avatar-help

[junior void]

its a setting on your shader/material

some shaders do not support it though

[crisp trail]

im using poiymi shaders

[junior void]

then its in the bottom under rendering

[crisp trail]

thank you. now fixed the rig hopefully fixed rig. and fixed that issue reuploud and see what happens

[wary mica]

Anyone else have this issue? Kinda need a fix before Monday or else I'll have to postpone some VRRP again.

Should I Just scrap the parent constraint and use a position and rotation separately?

[desert elk]

maybe the file was too large?

[silver goblet]

Ok, so after some poking around it appears that unpacking does play a pretty important role in this.
What I did was take the .fbx and .fbx.meta of the prefab I want to use ->
make a copies right in the same folder where they are stored in the project ->
rename them the way I need ->
open the .fbx in blender ->
do my edits and overwrite the copy in the project folder with default blender fbx export settings.
After dragging the new prefab variant into the scene with the original prefab I can then copy all parameters with pumkin tool (to fix a few oddities) and when tested with Gesture manager it seems to work just fine.
(I pulled one vertex just to see if it will work at all before I go in and start actually doing anything).

Gonna go try and do the whole thing now. Thanks for the help Zero. 🐇 👍

[mystic sentinel]

I'll show proof later

[inland seal]

How to make a smooth movement effect for an object?

So it will follow my position smoothly

[tame grove]

how can i fix that ?

[barren sedge]

Hey

I have a shoulder joint issue

If anybody could help me out that would be great

This is the issue im having

Its having a child error

Some issue with it nott being a child of another joint

[junior void]

Note that "default blender export settings" are not always ideal. You definitely want to disable "add leaf bones" under armature. Also, pay attention to the scale of the fbx in your unity project. It is very common to use "fbx all" which will result to a "1m to 1m" scale in unity. The default is "all local" which may cause a x100 scale (youd notice this because your colliders, physbone radius etc are suddenly huge af ). If in unity the original states 0.01 to 1, youll be fine using all local

[junior void]

Fill in the elbow like it is on the right side. you can drag bones from the left hierarchy into the slots

[frosty jacinth]

Does anybody know how to fix the FBX import warning: "Can't generate normals for blendshape '(blendshape)' on mesh '(mesh)', mesh has no smoothing groups."

[balmy barn]

yet to see that error matter, i got it on 50~ something avatars but they all work

after unity 2022 they started throwing that error somethingsomething in fbx import setting maybe

[wind skiff]

Its also an issue with blender 4.1+

[junior void]

i get that even when using blender 3.6 lts. It goes away when i set smoothing to faces in the export screen

[somber sequoia]

huh, why have I never tried that

I assume there's no difference otherwise?

[junior void]

never saw one

[somber sequoia]

ooh I wonder if that will make importing blendshape normals work again - it did for a while, then suddenly didn't and I have to check the legacy option

[junior void]

it does work for me

[somber sequoia]

I keep forgetting to do some experimenting with that

[junior void]

when i set to import, custom normals do work

[somber sequoia]

ok, will try then

[frosty jacinth]

i'm using 3.3

[full vessel]

Im starting to try to figure out how to do avi edits, I just imported my specific avatar into blender and I can't seem to get it out of grayscale?

[somber sequoia]

upper-right, little bubbles, they can change the view mode

"material preview" is probably the one you are looking for

[full vessel]

I get this?

[junior void]

note that adding textures in blender is pretty useless anyway, just in case you worry about that, because regardless of what it looks like in blender, youll be using materials in unity anyway

[somber sequoia]

pink = broken material, perhaps the textures it uses are not found?

[full vessel]

Ahhh Okay, thank you both

[frosty jacinth]

if you really want to change it you can go to your shading tab at the top and you should see something like the image. if you press the small folder icon itll prompt you to select an image from your files.

[pastel nest]

while in play mode with gesture manager this is where my bones are ?? and when not in play mode or in playmode before clicking on gesture manager they look normal?

that is the bone structure

[spark walrus]

Why do my hinge physbones not work the same in game as they do in Unity preview

[pastel nest]

ok i think its got to do with JetHair bone

[untold minnow]

What more could It want from me

its "taller than average"

How do I make him shorter, clearly this is not the correct way

[spark walrus]

Make him .1 on the scale for everything

instead of .2

[untold minnow]

I see

thank you

[inland seal]

Still need an answer

Because I want to make a model that will track my hand when Gesture is turned on

But I want it to be smooth

[timber wharf]

@inland seal https://github.com/VRLabs/Damping-Constraints this?

[inland seal]

Hm

Seems like smth I need

Alr thx :D

[balmy barn]

wrong unity version, you need to downgrade

https://unity.com/releases/editor/whats-new/2022.3.22

[rare ocean]

help

[rare ocean]

kawaii

[somber sequoia]

Install whatever requirement is missing - that "missing script" message is the important one

weird name for such a prefab though.....

[spark walrus]

Im making a karambit knife that flips over the finger and uses a parent constraint, however the knife only faces forwards and does not rotate with the finger bone, is there an easy fix?

[spark walrus]

nvm im just going to shadow constrain it

[steep hamlet]

can someone help me figure out why this is happening?

[desert elk]

i'd guess there's a part that's not weight painted properly

[steep hamlet]

i new to this so i dont really know what that means

[desert elk]

the bottom part must be weight painted to one of the top parts (because on the video it looks like it moves the same way they move)

you will need to take the hair (or whole avatar) to blender

and go to weight painting mode and check the hair bones if they're correct

[steep hamlet]

ill try check that now, thanks

[untold minnow]

How could I possibly make bros smaller

[desert elk]

it's the view point

i think that's too high

[untold minnow]

Oh yeah I did reset it

[untold minnow]

Nvm it’s not the viewpoint

It did nothing when I moved it to the proper position

[desert elk]

bounding box?

i think you can still upload it though

can you not

?

[untold minnow]

I can but I’d rather it not be a giant every time I spawn

For those who have my avatar off my robot will appear giant

I believe I may have figured it out

[wind skiff]

scaling it down even more?

it is currently 4.4m tall

try 0.04 scale

[worldly whale]

does anyone know how to quickly transfer sps from one avatar to another? they are both the same avatar but one is green and the other isnt and i want to just quickly transfer sps

[untold minnow]

Crazy work

[worldly whale]

is there a way to quickly merge specific animations and params from one fx to another without completely merging and duping things?

[chilly summit]

I was wondering if someone can make an avatar into quest for me and send me the quest unity file? please dm me if you can. I have the pc unity file for the avatar

I can't sadly.

[steep hamlet]

i think i fixed that issue now but i dont know what happened here

[desert elk]

good! that's a nice looking avatar

[steep hamlet]

thank you its one i purchased but i dont know why the hair has a weird outline now when i add a material

[grizzled crow]

hm... if I want to add a laser cannon to my avatar, how would I make the firing effect?

[steep hamlet]

anyone know how to fix this weird outline on the hair?

[desert elk]

it's probably a setting in the shader that you're using

[steep hamlet]

i found it!

ty for the help ❤️

[tall dock]

If anyone knows how to add multiple eyes to a model please, help!

[desert elk]

multiple eyes as in more then 2 at once or toggable eyes that you can switch between?

[tall dock]

As in more than 2, I wanted to add an extra eye like a avatar I saw on a museum, moving, blinking and all that

[desert elk]

hmm, i think you'd need to weight paint it to one of the existing eyes so it'll move the same as that eye

[tall dock]

No but like, how to create that extra eye is my question, I can't think of a way and there isn't much info about it :c

[desert elk]

OH

Blender

you'll need to make an extra eye in Blender and attach it do the head

[tall dock]

Okay I kinda figured it was on blender and thank you for upholding my suspicions, now how to do the extra eye, do I have to model it or I could someway duplicate one of the eyes I already got on model?

