avatar-help

[somber sequoia]

add it to the bone, or add it on some other object and drag the bone into the "root transform" slot

[sick snow]

Please @ me if you know of a solution.
I have some seats on my avatar set to a toggle, and also toggle an object in tow as well. But sometimes, the seats are on despite being off in my menus and the object tied to the seats not being on. Does anyone know of a fix to this? I don't want strangers tethered to me.

[somber sequoia]

seats are funky lately - you should have them enabled by default, then you can disable with an animation after about 3 frames. I'd be surprised if they turned on accidentally though, that might be an issue with your animator logic instead.

[sick snow]

Regardless, the avatar's seats, when the avatar's not fully shown, are showing up as on to people who I don't know.
How do I fix this? They are set to be automatically off by default.

[somber sequoia]

I just said?

Happy to explain if that's not clear.

[grizzled crow]

ok figured it out

[sick snow]

I would like some explanation on why something that's off by default would ever not be off, regardless of if the avatar isn't fully shown.

[somber sequoia]

ah that I can't explain from here

[sick snow]

Ok, 'cause that's the issue I have with my seats. Off by default, but when the avatar's not fully shown, they appear as on, for some unknown reason.

[somber sequoia]

what do you mean by "not fully shown"?

[sick snow]

When someone's shield settings don't enable everything on my avatar, and that person would need to hit the eye symbol when clicking on me.

Basically, when at least the model is visible, but not necessarily everything else, like custom shaders or particles.

[somber sequoia]

ok so probably what you mean here is when animators are disabled

[timber wharf]

that what seats woulf do yes

because seat should be on by default to work

[sick snow]

Likely, yeah.

[sick snow]

And it is, when you fully show my avatar.

[somber sequoia]

no that's not on by default

[sick snow]

I've been saying that It's off by default.

[somber sequoia]

if they require the animator to be on, then that's not on by default

[timber wharf]

what

[sick snow]

I've been saying that It's off by default.

[sick snow]

Thank you.

[timber wharf]

im confused still

[somber sequoia]

yep.

[sick snow]

Basically, what I'm dealing with is, when in Unity, the seat is set up to be "Toggle to Use," but somehow I had people using it in game without me toggling it on, but confirmed it was because their shield settings didn't have me fully shown, so they were somehow accessing something they shouldn't.

[timber wharf]

seats should be on by default. then you use animation to turn them off, ofc if animator is disabled for someone, it wont turn off. thats how it works

[somber sequoia]

exactly what I said too

[sick snow]

Ok, then how do I stop strangers from using my seats?

I want to still have seats, and have straners activate my headpats and such, just not my seats.

[timber wharf]

try animating it so by default its on and 100m in the sky or smth

[sick snow]

But that'd mean that people who I let use it will be so far away, no?

[timber wharf]

no, then your on animation both toggles it on and brings it in place

[sick snow]

Ok, but wouldn't it be more performant to just, I dunno, have it be off regardless of if the animator is off?

Fewer animations, is what I'm saying.

[timber wharf]

it is what it is. having it off in the scene would remove it for everyone.

[sick snow]

I see.

[kind tusk]

i hate asking for help here but i have googled and googled to no avail and am at my wits end. i get this error when i try to export a file as a .vrm and i am blender illiterate and have no idea what it means. any help will be greatly greatly greatly appreciated

[raven orbit]

you may have to double check what blender version you are using and what version your plugin/tutorial/whatever you're working with was intended for

previous versions here! https://download.blender.org/release/

[kind tusk]

i think i tried that but ill try again just in case i missed something (i probably did), thank you!

[sick snow]

So, I took a look at the model in the Unity scene, and the seats are off in the scene. The toggles just toggle them on.

[kind tusk]

i tried the other versions of blender i have and it just crashes whenever i open the file. i did most of the work before the latest blender update which might be the issue? i saved over the old file already which mightve made things a tad worse. ill keep trying but if this information can help in some way let me know and my life is yours

[raven orbit]

i think there's a few ways you could get around it crashing. you could export the model as an fbx and import into another project using the right version but you'd have to mess with the export settings so that it doesn't add unnecessary stuff, or you might be able to append the scene collection directly into another project (unsure if this would still crash). i can explain either in more detail but it's generally a good idea to never save directly over another blender file for this reason!

[kind tusk]

ill try this, thank you so much!!!!

[raven orbit]

omg i hate that the d key is right next to the s key it keeps making me accidently swear 😭

[timber wharf]

@sick snow is it vrcf or smth?

[sick snow]

Nope.

[wooden girder]

Idk where to go for this but an avatar I made completely from scratch keeps having security checks fail no matter what I do

what is going on with that

[sick snow]

What's the VRC Status site say on the error rates of the API? I ask in case the game's got some hiccups and is causin' isues.

[wooden girder]

It's been doing this to me, a lot

[sick snow]

Otherwise, I'd check how much free space you have on the avatar project's drive.

[wooden girder]

Alright

[sick snow]

I had it happen once, myself, and it ended up being low space for me, so it might be for you.

If it's not the API havin' an error fest or low storage space, I'm unfortunately out of Ideas.

[wooden girder]

I uploaded it in july, it failed a week or two ago

and now every reupload is also failing

[sick snow]

So?

[wooden girder]

I'm just explaining my problem further for anyone else who might know what to do?

[sick snow]

I had an avatar have issues like that for an update, too.

What I'm sayin' is that the API might be havin' a fit, or you ran out of storage space, or you might have some internet connectivity issues in the middle of an upload.

Or all of the above, for that matter.

[raven orbit]

i had the security check failed problem too and had to keep reuploading until it worked, havent seen another solution so far

[sick snow]

I am still bankin' on low storage space.

[wooden girder]

I'll see what I can do, but I appreciate knowing what could have caused it

[sick snow]

No problem.

[raven orbit]

i have half a terabyte of available storage space and still had the issue lol

[sick snow]

My security check fail incident was likely a combo of what I think was API issues and low storage space, so check the VRC status website and see how long ago the largest spike in error rates was if you get the issue again.

It's not a foolproof thing, but hiccups in your internet and the VRC API are certainly not gonna help things either way.

[raven orbit]

yeah i think the solution to that problem is patience 😔

[sick snow]

Yeah, and from experience, I can attest to not wanting to wait.

To be fair, I've not had the issue happen again for me, so have hope that it will result in the same for you.

[woven totem]

I need help fixing this

[sick snow]

Have you...

• Closed the project and opened it again
• Reloaded the SDK
• Simply tried again

Those are what I do when I get that error.

[woven totem]

how do I reload the sdk?

[sick snow]

Hang on while I open a project to screenshot.

[woven totem]

okay

[sick snow]

Ok, so, at the top of your Unity scene you should see VRChat SDK at the top, like so.

Click on the VRChat SDK, and then at the bottom is Reload SDK. Click on that to reload it.

[woven totem]

I did all three

[sick snow]

If no fix happened, what's the oldest error you have that's red?

[woven totem]

AssetBundle was not built

[sick snow]

White and yellow errors are erroneous in regards to halting your upload.

[sick snow]

Please send me a screenshot of the full error, or copy the complete error text and send it.

[woven totem]

well, there's a "small" problem with that which I'll explain in dms

[sick snow]

Ah?

[opal agate]

The model is for some reason using the wrong texture despite it showing the correct texture everywhere else. Is this just a matter of waiting for it to update or have I encountered some strange bug

Both the quest and pc versions I made use the same texture (the void looking one) and none of them use the grey trousered one. So I just have no idea how this could be happening

The previous version of the model used the grey trousers but I dont know how that could affect a full reupload unless it really is just waiting for it to update

Wait, I think I figured it out. I have animations that are resetting the texture

[misty musk]

the invisible parts have solidfy modifier on them on blender but in unity it doesnt

wtf do i do

[raven orbit]

you'd have to apply a modifier before exporting it

[misty musk]

i did

i did and it still imported like this

[gloomy flint]

ran into the issue where a prop is supposed to be attached to my hand, and when its toggled on it DOES rotate as though its in my hand, but its floating to my side and seems to be attached to a different part of my spine?

[raven orbit]

then did you import the right fbx?

[misty musk]

pretty sure i did

[raven orbit]

what constraints are on it

[dark jay]

How do i fix the rim lighting issue on poiyomi

[gloomy flint]

VRC Parent Constraint, it says the source transform is the armature thats connected to my hand (like the other props, that do work)

[misty musk]

ive tried reimporting alot of times

[raven orbit]

ngl i can barely even tell whats going on from the image you sent

[gloomy flint]

the Transform is under the correct hand in the hierarchy, but it doesnt connect right

[misty musk]

blender(left) vs unity(right)

[raven orbit]

in blender enable backface culling under the solid view settings (this doesn't change anything in unity its just for debugging)

[gloomy flint]

i've compared to other avatars that have props in the hand and it LOOKS like it should work :(

[misty musk]

where is that? is it under solidfy?

