so many prefabs that rely on the main one.

[hushed leaf]

for much of that, don't have self-intersecting polys. Often you find those in hair and tails and fur.

the rest of the avatar setup stuff, probably come into #avatar-help

[hybrid oar]

How do I fix it? I import using .blend directly instead of FBX. Literally never have problems except for those kind of warnings occasionally.

[hushed leaf]

oh, I never use the .blend. It ultimately uses blender to turn that into an fbx behind the scenes anyway.

as for fixing, you reshape those faces, if you want to fix them

[hybrid oar]

Theres no automatic cleanup I can use to fix them?

[hushed leaf]

I'm not sure how that would work?

split them? reshape them? which shape?

[hybrid oar]

Blender has a lot of automatic tools, I ran through what I could, but not sure what I'm missing

Either way, I don't think that matters. I can't upload and it works fine if I drag the default model in and add a vrc avi descriptor on it

[hushed leaf]

there's an available plugin, "3d print toolbox" - it's for 3d printing of course but has a feature to find self-intersecting faces.

[hybrid oar]

noted

[hushed leaf]

yeah it's a warning, not a blocker. If it looks right, great.

[hybrid oar]

I'll move channels then for the bigger issue.

[hushed leaf]

the Rex's tail is quite a thing anyway, I bet you won't miss a few missing polys there

[hybrid oar]

I'm using a tail replacer as well, this model is very modified

It was working before and uploaded fine the other day, then I opened it up and SDK was giving me random errors saying it doesnt have an armature when it quite literally does

And the "auto fix" will hard freeze unity because its not doing the right thing

[orchid phoenix]

i really dont recommend doing that. it ends up as fbx anyway but you lose control over export settings like scaling.

[cobalt roost]

Does anyone know about making clothes fit avatars using blender? I've tried looking at tutorials and stuff but for some reason the model im trying to make fit onto my avi doesn't change at all when im trying to edit it with the sculpt feature. Is there maybe something i need to select, or perhaps some setting i need to have turned on before im able to sculpt something???

[hushed leaf]

possibly you're trying to sculpt a low-poly area? you kinda need a lot of polys for sculpting, you can do a bunch of subdividing, then retopo after you're done. It's a bunch of work though.
I don't usually do sculpting, I usually push and pull verts and faces and such using proportional editing.

[cobalt roost]

Found out the reason. It was because i imported the clothing as another fbx instead of a wavefront TvT

[swift jolt]

Make it the windows 7 or xp logo instead of the squre win8-10 one. Thank :)

Think it would work better with the rest of the vibes of the pants

[swift jolt]

Shouldnt ve a diffrence

[cobalt roost]

Anyone know how to add transparency onto an item for an avi?

Like would i have to do it in blender, unity, or substance painter???

[flat kelp]

Transparency needs a UV map if you want it to be mapped to the mesh.

Otherwise you can do a transparency on the entire object but it wouldn't be variable unless you made an image that follows the UV map (black and white image, gray values are between 0 and 1, this is your image mask used in a transparency parameter in a material in unity).

[tough plover]

not enough details, you should explain what you're actually trying to do, with screenshots

[cobalt roost]

Its all good, i gave up on what i was trying to do

[swift jolt]

Never give up

https://tenor.com/view/storm-lightning-thunder-and-gif-14505668

[tough plover]

https://tenor.com/view/never-give-up-fist-pump-motivation-motivational-gif-4892451

[near venture]

How do I make an animated wire for when I move the head and neck (rigging later)

[faint bronze]

You're gonna need to rig it if you want it to bend

[sweet holly]

You're🥰 gonna need to rig it

[stark radish]

Hey, is there a way in blender to limit one mesh by the extent of another?
I know there's boolean
but that helps remove mesh when it intersects with another
I want the inverse?
Kind of like limiting it based on a bounding box/convex hull but I want it to be constrained by the shape not the bounds
I don't think I'm explaining this well

[hushed leaf]

yeah I'm not quite sure I get what you mean, but I'd be trying to boolean too

[stark radish]

For example shrinkwrapping hair results in this
If I were to use a boolean it'd get rid of the parts that match the hair
I want to get rid of mesh where there isn't the hair like in the middle/bottom where the head goes
And yes I've tried using a boolean on the head but it doesn't work well

