avatar-help

[ornate stump]

It change to 1 for one frame when it entered the reciever. If you set it to return to off state when parameter reach 0 then you did it wrong.

[cinder pulsar]

But I can't change the velocity required

[ornate stump]

What does it do? Did it just max to 1?

[mystic sentinel]

Need help here anyone?

[balmy barn]

error says it, add missing parameters

[cinder pulsar]

By what you're saying, I can't adjust the velocity since it just controls smth different

[ornate stump]

What something different?

[cinder pulsar]

^

[ornate stump]

How is it wrong though?

[tulip vapor]

hello no biggie but uhh im trying to work out vrchat contacts, im trying to make it so when you grab the cookie from the cookie jar from the avi im making you hold it, but the speed is too fast and i dont know what im doing wrong and im new to this contact thing so uhh the real thing is how do i make it so the speed is constant like no disapearing

unless if put bacl

back

[cinder pulsar]

Either way On Enter doesn't work, it plays the sound for one single frame which is not even a second so it won't work either way

[ornate stump]

You read it very wrong. Parameter set to 1 doesn't effect by Min Velocity.

[ornate stump]

That is how OnEnter work: it set parameter to 1 for one frame when the receiver got trigger.

[cinder pulsar]

Then it won't work for my purpose

[fickle lake]

what does this error mean?

[ornate stump]

Because you are setting animator state incorrectly. Do not make it return on parameter equal 0.

Use Exit time to return to off state.

[cinder pulsar]

I haven't touched that

I have it set up like a regular contact

[ornate stump]

You do now.

[cinder pulsar]

Literally just followed a tutorial and that didn't work either :/

[ornate stump]

Have to changed to use Exit Time?

[cinder pulsar]

Yes

and I gave it different values to experiment and nothing worked

I only wanted to try set this up cause it's annoying that it constantly plays with just the slightest contact so I just removed it

[ornate stump]

With ExitTime, the on state animation must be long as the sound.

[cinder pulsar]

Already tried that, did not work

I'm not setting up the contact again anyway

[ornate stump]

You'd have to screenshot what you set so we can verify whether you missed something.

[cinder pulsar]

Yeah no just listen to me, I said I gave up on the idea and just removed it

I'm not setting my contact up again

[ornate stump]

Hope you're true to your word.

[cinder pulsar]

Sadly now this crap is complaining

[ornate stump]

Literally as it said.

[cinder pulsar]

but it's not true, all animators have controllers etc with animation clips that have things in

[ornate stump]

It includes all the playable layers: which also is locomotion additive, gesture action, etc.

[cinder pulsar]

All I've done is remove my slap contacts

nothing else

I can't bring them back anyway cause I saved and restarted unity

The only things that will be empty are the hand facial expressions but I've never had issues with some set to empty clip

and the empty clip is an actual clip named empty clip with smth in it that does basically nothing

[noble estuary]

Hey can someone upload an avatar for me? I finished rigging it and set it up in unity with the creator companion but it wont let me upload because of my account rank.

[night ember]

no

[noble estuary]

Thanks for responding, is there a rule against that or something?

[obtuse vapor]

I think it’s against VRChat ToS to upload an avatar for someone else to skirt the rank requirement.

[noble estuary]

rip

[west drum]

does anyone know what could cause this/how to fix it? these are two models with the same material - one is joined into one mesh in blender, the other is separate parts (most of the meshes joined are hidden, but they have the same issues). this is a poyomi shader with a fixed-size outline.

through some experimentation, i've found it seems to be related to shape keys in some way? when i turn on a shapekey, it makes the outline get larger.

[sly lodge]

@noble estuary you can get new user rank within 10-20 hours of gameplay, it's really not that much a requirement

[night ember]

blendshape normals

[sly lodge]

just add a lot of friends, make a vrchat account, then you can boost it up

[night ember]

in unity you can tell it to recalculate them with a checkbox

[west drum]

mine are already set to calculate

...but setting the normal normals (as in, not the blendshape normals) to calculate did work!

using legacy belndshape normals worked too, and actually worked the best - the model i modified for this avatar used legacy blendshape normals

[spark walrus]

CAN i Talk in priovate with someone that knows a lot about vrchat?

[snow nexus]

Can someone help me with something

[drifting drum]

so since im scared & worried but also not really sure since this is my first time and stuff w/ blender- if i color in the model in layout will it still come out or no?😭

[astral cosmos]

whats the latest unity version thats compatiple

[ornate stump]

https://creators.vrchat.com/getting-started#quickstart

[astral cosmos]

thank you

[junior void]

This question makes no sense

[astral cosmos]

jsut made an avatar today aftera few months of not doing so and said the version wasnt the latest lol

so thanks

[drifting drum]

basically what im asking is if i color the model in blender in layout and not in sculpting & modeling will it still come out

[ornate stump]

"not recommended" isn't the same as latest.

[junior void]

Come out?!

[drifting drum]

like show/appear

[astral cosmos]

my bad for that slip up but if you mean the latest version of unity then yeah i know thats why i asked which was the latest that was compatible

if that makes sense

thansk tho

👍

[junior void]

As long as you save the texture, yes.

[drifting temple]

my avatars feet are clipping thorugh the ground a bit even though they are on z level 0 in blender

[spark walrus]

avatars current size is 19mb needs to be 10. Whats the best thing to do?

[foggy cedar]

texture size is probably one of the biggest factors for download size, maybe downres where it seems fit

[spark walrus]

thats just making this lower right?

[astral cosmos]

is there a way to duplicate a unity project but have it upload as a different avatar when using the sdk

because iirc when you duplicate a project itll jsut update the avatar the project was originally made for

[foggy cedar]

Yeah lower the 1024 till you start to see obvious issues. sometimes you can also get some a more out of changing the conpression quality from normal
Dont use crunch though, it doesnt do much for vrchat. in my experience, it causes hitches

@spark walrus

[foggy cedar]

Are you refering to overwriting upoaded avatars on accident? you can remove the current blueprint id on the base of the avatar to create a new upload

[spark walrus]

kks

tys

[astral cosmos]

yeah i was and nice thank you

[cinder flicker]

does anyone know what this blendshape aliasing is called? where some aren't far enough and stay in the normal position

[foggy cedar]

Keep in mind that if you use shaders like poi that have a lock-in feature, youll have to unlock and relock to refresh what the sdk sees and see the current size before upload

[foggy cedar]

btw you can get the ID back in the content manager tab next to the builder tab if you need and paste it back in

[astral cosmos]

thanks again :D

[foggy cedar]

I'd like to help if I can understand but I'm not quite sure what you mean by blendshape aliasing

Or where to look...

[cinder flicker]

the mouth is jagged because unity doesn't move blendshape vertices if they aren't changed enough

the mouth keyform looks like this in blender

[foggy cedar]

oh are you only enabling it partially? you dont have any other blendshapes effecting the same mesh at the same time, right?

[cinder flicker]

no, it's at full

if the blendshape was more "intense" it wouldn't do this in unity. but if there's a name for it i want to look it up

[foggy cedar]

is that the only blendshapre you currently have active in unity on that mesh?

[cinder flicker]

no, but my other blendshapes aren't affecting it.

[eager hinge]

Is anyone able to help me get these settings on to the edited avatar in unity?

[dark saddle]

Fast question
when working with audio sources, how does it behave with avatar distance hidder?
If I set an audio source to play on wake, will it play every time the avatar is loaded, even with distance hider? (walking up to and walking away) or does VRChat save the audio source state?

[foggy cedar]

Either there is a chance you have cross contamination of those verts with another blendshape pulling them back, or your mesh is having an issue when converting to quads in unity. Maybe try "keep quads"
https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/14ahhi1/blendshapes_mismatch_between_blender_and_unity/

[foggy cedar]

from my expereince, the avatar distance culling doesnt trigger "on awake", but hiding and showing an avatar will trigger it

[dark saddle]

Alrighty thank you!

I was wondering about it

[astral cosmos]

hi again just wondering where i can find the blueprint id to change it?

[foggy cedar]

That seems like the entire avatar 3 setup lol, do you need the vrc docs? tey are pretty well written for all of it

[eager hinge]

yes please, this is my first project ever haha

[foggy cedar]

Under the avatar descriptor component

[dark jay]

Can someone help me fix this

I mean when bending back it does it

[astral cosmos]

ooh okay thank you

[foggy cedar]

Run through the best you can and if you have issues with specifics, that'll be a lot easier to get help with here
https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/creating-your-first-avatar/

[dark jay]

Lmk

[spark walrus]

i made every texture significantly smaller and all low quality, it dropped nearly none

in size

[foggy cedar]

if youre taking about the undershirt coming through, it looks like the weight painting isn't completely right. it might be a better question in https://discord.com/channels/189511567539306508/390924372782612480

[foggy cedar]

If you really want to sinch down on VRAM/Mesh/Combined size, maybe try a tool like Thry's Evaluator and VRAM Calc tool. It will give you a much better look at your avatar and quickly be able to change it where you need it most
https://github.com/Thryrallo/VRC-Avatar-Performance-Tools

[spark walrus]

can someone help me making a avatar i don't know what i need to download and all the tutorials i can find don't really help or there outdated

[foggy cedar]

For starting, especially with knowing what you want to look for, take a look at the VRC Docs if you havent already. Imo they are very well written with plenty of examples. after that, going to youtube for tips and tricks will help you get a better idea on how to expand
https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/creating-your-first-avatar/

there are a lot of big and flashy things out there, but start somewhere reasonable

YOu can also ask friends for stuff to see how it should look

[spark walrus]

oh bet i forgot that existed lol, tysm

[spark walrus]

thank you i will check that out but why is your name nothing?

[foggy cedar]

Its pretty nice lol

[foggy cedar]

its a blank character as my server name before discord made it not allowed lmao
My username is Pkl

[spark walrus]

yeah i asked because i got pretty confusing when at the bottom it said nothing was typing

[foggy cedar]

XD I never thought about it

[spark walrus]

lol

[spark walrus]

okay so its saying the meshes are taking up the space, how can i reduce that?

