avatar-general

[tidal falcon]

Just made a new one

[jaunty verge]

It'll load in, then you can drag it into the scene

[tidal falcon]

adding the sdk

[jaunty verge]

Ok, do that

[tidal falcon]

then drag and drop the fbx or the whole file texture etc.

[jaunty verge]

Send me a pic of the folder that the fbx is contained in

[tidal falcon]

Sent

[loud cape]

you don't add colliders to the hair

you add colliders in the head for example, and add it to the list of colliders for each dynamic bone in the hair

you need to tell each dynamic bone component which colliders they need to check for

[jaunty verge]

Oh, shit I thought I needed to add the colliders to the bones themselves too

[loud cape]

no

[jaunty verge]

Ok so if I created a collider on my back and head, and added that to the list of colliders for each bone, they should just interact normally?

[loud cape]

yes

amount of collision checks go up fast though, so be careful that you don't have too many dynamic bone transforms

[jaunty verge]

I had to do a few more than I wanted cause there was a bit of hair going through my hairclip, so I had to separate it out, but thank god I don't have to add more colliders. My hair should be done then, except it doesn't follow gravity

And adjusting gravity just made it like, fly off downward the more I turned my head. Not pleasently

Is there a simple way to make the gravity work (assuming I have experience with Unity and script parameters)

[jaunty verge]

I went with -0.001 gravity on y and -0.007 force on y

[wheat drum]

Tris to quads in blender

[loud cape]

you mean on a model? you can do that in blender, using the Decimate tools. CATS blender plugin gives you a few other tools to help with that

[neon finch]

can someone talk for a second... i need help about uploading avatars

[tulip panther]

Did vrchat recently break int values saving in 3.0 when you change avatars or join a new world?
bools and float values save, but not int values, like having 8 different clothing items in a menu
even a color hue float change on a mesh's material saves, but the mesh I toggle on will disable if i change avatars / rejoin and i gotta re-enable it

[gleaming epoch]

i can't resize or move the pants that came with the model in unity.Even after unpcaking the prefab. Any solution without blender?

[final torrent]

guys there is any good tutorial how to made prefab? i dont know how to do this but i need to send one to my friend. when i start made prefab all part just took pink color

my shaders didnt export

[gleaming epoch]

Make sure to send him the textures. He need to put them on again. But i think i saw a better solution. Can't remember

[remote echo]

#avatar-search-old if you're looking for an existing avatar that's in a public world
#community-servers-old VRCTraders for commissions.
Either way be prepared to pay a good amount for a custom avatar.

@sudden swift

[tulip cloud]

whos very known for there avis?

[remote echo]

🤔

[ocean zinc]

so i bought my first avatar and im trying to put it together, but im new at doing so. i was wondering if anyone could maybe help me step by step in creating my avatar, animating, an texture editing if possible

[solemn tundra]

that's an incredibly arduous and long winded process that is usually accompanied by many hours of lecture

or many hours of youtube :P

[opal cloud]

Does anyone have a good invisibility shader?

[solemn tundra]

even standard shader can do invisibility

cutout mode, swap a texture in that has everything on 0 alpha

or animate the cutout limit slider that many shaders have in addition to their cutout mode

[zenith bone]

How would I create a weapon for a avatar? Like a gun

[vale spruce]

anyone know the fix for this

oh i can post images here

im getting a red error i can figure out Assets\VRCSDK\Dependencies\VRchat\Scripts\Validation\WorldValidation.cs(12,33): error The type or namespace 'Lazy<>' could not be found.

thats the error im getting

[delicate kite]

Trying to fix my avatar as well, bought the Protoroo kit to practice and make one for my own. All the textures, emissions, etc. are done, the issue I have is when I try to upload it to vrchat.

The avatar is comprised of two meshes, body and armor. When I upload it to the game, the avatar appears as it should in the rotating menu "preview". However, the avatar I end up playing as has armor whitewashed and the emissions reset to default values. Other emissions are unaffected, and the main body mesh uploads just fine.

[simple quest]

Hey everyone!
Does anyone has a video or a link for an explanation how to setup a gesture on a trigger with the "pressure-thingy"(weight?)
I've been googling for a bit and I can't find something that specifically talk about this; I'd like to setup something where the more you press the trigger the more the blend-shape value goes up.

[solemn tundra]

i can give you some pointers on how to do it

make an animation that is mapping that blendshape from beginning to end (for example frame 1 = blend shape at 0, frame 100 = blend shape at 100)

then put the animation into an FX controller layer somewhere, whereever you had planned to put it.
now, in that animation slot in the controller, cross "Normalized Time" and put the GestureWeight as the parameter

https://i.imgur.com/VBdf69T.png

now the blend shape will be as strongly as the gesture is pressed

i think this also comes down to how hard the trigger is pressed

[tidal falcon]

Hey can someone help me install my avatar, Im so confused.

[cloud apex]

Whatcha need help with

[tidal falcon]

trying to do a quest release, I have it all imported. My avatars arms are behind the back also when I upload

Kinda confused about that

[cloud apex]

So the avatar came with arms behind its back?

[tidal falcon]

Yes

and not quest ready only pc.

I thought I was doing it right 😢

[cloud apex]

f..

[tidal falcon]

Lmao

yeah

[sick oar]

how do i get both the green and blue symbols so a avatar works for both pc and quest?

[sick oar]

make 2 differernt unity projects one android(quest) avatar the other windows avatar and upload the same model using same avatar blueprint?

[sick oar]

is that how its done?

[plucky galleon]

I have a question its for my friend. Can you export avatars that are in your favourites into a world so he has more space to get more avatars?

[gleaming epoch]

No. Not really. You need the Avatar ID to add more avatars to a world. But you need to ask the creator. Any other form of getting is illegal and could lead to bans. Just imagine someone creates a awesome avatar. Working on it for months and then someone steals it even if its in private

[plucky galleon]

Okay

[robust orchid]

Anyone know alot about the cats blender pluigin

I don't know how to make it select another model in the same collection as an existing one

it just keeps selecting the main model

[jaunty verge]

Those poi effects people like to dance with, the floating balls that orbit your hands. Are those a shader or 3D models, can it be a 3D model, and is it Unity scripted or set up in the modeling program?

[loud cape]

they are typically just a sphere with a shader like poiyomi's to do some cool effects. you add it in unity, and use a Spring joint to attach it to the hand

[jaunty verge]

Can you switch which hand has an active spring joint? Like attach to both hands, then have it only activate on the closer one

[solemn tundra]

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

[brave walrus]

Phew, there is no tutorial about how to make eyes on clothing match those in the head for eyetracking

[jaunty verge]

Eyes on clothing? I'm intrigued

[brave walrus]

Well, I am planning on making a character with a demonic eyeball attached to his tie. But beforehand I want to test how to do it on another model where the eyes are on moon shaped earrings with faces.

So I put bones and pupils into the earrings but now I don't know how to make them follow the eyetracking. Only idea I can think of myself would be to weight-paint the pupils onto the bones and then constrain the earring bones to follow the eyetracked bones.

[jaunty verge]

I'd say that's the best method. Another, possibly insane way, are there slider joints in Unity?

Because (assuming the main eyes always point to a converging point) you could attach an invisible object to the main actual eyes by two sliders joints, which would place it at their focal point, and then attach the extraneous eyes to the focal point by a slider joint, and assuming the slider can be set to lock rotation parallel to it, you'd then have the eyes always looking at the same focal point

Its completely insane and probably would fail though

[solemn tundra]

just use a rotation constraint

then one eye rotates the same as the other

[jaunty verge]

Only thing would be the eyes not focusing on the same spot though, which I'd be annoyed with

Oh, wait. The eyetracking is in a script, right

@brave walrus If the eyetracking is in an editable Unity script (which I believe it is) I might be able to edit a custom version for you with more eyeball assignables

[brave walrus]

I'd first try it out normally but if it doesn't work I'd like to take you up on that offer

[solemn tundra]

uhh i think that might not work in vrchat

because if you edit scripts, vrchat will not use your version of that script anyway

[jaunty verge]

Really? Damn

Fair though

Since that's a massive security flaw

[solemn tundra]

yeah.

they only use their whitelisted version of a script

and throw your parameters into it

[shrewd yarrow]

Is it possible to test Radial menu buttons in Unity?

[solemn tundra]

using Lyuma's Avatar Emulator, yes

[shrewd yarrow]

Thanks! Will check it out.

@solemn tundra Works great, thanks!

