3d-modeling

[cobalt adder]

oh em g wolf man from movie

[pallid apex]

They are unwrapped

[young vault]

Wrong UVmap? And in what way were they unwrapped?

Automatic or manual, etc.

And where are seams placed

[echo palm]

Having a problem applying a material to this basic 6 sided object. The material does apply correctly to other objects.

[echo palm]

I click "clear" under UV in edit mode with all selected in blender then reexported to unity and that fixed my problem

[astral gyro]

am I allowed to post renders in here of something I have 3D Modelled?

[pallid apex]

i used smart uv project

[young vault]

Did you check in the UVmap if that area had more than like 1% allocated?

Cause it's really dumb if you don't do apply transforms in object mode

It can make the biggest piece of geometry the smallest in the UV even if it's supposed to do the opposite when properly setup

[pallid apex]

these are my uvs as of right now

i made a new floor that im testing out

[young vault]

I assume those long bars are the part that's messed up?

[pallid apex]

^

[young vault]

Ah, lul

But, ya, smart uv project is dumb uv project unless you make sure all scales are a 1 before you do it

[onyx berry]

I think I must be doing something wrong baking my textures, the colors in unity seem complete off compared to the procedural material in Blender. How can I fix this?

It's seems to be an issue with how unity and blender handle colors when it gets to the display, but there's gotta be some way to correct for this.

Here's it again, but with baked textures on the blender version :/

[supple garnet]

Are you sure it isn't just the difference in lighting between blender and unity?
Also, the bright white avatar might be making the unity version look artificially darker than the blender one, even tho it is not in actuality.

[spiral sigil]

just working on a random knight im just confused on if anyones got some techniques to make fluff like that seen on the wickerbeast model

[onyx berry]

Sampling the colors in gimp and comparing side by side, both of these are having an effect, but from the shader and the color grading, unity seems to have way more contrast. The Unity version is a lot brighter in some areas compared to the same spot on the Blender version

I think also the way normal maps catch light in Blender is really different from Unity

[onyx wind]

Does anyone know if there is a way I can use the knife tool on an imported Vroid Studio model's transparent parts without completely breaking the existing shape keys?

So I can make it work without transparency

Like, some sort of "inherit shape keys from nearest vertex"? sort of thing???

[supple garnet]

Might try using a different shader or tweaking the one you are using then to try and get it to react closer to how you want as that sounds like what is causing the color discrepancies, not a failed bake

[onyx berry]

I fiddled with SSS shader I'm using and bumped up the ambient light strength on it and that seemed to help with the contrast. The over-saturation in Unity seems to be from the Default and ACES tonemapping, but also my monitor warping colors at different angles, and from dust on my glasses ;-;. I'm starting to regret buying this giant VA panel...

[supple garnet]

lmao, I have a similar monitor and I feel that.
It does look a lot closer now, but just keep in mind you will never get the same lighting quality in unity as blender.

[onyx berry]

Yeah, not without the HDRP, plus we have to contend with world makers not testing things with PBR materials. There's so many worlds without reflection probes...

[faint gulch]

???

Okay I guess reposting the question without the image:

I have a low poly model, and I was wondering if it was possible to instead of having a modeled mouth, to have my talking animations replaced with swapping out the textures with an open mouth, or a closed eye for blinking, etc. etc.

Posting the image of the model separately so the bot doesn't yell at me

[onyx berry]

I have something similar for the eyes on the avatars in the screenshots I posted. I haven't figured out how to do it without a custom shader, but basically I have a grid of images in a texture, with the eyes UV unwrapped to the first one, then I offset the UVs with parameter and snap the parameter to whole numbers. No clue why I didn't just use integers..

fixed4 c = tex2D(_MainTex, IN.uv_MainTex + half2(floor(ImageX), floor(ImageY)) / 10) * _Color;

[faint gulch]

I-- Don't understand any of that.

[onyx berry]

There's probably some better way to animate UVs, than the awful shader method, so I'd ask around.

[faint gulch]

Okay, thank you.

I should also say that this is a commissioned model that I got permission to edit from the person I bought it from, so I'm a bit uhhhh

clueless to say the least when it comes to this.

[tough plover]

@onyx wind make your changes on a new shape key, then apply the shape key to basis at the end

also, cut along the existing edges

don't create new vertices in the middle of a face

[onyx wind]

Thank you!

[faint gulch]

Yeah no I've been trying to figure this out, what the hell is the code for? Can anyone please help me out here?

[devout scroll]

Are you doing this for quest

Because there a few ways to handle 2d face and lipsync stuff

[faint gulch]

PC. If I can also somehow use this for some vtuber stuff that'd be poggers as hell

[devout scroll]

well

you can use the ancient method of faceplates, where you copy the mesh for the mouth and put a different texture on it, then using a blendshape scale it to your mouth. There's old videos about it or you do with in unity with a shader

if you want to do vtuber stuff you'll have to set that up separately in unity from vrchat because vrchat uses it's own way to tell your avatar what mouth shape you're doing

[faint gulch]

Damn. Understandable tho. For the method you mentioned of Faceplates, does that translate over to Unity as well as VRChat?

[devout scroll]

yes, it could look janky if you don't set it up correctly

because they're not instant and can clip into each other

[faint gulch]

:thonk:

[devout scroll]

shader based stuff would look a lot better but has it's own limitations as well

there's more setup to do and if someone disables your animations they won't see it

[faint gulch]

Hell. Thank you for pointing me in a great direction though, it means the world to me.

[devout scroll]

if going for shader based you can have a texture with all mouths on it then just pan the texture in an unity animation. if using a custom shader like poiyomi you can use a flipbook which will let create a flipbook out of different images of your mouth shapes where you can select the frame manually

you'll still need to setup an animator that decides when to show which mouth shape

it's not hard stuff per se, but there are a few different things you need to know

[spiral sigil]

any tips on how i should do the chest here

[devout scroll]

depends on what you're going for

do you have a reference?

[manic spade]

i hate anatomy

[swift halo]

you do it well though

[fallow osprey]

What methods do you guys use to make hair for your characters?

I tried using curves in blender but they add soooo many polys that I've resorted to doing simple meshes :/

[tough plover]

there are a lot of options when do you use curves

[fallow osprey]

But when I try using them, each spline adds like 3000 polys, cutting into my performance budget. I tried lowering the resolution but then each "row" of vertices contained like 50 verts?

[tough plover]

that's because you're not reducing the resolution of each curve

[fallow osprey]

Ideally I'd have like 30 different splines to cover the head

[tough plover]

and the amount of verts

[fallow osprey]

I see

Ok I think the issue was that my hair controller resolution was set as default, so even though I reduced the resolution of each curve, they had a lot of verts on each point

Versus

[cobalt adder]

im working on my first avatar:D

does anyone have any tips on how to model the eyes/mouth?

[devout scroll]

best is to probably find creators who stream and look at how they do it

[quaint jasper]

Or find a downloadable base you can study

[manic spade]

keep in mind you have resolution on the curve itself and on the bevel itself

[fallow osprey]

Yes, that's exactly what went wrong for me, but thanks for the advice

[manic spade]

you might also manually add loops or bevel loops later if you need to adjust it

[fallow osprey]

Thanks, I'll take this in mind. I haven't worked with curves for biological stuff much, so it may take me some time to work things out :^)

[manic spade]

theres a few decent videos on youtube

[vague junco]

Help lol

[winter palm]

Is my bounding box suppose to be tilted? If not, how do I fix it?

[quaint jasper]

Join your meshes

[quaint jasper]

Apply your transforms in blender

[winter palm]

I applied my transforms, still tilted

[manic spade]

any foot experts got criticism for me

[devout scroll]

Your root bone is tilted then

Should be hips

[dim saddle]

Looks good but nails?

[waxen lake]

any1 know how i could fix this?

[nimble glade]

Does anyone know anything about Blendshape Drivers?

