avatar-help

[boreal crescent]

Um, prob your aim was a little off

[buoyant thorn]

how do I use temporary pose space 😭 there arent any videos or helpful tutorials explaining how to actually toggle it

[snow pine]

so i'm looking to add a prop to an avatar where when i grab it off the body itll move to the avatars hand, however i was wondering if there was a way to do it where the prop doesn't teleport into the avatars hand and instead moves into it smoothly?

[timber wharf]

if you use weight as method to enable constraint, just use transition time in your animations

[naive sentinel]

a question, more about Blender than VRC: on my avatar I have different body-parts (part_A and part_B) that are separate meshes, and they both have blendshapes on them. When I join them into one mesh (before exporting the avatar), the blendshapes become corrupted - blendshapes from part_A now also affect the vertices of part_B, even though they shouldn't

they both have blendshapes with same names, but part_B ony has blendshapes on it that actually affect its vertices, I've deleted all others that do not..

[junior void]

Blendshapes with the same names will be merged

[naive sentinel]

yeah, but like... for example I have blendshape "Eyebrows_Angry" on the Main body, and no such blendshape on the Feet. But after joining, the "Eyebrows_Angry" blendshape now weirdly affects the Feet too

even though it shouldn't

"Feet" were previously separated from the "Main Body" mesh and all the blendshapes that do not affect the feet were deleted

[junior void]

When joining the meshes, are all blendshapes set to 0 and the basis shape key is selected?

[naive sentinel]

of course

[junior void]

How are you merging the meshes

[naive sentinel]

select both, set "Main Body" as active, and Ctrl+J

[junior void]

What blender version are you using

[naive sentinel]

4.2.2 right now

[junior void]

I havent used blender 4 yet so i cant tell you if theres something specific to that version, sorry

[naive sentinel]

I used to have it SOMETIMES on 2.9 too

like, after doing some edits to teh avatar, join all meshes, export to Unity, and suddenly see everything it messed up and weirdly proportioned

so I'd go back, rejoin meshes again, maybe in a different order, and it'd be fine

I'm basically just re-doing teh blendshapes on the problematic part from scratch right now... there's not that many, thankfully

[somber sequoia]

huh that's a weird thing to happen, but it's really easy to fix

Go in edit mode, pick a blendshape, select all vertices you don't want to move, then in the vertex menu (ctrl+v does it), pick "blend from shape", select Basis in there, and uncheck add. They should revert.

[naive sentinel]

honestly it was quicker and easier to re-do those 10-15 blendshapes on the smaller mesh from scratch, than to "revert" all 100+ blendshapes after the joining

[somber sequoia]

oooh, that's a lot, yeah.

[spice radish]

hey guys. i learned how to normal blend but i still can't figure out how to make shading match on appendages and/or augmentations. i'm using poiyomi, texture color is exactly the same and i've messed with disabling the normal map but i can't get it to match. it's always almost there but not really. how do i do it?

[somber sequoia]

are they separate objects? You probably want to set the mesh renderers' Anchor Override property (under Probes) to the the same transform, the chest bone is the usual target

[hearty dome]

hi does anyone know how to fix this issue with tracking on avatars? (please tag me in a response as this server is muted)

[somber sequoia]

FYI if you convert .mkv to .mp4 it'll embed.

[hearty dome]

Ill do that now

[somber sequoia]

I'm watching it anyway

[hearty dome]

ok thankyou

[somber sequoia]

oh thats weird!

[hearty dome]

yeah its happened to 2 of my avatars and im not sure on how to fix it

[somber sequoia]

it's avatar specific?

[hearty dome]

yeah only 2 of them have that issue, they are from different creators too

[somber sequoia]

huh

[spark walrus]

Anybody know anything about Booth Models? I’m having some trouble with Unity.

My problem is:

I bought the model “Airi” from booth, along with an outfit. I noticed the chest size of the clothes does not go along with the chest size radial. So I went to go add to the animation but it is not allowing me to preview or edit any of the animations.

[somber sequoia]

sounds like what happens if you don't have the animator where those animations are used in the Animator component on the avatar root

[spice radish]

I use VRCFury's anchor override fix, so it should be handled for me :(
I feel like the shading is off even though the world lighting isn't

[somber sequoia]

Ah ok. I'm not sure what else, if they're all done the same way

[spice radish]

yeah, but thank you for chiming in

gunna maybe do something else until i crack this one, thanks

[molten rampart]

this isnt a huge issue, im sure this works in game but can any smart person explain this strange occurance?
im using the regulus wolf ears from gumroad :3 i copied the physbones from the unity package and put them on my ears ... with this happening

[night ember]

do you have an endpoint set in the physbone?

[molten rampart]

ill just show the whole physbone setup

im not entirely sure what "endpoint" in this does

im not new to unity by any means but i dont work well with physbones 😭

[night ember]

endpoint just gives the physbone an endpoint in cases of like where you dont have 2 bones that the physbone requires

[molten rampart]

ah right, so do i just adjust it/mess around with it til it isnt... that long?

[somber sequoia]

probably it's so huge because your avatar scaling is 100x

[night ember]

or more than that cause .07 making it that massive is an insane scale

[somber sequoia]

or whatever the ratio is when you don't use FBX ALL

oh hmm yeah with the scaling there probably, it should be more like .0007

now that I see the collision radius

[spark walrus]

Yes no maybe so…

[molten rampart]

oh yeah that fixed it, thanks y'all, im a lil stupid

[astral cosmos]

a lot of the time i see avatars on quest that somehow use transparent parts and im jsut wondering how

does anyone know any work arounds to getting to use transparent shaders

[night ember]

either they faked it with particle shaders or they did something that will get patched very quickly

[astral cosmos]

how do you even made models without them needing transparent shaders actually

its just im a quest user and i can never make the avatars i want to make being quest compatible

[night ember]

you kinda just make it with the intention of not using it?

[kind root]

i need help, i bought an avatar model but i dont know how to move it to unity and upload it. can someone help me

[night ember]

what model did you buy

[kind root]

do you want me to share t with you?

[night ember]

no?

dont leak files

avatars you buy usually have instructions

[native urchin]

So I found an avi that had effects that were triggered by voice activation, but only a specific word.
Would LOVE to figure out how to do that. I've found tutorials on how to make something voice activated but not how to assign specific words.

[left gull]

likely just toggle via a specific vowel (or multiple) rather then the whole word

[lusty jay]

What’s the best free program for recoloring avatars? The internet has been no help whatsoever

[native urchin]

Ah, that would explain why it sometimes triggered without me saying the word.

[left gull]

any image editor, i personally use Firealpaca but alot here use GIMP

[lusty jay]

I mean like, painting the 3D version.

[somber sequoia]

"best" is subjective. gimp, krita, or if you want 3D maybe ArmorPaint or blender add-ons ucuPaint or LayerPainter

[lusty jay]

Ok. Now let’s say I used armorpaint.
What’s involved in actually taking an avatar, recoloring it, then uploading?
Do I have to use Unity or anything or is it just “change one file then upload”?

[left gull]

it should just be change one file then upload unless your model is using multiple textures that need editing

[lusty jay]

Ok.
Sorry if it’s really obvious, I’m not very versed in this stuff.

My friend won an avatar, Vulparii, and they’re giving it to me since they’re….. well they’re a polar bear and I’m a fox so they gifted me it.

It’s exciting for me to have this chance to finally have a custom avatar but it’s very overwhelming when I think back to the last time I recolored an avatar and all the hoops I had to jump through

Thank you

[somber sequoia]

import .fbx into paint program, paint, export textures as .png files, plug into unity materials, apply to avatar.

[lusty jay]

So Unity is required

Crap

[somber sequoia]

you must have Unity to build/upload an avatar, yes.

[lusty jay]

Unity is such a hassle.
Wrong version this and error that when all I do is change a texture. That was like 2 days of trouble last time lol

[night ember]

you needed unity no matter what since thats how you upload them

[lusty jay]

Ok. Is there any way to “test” the avatars before I fully upload it?

[somber sequoia]

Play mode in Unity is very useful, yep

[lusty jay]

What

[somber sequoia]

it's a tool for games, of course you can hit "play" and test. In our case for avatars, it activates most of the runtime stuff and you can move things around, see animations, test, etc.

can't wear it like that though, but it's very useful

[lusty jay]

So I can’t toss the headset on and test it

[somber sequoia]

it's simple enough to upload as private and do that though

[raven orbit]

there's a build and test option right in the windows build menu

[true wave]

I'm using an animator to control the speed of an animation... how limit bounds?

basically instead of having the animation speed go from 0 to 1 i want the animation speed to go from 1 to 3 so that at minimum on the radial it plays at speed 1 and at max on the radial it plays at speed 3

wow I can type what I wanna say wheeee

[somber sequoia]

hmm that is a little tricky to do well, now that I think about it.

