avatar-help

[visual night]

Like this?

The feet are hovering a very small amount above the ground but I think it should still work

[desert elk]

you need to set the origin to world origin now

and export to unity again

[visual night]

All the objects?

Bones, cubes, etc?

[desert elk]

yeah

[visual night]

K

[desert elk]

shift + s > cursor to world origin > select your object (or all of them with A) > right click > set origin > origin to 3d cursor

[visual night]

It should look like this?

[desert elk]

looks good

[visual night]

Alr

Export?

[desert elk]

yeah

[visual night]

K

[desert elk]

upload it again and check if the viewpoint is fixed now

[visual night]

Alr

I just wanna make sure the rig is all good :3

[desert elk]

can't tell much from this

[visual night]

So now the sphere is disconnected from the cone thingy… is this normal?

[desert elk]

i can't see anything on this image. Can you send a proper screenshot? and what "Cone thingy"?

[visual night]

Wait

Sorry

It was offset from unity origin

[robust sigil]

hey, anyone that knows how the pointless destiny ghost works can you help me figure out how to get the gradient textures on it

[mortal halo]

how to fix?

[Always] Attempted to load the data for an avatar we do not own, clearing blueprint ID
UnityEngine.Debug:LogError (object,UnityEngine.Object)
VRC.Core.Logger:LogError (string,VRC.Core.DebugLevel,UnityEngine.Object)
VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder/<HandleAvatarSwitch>d86:MoveNext () (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.avatars/Editor/VRCSDK/SDK3A/VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.cs:1506)
System.Runtime.CompilerServices.AsyncTaskMethodBuilder1<VRC.SDKBase.Editor.Api.VRCAvatar>:SetException (System.Exception) VRC.SDKBase.Editor.Api.VRCApi/<GetAvatar>d31:MoveNext () (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.base/Editor/VRCSDK/Dependencies/VRChat/API/VRCApi.cs:575) System.Runtime.CompilerServices.AsyncTaskMethodBuilder1<VRC.SDKBase.Editor.Api.VRCAvatar>:SetException (System.Exception) VRC.SDKBase.Editor.Api.VRCApi/<Get>d__171<VRC.SDKBase.Editor.Api.VRCAvatar>:MoveNext () (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.base/Editor/VRCSDK/Dependencies/VRChat/API/VRCApi.cs:378) System.Runtime.CompilerServices.AsyncTaskMethodBuilder1<VRC.SDKBase.Editor.Api.VRCAvatar>:SetException (System.Exception) VRC.SDKBase.Editor.Api.VRCApi/<MakeRequest>d__162<object, VRC.SDKBase.Editor.Api.VRCAvatar>:MoveNext () (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.base/Editor/VRCSDK/Dependencies/VRChat/API/VRCApi.cs:341) System.Runtime.CompilerServices.AsyncTaskMethodBuilder1<System.ValueTuple2<VRC.SDKBase.Editor.Api.VRCAvatar, System.Net.Http.HttpResponseMessage>>:SetException (System.Exception) VRC.SDKBase.Editor.Api.VRCApi/<MakeRequestWithResponse>d__152<object, VRC.SDKBase.Editor.Api.VRCAvatar>:MoveNext () (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.base/Editor/VRCSDK/Dependencies/VRChat/API/VRCApi.cs:332)
UnityEngine.UnitySynchronizationContext:ExecuteTasks ()

[somber sequoia]

is that the only error?

[junior void]

Unlikely

[visual night]

@desert elk I got the avatar to work! Tysm :3

Let me know if I can do anything for you :3

[desert elk]

great!

good for you

[pale dew]

Ok so with a fresh new setup in unity I'm still getting the same error its telling me that im attempting to upload a avatar that i do not own even tho my blueprint id is empty on the avatar

[junior void]

The blueprint id thing is most often a symptom of something else

[pale dew]

ighty im still troubleshooting on my end but i figured if someone would know id still just ask here

[junior void]

Id say try restarting/relogging

[somber sequoia]

always start by showing the first 2-3. But yeah, try to restart Unity first.

[proven vessel]

Hello people! For some reason, when i made an int weapon toggle thingy for multiple weapons. it appears by default and cant be turned off. idk what i did for this to happen but it works fine on my other avatars. any help would be greatly appriciated. thanks!

[desert elk]

check your parameters, maybe it's on by default there

[mortal halo]

its been loading for like 10mins now with no errors or console messages

odd

[proven vessel]

nada, default says 0, saved is off, and synced is on

[mortal halo]

is that normal?

[somber sequoia]

what, Unity? dunno, that seems weird

[mortal halo]

it slike i'm stuck in a state of limbo

i'm gonna reimport all

and try again

[proven vessel]

@desert elk not sure if you saw this but ye

[desert elk]

yeah I did. Is the animation correct? does it have on and off animations set up correctly?

other than that I can't think of anything else

[proven vessel]

yeah, its got all of that

thanks for trying

[median bison]

Hi! I hope someone can help me with this one.
Why does the blush look like this when on the maintex it is blurry and contains transparency? (Already tried with the alpha mask but didn't work either)

[somber sequoia]

looks like you have transparency in the base color texture - look at that file in Unity in the inspector, and enable "alpha is transparency"

[median bison]

Alpha is transparency is on

[somber sequoia]

make sure your material is using a transparent rendering method then

[desert elk]

what shader are you using?

[median bison]

Poiyomi Toon Shader

[median bison]

It makes the whole head transparent because it is composed of a single material.

Hmm...

I should slip them into two different materials so the expressions one is transparent and the face material isn't.

[visual night]

Omg-

[agile reef]

optimizing my avatar by deleting some un-used bones and merged the assets you see now, the difference between blender and unity is- terrifying. what is happening...

[junior void]

Looks like it may have been unpacked and overwritten

[agile reef]

Would re-exporting from blender fix this or?

I JUST imported it from blender.

[junior void]

Are you saying you never replaced an fbx in this case

If so, look through your blendshapes. You may have made edits on a blendshape which blender doesn't like

Sometimes, basis explodes

[somber sequoia]

that's weird, it shouldn't, since the alpha should come from the base texture if you have no alpha map

[agile reef]

I never replace FBX's no- it's definitely the blendshape, I found it. . . how do I go about fixing the blendshape in this case???

[junior void]

I would use the blend from shape option and select a shape to propagate from where the mesh is not deformed like that

I cant english lol

If you need detailed instructions, consider abusing chatgpt

[agile reef]

idk what any of that is lmao- but I will look into it. thank you

[sonic jackal]

Hello guys, so i was going to upload an Avatar, but for some reason, i keep getting errors, it doesn't want to work, for all my other friends it works, but not for me, even if i create a new Project, idk why it's doing it, i check the FX, but everything is right just like my friends (the third picture is the inside of the States)

[median bison]

Yes but the alpha mask didn't help either.
I did a quick edit in Blender. I added a second material, assign the proper material and export.
Now it is alright.

[young bear]

is it possible to have a particle system have particles that have a defined start AND end point, while having some sort of randomness when travelling between them?

i know there's the noise functionality, but i cannot get it to converge particles

[random sphinx]

hey does anyone what settings to use when baking normals in blender?

[somber sequoia]

No - you can't make particles follow paths or have an endpoint like that. You could try to use two systems, one that emits outward to a middle area, then another that is in reverse where they converge on a point... but I'm just speculating here

[young bear]

Specifically I want to converge this to a point

[somber sequoia]

that looks really good 🙂

[sonic jackal]

Nvm, i got it to work (even if i still don't know what the issue was)

[orchid nebula]

anyone help me make an avatar its the rex model i tried for several days but i always have an issue with the avatar im still very new to vrchat and unity

[somber sequoia]

it's best to ask specific questions if you can

[orchid nebula]

like i always got problems even when i try to optimize it getting a bunch of errors sometimes i get missing scripts so i just sorta gave up without any help

[left gull]

if you send a screenshot of the errors/issues you're running into someone here can help

also you'd have to explain what you're attempting to optimize and how you're optimizing it

[orchid nebula]

i mean i try to remove some of the bone get the it below 70k removes contacts that sorta stuff also lowering the resolution on the textures using vrcfury and a polytool

[somber sequoia]

not sure why you'd remove bones to deal with poly count?

