avatar-help

[crystal kernel]

alright, ive been at this for a few days but i cannot for the life of me figure out how to parent an object whilst keeping its current position and rotation

i desperately need anything that can help me at this point

like, i have this gun and i want it to be able to switch parent to the left hand whilst keeping its current global position

[marble lily]

Ill look into it

[naive tartan]

aaah i really need help

everything seems fine

anyone know waht to do?

[junior void]

looks like you have 4 times spine

[naive tartan]

the ''spine'' i also the neck and the head of the avatart i think??

i rigged it myself using blender and youtubr 😭😭

[junior void]

seems fine minus the naming. it should be named hips, spine, chest, upper chest (or similar), the 4th spine seems to be the parent of the shoulder which also seems fine

so now find the neck and see if the spine 4 is also the parent of the neck?

so the 003 named one

see how its confusing xD

[naive tartan]

shh

okay ill renam ethem and

..seeeee..

are they....

there where 6 spines

i fixed it

im pretty sure i moved something and just put it back?-

[rose summit]

why does my avatar do this while i sit and jump

even just in general

just this one

[candid osprey]

Say you got an avatar with animators that control things like hue shifts and the likes. How do you have it set so that upon reset avatar, a specific value for that hue shift is defaulted to that isn't just at 0% of the animation

[junior void]

set the parameter value to a decimal such as 0.25

hue shifts work with floats so their default does not have to be 0 or 1

[round comet]

Ok so

Doing some blender work and I have a bracelet and arm warmer I mirrored onto the other arm

But how do I make it like an actual thing if I can phrase it like that. Like not just mirrored

[arctic ginkgo]

does anyone know if theres a way to adjust layer weight in the base controller?

i tried using animator layer controller state behavior but it apparently only has options for action, gesture, additive, and FX.

[static sparrow]

anyone know any good plugins for blender that converts blendshapes so they work with mmd lip sync worlds?

[arctic ginkgo]

you can do it manually pretty easily, just duplicate all your blendshapes and paste the correct names for them

you don't actually need all of them

there's mmd guides

i used this one for my model

[static sparrow]

thats what i was planning on doing if there isnt a plug in. i just dont wanna have to manually do it for every model i make lol

[arctic ginkgo]

alright, i mean making models is a lot of manual work tbh so i just do it anyways

あ - a
い - i
う - u
え - e
お - o
あ２ - a 2
ん - n

i think these are all the ones you need

a 2 is just more open

than a

[static sparrow]

so bigger Ah i can do that

[arctic ginkgo]

easiest way is just use blend from shape and make the value > 1

[static sparrow]

i requested access for this btw!

[arctic ginkgo]

sorry probably shared wrong version of the link

this isn't mine and it's public

[static sparrow]

still asking me to request

[arctic ginkgo]

weird

ohh

wait i think this might be my copy of it

give me a sec

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dqzjyvJPa845Atbq5oUaWyt19OK_ia0m325nvYddHy4/edit?usp=sharing

this should be the public version

same thing i just made a copy of it so i could use the checklist

[static sparrow]

yup!! tyy!

[arctic ginkgo]

does anyone know how to change the layer weight of a layer in the base controller?

animator layer control doesn't seem to work for the base controller for some reason

[wild needle]

what does vrc.lowerlid_left and vrc.lowerlid_right do, and how would I made it when setting it up

also are they required

[ornate zinc]

How do you open a vroid model in blender?

[balmy barn]

export it as vrm , blender plugins for those

cats

blender

https://vrm-addon-for-blender.info/en/ < no idea if its that one been awhile

newer then what i got same guy

[wild needle]

nvm

[ornate zinc]

how do you add the addon into blender?

[junior void]

chatgpt knows ;)

[balmy barn]

4.2 you can drop it into blender, or just use install from disk after you download it, vrm converting id go unoffical cats - bunch of shortcuts there thats handy

[gusty flume]

Hiiii im trying to make an avatars FX layer to do gestures and I cant seem to find the VRC folder with samples to copy the hands layer Am I looking in the wrong spot???

Or did I forget to upload something?

[subtle veldt]

i can not figure out why the armature is doing this ive tried using armature link via vrcfury and merge armature via modular avatar both of them just do this with movement

[subtle veldt]

No you're definitely not looking in the wrong spot its odd that the entire thing is completely empty are you sure you used the vrc creator companion?

[gusty flume]

Yeah rn im using 2022.3.22f1 and im just lost to where it couldve gone lmao

[subtle veldt]

uninstall the avatar sdk then the base sdk and readd them

[gusty flume]

Wym by read them?

[subtle veldt]

re add

sorry forgot a space

[gusty flume]

I'll try that

[ornate zinc]

where do I find the thing that turns off polys on blender?

for a vroid

[subtle veldt]

.

[gusty flume]

@subtle veldt So I re added them etc but its still blank. But if I rightclick on the packages folder everything is in there. It just isnt showing up in unity

[subtle veldt]

Hm maybe restart unity assuming youve already like clicked on the window and it still didnt update

[lusty jay]

So it seems like every time I sit on the ground or squat down the avatar does this dumb “on all fours” kind of pose.
Is there a way to change that so it just defaults to like, sitting cross legged or something? Instead of a stupid pose?

[wide obsidian]

If you have gogo loco, got to the very bottom icon it usually has a orange/red, white and blue person, from there go to the flask thing on the right side and from there navigate to the same icon in the beginning and then the position on the bottom right side allow for diff default sit and prone positions

[lusty jay]

What’s gogo loco

[desert elk]

it's an add in for your avatar that allows you to pose it in different poses

it's very handy

you can do other stuff with it too, like change the sitting position like ReyVarian said

[lusty jay]

Ah so it’s editing an avatar

Damn

[desert elk]

yeah

[grizzled crow]

how do I make the plume double sided and transparent?

[desert elk]

change it from opaque to transparent

and got double sided you need to turn culling off, which your shader doesn't have from what I'm seeing on the side

you may need a different shader

[grizzled crow]

hm... ok... also turning it transparent does this

[desert elk]

Is your texture itself transparent?

[grizzled crow]

hm.. no.. ill edit it to be transparent

ok made it transparent and.... ?!

[balmy barn]

no transparency on that texture setting , try bc7

[grizzled crow]

where do I change that?

[balmy barn]

I use vram checker script to see all resolutions/settings ect , find texture click on it to set it manually

script vs manual

manual way

https://vpm.thry.dev/ << vcc way

[placid mica]

Does anybody possibly know how to make a RADIAL blendshape toggle using Modular Avatar?

YES, I already checked the docs. I couldn't find anything to help with that

[arctic ginkgo]

ik you're asking about modular avatar, and you may have your reasons, but for a personal project it will probably be easier both to implement and to get help if you do it manually

[subtle veldt]

i can not figure out why the armature is doing this ive tried using armature link via vrcfury and merge armature via modular avatar both of them just do this with movement and no blendshapes wont fix it it just started doing this randomly after not doing it at all for days

[dark jay]

what causes the leg to be like this and how do i fix it

[balmy barn]

bowlegged usually cause your legs isnt straight and dont know where to rotate

(copy paste) closer to this less it does wierd things

[dark jay]

thank you

[dark jay]

this happens now

[limpid moth]

guys i keep getting this blueprint id bs and dk what to do please help

[small stone]

Hi, brand new to uploading avatars! I've run into an issue when trying to build my avatar to publish. "Gesture layer needs valid mask on the first animator layer"
I did a little poking around online for solutions to this, and the one I saw most commonly was to click on the cogwheel on "Allparts" and change the mask to "Vrc_handsonly". However when I click to replace the mask, there's nothing else for me to select. Is there something I'm missing?