[true wave]

it's a heartbeat animation, and I wanted 0 to be 60bpm and 100 (1) to be 200 bpm...

[somber sequoia]

ahhhh

I keep wanting to say blendtree

[grave wedge]

Hiii

Can u guys help name this avatar like find out whats the name???

[somber sequoia]

but I'm not sure that'll really work that way.

[somber sequoia]

#1138520828556890214

[true wave]

let's see if a 2d blendtree can...

[grave wedge]

Anyone know what these is called or any like these

Its ok if u guys dont know

[junior void]

Why post here despite being told to use avatar search channel

[true wave]

a 2d blendtree can...ish. it has the problem of the playback head moving as the speed adjusts...

[somber sequoia]

yeah that's what I was afraid of happening

you may have to rework the animation so that the base speed is where you want your 0 value

it's probably the easiest way to do this, though I don't know of a really easy way to do that offhand 🙂

[true wave]

impossible. cuz 0 playback speed is... 0

it won't play

[somber sequoia]

oh right

might have to do something like this: https://vrc.school/docs/Other/AAPs

yeah that first section there is probably the answer. I should try this myself, got a use-case for it

[random sphinx]

any feedback on my skin shader?

some say its "doll like"

like the girl from squid game iykyk

[left gull]

wait in the avatar search's post or ask the person who made that post what that model is called since they're looking for more like the model not that exact model which means they likely have the name/avatar saved

[rocky smelt]

It to worked, tyty

[misty pelican]

How can i insert Avatars that i just bought?

[somber sequoia]

you mean load it into Unity and upload?

[misty pelican]

So get it into VRChat to work

Just bought my First one

[somber sequoia]

you could start with a tutorial such as this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSwMz4WcajQ

[gloomy pier]

everytime i add the vrc avatar descriptor it does this ive already tried removing it reloading the sdk switching projects and its still causing this issue whats the fix?

[somber sequoia]

did you click "auto fix"?

[gloomy pier]

yes

when i selected that it removed the avatar descriptor

and when i added it back it appeared again

[young bear]

is your project set up as a world? that's the only reason I could see the SDK deleting an avatar descriptor

[gloomy pier]

nope

its as a avatar

it's confusing tf out of me

because if it happens to one in the project

every avatar i try make in that project gets that issue

[young bear]

well try making a new project and copying over the assets folder

also make sure you're using the latest version of the sdk

[gloomy pier]

ive tried

[gloomy pier]

it is

thats what happens when i auto fix

this when i add it back

[inland seal]

Is there a way to make Glasses transparent on Quest?

[next yew]

can i make the veil a darker transparency? im using mobile particle shader additive

[heavy zephyr]

Nope, that's all you get on quest

[next yew]

devastating

okay wait textures seem to somewhat work with it

[boreal saffron]

Hey y'all, just a quick question! I am trying to set up a state system that will track if I am moving or not. I just want to know if this is proper set up for something like that? Should I have the transition just be set to entry? Or add a transition from any state to it too?

[silent wraith]

I'm using this VRSuya AFK package (https://booth.pm/en/items/4197129) and the setting applier that comes with it, but this happens in-game when I use the AFK bind. does anyone know why this might happen? I've not changed anything manually, only used the tool with Anon selected as the avatar type. I've tried to look at the documentation but it's all Korean and Japanese and I can't find a reliable way to translate it.

[somber sequoia]

do you have an AvatarDescriptor on some other object in there? that's my only other guess

[somber sequoia]

no need for AnyState here, but this looks fine.

[boreal saffron]

Alright, cool! Thank you!

[tacit shoal]

how do i edit a premade animation? such as the gogo loco pose animations? unity keeps whining about me trying to edit it and then reverts it when i change the keyframe

ik its somethin to do with the proprties already there, bc if i manually change them theyll actually change and not scream at me, but the issue comes from the fact its super unintuitive to painstakingly change the values in the Animation tab

so is there a mysterious place under several menus where properly changing this is buried?

[somber sequoia]

You have to use the animator parameters which area already used in this animation - I'm guessing you were trying to animate the actual humanoid bones.

[tacit shoal]

where are the animator parameters bc i highly doubt i have to manually change them painfully in the animation tab

also yeah i was originally trying to animate the bones themself

[somber sequoia]

yeah, you do

I mean, or you make a new animation in something like Blender

[raven orbit]

it's not as hard as it looks to change them in the animation tab for something thats just a pose

[somber sequoia]

yeah it probably isn't in this case

[stoic bobcat]

How would I be able to place something down on the world but make it so I can use a radial puppet to choose where I place it? I know I can do world constraints but I want to see how I would do it so when I move the puppet and press trigger it makes it spawn in

[somber sequoia]

animate your puppet controls to move a separate game object constrained to the world, then when the real object is spawned it gets constrained to the target object

[inland seal]

Help please

[somber sequoia]

this has been exhaustively discussed in here, you could search for an answer

the easy answer is "no"

[stoic bobcat]

Yeah that’s what I assumed, just wanted to make sure I was thinking the right thing, thanks!

[somber sequoia]

note that I haven't done it 🙂

[boreal saffron]

I think ur best bet is to just make glasses frames on ur model

Maybe add small dots on it to reflect the shine of the lenses

You could also maybe create lenses and flip their normals? But they won’t be transparent they’d still be opaque, you could just maybe see behind them

But I say it’d be best to just create the frames and don’t add any lenses to the model, just have it be implied ya know?

[somber sequoia]

Yep, that's probably what I'd do. Fewer polys too 🙂

[next yew]

how do i make a group for toggles using vrcfury

[winter edge]

How do people trigger disolves/sounds when they disconnect from an instance?

[somber sequoia]

manually I'd guess, I don't think there's any kind of event trigger for that

[nova flicker]

question
ive noticed some avatars does this and some dont. but when i am in FBT and sit on a chair, some avis can track how i sit in fbt. but some avis assume the sitting animation and doesnt show hoq i sit. how do i make my avis sit on a chair but also track how i am sitting in fbt?

[hard turtle]

idk if his eyes still look souless..

[void crown]

what matcap would ya'll suggest to use for eyes?

[boreal saffron]

I think you could try and look into just disabling the sitting animation in general if you want to have it track you

[vagrant hare]

Yo guy how do I change my face PNG on my Roblox VR chat avatar by toggle?

How do I create it?

[boreal saffron]

What I usually do is duplicate the face, not the full head, just the parts that face the front, and put a new texture on it

Then, have a blendshape that puts it in front of your head which you could then activate with a toggle

But doing that may mean you won’t have visemes on that other face unless you do a lot more work

[nova flicker]

hmm hmmm i see, thank you

[boreal saffron]

NP!

[cunning grove]

Question
So, i have a base, but i want to remove part of the legs and replace it with cool cyber legs in blender, but, i dont know how and tutorials arent helping.
I got it to connect to the upper leg and im able to pose it, but the lower bones on the leg dont seem to connect?
Any help pls

[vagrant hare]

Ty man

[boreal saffron]

Glad I could help!

[boreal saffron]

Are you saying that the moving the lower leg bones doesn’t cause the legs to move?

[cunning grove]

yes

maybe im just dumb, but i dont know what im doing wrong

[boreal saffron]

That sounds like a weight painting issue then

[cunning grove]

Side note, i am still a bit new to blender

[boreal saffron]

No problem!

