avatar-help

[long sedge]

🙃

is there a way to make a prefab through vrcfury retroactively?

cause the clothing is really cute and i want it a lot

also

im about 100% unexperienced in this facet of unity, what would be the proper settings here?

[wooden zinc]

anyone know how i can get a eye puppet to work on a avatar i cnat seem to find any vids on it

[wooden zinc]

if its the avatar it self it needs to be (animation type : humanoid)

if its clothing you need to attach it threw blender

[long sedge]

hm, okay

yeah ima need to be walked through that

(the clothing)

how do i do an armature link in VRCfury?

thats a google question

my bad

yep thats exactly how its supposed to be <3

<3 <3

[junior void]

Have a look at hints on the armature link component

[long sedge]

says the avatars rig is not set to humanoid

nvm thats before its on the avatar

mb

i think?

[long sedge]

where are the hints?

[mortal solstice]

I have no idea how to explain my problem, but I uploaded this avatar a while ago, and she seems to not have gestures, doesnt move her legs, and when i walk (in PC) she goes into the ground w a floating like animation?

[wind parrot]

Hi, does anyone know how can i get the file for the "default animation controller"?
I need it to use my override animator, but the asset bundle i got doesnt have the deault one
Some guy on other channel called it "action layer". Just checked and it's what i need, but i do not have the file to override only 1 or 2 animations.

[somber sequoia]

"some guy" indeed 🙂

[gloomy flint]

i want to get this asset to work on my avatar but i ran out of parameters, i literally only need to free up like.. 4 or 5 right

well this avatar has built in seats and i thought if i delete the seats off this avatar, it'll be maybe enough space

but when i attempt to delete them, it breaks :(

[wind parrot]

Some guy called Kazin

[gloomy flint]

how do you remove prefabs installed with VRCFury that came pre-installed on the avatar is what i'm asking

[wind parrot]

I found the file, it's on Packages/VRChatSdk-Avatars/Samples/AV3DemoAssets/Animation/Controllers

[somber sequoia]

ah damn, I was just doing a find for that

was in the middle of something before

[wind parrot]

Don't worry, the info is there now for when someone in the future needs it, thanks mate. The name you gave me for the file gave me direction

[outer nimbus]

I am missing PP and TH visemes should I reuse existing ones for it or leave it be?

[somber sequoia]

Glad you found it!

[gloomy flint]

anyone know? it'll help with any future projects too

[somber sequoia]

delete the object or unpack the prefab and delete the vrc fury components?

[gloomy flint]

ok so like let me break it down a bit what happens...

so its in the hierarchy, it came with the avatar so its on there the moment i open the avatar's prefab right

if i delete it off the hierarchy, the avatar runs into issues that 'destroys' it when i open up gesture emulator

[south wraith]

Is there anyone I can pay to help me upload an avatar to vr chat? 😓 I have no experience with any of this

[gloomy flint]

,,,, it,, it was really that simple,,,,

[somber sequoia]

oh okay

[gloomy flint]

im not cut out of this earth dawg can you ascend me to the ethereal realm,,,

i had to unpack the avatar prefab itself, delete the components off the seat prefab, then delete the seat prefab

[somber sequoia]

Was that avatar prefab the actual FBX model file, or some other prefab which contained that and more things?

[split sentinel]

No need to pay but i can try to help if u want?

[somber sequoia]

you can actually remove things from a prefab without unpacking, you just have to apply the change to the prefab

[gloomy flint]

the seat prefab was inside the avatar's prefab, so if i opened up the original model's fbx prefab, the seats would already be on it and set up

[somber sequoia]

unpacking a .fbx prefab is a bad idea if you ever want to bring that into Blender and update it

[gloomy flint]

ehhhh

the most i'll ever do is update the texture files

and thats fine without a prefab set up

i figured out how to do that easy

,,, ok so gogo loco broke when i do that uhhhh can you do a quick step by step of how i'd update a prefab to remove something in it-

im just so tired i dont want these stupid seats i dont need them and will never use them 😭

they take up parameter space i could use for things that would be useful to me

[somber sequoia]

right click the thingy you updated, "apply to prefab"

[split sentinel]

If u need help w it i sended u a friend rq

[somber sequoia]

be wary of anyone who DMs you here, there are lots of scammers around. If you want to commission someone, go to the VRC Traders discord, link is in #1204490664637890580 .
But otherwise, feel free to ask for help in here.

[south wraith]

Thank you so much, do you know if blockbench models can be ported into unity and subsequently vr chat?

[south wraith]

Thank you so much

[somber sequoia]

if you can make it into a .fbx file it can be used in Unity

... possibly with some work

[gloomy flint]

just a quick step by step pls, like

1 delete prefab part you dont want
2 right click on avatar
3 mouse over tab and click apply to prefab

or something like that. just saying right click and apply to prefab isnt really helping if I have no idea how to get to that point

[somber sequoia]

so Unity has documentation, much of it is actually good.
But what I meant was if you change a setting of any sort on a prefab, you get a little blue indicator that it's changed. Right click on that very thing, and you will see "apply to prefab".
Or, at the root of the prefab at the top is "Overrides" which lists all of the overrides, and lets you apply them if you want.

[gloomy flint]

kazin i want to remove this entire part of the avatar myself

[light trench]

Hey i have an error which is confusing me super bad. No idea whats going on with this or how to fix it.

So im working on an avatar right now. It works perfectly fine - no issues at all.

However when i go to duplicate the avatar to create a Face tracking version its giving me errors.
I have removed all colour swap, contact and size radial wheels from the avatars Perameter menu, toggle menu's and FX perameters + layers. But in the VRC SDK it is stating that those Deleted perameters/toggles are "not defined" and is still attempting to access them.

This FT version of the avatar does not reference the OG Avatar's perameter, FX or menus at all. It has entirely different components attached. And all the supposed perameters and toggle inputs have been fully deleted.

The only fix im finding at the moment is to completely delete the OG avatar's menus and Perameter layers from the project.

Anyone got any idea how to fix?

[gloomy flint]

it isnt a vrcfury component on the avatar itself, its its own little prefab on the avatar prefab with vrcfury components and i just want the whole thing gone

[somber sequoia]

If it lets you delete it from there, it's probably not part of a prefab.

[gloomy flint]

if i right click Body Chairs, i can delete it, but the avatar itself no longer works, so I would argue its kind of needed

i can delete it without the avatar destroying if i unpack the avatar prefab but then everything else breaks

[somber sequoia]

okay but there's no way I can know what might cause that from here, you'd need to figure that part out

also "no longer works" isn't very descriptive, I don't know what to suggest

[gloomy flint]

if i try to use gesture manager it says the avatars been destroyed basically

it literally breaks if i delete these stupid chairs

[somber sequoia]

I have no idea what that means, never seen it

[gloomy flint]

now it breaks differently when i do i'm so fucking doOOOONE

[amber gull]

hello does anyone knows how to export an avatar from blender to unity with all the textures please?

[somber sequoia]

you don't want that anyway - you just have to unpack the textures into Unity for them to be useful

[amber gull]

i don't know exactly the steps for it i'm pretty new and i'm about to start exporting my first ever avatar but i don't know the steps for converting from blender to unity with everything included.

may i know how exactly i can unpack the texture?

[somber sequoia]

how is the texture now?

is it a file?

[amber gull]

i don't know i just exported the file to an fbx that all :/

[amber gull]

i don't know honestly

[somber sequoia]

ok well textures are generally image files, so you'd have to go look at your materials in blender to see how they work

[amber gull]

yea image files

[somber sequoia]

if they use image files, find those, put them in Unity. If they're procedurally generated, you'll need to make new ones in Unity, those won't work.

[amber gull]

so this is mine rn do i need to go to each material and add the textures to each of them?

[somber sequoia]

yep

[amber gull]

i see

appreciate it

hopefully i don't screw it up lol 🤦

[spark walrus]

Question dose anyone know how to upload / edit an avatar

[somber sequoia]

of course

[queen egret]

Is there any way to have a toggle/hold button affect a radial elsewhere in your expressions menu and then have the radial still be able to affect the selected properties without having to disable the initial toggle?

[somber sequoia]

possibly VRC Avatar Paramter Driver

[queen egret]

is that something supported by VRCfury or would I need to translate the states over?

[somber sequoia]

it's a component you put onto an animator state - see the VRC docs for detail

basically "when this state is active, go tweak that other parameter"

[queen egret]

hmm okay that basically sounds exactly what I want

[somber sequoia]

it's really powerful

[queen egret]

it does look like I would have to convert everything over from VRCFury into the normal VRChat parameters and such

unless the VRCFury global parameter is the same thing?

ah it does appear that it is

but it seems to only let me set it as a bool for some reason?

or perhaps I'm just using it wrong but there is not much documentation on this so it's hard to figure out the correct way

[somber sequoia]

if it's only letting you treat it like a bool, then it's a bool

[queen egret]

well it shouldn't be a bool as it's a radial menu and I did get it to not show up as a bool but at least within VRCFury I don't see an obvious way to set the value of the global parameter

[somber sequoia]

right but the data type in the animator doesn't necessarily match the one in the avatar parameters list

it's possible it IS a bool in the animator, even if a float in the parameters list

[hollow trail]

Need help

sending pics of the errors now

[queen egret]

it's a float on all that I can see but I the issue is not being able to change the value of the parameter driver that is getting set within VRCFury

[hollow trail]

been struggling for an hour trying to find the error

[somber sequoia]

ah, I don't know what the Fury thing does, I don't use that.