[desert elk]

i think you could dublicate it, it could work

[tall dock]

By selecting vertices of the eye or something like that? I am not that experienced at blender to be honest, started using it like 2 weeks ago u.u"

[desert elk]

yeah, and i think shift D is to dublicate

[tall dock]

Alright, I will try

If I don't succeed can I ask you for help again?

[desert elk]

ofc

[tall dock]

Ty tyyy!

[buoyant isle]

anyone know why unity wont get past this part of the download?

[tall dock]

Mostly when it's reinstalled it takes a lot of time, i don't know if it's an external issue besides that though or setup-related

[buoyant isle]

i guess ill just let it continue then lol its been almost 6 hours now

[balmy barn]

https://unity.com/releases/editor/whats-new/2022.3.22 can grab it manually from here , then just add it to vcc (hub link also there i havnt used it )

[charred oriole]

Needing help creating a 3d furry fox avatar, can anyone help me?

[tall dock]

Question! I have to delete a chunk of the cheek in order to put the duplicated eye there but it's kinda hard, is there any way to do that smoothly without affecting layers bellow?

[charred oriole]

I need to make a 3d furry fox avatar from scratch for my game please help me can you teach me how to do it help me

[desert elk]

you'd need to delete vertices and reatach them back to the eye. I can't think of a different way

[tall dock]

Wait you can reatach vertices?

[desert elk]

yup

[tall dock]

Hmmm

Bad thing though the cheek vertices are really separated and few, so it would be like making a complete rectangle if i want it to fit

[desert elk]

video here

you could use the knife tool to make new ones maybe

[tall dock]

Ty ty, i'll try and check it out, this seems harder than i first thought :/

[tall dock]

That knife tool can be used like to sever certain parts of the mesh with a lasso-like movement?

[desert elk]

yup

[tall dock]

Oh then i could use that to make the socket of the eye

How do i activate the knife?

[desert elk]

K

on your keyboard

[tall dock]

I selected the area, now how do it delete that?

doesn't seem to work del button with this one

[desert elk]

after you select all of the points you wanna draw you need to click enter to confirm

and then select the vertices you wanna delete

and press del button

[tall dock]

Oh but it stills delete with a rectangular form

[desert elk]

yeah

[twin wagon]

Hey Guys got a question, i've been Using VCC on my previous pc no issues at all right. But when i got the new Pc and installed the same things the avatar in unity doesnt show up on the scene, but the scene camera can see it. any thoughts?

[merry geyser]

any idea why this is happening and how i can fix it. Not having this issue with any other bones I should note

[tall dock]

Making the socket fit on a rectangular hole is kinda hard, tbh

[desert elk]

that's why you gotta connect the vertices to the eye

to make it fit

[tall dock]

Hmmmm

Can i send you an ss of the said socket of the eye?

[desert elk]

yeah

screenshots are helpful

[tall dock]

in here works, right?

alright

[desert elk]

yup

[tall dock]

this is the socket of the original eye

it's like a pouch

[desert elk]

show a screenshot

[tall dock]

the eyelashes go around it to make it look nice

[twin wagon]

will do in a second!

[tall dock]

now i want to fit that pouch onto the face as a first step but i can't manage to do it

[buoyant isle]

tried that one, its been downloading on unity hub all day right now

[desert elk]

this is kinds what i had in mind

[tall dock]

Looks like suturing with a needle, amazing

[blazing marlin]

so, i am using a parent contraint and an aim constraint to make a two handed object. however, it does not rotate with the hand it is constrained to, and is always in the same rotation. it still follows the hands as it should, it just doesnt rotate

[tall dock]

Also, that face has a lot more vertices and faces than the one i have right now, but i'll try that

[desert elk]

you could add more with a knife or subdivide

[tall dock]

I'll try to do that with the vertices i got right now

If it doesn't work i'll try the knife

[twin wagon]

Just before the avi loads in take a look at this so there's no confusion (also added vrcFury)

also it worked "normally

in unity 2019

[desert elk]

mhm

[twin wagon]

with and without hovering

i checked layers and the hierarchy before but those didn't show it

[desert elk]

i'd assume it's a shader issue, given the poiyomi warning

try switching to a different shader and see it that helps

[twin wagon]

i also tried Toon

but there was no difference

is there any alternative?

and its some 'blender' error

[desert elk]

just standard unity shader, if it's not visible with a that, i have no idea what it could be

[twin wagon]

that's new to me

[desert elk]

that's weird

[twin wagon]

switched all of it to standard and its still invisible

[desert elk]

did you somehow import the avi as a blender file?

[twin wagon]

don't think so

ive been stuck trying to fix this for 3 days now

i uninstalled unity like 5 times now

was also wondering what this could be

Mesh

I also tried different avis and poi

any ideas?

[desert elk]

wait, it's happening to all avatars?

[twin wagon]

yeah

thing is i tried unity 2019 right but there was 400~ errors but it **was ** visible

in 2022 it is not

should i install blender just for the jokes?

maybe it works

[desert elk]

XD

[twin wagon]

fuck man idk

xD

im installing it

[twin wagon]

you got any idea what it could be?

[desert elk]

nope

not at all

[tall dock]

This single video got more content than any existing post about adding extra bodyparts help

Thank you a lot

Looks kinda good

kinda maybe an understatement

i'll make it pretty eventually

[desert elk]

for a first modification it's not that bad

[twin wagon]

man imma cry

XD

[tall dock]

I still got to add the upper eyelashes though

[tall dock]

Also i was watching your unity chaos and man

da fok

[desert elk]

i'd recommend reinstalling but you're saying you've already done that

so idk

[twin wagon]

what if i try idk

a different SDK Version?

[tall dock]

throw some water on unity at this point

[void gyro]

I'm having some issues with my viewpoint. The viewpoint in vr doesn't actually match up with the head, and my view position in the avatar descriptor is correctly placed.

[tall dock]

Sometimes it's caused of how you move the entire model on unity, it has happened to me when i elongate bodyparts and it detects it's floating even though in plain sight it doesn't look like it the game will try to override the height of it and break a bit the viewpoint

check if validations says something about foot beneath floor or avatar height related

[void gyro]

I worked out all bad validations except the pelvis one

[cunning swan]

its fine unless ur plan using full body

[void gyro]

yeah thats why i'm skipping over it because changing the rig is a pain in the ass

[cunning swan]

yea thats why i try used the original rig or an auto rigger dont use mixamo theres a better one called accurig

[void gyro]

i'm thinking maybe my rig is fucked up near the head because the neck is elongated by a little bit aswell when i'm in game

[void gyro]

i added a rig in blender

[twin wagon]

bro on god im so cooked

[void gyro]

its a rlly simple character

[twin wagon]

💀

[somber talon]

How do i fix this

[white jungle]

what's the issue? the dark marks being pixelated?

[twin wagon]

could it be mesh something?

[somber talon]

no the eyes are white

[white jungle]

check your materials, something got scrambled I'd guess

[south kraken]

might be kind of a dumb question but do you have to have the same paramaters on every platform version of the avatar? or only the paramaters you want syned between platforms

for example a marker toggle on PC, but since it doesnt work on quest can i just remove it from the quest version

[void gyro]

Fixed my issue y'all it was a problem with how my head rig was set up

[desert elk]

yeah

only the paramaters you want syned between platforms are enough

i think

[south kraken]

kk thank you

[white jungle]

It's a little more complicated. the parameters are used to sync cross platform, but the game doesn't look at the 'name' of the parameter - it looks at the position of the parameter on the paramters list. This means you shouldn't delete/change parameters between versions as toggling X on PC can cause Y on quest if you changed the purpose of that function.

[south kraken]

aw damnit thats what i feared

[white jungle]

far as I know if you have 15 parameters on PC and 10 on quest, as long as the 10 line up everything will be OK

[south kraken]

so its not name based but position based?

[white jungle]

yeah unfortunatly

[south kraken]

thats beyond silly

[white jungle]

I just use the same list for all versions, even if quest only uses half of them, not worth maintaining two

[white jungle]

but if you're looking to reduce parameters, this may be worth exploring.