[foggy cedar]

My best though is vertex count and number of individual meshes(if not already a single mesh), blendshapes, number of UV maps, etc.
That sort of stuff goes beyond just VRC so you might be able to dig into a forum for a real sw engineer dev on the topic

[toxic mural]

Just asking again to see if anyone knows an easier way than this to mimic a 12/24 FPS update rate on an avatar

[spark walrus]

alright thank you

[foggy cedar]

I havent cracked at it myself but there are 2 main ways you could do it.
-One is animating your armature to snap to your current pos at the interval you want, which would take a second armature and constraints.
-The second (and cheaper) option is a shader that updates the pixels at the desired rate, which I've used/seen.

There might be another, but I cant name it

[foggy cedar]

you can try this

[spark walrus]

wheres that at?

[foggy cedar]

find your mesh file and it is the "model" tab in the inspector

[toxic mural]

Yeah I know of the first method, a huge PITA to set up. IIRC that’s the only way quest users can see that effect. What shader has the ability to do that then?

[spark walrus]

this is what i see

[foggy cedar]

Times I've had a shader for it was custom made so I cant name one right away... if you have a simple shader, it might be a simple edit to change the update rate. I don't know the exact code to throw in right away though, but it is something that extends beyond vrc so you'll be able to find a game dev askign in a forum

[foggy cedar]

that looks like you selected a mesh within the file you wanna click

[spark walrus]

oh okay my bad thank you

oh it was set to rig

i set it to model and turned compression off

should i try and see if that did anything

[foggy cedar]

did you have mesh compression on before?

[spark walrus]

uhhh

no

i dont think

so nothing would change?

[foggy cedar]

default is none, raw import with basic unity import compression, you can try bumping it up and see how much itll shave

you will see a visual difference if you put it to high

[spark walrus]

alright

ill see how it goes

[proper jay]

i feel like my model looks way better in unity which i think might be caused by fov, is there any way to reduce the effect of that or is that just a part of the uploading an avatar life? her face looks way bigger compared to her hair

its like when u look in the mirror vs when you try to take a selfie lol

[elder pivot]

bruh.

that cannot be pssible 😭

[junior void]

Turn on read write on the fbx

[elder pivot]

?

[foggy cedar]

you are running unity is isometric view, which makes everything viewed as the same distance from the camera. Although, we view everything in perspective where things to the sizes and further away get smaller, aka, the face is close/centered and the hair is off to the sides and further away.

For an accurate scale representation, keep your scene view as perspective instead of isometric

[spark walrus]

got it down 3mb lol, now its 16mb

[proper jay]

yeah it looks the same in blender in perspective but i have fov at 100

[foggy cedar]

yeah iso removes the concept of FOV entirely and uses a viewable box instead lol

[proper jay]

like blender looks the same as unity even in perspective ill show in a bit i just left my computer

i thought iso was like a flat straight on view

[foggy cedar]

looks like youre on your way, 10mb is quite the demand so if mesh compression does not do it, you might have to chop away at the model itself and recompress the cut down ver

[spark walrus]

kk

tys tho

[proper jay]

oh im thinking ortho

[foggy cedar]

yeah, iso/ortho is flat straight on, just it also removes any concept of scale/distance
Its really useful for lining things up visuallly along a single axis

orthographic is the same view type as isometic, ortho is just meant for stuff like blueprinting where you see 3 or 4 flat views for machining lol

[long sierra]

So Klonoa's ears do flap when he flies but it doesn't seem to loop correctly

it DOES loop, but there's like half a second or so between each loop

[proper jay]

yeah i started out making blueprint type stuff for machining haha

in solidworks

[foggy cedar]

oh yeah you get it then lol
I see why you chose iso

[proper jay]

some habits die hard 😔

[foggy cedar]

hardsurface vs organic modeling be like

[proper jay]

guess ill have to try and rearrange it in persp, thank you!

bad and naughty avatars go in the hydraulic press. get flat! get flat!!

[mild solar]

current setup has middle toe as the “toe” under rig configuration. when im in play mode using gesture manager, whichever toe is assigned under “Toe” stretches when the avatar is in motion. if its middle toe the middle one stretches, if its big toe the big one does. (as shown in the pink image)

for assets using the same base, i notice that under foot there’s a “Toe_L/R” before all the toes are listed, but for the fbx i’m using which is the same base, that’s missing, it goes straight from Foot to all the toes.

the screenshot with the red line is my avatars hierarchy, and the one in the blue text is the hierarchy of the asset with the same base

i’m not sure how to fix this issue and i’ve tried what i could think of

[junior void]

You could unassign the toe though, its optional anyway

[foggy cedar]

Unity's config does not support individual toes as-is. the toeL or toeR setup is meant to bend them all at once, like it you were on your toes reaching up for something high or you back foot when stepping forward.
The middle(or any) toe stretching chould be a position mismatch with the mesh its controlling

Better yet, any green circle in the config that is not a solid circle is not required

[long sierra]

I have exit times disabled on all of the flight anims

[mild solar]

ohhh, that won’t affect the foot tracking to unassigned the toe?

[long sierra]

wait, no I didn't O_o

[foggy cedar]

if you have this on your transition, it will not do it. you can either have an exit of 0.01 or have a dummy parameter that will act as a reason to transition

[long sierra]

I thought I disabled it, but I actually forgot to XD

[foggy cedar]

the foot tracking is the ankle ( where the foot bone starts)
the toes will still bend if you have toeL/R setup when running, reaching up, etc. but is not needed

[mild solar]

thank you so much for the help and the responses and the explanation @foggy cedar @junior void it’s very appreciated

[gritty furnace]

Does anyone here understand how audio works in Unity? I have a purr when people touch the top of my head, and apparently everyone else is able to hear it but I'm not. The only time I've been able to hear it is if I take the right-most red volume node and raise it up, but apparently that makes the audio play world-wide instead.

I've tried removing the spatial audio source, it's the same thing. I don't hear any purr until I raise the red up and make the audio world-wide.

[vale swan]

hey anyone got any idea what might be wrong, i've been attempting to upload a quest version of my main avatar and this message pops up everytime

and this is what the console says

[lime lagoon]

how do i make full body toggle?

not just items but my whole head

[foggy cedar]

Hi Frii
Since it says something is null in "expression" it makes me thing that something is not set right in your menu asset

[feral abyss]

Okay, possibly a dumb question… how hard would it be to make a fully customisable set of nails? As in each nail is colourable while in game, you can add stencils, change the shape, add french tips and change their colour, add little gems and change their colour? Ik this will take a load of work, probably in both blender and unity, so wanted to ask now and almost write a list of instructions of concepts and code I need to learn (for reference I haven’t even found a base and head I want to work yet, but I overthink and focus on details far too quickly so if it’s not possible, I’ll nip it in the bud)

[foggy cedar]

enabling/disabling fbt is an option in the in-game menu, but you can also attempt to push it with an animation tracking control behavior and set all body parts to animation instead of tracked

[lime lagoon]

ok do i need one more avatar to change to?

[foggy cedar]

you could change shape with blenshapes, animate color changes in the material or swap the material entirely, and additional things stuck to the surface could be actual gems pieces scaled down and set as a child (which would not be optimized) or have these pieces as part of the nail mesh that you can scale to 0 and hide with a blendshape when you dont want it seen

[foggy cedar]

I'm assuming youre asking about toggling fbt on a single avatar
If you want it to affect any avatar, toggle in the menu, individual avatars can be animated

[lime lagoon]

can you look in dm after helping royale

[feral abyss]

Ooh, so blend shapes are my friend here, okay! Oh, and animating colour changes (which I assume works better than full material swaps as I want a sort of colour wheel effect)

[vale swan]

hm, i've been thinking that might be the case too but even when i try to setup a fresh expression menu, nothing changes sadly

[lime lagoon]

so i do need one more avatar if i want somthing that does not have a mouth to open it

[foggy cedar]

might be a dumb question but you have a parameter asset and the menu is not trying to access parameters that dont exist, right?
I've had this issue before too so I'm trying to jog my memory lol

[foggy cedar]

Yeah! you can even have a big texture of different styles in a grid and animate the material to have the UV use a different area of the texture. that way you can do more than just color, which you can do with animating a hue slider, if you shader has one

[vale swan]

nope all parameters are working as intended, there are no useless parameters or missing ones

[feral abyss]

I’d be using poiyomi so yeah I’ve got hue slider, but I didn’t realise I could have a grid of textures to cycle through! So much to research and I haven’t even got a base yet… thanks so much for the help!

[foggy cedar]

I'll try to mess around and see if I can replicate it, I forgor what it was

[vale swan]

if you want i can send you the full logs, i've always been bad at finding the issues through logs =.=

[foggy cedar]

more on haveing a single texture, change the tileing to scale it up, then change the offset to have a different area of the texture shown on the mesh.
If you want to get in a similar but more useful feature, check out UV Tile Discard in Poi's shader!

[feral abyss]

...oh I have just had so many ideas, I may be about to fixate on making the perfect set of nails and then not have a model to affix them too! God only knows how bad I'll be when I get to learning how to make my own clothing...

[gritty furnace]

-Throws computer out the window-
The component was completely fine.
The avatar's Write Defaults are all messed up.

[gritty fern]

can someone help me out on something?

i have a problem with an avi that i uploaded but its missing so many things does anyone know why?

[foggy cedar]

The more you learn is the more you can do for others and maybe get paid for it. You have great energy!

