avatar-help

[junior void]

perhaps because the shader is set to use alpha blend where it shouldnt

[sacred jetty]

how would I check that

[junior void]

Alternatively, if you see an alpha slider in your material, see if its all the way up or not (credits to chatgpt, it knows a lot)

[sacred jetty]

resolved the issue by removing the alpha entirely but now my file keeps crashing whenever I change the texture.

[junior void]

i wouldnt know what causes that without seeing a whole crash report

[sacred jetty]

where do I find the crash logs

[junior void]

consider using https://chatgpt.com/, you can even feed it the log

[molten pulsar]

Does anyone know of shader that is similar to Standard but with more functions ?

[polar fog]

How do you fix this microphone I think I forgot something to make it work

It's making me mad because no one can hear me at all

[bitter hemlock]

Mic activation is the problem, turn it to 10%

[polar fog]

It's not working at all

[bitter hemlock]

Wrong mic selected?

[polar fog]

I tried headphones even without them and nothing and I have no microphone r I l

Tried everything to make it work

YouTube Google everything

And nothing

[ornate stump]

Did you ever make sure that microphone work outside of vrchat?

[polar fog]

Did that to

The game is not picking my voice up at all in vrchat

[ornate stump]

You should continue in #1138891887374237706 because this channel is for helping on avatar creation.

[gilded rapids]

So for mobile/quest models/fallback avatars, you can only have 1 skinned mesh renderer, is that correct? I wanted to have a toggle that makes the arms of my avatar disappear, and the normal way of doing this afaik would have the arms in a different mesh separated from the body and then use the toggle to set the Enabled property of the arms' mesh renderer. But I still want the arms to be animated when they're visible, which means there would need to be a second skinned mesh renderer on the arms, which is not possible on a fallback avatar, correct?

The other way I was thinking of was using a blendshape to scale down the arms so that they're invisible and inside the body, and while this works fine in the idle animations, everything gets messed up when movement animations play

[flint rose]

another way to hide the arms would be to have the bones they're weighed to get scaled down to 0

[junior void]

That would cause weird stretching at the joints though

[timber wharf]

well, both bones and blendshapes would do that. bones would be slightly cheaper.

maybe you can disable tracking (switch to animation) and move bones inside the body when toggle active

while scaling them as well ofc

[autumn rover]

im having trouble connecting clothing items to the avatar, when i try to connect the clothes to the hip bone the clothes change location and i dont know how to correct their location or why this is happening

[flint rose]

you can't simply change the root bone to make clothes work on a model that they weren't impored with

you'll either want to add them in blender, or use VRCFury's Armature Link

[autumn rover]

thank you! i will def look into that!

[sacred jetty]

trying to attach clothing to my model rn and as im mergign armatures, alot of them are creating duplicate bones for like arms hips etc. How do I keep it from doing that

[junior void]

Use a tool like vrcfury which has an armature link component that will remove doubles when uploading or entering play mode and link the appropriate bone matches by name to the base

Dont ever unpack prefabs and drag their bones around into your base avi. That just causes a plethora of issues

[flint pagoda]

so ive been trying to upload this avatar for some time now and it is ready but i get these errors and it gets stuck at building. and thus i am asking for help

[junior void]

you are in prefab mode, from which you cant upload

[flint pagoda]

well that awnser was really anticlimatic

i will try and see if it works right away!

[gilded smelt]

Got a commisioned avatar last night. now i cant upload it because the SDK is "building data for an avatar i do not own"

how do i fix this

[junior void]

take a screenshot of the errors at the top, not the bottom. the message youre describing is a symptom totally unrelated to the root problem

[gilded smelt]

there is no error at the top

[junior void]

there surely is more information in the console than just that

[gilded smelt]

nope

[raven orbit]

Maybe actually click on console :/

[junior void]

and now scroll up like i said

[gilded smelt]

this is the top

[junior void]

Ther is an object called "VRCToggles" on your avatar that is broken

[gilded smelt]

is ti repairable?

[junior void]

You should check the page where you got the avatar - specifically keep an eye out for dependencies

[gilded smelt]

i dont know what dependenmcies are, i got this sent by someone else

as a commission

after my own attempt to port the model FIALED for 3 hours stright

[junior void]

did they not tell you "install xyz"

[gilded smelt]

i guess??? i dont know what nayo fhtis is

[junior void]

ask them <.<

[gilded smelt]

just did.

but cionicdiering they havnt reposnded to me about the porblems minuites ago, they might be offline

any way to fix this at all???

i paid a good amount for this AND IM SICK OF WAITING

[junior void]

i cant tell you what the script is thats missing, only the maker can say

so there goes that

[gilded smelt]

FFS

so theres just no way tyo fix it myself?!

i waited all night for this!

i paid 45 BUCKS FOR THIS

CAN SOMEONE ELSE please fucking HELP ME

[balmy barn]

would be guesswork, whoever made it should told you what it requires

[gilded smelt]

FUCK

[balmy barn]

(vrcfury or some wierd toggle script)

[gilded smelt]

AIGHT THATS IT. IM BUMPING HIS REVIEW DOWN TO 1 STAR. i waited all fucking night for this shit AND IT DOSNT EVEN WORK

[raven orbit]

if anyone could help you here we'd need more information, like a screenshot of what scripts are on the VRCToggles object

[pulsar marsh]

Hi there, when i upload my avatar the icon is this, is this simply because i need to hide anything i dont want seen when i upload?

[flint rose]

can you link the product page of the avatar?

or sorry, just saw that it was apparently a commission

[raven orbit]

it was through vrctraders

[gilded smelt]

its ok, he finally responded

[flint rose]

and what was the issue? needed to import Fury?

[gilded smelt]

something about VRCFurry

[flint rose]

yep, figured

[gilded smelt]

he forgot to mention that but he gave it ot me and it worked...

i think

[flint rose]

it's very very common for people nowadays to use Fury on avatars to simplify/automate the setup for some things.

like toggles

the lack of a Tools tab at the top of your unity screenshots told me you definitely didn't have Fury or other utilities imported.

well either way, good thing you got it fixed

[flint rose]

next time, try to be more patient and don't jump to immediately leaving negative reviews ^^

[gilded smelt]

i didnt leave the review. infact i gave him a posotive one last night

\

[flint rose]

nice 👍

[gilded smelt]

It's just that with me having to wait ALL NIGHT to try this

And after originally failing to import myself

All these set backs are horrible....

[flint rose]

oversights happen. I just got told earlier today that none of the discord invite links on my product pages worked

no idea how that happened, but glad someone told me about it

[gilded rapids]

would this require creating a custom animation? i tried adding properties on each of the arm bones that disable "Is Active" and that set a Scale Transform to (0,0,0) but that doesn't seem to work

[flint rose]

changing IsActive on bones doesn't really do anything. if the bones are part of the humanoid rig, I don't know if you can directly scale them, you may need to use VRC Scale Constraints on the bones, and set the source to some new GameObject that you would then scale

there's also another technique that I'm not as familiar with, where you can animate the scale of the bones to NaN

which causes the vertices to be entirely discarded

D4rk's avatar optimizer is able to set those up automatically

https://github.com/d4rkc0d3r/d4rkAvatarOptimizer?tab=readme-ov-file#nanimation-toggles

[gilded rapids]

thx 🙏

[pulsar marsh]

would anyone know why my face texture isnt conforming to the ligthing ?

[somber sequoia]

if it's a separate mesh from the body, probably different lighting anchor points. Drag the chest bone into the "anchor override" slot on all the mesh objects to make that consistent

if not that, shader settings of some kind

[pulsar marsh]

i remember that actually the head bone is seperate to the body bome i haddnt joined it in blender

so thank you for that advice!

[somber sequoia]

"bone" isn't the word you mean there - mesh perhaps

[pulsar marsh]

yes haha thats it

sht unfortunatly merging the mesh didnt do the trick to fix it

[pulsar marsh]

Where is Anchor Override? in unity im guessing ?

[somber sequoia]

yes, on the mesh renderer

[pulsar marsh]

okay so i drag my face material to it?

[somber sequoia]

no, you put a bone there

[pulsar marsh]

any bone?

[somber sequoia]

it's where you want to anchor the light probes for the mesh

I do chest for all of them, for consistency

up to you though

[somber meadow]

usually you want center mass for better accuracy so spine or chest works

[pulsar marsh]

okay sick, thank you both

okay its working thank you guys

[remote tusk]

Does anyone know how i would go about changing the bio/name of an avatar that's been uploaded to my account by another person? (ping me if so)

[raven orbit]

I think you can only change those in unity

[remote tusk]

yeah, but I don't have Unity. Would you or someone be able to show me how to do it? I'm new to this and couldn't find a tutorial on my specific issue

[raven orbit]

Start by downloading unity, then

[remote tusk]

Does it have to be a specific version or the most recent?