[misty musk]

its alr on aparently

[gloomy flint]

im getting to my wits end bc i cant see any constraints actively that would point to it being broken

[raven orbit]

oh remove the source transform

wait no

[misty musk]

where?

[raven orbit]

meant the other guy

[raven orbit]

i think i confused source transform and parent transform nvm

[gloomy flint]

i was gonna say

all the other props use similar source transform and they work

just, this one is fighting me for some reason

[raven orbit]

sorry i've barely used constraints, hopefully someone that knows about them better sees this soon 🙃

[gloomy flint]

its alr

[rigid cave]

No, unfortunately not. But I have a feeling that it might be either because of my antivirus (which doesn’t make sense since I’ve never had problems with it) or because of the new Wi-Fi I got. With my mom's Wi-Fi and the temporary mobile data Wi-Fi I used in my own flat, it worked perfectly fine. I last updated my avatar on October 13th and didn’t do anything with it until November 17th. On November 1st, I got my own Wi-Fi router, and I guess since then it won’t let me upload my avatars. It might be because of the new Wi-Fi 6. I still have to figure it out but since it takes up a lot of time and nerves, I need to find the motivation to do so.. 💀

[misty musk]

boost

[vast gulch]

I had the issue and I fixed it by using a different thumbnail. Try uploading an avatar with the thumbnail cam pointed somewhere random

[gloomy flint]

I tried to change the source transform and while the model itself will move to where that bone is when T-posed, it still isnt locked to the actual bone?

[rigid cave]

did that too, it has nothing to do with unity itself since i tried it with a clean unity project

[vast gulch]

I tried uploading the same avatar with a different thumbnail and for some reason it worked, so I think there may be some server-side checks.

But my upload was failing after 100%, not in the middle

[rigid cave]

i thought so too.. after googling i found a lot of people had this exact problem because of their wifi and antivirus/firewall

which doesn't even make sense

i thought maybe vrchat has some problems but my friends who live close to me and uploaded their avatars at the same time didn't have any problems

[gloomy flint]

I figured out my issue! I just had to move around some physbone components :)

[tired idol]

Does anyone know why the underwear messes up when i test in play mode?

[ornate stump]

Does it actually follow the bone?

[junior void]

How is it added?

[royal hazel]

did you get this fixed

[tired idol]

it says it does

[junior void]

Thats not what he asked

[ornate stump]

This doesn't.

[tired idol]

im not sure what you mean then

[ornate stump]

Did you test by moving the hip bone?

[tired idol]

all i did was hit "enter play mode" in gesture manager, i dont know how to actually move bones in unity

[ornate stump]

How did you add the underwear?

[tired idol]

i added it to the model in blender and everything was working fine in there

[ornate stump]

Did you actually test with pose mode in blender?

[tired idol]

yes and in blender it looked fine

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot in blender?

[tired idol]

yeah give me a sec

[tired idol]

which part in blender are you wanting me to screenshot specifically

[ornate stump]

When doing pose in pose mode.

[tired idol]

So it seems like gets all deformed like that whenever the spine bone is moved

[ornate stump]

The underwear sunk under the skin that's the problem.

[tired idol]

is there a way to stop that from happening

[ornate stump]

Weight paint it better.

[tired idol]

am i just not understanding how weight painting works? because even after i do it, it still stretches weird

[junior void]

You want to copy the weights from the body, dont just guess

[ornate stump]

You must match weight paint with the skin under it. And there is multiple weight group where you must check thoroughly.

[junior void]

Theres an addon for this called robust weight transfer that will give you a solid start

[tired idol]

ill try that out

[tired idol]

so when i use the robust weight paint, i eyedrop my body then select the underwear in my hierarchy but when i press transfer weights it says it worked but it doesn't add any weigh paint to it

[balmy barn]

select mesh you want to have weights , then eyedrop from body

[tired idol]

thats what i tried doing and nothing changed😭

[balmy barn]

delete old vertex groups if it still has them (mesh you want to have new ones)

its not 100% some things wont behave

[tired idol]

this worked🙏

Thank you to everyone that helped me through this

[mighty cove]

Hi! I have a problem adding clothes to an avatar. Some parts (QVK06,Top,Armature) have this error:
Managed to deal with the last two by adding VRC Phys Bone but can't deal with the first one.

The avatar in game looks like this

[ornate stump]

You likely didn't import all the required package stated by the assets.

[mighty cove]

In VRC creator companion?

[ornate stump]

VCC is used for importing, but I mean more package you have to import which you have to read from the asset store page.

[tired idol]

Sorry guys but ive run into another problem after replacing my FBX with the fixed one, now it says this

[ornate stump]

Try Configure again

[junior void]

I usually set to generic and back, that does it

[tired idol]

thank you guys that was the problem😅

[mighty cove]

Added Modular avatar,I don't get errors anymore but avatar ends up without hands anyways.

Any idea what should i set here? I have no clue

[ornate stump]

What does it means without hands?

[mighty cove]

Sorry,i mean this

[ornate stump]

Are you sure the hands and arms isn't sinking into the body?

[mighty cove]

Let me see.

Don't think so?

there are like little strings of the arms

[ornate stump]

Some cloth animation shrank the arm to prevent arm clipping cloth cloth.

[mighty cove]

Could avatar animation be the issue? i don't see any cloth animations (or i'm blind)

OKAY i think i got it. The avi has toggles for base clothes that i deleted but not from the toggle wheel. Turning them off bringed the arms back

Thank you for help

[rigid cave]

it works with VPN

[elder ginkgo]

I got a question does anyone know why when I made the avatar quest compatible for quest users the clothes appear to be cycling through but on pc it's fine?

[somber sequoia]

are you using the exact same parameters list? In the same order? Without VRC Fury interfering with it?

[elder ginkgo]

yea both parameters are the same with all values checked and unchecked exactly the same for both models

one sec thats the same picture

oops

[somber sequoia]

you don't need to share a pic if they're actually identical 🙂

[mental estuary]

VRCFury has automatic Quest syncing now anyway, so it won't matter: https://vrcfury.com/tutorials/quest

[somber sequoia]

oh awesome - I don't use it so wasn't aware it updated

[mental estuary]

That's why I'm letting you know :D

[somber sequoia]

thanks!

[elder ginkgo]

ohh intresting

[mental estuary]

It sorts and pads the parameters that are missing, so you can still remove the components you don't want

It just needs a single VRCFury component on the avatar, and the desktop version has to be uploaded first

Works in the same project or between different projects. Just has to have the same blueprint ID

[somber sequoia]

very nice, that's a good way to do it

[sleek ocean]

how could i change the avatar hair color that i bought

[inland seal]

Using material?

[sleek ocean]

yeah idk what software

[inland seal]

Unity

[sleek ocean]

i have unity

but i cant change the colors in there

[mental estuary]

Drag hips into the link from, not RegulusShorts

The warning explains it

[inland seal]

I did

the whole model will dissapear

[mental estuary]

... What? No. Drag the clothing's hips into the link from box. Move nothing

[inland seal]

?

wha

So I move nothing?

[mental estuary]

Don't move anything in the hierarchy. Your shorts should be a child of your avatar. Presumably the shorts has the armature link on it, so you drag the shorts' hips into the link from box

[inland seal]

oh

So I just drag my model in the Armature/Model?

And delete armature link?

[mental estuary]

That's nothing like what I just said

[inland seal]

😭

[mental estuary]

RegulusShorts should be a child of your avatar's root (the main object)

RegulusShorts should have the armature link component on it

Drag the hips of RegulusShorts into the link from box of said armature link component

[inland seal]

So I drag Hips in armature link?

[mental estuary]

Yes

[inland seal]

They dissapeared

[mental estuary]

That's not possible. You're just referencing the hips in the component

You must be doing something else

[inland seal]

I did what you told me

[mental estuary]

And those are the shorts' hips, not your avatar's hips?

[inland seal]

Its shorts

[mental estuary]

Try setting keep bone offsets to yes in the advanced options

[inland seal]

ok

Uhh

[mental estuary]

I don't know what I'm looking at. You're probably better off going to VRCFury's server if you need more help

[inland seal]

The models bones doesnt move at all

Its like plain model

[mental estuary]

I'm confused at what you're even saying now. Are these not shorts you've bought?

[inland seal]

It is

[mental estuary]

Are you not armature linking to the Regulus?

[inland seal]

I do 😭

All other models work fine

[mental estuary]

Is your avatar descriptor in the wrong place?

[inland seal]

no

Thats the only model that doesnt work

[mental estuary]

Then I suggest going to VRCFury's server and explaining your problem. It's more likely that you're either not understanding where the problem lies, or detection of that model's hips

[inland seal]

ok

[lime eagle]

so my account is on an email that i struggle to access so i merged it with my main email (who didnt have an account previosuly) so i could upload an avatar and like, [images]???

