avatar-help

[west cipher]

worth a try

[supple bone]

hey guys i cant figure out how to fix this i googled the error and got nothing helpful

[west cipher]

legit nothing seems to work, i even re added the gesture layers in the fx just to see if it was something i was missing

[balmy barn]

unity be like ...hold on im doing stuff doing something i know takes it forever

fixed my mmd stuff , open beta quirks maybe 🤷‍♂️ i just reset avatar

and mouth started doing stuff

[quiet horizon]

Hi everyone, I as wondering if i could get some help with an avi I have been working on. I was told by some people that they could see the body mesh outside of my model when looking in a mirror. I have some pictures they sent me. The avi base is Velle by Mister Pink using lilToon 1.8.5. I've used both d4rks optimizer and Polytool on it. Sorry for the troubles.

[supple bone]

im trying to questify my avatar and the pc version uses pioymi shaders to get this effect how do i replicate that with mobile shaders

doing standered lit looks trash

[arctic ginkgo]

i have an animation on my avatar that is constantly playing, but it is kind of long. Is there a way i can ensure it remains synced in the local mirror?

[arctic ginkgo]

go to blender, make a plane and angle it so it's facing the same way as your object. Go into edit mode, select your plane, and press alt+N and select "copy". In object mode, delete the plane then select the model with the galaxy texture. In edit mode select the area with the galaxy material (you can use the materials tab to select if that's easier). Press alt+N and select "Paste". Export your .FBX with the correct settings. Use matcap lit and use your galaxy texture as the matcap texture and leave the albedo texture blank

[supple bone]

uhh

i have compressed all of my textures and cannot for the life of me get my avi small enough to put on quest

[west cipher]

can try the vrcfury blendshape optimizer

[supple bone]

is that a componenet?\

AHHH

so fucking close

10.2

[west cipher]

yep it is a component

[supple bone]

it got me from 10.5 to 10.2

great now i have an unconpr4essed size issue

need to drop a whole 16 .12 mb

[west cipher]

if you have any matcaps or cube maps on the materials your using you can also compress those

you can also go into blender and delete any materials your not using. delete any meshes you dont need to be seen

[spark walrus]

After uploading avi i only have the white color scheme and not the blue one. How do I fix it?

[grand canopy]

Hiya, does anybody know how to hide the "FHair" thing on toggle? It is connected to the avatar, and it doesn't do anything, when i have it like this.. Can anyone please help? :3c

[kindred pilot]

i need help

when i try to merge 2nd armature to the base, it removes all the bones and turns it into the skirt's armature, ive made sure ive merged the proper ones and i did vise versa but it still makes it the skirt armature

[spark walrus]

how can I delete those bones without changing the avatar? When I delete those bones the avatar look weird...

[austere bay]

how do i fix my avatars arm bending like this in unity? the first is unity, the second is blender

these are the errors

import settings

[left gull]

wdym by "look weird" and "without changing the avatar"

[desert elk]

the only thing that comes to my mind is merging weights to parents in blender

[spark walrus]

will try that

[spark walrus]

it becomes sloppy

[rapid void]

heyo, i got a question (i cannot for the life of me get help from the creator)
in unity, the avatars eyebrows are black like it should be, but in game they turn white (and even testing it it turns white) ive gone through every toggle to see if it was there, but nothing

is there any way for me to fix it?

[tough anvil]

I have a friend who's getting into avatar making and I'm wondering if theres any good sites they can get models from

[somber sequoia]

gumroad, jinxxy, booth...

[rocky grail]

anyone know how to fix this?

[somber sequoia]

explain "this"?

[whole matrix]

anyone know how to fix this

[prisma mantle]

im having the exact same problem

[hollow hemlock]

Is there any way to hide this particle effect ??

[ornate stump]

Just disable it?

[hollow hemlock]

Yah, im sorry thats a dumb question

[whole matrix]

I have been trying to upload this avi for a week I'm so frustrated

[ornate stump]

What sdk version you're using?

[whole matrix]

The newest one

Just what loads in with vcc

[ornate stump]

Can you take the version number instead?

[whole matrix]

What?

[ornate stump]

See the actual version number. Don't just say newest or latest.

[whole matrix]

Okay I can check when I get back to my pc

[whole matrix]

3.5.2

[ornate stump]

That wasn't the newest.

See what I meant? Saying just newest doesn't have actual meaning because you could potentially misunderstand whether it's the latest version or not.

[ornate stump]

Older sdk doesn't have a metric for uncompressed size which allowed oversized avatar to be uploaded but failed to process in the server.

[whole matrix]

I'm confused

[ornate stump]

Older sdk allowed you to upload invalid avatar.

In which security check hate it.

[whole matrix]

oh

but it shouldnt be invalid? how would it be deemed invalid?

[ornate stump]

Because older sdk doesn't check for invalid things like in the newer sdk.

The new metric it's checking is uncompressed size as I said before.

[whole matrix]

oh okay so how do i fix that

[ornate stump]

Obviously update your sdk.

[whole matrix]

okay

[rocky grail]

fingers going through fist when closed

[gentle goblet]

Hey I am trying to add tattoo's to my avi but when I add them everything seems blurry and I don't know how to fix them, like I have tried multiple different overlays and none work, even drawing on the skin texture directly was blurry

[static sparrow]

working on an avi with expressions as toggles but for some reason with the av3 in play mode this is the default and i cant figure out why. all my animations are right and none of them even have the "sil" vis on

[abstract crag]

being forced against my will to use toon lit...

I have encountered an issue with the culling...

When I try fixing the issue the typical way of filling the inside via copying and inverting in blender the textures just don't work nothing shows up... when I try dragging in prefabs to see if the new mesh works it does but the textures no longer go on it and the original assets still refuse to exist... also this weird box shows up... WHAT am I doing wrong

[ornate stump]

You just have to assign materials to the model.

[broken kraken]

Can you add a custom named physbone to an avatar?

[abstract crag]

first time making a model, dumb this down for me

[ornate stump]

Inspect the model and find skinned mesh renderer component, and assign material in the skinned mesh renderer component.

[abstract crag]

is that why the clothes ive already put on it have turned invisible after editing their origin fbx?

[gentle goblet]

👉 👈

[abstract crag]

Why does it only let me grab the bone and not the mesh in blender 😭

[ornate stump]

That would be because you unpacked prefab in the scene.

[ornate stump]

Because you were in armature edit mode.

[spark walrus]

Why is every single blendshape deforming my legs in Unity but dont do that in Blender?

[abstract crag]

how does one leave that

[abstract crag]

quickest way to undo that error would be what you posted before right?

[rocky grail]

Does anyone know how to fix my fingers from going through my hand everytime I make a fist?

[dusty monolith]

anyone know why my models are doing this? The normals are fine and flipped the right way in blender

[ornate stump]

That's a different issue. Unpacking cause the existing model in the scene to not update correctly with fbx file.

[ornate stump]

Make sure that those objects don't have negative scale.

[ember sandal]

Where is the gesture layer in 2022 vrccomanion

[ornate stump]

If you meant sample files, it's in the sdk folder inside of Packages folder.

[dusty monolith]

when i set them to positive they break

placement wise

[ember sandal]

what is the sdk folder called?

[ornate stump]

VRCSDK Avatars

[ornate stump]

You could look for name in the bar below.

[ember sandal]

it doesnt come up, ive tried restarting the project aswell

[ornate stump]

Then fix the placements. Just don't use negative scale.

[ornate stump]

Did you actually look into the folder content?

It's VRChat SDK folder.

[ember sandal]

i found it thankyou, it was confusing havnt opened unity in a while

[dusty monolith]

That wouldn’t work. Its a mirrored duplicate of the fine versions

So it would reverse the mirror

[ornate stump]

Use Flip X command instead.

Then flip normals afterward.

Or try Apply Scale and fix what came up next.

[abstract crag]

ohhh

got it

thanks

[dusty monolith]

that worked

jesus christ thank u so much

lol

[fallen cobalt]

What is this supposed to be set to in Blender, to export avatars correctly? Could this be why my bones are showing as pointing backwards in Unity?

