3d-modeling

[spiral sigil]

No where really just wanted to ask it

[grand shuttle]

ok well nvm now it says requires author

[spiral sigil]

Also this is the new Low poly arm

[cinder cradle]

it looks not like arm ehem

[grand shuttle]

imma go to sleep all this VRM confusing me

[cinder cradle]

vrm files aren't from vroid?

[latent mesa]

like this. the bear and skull can be toggled, but it's all in one FBX

[spiral sigil]

I'm trying my best with 3D moddeling I'm not the best at it lol

[latent mesa]

you're the best for being as fresh to the skill as you are. just keep at it

[cinder cradle]

none started and knew everything

[neat viper]

VRM's a community-made file format made for VR applications (VRChat avatars mostly, from what I've seen)

[spiral sigil]

I'm actually starting off of what I'm learning in college so far

[neat viper]

keep at it! c:

[cinder cradle]

@spiral sigil you are in 3d modeling college?

it gonna help you for sure if yes

[azure rain]

and lots of software for V tubing

[neat viper]

ah o:

[azure rain]

also several corporations are financially backing vrm https://vrm.dev/en/vrm_applications/

https://vrm-consortium.org/

https://i.gyazo.com/e2e411ea8930494f79fe984f76ac1643.png

[spiral sigil]

Yeah

I'm in game development actually .

Well learning it actually

[latent mesa]

so cool. i wish i had money for higher education. dumb education industry

[spiral sigil]

Oh nah I'm only 17

I started college last year since it works a bit weird in the UK

Anyways back to UV mapping

[latent mesa]

i've never done it. I can suggest a beutiful tutorial using only a cube

[cinder cradle]

hope they will teach you unreal engine instead of unity

or maybe both

[devout scroll]

UV unwrapping is not that hard once you understand what it's trying to achieve

[mild nimbus]

i just realized why should I remove IK constraints in Blender if I can just NOT map it in Unity

🤔

Makes it easier to simulate poses to for clipping

[spiral sigil]

They was actually gonna teach us both We learnt unity first

But since The "Funny Virus TM" Happened we had to learn everything online and couldn't

[cinder cradle]

yes online learning is not as good as classes

[mild nimbus]

Hot take

but ok

[latent mesa]

true. it's easy to fall though the cracks. I took a distant learning psych class and got teamed up with a bunch of lzy bums who only logged in a few hours prior to the deadline

[cinder cradle]

how i know that feeling

like half of class can't even do what they need

[latent mesa]

right? and all the free services are on campus making it seem nearly pointless to do distant learning

[cinder cradle]

nothing we can do it's their choice to be lazy

[mild nimbus]

if you take classes thats only based off your own drive

you will be fine tbh

but thats just how university is

working with other students that are probably very lazy

i dont like dealing with others when it comes to education so i do courses that require me only and a teacher

[latent mesa]

anyone know how to prevent my mesh from being turned to ribbons when I use the sculpt tool?

[quaint jasper]

ribbons ?

[latent mesa]

i sculpt, and the faces shrink while the vertices un-snaps from each other

[quaint jasper]

You need to merge by distance first

you have doubles

can't sculpt with that

[latent mesa]

k. i'll look up a tutorial

[spiral sigil]

This took me ages

[spiral sigil]

Tadah

[latent mesa]

i do not look forward to doing this with a mid level poly model /cry

[spiral sigil]

Look at that

Holy moly.

Does it look good when you've done everything

[chrome hare]

UVs for my models are thankfully easy, since i make every part separately
then i can unwrap them all individually and place them in their own little squares

[wary whale]

can someone please provide Blender assistance?

I need to combine textures, reparent bones, and probably something else

[quaint jasper]

The cats plugin does all that

[wary whale]

it hasn't worked for me (also hi rubick)

I need my knees and elbows to be the first children of my upper arms and legs, but they're the last children for some reason
and it just will not combine my textures

[wary whale]

for reference, that's my screen

[latent mesa]

to modify matarials, separate by material, click the mesh, clck material in toolbox (red ball), select the mesh on top, change the material, go down. you can also change the texture by clicking the circled folder

[quaint jasper]

The fix button does nothing ? Also what's not working with the combiner ?

[wary whale]

I'm legitimately uncertain. I'm so new to this, you have no idea
I couldn't even begin to tell you what's going on.
if you want, I can give you remote access to my computer

[wary whale]

I don't have anything important on it, so I'm not worried about you fucking with much

plus, I trust you

although it'll be a second, as I'm about to go finish making coffee

[latent mesa]

what you're asking might not be possible, if you find out that your model is using more than 3 textures. (reducing down to 3 materials)

[quaint jasper]

There's very extensive videos that show the steps, it's not very complex

[latent mesa]

you can always manually atlas your model. you must really hate life to do it tho. like, give up all will to live

[wary whale]

give up all what? lmao

[latent mesa]

your will to live XD

[wary whale]

I don't know what that means
/s

[latent mesa]

maybe it's an accent, like pop and soda

[wary whale]

no I'm just being an idiot trying to make a joke

the point is I don't have a will to live

[latent mesa]

oh, jokes haha, i get jokes XD

[wary whale]

clearly lol

I literally don't have the menu you're using btw

I have cats and everything, just not the Materials menu

and I have the Material Combiner plugin, too

nevermind I think I did it

is this any better

[quaint jasper]

yeah !

Unsure as to why the hair needs four duplicate materials however

[wary whale]

I deleted most of them

[quaint jasper]

Make sure the atlas you generated doesn't have any duplicate either

[wary whale]

it doesn't seem to

now onto bone parenting

my bones menu is gone ;w;

[quaint jasper]

You have the armature selected ?

[wary whale]

that really
ahem
rattles my bones

yes

[quaint jasper]

show your window

[wary whale]

I'm gonna try to reparent the bones in Unity since that works

and see if the textures stick

it didn't fucking stay textured

I'm so angy

I got the bones reparented tho

[neat viper]

In Unity, click on the FBX in the asset browser, go to Materials in the inspector, and use custom materials? o:

[wary whale]

that just made it pink

[neat viper]

that's likely a shader issue - check the materials folder it made and make sure that they're using a shader

[wary whale]

it's using standard shaders ;w;

is that an issue?

[neat viper]

odd then, and nah standard Unity shaders should be fine o:
Would you mind sending a screenshot of the inspector, with the material selected?

also, make sure that the material is applied to the model, too

[wary whale]

after having applied the shader, it just turned gray

[neat viper]

Drag your atlas' texture file into the Albedo checkbox, then see if it shows up? o:

[wary whale]

nope

I could try dragging it from blender maybe?

that's not working either 😭

[neat viper]

Just to make sure, the checkbox next to Albedo should have a tiny thumbnail of the texture you dragged into it, right? o:

[wary whale]

it does when I select one from the library, but that's not what I want

[neat viper]

sorry if I'm repeating myself lol, but drag the atlassed image (should be named something like Atlas_12345 by default) into the Asset Browser to make it a texture, then drag that texture from the Asset Browser into the checkbox next to Albedo
That should apply the texture to the material, and if doesn't then that's weird

[wary whale]

can i maybe save just the atlas as a .png?