Small bug that it multiplies all blendshapes on my hoddie by 3, so waist goes from 100 to 300 (which normally never should exceed 100) Will have to look into that...

[jaunty verge]

If I want to do an animation of a single hand so I can still move the rest of my body (snapping my fingers in this case) that's triggered by gestures (such as doing a point gesture to load the finger snap pose and then a finger guns gesture to play the animation and sound) do I make the animation itself in Unity, or do I do it somewhere in Blender and then just modify the gesture animation controller in Unity?

[solemn tundra]

it's easier to make these animations in blender but you can try to make them in unity. humanoid animations are not pleasant to do though in unity

[jaunty verge]

I just wasn't sure which, I definitely prefer blender. Am I able to do custom gesture animations like that? Given what I saw of the animation controller I think I am

And am I able to apply an animated gesture to one hand and not have it try to animate my whole body at the same time

[solemn tundra]

yes you are

it will only animate the keys you have animated

so if in blender youe keys are only on the hand bones, they will not influence anything else

[jaunty verge]

Oh the bones carry the keyframes to act on, rather than the keyframes carrying the bones they affect?

Ok cool

So I can create a named animation thing, like a shape key, and then export that to Unity or extract from the model in Unity to use in the respective animation controller?

Every tutorial I find has them animating it in Unity and I'm just like. But why, if Blender is available, would you use Unity to animate

[amber burrow]

for some reason when i publish for android it loads for a few seconds then does nothing any suggewstions?

[jaunty verge]

Check your error console in Unity

[amber burrow]

woops srry wrong chanell

ye it says prefab dont exist

it also says malformed avatar

[jaunty verge]

I don't know how to fix those, but that's why

[amber burrow]

ok

[topaz sun]

For textures does it matter if you have a mix of pngs and tgas?

[loud cape]

should not no

[jaunty verge]

@solemn tundra Do you have to use shape keys to do animations? Or are you able to create an actual traditional animation for the hand in Blender and export that to Unity, using keyframes and the timeline

[solemn tundra]

yes

to the second

i would use NLAs for this, this way youc an actually export multiple animations to unity

[jaunty verge]

How. Cause I'm not figuring it out, and every tutorial is useless for it

[solemn tundra]

so what i usually do is

[jaunty verge]

Can I DM you about creating the animation, and then the exporting? I'm guessing I can figure out the part of actually adding to the animation. And I do know the principles of animation, and 3D animation. I just have no fucking idea how to use blender lol

[solemn tundra]

i edit an animation first, basically you can use the record button, go to a certain time

[jaunty verge]

Ok

[solemn tundra]

edit your movement, etc

then when that animation is done, go to the DOPE SHEET, then in the dope sheet go to the ACTION EDITOR

now name your animation in the middle and hit Stash

now in the "nonlinear animation" window

the animation will be there, stacked down

[jaunty verge]

Wait, where is the record button

[solemn tundra]

https://i.imgur.com/7voNj6D.png

there it is

[eternal saffron]

I was told I need dynamic bones. How do I get them

[solemn tundra]

the round one

[jaunty verge]

Blue is recording?

[solemn tundra]

yep

[jaunty verge]

Ok

[solemn tundra]

@eternal saffron https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/animation/dynamic-bone-16743?

[cobalt charm]

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/animation/dynamic-bone-16743

[jaunty verge]

So I dragged the frame to 80, I figure that'll be enough space

[solemn tundra]

well, animate something, drag the frame, animate something etc

in pose mode

[eternal saffron]

So is there not a free dynamic bones?

[solemn tundra]

no, people have always used the paid package in vrchat

i think vrchat might make their own implementation of dynamic bones at some point

but uh theres nothing definitive, this is just me thinking

dont take as gospel haha

[jaunty verge]

Pose mode?

[cobalt charm]

dynamic bones lite

[solemn tundra]

pose mode is for posing bones

[cobalt charm]

for quest

Kap

[solemn tundra]

i kinda hope there will be a vrchat dynamic bones that has cross avatar interaction

and all that shizz

properly networked

[cobalt charm]

i hate dbones

[solemn tundra]

@jaunty verge pose mode is on the armature object

[cobalt charm]

i just use dreadriths script to make them 100000x more usable

[solemn tundra]

top left (object mode) -> "pose mode"

[jaunty verge]

I don't have anything called that

[solemn tundra]

i thought you liek to do things in blender...

[jaunty verge]

When I click the Pose in the heirarchy of objects, I do have a thing come up in the bottom right that has a grid of squares, one has a dot in the top left corner, there's a button Pose Position and Rest Position

I like to animate using a proper program for it lol

[solemn tundra]

no, click the armature

then the top left mode list will have a pose mode

[jaunty verge]

Oh I had the fucking armature hidden from when I was doing visemes before

That's why

[solemn tundra]

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

in pose mode you can manipulate bones

[jaunty verge]

I got pose mode now, I just had to unhide the armature

[solemn tundra]

and when the record button is on, it will record those manipulations

onto the selected frame

[jaunty verge]

Ok, I got it now. Click record so its blue, then go over to where I want my next keyframe, manipulate the bones I want manipulated for that frame, go to next keyframe, manipulate, etc

[solemn tundra]

yeah.

[jaunty verge]

Ok. And then the animation will save for those bones alone

[solemn tundra]

of course

then you can go into the button on the left of the animation window

open the the "dope sheet"

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

and action editor, there you can give the animation a name in the middle

then use the "Stash" button to save the animation (and empty the timeline)

at this point you can make a new animation if you want

[jaunty verge]

Will that save it within the blend file, to extract in Unity?

[solemn tundra]

yes

when you want to export the character with the stashed animations, you need to cross "Bake Animation" in the export window

the FBX will then contain those/that animation/s

[jaunty verge]

I'm using the blend file directly, not an fbx

[solemn tundra]

it should contain the animations nontheless i think

[jaunty verge]

Cool

[solemn tundra]

the animations will be listed inside the blend file in unity. i personally would take them out of there, makes it easier to handle. do that by clicking the animation in the unity project window and CTRL+D to duplicate it out

[jaunty verge]

How do I delete a keyframe from the non-linear animation window. I can't figure out the button or option

[solemn tundra]

the NLA window doesnt allow deleting keyframes at all

[jaunty verge]

Is it marker?

Oh ok

[solemn tundra]

the timeline or action window: you just click the keyframe and hit DEL

[jaunty verge]

Why do you prefer the NLA over the dope sheet?

[solemn tundra]

they are different things

the NLA lists many animations

the dope sheet is to edit ONE animation

[jaunty verge]

Ah ok

[solemn tundra]

basically the timeline is a tool to record a basic animation

the dope sheetis to do fine edits on the animation

[jaunty verge]

So since I'm just doing one, I'll just edit on the dope sheet

Since its been a while since I animated

[solemn tundra]

the dope sheet you can edit the curves, how the animation plays out

like, a movement from a to b can play out linearly or with a curve, like getting faster during the movement

well NLA is a way to save an animation. the dope sheet can save TO the NLA using the stash button

otherwise you can only have one animation timeline

but if you have multiple animations you want to use, there are two ways to do it: one is making the animations one after another and then uhh i think there is a method to cut them up in unity, to be able to use them separately

or use the NLA sheet to have multiple named animations listed separately... i think that method is just easier to use

https://i.imgur.com/rrg6sbE.png

my NLA looks like this

[jaunty verge]

Ok cool

Is this how I can create custom crouch animations too?

Looks like it from your sheet, nvm lol

How do I reset the model from what I've done in the animator?

Oh, that's rest position in the Object Data Properties

Hmmmm. How do I reset the pose position to match the rest position lol

[loud cape]

Pose > Clear > Reset unkeyed

[jaunty verge]

Had to select the bones first but there we go

[solemn tundra]

oh yes what they said

i wasnt looking at the chat for a few minutes haha

[jaunty verge]

What framerate will the animation run at in VRChat? Or can I set that?