[desert elk]

I knew I was misremembering something

damn

that's a stupid mechanic

[white jungle]

many such things

[desert elk]

but I guess now it makes sense why some quest avatars have toggles that do nothing

[south kraken]

well no, that should only affect syncing so what someone on another platform sees

[south kraken]

if it doesn't work on your own platform then they uploaded it with mistakes

[desert elk]

nah, I meant the position stuff

some toggles aren't available for quest, but those that are need to be in the same spot to sync between pc

If I understood what Ren said correctly

[twin wagon]

im so cooked im not even using vcc anymore

straight up unity xD

[south kraken]

yeah

[white jungle]

ideally you would make a separate animation controller and menus for the quest version of an avi, but if a person is lazy they can just slap the PC one on and call it a day. usually the cause of broken toggles etc for quest users.

[desert elk]

yeah

that's what I was talking about

[untold minnow]

It was at 0.1

But I figured it out, the fbx in blender was just abnormally large

You were looking at the position, and not the scale

[white jungle]

Alright, so I'm working on a hooded sweatshirt n made a blendshape to put the hood up. Question is, how best to weight paint the hood? While the hood is down I want it to deform with the chest and not the neck/head, but when it's up I need it do deform with the neck/head and not the chest. Thinking I could make a separate neck and head bone for the hood, use a rotation constraints in unity, and toggle these bones off when hood down? Do the same with the chest? Be nice if there's a simpler solution, lot of messing around.

[tired raptor]

Hey creators,
I have been racking my brain all day on what may be happening here.
This is a fresh upload in a new scene in Unity, with nothing but my avy and a blank FX layer to allow for play mode. When hitting play, adding the gesture manager, and then clicking on it, the hip and left left leg shifts their position.

I do not think this is a Unity problem. I think I messed something up with Blender because I can trace it back to where it is not doing it on my avatar several versions back. I just loose a TON of work. I do not want to loose everything I have done so trying to fix the root cause would be optimal.

Looking at Blender, I do not see any animations, I do not see any info that would lead me to believe there is something that would trigger with play mode in Unity. I have applied transformations, and set pose as rest post, symmetrized my leg bones to ensure they are the same length.

Any suggestion on things to check, look at, set in blender would be helpful.

[white jungle]

gesture manager does the same to all of mine, I assume the 'standing' animation file it uses has the legs tweaked a little. far as I have been able to tell, it's only GM

[young bear]

try resetting the pose in the unity humanoid avatar rig. if you edit bone positions or rotations in blender after importing them in unity, they will get messed up unless you do that

if the rig gives an "avatar not in tpose" error after that you can select enforce t-pose to make unity rotate the bones to the closest valid "t-pose" position

[tired raptor]

Testing now, I exported a fresh copy and putting that into my clean scene.

It still does a step, however it did lift my avy a bit.
A friend is testing on their end and saw that adding GogoLoco Base layer to replace Default Locomotion seems to straiten it up. Does that give any clues on what to dig into?

[twin wagon]

@desert elk bro i even tried making a unity 2022 project add SDK by hand and even added a URP but it's still invisible man.

absolute cinema

[desert elk]

that's wild

[twin wagon]

💀

only thing that's visible is slots for D.P $

i give up

[white jungle]

check proxy_stand_still animation(s), they are not symmetrical. This is why I assume it's not something we messed up in blender @tired raptor

[mossy jacinth]

you can try resymmetrising the rig and mesh, just make sure the mirror modifier is above the armature modifier when you do so

[tired raptor]

I can go back a number of versions on my avy and it does not do this.

[kind pelican]

Hai, does any know of a 4 armed avatar asset for a feminine base?

[primal spruce]

I tried adding goco loco to my avatar, And in unity gesture manager, It says i can use the fly button, but in VRChat i cant even see it nor use it, What do i do about this?

[mystic sentinel]

It just doesn't work

In general that doesn't work

[quasi briar]

Check this video out #avatar-dynamics message

Might help

[primal spruce]

No?, I saw other avatars have it, Also my partners avatar has it and it works just find in game (this is what i mean by the flying thing, My partner has it on her avi but it doesnt work on mine?"

[true leaf]

WHERE IS MY HIARCHY(SCENES) ;-; lskdhgkldhgklhsa

[desert elk]

window > hierarchy

on the top

you need to open it again, cause it closed

[balmy plover]

idk what all this means ive never seen this before (Unity, trying to upload)

[azure patrol]

how do i fix this?

[true leaf]

ksdhglkdshklghkld

befor i got a reply i uninstalled and tried again

[azure bobcat]

something aint right here

what are the ACTUAL counts

[somber sequoia]

not sure what you mean, that's the actual count

[azure bobcat]

for real? i honestly didnt expect them to all share the same limit

cool

[somber sequoia]

assume nobody has seen this before and so you'll need to explain what "this" is

[near zenith]

so got a new modal, and tryna do the same thing for my mamehinata but problem is it shows all of these and idk which one changes hair or skin tone

[wooden zinc]

anyone else having gun particle issues not showing up from any distance on any avis?

[tall dock]

Question, is it possible to go into edit mode to a mesh with blendshapes actives?

[azure bobcat]

you're issue is the text in the inspector right? what you're most likely seeing is the true property names. cant remember how to switch to normal property names

[near zenith]

Ooh-

[somber sequoia]

(I'm assuming Blender here) you can only edit a single shape key at a time. But you could build a new one by combining others, the "new shape from mix" option is helpful for this.

[tall dock]

Ahh alright, and yes blender sorry for not specifying

[tall dock]

Also thank you, i'll try this

[near zenith]

Should I reset or

[azure bobcat]

i'd restart unity if you havent already and if that doesnt work... maybe reset unity settings to default? dont know if that will break anything but its the only thing i can think of with my lack of experience

[near zenith]

Hm I see
Thx tho

[somber sequoia]

at the top of that material, it shows something about locked Poiyomi - I'd make sure you have poiyomi installed and select "poiyomi toon" from that list, instead of the locked one.

possibly you don't have Poi installed and that's what's all broken, it's trying to run Thry's editor but you don't have that installed. In which case simply installing it would fix it

[near zenith]

ah sorry

and oooooh ok

[somber sequoia]

sometimes things fail to compile and you end up with some parts of unity in a broken state

[near zenith]

is that in the file of the modal i need to download

[somber sequoia]

I have no idea what you have downloaded

but you can get the shader at the website: poiyomi.com

[near zenith]

ok

thank you so much

[cunning swan]

ok what shader can i use to create a reflective effect without using standard

[somber meadow]

Poiyomi is fairly popular

it's not just a toon shader and you can make it look "realistic" like Standard

[sweet crypt]

anyone know how to fix it no matter how many times i uninstall VCC and unity this pops up

[median galleon]

Anyone have a really good simple modelling tutorial?
Mainly for sonic

[grand stratus]

hey so im making my own avatar i made the model in blender and put up the rig but the rig for the arms arent where the arms are so will it still work? and will i be able to move my charcters arms(if its important my arms torso and head and legs are seperate from eachother)

[crude shuttle]

Hey, quick question, to be able to use audiolink on an avatar base that has it, do I need to add the audolink prefab manually from the audiolink repo? if yes, which one?

[hardy igloo]

hello, i require some help to understand why this is. in blender this is fine and there's no weight paint on that bone to affect that area but in unity it acts like there is. is this an export problem to unity or something else?

[ornate stump]

At minimum you only need shader that supports audio link. Audiolink prefab is for testing only.

[ornate stump]

Do you mean the accessory on the chest? I spent good 10 minutes trying to find what you're refering to "that area".

[hardy igloo]

I am so sorry

But yes

[ornate stump]

You should check in edit mode, select some of the vertex, and inspect how many vertex group it's assigned to.

See the ratio between each group.

