avatar-help

[somber sequoia]

kitbash I'm guessing

[willow carbon]

Hello - I'm configuring a "hair color" change button using modular avatar, which switches the material off several parts of a hair.
In MA, how do I configure it so enabling another hair color disables the previous one?

instead of having to deal with this

Currently what I'm using inside each option (Blue hair used in this example)

[somber sequoia]

zero idea about modular but if you use one int variable for these, it can only have one value. Do like purple = 1, pink = 2, etc.

[dark jay]

how to fix outlines

Its done through mesh

[somber sequoia]

if the mesh isn't joined there, join it, but that looks like it might be UV island edges?

[dark jay]

What's that? Only happens up close

[somber sequoia]

oh then yeah - go to the UV map and see if those are the edges of islands, if so possibly you need to extend the color past the edges, like oversplay

obviously this is a guess from here

[willow carbon]

I'll try that - usually I use an expressions creator and just make a slider for the whole hair material, but since this hair is separated into multiple parts that support individual materials, I can't use it. I dont know where modular avatar's own animation controller usually is;, if I could find it, I'd add the VRchat toggle which turns off other specific menu options when enabling another one, etc.

[dark jay]

uv

[dark jay]

what do u think

[somber kelp]

I dont even know how it got to 4,000 bones tbh- it was literally less than that 🥲

[somber sequoia]

still no way for me to tell what goes where from here, you'll have to select those faces and see where they are on the texture and what the textures look like

[dark jay]

its what i just sent u all it is is a outline and i used a black texture thats 512x512

thats the outline faces for the hair

[somber sequoia]

oh

you said "fix outlines" and I took that to mean "get rid of" since you weren't clear

[dark jay]

look at it when i get close

[somber sequoia]

no idea what it is you're doing then. and I gotta run anyway, so good luck

[dark jay]

i want the outline

https://tenor.com/view/facepalm-really-stressed-mad-angry-gif-16109475

[thin rivet]

Does anyone know what trick Mag's scaling system uses with scale constraints to change the bone positions?
I'm trying to use a partial/trimmed version instead of the full thing, but all it does is change the bone scale or not work at all

[thin rivet]

You should get rid of the outline mesh and just use Poiyomi's outline option, unless you're determined to have it on quest, I guess

[mellow pulsar]

Trying to set up a toggle n stuff for an avi, but the toggle has an absurd amount of mesh particle triangles, making the avi go from good rating to very poor and just not work. How would I go about reducing these particles?

nvm, figured it out

[dark jay]

ok now im having arm weight issues i cant figure out how to fix

[molten pulsar]

Does removing blendshapes reduce the overall download size of the avatar ?

[thin rivet]

I recommend this to see what makes up the download size https://github.com/MunifiSense/VRChat-Build-Size-Viewer
but from what I've seen blendshapes barely impact it, it's mostly texture size

[molten pulsar]

Thank you

[river dawn]

I need help can someone help me walk through the process in unity and how to upload avatars properly I'm struggling to understand?

[woeful stag]

has anyone got a fix for fixing avatar pose, its stuck in the motorcycle pose but when i go into play and use gesture manager its back into tpose but when i go back its back into motorcycle pose

[hidden loom]

any idea why my impostors are generating in a tpose and how I could fix it?

[woeful stag]

god were having complete oposite issues xD

[woeful stag]

ive never actually heard of a imposter going tpose, are you talking about the preview of it in the menu or actually looking at it

[hidden loom]

the preview ingame shows it tposing and other players report it being stuck in tpose. Only on one of my avatars though and I don'tdo anything particulalry different on it compared to the others

[woeful stag]

maybe generate a new imposter and see if that fixes it?

[topaz mica]

hey, does anyone know how some avatar creators include their discord user or tag within the head of their created avatar? ive looked up online but cant really find anything :,)

[hazy crest]

i didnt know where to go for this but does anyone have a quest compatible hollow purple mechanic?

[summer hearth]

Everytime i try to lock in the % in the radial menu in gesture manager, it wont stay, any ideas to why it might be?

[somber meadow]

define "won't stay" are you selecting the value you want then clicking afterwards?

also is this happening in game as well or just gesture manager

[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.

[sleek ocean]

my avatar is all white

help

[thin rivet]

Drag onto avatar prefab in your scene which will make a new animation controller or put it into your existing one if the Animator component has one

click on the prefab and the animation window should now allow you to preview and record
Remove the new animation controller (or the state if it didn make a new one) when you're done

[sleek ocean]

\

[spark walrus]

looks like theirs no mats, you can apply them manually if they came with the package

[sleek ocean]

there so many tho😭

[spark walrus]

look at the names like

[sleek ocean]

i dont know where they all go

[spark walrus]

hair mat

[sleek ocean]

i know but theres so many

[spark walrus]

well thats just what you have to do

it shouldnt take too long

[sleek ocean]

it says some shaders are locked

some of them say black 2

and not where they go

[spark walrus]

what platform is the avatar for

[sleek ocean]

pc

[spark walrus]

okay then yea you just have to do it manually

i understand not all of them have names

but you can play around with it till it looks how you want it to

[sleek ocean]

yeah ima js get a easier one to upload

[spark walrus]

alr lol

[sleek ocean]

lol

[spark walrus]

using the same mats but dif shaders im unable to get the eyes from white, how can i fix?

[sleek ocean]

i js wasted like 50 bucks on it

buts it aight

[spark walrus]

contact the seller

[sleek ocean]

ur right

[spark walrus]

its not your fault if the avis broken, hopefully they help or refund u

[sleek ocean]

ik this isnt like something with vrchat

but my ovr advancded settings

wont work

like for space drag

i've tried everything

[primal vale]

how do i preview it? i dont really understand

[sand valve]

Anyone know the cause of the eye issue? Depending how far I look to a certain direction an eye would go to far into the head. Could it be a rotation problem?

[thin rivet]

Preview button, upper left of animator window- once you do those things I mentioned it will be clickable

[main island]

Anyone here actively making there own avatars on unity? I have been struggling with this simple model and i can't find the right needs for it..
Or that if anyone has ever had the similar situation i'm going through. Either way i couldn't find any help.