[lament umbra]

before i go ahead an try to create the topology to connect both of these meshes, is there a way to seamlessly blend the normals of the two? I tried doing a vertex proximity modifier and a data transfer (you can see the settings on the side) and im not getting great results. I also tried Set Mesh Normals node in Blender 4.5. I got slightly better results than the one shown in the 2nd gif but the edge is still harsh and there's this unwanted shading behavior in some spots. The head mesh not being fully closed causes issues or what not but eh . Any help appreciated :3c

note: textures making the edge look sharper, just obj color it looks cleaner but still not the result i want

[hushed leaf]

I've done this with data transfer, but honestly, I'd just join the meshes unless you reallyreally need them separate

[plush bone]

you could extrude the top of the neck into a smoother edge, shrinkwrap to the head, and then data transfer, but yeah unless you have a really good reason it'd be better to just link them normally with topology

[lament umbra]

ahh oki, yeah wasnt gonna keep them separate (at least in terms of merging) but oki.. seems like got some topology work to do ;~;

ty tho you two! ❤️

[swift jolt]

I started making car. Been soo long i forgot how to

[coarse lynx]

i ended up changing it to the DVD logo in the end

planning to add a wii controller hanging from the belts,

Some other stuff i wanted to send here anyways - keyboard jacket im working on for a set & public model , Finally swapped to the amelia head bc im scared of it, and started a new hair WIP for my custom that i will sell on my shop >o<

[swift jolt]

Wii remote with the strap thing as a necklace :)))

[coarse lynx]

update on yesterdays hair, and todays shenanigans

[swift jolt]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/987140268547518534/1397008914721013961/2025-07-22_02-14-18.mp4?ex=68802970&is=687ed7f0&hm=6587447f935f32b16aa0de1cca7f2a6f6f1ed779ad4f895ba2a082b877fd7ad9&

[swift jolt]

Im gonna suffer when i get to the clothes and body. I have 0 experience modeling that kind of stuff

[coarse lynx]

sum more progress pics from this project

[safe needle]

Avatar commission progress

[visual wren]

Ever just let the autism take over and remake your entire personal home world by hand.
Made in Gravity Sketch

[safe needle]

Final render of new pants model with textures. Coming to jinxxy soon $7

[swift jolt]

this looks very neverhood coded XD

[visual wren]

this was the OG version which i quickly did in a week

[swift jolt]

aaa i see!

i dig the big crystal at the top! (both with a pickaxe and not :P)

[visual wren]

it has an effect where you can see the sky above it, but distorted and tinted via tricks with panosphere

[late aspen]

Is that a charger? Or a challenger? Or a Pontiac?😍😍😍

[swift jolt]

Started out as a roadrunner. But then i kinda lost the plot halfways through

[pine shore]

Does anyone do anime models?

[carmine pagoda]

You’re gonna get a lot of scammers asking here go to VRC traders if you’re looking to commission

[pine shore]

Okay thank you

[solid minnow]

Newest creation on the works. Yall know what this is.

[heavy sonnet]

Labubu 🥺

[safe needle]

hehehehehehe

[left stream]

Cruel and Unusual Bone Structure

[safe needle]

gotta get that toe tracking

[left stream]

toe trackings a thing?

[safe needle]

just physbones on the toes, and some gestures

[jaunty zealot]

https://tenor.com/view/ricky-bobby-evil-gif-6020696623068163401

[safe needle]

Teaser!

[safe needle]

The final render of the first pair of pants for this commision

[fathom jolt]

meee

[marsh geyser]

hihi- im super new to blender and all and this could just be a user issue. i have the unoffical cats plugin and it matches my blender, but everytime i try and add it in, it dissapears. any help?

[hushed leaf]

make sure you have the right one for your blender version, available from here: https://catsblenderplugin.xyz/

[marsh geyser]

i do! 4.5 blender and 4.5 unoccical cats plugin. no matter what i do, nothing works

[hushed leaf]

what does "nothing works" mean though?

[marsh geyser]

i tried the newer versions and the older versions of each

thats what i mean

[hushed leaf]

ok I don't understand what's happening so not sure what to suggest.

[marsh geyser]

here

the cats option doesnt even exist

[hushed leaf]

why are you trying to add that as a theme? it's not a theme, it's an add-on

[marsh geyser]

if i import it from the disk as well- it doesnt work either- do you know a different way of importing it?

