avatar-help

[grizzled crow]

that is a good way to do it

[ruby summit]

dang another problem

i can't apply modifiers with blendshapes

[grizzled crow]

visemes are blendshapes usually, if none of the blendshapes on the new objects actually does anything you care about, you can delete them

[ruby summit]

they do

they keep the shape of my avatar's body

[grizzled crow]

ah...

[delicate tide]

Here is all I can provide for the animation, and I still do not know what to change or remove to get it to work...

[ruby summit]

il just install an addon that let me apply it even with blendshapes

[frail temple]

Is there a way i can vc with somebody? this is hurting my head

Either i import the avatar with the scripts and the Vrchat SDK doesn't open or i don't and the prefab doesnt save cause it has missing scripts

[junior void]

Looks sus

Where did you get this model

[frail temple]

got the files from some old Vrchat avatar creator, stuff was made in SDK 2.0

if i import the scripts i get this

I opened it in Unity 2018 which is it's version, the Vrchat SDK Tab just disappears

people told me to open it in 2022 Unity, i did, but the scripts just break it and i can't open the vrchat sdk control panel no more

my goal is to port the model to be quest compatible but i can't even get it to save at it's current state

[ruby summit]

now it looks correctly

i wanna cry

and idk why, the topology looks unreal on here

[grizzled crow]

are the verticies in the middle merged? or is it still split in two halves?

[ruby summit]

they are merged

[delicate tide]

Could someone please help me figure out why my new animation will not work but the others will?

[ruby summit]

so, what it could be?

[grizzled crow]

im in class rn, will help later

[ruby summit]

should i try convert tris into quads?

[ruby summit]

ok srry

[mental estuary]

Are you using VRCFury to apply GGLC? If so just drop the dance animation in a VRCFury toggle and it will just work ™️

[gilded raft]

looks like a normals issue to me.
you said it's merged in the centre, right? so you can drag a vertex away from the middle and both sides come with it?
first thing i'd do is check if the faces are facing the correct way. (in blender top right. 2 circles overlapping. show face orientation) faces should all be blue on the "outside".
if not, select problem faces, alt + n > flip OR select all > alt + n > recalculate outside
also try selecting all > alt + n > set from faces. (could use alt + n > average, and see if any of those in there helps)

[olive halo]

my brain is about to explode, did anyone else really not have this issue 😭

[ruby summit]

this?

[delicate tide]

I am not using VRCFury, perhaps I should..

How do I go about installing that?

[raven ore]

I am having a weird issue, I uploaded an avatar, I was removing some toggles bc I didnt want the glasses, but I cant find the glasses ANYWHERE in the armature, and when I uploaded her, she has glasses now?

[mental estuary]

https://vrcfury.com/download/

[delicate tide]

Oh wait I already had it installed, I just don't know how to use it

[mental estuary]

Add a toggle component on your avatar, give it a menu path like "Dances/Crip Walk", add an animation action and drag your animation in

[ruby summit]

you need to go on the vrc creator companion, manage projects and enable vrcfury

[mental estuary]

Remove all your other logic you already had

[delicate tide]

It's on 1.1173.0 right now

[delicate tide]

Rn I'm just using the gogoloco-generated controllers

[gilded raft]

yup! blue is good. we like to see blue. it's the side we see if you use a shader with backface culling enabled.
did you also try the bottom line of my message? it sorts out a slightly different issue to face orientation. it sorts out the vertex normals, in relation to the faces they're connected to.

[mental estuary]

As in after VRCFury builds? GGLC with VRCFury should be used as the preferred way to install it, then follow the instructions I put

What you're doing atm is trying to add an animation to GGLC, whereas you can just add new toggles

[delicate tide]

Ok so I think I need a slower explanation, where do I start with adding toggle components?

[mental estuary]

The add component button, on any object on your avatar

Your can just make an empty called dances or smth if you want to keep it organised

[delicate tide]

What component do I add?

[mental estuary]

VRCFury Toggle

[delicate tide]

OK so it's asking for a path

Is this where I add my animation?

[mental estuary]

No, add an animation action and drag your animation in

Give it a menu path called "Crip Walk"

Then you test in Unity by using GestureManager

[delicate tide]

Wait so like this?

Also do I need to drag the animation into my body?

[mental estuary]

No, it should only be in the toggle action

Your menu path seems wrong though, that menu path is the path in your radial menu in-game, not the path to the animation file

[mental estuary]

Seems fine to me. If it doesn't work then it's cause of the error box warning you that it's targetting Body which doesn't exist. Presumably your avata'r's main mesh object is called Body

[delicate tide]

Idek what to do with that

[mental estuary]

Well try it and see

[delicate tide]

How do I even run gesturemanager

[mental estuary]

Do you have it in your project?

[delicate tide]

idk

[mental estuary]

Check the creator companion

[delicate tide]

Wait no I dont

[frail temple]

Go to manage project, Add gesture manager

[delicate tide]

ok I added it, now how do I access it?

[frail temple]

Tools tab, Gesture Manager

Enter Play mode on the right

[ruby summit]

okay i did the one you mentioned, im gonna export it to test, and later im gonna try giving it a texture

[mental estuary]

Auto-Fix

[ruby summit]

well, better

[flat herald]

Hey, does anyone know what the error message "Input string was not a UnityVersion string 2018.1.1a1" mean?

[delicate tide]

I auto fixed but it's still not working, idk how to add the path for the animation to my model

[flat herald]

Been making avatar for years and recently I only use the 2022.3.22f1 version, and I've never seen this before

All I did was try and put a hair asset on my avatar, that was an fbx file, and now the quest version just won't upload at all with this error

[mental estuary]

Check the path of the animation to make sure it's targetting Body

VRCFury applies the animation for you, that's the point of doing this

[delicate tide]

I don't have a thing called "body" and idek how to change the target or the path

[mental estuary]

Screenshot your hierarchy

[delicate tide]

I think it's just called "Chuck"

[mental estuary]

It's called Chuck instead, so you'll need to edit the path

[delicate tide]

How do I do that?