[desert elk]

Hi, you need to find it in packages and copy it to assets, idk why, sometimes it doesn't show up if it's only in packages

[small stone]

thank you!

[limpid moth]

OK i foundy my issue but no clue how to deal with it. So i have scripts that dont wokr but i cant find them

[golden pecan]

help how do i make my avatar not do this pose

[marble lily]

Any help on these errors when uploading?

[somber meadow]

show errors above "Assetbundle was not built" the errors below it aren't informational

[marble lily]

that's whats directly above

@somber meadow

I'm adding vrcfury as it wasn't installed prior

fixed

[small stone]

I can't seem to find it in packages when searching by keyword VRC/hands/etc. Is there an easy path for me to find it through?

[desert elk]

just search in the search bar

I don't remember where exactly it is

[small stone]

I did, but it's not coming up

[desert elk]

exit preview mode in the animator

[desert elk]

do you have VRChat SDK installed?

[topaz mulch]

does anybody know if theres a way to disable the eye lense shader for the backup shaders on my avi?

[small stone]

I have the companion app and unity

is there a 3rd software i need

[desert elk]

if you made the project through companion, the SDK should've been included

[small stone]

yeah I did

[desert elk]

huh that's odd

[small stone]

this?

[desert elk]

if you search for "hand" the masks don't show up?

[small stone]

i've got these

but everywhere says i need specifically vrc_handsonly

[desert elk]

did you click packages?

[desert elk]

after searching

[small stone]

oops thank you

el o el

sorryyy

[desert elk]

that is cruel sometimes XD

no excitement in the server

[prisma frigate]

Fr tho

[small stone]

so i just copy and paste it?

o i think i got it

before i build, when it gives me the chance to autofix things like this should I opt to do it, or leave it be

[desert elk]

I think you can autofix

[small stone]

kk thankies :3

[lusty jay]

Anyone here know how to use VRCfury to make avatars actually SIT when I sit on the ground?

[grizzled crow]

ok back, had to do something for a couple hours..
so I tried what you said, and it.. didnt work?

[lusty jay]

Ok. When I sit on the ground, like normal, my avatar decides “no” and tries to go into the prone position. That’s not what I want. I want it to sit on the ground
YouTube has been no help. Google has been no help. I’ve spent almost 2 hours on this and it’s starting to get frustrating

[grizzled crow]

all that works for me is to add gogoloco and set the pose to sitting

[lusty jay]

Idk how to add gogoloco

And I have zero Unity experience to add stuff like that

And I’m assuming you can’t just stand up out of it, you gotta actually press crap to get it to work

[grizzled crow]

yea its the little radial menu

I think there is a button in the regular menu where it can switch between standing and sitting

but im not sure

[fresh raft]

How do I fix this culling for my quest model?

[small stone]

is this important

[ornate stump]

If you noticed it broke something then yes.

[small stone]

Nah I haven't noticed it breaking anything

[ornate stump]

Then simply ignore it.

[wild needle]

in unity it looks like this, but in blender most of the normals are okish

[open sonnet]

PLEASE someone tell me what I am missing I am still kinda new at this only playing in unity for 2 weeks

[weary viper]

Can someone help me fix this?

I didn't use vrcfury armature link (i found out my problem of yesterday was caused by it) and did it manually instead making child object on every bones of the avatar armature and just put the clothing inside of it

And now I just have this little of part of the avi being stretch out

[cunning swan]

cant use dds textures for some reason

[amber gull]

hello any idea why when i updated my blendshapes names on blender and reimported it on unity it still has the old names?

[amber gull]

try adding parameter compressor component

[somber sequoia]

is your avatar prefab unpacked?

if so it won't get updated when you update the .fbx file in the project

[amber gull]

oh man i tried to unpack it and re import it again but still hasn't updated

[somber sequoia]

... you do not want it unpacked without a really good reason

sorry if that was ambiguous

[amber gull]

man i don't know honestly alot about unity

i just want to update the blendshape names dunno why it won't update it

[amber gull]

thats the settings im using

am i missing something?

[somber sequoia]

I use FBX All for Apply Scalings, but what you have is probably fine.

[amber gull]

do u think if i changed it to fbx all it might fix it?

[somber sequoia]

I don't think that would affect blendshape names

[amber gull]

:/

[trim rover]

Im returning after awhile and am having trouble finding the new avater sdk file on the website

can someone point me in the right direction?

[tall carbon]

I may be stupid, Im sure the fix is easy but for some reason this model Im editing is not showing the extra faces I added. can anyone help?

[trim rover]

i keep running into stuff about a creator companion but i just want the sdks to drop into my unity project

[tall carbon]

one sec i gotcha

oh yeah, its through creator companion but trust me its extremely easy to use

[trim rover]

bruh

[tall carbon]

silly i know, but its actually really useful

[trim rover]

ok...

[tall carbon]

i can help you out if you need

[trim rover]

what if i couldn't get the creator companion to work?

im on linux and it was running into some issues

so i figured i could just do it the old way

[tall carbon]

i dunno, usually it breaks under the old stuff, much to my dismay

[trim rover]

well can't i just download the new sdk?

and add it to unity myself?

[spark walrus]

Hi anyone know if its better to, for example, have 8 different 2048x textures in your avatar, or 2 different 4096x textures as atlases?

[tall carbon]

depends on your model

[tall carbon]

sadly creator companion handles the sdk, so i wouldnt know

[trim rover]

they literally still had the sdks on their websit a year a go when i last did this but the webpage seams to be gone

oh wait nvm

i found it

they just moved it to the game download page instead of the documentation

[warped scroll]

Hey guys so I made a couple of new facial expressions and for some reason that I can't seem to understand, they just refuse to work. Like I can toggle them on the radial menu, but nothing happens.

Like, I got no idea what's wrong. The weight is fine on the layer, I'm using the correct parameter, I don't have it set up backwards, loop time is on, I have the parameter in the paremeter list, all my other facial expressions are working. I'm at a loss.

[tall carbon]

you in unity?

[warped scroll]

i am

i think it might be VRCFury fucking it up actually

its making a version of my fx layer where the animations are screwy

it replaces the animation with this weird empty one

even when i try to fix it, it just fucks itself up again when i use the gesture manager

[tall carbon]

you able to call and stream, i may be able to understand better (still new so taking a crack at this)

[junior mural]

can someone help me with making some toggles for modular?

[warped scroll]

I can't really do a call

[patent jackal]

Particle question:
I have a set of heart particles that pop out of my head when receiving headpats.
I can see them in unity, but i cant see them in VRC, everyone else can see them except me. What could that be?

[crisp trail]

hello im trying to fallow a guide and i have gotten stuck on a certain step. after exicuting the batch file my folder set up looks like this when its supposed to look like the one on the right anyone know where im supposed to put the updated .fbx or how i should approch this issue?

first time using unity so i barely understand what im doing

[patent jackal]

Figured it out.
It was set to local. Scaling mode was set to hierarchy and all is good now.