[solemn tundra]

yeah you can

[jaunty verge]

Ok cool

[solemn tundra]

i animated all of mine at 60

[jaunty verge]

Yea, I'll just do a 60 frames

[solemn tundra]

thats the default setting in unity too

[jaunty verge]

So, my plan was that I would be able to pause the finger snap between the pose of readying the fingers, and the animation of the snap. Am I able to, with the FX controller, have it only run the second set of frames after a certain gesture? Cause I saw that I can trigger an animation with one gesture, and create branching choices for what animation to play next based off further gestures

Or should I create one animation for readying the fingers, the other for the snap

I'd rather use one animation if its not too hard to make it just play specific frames

[solemn tundra]

i think it's not easy to just play specific frames

also i never actually tried that

might just me being ignorant about it

[simple sedge]

i have a question

oh wait wrong hcannel

[jaunty verge]

Yea I can't see any control of the animation that's used in the Unity editor

You can offset the start, but it doesn't appear you can offset the end

[solemn tundra]

yeah

[jaunty verge]

Ok. That should be all I need to make this now

Damnit. Of course something else I can't figure out that comes up immediately

How do I just create a keyframe of what I currently have in position

[solemn tundra]

uh i

[jaunty verge]

Nvm actually, since I'll want the hand to animate from whatever position my hand is in

[solemn tundra]

just hit i

select the bones you want before

[jaunty verge]

Yea. It doesn't work lol. Unless I have channels already I think

If I press i while in the 3D window, it does. Pressing i in the timeline doesn't help though without having channels

[sharp heart]

can someone dm me a name of a world that has a big mirror because i have a big avatar and i need to know how the animations work

[jaunty verge]

Homebox or TheBox

Both are big and empty with a massive mirror

[sharp heart]

thx man

[solemn tundra]

In the 3d view is where you press it tho

[jaunty verge]

Well jolly good then lol

[jaunty verge]

@solemn tundra https://i.imgur.com/0dXVpPK.png This is what I have now. FingersReady contains the animation for getting into position, FingersSnap contains the animation for snapping the fingers

[solemn tundra]

okay, so does it work?

[jaunty verge]

Still figuring out how to actually add it. Thought I knew how, turns out not lol

[native yoke]

Anyone know how to mirror bones from one side to the other

[solemn tundra]

well is it not listed in unity?

[jaunty verge]

Oh no its in there

And Unity plays it

Both play separately

So I know I can stack them

[solemn tundra]

click them and hit CTRL+D to get them out of the container

[jaunty verge]

Already done lol

[solemn tundra]

it makes handling them easier

ic

[jaunty verge]

They're in my Anims folder, and I created an animation controller

Just trying to figure out what I'm supposed to set that up as

[solemn tundra]

open the animations in unity btw, look if the animations also manipulate the blendshapes

that seems to keep happening to me

for some reason

and delete those from the animation (in unity)

when those are in there is will mess up your lipsync lol

[jaunty verge]

The mouth doesn't appear to be moving

[solemn tundra]

yep

go into those animations that you made

and in the unity "Animation" window, scroll down to see if it manipulates the blendshapes

delete those rows

[jaunty verge]

Yea, its got a keyframe for everything

I think

[solemn tundra]

it's pretty easy to notice the blendshape manipulation, it says something like skinned mesh renderer and then all the blendshape names

[jaunty verge]

https://i.imgur.com/kC9CCgE.png Is this what you mean?

[solemn tundra]

no, those are bones

scroll all the way down

[jaunty verge]

https://i.imgur.com/1xSHUxV.png

This?

[solemn tundra]

yeaah those with skinned mesh renderer

always get rid of them

i dont know why it creates them

[jaunty verge]

This is just deleting from the animation file, which I can copy a new fresh one out of the blend file if I muck it up, right?

[solemn tundra]

also your animation seems to have a keyframe on every bone, you dont intend to do that right?

yep

[jaunty verge]

All the bones that I was animating I do

Which was every finger bone in the left hand

[solemn tundra]

yeah but look through, it also does spine, upper chest and whatever, did you create a keyframe for those accidentally?

maybe by A (select all) bones and i (to insert) a keyframe on those?

[jaunty verge]

Do you mean the keyframe on the beginning and end?

[solemn tundra]

yep

[jaunty verge]

I didn't intend those, no

[solemn tundra]

look in blender too if they exist, because they will freze the rest of your body probably

unless you use an avatar mask

either not animate these parts or use an avatar mask on the animation controller layer

[jaunty verge]

Ah, damnit

Cause I hid all the bones by selecting them

And so I think they stayed selected

Maybe

[solemn tundra]

maybe the hiding itself caused the keyframe

though i dont think that would happen

well, either get rid of this keyframe (you can open an NLA again in the dope sheet, there you can easily edit it)

[jaunty verge]

Does seem they all have a keyframe yea

Oh I can delete the keyframes from Unity

Although it also deletes the bones rows it seems

[solemn tundra]

yes you can

[jaunty verge]

Is it ok that the rows aren't there?

[solemn tundra]

you can also select all the bones except the left hand bones and DEL them

[jaunty verge]

I'll do that

[solemn tundra]

in the unity animation row list

that would be an easy-ish fix

[jaunty verge]

https://i.imgur.com/bl8Y7dz.png Looks like this now

All good?

[native yoke]

hey can someone rate this for me

[solemn tundra]

yep, those are only the hand bones

[jaunty verge]

Cool

[solemn tundra]

though theres still a "frame 0" that has everything keye

this might make the animation look like it jitters for a split second

you should try it out before fixing it though

[jaunty verge]

Those ones should be there, on this animation actually

Need to fix that on the first one though

[solemn tundra]

alright, thats good

[native yoke]

ill post the pic in #avatar-rigging can someone rate it for me

[jaunty verge]

@solemn tundra https://i.imgur.com/baMt0ee.png Is this what controls it beginning the animation controller? Gesture 0 being a specific gesture? (cause I know at some point in this I refer to the gestures by numbers)

[solemn tundra]

yes

https://docs.vrchat.com/docs/animator-parameters#gestureleft-and-gestureright-values

heres the values

[jaunty verge]

Lol I was already opening it

[solemn tundra]

your snipping thing btw, i made something similar to it, a gun

[jaunty verge]

?

Oh, snapping

[solemn tundra]

when you do fingergun and THEN thumbsup (like pulling your pointer finger in)

it shoots

but only if these two are in succession

[jaunty verge]

Gonna do thumbs up too actually lol

[solemn tundra]

i can give you a screenshot on how mine looks

[jaunty verge]

What is the victory gesture?

It says 4 but I can't think of which looks like something you'd call victory

[solemn tundra]

uhh victory is just middle and pointer out

rest in

[jaunty verge]

Oh, just touching the face buttons

[solemn tundra]

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

this is how my gun shooter looks

[jaunty verge]

Given that this is just a snap, I'm just going for a single line lol

https://i.imgur.com/7FWN9ph.png

[solemn tundra]

idle -> fingergun is on "GestureLeft equals 6",
fingergun -> idle is "GestureLeft notEquals 6"
fingergun -> pew thumbsup is "GestureLeft equals 7"
pew thumbsup -> idle is "GestureLeft notEquals 7"

[jaunty verge]

Although I want the hand to hold after the snap, if I'm still on the position

[solemn tundra]

these are the four arrows on the fingergun side

my setup also stays in that position

[jaunty verge]

Will it just stay if I don't move out of the position?

[solemn tundra]

yep

with the setup i have

yours is honestly kinda flawed on this

[jaunty verge]

Lol

[solemn tundra]

honestly do it like i did, just do the right side of it

[jaunty verge]

What is idle?

[solemn tundra]

idle -> fingergun -> pew thumbsup

this is just a non animation

it's "before" it goes into the snap prepare

because an animation layer needs a default state, this is a state that simply does nothing and waits

[jaunty verge]

I have an animation called IdleAnim, with nothing in it. Is that what that is?

[solemn tundra]

no, it's just an empty state

[jaunty verge]

Oh ok

[solemn tundra]

right click the animator and you can create an empty state

also i have a state going from fingergun back to idle, this is when i cancel midway btw

like, you go into the preparation to snap, but then you dont do it and instead go back

[jaunty verge]

So entry goes to FingersReady, goes to FingersSnap, goes to Idle

[solemn tundra]

yeah.

no, entry goes to idle

then fingersready, then fingerssnap, then idle

[jaunty verge]

How do I remove or replace the arrows

[solemn tundra]

the golden one?

the white ones, click the arrow and say DEL

[jaunty verge]

The golden one yea

[solemn tundra]

the golden one, you need to right click a state and set it as default state

[jaunty verge]

Ok

[solemn tundra]

also believe me, just construct it like i did and you will be very happy

[jaunty verge]

Ah, make transition to go between

[solemn tundra]

FingersReady -> idle is "GestureLeft notEquals 6"
FingersReady-> FingerSnap is "GestureLeft equals 7"
pew FingerSnap -> idle is "GestureLeft notEquals 7"```

do these four transitions

i renamed it above, to your state names

[jaunty verge]

So that way if I also just do anything else, it'll just break out of the entire animation controller

[solemn tundra]

it will go back to idle

if you bail on your snap half way

so you wont get stuck in your "ready" pose

[jaunty verge]

Oh I'm not thinking about the logic of the flow, ok

[solemn tundra]

huh?

