avatar-help

[fallow fiber]

bump..

[soft breach]

question!
i believe this is a shader issue, but when further away my avatars hair turns a blonde-ish color. the further away she gets the worse this effect becomes (upclose for ref)
any suggestions?

[oblique fable]

so i finished my avatar in blender and i rigged it in unity so i uploaded it, unfortunately my facial piercings and earrings float whenever I move around, How do i fix it? Like everytime i move the piercings lag behind

[somber sequoia]

check to be sure the piercings got weight painted right, or are attached properly... but how are they actually attached? I usually just merge them with the body mesh before exporting.

[oblique fable]

let me go ahead and do that but i have not merged most of them to the body so that may be the issue but i did merge the lip piercing with the head cause visemes but that one does not move with the head either

[soft breach]

recorded a video to better show the issue because im sure i explained this really poorly

[feral breach]

guys i cant upload an avatar because there is no blueprint ID i guess?

[oblique fable]

as you can see not even the lip piercing stays where it is supposed to

[somber sequoia]

okay... but you probably need to test in pose mode in Blender, then in Unity before trying in-game, you can't really see why from this

[somber sequoia]

is this the only error? If not, post the first 2-3

[sharp nimbus]

not really sure what i fucked up (but ive been attatching all my clothes by just merging armatures, Maya + clothes rigged for maya) and now when I apply my body material in unity there's a mysterious red gloop

anyone experienced this before?

[somber sequoia]

probably overlapping UV islands

[sharp nimbus]

hm

[junior void]

looks like exploded rim light

aka scaling is now different = rim stuff is also x100

[grand scaffold]

looks like an outline shader that's set super high

[dry briar]

Would anyone happen to know why my avatar stands like this? Her feet will just move forward if I stand in place for a tiny bit.

[broken bone]

Probably the skeleton isn't straight in the right places if I had to guess, and VRC is "correcting" it

[dry briar]

But it only seems to happen in VR. Desktop makes her look fine.

[junior void]

I had this same problem. I also had to mess with bone alignment a bit

[dry briar]

Like going into Blender?

[junior void]

Yes

[dry briar]

That...sucks...this was a Gumroad model and it doesn't come with a blender file

[somber sequoia]

easy enough to just import the FBX

[dry briar]

Wouldn't that break the model?

And also wouldn't that mean the model would have to be re-set up

[somber sequoia]

as long as you do it right, it shouldn't break anything

[junior void]

Moving ik bones will cause issues

[feral breach]

i dunno what happened but i made a new project and i added vrc fury even when the description wasnt saying that i need that
and it worked with it

[junior void]

Youd have to redo the import settings and copy everything else via pumpkins avatar tools

[somber sequoia]

eh, I've had pretty decent luck with this not needing any kind of full reset

[junior void]

I hadnt

[dry briar]

Like what would need to be edited in Blender?

[somber sequoia]

though I avoid hanging anything off the armature if I can help it

[broken bone]

Yeah I've never had any issues completely changing things and replacing the FBX

[junior void]

Try mooving and scaling finger bones

Youre in for a treat xD

[broken bone]

Been there, done that lol

[somber sequoia]

been there, done that

[dry briar]

Would I have to move her feet, her hips?

[junior void]

That depends on how its set up rn

[dry briar]

Did I import this right?

[somber sequoia]

it's in there, so I assume it's right 🙂

[dry briar]

Now what?

[junior void]

View the avatar perfectly from the side and enable "in front" rendering in the armatures property settings so we can see your bones properly

[dry briar]

in front?

[junior void]

Yes, thats what its called

Its under viewport display

[mystic saddle]

does anyone else had the problem that vrchat removed the quest side of the avatars recently?

[junior void]

My guess is that the feet bones being 500 yards in front of your face causes that weird leaning. Personally, i would try different leg poses and just try out what works best

[dry briar]

But they're not

[somber sequoia]

that doesn't seem likely, there wasn't any announcement about it

[dry briar]

The leg bones are inside her legs

[junior void]

Not what i meant

Vrchats ik will try to line up your body to proportion of humans

So stand up rn and have your face lean further back than your feet - tell me that doesnt feel unnatural

[dry briar]

Ok but what do you mean about the bones being forward?

They look under the head to me

[junior void]

This is what i mean

[dry briar]

So what should I do, line the toes to be more under her head?

[junior void]

I would try that, yes

[dry briar]

I assume you'd want to move the whole leg back

Like rotate it at the hip

[junior void]

I personally would start by deleting end bones

As a shortcut, i would also shrink the feet bones - just as a test to verify its that before spending hours in blender

[dry briar]

shrink em in blender or unity

[junior void]

Blender pose mode and apply to rest pose

Itll look crippled but again, its a test

[mystic saddle]

found the issue i think.
the open beta

[dry briar]

So go into Pose mode and just click this?

[unreal pasture]

whats the max limit of the chairs

i have 2 and 1 is not working

[cinder flicker]

bump

[pale cave]

sorry I'm new to this just purchase avatar and I have no Idea how to upload to vrchat I dont see the vrchatsdk thing at all can someone pls help me ;w;

[errant comet]

That is because you are using the wrong version of Unity. Please use the VRChat Creator Companion, it gets the correct version of Unity as well as imports the needed stuff into a project for you to begin.

Unity has to be 2022.3.6 or 2022.3.22

[mortal spindle]

Speaking of the CC. Mine is getting stuck on queuing Unity editor install?

[errant comet]

#creator-companion is probably a better place for help. Could be connection issues to Unity servers, could be you don't have Unity Hub installed, or it's not working? I haven't had to troubleshoot Unity install issues

[mortal spindle]

Unity Hub is installed. It is having trouble finishing 2022.3.22f1 which is the recommended one
I am gonna try installing 2022.3.6f1 and see if that works better

[somber sequoia]

this will help: https://vcc.docs.vrchat.com/guides/getting-started

[timber wharf]

@mortal spindle install manually then show it to vcc

@mortal spindle unityhub://2022.3.22f1/887be4894c44 while unity hub is opened

[naive bough]

This is more a question about substance painter than anything else, but can I use the $20 basic version to retexture vrchat models?

Or do I need the expensive version ;-;

[somber sequoia]

there's a basic version? huh I had no idea

oh $20/mo

Yeah that includes painter - the $50/mo one includes a bunch of other stuff that seem cool but I've never tried

[gusty perch]

Need help with this I have no idea what causes these lines that looks like I am wearing someone's skin

[charred epoch]

I ran into a problem with a set of clothes, in regular edit mode, it looks fine, but in play mode, it seems to have scrunched itself up inside the body

[somber sequoia]

fun with weight painting

[velvet junco]

I have a weird situation here, i have two blendshapes, but the normals on the besh break unless the first blendshape is at 100, if no blendshapes are on the normals break and same with having the second blendshape on, weirdly enough deleting the second blendshape seems to stop it from breaking when the first one isnt on, so whats going on??

[somber sequoia]

break how?

[velvet junco]

they just get messed up shading wise, very strange, blendshape normal settings are set up correctly too

[fallow fiber]

so my avatar is supposed to be floating by default, and there's a toggle for an afk animation where he reaches up at a cloud to sleep on it, and a toggle for having the arms up while idle on desktop. all seems to be working fine until i try to add gogoloco. he stops floating but the wings still move, cloud still shows up above him but he isnt moving to reach up and grab it, and the toggle for having hands up doesnt work either. anyone know what to do? thank you in advance!

[somber sequoia]

gogo loco generally replaces most of the locomotion, did you merge things together somehow or just use vrc fury?

[fallow fiber]

im using modular avatar which im not familiar with

[somber sequoia]

oh, I'm not sure how that works unfortunately

but probably you'd have to figure out how to merge gogo loco's animation layers along with yours, possibly causing yours to override some of what gogo loco provides

[fallow fiber]

i did find this post of the exact same thing happening to me but im not sure how to do what the comments are suggesting 😭

[somber sequoia]

yep, lines up with what I'm talking about

[long sierra]

For some reason, my exported animations for my avatar imported as transform animations and not muscle animations O_o

[fallow fiber]

yah but like.. how do i do that?

[somber sequoia]

Avatars 3.0 manager can help you merge animators, but you'd need to understand what is happening in the Action layer to know what to do with it. Definitely not something we could simply explain

[fallow fiber]

aww man 😭

thanks tho..

[somber sequoia]

bit of a learning curve, but not too bad. You can do it 🙂

[agile reef]

This is what pops up when I try to export my avatar from blender-

[somber meadow]

you don't need cats to export, but if you want to use CATS on Blender 3.6 you need to use the unofficial fork

https://catsblenderplugin.xyz/

[agile reef]

got it thank you!

[frosty flax]

By the way I got my problem taken care of for now

[dry briar]

Is there a way to tell if the leg bone is pointing straight up and down?

