avatar-help

[ornate stump]

StandardLite emission

[supple needle]

Alright, thanks. Any way to know if it works/see it glow in unity ?

[ornate stump]

Probably just delete light in the scene.

[supple needle]

Alright. Thank you

[shell mica]

ok so i haven't really been on vrchat for a few months, probably since summertime august. did they change something in regards for valve index finger tracking? my avatar's fingers go through its hands and desktop finger gesturing seems to work fine.

those bumps are the fingertips going through the hand

[wooden beacon]

i have a fairly simple rig but whenever i ctrl p and do auto weights it gives me the bone heat weighting error

ive rescaled it, messed with the mesh, checked for double vertices, aligned it

and when i try to weight paint i cant even select the bones

[gloomy garnet]

So. I'm attempting to use constraints to add extra bones to my avatar's neck, because the species has a pretty long neck that doesn't quite bend as nicely as I'd like it to.

However. Ingame, I am now running into THIS issue.

I'm assuming it has something to do with the head position not being exactly where it expects it to be(bc it's controlled by constraints), so it's not hiding the muzzle.......

is there like

a workaround for this???

nevermind i just learned that vrc head chop exists

[tropic obsidian]

is it possible to disable the grabbing hitboxes per hand with expression stuff? i dont mean the "self interactions" toggle in the settings

i want to make my arms physbones but its causing issues where the hands will grab themselves and bug out but i dont want to make the physbones ungrabbable

works fine otherwise

[arctic dagger]

hello gang ! im trinyg to add an outfit to my avi and i ahve these odd little bones.. a normal upper arm, then two inside it that are twist bones?all of them are painted to the body,, should i paint ? all of them to the new clothing ?? or jkust the arms? what do the twist bones even do 😭

[junior void]

Stretch your arm out in front of you, then twist it so your palm faces up. If you do that in vrchat, the elbow becomes scrunched like fabric. Twist bones are there to counter act this

You should definitely copy their weights as well. Did you know theres an addon called "robust weight transfer" thatll let you copy weights from one mesh to another, perfect for clothing? Its not gonna be perfect but its worked really well for me.

I usually just touch it up here n there

[white geyser]

why does it say its 15 mb even tho ik its not

[arctic dagger]

oouhhh ok !! thank you SO SO much !!! i greatly appriciate your help!!! <3

[ornate stump]

How did you know it doesn't exceed the limit?

[drifting temple]

I have a parent constraint component on one of my objects, but then I change the weight, the position doesn't update with it in the scene viewport. It works when I upload the avatar for testing, but not in unity

In fact, I don't think any of the components I added seem to work in real time in unity except for a trail renderer

[white geyser]

I’ve used the same model probably over 50 times it has no textures on it and I think it has to do with something I imported earlier but I deleted it and it still says I can’t upload it

[quasi folio]

How would I set the spot where my avatar stands lower? I have it elevated and I want it to stand above ground in game

[ornate stump]

There are 2 errors above that you have to solve before you can upload. The size you saw was from previous build which might not came from your current avatar.

[white geyser]

Ik

But I still can’t upload if that size error is there

[ornate stump]

No. The size was from previous build and has nothing to do with your current avatar.

[ornate stump]

You can't upload because of the 2 red errors above.

[white geyser]

I already know that

[ornate stump]

And why you still insist that the size is preventing you from uploading?

I clearly stated that the size has nothing to do with your current avatar.

[vernal pumice]

do you need to code for your pc avatar to make like bouncing everytime?

[ornate stump]

No code. You just have to record animation keyframes.

[vernal pumice]

a ok

[vernal pumice]

soo there might be the keyframes in blender?

[ornate stump]

Animation simple as you shown could just be done in unity.

[vernal pumice]

k

[white geyser]

Why when I put my textures too standard lite it goes black

[ornate stump]

Did you actually mean changing shader to standard lite made your model black? That's because your model has vertex color black, which have to be removed.

[white geyser]

So I do that on blender right?

[ornate stump]

Yes. There might be a plugin in unity, but I have no idea.

[white geyser]

If I vertex paint it white will that fix or will it just make the model white on standard lite

[ornate stump]

Standard lite works by multiply blending for three source: vertex, texture, and tint. So white multiply by any color will get that any color out.

Although you should just remove vertex color attribute because that contribute to your file size too.

[wise spindle]

I'm having this weird issue where adding an integer paramater to my avis fx file will cause it to always be set to 1 when the avi is reset. The value is set to zero in the param file and when its added to the fx file.

I tested this with a completely new parameter which is not used by anything, and as soon as i add it to the fx file, it is set to 1 when the avi is intialised/reset.

[vernal pumice]

ngl it's my first time using blender soo the car might be goofy xd

[edgy berry]

How do I make a gimmick who only click a button that an avatar can visible to see

nomally avatar is invisible

[white geyser]

Do I delete it in blender

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[chrome forge]

I was following along this tutorial by Sippbox for Radial Puppets. It used to work perfet in Unity 2019 but with 2022 there's some weird issue.
https://youtu.be/c7Jd9YWz8pI?si=4suEDfeC3bWByLpm

1. I can't select any value between 0-50% at all
2. Any value from 50% and above is instantly selected without me actually pressing the trigger
   Here what it looks like. Anyone had this issue before?

I also tried having fick select on or off. but regarless of that its doing the same

[night ember]

how did you set up the radial toggle in the menu

[chrome forge]

Did all of it exactly the same way as shown in the tutorial

[night ember]

if you did then it would be working

send screenshots of it

[ornate stump]

You likely assigned the parameter to both parameter slot and rotation parameter slot, which is incorrect.

[chrome forge]

Oohh I actually did lol
What I'm supposed to have there? Cause if I select nothing in Rotation it says "Bool is not a valid parameter ..."

when none

[ornate stump]

Just leave the parameter slot blank.

[chrome forge]

Ahh alrighty thank you

[stiff cloud]

hi guys someone could help me to upload a avatar?

[somber sequoia]

feel free to ask specific questions

[ruby pagoda]

So quick question, how would you best approach her arm membrane thingie from clipping into her body so much? I tried collissions but either i'm doing it wrong or it just doesn't really work for this lmao

I don't mind some clipping, i just don't want it to poke out of her body.

[stiff cloud]

guys if i pubblish an avatar i can make changes?

if there is something wrong

[somber sequoia]

just re-publish, it'll overwrite

[somber sequoia]

I'd probably try bones on that, with rotation constraints so it moves along with the arm.

[ruby pagoda]

oo i'll try that!

[quasi folio]

I raised it up and everything, AAGHHH

How does one elevate the feet?

[somber sequoia]

Do you have this in Blender? If so, make sure the object origin is at the world origin (0,0,0)

[quasi folio]

I pretty much have the avatar completed, idk if I can change the origin at this stage

[somber sequoia]

sure you can

[quasi folio]

Also, it’s a bunch of items mashed together, it wouldn’t have all that without my additions

[rose harness]

OK, I am needing help- I am trying to fix up a transforming weapon model prop for my avatar, and have all the animations and stuff, but when I assign everything as properly to my avatar's FX layer and its expression menu, but when I go to test it with Gesture Manager, the toggle just does not work at all- the weapon just permanently stays in default state (the weapon does have an armature of its own, if that matters at all). I have tried everything I can think of, and don't know what is going wrong. What could be the issue?

[somber sequoia]

well if it's not there you'll keep having this issue

[tropic obsidian]

is it possible to disable the purple grabbing hitboxes per hand with expression stuff?

[arctic ginkgo]

Not that i know of, you can try animating them but I don't think that works. You can't even move then. I think they're attached to your trackers (controllers) rather than your humanoid hands, or something along those lines, because even using constraints or physbones on humanoid bones won't move them to where your hand appears to be, only where you controller is

[tropic obsidian]

i, dont think so actually. i think they are on the characters hands as when using physbones to move the arms, the purple grab hitboxes go with the hands

the yellow contacts dont move, those are accurate but if you put physbones on the arms/hands then it works

[proper sphinx]

how do i fix the insane amount of polygons? (it only has around 7k in blender)

also, how do i slim down the amount of material slots? (the avatar i want to make is supposed to have separate pieces)

[somber sequoia]

enable read/write on the FBX, in the first tab of the inspector

(or click the auto-fix button to the right)

[proper sphinx]

oh ok

[proper sphinx]

image for reference btw

[somber sequoia]

Material slots you need to do in blender or similar, combine parts, bake textures, etc., etc.