[idle jetty]

Can someone help I am trying to get a sweater to be attached to my avatar but when I load the sweater in game it is not connected to the arms and head

[bright silo]

how are you connecting it to the avatar?

[jade wave]

quick question: where do height maps go

[somber sequoia]

nowhere in most shaders, but you can convert them to normal maps with some tools like substance painter

[jade wave]

im using pioyomi pro 9.0 if that helps with anything

[raven orbit]

i use this to convert height maps to normal maps https://cpetry.github.io/NormalMap-Online/

[jade wave]

the asset im working with came with both a height map and a normal map

[spark walrus]

Quick question: what website do you recommend to get started on making an avatar?

[idle jetty]

I am connecting it with vrcfury

[bright silo]

in the Armature link, what link mode are you using?
(it looks like Reparent Root)

[raven orbit]

after some googling i found this https://www.poiyomi.com/modifiers/uvs/parallax

[bright silo]

Where'd you get that from?

[bright silo]

What you need depends on what you wanna try and do on an avatar

[idle jetty]

I am using this

[spark walrus]

Well I’m kinda new at making an avatar so idk if it’s best to make an avi from scratch or look up a website for avatars to start out

[bright silo]

Ope up the Advanced Options, what is the Link Mode set to?

[idle jetty]

This is the advanced option

[wind parrot]

I have the code for a curve that pulls a sword out straight form the wrist, but i have no idea why the rest of the body is moving. Any ideas?

[bright silo]

Well, you could grab an already made avatar and learn how it works/how to change materials/textures, add toggles/logic and learn to upload whilst on the side, also learning modelling/rigging/texturing 'cause that's a whole different beast tbh.

For the former you can use sites like Payhip, Gumroad, Jinxxy, Booth and sort them by free. There's also places like vrcfree(dot)com or vrcarena(dot)com where you might be able to find something a bit easier to work on/a look you like better.

When it comes to making things from scratch you'll do best for vrchat using Blender for now and I'd say to make smaller things at first to get used to the workflow. There's playlists worth of blender tutorials on youtube that'll teach you everything. Just keep in mind blender is a lot bigger than just vrc avatar creation, you can render out entire animated movies using just blender so there's a lot in there you probably won't ever use.

At a minimum you'll need Unity 2022.3.22f1 to upload anything and I very much recommend using the Vrchat Creator Companion from the Vrchat site if you don't already have it.

[bright silo]

try setting the Link Mode to Skin Rewrite

[spark walrus]

Thank you so much

[bright silo]

I'm gonna need a bit more information on this one. I'm going to assume 'code for a curve' is an animation. When you say the rest of the body is moving, how is it moving, what do you mean by that?

[bright silo]

You have the VrcSdk imported into the project, right?

the asset is trying to see the PhysBone scripts and failing

[hollow trail]

Its fine, I fixed it. Vrcquesttools was causing the problem

[spark walrus]

i will beg anyone to please convert my avatar to quest 😭

[somber sequoia]

if you include money with the begging, that might actually work

[spark walrus]

but im broke...

[somber sequoia]

luckily this is a thing you can do yourself

[bright silo]

time is money

[wind parrot]

I copied the code and edited for my needs. Working on unity.
The animation has a value of 0 at the start, 1 at the end. The blade appears correctly.
The rest of the armature starts phasing into the ground (ends up with half of the body in the ground). The arms and legs do get bent too. I cannot find anywhere in the code that references neither arms, legs, or the center or the body

[spark walrus]

idk why i even asked for help...

[somber sequoia]

it's just a LOT of work you're asking someone to do

if you want to learn how to do it yourself, we can help

[bright silo]

yeah that's normal, that's the default animation pose for the animator. When all the values are set to 0 that's the pose of the avatar. It won't do that in game 'cause you'll be controlling the bones through locomotion animations

[wind parrot]

God damnit

I gave it snippets of a standing still animation just to see if that would fix it

Thanks

[spark walrus]

mf im a begginner not a dumb ass. i found 10 easy tutorials. one is litterally one button. only problem is i simply cant do it. its not hard work its just that yall be greedy af and ask me fro 500 bucks just so you can press 5 stinking buttons. so no i will decline your offer and look for someone reasonable

[somber sequoia]

hahaha

not going to get help with that attitude, good luck.

[wind parrot]

the 500 buck are to know which stinking buttons to press lol

[spark walrus]

and you wont get money with that attitude. kindly ask to help and what there budget is AFTER you find what kind of help, time, and resourses you need. straight up saying "pay me first" ina bossy manner seems wrong on so many levels

[bright silo]

You can use tools that make it 1 button but these tools also don't work 100% in every situation.
If you did that for the avatars I use/sell it'd just give you a model that looks like it's was wearing 4 different outfits one on top of the other.

[somber sequoia]

... I certainly wasn't saying "pay me"

[raven orbit]

you don't get help with that attitude 🙄

[spark walrus]

straight up asking for money

[raven orbit]

no one here was telling you to pay them, just that no one is going to do it for free

[somber sequoia]

no I was pointing out that this thing you want someone to do for free is actually a bunch of work and if you offer money, you might get people interested in doing it for you.

[spark walrus]

all i need is simple help with buttons. money shouldnt be required to press buttons

digital art and tech issues? yes. 5 buttons? no.

[somber sequoia]

hmm, I need to know which 5 buttons to push to make quest versions. It takes me WAY longer than this normally.

[wind parrot]

i mean, what you said could be understood as "convert my avatar to quest", not as "could someone convert my avatar to quest, please?"

If you ask nicely and let people do their work, they might help you after the missunderstanding

[spark walrus]

so if i go to unity and go to build there is an option to switch it to quest/android. and it wont let me cause my model is .vrm and i need simple help knowing how to convert it. thats all

[somber sequoia]

Okay, that's definitely different than how I read your first statement. And is exactly what I suggested we could help with in here.

[iron kindle]

I have conected the bones to the armature, done the weight painting, still cant make the part of the model I wanted to have bones for jiggles

Must be missing a step or something

[somber sequoia]

physbones?

[iron kindle]

I know how to make physbones work in Unity, I just need some bones that effect the movement for the butt to put the physbones on

[somber sequoia]

right, but you just made those

[iron kindle]

They are on the model but when moved in poser they do not move the area I want the physics

[somber sequoia]

but you weight painted them?

they should move the mesh if you did

[iron kindle]

The model itself has areas like that without the weight painted on them that jiggle in unity, and those areas move with the bones

[somber sequoia]

not sure I understood that?

[raven orbit]

if they move with bones in unity, then they have weight painting

[somber sequoia]

right

[iron kindle]

Hmm, I'll keep at it

[wispy moon]

so im running avatar emulator and i seem to be getting this error...

Lyuma.Av3Emulator.Editor.LyumaAv3MenuEditor.RenderButtonMenu () (at ./Packages/lyuma.av3emulator/Editor/LyumaAv3MenuEditor.cs:144)
Lyuma.Av3Emulator.Editor.LyumaAv3MenuEditor.OnInspectorGUI () (at ./Packages/lyuma.av3emulator/Editor/LyumaAv3MenuEditor.cs:61)
UnityEditor.UIElements.InspectorElement+<>c__DisplayClass72_0.<CreateInspectorElementUsingIMGUI>b__0 () (at <347e3e2bef8c4deb82c9790c6e198135>:0)
UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent(Int32, IntPtr, Boolean&)

nvm, fixed it

[iron kindle]

My bones, I have weight painted the area

[idle jetty]

I set the link mode to skin rewrite and now it looks like this on my avatar

[iron kindle]

Gonna give up for now, nothing I seem to do is working so I must be wrong on a step. will keep looking into it but for now gonna do something else

[raven orbit]

if the mesh is properly weighted and still doesn't move, you could check if the bone itself set to deform

[cinder frost]

How do I add phsybone transforms to bones that are constrained?

[iron kindle]

Oh

I'll look into that

[vast geyser]

for some reason on some avatars the finger tracking moves the fingers as expected and some other avatars it just does the gestures, any reason for that? any way to fix it?

[iron kindle]

Bone was set to deform, I think somehow these new bones are not attaching to the mesh?

[wind parrot]

hi again
I finally got the expression menu to work, and it has my expression (animation), but when i play it, it does nothing. (The preview works while on unity btw). Any ideas about why this is happening?

[raven orbit]

do the vertex groups have the exact same name as the bone?

[iron kindle]

I do not think so

Should I make Vertex groups for them?

And how many bones do you think I should have for the jiggle? Seen both three and two used

[spark walrus]

i uploaded my avatar and its supposed to be PCVR only, but quest/android users can somehow see it instead of my fallback. additionally, none of the clothes/meshes show up so its na aked for quest users. can anyone help?

[ornate stump]

It's probably an imposter avatar. You'll have to go to vrchat website and see your avatar info, then delete imposter version from there.