[inland seal]

They fixed it :D

It was because my bones were named wrong

[mental estuary]

Yeah I saw. I'm in the server

[inland seal]

Oh

Oops ;D

[junior void]

Make sure your elbows are bent back a slight bit so the ik knows in which direction they belong

[cobalt geyser]

Hmm, good point, I'll try to check it out

[feral drift]

i have non-humanoid avatar (rigid) that was uploaded in 2021 ( updated 2022 )
it has toggles and animations
but now animations no longer works, the toggles still works
my friends told me to try to re-upload it, which i did, but it still doesn't work
anybody know what could be the cause of this?

[lime eagle]

this has been fixed 🙏

uh

[timber wharf]

@lime eagle thats world stuff, what is it doing in avatar project

[lime eagle]

trying to upload a model from a site

[somber sequoia]

You could change the colors in the base color texture, if it has one, with any image editing or painting program.
You might be able to change in the shader settings in the material in Unity, depending on which shader is used.

[lime eagle]

i imported a download

oh wait a figured it ou

where do i find such a log

[dusk pulsar]

Nails disappear. Any way on how to fix this issue, so the bounds are separate instead?
Fixed: just made boundaries identical to the suit

[lime eagle]

i have no idea what to do here

[junior void]

look at the top most errors, not last ones

[lime eagle]

yeah thats all the errors

[grizzled crow]

how do I install an animation pack for my avatar??

[lime eagle]

what in the hell does this even mean

[junior void]

Its a symptom of a symptom of a symptom

[lime eagle]

i think i might have fixed it just need to wait

and this is new too

[simple inlet]

anyone know what could cause the avatar descriptor to disconnect from the avatar? all my menus are there when I enter play mode with avatar emulator but the avatar is in T pose and none of the toggles actually effect the avatar even though the menus are functional. It's like the avatar generated by the FBX configurator stops working

[junior void]

Check the rig import settings window and console

[simple inlet]

Check it for what?

It's not generating any errors if that's what you mean

[junior void]

Anything odd or new.

[simple inlet]

Not from what I can tell :<

[junior void]

If the avatar is stuck in tpose, its not playing humanoid animations

The only reasons i know why it wouldnt is: the rig is wrong, the rig isnt set humanoid, the rig screen shows bone length errors

Or youre using play mode without gesture manager

[simple inlet]

Not sure if it helps but everything runs fine until I make adjustments in muscles and settings, then once I've applied the changes and I run avatar emulator it gets stuck in T pose

Like the rig is totally fine until I make any adjustments to it

Then I have to completely re-import everything to fix it

[simple inlet]

I'll keep an eye out for these, but this has happened over and over and I haven't noticed any errors anywhere

[vapid flame]

vrc updated and now my avatars facial gestures are bugging out even when im not making gestures; anyone else having this issue everything was fine before

[grizzled lichen]

how do you actually make the particle trigger when you do something, like, for the dust particles it just hides when its not being used, but for that if i were to do that with this, when you aren't shooting fireballs they'll all disappear

[grizzled lichen]

nevermind i found a way to do that

i can add a trigger that deletes it when touched so i just put that over the hand and hide/unhide it when shooting fireballs

[heavy zephyr]

You could also just animate the emission module on/off

[grizzled lichen]

yea i could but that'll also make the other fireballs disappear

[heavy zephyr]

Would it really? If so just animate the emission value to 0

[grizzled lichen]

that seems to make them all disappear too

wait nveermind

that works

[candid osprey]

Hello, need me some help. I got a particle emitter, I want to act as an explosion. Currently, my issue is the emitter has the particles scatter not all in unison. My goal, is to have them explode in random directions, but all explode outwards at the same initial time.

[heavy zephyr]

Please provide a recording of your current setup, that would help a lot

[candid osprey]

Uh, sure. Give me a bit.

[candid osprey]

I want it to all expell at the same speed and same time.

[candid osprey]

Sorry it took a bit. OBS was not working.

[heavy zephyr]

Can't preview that file format

[candid osprey]

One second.

[candid osprey]

Did that work?

[arctic ginkgo]

use a burst

[heavy zephyr]

Half of the recording is black

[arctic ginkgo]

instead of rate over time

set rate over time to 0

now add a burst and set count to 100

@candid osprey

[candid osprey]

That did it, thank you.

[candid osprey]

And to set it to be a one time explosion with the particle emitter as a toggle, I set it up to play when awake, and toggle the particle emitter object on, with the toggle expression?

[arctic ginkgo]

you have to toggle the whole particle system. Be aware that this will kill all particles from the particle system once disabled. You will need to only disable after a certain amount of time. If you want to be able to repeat this explosion multiple times without letting it finish first, you will need to use a "particle buffer" system. Bascially you set up this particle system as a sub-emitter of another, invisible particle system, that spawns one particle with a single burst, then on it's birth emits the sub-emitter system. After this you will make the sub-emitter no longer a child of the invisible particle system, and now whenever you disable, then enable the invisible particle system, it spawns the explosion

[glad forum]

i just uploaded a very heavy avatar and thats what i get does anyone know what to do?

[left gull]

make sure the model's stats are within the limits (try to aim for poor at the very worst if possible) and double check theres no errors in the SDK upload panel

[short ferry]

Uhm, I have no idea why it does this. Help would be appreciated

[raven orbit]

are there any modifiers on the mesh, like decimate?

[short ferry]

nope, just armature

[raven orbit]

any duplicates of those wings overlapping it?

[short ferry]

nope

and when I move them in edit mode, it messes up the uv mapping

[kind topaz]

Can someone teach me how to make a small avi

[humble flame]

Must fix the issues but theyre not listed??

Can someone please help me

This has never happened to me before

[arctic ginkgo]

one of these transitions is going off despite the fact that neither of their conditions are true..?

one is PropR > 3, the other is PropR < 3, and currently PropR = 3

so neither should be true..

these are the only transitions to this state

[lime eagle]

holy peak spamton neo

[hasty grail]

Whats the best height to have avatars at? currently we do our proper height, but i noticed the world sdk is 1.9m

[lime eagle]

where does one find such logs

[sly lodge]

Ctrl+Shift+C opens your console window

[lime eagle]

the console is not helpful

[sly lodge]

what error message did you get in your console?

[lime eagle]

lemme do it again

[solid terrace]

I having trouble adding Imeris with long hair can anyone who also has imeris tell what to do?

[sick field]

Hello
Can anyone help me to upload my avatar
And no commission I don't have money to pay

[quick cedar]

my avatar wont upload it just finishes then throws me these errors and then just doesnt upload

[sterile veldt]

anyone know a general outline for getting new user to upload avatars?

[raven orbit]

https://ptb.discord.com/channels/189511567539306508/730948028608938035

[somber meadow]

Make new friends, and world hop with them to other public worlds. Just basically grow your friends list naturally

raw playtime doesn't effect score that much

[raven orbit]

i completely misread the question my bad 😅

[raven phoenix]

If you're impatient and willing to pay VRChat's electricity and dev bills, get a month of VRC+. It's a guaranteed and permanent boost to at least "New User" rank, even if you don't keep the subscription.

[amber gull]

hello can someone please tell me how can i fully transfer and export an avatar i made on unity to blender with all the animations and assets transferred to blender please?

[twin raft]

uhh you dont thats not really how it works

in unity its just a collection of assets

you can redo the edits in blender and have them setup that way by default

[amber gull]

oh thank you

[rocky moon]

What does this mean?

I have a Neck bone

Nvm found it

[frigid void]

If I want to add multiple hair choices to my avatar, do I want to add All the bones to my armature, leave them separate, or only add the mesh?

[left gull]

if you want them to move via phybones you'd need to add both the bones and mesh to your avatar's armature

[rocky moon]

How do I accurately scale a model to be a specific height in CM?

[ornate stump]

Create one cube, a cube has default size of 1x1x1 meter. Use that as a reference.

[rocky moon]

Ok, thank you.

[bold peak]

okay so I'm trying to upload an avatar using the creator companion and i installed all the unity hub stuff needed but when I click open project in the cc it just opens up the hub and not the unity editor

[somber meadow]

screenshot your VCC settings

[somber meadow]

Simplest fix would be to use ALCOM as a better alternative to VCC, I've seen the same issue occur yesterday with someone and that was the easiest fix.