[somber sequoia]

compare world coordinates of the bone's head and tail. Or if you're in Unity, the bone and its direct child

[dry briar]

But do the bones need to be straight?

[spark walrus]

What are these red circles for?

[spark walrus]

I've added an animator to the mesh, why isnt it showing in the Inspector?

.

it's on the character instead

[shell tide]

I was playing today and out of nowhere my avatar kept changing by itself. I was not changing it at all and no one has my log in Info that I am aware of. Is it a bug or am I a victim of being hacked? Can anyone help? I restarted vrchat and it’s still doing it.

[left gull]

you could make a support ticket about it here https://help.vrchat.com/hc/en-us/requests/new but you should change your password just incase

[spark walrus]

who knows how to animate?

[willow carbon]

Hi, need rookie help with avatar.
What setting in "liltoon" shaders disables this reflective effect?

Just got back into avatar scene and my friend told me to use this shader (previously with my old avatar, I used silent's shader, which doesn't have this issue)

oh, nvm, solved
was 'backlight' in advanced settings

[spark walrus]

what is inbox?

dm me

[prisma sedge]

I would be careful with dming random people in this server. You are 9 time out of 10 going to get scammers.

[spark walrus]

yes

ive noticed

reported one so far nothing been done

[spark walrus]

gkossybab is another scammer

[lucid rapids]

how i can make the sky and the floor look like that ?

[junior void]

Use a skybox and a plane with an image texture on it as floor

[quaint hound]

honestly it could also just be a hemisphere skybox

[junior void]

Sure but that's not common practice for worlds

[quaint hound]

i agree but i kinda have a feeling that thats the case for some reason

[quaint hound]

The ground seems to be a parralax Shader

[hexed galleon]

WHO makes custom Avis?

[ornate stump]

What if someone does?

[hexed galleon]

Oh well I want a custom avi from a game so

I will pay do

So*

[hazy bay]

Anyone know why this is happening? this is really weird and i guarantee its a easy fix

[quaint hound]

oh wow that IS really weird

[ornate stump]

You should read this #1138526588728782891 message

second paragraph.

[hazy bay]

This is the WORST place to ask for that, this server is full of scammers and people will over price the crap outa it

[hexed galleon]

Oh

Thx for letting me know

[hazy bay]

ofc man

[ornate stump]

What is wrong there?

[hazy bay]

part of the mesh is staying here

There*

[quaint hound]

how are you moving the mesh

[hazy bay]

pose mode

[quaint hound]

via bones/armature or

[hazy bay]

bones

[quaint hound]

yea those vertiices are most likely not added to a vertex group

[ornate stump]

Do you mean those stray lines?

[hazy bay]

yeah!

[quaint hound]

ie. theyre not being moved with bones because theyre disconnected from the bone groups

[hazy bay]

leme check

thank you for helping lol

[quaint hound]

try to select those stray vertices, find the vertex group theyre supposed to be in and make sure you add them to it

im pretty sure thats whats happening if its happening in pose mode

[ornate stump]

Can't really tell if those actually are stray vertex edges since it doesn't show vertex selection like other do.

[hazy bay]

i cant because all of it is connected on one obj and it snaps back into place in edit mode

[ornate stump]

You can display how the mesh deformed in the armature modifier.

[hazy bay]

even if i select all in pose mode and weight it all down those points still stay there

[ornate stump]

Get into the edit mode for the mesh

[hazy bay]

I'm just deleting the vertices I've never had that problem before

[hazy bay]

thank you

[quaint hound]

real LOL

cant cause problems if they aint there

[hazy bay]

thank you as well

[hazy bay]

Lmao i swear every now and then i learn more about blender lol

have a good night guys thanks again!

or morning lol

[quaint hound]

no problem if you need any more help dont be afraid to ask lmao

[gusty perch]

how do I get it in the box?

I can't export the hair and that's the only texture left I need to be done

just turns black

[grand scaffold]

Pretty sure you need to go back to your 3d modelling program and move the UV tiles left by 1

[quaint hound]

this ^^^^

unless theres a way to move UVs in substance

[junior void]

Right click, Set offset to 0

Or 1 in your case

If it has tiling enabled, it will repeat itself as tiles, so realistically, it should still work

[solar mason]

anyone know how to fix the weird jacket? (i am using vrcfury btw)

[ornate stump]

What "this"?

[junior void]

Define "this". People keep thinking we know what they mean from a video. but realistically, in this case you could mean the bra or jacket

[solar mason]

the weird drag on the jacket

[ornate stump]

Did you delete some bone? And how did you add the jacket?

[solar mason]

i deleted the hoodie and hoodie string bones, and added it with vrcfury armeture link, blendshape link

[ornate stump]

You must not delete any bone. That's the result of deleting a bone where some vertices depends on it.

[solar mason]

ok will retry this 👍

[solar mason]

tysm:D worked like a charm

[solar mason]

do u feel something is wrong with the bra? if so i would love feedback

[junior void]

either its clipping or its pretty much the exact same color as the skin in the lower half

i cant tell x) le blind

[solar mason]

oh, you mighy be righ, thanks, i'll try fixing that:]

[spark walrus]

hi

how to make animations?

[junior void]

Do you google anything at all?

[spark walrus]

i cant find anything useful

is anyone with animation knowledge here"?

[somber sequoia]

there's also #animation but maybe you can be more specific?

[somber sequoia]

definitely not

[spark walrus]

i want to make animals walk

I looked on utube and I cant find a single video on how to make walk animations in unity

not a single one

[somber sequoia]

I'd probably do that in Blender

[spark walrus]

why

[somber sequoia]

seems a lot easier to deal with

[spark walrus]

i think blender is hardest

most unintuitive

slowest

overcomoplicated

undeveloped

software that exists

[somber sequoia]

tell me you don't know how to use blender without saying you don't know how to use blender 🙂

[spark walrus]

i try to avoid it

[left gull]

blender is 100% alot easier to learn/work with animation wise imo

also alot more documents/tuts for it then unity (atleast from when i was learning)

[junior void]

I wish we could pin this

[spark walrus]

show me the easiest way to animate

[rancid zealot]

Need some small help, I'm working on an avatar with ear physbones, but Im trying to add a cowboy hat to it. I added the hat just fine but my main issue is that when the avatar moves (ie. walking/sitting/jumping) the ears clip through the hat, anybody know what to do?

I looked up some tutorials but in them the prefab for the clothing item had a whole armature but mine only had the hat (post unpack)

Is there a way in unity to get the ear to stop against the inside of the hat? Or to just disable physbones while the hat is enabled?

[somber sequoia]

You can absolutely disable the physbones when the hat is enabled, just add that to the animation

otherwise, clever use of positioning and limiters and maybe other colliders, though I probably wouldn't go the route of putting physbone colliders on the hat

[rancid zealot]

I dont really know how to disable physbones, especially just for an animation, could you link a tutorial?

[somber sequoia]

no, it's just like disabling any other game object

[spark walrus]

uncheck physbone

[rancid zealot]

would do the colliders but im trying to make it as optimized as possible

[spark walrus]

component

[rancid zealot]

lemme look real quick

[somber sequoia]

yeah, I put mine on separate game objects, but you can also just disable the component.

[rancid zealot]

where is the bone component? (Im stupid)

[somber sequoia]

it's your avatar, we have no idea

[rancid zealot]

ah, i thought it was a menu, sorry

I hit the checkmark and it disables physbones, right?

[somber sequoia]

yep

But in that component, near the bottom is a "reset when disabled" checkbox you may wish to enable

[rancid zealot]

What does that do?

[somber sequoia]

shall I refer you to the physbone documentation?

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/avatar-dynamics/physbones/

[white jungle]

When my avatar lays down (fbt) I want to disable a couple colliders to prevent the hair tail etc from hitting the floor collider. trying to find the right method, contact send/recieve?

[somber sequoia]

I've been meaning to try to use the Upright parameter for this

[white jungle]

that might do it! will play with the value and see

[somber sequoia]

see also Seated

that's a bit more specific but might also be useful

[white jungle]

thats instation, might not track for fbt

[somber sequoia]

yeah I was meaning to see if that's set in 6-point tracking while in a station that sets it

this is somewhere on my giant todo list 🙂

ah the docs say it's true if in station, so probably would be in that mode too

[light charm]

does anyone know how to add quest-compatible seats on avatars?

[runic pecan]

I am having the same issues with the same avatar.

It may be an issue with how it was exported from the modeling software

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1299803499579576350/1299803631909863535/image.png?ex=672476b7&is=67232537&hm=277a9e621e454cfda6e485e09ca8b4b2493b026e1e2504cbe3a3f0f25436fdb2&

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get in contact with Fawnit

[indigo compass]

The station component adds its own collider at runtime.
It does mean you can't edit its location or size (unless scaling the gameobject the station is on works) and even easily turning off the station (the best solution I know of is animating the station gameobject far away so it can't be clicked.) but that is what you have to deal with on Quest

[solar mason]

hey, is there a way to add multiple animation controllers to 1 avi?

