3d-modeling

[still wadi]

why the fuck do u have 6 levels of subdivision

[candid latch]

Thanos

[tardy rapids]

I pray you aren't planning on bringing that in-game

[copper parcel]

Anyone know what might be causing these polygons to appear on this texture in material view? The base that I purchased has a uhh, pretty cobbled together ssp file lol

[quaint jasper]

Did disabling any of the folders remove it ?

[copper parcel]

It appears to be something tied to the body folder.

[quaint jasper]

Make sure to check the generators on the black masks as well

[copper parcel]

Looks like an empty fill layer in the body folder was the main cause.

I do have one more question, how do I apply random seeds to something like a height map?

Like here, for instance.

[quaint jasper]

If the pattern already exists i'm not sure you can ?

[copper parcel]

Hmm, I'm just wondering how it was done here is all.

[quaint jasper]

You can maybe do the height per a different alpha

[copper parcel]

Hmm..

[tardy rapids]

might be baked lighting

[quaint jasper]

Not a thing in substance

[thorny ivy]

Wouldn't that just be flourecent bulbs filled with weed gas?

[tardy rapids]

I mean, if it's a pre-made base it could've been made in blender and been baked

[wild forge]

hello all im am new to modeling is there a video i should watch before i search youtube ? thanks all ?

you may have answered befor but i fell sleep as i posted at 2 am

[zinc jolt]

what does this look like to you, guys?

I can guarantee this is at least a million polys

[azure rain]

stop subdividing so much

[zinc jolt]

but it's so good to see it this detailed XD

of course I'm not going to get into "much" detail yet

[azure rain]

like that's even too much for like sculpting for the high-poly

[zinc jolt]

I agree

it's a dumb decision

what about this?

if it's used for rendering

[azure rain]

sure if you're doing rendering do whatever but that's not terribly relevant to vrchat

[zinc jolt]

good point

[azure rain]

like what does it look like with no subdivides

[zinc jolt]

give me a sec

it looks like this

[azure rain]

okay that looks more reasonable for a pc vrchat avatar

[zinc jolt]

ye

[azure rain]

and honestly you weren't gaining any more detail with those subdivides

[zinc jolt]

you're not the first person to tell me that

[azure rain]

so stop wasting triangles

[zinc jolt]

alright

[azure rain]

like at any distance that's not like inspecting the nose hairs of your character you're not going to notice the difference but your graphics card has to do more work

[zinc jolt]

ah, I understand

I made sure my PC can take it

[azure rain]

yeah but if you have like a whole map you need to render for something that's going to add up if all of your characters have like subdivide 3 on

[zinc jolt]

Which is why I'm glad to keep it that way

Out of the way of subdividing it 3 times

[ionic kettle]

i need some help i guess with the sdk platform i might be doing it wrong or importing it wrong if someone wants to help me out

im using version 2021.1.15 of unity

[dusty heron]

You need 2018.4.20f1

[foggy granite]

You have the wrong version of unity 18.4.20 is currently support

[dusty heron]

The devs are moving to 2019, but that is in beta.

[foggy granite]

https://unity3d.com/unity/whats-new/2018.4.20

[dusty heron]

And that also doesn't look like a unitypackage, rather an exe.

Make sure you download it straight from: https://vrchat.com/home/download

Unless you just haven't set that as a default.

You should just be able to drag it into unity an double-click to extract.

[thin shadow]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/546021020537192480/865860972920176660/unknown.png
what is the best practice of exporting fbx in unity and importing them in blender in order to not have this problem

[peak narwhal]

im really new so take what i say with a grain of salt, my only thought is taking the fbx file without the rig or maybe fixing the armerture

im very new so i have no idea but thats my guess

[devout scroll]

I think people usually use the betterfbx addon to import from unity

[spiral sigil]

dunno where to put this so ill put it here

how do i export blender models with textures and materials attached to unity

Export the model in a format that supports it aka export it in FBX

Plus make sure to pack the external data into the blend file

[spiral sigil]

thank you

[tough plover]

@thin shadow you typically don't need to "export" anything from Unity.

assets in your unity project are literally just normal files in a folder

just locate where your model is and import that

[thin shadow]

i wanted to have all the 48 materials to be cohesive with the fbx

when i use the fbx file by itself without exporting, the materials and texture are missing because textures and materials are messed up and all over the place

[tough plover]

48

[foggy granite]

Why do you have 48 materials

[thin shadow]

i didnt make it, i'm just trying to fix someone else's mistake

my friend paid for this avatar, he got the unity package, but it's all messed up

[foggy granite]

Jeez

So you probably can grab it from the package files in your computer

[thin shadow]

yeah that's the problem, everything is everywhere. there are 2 materials folder. there are also materials in the fbx folder.

importing fbx from the asset folder fixes the bone and armature problem but the material assignments are all messed up

[foggy granite]

Yeah you gonna have to manual set up the material in a blender once you figure out where they are all at but it shouldn't take too long once you know the location

[thin shadow]

Well i have to think about alternatives solution. This is like trying to dig a grave with a spoon.

[foggy granite]

Honestly, the best solution should come from contacting the modeler to fix it but I'm guessing your friend already tried that

[devout scroll]

Anyone got any good courses to recommend? I'm considering getting the stylized station's 3d artist coloring book because i'm really bad at textures

There's lots of neat courses I see around but not quite fitting for vrchat stuff, be it character or world stuff

[velvet magnet]

slowly tryina learn how to make avatars in blender ^^`

[still wadi]

@devout scrolldo u want this type of textures ?https://i.imgur.com/Vor4OV2.png

[devout scroll]

😳

m-maybe

I've seen your vods a bunch of times shonzo, I'd definitely check it out for characters

[still wadi]

lmao

[devout scroll]

You do good work but watching streams is really long

[still wadi]

idk my gf watches them to get references

for texturing

[devout scroll]

I can't really model characters so I'm thinking more world stuff atm

[still wadi]

gotcha

[devout scroll]

Since I can model alright

But characters are really spooky to me. Something I'm probably not gonna get into just yet

Besides, I'm way more likely to actually finish something smaller

[foggy granite]

i learn alot of tools and features by modeling props like weapons

its nice to simple props then work you way to more complex shapes as you learn

[devout scroll]

Yeah

I know my way around blender just fine but I struggle wrapping my head around some shapes sometimes then get stuck

[foggy granite]

it get better cause i understand where you coming from on that

but i found have a folder full of different refrence images help with that so you can see similarly areas in form

[devout scroll]

I think I just need some structured content to follow along and complete to build confidence

[foggy granite]

then really some of techniques can carry on to different parts on modeling an avatar

Theres alot tutorials you can watch i can drop some that show you general over of character creation thats can work for vrchat

[devout scroll]

I know a bunch myself like reinhet's but I really don't trust myself with following through with them

I'd be more interested in clothes for existing models and world props

[foggy granite]

why not post progession photos when you get certain part of avatar done here

and show off you slowly working you way to making a full fledge avatar

[devout scroll]

I guess I'm just not too confident in what I make

I've posted a bunch of things I made before, when I was satisfied with them, but even so most remained unfinished

And I kinda don't like posting things and then abandoning them

[foggy granite]

i honestly extremly relate to that

but it just a mental hurdle that you got to jump over since it just a self made blockade

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL3OEv6vd5VA4owAPOI0QdCcEmvl1f3BT and also i like this dude playlist mainly because of the timestamps and he has some nice techniques that work in general for alot of characters

[devout scroll]

I'll check it out tomorrow, thanks

Haven't seen this channel before

[foggy granite]

alright the only thing i dont like head sculpting part

[tame sinew]

I’m trying to make a model for an avatar in blender but whenever I create a new face the polygons in the UV editor go crazy. Is there a way to align them to already existing polygons?