[tropic obsidian]

plugins like CATS help with combining materials

[proper sphinx]

im sure that i already combined the materials into one though

[somber sequoia]

iirc it's actually the material combiner plugin that does atlasing

[proper sphinx]

can you send a link?

[somber sequoia]

unless you have multiple mesh objects then, it shouldn't have so many slots

[proper sphinx]

that is likely the case

[somber sequoia]

I don't use it, but it should be easy to search for or linked in the cats docs somewhere

[proper sphinx]

heres the hierarchy of my rig btw

[somber sequoia]

I usually just make a new UV map and bake my textures into that using SimpleBake, or do a new one in Substance Painter

[tropic obsidian]

meshes require at least 1 material

you wanna combine meshes so they all use 1 material call aswell

[proper sphinx]

true

[proper sphinx]

however if i do that it means that i lose all the parenting to the bones

[tropic obsidian]

even if that material is the same, thats still material slots

[proper sphinx]

will i have to combine the mesh's pieces

[somber sequoia]

I would, yes.

in fact - what I usually do for outfits is combine the parts right when I'm going to export, then don't save the .blend file. So they're usually separate but combined when it's in Unity

[kind wave]

Why arnt my bones transferring to unity? Some of them are but then otheres arnt. A previous upload they were working and fine but it turned into this and idk what to do

[somber sequoia]

the pic on the right shows physbones, so bones without physbones on them won't be shown. Look for the bone names in the hierarchy

[kind wave]

sorry then not bones physbones. The stuff that makes the avi wiggly

they all look like they are here but I dont know if im even looking in the right spot

[somber sequoia]

physbones are a Unity thing, you don't set them up in Blender.

so there's no "transfering", you'd have to add them in Unity

[dry flicker]

tryna put physbones on a more low poly version of my hair anyone know why they keep turning huge?

[somber sequoia]

probably exported from blender at 100x scale. set the scaling in the export dialog to FBX All

[dry flicker]

exported as fbx all didnt fix it

[ornate stump]

If you unpacked in the the scene then the model won't update with the new fbx.

[dry flicker]

its not unpacked

[ornate stump]

What is the scale of Armature object?

In unity.

[dry flicker]

1

[ornate stump]

Then it should be correct. What are the radius of physbones?

[dry flicker]

0.3

[somber sequoia]

this is in meters, so yeah that makes sense. do .03?

[dry flicker]

its alr set to .3

[somber sequoia]

...

[dry flicker]

oh wait

nvm

hollon rq

still not working

[ornate stump]

Also see the end position settings in physbones.

[dry flicker]

that fixed it

[ornate stump]

Just by seeing it?

[dry flicker]

changed the end position from 1.6 to 0.3

[glass condor]

Hey, my avatar is apparently too small, to the point where I get the error, when I resize the scale, it doesn't do anything. Still complains that it's too small. What's going on?

[ornate stump]

Create a default cube and use it as a reference. Cube size is 1 meter.

[glass condor]

oh uhh I've changed to a size of 50 and it's still doing it. I even moved the viewpoint and it's still acting up.

[ornate stump]

Scale number doesn't regflect the actual size. You need something for size reference, the cube.

[glass condor]

Dude, I've set it to 200 and it's still doing this

[ornate stump]

Scale number is irrelevent. Can you screenshot your avatar with the cube?

[glass condor]

the cube is the orange dot

[glass condor]

it's still complaining that it's too tiny :/

[ornate stump]

Did you also move the view position?

[glass condor]

I did

[ornate stump]

Also screenshot the view position settings.

[glass condor]

(the blocked number is a negative four, sorry about the cursor)

[ornate stump]

You might want to screenshot the entire unity window without cropping. Cropping usually omit other clues.

[somber sequoia]

is that 294.2 position?

[glass condor]

yeah cuz it's at 200 currently in scale 😭

[ornate stump]

Not sure why screenshot looke like that. Use window snippet key by Window key+Shift+S

[glass condor]

I'm in a discord call, I'm trying to actually help someone else 😭

I screenshotted on my phone

[ornate stump]

Ask them to return the scale to 1 (or whatever normal relative to the cube), then see if there is a white line pointing out from the model.

[glass condor]

I don't see that?

wait

right eyehole

[ornate stump]

Screenshot?

[glass condor]

right eyehole

(my friend is the Goku pfp)

[ornate stump]

I can barely see it. Look from above.

[shrewd stirrup]

why arent my hand layer masks saving when i enter playmode bc they keep dissapearing

im so close to finishing my avatar

[glass condor]

best I can do

unless you really need me to look from above

[ornate stump]

Look from other angle.

[glass condor]

like that?

[cunning dome]

Hello there, I got problem with shades and colours sort of stuff
Basically what's my problem is that one of my hand became darker colour and others are neutral. However, when I look in unity or looking up while I am holding something, there is problem. I am using shader what the auther said, I had tried to re-create with completely different project, I changed anchor override, and I also changed colours of the cloth too. Do anybody have idea with this?

[ornate stump]

Yes. The model has 2 issues:

1. The model is facing wrong direction.
2. The origin point isn't at the feet.

[glass condor]

How do we fix that first option

[somber sequoia]

both: Blender

[ornate stump]

Both has to be fix in blender. Both are about position and rotate the model.

[ornate stump]

Direction in blender is the model must facing -Y direction.

[glass condor]

thanks so much for the help!

[cunning dome]

^

[void basin]

an avatar with just a base and low res custom texture... what how?

is this a bug?

or are my low res textures just suddenly 8k?

nvm poyomi is broke

[obtuse vapor]

Is there any way to move where the mic voice comes from on an avatar?

[fossil venture]

I didn’t know where else to ask this but on the fingers does anyone know which on is the base,middle, and tip of the finger

-# not mine

[somber sequoia]

You'd probably have to open this up in Blender to match up faces with UV islands. Or just paint on a part in a 3D tool like Substance Painter to see what comes out where.

[fossil venture]

I don’t make avatars I just now started doing textures this is my first on. My friend usually make the actual avatars

(I’m just using that to help me)

[queen nimbus]

does someone know. why my avatar dont get updated in vrchat ? i oploaded it the 4th time but still the old version in vrchat :/

[somber meadow]

Security checks/making the security variant (which doesn’t do anything). There’s a huge global queue which slows updating avatars, people have resulted putting version numbers on their avatars menu to make sure they’re using the right one

[long sierra]

What's the name of the default gesture animator controller?

Is it vrc_AvatarV3HandsLayer2?

[queen nimbus]

since when is this? yesterday evening everything updated after a few seconds

[somber meadow]

This started like 2-3 weeks ago. Any time can have a congested queue or not

[queen nimbus]

Damn

[shrewd stirrup]

Why isnt my avatar uplaoding for pc????

wtf

[safe locust]

Hey im sorry if this has been asked before but i am having issues getting my animations i made in blender to import in my fbx into unity and i have been messing with this for two days now. I have my rig in blender set us with all the actions (animations) attached to it under fake users so i can import all the animations at once, so far this seams to be the only way to get them all together and not one animation at a time, but when I import the fbx into unity all the animations are there but they do not show any movement at all niether in the import window or the inspection window when clicked on. It also doesnt make any diffrerence what avatar i drop into the preview tab. I have tried exporting the fbx from blender with several different setting configurations but i am at my wits end i need to get this fixed before the spookality deadline.

[spark walrus]

what bones do I need for vrchat characters?

do i need face bones?

[somber sequoia]

hips, spine, chest, neck, head, arms/legs down to hands/feet but not fingers

[spark walrus]

just one head bone

do i need to stretch the last boen?

like where do they go?

[somber sequoia]

there's a pinned image in #avatar-rigging that might help

[spark walrus]

ok

[safe locust]

https://gyazo.com/af2bb9f44bd97a4bc4cfdee0268e1071

[spark walrus]

how r avatars like this made?
they r all round

360 degre

[somber sequoia]

You can do that with VRC Avatar Parameter Driver, but you'd probably need to build the toggle animation layers yourself rather than using Fury.

yeah it doesn't seem to do that.

[safe locust]

Where do i go to get more experienced help from unity users that make models from scratch?

[somber sequoia]

here seems fine?

or #3d-modeling if it's specifically about modeling

[safe locust]

I would go to stack exchange but i cant afford to wait

[delicate ledge]

Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this, but I'm somewhat new to VR Chat (I've got 4ish hours playtime) and I'm trying to upload a custom avatar through VR CC. It's blocking me due to the recency of playtime - can I be manually allowed to publish? Or should I keep playing/waiting?