When selected a vertex, select "Item" tab in side menu in view port.

[hardy igloo]

Will do so and try to continue solving the problem.

[thorny mesa]

Hello! I'm trying to make an object visible only to someone who has come into contact with a collider for a set amount of time. Is this possible? Any help would be appreciated.

[crude shuttle]

Ah, so the nardo would already have it?

[ornate stump]

No idea.

[fiery crow]

youd need to use the IsLocal parameter for something like that

[arctic ginkgo]

yes, but only if they are wearing an avatar that you set up to work with that logic

if you want it to only be visible to them

on your avatar alone you can only reliably separate people into these categories:

• platform (Windows, Android, iOS)
• friends (if they are on your friends list or not)
• local vs remote (aka you vs everyone else)

sometimes you can have desync between other people, but it's either by chance or by being late joiner/turning on avatar after you enabled toggle that doesn't sync

so you can't really control that

[crude shuttle]

so it should work? I guess just upload?

[desert elk]

hmm does it look normal in blender?

[grand stratus]

Dosent matter anymore don’t worry about

[desert elk]

okay

[ornate stump]

If the avatar package states it has audiolink supported then it should work.

[crude shuttle]

the demo version of it does

how does one save the actual avatar project (not just the unity project) and upload it?

[frosty jacinth]

Had an issue with my avatar where the mouth would be open when I'm in the FBX rig configuration + when the avatar is being animated. I removed everything except the avatar and avatar descriptor, having cleared everything non-essential in the descriptor, so it's an FBX problem. Anybody knows what causes this and if there's any fixes?

[ornate stump]

Avatar project just mean a unity project that contains avatar sdk.

[crude shuttle]

so now to just upload it?

[ornate stump]

Just open the sdk panel and choose avatar to build and publish

[crude shuttle]

aparently it needs some stuff to actually work

[ornate stump]

Resolve whatever it came up.

[crude shuttle]

It's the things like view posistion and visimes

the things that make it actually work as an avi

[crude shuttle]

is it possible to use custom avatar middleware on an avatar? (that would make it PC only)

[ornate stump]

What middleware you talked about?

[crude shuttle]

AMD TrueAudioNext. My PC supports it and it's a private avi anyways.

[ornate stump]

What it does? Is it a unity component?

[crude shuttle]

It has a unity plugin. It does HRTF, ambisonics, etc. very well, and if you include their RT libary it also does indirect audio simulation. Lemme get a link rq

[ornate stump]

Then no. You can't use it. You can use only whitelisted component for an avatar.

[crude shuttle]

https://gpuopen.com/true-audio-next/ The Audio Middleware
https://gpuopen.com/radeon-rays/ when used with TrueAudio Next, this does indirect audio simulation (like dynamic reverb/echo)

[crude shuttle]

ah, darn. Then VRChat would have to swap to an audio system that supports it or is able to use it on supported devices.

[ornate stump]

That'd be too troublesome for them to add more supports for thing uncommonly heard.

[crude shuttle]

It's also part of SteamAudio now, as one of the supported APIs/Middlewares it can use. In fact, TrueAudio was origionally envisioned being used in VR games due to its ability to simulate audio presense accurately.

And ofc when used with the RT thing for audio RT you get very immersive audio.

[crimson pendant]

In one of my avatar's animation layers, there's a state that plays an animation based on the motion time of a float parameter. This state also uses a VRCAnimatorPlayAudio behavior. How would I set this up so that the audio clip is only played when the float parameter driving the state goes above 0.9?

To contextualize, the animation is for when the crest or tail of my avatar are pulled, and I wanna play a squawking sound whenever either of those are pulled to a certain point

the way it's currently set up, it just plays the audio immediately after either the crest or tail is grabbed

I'm aware that I could just set a transition condition to when Crest_Stretch is greater than 0.9 but I still want it to play this animation the way it currently does, based on how far the crest or tail is pulled

[round comet]

Tattoo ideas for a shark girl?

[static bough]

ocean tattoo

on the thigh

[round comet]

Ouu

Yeah she needs something good there

I feel like something thigh to calf that avoids her knee would look radical

Then maybe a design on her chest

I wanted to do a back piece too but fairly sure it seam split

[spark walrus]

What the heck is that outfit

[round comet]

Her totally cool shirt and pant

Not actually tho, just censored her since I’m painting her body texture

[frosty jacinth]

Been struggling with this for a few hours now;;;

Had an issue with my avatar where the mouth would be open when I'm in the FBX rig configuration + when the avatar is being animated. I removed everything except the avatar and avatar descriptor, having cleared everything non-essential in the descriptor, so it's an FBX problem. Anybody knows what causes this and if there's any fixes?

[round comet]

Make sure the model has no jaw bone when you configure it in Unity

That’ll open up the mouth

[frosty jacinth]

i cant do this because i have face tracking for the avatar that requires the jaw

[round comet]

Ahh well, that’s probably what’s causing it to be open. I’d say try the face tracking server if you’re using Jerry’s

Since its their expertise

[frosty jacinth]

it's not what's causing it, its not that its being animated by anything. this is entirely without animations or anything controlling blendshapes.

[round comet]

Id say either way consult the ft server

[spark walrus]

How do I take the ears apart

[frosty jacinth]

separate by loose parts in edit mode using the right click menu

[spark walrus]

o

[frosty jacinth]

or select the one side of the mesh using select similar on the top bar and separate by selection the same way

[spark walrus]

This is my first avi

[frosty jacinth]

good luck!

[dense basin]

okay, I'm trying to change one avatar's old billion audio components into one VRC Animator Play Audio component, but it seems the audio files aren't getting uploaded with the package

the file size should be 50MB, but it's 26MB

[civic wadi]

guys what does this mean

[desert elk]

Did you set the rig as humanoid?

[civic wadi]

how do i do that

[dense basin]

but yeah, any clue what could make VRC Animator Play Audio not work like this? I added all the clips, added the correct source path, the audio source is in place and has been set up

the weirdest part is that on some uploads, the sounds HAVE worked, but on others, they just stop working

while I changed nothing

[civic wadi]

how do you set the rig to human

[desert elk]

like this

and pick humanoid from the dropdown like i have

and in the configure you can fix some bones if they didn't autoassign correctly

[civic wadi]

alright thanks

wait where is the PC tab

[civic wadi]

i cant find the pc tab

[desert elk]

oh pc is just what I had my avatar named

you click on whatever your avatar is named

in the hierarchy

aka on the left

[civic wadi]

ohhh thx

[civic wadi]

the section you clicked isnt there for me

[desert elk]

did you unpack your avatar?

did you unpack the prefab

[civic wadi]

what does that mean?

[desert elk]

did you right click on your avatar in the hierarchy and pressed unpack prefab?

if not, does your avatar have an armature it's connected to?

[civic wadi]

its a vrm

im uploading a vroid to get the hang of it

[desert elk]

you can't directly upload a vrm to VRChat, you'll need to convert it to for an example an fbx

[civic wadi]

i did

i used the converter

[desert elk]

what method did you use?

[civic wadi]

and imported it through there

[desert elk]

what convertor?

[civic wadi]

the vrm converter that vrchat reccomends on their help page

[desert elk]

hold on, i need to check it out cause I've never used it for my VRoids

[civic wadi]

ok

[desert elk]

can you send a photo of your hierarchy?

[civic wadi]

yup

[desert elk]

press the arow

arrow back

[desert elk]

why is your avatar not in the hierarchy?

[civic wadi]

idk

i double clicked it in the assets and it appeared

[desert elk]

that's what auto convertors do for you eh

you need to drag it to the hierarchy

[civic wadi]

yeah ig

ok

YES

[desert elk]

xD

there you go, we found the problem

[civic wadi]

wait

[desert elk]

?

[civic wadi]

after i press select it shows this

[desert elk]

yeah

that's why I don't like converters

I looked at the one you're using online

[civic wadi]

its not good?

