avatar-help

[austere bay]

the security checks from what I know are usually caused by outdated sdk or creator companion, optimisation issues, or packages in the project

[pseudo sparrow]

ok i added it but im not seeing anything that says the gestures thing

[craggy wharf]

it seems the system was having an attitude and wanted it reuploaded for a second time. tysm

[austere bay]

pretty sure it's under tools or something on the taskbar at the top, again; I can't check on my pc rn :(

[pseudo sparrow]

its is! ty!

[austere bay]

vrchat being vrchat I guess T-T

as buggy as ever

[pseudo sparrow]

aw man even tho i added the hair color in the hair mats area it wont slide to it :(

[austere bay]

you have to animate it

watch a video on making radial toggles and material swaps.

[pseudo sparrow]

would you able to find a vid on that? i tried earlier but didn't find anything

[mystic nymph]

So i kinda wanna figure something out, i saw an avatar on GUMROAD called the masked sketch but i dont want the avatar but just the cool function that makes it turn 12fps. i love the effect and would love to have it then make it use shaders or trails to have smear frames (I have nearly no experience in making avatars just uploading ones from Gumroad)

[austere bay]

https://youtu.be/c7Jd9YWz8pI?si=6v-bF07oDdj6xVNi
instead of toggling things on and off, when you click record for the animation, drag the material you want onto the hair

[austere bay]

you could contact the creator and ask how they did it if it isn't credited in the description. most creators are really friendly and understand everyone starts somewhere :)

[mystic nymph]

I was thinking this, ill ask but yeah i believe it would be freezing the avatar and unfreezing it 12-24 times a second to get this effect, id try making the smear frames myself

[pseudo sparrow]

do i need to add avatar 3.0 in VCC according to the title of the vid?

[austere bay]

no

the video is from before vrchat creator companion existed

[pseudo sparrow]

wait how do i get to parameters? this vid doesn't seem to go in depth 😭

[austere bay]

click on your avatar, they'll be near the bottom of the avatar descriptor

[tough snow]

So they don't go into Much detail but as far as I can tell it's basically two skeletons, one for VRChat rigging and one for the model, the model then snaps onto the vrchat one at a set interval and freezes

[tough snow]

https://www.reddit.com/r/VRchat/comments/1exagkv/comment/lj4v24b

Absolutely no idea how they actually make it an interval but

[pseudo sparrow]

im still so lost 😭

[mystic nymph]

https://tenor.com/view/anime-dandadan-ddd-opening-op-gif-8873841448486800922

Oh yeah on another note how would i make this kinda effect in vrchat? along side the 12fps effect

cause i think an avatar make of only smoke and particles would be cool

[pseudo sparrow]

ok so i found the hair thing but the vid says nothing abt it?

am i supposed to add like a new parameter or sum?

[tough snow]

If you ever figure That out I would love to know, lmao.

[pseudo sparrow]

the video is not helping at all 😭

how do i even open animator bruh-

[daring ivy]

ok so I added it and now I get this message

[pseudo sparrow]

these yt vids suck for my slow brain 😭

[trim scaffold]

Anyone know why blender is doing this to me? Moving a bone causes everything except a few verts to move properly...

[junior void]

Definitely weight painting issue

[trim scaffold]

I'm moving a bone that has no weight for that mesh.

Happens on every bone that moves the gloves

[night ember]

well yea? you are moving the bones down the chain?

its a weight painting issue where they arent weighted to the bone in the first place

[maiden portal]

This happens to me a lot :c. The normals look fine on Blender, but once I put the model in Unity, only the ears have a transparency issue. IDK what's going on....

[raven orbit]

If it's a separate object it may have a negative scale in blender, press ctrl+A and apply all transforms

[left wharf]

See the error message. There are missing stuffs to build the avatar.
See dependencies list in your avatar’s & avatar gimmick’s store page

[maiden portal]

Hey, thanks for your help, it worked this time!

[raven orbit]

lol np

[north dagger]

hi, it seems everything on my avatar moves fine but the body is t-posing while everything else isnt 0.0

heres a vid and what its supposed to look like. the head shrunk, the piercing and earrings are in weird spots, and the body is tposed ( main concern ) how can i fix the tposing?

[somber meadow]

screenshot the builder tab of the sdk, how did you resize the head

[north dagger]

in blender

[somber meadow]

Did you change the rig type to humanoid in the model's import settings?

[north dagger]

yes i did

[somber meadow]

screenshot the model's import settings rig tab, and is there an animator component on your avatar where the avatar descriptor is

[north dagger]

dont think i see an animator?

[somber meadow]

oh it's only the body that isn't moving, actually show the body object

[somber meadow]

did you put a modifier on the body in blender?

there should be an armature modifier

[north dagger]

huh no, i dont think so. how do i do it / find if there is one?

[somber meadow]

also that's an unpacked FBX prefab, updating FBX files won't show on that. You'll need to migrate things to a packed prefab by dragging the FBX in the hierarchy and working with that (never unpack it)

you can use Pumkin's avatar tools to help migrate to the new packed version

[north dagger]

how do i add an armature modifier?

[north dagger]

i just redid it

[native loom]

Anyone know a reason why vrc companion doesnt open unity? I want to help my friend make an avatar with "s.p.s" because some1 told em it was better, but unity hub doesnt suport the first one and I tried using vrc cc but it just doesnt open unity

[somber meadow]

Screenshot your VCC settings

[sudden hornet]

Does anyone know how to make an avatar meet the 500mb requirements? The one that I purchased is at 773 and Im lost on how to size it down without deleting something im not supposed too.

[somber meadow]

scale the textures down to not be 4k, you can use Thry's VRAM calculator script to assist in this

[sudden hornet]

how or where can I scale the textures down and where could I enable this script?

[somber meadow]

https://github.com/Thryrallo/VRC-Avatar-Performance-Tools

[native loom]

so? whats wrong with my companion?

[somber meadow]

what's the unity path that's shown in Unity Hub's Installs tab

[native loom]

program files?

[patent latch]

My avi has long ponytails that rest on my chest when they hang over. But they're very slippery and tend to slide off easily.

Is there a way I can add some type of friction so when it goes around my neck and hangs over it has more resistance to being moved by gravity?

[somber meadow]

This screen

[hasty oxide]

Anyone know what to do with this issue?

[somber meadow]

It explains in the error, you have 2 vrcfury gogoloco prefabs on your avatar

[hasty oxide]

So what do I do? (I’m new to this type of stuff)

[somber meadow]

delete one from the hierarchy

[hasty oxide]

It worked but now when I tried testing it out there was two models (one was stiff and went inside my model when it stopped moving), so how do I fix that?

[native loom]

@somber meadow

any way to check the size of the things an avatar is wearing?

I managed to open unity from vrcc and I can upload it, but it wont let me because there's a limit of 200MB and the avi is 217 MB

[pseudo sparrow]

could anyone help me add a hair mat into my hair mat slider? idk how to do any of this and youtube isn't helping

[somber meadow]

scale the textures down to not be 4k, you can use Thry's VRAM calculator script to assist in this
https://github.com/Thryrallo/VRC-Avatar-Performance-Tools

[native loom]

how do I add thry's vram to vrchat companion?