[mental estuary]

Open the animation, and change the path

[delicate tide]

You mean this thing?

[mental estuary]

No

[delicate tide]

Do I drag the animation into the hierarchy?

[mental estuary]

No

You need to open the animation in the animation tab

[delicate tide]

Oh alright

I see where it says Body: Skinned Mesh Renderer

But the entire tab is grayed out and I can't change anything

[mental estuary]

Add the animation into a temporary animator on the root of your avatar, then you'll be able to edit the animations that are part of that animator

[delicate tide]

So do I add a new clip onto my existing animator, or do I have to make a new one?

[mental estuary]

Use the clip you have, you just need to edit it

[delicate tide]

I'm sorry if I'm sounding incredibly stupid right now, this whole thing has me stressed tf out and I'm unable to figure anything out right now

Ok I found it

So I add property Chuck:Skinned Mesh Renderer

But there's nothing for blend shape

[mental estuary]

Why are you trying to add a blendshape? You need to edit the dance animation

[delicate tide]

These things?

[mental estuary]

Click on the little eyes on the left of Body and rename them. Should come up grey instead of yellow if it found them

[delicate tide]

It's STILL not working...

[summer hearth]

Anyone here ever added physbones to puppy ears? If so if u remember the values u put since im struggling with mine

[mental estuary]

Is this trying to look for a subanimator or smth? This animation is out of my knowhow

[delicate tide]

This is why I would rather have gone with the GGLC path, and just found a way to fix the broken transitions...

[mental estuary]

Fullbody animations can be really annoying to get right when you have lots of things interaction. VRCFury has logic to handle it all

You really should just find an animation that targets Body/Chuck

[delicate tide]

That is literally the only crip walk animation I could find...

[mental estuary]

And if that animation is that, then I'm stumped xP

[delicate tide]

No I'm sure it'll work, it's just that some combination of these settings will make it work, I think...

[ruby summit]

ok, adding a texture helped but i think its kinda plain

is there an easy way to make ao maps?

or a poiyomi option?

[delicate tide]

Yeah no I just tested the animation in gesture manager, it works, just can't figure out why the vrcemote int parameter is changing automatically whenever I toggle the animation on through the GGLC menu

[mental estuary]

Don't use VRCEmote?

[delicate tide]

But then where do I add the animation in my golocoaction controller?

[distant bison]

how do i low this down

[mental estuary]

Is this not a better question for the GGLC server?

[distant bison]

???

[delicate tide]

they have their own server?

[mental estuary]

Yeah, google it

[distant bison]

are you talking to me??

[gilded raft]

check your texture sizes. that's usually the main thing. click on the texture in the asset bit then it's usually an option on the right somewhere.

[mental estuary]

No

[distant bison]

kk

[mental estuary]

https://vpm.thry.dev/ VRAM tool for helping you

[distant bison]

i lowed it down and its still the same

[hoary ember]

could anyone who's super familiar with pumkins avatar tools lend me a hand or some advice here. This is the second time i've come across this ort of issue, neither look the same but are messed up in a similar way. Dunno if it's pumkin or my avatar. I've edited many avatars in blender with zero issues so i'm not sure what's causing this to happen

he's all scrunched up and in the floor, another avatar has a similar issue but just the left arm. I tried also replacing the FBX without Pumkin and this happened but in unity too, so i'm not sure what to do

[delicate tide]

Alright I posted a thread in the gglc server, hope to get an answer soon

Thanks for all the help, guys

[frail temple]

Quick question, when downloading a model from SketchFAB, what format should i get?

[hoary ember]

FBX are usually best for vr projects and more widely supported especially for unity and blender

[gilded raft]

mm. fbx is preferred. but gltf is fine. blender can get an addon to import, if it can't import by default.

[frail temple]

Perfect, thanks, I'll experiment with it

[hoary ember]

could have sworn there was another one i've seen a few times with avatars i've bought but i can't remember which ones or what the file format was called

[flat herald]

Can anyone still help me with this or no?-

Been trying all steps possible to fix it but without results

[gilded raft]

i've seen xps and psk once or twice, pmx is quite common (more for mmd though)

[cunning swan]

ok how do i do glow textures

[ruby summit]

i need help w something

i have these pants, using armature link on unity with vrcfury doesnt make the ankles bend and it looks bad, but i cant transfer influences since it has special bones (the strings)

wait i got an idea

what if i export pants and strings separately?

[gilded raft]

glow textures. . . you mean "emissions"? poiyomi does them. other shaders do too i think. anyway. need a mask (additional texture with white bits that do glow, and blacker for bits that glow less.) and i forgot the rest.

[ruby summit]

any tip on how to pain these?

[lime jetty]

I can't find any answers to this. I've been trying to do a custom blink animation that manually uses the eyelid bones on the model instead of using a blendshape because of complications with the model itself requiring it. From the scattered, tiny bits of information I could find floating around, all I could gather was that I had to make a blinking animation that simply loops, put it on an animation controller, and put that on the FX layer. Now, the animation plays as it should, but after a while it starts to just... stop functioning properly. It's like at some point after a good few minutes it starts gradually cutting out frames (I notice the animation actually slowly getting more jittery) until it eventually just stops blinking. What the hell is going on here...?

[torpid cliff]

try using hai-vr combo gesture expressions

[ruby summit]

can someone please help me

same problem of clothes not fitting after play-mode

and i need to do it with armature link bc i need the strings physics

[hoary ember]

To be fair I don’t setup models in unity nor do I do anything from scratch I’m still learning so I only buy and edit those avatars. I have never seen any that use anything other than FBX. I mainly use furry avatar though

[dapper plaza]

I bought Amelia Head and opened it in blender, why does the eyelashes and eyebrows look like this? I can't figure it out 😭

[ruby summit]

alpha

you need to change the alpha channel

and connect the texture

[dapper plaza]

I've tried changing the blend mode to alpha hashed and alpha clip which changes nothing.

