3d-modeling

[mystic bridge]

I am getting very upset at this and like it has never been this hard before

[tough plover]

you can just put your model into a T pose in blender, apply that as the rest pose

[mystic bridge]

See, I tried that and it is still telling me the same thing

I don't know what the hell is going on

[tough plover]

when you make armature changes and re-export to Unity, you need to go to your FBX's rig config and click Pose > Reset pose

[mystic bridge]

Let me get back after my coffee break then i'll check

[uncut imp]

Yea that takes whatever pose it's in and moves it to tpose. Or so you mean actually adding the bones to the model you've made in blender?

[mystic bridge]

Let me start from the top. I am trying to put in a very simple rig, doesn't sound hard. Except for some reason CATS doesn't wanna work on Mac now and all my simple and easy ways of fixing things are out the window. So now I am back in blender trying to manually convert a model to a T-pose in which I did not design it to go that way. I know you can use armatures to make it "pose" in blender but I haven't really done that without cats so now I am trying to relearn vanilla blender basically.

[uncut imp]

Have you put the armature on it and weighted everything to it first?

[mystic bridge]

No I haven't

Ok I am back to my laptop

ok well this happened

[uncut imp]

Right. So the way forward I see would be to create a base armature, I believe there's a few add-ons to add an empty armature or there might be on set up sepxifically for VRC that someone has made which would be great. Then you line that up with your model where the bones should be and apply that to the mesh

From there you can pose it into whatever pose you like

[mystic bridge]

Well right so heres what I ended up doing

Right so I moved them back down

But when I port it over to unity, unity has a shit fit and tells me it is all wrong and that it isn't the right armature

[uncut imp]

What does unity say

Specifically

[mystic bridge]

Now it is telling me I have missing components

My whole right arm is now missing what the hell is going on

Imma just make a new armature at this point

[uncut imp]

Are the bones all named correctly?

[tough plover]

did you even go through the Weight painting process?

[mystic bridge]

Well no... my friend who taught me told me it was pointless as long as I use rigify

[tough plover]

Weight painting is literally how you get your mesh to move with an armature. Rigify is a semi automated solution, but it's only to help you get started, not something you should use as an end product

[uncut imp]

I haven't used rigidy so can't comment on that

[mystic bridge]

Yeah I know and I am paying for it right now lol

[surreal lance]

Dont you have to use this armature for VR chat?

[spiral sigil]

its not a fbx its a prefab @tough plover

[tough plover]

where did you get it from?

[spiral sigil]

friend

also

i had to rip it back from my account cause i got a new pc

[tough plover]

.-.

could you not just grab the drive from your old PC and slap it into your new one

[spiral sigil]

no

i dont even have the pc

its across the US

[indigo sapphire]

But when I port it over to unity, unity has a shit fit and tells me it is all wrong and that it isn't the right armature
@mystic bridge you need to import models with CATS blender plugin for VRChat

And export with CATS too

Otherwise Unity has a seizure. And even then using CATS makes Unity spaz out too sometimes it is all bloated and counterintuitive

[mystic bridge]

Two things:

1. I passed out on my phone thanks for waking me up
2. CATS is being strange on my Mac so imma try to fix it tomorrow

[indigo sapphire]

Make sure you use Blender 2.93

CATS doesnt work with any version 3 of blender

[safe sapphire]

Actually it's just a few errors in the python script.
if you know coding you can manually fix the 2 errors the program works fine
it's just 2 bad only a small percentage actually know how to do that.
but using an older version is better.

[indigo sapphire]

yeah, I prefer to use tested and confirmed versions - CATS is tricky enough as it is. I don't want to deal with extra version incompatibilities.

[zenith cloak]

So, after what happened several weeks ago I went on a little journey of self-discovery and self-improvement. Redrew and remade everything from scratch.

Here's my progress. I'm so freaking nervous. If only I could be more confident in my work, it would've probably taken just one week. (EDIT: Maybe even less than a week.)

[naive bolt]

How are 4 legged avatars rigged for full body?

[tough plover]

@naive bolt there's a couple ways, depending on the look you're going for/amount of effort you want to put into it

• rotation constraints to copy movement of front legs
• custom animations based on Velocity parameters
• (best imo) procedurally animated using Final IK grounders and LimbIK

if the rear legs are digitigrade, you can also use Dragonskyrunner's guide to rig those

[ashen stag]

Final Ik is the best method, no I am not biased

[naive bolt]

Interesting, thanks!

[solar ocean]

wip!

[peak wedge]

That looks awesome!!!

[frigid glade]

proud of dis hair

[sharp grove]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/931698158927491172/969435275237421156/unknown.png

Been working on this model and happy with how it's turned out, but I'm wondering if there's a more efficient way to create the translucent effect with 2 layers I've got going on (the outer layer being slightly transparent)

Right now I've just duplicated and shrunk the mesh just to test it which does work but bumps it up to 44k polygons which is gross lol

Anyone have any ideas??

Glow is also temporary btw it looks kinda obnoxious as is

Just wanted to get a feel for it in blender

[quaint jasper]

Poiyomi shader can do that

[devout scroll]

Yeah, use a rimlight in poi

With smoothness turned down

and/or an outline

[sharp grove]

Sweet, thanks

I wasn't sure if it could just do the transparency

[tepid hare]

Here's a base I tried to make for one of my friends avatars.

[covert river]

hi guys!! I made my first modeling character, trish(fetured in jojo anime)!

[sharp grove]

first pass on that poiyomi shader thing, not sure if i've replicated the transparent/second layer effect with the rim lighting enough but

[quaint jasper]

Looks good !

[sharp grove]

thank

[sharp grove]

not sure if this is the right channel but i'm a bit stuck - my bounding boxes are/seem to be rotated, i've never come across this before

not really sure what to do about it

[tough plover]

make sure all transforms are applied in blender before you export

click on your meshes and do ctrl + A > All transforms

[sharp grove]

i have done, didn't seem to do anything :(

[tough plover]

then do the same for the armature

also, do you really need to have those 2 meshes separate?

[icy creek]

Are the VRCEmote, VRCFaceBlendH, and VRCFaceBlendV used for anything?
I'm wondering why they are there and if used for important purposes

[devout scroll]

#avatar-help

[spiral sigil]

Working on a world made fully from scratch.

[indigo sapphire]

cute! but I hope the skybox is temporary, it seems to completely not fit the artstyle you are going for lol

[spiral sigil]

It is

[trail python]

its perfect, i love that.

[unborn acorn]

sum hair texturing

[somber urchin]

i have a model all sculpted up and everything in blender, but theres some stuff that needs to be done, im just not sure exactly what, is there anybody that would be available to walk me through it?

[fluid spear]

oh is this where i should have been asking my questions? not sure how i missed this channel...probably because i was already in help and it felt like a continuation from what i was discussing previously... >.<

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtuVV2waX4M << so i linked this video in the other channel before realizing it wasn't quite the right one. i'm wondering how he does that sweep to select everything at 5:22.

[trail python]

C in edit mode

[fluid spear]

thank you

hrm it's selecting bones not meshes...

[trail python]

select mesh not armature

[fluid spear]

where is that selection?

[trail python]

you right click

well crap, it might be left click for you. i use old blender settings but the body in your scene for example

[fluid spear]

i am blind or doing it wrong. sorry

i might have to start over. at some point i made my character a wireframe and don't know how i did it.

[lapis smelt]

I have an issue

[trail python]

no, it should be in the upper right. something like this but itll be a little different for your set up

[lapis smelt]

My 3d viewport is going fast when I use my mouse, how can I fix this???

[trail python]

yeah

[fluid spear]

also is there a reason your bra is separate?

[trail python]

oh, its a toggle

[fluid spear]

ohh so you can have bra or no bra? that makes sense.

[trail python]

yes

[fluid spear]

ok so i clicked on body, hit c then did the swipe and it still didn't select any of the mesh.

[trail python]

go into edit mode first

[fluid spear]

also figured out how to hide the bones which is nice.

if you mean this than i already am.

[trail python]

mmm only thing i can think of is hit 1 on your keyboard to go into vertex select or maybe seeing the model might jog something

[fluid spear]

gonna restart and get back to that point so i don't have something weird that might break stuff later like not knowing how i got into wireframe.

