avatar-help

[hollow stirrup]

but anyway idrk, this is just a ready-for-upload package so i'm not sure on the specifics

pretty sure its a toggle error

not sure though

[loud geode]

I checked the adult themes checkbox since the cigarette, will checking any boxes here ipact my trust rating?

[glad terrace]

can someone help with blush issue ps?

[night ember]

why would they?

[night ember]

dont ask to ask just state your issue

[glad terrace]

oh srry

how would i fix thr blush issue

[night ember]

thats still not stating your problem

[hollow stirrup]

i keep getting stuck on the upload/build stage for this reason
no clue why tho

[glad terrace]

: / my issue is that the blush on my avatar is broken after adding a tatoo to the face

[night ember]

broken how

[glad terrace]

wdym oh here let ,me take a photo

[night ember]

transparency

[glad terrace]

i put alpha is transparency on and its still broken

[night ember]

its not transparent

[glad terrace]

how would i make it transparent

[night ember]

🤷‍♂️

either the image is no longer transparent no that doesnt mean alpha is transparency
or your shader isnt set to a type of transparency

[glad terrace]

ig so

[tacit shoal]

how come none of these toggle are working? 1st image is the settings of all of the transitions, the animations are non-looping, the 'neutral' statemachine default is a blank animation, and the boolean parameters themselves are entirely functional, just the animations that arent working

additionally, only the fishnets toggle actually fully works with the animation

[raven orbit]

those animation states use different parameters so probably need to be set up on different layers depending on which toggles are meant to be mutually exclusive.

[tacit shoal]

damn

i can do that was just hoping i diddnt need to lol

istg ive done it before but apparently not

[raven orbit]

also having "can transition to self" isn't going to help out here, you should set it up without using any state if you can

[tacit shoal]

this is why when im workin on non vrchat stuff in unity i just make my own animation transition system

[raven orbit]

yeah the animators can be really tricky 😔

[arctic ginkgo]

you can do it on one layer if you use a direct blendtree

[tacit shoal]

a wha

[tacit shoal]

if that means what i think it means im going to explode ive had enough of individually changing transitions already

[arctic ginkgo]

blendtrees blend between different animations based on the values of float parameters

they are most commonly used for locomotion aimations

1D uses one parameter and has 1 axis, 2D uses 2 parameters and has 2 axes

Direct blendtrees have a parameter assigned to each animation and the animation is played at the weight of that parameter

to set up multiple toggles within a direct blendree, most often a single parameter is used for the weight values that is set to 1 (only existing in the animator, not in the expression parameters)

you can nest blendtrees inside of blendtrees as well

if all animation are set to play at a weight of 1, they will all play at the same time

[ashen flume]

Can i fix this?

[arctic ginkgo]

if you convert each parameter into a float parameter, 1D blendtrees will be able to be used as toggles. The thresholds are where the animation is playing at full weight, meaning if the parameter = 0, then the animation at threshold 0 will play fully. If the parameter = 1 then the animation at threshold 1 will play fully. If it's at 0.5 and there's no animation there, it will blend between the animations on either side

[ashen flume]

Facing towards light looks good but looks shit when looking away (this is quest)

[arctic ginkgo]

different types of parameters can be converted to other types by mismatching their types between the expression parameters list and the animator parameter list

for example, the AFK parameter is a boolean. If you set it as a float in the animator, then true = 1, and false = 0. Integers will convert to their respective numbers (0=0, 1=1, 2=2, etc)

there's a conversion chart in the creator docs

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/animator-parameters/#mismatched-parameter-type-conversion

https://vrc.school/docs/Other/DBT-Combining

[wooden cairn]

For some reason my directional lights in android build mode turn everything blue

anyone else encounter that?

[ivory frost]

im having issues where my avatar is pink in game using the vrchat shaders on quest. but in unity is fine. anyone know?

[karmic pasture]

Where can I have a tutorial on how to make a avatar? I have experience at 3ds only, for now

[somber sequoia]

youtube users Rainhet, PxINKY, and SippsAvatarBox are good places to start

[uncut kestrel]

can someone help me with uploading this avi, its my first time and when i open the project through vcc it just opens my unity, not opening or creating a project and i cant import the project from my files

[karmic pasture]

Do you have a discord link or video on youtube?

[somber sequoia]

you can't search youtube for those names?

[karmic pasture]

I can, but I thought you guys maybe had something more specific since you got a chat channel and stuff

But okay

I'll search it, thanks brother

[spark walrus]

can u import ur favorite avatar list to other accounts?

[night ember]

no

[spark walrus]

damn

can u import export user block list?

[night ember]

no

[dry vessel]

anyone here willing to run me through a refresher on how to add shaders, quick optimise a shop model, and upload to quest/pcvr. i havent done it in 3 years , i just need a quick runthrough, advice rq. ❤️

[crimson pendant]

Do I need to make a separate project file for uploading quest versions of my avatars or can it just be a separate scene without breaking anything?

[somber meadow]

It can be a seperate scene, though the first time changing it to the android build target may take a while due to compiling assets for android

that's why people tend to use different projects for Quest

[timber wharf]

@crimson pendant it can be the same scene

[mild solar]

idk if this counts for 'avatar help' but im not sure where else to post, i gifted someone vrcplus and they havent received it a half hour later. how long does it take to receive a vrcplus gift?

[timber wharf]

should be instant. also #1138891887374237706

[mild solar]

they were offline when i gifted them, not sure if that affects anything but steam took my money and my friend keeps saying they dont have it

and oop ty for reference, ill post there if i continue to have the same issue

[winter edge]

where can I see the hard limits before they won't allow you to upload an avi for quest?

[ornate stump]

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/avatar-size-limits

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/avatar-performance-ranking-system

[uncut kestrel]

can someone help me with uploading this avi, its my first time and when i open the project through vcc it just opens my unity, not opening or creating a project and i cant import the project from my files

[plain mural]

Where can I find the main menu and options for Rexouium? I want to add my own menu for clothes to it

[plucky mantle]

Arms (and every joint connected to it) has a bone length of 0..?

How do I fix this? This is the first time i've ever hit this issue

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot the bone in the scene to the left?

[plucky mantle]

Yes, 1 sec

In blender, it shows its not negitive or anything, in roll or size

So idk what's going on.

The arms also collapse in themselves like this (ignore the materials)

If in blender I do clear transform it'll go back but it still will say the size is 0

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot bone hierarchy as well?

[plucky mantle]

IYes

[ornate stump]

Try switching rig type to none, apply, and switch back to humanoid. See how it work.

[plucky mantle]

It doesn't

[ornate stump]

Have you applied transform for every object in blender before exporting?

[plucky mantle]

I don't export. I go right from the blender file. I do that to prevent scaling issues

[ornate stump]

Still you'd need to apply transform and save.

[plucky mantle]

How do I apply transform the way you're referring? I think it might be somthing else because if I reset pose and ctrl+z my arm bones go missing (I'd assume they're scaling to 0?)

[ornate stump]

Select all object and use apply transform command. If you don't know how to access any command, hit F3 key to search for command.

[plucky mantle]

Cool, ty. I'll try that. I logged off for now to give myself a break, but that's something I may of not already done

[left wharf]

try reloading SDK

[frank spruce]

Thats different then re importing it or just re import it

cause I already tried re importing it

[left wharf]

See the top menu bar, and click “VRChat SDK/Reload SDK”.

[frank spruce]

alright I clicked it

[left wharf]

Then, see sdk window.
It should be well

[frank spruce]

still the same

[left wharf]

Ohh so, select Authentication tab in the sdk panel and back to Build tab

[frank spruce]

everything still says loading

has anyone had this issue before? or is it just a new thing

[junior void]

i had that once

killed unity through task manager and reopened the project did it

[frank spruce]

I see

I'll try that then

cause I tried restarting my computer, re importing everything, and now I've tried everything suggested so far

yeah its still frozen 😭

[junior void]

any errors in console?

this can also happen when you downloaded an avatar where the maker included the sdk, and you made a new project and also add the sdk

[frank spruce]

just these

[frank spruce]

It set up the sdk for me and stuff and I've been using it for a like good two weeks with no issues

[spark walrus]

Can I somehow unstuck my avi from this pose back in to T pose, I'm not previewing any animation I checked. Thanks for help.