I've been investigating this on and off but only now thought to check Unity and actually confirmed the Z direction is backwards. I must be doing something wrong on the export but I'm just not sure

[ornate stump]

Do you have the model facing toward -Y direction in blender?

[fallen cobalt]

I double-checked that earlier and it's facing positive Y in blender

[ornate stump]

It must be facing negative Y. And apply rotation.

[fallen cobalt]

:O you might be a life saver

I coincidentally just solved it on my test dummy by exporting with -X in the armature settings instead of positive X xD

But I will try it facing -Y first because that sounds like a better solution

[ornate stump]

Better leave armature export settings as default.

[fallen cobalt]

Didn't help :/

Bone still shows backwards in-editor on a fresh model export

[ornate stump]

Did you actually rotate the model to the correct direction?

[fallen cobalt]

However if I apply those export overrides I mentioned, it shows correctly then

[fallen cobalt]

I rotated the armature and applied, then applied on the body too since it showed -180 after

[ornate stump]

No . Do not change armature settings.

[fallen cobalt]

I am definitely going to test to see if anything visibly breaks on an upload of that tomorrow xD

But it's 2am so I think I'm just gonna take a break and go to sleep for now

I really have no clue what is supposed to solve this backwards bone issue but any world that attaches something to my body or head rotates wrong because the bones are backwards

And they were like that when I bought em so I have no idea what the problem actually is lol

[cunning swan]

how do i make a particle local

[timber wharf]

make toggle for it, so its hidden initially, use bool IsLocal=true to toggle on.

[supple bone]

hmmm.....

broken

i have 2 version of this avi pc and quest how can i make my quest look like the pc on the fluff

pc

quest

also whats with this error

[wraith geyser]

hi, it happened again, my physbones works on unity on play mode, but not in vrc, any ideas?
i already got this issue in the past but i cant remember how i fixed it 😦

(i used pumpkin tool to copy physbones from pc to quest version)

[grand canopy]

I dont usually help peopel, cuz i dont rlly know everything about this, but i know about this, so i could help ya in DMs if you want to :3

[plain mural]

I don't really understand how this is done

I see only one armature here - human (1 picture)
but when I try to make my raptor and make a copy constraint from feral rig to humanoid - the avi shakes

[fiery crow]

you would have use something like a quest matcap shader and remove the normals from that mesh, or use a normal edit modifer to make it appear flat

without the normals, it would then look like the pc. theres also a quest skybox shader but i genuinely never bothered trying to see if it was able to be used for quest avis. thats worth a shot too

[fiery crow]

does your physbones component count or transforms exceed the quest hardlimit?

if it does, itll make ur bones stiff regardless

[rocky grail]

Does anyone have the answer to this?

[left gull]

quickest fix would be to use a different animation

or if you're deadset on using that animation either edit the fingers bone length/size or the animation itself slightly

[fiery crow]

which controller?

[rocky grail]

Can I do that in unity or do I gotta do it in blender

[fiery crow]

if its not an index, just edit the animation itself

[rocky grail]

Index

[fiery crow]

ah dang

[left gull]

edit the bones in blender or the animation in unity

[dull crystal]

Hi i have an avatar that I put a hat on but every time I load in game I can see the hat in my view point. I've been trying to use the VRC Headchop component to get rid of it but it seems to not be working. could I get some help in how id get the hat to be visible to others but not to myself unless I look in a mirror.

[ornate stump]

Did you put the hat on avatar head bone? As in parenting hat into the head bone.

[dull crystal]

yeah

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot hierarchy?

[ornate stump]

That doesn't seem to be a valid humanoid rig.

[wraith geyser]

it does actually, weird that sdk let me upload anyway

[dull crystal]

how would i make it a valid one?

[ornate stump]

You're missing a lot of bones. So if you're asking that question, you can't make it humanoid rig.

[dull crystal]

is there any way i can make the hat work like it should?

[ornate stump]

With head chop component. How did you configure it?

[rocky grail]

Never actually done that before is it hard to do?

[dull crystal]

i put it under the avatar descriptor

[ornate stump]

It should work that way. Unless I'm not sure it also works with generic rig or not.

[fiery crow]

yeah that would be the issue, the hardlimit for components is 8 on quest

[lapis terrace]

For anime avatars, do you need to draw in shadows, or do people typically use cell shading for it?

[left gull]

editing bones themselves isnt that hard imo editing an animation in unity can be a bit more of a pain though ( id suggest watching a few how-to videos and editing these on duplicate versions just in-case you mess something up)

[fiery crow]

u can do several things, matcaps, mulitlayer math shading type, rim lighting

just depends on personal preference and what youre aiming for

[lapis terrace]

ok ty.

[grand canopy]

Hiya, does anybody know how to detach the hair from the avatar? Not just in the hierarchy, but in the scene aswell, so i could remove it, or something

[ashen python]

So I can't upload avatars yet, but how cooked am I?

[unique cloud]

Heya, I've run into an issue since a couple weeks that I can't explain - gesture manager just outright stopped working in projects existing and new. I can get through all the menus just fine, but it keeps acting like there is no animator controller present. It just.. kinda started one day without any reason I can identify. I can still use avatar emulator, but I kind of like gesture manager more

I verified the things I'm testing have an avatar descriptor with the FX and menus set up, as well as an "animator" component, but it just.. acts like there are no animator parameters or anything now

https://gyazo.com/3365b5b991bb0bb51a5eb4c051c9cb2d

[desert elk]

it's not that bad, and you need to tick the box to upload the avatar

[unique shell]

So I tried to add the prefab to the generic avatar, it doesnt seem to work, and the avatar is stuck in a tpose as well (I mightve done something wrong but i saw a lot of people saying GoLoco's flying is broken so Idk)

[wanton valve]

Hey, so I know contacts set on "on-enter" have a min velocity you can set, but is there a way to read the actual velocity value so I can animate with it?

[inland seal]

How do I make so when I rotate a bone in my Blender model, it will rotate other clothes bones too?

[candid nebula]

i’m playing on quest 2 and every avatar i see is very blocky and looks like im playing on a ps2. does anyone know what to do so the avatars are better quality, or is that just because im on quest 2

[wanton valve]

It's because you're on a Quest 2. Most avatars are made for PC, so they end up too heavy for the Quest 2 (or just doesn't follow arbitrary requirements), thus you end up seeing an auto-generated "imposter" of them which are forced to comply with Quest 2 requirements.

[candid nebula]

ohh okay thank you

[inland seal]

Help pls

[ashen python]

Yeah I know but

[desert elk]

AHH, I didn't know that xd

I thought you were saying that the button is greyed out and didn't know why

[ashen python]

Was trying to draw attention to the warnings for quality/level of detail X3

[somber sequoia]

if for some reason you have multiple armatures (but why???) you can setup a rotation constraint on the target bone, so it copies the rotation from a different bone

unless you're going to export the clothing item as a rigged model for sale or something, I'd instead just use a single armature

[inland seal]

When I use Ctrl+J it does this to my clothes

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure what you're referring to here, but simply ctrl+j merging the two armatures isn't the answer

doing that means you'll have one armature with both sets of bones, this is not what you want

[inland seal]

no

[somber sequoia]

Unless the clothing has extra bones, then simply set the clothing's armature modifier to point at the avatar's armature, and make sure all the weight painting vertex groups are named to match the avatar's bones. That's it.

[inland seal]

wha

I didnt understood nothing ;D

[somber sequoia]

(if it does have extra bones, I usually strip the armature down to only those bones, then ctrl+j to join, and re-parent them properly)

[somber sequoia]

What do you need me to clarify, other than "everything"?

[junior void]

cats plugin can help you take a shortcut here where you dont need to understand all of it

i suggest you try the manual way though

[inland seal]

I dont know how to merge them together, Idk where its located

[junior void]

just to know what those plugins do/whats needed etc

[somber sequoia]

I didn't say to merge them, please read what I said

[inland seal]

But Idk how to set it to smth

[somber sequoia]

... unless you can be specific I can't help

[inland seal]

Where do I set the bones to my armature 😭

[junior void]

i feel like the base understanding is missing here

[somber sequoia]

Again, read what I told you, nothing I said was "setting" bones to an armature

Find your clothing mesh, find the modifiers (wrench in the properties box), there's an armature modifier there.

