3d-modeling

[tranquil tide]

This model of the ship

Specifically only it's signs with the name

To say
Arthur M. Anderson
On it instead

[hushed leaf]

So what is the problem?

[tough plover]

https://youtu.be/eAilVrVKQuM?si=FMfGCCuFqxf4ebXw

you don't really need to make it 3d for your use case, but this at least shows you how to make the text

[hushed leaf]

I assume that's the usual import .svg, extrude?

this is one of the first 3D things I ever did, but the process is a lot different now than it was in 3D studio (not Max, the DOS one)

[tough plover]

no, blender can just conjure up text

[hushed leaf]

oh that's right, it can

clearly I haven't tried in a while

I tend to do 2D work in inkscape then 3D it

[faint bronze]

just make it a texture?

[woeful cave]

I need someone to teach me how to do muscles on furry vrchat avatars?

[hushed leaf]

"do muscles"?

[hushed leaf]

Shape Keys: Allow drag and drop within shape keys list. (0eed084cad)
Might be the single thing in Blender 5 I'm most excited about

[tawny spire]

Hey I saw you’re looking for someone who can teach you how to do muscles on furry VRChat avatars. I’m actually a professional creator and I’ve worked a lot with avatar sculpting, body shaping, and stylized anatomy including muscular builds for furry models. If you want, I can walk you through the process step by step, explain the workflow, or even help you practice on your own model. No pressure at all just let me know what you’re aiming for and I’ll see how I can help!

[bitter fulcrum]

Where would i ask if anybody has a model of a character? (Idm if rigged or not)

I really want a penny from rwby that isnt the mmd model 😭

[hushed leaf]

#1138520828556890214 probably

[woeful cave]

Yes definitely

[cosmic frost]

thats so fuckin tuff. good job

[fair vigil]

thank you 🙂‍↕️

[cosmic frost]

yes yes you should be proud of it

[pine raft]

@tame burrow

Let me grab some.

https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/interface/window_system/introduction.html
https://youtu.be/kVcY7K-JA1Y?list=PLn3ukorJv4vv9_e-htADGsPX9TMaQpHV8

To start with.

This tutorial series is still WIP.

Consider using the Blender 3/4 tuturial series and using the interface explanations from the new 5 series.

[tame burrow]

thank u ;;

[pine raft]

The key concepts for optimizing will be 'edge dissolve', 'circle select', 'loop select', 'loop cut', 'knife tool', and the camera controls. You can use Shift+~ to walk/fly (noclip).

The basic idea is that you find a loop that isn't too important, you select it, then dissolve it.

Dissolving deletes the loop and maintains connections of edges.

Therefore, instead of leaving a gap, it will use the other edges the edges you dissolved are connected to in order to decide the best edges to connect with. It rarely fails but it does generate something called an 'ngon'

[tame burrow]

very tempted to just get help for it tbh

idk if i have the energy to get it working myself lmao

[pine raft]

That's fine. Just giving this information here since it's useful for other beginners searching the text.

[tame burrow]

ye!

[pine raft]

So in 3D, all quads are secretly fake on the GPU, as the GPU only draws triangles. You don't really need to ever care about this as you'll want to focus on both triangles and quads, but 'ngons' are polygons with more than 4 sides.

[tame burrow]

yeah

[pine raft]

It's called 'n' gon because it's '(n)umber of sides' polygon.

[tame burrow]

never have ngons

[pine raft]

Here's the secret though.

Ngons also have to go down to triangles too.

[tame burrow]

ye

[pine raft]

That's how they render to the GPU.

And if you triangulate the ngon, you'll see the approximation of what Blender did.

And once you see it you'll see it everywhere.

Because in gamedev, ngons aren't actually evil.

Because they're just the same triangles in the model file, but in the editor they don't look like it.

The secret to using them is that they create dense triangles.

Where many points converge on a single point, which can make shading look really wierd.

So you can get away with it on flat faces.

Let me grab an example from a game where it's incredibly obvious they did exactly this.

A sword modelled by hand with cleaned topology manually.

A model with selective cleaning and ngons.

Yet it looks fine since the ngons are constrained to flat edges.

Notice how the cylinders have spiderwebs going from them? That's literally just what happens when you have an ngon and turn it into triangles using an algorithm.

Ngons are evil for tools that require loops though, such as loopcut, loop select, subdivision, armature deformation, that sort.

That's the difference.

https://youtu.be/MD1QmdqXRfc

This video is great for explaining topology itself as a concept.

It's an exercise in keeping topology clean, but when you're optimizing, you can be way more destructive.

You can be as destructive as you want really as long as the outcome looks good. Many people get so destructive that they use a decimation modifier on their model and call it a day.

As an example. @tame burrow

That's decimate.

Many beginner artists run decimate just to get the model rendering on Quest.

I can't suggest it personally but if you're desperate, it's a solution.

[tame burrow]

some1s having a look at it

and said these tris arent too bad

and other stats arent too bad

so im like huh

[pine raft]

It's not disgusting.

If that means anything.

We've all seen worse.

It's just something you can with enough patience hammer away at.

And get something incredibly optimized out of.

[tame burrow]

yeah some1s having a go for me

cuz i just cant face it atm

[pine raft]

That's fine. This information will be here if you ever feel the desire to try your hand at it.

[tame burrow]

so im super grateful for their help and for urs i truely appreciate u

[pine raft]

All it takes is watching and understanding some videos and throwing shit at the wall in the software and breaking it then reinstalling it until you figure it out.

:)

Oh and avoid the donut.

[tame burrow]

yeah atm i just want my beloved model in vrchat working and when i have more than negative spoons i can work on it seperately

[pine raft]

Youtube guide series, not useful.

[pine raft]

Very relatable! I get it completely.

Hope you can decompress well.

[tame burrow]

its like i need some1 to explain to me like im a 2 yr old but not let me figure out theyre treating me like a 2 year old yknow

like im slow processing but talking dumb to me makes me go 😠

[pine raft]

I actually thought I learnt best like that throughout elementary school but found that watching people work through things actually allows my brain puzzle solving to have a fieldday while I watch.

Lets me notice patterns in what they're doing.

Then upon hearing explanations of patterns it clicks.

Which if you want to see that 'speedmodels' and workflows are amazing.

[tame burrow]

i get overloaded and overwhelmed easy lmao

so if they rapid fire stuff i panic

[pine raft]

Usually it's more about watching for patterns and pausing and using the < and > keys to go frame by frame if I really want to see something specific.

Learning the workflow -> learning specifics is my favorite way to learn.

[tame burrow]

luckily at the jewellery school im starting at soon

[pine raft]

Or in other words, watching someone work, then learning the details of each.

[tame burrow]

i can use a voice recorder

which helps my memory problems yippee

[pine raft]

Here's a speedmodel with a highly modified Blender distro from a professional.
https://youtu.be/JYscTeWfCVM

It'll be overwhelming.

But instead of focusing on every detail, consider trying to specifically watch just the process of going from nothing to something.

It isn't about you learning how to do it by watching it, but seeing the steps he's going through, maybe looking for patterns inbetween, and learning that models don't just immediately become pretty.

And that there's alot of inbetween where it's all just problemsolving skills.

I watch this kind of stuff for fun personally as this is my special interest.

[tame burrow]

mines video game lore i forget in 10 mins

[silent mason]

Can someone make me a FREE custom n from murder drones avatar IF YOU WATCHED THE SERIES DM ME REMEMBER FOR FREE

[carmine pagoda]

All you’re gonna get is scammers man, you could look for one in https://discord.com/channels/189511567539306508/1138520828556890214 but aside from that people probably aren’t gonna make you one for free.

[magic perch]

Well I don't think anyone gonna scam for free lol

[carmine pagoda]

Of course, but they hear the “can I get an avatar” and start foaming at the mouth. Better to not even ask.

[unique galleon]

No

[limpid gazelle]

do i apply subdivision surf modifier to the finalized base mesh of the body of the model before rigging/weight painting?

[hushed leaf]

I'd do it as soon as you're done modeling, so yeah, before weight paint

[limpid gazelle]

tyty

[onyx shale]

Charlie, the Eater of Souls

WIP still need to pose the hands n such

[rain oracle]

Jesus Christ man 😭

[west jungle]

seriously cool

[faint bronze]

wow love that

low-res butterfly hairclips!

[devout coyote]

Yo is there a way to make his eyes eternally closed

[keen sierra]

Yes

[devout coyote]

How

@keen sierra

[keen sierra]

Set the blink blendshape to 100 and disable blinking in the descriptor

[devout coyote]

In unity?

Sorry I’m new to this 💔

And also how do I put a unity project into blender or an avatar

[balmy tartan]

baby steps

[hushed leaf]

you look in your Unity project to find the model file, usually a .fbx, then you import that into Blender.

[devout coyote]

What do I do if there are multiple fax?

Fb

Fox

Fbx

[hushed leaf]

import them all

multiple foxes

[devout coyote]

lol

[balmy tartan]

that avi comes with a fbx when you buy it

you import that

[devout coyote]

I don’t think it did

[hushed leaf]

that would be quite strange, but it does happen sometimes.

yeah those are probably .fbx files - look at them outside Unity to see filenames

[devout coyote]

There is different versions of the avatar for some reason

[hushed leaf]

that often happens too

[devout coyote]

Then which one would import into blender

[hushed leaf]

No idea without having that project myself, but I'd guess you want the quest one if you use quest, otherwise not that one.

[devout coyote]

Ah ok

What about a blend shape

[hushed leaf]

what about them?