[neat viper]

It already should be? o:
When you combine the material with CATS, there should be a popup that asks you where you want to save the atlassed image

[wary whale]

nope

also according to the thing in Unity I can't rig it as a human because I don't have a LeftLowerLeg
I've tried manually renaming the Knee to LeftLowerLeg, but that didn't work

[neat viper]

v weird
You can save the image from Blender by going to the UV editor, selecting the atlassed image from the drop-down box at the top, and then going to Image > Save As

and in Unity if you go to the Rig tab in the FBX's import settings, you can fix the rig there

[wary whale]

do you remember the scene from Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs where Flint is teaching his dad how to send an email?

that's how this feels right now, and it's making me angry, because I'm so used to knowing everything I need to know and more

keep in mind I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at myself for not knowing this shit

[quaint jasper]

Can't know before you learn

[neat viper]

awh lol, and you're fine! Everybody learns somehow c:

[wary whale]

u right but still

[neat viper]

To get to the UV editor, click and drag the top corner of the 3D viewport to open a new workspace, then switch it to the UV editor

[wary whale]

I did that
I kinda did it, too

the only issue now is the eyebrows and that it's not a humanoid rig

and that's all because of bone things

[neat viper]

Select the material, and set it's shader to Standard/Alpha Cutout

might be misremembering the shader name but it's similar to that lol

and yus, bone stuff can be fixed in the Rig tab of the FBX's import settings in the inspector, assuming you have all the neccessary bones

[wary whale]

I think I do

I've never gotten this far so I'm super scared of fucking it up

[neat viper]

always make backups and Save As before doing big changes! c:

[wary whale]

okay so I can't quite figure out everything, but I'm gonna try importing it to VRC

[latent mesa]

i wanna add, save as in a logical format such as 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 2.0, etc to track which files are which without paying too much attention

[wary whale]

okay so the good thing is that it worked

the bad thing is that I'm stuck in a t-pose because I didn't finish rigging it to be humanoid (it was being a bitch)

[neat viper]

yus! o:

and cool to see the model ingame! c:

[wary whale]

agreed

[chrome hare]

my folders are a mess

i have like 6 blend files of every model because since i'm so new i try a bunch of different things

[neat viper]

lmao my 'naming convention' is terrible
"model" "modeltex" "modeltexatlas" "modeltexreatlas" "modeltexreatlas final" "modeltexreatlas finaler" "modeltexreatlas finaler2" etc

[wary whale]

hooray, Unity crashed while I was configuring my joints

:D

I fixed it, it doesn't have any errors anymore :O

guys I think i fucked it up

I changed the position of the view to the right spot, hopefully it'll work

hey @neat viper ? can I get your help with this please?

sorry for the ping, btw

the viewposition is in the right spot and everything

[neat viper]

Are there any colliders in your avatar anywhere? and you're fine! c:

[wary whale]

I'm 90% sure there are not

[neat viper]

Make sure that there aren't any collider components, and make sure that there aren't any Unity cameras either? o:

[wary whale]

"generate colliders" is off

[neat viper]

Try checking the Unity console for any errors? o:

top-left of the Asset Browser

[wary whale]

I have a general understanding of what all this means, but I don't know how to fix it

[neat viper]

try checking the "Import Messages" in your rig's import settings? o:

[wary whale]

that's what the thing on the right is, mate ;w;

[neat viper]

oh whoop sorry I'm blind lmao

[wary whale]

you're good lol

it happens to the best of us

[neat viper]

lmao
In the Rig settings, make sure that the eye bones are mapped if you have them?

past that I'm not too sure unfortunately, though you could do a search on Discord for camera issues potentially o:

[wary whale]

they're mapped, alright, lol

[neat viper]

would recommend search tags such as "in:avatars-2-general camera" or similar for the Discord thing, without the quotes
and that's odd o:

[neat viper]

Just wondering, how are you importing the model into Unity? (.FBX, .VRM, etc)

[wary whale]

not only that, but there is a description
I'm using a .fbx btw

[neat viper]

Is "Apply Modifiers" ticked under the Geometry tab while exporting? o:

[wary whale]

where exactly is the Geometry tab?

oh wait "while exporting"

while exporting from where tho?

from Blender or Unity?

[neat viper]

Exporting from Blender, sorry

[wary whale]

gotcha

lemme go check

yes it is

[neat viper]

actually wait, huh

Try disabling it and exporting, actually?

def no promises on it working lol, esp. considering the Armature thing but maybe?

[wary whale]

alright, I did that and fixed everything, we're about to hit the moment of truth

[neat viper]

o: cool!

[wary whale]

I'm so goddamn close

that's just an error of what all I mapped to what

[chrome hare]

earlier today i did everything perfectly and my model imploded because the hip was too low 😂
surprised it bends so well with how little faces it has really
i did make sure to split em up at the joints

[wary whale]

yeah i can't figure out what I did wrong or how to fix it

[chrome hare]

to the hand?

oh nvm the legs too

[wary whale]

yeah ;w;

[neat viper]

Looks like there's some weight-painting issues on the shin/foot and hand? o:

[chrome hare]

weird bending is usually a sign of weights being off yeah

[wary whale]

;w; I don't know how to fix that

I don't know how to do anything really

I just kinda do stuff

just like with everything else

[neat viper]

Would recommend looking up weight-painting tutorials in Blender, the pants and hand look like they're weight-painted weirdly/not at all in the pant cuff's case o:

[wary whale]

interesting

I'll look into it later

right now I'm taking a break

[desert whale]

almost ther

e

[wary whale]

I know, and I'm back to it

got any advice?

[desert whale]

regarding weight painting? or what

[wary whale]

in general

like, do you know what I'm doing wrong?

[desert whale]

well... the shaders you had in the original model did look better right? maybe you can copy the original model you had as a reference only, and apply the same shader and parameters to the new version

[neat viper]

I wouldn't strictly say you're doing anything wrong, you're just learning c:
Past the weight-painting issue, I don't think I spotted any other issues

[wary whale]

how does one alter weight-paintings?