[spark walrus]

thank you il check

[raven orbit]

yes, vertex groups with the exact same name as the bones they are weighted to are a requirement for weight painting. as for how many, i'd personally do just one bone per leg, but I've never set up phys bones for that part of the body. using less physbones will have better performance but it's up to you what setup you think works better

[iron kindle]

A friend asked me to look into adding them to her avatar, this is also just me learning the system

I have got blendshapes and painting new textures down, if I can learn more about rigging this will be going well

[raven orbit]

there's lots of tutorials on youtube about rigging in blender

[iron kindle]

Yea, saving them as I find them

[raven orbit]

good idea. been saving blender tutorials to watch later for about the past decade (and now i have 800 videos saved that i havent watched yet )

[white cargo]

Sorry to dig up this old message, but did you ever find a fix for that "UNKNOWN" state?

I am getting a similar error

[spark walrus]

TYSM that was it

[wind parrot]

Didnt get the emotes working, i dont recommend using 5 year old files

I knew using deprecated methods was rough, at least i learnt stuff

[hazy bay]

Heya enforce tpose isnt working anyone know whats up with this?

[iron kindle]

I think I got it working!

Blender may crash though

[hazy bay]

Nvm i am dumb

[spark walrus]

to who ever can convert my model into a quest avatar ill make a personal avatar for you that works on both vtubering and vrchat.

[wind parrot]

bruh

remind me what is your issue again?

[hazy bay]

i dont understand why this is happening Its driving me insane

[raven orbit]

she just wants to do the limbo

[raven orbit]

in this second image your hip bone is set to armature instead of your hips

[hazy bay]

I fixed that and it still does this

[raven orbit]

o damn

[hazy bay]

But I Don't WANT her to do the limbo 😦

lol

have you ever come across this? i really don't understand, even removing all locomotion stuff it still does this

[raven orbit]

last time i had a problem like this i think i solved it by parenting the hip bone to a "root" bone at 0,0,0, but i haven't had that issue for any model since. i think it's usually an issue with the rotation or export settings. i would try applying all transforms in blender, and making sure the rest and pose positions are the same

[hazy bay]

ill see what i can do to fix it with those in mind thank you

it might be the angle

[spark walrus]

my avatar is set to pc only and i DESPERATELY need it to be quest soon... i have a very special video comming up for a small content creator event and i need to attend it...

[iron kindle]

Are you able to use unity and follow tutoriasl?

[wind parrot]

I can try to help, no promises

[raven orbit]

i think that message is something about the legs being pointed at an angle like this rather than straight down, never caused an issue for me though

[wind parrot]

Are you cool with sending the avatar or do you want help just on chat

[iron kindle]

Also, thanks to everyone who responded to me when asking for help, I successfully got things working

[spark walrus]

if my next plan wont work ill contact you

[wind parrot]

i didnt help,but im glad it's working for you

no contract, i'm just helping because i'm already here

i said no promises lmao

[spark walrus]

im chill sending it. i dont fear you stealing it lol its shitty. its my frst model. so its rlly not worth stelaing

ik lol but an effort is enough for me

[hazy bay]

Damn then i have 0 clue whats going on

[hazy bay]

I applyed all transforms and the rest and pose positions are good

[raven orbit]

is the hip bone pointed straight up?

[raven orbit]

seems fine, if it doesn't work then i got no clue what the problem is either ngl

[wind parrot]

Can confirm about this

[modest oxide]

How do I make an animation move my head with the avatar? I press play in the animation tab and it works perfectly but when I press play in the gesture manager it does not work properly. It is a trip animation and It perfectly trips in the animation tab but not in the actual play animation

[raven orbit]

Have to set tracking control (state behavior) to set head to animation while the animation is playing

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/state-behaviors/#:~:text=Animator Tracking Control​

[modest oxide]

like this?

[raven orbit]

Yes, and you will need to create a state that sets its back to tracking after the animation is done playing

[broken cape]

Alright, i dont know what to do anymore.
Contact Receivers that when touched, lets me take my weapon off my back to my hand, and works 100% on PC.
so when my hand gets inside the capsule, it activates the animation to hide or move my weapon from my back to my hand.

i dont own an android/quest to test, so have to ask quest users, but no matter what i do.
its like my VRCContactReceivers are not working on quest side.
yet its the same build, just quest shaders and the audio removed.
(a quest comp version)

i got into playmode on unity PC side and try to grab it in unity(posing it and works ingame).
it activated the animation, but on quest it does nothing(doing the same thing).

everything setup the same. 🤔

just for the heck of it, i google around and make sure before asking(nothing shows up on here about it)
even looked at a video called "VRChat Avatar Tutorial - Contact Toggles (Grabbing Objects off your Avatar)" for a reference.
i am stump on this.

i am lost and i dont know what to do, if anyone can please help.
that would mean a lot.

i can show you what i have done, maybe i am missing something.
what is weird, a simple boop reciever i done on my cell for his face works, but something that using my toggle animation wont.

[buoyant thorn]

how do I fix this

[ornate stump]

Check the logs for details. Look in the console.

[heady linden]

any idea how to fix the weird issue with trails? i started having it recently. outside of cameras and mirrors, they behave normally, but evey other frame they seem to snap to some default point when you seen in a mirror or vrc camera

[sand goblet]

Anyone else getting this issue when trying to log in?

I do not have a VPN

huuh?????

I can't even play the game anymore

This isn't even a Avatar help anymore this is an actual crisis like what????

[heady linden]

then go contact support. it literally says to

[sand goblet]

I did

[sand pollen]

Is there anything anyone knows about a adding face details specifically but also just details in general. Also for some reason my model feels off and don’t know why. I wanna fix the “off” feeling before adding arms. (This is my first time modeling so I’m very new sorry!)

[gloomy garnet]

so, suddenly out of nowhere a lot of times whenever I go to upload an avatar, it fails to upload, giving an error like this...

https://i.gyazo.com/1de6b3b5bbe461789997439458f4b6a5.png

what even is this. what does it mean.

there is nothing wrong with the avatar, it's successfully uploaded previously

[iron kindle]

Hello, is there anyone who willing to help me with adding a third person toggle on my avatar? just a tutorial should be fine too, i'm not able to find any info about it

[thick dirge]

I keep getting this error and I need some help, I am generally very new with SDK. I am trying to upload quest version of my avatar.

[left wharf]

Screenshotting console is better way to get the answers. (take a screenshot of the first few errors, please)

[left wharf]

I said “take a screenshot of the first few errors, please.”
That error has no information other than “Failed to build the avatar”

[balmy barn]

wheres the rest , cant tell how many errors you have (top red matters)

[thick dirge]

Will this help ?

[left wharf]

No, that won’t helpful. do what Thulen said and screenshot.

[thick dirge]

Sorry, still trying to understand how you mean, I see a couple of white and yellow above, do you want to see all of them?

[left wharf]

Ok I’m starting my PC to take a screenshot for explain, take a few minutes

[left wharf]

ok so, thanks for taking them. but Info and Warn are not helpful.
if there's no other errors, try thees steps:

• Restart Unity
• Reinstall all packages from VCC
• Close Unity, remove Library folder, Reopen Unity.

[thick dirge]

Restarting a couple of times worked, hmm...

[gloomy garnet]

.

[left wharf]

have you tried reuploading / restarting unity?

[balmy barn]

you are going to get so many scammers/bots now

[eternal jay]

Do you know any actual people??

[misty musk]

how do i get it to weightpaint more to the way i want it even tho its at max??

[junior void]

remove from other groups

[fervent spear]

hi guys im not rlly sure how to explain this, but i recently added an expression with closed eyes to my avatar and an accessory toggle, which both work perfectly fine, but something weird happens with the eyes occasionally, as if they are partially closed. it only appears that way for others, and i am unable to see it myself (found this out by viewing my avatar on an alt) i tried to get a video of it happening but i wasnt able to get it to happen again. sometimes i would be able to get it to stop by triggering different face expressions but sometimes that didnt work. any idea what may be causing this?

i will continue to try get a video of whats happening

[steady summit]

anyone knows what happened here? I use Poiyomi shader and when I put Rim Lighting then it makes it look like my avatar has crazy cellulite lol, never encountered this before with Rim Lighting.
In Blender everything looks smooth tho so no idea

[placid mica]

So I just switched from Quest to PCVR and I noticed something-

Is there a way to play on Desktop/PCVR and still see users Imposters/Fallbacks?!
It's either the full version of their avatar, or the grey robot!! Please tell me there is still a way to see users fallbacks or imposters on PC!!

I've been on PCVR for about 2 or so weeks now and I haven't found a way to just see normal fallbacks again.

[junior void]

Do you have normal map on the body

[steady summit]

yes

[junior void]

Try removing it to see if it gets better or not

[steady summit]

didn't do anything sadly 😦

[timber wharf]

just make avatar don't fit your safety limits (not good rating, too many megabytes etc) ie auto-hide. then it will be fallback/impostor. also #1138891887374237706

[junior void]

Then the only other idea i have is to play with normal settings in the import settings of your fbx

[placid mica]

Is it the thing with the avatar download size or anything? Because when I have my safety levels to show users avatars it just automatically shows the full version even without changing it on their profile

[timber wharf]

theres option to hide poor or very poor

and yes download size as well

[steady summit]

omg thank you, I put the Normals from 'Import' to 'Calculate' and it fixed it

[fervent spear]

cant get a video 😭it seems to happen randomly

and ofc it doesnt happen when im recording lmao

[junior void]

Sounds like another animation is driving the eye blink or similar blendshape

[gloomy garnet]

yes. sometimes it uploads fine, sometimes it throws errors and fails. This has been happening for days, across multiple Unity restarts, for seemingly no reason.

it usually takes like 10 upload attempts before it finally succeeds

[left wharf]

So check your internet connection stability.
Or… restarting your router may helpful?