[somber meadow]

add it to creator companion with the vpm link on that page, click manage project on your project, and add the package

[pseudo sparrow]

it should not be so hard to add a hair color into my current slider 😭

[native loom]

how do I use it now?

[somber meadow]

Thry > Avatar > VRAM at the top of Unity

[native loom]

i click thry and all I see is this

[somber meadow]

that's not the top of unity

[native loom]

oh my bad

[native loom]

alr Im here, now what

I click the little circle but

all I see is dat

[somber meadow]

drag the avatar object from the hierachy into the slot

[pseudo sparrow]

can anyone help? 😭

[native loom]

oh god?

idk what I did it just put the entire avatar there I think

[somber meadow]

expand the window more, and go to the textures section

[native loom]

oh i see the things

[solemn hound]

i need help :(

[somber meadow]

screenshot the entire console's errors

[native loom]

wait blanke now what do I do? sorry its my first time uploading an avatar, and I cant find any tutorials about heavy ones

[somber meadow]

any texture with a number higher than 4k should be down to 2k (at least)

[native loom]

I just deleted something that was 21 MB

I think that was really stupid because now I cant get it back

Im pressing Ctrl+Z like usal but nothing

also the thing is that there's nothing over 4k, everything is 2048

its just that there's a LOT of stuff and textures

and idk what to delete because everything pops up as spheres and photos, so I cant see what they actually are

[somber meadow]

That's just the details of a single error show the whole console tab

[solemn hound]

like this ?

[somber meadow]

scroll up

[somber meadow]

You don't delete things, you just lessen the file size by reducing the image size

[somber meadow]

delete pumkin's avatar tools from your assets

[solemn hound]

ok

[somber meadow]

install a newer version with vcc if you need it

[native loom]

am i breaking the avatar if I make them from DXT5 to DXT1?

[solemn hound]

what pumkins does lo

lol i buy avatar and the seller dind't tell me anything

[somber meadow]

if you don't know, then you can delete it

[native loom]

idk if Im doing good on making everything DXT1

or was I wrong with that and I should make them 1024 instead of 2048

[somber meadow]

either is fine

only deleting them is worse

[solemn hound]

it works

[native loom]

alright

[solemn hound]

thanks

[solemn hound]

lol i deleted it it works

[somber meadow]

though reducing the texture size is better than changing compression

[solemn hound]

😢

[native loom]

thats ok dw

just click ok

it will lock it itself

@somber meadow

I made a macro to put everything in DXT1 just to realize it wasnt moving at all, now I realize anything that has that pink ish color wont let me make it DXT5

[solemn hound]

now it says this lol

[native loom]

that happened to me

are u using unity hub or vrcc

[somber meadow]

screenshot the console for errors again

[solemn hound]

vrcc

[native loom]

o, then ask blanke cuz for me it was unity hub, I switched to vrcc and it lets me upload it just fine, its only the size that wont let me

[somber meadow]

show the errors above "Assetbundle was not built"

[native loom]

also @somber meadow is it ok for this to have that many pink ish squares?

[somber meadow]

those are normal maps, that's normal

[native loom]

also sorry for so many pings

[native loom]

alright, everything that is not pinkish is DXT1 now

[somber meadow]

not the details of the errors, the errors that are above it

[native loom]

It decreased by a little from textures only

what about meshes?

should I or should I not mess with those

from 217 its now 193.29 MiB

idk what to do

[somber meadow]

not much you can do about meshes other than use VRCFury's Blendshape Optimizer component

[native loom]

because I can upload it like this, but NO ONE will dare to open my avatar because of the size

is there any way to reduce it more?

[somber meadow]

What avatar is this?

[native loom]

mine or hers?

[somber meadow]

Reducing it more would require a larger knowledge of Avatars and optimization

you could just change the size to 1024, but it may look degraded

[solemn hound]

something is wrong ? lol

[native loom]

god damn it

so there's no way of making this avatar smaller without deleting hella stuff

i understand

[somber meadow]

I'm guessing this avatar is pretty old? Like pre 2019

[solemn hound]

yea

[ornate stump]

Package compression can only reduce so much without losing information. Then the rest you'd have to sacrifice something out.

[solemn hound]

2019.4.30

[somber meadow]

https://github.com/VRLabs/Dynamic-Bones-Stub/releases

[solemn hound]

what i do with this

[native loom]

alright, my question now is, how do I know what Im deleting if most the things show up as a picture and not the model of what I want to delete

[somber meadow]

import the unitypackage it's a dynamic bones stub

also you can use Unity 2022 for "Unity 2019 Avatars", it'll upgrade the asset pipeline for you seamlessly

[ornate stump]

Usually deleting an object is the safest way.

[solemn hound]

i'm using the 2022 i should change it to 2019 ?

[somber meadow]

no you're fine, was just making sure you're not on that older unity version

[native loom]

yeah, but how do I know what object Im deleting if Idk what it looks like, I might not know if I wanna keep it

yk what I mean?

[solemn hound]

ok done

i import the files now what i do

[ornate stump]

You just select an object in the scene and you will see outline of an object you're going to act upon.

[native loom]

look wait

those that are white yes they show up

but those that are grey wont

[ornate stump]

Just toggle it on in the inspector and it will show.

[native loom]

thank u so much godbless

[native loom]

Alright done, idk if it decreased the size tho

oh wait lemme check with thry

holy shit

no way

from 193MiB to 61MiB

LOL

and I still got the stuff I like in the avatar

[native loom]

alr one last thing, is there any way to make it quest compatible too?
I dont discriminate questies

also, when I equip the avatar for the first time it will spawn with the things I put him in unity rn right?

[ornate stump]

You're going to have much harder time make this avatar quest compatible. The size requirement is under 10MB and I don't thing you have an ability to reach that.

[native loom]

I see

I guess Ill stay with just making it small enough so people dont block me for destroying their pc

[ornate stump]

Usually that's for when your avatar being animation blocked on other players. Default staff usually have to be set in parameter.

[native loom]

all good

also

see this little guy here

I deleted him from here

but he's still in my assets

does that change anything?

[ornate stump]

It shouldn't be included in your build package.

[native loom]

Good

[native loom]

Sorry again, one last thing, It looks like I deleted a pair of akimbo guns that came included with the avatar, is there any way to recover that without having to restart the entire avatar?

[ornate stump]

Undo (Ctrl+Z)

[native loom]

kinda late for that

Ive deleted way too many things

like I said, imagine how many things I deleted that it decreased from 193MiB to 63

[somber sequoia]

if you deleted the asset, re-add the unity package, it'll add the files you are missing.
if you deleted them from the hierarchy, simply find the object in your assets and drag it back onto the avatar

[ornate stump]

You could put a new copy avatar of your avatar into the scene and move some asset back. But this might not work due to lot of factors.

[native loom]

it looks like I deleted the asset because it gives me the little 🚫 symbol

[native loom]

is there any way to make a new project, copy the file from there and put it in the actual project? or am I overstimating unity

[ornate stump]

You literally just follow the step you described.

[native loom]

HAHAHHA thank you

[somber sequoia]

that seems like extra work you don't need to do

[native loom]

then how do I do it without messing up the entire project

[somber sequoia]

I just said

[native loom]

but if I re add the unity package wont that un-delete everything i deleted?

so its basically the same work no?