[tough plover]

can you elaborate on what you mean by that exactly? I think I know but just making sure

[nimble glade]

Mainly when I move the thigh bones on my model, some of the topology flattens out and looses it's shape and I want to correct that using blend shapes drivers. Been working with tutorials and nothing is working. I want to make it so the Drivers active the blendshape in increments depending on how much the bone is rotated on a specific access. Full 90° will have the blendshape to 1 and 0° it'll be at 0. Hope that makes sense 💦

[tough plover]

can't do that

well

not simply at least

you could technically use a pair of contact senders/receivers and drive a float using that to then drive a blendshape

but the simpler solution here is control bones

using extra bones to preserve the volume of part of a mesh

[nimble glade]

Uh okay, I'll look that up and probably give that a go but thank you ⭐️

[tough plover]

if you know how to rig models, it's pretty straightforward

if your example was referring to the butt, then add extra bones for the butt and either have them parented to the hips or to the legs (depending on what looks better), or have them parented to the hips but with rotation constraints at a lowered weight

so that the can basically follow the legs 50%

or whatever value you pick

[nimble glade]

I'll have to play with it, I don't know how this'll bode in VRChat and hopefully it won't go over bone Count. I was hoping to use blendshapes as it seemed a bit easier at first. That and it might help me out a great deal with the eyes as I usually have trouble keeping them in place or moving correctly. Usually the eyes don't move on my models as I'm still figuring out how to correctly do eye tracking too

[raw glade]

Unity is saying my model "has an invalid Avatar Rig Configuration. Missing or invalid transform:
Required human bone 'LeftFoot' not found", but left foot is there. I don't understand this...

[tough plover]

first off, you should probably switch your bone display mode to Octahedral or Stick so we can see them better. secondly, you don't need any IK bones for VRChat rigs

[raw glade]

Hold on, I need to figure out how to do that...
As for LK bones, the model came like this, as the artist who did the ENA short models released them to the public.

[raw glade]

Okay, here it is:

[tough plover]

okay, those knee target bones and the root bone can go

check if those foot IK bones do anything via pose mode. if they do, leave em, if they don't, remove em

[raw glade]

I think the root bone is the parent to all the other bones though...it won't delete the others, will it?

[tough plover]

no

[raw glade]

Um, moving either foot lK bone makes the right leg move outward...

[tough plover]

okay, there are most likely still a bunch of constrains set up

the CATS plugin can easily remove all of that for you. you'll need a more stable blender version though, like 2.93.9 (latest LTS release)

grab that blender version, and install the CATS plugin. make a copy of your blend file, and try opening it in that version

[raw glade]

Do I delete this version of Blender first?

[tough plover]

up to you. you probably don't need most of the features that version has over 2.93.9

[raw glade]

Okay. One other thing though... how do I fix this error?

[tough plover]

click the Configure button

make sure all of the bone mappings are correct, and go Pose > Reset pose

then Done, then Apply

[raw glade]

Where is Configure?

[raw glade]

I did the reset, but it didn't clear that error... and apparently the feet aren't there, according to it. XD

[prime zenith]

Hi. I am saving a .png image using GIMP, it should look like the Alpha on the right, but the RGB looks like on the left.
Why is this and how do I fix this ?

[unborn acorn]

Its a weight paint issue just go look up weight painting and youll br gud

[raw glade]

CATS fix model button stole most of the bones... b

[crude trail]

What's the right way to export from Blender into Unity as FBX? I've got some whack rotation going on and I've tried a bunch of settings in the FBX export but to no avail. Some tutorials suggest rotating my avatar in Blender before exporting it but that's stupid.

[cinder cradle]

this

[crude trail]

Seems to lead to my avatar being upside down and in the ground 😕 it looks fine in Unity so not sure what has happened

Also all of the menus/HUD go missing too which seems very odd

[cinder cradle]

maybe u pressed ctrl+space

[crude trail]

What does that do?

[cinder cradle]

hides menus in blender

[crude trail]

How would hiding the menus in blender make the menus/HUD go missing in VRChat 😁

Sorry I guess I wasn't clear

[cinder cradle]

then say it's in vrchat

[crude trail]

I assume my armature shouldn't have this rotation on it in Unity - it's something coming through with the export and resetting it to zero makes my avatar face down in Unity.

[cinder cradle]

then for u -Y is up

change it in blender

[crude trail]

Changing it to -Y as up doesn't seem to do anything, but when I mean facing down I mean they're lying down, not upside down

So I don't think flipping the Y axis is the fix?

[cinder cradle]

try other axis then

no idea which since haven't seen ur project u need to figure it out

[crude trail]

Z is up in my Blender project (with -Y being forwards) and Y is up in my Unity project (with Z being forwards)

So Y as up seems to be the right export option

[cinder cradle]

then try exporting z as up and -y as forward

as for your avatar being underground maybe origin point is on center not below avatar

[crude trail]

Yeah turns out the idle pose exported from Blender was a bit mashed, I also had to reset the pose for the humanoid rig and that seems to have sorted it.

Now to save these export settings as a preset 😁 cheers @cinder cradle

[spiral sigil]

just working on my first humanoid just wondering if theres any tips anyone would like for me to know when modelling basic characters.

[unborn acorn]

Use references that are similar to ehat youre making it helps a ton

[strange sorrel]

Does VRChat clamp blendshape values to [0,100] or [-100,100]? I was trying to set up something with values > 100 in unity but not seeing that change in world.

[quaint jasper]

They're clamped yes

0,100 specifically

[strange sorrel]

Does this map to the full shapekey range as exported from blender?

[quaint jasper]

It does, but if you're talking about blendshapes specifically, then those are much harder to get to 100

[strange sorrel]

@quaint jasper Basically just wondering if I wanted 50% more range on a blendshape, I can change blender shapekey range to 0-1.5, re-export the FBX, then set that blendshape to 100 in Unity and call it good.

[quaint jasper]

Ah, in that case you'd want to make a shapekey mix to get that 150% become the 100% on a new one and export that instead

Afaik, fbx export also clamps it to that 0-1 value range

[strange sorrel]

Ok cool. I'll give that a shot, thanks!

[sinful mesa]

I cant figure out how to fix this issue
when i view my model in viewport shader it displays all messed up
resetting vectors didnt work and neither did recalculating outside

it also looks like this when I try to import my model into marvelous designer

all of my normals seem to be facing the right direction

it even looks fine in the original project file, it just gets messed up when i export as FXB

[low crypt]

Wondering if anyone could make me an avatar

[azure rain]

nobody's going to make you an avatar for free

[low crypt]

Just asking

[trail python]

for money, sure

[exotic obsidian]

Axoloading!

I know its quite simple, but I think it looks pretty cool

[spiral sigil]

i have no idea on how to make the lower legs look more natural

[tough plover]

in your FBX import settings, enable "Legacy blendshape normals"

(in unity)

[devout scroll]

they might be too straight

and also if you think about how feet bend up and down the sharp bit at the bottom would dig into the foot if it moved up

so you might want to put the sharp bits on the sides instead of the front

[tough plover]

nice, glad that did it

the SDK should have warned you about that though

in the build panel

[unborn acorn]

Make the calf area more round cuz it looks too straight

[exotic obsidian]

Luke Skywalker's self-made Lightsaber

Here's the Hilt

Obviously I used a reference, but I'm still proud of myself

[devout scroll]

nice!

[worldly pulsar]

so im trying to get into using unity for vr chat avatars how long do I need to wait for me to be able to use this?

[pallid cradle]

You need to play the game more

[worldly pulsar]

20 hours not enough?

[pallid cradle]

No

[worldly pulsar]

I think it might be because I am logged in through steam not through vr chat

[pallid cradle]

18 hours isn’t enough

[cinder cradle]

huh but u need vrchat account if u haven't merged steam account to vrchat one then ur wasting time

steam account lv ups slower

merge steam account to vrchat account

[worldly pulsar]

yea I just signed my vrchat account to vr chat

[pallid cradle]

You can’t upload without a vrchat account regardless

[worldly pulsar]

how

[worldly pulsar]

how

[pallid cradle]

Website

[worldly pulsar]

ill take a look

[cinder cradle]

go to steam account in game find in settings "upgrade account" and copy token and in website u paste this

in merge tab

[worldly pulsar]

thanks let me try

[worldly pulsar]

once I merge my accounts which account do I use steam or VRchat?

[cinder cradle]

when u login u gonna always be on vrchat one even if u login through steam

after merge

[worldly pulsar]

ah okay thanks

[surreal lance]

10 hours is more than enough

[pallid cradle]

no

[surreal lance]

Yes?