[orchid nebula]

hold on im try to make it all over again so i take some screenshots

[west magnet]

I have this clothing that was made to have a normal map, but it doesn't look right without it because the other clothing has its normal mapping on its texture to give it depth, how would I combine the normal map and the texture of the sweater so I can make it look more like the robe?

[left gull]

unless the sweater and robe share the same UV layout you likely cant use the robe's map with the sweater material/texture and will need to create your own

[arctic ginkgo]

i'm thinking it's possible somhow with curves, maybe velocity over lifetime... i'm not 100% sure but astral bounds has some particle shows that kinda do that.. they get closer and farther away

[primal rampart]

I tried looking all over for a solution to my current issue with a custom avatar I am making. For some reason, the hand animations when doing gestures only work on certain gestures. What I mean is, the hands are not doing like peace or point or rock n roll, but the face animatiosn associated with them work as usual. Furthermore, it seems like the hands not moving only happens for my client (who is on a quest 2 with pcvr). On my end (index controllers), I can do all the hand gestures fine. My client also doesn't seem to have that issue with other avatars. I'm kind of at a loss for a solution here. I'm using the write defaults OFF setup with a "All blendshapes off" animation and "empty" clips.

Hopefully this is just a dumb easy fix. When testing in Unity play mode, I can also confirm that the hands don't move on certain gestures. I have no idea how to fix this issue.

[wild egret]

How do I return the unity avatar back to a T-Pose?

A while ago I think I accidentally pressed some hotkey combination or so...
Now my avatar is in a hands-down pose (left image). But when I use the prefab, I have the normal T-Pose (right image). I need the pose back to T-pose for the left avatar, as otherwise I cannot transfer the manual changes to the parameters/transforms etc.

[somber sequoia]

Pumkin's tools includes a thing for this, or if you've not unpacked your avatar prefab, this will work:
https://github.com/SophieBlueVR/ArmatureReset

[wild egret]

Oh, I read your message wrongly. I tried sophieblue, but i have my prefab unpacked. I'll try pumkin's tools. thanks. 🩵

[west magnet]

No I mean the Sweater has a normal map and the robe doesn't, but the robe has it's details actually painted on, while the sweater is just a solid color and needs the normal map to look good

[wild egret]

I got the pose editor, but I can't find any default T pose animation in the Sapphy base avatar files. I don't know where to get that.

Ok, I think I fixed it. I used the prefab to create a new preset - then reset the unpacked avi to the preset and it worked!

[somber sequoia]

I always leave my avatar prefab packed, so I'm not sure this works otherwise, but I thought there was a tool there.

oh nice

[wild egret]

I just leared that a few days ago as a newcomer to unity vrchat avi creator 😅

I am in fact i the process of migrating my avi to the packed prefab now. But for that, I needed to fix this.

Thanks!! 🩵

[somber sequoia]

nice 🙂

yeah so many advantages to leaving it packed

[ruby skiff]

I'm trying to use gesture manager to test this model, but for some reason it doesn't want to work and the console comes up with the same continuous error.

[young bear]

Velocity over lifetime could do that if I wanted them to follow a particular "arc" but I also want randomization and simple velocity over time wouldn't do much to fix that

[latent zealot]

My avi has one shirt with only one pattern on it i have a few more patterns id like to add to it to so can change it in game is there a way to add more patterns to a shirt?

[ornate stump]

More material with different textures.

[desert elk]

you can add more materials and make toggles for them

[latent zealot]

I have more materials its the the adding toggles for them part that im trying to figure out

[desert elk]

you need to record animations for each material

and add them as toggles

there's a bunch of tutorials for that on youtube

what you probably want for your situation is "int toggles"

[latent zealot]

Got a video that can explain it to me like im 5?

🤣

[desert elk]

https://youtu.be/XqtSg6_W07Y?si=lIs2vV9i-oCAFDnZ

you want to watch the section with the hats

but instead of toggling an object on and off you'll toggle the material

[latent zealot]

time stamp?

[desert elk]

check the video description. it has chapters time stamped.

[arctic ginkgo]

velocity over time does allow randomization

[young bear]

yeah, but not in the kind of way i'd want it to have

[arctic ginkgo]

also does anyone know how to make a vertical or horizontal billboard where vertical/horizontal is dependent on the orientation of the parent?

i'm trying to make a lighter flame

but i don't want the vertical to be based on the world

so it basically spins on one local axis to face the camera

[arctic ginkgo]

no like on one axis

i want it to only pivot on one axis to face the viewer (which can be done with vertical and horizontal billboard) but i want the axis used to be local, not world

i want this flame to face towards the viewer at all angles

but i want it to stay upright

so it'll only move on the vertical axis

again vertical billboard does this, but that's based on the world axis

i wanted to know if you could have it move with the hierarchy

if i use vertical billboard this happens

same with view

but view also does this

[young bear]

this is less of a help question and more of a confusion: why does bounding box affect your performance rank?

[ornate stump]

#avatar-general message

[sacred jetty]

Unity is giving me an error upon upload stating that assetbundle was not built. How do I fix this.

[ornate stump]

You have to look for error that came before assetbundle not buld.

[hybrid sky]

Hello! I need help

[ornate stump]

Again https://dontasktoask.com/

[solemn hound]

Someone can help me to add textures ? and shaders

[ornate stump]

Do you mean you can't change texture in a material?

[solemn hound]

na i'm trying to add a texture but idk how

[ornate stump]

https://youtu.be/rRAnDMUbWt8?t=143

[solemn hound]

is from liltoon

[ornate stump]

Just same process with different location of property to find.

[supple bone]

what a shame it is i know nothing about making an avatar from a scratch model

[cunning swan]

ok so

my gun wont show but the gun shooting animation plays when i do the gesture its set to

everything is the set parameters

[lament violet]

hey i recently did some avi work on my model but now the chatbox is a meter above my head in game. what do i do in unity to fix this?

[vestal sand]

It's meant to be like this

[lament violet]

the chatbox in the roof? i dont think so. cause it was fine before editing my avatar

[vestal sand]

what did you changed on your avatar ?

[lament violet]

just added a asset or two

[fallow gulch]

No, it is not meant to be like that at all
Something that you added, pushes it up
If you added something tall that goes above the head of the avatar for ex., then that can cause it
There are several things that can cause it, and I'm not aware of an exact list existing for this

[lament violet]

damn well what are some probabilities i can test?

[fallow gulch]

You could see if physbones above the avatar are causing this, if there are any
Or if there are any bones high up in general
I don't think contacts have such an effect

Just look at things that are above the avatar's head basically

[lament violet]

thanks

[misty thorn]

I have an interesting question, a person's character I would like to make a custom avatar for has some colors in her hair strands, her hair color is brown but then two parts are colored differently and highlighted, how would one create something like that? I'll upload a reference to show what I'm talking about

[ornate stump]

It's using color texture. The topic is about texturing.

[lament violet]

no luck on looking at physbones or contacts none are that high up

[fallow gulch]

Maybe it's just a normal bone?

[desert elk]

or the bounding box is too large

[lament violet]

neither of those

[sacred jetty]

if you have the hair model in blender, you'd edit the hair model (TAB Key), and press L on the strands of hair you want edited, then P > By Material I think

[ornate stump]

That would require the part to have multiple materials so that is a no.

[sacred jetty]

ah

[misty thorn]

I have a premade asset and when I draw on one strand it seems to draw over all of them, I am new to using blender so I don't know a whole lot about this yet

[ornate stump]

Did you copy each strand?

[autumn rover]

Ahhhh thank you! i dont have face tracking myself so i have to wait till my friend gets on. this is what my current setup looks like. the left eye is the healthy eye i want to use for tracking. right eye has the rotation contraint where the source is the left eye. and the eye transforms are set to left eye and a empty game object. and i edited the avatar to set its eyes to left and none. i think i did it correctly? excited to test it out later. thank you so much for the help

[sacred jetty]

Unity is giving me this error, preventing me from compiling to enter play mode. How am I suppopsed to fix this

Assets\KARMA\Misc\VRLabs\Marker\Editor\MarkerEditor.cs(3,7): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'Boo' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

[ashen python]

Hey, so--The avatar I'm using has two different outfits, but when I upload the avatar into VRC only one of them can be toggled. Is there something I have to change in Unity so that both outfits can be switched between?

[junior void]

How are toggles set up? Manually, vrcfury...?