[hushed leaf]

if you import the add on from disk, that should work. It does for me anyway, not that I use cats.

[marsh geyser]

like this im assuming? its ineffctive this way too

[hushed leaf]

it gave you an error message.

but you want to pick the zipfile itself there

[marsh geyser]

there we go. THANK YOU- ugh im stupid 😭

[safe needle]

The first outfit is finally done after weeks of work. Only two more to go!

[swift jolt]

kill me

[steady zealot]

WIP Desert Eagle (with WIP custom attachments)

[graceful knoll]

Does anyone here know how i can permenetly set the scaling changes i made to my avi in unity? So instead of 0.9 1.1 0.9, it'll show 1 1 1? I have scaled multiple things on my avi to different things and I want them all to stay that same size but I want them all to show as 1 1 1 in the inspector.

[steady zealot]

I think the only real way to do this is to change the scale in Blender and apply it

[hushed leaf]

you can scale in the FBX import settings also, first tab in the inspector for an FBX file. This is my preferred method - I don't do it in Blender because I want to keep my avatars to the standard size for compatibility with add-on assets and such.

well one-offs I'll just do in Blender

[wind laurel]

making things and stuff

[safe needle]

Turn off combined scaling. It’s that little chain link next to the scale option

[tight scarab]

Can I post WIP or completed project here also

[steady zealot]

You can post anything about 3D modelling (within the rules and TOS of course!) So yes! WIP and finished models are okay!

[tight scarab]

Okay

I'm I blind or I can't find it

[cosmic mortar]

I haven't made an avatar from scratch in a while... (Fixing the clipping later)

[shut mason]

ben 10

[fast zodiac]

cool little stylized gatling gun

[orchid nexus]

Hi, does anyone know if there is a version of Cat's Blender Plugin that's still supported or a spiritual successor to it? Current version is too old for newer versions of blender and it becomes a real pain

oh ok nvm just scrolled up a bit and my question is answered lol

[hushed leaf]

yup, answered lots 🙂

[orchid nexus]

i think these links should be pinned somewhere

[languid flume]

does anybody here have good substance painter knowledge

[gritty junco]

about?

[languid flume]

so im very new to this so bare with me plz, idk the correct phrasings for this process at all, a friend of mine has kinda been helping me thus far but im back to working on it myself and ive kinda sorta got some basics down i believe, but im trying to figure out how to fix the face here

the first image is old, second is new

im trying to fix the dots revolving around it

i have a really difficult time explaining the process

the layers are very confusing to me, i don't know how to dissect them 😭

but like do you see how the dots kind of cut off ?

they are a result of the first image

actually nevermind trying to talk about it over text is a waste of time because i cant explain it, i feel like showing via screen share would help explaining but im not sure who would give me their time

[faint bronze]

They're cut off because they do not extend to the UV island that the face is on, assuming this is all one texture map.

Hope that makes sense. I could be wrong, but that's the most likely reason imo

It could also be that you accidentally offset the dots up a bit. Maybe you could find that layer in Substance and try moving it down if that's the case

[open jay]

Hi I’m not sure if anyone one would be willing or have the time to help me make propour lightmap uvs for my model in blender for unity im making cause it’s just not working I’ve followed tutorials and I’m just having a hard time wrapping my head around it it would help to share my screen and have someone walk me through it

[lost light]

Anyone know the blender shortcut for that sort of extrusion?

[hushed leaf]

'e' the edge, but then you'd need to make the triangle faces by selecting 2 of the edges and hitting 'f'

[compact yew]

I have a question for people that make clothes how would you make the all the folds in the clothing I haven’t figured out how to do it yet ?

[hushed leaf]

many options: cloth simulation, sculpting by hand, reshaping in layout mode, software designed for this such as marvelous designer....

[old sierra]

need a hand with blendshapes, when i set them from 0 to 100 in unity, it does not show any change, but in blender it does? i am unsure as to what is causing this. this is only affected by custom blendshapes it seems.

[devout orchid]

in blender you have unapplied modifiers other than armature. that deletes shapekeys.

[old sierra]

any giveaways on what some could be? i would love to call if possible

i've also just looked through and there seems to be no modifiers apart from armature

[tough plover]

this is because your basis is messed up

these are the steps to fix it

[austere ridge]

Random fundumental question...