***via vrcfury

[somber sequoia]

Yes, though there's almost never actually a good reason to do so - what are you trying to do?

[solar mason]

so i made some clothing toggles, but my facial expression stopped working

(i used vrcfury for the toggles)

[somber sequoia]

okay....

[solar mason]

do i need to make new animation clips to and add them from vrcfury gestures or can i use the clips i have somehow?

[somber sequoia]

I've not used vrc fury gestures but there shouldn't be a need to remake gesture animations

[solar mason]

it tells me that the clips are animated, but "not found on your avatar" which doesnt make sense, because all the parameters for the expressions are there, and they work no problem, and the animation controller i used before still works aswell

[somber sequoia]

"it" here being VRC Fury?

[solar mason]

yes

[tired lagoon]

I need help uploading a emote.

[somber sequoia]

is it an animation?

oh - not doing this in multiple places 🙂

[tired lagoon]

I think so

But It says emotes on name so

[somber sequoia]

I'm already trying to help you in the other server, no need to do both. Yes, different discord name.

[subtle sigil]

how can i animate a blendshape that is used for blinking?

i wanna make an animation where the eyelids close halfway but it won't work if the blendshape is being used for blinking

[junior void]

duplicate the blendshape in blender and use the dupe instead

hi kaz

[somber sequoia]

Or you can disable the VRChat-automated blinking with the VRC Animator Tracking Control component.
Hi Zero 🙂

[junior void]

do you ever sleep

[somber sequoia]

not much

it's half noon here though

[junior void]

5:40 pm here

and pitch black outside already

my brain is confused

[somber sequoia]

ugh

[cunning spindle]

how do i fix the bone mapping since she doesnt have eye/mouth bones

[timber wharf]

just remove them

[somber night]

I'm so glad I'm not going crazy

[timber wharf]

ie set to none

[cunning spindle]

Ok

Also how do I make physbones so her hair has physics

[junior void]

You hit "add component" (on the hair root or an empty game object) and select vrc physbone

[cunning spindle]

?

[junior void]

a question mark doesnt tell me what confuses you

[cunning spindle]

Also how do I go back to the bone editor thing I'm new to unity

[somber sequoia]

if you mean the rigging setup, you don't need that here

[runic pecan]

I'm going to try and talk to gumroad if Fawnit can't get back to me. I don't have the knowledge or time to learn how reimport it to blender and add smoothing groups to blendshapes

It's really a shame- the avatar looks incredible

[junior void]

🤔

[cunning spindle]

What would the hair root be

[junior void]

Sane artists call it "hair root"

Root = fist x of something, so the firstmost bone from which all hair stands originate

[cunning spindle]

Alr

[long sierra]

Why are my avatar animations importing as transform animations instead of muscle animations?

[gusty perch]

How do I move it in the box?

[somber sequoia]

IMO if you're using a UV tile setup in Substance... don't.

[gusty perch]

How do I disable UV Tile?

[somber sequoia]

I think you have to make a new project without it enabled

But if you don't want to, I think someone else suggested bringing the model into Blender and shifting the UV islands to the main tile, I'd do that.

[cunning spindle]

Help I restarted unity and now when I drag pearl back in she doesn't show up

[somber sequoia]

one assumes "pearl" is your avatar? Got your shader package installed?

[cunning spindle]

Yeah that's my avatar

And I have poyomi there

[spark walrus]

hey i brought a texture and it looks like this, idk why but can someone help me with it

[gusty perch]

nothing worked and isn't this normal or?

how is it not alligned

[cunning spindle]

Unrelated but ily avatar

[junior void]

Texture =/= uvs

Go into edit mode on the hair

[somber sequoia]

really have no idea from here, not seeing it

[somber sequoia]

at the top you're in texture paint mode, you need to be in UV edit mode

[gusty perch]

I already checked there

What am I exactly looking for?

[somber sequoia]

select all parts in the right-window and see where things show up in the left

Or click the "UV Sync Selection" button in the very upper left of Blender

[cunning spindle]

How do I test my phybones

[somber sequoia]

go into play mode, grab the avatar in the scene view and shake it around

in the game view you can also grab things like ears/tails/dangly bits of clothing

[last wind]

does anyone know how to do a toggle for one hat? , my animator keeps breaking my avatar

[somber sequoia]

yes, lots of us do. can you provide more detail?

[cunning spindle]

Ok

How

Nvm

[gusty perch]

Exactly what I needed thank you

[somber sequoia]

And did you find the islands are shifted?

[gusty perch]

Yes tho weird for it to be outside of it

Donnu how that could have happen

[somber sequoia]

nah it's not - it's a pretty common thing to do when using multiple UV maps. A little surprising for a commercial avatar to be sold like that, but eh..

Anyway, just move it all -1 in the x direction, should be fine

[gusty perch]

Just held control and moved it

Pivets perfectly into the Middle

[somber sequoia]

I'd move it exactly -1 unit

getting that misaligned will be annoying 🙂

but hey, whatever method works for you.

[gusty perch]

Mmm lemme double check that it is perfectly aligned then

[cunning spindle]

hop on SARPBC

[unique cloud]

Asked before a few days ago but I think it got missed, so here we go: I'm making some assets for vrc, and they often share same-name animations, textures, etc that however are different. Now if someone imports more than one of these assets into a project, unity always wants to use the existing texture/anims/etc from the first imported asset instead of using the ones being imported. the root folders are also named differently. I'm trying to have it basically just.. import all of the assets in the pack instead of trying to use ones from a different folder structure. feel free to @ me so I see the reply btw ❤️

[somber sequoia]

not quite correct - Unity doesn't do this by name, it does this by the UUID that's stored in the .meta file next to the actual file

[lethal rapids]

does anyone know if the gesture manager can in some way test jumping and walking? the actual mostions, not just the poses

[somber sequoia]

Lyuma's avatars 3.0 emulator does

well jumping for sure, not sure I've seen a walking one

[pallid cloak]

I have a question depending Unity and blendtrees - Is it right that one layer with all the toggles in a big blendtree are more perfomant than several layers in the animator where each toggle has its own layer? if so - are there limitations? my blendtree holds right now around 55 toggles and starts to lag a bit...

[somber sequoia]

some research on the subject is here: https://vrc.school/docs/Other/Benchmarks

can't say I've counted the number of toggles I've done, and most of them aren't just plain on/off things anyway but I haven't noticed any lag

[pallid cloak]

maybe its just a unity thing - haven't uploaded it yet

[unique cloud]

This happens with non-copied items too, like animations i created inside the project

[somber sequoia]

I have definitely not experienced this.

[pallid cloak]

okay thanks for now :3

[somber sequoia]

meant this for @unique cloud , sorry I didn't reply

[pallid cloak]

oh okay still - thanks

[unique cloud]

hmm ill see if i can find any more info, thanks tho!

[hidden loom]

how do i make a toggle that freezes all movement of my avatar in the current pose i'm in?

like something that completely immobilizes it

[somber sequoia]

this: https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/state-behaviors/#animator-tracking-control

But you need to be doing it in a layer such as Action

[hidden loom]

so all i need to make is an animation clip that is on a toggle? where is this component added though? where the avi descriptor is?

[somber sequoia]

You add this onto the animation state

[hidden loom]

what do i animate? the avatar root?

[somber sequoia]

if you just want to freeze the avatar, just use an empty animation clip

so your animation layer would look something like entry -> freeze avatar -> unfreeze avatar -> exit
with freeze and unfreeze having this component on them, freeze sets everything to "animation" and unfreeze sets it all back to "tracking"

[hidden loom]

thank you!

[lucid rapids]

can someone tell me what the problem is ?

[somber sequoia]

if you scroll up the console, I bet there's a "missing script" error - the first message I can see there suggests a previous one says that.
You are missing a dependency, either install that or remove whatever script that is.

[lucid rapids]

can u tell me how to remove it ?

[hidden loom]

Just one more thing. I need to set it to "animation" to stop the tracking right? As in to freeze it in the last position before toggle?

[somber sequoia]

find it, select it, then in the 3-dots menu at the upper right, "remove component"

[somber sequoia]

Read the docs - "animation" means you will animate those things. "tracking" means it'll be driven by IK, i.e. normal you-moving-the-avatar movements.

So yes, set it to animation and then don't animate anything should make it frozen, though I don't know offhand if it's the last position or if it resets position, can't say I've actually tried this 🙂

I kinda bet it'll be forced into a default pose

[hidden loom]

Ok, i didn't understand the documentation to well, thank you for explaining it

[somber sequoia]

ah okay!

[lucid rapids]

ty

[spark walrus]

Does anyone have a video tutorial on how to create a submenu folder full of sped up emotes from 0%-100% while using the VRCFury goloco all prefab?