It sounds like since you deleted the lower leg and replaced it with new legs, you have to re-rig the lower leg bones to move with the new legs

[cunning grove]

How do i do that QwQ

[boreal saffron]

Lol dw I can walk you through it

What you want to do is go into object mode in blender, cluck on the bones, and then hold shift and click on the model itself. Holding shift means you select both

And make sure you click on the bones and THEN the model

[cunning grove]

Okie

[boreal saffron]

Then, change the mode from object mode to weight painting mode

There will be two small boxes at the top left, one with a big white square on it and another with a small box on it. Make sure neither of those boxes are blue, meaning they’re selected. Those buttons allow you to select points on the model, you want those off so you can select the bones themselves

[cunning grove]

just for a visual, this is what im trying to do

[boreal saffron]

Oh okay I see, I think you may need to do a bit more weight painting then, try doing this instead

Go back into object mode, and select the bones then body again, but this time right click, go to the “parent” option, hold your mouse there until the new menu opens and click on “With automatic weights”

It’ll try to do the weight painting for you. You probably will need to go back in and fix it up a bit, which the previous instructions can help with tho

[cunning grove]

[boreal saffron]

Ah okay, yeah nvm

To make that work you’d need to unparent and parent it back again, meaning that the rest of the body won’t be weight painted how it is now

Though I’m not a blender expert by any means so there may be some way to do this

[boreal saffron]

I guess just redo this step

[iron kindle]

Ok I need some help. I am trying to get my model change blendshapes for the body to get the outfits to fit without clipping but when I get it to work for one item (Have tanktop change the breast shape when on but when its off the body returns to a natural gravity on the chest but when I put on another top the breast shape goes back to supported, my issue is that that relaxed state will not turn off for the next outfit)

[candid sundial]

Hi!!! Brand new to this server, and I mainly joined to ask for help with this. Everytime I open Unity 2022 edition for the Creator Companion it says enter safe mode and shows a bunch of errors, I do not understand these errors at all, and I've tried doing research and watching tutorials, but nothing works. The Unity 2019 edition has no problem at all, but it's no longer in use, so i can't use it anymore.
When I exit safe mode it brings me into basic Unity and none of the Creator Companion things are there
If anybody can help it'd be greatly appreciated

[worthy bramble]

idk if this is the right place but im trying to add Bhaptics to my model, im not familiar with unity at all so ive followed some youtube tutorials but ive run into a problem. After dropping the av3 animator and bhaptics osc into assets i need to add a component in insepctor called bhaptics osc or some, but it doesnt show up and ive watched another video explaining why but that wasnt the reason. im stuck with this message so i hope someone can figure it out.

[west magnet]

I'm having this really weird issue, where the test avatars mouth is animated correctly with the visemes, but the actual upload of it, the mouth is barely moving with my voice, how could I fix that?

[loud yew]

So I'm setting up some clothes for my first avatar and when I test it in GestureManager the avi's thighs clip through the pants. It doesn't happen in the t-pose state. Any ideas on how to fix it?

[iron kindle]

Might not be fully attached to the armature

[loud yew]

I'm using the armature link component

[iron kindle]

VRCfury?

[loud yew]

yeah

[iron kindle]

Sometimes it can get confused, go find the hips of the armature of the clothing your adding and drag that into where it asks for it and try again

[loud yew]

Yep, that worked

Thanks so much!

I think I accidentally used the hips under armature.001 and not the pants prefab

[civic plaza]

so I recently purchased the Mamehinata avatar from Booth, setting up this avatar on Unity with VCC was fine.
But now how do I add the prisoner outfit to this avatar as a togglable option?
Also if there is a way to add FBT locomotion compatability, that would be nice

[rapid forum]

should automatically support fbt, i suggest getting modular avatar https://modular-avatar.nadena.dev/ u can import the unitypackage for the prisoner outfit and set it up using modular avatar, all u should have to do is drag the prisoner outfit prefab into the scene underneath your avatar hierarchy and right click it then click set up outfit

[loud yew]

I'm having another issue which only happens when GestureManager enters Play Mode. I checked my Armature Link component to make sure it was set up correctly, and it is. Anyone know what's going on here?

[night ember]

could just be weight painting

[inland seal]

But how people make some glasses transparent. Like I saw people doing it

[night ember]

Particle shaders is all you get

Or dont have lenses to begin with

[inland seal]

What's that

[night ember]

Yknow a shader? That you put on a material?

[wise grail]

I want to create an outfit toggle on my avi. This is how the toggles on the original model (that I did not create) are set up. Is there a tutorial that follows this specific method?

Clothing I want to toggle for reference

[trail pulsar]

Question, does anyone have a video on how to mesh different avatar parts in blender? Like if I wanted to add the nardoragin head to a wicker beast?

[restive bronze]

How do I make it so my avatar doesn't do the VRChat avatar walk animation?

Basically she's supposed to look like she's floating off the floor a little bit. I don't want the walk animation to happen bc it makes her look goofy

[night ember]

Locomotion layer

[quaint badger]

Question How do I fix theses too things?

[night ember]

Edit the rig of the fbx to have those set

If already set drag in a new copy of the fbx

[civic plaza]

I've installed modular avatar but I can't seem to be able to find this when I right click

[distant sonnet]

help

;-;

trying to upload to quest but the transparency is non exisitent ;-;

[rapid forum]

it might just say set up outfit and it wont appear at the bottom

[civic plaza]

I can't even find the modular avatars tab, here's how it looks for me

[rapid forum]

maybe unpack the prefab if u havent already and make sure its placed underneath your avatar

[raven orbit]

there is no transparency on quest. you'd have to cut it out on blender

[civic plaza]

I unpacked it, I still can't find it
nvm I found it

[atomic hound]

Texture is there just, purple for some reason. Anyone know how to unpurple this part?

[raven orbit]

it's missing a texture in the shader

could be multiple textures and it's just missing one

wait is that not using nodes?

[atomic hound]

no nodes

[raven orbit]

damn what version of blender is that 😭

[atomic hound]

3.6

[raven orbit]

what does the rest of the material settings look like

[atomic hound]

any particular part?

[distant sonnet]

how would one go about this

[atomic hound]

https://youtu.be/almJUw24twk?si=nbIPzmNcFXVluKps

[raven orbit]

i meant more like the parts that show the textures. i wonder id the mmd material settings have anything to do with it?

[distant sonnet]

is htis bone neccesary

its from vroid btw

[raven orbit]

neither of these are missing? (and is there no textures above that?)

[atomic hound]

Second one was actually missing and I believe was the issue thank you

Same name just had to reselect

[raven orbit]

yeah sometimes it does that 😔

[atomic hound]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cats-explosion-explodes-cat-explodes-gif-10131775219258044191

[civic plaza]

I'm also having problems with FBT locomotion animations, because even though I have it enabled my avatar's legs still don't move with the joystick

[distant sonnet]

i cant find the uv map locations

;-;

[west cipher]

anyone have any tips on making something like the pudding blink for a non booth model?

[hidden gate]

hi, i wanna import prefab with vape pod and smoke but something going wrong, when i toggle vape and try to contact with receiver-sender nothing dont happening Smoke stuff is disabled like receiver

i try all what say me ai and its doesnt help, founf forum but cant understand what guy do

[civic plaza]

here's an example of what's happening, FBT locomotion animation is enabled but doesn't work on this avatar

[hollow harness]

Hello

I need help with a model

It's an MDL file from source film maker I wanna turn an a avatar into

But I can't seem to find something that imports it into unity or blender

[glossy steppe]

I am trying to create a function to send the value entered in InputField to an external Windows application via OSC, is it possible to freely read and write ExpressionParameters from UdonSharp?
From my research, it seems that it is common to rewrite the parameters in ExpressionMenu, but what do you think?

[wraith saffron]

Is it possible to make something appear invisible if a user has the shaders for it disabled?

Or at least just not pure white.

[civic plaza]

managed to fix it by installing gogo loco

[wise grail]

Anyone?

[ornate stump]

Some shader has VRCFallback property which can be change to Hidden if shader is blocked.

[hollow harness]

There a way I can take models from VRchat?

[rapid edge]

Unity -> Blender via FBX

Can't take from VRChat unless ripping, which is against VRChat Rules.

[hollow harness]

Understood

[boreal crescent]

I noticed that my quest 2 controllers vibrate when other players walk through me. But when I specifically touch other users with controller, vibration is not activating. What is this system?

[wraith saffron]

https://tenor.com/view/rina-tennoji-fes-love-live-sifas-nijigasaki-gif-20428077

Thanks. Was wanting to do a visor idea sorta like that.

Didn't want a white square in front of my face lol.

[merry bluff]

hello, anyone here knows how i can use VRCFury to setup a toggle where i have a menu option to ONLY turn something on and not on and off? x.x

[rose summit]

how do i merge 2 skinned mesh renderers? i need it reduced for quest

[left wharf]

you can choose from: blender, d4rkoptimizer, AAO: Avatar Optimizer.
blender is very difficult, but so good for optimize.
d4ark optimizer and AAO: Avatar Optimizer are easier than blender.

[rose summit]

how do i download the last 2? and what do i use them to do that

its already a quest version i just need it merged

[left wharf]

just google them. and see readme (or docs)

[rose summit]

thanks you just made my project brake

[left wharf]

how did you downloaded it? if you installed from vcc, it shouldn't break anything.

[rose summit]

imported this unity package

now how do i fix this?

[left wharf]

ahhhhh, i seeee....

[rose summit]

and how do i fix it?

[left wharf]

can i see your vcc window? i want to see Manage Package tab

[rose summit]

vcc?

sorry whats that again

[left wharf]

VRChat Creator Companion

[rose summit]

should i press resolve?

[left wharf]

probably you should resolve after deleting Avatar Optimizer. i think you shouldn't import it from unity package.

[rose summit]

and how do i delete it?

