3d-modeling

[tardy rapids]

Nah, it broke all the shape keys, and I didn't notice until post-unity import

though honestly, this issue is kind of a good thing. it made me look closer at all my shapekeys for the mouth

I got some really bad distortion happening in places

[runic nymph]

distortion as in polies going everywhere and it looking like a hay stack?

[tardy rapids]

Nah, there was a small group of polygons I added to fix some weird shading distortion I was getting on the upper chin

but I forgot to edit all the shapekeys to reflect it

[tardy rapids]

WOO

okay

I just copied the skinned mesh renderer from the new mesh to the old one

and that just works

thank god

I could NOT handle sitting around for another half hour copy pasting components

Never mind

didn't actually work

welp, here we go again

[tough plover]

that's why you use Pumkin's avatar tools to do it automatically

[tardy rapids]

_ _

Now if only I read this before I did all of it

[tardy rapids]

This is pretty much my vibe when remaking an avatar because of something I only noticed was an issue once I loaded the avatar into the game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po3ELarJFbM

Well, once again, it's a good thing

turns out, avatar wasn't in t-pose

and the jaw bone was down, which explains why her face was so long

[glad agate]

can someone help me with creating vertex groups? I wanna decimate my avatar in blender but I dont wanna mess it up.

[runic nymph]

you press the plus in the vertex groups list, name it, then go into edit mode on the mesh, select the verts you wish to be in it and press assign with that vertex group selected

[glad agate]

is it okay if i screen share and you tell me what to do?

[runic nymph]

can't do that right now, no

[glad agate]

hmm

[glad agate]

I need to decimate my avatar, but it always messes something up ... people told me its because it decimated seams. I dont know which part of my model seams are or what even seams are in general. I dont even know how to put them into vertex groups.

[runic nymph]

seams are lines marked on the edges of the avatar that determines the way the mesh gets "unfolded" for textures to work, decimation changes the mesh, it gets "unfolded" differently now, but the texture stays the same, and that's why it no longer looks right

[glad agate]

how do I put them into vertex groups?

[runic nymph]

theyre marked as red lines on the mesh when you go into edit mode, you can select them and add them in like i described in the first message

[glad agate]

I have no red lines

[runic nymph]

thats not edit mode

oh my bad

it is

im just blind

[glad agate]

yea but where are the red lines?

[runic nymph]

there are none, means its not using any custom seams, but there are still default seams

[glad agate]

where?

[runic nymph]

it doesn't look like the texture has much details, you could probably re-unwrap it after decimating

that would be easier

decimating the face and hands is not recommended, so that only leaves feet and hair after decimating the clothing, im not sure how well you can preserve those parts to work with the textures

i dont have much experience in decimating 😅

[glad agate]

the clothing was attached to the model by default

[runic nymph]

um, okay

[unique sigil]

I need vrc_scenedescriptor or vrc_avatardescriptor but im not sure where to find those
Can anyone help me?

[ebon crater]

Assuming you already have the SDK package installed, go to your avatar in the inspector panel and hit "Add Component", then search "VRC Avatar Descriptor"

For the scene descriptor, add it to an empty gameobject

If you need the SDK, you can find it here:
https://docs.vrchat.com/docs/setting-up-the-sdk

[unique sigil]

Oh ok ty i shall try that another time

[tardy rapids]

retopo suuuuuuucks

There's a model I made a while back, first one I ever made

actually super proud of it

BUT

I didn't know edge creases were a thing at the time

so I just used loop cuts to define edges in subdiv

so so far, starting with the shoes, I've gone from this

to this

I'll need to fix UVs later

but it's going well

[tough plover]

@tardy rapids after using subdiv, are you going to bake a normal map or try use it as-is?

[tardy rapids]

I already use subdiv, this was the result

this model WAS done, but

It came out as a bit of a mess, as you can see by the topology comparison

I'll need to completely redo the UVs, too. Which is 100% for the best.

I didn't even use UV seams. I made every detail a different material

100% unusable for VRC

[foggy granite]

So what’s the character poly count

Beforehand

[tardy rapids]

Around 78k tris

[foggy granite]

That’s not a bad start

[tardy rapids]

Just fixing the shoes has me at 68k now

[foggy granite]

How many polys did that shoe have

Actually never mind I see how

[tardy rapids]

I was hoping for some advice with texturing

When you all texture (anime-styled) models, how do you texture shading?

Where is it appropriate/where should it just be flat colors?

[thin shadow]

a flat colored avatar may not look appealing,
because in vr, it doesnt give that illusion of volume and space.
in my case, in vroid, the template they gave already has those creases and shadows on the texture, i just have to recolor or redesign it.

however, in other cases, it may be good to bake with ambient occlusion included in the baking

[thorny ivy]

Kaman, a trick I've figured out for making slopes/anything that gradually gets smaller/larger in one direction is start with basic shape (IE: rectangle), get it to roughly the length you want, and then add cuts/loops to reach the desired curve.

Might not be the cleanest but a solid way to get uniform shaping.

[neat viper]

vv much depends on the artstyle you're going for, i.e more realistic or toony - something like Poiyomi's shader or some other toon-like shader could def work with flat colors?

obv can work with a lot more than just flat colors too lol

[mellow cloud]

i have looked

every where

i have not seen a eyebrow mesh

[neat viper]

send a screenshot of the viewport? o:

[mellow cloud]

blender is not opening now

its litarly doing nothing

@neat viper i broke blender

litarly

[neat viper]

Wait a bit, Blender can take a while to load

[mellow cloud]

no i think its broke

[neat viper]

Close that tab, then launch Blender again

[mellow cloud]

i did

i got that 3 times now

[neat viper]

not super sure, sorry - check to make sure that Blender isn't open in the background already?

[mellow cloud]

nope

someone must of slamed a slim jim into my laptop last night]

@neat viper accauly my laptops been acting up since this morning

so no suprise blender broke

[thorny ivy]

Shut down, let it be for a bit, then restart.

Might help with whatever issues it's having right now. But if they persist, might wanna get it checked out.

[mellow cloud]

blender

finely opened

[tardy rapids]

From 78k down to 63k

A job well done, I'd say

[foggy granite]

What was taking up most of the poly count

[spiral sigil]

Learned UV mapping and kinda how textures work in Blender, pogger champ?

[neat viper]

nice! o:

[spiral sigil]

They're just basic blocks but honestly I'd eat them

I'm gonna try to give something simple like a minecraft player armature

[spiral sigil]

I watch these tutorials and it's either they start with using some human template and deleting 90% of the features while explaining nothing about why what's wherever, how to bones themselves work, and if they do take a slow manual approach it like, hardly works for some reason, probably because of there being different versions? I'll just wing it until I find a good solution on my own

[foggy granite]

Armature is funky finding tutorials

But if you looking for extremely simple rig you can use the rigfiy addon and spawn in the basic humanoid rig

[thorny ivy]

Totally redid the blade's mesh, was not happy with how it turned out. Too round and just weirdly-shaped to look good up-close. Took a entirely-different approach with making this version, think the results are infinitely better + way less geo overall.

@foggy granite Did some edge creasing too, how does it look this time around?

[foggy granite]

Nice job it is looking more like common dark ages sword

[prime nexus]

is there a way to make mesh disappear in a shapekey?

[obsidian nova]

Not that I know of, but you could always just add an “active” off animation to your animation once you import it into Unity.