[desert elk]

import gogo loco

[lament violet]

u fix it by removing all the assets and readding them cause unity is dumb

[fallow gulch]

Oh lol

Glad it got fixed then

[ashen python]

I'm not sure how to answer this but I think I know what to look for, now

[lean panther]

Is there any way to restore a project after it was somehow reset?

I just fixed a compiler issue now everything's gone.

[timber wharf]

you probly just need to open correct scene file

[bright pebble]

hello I have a problem with the avatar he puts himself in a bizarre position, if I can help me

[desert elk]

is the head attached correctly? 🤔

[bright pebble]

bones?

I think so ^^

[junior void]

Is the head mesh's origin in the world center?

[bright pebble]

That ?

There are no values ​​0 how I can put them without moving the mesh

[junior void]

ctrl+a -> apply transforms

[bright pebble]

thank you but on unity I always have the same problem

[junior void]

Check the fbx import settings' rig page and the console for errors or warnings

[bright pebble]

Oh

[fallow gulch]

This is just a warning, and it doesn't matter

[junior void]

not related

[balmy barn]

drag a new fbx in scene see if that one behaves then add controllers after to see if some of those doing wierd things , yours is unpacked overwrite it funny things happen

sometime i forget to change rotation on bones and have to set fbx generic and back to humanoid to get new values

[bright pebble]

I did that and it works! Thank you for your help

[fallow gulch]

Apparently a good tip.. I see hah
I'll keep this in mind

[hardy iris]

I need help, I just bought an avatar recently and I wanna upload it. How do I do it?

[ornate stump]

Did you read instruction in the page where you got the avatar?

[hardy iris]

Ive seen something let me check again

[soft estuary]

So i was fixing up a model for a friend on quest, was switchin over some shaders over to mobile and i see some black/streched white spots attached to the textures, anyway to fix this for quest?

[ornate stump]

Your texture relies on being Cutout rendering which isn't supported by mobile shader.

[soft estuary]

Ah. Is there a way to edit the textures not to rely on that?

[ornate stump]

No.

[soft estuary]

unfortunate, thanks though!

[ornate stump]

Rather you have to cut the mesh itself to remove the transparent part.

[soft estuary]

ah gotcha, would that require blender work?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[soft estuary]

Okay, luckily i've been messing around and learning blender.
Thanks again!

[carmine spear]

Heya, just checking here
is there such a file type as ".fullunitypackage" ?

[ornate stump]

Had never seen it.

[carmine spear]

alright ^^ Just checking ty

[austere bay]

could anyone help?

[wild egret]

I have an issue in unity where I want to replace an FBX with a modified one from Blender. I'Ve checked that the FBX scaling parameters are correct and animations are also included.

Left: current avatar using the original prefab
Mid: FBX imported from Blender. I've checked, that the import settings are equal to the original FBX. The hair being gray is expected, since I deleted the original hair material.
Right: the current avatar after I use Prefab > Replace and keep Overrides... on it and select the new FBX.

Right:

As you can see, certain armature seems to be unmatched. But I don't know what the issue could be. I actually didn't change anything in blender and just re-exported it from there to test the workflow.

Does anybody have any ideas on this?

[wild egret]

Ok. I found a minor workaround. Import new FBX into the scene. Use pumkin copy tools to copy values. Manually copy added clothing, since their parameters (like VRCFury components) are not automatically copied over. Then it works.

[pseudo grail]

just a quick unity question, how do people seperate body parts like this? I wanna apply psychbones to my char's abs, however the abs look absolutely horrendous when seperated and using boolean on the abs just don't make it look any better, so I wanna sculpt the abs within the torso as they looked better before. Do they seperate them like this using bones or is it someting else?

[somber sequoia]

You'd need to make new bones and weight paint the mesh to move with it in Blender, then put physbones on them in Unity.

no need to separate anything

[pseudo grail]

so its basicaly named bones in the unity ss?

[somber sequoia]

not sure I know what you're asking?

[pseudo grail]

the name of the body parts in unity, if its just the bones but named. Like for example if the "shoulder" part on that char in the unity is really just a bone that's in the shoulder named shoulder

[somber sequoia]

anything under Armature is a bone (generally - you can place whatever you want here)

[pseudo grail]

ah i see, thanks

[somber sequoia]

Any object that has a (Skinned) Mesh Renderer component is a mesh object, i.e. the part you see

if you click on Body there you should see that in the inspector

[wild egret]

How can I use Pumkin Copy Tools to also copy VR Fury components which I added to my avatar? I have all prefabs still packed.

But it's difficult to see, that the VRC Fury components get lost and I didn't notice that.

Or is there any other way to automatically copy ALL components of ALL objects in the hierarchy?

[somber sequoia]

you could just drag a new prefab onto the avatar

I did think "all" included prefabs though

[wild egret]

Huh. Funny. This works now!

It didn't work previously (see my screenshots above).

[somber sequoia]

weird!

[wild egret]

But it seems, that replacing a Prefab which was imported into a scene with a FBX doesn't work. But after copying the components via pumkin tools and VRC Fury manually once, I can use the Prefab > Replace and keep OVerrides. Then it works

Since the latter replaces a FBX with another FBX. I could even remove uneeded clothes and I have no issues in Geesture Manager testing!

Will write that down. Thanks!

[somber sequoia]

I haven't had any issues with doing this, and haven't needed to specifically use the "replace" thing - was the FBX file named differently or something?

[little walrus]

the tail is not moving in the game tab after entering play mode

btw im very new

i just need to know what to change so the tail would move

[junior void]

is the tail also animated

[little walrus]

wdym?

[junior void]

for example, is it wagging or does a gesture trigger an animation where the tail moves

[little walrus]

ah sorry i didnt specify. i just want it to move when the player moves around the world. no special triggers or anything, i just dont want it to be a stick on the pelvis

[junior void]

thats not what i asked

you did not tick "is animated" - but you have to IF the tail is animated

[little walrus]

ill tick it and see if it does anything

nothing changed

[junior void]

is the tail rigged?

[little walrus]

yes

it has 4 or 5 bones

[junior void]

does the tail move when you move the bones

[little walrus]

when i shift them using the green red and blue circles? (rotate tool)

yeah they move

[junior void]

are you perhaps using android as build target and went over the max physbone limit?

youd see a warning that all physbones will be removed in your validations before uploading

[little walrus]

nope, its on windows

ignore first 2 validations

wait shit i accidentally closed it

eh forget it ill try again another day

[junior notch]

How do I make a physics object on an avatar?

or an object for now

[spark walrus]

I bought new eye texture for my avi how to put it on?

[somber sequoia]

do you mean physbones or rigid body physics?

[junior notch]

rigid body i think

I want to thorw my avatar shoe

[arctic ginkgo]

https://github.com/VRLabs/Rigidbody-Throw

[somber sequoia]

damn, beat me to it

[junior notch]

that's a ball though

[arctic ginkgo]

okay so make it your shoe

just replace the model

[somber sequoia]

so? use whatever mesh you want

[junior notch]

Imma try

[wind skiff]

https://tenor.com/view/dog-funny-dog-dog-meme-gif-25552129

embed fail

[arctic ginkgo]

https://tenor.com/view/wawa-emdeb-fail-failure-cat-gif-16703817715131368982

[spark walrus]

I bought new eye texture for my avi how to put it on?

[desert elk]

switch the texture in unity

[untold minnow]

Anyone care to offer a video that’s actually helpful on how to add clothes and or hair to an avatar and upload it through unity?