[trail python]

oh

hold z on your keyboard down

[fluid spear]

what's that do? (i already closed sadly)

[trail python]

its a shortcut for your shading mode

you can change it in the upper right corner too

[fluid spear]

oh shoot i bet i clicked those.

since i'm at this step again, how do you decide what meshes other than hair to separate out?

i've just been doing hair cause i don't know if something else like the headband or hte glasses would be worth separating out.

[trail python]

i guess it would depend on what you wanted to toggle in unity? thats what ive done so far

i know more about it with world building lol

[fluid spear]

ahh. so if i don't want her taking stuff off don't separate it? why do we separate the hair out then? never wanna toggle that.

[trail python]

separation makes things a lot easier to edit in blender

[fluid spear]

my model after cats 1a.

[trail python]

im not gonna lie, i only use cats for the viseme generation

[fluid spear]

as far as i know it's the only way to import my PMX files...

[trail python]

but when you want the hair to be on, you go out of edit mode, select the hair first and then the body, then ctrl+j

[fluid spear]

huh i tried selecting the headband here but the hair kept it's orange outline...hrm.

figured that bit out. i was being dumb there.

[trail python]

naw not dumb, probably just new lol

which isn't a bad thing though

[fluid spear]

it's cause i had the hair selected in the upper right box. so kinda dumb. 😛

holy crap is this headband a pain to select with all the ripples...

oh wait wasn't there a way to click a vertice and have it show in the bottom right menu?

oh that's so much easier than the c thing. though the c thing would be cool on a flatter object. 😛

[trail python]

i think you might be looking for alt+z in edit mode

not sure about vertices showing up in the bottom right?

[fluid spear]

material viewer

when you click the vertice with material viewer open it highlights the material that is on apparently.

[fluid spear]

should glasses be on the head vertex group or is there a face one that is better?

[fluid spear]

ended up putting them on the head. we'll see if that borks it.

ok now to cull these superfluous bones. i'm guessing i do that from blender?

[uncut imp]

Indeed

[spiral sigil]

So I am trying to get the half of the finger to be set on to the missing part of the hand so I can continue sizing., how would I reconnect the two?

[lapis smelt]

how can i remove the shadow from those spots?

[uncut imp]

Something with your normals or geometry is screwed up

Have you got the normals set to smooth?

And what does the mesh itself look like

[lapis smelt]

here

[lapis smelt]

how can i do that?

[uncut imp]

Looks like there's a hole it in

Your missing a few faces somehow

[lapis smelt]

but the meshes are facing up?????

sorry, POINTING up

[uncut imp]

There a big hole there, you can see the mesh on the other side through it

[lapis smelt]

i see no hole...

[trail python]

i can't tell if its a hole or normals issue so recalculate the normals first

[lapis smelt]

FIXED IT

[uncut imp]

There's still a whole bunch of edges that disappear off to the side and don't connect to anything else along the edge of it.
Everything else is very nice quads so I doubt this one little face would be full of ngons

Actually some of the other joins have ngons too so maybe 🤷‍♂️

[trail python]

i must be blinder than i thought i was lmao

[uncut imp]

Turn on face orientation and that'll show if it's the inside of the other side or not

[spiral sigil]

So idk if this is the channel to post this but how do I apply a mesh collider to a map so I stop falling through and going through walls

I’ve watched tons of videos and I can’t figure it out

[quaint jasper]

Don't use mesh colliders, use primitive planes and cubes, and remove their mesh renderer component in the inspector instead

[nimble glade]

Do VRChat weapons need to have a Amature or anything?

[spiral sigil]

@nimble glade might help if your trying to make like a super complicated foldin animation

but otherwise not really

[nimble glade]

Ah, Thank you so much Xx

[spiral sigil]

ive been working onthis scene for a while and dont really know what else I want to do with it anyone got any ideas?

[nimble glade]

Maybe adding a few other smaller rocks here and there around the grass?

[spiral sigil]

actually yeh

that would help xD

i was an idiot and made high fidelity leafs for each tree so its 16m polys for the renders

[nimble glade]

Ouch, must be lagging like mad 💦

[manic vault]

Not the best suggestion but maybe have it so they're injecting the heart with something? Like infected blue viens where the class are inserted?

[spiral sigil]

i was gonna do that but animation would take too much time and turn in for the project is soon xD

[manic vault]

Ah, well it looks really cool so far

[spiral sigil]

W.I.P bon jovi thoughts?

[supple fable]

Realtime VS Baked lights

to much bouncing light indirect intensity at chrome surface

another example of baked indirect bouncing lights and shadow

[proud pilot]

Hey guys, I've been trying to make my own 3d model in blender from scratch and add it to VR chat, I'm following this guide and basically it says to rig the model I need these parts.

but I'm really confused about how I'd rig the hips.

I've tried figuring it out in my head and I imagine there'd be two ways one being correct and the other not correct.

which one would be correct?

my model uses a cone for the body

it's super basic, I've never used blender before and I achieved most of what I've done by just going through the user manual.

not an ideal model, but idc if it looks goofy cuz I made it lol.

I guess the 3rd option would be, since the hips are already part of the "Hips,spine,chest" I don't actually need to make new ones for each leg

[proud pilot]

ok thank you

life saver

so was the 3rd option I guess.

[spiral sigil]

So I am wondering how long I should have my fingers for a female avatar? and the main finger shape is intended. (I am going to copy and paste the rest from the pointer)

an animeish female avatar in specific

[uncut imp]

That's really down to just whatever you think looks right and your preferences.
Maybe place a plane with an image of the outline of a hand behind it Aude use that as a guide?

[elfin sequoia]

does anyone know of any software like substance painter for free?

[uncut imp]

Someone actually mentioned something like that few days ago

@elfin sequoia

I havent tried it out myself though.

[elfin sequoia]

ill check it out thank you

[tough plover]

there's 3 I can think of:

• armor paint
• quixel mixer
• Procreate (on ipad)

you can get substance for free for a year if you sign up as a student

[obsidian jungle]

not even sure if this is even the right channel for this but

this gives me the chills looking at. this very, very small open area on the inside of the eye, was noticable when i jump in vrchat. i think physbones is to blame because ive never seen this before on this fbx avatar

on the outside it doesnt appear material 19 makes it blend in with the eye, so i have no idea what caused it

just gonna replace the entire fbx and see if that work

[uncut imp]

You dont have physbones in your eye so i dont see how that would be related

unless you have some crewed up weight painting from something else affecting a stray vert in the eye

[tough plover]

your issue aside, what is it with all of those materials? sheeesh

[elfin sequoia]

i have procreate i just dont know how to import my 3d model into it

[shell oyster]

Yo anyone here know how to do furry rex models well, i have someone that’s gonna make me an avatar and doesn’t know how to do rex models well, if someone knows how to do them professionally pls dm me, then I’ll make a group chat with us three so we can get this to work.

[chilly turtle]

Not really for VRChat (for now) but wanted to share

[dreamy falcon]

so im wanting to append this head to the body in blender but when i go to do that it comes up with all this and im not sure what to do 😓 if i just select it all it comes up with

this and then nothing happens

would someone be willing to attach the head to the body for me? i can send u all the files this is just stumping me

[tough plover]

@dreamy falcon "Append" probably isn't what you want to do here. that is how you grab a certain resource from another blender file

[dreamy falcon]

ohhh i was just going off what google said

[tough plover]

you want to delete the head from your current body, aswell as the bones for it. then, import the FBX for your new model, remove everything but the head, then align it.

you'll also need to merge the armature of the new head to the main armature, and fix the bone hierarchy (parent neck bone of new head to chest bone). then, parent the new head to your armature, and join the mesh to your main body mesh

[dreamy falcon]

ill try and work that out

this is the first time ive done something like this so its all new

[mystic tangle]

this is a stupid question probably but where tf is this button in the latest Blender version? I can't find it

it's literally just not there for me

[cinder cradle]

enter edit mode

[mystic tangle]

OH

okthanksimstupidLOL

[obsidian nova]

https://poly.cam/capture/59CCF3F3-E334-44AC-BF32-CE17EC3D610D

[vapid tangle]

anyone here good at 3d modeling stuff? :3 I was thinking of making in a theme of 1800s

like steam trains etc with underground civilisation

but dwarven industrial age

but the model estque looks like skyrim vibe

Blender <-

[quaint jasper]

https://ask.vrchat.com/c/commissions/world-commissions/34

[mystic tangle]

I had the mirror on but the new cuts weren't copied on the other thigh and I'm malding so hard what did I do wrong

does it not take effect in edit mode or sm??

ok I still don't know why it didn't mirror but I figured out how to to symmetrize the edits

[quaint jasper]

Cuts don't mirror no, mirror is for displacing geometry, you would want to use a mirror modifier for other types of edits

[mystic tangle]

ah okay

[pseudo token]

Hello!