Why don't we use splines and 3d curves via mathematical functions to render curves on a single polygon?

[austere ridge]

I just discovered what nurbs are :o

[azure rain]

because in the end the graphics card only speaks triangles so the nurbs wouldn't provide any optimization

[austere ridge]

Makes sense.

[steady zealot]

Is there a simpler way to turn this collar down (the mesh has thickness and I'm struggling with it immensely)

(I need it as a shapekey so I can put on/take off a tie)

[winter iron]

why not just grab the edge vertices and move it?

[steady zealot]

that's what I've been doing but its extremely untidy and time consuming

And I'm losing my mind dealing with the thickness of the cloth

[winter iron]

why are you moving them individually

[steady zealot]

As opposed to what?

I have to make it drape neatly over the shoulders. I need to do that using individual vertices otherwise it won't look good

If you're saying I should alt select the entire edge and drag it down, Sure, but that a) doesn't account for the rotation of the rim, and b) doesn't conform to the shoulders at all

[winter iron]

my guy

its not a one and done move

[steady zealot]

Also the thickness is not a solidify modifier

[winter iron]

move it down then adjust to fit shoulder

then adjust the rim so it doesnt clip

[steady zealot]

Yeah that's what I've been doing 🤦‍♂️

[winter iron]

you dont have asymmetrical shoulders so just mirror your edits

[steady zealot]

and this overlap?

Do you see how simply moving down the rim doesn't rotate it

[winter iron]

have you considered

moving the edge then?

[steady zealot]

Has anybody ever told you you're an obnoxious piece of work

[winter iron]

you are acting like you just cant take the next couple seconds to select and drag down slightly

[coral merlin]

well this is not the way to talk to someone who is tryin g to help you

[steady zealot]

No, you're right

But also, she could do without being so patronizing

[coral merlin]

everyone has their own way of speaking, but since it's help then you should not take it as personal

[steady zealot]

Sure, and not everybody is receptive to help when it's being given in a bitchy way

[winter iron]

I was only bitchy in 1 message after you cherry picked my quick 1 minute video made as an example

like in the same video you saw me fix that exact issue on the outer edge of the collar

[steady zealot]

I was asking a simple question. There was no need to be so condescending. Anyway I will not be discussing this further as it is not a conversation fit for this discord.

[hushed leaf]

if you aren't trying to move the edge with proportional editing on, try that, I find it very useful for stuff like this.

[steady zealot]

Yeah proportional editing is helping a lot

[swift jolt]

tbh diven makes a goodpoint. you are just kinda overcomplicating it

stuff does not need to be perfect. cause nobody will notice if it is or not.

[steady zealot]

Yeah of course. I was just looking for a slightly more elegant solution than "do it the old fashioned way" delivered in a very patronizing way

[swift jolt]

there is no elegant way

you just do

[coral merlin]

just leave it guy, why to complicate things

[steady zealot]

I'm not convinced a better way doesn't exist, but assuming it doesn't, how would I know this without asking? Should I never ask for simpler ways to do menial tasks?

[swift jolt]

look at blenders documentation to see all its features and what you are able to do with it? what else?

[steady zealot]

Blender's documentation will not teach you out of the box methods or plugins.

[swift jolt]

you dont ever really need to use any plugins for vrchat avatars

[steady zealot]

This is subjective. Anyway stop acting like I was in the wrong seeking a better solution.

[swift jolt]

if you can make a full avatar without plugins. it infact is not subjective.. its objectivly possible.

[hushed leaf]

Some of them sure do make things nicer though

[steady zealot]

You don't "need" anything. That's not really ever a helpful statement. Stop being obtuse.

This whole channel's existence is to ask for help solving problems when 3D modeling.

[swift jolt]

this place is infact not only for asking for help. it just says its for discussing 3d modeling in blender, maya and other programs. this is still a relevant conversation

usualy you never see ppl asking for help here infact. usualy just people showcasing their 3d modeling progress

[steady zealot]

"Hey how can I do this?" "Have you considered not?" Lmfao

[swift jolt]

sometimes simply not doing it more worth it.

[steady zealot]

I'm not arguing that this isn't a relevant conversation. I'm saying that you are trying to make it seem like what I asked is some crazy thing and that I'm stupid for seeking a different solution than the one you would have used.