[pallid cradle]

you likely wont get new user until at least 50 hours if you're lucky

[surreal lance]

I get new user in about 9.5 hours maybe?

So...

[pallid cradle]

making friends and exploring worlds helps

being afk doesnt

[surreal lance]

Yes i know

I spam playing among us

For this spesific reason

[azure rain]

?upload

[split granite]

You must obtain at least "New User" Trust Rank in our Trust and Safety system in order to upload content. You can get this by just spending a few hours in VRChat, hop some worlds, and make some friends. Give it some time and you'll be able to upload content in no time.

As an aside, you must have a VRChat account to upload content. That means you can't use a Steam account, Oculus account, or Viveport account to upload content like worlds or avatars.

Source: https://docs.vrchat.com/docs/frequently-asked-questions

[obsidian nova]

Scrolling back up through the thread, I thought you made a vape pen, then I saw the rest. lol

[tardy dome]

dunno if this is the right place to ask, but why in the world are the textures completely broken and why is he semi transparent?

[fallow osprey]

What are some typical methods of modelling eyes? ._.

[foggy granite]

typically it just a slightly edit sphere it mostly the texture work for the eyes then the modeling

[pine raft]

Sculpting a kobold

[fallow osprey]

Ty for the tip ^_^ I find setting the verts to simple black doesn't really do the eye justice lol

[foggy granite]

np

[queen hill]

Hey yall so I'm trying my hand at weight painting. I can't see how to populate the list of vertex data on a jacket to bones that I added my self after I started the editing of the avi. Like adding bones for a strap on a jacket for example. In blender btw

[trail python]

just make new vertex groups and name them exactly the same name as the bone you're weight painting

[cerulean shoal]

stopped procrastinating im nearly done

[sterile bluff]

because you dont have light on scene and material is transparent or faces is upside down

[quaint jasper]

Are you exporting out with ID masks ? Wondering if you're packing that way for convenience or if there's another reason

[quaint jasper]

So you make your own masks manually in substance ?

ID maps is just vertex color, vertex color is shader based, although not supported on quest iirc

[quaint jasper]

Yeah SP can be very fun

[azure rain]

yeah substance painter is very helpful

[white dock]

Alright, i just got unity, what else do i need to upload avatars to vrc?

[cinder cradle]

vrchat sdk from website

[white dock]

why 2019?

gaddamit

[cinder cradle]

u need exactly 2019.4.31f1

[white dock]

i just got done installing the 2021 version

ill reinstall it now

[cinder cradle]

that's why u do research before starting

[white dock]

i will admit i got ahead of myself

[cinder cradle]

at least u admitted unlike some people

[white dock]

i just wanted to edit the avatar that i brought off of booth, ive been waiting forever for this lmao

I can only find 2019.4.39f1

alright, i have the correct version installing now aswell as the sdk is downloaded

oh my bad i thought i was in user support

ill make sure to ask in the correct channel next time

[spare kiln]

Just looks nice, and generators only work when I have them baked out

[onyx berry]

I'm working on my first public avatar and I'm not really feeling the design for some reason, could I get some critique?
https://youtu.be/yLwNyArrRvs

I'm going to have a non-robot version and optional fluff and simpler material too, but I wanted something more in line with my other work (and honestly a bit gimmicky) to get it to stand out more.

[prisma berry]

would anyone be willing to help me on blender?

actually sorry forget it

how do i fuse the parts of a an object

how do i fuse em

[onyx berry]

Do you mean fuse as in make them the same object?

[prisma berry]

yes

[onyx berry]

Go to OBJECT mode and do Ctrl+j
Blender calls it "Join"

[prisma berry]

but in object mode they dont apear

[onyx berry]

Are you in "Local" view or have them hidden in the Inspector?

[prisma berry]

im preaty new so i dont get what that means

[onyx berry]

To get in and out of local view, just hit / on your numpad, and it'll say local in the top left corner of the viewport https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/editors/3dview/navigate/local_view.html

https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/scene_layout/object/editing/show_hide.html

[prisma berry]

all i see

[onyx berry]

And you can do h to hide and Alt+h to unhide everything

[prisma berry]

its now what im serching for

[prisma berry]

im trying to make this flat

[onyx berry]

Like, perfectly flat as if it were paper?

[prisma berry]

i want to undivide it

nothing else

i wanna make the sections myself after that

[onyx berry]

Hmmmmm

Is the pixel art on the skin a texture?

[prisma berry]

texture i think

i mean sub divide creates more divisions but unsubdivide does nothing

[onyx berry]

Are you trying to change the beard?

It doesn't appear to be subdivided

[prisma berry]

it is subdivided

you see the lines?

[onyx berry]

Also unsubdivision is slightly messy and often not perfect

[onyx berry]

It's been triangulated, but not subd'd

[prisma berry]

and how do fuze em

[onyx berry]

Alt+j iirc

Or hit X and do "limited dissolve"

They might both fail (silently) if they can't figure out a way to get the shapes you have without triangles

[prisma berry]

wierd still separated but better

[onyx berry]

Are you trying to change the beard or the skin?

[prisma berry]

no

[tough plover]

if you want to remove an edge going through a face, dissolve it using ctrl + X

[prisma berry]

i wanna model it to be rounder but for that i want to make my own splits

[onyx berry]

Ah

[tough plover]

rounder? doesn't that defeat the purpose of pixel art

[onyx berry]

You could use vertex bevel for that

[prisma berry]

why is it tsill divided

cos im new and thats how i know to do it

[pallid apex]

anyone know a way to convert a maya mb file into an fbx or obj?

i have this asset i want to import but afaik its incompatible with blender

[onyx berry]

The vertex bevel method might be easier, it's just a modifier. It might not be the best option if you have shape keys though. (But everything we just did probably broke them anyway) I can't send a screenshot, so here's a photo

(I'm out of town and my carrier does some anti-consumer shenanigans with hotspot connections so no internet on the computer)

[fallow osprey]

L e a t h e r - j a c k e t

[quaint jasper]

Epic

[grave aurora]

Model has been done for a few weeks but wanted to get around to making some portfolio work to show potential employers :)

[cerulean shoal]

LOOKS SO SILLY!! love it 😭

[spiral sigil]

oh no bro

[surreal ibex]

Has anyone ever had the issue where when exporting an FBX from Blender, all of the rotations are off by 90 degrees in Unity? I've gotten some advice on how to fix this when exporting, but I must be messing up some exact step.. I need a REALLY dumbed down set of instructions or for someone to hop in a call and see what it is I am doing wrong. I'm feeling really dumb that I can't fix this. I feel like 5 mins of someone's time would help me move on from this...

[cinder cradle]

check this convo it might help i think u have same problem #3d-modeling message

[surreal ibex]

This is really close to the issue I was having, but this is one of my issues: Avatar appears normally in Unity but 1) the eye rotation is off by 90 degrees. I have to offset the eyes by 90 degrees to get the eyes to alight forward. This avatar is a decimated version of a PC avatar and is being used to convert to quest, so it breaks many of the animations as well because of these off rotations. I was told I had to rotate the model -90 on the x, then apply transforms.. but its the steps after that where I'm messing up I think...

I'd also like to make it work with Better Exporter instead of Blenders default exporter.. I have lots of glitches when using the native Blender FBX exporter.

[cinder cradle]

i never had issue with default exporter

no idea why u would need rotate it in any way after making it quest version

i never had such issue

[surreal ibex]

I'm assuming the import settings were messed up (I'm not the only person working on this model) and that was a big reason this started.

[cinder cradle]

do you use fbx exporter?

in unity

i always use this one

to be sure i doesn't mess up

[surreal ibex]

no, we imported the FBX from the original project in Unity.

[cinder cradle]

hmm it can easly backfire

[surreal ibex]

Yeah, I'm seeing orientation settings for the importer.. I'm guessing they weren't set to Unity orientation. :/

[calm sandal]

The model is almost done just need to figure out the hands

Very simple for learning purposes

[calm sandal]

the modeling I got down for the most part

[tough plover]

your eye and head bones should be facing perfectly upwards

[surreal ibex]

they were not like this on the original model.