I need some help with something. Anyone here?

[supple garnet]

https://dontasktoask.com/

[pseudo token]

mh'. I'm looking for someone to do a professional scaly avatar from scratch. I'm willing to pay. Does anyone know any good avatar developers?

[supple garnet]

check out the vrc traders discord

[pseudo token]

I don't have any 3d development experience

[trail python]

vrc traders discord in #community-servers-old

easily a few hundred dollars for a model from scratch

[pseudo token]

oh jeez as soon as I tried to join I got auto banned

I went to type ;verify but I think I clicked "Join" instead and got auto-banned just now 😦

[trail python]

not sure. their bots are weird as hell

[pseudo token]

oh my.

well I definitely got banned it appears.

[trail python]

might be because your account is new

[trail python]

they have an extreme amount of security l0l

[pseudo token]

it is... it's mostly to preserve anonymity

but I'm 100% serious, I do need an avatar and I have money to spend.

[mystic tangle]

screenshotted my message in a diff server because I'm too lazy to retype ✨

[supple garnet]

You could probably remesh now or later, probably more of a preference thing; however, you wanna make sure you don't increase the poly count too much before re-meshing because it becomes a lot more work.

[mystic tangle]

alright

[worn cairn]

anybody got a spider lair model

i can use

to make my own avatar

[mystic tangle]

how do I fix this arm nipple

[quaint jasper]

remesh/smooth or fix in edit mode

[mystic tangle]

ok ty

[spiral sigil]

1.7 meters is a good avatar height?

[thin shadow]

Depends. That's very subjective.

[misty valley]

Is it easy to add a backface to surfaces in blender?

[supple garnet]

This should be a shader thing, unless you are trying to make something "thick," in which case you could use the solidify modifier

[misty valley]

what if i wanted to use shaders that dont support that tho

but oki ill try the solid thingie

[supple garnet]

uhh... it is pretty easy to add it in iirc,
but if it doesn't and you don't wanna edit the shader, the solidify would prolly work

[misty valley]

yeah id love to have it work without showing my trusted rank and also for ppl on quest / using custom safeties to hide shaders

[supple garnet]

ohh, so you are using the unity standard shader then?

[misty valley]

the vrc/mobile ones

[supple garnet]

ohh.....

for pc too?

[misty valley]

yip yip

fps go nyooom

i hate bloat and extra work for different platforms and safety groups

[supple garnet]

xD, I mean, I respect not wanting to constantly change shaders to make quest, but in reality, adding a lot of polygons is going to be worse on performance than a changing the cull mode of a shader, although I understand the quest cause they don't allow it

[misty valley]

also i dont wanna lag myself out more than i need to or rely on potentially outdated shaders, those always break after a few weeks, months or years and in some maps or situation setups

[supple garnet]

Fair, but I mean, something like poiyomi isn't going to be any more out of date than the mobile shaders for very simple stuff like what you seem to be doing

[misty valley]

id need to do at least 3 material setups then and check each of them in a ton of situations

no thx

[supple garnet]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[misty valley]

and theyd still look, react and behave different

[supple garnet]

you can likely tweak them to look identical, but idk how bad the standard shader murders the look of stuff as fallback cause I don't use it xD

[misty valley]

i use a modified matcaplit setup with custom properties and a shading fix

standard is not supported on quest

[supple garnet]

but I believe pc falls back to standard, yes?
I really need to look into matcaps soon

[misty valley]

mayhaps

[supple garnet]

also, I checked and adding Cull Off to the pass of the shader enables backfaces (just to be informational)

[misty valley]

might actually work on matcaplit idk

it can process some material keywords or what they are

[supple garnet]

doesn't look like it, or if it does it is on 100% of the time

yeah, doesn't work

[misty valley]

f

[supple garnet]

Maybe they will update the quest shaders at some point, changing cull mode shouldn't hurt performance terribly much

[misty valley]

can transparency be done in blender btw

bc transparency isnt supported on quest by vrc

[supple garnet]

you just have to cut out the mesh you want to be transparent.........
not really a great option but also not much you can do about it. Another workaround that eats into the benefits of the restrictions

not sure how much extra polys vs transparency affects performance on quest though, so I won't comment any more on that

[tribal monolith]

so, I have begun my own little journey into blender, with the hope of eventually 3-d modeling characters I already have, and possibly porting them into vr-chat.

Just wanted to know if anybody had some advice for somebody starting out from literal scratch with no experience.

I already know of a couple tutorials i want to take a peek at immediately but other than that lol

[atomic leaf]

@fossil plaza 64 lipt :)

lipton

[tough isle]

How can i make this mesh look like the Image below?

[uncut imp]

Yes just select the faces you want to be double sided, duplicate them and flip the normals

[misty valley]

:o

[onyx juniper]

Who's that pokemon?

[azure rain]

Earthworm Jim

[uncut imp]

Tbh I can barley tell what the picture is.
The same as what you've made but just longer and a little curved?

[tame dock]

so i got a hat on a model and i want to use physbones to grab the hat and take it off like you would, i also have hair and a tail that needs to stretch when pulled and not just moved using physbones how do i do that?

[tough isle]

Not exactly, i just want to have it scaled to what it looks like in the second image

[glossy belfry]

does anyone know how to fix this in blender like

can anyone provide me a resource

im using a vroid model and it has clipping issues

i want to fix this and i think it may be possible in blender but

i have no idea how to

[quick thunder]

looks like a weight paint issue

gonna wanna research tutorials for that, as many of us hate weight painting

[glossy belfry]

Would it be expensive to pay someone to fix it?

Might have to import the jacket as a separate asset and then fix it accordingly like that like when people buy clothing assets and then fit them to their models but im sure that involves weight painting too

[azure rain]

you could use the inflate or grab sculpting brush to move the jacket a little bit forward

[glossy belfry]

Would i have to import that asset separate from the layers under?

cause i think if i pull or use the grab brush itll affect my model itself if i export into blender but im not sure ive just started using blender more this year

[azure rain]

you could separate them in blender

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzZPeDB6alg

[glossy belfry]

Thank you ill try that and see if it works, its only 1 layer so it hopefully should

[mystic tangle]

hmst

[unborn acorn]

some sculptin

[naive slate]

idrk where to post this but what do yall think?

[spiral sigil]

should I have stuff like tails and other things extruding from the body separate from the main body mesh?

[solar fossil]

It really depends on the type, like, it would make more sense to have a thick tail be actually attached to the body, would be easier to work on it while separate and than merge it back with the body later, just make sure you have the right amount of loops for easy merging

[sweet cairn]

omg that 10 pack tho

[uncut imp]

Daym that boi is jacked

[spiral sigil]

The tail in question is going to be a rounded tube

shape

[fallow osprey]

Making a female avatar

[quaint jasper]

Using some references ?

[fallow osprey]

Yes I have a few

The only issue I have is knowing how to apply clothing that doesn't clip

[dreamy falcon]

i think i have inverted normals how do i fix these?

[jagged moat]

In blender, use Alt+N to bring up the option to flip normals.

[dreamy falcon]

it isnt doing anything even when i have the model selected

[autumn marten]

anyone know why it keeps freezing at this point while importing the latest sdk?

[supple garnet]

you can use a data transfer modifier set to vertex groups with nearest face interpolated to hackily steal the weight painting of the base model. Then manual tweaking till it looks good. You can also use a blendshape to make the parts that clip small and toggle that with clothing (or just delete the unecessary faces if it is not going to be toggled.)