[feral abyss]

Yeah but it's only good if they work on a model! And trust me, I've tried making a model from scratch and train wreck did NOT cover it. Too bad I can't afford the good quality bases, free male bases are so few and far between, and vroid isn't my style

[foggy cedar]

It takes practice and not being embarrassed to get accurate feedback on specifics. Humans have a good eye fro telling what is off about other human-like things so its a tough one to jump into without practice. use character sheets as a reference behind your model and get a hang of the proportions of what style youre shooting for

[foggy cedar]

Hey what shows at the bottom when you click the error about a null reference exception?

if you wanna send logs, feel frii to lol

[unique acorn]

I have an interesting issue. Editing an avi I set everything up like normal. But there seems to be some issue with the Radial Menu and the Parameters. I have multiple toggles on the avi. One of them is set up to be on already. But when uploading the toggles are all backwards on the menu. And when I turn the one that should be on, on. It toggles it off. And then everything is stuck on, can't be turned off.

[somber sequoia]

stuck on often means some other animation or another menu item is setting that parameter

[unique acorn]

None of the animations are setting any other toggle. I simply can't turn them off. And then the toggles themselves are backwards. As in, in the parameters the default is set to not be one, and in the menu's, they will be set on. But animations are untouched. Just backwards with the menu.

[long sierra]

Klonoa's ears won't stop flapping when I enable GGL flight:

New State is transitioned to if FBT is on

[somber sequoia]

I cannot think of a reason why something would be backwards from what the menus is unless your animator logic is also doing things backwards.

But usually stuff stuck like that is a matter of trying to change the same parameters in multiple places

[unique acorn]

I found the issue. I had to turn the value on on everything in the menu to make things work. Once I did that, they all returned to normal. Did the radial menu stuff change recently or?

[barren stump]

I'm having an issue with an avatar I'm working on. I'm creating toggles for the clothing. When I press play in Unity and click the toggle to for the piece of clothing, it turns off like it's supposed to, but then a second later it toggles back on even though there's no other animators that are affecting it, the animation is not set to loop, and write defaults are off. Any ideas on why this might be happening?

[long sierra]

Conditions for Idle > Flutter are: VRCEmote >119 or <125.
Conditions for Flutter> Idle are VRCEmote <120 or >124

[somber sequoia]

"turn the value on"? Yes, the menu stuff got updated recently, a 3.6 beta I think

[rough knoll]

Hey guys

[unique acorn]

Alrighty. Thank you.

[rough knoll]

Does anyone know how to make a quest avatar fly?

[somber sequoia]

an easy answer is: use gogo loco

[rough knoll]

Hard answer?

I know how to make a pc avatar fly, is it harder?

[long sierra]

Shouldn't this work for Klonoa's ear flapping animation when he's flying? Controller for reference

[long sierra]

PC is easier

quest involves stations I think

and you need to have a mirror active for it to work, so on worlds with no mirror you can't fly

quest flight is stupid

[rough knoll]

What???

No way

[somber sequoia]

huh I don't think I've heard that before, but I don't do much Quest work

[rough knoll]

Okay I will use gogo loco then.

[long sierra]

At least that's how GGL does it in the version I use

[rough knoll]

What is GGL?

[long sierra]

GoGoLoco

[rough knoll]

Oh yeah

I'm stupid

Thanks

[long sierra]

don't worry, I commit brainfarts too lmao

[rough knoll]

It is soo easy to make avatars for pc

[long sierra]

Yeah, you need to have a mirror turned on in order for the flight to work, because the flight needs a reflection active for some reason

dunno if personal mirror works

[rough knoll]

Weird, anyways I'll just put GGL there and call it a day

[timid phoenix]

small question can you upload an avatar without any shoulder bones?

[somber sequoia]

Yes, though it won't be humanoid and so you'd have to create all of the base locomotion system yourself

you probably don't want this

[long sierra]

Easier just to not add any weight paint to the shoulders

and also make the shoulder bones near zero length

[barren stump]

I figured it out. My animations had an extra frame...

[drifting temple]

tried to upload my avatar, this happened

[long sierra]

rSo I fixed his ears animation but he also clips downwards when I move while flying

lemme get a video of what I mean

[left wharf]

please show first three errors in the console tab

[drifting temple]

the issue already fixed itself, I jsut had to restart unity

[plucky bridge]

I am joing to lose it. So, I've been running back and forth with trying to get gogo to work, I've removed it from the prokect and re-add it several times, but none of the poses work. The emotes function although are sometimes slow, and the afk toggle works, but none of the poses.

[stark sedge]

If anyone wants to help me figure out how to build an avatar completely from scratch please dm me

[long sierra]

I also can't get the mouth visemes working when GGL is installed

[long sierra]

I figured it out, my modified GGL base (locomotion) animaiton controller is interfering with the visemes somehow

[lilac musk]

The newest gogo had a lot change and it caused some issues updating avatars that already had gogo on them. I can't remember exactly what it is that causes it, but might want to fully remove all references including the animation controllers in the action layers and start over.

[cunning scroll]

Why does this "spike" keep appearing when crouching or crawling ONLY, i remade the entire weightpaint but that didnt fix it...

[lilac musk]

I had a couple avatars that modified the afk sections of the gogo loco animation controllers but those changed dramatically so I had to redo them in the newer version. A bit of a pain, but that new dash feature is very worth it IMO

[lilac musk]

When I weightpaint, I fully move the avatar multiple feet away in pose mode just to make sure I don't get those pesky single verts that didn't like to do what I told them to.

[cunning scroll]

Yeahh but see the thing is i stole this hair from my other avatar which works completely fine, nothing like this

the weightpaint and everything is perfect, but on this one... jesus.

[lilac musk]

Maybe a weird armature mismatch issue then?

[cunning scroll]

And its only the pony tail asw

idk i dont think so, ive triple checked blender but cant find anything

atp im ready to just remake the entire thing if i dont find it soon

[lilac musk]

Have you found the exact vert in question and tried just deleting it and replacing?

[cunning scroll]

that seems very unlikely, it doesnt happen in blender either, it looks like a weightpaint issue but no matter how i bend the bones in posemode this never happens

[lilac musk]

That is very strange. Unity moment

[cunning scroll]

So id have to try and triangulate the vert and then just guess and remove it

and then hope that it fixed it bc if it doesnt well... i would try 15x more from blender to unity to vrc

it doesnt look like a collider issue either

[tacit lark]

I keep getting this error that is causing me unable to publish my avi the top one. but when i unparent and rearrange things it breaks the entire rig so he will just tpose in gesture manager. what do i do??/

[proper jay]

last time i had a single vertex issue like that i separated part of the mesh with the problem vertex and removed the influence of all bones that shouldnt be affecting it to clear any impossible to see weight paint and then rejoined it

[tacit lark]

like im looking at it and the rig looks correct

i am confused as i am not the one who rigged this model

and im not sure how to weight paint

[cunning scroll]

thats kinda what ive tried, might try one last time... otherwise im ditching this for now

ive been up for 5h straight hopping back and forth from blender to unity to vrc

[tacit lark]

oh im so sorry you meant to klemi my bad sorry

[proper jay]

oh wow thats rough

[ornate stump]

Your shoulders are connected to bone, while it actually must be connects to your Spine2. You have to fix the model in blender.

[cunning scroll]

Yeah my mental is draining lmao, before there was another mesh that had a similar/the same problem but after re-weightpainting it worked perfectly again

[proper jay]

u might have meant this also but just to be clear when i say remove the influence i dont mean with paint i mean i literally removed the bones from here

behold my disasterous naming conventions please dont roast me

[spiral osprey]

I talk like that tho.. ):

[cunning scroll]

Oh my god those bone names 😭 Alright ill try that

[proper jay]

lol

[spiral osprey]

ANYWAY can someone help me texture this LITTLE SHIT the only software I have is paint 3D and that's pathetic

(I have a full model)

(Non rigged)

[proper jay]

looks like your uv maps might be a little messed up perhaps?

[spiral osprey]

That's just Paint 3D

It does that

[proper jay]

oh gotcha

[spiral osprey]

That app just SUCKS

I did get this into there tho

[proper jay]

lol i like it

[spiral osprey]

I just need someone to go over the lines

[dark saddle]

Anyone know why my gestures are sort of flipped?

[spiral osprey]

I made this to scare small children while looking goofy\

[dark saddle]

The the left thumb goes up and, and the right thumb goes down. The animations for the model are fine, so idk what else it could be

[proper jay]

i made mine straight in blender sorry no fancy software

[tacit lark]

i wouldnt know how to. and i did stop the error but it broke the arms. so while i could publish him the arms now do not work

[night ember]

you cant change the armature AT ALL in unity

[ornate stump]

Do not unpack the model. That's going to cause more problem.

[tacit lark]

ohh i see

[ornate stump]

You have to fix in blender.

[tacit lark]

im not sure how to change to order in blender :c its so different

[spiral osprey]

So can someone PLEASE go over this piece of flaming hot TRASH and make sure it doesn't look like a fucked up chess board?

[tacit lark]

would it be setting it to spine 2 (which is the upper chest?)

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[tacit lark]

oops

i see i didnt realize it was there

i was looking in the groups

thank youuu

[dark saddle]

you can see here that Open Closed is properly mirroed

but the In Out isn't

They are flip flopped

im not exactly sure why

[spiral osprey]

I'll just wait here until someone'll say they can do it.
Really sorry for the bother, though.

[tacit lark]

ouch ummm is it possible to add these phys bones that were on my old model to the new one x_x

[somber meadow]

does that avatar share the exact same bone layout to your new one?

[tacit lark]

yes

although just different parent from the shoulders to upper chest to get it to work

[spiral osprey]

God help this poor low poly DUMBASS's textures

0 thoughts behind that expression

It's just fog up there

[ornate stump]

Aren't you using low resolution texture though?

[spiral osprey]

I painted that in paint 3D because that's the only software i have

It's shitty.

[ornate stump]

Can it change texture resolution?

[spiral osprey]

No.

I tried, but i have to make the brrush itself bigger.

I can't paint with a bigger brush, so that's how it turned out.

[ornate stump]

Larger resolution would have to use larger blush so that should be normal.

[spiral osprey]

I got the model itself off of sketchfab.

It was free.

All i need is someone else to get the model off me and fill in the gaps.