[bold peak]

okay thank you

[somber meadow]

https://vrc-get.anatawa12.com/en/alcom/

[half stirrup]

i just uploaded my bfs avi for quest, i go back into the pc version on vcc and everything is just?? gone???????? did i mess up and now i have to restart orrr??? :/

all the assets are still in the folders as well as the custom textures i did for them so idfk 😭

[somber meadow]

The project probably closed improperly and doesn't have the scene file open anymore

put t:scene in your project tab search to find it again

[half stirrup]

i have no idea how, i used this tutorial to upload the quest vers so https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9ATJ4IOXEc&t=99s

on my other avi i did the same steps and was completely fine, i have no idea what i did wrong here

[half stirrup]

nothing, still the same avi (quest vers, i put back in poi toon shaders) but all the clothes i had and physbones are just, gone

do i maybe need to delete the quest version copy i have in vcc ??? is it because i saved the copy project? 😭

[humble flame]

Can someone plpease tell me what this means

[blazing girder]

I'm having this issue where my head bobs backwards whenever I walk forwards or sideways, but not backwards, and only in VR (looks fine on desktop), any ideas why?

I have an alternate version of this avatar with the exact same rigging that doesn't have this issue, so I'm not sure why this one would be any different

[left gull]

is there phybones on the head bone?

[half ice]

can any one please tell me what dose thet nummbers mean in fx layer

pramareters*

[twin raft]

means its an int or a float

might be being used as bools

0 = false 1 = true

[blazing girder]

There are no physbones anywhere on the avatar

[twin raft]

if its higher than 1 its an int

[blazing girder]

The headbobbing is in sync with the walking animation, but is not part of the walking animation since it uses the VRC default

[sleek folio]

Can anyone suggest a solution to this viseme problem: My viseme blend-shapes look great in blender, but are super over exaggerated when tested in VRChat.

[junior void]

Did you limit the max value in blender (will be removed in unity, so would explain why the value goes over what you like)

[sleek folio]

I limited it to 1 in blender, if the limit is removed in unity, how do I then fix it?

[junior void]

1 is fine

At this point its best if you show us what the difference is

Preferably also don't crop your images so we can see side settings without needing to ask for them specifically

[sleek folio]

hold on, I think I found the issue...

maybe not

I have it open in blender, and for a split second, I saw the over-exaggerated thing, but i cant replicate it

Screenshots in order: No viseme active - TH active - several active

It looks like the issue I'm occuring in game is that several visemes are active at once

[half ice]

anyone know whay i cant sculpt my clothing ...

[sleek folio]

@junior void also, here's how i have it set up in unity

[ornate stump]

You are trying to sculpt on an inactive shapekey.

[half ice]

loooooool thanksssssss

[junior void]

The single visemes look fine, it looks more like multiple trigger at the same time

Lets have a look at the eye look settings in unity

[grave current]

viewpoint inbetween eyes but ingame its in her forehead?

[sleek folio]

straight - up - down - left - right

eyes seem to work well in vr, as does blinking.

[junior void]

I hope you know that visemes will overlap a little naturally because of how speech is blended. Did you try debugging this to see what exactly triggers when? Personally id use gesture manager (has viseme radial) and look at those, (but they are one at a time so not very helpful for mixing preview) but if that looks okay, use the debug panel ingame to see which visemes actually trigger together that make faces you find are not fitting

I think it might be the ch shape that you feel is bad when blended with other visemes, it is used quite often

If thats the case, you might want to experiment with lower values (in blender make new shape from mix and replace the shape in the viseme section in unity)

[sleek folio]

all of them look fine in gesture manage radial. testing in-game with with debug menu, the viseme parameter value jumps up to 14

[grave current]

any explanations for why an avatars viewpoint would be higher than the ball?

[junior void]

14 is "u". Did you check that shape?

[sleek folio]

it would explain why the animation glitches the way it does, but i still dont know why they overlap such an insane amount

[junior void]

No idea, it looks like only half of this face is the u shape. But if you dont like how this looks, try making new shape keys at only 80% strength of the originals

Maybe all your shapes move the corner of the mouth outwards a bit, and stacked it just does look weird

Here, in case you wanna debug this more, this is the viseme list so you know whats what

[sturdy grotto]

how do i prevent to have that light blurring effect on polygons you can see infront of some backgrounds in worlds when u use dissolve on parts of your avatar like hair and clothes

like they can not be seen but have a visible blure effect on the world where they would normaly be seen. hard to explain

[timber wharf]

after playing out dissolve effect you absolutely must disable renderer, dont just apply effect

[sturdy grotto]

like everything inside this outline would be appear transparent but blurs everything behind it in some worlds slightly

some people dont like that and i would like to prevent that happening

[timber wharf]

it messes with transparent queue of windows etc

as i said if you just dissolve it via shader and leave it as is, its bad

you should dissolve and then disable whole object

[viscid snow]

Yo, trying to add a leash to my avi, but for some reason it wont stop swaying like this. Any ideas?

[sturdy grotto]

kk i try to find a animation solution which will work. so far had problems with animation sync in vrc when using more than 2 animation steps. so i tryed making it in max 2 animations

[timber wharf]

uh, off - dissolve+last frame toggle object off. on - toggle on+undissolve

two states, two animations

[sturdy grotto]

yeah i go with a complete all off base animation now and a selected on which toggles one thing on and all others off. this should work

thanks :)

[sleek folio]

@junior void Changing from the default viseme handler to vrcfury's advanced visemes has become my solution. it tis fixed

[blazing girder]

Still haven't figured this out, I might just remake this version off of the working one if I give up

[hidden loom]

how do i set up a physbone to return to its original position after it was pulled away (not posed)

[ornate stump]

Increase pull value.

[hidden loom]

to above which value would u recommend? i had it on 0.2. i want it to return fully back to its original position

[ornate stump]

Just as much as necessary. It should completely return to its original position when pull is greater than zero and doesn't have gravity.

[hidden loom]

it only returns kind of half way or offf its original rotation, i will try 0.66 next

i wish i could grab bones in unity playtest mode...

[ornate stump]

You can grab bone in play mode.

[hidden loom]

how?

[ornate stump]

Has to be done in game panel.

[hidden loom]

btw i have the immobile on 1 so the physbone only moves when grabbed is that wrong for this setup? i want the bone to be able to be grabbed and otherwise not move besides returning to original pose

[ornate stump]

Immobile should be 1.

[hidden loom]

ty for the help i will experiment for now and come back if there are issues

this is its setuo

[ornate stump]

Also stiffness zero.

[hidden loom]

pull to 0.66 did it but its very jittery now

ty

it helped ty veryy much, i think i also need to disable momentum though as its to jittery in resting pose

it works now!

[drifting bolt]

so i bought clothing for my avi model, but it doesnt seem to fit, specially the booba.is there any way to make this fit?

[broken bone]

Looks like there might be an animation on it. If so you'll have to remove it

[broken bone]

On the clothing mesh, Under Blend Shapes, there should be a breast size slider. You'll have to increase the breast size on the clothing itself, then for the leggings there should be blend shapes on the body that will shrink the leg/feet

[drifting bolt]

shrink the leg feet of the body or clothing

[viscid snow]

thats not it, it actually settles down after a long time, but then with even the slightest movement it picks back up again

[broken bone]

shrink the legs and feet of the body so you can't see 'em

[broken bone]

could be the physbone settings then. They might be way too springy

[drifting bolt]

isnt there a way to make the clothing simply wrap around the skin

[left gull]

in blender with the sculpt tool though id check if that asset came with a how-to video for setup

it'd be a .txt or .mp4 usually

[broken bone]

If the clothing is made for that avatar, you shouldn't need to use blender for it. In the case of leggings/high boots, shrinking the legs slightly (or sometimes entirely) is normal to avoid clipping

[drifting bolt]

ahhh so what people do is make specific body modifyers for different clothing parts?

[broken bone]

Exactly. Most avatars have shapes to shrink the arms, legs, feet, etc. all separately so that you can hide them and prevent clipping through the clothing 🙂

[drifting bolt]

if im honest

i have no idea how to do any of this im just learning

but ill try

[left gull]

dont think you'd use the shrink shapekeys in this case you'd want a breast increase and heeled foot option

shrink would make it look odd when moving the feet at the very least

[broken bone]

For the foot perhaps, but the leg still needs it to fix the clipping

[drifting bolt]

also the booba are generally lacking physics

i cant touch them myself in game xd

is there any way to fix that

[left gull]

to make them move you'd add the phybone component, mess around with the settings in playmode to get the movement just right though or it can get wonky

[drifting bolt]

play mode is buggy af for me

[ornate stump]

You can't touch, or it doesn't react to any movement at all?

[drifting bolt]

yup

theres movement but its subtle

there indeed is a physbone but its having issues xd

[ornate stump]

then you would have to adjust physbone values. And increase physbone collision radius so hand can touch them.

[drifting bolt]

where can i access the physbone menu

[ornate stump]

Can you explain the problem what "buggy" it is?

[drifting bolt]

i simply cant do anything with the avi

[ornate stump]

When you select an object that has physbone component.

[ornate stump]

You have to switch to Scene panel to use editing tools to move objects.