[left gull]

what part are you struggling with/stuck on?

[main island]

With simply GIFS/images that are inspired by old animated programs being selectively toggled on a computer screen.

I have the model and everything ready-to-go but This is the part that i am really stuck and and couldn't find any help from it

[rose siren]

This is very confusing. When in blender and in Standard shader in Unity. The colours of the model is fine. But when I go to VRChat Standard Lite. Parts become red. Any idea why and how to fix it?

[main island]

Seriously. Nobody that i found could help me with this....

[left gull]

there may be vertex colors on certain parts of the mesh

[left gull]

you're trying to make a toggle of a gif for your model?

im a bit confused by your wording there :P

[main island]

YES!!

[main island]

In what way would you like for me to explain it specifically

[left gull]

dont think theres a quest supported way to do this but for PC you've got poiyomi's flipbook option

[main island]

kept wondering what it meant by "flipbook" in one of the categories

[rose siren]

So it did. Thank you for the help 👍

[thin rivet]

https://ezgif.com/gif-to-sprite Prolly want to use something like this, but basically each frame is a sprite/tile for the flipbook

[daring nexus]

so my texture said no

[frank osprey]

How do I import a avatar to vrchat?

Someone made my avatar for me but I don't know how to import it to vrchat

[daring nexus]

you'll need creator companion as your first step

you'll be able to download it directly from the vrc site

itll walk you through what versions of unity you need

[frank osprey]

It was made in unity i think they said

[daring nexus]

you need unity regardless

[supple needle]

How do I fix this ;w;

[gritty surge]

how do i fix this?

[left gull]

either you could try VRCFury's unlimited parameter script (though it will break if the items you have are super complex) or you'll need to remove some toggles/toys/accesories off your model

[gritty surge]

ah

how do i use vrcfurys parameter script?

fixed it

it was my face tracking

:p

[devout elbow]

Can anyone help me I need to find out how to fix this i can't get the avatar descriptor component and it need it for this png avatar I'm making all that pops up is new script and not the descriptor

[left wharf]

Take a full-size screen shot.i think VRChat SDK is not imported

[devout elbow]

Is that the reason it's not working the person that was teaching me didn't bring the sdk up so I didn't really think of it

[left wharf]

When you make something for VRChat, you need VRChat SDK (and unity2022.3.22f1).

[supple needle]

Does anyone know how to delete things that are attached to bodies in blender ? I’m trying to delete the goggles off chibi Novabeast, as they’re part of the physical body

[devout elbow]

Thank you for letting me know then hopefully I can get it done with this information

[boreal pumice]

for some reason for different objects theyre all weight painted correctly to the bones but when i add physbones they dont move at all. i can put it into pose mode and everything moves fine when i rotate the bone itself, but whenever theres physbones they just dont show up nor does it work in game or in playmode at all. just stiff. any way to fix this?

[neat elk]

how do i copy over these blendshapes to this??

I am using dynamic expressions and there is a custom face animator option and i wanna put in the blendshapes that ive purchased into there

[dark jay]

shoes of my model dont sit flat got any tips

[snow monolith]

I made a thread for it in user support, but when I put my model in VRC, it's backwards. I see out of the back of the head instead of the front. Everything else seems to be working fine, though. Any idea why this might be happening?

[white geyser]

When I click on capture nothing appears, I even chose a camera for it but it’s still not capturing anything preventing me from uploading

[night ember]

#1138520828556890214

[short ferry]

So I'm uploading an avatar on quest but I added nothing to quest version, I only added things to the pc version and now the quest version is 13 MB???

I added stuff to the pc version before and it never did this

[spark walrus]

getting these errors even though they are fine

[frank osprey]

how do i add the avatar into vrchat?

[small valve]

If I move the avatar, the skirt moves with it, if I play an animation, this happen:

[barren wharf]

hey i exported my avatar from blender and the expressions don't work

how do i fix this?

im using a booth model if that matters

[supple needle]

I just took this out of blender and added it into unity. It won’t let me select it to upload ? It’s an FBX. How do I make it so it’s upload able ???

[lilac musk]

Add a descriptor

[supple needle]

Where should I add it

[lilac musk]

It should be on the root of your avatar. You might want to look up some tutorials on how to make avatars

[supple needle]

I added it to armature

Works now

Although, I do have this issue

[lilac musk]

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

Add it to root, not armature. You have to do things exactly as it expects or it will break.

[supple needle]

Which root ?

[lilac musk]

There should only be 1 root game object for your fbx

[supple needle]

Should I just search root in my hierarchy

[lilac musk]

Also, you don't have to use your phone to take screenshots. Use (Windows key) + Shift + S

[lilac musk]

No it's not called root, it's just the root object. The top parent. Should be the name of the fbx

[supple needle]

Alrighty

I added it in

[snow sluice]

Okay I genuinely have one question how hard is rigging an outfit asset today Avatar like seriously 50 to 80$ just to add another outfit to an Avatar. Someone told me it is not hard but a little complex so how the hack I have to pay that much JUST SOMEONE ANSWER IT TO ME!!!

[lilac musk]

It's the same as working on a car. It's not really hard, but you need to know how to do it, so the labor costs a lot. If anyone could do it, nobody would need someone else to do it for them. Either learn to do it yourself or pay their rates\

[spark walrus]

ok im almost done now actually

but after starting a in game test, my dude's eyelids dont move until blinking, and his mouth is bleh open

if you look down for example, his eyelids dont move with him, but reset once he blinks

could someone help me upload an avi on a call 😭

[snow sluice]

Sorry I was getting a bit loud today it's just that I am not good at blender because I never use blender for anything and I just need a little help that's all

[night ember]

why not just state the issue you are having

[spark walrus]

im very new to uplouding so i have no clue what to do and i only need to know how to publish it

[night ember]

is it like a premade avatar or what

[spark walrus]

yeah it is

from vrmodels

[lilac musk]

ooof

Don't use that website. It's full of stolen/ripped stuff

[spark walrus]

ok i fixed the weird mouth.

ahhhhh

ok i see the eyelid issue too - turn off look down and look up shapes to none

[spark walrus]

oh

[south laurel]

hi, so im trying to import a model into vrc, but i need to figure out how to hide the boobs in first person view so they dont obstruct vision. I did it a long time ago on a different model but i dont remember how and i dont have the project anymore

[lilac musk]

Animation that scales the boobs down and make it only play locally with IsLocal

[spark walrus]

I’m uploading the avi and all it says is building avatar and it’s stuck on that and it’s not doing anything else do I just need to wait or what?