[fervent spear]

mayybe but im not rly sure how to fix that😭 also it only seems to be happening on others screens, not mine

[tribal pumice]

Why does a 3d model look normal in Unity but not in Blender with the material view on? It's pretty inconvenient for model editing

Certain parts are see through esque like the light looking like it's clipping through the wall that's several feet away

[ornate stump]

Transparent overlapping probably.

[tribal pumice]

Thanks I think I figured it out. All the materials had "show backface" turned on

[white rock]

i am having a weird issue where my models eyes are looking down no matter what animation i preview even though its not animated in any of them. ive even tried a completely clean FX Layer with 1 animation and it does it.

[fervent spear]

found something that may be causing it - before i close the eyes, eye movements like blinking and looking around are working, but after i close and open my eyes, the eyes are still, how do i fix this?

[junior void]

youd have to look at your playable layers. theres no "one fix".

it sounds like you have an animation that does not exit its own state/gets stuck after animation fulfillment (loop not ticked?)

[fervent spear]

oohh i will check

yeaa it wasnt ticked, should i also tick loop pose

[half ice]

how can i export my avatar from unity with only the matrieals that i used

[ornate stump]

Export avatar from unity to where?

[fervent spear]

didnt work ;(

[half ice]

just export it as unity file

[ornate stump]

Do you mean unitypackage file?

[half ice]

yeah

[ornate stump]

Make a prefab of your avatar and export the prefab with dependencies. Or export the scene that avatar is in, with its dependencies.

[half ice]

how can i make prefab ? ..

[junior void]

Put an avi together in your scene, then drag it from the hierarchy to the assets

[half ice]

i mean im not 100% sure didnt wanna break my avatar

xD

okkk

[ornate stump]

Drag the object from from hierarchy tab into project tab. Preferably as prefab variant.

[half ice]

50h work so im nervus

okk thanks

[ornate stump]

But if you unpacked the avatar in the scene then prefab variant isn't going to be an option, and original prefab is likely going to break avatar when edited.

[half ice]

so just dont unpack it and gona be fine ?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[raw glen]

Ok, this might be a stupid question guys, but if anyone knows avatars like cleo or hiya by purrinia, I would like to get the hair clip to look like hers. It's nice and clean. Currently, the best thing i have is to use the transclipping setting on poiyomi shader but u can see it's not perfect because it makes the hair behind it see through as well. Any ideas on which setting I should be using ??? The cutout just doesn't look as clean nd soft

[ornate stump]

Try using cutout rendering, with alpha dithering.

[placid mica]

Does anybody know a way I can easily override blendshapes that have an animation?

I have facial animations on my avatar, but I was using blendhapes on the head (to change the ear shape and teeth) but the facial animation overrides them and sets them back to 0, even though those parts aren't animated
Does anyone know a way to override the animation without breaking it or removing it all together?

[tall basin]

I need to talk to one to the higher-ups on VRCHAT because some reason bennad from vrchat I'm trying to figure out what the hell is going on what did I do wrong

[ornate stump]

#moderation-reports

[tall basin]

But I didn't do anything wrong though

[ornate stump]

And why you sent friend request to me?

[ornate stump]

No one here can help you, nor knowing you're saying the truth about not doing anything, nor it was a mistake from vrchat. You have to open ticket and appeal to vrchat team.

[tall basin]

Sorry

[tall basin]

I just feel like this ain't Fair because I'm feel like I'm getting bennad for something I didn't do

[ornate stump]

Do ban appeal. We don't have information to judge you.

[tall basin]

All memory I was watching a anime with a friend and I just got banned out of nowhere

[gloomy flint]

you should have the reason you were banned in your email.

[tall basin]

I read it but I didn't do anything sexual

[gloomy flint]

did you have ANY avatars that could go nude? at all/

any eboys? egirls?

[tall basin]

Yes but I didn't pull it out or anything like that and plus tattoos of people using nude avatar. And another thing is how do you know it was a invite only world.

[gloomy flint]

you had it at all

if someone knows your avatar can go nude and they decide to report you, that's reason enough for VRChat to ban you. NSFW is entirely against TOS.

Someone probably reported you earlier when you weren't in a private world. Reports take a couple days to be looked at and investigated.

[tall basin]

And what day was that

[raven orbit]

No one here would know, we aren't mods dude

[gloomy flint]

No one knows except whoever reported you and the mods, dawg, and they aren't going to tell you for the privacy of the reporter.

You had NSFW avatars, it was an open and shut case. If it was a perma ban this means it wasn't your first offense either.

An avatar creator I know didn't know the limits of NSFW and accidentally got banned for a week and had all their avatars removed so they had to cut out parts and reupload

[tall basin]

I know you not but but this really kind of bothers me a lot.

[gloomy flint]

you put yourself as risk wearing avatars that have NSFW toggles, it's no ones fault but your own

The ban SHOULDN'T be permanent though, if this is your first offense.

[gloomy flint]

its a day ban

so its your first offense

🤷‍♂️ just wait the 24 hours, man

you broke the TOS, there's no appealing it, plus its only 24 hours like cmon.

[ornate stump]

Just do the appealing. Discussing this matter in public only do harm to your case of getting appealed. You only incriminate yourself when you talked about it.

[gloomy flint]

the thing ren is i dont think it'll be appealed anyway

NSFW is strictly against TOS, and VRChat would know if your avatar has NSFW toggles when they investigate it.

[tall basin]

It was a public avatar it not my avatar

[gloomy flint]

You can't appeal these types of cases, the avatar creator who got banned for the same reasons couldn't appeal it either.

Wearing NSFW is still against TOS, it's as shrimple as that, just take the ban for breaching their rules and try to be better next time.

[junior void]

it says behavior. explicit behavior. i agree tho, talking about it in public user-to-user channels doesnt make you look better

[tall basin]

So I guess I have to wait until I can get back on vrchat then

I am sorry I just hate when shit like happen 😦

[ornate stump]

It's usually when they want to appeal in case of mistake being made by vrchat so discussing in the public only do harm, the same way as prosecution IRL. But in this case they just admitted the guilt, so case closed then.

[somber sequoia]

you can do this via animator logic - make sure you only alter that blendshape in one animation layer at a time.

[placid mica]

its not my animation, though

Its an animation add-on to my avatar

[somber sequoia]

what's an animation add-on?

[placid mica]

Like an asset

[somber sequoia]

ah. well my statement still applies

[placid mica]

How could I do that?
Sorry, I'm still new to unity

[somber sequoia]

you might have to take apart that asset and rework the animator logic to do what you want it to

[placid mica]

what is animator logic?

[somber sequoia]

"if this condition then do that action"

[placid mica]

Uhhhh

oh boy

[somber sequoia]

yeah 🙂

[placid mica]

Like this stuff??? I'm so confused

[somber sequoia]

oh wow

that looks like fun

[placid mica]

Yea uh its not 😭

[somber sequoia]

not at all

[placid mica]

This was all added by this expression asset

I just want to find a way to make my lil teeth stay sharp 😭 pls

[balmy barn]

easiest would be another layer at bottom and have it always on , it should ingore whatever the other above doing

but that one looks like hell to figure out

[placid mica]

is there anything else I would need to add if I did that? I also don't know how to animate, or even add blendshapes into this thing

The only thing I know how to do on this screen is make a simple on/off toggle. thats it

[placid mica]

So how exactly do I go about doing that

[balmy barn]

new layer at bottom with a simple animation with its blendshape on 100 at bottom , you would need to find wich one it is on mesh

[placid mica]

So I have to make an animation right?

[somber sequoia]

Yes

[placid mica]

I made the animation, how do I make it always stay on?

[balmy barn]

long as thats on bottom of controller it should always be that value now, if you change it - will flicker back to your value

[placid mica]

hm let me test it

[placid mica]

It didnt work, the ear would be pointed if it worked

[gloomy flint]

ok i have to ask are you trying to basically make a new blendshape for the ears or did you find something that goes onto the ears to make them pointy

[placid mica]

Its an existing blendshape on the head mesh

[placid mica]

Theres 3 different ones I want on at all times, one that makes the ears pointed, and 2 that make the teeth pointed. But the asset I have added that animated more facial expressions makes the blendshapes constantly set to 0 and I am not sure how to override it

This is what it would look like with the blendshapes I want. (The mouth is just open to show the teeth)

And ignore the eyebrows; its the same situation as it is with the ears and teeth. But I've given up hope for those, since they get directly animated from my asset

[somber sequoia]

you can also edit the animations in that asset, removing those blendshape controls

[gloomy flint]

if they're blendshapes on the avatar, can't you simply put the blendshapes at 1 and see if they stay at 1 in gesture manager?...

I've used avatars that use blendshapes to customize them in Unity and all you did was slide the blendshapes into the one you want and they'll save.

if you don't plan to have them change while in vrchat, and just want the ears and teeth to stay pointed 24/7,,,

[somber sequoia]

Yes, but it seems there's an animation in this add-on which sets them

[gloomy flint]

huh.

