3d-modeling

[quaint jasper]

If the world has a reflection probe then your hair will shine obviously

Cause it's pure metal

[keen tulip]

Metal hair at it's finest LOL

Let me go fix that real quick

[wintry vector]

wait no texture but normal map?

so its just monochrome

with bumps?

[keen tulip]

Yeah.

[wintry vector]

no wait he has one

or does the color setting override?

alternatively you could just retexture your hair and then just have maps. probably no reflections on hair so your metallic setting could just be set to 0

laziest fix is just to turn off metallic

no point in having a normal map if normal intensity is 0. You could just delete it to save space otherwise you're loading in an extra texture map for no reason

but your hair will probably look really simple

you're using toon shader anyway so its a stylistic choice at that point

[wintry vector]

turn roughness up too. Metallic down roughness up

@quaint jasper is smoothness on the unity shader just the inverse of roughness?

[quaint jasper]

i believe so

[wintry vector]

@keen tulip yeah so im confident these sliders will determine if you fix the issue

put metallic at 0 unless your hair is literally metal

personally I would try turning up the normal map and seeing how it looks. Otherwise the texture might look a bit flat.

if you're not going to use it at all then just delete it

[spiral sigil]

I am extremely proud of my log I 1000% accidently made

incase anyone wants to also maek log

[devout scroll]

loggers

[quaint jasper]

[lofty river]

Not Sure If im in the right channel but could someone help me, i recently bought a model with blendshapes on it and i put it in blender to add an outline but everytime i export it the blendshapes are missing. Does anyone know how i can fix this

[quaint jasper]

an outline how ?

[lofty river]

The problem is that the blendshapes disappear everytime i export the model

is there a way i can fix this?

[lofty river]

I use the solidify tool

[quaint jasper]

Can't apply modifiers on meshes that have shapekeys

Try https://github.com/llealloo/join-modifiers-and-shapes

Make sure to read the instructions correctly

[lofty river]

Okay Thank you very much

[visual vigil]

https://twitter.com/HexeArtz/status/1454615277132517379

Junos 🔞 (@HexeArtz)

kleinpanzerkampfwagen texture / model fixup for @Cpl_Stefchap for #VRChat

Tankette Concept tank that never saw production during WW2, submitted by a german soldier during the war.

Twitter · Oct 31, 2021, 1:04 AM

[spiral sigil]

pewpew

[visual vigil]

https://twitter.com/HexeArtz/status/1454620256782196741

Junos 🔞 (@HexeArtz)

Halloween outfit commission of Little Red Riding Hooded Mercenary from #LobotomyCorporation for Krial for #VRChat

Twitter · Oct 31, 2021, 1:24 AM

[fiery steeple]

Is there a way to save the pose position to the resting position?

[quaint jasper]

Cats > Pose mode > Apply pose position as rest position

[spiral sigil]

How long did it take you to learn to sculpt, texture and rig your own vrc model from scratch

I want to get into this hobby

[surreal flame]

I think with some YT tutorials you could start right away. Getting used to various quirks of Blender (if that's what you want to use) will take some time but practice is super important.

[spiral sigil]

I wouldn't personally go straight into making humanoid models in blender, as you won't have fundamental understanding of Blender and why things are done which will probably cause you to rage and then hate 3d modelling

so id start off modelling simple random things in blender just think up of something and there probably is a blender tutorial for it

[surreal flame]

Yeah agreed, start simple or it may become too much at once. I personally hate doing things for the sake of practice so I usually just jump in at the cost of frustration but I get results sooner.

[devout scroll]

Might want to smooth shade that mask

[nova roost]

yes of course i will

i figured people'd be able to tell its a wip

gonna start baking now

[spiral sigil]

I made a Front and Right-side view of a quad-prong hook (which are exactly the same), and I'm wondering how I would make it actually 3 dimensional

i am seeing a video that can do exactly what I need but aaa its in old blender and i cant find anything about where the specific menu was taken

[calm goblet]

fill the faces, solidify, subdivide

that'll give you the shapes you want

after that you can just go over it with much lower resolution to trace the 3d shape

[spiral sigil]

how do I fill I saw that in a video but the thingies wereNT there

[calm goblet]

the other option would've been to use single verts to trace the main hooks and use a skin modifier, then extrude out the barbs

[surreal flame]

I also recommend using the mirror modifier.

[calm goblet]

yeah make 1, mirror it, then duplicate and rotate 90

[spiral sigil]

thats what I essentially did already

but I still dont know how to fill

[surreal flame]

Even better, mirror in X and Y.

[spiral sigil]

it isnt in the vertex tab

[calm goblet]

mirror in x and y wouldn't work

[spiral sigil]

is fill a setting in the mirror modifier?

[calm goblet]

radial array would

no when i say fill i mean fill in each face

[surreal flame]

Right I didn't realize.

[calm goblet]

are there voice channels in here? it'd be so much easier for me to just screenshare making one of these things and answering any questions you have

[spiral sigil]

no

[calm goblet]

hop in one of the ones in openvfx or vrctraders if you're in those?

just easier to show this kind of thing than explain it lol

[spiral sigil]

yeah sure give me a moment

[spiral sigil]

thank

[safe ferry]

learning to sculpt 3d models, this one is not meant for vrchat but more to learn myself how to add detail

[hallow dove]

how do i 1 add textures and 2 atlas textures

[quaint jasper]

Why do you need atlases ?

[hallow dove]

i want to optimize it for quest

[quaint jasper]

And the model can't fit on a single texture ?

[hallow dove]

its a model from modelers resources but for some reason it came in 3 separate textures for the model

this thing wont work to install for some reason too

[quaint jasper]

You tried the manual install ?

[hallow dove]

how do i do the manual install?

it just brings me here

[quaint jasper]

yeah i can see how it's a bit much for you then, you should download the material combiner addon standalone from shotariya

[hallow dove]

link?

[quaint jasper]

You're not on blender 3.0 right ?

[hallow dove]

how do i tell

[quaint jasper]

bottom right corner usually

[hallow dove]

2.93.5

thats what it says

[quaint jasper]

yeah, unsure it supports that specific version

https://github.com/Grim-es/material-combiner-addon/releases/tag/2.1.1.8

[hallow dove]

is there any easy way to atlas them?

[quaint jasper]

try the above first

[hallow dove]

doesnt work

ughhhhh i give up for now

[past drum]

sao im trying to finish sculpting my head by im unable to grab & pull in blender

[quaint jasper]

mind showing your screen ?

[past drum]

yeah

using my tablet to sculpt as well

command screen as well or whatever its called

here

[quaint jasper]

your model has negative scale, probably want to fix that first ?

ctrl + A > Scale

[past drum]

ahh

so just ctrl a? everything else works except for grab

[quaint jasper]

in object mode yes

[craggy lintel]

Hey guys

how does one unhide armature when its not unhiding like normal

this rarely happens to me and when it does its so obnoxious

its not any of the layers, i checked

-.-

unhiding in Outliner view isnt working either

someone help plz

this is stumping me and im annoyed af LOL

[quaint jasper]

make sure it's not hidden in pose mode

[craggy lintel]

Not hidden!

this happened to me before a long time ago

i forgot what i did to fix this bug

[quaint jasper]

mind showing your screen ?

[craggy lintel]

sure how?

gyazo links work?

https://gyazo.com/f49d4609a8ca36de43a3dce3ae4866c9

[devout scroll]

use the bake tab instead

[quaint jasper]

now show the rest of the window

[devout scroll]

the old atlassing method isn't very good

bake tab should work a lot better

[craggy lintel]

https://gyazo.com/b12ed3af146bb81d10bde7b44e2ab4ad

[quaint jasper]

Franada had a good tutorial for the texture baking but youtube took it down, so unsure which to recommend

[quaint jasper]

Is it showing in edit/pose mode ?

and what happens if you click . to focus on it

[craggy lintel]

https://gyazo.com/82212c43107c56089aa1f83f73297811

Oh wait

i got it

layers

uwehiuwehfiuew Thanks

[quaint jasper]

You have nothing in your other layers tho ?