[south laurel]

okay, i did this, but its showing up in the mirror with the boobs gone as well

[lilac musk]

Oh IDK about doing that. Maybe use the custom headchop stuff?

[harsh nexus]

hey, ive been trying to upload an avatar but the avatar has the biker pose in game, but in unity its just the normal t pose, i didnt upload it during an animation and the animation controller is set to none so im lost as to what's causing it other than maybe a missing walking animation but im doubtful

[south laurel]

this worked, thanks a ton 🙂

[gilded bear]

does anyone here know what would be causing this double vision thing? I've tried several different shaders, reimporting, and making a whole new project with the same stuff.
-# had a friend of mine record for me lol

[south laurel]

so, is there a way to move a bone in the unity editor and have it export into VRchat with the bone in that position?

[lilac musk]

an animation, however if something else is also animating it, things wont turn out as expected. All humanoid bones have that issue as when you animate them, nothing will happen as they are animated by the humanoid system

[supple needle]

How do I fix my view from being so far up to my avatar’s eyes

[prisma sedge]

Change the viewpoint location in unity

[supple needle]

How ??

[prisma sedge]

in the avatar descriptor

[supple needle]

And what should I do from there

[prisma sedge]

Either manually change this value or press "Edit" and move the viewpoint ball to the correct spot (recommened)

[knotty kiln]

hello, does anyone know a way to extract gmod NPC's and put them into FBX folders?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2968585578

I'm trying to use this NPC's animations, model and texture to create a generic-rigged avatar out of it

but how do i go about ripping the whole thing from garrys mod for an FBX?

anyone know?

if it helps, i've already subscribed to the creator of the NPC, i just have to start garry's mod and the addon will download for me i think

[timber wharf]

only with osc on pc and its not smth youd find much guidance for

[cinder pulsar]

Yo, anyone got a clue on how to make a collider on an avatar that plays a sound + particle when touching the world?

[ornate stump]

Avatar can't detect its collision with the world other than being on ground.

[cinder pulsar]

That's odd cause I saw an avi yesterday that did that

[ornate stump]

Can you explain the detail?

[cinder pulsar]

basically ik how do to a floor collider that's not hard, but when the guy hit his sword on the wall of a the world it played sounds etc, and I know it isn't a contact on the player as it didn't collide around him only on the wall

[ornate stump]

Then that's probably using particle to check collision and trigger sub particle system to emit impact particle.

Not sure with the sound though.

[cinder pulsar]

Well I'd assume it's a contact of somesorts

[limber oriole]

ik for floor u jst use a floor collider and a contact reciver that plays a particle when it touches it but you cant exactly apply the same for a wall cause walls don't have a start point like they do in unity that being the grid

[cinder pulsar]

We looked at one we have, it does use a particle to detect collision but I have no clue how to use the particles collision as the method of toggling the sub particle

[ornate stump]

You can search for unity sub particle system.

[woeful stag]

my avatar is stuck in animation pose but not in play mode were it tposes again, ive tried a few things but its still not staying tpose outside of play mode

[limber oriole]

the sub particle thing dosent play even if it collides with a wall

[ornate stump]

Are you sure you set it up correctly?

[limber oriole]

probly

added a pa systm

when to sub pa

added it

[ornate stump]

Did you setup collision?

[ornate stump]

You didn't setup collision.

[limber oriole]

that?

[ornate stump]

That.

[limber oriole]

i have it on for the sub paricle

do i need it turned o on both?

[ornate stump]

The main particle has to be the one that do collision.

[limber oriole]

ow

[ornate stump]

The sub particle setting means, when this particle collided, spawn sub particles.

[limber oriole]

it dosent spawn the sub particles

when i collide it with anything

[ornate stump]

Did you set sub particle emission as emit?

[limber oriole]

i belive so yea

[ornate stump]

Screenshot to confirm

[limber oriole]

.......

[ornate stump]

We can't work with uncertainty so we need to confirm what you really had done.

[limber oriole]

give my unity like a decade to load first...

[ornate stump]

And what about emission setting in sub particles?

[limber oriole]

wai thats the wrogn screen shot

why are my screen shots jst no longer working

there we go

[ornate stump]

It has to use Burst mode.

[limber oriole]

ow

like that?

[ornate stump]

Rate over time is irrelevent so set to zero.

[limber oriole]

anything else?

or hould i leave it at deafult?

[ornate stump]

Not sure if you're still missing thing else.

[limber oriole]

It sill dosent work

[cinder pulsar]

Have you got a video on how to do it?

[ornate stump]

What is your current particle system settings?

[ornate stump]

Which is which?

[limber oriole]

sub emitor

[limber oriole]

particle

system

[ornate stump]

The main particle emission is disabled.

[limber oriole]

ow yea it is

m

mb*

[fickle lake]

why does the avi do this when i press play?

please help

[subtle sigil]

does it have any animations?

[wanton thunder]

do people use vrclens still or is it completely useless because of vrchat's camera features?

[fickle lake]

no

[marsh vortex]

does anyone undestand why in game my avi is gettin stuck in a claw animation (the hands) anyolne who is wearing it doesnt see it when i hide the avi and re show it it fixes it completely its like the hands dont work at all but hiding and re showing fixes it for a while heard ppl have been having said issue lately was jw

[grave meadow]

I usually fix that by either restarting my headset or rerunning vrchat

[weary flax]

Hey folks- I'm looking for an asset that I saw a while ago, and I'm not sure if it's a prefab or if it even exists as a non in-house asset, but I saw some kind of tool to forcibly lower the framerate your avatar moves in to emulate the animation style of the Spiderverse movies. If it exists, I want my hands on it.