[ornate stump]

You might have to check how much face uvmap occupying the texture space. If it take less space then that would also make the face lower resolution.

[spiral osprey]

I don't understand a SINGLE word that you just said

(I textured that off myself)

[ornate stump]

You should learn too.

[spiral osprey]

Eventually, sure.

Though, the problem I have now is a few pixels. I am NOT going to learn something over a few pixels.

also i'm big dumb dumb stupid

[ornate stump]

So the help you are looking for is to have someone to do it for you?

[spiral osprey]

Unfortunately so. I HATE that too.

I have lost sleep over this.

[ornate stump]

You hate to have someone else do it for you, and you don't want to learn to fixed the problem.

[spiral osprey]

Well, it's more of me hating to be a bother.

[ornate stump]

Learn to solve it then?

[spiral osprey]

It's not a problem with the model itselb, it's a problem with the software I use.

I can't use paint 3D because it SUCKS ASS.

I tried using blender, but blender won't work for me.

and I don't want to buy anything else, therefore I'm stuck.

[next yew]

working on a new avatar soon, i wanna make an equitable castle for it bcz itd be funny.
how would i go about making the castle equiptable and sizeable and also to stay in one place when its equipted? its gonna be somewhat big so i want there to be the option to scale it and make it tiny for smaller avatars, and for it to stay in one area when its equipted.
(idea of what im trying to do with the action menu drawing)

[covert moth]

so keep it in one spot in relation to the world?

[next yew]

ya

[covert moth]

https://github.com/VRLabs/World-Constraint

[next yew]

basically just lock it to one area

[covert moth]

this should be what you're looking for

i think

[next yew]

but its apart of the avatar so im a little confused on how to do it

i'll take a look

yeah i think thats what im looking for

any way to add an option to make it sizeable?

[spiral osprey]

OKAY
So i tried to edit the texture itself

and I noticed one of the teeth seemed a bit suspicious..

I told you it wasn't the model

Yippie

[night ember]

toggle in the gesture layer

[heavy olive]

Is there any world I can join with like a grunge look? Piercing or skater look? If that makes sense?

[ornate stump]

If that wasn't about avatar creation then try asking in #vrchat-general-1

[stoic bobcat]

my vcc recently had this issue where it refuses to open files, it removed all recent files, keeps losing the unity editor. no clue why this is happening

[frozen rain]

hey does anyone know how to stop this from happening?

The skirt and chest are two different objects and even if i fuse them they don't actually connect when moving around

the edges of the torso and skirt are both red in the weightmap if that helps

[drifting temple]

If by fuse you mean join, you also need to merge the verts

press cntrl M and merge by distance

you may need to edit the topology so that the verts on the edges between the chest and skirt allign

[frozen rain]

they are right on top of each other but thank you very much <3

[sly lodge]

do you want to keep it as 2 separate objects? because it would be possible, but it would require a bit of work

[frozen rain]

that's not really that important no

[sour quartz]

Question: I have a sound and animation that plays when you touch the avatar and it works fine in unity but when I upload it to VRchat the sound doesn't play anymore but the animation does - anyone knows why?

[frozen rain]

@sly lodge also just saying cntrl M doesn't work...

like they are still seperate and not connected

[sly lodge]

did you merge by distance on the doubles?

[frozen rain]

it doesn't bring up any merge thing

it brings up a window titled "mirror"

[sly lodge]

enter edit mode, select everything, or just the part you want to be affected, hit M and select by distance

you also need to have both meshes combined already

[frozen rain]

oh combined how exactly?

like parent one to the other?

[sly lodge]

to have only 1 mesh, not 2

if you have 2 objects, select both of them then hit Ctrl + J to combine them together

[frozen rain]

yeah that's what i was looking for i will try that right now

@sly lodge that worked perfectly thank you very much!

[lime lagoon]

anyone that knows toggles in unity can you help me do i need to add something to get this setting

[prisma sedge]

Are you just trying to add an animator?

[lime lagoon]

yes

[lime lagoon]

https://youtu.be/9wQnmhpojsc?si=aRT9ePZYEvTZ8PiC this video 0:44

[prisma sedge]

As long as you didnt unpack the model you can set the rig type to humanoid it should add that component automatically.

[lime lagoon]

wdym

[lime lagoon]

i made the bones (not well but working

[junior void]

I think you are misunderstanding this. IF your avatar has a bunch of animations, and you cannot access them in the animator window, thats why you would temporarily put the controller into that slot but later youd remove it from there

You can totally also make animations without adding that there

[lime lagoon]

this is what mine looks like (with something in its head

[junior void]

I assume this happens when you hit record in the animator

[frozen rain]

sorry to spam this help channel so much but what do i do against this... why does the hair keep "collapsing" when it turns?
I tried to join it to the head and made it entirely red in the weightpaint but it keeps like "shrinking" into the head when it turns. Anyone know why that is?

[lime lagoon]

did not get to that point yet i made the 2 things

[lime lagoon]

just moving the bone down to make it show lmao

[junior void]

I assume you weighted the hair to the head bone. But likely, there may be another bone group having influence here. Did you check that?

[frozen rain]

yeah i did weigh it to the head bone

only the headbone obviously

[junior void]

Did you check the armature modifier?

Doing certain things can leave a broken reference armature modifier

[lime lagoon]

@junior void also where is the animaion tab cant find it in my thing

[junior void]

You can find it somewhere under "Window" in the top

[lime lagoon]

ok ill look

[junior void]

I believe "window" -> "animation" (?)

[lime lagoon]

this?

[junior void]

my memory is ass lol

Yes

Just dock it at the bottom

[lime lagoon]

ill try ill ask if i cant

found it

ok thanks ill prob have more questions 🤣😭

[frozen rain]

yeah it's connected to the armature with the modifier. when i check "preserve volume" it pulls out these little spikes when moving

[junior void]

Last i checked, preserve volume does not carry over into unity so if you are making this for vrchat, well...

[frozen rain]

wait so like this would not be a solution for vrchat?

this is the first time i'm doing something like this so i apologize if my questions might be a bit obvious

[lime lagoon]

what is non assets folder @junior void (after helping slothy

[junior void]

Youre doing right to weight the hair to the head, its just the setting preserve volume that is the "problem"

[frozen rain]

okay but what could i do about the shrinking then?

[junior void]

You must save animations per project in each project's files. Every project has an "assets" folder, which is your root folder. You cannot save animations in random locations in your pc.

[junior void]

Again, check that there is only one armature modifier, even if the other is empty, you must only have one.
Check other bones for influence on the hair even if you didnt paint there. Shit happens and you wouldnt be the first to suffer blenders intelligence

[lime lagoon]

so put it where (i did not make the animation yet

[junior void]

Personally i like to keep my stuff ordered. Later, it will become cluttered, so I make a folder in "assets" call it "my animations" or something so i know where i put them

[lime lagoon]

but where do i find this project's "assets" folder"

[frozen rain]

yeah i did both of those things already. only one mod, the hair turns pink when i click on any other bone.
I wouldnt know what to look up to find out more about this becuase i don't really know the terminology fully

[junior void]

Wherever you created the project when you first made a new unity thing

[lime lagoon]

ahh ok thanks ill look

[junior void]

Really hard to give advice without beeing able to dig into this myself x.x

These two options are the only ones coming to mind while having my morning coffee rn

[frozen rain]

yeah i understand lol
I even tried to just connect the hair to the head because the head moves fine and doesnt deform at all but even if i do that the hair shrinks but the head doesn't still. I am losing my mind 😭 sorry

[frozen rain]

lol yeah i was just hoping to get some sort of lead so i know what to look up online

[junior void]

If you don't mind sharing the blend file, I could have a look but thats really up to you. Obviously i cant make promises, but i did make avatars before in blender so chances are, i might find it

[lime lagoon]

is there a way i can find it in unity (in the project

[frozen rain]

i would do that if you would like to help of course. how would you want me to share it

[junior void]

Send me a friend request over discord (i have dms from here disabled bc scammers lol) and send it over discord if its not too big

ima get a second coffee and have a look right after

[frozen rain]

i sent a request

[lime lagoon]

i sould do that too 7 commision requests lmao

[frozen rain]

u know what coffee sounds great rn lol

[lime lagoon]

or this whole pie im eating lmao

[frozen rain]

youre winning bro

[lime lagoon]

lmao

[junior void]

In your file browser in unity, right click in an empty area, then select "open in browser (could be called different, maybe its not browser)"

sorry for late response, fixed up slothy first and overlooked ur msg

[lime lagoon]

nahh im the one asking for help

[lime lagoon]

ill look one min

[lime lagoon]

cant find it

[junior void]

exit out of that popup

next to your animator, you have a tab called "project"

where all your files are, do that there

[lime lagoon]

can you send a pic of what it looks like?

[junior void]

My bad, its "show in explorer"

[lime lagoon]

ahh thanks

one min

[lime lagoon]

thanks it worked

[storm hinge]

someone helpp i have an error

error CS1704: An assembly with the same simple name '0Harmony' has already been imported. Try removing one of the references (e.g. 'C:\My project (61)\Assets\Av3Creator\Dependencies\Harmony.dll') or sign them to enable side-by-side.
VF.Utils.AnimatorStateMachineExtensions.ThrowProbablyCompileErrorException (System.String msg) (at ./Packages/com.vrcfury.vrcfury/Editor/VF/Utils/AnimatorStateMachineExtensions.cs:34)
VF.Utils.AnimatorStateExtensions.VAddStateMachineBehaviour (UnityEditor.Animations.AnimatorState state, System.Type type) (at ./Packages/com.vrcfury.vrcfury/Editor/VF/Utils/AnimatorStateExtensions.cs:15)
VF.Builder.AnimatorIterator+<>c__DisplayClass0_2.<ForEachBehaviourRW>b__2 (System.Type type) (at ./Packages/com.vrcfury.vrcfury/Editor/VF/Builder/AnimatorIterator.cs:30)
VF.Service.ActionConflictResolverService+<>c__DisplayClass2_1.<Apply>b__0 (UnityEngine.StateMachineBehaviour b, System.Func2[T,TResult] add) (at ./Packages/com.vrcfury.vrcfury/Editor/VF/Service/ActionConflictResolverService.cs:65) VF.Builder.AnimatorIterator.ForEachBehaviourRW (VF.Utils.Controller.VFLayer layer, System.Func3[T1,T2,TResult] action) (at ./Packages/com.vrcfury.vrcfury/Editor/VF/Builder/AnimatorIterator.cs:30)
VF.Service.ActionConflictResolverService.Apply () (at ./Packages/com.vrcfury.vrcfury/Editor/VF/Service/ActionConflictResolverService.cs:40)

how do i fix it

[junior void]

I'd personally try a battery of updating everything

[storm hinge]

im trying reimport everything and see if that works

[arctic dagger]

anyone know a way to fix sometjhing like this,?