[azure rain]

doing that would still have it rendering the mesh

[prime nexus]

oof alright thanks

[azure rain]

and it would also be having to run you blendshape calculations on your props every frame whereas using an animation to turn off the mesh render actually has it no longer rendering

[foggy granite]

Nice

Should give him like a mini logo on his chest plate

[unborn acorn]

planning to add more details later on

[foggy granite]

Alright

Any props planned

[neat viper]

vv cool! o:

[unborn acorn]

a sword

[foggy granite]

Sword and sheild combo would be nice

[unborn acorn]

was kinda thinking like ainz

[foggy granite]

I was getting kinda dark knight vubr so yeah that make sense

But yeah I’m interested and seeing how the props turn out

[tardy rapids]

What was the beginning and now is the end of the Emi retopo project is done; with the shoes completely finished and the UVs not just fixed, but completely improved.

[foggy granite]

Nice

[split aspen]

Tanjiro WIp 1

[tardy rapids]

Decided to bake AO maps on the model I remade

[tardy rapids]

Final counts:

Polygons: 78k to 61k
Materials: 15+ to 4
Meshes: 8 to 1
Self-satisfaction: 3 to 9/10

I also added full blender IK in case I ever decide to use her for stuff in blender

[modest shell]

i was making a blender edit and all my visemes are now exploding, do you guys know why this happened or how to fix it?

[quaint jasper]

on your face ?

[modest shell]

no on all the body

[ionic summit]

Do you guys know how to avoid that an object gets back to its original scale/position after I merge the armor with another one?

[foggy granite]

Crtl+A

Apply all transformations

[tardy rapids]

Also got some eyebrows hidden away. Gotta see if I can get them to render over the hair and hat

[foggy granite]

Hmm

[ionic summit]

Thanks, will try that!

[tough plover]

if you changed some of the geometry, you most likely will fuck up the shape keys.

to fix issues of shape keys affecting parts of the mesh they should not, select the vertices that are moving but should not (like the body in this case), have the Basis shape key selected, and use Vertex > Propagate to Shapes

[modest shell]

normally i would agree but this wasn't a light movement ... it just made the model fully explode. every verteces were getting pulled in a direction very hard. I redone the model and it's not occuring anymore.

[quaint jasper]

If it was just the body then shape propagate would have solved it

It just means you edited the mesh that had shapekeys, and doing that is a nono

[zinc jolt]

Hey guys

So basically I found something

It's 63,640 polygons total as well

Called Geist_max8

It's about $15 on sale

And it's by the creator of Five Nights at Freddy's, Scott Cawthon

[foggy granite]

What about it

Is it this https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/3ds-max-monster/437403

[zinc jolt]

Yes

[limpid skiff]

I am looking to hire a 3d artist experienced in making avatar clothes.
It is a complicated design but will be well drawn in a formal character sheet.

Please DM me if interested.

[sand sapphire]

When you make that change, there’s a small window on the bottom left corner of your screen (it will disappear if you click anywhere else so be careful of your movement) it will be a window that is specifically related to the most current change you did. It will have a box that says “apply transformations” and you can change that, when you do, there will be an immediate visual change to know you did it correctly

[ionic summit]

Will check that as well, thanks!

[tough plover]

may be best to head over to VRC Traders linked in #community-servers-old for commission work

[tardy rapids]

Well, filling out my portfolio. I now need help deciding who I should start with of these four
https://twitter.com/Kamanira/status/1406980833156767745

Kamanira - Commissions CLOSED (@Kamanira)

You thought my work couldn't get hornier without being NSFW?

YOU UNDERESTIMATE MY POWER WHILE CCC EXISTS

Twitter · Jun 21, 2021, 2:22 PM

[foggy granite]

Them arms look fun

[tardy rapids]

Passionlip (Top left) will be a challenge due to the detailing on her hands (but much easier to weight)
BB (Top Right) should be relatively easy aside from her leggings
Meltryllis (Bottom Left) is the same as Passionlip, but her legs instead of the arms
Kingprotea (Bottom right) is just asymmetrical texture hell. Also really, REALLY big.

Like

Massive

Which I probably won't be able to translate into VRC, but still

[foggy granite]

Which one you planning on work on first

Top left seems to be the easy since you can just cut out the design of leggings or trace over it and put on top of leggings texture

[tardy rapids]

Yeah, that's the plan

and I mean hey

I won't need to do too much crazy hand-drawn texture stuff

the original models had hand-drawn textures because it was on PSP

but now that I've realized normal maps baked from sculpts exist...

Should make things easier

Yep, gonna start with Passionlip

Also AO maps

[neat viper]

This isn't the place to advertise services, I'd recommend looking into VRCTraders or https://ask.vrchat.com/c/commissions/world-commissions/34 instead c:

[unkempt lynx]

👍

[haughty gate]

Hello, lads, I am creating my first avatar and am just about ready to die. Any one have any idea why when I weight paint on a bone, patches of weight will appear on different bones even though I didn't interact with them at all? Anyone had this issue? I swear I have it every time I attempt this

[tardy rapids]

Unless you selected another bone, the weight should only be on the bone (which going by your screenshot, it's still weighted to that one bone)

Likely answer: your weight paint was slipping over to the other polygons by accident

[tough plover]

I think the issue is that they have X mirroring on, and are accidentally drawing over the hand on the other side of the body

causing it to be mirrored to this side

solution: select the area you're trying to weight paint in Edit mode (xray helps), then switch back to weight paint mode and enable vertex/face selection

that will limit your ability to weight paint to the part that you selected

[haughty gate]

The hands are actually separate objects and aren't being selected at the same time. I'm isolating one hand at a time. They aren't mirrored and X-mirroring is off in the weight-paint options. Thanks for the suggestion though - this shit is mind-numbing.

[tardy rapids]

So goddamn massive I had to pretty much take up the entire front of the chest and make unique topography. Goddamn.

This character

[haughty gate]

Damn my girls gonna have some back problems haha

[neat viper]

rule 3

[haughty gate]

Would you really count that as NSFW? It's just the topology of the model

[tardy rapids]

I don't see anything NSFW here.

[neat viper]

I definitely would count it as NSFW, the rule itself states that If you have to ask, it is probably NSFW.

[tardy rapids]

Eh, it's model topology. If I'd done something actually NSFW like having nipples slapped on, then yeah, 100%

[foggy granite]

yeah

if it was nsfw alot people in this community would be banned

[tight quartz]

🤔 Reason for it to be doing this in Unity?

[quaint jasper]

your normals are flipped

[tight quartz]

I know nothing about normals.

Tell me about it. 🤔

[quaint jasper]

edit mode, alt + N

[tight quartz]

And "Flip" option

?

Ah yes

I figured it out. ❤️

[quaint jasper]

[tight quartz]

Ty. :3

[lime vector]

Is there any way I can ask someone who is extremely knowledgeable in blender to help me understand issues I'm having with a model I have in blender? I really could use the help if anyone would like to be in a call

[thorny ivy]

Well, that depends on what said issues are. Different people know different things so giving us some basic info would help figure out who can actually give you a hand.

[lime vector]

ok so I commissioned for a model which is finished. the only thing I need to do is set up for bones and facial tracking I'll be using for it. The issue is when I open the FBX file on blender, all the textures come out black, except for the skin and eyes. I don't really know how to fix texture issues. I was viewing it in viewport shading mode. and I tried to maybe adjust the alphas or whatever. but I noticed the material ball is black also.

it looks like this

[thorny ivy]

Hrm, that makes me think the textures might just be missing. Depending on how the maker set things up, Blender might not know where the textures are but know they do exist; hence the black.