[pallid cradle]

OH NO BRO! You know who else likes peepo? MY MOM! ReEeEeEeE

[spiral sigil]

Kids on vrchat in a nutshell

[pallid cradle]

Ay

Muscle man was a classic

Zoomers are too young to understand

[spiral sigil]

OH NO BRO

[fallow osprey]

How do you get the outline effect in blender? Does it port over into unity? :o

[tough plover]

that is in Unity

doing the same thing in blender would require some more wacky stuff

and it wouldn't port over

[minor palm]

Outlines are something best done by shaders, which are not compatible between Unity and Blender. I'd check out Poiyomi's shader for Unity, as they have an outline varient that would do what you're looking for. Otherwise I'm personally not as familiar with achieving outlines in Blender, but tmk the are some tutorials and documentation on the topic that are only a Google search away.

[quaint jasper]

With the pose library it's actually super fun to do !

Model looks great

[fallow osprey]

Ahh thanks, didn't recognise it ^_^

[fallow osprey]

Coolio, I was curious if it was in blender but I suppose not. Will definitely check out Poiyomi tho

[prisma berry]

anyone know a place where i can get a free sample of a guy fawkes mask?

even a shitty one

[spiral sigil]

pepe?

the frog?

im assuming vrchat doesnt recognize it as a hate symbol anymore since it used to be a rule in this discord server againt it but its been removed for a year or so

u can blame me if you get your avatar removed but im nearly completely certain its allowed

worse case it gets taken down

U could email vrchat

for an official answer

email is at bottom of #faq

if they do say its not allowed I will vehemoneldtttt protest !

yeah that was probably when they were airing on the side of it being a hate symbol

olden days

dunno I wasnt on this game before 2019

well I mean its kinda like if enough people use it as one then it becomes one

I dont think anyone does anymore afaik so

hmm what should I try to model for my first project in months

months of failure and terrible discipline

no

they are currently the bane of my existence

hmm I haven't done any furniture yet

yeah same

I also plan to slowly go through the entire documentation and note down what I havent realised was a thing yet or feel is important to write down

which to be honest is something I should of done from the very start

aa what do you call this thing specifically that you can push up and down to adjust the height

reverse google img searching isnt getting me it

[cinder cradle]

looks kinda like director's stool

[spiral sigil]

yeah

that actually would be cool to make too

I might just go for that since I can find plenty of reference w that

[quick thunder]

I was outright blocked by VRPill for using a Pepe model at some point

🗿

never banned tho

[spiral sigil]

spicyyyy

[fallow osprey]

Hey, does anyone know of a way to convert a mesh into a png texture? Cuz I like this but it's naturally a bit too heavy on performance 😄

[azure rain]

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

[fallow osprey]

I assume I could apply this to a "flat" version of the undersuit that still catches the light the same way?

Cuz I also want to make fishnet with the same method, but that requires some kind of transparency in the texture

[azure rain]

yes you would bake it to a low poly version of it

[fallow osprey]

Ok sounds good

Thank you

[spiral sigil]

oo I wonder if its viable to make cloth textures in a similar manner

[spiral sigil]

i gave up on it

i dont well procedural textures know enough and i dont have motivation

the style i really like anyway is always the handpainted stuff and i cant draw for the life of me but ill try again tonight

[tough plover]

yes, that's basically what I do

you can either sculpt the cloth details in a mesh and bake it, or do it in Substance

[manic spade]

its not awful i dont think? have to blur cuz stupid bot

didnt bother with patch topology on abs or anything because i cant imagine those will ever need to deform any way but laterally

dunno if there are any topology experts around but im not sure if i should insert tris at the elbow joints for better bends

[tough plover]

could probably reduce poly count and bake detail into a normal map

[manic spade]

if i reduce any more the fingers will be too low res

for my liking

[tough plover]

apart from that the topology looks quite good

[manic spade]

i have a high poly sculpt already

[tough plover]

then only reduce it for the body

and not the fingers

[manic spade]

the vertical edge loops on the torso connect to the fingers

unless you mean just get rid of some of the horizontal ones

[tough plover]

still WIP but you can see how low you can actually go

horizontal ones are the main ones ye

[manic spade]

i know you can go lower

[tough plover]

and around the arms for example

[manic spade]

yeah i cant decide how long to make the polys on the arms

i guess they dont need to deform much apart from at the joints

[tough plover]

precisely

you only need extra geometry at the bends

[manic spade]

the joints you have will bend weirdly though

[tough plover]

everywhere else barely needs anything

they won't

[manic spade]

A is a better deform than B

[manic spade]

maybe it doesnt matter as much at higher polycounts

[tough plover]

you can see that extra face here too

[manic spade]

A is a tri in that case

collapsible

i've gone kind of high on the limbs and torso only because im not sure how much you need for twists in fbt

to avoid ugly artifacts

like if they are disproportionately long i think they wont twist nicely

[tough plover]

I can safely say that you can definitely get away with reducing the amount of loops and it will still deform fine

[manic spade]

mm alright

maybe im overestimating how much you need for it to look good in vr

[tough plover]

100%

almost feels like you're trying to make it look good for movies lol

[manic spade]

its around 16k tris

i might just be pedantic

[manic spade]

most of the ones on gumroad are like 40-50k tris from what ive seen

[tough plover]

for?

entire avatars or just bodies

[manic spade]

bodies

[tough plover]

too much lol

[manic spade]

https://programblossom.gumroad.com/l/blossommale?recommended_by=search&_ga=2.73403474.1586357946.1654317498-857952931.1653719274&_gl=1*1blhg1b*_ga*ODU3OTUyOTMxLjE2NTM3MTkyNzQ.*_ga_6LJN6D94N6*MTY1NDMxNzUwNC4zLjEuMTY1NDMxNzUyMS4w

same with the nipnip one or whatever the dudes name is

that ones even higher i think

[tough plover]

the entire base model that I use including the head is 28k

and that works really well

so I definitely think that 40k for just the body is too much

[manic spade]

my big pet peeve is that fingers never look quite right

they always deform weirdly

i feel like i've only ever used a few models where they looked really nice

[tough plover]

yea, it's fine if you add extra loops in key places on the fingers to make them bend better, that's fine

but what's not fine is taking that same density of geometry and having that across the entire model

not that I'm saying that's what you're doing, but I've seen shit very close to that lol

[manic spade]

its a shame most of the ones on gumroad dont provide wireframes

[prisma berry]

anyone get a shitty v mask object for blender they can give?

[bright steppe]

Am I spending way too long to make a boring arcade game that I'm too nostalgic for? maybe

but it's an excuse to learn Substance Painter and get better with Udon

[bright steppe]

Hehe yus I'll update progress ~ I plan to make it fully functional

[tight quartz]

Hi! How do I cut this part out so I just move this part? I forgot how to do it. '_>'

I accidentally ctrl + d the left part and I dont want them to be linked.

[cinder cradle]

right click and split

but have face selected not edges

[cinder cradle]

u need to be in edit mode

[tight quartz]

Still moves it

Sure yeah then I can but

[cinder cradle]

then u can do separate and selection

dont have them both selected tho

[tight quartz]

Ah yea there we go, seperate. Ty <3

I forgot how to do it.

[cinder cradle]

tip for u is to use P in keyboard

it's shortcut

[spiral sigil]

o thats cool do u only bake the normals and then texture paint the color or u also bake the colors

[midnight valve]

thoughts on this hair?

im a bit unhappy with the front personally but dont really know how to improve it

[midnight valve]

hmmm

[devout scroll]

add a nose

that'll give the face a more.. facy look

[prisma berry]

would anyone be willing to help me with my avatar? im trying to assign something as the head but im really new and dont understand how

[prisma berry]

would anyone help me with a vertex group problem?

[devout scroll]

select the mesh in edit mode, select thr head vertex group and press assign

[fallow osprey]

Ok so I'm UV unwrapping atm and I'm wondering if the higher resolution at the seam on top of the chest could cause problems. I'm not sure how to even it out for the breasts

So far I've noticed UV stretching is most prominent in the armpit, the breasts and the heels of the feet

Palms too

[quaint jasper]

if you want consistent texture quality, yeah texel density is important

[fallow osprey]

I'm thinking the problem areas will mostly be smooth textured so it wouldn't be too much of an issue

[quaint jasper]

if there's no detail, then UVs won't matter at all

[calm sandal]

Done. Now to figure out texture painting

[manic spade]

decent bake?

wireframe

around 15k tris

[manic spade]

it isnt usually necessary to make a seam for breasts in the first place

[spare kiln]

nice!

lookin good

[manic spade]

tyy

[manic spade]

that ur sculpt? sick

[spiral sigil]

itslike king cobra dinosoar

[quaint jasper]

knee area looks a bit odd, but bake is great !