[desert elk]

there's a bunch on youtube

[junior notch]

didn't work

[distant nimbus]

this wont openn

[spark walrus]

It's pretty simple

[untold minnow]

These tutorials ain’t helping one bit

The YouTube ones at least

[spark walrus]

If the clothes you bought is made for your avi

[untold minnow]

I wanna fit them in blender

[spark walrus]

Then idk

[untold minnow]

Pure rage

[junior void]

perhaps state what the problem is currently

[desert elk]

sculpt tool in blender

[spark walrus]

I just make sure the asset i buy is made for my avi

[junior void]

not necessarily

[desert elk]

try dragging it to the hierarchy instead

[untold minnow]

I just wanna have a in depth understanding of how to fit clothes to my desired avatar in blender

[desert elk]

then the file was made wrong

it's an empty scene

[distant nimbus]

$30

down the drain

[desert elk]

you'll need to set the avi up yourself

[distant nimbus]

😔 💔

[untold minnow]

Patience

[distant nimbus]

anddd idk how to do that

[untold minnow]

You will figure it out in due time

[junior void]

that depends on many things such as whether the clothes are made for the avi and if they have their own armature or not

[untold minnow]

It’s not made for the avatar, that’s why I wanted to fit it

[junior void]

that can end up being quite the job

[untold minnow]

I’m willing to put up with it

All I know currently is I need to import the fbx into unity, sculpt it to the models bodily structure and that’s it

But I also want to attach it to the avatar, which is what I don’t know how to do

[desert elk]

drag the fbx to the hierarchy first

and report the mistake to the author

maybe they'll fix it

[junior void]

how i would tackle it would be in this order:

• size the clothes to fit the largest part of the avi (so you dont have to sculpt stretch later)
• line up the pose of the clothes using their own armature (cats blender plugin can help easily applying rest pose) + Rename clothes bones to match your base armature so that vertex groups will automatically be renamed too, fitting your base armatures name convention
• purge all shape keys on clothes
• sculpt the base shape to fit the avi and use mesh data transfer plugin to transfer shape keys (if you want them, such as for breathing animations etc)
• now id unparent the clothes from its own armature and parent it to the base armature
• test posing - lets remember the weight painting is not for this avi, so chances are, its off
• based on the above point, either fix weights or if its just plain horrible and too different, use robust weight transfer plugin to copy weights from the base instead or a mixture of both, depending on if the clothes are complex (aka have many straps or other loose parts)

granted, the clothes have their own armature and are rigged

[glass geyser]

I have a question, since I can only use vrchat in desktop mode right now, I wanted to test the sensors of interactions with my avatar like patting it, but asking people to do it for me is a pain. I have self interaction on so is it possible to like move your hand to your head to pat yourself and see if it reacts

[balmy barn]

animate a gameobject using a contact sender that bounces on your head

[arctic ginkgo]

you can test in unity editor, use AV3 Emulator or Gesture Manager

[glass geyser]

Oh ok then thanks

[arctic ginkgo]

i'm having a strange issue, my physbones don't seem to be syncing between PC and Quest, but there is 0 difference between them, i literally just uploaded the same avatar..

[misty thorn]

This is what I mean, and I want to only color a specific strand and have it not color all of them basically

[junior void]

The uv islands of the strands are overlapping

to paint individual strands, you will have to edit the uv layout

[misty thorn]

Got any good links or tutorials I can use for that?

[junior void]

not on hand but now that you knpw what to look up, im sure you will find something useful

[rapid forum]

hi not sure where to ask this, so i see people do body mods on avatars all the time. seamlessly merging the verticies between added body parts. like replacing the feet entirely on a model with no seam. how would i go about that? ive tried before and i cant figure out how to remove any seam between the two objects i meshed together, heres and example where i replaced paw feet with hooves:

[junior void]

Try reapplying your shading (shade smooth or auto smooth) or select the area (not just the seam, select a little move to both sides) and then alt+n -> smooth vectors

[spark walrus]

I can't figure out how to put new eye texture on avi

[desert elk]

find your eye material in unity and switch out the texture

[spark walrus]

but how

[rapid forum]

i realize now the images i sent doesnt show what i need very well, heres better images. i dont want that weird stiched line to be there ive smoothed the verticies and applied my shading before

[spark walrus]

none of the materials says eye or face or head or anything

[desert elk]

1. Find your material
2. Import your texture to unity
3. Switch out the texture in your material for the new one

is the texture you got made for your avatar?

[spark walrus]

yes

[rapid forum]

if u cant find the eye material in your assets folders click on the head in your scene and you'll see the eye material

[spark walrus]

i tried that to

[desert elk]

maybe some materials are merged? idk it's hard to tell without knowing exactly what we're working with. If they're merged, you need to find the correct material and manually copy the texture while switching the eye texture in an outside program like paint or krita

[spark walrus]

it just says this

[balmy barn]

godrunner so its a mess , body mesh probably have the head/eye texture

[desert elk]

yeah, so you'll probably need to open the texture in an outside program and delete the pervious eye texture and put the new one in

[spark walrus]

i have krita

i made a new layer and covered the old eyes with the new texture but nothing happened in unity

[desert elk]

you need to switch the texture if you made a new one

or did you override it?

[spark walrus]

i just made a new layer and put the new on on top of the old one

[desert elk]

i meant texture in unity

[spark walrus]

when i saved it in krita it changed in unity in the folder but the eye color didnt change

[desert elk]

then idk

[desert elk]

something must've gone wrong but it's hard to say what

[spark walrus]

eye mask copy?

this is the only thing labeled eyes and its showing my new gold eye but not in the model

[balmy barn]

mask they are used for emissions , see if theres more - emission have the setting to use color from main texture instead , id try face in this

[desert elk]

this ^^

[spark walrus]

this is all of them

[desert elk]

my guess would be the face one

the eye masks are for emissions

[spark walrus]

face psd?

[balmy barn]

psd can be used on unity materials (doesnt like gimp ones)

[spark walrus]

i have krita

this?

[desert elk]

i think so

is it the one used on your face material?

[spark walrus]

no idea

this is under textures

[desert elk]

check your material in unity and see what texture it uses

[spark walrus]

i need instruction idk how to do that

[desert elk]

or just try this one idk

1. find your face material in assets
2. click on it
3. in the inspector check what texture it uses

[spark walrus]

.

[desert elk]

sorry, but you kinda need to have a material for the face if it has colour

try a different folder

[spark walrus]

oof

[desert elk]

or search "face" in the search bar

[desert elk]

besides it's right here

so what do you mean you don't have a face material?

[spark walrus]

what do i click

[desert elk]

idk, i've never used poiyomi, maybe under "color & normals"?

[balmy barn]

first texture you see there

[desert elk]

o i was right

[desert elk]

yup, that's the one then

[spark walrus]

what do i do from here

[desert elk]

change the eye texture? that's what you're trying to do, i think

[spark walrus]

if i knew how to just do that i would have lol

[desert elk]

and how did you do it before to the wrong texture?

do the same thing

[balmy barn]

dont know the uv so its guessing its covering eye

(duplicate - change color or paste / stretch in new ones)

[spark walrus]

its a whole different eye not just changing color

[desert elk]

then paste he texture in and size it to fit

for both of the eyes

[spark walrus]

for some reason its undedr the old eye instead of on top

[desert elk]

move the layers

here

[spark walrus]

i broke everything

SHIT

[desert elk]

hopefully you made a back up

[spark walrus]

I am getting off my pc for now I'm frustrated

[junior void]

You need to stitch the mesh together, not just overlap them, then you wont get this

[rapid forum]

yeah im unsure how to stitch them together thats my issue

[junior void]

merge by distance or manually select two verts and m -> at center/first/second

you couldve easily googled that

[bright pebble]

Hello hello I wanted to know how and with what I can do this kind of transparency for an avatar I have the skeleton corp

[balmy barn]

rendering queue & transparency (2 materials - body and inner)

[balmy barn]

merge by distance to avoid wierd shadows after (only the vertices thats affected by merge)

or you can have these things

[rapid forum]

Tyty!!

[bright pebble]

Can we make cull with a mask?

[bright pebble]

What is rendering queue?

[civic wadi]

i need some help with making and uploading an avatar if anyone can teach me how to do it that would be great, thank you

[dull crystal]

hi, how do i change the default clothes of an avatar because in-game and in playmode my shoes are missing

[sharp summit]

im trying to upload an avatar for pc and quest, and when i change it to the quest build, the shaders turn into white stripes, is that an issue i need to fix or is that specificially a unity uploading issue (as in it'll look fine to pc users)?

[supple bone]

someone should help me get my model working for vrc never done somthing with a stand alone model usually they are the model bases

[junior void]

Watch tutorials

[spark walrus]

I put a new sweater on my avi and it's not textured it's just blue and goopy. Idk how to fix

How it should look

[junior void]

Well, look at the material?

[spark walrus]

My mom stole the pc room

[balmy plover]

blender (cats plugin) wont let me change what the base and to merge armature, its currently trying to merge the entire body to the hair and wont swap 😭

[desert elk]

what are you trying to merge?

[balmy plover]

this hair asset to the base i have so far

dawg you have got to be joking 😭

it hasnt worked for the past 15 mins and as soon as i turn to the help chat it works

i love blender 🥰 🔫

[desert elk]

XDD

i was just about to send a screenshot XD

[spark walrus]

Why are the materials smooth like my brain

[latent zealot]

Default color of the pants is blue(left) is there a easy way to make a toggle to turn them the other two colors?