[dry ibex]

is this toomany stuffs? not specifically trying to get help on how to optimize or smth but i like keeping my avatars below 3 megabytes

[torpid gyro]

So, im not familar with unity basically at all but i wanted to try to retexture an avatar i bought a little while back to see how it goes. Suprisingly it went well but i keep running into this issue where i have absolutelty no toggles even though they are already created. Im not sure if theres something i need to enable or what but im just completely lost here

[night ember]

Better than average

[torpid gyro]

The VRC avatar descriptor is set up, the gesture and fx settings are set, but still zero toggles. so confused

[night ember]

Did you even add the menu and parameters

[torpid gyro]

Yes i did, but maybe they arent added correctly? i dunno

lemme send it

[night ember]

Thats not the avatar descriptor

[torpid gyro]

wait what? sorry im so lost 😭

[night ember]

You add it to the avatar descriptor

[torpid gyro]

WAIT OG

OH

it says paramater not found here too

so i need to navigate this and add it?

Shit where even is it

[night ember]

Yea?

[torpid gyro]

I feel so dumb, i spent 4 hours just for that little part to not be added

hes working now, thanks man😭

[kindred vapor]

Can someone tell me how to fix this? I fixed it with blendshapes but when I go into play mode, it reverts right back.

[crisp trail]

try checking the scale of certain bones.

[cunning swan]

whats the best shader for hair on quest

[obtuse frigate]

Hey so I’m currently making an avatar, my first time doing so, and in blender it will not allow me to paint any parts at all it gives me the error missing link or texture

[hollow hemlock]

Howd i download the Android SDK ??

[balmy barn]

(download appear)

[cunning swan]

switch target build

[hollow hemlock]

Yah, it show error "Switching to Android:AndroidPlayer is disabled", i think i havent download the Android SDK, how to download that ??

[hollow hemlock]

Ahhh thank youuu

[kindred vapor]

Oh I figured it out. It was the clothing weight in the FX layer.

[gloomy kestrel]

everytime i try uploading my avatar it says "Avatar Validation Failed"

[harsh thicket]

I made a bell Collar, the thing works, sound get triggerd as it should.
But Sometimes (its a 3d Audio-Source with less then 4m max range) ppl can hear it over the entiere world. Not everytime, only sometimes.
I'm animating the Audio-Source Component, not the GameObject

[sly timber]

hey does anyone know how to change afk animation

[kindred vapor]

There's many tutorials on YouTube

[sly timber]

I watched them but my avatar doesn’t have those options they do

I have goco loco installed the avatar it self came with the animation

[balmy barn]

action controller have a afk animation, you can add your own (look at bottom of it)

[kindred vapor]

Oh you want to change with gogo loco

[sly timber]

Or how do I add it in general

I don’t care if it’s with goco

Or not I just wanna add it

Goco is to complicated

[kindred vapor]

What I do is controllersWD > gogo locoaction> AFK> AFK init > change the animation in all of the first 6 options. From "standing afk init" to "afk proning loop"

[sly timber]

I don’t see the afk option is the problem or afk init

[kindred vapor]

It should be in the animator layer.

[sly timber]

Send a pic

[kindred vapor]

If your avatar doesn't have WD checked, you can do the regular controllers

[kindred vapor]

I forget how to do it regularly. I only remember gogoloco way

[sly timber]

I have goco loco

[kindred vapor]

Then follow my screenshot

[kindred vapor]

Golocoaction

first option after the folder

[sly timber]

Finally I’m here what now

[kindred vapor]

controllersWD > gogo locoaction> AFK> AFK init > change the animation in all of the first 6 options. From "standing afk init" to "afk proning loop"

put the animation you want in "motion"

I would do controllersWD rather than controllers since that's what works when I use manuka

[sly timber]

It’s the sleeping afk animation do you have it?

[kindred vapor]

You mean manuka's default?

[sly timber]

I think

It came with the avatar

[kindred vapor]

Yeah, are you wanting to change it to something else?

If you want to replace gogo loco's default with manuka's, you'll have to find manuka's afk animation in her folders and replace the gogo afk animation in the location I mention

[sly timber]

That’s the Manuka folder what now

[kindred vapor]

Add the manuka animation into motion for the first 6

from "standing afk init" to "afk proning loop"

[sly timber]

Any of them?

[kindred vapor]

I'd need to open up manuka avatar to see.

[sly timber]

Like one say start, end ,loop

For the manuka

[kindred vapor]

Yeah add it to where it matches

[sly timber]

One says kick though

[kindred vapor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlL3GiqTjxM

[sly timber]

I think I got it so I did the top

[kindred vapor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMBUUo7H9hc this tutorial helps too

You can always check in gesture manager

and see if it works

[sly timber]

It was in states

How do I go to states in goco loco

I think I did it I’m going to republish the avi

Omg did not work

It’s there but how to I access it in game

This is what I get

[crisp trail]

anyone know how to fix this error message? im trying to run a patcher and it wont work

[kindred vapor]

You need to enable afk mode

afk detection ins comfort & safety

and if you use desktop, it's the esc or end key

[junior void]

fold out the import message thing, what does it say there

[dense raptor]

let me see, give me a moment ^^

OH!

i see, i named my head mesh Head thats what caused the issue

[dense raptor]

tysm for the reminder!

[random sphinx]

how do i make a glass shader?

[ornate stump]

Do you want to create a shader for glass, or create a glass-like material?

[soft estuary]

Hey so i found this cool gun asset, as well as a cool bullet asset. How would I go about making it so the bullet shoots out?
I've tried tinkering with the animation tab but havent made much progress, any suggestions?

[crystal kernel]

This also didn't work for me, but it isn't an issue, if you want it fixed I suggest you do it in blender

[crystal kernel]

On performing a gesture, spawn a particle effect (with the bullet) in >world space<

[brittle ginkgo]

I’m going to try my best to describe this.
So I uploaded an avatar for both quest and pc and made sure everything looked ok on desktop mode (my pc can’t handle steam vr-) but when I went on my quest and put it on, some of my pcvr friends said there was two of me (had this trouble back in the past back to describe there is one of me of course moving and the other me that is t posing) I hope everything makes sense and I would appreciate the help 😓

[inland seal]

I got Finally Substance painter, but im having a problem where when I paint, it will paint other parts too.

[indigo compass]

https://helpx.adobe.com/substance-3d-painter/technical-support/workflow-issues/tools-issues/paint-tool-bleeds-on-other-uv-islands.html

[inland seal]

thx

How to use UV?

Idk where that is 😭

Im using it for 3 minutes ;D

Ig Ill never know ;D

[grizzled crow]

how do I add the pocket corvette to my avatar so I can spawn it in the world? I have seen some avali avatars able to do that

where the object is static in world space, so it doesnt move with my avatar

[balmy barn]

toggle freeze to world

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

[grizzled crow]

ah i see

though... how do I spawn it wherever I want? an armature?

[balmy barn]

object stays where you are but you are free to move it wont , unless you drop a 'decoy' in world acting as a constraint where it should drop

leave a empty source or it wont have a clue where to go back to when world toggled off

[grizzled crow]

hm.. ok the world drop works.. I tested it with the lock toggled off and it rotates, but doesnt move? with it on, it does not move with the armature at all

not sure how to make it where I can separately move it or rotate it with the wrist

unless the freeze axis is for freezing it to the armature, not the world...

ah I see now

[somber sequoia]

rotation constraint for rotation, parent constraint for position

[grizzled crow]

ah ok.. though.. how do i toggle between the two?