(the vertices being fuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked up )

[junior void]

oh god, what did you do o.O

[arctic dagger]

it came liket hat i promise 😭

[junior void]

O.O

I would use an addon here called quad remesher (its a paid addon tho)

Your only other option is a complete manual retopo. Both options require weight transfer as well

Seeing this hurts my blender heart

[arctic dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/sad-peachcat-cry-cute-gif-20525442

[junior void]

Do you know how to retopologize?

[arctic dagger]

i do not 🫡

im sure i can google it though!!!! i have done that thusfar with everything i need hnelp wioth (asking in servers for things i cant figure out) and ive locked in thusfar

[junior void]

Hmmm thats a good way to think really, many people would give up right here. Let me find a video i keep using for retopo reference, will make your life easier

Here https://youtu.be/OY7FlJ8xTz0

It should make sense to you that you want denser topology where the bones are, so that the cloth will deform nicely later

[arctic dagger]

oh thank you so much !! <3 i appriciate your help !!

[junior void]

No problem! Do come back here if you're having trouble with this ^_^

[arctic dagger]

ofc !!

the remesher i fouidn has a trial version so i am saved <3

its so beautiful...

[junior void]

That is awesome! Personally, I'd dissolve every 2nd edge horizontally and every 4th vertically

It doesn't have to be that dense

For the weight transfer to the new mesh, theres a free addon called "robust weight transfer"

[arctic dagger]

i figured out "quad count" does not mean tris . i am silly . but thius def is a lot lot better, just needs alil fitting

[junior void]

That looks so much better ^_^

[arctic dagger]

<3 !!

[lime lagoon]

any one know why invisible aka cloaking would not work?

[ornate stump]

What you did to make it invisible?

[lime lagoon]

followed this video https://youtu.be/9wQnmhpojsc?si=Bv3vXwVvcQEyZ6op

i think i did it all right

[ornate stump]

If it's alright then it should work. Otherwise, you missed something.

[lime lagoon]

ok ill go though the video again jw can these kind of videos be outdated?

[ornate stump]

It still works in the same principle.

[lime lagoon]

ok any misstakes that people make a lot that you know of?

[ornate stump]

Can't really tell.

Missing one thing then nothing work.

[lime lagoon]

ok ill watch the video again hope it works

these two are the same right? @ornate stump

[ornate stump]

Yes. And be aware of case-sensitivity.

[lime lagoon]

.. that might be what is wrong ill try

(did not know that

that is not it but the thing that i did wrong was (i think) when making the on off thing i did not click my avatar

not even clicking lmao im going to start from the begining

[left wharf]

check your animator is set to Avatar Descriptor(or if you are using non-destructive tool, check your animator is merged)

[lime lagoon]

wdym

[left wharf]

check Playable Layers. you need to set this.

[lime lagoon]

i have the fx not the gesture

[left wharf]

try use VRCFury or Modular Avatar. they have the component for merge animator.

[lime lagoon]

i think i have vrcfury

[left wharf]

ok then.
if you want to toggle objects, use Toggle component.
if you want to merge animators, use Full Controller component.

[lime lagoon]

can i screen share in discord call (no need for mic

(bc idk how

[primal swift]

the eyes on my avatar don't move anymore

[junior void]

... anymore after doing what?

[feral abyss]

how do i bring vertices in line with each other? trying to make a square nail shape, but cant figure out how to evenly adjust the vertices so they all line up with the one in the centre

[primal swift]

i don't know, i noticed yesterday

it migth've been like that for a while

[ornate stump]

The easiest would by deleting one whole side, then use Solidify command to create new solid surface.

[timber wharf]

or just extrude along normals

or not along

[queen nimbus]

(how) is it possible to change the scale of the amature in an animation ?

[ornate stump]

It isn't possible.

[junior void]

Or you use a reference object (a square), line it up with where you want the edge to be and use snapping option

[queen nimbus]

alright

[ornate stump]

You might want to describe what you want to do, just in case we can figure out alternative solution.

[timber wharf]

@queen nimbus you can use scale constraints but itd break almost everything

[feral abyss]

now that sounds easy enough! was hoping there would just be a balance option and theyd all suddenly line up with the central vertices, but this could work! tyyy

[queen nimbus]

I wanted the hand of my avi to make a fist, but since that's too much trouble for me, I wanted to make the hands disappear with a certain outfit

[timber wharf]

ye dissapearing kinda doable

try scale constraint

i use it for magic hat

people think its certain system🤣

[ornate stump]

Can the scale constraint affect humanoid bones?

[timber wharf]

ofc just breaks tracking

but for hand alone should be perfectly fine, like whole arm is harder

[queen nimbus]

bru it kills your dp$ massage xD

[ornate stump]

So next solution is to use cutout shader to hide the hand.

[timber wharf]

ye i even added spaces, it evolves

[queen nimbus]

i have no mask. and my skills to low to make one

[ornate stump]

Mask is just black and white image it doesn't take much to create one.

[queen nimbus]

and you can't see them anyway, they just shouldn't clip out. The fist would be the most “realistic” solution if you look under your clothes

[queen nimbus]

i dont know where i have it to make black und white

[ornate stump]

Just do it in any painting app.

[queen nimbus]

i have zero experience witch 2d textures xD

[ornate stump]

You could take a look on color texture and paint black over the hand part.

[ornate stump]

Not a good excuse to not learn a new procedure.

[queen nimbus]

true

alright i try it xD

[feral abyss]

this is not working as planned, every snap option bends it in a way i dont want, im going insane...

[queen nimbus]

and is it possitble an asset (clothing / part of a clothing to scale with an asset ?)

[junior void]

Show us whats happening so we can follow what you did

[queen nimbus]

does someone know i tool to make a statemaschine for some animations. like Expressions or dances ?

[left wharf]

Animator Controller isn't for you? creator in vrc always use this to control animations.

[feral abyss]

heres the closest ive gotten. current setup is a mesh on top of the nail, aligned with the centre vertices. after some experimentation, closest ive gotten is aligning the leftmost vertices with the central vertices by snapping the top one to the corner of the square and the bottom one to the world cursor, set to the top vertex, keeping its offset so it can keep its thickness, but because the square is flat and a nail is curved, that leads to it looking like the nail is just being pulled off at the corner, which isnt the effect im going for, plus it also means the vertices inbetween arent affected and i dont know how to pull them in line (plan is just loop cuts but i dont think a mesh is it)

...wait]

omfg, ive been dealing with the wrong snapping option, hold on

[queen nimbus]

have u a link for that ?

[junior void]

If your reference object is just an edge, snap to edge x)

You could also subdivide the reference edge to have 4 vertices and use vertice to snap to

[feral abyss]

problem is, the edge is higher than the vertices to be moved, that gonna pose an issue?

[junior void]

remember you can also set your transform orientation to "normal" and move on one locked axis

You may want to grab all faces from the edge of the nail and snap to edge while moving on the snapped normal direction that goes forward (length wise)

another option is using normal and scaling to 0 on its own normal axis

makes me wanna try that now lol

[feral abyss]

okay, one down... i now need to accurate do like 8 other nail shapes, oh god what have i done

and figure out how to add the blendshape so that i can transition between nailshapes

[left wharf]

Animator Controller is feature of Unity.
See https://docs.unity3d.com/2022.3/Documentation/Manual/class-AnimatorController.html and tutorials on internet

[feral abyss]

Okay, new issue: curves. I've got to take those top points and make them curve smoothly, one with a sharper corner (so the curves almost isolated, only affects the top faces), and one that blends into the sides, so a more graduated curve. What's the plan?

[fair mirage]

do you still need help with this? kinda late but i think i know how to fix it

[queen nimbus]

I have an animation in which I put on an outfit and strike a pose. In the preview of the animation everything works great, but in play mode only the outfit is shown

[ornate stump]

You can't put posing animation in FX.

[feral abyss]

okay, managed to get the curve (thank you bevel feature), however the new vertices this added has made pointier shapes a bit harder than once planned. Ive currently made this point, but need to make the curve at the edges less pronounced if i can (image of the planned nail shape for reference) without adding even more vertices to work with if possible. where do i go from here?

[queen nimbus]

Oh. Ups. Is it possible to combinate it other ways ?

[junior void]

You can select the edge going across and move it down using G twice to accomodate for a little texture stretch and also use s to scale is down just a tad bit to make it smoother

[somber sequoia]

you just do the posing in gesture or action (which ever appropriate), using the same conditions, it'll happen at the same time.

[ornate stump]

For full body pose, you'd have to put it in action. But this is the first time I see someone want to add strike pose when changing an outfit.

[stoic bobcat]

getting these errors when I import the sdk files from vcc to this project, no clue why

[queen nimbus]

Instead of removing the hands with a cutout, it would be more “realistic” to form a fist in the outfit.

[feral abyss]

didnt know you could do that, thank you! also makes nails with flat tops leaking into curved edges possible! now to figure out how to add a nail length blend key because i cant get it to move in line with the rest of the nail no matter what

[ornate stump]

Realistic or not doesn't matter since the hand wouldn't be visible outside anyway.