[devout coyote]

This

[hushed leaf]

in Unity, find the Skinned Mesh Renderer that's the face, and in the inspector is a list of Blendshapes

[devout coyote]

Can you explain it more dumbed down cause I have no idea what that is

🫩

[unique galleon]

That’s blender…

[devout coyote]

OU

OH

[balmy tartan]

https://tenor.com/view/kermit-the-frog-muppets-meme-smh-shaking-my-head-gif-16984538577250620315

[devout coyote]

bruh I’m restarted 😂

[unique galleon]

You might wanna find yourself some tutorials so you can more easily understand the basics 😅

[devout coyote]

Ive been trying they all are so vague 💔

[hushed leaf]

I'd suggest basic VRChat avatar creation tutorials, and this: https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/creating-your-first-avatar

#avatar-help is a good place to ask questions about that.

[devout coyote]

K

Is there something I need to turn on so the blendshape sliders sync with the avatar?

[balmy tartan]

bro

chill

thats the eyes when your in vrchat

[devout coyote]

Huh

[balmy tartan]

your skipping steps just get your head around unity then worry about your oc

[devout coyote]

Ok

[keen sierra]

The settings you changed there are for how fast the avatar will look at new targets (other people) as in appearing more or less shy/confident. They do not control the eyelids and those are also not blendshape sliders. The blendshape sliders are on the mesh (body) itself, not on the avatar root (where you are).

[unique galleon]

Is there a certain trick or modifier that’ll make weaving string lights around/through things more easy? I guess you can probably pull it off with a curve? 🤔

I know you can use a curve to array the light bulbs so I think I don’t actually need any help 😅

[tough plover]

could use some basic geometry nodes to do that

there's definitely many tutorials about doing stuff like that

[fair vigil]

Last Son of Alcatraz WIP. Texture edit of Superman from "Superman Returns" (ds/dsi)

[snow wyvern]

she is not done yet

[rain oracle]

Do you plan to try and make the full horned serpent since you made the head?

[karmic stirrup]

Not sure if anyone saw this, but could this be potentially used to create the FT shapekeys for an avi in blender?

https://github.com/shun126/livelinkface_arkit_receiver/wiki

[hushed leaf]

The way I read that is that it can activate existing shape keys, not create new ones.

[fair vigil]

im unsure- my current objective is to make nixonverse specific models- but i imagine the horned serpent wouldn't be too hard

[rain oracle]

I watched wendigoons video on monument mythos a few days ago and was baffled by how Insane the series actually is

[green fox]

Is there any way to fix this mesh having this weird dark area? I'm not entirely sure what caused it but what I've found so far is that it's visible in both blender and unity and while it shows a jagged edge it doesn't follow the vertices of the body. I'm in blender 4.5.4 and the only other thing I could think to check was the face orientations based on searching but I didn't see any flipped faces.

Edit: It partially follows the body vertices but offset for some reason.

[hushed leaf]

Looks like normals - unless you have custom normals there you could select the faces and in the normals menu (alt+n) do "reset vectors"

[green fox]

Hell yeah thx that fixed it

[hushed leaf]

excellent

[sand delta]

to fix this outfit,should i modify the weight paint of my mini short or the avi ?

[hushed leaf]

I'd probably fix the clothing

[sand delta]

you mean sculpting it a litle bit ?

[hushed leaf]

if needed, sure.

[toxic iron]

Thank you so so so much

[foggy plank]

@lime hornet

[sonic silo]

It's nice

Currently on this
Is it good

[hushed leaf]

weird, that's twice now I've had blender hang when drag-moving a shapekey

[rugged quartz]

Can someone help me with my vrchat model for mobile

[hushed leaf]

Probably, if you ask more specific questions

[rugged quartz]

Ummmm can people do it for free I don't have money for it

[hushed leaf]

no. but maybe you could get help in the free section of the VRC Traders discord.

I wouldn't expect much though, people rarely like to work for free.

[hushed leaf]

argh - not just moving them, just clicked on one and it hugn.

[terse flame]

just gonna leave this here:

[winter iron]

Did you make a cardboard version?

[modest halo]

hey diven

cardboard version of what are you asking about a cardboard mock up of the object in your unity hierarchy a cardboard prop version of the weapon beam a cardboard version someone mentioned earlier or something else entirely

[terse flame]

Yes, and it works, i put it on my gumroad for free

[winter iron]

you beat me to it lmao
I was going to do that

[jagged moat]

this chatbot needs repairs wtf did I read

[toxic iron]

Is there a good way to preview the shading VRChat has in Blender?

[tough plover]

"the shading VRChat has" doesn't really mean anything. the way avatars are shaded depend on what shaders they are using, same for things in a world, and both of those things depend on how the world is lit

[toxic iron]

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/draken-vrchat-avatar-e8126e03c5de4017add563d718bdd207

I have the geometry of the fur tufts done similarly

But I just can't make it look the same otherwise

[swift jolt]

No because vrchat has no specific shading.

[hushed leaf]

Merge by distance works for vertices, not necessarily faces.

[cobalt tiger]

for funsies

[tender juniper]

opinion on this theme?

is this the right channel? lmao

[paper isle]

Things are getting strange good thing I watched stranger things. May be delayed as have a few projects but things sure are strange.

[jagged moat]

This thing.... it's stranger than the others

[paper isle]

https://tenor.com/view/stranger-things3-sad-crying-happy-ending-hopper-gif-14500399

[jagged moat]

I don't think you could have posted a more relevant gif as a response XD

[hushed leaf]

what's the problem though?

[sleek quarry]

i think you have to merge them in edge/vertex select mode

also make sure you are selecting in xray view so you are getting everything, or just hit select all

[sleek quarry]

accidental doubling up of faces i assume

it happens to me a lot because im bad at blender lol

[hushed leaf]

could just delete them

[tender snow]

having trouble getting the eyebrows to look like eyebrows rn

[mystic moth]

Christmas Reindeer Pickle!
Midjourney inspo image vs my Blender recreation: procedural pickle material, hair particle system for furry ears, geonodes and curves for light strings, antlers via drawn curves).

[mystic moth]

Btw, this was the theme for last Sunday's 1 Hour, 1 Object 3d creative sesh. Ping me if you want to join a bunch of friendly 3D artists for weekly 3d practice every Sunday on Discord, 10am (PST). All skill levels welcome, any 3D app (incl. Unity) is 👍 – make some new friends, learn and get better at 3D. 💪

[obsidian flame]

Modular combat armor built to survive lightsabers blasters and betrayal

This armor was not made in a factory It was rebuilt after every battle Each plate carries damage upgrades and memories of wars fought in silence

No Force powers No destiny
Just skill tech and the will to stand when others fall

In a galaxy ruled by legends
this armor belongs to someone who chose survival

[hasty loom]

Concepting some props

Using geometry nodes for the modeling.

[pearl swan]

Hello! I've done stuff in blender a lot in the past, but I never fully delved into the 3d modeling world. I finally took it upon myself to begin to learn some polygonal modeling, but I'm a bit lost in where to start. It seems everyone has their own modeling style and I'm curious where many of you started and how you got to that point. I can somewhat make a female torso from scratch right now (thanks to youtube vids) but still got to learn the rest of the body. Just looking for fellow modelers to talk to about this stuff.

[keen sierra]

Honestly I was so impatient, I went straight to zbrush and modeled a foot. I ended up liking it and went from there. I kept working on it, retopoligizing etc, not taking it too seriously and edited the proportions a million times.

[hushed leaf]

I started modeling so long ago with tools that no longer exist, so I have no idea how people start now other than by watching tutorial videos like The Donut Tutorial.

[balmy tartan]

make a cup thats how i started

[carmine pagoda]

Don’t do this, but I jumped immediately into trying to make a person with tutorials

Then kind of brute forced my way from there i’m still not a good modeler. I just can kind of do it.

[hushed leaf]

Starting with real world objects that are more flat than organic shapes is a good way to get going. Like a cup.

[pearl swan]

Haha started with the foot? Do some people start from the feet and model up?

[pearl swan]

It’s too late.. XD

[pearl swan]

Alright, I haven’t done too much object modeling, at least with good topology flow. I’ll give it a try.

[opal sigil]

I want to find a really good 3D artist who can follow a character right down to the last strand of hair, is there anyone who knows one?

[winter iron]

this isnt a commission server
go to vrctraders

[hard hull]

need suggestions for designs to put on these custom socks i made :3

[steady zealot]

Nineties arcade floor pattern

[hard hull]

I was thinking just that!

Or SpongeBob flowers :3

[pine raft]

Learn proper SubD fundementals and you'll rapidly improve.

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

[gilded brook]

Hello everybody, I'm hoping somebody in here could help me. This isn't VRC related but it is 3d-modeling related since I'm working within Blender. A friend of mines cat was murdered(her cats name is Luna) and I wanted to learn some new things while building her something nice. I've been attempting to place a moon texture with her cat on top of the moon texture. I've almost achieved my goal. However, I'm using UV Project from the camera for the cat image and it seems to project through the object and leaves a reverse image on the rear of the object. How can I prevent this "reverse image" from occurring on the rear surface?

Just some clarification, I have a disconnected Image Texture node that would provide the moons color. The color is unnecessary for what I'm doing so I've left it disconnected in these images. That node will ultimately be deleted.

[hushed leaf]

By rear of the object you mean the back side of the sphere, not the back sides of the faces, right?
Select only the faces you want to use the UV project function on. Unwrap the back-sides differently.

[gilded brook]

Yes, I mean the back side of the sphere.

[gilded brook]

I appreciate the input. I'll see what I can do. I'm still learning.

