avatar-help

[wind stone]

this is if i dont have it selected but when i select it only has locomotion

[somber sequoia]

seems like you're looking at the base animator instead of FX

[wind stone]

interesting

how would i fix that

[somber sequoia]

I don't use gesture manager, not sure

[wind stone]

it may just be a gesture manager issue

[somber sequoia]

yeah I know with AV3 emualtor, you need to pick which layer you want to debug

[balmy barn]

suss hiarchy

[wind stone]

its a project my friend sent me and wanted me to make work

[somber sequoia]

aha. very sus.

[balmy barn]

your friend isnt a friend

[wind stone]

but this is the first time i have ever worked on a model that didnt have stuff already set up

[balmy barn]

he gave you ripped assets

[somber sequoia]

yeah, rips are like that

[wind stone]

oh fr?

i will not be working on anything for him anymore

thank you for telling me

probably also why nothing works like my other avatars

[somber sequoia]

yeah you can usually tell because MonoBehavior is there

and AnimationClip

[wind stone]

are those tells that something is stolen ?

[somber sequoia]

At one point I got a rip of one of my own avatars to see what it all looks like

has exactly those

[wind stone]

so i should be on the lookout for those before accepting to work on a model for someone?

[balmy barn]

first sign theres no fbx just .asset

[somber sequoia]

I'm not saying they're definitely anything, but they are clues

^ that one too

[wind stone]

okay thank you

is this how most stolen avatars look?

[somber sequoia]

I've only seen one kind

[wind stone]

okay thank you

sorry for asking for help about something that was stolen

[somber sequoia]

no worries, you didn't know

[wind stone]

im not used to working on anything other than booth avatars so im not really used to this

but still thank you

from now on i will ask for a picture of the hierarchy before accepting a project from someone

have a nice night guys

[finite river]

Hi all, it seems I have gone over my parameter limit and not sure how to, I guess, organize that better. I heard from someone that you could possibly compress it or something, or it would delete the unnecessary parameter and reorganize it, idk. Is there something like that or do I have to look back just end up deleting an asset or two?

[somber sequoia]

VRCFury has a thing for that - it's got caveats, but does work.

I tend to split my avatars up so no one has too much stuff.. but I don't have face tracking yet either.

[finite river]

Oooh okay! What is the tool in VRCfury for that?

[somber sequoia]

I don't recall, I don't actually use it, but it should be listed on their website

[sharp wharf]

does anyone know how to convert avis to quest pc/add assets?

Im a newbie but everyone who offers to help never does. and im a slow learner i need 1on1 help..

[trail wraith]

is there any other way to build and publish my avatar without spending a few hours in vr chat

[somber sequoia]

buy VRC+

[trail wraith]

also am i alowd to just afk in vr chat to publish?

[trail wraith]

how?

[night ember]

afk doesnt do anything for your rank

[somber sequoia]

in game I think, I haven't done it. But I'm sure it's explained on the website somewhere

[trail wraith]

so i have to actually play for a few hours?

wait can i just add someone to get the friends rank and be able to use my custom avatar?

[night ember]

friend isnt a rank?

[trail wraith]

ya it is

[night ember]

no?

[somber sequoia]

It's not a rank you can achieve, it's a rank your friends can have

[night ember]

friend as in you friend the person so they get a different priority?

[trail wraith]

oh

[trail wraith]

so then what does it do?

[night ember]

gives your friends a different safety setting?

[somber sequoia]

https://wiki.vrchat.com/wiki/Trust_Rank

[trail wraith]

so i cant afk to get the new user rank?

[somber sequoia]

no

[trail wraith]

so i have to join a world and move around and do stuff and be active

[somber sequoia]

asking the question in different ways doesn't change the answer 🙂

[trail wraith]

so i do have to be active?

well that is a stupid question that does mean i have to be active

[sturdy pollen]

can some help me with a avi teksure problem ?

[ornate stump]

It means to play the game in the way the game intend you to play.

[somber sequoia]

possibly - just ask it

[ornate stump]

If you erabolate, someone might help.

[sturdy pollen]

i want difrent eye takusre for my manuka but got this problem

when i get rit of it i get this

[ornate stump]

Do you mean misaligned texture?

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure what the issue is here

[sturdy pollen]

this is the orinal eyes tekusre,

but i want to chang it in to thise eye teksure

but the litle plus and the pupil is overlapping of the old texture

[somber sequoia]

ok - how are you doing this, in an image editing program?

[sturdy pollen]

i use photoshop

[somber sequoia]

ah, I don't, but probably you could just overlay the new texture on a new layer, and erase the old underneath

[ornate stump]

You instead should enable blendshape that hide pupils and the cross.

[sturdy pollen]

oke let me se

it work thanks

[storm robin]

Why can I never find android compatible avatars prismic is the only one with it

[ornate stump]

Do you mean prismic search show android avatar?

[storm robin]

Yea

[ornate stump]

I still don't understand the problem you're asking.

[storm robin]

I want to find realy nice cute avatars but I want ones that are compatible for android the ones on prismic aren't that good

For what I want

[ornate stump]

Try asking in #1138520828556890214 and provide more detail.

[storm robin]

I did

[ornate stump]

You'd have to be more specific what style of cute you're looking for.

Just "cute" is too broad. Every person has different preference of cuteness.

[hybrid iron]

is there a known issue that vrc contacts sometimes get removed on model and you have to rejoin for it to be reset on the models.

im encountering this randomly on some models of mine . no animation are messing with the contacts and sometime they are just gone.

i checked with the avatar overlay to see the contacts and they are really gone. i try resetting , reloading nothing works until i rejoin the world.

[somber sequoia]

kinda sounds like an animator logic issue, something turns off the contact but nothing turns it back on

[hybrid iron]

theres nothing to turn them off . rejoining would not fix that issue

i can reset after rejoining without a problem

[somber sequoia]

weird, never seen that one then

[hybrid iron]

i'll try to supply more info when it happens again but it's not avi dependent... and its not all contacts. it's super random and very annoying.

[inner perch]

Does anyone know how eyes work? Like how the bone will move them around without screwing up a bunch of other stuff.

I’m just curious

[spark walrus]

what is this weird avatar thing called, some avatars use it, so basically it changes the world into a different 3d model but you cant see anyone else, i dunno i can show an example

[steady summit]

might be a dumb question but how do I overwrite my .fbx in Unity after making a slight change in Blender?

[junior void]

Save it at the same spot with the same name and same export settings. Lets hope you didnt unpack your avatar

[steady summit]

no I haven't, okay will try then thank you!

[uncut oasis]

Does anyone know how to export an FBX with it's materials mapped to their textures from Blender to Unity? I already exported materials/ textures but tht didnt help

My fbx just has blank materials and i'd have to do everything manually, but i wanna avoid tht if i wanna do further adjustments in blender in the future. also i have my expression toggles to my bones in blender. so it's not just a still image i could map to albedo

[gentle tinsel]

how could i make a toggle for a tailwag animation?

[heavy zephyr]

It's a known bug with local contacts yes : https://feedback.vrchat.com/bug-reports/p/local-only-avatar-contacts-vanishing-after-changing-avatars-in-populated-instanc

[hybrid iron]

sounds similar, not sure about the populated instances though... had it earlier with 2 people in my world with me. but seems close enough , thank you

[subtle folio]

Hey, someone in here probably knows the answer to my question.
So, I made a guitar prop for my avatar, and I have it on my avatar with no issues, however, I do want to be able to grab the neck of the guitar while the body of it remains anchored to my hip bone.. does anyone know how I would do this? I suspect might have something to do with parent contraints, but duno how to set it up etc

[heavy zephyr]

Parent constraint to hip and aim constraint to hand could work

[subtle folio]

so have a parent constraint on the guitar, as well as an aim constraint, and have the parent constraint set to the hip while the aim constraint is set to the hand?

[heavy zephyr]

Yeah, you'd have to mess with the values but I think that's one way to do it

Of course, only toggle the aim constraint if the hand is close enough and doing a fist

[subtle folio]

so looks something like that?