;v;

[dapper plaza]

connect the texture?

[ruby summit]

how do i fix this??

[ruby summit]

yeah, the lashes should have an alpha channel

and a texture

should be like a black background with a white lash

[dapper plaza]

idk how to fix it in unity but u could export it to blender and sculpt it using grab i think?

[dapper plaza]

oh yeah I found that, I added it onto the lashes and they just looked white with a black background

heres a picture

[ruby summit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udRLe6F6Z-0

hope this helps

[dapper plaza]

Oh my gosh!!! Thank you so much!!! I've been at this for hour and it finally worked!

[ruby summit]

lets see the results

[ruby summit]

btw i dont know if you realized already but the piercings are a little bit offset

[dapper plaza]

It looks a bit funky up close but I honestly dont care, It looks good enough 😌

[ruby summit]

it look gorgeous :0

[dapper plaza]

whoops I forgot to move them 😅

[dapper plaza]

yess 🫶

[torpid cliff]

im having a problem where when i gesture with my right hand it toggles both hands gestures. my left hand cannot trigger any generic gestures like closing the fist or pointing. does anyone have an idea for a fix to this?

[somber meadow]

Sounds like your gesture animator is using GestureRight in both layers

Or you don’t have layer masks assigned in your gesture animator

[torpid cliff]

its showing as gestureLeftWeight as being used for left hand and gestureRightWeight for right

[somber meadow]

Weight is for the fist gesture

[torpid cliff]

yeah the fists are broken

[somber meadow]

Screenshot your animator responsible for the gesture slot on your avatar

This looks like a ripped avatar

[torpid cliff]

its in a package that im using

is this the right one?

[somber sequoia]

those animator states are very grid-like

[somber meadow]

Yeah it’s what they look like if you just take them out of a assetbundle

[somber sequoia]

sure is

[solemn hound]

When i toggle gesture manager the blendshape resets

[nova flicker]

Anyone know why this would happen or how to fix it ?
It only appears in game / play mode (with gesture manager)

I looked at the rig configuration and things are fine there. And Blender is fine too with the hair bones.

[ornate stump]

Because the blendshapes are being controlled by some animation.

[ornate stump]

That happens when the blender export settings doesn't match with previous exported fbx.

[nova flicker]

gotcha! ty ty
i fixed it C:

[forest bloom]

hey is there any reason my friends cant see my camera render texture in game? i can see mine fine but no one else can see it

[quasi briar]

A few problems it could be. Were the pants made specifically for that avatar? If not, the bones might have a different name. The bone names must match exactly for all humanoid bones or else it won't be merged correctly. So if you have Knee.L on your avatar but LowerLeg.L on the pants, that won't merge properly.
If that's not it, then it's a weight painting problem, you'll need to fix it in blender

[ruby summit]

already fixed it, just had to disable position and scale in armature link and pose the pants a little bit

i wanna ask, is it possible to make a grabable item in my avatar? i got a cute backpack that i want it to be able to grab it with my hands

[wraith saffron]

I'm trying to add an option to toggle all of my combo gestures off. Also I can't seem to use any other gestures while using combo gestures. For example I have some basic emotes but they all seem to do nothing. 🤔

[rancid hawk]

Hello! I've been running into an issue every time I start up a new project. Unity WAS working on my computer and now I am hit with all of this every time I try to make a new project.

Things I've tried:

• Restarting PC (Countless times)

• Reinstalling VCC (About 9 times)

• Reinstalling Unity (About 6 times)

• Copying a good chunk of the errors and googling them to see how I can fix them (Tried multiple fixes, none have worked)

Please help 💀

[main shuttle]

i already got it, im just using the default gesture playable layer now in the avatar descriptor, thanks tho!

[fossil harbor]

I dont know how to fix this

[vagrant linden]

hey, sorry I know it's a dumb question but I haven't touched unity in last 2~3 years. I am trying to swap the face texture for a model, however when I drag it on top of the model, it assigns it to the wrong face. If I recall correctly, there was a way to manually swap out stuff like alpha, base texture etc.

can someone remind me how it was done? I am just so out of the loop now qwq

^ my actual problem is that I think I messed up by using a different shader on the avatar, I changed everything to poiyomi and now stuff like blushes just show as completely opaque

[proper storm]

Hmmmm, I know its a simple fix, but my avi preview shows up with no clothes on, how fix

It had clothes yesterday in the preview but I messed with something iicr

Yeah nevermind, I put default on on my vrc toggles and its loading in with clothes in play mode and should retain them in the preview

[bronze thunder]

how do i fix this my camera is weird

[night ember]

Weird how

[bronze thunder]

like i cant get close to my avi

at all

[night ember]

You are in iso

Click the cube

[bronze thunder]

oo

thank you

[stable zealot]

How do I set certain blendshapes to be constant? I customized my Mamehinata to have different shaped eyes, eyebrows, and only 1 skin fang but it isn't doing this in-game for some reason
I thought I just have to do it through the face mesh in the hierarchy?

[strong fog]

you have to make an animation, and put this one as the base one

[stable zealot]

Oh man. Is this complicated? I'm not sure how to do this or where to start

But I do want to learn

[strong fog]

there's plenty of tutorial online, try something like, how to make a togle, you will understand what i just said while watching the video

[stable zealot]

Okay, thank you! I wasn't exactly sure what to look up though I did try before you said anything haha

[strong fog]

we all start somewhere don't worry, what you're trying to achieve is easy so you won't have to pass long night's trying to figure it out, don't worry

[frail temple]

Okay i've successfully imported a glTF model into blender, and it's missing the texture, it's in it's own seperate folder, how do i import it?

[strong fog]

click on the model, then go to material on your right screen, create a material, on the color part, click on the yellow dot, chose image texture, go take your image, done

[frail temple]

Source:

Is this how it's supposed to look like in blender or am I required to fiddle around a bit?