[spiral sigil]

Eevee can be kinda cool sometimes

[odd flare]

https://youtu.be/9iV9wnvpQ1U

Is there any place I could find a free base model for an anime avatar that is compatible with quest 2

;

[thin shadow]

vroid

[fallow osprey]

Thanks a lot for the tip ^_^

[supple garnet]

mmhm!

[pine raft]

Model is done, time for textring

[spiral sigil]

Need suggestions really

I'm just trying to keep it low poly as poss

[bright steppe]

Any recs for resources (tutorials or videos or courses or anything) to learn to model clothes and ears and tails and stuff? I'm pretty ok at more geometric modeling but I'd love to learn the more artistic side of things

[bright steppe]

Looks awesome! You could maybe add some depth with some normal maps on the gold, make it look engraved maybe?

[spiral sigil]

gonna be honest 0 experiance with baking normal maps

[supple garnet]

Look at a lot of references and have a clear idea of what you are trying to make in your head (or draw it it out if you can). For tails and ears, you can use bezier curves for ears and tails as a starting point and then add sticking up hairs /splits later in edit or sculpt mode. For clothing, a lot of times you can duplicate your base mesh, move it around a bit, and then have clothes. This is not necessary though, as some clothes really cannot be done this way. Cloth simulations are another way to make clothes, you can look it up and find a bit of information online about how to do that. You say you are good at geometric modeling. Does that mean you haven't done much in sculpt mode? If not, sculpt mode is really helpful for moving around meshes. I am just learning that myself, but switching between the different modes when it works best is good practice and leads to better models. Really just playing around and figuring out what works best for what (pretty much learning the tools you are using). Another thing I like to do is look at other models and see how other people did what, although I find a lot of free models are kinda bad xD

[supple garnet]

One video I found informative on clothes was this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFW6iq74WpA A lot of mapping information that I need to play around with one day

[bright steppe]

Thank you for the wonderful thought out response and video reference friend~ ❤️ I found a neat tutorial for cat ears with bezier curves so I may give it a shot! I should try that move-it-around method for some simple clothes. I wonder about the cloth sim? I saw there's specialised programs meant to do that, I wonder if it's worth trying?

Geometric is perhaps the wrong way to word it - but I have very little skill (like negative skill lol) with painting, drawing, and sculpting - and I've not put enough practice into it. I want to get better at it! Hopefully I can improve 😄

[supple garnet]

Never tried the Marvelous Designer (the clothing program), but I expect it would be pretty good as I often hear about it when looking at resources. Personally I am going to stick to blender cause it is free and I like the program a lot, but if you make money off of 3D design, it would probably pay itself off (as it is not on a subscription iirc). Good luck on your modeling!

[winter vale]

First time actually doing topology- .. I'll have to learn more about it because it still kinda unoptimized 😭

[crimson junco]

does anyone have arc trooper model i can download please!

for blender

!

[vague leaf]

Not bad for a first go at it.

[cobalt tiger]

Buff penguin

[spiral sigil]

Does CATS have a T-Pose button? Or is there a way to T-Pose an armature in Blender?

[quaint jasper]

Manually

[spiral sigil]

was just doing so🥲

[tough plover]

one way to do it is to enable Auto IK and X mirror, setting the chain length to 3 (mousewheel), grabbing the wrist, and just pulling it in the X direction like 1000 meters

and then manually re-adding the elbow bend

[spiral sigil]

so I turned those on, I just don't see how to get the chain length to more than one bone, also there's no wrist bone unfortunately...

[tough plover]

you probably still want a wrist bone to be able to actually move your arms at all

if you don't do that, I don't think your model can be considered humanoid

[spiral sigil]

Oh! I do have a Humanoid armature, I'm just trying to T-Pose this one before merging them together...

What I'm having issues with is when moving a bone, the parents of it do not follow

Oh, never-mind... I just had to check off this Connected option in edit mode

Does it matter if I leave it off? Or should be ON on a humanoid armature?

[tough plover]

depends on the bones. the shoulder bones should not be connected to the chest

but the wrist, forearm and arm should be connected

[spiral sigil]

I see, thanks

[tepid hare]

So I've got the basics down, but how do I link them together? (I know I'm not done with the model but I need to link some together right now)

[jagged moat]

Select them all and press J to make them into one object

[tepid hare]

Tyyy

[jagged moat]

np

[glossy oracle]

My pc cant run blender I need someone to do something for me if anyone can

[glossy oracle]

I need help with optimizing a avatar for quest since my pc cant handle blender otherwise I would have done it myself

[onyx juniper]

It would kill me not to use Hannah-Barbera/Filmation eye coloring, but maybe it would be for the best

[worthy kindle]

Making goku 😄

[onyx juniper]

If you intended more anatomical structure and details in the face than the source material then I heartily approve

[narrow star]

anyone know how to un solidify a tape wrap? i rather have it two d since it adds way too many poly gons

\

[quaint jasper]

Select the inside or outside edge loop, ctrl + and delete

[narrow star]

gotta love 60% keyboards

can't do + properly

yep sorry i can't do + without holding shift which changes the command

[narrow star]

perhaps there is another alternative? other than remapping my keyboard

[quaint jasper]

You can manually select the three edge loops you want to delete I guess

[worthy kindle]

Damn I see what you mean. I've tried reducing the anatomical and structural detail to look less like average steve and more unrealistic. I'm not too sure about the nose and struggle with approaching the eyes. I'm trying to follow FighterZ's goku

[quaint jasper]

Larger irises would go a long way

Nose is tough if you're not already planning for a toon shader

[narrow star]

i appreciate it i had a save of the object prior to applying the solidify so i just copy and pasted :)!

from 8k polys

to 700

just from that

[lone blaze]

Finished this in Maya for my class

[prime zenith]

Guys, how do I please fix this so it looks like a flat surface with metallics ?
I tried :

• All faces are the same side, front
• recalculate outside
• shade flat
• weighted normal (keep sharps)

Talking about the weird effects on the dial

[tough plover]

@prime zenith mark the outlines of the circles as sharp, same for the outer edge of the watch face, then select the whole thing and do alt + N > reset vectors

[prime zenith]

I do have the sharps, tried the reset vectors, it fixed a lot but not the lower part

[tough plover]

are there any n-gons?

[prime zenith]

Yeah

[tough plover]

that's your problem

[prime zenith]

Almost all of them faces are

Should I quad/triangulate then ?

[tough plover]

triangulate them or make them quads

[prime zenith]

Ok

Thx

[prime zenith]

Did not help though. Not it's like this

[tough plover]

can you show it in blender

[tough plover]

can you show your FBX import settings

[tough plover]

enable Read/Write, set Blend Shape normals to Import, and increase the smoothing angle to like 120

[prime zenith]

No change

[tough plover]

can you select the whole white part in blender and do alt + N > Set from faces

also, that thing is 1 material right?

...right?

[prime zenith]

Yeah, the dial is one material

The white part

better

[tough plover]

so you're telling me that every color is a separate material?

[prime zenith]

But not really "flat"

For now

[tough plover]

okay

[prime zenith]

The dial definitely be separate

[tough plover]

it doesn't need to be though

if you wanted to easily have different designs, you could use Poiyomi decals

or a Flipbook

[prime zenith]

I am definitely not going to use mettalic material on the hands

Not important currently. I need to fix the dial

[tough plover]

can you try doing a merge by distance?

[prime zenith]

Removed 0 vertices

[prime zenith]

If I apply the armature modifier it suddenly shades everything correctly

[tough plover]

oh yea could have been a shape key issue aswell

applying the armature modifier fixes that

[prime zenith]

Hmm ok

But if I add it again, it's meesed up again

[tough plover]

odd

try making that whole section disconnected

select that whole white part, separate the mesh, and join it back

you should apply that weighed normal modifier

[prime zenith]

Does not fix it

I have no shape keys on the mesh btw

This is obscure. I don't understand how an armature modifier messes up shading

[prime zenith]

I fixed it. I scaled my armature to 1,1,1 (it was bigger than that) and I did CTRL + A and Rotation & Scale

[split dust]

Hey

I need some help

I’m trying to make a model in blender

Uhh

Guys

Anyone?