[somber sequoia]

you can pick and choose which files you install

[native loom]

I just realized there's a small chance the guns are broken

I tried opening that project like I said but it said "akimbo guns disconnected"

[somber sequoia]

I do strongly recommend not editing files that come from such a package, copy them instead and make changes to your copy, that way you can do this kind of restore or even upgrade to a new version of the package.

[native loom]

also when I first opened that avatar the guns were green instead of being their respective color

[native loom]

and how do I copy them and add them? sorry Im kinda slow learner

I promise that after the guns everything should be good

[somber sequoia]

they're files on your disk.

[native loom]

i see

ty

[native loom]

I tried adding the akimbo file into unity but it will only let me add it into one of the folders there

the blue one is where the guns are supposed to be, and it says they're there but they are clearly not

[somber sequoia]

I obviously don't know anything about what files you have

[native loom]

damn it

is there any way to show u without doxxing myself?

matter of fact

look

This is the file I tried dragging

[somber sequoia]

that's a folder

(it says so)

[native loom]

but it gives me the 🚫 unless I put it inside a folder

[native loom]

yeah sorry

not first language

[somber sequoia]

I really don't know what it is you are trying to do here. I was just commenting on reinstalling a unitypackage.

[native loom]

Look,

I bought this heavy ass avatar, it was originally 217Mib so I couldnt upload because the limit is 200

and for some reason

those guns were green

instead of their original color

so I deleted them

but I really want to see if I can change the green thing

but since I deleted them when I started the project I cant just Ctrl Z everything

understand better?

or I didnt explain enough?

[somber sequoia]

sure, you'll have to find them in whatever source files you have and re-add them to your project

[native loom]

i just deleted the akimbo folder from unity and it deleted it from the file explorer, so I guess Ill just do what I originally intended

I guess thats the best way of doing it even tho is big extra work

really preciat the help from u three

godbless you all

oh look

nvm that was the file name

@somber sequoia look

this is what they look like

and they're not supposed to look like that

anyway to fix that?

[gloomy flint]

show the file you're trying to put into the scene

Is it the Prefab?

[native loom]

can u ask me that same question in non avatar uploader language please

Its my first upload

Im kinda braindead for this rn

god damn it

.

[gloomy flint]

When you open up the Akimbo folder in VRCC, there should be a prefab ASSET and a Prefab with the arrow next to it.

[native loom]

lemme open the project rq

[native loom]

Im sorry Im really tired, how do I open the akimbo folder? in unity? because idk how to open it in vrcc

I been doing this since 9 pm yesterday and its 1:23 am

[woeful harness]

Is there any way to set the value of shapekeys to those of EP float parameters? Trying to set the state of the eyes and tongue on my Snaggletooth Kobold to a radial menu for better posing in screenies, but I can't seem to find any way that doesn't also mean pre-baked animations, like those that came with the kobold.

[gloomy flint]

brother in christ i am in the middle of uploading an avatar and unity wants to chokeslam me whenever I open discord alr

[mellow vigil]

Hello, I said something about this earlier but didn't convey it well so im trying again. I need help making a certain kind of toggle. My avatar is currently using 2d expressions, meaning instead of blendshapes moving to form an expression, it just toggles on a different texture for the face. I need a toggle that will toggle the expressions into using a different set of expressions as a whole. as you can see, it has 3 seperate sets of expressions it could use, is there a way to switch inbetween these sets via a toggle?

[native loom]

im really sorry, I just wanna finish this and go to sleep, but I dont wanna go to sleep before finishing it

[wild birch]

anyone has any idea why does the glasses gets sent into Head instead of mesh outside of head?

[woeful harness]

If I'm correct, you could set them to a diffuse array and have a toggle set to swap between them, using them as the face texture and shifting as you speak or gesture with your hands - if that's how your avatar is set up, at least.

[native loom]

hey pants

[gloomy flint]

thats the anchor bone. That's the bone the glasses will be attached to. That doesn't mean its actually part of the mesh.

[native loom]

would you know how to fix this?

[gloomy flint]

So unless you want stiff, floating glasses, i'd leave them under the Head's hierarchy lol

[woeful harness]

The textures, or the placement of the guns?

[native loom]

michael asked me to check something about prefab but idk how to check any of that

[mellow vigil]

I think I get what you mean, so instead of just haviong and expression animation, I would need an expression animation for each set, and have a toggle that selects the set I want to use?

[gloomy flint]

if i could actually look at my own project rn i'd show you where to find the prefab folders

but i can't open unity since its uploading

[native loom]

i understand man

[wild birch]

how would i make it part of the model then?

[native loom]

thats why Im asking someone else so I dont bother u

[woeful harness]

Something like that, yeah. Don't think I explained it quite right, but the same general sentiment is there. Parameters to swap diffuse arrays through an expression menu toggle.

[gloomy flint]

do you WANT it to be attached as the same mesh to the head/body?

If you want THAT you have to do it in Blender and merge the meshes, making them one model.

But know if you do that, you won't be able to toggle them or anything

[mellow vigil]

i see, I'll play around with the animation board tomorrow and try to get some language going and see how it works, thank you for the help :)

[wild birch]

yeah not what i mean, example i also have a hat and that hat is not auto matically sent to the Head bone

[woeful harness]

Kinda? If you assign it its' own material slot in Blender before merging it, it should get its' own slot in Unity which you can then assign to an EM toggle to animate it to switch between its' main material and an invisible one.

[gloomy flint]

You likely have the head bone as a parent in the original FBX's armature. But I don't know why you would want to separate the glasses, as you'd need to put them there anyway.

[native loom]

is there any way I can give u guys the guns folder and u tell me whats wrong with it? I havent actually tested them ingame

[gloomy flint]

isnt the akimbo paid for and not really supposed to be shared-

[woeful harness]

What are you trying to fix? You haven't explained that.

[woeful harness]

This is also true. 99/100 times, paid assets aren't supposed to be shared unless the person fixing said asset also owns it.

[gloomy flint]

hey @native loom where did you get the prefab? usually they tell you how to install it.

[native loom]

u mean where I got the avi?

or the guns?

[woeful harness]

If it's an issue of positioning and rigging, that's a Blender issue. You're going to need to parent it to the armature and vertex groups before merging it. If it's a texturing/material issue, that could potentially be solved in Unity - but I need to know which.

[gloomy flint]

Guns.

[native loom]

the guns came integrated with the avi

[gloomy flint]

... That's against the guns TOS... They can't be included on an avatar someone buys.

[native loom]

wait wait

lemme finish

I bought this avatar about 2 years ago, and I wasnt able to upload anything because my unity hub wouldnt want to open, I been trying since 2019, and yesterday at 7:44 a Nitro Booster called Reverse in this server, helped me finally open it

[gloomy flint]

im gonna go absolutely berserk if this avatar doesnt upload quicker

But you still bought an avatar that breaks the TOS of things on said avatar

[native loom]

during all that time, I made a big clean up of my computer and at the time I did the clean up i didnt play vrchat, and I was really mad because I bought it and i couldnt upload it

I lost the file

[gloomy flint]

The person who sold it to you shouldn't have sold it to you unless you also bought the akimbo/guns prefab.