[strong fog]

i don't know ? im not even sur what you are trying to get, this model look broken to me, is it snake ?

[frail temple]

Yeah, it's the peace walker cutscene drawing of snake but 3D

it's supposed to look like this, but since the file's glTF, the texture file is seperated

[strong fog]

then it should pe tweeked, maybe some alpha, try scrolling and puting the png with trancparency the same way you put color, but in alpha, and underneath, in try tweaking the parameter of the alpha mod,

[frail temple]

Can you elaborate or send a video? i am kind of new to this

this is the texture that was included

[tidal dune]

I get these 3 errors but all of them are mapped (humanoid animation type, 4 bones skin weights). (only some aren't deforming the mesh but that's intentional, it isn't the head or feet.)
(And yes I did check if the mesh moves with the bones that I specifically mapped in the avatar configuration. I did press apply)

[strong fog]

in the normal part you click on the yellow dot, image texture, what you send me

on the blend mod, switch between the three alpha to get what you want

[desert elk]

you could try switching to generic and back to humanoid

[strong fog]

can i see your bones ?

[frail temple]

Ah alright, i'll finish up rigging the model then i'll do that

[tidal dune]

After work.

[tidal dune]

I tried generic but never specifically switched from generic to humanoid.

[desert elk]

if it doesn't help it could be something with the bone set up

send a screenshot of the bone configuration and the hierarchy

[tidal dune]

Yea probably the bone setup, or the hierarchy structure of it (or the hierarchy of where the model is vs the armature).

[desert elk]

send a screenshot so we can spot what's wrong

[tidal dune]

I'm at work rn but I'll show the screenshots once I'm home again.

[desert elk]

alright

[stable zealot]

Well I replaced the default face animation in the controller but for some reason only the mouth changed despite the blendshapes for the eyes 100% being in the animation I made ;u;
So I made my own eyeopen animation and tried replacing the EyeOpen animation with mine. Then for some reason, the avatar just won't autoblink in-game anymore

[tidal tendon]

I just noticed that setting rotation constraints to have negative influence works with Unity constraints in editor, but has no effect in game. VRC Constraints clamp these values to 0. Has this functionality always been blocked or is this a bug with the new VRC Constraints?

Is there still a way to disable autoconversion of VRC Constraints? There was never a way to disable autoconversion. 😬

[cosmic valley]

any idea why my avatar feet still floating even tho i tried putting it directly onto the ground

[desert elk]

it your origin also on the ground level?

[tidal dune]

@strong fog

Pretty much the same hierarchy in blender but sometimes when I export, it imports with the thumbnails indicating that the mesh is laying down. Sometimes both, sometimes only the untextured mesh.
And yes I do have ghost bones. I never had issues with ghost bones (I only had one other avatar that used ghost bones).

[desert elk]

the hierarchy looks alright. The mesh sometimes does it. Comes with blender > unity conversion

i don't see anything that could cause an issue

[strong fog]

hhmmm yeah hierarchy look fine, try re importing it and reputing in on humanoid, to see if you have the same issue

[tidal dune]

I already reimported it like...7 times or so. (with multiple changes to textures inbetween and bone stuff) I do have wanna try switching from generic to humanoid if that helps.

[tidal dune]

Actually is this hierarchy normal or am I misremembering it?

[desert elk]

normal

[tidal dune]

huh.

[desert elk]

so are your bones

the only thing i can recommend if export from blender again but disable leaf bones, maybe they're messing it up somehow

[tidal dune]

probably leaf bones.

[strong fog]

yeah , i have the fealing your"head" is leaf bone, is it ? when you move the head not the neck, does it move ?

[tidal dune]

It does.

The only things not moving is the arms & hands. (aside from shoulder bones, that one is connected to the mesh)

[strong fog]

the model of the head moves ? weird, really weird

maybe it's the unity project who's broken, those stuff happen a lot

[rocky grail]

i might be dumb but just made an avi and it loads up naked and i have to manually put clothes on how to fix?

[tidal dune]

When I move the head bone, the head part of the model moves (in the avatar configuration screen). It's one entire model

[strong fog]

it mean that on the animation, all the cloth are on off, try puting those you want on "on"

[strong fog]

yeah but it could like have no weight paint but even that shouldn' be an issue, like i said, the unity project might be broken pal'

[tidal dune]

Which is weird cuz I downloaded everything I needed yesterday.

All this, yesterday. I downloaded the right unity version too.

[strong fog]

did you import other stuff too ? some time just importing to unity can cause things to break (it happen to me more than i can count with simple import)

[tidal dune]

I can't recall importing any external stuff other than repetitively importing the model over and over again.

[tidal dune]

Also there is one weird issue where it can't recognize the upper/lower arm bones and hands even though I gave it the exact same name.

[strong fog]

weird

[tidal dune]

I guess I should start a new project as a last ditch effort

[strong fog]

yeah try, if it still not working this might be a problem on the model level

they we should try checking it on blender

does it have the right relation ?

[tidal dune]

uhhh probably not because I never look there.

[strong fog]

you never went on blender ?

where did your model come from ?

[tidal dune]

No I did go on blender, I just never look in the relations section cuz I just...automatic weight it and done.

But so far everything is parented correctly.

just no funny buttons.

upper chest is connected to chest, chest is connected to lower spine thing, lower spine thing is connected to hips (which is the root).

[strong fog]

damn, weird

[tidal dune]

same applies for the neck, head, etc.

[strong fog]

and arms too ?

[tidal dune]

yep, they connect to the shoulders. (rightshoulder, rightupperarm, rightlowerarm, righthand)

[solemn hound]

gonna look that

[tidal dune]

I do wanna check the weight paint mode and bone collections, but bone collections is probably an optional thing.

oh and...this thing. I hate this thing. I don't know how to get rid of this.

[strong fog]

you don't need them

your problem is .....weird, like hella weird

[tidal dune]

I know I don't need the shoulder bones but it came with the armature anyway and it wasn't a problem to connect it to the mesh at least.