[swift jolt]

i didnt even know we were arguing XD

we just talkin

[steady zealot]

You misread that sentence

[swift jolt]

correct

XD

im walking my dog rn. bit hard reading while out in the woods

[steady zealot]

@swift jolt @winter iron I indeed did find a more elegant solution to the problem. So much for there not being a way, huh

[swift jolt]

my service provider is making my internet shit itself. the gif wont move but sure! 👍

[steady zealot]

Good cop out lmfao

[swift jolt]

genuinly tho. i live in bunfuck nowere and my service provider was good. untill last time they did maintenance on their mast. think they fucked something up

[winter iron]

I mean good for you but was this meant to be some gotcha moment? no one said there werent other ways to do it
I just said how I would do it

[steady zealot]

Lol. Lmao even.

[thin shadow]

it is because of "the x and y problem"
https://xyproblem.info/

[unique galleon]

What an emotional rollercoaster that all was

[stable island]

Guys I want a app I can do my textures on the 3d model, but I can’t pay 60$+ monthly for substance painter 3d.
I looked to see if there maybe was an alternative and I just cannot find one.

And people suggested ripping it, but I don’t even know how to or what files I’d have to delete after

Does anyone know anyway to 3d paint bc I just can’t w this 2d

It’s so icky

[winter iron]

blender

[stable island]

Does blender have the option to texture in 3d?

[azure rain]

yes and this free add-on can make it more substance painter like https://extensions.blender.org/add-ons/ucupaint/

[stable island]

THANK YOU! Il check it out!

[winter iron]

theres an entire texture paint tab

[azure rain]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_apXIn0g5w&pp=ygUIVWN1cGFpbnTYBsUH

[winter iron]

time to model and texture paint shrek cause blender now has layers

[hushed leaf]

you can also buy it one-time on Steam, you get updates for a year and beyond that can keep using that version forever. Even has linux versions.

[stable island]

Really?

[stable island]

Really?

[stable island]

Omg

Layersssss

[azure rain]

yup so definitely recommend that add-on

[stable island]

XD

[winter iron]

https://tenor.com/view/shrek-onions-ogres-layers-gif-5703242

[hushed leaf]

When making stairs, do you just extrude out and down repeatedly or do some array magic?

ah I guess this is easier with an array

[jagged moat]

I find using a bevel with the profile set to 'steps' in blender works pretty well

[hushed leaf]

ooh

hmm how do you use this though?

ah I found a video

ok that's neat.

[steady zealot]

I typically do array if I need each step to be more than just 2 sides. Like with overhang and whatnot.

[hushed leaf]

Yeah when it's like 4 or 5 I just extrude, but this time did an array.

[steady zealot]

also with array and a weld modifier and the right measurements, you can have them be a singular piece at the end which is nice

[hushed leaf]

yup, that's the intent!

[hot sundial]

?tag scam

[split granite]

Hey ho 👋 I see you're looking for commissions.

You will probably receive DM's or friend requests from scammers now (or later) that will try to offer you their services. 😖

🚫 Absolutely DO NOT engage with those, regardless of how competent they might seem or their excuse to why they contact you.
This is unsafe practice used by scammers, and also breaks this Discord's rules. 👮

If you seek a creator, check out VRCTraders and follow their protocols strictly 🥺
(You will get DM from bot to verify your account upon join.)

🌠 It's extremely important to always DEEPLY investigate the account and social media of the person you plan to commission.
Is their social media linked in Discord? Is it legitimate? Are the references stolen? (Try to reverse image search posts to check.) 👀
The quality of fake profiles out there can be crazy good, be aware of that and NEVER engage with DM or friend requests that originate from the artist.

When in the slightest doubt, do not commission them and contact the moderators of the involved communities. 😱

[hot sundial]

you seems take it wrong, not says you are scammer, you get scammer by asking here. Go to place mentioned and ask instead.

[coral merlin]

definitely took wrong lol

[restive shuttle]

Does anyone have a Gilgamesh model?

[plush venture]

I think you should try in avatar search

[dusk pulsar]

Anyone who happens to know a bit about setting up VRCFury for props? Trying to set up a pretty basic prop, and it has me stumped.