[inland seal]

alr

[inland seal]

and what now?

[somber sequoia]

then simply set the clothing's armature modifier to point at the avatar's armature

[inland seal]

So I put my Body Armature in Object?

[somber sequoia]

Yes, though I'd call it the "avatar's armature" as it should be the one for all parts, not just the body.

[inland seal]

Still the same thing

[somber sequoia]

You'll also want to re-parent that jacket to be a child of the armature - you can simply drag and drop it, with shift iirc.

I'm really not sure what this image is telling us

[inland seal]

When I set the Jackets armature be Body armature, it does this

[somber sequoia]

"this"

we don't know what it looked like before, so you really need to explain in detail

[inland seal]

It makes my Jacket T-Pose

[junior void]

rest pose aint the same

[somber sequoia]

yeah go into pose mode and reset all transforms on both armatures first, see what that looks like

(make backups, etc, etc)

[inland seal]

how do I reset transforms?

[somber sequoia]

I'm really not going to explain every little bit of blender basics. select all bones, and it's in one of the menus in pose mode, I forget which

[inland seal]

ok

[inland seal]

K done, That did nothing

Still same as it was

[somber sequoia]

what, this looks pretty good

[inland seal]

huh

[somber sequoia]

unless there's something else you aren't saying and isn't obvious from the picture?

[junior void]

kaz

[somber sequoia]

hi 🙂

[junior void]

what you said made him think the whole thing will move into tpose from the reset

he expected movement but theres none

[somber sequoia]

oh - some avatars are in a-pose though

I have no idea which this is of course

[junior void]

id like to suggest applying the amrature modifier on the clothes before adding a new one and pointing to the base armature

[somber sequoia]

But if the base model is in A pose, this seems to have done the job?

[junior void]

might be shorter to apply and do parenting with armature mod

[somber sequoia]

it's not clear what state it's in so I wouldn't suggest applying a pose

[inland seal]

I understood that my Jacket has the Rest pose wich makes it do T-Pose, While my base doesnt have a Rest pose so it will stay the A pose no matter what

[somber sequoia]

Right - so the base model is in A pose and so your jacket ought to be as well. Then yes, apply the A-pose jacket armature first as Zero is saying

[junior void]

From what i understand, he joined armatures before, which made the clothing move into tpose. applying the armature now in a pose will prevent this

[somber sequoia]

Got it. yeah there's so little info to go on here, I missed that.

[inland seal]

So if I apply jacket armature on my base model it wont happen?

[somber sequoia]

you keep asking questions that we can only know for sure if we're working with this model ourselves.
So generally: if you have posed an armature, you can then apply that armature modifier and then that mesh is now going to be in that position. So yes, here you can use that to switch the clothing from one pose to another.

[junior void]

at this point just try it after making a backup. apply the amrature mod on the clothes. then add a new one and make it use the base armature

[inland seal]

Didnt work

[junior void]

"didnt work" is like going to the doctor saying "it hurts". dont be surprised if they take your leg since you never stated where it hurts

[somber sequoia]

yeah

[inland seal]

I did what he said, but it still makes my Jacket T-Pose

[somber sequoia]

if you can't provide actual details, then I really can't help

[inland seal]

What details do you need

[junior void]

Are you sure you know what we mean when we say "apply the armature modifier"

[somber sequoia]

it's hard to know the state of things without having the file. Also what exactly did you do?

[inland seal]

Selected my Base model and set its Armature to be Jackets armature

[junior void]

Yea not surprised

[somber sequoia]

... why would you do that?

[junior void]

Lets do this again step by step

[somber sequoia]

a) it should be the other way around
b) first deal with the mis-posed jacket armature

[inland seal]

Please 😭

[junior void]

Fist, close blender, make a backup/copy somewhere

in case of disaster, im telling you

[somber sequoia]

Zero, I really like you 🙂

This is the proper way to start.

[inland seal]

Like save my old file with a done model that wasnt touched?

Done

If thats what you meant

Its new and clear

[junior void]

Basic question before we go ahead

[inland seal]

If you will ask do I know blender - No

Its my 3rd time using it

[junior void]

Are the bones names (expand the hierarchy on the right) on the clothes the same as on the base? (capitalization counts!)

[inland seal]

Ik like 0.0001%

[inland seal]

I didnt really understood what Hierarchy is

[junior void]

Check below hips

Expand hips, expand the legs, see if the name and overall structure is identical

[junior void]

They are identical, so that is good. This will save us from doing extra steps

[inland seal]

yey

[somber sequoia]

oh that makes this so much easier

[junior void]

So now, when you go to the clothes mesh and find the armature modifier in the modifiers tab, it has a little dropdown next to it where you can apply the modifier

If you hit "Apply" on that modifier, does the pose change

[inland seal]

Im in Jacket rn

[junior void]

See the dropdown arrow next to the camera icon?

[inland seal]

mhm

[junior void]

Click that, then click apply there

[inland seal]

ok

Done

[junior void]

Let me know if the pose stays A or changes to T

[inland seal]

Its A

It stays A

so what now

done?

[junior void]

Perfect. Now you can click "Add modifier"

Add armature modifier

[inland seal]

alr

done

[junior void]

Actually, lets parent it properly instead

[inland seal]

a

[somber sequoia]

yeah

[junior void]

I forgot the key combo

[inland seal]

Ctlr + J?

[junior void]

Let me open my blender and make sure, one sec

i dont want to confuse u more

[inland seal]

alr

[somber sequoia]

ctrl+p

?

[inland seal]

ah

[somber sequoia]

(I don't do it this way)

[inland seal]

Whats Ctlr p (me wana learn)

what does it do

[somber sequoia]

parent, depending on the mode you're in

[inland seal]

a

ok

[junior void]

right, mesh first, shift select armature, then ctrl + p

in your case mesh of clothes, then armature of body

[inland seal]

aaaaaa

Alr

me try

Object mode or other one?

I assume its Edit mode?

[junior void]

object

[inland seal]

ah

ok ;D

[junior void]

Are you sure you selected the mesh first

[inland seal]

I need to select my body too?

[junior void]

you need to select the yellow dude symbol

[inland seal]

a

[junior void]

jacket mesh is right

[inland seal]

now armature deform?

[junior void]

yes

[inland seal]

do I open it?

[junior void]

the jacket should now be next to the body in the hierarchy if you clicked "armature deform"

i cant spell

[azure yacht]

more of an SPS issue I believe

[inland seal]

@junior void

There is 18+ server for VRCFury people

For this kind of things

[azure yacht]

What is it called?

[inland seal]

dm me

[azure yacht]

sent

[junior void]

I just tested this myself to make sure. the object Jacket should have moved below Body.

[mystic schooner]

I tried one of the previous solutions to the rope between two points problem, the one with the rotation constraints, but that didn't work. Has anyone figured anything out for that?

[inland seal]

Uh

So did I do correct?

[junior void]

No

[inland seal]

:(

But I did what you told me

[junior void]

It appears you selected the wrong things

[inland seal]

huh

[junior void]

You must select the mesh of the jacket, then the armature wher body is, not the armature of the jacket

then ctrl + p -> armature deform

[somber sequoia]

orange triangle = mesh object (think: "polygons" which are triangles)
orange man = armature object

[inland seal]

Ah

[junior void]

you probably selected the armature of the clothes before. no biggie

[inland seal]

I see

[inland seal]

nope

[somber sequoia]

this is why we have backups, and also undo

[inland seal]

I selected only the Clothes ;D

[junior void]

we will check armature modifiers in the mod tab after you did that

[inland seal]

Uhhh

[junior void]

okay, hit ctrl+z

[inland seal]

done

[junior void]

okay. now click the mesh of the jacket

[lilac musk]

I'm sorry, I'm confused. I was assuming you meant generic as in non-humanoid. But then you mention tpose, something that is related to humanoid avatars. If you are using generic, then you'll likely need to setup a lot of animations yourself and possibly including a custom solution the FX controller from gogoloco. If your making a humanoid avatar, then you'd just do the normal setup of gogoloco and you shouldn't be tposing.