[queen nimbus]

That's true, but since it's extremely easy to look into other people's faces in VrChat, an empty glove would be sobering. And I would also like it more if I knew that the glove wasn't empty 🥊

[ornate stump]

It should be preferred to hide everything that shouldn't be visible from outside.

[queen nimbus]

Let's call it part of my immersion

[ornate stump]

It would be the same as having internal organs inside of body, wouldn't it?

[buoyant thorn]

any way of dealing with weird knee bends in gogo loco poses, I checked blender it has decent rotation in pose mode and looks fine

[junior void]

Use the faces of the front of the nail, not vertices, and move them along their normals for length

[queen nimbus]

So you can interact with them 💀

[ornate stump]

If you like it that way then sure.

[queen nimbus]

so I have a few organs

[buoyant thorn]

why when mirrored in pose mode I rotate the knee the other knee rotates forwards instead of backwards

[queen nimbus]

A breathing movement and breathing steam is also planned

[frozen rain]

guys i did the entire weightpaint in mirrored mode. why does it do this and how do i fix it. i looked for accidental spill on every bone and it doesn't help
i also don't get why its only on one side because i had it mirrored the entire time

[feral abyss]

right, 4 nail shapes done, length done, now to make 9 duplicates, remove the existing nails, add mine and pray nothing goes wrong! colouring next feels like itll be a nightmare...

[timber trail]

I feel like I'm missing something that should be very simple here. I'm trying to make the alpha channel transparent in the material, yet when I have the render mode set to "transparent", it seems to invert what should be transparent, making everything transparent except what I want to be.
I'm sure there's a very simple answer here but I am too much of a Unity noob to figure it out (and trying to google this specific issue isn't helping).

[balmy barn]

rendering queue , if they are the same and transparent - it wont know wich one should be first , why i just use 1 material for all alpha stuff (cutout should behave unless you want it to be see through/fade)

[timber trail]

I'm only using a single material. The other one was for testing purposes and is not applied.

It does need to be see-through, not just invisible.

The white parts of the tails should be translucent

[winged kiln]

anyone know why in blender why in edit mode my visusms are where i want them but in object mode they go back to default

[ornate stump]

Single material with transparency won't work.

[timber trail]

Okay, then can you tell me what will work?

[ornate stump]

Opaque material, or cutout.

[timber trail]

.....Clearly that's not working though. See the third screenshot.

[ornate stump]

Of course what I meant is you can't achieve transparency avatar with just a single material.

[timber trail]

Alright. Then please help me figure out how to get this to work, because I'm an idiot who can't figure it out.

[ornate stump]

I'm saying it doesn't work and no way it would work.

[timber trail]

I understand I need a second material

So how do I apply that without overriding the existing one?

[ornate stump]

Even transparent materials render on top of each other is going to have some issue.

[timber trail]

From everything I've found from searching, the alpha channel should automatically apply transparency

But it's inverted here

[desert plover]

anybody know how do material swaps using toggle assitant

[ornate stump]

It's usually fine when dealing with a single rendering, but when you have multiple transparent materials on top of each other, that's going to be an issue.

[timber trail]

That's fine. I just want the correct part of the texture to be transparent.

Right now the alpha is inverted for some reason

[ornate stump]

The inverted cause by each tris doesn't have ordered when being rendered, it doesn't order from back to front, rather randomly. This random order make some part render on top of other where it shouldn't.

[timber trail]

Look, the texture is set up right, and alpha is set to transparent. But in opaque mode, there's no transparency, and in fade/transparent mode, it's reversed so that everything except the alpha channel is transparent.

[balmy barn]

time to read up on rendering queue - not inverted, just doesnt know wich one should be first - so you see them all same time

you can have multiple alpha ontop of eachother but using different queue they wont fight wich one should be first

pc shaders have alot more options, poi have one that will make transparent behave with 1 material, dont like it tho, can do wierd stuff

[ornate stump]

We know your texture has alpha and it's fine. But the issue is on how the unity dealing with transparency rendering.

[timber trail]

Sorry, I'm not trying to be difficult

I'm just trying very hard to understand

[ornate stump]

You can search on "unity transparent material overlapping" and see lot of people having the same issue.

[timber trail]

I don't mind if the materials overlap and do odd graphical things

[ornate stump]

That's the issue you was asking about.

[timber trail]

No, it isn't. I must not have worded it correctly

[ornate stump]

Yes. It isn't about "inverted material". It's "overlapped" material.

[timber trail]

No wonder we were getting frustrated, we were having two different conversations

[ornate stump]

A part that's behind but get rendered on front, that's the overlap.

[timber trail]

Okay so in the first shot, it's set to opaque. In the second, transparent (cutout doesn't appear to do anything with alpha set to transparent). The white parts of the tail are not being rendered as transparent at all.

And yes, are rendering in front of the figure

So it sounds like I have two problems, not just one

Or it's just straight up ignoring the alpha channel

[balmy barn]

cutout have a slider too low it doesnt do much

[ornate stump]

Try changing Smoothness to use Metallic Alpha instead.

[timber trail]

makes the whole thing transparent. Switching to cutout just completely culls the alpha instead of preserving transparency

[balmy barn]

yup thats what it does, cant do gradients of transparency on cutout

[ornate stump]

Cutout can be only either opaque or nothing

[timber trail]

hmm

So how would I go about applying a gradient? If I have to use multiple materials then I will

[balmy barn]

poi have transclipping wich could help that, it would still behave wierd

[ornate stump]

Probably poiyomi shader with cutout and dithering alpha.

[timber trail]

I'll have to Google that then

I do have to wonder how unity typically handles things that are meant to have semi-transparency.

[buoyant thorn]

is there a way to return something with exit time when its a long animation but I dont want it to take forever to come back

like a thrown lightsaber, like if you keep the gesture on it stays and rotates out there but when you let go it comes back smooth and doesnt teleport

I already got the animations down im just guessing its something to do with the return

[ornate stump]

Make another transition with exit condition.

[buoyant thorn]

alright ill try that

[buoyant thorn]

thank you lol I was just being stupid tbh I forgot to turn off loop animation

[glass condor]

Hello, I'm trying to access my avatar to add physbones to it, but if I click on it in the hierarchy, all it shows me is the avatar configuration button. How to fi

*fix

[junior void]

A picture can make this so much easier

[ocean parcel]

I'm looking to see about a avatar to get created for my personal use. I have looked for anything close but I wasn't too thrilled with what I found. I tend to prefer my avatars to be extremely close to irl me. Maybe with some mods like Vulcan race features like pointed ears. I use a Quest 2 VR headset. Not sure if eye/face tracking is possible. Anyone able to help me?

[arctic ginkgo]

If you want to commission a personal avatar, your best bet to avoid getting scammed and get high quality work is to join the VRC Traders discord server. Make sure you follow their procedures to ensure you are commissioning a legitimate artist.

[ocean parcel]

I'll have to join their discord then ty

[timber trail]

Be careful if you get random friend requests from people you've never interacted with who share this server. Scammers are rampant and target anyone who even implies they're looking for avatar commissions.

Just a heads-up since yours is the type of post they latch onto.

[prime zephyr]

🤔 i’m thinking making a few avatars myself, but I don’t know where to start

[spark walrus]

uhh

i need help

my viewpoint is upside down lol

and zoomed in

like this

[night ember]

Dont have a camera on your avatar

[sour sphinx]

why isnt my hip weight painting showing? ive tried redoing the data transfer on the bodysuit and ive checked the body, to which it shows that it has hips??

[long sierra]

Can I use one animation to toggle multiple textures?

[night ember]

Depends

[onyx ember]

trying to upload an avi i bought and every time i detach the blueprint id it attaches itself again

[night ember]

It generates an id when you upload

[sour sphinx]

if ur trying to upload the quest version and it keeps attaching, a new blueprint id, u just copy and paste ur pc blueprint, then put it into ur quest version id

[glass condor]

Oh hey guys, I'm trying to switch build target to Android, and it's not doing anything? I just click on it, confirm to switch target, then...nothing happens.

[daring zodiac]

hello i need help fail why avatar

[sly lodge]

We would need more info than that, what error did you get in your console?

[spark walrus]

can you explain

[onyx ember]

it only appears when i click upload then clears it again and says there ws an error

[night ember]

Literally what I said
Dont have a camera on your avatar

[spark walrus]

but

then my phone not gonna work

[night ember]

And then your console says what exactly?

[night ember]

The camera is replacing your pov

[spark walrus]

should i change the state?

like deactivate?

[spark walrus]

diven

the phone i use might be

using too much space

i try to put it on full gesture avatar

[night ember]

🤷‍♂️

[buoyant thorn]

is there any better way people do sword collisions than collider particle thing

[arctic ginkgo]

for world collision? the only way to do world collision is physics objects or particle collison

if you just want to collider with other players or other parts of the avatar when other people wear it (like for example, having 2 people wearing the avatar, their swords can collide) then just use contacts

[sour sphinx]

anyone with blender knowledge, help me on this please :D?

[buoyant thorn]

no just with world, what is physics objects and is there any good videos probably for getting into it

[arctic ginkgo]

actually i'm looking into it more and i think particles may be the only way to do this, although i'm not sure why you'd want to find another method?

[buoyant thorn]

its not that consistent, the collider clips through sometimes or gets dragged along the wall to where the blade isnt anymore

tho it might be my settings but ive tried everything

if there only was a way to make it not go off anywhere (the collider sphere on the particle)

[arctic ginkgo]

go off anywhere? wdym?