[ornate stump]

Use pumkin avatar tools to reset pose.

[spark walrus]

Thanks

[cloud drift]

i cant upload my avatar as it says i have 261 parameters whilst i clearly dont. what causes this?

[left wharf]

The avatar has too many stuff. Remove some of it

[junior void]

this is because you have some auto installer tool such as vrcfury where the parameters get added on build

[cloud drift]

i see

[junior void]

you can see the actual list when in play mode and checking that list again

[primal swift]

i'm so comfused (okay it magically fixed itself)

[junior void]

why

[primal swift]

i can't figure out what is too big

[junior void]

the bounding box

[primal swift]

what is the bounding box

[junior void]

thats what you should google

[spark walrus]

Im sorry for asking but does anyone know where I can find a free dragon ball Z prefab and Substance materials for it? Also I don’t know if this is the right channel but seemed like it so

[still shuttle]

Unlikely you'll be able to find what you want for free, but jinxxy and gumroad has some good stuff

[sonic swallow]

I need help
please

anytime i try to upload my custom avatar or any of the public avatars im working on to be pc compatable it gives me this error
i have reloaded the sdk
made a new project twice
and reimported the models
and its still doing this

the sdk im using is 3.7.3

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

[still shuttle]

Does the package you are importing already contain an SDK? If it does, importing two sdks ontop of each other will break ur project

[sonic swallow]

no

[sonic swallow]

the only sdk is the 3.7.3 that i imported before anything else

[primal swift]

i also have issues with that version, i'm just using 3.6.1 for now

try downgrading it to see if it works

[split cairn]

having problems with this shirt, it's not supposed to be see through

[sonic swallow]

would i be able to just remoe the sdk from the project in unity
or am i gonna have to make another new project file

[primal swift]

if you use creator companion you should be able to just switch it from there without making a new project

[primal swift]

check if you have alpha below 1 in the material tab

i can't tell if that's a texture or if you're using an outline shader, but if it's a shader i don't think it can show up on quest

should be fine then

[split cairn]

all i have is this

[raven orbit]

what version of blender are you using?

[split cairn]

4.2.3 latest version

[raven orbit]

i know that in least the version i use and prior (4.0.3), having a material with blend mode set to Alpha Blend can cause the material to render weirdly, similar to in the pic, regardless of whether alpha is enabled because EEVEE doesn't handle transparency very well, though it's changed in the latest version and I don't remember how to change the transparency settings. though if it's just a shader problem in blender then it probably wont affect unity

[raven orbit]

also you have an image in the alpha slot in this image which is likely whats causing transparency here

[primal swift]

try changing this

it should be further down

oh yeah and also remove 1.png.001 from the alpha thingy

it doesn't affect the model by the way, that's just how it looks in blender, it'll look fine in unity

[split cairn]

cant find render method

also this seems to have been greatly affected

[trail lagoon]

I don't know where to put this so ima put it in here, but I'm trying to download unity but it keeps saying my computer cant run it which I'm pretty sure it can run it

[spark walrus]

hi

how do i let

objects move wtih my avatar together

?

like how do i anchor them

to the avatar

[sly lodge]

are they basic meshes or skinned meshes?

[spark walrus]

cube

a cube

what is a skinend mesh>?

[sly lodge]

then you can just place it in on your character's armature

[sly lodge]

it's a mesh that can deform and has bones, weights on it

your character is using skinned mesh

@spark walrus if you want the cube to follow your hand, you can search up your hand in your avatar's armature and place the cube there

or you can use constraints too

[spark walrus]

does this work too>?

cube in the same folder

[sly lodge]

@spark walrus where do you want to put your object?

you need to find the exact GameObject you want to put in inside your Armature object

[spark walrus]

head

inside armatuer were

to head>?

?

[sly lodge]

yeah, exactly

[spark walrus]

cool\

[sly lodge]

it will follow your head

[spark walrus]

cute

[frank spruce]

Checking one last time for the day to see if anyone knows how to fix this. I've tried restarting my computer, reloading the sdk, reimporting everything through unity and the vrc creactor companion hub and I've got literally nothing

[humble cave]

Is the armature set up correctly ?

Because if theyre not parented correctly you're going to have to make sure they are in blender

[copper carbon]

im trying to play around with vrc parent constraints but for some reason i have to keep zero'ing the model cus its offset in rotation anyone know why?

[humble cave]

you can configure the armature here and make sure everythings down correct but you might have to make sure the parents are down correctly in blender

[spark walrus]

Can i make meshes cut out for android?

[frank spruce]

Everything is parented correctly it does this whenever I look at other avatars as well

[spark walrus]

rendering mode cut out for android

where is this option?

[humble cave]

It looks like its just the arms and legs ? I think it might just be those two that might not be done correctly, are you sure the upper legs are configured to hip and the arms to the shoulders ?

[spark walrus]

what determines how big my capsule is>?

[somber meadow]

Is there anything inside of the pipeline manager

[somber sequoia]

no cutout or other alpha transparency on android

[spark walrus]

wow

[hollow latch]

Noob here, but is this the mythical "you can upload avatars" email? I've been trying to import my vrm via the sdk in unity but keep getting the "you don't have building permissions" pop up; so im wondering if this isn't the email afterall ^.^;

[ornate stump]

That's an email for merging confirmation. You should check your actual trust rank in the vrchat website.

[hollow latch]

Thank you!

[frank spruce]

How do I check that

[somber sequoia]

it's a component on your avatar root

[somber sequoia]

That's the one

[frank spruce]

Theres nothing in there

I never got a chance to upload it

[split cairn]

I can't get this shirt to be non-transparent, I've tried unmarking all boxes related to transparency and yet still i can't fix it

[somber sequoia]

are the normals flipped?

do you have a viewport setting that's doing the transparency?

[wild venture]

good afternoon all
i apologize in advance can i ask a general question about importing avatars
if you're doing both quest and pc models for an avatar that uses one of the licensing methods
I thought on the second one you don't enter the license code you enter the id somewhere

[raven orbit]

the last image you sent still showed an image in the alpha slot

[somber sequoia]

probably this depends on the license method

[somber meadow]

one of the licensing methods
Oh god, I hope it's not gonso

[sly lodge]

I'd try select the material, unplug anything that is connected to the Principled BSDF's Alpha pin, and make it 1

but it can be different depending on the version, I'm using Blender 4.2

[split cairn]

The entire shirt disappears when that is removed

[wild venture]

It is gonso

The channel operator finally got back to me...license code then blueprint id...smh

[raven orbit]

you're removing the image, but the texture node is still there. you need to remove that entirely

[wild venture]

so when you have quest and pc versions it looks like that still only takes up one slot. Is my thinking correct

[somber sequoia]

slot?

[wild venture]

your favorite slots

[somber sequoia]

Yes - it's one avatar

[wild venture]

thnks

[split cairn]

How do i go about doing that?

[wild venture]

@Blanke just curious you groaned about gonso and im not a huge fan of some licensing schemes...What's up with gonso so im not surprised later...lol

[raven orbit]

open shader editor
remove image texture node from alpha slot

[somber sequoia]

"Shading" tab at the top FYI

[split cairn]

That fixed it, thank you!

[frosty grove]

i have imported a paint 3D model into blender but im stupid and dont know how to put the textures onto it
or texture in general.