[ashen flume]

I NEED HELP😭 my textures exist when its on standard light but when i put it to vrc/standard lite, they dissapear

(its only the parts i downloaded)

[long sierra]

I added a plane to my avatar at one point to make sure the character's feet lined up with the ground when testing animations, and now he flies even after I deleted the plane, and without using GGL's flight feature? O_o

[spark walrus]

Did you compress the textures?

Textures can disappear if you make them to small

[ashen flume]

i foudn out the problem

it was just in blender, the model had vertex paint

[summer hearth]

So uhh,this happens everytime i enable gesture manager, and its supposed to be a novabeast xD

[spark walrus]

I have a question is it better to use limit on physbones or use physbone colliders?

[somber sequoia]

yes.

really depends on the situation

[fluid drum]

is the height for avatars measured y eye height? (im pretty annoyed because i disabled the eye bones so it would use humanoid rig, and now it says the avatar is shorter than 20cm (WHEN I KNOW FOR A FACT IT ISNT)

[jovial forum]

Does anyone know why an avatars mouth would be stuck left open? Trynna help a friend out and its only open when in VRC. I checked over all the visemes and everything but this isn't a bug I know how to fix

The teeth also dont move with the visemes

I don't believe it's the bow that's doing that to your hair, I think it's the chest colliders. Since the chest collider is the only collider listed on the hair. I could be wrong but I believe you just need to adjust the chest collider until it doesnt go weird

Is that the physbone component for your bow in the first image?

Yeah then that should be screwing with the hair

[fluid drum]

nvm, turns out when i modelled him in blender i did it in the floor, THATS what defines height.
useful info
aslo explaisn why the first time i exported him he was in the floor.. lol

[agile tangle]

In the middle of optimizing an avi and this is in the red, have no idea what this is?

[ornate flax]

Does anyone know why an avatars mouth would be stuck left open in the scene and vrc? Neither me or my friend can find a fix. The teeth don't move with the visemes either. My guess is that the teeth aren't properly bound to the jaw, but I don't know how to fix this.

[primal vale]

hi, i want to change the values i pointed at with the arrow. how do i see what im doing with this animation while i change the numbers?
for context, im editing the animations of the gestures, i want to be able to see how im adjusting it as im doing it.

[somber sequoia]

I thought it was the view point, not the eye bones

oh also yeah, floor.

[somber sequoia]

unmap the jaw bone in the rig setup

unless you use it, of course.

[somber sequoia]

is that indicating the object's parent?

[jovial forum]

@somber sequoia We did this, and it worked, but the teeth are still not moving. I know exactly why though. The head and the jaw are different models and have the same visemes for mouth movement, how would we link the visemes efficiently with out FX spaghetti?

[somber sequoia]

I'd join all of that into one mesh object personally

[jovial forum]

I forgor how to do that again, havent touched unity/blender in a minute and I'm just helpin him with the little knowledge i've retained after like a year

[somber sequoia]

otherwise you'll have to do the whole visemes setup yourself - vrchat only runs blendshapes on a single mesh object. You can use the Viseme parameter in the animator for this.

Blender, select mesh objects, ctrl+j

[jovial forum]

And it should join the blendshapes automatically if they're named the same?

[somber sequoia]

Yep

obviously it may be more complex, lots of factors, etc.

[jovial forum]

Okay, thx

Ill get back to you if we run into any bugs <3

[mild solar]

exporting an fbx model that looks normal into unity, but when i go into unity the arms are slightly deformed, area from wrist to elbow raises slightly

is there anything i can do to fix? i know for a fact its normal in blender because i import same outfit to blender and the arms line up straight and smooth, but after exporting into unity it deforms slightly

[somber meadow]

try configuring the rig, clicking pose>reset, then pose>enforce t-pose

[mild solar]

unfortunately, that didn’t fix it

🥹i appreciate the answer though

[somber sequoia]

In here please, so others may benefit. Not sure what would be weird, ctrl+j will join objects of the same type, works for me. Assuming a reasonably modern Blender.

[mild solar]

unity vs blender comparison

[dark jay]

how do u merge a detail layer for fighterz on quest

[somber sequoia]

fighterz?

[inland eagle]

Would anyone know how to make nightvision?

[left gull]

generally i see it done with custom shaders

[somber sequoia]

yep, definitely a shader, you can get a few interesting ones

[carmine jay]

Does anyone know what base this model is using?

[somber sequoia]

#1138520828556890214

[somber sequoia]

in Blender are you sure this isn't posed, and that all of the objects have had all transforms applied?

is the left wrist somehow a separate object in Blender or something?

then that's not how parenting works

in most cases if you're going to export this as all one avatar, not as separate props, the objects should all have the origin as their origin

Probably this line is indicating that these objects are offset from their parent, which is likely the armature, at 0,0,0

origin to geometry can be useful for items that are their own separate props

[mild solar]

if it was posed, would it show in blender and also not be straight in blender? it’s straight which is why i’m puzzled. i do notice that if i separate the wrist bone from the elbow and just move the elbow bone down slightly, it fixes completely, so it’s just the elbow bone that’s messed up

how do i reset poses in blender?

[somber sequoia]

(but those should probably be at the origin too)

[somber sequoia]

pose mode, select all, and in one of the menus (I forget which) is clear transforms

[spark walrus]

Question: does anyone know how to use vrc emote manager with vrc fury on an avatar? I am having trouble making it work and would like a video tutorial on how to make it work (as I use vrcfury for my gogoloco)

[somber sequoia]

what is going on there

ok that does make some sense

[grizzled lichen]

anyone who knows vrchat shader materials and such, would there be a way to replicate this in unity materials?

it uses a matcap shader with a transparent texture overlay for the mustache shadow

[left gull]

poiyomi is likely your best bet, it can do transparency, matcaps and outlines

[grizzled lichen]

thanks!

though the outline doesnt really need a shader since its using the solidify modifier and it'll be part of the mesh

[mild solar]

the issue is still happening unfortunately. i cleared transformations, applied transformations to all objects

it looks completely normal in blender and only looks different after being exported. is there some type of export setting that could be messing with it?

[somber sequoia]

sure, if you use different settings than previous. maybe you have to remake the rig setup in Unity, I'm just guessing at this point

[stable igloo]

I need help on vrcfury, does anyone know how to change toggle name? I want to change it to Necklace because the playmode menu shows New Toggle and I cannot figure out a way to change it

[night ember]

the path

you have it labeled "new toggle"

[stable igloo]

Ohhhhhh

Okay got it

Thank you!

[wooden cairn]

I have a contact receiver detecting collision with the avatar's head, but nobody but me can see the animation it triggers. any clue why?

[left gull]

is the toggle/anim's parameters sync'd?

[wooden cairn]

Yes

This is actually true of every time I've used contact recievers

They always only work for me

I don't understand what I'm doing wrong

Edit: Figured it out. Turns out that Contact Receiver parameters are completely separate from VRC Avatar Parameters, and don't get networked. I had to make an animation layer that updates a synced parameter which then drives the animations.

The fact that this isn't really well documented anywhere gave me many hours of headaches

[cosmic bloom]

i'm using index controllers, for some reason for others my hand gestures look like quest hand gestures, it only fixes itself when they hide and show my avi, but keeps happening again on avi changes and world changes
it happens on one specific model with empty gestures in playable layers, what could be happening?

[spark walrus]

what does this mean?

[shell moth]

What do I do here?

[left wharf]

Your avatar needs some tools such as Modular Avatar, VRCFury.
probably the links of the dependencies are in the avatar’s store page.

[shell moth]

I already imported VRCFury ill keep fidgeting

[junior void]

Looks like default muscle settings (rig configuration -> muscles)

[still ore]

Anyone know how to make an avatar world constraint for placed object using the new vrc constraint system?

[solar mason]

hey, can anyone help me with getting a skin mask to work? i made a jacket in vroid and converted it to an fbx using blender, and attached it to my avatar using vrcfury but then the skin mask that was supposed to delete the arm mesh while the jacket was on didn't work

[junior void]

How did you add the mask functionality

[solar mason]

in vroid you can just add it as part of the clothing item

[junior void]

Right so are we still talking about vroid or a vrc avatar

[solar mason]

but i think that when i converted it to fbx that was deleted

[solar mason]

a vrc avatar

[junior void]

A mask is nothing but a texture so im sure you have it somewhere

[solar mason]

ok, thanks, ill go try finding it^^

[solar mason]

so i couldnt find it, but i went back and made a skin mask so it worked:D but how do i make the skin mask be the only skin textuew while the jacket game object is enabled? otherwise the normal skin texture will just fill in the spaces

[junior void]

You need to use a material swap to a material that has the mask. If you use vrcfury for the toggle, you can add this as another action to it

[solar mason]

ok, tysm:D

[fickle marsh]

can someone help me please

[astral tinsel]

whats happinging here? a lot of the avis i have be trying to upload have this problom now

[unreal pasture]

show moreeeee

[astral tinsel]

thats the only red errors, what would you wanna see?

thats everything that shows up

[fickle marsh]

can anyone help me please

i need help uploading an avatar and its confusing

[timber wharf]

@astral tinsel try restarting your router, sometimes for some people aws that handles files just breaks/refuses to connect

@fickle marsh be specific, use screenshots.