[buoyant thorn]

why does it say im using 80 mbs for texture size when I am using 4 textures with like 0.6 mb on them

its using some textures that im not even using idk where to find it

[lilac musk]

Install thry's avatar performance tools. It can show you all the textures on your avatar and list them in order of size

[buoyant thorn]

I did and it shows green

but in the sdk it says its taking up 80 mbs

but on thry its taking up 9 mb

[lilac musk]

Something might be bugged out, try reopening your project

[buoyant thorn]

yup I did that too

i dont understand whats taking up 80 mbs of texture space

never had this issue before

[small valve]

Any idea why the skirt is not on the avatar of an animation is played?

If I move the avatar around, the skirt stays connected, but if the animations moves the avatar without moving his gameobject position, the skirt stays in place like in the image.

[visual nimbus]

guys... im impiorting an avi for the first time an need help stat

i have ZERO clue what im doing.

like pls anyone friend me and vc to help please

[lilac musk]

Strange, next step might be to export the avatar and throw into a new project. Current project might have a very specific bug. I'm out of guesses after that

[lilac musk]

Make sure the dress is on the armature of the avatar and not just the root

[lilac musk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWr4diTDqJM&ab_channel=TheVirtualRealityShow

[visual nimbus]

i saw it i need help wtih like

OMG im so sped i just need 1-1 help[

[buoyant thorn]

wtf every avatar even older ones show up as 83 mb

on this project I dont want to swap projects there has to be a fix

[lilac musk]

Are the animations animating the position of the skirt? If not then I'm confused as well

[lilac musk]

That's odd. Maybe try different version of the SDK?

[small valve]

the animations are MMD compatible with shapekeys and stuff, but the skirt is to specific..
But every skirt chain is connected the the skirtAnkerBone and that one is connected with the spine.
The skirt should just move the position, physics and stuff will be done by VRChats phys bones later.

[visual nimbus]

omg i messed up

[lilac musk]

wait... the skirt isn't under the hips

[visual nimbus]

what do i do can someone help

[visual nimbus]

🙂

[small valve]

oh wait no

[lilac musk]

This is the right channel for help however, we can't help unless you be specific with what you need.

[small valve]

its part of the armature, not the hips,

[visual nimbus]

im trying to vc and show you

im trying to import a avi from google download.

[lilac musk]

Yup, same problem. You need to make the skirt the child of the hips

[visual nimbus]

thats IT ONLY THAT

[lilac musk]

What file type is it?

[visual nimbus]

idk...

[lilac musk]

Right click the file and go to properties. It should say what kind of file it is

[visual nimbus]

WAIT

wait*

[small valve]

that fixed it, thanks

[visual nimbus]

i deleted everything. im restarting with ur help.

[lilac musk]

that's bizzare

[lilac musk]

Please don't DM me. If you need help, message here. It's more appropriate and also others can chime in and help if they want.

[visual nimbus]

oh... sowwy.

[buoyant thorn]

it still does it 😭

[lilac musk]

Strange

[buoyant thorn]

I deadass deleted the main textures that was on it (the only ones on the model) and it still said 81 mb

[somber sequoia]

animations doing material swaps? particles?

[buoyant thorn]

yes but I checked all their textures

and the previous 2 went on quest without problem and then now they are showing the same

but some of the way older ones are fine

[subtle sigil]

is is possible to import an updated version of a model and use the animations from the old version?

btw none of these do anything (gogoloco)

[somber sequoia]

do you have the animators setup right? I forget if those are in Action or Base, but you usually need both for that to work

[subtle sigil]

they're both in base and action

and sitting as well

[stable igloo]

My model's hair looks a bit too bright in game, how can I fix that?

[somber sequoia]

in the material, play with the base color setting, or possibly lighting settings

[stable igloo]

I checked and adjusted them already but it's still unmatched with the ret of the model :c the ears and tail were the same too but after adjusting they are normal, just the hair though 🥹

[grand scaffold]

do you have emission turned on by any chance?

[stable igloo]

No either :c

[snow sluice]

hello can anyone give me a tutorial how to rig outfit assets to an avatar if you know please dm me

[somber sequoia]

rig it the same way as you would an avatar, it's just mesh after all.

[snow sluice]

oh I forgot to tell you that the avatar that I want to present outfit on is bon39 hex maniac avatar, and the avatar has big🍑 and big🍒 if you know, you know.

[somber sequoia]

nope, I have no idea

[snow sluice]

it's big butt and chest

[somber sequoia]

oh I can read, I just don't know what model you're talking about

[snow sluice]

go to bon39 on X and do you know what hex maniac looks like

[somber sequoia]

No idea, but I really don't need to either.

can't imagine it's relevant to the question

[spark walrus]

Is there a way to pick and edit all the materials at once? For like minor lighting fix?

[somber sequoia]

it might work if they all use the same shader - you could just select multiple and see if it works.

[spark walrus]

Was there a tool?

[somber sequoia]

I mean with just plain Unity

[snow sluice]

her body is busty and I don't know how to rig in that body

[spark walrus]

Well I know that but it's a lot

[fringe snow]

hey so im having issues with vrchat creator companion and unity

i followed this tutorial to optimise vroid for vrchat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyRmBKBCq9k

and now in unity it has no materials or texture

[somber sequoia]

that's pretty normal, you have to create materials in Unity anyway.