[somber sequoia]

Textures go into materials, materials go onto faces

You might look at a blender tutorial, like The Donut Tutorial or videos from Rainhet on Youtube

[somber meadow]

FBX, FX Layer, and Menu/Parameters are encrypted and cannot be edited by people who purchase the avatar if a creator puts gonsolicenser on an avatar it basically prohibiting you from editing the 90% of the avatar. It's extremely anti-consumer

it doesn't help fight package leaking when people could just reverse engineer the assetbundle, which malicious actors will do and actually get to edit the avatar. The people who buy the avatar are the ones who're harmed, the people pirating the avatar in the end are actually able to edit the avatar

[wind skiff]

🤮

[wild venture]

yeah i kind of got that but unfortunately the one avatar i really wanted had it so kind of got stuck with it

and nowadays lets be honest a lot of the licensing schemas are anti-consumer and don't really help the creators

bbiaf

[primal wind]

I got toggles working but it won’t toggle off if un-toggle it
Essentially if I turn it on, it’ll stay on. Even if I try and turn it off

[night ember]

is it transitioning to off
is it write defaults or not

[primal wind]

Write defaults is on and it’s going from off to on

[night ember]

but is it going on to off

secondly is the animation in the base layer?
if it is delete it

[primal wind]

..off to on

[night ember]

why did you ping me

[night ember]

is there not a transition that makes it go on to off

[primal wind]

Doing it by hand

It works fine turning on, doesn’t work turning off

I did the copy and paste transition with the true/false switch

I have no idea how that works

I’ve had at least 4 people tell me to use it and don’t tell me how to use it

I imported it and there’s nothing

It doesn’t work for me, like every second click it just goes loads and won’t let me move my mouse

Should I have save state/default state on?

[somber sequoia]

Entirely up to you

[primal wind]

What does default state do

[somber sequoia]

documented here: https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/expression-menu-and-controls#creating-an-expressions-menu

When the avatar is reset, the parameter will revert to this value.

[primal wind]

I have one more problem, anytime I enter play mode my avatar just sits in like the animated state

How do I fix that?

[somber sequoia]

are you using Gesture Manager or AV3 Emulator? If not, I definitely recommend it

[primal wind]

I am, it snaps into place once I open the gesture manager but if I don’t then it sits in the animated state

[timber wharf]

tis fine

use av3 if you want it to run initially

ie without selecting manager

also you can open animator in animator component and set empty state as initial one. but i dont think it will prevet biker pose

[somber sequoia]

what is the point of this comment?

[opal vine]

heyo! I need some help combining the FX and parameters controllers with my avatars' own via AV3 manager

[somber sequoia]

how helpful

[opal vine]

I really don't think anyone will, considering your bio.

[somber sequoia]

really not sure why we're having this conversation

[night ember]

just constant ragebaiting and trolling

being purposefully unhelpful for the sake of it

[somber sequoia]

Are you stuck on something, or just general how to?

[opal vine]

yeah just not sure how to do it ;;

[somber sequoia]

drag your avatar into the slot, open the FX animator section and at the bottom is "add animator to merge"

[opal vine]

so what if there's nothing present?

[left gull]

Are there tools out there that can auto translate models, as in bone names,mesh names, possibly textures and materials aswell?

[somber sequoia]

Do you not have animators on this avatar?

possibly click the refresh icon

[night ember]

theres translate addons for blender

[opal vine]

Yeah it says none ;;

Though it shows some here

[somber sequoia]

that is menus not animators. You'd need to add a FX animator if you want to merge something into it

[primal wind]

Thank you for the help (especially Kazin), I got it working!

[somber sequoia]

If you don't have one, no merging needs to happen

[opal vine]

?

[left gull]

oh i know of those but im trying to find ones for Unity, i got a bit tired of having to port booth .FBXs to blender and back to have stuff translated :P

[somber sequoia]

ah so you do have an FX

[opal vine]

yeah but not sure why it wouldn't show up ;;

[night ember]

I dont think there is one for unity

btw which one do you use for blender

[somber sequoia]

the default works?

no

...

[night ember]

purposefully unhelpful

[somber sequoia]

and clearly uninformed or inexperienced

[opal vine]

[night ember]

jumps into conversations adding nothing while knowing nothing

[somber sequoia]

Anyway, moving on.

[gritty rover]

Yo can you make a avatar on a phone or just pc

Damn

[night ember]

you need unity

[gritty rover]

I have a macbook that good enough?

[somber sequoia]

You need a computer of some sort to run Unity.

yes

Mac can work

[gritty rover]

Alr idk how to do it tho

Idk if y’all could help

Ok

[night ember]

download unity and the sdk package from the vrc website

[gritty rover]

Hold up its dead atm ill let yall know when its charges

[wind skiff]

how old is it?

[opal vine]

restarting unity fixed it

[somber sequoia]

ha

Unity is fun

[opal vine]

So I managed to combine the parameters, just not sure how to do the fx layer

Do I use merge on new or merge on current?

[left gull]

depending on the version of blender im using i switch between CATS and https://github.com/powroupi/blender_mmd_tools/wiki/Translations

[somber sequoia]

I always suggest reading the docs on new tools:

"Merge on current" merges on the avatar's controller, while "Merge on new" merges on a copy of it. Sync parameters as needed.

[frank spruce]

Whenever I try to switch it from pc to android it just doesn't switch. Anyone know how to do it manually I guess?

[toxic patio]

For some reason my avatar's emotes are delayed quite a bit.

It takes a good 2 seconds to start and 2 to stop.

[primal wind]

Anybody know how I can make my avatar a smaller size? I need it down 3 megabytes and I’ve compressed the textures a lot

[arctic ginkgo]

it may be exit time or if you have an animation with less than 2 frames in it, if it helps you can use gesture manager on the avatar, then open the action controller and select the avatar in the heirarchy, this will let you see the transitions live and help you determine where the delay is coming from

[arctic ginkgo]

build size viewer is a good tool to break down what assets are contributing most to the total file size. Some frequent culprits outside of textures are excessive/unused blendshapes (typically on high-poly models), animation files, and audio clip files

[primal wind]

What would happen if I deleted blendshapes?

[arctic ginkgo]

it shouldn't effect anything unless the blendshapes are animated on your avatar

just make sure they are unused before deleting them

[primal wind]

How can I remove it in unity

[arctic ginkgo]

it's probably worth it to use build size veiwer for analysis first before deleting anything though

[primal wind]

Where would I get that?

[arctic ginkgo]

i don't believe you can

https://github.com/MunifiSense/VRChat-Build-Size-Viewer

[primal wind]

I dropped it on, now what?

I swear I just need an add on that’ll compress my avatar for me

[arctic ginkgo]

open the build size viewer window, then build your avatar

after it fails the build size viewer window should show you what comprises the file size

[left wharf]

I guess you don’t have Android Build Support.

[frank spruce]

I do

[somber meadow]

Screenshot the console when attempting to

[frank spruce]

it says switching to android player is disabled

[left wharf]

Then you don’t have Android build support

[arctic ginkgo]

that means you don't have it installed or enabled for this project

[frank spruce]

I had it before

How do I re do it?

[left wharf]

Screenshot “Add Modules” in UnityHub.

[toxic patio]

So what do you mean by see the transitions live?

[arctic ginkgo]

there will be a blue highlight on the current transitions and animation states, as well as the current time in the animation (via a blue progress bar)

[toxic patio]

It shows them playing correctly In unity. Just not on VRChat.

[slender tundra]

how do i fix this

[teal bane]

does anyone know where to get good dances for avatars? I just wanna get my groove on with my first avi 😭

[somber sequoia]

mixamo has fun stuff, maybe try there

[somber sequoia]

what did you do to cause it?

[slender tundra]

i literally have no idea

i dont even know what it means

[somber sequoia]

you must have done something?

or did you open Unity and it was just there?

[slender tundra]

i cant put a thumbnail or anything

[sly lodge]

i think you just need to hit the detach button on the right

[slender tundra]

bro...

thank you...

[somber sequoia]

yeah that's my first guess too

oh that worked? Nice.

[slender tundra]

i was fucking tweaking

[somber sequoia]

isn't Unity fun?

[sly lodge]

well, also the avatar creator didn't clear the blueprint id

before he uploaded it

[slender tundra]

tbf its like my second ever upload so 🥲

[toxic patio]

I got the animation durations fixed. But now it feels like theres a pause for no reason.

[lime oxide]

Unity seems to be breaking the sizes of my bones when importing

Any idea what might be causing it and how to fix it?