[devout scroll]

not sure either but i think baking is supposed to just bake out an atlas

hasn't worked very well for me, but i've done it manually a bunch of times

[quaint jasper]

Still need manual UV adjustment right ?

[devout scroll]

i don't think so? it's using uvpackmaster's free engine so it should pack itself pretty well

[quaint jasper]

I don't feel confident leaving newbies doing their own uv unwrapping

[devout scroll]

i haven't had a successful bake in a while tho

oh no no, i don't think you're supposed to

let me see

[quaint jasper]

i remember franada just moving the entire uv islands in corners and that was good enough

[devout scroll]

we found a bug with feilen that had to do with my usual setup so my bakes almost never worked

but let me try a new avatar

[nimble anchor]

Am working on a model of Ada by Hushabye valley

[devout scroll]

well

https://puu.sh/Im8pV/d797abab7c.png

it did unwrap

[spiral sigil]

epic seem game you got there

[spiral sigil]

noice i think i saw someone else a month ago work on it i forgot who it was

[nimble anchor]

Yiss

[quaint jasper]

I suggest you look at the gret addon for your tail !

[quaint jasper]

Excellent

[nimble anchor]

The gret addon?

[quaint jasper]

Yes, gret is the name

specifically the graft feature

[nimble anchor]

I’m hoping to get the tail to function a bit like this

Like a chonky but very long gecko tail

[quaint jasper]

You'll have to do a lot of animating

[nimble anchor]

Yup!

Already got her unique lil feeties modeled at least

Working on her hands and then gonna shape up her tail a bit more

[nimble anchor]

Probably could be animation state toggles where she could sit on her own tail and it moves like a snake’s body to move around

[quaint jasper]

the setting it up won't be too difficult, it's the animating part that will

[nimble anchor]

https://tenor.com/view/snake-python-crawling-wild-animal-moving-gif-17857741

[nimble anchor]

I’ve animated stuff before. I don’t think it would be too difficult

Just time consuming @quaint jasper

At least a lot of her regular locomotion can be easily based on aliens xenomorphs

[quaint jasper]

At least you're enthusiastic about it

[spiral sigil]

Wow good job that’s actually really good keep up the good work

[nimble anchor]

https://tenor.com/view/isolation-isolated-alone-all-alone-afraid-gif-13444390

[devout scroll]

Yeah basically I can't really get it work. It's supposed to bake out an altas but I never had it work successfully so it's probably not worth recommending to newbies just yet

[nimble anchor]

Defo enthusiastic

[zinc jolt]

working on details for something I just got

[nimble anchor]

Another plus is experience with working with poiyomi cel shading and stenciling

Stenciling for getting things like eyelashes and eyebrows to render through hair

[zinc jolt]

like a few hours ago

[nimble anchor]

Like the bottom panel

[past drum]

omg

wrong channel

[zinc jolt]

one of my friends, Mr. Trap X, made an edit of this Roux36 Springtrap model and gave it highly detailed PBR mats

of which I'm baking textures of currently

[quaint jasper]

anime do be like that

[zinc jolt]

I was originally going to port it to VRChat with the optimized SFM Version ported by Chrome (Aka Robotic Soft on Twitter) but I decided to wait on it until I felt ready before I could release it on Trap X's birthday coming in about a week

so I wouldn't feel as rushed

[zinc jolt]

anyway

what do you guys think?

[thorny ivy]

How good of an idea is it for multiple parts of a model to use the same base texture but different material?

I'm usin' the outline functionality of Poiyomi's shader but the avatar's claws get inverted when usin' the same settin's as the body.

[zinc jolt]

hmm

try using Mochie's

it could work

[thorny ivy]

Might have the normals inverted in Blender but hard to tell.

[zinc jolt]

try to fix it

[past drum]

my grab tool isnt working at all

[hallow dove]

how do i do that?

[past drum]

figured out my issue

@quaint jasper so it was something called sample bias under texture in brush

it was set to 0 so i set it to 1

[quaint jasper]

never heard of that one, glad you figured it out

[hallow dove]

when i click it says no meshes found

[quaint jasper]

Can you share the rest of your screen ?

[rain fjord]

how do i delete edges without it also (or just) deleting the face?, it happens so often in Blender and it's really pissing me of

[foggy granite]

Dissolve edges

Under the x or del menu

[rain fjord]

@foggy granite doesn't work

[quaint jasper]

doesn't work how ?

If your topology is good it should work

[rain fjord]

@quaint jasper here's my topology

[zinc jolt]

Hey Ruuubick, have you seen this around before?

now that's true pain

[quaint jasper]

Your edges aren't connected it seems, so that wouldn't work

[rain fjord]

@quaint jasper aren't connected? i used the snap tool

[quaint jasper]

snap doesn't mean merged, just sharing the same physical space

[zinc jolt]

yeah raw, let me dm you and help you out with that

I just helped him out Ruuubick

[zinc jolt]

tried to

[zinc jolt]

it's 2 am

I haven't even slept at all

[thin shadow]

why does using the knife tool to cut mesh always results in messing up the other blendshapes?

i already have the basis on active while using the knife tool

[quaint jasper]

You shouldn't be creating any new topology in other blendshapes

do it in basis and move it in the shapekeys

[cerulean heron]

Can someone create Lobo from DC and NightWolf from Mk11 please

[thin shadow]

that's exactly what i did

it keeps having those random vertices go into the origin when checking with other blendshapes

[quaint jasper]

Did you shape propagate the new vertices ?

[thin shadow]

i dont know what is that yet. Im gonna do some experiment and check it out.

ok, now i know what that is and knows how it works.

Now it has become a dilemma

if i use the propogate, it will not follow like other blendshapes.

im trying to cut the eyelash mesh that has transparency

so using the propogate, it will not be "moving" like the other blendshape

ok so now i know how to sentence it in english:
how to cut a mesh while maintaining its blendshapes

[ripe notch]

Idk if this would be a good spot for this but could I commission someone to make a couple wedding dresses for a vrc wedding? 👉🏼👈🏼

[quaint jasper]

#3d-modeling message

[devout scroll]

not sure, cats needs to detect your avatar somehow, try importing with the cats import button

[thin shadow]

I have found the solution:
Cut the mesh in edge selection. Only manipulate in edge mode.

[hallow dove]

tried that and it didnt work

[devout scroll]

dunno then

there's a manual process but it's complicated

[zinc jolt]

Guys

What do you see when you look at him?

[radiant vortex]

The inside of spring trap

[unkempt torrent]

Texture is, obviously, raw meatloaf

[zinc jolt]

Nah

[radiant vortex]

Eyes balls obviously a fogged up light bulb

[zinc jolt]

Guess again

[radiant vortex]

Jesus what were u typing a essay at first then deleted a lot

[zinc jolt]

It's a desaturated flesh texture

I found online

[unkempt torrent]

Nope... Meatloaf 😛

I think I've asked this before several months ago, but idly toying with it yet again so here it goes again in case anyone can help.
The model for the avatar I typically use comes with uvmaps and atlased textures. The textures are perfectly mapped and render properly in blender, unity, vrchat, etc. However, blender will not display (or allow me to edit) the UVMap in the UV Editor no matter what I do. I can Unwrap, which will create a new, persistently editable map, but lose the original mapping (and I can't position the new map as accurately as the original, so there's a considerable loss in quality if I do this).
Anyone have any idea why the original map won't show and/or how I can recover it for editing?
I think the original model was in XPS format.

[devout scroll]

Can you share your file?

That doesn't sound right at all

If it maps and displays, there's no way for it to not have a uvmap

[unkempt torrent]

It definitely has a UV map. There is a UV map listed, called "UVMap". I just can't see or edit it

The map itself does not display (the vertices) in the UV editor view, even though it functions properly

Give me a minute

pumkin has figured it out. For people who come here in the future searching for the answer to this problem that many people failed to solve since january: The UV map was far out in the distance, but functioned because UV maps repeat endlessly. You can find it by zooming out a lot until it shows up

[devout scroll]

[thorny ivy]

Had an issue with an avatar's thumbs + fingers, last time I uploaded, they looked fine in a restin' pose (relaxed hands) but in a splayed pose (fingers off the buttons), they looked like bird talons with how they turned up at the ends with the thumb bendin' all kinds of weird.