[daring lichen]

Can someone help me pls. I am trying to build and test my world but it won't let me. Each time I try to it just load for a quick sec and stops and nothing happens. No red errors are in my console btw.

[quaint jasper]

Which specific step ?

[split dust]

All steps

Kinda

[quaint jasper]

Are you following any tutorial ?

[split dust]

Only a color tutorial

And I’m also in blender

[quaint jasper]

Find any for model creation and follow along with the steps

[quaint jasper]

Does the console show anything at all ?

[split dust]

I’m trying to model my own thing

[quaint jasper]

Yeah that doesn't matter, the steps are the same for all models

[split dust]

Ok

I’ll tell you if I need more help

[pearl condor]

srry to join and be that guy but

[split dust]

Hm

[split dust]

Nice

[pearl condor]

rigs a little fucked but looks fine on mixamo ig

[split dust]

Is that on blender

[pearl condor]

no idea how to texture, the texpaint isnt working?

yea it is

Second model ever

[quaint jasper]

Smoothing some of it and enabling the auto smooth for normals would help a lot

[split dust]

So I need help mr djuan

[pearl condor]

just need help texturing and fixing the rig

[quaint jasper]

Texture paint works fine, you just need to set it up correctly

[pearl condor]

im learning myself too

[split dust]

How do I add

[pearl condor]

add...

[split dust]

Hold on

I’ll show a picture

[pearl condor]

oh a light?? I havent messed w any of that

[split dust]

I got it already

I added another model

[pearl condor]

What are you asking?

[split dust]

Well I’m trying to make my oc as a vrchat avatar

I’ll show you a picture

Of my oc

[quaint jasper]

https://youtu.be/5JA0f8ZgIw0?list=PL2EEbgwoJzdt5kFVDyY2lliNqf7cWJeD3

Start with that

[quaint jasper]

You're not gonna go anywhere by trying random stuff

[pearl condor]

https://youtu.be/AlPPYkZg9D4

[split dust]

I guess that is true

Thanks

[pearl condor]

I used this, it helps alot

Few tips

makes sure the reference you use, the arms are out, and the hands, they face palm down

helps later w rigging

[split dust]

Ok

[pearl condor]

Not that I know anything about that w how much its messing up for me

[split dust]

I modeled my hat!

I colored my hat

Ok now I need to make a circle for the head

[spiral sigil]

any help on this

[devout scroll]

weight paint the sticking out bit to the bone it should belong to

looks like it needs to be weighted to the upper arm

[spiral sigil]

Full weight?

[devout scroll]

yeah

[spiral sigil]

alrighty

[devout scroll]

if it looks weird you can weight a bit of it to the wrist

[spiral sigil]

i'll try it out

it's currently weight painted as such but idk what's goin on

whenever it's weight painted the sleeves will go backwards instead of where i want it to be

[split dust]

I’m doing pretty good!

[split dust]

I finished modeling how do I rig

[devout scroll]

instead of asking here you can search on YouTube

there's hundreds of tutorials

[split dust]

Ok but is it done I gave it megarig

[devout scroll]

if you can't follow one you can try another

[split dust]

What

Do you mean

Oh wait nvm

But I did give metarig is it actually done

[tepid hare]

I started to make a hatsune miku avatar, first with the base and yeh

blender is so hard to usee

[quaint jasper]

Much easier with tutorials !

[spiral sigil]

if I were to have an electrical cable that is going to be moving along with two hard surfaces should I have the cable be separated from the base and object that will be "powered", like how would I go about it?

specifically for an avatar

[hushed gyro]

gonna need to see what you're working on

[spiral sigil]

okay give me a sec

[spiral sigil]

there and with an example of the "cable"

[untold schooner]

theres an included addon for that if you still havent done it

[untold schooner]

i think its in the extra objects for curves if i recall

[unreal gyro]

Hey, does anyone know any good resources on modelling clothing on top of a base model? Mostly on transferring weight paints, since I hear that's a good method of helping with it tremendously - since I don't really know how I'd go about doing custom clothing efficiently. (FYI: I use Blender, like most people here)

[hearty kindle]

A similar question, is there a good, simple model to look at for modeling/weight painting around the hips? I can't seem to figure out what the edge flow and weighting should look like

[spiral sigil]

I can put bones into the curve so they can flop around and move along with the moving objects?

[untold schooner]

yeah i don’t see why not

[spiral sigil]

cool

thanks

[wispy dome]

How do I add something to appear on my avatar when i mute my mic

[tough plover]

add the MuteSelf parameter in your FX controller as a Bool, and make a toggle using it

[mint zephyr]

Do you mean putting an asset onto an already rigged base model? Like a gumroad asset someone made to something like Pandaabase? Renipuff has a recent tutorial for doing so! If you don't have CATS already I definitely suggest it for merging armatures. There's a "cheap" auto weight painting method for after the armatures/objects are parented. You can use the data transfer modifier to do most of the weight paint work after parenting the piece of clothing to the main armature.

[wispy dome]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-gif-21059453

[wispy dome]

explain more please i have brain damage

[tough plover]

do you know how to set up a normal toggle?

in your FX controller?

[gloomy dove]

oh god I have a shirt I really like but its not weight painted, is anyone able to help maybe?

[untold schooner]

so you see, what you want to do here is weight paint it

should fix your problems

[slim shale]

Hello, i am redoing my model from scrach. this model has been made by a friend of mine some time ago. And when i click on the head collider it shows the "hitbox?" of it.

But since i made a new project, ia cant see that view when i click to edit the collider. any idea what could be wrong ?

this is what i see on the new project(nothing)

[spiral sigil]

idk if this is even possible but is there a way i can export everything from blender into a unity project because it dosnt take image files with it

xD

[tough plover]

that is good, you do not want the images to come along

you should be importing those into unity separately

if the images were to be packed with the FBX, it would blow up the file size for no reason

[spiral sigil]

ah

[iron geode]

working on different model atm this is just my template do you guys know if there are any good resources on how I would go about rigging this to work in vrchat, any videos or reading would be nice.

[devout scroll]

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

[manic vault]

https://youtu.be/6WqCUdilzS8

Actually the other is bettee

[devout scroll]

well, you can just watch both, the first one is 1:30 minutes

there's also the common bone names and hierarchy you can find pinned in #avatar-rigging

[iron geode]

I have a rig already made. Sorry I should've specified just wondering if if there is anything I should change to make it compatible with vrchat or some way to test that it would work

[devout scroll]

#avatar-rigging message

you want hips, spine and a chest bone

so just subdivide your big body bone into 3

also the thigh diagonal bones aren't needed

[iron geode]

I see !

Thank you!

[steel crane]

would anybody who's experienced w modeling want to take a look at my models edgeflow n stuff sometime soon? kinda dont wanna post it publicly and could use some advice for things like the elbows and knees

also it is an anthro with hind legs so

[silent cargo]

does anyone know what type of lines are this in the edges?
they are not seams lines or sharp edge lines or crease lines

[steel crane]

hmm

looks like there are doubles

might wanna select all, do ctrl m and merge by distance .0001 or .001

somethin like that

[devout scroll]

weird color

there's seams, sharps, bevel weights, creases

not sure about what else colors edges

[steel crane]

also ping if ur interested

[steel crane]

hoooh teach me....

[silent cargo]

thanks it was an automaticaly genereted bevel weight using the solidify modifier

[wispy dome]

so i make a bool toggle and name it muteself?

[tough plover]

make new layer in FX controller, make 2 states, have transitions between them use the MuteSelf condition

[devout scroll]

I think you guys should discuss this in the correct channel

why did I not know about this

[wispy dome]

Thank you I got it to work

[lapis smelt]

can someone give me tips on how to make the eyes?

[crystal steppe]

so this is tangentially related to 3d modeling, but I want to model a log cabin for a world but I'm too lazy to come up with my own floor plan, but most of the floor plans for them online I'm finding are thousands of dollars, which is a little out of my budget...

does anyone know where I can find good public domain floor plans for log cabins/housing in general that I could use to make models out of?

nvm, found one

[silk sage]

@crystal steppe if you still need another one of the floor plan creator, there a site called floorplancreator.net which allow you to make a floor plan and see it in 3D and export it as a model.