[somber sequoia]

Your Blender export settings has a "apply scalings" - set that to FBX All unless you need something very specific otherwise

[lime oxide]

Even if I haven't scaled anything?

[arctic ginkgo]

Do you have any animations that are only one frame long?

[somber sequoia]

it's a matter of matching blender scaling and unity scaling

[arctic ginkgo]

Those can cause a long pause, just adding another frame makes it practically instant

[toxic patio]

do you mean 0.01 or 0.00?

[arctic ginkgo]

The animations themselves, not the transition durations

[lime oxide]

Perfect, thank you!

[somber sequoia]

oh good, I was hoping it was that easy. At the upper-right of the export dialog is "operator presets" - you can save that so you don't forget. It's what I do. Also I turn off the leaf bones checkbox under "Armature".

[round pewter]

so i made a decoy with my avatar that moves the way my character does but how would i make it move around in the world when i move instead of standing still

[toxic patio]

You mean like that?

[primal wind]

I tried to make face expressions and in the play menu/gesture manager it’s constantly smiling, any ideas?

[hazy bay]

Hey! i was wondering. is there any way to make a Bone grabable and posable with physbones?

[hazy bay]

If so how

Like if i were to put a bone on a sword would i be able to grab it?

and also have others be able to grab it?

I know constraints would work but i want other people to be able to grab it as well

i also know very little about constraints

[somber sequoia]

there's a couple of prefabs that let you make such a thing, neither has been updated in a while and neither uses VRC Constraints. But that probably isn't a big deal:
https://github.com/ThatFatKidsMom/Avatar-Prop
https://github.com/sophia1000/Sophias-item-and-weapon-pickup-systems-for-vrchat

[hazy bay]

Thank You!

[somber sequoia]

(I've used the second one)

[hazy bay]

thats the one i just downloaded lol

this is for a thing where i want to grab my head lol and hold it in my hand and i thought it would be sick if others could also hold it

[somber sequoia]

haha that'll be fun

[hazy bay]

Thank you again!!

[sonic swallow]

i still cant upload avatars for pc
i downgraded the sdk to 3.6.1
and i tried 3.7.4 in the creator companion

[somber sequoia]

3.7.x ought to work - post errors or explain what's not working?

[sonic swallow]

its still giving me this error

[left wharf]

are there any errors before?

[somber sequoia]

that's not a very useful error, unfortunately.

[sonic swallow]

no
everything was working fine up until 3 or 4 days ago
then i went to update my custom and some public avatars and it gave me this error

[left wharf]

take a screenshot whole the unity window. we need more info

[upbeat mauve]

How do I make the camera further forward?

and how do i fix it?

[zinc dagger]

anyone know how to make the animation play

it just wont work

[somber sequoia]

what does it do and how is it set up?

[quick notch]

So I'm trying to make my first avatar but when I go to import the avatar into Unity, its not showing even though I have downloaded it correctly. Any help?

[somber sequoia]

You imported the .unitypackage, right? Did you do anything after that?

I'd bet there's a scene you have to open

[quick notch]

??

I can record a video and show you what I am doing. See if anything is missing

[somber sequoia]

I mean, I don't have your package so I'm just guessing - often the creator includes a sample scene. Perhaps it came with some documentation explaining this?

[quick notch]

I dont think so. Idk what the package means

[somber sequoia]

"package" meaning the thing you downloaded, usually a file with the extension .unitypackage

[quick notch]

No, it says .vrm

[somber sequoia]

oh. that's going to be a bunch more work

[quick notch]

Uhhhh

[somber sequoia]

did you buy this or did you make it with vroid studio?

[quick notch]

Vroid

[somber sequoia]

ok, there are lots of tutorials for going from vroid to Unity (and then to VRChat), usually via Blender. That's where I'd start.

[quick notch]

Okay thanks

[earnest jay]

how do i fix this???

[ornate stump]

Apparently you had outdated AV3Manager.

[earnest jay]

updated it and still didnt work

[ornate stump]

Are you updating using vcc?

[earnest jay]

yh

[toxic patio]

Sound effect rapidly playing on a toggle. No clue why. Any ideas?

[rough orchid]

with shoes do you merge the armatrue or do you waitpaint forgot

[earnest jay]

how do i put it back into normal pose?

[woven berry]

if you go through the armature and go into the inspector and right click rotation and hit reset, that may help

you may have to do it on a bunch of parts but it's saved me whenever i have that mistake

ymmv

[earnest jay]

yea nah i have to manually reset every bone lol

cant figure it out smhhh

[woven berry]

you might be able to shift-select them, maybe - cant test rn i hit a wrong option and its crunching all my textures again

[sly lodge]

does it only happens in play mode?

[earnest jay]

nope in normal mode

[sly lodge]

do you have an animator tab open somewhere?

[earnest jay]

yea

[sly lodge]

close it then

sorry, animaton, not animator

[earnest jay]

oh i closed it its still the same

[sly lodge]

idk what causing it then

[fallow gulch]

It rarely gets stuck like that, but.. what you're thinking of is the Preview being enabled in the Animation tab.
The Animator tab is entirely different

You can either try to put an animation on the avi and play it in the Animation tab, and then stop playing it, and that might help put the character back into T pose

[earnest jay]

yeah animation tab, i closed it but opened it back up for this

[fallow gulch]

Or there is a tool that you can use to fix it

[fallow gulch]

Select the avatar in the hierarchy and look at the Animation tab
See if you can play the animation

[earnest jay]

played it, nothing

[fallow gulch]

https://github.com/rurre/PumkinsAvatarTools

Try this then

It has a button to fix this

[earnest jay]

thank uuuu!!

[fallow gulch]

Np :D

[rough orchid]

how do I fix“ loop in parent“

[stiff lantern]

okay this is the third avatar that I've had this same issue with, all are models I've edited in blender so its making me think that its,,, most likely a blender issue or an issue with my export settings?

Issue: the left leg when in game and in play mode/ GM skews off to the side
I've tried: Resetting and enforcing t-pose | Rig in FBX is correct | not a gesture manager issue | GoGoLoco does not fix it | I've made sure the bones in blender are correct (alt/r in blender) | export settings are nothing different except FBX all and no leaf bones and ive attempted it with turning animation off |

I'm completely lost and no one seems to know what else to try ;0; any ideas are completely on the table I'm just so lost
pictures are normal legs outside play mode then legs with GM/Play mode

[raven orbit]

if it looks normal outside of game and play mode it likely has nothing to do with blender. to me that just look like an idle pose set by the animator layers.
edit: checked one of my avatars with gogoloco and it does the same thing, this is intentional behavior

[rough orchid]

how do I fix“ loop in parent“

[wooden cairn]

Anyone know if there's a way to disable GoGo Loco's default sitting animations?

[cedar spear]

Can someone explain why its giving me these Warnings and not allowing me to upload, It gave me this out of no where. I had just uploaded it no probelm an hour ago or so. Not to mention the Rigging was like it shows in the second image when I uploaded it the first time.

Its Mapped but saying its not Mapped or Specified... Even though it is.

[ornate stump]

You had many red errors in rig configuration scene, so the rigging can't be saved.

[cedar spear]

Oh- So if all the red goes away, then it will save and I will no longer get the Validation Error?

[ornate stump]

Maybe, maybe not. This probably isn't your single issue judging from how your rig looks.

[cedar spear]

I see, welp time to go and try to fix it

[cedar spear]

Found a way to fix it, thanks for the help.

[spark walrus]

how do I import with vrcx my avatars>?

[ornate stump]

Use vrcx to import what of your avatar?

[spark walrus]

from one account to another

[ornate stump]

Like moving uploaded avatars or copy favorite avatars?

[spark walrus]

favorites

[ornate stump]

Do you see import and export button in the favorite menu avatar tab?

[spark walrus]

yes

it doesnt work

[ornate stump]

How it doesn't work?

[spark walrus]

i press import

nothing happens]

[ornate stump]

Does it show import menu?

[spark walrus]

yes

[ornate stump]

Did you process list before importing?