[jaunty verge]

Don't worry

Ok, so I think I have it right. I removed the fade between animations that it was doing, and so its Entry -> Idle by 3, Idle -> Ready by 3, Ready -> Snap by 6, Snap -> by not6

Oh and let me add Ready -> Idle by not6

[solemn tundra]

entry -> idle doesnt need anythign at all

it can just go to idle without anything

[jaunty verge]

Isn't that the number I put under parameters?

Oh ok

So leave the GestureLeft as 0 up there

[solemn tundra]

huh?

[jaunty verge]

https://i.imgur.com/U3wF5Qv.png

[solemn tundra]

oh those, dont change them, it doesnt do anything anyway

those get set by the current gesture that you're doing at the moment ingame

this is the input value

[jaunty verge]

I also did this https://i.imgur.com/uf6D8sP.png

Because I didn't want it trying to blend animations

[solemn tundra]

just set the exit time to 0 on these

idle has no animation anyway

[jaunty verge]

Oh I see, that's what that is

[solemn tundra]

exit time to 0 means "cancel the animation immediately, go to the next"

[jaunty verge]

So it'll wait like, 1 second after 'exit'

What is Fixed Duration?

[solemn tundra]

the duration of the transition is fixed (in seconds) rather than a percentage of the animation time

[jaunty verge]

Ok

Ok, finger ready transitions to finger snap on fingergun, finger snap transitions to idle on not fingergun, and this will allow it to hold position after the snap until I move my hand?

[solemn tundra]

yep, thats what it is

[jaunty verge]

Now the last thing, how do I add a sound

Lol

[solemn tundra]

well, you will probably have to clone this entire thing

and do it on the FX layer too

instead of an animation that does the movements, you will have to animate a sound source to on

[jaunty verge]

This is on the FX layer actually

[solemn tundra]

well that's just wrong

[jaunty verge]

I think

[solemn tundra]

haha

[jaunty verge]

Its done in FX.controller

[solemn tundra]

no, on what layer it is depends on which layer you put the controller into

(in the avatar descriptor)

you should rename that thing to action controller

because you want this to be on the action layer

[jaunty verge]

Is FX controller meant to be for sounds or particles or etc?

[solemn tundra]

yep

action is meant for animating the body

on action

[jaunty verge]

Ah ok

[solemn tundra]

so you need to create another controller (you can just duplicate your existing one)

keep the structure the same

[jaunty verge]

https://i.imgur.com/0Ujmakc.png

Hmmm

[solemn tundra]

oh you have that one

you will have to reset the avatar descriptor

[jaunty verge]

I have no idea what I have lol

[solemn tundra]

https://i.imgur.com/S6OFqE3.png

[jaunty verge]

Just Reset to Default for the Playable Layers?

[solemn tundra]

because you have two FX

you can try that

but i think you will still have two FX

you should not have two FX layers :P

it's a bug

[jaunty verge]

Base, Additive, Gesture, Action, FX

[solemn tundra]

oh good

maybe the newer one fixed it now

[jaunty verge]

So, what we just did, on Action? Not Gesture?

[solemn tundra]

that you dont need to reset the entire controller

okay, so basically, gesture is the base gestures, they will do the right hand movements for controllers that arent finger tracking

if you put something there, you would have to replicate those too

[jaunty verge]

Ah ok

[solemn tundra]

action basically takes precedence over gestures, this is why i would opt for that

[jaunty verge]

So I want to set Gesture to the default AvatarV3HandsLayer

[solemn tundra]

dont set it at all

just leave it on "Default Gesture"

[jaunty verge]

Oh ok

Ok, so what was it about the sound

[solemn tundra]

clone your controller

then call the new one FX (or action, then edit the FX one lol)

[jaunty verge]

I did FXController cause I'm a rebel

[solemn tundra]

anyway, in the one now called FX, go into the same page where you just set up the shizz with the finger pose for snapping

go into the states and remove the animation attached to them.
now you will need to make a new animation (but inside unity!) that enables a sound source that you have in your hierarchy

[jaunty verge]

Ok, so new animation file named FingersSnap

[solemn tundra]

FingersSnapSound or something so you can differentiate it later

put it into that slot in the new fx controller, you can put it in there empty

into the FingerSnap state, into its animation slot

[jaunty verge]

Yea

[solemn tundra]

also meanwhile, do create the sound source in the hierarchy somewhere

[jaunty verge]

Good point

[solemn tundra]

create an empty somewhere, then in that empty, add component, VRC Spatial Audio Source

[jaunty verge]

Why an empty?

[solemn tundra]

so you can add the VRC audio source

[jaunty verge]

Any reason I can't just add it to the finger itself?

[solemn tundra]

yeah because you would need to deactivate the entire finger lol

[jaunty verge]

Ok fine lol

[solemn tundra]

unless you just deactivate the audio source

that should work too

just do it like that, it's fine

[jaunty verge]

Ok

[solemn tundra]

anyway when you have it created, go into unity play mode

[jaunty verge]

Lemme get a finger snap sound

[solemn tundra]

uh okay

[jaunty verge]

I don't have one yet lol

[solemn tundra]

i just meant you could already create the animation and all

and look for it later

[jaunty verge]

Fair point, done though

I'm in play mode

[solemn tundra]

then when you're in play mode
then pull the FX controller into the Controller slot in your character's animator

https://i.imgur.com/6oAn8ey.png

this slot

your character should immediately go into the so called motorcycle pose (lmao)

[jaunty verge]

Why does this get done in play mode?

[solemn tundra]

because otherwise you will get your character stuck into motorcycle pose in design mode

[jaunty verge]

Also of note, her hand was in the FingerReady state

Or maybe the beginning of FingerAction, since they're the same

Not sure

[solemn tundra]

i always animate in play mode because exiting play mode will still save the animations but your posing will return back to t-pose

like nothing bad happened :P

[jaunty verge]

Her finger is still in that state

[solemn tundra]

does this come from blender?

i had that before too, you need to take the checkbox off off the NLAS, then reset (clear) the pose

or else blender will keep exporting it in that pose

and also export again without animation baking

it's somewhat annoying, i know

[neon finch]

hi anyone knows how to use blender for development

[jaunty verge]

So now I've gotta delete all that stuff again

[solemn tundra]

no you dont have to delete anything

[jaunty verge]

Oh cool

Btw we should stop doing this in public chat

[solemn tundra]

yeah.. i think weve been way too active

[frigid dagger]

hello, looking for some good aot titan avatars? have no fear! i have found a server that includes all of the titans that you probably have, but bigger! trust me, when i mean big, i mean BIG, if you want a size comparison, if you know the armin colosal avatar, the eren titan is the same size of that! you can only imagine how big the colosal titan is, the world is called “AttackOn Titan: Shiganshina District" and includes all the folowing titans "Attack Titan, Beast Titan, Armored Titan, A regular titan that can summon a human to eat, smiling titan, female titan, cart titan, and a human sized war hammer. are you a pc player also? have no fear! there are also pc avatars im sure, although, as a quest player, i have no ideas what these avatars look like so you will have to find out your self. When you load in the map, walk down the path untill you see a white church, go inside the bulding into the front gate, after that you should see a row of seats and a table in the front, go behind the table and you should see a blue block, click on it and it will show the avatars, enjoy!

Name of the game: “AttackOn Titan: Shiganshina District"

[agile solar]

👀

[sudden swift]

Do you guys think that this kind of hair will be possible to make in vroid?

Wait I can’t add pics

if anyone has time can you search up taehun sung and let me know

[frigid dagger]

i got you

[slim sand]

Any good resources for animations we can use to replace the default idle/sit/run/etc? Do most people build them on their own or is there a good repository for this stuff out there?

[solemn tundra]

ive used some of this pack here before https://www.reddit.com/r/VRchat/comments/87fhwz/meta_big_animation_pack_363_files/

[valid shadow]

Just ask what exactly you need help with

[valid shadow]

AskAmber has some on their discord iirc

[brave walrus]

Which version of Unity do you have to use again?

[tawdry geyser]

anyone know of any resources to learn about advanced avatar animations like this?
https://youtu.be/T111C_3AAo0?t=442

[solemn tundra]

this is just a particle system

the skull too, probably a particle system with a mesh emitter

[brave walrus]

Wait, hold up, I don't NEED all four eye bones?!