[red mesa]

~~Back again, I just exported this guy as an avatar last night and he worked pretty well aside from missing eyes. Just opened the project again with VCC and his paws are... in his legs?
~~
Fixed as soon as I entered play mode. Odd

[solemn drum]

is their a issue with the servers at all today and uploading?

if a export a update to an avatar the changes never happen

but if i do a locla test they do

[subtle ridge]

How do I fix this

[solemn drum]

only once did a update happen after like reuploading 5 times and restarting the game sevral times in a row

[long sierra]

How do I make my avatar's long floppy ears animate in an idle animation? I tried putting it on the gesture layer like the docs said, but it doesn't play the animation on idle, only when I test the clip. And yes, I used an avatar mask.

[somber sequoia]

Buying VRC+ gets you the bump immediately.

[somber sequoia]

you have 7 errors, share a screenshot of the first 2-3. Not a photo if you can, that's really hard to read.

[prisma sedge]

Windows key + shift + s is your friend here

[subtle ridge]

Library\PackageCache\com.unity.burst@1.8.12\Editor\BurstAotCompiler.cs(1160,27): error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'AndroidExternalToolsSettings' does not exist in the namespace 'UnityEditor.Android' (are you missing an assembly reference?)

[subtle ridge]

BuilderException: Failed to build the Avatar, check logs for more details
VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.Build (UnityEngine.GameObject target, System.Boolean testAvatar) (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.avatars/Editor/VRCSDK/SDK3A/VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.cs:2258)
VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.Build (UnityEngine.GameObject target) (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.avatars/Editor/VRCSDK/SDK3A/VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.cs:2448)
VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.BuildAndUpload (UnityEngine.GameObject target, VRC.SDKBase.Editor.Api.VRCAvatar avatar, System.String thumbnailPath, System.Threading.CancellationToken cancellationToken) (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.avatars/Editor/VRCSDK/SDK3A/VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.cs:2463)
VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder+<>c__DisplayClass104_0.<CreateBuildGUI>b__4 () (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.avatars/Editor/VRCSDK/SDK3A/VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.cs:2015)
System.Runtime.CompilerServices.AsyncMethodBuilderCore+<>c.<ThrowAsync>b__7_0 (System.Object state) (at <27124aa0e30a41659b903b822b959bc7>:0)
UnityEngine.UnitySynchronizationContext+WorkRequest.Invoke () (at <cb81df0c49c643b1a04d9fc6ccca2433>:0)

[somber sequoia]

neither of these look like first errors

and not very useful, unfortunately

[subtle ridge]

error CS7036

[long sierra]

Can anyone help me with the ear animation thing?

[delicate ledge]

sigh of course it does - ah well - I've got a project to complete!

[somber sequoia]

show us your animation layer

[long sierra]

HandsLayer/HandsLayer2 are the Gesture layers, right?

Why are there two controllers for that layer, since they're both identical, and they both support both hands?

[somber sequoia]

I'd put that below the hands but yeah, looks ok

[long sierra]

Would the AllParts layer and the hand layers having overwrite masks be an issue?

[red mesa]

Is there a reason the eyes are missing when built as an avatar? I'm not sure what's wrong.

[somber sequoia]

without knowing what's in them, no idea

[long sierra]

They're the default ones

[somber sequoia]

I admit I haven't seen the default ones in a while 🙂

[long sierra]

oof, I thought that'd make it easier, for one thing

[ornate stump]

HandsLayer/HandsLayer2 different is the animation for Idle state.

[long sierra]

I wanted the ears to move in the idle state though.

like when standing still

[ornate stump]

You might have a better luck doing in FX layer rather than Gesture.

[long sierra]

But wouldn't it be a toggle then? And also the docs said to put it on Gesutre

[somber sequoia]

FX is not only toggles

[ornate stump]

That's irrelevant. FX is for everything else that isn't humanoid bone animation.

And ears aren't humanoid bones.

[long sierra]

?

[somber sequoia]

I usually put my idle ear twitches in gesture (they do bone animations)... for historical and probably incorrect reasons.

[ornate stump]

You don't need mask for FX.

[long sierra]

Even if the ears aren't the only thing I want to animate?

I'm guessing turn off "Write Defaults" too.

[ornate stump]

If your animation file contain more than just for ears then that might be a problem when putting in FX.

[somber sequoia]

Don't do this if it's a guess, make sure you understand exactly what it means and how to use it first.

[fathom wyvern]

I'm Trying to optimize this model and when doing the gestures, It's doing this? I don't know what to do ;w;

[forest vessel]

How do I outlines on vrc avis in unity ?

[ornate stump]

With shader that support outlines. Eg, poiyomi, liltoon.

[tranquil sparrow]

Hello, uh, i'm kinda new to unity, i bought a VRC avatar online, the seller told me to import the .unitypackage and slide the scene i can find inside the folders the importation will create to actually import the avatar, but i cant find the scene anywhere in the files. if someone can help me :,)
here's screenshots of the zip folder and the unity menu :
1 : the scene of the avatar is nowhere to be found
2 : The readme is just legal conditions, the giberish file without any extentions or logo is empty (0 octets), the first folder is a shader, and the second contain an image of what i think is some kind of tutorial to tweak expressions in japanese. (thanks to langage barriere)

[somber sequoia]

if it helps, scene files have the extension .unity. Though Unity will hide extensions by default.

I'd guess it's in the project root, that _Kyus folder.

[tranquil sparrow]

It's not there unfortunatly, i contacted the seller but they're japanese, so communication is complicated :,)

[somber sequoia]

ah, maybe in Avatars - I'm really just guessing, you'd have to actually look

[tranquil sparrow]

yeah, i took a look through all the folders and everything, it's missing and i dont understand why :,)

i'll figure it out, thanks for trying at least x)

[sweet acorn]

Say I went to gumroad and bought a question compatible avatar. Do some people do all the upload work for you?
I don't really want to learn any new programs.

[junior void]

Depends

Just know that uploading stuff on an account that isnt yours is not allowed

[left gull]

^^ getting someone to upload to your account is both against the TOS and can get you banned if the other user gets banned as you're now listed as their alt account and just bad practice to share account info with weirdo strangers

[prisma sedge]

Its also not that hard to install 1 program that installs 2 other programs for you then to read instructions, import,sign in, and press 1 button

[arctic ginkgo]

in your assets search bar type t:scene

it will show all your scene files

[tranquil sparrow]

i'll try this ty

damn

[arctic ginkgo]

huh weird it's not in the files

try searching for prefabs as well

sometimes avatar creators will make their avatars into prefabs rather than just having a scene with the avatar in it

[tranquil sparrow]

I really dont know anything about unity tbh :,)

[tranquil sparrow]

okok

[arctic ginkgo]

search t:prefab

[tranquil sparrow]

Aaaaah yes i got severals !

Thanks a lot ! So basically, do i have to do something else before importing or is it good as it is ?

[left gull]

check the download page/description of the purchased product

that should always be your first step

[tranquil sparrow]

its in japanese :,)

and google translate is saying shit

[prisma sedge]

Could you send the avatar store page?

[tranquil sparrow]

yeah w8 a sec

[forest vessel]

Uh I'm meaning like a step by step tut on it

[tranquil sparrow]

https://booth.pm/en/items/3923094

[arctic ginkgo]

once you do have everything imported, you need to find the avatar prefab, then drag it into the scene. Then it should be ready for upload (aside from adding a name, picture, description, and logging into your vrc account)

[tranquil sparrow]

Thank you ! <3 <3

[fathom wyvern]

Bump!

[somber sequoia]

which part are you saying is the problem?

[latent forge]

Ive been tryna upload an avi but it keeps failing to build

this is the log it brings me to

[somber sequoia]

is that the only error? If not, paste the first 2-3

[latent forge]

im grabbin em

[fathom wyvern]

None of the gestures are working yet everything is set up

[latent forge]

these should be all

[junior void]

You should be able to figure it out

Last img says your foot job object is missing its script. Youll know what that is

[compact cloak]

Why is there this harsh seam on a horn I sculpted. It only shows like this in solid mode in blender, but it shows in other apps like substance. I checked face orientation and that's fine. I used a mirror modifier on it but idk

[latent forge]

i honestly dont know what that means or how to solve it

Unity is my almighty weakness

Autism gave me alot in life but not some braincells lol

[somber sequoia]

unconnected vertices? Didn't shade smooth?