I checked out the armature and noticed that the thumb bones started at 0 vs 1, would that cause the aforementioned?

[unkempt torrent]

Are they correctly assigned to the humanoid rig in unity?

I'm trying to fix some shading issues in my mirrored mesh. One thing I noticed was that the mirrored mesh, which is made of triangulated quads, is triangulated "the wrong way" after being mirrored (the mirrored diagonals do not match the direction of the diagonals) of the mesh it's attached to, but the original mesh's diagonals do). So I tried to fix this by using tris to quads and then triangulating again the right way. Mesh-wise this appears to work, however as soon as I convert tris to quads the shading breaks on all edges (loses continuity), even though the normals "appear" fine. I can use the weighted normals modifier to get smooth shading but it's a different result than the original shading. Any way to recover the original shading?

[scarlet laurel]

how would I go about sharing my knowledge on model optimization in an impromptu 30 minute meetup?

[spiral sigil]

Meetup with who? im confused

you could cover all your knowledge on it in a Youtube video maybe

[scarlet laurel]

me! I want to share my knowledge in a live demo

thanks, I don't have time to put together a video though

[spiral sigil]

Then id just stream it and upload raw footage for those who have the patience to watch it all

im not sure who you would be meeting with

I mean there is a community throughout the vrchat discords and moddeling stuffs but its not like we do meetings or anything

not that i know of at least

[scarlet laurel]

Well, if enough people were interested I could put up a doodle poll for people to pick some times that work for them

and then I would just do the event at whatever time that was

does this make sense?

[spiral sigil]

ye

id like to join but if its today then i cant talk at all because im supposed to be pretty sick sooo

[scarlet laurel]

lol

I dont think youd have to talk much

free now? I can show you some tips

[spiral sigil]

In a few hours sure i just have to make sure all my work is done for the day i missed

probably less

[scarlet laurel]

sure, PM me when youre ready 🙂

[devout scroll]

are those verts joined?

you can try smoothing the normals on that bit a bunch

of you can try overlapping the original mesh on top of it and transferring the normals

[unkempt torrent]

They should be joined

[oak hatch]

Have you tried to reset the normals? mirror and triangulate can both cause odd issues.

[unkempt torrent]

Well, in this case I converted tris to quads and the shading broke; no triangulation took place yet

What do you mean by reseting the normals?

Here's a more zoomed out view

[surreal flame]

I got similar issues when I had rogue verts/edges/faces in the mesh.

[unkempt torrent]

Ok, give me a minute

Adding a weld modifier doesn't help

There are no visible non-overlapping vertices or edges

[surreal flame]

Selecting non-manifold verts could reveal some weird geometry as well.

[unkempt torrent]

Only the edge loops

I mean nothing strange there

[surreal flame]

What do you mean, only the edge loops?

[unkempt torrent]

The ends of the mesh, which is a tube

This is an arm

[surreal flame]

Right. Well personally I'm out of ideas.

[unkempt torrent]

😄

Thanks for trying

Maybe this whole course of action is bad

[surreal flame]

Unless you post the blend file or something I guess.

[unkempt torrent]

I'm only trying to fix minute shading discontinuities that appear at the point where this portion is adjacent to the rest of the arm

Majorly breaking everything seems like a bad way to do it

(It was not normals)

[surreal flame]

I would recommend sorting this out if possible because these things may come back to bite you later.

[unkempt torrent]

This has been there for months. In certain specific worlds with bad(?) lighting, the discontinuities are very visible, in others pretty much invisible

I thought it was going to be a UV problem (read above) but for these edge loops specifically they seem to match

I've recently set a common anchor for the light probes of all meshes but it didn't fix the problem, at least not entirely, and the normals had previously been averaged

That is, across meshes

Also not mipmapping, that would show as gaps, which is not the case...

[devout scroll]

smooth the normals on that area

or use something like abnormal (never used it) to manually rotate the normals

[unkempt torrent]

😄

[devout scroll]

or maybe you can rotate the normals yourself in blender

just search with f3

[unkempt torrent]

Are you recommending smoothing the normals on the discontinuity with the original problem or to keep trying to do the triangulation thing and then smooth them?

[devout scroll]

you can try either

[unkempt torrent]

That's the thing, I'd already done that

[devout scroll]

since it's a flat piece (relatively) smoothing should just literally smooth it out

you can clear split normals

but that might not be desirable over the whole mesh

what i'd do is separate to new object, clear split normals, then join back if nothing else works

that seems to reset them

[unkempt torrent]

Wait, ok

I could have sworn that was not the case but showing split normals, they are indeed different on this seam

[devout scroll]

can try merging normals too

[unkempt torrent]

Let me try normal things

[spiral sigil]

does that mean there are 2 vertices that are almost in the same exact location?

[devout scroll]

not necessarily, normals can be split despite verticies being joined

but you can merge normals the same way you can merge verticies

[unkempt torrent]

It's because the normal can be different for each face even if blender is representing the vertices as merged I think

This is taking a while because I'm having to do a bunch of seam related stuff on the rest of the mesh so everything will actually look coherent at the end

[next ravine]

How to I take a already setup unity project with an avatar, and open the model and texture up in blender? I want to start using blenders 3D paint tool,

[quaint jasper]

You import the fbx avatar file from your files

[unkempt torrent]

<#avatar-help message> 🙄

[quaint jasper]

Looks like someone had already answered you before, make sure to pay attention before posting in multiple channels

[next ravine]

They did?

I never got pinged.

[quaint jasper]

not sure why anyone would need to ping you if you didn't ask

[next ravine]

By default people normally ping me. And then I search for the ping in the search bar.

[midnight valley]

I have a model in ZBrush that i'd like to bring over to blender. does anyone know how to export said model? it already has a texture map but the uv map seems to be missing?

[quaint jasper]

what file type are you exporting as ?

[midnight valley]

.ztl

ive never used zbrush before so im assuming the reason why the uv maps are missing is because they have to be assigned in zbrush first?

[quaint jasper]

No clue, but probably should try exporting as .fbx instead

[midnight valley]

ok. ill try it out

[spiral sigil]

yeah blender doesn't have support for .ztl w/o addons at least

[lament ruin]

Does anyone know why my blender keeps saying this everytime I put a fbx

[devout scroll]

oof

[unkempt torrent]

Is there a hassle-fee way to average normals from vertices in different meshes? I remember the last time I did that I temporarily copied a chunk from one mesh into the other, but that's the opposite of hassle-free

[unkempt torrent]

Data transfer modifier

[devout scroll]

you don't have to use a modifier

you can just use an operator to transfer data

so then you don't have to deal with shape key issues etc

[unkempt torrent]

Operator?

Fortunately I don't have shape keys in the target mesh and the modifier did do the job properly, but if you'd like to explain the operator method I might as well learn

[devout scroll]

F3 and search for it

operators are just things that are executed

[unkempt torrent]

huh

[devout scroll]

usually by buttons either in the ui or the menu

ignore the name, just search for average normals

or transfer data

or transfer normals

[unkempt torrent]

Yes, it seems to have the same functionality under transfer mesh data

[devout scroll]

generally there's operators that do the same things as their modifier counterparts

[unkempt torrent]

That's another thing that never came up all these months when people suggested modifiers for things 😄

[devout scroll]

modifiers are great if you want to keep them on

[unkempt torrent]

Right

[devout scroll]

but awful if you need to start applying them

[unkempt torrent]

Obviously we want to apply them for vrchat

[devout scroll]

yeah, in which case it's easier to use the operator

[oak hatch]

Stupid Clyde

Chainsaw Angel

Gonna have custom animations and a "yandere mode"

[quaint jasper]

Cool matcap !

[glacial pecan]

modeling a map in maya for my community. One of smaller details I just finished was a railing on the balcony area. Having a blast making it so far :D

Haven't made materials for it yet, just base colors so far to start creating a color palette

[spiral sigil]

If anyone might be able to help with a weight painting problem im having I posted it in avatar-rigging.