[somber sequoia]

the "Weight" parameter

[pastel nacelle]

Quick question does anyone know why my hair is SUPER SHINY compared to everything else when using Fallback Shaders?
What option can you even customize to impact that on unity/blender?

[grizzled crow]

Ah…

[somber sequoia]

If it's a separate object, at the least set all the light probe anchor points to the same thing, I usually use the Chest bone.

[pastel nacelle]

Everything is anchored to the same bone yea that's why I'm surprised about the result ^^

[somber sequoia]

oh fascinating

[balmy barn]

look for emission thats missing a mask , entire thing glows instead of tips wich people like to do on those hair (random guess)

[somber sequoia]

does that happen on fallback shaders too?

[pastel nacelle]

Not using any emission and yea I would assume that those settings are off anyways when using Fallback? 😮

[balmy barn]

fallback ones can have material settings, but rare i check em

[pastel nacelle]

could be THAT one which is in the blender material settings but it's set on black so I doubt it's doing anything*..

[junior void]

why are we looking at blender shader settings

[pastel nacelle]

What else am I supposed to look at?

[somber sequoia]

Unity - blender settings have nothing to do with unity.

[pastel nacelle]

Yea.. And like I said my material has no emission so I'm expending the search..

[somber sequoia]

is that the fallback shader?

[pastel nacelle]

Yes

[ornate stump]

Transparent fallback is "Unlit" which mean it doesn't affected by world lighting and always be full bright.

[balmy barn]

poi have these settings one of my av's just a black blob on fallback shader cause i never fixed it

you could just test it with a new material if it behave its something in the other one (offline test fast enough)

[pastel nacelle]

I didn't know about Unlit thank you; but in that case why is it only happening for the hair and not for everything else?
My default shader isn't using any transparency so it should just be "Unlit Color" or "Texture"?

[ornate stump]

Should read the docs on how the game automaticcally determine fallback shader https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/shader-fallback-system.

Otherwise you could use custom fallback option in poiyomi.

[pastel nacelle]

I didn't know about this doc thank you I will! ^^

[nimble bough]

Anyone know how to make an avatar toggle between heels and flats properly? so the avatar actually gets lifted up when the taller heels are toggled on?

All the tutorials i've seen are only permanent non toggleable options which make the avatar float if flats were toggled on

[arctic ginkgo]

you can use temporary pose space but beware this may cause issues with your upright parameter

this may mess up your locomotion animations

and even if you fix that by using a different parameter for it, the one issue you may have that can't be permanently fixed is incorrect walking speed

for example, you are standing up, but the game thinks you are crouching. it will move you at a crouching speed

or vice versa, you are crouching but the game thinks you are standing. it will move you at standing speed

it's the same issue that happens with gogo loco sometimes where using gogo loco's poses or floating gimmicks will cause you to move slower or faster than expected

if you are on SteamVR this should be able to be fixed by using space drag in OVR Advanced settings

but on quest there isn't much of a fix aside from disabling your guardian and making sure your floor was set below your actual floor

or restarting your headset after disabling your guardian

[nimble bough]

i see, thank you very much for your answer ❤️

[vernal coral]

i need a little bit of a help

i wanna add smth to one of the avatars i have but i dont know how i could get the avatar to be in the creator

[somber sequoia]

do you already have the source package for the avatar?

[desert elk]

yeah, do you have the files for the avatar? if it's a public that's not available for purchase, you can't add anything to it

[vernal coral]

oh then nvm

[barren tundra]

Anyone know a good way to debug animator layers? Have an animator that works for one animation in it, but not the other. I've setup said animator so I can trigger it like 3 different ways and still nothing. Parameter its tied to is changing. Honestly kind of annoying at this point.

[lucid rapids]

Sos

[spark walrus]

Anyone know why this toggle is literally not working

[crystal kernel]

Is it in the vrc parameter object?

[spark walrus]

Yes it is

[grizzled crow]

?
how do I add a thing that changes the weight parameter?

[crystal kernel]

does it need to be on by default?

[spark walrus]

Yea because she wears it as the default outfit, thats how I do all my toggles

[crystal kernel]

oh okay

[somber sequoia]

you animate it like anything else

[spark walrus]

In debug it says its on but I cant see it on in the toggle menu

So weird

[crystal kernel]

does the animation work in preview mode?

whats buggin me tho is that the button isnt even doing the 🔁 thingy

something is forcing the skirt bool to be false

you have any param-drivers somewhere?

[spark walrus]

So weird I just retyped the param into the menu and it works now

I guess a glitch

[grizzled crow]

I create a new animator for the ship?

[crystal kernel]

ooo maybe, you added an enter in the string

could be (who knows)

[grizzled crow]

ok... animated it and its not... behaving right?

[spark walrus]

How can I make these two able to be toggled at the same time while also being in an int?

[somber sequoia]

I don't know what "the ship" is

[desert elk]

you can't int are either one or the other

[spark walrus]

So how can I successfully do this

[crystal kernel]

you can be cheeky and blendshape them

[grizzled crow]

I was able to create an animator for the object im trying to spawn..
Though is there a way to freeze the rotation? or does the freeze to world on the parent also freeze the rotation?

[somber sequoia]

when talking to someone not following along with your project, it helps to use more generic terms like "the prop".

But also, I was just answering one specific question, that's all. I'd suggest reading the docs on constraints, and also perhaps simply trying things.

[grizzled crow]

ok i think i figured it out

sorry

[grizzled crow]

Do I need to do anything with the synching or will the prop already be automatically synched with everyone?

[agile reef]

What blender version should I be using if I'm going to use the unofficial cats

[desert elk]

depends on what cats version

there's this cool website

https://catsblenderplugin.xyz/

I personally use Blender 4.2 as it seems the most stable

[agile reef]

okay, Just wanted to see which version was most recommended.

[balmy barn]

4.2.5 LTS updated the ones that had some quirks and seems to behave now https://github.com/teamneoneko/Cats-Blender-Plugin-Unofficial-/releases/tag/4.2.2.4

[grizzled crow]

trying to set the weight to 0 with the animation resets the prop to the default position and rotation next to the avatar instead of freezing it in place

[lean kelp]

Hello it is I
I'm trying to make an animation in Unity, which requires me to move the location of my model. My model was made in VRoid so I supposed to make an animation that changes the location I need to make an animation clip on the Root right here, but when I input the Z Position down in the animation tab it wouldn't change
Is there a fix to this or it is not possible to change position at all?

for better understanding (ig) I'm trying to recreate the Virtual Insanity movement

[grizzled crow]

hm... i was using the wrong rotation constraint

[sleek bramble]

Hi everyone, I am trying to set up a "global" sender and receiver, i read here that someone mentioned i could achieve this by having a broken prefab stay at world origin but i am having a hard time figuring out how to achieve this, I will be using this to drive a networked parameter and i dont want it to have a maximum 3 meter range

[agile reef]

im using 4.2 I dont see any of the options I had previously

• Opaque
• Alpha Blend
  etc where are these settings under for materials?

[desert elk]

they've been removed. You can read more about it here:
https://blenderartists.org/t/blender-4-2-and-4-2-1-where-have-the-material-settings-in-eevee-gone/1545952
or here
https://blenderartists.org/t/blender-blend-mode/1540117

and material settings like that you set in unity anyways, so it not being in blender doesn't bother me anyways

[agile reef]

my project is not going into unity. Is there a way to make that transparency?