[desert elk]

int toggles

aka integer toggles

[graceful elm]

Hey, is there a way one can create a connection between two avatars? Like a rope, leash, cable, whatever. I know there were some shader based solutions for this many years ago but I guess they didnt really catch on and now I cant really find anything about it online. I was wondering if theres some clever solutions for doing this today or if the old solutions still work at least.

[latent zealot]

my brain does not understand

[oblique dawn]

Wow, really cool work with the avatar gesture live editing, so many features, idk where to start first!📓 👩‍🔧

[wraith saffron]

Seems that whenever I bake my textures some just turn full black. Unsure why this is.

[oblique dawn]

what are the furnace settings?

[oblique dawn]

I don't think that's enough info to help you. What kind of material/shader routine are you using?
Does it bake a bunch of layers and cook override your pre-set work?

[wraith saffron]

I'm using Cycles, under those settings. I'm not using CATS this is imported from FBX directly. I'm trying to make a texture atlas as per this tutorial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73REcZVWMhA ||(you can search 73REcZVWMhA on YouTube and it should be the first result if you don't trust links)|| [Point of interest at 16:15].

I just finished copy and pasting the node into each material hoping that it would render onto a new material without changing my existing materials.

[oblique dawn]

I recommend doing a test in isolation and try baking just the one material to find whats causing the error

this is due to having so many other variables if youre exporting an entire model material libraries worth

[fervent spear]

hi guys im trying to animate this fire, i want it to be always facing upward but the problem is it doesnt animate the angle of the physbone? only the length. is there a way i can make it animate properly while also keeping it facing upward?
first part of the video is the animation in play mode, 2nd part is just the animation of the fire (not in play mode)

sorry if this doesnt make much sense i dont know how to explain this😭

[wraith saffron]

I think the issue was due to the material settings. I was attempting to do it with multiple materials over to one material when I've always used Material Combiner before the fact. Ended up just folding and using material combiner, found that it changed the material settings which was probably the issue. Ideal settings should be...

@oblique dawn Thanks for the help.

[latent zealot]

This is to hard...

[arctic ginkgo]

just use physbone settings, if you set gravity to -1 it always points up

[fervent spear]

i did try that but i still cant animate the rotation/angle

[shrewd stirrup]

Hello does anyone know how to use Leviant ubershader really well and can replicate this?

its meant to mimic the background of this

[latent zealot]

can the toggle creator let me change the mat of a shirt?

[oblique dawn]

@fervent spear use aimconstraint or lookatconstraint https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/avatar-dynamics/constraints/vrc-aim-constraint

pick the right gimbal combination for the behavior rotation

[fervent spear]

oh thankyou :) will have a look

[misty thorn]

Simple question probably but how do you change an avatar's height in unity

[spark walrus]

hey does anyone know how to make it so when i use a specific toggle, it turns only my screen to black so it doesnt affect anyone else? think about it as a toggle to isolate yourself for a second

[ornate stump]

Use IsLocal parameter which will be true only on your side.

[fervent spear]

hi sorry for the ping but i cant find it😭 these r the only ones i can see

[ornate stump]

If you don't have vrc constraint then your sdk is outdated.

[fervent spear]

oohhh

[spark walrus]

Would you be fine with guiding me through? like what i need to do in steps?

[ornate stump]

No can't do.

[spark walrus]

no worries, thanks for the help

[ornate stump]

You just need to add the IsLocal as a second condition for transition.

[spark walrus]

that would be the issue, i dont know what i should add to where

[ornate stump]

How did you create your toggle?

[spark walrus]

so i first wanted to add a song with it, so i put the song in the hierarchy, then with vrcfury i added the toggle option

[ornate stump]

I don't use vrcfury to create toggle so I can't help on that.

[spark walrus]

oh, alright

[wraith saffron]

Does anyone know how to make a hologram effect using Poiyomi? Preferably a maskable one.

[young bear]

how do you make a seat that works for pc and quests on an avatar? I added a station onto a chair on my avatar but it's not working

[fallen cobalt]

oh hey @ornate stump FYI I did a test upload with the export settings changed for the bones as I mentioned and at least on desktop didn't see any immediate issues. Everything animated perfectly fine and performed as expected at a glance 👀

So I'm not sure where you've heard that those can break things but they may be necessary to fix some problems too, like I had

[ornate stump]

Rather leaving it as default shouldn't break anything. If those option actually changed anything then we have to get to know what it actually changed.

[fallen cobalt]

as far as I'm seeing all it does is affect which direction each individual bone thinks its default rotation is

So when exported with the default settings, my bones defaulted to thinking their forward was backward

Each different combo of axes I visibly watched the bones rotate their default orientation, so I just found the combo I needed to make everything point the expected ways

z forward, y up, x right

[ornate stump]

It might actually be bone roll in editing scene.

[fallen cobalt]

I checked and zeroed the roll for each bone that had any

It didn't affect anything sadly

This is the only thing I've seen that had any change on the bones' default orientations when I put it in unity

[fervent spear]

i tried using the aimconstraint and lookatconstraint but i still couldnt animate the angle ;/ anyone have another solution i can try

it just seems like it will only animate the length

[wanton cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/painter-painter-pressure-pressure-roblox-roblox-painter-pressure-roblox-gif-15369012818473550629

Does anyone know if theres a way to add like a video to poi shaders? im trying to make something like this but without 60000 materials.

[heavy zephyr]

Use the flipbook option under "Special FX"

[wanton cedar]

Oh shoot ive never noticed that

thanks

[willow tree]

Im having trouble uploading an avatar ive been working on for a good 10 hours now, any help?

it says that i dont have my arms and feet defined when i obviously do

[fallow gulch]

Can you try dropping the newly set up FBX into the scene and adding an avatar descriptor to that?
To me, this feels like you dropped the avatar into the scene as generic, and then you switched it over to Humanoid, which doesn't go over well, as it doesn't change the rig for the character that is already in the scene as far as I know

[willow tree]

ill try that

i will say that my rig looks like this when i first import it but i can fix it by reasigning certain bones and forcing t-pose

[fallow gulch]

This is fine
You can just do Enforce T Pose

[willow tree]

yeah, thats what ive done

[fallow gulch]

That's okay to do

[willow tree]

now it says that my Spine heirarchy is incorrect

[fallow gulch]

The layout should be like this:
Hips - Spine - Chest - Upper Chest - Neck - Head
Though Upper Chest is optional

And also, the shoulders should be connected to the Chest, or to the Upper Chest if you have that

[willow tree]

how can i change the heirarchy because i am using a model ripped directly from a game

[fallow gulch]

You'd have to edit the bone layout in Blender

[willow tree]

ok

[fallow gulch]

How does it look like right now, compared to what's required?

[willow tree]

it looks fine to me, the bones, from what i can tell are named the right things and are in the order you said

its kinda hard though, all of the bones are labeled in chinese

[fallow gulch]

Yeah... that's a bit painful

If you wanted, you could rename the bones in Blender, based on where they are positioned

So.. you'd start off with naming Hips, and moving on from that

Maybe you have too many bones...?
Maybe too few?

[willow tree]

probably too many but i think im fixing it, ill keep you posted

thanks for the help

[fallow gulch]

No problemo.
Looking forward to it

[rough orchid]

idk why it keeps do this with yhe boots

[fallow gulch]

You probably positioned the boots in Pose mode
What you should do is go to pose mode with that armature, and hit Apply Rest Pose in CATS

After that, deleting the armature like you did in the video should work fine

[rough orchid]

okay ty ty

[willow tree]

HAHAHAHAAAAAA i fixed it!!!

[fallow gulch]

And what was the issue?

[willow tree]

the heirarchy was all wacked out

i renamed a bunch of stuff and redid the heirarchy

[fallow gulch]

Then the SDK was right

Hope the character will move well

[willow tree]

nvm, the spine is broken again

[fallow gulch]

What's broken about it?

[willow tree]

i forgot to save my changes...

im an idiot

[fallow gulch]

Oh... lol

Happens, happens

But now you know how to fix it
Should be a quick fix

[willow tree]

should

[rough orchid]

tysm

[fallow gulch]

Glad I could help

[void crown]

dk if i can post this here but im having this weird shading issue with my model on it's teeth and im not sure how to fix it. it usually does this when i mirror a model in blender or rig it im not sure which is causing the issue though

[ornate stump]

I can't see what weird about it.