Alternatively, the viewport color for the afflicted material might be set to black; seems to be an issue with imported models.

[lime vector]

oii... how can I apply them? the material balls are blank. and I try to do the open new image texture I dont think worked for me

the viewport color? ok lemme see

is that this area?

[thorny ivy]

Honestly, I'd contact the maker and see if they can actually send you a proper package. Seems bad practice to make you go through all this effort for something you paid for.

[lime vector]

ok ok thank you, I will try contacting them. Thank you cinna

[thorny ivy]

Welcome! My knowledge is fairly limited when it comes to material-based stuff but yeah, just seems like bad form to send a semi-functional model.

[lime vector]

yeah, hopefully they can help fix the issue because I'm confident in rigging the rest of everything in unity and stuff. Learning blender and unity is just alot for me ;-;

[lime vector]

oh ok it says I'm missing some of those textures... I am gussing they didn't send me the texture files for the FBX file and only for the unity file

thank you, I'll ask them if they can send the missing files

[slim robin]

Don't know if here is a better spot to ask this. Trying to export my model and rig from Blender using CATS but it's throwing this error. Not sure how to resolve.

[tough plover]

if you are using blender 2.93, don't

either use 2.92 (will need to grab it from the archive) or use 2.83

[slim robin]

Damn, I was afraid that was the case. I'll try and snag an older build.

Thank

[tardy rapids]

wip of big booba lady from Fate

[still wadi]

@lime vector sorry but seems like u got ripped off

@lime vector no proper modeler would give u an unfinished model or u just ordered something u had no idea about

[still wadi]

https://i.imgur.com/wM3mciz.png

[spiral sigil]

Hello

Wondering if anyone can help me

Does anyone know where to get the VCR_Avatar Descriptor? I want to add like weapons onto my avatar

Or is there some other type of way to do it?

[tough plover]

the avatar descriptor is required for uploading any avatar. you just need to have the VRChat SDK imported

for weapons, you would just drag them onto the hand in the hierarchy, and enable/disable the gameobject using animations

[spiral sigil]

The VRChat SDK importer has the VCR_Avatar Descriptor?

[tough plover]

the avatar descriptor component comes with the SDK, yes

[spiral sigil]

There’s like so much videos on YouTube and in their menu they have VCR_Avatar Descriptor

[tough plover]

it's VRC, not VCR...

[spiral sigil]

Where can I get the SDK Importer

[echo hatch]

Hm

[spiral sigil]

Right sorry

[tough plover]

that's not what I said, I just said "VRChat SDK"

you get that from the vrchat website after logging in, in the "Downloads" section

[spiral sigil]

SDK2?

[tough plover]

make sure to download the 3.0 SDK for avatars

[spiral sigil]

This avatar uses SDK2

[tough plover]

there is nothing specific about a model that makes it SDK2 or SDK3

[spiral sigil]

So I download the 3 then

[tough plover]

first though, do you already have the 2.0 SDK in your project?

[spiral sigil]

No

[tough plover]

alright, then yes, download the 3.0

[spiral sigil]

Ok

I’ll see what happens, for now thank you

@tough plover this is what I’m looking for

[tough plover]

that is the old 2.0 SDK

there is no reason to be using 2.0 in 2021

[austere gorge]

I have a small question in material viewer this occures in blender any reason this happens?

[tough plover]

@spiral sigil also, move to #avatar-help

[lime vector]

They responded and told me its because since it was on another blender program the textures will blacken and I have to manually load the textures but I don't think I've had that issue with other models before when using blender :c

[foggy granite]

Did they send it to you as fbx

Or obj

Because when you import those the textures automatically apply

[still wadi]

@lime vector even besides that is it rigged ? does it have facial emotes ?

[lime vector]

it has emotes, I picked their non rigged option because I'm confident I can rig and add dynamic bones myself. They gave me the full unity package along with the FBX file with textures but I think I'm missing textures. I was just going to export it as a humanoid VRM and just throw it back into blender to make the facial keyshapes for my iphone tracker but I couldn't because they didn't add any bones so I can't change the rig type to humanoid. I assumed the package atleast came with bones and not rigged but I suppose that's a part of the rigged option.

They live in a different time zone for me so I have to wait 12 hours for responses unfortunately. I've been trying to figure out the texturing but I really just cant lol

[still wadi]

i see

[foggy granite]

So it’s a scenario where you’re hands are tie for now

[lime vector]

si si

[foggy granite]

I would so another scan of the model and note any other issues so we you get in contact with the commissioner he can fix it

[lime vector]

Yes thank you for the advice I appreciate it 💖

[tardy rapids]

Current plan is to pretty much just model the straps, shorts, and heels, and then just texture everything else onto the body, since most of it's a skin suit

Actually, might model the black parts of the clothes as part of the straps

[foggy granite]

Honestly, would it be better to have the hands as a toggle

And just activate it on and off when need

[quaint jasper]

I don't think I understand that shading, where is the light meant to come from ?

[foggy granite]

i say its a decent start but been a while since made head

[still wadi]

@quaint jasper oh here https://i.imgur.com/4obhmtI.png

[quaint jasper]

Ah, that was just to show the ass, got it

[still wadi]

can i post butt ?

i can show non shaded one

[quaint jasper]

if there's clothing sure, discord might not allow it tho

Where's the clothing

[still wadi]

u can delete if it's toomuch

[quaint jasper]

u do it

[still wadi]

no u

thx

u just needed some time to save it

i understand

wanna see whole model ?

[quaint jasper]

If it's clothed yeah

[still wadi]

https://i.imgur.com/QqKZdA0.png

[quaint jasper]

dayum

the hair is crazy

did you paint the hair tuft shadows on the tail too ?

[still wadi]

tuft shadows ?

[quaint jasper]

the tiny hair spikes

[still wadi]

oh yea

[quaint jasper]

Neat

[still wadi]

wanna see more ?

i made nagatoro

recently

[quaint jasper]

Yeah i've seen those on your twitter, looks great, surprised you didn't get a lot more attention for that

[still wadi]

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

u seen this ?

[quaint jasper]

yeah, i feel like you even posted it here

[still wadi]

hmm

[quaint jasper]

might have been just the faces actually

But that looks great

[still wadi]

yee thanks

[quaint jasper]

I'm guessing you have no plan on making the MC as well ?

[still wadi]

no boys

i'm no good at them

yet

[quaint jasper]

https://tenor.com/view/understandable-have-nice-day-have-a-great-day-have-a-good-day-nice-gif-20850110

[still wadi]

i'm just sexist

i hate boys

[quaint jasper]

I'm sure you'll make great boys eventually

[still wadi]

ye ye

[tardy rapids]

anime head shape be like

Forehead

[foggy granite]

At least it's not overly sized eyes

[tardy rapids]

someone say oversized eyes?

[foggy granite]

Oh no

[tardy rapids]

Joke, the real update

[foggy granite]

Everything looks decent besides the lips

But that can easily be fix

[austere gorge]

I managed to update an old model but due to the long time it took for me to update this model (was originally for sfm) I kinda want to try and get this in vrchat though i need to relearn bones and a small error i need to fix on the hair but im happy with the progress.