[fickle marsh]

okay so im trying to import the avatar and everytime i do it just wont import it and idk why and most of this stuff is partially confusing as its my first time doing this

[timber wharf]

its imported, not like its going to appear in your scene by itself. try opening the scene that comes with it.

[fickle marsh]

thats what i clicked and it wont open it

[ornate stump]

Did you double click?

[fickle marsh]

yeah but i might have figured it out???

[autumn viper]

Is anyone able to upload an avatar for me that i made a couple months ago my new account hasnt updated to new user yet as my old account got deleted, this does not go against any rules as far as i can see, please dm to talk im desperate

[ornate stump]

Banned isn't the same as deleted though.

[lyric compass]

Does VRC have eye look parameters? I have an avatar I'd like to not use eye bones for and instead use shapekeys for the locations of each direction

[long sierra]

How do I set up an Or condition in an animator controller? I know making two transitions to the same object in the same direction (so it has 3 arrows) is part of it, but I dunno what else to do

[south kraken]

Only if you have face tracking can you use eye shape keys for look directions

[lyric compass]

Ok thanks Digi

[spark walrus]

Question: does anyone know how to use vrc emote manager with vrc fury on an avatar? I am having trouble making it work and would like a video tutorial on how to make it work (as I use vrcfury for my gogoloco)

[south kraken]

Each arrow is technically an "or"

So just click on the arrows that are all going to the same state, and then on the right there should be like multiple sections now, I can't quite picture it in my head, but there it let's you set conditions for each transition arrow as an "or" essentially

[indigo compass]

It does not, but there are prefabs (this being the only one I know is publicly accessible) that uses the eyelook bones and either contacts or physbones to get the angle and actually give you parameters.
https://samdutter.gumroad.com/l/VRCEyeParameters

[spark walrus]

im having trouble with unity to pop up on my screen and Im wondering on how to fix this?

[lyric compass]

Thanks!! This would work great, I've manually setup contact recievers in the past but this would streamline it a bit.

[thin rivet]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to make an avatar where two floating hands have a loose connection between them and the body, like a rope or a chain.

Currently I have 3 "arms", one where the hand is rigged and nothing else, one where the rope/chain is rigged, and a fully invisible one with the same positions of the rope/chain but the direction and heirarchy are flipped.
On the rope/chain arm I have physbones for 1-2 bones with the rest having parent constraints for the fully invisible one.
Then on the fully invisible one I have physbones for the rest going in the opposite direction, and a parent constraint to move the tip to the wrist of the floating hand.

This... sort of works but causes constant twitching if you aren't moving.
Does anyone have an alternative solution, or way to fix the twitching?

[somber sequoia]

according to discussion in #open-beta-discussion the twitching is a known bug that's being worked on

[thin rivet]

That's good to hear! Thank you

One other unrelated question:

I'm trying to add a local visual for what value is being set by a radial menu. I.E, Blendshape value the user cannot see without a mirror so the text "Blendshape at: <num>" is on the screen

Do any of you know of a screenspace shader that can display text and maybe parameters?

The only shader I've seen that can so far is https://www.patreon.com/posts/simple-counter-62864361
but that is not a screenspace shader

[somber sequoia]

I don't know of one offhand, you'd probably have to build it

[thin rivet]

That's unfortunate. I'll look into converting that one, then

[placid lake]

can somone please go look into my post on user support this is a serious matter that puts all group owners at risk

[somber sequoia]

ok, I looked

[lone flax]

My vrchat avatar has 1216124 tri's so this will likely be an easy answer lol but I tried to make quest compatible but it said "this may take a while" then it did nothing and it still says windows after like an hour

[indigo compass]

What said "this may take a while"?

[lone flax]

I hit selected platforms

And then android

Then it said that

[indigo compass]

Ah, what it does is swap what Unity is building for and makes a version of everything in your project that Android devices can more easily understand, that is why it says it can take a while.
But it shouldn't take all that long, if it didn't take forever to import everything in the first place then maybe it got stuck?

Does it not tell you anything else?

Is there a progress bar on screen?

[somber meadow]

If you have a single project for all your avatars, it will take a long time as it compiles all your project's assets for android

[lone flax]

No

[lone flax]

I have a PC avatar and quest it's the same one but one was put through vrc quest tools

[somber meadow]

you don't have the android build module installed on your Unity install

[lone flax]

How do I do that?

[somber meadow]

press Ctrl + Shift + B in your project, click the android tab, and follow the install instructions listed

[placid meadow]

I've been using unity 2022.3.22f1 for the vrchat SDK. I realise now that it doesn't have an android counterpart of that version

[lone flax]

Alr

[placid meadow]

do I revert to an older version of unity for the quest version or what to do

[somber meadow]

All current Unity versions have Android build modules

[placid meadow]

https://unity.com/releases/editor/whats-new/2022.3.22#installs

am I looking in the wrong place

[somber meadow]

^

[placid meadow]

damn nice timing :)

[somber meadow]

since you're already there click this and click add modules

you only need the base android build support module

[placid meadow]

the other versions have add modules

not that one

for some reason

[somber meadow]

then that version wasn't installed through Unity Hub, but through a standalone installer

[placid meadow]

that would make sense

I think I used creator companion

[somber meadow]

you can still install the Android build module on standalone unity installs by doing what I replied to originally

[placid meadow]

I shall do this

yes

[agile reef]

im trying to type my name to put it on an avatar- why is my text doing this weird line stuff when I add a font?

Edit : Fixed! just had to reopen blender

[placid meadow]

I assume it's still worth uploading the avi to quest even tho the polys are higher than 20k

Also what is the actual important limit I should be going below

[thin rivet]

I believe they're mainly here https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/avatar-performance-ranking-system

[hardy light]

Hi

my rig won't move with my mesh

[somber sequoia]

I'd think it'd be the other way around - usually the armature moves the mesh

[placid meadow]

is it weight painted to the bones?

[hardy light]

Yes

[somber sequoia]

yeah you need both an armature modifier on the mesh, and also appropriate weight painting

[hardy light]

both?

wdym both

[somber sequoia]

those are two separate things, both are required for this to work

[somber sequoia]

cool, that's one of them (assuming that's the correct armature)

[hardy light]

Yes

The only rig i made

[somber sequoia]

ok, so now weight painting

[hardy light]

it's purple

[somber sequoia]

Purple means the mesh has no vertex group matching that bone, and thus no weight paint

[hardy light]

ok

[hardy light]

I did a little painting and it isn't moving

The mesh moves with the rig in object mode but not pose & edit mode

[somber sequoia]

in object mode that's just about object parenting

[hardy light]

Okay

So does it have to do with the color of the bones

like the orange and cyan

[somber sequoia]

Unless there are constraints (but that usually turns them green), the colors are just for use to see them in the editor

[hardy light]

let me see for some constraints

[glossy trout]

How do I make it so that there's an animation always playing?
I have a heart in-between my horns and have made an animation resembling it floating. How do I make it so that it's always applied?
https://gyazo.com/c391e951ed28f655dd6f96251bda3bbc

[somber sequoia]

just drag it into its own layer in the animator

[hardy light]

there are no constraints at all

what is my issue

[somber sequoia]

ok then the colors are just colors

[hardy light]

yes

[glossy trout]

Okay, thanks! Didn't know if it was like how it was in 2.0 or not.

[hardy light]

so

[somber sequoia]

?

[hardy light]

what could be the issue

[somber sequoia]

I have no idea what you're doing, so...

[hardy light]

I'm trying to make the mesh move with my armature

[somber sequoia]

if you haven't watched tutorials on weight painting, that's where I'd suggest starting

[hardy light]

.

[somber sequoia]

oh I saw that but it's not like I can see what that means from here

[hardy light]

I did weight painting for the arm and did a test and it wasn't moving

-# kindly ignore the BG Music

[prisma sedge]

Are you using Auto Rig Pro?
Asking since the screenshot you sent before are the bone colors used in that addon

[hardy light]

Yep!

[somber sequoia]

ah I was wondering what does that

[hardy light]

auto rigs

i've developed a hate for creating rigs cause it never seems to be accurate

auto rig pro is nice but it never let's me parent armature to mesh

[somber sequoia]

that's really just a matter of draging the mesh over the armature with shift held

[hardy light]

Ok

i'm going to try mixamo

even tho it looks fragile

[agile reef]

I'm trying to select Body , Eyes , Face to save as an atlas because my avatar has too many material slots- But when I do that, the Face and Body both go white, but the Eye texture remains. How do I fix it to all the materials looking the same- but in one material?