[latent forge]

oh nvm i found it out you were right

lol

[latent forge]

still not working

oh wait there is more damnit

ah so my avatar is missing like 99% of its damn scripts

bruh

i made sure to have all of the dependencies

[somber sequoia]

do you have SDK 3.7.x? It could be VRC Constraints if you don't

[spark walrus]

anyone know the name of this model I've been looking for it everywhere

[somber sequoia]

#1138520828556890214

[distant hull]

Anyone know why the legs on my avatar wont move?

when I uploaded it they were frozen and floating around

kinda

[somber sequoia]

can't see much from there - are they rigged? weight painted?

[distant hull]

thier rigged I dont think thier weight painted

is thier a video on that

[queen nimbus]

does someone knows, why i dont have eyes ?

[somber sequoia]

I'm sure lots. But if you select the armature then go into pose mode and move around the leg bones, does the mesh move too?

[somber meadow]

is this when you preview your eye motion?

[distant hull]

no

[somber sequoia]

oh then probably not weight painted

[queen nimbus]

no

normal

[distant hull]

K!
i'll find a video on it TYSM!

[queen nimbus]

idk why i opend unity and now i hjave now eyes ):

ah the eyes are in the head... bit how can i get them into the face ?

[vast slate]

The rest of the mirrors worked except for this one idk why it made it so far.

[somber meadow]

the origin point isn't in the middle right half of the object

[vast slate]

How can I fix that

[somber sequoia]

in object mode, object -> set origin, or apply all transforms - depends on where you want it, where the thing is, various things.

[vast slate]

ty

[queen nimbus]

If I put the materials on a "new" manuka, you can see the pupils. I can't bring them far enough forward using the blend shapes. All other blend shapes like the redness or tears etc. are functional, but the heart or star eyes aren't shown either. With the blend shapes they do move forward, but not far enough for you to see them.

[distant hull]

IDK what i did wrong

[stuck basalt]

any idea what causes this? just trying to log in to the sdk to update an upload

edit: fixed on its own I think I needed to agree to new terms of service because after logging in on desktop it started working again.

[red mesa]

Why does it look like Backface Culling is on when it isn't? Or something akin to that

[arctic ginkgo]

i mean it looks like either you have inverted normals with backface culling on or your normals are correct and you have frontface culling on

[lilac musk]

^

[red mesa]

Very odd, I'll try flipping them

[buoyant thorn]

my friends toggles only show for him and nobody else sees them like locally, but he hasnt done anything specific so idk why

[exotic tiger]

can someone assist me with uploading an avatar :C

[spark walrus]

whats the most effecient way to downsize an avatar?

its 11 something mb need it 10mb

[wind pelican]

in object mode, ctrl+a > all transforms

[brave dove]

I want to modify the emissive properties of a material using this param, but I can't edit it, how do I add a keyframe?

[timber wharf]

@brave dove https://www.poiyomi.com/general/locking

[brave dove]

using liltoon

[clear tapir]

so im making a particle that places a chair is there a way to make it spawn facing the direction of the player and locks like that

like this

[solid violet]

alrighty ima ask again cuz iv been at it for the last 7 hours with no luck at all across the board can anyone give me a hand with a dog runnning animation?

[spark walrus]

how can i fix this

[distant hull]

You gotta remove some stuff from the avi its to big of a file

[clear tapir]

or shrink the textures

[cunning dome]

Hello there, I got problem with shades and colours sort of stuff
Basically what's my problem is that one of my hand became darker colour and others are neutral. However, when I look in unity or looking up while I am holding something, there is problem. I am using shader what the creator said, I had tried to re-create with completely different project, I changed anchor override, and I also changed colours of the cloth too. Do anybody have idea with this? (Right hand)

[dapper ivy]

this is gonna be an odd question. Is there any way i can make -part- of my avatar not show up on camera? like a layer, tag? something?

[split torrent]

the sleeves are rigged to the bones, how come they are offset as I rotate them?

example:

[spark walrus]

i removed all i could and compressed all textures and mats, what more can i do to lower the size of an avi?

[vernal quartz]

make sure that the parameters for his clothes toggles have the "sync" checkbox marked

[wooden beacon]

not entirely sure what to do abt this

my blueprint ids are empty

[somber sequoia]

unless you're talking quest, some shaders let you do this

[lime mural]

umm

can anyone thats good at modeling help me xd

i think i suck at this

[raw plover]

Whenever i try and put gogoloco in an avatar, the animators just break

Tried it with every gogoloco prefab and none didnt break it

[lime mural]

note to self make scanlines move up and zoom in

[sharp oasis]

How can I fix the fallback shaders looking like this?

[wanton cedar]

Why is it that for some reason some of my toggles dont work on quest, even though they can be seen on quest, Like my tanktop and pants. I did not touch the toggles yet they stay frozen on. Para and menu are all the same

[wanton cedar]

update no they are not checked on (the box you click to turn stuff on

[vast slate]

Does anyone have any videos for polygon placement like near the arms, legs so they move nicely when rigged

[robust bough]

ok so when i try to upload a avi to vr and when i see the the avi on vr it says failed check or something like that and idk how to fix it this never happend to me before

[teal field]

how do i add a new pair of legs onto my avatar? im wanting to change the legs to some cyber ones but i dont know how to attach them fully

[spark walrus]

how are these avatars made?

360 degree

[ornate stump]

3D scanning.

[spark walrus]

It is people allowing to be photographed from all sides?

[ornate stump]

In simpler term, yes.

[left gull]

theres a quite a few gimmicky places out there for fun tech stuff like that who have 360 setups (though generally they arent in full-colour as its more meant for you to buy a 360 shot so they can 3d print you into a minifigure type thing from the ones ive been to atleast)

[spark walrus]

I see

[opaque parcel]

Can you guys upload avatar now?

I’m receiving error reports indicates it’s a server side issue

And a few of my friends are reporting the same issue as well

[stoic stag]

how do I fix this error?

[ornate stump]

Remove VRLab marker folder.

[stoic stag]

okay

[stoic stag]

I did that and now I got another error

[ornate stump]

Also remove pumkin avatar tools. Your downloaded avatar is just too old which included old tools that isn't compatible with the new SDK.

[stoic stag]

okay I see.

[stoic stag]

thanks, that worked

[hidden epoch]

It wont let me use creator companion

[left wharf]

did you install unity hub?(and is it latest version?)

[hidden epoch]

Yep

It refused to tell me anything but error:500

Im currently factory resetting my pc💀

[ornate stump]

You could just install unity via unity hub instead.

[hidden epoch]

I have been doing it but there are things that vcc is needed for me to do

[ornate stump]

You could also link vcc with the unity later after installed via the hub.

[hidden epoch]

I downloaded unity and everything had both of them there and it still wouldnt download TvT

I have also tried having unity first

[ornate stump]

I mean you skip the part where you have to have vcc install the unity by itself, and just set it to the existing unity installation.

In short, you don't make vcc install unity.

[hidden epoch]

I dont know wether i have done that or not

Idk how to either-

[ornate stump]

Better to try and reseach for a bit more.

But since you had chosen to reset your Windows, then let's see how it works out first.

[stable isle]

heya, so I have an asset that has a few things:

• finalIK stub
• poiyomi 9.0+
• vrlabs raycast prefab

for those, which should I keep separate and download separately to prevent bugs when putting it on an avatar? (this is meant for a retail release)

[muted fossil]

i wanna import a minecraft model in unity and i wanna know how can do that

[somber sequoia]

I'd always download requirements myself, I wish creators wouldn't package stuff like this

[balmy barn]

dont package stuff dependencies , one unity update/sdk later and its likely to break

[somber sequoia]

yep

[stable isle]

Gotcha ty

[vast slate]

idk where my x y z went in modeling Im not using o

[somber sequoia]

see the thing with the arrow in the upper-right there? turn it on

[vast slate]

Ty I mustve accidently clicked it

[hidden epoch]

It worked we⬆️

[opaque parcel]

I’m receiving this do any of you has a solution for this plz?

[left gull]

first errors saying theres a shader error and SDK panel is saying you've got wayy to many particles (which you do) so you've gotta lower your particle count

[opaque parcel]

I don’t think it’s that issue

Seems like a api stuff

[spark walrus]

can u add collision to ur avatar>

?

[exotic tiger]

How do i make outfits an avatar came with a toggle? could someone walk me through it?

[junior void]

Thats an odd sentence. Are you trying to make outfits or toggles for already existing toggles?

[drifting temple]

is there any way to make particles follow another particle in unity?

My avatar emits a particle that can bounce off of walls, adn I want to have a couple of other particle systems follow that particles path

[night ember]

sub emitter technically

[drifting temple]

you can pull down the amature in unity

[ornate stump]

What kind of collision?