[rapid spade]

WIP femboy

[hallow igloo]

having an issue with my avatar descriptor, im trying to set the blink blendshapes and it keeps reverting to what it was before. i am unable to set those to anything new, it just WONT apply. hopefully this clip explains what its doing.

[zealous pilot]

remove the avatar discriptor and put a new one in

[plush venture]

you have to unpack prefab completely and then set theblink blendshape again

[hallow igloo]

neither of those worked for me unfortunately :(
but I did try like 4 other things too but I can't tell which actually fixed it lmao, thank you for your suggestions C:

[hushed leaf]

it's almost never a good idea to unpack your prefab

And you should question anyone who suggests it

[fair mason]

Trickory Toby!

[dim fable]

hey guys stupid question probably, but if i wanted to make the ends of the petals of the big flower (selected) a bit wider and i used scale to do that, and i copied the numbers in the corner and used them to also make the smaller flower petals wider, would both flowers petals be equally resized? sorry im not sure how to word this properly LOL

[devout orchid]

blender donut🤷‍♂️

[hushed leaf]

When you're working with a free model off sketchfab and you do a mesh -> cleanup -> merge by distance, and it removes forty-six thousand vertices..... yeah...

[hushed leaf]

...another part, 292k vertices.

[tribal monolith]

Dumb question, how do I make the walls and similar terrain of my world unable to be looked through or clipped through using a seat? Do i just have to thicken them, or is there another method?

[winter iron]

there isnt exactly a method other than forced culling so even if they clip through the world wont be loaded
or teleporting them back into bounds if they try and go outside and fly etc
otherwise it isnt exactly possible considering how open ended that is

cause like you make the walls thicker and the person just moves the seat out further

[steady zealot]

maybe make it so every room you're in has a trigger volume that if your head bone leaves it, it blacks out your screen unless you leave through specified doors. That might work somewhat

[swift jolt]

Just put the rooms in black boxes and far away. Make the sky also the same black with no shadows or light on any of the black. So they cant see were the rest of the map is.

[swift jolt]

Or a screenspace shader that applies black to your view when outside of the area you are allowed to be

[cobalt tiger]

I have found the secret to anime shading yo

(just on the face)

[cobalt tiger]

On body too

[wispy kelp]

Almost done

[gritty junco]

yes

[gritty junco]

woah so pretty!!! awesome

[dim fable]

thank you :)

[woeful cave]

I love this so much

[wispy kelp]

It's close to complete, just need weight painting

[faint bronze]

https://tenor.com/view/american-psycho-американскийпсихопат-кристианбейл-american-psychopath-christian-bale-gif-17867735

Probably a model from zbrush lol

[slate fox]

Curently reworking my Lowpoly Bee Avatar

Just finished the rigging and stuff

[wispy kelp]

I have Z brush but this one was fully done in blender then baked in substance

Also deformation looking alright. Just needs a bit more and I can prepare the body for toggles

[faint bronze]

oh sorry i was replying to an older post and forgot to actually hit the reply button

but it does look very good, yes

[untold jasper]

Im looking to start 3d modelling avatars, any tips and suggestions/knowledge yall learnt later on which is helpful now?

[hushed leaf]

symmetry is your friend

[untold jasper]

I learnt that from modelling for mc in blockbench

I forgot to mention that, i have experience in voxel modelling

[unique galleon]

In terms of optimizing build size and complexity without trading off quality, is it better to design your assets to work with tileable textures or is it better to pack and bake a texture for each model?

[azure rain]

increase in texture reuse would be very helpful in reducing file size as a unique bake requires 3 texture per asset whereas like building all of your wood assets out of like one wood trim sheet would be using the same 3 textures for everything

https://www.beyondextent.com/deep-dives/trimsheets

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4b249616f93e000149aebd/1588274207041-O18GZVPADDP6NPQ5SXFX/EXP_KeeganKeene_Thumbnail_1920x1080.jpg?format=2500w example of a asset made in a trim sheet that would require a very big texture to uniquely bake to match the same texture density

[analog fiber]

si-fi chair i made

[unkempt gale]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-dance-cat-cat-dancing-dancing-cat-daily-cat-dance-gif-15678680634713803928

[azure rain]

hi?

[umbral schooner]

Ts tuff?