[foggy granite]

Neet

Are you making it quest compatible

[austere gorge]

well idk tbh i use a quest but run off PC vrchat. if i can get help fixing the problem in relearning the weights for the dress to go with the legs and the weird jank in the hair when i mirrored it. once i get it done for my personal use i may consider getting it working for quest. but not sure how much extra work that will require.

[lime marlin]

Made eye generator in substance 😄

[tardy rapids]

This was easy

and fun

edit view

[foggy granite]

Looks good should look even better once you get the texture on

And also I think some straps would be a nice addition

[tardy rapids]

Yeah, might add a strap at the top

[tardy rapids]

The current state

[languid fog]

Sometimes, the head is so fckn big that you cant even think on a way to do the hair properly

[tardy rapids]

More often than not for me, it's a case of there being too much hair and not being able to tell where the head ends

[languid fog]

Yeah

[languid fog]

Looking good, just the hip is kinda weird

Dunno if it is the perspective

[tardy rapids]

Yeah, the hip is weird. Really flat.

Doesn't matter now though, it was just a placeholder until I did this.

[tardy rapids]

slight shape change

[foggy granite]

Where’s the change

[tardy rapids]

Bottom of the pants turn inwards a bit more sharply towards the center so there's less clipping

[foggy granite]

Oh I see it

[tardy rapids]

original model vs mine without the hands (with obviously super wip textures)

[merry vault]

Sus Index

[tardy rapids]

for a better comparison

[quaint jasper]

You're remaking an existing model side by side ?

[tardy rapids]

Yep

I'm pretty much just treating it as a reference like you would any reference art

[still wadi]

wait you're basically tracing

a literal 3d tracing

never seen that

lmao

[tardy rapids]

Well, you're not wrong.

But just for reference, I don't usually do this kind of '3D tracing'

It just comes down to there being 0 decent concept art of the character. Almost all concept art of Passionlip has different proportions

That said, I have done work without any proper references

The Emi model I did, and the Me!Me!Me! model I made were mostly interpretation

The Me!Me!Me! model was made using official concept art from Japan Animator Expo

The Emi model was made using screenshots from the 30 second animation TwistedGrim put out using the design

Of course I can't post either of these, because Me!Me!Me! is very much borderline NSFW, and the Emi video had its moments

[thorny ivy]

Ran into some issues with my avatar's chest geo.

She's well-endowed but the median looks... off with how it is currently.

Not sure how to make it feel natural.

[tardy rapids]

I'll be honest-- sometimes it looks more natural (if you're not looking too closely) if you make them clip into each other. Helps give them a more natural "squished together" look for clothing. At least in my experience.

[pallid merlin]

I was wondering if someone could make me a avatar for free, should be simple

[azure rain]

unlikely to happen as Avatar making is pretty complicated and there's a couple of tools I can generate unique avatars easily you could use https://readyplayer.me/vrchat

[tough plover]

nothing simple about avatar creation lol

only gets "simple" once you've been doing it for a long time

[azure rain]

and that gets more in the ballpark of just having lots of stuff you can glue together as far as "simple" avatars

[tardy rapids]

Head over to the VRCTraders discord and ask in the free avatar requests channel

The odds of someone taking the request if it has any level of complexity is low, but its better than nothing

After all, most people are there to make a living

[tough plover]

very nice as always 👌

question, how are you doing the creasing? baked a normal map from a higher poly version with the details sculpted in? or are you using a brush/generator in substance

[topaz reef]

Baking yes

[tough plover]

alrighty, nice

[topaz reef]

high and low version

[quaint jasper]

How many poly does the low end up being ?

[topaz reef]

on the low 12k

[tough plover]

neato

[quaint jasper]

yeah for this much curve that's awesome

[tough plover]

did this with just a generator in substance, but I've also done baking before aswell

it's a bit harder to control this way though

so I may try to actually do it in blender and then import the normal map in substance

[quaint jasper]

It's more difficult to paint the normal ?

[tough plover]

it's not painted

it's like a noise texture projected in 3D

controlling the height

[quaint jasper]

Ok, so why not paint the normal directly in substance ?

[tough plover]

because I didn't know how to do that xD but now just thinking it through I think I got it figured out

I am still very new to substance

this is like my 4th project using it

I learn quickly

I could probably just create a new fill layer, disable all but height, and just use a soft brush to paint over a black mask

[tough plover]

what are you using for these "renders"?

[tough plover]

is this just in substance or?

[topaz reef]

blender

[tough plover]

ah alright

[topaz reef]

idk how to use sb for that xD

[quaint jasper]

That's one large head

[tough plover]

I think it's just that the neck is short

[topaz reef]

😅 egg head

[tough plover]

/ covered up

looks very good as always though 👍

[quaint jasper]

yeah it looks great

[tardy rapids]

Working on the belt

[quaint jasper]

Where the sharp edges at

[tardy rapids]

Funnily enough, I do have creases on it

Blender isn't respecting them though

[tardy rapids]

any tips on how to change that?

[tough plover]

to make it smoother, try putting bevels on the top and bottom edges

[spiral sigil]

Anyone know how to create textures from scratch?

[tough plover]

image editing program, or something better like Substance painter

make sure the thing you want to texture is already UV unwrapped though

[spiral sigil]

Alright.

Cheers mate.

[tough plover]

I recommend substance, very powerful

@spiral sigil

[spiral sigil]

Alright.

Is it free?

[tough plover]

no, it's very expensive, but it's free if you are a student

or even if you are not, you can just say you are a student

[spiral sigil]

Ah.

[tough plover]

and send in literally anything as your proof

like a picture of a potato

[spiral sigil]

Alright.

Cheers mate.

[tough plover]

👍

[tardy rapids]

I swear, these belts make everything look better

Just need to add to bit to the buckle

done

[tardy rapids]

Oh god what have I done

the unwrap is boob shaped

A bit of strap detailing

NSFW filter

Most SFW one so far

o

k

I change the angle and show MORE BOOB

and its fine I guess

Discord filters am I right

anyways yeah

giving itmore of that "String attached to a strap" look

[foggy granite]

looks good

i just cant get over how ludicrous size them melons are

[thorny ivy]

They secretly store her organs.

So much of the chest was enveloped, no other place to go.

On the other pole of the body, l e g g

[foggy granite]

thats a nice leg

mind showing the wireframe

[thorny ivy]

Sure!

[foggy granite]

looks clean

i cant wait to see the finish model

[thorny ivy]

I'll admit the base isn't mine, used Panda's, but I've put in a lot of work in altering it.

Haven't done a proper comparison in a long while though.

These pics alone should show just how much time and effort I've put in.

[foggy granite]

hmm

[thorny ivy]

The calves definitely had the most work done, can't look at any Panda avatar below the thighs because of how wrong the lower half looks to me now that I've noticed.

Used a combination of sculpting and bone rotating to align the leg more proper + give it a more natural shape as well.

Making significant changes to the toes as well. Making them larger, prepping them for claws, and also look more natural too. None of them even touched near the balls of the feet and looks just... disproportionately small.

Original model's toes.

[austere gorge]

I'm having alittle issue with my model i have it converted to an FBX file for unity but now it removed my textures. I went to place textures back on it and not all of it goes back on the model not sure what happened here

[willow grotto]

It's been a very long time since I last 3D modeled. I've been considering on getting back into it and wanted to give a try on anime-esque style! Any tips and critique anybody could provide me? Anything would be appreciated at this point, I'm struggling with the hair currently and can't seem to find a semi-decent technique for doing them.