[drifting temple]

what setting do I choose? at birth just makes the other particles spawn once and not move with the main particle, and the other ones don't make much sense

[night ember]

🤷‍♂️

[drifting temple]

yup

that one

[somber sequoia]

note that you can't actually make paths and follow them

[drifting temple]

idk, I never worked with an avatar that consists of multiple meshes

the particle at the bottom is the one that all the particles above should follow, or maybe there is a way for the bottom particle to be rendered as the multiple particles above if that makes sense?

[somber sequoia]

you can spawn particles from particles, and offset them when that happens

[drifting temple]

yeah but when these particles spawn they just stay in place instead of following the parent particle

teh bottom particle is always moving

[somber sequoia]

you can have them inherit the parent's velocity

[drifting temple]

I tried that, but the particels quickly get desynced after 2-3 collisions

[somber sequoia]

of course they do, they're independent systems

[drifting temple]

yeah, that's kinda why I want to make the child particles follow the parent particles, or to know if that's even an option

[somber sequoia]

it's not

[ruby pagoda]

Does anyone know what causes these white artifacts in the hair? I tried changing the resolution of the texture and the blend mode but it doesn't seem to get rid of it.

[spark walrus]

for example I would like to spawn a house wiht stairs, and people can walk up the stairs

[drifting temple]

probably overlapping UVs or low resolution (double check if you actually changed the texture in the shading tab)

[ornate stump]

Well no. Player can't interact with other player's collider.

[spark walrus]

too bad

[drifting temple]

imagine people being able to spawn colliders for everyone, people would be able to make cages and trap others

[ornate stump]

That's for good sake because there are lot of abuse involving blocking other players.

[spark walrus]

game is missing ungs

guns

that's why

otherwise they can shoot the attacker

[ornate stump]

How is that relate to colliision?

[spark walrus]

making the game more fun

[ornate stump]

There are already game worlds for it.

[opaque parcel]

Does anyone have this error report?

serval friends of mine is having this as well

[steel niche]

hello! i dont know if this is the right channel but i made a vroid avatar and im trying to attach this tail to it, does anyone know how or cuz i get anyone to do it? : O

[left gull]

either add it to the hips in unity or parent the tail bone to the hip bone in blender

[steel niche]

thank you!!!

[forest crow]

how do I fix this

[night ember]

stop using so many physbones

[junior void]

That message is very odd. Modded sdk?

[somber meadow]

It could just be VRCQuestTools

[compact cloak]

II learned it was verticies not being smooth. While it fixed the harsh edges on the horns, it smoothed a flat surface on the crown. I am trying to figure out how to fix that

[somber sequoia]

mark sharp edges so they stay sharp when you smooth

[sour sphinx]

how do i make it to where the bandaids move with the mouth blendshapes?

[somber sequoia]

How are they done? Separate object?

[sour sphinx]

should i merge the two objects?

yes, head and bandaids are seperate

[somber sequoia]

So you'll have to make the same blendshapes on the band-aid object that the face has, so they move along with the face. I'd join the objects too, but if you don't also combine the materials that matters much less.

[somber meadow]

join the objects after making the shapekeys match imo

[sour sphinx]

for vrcft, will i have to make more blendshapes for arkit ft blendshapes on the head model, on the bandaid or can i just use the same blend shapes for both. also, how will it move along with the mouth if theyre different objects?

and, i want to make the bandaids a toggle on and off so, wont joining the two make that not possible?

[somber sequoia]

it won't, unless you're fully animating visemes and other things yourself. So definitely join it

You just use other methods to hide, like shrink-to-zero blendshapes, or UV tile discarding.

[sour sphinx]

gottcha

tyty

[stoic bobcat]

https://gyazo.com/6dae98bfe89d5c15e7664ed9d28eb193 no clue why my cape is doing this 😭

[somber sequoia]

Specifically which part do you feel is a problem?

[stoic bobcat]

the cape glitching out, its kinda hard to notice but near the end it starts to spaz out

[somber sequoia]

Physbone settings, possibly more gravity or more immobile. Likely less pull/spring.

[stoic bobcat]

kinda like its snapping into place, unity doesnt have this issue

[stoic bobcat]

yeah it has kinda high spring, but no gravity and half immobile, i added limits to it but would adding less spring help more? never had an issue with stuff like this before ;/

[somber sequoia]

eh, play with it, figure out where you like it. It's hard to suggest what to do without having it to actually play with myself

[stoic bobcat]

true

[compact cloak]

I wish that would work but it does nothing

I tried marking as creases and bevels too. They do nothing

[somber sequoia]

they definitely don't do nothing, just possibly some combination of things you're doing isn't the result you want.

[junior void]

Ie marking sharp on a flat surface

[compact cloak]

ot sure whaty I could do besides subdividing

[compact cloak]

Yes!

[somber sequoia]

I have no idea what to suggest without seeing for real what's going on here

[sand valve]

Anyone know why may friends avatar wings are not showing to be moving on my end?
They can see it on there side but not mine

[bronze karma]

How can I fix this? Every time I press the animation button and take it out of animation mode, it goes into that pose

[prisma sedge]

Make sure that the parameter that controls the wings are set to synced

[junior void]

You can try this: shade flat, then mark the area in the center in edit mode that looks edgy, alt+n -> smooth vectors

[compact cloak]

Well yes it flattens that part, but then the rest of it is - wait

ohh....yes this is much better..!

[junior void]

Youll have to see if thats enough.

[compact cloak]

I see some areas that still had flat shading but I fixed most of it. There's one last area that I can't seem to figure out

[compact cloak]

It's just this one seam left

Got it. Just needed to play with all the settings

Thanks so much for both of your help

[fathom meadow]

how do I make a png avatar work on quest? It works fine on pc but whenever I try to use the quest shaders it makes the areas that should be see through white

[somber meadow]

You'll need to create a custom plane mesh in blender with the transparent parts cut out

you could use SVGs to make it easy

[fathom meadow]

whats svgs?

[jovial tundra]

any idea why this is happening? this is the 2nd time this happened when uploading a avatar for a client

[somber meadow]

What are the performance stats in the builder tab from the SDK

[west cipher]

first time getting this error, how do i lower an avatars uncompressed size for quest

[jovial tundra]

give me a second to take a look

[somber meadow]

delete or downscale your textures which you can do through unity by modifying the "max size" value, or try using something like the blendshape optimizer in VRCFury

[west cipher]

yep sorry nevermind. i assumed it would be something different, since it said uncompressed size. thanks!

[spark walrus]

This looks just like when i made my Models

[somber meadow]

What unity version are you using?

[jovial tundra]

the thing is, i always use this unity version, it always works for me to upload all my avis

[somber meadow]

and your SDK version?

[jovial tundra]

i use Vrc cc, so it should be the newer one

[somber meadow]

click manage project on your project in vcc and screenshot the packages list

VCC does not automatically update packages

[jovial tundra]

ah gotcha

[somber meadow]

oh yeah a bunch of packages are out of date, I'd recommend using the latest stable SDK build

which are the packages that don't have beta in the name

[jovial tundra]

awesome, thank u sm

[somber meadow]

you could also just disable pre release packages in the settings to make it easier

[jovial tundra]

sounds good, thank u!

[polar shard]

Hi there folks! I recently paid for a vrchat avatar, and I've been trying to upload it for a few days, and keep getting these errors. How can I fix this?

[somber meadow]

show all the errors in the console, the SDK will try to clear blueprint ID no matter what error even if it's not related to it

[spark walrus]

hey when i hit play mode in unity my avatar is gone

how can i fix this

[sick snow]

I'm trying to make a fallback. What did I do wrong?

I'm on the Android version, too.

If anyone has a solution, please @ me.

[somber meadow]

You need to upload both on Windows and Android in that sequence

[sick snow]

I have.

[somber meadow]

what did you upload first

[sick snow]

Windows, then Android, then iOS.

[balmy barn]

is it generic, fallbacks cannot be that

[sick snow]

It's a cardboard cutout.

[robust bough]

um i having a problem when i try to upload a avi it say detach blueprint when its already detached

[sick snow]

What constitutes 'generic'?

[somber meadow]

Non humanoid

which means it isn't rigged to the humanoid standard

[sick snow]

Ah.

Well, this one is.

I'm still confused as to why I can't make it a fallback.

[somber meadow]

what SDK version are you on

[sick snow]

Latest SDK 3 beta that isn't the persistance one.