[heavy zephyr]

Yeah, tho you'll need to mess with the aim vector and up vector until it properly aims to your hand how you want it

[subtle folio]

Ah sweet. Hopefully I can figure it out further from here. Appreciate the help!

[balmy barn]

old constraints | heres the one that works not just for pc https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/avatar-dynamics/constraints/#constraint-types

[subtle folio]

just a thought.. could it work via grabbing physbones too?

[heavy zephyr]

Could but would be more funky and less accurate. Plus you'd have to hold the grab gesture, it'd be pretty awkward

[iron kindle]

Ok, How to I increase the roundness of a mesh without blocking blendshapes?, I want to have part of my body not be as pologony

[austere bay]

you cant avoid having to set up the materials manually, I'll send a vid of how to reimport an fbx and have the correct materials and stuff all sorted, im ill rn sorry if this is explained badly

[austere bay]

sorry the vids so quiet, im really ill and idk how to fix it rn :(

brains mush

basically, right click ur avi, show in explorer, drag ur fbx file into the unity project file then replace

[gentle tinsel]

what does “Local Only” mean on a Parameter Driver?

i’m just getting into making expression menus without external tools

[sturdy sluice]

Tried baking my mesh in substance painter and I'm getting weird artifacts, anyone know why this is?

[timber wharf]

@gentle tinsel https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/state-behaviors/#avatar-parameter-driver

it will happen only locally

so if it modifies unsynced param or param defined only in animator it wont for others

[gentle tinsel]

ah, so i’d want that off pretty much all the time

since material swaps or object toggles i would want synced and to happen for everyone

[sturdy sluice]

Most VRC uses cases don't touch it, especially for basic stuff.

[timber wharf]

well if you locally modify synced param for toggles it also will be synced for others anyway. but yes, i cant think any huge usecases for that option.

@mellow pecan make sure its has any weights only on head or its child bones

[hard turtle]

when zooming out on some of my models

this happens

how fixxy wiffy

[iron kindle]

Could I cut the head off of my avatar and make it a seperate part of the avatar to but my lip synking to?

[arctic ginkgo]

Not necessarily. Sometimes behavior may differ between local and remote machines, in which case you'd want to run it locally and then sync. For example, add and random may not sync (especially random) for remote players, since both are done locally for every player. Only running it for the local player, then adding the parameter to the synced parameters will ensure the parameter has the same value for every player. Another common use case for this is syncing the states of rapidly changing animation states, parameters, etc. Like if a transition relies on you touching a contant and making a specific gesture, since both are ran locally, they may not occur at the same time for other players even if they do for you, meaning whatever it triggers (say grabbing a gun out of a holster) won't happen for other players. What people will do in this scenario is use the IsLocal parameter to fork the state machine. The local player runs all the logic to control everything, and uses parameter drivers for each animation state to change the value of a synced parameter. The remote side is then controlled by this parameter, ensuring that whatever happens on the local side is what will happen on the remote side

[gentle tinsel]

so, sounds like i would need it for more complex stuff, but not basic toggles or puppets

[raven orbit]

do you mean the white lines? you need to extend the texture painting a bit beyond the edges of the uv map (like create a border around each uv island)

[long sierra]

For some reason, an avatar I updated doesn't have his hands show up in first person (EVen though I have EasyQuestSwitch installed) O_o

[steady summit]

I want to use Decals as my sweater colour swap but I wonder if there is a way to swap Normal Maps too?

[uncut oasis]

thanks for this! looks like there's gonna be a lot of manually mapping the textures to their materials then 😭

i have some shaders tht look super weird and was hoping my fbx export could automatically assign those things for me cuz manually doing dont seem right

did all my mapping of materials on blender 🥲

[west cipher]

is there a reason if the materials wont drag and drop onto the avatar in the scene but will in the hierarchy?

[iron kindle]

How do I add an item to a physbone object and have it move with the physbonr?

[somber sequoia]

Decals are really for adding overlay images or details, if you want to swap all of the PBR textures, just do a full material swap

[mortal solstice]

how does one fix this?

[mystic anchor]

How cute!

[gloomy flint]

a little baby, love it ngl

[steady summit]

I switched to RGBA masking instead but now I am struggling to put all the channels onto a radialpuppet..no idea how I should animate it

[somber sequoia]

ah yes, you can do a lot with that, though that's a bit more add-on

I tend to use that to add detail to stuff like nose, hands, tongue

[steady summit]

yeah the main reason why I swapped to it is cause I wanna use custom Normals for every colour swap as well

would you happen to know how to make a radialpuppet which switches from Red to Green to Blue etc?

[somber sequoia]

I don't do that with a radial but would use a blendtree if I were to

[steady summit]

would I use an int instead?

[somber sequoia]

you can use whatever you want

[ancient oriole]

I adjusted my avatars proportions in unity, but now it floats above the ground.
How do I fix this?
Do I just move the whole avatar hierarchy down in unity?

[gloomy flint]

no, you move the rig

find the avatar's FBX in your assets list and if you click on it, at the top of the Inspector you'll see a Rig tab, click Configure, grab the HIP bone, and move the avatar until the feet touch the ground

click apply, done, and then reupload and it should be good!

[ancient oriole]

Will try this, thanks for the quick respone!

[gloomy flint]

np!!

[ancient oriole]

Oh good thing I'm doing this, didnt realize I forgot to switch the avi to "humanoid" in the first place.

Hmm, doesnt seem to have fixed it, I'll just live with playspacing down while in vr I guess, not a major deal.

[hard turtle]

when zooming out on my models the seams between uv islands cause this effect, im looking for a better solution than just expanding the texture.

[gentle tinsel]

that is the better solution. you just have to expand the texture by a few pixels and it should go away entirely

[hard turtle]

its not just

a few though

what causes this

[gentle tinsel]

that's just what happens with mipmaps and UV islands that reach the very edges of the texture

[hard turtle]

is there an easy way to just expand

it

rather than doing it manually

[gentle tinsel]

median blur in gimp works decently

don't know what it'd be called in other software

[raven orbit]

In blender you can bake the texture and have it extend the seams

with these settings in cycles

[waxen bronze]

I've spent a while messing around with shaders and various settings in Unity but I still hate the way my model looks compared to in Blender's eevee, is there any hope to making the skin look almost as good as it does there?

[wooden zinc]

hey idk where to put this but i keep getting this error and i dont know how to reslove it i really need to get back in my unity project as i have alot of stuff i need to get done in there. Ive never seen this error before and i dont know what it means but i have cleard everything i can think off

and its everytime i open my unity project

and it only started cause i tried to auto fix somthing in the vrchat sdk for a avatar

[wooden cairn]

Anyone know why increasing tiling on my normal map makes it bunch up instead of repeat?

[somber sequoia]

are you using all of the same input textures?

[waxen bronze]

I'm using the same materials as in Blender, if that's what you mean

[somber sequoia]

no, I mean textures. Textures go into materials, materials are applied to mesh faces

textures are image files.

[waxen bronze]

Ah, well it's the same textures too, yes

[somber sequoia]

okay

which shader?

in unity I mean.

[waxen bronze]

Poiyomi

[somber sequoia]

I tend to use realistic mode in Poi, and find that it works decently well overall, though of course world lighting/shading can screw that all up

[waxen bronze]

I tried realistic, it made the skin look very muddy and odd

[ornate stump]

It needs 100GB memory to work with something and that's unusual.

[wooden zinc]

how do i get 100gb? is it my storage?

sorry im not verry good with computer stuff

[ornate stump]

No. It's RAM. And it should not need that much unless something really wrong in your project.

[quaint ledge]

helloo

im here cuz i had a problem, it sure is simple to fix, but im new

[wooden zinc]

i did have a good 30 avis in that one project so i might of caused it since ive been told thats the only way to keep all my projects safe and not use to much storage

but they dont use pyomi and they dont do any fancy stuff

[ornate stump]

If it's that simple, you would be able to fix it yourself. Otherwise you shouldn't describe anything as "simple".

[wooden zinc]

whats the problem?

[quaint ledge]

basically i wanted the avatar that shows you how to find friend or add them on the lobby, so i found the artist and i started uploading it. but when i saw it on the game her arms were up her head and the point of vew wasen't her head

all this on vr btw

[ornate stump]

Try removing anything you added to your project after the that broke the project.