[left wharf]

wait a min. i'll open unity

[rose summit]

at least i resolved the other issue

now i just need to delete the package

[left wharf]

oh that' good news, then remove aao like this screenshot

[pseudo crag]

Is this right? I’m kinda new to this. And the unity installer on vcc is unreliable to me. I installed unity hub and the correct version of unity with android support already.

[left wharf]

oh, sorry my bad, can you remove it from vcc?

[pseudo crag]

If I put it on C:\Program Files\Unity\Hub\Editor\2022.3.22f1\Editor\Unity.exe it doesn’t work

[pseudo crag]

And it says version already exists

[rose summit]

nope

should i try via explorer?

[pseudo crag]

Where should I put the location?

[left wharf]

yep

[rose summit]

gone :3

crashed >;3

[left wharf]

omg... i think something went wrong...

[rose summit]

its fine after restart

[left wharf]

ok great. btw, why did you import aao from unitypackage? its recommendation is install via vcc.

[rose summit]

idk

is the latest version still 2022.3.6f1 compatible

[left wharf]

yes, but why? is there any reason to stay that version?

[rose summit]

last time i upgraded my avi broke

so not risking it again

now how do i install it?

[left wharf]

AAO: https://vpm.anatawa12.com/add-repo
d4rk: https://d4rkc0d3r.github.io/vpm-repos/main_redirect.html

[tidal ravine]

how to install avatar i got from internet

[acoustic dust]

im just starting with unity and i have some vroid models i wanted to make into avatars. and im very confused with the vrm to sdk thing and was wondering if i could get some help on figuring out what to do

[rose summit]

now how do i merge in AAO?

[left wharf]

https://vpm.anatawa12.com/avatar-optimizer/en/docs/tutorial/basic-usage/
TL;DR: add AAO Trace And Optimize component to avatar root object

Note: AAO is a non-destructive optimizing tool. What this means is that avatars are optimized at upload time, so performance rank list in SDK Panel is unreliable.

[rose summit]

that was my next question

[left wharf]

lol

[rose summit]

lets seee

phys bones still work right?

[left wharf]

yea, Trace And Optimize is carefully made so as not to affect the operation.

oh

[light charm]

if i wanted to make an object in my hand spin if i press (let's say, finger gun) gesture, how would i go on about doing this? my attempts have not worked, with the animation in-game only showing frame 1, being stuck on frame 1. i have write defaults on (on every single controller). help would be really appreciated, thank you.

[left wharf]

you can ignore them but i can help if you want to solve the warnings

[left wharf]

ahh ok so if your avatar broke, you should use Modular Avatar version of GogoLoco (but it's a little troublesome...)

[rose summit]

just went ahead and tested it... nothing changed

the tail isnt there still

ill just upload the fallback for quest and see i gues... that one has it pre merged iirc

nvm

lets see if i can continue

with trying to get the tail on quest

[left wharf]

so, take screenshots of unity and vrchat please.
i don't know what you seeing and what's happening.

[rose summit]

the tail isnt there on the quest version, it deletes it because it is the last one in the heirarchy that uses a skinned renderer

so it auto deletes

upon upload

(atleast i think thats whats happening)

[left wharf]

T&O doesn't delete meshes. have you checked your custom animations? try unset all playable layers

[rose summit]

the tail already wasent there before

thats what i was trying to fix

by merging them

[left wharf]

ah ok isee. i think merging them aren't affect their visibility.

[rose summit]

(for reference, the body, the tail and the mohawk are all different renederers and quest can only have 2 max)

(so im pretty sure it deletes the lowest in the heirarchy which is the tail, uppon upload cause you can only have 2)

[left wharf]

quest can see more than 2 smr, just automatically set to very poor

[rose summit]

(4 bc of T&O)

[tropic mantle]

Ok how tf do i upload an avatar for quest

[rose summit]

but then why isnt the tail showing on quest

[tropic mantle]

i cant figure it out, maybe someone could upload it for me

[rose summit]

@left wharf

[left wharf]

hmm, try unset all playable layers and see what happens (take a backup before do this!)

[rose summit]

where do i do that and will it effect the other avatars in the same project aswel (the pc version)

[left wharf]

do in VRC Avatar Descriptor. if you are upload completely same avatar and upload it for pc after change, it's affect to the pc version.

[rose summit]

same project, different moddel

[left wharf]

then that don't affect to the pc version

[left wharf]

(sry i'm so sleepy bc it's midnight in japan.)

[rose summit]

you mean reset?

[rose summit]

oh yea dw

[left wharf]

yes, reset them

(i ll go to bed sryyy)

[rose summit]

its fine

and that didnt work either

[rose summit]

a part of my avi is shiny dispite having the same shaders, how do i fix it

some kind of poiyomi included with the base

[left gull]

getting someone to upload to your account is a nono, what part are you struggling with/stuck on?

[rose summit]

fixed it

[tropic mantle]

i cant get it to upload on quest

[somber sequoia]

can you provide more detail? error messages?

[tropic mantle]

when i try to upload it, on the vrchat website it just says "security checks failed"

[left gull]

send a screenshot of the Upload panel's stats

[tropic mantle]

lemme open unity again hold on

Wait what the-

Okay idk how but i somehow managed to get it uploaded to pc and quest-

It still says security checks failed, lemme just check if the avatar works in vrchat

[left gull]

hm i mean the stats are a bit bad but not enough to give an instant flag unless you're adding stuff during upload with vrcfury or your PC version is the one giving the security flag, theres also the possibility its giving a false flag (which you could test by uploading it under a new ID)

[tropic mantle]

I mean the avatar is working in vrchat somehow-

[rose summit]

some parts of my winterpaw neck floof are still white but i cant find which texture this is so please help

[somber sequoia]

#3d-modeling exists, but also it's really hard to see what you're referring to or trying to here

[upbeat marten]

thanks for your help.

[grizzled crow]

im currently trying to kitbash/merge two avatars...
How do I parent bone "Tailroot.002" to bone "Tail03"?

[somber sequoia]

edit mode, select bone, and in the bone properties you can see a parent box. Or you can use ctrl+p

[somber sequoia]

can you explain a bit more?

[grizzled crow]

I am trying, but they are on different armatures

and it wont let me

[somber sequoia]

oh, you can't do that, they have to be the same

[grizzled crow]

ah... and its.. impossible to move a bone from one armature to a different armature?

[somber sequoia]

Yes, but it is possible to merge armatures

you could duplicate that one, strip it down to just the one bone, and merge it into another

[grizzled crow]

ah

[upbeat marten]

all good, thanks though!!

[rose summit]

please help

[somber sequoia]

if you can bring that into blender you could check there

[rose summit]

i can try

just installing blender from the microsoft store rq

[somber sequoia]

it's on the microsoft store? huh, had no idea

[rose summit]

how do i export as fbx again?

[somber sequoia]

file -> export -> export fbx. Probably set "apply scaling" to FBX All unless you know you need it otherwise, and uncheck the leaf bones option under "armature"

[rose summit]

dont see export

[somber sequoia]

oh you didn't say which application you want to export from

[rose summit]

unity, which one do you think?

[somber sequoia]

no need in Unity, the model is most likely already an fbx file

I figured you meant from blender

[long raven]

Is gogoloco supposed to change walking and jumping animations for desktop?

[somber sequoia]

I didn't think so

[rose summit]

cant look at it in blender bc it uses blendshapes

for neckfloof

[somber sequoia]

you can change those in blender just fine

(they're called "shape keys" there)

[rose summit]

oh here

now how do i know what that texture is that i need?

[somber sequoia]

find the object, then you can see which materials are in use. Go into edit mode, click a material, and use the select button to show which faces it applies to.
Or you can click the face itself and it should hilight the material applied

[rose summit]

oh right i need the texture too...

to much afford

anyway to do the same in unity?

[somber sequoia]

you can't inspect faces in Unity, so maybe try to drag different materials over that slot to see what changes.
you can't view the UV map either, so can't see where on the texture that part is

[rose summit]

no matter the texture, the parts stay white

could it be a unity bug? as in it'll be fine ingame?

[somber sequoia]

I wouldn't think so

[rose summit]

i mean its not the material, nor the texture sooo

[somber sequoia]

is it emission perhaps?

[rose summit]

the props texture (where the neckfloof falls under) doesnt have an ammision texture i think

I just uploaded the quest version to pc

uhhhh

auto fix?

[somber sequoia]

Yes

[rose summit]

its fine ingame

[somber sequoia]

huh!

[rose summit]

told ya so

messed the collar up oops

[turbid sable]

how do i fix this? this has been here for almost 2 weeks and wont go away. i tried resetting my pc and still not working

[dark creek]

I am making a public avatar for my friend Ocublox, any advice?