[somber meadow]

Uploading a fallback has been really finnicky after 3.3.0 and hasn't been addressed

[sick snow]

3.7.2-beta.3 is the version I'm on.

Is there a workaround to make things work?

[somber meadow]

only things i've heard are you're supposed to upload in a specific order

are you using one project for this?

[sick snow]

Ah.

And yes, one project, one scene.

PC version in the front, Mobile in the back.

Should I delete it from my account and retry uploading?

[somber meadow]

wouldn't hurt

[sick snow]

Ok.

[hexed nebula]

can someone help me please? im tryna do a png avi but when i go in game it's just flat.

[sick snow]

Didn't work.

Guess I'll have to downgrade SDK.

Or, not, since it doesn't support my Unity version.

[reef mauve]

avatar stuck in standing animation and slides around after I use an emote, anyone know the fix for this? I think it has something to do with the action layer

[sick snow]

Do you perchance have any other solutions, since I'm unable to downgrade to an SDK version prior to 3.3?

[sour sphinx]

how can i make it to where the eyelashes are black and transparent like the asset

[sick snow]

Set your shader material to Cutout.

Or transparent.

[sour sphinx]

where

[sick snow]

Example is Poiyomi, but where it says Opaque is a dropdoawn.

Click on that and set it to cutout or transparant.

[left gull]

they're using blender.

[sick snow]

Ah, my mistake. Sorry.

[left gull]

this should work, go to shading and setup your nodes like this (orange is your texture, green is diffused bsdf to mess with the settings of the material/texture and purple-y is material output)

[spark walrus]

hi

what does my avatar need to have in order to be able to use lipsync?

[wanton cedar]

My Quest toggles still wont sync up to my pc avatar. Does anyone have any fixes? Ive done the same thing as i usually do, but this time it seems to not have worked

[somber meadow]

Your avatar parameters list need to exactly match

[wanton cedar]

They do

on both the fx and para

I did not touch anything

[somber meadow]

Just the VRCExpressionParameters list need to be the exact order

[wanton cedar]

Oh really?

[somber meadow]

Yes

[wanton cedar]

I guess I will double check that again

did it change from case sensitive to order?

[somber meadow]

Yep they need to be spelt the exact same way as well the order needs to match

[wanton cedar]

Gosh they added more crap

[somber meadow]

It’s always been this way with cross platform sync

[wanton cedar]

Somehow ive made avatars work just fine when i deleted a few paramaters

Dont tell me that I cant mess with the float toggles

like the animation

[somber meadow]

The order just needs to be the same

[wanton cedar]

Alright I will see what I can do, thanks

[somber meadow]

VRCFury can help with this but the names of parameters need to be the same. Make sure to upload on desktop (PC) first

[muted fossil]

how do i add a avatar for a animator cuz im trying to add one for a avatar i made and it seems like none of them exist for him

its also made on blender

[timber wharf]

you didnt set your rig to humanoid, thats when unity avatar is created

[muted fossil]

yeah but how do i set it as a humanoid

[left gull]

select your FBX and in the inspector it'll say generic just gotta swap it to humanoid in the dropdown

[muted fossil]

oh alr thx

also one thing is that how do i merge all of these together for weight painting cuz i wanna see all their weightpaint while that they js show me one

nvm i figured it out

[manic rose]

ive been having a problem with index users not being able to move the fingers of my avi. if they turn on their gestures, they have the basic quest movement, but they dont have the full movement of index controllers. otherwise they have gestures off and cant move the hands. is this cause of a new update or am i missing something?

[opal ferry]

Is there any UPDATED guide for porting vroid to VRChat?

[lilac musk]

In Unity they are called blendshapes, in Blender they are called Shape keys

[lilac musk]

It's a PNG, ofc it's flat. What else did you expect it to be?

[lilac musk]

hashttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWr4diTDqJM

[opal ferry]

That's actually the updated one?

[lilac musk]

Should be new enough. Nothing has really changed in that amount of time.

[trail kite]

need answer

[still saddle]

Do you guys know how to make quest materials full-bright/have no shading?

[trail kite]

did find answer?

[trail kite]

anyone know how to change default pose of index hands? i want to have the cute tighter hand pose that ppl with other controllers have when they arent doing any pose

[stoic bobcat]

its fine when i press select but idk why it thinks it doesnt have that parameter on it, it has it connected yet unity thinks it doesnt

[somber meadow]

It needs to be defined in the avatars VRCExpressionParameters object on the avatar descriptor

[stoic bobcat]

it is

this is even hooked up too

its prob just my unity, sometimes it wont let me animate material change so no clue

[night ember]

is that the same parameter list?
the parameter list you showed is "VRC Expression Parameters" while the one the menu uses is "VRCExpressionParameters"

[mystic anchor]

So, do I need to download something specific for glb files to work with VRC's SDK?

[night ember]

what

why do you even have a glb file

[mystic anchor]

It's what Ready-Player-Me gives you, since they don't let you upload directly to VRC anymore.

[prisma sedge]

Yes they do. I just looked at the website yesterday.

[night ember]

import into blender and export as fbx

[mystic anchor]

Ok. Thank you.

[shadow cobalt]

How would i upload avatars to windows on linux

so the'll be cross compatible

like

android and windows

q-q

[stoic bobcat]

yes its all the same, theyre all connected to the same thing and that expression parameter is the one hooked on the avatar

[night ember]

one has spaces and the other doesnt

[stoic bobcat]

theyre all the same which is weird

it works, its the sdk that thinks it doesnt until I press select on the sdk

[brisk gyro]

Is there a way to, and if so how to, adjust GogoLoco animations?
my avatar's hips sink much lower than it should when I lay down which makes it look weird with the legs stretched, pointing up

[left wharf]

almost same as windows

[shadow cobalt]

.

[shadow cobalt]

im tryna give avatars windows and android support

but i cant upload them to windows from here

[left wharf]

yea you can

[shadow cobalt]

how

:c

[left wharf]

ok then, let's check how much you know:

1. have you installed unity hub & vcc-compatible tools(like ALCOM)?
2. have you installed unity editor "2022.3.22f1"?

[dawn seal]

how do i opimize avatars vro

[shadow cobalt]

ive done 2

[dawn seal]

its telling me to make it 20mb lower

[shadow cobalt]

but ive never herd of alcom

[dawn seal]

so freaking annoying

[left wharf]

alcom is vcc compatible tool for cross pratform(windows, linux, mac)

[shadow cobalt]

oh that alcom

i tried it alr

it woulnt detect unity or unity hub

[left wharf]

is your UnityEditor installed from unity hub?(manual install is not supported, i think)

[shadow cobalt]

oh

yesh it iz

[left wharf]

you can check and edit texture's settings(like this)

[shadow cobalt]

it says to install unity via unity hub

but i alr have

[dawn seal]

i did that and it only took away 6 mb

[left wharf]

ok, so simplify your meshes in blender
and i think this is a bit wrong channel, try ask in #avatar-optimization

[dawn seal]

whoops

well i also did that and deleted so many bones

idk what vrchat wants from me

[shadow cobalt]

ur soul

if i click open unity it js says its alr installed

[left wharf]

hmm, see "Settings" tab, and check your unity hub path is collect

[shadow cobalt]

it is

[left wharf]

then check this. in your env, surrounded area is empty, right?

[spark walrus]

howdy, I'm importing a model from VRoid for the first time. I'm a total noob at this and wanted to make it easier, so I used this VRM converter to save me a lot of work:

https://qiita.com/100/items/7315fe3a7eb75732ae43

It seems like it worked great, the only thing being that when I'm using FBT my entire body rotates with my head. I know this is probably an issue with the neck bone, but I just don't even have the option to go into the rig tab and try to edit it (not that I'd know how to fix it) probably because it's a prefab.

I'm fully aware that this is a big ask because I took shortcuts that probably make helping with this way harder, but I'm super satisfied with the results barring this one issue, so I would super duper appreciate any help...

[stoic bobcat]

is there a way to fix an issue where the avatars chest snaps back into place when I move on desktop? might be the chest bone im using, but its just weird

[arctic dagger]

setting up a new avi and its giving me this under my layters... anyone know what this is or how to fix.. 😭

[night ember]

Did you rig it as humanoid

[arctic dagger]

me ?