[native loom]

hear me OUT

I lost the file

and I couldnt get it anywhere because I forgot my password and the email I used for the place to buy the avi

so my friend sent me it from a page called

[gloomy flint]

You didn't buy the PREFAB for the GUNS. They are their OWN thing separate from the avatar and the creator of the e-boy you bought shouldn't have given them to you!

[native loom]

pixeldrain

I downloaded the pixeldrain file today

and the guns came like this

[native loom]

but the guns came included, and they worked just fine the first time I used the avi because someone let me borrow it

the thing is that with the file my friend sent me today

[gloomy flint]

The guns weren't supposed to be included*

[native loom]

they looked like this

but they were

🤷‍♂️

anyways

they used to work I didnt really care

[gloomy flint]

But they weren't supposed to be. It's against the TOS for the guns. I'd delete them or go buy the actual prefab. I'm not helping you anymore.

[native loom]

dang it man

so there's no way to fix them

god damn it

[woeful harness]

We can't really help you unless you actually own the asset, man. 🤷‍♂️

Even if you yourself didn't rip it, the original creator did.

[native loom]

I do bro, but I lost the file because I was mad I couldnt upload it

[gloomy flint]

But the guns were ripped.

[native loom]

oh

[woeful harness]

I'm not blaming you - and I'm certain Michael isn't either.

But we literally cannot help when piracy is involved.

[gloomy flint]

I'm just trying to sit here and explain to you that the guns aren't supposed to be in your possession at all because you never bought them.

[woeful harness]

That too.

[native loom]

bruhhh

[gloomy flint]

The prefab is 18 dollars on gumroad

[native loom]

I payed 40$ for that avi

😭

[gloomy flint]

You got ripped off, man

[woeful harness]

Happens to the best of us.

Sorry to say.

[native loom]

look, I got a friend that has the same avi and the guns work for him, is there a chance I ask him for the gun folder and I implement them? or will that be ripping off too?

[woeful harness]

That would arguably be worse since you would actively be asking for the assets.

[native loom]

i see

[woeful harness]

You need to buy the asset or otherwise be given express purpose by the creator of the original gun prefab for it to not be considered piracy.

[native loom]

i understand, I guess I will just upload the avi without the guns

[woeful harness]

I'm certain there are other assets that could work the same, likely for cheap, and potentially for free.

[gloomy flint]

i have a free ghostbusters proton pack on one of my avatars 😏

[native loom]

im broke thats the main problem, if I wasnt I would actually buy them

[native loom]

I like those guns because they were of the guy youre seeing in my pfp rn

death the kid

he used the guns backwards

which was really cool to use

idk if I can find anything like that again

[gloomy flint]

then find some money by saving, the prefabs really cheap and when you buy it legally its also easy to use

[idle jetty]

Need help can’t covert my avatar to quest with quest tools

[gloomy flint]

whats it spitting out

[native loom]

i dont have a job anymore bro I got fired because I sprained my ankle playing baseball and I couldnt go to work

its alr I guess Ill just upload it like this

[gloomy flint]

Then I would recommend joining the VRCFury discord and looking for free prefabs there to fulfil your needs

[woeful harness]

If you've got the skills, there's nothing saying you can't make your own that are textured like them.

1. Snag a new (NOT pirated) model
2. Unwrap the textures in Blender
3. Add whatever squiggly lines or however makes it look like those pistols. (I don't know them, so I'm guessing they're semi-stock 1911's with some damascening or something)

[native loom]

i didnt even know what prefabs were 20 minutes ago u think I can do allat?

[woeful harness]

Trust me - it's not nearly as scary as you think it is.

[native loom]

thanks for the help

[woeful harness]

Internet tutorials aren't entirely useless.

[native loom]

but I cant do anything

[gloomy flint]

prefabs are the easiest thing the community has ever made lmao

you buy them, you import them into your project, you take the prefab kit and slap it on, and follow the instructions they give you

[native loom]

yeah but idk how to add them to avatars, like I said I tried adding the gun folders to my project but it said something weird and I couldnt see them

[woeful harness]

If I, someone with the mental capacity comparable to a quarter of a jellyfish when it comes to 3D modelling (and doubly so when blender is involved), can figure out how to extend the bones and arm length of my avatar to better match my own proportions?

You can do anything, baby.

[gloomy flint]

i figured out how to make physics more realistic :)

but then again i was an SFM and GMod kid so I had a headstart

[woeful harness]

Oh, right, I came here to ask a question, I fogor.

[woeful harness]

This.

[native loom]

Look, i understand that if I take the time to learn I can do it

but

BRO

[gloomy flint]

So what you're saying is you want to upload avatars but have 0 interest in learning the things that let you upload avatars lmao

[native loom]

can anyone tell me what any of that means

help

now I dont understand why it doesnt upload

i removed hella stuff

here's the console

[native loom]

I do but I dont want to spend all that time to upload just a pair of guns

also please help me idk why its not letting me upload now

OMG

it worked!!

My first fucking upload! excuse the language!

excuse me @gloomy flint quick question

Thankfully, I still have the gumroad to the second avi I bought, is there any way to get all the accessories and things from that avi and put them in the body of the guy Im using?

[gloomy flint]

If you ever bought an avatar, the download should still be in your email. And the avatar would need to say you're allowed to re-use parts in its TOS.

[native loom]

but is it hard tho? do I have to place everything in the new body?

[gloomy flint]

I'm not going to be helping you due to the fact I can't even be sure if you legally own, or are allowed, to do the t hings you ask.

[native loom]

1, how do I remove them from the easy access? the options are still there even tho I click them nothing happens, but they're still there and I wanna get rid of that
2, if I decide to put another avatar's clothes into another avatar's body, do I have to place everything in the new body or will it place itself once I put it all in?

this enough proof?

if u want Ill try searching my emails from 2 years ago

HERE

better? @gloomy flint

this is evan

A.K.A Soul eater

nvm I cant send gifs

A.K.A the avatar with the clothes I want to use on the other one

[half stirrup]

how do i go about changing the avi details menu avi preview

[prisma sedge]

Assuming you mean this? If so the preview is just showing whatever is enabled in unity when you upload.

[half stirrup]

yeah

well my preview is wrong lol

i uploaded and there are... bits hangimg out but they arent there in unity

[unreal vale]

Idk what I’m doing I just started this is my first avatar and I don’t know what I’m doing

[prisma sedge]

If you're really that worried the preview you can try switching out of the avatar, reuploading, and see if the preview updates.
I did some testing and its doing exactly what I'm expecting to see. Whether it be a blendshape or just an object

[half stirrup]

ive been reuploading an it does nothing lol

[blazing dirge]

Hey guys wondering how I am suppose to addpackes into VRchat creator companion

ok I think it worked

[prisma sedge]

Only other thing I can tell you is to clear your cache and to make sure you're not in the avatar when you reupload since its working just fine for me

[native loom]

hey

[prisma sedge]

hi

[native loom]

do u know how to remove toggles from the action menu?

for example

I got this avatar, and I deleted clothes from it

but I still got the toggles in the action menu

any way to remove them?