[devout scroll]

How are you creating faces?

And you should kinda be dealing with UVs at the end

[foggy granite]

Yeah

[glacial estuary]

anyone I can commission a full custom avatar from? I'm looking for someone who can use blender and is good with textures and unity. Am obviously willing to pay you for your work. Please DM me if you have an offer

[uneven dagger]

So, I'm importing a model from a game, but I'm not sure what to do with the failed mess of bones it comes with ot make it compatible in VRChat, or at least recognizable as humaoid. I tried deleting the existing bones and starting from scratch, but I dont know what parts of the model are which in order to bind the bones to the mesh. Soooo... Kinda stuck, any suggestions? (new to the blender shpiel)

[quaint jasper]

import fbx > automatic bone orientation

and then use the cats plugin

[zinc jolt]

hey guys, realism advice please

do squid have skin and use subsurface scattering?

[thorny ivy]

1. Squids have a membrane of some sort to keep all their internal stuff where it should be but for actual details, do some research; scientists love delving into this kind of stuff.
2. I think squids may be slippery due to some mucus that covers them - that could cause light scattering but again, research's your friend.

[zinc jolt]

makes sense

[thorny ivy]

On a semi-related note, looking into retractable claws + monster girls as my avatar sports some. However, trying to strike a balance between unique look, functional, and having them not cause people to go "wow, how does she do anything with those?"

[zinc jolt]

that's actually very impressive

[thorny ivy]

Thanks, the claws are scratch-made while the hand's a modified mesh. Unfortunately, I messed with the original version way back and none of the properly-sized ones were unaltered.

I spent a good bit just trying to un-ugly the hands since initially, I didn't know what to shape to go for so they ended up looking weird more then anything else.

[thorny ivy]

Two hours later (shy of just 4 minutes) and this is what I have to show

Fingers have a more natural shape now and the claws actually meld with the mesh, making the two look cohesive rather then just stuck-together like before.

And last angle shot, found some more wonky geo so I took a few mins to fix it up.

[thin shadow]

i found an alternative, but different problem this time.
What is the best practice on how to solve this? this is an mmd model.

the problem is when using the mat combiner, uv wrap does not match with the texture

[quaint jasper]

Did the parts have the same UVMap name ?

[spiral sigil]

Hey my main avatar has been floating which I have only noticed and I think the person who made it they just moved the whole avatar up a little bit can somebody help with this?

[still wadi]

i raise the stakes of your hair @lament pond with my hair

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

[devout scroll]

In practice it doesn't matter, uvs repeat forever unless told to clamp

[thin shadow]

so, the thing is, when using the mat combiner, the cloth becomes white, and the i looked up to the uv and it's not where it's supposed to be

oh wait, the uv's not even there

[devout scroll]

maybe cats ignores uvs outside the first uv space?

[thin shadow]

the option "crop outside uv" already turned off. But i found where the uv is here in this few pixels.

[devout scroll]

This is what you basically have

https://puu.sh/HXdQO/8f95145cc4.png

if your uvs are on top of the main uv

then your uvs are basically starting at x0, y1

you need to move them down by 1 uv space on the Y

so for that just select everything that's on top

untick pixel coordinates

https://puu.sh/HXdRy/7109762229.png

and then g, y -1

[thin shadow]

i see, alright. i'll try.

in the meantime, i take it that this uv before combine confirms your theory?

[devout scroll]

Basically you just want everything in first uv space

Also that's some bad packing

You should consider doing it manually, or at least edit the results

And don't pack everything together, pack normals together, pack base colors together and so on

[vocal stirrup]

im trying to work on an avatar and it has 2 sets of arms, one being hideable in the collection and one just attached to the body mesh, i wanna get rid of the arms attached to the mesh how would i do that

[indigo stirrup]

Currently building another funny booth kitbash. And I was wondering, what's the recommended way of implementing toggleable clothes? I don't wanna have like 7 skinned meshes.

[devout scroll]

Well you can use mesh renderers for things that don't deform, other than that I think you gotta use skinned meshes

[indigo stirrup]

I mean, I was thinking about having a blendshape that makes a piece of clothing turn into the size of an ant inside the avatar

[devout scroll]

You can but that sounds clunky

And probably not great for performance

[indigo stirrup]

yea...

OR

[devout scroll]

Tho perf ranks will not complain, actual performance will probably be worse

[indigo stirrup]

I put each piece of clothing on a different material

[devout scroll]

I'd just split into multiple avatars

If you want super optimized

[vocal stirrup]

man nobody ever answers my fuggin questions in here

;-;

[indigo stirrup]

and I give them a completely transparent material

[devout scroll]

just delete them? i dunno

You could use an empty shader yeah, but then you're still dealing with lots of polygons

[vocal stirrup]

suck an egg

[indigo stirrup]

it really wont be "lots of polygons"

[devout scroll]

So I guess it depends on what you're looking to optimize

[indigo stirrup]

with all pieces of clothing, the entire thing will probably be under 40k

[devout scroll]

people respond to questions they know answers to

[craggy lintel]

why don’t you just put them all on same mesh and then have them on separate materials and do invisible material swaps for each one you want gone

so keep them all on invisible materials and then just use toggles to enable one material per cloth

@devout scroll why didn’t you suggest this hun

[devout scroll]

They mentioned it, and so did I

[craggy lintel]

There’s lots of options for their question too

Oh

Why didn’t they just listen?

[devout scroll]

Just considering the options

[craggy lintel]

Hmmm

I see

Oh fuck

What about

Shapekey per each cloth

Even more optimized

[devout scroll]

Optimized according to performance ranks

Unoptimized according to real performance

[craggy lintel]

Yeaaaa

But why not it’s a flex lol

[devout scroll]

afaik active shape key'd verts are expensive

i'd rather have fps

[craggy lintel]

They’re not terrible

lots of ppl use em

but doing a biiiiig shapekey like a whole outfit shapekey could cost yes

but try it, why not haha

[thin shadow]

wait, so vrchat's avatar performance rank are not actually realistically applicable? is it kind of a low-key placebo effect?