[somber sequoia]

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

[junior void]

i believe just to access the description and not upload it, you can get away with pretty much any version but imagine you later want to upload something, youll then have to go thru the entire setup process

personally id suggest going thru the steps using the vcc which will help you set up all the right versions

[inland seal]

I need help to fix these 2 errors

Idk how

[gilded raft]

1st is probably just scale your avatar down in unity or blenderr and reimport.
2nd is merge meshes in blender. would probably require additional setup for some toggles.
at least that's how i'd sort them, there's probably different ways

[ornate stump]

Those aren't errors.

[somber sequoia]

1st might be you added some giant prop, maybe wings, a weapon, etc.

[inland seal]

2nd one is tho

[ornate stump]

Neither that.

[inland seal]

It will break my lighting if I dont make it 16

So I need to make it 16 somehow

[junior void]

what

[ornate stump]

What kind of lighting?

[inland seal]

The light that you is going on my avatar

Like room light

It makes my avatar dark

I dont want that

[somber sequoia]

not sure what that has to do with material count?

[junior void]

🤨

[inland seal]

Thats not material count

[somber sequoia]

sorry, mesh renderer count.

[inland seal]

Yes

[junior void]

if you combine meshes, its literally like before expect its one skinned mesh, still has all the materials

might have to use blendshapes to hide items instead then rather than using the object toggle

thats it tho

[inland seal]

Thats what I need

I wawnt to combine them

Idk how to combine them

[inland seal]

Ig chatgpt can help ;3

Thx tho

[inland seal]

Thats for blender?

[inland seal]

Im blind

:D

[junior void]

bro?

xD

[inland seal]

bruh

Im sorry ;D

[junior void]

is fine, i had a good laugh rn

[inland seal]

I still dont know where it is located

I checked all models

[junior void]

i believe this accounts for movement as well

for example if you have a tail that stretches forever, it will reflect here as a max size

[void kettle]

How do I make clothes on blender🥹?

[somber sequoia]

same way as you 3D model anything else? That's a pretty generic question

[onyx owl]

I mean ya, it depends what ur asking

Like how to add clothing onto models or....

[night ember]

it does not

it only accounts for what it currently is when uploading

[void kettle]

Basically!

[onyx owl]

Ohhh

Ok, there's a lot of different ways of doing it

However a common way is merging the armatures with something like cats,

[void kettle]

I tried the one where you use the editing tool

[onyx owl]

Cats?

Or editing the mesh itself?

[void kettle]

Well that doesn’t show anything one sec

[onyx owl]

Gottcha

[void kettle]

Like this

If that helps 😭

[inland seal]

I see

[onyx owl]

I mean, that's a way, I guess?

[void kettle]

I can’t get it to wokr 😭

[junior void]

well diven said no but i believe to have read it somewhere

so at this point nobody knows

you can easily test it though

[night ember]

my avatar is walking proof of it

[junior void]

aggressive

fine

[onyx owl]

Wait wuz going on?

[night ember]

me just correcting zero ig?

[onyx owl]

[sharp nebula]

so if i wanted to attach a prop to an avatar's hand, i would just put it in the wrist section right?

[ivory whale]

ye (lower arm for me)

[half turtle]

Do imposters mirror the settings of the regular avatar?

[timber wharf]

wdym

impostor baked once

[somber meadow]

Impostors will only take the appearance of the avatars with no animators running, basically how it looks outside of play mode in Unity

they don't have toggles or anything to save on VRAM

[half turtle]

oh

So slightly upgraded robot no display mode?

[timber wharf]

well, huge difference

[somber meadow]

basically a quick and dirty fallback avatar

[night ember]

better fallback

[timber wharf]

like the main idea is already there, so you can decide to enable it or you can live without extra novabeast.

[half turtle]

Next question: if I have an imposter for one avatar but I swap to a different one that is not quest compatible does it use a fallback I set before or does it use the imposter?

[timber wharf]

theres setting to use impostors instead of fallbacks to decide priority

[half turtle]

Ok so it's just global not specific then?

[timber wharf]

impostors are cross platform, if its pc only quest user still will see impostor by default, just no way to enable it

fallback will be seen only when theres no impostor for current avi

[glass condor]

I'll post this here just so it can still receive help, my Avatar's mesh is leaving behind random bits when I rotate it in Pose Mode in Blender. What could be causing this? (I parented all necessary bones, and it sort of solved the issue, not as many pieces are floating around, but there's still some floating)

the necessary pics ofc

[junior void]

i suggest you take a new picture of the armature in the hierarchy because in your first image, we can clearly see that some are not below hips, explaining this

[glass condor]

oh yeah, new picture coming up

[glass condor]

I did notice that when I accidentally rotated that belt piece in Pose mode, it moved some of the floating bits, does that mean that EVERYTHING has to be below hips for it to move right?

wait, nvm belt piece is under Hips. I'm still lost lol

[junior void]

looks like the rest is missing weights

[glass condor]

How do I know which part is missing weights?

[somber sequoia]

you can select the part in edit mode, and see if there are any weights on a random vertex

(it shows in the "item" section of the sidebar that popups up when you hit 'n')

[glass condor]

is this the right edit mode

[somber sequoia]

if you crop the image down such that it doesn't show any useful indicators like the layout mode box at the upper left...well... I guess?

[glass condor]

hol up, I just switch to weight paint mode and...some parts have some really random parts that are weighted. Like, why is the belt connected to a piece on the chest!?

What's a quick way to fix this? Do I just erase the paints or...?

[somber sequoia]

because people are bad at weight painting. Yes, if you don't want a part to move with a bone, remove the weight

[glass condor]

ok!

[unkempt sail]

My Avatars are crunching up into balls when I try to animate them.

I have done a lot of Blender work in the past, and have had this issue before, and usually a re-save fixes the issue. But for some reason, I can't get this to clear. I take a perfectly working FBX, load it to blender. make no changes. Save FBX All, Leafbones OFF, Bake Animation OFF. Same as has always worked. But now, it always results in a balled up avatar.

https://i.gyazo.com/07d637d2da9d2445822c5e89735c7ed3.png

https://i.gyazo.com/4ffbf57e8774c8484c5a01f8f7b0ba00.png

[somber meadow]

Configure the rig in the model's import options of Unity, click "Pose>reset", and then click "Pose>Enforce T-Pose" in the inspector.

[unkempt sail]

WOW! Thank you!

[spice radish]

hey! so my friends' avatar project is borked in a way where we can't interact with physbones in play mode. this is not an issue with either any other project on either end.
i really don't know where to start

[spice radish]

nvm fixed it
i just made a new scene and moved the avatar prefab into the fresh one and that fixed it

[polar fog]

How do you ungroup two of the Same modle like in the video the foot and fingers are connected and move as one but I don't want it to

[steady tendon]

How do I fix this?

[junior void]

Go into edit mode, select one part, hit p -> selection

[polar fog]

How do you separate the foot and fingers

I cant

[somber sequoia]

Better weight painting probably, looks like some parts aren't done well

[junior void]

Depends what youre referring to. I see 2 issues with 3 or more solutions, so?

[somber sequoia]

yeah true - specifically which "this" 🙂

[junior void]

I see a small bone missing

But i also see 2 armatures

[steady tendon]

Even if I add another bone the belt still is stuck. The second armature I am assuming you are referring to is a twist bone for the elbow.

[junior void]

You would need to readd the missing bone AND call it the same name that the vertex group is called that holds weights there

This is how mesh knows which part moves what: bone name = vertex group name

[steady tendon]

Okay let me try that

[junior void]

Dont forget to properly parent the bone as well

Logically child of upper arm and parent of the longer bone below it

Id just copy the other small one

Me lazy

[steady tendon]

Yeah thanks I got it fixed thank you!!

[junior void]

^_^

[sterile veldt]

does anyone know a way to simulate a button click on steamvr without a controller

[iron kindle]

I am trying to add an extra bone to my model to extend some physbones but when I try and pose the new bone nothing warps

[junior void]

Thats because you have not added weight painting

[iron kindle]

Ahh

Silly me

[compact dust]

ngl i dont remember which avi it is but you're probably not 🙏

maybe.

[tropic palm]

so ive been sitting here thinking im schizo and im not i showed my friend and he confirmed my thought but my crunch compression option isnt here? my textures are too large for quest ofc and i usually just crunch them by 42 i look here and its just not here?