[manic spade]

aaaaaaaa

i stared at bodybuilder knees

[quaint jasper]

Fair enough, that might be the norm for them !

[manic spade]

because i had people telling me the knees were too soft looking compared to the torso

[spiral sigil]

too much muscle imo

around the knees of that guy it looks like normal leg but the thigh muscles above are like geez wow extra

idk just doesnt feel rlly proportionate

[quaint jasper]

In that case your sculpt is closer to that image than of a normal person

[spiral sigil]

consider that GOOD

[manic spade]

im gonna die

[thorn gulch]

yea i sculpted it from a sphere

[manic spade]

zbrush?

[thorn gulch]

indeed

[mortal zodiac]

wip of my oc

[manic spade]

no

its my own

what does panda's look like

?

no its my own sculpt

thanks

maybee

[exotic obsidian]

IDK if I'll ever rig this, but here's a little axolotl boi

[spiral sigil]

it can def be just a plushie for a world

[lone blaze]

Currently working on a v3 of my avatar

Here’s what my current one looks like

[nova roost]

i was working on this months ago and i never finishde it

[spare kiln]

i love it! please finish it!

the hair is awesome

[spiral sigil]

kinda reminds me of raiden shogun

[nova roost]

yeah it is raiden

ill probably finish it eventually

tyty

[spiral sigil]

oh perfect then

[safe schooner]

so im just learning blender, and ummmm.... i kinda fricked up and how to made donut grey again instead of transparent (idk if its the right channel to ask)

[glad steeple]

or press z and select from the four options

[safe schooner]

tysm!!!!

[spiral sigil]

or alt+z if ur cool

wait so yknow how there are raster images and vector images

and in 3d your models are polygons

what if you could have like mathmatical equations perfectly representing 3d objects without polygons

im probably misunderstanding something integeral on why thats not already a thing

[tough plover]

...that's what CAD is all about

it's called Nurbs modeling

[spiral sigil]

fr?

dang

[spiral sigil]

in like fusion 360 or inventor?

[tough plover]

yes

[spiral sigil]

I think im learning both in my future drafting classes for school

lookin

forward

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEe57tKwUIA so cool

[fallow osprey]

How can I convert a 3D fishnet mesh into a texture?

[spiral sigil]

.

[spiral sigil]

maybe if you bake a texture between the fishnet and the body, put that into photoshop and only keep the fishnet part of the image and erase the rest, and THEN put that edited image on top of your regular body texture and that should do it

my messGes might be sending multiple times there is lightning making my wifi go off and on

[quaint jasper]

100% a transparency texture thing, no one uses a mesh

[fallow osprey]

That's what I was thinking because I have the additional mesh above the legs which I can bake the fishnet onto, but I'm not sure how you would do it or whether it could even have alpha values attached to it in a PNG file

Alternatively I have a square crisscross texture but I was worried about it stretching awkwardly when I already have something that fits decently around the legs

@spiral sigil

[fallow osprey]

Yeah, that's why I ask how to convert it into something more performant ^_^

Although I think I have seen some avatars use 3D fishnets >_>

[lapis smelt]

theres a bumpy line in the center of the face, mirror modif btw, any ways to fix it?

[spiral sigil]

idk just try to experiment with baking

If ur okay with giving me the assets I could try messing around with baking but I def can't guarantee anything lol

[harsh saddle]

Try changing the merge distance on the modifier.

[feral sable]

i've never had this issue but from what i do know i think i'd try just blowing it up a bit to uneven everything, and then smooth it out using the smooth brush and see if that does the trick
and when you smooth it, try to be light on the sides so that it dosen't point upwards again
if that dosen't work i'd honestly just turn mirror off, smooth it, and then get back to work

[spiral sigil]

I am trying to do weight painting for the first time however I am having an issue

when i go into weight painting mode I can't see my mesh at all

[spiral sigil]

it just appears as orange lines

[restive mirage]

damn that looks nice asf

[turbid vale]

ok here we are

can't say it helped

yes

oh yeah you're right

maybe using realistic lightings in poiyomi wasn't the best idea

thanks a lot though

yep, it's definitely not a problem anymore, just need to make it look good now

thanks

[unborn acorn]

sculpted some veins

[toxic knoll]

Do you think this is enough topology to try sculpting eyes and other features?

[quaint jasper]

You'll move the topology around a lot, more likely will create what you need over time

[toxic knoll]

cool cool. I always get nervous about sculpting because it usually comes out really messy and disproportionate.

But it's not bad right now, especially without a reference.

[harsh saddle]

Looks good. You can handle a fair amount of the finer detail with a normal map.

[devout scroll]

nothing wrong with bad topology at the beginning since you can just remesh

get the big shapes done first then sculpt the detail later

[toxic knoll]

I'll try it out. Just trying to figure out what large shapes I wanna use

[harsh saddle]

Yeah, I do all my initial work of building out the form using the sculpt mode and dynotopo and then just retopologize on top of that, much easier way to experiment with the form but you basically have to make the model twice.

[toxic knoll]

very cool

[toxic knoll]

update. Hasn't fallen apart yet.

[sharp flare]

aye I came looking for a hero

I'm making a self-project (meaning im not gonna post it anywhere)

and for it I need a 3D Model of Thomas The Engine

anywhere I can find one? since I have no clue how to use blender

Thanks in advance! :>

[heady apex]

Cgt,turbo squid etc

[harsh saddle]

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/thomas-the-tank-engine-ba19706bffac40118d2c861d6bdbfb32

[sharp flare]

hey, trying to work on my personal project and as a part of it I'm making a cave that looks about that :
https://youtu.be/cccqm4o3vXU?t=665

I have a prefab of the flowers with a point light and I started scattering them across the room which ended up causing HUGE fps drop (from like 200 to ~14)
I have disabled shadows for the point light and the performance did improve but apparently the big amount of meshes causes performance issues as well, I know this because I've tried baking the meshes and it improved the performance back to normal, but the issue with that is that the baked mashes don't have the point lights I created.

Any thoughts?

thanks a bunch !~

[harsh saddle]

Can't you add the point light back in? Do they not receive light anymore?

[fallow osprey]

Btw how can I send you assets? Still learning blender ^_^

[pallid cradle]

ok i know edge loops are optimal... but no one said anything about edge roller coasters...

[pale grail]

i have 9 tails from 1 model and i have the model i want to parent it to, when i try to parent the tails to the hip bone they have a greyed out text when i click parent. why is that

[quaint jasper]

I don't know if you can do that operation on multiple bones at once, does it work with a single bone ?

[pale grail]

yeee i thing i figured somethin out ikll try it later

[devout scroll]

You can if you hold alt when parenting

So ctrl+p with hips selected last, hold alt and click keep offset

Holding alt let's you apply whatever setting change to all selected in more than this case

I would make a root bone for the tails tho if you want them to be dynamic. You shouldn't put physbone scripts onto humanoid bones

@pale grail

[spiral sigil]

wait how do i add a collision to a thing in blender so it has one when igo to unity

[trail python]

you do that in unity

[spiral sigil]

yes but like the Torus thing in Blender doesn't have a Collider in Unity that only goes roundthe ring

[trail python]

uh mesh collider?

[spiral sigil]

nah that doesn't work

it says ill fall through it apparently

[devout scroll]

what are you trying to do

you can do mesh colliders only for worlds

[spiral sigil]

thanks pum pum

[thin shadow]

In the unity fbx import settings > generate colliders

[pale grail]

@devout scroll thx

[spiral sigil]

Could someone make me a Johnny sins(Face) 3D model

[north ocean]

not sure if this is the right place for asking for help but some of my vertexs arent showing dots on them and i have a hard time trying to select them

[fallow osprey]

Is the face a separate object from the rest of the head?