[placid mica]

Yes, that is exactly what I am trying to do. But this animation asset automatically has the default for the animations set at 0

[placid mica]

and THIS is what the animation controls looks like, plus some. I have no idea how to edit this without breaking it

So I was just trying to see if I could override these 3 blendshapes that I wanted changed

[somber sequoia]

you don't need to edit the animator, just find the animations which tweak these blendshapes

[placid mica]

I've been looking, and I am not sure how to find the animations themselves

[somber sequoia]

somewhere in the files that package installed. Or click on animation states and you can find them there

[placid mica]

omg wait I found animations

bwa

We are onto something!

Okay, great, I found the animations for the blendshapes but they all have the same damn name! 😭

[raven orbit]

expand the bar with the key names

[bronze niche]

Hey everyone! its it possible to have a toggle that opens up an information screen only visible by the user? I am wondering about using the GUI text with the benefit of markup.

[somber sequoia]

sure, you can check IsLocal in your animation logic, true = the player, false = anyone else.

re: text, there's no real text processing so I don't know how you'd be able to do anything useful that isn't static images or some fun with sprite sheets

or a shader, I suppose

[placid mica]

So i've got the animations for some of the blendshapes, but I can't add my own to these already existing ones, it wont let me press anything
is there something I need to ujnlock first?

[bronze niche]

Its for Quest. I was hoping to create a GUI plane thanking the people in my server involved in my free avatar project.

[somber sequoia]

okay

so a simple image is probably fine

[spark walrus]

There's this weird green texture on my model, it wasn't on my textures or my blender. I don't know what's going on, it would be appreciated if someone would tell me what to do.

[junior void]

Quest?

If so, its likely vertex colors

[spark walrus]

Ohhh, yea probably lemme just check rq

Wait i forgot where the vertex colors are wait

Nvm, tysm!!!

❤️ /p

[cobalt zephyr]

does this work to emulate something like write deafults? by reseting the animator to a deafult animation every time theres no input?

[timber wharf]

to emulate wd you create extra layer with everything set to defaults in animation and place it above main one. its called reset layer.

[cobalt zephyr]

had none of that on avi

but the selected part of the layer make no sense to me

they go from any state to a animation named disable and to exit

while everything else goes from entry to a sub state machine and to exit

i g´figgured out the machines job in the layer

but the selected part dosent make eny sense to me

[timber wharf]

thats probly just for gesture disable toggle or smth

whats the condition

[cobalt zephyr]

force gesture disable?

like to stop any gesture from playing?

[timber wharf]

well ye. idk, check transitions conditions etc

[cobalt zephyr]

"disablehandsinput"

[timber wharf]

well ye

[cobalt zephyr]

k

how does it work tho?

being only conected to any state'

does it work only when nothing connected to entry work

or after a parameter

at any point

[timber wharf]

wha

anystate equals same transition from any state

so whatever gesture you have as soon as transition is valid it happens

[wind parrot]

there's an example animator controller on the samples part of unity, you can copy that as defaults for the layer he mentioned you could use

[cobalt zephyr]

thx but i also enjoy smashing my head with this stuff untill i crack the code or my skull XD

so trying to figgure it out as mutch as possible

but if i cant crack it ill ef make use of it ^^

[wind parrot]

i mean, he said you just need the default controller

no need to smash your head to get a default controller all the avis should have

when you leave the avatar descriptor scrip as default, it downloads a copy from vrchat, and i think the sample is that exact one

[fading trout]

Anyone know why so many avis break for me in Unity 2022? The weight paint is normal in blender, so that cant be the issue. It completley breaks, even as you can see in the FBX preview

[somber sequoia]

you could try resetting the rig to generic and apply, then doing the humanoid setup again

[fading trout]

the FBX really was broken, reexporting the FBX fixed it

[iron kindle]

How can I move a bone to a new parent folder? It wont upload to VRC because the bone placement ius confusing it. I need to move the bones on the bottom to hips

[somber sequoia]

oh very nice

[raven orbit]

needs to be parented in blender before export

[somber sequoia]

in the properties box for that bone (little bone icon) you can change the parent, or you can select the bone then target, and ctrl+p

[raven orbit]

oh wait that is blender

[somber sequoia]

yep

[iron kindle]

Oh I fiured it out just as you typed

[somber sequoia]

oh good

[iron kindle]

Turns out I was not in edit mode

[somber sequoia]

oh, that'll do it too

[gloomy pier]

keep getting this avi description error but everytime i fix it it removes the avi descriptor how do i fix this?

[steep yoke]

im new to this and Im trying to fit some pants on an avatar but they won’t fit right any tips?

[somber sequoia]

I think that happens if you have two of those somehow - do you have an avatar within an avatar?

[gloomy pier]

I don't think so

[iron kindle]

Well this sucks, the new bones are confusing unity and it wont let me upload

[somber sequoia]

in what way?

[iron kindle]

Keeps saying the avatar is not humnoid and wont let me change anything

[somber sequoia]

you may have to switch it to generic and back

I haven't had issues doing this though so I'm not sure why you would

[somber sequoia]

what are you showing me

[night ember]

why are you messing with an object thats a prefab created by vrchat?

[somber sequoia]

ohh is that what's going on here

[night ember]

looks like ripping to me

of some random avtr_f140c403-e307-... etc

[gloomy flint]

its Femboy Fexa

i can see it in the FX layer lol

[balmy barn]

[gloomy flint]

Femboy Fexa_Clone_

[night ember]

get it from the original source next time?

[gloomy flint]

I'm not the one who posted it I'm just stating that's what they're messing with

[night ember]

dont rip next time?

[night ember]

also that doesnt mean shit

[gloomy flint]

I'm fairly sure they ripped Femboy Fexa and are trying to get him working

[night ember]

this is a MASSIVE red flag that the person just tried ripping and reuploading

[gloomy flint]

i'm just saying its really funny they're trying to rip Femboy fexa

like damn, down bad much? /lh

[night ember]

Im assuming said fexa is the overused fnia models that are by far the most ripped avatars in a fandom

[gloomy flint]

I will note they HAD to have ripped it

because Femboy Fexa isn't for sale anywhere.

Only Fexa is.

I googled it just now, no storefronts have that edit

[night ember]

femboy fexa is just fexa without chest

[gloomy flint]

well yes, but it's an edit. that isn't for sale.

The only way to get specifically a Femboy version of Fexa is to either edit the model yourself, or rip it from someone who has

which just makes this whole situation even funnier

[night ember]

its not even that much effort to change it

[gloomy flint]

so ripping it screams laziness

[night ember]

ripping outside of porting game models is entirely just lazy or (I dont want to do it myself)

[gloomy flint]

me suggesting for someone in a server to take Jue from Wuthering Waves and make them a handpuppet avatar (i like Loongs)

wish it was easier to get models from games like Wuthering Waves :(

[bronze niche]

The issue with using an image is I need that space. Quest avis are limited and I am going for Med performance. I am wondering if OSC is an option here

[somber sequoia]

to do what exactly?

the user would have to be running a program locally to affect an avatar via OSC

[bronze niche]

its for my public avis. A toggle that opens a GUI window with a message. The text in the message can have markup

[somber sequoia]

There's no text renderer with markup on avatars

[balmy barn]

simple quad weightpainted to a bone that pops up and goes back into skull (something) after x time

[bronze niche]

and without?

[somber sequoia]

without what?

oh - no, there's no text renderer at all

[gloomy flint]

ive seen avatars that can link up to smth like TTS Wizard and has a built in text display for it, but thats not what youre looking for at all, its basically like a glorified mute board

[bronze niche]

A colleague suggested I look into this app. This is why I am asking about osc
https://github.com/VolcanicArts/VRCOSC

[somber sequoia]

I suspect that'd require a custom shader or way too many materials to be medium on quest

[gloomy flint]

yup, usually its pc only

[somber sequoia]

Yes, but OSC is for getting data from a program on your local computer into the avatar.

[gloomy flint]

most common is spotify and clocks

[bronze niche]

right ok

[spark walrus]

I need help to quest compat avis

This one is 52mb and has to be 10mb for quest, I've taken every toggle, clothing, and texture i could off, I've made the textures I cant small, and I know it's not gonna be enough, I don't have enough space to install blender until I finish these, what else can I do?

[gloomy flint]

i wish it was possible to control my youtube from within vrchat using osc 😔 i wanna just skip songs or loop certain ones, etc,,,, just for music or ASMR 😢

[somber sequoia]

but it is?

[bronze niche]

polys? materials? textures?

[gloomy flint]

is there a pre-existing asset with that osc input that i can look at? most i've seen are Spotify or Youtube Music specifically which suck

[somber sequoia]

I don't know, but OSC can be used for this.

[spark walrus]

Idk, its the new Avery tho, the final remake

[balmy barn]

'upload' offline avatar - see compressed/uncompressed size , reduce stuff,

[spark walrus]

I can get the specs soon

I have the pc version done already

[gloomy flint]

you could get Thrys evaluator

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

this will tell you whats taking up the most space to optimize accordingly

[spark walrus]

I'll try that then

[somber sequoia]

blendshapes

[spark walrus]

so im gonna need blender then?

since i need to merge a lot of it?