[pseudo forge]

Looking at the photos it was likely mine, but I didn’t do the phys bones for it lol just the modeling part 😭

Reading the texts was super fucking funny though I’ll admit

The person who did them did indeed suck tho so you were absolutely right

[compact dust]

where are da photos

[pseudo forge]

I assume it looked something like this

Maybe not that model exactly but a few of my models had wonky phys bones at the time

Due to not setting centers etc etc

[compact dust]

yeah that one is one from SushiQM (QM)
she's a good avi creator

[balmy barn]

you need legs bones even if they dont do anything

[left gull]

also if you do end up looking into commissioners try going to VRCTraders (link in #1204490664637890580 ) since you've likely alerted the scam bot DMs in here

[somber sequoia]

What Thulen said, but also there's a discord for people working on alternative bodies like this

[ancient pasture]

Good point! Thank you!

[somber sequoia]

hmm

[polar fog]

How to fix this I did ctrl + J and I'm trying to remove the old hand and replace it with the new one

[somber sequoia]

it's not clear what we're looking at - got a before picture?
Also make sure you've applied all transforms before joining objects

[polar fog]

Oh that blue part on the arm is the old hand or what's left

Trying to get rid of the blue part

[somber sequoia]

it'd probably help to see the whole model

[somber sequoia]

btw, in blender: window -> save screenshot

but yeah, at a guess, unapplied transform, or a modifier

[polar fog]

Uh?

[fathom current]

I have a nonhumanoid avatar it’s a bird and I have the animations how do I make it use its custom walking and idle animations

[ember hawk]

Im trying to recolor an avatar with no experience, how do I get the coloring base from the avatar file?

[polar fog]

I'm just combining random parts like bonfies head a suit and pomni's right hand with moon shoes

[polar fog]

The sleeve is broken

Was trying to cut it out of the sleeve but it took part of it with it

[junior void]

Some avatars come with an spp file that allows you to use substance painter. Some come with a psd project to use in photoshop or krita. Some do neither, meaning you need to set up your own choice. So this cant be answered broadly for all models alike

[dark jay]

what causes the knees to bend into the leg like this

[polar fog]

here

[acoustic lintel]

I need a little bit of advice as well sometime if possible, im trying to add a separate model to an existing avi, as well as recolor

I got as far as making the avatar compatible for pc and vr, uploading and everything, but im stuck there

[somber sequoia]

I meant a picture of, which you provided. But thank you 🙂

[somber arch]

probably just being dense, what is this

[snow sandal]

Hello, a while ago I found an avatar which was able to mute you for other players and plays mumbling audio instead of your voice for other players. When cloned you could understand what other players in the same avatar were saying. My questions are the following:

• How to create animations which are locally triggered on other players avatars when you are in the same avatar?
• How to mute your microphone using animations?

[somber sequoia]

a) contact sender/receiver. You have a receiver which looks for a sender on the same avatar type.

[raven orbit]

honestly i would advise against using free downloaded models from sketchfab. it's become overrun by scammers uploading ripped models, and from what I can see in that project, they're barely even functioning enough to be used as assets. nothing in that scene is actually rigged. everything is off center, the scale is completely screwed up, and there's random extra objects hidden inside the mesh(likely a byproduct of whatever game it was ripped from). The Bonfie model especially should not have been uploaded to sketchfab, nor should you have redistributed any part of it here. That's against the artist's TOS (this page is the only place i can find it being sold and outlining the rules https://cryptiacurves.itch.io/fazclaires )

[snow sandal]

From my understanding this can locally trigger something on your own avatar but would not effect animation controllers of other players. And if it did would not be local to exclusively players using said avatar. I am trying to achieve the following effect:

Player 1 in the Avatar plays an Animation they see as Animation A
Player 2 also the Avatar sees Player 1 doing animation A
Player 3 Not in the Avatar sees Player 1 doing animation B

[somber sequoia]

Same answer - using the same avatar you have it pre-setup to have contact senders/receivers.

[raven orbit]

im sorry i have to comment on this further, this topology makes me actually want to vomit. it takes up more than 2 thirds of the total triangle count and actually lags my pc

[somber sequoia]

yeeeeeeppp.

[snow sandal]

Thank you.

[pallid jolt]

how do i fix this?

[hollow helm]

just downloaded on pc and have no idea what im doing anyone floating around want to help a bot out

[somber sequoia]

re-model in blender or similar

[left gull]

https://discord.com/channels/189511567539306508/1139228456090087495 has some general links to guides/things you'll need to download

but its quite the process overall so you'll likely have better luck asking specific questions and looking at one of the many youtube tutorials out there (the more recent the better!)

[pallid jolt]

?

[somber sequoia]

did you have an actual question?

[pallid jolt]

moreso would like you to elaborate? like do you mean i have to redo everything?

[raven orbit]

the only way to get rid of that warning is to reposition the leg bones in blender, but it's not really a good idea to change the bone placement on an already rigged model, thats why he said to remodel it. that warning doesnt really matter that munch unless you are using fbt though

[somber sequoia]

I know nothing about your model, but that's where you'd change the default angles of the legs. Might mean re-orienting the armature, might mean remodeling.

yeah it might not be a problem. Try it, and if it isn't, ignore. If it is, time for some reworking

[fathom current]

I have a nonhumanoid avatar it’s a bird and I have the animations how do I make it use its custom walking and idle animations

[raven orbit]

put the custom animations in an animator on the base layer

[fathom current]

Thank you

[hollow helm]

anyone available to walk me thru some steps watching videos and readin is all fine but i prefer irl talking or chatting

[warm junco]

Hello i need some help i made a quest ver of my avi and none of the phys bones are working in quest and i have them all set up in unity and they work in gesture manager what is the issue?🙏

[raven orbit]

if you have too many physbones on quest then they get disabled to save performance

[warm junco]

it doesnt say i have too many odd

[left gull]

send a screenshot of the upload panel's stats

[raven orbit]

i dont know if it says that directly, it might just say it's verypoor rank. it's good practice to read through the avatar documentation while making avatars to make sure you aren't overdoing anything rather than relying solely on the build panel warnings

[warm junco]

ill have another look maybe im just blind

thank you guys ❤️

[raven orbit]

cant have more than 8 physbone components or 64 PhysBones affected transforms

[tulip delta]

Does anyone have resources on how i can learn how to make avatars as a complete beginner/novice?

[left gull]

https://discord.com/channels/189511567539306508/1139228456090087495 is a good start

[warm junco]

yeah i had to many i usally get an error but i guess not this time thank you ❤️

[polar fog]

How to fix this

[night ember]

what am I even looking at

[polar fog]

It's a sleeve

[night ember]

and?

[polar fog]

I had this problem that's fixed but this was it before

And now there's a hole in it

[night ember]

you know your pc has a screenshot tool right?

[polar fog]

Keep forgetting

[night ember]

but for the hole you kinda need to add the faces back

[polar fog]

How

[night ember]

manually

[polar fog]

But how though that's above the things I know in blender so far and half I just looked up because I got mad at it

[somber sequoia]

i'm still not clear on what you did to cause this

[night ember]

Probably deleted faces

[polar fog]

This

Trying to fix my error

[somber sequoia]

that imgae tells me nothing

[polar fog]

There's a hole in the sleeve

[somber sequoia]

edit mode, make new faces. Or restore from backup and don't do whatever you did to delete it.

[polar fog]

The backup is this

And I'm not refixing it again

How do you do the whole face thing

[somber sequoia]

select some edges, 'f' to make a new face between them

[placid mica]

How do I map blendshapes to hand gestures to make expressions?

[ornate stump]

Most common way is to repurpose hand gesture layer controller to replace with your blendshape animations.

[placid mica]

Is there possibly a video tutorial you recommend? 'Cause I don't know how to play with the gesture controller, lol. First timer.

[ornate stump]

Look for sippbox's video on topic face expression.

[agile reef]

My view point is above my head but ive done everything right. Viewpoint ball is in the right spot, feet aboe ground in unity and blender-

[agile reef]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1x6SAkE_3I&t=155s

[ornate stump]

Your model origin point isn't actually on the ground.

[agile reef]

how can I go about fixing this?

[ornate stump]

Apply transform to model objects.

[sacred jetty]

how do I fix this.

[ornate stump]

Change the name of either object in blender.

[sacred jetty]

alr. i have to reimport the model into the unity project after that?

this gon take a while

[ornate stump]

Of course.

[sacred jetty]

wasnt there a plugin to transfer work from one model to anothe rin unity

specifically for this kind of scenario

[ornate stump]

Pumkin avatar tools.

[sacred jetty]

ty

i should have it in my folder

[ornate stump]

And if you don't unpack prefab, which you should not to begin with, you could just overwrite the fbx file and it will update your model correctly.

[sacred jetty]

oh.

lets see if it did that then.

[agile reef]

I'm sorry- apply transform? not sure how to do this

[ornate stump]

When in doubt, use F3 key to search for a command.