[supple lake]

Some low poly character modeling tut I’m following, learning Blender as I go

[oak hatch]

Looks pretty darn good, keep up the good work!

[foggy granite]

Looks good buts that’s not low poly its closer to mid poly

[spiral sigil]

That looks like it's gonna be hella cool when it's done !

The art for it is cool too

[zinc jolt]

Impressive job 👍

[visual vigil]

https://mobile.twitter.com/HexeArtz/status/1455412844866985984

Junos 🔞 (@HexeArtz)

first time ever using #zbrush

Using the tool to add skin details and surface definement. Original mesh I paid for, I did not create it

Twitter · Nov 2, 2021, 5:53 AM

[visual vigil]

Naw nowadays that's low poly

[foggy granite]

Yeah

[spiral sigil]

oh god

who thought that was a good idea

[foggy granite]

Whiles it still a head but in the long run it be mid poly

[bold urchin]

For people who work in Blender but aren't having their file preview images being used by Windows (to make life easier when searching through folders), here's a fix I just found.
https://blenderartists.org/t/blend-files-not-using-preview-thumbnails-in-windows-explorer/643180/7

Can also find an equivalent idea here>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smc37pXUWZg

I've never had file previews in my 4 years working in Blender and my brain is just expanded from not knowing it was because this was a bug.

[supple lake]

Thanks! Really appreciate the compliment

[supple lake]

I don’t know it’s model from a rounded cube primitive, no kitbash here so I learn the concept of good topology without having to go back later and retopo a sculpted model

[thin shadow]

what i recently learned in blender is that,
if you want to cut the mesh transparency, while maintaining blendshapes, cut it straight from edge to edge, no middle points.

the vertex in the middle will not have any blendshape data and it will go straight to origin point when testing with other blendshapes

[devout scroll]

what if you connect it to other edges?

you can press e to start cutting a new line before confirming your old ones

in general you want to connect your verts to edges

[thin shadow]

but i thought e is extrude, k is knife ( i like to use default keybinds)

and the verts already connected to edges

[devout scroll]

while in knife mode sometimes keys do other things, you can see that at the bottom of the screen

e starts a new cut while already cutting i think

[spiral sigil]

cutception

[nimble anchor]

This lil alien

[spiral sigil]

curious how the tail is going to end up getting connected and how its gonna do things in vrchat

is it just going to be a long chain of colliders and dynamic bones?

[nimble anchor]

Most likely not or a combination

@spiral sigil probably animation state toggles

[spiral sigil]

ahhh okay

id love to see a video of you doing that once you finally get to that point

[nimble anchor]

Yiss

[languid fog]

looking nice, gl with that

[fiery steeple]

My goodness, didn't see this until now. Thanks very much, and my apologies. Don't get notified unless tagged

[quaint jasper]

[foggy granite]

How long is that tail but also nice norms

[supple lake]

Thank u ser! been a bit distracted, getting back to it soon, so much more to do yet this one...

[zinc jolt]

That's alright

[twilit condor]

What're some good resources for someone that wants to learn how to make their own avatar? ( youtube channels)

[solar ocean]

Does anyone have a thigh high socks fbx?

please ping me if you do, thanks

[foggy granite]

YouTube and google

If you looking for tutorials or program that’s a different story

[nimble anchor]

Also gonna make her tongue be puppetable

[nimble anchor]

Tail length

[nimble anchor]

3 to 4 meters according to the measurements. So I’m making it just under 4 meters in length

[spiral sigil]

luv it

[foggy granite]

Jeez that’s ridiculous

[ashen stag]

If the tail doesn't use FIK to be controlled I'm going to be so disappointed 😔

[nimble anchor]

Oh it’ll absolutely be using that

[nimble anchor]

@ashen stag however since the character herself is mute I might end up not putting lip syncing visemes on her at all, or end up making a mute version and a talking version

However, a talking version might not be a good idea because… well

[ashen stag]

Honestly you should have the visemes because of the mouth yeah

Or at least be able to yawn emote or sonething

[nimble anchor]

A yawn emote would be fantastic

Physically she’s basically a moe xenomorph

Lmao

[twilit condor]

How do I check the size of my avatar body in blender?

[foggy granite]

Drag out this arrow

And it should be at the bottoms saying some like x,y,z dimensions

You should be looking at y

[stark ore]

You mean z if blender?

Y is for unity because it's different for some reason

[alpine nimbus]

Anyone know why applying the cloth modifier in blender would make my mesh go crazy:

[supple lake]

Up very late just shaping the face, dissolved some edges in the back and added cuts a few other places. It’s not easy to see so keep moving around rotating pan in and out perspective and orthographic views, also toggling smooth shading with different materials and matcaps to get a better idea. Almost happy with it I guess, then it’s going to be the trick of extruding eyelid folds, inner eye, inside mouth and teeth. Will be happy if I finish just the eyes over the weekend.

[icy jungle]

looks great, good work

I would add another loop around the mouth

[spiral sigil]

I need to figure out how booth does their head and hair

I can't capture their style yet

[stark lotus]

my sculpting tool on blender randomly stopped working. It lets me use the tool, but no changes are made as i click on the screen with any of the sculpting tools

[foggy granite]

Booth like the website or you referencing a creator on the website

[spiral sigil]

web

[foggy granite]

That's interesting

I didn't know booth have a team working on making avatars

[azure rain]

it's a large multitude of individual creators

who probably all have slightly different techniques even if they're going for a anime style

[foggy granite]

Yeah I thought so

That's why I was confused with just straight up booth instead of a name of some creator

[azure rain]

technically Booth owners also own vroid so I suppose there's a couple of employees making avatars but not selling them

[foggy granite]

True that

Yeah that be the case here

[thorny ivy]

How does this look for the base thumb bone weight paintin'?

Had to redo it and the rest of the thumb due to the original weight paintin' gettin' messed-up at some point.

Ain't sure how much the base bone moves in VRC so dunno if I need to adjust it much if at all.

[stark lotus]

my sculpting tool on blender randomly stopped working. It lets me use the tool, but no changes are made as i click on the screen with any of the sculpting tools

anyone know a fix? I don't velieve i made any changes, maybe an accidental shortcut?

[spiral sigil]

A lot of booths are heavily modified vroids, yes.

[azure rain]

apparently vroids also has its own category in the store now

[stark lotus]

ive been tryna figure this out for 2 hours, tweaking different settings and looking for shortcuts, googling people with similar issues from 5 years ago

literally nothing is working

restarting the program, my pc didnt work either

why cant i use the sculpt tools??

[quaint jasper]

show your screen ?

[devout scroll]

do you have a blenshape selected

[slender quartz]

i made my first oc and I'm gonna put it as my vr chat model

[quaint jasper]

Looks like you may have some modifiers causing this ?

[buoyant rain]

be good im mute like art work

Does anyone know how make shana character

[tacit gorge]

hey, does anybody know that how these eboy avatars are created? i think its vroid, but the clothes and other models are not.
how could i make clothes like that?

like this

[quaint jasper]

Plenty of tutorials for either poly modelling, marvelous designer, sculpting and then texturing in blender/substance painter on youtube for beginners

[thin shadow]

This exact particular avatar is not vroid, but it’s possible using vroid

[supple lake]

I know only that sculpt tools don’t work on the edge of mirrored objects, what would appear as the center line,
those u have to adjust manually in edit mode.

[supple lake]

Yes agree, I’m following a tutorial for this, and many times the author leads me somewhere that only changes later as they change their mind I have to follow and redo a lot of things… I’m learning to be more familiar with Blender regardless so not complaining no one is perfect and overall it’s a really great tut I think. Will be adding more details, eyelid folds, inside lips, even a partial throat and tongue all part of the tutorial.

[languid fog]

This kinda of avatars are done by "Frankenstein" style, ppl who download free stuff (like cloths, hair and etc) and then merge everthing

[tacit gorge]

where do they find assets like these?