[limpid widget]

Can someone help me

[hushed leaf]

with what

[limpid widget]

i wanna make my own avatar

[hushed leaf]

okay

[limpid widget]

do you know how

[hushed leaf]

yes

Also ignore that scammer

[limpid widget]

i wanna make a curious george avatar that can toggle on the Yellow man's hat from the show, and that can go invis

[hushed leaf]

oh so you're multiple scammers, got it

[limpid widget]

https://tenor.com/view/drake-laptop-drake-gif-21716481

[hushed leaf]

@limpid widget FYI I don't help in DM

[limpid widget]

ok

i thought we just call and you help me

but ima go eat dinner rq

[hushed leaf]

yeah no, that's not something I do for free

If you don't already know blender, go learn blender.

what?

ok so also a broken record. Cool.

[magic perch]

Don't waste your time with these scammers just ignore them, they'll take your whole day arguing.

[fair mason]

making a v2 cus this version is old

[limpid widget]

Can someone make me a picture avatar of my mamas kitten....

[carmine pagoda]

Your gonna get a bunch of scammers here, if you want an Avatar you should head over to VRC traders

[limpid widget]

where is that, and rn im just watching a yt vid how to make it myself...

[carmine pagoda]

Should be in community servers just a few down.

If you think you can, you should make it yourself though, its a good step to do more if you want eventually

[limpid widget]

but thank you very much, i appericate your info

[carmine pagoda]

Of course im just passing along the help that was given to me when i was new. Good luck!

[steady zealot]

omg so scrunkly 🥰

[sour swan]

oh look, a wild Scam has apeared

[lone fable]

yay its removed

[sour swan]

yay

wild scam has been successfully caught!

[unique galleon]

What a cute lil guy!! What’s his species? He gives me sea slug vibes!!

[flat kelp]

A Mox

[sour notch]

To the parts that are highlighted, red are warped and weird when I put textures on them. If there's no texture on them, they're normal. I've been trying to figure this out for a while and I just can't get my head around it. I almost want to say every time I extrude something can blender is what causes it. I just don't know what I'm doing wrong. I don't know if anyone's willing to help me. I'm fairly new to blender

Feel free to add me if you're up helping

[stone pine]

looks like it might be a uv issue

[keen sierra]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fGItaMMg9qY?feature=share

[sour notch]

Thx

So much

[steep oar]

Anyone from this chat wants to help me with learning? All I need to learn are basics, like how to change shapes etc (preferably blender)

[hushed leaf]

Select mesh object. make a new shape key and select it. Go into edit mode. move vertices however you want. Go back to object mode and slide the weight's shape key on and off, now you know how to change shapes.

[supple harness]

anyone know how to fix this problem with the leg??

i think its a UV bug

cause the leg was inverted when i ported it to Unity then i fixed it in blender and now the legs like that

i had the same issue with the arm but its fine so idk why the leg is doing that

[silver notch]

I’m looking for some feedback on my topology. I try to follow general muscular patterns, but someone recently pointed out that I tend to place the navel and abs a bit lower than average.

This model is already pretty far along, so I wanted to ask. Does this fall within a reasonable range stylistically, or does it read as noticeably off to you?

Ive considered creating a shape key to nudge it upwards, but im not sure if it ought to be higher outright.

[faint bronze]

Flip the normals

[faint bronze]

Just looks like a long torso to me. I think you're ok

[supple harness]

ya i did that

thats what caused it to begin with

if i flip them back it reverts back to being inverted

[silver notch]

what software are you using?

[supple harness]

blender id assume?

[faint bronze]

What do you mean inverted

[supple harness]

hang on

[silver notch]

ok, are you just flipping normals or recalculating them?

[supple harness]

let me get a few pictures to help understand

[supple harness]

i tried both

[silver notch]

ah ok

not sure then

[supple harness]

i did 2 edits to the model with recalculating then flipping

picture this model as the leg

if i invert the normals it will do this

but i flipped them like this and the models normals were inverted in unity

[supple harness]

so i had to flip the normals to that

for it to work

and not be inverted

[silver notch]

does the model have weird custom splits?

[supple harness]

??

explain??

i dont really understand alot of blender/unity terms im super slow

[silver notch]

blender has an option "clear custom split normal data" it can break the surface appearance a bit but it might tell you whether the issue youre seeing is baked into the model

[supple harness]

oh

il do some digging

[silver notch]

you can see it at the bottom here

select the model and use that option

if it has custom split normals, it will give you the option to clear instead of add them

[livid pine]

Hi, I'm looking to make my first 3D avatar in blender and I have a few questions
Every model I've seen has its palms pointed downwards, is there a reason for that? Will issues come up if I don't so it like that?