[viscid snow]

yeah tried that too, nothing made a difference. Going to completely readd it and see if that fixes

[drifting bolt]

but then how do i test booba physic in game mode

[ornate stump]

Just use move tool to move your avatar.

[broken bone]

Click play and then go back to the scene tab and it will still be in play mode, and as Renfrew said you can just start moving the root node of your avatar around

[half ice]

can i somehow copy all physbones to other avatar ? had to do a new one after i changed fbx in blender

[broken bone]

The only thing the game tab is really useful for is testing if your physbones are grabbable

[drifting bolt]

ur right

[ornate stump]

Use Pumkin avatar tools to copy components across avatar.

[half ice]

i did it copys evrything but physbones dose not work

[ornate stump]

It probably because it couldn't match bone structure between model. Then you would have to manually copy components.

[half ice]

okk thanks

[mighty cove]

Changed avatar's makeup and one expression looks like this. How can i fix this?

[half ice]

they are already in right place... and for me evrything looks right any idea ?

[ornate stump]

If physbone components aren't on the bone itself, then you have to assign the bones into those physbone component individually.

[broken bone]

Make sure the material on the blush mesh is set to transparent

[half ice]

okk thanks gona try

[gloomy wren]

Hello, Does anyone know why the Outline from the shaders get's completly weird when i'm shrinking my Avatar body ?

[viscid snow]

Im going insane with this

[mighty cove]

You mean this,right? I don't see the material specifically for the blush tho (edit:i'll try messing with poiyomi)

[broken bone]

Looks like you have the head selected. Those appear to be the head's blend shapes--you want the material settings, specifically for the material on those red pieces. If you're using poiyomi you're looking for this:

[left gull]

are you using a sphere collider?

[amber gull]

does anyone knows whats the best tools to sculpt and edit a head for beginners in blender?

[ornate stump]

What "tools" you mean in this context?

[amber gull]

the brushes on the left

[left gull]

i mean almost all of the tools are required

[ornate stump]

You should be using them in combination for appropriate job, or shape you want to sculpt. There is not a single best tool.

[amber gull]

is there a video tutorial maybe that can teach me thr basics to edit the head? 🥲

im so new and i want to start

[left gull]

you should look into non-vrchat specific blender mesh editing videos

[hidden loom]

Is there a way I can play lets say 5 different short sound files randomly on my avatar in a loop?

[ornate stump]

You'd have to learn basic in sculpting first. Then you'd have to learn head anatomy to sculpt in to an actual head.

[spark walrus]

how to not show my own avatar to me>?
i dont want to see my own avi, but other should

[viscid snow]

was using a capsule, but also the same problem with no collider

[ornate stump]

Parameter name is case-sensitive. You must spell IsLocal.

[amber gull]

can you recommend me a video tutorial maybe? or what should i write on youtube? i only need to edit the head not creating one from scratch 🤦🏻

[ornate stump]

I don't have any to recommend. Also it's better to watch more than 2 tutorial.

[mighty cove]

I found the material,but its for the whole face

[amber gull]

much appreciated thank you

[ornate stump]

Just search for "blender sculpt tutorial". It's quiet obvious.

[spark walrus]

how do i make animation not go to exit?

[ornate stump]

Just delete transition to Exit.

[spark walrus]

how?

[ornate stump]

Click on the transition arrow and press Delete key.

[spark walrus]

ty

ok this isLocal variable doesnt work

i kjnew it

[ornate stump]

You didn't read #avatar-help message

[spark walrus]

it only checks if sth is local but still seems to have an effect globally

that doesnt mat ter

[hidden loom]

Can I create an animation state that is always active? Like for example, if I enable an audio source component the animation state immediately engages in mixing it and doesn't play anything while the audio source is off?

[spark walrus]

IsLocal only seem to check if it is loocally true or false, it doesnts restrict action being taken globally

that is my point

[ornate stump]

That's how it should work. IsLocal is only true for when a person wearing that avatar.

[spark walrus]

but the animation is being applied ghloobally

globaly

[ornate stump]

Last time I see your parameter name you spelt isLocal instead of IsLocal. Have you fixed that?

[spark walrus]

I did

now when I press play, it doesnt render

which probably nmeans for other neither

[timber wharf]

@hidden loom state drivers only work when transitioning to. audio only plays from the beginning. to play audio it should be active. if you need an ability to mute audio clip, just mute ie volume zero.

[ornate stump]

Other player would have IsLocal set to false which should make your model show up. Assuming you did the condition correctly.

[spark walrus]

okay will see

i test it now in game

[hidden loom]

I'm sorry I will try to explain it more clearly, thanks for engaging about this with me:

I have an audio source on an object. This object gets triggered on by a seperate trigger. This audio source is set to "play on awake" and loop. Now if I create this as default state isn't it always going to interact with the audio source i specify as soon as the game object the audio source is on is triggered to be enabled?

[ornate stump]

You might have to be aware that some player might disable player animation, so your model would stay at the state where you built from unity.

[spark walrus]

damn

ioty's a silly way anyway

best is to do it without any animations

[ornate stump]

Just make default state show up and you alone is the only one using animation to hide it.

[timber wharf]

@hidden loom it would do it once per avatar load as soon as it transitions from entry. my guess it would do it (select clip) even on disabled source. i fail to see why you cant just place same state behaviour on "on" toggle.

[spark walrus]

there is no transition from entry to defaul anim

[timber wharf]

if you need to randomise it every time

[spark walrus]

so no condition

[spark walrus]

i think this is how it is

[ornate stump]

Default as in how you set the object state in the scene.

[hidden loom]

Alright, guess I have to make this toggle manually then. Thank you for the explanation!

[spark walrus]

at default mesh rendering is on

[hidden loom]

I used vrcfury toggles because it's faster for the amount of stuff I have toggles for. For this one I will do it manually

[spark walrus]

good

[spark walrus]

in game i still see it

[ornate stump]

You have to assign the controller to FX.

[spark walrus]

but if I delete animator i get error messages

[ornate stump]

What error message?

[spark walrus]

used to get.

isnt fx for face expressions>?

[ornate stump]

It's for every animation that isn't transform animation.

[spark walrus]

it is invisible to all now

[ornate stump]

You keep animator component but unassign the controller slot.

[spark walrus]

ok

the animation

switches it off for everyone

somehow

poeple dont see my avi

they see fall back avatar

yes

[ornate stump]

That means they're blocking your avatar because of their avatar limit, or you didn't upload avatar on platform they're playing.

[spark walrus]

im uploading to quest now

[spark walrus]

they still see the fall back

[ornate stump]

They'd have to explicitly show your avatar because Poor and VPoorup are hidden by default.

[spark walrus]

damn

[somber sequoia]

wow that's quite a bounding box

[spark walrus]

40x40 meters?

[somber sequoia]

that's huge

[inland seal]

Is there a way to make so the sound will be perfect if you're playing it and fade the more far you are.

Cuz no matter how much I try to position my sound in head

It still plays, behind me or left or other side

But not perfectly

[ornate stump]

Do you mean playing it stereo sound? Increase volumetric range.

[inland seal]

ok

Thx :D

[barren tundra]

Any decent way to add a bone without going into unity? This avie has a non-standard lower body and gets weird in FBT. I think if I split the upper and lower body I can make it not get weird.

[somber sequoia]

you can't add a bone that deforms mesh in Unity, need Blender or similar for that

[half stirrup]

feeling a lil dumb and blind, how do i go about getting to my avatars fx layer? where can i find it in unity?

[ornate stump]

For a starter, there is a search box on Project panel, so search for "FX".

[ornate stump]

Or rather you'd have to look in avatar descriptor and find fx layer assignment. Click on the fx slot will highlight the fx controller.

[quartz talon]

yo i need someone experienced to help me with my avi if there is anyone

[ornate stump]

You should elaborate more what kind of help you want, or ask the specific question here.

[quartz talon]

im having a problem with these stuff i got told im supposed to find and delete these missing scripts but i can seem to make it work

[half stirrup]

basically im just trying to do this to see if clothes can be changed to fit my avis smaller chest size :'))

[worldly whale]

how can i use a cube map on quest shaders?

[ornate stump]

You have to search for object with those name from the scene. The name of the object is the last word.

[ornate stump]

And where you stuck at?

[quartz talon]

when i search like left wrist nothing pops up

[ornate stump]

You have to search in hierarchy panel.

[quartz talon]

what is that

[ornate stump]

See panel name at the panel header.

[quartz talon]

could u send a pic of where is supposed to type it i aint that smart

[half stirrup]

i think i might've gotten it, heavy on the i think LOL
rn im at the step where i drag and drop

[ornate stump]

Hierarchy panel usually locate at the left side. You don't have to be that smart you just have to read the panel name.

It's literally written "Hierarchy"

[quartz talon]

aighjt yeah i found it

so now i type left wrist but there is so many optinos

[half stirrup]

im meant to drag and drop in here riiiggghtt or am i silly

[ornate stump]

Just look for any that has component with (Script) Missing.