[gloomy pier]

im broke and its gonna be private

no harm no foul

also i won't

[somber sequoia]

or try vrcquesttools

[spark walrus]

i sadly have no idea how to use that

im still kinda new to avi creation

[somber sequoia]

so you can learn

[gloomy pier]

is

[spark walrus]

yea but it doesnt seem to have a menu?

[night ember]

my guy ripping is banned entirely

[spark walrus]

like ive tried using it and it just doesnt show

[somber sequoia]

I've not used it, I just have heard it does this.

[gloomy flint]

then where? i looked it up and can't find any store fronts for it lol.

[spark walrus]

then you cant tell me "you can learn" i cant learn if it doesnt come up at all

[gloomy flint]

the only thing google shows me are people ripping it and posting it.

[spark walrus]

like idk if im missing it but ive checked and cant find it on unity

its installed too

[somber sequoia]

of course I can - you can learn how to use this if other people here have.

[spark walrus]

so idk if its meant to be used another way or what

[spark walrus]

yes but you cant be rude to me 🙂

im gonna try to figure out how to get it working but idk im not hopeful

[somber sequoia]

I'm not being rude to you - you seemed to be complaining that the answer wasn't easy and given. I'm pointing out that even if you don't know how to do something now, you can learn how to.

[spark walrus]

it just seems to past the files in unity and then nothing

genuinly if i didnt have so many quest friends, i wouldnt bother

[gloomy flint]

you still admitted to downloading ripped stuff lol

[balmy barn]

[gloomy pier]

got it of a website for free:p

[balmy barn]

waste of time

[gloomy pier]

idk how to rip lmao

[gloomy flint]

thats downloading a ripped avatar.

[raven orbit]

that's cause it was ripped and uploaded there

[gloomy pier]

didn't know it was ripped

im not that smart

[gloomy flint]

yes you did...

[raven orbit]

you know now, so you shouldn't use it

[gloomy pier]

ive been making avatars short of 4 months

[gloomy pier]

alright

[night ember]

dont feign ignorance
you made it very clear and that you dont care

[gloomy pier]

i didn't upload it there

[gloomy flint]

you still downloaded it.

[gloomy pier]

if the person who made the edit had a problem it prob wouldve been taking down tho

[night ember]

and tried justifying using it

[spark walrus]

what am i suppose to even do from here?

i dont see any buttons or anything to click but settings

[somber sequoia]

creators often can't chase down every instance of piracy that exists

[night ember]

you act like people are omnipotent

[gloomy pier]

fair enough

[spark walrus]

force apply did jack sadly

[somber sequoia]

what are you trying to do exactly?

[gloomy pier]

alr i didnt think about that

i apologise

[raven orbit]

the website it was uploaded to likely doesnt give a shit about copyright claims ngl

[gloomy pier]

fair enough

i only upload avatars privately anyway qwq not implying that im gonna upload it

[night ember]

it wouldnt change the fact it was stolen

[somber sequoia]

we should all try to pay creators for their work.

[gloomy pier]

welp ig i cant use it then since im broke

[somber sequoia]

yep, that's how it is sometimes

[raven orbit]

yep

[gloomy pier]

question tho

if i learned avatar ripping not saying i will

could i rip an avatar just for a particles set?

[night ember]

no

[somber sequoia]

do you really think anyone is going to help you rip things?

[gloomy pier]

and not use the avatar?

[gloomy pier]

not the question

[night ember]

ripping in every shape or form can get your dumbass in trouble

[gloomy pier]

alr

[somber sequoia]

We're not going to help you do anything like ripping

[gloomy pier]

i didnt say that

i dont wana learn

[gloomy pier]

just wondering

anyway

[worn kiln]

We are keeping eye, if you going to try, I shall work on you.

[gloomy pier]

sorry for sounding like an a hole

[gloomy pier]

alr

it was just a question

[junior void]

right

[worn kiln]

even question be against ToS....you better sit back and read #rules

[gloomy pier]

so if i see a avatars with really scrambled names there prob ripped?

[night ember]

dont use the site you got it from at all

[worn kiln]

[gloomy pier]

alright thanks

[night ember]

always buy it from the actual sources

[wind parrot]

Hi. Trying to make a .vrm work in quest, when im about to build, it says "this avatar doesnt have an animator". When i add a vrchat animator, it tells me it's deleting some scripts from the .vrm, like "avatar descriptor" and others. Is this normal?
Or should i look into the other ways google tell me to convert .vrm into quest? Thanks

[gloomy pier]

sorry for the inconvenience i prob sounded rude as hell qwq

[night ember]

whered you get it

[wind parrot]

I'm helping a friend lol

[night ember]

then where did your friend get it

[wind parrot]

They made the avatar in vroid and they cant get it to work on quest

So they asked me for help

[wind parrot]

I mean, they said they made it 🤷

[night ember]

you cant use vrm files for vrchat avatars

[somber sequoia]

I'd turn that into an FBX with blender - especially if it's from vroid. There are also lots of tutorials for this process

[night ember]

you need to convert to fbx

[somber sequoia]

there IS a .vrm import/convert tool for Unity

[night ember]

not great

[somber sequoia]

blender seems the sane way though

[wind parrot]

Thanks! I'm using the vrm convert tool, but with the issues i had, i was asking if i should keep going with this or look into the other tutorials i found

[somber sequoia]

If you've put the .vrm into Unity then you need a different tutorial

[burnt plank]

the boots of my avatar not working can anyone help the booth shop said liltoon i installed it the others working but the boots isnt

[somber sequoia]

you'd have to show us the material

[mortal solstice]

how does one fix this problem? when i walk i launch into the ground

[burnt plank]

how

[somber sequoia]

click on whatever object the shoes are, look in the inspector at the materials list, click on the material in question, show us in the inspector

[burnt plank]

this ?

[somber sequoia]

that's a bone. Most likely it's the "boots" object in your first image, but that's a guess, not knowing your avatar.

the object will be listed as a Skinned Mesh Renderer in the inspector

[somber sequoia]

yes, now open the materials dropdown, find the material in question, and view that in the inspector.

[somber sequoia]

please read what I said

and view that in the inspector

[burnt plank]

i clicked the boot from the option and it shows

[somber sequoia]

You want to look at the material on the boots, not the boots. But it seems to be fixed now anyway,s o.....

[hazy bay]

anyone know how to fix this?

[hazy bay]

Fixed it

[raven orbit]

how'd you fix it 👀 i'd like to know in case anyone else has the same issue

[outer nimbus]

Should I add parameter I am using in FX controller to expression parameters?

[mortal solstice]

wha does this mean and how do i fix so it doenst say i anymore </3

[white topaz]

gogoloco is missing files in your project

Blender noob here, I shortned the hair quite a bit, do I need to refit the bones down there or can I just delete the extra ones

[iron kindle]

How do I unhide these options that are part of the prefab so I can use them to make new outfit toggles?

[somber meadow]

enable them in the inspector

[iron kindle]

Thank you!

[white topaz]

bump

[wind parrot]

Why not both?

I'd make a copy of the project, do both options, and test each one

[errant comet]

If there are no vertexes assigned to the bones, you can remove them.

[wind parrot]

that also makes sense, yokoshoo

[errant comet]

Can leave them too, but if they don't move anything, why leave them

[primal wind]

Does anybody know what shader settings to use for the vrchat mobile shaders to get it to look like this?

(I can’t use the second image because it’s not compatible)

[hazy bay]

i had to switch from humanoid back to generic and then back to humanoid (such a simple fix)😭

[somber meadow]

There's no shader settings, you'll need to fix the normals in blender

[primal wind]

Oh, thank you

[mortal solstice]

thought so too, thanks! ill try adding it

[quasi briar]

It really depends on how you shortened the hair. Most likely, you will need to refit the bones (not remove them, unless you actually deleted vertices), or redo the weight painting. each bone has specific vertices that it are weighted to it, and if you just delete these bones then those vertexes will not behave as expected

[raven orbit]

i wouldn't have though to do that, glad you figured it out!

[fluid forge]

Does anyone know how to add a password to an avatar?

[balmy barn]

many ways of adding that, can be a single int number guess , order of a int , multiple bools

made a few but i still wish we could detect id of user instead

osc can also be used but its still just a parameter

[wispy moon]

Is there a clean way to make mutually exclusive animation toggles that both control the active state of a mesh?

IE: i have 2 outfit animations that both use the same shirt, but when one of them is on, the other is off, so the shirt turns off.

[steady summit]

no matter what I do, my "metals" just won't look metallic in Unity whatsoever. I tried everything already, put the rendering to opaque or cutout, activated 'Reflections & Specular", tried cubemaps and matcaps, tried Clear Coat and Rim Lighting nothing works.
Any idea why?

I put the shading to Realistic as well

[outer nimbus]

I have issue where I am trying to change viseme settings but its just stuck and doesnt change when I select different option. Also ingame visemes dont seem to work despite the blendshape working in unity...

[balmy barn]

cant leave any of those empty/none , breaks the entire thing, can reuse them though

[outer nimbus]

Do I need to reset the whole avatar descriptor? Also which should I reuse for PP and TH?