[desert elk]

i've never done stuff like that in blender, i can't help. Google it

[torpid bone]

Hi there, can anyone give me some tips for setting up avatars with toes? Most resources online seem to be refer to issues with full body tracking, but I'm just playing with mouse and keyboard and I still get this tip-toe thing going on when the avatar idles.

The issue does get fixed if I delete the toe bones but I'd like to understand exactly why this happens.

[junior void]

Random idea, what if you disable the automatic step thing in the avatar descriptor?

Also consider lining up the upper body and legs(side view)

[torpid bone]

This option, right? I'll give it a try.

[junior void]

Ye. I never tried it, i just remembered its there. Sounded related

[light charm]

ah yeah disabling that option should fix it

[torpid bone]

That did the trick! Thanks a ton

[bright pebble]

good evening I don't understand this error if you can explain it to me please

[indigo compass]

There is a mesh and bone named the same thing, head.
Don't think it can be fixed in Unity, you need to bring it into blender or something and just rename the mesh for the head.

[desert elk]

you can also check the configure buttom if everything is okay in there

[bright pebble]

Thanks for the help, it's good!

now he gives me that :/*

[desert elk]

i can't help with vrcfury

[random sphinx]

Am I able to make my cat ears point towards the sound with audio link

[plush onyx]

check that all the bones are configured correctly in the avatar definition, and also make sure that the mask it generates is actually in the animator attached to your avatar

[somber sequoia]

Audiolink only provides detail about the frequency bands of the music playing, not location of the source. And you can only use that data in a shader anyway, you can't use it for animations.

[balmy ferry]

hey guys, im reworking my avatar in a new projekt and i cannot upload whatever i do. i checked everything for missing scripts, even used a tool do look for them but nothing to be found. how can i find out why exactly its failing to upload?

After it fails to upload it also reloads the whole VRCSDK for some reason

[spark walrus]

is there a way to allow particles to remain visible even after i disable the system?

[somber sequoia]

look up "buffer particles"

[leaden palm]

I tried to import a new package into my project and it somehow seemed to delete everything else - it's a downgraded version of the current avatar that i'd hope to snag some files from, but now I'm not sure if the current version is even still there

it asks if I wanted to reload the scene and that seemed to cause it

[random sphinx]

ty

[arctic ginkgo]

so you overwrote your old scene

[leaden palm]

damn 😭

trying to recover it rn w some file tools but i might just have to start from scratch

[gentle sparrow]

does anyone know how to get the nkd proto rigged?

im kinda new to unity

but very new to blender, i know the model has bones, i just need them to work for the sdk

[sleek bramble]

Hi everyone, I am trying to set up a "global" sender and receiver, i read here that someone mentioned i could achieve this by having a broken prefab stay at world origin but i am having a hard time figuring out how to achieve this, I will be using this to drive a networked parameter and i dont want it to have a maximum 3 meter range

[gentle sparrow]

pls helppp

[desert elk]

rig > humanoid > configure

and make sure everything is correct

in unity btw

[inland seal]

I'm having problems with VRM Phys bones. In unity it works but when testing in Desktop Mate it doesn't work.

[sweet crypt]

i want the thing i circledinto the place with the arrow (Avi bought) i added the dances how do i do tht?

[desert elk]

you mean spring bones?

[inland seal]

Eh

[desert elk]

did you add them to a new objected called "secondary"?

[inland seal]

Yes

They do work

[gentle sparrow]

pls explain this to me im slow😭

[inland seal]

In unity

The whole avatar works

But not bones

[desert elk]

do they work in other softwares? like vseeface for example

[inland seal]

Didn't teat

[desert elk]

or is it a dekstop mate only problem

??

[inland seal]

Test*

[desert elk]

you should check if it works with different platforms

[inland seal]

My friend is making it

Mine works fine but not his

Tho he did same process as me

[desert elk]

it would help narrow down if it's a unity issue or a desktop mate issue

hm

okay

[inland seal]

Does he really need to download another program 😭

I have been trying to help him for past 3 hours

[desert elk]

you could check online
here maybe https://vrm-viewer.ownverse.world/

[sweet crypt]

when someone gets a chance can they answer this for me? ty ❤️

[desert elk]

oh i missed that message, you need to rearrange the options in unity

[sweet crypt]

how do i do tht?

[desert elk]

you drag the menus using the three lines on the side

when you click your mainmenu

you can drag the dances to be on the opposite end

[grizzled crow]

ok, I got it to work by using vrchat's position and rotation contraints, and toggling freezing to world on both.

[somber sequoia]

alright

[late sandal]

So bit of a weird one; the avatar I'm working on seems to work fine when I'm playing as him, but in avatar selection when the model loads in he falls right through the floor and falls forever by the looks of it.
This also happens to everyone that sees me in vrchat, when my avatar loads in they see it fall right through the floor, but from my perspective he's working fine.
What have I done wrong with the avatar process? Google doesn't seem to have an answer.

Video for reference:
https://youtu.be/65jXT0DFXfk

[spark walrus]

Does using synced floats for outfit switching on an avatar cause desync and the local player will see one outfit while all the other players will see a diff one?

[rancid fossil]

why would my texture memory be different in the SDK versus size profiler

anybody know about this?

[rapid pendant]

Someone can help me?
Im trying remove chest for add flat chest on my runa avatar, someone can help me with it

[small stone]

was told that this is an issue with dynamic bones not being present, how do i add dynamic bones?

[balmy barn]

you are missing gesturemanager (vcc add)

[small stone]

thankies

[sly timber]

So I’m trying to upload an outfit

Why do I get this message

[torpid gyro]

Im thinking it may be something in gestures, but ive tried everything i can think of :/ my avatar's default pose in game is his mouth open but in unity its closed (like its supposed to be). And the gestures aren't working. They all are created but im having trouble enabling them

[spark walrus]

^

[ornate stump]

It shouldn't

[ornate stump]

Make sure that you remove jaw bone from rig configuration.

[torpid gyro]

Im a bot ngl. do you know roughly where that is?

In the avatar descriptor?

[ornate stump]

In your FBX file import settings.

Use Thry Avatar Performance tools to inspect what make up the size.

[mossy jacinth]

is anyone else having issues with their avatar appearing tiny in the preview?

theres no stray polygons, blendshapes, props, or large bounding boxes

the scales are normal aswell

[leaden palm]

apologies for adding another question on top of the like 5 that need answering but im having a. weird issue
avatar looks good in unity, even looks good in the avatar preview

but then i load in and it looks like the uv mapping just completely gave up

[sly timber]

Can someone help me upload an outfit we can do a vc

[ornate stump]

Are you sure you don't have material switching that switched to wrong texture?

[leaden palm]

potentially - let me try messing with some of the settings

[ornate stump]

Also any animation at all that's controlling texture offset and scale.

No. Not without external tool.

You could strip some of mesh data #avatar-general message

[ornate stump]

Use vrcfury's optimize blendshape component add to your avatar to remove unnecessary blendshape.

You could search google.

[mossy jacinth]

I literally checked everything and there is no reason for vr chat to make the avatars preview so small 💔

I'm gonna see if this affects my other models on the current version

[torpid gyro]

Im still at a dead end here with the gestures. All of them are made, the avatar is making the hand symbol and everything in game but the face isnt changing at all (made sure gestures were on too lol)

Like from what i see, its linked

[solar sand]

You dont have the layer set to1 so on left hand click the cog and slide the slider all the way to the right

[torpid gyro]

The weight?