[cobalt aurora]

Sup guys, need a lil blender help
I got both my face and body from deviant art. I uploaded a few versions to vrchat and everything works fine.
Tho now that i try to merge the face and body mesh it messes up the textures (Applying eye texture to body or applying body texture to the face)
At first i though that this was a Blender bug so i tried it in unity and it doesnt apply the texture there correctly aswell.
If anyone knows what going on here, please send me a DM.
Thanks in advance!

[tardy rapids]

You probably had two materials that were named the same, one on each mesh

When you merged the meshes, one overwrite the other

[tardy rapids]

There is a story reason for her boobs being the size of a small planet, even if it is a bit weird. She's an AI. Her boobs are her recycling bin.

[foggy granite]

If that not some funky anime logic I don't know what is

[tardy rapids]

Her entire thing is kinda the destruction of data

She has an ability called "Trash and Crash"

[foggy granite]

Yeah that's fine it just gives me a quick chuckle every time I see them

[tardy rapids]

Where if she closes her hands together, everything in her field of view between her hands, regardless of size, strength, or distance, is compacted into a tiny cube

Think of it like crushing someone's head with your fingers, but it actually works

[foggy granite]

So she legit a combat recycling plant

[tardy rapids]

Sounds about right

Basically, if you're in her line of sight

Get out of it

[foggy granite]

The ideas people come up with never cease to amaze me

[tardy rapids]

Fate/Extra CCC was a particularly weird game

[foggy granite]

But don't seem dull if they coming up with them type of characters

Kamanira are gonna start working hands today

[tardy rapids]

Maybe. I still gotta do a bit more work on the main body

Like texturing her pants

[foggy granite]

Alright

[tardy rapids]

Though, I'd really like to make Trash and Crash a thing using a shader

I've seen shaders do crazy things

Doubt it'd work though

Plus, I have no idea how to code shaders

[foggy granite]

Shaders are good looking but I have no clue about them ether

[tardy rapids]

Maybe if it was possible to make a shader affect everything only the user using it sees, and scales it down to a cube, it'd work. Not actually scaling though, just visually

[foggy granite]

Sounds like that would work a lot better in unity

[tardy rapids]

Well yeah, I mean for like

a VRC animation

If I wanted to do trash and crash in blender, I'd physically scale everything down

[foggy granite]

Yeah I see a mix of blendshapes and a lot of effects to get that to work

But besides that any shaders planned for body

[tardy rapids]

Not totally sure yet

I might go for more natural shading

[foggy granite]

Okay

[tardy rapids]

Doing some sculpting for normals

[tardy rapids]

Pre normal bake

post

[tough plover]

very nice 👌

[tardy rapids]

Okay, pretty much done the body. Just gotta do the upper straps, the pants textures, and some texture painting

then I'll finish up the head, do the hair, and then...

Hands

[oak notch]

You're making progress, but don't beat yourself up whether you have to redo the face a few time

[tardy rapids]

Speaking of Texture paint, god it's useful

I literally never used it before now

[tough plover]

texture paint in blender is alright but substance is miles better lol

[tardy rapids]

I've always hand made UVs in an art program

[oak notch]

substance?

[tough plover]

Substance painter

one sec

[tardy rapids]

Yeah but

Adobe

[tough plover]

super powerful

[tardy rapids]

yeah, I can see that

[tough plover]

can do stuff like fabric textures in a few clicks

[tardy rapids]

just really not a fan of Adobe

at all

[tough plover]

substance is free if you say you're a student

https://substance3d.adobe.com/education/

[tardy rapids]

Ehhhhhh

not a fan of the potential legal ramifications

[tough plover]

yea that's not gonna happen lol

their verification system is so bad, they like don't even check anything

you can send in a picture of a potato as your proof of enrollment and they will accept it

I've heard of a few people doing that

[wheat delta]

now if Adobe actually made Substance part of Creative Cloud the package might be kinda worth it if you use it every day

[white moth]

Oh god why would you do that to yourself. Blender is good for sketching things out, substance painter if you want a full layered photoshop/gimp level toolset to paint directly on models

[lone thorn]

Hi, I'm very new to avatar creation and I'm working on my first kitbash model. I had to cut every piece in half to edit them in Blender, and now I'm at the point where I need to deal with some UVs that got messed up and mirroring to make it full, etc. I have no clue how to do this and would appreciate some guidance.

[lone thorn]

This is what I need help with. I really have no clue how to deal with UVs, and I'm very lost.

[quaint jasper]

Why is half of the body missing ?

[lone thorn]

Because I had to edit it and it needs to get mirrored.

[white moth]

FYI there is a mirror edits toggle on edit mode to edit both sides of a model without needing to use a mirror modifier

[lone thorn]

I might know what you're talking about, but it didn't seem to do anything when I used it, so this is what I ended up doing. This is just how it is now, and I'd appreciate some one-on-one help since google and youtube tutorials haven't given me the information I need or understand.

[blissful ore]

Anyone experienced with blender please give me a call or a message. Been trying to figure out how to change some shapes to put on a avatar but can't find out how it works.

Got a model from sketch fab and tried to make it fit in Unity but it breaks it and I have no clue on what to do when attaching it to my avatar actually

Just learned how to do clothes but this is way far out of my leage

[white moth]

Yeah it can be finicky if the model is already slightly misaligned the mirror edit stops working as it does not find verts at the exact opposite location

[tardy rapids]

Texturing is being worked on

adding the details will be a pain, though

[foggy granite]

Oh a choker

[tardy rapids]

made the materials less shiny

Gonna me tricky to give depth to the sleeves though

[austere bolt]

I made subway train model for world

[quaint jasper]

Neat !

[tardy rapids]

My GOD forehead

[tardy rapids]

Final update for now. Taking a break because Burnout's starting to set in

[river tulip]

Could anyone point me to start making things from scratch? A decent a tutorial video or tips?

[hardy salmon]

https://youtu.be/TPrnSACiTJ4 this is how I learned

[river tulip]

Thanks, I was shown this a few times before, I'm looking for more of character making.

[tardy rapids]

Gotta start to walk before you get running

[foggy granite]

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2EEbgwoJzdt5kFVDyY2lliNqf7cWJeD3

[foggy granite]

@river tulip

[river tulip]

Thanks

[foggy granite]

np

[gritty zinc]

how's this

[toxic gate]

Nice!!

[foggy granite]

Atlas destroyer?

[tardy rapids]

https://twitter.com/bailey_tattoo/status/1408199125196165122

bailey 🖤 (@bailey_tattoo)

I cancelled my Substance subscription, @Adobe you fuck up everything you touch 🖤

Twitter · Jun 24, 2021, 11:03 PM

[still wadi]

i though this was channel for 3d modeling

not for some priviledged kids crying on twitter

[spiral sigil]

holy shite this is good is it for sale?

[topaz reef]

i gonna put it for sell later i think

idk it yet

😅

[tough plover]

you could probably make some decent money selling your assets

[spiral sigil]

Its quality for sure trust me you can make some decent money if lots of your work is like that ^

[tough plover]

@spiral sigil+ in the discord search bar, type in "from: Q. has: image"

[spiral sigil]

very dapper

[dapper cobalt]

[tardy rapids]

Eh, I just like piling on hate for Adobe

I'm not the person that wrote the tweet, I'd never spend a dime on Adobe in this day and age

I just remembered people talking about Substance yesterday, so I thought I'd drop this here to add to my reasons I wouldn't use it

[vivid crater]

🤡

[heavy field]

So I am very new to changing things on my own but are there any alternatives to substance painter or am I basically just stuck with that as my best option

[raven elk]

Dude...why did you delete my posts again?