[sacred jetty]

doesnt look like it did. Reloaded the project and refreshed the fbx itself.

[ornate stump]

Did you save over the old fbx file?

[sacred jetty]

ya

[ornate stump]

What it didn't do?

[sacred jetty]

did nto rename head from "head" to "HeadUmeko."

[faint ridge]

Hey cna anyone please I'm stressing out rn

[ornate stump]

Does it still show the same error as before?

[sacred jetty]

ye

[night ember]

gonna describe your issue or?

[ornate stump]

Can you export fbx and overwrite again just to be sure?

[sacred jetty]

shou;d I close the project first or naw

[night ember]

you dont need to

but sometimes unity be slow when realizing it updated

[sacred jetty]

k overwrote it again

refreshed the fbx and it remains the same

[somber sequoia]

sometimes I have to overwrite it twice, the inotify thing doesn't catch it every time

[sacred jetty]

pumpkin tools it is then

[agile reef]

pressed f3, clicked on the apply transform and the avatar is still the same

[ornate stump]

Did you unpack model in the scene?

Also, did you actually exported?

[agile reef]

I did not unpack the model, and yes I did re-export

[ornate stump]

Can you check for the white line at avatar feet in the scene?

[ornate stump]

Is it the avatar model that got pulled down or view position went above the expected height?

[naive spoke]

I'm attempting to import my avatar into blender and this is happening lol

whats the issue?

I used an fbx exporter in unity because my avatar didn't come with an fbx when I bought it, only a unity package file

the only thing I did was export the fbx as a binary instead of an ascii because it wouldn't let me import it into blender otherwise

[left gull]

could you link the model?

[delicate apex]

hey i need help do any of you know where i could get the model for these wicker beast eyelashes?

i just cant seem to find it

[left gull]

you should be posting this in #1138520828556890214 this channel is for help with developing avatars :P

[dusty hemlock]

Idk if this is the right place to go, but i need help on this hair im making

like help smoothing it out

[fallow gulch]

https://jinxxy.com/market/listings/3406047617572931027
https://booth.pm/zh-tw/items/4870884

This is available here on Jinxxy, and on Booth as well

[left gull]

they're looking for the eyelashes, but those seem to be part of the base rather then a seperate asset

[fallow gulch]

Oh, you're actually right

My b

[left gull]

i almost did the same thing myself when i first saw it XD

im guessing its part of whatever base krunk uses, though they could ask them directly which it is either on their booth or discord server

[fallow gulch]

Wait it is there!

I have just seen this in the description

[fallow gulch]

So uh.. I guess you gotta visit this Discord to get it, @delicate apex

https://www.vrcarena.com/assets/70992-vrchat-karat-jewelry-set-for-wickerbeast

Found it in the description of the same asset, on a different website

[molten pulsar]

What are some well known and good shaders aside from Liltoon and Poiyomi ?

[ornate stump]

Mochie shader

[molten pulsar]

Thank you, ill give it a shot

[ornate stump]

You might also need to give a reason why you don't want to use the 2 shader above.

[molten pulsar]

Liltoon sadly dont have the options i need, Poiyomi is great but slows workflow because it does alot of loading
(The unity file is huge, it also remove my packed maps when i lock it, not sure why)
so i wanna experiment with other shaders to see if i can get a desired result which is a really good metallic shine

[ornate stump]

Metallic shine would just rely on matcap which liltoon can do.

[sacred jetty]

whats this asking of me. Im far too tired and my brain isnt braining

context: hue shift on a lip color

[molten pulsar]

yeah but it still dont look quite right imo, i want this effect its on cars

[ornate stump]

So that's detail normal map.

[night ember]

They arent set to be animated so when its locked they wont change

[fallow gulch]

The emission hue shift enable checkbox is not set to be animated
Unlock the shader, right click this property, and set it to be animated when locked
After locking the shader, it should be resolved, and should work

[sacred jetty]

i right click the hue shift box?

oh there we go nvm

i eas prolly like pixels off cuz it didnt show till now

hmm, the hue shift doesnt work when testign in gestman

[fallow gulch]

If you preview the animation and scroll through the keyframes, does it animate the correct slider?

[sacred jetty]

where would the animation be? im using vrcfury so

[fallow gulch]

Is this part of a VRCF asset then?

[sacred jetty]

it has vrcf integration ya

[fallow gulch]

Oh.. hmm.. then just try it out in play mode and see if it animates the slider I guess?
Once you enter play mode, the FX layer should have the logic with the animations
So you can also find the animation there

It's a bit more tricky to test VRCF assets than just normal assets, but should be doable

[sacred jetty]

cant find it

i can only find sps in it

[molten pulsar]

If you know how to get that effect mentinoed above using these 2 with liltoon im all ears. I prefer to just use one shader for the entire project.
i've messed around with it and i cant seem to get it right

[fallow gulch]

Maybe there is just no animation in the FX to do this then?
Maybe that doesn't come with the asset?

[ornate stump]

You could put the noise texture as matcap mask texture and increase tiling. Then put metal matcap for the matcap itself.

[sacred jetty]

ya no im stumped rn. Im just gonna dm the asset creator and see if theyve had to do this before

[fallow gulch]

Yeah, that is your best option probably

[molten pulsar]

Yeah but wouldn't i be limited, would this reflect actual environment and changes in the scene?

[ornate stump]

It wouldn't.

It would still affected by light level.

But if you wanted perfect reflection, then don't rely on reflection from world.

[timber wharf]

wha

reflection from world utilises prebaked cubemap

why would it be any worse than matcap

[ornate stump]

Some worlds don't have reflection probe, some reflection probes don't look good or vibrant enough to shine.

[fallow gulch]

Isn't that why you have a fallback option?

[ornate stump]

Still don't solve the second issue. Unless fallback can be enabled on demand.

[fallow gulch]

Yeah, that's true

[timber wharf]

dont visit those😆

[grim charm]

how do i change an animation controller animation based on the menu action?

[sacred jetty]

whuh.

[timber wharf]

@grim charm controller is immutable. if you need more than one pose, use more than one station (pc only).

[grim charm]

ok thank you

[sacred jetty]

seems ill have to make a hue shift manually. Problem is that idk how to add like the parameters and such when using vrcfury already

[proper depot]

Hello!, I cant remember what blender settings i need to put to get the lashes to be transparent, I had tried messing with the blendmode and shadow mode, cant seem to make it look right, ive done it before i just cant remember for the life of me xD

[ornate stump]

Did you link alpha slot in shader node?

[proper depot]

Did I do it wrong?

I probably did haha

[ornate stump]

Is the texture itself has alpha channel? Or rather the texture itself is the alpha map?

[fallow gulch]

Not exactly sure either :
I don't really use VRCF

[sacred jetty]

idk why its giving me this error. Im using a full controller to merge an fx layer with the vrcfury one

[raven orbit]

Depending on the version of blender, the setting you may be looking for is blend mode. This wont be the case with the latest versions though iirc

[raven orbit]

If the image itself isnt transparent, you can drag the color to alpha

[pseudo crag]

Anyone know how to add a glossiness texture on unity? I was recommended SmartTexture to package the textures and put the glossiness texture on the alpha channel but it ain't working out for me when I press apply.

[junior void]

you put the other one in the red channel

theres 2 textures you need to pack, not one

[pseudo crag]

Specular?

[junior void]

the smoothness goes into alpha, the other one (the map the shader asks for above smoothness, i forgot whats the name) needs to go into red. And then you scroll down and confirm merge, did you do that? And then that smart texture goes into the slot above smoothness on the shader, did you do that?

[pseudo crag]

smoothness I did that I went to confirm merge but I don't know which map you're talking about

for the red channel

[junior void]

show me the shader again

then i see it and can tell you

[pseudo crag]

alright

[junior void]

Here, i went by the picture on the github page

know that smoothness is THE SAME as roughness just inverted!