[hushed leaf]

of course 🙂

[gilded brook]

I removed the UV Project, added a Texture Coordinate node, and added a Mapping node. The image looks pretty acceptable after tweaking it. Actually, I couldn't figure out your recommendation. I made changes in the UV but never saw any changes to the projection.

[onyx shale]

Wendigo WIP 👻

[hushed leaf]

explain what situation is shown in this image^ in #avatar-help unless you specifically want help modeling.

[blissful swift]

Oh thanks

[peak smelt]

does anyone know the easiest way to make a chain for my avatar

[pine raft]

2 methods.

Create a thin plane. This'll be your 'baker', it should be as if a chain was laid out on a table and straightened. Just a plane.

Ontop of this plane, model one segment of your chain with Subdivision Surface.

Essentially you're modelling this, but horizontally.

An array modifier can help if needed.

After that, look into 'normal baking' and 'transparency baking'. The idea is that this segment is a repeating texture that you'll then later use to make a flat planar necklace around your character's neck, but this'll be the texture. It'll use cutout transparency (also referred to as onebitalpha or threshold alpha) to get the chain look itself.

You can either use software such as Substance Painter to handle the texturing process of the base-color if you'd like one, or you can use a matcap and not have a basecolor.

Matcaps are done via a shader on your avatar.

This is known as 'Alphacards' in gamedev.

Keep in mind, alpha cards do not work on the Quest due to lack of transparency shader support, but it saves 60k polygons, so it's rather worth it.

The Yakuza developers use this method for example.

The other method is a simple array curve around your character with a intentionally lowpoly chain.

Here's how they do the 3D looking chain. Just a normalmap and alpha texture on a curved plane.

Extremely convincing.

[keen sierra]

im in a modeling mood

[hushed leaf]

ooh, I love it already

[keen sierra]

really digging the snout so far

[hushed leaf]

yeah this is great

[ancient tangle]

hello, I'm learning to 3D model, but I'd like to ask someone who is more experienced than me for some feedback on my meshes

I'm mostly doing low poly stuff + trying to make them as optimised as possible !

I made these flowers today, and was wondering if there were any improvements I could make

I'm using blender 5.0.1

[hushed leaf]

those are cute, looks pretty good to me

[ancient tangle]

thank you so much :) !

[true quarry]

Since 3 side views ref sheets are the norm for creating VRChat avatars, are they hard to draw?
I mean, I am going to bring this gal to life

[ancient tangle]

I'm making a retro fridge, does all the modelling look correct? I'm just sort of trying to apply new things I've learned :') can I reduce the poly count in any way?

this is my statistics on the object

[hushed leaf]

looks pretty reasonable to me

[jagged moat]

Looks good, I wouldn't bother triangulating manually unless the triangulate modifier is causing you issues as working with quads makes modifying your model a lot easier.

[hushed leaf]

Yeah, I'd agree with that too, I really only do it to help with flexing stuff when weight painting

[ancient tangle]

gotcha! I mostly do it out of habit, and these models aren't intended to deform or anything! I'm not planning to edit them any more either, so do u reckon it'd be alright?

[ancient tangle]

this sounds silly - as I'm just starting out - but what is weight painting?

[jagged moat]

Yeah, it shouldn't cause any issues 👍

[hushed leaf]

it's a way to add weights to mesh using a painting interface.
The weight on a given vertex tells it how much it moves with a bone.

[ancient tangle]

amazing thanks so much, I'm still getting my head around all the best practices haha

ohh I think I get u! so like, some parts are heavier and some parts are lighter and move more?

I shall also look into this 😃 👍

do you guys have any reccommendations on concepts i.e 3D modelling tht I should look up? or just any resources in general are super appreciated

[jagged moat]

I guess your next step would be texturing, personally I use Substance Painter as it has a lot of great tools but the pricing can be very steep and you have to deal with Adobe which is never fun.
I'd recommend checking out some alternatives to get started as I've heard the competition has gotten pretty good

I think Quixel mixer is one but you'd have to search around for some others

[pine raft]

Rather, 'weightpainting' is just the name.

What you're truly doing is painting a per-vertex map where every vertex in the group has an 'influence' variable from 0 to 1.

Armatures work via influence maps of the same name as the bone, where each influence map (weightpaint) tells the bone how much to transform each vertex per bone.

Where a value of 1 is 'move with the bone fully' and a value of 0.5 is 'use half of the bone's position and add it to the vertex position'

[viscid birch]

The "weight" in the name just comes from the math name. It's a weighted average

[ancient tangle]

you guys are so kind thank you so much for explaining all of this to me

this explanation is super helpful thank you <3 :3

[ancient tangle]

YAY yes yes ! I've done some practice with UV unwrapping, and I've got the Clip Studio 3D workspace which works fabulously

[pine raft]

Substance Painter is popular due to it being a procedural workspace mixed with a painting workspace.

Or in other words, it allows you to nondestructively stack edits per-layer which have parameters to change how they behave.

"Ambient Occlusion' nodes for example, to make a layer automatically only appear in crevices.

Then a 'dirt' node muliplied over the ambient occlusion to make it appear dirty.

Alternatives exist and aren't even that bad, but don't currently compete with Substance on the exact same playingfield.

[ancient tangle]

that's so so cool, I'll absolutely look into this, for the project I'm working on, we are planning to play around with ambient occlusion for certain environment features. I don't mind paying for a software especially if it's a good one!

[pine raft]

Substance used to not be an Adobe application but unfortunately took the devil's money, so now it's an app of the evil Adobe™ corporation with a subscription only fee....

or so they want you to think.

A part of their deal with Adobe was being able to offer a perpetual license per year.

200 USD for each year's software version.

It's listed on Steam.

[ancient tangle]

that's really great omg...

YAY

[pine raft]

They just can't advertise it, lmao.

[ancient tangle]

omg

thank you so much for the info!

BOO adobe..... I'm glad that they are able to offer that though omg

I'm in europe so the price works out a bit cheaper !

[pine raft]

I'm under the impression 2025's version has a bug in it though that was fixed in the 2026 release, they don't do LTS for perpetuals.

So, I suggest avoiding Substance Painter 2025 on Steam as the bug is fairly major.

If required, temporarily use the subscription and wait for the 2026 release on Steam.

Should be around March I think?

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[ancient tangle]

fabulous thank u!

for now, I'm using clip studio to texture my objects, but when I want to do some fancy things I'll have a play around with it!

I will wait til the new one comes out and see what ppl think :3

[hushed leaf]

Also ArmorPaint is getting to be kinda usable, it's still a bit crashy but I've done some actual work with it.
You can get it for free if you build it from source yourself. They have instructions, it's not too hard.

[ancient tangle]

thanks so much! I can definitely do that

is it on github etc?

[hushed leaf]

yep

[empty fox]

It is on Github, but you will have to compile it yourself unless you want to donate to them

Although I can see that there are a whole lot of forks with precompiled binaries

[ancient tangle]

tysm! I will probably just purchase outright but I don't mind compiling from github either :3

[hushed leaf]

Having used it, I'd strongly suggest trying first, you may not like the workflow, and it may not actually be stable for you 🙂

(I've only tried it on Linux though, if you use something else maybe it crashes less?)

[unique galleon]

I don’t understand here- I asked chatgpt if I can compile armorpaint like a month ago and it said its copyright licenses refuse the right to be compiled and used

So either you’re suggesting people break the law or chatgpt made that up

[balmy tartan]

Your using ai that's your issue

[unique galleon]

Feel free to offer actual advice instead of just starting a shit conversation nobody wants to have for the millionth time 👌

[balmy tartan]

Huh

[unique galleon]

I double checked the repo and see what I missed, I just wish people would offer actual advice instead of only responding “ai bad”

If that’s all you have to say just don’t respond fr

[balmy tartan]

It gives you a step by step instructions

Well kinda but I can type out what you need to do step by step if you want

[unique galleon]

Yeah that’s what I meant by see what I missed 😂

Guess if I find time this week I’ll make this my project lol

[orchid phoenix]

chatgpt made that up
fish found in ocean

[hushed leaf]

ChatGPT made that up as far as I can tell. The code is available on github with a "zlib/libpng" license and you can grab it, so you can build and use it.

[fair inlet]

You are learning why you should not blindly trust ai

I've had it hallucinate people entirely for stuff ive asked about

[hushed leaf]

I had some issue at work I had to debug the other day where a LLM completely hallucinated data due to a misconfigured prompt - took the data people all day to fix it. When I get to redesign it (soon), no LLM will be involved at all.

it was just outright making stuff up - I don't know how we could possibly rely on such a thing.

[balmy tartan]

Marriage goals get married make a AP

[cobalt tiger]

Work in progress!

[full ice]

I've thought about adding something like the wires that the Banuk Shamans have in Horizon Zero Dawn to an avatar. Had to learn the path tool and then something I'd never heard about Geometry Nodes. Getting there for this one avatar, just have to figure out where I want them all to be, and then actually get it usable in VRchat.

[gaunt kayak]

Question, does anybody know how to model in VR?

[hushed leaf]

haha

the answer is still yes

wait, do you mean model for use in VR, or model something in VR?

[gaunt kayak]

Like making an avatar

[hushed leaf]

Yes, many many people around here do

[gaunt kayak]

Are you one of those people?

[hushed leaf]

again, just ask your questions if you have them

[gaunt kayak]

You didn’t answer it though…

[hushed leaf]

I'm not sure why you need an answer to that?

this is starting to feel scammy

[gaunt kayak]

I wanted to commission somebody to make a VR model off my friend’s OC

Willi

[hushed leaf]

then you want to go over to the VRC Traders discord, you'll get scammers messaging you around here

(likely in the next few minutes)

[gaunt kayak]

Could I have a link?