I'm almost done with my reference images
Will I be able to use a humanoid rig with legs like these?
Is there anything I should look out for or change the position of to make modeling easier for myself?

[hushed leaf]

there's an ideal VRChat armature diagram pinned in #avatar-rigging - the default for that is palms down.

Yes you'll be able to use humanoid rigging, you just treat the part from knee to toes as the lower leg, unless you want to setup a plantigrade->digitgrade conversion thing, which is complicated.

Otherwise, your choice of "A Pose" or "T Pose" is up to you.

[rapid spade]

Femboy Wip 2 (I made a mistake in the queue topology xD)

[left lava]

It looks amazing in it's very own unique ways.

[thin mesa]

https://gyazo.com/bab5bc7992b66e7fb3041eaf5e4e3dda deer avatar I'm working on trying to get it under 10k with clothing and hair included

[green fox]

I'm working on a render and I'm new to seeing uv tile discarding. I see how to get toggles to show in unity through poiyomi but how do I make it hide certain parts in blender? The tile discarding is applied to a hair and is used to toggle between different hair style options on this avi.

[tough plover]

because it's a render, I'd recommend just separating the meshes. if you enable UV Sync in the UV editor window, you can just select the UVs for the hair in that tile, then separate it

[green fox]

Oh ok thanks that worked

[shrewd ermine]

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[hushed leaf]

I wrote a little blender plugin the other day to add a "zero all" option to the shape keys popup menu and I'm surprised how many times I've already used it.
(Been doing a bunch of modeling and remodeling related to a new avatar)

[unique galleon]

There aren’t enough group shape key interactions in blender

It’s actually sad 😔

[hushed leaf]

yep

Also vertex groups, it has some decent ones, but not everything. I also wrote one to remove all empty groups.

[tough plover]

wym to the shape key "popup menu"? isn't there already a button to set all shape key weights to 0

[hushed leaf]

I don't see one

[tough plover]

it's the little X in the bottom right

oh wait a second

that might not be native

ah I see, it's part of Gret

https://github.com/greisane/gret

extremely useful addon

it adds some stuff that really should be native in blender, like that ^, but another example is buttons to re-order UV maps

if you get it, make sure to click the green Code button and do Download Zip

to get the latest ver

[hushed leaf]

ahhh

yeah that makes sense, I didn't see that there

huh I had gret in the past, but don't currently, looks like there's more cool things than I realized.

Also since i don't have gret, but DO have this little 'x' button that I never clicked because it didn't seem like it would apply to the list above it.... then it's not from gret but native

well it was fun to learn how to script that part of blender anyway.

[hushed leaf]

wow.... no idea what weird thing I've done but I'm trying to weight paint and setting specific weight values, which the brush is totally ignoring.

[faint bronze]

What is the brush set to? Is it add or replace?

[hushed leaf]

mix, I usually use - I actually restarted blender and it became sane again, no idea what the heck I'd done there.

I was trying to match paint in another place but it kept painting 1 instead of the fractional value I had set.

[faint bronze]

Probably just blender glitching out then

[hushed leaf]

Yeah I really couldn't explain it, it was very strange

[hushed leaf]

amazing... I've been doing this for quite a while now and I only just today realized that when weight painting with a "Paint" brush, using shift will switch to the "Blur" brush

[fair vigil]

hi all. ive been trying to make a model of this helmet for a while now, opting to work on seperate parts. currently, im on the horns but i dont know what to do. what i have currently is just a basic outline

[fair vigil]

progress update

[autumn token]

hey guys anyone havee like a bank of 3d models for avatars ? favorite website or sum

i wanna start with a base model then add 3d models of acccesories and add effects

[hushed leaf]

what exactly do you need help with here?

[stuck ledge]

Anyone have any xenoverse 2 cac base models that I could use? Preferably unreal engine 4

[fair vigil]

early d-day knight helmet model that I plan to use for a vrchat avatar

[tranquil tide]

Is there someone I could ask that would maybe be okay with helping me model something?

[winter iron]

Dont ask to ask just state your issue

[tranquil tide]

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I need