[zenith pagoda]

hey uh,i dont know where to ask this but i got on today and suddenly no matter which avatar i use,i cant make the thumbs up,finger gun,or open hand gesture with my left hand specifically

[wise wharf]

I have this issue, the avatar is completely fine for everyone else to look at. Like his head is in the right spot and everything, but this is my view and I don’t understand why. When I import just the fbx into vrchat it’s fine. Idk what would make my viewpoint like this

[bronze loom]

How would one add a seat to an avatar?

I tried following a video by PxINKY and it doesnt work

[somber sequoia]

what about it doesn't work and in what way?

[somber sequoia]

There's a viewpoint setting in the avatar descriptor, make sure you put that right between the eyes

[bronze loom]

My friends arn't able to actually see or use the seat

[somber sequoia]

is it enabled by default? last I checked that was a thing you had to do.

[bronze loom]

No I do use VRCFury to toggle it tho, could that be the issue?

[somber sequoia]

I don't use VRCFury for that, so can't help there, but you may have to enable it by default, then use an animation to disable it when not wanted.

[wise wharf]

It is and even for the fbx without any physbones or materials on it. They had the same settings but for some reason that one is all messed up

[bronze loom]

Well it is enable by default so now im extra confused

[somber sequoia]

I believe you can get rid of the box collider

otherwise that looks fine

[balmy barn]

box collider set to is trigger , you can toggle the station visibility by toggling the box colliders (its where you click to sit and doesnt need to be center of object)

[glass condor]

The front avatar is a character shaded with toon lit for Quest, the back is the PC avatar with Poiyomi.

Notice how the Quest avi has a weird culling issue on the robe. Any way to fix that?

sorry for the low quality, id screenshot but my computer doesn't like discord so I can't upload a screen cap from the PC. 😥

[shadow mirage]

i just got back from using blender and when i added the materials to the fbx model the eyes are completely grayed out anyone else experienced that before?

[steel osprey]

I made my own one and finished the physics and everything and uploaded it without issues, but in general the avatar physics works on pc but not on quest, so im questioning myself there are other a lot more complex avatars on vrc that have more physics but mine does not work somehow... can somebody help?

I uploaded first the pc one and then attached the id on the quest one and everything worked completly fine but just on quest the physics dont work, but its usable for both pc and quest, and on pc the physics work (there are no dynamic bones there are just physicbones)

[junior void]

Check if it says in the upload screen stats when quest is selected : x physbone components.... will be removed on upload

[somber sequoia]

Looks like that's backface culling, which is normal for quest shaders.

[glass condor]

dang, no fixes I guess 😭 Guess I'll have to mess with the model in blender someday soon

[somber sequoia]

yep

[steel osprey]

Here it says the bones gotta be removed

but can anyone tell me how i fix that???

[somber sequoia]

Blender, probably

[steel osprey]

But how ._.

[somber sequoia]

edit the armature, delete bones

[junior void]

52 physbone components is pretty insane

[somber sequoia]

yeah that's a lot for PC even - it'll work but probably it could be more efficient than that

[steel osprey]

Thats all

[somber sequoia]

looks like this is going to be a lot of work to make quest compatible

[junior void]

Bones do not equal physbone components tho

You can just remove most

[steel osprey]

Is there ANYONE who can do that for me like fiver work xD

Make it compatible with both platforms tho

[junior void]

Not here

[somber sequoia]

you should commission people at the VRC Traders discord, not here.

Link is in #1204490664637890580

[junior void]

But in vrctraders, sure

[rose summit]

so im having this very weird issue, whenever im on pc, questies cant see my customization (collar, neckfloof) but they can whenever im on quest, if im on quest pc players cant see my customization (collar, neckfloof) but pc players cant

[steel osprey]

Okidoki thank you guys

[junior void]

This sounds like your parameters are not the same on runtimr

[rose summit]

how do i fix that?

[junior void]

Depends

Start by verifying its that before?

[rose summit]

doing so rn, how would i see

[junior void]

In play mode, check parameter list on both versions

[rose summit]

i know the quest menu is slightly different than the pc one (due to one having wings and an alternate tail and the other one doesnt)

[junior void]

Likely that then

Your parameters go by order

So it can happen that you toggle nr4 which is a shirt on pc and param 4 is a tail on quest

[rose summit]

first one is pc, second one is quest

[junior void]

This is unrelated

[rose summit]

oh ok

could that be it?

[junior void]

Yes, but you need to actually open it in play mode

Things like modular avatar and vrcfury install stuff only when playing

So outside of play mode they could look the same

[rose summit]

give it a second

what now?

@junior void

[junior void]

I dont mean to be rude but do you read what i type?

[rose summit]

I think this is play mode?

if not how do i get there?

[junior void]

Open the expression file by double clicking it

Youll see a list of stuff

Parameters that drive functions

[rose summit]

this is way beyond my understanding... cant i just replace the quest menu with the pc one?

[junior void]

Are you using vrcfury

[rose summit]

yes, for gogoloco (and wings for pc)

[junior void]

Wont be too straight forward then

You may get away with usung the same parameters file on both AND move gogo and the wings to THE BOTTOM on the avi so theyre the last things

[rose summit]

i only have the wings on pc tho

[junior void]

Yes

Move gogo and the wings to the bottom

[rose summit]

wings and gogoloco are already the last thing (on page 2)

[junior void]

Page 2?

[junior void]

Not in the menu

Nonono

on the avatar

[rose summit]

like this?

[junior void]

Yes

Try uploading that and quest with the same param file

[rose summit]

then drag the pc menu to the quest avi?

[junior void]

No

[rose summit]

param file is already the same

[junior void]

The menu has nothing to do with this AT ALL

Good

Just try it then

[rose summit]

already was before, so it doesnt work

[junior void]

Then you have other things that are on the pc version thats not on quest

[rose summit]

yes, the wings, and the main tail

the quest version comes with either the main tail or the alternate one

not both

[junior void]

Again, you could see it if you looked at the list in play mode

[rose summit]

and how do i see whats different do i have to go through every single one?

(mane hair is merged with mohawkhair on quest)

honestly, with some adjusting, i could fit the pc avi onto quest in another project

ill just try that

[rose summit]

just need to get the size down a little

[fathom meadow]

I cant find out how to change the shader on my avatar so it can work with quest

[timber wharf]

you do so im mateials, one or more per mesh

[rose summit]

need to squeeze 1 more mega byte out of it

like 1 less mb upload size

[grizzled crow]

how do I get substance painter to use 8k textures?
One material on my avatar will have 8k textures, the others will have 2-4k

[grand canopy]

i could help with that :3

[fathom meadow]

I figured it out 👍

[loud yew]

I set up armature link but the hoodie's arms aren't moving with the avatar. Does anyone know what's wrong here?

[rose summit]

for some reason people can ride on my avi on quest, how do i fix that? could it be because of me using AAO T&O?

[grand canopy]

anybody knows how to make rgb eyes on an avi?

[grizzled crow]

Is there a way to increase this to 8192?

[somber sequoia]

8k is huge, do you really need that?

[slow orchid]

what does root transform do?

[somber sequoia]

in what case?

[slow orchid]

for the phys bone collider

[somber sequoia]

Ah - you can put the collider component on any game object you want. If it isn't already a bone, you drag the target bone into that slot.

It's useful if you want to organize your physbones outside the armature, or maybe prefab them (I do both)

[slow orchid]

i do want to put my hands keep in touch with the rabbit ear

[somber sequoia]

hands have colliders already, no need to add any

[grizzled crow]

hmm... ig 4k is fine

nvm ima go with 4k

[arctic ginkgo]

Unless it's an atlas of other textures there's no way you even need 4k

What are tou trying to texture that needs that large of a texture?

It may be that you have unoptimized UVs

Try to map with details in mind. If you need more detail in an area, give it a large area of the UV map. If it doesn't need much detail, use a smaller area

Text or graphics usually take up larger parts, while basic shading or coloring can take up smaller areas

[grizzled crow]

hm.... I have smaller parts as... smaller..

[arctic ginkgo]

And you can also make use of detail maps and secondary UV channels to provide detail across the whole material

[grizzled crow]

the other materials are for smaller details, which do not need big textures

[arctic ginkgo]

This is definitely an okay UV map, could be better (notice how there's a lot of empty space?). Also if any island (or islands) are symmetrical parts of the model with symmetrical textures, you can UV map them on top of each other so they share the same area of the texture

You also probably don't need 4k for this anyways. 1k is probably enough imo

I would go past 2k tbh

Again I've only ever needed to do that for atlasses

Usually my atlasses are 2k or 4k

I can get them to 1k sometimes

[grizzled crow]

ah

[next yew]

unity says theres no avatar descriptor when there is

[arctic ginkgo]

If you want any sort of graphic or text, you can increase the size of that area and decrease the size of others (or make it a separate island if necessary) so you get more detail out of the same texture size

[grizzled crow]

with symmetrical stuff on top of one another like this?
top left are hip speakers, top right are all the ear speakers, bottom left are wrist speakers and the bottom right is the chest speaker

thats the groups I want to be the same

[elder ginkgo]

with facetracking what would cause expressions to not work? (like frowning activating a eye expression or making the face look sad) I hope this makes sense lol

[gilded raft]

any idea what could be causing my radials to do this?
restarting didn't help, desktop mode didn't help.
previous version of avi, with almost exact same setup (and basically the exact same animations) worked perfectly fine. only difference really is, merged a few meshes and atlased a few textures.

ok, might have fixed it, ish. unplugged headset from pc and it stopped its shenanigans. cool.