In the end, gogoloco flight works fine, you just need to have a mirror or camera on and pointing at your avatar for the flight to activate. This is because the way VRChat does some of it's optimizations. The collider will not be on the version of the avatar you see yourself in, it will be on your mirror version. So when a mirror or camera shows your avatar, it will activate the mirror version which will activate/update the flight animations.

[inland seal]

The yellow guy?

[junior void]

then, while your mouse is in the scene, hit N

[inland seal]

Or Trangle

[junior void]

the dude

[inland seal]

ok

[junior void]

wait no, youre confusing me now xD

mesh, so triangle

[inland seal]

A

ok

[junior void]

you can just click things in your scene as well

[junior void]

okay. see the scale not being 1 is an issue

[inland seal]

Ik, Im just confused whats a mesh, Ik like its the model

[inland seal]

m

I change it to 1?

[junior void]

no, you make it default to this

[desert elk]

A to select everything in the scene
Ctrl A to apply transforms

[inland seal]

to what?

[desert elk]

right?

[junior void]

while the jacket is selected, ctrl+a -> select all transforms

this will "zero out the values as they are rn"

making it 1 effectively

[inland seal]

now it shows 1

[junior void]

Check that the armature of your body has clean scales and transforms like this too

[inland seal]

eh

[junior void]

and your body mesh as well, just to avoid further issues

aha

[inland seal]

Do I do same process?

[junior void]

yep, apply all transforms

[inland seal]

ok

Done

its 1 now too

Do I do Ctlr + P now?

To see if it worked

[junior void]

good, yea try it

[inland seal]

ok

Eh

[junior void]

okay, so we go back again

[inland seal]

XD

[junior void]

i assume that before you reparent it, there is an armature modifier on the jacket

the one you accidentally added back

check that

[junior void]

Interesting. what if you clear the parent of the jacket first? the key for that is alt +p

[inland seal]

So I click the Trianlge and the alt + p?

[junior void]

Just click the jacket in your 3d view, same thing ;)

maybe you can remeber that better in the 3d view

[inland seal]

alr

eh

;D

[junior void]

Its definitely the scale

But we ironed that out...

[inland seal]

;D

[junior void]

Kaz, help me out here, am i not thinking of something?

[inland seal]

Maybe a dumb idea but what if we call and you just tell me what to do?

So you dont have to text

[junior void]

I would really like to mess with this myself ngl xD

[inland seal]

so call?

or no ;D

[junior void]

Not finding a problem triggers me

Hmm sure, let me get my headset out

[inland seal]

ok

dm me

since theres no any channels ;D

[junior void]

ye, sec

[somber sequoia]

sorry, was cooking - not sure what else there is

[lilac musk]

I haven't been reading exactly what's happening here, but I saw one image showing a jacket mesh not meeting up with a base mesh with armature. This would mean that jacket wasn't rigged with that armature in mind (as far as my knowledge has led me), so the results of merging them together might not work well. Might have to re rig the jacket to the base armature?

[somber sequoia]

The jacket has its own armature, they look pretty much the same or close enough, but yes, possibly they aren't

[lilac musk]

AFAIK, Close doesn't mean much when it comes to things like rigging. If it's even slightly off, it can still be completely incompatible and would require setting up whole new weights for the new rig.

[junior void]

we figured it out, my presence made it work xD

[balmy barn]

weight transfer is fun something like a jacket i tend to align to avatar ( T is handy to avoid mesh getting to close to legs ) , remove vertex groups, transfer from body its a few clicks , mostly i use it on skirts so they can be 2 bones and flop around with angle limits

[gray gust]

I have an issue about Unity. VRChat SDK said, "Build failed." Can you fix it?

[left gull]

check/send screenshot of the console

oop wait

?upload

[flat musk]

You must obtain at least "New User" Trust Rank in our Trust and Safety system in order to upload content. You can get this by just spending a few hours in VRChat, hop some worlds, and make some friends. Give it some time and you'll be able to upload content in no time.

As an aside, you must have a VRChat account to upload content. That means you can't use a Steam account, Oculus account, or Viveport account to upload content like worlds or avatars.

Source: https://docs.vrchat.com/docs/frequently-asked-questions

[somber sequoia]

hooray!

[mystic schooner]

Does anyone know what to do about this? I want a wire going from my avatar's head to a hand-held object, but to be able to bend naturally rather than being a stiff line

[somber sequoia]

that's a hard problem to solve

[formal fulcrum]

The tongue physbone right before the split doesnt flex. Must be due the the parenting, but I dont know enough to fix it. Maybe a new 'fake'/'leaf' bone? Using three physbone components for the whole tongue? I grabbed the tip to demo, my approx cursor point is indicated.

[gray gust]

is my problem hard too?

[somber sequoia]

I'd think one physbone component would work for that

[formal fulcrum]

One component seems to generate the correct physbones looking at the gizmos, but that one segment doesnt flex like the rest of the chain

[somber sequoia]

something about "Multi Child Type"?

[timber wharf]

?upload

[flat musk]

You must obtain at least "New User" Trust Rank in our Trust and Safety system in order to upload content. You can get this by just spending a few hours in VRChat, hop some worlds, and make some friends. Give it some time and you'll be able to upload content in no time.

As an aside, you must have a VRChat account to upload content. That means you can't use a Steam account, Oculus account, or Viveport account to upload content like worlds or avatars.

Source: https://docs.vrchat.com/docs/frequently-asked-questions

[gray gust]

?upload

[flat musk]

You must obtain at least "New User" Trust Rank in our Trust and Safety system in order to upload content. You can get this by just spending a few hours in VRChat, hop some worlds, and make some friends. Give it some time and you'll be able to upload content in no time.

As an aside, you must have a VRChat account to upload content. That means you can't use a Steam account, Oculus account, or Viveport account to upload content like worlds or avatars.

Source: https://docs.vrchat.com/docs/frequently-asked-questions

[gray gust]

welp i made my own vrchat account

man three hours is too hard i couldn't like 3 hours

ok here we go

[fathom girder]

How do people make the eyes closed animation where you’d do the fist gesture in game and your eyes would close slowly or faster depending on how you press the trigger? I’ve always loved that about avatars but my main avatar doesn’t have it and I’m not sure how you’d do that in unity

[junior void]

Youll need an "eye close" blendshape that is not already in use by the avatar descriptor's blink section. Do you have that?

[twin lagoon]

it’s quite beginner question but how do i snap the neck to torso? same goes for legs to torso,
i tried joining them or merging but nothing works

[junior void]

have a look at the magnet options at the top center

use snap to vertex :)

[twin lagoon]

thank you! lemme see if it works

it didn’t really work but i found another way, strongly hoping it wouldn’t drag the poly count too high up!

….is 344 triangles good?

[cobalt zephyr]

Anyone mind helping me fill in this chart?
Top has expressions and left side has modifiers for the expression grey slot left side is honna have neutral

[twin lagoon]

there are quite few like these sheets! i suggest checking them out on pinterest, hope this helps

[twin lagoon]

nothing works for the leg and torso, gosh

[feral thistle]

Question for those here who know about unity.
Is there a reason why the seams are being shown at a distance? I have no idea what might be causing this.
I'm using poiyomi pro right now.

[somber sequoia]

did you make the texture?

[somber sequoia]

someone at the VRC Traders discord - link is in #1204490664637890580 .
You'll get scammers around here, probably DMing you already. Be careful.

[shrewd stirrup]

hwo do i get an avatar unstuck from the animation preview pose

[somber sequoia]

pumkin's tools have a reset, or there's a button at the bottom of the rig setup, but if you unpacked your model prefab I think neither will work properly

[indigo compass]

If the textures don't have dialation (the colors bleed into empty spaces on the texture that don't color anything) then mipmapping will cause this to appear.
-# you can disable mipmaps, but it is really not recommended, makes the textures look bad (shimmering) at a distance.

If exported from substance then it is really easy to add dialation, it is in the export page. I also know a way to do it with Krita, just way longer to explain.

You could also try to just match the background color to your main color

[feral thistle]

its weird because it'll just disappear whenever close, though i guess it might actually be the dilation

gotta probably set it higher then

[indigo compass]

Because mipmaps

[feral thistle]

hmm, alright

[indigo compass]

Mipmaps sample many pixels at a distance to make textures look good at a distance, so if you lack dialation then it will sample pixels outside of the "textures", making it include these dark lines from the background.