[wooden zinc]

okay

[wooden zinc]

ah thats your point of view

when you go to your avatar descripter theres a thing called ''view eye point'' or somthing like that and u have to move the ball that shows up and move it to your face right in the middle of your eyes

i hope that made sense

[somber sequoia]

you could put a camera in the world, high above, and display the texture on a mesh object you could see

[quaint ledge]

so all this on the unity editor right?

[somber sequoia]

yes, you'd do this in Unity

[quaint ledge]

okk thank u

i'll tell you if i can fix it

[somber sequoia]

I'm pretty sure you can purchase a prefab to do this too

[quaint ledge]

oh, so the model sayd that it was ready to port, but ir may be aold and buged

[heady raptor]

so i got a root bone for the wrist in order to activate phys bones when i get the arm gun out which disables gestures (that's the goal), however i wanted the hand to move out of the way of the gun when i do so, is there a way i can work around this? trying to animate the bone alone doesn't work as it resets itself

[turbid hull]

for some reason audiolink works when i have poiyomi pro on but when i have poiyomi toon installed audiolink wont play in the world. anyone know why?

[somber sequoia]

you'd need to take over animating the hand with VRC Animation Tracking Control, and animate the muscle via the animator, you can't just rotate the bone itself. Also do this in the Gesture layer.

[somber sequoia]

Got the master checkbox (at the bottom) on?

[turbid hull]

good question where is that located? (to rephrase audiolink doesnt play in unity for testing)

[somber sequoia]

oh - do you have the audiolink prefab in your scene?

[turbid hull]

Oui

[somber sequoia]

Also this isn't Linux is it? I can't get this to work in Linux

[turbid hull]

nope windows 11 here

[somber sequoia]

ok depending on poi version (I'm on 9) there's a master audiolink checkbox at the bottom, it's very obvious

[turbid hull]

is it in the prefab or in like poiyomi?

[somber sequoia]

in the shader

for the prefab you have to give it some audio - the youtube thingy it includes by default doesn't always work

[turbid hull]

yeah i have my own song i throw in

[somber sequoia]

hmm this all seems correct...

[turbid hull]

do you mean this?

[somber sequoia]

yep, that's the one

[turbid hull]

yeah its all on but still doesnt play when in live

[somber sequoia]

(this is useful to animate btw, if you ever want to just globally disable audiolink on your avatar)

[snow goblet]

whats current download and memory usage limit on pc

100/300?

[turbid hull]

(noted!)

[gloomy flint]

cute avatar 🥺

[jovial seal]

Does anyone know why its not attaching to the arms? Im new to unity and tried to fix this but i cant find a solution
Tyy :)

[somber sequoia]

how are you adding this item?

[jovial seal]

By dragging it onto the base

[somber sequoia]

that's not really going to work

[gloomy flint]

did you do modular avatar?

[jovial seal]

No i watched like multiple videos and and they said link it in vrcfury

[somber sequoia]

is it a VRCFury prefab already?

[gloomy flint]

it looks kinda textureless

[twin crown]

Which app makes it easier to add clothes to your avatar: Unity or Blender?

[somber sequoia]

eh, that sometimes depends on what you're starting with, and I'd always pick blender for myself

[gloomy flint]

depends on the avatar and clothes

most booth avatars use a package called modular avatar

which basically lets you drag clothes youve bought onto the avatar, right click, mouse over Modular avatar, attach, and its done

[heady raptor]

yeah i'm aware of the gesture layer part
my question is that i can't just do this in unity

so if there's a way i'm aware

[somber sequoia]

well.... you could, if you put the hand on an entire separate set of bones you can move it wherever you want 🙂

[heady raptor]

i tried aking a blend shape for the hand pose but the rig decided to scramble the mesh lmao

i have made a separete root bone for this hand

[static sparrow]

how do i get rid of this line at the seam??

[hard turtle]

i just want to know if this looks ok before i go ahead

and create

ALL my blendshapes

again...

[somber sequoia]

If that's a UV seam, do your textures so they have some "overspray" past all the edges of the islands

[static sparrow]

i thought i did enough. should i go over more?

[somber sequoia]

that looks pretty close, but yeah, I'd probably try going for more

[static sparrow]

ok ill do that rq tyy

[twin crown]

I know this might be a silly question, but when you download things like clothes, accessories, and other assets, is it possible to upload them to Unity or Blender? Because I'm having trouble making them appear in Unity.

[somber sequoia]

possible? sure.

I'd have used the word "import" here instead of "upload" though

[twin crown]

well from deviant art website..

[somber sequoia]

it really depends on what sort of file you've got

[amber laurel]

I attached this hat to my vroid model in unity but it is having these weird shadow flickering in game and I am not having any luck with fixing it. If anyone knows why this is happening and how to fix it I would appreciate it so much!

[somber sequoia]

hmm sorta looks like z-fighting but you'd have to inspect the model in something like Blender to see if that's it

(when you have two faces at exactly the same location, the camera doesn't know which to render)

[amber laurel]

i am very bad with blender I genuinely have no idea how to use the program at all

im only educated in vroid and fairly educated with unity

[static sparrow]

it worked ty!

[amber laurel]

nonetheless I really appreciate that advice

[somber sequoia]

oh good, I was hoping it was that easy

[amber laurel]

I might see if I can just find a different hat to attach to her lol

might be more simple than fixing this one

[somber sequoia]

was that one free?

[amber laurel]

yes, part of a vroid outfit bundle

the hat was the only part that had to be attached separately

https://booth.pm/en/items/5309064

[somber sequoia]

oh hmm, the hat's got a subtle noise texture there, so it's probably just the world lighting playing off that, you might be able to lessen it with shader settings, but I've got no idea without playing with it

this is actually reasonably well made

[amber laurel]

I see~ I will try to mess with it more and see if I can figure it out

[junior void]

This reminds me of the flickering warning message from poiyomi that i always just click "yes" on

I dont remember what it says exactly though xD Maybe it's about the anchor override?

Or was it a vrcfury message? Could be too

[waxen bronze]

Quick question, when I test my model in VRchat the shader doesn't work. I tried it with a different shader and still no luck, is there some step I might be missing?

[junior void]

Depends what shaders you added and what platform youre using. Also, what does "not working" mean here

[amber laurel]

i ended up just attaching this different hat and it looks nice :3

thanks for the help you guys ❤️

[waxen bronze]

First I used poiyomi, then silent's cell shader

By not working I meant my model looks totally flat, no lighting or shading appears on it

[junior void]

Did you set the shading type in poiyomi to anything else but the default?

By default its set to "flat" which is exactly what it sounds like

[waxen bronze]

Right, I spent a while setting it in unity to how I wanted it to look

[junior void]

Okay so that means it looks fine outside of play mode, but changes in play mode?

Care to share some pictures?

[waxen bronze]

Sure, one minute

[waxen bronze]

Sorry it took a while, some other errors popped up I had to deal with first

Left is in vrchat, right is in unity

[junior void]

The shading doesn't look very smooth to begin with on the right around the mouth. Have you tried messing with normal settings in the import screen of the model?

Also keep in mind some worlds lighting is just jack.

[waxen bronze]

I did notice weirdness around the mesh's mouth, yeah

The screenshot was taken in the starting default instance

[ornate stump]

Have you enabled legacy blendshape normal?

[waxen bronze]

Where's that?

[ornate stump]

In the import setting of fbx file. Or open sdk panel and it will tell you to autofix.

[waxen bronze]

It doesn't look like it, no

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot the fbx file settings?

[waxen bronze]

Ohh hang on, looks like it WAS enabled

Anything else I should change before testing it again?

[ornate stump]

Just to confirm, the mouth has strange shading in unity?

[waxen bronze]

Under the lips, yeah

Though my main issue was the materials with shaders on them appearing like they didn't have any

[ornate stump]

Like they didn't have any what?

[waxen bronze]

Any shaders

You can see in that screenshot I posted that the face looks completely flat and without shadow, the nose and lips are part of the texture

[ornate stump]

It technically has shader, otherwise it would just show as magenga missing shader. Your shader settings likely only has shading to realtime light. So check your shading type and shade color again.