[open sonnet]

Anyone seen this error when uploading. Its in the log, I looked online but not seeing anything, Thank

throw await HandleBuildError(new BuilderException(errorTask.Task.Status == TaskStatus.RanToCompletion ? errorTask.Task.Result : "Unexpected Error Occurred"));

[somber meadow]

Show your full console

[somber meadow]

you have a missing script on the armature object, look at what packages your avatar requires. If you can't find anything you could just remove it

[hushed stirrup]

How do I change the purple sphere for the physbone grab? it's too big.

It is literally something weird that I haven't seen documented anywhere. And happenend not quite long time ago, maybe a few weeks or months ago.

[late cairn]

would anyone make me this avatar? pc and quest, im willing to pay (dm me)

[heavy zephyr]

By default you can't, only way to touch it is to do some funky and slightly risky edits in debug mode

[hushed stirrup]

Okay so what I've got so far, it is somewhat based on finger length but it does not calculate properly since on some setups it gets too big.

[heavy zephyr]

Sounds about right, it is linked to your hand bones by default, I know you can reparent it through shenanigans but not sure about scale

[hushed stirrup]

yeah it would break some stuff. I wish it was possible to change it in the Avatar Descriptor -> Colliders as a separate one.

[heavy zephyr]

You can, in debug mode, at your own risk

[muted anchor]

does anyone know why this gets darker after exporting it from gimp?

[ornate stump]

Different color space.

[muted anchor]

What exactly does that mean? Can you show me how to fix it?

[ornate stump]

It means both app interpret color value differently. This likely because the image in unity is set to interpret as linear while in gimp interpret as sRGB.

[muted anchor]

Interesting

[ornate stump]

Usually for color texture you'd have to make sure color space is sRGB.

[worn kiln]

?tag scam

[flat musk]

Hey ho 👋 I see you're looking for commissions.

You will probably receive DM's or friend requests from scammers now (or later) that will try to offer you their services. 😖

🚫 Absolutely DO NOT engage with those, regardless of how competent they might seem or their excuse to why they contact you.
This is unsafe practice used by scammers, and also breaks this Discord's rules. 👮

If you seek a creator, check out VRCTraders and follow their protocols strictly 🥺

🌠 It's extremely important to always DEEPLY investigate the account and social media of the person you plan to commission.
Is their social media linked in Discord? Is it legitimate? Are the references stolen? (Try to reverse image search posts to check.) 👀
The quality of fake profiles out there can be crazy good, be aware of that and NEVER engage with DM or friend requests that originate from the artist.

When in the slightest doubt, do not commission them and contact the moderators of the involved communities. 😱

[zinc dagger]

any idea why this is happening

[somber sequoia]

"this"?

[zinc dagger]

its grayed out

and im not sure as to why

[somber sequoia]

it's probably a material embedded in your FBX, you can't edit those.

[zinc dagger]

ohh

alright

[vagrant hare]

guy i need help i can't find locomotion in my unity vrchat?

and in packages too

[muted anchor]

seems to have worked for now. Thank you for your advice!

[somber sequoia]

locomotion?

[vagrant hare]

yes

i can't find it

[somber sequoia]

what do you mean by "locomotion" exactly?

[vagrant hare]

i need it to put my custom idle animation in it

[somber sequoia]

ah, probably the base layer animation controller - look in your avatar descriptor, if you're using a non-default one, look there.

[vagrant hare]

ok

[zinc dagger]

any idea as to what the issue is here?

[cloud forge]

Haven't seen that before

Don't know what it means

[zinc dagger]

same

this is what i see

[somber sequoia]

the "too tall" one

[pure isle]

i dont knwo what happened it was fine not long ago

[hollow dove]

I keep getting the error need head feet and hand bones mapped for generic rig and my I have an import error saying it can’t generate smoothing groups for the viseme blend shaped

How do I go about fixing this?

[zinc dagger]

i fixed the too tall one. the issue is just this now

ive been researching it but it has held no answer

[shut patrol]

Hi, I've been trying to optimize my avatar to upload to Quest
However, the download size is 14mb, which is 4mb over the max limit
This is the distribution of the file size, does anyone know what's the easiest way that I can fix this?
Thank you!

[timber wharf]

after compressed size comes uncompressed 40mb limit anyway. you have more than that in meshes only, so step one, make sure you have vrcf blendshape optimiser enabled, step two time to delete stuff, stick to one outfit etc.

and ofc resize your textures for texture part. but again, your meshes take way to much.

[hollow dove]

everything is shown as green in configure and I didn't change any names, why am I still getting these errors?

[solid terrace]

Does anyone know how to fix the issue with the legs?

[pseudo crag]

This avatar stuff from blender is hard. That .blend files I got are very high quality and pre-rigged but comes as .blend files. Whenever I try to make the general rigging humanoid in rigging after exporting a .fbx file there’s always errors.

Not to mention my avatar isn’t the right color.

[somber meadow]

remaking the avatar's materials in unity is normal, however screenshot the import errors about the rig

[pseudo crag]

I’m just gonna record a video on what I do

I have nitro anyway.

Should be able to post the video.

Taking so long to upload dang.

[shut patrol]

thank you! i used the blendshape optimizer and it worked🙏

[pseudo crag]

Can I dm you?

Mb

Video finished

@somber meadow

[magic willow]

I have put pants on my avatar and they aren't showing in game, what do I do?

[ornate stump]

How did you put pants?

[magic willow]

I think used vrc fury in some way? i forgot at this point

[ornate stump]

If you were so unsure about how you did it then it likely you did it wrong.

[magic willow]

how should I go about it?

[ornate stump]

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

[ornate stump]

https://vrcfury.com/tutorials/linking-clothes

[magic willow]

thank you

[magic willow]

sure

[ornate stump]

Beware of newly created account. That likely is going to be a scammer.

[pseudo crag]

Still haven’t figured out a way.

What the hell is a normal?

[ornate stump]

It's a direction where surface is pointing outward.

[ornate stump]

In your video, you didn't open the import message below the Apply button. That's the essential info we need to know about your issue.

[spark timber]

Okay, my friend needs help finding a solution to weird cloudy/milky materials.

(sorry for the bad quality photo) But my friend was just about finished with this avatar, and everything was going perfectly fine. But when he uploaded to Android, the textures look milky and glossy (in the second picture). It's only for the Android build, it looks great for Desktop (first picture). I would REALLY appreciate any answers or ideas so I can relay it to him!! Thank you!!

[ornate stump]

This likely because the materials aren't setup correctly. Likely the metallic/smoothness map is missing.

[pseudo crag]

Where do I find that

Console?

And damn do I have a lot.

Anyways found the error logs

What’s cs

[lusty jay]

Armorpaint isn’t free so I can’t go that route. Any other 3D painter softwares that are free but also good?

[ornate stump]

Blender is definitely free.

[lusty jay]

And infinitely difficult

[ornate stump]

Free or good. Pick one.

[night ember]

Other 3d paint softwares are also difficult?

[lusty jay]

Substance is paid
Armor paint is paid
I don’t have the time to learn blender

[night ember]

You would need to spend time learning substance and armor paint?

[lusty jay]

I know how to use substance it’s just unfortunately my free license ran out and I’m not paying $20 to paint a single vrchat avatar

[night ember]

Then spend the 5 minutes learning how to switch to texture paint in blender

[ornate stump]

Even if not blender, you'd have to spend time learning new software anyway though.

[hallow wyvern]

Hi! (I’m the person making the avatar! I just joined the server) Thanks for replying! But I used the same material setup for Desktop with the Standard Lite shader, there’s only a problem whenever I switch the build to Android. This has never happened to me before, idk what’s wrong with it😿

[ornate stump]

Might need to confirm that you really have correct material settings so screenshot the material in inspector.

[zinc dagger]

so ive waited a few hours and ive yet to find any reason as to why this is happening

[hallow wyvern]

Here you go

Idk how to screenshot🙏

[ornate stump]

Windows + Shift + S key

[ornate stump]

Have you actually uploaded to quest to see the result?