[feral thistle]

gootcha' thanks for the info

[ashen python]

I'm not sure anyone was able to get to your question, but VRChat needs you to be at New User trust level in order for you to upload avatars. Everyone starts out at Guest/Visitor. It basically takes at least a day of interacting with people in VRChat and going around public worlds.

[mild mango]

Everytime I update my fbx for my avatar the physbones and colliders freak out, like become SUPER massive and misplaced. Like the bones are fine, but its just the physbones. I can never input stuff as .1 or .2 on the phys bones either its always .0004 on all my avis I make, is that normal????

[somber sequoia]

you should export with "Apply scalings" set to "FBX All" in the blender FBX export dialog

[wispy mist]

How does one upload an avatar?

[somber sequoia]

#avatar-general message

[wispy mist]

Thank you kindly, but I’m too new to get it to work.. I purchased one only to find out can’t upload yet

[inland seal]

Does anyone knows, why this happens?

[somber sequoia]

"this"?

[inland seal]

Isn't it obvious?😭

All of my parts are bright besides my Body

[desert elk]

I'd say there's a problem with the material shaders

lightning setting or something

what shader are you using?

[candid nebula]

is there a way for everyone’s avatar to be visible or do i always have to manually click on their profile and click the eye ball

[left gull]

you could change your minimum performance settings but depending on the platform you might be SOL since alot of model's arent optimized

[inland seal]

Poyiomi

[desert elk]

if you're on quest yes. If you're on pc I think you can show everyone with the sheil settings, but I wouldn't recommend it for performance reasons

[desert elk]

ah I can't help then, I've never used it

[inland seal]

Aw

[candid nebula]

wait so since i’m on quest i have to manually do it everytime

[inland seal]

Still need help

[inland seal]

Yes

[desert elk]

yes

[inland seal]

Simple fix is to buy a 500€ pc that can handle VrChat and vr itself

👌

[candid nebula]

oh ok thank you

[mild mango]

i did though, thats whats confusing me

I APPARENTLY DIDNT
OH MY GOD TY

[swift elbow]

This is my first time trying to upload an avatar, so excuse my inexperience..

So I downloaded an avatar off of Booth, but it had way too many polygons and bones and others.. So I followed a tutorial for how to optimize it a little better, installed the cats add-on for blender. I imported the FBX file, hit fix, then exported it as an FBX file, with all the right settings. But it was untextured, and with no experience in any of this, I'm a little confused on how FBX files actually link to the main avatar. As when trying to delete the old FBX file on unity and uploading the new optimized FBX file, the avatar wouldn't work, all of the "pieces" turning red on the left side, where it shows the "pieces". This probably isn't enough information, nor the right stuff, but any help would be much appreciated.

[left gull]

that last bit im a bit confused on, could you provide a screenshot/screerecording? for the first half though you should 1: never use the fix button in CATS as that plugin isnt meant for vrchat or more specifically booth content and tends to break stuff and 2: sometimes a model wont import with the textures connected properly on the .FBX this is fine though as you can just drag the material into the correct spot when re-setting up your model

you also may need to re-import your unitypackage since you deleted the OG .FBX

[desert elk]

the fix model button is not made for VRChat ready models, it may break them. Fix model button is meant mostly for mmd and vrm models

if you bought your avatar from booth there's a high chance that it's VRChat ready and pressing fix actually broke it

oh I didn't see you already wrote that oops

[left gull]

haha its all good, just confirms to the person that this is a actual thing (lots come in here and say stuff that isnt true/slighty wrong) :P

[spark walrus]

Is there a way to modify toggles that already exist? I know the answer is yes but I dont know how to modify those

[left gull]

what are you specifically trying to modify?

[desert elk]

modify how?

[spark walrus]

clothing, because I deleted some to make it quest friendly

[desert elk]

so you mean delete a toggle from the wheel?

[spark walrus]

yes yes

[desert elk]

or what?

okay, yeah, so navigate to your menu

and from there find the toggles you want to delete

[spark walrus]

what do you mean by navigate to the menu

[desert elk]

click on your avatar and in the inspector at the bottom you will have your menu

[spark walrus]

okay thanks

[desert elk]

click on it and then click as many submenus as needed to navigate to the toggles you want to remove

click on the toggle and press the - icon

[swift elbow]

I deleted the project.. Whoops.. But I've started a new one now. I'll show you how much of a problem the size is. If CATS can't be used, how would you suggest trying to optimize the avatar when it's this astronomically large..

Or is this a lost cause

[desert elk]

you can use cats, just not the fix model button

you can merge meshes that aren't needed for toggles to reduce the amount of meshes
you can atlas the textures to get less materials
you can delete/merge weights of unneeded bones
you can bake your avatar or decimate some parts of it to have less tris

that's about all I can recommend

[swift elbow]

should i just go ahead and watch a youtube tutorial on how to do each of these then?

[desert elk]

probably,
meshes you can merge by a key shortcut but I don't remember which one
textures you can use an add on for or do it manually
bones you can merge weights using cats
baking also has an add on (it's called Tuxedo), decimating you can do in plain blender

you could look online for tutorials on how to do those things

[swift elbow]

okay, thanks i'll check that out. one last thing. with the FBX file, what does changing it in blender actually do, when the rest of the avatar stays the same. i'm not really sure how to explain. but the FBX is only a small part, when it has all these different working pieces. what do I need to delete?

not sure if this helps explain at all.. like i said, first time

[violet dagger]

dude I'm having this issue rn i'm going insane how tf did you solve this

[spark walrus]

@swift elbow go look up #avatar-quest I had the same problem today and they helped me (I had a 500mb avatar and changed it into a 9mb)

[swift elbow]

i'll have a look, thanks

[somber sequoia]

To someone who has never seen your project before, nope, nothing about that is obviously wrong in any way. You always need to explain what you expect and what is not working. Doing this will greatly help people trying to help you. Not doing this will tend to make your question simply ignored.

[somber sequoia]

Glad I could help 🙂

[inland seal]

Alr, will remember 👌

I got help from my friend and he told me to use Anchor overide on VRCfury

Idk what's that but I'll try

[somber sequoia]

I do that manually - I drag the Chest bone into the anchor override slot in each mesh renderer. But yes, do that. The idea is that it uses the same point to calculate lighting, so every part looks consistently lit.

[inland seal]

Understood

Does that mean I'll have to place it in every, single, model?

Or just my main Model

Like Body

[somber sequoia]

If you want consistent lighting, you need to do it to every mesh renderer

[inland seal]

;3

Sake with quest

Same*

Well, that will be pain.

[somber sequoia]

that's what the VRC Fury component does for you, makes this easy.

[cunning swan]

how do i create an gesture animation

[solar sand]

Im at my wits end ngl I cant figure out why my avatars are moving backwards when the layers load evne on No layers added it still does it no animations nothing, it messes the viewpoint up so bad I've tried everything from Brand new fx from vrchat example fx, setting all playable layers to no runtime, making sure all bones are fine nothing works even a brand new fresh unity project does it with no additional packages

[somber sequoia]

Same as any other animation? Can you be more specific?

[somber sequoia]

what do you mean by "moving backward"?

[solar sand]

heres 2 pictures

I did not move my camera

just enabled Gesture manager

im a pretty advacned user but even I cant figure this out and the vrc devs dont respond as I'm assuming its something to do with the vrc part of unity

[cunning swan]

like replacing rock and roll to the middle finger

[solar sand]

im about to pull my hair out

[timber wharf]

viewport only takes height actually. trying to move it sideways or outside would be ignored, cause itd mess up vr feel amd make people sick

most of this comes from a wrong avatar orientation

[solar sand]

its all 0 0 0

[timber wharf]

0 0 0 is eyes on the floor, what

[solar sand]

no?

Are you even reading what the problem is?