[crystal steppe]

oo that looks nice, thank you. I just started the process in blender and that looks like it'll be much less tedious

[silk sage]

I believe you get one free plan at the start, but then it like $11 per 10 plans, but if you just trying to make a simple room all you need is a ruler and piece of paper and blender, good luck

[crystal steppe]

thanks!

[steady zealot]

Working on a huge pack of Low Poly Prop Models for Worlds/Avatars! My Progress so far!

[night trout]

currently experimenting with just subdividing my model (minus horns n stuff) completely because why not

[jagged moat]

Performance

[night trout]

i mean
it is just an experiment lol

[night trout]

besides
here's the tris before subdivving

[night trout]

also going back to the unsubdivved one and trying to improve the shapekeys

[craggy crag]

Firts time trying modeling with blender. Takes some time to learn but it´s really fun! Still so much to learn!

[steel crane]

crop because it’s thinking that it’s explicit

and also b&w

[winter palm]

I finished modelling my avatar, but I want to seperate my head and put it on a different base mesh for clothes. Is it possible to just seperate the head and the body to be two different objects, or do I have to merge the head vertices onto the new base mesh?

[steady zealot]

Depends on how clean you want it. You can have them be two separate Meshes that don't match perfectly, but if the neck is visible, it might not look great unless the vertices are aligned.

[winter palm]

Alright, gotcha. I have been trying to attach the head that has a 96 vertice edge on it with a body mesh that is way less than that. Are there any tips or tricks on how I could attach merge vertices without having the neck look jagged?

(This is what the head looks like btw)

[devout scroll]

you need to uh.. step down (?) the topology flow

https://polycount.com/discussion/124242/the-edge-flow-thread-controlling-topolgy

dunno how good of a resource it is but i remember looking at this one from somewhere else

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BB1d8tzSqO0/TtAFL-nLW4I/AAAAAAAABjE/Z-pgKFgHri0/s1600/step-down-guide.png

[iron geode]

referring to this piece of advice should I separate my chest piece into multiple parts for the bones

[iron geode]

@devout scroll sorry to ping u directly but youve been very helpful need your advice on this

[devout scroll]

not necessarily but you could add some more loop cuts around where the bones would bend

[iron geode]

thanks

[hollow thistle]

So on my cats plugin, I can't use the atlas texture optimatzation. and when I click to the linked site, it doesn't exist. I use 2.8a Blender

[kindred zephyr]

Hello, how can I make a horizontal edge loop like in this picture? to make windows, they always come out vertical for me.

[uncut imp]

Oh dam it's been a while since I used probuilder.

Does it let you select two edges and creat an adge between them? You could put them on manually that way

[kindred zephyr]

is probuilder like an ancient thing?

[kindred zephyr]

ok I will try that, I somehow accidently closed my work without saving

[kindred zephyr]

it looks like it did create it but when I try to move it, it extends the wall itself.

[devout scroll]

it cuts based on what you have selected i think

if you select a perpendicular edge and press loop cut it might do what you want

[kindred zephyr]

loop cut? where can I find that options

[devout scroll]

or whatever the setting that adds a loop is

[kindred zephyr]

alright

[uncut imp]

The standard way people make models is generally in blender, and then import it to unity.

[kindred zephyr]

alright, I might have to try that way

[uncut imp]

Not that there is anything wrong with probuilder. It's good for creating simple things but blender just has a much larger toolset and allows you to make much more complicated things more efficiently.

[kindred zephyr]

I see, thanks for the help

[uncut imp]

Np

[lapis smelt]

thoughts on the model?

[uncut imp]

Topology looks clean enough.
The shape is ... Interesting XD

[lapis smelt]

Yes

I'm trying to make it thicc while proportional as possible

[uncut imp]

There's way too much thigh gap for that thichness

[lapis smelt]

I know

I'm using mirror modifier

[uncut imp]

And? You can still make the thigh gap smaller with the mirror

Just if your trying to look semi realistic for the thickness ofc. You can make it look however you like 😊

[lapis smelt]

Can't do that rn, just closed blender, the head is supposed to look a bit like an anthro shark

[uncut imp]

Bruh why are all the sharks I see so thicc. Hahaha

[lapis smelt]

And that hole u see in the mouth is supposed to be a metal jaw

[uncut imp]

Where's the petite sharks

[lapis smelt]

Is it worth making separate meshes for the details in the base model.

[fallow plume]

Hi! I'm new here and I'm not sure if this is the place to ask but I've been searching for someone to import a model from Koikatsu to Blender and rigging the model as well.

[uncut imp]

Hmmm. Depends on the details I guess. Night make it easier to work with them if they're seperate

[lapis smelt]

But can u also merge them?

[uncut imp]

Yup once your done just merge them at the end

[uncut imp]

Looks like there's a plugin called KK Blender porter pack that does most of the work of exporting / importing to blender and rigging all for you

[lapis smelt]

What are the collection things supposed to be called??

Where u have the cube, lamp and camera.

[uncut imp]

Depends what sort of collection I guess

The default stuff? You can just delete all that.

But those folders of things in the outliner are actually just called collections

[fallow plume]

You are correct. However, I cannot seem to get it to work. I've spent about almost a week figuring out what the issue could be and I'm not sure what I've been doing wrong I just can't get my model export correctly. The file will appear to after I had export it but it won't open in Blender it has literally been hell working on this and I had already given up. So I am asking for help if someone can do it for me.

[uncut imp]

Does blender give you an error when you try import?

They normally display on the bottom bar

[fallow plume]

Nothing happens

The file is there for me to select when I am on Blender and nothing happens. I thought maybe a file was corrupted in Blender I've uninstalled it and reinstalled Blender and nothing changes.

It is literally the most confusing processes of moving a model.

[uncut imp]

Blender errors aren't displayed super obvious. When you import the fbx check along the bottom bar to see if there's a little yellow or red error message

[fallow plume]

I'm not super savvy about this so my knowledge is pretty limited

I don't remember if there was anything down there. Recently, I have to wipe my whole computer and I don't have enough time to go through the whole process. I would have to reinstall a couple mods for exporting.

[uncut imp]

Ahk

[fallow plume]

I'm just looking for someone to export it for me if that's possible. From there I'll use model in VR chat.

[uncut imp]

Fair. Maybe you'll find someone kind enough to give ya a hand with it. Might be more likely to get someone if you offer a few $$ for their time.
Not I to I'm am too low on spare time as it is 😅

[fallow plume]

Well

The process isn't hard. I just couldn't figure out what the issue was is all. I've uninstalled and reinstalled everything and I still run in to the same issue. I just need the model exported and rigged or whatever and that's it. I'll move my avatar to my quest 2 on my own.

If you got time to do it for me I'll happily throw some green paper at ya

[fallow plume]

I have everything installed back and this time I got an error

What should I be looking at

?

[uncut imp]

Screenshot and post it. Or Google search it first and there an answer for it already

[fallow plume]

it gave me a box

[uncut imp]

The error that is

Tbh google searching your error message before posting it should be a requirement XD

It solves so many issue

[fallow plume]

I'm using Blender version 3.0 btw

I could google it but I don't wanna. I would rather get a direct answer from someone

[trail python]

kind of wasting peoples time if you don't want to bother even looking it up lol

cats plugin has a discord server so you could check there and look at the faq

[uncut imp]

Yeah looks like a cat's error. Idk any more without googling it so that's up to you 😋

[fallow plume]

Alright

[thin shadow]

have you tried blender 2.93.x? Cats plugin page does not have any indication of supporting 3.x. yet

[fallow plume]

I was able to import my model in but it seems like cats isn't importing everything on my model so right now I am trying to find my way around it. If the problem persists then I will use 2.93 version if anything changes.

[copper hedge]

i usually don't ask for help with blender since i have.. thousands of hours of experience, but something's not behaving right.

i wanna do a 360° turntable animation, so i set the first keyframe to 0 and the second to 360.

When i keyframe the second rotation, it stays orange and doesnt get set. it's as if it sets keyframes based on the visual appearance of the model, not the coordinates/rotation

if i set it to 359° it rotates -1°

if i click the lil diamond to set a keyframe it stays unset

ok so i may be fucking stupid

the object was parented to an armature

you learn something new every day. damn.