[spark walrus]

I did

[ornate stump]

Does it show list of avatar?

[spark walrus]

yes

[ornate stump]

Did you select a group to import into?

[spark walrus]

no

group?

[ornate stump]

Then do it.

[ornate stump]

It's right beside the import button.

[spark walrus]

for exporting I dont need a group right?

[ornate stump]

If you didn't select export group then it's going to export from every group.

[spark walrus]

well i have to manually select all avatar names

ok this way works

thx

I had to choose a group to import the avis to

[spark walrus]

ren

is it possible to get a user's avatar ID's>?

[rough orchid]

BRO dose anyone know how to fix loop in parent rhkfkfhtyeur

[teal bane]

is anyone able to help explain to me how to properly import a model via VRC companion? unity as a whole is so confusing to me lol

[fallow gulch]

Where does this pop up?

[rough orchid]

blender

[fallow gulch]

Are you trying to parent the mesh to the armature?

[rough orchid]

nuh uh

I was weight painting

[fallow gulch]

https://www.reddit.com/r/blenderhelp/comments/10r3vny/when_i_use_the_automatic_weights_armature_deform/

Maybe...?

Cause that does not sound like something that should happen when weight painting

[ancient spruce]

hi!
Is Cats plugin for Blender still relevant?
I'm following Rainhet's tutorial series and she uses it. But now, in Blender 4.2, it throws the following error when I try to install it

[balmy barn]

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

4.2/4.3 supported

[ancient spruce]

btw, do I even need to follow her tutorials to make a custom avatar? I tried to ditch it and just use documentation but it doesn't seem to cover everything.
i.e. how should I name bones in my rig - should I just copy the naming of bones of example avatar (Dynamics Robot Avatar) precisely? and what if my character appear to have longer spine or three arms?

[ancient spruce]

great, thanks!

[junior void]

All of that is out of scope for cats

You should look at vrchat rig requirements

[rough orchid]

new problem

[fallow gulch]

Oh god.. so many armatures

[ancient spruce]

I looked through it in VRChat documentation, but they almost don't mention any specific names for bones. Yet Rainhet seem to use the same naming as sample avatar. That's why I'm confused if naming is even important

[fallow gulch]

Is the head / neck area not under that armature or...?

[rough orchid]

idk man I merged the body and head armature

[fallow gulch]

There are multiple conventions you can follow
But this is more of a Unity specific thing. This is not specific to VRC

[junior void]

Neither blender nor unity give a damn about naming. Realistically though, do you ever want to deal with errors mentioning bone.0035678743e being broken? If you care to find things fast, name bones to what they are. I personally follow the unity rig config names

[ancient spruce]

ok, that clarifies a whole lot for me! thank you so much!

[fallow gulch]

The only thing that you should watch out for in theory, is that the twist bones should not come before the actual child bones
For example:
UpperArm
|_Lower Arm Twist
|_Lower Arm

This is wrong.
The Lower Arm should come first here

[fallow gulch]

But did you also merge their separate armatures? (If they were separate)

[junior void]

Also meshes cannot have humanoid bone names, aka head bone and mesh called head

[fallow gulch]

This is a new thing in Unity 2022 ^
You could do this in Unity 2019

[rough orchid]

how do I do tht

[fallow gulch]

Undo until things go back to normal, and try to merge the armatures, with the help of CATS

[ancient spruce]

wow that's surprising.
and what happens if they do?

[fallow gulch]

Unity yells at you

It is just not allowed

[ancient spruce]

noted

[fallow gulch]

But this should be fine, since you rarely have to separate the head from the body nowadays, unless you are doing something gimmicky, or you have a head with a ton of blendshapes (for face tracking or something)

This used to be an optimization tech that was nice to do in 2019, but it is no longer needed in Unity 2022

[ancient spruce]

so does it mean that I should combine all parts of my character into one mesh? what if that's a robot consisting of different parts? or if I just have hair made of several locks?

[somber sequoia]

fewer meshes is more efficient, especially if they have the same material

[fallow gulch]

Combine as many things as you can, if you don't need them to be separate.
This is important to reduce the number of draw calls

Even if they use the same material, it still costs extra draw calls to draw it

Each mesh is 1 drawcall
Each material is 1 drawcall
If the material is double sided (so no backface or frontface culling), then 2 drawcalls

[rough orchid]

crying

[fallow gulch]

And that is what hurts. Drawcalls

[junior void]

is neck child of chest

[fallow gulch]

Is something still messed up?

Oh I see.. the neck.. good catch lol

[rough orchid]

:O

I got my messege blocked for yelling

[somber sequoia]

it happens

[fallow gulch]

Yeah.. even if you don't yell sometimes

[rough orchid]

*im gonna de while trying this

there

dumb bots

[rough orchid]

can you vc me to make sure im not doing anything wrong ;-;

[fallow gulch]

I'm not home ._.

[rough orchid]

crap

[ornate stump]

Doing something wrong is a part of learning process.

[fallow gulch]

Yee

[rough orchid]

yes but

I would like the wrong to be gone bc ive never had this problem

[junior void]

i will repeat

is the neck bone a child of the chest

joining two armatures does not tell the bones which other bones to follow

[rough orchid]

huh

idk how to check thattt ;-; I was only ever shown the basics

[junior void]

okay, then just say that so i can tell you

you will need to go into edit mode on the armature (not pose mode)

[rough orchid]

head or body?

[junior void]

armature

not mesh

the armature for both should be the same object

once you have that, you want to click on the neck bone and see this menu

realistically, your neck bone should have "chest" or "upper chest" or similarly named ones as parent. it should be the bone below the neck in your picture, which should make sense to you

[rough orchid]

im abt to shit bricks its not letting me change it

grey.

[junior void]

youre not in edit mode

[rough orchid]

oh eah.

omg im slow

okay did now what

[junior void]

now you pose it again and see if the armature now sticks together

[rough orchid]

okay

[rough orchid]

omg I luv you ( in a friendly way)

tysm

[opal raft]

for some reason my pants won't link onto the legs but the armature link is there on the sweats prefab

not the clothing

[junior void]

this is your hint

the hip bone of your pants is called different than on your base so its being added as new bone rather than merged with the hip as should be. rename the clothing bones so they match your base

[opal raft]

so do I rename it Hips

or what

[somber sequoia]

you type the proper name of the root bone into the "link from" slot

or drag it

[opal raft]

ohhhhhh

thank you guys

[somber sequoia]

I'm actually opening a project where I did this to confirm 🙂

[opal raft]

oop

[somber sequoia]

what do you mean, it looks fine... 🙂

[opal raft]

fr

[somber sequoia]

yeah ok that's right - "link from" should be the root bone of the asset, and "link to (avatar)" should be the target bone on the avatar.

[opal raft]

what would the root bone be....

[somber sequoia]

looks like Hips to me

drag that bone into the slot

the root bone is almost always the first one under Armature

[opal raft]

then this is back

then its back to this

[kindred umbra]

Is there anyone here that may be able to help me with animation issues for a recently purchased Avatar? i genuinely dont know what is wrong or why it doesnt want to work. I can display more info if anyone is willing to help. Please and thank you

[ornate stump]

You'd have to provide enough detail of your issue when asking for help. No one would be able to help without knowing the issue.

[kindred umbra]

The avatar has a sword that does particle animation effects with the reactions of gestures. [[Shown here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPSOD6BNDPg at 02:32]] but for some reason it is not working at all, i have not touched or edited the avatar. just did the process of installing req packages and then the avatar project then straight upload

[kindred umbra]

^ mb

[ornate stump]

If the avatar doesn't work right out of box then you should contact the avatar author for the issue.

[lime oxide]

Any idea what could be causing my Avi to collapse in on itself like this?

[ornate stump]

FBX setting doesn't match with the previous fbx.

[lime oxide]

So when I make any changes in blender, I should set it up in unity as a "new" avatar then?

[ornate stump]

That would be better.

[lime oxide]

Got it, thanks!

[proven dome]

so i tried figuring this issue out yesterday and failed to do so, im having a problem where the physbones with the chest arent moving witha piece of clothing and pretty much hides the physbones itself can somebody please help me with this?