[timber wharf]

🤷‍♂️

000 is not a correct viewpoint

[solar sand]

Brother in christ read

[timber wharf]

nah

[solar sand]

its not the viewpoint im having the problem with it's the avatar

[timber wharf]

then make it more readeable next time k

[solar sand]

"avatar is moving backwards"

Just read

[gentle goblet]

Idk why my face shading doesn't match everything else, like I have tried the anchor thing but that hasn't changed anything ;-;

[carmine spear]

how do i make a floor collider for my tail?

[cloud lodge]

Why does the avatar imposter component break generating imposters and not work?

[timber wharf]

plain collider on avis root

add it to colliders list in tail physbone

[distant hawk]

Any tutorials on how to fix this? I have no clue what it is talking about

[distant hawk]

checked the animator and all have write defaults on

[old sigil]

Oh wow, literally more than a year since then
been a while but I thinkkkkkk it was because one of the props that was there had a udonscript for World constraints? Or a udonscript for something

Either that or one of the props had those "X missing" thing that you can remove

[violet dagger]

I fixed it, it was because of gesture manager

[old sigil]

Best to check if all of the animation clips are right, I think

That + check if any props/stuff also have issue ig

[old sigil]

Oh nice lmaoo

Funny that I retired from VRC at this point

[warped narwhal]

what ears are these on this avi

[sand spade]

I have a Bool toggle for a bikini top. I set up the paramater, "Bikini Top" they are matching everywhere. When I preview the toggle in the animator, the top looks fine. When I toggle it with gesture manager in play mode, it breaks and it won't allow me totoggle it back off. Can someone help???

[onyx falcon]

trying to make my own avatar for the first time and im trying to add clothes, i made my model on vroid studio and exported the clothes seperetly as a .xwear file (trying to add multiple types of clothing and switching between em.) but for some reason when i use vroid xwear packager to import it, it says import failed and i get this error

if anyone got any clue that would be great

[simple sphinx]

why is it when I default a toggle to off it doesnt work?

if I have a bool setup like this, copy this making sure its also false in the animation layer and then use the paramater in a toggle in a VRC menu it doesnt work in game

if I make the toggle default to on however it does

why is that and how do I fix it?

current fix is having the bool default to true then having the "entry" state for the toggle be a parameter driver that sets it to false

[solemn hound]

any can help me with a clothes issue ?

[misty wraith]

Hey there using unity to make my PNG Avatar using a plane to show the png image, it got published but I've had users state I appear invisible to them is there a way to fix this, could this be poiyomi messing with my avi at all?

Current asset lot so nothing massive going on that should be resulting in this

[half ice]

when I export fbx from blender to unity the clothes I have sculpt don't fit my base like in blender why? how can I solve this thanks!

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot to compare?

[sleek bluff]

i made a ring for my avatar and i want to attach it to my avatars head like a halo but i want it to be springy so its not just stiffly floating above my avatar

so like there is a slight delay in the posistion when moving or maybe even a spring like effect

[ornate stump]

Have it inside of physbone chain.

[sleek bluff]

okay ty

[lament sorrel]

What is the best package for avatar making?

[storm bough]

Hello every avatar artist here

Pls I need 5 professional avatar artist that use blender and unity that can help me with my project

[timber granite]

getting this set of errors trying to build an avi with a specific asset, i know which one it is, ive tried restarting my pc and started a new project
is it jus the asset thats broken (please ignore that i senmt this in the wrong channel)
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/730948141196509297/1332980506639335485/image.png?ex=67973a56&is=6795e8d6&hm=744965c6f959646f87c4201fdd04d1f63a0663452f59e3b0179dc4b92bc2eacd&=

[timber granite]

i just fixed it (?) with MA bone proxy

[chrome fog]

Where the best place to get free clothes for my model?

[ornate stump]

What even is your model?

[chrome fog]

My yt avi I’m trying to make

[ornate stump]

Do you create it from some body base?

[plain mural]

how to change animation so that avatar doesn't crawl on the ground when walking in crouch animation? i tried to edit animation in the last screenshot, but nothing changed in vrchat
is this even possible?

[junior void]

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/playable-layers/#base

[chrome fog]

I used a base model set

[ornate stump]

What model you create from?

[timber wharf]

@plain mural animations that use default names like proxy_* dont get uploaded and replaced in client

[dusky cargo]

when i try to make a audio toggle and choose the avatar everything disappears, how do i fix it?

[plain mural]

then how i can change walk/prone/crouch animation? not their idle

[timber wharf]

uh, rename file

[ornate stump]

That mean something broke. Get more info in console.

[ornate stump]

Can't say much on that. It's likely the avatar broke your plugin. I don't use Toggle Creator and I can't help to diagnose.

[dusky cargo]

okk thanks

[junior notch]

I would like to use the long hair of a Rusk but I can't find the long hair asset, Dose anyone know where I can find it?

[ornate stump]

Did you look in booth.pm?

[junior notch]

yes I did but it's not the right one

[ornate stump]

Rusk is being sold in booth.pm so it's quiet obvious that assets compatible with her also selling on the same site. How did you search?

[junior notch]

I typed rusk long hair

[ornate stump]

Searching tips: when you can't find thing you need, try search with broader keyword.
Just try "rusk hair" and browse through.

[junior notch]

ok thanks

[ornate stump]

Or you rather mean you're looking for a specific hair model, rather than any Rusk compatible hair?

[junior notch]

no it's for a rusk

[ornate stump]

Any Rusk compatible long hair?

[junior notch]

yes

[ornate stump]

Ok just browse through search results.

[junior notch]

ye

[left gull]

it also may be a case of it not being meant for rusk but someone making it compatible themselves, if you still cant find it after searching then make a post in #1138520828556890214 with a picture of the hair

[half ice]

huh

just dose not fit the base after export clothing dose not look like the way that i sculptet to

[ornate stump]

Are you sure that you didn't set any shapekey while sculpting?

[half ice]

yeah im sure but gona try one more time to export

[oblique pumice]

hey umm my head is weight paint and when i import it to unity this happend

[junior void]

This has nothing to do with weight painting

Your faces are inverted, so you see through them

[oblique pumice]

how do i fix it

[left gull]

in edit mode select the hat mesh and do Shift+N

[oblique pumice]

thank you

[left gull]

you can also turn on face orientation in blender to check for other meshes that might be inverted

[oblique pumice]

yeah there it is

[rare crescent]

can someone help me import an avatar there are a bunch of errors and idk what to do

[oblique dawn]

Is there a way to test avatars and expressions in Unity, or are we required to export to VRChat first?

[ornate stump]

With Gesture Manager.

[ornate stump]

You need to provide error information too.

[oblique dawn]

I tried launching it but it just runs the editor nothing happens, can you show me a screen shot of what that looks like?

[ornate stump]

Did you activate gesture manager in the scene?

[oblique dawn]

looks like this

[ornate stump]

You have to enter play mode.

[oblique dawn]

i pressed the button, it only launches the scene, not sure how to get it to do an

[ornate stump]

You change back to Scene panel and control the menu from GestureManager object.

[half ice]

what dose that mean ?

[ornate stump]

Blendshape can have value between 0 to 100.

[oblique dawn]

ill try that that, i had it full screened, nice call

[half ice]

kk thanks

[oblique dawn]

woo! found it. Thank you. Now I just gotta figure out how to get the anim I want to play xD

[light lark]

Hello I have a question for those that make models and all. So when I'm on desktop mode the shoulders are ok (Photo 1) but when I'm on VR/FBT the shoulders would go really low (Photo 2). How do I fix the shoulders to be photo 1 when on VR/FBT?

[oblique dawn]

are the shoulder physbones, it almost looks like gravity is dragging them down

[junior void]

Show your rigs rest pose with bones visible

[ornate stump]

You're missing of dependency packages.

[rare crescent]

i bought the avatar so idk what to do

[junior void]

Likely it mentions on the page where you buy it "install xyz before adding avatar package"

See instructions?

[ornate stump]

You have to read instructions in the page where you got the avatar from.

[rare crescent]

okay thank you

[rare crescent]

i tried to add avatar sdk and this popped up

[ornate stump]

Avatar sdk should already included in the project if you created with vcc and you don't have to add it.

[rare crescent]

This is what the avatar says

[ornate stump]

When you create an avatar project, the sdk come included in the project already.