[languid fog]

Steel, ripp avatars, free assets on Internet or you can buy some

[languid fog]

85% of the avatars are done with this style, you have a lot on deviant art for example

[thorny ivy]

Sketchfab is one site. Deviantart is another but never used it for model resources myself. Some asset/avatar creators release stuff for free so if you can find where they've posted, another good place to look.

[thorny ivy]

Stealin' and rippin' is not suggested due to possible repercussions. On top of that, ain't allowed to be promoted here from what I remember.

Theft is theft, plain as that.

Now, usin' a third-party model as a guide or template isn't uncommon. It helps when accuracy is a concern or ya wanna figure out how various aspects were done.

[stark lotus]

its not mirrored, and it was working until it randomly stopped working

thats why one of the things is mostly adjusted properly and the other one is wonky

[stark lotus]

i now have no modifiers and its still busted

the problem seems to be in the tool itself, because nothing is adjustable

i made a new sculpting project and everything works fine there, if that helps at all

i see no differences in my settings between the projects

im just hopign i dont have to restart

[foggy basin]

HI - does anyone know if you can use the depthkit plug in from unity to VRchat?

[calm goblet]

that's probably the easiest style to do cause the shader is doing all the work. some very minimal handpainting for some exaggerated folds and stuff

[languid fog]

Ik it, i just saying that 85% of the avatars in game are made with it

And ofc it is not suggest, it is a commom sence

I dont even need to say it

[quaint jasper]

Can't you import your meshes in the new blender file ?

[supple lake]

Yeah I don’t know, I had a problem with an add-on ZenUV just turning it on or off (checking or unchecking box in preferences) where it got stuck. It was a python incompatibility issue between versions so to use it I have to delete and reinstall from zip file every time.

[stark lotus]

yea i just restarted

importing my edited meshes gave me the same issue

so I just restarted

[supple lake]

Blender has useful sculpt tools but really for sculpting I think Z-brush is best, there’s a free version Z-brush Core Mini too.

Also, in the scene make sure the primitive is selectable, and then in object mode try selecting the object.

See where collection is checked, click the funnel shape icon above to add selectable to the object, what looks like material or socks in your scene. If the object isn’t selectable nothing will affect it when unselected

This was the early part of the tutorial I’m following, it’s to prevent selecting the reference images after alignment, also to prevent inadvertently changing other objects that are added later such as the eyes 👀 that are scaled down uv spheres in my tut

See in the top right corner my project follow from tutorial I have templates unselected so nothing happens when I click on them

[zinc jolt]

How much is 20 thousand polygons?

[foggy granite]

Good performance on PC

[zinc jolt]

Good

[languid fog]

well, the hardest part begins... ;-;

[foggy granite]

Textures?

[languid fog]

details like shadows, i so bad at it haha

[foggy granite]

Alright neet

But what's going on with the face lines

[languid fog]

what do you mean?

[foggy granite]

Sorry for late reply

[spiral sigil]

I think you could use a gradient texture from white (top) to black (bottom) as a MatCap for a shader n that will automatically do shadow work in Unity

[languid fog]

bleed

[foggy granite]

Alright

[languid fog]

yeah i could do it too, but i wanna learn how to do it by hand ik it is hard (and i suck at it) but eventually i will get it

still a thx btw

[spiral sigil]

np

[compact mulch]

WIP https://gyazo.com/1f97cf896bcabc406807a47fb442e720

[covert rose]

I broke my blender

whenever i sculpt

i can only see it

If i go into edit mode

Then go back

how i fix

[supple lake]

Ok, after a few more hours of fiddling I think I’m finally happy with the basic geometry. Adjusted the position of the eyes, and while refining the shape of the face also moving vertices as best I could (for minimal stretching).

Ready for the next without feeling I may have neglected anything before proceeding

[icy jungle]

what about eye holes? need eyelids n stuff

[quaint jasper]

If you wanna go deep in fighting stretching, enable Mesh Analysis > Distortion in this menu

[supple lake]

Yeah I did that, the random selection for distortion showed the most info I thought, basically coloring the faces between selected range 5 to 45 degrees (adjustable…), but what really helped was just looking at it with smooth shading turned on, then the shadows could be seen any pulling around vertices

[quaint jasper]

You can also manually tweak normals per vertex if it still somehow doesn't look as good as you'd expect

[supple lake]

I just wanted a reasonable balance what’s there so far, I’m comfortable moving ahead with the tutorial now. I know there’ll be more geometry added as I go, some very small areas inside eye and mouth openings, and a few more Control R cuts around the edges of the eyes/lips so that will def help and I can always go back to the face itself and edit more later (which I probably will…). It’s taken longer getting all of what I have tinkered into place a bit better than any step of the tut thus far so really ready to go to the next, eyelid folds. Tomorrow, I’m going to sleep now

What helped also were a few additional references I found online, and even just feeling my own face while I was working. The orthographic front and side view templates don’t match up exactly and maybe I was trying to make them work a bit too much. The front view shows the jaw very squared and that just didn’t look right and was making it harder to match with the side view so I let it taper into the chin just a bit more than the front view and I think it’s a whole lot better. The height of the eyes, mouth, and chin also are a bit off from the templates and the author even mentions this several times and makes adjustments on the fly, I think I just went a bit further with the jaw line taper that looks more like an anime character to me anyway. Thanks 🙏 and Gn

[slender quartz]

ven has a nub tail!

[spiral sigil]

7k tris, could be better but its under the 10k budget i was given

[spiral sigil]

Okay now its finally done at 6.4k tris with just solid colors

[oak hatch]

I have a gift for y'all.

[zenith kettle]

hey i don’t know if this is the right place to ask but does someone know a (free) frog model that looks like the picture below? (the colors dont matter)

[atomic hamlet]

Thanks, I hate it.

[oak hatch]

It's going to be worse. The nose has dynbones, and the visemes are...

[limber bough]

Burn it with fire

Please it’s so cursed

It’s too well made

[spiral sigil]

hellspawn

I wonder what its origin story is

[limber bough]

Hatsune miku role player joined a spongebob roleplay server

With a nsfw channel

[oak hatch]

It's from Top Dylan, they do Miku art, and it's all about as cursed

[supple lake]

Added more cut lines through mouth/lips and extruded nostril opening, closed the hole with another face. And a bit more shaping…

Setting up for next, template in place for modeling the ear…

[craggy ice]

Does anyone here knows Maya software?

Autodesk program

[quaint jasper]

That looks dope, love the crayon shading

[oak hatch]

Did it mostly via matcap, but I may have to do something w/ the shading mask as well.

[naive bolt]

im very new to 3d modeling and im coming up with ideas for my avatar

here im making a space girl with horns and tail
i want to animate the tail but i would like the planet to stick to the curve at the end, kind of like she is holding it

i want most of the tail to move freely but i want the end part to stay the same position holding the globe, is that possible (and would it look decent) or should i change the idea?

hmm it's probably gonna look funky..

[visual vigil]

https://twitter.com/HexeArtz/status/1457586220180049925

Junos 🔞 (@HexeArtz)

Namazilla is textured!

Twitter · Nov 8, 2021, 5:50 AM

[slender quartz]

it's coming along

[foggy granite]

That is possible but I wouldn't worry too much since that would be don't in unity

[naive bolt]

I came up with an alternative idea that would make it less awkward. But im not sure if i will add it

I want to make one the same texture as like a devil tail, but at the end i could make a line of small planets in the shape of the tail. That way i can also add dynamics to the planets part as well.

[obsidian jungle]

I have an avatar that has a robe that goes around 360, anyone know how to dynamic bone rig that?

[past drum]

so im in the process of making this avatar, and i want there to be a projection like image projecting the head, is there a shader anyone would reccomend?

[quaint jasper]

That's just transparency

standard shader can do that, also works with opacity on the texture alpha

[past drum]

thank you!

[fresh isle]

Uh?

[solemn elm]

I would put this in VRC since it's not even that high poly but I have the feeling that shaders would suck in game. So I'm just gonna stylize the one for VRC instead.
Anyone got any actual recommendations? I've tried using the high def render pipeline but its a mess to work with. Never got any actual explanations.