[hallow wyvern]

Yuh

[spark timber]

It's only like that on Quest. Pc looks fine.

[pseudo crag]

I don’t know how this happened.

This should be fully rigged already

[raven orbit]

from what i saw earlier, it was a blender rig, rigged specifically for animation in blender, which is an extremely different use case than a rig for a game such as VRChat. that type of rig would take a lot more work to make work correctly

[pseudo crag]

Dear god…

So what should I do?

[raven orbit]

start looking up tutorials

[pseudo crag]

On what

Specifically

I mean it has bones already.

[raven orbit]

specifically on configuring humanoid avatars in unity and what is required for a rig to work as humanoid

[spark timber]

Do you have any ideas for solutions?

[pseudo crag]

Do I have to change anything when exporting the model while in blender or is that after I export to unity?

[raven orbit]

usually when i export as fbx i set it to only export armatures and meshes, set apply scaling to FBX ALL, and uncheck add leaf bones which might clean up your model a bit in your case. as for configuring as humanoid you have to click the configure button and drag in and bones that might be misplaced in the menu. if it still gives errors you might have to change the rig itself

[pseudo crag]

Damn.

[pseudo crag]

I unchecked leaf bones from a tutorial I watched.

Might have to try out the other things you said.

But before that

[pseudo crag]

I have figure out what all this means to actually find what you’re talking about.

Because the model I bought was very VERY high quality.

$60

I don’t know if you know Agrofro but he does AMAZING mods for Spider-Man remastered.

I also heard he sells the models he uses for the mods on Gumroad.

[pseudo crag]

On his gumroad when buying the model he said you could upload it to vrchat.

But I didn’t know it would be this hard.

[raven orbit]

i would guess (or at least i hope this is the case) that he probably meant it wasn't against TOS to upload it to VRChat, not that is was necessarily simple to do so. Highly likely the product was meant for people already highly experienced in blender and in animation

[pseudo crag]

Most probably

I’ll power through this.

Might even learn something.

[raven orbit]

but everything i said about exporting as FBX is in the fbx export menu

[pseudo crag]

Alright.

[pseudo crag]

I’m gonna send a photo if it’s good or not.

[raven orbit]

set this or it's gonna export every curve and empty object in that scene

[pseudo crag]

Alright.

[pseudo crag]

Alright I set it. Should I uncheck strip bones or no?

Also the cs thing is back

[raven orbit]

ngl I don't know what strip bones does, i usally just leave it as it's default setting

[pseudo crag]

Should I be worried about this? And…it happened again.

[raven orbit]

likely those are objects that were used to visualize the rig in blender, i dont really have the time to give a full tutorial on every step to take in order to remove those before exporting but i'd guess they can be ignored for now since it's just a warning and not an error. as for the errors on the rig section, again, you have to click Configure and manually fix it in that menu

[pseudo crag]

Do I explode if the character is not in t-pose?

[raven orbit]

It should be able to snap it to t pose but dont do that until you fix the issues with the rig configuration cause that's not what it's supposed to look like

[pseudo crag]

This is from the tutorial video I watched.

Looks simple enough

But this is what mine looks like

My brother is playing Forza next to me.

[magic tangle]

Does anyone know an issue with IK where the limbs appear to be stucked (IK not working) in my own perspective (in VR) but appears to be fine to my friends in game....

I have used CCD IK as such to target my hand
I have regular fake bones for the rigging

All my gestures, animations do work just fine...
Same with when im in desktop mode

The problem is in VR where the back arms are stuck to its side (default position) from my own perspective, but my friends see my arm work as usual

I believe this is an Execution order problem but i have no idea how to remedy this

[somber sequoia]

The source code is available for free, I've got it working and didn't pay for it.
See here: https://github.com/armory3d/armortools/tree/main/armorpaint

Otherwise there's not much actually good for free. You could try ucuPaint or LayerPainter blender add-ons. And I think Quixel Mixer still is free but I didn't like it at all.

[pseudo crag]

I don’t think these were rigged correctly. At all.

[raven orbit]

Sure the model was rigged correctly, for blender. i believe i've said multiple times to drag the correct bones into the correct slots. this setup isn't able to do it automatically

[somber sequoia]

yeah, you have a twist bone where an arm bone should be

[pseudo crag]

Putting everything to none so I can re-rig it from thr ground up in unity.

I don’t get this part.

It should be correct.

But when switch head to neck_twist it turns grren for some reason

Or anything under c_neck.x

[raven orbit]

😬 yeah that was the part i was talking about when i said you might have to modify the rig itself in blender

[pseudo crag]

R.I.P

I’ll be back.

[pseudo crag]

Do I just make the rig simpler?

[raven orbit]

sure. i'd reccomend looking at rigging tutorials to understand how weight painting works cause if you delete any bones you'd have to transfer those weights to other bones. you also need to look up requirements for a humanoid avatar in unity to know what needs in order to work

[pseudo crag]

Right. Thanks I’ll do that.

[pseudo crag]

How long does it take for a seasoned maker like yourself do this kind of stuff?

[raven orbit]

not sure how long in any specific amount of time cause i tend to measure the amount of time i take to do a project by days. i've edited some game avatars for use in vrchat and usually i can modify the rig in about a day or less. depends on how complicated it is and how busy i am with other stuff

for removing twist bones and stuff i add a bunch of vertex weight mix modifiers to the mesh and add the vertex groups i'm going to remove to another one then apply the modifiers and delete the bones (and the extra vertex groups)

[pseudo crag]

Thanks for the tip.

[balmy barn]

162k+ avatar, converting it to vrchat anywhere from 5 minute to hours - would be guesswork how its made

[pseudo crag]

Dang.

[balmy barn]

like when i have to dig around for its stats, there

if its for quest i wish you luck

[raven orbit]

yeah it takes me a while sometimes cause i try to cram avatars into good rank on quest

[pseudo crag]

It’s just for pc.

Because the webbing is seperate.

It’s 162k+ polygons on it’s own.

I don’t even have a vr headset but I’ve been planning to get one soon.

[rapid mist]

that is way too many triangles for webbing

[pseudo crag]

I mean spider-man without the webbing.

[rapid mist]

still too many triangles

[raven orbit]

yeah with that amount of triangles it's going straight into the very poor rank

[pseudo crag]

The very poor rank avatars are the funnest avatars imo.

[rapid mist]

your avatar could probably have half the triangles and not have any visual difference

[pseudo crag]

I mean the model I’m using at it’s best looks like an on-screen suit model from a movie. And I haven’t seen any Raimi avatars that aren’t from the ps4 game.

[rapid mist]

normal map detail is sufficient for making photorealistic Spider-Man suit

and nobody is going to be an inch away from your Spider-Man to notice the extra triangle count compared to the Spider-Man PS4 game Spider-Man

[pseudo crag]

It’s mostly for myself anyway.

[rapid mist]

then just upload a second variation that's actually properly optimized as you would be sealing other people's frame rate for vanity purposes

[pseudo crag]

Ok ok

[rapid mist]

like most people aren't going to be seeing your avatar at all with it being very poor

[hollow harness]

I imported a model from SFM into blender, added the textures and the put it in unity and this was the result

I don't know how to fix this

Need help

[junior void]

You dont really bother with textures in blender much. You should import your textures to unity, make materials there and apply those to the model

[pseudo crag]

Is it better to delete every bone and re-rig it myself or just do what you suggested with just removing twist bones and the other stuff you said.

[hard turtle]

just looking for general advice on my next avatar

im pretty happy on where this guy is rn

:3

(idk what he is)

[merry coyote]

anyone know how to fix this issue when the sleeves are toggled off? Trying to work on this for a friend and ran into this issue

[junior void]

The toggle needs to turn the body blendshape down that makes the arms like this to counteract clipping

[merry coyote]

I knew I was missing something, perfect fix thank you! ❤️

[civic plaza]

you know that small circle menu you can bring up? how do you reset your avatar settings through that?

[merry coyote]

you mean this one

[civic plaza]

yeah

[rose summit]

Expressions>quick options>reset avatar, that will reset all the in game customizations

[civic plaza]

ok, thanks

my avatar is able to walk normally for a second but goes back to sliding, I am also using gogo loco if that provides more detail

I just noticed it happens whenever I step onto a higher or lower surface

[merry coyote]

it has to do with the avatar not seeing where the "floor" is I think. Does it do this in every world or just tht one?

[civic plaza]

every world

[merry coyote]

may have something to do with avatar height/flooring

this I'll be honest I havent really ran into/isnt a issue I notice on avatars often since I run FBT

[civic plaza]

I'm actually just using standable full body estimation

[merry coyote]

so yeah that could be it, if you are trying to just have full body "float" all the time, it is a setting in your VRC menu in game

[grizzled crow]

y i k e s

[hallow meteor]

Hello I was wondering how do I get verified to where I can upload my own avatars?