[north ocean]

nope not that i know

[obtuse snow]

does anyone know how to dissolve vertices without removing the face as well, because im trying to model a hand, but when i dissolve the vertices, it leaves a hole where a face once was.

[north ocean]

the face is part of the body but i dunno why its causing this

[spare kiln]

go to object mode

click the head, shift-click the body,

ctrl-J

then press tab to see if its fixed

[north ocean]

oh no, the head is attached to the body its not seperate from it

[spare kiln]

can i get a ss of the viewport when u have the mesh selected in object mode>

[north ocean]

ss?

[spare kiln]

screenshot

[spare kiln]

can u try object mode

[north ocean]

heres a video i took aswell

in object mode

[spare kiln]

thats rlly odd

try exporting the mesh and reimporting

into ur scene

[north ocean]

that seemed to have fixed it

[spare kiln]

awesome!!

[north ocean]

thenk ^^

[spare kiln]

i love this

[gray geyser]

Thanks! I’m just adding some finishing touches to him

[cinder cradle]

move your origin to 3d cursor

[gray geyser]

Oh wait lol

Just noticed

[spare kiln]

awesome! well done with the texture

[gray geyser]

Thanks!

[bitter crest]

is there anyone here who would be open to texture and rig a model for me

[harsh saddle]

There are lots of avatar creators out there but you can easily spend a few hundred dollars or more to commission them. I don't know of any automatic texture options but Mixamo does a decent job with rigging if we're talking a basic humanoid.

[bitter crest]

idk if you could call it humanoid

plus its just simple colours anyway

for this guy

[harsh saddle]

If you've already got UVs, you could probably just get away with assigning basic colors and baking them in Cycles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYvgFWEiNp8

[bitter crest]

oh ok

thx

[quaint jasper]

Looks like a fun model !

[steady zealot]

a Karambit I made today

560 Tris

[devout scroll]

depends, if you don't have enough verts for a face after you dissolve the face just gets deleted

so either slide them across the edge (press g twice) to another vert then merge by distance, or use the knife tool (K) or join different verts (J) to create the edges you want to have in the end and then dissolve the verts that you don't need

[spare kiln]

Yooo karambit

Sick

[potent comet]

How does my topology look so far? This is my first 3d modeling project and I'm not sure how the limbs are supposed to stretch so im just doing what feels right. Anyone have any critiques?

[quaint jasper]

Are you using any visual reference in blender at all ?

That topology needs to be smoothed and spaced evenly in most places

[potent comet]

yeah i am

[quaint jasper]

front and side view ?

[potent comet]

yeah

[quaint jasper]

What does it look like ?

[quaint jasper]

Ah so no topology reference, I'd highly suggest you find one for a woman body, that way you'll get a clearer idea as to what you need to aim for

[potent comet]

like something like this?

[quaint jasper]

Sure, you can also find tons of reference by looking at the images of bases being sold on Artstation to get an idea https://www.artstation.com/marketplace/game-dev/resources?section=trending&q=base female topology

[potent comet]

sweet, thanks!

[nova roost]

wip

this is my wife she is very pretty

[fallow rain]

moment when you spend a huge amount of time on a model only for every attempt at rigging it to not work and you're stuck with a t-posing cat

[harsh saddle]

Have you tried Mixamo? It's usually pretty good but it does sometimes struggle if you stray too far from humanoid.

[winged kiln]

first time using blender and making an avi from scratch. Quick question, am i able to change the Levels Viewport to 2? Or do vrc models require it to stay at 1? i just dont want to screw it up and have it get all funky on me in game

[prisma berry]

this a good hand?

[harsh saddle]

In your subdivision modifier? I think it depends on your export settings whether modifiers get applied or not but you can see what your polygon count is in the statistics window. Quest avatars need to be below 15k polygons, I believe, to not be very poor and thus blocked from display by default. You can get away with a lot more on PC but it's still good to be conscious of other players' performance so I'd shoot for south of 50k at most.

[potent comet]

I'm not a professional by any means but I would try to add more vertices around the joints for a better skeleton. If you plan on adding any gestures, the knuckles (and maybe the wrists?) might create some weird stretching in the polys.

Once again though I don't really know my way around modeling/blender enough to give a definite reply, I'm kind of curious though if anyone more experienced knows.

I personally would try to add a skeleton and use weight painting to test out how it would bend at the joints and adjust as needed.

[prisma berry]

what im working on

[sage moat]

Hii, can anyone help me to convert my PC Avatar into a Quest Avatar?

I'm new to it and I don't understand much about Unity yet D:!

[upper canyon]

Sippbox has a very good tutorial

[upper canyon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MkgXcidxg4&ab_channel=Sippbox

Got it!

Though if you don't understand blender all that well, I'd recommend you to get comfortable with the tools it has before trying to convert an avatar, it can be anything from a nice stroll to a marathon in flames.

[sage moat]

thank you so much mate

[thin lily]

ok, so when i weight paint in edit mode, when I'm working on, say, a lower arm bone, do I highlight and assign the hand and fingers too, or will they follow along naturally?

like, highlight and assign the hand and fingers with the arm to that lower arm bone

same with highlighting fingers when weight painting the hand

[harsh saddle]

No, you want to weight the polygons of the area you want the bone to effect to the bone you want to do the effecting. The hand bone will follow the arm bone if it's connected in the rig but if the hand is weighted to the arm bone, then those polygons are going to move when you're doing arm motions that have nothing to do with the hand. I recommend downloading a ready player me avatar and using its weight as reference.

[prisma berry]

can someone help me rig the bones on my avatar?

[harsh saddle]

Have you tried Mixamo?

[prisma berry]

i mean i have an anvatar of many parts and i dont know how do add the bones to each part

[honest scroll]

Is there any way to scale each UV island while keeping the location of the center of each island where it is?

I need to make each island infinitely small for a shader gimmick i am working on but google isnt helping me

[trail python]

i think individual origins miiight be what you're looking for?

[honest scroll]

Going to give this a try!

❤️

That worked!

Thank you so much!!

😄

[trail python]

yesss nice

love your stuff, happy to help lol

[honest scroll]

I'm making a pin art prefab and it needed to be scaled like that for it to work :3

❤️

😄

[trail python]

awe omg, i loved those things as a kid

thatll be cool in vr

[bitter crest]

Hey is there anyone here who would be free to texture and rig a really simple model

Like

Three colours simple

And the model is allready made

[spiral sigil]

Dm me if you can show me how to use blender for from scratch avatar making

[honest scroll]

https://gyazo.com/0dba101e0466522730b0b9e0cf01e8a8 :3

[trail python]

ayo lets gooo, thats awesome as hell man

[red glade]

First time doing sculpting and this style of texturing, still needs a good bit finesse but we gettin there

Im not too happy bout the hair just yet tho, it feels a bit off. might redo them

[thin lily]

ok, i thought so. thank you!

[heady apex]

Some modeling logo types I did today :)

[quaint jasper]

Raw SVG or another workflow ?

[heady apex]

Top yes, bottom no

[honest scroll]

Quick little promotional render I did 😄

[quaint jasper]

Never put your face on this, you don't know what you friends did with it

[heady apex]

Fr 💀

[pseudo storm]

This is a personal project, for now is only a sculpt.

[quaint jasper]

Copying my comment over: Raise the back of the jaw up until we can't see it from the front

[pseudo storm]

Maybe I actually need to lower the front of the jaw.

[true solstice]

Dont know what to do next

I making some thing off google but different like it was blue but now green

And the crown was teal blue

And now red

[quaint jasper]

I think the front jaw is good

[fallow osprey]

Quick question... is it possible to apply different alpha, specular and roughness values to different parts of a texture map?

[pseudo storm]

I am always wondering the same, one of those things I hate from Unity.

[spiral sigil]

:0

[prisma berry]

hey im having a problem why is the ub using the other side of the object

any idea why?

[cerulean wigeon]

Can any1 tell me how to re-topo a model with a skeletal structure inside?

[harsh saddle]

You can decimate a rigged model without too much issue depending on how heavily you're decimating but a full retopology is generally going to require re-rigging. You could do a nearest vertex transfer of the weight paint from the original to the retopologized model but it will likely require some manual clean up

[cerulean wigeon]

i tried decimating it, but (i dont know why) blender just kind of stops at a certain value

[harsh saddle]

Do you perhaps have any flipped normals?