[buoyant thorn]

like if you swipe at a wall itll sometimes just get dragged along and then out of place

of the blade

or original point ig

[arctic ginkgo]

have you tried using vrlab's world collision prefab? it uses particles to detect but just might be easier than setting it up yourself

[buoyant thorn]

i know how to use particles im just confused why this is moving away when hitting a wall

[arctic ginkgo]

you can just respawn the particle

[arctic ginkgo]

because it's hitting the wall..

i mean if you have an object and you try to drag it along the wall friction will slow it down

it's a physics thing

[buoyant thorn]

yeah but I wish itd somewhat look okay sometimes it can look really messed up

[arctic ginkgo]

just respawn the particle on collision

kill it so it respawns

use VRLab's collision detection system

that way even if the collision is off it doesn't move the whole particle system for the sword (i'm assuming you have sparks on it or smth)

they'll just be separate particle systems

[sour sphinx]

why isnt my hip weight painting showing? ive tried redoing the data transfer on the bodysuit and ive checked the body, to which it shows that it has hips??

[long sierra]

I put in a clothing swap system for my Klonoa avatar, and the outfit swaps are visible for me, but not other people. And yes, the parameters are synced

[lucid bison]

Been trying to come up with a good way to do eyelids for this high poly sculpt I'm making into an avatar for a friend. The sculpter did these disc eyes with stylized lashes.

I've pretty much determined there's no good solution possible. :/

[long sierra]

The flapping ears animation is clientside again though :/ And yes, it's on the FX layer

I tried making clothing switching by having the other outfits turn invisible, but that renders it just barely visible

[cedar thicket]

some help?

[feral abyss]

just about to port my avi in to test the nails and realised that i dont have the expressions or playable layers part of unity (went through the companion, made my project that way, imported my model which i first exported from blender as an fbx), so cant add a controller to create the radial puppet to test all the blendshapes, did i miss a step?

[distant swallow]

it wont show me the stuff in the second photo for the quest version, ive made 2 different projects but it keeps happening. im at a lost :(

[balmy barn]

security check going to nuke that av for android its WAY tooo much

[distant swallow]

nvm! had to delete and readd vrcfury

[arctic ginkgo]

do you have the avatar descriptor?

[prisma sedge]

Change your avatar culling settings. Can be found in the big menu settings in "Avatars" tab or in the quick menu about halfway down under the category "Avatar Culling"

[feral abyss]

...you know, one of these days ill stop making stupid mistakes, how did i forget to add that?! okay, new question. descriptors currently on the head. if i want to do stuff to the nails, does it also need a separate descriptor? first time doing this, it can all go wrong here

[arctic ginkgo]

no, the avatar descriptor is what "describes" the avatar to vrchat. You put this directly on the avatar, and it tells it things like your eye position, how the eyes should move, what playable layers and menus to use, etc

i was just asking if you have one at all

and since you do that means the SDK imported correctly

so your issue might be that your avatar is not humanoid

if you open the control panel in the builder tab do you see a ⚠️ warning that says the avatar is not humanoid?

[feral abyss]

oh, yeah, that needs to be fixed and fast huh

hold on, i may have more pressing issues-

[arctic ginkgo]

okay, so then you need to select your FBX, then go to the rig tab and check if it's set to "humaniod". If it is, then check for any error messages

[arctic ginkgo]

that's easy fix, select your FBX, in the inspector go to the "model" tab and make sure that "read/write" is enabled

[wide marsh]

Hey guys!! So, I’m trying to follow tutorials on YT to edit my Mamehinata model to have different clothes but nothing seems to work and the videos don’t explain with enough details for me to understand!! Can someone help? I just want to replace the base jacket and shorts with a different clothing set made for the same model variant on booth

[feral abyss]

i was gonna say, i knew i was bad at doing this but jesus i didnt realise i was THAT bad

[feral abyss]

okay, changed it to humanoid, applied, deleted old one and reimported the fbx, control panel says i didnt though and only errors are about 4 polygons being discarded

if i cant import it now, god forbid the day comes when this things fully made because thats going to be a trainwreck...

[mellow tangle]

Hey everyone, i'm trying to possibly make a screen space shader that shows the image depth that will affect everything in the world for making my VRChat AI player percept how far everything is, only for me locally, or in an extremely small radius right by the camera, if possible somehow. Would VRChat allow such a feature and is it even possible? Would be great if anyone has guidance on this on how to proceed?

I am basically trying to achieve the same effect that a depth prediction AI would do

[feral abyss]

oh, never mind apparently theres a duplicate transform that i need to somehow deal with, apparently a 'lefteye' transformation in both the eye and the jaw...

[arctic ginkgo]

idk how you'd make it since i don't know the first thing about writing shaders, but I do know that if you know how to write shaders it should be pretty simple as this is just basically color-coding the Z-buffer. If a particular material has a shader with Z-write disabled though, you won't be able to see it. That's the fault of the person who made that material/shader though, most things should have Z-write on

[cedar thicket]

the problem is the avatar don t loading i need to go manual to show

[prisma sedge]

Show your avatar culling settings

[cedar thicket]

pls you show me on vc

[prisma sedge]

No, just send screenshots

[prisma sedge]

Scroll down halfway

[feral abyss]

new dumb question: CATS doesnt want to work, keeps trying to access bone groups which dont exist in 4.2.3 blender. any way to resolve this or am i going to have to go to an older version of blender and possibly lose the progress ive made so far

[balmy barn]

try a newer cats version https://github.com/teamneoneko/Cats-Blender-Plugin-Unofficial-

[feral abyss]

im on the newest, 0.19.0

[prisma sedge]

ok I dont know how you managed to set it to -1 but that needs to be greater than 0

[balmy barn]

no thats ancient

[feral abyss]

oh really, i musta followed a dead link-

[somber sequoia]

This is totally possible, but note that you'll need a light on your avatar if the world doesn't have a directional light active, and that makes you Poor.

[cedar thicket]

tyy so muchh

[somber sequoia]

ooh Blender 4.2.3

[balmy barn]

had the wrong blender up, there

has some issues with certain pmx why i still got the old 3.6

[feral abyss]

yup, got it now! still gotta find this duplicate transformation but glad that ones sorted

[austere bay]

I've had some issues recently where my viewport display in unity isn't matching my viewport display in game, anyone know how to fix?

it's happened with 2 different avatars now, they both use different heads so i don't think it's any weight issues with the head

I'll just put the viewport in unity above the head for now but I'm hoping to sell the other avatar and I'd like to fix it properly before selling <3

[prisma sedge]

Make sure that the model is at 0 0 in blender

[signal meteor]

can anyone do me just a tiny mouth blelndshapes
i have an avi but i cant do that
its all i need
i can do a uh,... texture edit in exchange?
no rigging nothing, just make them visemes so i can use them in game :") its very quick
ill do something simple in exchange if needed. i never or ever and will not use blender and i grab from the modelsresource and some avis have weird jaws i cant fix or rerig but this one has lips so this is the only way.

the basic blendshapes basically

but i can't

[austere bay]

already have :(

everythings 0, 0, 0 in blender and unity

[keen pollen]

anyone know how to fix

[static cipher]

Not an expert, but it looks like it's having trouble adding something that isn't supposed to be added to an avatar

[keen pollen]

hmm ok

[static cipher]

Is there a way to make my arms disappear (or just face directly down and not get moved with controllers at all) with a toggle? I'm working off of a pretty simple base model.

[somber sequoia]

Sure - you could hide the mesh somehow (separate object you toggle off, scaling blendshape, UV tile discard, etc.), or you could use animator tracking control to make them animated, then just don't animate them

[signal meteor]

so no one can do the lil help :") ug

[austere bay]

not sure this is the channel if you're looking for commissions

[signal meteor]

not comissions just a little help or a trade

cuz i can't do that and i have no mo ney

no rigging or anything required its an existing model with lips and all

[spark walrus]

what do I need to do to rank up from visitor?

[somber sequoia]

?upload

[flat musk]

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

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

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

[austere bay]

that's kinda like asking for a commission

for help there's plenty of youtube videos!

it's really easy when you get the hang of it

[arctic ginkgo]

i really think if you want to make avis it's a good idea to try and learn a little bit of blender

it won't really hurt

it's all free

[sour sphinx]

how do i attach the outfit arm to my main armature, without having the body armature to merge? this is a zinpia fit outfit and im using panda base

[somber sequoia]

in Blender?

[sour sphinx]

yuh

[somber sequoia]

Rename vertex groups in the clothing to match the avatar's bones, then just set the armature modifier to use the avatar's armature

create any missing bones, if you can't get them from the other base

[spark walrus]

u cant upload as visitor

[somber sequoia]

yes, I know

[spark walrus]

then why do u say upload

?

[somber sequoia]

because the message answers your question

and me saying that triggered it

it's a bot command

[spark walrus]

** You can get this by just spending a few hours in VRChat, hop some worlds, and make some friends. Give it some time and you'll be able to upload content in no time.
** this is too vague

[somber sequoia]

Yes, it is.

[elder pivot]

how do i add my characters eyes?

[spark walrus]

i DIDNT know u can add clothes in unity

[signal meteor]

i dont open blender

n EV ER

open b lende

im been making avatars (horribly) for 5 years and inever useed blender

[signal meteor]

i made a lot of avis :")

[spark walrus]

how is this opossible>?

u cant make a skeleton in unity

[stable isle]

heya, so i have an avatar with these long sleeves. how do I go about hiding those sleeves on the imposter, but also keeping the outfit itself? (outfit is the stuff like the front skirt & white bits around the chest & shoulders.

[somber sequoia]

if you get a clothing model that's already rigged, you can do some armature combining in Unity

[spark walrus]

oh

[wide marsh]

^ ?

[somber sequoia]

did you have a specific question?

[spark walrus]

I found an avi that looks normal in the demonstration

but in game head is tilted

[wide marsh]

Yeah how do I get the clothes on I’ve watched like 10 tuts and nothing helps me

[wide marsh]

I’m also autistic so sometimes I need very VERY specific instructions

[spark walrus]

how does this happen>?

[exotic tiger]

outfit toggles sorry

[gusty viper]

umm quick question, what would cause an animation to work in unity but not in game? my ears move with my facetracking, and there are toggles to put the ears down. and they work perfectly in unity when using gesture manager. but when put into game te toggles dont move the ears and neither does my facetracking, any ideas?