[raven orbit]

i would use ss for th and ff for pp

[golden pine]

need a bit of help
my main avatar has this issue where the legs bend outwards whenever the character is standing still, ive tried doing things like moving the leg bones around and making sure theyre straight but none of it seemed to have any change ingame despite going through multiple different fbxs with the bones moved around
what could be causing this, and what can i do to fix it? its pissing me off to no end
this is on desktop, unity proyect has no gogoloco or any animations besides two toggles separate to the avatar itself
(posted over on #1316916860284960799 message as well)

[iron kindle]

Is there a simple method to change what sliders and props an avatar defaults too?

[agile reef]

Trying to convert an avatar to VRM and the eyelashes are blocky with the VRM MToon shader. Is there any way to make the opacity work for this specific shader?

[raven orbit]

if it's set as a toggle, you may be able to set the default values in the parameters list

[iron kindle]

Thanks

[tranquil niche]

Hey all! i'm dealing with the nightmare that is adding shoes to an avatar that has toe motion and toe bones and think i finally got my weight painting where it needs to be, however, the toecap of the shoe always seems to stick upwards when toe motion is turned on, would anyone have any ideas as to why this is?

[feral spindle]

Does anyone here perchance Know how to make 2D Blendshape Visemes- ~~mine keep messing up and i dont know what do-

[hollow meteor]

can anyone please help ? when I go in game my avatar is stuck in t pose but I put them as a humanoid

[fervent spear]

hey guys, whenever i close my eyes ingame it completely stops eye movements like blinking and looking around, even when i open the eyes again, the only way to get eye movements back is by resetting my avatar. what do i need to add to stop this from happening? im assuming its somewhere in here

i use my blink for the eyes closed expression btw

[proper depot]

Hello! For Int toggles, I understand how to set up the toggle itself, but for the animation, how is that recorded? To my understanding it is record everything in one animation but not sure where I should record what haha

[somber sequoia]

the animation has nothing to do with the variables used in the animator

[proper depot]

Oh wait wha

[steady summit]

is there any way with poiyomi to use two Glitter effects on the same material?

[somber sequoia]

nope, there's only one

[hollow meteor]

nvm I got it

[proper depot]

Can i ask how I am supposed to set it up? Cannot find anything online

all the videos I have found just tell you where to plug the animation in but not really how to record it properly, not really sure what you mean with it not having anything to do with the animator 😅

[somber sequoia]

no, I said it has nothing to do with the variables in the animator, like the state machine. Animation clips are called from the animator but (at least in the avatar case) don't affect variables there.

there are lots of tutorials about creating animations though. Basically make a new animation file, drag it into some animation layer, then you can select the avatar and choose the new animation from the dropdown at the top of the Animation window.

[dark jay]

does anyone know how to fix particle auras looking a little low resolution when looking at it how do I fix it? its 2048x1024

[amber pivot]

is there anyway to fix matcaps becoming like sharp and pointy when putting my texture to point (no filter) I want it smooth like the second picture

[night ember]

you putting it to no filter is probably the issue to begin with

no filter means no smoothing between pixels

[fervent spear]

any ideas how to fix this 😭

[somber sequoia]

why would that have a matcap at all?

[night ember]

fake cel shading for mobile probably

[somber sequoia]

ahh

[spark walrus]

Can someone help me figure out how to create this animator logic? Im so lost with this type of stuff. Im trying to have the value of float parameter EyeTrackingActive temporarily copied to float parameter EyeTrackingTemporary when the headpat animation is ON, and EyeTrackingActive set to 0. Once the headpat animation is OFF, the value EyeTrackingTemporary saved will be sent back to EyeTrackingActive, making it the same value as before it was turned off once the Headpat is off. Anyone know?

[amber pivot]

damn🤧

[somber sequoia]

vrc avatar parameter driver. at a guess:
enter -> wait -> [when active] -> copy stuff -> do thing -> copy stuff back -> exit

[spark walrus]

Is that close to what I have in the video?

[somber sequoia]

sorry, I didn't watch the video, can't put the sound on at the moment

[spark walrus]

There is no sound

[somber sequoia]

oh ok

[spark walrus]

just visuals

[somber sequoia]

one min

[hybrid iron]

Hello , trying to find where the chair asset is in the SDK for avatars. can someone help, all the info online points to worlds

[night ember]

what do you mean by "the chair asset"

[somber sequoia]

you turn on the animator tracking control but don't turn it off - why?

[gloomy flint]

i think you mean seat component

it wouldnt be an asset

that would be a prefab for your avatar

[hybrid iron]

i remember it being a prefab a long time ago in 2.0

[gloomy flint]

it can be

[somber sequoia]

you can just add a station, there's not really much more to it than that

[spark walrus]

It works without needing to be turned off, thats just for not VRCFT users

[somber sequoia]

so you want to leave that on? Interesting, not sure why you would

[spark walrus]

Its never been stuck like that before?

[hybrid iron]

using the component is fine but what angle is the seat oriented in.

[somber sequoia]

the one you set it to be using the transform coordinates?

[spark walrus]

Ok I just set it to turn off at entry transition

[hybrid iron]

what i mean is which way is gonna be up on the arrows?

[somber sequoia]

see the compass thingy in the upper right? That's your reference.

also usually the blue arrow points "forward"

(iirc)

[hybrid iron]

so green is the up on the chair is i am to assume.

[somber sequoia]

Green, or +Y, is up for everything in Unity.

[hybrid iron]

and blue is front of the chair , alright, gonna try that and adjust later.

ty

[somber sequoia]

iirc - I haven't read the docs on it in a while

I also may be thinking of world spawn points instead of chairs

[hybrid iron]

i read the docs but they mention a prefab chair that i cannot find for the life of me.

[somber sequoia]

it's probably in the examples in the SDK directory somewhere

[fervent spear]

would doing this possibly fix the problem? i dont really know what im doing

[hybrid iron]

not sure how to look through that. i tried to search in the asset section and nothing came up with VRCChair.

[night ember]

pretty sure its meant for worlds

[somber sequoia]

yeah I've only seen that for worlds, but I can't imagine it's anything more than a station and empties for enter and exit. You really don't need it.

[night ember]

a chair is literally just the station component and a box collider set to istrigger

[hybrid iron]

👍

[fervent spear]

ok this didnt work i actually have no idea what to do😭

[somber sequoia]

so that bit where it's got tracking control set to animation - yeah, you'll need to undo that. But since this whole layer uses AnyState... you can't just add something after one of those main states, it won't be executed.
You'd have to rework this whole thing to NOT use AnyState, then you can add in a "restore tracking" state before Exit.

[fervent spear]

wait will removing anystate affect the other expressions tho

oh i cant delete it

[somber sequoia]

you can't delete it and I never suggested doing so

[fervent spear]

ohh sorry im new and these things dont make much sense to me lol

[somber sequoia]

it's a simple state machine - state flows from Entry through varoius states you define, to Exit; or from AnyState to whatever condition is active.

[fervent spear]

ohh, so do i move the transition attached to anystate to entry?

[somber sequoia]

I am absolutely not telling you to move a single transition

[fervent spear]

how do i get it to not use anystate?

sorry if im asking stupid questions😭

[somber sequoia]

You'd have to rework this whole thing to NOT use AnyState

I don't have a link to a tutorial handy, sorry.

[fervent spear]

its ok, ill try figure it out with the info you gave me, thank you for the help :)

[foggy horizon]

need some help making a toggle with toggle assistant im tryna put on a suit and have everything turn off while the suit turns on then have it return to previous state when turned off

[somber sequoia]

I'd use VRC Avatar Parameter Driver for that. Not sure how Toggle Assistant works though.

though you could just make "not suit" be a condition for the other stuff, really depends on how you want to setup your animator

[foggy horizon]

how do i get that?

[somber sequoia]

it's in the vrc SDK, you already have it

[foggy horizon]

im dumb i mmightve figured it out

[fervent spear]

hey, am i doing this right ?

[foggy horizon]

nvm can u help;-;

[somber sequoia]

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/state-behaviors/#avatar-parameter-driver
otherwise no, I don't know what you've got already setup and I don't use toggle assistant.

[foggy horizon]

mind doin a quick call to show ya?

[somber sequoia]

I don't do that

[foggy horizon]

aight

[ashen pelican]

hi I'm trying to make the liltoon rendering fur but it shows as pink when opaque works as normal

[left gull]

Dont know if you already go help with this but i posted this in here awhile ago for someone else, its a quick guide to a more unoptimized way to do it but theres likely a few How-to videos on youtube or that've been linked in here

[left gull]

pink generally means broken/outdated shader, have you double checked your shader is up-to date/ isnt giving errors in console?

[ashen pelican]

Yeah I'm using the new xx liltoon importer

plugin

whatever

reimported it and fixed shruge

[spark walrus]

Uh so my avi Flys when I try to jump...how do I make it stop?

[foggy horizon]

does it have gogo loco?

[ornate stump]

Because your avatar has physic collider, so remove the collider.

[arctic ginkgo]

how do you have them set up right now?

[spark walrus]

Where would it be?

[spark walrus]

Yea, i just put a new version of it on it, and no other avi I did this to Flys

[ornate stump]

Did you recall you ever add any Game Object with primitive type? A cube, a sphere, etc?

[spark walrus]

Its pre-made and the last upload of her was fine

[ornate stump]

Did you make some change after the last upload?