[fringe snow]

the thing is, blender did not export the materials with the fbx

and the add on she used specifically has a feature that embeds the textures into the fbx file

and it just kinda...hasnt done that at all what so ever

[somber sequoia]

well it always includes some basic material. But you don't really want the textures embedded anyway

[fringe snow]

ah

well i found the fix

but now after importing textures its wrong

in blender it looks like this

in unity it looks like this

[somber sequoia]

looks like a lack of alpha transparency - unless you're doing a quest avatar, you can use shaders with Cutout rendering

[fringe snow]

do you know a good tutorial for that? i've never used blender in my life

[somber sequoia]

you do that in Unity

[fringe snow]

do you have a tutorial still, i've also never used unity

[somber sequoia]

I'm sure there are ton of VRoid -> Unity tutorials. I haven't done it in forever so I don't know of one offhand

[fringe snow]

i followed one initially but it had no mention of cutout rendering or shaders at all because it was not optimised

it was just plug and play, but the amount of polygons was terrible, so i optimised

[humble umbra]

im having a weird problem where my avatar audio is either super quiet or inaudible in specifically popcorn palace for some reason (maybe the silence barrier?), however i can hear the audio myself fine and i have other avatars that work completely fine there so whats going on? heres my audio source settings, my clip is default settings with load in background enabled:

what settings would any of you recommend to use if these arent quite right?

oh and if its important, im using the animator play audio with these settings:

[hardy light]

Anyone know how to fix armature not moving with the mesh

I did automatic weights and it still doesn't work

I weight painted each bone and it still won't move either

[snow sluice]

Again please

[supple needle]

How do you make things like glasses lenses transparent for quest ?

[errant comet]

You remove them completely and leave only the frame

[arctic ginkgo]

transparency options for quest:

real transparency:
vrchat/mobile/particles/additive
vrchat/mobile/particles/multiply

fake or implied transparency:

remove areas that are transparent (so the mesh around it implies transparency
cut out the opaque areas
use inverted normals

the last 3 options are most helpful in the following use cases respectively:

1. when you need to imply a sheet/plane of something solid and transparent, like a lens, glasses, a window, etc
2. when your avatar uses cutout textures for things like eyebrows, lace, and other details
3. when you need to imply a transparent container (a crystal ball, wine glass, fish bowl, etc)

[vital yew]

yo i need help, im new to vrchat and tryina uplaod an avatar

why am i getting there errors

[gray pewter]

Is it possible to have a constraint drive a humanoid bone?

[snow sluice]

how to find the avatar setup

[somber meadow]

You don't need the android command line tool or visual studio

[snow sluice]

can anyone help me

[vital yew]

it wont let me go to the next step

[opaque heath]

can someone help me with audiolink on liltoon?

I can't seem to get it to work

that's how I got my settings on my materials rn

[supple bone]

ive got a novabeast model and i have 2 body materials with diffrent textures i want to use can anyone show me how to desolve between the 2 i dont really like the hard transition so id love it to desolve on and off
im using piomi toon and vrcfury

[vital yew]

why do i keep getting this error

[supple bone]

it looks like you dont have an editor

[vital yew]

how

i jsut downloaded it\

[supple bone]

it downloaded with errors

[vital yew]

yea it was one i dont need

i didnt need the andriod sdk tools

well now it has 2

i have visualizer

idk how to fix this stupid thing

[supple bone]

that version of visual is important and you will need the android sdk if you plan of having quest compatible avis

i recommend just deleting that and letting the vrc companion download it for you

[vital yew]

yea i need quest

how do i fix it then bruh

i did thatttt

i downloaded it from companion

[supple bone]

is it installed on anything other than your c drive

[vital yew]

idk

i jsut click install

im on a laptop

[supple bone]

then it should be on your c drive just try deleting it and reinstalling it is all i know to say

[vital yew]

what do i delete

[supple bone]

id just do all of it the vrc companion unity, unity hub and start from scratch

[vital yew]

ok ill try to figure out how to delete unity and everything

idrk how tbh

idk where in teh c drive to delete everything

[white geyser]

When I click on capture nothing appears, I even chose a camera for it but it’s still not capturing anything preventing me from uploading

[vital yew]

ok what do i start with downlaoding first?

[white geyser]

I might be able to help what’s going on

[vital yew]

i jsut need to start

like

im new to vrchat

i wanna buy an avatar

but i gotta set up the thign to upload it

but its giving me problems

[white geyser]

What do u have so far

[vital yew]

nothing

i jsut deleted everything

i jsut downlaoded companion rn

[white geyser]

Ok so download unity hub now

[vital yew]

ok

[white geyser]

Then once that’s downloaded I can help u with the rest

[vital yew]

jsut search up unity and download the free one?

[white geyser]

“Unity hub”

[white geyser]

Click on download

[vital yew]

ohhok

ok

[white geyser]

Don’t instal the unity editor

[vital yew]

yea

skip installation?

[white geyser]

Yes

[vital yew]

ight now what

[white geyser]

Now click on install on the left side of ur screen

[vital yew]

downloads?

[white geyser]

Yes

[white geyser]

Install editor at the top right

[vital yew]

which one

there are MANY

[white geyser]

Archive

[vital yew]

this is archive

[white geyser]

Click on download archive

[vital yew]

alr

want me to look for the 2022 one?

[white geyser]

Look for one that was made on march 19

[vital yew]

ok

2022?

or 2023?

[white geyser]

2022

[left gull]

2022.3.22f1

[white geyser]

👆

[vital yew]

install>?

[white geyser]

Uh huh

[white geyser]

Continue

[vital yew]

alr now i jus gotta wait

[white geyser]

Shouldn’t take long

[vital yew]

3/9

almost

i didnt see the popup

@white geyser

[white geyser]

Huh

[white geyser]

Wdym

[vital yew]

jsut continue?

idk

[white geyser]

Yeah

[vital yew]

ok

[white geyser]

U didn’t need vsc but it’s Alr

[vital yew]

yes i do

it makes me download it

[white geyser]

U don’t need vsc

[vital yew]

oh alr

[white geyser]

But it doesn’t really matter

[vital yew]

still 4/9

[white geyser]

Once that’s downloaded just go onto vcc and let it auto detect your unity installer

[vital yew]

ok

its still install qued

idk if its bugged or jsut to wait

usually it says which one is installing rn

nvm

so uh

i opend vcc

and this is what shows up

omg

i made a project

it doesnt have the caution sign 😮

tysm bro

[white jungle]

Is there a way to make an avatar toggle that is local only, as in only I see it? I would like to make an ASL cheat sheet etc I can enable without it blocking other ppls view

would I just not use a parameter so the animation would not sync with the network or something along those lines?