I got like

over 20 toggles, those not including the material changers

which I also dont know how to remove

or choose what mats they can change to

[prisma sedge]

In unity find the expressions menu and find the clothing/other items then click the thing you want to delete and press the little - to remove it from the menu

[native loom]

and if I may ask, where's the expressions menu at? you see this is my first upload

[prisma sedge]

Do you know where the avatar descriptor is at?

[native loom]

not at all

Like I said its my first upload, I really lost here, all I know rn is SDK, thry vram calculator, and delete things

thats all I know so far

[unreal vale]

If I had to reimport an FBX from blender bc of having to rename a mesh does that mean I have to 100% Restart?

[prisma sedge]

First click on the name of the avatar in the hierarchy, the window on the left side of your screen. After that go to the right side of your screen to the inspector you should see something that says "VRC Avatar Descriptor". Let me know if you see what I'm talking about

[blazing dirge]

Sup guys when trying to start my projects in vrchat avatar companion I only get sent here

it doenst launch the unity itself

[native loom]

Yes I do, "vrc avatar descriptor (script)" right

[unreal vale]

Create new project

import what the avatar needs

Boom

[blazing dirge]

does it matter what I pick there?

[unreal vale]

[unreal vale]

Wait wait

[prisma sedge]

Yes! Next find the category that says "Expressions" and double click item thats inside the "Menu" slot

[unreal vale]

Did you download the unity version?

[native loom]

Got it!

now what haha

[blazing dirge]

I hope so

[left wharf]

ah i think your creator companion couldn't locate your unity.

[prisma sedge]

When you double clicked it did something replace the previous screen?

[blazing dirge]

this is what the logs says

[unreal vale]

this

when you choose ur unity verison does it say needs download?

[native loom]

it opened that

[left wharf]

open settings in vcc and set unity path (in this case, the path is "H:\2022.3.22f1\Editor\Unity.exe")

[prisma sedge]

That didn't do what I wanted so in the middle of the screen with all those circle things select the one that says "Clothing" since you're wanting to remove clothing toggles from the menu

[left wharf]

could you take a screenshot of settings window?

[blazing dirge]

wait I removed unity hub and now it worked

[native loom]

tysm bro godbless

[prisma sedge]

I assume you've got it from here?

[native loom]

one last thing, how do remove it? i dont see any " - " symbol like u said

[blazing dirge]

I dont have to install vrchatSDK3 into this project right?

[native loom]

oh nvm

[prisma sedge]

its hard to miss but is right below that option that says "Toggle" to the right of Mask White

[native loom]

I just saw it in the screenshot

yeah im kinda dumb when it comes to finding things

thank u so much

[prisma sedge]

You're welcome

[native loom]

I got it from here, godbless

[prisma sedge]

If you didn't figure this out yourself. Assuming no new bones got added/renamed then no you shouldn't need to restart completely.
You'll just need to import over the existing FBX. If you want to play safe then export a new fbx then use Pumkin's Avatar Tools to copy over things from the old one to the new one

[unreal vale]

There’s so many different things being said in sobbing

[unreal vale]

So my avatar i made is like stuck in T-Pose and I just never was able to get it out of t-pose

[prisma sedge]

In unity select the imported model that's in your assets folder then in the model options go to the rig tab and set the animation type to humanoid

[native loom]

hey cloud

Sorry to bother again

[prisma sedge]

What's up

[prisma sedge]

Click on configure

[native loom]

but where can I find free accessories for avatars? I want to add a chain to my avatar, because the person who made this avatar fucked up and made his beautiful chain get stuck under the only good Shirt he he has, and Idk how to move it out of the way or at least overlap the shirt, so I think the best option is to find a new one and try to stick it there

*chain

idk why I said chance

[unreal vale]

Gumroad

[native loom]

isnt everything in gumroad payed?

[unreal vale]

No

[prisma sedge]

Gumroad, Jinxxy, Booth

[native loom]

I dont have money rn

[unreal vale]

I have a few links if you need any

[native loom]

yes please

in gumroad what filters do I use for chains?

I put chains and this popped up

[prisma sedge]

Click on this

[native loom]

Look I found one'

the 1 problem now is

[unreal vale]

Clicked

[native loom]

how do I add it to my project and how do I make it so it stays

oh my god who wouldve thought that uploading a custom avi would be so hard

[unreal vale]

If ur not working with blender first it’ll prob murder you adding stuff into unity

that’s what I was told

[native loom]

jesus christ

first I spent the past 5 years making it so unity hub opens

it opens, then I have to learn how to use unity

and now I have to learn blender

thats crazy

[unreal vale]

Hey I’ll take you step by step with blender but I cannot help you with unity

[native loom]

Ill take the help i guess

let me download blender

[native loom]

any specific version?

[unreal vale]

Blender 3.6.15.0

Is what I work with

[prisma sedge]

I should've asked earlier but what mesh did you rename?

[unreal vale]

Head bone is supposed to be name Head 1

[native loom]

bro windows is asking me not to install blender

omg

also how do I make it so these type of files appear as the unity icon?

[unreal vale]

You don’t that’s when blender comes in

[native loom]

oh

is it normal windows is asming me this for blender?

[unreal vale]

No-

Idk what that is

[native loom]

also blender is not supposed to be like this

[unreal vale]

binks uhh that’s odd

[native loom]

I got it from here

[prisma sedge]

Either you did it wrong or didn't export the fbx after you did the rename as I just realized the error its giving you about a mesh and bone name being the same

[native loom]

is that not the blender page?

[unreal vale]

That is the page

[unreal vale]

I was told I just have to rename it in blender

[prisma sedge]

Correct

[unreal vale]

And then I should be fine

[native loom]

yeah but from that page I got that weird app

[prisma sedge]

This is fine. That is the correct icon for when you download the installer for blender

[native loom]

Im just weirded out by the window warning

[left wharf]

click more info. then you can see the button to run it. (note: if you can't trust the file, don't do this step)

[prisma sedge]

Just because I noticed something in your bookmarks.
Why do you have a ripper site bookmarked?

[unreal vale]

I didn’t even see that good ass eyes

[native loom]

vr models?

[prisma sedge]

Yes

[native loom]

I got it there since 2020 when I didnt have any money

havent used it ever

like I said my unity hub never open

until today

and Im uploading the avatar I bought

I got proof of it

[prisma sedge]

Cool, unbookmark that site then

[native loom]

sure

[native loom]

aw man dont tell me that

I need to install blender

but if u tell me than then I wont feel ok

god damn it

Ill just trust it i guess

[native loom]

installed

now wut

[heady raptor]

so i remade my avi's bullet belt (the bullets only) and replaced the old ones
imported to unity (updating the fbx as i always did) and the bullets do not appear, clues?
they use the same material slot as the old ones

rig import settings show them 🤔

[dusk pulsar]

Sometimes material slots switch up if you remove and add something. Try different slot. If the rig is fine.

Painful when it happens with 6-7 materials and got to test every slot since materials switch up

Probably bullets are using incorrect texture, and the part is empty

[heady raptor]

the slot is correct in fact however looks like unity decided to scramble the textures so i might have to remake texture change animations again

i'm all used to it however the bullets still don't seem to appear

no material slots were modified in blender so that's just shiddy

[rigid nymph]

im not sure if its the right place but does anyone know what hair this is?