[gaunt fossil]

Hi I'm tiying to do a dissolve toggle with poiyomi, It's not my first time doing it but right now I'm having a weird problem. The dissolve works fine in Unity but I can't animate it, When I go to animation the alpha slider don't do nothing at all

But works if i'm not in animate

[stiff lantern]

happens without gogo as well though :/

[somber sequoia]

You have to lock the shader if you're using the renaming feature.

Before animating, I mean.

[gaunt fossil]

It is locked, also tried with unlocked and without using the renaming animating feature

[somber sequoia]

hmm that's the only thing I can think of as obvious, I've done this a few times and it's worked fine

[gaunt fossil]

Yep every time I did it on the past works fine I don't know what could be

[somber sequoia]

oh you're using this to animate the rainbow growing? That's neat

[somber sequoia]

The animation clip you've showed there looks like it's animating the not-renamed property though, did you delete that and redo it after locking?

[half stirrup]

got a question relative to blender, am i able to fit clothing onto an avatar if its an fbx file? the clothing i have doesnt have an .obj at all and its only got an fbx

[somber sequoia]

Blender imports .fbx just fine, so yes.

[static cipher]

My avatar's head only rotates a certain angle away from the body before stopping. Is this a VRChat-specific issue or an avatar/model-specific issue, and either way is there a way to bypass it?

[half stirrup]

okay, cuz the only issue is that the clothing fbx already has an armature because its made for my specific avatar model, but it just has smaller boobs and the outfit was made for huge boobs 💀

[somber sequoia]

once it's in blender, all of that can be changed in whatever way you want

[half stirrup]

should i delete the already made armature for the outfit and just redo it once i get it fitted? i feel like thats the best way to go about it

[gaunt fossil]

I'm doing everything again and test

[somber sequoia]

usually when I attempt this yeah, there's no need to keep another armature unless it provides bones not in your avatar's, such as for skirts or maybe straps with physbones.

you'd need to rename vertex groups to match the names of your avatar's bones, so the weight painting works out. But you'll probably have to touch that up anyway.

sometimes it actually is better to just ditch all of that and restart

[half stirrup]

got it, i'll see what i can do, im trying to follow this tutorial on youtube so i can fit the outfit but the dude has his example as an .obj so its already so much different lol

[somber sequoia]

eh, file format mostly doesn't matter

[raven orbit]

doesn't change my point that it's caused by the animator layers, have to mess with those to change it

[stiff lantern]

OOOH my bad i thought you were saying gogoloco was the thing doing it

[raven orbit]

yeah, i probably could have made that more clear

[stiff lantern]

no worries at all! i’m just trying to find a fix so i was open to anything ;0; i’ll look at the layers when i get the chance

[raven orbit]

it's either the proxy_idle animation or proxy_stand_still from the sdk (or both)

[stiff lantern]

danke, i’ll look

[raven orbit]

possible easiest way to fix it would be to modify and save over those animations directly, but that would affect every avatar in the project

otherwise you'd have to replace every reference to those animations in every layer

[static cipher]

bump

oops

[ancient spruce]

hi!
I'm trying to make a Quest Avatar and SDK says that it uses unsupported shader, but I can't understand how to fix this.
I chose VRChat Standard Lite shader for some material but there's another material in my character with similar name where the shader set to Standard and cannot be changed.
What should I do in this case?

[somber sequoia]

You'd have to remake that material, it's the one embedded in the model file and can't be edited.

[ancient spruce]

how do I remake it? In Blender? how do I choose the required shader then??

[somber sequoia]

no, in Unity. You can just Assets -> create -> material

you can probably also copy the one that's in the FBX file too, if you can find that file, you can usually expand it in the project window and select the material and ctrl+D to duplicate it

[ancient spruce]

looks like I already remade it (first screenshot), didn't I? but what to do with it now so that error's gone?

how to use the remade one instead of embedded?

[somber sequoia]

drag it into the material slot on the mesh object in the scene

(mesh object like a part of your avatar: body, clothing, etc.)

yeah in the pic on the right, it looks like you found the material embedded in the model file - ctrl+D will duplicate that outside the file so you can edit it. Then just drag it into the right material slot

[ancient spruce]

okaay, I finally made it properly

thank you for your guidance!!

[somber sequoia]

you're welcome!

[static cipher]

bump (but real)

[raven orbit]

i think this is intentional because otherwise rotating too far would make the avatar look like it's breaking it's neck

[static cipher]

dangit- i assume there's no fix then?

[raven orbit]

not that i know of

[somber sequoia]

Look at the Inspector for the model, rig setup, muscles & settings - limits are setup here

FBT does tend to override these though, I suspect head tracking will too

[opal raft]

still need help with this

[simple nova]

Why's my whole menu gone, how do I bring it back up, i'm a massive unity noob

[opal raft]

window

then click whatever u need like ur inspector hierarchy project, console, animation etc

[simple nova]

I went in layout and put the default one in

Seems to have worked

But thanks nonetheless

[long lava]

Just a little question, because for some unknown reasons i really cannot find much about Generic rigged avatars--
Is it still possible to assign head and arm movements to avatars with a generic rig?
I know there's the VRC Head Chop script, that hides the head, but I would like to know if it's still possible to make a complete avatar like that.
Otherwise I just make like always a humanoid avatar with bones that have no weight at all

[prisma gate]

Can anyone help me with uploading an avatar I’ve looked at so many videos downloaded things and got it to work some what but could never import the avatar so I gave up and deleted what i downloaded so I can find someone to do it for me please 😭

[long lava]

I just feels wrong to create a lot of useless bones

[long lava]

Download the VRC Creator Companion app (if on Windows) and follow the steps, it pretty much tells you everything you need to do
Then import the prefab (if using a prefab), in the tool bar click "VRChat SDK" and open the panel, login, name it, add a description and thumbnail, and there you can upload it.
If all you have is a fbx or other simple model, it is more complicated than that tho

[prisma gate]

Thanks but I already went through 2days of trying to figure it out. So I’m trying to find someone to do it for me

[somber sequoia]

Head Chop shows things on the head, the head is hidden by default for the avatar wearer.

[long lava]

oh! i thought it was the opposite

sorry about that

[somber sequoia]

yeah it's got a funny name

But if what you want is humanoid movements on part of the avatar, you need the whole rig so VRChat can run the humanoid IK, or you have to do all of the locomotion yourself.

[long lava]

I don't think anyone can do it for you, since it would require you to give that person your login info, which is not very secure (and i'm pretty sure against TOS)
but maybe someone will be able to guide you through?

[long lava]

Oh, I can make my own animations and stuff, I mostly want hand and head tracking

[prisma gate]

IVE had multiple people guide me and couldn’t do it 😭

I have showed my screen and everything and no one could figure it out

[long lava]

I think the best thing people can do is publish the avatar on their own account and then let you clone it, but then the avatar wouldn't be private

[prisma gate]

Yeah

I mean I could try again

Ok so let’s say I get an avatar from gum road

[long lava]

Honestly, try again with a guide, and whenever you have an issue, post it here and we'll help you

[prisma gate]

Then what specific things do I download

[long lava]

Generally, the issues are quite simple

[long lava]

VRC Creator Companion

[prisma gate]

Ok I’ve downloaded that before

[long lava]

good

It setups pretty much everything for you, and if it can't it just tells you how

[prisma gate]

But don’t you need unity?

That’s the part that messed me up

The unity shit 💀

[long lava]

You do need Unity, but the VRC Creator Companion normally downloads it for you

or ask you to

It is quite stupid proof

[somber sequoia]

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

[long lava]

amazing guide, thank you

Following the official documentation is always the best thing

I know, text, but hey
it's still very useful

[half stirrup]

can anyone help or dumb this down by a LOT for me, i need to get rid of like,, useless vertex groups in blender?? but im not understanding what this guy is saying at all
heres the link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV2Dr5F445w&t=171s
at 6:12 is where im stuck

[somber sequoia]

why do you need to get rid of useless vertex groups?
but you just find the group and click the little minus button to the right

[half stirrup]

no idea, im just following what this guy does lol

unless it just, works either way??? since the outfit is FOR my model specifically?