[strong fog]

can i see the hierarchy again on the left of unity ?

[strong fog]

you still need shoulder arm forearm hand and fingers for unity to understand, even tho they are not conected to anything

[tidal dune]

So I need to make more bones?

[tidal dune]

Since i never specified finger bones

Wait

[strong fog]

you kind of need those yeah

[tidal dune]

What if I get rid of the optional bones instead from the config?

Maybe that trigger some weird shit

[junior void]

Finger bones are optional

[strong fog]

what optional bones ?

[strong fog]

since when ?

[tidal dune]

Shoulders. toes.

[strong fog]

as far as i remember at least three finger are needed

[tidal dune]

i mean it does say they are optional in the config, the fingers

[strong fog]

you need the shoulders, the toes no you are not needed but they shouldn't break thing

[strong fog]

this might be new, like realy new

[tidal dune]

No it has been here for like plenty of months now. I remember it on my other avatar

[strong fog]

yeah months is kind new for me, i've been making avatar since 2019

[tidal dune]

I think you missed out on the vrchat sdk 3 news then. or probably a minor update after

[junior void]

Ye

You need hands and feet but not fingers or toes

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/rig-requirements/

[tidal dune]

Do you have any ideas btw? (before I start new)

[tidal dune]

correct. though if I added optional bones, would it matter or not how many optional bones are being assigned?

[strong fog]

but arn't the game using the index bone to understand where you press stuff ?

[tidal dune]

Well yea but not all avatars do that either. Also that would imply that the validation section would mention it. (rather than being non-specific)

[junior void]

So what, you get the mapping issue message?

I didnt follow for too long

[tidal dune]

yep. 3 errors that relate to bones that are already assigned automatically just fine. I triple checked it.

[junior void]

Did you try to set the rig to generic and back to humanoid

Did you try to drag a new fbx into scene

[tidal dune]

I could before I make a new unity project

[tidal dune]

7+ times.

[junior void]

Does the avatar have the rig config avatar assigned?

Meaning the blue config dude symbol

[tidal dune]

went from generic to humanoid, it doesn't find the bones that are named the same as where they belong but I can set them manually just fine. It just doesn't want me to publish

[tidal dune]

yea, just some bones are not assigned automatically.

wait

hold on where exactly??

In animator or vrc script thing?

nvm the animator thing

[junior void]

Next to the animator ye

[tidal dune]

Yea I do have it. what about the animator controller?

[junior void]

Should be empty

[tidal dune]

Oh.

Oh

that explains.

sorry silly (Stop yelling) bot

[junior void]

But it shouldnt mess with bone assignments though

[tidal dune]

Wait lemme check

Some bones have like "end" bones to them.

idk what they do

[junior void]

Theyre useless

Blender adds them on export unless you untick the box for add leaf bones

[tidal dune]

Ah so it is already gone since the last export was without leaf bones.

Ok yea the error still pops up

still as intended

[junior void]

Lets see your vrc descriptor and animator

[tidal dune]

I did remove the animator controller

I also basically know the exact coordinates of the eyeview because I typed it in so much.

[junior void]

It should fix itself if you use a new fbx from here. If youre using pumpkins, you may be copying problematic stuff

Your scale is 0.01 though which strikes me as odd

[tidal dune]

I'm not using anything external other than the vrc creator companion packages.

[tidal dune]

Probably an apply transformation issue

[junior void]

Export setting

[tidal dune]

Oh yea now I see that

I see how small the scale is

It doesn't seem to change the model size.... (in unity)

[kind heath]

I've got this odd issue with this avatar I'm making. Physbones for the hair look perfectly fine, but the gizmo disappears in Play Mode and the Physbones do not work. All other Physbones on the model work just fine I've tried changing the Multi Child Type

[tidal dune]

nvm I fixed that.

[kind heath]

I've tried around a few things. The physbones work if I place the components on each child of the Hair_Root but they stop working if I put one component on the root bone. I really don't want to do it this way for optimization purposes. Does anyone know what causes this?

[cosmic valley]

like the model in blender or

the white line

[desert elk]

unity represents origin with the white like, I think

[cosmic valley]

do i move the amarture

or do i go back in blender and fix it

[desert elk]

blender

you need to place the avatar on world origin and apply all transforms

it should move your origin to be in between the legs

blender represents the origin with a little dot

[cosmic valley]

how do u move that dot

[somber sequoia]

you don't move it, you can set it though. As Eli said, if you apply all transforms on the object, the object's origin will be at the world origin

[cosmic valley]

alr

[somber sequoia]

otherwise you can set it via menu options Object -> Set Origin

I'll often set origins to the 3D cursor while modeling

but when you want to export that avatar, it should generally have all parts have their origins at the world origin

(props are often a different story)

[cosmic valley]

i think i found it

it didnt work

[kind heath]

hope it's okay to bump! i still haven't figured this out

[cosmic valley]

okay i think i got it now

ty

you guys are actual mvps here tho tf

[desert elk]

you can click A to select everything in the scene and apply transforms after

to make sure you get everything

[cosmic valley]

just done that, i hope it works now

[unborn meteor]

How would I go about fixing this issue? Using the Index controller. I can find out that it's something to do with the new steam finger tracking system. My fingers look correct in the muscle preview in Unity

[tidal void]

Uh, this may be a stupid question, as I'm am still learning Unity; Why can't I see the progress bar in my Animator's layer when triggering a certain animation while on Play Mode?

I'm refering to the little progress bar you see on an animation as it plays out in the Animator itself. I see other people have those, but I don't, and it's making it difficult for me to debug my animations.

[timber wharf]

@tidal void you need av3emulator running and set to that layer (fx etc)

[tidal dune]

@strong fog
So I did find this error after I was configuring the avatar. (the first error)
Any clues? (Also I still have the same issue, this just caught my attention)

[tidal void]

Ah got it! It was just that I wasn't hitting play while having the right object selected in the hierarchy 🙂

[strong fog]

it seems you have an issue with one of your parameter, did you change some animation ? menu or something ?