[pseudo crag]

ohhh

[junior void]

So for smoothness, he needs to invert his roughness texture but you dont need to do that if you add smoothness to begin with

[pseudo crag]

So what do I do with my smoothness texture

Do I just not use it

[junior void]

Did you not understand what i just said

[pseudo crag]

I did not

[junior void]

okay

look at the image

he put roughness into alpha right

[pseudo crag]

Yeah

[junior void]

and i said roughness = smoothness just inverted

so he needs to tick invert on it, you dont

[pseudo crag]

I never ticked it on though

[junior void]

im just saying

if you have metallic map, add that to red

[pseudo crag]

Right

[junior void]

if you have ao, add it to green

[pseudo crag]

Don't have that

[junior void]

then apply and use the given smart texture in the specular slot and play with the slider

if something looks off, you can try to invert the values on the smart texture

[pseudo crag]

It's just pink on my end and there's been a shader error on the bottom that's been bugging me but I don't know what it's for

That's probably what's messing with me

I installed it correctly though

[junior void]

i never had any issues with smart texture

[pseudo crag]

Have the github open on another tab

[junior void]

so i cant tell you, i didnt make it

[pseudo crag]

Maybe I just need to redownload it

[junior void]

but i also told you last time you can look up how to pack textures using an image editing program

all this addon is doing is assigning images to channels and pooping out one combined texture

[pseudo crag]

I was searching on that

[junior void]

alternative, you can also use a different shader that has more slots that you need

[pseudo crag]

The tutorial videos have been privated though

Unfortunate

[junior void]

i just asked chatgpt

gave me a whole guide

[pseudo crag]

I’m gonna do that

[junior void]

i dont understand why nobody seems to be using ai for help. its normal not to know everything. theres no shame in using all the available tools. chatgpt is perfect for everyone too lazy to google and search websites manually. you can even take it further and afterwards, ask it what to do if an image comes out blurry, or if x or y happens, other questions associated yada yada. you get a free pass to exploit this and dont do it 🥴

[fallow gulch]

Some people don't even think about it, as it is a relatively new opportunity that we got

I know it took me a while to get used to it as well lol

[pseudo crag]

I've been hardwired against my school to not use it.

[junior void]

ive been abusing chatgpt to teach me programming

¯_(ツ)_/¯

theres a difference between using ai to complete tasks for you, aka write essays etc vs give you the knowledge you need to write it yourself

[fallow gulch]

There's no issue with that
It's just that people forget that it exists sometimes
I know I still do that sometimes

But yeah, I definitely used its help with Udon before for ex.
Doing math stuff for me

[pseudo crag]

Still...like very discouraged to use anyways.

I don't know why.

[junior void]

i used chatgpt yesterday to write a blender addon for me (i had to correct a part but mostly this was me copiloting it only)

[fallow gulch]

Because they probably don't want you to only rely on that, without learning anything

[fallow gulch]

Yeah, it can be pretty useful
I also used it before to help me with Blender scripting, cause I don't speak snek 🐍

But I can code in C#, so I can still see if there are obvious issues with it, and I can correct those

[junior void]

ye me neither. i speak java so the base is there but using indentation like that is just ew

im learning c# rn xD

ref and out are screwing me

[fallow gulch]

https://pypi.org/project/Bython/

Python but with braces hehe

[junior void]

ahw sexy

[red marlin]

How do u fix thiss😭 I'm new to unity and I just learned how to upload avatars but I can't figure this out

[junior void]

you do what it says in the rig import settings. you can find those if you click on the fbx in your assets (bottom, not on the left) and go to "rig" (second tab) in the inspector, then click the configure button

[polar fog]

Rigging

But the bones are one thing I can't repose the arms and legs?

[junior void]

are they weight painted

[polar fog]

I added the basic one

And Those hands on the modle took hours I'm not joking

[junior void]

"the basic one"?

[polar fog]

And there pomni's hands

[junior void]

that does not answer whether you weight painted it

this is for making bones

but making bones is not enough, you need to add weight

[polar fog]

I'm just tril and error it and see what I figure out really I have Idea what I'm doing half the time

[junior void]

you should watch a simple tutorial about weight painting then

its hard to explain in text

[sacred jetty]

whats it asking me to do about the object.

[ornate stump]

You didn't set menu file in avatardesciptor.

[sacred jetty]

ah i see what happened now

av3man shenanigans

[terse matrix]

so quick question is uhh any idea on how to fix this?

[fallow gulch]

Try to:

• Remove Av3 Manager from the project
• Click back into Unity, so it acknowledges the change
• Add Av3 Manager back into the project

Also make sure you have the newest version

If it still doesn't work, then check your console
You might have different issues with your project, that doesn't allow Av3 Manager to run properly

[keen ember]

Failed to build VRCFury component: BakeHapticPlugsService.ApplySpsRewrites on Avatar Root.

Got this on a 45$ avi, kinda mad. Anyone know how to solve this

[fallow gulch]

Do you have the newest VRCFury in the project?
Also.. maybe you need wholesome SPS configurator in your project, if you don't have it currently

[keen ember]

Yes, i readded vrc a few times, and i will try wholesome sps

[fallow gulch]

You need both in the project I'm pretty sure

[keen ember]

Alrighty. This is my first avi so i was kimda bummed when it did this

[junior void]

the page where you got the avi likely listed dependencies

it should be in that list

[red marlin]

Alr im here 🙂‍↕️

[fallow gulch]

Happens
It usually takes multiple tries to get things right, cause many things can go wrong

[sacred jetty]

this prop toggle does not show up in game for some odd reason. It show sup in the avatar emu and the sounds work so idk whats up.

[polar fog]

Can't get this into Vroidstodio

[red marlin]

I'm looking through everything but nothing looks wrong

[pseudo crag]

Managed to pack the two textures metallic and glossiness/smoothness but where do I put specular now?

Dang I did it again.

Shoulda just asked chatgpt

So I just turned my brain off for this and put the packed textures into detail Albedo and it works.

Although I don’t think this is a very or optimal thing to do

I messed up the view

Dangit

[rare frost]

how do you add eye emissions in the layers with krita?

[fallow gulch]

You need to make an emission map or an emission mask
Emission map: black out everything fully, except for the eye
The eye should stay full colour

Emission mask: black out everything fully, except for the eye
The eye should be coloured full white where you want emission

If you use a shader like Poiyomi, you can use either of these
With standard shaders, you'd use the emission map method

Both of these are separate textures

[rare frost]

o i see, i am completely new to this stuff and have been doing booth stuff so its been confusing to me because google is no help haha

[fallow gulch]

That's fine. That's why we are here :P

[rare frost]

im not quite sure if i know how to do the emission mask process part or whatsit :< i know how to put it all in layers in the thingabobber but when i get to the emission part i get lost

[fallow gulch]

Just take the texture that has the eye as well

And black out everything except the eye

Save this as a new texture

[rare frost]

okay

[snow sandal]

I have a parameter switch disappears from the avatar when I load into it again. When I upload a new version on my avatar the parameter appears, but when I switch avatar and back it disappears, anyone closing the avatar also doesn't have the parameter. What is happening and how do I fix it ?

It is a Boolean parameter activated by a custom Collision Tag.

[west magnet]

I wanted to make a toggle that locks an avatars arm in place, but I'm having an issue where the arm is locking, but when I rotate it stays in the same rotation

Left is the arm locked straight, right is it staying there even when I rotate my torso, I wanted it to follow the torso

[keen ember]

Just hopped on and installed sps and other dependencies, and im still having an issue

[fallow gulch]

Did you install all dependencies that the avatar's page lists?

[keen ember]

yes, correct versions also

[fallow gulch]

So what issue does it show you now?

[snow sandal]

How do I make my Contact Receiver's height to surpass the value of 1 like in this tutorial ?

[keen ember]

Removed the whole NSFW toggles now it is throwing this.

The VRCSDK build was aborted because the VRCSDKPreprocessAvatarCallback 'LockMaterialsOnUpload' threw an exception.
Check the log for details.

[fallow gulch]

Do you have Poiyomi in your project?

Maybe the materials that came with the model are at fault
That is what this reads like

If you could ask the creator of the model, then maybe they could help out

[keen ember]

yup, ive tried the older 7.1.050 that it says to use, and the newer ones

[fallow gulch]

I guess ask the creator of the avatar then

[snow sandal]

Contact Reciever disappears in-game (no animations affect it). How do I fix this problem?

Update: I have discovered it is because "Is Local" on the Contact Reciever is broken.

How do I find an older version of the SDK where this option is not broken

[snow sandal]

Is there any other way to set this up? Unfortunantly the "Is Local" in the Contact Reciever is broken and does disappears if more than one person in a world is using the same avatar.

[somber sequoia]

I use IsLocal for a bunch of things, it's not broken for me.

[snow sandal]

what version of the SDK are you using?

[somber sequoia]

latest

[balmy barn]

not seen any issues either

[somber sequoia]

ok 3.7.3 to be exact

which isn't the latest and I should update it 🙂

ok it is now

[snow sandal]

Okay, then I am most confused. The above screenshot is from the lastest. I have literally just placed 2 objects on to an avatar. The sphere contains the Sender, the cube the Receiver. I have uploaded the avatar as is with not changes to the 2 apart from adding costum contacts and ticking Is Local. Upon loading into the avatar the blue debug sphere of the Reciever appears. Upon reseting the avatar it disappears.

here are the component properties I used

Although it only breaks once someone else is in the world with the same avatar.