I was merely nice and ask you a question which is up for discussion with this topic and I'm willing to wait longer if anyone answer my question and quickly, you delete my post which none of you do not answer my question...Just stop deleting my post without answering will you?

[foggy granite]

https://quixel.com/mixer?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=mixer exact responsive search&utm_campaign=search brand

[heavy field]

🙌 thank you

[foggy granite]

np

[south hearth]

does anyone know if you can export blender greasepencil to unity for a vrchat model?

[latent raptor]

anyone have any idea why using 'fix model' or 'join meshes' in the CATS plugin causes my character's hair, ears, and other extra parts to disappear?

also for some reason throws the avi's tail up in the air

it appears pressing 'apply transformations' does the same thing

[quaint jasper]

You'd have to transform it into a mesh

[quaint jasper]

Apply transforms before merging

select all and ctrl + A

[latent raptor]

Why does applying transforms make them fly away like that is the question

[quaint jasper]

Can you screenshot the hierarchy ?

[latent raptor]

its an absolute mess, thats probably why

[lone thorn]

So last time I posted I didn't get any help. Trying again. I'd like to talk to someone one-on-one for guidance because google and youtube have not been helping. UVs are extremely confusing to me.

[quaint jasper]

Did you apply a mirror modifier ?

[lone thorn]

I'm not doing that yet because the I want to fix what's broken before I make it worse. Also, when mirror modifier was mentioned no one explained how to do it

[quaint jasper]

Mirror modifier automatically copies what you do on the side that exists

You go to the modifier tab, select mirror, done

[lone thorn]

What is the modifier tab

[quaint jasper]

A great thing to google !

[lone thorn]

Wow, real help

[quaint jasper]

That'll help you a lot to learn the blender basics

Trying to make a custom model without know the most basic menus is going to be a severe handicap

It'll also make people not want to help you, which you seemed to struggle with

[south hearth]

Thanks, i'll look how to do it

[thorny ivy]

We can provide help but don't think anyone here wants to hold your hand for the whole process.

But you really should at least have basic knowledge before attempting to make something as big as an avatar.

[languid fog]

Some anime anatomy study for today, still a lot of practice yet but a least it is the best topology i already have done tbh

credits to @taco1704, he have a lot of topology help study content, recommend taking a look on his twitter

[gritty zinc]

Yep

[gritty zinc]

@foggy granite more progress

[still wadi]

@quaint jasper how dare u not helping all this people

[quaint jasper]

You know more than me lmao

[still wadi]

sorry was meant to be sarcastic

[quaint jasper]

[still wadi]

should've exaggerated it more

[foggy granite]

Nice

[raw jetty]

can anyone please help me, i went to sleep and my cats plugin was fine, i wake up and it looks like this, ive restarted bledner and nothing, i restarted my pc and nothing

[tough plover]

just enable the add-on again?

like you would enable any blender addon?

[raw jetty]

enable it? do i do that in preferences

[tough plover]

yes

[raw jetty]

key maps?

[raw jetty]

i tried to reinstall the cats plugin and got this

[tough plover]

make sure you are using the latest version of the CATS plugin

also, which version of blender are you using?

[raw jetty]

i was doing it wrong i was using keymaps not add ons, but i installed it and it went through but at the slider arrow there isnt all that is supposed to eb there

[raw jetty]

2.83

[tardy rapids]

back to work for me

[tardy rapids]

Got the sleeves to work out

[still wadi]

https://i.imgur.com/HujHb3t.png

kuma kuma bear

[foggy granite]

Nice

[stray tulip]

Someone has a tutorial or something on anime hair texturing? I'd like to learn a little~

[tardy rapids]

Pants textured

[cobalt aurora]

Sup guys, having a small issue, i cut this mesh apart some time ago, but had to stitch it back together using cats, tho now im running into the issue that eventhough i molded it back together it seems like these parts are still registering as seperate pieces, anyone a idea how to fix this?

[dapper cobalt]

what does your hierarchy look like? did you just slam it in and click "fix model?" ....need more data

[mellow cloud]

can someone just tell me how to use avatar skin replace

[stray thistle]

this is Axe from league of legends

how is it guys ?

[tardy rapids]

Looks real good

[tardy rapids]

dear God, I just loaded up the original model's arms

this is gonna be

hoo boy

Rigging? No problem, it's all mechanical joints

Actually modelling/texturing?

Oh boy

[tardy rapids]

Just realized I had Filmic on. Should really set that to default standard. Filmic vs standard

[tardy rapids]

Face is pretty much done

[tardy rapids]

Tiny update, but did some slight reshaping to the mouth and added the shines to the eyes

[merry tapir]

I second that

[gritty zinc]

no hair?

[dusty heron]

Eye shine makes it look so much better.

[tardy rapids]

working on it

[thorny ivy]

Kamanira didn't like hair at first but hey, it grew on them.

[foggy granite]

Really

[tardy rapids]

Wireframe of the model so far

[foggy granite]

Wait I just noticed she dosen't have any knees

Give her knees

[quaint jasper]

That's a lot of loops

[foggy granite]

Yeah I agree

Some of them loop cuts look pretty redundant

[tardy rapids]

She does, in fact, have knees

[foggy granite]

Yeah you should make that more define

[still wadi]

Any tracer mains ?

[tardy rapids]

I used to play Tracer back when I played OW

[obsidian nova]

I'm starting to re-topo a frankenstein base model I made early last year. I still can't believe how awful my topology was...

Before:

After:

[foggy granite]

That's a huge improvement

[tardy rapids]

Absolutely massive

well done

Especially at the wrist

[obsidian nova]

Thanks, Instant Meshes did most of the work for me; but the clean up job is still pretty time consuming.

[foggy granite]

What the poly count

[obsidian nova]

On the hand? 2015 polygons

[foggy granite]

Not bad

[tardy rapids]

Right now, I'm working on Passionlip's hair

It's got asymmetrical bangs, so I'll need to do some cleanup after I'm done to make them

[foggy granite]

Quick question why not try using curves to make hair

[tardy rapids]

Because I've never even once worked with them

[foggy granite]

Well always time to experiment I can tell you how to set them up

And also edit them

[quaint jasper]

You should definitely be using the time to learn better workflows

You'll end up with better looking results

[foggy granite]

Yup

Honestly using curves is pretty simple once you get the hang of it

[tardy rapids]

Well, was doing the hair with curves, and it looked fine until...

I turned sideways

Bezier curves in 3D are gonna be a pain, huh

[foggy granite]

im gonna tell you one thing you doing that completely wrong

[tardy rapids]

ahhhhhhh

okay, one, I completely forgot to turn them into Vector curves

two, how wrong am I doing this

[foggy granite]

so one thing you need to set up

[tardy rapids]

AHHHHH okay

I get it

[foggy granite]

so spawn a path and a bezier curve

[tardy rapids]

So basically, when it becomes a mesh

it pretty much extrudes along that path to make the mesh, yeah?

as if the path was to be extruded into a mesh, kinda

you know what I mean

[foggy granite]

yes and no

its not mesh yet so can still change the shape

[tardy rapids]

Okay, added the path and the bezier

now what? Anything specific?