[tight quartz]

Can I seperate this? This stand and ball is one object but I wanna cut from the ball and make the ball seperated from the stand.

[thin shadow]

exactly, the person who made this has really bad workflow and practice. That's why im trying to fix this.

[devout scroll]

select the ball in edit mode, mouse over it and press L to select linked, then press P and selection

Also you might want to right click in object mode and shade smooth, then in the mesh tab on the right normals > auto smooth

[tight quartz]

👍

[tight quartz]

I built them to the same. becuse I merged them.

I wanna be able to cut them and make then 2 seperate objects.

[devout scroll]

and i told you how to do it

[tight quartz]

If thats possible? 🤔

It didnt work.

[devout scroll]

you just have to do 2 steps

select the ball in edit mode, all the faces of it, then press P > selection to separate to a different object

[tight quartz]

Oooh

woopsi

Thank you. ❤️

[devout scroll]

👍

[tight quartz]

I got another question. In avatar there is like ARMATURE -> Spine -> Leg etc. How do these "folders" or whatever

[devout scroll]

That's an armature

It's made out of bones

[tight quartz]

Oh I need one first?

[devout scroll]

Yeah

[tight quartz]

Ah makes sense.

[zinc jolt]

I'm going to make Miss Minutes

[tight quartz]

Can I remove this

[tough plover]

@tight quartz no, that is the object's origin point

[tight quartz]

But that is making so all of the arms are moving if I move one of them.

I want them all to move with this.

But if I select them and rotate them seperately they will not follow with the others.

If you understand what I mean

[tough plover]

if you want different parts of it to move, you should probably use bones

bones are simply a way to move parts of a mesh

[tight quartz]

Ik but it doesnt move. Or I am doing it wrong

I am probably doing it wrong since I am new to doing stuff with bones

[tough plover]

I mean I don't see any armatures in the Hierarchy

unless you removed it

[tight quartz]

I removed it.

I added it back now

Like this or?

[tough plover]

yea that's fine

so if i understand this correctly

the big cube should be static, while everything else moves?

[tight quartz]

So mostly I want this to rotate and have the arms attached to it. BUT the arms should be able to rotate by themselves.

I am making a ride that is a Jumping Frog

So these arms are suppose to be able to go up and down

[tight quartz]

And yes this block is there just for the model

Wait... @tough plover I finally found out how to do the bones.

It works as I want it to now.

[tough plover]

👍

[lament pond]

I think the straps at the hottom should be tighter, at the moment they don't look like they are actually tying the end of the hair

[still wadi]

didn't know we were criticizing each others work

but thanks

point taken

[lament pond]

As it is at the moment especially with the gaps it looks like it's just on top

Realism with that kind of stuff is something I'm always eyeing xD

[still wadi]

mhm

yet we're both doing anime models

more or less

[lament pond]

Yes we are

[lament pond]

Now that the mesh is about done I can start the texturing on her.

[indigo stirrup]

how would I find out which vertices aren't weighted? I cant really select while in pose mode

[quaint jasper]

Select the vertex groups in edit mode and you'll see it

[indigo stirrup]

oh, right

actually, no

I, uhh

dont get it

everything looks assigned just fine on hip and spine

I might also just leave it

since I didnt notice it while in VR

so it must only happen under conditions that would never be met by IK

[thorny ivy]

So I linked a mesh in one collection to another's armature but not sure how to fix the "ghost" effect

Storage is the original mesh, the one above has the "ghost" copy.

[tough plover]

it's not a copy, it's the same object

the "ghost" one is where the object is actually parented to

but you currently have it as part of a collection

so it's organized in that collection, but actually belongs to something else

[thorny ivy]

How do I make it so they're only in the other collection?

[tough plover]

shift + click and drag

[thorny ivy]

Ain't workin', just makes another copy.

And disabling/deleting one gets rid of the other.

[quaint jasper]

If you figure it out please ping me, i've tried everything to no avail

[thorny ivy]

So its a reoccurring problem, huh.

[quaint jasper]

Never happened to me before 2.92, i feel like it's a bug/feature of their new hierarchy nesting and stuff

[tough plover]

2.91 and 2.92 are not super stable

recommend using 2.93.1 LTS instead

@quaint jasper@thorny ivy

you could also just delete the collection

deleting a collection does not delete what is inside of it

if you really want the organization, you could re-make it afterwards

[thorny ivy]

That seems to have done the trick, appreciate it.

[tough plover]

np

[thorny ivy]

Much easier to re-make them then finagling with hierarchy stuff.

[vivid crater]

it does that in 2.93 too, it shows the child under the parent even if its in another collection

[merry vault]

Anyone here happen to have zbrush? I need someone to open some files and export whatever's inside as .objs.

[tough plover]

that's perfectly normal

moving it into a collection doesn't remove it from what it was parented under before

you could for example have a bunch of different meshes under one armature

and organize those meshes into collections while still having them be part of the same armature

[vivid crater]

ok yea, we still want it to be parented like normal, no we dont want it to appear in both collections if we specifically move it to another one

[tough plover]

after messing around a bit I think I see the bug you're referring to

@quaint jasper @thorny ivy to fix it just right click on the object and hit Unlink

[quaint jasper]

Yeah if i did that the object would just get deleted

Not sure how any of that ended up happening in the first place

[tough plover]

if you do it to both yea

[quaint jasper]

mmh

[tough plover]

doing it to only one of the "copies" fixes it

[quaint jasper]

i'll have to try again next time, i redid stuff from scratch twice

[tough plover]

you can also see the number of users for that object changing to 2

[thorny ivy]

F for the time spent doing that.

[tough plover]

this should also be a reminder to crank up your Undo steps to 256 under Edit > Preferences > System

[thorny ivy]

Definitely helpful when making a lot of fine-tuning moves.

[unborn acorn]

making me own shoebill

[uneven dagger]

Is it possible to unpack just a prefab from Unity into Blender? The base model has a thingy I can't get rid of without screwing up the model's blendshapes 😦

[tough plover]

alongside the prefab you should have the actual FBX file it's referencing

right click on it and click Select prefab asset

[uneven dagger]

So, I have a stupid long list of vertex groups that prevents a single material texture from being applied to everything as a whole. Is there a way to clump these together as one vertex group?

[quaint jasper]

Your question doesn't really make sense, these either are attached to a bone, or they're not, if they're not then they can be automatically cleared. materials don't have anything to do with weight paint

[tough plover]

Vertex groups are how you make parts of the mesh deform with bones.

a bone will have an influence on the mesh if vertices in the mesh belong to a vertex group which shares the same name as the bone

[uneven dagger]

Ooooh...

[tough plover]

this has NOTHING to do with materials

[uneven dagger]

Goooot it.

[tough plover]

if you want a texture to be used as the base color for a specific material, click on the particular material in the list of materials on your mesh. go to Base color, click the circle next to it, set it to Image texture, and then specify your texture

[uneven dagger]

I have MUCH to learn about Blender x.x

[tough plover]

definitely has a learning curve to it lol

[uneven dagger]

At least it feels more cohesive than unity >.> which I am shamefully better at by now.