[hushed leaf]

it's in #1204490664637890580

[gaunt kayak]

Thank you

[hushed leaf]

pro tip: don't randomly friend people who aren't actually your friends

[full ice]

I think the stitched look looks better? It's just harder to get right

[ancient tangle]

hello again! does anyone here have any reference videos, websites or resources on making and modelling low poly/optimised 3D characters?

I've currently got:

• Crashsune Academy's video series https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcaQc6eQjXCxWXmn5jxE_GTOft9ZxChu1&si=qFa9jchrmz6xyx5z

• Sketchfab (website)

• Models Resource

• Grant Abbit's videos

[sour notch]

wort wood the best way to join them. {dms open}

[full raft]

Wouldn't it be better to just create a big cylinder and adding a Brick material with height map?

[fair inlet]

Wonder what the stats are for that

[full ice]

Figured out I can use Shrink Wrap modifier for the path so I don't have to manually move every point of the path down to the body mesh and have it be all wacky. It's so much faster this way, a ridiculous increase in speed to do, but I don't know if it's better. It looks more artificial than how I was doing it. If it's emulating weaving the stuff into the skin, that's not a good thing I think. May just have to not care or do minor adjustments later to make it less uniform. Image order is New, Old, New, Old

[ancient tangle]

hallo! if anyone here is an expert or is experienced in making 3D character models, I have some questions if thats ok, I'd really appreciate the help thank you

[hushed leaf]

Just ask them

many people in here fit that criteria

[ancient tangle]

thank u,! I'm starting to get into modelling 3D characters, but I want to model them using a specific type of topology, and can't seem to find any tutorials on it

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/mobile-game-character-f5cb899dbf254aa0a689e1f716dbe8ea

oops!

was posting links too fast

https://models.spriters-resource.com/playstation_2/spacechannel5part2/asset/339841/

these 2, the way the faces are built is how I'm aiming to construct my models

but I can't seem to find any tutorial videos on it

does anyone know how to build characters faces this way, or what the optimum way of doing it would be?

[cursive rune]

is there anyone good with added clothing to a model and uv fixes in blender please @ me if you do i need help?

[hushed leaf]

also just ask your questions

[cursive rune]

i need someone to help me finish up my model pretty much

[hushed leaf]

Right but what do you need help with?

[cursive rune]

i need help with getting a body suite and a crop top to parent onto the model so that it moves together

[ancient tangle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZiZ1FDRTnU

[ancient tangle]

I found what I was looking for ! this stylised character model tutorial is really great for this specific look

it took some time to find the right one but I think this one's really good

[hushed leaf]

Add an armature modifier to the clothing mesh and drag it to be a child of the armature object. Then weight paint.

[cursive rune]

ok ill try this

[livid pine]

I just started modeling my first avatar yesterday and I'm following this popular tutorial, but they don't really explain very well why they do certain things
after switching on the subdivision modifier and smooth shading, does it matter what the model looks like without the modifier at all or should I be worried if it looks all crinkled without the modifier?

Also when modeling the arms in A/T pose, I probably can't reference what my own arms look like in that pose right?
Like its probably kinda impossible to try to go for how real life bones and muscles behave when the model moves, so how should the different parts of the arms be positioned?
Where does the ellbow in A pose point? How is the kind of squished cylinder of the forearm positioned so it looks good in motion?

Can anyone reccomend a different tutorial series where the creator goes into more depth regarding good modeling practies and why they're used?

[hushed leaf]

re: subdivsion modifier, you can apply it, then it'll actually modifier the mesh and it'll look like when enabled. You'll need to do this at some point if you want this to be an avatar. Ideally before you start making shape keys.

[carmine pagoda]

Anybody know any good spots to look around for free 3 D models?

[hushed leaf]

turbosquid, sketchfab, gumroad/jinxxy/etc.

[carmine pagoda]

Alr, thanks

[hushed leaf]

be prepared to deal with super high poly and general weirdness

[lime smelt]

how do I put textures on this?

[safe jetty]

Do you guys typically separate a room's floors and ceilings from the walls when modeling for worlds or attempt to keep it "whole"?

[hushed leaf]

I do, since it's a lot easier to work on a room when the ceiling is off.

[hushed leaf]

Textures go in materials, materials go on mesh parts or in those material slots in the inspector in this image

[ancient tangle]

The Models Resource is also great

working on my first ever scene! it's a little isometric room, and I've tried to model everything relatively low poly, are there any glaring issues I might not be seeing as a beginner?

[ancient tangle]

hi does anyone know how to model this car? I tried my best but it doesn't really look like it 😭 I'm also having some weirdness with rendering

[hushed leaf]

looks like a decent start

[ancient tangle]

thank you!

I think I might start again and try to copy the shapes a bit more closely, I learned a lot from this model though :3

[devout orchid]

watch some tutorial on how to place reference images as a backround in view, proportions look weird

[winter iron]

Just drag in the image file while in object mode

[winter iron]

Wheel placement is funny
The front wheels are in the middle of the engine bay and the rear wheels are directly in between the back door and trunk

[ancient tangle]

ooh gotcha thanks so much will look at my references and make adjustments 👍

[winter iron]

Just take the side profile image and drag it into the blender window

While in object mode

It should create a quad with the image on it

[ancient tangle]

yeah, honestly my hubris took over and i was like :3 I can totally make this without using a reference image and well it ended up looking like Mr Incredible's car from the incredibles lol

I'm gonna remake the model with the ref images onscreen this time haha

[winter iron]

Just trace the image in blender lol

[ancient tangle]

so so true I'll do that + remake it

[winter iron]

Id recommend doing the middle of the body then extruding the windshield half up

[ancient tangle]

like make this bottom part first, then add the windshield?

[winter iron]

Ye

[grave raptor]

Hey! I can help you with that, check dm

[ancient tangle]

^ sorry I don't add people I don't know n would feel more comfortable talking here

[grave raptor]

No worries I saw that post can we discuss the post about it ?

[ancient tangle]

I'm following a tutorial now so I think I'm good ty

[grave raptor]

oKie dokie

[jagged moat]

Sounds like a scam nglll

[cursive birch]

WIP of my sona model, im gonna commission a friend to remake the head (ARKit blendshapes are my worst enemy) but this is what i got so far with his ref

this is my first time making a high-poly model from scratch so his topo isnt the best in some areas but overall very proud of myself :>

[wise veldt]

how do i manipulate a vrchat physbone

in game mode

in unity

[hushed leaf]

use an emulator like gesture manager or avatars 3.0 emulator, then in the 'Game' view, you can grab it with the mouse.

or move the avatar around using the Scene view and observe them moving with the avatar

[wise veldt]

yeah they aren't moving when i do that

i added one to the hair on my miku and it remains stiff

[hushed leaf]

you'll probably get more help in #avatar-help , as it's not a modeling question

[wise veldt]

thanks

[jovial seal]

i made a gundams weapon.

[waxen ivy]

Are there any other good places to find 3d modelers besides VRCTraders?

[muted girder]

Does anyone have some tips on modeling hair? I am trying to make Rose's hair but cant seem to get it right
-# sobs
ANY HELP APPRECIATED!!!
-# also I have tried curves but it didn't work out well

[candid cloud]

Live laugh love gundam

[pine raft]

I'm really bad at modelling foliage so I decided to make a WIP tree generator in Geometry nodes. The actual curves are generally artist authored but then displaced to look natural and alpha cards are placed by Geometry Nodes. Honestly? I don't think it looks that bad.

[viscid birch]

That looks super nice! Do the branches use curves? I was playing with Blender 5's Curve to Tube modifier and thinking I should try it for bark

[pine raft]

The trunk/branches itself uses curves, yes. Simple poly curves.

[cursive birch]

fully rigged and textured his base body and clothes, now im just waiting on the head and he'll be done

[inland scarab]

Sone 😭 😭 🙏 I'm crine...
You is NOT fooling anybody 😔

[exotic obsidian]

clanker detected

[quick thunder]

W larp bro, stay in school

[feral portal]

Oh hell nah ai generated slop

[exotic obsidian]

Poor guy only has 4 fingers on his left hand 😔

[exotic obsidian]

What

[ruby timber]

Prove this is real and send me the fbx

Also, notice how one recognizes it as ai, that must mean no human can ever make something look as good

I see

What software? You should ask it to make it an actual file so you can import it to unity

[exotic obsidian]

Yeah it's not an actual model

Even if it was, it wouldn't be something you made, you just asked a computer to do it

My points still stand

[balmy tartan]

you posted this into a 3d modeling chat meaning you have used blender to make something in 3D this isnt ask a question to ai and post it here chat

[oak hatch]

huhuhuhuu

10k tris at lowpoly, 46 at high, world asset for a VIP lounge

24m around, 15m tall

[orchid phoenix]

omg face reveal.. are you ten years old

[unique galleon]

So where’d you get that mirror selfie from earlier that’s not yours?

[queen elm]

you dumbass

[plain glen]

What the fuck am I reading

[unique galleon]

Oh fuck man bf vs bff 😔

[queen elm]

is being friends with a person = pedophilia

[unique galleon]

Thanks carlos lmao I’m too tired

[queen elm]

delete your message now

we don't want him wrongly banned

[unique galleon]

I guess that’s important yes

[queen elm]

go ahead bro delete it

good..

Never cook ever again

[unique galleon]

https://tenor.com/view/im-such-a-fool-sayaka-fool-anime-gif-11421925

Because that is definitely the mistake I just made, 😂

[maiden oriole]

Why are you sharing a 14 year old's face here then? Don't share pictures of minors especially not without consent.