[desert elk]

it looks like it's for the previous version of the SDK so there could be issues

[civic wadi]

ohhhhh

that could be why ive been having so many issues

do you know anyway i could fix it?

[desert elk]

I'd recommend using Blender to convert it

I could give you a step my step

[civic wadi]

how?

[civic wadi]

that would help alot

[desert elk]

1. Get Blender (I recommend 4.2) and unofficial cats plug in
2. Get a vrm importer for Blender
3. Import your vrm to blender and go to MMD Options in the cats plug in, press "fix model"
4. Export as an fbx (make sure to use FBX All as the Apply Scaling! Also select Path Mode to Copy and press the icon next to it to turn blue, if you want your textures included in the fbx)

then you can just drag in your fbx to unity and you shouldn't have any problems

[civic wadi]

alright thanks alot

[desert elk]

good luck 👍

[balmy barn]

vrm + unoffical cats + blender 3.6+ .click click click click , now you have a fbx with working visemes / 'eyetracking' (more like rotated eyebones) 1 material/texture/mesh instead of multiple

[desert elk]

yeah, I forgot about visemes and eyes, oops XD you should totally follow that video

has every step

[dense basin]

so, the animation starts, but the sound files won't play. the audio source is properly pathed. no idea why this is happening

I thought the VRC Animator Play Audio was supposed to play when the animation controller switches to its position when it's "Random"

[balmy barn]

you doing enabling audio in fx controller , anywhere else wont do anything

[dense basin]

yeah that's exactly what I'm doing

I know how this is supposed to work

I wanted to switch over from the old "have a separate audio source for each sound" to the VRC Animator Play Audio component

[balmy barn]

how mine is set up,

testing it in unity didnt do squat last time i tried

[dense basin]

yeah looks p much the same as mine

however, when I upload it, sometimes the sounds work, sometimes they don't

it's because they don't get uploaded with the package for whatever reason

and ofc they don't work at all with the emulator

in the tutorial I watched they do work with the emulator

yeah now it works again for no obvious reason

this is so weird

ah well

I guess I'll just keep uploading it until it works once I actually upload it properly 🤷‍♀️

[round comet]

how does one put certain bones on their main armature >.>

just need the bones for the chain on a garter asset I have

[dense basin]

unpack the garter prefab, then pull its entire armature to the part of the main armature you wanted to put it in

or, the chain's armature

[clear seal]

Hello

I need help with assigning bones in unity

I'm having this error message

Even though i have bones which fullfill those roles

So i was wondering how I assign them

[desert elk]

Check your rig configuration

[ornate stump]

Do you see error in menu where you changed to humanoid rig?

[clear seal]

No

Just in the builder

[desert elk]

this is how you access it btw

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot to confirm?

[clear seal]

Is that adequate?

[ornate stump]

Yes. Then also in Configuration. Where you assigned bones.

[clear seal]

Ah, where would I find that?

I've not used that yet

or been prompted to

[ornate stump]

The "Configure" button.

[clear seal]

It's my first time btw if I'm just being stupid or incompetent

[ornate stump]

From this hierarchy, your model just doesn't have chest and sholder bones, which are required by vrchat.

[clear seal]

Okedoke

Thank you

You've been very helpful

[lone echo]

I'm having some trouble with VCC like opening but not showing up on any of my monitors. Anybody able to help me out?

Oh nvm I figured it out

[undone fable]

I have a question about the locomotion layer. Where is the rest of the frames for walking running etc?

Each of the animations files only has the first frame of each direction you would move

[barren sedge]

Im trying to recolor something but keep the texture desogn of the hair, but when i color it it colors over the design

[somber sequoia]

how exactly are you coloring this?

[round comet]

better off doing it in an editing apps with layers in all honesty

that way you don't ruin the original texture

[desert elk]

yeah, that's how it's gonna work, the texture design is the colour (from what it looks like). Maybe extract the texture and use a filter to change the colour?

[grizzled crow]

is there a way to have something be affected based on the avatar's velocity?

[somber sequoia]

sure, there are animator parameters for this, though they're based on joystick movement, not FBT walking

[grizzled crow]

I meant like, how fast the player is moving through a world

[somber sequoia]

yep, that's what they're for

[grizzled crow]

ah

[dense basin]

ugh, for some reason in an avatar I'm updating the music makes popping sounds, while in the old version they didn't

it's weird because I didn't even touch the audio component for the music

[arctic ginkgo]

maybe the file format? what file format is the audio?

[dense basin]

ogg

[arctic ginkgo]

oh weird

[dense basin]

literally the same file as in the old version too

[arctic ginkgo]

ogg usually is best, mp3 sometimes makes popping noise in unity

[dense basin]

only difference is, I changed the main sound parts to use a vrc animator play audio component

[arctic ginkgo]

hmm.. i've never experienced an issue with vrc animator play audio before, but that could be the issue? try updating with and without it maybe?

[balmy barn]

have a jukebox with play audio and using ogg, 8 something ones and not had the pop

[dense basin]

popper

[frozen notch]

im on quest

[desert elk]

quest needs to manually enable avatars

[stray hedge]

every avatar i download for upload that is "quest compatible" is to big for quest upload , am i missing a step?

[wind skiff]

where are you downloading them from

[desert elk]

it also could be that they were quest compatible, but aren't anymore, due to changes in limitation

[quasi briar]

They don't actually fully optimize their avatars for quest, so when the limit went down many of these avatars are now too large for quest. You can still optimize them yourself but depending on how big the avatar is it might be time-consuming.

[stray hedge]

why they lower the limit?

[quasi briar]

The Quest 2 is not a very powerful machine. It can't handle such large avatars, especially when multiple are on.

Not to mention the fact that many phones running VRChat can't even dream of turning on some of these very poor avatars.

[stray hedge]

so i should look for modles uploaded after the lowering? when did they lower it?

[quasi briar]

I don't remember exactly when. If you can, try to find newer avatars that aren't "very poor" ranking on Quest.

Or you can try to optimize it yourself, but that takes some Blender and Unity knowledge.

[barren sedge]

I have a modle that i downloaded from scetchfab that i put into my unity but the model wont go into the scene

Its a .gltf

Not sure if that helps

It loaded into substance painter jsut fine

[quasi briar]

Needs to be .fbx

[barren sedge]

Can i convert it?

[quasi briar]

Sure. Use blender.

[barren sedge]

Im not exactly sure how i would do that haha

[quasi briar]

Google is your friend :p

[somber sequoia]

simply import it into blender, export it as .fbx.

[quasi briar]

I need some help myself with the VRC constraints "freeze to world" option. When I toggle it off and back on again, it doesn't reset its position, it stays in the same spot. Weirdly, it only does this behavior in VRChat itself, but in Unity it does reset its position. I'm not sure what to do to fix it, I've tried a few different setups and nothing works.

Edit: Resolved. To anyone else having the same issue, make sure that the object you are animating on/off is not the same object that has the constraint on it IF you're toggling the object and the freeze to world in the same animation.

[dapper lagoon]

Is it possible to get part of an avatar's armature to snap to certain parts? i.e. a hand to a weapon grip?

[hexed sphinx]

Is there something special I need to be aware of to add a light to a vrchat avatar? Other than the impact it has on performance?
Because I added a point light to one of my avatars, and it breaks the avatar, with it showing up as the error replacement in-game

[arctic ginkgo]

yes, with vrchat constraints

or final ik maybe, but that's pc only and also if you want the full thing you have to pay for it

you can use the stub but i don't think that will allow you to test anything in-editor, only in-game

[balmy barn]

be sure you have a source and element (none=grabs whatever its on or set one yourself), if you have no element it wont go back to where you had it first

[quasi briar]

I found the issue. The way my toggle worked, I toggled the visibility of the mesh and the freeze to world in the same animation. The problem was that I had the constraint on the same object that I was toggling off. I moved it to a parent object and that solved it.