[tidal dune]

I did turn off the import animation checkbox in the animation tab because I didn't have any. but it never changed things either way. I also unchecked "strip bones". (idk why but it felt weird not to) that's about it. the process went pretty much the same:

• Import the fbx file (from the folder of blender export)
• Extract textures & materials
• Change to humanoid rig (and apply)
• Manually assign the bones that won't automatically assign
• Probably the time the error in the console happened.
• Add vrc avatar descriptor & animator component
• Set the eye view position
• Assign avatar to animator component
• Quick fix all the errors that can be quick fixed.
• 3 errors problem.

[strong fog]

this eror is linked to the animator, you got something here that's fucked up

[tidal dune]

Well I could reinstall unity. or the vrc creator companion thing. or both. but if that doesn't help, then we are not a single cent closer to figuring out the issue.

[strong fog]

just try and open the animator so see if everything is well setted

[tidal dune]

this one right? or the avatar rig screen? (or both)

I did add it in the right location. (at least I hope I did. I'm doubting my own order of operations)

[strong fog]

huuuuh hold

[tidal dune]

yes?

oh yea I do notice something weird, the clip count.

[strong fog]

put it on this

vrcavatar descriptor should be put at the root of the avatar

[tidal dune]

The animator on there?

Oh

[tidal void]

Can someone help me on how to set Interruption Sources?

I made it so my avatar plays a slap sound and does a specific face when it gets slapped. However I'd like for you to be able to smack it and not have to wait for the entire animation loop to finish for the sound to play again when slapped again.

[tidal dune]

Oh wow that works?

[desert elk]

yeah, the avatar descriptor goes on the main part

not the mesh

[strong fog]

well that's how things work yeah

[tidal dune]

Yea that did a thing.

Holy macaroni am I stupid.

[strong fog]

in the animator, dont make an exit time, and don't put loop either, should do the trick

[strong fog]

https://tenor.com/view/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-spider-man-spider-man-peter-parker-gif-23359563

[tidal dune]

Oh since you are here, how can I lower the animator count to 1?

[strong fog]

ah embed failed

[strong fog]

uh, what do you mean ?

[tidal dune]

idk why its at 2

[strong fog]

take back the animator you have on the other part you had

[tidal dune]

Ah. thank you very much. including @junior void & @desert elk. That was a pain.

[strong fog]

you're welcome m8

🫵👁️👄👁️

[tidal void]

https://streamable.com/zv88ka

Why isn't it embedding

Anyway, that's my issue xD

[strong fog]

it's because of the slap hold, if it's for the face make anoter animation but for the sound you should have no sound base > sound > no sound

and it should loop and exit the "sound" stasis whenever the colider exit the hit box

[balmy barn]

any state and change interupt on the transitions

you can jump to wherever you are to another state

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/Manual/class-Transition.html ( Interruption Source property )

[tidal void]

Would I need a second Contact Receiver if I wanted to separate both face animation and sound?

I'm fairly new-ish to Unity heh-

Or would something like this work?

Having the face animation on top and the sound on the bottom, both using the same parameter

[strong fog]

no no no it will complicate things
separate both, but only need on contact receiver don't worry

one can act on many

[tidal void]

So doing a different layer for each, right? Just both using the same parameter

[strong fog]

yeah

different layer, same parameter

[tidal void]

🫶 👍

[strong fog]

🫵👌

[white hare]

Hi, is there a way to adjust the grabbing/pick up object animation in Unity?

[tidal void]

Uhm, my problem now is similar to before. If I have no exit time and no conditions after the slap has been activated (wanting it to move to a Sound Off anim, then to the first one), the transition gets ignored...

I know I'm stupid, I'm just missing something really simple but I'm unable to get it right 🤣

[timber wharf]

@tidal void it literally says it

exit time 1 for it to just exit when prev state ended (played once)

[tidal void]

If I add exit time, I supposedly won't be able to do what I explained up here^, no?

[timber wharf]

@tidal void add conditional transition of ON to itself

[tidal void]

Like so?

[tidal void]

^

[timber wharf]

uuuuh

why you dont use https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/state-behaviors/#animator-play-audio

if not then your anim should be frame 0 sound off, frame 1 sound on in order for it to restart.

but better use behaviour

[urban yarrow]

I was working on this Moe avi, because I planned to use it for some more casual chilling in events, and I noticed that when in AudioOrbs, i'm practically pitch black if the orbs aren't giving off light, is there a way to fix this?
Shader in use- lilToon 1.8.5

i did already fix the jacket, that was just a rendering difference, was easily fixed

[tidal dune]

I have a new strange issue where the avatar name and description just gets converted to "loading..." (even on the web it says the title and description "loading...")
I do not know how to fix that but I'm guessing by manually changing it after.
(This also means I can't publish android/ios version without manually changing it after)

Edit: it did fix itself when I switched to android version and publish it.

[urban yarrow]

Update to the above- head is lit differently from the body when dealing with AreaLit Avatars, but lighting and rendering settings are both the same as the body?

[shadow drift]

I have fbt but my preferred avatar (Lapwing) has some weird issues like when she goes on all fours she has to raise her head. It was suggested to me this may be a built in animation issue where it conflicts with the tracking. Is this something that could be potentially fixed in unity and if so where would I be looking?