[desert whale]

that's something you can do in Blender

[wary whale]

I'm aware of that much
I have blender open currently

[neat viper]

I'm assuming you're using Blender 2.8 - go to Object mode and select your mesh (not the armature/skelton), then go to Weight Paint mode

Select vertex groups on the right to change what bones modify what vertices, and past that I'd def recommend some tutorials on weight-painting

also, keep the blur tool/brush in mind while in Weight Paint mode o:

[wary whale]

the guy in the tutorial said to weigh down places with bones

so I did that

that's the result

[neat viper]

You have the weights all applied to one vertex group it seems - go to the Vertex Groups (third icon from the bottom in the toolbar, green icon) and switch to a different vertex group

would recommend a CTRL+Z too preferably lol

Only the forearm should be painted to the forearm bone's vertex group, the head to the head bone's vertex group, etc

[wary whale]

I don't know what any of that means

[neat viper]

You have (almost) all of your model's vertices painted to one bone, in short lol

[wary whale]

.... I'm going to fucking screm

[neat viper]

Go here to check your vertex groups o:

whichever one is selected (empty in my image) will be whatever bone you're painting vertices to

To clear a vertex group of it's painted verts, go to Edit mode, select all with the A key, then click "Remove" in the Vertex Groups menu

[desert whale]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG82fogtuCg

(it's not gonna be 5 minutes so don't feel bad if you need a while that's normal)

[neat viper]

yus! c:

[wary whale]

that's the exact video I watched

[desert whale]

where did you get your model from? I would have thought the weights were already set up tho

[wary whale]

I made it in VRoid

[desert whale]

VRoid does setup the weights as far as I'm aware

[wary whale]

that's what I thought

I'm pretty sure it's a rigging issue, not a weight issue

[neat viper]

Select one of the shin/foot bones' vertex groups and see if the pantcuffs are painted to it? o:

[wary whale]

look at my leg mapping, specifically

[neat viper]

looks fine to me o:

[wary whale]

I thought so

I checked off "optimize game objects" in Unity and now I'm trying to reupload it

if that doesn't work, I'll just.... idk

it didn't work..

[neat viper]

In Weight Paint mode, click one of the shin's vertex groups ("Left knee" here for example) and sent a screenshot? o:

[wary whale]

I can just send you the blender file if you want

[neat viper]

If you want, sure o:

[desert whale]

[wary whale]

test do you want the link to it as well, just for shits and giggles?

[desert whale]

I will believe in zuvali's wisdom (also am at work rn)

[wary whale]

ah alright

[formal locust]

Does anyone else have frequent Blender crashing? Especially in relation to CATS?

[latent mesa]

only when I ctrl z after importing. I think my issue is memory

[neat viper]

in short the model was cursed imo lol

parts of the knee weren't moving with the knee bone, despite being fully weight-painted to the knee (and without being painted to any other bone), though clearing all the vertex groups and assigning the weights to new groups seemed to fix the issue? would require fully and manually re-painting the model legs, however

[desert whale]

maybe there was a problem when importing the vrm?

[neat viper]

potentially? o:
Could try importing the model into Blender as a VRM, then exporting as FBX

[wary whale]

that's.. what i did

[neat viper]

I have no idea then lol
you can import VRMs into Unity directly with a plugin, though I don't remember how well that worked

[desert whale]

maybe try a reimport and check if the knees work properly this time

[wary whale]

that's another thing I did, separately

[wary whale]

I will make this character work

and if I can't do it myself, I'll get someone else to

[latent mesa]

Oh yeah? Lol

[chrome hare]

another cat skinned

bad crop
w/e

[latent mesa]

bad crop? shut up, it's beautiful. keep up the good work

[chrome hare]

no i mean the screenshot cut off a bit lol

but thanks

[latent mesa]

it's really cool watching you progress. ❤️

[wary whale]

so if my Model is truly cursed ;w;
which I think it may well be
a billion dollars (not really, I'm poor) to whoever can lift the curse

nobody can figure out what's wrong with it, but it just doesn't bloody work

[spiral sigil]

what's the issue exactly?

[wary whale]

this

[spiral sigil]

well

let's get the obvious out of the way first

only the leg bones are controlling that part, correct ?

[wary whale]

and the wrists

apparently I've got someone tackling this lol

additionally, they seem to think that it's a Rigging issue, not a Weight Paint issue like the people here thought

but they're consulting someone who apparently makes models for VRC so idk for sure yet

[latent mesa]

i can see where they can see that

[wary whale]

yeah, it really does make more sense

[latent mesa]

i just got here... going to bed. I'm just uber excited about (self promo) sp I'm kinda staying up for no reason

[wary whale]

sleep tight!

[latent mesa]

I'll see how your model is doing tomorrow, and I can look at it as well if you'd like another set of eyes

[wary whale]

I'd love that, if it's not working still 😂

[desert whale]

did you try reimporting into blender to see if it magically solves it?

[wary whale]

yes, yes I did
and it solved nothing

in fact, it caused more problems if i recall correctly

[desert whale]

why would it cause more problems

[spiral sigil]

if the wrist are controlling the legs

you just need to remove the weight pain

also be sure that all bone rolls are set to 0

[wary whale]

bone rolls?

[spiral sigil]

yes

[wary whale]

I don't know what that is

I'm legitimately angry at this model tho

Svel if I send you the link to the .fbx file can you take a look at it?

[desert whale]

bone rolls could be a problem I guess

if you don't know what that is, now is as good a time as any to look it up

[wary whale]

I really wish I had money now so I could put a bounty on this damn model

I would honestly accept a knockoff at this point, too, as long as it looks decent and similar

[desert whale]

if your problems are the bone rolls it is easy to fix

[wary whale]

btw

looking at it in 3d object viewer brings up that

[quaint jasper]

surprising how all fucked up it is in the first place when vroid exports are usually very painless

[wary whale]

agreed

[desert whale]

yeah! I don't get it lmao

[wary whale]

I tried making another VRoid too, but had the same sorts of issues

[desert whale]

did you do something really weird in vroid?

[wary whale]

not really I don't think

[desert whale]

[wary whale]

Ruubick how did you fuck up the game this bad?? (I am, of course, joking)

whenever I try to publish the avatar it says there was an error saving the blueprint, now

at first, a few hours ago, I assumed that was my internet since I was having issues

but now I doubt it

[devout scroll]

You likely have missing dynamic bone scripts on your avatar

[wary whale]

do I fix that in Blender or Unity

[devout scroll]

Unity
type t:script in the hierarchy search bar and look through the filtered objects

if you have any Script components with a warning on them in the right side inspector window, right click and remove those scripts

[wary whale]

I do not

[desert whale]

it's a vroid model

exported into blender, and from there to unity

I don't think dynamic bones are at cause here

[wary whale]

me, standing on the sideline with no idea what any of this means:

[desert whale]

a lot of people buy models that have jiggly bits, but for the jiggly bits to work you need a unity plugin called dynamic bones, which is not free

so if you don-t have it, you'll get errors when importing the model

[dusty heron]

Or joints, but who uses those?

[wary whale]

yeah I definitely haven't bought anything

as a note, there were no results when searching t:script in the hierarchy

test are you still at work mate?

[desert whale]

yes

have you checked the bone rolls?

[wary whale]

gottverdammt
I have not

nothing came up when I searched "unity bone rolls" on youtube

[desert whale]

sorry, that's in blender not unity

sorry for the confusion

[wary whale]

ohhh okay

[tight quartz]

Can I put collider on the objects in Blender so I don't have to do it in Unity?