[waxen bronze]

I see, do you mind telling me which settings I should be tweaking?

[glacial vale]

Hi, i have a avatar package that i want to upload for both pc and quest. it came with 2 seperate packages (1 for quest, 1 for pc) and ive uploaded the pc one well and everything works. The issue im having is that the quest package is wayyy too big to upload for the andriod version and im wondering if theres a big thing that im missing because its 77mb right now :/

[ornate stump]

shading type and shade color

[waxen bronze]

Is there a way to have a better idea of how it would look in VRchat while I'm still using Unity?

[ornate stump]

Disable directional light in the scene and change ambient light in lighting panel.

[timber wharf]

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

[glacial vale]

im a little confused on how to add this into my unity, im relitivly new to that

[timber wharf]

what part of the manual is confusing

[glacial vale]

where im suppost to put the file for it to show up in my project

[timber wharf]

assets. its your project tab as well

you csn just drag it there

[waxen bronze]

Thanks so much for your help, I'll test the shader for a while :)

[glacial vale]

ok i have the window open for it but im a little stuck on having it read the build size of the avatar, when i press read build log nothing shows up

do i have to build and test the avi first

[timber wharf]

have you built it before that?

ofc

[glacial vale]

no i havent, im doing that right now as a test

[timber wharf]

and then every time after you change smth trying to reduce the size

[glacial vale]

it updates the size on the vrc uploader so i should be able to just keep reducing until i get it without a second build

[ornate stump]

You have to build it every time to make it recalculate the size.

[glacial vale]

it seems to be my meshes, i assume theres no easy way to do that outside of blender

[ornate stump]

Yes. Or you could try setting the mesh compression, or disable blendshape normal.

[glacial vale]

its all 1 fbx file

[ornate stump]

That's very excessive.

[glacial vale]

is there any way i can fix this? or should i try to do it all from the main package instead of the quest package

[ornate stump]

I said possible solutions in the message above.

[glacial vale]

how would i find these?

[ornate stump]

Inspect that fbx file.

[ornate stump]

Model Tab.

[glacial vale]

i will try out some of these

[waxen bronze]

By ambient light you meant environment lighting, right?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[waxen bronze]

Hmm, well I tried that and now the shaders don't seem to be making effect in unity, either

I tried different ones, played with the intensity, no effect

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot what you set?

[waxen bronze]

For the shader settings? Alright

[glacial vale]

i got everything down under 10mb but all of these are still showing and i assume theyre whats stopping me from converting the build to android

[timber wharf]

🛑cant upload can (but shouldnt)

[glacial vale]

so whats stopping me from changing it to android?

[timber wharf]

what it says

[glacial vale]

i click this and then literally nothing happens

it stays on windows

[ornate stump]

Check console for errors.

[glacial vale]

just saw this, never have seen it before

[timber wharf]

#avatar-help message

[glacial vale]

thank you 🙏

[waxen bronze]

Do you think I might've set the environment light incorrectly?

[ornate stump]

Probably

[lilac mulch]

Do I have to manually add the default VRChat emotes to the radial menu every time I make an avatar? Or is there some way to quickly do it?

[ornate stump]

Try lighting source to something else.

There won't be a correct one anyway. You have to try with more lighting environment because different world has different lighting.

[waxen bronze]

Yeah I know it won't be totally 1-to-1, I'd just like a general idea. As for lighting source, you mean like putting in a spot light?

[ornate stump]

Set the "Source" dropdown menu.

[waxen bronze]

Ahh yes that, I tried all those and it was the same

Still no shaing

[ornate stump]

Are you sure you're changing in the correct matterial?

[waxen bronze]

I definitely am, yeah

[ornate stump]

Have you try using gradient or environment light?

[waxen bronze]

I did

[woven totem]

what if i want to know how many people or who's wearing my avatars, is there a rule regarding that?

[timber wharf]

nah theres no stats

only for worlds

[harsh shuttle]

Yes

[fresh raft]

How do I make it so that in my Float animation, I dont see the blendshapes slowly go to the next one when I use a radial wheel? I want them to SNAP to the next blendshape, not "stretch"
The animations are right, so I am not sure what to do...

[timber wharf]

in animation switch from keyframes to curves, select all, right click, constant

[arctic helm]

this is the first time i get this kind of upload failure. help pliz

PreprocessAvatarCallback

[balmy barn]

dont hide ALL red errors especially the top ones

[sinful nymph]

I need to find a DBTG avatar,But I can't find it,Can someone help me find the avatar?

[arctic helm]

my bad,

(trying to upload face tracking)

[ornate stump]

Ask in #1138520828556890214

[balmy barn]

delete or update - gesture manager

[arctic helm]

honestly cant even find it, package folder got taken over by vrcfury or idk whats happening

i could try to delete via folder

got it

[left wharf]

you shouldn't do that. just remove/reinstall from VCC

[arctic helm]

oops.

[arctic helm]

this is a 2019 project which got updated to 2022. i added the gesture manager manually like a year ago

so this was the only way i can delete

[untold ledge]

So, I asked something in #avatar-general and would like to know if it could work that way.

[somber sequoia]

Sure, you could do that

[untold ledge]

nice

So now if I ever get to 9+ outfits on my avatar

I can save on params with a single float param for all of the outfits

with a blendtree on the animation controller for it on the backend.

[somber sequoia]

yep

[hot mica]

does anyone know why a toggle would work in gesture manager but not in game? im trying to toggle on these earmuffs, and it works fine in unity, but in game theyre permentely on and glitch out

[burnt hull]

can someone help me with this error in unity?

[languid wyvern]

Hello everyone, trying to upload but I keep getting this error every time as it fails to upload

[somber sequoia]

if there are more than just those two errors (red), show the first 2-3 (at the top), these aren't useful alone

[languid wyvern]

Alr, bet!

These are all the errors listed

@somber sequoia

[somber sequoia]

no need to ping me on this

[languid wyvern]

Sorry

[somber sequoia]

not really anything useful here unfortunately

maybe that last one, if you have a blueprint ID but shouldn't - if it's a brand new avatar, go clear that, it's in the Pipeline Manager component near your Avatar Descriptor

[languid wyvern]

It's actually blank

[somber sequoia]

k, then that's a side-effect error, usually you see others before that

[languid wyvern]

Nothing is in there

Oh! What do I do?

[somber sequoia]

I don't know what the issue is so can't really advise further

[steady summit]

any idea why my AudioLink doesn't change colours? I animated the hue shift but it doesn't work in game

[lethal oyster]

Hi, I was trying to upload a non-human avatar to VRChat, and everything worked fine, but when I try to set up a menu to configure some animations, it doesn't show up in the game. Does anyone know how to fix this?

[sand oriole]

What are the tools called for Unity Avatar that can grab clothes or hair?

[balmy barn]

playmode and click a physbone with radius then drag with mouse , was a script that allowed it in scene too (forgot what that ones called)

[iron kindle]

How can I smooth out my model without breaking the shapekeys working in unity?

[placid mica]

Does anybody know if you can make Modular Avatar toggle an animation?
For example, I want my avatars tail to wag with an On/Off toggle. I already have the animation, but is there a way to set it up through MA?

[pine aurora]

im trying to upload a avatar and it seems alright in the console but it dosent showup in game and the website turn me into a error bot when i try to switch

[languid wyvern]

Hello again, please who understands this

[somber sequoia]

people who write shaders - I'd bet it's written for older unity or something. it probably isn't a problem though

[languid wyvern]

Trying to upload the model , that's the limitation I have been getting

[austere bay]

what's the error log looking like?

[languid wyvern]

I can't possibly upload the model

[austere bay]

you're getting 3 red warnings, what are they?

[languid wyvern]

Those are the other errors

[somber sequoia]

yeah the shader things aren't blocking an upload

[languid wyvern]

From what I have there, what do you think might be the limitation?