Do I just delete the two small ones or like!?!?

[slim sand]

Nope, just two, one for each. CATS uses the horizontal bones when calibrating a position for the vertical ones.

You can setup the bones yourself tbh in the future, they're just rotators.

[hallow comet]

dang all these smartwordsmake my headhurt

[brave walrus]

So I can just delete the vertical ones?

[tawdry geyser]

Oh I see, thank you! Do you know how to get some of the other effects throughout the video, like the glitching/blurring etc?

[solemn tundra]

Glitching and blurring is probably filtering shaders

Like you could have a shader thats on a sphere around you that blurs everything visible through it

[slim sand]

@brave walrus no, delete the horizontal ones. Your vertical eye bones define the "up" direction and the game rotates them to create the eye rotation.

[vale spruce]

dose anyone have a avatar 3.0 sdk that dosent error out. i downloaded the new one from vrchat site and it keeps giveing me errors

[slim sand]

The horizontal ones are just a guide used by CATS. There's some distance parameter in the menu, you'll see it.

What errors @vale spruce ?

[brave walrus]

Oh wait, you mean delete the horizontal ones and then do the eye tracking in Unity, not Cats?

[vale spruce]

sec ill reimport and send you a ss in dm's

[slim sand]

@brave walrus These are my character's head and eye bones for example. I positioned them myself for a non-standard configuration. As you can see there is no horizontal bone.

I can't post images here so I DM'd you a picture.

When configuring eye tracking using CATS, the plugin uses the horizontal bones to position the vertical bones (the actual eye bones) behind the eyes, if desired.

That's what the "Eye Movement Range" parameter does.

But if you want to set them up manually, you just place two vertical bones and that's it. Done.

Imho CATS makes it look like complicated magic but it's literally just two vertical bones.

@valid shadow Thanks I found them on their website ^^

[tawdry geyser]

Nice thank you will try this out!

[brave walrus]

Sooooo, is it normal that your avatar's mouth is moving by itself even when you are not talking?

[loud cape]

could be background noise

[brave walrus]

Oh yeah, good point

[loud cape]

you could try using nvidia broadcast to filter it out

if you have an nvidia gpu that is

set your mic as the input in nvidia broadcast, and set nvidia broadcast for the input in vrchat

[brave walrus]

VrChat settings show a light mic activity

Also Broadcast can't support my Nvidia GPU

[loud cape]

you can use nvidia broadcast on non rtx gpu's

just need to do a little workaround

look it up

[brave walrus]

I think you mean RTX voice not broadcast

[loud cape]

no, I meant Nvidia broadcast.

RTX voice was mostly discontinued and merged into nvidia broadcast

as far as I know

[brave walrus]

Because eerything I can find out there about Broadcast and GTX is people asking if it owrks with noone replying

[loud cape]

in that case, you could try installing rtx voice using the multitude of guides

[brave walrus]

Already did that haha

[neat wraith]

why is the vrchat expression parameters component restricted to 128 bits of memory? is there any practical reason we can't have more than this?

[loud cape]

bandwidth? also, different parameter types use different amounts of memory

floats and ints use 8 bits

bools take 1

if you want 128 toggles you can

[neat wraith]

bandwidth? for 128 bits? a single avatar texture is more than a thousand times that size

my problem is not the amount of toggles but rather the ability to organize them

i.e. put all shirts on the same int, all pants on the same int, all earrings on the same int, all glasses on the same int, etc. I simply run out of ints.

having to control individual on/off toggles for every single item is uncomfortable for the end user ingame, it's much better if one item toggles off when another toggles on if they're on the same "slot" (i.e. take off shirtA automatically if you switch to shirtB)

[merry swan]

You can reach 1000's of toggles with 128, int+bool for exsample

[neat wraith]

yes but like I said, my problem is not the amount of toggles, but rather the ability to organize them logically

also, it's not actually that many, if I also have other things

i.e. radials for hue shifts

[loud cape]

textures are downloaded once, synced parameters are constantly being sent over the network

[neat wraith]

since each of those also costs 8

[neat wraith]

oh, interesting

isn't that still minuscule compared to tracking and audio data being sent over the network though?

[loud cape]

you do have a point there with the audio

[low seal]

Is it possible to have multiple meshes to respond to the visemes or is the only way to merge the mesh?

I have a mask that has to listen to blendshapes through visemes, wondering if it's possible to leave it toggleable or only fake toggle with dissolve/transparency shader.

[loud cape]

you can join the meshes, and hide the mask by having it weighed to its own bone, which you can then scale down

[low seal]

i guess that sorta hides it with shaders disabled

but its still hacky

good idea though

[loud cape]

you can also use the Viseme parameter from the SDK

you could set up a layer in your FX controller to control the blendshapes on the mask using it

tedious though

[low seal]

how does that work exactly

[loud cape]

you would create an animation for each blendshape on the mask

and then set up a new layer with 15 transitions going to 15 different states, each containing an animation for each viseme

[low seal]

So is there a way to have stuff switch by which viseme? there's a param for it?

I never knew that

[loud cape]

yes

there is a list of parameters available to you using the SDK https://docs.vrchat.com/docs/animator-parameters

[low seal]

So to use this to I have to add "Viseme" parameter in my expression parameters? or can I just use the Viseme if I add it to my fx layer

under the same name

my understanding is just fx layer right?

[loud cape]

yes, just the FX layer

[low seal]

Ah thank you thank you.

[midnight tinsel]

vrchat thinks this avatar im uploading is 2,000,000,000 polys

its like 1000s

optimized for quest

[burnt raven]

in the model import settings check enable mesh read/write

[midnight tinsel]

in unity?

where do i find that

[midnight tinsel]

i found it

[maiden helm]

Where was it? Because my model from ffxiv was also saying it was over 2 billion even though I applied the fix in blender for 70k triangles.

[solar mulch]

does anyone have any cursed avatars

[fierce bolt]

Can I transfer an old avatar 2 project to avatar 3 in the latest applicable unity version?

website suggests no but I just want to be sure

[loud cape]

yes, just make a new project, import SDK3, and import the assets you need from the old project

[fierce bolt]

ok, thanks!

[vast jetty]

I want more facial expressions, but it seems that I don't know how the animator works
For instance, dragging both right- and left-hand animation clips into the same window (rather than keep them seperated) seems to break it
And the right-hand overwrites the left-hand naturally, but I'm not sure why exactly
Could I make a combined one below? Like "both hands thumbs up" and "both hands peace" and have that overwrite the previous one without errors?
I've also tried chaining the states, but if I have more than one in a row (a check for left hand peace after right hand peace, for instance) the animation loops between the two repeatedly

[remote echo]

If you're trying to have facial expression triggered with left and right hand gestures, just add an additional condition.

Less of a headache to keep the left hand layer and right hand layer separate.

[strange tiger]

Does anyone know the name of the shader that can render an avatars outline through walls?

[vast jetty]

But if I have one with "left point plus right point", won't the previous two still get triggered seperately? I'll essentially be telling it to do 3 things at once, and I want to make sure the "both" takes priority

[neat wraith]

if I create a new VRCExpressionParameters component, it comes by default with three parameters: VRCEmote, VRCFaceBlendH, VRCFaceBlendV; are those required? will I break anything if I remove them?

[remote echo]

VRCEmotes is for the Gesture emotes like dance and die

The other two are examples

[neat wraith]

oh, so it's safe to remove them if I make my own emotes

thanks!

[remote echo]

You honestly don't need any of them really

[neat wraith]

I was wondering if they're being used by something behind the scenes

[remote echo]

Unless, again, action emotes like dance, die, clap, etc. But requires you to have an action animator on your avatar and those set up on a menu

[neat wraith]

yes but according to what you say if I make my own animator with my own emotes and my own parameters I don't need those three

[remote echo]

Otherwise, don't need it

[neat wraith]

great, thank you for the information

[remote echo]

They have sample animators to go off of

So you have a general idea on how to set things up more or less

The facial blends are examples of using the radial puppet to change your avatar's expressions

tl;dr don't need them.

[neat wraith]

is there a way to have enter/exit animations for toggles? for example lets say I have a hat toggle for my avatar, but I don't want the hat to just appear and disappear, I want it to scale-in on toggle-on and scale-out on toggle-off

[merry swan]

scale in with animation when turning it on ? then reverse it to make it off

you can play animations in reverse with speed -1

[neat wraith]

but... how

also what if the exit animation is not a reverse

[merry swan]

make an animation that make the object size 0 , then back to normal after awhile , run that when you want object to appear, when that paramter isnt active you run it in reverse and it goes away

[neat wraith]

oh you mean if I toggle an animation on it will transition gradually into its last frame?