[timber wharf]

first make sure that all uvmaps are named the same. how does atlas end up looking, mostly white as well?

[agile reef]

The atlast itself- it doesnt even show the body or head texure- just the eyes. How do I check to rename the uv maps?

[timber wharf]

should be just be a single 'UVmap' or smth for all meshes

[agile reef]

I actually have a couple of those- is this bad?

[winged maple]

does anyone know how to set up pcss

[timber wharf]

@agile reef did you already combined smth or?

[agile reef]

yes I do. if you purchased the package it has a tutorial you can also join their disc server for specific instructions

[agile reef]

I combined all the meshes together using CNTRL J

[timber wharf]

well roll back, rename uvmap for each mesh, only then combine

maybe theres a way to combine them as is but idk

combined mesh should end up with one uv map

[agile reef]

not sure if I can roll back that far I'll be honest with you- but I will try that
edit: I can! muahaha

[agile reef]

do you know by chance how to select an item from material? I have my generated material list and I have no idea what is attached to some of these

[somber sequoia]

There are some plugins to manage these better (I like ZenUV a lot), but with just blender yeah, doing what TheLeastMost said is probably easiest

[supple needle]

I’m currently trying to add an asset on an avatar- when I put it in the scene it’s invisible unless I look at it from a certain angle

[timber wharf]

@agile reef edit mode - pick a material - select assigned or smth

[winged maple]

i purchased it and have it but someone else helped a while ago but now it got messed up and i dont know how to fix it, idk if you would be willing to help me

[timber wharf]

ah wait you mean just to find what uses it in the whole scene? no, cant say from top of my head

[agile reef]

yee, ah npnp

[agile reef]

it's be easier for you to watch the video setup in the discord server. can I DM that to you?

[agile reef]

alright so the UV Map thing is all fixed- it's still happening and the atlas is looking like this, no sign of face or body on this.

[timber wharf]

what if you just combine face and body? also you dont want to mix in eyes anyway as theyre using transparency and having your body on transparent shader/rgba texture for no reason is meh.

[agile reef]

I thought that as well and tried- but both the head and body go white. wondering if it could be something with the shading tab?

[timber wharf]

atlased texture should still show them then...

[agile reef]

I tried something to test it out- I merged the Leopard ears texture with face and body just to see what happened- and the leopard ear texture is perfectly fine- but head and body are white. this is the atlas

the head and body are being textured by the teeny tiny white square on the right of the texture which doesnt make sense to me lmao

[somber sequoia]

ah that's amusing - likely it's using the most minimal texture and just tile it like crazy - it works well for stuff that's uniform color and so doesn't need a lot of space in a UV map.

or not even tiling it

[agile reef]

interesting- is there like a different way I need to do this then? I need those three specific materials to atlas so I can have the model optimized. 😭

[somber sequoia]

I haven't been following along much - I don't atlas like this, I prefer to make a new UV map and bake the textures into it

[agile reef]

that all seems very complex for me, I am using CATS plugin. I don't know how to do anything crazy like that unfortunately lol

[timber wharf]

@somber sequoia baking is projection tho so unless source is highres youre bound to loose clarity since different unwrap/scale. probly doesnt matter much to skin tho. and atlasing is "lossless"

[somber sequoia]

yep, 'tis true

it's rare I do this ^ kind of thing anyway

[agile reef]

would changing any of these settings possibly fix it in the shading tab?

[timber wharf]

looks fine i think, texture is base color, combiner should pick it up🤷‍♂️

[agile reef]

is there a different way to atlas materials since I am using the cats plugin? maybe its something to do with the tool I am using?

[timber wharf]

idk usually works for me. you can always manually atlas and scale the uvs but thats pain, did it once for quest medium (to atlas normal/roughness/emission maps as well).

[agile reef]

update :
when I merged Body, Face, EarnTail, Eyes it's only the body and head that is white- it has to be something to do with those exact two materials. wack

it is 8 material slots for optimized- correct?

[timber wharf]

pc its good i believe, 16 medium?

[agile reef]

I'm aiming for good rating

[bold bay]

i am going fucking insane trying to import my FFXIV character into an avatar.
no relevant guides exist and the only good ones are from 2/3 years ago
i am not in a position to pay someone to import her for me, so unless some saint is willing to do it for free (or in an exchange of services), this avatar will be the end of me

-# tried to link her lodestone, got automodded

[timber wharf]

if its dark grey unity tutorials its fine

[bold bay]

the guides are no longer relevant or applicable not only because of Dawntrail but also major updates to the programs involved

[supple needle]

Is it normal for an outfit that is rigged to a base to look like this when I put it on ? (It is rigged to the base I’m using)

[agile reef]

@timber wharf @somber sequoia This video saved my life and helped me fix everything- I thought you may like to know in case you come across this issue ever.

I needed to go into the MMD Texture area and simply place the texure there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZnSO3BnoIM

[somber sequoia]

is there a blendshape on the body mesh to shrink the arms when sleeves are on? If not.... that seems like it's wrong somehow

[supple needle]

I’m unsure, where do I check that ?

[somber sequoia]

"on the body mesh" object

[supple needle]

Doesn’t look like it

It’s an asset I’m adding myself that’s rigged to Zinpia RP base

[somber sequoia]

And are you using a Zinpia RP base?

[mellow pulsar]

uploading an avatar for the first time, testing it in game, the eyes seem to be doing some funky stuff sometimes. If I turn my head, they don't really follow, and just kinda...

[supple needle]

Yes

[somber sequoia]

seems like it ought to fit then, unfortunate it does not

[pale cloak]

so im trying to fix the metal on an avi and its just appearing plain white and apparently i need this UnlitWF added into my vcc project before i lauinch it but idk how to download the unlitWF stuff for my vcc,i go to the link the avi creator had for the avi and its all in japanese and idk where tf to go or what to click on

[agile reef]

https://github.com/whiteflare/Unlit_WF_ShaderSuite/releases/tag/UnlitWF_Shader_20241014

Download the CORE Unity package

import the unity package you download from here, into your project

[spark walrus]

Is there a reason why my submenu won't work? Like they show up in game but when I turn them on nothing happens

[spark walrus]

I want to customize the texures of my avatar its name is chamber, it has a SWAT vest on it and It says swat and ghost front an back, I want to figure out how to customize the text on it to sway S.C.P on the back and LYONZ on the front does anyone know how I can do this, I've been lookin all day and found nothing

[dusk current]

Easiest and quickest way is just to open this in photoshop, and just edit over the places where it's at on the image

[spark walrus]

adobe?

[dusk current]

Any image manipulation program.

[spark walrus]

do know any that are free by chance xD

I cant afford any

[dusk current]

Gimp

[spark walrus]

thank you

[somber sequoia]

no idea but lately I've been making masks for the stuff that needs to be metallic and just using a matcap, it tends to look better.

[vital elbow]

Got someone on a call trying to fix mipmap streaming isn't on and on the sdk it's showing no auto fix since it's showing so like we can't figure it out we've tried googling the problem but there isn't anything to help with it

[somber sequoia]

select your textures, and in the inspector there's a checkbox

[vital elbow]

We've done that it hasn't updated

[somber sequoia]

possibly it's a texture file you're not expecting

[vital elbow]

Idk we've checked every single one

[tough phoenix]

Hello!
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I was wondering how I could go about rigging the eyelids so I can have blinking animations and set up expressions? Typically I would just use blendshapes, but I'm aware that it doesn't work quite right for avatars with these types of eyes since they're nonlinear

[tame badge]

Is it not possible anymore to overclock a blendshape? Set it to values higher than 100?

[timber wharf]

no, even tho unity now allows it vrc caps it at 100 still

use blender to normalise your values between 0 and 1

[astral tinsel]

anyone know whats happining??

[somber meadow]

can you show the VRCFury popup error instead, or the details of that error

[astral tinsel]

this one???

[left gull]

you're missing something with your NSFW asset

[pallid jolt]

im trying to reduce the download and uncompressed size of my avatar for quest but no matter how much i delete the file size doesnt change, ive also compressed all the textures and that didnt affect the size either, what am i missing?

[somber sequoia]

did you do a new build? that says "the most recent build"

[pallid jolt]

...

thank you

thats a little embarassing i dont know why i didnt think of trying that

[spark walrus]

Need to know how to import a poiyomi tool shader

[left wharf]

it can import from vcc. see https://www.poiyomi.com/

[spark walrus]

Thanks, live saver fr 🙏

[pallid jolt]

how would i fix this? Using mobile shader

[somber sequoia]

what is it?