[cerulean wigeon]

also if i have to re-rig it, then i wont do the retopology, thanks for the info

[prisma berry]

i just made a new material

[cerulean wigeon]

i ported this model from SFM

[prisma berry]

it fixed

[cerulean wigeon]

could you show me how to do that?

[harsh saddle]

It won't let you decimate below a certain point? That's weird. But yeah, weighting is all based on vertex order so if you're completely changing the structure of the mesh, the rig won't know what to do with it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR_Vke__voU

[prisma berry]

can someone help me rig the bones? i dont understand how to do it, ive seen some videos

i made an avatar of multiple layers

[lapis smelt]

Late reply, I used the merge distance, smoothed it and it's still the same.

[harsh saddle]

Is that really necessary? There isn't much reason to keep your model as a bunch of separate objects unless you intend to hide certain parts with animations. You can still select and export a bunch of separate models as one FBX, it's just going to lower your performance rating if you don't actually need them to be separate.

[prisma berry]

i mean i made multiple parts and some have mirror

like the head

its a mirror

or the pants

but the jacket is not

or the arms

[harsh saddle]

Can't you just apply the modifier?

Mirrored objects aren't really new objects if you're using a modifier. Depending on the export, it's either going to apply it as one object or ignore it and you're just going to have one side of the model.

[prisma berry]

im really new to blender i just made the model and wanted to put the bones so i can port it to unity

the thing is

when i join the objects

the mirror is taken off

[harsh saddle]

Because you need to apply the modifier before joining.

[prisma berry]

oh let me see that

i dont see thoes opetions

im using the latest version of unity

sorry blender

[harsh saddle]

Did you click the arrow?

[prisma berry]

oh

and i just hit apply?

[harsh saddle]

Yeah

You can automatically rig a humanoid model with Mixamo. It will generally have some issues but then you need to correct them with weight painting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fICQmBEt4Y

[prisma berry]

i dont have bones so i was making em

and i was trying to see how to rig em to the model

and i see that when i join some the uv edit breakes

[harsh saddle]

You can make your own rig but you're going to need to learn a lot to do it better than Mixamo. Weights are what binds a model to a rig and Mixamo will create those for you so you just need to correct any issues.

[prisma berry]

so maximo will make the bones for me?

also this is how this should look

[harsh saddle]

If your textures are getting messed up when joining, it means your UVs have different names, make sure they all have the same name.

[prisma berry]

but when i join

i use materials for the head and the mask

[harsh saddle]

Mixmo will make the bones, make the vertex group, and assign the model to the rig, basically everything. Then you just have to fix anything it gets wrong with the weight paints, see the video above for that.

Check the UV Map names, I'll bet they're different.

[prisma berry]

maximo is an addon? i have an addon called cats

[harsh saddle]

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=Mixamo

[prisma berry]

also i dont see the maps i see the materials and the images i pasted on them

[harsh saddle]

I wonder if it would have something to do with having the wrong tab selected? 🤔

[prisma berry]

wait so is maximo an addon or just a page for animations

sorry mixamo

[uncut imp]

There are also some example setup vrchat avatar armatures, which you can just line up with your model and then apply the armature to it with automatic weights and fix up any issues the weights have after that

[prisma berry]

thats what someone told me to do once when i asked how they did the bones rig

[harsh saddle]

I think you're going to have to do more clean up with automatic weights that with Mixamo's rigging tools but it's an option.

[prisma berry]

i still dont get if its an addon

[harsh saddle]

You're going to have to make some effort to understand things for yourself if you want to make any progress. I have faith in you.

[uncut imp]

https://youtu.be/-T_AWWc1How

[prisma berry]

oh so i upload my avatar in there and it rigs it

do the arms need to be higher?

is this good?

its magic this is black magic man this is amazing

now i put it in blender?

oh nop that aint good

[steady zealot]

Oh neat! I made one of these using vertex offset with a height map from a depth camera once!

[sleek osprey]

Hello!
I'm currently trying to add clothing onto a base.
My question is do the bones for the clothing and base need to match up 100% ?
I provided two screen shots to show what i mean ^w^

I'm extremely new to Blender and would love some help.

This dress will be used as a toggle btw
If anyone has tutorials for setting up clothing in Blender to fit a base to then be used as a toggle over in Unity pleaseee slide them my way.

[harsh saddle]

You have to weight the clothes separately from the rest of the body, see the link a bit above this for how to weight paint . You want it to be as close as possible to the bones that are going to be controlling it but what you have looks fine. Usually, you'll want to delete the mesh below the clothing to reduce the polygon count and eliminate clipping but that might not be an option if the body underneath will be visible sometimes.

[devout scroll]

The bones don't have to match exactly because it's the weights (vertex groups) that decide what a bone can move what. So if the head bone were to move the feet mesh for example you'd have the bone move a little but the mesh move a lot because they're far away

So you want to match it closely but it doesn't have to be perfect

But bone names need to match

[upper canyon]

Anyone ever had export issues? have a couple and I may need some help, It's a pretty big issue so I'd like to get into contact with someone, my blender skills are lacking today lol

[bitter crest]

bro can someone dm me abt texturing this model i need someone to do it for me

[harsh saddle]

At this point, you probably could have taught yourself how to do it rather tham get someone to do it for you but you can keep trying

[quaint jasper]

Look up any video on UV mapping

Also smooth shade your model

[bitter crest]

ive been trying to figure it our for hours

🗿

[quaint jasper]

Hours of watching tutorials ? Damn

[bitter crest]

ive watched literally every tutorial

[quaint jasper]

And you retained no information ?

https://ask.vrchat.com/c/commissions/avatar-commissions/35

[bitter crest]

nope

[quaint jasper]

Sounds like you need to learn how to do that first, or find another type of tutorial that suits you, otherwise I'm unsure how you'll ever get better at blender

[prisma berry]

hows this hand?

[proven zodiac]

Looks good 👍

[prisma berry]

my first hand with a reference

[tough plover]

if you're doing subdiv with that, you're going to end up with a lot of polys

I strongly recommend getting rid of some loops, mainly the ones around the wrist

[prisma berry]

i do have a subddivide already

thats the one you see

[granite rock]

Ive been working on this avatar for a few hours and ive lost all my progress , if its okay can I have some advice / on a call on how to fix it , im missing some of the Script for some of the things . but if you can add me or drop a Dm would be greatful

[silent cargo]

hi! im having problems with bakes in 3.2 is there a way to fix this?

[devout scroll]

try increasing padding

or paint over it yourself

blender bakes are not ideal

[silent cargo]

it was the denoiser y makes that error

[devout scroll]

oh, good to know 👍

[spare apex]

image from this video tutorial: || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JURLsyBLgbU ||

hey!! so, i joined to ask a question. i keep seeing avatars with these gorgeous 2d eyes, but i have no idea how they're made! does anybody have a tutorial or some tips on how these eyes work/how to make them?
i've used eyes are that are just spheres before and i don't like the look. i draw a lot myself and would much prefer to make some bangin' 2d eyes.
they're somewhat set inside the head so they follow you around, and i assume that the pupil itself is just a flat texture. but how do they work with the bones? how do you get it to move just the pupil and not the entire eye? i have so many questions, but i figured this would be the best place to ask!

[raven cloud]

anyone got any tutorials on makin vrc avatars from scratch?

[harsh saddle]

There are many but this is the one that VRChat officially recommends so it's probably a good place to start. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRUlfYGZBxVeEAVXkaG1uydyzFZAMOuMd

Another good option is downloading a ReadyPlayerMe avatar and just uploading that so you can understand the Unity/VRChat side of things before jumping down the rabbit hole of creating your own models and rigs https://readyplayer.me/

[red glade]

nearly finished the hair, after that ill get to making the texture for the skull

[molten zephyr]

idk if anyone's DMed you with an answer or you were able to dig it up, but the entire white area is just a concave hole inside the head, while the pupil is the only thing rigged to the eye bone!

i know rainhet's tutorial series does the concave eye, but it's buried in making the rest of the model haha

[granite rock]

im trying to get my avatar that is chibi , Im trying the set the eye level for it and trying to upload to To VC chat but It seems to be have a problem

[harsh saddle]

What problem? You should be able to set the eye height to whatever you want.