[placid mica]

#1138520828556890214 will be more helpful

Is someone able to tell me how I import custom gestures into Unity?
I have these Extended gestures I like to use on all my uploaded avis, but I'm not sure how to put them on myself.

its not changing the faces, only the hand movements

[native loom]

I been trying to make a flag for the past 20 minutes, and the one thing I cant figure out is how to make it so the back of it is not transparent

[heady raptor]

culling

[native loom]

and where do I find that?

[heady raptor]

which shader are you using?

[native loom]

give me a second, pleas how do I get out of game view

[heady raptor]

tap play

[native loom]

wdym play

[heady raptor]

play button

[native loom]

bro I dont think I saved my stuff

please dont tell me is gonna close

[heady raptor]

just click

first time youre doing this?

[native loom]

nothing happens besides this

its the second time I click it

[heady raptor]

im asking if it is first time youre editing an avi, i mean

[native loom]

yes

it is

and Ive implemented a chain

[heady raptor]

that makes sense now

[native loom]

a falg

and yeah

im stuck now in this game view thing

[heady raptor]

when the play button is blue it means it is in game mode

[native loom]

when I click it nothing happens

[heady raptor]

are you in scene

click in scene not game

[native loom]

I clicked game by accident and I couldnt get out

I just closed it and opened it again

[heady raptor]

go back to scene

[native loom]

lets see if it saves

[heady raptor]

dont worry about that.

[native loom]

ok good

Im back

again, about the flag

[heady raptor]

the transparent thing is very simple i just need to know what shader you chose for the material

[native loom]

I couldnt find a flag that would actually stick to my belt so i had to stick with this random "pride flag" I found in gumroad

[native loom]

defusing i think

[rigid nymph]

im trying to edit revenger and i took off some clothes so that i could edit her properly, but the body looks like it has blendshapes for the clothes but i dont see the blendshapes?

[heady raptor]

e.g i'm using poiyomi

[native loom]

gimme sec

[native loom]

me too

yeah

poiyomi

I thought u was talking abt

uuh

[heady raptor]

go all the way down to rendering and tick cull then off.

[native loom]

god damn it

I have to re add the flag

the flag didnt save

[heady raptor]

were you editing stuff in game mode?

jesus

[native loom]

no

in scene

[heady raptor]

then idk

[native loom]

god damn

[rigid nymph]

can someone pls help me

[heady raptor]

the material is probably there just drag it to the model

[native loom]

are u on blender?

I got the material but I got 1 problem

the back

[heady raptor]

that's gotta be about the fbx itself instead of unity

[heady raptor]

reread what i told you to do in poiyomi

[native loom]

wait how do I open that window lmfaoo

[rigid nymph]

its godfall's avi tho, it can go ||naked|| lmao

[heady raptor]

the material you added, click on it

e.g

[native loom]

the thing is

that the flag came with its own material

[heady raptor]

ignore that

[native loom]

but I wasnt able to put any pictures

[native loom]

I have to make my own?

[heady raptor]

havent you created a new material in the project folder...?

[native loom]

i dont have any project folder?

[heady raptor]

you should lookup tutorials on the basics

[heady raptor]

it's literally this window

[native loom]

wdym is that window

oh yeah before I thought u were talking about shaders

yeah look

thats the shader I got rn

[heady raptor]

didnt you say you were using poi..?

[native loom]

I have poi in my vrcc but I havent used it so far I think

see

its there

[heady raptor]

...

you choose it in here

[native loom]

i didnt install it. a friend told me I needed it

[heady raptor]

poiyomi has a channel on youtube with tutorials and a discord server

[native loom]

I click on that but all I see its poi toon

[heady raptor]

then click on poi toon

[native loom]

and when I click on those the flag turns bright blue

[heady raptor]

that's just right,

[native loom]

actually

nvm it just made it brigher

[heady raptor]

the cyan it turns is the loading state of the shader

[native loom]

I got it

I set Cull off

and now both sides are the flag

[heady raptor]

as simple as that

remember to lock the shader for it to compile

[native loom]

wait what

locked

[heady raptor]

it's just the way it is, no secret

[heady raptor]

👍

[native loom]

tysm bro

ty for the patience

godbless

[heady raptor]

[native loom]

one last thing

is there any way to bend this flag?

its supposed to be dynamic ingame

but if I want to put in the back of my pants

it just clips through

idk why my avatar got such a phat bum

[heady raptor]

had it not come with bones? otherwise there will be no physics.

[native loom]

is there any way to check the bones?

because if it doesnt have any bones Ill have to find a new stupid flag bcs Idk how to use blender

[heady raptor]

hierarchy on the left side of the window

[native loom]

nope

nothing

god damn it

all this just to end up finding a new flag

[heady raptor]

weh. it's not too hard to make an armature and weight paint tbh

[native loom]

is it unity? or do I have to use blender?

[heady raptor]

if you really want to edit your avis you will have to learn blender

[native loom]

I know but like

god damn

[heady raptor]

i forced myself to learn blender in less than a month so i could have my own avi

there's not much of a choice unless you pay someone else to do the work for you

[native loom]

the thing is that I been working on this avi since yesterday 9 pm and its 6:11 am, my last personal task was to add that flag and upload it

but it looks like I wont be able to add the stupid flag

one last question, I saw on gumroad few dynamic flags that waved, but they came with poles, is there any way to remove those poles and just put the flag in my belt like I want?

[heady raptor]

the material doesnt seem to be turning up, the mesh data is correct as i checked and you see in the picture
the material was unchanged in blender
i sitll didnt figure it out x.x

[heady raptor]

blender

just a few clicks and it's fixed

[native loom]

god damn it

I guess Ill just add it without the flag then

thank u for u time man fr

[old jungle]

i keep trying to make a material with transparencyu but i cant seem to figure it out how , anyone know a tutorial?

[heady raptor]

which shader?

[ashen hull]

but once i delete the files in the project folders. it will open. but obviously nothing will work.
I have other porjects running the exact same set up.
AWny help to resolve this?

[old jungle]

errrmm.. idk i made new material lol , honestly its first time opening unity

[ornate stump]

Find an option in material that's written "Opaque" and change to Transparent or Fade.

[old jungle]

found it,thank you! going back to struggle making fur lol

[native loom]

if I download the gogo loco from gumroad does it already come with beyond?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[native loom]

bro how do I fix this

[pearl wolf]

Ah found it

Does anyone know how to stop my cube showing in the preview

[native loom]

I just added gogo loco

idk what else to do

[ornate stump]

Disable it in unity.

[pearl wolf]

That is the thing. It is

[ornate stump]

You're just "Hiding it in editor".

[native loom]

im so confused it says im missing gogo loco but I just downloaded it and put it in

what else am I supposed to do

[ornate stump]

Where it said that?

[native loom]

everytime I try to upload

this pops up

[pearl wolf]

So this one?

[ornate stump]

You might have to delete gogoloco object from your avatar and add a new one into.

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[pearl wolf]

Thank you so much 😊

🍪

[heady raptor]

hmmmm, still didnt figure it out

[native loom]

how do I even do that

[ornate stump]

Locate Gogoloco object in your avatar hierarchy and delete it.