[foggy granite]

click on the path then to the tab that look like a rope and 2 squares which also is green

[tardy rapids]

yep

[foggy granite]

click on the geometry tab then bevel under object you should see bezier curve

click on it

[tardy rapids]

okay, added

[foggy granite]

then you should be able to change the shape of circle to modify how the stands look

and if you click on the path you can use alt+s to scale the hair up and down

[tardy rapids]

Okay, that's working

[foggy granite]

neat

[latent raptor]

alrighty, i have a tricky one here but its the last issue i can see on my avi's clothes

let me upload a gif

i cant turn my character's arm to have her hands upwards (a normal movement) without her clothes twisting and deforming like this

its most noticable at the wrists

yes, ive weight painted

[quaint jasper]

I don't think you weight painted correctly

Looks like it's affected by too many bones

[latent raptor]

maybe? i can check

one second

what bones would be affecting it too much? should the arm not effect the elbow at all

[quaint jasper]

To a very small extent

It should end the gradient around the elbow

[latent raptor]

so this is Left Elbow painting

Left Arm painting

i should move that gradient up on the left arm?

when i separated them both a bit this is what i get

[quaint jasper]

Yeah that arm is too low strength and forearm is too high

[latent raptor]

would .8 be a more suitable strength for the forearm?

[quaint jasper]

Also your twist bone may be making it worse

You can't have the same strength on the whole arm, but most of it should be red yes

[latent raptor]

maybe i should delete those given i removed the base on the arm

does this look a bit more correct?

oh wow thats much better

the twist bones definitely shouldnt be there given i removed the base's arms (mostly)

im not sure if you'd know how to mirror this onto the other arm?

[quaint jasper]

You would select that vertex group in the list, duplicate it and mirror, it's all options in the ^ symbol below the + and -

Assuming the mesh on the other side is symmetrical obviously

[tardy rapids]

Any idea why this pinching is happening?

[latent raptor]

thanks for all the help. i think its all fixed up now :)

[foggy granite]

Can you show me the curve

[foggy granite]

It might be one of the sides one make it a tad bit bigger so it can unloop itself

[tardy rapids]

Tried that. Here's what the geometry looks like

real weird

[foggy granite]

Wait go into edit mode and rotate it on the z axis by 90 degrees

See if that helps

mine geometry looks more uniform

[tardy rapids]

rotate how. Doesn't let me rotate individual control points

[foggy granite]

Actually I don’t think that’s the issue I’m currently trying to replicate your geometry

[tardy rapids]

What you thinking?

[foggy granite]

No clue beside just remaking the hair again

[white moth]

ctrl T will let you rotate individual control points

similarly control s will let you scale a single control point

why it's ctrl T instead of ctrl R: idk

[foggy granite]

is ctrl r even use for anything

[tardy rapids]

welp

this isn't working at all

[languid fog]

I prefer using path curves

For hair

I think you can have more "freedom"

With them

[white moth]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqWYgrXw7Jk&t=218s

6 minute blender hair tutorial, works great for VRChat. I swear anyone can do it

[storm wren]

ive been having a hard time with weight painting in blender and im just thinking of starting over bc its not turning out the way i want does anyone have any tips on what i should do and shouldnt? also how do i clear my previous weight paint lmao

[tardy rapids]

This is going well

[foggy granite]

Oh you got it to work nice

[quaint jasper]

Still unsure why her head shape needs to be like that though

feels like you didn't take perspective and hair into account when looking at the shape of the other model

[tardy rapids]

Eh, I'm just going as close to the existing model as I can. That said, I will probably make some small changed

namely, the size of that forehead

Now, how do I lower the poly count on these paths?

Cause uh

[quaint jasper]

curve settings i'm pretty sure

[tardy rapids]

even at resolution 2 it's nearly reaching 70k+

total, not just for the hair

[quaint jasper]

hair is often a lot yes

I think your base is the issue though

[foggy granite]

you can delete some of hair vertex to low it

[tardy rapids]

Main issue is that there's WAY TOO MANY horizontal polys in the hair

With the hair, I'm at 74k

Without it, I'm at 38k

It's worth saying that this is the final mesh, for the body. Subdiv's already been applied at this point, hence the number of loops

[clear geyser]

Change the resolution on both the path and the bezier circle you used for the hair shape

For lower poly count

[tardy rapids]

Thank you, that worked

[tardy rapids]

coming along well

[tardy rapids]

Go to the VRCTraders Discord and post in the avatar commissions channel

[dreamy epoch]

It's the 1st server in #community-servers-old

You need to have a verified phone number connected to your Discord account iirc in order to join it

[white moth]

Go into edit mode, select all verts, highlight the vert group you want to clear weights on, and pick “remove” button below the list of vert groups. It will not vanish from the list but that group is now empty and fully blue again in weight paint mode

[tough plover]

@novel sonnet

I'll send the model for free, but a model isn't much without texturing lol

if you want textures done too, then I'll have to charge you a bit since that takes a bit longer

[stone mountain]

Heya guys! I'm trying to commission someone to make me an avatar capable of doing ASL! I have a pretty decent amount of money I'm willing to spend on this as well! It just need to be able to do most gestures and be quest compatible! If anyone is able to, please send me a dm!

[tough plover]

for commission work like that, you may want to head over to VRC Traders in #community-servers-old

heck if anyone else wants that hat above ^ lemme know lol

[gritty zinc]

help

[foggy granite]

That’s some good progess

[candid aspen]

Do I need a certain version of blender for VRChat?

[foggy granite]

no

blender is a modeling program but cats addon works better with 2.83 if you planning on using it

[candid aspen]

Ok, thank you!

[tough plover]

it got updated for 2.93 yesterday

[foggy granite]

Oh nice thx for the info

[upper salmon]

im trying to find a 3d model for the valve index but all there are, are paid models ($35-50 CAD). Does anyone know where i can get any free valve index models?

[winged jewel]

Blender

Shrink wrap'ed current body to test in full body

Unity scene of captured full-body

MMD animation

[foggy granite]

Nice hair

[hollow ermine]

Started work on something for shits and giggles

[tardy rapids]

Wait why are her THUMBS censored? Should I be concerned?

Also my GOD them hips

[white moth]

I have nothing to do with this conversation but I've been thinking about this for the last half hour.

We need answers, @winged jewel

[winged jewel]

Just wanted to try my WIP in VR, but I messed up the thumb on shrinkwrap that badly.

[white moth]

bahaha, ok

I was like "I know Japan has weird censor laws, but this one's new to me."

[tardy rapids]

Ahhh, that makes sense.

[merry vault]

I was working on one a year ago but I didn't finish it.

The thing is that Valve didn't release any official model of the full Index headset.

[tardy rapids]

hair

[tough plover]

snazzy fedora anyone? https://gumroad.com/l/mVzLt

[quaint jasper]

i feel like it's missing the top crease

[tough plover]

it's there but it's not as pronounced

[tardy rapids]

any tips on how to actually connect this to the head?

Gonna add the tied-back hair after I've figured that hair

[white moth]

m'thanks

[tardy rapids]

Dang, no advice to be seen

[tardy rapids]

Hair and head. Basically, "Before and after"

still wip on the hair obviously

[white moth]

Bit too tall of a forehead? Unless it’s a stylistic choice.

[thorny ivy]

With a bit more knowledge this time around, decided to revisit one of the knives I've shared here before.