[somber sequoia]

ahh you mean vertex groups for weight painting. So yeah, you need to make sure those are named the same as your avatar's bones are.

[half stirrup]

wait, i think its good either way, im testing it in pose mode and the outfit moves and stuff

[somber sequoia]

nice

[half stirrup]

so i have no need to do this step?!?!

🙏

[long lava]

The amount of vertex is not affecting the performance ranks as far as i'm aware soooo
i guess it's good

[prisma gate]

What do I press

[somber sequoia]

There's a link on the page I linked that tells how to install unity hub - have you read that?

[somber sequoia]

difficult to say without looking at the specific tutorial, but if it moves fine, then probably you don't need to do anything with vertex groups

[half stirrup]

soo im at the end where i delete the model of my avi, do i just delete the whooolleee thing or just the body? if i delete the whole thing it like.. makes it super huge in the background

[somber sequoia]

delete the model?

[half stirrup]

yeah like, the model itself, with everything

ah if i do that all the layers are still there

wtf how did this guy just delete his model no issue then

[somber sequoia]

really no idea what's going on there

[half stirrup]

like, he just deleted his avatar completely from blender so it shows just the outfit + its armature

[somber sequoia]

huh, is that a thing you want to do though?

(did he just hide stuff, rather than delete?)

[half stirrup]

he deleted it yeah

because he basically just made an outfit for his model

because the outfit he was working with, didnt fit his model at all

[somber sequoia]

ohh

[half stirrup]

would i just keep everything for mine then since the outfit was made for my model ?

[somber sequoia]

what was your goal again?

[half stirrup]

to make the outfits chest part smaller to fit my model properly

since i have my model edited specifically to have smaller boobs instead of huge ones lol

[somber sequoia]

I haven't looked at whatever tutorial you are, but were I doing this, I'd add the mesh for the clothing to my Blender file for my avatar, shape/weight paint/etc. so it fits the body, then export the body + clothing into Unity and call that an avatar.

[half stirrup]

oh okay i got a python error when i tried to download the outfit

yeah no i just cannot download this at all

idk wtf is wrong with it

[somber sequoia]

download?

[half stirrup]

figured it out 😭

i had to go through and literally delete eeevvrrythinggg with my avi, manually

now i just have to figure out how im supposed to get it into unity because i do not see what i just saved at all

[somber sequoia]

file -> export -> export FBX -> correct settings (likely scaling: fbx all, disable leaf bones) -> overwrite existing FBX assuming you didn't unpack your avatar

[half stirrup]

okay i just had to manually do it again from my files LMAOO

cuz whenever i try to import it with unity, it doesnt show up for some reason

but yeh i got it and everything fits :D

[static cipher]

Avatar is acting extremely strangely in regard to shaders. The attached video is what happens by default (aka whenever I join any world), seeming to offset my avatar slightly whenever I move. This is usually fixed by doing Options>Avatar>Fallback Shaders, but sometimes when swapping to a different outfit (and thus a different material), it brings the issue back. Does anyone know what could be causing this?

Also for context, I removed Poiyomi recently, so that could be a potential cause, but I've been sure to set all of my materials to Toon Lit.

[half stirrup]

where is the overwrite existing fbx

i put it into unity thinking ohh yayy it works, go to gesture manager and the gloves are still in the t-pose stance and not even connected to the hands

[somber sequoia]

That is an action you do, not a thing you find?

[half stirrup]

all i see is export fbx, so

[somber sequoia]

and?

[half stirrup]

oh well its either this was just a waste of my time or i'll try the blender cats method and hope to god that works instead

[somber sequoia]

not sure what that is other than a semi-automated version of the same thing we've been discussing

[prisma gate]

Help

What do I press

[visual phoenix]

I am trying to flip a hair style horizontally for my avatar, but I do not know how. I have tried setting the X scale to -1 both in Unity and Blender but this causes problems with the normals.What is a good method for mirroring a mesh?

I have also tried using this script in Unity, but it does not work either.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51100346/flipping-3d-gameobjects-in-unity3d

[stable igloo]

for example if an avi uses different shader for different parts (poi and liltoon) and I wanna add PCSS, is it possible by adding both PCSS for each shader in the project or it can only be either one?

[feral gull]

im currently on android for vrchat, are there any android avatars besided the fall backs and default ones?

[prisma gate]

What do I press

[somber sequoia]

you don't need to show the image twice within a minute

[prisma gate]

Sorry

[somber meadow]

You don't need Visual Studio at all for creating VRChat content

[prisma gate]

That’s what showed up

So do I press remove out of support component

[somber meadow]

you selected it in the UnityHub Editor installer, close out of anything visual studio related, and you can uninstall it like any other app on Windows through Windows settings

[prisma gate]

Ok

Ok so now which one do I press

The 2022 avatar project or 2019

[half stirrup]

2022

[prisma gate]

Ok from here where can I switch build to android

[somber meadow]

in the builder tab of the SDK control panel

what Unity version did you install btw

[prisma gate]

Im confused

I clicked on sdk docs it didn’t do anything

It just sends me to a page

[long lava]

yeah

when you click to see the SDK docs, it shows you the SDK docs

VRChat SDK -> Show Control Panel -> Login -> Builder

That's where you want to go.

[prisma gate]

Is it this?

[long lava]

Well, if you imported your model and set it up

yes

what

no

huh?

why are you back here

[prisma gate]

Idk man I’m so confused

[long lava]

okay let me just

https://youtu.be/8yaQY0arCnc?feature=shared&t=92
This is a 4 year old video, and it's about worlds
But it's pretty similar and haven't changed a lot since

Just follow until 2 minutes

[prisma gate]

OH

[long lava]

It shows you how to access the Builder tab

[prisma gate]

I got it

[long lava]

Hey, did you read the documentation?

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/creating-your-first-avatar/
This is really important if you want to know how things work

This is a very short TLDR of stuff when creating an avatar

But if you're using a prefab, you won't need most of that anyway

Have you downloaded the model you want to import

[prisma gate]

Im trying to import an Avatar

[long lava]

What filetype is it

[prisma gate]

Not make one

[long lava]

Yes

It's pretty much the same thing

[broken forge]

Dose anyone have a good free women base? (':

[long lava]

nope, sorry, maybe you can find something in Gumroad or Booth?

[prisma gate]

Hold on I’m trying to login but it says my password is wrong even though I just reset it a few mins ago 😭

[broken forge]

Ooo okay :D

ty!

[pseudo sparrow]

Anyone know how to fix this?

[prisma gate]

Bro I can I log in vr chat normally but in unity it says it’s wrong

[night ember]

well is it a vrchat account

[long lava]

Are you using a prefab that requires a certain shader?
If yes, make sure that you imported it before importing the model.

[prisma gate]

Yes it is

[long lava]

I think you need one to install the VRC Creator Companion anyway, so i'm pretty sure they have one

[pseudo sparrow]

Idk 😭 I barely know much besides knowing how to upload and etc

[night ember]

like an actual vrchat account and not one of the auto generated guest accounts like steam/meta

[prisma gate]

No it is a vrchat account

[long lava]

Check the page where you downloaded the model, it usually says if it uses a certain shader.

[night ember]

and is the information actually correct

[prisma gate]

Yes it is

[pseudo sparrow]

It doesn’t mention anything about any shaders

[night ember]

then it should just log in or also be asking for a authenticator code

[long lava]

Well,,, i don't know the problem then, try uploading the avatar if possible anyway, and maybe i'll work?

[pseudo sparrow]

It won’t upload until I fix it 😭

[prisma gate]

I used my email to log in and my username

[broken forge]

Is booth trusted enough?