[final briar]

someone help pls ; " )

[somber sequoia]

with what specifically, the pink?

poiyomi.com

I like the VCC method - on the install page there's a giant blue button to add it to VCC for you.

I assume you have read that page.

[sweet acorn]

Hey, so what is up with buying avatars and not being allowed to use them in public instances? I tend to stick to group stuff mostly now that I've been on for a month, but I'm not quite clear on the rules.

Been noticing some avatars don't even let you view details, but I assume that avatar loading is client sided so ripping them can't be stopped

[somber sequoia]

huh, never heard of that

[clear tapir]

how do i make particles start without delay

[sweet acorn]

Yeah, lots of the for sale avis say no use in public instances

I assume its to prevent rips undercutting sales. Since it's not just nsfw ones

[somber sequoia]

yep, probably

[stable isle]

when i'm setting up "transforms to ignore" for imposters, and i choose an outfit's skinned mesh renderer to ignore...it doesn't ignore it ingame....

what can I do to make sure it's not shown?

[winged kiln]

does anyone know why edits made in edit mode not show in object mode

[somber sequoia]

did you do the edit on a shape key which isn't activated?

[lilac musk]

I've never seen a TOS that said such a thing. However it could be you're simply misunderstanding what a lot of creators are saying. You aren't allowed to make a model public. In other words, cloneable. Avatars can either be uploaded as private, or public. Private means only you can use the avatar and cloning isn't an option to other players at all. Public means anyone that is able to access the avatar through either cloning or if its on an avatar pedestal, can use it. The creators do this to incentivize people to purchase the avatar for themselves and support the creators efforts.

[winged kiln]

ima be so real i have no idea and dont have the knowledge to check

[somber sequoia]

https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/animation/shape_keys/introduction.html

[winged kiln]

thank you

[winged kiln]

update i love you

[lilac musk]

Just gonna maybe save you another headache regarding shape keys. If you ever modify a shape key, make sure the very first thing you do when you are done is go back and select the basis key again. It can ruin a lot of time/work if you don't realize you've been modifying a shape key the whole time and not the basis key. Another good practice is if you have a model with shape keys, before you start working on it, check that you are on the basis key first for the same reasons.

[sweet acorn]

Oooooh

[winged kiln]

been working on swiching out the hands on this thing for 2 days losing my mind why they wouldnt change

[lilac musk]

lol yup, had a very same issue the first time I encountered shape keys. Leaned a lot that day/s

[static cipher]

question: what does this mean (i may be stupid)

what i DO have is an expression parameter and a way to toggle it as a boolean

but what i DONT have is making it do anything

[somber sequoia]

well thanks 🙂 I do strongly recommend basic tutorials, things like this are pretty important

[lilac musk]

Seriously, the more I learn about blender, the better my avatars become. It can save you so much time or headaches

Recent project took an avatar from nearly half a million poly's to just under twenty thousand. Optimization for the ability of not being Very Poor on quest is SO satisfying.

[clear tapir]

Hey for particles is there a way to make them only fire once per gesture

[winged kiln]

yeah i try to avoid blender at all cost

[clear tapir]

i tried turning off looping but that only makes it fire once period

i want it to fire once then stop till i do the gesture again while keeping the previous shot

[stable isle]

my avatar isn't baking imposters properly. I want to bake a version of my avi without long sleeves, but even after uploading, deleting the old imposters, and generating new imposters, it still decides to bake with sleeves, even though there's no sleeves on the new model at all

[somber sequoia]

dunno why, it's how to make stuff 🙂

[somber sequoia]

you really don't need to post in multiple channels

[normal beacon]

I can’t seem to pinpoint what my issue is, what is wrong with my avatar and why can’t I upload it?

[stable isle]

fair, but i haven't gotten a response to my questions for over an hour...#avatar-help message

[clear tapir]

either broken scripts or unity being broken

[winged kiln]

it likes hurting me

[somber sequoia]

and?

[clear tapir]

so reload sdk and if that doesnt work look for the scripts

[normal beacon]

Alr thanks

[clear tapir]

can someone help me with my particle problem

[clear tapir]

^

[normal beacon]

They posted here because nobody responded to their original post

[somber sequoia]

Yep, I get that.

[normal beacon]

Then why did you say “And”?

[static cipher]

Hey yall, how do I scale a specific part of my armature via a toggle in my VRC Expression Parameters? I have the bool set up already, it just doesn't do anything yet.

[lilac musk]

The expression parameter doesn't do that. It's just a container for values used for animation conditions. You'd need to make an animation that scales the part of your armature then set it up in your animation controller with the aforementioned condition based transitions making it a toggle. Side note, you can't just scale humanoid bones as it's being controlled elsewhere in unity and thus will override yours afaik

[static cipher]

ah

so like- where would i even start with that

[lilac musk]

Make the animation/s that scales the things you want scaled

[static cipher]

also actually, would it be easier to do that, or swap out a texture with a toggle, or even just hide the armature? I figured any of the 3 fix my problem

[noble thunder]

Does anyone know how to upload vr avatars to quest, managed to upload them to pc and mobile but not quest

[somber sequoia]

what do you mean "mobile" if not quest, iOS?

[timber wharf]

android. but its quest minus the very poor

[somber sequoia]

do you have to do that separately now and I missed it?

[timber wharf]

no

android just cant even manually enable very poor

otherwise it is quest upload

[somber sequoia]

Right, that's why I was wondering what Valentina meant by uploading to "mobile but not quest"

[timber wharf]

ah k read it other way around, ie quedt but not mobile

[proud trout]

anyone know how to fix this error?

[somber sequoia]

whoa that's a really old Blender. What were you trying to do?

[proud trout]

import my model

[somber sequoia]

like file -> import -> fbx ?

[proud trout]

yes

or through cats

[somber sequoia]

is there a reason you want a blender that old?

[proud trout]

um no i can update it but i was using cats

[somber sequoia]

you can use a newer version of cats with current blender

[proud trout]

oh alright

[proud trout]

4.2?

[somber sequoia]

I don't use cats, but that's what I've heard in here

[proud trout]

i can only find one for the older version

[timber wharf]

https://github.com/teamneoneko/Cats-Blender-Plugin-Unofficial-

[proud trout]

ty

[wispy spear]

I cannot see the view position or physbones in unity, anyway to fix this????

[somber sequoia]

click the "gizmos" button at the upper right of the scene view, looks like a little globe

[wispy spear]

Crying

Thank you so much

😭

Im so dumb bruh

[static cipher]

bump

[unreal bobcat]

Is anyone here like, intimatly familiar and good with physbones? I've been playing with mine for a solid several hours but cant quite get things right

[somber sequoia]

really depends on your model, if it's not setup for one of those methods then that one would be hard 🙂

[static cipher]

ah i see

there's already a whole texture swapper implemented, so should I use that?

[somber sequoia]

there is?

[static cipher]

i think so? it's the base of a model that does have texture swapping

and if not, i know someone who's reimplemented the feature into the base itself

[faint cypress]

Hey there trying to make a large 15 ft scale titanfall style mech but unfortunately height restrictions cause problem with the camera, ive tried placing the camera where it would be when its 15ft tall and scaling it up to the correct size but that causes the camera to arc sharply in whatever direction I view, does anyone know how to get a stable view point on a large scale avatar and be willing to share?

[somber sequoia]

do you not have the armature scaled that big or something? the viewpoint is generally moved by the head bone

[gentle goblet]

If I want things to be toggleable how do I do that? I am only in blender at the moment and I think I heard somewhere that I need everything to be seperate if I want it to be able to be toggled and was wondering if that is right and if there is anything else I should know?

[lilac musk]

I ran into this issue before and was able to fix it, but I can't remember what the fix was this time. I have an animation that takes over the hands, but when I reset the hands back to tracking, it gets stuck in a claw hand shape and doesn't move anymore.

[static cipher]

Yeah, from what I've heard it's easier to have toggleables be separate from the main model.

[lilac musk]

That is the most common way of doing it, however it's not the only way. You can use blendshapes, bones, and uv tile discard. Some are more complex than others, but they all can be done with having only 1 mesh

[gentle goblet]

Thank you both ^-^ I will try to just not link them but it is good to know that there are other ways to go about it <3

[faint cypress]

I did try to use an animation to scale up the size of the armature to bring it to the level of the camera so it looks right, i have a feeling it is still treating it like the avatar is not scaled up so when the head rotates even if the avatar is the correct size after the animation the playe viewpoint is turning like im still a 7ft tall avatar with the viewpoint floating 8 feet about

[somber sequoia]

you can't move the viewpoint with animations

[round pewter]

why are my normals blue in one project but normal in another
they have the same settings and are on the same unity version
only difference i can think of is one uses vcc and the other doesnt

here are the settings

[lilac musk]

Does it actually affect anything? Like does the shader still calculate shadows correctly? Cause if it does, then why does it matter?

[somber sequoia]

set "texture type" to "normal map"

[round pewter]

the normals appear all cracked like this

[round pewter]

set it to normal still blue in one project and purple in the other

[somber sequoia]

possibly one of them has DirectX instead of OpenGL normals - Unity uses OpenGL

can't tell from here of course.

[round pewter]

they are all open gl

and its the same textures in both projects

i think the vcc sdk is a different version from the package sdk which is causing the difference

[somber sequoia]

you can verify that in the package manager, but I don't recall reading about anything like normal format changes, that'd be drastic

[round pewter]

yeah ima do that now

[coral mountain]

So when I do physbone on my models it doesn't let me make them grabbable, I've clicked the button, and it doesn't work. How do I fix this-

[somber sequoia]

Do you also have a radius set?

[coral mountain]

No, do I need a radius set?

[somber sequoia]

I thought so

[coral mountain]

that might be it let me test (sorry I taught myself unity)

[round pewter]

okay so vcc and the non vcc project both have sdk ver 3.7.1 same texture settings but for some reason the ones in the non vcc project are blue lol
so im moving project to fix it lol