[native loom]

and how do I add it back?, because i downloaded it but when I trag it into assets, all that happens is that it makes a new folder called gogo, which wont let me drag it into the hierarchy

[ornate stump]

You locate a file called Gogologo Beyond (VRCFury) prefab and add it to avatar hierarchy.

[left wharf]

you can't drag the Folder into the hierarchy. just drag the Prefab what Renfrew said

[native loom]

but where's the prefab? sorry for all the questions im just really tired

my vision is blurry I been doing this avatar since 9 pm yesterday

taking so long for nothing

[ornate stump]

It exists in some folder in the Gogoloco folder so look for it.

[native loom]

I went into gogo loco folder and I found vrcfury

got it

thank u

[native loom]

what about this

new upload try new error

yay

Im on the verge of kms

nvm

nvm

I added the wrong file

I added gogo loco beyond

but not gogo loco beyond all

[ornate stump]

Just get some rest at this point. You can continue later.

[native loom]

its alright, it looks like it worked

looks like its working

[dense saffron]

I have an issue with constraints that if i freez them to the world and i move they jitter this issue is even worse in half body because there it even jitters when just the head moves

[signal trout]

Hi there, im trying to figure out why my avatars fingers are curled as shown in the first image here, and why i cant change it without getting a t pose warning as shown in second image, also have what it looks like in blender in the third image

ive not really done this before so i only know my way around blender x.x

[balmy barn]

straighten them in blender,fingerbones not ment to go straight up

[signal trout]

ah i see, didnt realize tail position mattered when everything else converted fine

[broken bone]

Your third image is a quirk with how blender reads bone axis. It often happens when importing a skeleton made with something other than blender. It's just a visual representation

As for the finger tips, they likely have a different axis orientation than the other finger joints. If you rotate their axis so it points the same way as the other finger bones, then re-export the FBX, it should fix it.

[signal trout]

tyvm, that was indeed it xD
guessing the translation of the skeleton makes that much more important, tyvm!!

[ancient herald]

so i recently bought an avi and i was wondering if there's a way to fix how weird his hands are?

[left gull]

Wdym by weird? they look fine in the screenshot

[ancient herald]

their supposed to be much diff hah

[ancient herald]

see?

[left gull]

if you mean the colouration then you'd need to edit the texture/material used on the hand

[ancient herald]

nono not the colour i mean normal hands have the fingers like curled in that avi's fingers are straight and pointed slightly outwards

[left gull]

are they pointy in-game aswell or have you not tested that out yet? (because that looks like its just part of the locomotion/gesture layer that makes it curl like that)

[pseudo sparrow]

Can anyone teach me how to add a new hair color to my current hair color slider?

I have the material made and all that, I’m just struggling with the animator part and all that

[ancient herald]

they are like that in game

[left gull]

do you have any FXs in your gesture layer?

[ancient herald]

lemme have a look

[ancient herald]

YES

oops caps

wait

do i mess with this?

[left gull]

no you can just hit the X to remove it and see if it fixes the hand to be less pointed

[ancient herald]

yes tysm

[left gull]

if you want to keep the other custom gestures that gesture layer adds then i think you can just clear the HandOpen on the left and right hand and it should make it still curl

[lyric fiber]

Hey could someone put a model i found into vrchst and make it quest compatible plss! Dm me if u can I cannot pay 😭

[somber sequoia]

that's often a lot of work for free, it's unlikely anyone is going to do that, except the scammers that are about to message you.

(don't listen to them)

[feral isle]

Checked the missing files and it's face tracking stuff which I don't have, anyone got any idea on how to fix this one?

[somber sequoia]

I'd be happy to read an error message if you can provide a reasonable image 🙂

[balmy barn]

'n paste

[feral isle]

Exception: you're missing some files needed for this vrcfury asset. Are you sure you've imported all the packages needed?
Build aborted because the vrcsdkproprocessavatarcallback "vrcPreuploadHook" reported a failure
and builder exception failed to build avatar check logs stuff

the missing files are face tracking which i dont have

[somber sequoia]

oh, well go get the missing package then.

[feral isle]

yeah but like can i remove it or is it just a package i need to find?

[left gull]

check the download description of where you bought the model

it'll tell you either where to download it or if its 100% required for the model to work properly

[spark walrus]

Can someone help me

[unreal pasture]

why dpes vrchat actually let me upload just t0o get this bs

[olive cedar]

hi i need help

[tawny shoal]

Yes ? Ask it

[olive cedar]

i have an avatar i want to add to it gogo loco but i don't have the files for it

[tawny shoal]

Ohh but it’s impossible if you don’t have files 🥲

Where did you get the avatar?

[olive cedar]

from a friend long time a ago

[tawny shoal]

I see

[fierce spear]

Hey y'all, struggling a bit with the physbones here. The band is moving, its not supposed to. The physbone is under Necklace, and yes, the band is under ignore transforms. what do.

[quasi briar]

can you expand the "necklace"?

[fierce spear]

Was just about to say i fixed it, there was a bone like, two bones down that was what i was supposed to put the physbone on

[quasi briar]

It seems to me you're trying to put the mesh of the band under ignore transforms but you need to put the bone itself under ignore transforms, not the mesh

[fierce spear]

Yep figured that later. Thanks anyways

[glass condor]

Not sure if this is the right place, but it's in regards to uploading an avatar --does anyone here read Japanese? I'm trying to figure out if something I bought on Booth is allowed to be on a public avi.

[half ice]

can anyone please tell me why i cant bind the socks with body .. (wanna copy shape keys)

[heady raptor]

applying the modifier doesn't do it?

[heady raptor]

yes it is allowed

[half ice]

huh?

[glass condor]

ah thank you!

[heady raptor]

have you tried to apply the modifier

[half ice]

no can i do it without bind ?

dont work

[fierce spear]

Sometimes surface deform can not work because of some shenaniganry, you may have to create your own blendshapes manually. At least thats what i think

[half ice]

okk thanks ..

this gona be hard 🥲

[fierce spear]

its not difficult, just time consuming.

[half ice]

gona try xD thanks

[heady raptor]

blendshapes are fun to work compared to rigging and texturing

[fierce spear]

i find texturing fun. rigging IS hell however.

[heady raptor]

after i understood how rigging works, it's pretty fine to me

but texturing kills me ahh

[half ice]

every time I progress I find other problems that are even more difficult just like darksouls

[heady raptor]

ever do normal maps? it's my nemesis, idk how to fumble with substance painter

[somber sequoia]

I don't mind rigging, I usually dislike setting up good UV maps

[heady raptor]

YEAH that

[balmy barn]

that is called ripping and get you in trouble

[worldly whale]

So im trying to make a toggle to turn on and off this gold and white texture and for some reason its not working but one does and i have set up all of them like that one and non of them work

gold all works and gold jacket does not

[balmy barn]

is All Gold changing all of them ? and bottom of your layers? cause that will ignore everything above it also trying to change them

lower layers have priority

unless you using paramter driver , cant tell

[raven orbit]

i would suggest changing 'all gold' to drive the boolean values for the other toggles instead of being an animation itself

[worldly whale]

i didnt know about that

thats good to know

[worldly whale]

how would i do that

that would be WAY easier lmao

[balmy barn]

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/state-behaviors/#avatar-parameter-driver , can change any other paramter when triggered

[raven orbit]

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/state-behaviors state behaviors, under 'avatar parameter driver', to add it you click 'add behavior' on a state

all gold can be set a a button that, when pressed, toggles everything on. if you want "all gold" to be a toggle you'd also have to make a state that disables the all gold boolean when any of the other toggles are turned off (which would be a lot more time consuming)

[worldly whale]

holy S**t i had no idea thats how they did that

that makes a TON so much easier

[somber sequoia]

it's really useful for a bunch of things. Randomness too

[round pagoda]

cannot build for iOS: "File in use by another process" (note: my first time using Gesture Manager and VRCFury)
this issue only happens when building for iOS, which I apparently must do now to make my avatar a fallback

[peak knot]

how do i fix this?