Just gonna stick to UE4 as seen in the boot below since that's real time.

also boot

[quaint jasper]

Sick ! Marvelous or raw sculpting ? Or a mix of both ?

[obsidian jungle]

million dollar question because this doesn't exist in google nor youtube: does blender have a blade tool so I can cut the hand and create fingers?

[cobalt sierra]

you can slice between vertices yeah

i can't ever remember how to do it, but you can

[supple lake]

Finally the lass has ears!

Side view with subdivision modifier turned on

[supple lake]

Keyboard shortcut “K”, select cuts with left mouse button, then press return to cut.

[obsidian jungle]

and do you know how to fix this crap? i been stuck on it all day

its not red or anything in weight paint so i dont get it

[supple lake]

I don’t know what your trying to do? “k” cut only works in edit mode I think.
Looks like you have a lot going on there with the rigging visible. Maybe something was selected other than what you thought whatever you did last? I switch to wireframe often to see what I’m doing and make sure I’m not inadvertently selecting vertices. I didn’t intend.
If you want fingers, why not just make a new hand?

[thin shadow]

does this only happens when previewing blendshapes? when using knife tool, don't make new vertices in the middle of faces. cut straight from edge to edge.

[obsidian jungle]

Nope this only happened when i went into object mode/pose mode in general

[thin shadow]

also, your 3d cursor is not on the origin point

[solemn elm]

shift + c

[obsidian jungle]

nothing happens when i press K

[thorny ivy]

@obsidian jungle you have to press k while in edit mode

[thin shadow]

or click on the knife icon on the left (2.8 and above)

[rain fjord]

do i not need to worry about optimizing my world as much as possible as long as my geometry and textures aren't to detailed?

[quaint jasper]

Geometry and textures are rarely what causes performance issues

So yes, absolutely

[foggy granite]

I would worry more about the size of your textures than how detail they are

[past drum]

getting somewhere with this avatar finally! will be my first

[nimble anchor]

So I’m making a joke model in the meantime while I make Ada

[past drum]

gotta reduce my vertices now :3

[nimble anchor]

This is the model I’m making

The joke model though, is that someone made a xenomorph version of her

So I thought, why not?

[thorny ivy]

Oh nice model

[foggy granite]

Are you scuplting?

I'm just worried about that shoulder deformation

[past drum]

im not worreid about it @foggy granite yea, im gonna make it look good with the clothing, its a cyborg'

not aiming for it to be perfect too

[foggy granite]

Alright

[obsidian jungle]

not even in edit mode, doesnt show up at all. theres nowhere to find it as an option too

[obsidian jungle]

i set up the eyes, but for some reason it moves the head too

and whenever i do set up the eye test, this message shows up

[unique ledge]

oooooh noice

[thorny ivy]

Ya'll got any tips for modelin' clothes? Usin' standard Blender features for the time bein' but results are wonky so far.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/862212820098875412/907667283063767160/unknown.png

Main issue is the bust size, it eats up a lot of material and creates a notable gap around the sleeve area.

I've somewhat managed to fix it but geo ain't happy.

[frail shadow]

looks like you have the collision size set too high, try turning down self collision and or try simulating the cloth without self collision

[surreal flame]

I'd just select & duplicate the body mesh (portions that you want to be the clothes) into a new object, Alt-S to scale it along normals and edit away. That way you keep weights and shape.

[spiral sigil]

@spiral sigil

Getting more one sec

This is all I have saved on my phone.

ooi

[spiral sigil]

id like to see the UV and textures on dis

I don’t have them on me rn as I’m about to head to a class. But when I can get back I can hop on my pc and get them. I know the katana and mask were textured in photoshop, and the sword was textured in z brush (that was my first time using z brush)

yeee

[past drum]

ok so i did a target weld, and im trying to sculpt, but the vertices on the two objects keep moving, im trying to make it be the hips, anyone able to help me out?

[obsidian jungle]

is there a channel for weigh paint

[azure rain]

Avatar rigging

[solemn elm]

can agree there.

[night plover]

Do any of y'all use blender?

[quaint jasper]

The majority of people here do

[night plover]

Even tho I saved the edit to my mesh in edit mode, it reverts to its original form in object mode

I edited the mesh earlier today tho & it didn't give me this problem

[surreal flame]

You may have been editing a shape key.

[night plover]

Thx

[spiral sigil]

@past drum it sounds to me like it’s not welding a couple of vertices right? Make sure the polygons are facing the right way. They don’t like to weld if they’re not facing the same way. That solved the same issue for me 99% of the time

@spiral sigil here’s the textures

I don’t have the wire frame anymore for the sword, but the rest I do

I definitely could of done the katanas better but eh

Oh wow did you manually draw these yourself?

For the mask yes, the katanas I used other textures to make it look real, and the sword I did in zbrush

yeah thats ALOT of geometry for a katana

Yea, I over thought the wrap

I made it much harder on myself

now u know

Yep. I’m currently working on a baby centaur model. (Cause it’s funny) It’s going to be the first one I put in vr chat, so far that’s going much better

[spiral sigil]

That inspires me to work on making my unicorn rigged to humanoid n like stand up

like bojac horseman or smth but not

Do it

[azure rain]

do you have a picture showing off the wire frames

[visual vigil]

i have yet to bake the normals down but this is the density difference

[azure rain]

cool

[visual vigil]

the cables are less dense on the lower ones for obvious reasons

[languid fog]

Finally learning the basis of doing the shadows by hand, i having a lot of fun with it

[past drum]

here i am trying to merge this so i can sculpt hips and butt :3

[naive bolt]

It’s my first 3d model attempt. I used i to shape the mouth but now i got a huge space here i cant merge with the mirror for some reason

[past drum]

heres the correct one hahaha

[foggy granite]

Do you have clipping enabled on the modifier

[naive bolt]

Ohh nope

That fixed it, tysm

[foggy granite]

Np

[foggy granite]

Looking good so far

[past drum]

how can i merge objects? i snaped vertices together but when i sculpt it moves off of the object

does this

[quaint jasper]

ctrl + J

[foggy granite]

Then remesh them

[past drum]

i hit remesh and my model collapsed on itself :3

[thick onyx]

hello people, how my gonna import Roblox Studio OBJ to Unity without lossing it's texture or adding the texture back?

[thorny ivy]

I believe there's an import textures option in Unity but I've only used FBX files myself. However, it may look different in terms of visuals so expect to experiment with shaders at least a little.

[thick onyx]

i know but i had no idea to import the textures, when importing the obj file that is located on folder with texture's, and it won't load the textures and try playing around and it won't work.

[thorny ivy]

Have you searched up any Unity/VRChat tutorials at all? I and the others don't mind helping but knowledge of the basics goes a long way.

[naive bolt]

first model
this is so much fun tbh i've been hooked on learning for days xD

cant wait to finish my very own avatar

[thick onyx]

yes 43 times and i was in pain.

[spiral sigil]

Kingdom Key R (all my own mesh)

Paw print teeth instead of crown, and fishe keychain

[agile coral]

Hey guys. I'm not great at modelling but I really enjoy splicing different models together to make unique new models. Where can I find a good (male) base model, please?

https://www.deviantart.com/kurusou/art/TDA-Male-base-511793162

This would have been ideal but the download link has been removed a long time ago apparently.

[quaint jasper]

Artstation has a lot of good model bases

[agile coral]

Awesome, I'll give it a look. Thanks 👍

[spiral sigil]

Derivative modelling is definitely a good thing to learn as you'll end up doing that from your own bases someday and it's easier

Nice place to get started, make sure to double check it allows you to make edits in the terms or w/e

[agile coral]

For sure. Right now I'm also using Deviant Art for a good chunk and a lot of stuff from there is free usage. Hella fun. Can't wait to be walking around in my own avatar

[foggy granite]

Theirs a lot of shops but so far booth and gumroad got a good bit of assets and sketchfab is generally good for finding models to learn from

[agile coral]

Trying to do my first model at zero cost so mostly using free assets (and it's craaazy tough to find well-made free assets)

[foggy granite]

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/stylized-male-base-mesh-free-5264bf0ed23045c5843a56d7ff1a923a

Wait are you looking for something mores anime

[agile coral]

Yoink! Grabbing that. Thank you!