[tough plover]

@uneven dagger

[uneven dagger]

gotcha. ive still gotta go in and play around with it, but at least now I know why the model has an obscene amount of vertex groups (to match the stupid amount of facial bones)

[tough plover]

@uneven dagger the facial bones can be used to pose the face to then create shape keys for facial expressions

the CATS plugin has this handy button for that

[uneven dagger]

which can then be set as visemes...?

[tough plover]

yes

or for any other facial expressions

[uneven dagger]

Handy!

[tough plover]

having X mirror enabled when posing the face bones is probably wise

[craggy lintel]

okay

OKAY

No cap

Ready

Don’t get mad but hear me out

Shapekey organization alphabetical and numerical is LAMEEEEEEE

[tough plover]

i'd rather have them organized by what they are for

[thorny ivy]

Likewise.

[thin shadow]

So in blender, i have already set to CUDA and GPU compute in the cycles rendering option.
But when it's baking, it's using 100% cpu usage and 5% gpu.
Are there any way to minimize cpu usage and fully utilize gpu?

i have ryzen 2700 and a gtx 1080 by the way

[still wadi]

use eve

ez

[devout scroll]

baking in eevee

[still wadi]

baking

[tame sinew]

Something weird is happening to blender. Whenever I go select the third sphere to see the textures, the mesh gets messed up and I can see through the polygons. This is the first time I’ve seen it…

[gray hornet]

You could try chaning in performance the tile size to something larger like there maybe, it might reduce time it takes Blender to bake textures

[tough plover]

@thin shadow try setting the tile size to the same size as the image

as for it not using your GPU, make sure you set it to GPU compute

on top of just selecting CUDA in your settings

might also want to enable denoising

[gray hornet]

I don't think that denoising works for baking though

[quaint jasper]

it does in the compositor

[spiral sigil]

when you hit L on some complex geometry in a model and it selects a given portion of it in edit mode, is it selecting everything that waspart of that vertex group?

[quaint jasper]

it selects what is connected

[cyan plover]

guess here's a better place to ask, so anyone know if I can do an avatar rigging in Maya or does it have to be done in blender?

[tough plover]

can be done in anything really, blender is what most people use

mainly since it's free

[cyan plover]

ah ok ok ty!

[tough plover]

and the workflow from blender to unity is nice

as long as your rig is standard enough you'll be fine

[cyan plover]

tysm!!!

[molten zephyr]

not looking forward to the hair, but i'm really happy with how the face turned out.

[spiral sigil]

Is there a way to prevent CATS from squishing your UVs down to a wayy smaller square than it should be on an atlas?

[quaint jasper]

Wdym by should be

[spiral sigil]

its so small that you can see the pixels

and there is way more free space on the atlas visibly

having a hard time explaining it

[quaint jasper]

What was the original texture size vs what it is on your atlas ?

[spiral sigil]

yea

it crunches some down incredibly small that its making the quality of the textures pixly

[tough plover]

@spiral sigil try using the actual Matcombiner rather than the version of it built into CATS

[spiral sigil]

I should learn how to do it the old way yeah

I will look into that

[safe marsh]

hey i found a model of lelouchs burai from code geass and i was wondering how much it would cost to have someone texture/rig it

this is how it should look

[hollow ermine]

Keep us updated! I wanna see this as it develops

[molten zephyr]

thanks man, can do!

[unborn acorn]

boober

[thorny ivy]

That got past VRC filters? Wow.

[foggy granite]

he is the choosen one

[worldly tangle]

(4,977 tris [not seen in the img])

For one side of the model*

[foggy granite]

I looks pretty food mind showing different angles

[foggy granite]

Looks good just a bit basic do you have a reference that you use

[compact mulch]

https://gyazo.com/15ee85823da9596a53b42d4426f09c88 wip

[gray hornet]

How would you go about projecting multiple shapes with transparency on them onto a single plane? Baking it with diffuse leaves black borders art transparent areas

[spiral sigil]

I would just put an orthographic camera that renders it from the desired perspective and then use the render output as texture for a plane there

[gray hornet]

Oke, what about bent surfaces?

[spiral sigil]

just set is a texture for whatever and use global coordinates for texture projection

if you have an orthographic render it can be put onto mostly anything

[gray hornet]

I see

[tight quartz]

I uh... Need to flip the normals in blender right?

Since they are invisible in Unity

And how do I do that exactly?

[glad hornet]

If you want to flip them in blender, iirc you open the viewport dropdown and there will be an option to make them visible

Then you can select all the flipped normals and use the mesh>normals>flip normals option to flip them the right way round again

[spiral sigil]

also you can mark those spheres as "smooth shade" and they will not look that polygon-y anymore

[glad hornet]

Also, some shaders in Unity have the option of making faces visible from both sides

If you want a shortcut at the expense of rendering more faces

[spiral sigil]

you can easily edit that into every shader by opening the code in an editor and adding "Cull Off" before the CGPROGAM

[glad hornet]

That's extremely useful, I never knew that!

Shader magic remains magic to me

[spiral sigil]

I do that on quest so my hair doesnt need double the polygons

its a great way to actually optimize if you know what you are doing

[hardy agate]

bit sussy

[spiral sigil]

why?

[hardy agate]

you edit the quest shaders?

[spiral sigil]

jep, they dont check for the file hash of the official shaders haha

so i can just write whatever in ther

just needs to be something the Android Unity can handle in terms of instructions

[glad hornet]

If it uploads and it doesn't break TOS it's fair game baybeeeeee

[spiral sigil]

I actually just reused parts of my Beat Saber Anime shader haha

thats one I wrote from scratch, because Beat Saber doesnt work with Poiyomi

[glad hornet]

People really out here just

Writing shaders

[spiral sigil]

shader language isnt that hard if you get your head around it

its quite a nice language in terms of programming languages tbh

I have seen worse, far worse

[glad hornet]

I uuuuh

I know some c++

lmao

[spiral sigil]

then it should work

shaders are C# like

[glad hornet]

:0

Woah

[hardy agate]

#shaders message hmm

[glad hornet]

I've never looked into it tbh, unity gives me enough hassle as it is that I sort of just assumed shader language would be a pain

[spiral sigil]

well ngl dont care that much, because im not using it to crash or lower performance

mines more about optimizing the quest version to run better and not look like shite

[still wadi]

@gray hornet literally render it with a camera in orthographic view

with transparency enabled in render

[gray hornet]

The only problem is that

it wraps around the model

[glad hornet]

I haven't done this personally, but wouldn't the process be to render it to texture orthographically and then curve the mesh using it as a texture however you like?