[prisma sedge]

Make a toggle like you would normally do but instead of having the box checked for synced in the parameters you would just have it unchecked

[white jungle]

ohh ok, that's pretty simple. for some reason I though that was for cross platform sync, not local/network. thanks!

[vital yew]

@white geyser yo how do i find sdk

so i can upload?

[white geyser]

White bar at the top

Also go into file.build setting and make sure u can change it to android

Also u don’t put the name in the blueprint if

[vital yew]

ty

im putting pc version first

[white geyser]

The blue id is the thing that makes it quest and pc compatible

[vital yew]

there is one for quest and one for pc

[white geyser]

Yes but u need to check to see if u can change the scene to android

[vital yew]

how

[white geyser]

File

[vital yew]

tbh idk what im doing on here

[white geyser]

Build settings

[vital yew]

im jsut watchin a video from 1 year ago

[white geyser]

Look at the top left

[vital yew]

oh

ok

[white geyser]

Then you’ll see android

Ok that’s good

[vital yew]

ight

[white geyser]

Just upload the pc version then I’ll show u how to make it android and pc comp

[vital yew]

ok

ill tell you when i did it

[glossy trout]

My boyfriend is unable to wear my public avatars because of "security check failed," but they're not even 100 MB. Is it just a bug to wait out?

[prisma sedge]

Hold on!
You will get stopped because of you being in the prefab view

@vital yew

[vital yew]

?

whats that

[prisma sedge]

The current blue scene you're in. You need to exit it if you want to actually upload.

[vital yew]

wont let me

[white geyser]

Scroll down In the sdk rq

[vital yew]

oh i discarded hold on

there are lots of red errors

[white geyser]

Auto fix all of them

[vital yew]

ima jsut click autofix

on all lol

this is breaking my brain

ppl are too smart for this

[white geyser]

Read the issues

The red ones

[prisma sedge]

none of these are errors.
What it wants you to do it scroll up and give the avatar a name and give it a thumbnail

[vital yew]

oh welp

i already clicked auto fix

want me to go back?

[white geyser]

U need to upload a thumbnail

[vital yew]

i did

[prisma sedge]

The autofix for unity constraints to VRC constraints is fine

[vital yew]

dang how do i undo the auto fix i did

[white geyser]

U don’t have to

[vital yew]

ok

[white geyser]

Everything that has an auto fix is an issue

[white geyser]

Scroll down a tiny bit

[vital yew]

ther

[white geyser]

Click capture from scene

[prisma sedge]

The thumbnail is already there. They dont need to do that.

[vital yew]

i made the thumbnail

i liek copied the picture

[jolly ingot]

i think thumbnails are kinda broken

[white geyser]

Ik but I don’t see a problem here unless of the prefab it’s kinda hard to see because I’m currently not able to see my screen very well

[vital yew]

mm

bottom left

[white geyser]

Deleting and re dropping the prefab

Try that ig

[vital yew]

how

[jolly ingot]

this is the error im getting when changing my thumbnail

[vital yew]

remember ive never used unity before

[white geyser]

Click on the. Prefab name in the hierarchy right click delete

[vital yew]

so i have absolutly no clue what im doing

ok

i dont have a delete option

[white geyser]

Ss

[white geyser]

Screen shot it

[vital yew]

oh

im stupid

BAHAAA

ok now what

[white geyser]

Drop the prefab back in

[vital yew]

tbh idk how to do that

oh

so this is jsut for quest?

so the vairent is the prefab?

[white geyser]

No drop the pc one in

[vital yew]

i only have a quest one

the 2nd to last one

the last one i think is the prefab

the last one wont let me publish

the quest one does tho

[vital yew]

yea

[white geyser]

Is that not the pc one

[vital yew]

it jsut says varient

thats the properties

[white geyser]

That’s the pc one

[vital yew]

yea

i cant publish the pc one

[white geyser]

You can

[vital yew]

if i put the quest oen the build and publish shows up

but once i drop the pc one it wont let me, it says fix issues above

[white geyser]

Before u do that u should fix ur view point

[vital yew]

how

[white geyser]

In the vrc descriptor

[vital yew]

...

[white geyser]

?

[vital yew]

where is that

[white geyser]

Under the inspector

Right side of ur screen

[vital yew]

oh

how do i change it

and where

like what viewpoint

[white geyser]

Screen shot

[white geyser]

Ok so u have to delete a few phys bones

[vital yew]

mmm

or autofix?

[white geyser]

U can’t auto fix that

[vital yew]

oh

[white geyser]

U have to do it manually

[vital yew]

ok how do i find physbones

hair?

[white geyser]

Click the drop down on the prefab in ur hierarchy

[vital yew]

how the hell do i mvoe around the screen

like move my camera

nvm

[white geyser]

Ok so click through those and u should see on some of them on the right side a phys bone menu will appear

[vital yew]

im not seein any

[white geyser]

It’s the the armature drop down

[vital yew]

there has to be some in the ears right>?

[white geyser]

It’s probably in hair or something

[white geyser]

No

[white geyser]

It will be a completely different menu

[vital yew]

yea nothin is showing up

[white geyser]

Click on the prefab in the assets

[white geyser]

The picture of ur avatar in the assets

[vital yew]

yea i did

i sent a screenshot

[white geyser]

Click on the prefab

In ur assets not ur hierarchy

[vital yew]

that?

the right side?

bc im clickin it and its showing up with

[white geyser]

Get out of play mode

[white geyser]

Close the sdk

[vital yew]

ok

[white geyser]

Not click on the prefab

[vital yew]

i did

the thing u pointed at before right>

[vital yew]

this?

[white geyser]

Not screen shot

Now*

[vital yew]

this is what i see when i click the last one

[prisma sedge]

You guys are going in circles.