[spiral sigil]

no

[tight quartz]

Big oof

Oke thx

[prime zenith]

trying to figure out how to hook up my ambient occlusion map

here's the actual map

not really sure how to go about this

[mild nimbus]

I guess I share this here

Still massive wip

But when it's done I plan to release it

Been taking quite awhile for the proper normal editing

And additional add-ons to model for the character

https://gyazo.com/4ee316a69683ddaa4108ee3eb6cb0633 https://gyazo.com/749fe1c4f9b8cb5334054cc56df5fe11

[prime zenith]

ok cool

but

how do i pipe in the ambient occlusion map

if i try it just goes pale

[mild nimbus]

Multiply it over the base color map

Using a Mix rgb node

Or go into Photoshop and combine it to the base color via multiplication

Or whatever photo editing software you use

Hope that helps

It should help lol

[prime zenith]

k thanks

[mild nimbus]

Mhm

[prime zenith]

so i mix it with the albedo?

[mild nimbus]

Yes ma'am / sir

[prime zenith]

with colour or AO?

[mild nimbus]

Set the AO to non color first on the image texture node

Since it's not using color

Only black and white

[prime zenith]

right

[mild nimbus]

Then just multiply it over your albedo

[prime zenith]

so

[mild nimbus]

With a mix RGB node

[prime zenith]

i don't feed it through the ambient occlusion node?

[mild nimbus]

You can but I prefer it to be mixed via multiplication with your albedo map

And all goes into 1 output

Base color

[prime zenith]

how can i feed it through the ao node though

[mild nimbus]

Just plug it in

XD

[prime zenith]

so colour goes to the colour slot

from the image

then what does that go to

[mild nimbus]

Let me create a node setup for you

[prime zenith]

ok

this is what i have at the moment

[mild nimbus]

http://prntscr.com/100u0wm

Node in the middle is a Mix RGB node

yellow node

Make sure you set the Mix RGB node from Mix to Multiply

[prime zenith]

will it still function properly as ao?

[mild nimbus]

yes you are just literally

overlaying the black areas

on your albedo map

or base color

[prime zenith]

so it'll still interact with lighting

[mild nimbus]

No AO is static baked shadowing.

its not real time

[prime zenith]

oh

[mild nimbus]

Doing all this hook up wont even transfer to Unity

you are just doing this for it to look right in Blender

Look into the different texture maps and what they do

for starters

xD

[prime zenith]

i know what they do

i just don't know how to use them

i haven't even touched the sdk yet

i just want to make sure everything works rihgt

[mild nimbus]

well the ao will work

if want to simplify it

multiply it in photoshop or something

so you have one map with your albedo and AO on it

in one image

so u can just plug right into base color

and has your AO with it

[prime zenith]

if the ao won't work as an actual ao i'll plug it through unity instead

thanks for the help though

though i don't understand why it would be seperate anyway if it's just applied over the albedo

I was under the impression that the point of AO was it stops effecting in direct light

[knotty hawk]

my Z axis does this and my Y axis makes objects move up + down instead of fwd + aft. The X axis still works fine though.
Any ideas how to fix it?

[proper wyvern]

Not sure you needed to show a picture of your model for this question but okay... Either way I cant help ya boi so get used to everything being fucked on your end. In the meantime I shall enjoy your suffering! X3

Actually... Im most likely going to regret helping you because I wanted to enjoy your crying a bit longer but how about you copy paste this sculpt to another project? @knotty hawk

[prime zenith]

OK so currently

on my AO map

what would be transparency on a regular map is instead represented by white

how can i change that

[knotty hawk]

https://tenor.com/view/sad-baby-frown-cry-tantrums-gif-4649018

[proper wyvern]

What character are you making?

[prime zenith]

Octotrooper

trying to get all the textures hooked up

i'm porting a model

the issue is there's a lot of textures with normally engine specifc names

so i have no idea what to hook them up to

Trying to assign textures you don't understand the function of is a fucking nightmare

[chrome hare]

do you really need all them though?

i'm not sure if vrchat even uses all those maps

it looks fine as it is honestly

[young vault]

You could use all of those maps depending on your shader.

[onyx juniper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nydjtjIncSk&ab_channel=ChrisJones

[spiral sigil]

thanks I hate it

[chrome hare]

that's pretty cool

[lean creek]

Here are some very useful videos for anyone who needs a hand with avatars: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwj-o3b5QnkX4ARQnBe3tRA

[quaint jasper]

I wouldn't recommend that shirt editing video lol, suggesting to destroy UVs to customize a shirt isn't the best

[shell wharf]

question

does having multiple meshes in a model add more material slots

or are they unrelated

[neat viper]

unrelated afaik but you should still preferably only have one mesh for your model

[quaint jasper]

@shell wharf Yep

[chrome hare]

having multiple meshes will tick the sdk off in its own right

[shell wharf]

ok so join meshes

also uhh

[quaint jasper]

If you have two meshes sharing the same material, it still counts as a material instance, but can be GPU instanced

Yes, always

[shell wharf]

is it possible to make a uv map from several materials?

like lets say we have a model with several materials

[quaint jasper]

Separating the head mesh is usually good for perf, but depends on the model

[shell wharf]

is it possible to make a uv map off of it so it only uses one material

[neat viper]

That'd be called atlassing

[quaint jasper]

You can, that's called texture atlasing

[neat viper]

CATS Blender Plugin/Material Combiner (which is included in CATS) can do it mostly automatically c:

[chrome hare]

i've never had things go well with the cats thingy

[quaint jasper]

Always worked really well for me, but it needs quite a bit to make sure it's setup nicely

[shell wharf]

how do you atlas

[quaint jasper]

There's a few ways, the cats addon has an automated tool to do it, or you can do it manually https://youtu.be/lqe8JRiYuu0

[wary whale]

hey Ruuubick do you have a patreon?

and, additionally, can I transfer funds from one patreon account directly to another

[quaint jasper]

Nope, i make my money from vrchat in the form of a salary

[wary whale]

well idk, maybe you have a side hustle for all I know

I was gonna pay you to help with my model ;w;

[quaint jasper]

I'm not that good of an artist for that lmao

[wary whale]

I don't need a good artist lmao

[quaint jasper]

Have you looked at Phiabunny's tutorials ?

they make a lot of stuff specifically for vroid

[wary whale]

I may take a look, thanks for the recommendation!

[shell wharf]

@quaint jasper what is the cats addon

[quaint jasper]

a blender add-on that has a lot of tools for avatar making

[shell wharf]

how do you do it manually for comparison

[quaint jasper]

It's in the video I posted above

[onyx juniper]

Lol "salary." Crazy Ruuubick and his get-rich-quick schemes

[mild nimbus]

I watched the tutorial for vivace I mean sure it's cool but destroying the UVs to edit the shirt is not okay. Even the Texel Density is destroyed because of it. Alot of basic controls he used were also not addressed to someone who probably has no experience in the software what so ever. Example he said "go into x-ray mode to see through the model to select the vertices" what you should of said was "Go into wireframe mode and press Z" you only said x-ray mode but did not say the key

Alot of the importing process was sped up also so was a bit unclear.