[pallid jolt]

the inside of the asset is transparent

[somber sequoia]

maybe zoom out so we can see some context

insides are always transparent with mobile shaders, since they always do backface culling

[pallid jolt]

oh ok

thank you

[somber sequoia]

you'd have to duplicate and flip mesh to prevent it

[lucid tiger]

Would anyone be able to give me some advice, i was trying to changle the feet collider so they wont go thru the floor but after lining them up it doesnt seem to change anything

[hasty grail]

i keep getting stuck in the floor on this new avatar and idk why

[left wharf]

don't clop the screencast, please. i think you need to remove AnimatorController from Animator component in the avatar root.
if you want to add some animation into your avatar, use VRCFury or Modular Avatar.

[hasty grail]

i copied it from our old avatar, and imported it to the new one

[left wharf]

what does "it" mean? AnimatorController?

[hasty grail]

yes, although I fixed it by force importing it via pswh rather than unity

[west cipher]

trying to build a quest ver.anyone know what this means?

[left wharf]

please show us first three errors.

is it only that error?

[west cipher]

just says the same thing over again

[left wharf]

you have to import some stuff. such as VRCFury, Modular Avatar.
to know what stuff is needed, see your avatar's(and avatar gimmick's) store page.

[west cipher]

thank you!!

[lost tartan]

why is it only showing utilities

[left wharf]

try reinstall SDK from vcc, and restart unity.

[woeful sleet]

So I have edited a model to be a bit thicker, and tried to reupload it onto VRChat with expressions. However, the expressions do not seem to work. Would I need to make new animations for the expressions to work?

[median stream]

how to fix the issue where nameplate and chatbox are high up on an avatar=?

[left wharf]

i found this info.(it's Japanese but GoogleTranslate is your friend) https://x.com/wapan_vrc/status/1389296479244746756

[median stream]

oke thank youuu

[ancient herald]

can't upload avi bc i can't change face shader is there a way to make it to where i can change it?

[bitter hatch]

HOw would I go about fixing these? The model is supposed to be quest ready anyways, But no matter what I delete or how low quality i make the textures i still get these errors

[arctic ginkgo]

these are not errors

this is just letting you know that the performance ranking is poor

[bitter hatch]

Is there any way to make it.. Not poor? Lol

[arctic ginkgo]

errors are 🛑
warnings are ⚠️
and perf ranks are as follows:
very poor:
poor
medium:
good:
excellent:

[arctic ginkgo]

yes, reduce the polygon count

that's what it says the issue is

you need to reduce the polygon count by 2382 to get it to medium

[bitter hatch]

I'm mostly just a re-texture person, I'm not even sure how to go about reducing whatever a polygon is supposed to be, But I'll see if I can figure that out

[arctic ginkgo]

a little over 2k polygons

[arctic ginkgo]

the easiest way is to dissolve edge loops

this is a blender thing

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

this tutorial goes over it

[bitter hatch]

tyty

[arctic ginkgo]

https://youtu.be/8MkgXcidxg4?t=201

time stamp where the vid starts talking about it

3:21

[ancient herald]

avatar's face disappears in play mode

[proper depot]

Is this a quest compatible avi?

[ancient herald]

no it's pc, it's like tha face material completely dissapears when i enter play mode

[proper depot]

Try locking the material then go to play mode and let me know what happens :0

[ancient herald]

it does the same

[proper depot]

hmmmm

Which shader are you using

which version anyway, like 7.3? Or like 9.0??

[ancient herald]

poiyomi

7.3

[proper depot]

do u have 9.0?

[ancient herald]

yes

see?

it's like it just vanishes

[proper depot]

oh no

why does it have the old version on there

ok uhMM

I know we dont know each other but could I try to help you via voicecall??

[ancient herald]

oh i got it, i figured it out

[ancient herald]

tysm

[proper depot]

oh nice!! okiiii x3

was is the shader???

[ancient herald]

yes

[proper depot]

oki doki, im glad its solved :D, have a great night

[ancient herald]

you tooo

[radiant osprey]

can someone help me with contact audio?

ive watched like 3 videos but it still aint workin

[spark walrus]

channel;where is animatioin help?

[unborn rapids]

Is there any way I can animate these?

[night ember]

I mean theres #animation but not specifically an "animation help"

[unborn rapids]

They don't seem to ever update. The only way I can find is clicking them during playmode to update them; which is of course impossible in-game :c

[night ember]

physbones dont like to animate
you can turn off and on the component but that resets the physbone entirely back to default position

you arent really meant to animate the settings

[unborn rapids]

Hmmm I see! Interesting! Thanks!!

I'll see how that goes ^^

[ancient herald]

does anyone know that thing that you can add to your avi where you can controll the arms on pc with like these dial things?

[shut parrot]

so I am experiencing a weird issue where the material of the eyes suddenly gets swapped with the hair material after being uploaded to Vrchat. I have no idea why this is happning, dose anyone know?

[arctic ginkgo]

it looks like your material slots may have gotten the order mixed up. I believe you can fix this in blender by separating by loose parts and then joining again, or you can fix it in unity by remaking the animations that change the materials

[somber sequoia]

I often find it annoying that re-ordering materials in Blender doesn't affect the order when exporting

[sage python]

I once saw a video of an avatar dancing and it had a mirage toggle where two of them appeared... how do you put that on an avatar

[somber sequoia]

(answered elsewhere)

[hidden loom]

how do i increase the avatars "height" in my unity project? Is it just scaling?

[somber sequoia]

yeah you can either scale the avatar root, or set the scaling factor in the FBX import settings

[hidden loom]

So if I have stuff on my avatar root like GogoLoco for example and other utilities that usually don't want to be scaled I don't select those but only clothing and corresponding bones/meshes?

[somber sequoia]

gogo you probably want to match the avatar scaling

scaling an object will apply that scaling to its children too, and that's usually what you want. but yes, you can scale things individually to

[hidden loom]

There are just certain systems like for example a world constraint that I don't want to be scaled with my avatar but it's already implemented on my root

So I just don't select that? I hope scaling like this doesn't break things

[unborn rapids]

Through scripts: Could I find out where all the players are?

[somber sequoia]

I'd probably consider moving those things off the avatar, scaling it, then putting them back on

[somber sequoia]

you can't script on an avatar, so nope

[unborn rapids]

Awwww... But how do eyes that automatically look at other players work..?

[hidden loom]

It's alright, it's enough to only select armature + the rest of the things and afterwards adjusting the viewpoint selectively. Thank you though!

[somber sequoia]

you can possibly do fun things with look-at constraints

hmm I bet you could do a shader for eyes that always looks at the camera, probably that'd be creepy

[unborn rapids]

Oh I've seen someone do that, actually.

Hmmm

Can I run any scripts?

[lilac musk]

No

[unborn rapids]

I mean, I can run shader code...

That's so odd..!

Hmm...

We can run Behaviours through Animation States

I assume only the provided ones will run?

[somber sequoia]

you can make your own animations

[unborn rapids]

Yes, I mean specifically the Behaviours.

[somber sequoia]

right - you can't use that "new script" thing

[unborn rapids]

That makes sense, I see. Thank you~

Can I somehow create parameters that would indicate the velocity/direction of my hands?

[somber sequoia]

hands? sorta - you could probably do something with contact receivers

well speed anyway, probably not direction

[unborn rapids]

Hmmm that should be good enough; I can always compare the previous values for direction... Interesting!

[somber sequoia]

you can't get position though

you can just get "is contact sender inside contact receiver" or if it enters said receiver at or above a velocity threshold

[unborn rapids]

Ohhhh I see.

[somber sequoia]

ha! my Unity just crashed and it wasn't even in focus and I didn't touch it

[unborn rapids]

So I could technically have a sender and receiver at the same position, triggered when it goes fast enough?

[somber sequoia]

yeah probably

[unborn rapids]

Or does it only react to other peoples' receivers?

[somber sequoia]

you can do either

(or both)

[unborn rapids]

Neat!! Okay~ Hmm!

Thank you, that's a lead~

[somber sequoia]

this is "avatar dynamics", if you want to look it up in the docs or in #avatar-dynamics

[unborn rapids]

Oh great, thanks ^^

[long sierra]

Where can I adjust particle speed? The tutorial I found was outdated

Tried changing it in here and it didn't work

Ohh, I fclicked the help bubble and it showed up O_o

I want the particle to reverse direction halfway through its lifetime

[somber sequoia]

you want the velocity over lifetime part, make a curve

[long sierra]

How do I make a curve? Because the curve editor is empty

[somber sequoia]

select curve and then it should be active

[long sierra]

there are no curves in the curve editor /nm

[somber sequoia]

on the right of the value you want to make into a curve is a dropdown where you have to actually set it to curve

[long sierra]

Thanks, I'll try that. c:

I tried to make a curve that went down at a 90 degree angle but it didn't reverse the direction no matter what axis I tried it on, and I know I can't do a curve that starts curving backwards towards 0

[somber sequoia]

huh, I figured that'd work

I thought you could put negative values in there

well you can always have the particle die and spawn a replacement which goes in the other direction

[long sierra]

I also couldn't keyframe velocity over lifetime either

[somber sequoia]

yeah that doesn't surprise me

[long sierra]

ohh, maybe I needed it to go all the way to -90

err, 180

nope, didn't work

maybe invert the scale of the particle system?