[candid osprey]

Is it possible to have a single expression toggle a randomizer that randomly picks a set selection of animations?

[somber sequoia]

sure

VRC Avatar Parameter Driver has a random feature

[indigo compass]

If they are larger than the 10MB avi download size then the creator just didn't optimize or you imported textures and didn't set android specific settings, override the android texture settings, swap texture format to ASTC 8x8 or higher and maybe lower resolution if needed.

If you are running into the 40MB uncompressed limit then the avatar is old and was heavily abusing crunch compression, swapping over to ASTC will help with that and is better than crunch.

The 40MB uncompressed limit is "new" (is like a year or more old) but the 10MB download size hasn't changed.

[dusk hawk]

does ANYONE know why it says unity game object missing

?

[desert elk]

what are you trying to do when you get this error?

[dusk hawk]

idk what to do thats the thing

[desert elk]

send a screenshot if you have trouble explaining

of the error

[dusk hawk]

yea give me a sec

There

[somber sequoia]

Can you show the first 2-3 errors in the console? Looks like there are more above what you have visible.

[spark walrus]

Why is there only an outline of her clothes in unity but not actually there?

[somber sequoia]

broken shader?

[spark walrus]

I did not put any shader

[somber sequoia]

show the material in the inspector window

[spark walrus]

I did not put any yet

[somber sequoia]

oh, well that might be why.

[spark walrus]

Here is her in blender

She has shorts and a shirt

[dusk hawk]

there

[dusk hawk]

...

[somber sequoia]

errors, which are red messages. And if you could clip that to just the console, it'd be way easier to see.

[spark walrus]

What is bro trying to do

[dusk hawk]

theres 10

wtfd

[somber sequoia]

usually the issue is in the first 2-3

[dusk hawk]

therererer

[somber sequoia]

yep, thought so - "missing script". You'll need to install whatever requirements your avatar has

[dusk hawk]

how do i do that

😭

[somber sequoia]

find the creator's documentation or maybe gumroad page and see what requirements it has, install those things.

[spark walrus]

Idk why people act like it's hard

Pro probably needs poiomi or vrc fury

[somber sequoia]

yeah Fury is a good guess

[spark walrus]

What's the avi called

[somber sequoia]

oh that's fascinating. @junior void I did the thing where you export from Blender with "Smoothing" set to "Face" and then forgot I did that and left "Legacy Blendshape Normals" selected, and had some really weird effects on a metal part. Switched the import to "Import" blend shape normals instead, and it looks correct.
I'll check the blendshapes in-game in a bit, not quite there yet, but this had way more effect on just the static model than I expected.

[spark walrus]

Apparently i did my weight painting wrong

[junior void]

Is that good or bad xD

I only use import for things i need custom normals for ngl. Otherwise i use calculate by angle

[somber sequoia]

hah, it was bad then, I was mostly curious what difference it would make, but didn't expect that

[normal thunder]

can anyone help me? I am trying to upload an avatar for my friend who's trusted and already has his steam account merged but he does not have perms to upload avatars yet?

I'm in the US and he's in the UK does that make a difference?

[candid osprey]

How do I setup an animation randomizer to loop constantly as its activated by a toggle?

[somber sequoia]

you can use VRC Avatar Parameter Driver to pick a random number, then use that to pick which path to follow in the animator

[desert elk]

Countries don't make a difference. You need a VRChat account with a New User or higher rank

[dapper lagoon]

So if I constrain the hand of the armature, the hand will be constrained/there will be some form of IK between where it's constrained and the avatar?

[arctic ginkgo]

if you want IK you can use final IK, but this is PC only

[dapper lagoon]

I'm building for PC only, yeah

[arctic ginkgo]

it is also paid, but you can use the final IK stub to upload the correct components

you just cannot test in-unity afaik

unless you purchase final IK

but you can always use constraints to fake IK

[somber sequoia]

if you do want to buy it, it often goes on sale for half-price

[arctic ginkgo]

oh i spent time learning how to format hyperlinks just to find out they aren't allowed 😭

• Final IK:
  https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/animation/final-ik-14290?srsltid=AfmBOopCBb4eWHGaMynO4J8jyC4YZqik2Knos-U5HZSiLOmDK8BCIVld
• Final IK Stub:
  https://github.com/VRLabs/Final-IK-Stub>

just wanted it to be easy to read and tell what the links are since the asset store one is pretty long

[dapper lagoon]

So what would happen if the hand was constrained without FinalIK? What would happen to the rest of the arm?

[arctic ginkgo]

depends on what constraints you use

a very simple way to fake IK would be to use aim constraints on the whole arm and have them all be at an increasing fraction global weight until the last one, which would be 1

so for example, shoulder would be 0.33, upper arm would be 0.66, and forearm would be 1.

then the hand you would constraint as needed to grip the object correctly

[dapper lagoon]

So then it'd be like I'm constraining my own IK

[arctic ginkgo]

yeah pretty much

[near zenith]

so figured out most of alot but my friends cant see my avatar for some reason or only see a Tpose so i tried to upload it to quest but it keeps saying use shader from vrchat moble how do i find that?

[severe crown]

I’m trying to make this mask toggable but also do a mask up and down as well. But this menu is from the outfit that I threw on is there a way I can toggle it and make it togglable for mask up and down

[desert elk]

Pick Mat Cap Lit, Standard Lite or Toon Lit

here's how to get to them

[near zenith]

When I use toon lit it just takes away all the stuff I edit

[desert elk]

Shaders for quest have limitations that pc shaders don't have, there will be differences

and if you want emissions and stuff pick a different shaders and you'll need to set them up again

[near zenith]

alright

[severe crown]

How do I do a toggle like this for mask up while also a toggle for removing the mask

[spark walrus]

What weight should I use for weight painting

[somber sequoia]

whatever weight is required for the part to move how you want it to

unfortunately there's no really precise guidelines here

[spark walrus]

That sucks

[queen heron]

okay so weird issue... I can remove all I want on this avatar, and compress everything to the a dot, but the build size doesn't change
deleted everything, still same size
sdk doesn't update

the weird thing is that I was able to upload the avatar to quest already. I wanted to edit it, but even before I was able to start editing, the file size tripled

the name is the same. Nothing I do changes the file size on sdk

I reinstalled everything fresh

[spark walrus]

what's the avi

[charred epoch]

I am trying to update an avi to quest but it keeps giving me this error, hgow do i fix it?

[left gull]

like it says either remove or fix your gesture manager

[somber sequoia]

Probably make sure everything is up to date, usually that's the cause of this kind of thing

[left gull]

have you attempted re-uploading to get the actual file size already?

it only updates it once an attempt is made

[charred epoch]

I had uploaded this perfectly fine on PC, I just switched it to Android, changed nothing, and now it is giving me this

[left gull]

android has far stricter limitations then PC does

because its literally like a phone strapped to your face

you can find the limits here for each ranking: https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/avatar-performance-ranking-system/#mobile-limits realistically you should be aiming for medium

[left gull]

try re-importing it then it may have bugged out

[charred epoch]

Which is strange, since I have seen a few people on quests with very poor quality when I was on pc

[left gull]

oh i wasnt responding to you with my other message that was still aimed at eve

[queen heron]

I literally cant reupload because its too big, unless you mean windows?

[left gull]

no i meant android, i meant re-upload as an attempt to upload to get the true file size since it doesnt lower the count until you try uploading it again

[queen heron]

how do I upload it?

re-upload*

[left gull]

the same way you'd do a normal upload?

[queen heron]

sdk, right?

[left gull]

yeah

[queen heron]

how do I upload it f I cant click upload

because the file is too big

[left gull]

did you hit the checkbox at the bottom? it shouldnt grey out the upload button even if the models too big to upload

[queen heron]

let me try rq

its upooading

okay maybe it worked??

LOL I just had o autofix

[white moth]

Can anyone help me figure out why pcvr people are seeing a crosseyed version of my avatar?