[prime zenith]

i'm not sure if i should redo my model with cats or just go ahead and sort everything within the sdk

[fossil dust]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/604972353293910026/812525683943014410/unknown.png

Anybody know a relatively easy way to smooth out the whole surface of these fingers? They aren't human fingers fyi

But they're generally very rough around the edges and when using shade maps on it it looks pretty bad on the hands

[proper wyvern]

Use the smoothing tool in sculpting.

[muted raven]

@fossil dust You could also Smooth your weight painting , or if its just the mesh that needs smoothing , you can sperate the hand from the body, and then apply a subdivision modifier as you please

[fossil dust]

I can mess with that then

[flat fossil]

Make sure your transform orientation is on "global".

[lunar dove]

how would I go about importing something into blender, from unity, that isn't just one object?

like, it's meant to be 2 objects merged but probuilder won't let me union them

[neat viper]

There's Export to FBX, though I'm not super sure on the specifics o:

[lunar dove]

fbx from probuilder?

or unity itself?

[neat viper]

should be a thing in Unity itself, though I also found https://github.com/KellanHiggins/UnityFBXExporter
def might be a better way to do it though, not personally sure

[chrome hare]

is there a good unit scale for blender where the models won't be the size of a barge when i import them

[lunar dove]

@neat viper ty ❤️

[prime zenith]

how do i select a specific bone in blender

[cinder cradle]

@prime zenith alt+z for xray to see bones

[prime zenith]

i was told to go into pose mode i need to click the bluish green man

which works on the video

but for me does nothing

[cinder cradle]

you need to click any bone and than go to pose mode

[prime zenith]

i clicked the bone on the model

nothing happened

[cinder cradle]

you need switch object mode to pose mode.

just clicking on bone does nothing

[prime zenith]

right

well, on the drop down menu pose mode isn't there

i don't

alright, i have no idea what i did, but it works now

[prime zenith]

Yeah for some reason i'm locked out of entering pose mode or selecting parts of the model

[chrome hare]

i'm horribly late but you need to click the skeleton to enter pose mode

[lunar dome]

Is there an easy way to reduce the poly's and tri'd from a 3d scanned model. i mean REALLY high

[spiral sigil]

retopo

[lunar dome]

retopo?

[cinder cradle]

@lunar dome you need to do retopologizing in blender

[spiral sigil]

how many polys is that

[lunar dome]

i don't know how to tell, but that is in blender

[cinder cradle]

but it's 3d scan i doubt decimate will work on it you need to remake it using this 3d scan

[spiral sigil]

select the model in object mode

bottom right

number of Tris

[lunar dome]

think thats the blender version?

if it helps, i'm using blender without any additions or alterations, default layout

[desert whale]

as additional info

it's probably not gonna be "easy"

but such is life

[lunar dome]

go figure 😂

so where do i find the info tab ^^; sorry completely new to blender and just tackling obstacles as i come to them

[cinder cradle]

you need to right click on blender version at bottom right and mark scene statistics

[lunar dome]

there we go

per foot

[cinder cradle]

well 6 milion

[lunar dome]

wait, verts too i guess?

[cinder cradle]

Verts should be at left

left to the edges

[lunar dome]

just noticed the count doesn't change regardless of which piece i select

[cinder cradle]

3 milion verts oof

[lunar dome]

but i would assume this really needs to come down 😂

[cinder cradle]

even zbrush isn't that bad

[latent charm]

You could try using the quadriflow remesher. It's in the mesh tab (green triangle button) and the section called remesh and the mode set to Quad

[lunar dome]

it's a scan of a ball jointed doll

any reccomended settings?

[latent charm]

Tweak your number of faces to what you'd consider a reasonable level of detail for the model.

[lunar dome]

whats the max allowed?

[latent charm]

There's no limit, but going over 70k tris will put you into very poor.

[cinder cradle]

best to be at 10k max

[lunar dome]

hmm... for moderate then?

[latent charm]

Also consider what else you want on the avatar

[cinder cradle]

but i doubt you can do that

[lunar dome]

well i saved it ahead of time so worth a shot

[latent charm]

You could but then you'd need to be doing some more stuff to keep the detail.

[cinder cradle]

true

[lunar dome]

rather odd xD

[cinder cradle]

you lose detail it's normal.

[lunar dome]

the left and right calf have different level of detail

[cinder cradle]

you pressed a?

[latent charm]

Oh, I'd undo and redo it with preserve sharp enabled

[lunar dome]

yeah theres intentional indents for where they'd be on the real deal

weird though, that one calf is still uneffected

[cinder cradle]

the whole thing is one mesh?

[lunar dome]

it's 24 meshes actually ^^;

each part of the doll is assembled by me moving and rotating them till they fitted properly

i won't go image spamming but you get the idea

[cinder cradle]

you should watch some tutorials for quadflow remesh to make it best

[lunar dome]

i noticed i can't unselect one of the parts though. might have something to do with it

and when i select everything, one is always brighter outline than the others

[cinder cradle]

you select all by pressing a

[lunar dome]

yes

[cinder cradle]

unselecting is alt+a

one is always different color

[lunar dome]

so i shouldn't be concerned by the top left here

[cinder cradle]

it shows you what you have selected now or what was selected last

[lunar dome]

well its a bit better than before

might have to do it all manually ^^l

[cinder cradle]

you should do retopology

it should be not hard with model already

watch some tutorials

[lunar dome]

what i was able to find out about that is remaking the model from scratch using the original as a guide

that sounds a lot harder

[cinder cradle]

it does but you could make it with much less polygons

[lunar dome]

I was thinking using the merge tool might do the same but without as much experience needed

I had trouble even finding how to make spheres

[tired lance]

now if only the SDK would work.

[quick panther]

how do i connect meshes

or is it not neccesary

[latent sorrel]

yo this snivy has drip

[chrome hare]

you could say i'm.... winging it.