[ember dagger]

Im having some trouble adding a humanoid rig to an avatar im creating

does anyone one had a solution?

[junior void]

without seeing the actual problem, no

[ornate stump]

One can't simply give solution without knowing detail of the problem.

[ember dagger]

yeah i was hopeing of joining a call

or something

[ornate stump]

Just screenshot where you got stuck at.

[ember dagger]

this is basiclly the first time im making an avi without a base

[junior void]

so what are you asking

how to set it to humanoid?

[ember dagger]

it says the rig type in not humanoid

and ive been trying to find the "rig tab"

but i cant find it

[junior void]

click the fbx in your assets

see inspector window then, second page is "rig"

[ornate stump]

Do you actually have the model file though?

[ember dagger]

yeah its a fbx file

i think thats what youre asking?

im still really new so im sorry

[ornate stump]

https://youtu.be/rRAnDMUbWt8?t=44

[ember dagger]

thank you

sorry for the trouble

[shy salmon]

Hey there, new to the scene in avatar creation and I could really use some help. I have a set of custom clothing I want to create from scratch for an avatar of mine, and I could really appreciate a general direction so I can at least get started

[junior void]

Direction in what?

I'm not sure if you're asking general modeling tips, what software to use or what you're referring to

[shy salmon]

Do you happen to have or know any guides or instructions? I have blender with some fundamental understanding of how to use it and the base I want to use it for

[junior void]

The way i go about making assets really depends on the asset. Example: I want to make a simple tshirt, so what I'll start with is by taking the base mesh, selecting where the shirt would be, duplicate that mesh and boom, you have a perfectly weight painted shirt base that only needs uv and texture adjustments. If, however, I want to create something more detailed, say a jacket that is asymmetrical, i may be better off modeling from scratch and retopologizing afterwards. See how different that is in complexity

There is no one way fits all, some ways are shorter/faster/cut corners but wont be super high res by nature. So maybe start by watching different tutorials about asset making where different approaches are used?

[shy salmon]

That might be the best option, thanks!

[grizzled crow]

???
NaN?

[junior void]

you may just put a 0 into it

happens sometimes, no big deal

[grizzled crow]

ok that fixed it

[grizzled crow]

ok figured it out... kinda... how do I change the animation paremeter with a radial slider?

[grave current]

😭 i edited the avi a little bit, didnt touch the armature at all and got this

oh wait

i just remembered i removed something from the avatar in unity but its still there in blender and its named chest

[desert elk]

and check the rig set up

[lilac musk]

that's normal?

[desert elk]

is it? sorry, i must've misremembered

ignore that question then

[fallow swan]

could someone help me, i cant figure out blender so i cant get this avatar ready for vrchat, if anyone can upload it to their account and let me copy it off them that would be greatly appreciated, DM me if you are able to, i have the files for it

[somber sequoia]

Don't have a mesh named the same as a humanoid bone

[grave current]

i know 😭 i only just remembered as i sent that

[somber sequoia]

oh - I just read that, sorry

drinks more coffee

[junior void]

You will get scam dms from here asking for that kind of stuff

[desert elk]

yup

better not do that

[fallow swan]

oh

[junior void]

Maybe state your issue and we can help you get there

[desert elk]

yeah

[fallow swan]

Its not that its that blender lags everytime i open it plus its way too complex for me

[desert elk]

why do you need blender? what blender version are you using?

[fallow swan]

i watched videos saying you need blender to rig it

also ive got 4.1 i think

[junior void]

so you have a mesh without an armature?

whats the current status

[fallow swan]

idk

wym

[junior void]

you cant just say "i need blender to rig something" but not know what to rig...

Like, what do you have rn

[fallow swan]

nvm ill just figure it out

[desert elk]

where did you get the model from?

[fallow swan]

jinnxy

[desert elk]

if you bought it it may already have a rig

[fallow swan]

oh

[desert elk]

and then all you need to upload is unity

[junior void]

thats why i asked for the status

[desert elk]

if the model you bought is spcified to be a VRChat model it already has a rig

[somber sequoia]

check out this video: #avatar-general message

[fallow swan]

ok

[gritty furnace]

Does anyone know how one can make a toggle that'll detach your arm's mesh from the controllers and pose them in a different way via an anim. file? Like, I'm on Quest, so if I'm watching movies and want my arms behind my head, it can be a bit difficult. Or if I'm answering DMs on a floating window, I don't want people to see me clicking around on things for a long time. I'd like a toggle that poses them behind my head instead. I've made .anim files that poses the arms in different ways, but the controllers will always override where the animation poses them.

[somber sequoia]

Sure - do this in the Gesture animator, and use VRC Animator Tracking Control to take over animation of the arms. Use it again to restore tracking when done.

[gritty furnace]

So, in this one.

[somber sequoia]

yep

[gritty furnace]

And in the animation toggle, for the Motion that has the arm pose, turn Left Hand/Right Hand from Tracking to Animation?

[somber sequoia]

yup

[gritty furnace]

That's easier than I expected, myaha. I was trying to do that, but I was doing it in the FX layer and it wasn't working there. I guess Gesture works differently.

[somber sequoia]

very much so! The explanation is here: https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/playable-layers/

[gritty furnace]

I wonder if that's where I can fix my eye problem, too. Some of my expressions have my eyes closed, but my eyes still blink and 200% the blendshape on me occasionally while the eys are closed.

[somber sequoia]

Yep, you can use this to fix that too

[gritty furnace]

That's good stuff; thanks!

[chrome fog]

Unity

[ornate stump]

That's the app you used for creation. But I asked for the base modek.

[chrome fog]

Idk it was a free model base someone gave me to used

I don’t see why my based matters when I ask where to get free clothes for it

[balmy barn]

cause 'friends' who give friends stuff often end up ripped or stolen assets , you might want to check where its from

[ornate stump]

Because clothing would require compatible base model, otherwise you will have to rerig the cloth in blender to make it compatible with your model.

[ornate stump]

The common places are gumroad.com and booth.pm. Without knowing your base is, there won't be recommendation.

[autumn rover]

Hello! Im trying to make a face tracking avatar for my friend. I were able to make it work just fine but since she has a disability in her right eye i want to make the avatar only track her left eye and make the right eye move the same way. Whats a good way of doing that?

[somber sequoia]

Hmm. Weight paint the right eye to a new bone, leaving the old one in place, have VRChat run the old one normally and use a rotation constraint on the new one with the source as the left eye bone.

[balmy barn]

empty gameobject in eye tracking so you can edit value, rotation constraint other it will follow

to avoid ik going nuh you cant move that

[somber sequoia]

oh - you could just do that instead of the extra bone, good call

[nimble bough]

oughhh... can anyone help me out, why dress in unity bad but in blender good :C also in unity how the asset shows up vs the mesh. It has to be smt w the bones but the bones go down straight like they should so i have no clue whats going on :C

[fierce thunder]

why does my avatar turn blue when there is no light?

happends on both quest and pc side

[somber sequoia]

something with your material, emission maybe?

[fierce thunder]

ill check

the materials seem fine

i use nothing but main color

im using PCSS with lil toon for shaders doubt that will help since it also happends on the quest side

[somber sequoia]

and that's not the main color, I take it?

[fierce thunder]

nope

[somber sequoia]

possibly vertex colors? I don't know if liltoon uses those

[fierce thunder]

nope not the problem either

[somber sequoia]

I'm out of ideas then probably

[fierce thunder]

the same problem is on the quest side so its probably not lil toon

[somber sequoia]

then it's got to be the textures or a main color applied to them

[fierce thunder]

the textures are fine and so is the main color

the problem solves itself when there is a light

[blazing marlin]

Is there a way to make a radial menu toggle with visemes, without the said toggle growing and shrinking while spinning the radial menu?

[fierce thunder]

and ingame only the shirt turns blue

spawning in a normal cube also makes it blue

i think if i just put the avi in a new unity project it might fix itself?

yeah it seems to have fixed it

[white escarp]

I keep getting this error even though the blueprint ID is empty

[somber sequoia]

that's a side-effect error then. Post the first 2-3, at the top

[white escarp]

2-3 what?