[somber sequoia]

I haven't seen enough, those two errors you've shown don't really point to anything

[languid wyvern]

Imma upload it again and snap what it says

[placid mica]

Can anyone teach me how to make an animation toggle on/off? I already have the animation made
I wasn't able to find any tutorials

[somber sequoia]

for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqtSg6_W07Y

[placid mica]

I don't mean an item toggle, I mean like, a moving animation
I'm trying to make a tail wag

[somber sequoia]

doesn't really matter what the animation does, just skip to the part about making the animation work

though for tail wag I mostly just toss it into a layer in FX

[pine aurora]

nvm i fixed it but like sm the shader aint showing up how they look in unity

[austere bay]

yes they're likely stopping you from uploading, can you show what they are?

[languid wyvern]

What I discovered is the model is having a reroshaders and I think it should be liltoon shaders

[austere bay]

on your original picture it says you have 3 errors, there's only two here

shaders shouldn't really prevent you from uploading

[languid wyvern]

Oh! Let me fetch the whole stuff

[austere bay]

there's only two errors now?

[languid wyvern]

Yes, I tried to re-upload the avatar again and got those

[austere bay]

one of the errors is to do with your sdk. Is your VRCCC, sdk, and unity version all correct

[languid wyvern]

2022.3.22f1

[austere bay]

any updates on vrccc?

you can see them here

[languid wyvern]

Yeah! It says "current version 2.3.1 and new is 2.4.1

[austere bay]

try updating it then uploading again

[languid wyvern]

Doing that already

[quasi briar]

also make sure to update your sdk in the manage project window

(in the vrchat creator companion)

[spark walrus]

Does anyone know why she's standing like this.

[gloomy flint]

Does it have gogo loco

[spark walrus]

It does.

But it has nothing to do with that.

I don't think.

[somber sequoia]

that's the default pose when doing animations in Unity. You can reset it with Pumkin's avatar tools or similar

possibly just by selecting a different animation clip

[spark walrus]

Doesn't seem to change anything.

[stray ice]

Hello again! I return with another dilemma. For some reason my avi isnt working correctly, I made a rig, weight painted, posted a PC version, downloaded and used "VRCQuestTools" Unity pack, imported and ported to quest and updating the avi. But heres where the problem comes in, when I load in with the avi equipped my Camera (which I set at the head) was lowered and facing the crotch, and the avi was T-posing. How do I fix this?

[restive bronze]

So idk what's going on but every time I click on the "configure button" on my avatar's rig, literally nothing happens. It doesn't show the avatar mapping tab.

nvm I think I fixed it

[stray ice]

When I made mine, I hade a similar problem, my button just DIDNT show up 😦

[restive bronze]

nvm I didn't fix it

bruh what is going on??

bro unity is acting weird

I can't even extend my animator component

[stray ice]

mine said something about the rig lol

and Unity entered "Safe Mode"

but I exited said mode :3

[restive bronze]

I figured it out, I just had to reset the layout

[austere bay]

hope this helps !

[stray ice]

How do you do that?

[spark walrus]

Didn't do anything, but thank you for your help.

I'll find a way around it somehow, lol.

[austere bay]

if that doesn't work I'd try going through and removing the playable layers

but if it uploads fine and just looks like that in unity it's not really a big problem

[spark walrus]

It's a paid avi I'm helping a friend make lol. So gotta fit it somehow. Would be a pain to have to start from scratch

[austere bay]

only thing I can think of that should cause it to be fixed in that position would be some sort of controller layer. Make sure the first layer of the FX layer is blank and remove playable layers until you find the culprit

if it's genuinely not any of that and you've tried all of that, maybe enforcing T-pose?

how to enforce t-pose (I don't think this will fix it tbh but worth a try if nothing else works)

[wooden cairn]

What's the easiest way to test param syncing between PC and Android?

[timber wharf]

just have literally same vrc parameters

even if some are unused on android

[digital dove]

I need help making this normal color instead of pink and to help import it to vrchat

[sand pollen]

Does anyone here use nomad sculpt to make avatar models?? I made an avatar but can’t figure out how to get it from my tablet to my computer to rig it

[balmy barn]

wrong unity version, pink - select material and select a shader or import what it requires (( https://unity.com/releases/editor/whats-new/2022.3.22 ))

[indigo compass]

Yes, exact sama paramter list is the best.
If you use VRCFury then some recent version from some months ago added some way to handle the syncing behind the scenes.

If you want to be 100% sure it works then the only way I know of would be to have two accounts, with the alt being logged into your android phone/Quest/Pico or etc.

[wooden cairn]

VRC Fury does a pretty good job of syncing

but when you start removing components on the quest version, it can get weird

[mental estuary]

Not anymore. It automatically aligns the parameters even with missing components

[wooden cairn]

I may need to update then

I was getting some weirdness with my last upload

[mental estuary]

If you're getting weirdness, report it

[digital dove]

Ok I'm on the 2022 one

What do I do to get the pink off now?

[austere bay]

https://github.com/poiyomi/PoiyomiToonShader/releases

[timber wharf]

6000 still

[spark walrus]

yall got any ideas on how to rig a lego minifgure properly

[young cairn]

rig it how you normally would as a humanoid

most of the work might be in the weight paint

[spark walrus]

wouldnt it get a tad bit messed up

cause it aint that humanoid?

[young cairn]

not really..? if you are importing a lego model from somewhere else, just make sure to move the arms into t-pose

I can guide you through the process in blender if you like

[chilly pawn]

Is there a way to have multiple audio clips for the same contact? and have it randomly play different ones? I have a bell on my avatar. And, i have it set to ring on contact. But, i thought it would be fun if it could cycle through different ringing sounds. To also keep it less repetitive.
is this something that's possible? (and not super complex and/or resource heavy)

[restive bronze]

hey so how do I edit textures that belong in a root folder? I wanna add emissions but I am soooo not trying to make copied materials just for Unity to whine about me having too many materials.

[somber sequoia]

VRC Animator Play Audio can do this

[young cairn]

yes, but you'll have to do a small bit of blueprints in unity to get a randomizer going

[timber wharf]

@restive bronze select every ball from inside the model, right click, extract. now its editable

[young cairn]

click the armature. on the right theres a button that says "extract materials". Save the file location and they'll pop out

[restive bronze]

thank you

[chilly pawn]

i'll look into it, thank you!
i swear half the battle is knowing the correct keywords to toss into google

[somber sequoia]

haha totally is

... for anything really

[timber wharf]

animator audio kinda new stuff so ye prob not lots of tutorials covering this

[somber sequoia]

but the docs are actually kinda good

[young cairn]

would anyone know how to rescale bones to a mesh that has been resized by a shape key?

[somber sequoia]

edit armature, put 3D cursor at bone chain root, select all bones, scale out along Y with the transform center being the 3D cursor

[young cairn]

well, I shouldve said that i also want the bones to be rescaled with the mesh too

so collisions arent off in game

[somber sequoia]

you can scale non-humanoid bones

[young cairn]

I know a model that presses a button to reset bones once something was scaled

something like that ^

[balmy barn]

scale bones , dont use blendshape for it it will also scale any physbone radius alongside it

[young cairn]

ohhhh, do i do that in unity?

[somber sequoia]

yeah - that

and yes, in unity

[young cairn]

thank you!!!

[cunning salmon]

For some reason, it only works in Unity and not in vrchat. I don’t know why

It uses contact receivers

[arctic ginkgo]

Try using the contact overlay to see if the contact is triggered, and also use the debug menu to watch for parameter changes and animation state transitions

This way you can debug in game

[cunning salmon]

Parameters work, but no animation

Also

[marble prairie]

I have a bunch of different textures for the sweatshirt on this avatar I would like to be able to toggle through, is there a good way to do that?

[timber wharf]

@marble prairie #avatar-help message

[fast vessel]

Is there any way to completely stop the elbow from twisting and make all the rotation go into the wrist? I want something like VAIL's arm IK but everything I've tried has resulted in my avatars movements not matching my own. I've tried FBX muscle settings to no avail and I'm aware IK 1.0 can achieve this with incorrect bone hierarchy but overall IK is worse. I've been struggling for so long on this one issue!

[somber sequoia]

twist bones can help this, but we don't get bone limiters unfortunately

[fast vessel]

I've tried twist bones, but still no luck.