(i realise i unticked it in this screenshot because i was wondering if Is Local was the problem)

[somber sequoia]

IsLocal is a read-only animator parameter that's true when the animator is running on the wearer's computer. Are you referring to the "Local Only" option in the contact receiver?

[snow sandal]

OH sorry yes

Local Only is the problem in this situation

[somber sequoia]

Ok. Why would you check that in this case?

[balmy barn]

I have one exsample of interacting / detecting another avatar with sender/recivers but they arent local cause how would that work (its to trigger animations if they are both active and bump into eachother = detected both start a dance)

[snow sandal]

Because I am trying to create and Animation which can only be seen if you are in the avatar. As such I followed your directions in using a Contact reciever/sender.

[pulsar marsh]

Hi everyone,

I m trying to make a radial to switch between textures for my Tshirt. Im not sure why but ingame my avatar flickers between the textres very fast right on the get go. Would anyone know maybe why?

[somber sequoia]

Okay, that seems reasonable then.

I'm not sure what would cause a contact receiver to "disappear" except actually disabling it via animation.

[snow sandal]

Do you have an idea on how one could create an animation which can only be seen by people in the avatar?

[hollow harness]

I was playing basketball with my friends and this happend, how do I fix it?

[hollow harness]

nvm i got it

[balmy barn]

could do something with velocity + paramter to trigger theirs or yours only, but its kinda a mess to do cause using the same contacts on same model to trigger only one would need another way (velocity in this exsample) to only trigger one of them instead of both

if you use the same paramter (one) both would do it

[heavy zephyr]

Do you have a specific idea in mind?

[snow sandal]

Yes. I'm trying to create a gun which would fire bullets when viewed by a person not in the avatar and to fire bubbles when viewed by a person in the avatar. I'm well versed in animations and particles and such, but I can't find a way to get uniquely people who wear my avatar to see the bubbles.

A friend suggested using shader stencils, but unfortunantly this would not work since there is accompanying bullet or bubble audio.

[somber sequoia]

that doesn't seem like a local only thing to me

you want the other person in the same avatar to see bubbles, when you shoot them, right?

local only means only you the one with the gun will ever see any effects of that contact receiver

[heavy zephyr]

May I DM you to share a trick?

[somber sequoia]

can you not share the trick publicly?

[heavy zephyr]

Yes I know this sounds sketchy I promise I won't hurt xD

[tawny schooner]

what does this mean?

[junior void]

its a symptom of something else

look further up at the first 2-5 errors

[hollow harness]

My shoylders aren't like this, how do i fix this?

[tawny schooner]

around here or even more up?

[junior void]

the first error in that picture is definitely causing issues

[tawny schooner]

i have no idea of what it even means the error

[junior void]

try

ignore the first line

[somber sequoia]

missing script means you didn't install some pre-requisite. Perhaps VRCFury?

[tawny schooner]

aaa true okay ill do that

[warm glade]

can someone help me?

[somber sequoia]

are those the only two error messages?

[warm glade]

yes

[somber sequoia]

unfortunate

[warm glade]

[warm glade]

what does that mean

[somber sequoia]

it means I don't know what your issue is, the errors aren't very useful.

[raven phoenix]

First error is your issue.

Either:

• Find what you are missing (usually in the avatar or asset readme)
• Remove the script from the game object referenced in the error. You'll be able to upload, but you'll miss whatever functionality it provided.

[serene wren]

I dont have a video, hopefully a picture and description will suffice, but there's a shader setting that has the texture "move" with you, so to speak. Paralax like almost? You can kinda see it in the image. What setting is it?

[somber sequoia]

panosphere?

[serene wren]

Possilby? Would like to figure out how to do it!

[raven phoenix]

https://github.com/poiyomi/PoiyomiToonShader/wiki/Panosphere

You need to download the Poiyomi shaders if you don't have them already

They recently added a converter that converts from other shaders, too

[serene wren]

I have Poiyomi 9.0.57, but only see an option for Panosphere UV, do you know where it would be located in the submenus?

[somber sequoia]

To configure the behavior of Panosphere UVs, see the Panosphere section located underneath Global Modifiers & Data.

hmm that's just two checkboxes

[serene wren]

Ye, I dont see any other optins in the other menus.

[regal crystal]

Just wondering, is there any way to edit avatars without the original files from the author, or do I need to contact the author?

[somber sequoia]

no, you must have original source files, at least a model

[regal crystal]

uhuh, because there is an avatar that I really like but can't get hold of the original author

[serene wren]

What avatar? You could possibily find the base online

[regal crystal]

its called "[Protogen] Kuro", but where would I find it?

[agile reef]

sorry I just now became available. in vrchat, it is the view that got pulled up.

[somber sequoia]

#1138520828556890214 can be useful for this

[serene wren]

Hm. A cube map also does a similar effect I was looking for

[agile reef]

I was trying to raise the avatar from the floor because her hooves were in the floor, and now her viewpoint is way above her head in VRC but the Viewport ball is in the correct spot in between her eyes.

[regal crystal]

oke

[somber sequoia]

ah! that was the other one I should have mentioned, of course

[agile reef]

I was trying to raise the avatar from the floor because her hooves were in the floor, and now her viewpoint is way above her head in VRC but the Viewport ball is in the correct spot in between her eyes.

Can someone please help me?

[regal crystal]

I posted a thing in #1139216499123437668 , should I move it to #1138520828556890214 ?

[somber sequoia]

I don't go in either all that much so couldn't tell you which is most useful

was just pointing out that it exists in case you missed it 🙂

[regal crystal]

yeah, still thanks tho

[serene wren]

All good! Stil learnin'

[agile reef]

can anyone help me with this previous post

[wild needle]

ok I have been trying to figure this out, but I added outlines, and if I export it as an fbx then put it back in blender everything works fine, but if I import the fbx into unity some of the outlines just don't work (left arm, left hand, left thumb, right index finger, right middle finger, right ring finger, left leg, and left foot)

I already tried the relocate normals

[raven orbit]

apply all transforms in blender (then fix anything that 'breaks')

[wild needle]

ok

[broken raptor]

i remember a way to soften textures in Unity but i dont remember how. All the textures look lumpy

pretty sure theres a few settings on the right i need to change but which?

[lilac merlin]

Any guides on how to use the new Beta Constraints on Quest?

I believe they're called VRCContraints

[somber sequoia]

they aren't beta anymore: https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/avatar-dynamics/constraints/

[lilac merlin]

Cool, ty

Are there any video tutorials out?

[somber sequoia]

I'm not aware of any, but I haven't really looked either.

[somber sequoia]

the neck kinda looks like normals issues

maybe edge normal smoothing

[dusty hemlock]

Anybody

🥲

[surreal gale]

Anyone knows where the Special FX is?

Im a beginner and I dont really know where that is

Nvm

I figured it out

[glass condor]

Can anyone tell me how do I install a custom walk animation? https://booth.pm/ja/items/1375873 I got this one for free but I have no idea how to install it.

If there's a VRCFury way to do it, lemme know cuz I have that installed as well.

[winter sun]

so the avi said to have vrcfury and gogoloco in the project but it doesnt appear ig

cuz i wanna be able to sit

[somber sequoia]

you have Fury but you need to install the gogo loco package

[winter sun]

where do i get that again i forgot

[glass condor]

booth has it

For free btw

[winter sun]

guessing i also need that for the quest side

it is now updated with gogo

[flint sundial]

Im having issues with this

and I have no Idea how to fix it

[somber sequoia]

for the first, what are you using for a gesture animator?

[flint sundial]

I honestly Have no clue

[somber sequoia]

for the triangles.... see the optimization chats, you'd have to do some remodeling

[flint sundial]

The only issue Is the mask part

[somber sequoia]

playable layers are listed in the avatar descriptor

[flint sundial]

Is there a VC we could go into?

[somber sequoia]

sorry, not something I do

[flint sundial]

I'm really bad at this stuff im sorry

Thats fine

[bitter adder]

Hey I wondering if VRCFury is able to let me lock gestures I have a prop but I don't want people to be able to move fingers and such when holding the prop

[flint sundial]

Do you need a screenshot

[somber sequoia]

not really a fury thing, you'd need to use VRC Animator Tracking Control to disable the IK moving the hand, instead animating it

[somber sequoia]

no, you need to find the gesture animator and go look at what's in side it, or make sure that's the right one you mean to be using.

if it's a bought avatar you could ask the creator why this is not setup properly.

[bitter adder]

can you explain a bit more on what I need to do?

[flint sundial]

The base mark is empty

[somber sequoia]

make an animation in the gesture layer (probably) which animates the hand in the position you want, while disabling the IK from moving it. And restore that when done. Probably there are tutorials for this, I don't know of one offhand though.