[solar sand]

https://kappa.lol/BdUHg

Well i guess

that didnt work

Like this

[torpid gyro]

I need to turn off the mask?

[solar sand]

ive never had it ever at .5 so idk how that works but 0 means it doesnt ever activate and 1 means it will

No

Just put the weight to 1

[torpid gyro]

Okay let me reupload and test it

[solar sand]

you dont need to upload

btw

Just install gesture manager emulator

when you open vrcc

click manage project

[torpid gyro]

The last time i installed one of the things with vrcc it nuked it

entire texture turned white

[solar sand]

u installed something you didnt need

this wont do that

All this does

is emulate vrchat

[torpid gyro]

Alright

ill try it

[solar sand]

then in unity when you get it downloaded go to tool in the top bar and select gesture manager

When you enter play mode

You then click the scene button so you can move around freely

I hate i cant use image uploader

Once you do that click the GM in the heirachy and in the inspector tab you can do everything

its faster than uploading a new avatar every single time

[torpid gyro]

face still doesnt move with the gestures😭

[solar sand]

did you set the weight to 1

[torpid gyro]

yes

and its still doing the same thing

[solar sand]

Ok whats happening when you click left hand geusturs in those check boxes

nothing?

So is this in your FX

Or gestures in playable layers

[ornate stump]

The face animation might be overriding by gesture from the right hand.

[torpid gyro]

The hands just move

[solar sand]

What do your playable layers look like?

[torpid gyro]

When i test using the emulator

[solar sand]

Try removing it by clicking the x and try then

[ornate stump]

Have you tested with the right hand though? Also you shouldn't have any mask in FX layer.

[torpid gyro]

Okay getting somewhere

[solar sand]

was it the fx layer?

[torpid gyro]

Just tested, its working when the right hand is also enabled

[torpid gyro]

Im, honestly not sure

It only reacts when both boxes are checked under both hands

[ornate stump]

That means animation in right hand layer is preventing animation in left hand from working.

[solar sand]

^

So basically the right hand is taking full control and even when not active is over writing the left hand

In the layers

do you have it set to sync?

It could be the layer mask like they said

[torpid gyro]

Im not sure where to check, bit new to unity still

[solar sand]

So go bakc to layers

your cog menu on the layer

should be like this

grr

[sly timber]

How do I fix that

To make it match

[solar sand]

Fix what we need a better screen shot

[torpid gyro]

Ahh okay sync is off

[solar sand]

do windows shift S

and control v that here @sly timber

[solar sand]

Do you have a mask applied too?

[torpid gyro]

Yee a mask is applied for em'

[solar sand]

Remove them and try

you shouldnt need a mask

[torpid gyro]

On both?

[solar sand]

yes

[torpid gyro]

OKAY

hes working :D, thanks so much

[solar sand]

Yeah you never need to do masks on layers

[torpid gyro]

The last thing i gotta figure out now though is the mouth issue... could you possibly help me with that?

[solar sand]

Whats the issue

[torpid gyro]

For some reason his mouth is just open as a default pose

[solar sand]

like when you first load in?

[ornate stump]

Have you removed jaw bone from rig configuration?

[solar sand]

Good idea

Jaw bones in vrchat are useless

[torpid gyro]

I tried this and im not gonna lie im completely lost on where that is

and how i even do that

[solar sand]

Let me show you

So do you know whhere your model FBX is?

[torpid gyro]

No 😭

[solar sand]

Show me ur assests folder

[solar sand]

the other window

[torpid gyro]

this?

[solar sand]

see the avatar in that window

with the > expanded?

[torpid gyro]

Kobu_avatar?

[solar sand]

Clickt hat avatar

and it should should this in inspector

Click on rig

And click configure

you should see this

Is the jaw section green?

[torpid gyro]

Yeee

[solar sand]

ok all the way were it saw transform? See the cricle?

Double click that and type in none

and hit enter

[torpid gyro]

Boom

[solar sand]

Ok now scroll down

And click on pose

[torpid gyro]

Alrighty im there

[solar sand]

Click reset, then click pose again and select enforce tpose

this just makes sure all the bones are straight and alligned

incase you clicked something

click apply

Then done

Then try and see if it still does it

[torpid gyro]

Holy shit😭 Its actually closed

[solar sand]

There you go

[torpid gyro]

Yoooo thank you so much

Like fr i was struggling for hoursss on that

[solar sand]

Unity is suffering if you dont know all the little things

[sly timber]

im trying to fix that does anyone know how?

[torpid gyro]

Really wish they would make like a unity for dummies

[sly timber]

the feet from the first outfit are popping out

[solar sand]

So your saying th Ok @sly timber click the BODY mesh in the heirachy

there are multiple outfits right? With different toggles?

[sly timber]

yes

[solar sand]

Ok we'll have to edit the toggles

but first i'm tell you about blendshapes

So click the feet in unity

or click the body mesh in the heirachy

You'll go to inspector and see this

Click the arrow for blendshapes

There you should have a heel option to move your foot to a heeled postion

Let me know when you found the correct blendshape

[sly timber]

yayyyy i did it thanks!!

[woven zinc]

Does anyone know how to link two blendshapes together with VRCFury? I can't figure out how to and either no such tutorial exist or I don't know the term to search up

[solar sand]

Ok but

heres the thing

you're going to have to add it to toggles

or when you switch it'll be sticking out from your other outfit

[torpid gyro]

Hey alloy? Could you possibly help with one last thing then i promise i'll leave you alone afterwards. His glasses toggle isnt showing up on the avatar

[sly timber]

yea i figured there was more to it

[solar sand]

Show me your pramamters in the VRCDescriptor

[solar sand]

So can you should me your FX layers? All you have to do is click on the avatar in the Hierarchy

scroll down anjd under base there should be a FX

[solar sand]

Ok show me your menu toggle for it

[solar sand]

no no

this menu

[torpid gyro]

My bad

[solar sand]

Ok show me ur fx layers

Where the hand gestures are

[torpid gyro]

Uhhh this?

[solar sand]

No i mean where it shows the otehrs too

like this

[torpid gyro]

Ahhh okay

[solar sand]

Ok

I want you to do something for me

[torpid gyro]

Yeee?

[solar sand]

you see the top bar?

Click window and add animation

Got it?

[torpid gyro]

This menu?

[solar sand]

you see wher eur scene is

and it says animator too?

Drag that there

just so you can always switch there

So click your avatar in the hierarchy

and go to this

See controler?

Put your avatar FX there

This will allow us to edit animations/ see what they are doing

Now go back to the animation tab

right here you should have a drop down find your glasses toggle there should be 2

[torpid gyro]

Should i be concerned😅

[solar sand]

thats fine ingore the warnigns

it should look like this

What does it look like

[solar sand]

theres u issue

See how its yellow?

That means its missing the mesh

So click the yellow mesh in there and delete it jsut press delete key

[torpid gyro]

Alrighty deleted on both

[solar sand]

Ok

Go to glasses on

You'll have to do exactly what i say here cuz once you start it records everything

So when in classes on see the red circle?

Click it

Go to hierach and expand ur avatar

oh

Exit playt mode

😆

[torpid gyro]

😭 Okay so, exit play mode first. Then i need to record, go to hierarch and expand the avatar?