[quartz talon]

found it

ima try to look if it worked

[half stirrup]

stuck at the recording part, i have a small feeling i did it all wrong and its why im not seeing the recording button lol

[ornate stump]

You have to assign the fx controller into avatar Animator component first then you can select the avatar to record animations.

[somber sequoia]

"Animator" and "Animation" panels are separate things, make sure you're looking at "animation" to record

[half stirrup]

yeah i did

[somber sequoia]

no, that's the animator component on your avatar

oh - misread, nevermind

[ornate stump]

Then when you selected the avatar you should be able to record animation.

[half stirrup]

im not seeing anything 😭

[ornate stump]

Screenshot the whole unity screen

[half stirrup]

the avi i have selected is the dupe

[somber sequoia]

there is a VRCFT discord, if you don't find help here

[ornate stump]

You haven't had Animation panel open though.

Note the different "Animator" and "Animation"

[half stirrup]

alright i figured out how to open the animation panel LOL

[half stirrup]

so, do i take the small boob + butt from here then put them on the dupe?

[ornate stump]

You add any animation you want to record into the controller you added in the animator component.

[half stirrup]

alright, i've got the ones i want in the animation tab, not too sure how they animate though

[ornate stump]

Just hit record button and make change to something in the scene.

[half stirrup]

huh, it didnt change the outfits animation to go down with the chest :v

maybe i have to dupe the outfit?? idk

no animation thing for the outfit okay 😭

[ornate stump]

What animation you changed?

[half stirrup]

boob size

[ornate stump]

How did you change>

[half stirrup]

the shark top thing i put on doesnt change when i make the boobs smaller

[somber sequoia]

it probably has its own blendshape you have to animate also

[half stirrup]

the only blendshape i see is for like, the part that covers the nippes, not the side bits

[somber sequoia]

you may need to model it then

[half stirrup]

guessing thats a blender thing

i have no idea how blender works so, yay

[somber sequoia]

yep, blender can be used here

[half stirrup]

damn, guess im not having any other outfits on my avi then 💀

[lime eagle]

i get this (its in the console too)

[balmy dove]

when i try to upload my avatar it pops that 2 errors someone know how to fix?

[hidden loom]

My chatbox is far above my avatars head, at least one more avatar lenght. My Viepoint is on 1.18 on the Y axis so that's probably not the casue. I adjusted all the bounding boxes I could find of my skinned meshes to at most be slightly above my avatars head. What else could cause this?

[split apex]

My creator companion is broken

Im stuck infinitly on here

I've restarted my pc, reinstalled, checked for updates nothing works

[hidden loom]

check if you have enough space on your drive

[split apex]

Yup over 200gb

Had no issues before until today

[static cipher]

Does anyone know how to modify a model's blendshapes using Blender to made an arm disappear?

[timber wharf]

you better off with scale constraint now, when its available for quest

just add constraint to upper arm bone and animate source scale 0-1

[static cipher]

How would I add a (Unity) scale constraint to a bone?

(And can it be changed via animations?)

[timber wharf]

its VRC scsle constraint

just add it as any component, add source, activate. then animate source

it can be changed but in your case not much point in doing so, for scale its easier to scale source

source is just empty object

[static cipher]

Alr, thanks for the help!

[static cipher]

Wait, also- what did you mean by this? I'm confused cause I have no idea what to do or where to start.

ohhhhh nvm i get it

halleluyah it works

[west kestrel]

Trying to fix up the fingers, but i dont know why the armature is folding the index in that way? the bone roll is reset and everything

[shadow mirage]

i changed my eye texture but it still shows the old pupil from the old eye with the new eye. anyone know how to remove the old pupil( black pupil)?

[raven orbit]

kinda sus ngl

[junior void]

Very fishy, dont react to that

[crisp bison]

Lol silly question, is there a way to check the view of headchop in unity?

Just dont wanna have to upload to test it

[left gull]

scram scammer!

[somber meadow]

probably the worst effort scam I've seen

account is just called "VRChat" and not even a pfp

[left gull]

they've been less and less effort lately

its good for people who dont know but jeezums

[somber meadow]

at least grab your t-posing avatar picture off google images

honestly please send them, I need to see how much effort you gave into those

[left gull]

erm no you dont ☝️ 🤓

[somber meadow]

if it's just collages of pictures off google, or even worse AI generated slop

[left gull]

didnt even put in effort

smh

[raven orbit]

why is it phrased like an AI prompt 💀

[verbal trellis]

[raven orbit]

LMAOAO

[verbal trellis]

nothing happened in here

[left gull]

because they're generally not native english speakers and use google translate

really bot-ify's their stuff lmao

[raven orbit]

still the amount of gassing himself up is wild

[carmine robin]

i need help i feel really dumb because i can't figure out what went wrong. I added a new clothing to a model and after parenting it to the model how you would normally in blender, i export the FBX and then in unity its not showing up. I don't get why it won't appear in unity. its acting as if its not even part of the model

[somber sequoia]

Does it not have an Armature modifier, or has one but not set to the right armature? I did this one yesterday.

[stiff kiln]

Hello, I need help with Audiolink stuff:

For context:
I wanna make an avatar thats basically a small drone on wheels. That drone will have multiple abilities, and one of those functions are openable air intakes and wing flaps. They could either on pivots or sliding rails.

The question:
I would like to make it so that with a toggle, I can make the flaps and air intakes move up and down based on the music. Is there any possible way to do that?

[somber sequoia]

Audiolink works in the shader, so any geometry changes would only happen there. Possible? Yes, but you might have to do something custom

[stiff kiln]

Ouch..
Thats.. pretty far outside of my knowledge of Blender and Unity.. -w-"

So I guess I should throw away the idea?

[somber sequoia]

I can't answer that for you

[stiff kiln]

True..

Ngl, now im curious to know why the creator of Audiolink didn't add any way to use parameters or blendshapes to animate 3D models with it. 🤔

[somber sequoia]

because you can't do that from within a shader

... well you can pass parameters into a shader, but not back out.

[rough basin]

can someone help me with this glasses? it showed like this, the eyes should show up but its like this

it should show up like this

[somber sequoia]

I'm guessing you want transparency on the lenses? Is this Quest or PC?

[stiff kiln]

Yeah but that parameter that the shader uses, it does come from somewhere right? Is there no way to use that parameter for other things than the shader? 🤔

My apologies if im getting annoying with my questions.

[somber sequoia]

which parameter do you mean exactly?

[rough basin]

yes, this is PC

[somber sequoia]

the audio data? that comes from a texture which the shader samples.

[rough basin]

how can i fix it?

i already do this but didnt work it

[stiff kiln]

Oh..

[somber sequoia]

make the lens material do transparency there. Possibly paint the alpha channel of your texture to be transparent, possibly that's done and you ... oh you did that, good. make sure the rendering mode is set to cutout or transparency or similar

[rough basin]

which one the rendering mode? i didnt find it

[stiff kiln]

Tbh, I thought Audiolink was using the data from audio sources to turn it into a parameter, with which it can control the shader.

Man, my understanding of Unity is way worst than I thought.. -w-"

[somber sequoia]

The Audiolink prefab in the world gets data from the media player and writes that to a texture in the world somewhere.
The shader on your avatar samples this data texture and does fun things with the data.

[stiff kiln]

Oooh I get it now! ^^"

[somber sequoia]

your shader can't get audio data, it can only get texture data 🙂

Yeah - once you get this part it's all very clear

[stiff kiln]

I guess that explains why the creator couldn't use audio data to turn it into something other than a texture. 🤔

[somber sequoia]

well you can move mesh... except it doesn't actually move mesh, it just moves where the pixels are rendered which looks like moving mesh.

There's an audolink demo world that's got some objects that do this, if you want to see what it looks like. I use it for testing.

[rough basin]

i still didnt find it

[stiff kiln]

Yeah I get that.
Im was just saying that when the creator of Audiolink created that assets, they didn't make it so that the audio data (from an audio source) could be turned into usable parameters to animate other stuff. They directly convert it into a texture. And I guess the reason they did that was because it was impossible to make it work outside of using a texture.

I know, im very confusing. My apologies ;w;

[somber sequoia]

Yeah there's no real way to do that otherwise at the moment.

[stiff kiln]

I see.