I'm not even gonna touch upon the fact you're feeding a kid's photo to genAI

[exotic obsidian]

I thought it was just another AI user but now it's just flat-out weird and suspicious

[unique galleon]

Imagine being 14 and bff with a 19yo, I can’t 😂

[exotic obsidian]

Yeah that's just weird

Like not just friends but "best friends forever"

[balmy tartan]

SUS

[rain oracle]

https://tenor.com/view/ishowspeed-my-mom-is-kinda-homeless-please-speed-i-need-this-tired-blow-gif-15401023925154467112

[pine raft]

Reminder, VRC artists. Modularize and Greybox early for reused peices and 'hero rooms' that are highly unique will have more time to dedicate to them versus excess time wasted on areas of rooms that don't need bespoke modelling.

I overpreach it but it's important!

https://youtu.be/Nlj3hN35CE4

Modular elements shouldn't be finished models early on. They should be modules, things to revisit and only was modelled in 2 minutes tops per module just to communicate what will eventually be modelled to replace the module.

[exotic obsidian]

#avatar-general message Trying to cook..

I'll probably have to do some topology adjustments later on, but so far I feel like the shape's decent

[royal canyon]

Why he fat

Sorry, just saw "shapes decent" i immediately noticed the body shape

[hollow merlin]

fat isnt a negative thing. also how in any world is that fat? it's clown suit clothes, they're supposed to be rounded

[royal canyon]

Are you saying clowns are fat

Sorry i dont mean to sound like he is fat, he just didnt match my image of a buffed gym bro

[exotic obsidian]

Yeah the character's jester outfit is a bit puffy, that's why it looks like that

[lofty river]

Does anyone know what I’m doing wrong with the mouth? (First is without the subdivision modifier applied and the is with it applied)

[winter iron]

"Wrong"?

[lofty river]

Sorry should have specified, the corners of the mouths are wrinkled up and I’m not sure how to fix it.

[winter iron]

Smooth brush in sculpt mode

[lofty river]

Tysm

[molten jolt]

anyone know how to quickly delete these clipping back faces?

nvm some wierd artifact from SKkeeper, just gonna redo the modifiers

[thin shadow]

mesh > cleanup > merge by distance

[devout snow]

they got me in the blender mines making creatures

[pine raft]

Great model!

[lofty river]

I’m not sure if anyone knows but like I’m not sure how I’m supposed to unwrap my character, like I mean I know how like I know what to do but the way my character is all parts of it were separate then combined with control + J I got thought rigging and weight paint easy peasy but now I have no clue what to do :(

[pine raft]

Take a look at some UV Unwrap examples of characters if you need assistance, but generally I don't like to cut down the middle myself.

You'll want to delete any 'interior faces'.

Or in the very least, make it tiny on the UV.

[lofty river]

Thank you!!

[dreamy canopy]

anyone here use material combiner? I'm having an issue where it's using my normal map instead of the albedo on this specific texture. any ideas?

[pine raft]

Material Combiner is actually something I really dislike because of how it handles 'separate maps.'

My suggestion personally to atlas is just manually doing it, but I can understand if that sounds hard.

The way I do it is just scale by halving the size and then moving it up to a quadrant.

[hushed leaf]

I feel like that tool could work so well but just doesn't

And I haven't decided I want to fix it

[midnight furnace]

Trying to sculpt a head from scratch… it took me like 15-20 minutes. Thank you YouTube tutorials🙏

[ancient tangle]

making frosting for a cake I've nodelled in blender, and I'm looking at this as a reference but I can't seem to reverse engineer how they did it https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/candy-covered-cake-draft-170683a4e5c54b0e9e202064fb53f52a

does anyone know how to achieve this look for the frosting?

[faint bronze]

Looks like they actually modeled the frosting. I'd draw the shape over the base cake itself. IDK what it's called in Blender, but in Maya you make the cake mesh "live" and then you "quad draw" on top of it. Then I'd work on making it push out a bit. Might want to see if extruding out a teenie bit works for you. Then you can make all the edges more smoothed out, so it's more curved along them.
Alternatively, just draw the frosting on in Substance Painter with a height map, then it can be converted into a normal map upon export.

[jagged moat]

kinda just looks like a smooth material on a mesh

[ancient tangle]

hi! i managed to figure it out

this was my process:

to make low poly cake frosting without using modifiers or fluid simulation

1. make the general shape of the frosting on the top of the cake, then extrude downwards.

2. turn on propotional editing and scale down the effect area

3. adjust the vertices until they make a wobbly line around your mesh

4. on the parts of the wobbly line that curve downwards, straighten up 3-5 of the vertices on the bottom edge

5. extrude some long faces downwards, then a shorter face to make the tip of the droplet. do as many as you like all the way around your object.

6. select just the bottom edge of the mesh, and extrude inwards using proportional scaling (press S to scale then hold down Shift and press Z twice) until the faces reach the edge of the cake/your object, hiding them inside the object a little bit.

7. create a loop cut in the newly extruded region, and then use alt + s to scale along normals to give the frosting some roundness

[hushed leaf]

that looks pretty decent

[ancient tangle]

thanks so much! :)

[ancient tangle]

is this ok topology for filling in the faces on my horse?

it's just gonna be a 2D object (cookie on top of the cake)

[winter iron]

could save on some edges by

[ancient tangle]

ooh thank u that's a good idea

[faint bronze]

Why not just paint the horse on the cake then?

[hushed leaf]

that's what I'd probably do. With a bit of height in the normal map.

[ancient tangle]

I've stood it up a bit on the cake, let me send a photo

[hushed leaf]

ahhh

[arctic cobalt]

.. Blender ain't for the weak

[orchid phoenix]

rectangle 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[winged sinew]

can someone help? theres an extra face in unity but in blender its not there and i cant find it

[hushed leaf]

alt+h to unhide stuff?

[winged sinew]

nothing happens :c

[stone pine]

three things you could check would be pose mode in blender to see if it moves with any of the bones, check shape keys, or merge verts by distance

[winged sinew]

nothing

[stone pine]

hm well it looks like it should show up on the uv editor based on how the texture looks on it

should be able to hunt it down from there

[winged sinew]

i couldnt find it on there, im just going to re-model it :c

[faint bronze]

is it rigged to something? it could be a vertice that isn't weight painted / has 0 weight?

[inner rampart]

Hello, I've been trying to fix an issue where blendshapes greatly mismatch between blender and unity and I have no idea why they are breaking in this way

also volume warning: I forgot to mute audio and recorded while in VC

[hushed leaf]

you should probably set "apply scalings" to "FBX All" when exporting.

also I missed what you were doing to update the avatar in the scene?

[inner rampart]

I deleted and replaced the fbx to reload the changes-- just showing that I actually imported and used the model I just exported in the clip

[hushed leaf]

ohh I see, it was a little quick, I didn't catch that

[inner rampart]

Tried this, no difference
I'm noticing if I use a tool to copy the blendshapes to another identical mesh they break horribly....

This wasn't happening before

[hushed leaf]

yeah that's strange, I just did that yesterday and it worked fine

[inner rampart]

I did a lot of gymnastics with the blendshapes to add a blendshape to this mesh while preserving clothes toggles and getting old blendshapes to respond to the new blendshape

But it looks fine in blender, but doesn't seem to be fine

With all blendshapes at 0 I just created a new shape from mix, set it to the new basis, and then reimported the model and now it's behaving a little different in unity, so maybe comparison to the basis is breaking?

Adding a new shape key and creating a new shape key from mix even when all blendshapes are at 0 creates different blendshapes
It should not do this

yeah somethings deeply broken in blender I think
this is when opening the blend file in 4.3 as apposed to 3.6

. . . It's still behaving so broken though

[tough plover]

@inner rampart

[inner rampart]

Thank you, I'll give it a try when I get time again

[inner rampart]

that worked! thank you

[hollow wasp]

Finally learning how to hand place diamonds effectively

[spring shell]

How would I go about making all 8 bones the same size?

[devout orchid]

easiest would be make big one then subdivide with 7 cuts

[lofty river]

I feel bad for asking for help again but I have no clue what to do. I thought I had fixed this but apparently not. If anyone know how I can make my characters head not do… whatever this is. I would be grateful again. Hopefully this will be my last time asking for help sorry guys 😭🙏 after this onto shape keys and clothing

[stone pine]

Looks like it's weighted to another bone based on how it warps. Make sure in weight painting mode to check all the bones in the armature to see what is weighted to which bone or in pose mode see what moves with each bone

[glossy raft]

I'm trying to make blendshapes on a model and I'm having trouble with mapping textures, did Ctrl+J and even made an image containing both textures only for Blender to shrink it

[lofty river]

Thanks!

[lofty river]

It worked!!!! :D

[tough plover]

if joining meshes is messing with your UVs, then that means the UV maps are named differently between the two meshes

UVMap is the default name, prob wise to just stick to that

[glossy raft]

they're all named under UVMap but the thing was for some reason it wouldn't show the 2nd texture, so I made one that involved the 2nd texture and it did that

[glossy raft]

cause right now, it just looks like this

[glossy raft]

wait nvm, I figured it out

[signal crown]

Hello everyone

[terse spire]

angel dust 👀

heyo! Just got into 3D modeling (on blender) for 3D printing and VRChat avatar making and wanted to meet a few friendly avatar makers for tips, "support", constructive criticism and feedback as I make progress 👉👈

I'm a questie and have interest in making both furry and human models from scratch!

currently using blender 3.3.1 due to that being the version in the only somewhat in depth vrchat model making tutorial on YouTube I could find '3'

just add me if you wanna chat :D

[terse spire]

anyone got any tips on how to do the fur on the cheeks? New to blender and not sure how to tackle this task yet. also if anyone knows how to get rid of the pink lines i did them to mark things but i cant get them off now 😭

[glossy raft]

yee

[tough plover]

the pink lines are edge creases

[terse spire]

aaaa thank you for the name, was able to find em remove them

[cobalt tiger]

Recent Scratch work. fem head uses Amelia tex from Sivka, The rest from scratch

Excludes penguin

[hushed leaf]

FYI there's no real reason not to just use the latest Blender.