[wary whale]

can I get someone to help me with mapping my vertices in blender? I can send a dropbox link to the file, and depending on how Patreon works, i may be able to pay as well

[chrome hare]

if i'm making a character with wings where should the feathers point in t-pose so it looks best in vrchat

[wary whale]

down

[chrome hare]

figured

also how do digitigrade legs work out
or do they just don't

[wary whale]

the second "knee" is actually the same as a human ankle

I use that guide when drawing them

[chrome hare]

well yah but how do i get that into vrc

[wary whale]

that may be a bit more difficult

[chrome hare]

i've learned that playing with rig proportions doesn't end well

[devout scroll]

select them all and ctrl+J

[chrome hare]

hard to get legs i'm happy with, also if i try to scale it to the armature proportions vrchat likes it looks off
eh, we'll see where this goes

[chrome hare]

well, going nicely i suppose

now here's the kicker: rigging it in a way that doesn't end with me burrowing underground in fullbody because vrchat does not like it when the arms are very long and bones do not work well when distant from the piece they influence

[visual vigil]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/669760923321499678/813397472951926854/unknown.png https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/669760923321499678/813397550185840720/unknown.png

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/669760923321499678/813397614900805652/unknown.png https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/669760923321499678/813397689265160242/unknown.png

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/447433083000455200/813398323171033098/unknown.png

progresss
mostly to back of the hips, hands and thighs

[tawny arrow]

it's the brass man

[tired lance]

any idea as to how i would connect 2 meshes at faces and vertices

[cinder cradle]

you tried pressing ctr+j? after you marked them

[chrome hare]

i think they want to physically connect the meshes

[young vault]

You could do dummy bones. 1 for the IK and the 2nd one to follow to keep proper deformations. Should work

[quick panther]

thank you

[chrome hare]

now in stunning eyeburn

[quaint jasper]

Keeping it flat shaded ?

[cinder cradle]

quest users finally got their saviour

[chrome hare]

im using poiyomi shaders ingame

i don't know much about blender beyond making a model

[cinder cradle]

than learn animating

next

[quaint jasper]

Select the mesh and search for smooth shade

[steady zealot]

and mark sharp edges if you want to keep harsh angles. You can also use automatic smooth shading in the normals tab

[spiral sigil]

Made a crown of light and coin pouch today.
https://i.gyazo.com/a2de2a4bcda9719eae418d89de027212.mp4
https://i.gyazo.com/495f8871809a7fc90c4a0facccf13370.mp4

[runic nymph]

So you're Viego in disguise.

[chrome hare]

very nice

[gloomy prawn]

hi hello! does anyone know where i can find an avatar software? to make one as such

[neat viper]

Blender is a common free choice, though there's also Maya and 3DS Studio Max o:
VRoid is a common choice too, which afaik is more of an 'avatar maker' and not general modelling software

[gloomy prawn]

aah cool!

well for me i have linux and id if blender is compatable with it?

[neat viper]

Blender's def compatible with Linux, can't speak for the others though (afaik Maya is compatible with Linux, not sure about 3DS Studio Max)

would also recommend looking into CATS blender plugin! c:

[gloomy prawn]

aah cool! thanks so much :]

[neat viper]

yw! Good luck with the modelling c:

[spiral sigil]

https://i.gyazo.com/21aab247fd0004fef3e17452461cdea0.mp4

People kept saying I look like Viego so I just went ahead and made a similar sword too. lmao

[wary whale]

jesus christ dude can I commission you sometime???

[gloomy prawn]

now the real question is how the hell do i open it

does anyone know how i open this???

[neat viper]

pretty sure you can download Blender straight from Steam o:

[wary whale]

I downloaded it from the site

[gloomy prawn]

oh??

[neat viper]

works for Windows through Steam, should work for linux o:

[gloomy prawn]

same here mate, now im just confused

im gonna try the steam ver

oh dude i have a wacom one tablet i maybe able to use it with blender

WOOO IT WORKS!

now how the hell do i use it

now how

how the hell does it work

[neat viper]

would recommend watching blender 2.9 tutorials on character/humanoid making c:

[true sierra]

On another note, i feel like respect should be mutual, asking for how stuff works is completely fine, demanding for it seems kinda forceful c:

[spiral sigil]

@wary whale For sure.

[wary whale]

I suppose I'll be adding you for later

[spiral sigil]

So my vrm converter isn't installing into unity?

How do I fix that

I'm using a Mac so that could be the issue

[wary whale]

did you import it as an asset or as a package?

you have to import it as a package

[neat viper]

could also try importing it with CATS in blender, then exporting as FBX? o:

[spiral sigil]

Lemme try that- it won't let me import the converter as a package for some reason?

[wary whale]

I have sixty eight materials on my avatar ;w;

[spiral sigil]

Fixes?

Vrm model btw

[quaint jasper]

This may be the worst screenshot ever posted here, please use windows capture tool or install ShareX

[spiral sigil]

My apologies! Let me do that real quick

[quaint jasper]

Can you describe the issue ?

A bit hard to tell what's going on

[spiral sigil]

I guess the head is clipping through the hair? I'm not too sure this is my first time making avatars jfjxjfbx

[quaint jasper]

How did you set up the materials ?

[leaden arrow]

UVs could be flipped too

[lunar dome]

can i not have this happen

.> screen splitting my brain

decimating polys by hand because it's too much to do automatically i think. and it's hell

or i just suck at it

[spiral sigil]

wdym decimating ?

aren't you just doing retopology ?

[lunar dome]

no?

[spiral sigil]

why ?

[lunar dome]

i'm not gonna be able to remake this thing

[devout vault]

i have this tablet too

[spiral sigil]

I'm trying to recreate my room in vrchat but I can't get the scale right in unity. I've created a fusion360 file that has all the correct measurements but from fusion>blender(for texturing)>unity the scale messes up. Does anyone have any experience with this?

[desert whale]

check the import settings of the model in unity, might have some weird scale set

also check your export settings when exporting the file

[chrome hare]

so i edited a bit of a model AFTER making shapekeys, and obviously the edit didn't apply to all shapekeys
is there a quick way to make this happen

nvm just found it
propagate to shapes, take notes

[muted raven]

Love it when my models look good

@quaint jasper Im sorry i didnt use normal map for freckles, i just like the way this looks alot more!

[quaint jasper]

It still looks great !!

[muted raven]

Thanks!

[summer moth]

should I fix these quads with 180° angles? IS there a way to fix them?

[edgy fog]

What's the consensus about which Blender to use? I heard here before that some version(s) in the 2.9 range were buggy/crashy, and that 2.83 was the way to go at the time that I read that which was November 2020. Has much changed? ::)))) Currently using 2.79 while finishing a project but looking to update for future projects.

[edgy fog]

It's best to fix them because if they were to be deformed past 180 degree angles then some fucky wucky might occur.

If you do it in blender you'll see how it looks. May look different if that were to happen in Unity™️ or in VRChat™️.

[summer moth]

any tips how to do that, or is it fine for non-deform object?

[edgy fog]

Ah no. actually easy

You just manually triangulate them

Best to do it manually coz Unity, when importing it, may auto triangulate them badly.

Did that do the trick, @summer moth? 🙂

[summer moth]

did it do what? there were no problems, I was asking if it would cause problems in the future possibly

[edgy fog]

Well the point is that those quads are going to be converted into tris anyway, but you can do it manually to avoid any potential issues.