[long lava]

You'll probably have to contact the creator of the avatar then :/

[prisma gate]

It’s not working

[long lava]

Never used Booth myself, but i've heard it's really good. Everytime there's an avatar / prop festival, I see everything being hosted on Booth

[prisma gate]

Ok NVM I got it

[long lava]

yay

If then it tells you that you don't have a high enough rank to upload things i'm giving up

reminder that only New User and up can upload content btw

[raven orbit]

it probably uses poiyomi

[golden cave]

Hi!
So i m working on something that use radial puppets to control the power of a light and on my side everything is fine, but for the other people, when I'm about to change the value with the radial puppet, it goes 100% for a second and go to the good value selected... why is that? I m using a blendTrees to do this animation.

I never got this problem before so ... Is this a me problem or a VRC/Unity bug?

[prisma gate]

Uh how do I do this

[long lava]

What do you want to do

[somber meadow]

Pretty sure it's just VRChat network sync interpolation, do you use anything like a parameter compressor on your avatar?

[long lava]

Yes, you still haven't added your avatar

Import your prefab.

And place it on the scene

[prisma gate]

How

[long lava]

Simple drag and drop the prefab file.

Hoping it is one

You still haven't told what kind of files it was

[prisma gate]

Oh ok here

[golden cave]

no, I don't think so, I was using VRCfury but I tried to remove it and it didn't change anything

[long lava]

It is a prefab!

Let's go!

You shouldn't drag and drop that tho, it is a Unitypackage

You must import it from files

[prisma gate]

Which one do I do if I wanna do quest

[long lava]

Well, Quest 3

Not PC

[prisma gate]

Ok

[raven orbit]

the one that literaally says quest on it 😭

[long lava]

But you would also like to upload the PC version, so that PC users can see it in its full glory

[long lava]

-# you see how i am suffering

[prisma gate]

I was confused bc since I’m on pc idk im so slow

[long lava]

To be really simple, we will just do the Quest version FOR NOW

[prisma gate]

yall are mean 😭

[long lava]

I mean-- You literally ask questions that are answered in the different docs--

We are doing our best to help you

[raven orbit]

ngl though it would probably have been easier to just look up a tutorial than come here for every single step

[somber meadow]

some people learn differently

[prisma gate]

Did I do it?

[long lava]

Seems like you did it!

[prisma gate]

I got a error at the bottom tho

[long lava]

Now drag and drop LOVE Quest (the one with the model as an icon) to the scene

[somber meadow]

yellow text is just meaning a warning, it's fine to ignore majority of the time.

[prisma gate]

:0

[somber meadow]

red text is what to observe

[prisma gate]

Like this ?

Am I doing it 🥺

[long lava]

yep!

Now you should be able to upload it

hoping there is no errors

[prisma gate]

I put it to android right?

[long lava]

Do PC, Android and iOS

If you do only Android, only users on Android will be able to see your avatar

[prisma gate]

How would I do that ?

[long lava]

By default, you should be on PC.

[prisma gate]

Oh I changed it to android 💀

[long lava]

Just upload it as normal, then, there is a "Platofrm selection" drop menu, and you should be able to switch

Oh, well upload it on Android for now

Then upload it on PC and iOS.

Similarly on how you switched to Android

[prisma gate]

Ok TY TY

What does visibility private mean

So only I can see it?

[long lava]

Only you can use it

Everyone can see it

[prisma gate]

Oh ok good

[spark walrus]

How do I change this so it's horizontal again and not a drop down list? I can't see any of the texture pics anymore

[somber meadow]

there's a zoom slider on the bottom right

[spark walrus]

Omg ty

[hidden orchid]

Hey! im using the amongus follower, is there a quest compatible version available now that we have the new constrains? i tried to auto covnert and it didnt worked

[spark walrus]

Was able to import materials but blender 2.9 won't embed textures onto the model. Already used auto pack into blend and the copy save

[prisma gate]

it worked I did it

Tyssmmm

[long lava]

yayy

Now you know how to upload an avatar

[prisma gate]

Omggg ty guys yall are the best

I wish I had yall before lol

[raven orbit]

did you add the textures to the unity project

[spark walrus]

I added a folder for it but I'm not sure why Blender isn't letting me export it all together. I can't figure out how to fix it in Unity

[raven orbit]

( @spark walrus sorry for ping, maybe this would solve the issue)

oh wait it's greyed out

[spark walrus]

I'll try this! Materials came out fine but yes the textures are greyed out completely

[raven orbit]

trying to test it myself, usually i just remake the materials.

[spark walrus]

I'm just confused why the YT tutorials are effortlessly transferred with the textures. I think I noticed when I save the model it's not in a blender project folder?... I'm not sure why that's happening. Is that what's wrong?

[raven orbit]

are the tutorials also using 2.9

[spark walrus]

I believe so, that's the only version that's compatible with model fixer with CATs

that I know of anyway

I only want to use the model fixer option because it's the only thing that parents the bones and lets me move them together on the X axis. If I knew another way to do that I wouldn't need CATs. I'm new to Blender and Unity sorry. 😭

[raven orbit]

select child bone then parent bone and hit ctrl+P and keep transform

[spark walrus]

Would I need to do that for each bone set? I'm trying to adjust a shoulder bone and a few feet bones

[raven orbit]

also, i saw one thing online say that the textures wont embed without having the textures plugged into a principled shader node. i would assume that importing the files into blender would have auto set up the materials with a principled shader but t's worth checking on that

[raven orbit]

you can select and parent multiple children of the same parent bone at a time

as long as the parent is selected last

[raven orbit]

also even though the texture embedding doesn't seem to be working for you, you'd still have the option to set up the materials manually for what you already have in unity

[rugged patrol]

So the sleeves on my hoodie I jerry rigged onto my Booth avatar base are stuck in a T-Pose while my arms are swinging around. Is there a way to test posing in Unity before uploading to vrc and see if things stuck correctly? I hit the play button and do something I think?

[left gull]

gesture manager is good for testing stuff in unity before upload, and that sounds like a weightpaint issue

[rugged patrol]

Ahh Gesture manager, thanks.

Might be weight paint, but I think it might be something with Modular avatar not automating something properly and some bones didn't merge. Half the outfit works, sleeves and goggles are frozen lol

[stuck oxide]

how do i fix this 😭 i literally dont have an expressions tab in my radial menu and gestures and what not dont work

[raven orbit]

press configure

[stuck oxide]

every time i fix it to tpose it just reverts it so idk

no idea what this means either

[raven orbit]

oh, if you have a mesh named "Head", rename it

[stuck oxide]

i renamed it and still have that problem 😔

[raven orbit]

in the hierarchy or in the fbx?

[stuck oxide]

hierarchy

[split cairn]

Sorry to barge in but I'm trying to make a personal edit and i can't get the materials from Blender to show up

[gritty rover]

Dude i have no experience on doing anything with avatar could y’all help?please

Amigo, no tengo experiencia en hacer nada con Avatar, ¿podrían ayudarme?

[raven orbit]

needs to be changed in the actual fbx/prefab, not just the hierarchy

[stuck oxide]

like rename it in blender and reimport it?

[raven orbit]

im trying to test if it can be done in unity by unpacking the prefab, but yeah, what you said is the way I'd prefer to do it

[stuck oxide]

i tried renaming the head mesh in belnder and reimporting it, it gave me the same error and tried renaming the armature head and still same error im so confused

both seperate

didnt do it at the same time

[raven orbit]

there's gotta be an extra object named head somewhere, i'd try searching blender the scene like in the pic, vertex groups can be ignored

[stuck oxide]

these are things connected to the head??? im new to blender so idk what any of this means

[raven orbit]

if it's under the dropdown that says "vertex groups" ignore it, and there's a mesh object named head in the second pic

[stuck oxide]

so rename it ?

[raven orbit]

yes

[stuck oxide]

alr

[raven orbit]

head_mesh or something

[stuck oxide]

still says the same thing in unity 😭

[raven orbit]

what does it look like in the configuration tab?

[stuck oxide]

when i put it in tpose it doesnt save

even when i hit apply

[pastel night]

my avatar is stuck in cycle pose in editor D:

[stuck oxide]

i see that top bio

off topic

[raven orbit]

what does it look like on this side though

[stuck oxide]

youre my new favorite person