[somber sequoia]

ah, I find it cuts down on how weird that can look, though it doesn't eliminate the bit at the end

[fast vessel]

I'm just looking to push all the rotations to the wrist and have the forearm lock.

[spark walrus]

Could anyone dm me, I have a few questions about custom avatars

[somber sequoia]

you're more likely to get answers asking in public

[gloomy flint]

whats the best compression format to use for quest to make things as optimzied as possible

[young cairn]

does anyone know how to make my tail not roll weird? I want the underbelly to be on the floor

[somber sequoia]

probably re-orient the bones in the rolled animation

[light anvil]

Does anyone know the solution for these errors?

[somber sequoia]

are those the only 4?

[light anvil]

Yes

[somber sequoia]

oh annoying, none of those are really much to go on

[light anvil]

They're all talking about VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.cs. I've tried deleting it and I've tried reinstalling the VRCSDK.

I also created a completely new project and still got the same error messages.

[iron kindle]

Is there a way to increase the smoothness of my model to keep things more rounded without breaking the blendshapes?

[somber sequoia]

if just a simple "shade smooth" doesn't work and you need to alter geometry, you may have to something like split it apart, use a modifier, apply it, then join back

[iron kindle]

What sort of options are for splitting and merging after the modifer?

I know its in blender

[radiant owl]

Anyone know where to get a good cloak asset??

[iron kindle]

I any reccomended addons to blender for splitting it apart?

[somber sequoia]

select parts in edit mode, 'p' to "part" that section out into its own mesh object

no need for add ons

[iron kindle]

And after its seperated how to I merge them?

[ornate stump]

"Join"

[somber sequoia]

select both mesh object, ctrl+j

you may want to merge any overlapping vertices too. And so we're clear: this is just an idea based on very little information, maybe it'll work 🙂

(make backups)

[iron kindle]

Okay, so Seperate the mesh from Armature and keys, add the modifier, join

[somber sequoia]

er... no

meshes aren't joined to armatures, so you don't separate. I meant separate the parts of the mesh you want to do retopology on so can use a modifier on it and not affect blendshapes. Then join back after.

[spark walrus]

Can anyone help explain why the nails seem to "clip" when shown in the mirror? I dont understand why this happens. The weightpainting is not the issue.

And yes it is the same hand

[iron kindle]

When I join them back it reverts to without the modifier

[iron kindle]

How are they added? Are they part of the hand mesh or seperate?

[somber sequoia]

Yes, you need to apply the modifier before you join back

[iron kindle]

Yes, modifier was applied, but when I joined the mesh back it seemed to revert

[somber sequoia]

not sure what's going on there

obviously hard to diagnose from here

[iron kindle]

I'll keep tinkering

[young cairn]

I have a weird thing that happens now.. I watched a tutorial to get gesture expressions going, that explained to repurpose a hand gesture controller for emotions.. I followed all the steps correctly, but now whenever I use any gesture, my tail size instantly increases.. My tail size radial puppet doesnt work now too

i deleted my previous FX controller accidentally, so now im just using this one

[iron kindle]

Ok, I must be seperating something wrong because on the new mesh it made for the body it wont let me apply it saying the shapekeys are in the way

[somber sequoia]

when you split things the new object will have all the old shape keys, that's normal

[ornate stump]

Your tail size is controlled by previous FX. If you just replaced the FX and deleted it, it will no longer work.

[young cairn]

do i just recreate the tail size puppet again?

[ornate stump]

Or you could just import the previous FX back from the package.

[young cairn]

but my last fx doesnt have the hand gestures i need for gesture expressions

[iron kindle]

How do I get the subdivide surface modifier added then? Or am I missing something

[ornate stump]

You could either recreate the hand gesture layer in FX and put emotions there. Or have 2 separated FX and use Av3Manager to merge controllers.

[somber sequoia]

that's one that usually can't be applied with shape keys, so you have to delete them. You could try a tool like this, but I've not had great luck with this modifier:
https://github.com/przemir/ApplyModifierForObjectWithShapeKeys

Otherwise, you could change the mesh topology manually

[young cairn]

..im just gonna try to recreate the radial puppet for now

how do you get the original FX back?

[somber sequoia]

restore from the backup you made before you changed things.

[ornate stump]

Import from the package you got it from.

[somber sequoia]

oh, or that, if it's an original one.

[ornate stump]

It should be quiet obvious if they created by themselves they should know how to manage the controller.

[young cairn]

im making the model

[ornate stump]

And you just deleted the controller without knowing that is necessary to make it work?

[somber sequoia]

mistakes are part of learnin' 🙂

[ornate stump]

Yes it sure is.

[iron kindle]

LOL, my blender keeps crashing when using the addon to apply it

[somber sequoia]

yeah, as I said, I haven't had good luck with that 🙂

just modifiers that change the vertex count, for others it works great

[pliant pasture]

Can anyone make heads or tails of these errors?

[spark walrus]

Not seperate the body and nails are the same mesh

[agile reef]

Put my avatar into blender to remove the leash and it's bones. I exported it and put back into unity and now the jacket has exploded. Help?

[iron kindle]

When Exporting FBX do these settings

[agile reef]

These are my current settings

I just re-imported the version before I removed the item, and removed it again- and I guess it didnt explode this time.

🤷‍♂️

[iron kindle]

Dont you love it when things spontaniously work

[iron kindle]

I got it to work

[iron kindle]

Try a different shader

[uneven vessel]

anyone have any idea why this is happening ?

[arctic ginkgo]

animation is working

sorry just checked discord

you can see the animations are playing

something is preventing them from actually affecting the model

but they are playing

[arctic ginkgo]

left and right are backwards. Try renaming them in blender with Armature>Names>Flip Names

[arctic ginkgo]

can you send a screenshot of the animation?

like in the animation window, with the properties and keyframes

[uneven vessel]

Thank i did a check an seems 8t was the problem 🥲 thanks for confirming this ^^

[iron kindle]

Hello, is there someone available on helping me making a toggle work properly? i've got a footprint toggle, but when i activate it, the foot prints spawns when i'm still, and then when i walk they don't

Also, after i stop walking, they don't start to spawn again, they just spawn the moment i toggle them and that's it

In unity, from the game mode they seemed to work properly, but once in vrchat apparently don't

Just to clarify, i didn't made the gimmick, i downloaded it, so i don't really know what's happening under the hood

[night ember]

We cant tell you anything if we dont know what you are using

[iron kindle]

Can i send the gimmick in dm? or unitypackage how you wanna call it 😅

Do you also need the video of what's happening?

I also tried to ask first who made the footprints about the issue, but apparently the creator is unavailable since a lot, so my only chance is to ask around

[night ember]

Where did you even get it

[iron kindle]

uh?

i can't send the link, the chat blocks it

[night ember]

Dont use that website

[iron kindle]

ah

something wrong with it?

i mean was one of the first links that popped for when i was searching that script so i don't know 😅

[junior void]

If you mean the website i think you mean then they distribute ripped assets. Literally stolen goods

[iron kindle]

ah

didn't knew

I'm searching right now the original creator, and i really can't find his script in any other website, that's really strange tho

Maybe he deleted it and that's the only place where wasn't?

[junior void]

Maybe he deleted it because people kept downloading the ripped version so there was no point in keeping it online anyway

[night ember]

Well you werent ever meant to get the one on that site

[iron kindle]

Yea got it, but isn't my fault if that was litterally maybe the fourth link that popped without even an original source 🤔

I'll be more careful

I don't really know places for searching this stuff

[night ember]

Theres a trail on gumroad

[night ember]

Gumroad, booth, jinxxy

[iron kindle]

Thanks

[iron kindle]

Can i ask the link?

Maybe that works better if isn't the same one i got

[night ember]

I dont have it rn

[iron kindle]

ah ok

Thanks anyway

[burnt plank]

can anyone teach me how u change eye texure or give me a tutorial link i didnt find one in yt

[hazy bay]

Hey I am making some gesture toggles is there any way i can remove the face animation when i do the gesture toggle? (I'm spawning a mic and don't want to have a angry face the whole time holding it)

[night ember]

Its not a universal thing to teach

You just edit the texture for the eyes using any image editing software

[iron kindle]

Is there a Unity asset for moving the hands how they would in game so I can see how items fit in them?