[left wharf]

what do you want? If layer in Playable Layers is None, it's work with default animation

[arctic dagger]

i am trying to load face tracking onto the avatar, there is no addative layer or gesture layer

[hexed nebula]

No but it’s not upright it’s just in the floor

[tacit lark]

i made a shirt for my avi but even when using the same model that worked before now suddenly its out of tpose although i enforce it to tpose but it doesnt seem to stay even when i do apply and done? what do i do

[icy knot]

okay so my friend is having this weird problem in blender with the legs being a weird O shape, does anyone know how to fix this? (They tried the bend tool)

(I don't know a ton about avatar creation or blender so sorry if I explained things incorrectly!)

[tacit lark]

errors and such i get with the issue above (when doing gogoloco)

[prisma sedge]

Show the animator component on the root of the model

[tacit lark]

this page?

or this one?

[prisma sedge]

That second what I was talking about

[tacit lark]

ohh

[prisma sedge]

Hmm, have you tried setting the rig type from humanoid to generic back to humanoid?

[tacit lark]

i have tried but it wont keep the enforced tpose

[prisma sedge]

What is that error the rig tab is talking about?

[tacit lark]

it acts like it doesnt have certain bones when it does

and its model does work

but its a different one

the one i added the shirt to isnt working

[dark jay]

Why does it do this in unity

But not blender

Already checked vertex paint

Help please

I wanna fix it

[prisma sedge]

What is "this" referring to? I dont see anything wrong in the pictures

[dark jay]

Blender

Unity

[dark jay]

U see the shaded spots

I circled in blender it looks normal

In unity its this weird gray orange and cant fix it i tried with all different shaders

[prisma sedge]

You're never gonna get a 1:1 model from blender to unity. There will be small differences.
If anything you might be able to use a cel shader to get that result. The only cel shader I know about is Silent's cel shader. If that doesn't work, you can maybe try using an outline shader but if it still doesn't work then you'll just have to deal with the difference

[dark jay]

I know people who have made it without the issue

[dark jay]

Should i go back and just redo the body

[timber wharf]

isnt it just uuuh realtime light color?

[dark jay]

Wdym

I know my light color is set to white

[tacit lark]

how would i parent the shirt sleeves to my avatar, i put it on the chest and it only keeps the shirt on but the sleeves dont move, they move if i play with the armature but im not sure how to connect them to the model to move with the arms

i thought maybe unpacking and then dragging to the arms would work but that doesnt seem to be the solution either

this shirt is rigged as well

this is what happens

is it possible its because its not weight painted? i couldnt get weight painting to work at all

I GOT IT TO WORK if anyone else has this issue link using vrcfury armature link and link the rigged clothing parts to their specified location.

i feel like videos i find never seem to cover how to do shirts and things that arent just one single parent

also unpack before doing this

[dark jay]

Or u can combine it in blender

[fervent fog]

It would be better for you to use poiyomi multilayer math since that's like a cell shader or even wrapped in poiyomi

Those models definitely weren't made in mind with pbr textures

And most standard shaders are just pbr stuff

Anime and cartoonish things are npr

PBR is physically based rendering and NPR I think is non-photo realistic

The shader is trying to reflect actul shadow and light, I would assume some sort of specular or metallic is giving it the grayish orange look you see. Because it doesn't have any specified maps to tell it not to do spec or metallic n what not on those specifics areas.

[lime mural]

can someone explain why its good to unwrap your mesh

im not sure i understand

i think i did this right but im not sure why

[ruby pagoda]

It helps preventing distortion and allows you more control over how terxtures are placed on your model

Manually unwrapping is pretty much necessary for more complex models, and it's generally good to do so you have control over where your seams are :>
If the texture and your model are really simple you can probably just get away with automatic unwrapping.

[lime mural]

honestly all my textures are just flat

but i am likee

using 3 materials for the mouth

xd

im only at 8 materials but still

[ruby pagoda]

How so?

[lime mural]

well i basically apply one material for each color and stuff

im very new at this

xdddddd

literterally my first avi

mouth and face use eyewhite for the white plane on the eye, yellow for mouth and black for eyes and stuff

ik its not how ur supposed to do it but im not sure how to optimize it yet lol

[ruby pagoda]

aah
You could probably just add all the mouth parts into one UV map and make a texture where you colour the different sections your respective colours
Since everything is completely flat you can probably just fit it into one image texture

[lime mural]

i think i did that

im not sure

lets see what i did lol

this

i havent exported this yet or anything but

[ruby pagoda]

Yeah pretty much like that
In the texture painter you can create a new image and you should be able to see your selected UVs on there too to see what you need to colour

Kinda like this

I did it with a different program so the textures look funky but especially for simple stuff you can yust texture everything inside blender (Or use a drawing program)

Basically the entire body is one material even tho it consists of multiple separate pieces and colours

[lime mural]

hmmm

ok

tysm

:3

ill see if i can figure out how to do that

[ruby pagoda]

i hope that makes sense fhds
im kinda new to 3D modelling as well so i'm bad with terminology

You're welcome!

[lime mural]

lol im superrr new

so same with the terminology

[ruby pagoda]

It's so much and sometimes i just randomly discover smth new and i get confused all over again

[stoic bobcat]

that can be done by baking it in blender or combining it in photoshop

fortnite uses shader stuff to get the lines on it so its not on the actual texture itself but a seperate one, its usually all red lines on a black background

[spark walrus]

u there?

u have to make key shapes in blender to be able to use lipsync in unity?

[south kraken]

anyone know when the constrainted physbone bug is getting fixed?

they said it would be fixed but its obviously not in the current release

[junior void]

dont wait for them to re-evaluate a fix that doesnt work (they never will unless you go complain)

[lilac musk]

If your model doesn't have them, then yes. If it has them already then you just tell the avatar descriptor what mesh they are on and then either let it try to automatically set it up or you can manually add them.

You can also use flapjaw, which is a mouth movement system that will rotate a bone (open and close your mouth) whenever your mic makes a sound. Though that would require a jaw bone, so either way needs some setup if your avatar doesn't have it already.

[shadow cobalt]

its empty

also mb i passed out

i manually added it i think..

yezzz

i did tttt

ty

:3

[spark walrus]

but u have to make the voal mouth shapes urself>?

[lilac musk]

Yes, I know there are tools (I think it's CATS) that can speed up the process. Something about only having to make a few shape keys, then it will generate the remaining. Though I've never used it so don't quote me on that.

[toxic pumice]

i upgraded one of my projects to Unity 2022 and I think something changed about the way transparency is rendered I now get the pupil punching through to the background of the eye instead of properly working with the eye.

any idea how to fix this? shader is poiyomi but completely unchanged to the working 2019 project

thats how it looked before

[spark walrus]

Hey, I've tried removing extra phys bones like one on their hairs and tongue, but now the avi is melting a part.... Any advise to a novice? 😅

[ornate stump]

Do not just removing bones. You will have to merge bone weight paint in blender.

[spark walrus]

it there any good tutorial about that on youtube? Since I haven't' found any clear advice on this problems

[ornate stump]

Merge vertex group/weight paint is an option from CATS plugin.

[spark walrus]

the cants isn't working on my blender either -.-

• I'm still clueless about what you are talking about -.-'''

[ornate stump]

You might be not using supported version for a certain blender version.

[left gull]

you've gotta re-weightpaint those areas to their correct bone, since cats doesnt "work with your blender" you'll have to do it manually https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fICQmBEt4Y

[spark walrus]

thank you

[somber sequoia]

or if you want to use cats, get a version which works with the blender you're using

[spark walrus]

no idea which version it might be, other than it doesn't work in the latest blender

[somber sequoia]

search in this channel, the links to what works in the latest Blender have been posted many times

[junior void]

officialy cats dont support blender 4

youll need to find the unofficial one for that

[broken bone]

Make sure the material is set to "Transparent" and not "Cutout"

[toxic pumice]

it is

Its so weird that i didnt change anything about model or shader and the migration caused the issue to appear

[broken bone]

Hmm weird. Might be some kind of render order or Zwrite issue

[toxic pumice]

Maybe Unity changed behaviour but I cant figure out how to fix this

[ornate stump]

Maybe try changing the preset to something else and back to transparent. Just in case some settings had been changed during migration.