This is a PCVR only issue standalone works fine

[somber meadow]

What shader are you using on the materials for the PC build of the avatar

[pseudo fox]

I keep getting this message when trying to upload an avatar in unity/vcc. I try and click build & test but all it says is "building avatar" forever. is that warning the reason for that? and how do I fix that? (it's not my avatar but one I bought online.)

I'm using modular avatar and liltoon

[white moth]

Ive tried toon lit, piyomi, liltoon

[raven creek]

hey iv been trying to upload an avatar i ade to use but it juust says "not yet allowed" iv been playing for like 3 days now..

[white moth]

All of that lead to the same results

[somber meadow]

Are you using Windows? Something's wrong with the shader compilation process

[white moth]

Yes

Well uploading the avatar no

I'm using mac for that

[raven creek]

i just wanna know what im missing so i can fix it so i can uload my avatar >.<\

[somber meadow]

Which Mac is this? Apple Silicon or Intel?

[white moth]

Silicon

[somber meadow]

Are you using the x64 or arm build of Unity

[desert elk]

you need to have new user or higher trust rank

[raven creek]

Yeah. I was told that the 12 hour play time wasn't accurate or required. Is that true?

[somber sequoia]

it's not about clock time or play time specifically

[white moth]

64

[spark walrus]

how to fix

[desert elk]

you probably need to assign your bones correctly in the rig

[spark walrus]

its all green?

[somber meadow]

what does red lines point to

[desert elk]

check the hand

because the lines point to the hand

[vocal dew]

Hello idk if this is the right place to ask but if anyone can make an avi for me that would be appreciated lol. It’s a street fighter character and if you wanna know more friend me plz

Hello idk if this is the right place to ask but if anyone can make an avi for me that would be appreciated lol. It’s a street fighter character and if you wanna know more friend me plz

[desert elk]

the other hand

[spark walrus]

im confused

[desert elk]

try clicking force tpose

[spark walrus]

wheres that

[desert elk]

should be under the rig stuff

Pose > Enforce T-Pose

[spark walrus]

dont see it

[somber meadow]

that's the issue (bottom of the screenshot)

[spark walrus]

how to fix

[desert elk]

it looks like for some reason you have two armatures

why?

[desert elk]

you have six??

[spark walrus]

o

[desert elk]

yeah, you're gonna need to go to blender and merge them

[spark walrus]

o

[desert elk]

you only need one

[somber sequoia]

nobody's going to do this for free, but you can commission someone at the VRC Traders discord. Link is in #1204490664637890580

[spark walrus]

its cuz i have an armature for the hair, clothes, body etc

[desert elk]

yeah

no

[spark walrus]

o

[desert elk]

everything goes on one armature

[spark walrus]

it says shift to parent or ctrl to link

[pseudo fox]

.

[spark walrus]

im no expert but a yellow sign doesnt usually stop an upload

[pseudo fox]

might there be another reason for it not letting me upload?

[spark walrus]

how long did u wait

[pseudo fox]

about 15 minutes

should I have waited longer?

[spark walrus]

usually when it fails to upload it will say build failed

[white moth]

@somber meadow Is it because of the version I am using?

[pseudo fox]

ah okay. will it pop up with anything after I click build? or do I just wait?

[spark walrus]

if it fails it will say build failed and tell u why

[somber meadow]

Are you using Unity 2022.3.22?

[white moth]

Yes

[pseudo fox]

I see. I'll keep on trying then and see if it ends up working. thanks

[somber meadow]

Have you ever gotten a message like this?

[white moth]

Yes

[somber meadow]

did you allow it through settings

[somber sequoia]

is there a "I don't care, let me do it anyway" option?

[white moth]

I do not know how to do that

[somber sequoia]

(I don't do macs, just curious)

[slow smelt]

(fucking macos)

[white moth]

it is still in my bin so I can retrive it

[somber meadow]

You unblock it in your Privacy & Security settings

[somber sequoia]

ah good.

[spark walrus]

how do i put armatures into 1

[somber sequoia]

merge 'em!

[spark walrus]

tutorial

[somber sequoia]

select and ctrl+j

but that may not do what you want, depending on what the bones look like

[somber meadow]

You should definitely look at tutorials for this

[tepid sage]

anyone know how to fix this? this also causes my VRC sdks not to import into a new project

[somber sequoia]

What platform are you on?

[spark walrus]

they are all highlighted

[somber sequoia]

ctrl+j in object mode will join them

[spark walrus]

this is the result

[somber sequoia]

when joining things it's ideal to apply all transforms first.

[spark walrus]

her shirt and pant came off

[reef oar]

You probably want to unselect the items that are marked with a triangle, as you probably don't want to merge those

[somber sequoia]

you can't merge a mesh to an armature though.

but I'd bet it merged the two meshes together

[tepid sage]

Im using Windows

[spark walrus]

i unded it cuz her pants fell down

what do i do

[somber sequoia]

it's difficult to give suggestions based on only that one image

[slow smelt]

^^

[spark walrus]

okay how can i show something more helpful

[tepid sage]

💔

[somber meadow]

Is this error on a fresh project?

[tepid sage]

yes

[somber meadow]

Then it's mostly due to a bad Unity installation, are you using any Antivirus software other than Windows Defender?

[tepid sage]

nope

i use the 2022.3.22f1 version

[tepid sage]

do you know any way i can get a better install?

[desert elk]

apply transforms before merging. Select everything with A, press crtl A and apply all transforms

[pseudo fox]

do I need to worry about this warning or can I ignore it?

[somber meadow]

the upload didn't go through, so you shouldn't ignore

[pseudo fox]

I had canceled it

[somber meadow]

then sure

[pseudo fox]

alright just making sure

[somber meadow]

The SDK just says that error even if there's no issue with the blueprint id

[somber sequoia]

If that is not the first error in the console, paste the first 2-3 error messages instead

[pseudo fox]

ah okay

that was the first error

[somber sequoia]

(usually it's a side-effect, as Blanke said)

ah ok

[tepid sage]

am i cooked or- 💔

[pseudo fox]

how long does build and publish usually take?

[somber meadow]

depends on how many unique shaders are on the avatar

Shader compilation is the longest step majority of the time

[tepid sage]

i got a better image

[pseudo fox]

so when it's going through that, will it just stay on "building avatar" for awhile?

[desert elk]

now try merging again

[somber meadow]

You'll see a progress bar popup with what shaders are being compiled, and your CPU will be in 100% usage

[spark walrus]

yay

[tepid sage]

Anyone know how to properly install unity?

[spark walrus]

vcc

[pseudo fox]

I'm currently just seeing this. nothing pops up and it just says "building avatar" at the bottom right

[somber meadow]

that's because you're in the prefab preview

[dim pulsar]

can someone make a avatar for me

[desert elk]

just make sure it looks correct

[dim pulsar]

I don’t need anything crazy just something that looks cool

[tepid sage]

i think the problem is that i manualyl insated the version from vcc

i cant spell-

[somber meadow]

Use Unity Hub to install it

[desert elk]

I'd recommend getting it through the unity website, at least for me vrc is very laggy and never finishes downloading

[somber meadow]

click the back button on the top left of the hierarchy, and drag the prefab into the hierarchy instead of double clicking it

[tepid sage]

i cant find that version on hub tho

[desert elk]

website has them

the unity website

[pseudo fox]

ah okay. that makes a lot more sense now LOL

[dim pulsar]

Can anyone here make a avatar from a picture of me nothing too crazy just like a avatar of me with some cool effect

[desert elk]

No

Go to VRc Traders

[somber sequoia]

installs -> install editor -> archive -> click the link for "download archive"

[desert elk]

and pay someone to make it there

here you'll only get scammers

[somber meadow]

Click Install in https://unity.com/releases/editor/whats-new/2022.3.22

[dim pulsar]

i can’t pay 😭😭

[desert elk]

No one's gonna make you an avatar for free xd

[tepid sage]

installing and praying that it works

[dim pulsar]

you never know lol

[pseudo fox]

I have multiple prefabs of the same avatar but different versions of it. does it matter which I choose? there's a default and one called "mirrordoll" which is another version it uses.