[terse spire]

when looking i saw a bunch of people commenting on CATS and how it is finnicky with the latest versions but at the same time, as stated above, using 3.3.1 due to that being the version in the only somewhat in depth vrchat model making tutorial on YouTube I could find. Plan on switching versions after i finish making my first avi based off that tutorial so i can get the basics down.

[hushed leaf]

you don't need cats 🙂

[balmy tartan]

If really really need it you can use the unofficial cats it's supported on blender 5

[kind drum]

Yup, curves are your friends

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5by_eD6EM44

[hushed leaf]

also note that cats plugin seems to be deprecated, there's a version that works with blender 5+, but it's due to be replaced with a new tool.

[jovial seal]

i just want the hand to open and close normaaally for god sake

[hushed leaf]

you seem to have extra bones there

[jovial seal]

This is exactly how the vrchat test avatar has it done

[hushed leaf]

there's no need for the metacarpal bones

[jovial seal]

i had it on 3

[hushed leaf]

oh interesting

[jovial seal]

but looked like craap

just testing this now out of desperation

also what judges where the feet trackers will be placed

is it the distance between the head and wrist bones?

[hushed leaf]

feet trackers?

[jovial seal]

for fbt

[hushed leaf]

oh, I'd think it'd be on the foot bone? not entirely sure

[jovial seal]

it isnt

most definately is not

because i had to shorten this chaaracters legs and lengthen his arms to fix it not being in his knee

[jovial seal]

Is there an easy way to create vrchat hands?

[fallow osprey]

Flat cylinder for palm, make one finger using another cylinder with extra geo for joints and copy paste it for the other 3 fingers. Then make a fat version for the thumb and rotate it down slightly

Anyways slightly off-topic, but I started concepting a hard sci-fi combat spaceship

[jovial seal]

the hands are here arent closing properl

[keen sierra]

Whatever that means

All I see is a picture of an open hand. How could one give advice to an invisible problem

[fallow osprey]

Show it

[jovial seal]

It just looks really bad in vrchat

[keen sierra]

No advice without pictures

[unique galleon]

There is a picture doe

[keen sierra]

It's not a vrc picture where we can see what "hands aren't closing properly" means. The blender side looks fine at first glance

[hushed leaf]

yeah I've been wondering what the problem looks like too

[fair vigil]

anyone happen to have an idea as to how one would go about moddeling the actual skull part of this helmet? i've been stuck for quite a while on it. Im not planning for a full skull, just the front and a bit of the sides (like a mask)

[swift jolt]

The skull part looks the easiest to model ngl

[rancid moat]

@fair vigil Cool design. For skull helmets like this, starting from a base head mesh and sculpting the bone structure first usually saves a lot of time before cutting it into a mask. If you want another pair of eyes on it, I’d be happy to take a look.

[autumn token]

im noob to blender, is there a way to detach the emblem family,,,like in unity i want to be able to change the material but without affecting the rest

[hushed leaf]

edit the mesh, select the faces in question, apply a new material to them.

[autumn token]

wo wo

slow down

[hushed leaf]

okay?

[autumn token]

cant i just separate the emblem from the rest ?

unlink it

[hushed leaf]

if it's not a separate mesh object then you'd have to separate it. Edit the mesh object, select the faces you want separated then hit 'p' to "part" it out.

[hushed leaf]

either method ends up being roughly the same for performance.

Edit "Gear" as that's the mesh object.

[autumn token]

can u step by step im french and never used blender that much

[hushed leaf]

that is literally step by step

[autumn token]

oh okok lemme see

[hushed leaf]

I always suggest basic blender tutorials, such as "the donut tutorial"

[autumn token]

yea..

if i press unlink on the emblem...

🥹

[hushed leaf]

unlik removes it from a collection, not sure what you're trying to do here.

[rancid moat]

Yes, you can. In Blender, select the mesh → go to Edit Mode → select the part you want (like the emblem) → press P → Selection to separate it into a new object. After that you can change the material without affecting the rest of the model.

[hushed leaf]

... so what I said.

good job.

I suspect this person is a bot or scammer, they also just tried to friend me, we've never had any interaction before.

[autumn token]

both thanks

im just slow because french nerf

hes on discord since 2024 hes good

[hushed leaf]

uh huh.

[autumn token]

im tryna select the whole thing put it keeps forgetting one side

[rancid moat]

No oooo I'm not a bot or scammers

[hushed leaf]

Interesting that you literally repeated what I said

but okay

[hushed leaf]

'l' will possibly help you select all "linked" parts

or in the select menu, "select more"

[rancid moat]

Go to Edit Mode, hover the mouse over the emblem and press L (Select Linked). It should select the whole piece. If it still misses parts, make sure they’re connected or try Alt+Click on the edge loop.

[autumn token]

yeah i did it haha thanks mate

[autumn token]

.

[hushed leaf]

cool

[rancid moat]

Cool 😎

[winged sinew]

why is my mesh ugly? 😭

[hushed leaf]

how is it supposed to look?

I'm guessing smooth in some place there?

[winged sinew]

yeah

[hushed leaf]

if so, it's weird normals, edit it, select faces, and in the normals menu (alt+n), reset vectors

don't do this if you have custom face/edge normals or something

[winged sinew]

yeah that did nothing to fix it 😭

[hushed leaf]

does it look wonky in the solid color mode?

[winged sinew]

viewport shading?

[hushed leaf]

yeah that really looks like weird normals

obviously I can't see the topology without wireframe on but that's what it looks like

you may have to put some sharps there or seperate those parts a bit

[hushed leaf]

... what is the difference between these two images? Just the left one is edit mode and the right object?

hmm, make sure your face orientation is correct - you can turn on the overlay to show that under "view overlays" at the upper right

(red side = inside)

[winged sinew]

sorry, im reallt new to blender so im just sending whatever might help 😭

[hushed leaf]

yep, just making sure I know what you're showing 🙂

[winged sinew]

so, i deleted the affected area, in edit mode its gone but in object mode its there? it fixed the issue but now i dont know where these faces came from

[hushed leaf]

in edit mode, alt+h to unhide hidden parts

[winged sinew]

i did that and nothing changed

[hushed leaf]

are you editing a shape key perhaps?

[winged sinew]

oh my god thank you so much.

😭

[hushed leaf]

.. was that it?

[winged sinew]

i completely forgot my shapekeys that was the problem

[hushed leaf]

ahhh, yep, been there too

[fleet parrot]

For those usin substance painter, are there any plugins or things i could install that'll make it better or easier between unity and substance?
I jus installed it now and wanna get a good head start

[hushed leaf]

what do you need to be better?

I think the only thing I'd suggest is figuring out how you want to export textures - Poiyomi's export template is a great place to start, it's available in their docs.

[fleet parrot]

Just anything thats useful to have that i dont wanna regret getting much later, like have in advance

Poiyomi's export template, would i find that on their website?

[hushed leaf]

But really, it's entirely up to you how you want your textures, possibly depending on which shaders you use.

Yes

[fleet parrot]

I mean, only poiyomi ig

[thorn sundial]

Reminds me of the savages series by Frost on YouTube, very cool!

[fallow osprey]

Thanks! And since then I've been redesigning it and learning how to make fully procedural planets

[thorn sundial]

Oh awesome! I always love seeing what other folks can create with blender and the like

[steady zealot]

Made a plushy version of my avatar :3

[cobalt tiger]

A from scratch avi

Render Sitting

[late elk]

how do i 3d model? all i got is a cube

[ocean crystal]

Make a donut

[jagged moat]

I agree, make a donut 👍
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-Xl9tGqH14

[balmy tartan]

I agree make a cup

[umbral tartan]

I agree make the entirety of aincrad from sao

[unique galleon]

Someone’s already doin that to a degree

[steady zealot]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98qKfdJRzr0

This is a good set of tutorials

[fleet parrot]

Any useful plugins to have for a first timer using blender for, really Any important process mainly around fbx and models?

[agile crown]

making techwear pants

[agile crown]

basic blender without plugins isnt bad at the start
i personaly use autorigpro for characters

[fleet parrot]

What does, that do?

[agile crown]

gets proper settings for bones

and makes it easier to change things

[fleet parrot]

Wai, could it also Make bones for an armature by chance? Like if a model is missing finger bones in its armature list

[agile crown]

it can generate the whole body armature with rig

[fleet parrot]

Oooh ima need to fiind that, could it do just specific parts tho?

[jagged halo]

Nvm i have to cancel it i got more important stuff to work on :/

[reef mason]

My newly modeled oc Echo :3

[late glacier]

Omg I love these!

My character wears tech wear pants!

[agile crown]

glad to hear you like it
i will make them as a pack for sell most likely

[viral sierra]

can anyone help me with blender i figured some things out but i still need help if you can please dm me

[hushed leaf]

Just ask here

[viral sierra]

every time i try to export the avatar from blender into unity this keeps popping up

[hushed leaf]

a) that cats is so ancient you can't use it anymore
b) you don't need cats to export a FBX

file -> export -> export FBX. Set "apply scalings" to "FBX All" and uncheck the option about leaf bones under "armature"

[viral sierra]

ngl i dontn understand that

[hushed leaf]

which part? Click the "file menu" then select "export", then... etc.