Sad :(

[somber sequoia]

and yet, you can still achieve this

[pastel night]

how would i trigger a audio source sound to play using a vrcfury toggle? would just enabling and disabling the object the audio source is on trigger it to play

[somber sequoia]

I'd use VRC Animator Play Audio on an animation state. But yeah you can do that by toggling the audio source game object

[hot magnet]

poiyomi shader can do vertex offset based on audiolink

[somber sequoia]

That's the one that I had in mind, yep

[hot magnet]

https://i.imgur.com/6U4Ij68.png jfc this module is a monster

if you use local rotation you'll have to make each little flap its own mesh renderer which will eat up some of your perf rank. they can be static though

and they'll get batched

the batching might fuck up the vertex displacement 🤔 you'll have to play with it

maybe gpu instancing instead

[rough basin]

i already do all the transparancy thing but it didnt change

[raven orbit]

if you want the data as a parameter i think you could use osc

[somber sequoia]

How would you analyze the audio data though?

I suppose an external program could do all that too if you route the audio properly

[hot magnet]

yeah if you're stubborn enough you can run AL locally

[grizzled crow]

how do I add a subtle breathing animation to my avatar?

[somber sequoia]

make the animation, loop it, put it on its own animation layer as the only thing there.

usually one makes a blendshape for the "full breath" shape

[grizzled crow]

ok. do I put the blendshape into the animation?

[somber sequoia]

Yes, the animation would activate the blendshape, probably slowly. And return to the default state too - basically a breath in and out.

(this is just one way to do it)

[prisma sedge]

Do the glasses have 2 different materials? One for the frame and then another one for the glass?
If not then make sure that this material is actually assigned to the glasses and make sure that the alpha is set to something other than 100

[rough basin]

i have this

[stiff kiln]

I've never used custom shaders, exept the Audiolink ones and the default VRC ones for Quest. Idk how that work ^^"

[rough basin]

bruhh.. i dont get it, ill try again later, i stay all night just to find that shit, i need a sleep its already 7:AM

[midnight meteor]

Can i please have some physbone help?

[lusty wharf]

Hello, I am having a problem with Creator companion if anyone has an idea to help me out.
When I go to build the avatar out it just sits at building forever. I already reinstalled the VRC Creator Companion and Unity, deleted the folder and everything just to make sure. Still stays at the "building" stage. I can post a picture of it.

[raven orbit]

i might have just figured something out using blender. i've been using nodeOSC for for some osc stuff like facetracking, so i started searching around for a plugin that would do realtime audio analysis, and came across AudVis. I got it working using voicemeter for the audio routing and it would be possible to send that driven value through nodeOSC

[somber sequoia]

oh very nice

I know nothing about Windows audio so wouldn't have known where to start

[raven orbit]

im gonna do some more testing and see if i can make a tutorial 🫡

[somber sequoia]

very cool

[knotty bough]

does anyone have any advice for nonhumanoid avatars?

i asume the answer is soemthing aloing the lines of needing to make a custom animation set but i'm effectively brand new to avatar making and don't know how to do that

[thick siren]

any reason why my thighs are upside down when the rest of my bones are perfectly fine?!?!

[lusty wharf]

no one has any idea why VRC Creator gets stuck on build? or even Create?

[thick siren]

i really need help with this, i have no clue what could be causing this

[echo quiver]

i was told my avi for quest players had issues with the clothing

it was stuck in a tpose and not following the body

[opal agate]

I am trying to regenerate the impostors for my avatar but it keeps making the same model that uses the old model from before I updated my avatar

I expected the delete impostors button to actually delete the impostors but I guess not

Is this just a waiting thing, do I need to delete the impostors, wait a day or something, then come back and generate them again

[civic cliff]

Failed to build VRCFury component: ArmatureLinkService.Apply on Avatar Root

Failed to build ArmatureLink from Armature

Link From is part of the avatar's armature. The object dragged into Armature Link should not be a bone from the avatar's armature. If you are linking clothes, be sure to drag in the main bone from the clothes' armature instead!

what does this mean im new to unity and losing sanity

literally all im trying to do is attatch a silly little sword to an avatar for practice with unity stuff

[somber meadow]

screenshot your armature link component

the error is saying you're trying to armature link a humanoid bone

[civic cliff]

should i just use a dfferent prop?

[somber meadow]

can you show your hierarchy

[civic cliff]

im not married to using this one in particular im just using it cuz its something simple to pop on there

hold on

i followed a youtube tutorial so dont blame me for EVERY dumb mistake

[somber meadow]

it's already on your wrist, you don't need an armature link

[echo quiver]

can i get help too?

[civic cliff]

yeah but ive tried just not using the armature link it gives the same error

[civic cliff]

idc the more the merrier just dont be mean im new to this 😭

[echo quiver]

I'm bad at unity too

I NEED help

[civic cliff]

ohhhh

i read that wrong

my bad

[echo quiver]

so my avi's clothes are said to be broken on quest and now my avatar has "complier errors"

idk where all this started

...and everyone's gone

[civic cliff]

im waiting on the other guy

i cant help idk what the hell im doing either

im gonna try just restarting my project clearly i touched something i shouldnt have somewhere along the way cuz it gives me the same error if i just remove the prop completely

[somber meadow]

t:vrcfury in your hierarchy search

you most likely have a armature link somewhere else

[half ice]

any ideas whay physbones not working after i copyed evrything to another FBX After i changed clothing

left is the new avatr

and whay there is a white boxes on left ...?

[split crown]

hello, im still having issues with avatars appearing in play-mode like this in unity, after only slightly making a change in blender, and exporting them with fbx all as the scaling, and no leaf bones. Applying transforms also does nothing

[somber meadow]

Go into the rig configurator of Unity, click Pose > Reset then Pose > Enforce T-Pose in the inspector

[split crown]

holy crap it worked! tysmmm! ❤️ this has been driving me crazy on avis for forever! :3

[split cairn]

Trying to find this material png but can't find it? What's going on here?

[somber sequoia]

click on the material and look in the inspector for the texture slots

[split cairn]

got it opened, thanks

[split cairn]

How would i go about layering this image into the layer beneath? i know there's a way to keep the detailing like how was done with the hair

[somber sequoia]

I do TShirt logos as decals in Poiyomi

your options for keeping fine detail are limited without UV remapping

usually "make texture bigger" 🙂

[civic cliff]

i restarted the project cuz it was faster than figuring it out at that point and it worked fine

idfk what i did but whatever

got the avi uploaded

[grizzled crow]

huh... my avatar has a download size of 5mb and uncompressed of 53mb.. everything is in the green except the polycount, which is fixable as I set the body remesh too high..
And there is another avatar that is essentially the same, but a roo, and has multiple stuff yellow/red, has a higher download of 36mb, but has a 43mb uncompressed?

Little confused... is it normal for the download to be 1/10 the uncompressed?

im assuming theres many factors that contribute

[high umbra]

question thats probably something stupidly obvious im missing
i just tried to upload my first avatar and its like a pin light was uploaded with it?? it literally blows out my vision in game and you cant see anything
i cant find a light in the blender or unity scenes, i deleted them
i cant even post a picture because its just white

[somber sequoia]

it really depends on what's in it - yeah, some things compress better than others

[azure widget]

having an issue where the Validations say that the hands and feet aren't mapped, when they seem to be perfectly fine in the inspector! anyone know what's causing this?

[somber sequoia]

is that a second set of arms there?

[split cairn]

Trying to change the texture on the shirt but it seems the whole thing is connected to the body? is there any way to fix this? or would i be better off trying to turn it into a material for unity?

[somber sequoia]

if it's just one material for body + shirt then you edit the combined textures or change the whole thing

you can split it but that's slightly worse performance

[azure widget]

yes, but it's not the main pair. I just use rotation constraints to match them to the top ones. I dont think that has anything to do with the issue, since Ive had that part of the avi working for a while now >_<

[somber sequoia]

yep, just trying to understand what I see - you put the right ones into the slots, right? not the secondary ones? 🙂

[azure widget]

yep, judging by the armature in the scene it all looks fine

Im worried it might have something to do with when I was moving around the copied armature from a duplicate of the model? I was doing so because i needed to link a hoodie I had just modelled to the original one.

Maybe it's somehow confusing the copies' bones for the original? I don't know why it would though

[somber sequoia]

hmm two hips there and also pelvis bones, this is an interesting armature

[azure widget]

WAIT IM A FOOL, I realize what I was doing wrong omg-

[somber sequoia]

oh?

[azure widget]

sorry about all that, I think I just got my wires crossed

[full acorn]

Yall i did something and idk what. pls help

[full acorn]

idk how, but i fixed it

[rancid light]

the forbidden 3rd person view

[ornate stump]

You had 3rd person view, it's commonly because your avatar has an extra camera on it.
The model was in A-pose, in other words, the animation doesn't have effect. Check warning in the sdk panel.

[steady summit]

I edited the white fluff so it fits the boots, but how can I get rid of the dark shadow?

[somber sequoia]

select the faces, alt+n for the normals popup, reset vectors

[steady summit]

thank you so much ❤️

[grizzled crow]

I tried to add it, but it breaks the avatar?

idk what happened

like.. it attempts to layer the breathing animation on top of the standard avatar animation, breaking it?