[spark walrus]

No

and theres nothing there that i can see

[ornate stump]

Search t:collider in the hierarchy

[spark walrus]

It failed security check when reuploading so it may not matter if it doesn't pass, even tho it did before

[spark walrus]

thats all the colliders

it does say this but i removed the marker already

[dark creek]

hey can anyone tell me the name of that addon for VRCC that allows you to make avatars to be quest compatible?

[arctic ginkgo]

d4rk avatar optimizer?

[dark creek]

No it like converts your avatar to android

[dusty monolith]

Anyone know where i can find eboy clothing?

[arctic ginkgo]

you don't need an addon for that..?

just switch to android

[dusty monolith]

Theres a addon that makes it where it switches your materials and stuff

Quest Tools

[arctic ginkgo]

vrc quest tools?

[dusty monolith]

Yea

Pretty sure that’s what they mean

[arctic ginkgo]

yeah i guess it was just worded poorly

[dark creek]

thanks

[vapid holly]

helloo

does anyone know how to make multiple sets of arms and legs? (preferably working in quest?)

[timber wharf]

place rotation constraint on every bone of duplicate with source being original bone. doable on quest now.

[wraith saffron]

You could go into that file and change that "Boo" into "Bool" and see if it works. Also is that a whole skeletal system in there or is that just a drawing on the model?

[spark walrus]

i have no idea where boo is tho, theres nothing i can find, and im not sure?

oh you mean the shirt?

its just a hoodie design

[wraith saffron]

Line 3, column 7, in MarkerEditor.cs

[burnt plank]

hii so i got a outfit and its fine as long its standing but when i sit or do any motion in gogo loco its knees clips help

[left wharf]

i think you are using old package. update VRLabs/Marker. (that error means scripts using obsolete namespace, Boo.Lang is no longer accessible. this fixed in version 1.2.9 of VRLabs/Marker)

[junior void]

This is a weight painting issue, however, most avatar bases have "shrink" blendshapes that ppl use to avoid this from the inside

Example: pants are toggled on = avatars legs are being shrunk under the pants

[burnt plank]

ty

[small raft]

i just bought a clothing assets on booth for a rindo model, it came with 2 downloads, one for the asset and the other for its textures. this is my first avatar and i want to know how i put the textures onto the avatar?

[left wharf]

have you looked the prefabs that already setup?
most of booth clothes include the prefabs.

[small raft]

there is prefabs but they dont look textured

[junior void]

Meaning?

[junior void]

Many booth avis and assets use lilToon shader and specifiy that you need to download it first. Did you look at dependencies of it?

There's also a chance that it tells you to import the separate textures. That'd be uncommon but not unheard of

[small raft]

I already have lil toon downloaded onto this unity project, and i tried using lil toon as the material and it didnt do anything

[junior void]

So whats inside the materials folder one above?

[junior void]

That very much looks like you may be missing the textures

[small raft]

theres all of these files as well that i was supposed to download as well but i dont know how to use them

i know these are the textures, i just dont know how to add them

[junior void]

First, you import them to unity

preferably as a folder so they dont go all over the place

[small raft]

okay

then what

[junior void]

You want to assign a material to the clothing and inside that material, you assign these textures

NRM is always a normal map, going into the normal map slot of the material

The ones that say red, orange etc are color ones, they go into the albedo slot of the material

Metallic goes into the metallic map of the material

That's it. You just drag textures into the slots that match by name

[small raft]

im sorry but im so confused, i cant find were im supposed to put this stuff. this is my first ever avi and ive never used unity in the past

wait

i think i got it

[junior void]

Are you still in this view with the blue background?

[small raft]

yes

[junior void]

This is the prefab view. Personally I never apply materials in the prefab

On the left top, you can click "rindoVer" to get out of the prefab view

You most likely want to put the clothing on the avi, so you should drag the prefab from your assets to your avatar (in the hierarchy on the left) so it becomes one of the sub-items of it

Material slots can be found on the clothing itself, ie if you click the skirt and then look at the inspector (right side)

Are you good or do i need to open unity to take pictures?

[small raft]

i think i did it right. the pants clip at certain areas though

[junior void]

Did you unpack it...?

[small raft]

yeah?

i believe so

[junior void]

Why

[small raft]

are you talking about right clicking, going to prefab, unpack all?

[junior void]

Yes...

[small raft]

was i not supposed to

[junior void]

No

Who told you to always unpack stuff anyway

[small raft]

a friend..

[balmy barn]

please dont, make updating fbx really annoying if you ever plan

[small raft]

is there a way to repack?

[junior void]

Not that i know

So you understand why we say that, let me give you an example

Say you want to edit the clothing in blender bc some blendshape clips. Simple, right?

So you would go to blender, make your edits, overwrite this fbx of which you unpacked the prefab and your clothing will vanish, just disappear from the avatar

💩

[small raft]

so are you saying i need to bring it into blender

[junior void]

No

I'm saying if you ever wish to make edits in blender then this shit would happen

woulda coulda

[small raft]

oh well thank you for your help, i appreciate it

[turbid hull]

I did a quick look around here and didnt really see my issue, in unity audio link player wont play? like its always stuck on stop? idk why i used to be able to play audiolink in unity to test things.

also this was an issue before and after i factory reset my PC (just recently got unity and whatnot back onto my pc)

[autumn epoch]

hello, i need help on my avi, i add the lips sink on my avi and put everything where it's should be but nothing do, the mouth still does'nt move when ur speaking. Did someone now how to fix it ?

[junior void]

you may have to unmap the jaw bone in the rig configuration

also, all viseme slots must be filled, nothing can stay empty or say "none"

[iron swan]

Why i can't see my avatar?

[balmy barn]

unoptimzied/some asset failing/way over limits/others

yet to run into one ive uploaded getting smacked by security checks

[junior void]

i do high poly avis and havent managed this yet either

[warm glacier]

Trying to move ears around and generally try new spots. Anyone know which tools/binds I use to mobe them both in at the same time?
Or better said have a way to always rotate them a set amount?

[somber sequoia]

that looks like Unity, I don't recall there being a way to mirror movements

[ornate fjord]

hey guys i keep geting errors that prevent the sdk from opening any help?

[vapid holly]

helloo

does anyone know how to make multiple sets of arms and legs? (preferably working in quest?)
Picture for reference

[balmy barn]

we have constraints now so its doable for questies , just constraint the main body legs to other ones

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

[vapid holly]

Omg since when??? Thank you sm!

[balmy barn]

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/avatar-dynamics/constraints/vrc-parent-constraint

[ebon perch]

can I have sombodys help with uploading a avatar?

im a quest user

[junior void]

Ask specific questions

[ebon perch]

I need to know what files to use for uploading a avatar or what webiste is best

I have a pc for it but I alsway get confussed

[junior void]

You use the vrchat creator companion which helps you install the correct unity version. All you need to do is remember to tick the box to install android build support

[ebon perch]

what website is best for avatars

Im looking for male

[junior void]

Booth.pm for anime style, gumroad or jinxxy

[ebon perch]

If your not busy can I call then share my screen so it would be easier?

[kindred kelp]

I was wondering if anyone is able to help me with this? My avatar has toggles for these drumsticks that i modeled, and they work fine, but I'd like to make it so that they spin whenever the player does a peace sign, and has the toggle for the object on. Im still a little new so I dont really know how to do it, which is why I thought i'd ask here

[junior void]

I dont do support calls for strangers but youre welcome to include pictures to describe what youre confused about

[ebon perch]

okay cool

what do I do here

[somber sequoia]

doesn't look like you need to do anything there

[ebon perch]

oh sick so I can open project

[still wagon]

getting this error on upload, this normal?

[somber sequoia]

is that the only error?

[still wagon]

yeah

[somber sequoia]

weird

[still wagon]

theres 1 above it but thats just to say "check logs" i think

has there been a vrcsdk update? not done anything avatar related in a good while

[somber sequoia]

without knowing a timeframe, the best answer I've got is "probably" 🙂

but you can look in VCC

[glossy copper]

I've got an animation for an avatar that takes an object from Y rotation 0 to 360, spinning it around. I have it set to loop, however, it slows down as it reaches 360, stops for a moment, then starts again.

Is there a way to have it perpetually spin without the start/stop?

[still wagon]

yeah i updated the sdk and plugins and it seems to be good now

[balmy barn]

select all frames in animation, set it to broken & both tangents constant

[ebon perch]

I already put the files into unity and now I see this

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[glossy copper]

this has caused the object to no longer rotate

NVM got it sorted, thank you so much!

[summer warren]

how do i make transparent textures? i'm new to making this!

[night ember]

take the png and delete the parts of the texture you dont want to see

[summer warren]

this is the regular texture, and it's transparent, when i put it in blender, it has a black border around it, how?!

[night ember]

Im questioning why you didnt just use 2 planes

but you already have a transparent image so youd just need a shader that supports transparency

[gloomy flint]

be aware jaez that it will NOT work for Quest, you will need to do smth else for it to work for a Quest version

[raw lance]

Hey I have a quick question

[night ember]

thats why I am questioning why you didnt just use 2 planes

[summer warren]

hol up, what if i model the eyes?

[gloomy flint]

that would be 2 planes, yes

[night ember]

8 vertices total

[gloomy flint]

also whats your question

[raw lance]

I just had a vr avatar made of me on fiver so I’m trying to figure out how do I get that avatar uploaded to vr chat and vr stream or vtubing whatever it’s called?

[night ember]

unity