[tidal dune]

new new issue: the avatar vs physical space height is incorrect. the overall size seems to be fine but my physical vr height is changed a lot when I wear the avatar. (like I'm considered 25% smaller and can't reach the floor in the game. my vr height is adjusted correctly)
How can I fix this? (maybe a height measurement system that could fix this)

[shadow drift]

Going just off memory of what a friend said to me. She had this issue and the issue was resolved by changing something in the shader which set the lighting differently for the body and head. I think it was an anchor point

They need to set the anchor override of the skinned meshes to the same object (most likely) @urban yarrow hope that helps sorry if not. I was also told vrcfury has a setting to do this manually

[urban yarrow]

already were the same

[shadow drift]

Sad. Sorry

[last bough]

If you havent, you should try putting the body's material on the head to see if the lighting issue still occurs

Cause if it doesnt occur, that means the head's material has some lighting settings that need adjusting

Then youll at least know whether or not you should be focusing on editing the material

[urban yarrow]

will do no 🫡

[last bough]

🫡

[urban yarrow]

also occurs with the body material

when in a normal world, looks like this

[last bough]

Dang!! i dont really have any more advice tbh but yeah at least that probably means its not a material issue

[urban yarrow]

i'm thinking i can just export materials into a new project and call it a day, but unfortunately that cant be done TODAY since i have to go out in a few hours T_T

[last bough]

Well im wishing you luck when ya do!

[tidal dune]

Gonna have to bump this since I can't quite think of a reason why now. Most likely will respond tomorrow

[urban yarrow]

In the meantime- If anyone who knows of any other probable cause comes across this, feel free to shoot me a ping or DM for it! would be greatly appreciated!

[untold bolt]

can someone help me out

i'm trying to add something on the hand

its in the right position but when i select flip it goes opposite side and far away

[visual dove]

I looking for Demon Slayer particles do you guys know where I can find it?

[dusk pulsar]

I don't get it. I've been always adding GoGo Loco manually but for some reason I fail at adding flight even though I've attached "Head" bone to the "Rotation" prefab.

[desert elk]

is that why my flying isn't working? I'm not attaching any prefabs...

[dusk pulsar]

VRCFury prefab of GoGo Loco should work. If you do manual, you have to add "Beyond Prefab" to the avi and attach "Head" bone to

to this

[desert elk]

ah vrcfury

[dusk pulsar]

and use VRLabs Avatar Manager to merge fx and parameters

[desert elk]

oh didn't read fully

[dusk pulsar]

but for some reason if I do this, the flight doesn't work even though animation activates -.-

[desert elk]

I'll try it soon

[topaz mulch]

hey doess anyone know how to make a particle animation play when this contact is triggred?

[balmy barn]

enable gameobject its on when detecting that parameter , then play it for x seconds before turning it off (one way)

[heavy zephyr]

Do you have a mirror active anywhere when trying to fly? (can be a world mirror or personal/face mirror) If not, that's probably why

[dusk pulsar]

No. Doesn't work for both enabled / disabled mirror

[heavy zephyr]

Then there's probably something wrong in your installation-

[frail temple]

Why's generate rig grayed out?

[balmy barn]

that one will never work as a humanoid, A or T pose

pose mode and try to get it in a T

(see it has bones)

[frail temple]

oh yeah i had to rig it manually, thought it would work if i did it like this

@balmy barn Uhhhhhh....

[balmy barn]

slapping on a rig , will never work on that model - manually weightpainting & moving vertices would take a very long time

[frail temple]

I'll just postpone this project then, stuff was already hard to rig manually lol

quick question, is it hard to import PNG files into blender?

[balmy barn]

image texture on a mesh with a material , open pick one

[dusk pulsar]

My avi has floor collider, could this be the issue?

[heavy zephyr]

If you're talking about physbones colliders then no, those are two completely different things that don't interact

[dusk pulsar]

You know, floor collider is for hair not to clip and flight uses floor to make a flight possible

[dusk pulsar]

I've spent a lot of time tinkering... in the end I went with VRCFury one and the flight works

[umbral willow]

Can someone help me with my avatar? im trying to edit an avatar and there is a problem that i dont know how to fix. send help

[somber meadow]

Describe your issue for a faster response from people here

[frail temple]

What's the traditional way of putting the textures on a fbx model that it came with? i tried downloading the model as GLB but it glitches out in Blender...
For context this is the model and it's textures...

[hazy sphinx]

can someone show me how to weight paint? i dont know how

[frail temple]

https://youtu.be/4fICQmBEt4Y?si=w2p4I9RdowHo6zwr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVp0asJsYfw&t=73s

[hazy sphinx]

thank you

[frail temple]

(Left is imported with GLB, right is after i've put the texture in Shader editor...)

only Box gets even close to the supposed texture

[hexed flame]

How do I get physbones to work? I've added the script to the bones in unity

But they don't move

[umbral willow]

its not that appropriate, i need to dm sm1

i cant js like

say

without a ban

[hazy sphinx]

nvm that didnt help

[barren wharf]

how do i install parameters from gumroad

[desert elk]

pc or quest? Physbones affect the children of the bone you placed them on, so if you placed them on the last bone they won't do anything unless you edit the end point

[barren wharf]

this is all the instructions say

[hexed flame]

pc

[stable isle]

how do i i make my avatar have a fist so that i can position props in their hand?

[barren wharf]

also

how do i copy an fx controller

[stable isle]

Can anyone help please?

[umbral willow]

can someone help me fix this issue? working on an avatar edit, and i have a toggle to turn off a piece of clothing, but the clothing item warps the body. when the off toggle is activated, the body is still warped. how can i fix this issue?

[halcyon moth]

Okay so I want to add an animation to Gogo loco, basically when I activate fly mode it will activate the animation. How and where do I add the animation in order for this to work?

[somber sequoia]

I don't get the mirror thing, never had to use that to make this work

[somber sequoia]

GogoLoco uses the VRCEmote parameter for everything, you can use that to trigger other things. I believe when the avatar is flying it's between 121 and 125, but you'd have to check the flying animation layer in FX to be sure.

(I quit using gogo a while ago so not sure if they've changed anything here)

[left gull]

check the body mesh for any blendshape sliders that'd be affecting the area where its warping, reverse them back to 0 during the turn off animation

[cyan viper]

I've been testing my avatar in the emulator, and I wanted to ask if the red spheres are supposed to line up with the joints since all of them but the knees do

[somber sequoia]

No, those are IK targets

They're mostly not relevant for us in Unity, unless you really want to start getting into something like FinalIK yourself

I suspect you might be able to use them to spot something drastically wrong, but mostly just ignore them

[umbral willow]

thank you so much!!!