[desert elk]

the rest of the errors you're getting

[somber sequoia]

errors

[white escarp]

just to preface this I removed the script it was talking about eariler

[somber sequoia]

then clear the console and try whatever action you were taking again

[white escarp]

ok nm I was very dumb sorry for wasting time

[onyx falcon]

how the fuck do i get a .xwear file into unity

[somber sequoia]

no worries! It's not obvious the first time 🙂

[somber sequoia]

first hit on google led me here: https://vroid.pixiv.help/hc/en-us/articles/39513229598233-What-is-XWear

(I had no idea what it was)

[desert elk]

you need to export it first

all you need to know is in that article Kazin linked

[somber sequoia]

oh nice

[digital dove]

would someone be able to collab and help me with an avatar i want my irl hair & hair colors i have and help me fix & upload

[desert elk]

collab? that's the wrong server for commissions. Try VRC Traders, link in #1204490664637890580

[digital dove]

okkk thank youu

[onyx falcon]

yeah i tried it was too confusing for me i might try and find another way

[desert elk]

you need to export it first

[onyx falcon]

i exported it as a .xwear file

[desert elk]

https://vroid.pixiv.help/hc/en-us/articles/38728373457561-Using-a-model-in-VRChat

here's a step by step

[junior void]

Wtf is xwear

[desert elk]

it's a new addition to VRoid Studio

an app where you can make your own 3D models

I use it to make my avatars, but I haven't tried xwear yet

[somber sequoia]

exactly what I said, and why I looked it up!

[desert elk]

but the vroid website has everything well described so you should just follow the steps there

[onyx falcon]

read through this, it seems to only be for one outfit tho?

[desert elk]

No?

it's for full avatars

if you scroll down you can even see that in the guide a full avatar is shown in unity

[onyx falcon]

here is what i got so far, with the 4 seperate outfits on the side, should i just export these as a .xavatar file?

[mortal halo]

???

[desert elk]

you can try, as I said, I didn't use xwear yet, but you should just follow the steps on the website

and it should be fine

[timber wharf]

@mortal halo random message sdk sends whenever smth else went wrong, post all of the errors top to down

[mortal halo]

thats the only error

lemme try uploading again

how long does it usually take for build to succeed when pressing build and test?

[junior void]

Perhaps youre in prefab edit

[timber wharf]

@mortal halo uh depends on pc and shaders. but like under 1 minute unless it shows compiling shaders

[solar harness]

When importing from Blender to Unity, I can't make it a humanoid rig. This bone is somehow forming and being named as the whole armature. It won't let me set the hip bone to the correct one either. All bones in the spinal/chest region are also becoming deformed when imported. As you can see, it's perfectly fine in Blender.

[somber sequoia]

why can't you drag the Hips bone into the first slot?

[desert elk]

this ^

[solar harness]

I did but it's still messed up

[somber sequoia]

explain what "messed up" means after you do that

[desert elk]

how is it messed up?

[onyx falcon]

yeah idk how to seperate the outfits from the avatar

cant move em and all that

[desert elk]

they are separated though...

in the hierarchy

on the left side

[solar harness]

Once I try to make it humanoid it changes back

[somber sequoia]

explain "make it humanoid"?

[desert elk]

you set the rig to humanoid first, apply, then change the bones to fit, and press apply

[arctic ginkgo]

set the rig to humanoid, then apply

then you can configure

you can't configure until after you apply the humanoid rig type

[solar harness]

I did all that it won't stay

[onyx falcon]

well when i try to move it with the transform tool it wont move, plus i try to not make it a child and it gives me an error

[balmy barn]

should i ask where you got this av from

[onyx falcon]

i feel so fuckin stupid with this lol, never touched unity before

[arctic ginkgo]

when you select the FBX and look in the rig tab of the inspector, it doesn't say humanoid?

[arctic ginkgo]

why do you want to move them?

[left gull]

is the bone's pose the same in blender as it is in unity? (a-pose/t-pose) it looks like it might be a weightpainting issue

[desert elk]

yeah, aren't they in correct spots already?

[somber sequoia]

It looks like all of that is a single prefab, so you'd have to break it up if you want to move/delete parts separately. If you have this in Blender it'd be best to do it there

[arctic ginkgo]

moving the object with the skinned mesh renderer doesn't do anything because it's following the movement of the bones. that's why moving it does nothing

[balmy barn]

see their image cough dead giveaway what they done (folders)

[onyx falcon]

well i wanna be able to make multiple outfits with the radial wheel, but they are all one outfit rn it seems

really sorry for not getting this

[desert elk]

they are not one though? look in the hierarchy...

[somber sequoia]

no they aren't - you can just toggle on or off any of those game objects

[balmy barn]

you using a ripped model right

[arctic ginkgo]

you just want to disable them though?

[onyx falcon]

right ok then

[arctic ginkgo]

i thought they are using vroid?

[desert elk]

who? Farley? nope, they're using a VRoid, nor ripped

[onyx falcon]

yeah im using vroid

[balmy barn]

see hiarchy thats ripped nope me dumb 👍

[desert elk]

the other person idk

[onyx falcon]

its my own vroid avatar

[solar harness]

I'm so dumb brooo, it was confused cuz the head mesh was the same as the bone, no more stop sign errors yay

[desert elk]

let me do it myself

we'll see if I get the same thing

[balmy barn]

well maybe not anyway vroids fun with xwear

done the opposite using xwear got vrchat av in vroid (fun outlines) , but faster for me do add in blender

[onyx falcon]

you wanted me to send the .xavatar or smth?

[desert elk]

no

I can make one myself

[onyx falcon]

ah ok

[balmy barn]

you can run the vrm/fbx through blender and remove the meshes you dont want ,also merge it so you dont end up with so many meshes , unless its for quest/toggles

vroid can also delete, but i barely use the thing since it ends up with so many.. wierd bone names

[desert elk]

yeah, I would also take it to blender first

they're not that weird

or I'm just used to them

[visual night]

Is anyone open rn? I need a bit of help :)

[desert elk]

with what?

[visual night]

My avatar’s head and camera are separated, even though the sphere is in between the eyes

Lemme pull up the video

[desert elk]

not ripped, mine's the same

[visual night]

The blue circle is where my irl head is

[visual night]

Here’s the colliders and camera thingy in unity

Could it be how the bones are arranged or the avatar’s position in unity?

[desert elk]

and @onyx falcon i checked and tried moving the meshes. It appears as though they're not separate... kinda. It's hard to explain. If you want to move them you're best bet would be to just take the avatar into Blender and do whatever you need there

[arctic ginkgo]

check rig configure

[desert elk]

could it be because you're avatar is half undergroud?

[onyx falcon]

yeah ive got the avatar in blender but blender is wayyyy too complicated so imma just take a break for now this is pissing me off tbh

thanks for all your help tho!

[visual night]

Maybe, should I move it up or down?

[desert elk]

yeah, it's a bt hard to figure out at first

[desert elk]

up

[visual night]

In unity or blender?

[desert elk]

I'd move it in Blender and set the origin at world centre

[visual night]

Alr

[desert elk]

i'm making guesses but to me it looks like you're avatar is moving above groud but your view point is staying in one spot

[visual night]

Mhm

Alr math time

[desert elk]

math? 😭

[visual night]

So I can move the blender model down to match the camera position

Or maybe I could only move the unity model

[desert elk]

i don't know what you mean by that, but okay.
Move it above ground in blender and set to origin to world centre

[desert elk]

maybe, i'm not sure

you could try

[visual night]

Wait

I noticed my mode has a white line at the camera in VRChat

[desert elk]

?

what line

[visual night]

That’s where the camera is placed on the model in VRChat

[desert elk]

thats the origin

[visual night]

Oh ok

[desert elk]

that's why i said move the avatar higher and change the origin to be world centre in blender

[visual night]

K

So like this?

[desert elk]

no

above the floor

[visual night]

Oh-

[desert elk]

it's halfway through

[visual night]

Wait I’m confused

OH WAIT

Ok

So

Origin sits at the head

And we lift them so their feet are above

Right?

[somber sequoia]

the origin should be the floor.

[desert elk]

yes

[visual night]

Alr

So

Adjust in blender

got it

[desert elk]

you need to go from left to right

[visual night]

K