[zinc jolt]

so good news

[thorny ivy]

Slapped on a toon shader for the handle, glossy for the metal, and added Crease lines instead of Sharp. Definitely think it looks a lot better now but not sure how to get rid of the odd shadow near the hilt + blade base.

[zinc jolt]

I got something cool

[thorny ivy]

"Large Menace"

[zinc jolt]

indeed

[thorny ivy]

Different angle.

[unborn acorn]

spooky lad has some progress

[viscid pine]

funni

[unkempt torrent]

How do I obtain the numerical values of the color of a vertex associated with a painted face in Blender? If I use the eyedropper in vertex paint mode the result is affected by lighting, which is silly

Ok, I can work around this by changing the lighting to flat in the shading menu

[quaint jasper]

Top right corner

[unkempt torrent]

Indeed, Ruubick, thankfully I had found it

I'm trying to figure out why importing and exporting the meshes from error's hud shader results in a broken (non funcioning) mesh and apparently that wasn't it

Exporting without any modifications, I should say

Ah, the reimported mesh seems to be projected into the "ceiling" of the camera perspective, which is never visible since wherever the camera is looking is "forward"

Somewhere the axis must be getting messed up

[quaint jasper]

wdym by non functioning mesh ?

[unkempt torrent]

It wasn't showing up as a replacement for the original mesh in the unity scene when using it with the shader it was intended for

I want to modify this mesh so I want to be able to import into blender and then export without making changes and get something that's exactly the same, as a baseline

I had to export it with -y forward instead of -z forward

[white moth]

If you are intending to use quest’s vertex color shaders be aware the shaders expect SRGB color space and blender saves in linear colorspce. Colors will come in faded in unity

I have not found a good work around for this

I mean I found a solution, just not a good one

[unkempt torrent]

Error's HUD shader but it's probably a similar concept

I think the colors are going through properly

[oblique gull]

WIP I want to share

[daring pivot]

https://twitter.com/toxsam/status/1410513521905967104?s=20

ToxSam.eth⛺ (@toxsam)

join our twich stream if you wanna learn how to make dope avatars
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https://t.co/yKABbB2T2P
#NFTs

Twitter · Jul 1, 2021, 8:20 AM

[daring pivot]

✨

[obsidian nova]

It’s wild how easy texture painting looks here vs. in Blender. I really need to expand my horizons.

Also fantastic work.

[zinc jolt]

dammit

oops sorry wrong channel

[unkempt torrent]

Traced my latest shader troubles back to the vertex colors (again). Everything looks perfectly flat in blender, but the shader thinks they have different colors somehow

Infuriating

[unkempt torrent]

Think I fixed it. I set each color from hexadecimal in the "draw" tool of the vertex painting mode, then I didn't actually paint anything. Instead I switched to the Select tool, selected all the vertices I wanted to change, then went to the menu Paint > Set Vertex Colors (Shift+K in 2.8).

[white moth]

Interesting solution. When you say the colors were off, do you mean they were faded in unity?

[unkempt torrent]

The shader interprets the colors as masks and some (but not all) of the vertices in each mesh were apparently off in unity, although everything looked ok in blender

You can see my screenshot in #shaders

To be clear, after using set vertex colors nothing changed visually in blender. It sure did fix everything though

[hollow ermine]

Unrelated question:
Blender has a series of light emitters that you can use to light scenes when rendering, but how would one make a material on a mesh emit light? Follow-up question, how could I set something up to turn this light on and off via gesture controls?

[obsidian nova]

Emmision shader; crank it to 4000 percent…not sure if it works in Eevee though.

[hollow ermine]

So it is a shader thing. Got it

[obsidian nova]

Tbh though, that’s not the kind of thing you should be doing in Blender though. First, you should draw the emission map (stencil out the parts you’d like to glow) in Blender (or just like…photoshop); using your base UV layer as a guide.

Then, in Unity, choose a shader like Poyomi Toon or Standard Lite that supports emission. Drag the texture you created into the appropriate field. Good to go.

To toggle it on & off with a gesture is a whole other thing.

Follow this tutorial, but instead of animating the ‘Active’ state; animate the shader emission slider (should be found alongside the shapekeys).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ROp4GHBj1N8

[twin mortar]

Posted in avatar 2.0 but figured to post here too

I have both substance painter and blender

[quaint jasper]

You just need to make an emission map

[twin mortar]

@quaint jasper I also wanted to add an effect where the yellow of the eye leave like a trail, sort of like so

[quaint jasper]

That's way more complicated

[twin mortar]

Would that be possible with emissions as well, or is that also requiring shaders

[quaint jasper]

Probably a very specific particle system

[twin mortar]

oh I looked it up and there appears to be a trail effect built into unity, im gonna test if vrchat has support for it

theres another way to do it with particles actually called trails

thanks for the help

[vital drift]

does anyone have a rigged cape model? i cant find any at all

[fallow isle]

I'm not actually sure if trail renderers work on avatars, but particles can have trails. You can attach a particle system to the eye with an invisible particle, and give the particle system trails. You only need one particle at a time, so set lifetime to something with decent length (30 seconds would probably be fine) and limit particle count to 1. You can explore this option further and play with it; this is just a short explanation and suggestion.

[fallow isle]

Played the Little Witch In The Woods demo during Steam Next Fest, loved it, decided to make the hat and start making a witch/mage version of my personal avatar.
Very WIP. Plan to take it into ZBrush for sculpting. Will have visemes/blinking.

[undone widget]

Is anyone makes custom avatars plz dm me

[spiral sigil]

Not the server for that if you're looking for custom avatars

Go to VRC Traders for commissions, #community-servers-old

[undone widget]

Oh ok thx bro

[peak narwhal]

ok a little new can someone help me?

getting some weird things when i trying to use loose parts through the cats plugin it breaks the avatar in some places but not others and its getting confusing

[hazy falcon]

XJ9! ❤️

Nice model, haven't seen anybody with XJ9 in all my time playing.

Can't wait to see it finished!

Good luck and have fun! 😄

[neat viper]

Select the object in object mode, go to Edit mode with all faces you want to flip selected and press ALT and N, then Flip

[tame sinew]

Okay that worked. Thanks!

[quaint jasper]

https://twitter.com/Ruuubick_/status/1411052067112865793

Ruuubick (@Ruuubick_)

Recently @jendaviswilson and I started watching the anime #OddTaxi, but quickly realized how much we had both missed making things, so over the past few days she made Shirakawa and I made Odokawa. This was a super fun experience ! Pics taken in VRChat and renders in #b3d

Twitter · Jul 2, 2021, 8:00 PM

[thorny ivy]

What shaders did you use to achieve the psuedo-animated look?

[quaint jasper]

XSToon with a custom shadow ramp and mask

and dark grey outline

[thorny ivy]

Alright, thanks.

Looking to achieve a similar effect so seems like that'd be a solid place to start.

I'm trying to copy the UV layout from one object to another for specific parts since they're suppose to be the exact same but Blender shoots me a weird message when I try to transfer UV layouts.

Unselected is the base I want to copy, selected is the current UV layout for the second object.

This is the error I get.

I don't know why it's expecting over double the current faces.

[tough plover]

they need to have the exact same amount of vertices

[thorny ivy]

I literally cloned the original though for the second object.

[tough plover]

did you make any changes to it?

[thorny ivy]

...well, apparently there was some dupe vertices on the original.

Just did a quick merge-by-distance on it.

So let's see if that does the trick, didn't have any on the second.

Nope.