[white moth]

C# is easy compared to C++

C# is just C++ except it doesn’t feel like they made everything up as they created different parts of it, it’s all self-consistent and easier to follow. No random legacy C thrown it

Shader scripting isnt C# either but it’s perfectly readable if you know it

[glad hornet]

Sweet, I'll give it a try

[gray hornet]

That was my wild guess about doing it but result is not greatest

I guess I just need to give myself time with it, maybe I'll come up with something I like eventually

[still wadi]

lay it out flat

render it

put it on a cilinder like mesh

as a texture

[gray hornet]

Ok, I'll try a bunch of things, thanks!

[craggy lintel]

hey guys whats the most common reason behind a normal map coming out blank? My friend is trying to bake one and I can't figure out what they are doing wrong lol

[spiral sigil]

So I'm trying to add goggles to my avatar cuz I know headgear/hair is the easiers to add cuz you just drag it onto the head bone but like... I wanna take the goggle model from another fbx file, how so I do that

[tough plover]

do that in blender

[spiral sigil]

Yeah but like... how?

[tough plover]

open the model with the goggles in blender first,

if the goggles are already a separate mesh, then you can just copy paste that into your avatar project

if not, then you need to switch to edit mode, select them (you can use ctrl + L to select all connected vertices after selecting just one, makes it way easier)

then, hit P > Selection to separate the selection to its own mesh

then you can copy paste that into your project

[spiral sigil]

Thank you, Sacred

[tough plover]

you'll also need to make sure that the goggles are properly weighed to the head bone, otherwise they will not move

(just to be clear, I'm saying you should add the goggles to your avatar through blender, not through unity)

[topaz reef]

low poly shuriken

[tough plover]

neato

[whole comet]

That doesn't look low poly that just looks optimized

[spiral sigil]

I forgot what those are called

[thorny ivy]

Shurikens I think.

[thorny ivy]

Looks good but the center piece's edges don't match with the top/bottom color, gives it an odd look.

[topaz reef]

i dont know either how to make it look better

[zinc jolt]

Can someone try to make this?

In blender that is

[quaint jasper]

You're asking someone to try and spend dozens of hours in blender to recreate this for no reason ?

[tough plover]

^

[spiral sigil]

Sure, after you pay me.

Actually, no. its a hefty order and I'm not there yet (skill wise). Sorry.

[white moth]

Good, fast, cheap, pick two.

[unborn acorn]

boobers have been covered

[fringe thicket]

Anyone have any suggestions for how to recreate a body mesh? The model I have has a chest plate I want to remove to make way for other outfits but there's no skin under it. Wondering I'm willing to bet the chest plate was the base mesh extruded. Wondering if there's an easier method to undo that instead of eyeballing it

[unborn acorn]

you can select the chest plat and press Alt+S to scale it down a bit, then just select it move its uvs to where the chest would be on the base texture

[fringe thicket]

When scaling, by the time one edge lines up, the rest are off. So maybe it wasnt just a simple base mesh extrude when it was made? Or maybe I need to change the location to cursor and set the cursor at the center of the chest

[unborn acorn]

you have to go into edit mode select the plate and then press ALT+S

it shouldnt miss align

[fringe thicket]

Oh, my bad. Alt+S isn't scale. I was trying to scale on y and x. Thanks! There's a lot of tools I've still got to learn

[unborn acorn]

No problem blender has alot of cool tricks

[devout scroll]

You can also smooth in sculpt mode

[languid fog]

Another study day, i need tips and critiques pls

[quaint jasper]

What's your ref ?

[gray hornet]

Looks good so far but I think that the mouth might be a bit too low?

[languid fog]

Yeah, i thinking about that 2 tbh

[quaint jasper]

Are you taking the side view into consideration for the face shape ?

Seems like that's the issue

[languid fog]

I not considering 100% of the side view bc it dont follow the topoly, i mean the nose part

Thats was 4 days ago

But still the same shape

[merry vault]

I shall once again ask if anyone here has zbrush.

[gray hornet]

In the end I ended up with this

[hollow ermine]

G r e e n

G r a s s

G r o w s

[obsidian nova]

That’s incredible; god damn…

[thorny ivy]

https://youtu.be/m7X0lCvO4dE

Joking aside, that is quite a nice model.

[cyan plover]

Hey guys, so if I have a model with only three fingers, Do I have to do the rig with all 5 fingers and just leave 2 of teh fingers not skinned, or can I just make the rig with 2 fingers?

[tough plover]

a humanoid vrchat rig only requires thumb, index and middle fingers

[cyan plover]

oh ok ty!

[gray hornet]

Personally I'd keep all 5 fingers because some UDON worlds might require more but I wouldn't weight anything to them. So they just exist.

as an example what I mean

[tardy rapids]

If you want that made, you'll probably be looking at a couple thousand dollars and a professional 3D artist.

[zinc jolt]

I'm trying to get there to become the best of the best

[tardy rapids]

It'll take a while if you're aiming to make that. Focus on what you can do first.

Comparing yourself to something like that, which appears to be a movie-quality model, which requires multiple professional artists working on the model, materials, and rigging is not only unrealistic, but also demoralizing

[zinc jolt]

I take it you have a gift for that, right?

You're a professional 3d artist right?

[tardy rapids]

Professional? I make money off of it, so legally, sure. But I could never even start to make something at that level

[zinc jolt]

Oh

Fair enough

[quaint jasper]

Do that every day for a couple years and you'll get it i'm sure

[zinc jolt]

That's the idea

[thorny ivy]

So, not sure what's going on but my model's doing some where ghosting with posing

Basically, it seems like there's another mesh which moves inversely to the direction I go with the armature.

[quaint jasper]

Is the body duplicate painted to the same armature ?

[thorny ivy]

I mean, there's no vertice tearing or anything

...I had a mirror modifer on the body itself for some reason.

Think I selected the wrong object just before and that's why I suddenly had this issue.

[tame sinew]

In blender 2.9, how do I make a polygon two sided? I downloaded a space ship from sketchfab and I want to use it so I can walk inside of it, but you can’t see any of the polygons from inside

[tough plover]

if you want to render both sides of a polygon, you need to tell the shader to turn off backface Culling

there is typically no need to render the backside of a polygon (in other terms, the side opposite to the face's normal direction)

if this is not an option however, or you want people with custom shaders disabled to still be able to see it, then you can use the Solidify modifier to give "thickness" to everything

which will essentially just duplicate all of the faces and connect them at the edges

a more "controlled" version of this is using the "Extrude along normals" tool

[tame sinew]

Um. In blender I can see the inside of the ship just fine. In unity, it’s disappeared…

[tough plover]

because blender has its own Backface culling setting

in unity, the default is to have backface culling enabled

that's also the default for like, everything

you don't want to render both sides of each face if you don't have to

you should actually just enable backface culling in blender so you can see where you need to make the inside visible

to avoid adding unnecessary geometry

don't forget that "culling" means "to remove"

[tame sinew]

It is enabled. I literally just said that

[tough plover]

culling enabled > can see through backfaces

[tame sinew]

In blender I can see inside perfectly fine.