[void crown]

gimme a second

[void crown]

normal too side by side with the weirdly shadowed teeth

[ornate stump]

You mentioned mirroring, that likely because of face direction got flipped after mirroring.

[void crown]

i have flipped the normals but it still looks to same even when facing the outside im not sure why, i tried recalculating normals but that didin't work either

it's like the mesh is in a constant shadow even when exposed to sun light

[fallow gulch]

You could try resetting vectors

You'd do that in edit mode
Select all the teeth that are wrong or.. just all of them
F3 > Reset Vectors

[void crown]

didin't work sadly TT

[fallow gulch]

What if you recalculate outside?

If it is not that, then maybe it is a UV issue?

[void crown]

nope just made them inside out again

[void crown]

maybe, got any ideas of solutions?

i usually redo the teeth again when something like this happens but this avi has way too many teeth i don't really feel like doing that TOT

[fallow gulch]

Look at the UV to see where on the UV the teeth are, that have problems

Maybe they are in an odd position or.. oddly deformed

[fallow gulch]

Oh god...

[fallow gulch]

What about the teeth that are shaded correctly?

[void crown]

definitly some type of difference 😅

[fallow gulch]

Maybe try to UV unwrap the bad ones again?

[void crown]

which one do i choose again smart uv project?

[fallow gulch]

Yeah, smart UV project should be okay

[void crown]

nope TT ima just stick with it fuck it, doesn't look too bad anyways

[fallow gulch]

Not sure what else the issue could be :\

[void crown]

me either maybe i'll figure it out but rn ima just stick with it

[plain mural]

hey, are you trying to make anthro or feral avi?

[void crown]

non of that it's just a creature lol

[plain mural]

i mean i'm making a feral raptor right now and i'm having problems with animations and i thought if you're doing something like that (raptor/dinosaur as an animal) then maybe you know better how to work with it

[void crown]

ooh i do make dinosaur avatars. what you having trouble with?

[plain mural]

that weird pose on the first screenshot

I'm trying to change the default vrchat animations so that the back is at least straighter, but it seems to me that vrchat doesn't react to this because I'm doing something wrong

[void crown]

ooh honestly i don't really mess with sitting/crawling animations. if your using constraints i'd recommend just making an animation with the constraints that makes it crouch and make it into a toggle, thats what i do

also nice looking raptor

[plain mural]

thank u

[plain mural]

hmm.. when i try to animate the legs and back it doesn't bake into the animation

only the toes

[void crown]

are you using contraints?

[plain mural]

yea

well

not on the legs

[ornate stump]

Should make sure that none of object has negative scale.

[plain mural]

The raptor armature has a rotation constraint on the human armature (except for the legs)

and when I try to animate a humanoid armature, the bones don't bake

[void crown]

ooh that's why if the legs are still humanoid their not gonna work

[void crown]

what you wanna do is get a full humanoid rig, in unity import it and also the dinosaur, in the hierarchy put the dinosaur inside the humanoid hierarchy and than contraint the full dinosaur body to the humanoids

[plain mural]

in unity the rig is set to humanoid and works well, I don't understand how to fix the animations

like yeah, the first thing I did was go to YouTube to watch guides on how to do it, but so far nothing has brought results, and I thought maybe someone could help me here

[clever cloak]

Quick question, im setting up an asset and one of the things on it is a radial menu to change the colour of the cat it spawns. I was wonderinf if i could change the default value so it starts out on a different colour.

rotation just says none

i could forcibly change the default texture to the one i want but that seems like a last resort

nvm i see it now

or i don't that just tells me that there is no such value

ok yeah if i put it in there it doesnt work

the rotation value i want is 45%

oh wait i am looking in parameters now and see this

[fallow gulch]

Yeah, that is where you'd change it

[clever cloak]

okay it doesn't seem to let me change the value from 1

on mc cat skin

[fallow gulch]

Well floats go from 0 to 1

So 45% would be 0.45

[clever cloak]

oh thanks

[fallow gulch]

Np

[clever cloak]

perfect that worked thanks

gonna be the worlds worst perfoming avatar with how many assets im throwing on but ill optomize it as i learn and go

for the quest version im gonna delete all of them but one

i can't have the avatar without the coin to flip

ok fairly similar question

this avatar has a few outfits, and i want to switch the default one

the value on the parameter inspector is 6

but when i changed this to 6 nothing changed

[fallow gulch]

Yeah, that's fine, as you are still learning

[fallow gulch]

Well.. depends on how the logic is set up for the avi
Are there parameter drivers?

[clever cloak]

the folder w all of the parameter stuff looks like this

[fallow gulch]

Nah, I mean in the FX layer

Parameter drivers are something you put on states in the animators

[clever cloak]

oh i guess thats true ill open the animator

[fallow gulch]

How is the logic in the FX layer set up for the clothes?

[clever cloak]

the default is one called winter school that is not there

[fallow gulch]

So... is the setup with the transitions something like...
Clothes Equals 6, and Clothes Not Equals 6 to get back to the starting state?

Cause that would work

[clever cloak]

i have no clue i haven't really messed with the fx layer before

this is a preset

bought the avatar but i am tinkering around with it

[cedar grail]

my avi has high heel clothing, but when i test it ingame the high heels clip into the ground. how do you usualy solve something like this?

[fallow gulch]

Ah, fair enough
Take a look at how the transitions are set up

[clever cloak]

seems to look like this rn

any good tutorials on how to learn to mess with this stuff?

[fallow gulch]

Steps:

• Go back to Unity
• Find your avatar's FBX
• Open the rigging configuration
• Select your armature
• Move it up until the shoes are not clipping anymore
• Copy the new Y value
• Apply changes
• Go to the scene's hierarchy
• Select the armature
• Paste in the same Y value into the Y field
• Upload the avatar

[fallow gulch]

But are there conditions?
That's what matters

[clever cloak]

where would i see those

[fallow gulch]

You'd see those below the preview part that you posted iirc

[clever cloak]

oh then no

there is nothing there

[fallow gulch]

Are there no conditions?

[clever cloak]

not that i can see

[fallow gulch]

Click this big line to hide the preview window

The double line

[clever cloak]

ah i see there

conditions is clothes equals 6

[fallow gulch]

Yep

And back from that, it is Clothes Not Equals 6 I assume

[clever cloak]

yeah

so i should switch them around and change the menu icons around?

[fallow gulch]

Well when you want to switch to those clothes, the value would have to be set to 6 from the menu

And for the default, I assume it would be 0

And you can check the others

[cedar grail]

Thank You! ❤️

[clever cloak]

it is set to 0 but when i tried to change it to 6 nothing happened

[fallow gulch]

You can try out the avatar with Gesture Manager or Av3 Emulator
And when you are doing that, if you select the avatar, and you switch to the Animator, you can see what's happening in there

Including seeing the values in the FX parameter list

So you could check what's going on there

[clever cloak]

alright will do

i have those installed anyway and use them to test other things

[fallow gulch]

That's good
They are helpful

[clever cloak]

very

oh yeah as soon as i activated avatar 3.0 manager it worked

cool

now to test it in vr itself with full body to make sure it works

and for that i need to set up my new quest 3 with vrchat forthe first time with virtual desktop

be back in like an hour at least lmao

[fallow gulch]

Hehe

Have fun!

[clever cloak]

thanks for all the help

you're great

[fallow gulch]

Np! :D

[clever cloak]

sea of red

ill likely change texture resolution a lot before final upload to get the size way down

these are the assets im going with

[fallow gulch]

Ah, Liindy assets

Neat

[clever cloak]

yeah

i fw their stuff heavy

[fallow gulch]

Yeah, it is
But they make complex assets

[clever cloak]

yeah

that reflects in the avatars performance when i add this many

but hey that sounds like a problem for future me

[fallow gulch]

Yeah lol

[normal geode]

more than 7 people dmed me after sending some messages in this chat bro

[worn kiln]

oh...