[burnt plank]

🥲

[hazy bay]

yeah its called avatars 3.0 manager

it also allows you to test toggles and stuff without building and testing

[iron kindle]

Thanks

[heady raptor]

this mesh is perfectly simmetrical, no material maps are applied, why is it creating a sharp looking edge? i already checked the face normals

[junior void]

Can't tell without seeing the geometry at all

The edge may be marked sharp

[heady raptor]

no it's not, i'd know

only this side looks sharp like that, other side doesn't do the same artifact

orientation as you see all correct

[junior void]

Two things: In object mode, try setting shading to smooth. If thats not working, you may have a mesh gap here that you cant see bc the vertices are literally on top of each other. In this case, try merge by distance and set distance to tiny af like 0,00001

[heady raptor]

nope none of that, i've manually symmetrized every vertice and guess what, i found the culprit now, for some weird reason there was a face inside, issue solved

ty nevertheless!

[hazy bay]

(im sorry not trying to spam or anything i just dont want to be drowned out)🥺 🫶

Hey I am making some gesture toggles is there any way i can remove the face animation when i do the gesture toggle? (I'm spawning a mic and don't want to have a angry face the whole time holding it)

[junior void]

You will need to add the parameter to the gestures

[heady raptor]

if i remember right you might have the face animations with the gesture parameters in your FX layer

so probably remove those

[junior void]

All you need to do is add the parameter of the toggle as "false" condition to the gesture.

[hazy bay]

Not completely sure what you mean here

i understand now

thank you!

[hazy bay]

Is there a bug with Phys bones being paired with vrc constraints?

[serene warren]

My avatar is stuck with the bike hands glitch. I tried following tutorials on ytb to reset to tpose but none seems to work. Is there a way to fix the bike-hand bug?

[junior void]

whats a bike-hand bug?

I know of the biker pose, but bike-hand?

[serene warren]

Like the avatar in this pic

[junior void]

Yes, that's just the biker pose, nothing specific to the hands. Use pumpkins avatar tools to reset the pose

[serene warren]

Thx I’ll go download the tool

[sour nymph]

I did a my first time head swapping a model and it went perfectly! Even the fbx in unity was replaced without issues but I'm lost on the final stretch. The prefab like with textures and everything is just invisible, yet everything is applied right, props are placed right and everything has its material and all.

Is there a way to give it the textures in blender? Like so it's not grey and black

Thank u for any assistance

[broken bone]

Not that I know of. I've seen them wig out like this when someone puts a physbone component on every bone in a chain though

[austere bay]

wym by it's invisible? like you can't see the avatar in unity?

[long sierra]

Does anyone think they could help with this? :0

[austere bay]

idk how EasyQuestSwitch works I'd just advise you to learn to convert yourself, less likely to run into bugs and issues once you know what you're doing :)

I know it might seem daunting at first but it's really not that difficult!

[somber sequoia]

oh good

[long sierra]

I don't want the avatar to actually be quest compatible, I just want the character's hands to show in first person, and it worked almost every other time just by me installing the package

[somber sequoia]

why would the hands be missing, that's weird

[long sierra]

It didn't work with another avatar I had and I have no clue why

[round osprey]

what in gods name does this mean /Packages/com.vrchat.avatars/Editor/VRCSDK/SDK3A/VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.cs:2259
Its the reason it wont let me upload

[somber sequoia]

that's a path to a C# file

we'd need much more context

[round osprey]

it says something with the av3 emulator is broken, should i just take that outta the project?

[timber wharf]

its not required for upload ye

probly needs update

[round osprey]

yea thats probably what it was then cause it said something av3 is broken needs reinstall or upgrade)

yea that was the problem thanks

[long sierra]

I fixed it by moving the view position lower (It was way too high up)

Why is my armature's thumbnail preview a mesh though?

[somber sequoia]

ohhh do you have a bounding box issue?

[long sierra]

Didn't get any errors about it, but when I go into avatar configure mode, the character's hat is HUGE

[somber sequoia]

you wouldn't for what I mean - do you have parts of your avatar outside of your bounding box for some reason

it'd be weird, but dunno

[upper sonnet]

Help? I keep crashing when I load in vr chat

I don’t know if the problem is because of my avatar

I was just in an avatar world and I randomly crashed because I clicked on random avatars, help would be needed😭

[somber sequoia]

go to the website and change your avatar

[upper sonnet]

ah yes thanks

[feral isle]

I am currently adding an item into my avatar and i was wondering if anyone knows how to add the scaling on the item, so you can change the size of it ingame

[split monolith]

(Very likely) dumb question. I try to throw a tail I just bought onto my avi, but it doesn't "move" in play mode when I try and drag it around, despite it saying it has bones and is rigged on the store page. Is there a step I'm missing or..?

[somber sequoia]

how did you attach it to the avatar?

[split monolith]

I mean, it's a set of ears and a tail, so it came in a parent prefab. I just dragged and dropped it. I don't know if I need to split up the bones and make two different prefabs for the tail and ears or not

It's attached to my avi as a parent

[somber sequoia]

Does it have VRC Fury stuff on it though? If not you need to attach it to the armature somehow

Also does it have physbones in the prefab?

[bronze crypt]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/994840731657195550/1318762153188003940/image.png?ex=67642936&is=6762d7b6&hm=fe406785825d5310b2dd6b199bbcce1abce4ca406780141c5f34263e66339d8d&

Can anybody help me with this?
I was able to upload the file, but once I reopened the file to upload the new version to fix a material error, I got this error 300 times

[split monolith]

I tried to link it via VRCfury before I came here, but no dice. Also I don't SEE any physbones in it no

[somber sequoia]

ah, you'll probably have to make those then

[split monolith]

but I'm probably blind, because I also dont see any physbones in the base avi's ears

[somber sequoia]

unless those are all of the errors, paste the first 2-3 (at the top) - these aren't useful alone

[bronze crypt]

That's the only error

[somber sequoia]

huh that's weird.

[ornate stump]

That means some of your playable layer assigned in avatar descriptor is corrupted.

[bronze crypt]

Do I just remove the descriptor and redo it?

Maybe it was the vrc fury toggle layer I added in

It was that and changing an anchor override to make my face the same color as my body that I changed before uploading

[bronze crypt]

Would this mean I need to redo my gesture manager that I created? If so it only takes 10 minutes

[ornate stump]

You probably meant something else that isn't gesture manager. But whatever that can get you new animator controller for the avatar.

[bronze crypt]

Gesture manager is an add on I got to make my radial menu to toggle outfits
As for my animation controller, it sounds like your saying it might be broken?
So when your saying I need to redo my gesture manager, that's my playable layers being broken, I need to redo my gesture manager

[somber sequoia]

GestureManager is an add-on tool for debugging in Unity in play mode.

I suspect you're referring to an animator layer that does your gestures

or possibly the gesture animator itself?

[bronze crypt]

Oh I'm blind sorry, it's something else manager then (I am typing for someone driving currently who's trying to figure out how to debug their avatar)

[somber sequoia]

no worries! Just good to make sure we know what we're all talking about here 🙂

[bronze crypt]

So should I redo the animation controller?

[ornate stump]

You probably meant Av3Manager.

[bronze crypt]

Expression manager

[somber sequoia]

ah!

now this makes sense

[bronze crypt]

Sorry by the way, the person I am typing for got back into modeling for the first time after 2 years

Could something like using vrc fury toggle component on a clothing mesh at the same time as using expression manager cause issues?

Perhaps I just got unlucky and something corrupted and that there wasn't a way to really prevent said corruption

I know for example, a couple years ago there would be cases where you would corrupt your avatar by pressing play and it being stuck in play mode and having to redo the whole model, this is what I mean but random corruption

(Nowadays There's so many new optimized add ons that make this so much easier, which is awesome to see. This stuff used to take ages back in the day lol)

[cunning salmon]

Alrighty. I deleted the animation, but I can recreate it then

[sour nymph]

Oh like it was just showing the bones and such. Friend helped me texture the fbx and apply controllers. Though in testing mode the face mesh doesn't show up.