[tepid sage]

i hate unity 💔

[somber meadow]

Make sure to uninstall the one you already have

and make sure absolutely you don't have any 3rd party antivirus software

[desert elk]

did you reimport? It's still 7

[spark walrus]

yes i deleted and brought her back in

[desert elk]

and by check if it's correct I meant bones in blender btw, should've made it clearer

[somber meadow]

If your PC is a common OEM PC like Dell, HP (or any of their subsidiaries) they usually like to come with a bunch of preinstalled junk including antiviruses

[spark walrus]

its all under 1 armature in blinder

[desert elk]

Am I seeing correctly that you're importing a blender file to unity?

[spark walrus]

.fbx

[desert elk]

or is it just a name of the Avi?

ah, so just the name is .blend

[drifting schooner]

does anyone know how to set up the spider lair male base avatar for pc and quest?

[spark walrus]

just the project title

[desert elk]

okay

it should be fine, because you only have one armature in blender

[spark walrus]

i have 2 hips

[desert elk]

cause you have multiple armatures

[somber meadow]

Refer to tutorials on "how to put clothes on VRChat avatars in blender" on YouTube, and hair aswell

[desert elk]

yeah, could be helpful

[pseudo fox]

nevermind I got it working. thanks for the help blanke, you literally saved me lmao

[desert elk]

because that's probably how you got this many armatures in the first place

[spark walrus]

i imported them in, dragging them onto my avi then sculpted

[desert elk]

you're missing steps

watch a tutorial really

cause right now you have 7 separate avatars cause you haven't actually connected the clothes to the avatar

you need to make the clothes use the avatars armature

search for a tutorial and it should show you everything

[spark walrus]

okay im gonna take a break cuz its frustrating and ill do that when i get back to my pc

[untold minnow]

My hair wont move with my bones, how do I fix this? (I just added the bones to the hair)

[desert elk]

you need to weight paint them

[untold minnow]

https://tenor.com/view/lil-yachty-drake-laptop-duh-gif-8033838636860661307

its always the simplest problems I overlook

thank you

[untold minnow]

wait

its not the weight paint because im not having issues with it not moving with the head

I tried parenting it with automatic weights

[somber sequoia]

you'll need an armature modifier on the mesh to connect it to the armature too.

[untold minnow]

I just need I have a armature modifier on the hair

[somber sequoia]

cool

weight painting time then

[untold minnow]

The bones

arent moving with the hair

The hair is attatched to the body

[somber sequoia]

other way around - bones move the hair, the hair doesn't move the bones.

[untold minnow]

thats what I meant

mb if im not being clear on what im trying to ask

[somber sequoia]

well if that isn't happening then you should go check the weight painting.

[gray cedar]

Both the clothing and leg are weight painted, but the clothes end up deforming when moved. I already tried unweight painting and reweight painting

[somber sequoia]

I'm not really sure what you're showing here?

[white moth]

This helped! Thank you so much for the help

[somber sequoia]

but if it doesn't move how you want, the answer is again "weight paint" 🙂

[untold minnow]

thanks, I didnt know that about weight painting

sorry for me not understanding that at first

[somber sequoia]

I've never had anything be correct by doing anything automatic, though some tools get surprisingly close

[untold minnow]

I see

Ill keep that in mind

[untold minnow]

another question

I cant unhide this bone at the very tip

its the one I have highlighted in the data tab

[ornate stump]

Get to edit mode of the armature and unhide everything.

[astral atlas]

Is there a tutorial that explains how avatars can remove hoods or pull down bra's while explaining the vertex groups not messing with it in the process?

[ornate stump]

There won't be a tutorial for everything. It's better to understand fundamental concept of each problem independently and apply combined solutions.

[balmy plover]

if anyone could link a good video on this problem id appreciate it i cant find any that aint from 3+ years ago: im just about done with this model. got all my toggles, gestures, all that good stuff set up. even used muscle settings in unity to test for clipping before i started, didnt see anything. but because unity and blender both hate my guts, there is infact some really bad clipping (somehow her tail is weightpainted to her feet, and when i test gogo the tail just morphs into one giant plane on the ground that follows her feet) is there any way i can just swap the old .fbx for the new .fbx that is properly weight painted? without having to do all my unity work again 😭

[ornate stump]

If you want to edit fbx file then you must never unpack the fbx file in the scene.

[balmy plover]

i never touched anything that said unpack i dont think

oh wait you just mean move it into the scene

[ornate stump]

Check the object icon in hierarchy, how the object icon look like?

[spark walrus]

Do you think it's possible to use blender on a laptop that's not very high spec

[ornate stump]

One way to know: try it.

[balmy plover]

i can run blender on my laptop that i got just bc it can run microsoft word

so probably

its slow but if it works it works right

[spark walrus]

I don't even have a gpu

[balmy plover]

found a tut, nvm but thank you!

[balmy plover]

oop

good luck soldier

[spark walrus]

my main pc does but I use it at night

[ornate stump]

If you want a certain answer then better just try run it.

[spark walrus]

okay

Oh wait it won't work anyway duh

[spark walrus]

how to convert pc prefab to quest?

[ornate stump]

Change build target in sdk to Android and resolve some issues.

[spark walrus]

that doesnt help..

[ornate stump]

That's about accurate enough to answer your very vague question.

[spark walrus]

dude what?

[hybrid basin]

Is there a way to turn off backface culling on Quest shaders? This bonnet is transparent on one side, and it looks awful

[spark walrus]

maybe if i tell you what prefab im trying to convert youll know better

[ornate stump]

If you want to upload to quest, you just have to switch build target to Android. The sdk will tell you what needed to be resolved to make it quest compatible, which has many cases to see.

Then you can later ask how to resolve each individual issue.

[ornate stump]

There is no custom face culling in quest shader.

[spark walrus]

it says that theres too many physbones and contacts

[ornate stump]

That's the real question you had to ask. You need to simply remove some physbone component from your avatar, but what and how many depends on the number and either component, or transform the sdk is telling you.

[spark walrus]

problem is that yhe prefab wont work if i remove the physbones

[ornate stump]

If your prefab required that excessive amount of physbone in order to work then it can't be converted for quest compatible.

[spark walrus]

it can

it has a quest version of it

[ornate stump]

Well then why don't you just use the quest version of it?

[spark walrus]

cause the quest version still says

too man physbones

[slow smelt]

I don't think that Physbones are actually removed on quest, despite the warning saying they will be

[spark walrus]

that error prevents me from uploading it

sadly

[ornate stump]

Are you talking about the prefab alone, or the prefab plus your avatar? Because the amount of physbone reported in sdk is total number of physbone in your avatar.

[spark walrus]

the prefab attached to the avi

[ornate stump]

Then you would have to remove some physbone in your base avatar if you want your prefab to function.

[spark walrus]

already my avi looks stiff on quest

like tail

ecc

if i remove that it would look awful

[ornate stump]

Do you know the exact number of physbone the prefab is using?

Also you will have to distinguish between "physbone component" and "physbone transform" reported by the sdk.

[tepid sage]

i just wasted hours of reinstalling the correct version of unity just to be met with this same error, anyone know how to solve this?

[blazing marlin]

Is there a way to make contacts that only interact with other avatars of the same type? For example, I'm trying to make an effect that only turns on when other of my avatars are near

[ornate stump]

You have to set custom tag contact for reciever and sender.

[blazing marlin]

Now how would I accomplish this?

[ornate stump]

Do you know how to use contact reciever/sender?

[blazing marlin]

I haven't touched contacts lmao

[ornate stump]

You should look in avatar contact tutorial first. The different for you is you have to use custom tag to get your avatar interact with each other.

[blazing marlin]

Okay