[foggy granite]

Np

[agile coral]

Yeah I was going in the direction of anime, but now I know where to look

[foggy granite]

I see if I can find any

[foggy granite]

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/bam-63ce7df4ad2b46a283da1b09ae0cfcb3 this an interesting one and more optimize

[agile coral]

Thank you kindly! 😁 These are great

[foggy granite]

Np happy to help

[thin shadow]

vroid

[spiral sigil]

she textured now

[hasty pasture]

appears then leaves

[thorny ivy]

Ya'll got any tips for makin' this look more natural? Good amount of muscle and fat but don't look right to me.

Arm lowered, looks fine this way.

[surreal flame]

It looks to me like you have too much of the shoulder weighted to the arm bone. I would redistribute weights so that the shoulder is mostly on the shoulder bone; keep in mind that the shoulder bone will move together with the arm in VRC using IK. Hard to say more without seeing the armature as well.

[thorny ivy]

Good point, probably goin' into overkill territory by tryin' to fix up every last thin' I find at this point.

Looks like there might be too li'l weight paintin' though.

[surreal flame]

I think the shoulder/arm joint should be further into the actual shoulder.

[thorny ivy]

So move it inward and/or lower?

[surreal flame]

With reference to the picture, to the right. Kind of like real shoulders work.

[thorny ivy]

Ah, that makes more sense.

[surreal flame]

Alternatively you can just test it in VRC to see how it behaves to get a clearer idea.

[past drum]

omg i decided to use a base i found, and im trying to scale a cone and its not wanting to scale

I press S and its not moving at all

[spiral sigil]

That looks a hell of a lot like the key in this picture of Tyler Ninja Blevins

Hypotheitcally, if I were ever to make this version of Tyler, may I have the Key?

also if you had insight on what the name of the suit he is wearing, since I have no clue; but you may know because you know where your key is from

[azure rain]

model myself a star Lantern only uses 60 triangles and a 256 PBR texture set

[spiral sigil]

I love that I want I want !!!!

can I have?

it looks like stardust

[azure rain]

was contemplating uploading it to sketchfab

[spiral sigil]

oooo

if it ever goes up somewhere do tell

[azure rain]

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/star-lantern-098d775b197f44fe91f8c6d3ab98c47c make sure to send me any screenshots what you do with the lantern

[spiral sigil]

YESS thank you

I will

[azure rain]

and if you wanted in different colors just Hue shift the texture in like image editing software

[spiral sigil]

yeee

[unreal owl]

Hey, can anyone link me to the Avatars 3.0 download page?

[quaint jasper]

https://vrchat.com/home/download ?

[unreal owl]

Oh thanks, I assumed it was gonna be in the documentation and it didn't tell you where to actually download it

[rigid coral]

Looking for a second opinion I'm making a zombie stuffed animal avatar, and am wondering if this blob shape makes for convincing stuffing sticking out.

[spiral sigil]

is that just supposed to be a weird meaty tumor?

I couldn't really say how convincing it is unless its all textures n stuff but it seems ok

by no means do I have experience in making gore tho

[rigid coral]

Yeah lol, I feel like it's either gonna come together when it's textured or be very ugly. Thinking about just for dropping the idea and sticking to patches and stitches they seem alot easier

[spiral sigil]

I think it would be better if you were to make gushes INTO the skin

the area around the gash can be more exaggerated outwards becuz yknow but I think that would be better

[gusty shard]

trying to do hair, is it ok like this? I want to add bones later for it to move a little. didn't want to do hair cards/planes

[quaint jasper]

You won't really know until it's shaded, but it will probably look nice

[quaint jasper]

yeah using meshes is fine, but i'd suggest learning the curve method instead

[gusty shard]

That's a relief. Curve method? Is that drawing a line then extruding along it?

[quaint jasper]

It's an automatic process, all you need to do is make the curve line, and the hair shape is created around it, it's a lot more procedural and customizable

and a lot less destructive workflow

[azure rain]

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

like this method I just posted is how like basically all hair works on the vast majority of anime and furry avatars

[oak hatch]

Dakka Dakka Babeyyy

[naive bolt]

what does "skin" do on object modifiers

[visual vigil]

https://twitter.com/HexeArtz/status/1458583498927738885

Junos 🔞 (@HexeArtz)

Barrage Balloon finished for BG asset

9k tri

It looks like a floating goldfish cracker
#3dart #WW2 #Blender3D

Twitter · Nov 10, 2021, 11:52 PM

[naive bolt]

the snack that smiles back

[quaint jasper]

never heard of it

[naive bolt]

it crashed my app lol

[quaint jasper]

It might be like solidify, but extrudes in and out

like enveloping the mesh

[naive bolt]

ohh ok

[lean wave]

Hi all

i'm having some blendshape hell at the moment

i'm using maya, i've set everything up including the 50+ blendshapes, i'm now working with the unity FBX directly

however it stores every blendshape as a model, so if i make any tweaks, i need to update every blendshape as well apparently!?

is there a way to avoid this

[gusty shard]

ah nice! now to try and convert this into maya terminology/functions

[azure rain]

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2022/ENU/Maya-CharEffEnvBuild/files/GUID-B3BEC412-9673-45E6-A92F-807A53607C91-htm.html

[gusty shard]

thanks!

[azure rain]

hopefully that does the trick

[devout scroll]

bascislly.
you can make trees with it by extruding verts around

also crashed my blender a bunch of time because i never intended on adding it

i think if you add it to literally any regular model it will just freeze up because it creates a lot of geometry probably

[quaint jasper]

good to know thanks

[spiral sigil]

Because he's holding the kingdom key and I made Kingdom key RH (Rusk and Heart) like Kingdom Key D(arkness), it has keyblade of heart color theme, I used KK as the basis and gave it keyblade of heart color scheme, rusk fishe keychain and rusk pawprint cutout for teeth and then some other stylizations

His "suit" is the outfit from Kingdom Hearts 3

ahh okay

that makes much more sense thank you

[spiral sigil]

I didnt texture it like that but I did have it colored like KK and KK D for prototyping https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/891034691552026636/907619185465622538/unknown.png https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/891034691552026636/907618977587535912/unknown.png

To know if I captured the orignal aesthetic properly or not

with my own changes

i like my bolts

it also limited my color selection so i wouldnt add too many new colors if any

too many colors ruins things

oh their necklace thing is supposed to go into the key

Nope its just thematic design

sora's a king, but we havent really seen what of we theorize of kingdom hearts

so he gets crowns

lots of crowns

[compact acorn]

Hey, im a little new to this vrchat stuff but am i naming the bones correctly?

[foggy granite]

This shows the naming guild lines

Just don’t worry about the chat_ethan part

[compact acorn]

thx

[foggy granite]

You concern should be on the full circles the dotted circles are extra bones you can if you want. But they are not needed

[spiral sigil]

i thought the dots were there to illustrate where the joins of the bones they are next to should be

[foggy granite]

Probably but i avatars work fine with out some of the dotted

But I think it’s better to have all the bones

[faint minnow]

yo can anyone help me rig a model

[quaint jasper]

Use mixamo

[languid fog]

ik there is a way to do this "tears" parts using texture but i dont know how to do it, do i need to use masks or alpha?

[plush token]

Either or would work, personally I find using alphas are easier to handle and less destructive, rather than editing the alpha right on the texture.

[surreal flame]

AFAIK alpha does not work on Quest though.

[plush token]

True.

[languid fog]

So i need to use a mask for quest?

[surreal flame]

Sorry, what is this mask you're referring to?

[languid fog]

Sorry, I got confused, I was studying about materials and modifiers recently hahahaha

There is a way to do transparency for quest?

[surreal flame]

I have asked this question before and there doesn't seem to be. Due to the way Quest handles rendering it makes it very expensive apparently.

[languid fog]

Thats sad

Thx anyway

[surreal flame]

Yeah, I have made a bird avatar using tons of transparent cards and I can't port that to Quest now.