[solar sand]

Yes

Because when in play mode

anything you do

will be reverted when exiting

Tell me when youve done it

[torpid gyro]

I think im already out of it? but im not entirely sure

[solar sand]

is the blue play button not blue?

blue means play mode

black means not

[torpid gyro]

Ahhh okay im out now sorry

[solar sand]

just redo them steps until you get to the red circle

?

You said ok

what do you mean ok?

👍

[torpid gyro]

Alright im here

[solar sand]

So click the red circle

[solar sand]

Go to hierarchhy and expand the avatar

And find the glasses mesh

Click on it

like this

One you have it selected

Go to the inspector tab to the right

see the check mark next to the name?

Click that twice

Then click the red button agian

[torpid gyro]

Alright im gonna try rq

[solar sand]

It should look like this when ur done

[torpid gyro]

I dont even think the prop was added not gonna lie because its not there on the hierarchy. I had to drag and drop it for it to even show up

Whyyyyy

[solar sand]

It wasnt there?

that sucks

But heres something you can do drag the mesh onto your head bone

That way itll move the head

and you dont ahve to mess with blender

This

[torpid gyro]

just spawns on the floor

[solar sand]

no

under armature

head in the armature it needs to be ur bone

Can you expand the prop glasses sub menu for me?

Its a prefab it hink

[solar sand]

Yeah ok

So you'll probably have to add them in blender

unfortunately

[torpid gyro]

Rippp

i might just go without them

[solar sand]

If you wanna save that for another time and get the avatar uploaded you can always DM me when you want to and I can help you

[torpid gyro]

Im already basically legally blind, whats stopping me from being blind too in VR

XD

[solar sand]

Just delete them in the hierarcy

[torpid gyro]

that sounds like a plan. Thank you so much for your help

[solar sand]

And go to ur pramaters and detele the glasses paramater

And do the same in the expressions menu

You can keep the fx layer

[torpid gyro]

Alrighty, done :3 Gonna get in actual vr to test all the expressions n such. Could i possibly send you a friend request? says you're not accepting atm

[solar sand]

Sorry about that pre-emptive measure i get a lot of scammers

Sent you one

[sly timber]

can you send me one @solar sand

[solar sand]

Sure

[lucid elbow]

hello, does anyone know how to make it so toggles will turn off if another toggle is clicked while using vrcfury.

Trying to setup a clothing wheel and while i can make the clothes toggle on and off i cant get it to take it off on its own.

I am starting from a nude base, I dont want the default clothing to be nude and I don't know how to make that happen. then if I click on clothing1 I would want it to remove the default clothing, and add Clothing1 onto the character. Then if I clicked clothing2 i would want 1 to go away, and 2 to appear.
even a link to a video tutorial would be greatly appreciated if you dont feel like walking through the steps, ive used like 4 different ones so far and while they are all helpful they dont solve my specific problem

[lucid elbow]

chat gpt has solved my problem

i love AI

it just solved my last problem, god i love ai so much

[halcyon moth]

Okay this is a question that might confuse some but I will try my best to explain it. Let's say I have a model that uses only one material slot, I can make toggles so that I can swap to different colors and skins. Since it only uses one material slot, can I have a large list of textures that I can swap from and if so how many and how bad will it affect the performance?

[static sparrow]

is there a way to have emissions for quest with the toon shader?

toonlit i mean

[timber wharf]

@halcyon moth it will affect download/unpacked size+texture memory. otherwise no downsides.

@static sparrow no only standard lite has emissions

[static sparrow]

I couldn't find where to put the emissions mask for standard lite. I'm just trying to make the eyes glow

[desert elk]

photo from Google, cause I don't have my laptop with me now, hit the emission is right there

under the main maps

[static sparrow]

Yes I did that but it's not a mask layer. If I put the mask texture there it just swaps the main texture to that. Unless I'm doing something wrong

[desert elk]

are you putting it next to color under emission? and if the texture you're putting in only your eyes?

do you need help with something?

there're general channels for talking, this one is specifically for avatar help 😉

[wind skiff]

I'm interested in what it said

[wind skiff]

lol, i copy pasted this into gpt and it referenced our documentation, that's cool

[lucid yarrow]

is it normal for my object when inserted into the wrist bone to be giant

[lilac musk]

Dont drop it straight onto your avatar or anything else. Drop it in an empty part of your hierarchy and then drag it from there, onto your wrist.

[lucid yarrow]

tutorial told me to put it in the wrist..

too evil it Lied to me

[lucid yarrow]

okay

yes

ok i thought the tutorial i was watching was gonna tell me how to make the gun shoot

it did not, im disappointed

😭

[late sandal]

Bump

[wary perch]

Would it be possible to make an avatar be able to tell what day it is? I made a Garfield tiger avatar, and I want to make it so that when it's Monday, she always has this face:

[desert elk]

as far as I know there are no date detectors available for avatars

[kindred tusk]

I defined some contacts on my avi, when I am ingame and touch them the prop I want it to show also shows up but ony semi transparent and when I lift my finger from the position it just disappears anyone got any idea what could be causing this? Im pretty new so I dont know if contacts behave like a switch where it sets a state or if it looks like that because it gets triggered every contact processing tick

[ornate stump]

Contact touched: parameter = 1
Contact not touched: parameter = 0

And semi transparent is a different issue.

[graceful mango]

can anyone help me not get the side hairs to clip through the head if that's possible?

[kindred tusk]

I got this setup in my animator and I had it working that when I touch the contact it toggles my item, now its just semi transparent and only visible when keeping my contact activated

[desert elk]

add a colider

[desert elk]

you need to add a collider and put it in the physbone settings

[ornate stump]

Look for "contact toggle" setup. The parameter from contact alone isn't sufficient to use as a toggle.

[graceful mango]

can you send a video or tutorial? sorry im not too good at this xd

[desert elk]

https://youtu.be/pT6wO01dwTU?si=oKf2tHMRWKMimxiZ

there you go

[graceful mango]

tysm!

[kindred tusk]

I might be too dumb ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[sly forge]

Hey, I'm just making my first avatar atm and got pretty far but do you know how I can fix my avatar mipmap issues? I keep seeing lines and have tried quite a few tricks but they wont remove the ugly lines I get. I also don't know if there is just a way I can stop mipmap levels from going below full res ingame...
Been pretty stuck but appreciate any help! (Image might not help but its mainly just around the face as I have seperated textures for the mouth and eyes and it shows a lot worse ingame.)

[mossy jacinth]

Simple as making the texture go beyond the edges of the UV ilands, so nothing unwanted bleeds into what the uv displays when it gets blurred.

[lucid yarrow]

anyone know how to make a gun prop for an avatar
like, you touch the trigger button on the vr controller and it plays a sound and an effect?

no tracers?

[halcyon moth]

Is there a limit to how much I can put on and will it decrease performance?

[torpid flame]

Anyone know for certain that if you disable the physbone script in animation for say, a hair. Will vrchat still calculate those transorms anyway?