[clever cloak]

yea that happens all the time to me lmao

[worn kiln]

if it scam, open #discord-tickets

[clever cloak]

ill even specify "I am not looking to pay someone to do this work for me, i want to learn" and ill still get like 5 dms asking

[desert elk]

yeah

[clever cloak]

one time i wasn't even in here and someone dm'd me asking if i wanted to pay them for an avatar

i pretended to not know what vrchat was

[fallow gulch]

Good on you for realizing what was going on

These scammers are absolutely everywhere, but once you have seen a few, it is easy to recognize them luckily

[clever cloak]

idc if they are scammers or want commisions i just ignore all stuff like that

its annoying

[fallow gulch]

It can be, yeah

But more often than not, real creators don't DM you like that

There are a few exceptions, but... those are rare

[ornate stump]

Real creators take time to read and understand messages. Clearly scammers don't do that.

[visual dove]

hey guys I making a avatar but when I make the toggle I can see it work but everyone around me else dont see the toggle being using Im quest and everyone else is quest too if you guys wondering

[desert elk]

you need to click synced when making the toggle, in parameters

[fallow gulch]

Are the parameters in the parameter list synced for these toggles?
If you select your avi in the hierarchy, and scroll down in the avatar descriptor to the point where you see the menu, that is where you will find the parameter list too
Clicking it once should bring you to it
Open it, and see if the parameters in question (that you are toggling from the menu) are synced

[visual dove]

thx

[warped narwhal]

my clothes are stuck in t pose, no help on google or youtube, pliz hep

[ornate stump]

Did you link armature?

[warped narwhal]

yes i did armature and blendshape link, to no avail, unfortunately.

[warped narwhal]

^

[ornate stump]

How did you link?

[warped narwhal]

i linked the outfit to the chest bone

[warped narwhal]

thats all i was taught to do

[ornate stump]

Did you only put the cloth object into chest bone?

[warped narwhal]

yus with the vrc fury armature link thing, did i do a silly?

[ornate stump]

I'm still not sure whether you described your process correctly.

[ornate stump]

If you use vrcfury to link, screenshot how you set the armature link component.

[warped narwhal]

i used vrc armature link on tw3 (the outfit) and liked it to chest

i will do after this game lol

[ornate stump]

I doubt that you picked a wrong bone.

Armature should start with hips as a root. If you picked chest, something might not be right.

[ornate stump]

Link From must be the "tw3"

The lowercase one.

[ornate stump]

Link to I belive must be the avatar root object.

[warped narwhal]

okay it then told me to like to hips instead of chest so ima try that

[ornate stump]

In that case, you pick matching bone.

[warped narwhal]

holy poop it literally gave me instructions im just dumb ig\

i am now doing individual parts, cuz hips are now correct

broken still smh

nvm

i linked it to left hand mb

[ornate stump]

You have to do only on hips. The rest will link by themselves.

[warped narwhal]

doing hips only breaks it still.

ima find a way

[ornate stump]

How you set the armature link now?

[ornate stump]

That should work. Then make sure that you have only one armature link component.

[ornate stump]

Can you find a better world with simple background? It's hard to see your avatar with those messy background.

[warped narwhal]

optimized box, here i come

it looks to be attached to my hand

[ornate stump]

Are you sure you don't have armature link component anywhere else?

[warped narwhal]

i do not, no

[ivory whale]

does somebody know how to spawn objects like a cube or something in my avatar but prevent it from moving with my avatar

[balmy barn]

vrc parent constraint - toggle 'freeze to world' anything under it stays in world (cup in this exsample)

[ivory whale]

i've tried it with vrc position constraint rn & freeze to world

it seems to rotate with my head

wtf it yoinks me to the moon if i jump into it, because of the box collider

[balmy barn]

you have a element ? need one or it wont reset properly - it just grabs whatever its on as source

box colliders should be 'is trigger' or it will collide with your avatar capsule

[ivory whale]

can i somehow make it not rotate, i dont have any sources - yes

seems like it got fixed by using a VRC Parent Constraint

I don't really know the difference between VRC Parent and VRC Position Constraint tbh

[balmy barn]

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/avatar-dynamics/constraints/#constraint-types

VRCParentConstraint - Moves and rotates the target transform as if it were a child of its sources.

VRCPositionConstraint - Changes the position of the target transform to match the positions of its sources.

[ivory whale]

ah parent constraint is position + rotation

thank you

[kindred tusk]

Help?
My bounds seem to be fine but the box in the preview is huge and my avatar is tiny

[oblique dawn]

I'm trying to get the Gesture Menu to play my animation, whats the best tutorial for this setup, I'm not sure what I'm missing.

I think I might need to code between the AnimControllers and GestureMenu, I can't find how to pass the AC Parameters to the Gesture Buttons
All the tutorials are using someone else's code plugin

[void kettle]

How do I make the fbx file I exported from blender not be stuck in the T-pose when it’s in game? I have the rig set has humanino

[oblique dawn]

I think you have to mask them first for VRC to recognize the rig,

[kindred tusk]

Parameter sender could change a parameter when an animation is played but dont you want to pass a changed param from the Gestures to the Animator?

[spark walrus]

Material has no texture

On sweater

[violet cobalt]

Has anyone here used the Cannon Arm for Manuka made by argonauta? A little confused about how to apply it to my avatar

[pale bluff]

hello i have a problem, wanna upload avatar to unity but it's showing me this "image used for Actions & moods are to large vrchat"

[desert elk]

is there an auto fix button?

[somber sequoia]

there isn't for that.

[somber sequoia]

One of your menu icons is too large, scale it down.

oh wtf, why are menus so buggy?
I just had a Button control that would not work no matter what I did - changed it to a toggle to verify it worked that way, put it back to a button and now it works

[desert elk]

ah i must've mistook it for a different error

no i didn't

[somber sequoia]

there is?

[desert elk]

yes

[somber sequoia]

huh! that must be new

[pale bluff]

i scale it down and it still there

[somber sequoia]

click autofix I guess?

[pale bluff]

not working

[somber sequoia]

there's got to be some image that's too large

[ivory whale]

Hey, I want to make a contact receiver that adds 0.01 to a float while being inside the receiver but it is so damn slow (it adds 0.01 around every 1.5s) is there any way to speed it up or somehow a better way to let an object move linear in a direction while a contact receiver is touched (i am currently doing it with an animation that has a frame with x=100 and another animation that has a frame with x=-100 and then i put it on a 1D blendtree (with range -1 to 1) with the float as motion time)

[spark walrus]

Is that unreal

[ivory whale]

no it is unity ofc

[spark walrus]

o

[kindred tusk]

Can someone help out here? I feel like its just something I am overlooking but the preview is so annoyingly small :( The green bounding box also changes size between tests so I really dont know whats happening. When I publish the avatar is still small q.q

[desert elk]

the only thing that comes to my mind is a blendshape animation that makes some object go very far

that's what happened to me before

[ivory whale]

btw is there a way to move it via an animation afterwards in world space?

[desert elk]

if that's not it, i don't have any other ideass

[somber sequoia]

Interestingly, the change in the actual menu file is this:

+    type: 101

[solar rapids]

how would this be fixed, i have made a new project multiple times to try to upload, but it says this for all my avatars, even older ones that are already uploaded that i try to update

[somber sequoia]

Show the first 2-3 errors, don't clip to the last one

I can see one above

[solar rapids]

i would have to do that later then, this screenshot is from yesterday and i am at school so the wifi is bad

[somber sequoia]

can't help you from just this, unfortunately

[solar rapids]

alright, ill get a proper screenshot later then when i get home

[violet cobalt]

I'm having some trouble attaching this arm to the body. Not sure what I'm doing wrong, i've tried dragging it to the root

[junior void]

We really cant help you unless you tell us what is wrong with it and how you attached it so far

It looks fine from the picture

[violet cobalt]

honestly I wish I knew what the issue was myself. Like I said I've tried dragging it to the root folder. If I try to set it up using MA it gives me this even though i've moved it there unless I'm misinterpreting it

this is about as close as the camera can get but this is how it looks in play mode

the shoulder goes down but not the arm

this is how i have it set at the moment. still doesn't work

i've also dragged the whole folder under armature/hips but nada

the solution's probably right under my nose but i haven't done this in a while

[junior void]

were there no installation instructions or readme files

[violet cobalt]

nope

[junior void]

is it this one?https://booth.pm/ja/items/5149030

[violet cobalt]

this one https://booth.pm/en/items/5300024

[balmy barn]

16 materials euw

[violet cobalt]

yeah the thing's like 468mb

heavy? yes. But it transforms and that triggers my neurons

[junior void]

i have trouble believing that theres no readme file

[slate nimbus]

what abt if like it keeps saying security checks failed?