[merry swan]

yep

[neat wraith]

I see

ok but then this will only work for exit animations if they're a reverse

what if they're not

[merry swan]

can make a transition to state that removes it and exit to default wich would be off

[neat wraith]

so what you're saying is I need two animations

[merry swan]

neh

[neat wraith]

a [hidden...visible] and a [visible...hidden]

no?

[merry swan]

reverse -1 runs animation backward

start at end and goes to start

[neat wraith]

ok but like I said I don't want a reverse

[merry swan]

then 2 sure

[neat wraith]

for example lets say I want on entry for the hat to drop on my head from a higher position

and for the exit for it to scale down

so I'd need anim1:[top position...normal position] and anim2:[normal scale...0 scale] and the have transition for toggle-on to be anim1 and for toggle-off to be anim2, right?

alright thanks

[frozen panther]

Hey is there any worlds that have some good meme avators that look good

Like a avatar that can do funny stuff

Or a jumpscare avatar

For the oculus quest 2 of course

[orchid tiger]

quest users in a nutshell

[solemn tundra]

exhibit A

[neon finch]

Does anyone know how to make a avatar that has like idk folders for emojis

[neon plaza]

do you mean like vrc emoji just for your avatar?

[lime flower]

For anyone interested, I made a overlay/image for VRChat Avatar icons (might work with worlds too) that allows you to know what part of the icon is being covered up by another part of VRChat's menu systems (For example, the Quest/PC icons take up an area in the top right corner of the avatar icon. This has an indication that allows you to know where that is)

https://www.reddit.com/r/VRchat/comments/mn4fed/the_scuffed_guide_to_character_icons/

[neon finch]

Ya, like some avatars have options/folders that when you select it, it has more things/emojis some are for customizing your avatar and some are for adding prefabs and other are just plan dances.. all on one avatar

[neon plaza]

here's a 3.0 prefab for literal emojis if thats what you want: https://www.v-market.work/ec/items/3755/detail/

[covert forum]

Does anyone know why my action menu button isn't working
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/730948173379535022/829866694347456552/unknown.png

As far as I know I've set up my parameters and menu correctly

[loud cape]

go check your Debug menu in game and see if the parameter changes correctly, and if the correct state is triggered in your FX controller

[covert forum]

How do I bring up my Debug menu?

[loud cape]

through the expression menu in game, under settings

[covert forum]

Nothing happens when I click on the button

[loud cape]

then you probably didn't set up your button correctly

[covert forum]

One second

I'll post a pic of it in #avatar-help

[topaz sun]

Autoweights🌋🚽

[agile cargo]

yo so say i have a avatar faviroted is there a way to take it and edit the avatar?

[slim sand]

Not legitimately.

You have to contact the avatar author and ask.

[sudden bone]

how do you change avatar ,_,

[agile cargo]

@slim sand you know where you can get base models? im trying to make a big monster

[slim sand]

People put their stuff up on dA, Gumroad, Patreon etc.

Sometimes it's paid, most simple stuff is free.

[vernal frigate]

anyone got any good youtube tutorials for making a toggle for specifically different outfits

[final torrent]

@vernal frigate you need animation that show or not show your suit, need to do fx component and link it with in plus you need to have menu windows done if u do 3.0

to do this is not that hard but is very boring and time consuming

[brazen echo]

Hi

[slim sand]

@vernal frigate https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=toggle+vrchat

[wary hornet]

is there a basic walk animation for people that didn't make one

[upper willow]

Yes. You don't have to make any walk animation. If your avatar has the proper leg bones and weights, Vrchat has a default walking animation.

[topaz moss]

Does a chair-interaction collider have to be on the default layer? I've got a flying avatar that uses a box collider, but trying to have a chair on it as well makes it a bit... collide-y.

[low whale]

Your collider should be set to "Is Trigger", should solve that problem

[topaz moss]

Ahh, I wondered if that was viable.

[neon finch]

idk I’m in in the right chat but ima just ask anyway, when I go to publish an avatar in unity it doesn’t show vrchat sdk and I meet the requirements. (I’m a user but you have to be a new user at least I’m pretty sure everyone knows that but I wanted to be sure) can someone help me with this?

[slim sand]

Did you import the package?

[neon finch]

Yep

[slim sand]

Okay you should have a tab at the top of the window that says VRChat SDK

Click that and click Show Control Panel.

[neon finch]

Don’t see it

[slim sand]

Are there any errors or warnings in the console?

It's at the bottom

[neon finch]

No I fixed those 2 days ago

Here lemme send a pic of my screen

[slim sand]

Hmm can you send me a screenshot? Post it to #avatar-help

[neon finch]

I sent it

[vital haven]

can somone make me a avatar if they want

[fathom turret]

Does anyone know if there's still a way to have objects controlled by gestures in avatars 3.0?

[loud cape]

thats kinda the point

being able to do stuff like that in a less janky and more flexible manner

[fathom turret]

Right, I'm just asking if there's a way to do it for the sake of my own personal preference

[wheat drum]

Yes there is

[cursive timber]

Does anyone have a quest nsfw?

Female and/or female

[slim sand]

Ahh yes, capital Female and lowercase female, the two genders.

[hard halo]

Hahaha

[rigid basin]

Is there some type of Rabbid Avatar
and if there is how do i get it

[gray apex]

anyone know why my dynamic bones asset is not showing up in add component on unity

[neon finch]

I once had that issue, to fix it I had to delete either dynamic bones and reimport or i had to delete another script interfering with dynamic bones

Does anyone know a fix to when ur avatar is doing emotes and it jumps, the entire upper half of the body is not dancing but the lower half is still dancing?

[merry swan]

Dont overwrite fbx thats in scene/unity it tend can go wierd , create a new one instead and copy components from old to new

pumkin tools can do this for you with a click

https://github.com/rurre/PumkinsAvatarTools/releases/tag/0.9.3b

https://github.com/rurre/PumkinsAvatarTools <info

yep

aware some objects can derp out, but if its same place i just drag em over to new , very rare that happen

neh, have to put those back and set it humanoid ect

[loud cape]

@gray apex did you import dynamic bones? it's a 3rd party asset, not a part of unity

[neat wraith]

I want my 3.0 avatar to play an audio (gunfire) when pressing the trigger (gesture toggle) once, and not play it again, until I release the trigger and press it again.

I've tried making a transition into an animation that enables the audio file with the GestureRight parameter, but it plays the audio file repeatedly in a loop as long as the trigger is held down.

What is the correct way to do what I'm trying?

[neon finch]

i ported my model into unity tho know the shapekey slot is not aviable anymore anyone know why
?

[snow cave]

What format is the model in?

[loud cape]

make sure your animation is not set to loop

[neat wraith]

it's not set to loop

[loud cape]

are you using the avatar 3.0 emulator to test it?

[neat wraith]

I'm uploading to VRChat and testing ingame

[loud cape]

using it will let you look at what is happening in your FX controller in real time

in unity's Play mode

[neat wraith]

where can I get avatar 3.0 emulator?

or how to use it

[loud cape]

https://github.com/lyuma/Av3Emulator

[neat wraith]

thanks

[loud cape]

import unitypackage, then go to Tools > enable avatar 3.0 emulator

[cobalt charm]

^ then just click on your avatar in the hierarchy and in the inspector you will have options for all your toggles, crouch, prone, finger gestures

[neat wraith]

that's pretty great, thanks for mentioning this

[agile cargo]

How many hours do you need on VR chat to upload your avatars you make ?

[cobalt charm]

theres not a defined amount, you need to play, talk to people, make friends

typically of what ive noticed with friends its around 12 hours of game time if you are not being muted, blocked, reported

[agile cargo]

okay thx

[sudden swift]

If I wanted to make my own avatar would I use blender or vroid. Or should I use vroid then put the model into blender.

[vivid palm]

it depends on what type of avatar your making, if your making some kind of meme avatar i recommend using blender. If you are going to make a basic vrchat avatar with vroid textures and models then use vroid. if your confused on how to import the model into unity here is a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhmyyepkBtA

[vivid palm]

btw i forgot if you dont want to use vroid textures nor models, then use blender and make the model yourself

[patent ibex]

Is it really impossible to make a spawn animation? I've spent 15 hours trying to find different ways to do it and it's about time I gave up.