[toxic pumice]

tried that

doesnt seem to work sadly

[violet copper]

Good morning! Lol I was going to ask for help with an issue. But as I was typing, I realized the problem. I am working with decimals and not whole numbers. 🤣

[toxic pumice]

...i fixed the eyes in a way i absolutely despise

I split the eye layers into 2 seperate materials that are exact copies of each other except one has -1 render queue

now it renders without the issue

[broken bone]

If it works it works. Sounds like it just doesn't like stacking transparent objects on top of each other without being told which should be in front

might be an optimization thing in newer versions of Unity

[toxic pumice]

well sadly that in turn means it de-optimized my avatar cus now i have two seperate transparent materials, thats gonna cost draw calls...

well atleast it works

[broken bone]

Yeah, that kind of sucks. You could always change the eyes to not use transparent textures if you're concerned with performance 🤷‍♂️

It may also be possible to change the render queue on a per-object basis, but don't quote me on that Nevermind, I don't think you can anyway

[toxic pumice]

its all one mesh so wouldnt work cus its one object

[shadow cobalt]

i was told alcom would let me do windows

yall lied

[indigo compass]

Seems like you didn't install Windows build support when you installed Unity

[shadow cobalt]

oh..

welp time to reinstall:3

cries inside

nvm

[shadow cobalt]

ty furry lizzard man

:)

[polar shard]

Hi folks! I'm still having this issue, and was wondering if anyone could help me fix it? I recently paid for a vrchat avatar, but this error keeps happening when i try to upload it.

[ornate stump]

You have 5 errors but shown only 4. Look for the first error.

[toxic pumice]

Anyone know how impostors choose their shaders for rendering? cus i just had a very funny fail, my impostor is only my eyes and the rest is some weird z-clipping null material

like i know the geometry was there during rendering cus the eye can be hidden by turning it, but its like... just the eyes present lol

[simple path]

anyone know how to make ribbons flow naturally instead of springy like?

[arctic ginkgo]

turn down the spring value in your physbone forces

turning down the pull value may also make it feel lighter

[jade narwhal]

Hi, anyone know how to create a C# script in Unity that reads values from VRCExpressionParameters in real time?

[worn kiln]

are you asking about editor tool?

[jade narwhal]

i don't know what is editor tool or i just don't remember

my idea for now is simple i want to just have one of my parameters from VRCExpressionParameters in my script

[atomic hound]

Any optimization reason to only use one shader on an avatar as opposed to multiple different ones?

[worn kiln]

you know....you cannot use C# on avatar in-game...

[worn kiln]

saving render cost + save file size also.

[atomic hound]

Cool cool thanks

[jade narwhal]

ok thanks that means i'll have to do it through an animator which will waste a lot more time but thanks for the info

[fickle tundra]

Greetings everyone!

I want to duplicate my avatar project in Creator Companion so I can make some halloween modifications without messing up the original-- what is the best way to go about that? I don't see any buttons for duplication

[timber wharf]

@atomic hound render cost would be same (if same/different shaders have same complexity) unless you combine both meshes to one, its not like two avatar meshes can be static batched

[fickle tundra]

Should I just make a copy of the project folder? would that cause other issues?

[ruby summit]

How do i unlink 2 avatars? (i wanna make a variant of the avatar i have but each time i upload it, it uploads on top of the original avatar)

[timber wharf]

@fickle tundra sure, or backup with vcc and extract back, same as copy but less junk

[fickle tundra]

aha, thanks!

[timber wharf]

@ruby summit find pipeline manager near descriptor, click detach

[ruby summit]

oh ty

[shrewd stirrup]

Does anyone have a single gunshot particle effect i could really use one

[shrewd stirrup]

i need a particle plss

[tidal tusk]

I lowk messed up but is there a way for this not to happen when i detach it from bones or rename vertex groups?

Its going back to default state

A-Pose instead of the T-pose i changed it to

Its connected to the armature with an armature modifier and as soon as i remove that it goes back to the "normal" state

[hidden epoch]

Im going to upload a avatar and it gives me an anchor error

Then stops me from uploading

Any fixes

[twin raft]

unity script for copying blendshapes anyone know? 👀

[somber sequoia]

exceptionally unlikely to be realistic in Unity, it's not trivial in proper mesh-editing programs like Blender

[trim lagoon]

Anyone can help me pls? I wanted to come again to my avatar maker era and this appears when i try to open a project

[timber wharf]

@trim lagoon open unity hub and check license

replacing ssd or cpu breaks it, just need couple clicks

[unique burrow]

whenever i change a texture size it breaks my inspector until i restart unity and it refuses to show me anything without constantly undoing things, its like the inspector refuses to update, and it gives me this error in the console, does anyone know how to fix this?

[rancid anvil]

is it possible to have the head or eyes use with the puppet contol?

[unique burrow]

it only started happening to me when vrchat moved onto unity 2022.3.22f1

[rancid anvil]

like this every time i tried to use it it doesnt work

[twin raft]

not copying blendshape data

just values

between same meshes

[spark walrus]

How does one fix an avatar that is pc and quest compatible but shows as an error robot for quest users?

[arctic ginkgo]

yes but it's not just as simple as animating a transform. You need to disable tracking for them when the puppet is opened

[rancid anvil]

in here?

[arctic ginkgo]

use the tracking control state behavior

[rancid anvil]

this?

[arctic ginkgo]

yes

[rancid anvil]

i did that but it still not moving

[arctic ginkgo]

also the head can only be animated in certain layers

You can use the action layer

or you could just use a rotation constraint tbh that would be easier

constrain the head to an empty transform, by default have the constraint turned off, then in the moving animations turn on the constraint and animate the rotation of the empty

[rancid anvil]

damn it that ez

do the empty have to be somewhere or anywhere?

[spark walrus]

what model files does unity support?

does it have to be an fbx?>

[somber sequoia]

ohhhh

[rancid anvil]

eyes as well?

[arctic ginkgo]

yeah

[rancid anvil]

ok

[rancid anvil]

when i constraint the head to the empty when i rotate it a little it spins fast

fixed it

[spark walrus]

what am I missing>?

[twin raft]

pbr?

pbr material needs to be setup

[spark walrus]

what is pbr:?

[stable igloo]

Hiii, I added this piercing to my model, it syncs when I test it in scene but it doesnt in play mode (as shown picture). How can I sync it with mouth movement?

[somber meadow]

are the piercings on the same mesh of the face

[stable igloo]

Is this what you mentioned?

[somber meadow]

then no, VRChat visemes can only be applied to a single mesh

[night ember]

yes but actually no

[stable igloo]

The accessories use modular avatar, I did it but it said this. It worked for clothes but not this one so I was tryna do it manually. Is there a way to make it sync?

[somber sequoia]

physicality based rendering

(or Pabst Blue Ribbon, a decent pilsener. Depending on context.)

[somber meadow]

if you want your visemes to be as smooth as the vrc avatar descriptor's, we'd need floats for each viseme

[night ember]

technically no

[spark walrus]

u mean the shader?

[somber meadow]

I'd like to see what solution has been came up with then

Advanced Visemes from VRCFury still isn't as good as the descriptor's based visemes

[somber sequoia]

Yes, it refers to how some shaders work

[night ember]

transition duration is one way to smooth them out to work better

[dense tree]

is there a anthro slime avatar ?

[spark walrus]

what i have noticed is , my avatars dont have real shadow in vrchat

[night ember]

#1138520828556890214

[spark walrus]

they arent effected by light

[night ember]

what shader are you using

[spark walrus]

toon

poi toon

[night ember]

shading tab

[spark walrus]

i didnt touch any of ity

[night ember]

then you are probably using flat shading

[spark walrus]

dunno anything about shading

[night ember]

shading is your shadows

[spark walrus]

and what r shaders?

[somber sequoia]

https://www.poiyomi.com/shading/main

[spark walrus]

gonna look into this tmorrow

i go sleep

thx

[pallid jolt]

what does this mean?

[spark walrus]

but my tank has 0 shade

[somber sequoia]

You can't have a mesh named the same as a humanoid bone. Rename your head mesh (likely in Blender)

[spark walrus]

yes

[night ember]

change it to something else

[somber sequoia]

seriously, read the docs

[spark walrus]

it is grayed out

[somber sequoia]

see in the docs about locking

[night ember]

then unlock the shader?

[spark walrus]

how?

hold ojn

[night ember]

at the top of the shader

[spark walrus]

yes

that did the trick

🙂

thanks , cya tomorrow will keep u updated

[steep carbon]

can somebody @ me a tutorial for how to make a quest compatible grabbable hat toggle that other people can grab with the new vrc constraints? There's nothing on youtube

[pallid jolt]

now im getting this error

[somber meadow]

did you delete the head bone?

if you didn't just go into the rig configurator in Unity and assign the head bone back

[pallid jolt]

I havent deleted anything

[somber sequoia]

seems like an incorrect armature

[rancid anvil]

anyone know how to fix when i making the animation the eye skins work but in play mode or in game they wont work?

[somber sequoia]

sure, find out what animation is changing them from the default