[tough plover]

tick the box

[tame sinew]

I want to be able to look inside in unity, so I can use the inside of the ship as a place for people to walk though.

[tough plover]

yes, I know that

like I said, the Solidify modifier can help with that. but that would also extrude every face on the model

which you may not want to do

you only really want the areas that people will walk through to be rendered on the inside

for that reason, it's preferable to enable backface culling to see which parts of the ship need to be visible from the inside, and which don't matter

[hazy valley]

wa

[tough plover]

from there, there are multiple ways you could do the inside

one of those ways would be to select all of the surfaces which should be made visible, using Shift + D to duplicate them, Alt + N > Flip to flip the normals, and then Alt + S to shrink the selection down a bit (optional)

that is probably the way I would go about it

it gives you the most control

[glad hornet]

Or you could just find a shader that lets you turn off backface culling in unity

If you want to do it the fast way

[median pike]

I made a thing. 10k polys. Not sure if that's considered good for this sort of thing

[glad hornet]

You could probably lower the poly count quite a bit with a normal map but that looks really good

[median pike]

It's already using a baked normal map

The high poly is like 5 mil polys

[quaint jasper]

Looks great ! Dark wood is an odd choice though, but it works

[median pike]

It's what the client wanted

Based off a real product

[quaint jasper]

AH, customer is king !

[tough plover]

dang, now I want to model a guitar/bass lol

already made a shit drumset in like 20 mins before

[median pike]

It was quite fun

[tough plover]

is the wood texture just a material in substance?

[median pike]

It was made in substance but it's not like a premade material

I think like 3 layers in total I used

[tough plover]

hm alright

so many things I want to model but so many other things I need to finish first

[median pike]

Same

• commissions

I feel like I never have time for anything

But I only have willingness to make something when I have shit to do already

[tough plover]

lmao right

[devout scroll]

Productive procrastination

[tough plover]

xD

[devout scroll]

I also made a lot of progress on my projects when I was at work and had other stuff to do

Procrastination can good

[thorny ivy]

So I've got a rigging question: I've got bones for a specific asset of my avatar but they're not moving anything despite the mesh having vertex group + weight painting for said bones.

Everything seems to be named right too.

[thorny ivy]

Looks good!

Also, turns out said bones are twist ones. Might be why.

[tough plover]

is it a separate mesh?

if so, go to the modifiers tab and make sure it has an unapplied Armature modifier, with Object set to your armature

[cyan plover]

another question! Do I need to have a single mesh for my avatar? Or for example scince I'm doing a robot can I have a bunch of separete meshes?

[tough plover]

you should really reduce the amount of total meshes you have

every mesh will have its own material slot(s)

[azure rain]

it's better as far as what actually goes into the engine to have it be as few meshes as possible as basically each one is a draw call

[tough plover]

each material slot is a draw call, aka a whole pass your GPU has to do to render your model

[cyan plover]

oh shot, ok ty ty

[tough plover]

20 meshes = 20 draw calls

20 meshes with 2 materials each = 40 draw calls

joining meshes has no impact on the weight painting

[azure rain]

real-time Shadow casting light pointing at it 80 draw calls

[zinc jolt]

optical illusions

[thorny ivy]

Decided to try something out just because for my avatar, think the results are pretty decent.

Wood spine spikes!

Since my avatar already has branch horns, which are bone growths in most cases, thought I'd extend that to her spine. Know the spacing and number are way-off, adult humans have 24 or so, but this was mostly an experiment to see how it'd turn out fist.

[devout scroll]

neat

[tough plover]

fancy

mildly terrified to know how many polys the handle is

[topaz reef]

is for baking

[tough plover]

figured

[foggy granite]

That's amazing

[tough plover]

also

[topaz reef]

😅

[foggy granite]

What are you gonna do with that cheese

[cedar steppe]

Anyone know where i can learn to model outfits for a base?

instead of videos where the model is created all together with clothes etc

[worldly tangle]

👀

[thorny ivy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNXBYI-WPU4

[cedar steppe]

Not so much cloth but a suit , I’m trying to make a HEV suit

Not clothing

[thorny ivy]

In that case, you could get away with having most of it being relatively rigid (100% red) for the hard parts and then lighter for the webbing (the cloth parts that cover the joints).

[topaz reef]

test bake look good so far

[spiral sigil]

tell us what the poly count goes down 2 after its all done

[median pike]

thats already the low poly

unwrapping a high poly would be suicide lol

looks fucking sick

assuming the poly count is somewhere around 500 or lower

[thorny ivy]

Tried my hand at adding some freckles to my custom avatar, found some online and been messing around with positioning + color to make something suitable.

There's some obvious UV stretching around the nose area but done my best to minimize that.

Any thoughts/suggestions?

[foggy granite]

looks great some lipstick would look good

[brittle sinew]

Okay, so I'm completely new to unity in general. Could someone please explain to me the difference between textures and materials. I would also like to know how to make textures. Can I make textures out of materials?

[foggy granite]

okay one thing meterials are textures, and texture are images you can use

and also you dont use unity to make textures

frist explain what you want to do

@brittle sinew

[brittle sinew]

Okay, I want to simply recolor an avatar, but also make it quest compatible.

Problem is, when I use the shaders that the quest allows they usually turned white (except for standard lite).

So I'm not really sure how to use any of the other ones.

@foggy granite

[foggy granite]

you can bring the avatar into blender to recolor it

and do you know the name or owner of shaders being use

[glad hornet]

Materials determine the look of a mesh depending on the shader you use with them, and shaders hold textures

If you want a recolor, then all you have to edit is the texture

You can do that in blender, where the texture editor is pretty bad but you can see your changes in real time

Or you can do it in something like photoshop or krita, where the image editing tools are great but you can't see your results until after you finish

[foggy granite]

Depend on the type of texture

[glad hornet]

The best of both worlds is substance painter, but depending on your situation that can be expensive

[foggy granite]

Quiver mixer is nice because it's free but you can draw in it to get certain details

[glad hornet]

As far as this issue goes, just make sure your chosen shader/material has your texture applied

There should be a slot where you can apply it, iirc in most shaders it'll be labeled 'albedo', 'base', or maybe just 'texture'

[brittle sinew]

Thank you both very much! @foggy granite @glad hornet

Oh! One last question if you have the time.

How do I make certain images transparent on quest?

The model I'm working with has wings, that are just flat images. They have large white boxes around them.

How would I remove those?

[foggy granite]

im pretty sure quest dont allow transparency sharers

[thorny ivy]

Added some but due to my minimal digital art skills, feel like they're kinda flat/lackluster.

Doesn't help the model's lips are practically non-existent but don't wanna mess with the shape keys either.

[foggy granite]

Yeah that's understandable

[thorny ivy]

So should I keep the lipstick or remove it for now?

This is suppose to be a prototype though, a way to test out how everything may look + what I might wanna change/ditch, so not really worried about more minute stuff.