[visual vigil]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/721965082459766814/814075137108082688/unknown.png
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/721965082459766814/814074997583904818/unknown.png https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/721965082459766814/814075675304001546/unknown.png

600k tri v 33k tri photoscan retopology comm wip

seems discords in the 'wont embed' mode

[spiral sigil]

https://i.gyazo.com/698e81ba0336d6a7801d6b797a4d3418.mp4

[chrome hare]

why is triangulation a thing anyways
what makes triangles so much better for games

[devout scroll]

smallest renderable thing

only 3 points to worry about for your gpu

[ashen stag]

A quad is really just two triangles in the end

[azure rain]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6100528/why-do-3d-engines-primarily-use-triangles-to-draw-surfaces#:~:text=Triangles also are very memory,additional triangle after the first.&text=and Triangle Fans which is a special case of a Triangle Strip.

[chrome hare]

ah

always nice to learn something new

swear i learn more, and more valuable things just by talking to strangers
but that won't pay the bills sadly

[devout scroll]

welcome to the club

[oak glade]

i cant create avatars yet but whatacha thinking

[chrome hare]

Let's hope you never get the ability.

[wintry glacier]

that aint right 😐

[chrome hare]

just banter
it's law to make fun of brushes

[desert whale]

It's a complicated subject eh, on the one hand, it's really cool for the avatar author of the brush to have become so popular. On the other hand, that avatar has become associated with 8-10 year olds who shouldn't be in the game

[stark ore]

bruh

[lunar dome]

can anybody explain what retopology is, definitions i find are varied
and usually very expensive

[azure rain]

https://conceptartempire.com/retopology/

[gentle badge]

basically it's using tools to edit/recreate the topology (vert/edge/polygon layout) of a model to better suit your target use case

often taking a super high res sculpture or photoscanned object and making it a suitable polycount for realtime rendering and have good topology for animation & texturing

[tawdry goblet]

I have these uvs for a knob on a mesh I've made. Like in the split window on the right, theyre all overlapping for space reasons. Is there a way I can repack my uvs so it will preserve the way the uvs overlap?

also is this fine in the long run? Will it ruin things like baking if I have overlapping uvs like this?

[devout scroll]

There are addons that can do it but I'd do it manually I guess

baking will be ruined yeah but you can easily work around it

by keeping only 1 in your main uv space

then offset the rest by 1 u or 1 v

(the uv repeats forever)

go to view and untick pixel coordinates (in the N menu)

then you'll be able to just G, x 1 enter

to move everything 1 uv space to the right

everything outside the main uv gets ignored when baking

[tawdry goblet]

oh so pretty much basically what youre saying is sort of just tile the uvs instead of overlapping it, so it stays out of the uv

[devout scroll]

yeah

uvs tile forever into every direction

shaders can clamp (ignore) those tiles but I think by default it's set to repeat instead of clamp

[trail shuttle]

Hey So I bought an avatar and was hoping to add some additional custom facial Blendshape animations, but the FBX file is in ASCII so I can't easily import to Blender

Does anyone know how I should work with something like this?

[muted raven]

Public Monke man is coming

but what will he take?

[muted raven]

im really hoping people will clone this off of me

[muted raven]

Well ladies and gentlemen, Monke man is being released to the wild

This concludes todays 1 hour model

[tired lance]

current WiP for the snivy Kimono.

[quick panther]

when i paint the hand it also paints the arm
what can i do?

[buoyant crater]

more then likely there the same material so you have to set one as a different one

[manic phoenix]

ive been working on some Photogrammetry for a project im undertaking

[quaint jasper]

might need some more pictures to avoid the artifacts between fingers

[quick panther]

how

do i do that

[thorny ivy]

Evenin', ya'll. I'd like some feedback on a custom head I've been working on, semi-realistic in design and intentionally avoiding making it anime-esque like most humanoid models I've seen thus far.

Found a base online (no rigging) and went from there, changing the ears from regular to more pointed and rounding the face some among other tweaks. Haven't added eyelids yet, not sure how to do that, but going for an overall more mature facial structure.

Feel like the area around the ears is too pronounced and/or the ears stick out too far from the head.

[quaint jasper]

Are you working off of a visual reference ? If not i'd highly suggest that

It helps with proportions and shapes, it's very difficult to look at it objectively the longer you spend on it, so it'll seem normal to you while very odd to others

[thorny ivy]

A couple of them but mostly just eyeballing things.

[obsidian nova]

Your eyes are crossed, ears too far out; heads are usually flat on the sides. You need a more defined brow, nostrils & chin.

[spiral sigil]

Has anyone got a tiara prefab

Or a masquerade ball mask

I'm unable to pay at this time

[chrome hare]

think i might fire up blender again today
i should probably make it from one mesh instead of joining multiple so it doesn't look like a doll this time, but not sure whether to extrude or try sculpt

[still wadi]

https://i.imgur.com/AZ6vjWj.png

[spiral sigil]

my own work in progress model im making its going but i kinda wonkily put on the shirt and underwear to cover the naughty bits to show it its a long process but its getting there slowly 🙂

[quaint jasper]

Miku inspired ?

[still wadi]

uhm not rly

i did notice how it looked like loli miku as well tho

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/390924397726138370/815321822328258570/Kaylee_Full_Outfit_Ref.png

dumm discord

won't load

[quaint jasper]

The feet look a bit too tiny no ?

[still wadi]

perspective

[quaint jasper]

the thighs seem to get smaller very fast, so the whole leg proportion seems off, but could be the angle

[still wadi]

https://i.imgur.com/5k0ALbn.png

yea idk seem fine to me

[quaint jasper]

i guess it's a classic case of "those socks are three sizes smaller than they should be"

Those sides metal pieces are screaming for a solidify modifier tho

[still wadi]

they are solid

[quaint jasper]

oh wow yeah, that's like a millimetre of thickness

[still wadi]

ay man

if i was going for more realistic stuff

i'd do that

[quaint jasper]

Female armor be like

[still wadi]

i'm still not very good with metal tho

need some more practice on textures

[quaint jasper]

i assume you'll be making a metallic map for that least ? it'll look nice

[past cloak]

making this cool dude

[chrome hare]

oh nice

realm was a personal favorite, even if i can't be bothered to play it anymore

might go whip up a mystic here

now i've got myself thinking how i could recreate the orb 😅

[brazen chasm]

wanted to try those visemes

[chrome hare]

what the cinnamon toast fuck

[brazen chasm]

pretty much the reaction I aim for yeah

[rotund bronze]

i fucking love everything about that

it's so cool

[rotund bronze]

fuckin 👌

[brazen chasm]

haha thank you

[deep dirge]

You will become a serial killer one day. Nice.

[chrome hare]

time flies when you're having fun, eh

ok so what do i do with my eye bones to ensure they aren't rotated 90 degrees in unity

[chrome hare]

it is done

[fresh storm]

I am stuck in the weight paint of the left shoulder bone

And i want to go to the left one

Help

[chrome hare]

stuck?