[lapis smelt]

does the model look better in an A pose?

[lapis smelt]

how can i fix this?

[foggy granite]

thats not really an a pose thats more of i pose

since the arms are directly parallel to the body

a pose is more releaxed

something like this

[lapis smelt]

OH OK

[lapis smelt]

better?

[foggy granite]

can you show the front view

[lapis smelt]

Cant fuckin do that

discord bots a bitch

[foggy granite]

oh

but it looks better

[lapis smelt]

lemme dm u it

[foggy granite]

alright

[atomic hamlet]

Everyone says to model in t-pose, but you don't HAVE to if you prefer a different workflow. You can configure it into a t-pose manually in Unity when you are setting it up as a humanoid.

[trail python]

ive never had a single issue with using A pose lol

[tough plover]

I typically recommend using a T pose since it's easier to account for the arms going straight up over the head, and since you can simply move stuff along the X axis to move it along the length of the arm

[devout scroll]

Model in a pose so the shoulders don't look weird, rig then pose into tpose

[lapis smelt]

So t pose is recommended if it's for rigging purposes?

[devout scroll]

It's preference, but if you're modelling the body I hear A pose is more natural

You can always switch from one to another anyway after you're done righing

[lapis smelt]

I did the t pose instead, late reply anyway

[midnight valley]

I would like to fix a spiderman suit to the mesh of my body. how do i go about doing this without it looking weird?

[lapis smelt]

thoughts?

[quaint jasper]

What is your reference/goal ?

[quick thunder]

what creature is this based off

[foggy granite]

looks good, my main sugesstion is working on the collarbone, feetm and the rib cage if you plan of have those area expose

[spiral sigil]

Working on an avatar world where each avatar will have it's own themed section

[thin shadow]

https://imgur.com/FF17d8B

what is it that i missed in weight painting that i cannot reproduce the same result twice

in the 1st part, that's the 2nd time i weight painted the hair buns, it's squished when rotated.

in the 2nd part, that's the 1st time i did that and i want to achieve that. No squishes. Just rotation of the buns.

[lapis smelt]

It's based off a character I have, mind if I can show you?

[devout scroll]

if stuff squashes then you got weights on more bones that add up to more than 100%

so 100% head, 100% bun

you can check by going into edit mode and selecting a vertex on the bun

then in the item panel top right you can see the weights table

for that vertex

when weight painting enable auto normalize. it will prevent this from happening. if you're assigning weights through the vertex groups then you'll need to either remove it manually from the other group (head i this case i'm guessing), or go to weights > normalize

[spiral juniper]

hey im looking for someone that can make me a vr chat skin (dm me)

[lapis smelt]

collarbone?

[foggy granite]

the collarbone is one of those more sudile features to add for a more detail body it makes a nice noticeable transitions sepreating the torso from the neck

[solar fossil]

Would have taken you on that, but than seen that the socks have to be toggleable, so no can do

[indigo stirrup]

Is there a way to have smooth normals on a face mesh without it breaking with shapekeys?

shapekey without applying the modifier, what I wish would happen

what happens when you apply the modifier first

basically, can you set normals per shapekey? and can you automate it?

[unborn acorn]

no but you can the edges around the mouth sharp and that would solve it

[lapis smelt]

some stuff for the head

[naive slate]

Could someone teach me how to use blender? I’m starting to get really stressed out with practicing and it’s really confusing for me

[thin shadow]

Thanks for the input. I found out that with this modifier i can subtract the weight data of that particular bone from the head.

so manual unpainting works, but this modifier is much more accurate and free from human error

[past cloak]

still need to do the full outfit but it's looking promising so far

[warm moss]

I made this dress for the rex avatar and added some starry textures to it

[viscid salmon]

can any blender folk help a blender noob with whats prob a pretty simple issue

[viscid salmon]

Nevermind, wasnt workin no matter what i tried so i made a new file and it worked, cant explain it but i wont question it

[warm moss]

sometimes thats how it be

[near gale]

Does anyone know how I could fix it?

[trail python]

move the UV maps

[near gale]

How might I do that?

[trail python]

"uv editing" at the top

it will open two windows split vertically, one side is your model and the other side is the uv map

yours will look different from mine ofc but entering edit mode and then using L on a hair part will highlight its UVs

[obsidian nova]

That hair model is ❤️‍🔥

[quaint jasper]

Super pretty !

[warm moss]

Thank you

[unborn acorn]

gobbo

[quaint jasper]

Really nice shading !

[winter dagger]

How to solve scarf visible problem
Clothes and SDK versions are different.

[devout scroll]

make the scarf use a new bone parented to neck instead of directly using neck

then in unity create an animation that scales the new bone to 0

then create a new layer in your FX controller and use the IsLocal parameter to transition to that new animation

[serene oyster]

can i get some general help on how to even model in blender? i only really know how to resize and adjust stuff (i use it to visualize splatoon outfits lol and that's it)

if you're down, dming me would be super

[thin shadow]

alternatively, delete the inside mesh, leave the outside. Then in the shader setting, turn on backface culling.

[serene oyster]

@thin shadow is it ok if i dm you? i've been needing some help with making a vrc avatar as me the big dumb and doesn't know how to 3d model

sorry if this is sounding needy... (kind of is)

[thin shadow]

no

[serene oyster]

👍

[jagged moat]

There are hundreds of tutorials online you can watch

[serene oyster]

then i'll do exactly that

[thin shadow]

one advice that i can tell from watching the videos is that,
don't follow the tutorials as it is, instead, absorb the knowledge of each videos, shape them into your own need

[bitter sierra]

making an avatar is decently advanced, just a general Blender tutorial (like the classic donut tutorial) should be a big step in the right direction of understanding the controls. If you only want to use Blender for VRChat you can skip the later stuff on rendering and whatnot

[serene oyster]

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

oh, there's actually 2

[bitter sierra]

attaboy

[serene oyster]

time to learn

[surreal wave]

sniff snoff

[serene oyster]

oooooooh, progress.

now how would i do the powdered sugar on top?

[surreal wave]

I usually use grease pencil or just uv paint tho

[kindred zephyr]

Hello, in blender, if I want to mirror an object but the mirror is not landing where I want it to be, how can I fix it?

[quaint jasper]

Apply your transforms with Ctrl+A

[crude trail]

Anyone know how I can import animations (actions) from a blend directly into Unity? I've got 2 actions but only one animation shows up in Unity.

I'd rather avoid exporting as FBX if I can

[oak hatch]

3 hours of my avatar creation speedrun. I'll maybe do the rest Tues or Wednesday.

Goal is good-rated/fallback quest avii.

Pain.peko

[winter silo]

progress on my first attempt at a furry-ish avatar o__o

[winter silo]

expressions so far :V

[trail python]

aa shes cute as hell

love her

[oak hatch]

https://twitter.com/AlfonsoHegao/status/1528586684312571904?s=20&t=mIQXSpej-pfdUUs2sAtTtA
Speedrun video.

Alfonso Hegao (@AlfonsoHegao)

BTW, some cool shit. YEET.

▶ Play video

Twitter · May 23, 2022, 4:00 AM

[obsidian nova]

This is phenomenal stuff. Do you take modelling commisions?

[winter silo]

i don't ;w; my quality of work isn't good enough to consider selling anything or doing comms yet i think, but thank you sm !!!

[obsidian nova]

I disagree, but I understand how you feel! Dm me if ever you’re interested in starting!

[surreal wave]

e

[limpid quarry]

Hey , i really dont know where else to ask

While trying to export and avatar from blender with cats plugin i run into this error:

I have tried using all sorts of blender versions already but im kinda clueless by now

[quaint jasper]

Does cats support 3.2 ?

[limpid quarry]

I have previously used older versions like 2.93 but after getting this error updated to see if that fixes it

sadly it did not

[trail python]

cats discord has a help channel and faq about the versions, might have better luck in there

can find the invite link on the github page

[fluid spear]

so could someone tlel me what i'm doing wrong in my attempts to merge bones? i've tried selecting the two bones and hitting altM and ctrlX and neither seemed to do anything.