[viral sierra]

all of it it took me a weel to figure out i had to export the files then another week to figure out how to mold them to my body

[viral sierra]

but ium using blender 3.5

[hushed leaf]

okay, if you want to I guess.

You still don't need cats for this

(your error message says you're using Blender 3.6 btw)

[late glacier]

Omg absolutelyyyy!

[mellow valley]

im having a slight issue with blender sculpting. i usually use the draw brush to fill in clothes areas that clip or dont fit. when i try the same brush on the shoes it does the opposite that is it tears the boots. anyone have any idea how i can fix this please?

[mellow valley]

nvm i figured pressing ctrl and moving the brush kinda works

[hushed leaf]

usually ctrl + a brush inverts whatever it does

[steady zealot]

if ctrl is fixing it, your normals may be facing the wrong direction on the mesh.

[slender raptor]

lagiacrus based robotic model i'm making

[mellow valley]

I've graduated from sculpting custom clothes to fit on my base model and its all thanks to most of the admins here, that i ever opened blender in the first place. im now feeling confident enough to get to the part where i make those clothes move with my avatar's body parts with no clipping; allegedly weight painting. if anyone has any advice what or how i should do please let me know. you dont have to be detailed much i can research so long as im informed

[ocean crystal]

It's one of those things that practice helps a lot. Just watch some videos on the basics and then start doing it. Also ties directly into armature/rigging and it's geometry, so knowing some of that can help

[hushed leaf]

heeyyyy what's this, Blender 5.1 has some new FBX exporter

oh nope, that's an importer

probably been there a while and I didn't notice, I just mis-clicked.

[empty fox]

It did fix a pretty major issue with the exporter though, it wouldn't export custom normals.

[hushed leaf]

oh very nice!

[empty fox]

Or well, Unity and Blender wouldn't agree on the format the custom normals were exported as

You could always export from 5.0 to 4.0.1 and then to fbx and it would work in Unity

[lofty river]

Does anyone know what this error means and how I can fix it? I was trying to export my finished model as a FBX

[hushed leaf]

did you add some sort of FBX add-on?

ah it does say core though so that might be the included one

if so, nope, no idea, you didn't do anything really weird, right?

[lofty river]

Nope, only add on I had was the skkeeper add on that lets me apply my subdivision modifier after I do my shape keys

[unreal bolt]

You can select all in edit mode hit shift N, it should face the normals out

[real badge]

I'm having a hard time making something coherent

[mellow valley]

im having issues with blender weight painting. its been a week marathon and im still to find a tutorial that explains perfectly how to weight paint clothes. ive even invested in addons that should automate this like Voxel Heat Diffuse which did a remarkable job in merging the clothes to the avatar, but there is still issues of clipping around the pelvis area when i move. the effective option ive find is deleting the mesh underneath the clothes, but i thought maybe i should consult here before doing so.

[hushed leaf]

oh, you posted in two places 🙁

well, let's continue here, it's more appropriate.

(see my reply in the other one though)

[mellow valley]

OMG all i used the remesh addon for a cleaner wireframe you were right! without even opening weight painting and it worked like magic no CLIPPING!! thank you so much @hushed leaf

[hushed leaf]

Yeah - very often you have to purposely design the topology with the deformations you intend to use in mind

Glad that worked out!

[crystal sun]

Soo, im recreating the set for the Million Pound Drop, there's the prograss so far, any advice i should follow? (+reference included)

[crystal sun]

another sneak peek

[real badge]

i would just shade smooth by angle byt it looks great

[crystal sun]

thakns

[swift jolt]

Bionicle oc im working on

[unique galleon]

shit that’s rad as fuck

[wild spear]

Glaze

[vital ridge]

I believe it's based on where you want the cloth to hang or to stay still

I could be wrong I am not a blender expert I am also learning (I personally hate blender with a burning passion)

[hushed leaf]

aww, I love Blender

[cobalt willow]

👉 👈

[visual nacelle]

Um I know this is a strange request and I'm not sure where to ask this but. Does anyone make custom assets for vrchat?

[ocean crystal]

If you're looking for someone to do paid work, there is a discord server called VRCTraders you can find in #1204490664637890580. They have all kinds of creators there that can help you and try to weed out any scammers that are a huge problem online. Also, if anyone is DM'ing you about this, be very cautious, as that's a red flag for scammer behavior.

[gilded roost]

can someone help me import my 3d model

[hushed leaf]

Assuming Blender here, usually it's just: file -> import -> pick the file type

[gilded roost]

can someone help me do blender first time too

[pine meteor]

Youtube, how to Blender

[gilded roost]

ok

[hushed leaf]

I'm sure we can answer specific questions, but yeah, tutorials help here. Such as "The Donut Tutorial" - I hear there's an updated one.

[gilded roost]

can someone call and help me do the steps on doing this bs

[unique galleon]

no

nobody has the time to do that for you unless you’re paying for it

[gilded roost]

not asking someone to do it fro me

for

[hushed leaf]

yeah I wouldn't do that without being paid

[unique galleon]

tutoring is harder than doing it for you

because we only move at the pace of your understanding

[gilded roost]

my brain is soo cooked

[hushed leaf]

take a break, do something else, come back later. It helps.

[gilded roost]

bruh

[unique galleon]

believe it or not this one move is repeatedly used throughout this entire industry, from noobs to pros, and is proven to work ^^

everyone has to do it at some point lol

I think about all my work for days before I do it, and take breaks in between for the same

[gilded roost]

i am aslmost done but the thing is i need togles bruh

[mellow valley]

anyone knows why this keep happening whenever i enter play mode?

sorry it's the other way round with the images

[hushed leaf]

that's a question for#avatar-help, but my first guess is that you've got some shape keys being applied at runtime by an animation.

[hushed leaf]

hmm... I'd be tempted to do something subtle, like if you make a specific gesture, then the rotation of your wrist causes the wings to move around

for ease of cosplay

[wind umbra]

I need someone who can make me a vaporeon onesie for nova and nardo and other models for me

[hushed leaf]

try the VRC Traders discord to commission people, you'll just get scammers DMing you here.

[wind umbra]

how can i join that?

[hushed leaf]

there's a link somewhere in #1204490664637890580

[wind umbra]

i cant find it

[unique galleon]

https://discord.com/channels/189511567539306508/1204506421631393913

[fallow osprey]

More of a seam and texturing question but I've noticed that some of my models have these white lines at the seams when viewed from far away. Any clue what's causing this?

[tough plover]

this happens when your textures don't have enough texture padding around the UV islands.
what did you use to create your textures?

[fallow osprey]

Ucupaint in blender. I usually select 3px offset

But ig I could do it again with more padding

[tough plover]

that is much too little

for a 2048px tex, do like 16

or unlimited padding, if ucupaint lets you

[fallow osprey]

Ok awesome sauce I'll look into it : )

Thank you for the info

Because usually I see the texture is covering the UV islands where I want them, so I was a bit surprised to hear that

[tough plover]

during the mipmapping process, lower res versions of the texture are generated by averaging neighboring pixels. if pixels outside of the islands are very different colors, in this case white, then some of that color will blend into pixels inside the islands

[fallow osprey]

Ahhh ok, so it's basically unity causing it as it ports it into the game

[tough plover]

when the texture is imported into unity

and in case you were considering it, never turn off mipmaps

[fallow osprey]

Gotcha, you've been really helpful thank you ^_^

[tough plover]

np ^^

[unique galleon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46_SwvRJzUE

[azure rain]

yeah that's a very helpful add-on

[meager basin]

thanks for this ❤️

[agile gate]

i want to get into making like more low poly models but im a beginner. If anyone has some tips on modeling or even texturing thatd be great 🥹

[devout orchid]

there are two main valid techniques, namely box modeling, where you subdivide and morph a cube (sphere, single vertex whatever) and the other is sculpting high-poly mess and then retopologizing it. highly depends on your goals, skill set and style. like, anime is box modeling most of the time since theyre kinda genric+2d references, and furries id guess mostly retopo cause shape is more complex so figuring it out before attempting to optimise makes sense

@agile gate

[small slate]

ah yes, a model im never gonna finish

[pine rain]

could anyone help me out?

I'm not sure why this hard shadow shape is here (plz @ me I might not see your message)

[hushed leaf]

first see if it's flipped faces. if not, go into edit mode, select the faces, and in the mesh->normals menu, reset vectors

[pine rain]

It was flipped thank you, idk how that happened

[hushed leaf]

randomness!

glad that was it

[swift jolt]

Il soo happy i figured out how to use unity terrain

[unique galleon]

looks great!

[real badge]

Those are some nice bridges i have to say

[pine raft]

Bridges look great. Consider using something like Gaea or World Machine for the heightmap.