I just wanted to fall and land upon joining 😦

[solemn ice]

If you meant an animation that plays once when avatar is loaded, it's possible

[haughty coral]

Is there a "standard" that people use for facial expression gestures? Like peace sign = excited face, point = sad face.

[slim sand]

Nope, it's up to the author.

Thumbs up is almost always something positive because well... 👍

Fingerguns could be something angry or silly or whatever you want, up to you.

[gray apex]

@loud cape yea i imported it but i can seem to add it as a component

[loud cape]

@gray apex check console for errors

[marble root]

my avatar is converting to android

its going good so far

I hope it stays that way

im hoping my avatar works 🥺

[neon finch]

anybody know some good avatar creators? (looking for loli's because illegal cuteness is getting too popular )

[slim sand]

#avatar-search-old

[neon finch]

oh thank you

[native yoke]

ayone know to import something from unity into blender

[bronze basin]

Hello, anyone has some good seting for DB for skirts? i can't seem to get something that looks good :/

[livid timber]

Go to import in blender, and assuming what you’re trying to import is an fbx, go into the files of your project and look for your fbx then select the file

[strange tiger]

Where can I get the X-ray outline shader?

[livid timber]

I believe I saw it on vrcmodels, you’re talking about seeing through walls right?

[strange tiger]

Yeah

I couldn’t find it

[livid timber]

Here lemme grab you the link

And I cannot paste the link

[livid timber]

Type in see thru prefab

[strange tiger]

Awesome! Thx!

[patent ibex]

How???

[patent ibex]

I seriously need to know how. Its not a particle animation, it's a transform one where the character lands.

[livid timber]

Maybe set the animation as the default state? Or have duplicate your model so one does the animation and once it’s done it disappears and the rigged model appears. And based on your pfp are you trying to make a Anthem avatar?

[patent ibex]

From my 15 hours I've tried everything except for the duplicate model, due to if I had it like that, my model would be 240k polygons. I already have the anim file so I don't know how I'd make it disappear. And yes, it's an Anthem Range Avi.

It's an animation that uses the armature, so having two avatars with a set of armature each on one model probably wouldn't work. Gonna try it though.

[livid timber]

Lemme know if it works, I’ve never done it before but that’s just my guess

[desert plinth]

Noob question

but do I have to get verified to have Build and Test working for avatars?

I've only played VRC for an hour so I'm yet to be fully verified

[patent ibex]

Yes. You need to reach New User, otherwise known as 'blue rank' before you can upload anything. Of course, that doesn't mean you can't make an avatar for when you do hit the rank.

[cosmic mortar]

Guys I’m looking for an avatar that I forgot to favorite. It’s kinda short anime girl who can write with her fingers by fingergunning and pointing

[desert plinth]

What about for offline testing?

And I've linked my Steam profile to my VRC account as I've been told that doing so would make verification faster

[patent ibex]

You need new user.

[patent ibex]

Whoever told you this is wrong. Ranking up is based on playtime/friends made/content uploaded/worlds visited.

[patent ibex]

It didn't work.

[mellow viper]

dose anyone make avatar cammsons

[desert plinth]

I see

[obsidian ravine]

how long does it take to rank up??

[onyx laurel]

100h?

[patent ibex]

less than that when you make friends

[solemn ice]

I haven't tested it yet, but in theory it should be possible. You'd need an extra layer in Action layer that automatically play an animation.

Something like this https://imgur.com/7JiiYm0

[lavish siren]

does anyon know how to upload qust and pc compatible avatar cause when i uoloud quest avatar i cant use it

ok nevermind i get it now

[patent ibex]

How exactly would you do this? I've attempted it already but seemed to have done something wrong as my avatar just moves a tiny bit and that's it.

[solemn ice]

What do you already have done though?

[patent ibex]

I set up a new layer in the action layer with the same layout, added empty states and then added the vrc layer controls to them, along with the landing animation on one of them

[solemn ice]

You could continue the discussion in #avatar-help . You can post a screenshot there

[patent ibex]

Or we could call and you can show me how to set it up

Would be easier

[solemn ice]

I don't speak, so that could be a problem. But the settings layout should be like what I post in my screenshot, but the transition setting could be difference.

[patent ibex]

I don't speak either

[solemn ice]

You will need Exit Time set to 1 for sure

[patent ibex]

I can screenshare and you can tell me what stuff should be set

[solemn ice]

Yes that's better.

[slim kiln]

@hushed comet I apologise for pinging in a public place, but I've been trying to reach you for a couple days in regards to one of your avatars ^^

[onyx laurel]

Thats the hard part

,_,

[patent ibex]

You'll find a group of people you can slide into conversation with. There's about 15k people on daily.

That's average. Right now there's 20k

[onyx laurel]

Ik mate, was just joking :v

When you are a new player the quest of "trying to Interact" is really hard

But you know i play this game since 2017...

[neon finch]

hello I have a question if someone could help me please it would be very nice... so I created my first VROID model and uploaded it to VRChat, everything works fine, facial expressions etc the only problem is when I get lower my legs cross to the point they get like tangled together. Is there any way to fix this without reworking the whole model? (also if there is can it be done in Unity/VROID and if yes then how 😭 )

[neon finch]

Does any one have any commissions open rn if so dm me

[neon finch]

Can anyone help me my avatar is a yellow and grey robot and I cant make it android cause it keeps crashjng

Where do I change the animation set to female in Unity?

From no reactions I see it's probably very obvious question so people may think I'm trolling or something.. but I seriously don't see the option anywhere (I imported VROID avatar to Unity). I checked everywhere it's just not theeere :<

[loud cape]

not really a thing anymore

all the same animations for the most part

there are a few that are slightly different, which are technically the female animations, but they are just labled with a "1"

[livid timber]

Would anyone know how to make a hud for an avatar? Cause anything attached to the head is invisible to the players view, attaching it to the neck makes it janky, and connecting it to the body doesn’t work, I thought it would be easy but it seems it’s harder than it looks

[merry swan]

put it on another bone in head like hair root, then constraint that to head

[neon finch]

ah yeah downloading SDK2 helped now the legs don't twist anymore but the character stands on tiptoes all the time

[knotty summit]

I’m mad

[loud cape]

the twisting is most likely due to your rig

[neon finch]

but it's not twisting anymore :X

[loud cape]

because the animations are different in 2.0 than 3.0

if the legs were bending the wrong way, then that is either due to you having uncleared bone roll, or your legs being rotated in a weird way

[summer ingot]

whats this developer option under sharing for avatar publicity?

[livid timber]

in blender or unity?

[merry swan]

Unity parent constraint, have one on my root hair since is pretty much just the headbone

[livid timber]

the avatar im working on has a helmet i put on it and i attached it to that and it didnt work, im working with an avatar that by default has no hair

[livid timber]

would you happen to have any videos or tutorials on how to do this?

[merry swan]

closest i can think of is the one that has a gun you can switch places with back/hand using constraints, pretty old tho ( google > VRChat how to use parent constraint for weapons or other items )

head i always had issues with before i saw someone mention try a root bone thats attached to head (duplicate head bone in blender parent it to head, use that on a object you want, and constraint it to head so culling dont get it

[idle prawn]

my character's mouth won't move, how do I fix it? It has mouth movements, I've hooked it up. it just doesn't have sil

[valid shadow]

Does anyone have something like a spreadsheet that includes what visemes i need to add to my model?

[burnt raven]

https://developer.oculus.com/documentation/unity/audio-ovrlipsync-viseme-reference

[neon finch]

does anyone know how to add toggles for swords

cuz i am trying to get a sword to toggle but it wont work

[fluid grotto]

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

[neon finch]

thanks

i dont understand the animation part

could you help me with it

Help my unity crashes when I make my stuff android

[sudden swift]

What are the basic steps I need to do/remember in order to get an avatar that was made from scratch in blender to work.

[fluid grotto]

-70000 triangles or less
-4 materials or less
-have a bone structure that meets unity's humanoid standard (4 bones along backbone, plus a neck, head, eyes, legs, knees, feet, shoulders, arms, elbows, hands, and 4 to 10 fingers with 2 or 3 bones in each. You can have extra bones inserted wherever, but you should have at least those for VR mocap.

As long as you meet those specs it should be smooth sailing in unity

If you want it to work for quest, keep it under 20000 triangles and the textures can't use transparency.

[sudden swift]

thx

[bold jewel]

how can i get my avatar's armature scale to be 100x100x100? i'm trying to use pumkin's avatar tool and it won't work with avatars with different armature scales

[loud cape]

just change the Import scale to 100

[fluid grotto]

So distributing the VRCSDK is not allowed, but opening a avatar 3 project without a VRCSDK nukes the state behavoirs, what's the general adviced workflow for instructing people who bought your unitypackage?