[junior void]

however, it looks like its also unpacked

probably what you mean to do is reparent each bone to the base armature, however thats... not good to do.

[violet cobalt]

looked through all the folders inside and no readme

also hoo boy

[desert elk]

I'd also assume that's what you're meant to do

[balmy barn]

thing uses alot of rotation constraint so i can toggle normal hand or that thing

but then it can be on root of avatar / arm or in world

[violet cobalt]

well if i have to reparent each bone I'll probably do it later. got something else to do for a while

If there's anyone else here who's used this arm please let me know how you did it

[inland seal]

Does someone know why this happens in couple worlds? In some of the its even worse. Like the Hair below my mouth is streching and idk why its happening

[pale bluff]

can it be because of the texutre quality is too high?

[inland seal]

This is how it looks in Wii world

[junior void]

looks like a weight painting or blendshape issue

[somber sequoia]

I really couldn't tell you from here

[somber sequoia]

ahh the classic "I missed ONE vertex when weight painting" 🙂

[thorn orbit]

🥲 i know that feeling all too well

[inland seal]

But its normal in other worlds?

It just breaks in some

[somber sequoia]

that's weird

[junior void]

unlikely

[balmy barn]

test in blender/unity 100% not world

thats the stray missing vertice weightpaint

blender would look like that

[inland seal]

do you know why this could happen ;D?

[junior void]

a flying vertex is never a world problem

you probably only see it sometimes because a certain blendshape is active or weight painting is missing that you only see when doing certain movements

like thulen said, look through blendshapes and pose the avi to rule out weight

[inland seal]

But other people see it too

[somber sequoia]

of course they do

[dusk spoke]

any simple ways of converting VRC constraints back to regular constraints for use in other unity games?

[somber sequoia]

haven't seen a tool for it, but unless you have like, a lot of them, it should be pretty simple. Unity constraints are more limited though...

[dusk spoke]

that's probably fine. unfortunately I do have a good handful..

[devout galleon]

Hello I wanted to know if anyone can help with some fbx issues im having when uploading my fbx from blender into Unity. (If anyone does use unity). When i upload my textures into unity all of them are out of wack and in the wrong positions and all over the place, if anyone can help I would greatly appreciete it.

[junior void]

check which uv map is active when you export from blender. you may be using a secondary one which the textures were not made for

[devout galleon]

im sorry to ask i literally only started yesterday and got this far with yt tutorials. What is a UV map?😭

nvm its the little grid thingyt

[dreamy wraith]

please guys rate my work.
give me feedback on how it looks

[devout galleon]

still tho can i not just export the full model into unity without them being all over the place?

[junior void]

i will rephrase my previous answer

do you or do you not have more than one uv map on your model

[devout galleon]

way way more than 1

[junior void]

then what i said counts: uv layouts may differ. example: one uv 1, the eyes are in the top right. on uv2 they are on the bottom left corner. now, if you have an image texture, where the eyes are in the bottom left corner, but you use uv1 when you export, the texture will not line up

does that make sense theoretically

[devout galleon]

ig yes

so then how would i export all them at once with the original model that already had images on it?

[junior void]

you dont. before you export, you pick ONE active uv map

[inland seal]

I could check

[devout galleon]

so if i make one UV map and apply all my image textures that i need into it. then it should work normally?

[junior void]

you seem to misunderstand how uvs work

[devout galleon]

i dont understand anything

ima be so honest

[junior void]

usually, you unwrap the "skin" of an object to lay flat, as a grid and then you create an image that fits that skin layout

not the other way around

think of it like peeling a banana

[devout galleon]

oh i see

like in minecraft

like when you make skins

[junior void]

yes exactly

[devout galleon]

ahhh

[junior void]

so the layout of where goes what is dictated by that uv layout, the peel

once you have a flat peel, you can paint it

[devout galleon]

im gonna expiriment and see what i can do

thanks

[junior void]

np

[civic wadi]

i need some help with making and uploading an avatar if anyone can teach me how to do it that would be great, thank you

[junior void]

youre asking something in one sentence that took me a year to learn lol

[desert elk]

yup

[civic wadi]

oh really?

damn

[junior void]

yea. it depends what you want. a stick figure can be done in a day scratch to finish

[civic wadi]

ummm

damn

anime character?

like a unique one

[junior void]

any previous knowledge about blender, rigging, skinning yada yada?

[civic wadi]

vroid studio and animaze

so not really

[junior void]

with guidance you can probably get there in a month if you yolo that stuff every day

[desert elk]

you can move a vroid to vrchat

there are tutorials for that

[junior void]

true

[inland seal]

All of them are at 0

Idk why this is happening

[civic wadi]

yeah but i wanna make something like new

[junior void]

active every single one and see if any of them make the vertex go crazy

if you want real quality, think a few months

[inland seal]

😭

[civic wadi]

im good with that i just have absolutely 0 idea how to start

[junior void]

start by understanding the components of an avatar

perhaps look over websites and videos explaining their common workflow, you can get a lot of contextual knowledge from just watching someone else

[civic wadi]

alright

thanks

[inland seal]

nope, none didnt do nothing

[civic wadi]

and i should use blender right?

[desert elk]

ofc

[junior void]

oh and do try to make a stick man ;)

[civic wadi]

ok

[junior void]

yes blender is free at least

you can use maya but moneeysss

[civic wadi]

yeah if i cant afford to comission an avatar i cant pay a subscription

[desert elk]

blender's your friend then

[inland seal]

I still didnt figured the problem ;3

[final widget]

Hey guys, I have my PC avatar, Quest avatar and a Fallback avatar ready in Unity. Should my Fallback have the same Blueprint ID as my PC and Quest builds?

[desert elk]

No, fallback is a separate avatar

[devout galleon]

where is the thingy majig?

[wind skiff]

i'm not even gonna ask

[desert elk]

...

I'm scared

[prisma frigate]

I'm concerned

[devout galleon]

yall arent the first to tell me

[prisma frigate]

TMI

[devout galleon]

my fault g

[civic wadi]

so when i press build and publish on the sdk how do i find it on my account

[desert elk]

it will be in the uploaded section of your avatar page

[lament sorrel]

Does anyone know how to fix this?

[somber sequoia]

go in pose mode and rotate each bone, starting with the hip, up to where that point is likely (head?), see if you can make it stick out.

[inland seal]

Its not a blender problem since my other avatars work fine

[native kettle]

anyone know how to re-import finalIK? I imported an asset that messed with everything, and these console errors are preventing me from entering play mode

[inland seal]

And I havent touched this one in blender

[somber sequoia]

... I don't know how you'd draw that conclusion since we've been saying all along it's specific to a vertex on this one avatar

[civic wadi]

how do i get there

[inland seal]

k, ill check

[desert elk]

open your menu, go to avatars, go to uploaded

idk how else to explain that

[pearl furnace]

Vrcfury seems to kinda break some of the radial puppet animations on my Avatar, how to fix that?

[civic wadi]

i dont think it worked

theres nothing there

[desert elk]

are you on the correct account?

[civic wadi]

yup

[desert elk]

does it show up on the website?

[civic wadi]

when i pressed build and publish it kinda just turned grey and did nothing so i think that was it

[inland seal]

There isn't even a single bone that could stretch like this 😭

[civic wadi]

i thought i was crazy and i wasnt looking for it right

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure what you are showing with this image?

[civic wadi]

no

[desert elk]

try uploading to again

[civic wadi]

ok

[inland seal]

You asked me to go and check for a bone that could stretch it. I did go and there isnt a single bone in that position that could cause that problem

[somber sequoia]

Did you do what I said?

[inland seal]

Y-e-s

[somber sequoia]

You rotated each bone from hips up to head to see if you could find a vertex poking out?

that was very fast if so.

[inland seal]

Using arrow keys and rotating isnt that hard ;D

[somber sequoia]

arrow keys? Huh.

[inland seal]

Its a plugin, dont worry

Its to help select between items faster

So what do I do now?

[somber sequoia]

make sure you set all the blendshapes you have active in the game at that moment when the vertex stuck out

[civic wadi]

i did it again and pressed build and publish but the buttons kinda are just sitting here doing this

[inland seal]

wdym

[somber sequoia]

what part of that was not clear?

[inland seal]

How do I set all blendshapes active in a game?

Or you mean Unity

[somber sequoia]

I mean in blender.

[inland seal]

m