[somber sequoia]

well yeah, it's supposed to add it on

[grizzled crow]

how do I.. add it on without it breaking?

when I add the animation via unity, the pose editor doesnt see the avatar

[somber sequoia]

I have no idea what you've been doing, so no idea what "breaking" might mean here

[grizzled crow]

so, I added the animation with this button, uploaded it to vrchat, and ingame, it was just stuck in a T-pose

[somber sequoia]

watch tutorials about unity animation - you need to have your avatar selected before that window is going to work properly

[worldly zealot]

Hi, I'd like to know if there's a way to make avatar's viewpoint follow the head in emote animation like av2 used to do

[vestal sand]

Question, is it normal that when you upload an avatar, it shows that it has been uploaded on both platforms but when you check, it shows it's compatible with only PC ?

[frigid void]

what does this mean and how can I fix it? I just started a new project

[somber sequoia]

open the little foldout right there and find out

[frigid void]

what foldout

[vestal sand]

import messages

[inland seal]

Maybe that's an easy issue, but what part should I animate my character, cuz I want him Spin

[somber sequoia]

The one it tells you about right there, "import messages"

See the little triangle to the left of that? Click it.

[somber sequoia]

rotate the hips around the Y axis

[frigid void]

I just saw it, sorry ive been on my computer for a few hours

[inland seal]

Danke

[somber sequoia]

(do this in the action layer, take over the avatar with vrc animator tracking control first, the usual stuff)

[dark jay]

anyone know how to do kick/punch collision like how some models when u punch or kick or does a particle effect and noise

[inland seal]

Strange, but It doesnt work (Im doing smth wrong)

[somber sequoia]

explain what you did

[somber sequoia]

contact receivers, not much more than that

[somber sequoia]

I said explain

[inland seal]

uh

I opened Animation and made new animation

[dark jay]

Alright

[inland seal]

then I opened add property > Armature > hips > Transform > rotation

[dark jay]

Is there a video on it that u can link me if not ill just google it

[somber sequoia]

I'm sure there are but I don't have anything handy. Read the docs too of course.

[somber sequoia]

I don't have unity open but you need to use the animator parameters, not directly animate transforms.
Also you didn't explain the animation layer, or how you tested

[inland seal]

I pressed Space to see if animation works

Theres not hip param. in Animator

[somber sequoia]

Again, I don't have Unity open, I'm not 100% sure the name of it offhand. There are certainly tutorials on this

[inland seal]

ok

[inland seal]

For some reason it sets rotation in one way always

[marsh mica]

Hello

I have a problem where the physbones work properly in Unity when I move the avatar around in both Play Mode and Gesture Manager. However, the some physbones does not work in VRChat when it's uploaded.. what could be the issue?

[limpid sphinx]

So I finally got my Avatar in the game, using CATS Blender plugin for importing/Exporting Vroids, and somehow the model always ends up with super blurry textures ingame

Has anyone else had this issue?

[ornate stump]

How blurry is it? Can you screenshot to compare?

[limpid sphinx]

Sure, gimme a sec! It's... blurry to the point that details are lost, I painted on freckles for example and they are clearly visible in blender but not at all in unity/ingame

[ornate stump]

You might have to check for texture resolution in unity. Default max size in unity is 2048 where you have to increase up to 4096.

[limpid sphinx]

Oh! I'm silly, I literally tried that but didnt hit apply last time 🙃

[ornate stump]

even 2048 should have good enough detail for this. That's also likely mean your model had bad uv space utilization.

[limpid sphinx]

It does make a significant improvement when I switch to a higher res

[ornate stump]

You'd have to realize that bad uv utilization lead to lot of wasted texture space.

[limpid sphinx]

How do I fix that?

I've only edited textures in VRoid so far, not in Blender

[ornate stump]

Look for uv mapping tutorial. You should see how much a mesh occupy certain texture space.

[limpid sphinx]

Okay, thank you!

[vestal sand]

i tried to reupload an avatar to fix an issue but it failed the upload and im trying to understand those errors

oh nvm, it just, out of nowhere, worked

[gusty perch]

whenever I try to update my avatar it constantly in an infinite loading loop

[ornate stump]

What is it loading? Can you screenshot the dialog?

[gusty perch]

Mmm just deleted imma start from fresh

It was either stuck saying building avatar or looking for existing records

[ornate stump]

Are there more error above?

[gusty perch]

only this but I don't think that one matters

[frail olive]

Popping in here to also say im having the same issue with my SDK.

[ornate stump]

Try get more information by enable API logging in sdk settings.

[ornate stump]

Look like problem around unstable internet. Try changing the internet, for example, use mobile hotspot.

[gusty perch]

oooohhhh

well lemme restart my internet worked fine yesterday

[ornate stump]

It could just become unstable at any time.

[gusty perch]

same issue?

[ornate stump]

Select the first Failed to send request and screenshot its detail.

[gusty perch]

mmr... imma detach the ID and see if that works it works if I publish it as a test

[ornate stump]

Test build doesn't connect to the api so that doesn't matter.

[gusty perch]

so it's just a bad day maybe works tommorrow?

oh

Detatching the Id seems to make it work now

it is loading

[ornate stump]

Is it build&publish?

[gusty perch]

yes

welp it was loading to 100% but once it was done it error popped up

[ornate stump]

You would have to always provide error detail.

[ornate stump]

So if it randomly worked for some part then it's just unstable internet.

[gusty perch]

pufff welp I'll check tomorrow then

[inland tree]

is there away to move a game object without breaking animations that are connected to it i have empty game object that im using to sort everything on my avatar but when i do i cant toggle anything on my avatar in the animations it said component missing

[ornate stump]

Use BoneProxy component from ModularAvatar to reparent game objects.

[somber sequoia]

or hfcRed's animation repathing tool

[mental estuary]

https://vrcfury.com/components/armature-link
https://vrcfury.com/components/full-controller

[south kraken]

when is vrchat gonna fix the physbone constraint bug that theyve claimed to have fixed twice now

[somber sequoia]

hopefully soon

[pearl rock]

Does anyone know if there's a way to move the viewpoint ball in animation? To change eye height.

[inner ingot]

Hey all, does anyone know what could be causing this? It only happens in play mode and after being worked on in Blender. Thanks in advance!

[sturdy kestrel]

thought it'd be better to ask here

so I got a Sandslash model. It has a rig and allat already set up, but I dont know how to give it animations and such. any tips?

and yes it has bones as I managed to put Physbones on it's tail

I just gotta give it an animation set so it isnt just stuck in the same pose

[reef cove]

Hey, my friend has a strange bug. Placing some prefabs on the avatars head bone breaks it completely. Clicking any bone in the hiarchy will center it on the head, as if the prefab was the pivot point. If I disable the prefab on the head, the avatar goes back to normal. But we can't change the hair or give the avatar horns, for the hair or horns will become the new pivot point for every armature bone, such that the avatar can't be posed (or dressed with new clothing) anymore?

[arctic ginkgo]

Move height with temporary pose space state behavior

[pearl rock]

Interesting never heard of that one, is that in the fx?

[balmy barn]

its for static stuff not an animation that constantly move head

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/state-behaviors/#animator-temporary-pose-space

camera can but its extremely nauseating in vr and tend to be off center

[pearl rock]

Yeah trying to achieve two different head height switch between the two.

[arctic ginkgo]

you can if you spam it

gogo loco does that for when you change height with radial puppet

if you spam every frame it feels smooth too

but downside is it can only move up/down

[arctic ginkgo]

temporary pose space is based on the height of the head bone in the current animation

jsyk

it's so that you can snap your view to a pose like sit, lay down, crouch, etc

[pearl rock]

Thx I take a look into that

[somber sequoia]

you really need to explain what "this" you're referring to, for those of us who don't know what it should look like

[somber meadow]

The torso being bent in play mode I'm assuming

[inner ingot]

Well the issue is she’s twisted from the shoulders up but only in play mode

[somber sequoia]

k, thanks

[somber meadow]

Seems like a armature change happened in the FBX, go into the Unity rig configurator of the model's import settings, and click "Pose > Reset" then "Pose > Enforce T-Pose" in the inspector

[inner ingot]

No problem. Any ideas why that might happen? Goloco has already been removed just to rule that out.

[inner ingot]

Thank you so much! I’ll give this a shot and report back.

[pearl rock]

Might be a joint orientation wrong?

[somber meadow]

anytime you make any changes to an avatar's rig in Blender you'll need to do that in Unity (after exporting from blender ofc)

it's a little tedious, but it's the only way of telling Unity to recognize the changes since the Unity rig mapping is still adjusted to the previous FBX

[half ice]

can anyone please tell me what can i do to minimize my avatar size ? its over 500 MB

[inner ingot]

He said everything is correct. Sadly it’s not mine to check, but I’ve seen his work. So I trust he knows how to identify those things.