[prisma berry]

would someone be willing to help me weight paint a model?

im following videos but i cant seem to understand the weight paint part

[harsh saddle]

It's pretty simple in theory, you select the vertex group that corresponds to the bone and you paint on your model what area you want that bone to effect with red being maximum power and blue being none. I recommend downloading a ReadyPlayerMe avatar to see how they do their weights. Rigging with Mixamo will give you weights that should be mostly correct, you'll likely just need to clean up the head and fingers.

[spare apex]

Someone did dm me! But this does help a lot- thank you!!!

[spiral sigil]

does anyone know why MMD textures doesn't give me the option to add anything?

[solar fossil]

mmd texture , ikes

[spiral sigil]

what do you mean

[solar fossil]

why not use the normal diffuse

[spiral sigil]

im following a tutorial, are u going to answer my question or just be condescending

[solar fossil]

i was just asking if you have a reason to use over the normal blender material, but ok

[spiral sigil]

bc the tutorial told me to and im still learning blender, i dont want to deviate from what theyre telling me to do

until i understand why im doing it

[solar fossil]

well, if you cant get it to work than check out the surface tab, there should be base color, click on the yellow dot and set it to image texture from the drop down, should be able to put the texture in there

[spiral sigil]

thank you, sorry im just frustrated because there's so many god damn options in this program and it's confusing as hell when something doesn't work as intended lol. sorry i called u condescending

[devout scroll]

you're probably watching a really old tutorial

back when people didn't really know

[solar fossil]

dont know why cats still adds the mmd tabs, they seem pretty useless

[devout scroll]

they get hidden from the side bar now at least

and yeah, it's annoying when it keeps creating mmd materials

have to manually setup emissive or principled shader

[spiral sigil]

actually it's from january lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NdPHW4_SOg

[spiral sigil]

any idea how to get the texture from her face to wrap around to the back of her head?

[spiral sigil]

how do i move this bitches eyes around so she's not crosseyed lmao

this one is even worse lol

[spiral sigil]

I know this is probably a stupid question but whats the diffrence between textures and materials?

[harsh saddle]

A texture is a 2D image that corresponds to points on the UV map and allows for things like colors, normals, roughness, etc. A material is a combination of textures (or maps) along with a shader which tells the game engines how all of those elements should be rendered. So textures + shader = material.

[spiral sigil]

ah so materials are just shaded textures? thank you

[harsh saddle]

Pretty much, shaders can do all sorts of stuff that is beyond me but in a very general sense.

[tough plover]

materials are essentially presets for how an object should be rendered. it contains info about its physical properties like color, roughness, metallic, and other stuff. you specify a shader on a material, which is the actual code that runs on the GPU that draws the object on the screen

[oak hatch]

MFW making VR parts in CAD.
I'm tired of Blendo, perfect booleans LETS GOOO.

(this is an eye. Yes it's weird. Trust me, it only gets more cursed from here.)

[quaint jasper]

What makes blender booleans unreliable ?

[oak hatch]

My lack of skill with them.

Lmao.

[quaint jasper]

[oak hatch]

I'm used to solid modelling, in CAD. Might as well use my strengths

[quaint jasper]

Ever looked into HardOps ?

[oak hatch]

No? Wozzat

[quaint jasper]

addon specifically for hard surface modelling

makes the process of handling modifiers and booleans much more intuitive and easy

I think it's by far the most popular blender addon

[oak hatch]

Hm. That would be interesting.

I'll look into it.

More tools more fun.

[quaint jasper]

It would not be the same without my 13 addons I rely on for every model I make

[oak hatch]

Ideally, I want my main body to eventually be mostly mechanically correct.

So using a combination of tools would be legit.

[quaint jasper]

[oak hatch]

Hopefully OielBot 2.0 will be able to get resin printed as an articulated figurine. That would be...hella cool

[quaint jasper]

Yeah I'm envious of people 3D printing their models, looks cool as fuck !

[oak hatch]

Same, tbh.

[spiral sigil]

how do I seperate my shoe texture map from my face texture map?

[rustic pier]

Does anyone know when I merged the head and the body together the head suddently like flys up?

[ashen stag]

Make sure to apply transforms (ctrl+a) before joining stuff

[rustic pier]

Oo okay! Thanks <3

It still won't work lol </3

[harsh saddle]

Can you just select the head in edit mode and move it down?

[quaint jasper]

You shouldn't have to if the transforms are applied

[harsh saddle]

Yeah, it is weird that happens as applying transforms should treat the location/scale/rotation as being 0,0,0, or 1,1,1 in the case of scale but if that isn't working for whatever reason, then maybe moving the points in edit mode. will work better.

[exotic obsidian]

Be careful who you call ugly in middle school 😳

[quaint jasper]

What a glow-up

[acoustic parrot]

hey guys im trying to bring a model into vrchat but im having an issue, whenever i move the bones in edit mode, the mesh is rotated/moved in object mode

any ideas how to just rotate/move bones without affecting the mesh?

[harsh saddle]

Unrig the mesh? Generally you don't want to be editing the rig after it's bound to the mesh.

[acoustic parrot]

in my projects, moving bones doesnt move the mesh

but in this random blender project i found, it does

no idea why or what you mean by unrig, unless you mean delete weights

or, idk

unless theres a way to bind a mesh to a bone outside of weights like a constraint

[harsh saddle]

I would just delete the rig component entirely and start over if the rig isn't built properly.

[acoustic parrot]

its just the eyes not being vertical

[harsh saddle]

You might be able to get away with deleting the eye bones, deleting those vertex groups and adding in your own bones and weights.

[acoustic parrot]

that would probably work

the bones are attached to the eyes in some way other than weights

and i have no idea how

Black magic and sorcery

[harsh saddle]

I don't know what it could be other than weights or constraints. In either case, it should show up in the modifiers.

[dusk glade]

i forgot to mark seems and sharps.... kill me.

[granite rock]

I’m having abit of trouble , the character is clipping in to the floor , I’m using uniting but what is causing this , and how can I fix it ? Kinda stuck

[thin shadow]

in blender 3.0, i can't find the option to turn the bones viewport display to wireframe octahedral while in object mode

this is after using the auto fix function in cats

[thin shadow]

doesn't work. feels like the setting could be somewhere else.

oh ok found it, it's in object properties, not armature properties

ok now i need to find out how to set it default to always view as wire, not texture

[harsh saddle]

You mean the model? I don't know if there's a way to change the default on that, you just have to go in and change it.

Object viewport display is in the object tab, armature display is in the armature tab

[thin shadow]

The purpose of defaulting it is to not have me change it on every avatar I import. So it will just to automate some repetitive steps.

So in conclusion:
-viewing bone on object mode-
i want it to be wire view -> object properties > viewport display display as wire

-viewing bone on bone edit and pose mode-
i want it to be solid view -> already in blender default setting

however, there's another problem though. The mat combiner is non functional. I guess i have to stay on 2.93.x for a little longer. I just want to experiment on 3.1.x

[harsh saddle]

The object properties viewport display doesn't affect bones, at least not in my version of Blender, maybe you've got something I don't. Solid and textured views are for models, not armatures.

[gritty veldt]

Anyone know what could cause these strange shadows in the mesh? This is also visible in blender but I dunno how to fix it

[quaint jasper]

These are your normals, select the faces in edit mode and do Alt + N > Set normals from faces

[gritty veldt]

Oh cool! Thanks alot!

[thin shadow]

because the object properties changes depending on which object I select

[harsh saddle]

Ah, I guess that is how it functions when they're octahedrons. I thought you wanted an actual wire, not a wireframe of an octahedron.

This

vs this

If you're using an actual wire in the armature visibility settings, it doesn't look any different so I was confused.

[thin shadow]

Terminology can be confusing

[ashen forge]

Working on a buddy

[worldly pewter]

can someone help put a avatar in vrchat? please i just want to put this one avatar and thats it

[surreal yoke]

my cookie run kingdom house

[spiral sigil]

can anyone recommend some good making original objects tutorials on blender and some tips on textures? I have been mostly messing around with the sculpt tool but I want to try and make an original accessories for one of my avatars.

[sterile oracle]

OK, got a pc now where should I start with making an avatar from scratch?