In game

[left gull]

i think the limit would be the avatar size limit per platform and other then being a LARGE download size depending on how many you add it shouldnt affect performance too much for a single material other then when you're doing the swap itself

[lucid yarrow]

i genuinely need a tutorial on this

i cant find anything

[crystal kernel]

If weapon_toggle is true and GestureRight is True, play fire animation

Separate layer for this

Fire animation would just be a particle effect that's looping that you turn on

[lucid yarrow]

youd need to tell me step by step on how to do this i dont know how to use unity properly but

Ill Try To Do What You say

[crystal kernel]

I'm not on my PC so I can't see the details, I'll search op some tutorials online that will get you started cause it really is some basic stuff. You'll get it, give me a few seconds

[lucid yarrow]

i hope i do

kay

[crystal kernel]

https://youtu.be/XqtSg6_W07Y?si=lez4xxTX9rQJGd5d

This gets you started on toggles

[lucid yarrow]

ive figured out props

but making a (working) gun for example, completely clueless about

[crystal kernel]

Its the same concept for the animation
Make new layer ->
Have a prop for the particle effect. That has an on and off animation
Make off the default state
When your gun toggle bool = true and GestureRight = 6 transition to the gun fire on animation

[lucid yarrow]

hmm

[crystal kernel]

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/animator-parameters/

These are default parameters that you have access to

Just make sure you add them to the animation parameters and the parameters object

[lucid yarrow]

okay

[crystal kernel]

Of you scroll down the site you see all available hand gesture with their corresponding I'd

[lucid yarrow]

ill look at this later

i will make the particles first

[crystal kernel]

👍

[lucid yarrow]

okay so you just record it like a toggle?

right

wait

should i put the particle in the ak47

gun*

yes right

[crystal kernel]

Yep

Make it a child of the gun

[lucid yarrow]

my set up as of now

[crystal kernel]

Looks correct

[lucid yarrow]

though it doesnt register being a keyframe if i turn it on or off in the inspector..

unlike the toggle for the gun..

[crystal kernel]

Add it manually then?

[lucid yarrow]

it was that easy?

oh nevermind i cant even add one, what am i doing wrong

i love beginners luck so much Holy crap

[crystal kernel]

Update your prefab

[lucid yarrow]

prefab?

[unique axle]

What does this mean?

It worked fine before on another avatar.

[tropic blade]

would anyone know how hard it'd be to port an Izanagi No Okami Picaro from Persona 5 Royal to vrchat for be quest and pc?

[desert elk]

wouldn't that be against rule 9? 🤔

[balmy barn]

would take about 30min , some companies have models for fair use, atlus likely not one of them and could dmca you (extremely unlikely)

[tropic blade]

but there were other izanagi no okami avatars in vrchat already...

(without the picaro)

[left gull]

just because other people do it doesnt make it okay/legal (+ some of them may have been done from scratch by the uploader)

lots of vrchat users are scummy when it comes to copyrighted content sadly

[tropic blade]

ah damn

i just wanted to be the cool izanagi no okami pallet with a nice hat and coolor sword damn you copyright.

[chilly quail]

so i'm trying to animate a custom afk pose but every time that I go in or out of animation/record mode it undos/overwrites the animation in favor of the bicycle pose. I have the FX layer to animate and the VRC Animator Tracking Control set to all animation so why is it being like this? does gesture manager not emulate it correctly? is there a setting i'm missing?
-# please ping if you reply, patience is appreciated. I do plan on using VRCFury to turn this into a maybe paid/free asset for the novabeast specifically

[somber sequoia]

Bike pose is the default for Unity unfortunately. I tend to animate full poses in Blender because it's easyer.

[lucid elbow]

I went to check my logs and they all got deleted

womp womp

it was technically slightly wrong with the terminology but it pushed me onto the right path to figure out what to do

[solar sand]

Oh! that's lul ok so take the fx off teh controller, whent he FX layer is in the controller slot it does bycycle pose, if its still doing it while the fx is removed put it back on go to animation tab and click preview.

[somber sequoia]

That'll make creating an animation a bit harder 🙂

[chilly quail]

I can't select the animation I'm trying to animate then if there's no controller on the animator component of the animation

[chilly quail]

tbf it's not like it's easy to begin with

[somber sequoia]

haha

[chilly quail]

to be clear: my problem is not the bicycle mode, my problem is the bicycle mode overwriting the animation presets I've manually put into the avatar

[somber sequoia]

presets?

[chilly quail]

idk what the proper term is

[native urchin]

So I bought the D.Otter base and I'm trying to put the mouth fish on another avatar tied to when it's muted, but when I try to upload it says "avatar validation fail".

[chilly quail]

make sure theres not errors (lil yellow triangle) I've run into that a few times.

[wind skiff]

what specifically are you animating?

transforms or humanoid muscles?

[chilly quail]

the novabeast avatar itself,

trying to get it to be a sleep animation

honestly never heard of "humanoid muscles"

[wind skiff]

errors are red octagons, yellow triangles are just warnings

[somber sequoia]

specifically what are you animating though? humanoid bone movements?

[wind skiff]

my guess is they're animating bone transforms directly

[somber sequoia]

in Unity you can only animate the humanoid skeleton via "muscle movements" in the animator, you can't just rotate bones

[chilly quail]

i've had warnings give me the "avatar validation fail" thing. as soon as I fixed them it was fine

[chilly quail]

yea but explain it to me as if I don't know what either of those are.
-# 'cause I don't

I have a pose I'd like to animate to be an afk pose. tell me how to do it because nobody on the internet has made a tutorial on how to do that in the last two years, at least one that works

[wind skiff]

i'd suggest you start from the default afk animation

it looks like this

you can find it here

[chilly quail]

T-T

[wind skiff]

you can also look for a sleeping animation online somewhere

[lucid elbow]

working on trying to add a piece of clothing that is not specifically designed for my base model to my model, ive been doing some research and i see that mixamo is a good free software for it but i cant find a link to use it in blender, only unreal engine, anyone know how to make this work, or a link to a tutorial atleast?

[chilly quail]

i've already got the pose tho, my problem is getting the animation itself. I'm trying to make a asset to sell here too so that's not an option

[wind skiff]

i'd suggest using sculpt mode in blender to first get the clothing piece to fit your avatar's shape

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure what you'd use mixamo for, you need to put the model into blender and reshape it to fit, then connect it to the avatar's armature and weight paint appropriately.

blender add-on "Robust Weight Transfer" can probably get you most of the way there too

[wind skiff]

duplicate your base avatar's armature parent the clothing piece to it and remove its original armature and vertex groups ,then use the robust weight transfer plugin to transfer the vertex weights from your base avatar to the clothing piece and optionally use the mesh data transfer plugin to transfer blendshapes as well

[lucid elbow]

so i got some work cut out for me basically, gotta learn how to use blender lmao

this may be a later tonight project lol

[somber sequoia]

yup

#3d-modeling for help! I'll be blendering all day so feel free to ask questions

[lucid elbow]

alright i may end up over there, thx a bunch

[somber sequoia]

not sure why you'd duplicate the armature here, but the rest of this is how I'd do it

[wind skiff]

yeah you're right, it's just usually how i do it i guess lol

[somber sequoia]

sometimes you just get into a process that works, and well, it works

[wind skiff]

I like to keep clothes as separate fbxes

[somber sequoia]

oh - in that case yeah

[wind skiff]

But even then i could just not include the body mesh when exporting

[somber sequoia]

I join all the clothing on a given avatar into a single object and export in the same FBX as the body object.

but I keep the parts all separate in the blender project

[wind skiff]

single object as in single mesh?

[somber sequoia]

yes

[wind skiff]

not sure if that's optimal

[somber sequoia]

why not?