[foggy granite]

I would shy remove it or try a brown ish color to match the skin more

[thorny ivy]

Well, to delve into character design for a moment, her lips are bright like that due to her insides being magic. The lip membrane is thin which is why its color varies in people + is influenced by body temp.

However, I'm no digital artist and wouldn't mind waiting until the lips actually look decent to include them and/or their proper coloration.

[foggy granite]

That's some interesting lore but remove the lipstick for how until you get the lips more developed

[thorny ivy]

Glad ya think so, she's actually got a lot + her actual design shows it, but yeah, was thinking the same.

Face/head mesh is actually the most troublesome part so far due to shapekeys + my inexperience with them.

That and the custom head I was working on wasn't turning out too well.

[foggy granite]

Heads are hard

But I found a nice reference to use that show the topology of the head to use

[thorny ivy]

Oh?

[thorny ivy]

Always forget just how massive anime foreheads are.

[craggy lintel]

Anyone have zoidbergs contact

I’m about to put out a heavily edited zoichi

[thorny ivy]

They look absurd without hair.

[craggy lintel]

Yea no just make it normal looking

That’s what I do

Any base I would use or use I make the forehead smaller

[glad hornet]

Yeah if you have any concern for normal human proportions that reference is kind of a nightmare lol

[foggy granite]

depends on charcter larger foreheads help with hair

[glad hornet]

Topo is good tho

Better than I have on my character lol

[foggy granite]

only thing is the ears

[thorny ivy]

Pro-tip: if importing stuff, be it as reference material or kit-bashing, make sure to remove animations from it if the new use is static.

I'm having to redo an element for the second time because the original model came with an animation part despite being a statue.

All transformations (including scaling) were reverted back as well as their positioning upon loading the file again.

[foggy granite]

Probably for posing the statue

[thorny ivy]

Prob'ly.

But yeah, not fun having to redo something twice.

Here's redo #2 by the way

Made them smaller and less pronounced this time around, bit more realistic that way.

[cedar steppe]

Anyone know how i can move the model to 0,0,0

[quaint jasper]

Select the most bottom of your vertex on either side of your feet (symmetrical), then Shift + S > Cursor to Selected then Open the search menu > Set origin to 3D cursor with your model selected then Shift + S again > Cursor to world Origin, another Ctrl + S > Selection to cursor

[foggy granite]

are you gonna have some clothes where the back espose to show the spikes

[thorny ivy]

Something like that or have a reinforced area for the spine area. I do want them to have some visible influence on the clothes, just not sure what I'll actually go with yet.

[cedar steppe]

im not sure if im doing it wrong but nothing of the sort is working

[quaint jasper]

Which step ?

[cedar steppe]

none of it brings the model to the centre

[quaint jasper]

So the last step ?

[cedar steppe]

the dot and the 3d cursor is centred but the model just wont go

[quaint jasper]

Did you select the model before doing the last step ?

[cedar steppe]

illl try all the steps again to make sure

yeah nothing happens fo rme

[quaint jasper]

Can you record your screen while doing the steps ?

[cedar steppe]

i just end up with this

ill send you a video if of me doing the steps if you like

oh wait it while doing it to record it , it moved but it didnt centre it

its like this now

centered on the vertice rather than centering the whole piece

[quaint jasper]

yeah. that's because you didn't select a vertex on the other side

You need a vertex on each foot, so that the 3D cursor is halfway in between

the same vertex on both side if possible

[cedar steppe]

ohhhh i missed that , my bad

[quaint jasper]

no worries, lmk if it ends up working

[cedar steppe]

yeah i think it worked , thanks alot

[quaint jasper]

Make sure to ctrl + A afterwards to apply all transforms

On everything

or whichever key combo does that for you

[onyx juniper]

Late but they're basically children, but with big tits and thicc thighs

[languid fog]

First time doing smth like this

[obsidian nova]

That’s actually really good!

[worldly tangle]

👀

polys man

[obsidian nova]

They be sculptin’ 👋 chill. 👍🥳

[glad hornet]

retopo

[white moth]

No I refuse. how do people just pop up in blender and start making organics like it’s nothing the first time

[thorny ivy]

Speaking of sculpted bodies, here's a sweet one.

Added the same sugar + cinnamon "freckles" from the face to her shoulders.

I'd provide a front view but she's lacking any clothes atm.

[foggy granite]

can you show the whole body right now

[thorny ivy]

Not in a SFW server.

Like I said, no clothes.

[foggy granite]

Mind dm a pic I just want to see the over of it

[thorny ivy]

Sure thing

[vivid crater]

😳

[craggy lintel]

Uhhhh

blender now doesnt want to export vertex groups

any idea why?

been using blender for about a year now and never had this weird shit happen and forums arent sayin much lolol

ghh i have to export the object with an armature on it to get it to work

https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/84339/export-mesh-with-weights-and-vertex-groups'

Nothing LOL

X doubt my procedure for this is right lol

[languid fog]

100% poly modeling m8

[languid fog]

I watched a video and used a image reference to help

And btw i using blender for almost a 1 year now hahaha

[craggy lintel]

Send me dat video

I wanna get better at poly modeling

i am so so

[verbal palm]

I need an example model

any model

I'm so confused

[dreamy epoch]

https://gitlab.com/s-ilent/SCSS/-/wikis/Other/Avatar-Models

[languid fog]

for diy, see:

https://youtu.be/a_2hN0_zHvA

check out these for more reference:

https://www.models-resource.com/xbox_360/marvelvscapcom3/model/9406/
https://www.models-resource.com/xbox_360/marvelvscapcom3/model/2682/

you can also accomplish the abs in the texture if you're on the lower mid-poly range

[topaz reef]

sword done

[thorny ivy]

Damn that looks nice.

[white moth]

Doesn’t really help, since I’ve been using it for three. Could you send me the video you were using?

[craggy lintel]

I mean I’m making hairs better than most ppl and I’ve been doing blender for 10 months

but I guess hair just comes with art experience so it doesn’t count

[white moth]

It’s not really about time

It’s knowing the right workflow

[molten zephyr]

hair's still one of the hardest parts for me, haha

[craggy lintel]

@white moth do you know a good fire shader

[white moth]

Nope. Try #shaders

[languid fog]

https://youtu.be/a_2hN0_zHvA

[ashen stag]

Reject organics, embrace robotics

[cyan plover]

Actually to know how to draw or model robotics you really gotta understand anatomy

But ye robotics > Organics

[ashen stag]

Oh yeah anatomy is always important regardless of what you are creating, hell I have tons of references of arthropodal anatomy for spiders and millipedes

[white moth]

Laughs in rigging via “assign to vert group”

[ashen stag]

Yeah the boolean variant of weightpainting is so easy lol

[languid fog]

never tried robotics yet

and i dont think i will get the way to do it

[urban valve]

can someone PLEASE help me, im willing to pay someone to walk me through it, none of the tutorials im watching are helping me

i cant figure out how to color and import this into vr, i DO NOT want it this color, its the base color, please dm if you can help me

[white moth]

You don’t need a 3D editor to edit textures you need a 2D editor.