[pine aurora]

can someone translate

[somber sequoia]

are there any errors above that top one?

[pine aurora]

nope

[somber sequoia]

been seeing a lot of this lately

[pine aurora]

yk what it means

[somber sequoia]

not really, it's an error without useful context

[frosty remnant]

hey im trying to make a custom mamehinata avatar for quest but i am struggling (this is my first time) and i would appreciate some help when it comes to some things

[steady summit]

any idea why I can't select specific bones in Weight Paint mode in Blender 3.6?
I click the armature first and then shift select the mesh, go into Weight Paint mode and nothing :/

[somber sequoia]

Does your mesh have an armature modifier with the right armature set?

[steady summit]

there's only this

[somber sequoia]

that's why then

[steady summit]

do I just delete it?

[somber sequoia]

I don't know what that is and wasn't talking about that one

[steady summit]

oh x) I see

[somber sequoia]

hmm it does have the armature icon - open it up, see what it is

[junior void]

its red tho aka not valid

perhaps from an unparented armature

[somber sequoia]

yeah I was wondering about the red

[steady summit]

I just had to put 'armature' into the Object and now it works, thank you!

[somber sequoia]

You might want to rename that so you know what it is later, by default the name is simply "Armature".

[steady summit]

okay good idea

[balmy barn]

is this a generic avatar, cause they are funny with parameters

if your animator not pointing to any mesh fx/ect will have no clue who to talk to

[cunning salmon]

No, that's a humanoid avatar

[frosty remnant]

so does anyone know how to make it so a part of the avatar is gone completely because the tail just ends up stretching

i deleted it from the hierachy but this happens

[young cairn]

you may have deleted the bone armature.. youll have to go into edit mode and select the vertices of the tail and delete it from there

[steel raven]

can anyone help how to import avatars?

[somber sequoia]

Sure, ask specific questions if you can

[steel raven]

i just bought an avatar from booth

when ever i import it say attmpted to load the data for an avatar we do not own, clearing blueprint ID

[somber sequoia]

if there are other errors than that one, paste the first 2-3

(at the top)

[steel raven]

let me check real quick

[somber sequoia]

says 3 errors (red) yet you show only one. Please show all 3.

[steel raven]

pl

ok

[somber sequoia]

you can filter out the other stuff with the icons in the upper right of the console window there

some of those "missing meta file" warnings are suspect though, did you install the SDK via VCC?

[somber sequoia]

huh... something weird about your SDK. Possibly try "reload SDK" from the VRChat SDK menu, or re-opening the project

[austere bay]

are you trying to upload for quest?

[steel raven]

no

[austere bay]

it's telling you you're missing parts of the android build?

so quest

or mobile

[somber sequoia]

oh hmm

[austere bay]

I'd just install the android build and see if that fixes it

[steel raven]

i reopen it

[somber sequoia]

yeah seems like you're in android build mode

[idle jetty]

Need help Removing the object attached to the side of my avatar. I can’t seem to delete it

[night ember]

Do it in blender

You cant deletethe bones or mesh in unity

[verbal heath]

how do I fix this

is it the size or something?

I don't care about performance, I have a 7900XTX lol

works offline tho

(Also performance optimization is out of my talentscope anyway lol)

[young cairn]

..h-how did you even get 600 phys bone collision checks?

[verbal heath]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[young cairn]

also thats the issue

[verbal heath]

How do I fix it then

[young cairn]

is this a model you made? or are you importing a premade

[verbal heath]

I know basically nothing about Blender et al., lmao

[young cairn]

ohh

[verbal heath]

Technically both

It's a VRM

[young cairn]

i have no idea what that means

[verbal heath]

vroid studio

So I didn't apply bones, but it's not premade either

[young cairn]

okay..

phys bones are a unity thing.. just go under the arms and legs and see if theres any random phys bone scripts that are unwanted

[verbal heath]

How... do I do that

Keep in mind I know basically nothing about this kind of thing

[young cairn]

in the hierarchy on the left!

ill send a ss

[verbal heath]

This is what I see when I hit select

[young cairn]

WOAH

ok

so

thats what i was talking about

thats your hierarchy

[verbal heath]

Right, so how do I fix this

[balmy barn]

ah yes the vrm converter that always leaves a mess and 0 angle bleh , not even hard to get it to 1-2 materials

[young cairn]

click on J_Bip_C_Spine and see if theres a phys bone component on the right

[verbal heath]

I don't intend to optimize this beyond what I need to

[verbal heath]

There is yeah

[young cairn]

delete it

[verbal heath]

Won't that delete all of the child nodes

[young cairn]

and do that to all respective highlighted ones in the photo u sent

[young cairn]

no

[verbal heath]

Won't removing all of them effectively get rid of them

Granted, I don't actually know what a physbone is

[young cairn]

All the component does is tell the bones that they will have physics in game

almost all avatars only have physics on their tails or hair

none on the actual body

[verbal heath]

Ah okay

[young cairn]

once you delete all of the components, lmk if the phys bone warning goes away

[verbal heath]

it did yeah

I kept the upperchest because I assume that's what controls the jiggle physics lmfao

How do I reupload?

Do I just hit Build & Publish again?

[night ember]

yes

[verbal heath]

ty

[young cairn]

you can delete the one on J_Bip_C_UpperChest. Jiggle phys bones would most likely be inside the breasts themselves; J_Sec_L_Bust1 / J_Sec_R_Bust1

[verbal heath]

There's no physbone scripts there

I did check, because I thought that too

[young cairn]

they should be..

[verbal heath]

Hmm

[young cairn]

you can add them if you like

[verbal heath]

It still says securitychecksfailed

[verbal heath]

That is... well beyond my capability

[young cairn]

you just click add component and then search for VRC Phys Bone Component

[verbal heath]

What do I do with all these numbers

Wait

Phys bone or phys bone collider

[young cairn]

phys bone

[verbal heath]

all of the others are physbonecolliders, but ok

[young cairn]

these are a good start point for realistic jiggle

[verbal heath]

alright

[young cairn]

honestly dont be afraid to change settings and go back and fourth testing them

[verbal heath]

do I remove the physbone on the upperchest

[young cairn]

Huh???

[verbal heath]

Yeah

[young cairn]

thats

odd..

[young cairn]

go ahead

[verbal heath]

okay

[uncut oasis]

does anyone know why my nose is gone? perhaps it's not assigned to a vertex group in blender but i assigned the mesh to the head vertex group, shouldn't tht have fixed it? some other vertex groups have the nose as well. and when i weight paint it, it's red

[verbal heath]

hm, yeah, it won't let me use the avatar

it still says security checks failed

ill see if i can delete it and reupload

[young cairn]

can i see the errors in the VRC thingy?

[young cairn]

ahh

you dont have an animator

[verbal heath]

A... what

How do I fix that

also, if I wanted to add physbones to the tail, do I just do the same as I did for the chest or do they already have physics

[young cairn]

right click in the bottom, where your assets are..

Create > Animator Controller

[verbal heath]

So what do I do with this

[young cairn]

it should be fine now

[verbal heath]

still says this

[young cairn]

oh wait im sorry

click your avatar

on the right, does it have a VRC avatar descriptor?

[verbal heath]

yes

what do I do with it

[young cairn]

drag your animator into that

[verbal heath]

okay

[young cairn]

aswell as this one

[verbal heath]

nope

still says

oh

ok

there we go

ty

[young cairn]

mhm!

as for the tail

[verbal heath]

maybe it alr has them?

might be under secondary

[young cairn]

drop down J_Opt_C_CatTail1_01 and select the first bone under it

put a phys bone component and that

[verbal heath]

There's... a bunch

Do I just go with 2_01

[young cairn]

the first one under it

[verbal heath]

okay

[young cairn]

yes

[verbal heath]

what do I put, for the Values™️

do I leave them as is

[young cairn]

noo

hold

[verbal heath]

ok

[young cairn]

@verbal heath

[verbal heath]

ty

[young cairn]

mhm

so

if you want your tail to look how it is rn in game

and not sag

just turn off gravity

[verbal heath]

define sag