[median pike]

nope

one of the reasons why my avatar looks so shit on quest

[languid fog]

f

[median pike]

turned this

in to this

[surreal flame]

Yeah time to redo the entire avatar for Quest huh?

[median pike]

yeah probably

but like

I use haircards so much

so IDK if I want to sacrifice them

[surreal flame]

Quest does that for you so it's a moot point.

[median pike]

so I am honestly doubting if I even want to make a quest version

like sure I can have normal map fur

but that will never look as good as haircards

[surreal flame]

Might as well get rid of them altogether and just have flat colors. I mean Quest can't handle much of anything, people will be used to seeing cut down versions of everything.

Personally I'd rather have a flat but personalized avatar than show up as some unrelated random fallback.

[median pike]

I guess I could do something like this

but still it upsets me

[open scarab]

🔪 tool all the things

[surreal flame]

You could probably grab and extrude some triangles to give some impression of fluffiness.

[median pike]

I could

but the original reason why I used haircards was to avoid doing exactly that

because making fur equivalent to haircards with actual geo will more than triple the polycount

[surreal flame]

Not if you don't go overboard with definition.

You can still use cards but you'll have to use them more sparsely. And without alpha.

[median pike]

but

using cards without alpha just looks like shti

defeats the whole point of them in my opinion

at that point I can make something like this

with geometry

and normal maps

and it will look a million times better

[surreal flame]

Normal mapping this kind of pattern on a flat surface could produce some neat results.

[median pike]

wait a minute

I thought Vrchat increaset the limits for quest

I thought under 20K would be poor and not very poor

[surreal flame]

It's poor according to the docs.

[median pike]

exactly

but the sdk is telling me its Very poor

[surreal flame]

Maybe something else is in there? More than one mesh object?

[median pike]

no the polycount is correct

the polycount is the only very poor thing

[surreal flame]

Is that the current SDK?

[median pike]

its 2018

[surreal flame]

Could've been revised since then.

[median pike]

but this change was already in place when 2018 was current SDK

I will try to upload it and see what the rating is actually in game

if its very poor this is bullshit and I am probably never making a quest avatar again lmao, I am not having fun

[surreal flame]

One of the few things I like about devices with limited power is that it makes people do things in a more smart and efficient way. Many people just throw polygons and dynamic bones at everything; I've already been to a room where someone's avatar made my headset lose tracking every five seconds and I was definitely NOT having fun. I'm definitely not running a potato computer either.

[median pike]

I understand that

I try my best to optimize avatars as much as I can. But the limitations for quest are just too much for me

its to the point where my creativity is completely limited

if I want something moderately complex I can forget about outlines, any longer tails or hair because they are just stiff, no transparency, ffs WOW in 2004 used transparency everywhere, its one of the main reasons why it aged so well graphically

[surreal flame]

Yeah personally I'm very glad I didn't give Facebook my money and went for a higher shelf.

[devout scroll]

upgrade to 2019 and latest sdk you boomer

[languid fog]

@surreal flame thx!!

[spiral sigil]

Those wings look very reminicent of Rare Dragon Wings in Animal Jam

[languid fog]

kinda yeah

[spiral sigil]

gud vibe

[languid fog]

it is Zentreya wings

[spiral sigil]

ahh

[stark radish]

For outlines you can get a similar effect using matcap lit.
For longer tails or hair you "just" need to animate it. In 3.0 you can use AngularY and blendtrees to animate based on head movement (left to right) and 2 other parameters to animate when you artificially move forward/backward or strafe

[azure rain]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG2q09cld9E&t=1293s

[cyan plover]

ok! question, anyone know how to make sharp corners more smooth? ive tried using all the tools i know off and none of them are doing what i need

[quaint jasper]

bevel

ctrl + B in edge selection

mouse wheel to add more loops

[cyan plover]

oh! alright one sec, ill try!

uhh, where is edge selection?

i figured it out, but its kinda janky

theres no way to sand something down to a smooth edge, is there?

[thorny ivy]

You can choose how many faces bevel makes. The higher the number, the smoother the bevel.

[cyan plover]

ohhhh, i see now

[thorny ivy]

You may have to open up the little menu in either the top or bottom-left corner with the tool select to fine-tune.

[cyan plover]

ok, real talk

how many people here went to school for 3D modeling?

[foggy granite]

I say a very a small few a lot of us here is self taught and pick up as an hobby or to make some money

[spiral sigil]

for me I never went to school for it; just a hobby and if it turns into more in time that would be pog

[calm goblet]

these days a large portion of the games industry is self taught, at least on the art side, there's no point in shcool when you have better resources for free/cheap

[cyan plover]

well what resorces did you all use to teach yourselves? im having a hard time learning how to use unity/blender. i have the basics, but its just really overwhelming and idk where to start

[calm goblet]

currently the best blender resource would be grant abbitt for beginner stuff

then if you wanna get into doing characters you'll need to learn some anatomy, learning sculpting will help a lot, and either learning PBR texturing or handpainting or both

for anatomy there's "anatomy for sculptors" ebook and plenty of zbrush and traditional sculptors showing how things work

as for sculpting, grant abbitt will show you the tools in blender, then use zbrush and traditional sculptors for how to actually sculpt

retopo, just look into topology for animation and figure stuff out from that lol

stylized station has a lot of good handpainting videos, and watching how 2d painters work is useful as well

[thorny ivy]

Tieguaili actually went to gnomon

[rigid anvil]

Tried searching in search for an answer but didn't find anything, do you guys think Combining meshes like outfits instead of having like 5 different meshes for 1 outfit is better performance wise but have blendshapes to hide each part instead?
like 1 outfit 5 meshes, or 1 mesh 5 blendshapes to hide stuff

[calm goblet]

i can't afford 300k/yr or whatever it is there for that

[thorny ivy]

hes working on VRC during lunchbreak in the studio!

lol

[calm goblet]

studio? i'm freelance, bish

[thorny ivy]

smh

also add flipped normals to your list lol

[calm goblet]

oh yeah i forgot about them

they have some actual good blender vids

too used to blender not having many properly good resources lmao

[thorny ivy]

the only channel that shows how remesher works...

for new people

[calm goblet]

grant shows it as well

[thorny ivy]

its a bit hidden in a how to sculpt video tho

erh the wolf statue thing i think

[spiral sigil]

Jesus Christ

I’ve been working on this for 7 hours straight now

I can’t figure out how to render the skin?

Every time I put body png (for the body) onto him and then click back on the shirt

It swaps textures

How do I lock them to specific layers

[calm goblet]

are you trying to use multiple UV sets on a single material or something?

[supple lake]

https://twitter.com/CreditAnalytica/status/1458972484477276162

R(pi)TH.☆*.’✧(¬‿¬ )Mac⛰ (@CreditAnalytica)

#Blender Now with subdivide toggled on/off while working. I abandoned the tutorial temporarily to do a quick ear study, shaping poly more (or less) eccentric until I was happy. A bit more adjusting cheekbone, brow, and areas surrounding the eye also
#3DModeling #3DCGデザイナー

Twitter · Nov 12, 2021, 1:38 AM

https://twitter.com/CreditAnalytica/status/1459043490852179970

R(pi)TH.☆*.’✧(¬‿¬ )Mac⛰ (@CreditAnalytica)

And a quick check in Object Mode with Smooth Shading and Subdivide turned on, the ears and nose especially I've been fine tuning a bit more. Next I'll attend to the eyes and mouth...
#Blender #CharacterDesign #GameDev #3DCGデザイナー

Twitter · Nov 12, 2021, 6:20 AM

[long hatch]

question, im new to blender and when i try to import a model its says invalid header. ;-; how would i go about not having this happen haha

[quaint jasper]

what file type are you trying to import ?

[long hatch]

fbx

[quaint jasper]

Any idea if it came from maya ?

[long hatch]

idk who that is i got it from sketchfab

[thin shadow]

that maybe the difference between fbx binary and fbx ASCII. Im not sure which one, but blender can only open one of them.

[long hatch]

am i able to change it?

[quaint jasper]

You'd have to download the official fbx converter from autodesk and run your file through it

[solemn ruin]

I love not knowing how to use blender