Nope, didn't work, neither did using pingpong

[arctic ginkgo]

@long sierra

x and y over lifetime is set to 1 to make the arch, just so it's easier to see it reversing direction

[long sierra]

I want the particle go go back towards the emitter halfway through the animation, not go in an arch

[arctic ginkgo]

yeah i'm demonstrating the particle going backwards

like i said arch is just for demonstration purposes

[long sierra]

so both X and Y should be 1 and it'll reverse?

[arctic ginkgo]

here would be an instant change in direction

[somber sequoia]

ah thanks for confirming - I figured this would work but hadn't tried yet

[long sierra]

I thought I only had to reverse one direction, thanks! /pos

[arctic ginkgo]

yeah this reverses direction if you do it on all axes

just do it to whatever axes you'd like to reverse

this is what's happening in the picture btw

[long sierra]

Tried it, didn't work

[arctic ginkgo]

do you have start speed set to 0?

[long sierra]

No, it's 5 IIRC, but the animation is fast enough that I decided it wasn't worth the effort to make it reverse

[small valve]

how can I reduce the polygon count in cats blender plugin?

[somber sequoia]

probably don't use cats for that

[small valve]

but with cats, I can keep the shapekeys

[somber sequoia]

you can anyway?

[small valve]

But it seems, the decimation area is gone

[somber sequoia]

blender itself has decent decimation, and edge loop dissolving is better for a lot of cases

[small valve]

But they want me to delete all my shapekeys for it

[timber wharf]

in 3.6/4.2? shouldnt

[somber sequoia]

if you're doing via modifier, sure, but you don't need that

[small valve]

I use 4.2.2

[somber sequoia]

edit mode, mesh -> cleanup -> decimate geometry ?

be careful around the face, this will likely wreck visemes and other expressions

(any decimation does)

[small valve]

not sure waht this should do

[somber sequoia]

Slide the ratio around while watching the avatar, decide where you think it still looks ok

[small valve]

nothing is happen with the ratio

[somber sequoia]

do you have any mesh selected?

if not, there's nothing for it to act on

[small valve]

ok it works, thanks.

Is this the reason why cats no longer have the decimation button in there addon?

[somber sequoia]

why have one when blender has it built-in?

[small valve]

since when?
when was it added?

I upgraded from Blender 2.93 to 4.2.2

[somber sequoia]

I suspect 3.6 or so, but I haven't looked at changelogs for this

oh wow yeah a LOT has been added or improved since 2.9

[small valve]

2.93 was the last version, where the official cats plugin did work without python error. But then, I found out that there are also unofficial updated versions.

[somber sequoia]

Yes

I'd argue the new one is the official one now 🙂

(since the original has been abandoned)

[small valve]

But I guess, weightpainting with X-Ray does still not work, right?

[somber sequoia]

you can't really weight paint in full wireframe, that doesn't make a ton of sense, but I'm not sure what you mean otherwise

you can certainly mess with display transparency

[small valve]

I heard that many peoples hate it that blender doesen't support it while Maya and other software can do it.

[somber sequoia]

eh. I feel that's a matter of what you're used to

I've used Maya and at this point it seems so foreign

[small valve]

sometimes, its making it easier, for example if you have a snake and you wish to weightpaint the other side with.

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure what would be hard about that I guess

maybe I should look at Maya again, it's been years now

[small valve]

or if you have a skirt with multiple mesh layers and its a pain to get the camera perfectly between those, instead of painting everything and unpaint the legs for example.

There are many usefull reasons why bothsided weightpainting could be usefull and it would be a toggle feature, if you disable Xray, you still can paint like it is today.

[somber sequoia]

but you can paint through mesh, if you just turn off "front faces only" so maybe I'm missing something

[small valve]

you see if you miss something, if they dont move if you rotate the bone.

[somber sequoia]

no I mean I'm missing what you're saying isn't available in Blender

[small valve]

is a feature that was wished for many years and got be a running gag that it is still not added today.

[arctic ginkgo]

i often just hide the parts of the mesh i'm not weight painting

[somber sequoia]

yeah I make use of masking, but I'm just not sure what it is that Blender doesn't have here, I might have to go try Maya again to understand

[arctic ginkgo]

hiding faces in edit mode also hides them in weightpaint mode, texture paint mode, and vertex paint mode.

[somber sequoia]

yep

[small valve]

to bad if its a model you didn't made yourself and the creator didn't made seperate materials or something.

[arctic ginkgo]

hover over the area and press L

that will select all connected faces

[somber sequoia]

can make use of seams too

[arctic ginkgo]

you can also select face loops and hide those to isolate certain areas

like fingers for example

[somber sequoia]

also the thing where you can isolate painting to only vertices already in the target group

[arctic ginkgo]

yep, there's a lot of ways to go about it

[somber sequoia]

yep

[arctic ginkgo]

and if you need to match weight painting to something prexisting you can use data transfer modifier

also if you need something to be double sided, weight paint before you texture (if they have different textures) and just duplicate + flip normals after weight painting is done

same for if you need it to have a very slight thickness

[somber sequoia]

I bet that applies for the solidify modifier too

it also does for mirror

[long sierra]

I do have an issue where Klonoa's Wind Ring appears properly when I use the Wind Bullet emote the first time, but if I select it again, it doesn't show up unless I choose the other emote that has the Wind Ring show up (Where he throws it upwards and then catches it when it falls back down). Is that due to a broken WD setting? In the animator tab, it shows it get stuck at the end of playing those two animations (the progress bar doesn't go away on its own) unless I choose the ring toss emote, then it works. (But if I choose an emote that doesn't use the ring, it doesn't show up again when I select either of the ones that do use it)

[small valve]

He said it too
https://youtu.be/4fICQmBEt4Y?si=f4ZiXKzmHWLInVz5&t=156

[somber sequoia]

that's an ancient Blender

[long sierra]

And somehow, I selected this:

[small valve]

ancient Blender?

[somber sequoia]

2.8 is ancient

[small valve]

2.8 was the big update where everything turns out modern, I mean just take a look on 2.79 and bellow:

[somber sequoia]

I'm well aware

just saying that if you're talking about missing features but using a several years older version as the example, you may want to look at current first

[white geyser]

Any1 know how to make the cape not 1 sided?

[small valve]

2.8 was like taking a fresh new breath with user friendly UI, like adding this cross to navigate better without thinking about weird Keybinds, especially on a laptop without Numpad:

[somber sequoia]

duplicate mesh or use a shader that lets you disable backface culling

heh I am currently working on my laptop without numpad

[white geyser]

Dupe in blender?

[somber sequoia]

Yeah

[small valve]

No problem anymore with modern blender, also I think I hated back then was, that the function of rightclick was switched with leftclick in 2.79 and bellow.
Not only you have this oppressive UI design with many small unlabeled buttons, no vector cross, you always have to overthink, how to use a mouse because of the rightclick is leftclick, leftclick is rightclick bu112h1t.

[somber sequoia]

yeah I never really spent much time with < 2.9

[small valve]

it was a pain bellow 2.8

[somber sequoia]

that was why. Also I had access to Maya then

[white geyser]

How does that work with physbones tho?

[somber sequoia]

you'd have to verify weight painting on the new faces of course

[spark walrus]

my avatar is currently 14mb and needs to be 10, i used the vram calculator thing to use high compression on the meshes and its till 14, how can i get it down to 10?

[somber sequoia]

discussion in both #avatar-optimization and #quest-optimization but look at texture sizes, removing unsued blendshapes, fewer objects, etc.

[spark walrus]

i remember removing blendshapes was pretty helpful but once i accidently removed some that needed to he in the project and it messed it up, how can i determine which are unneeded?

[somber sequoia]

vrc quest tools has a way to do it, I'm not sure if there's a programatic way otherwise

[somber meadow]

VRCFury can do it too with it's "Blendshape Optimizer" component which non destructively bakes in non-animated blendshapes

[somber sequoia]

Ah cool

[spark walrus]

alright ill try that thanks

[somber sequoia]

uh yeah like all of that

152 material slots, yow

[somber kelp]

🥲

[somber sequoia]

ah probably lots of that is particles

still though - your computer needs to render this 2 or 3 times, so your own performance will be poor

[somber kelp]

Oh-

[somber meadow]

surprised how this fits in 10mb

[somber sequoia]

yeah no kidding

[wind skiff]

4000 bones???