[azure rain]

playing around with using the bevel Shader in blender for baking quick window/door textures
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/434541435841413120/1504001973723205754/image.png?ex=6a05667d&is=6a0414fd&hm=7a639ef2f9774b8fd9cecdd4eb3f7181dcd162ae99758ceb2334a32508ce846b&=&format=webp&quality=lossless

[swift jolt]

No, that would look too real for the vibe im going for + practicing terrain sculpting never hurts

And thanks

[azure rain]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/552626267820916737/1504232906715959407/image.png?ex=6a063d90&is=6a04ec10&hm=a5c18679ef16cfcbee34b4adaa966b56361e5f735b1b15ca9feb9c6f9706d78c&=&format=webp&quality=lossless 3D modeling some generic stores

[jagged moat]

thems is some big brick

[azure rain]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/434541435841413120/1504238895833813122/image.png?ex=6a064324&is=6a04f1a4&hm=bf8920d0584b89c373ba016935a62e0162ce53bfdfc669d9daba2608ae5c6ed1&=&format=webp&quality=lossless

[unique galleon]

you’re texturing in like exactly the style of what I need to do 👀

I have the general shape but don’t really know where I’m supposed to start, but it’s an apartment building so it’s quite similar to those pics 😂 https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1244517425563828226/1484721648639676621/image.png?ex=6a05ca89&is=6a047909&hm=e4f28f4475d1d9a6034b4e6e6be0a80bb926ade6bf4619155ab8f73772c50838&

[swift jolt]

i uploaded the world to vrchat as a test... aparently its only like 4MBs for the whole square kilometer map

[azure rain]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja9yffN8uYc this might be handy for you when you get to the architectural detailing

[azure rain]

is that like Unity terrain or just a mesh out of blender for the landscape

[swift jolt]

unity terrain

blender terrain would be harder to texture well with my self made limitations

[unique galleon]

great tutorial but what's with the random flash to cats in between segments? Is this a new form of brainrot?

[azure rain]

progress on an architectural trim sheet
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1249587070280798209/1504388829006528542/image.png?ex=6a06cec7&is=6a057d47&hm=7e3da557ee3ae0f6e37fd2170ff0bf6326daa93f602dc138faf5ed6beb25a9f6&=&format=webp&quality=lossless

[swift jolt]

Trees

[azure rain]

literally took a picture of some of my houses architectural trim to put it on my trim sheet and testing it with a door
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/434541435841413120/1504572009928069170/image.png?ex=6a077960&is=6a0627e0&hm=5dc8f375d0e3bd868c99b5c8fd166c4c959767259a01dc894bdcb8a8d174bada&=&format=webp&quality=lossless

[cobalt willow]

Sashley 😁

[waxen mango]

Can anyone help me make a fortnite map

[azure rain]

did you clarify a little more what you mean about that

[waxen mango]

Like the the sfx plus idk in some world you can ragdoll when death so I wanna make it like that

[azure rain]

made a quick little asset Zoo of all the different aspect ratios rectangles that perfectly one-to-one fit on a ultimate trim sheet so I can quickly start building using these various pre-made pieces https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/434541435841413120/1504875895221915859/image.png?ex=6a089464&is=6a0742e4&hm=0d609f8f38f95142debc7757df5fa410ca5fe449178f0959b341c018e97ccc78&=&format=webp&quality=lossless

[waxen mango]

Ooop

[azure rain]

examples from Sunset Overdrive of the kind of thing you can make with that kind of texture

[unique galleon]

this was very informative for me so I’m dropping here, related to the content rainwolf’s been sharing! https://youtu.be/ga89MuH_ubk?si=ryamkzb3ikgLC9Df

[azure rain]

thanks for that link as that's honestly the best doesn't take forever tutorial for a trim sheet

[unique galleon]

you’re welcome!! I’m happy I found it because now I have a quick and easy process to follow as a starting point :3

[azure rain]

hope it goes well for you https://gdcvault.com/play/1022324/The-Ultimate-Trim-Texturing-Techniques

[azure rain]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RoCLTIjFPA0

[reef mason]

Finally working on a 3.0 version of my personal OC, love my lil demon jester ❤️

[azure rain]

@unique galleonhttps://fixupx.com/quaternius/status/2057212770836152591?s=20 really useful pack that released today that's trimsheet based that has a free build

Quaternius (@quaternius)

Do you need 300+ modular city assets to build a city in Godot, Unity and Unreal?
︀︀(even has fake window interior shader!)
︀︀
︀︀The Downtown City MegaKit is out right now!
︀︀quaternius.com/packs/downtowncitymegakit.html
︀︀
︀︀#gamedev

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[hushed leaf]

ooh

[pine raft]

There really needs to be a better way to snap modular kits together and pick them from a palette in Unity.

[azure rain]

yeah definitely as It could probably be made a lot more faster by a proper editor tool

[vestal sun]

Hey guys! Quick Question, I'm modeling a character for the first time. Is the hair always so dense on verticles?? or is this gonna be a problem later down the line?

[tough plover]

this does feel quite dense. a lot of the wavy shape could be done with a simple normal map

and you could cut down your poly count by like 80%

[vestal sun]

ohh! I haven't gotten to normal maps yet, but then my suspicions are correct. feels like it'd be a bit heavy, and the person teaching this course has already made a bunch of questionable decisions in their model x'D I'll keep an eye out for normals when i get to a comfortable point :D Thank you! ♥

[tough plover]

is this tutorial specifically teaching you how to make models for games, or is it more for renders?

for renders, you typically care less about poly count, and more about if it will subdivide smoothly. for games, you do care more about things like poly count, and you'll typically want to bake details down to a normal map/AO map/etc if you want to keep it low poly but preserve the detail you put work into

[unique galleon]

important distinction that makes half the tutorials out there moot lol

[tough plover]

either way, your topology looks very clean, so you could probably just take off the subdivision, and if you want it to look a little smoother, bake the normals from a copy of the mesh with the subdivision still there.

[vestal sun]

It's called "Ultimate character creation in Blender: From beginner to pro" This is what they say you learn(screenshot), and in the description it's worded as " In the end, when all of that is done, we will be able to pose our character and we will be ready to use our human character for animation purposes!" So I suppose it's mostly for Rendering.
Since this is my first course though, I'm not too regretful about getting it, because it really got me in the swing of things. I'm definitely going to make sure to look at tutorials geared towards games though, considering i was meaning to put this in VRChat x'D

I'll make sure to look into Normal baking when i make the hair for a VRC avatar :D

[hushed leaf]

I suck at normal baking. Not even once have I actually been satisfied with my work.

[vestal sun]

that doesnt instill much hope x'D

[tough plover]

I will just say that baking normals for hair might be tricky with all of the mesh intersections and whatnot. so instead, it's probably good to just have a normal map that has some strands that you can just tile

but for the face/body, should be just fine

and if you have access to substance painter, do your baking there

[night harbor]

Been trying to study 3d modeling and texturing uwaaa

[azure rain]

so so good honestly looks like you would be fantastic at making good looking Quest compatible avatars

[dense sluice]

What program for texturing do you use?

[night harbor]

Substance Painter :3

[night harbor]

oh thanks!

[dense sluice]

Sweet, i cant use substance for the life of me with handpainted stuff

Never understood how to do it in that program

[night harbor]

if it makes you feel better

...i used to do textures on Clip Studio Paint and i had to guess where are the right places to paint on

[dense sluice]

Yeah thats rough, old school style

[night harbor]

to be honest, i just think that it's like an ordinary art program if I'm gonna do handpainted textures

[dense sluice]

It also doesnt help that ive never actually drawn 2d art before

I dont know how to blend in substance and stuff

[night harbor]

ah, fair. You can still practice

[dense sluice]

Sorry i got another question 💀, which brushes do you use? Do you got your own or are they just standard

[night harbor]

oh, it's just a brush given by Substance itself

i forgot the name of it but when i typed in to search for a brush ("Air"), i scrolled down and saw a brush that looks like it's used for oilpainting

also, i dont mind questions being asked, i like it when people are curious about what tools i use to make pieces

[dense sluice]

I gotchu, thanks for the answer

[azure rain]

out of curiosity for the baked on lighting you hand paint do you eyeball that or use like the substance painter baked stylized lighting as a base

[night harbor]

i didnt baked anything actually

i just eyeball the shadows

as if im doing 2d handpainting artworks

[woven ibex]

wha

[wispy gull]

2nd

[little horizon]

@spiral sigil blender rigging and weight painting tutorials if they are worth pinning

https://youtu.be/cGvalWG8HBU

https://youtu.be/Tl4qTgwQwYw

[spiral sigil]

@little horizon wouldn't those be better in #avatar-rigging ?

[little horizon]

I was assuming avatar rigging was more on the unity side of things but actually yeah they might be better in rigging

rigging channel will be alot more popular than this one i think anyway

[silent vine]

https://puu.sh/yFaKg.png https://puu.sh/yFMKn.png https://puu.sh/yFMJA.png I found a hole in my leg and fixed it up but now it's got this weird thing growing out of it when ingame... anyone know what I did wrong? https://puu.sh/yFPWl.jpg

[autumn yarrow]

Does anyone know why Im getting my textures like this after baking ?
http://prntscr.com/hnjfih

[latent charm]

@silent vine That region you've had to create doesn't have any UV data, you'll need to create the UVs and put them in place.

@autumn yarrow Gonna need to see a bit more than that to know what's going wrong. What material are you trying to bake from?

[autumn yarrow]

I followed this guide: https://youtu.be/XB0XaaFfAxQ?t=17m41s
Created TextureAtlas, did the UV mapping, packed islands and after that bake. Did I miss anything ?

[latent charm]

Youtube's being a prat on this system, what bake mode did it say to use?

[silent vine]

@latent charm https://puu.sh/yGq6J.png I think this is what you mean? it seems to be fine to me

[autumn yarrow]

Textures

[latent charm]

OH, might be flipped normals.
Select all, ctrl+n should sort it out.

Hmm, try changing the view mode in the UV window so it's not showing the alpha channel? @autumn yarrow

[autumn yarrow]

Uhh, where do I change that?

The channel thing

[latent charm]

Bottom of the UV window area, a set of buttons where three of them are red, green and blue circles.

[autumn yarrow]

So I select second one ?

[latent charm]

From left to right they are
RGBA
RGB
R
G
B

so second one, see what that one shows.