[vital yew]

bro idk what im doing 😭😭

and i have to do this for the girl one too 😭😭😭

[supple bone]

can anyone explain why the desolve effect for piyomi works on some mats when they are locked in but not others

[vital yew]

i couldnt tell you bro 😓

[supple bone]

i cannot for the life of me figure this out

[prisma sedge]

I'll take over then.
Get out of the prefab view

[prisma sedge]

Alright now click here

[prisma sedge]

Click this then click "Show Control Panel"

[prisma sedge]

Ok, now you're back where you need to be

[vital yew]

ight

[prisma sedge]

Sign out of the sdk then sign back in.
You do that under the "Authentication" tab

[vital yew]

ok

same thing is on my screen

[prisma sedge]

Change the thumbnail instead of picking from an existing one do "Capture from scene"

[vital yew]

ok

still wont let me upload

it has a checkmark on the name and thumbnail

i think i have too many physbones

[somber meadow]

that doesn't exist if you're uploading for PC

A way of fixing this without reopening the project is to press Ctrl + Shift + B, in the windows, mac, and linux tab click the selected platform dropdown and reselect windows (even if it's already selected)

[vital yew]

oh

OH

ok

its letting me now

welp it failed

[white geyser]

Am I doing something wrong here it’s just loading and failing

[somber meadow]

why are you using an fbx exporter?

You should already have the model files available

[white geyser]

I don’t

[somber meadow]

import VRCFury into your project

[vital yew]

i thought i did

[somber meadow]

click the plus, you added it to VCC but haven't added it to your project

[prisma sedge]

In the scales material right click "Dissolve alpha" and set it to be animated

[vital yew]

oh

kewl leme try now

[molten pulsar]

Is it needed to fill out these?
i want to keep them empty cuz im not using them whatsoewver

[white geyser]

Am I doing something wrong

[somber meadow]

it isn't needed, no

it'll remove stuff like menu toggles,sliders, ect

[molten pulsar]

gotcha thank you so much

[somber meadow]

Click this, it'll highlight where the actual model file

[white geyser]

And then Export?

[vital yew]

not letting me

[white geyser]

Auto fix

Images used

Then ur good

[vital yew]

ok

[somber meadow]

You can just import the file it highlights into blender, there's no need to use a FBX exporter

[vital yew]

ooooo

its doing smth

i clicked build and upload

[prisma sedge]

Press yes

[vital yew]

i also gotta upload this on quest

then do it all over for the girl one 😥

do i need an avatar world to put this on?

[supple bone]

it is it just stared working so i have no idea what the issue was

[white geyser]

I just drag and drop?

[left gull]

not unless you want random people to be able to access it w/o cloning off of you

[vital yew]

oh no not really, how do i put it on

[somber meadow]

if you're using Blender 4.2 then sure

[white geyser]

I’m on 4.1

[left gull]

once its uploaded to your account it'll just show up in your avatar tab

[vital yew]

alr

[supple bone]

so im changing a ton of particle systems materials with a toggle and while what im doing works its tedious and a a pain is there a way to do material swaps for a group of particle systems that all use the same material or no?

[white geyser]

And dragging and dropping doesn’t seem to do anything

[somber meadow]

4.2+ only supports dragging and dropping FBX files

4.1 only has OBJ support

[white geyser]

So how do I do it then

[somber meadow]

either update your Blender or do it manually from File>import at the top left

[white geyser]

I don’t have the file

I only have it in my project

Ah nvm

I just dragged it into my files

[vital yew]

ok i now have to do the quest version

yo

the camera angle is like broken

[white geyser]

Wdym camera angle

[vital yew]

like

on pc

its like

uhh idk not in my head

[white geyser]

That’s cuz u didn’t move the view point

[supple bone]

@white geyser any ideas to this?

[vital yew]

u never told me how ;-;

i didnt close outa it yet

how do i fix it

[white geyser]

The name is view point

[white geyser]

I’m not that knowledgeable for particals and I don’t use vrc fury

[white geyser]

Just click on ur avi and under the inspector ur you’ll see view point

[supple bone]

it seems to be the same as just a normal material swap just the way im doind it is slow and a pain and i have to do it twice once for on and once for off

[vital yew]

i see view postion

then i saw a small white dot

so i moved it to liek the center of my head

which is 0, 1.7, 0

[white geyser]

Yes that’s good now go into the sdk

[vital yew]

yep

[white geyser]

Then go into content manager and copy id

[vital yew]

the cirlce is liek at the top of my head

idk if i should move it down a but more

[white geyser]

The center of ur eyes is where i put it

[vital yew]

nvm

yea

1.6

ok i copy id

[white geyser]

Then paste it into the blueprint if

[vital yew]

ok

[white geyser]

Then click attach

[vital yew]

atrach or detach

ooh ok

now what

[white geyser]

Now when u go into the sdk to upload don’t change anything just click upload

[vital yew]

oh it wants me to put anme and thumbnail

it made me put it again

[white geyser]

Send a screen shot of the blue print I’d

[vital yew]

its loadin

[somber sequoia]

wow that's poor

[white geyser]

Alr

[vital yew]

my gf said i was tiny XD she joiend me while my avatar thing was broken LOL

ok now i gotta do it for quest

do i do similar steps?

why does my gf see this as my avatar

[white geyser]

She doesn’t have it on or u haven’t added it to quest yet

[supple bone]

lets do this instead does anyone know how to change the color of a basic material with vrc fury i cant use piyomi for the shader because it completely breaks it

[vital yew]

i havnt added to quest yet

[white geyser]

Is she on quest?

[vital yew]

i gotta do that now

yes

we ony play on quest

well i have a laptop but i dont play on it

jsut play on quest 2\

[white geyser]

Ok go into file,build,settings

[vital yew]

on the same thing?

[white geyser]

Then change it to android

[vital yew]

or make a new project?

[white geyser]

It doesn’t really matter

I normally just do it in 1

[vital yew]

ok and it saves for both pc and quest

[white geyser]

That’s where the blueprint is comes in

[vital yew]

ohh

[white geyser]

U delete the pc version out of the scene

[vital yew]

ok how

[white geyser]

The. Throw the quest one I

[white geyser]

Deleting it

[vital yew]

just delete the one thats in now?

[white geyser]

Yes

[vital yew]

v

ok

[white geyser]

Yes

[vital yew]

ok whta do i do with build settings

[white geyser]

Put on android

[vital yew]

switch platform?