[round pagoda]

LockMaterialsOnUpload
this appears to be a C# event meant for recompiling uber shaders to a simplified version ('Locking'). are you using the 'Poiyomi' shader?

it seems like something has gone wrong with your installation of Thry's shader optimizer function

[round pagoda]

SOLVED: pushed buttons until it magically fixed itself.
thank you Unity very cool

[worldly whale]

what object do i put that script on? the avatar itsself and like under the driscripter or do i up it on every ipjust i wanna change?

[raven orbit]

it's in the animator controller, on an animation state

the FX

this

[worldly whale]

OH

ill probably learn how to do that later

cause moving the all gold to the top fixed the problem

but that is very usefull

thanks yall

[raven orbit]

np, gl

[spark walrus]

so i have a avatar that needs vrcfury to upload but when i added the repository it gave me an an error saying it couldnt access it. and when i tried uploaing said avatar i get this error message:

[worldly whale]

lmao maybe i will learn it

all the toggles work except the gold all

lmao

[sharp pewter]

How do you make one toggle disable other toggles in the same list?

[balmy barn]

parameter driver/use same parameter

[arctic ginkgo]

well you could use parameter drivers but that doesn't seem to be what you're looking for. I'll give you both answers just in case though:

Case 1, you are trying to make something that has multiple variants or options (like facial expressions or props). None of these options should be able to be selected at the same time, they are just switching between each other:

In this case you would want to use the same parameter for each toggle. You'd want one with more than two possible states, so an Int or Float. Typically Ints are used for this (they can be assigned any value between 0-255).

Case 2, you are trying to have two separate toggles that cannot be toggled at the same time. Individually however, they can be toggled on/off on their own:

For this use case you would want to use a parameter driver on the appropriate animation states, which will change the value of an assigned parameter to an assigned value when transitioned to (if in "set" mode).

Another option that doesn't actually change the toggles is to simply animate based on the states of multiple parameters in order to account for edge cases of things that shouldn't be toggled together (say a specific hairstyle + a specific hat). Instead of forcing the toggle off, in some cases it may be better to retain the wearer's settings for both the hairstyle and hat in this example, and simply forcing the hairstyle to animate to a compatible hairstyle or shape with the hat, then once the hat has been disable or the hairstyle has been changed, it will animate back to normal.

[stone isle]

I'm learning how to make toggles and I found a good video tutorial from a couple years ago but the issue is that it is pre- creator companion. where can find the fx slot in my avatar to put the animation controller into it?

[arctic ginkgo]

the video information regarding the location of the FX controller slot is up to date, it should be in the same location as the tutorial

[stone isle]

well that's good to know

but I still can't find

[light charm]

have you tried searching for a tutorial that's more up to date?

[stone isle]

yeah I am just going to do that

[placid spire]

you should be able to click this button, the Customize option (1st pic), and it will expand to show all the playable layers you can drag your Animator Controllers too (2nd pic)

make sure you also have the VRC Avatar Descriptor, I know sometimes I forget to add it myself

[native loom]

can anyone help me out man, I removed "bandages" from my avatar fingers, then removed them from the action menu toggle, but now when I join the game the fingers are slim as hell like if u would to delete a shirt from hierarchy but still had the action menu option click it and then ur body goes slim

idk what elset to do, I removed it from te hierarchy and assets but my fingers are still fucked up ingame

[raven orbit]

it's still probably activating a blendshape that's shrinking the fingers, you'd have to remove those animations from the fx animator

[native loom]

god damn it

and where is that at

im new at this

I wasnt expecting that to happen to the fingers

[raven orbit]

look in the avatar descriptor for 'Playable Layers' and you can click on the FX slot to show where the FX animator controller is in the assets folder, then you'd have to open up an animator window to edit it

[native loom]

alr I found this

how do I open an animator window?

and even worst

how tf do I edit it

cant I just remove the animation and thats it?

[raven orbit]

window > animation > animator to open up the window

[native loom]

window?

u mean the window key?

dont tell me I have to download a 6th app

god damn it

[raven orbit]

you can remove the animation in the animator and in the project, i dont think it would be a good idea to remove an animation from the project without taking out the reference to it in the animator cause it could cause problems

[raven orbit]

chill out, it's at the top of the screen

[native loom]

ty

oh nvm I had to click fx

[native loom]

so do I just remove them from here and then from unity?

and so I stop wasting ur time how do I remove them from unity

[raven orbit]

yeah, you can just delete whatever animation state is related to the rings, then you can find those animations and delete them from the project

[native loom]

how tho

where do I find the animations out of the animator

[raven orbit]

in the animator or in the project assets

?

[native loom]

sorry most of the things in here have not and probably wont be used

Ive learned 17 different options of unity in only few hours

my brain is in the verge of turning itself off

[raven orbit]

finding them in the animator would mean clicking through the layers and looking for something labeled rings, or anything related to a toggle you're not using and deleting it

it can be set up in a lot of different ways so it's hard to tell you exactly where

maybe if it is too difficult you can just remove it from the project and ignore the animators i guess, i'd just prefer to have cleaned up animators personally

[split cairn]

I can't get these custom textures to appear properly, i dropped the blender file into unity fyi

[west cipher]

anyone know what these errors means? these are the only 2 and it wont let me enter playmode

[robust bough]

hey i need help its saying this when i didn't upload the avi with warnings??

[somber meadow]

What are the stats of your avatar in the builder panel, as well what Unity version, and SDK version are you using

[half hamlet]

I'm following a tutorial for importing a model, but I do not get the pop up in the first photo. What I see when I select the model is the second photo

is it because it does not have a rig?

[prisma thunder]

How would i use osc to enable/disable a toggle?

[left gull]

you've gotta select the .fbx

[half hamlet]

yeah figured that out lmao. IT says it has no bones so im guessing that means I have to rig it still?

[left gull]

yes it requires a rig like this

there can be more bones then shown in the image but requires at the very least this rig to work as a humanoid with VRChats locomotion system

[sharp pewter]

Thank you so much for the explanation!

[robust bough]

what do you mean stats of my avatar? and i everything is updated good

[somber meadow]

screenshot the builder tab of the SDK

[somber meadow]

that first warning is important

[vale cove]

Why are literally ALL of my blend trees dissapearing

For no reason 😭

[somber meadow]

Can you elaborate, when are they disappearing

[vale cove]

No idea. I've had this issue over seven different projects.

Two years of avatar work and I've not had this issue until about a month ago