This one seems to be a VRCFury-generated one, are you in play mode?

either way it needs a mask on that first layer, as the error says

[flint sundial]

I am not in play mode

[somber sequoia]

weird that that's your gesture animator then

[flint sundial]

I don't know how to add the mask thats the issue

[somber sequoia]

the path to that filename says it's an exported project... is this a ripped avatar?

[flint sundial]

Tis not?

[somber sequoia]

weird that that's the path then.

[flint sundial]

I got this avatar From my friend

[somber sequoia]

... uh huh...

[flint sundial]

I asked him for a model and He gave me one of his

I don't even know how to rip Tbh

[somber sequoia]

is this a free one, or did he pay for it but you didn't?

[flint sundial]

I think He payed for it im not sure

It seems to be a Rindo Model

[somber sequoia]

I see. Well good luck then.

[flint sundial]

I'll ask him If he knows

thank you for the Help though!

[raven orbit]

nah thats 100% ripped

[somber sequoia]

yep, sure is

[flint sundial]

it is?

[balmy barn]

Rindo tos applies

[flint sundial]

Guess im not uploading it then sorry Im really new to this kinda stuff

[somber sequoia]

unless you bought the Rindo avatar off booth yourself, yes.

You have to pay for non-free avatars, see.

[raven orbit]

yes, there's no reason the project would be labeled with an avatar ID otherwise, and that's probably why it's broken

[flint sundial]

Huh

[inland seal]

How do I fix this?

[flint sundial]

Well thank you guys for telling me!

[inland seal]

Preview is off btw

So idk why he does that

[placid mica]

Any idea why avatar imposter is stuck in t-pose?

[granite ermine]

Why did they remove the auto fix button for streaming mipmaps?

So ive been thru every texture in this unityfile and its still saying I can't upload the avi cus it has mipmapped textures without 'Streaming Mip Maps' Enabled, there use to be an "auto fix" button baked into the Builder tab on the sdk i could use but its not there anymore.

was it moved to a new area?

[somber sequoia]

expand the builder tab horizontally

[granite ermine]

omfg

🤦‍♂️

im so stupid

thank you

[somber sequoia]

nope, it's really not obvious

[lilac hollow]

Hey sp I have a quick question, how can I upload an avatar that is both PC and Quest Compatible? An avatar im trying to upload supports both platforms but it only uploads to PC only. I've been recommended Quest Tools but that only let's me upload to Quest only.

Any help is much appreciated

[somber sequoia]

you upload them separately, but use the same blueprint ID to make them one

[flint sundial]

Which Gogoloco lets me fly?

I know its not ALL

[raven orbit]

beyond

[flint sundial]

Thank you!

Also Is there anyone that knows how to make custom shirts?

I have the model I just need the shirt done

Or is that not allowed to be asked

[raven orbit]

if you ask for comissions here you will get flooded with dms from scammers

[lilac hollow]

So, as an example, if I wanted to upload the PC version of the Avi I copy the blueprint ID from the Quest Version?

[flint sundial]

I seeeee

Thats wilddd

[timber wharf]

@lilac hollow you copy id from whatever you already uploaded

if it claims to be both pc and quest it should be essentially two separate avatars to upload

quest tools are used to make pc only into quick and dirty quest copy (or at least to try , many of them would need way more attention to become uploadable)

[lilac hollow]

The avatar im trying to upload comes with 2 different versions, one for PC and one for Quest. Right now I'm in the process of uploading the PC version

When I'm about to upload the Quest version I just simply copy the PC version blueprint ID and attach it to the quest one?

[somber sequoia]

yep

[lilac hollow]

Alright, thanks you guys :)

[frigid wren]

hi how can i make a grab systeme on an object that has physic on it plsss i tried but it didn't work 💀 and i don't know if i can do it or if it's simply impossible

[somber sequoia]

what do you mean "physic" - do you mean physbones, or a rigid body?

[frigid wren]

yeah phys bones but i'm going to try somthing

maybe it will work

[timber wharf]

to be grabbable they need collision radius>0

[desert mirage]

I tried shortening my legs using blender, shrinking the armature in pose mode and such. Now, my feel are at hip height in vrchat. Anyone happen to know why? Really out of ideas

[obsidian rivet]

is there a cause for textures appearing black when you atlas them in blender, I've tried every solution that comes up online

[raven orbit]

if you're doing this by baking in cycles, i'd make sure you're baking from emit and that clear image is unchecked, otherwise i'm not sure.

[obsidian rivet]

I'm doing it in EEVEE I'm pretty sure, is it a requirement to do it in cycles specifically?

[raven orbit]

i thought you could only bake in cycles? though if you're atlasing with some plugin then idk

[obsidian rivet]

I'm doing the atlas that comes with CATS

[bitter adder]

So I can't have 2 different rigs in a avatar right? can I have a Avatar that has an outfit with a different rig?

[somber sequoia]

there's not a whole lot of reason to, but you can use VRCFury's armature link to do that

[obsidian rivet]

I’m following a guide so if there’s a better way to do atlas without CATS how would I go about that?

[bitter adder]

I ask I'm trying to add characters from a game and they have differnt outfits with differnt rigs

[somber sequoia]

yeah, I'd combine those in Blender probably

[flint sundial]

I'm trying to fix this and change this shader to VRChat mobile so its quest compatible and I can't for some reason anyone know how to fix this?

[obsidian rivet]

I set it to cycles, checked off emit, and get this error and the model appears all white

[balmy barn]

old cats , get 3.6+ blender and unoffical cats instead (more stuff on it)

https://www.blender.org/download/releases/3-6/

https://github.com/teamneoneko/Cats-Blender-Plugin-Unofficial-/releases/tag/3.6.8.3

[bitter adder]

How would I do that?

[somber sequoia]

Do you know blender well?

[autumn finch]

I'm suffering from a skill issue in doing direct blend trees to make a bunch of toggles. If I force it through, the toggles don't work unless I manually disable the objects they're set to interact with before building the avatar. I'm wondering what I'm missing because I can't get this weight value to stick and Unity freaks out if I set the parameter value for the 1D Blend tree- trying to follow this guide https://vrc.school/docs/Other/DBT-Combining

Anyone got any pointers?

[bitter adder]

I am think I am okay with blender

[somber sequoia]

Hmmm ok - rename clothing vertex groups to match the main armature's bone names, merge in any extra bones from the clothing armature, then just ditch the clothing armature

[somber sequoia]

I tend to use a single variable I call _Blendweight and set it to 1 to "enable" my lower blendtrees in a top-level direct one. I don't see something like that in your pic, are these not direct trees? Or are they supposed to all be 1D?

[bitter adder]

Yeah that might be a little to compilated for me lol

[somber sequoia]

it can be learned! 🙂

[obsidian rivet]

tried it on 3.6 with the unofficial cats and it gives the same result

[bitter adder]

Can we message in DMs to make this a little easier?

[somber sequoia]

I don't do 1:1 help for free, sorry. Happy to help in public though when I can

[somber sequoia]

it's not actually a cats thing, it's the material-combiner plugin cats uses.

[obsidian rivet]

is there a better way to combine materials since this seems to just make the majority of them black

[balmy barn]

notice WEIGHT all motions uses it as a paramter , it must be 1 or they are not active

[obsidian rivet]

or at least an alternative to material combiner/correct version

[balmy barn]

(you can name it whatever)

[somber sequoia]

yeah this is the part I was noticing too - glad you have a nice demo

[somber sequoia]

you can always do this manually, or potentially bake to a new. combined UV layout

I'd guess one of your materials has some extra texture that's not working right

[balmy barn]

<unknown location> can just be a path to a texture set in material but it cant find it, redo those materials

they will be blank or wierd if you manage to atlas (black is one)

[obsidian rivet]

I'll try checking the paths

I should add, manually doing this is essentially not an option since it's like about 30 textures

[balmy barn]

newer cats have this option (might not work for this one) , but its a way to not setting it to every same material that uses the same texture

also that thing can sometime find the textures

[bitter adder]

Just making sure I'm clear I want to be able to swap between these 2 models which have different rigs I can use WEIGHT to do that?

[obsidian rivet]

checked through nothing seems to missing or directed wrong

still appears black

[somber sequoia]

personally I'd make these two separate avatars, it's way easier than trying to do something like you're trying to do

Unless you can have the bodies close enough that one rig will work, it's just not worth the effort

(they do kinda look close though, why wouldn't that work.....)

[obsidian rivet]

from my understanding it's specific textures that won't appear, the same few appear just fine each time but the rest are black but they aren't pathed incorrectly

[bitter adder]

I just don't wanna go through the process of making a new rig 😔

[somber sequoia]

use one of the two then?