[tough plover]

you need to use CATS

[fluid spear]

hrm why's google say those two key combos work then? i'm very confused...anyway. ok what part of cats...i saw bone parenting but no button to merge...

i should be able to eliminate 28 bones if i make every chain of skirt bust and hair into just the base bone, so should be able to make a skirted fallback actually.

[fluid spear]

oh merge weight deletes the bone...is that it? the bone doesn't grow any though.

[tough plover]

it will delete the bone and add the weights to another group

if you hit To parents, it'll add the weights to the group of the parent bone

if you hit To active, it'll add the weight(s) to the active bone

[fluid spear]

erm...on the last 2 chains it stopped working...

[tough plover]

also, make sure you have X mirror disabled

[fluid spear]

where is that?

[tough plover]

top right of viewport

[fluid spear]

yeah it's off..

still can't merge those bones though.

oh somehow keep merged bones got enabled.

ok i got it down to 79 bones. which is good enough for good.

guess i'll target good anyway since that'll allow me to have physbones and that's apparently good enough for fallback.

if i'm targeting good is it worth targeting 10k polys in bake?

[warped talon]

This is my first avatar design. I just started the game a couple days ago and really liked the idea of making my own creation. So I'm learning a little bit by bit. Am going for a demon with one arm bitten off, will add torn wings, and more. What are your thoughts so far? I have a lot more detailing to do on these bits, but I'm going to finish up the body before going into full detail.

[midnight valley]

i want to make a uv map that doesn't cause all this distortion and cutting of the texture. does anyone know how to do that?

[quaint jasper]

You'd probably want to have the sole of the foot be its own uv island

You'll most likely still have some stretching though

[quaint jasper]

It's good to learn as you're going but I'd still recommend watching any of the model tutorials on youtube to get accustomed to the tools, as well as using references where you can

[midnight valley]

gotcha! thanks

[placid raptor]

Can u send me this if this still exist?

[fluid spear]

is there a reason that blender should be showing less bones than unity?

oh end bones...welp that might explain it. i can't safely get rid of those can i?

so in blender i've got 14 hair bones and 2 bust bones plus a root for each...which should give me 18 phys bones...that's still 2 over what is allowed but unity says i've got 30 i guess because of the end bones? so what's the best way to cut that number in half and still have descent physbones?

[tough plover]

uncheck Add leaf bones in your export settings

[fluid spear]

where's that at. and what are leaf bones?

i feel blind for not seeing it. doesn't help that my eyes are totally out of focus looking at such tiny text.

found it and it's already unchecked? weird

wow exporting again fixxed it. how odd.

ok now i have to get rid of 2...how bad would it be to just merge some of the bones on the bangs?

ok got it down to good by just ignoring 2 bones. this should be enough to shut up the questies.

[naive bolt]

idk if it's just me but the face is like silco from arcane lol

[warped talon]

Ooooo I can see that hahaha

[nocturne steeple]

Brain really said "hey so you've never made a vrchat model from scratch right? Make your Transformers OC then"

literally took a break from making furry models because I decided I wanted to suffer more i guess LOL

this is the dude in question for a point of reference

[tough isle]

When I try to generate an Atlas, it does this (second image). How can I fix this?

[fluid spear]

i don't suppose anyone knows what i should be setting this first line to to target the active material?

[devout scroll]

probably object.materials[object.active_material_index]

depends on what your object is

actually no, you can just do object.active_material

provided that your object is an object from bpy.context.active_object or is from bpy.context.selected_objects[]

[near gale]

How can I blend that in? or fix it?

[devout scroll]

delete it, the bottom piece's neck clearly doesn't need to go that far

[pallid apex]

trying to export my model with textures, except the textures arent working properly.
It SHOULD look like this \/

it comes out as this instead^

what am i doing wrong here?

[naive pagoda]

I'm learning blender for the sake of a creative outlet and making my own models for VRchat. Are there any specific modifiers, tools, or workflows that complicate porting to unity/VRchat? I want to figure out the best way to go about modeling without blasting my polygons over 90000, or breaking everything when porting.

I ported my donut from the donut tutorial to see what happens, and the sprinkles disappeared. it worries me that my hard work/learned skills won't apply to vrchat.

[thin shadow]

you can skip the shaders and rendering part of the donut tutorial since those are ported differently in unity. cats plugin can automate a few things, although manual interventions are sometimes needed in some cases.

[naive pagoda]

does cats cover shaders?

or is shading and texturing all done on unity end?

[devout scroll]

Materials don't export. even if the textures get packed in the fbx and show up you'll still need to change shader settings

[thin shadow]

shading is done on unity end, other than that, in blender

[devout scroll]

So just import the the textures separately, select the fbx and extract materials from the inspector

[pallid apex]

also tried that and it still came out weird

[devout scroll]

you have to do that if you want to edit the materials

and you will need to because nothing really carries over from blender

[pallid apex]

question then

how would i export a procedural material in blender as a texture?

[devout scroll]

you'll have to bake it to a texture

it's a fairly simple process but a bit tedious to setup

there should be videos on it on youtube tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AioskAgcU2U

[pallid apex]

thanks

[naive pagoda]

this chat is already more valuable for learning than google.

[pallid apex]

ok so i baked it and imported it to unity

what and why does it look like that

on the right is semi-normal but on the left its just stretched to hell

[thin shadow]

maybe the uv wrapping does not look like what you wanted it to be

[pallid apex]

yea im messing around with the uv wrapping rn but idk what could be wrong with it

looks

good ig

[pallid apex]

so when baking the texture, why does the baked texture not match the scale of the texture on the object?

see what i mean?

[trail python]

cant you adjust the tiling on the material properties

[pallid apex]

i could, but its a little weird

theres a black border on the material and i cant figure out why

plus if i use tiling, it doesnt look right

so i want to make the baked image scale match the one on the floor in blender

[devout scroll]

you bake it to a texture but the uvs and tiling still need to be adjusted

[pallid apex]

how should i adjust them? I already baked the texture

and why is it when i bake the texture, it generates a black border?

[devout scroll]

i don't know

[pallid apex]

odd

[devout scroll]

try getting a premade material for wooden flooring

and tile it in unity

[pallid apex]

nvm about it

i got it working

i had to do some weird downsizing of the image size, move the uvs around, and tile it weirdly in unity but it looks good now

[lapis smelt]

i have an issue that when i subdivide the meshes, some meshes dont subdivide.

[tough plover]

for something that looks smoother, try using the Subdivision surface modifier. also, try to always work with quads whenever possible. those shapes have more than 4 vertices

[near gale]

does someone know how I could fit some underwear to a model?

[lapis smelt]

Wait, how does the subdivision surface modif have to do with this?

[tough plover]

try it and you'll see

[lapis smelt]

I used it and it just made it smoother

That's not what I wanted

[tough plover]

it subdivides each face, and basically averages out the position of the new vertices to be smoother

what did you want exactly? because if you're going to have large flat surfaces, I don't see the point of subdividing

do you already know about loop cuts?

[lapis smelt]

Yes

The problem is that some faces don't loop cut, just the vertex

[pallid apex]

bro what am i doing wrong here

i cant for the life of me figure out what is going on with these floors

nothing is wrong with the uvs, shapes or anything else

[uncut imp]

How are you baking the textures?

[tough plover]

you can't put loop cuts through anything that is not a quad

tri's don't work, and n-gon's don't work either

you'll only be able to cut one edge into 2

consider re-working your topology to use all quads

[pallid apex]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AioskAgcU2U
this link was sent to me

[uncut imp]

Ah so soley in blender. Ok.

[pallid apex]

yea

[lapis smelt]

thoughts on the amount of polygons?

[uncut imp]

A lot more than you'll need in some areas id think. Depending on how you want things to bend? That is if you are keeping the faces flat like that.

[quaint jasper]

Limited dissolve would probably remove 90% of the geometry

[lapis smelt]

Where is limited dissolve?

[quaint jasper]

In the command menu

[lapis smelt]

Imma do it tomorrow

[devout scroll]

Whenever you don't know where something is hit F3 to bring out search and call it from there

[cerulean shoal]

WIP WIP

[unborn acorn]

Its uvs are prob not unwrapped