[merry coyote]

You have to be a higher trust rank in VRC (I believe User/New User)

[hallow meteor]

Oh ok how does that work

Cause for me rn it just says not trusted

[inland seal]

What does this do?

[spark walrus]

how can i record videos with vr chat camera in pcvr ?

[inland seal]

Obs

[spark walrus]

alr thanks

[inland seal]

My avatar lighting is completely broken. The body is more bright than everything else. While on my other avi, everything is fine (Poiyomi)

I will find someone dw :D

[merry coyote]

Basically just play the game, make friends, and if you dont already have a VRChat account you can make one and link it to your platform (Steam, Meta, etc.). After a while you will eventually get higher ranks

[hallow meteor]

Ah ok thank you

[balmy barn]

if you have multiple meshes anchor them so light dont behave wierdly compared to other parts , pumkin is one way to auto do it for you

[strong vessel]

Hey so, I bought a model from someone and need help with a folder that's labeled "recolors"

anyone know what I'm supposed to do with it?

[somber sequoia]

what's inside it?

[strong vessel]

pngs, an fbx file, and an spp file

[somber sequoia]

ah, spp = substance painter, it's probably for doing recoloring there

that fbx is likely a model setup specifically for doing this work in substance

[strong vessel]

so... what do I do with it?

[somber sequoia]

nice of them to include that

[strong vessel]

it's what I need to do the RGB thing

[strong vessel]

I mean shit I spent $70

soooo

[somber sequoia]

load the .spp in Substance Painter?

yeah well lots of creators don't do this even at $70 🙂

[strong vessel]

I don't think I have Substance Painter

[somber sequoia]

then you can't use that file

(likely you'd know, it's a paid application)

[strong vessel]

so I have to get Substance Painter if I want my model to have the rgb thing?

[somber sequoia]

no - you'd have to get Substance if you want to open that file and do texture work there. You can do things in other ways

[strong vessel]

then what's the point of the RGB thing and the fbx file?

[somber sequoia]

I don't know what RGB thing you're talking about

[strong vessel]

all the images are pngs that are like... rainbow

[somber sequoia]

but substance painter makes texture work easy, lots of people use it for this

[strong vessel]

Idk how many models I'm actually gonna do anything with

this is my first time doing anything with models aside from just... getting them from worlds and stuff

but I got tired of my avatars being taken down

[somber sequoia]

yep, good call

[strong vessel]

so I wanna get my own that way I don't need to worry about it

the model came with 3 things

a 1.4 unity package, a 1.5 one, and the recolors thing

which is full of titled pngs that are both grayscale and rainbow

[somber sequoia]

yep, makes sense

[strong vessel]

alongside the 2 recolor "spp" and "fbx" files

is my best bet to just join the creator's discord and hope I get some help, or...?

[somber sequoia]

can't answer without knowing what you want help with

[strong vessel]

I just wanna know wtf the recolor files are for

I want my avatar to be... recolorable

[somber sequoia]

I just told you though?

[strong vessel]

yeah but I'm stupid so it just kinda flew over my head

sorry

[somber sequoia]

that folder is for working in Substance Painter. If you aren't going to do that, then it's not of much use to you.

[strong vessel]

what is it supposed to do in Substance Painter?

and how much does Substance Painter cost?

[somber sequoia]

Otherwise, you can bring any of the texture images used by the avatar's materials into any paint program you want

[strong vessel]

also, how much would I use Substance Painter?

[somber sequoia]

I can't answer that one, but I use it often.

[strong vessel]

let's say I started doing like

an avatar a month maybe

[strong vessel]

this too

[somber sequoia]

then it may be quite useful to you, yep.

[strong vessel]

cuz if Imma buy it I want it to be worth it

no point in spending money if you ain't get nun from it, ykwim?

[somber sequoia]

re: the price, you can easily google for that

[grand scaffold]

You can get it perpetually for about £170 on steam or get a subscription which is about £250 a year

[balmy barn]

Thats a fun learning curve, you dont really need to touch it at all , ive done recoloring / 3d painted on meshes without it

[strong vessel]

...

yeah ngl

I ain't spending allat

[grand scaffold]

That's adobe for ya

[somber sequoia]

it's a good price for what it is really

[strong vessel]

I'll barely get by this month after spending $70 on a model

my wallet is NOT okay

is the fbx file like

an alternative to the spp?

same with the pngs?

just different options?

or?

[somber sequoia]

fbx is a 3D model

pngs are image files

[strong vessel]

what do I do with said 3d model?

[somber sequoia]

spp is the whole substance painter project

[balmy barn]

step 1 would be to get avatar uploaded you dont wanna start doing complicated things instantly

[strong vessel]

the files I'm referring to are supposed to be apart of the model I think

[somber sequoia]

the fbx in the recolor folder is probably used in the substance painter project, again, ignore this if you are not going to use substance painter

[inland seal]

So what do I do?

Is PumpkinAvatarTools correct?

[somber sequoia]

drag the same transform (likely chest) into the "anchor override" slot in the skinned mesh renderers

[balmy barn]

handy tool to have

[strong vessel]

so should I just try uploading the model and then just...

see what happens?

[somber sequoia]

start at the beginning, then continue on until you reach the end.

[strong vessel]

if so, how do I do that?

[somber sequoia]

tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSwMz4WcajQ

[strong vessel]

I put the model in unity already and attached the addons

[strong vessel]

my model doesn't have a rig thing...

[somber sequoia]

"rig thing"?

[strong vessel]

like

the guy said "make sure your rig is setup as humanoid"

"select your avatar's model"

but there is no thing like the one in the video

[somber sequoia]

"model" being the model file, a .fbx. If the creator provided you with a sample scene with everything all setup already, then use that

[strong vessel]

it says it's ready use

[inland seal]

uhh

what?

Is there a youtube tutorial?

[somber sequoia]

What part of this is not clear?

Happy to explain.

[inland seal]

Its about the transform thing

Like do I need to drag my models into it?

Like clothse

clothes*

and other?

[somber sequoia]

No, in this case a transform is a bone.

[inland seal]

Crazy

Which one should I press?

[iron badger]

Having issues uploading a model. I'm at a dead end here.

[waxen lintel]

Having issues trying to upload an avatar. First time using the Creator Companion from using Unity and importing it as a package.

I've got everything set but I'm getting the following error when trying to Build & Test.

VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.Build (UnityEngine.GameObject target, System.Boolean testAvatar) (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.avatars/Editor/VRCSDK/SDK3A/VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.cs:2259)
VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.BuildAndTest (UnityEngine.GameObject target) (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.avatars/Editor/VRCSDK/SDK3A/VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.cs:2597)
VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder+<>c__DisplayClass104_0.<CreateBuildGUI>b__3 () (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.avatars/Editor/VRCSDK/SDK3A/VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.cs:1973)
System.Runtime.CompilerServices.AsyncMethodBuilderCore+<>c.<ThrowAsync>b__7_0 (System.Object state) (at <27124aa0e30a41659b903b822b959bc7>:0)
UnityEngine.UnitySynchronizationContext+WorkRequest.Invoke () (at <cb81df0c49c643b1a04d9fc6ccca2433>:0)
UnityEngine.UnitySynchronizationContext.Exec () (at <cb81df0c49c643b1a04d9fc6ccca2433>:0)
UnityEngine.UnitySynchronizationContext.ExecuteTasks () (at <cb81df0c49c643b1a04d9fc6ccca2433>:0)

No idea what's causing this

[somber sequoia]

Look in the console for errors

[somber sequoia]

Build and test - is this for android/quest?

[waxen lintel]

Sorry if this seems a stupid answer, for desktop? o.o

[somber sequoia]

no that's fine - "pc" in that case. Any other errors?

[iron badger]

Any ideas on this?
Sorry I'm not very good with these things.

[waxen lintel]

Sorry! Right, just this that's all, no other errors.

[somber sequoia]

you have 37 errors - see the red symbol at the upper right of the console, click that to show them. Paste the first 2-3.

[somber sequoia]

"missing script" - install whatever requirement you forgot

[iron badger]

Is there a way to tell what scripts are missing? I uploaded everything on the avatar correctly.

[somber sequoia]

I don't know of one

I mean, other than the creator's requirements list

[iron badger]

I think I got it, I just re-imported the whole thing again.

[strong vessel]

so

I got my avatar uploaded

now I need to make it quest compatable

it says it uses unsupported shaders and I have no clue how to fix that

[somber sequoia]

#avatar-quest but also there are tutorial videos for this too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCH7NCJi7MI

[barren wharf]

how do i add multiple alpha maps on one material