[fresh storm]

Like, i can't weigh paint the other bone

[chrome hare]

if you mean what i think you do, click the tab that looks like an upside down triangle on the right menu to see your vertex groups

[fresh storm]

Oh

Yep

That

Thank you

🙂

[deep dirge]

hat

[still wadi]

https://i.imgur.com/o3sS7F5.png

ass

[devout scroll]

owo

[deep dirge]

bruh

[thorny ivy]

Noted.

I've mainly been using the clay strip and smoothing to make changes to the face. Would other tools be more suitable?

[young vault]

To squash the head, use the grab brush, you'll have to re-do some finer detailing on the ears. And grab it from facing the front on the side. For the eyes, I'd say re-do and center them. For brow and chin, just do clay strips or normal sculpting, then smooth a bit, rinse and repeat until satisfied. Have a low strength on smoothing so that you get fine control over it. For the nostrils, it's the opposite you have to go in from the bottom of the nose and do smooth, then go in, smooth, go in, smooth. You'll probably have to increase poly count for this since usually nostrils are hard to get good with mid-poly sculpting. High to mid retopo it becomes better though. And, since you'll have to retopo later, it's probably a good idea.

[young vault]

Although, a lot of people do a lot of these things a bit differently.

[obsidian nova]

I think you could just flatten the temples by selecting the ears & moving them closer together with proportional editing on (in modelling mode)...Other than that, I’d say follow Elphea’s tips.

[young vault]

I'd say if it's not too high poly that's an option that I would recommend. If it's too high poly then edit mode sometimes slugs

[past cloak]

gonna be honest most of my avatars are variants of different avatars i made already

[signal helm]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/206471745656324097/815495174104416346/unknown.png

[spiral sigil]

Im making simplistic cartoon-style hair for my character model, Ive been making the hair 3d but I am worried about all the extra geometry. I dont know if the hair would look nearly as good If I made the hair 2d

[hard burrow]

I made a VRC avatar of a robo uwu

squish thumbnail, yay

[signal helm]

M9 Berreta empty clip

[steady zealot]

anybody know how to fix this?

The Normals are the right way around, auto smooth is set to 180 degrees, edges are marked sharp, there are no doubles, and recalculating normals from faces produces this

when I set object to shade smooth, it seems to ignore my sharp edges

[median pike]

you have baked normal split data

[steady zealot]

How do I erase it

nevermind

found it

[median pike]

that should be "clear normal split data"

[steady zealot]

perfect

thank you

[median pike]

👍

[steady zealot]

That's been driving me nuts on a few models

[spiral sigil]

I'd like opinions

Just blocked out simple colours before modelling the feet and proper texturing

[quaint jasper]

Opinions on what ? It looks great, cool shapes, proportions and colors

[jolly verge]

how do u make an avatar

and export it?

[still wadi]

you just make it and export it

[jolly verge]

how?

[still wadi]

just make it

[jolly verge]

export it in vr chat?

in blender?

then?

ok

also

do u know how to poop as nutter butter?

idk how

no one replys to me tho

alr bi

[spiral sigil]

Just on it in general, I guess if there aint much issues with it then I'm good to go. Thanks btw

[signal helm]

Cool model

[spiral sigil]

Thanks man

[signal helm]

yeah..no problem

[spiral sigil]

This is the first proper character model I am making. Just finished the hair and the hat. Im pretty happy with how the hat turned out

Hair is tricky.. at least they way I did it, but its not too bad I think

[median harness]

i've always liked that style of hair, has a very comfy clay-esque feel to it. is cute!

been working on this for the last week:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/EYHfJcmSXfhLzuZFA

100% from scratch recreation of an MMO player character from Phantasy Star Online 2. This is her in-game, for reference.
https://i.gyazo.com/420744844c49894772fe0fe531ab64be.jpg

Think she came out pretty alright~

[signal helm]

Ooo wow

That looks very Decent and awesome

I rate more than just 100/100

[quick panther]

when i try to paint his hand it doesn't let me and when i paint the start of his arm it paints the whole thing, what can i do to paint the hand and the arm separately

[spiral sigil]

Is it unwrapped properly?

[quick panther]

what do you mean?

[spiral sigil]

Did you go into edit mode, press "U" and unwrap the model?

[quick panther]

let me go try it out

i unwrapped the model but it still doesn't let me

paint the hand

[spiral sigil]

Try smart uv unwrapping

[quick panther]

what's that

[spiral sigil]

Go into edit mode, press "U" and select smart uv unwrap

[quick panther]

''smart UV project?''

it lets me paint the hand now

thank you!

[spiral sigil]

No problem

[signal helm]

@quick panther remember to always check the UV mapping before Painting the textures!

[spiral sigil]

Not sure if these textures are final, though they are finished for now

[signal helm]

Is that Eevee or Circle rendering?

Seems like Circle to me

[round haven]

Hot damn, that's good

👀

[spiral sigil]

Its eevee

[quick panther]

how do i save textures

[signal helm]

oh nice

[vague orbit]

How do people make hair, like im looking at tutorials and everything but I just cant, need to make some messy hair

[devout scroll]

Use curves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqWYgrXw7Jk

[jolly verge]

how do u make a avatar with unity

[vague orbit]

tough thing is the top of the hair, really cant find a tutorial of it, trying to make something similar to my pfp

[jolly verge]

i mena#

how do u make a avatar

[cinder cradle]

@jolly verge blender is for that not unity.

[jolly verge]

how do i use blender for it?

[cinder cradle]

you are clearly thinking it's easy to do but watch some tutorials on yt to see how it is done.

[signal helm]

I use simple plane and add a grid on it

[vague orbit]

interesting, might have to try that because im at a loss for most things lmao

[signal helm]

Yeah you can see it on YouTube too, there's a lot of way how to create a hair

all i can do is just modelling guns and Interriors

haven't try to make a vehicles, no...not yet 😀

[jolly verge]

i cant gb

i cant get unity

it says this short cut doesnt work

there

what is wrong?

[signal helm]

Check the license@jolly verge

Settings > Preferences > License:

• Activate New Codes
  → Unity Plus / Pro
  → Unity Personal!

• Manual Activation

||{You can choose which method did you like to active it!}||

If this methods doesn't work, try re-install your unity !

[jolly verge]

i did

how do i do the licence?

[signal helm]

Check^

[vital drift]

off brand version of one of my friends avatars

[signal helm]

DNA

[vital drift]

yee

he makes amazing dna avatars so Im gonna make a off brand dna, like a mutated or under developed dna strand

[signal helm]

Lol

[jolly verge]

hey i cant get unity

why?

what version?

[velvet flame]

https://docs.vrchat.com/docs/getting-started

[visual vigil]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/669760923321499678/816202940372221952/unknown.png https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/709210012123398194/816202842397474826/unknown.png

[signal helm]

@jolly verge i'll let you know later okay

[jolly verge]

done

got unity

but i cant make avatars

cuz