[bitter adder]

What do you mean?

[rotund solstice]

Is there a way to make the teeth actually follow with and not just stay in one place?

[brisk hawk]

I need help with my mmd model when I put it in unity and added the sdk and when I click show control panel it doesn’t open so can somebody help me

[gentle goblet]

I am trying to add facetracking to my avi and it wants me to create a parameter but I don't know how ;-;

[obsidian rivet]

could the amount of textures it's trying to put onto one sheet be the problem?, if not there's nothing else I can guess being an issue

[left gull]

you'd need to edit the fbx file's blendshapes/shapekeys

[tranquil niche]

hey hey! is there anyone here who would be willing to kind of guide/help me along with parent constraints? i sorta get the idea, I'm just trying to make it so i can take a shoe off with my hand and that kind of complicates things a little bit

[spark walrus]

trying to upload an avi and i got this

anyway i can solve this?

[somber sequoia]

unless this is the only error, please post the first 2-3 (at the top)

[raven orbit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL9JmlpV79g this is about "props" but has the same principle behind what you're trying to do

[tranquil niche]

ah! yes! i've watched this video! the issue is, i don't know how this would work with an object that is weight painted/follows bones

[somber sequoia]

it doesn't very well, yeah

[tranquil niche]

and there's a weird rotatey thing that happens when i create the constraint i'll grab you a screenshot of

[tranquil niche]

ok, this is what i thought, so should i just make a seperate, invisible copy of the shoes that are not weight painted, and have an animation to make them appear only when i've grabbed them?

[somber sequoia]

hmm that could work. Or have the shoes have their own bones (or armature!) and rotation constrain them to the foot by default, disable that when you detach them

[raven orbit]

If the shoes are part of another mesh it's probably better to use their own bones than to have a separate armature

[tranquil niche]

ohhhh ok! that will be helpful

i might need a bit of help finding how to turn that off

cause yeah right now it looks like this

[somber sequoia]

you'd weight paint them to a different set of bones in Blender

[tranquil niche]

so would it be feasible to copy an armature from the model and paste it onto the shoes?

[tranquil niche]

ohhhhhh I now understand what you mean, i thought this message was two seperate ideas, but it's taking the new armature of the shoes, and detaching it from the models correct?

[raven orbit]

any edits made to the armature needs to be done in blender btw

[somber sequoia]

yep, that's a way to do it

[tranquil niche]

and boy howdy do i know it XD

so would there be a way to just easily perform a copy and paste of this onto the shoes?

[somber sequoia]

heh

[raven orbit]

yeah like duplicate the armature, delete any bone that's not related to the shoes and swap the armature out in the armature modifier on the shoes

[tranquil niche]

Like i guess i'm asking. ope i think neiryl got it

[raven orbit]

and if you wanna join those back into the main armature you'd need to rename the bones and re-swap the shoes armature modifier back but this is optional guess

though not optional if it's part of another mesh

[tranquil niche]

ok, try to stick with me here (you definitely don't have to if you have better things to do) becausei might get some things confused but here we go

So would this be the correct first step?

[dusty hemlock]

anyone 🥲

[raven orbit]

yep

[somber sequoia]

maybe explain what it is you're trying to do?

[tranquil niche]

and then this would logically be next?

[dusty hemlock]

like, i just want it too look smoother overall, it just looks messy, you know , i'll show it without the model

thats without the model

[raven orbit]

yep, and i forgot to mention the shoes would need to be parented to the new armature as well

[dusty hemlock]

thats with model

[tranquil niche]

boom, just like this?

[lone maple]

wanting help... when i import a model (an edited one in blender) over the base version of it (since the base version is a unity package and it has everything setup) the bones.. spaz out

when i go into play, the avatar completely breaks and stretches out 😭

warning, i am quite new to unity

[left gull]

You could try messing with the smoothing tool on it but mainly looks like your mesh is really high poly and isnt layered nicely in some spots which makes it look weird

[raven orbit]

yep!

[dusty hemlock]

I just feel like it looks wrong without the base, like it looks ok with base

[raven orbit]

make sure "apply scaling" is set to "fbx all" in the fbx export settings in blneder

[lone maple]

i shall try !

[left gull]

unless you're planning on using just the hair for something/other models that wouldnt really matter then if you like how it looks currently with that exact model

[lone maple]

where is this setting? (blender 4.0)

im in the export thingy-

oop-
anyways, found it

[somber sequoia]

yeah export dialog

[dusty hemlock]

Do you think i should jus keep it how it is with the model? like does it look like normal

[tranquil niche]

And you did mention something about renaming bones to be able to re-attach the shoes to my avi's armature in unity? and when you said that, did you maean being able to put them back on with my hands, or would that also be a thing i need to do if i make a toggle to put them back on my feet

[tranquil niche]

I mean, my first thought was that the hair looked amazing! buuuuuuut i'm also clearly no expert with blender and unity so, do take my words with a grain of salt

[raven orbit]

i had kinda assumed that all parts of the avatar would be on one fbx but if this is not the case then dont worry about that step.

[tranquil niche]

well, does it matter if they previously were? I just deleted everything but the shoes because that's all i needed to add and both the official and unofficial cats plugins cannot fix my models textures so at some point everything but the skin was just something clogging up the hierarchy, being annoying to look at, and having to go out of my way to hide when they covered the shoes.

[raven orbit]

if you were able to put the shoes onto the avatar before with a separate fbx then you probably should be able to do it again

[dusty hemlock]

Does she look more cleaned up?

i kinda smoothed out her hair

this was my ref

[tranquil niche]

Oh yeah, they were just a free to use model i found on CG trader that i kinda morphed to the shape of my avi's feet

[tranquil niche]

Nice!

so with that being said should i just export this and send it to unity?

[glass condor]

Does anyone know how to change the walk animation? I'm trying to have an avi do a floating animation instead of walking

[cinder rapids]

For some reason the arms are stuck behind the back I have no idea how to fix this if anybody does know I would really like the help

[raven orbit]

yeah, though if nothing is parented to the original armature object then it's not being used and you can probably delete that

[tranquil niche]

AH, so just delete verything above the copied armature?

[raven orbit]

yeah. i didn't initially realize the shoes were entirely separate so there was probably no reason to go through the extra steps of duplicating it, but it's fine and should still work. I'd also rename the new armature "Shoes_Armature" or something

[tranquil niche]

Oh also, would this be a bad idea if i wanted to take the shoes off individually?

do we need any sort of separation?

[raven orbit]

depends on how you want to set it up, there's a lot of ways it could be done

but it should be possible to take them off individually either way

[tranquil niche]

ok, cool, then this should work!

[raven orbit]

sus

[tranquil niche]

So would i delete the old shoes now?

[raven orbit]

probably, i'd duplicate the scene or something to make a backup

just in case

[median galleon]

How do I get an avatar into unity from the VRChat website

I downloaded an avatar from the game and I'm trying to figure out how to put it in unity

[raven orbit]

you don't get it into unity from the website

[tranquil niche]

cool, i'll make a save now

[raven orbit]

wdym downloaded from the game 🤨

[median galleon]

Is it possible to get the avatar im wearing right now into unity or no?

[raven orbit]

nope

[median galleon]

Dang it

so the only way is by blender?

[raven orbit]

sure i guess

[tranquil niche]

ok, so the save is there and the old shoes are no more, would i just drag the new ones into the avi's armature?

Or would this need to be messed with?

[raven orbit]

yeah, just under the avatar root and it'd be part of the avatar, and to make sure the shoes move with the base they'd need to have the base's bones as the source for the parent constraints

[raven orbit]

that should be fine for this case

[tranquil niche]

the last part of this is just the thing where i go into the hiearchy and drag hips to hips, spine to spine foot l to foot l so on and so forth

[somber sequoia]

rule #10 dude

[somber sequoia]

is "the game" vrchat? how did you download this?

[median galleon]

Well I dont really know the vrchat slang or terms but I mean like I downloaded and wore the avatar https://vrchat.com/home/avatar/avtr_1640def0-965a-4600-9e16-e42b65a82c55

I just want that Avatar in unity since i cant figure out how

[raven orbit]

it's not called a download unless it's on your pc, which it isn't

[somber sequoia]

oh so you're just using it in the game, okay.
So yeah - you'll need to find the original creator's site and purchase it

[median galleon]

Damn

[tranquil niche]

i think i'm probably wrong with that guess

[raven orbit]

oh i missed your message, sorry

[tranquil niche]

you're all good!

[raven orbit]

i dont think you can reposition the bones in the hierarchy, they will need to be parented via parent constraint

[brisk hawk]

I’m trying to add a mmd avatar to vrchat and when I press show control panel nothing shows