[wintry glade]

You should have the SDK imported before you try to import any project that requires it

Create project -> Import newest SDK from vrchat website -> Import your stuff

[fluid grotto]

You know, if I had thought about it for 2 extra seconds, I might not have asked this question.

Thank you!

🤦‍♂️

[rugged kite]

If i make a duplication of an avatar i have in unity and enable something on it (like different clothes) and select the duplicate as the upload will it just overwrite the original upload?

[neon finch]

no no they weren't bending they were crossing. As if the right wanted to go over left leg and left over the right.

Now I still can't fix the problem with deformed hands in SDK 2

and on top of that Unity is bugged and don't want me to log in to my VRChat account so I can't even check if the hands are bugged in SDK 3 too omg..

[teal creek]

What's the best way to have a shapekey action enable without any interpolation? (so an object just "snaps" into place rather than transitioning for a second).

[low whale]

Change the transition duration to 0

[teal creek]

Yeah I thought about trying that, but given how it sometimes does/doesn't affect the interpolation of actions I didn't bother to try.

[low whale]

Not sure exactly what you mean by "the interpolation of actions" but if the transition duration is 0 it'll immediately switch any properties to the values in the destination animation in one frame

[woven hornet]

so like, im having some questions that i need help with, iwant to bring something from second life to vrchat, is there a guide or someone able to help me (as i dont play SL),

[indigo anchor]

somebody help me please?

[valid patrol]

No more dynamic bones!!!!!!

Wooooo

AND QUEST

[timber wadi]

https://hai-vr.github.io/combo-gesture-expressions-av3/limited-lipsync.html

anyone know if this has been fixed?

[worldly igloo]

looking for some good vr chat skins that both pc and quest can see

[remote echo]

If you're looking for existing public avatars that are in an existing world. #avatar-search-old

[neon finch]

dm me if u make custom avatars

[tight fog]

So my unity isnt letting me upload my new avatar... i setup everything right, did everything well within the limits and its just greyed out the options to upload the avatar

[wintry glade]

Have any console errors?

[tight fog]

nope

just no options to upload

[sacred fulcrum]

Bruh i need some serious help with this shit

I don't understand anything

[wintry glade]

Can you show an image of the upload window?

[sacred fulcrum]

yo my guy could you help me im desperate

[wintry glade]

You didnt post the problem

[sacred fulcrum]

post?

[wintry glade]

Dont ask to ask, just ask with the problem

[sacred fulcrum]

the problem is

i don't know the problem

i m trying to import something but

i got no idea what's going on

[tight fog]

is it not letting you upload? are the buttons just not clickable? cause thats my issue atm

[sacred fulcrum]

I see well no at least i don't know yet

im still trying to figure out how to import this shit

[wintry glade]

You should export your model as an FBX into your unity project. Then import your textures in and create materials for them

[sacred fulcrum]

Oh ye i think you found my problem

i don't know the texture part

[wintry glade]

Is your model something from blender or a unity package?

[sacred fulcrum]

no idea

just says fbx file

[wintry glade]

Thats your model

[sacred fulcrum]

it has some

[wintry glade]

Where are the textures

[sacred fulcrum]

oops

xps, mesh ascii

it has some of these too

no idea what they are tho

[wintry glade]

Just use the FBX, those are just different formats of 3D models

[sacred fulcrum]

kk

bro

can i send you this thing cuz

[tight fog]

ima restart and see if its the API bugging out cause of windows or something

[sacred fulcrum]

there are some aspects of it i don't understand

[wintry glade]

If you cant send a picture here, just post it in #avatar-help

[sacred fulcrum]

sorry for being a weight

Oh i would just like to send you the file

[wintry glade]

Nah just post a picture of the folder contents or something, not going to dig around something right now

[sacred fulcrum]

Oh ight

can i dm them to you

[wintry glade]

sure

[sacred fulcrum]

ty

[tight fog]

👀 i was right... it was the API bugging out with Windows update lol

[shrewd wing]

is it possible to edit the way an avatar's hands close with index controllers?

[slim sand]

@shrewd wing like you're trying to detect whether someone has index controllers and change the way the bones flex?

[shrewd wing]

no no, i play with index controllers and wanted to change the default way the fingers curl because it doesn't look great

like, can i use the unity muscle editor to do that?

[median tartan]

Why does Unity love to rotate finger tips 90 degrees some sort of secret fetish? Annoys the hell out of me.

[remote echo]

Because the bones aren't straight in Blender and you're enforcing T-Pose when you rig your avatar as humanoid.

So either take the model into Blender to readjust the fingertips to be pointing in the right direction and or don't enforce T-Pose when rigging as a Humanoid in Unity

[median tartan]

No, the thing is they are all 90.00001 in Blender. So I always manually fix them.

in Unity that is. They are near perfect straight in Blender.

[haughty coral]

Just looking for some clarification on synced vs unsynced parameters. An synced parameter is always the same for everyone in the lobby, anything that changes it (regardless of whether or not the change itself it local), changes it for everyone. And the state of the parameter is saved when you swap avatars and swap back
Unsynced though. changes to it are ONLY local. That value will never change for anyone ever. But is the value of an unsynced parameter saved when you switch avatars and swap back?

I have 5 different parameters for controlling different coloured components of the avatar. But taking up 5 ints for that is pain
Could I use 2 ints. 1 int to specify which menu I'm in (body, hair, eyes, etc). And 1 int to specify which colour to set that part to.
And then to save the state of the colour when changing avatars: When changing a colour (eyes to red), I drive an un synced "eyeColour" parameter to x
On repicking the avatar, use the (if it is saved) local variable eyeColour to drive the "which body part" synced parameter to the "eyes" int. And then drive the synced colour variable to red

Am I insane, or does this make sense?

[lethal pebble]

How can i make an hand idel animation?

[crude willow]

why did vrchat fixed quest particle collision crashers

it stopped working at one point

but they was like nah lets fix it

why dont you fix audio or some particles shaders

[agile solar]

...Wait, what?

[neon finch]

How to make unity stop crashing when u make your avatar quest

[remote echo]

[median tartan]

I've been trying some different shaders so far. But now I need a shader that realtime lighting doesn't affect. Is there a proper toon shader that supports matcaps along with baked lighting, so my avatars keeps its looks everywhere the same?

[remote echo]

Poiyomi

[icy skiff]

Seems like there should be more limitations on avatars. I know I can block people, but don't really want to. There seem to be more and more avatars that are super intrusive and take up the whole room, or otherwise occlude visibility.
Where's the best place to get non anime male avatars?

[shrewd wing]

yknow, “non-anime” can mean a lot of things, but you probably aren’t going to find anything particularly “realistic”, #avatar-search-old anyways for better luck

[toxic forge]

There's cool Tarkov Military dudes in MrBumBandit's avatar world

[neon finch]

https://gyazo.com/090f4e2626308aaa007e4aeae7a14667 can someone explain why it dissolves transparant?

[slim sand]

Some shaders support dissolve that you can animate.

[neon finch]

It also happends with the body texture hmmm

[slim sand]

A black and white noise texture is used as a cutoff for the transparency, causing a nice smooth effect.

[neon finch]

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

This is what i use its just the main texture and a random noise

[slim sand]

Yup, checks out

[neon finch]

So how do i make it not dissolve transparant?

[slim sand]

Remove the animation from whatever controller it's being used in.

[neon finch]

I got ya thanks for pro tip

[slim sand]

Then you can untick the dissolve category in Poiyomi.

[woven hornet]

Hey does anyone know how to get Second Life stuff to bring to vrchat?

[neon finch]

Thanks that was the trick

[slim sand]

If you can get it into Blender, you can get it into VRChat.

[neon finch]

I got another tricky one for some reason it blinks light after dissolving https://gyazo.com/62ba3661a84fc548909d1246a65c519e

[twilit tendon]

Has anyone tested if making a button that disables dynamic bones would help the performance?

[woven hornet]

Yee, though i have 0 idea of SL and dunno how to get any of the files

[twilit tendon]

Lets say I have multiple hair meshes and I want to disable the dynamic bones since I am hiding the meshes and they would be useless

[slim sand]

Oh god multiple hair meshes with dynabones?

I would just make a second avatar tbh.

[twilit tendon]

Its not a problem when you just switch hair meshes

Depending on how many separated meshes you have, it all depends on batches, triangles, material slots and so on