[white geyser]

Switch platform

Yes

[left wharf]

you don't have to use build settings to switching platform. just switch from sdk control panel.

[vital yew]

eh i alrady did the other way

[white geyser]

That’s the other way too

But it bugs for me sometimes idk why

[left wharf]

yeah that's a bit buggy. but when i do change platform -> restart unity -> re-change platform, it's always works for me

[supple bone]

anyone know how to change the color of a material with vrcfury
Image
cnat use piyomi and thats all i know how to change

[white geyser]

I get that too but that’s why I just do build settings

[vital yew]

almost done

idk if ill be able to do the girl one in 25 mins

do i upload it now?

ok now what

[white geyser]

Go into content manager

[vital yew]

it finished

ok
'

[white geyser]

Is that the quest avi in the scene

[vital yew]

it should be yea

dave quest varient

[white geyser]

Copy id

[vital yew]

ok

[white geyser]

Paste in builder

Then fix it view point

[vital yew]

?

where iun builder

in*

the view point is inbetween the eyes

[left wharf]

builder is in SDK Control panel

[vital yew]

yea i dont see paste

[white geyser]

“Builder id”

U paste it

[white geyser]

Cntrl v💀

[vital yew]

where tho

[left wharf]

ah you meant Blueprint ID. it's in Pipeline Manager component.

[vital yew]

i did crt v

oh

wait u sure?

[vital yew]

oh

yea

[white geyser]

Then attach

[vital yew]

attach?

ok

[somber sequoia]

should be basically the same, change the color of the albedo there, or swap materials

[vital yew]

wont let me

autofix?

[left wharf]

yea autofix

[white geyser]

Yeah

[vital yew]

ok

building now

[white geyser]

That’s it

[vital yew]

nerp not for me

i gotta do it for the girl one

:)

yay

its not working

its still pc only

[prisma sedge]

Once again you're in the prefab view

[vital yew]

well it buildt and stuff

it did the thing

OH

this way?

where there is no blue?

erm

do i gotta restart vrhchat on my vr?

it says its andriod now in the websit

there is a problem the blush is liek weird on quest

its like a line

how do i just remove blush entirely on quest

[left wharf]

it's no weird. quest doesn't support transparent mesh well(It's actually wrong but i say like that for now).

[vital yew]

mmm how do i delete the blush

it happens every time i click the trigger

[left wharf]

use AAO: AvatarOptimizer or go blender

[vital yew]

D:

idk what any of thoes are

mmmmm

[left wharf]

AAO: AvatarOptimizer is non-destructive optimization tool for Unity. Blender is 3d modeling software(but it's very difficult).

[vital yew]

how do i get aao

[left wharf]

https://vpm.anatawa12.com/avatar-optimizer/en/

[vital yew]

mmmmm

so like

which one do i click

[left wharf]

"this link" in "With VCC (Recommended)"

[vital yew]

alr

now wha

[left wharf]

i think this page is a bit unreadable lol

[vital yew]

t

install the aao onto my project?

[left wharf]

yes

[vital yew]

just aao?

[left wharf]

yeah, just aao.

[vital yew]

ok

now?

[left wharf]

open your project

[vital yew]

its been opend

it downloaded it into it

[left wharf]

and select your avi's head(this might be named "Body")

[vital yew]

ok

[left wharf]

ok then, click Add Component and type "Remove Mesh by Blendshape"

[vital yew]

lots of things popped up

emotion blush?

[left wharf]

yea, i think. check it and upload

[vital yew]

so copy the id then like paste it and stuff?

ty!

[supple bone]

yea but i need a toggle to do it

[vital yew]

uhhh

it broke all the animations

errrr

[somber sequoia]

ok so something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cF9Dj1d6Nk

[vital yew]

nvm

nvm i had to liek join a new world

tysmm!!!!

i gottago

tmr i gotta do the girl avatar ;-;

[supple bone]

kinda but im changing the mats on 60+ particle systems

[somber sequoia]

kinda wondering why you need 60+ particle systems, but either way, same process, just add them all to the animation.

[supple bone]

i tried it and it didnt wor its the first thing i did and its rudius's magic system 6+ particle systems for each spell 6 spells

[mild solar]

in blender, made a new shape key (basis) on an asset, made another shape key but no matter what i’m completely unable to sculpt anything in sculpt mode or set the value to 1

using sculpt tool does nothing

[fathom wyvern]

For some reason when I upload this opti avi, The colors change to white and red unless I turn off the tattoo toggle? Any idea on how to fix this?

[prisma sedge]

That would be the cause of an animation causing the color to change

[fathom wyvern]

Thanks for the response, I'll have to see what I can do to fix that

[fallow fiber]

heyo can someone explain how to do this step?
it's from here https://teeth-fetch-gdl.craft.me/CxY701Ne9Ng5Ev/b/CE0624FE-CB3A-43BD-BD90-1380EB17D067/Add-Emotes

there arent any screenshots for this step so im a bit confused

[clever cloak]

So im working on a quest version of my avatar, and previously none of my assets worked so i just deleted them all on the quest version. However now several of them do (coin toss, cigarette, card bending, etc). Does anyone know how I should approach porting my pc version over to quest? The model I use has a quest version so I am currently working on it from the ground up, but am curious if there is a faster way to do all of this.

also i am not looking to pay someone to do this for me so do not bother sending my dms asking

i only really care about having the coin on quest, so i might just delete the rest of the assets off of the quest one and just copy the parameter file from the pc one and hope that works

[covert moss]

Trying to upload for Android, keep getting this error, any specific reason or fix?

[stable igloo]

How can I make lip piercing sync to lip movement? The asset is from booth and use modular avatar but I haven't figured out a way to make it sync

[lilac musk]

You could either do some blender work adding them to the same mesh as the mouth, then editing the shape keys. Or you could make animations in Unity for every blendshape and in your FX layer, control those animations based on the viseme parameter. Personally I'd do the blender method, but I'm fairly comfortable with it and know some people hate or are intimidated by it.