[azure rain]

if it has a Photoshop file you would open it up and image editing software and paint on the fur pattern after disabling a couple of layers

[urban valve]

doesnt photo shop cost money?

is there a free alterntiave?

[foggy granite]

krita

[south inlet]

how to add a bone for a duck that can be toggled?

[urban valve]

not sure what i did here but

it somehow ended up like this

[foggy granite]

wireframe mode

[urban valve]

so i cant color it in blender?

[foggy granite]

hold z and select material preview

[urban valve]

now what

[azure rain]

even if you did paint in blender you'd probably want to use image editing software to Overlay the colors on top of the model shading so the colors don't look flat

[foggy granite]

you can color it in blender but for more complex texturing swap to a drawing program

[urban valve]

eek.. im so confused

okay so download krita?

[azure rain]

yes

[foggy granite]

but frist explain what you trying to do and also you in the wrong mode

you in soild mode you need to select material preview by holding z and move your mouse down to select material preview

[urban valve]

im trying to color

a model

for vr chat

okau

i downloaded kirta @azure rain now what

[azure rain]

kirta would be for later after you paint in blender

[urban valve]

im confused

sorry- im really slow

like mentally

[foggy granite]

so lets start from the beginning your trying to change the color of the fur right

[urban valve]

yeah

i want white fur

but now its all flat looking

[azure rain]

any pattern to the fur or just solid white

[foggy granite]

okay thats because you painted over the original fur pattern

[urban valve]

crap

i accidentally closed out

[foggy granite]

your can ctrl+z and go back

oh

[urban valve]

and no fur pattern

just white cat

with pink eyes

and grey thigh highs

[azure rain]

then in that case we'd probably don't need blender

[urban valve]

oh okay

[azure rain]

as you can probably just turn off layers and use the change Hue tool in krita

[cyan plover]

hey guys question, if I wanna add ears that wiggle with dynamic bones to an already rigged avatar, do I have to add the bones separetly to the ear models and then parent them in unity? Or must I rig it before inserting it into unity?

[urban valve]

ive never used krita

[azure rain]

how much experience do you have with image editing software in general

[urban valve]

none

[foggy granite]

add bones and parent them before unity

[urban valve]

i do digital art

[foggy granite]

then that will help

[cyan plover]

thanks!

[urban valve]

okay but i dont use krita at al

all

ive opened krita

is really cluttered

[azure rain]

you just need to find where the layers is

[urban valve]

how do i import the model tho?

[azure rain]

you don't you just open a Photoshop file with the texture

[urban valve]

how do i do that

im so sorry im really dumb at this

im here

how to i open the photo shop fie

file

i dont own photoshop

[azure rain]

I just noticed looking at the page for it it has a blank white version with shading

https://public-files.gumroad.com/variants/2ppjnz4qi41h8ln6rg4ay8vpz3ws/378b8185172552303a975215a5152990e0f85852efe07b2f0d33b94297bd537d

basically you would just go open file and click on the Photoshop file as you can open that in more than just Photoshop

[south inlet]

how do i add bones

[urban valve]

i seriously am so confused

ok how do i get the white one?

it always loads in as the dark gray

[foggy granite]

go to texture templates and select the correct resultion scale

[urban valve]

i dont know how to do that???

in which program? im still in krita

[foggy granite]

yeah

[urban valve]

please if anyone can voice or watch my screen to direct me i have no clue what im doing im freaking out

ill pay anyone who can

[azure rain]

you might want to take a break then if it's stressing you out that much

[urban valve]

everything stresses me out this much

like i said im really slow

everything doesnt make sense to me

im at the files in krita

how do i find the photo shop file

[azure rain]

you would like click open the file and go to the directory where you have your stuff stored

[urban valve]

okay but

nowhere says photo shop file

[azure rain]

PSD is the file extension

[urban valve]

its called

cat.zip

how do i get it into psd?!

oh boy

[azure rain]

well you probably unzip the cat somewhere given that you were able to open it in blender

[urban valve]

the only other place i have it is in unity

[azure rain]

okay then go look in those folders

[urban valve]

this is the only other thing i had saved

[azure rain]

that's a zip file for a blender plugin

[urban valve]

okay

thats the only two files i have

[azure rain]

then maybe go download the cat again if you have no clue where it is

[urban valve]

okay but when i do that it just says zip file

[azure rain]

then unzip it

[urban valve]

how do i download the psd file of it

i dont know how to do that

[azure rain]

you should be able to right click it in file explorer to unzip

[azure rain]

that looks to be the blender plugin

[urban valve]

this is the page

now what

[cyan plover]

it can't really be awnsered in a aquestion, nut my advice is go to a page called mixamino or something like that, there an AI can generate a Rig for you

[azure rain]

click download

[urban valve]

okay

[azure rain]

and then click on the file at the bottom of your browser when it's done downloading

[south inlet]

oh its not for the whole avatar its just for a prop that can be toggled.

[urban valve]

now what

[azure rain]

double-click on it

[urban valve]

okay

[cyan plover]

ohhh, hm
I'd love to tell you but I use maya and I guess you're on blender so it's a bit different

[urban valve]

i see this now

[azure rain]

drag the unity package out and then double-click it

[urban valve]

drag it to where

[azure rain]

anywhere will do

[urban valve]

ok i did it didnt do anyhting

[azure rain]

I suppose you would you need Unity open first

[south inlet]

oh alright if I attach the rubber duck to a bone and then make a toggle for the bone in unity would that work?

[cyan plover]

yknow I'm actually on the process of figuring that out with some ears I made XD
But I think so yeah

[urban valve]

it signed me out of unity since i did that.

hold on

[south inlet]

alirght tell me if it works

[cyan plover]

will do

[urban valve]

i forgot my fucking password aint i bright.

[azure rain]

you can click skip for now as you don't need to sign into Unity just to open up a Unity package

[urban valve]

now im here

@azure rain

[azure rain]

drag the unity file into the bottom

[urban valve]

ok'

it wont let me

it does the circle with cross in middle

when i try to

[azure rain]

you need to drag it out of the zip file first on to like your desktop

[urban valve]

like a bookmark on my home screen?

[azure rain]

yes

[urban valve]

okay now what

v

[azure rain]

you'd probably want to import the vrchat SDK before you bring in the Avatar

[urban valve]

what the hell is that-

and i havent colored it yet

or done anythign yet

to it

where do i get the SDK

[silent bane]

download the sdk

[azure rain]

https://i.gyazo.com/85c6be20c31a8c652013b79bb0d7bdaa.png

[silent bane]

yup

that one

wait

are you using the correct unity version

[urban valve]

ye

[silent bane]

nvm

[azure rain]

and you want to import it first so that the vrchat file for the Avatar doesn't break

[urban valve]

its the uh