[short ferry]

so I'm trying to upload an avatar to quest and I compressed the textures to 128 and unity still says that the avatar is 10.58 mbs. It said this before I crunched the textures also

[somber sequoia]

Probably then it's mesh size, too many blendshapes, that sort of thing. Thry's avatar tools has a thing to tell you what takes up the most space, it's useful

[short ferry]

well the mesh size is small and only has 10 blendshapes

[frail temple]

I figured this out, Apparently you just extract materials after selecting the FBX prefab, and then apply the textures over in the albedo of those materials you extracted (video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igDeAFJrFbo)

[somber sequoia]

that was a guess based on the next most likely thing, you'll have to figure out what's large to know what to make smaller.

[short ferry]

yeah I'm checking that out now

[arctic ginkgo]

nvm i just realized i forgot to put in the right parameter file on the avatar 🤦

[signal thunder]

How do I fix this

[somber sequoia]

maybe weight painting, maybe physbone limiters if it happens due to physbones, maybe physbone colliders. there's not really a single clear thing to do here

[vagrant linden]

Hello, I'm trying to set up a clothing swap for shinano, however I'm not able to get rid of the underwear (which is necessary because the other clothing has it's own underwear).

She automatically enables the underwear as soon as I take her clothes off, so I deleted that action through the animation of taking clothes off. However when I tried to set up an animation that enables and disables the underwear, it does not work for some reason

^ the animation itself works when I preview, but the function that I set up doesn't work

[modern glen]

im trying to import my 3d model into an avatar but it says i need to spend more timein the game

can someone import my 3d model for me

[vagrant linden]

Okay for any future readers; I forgot to set the layer's weight to 1 in the animator...

[compact dust]

how dare you 😔

[vagrant linden]

listen.. I was just away from this for a looong while ok 😭

[tender willow]

These spheres move back in forth when I press "Preview" but when toggled on with gesture manager they don't move at all
Anyone have any ideas?

[somber sequoia]

animator logic problem, layer weight not 1, wrong variable, wrong variable name spelling or case... lots of possibilities here

[west cipher]

anyone using the new mamehinata ver 1.5.3 know why mmd isnt working?

it has these on it fx i didnt want to mess up, but not sure if this is wonking up the avatars ability to do mmd

[somber sequoia]

MMD will override the first two layers

[west cipher]

then any idea why its giving me troubles? the body is named right and i have mmd comp on

[somber sequoia]

not really, I don't know that avatar at all and barely MMD

[west cipher]

fair enough, i'll keep trying things, thank you

[balmy barn]

vrcfury mmd comp dont save all shapekeys that can be used for a vmd(mmd) animation

tested it some days ago and i lost 15+ that was used

unless you see the animation file you have no idea what they are using

common ones it should keep , rare motions have alot more , easiest way to test if something in fx messing with it just use a blank fx for a test

[quasi folio]

I can’t seem to select any lip sync modes, i could spam click, neither Auto or manual selection works

[desert elk]

do you have visemes or a jaw bone?

[umbral star]

hey does anyone know how to find the emission alpha material property in use for VRCF toggles?

[rapid wharf]

Can you move a physbone with a animation?

say trying to move a sword from one place to another

[hidden loom]

I need help with vrchat chairs or stations. I am trying to follow the video tutorials and usually get everything set up as they explain, within Unity it looks all the same but whenever I'm ingame no one can see the chair where it's supposed to be or interact with it. Can someone of you direct me at a written ressource or give me a quick step by step?

[timber wharf]

hows a sword is a physbone? you can animate physbones with IsAnimated enabled.

@hidden loom if its a toggle, chair should be on by default and toggled off by animation

initially disabled station gets deleted

[hidden loom]

OHHHH

Thank you sooo so much

that makes so much sense

[rapid wharf]

parent constraint and tried that it didnt wanna move but ill try again

[hidden loom]

💗

[timber wharf]

@rapid wharf once again, why a sword would be a physbone

[rapid wharf]

so you can manually pull out the sword from the scabbord

[timber wharf]

ah i see

[rapid wharf]

nope it didnt wanna stay in the new posistion

[timber wharf]

its probly not that easy to do, id have separate object for sword and for physbone to stretch. if stretch<1 show animation where sword constrained to bone, when 1 flip some bool so it becomes constrained to hand regardless of stretch value, release - flip bool back by idk, maybe just via gesture

[blissful mantle]

how do i fix this

what are write defaults

[desert elk]

you need to set all write defaults to be the same

you can see them in avatars 3.0 manager

[rapid wharf]

so its already possible to grab the sword on the default armor outfit

BUT on the new casual outfit I just added the sword is in a weird position and im trying to get it to move slightly to the right to match up with the casual... So when you switch outfits the sword pos switches too

[blissful mantle]

where is the settings menu for 3,0 manager i got it installed

[desert elk]

VRLabs

on the top

[timber wharf]

@rapid wharf oh, then you can just add empty as a parent for sword and move it however. so all the physbone stuff starts later.

https://github.com/hfcRed/Animation-Repathing use this to easily change animation pathes

[blissful mantle]

thanks it works

how do i fix toggles being stuck

[desert elk]

stuck?

[blissful mantle]

yeah they cant be changed state

its on permanent

this is all of on default

[rapid wharf]

still nothing after creating an empty object its still refusing to move

[blissful mantle]

yet ingame its on and stuck

[desert elk]

how about the layers? do you have them set up with false/true?

[blissful mantle]

yeah

[desert elk]

which arrow is that?

and if it's shorts the parameter should also be shorts

[blissful mantle]

its just broken

ill start a new project

[desert elk]

you could try opening settings and setting the transition time to be smaller

other than that I'm not sure what it could be

[balmy barn]

restarting project wont do a thing, why is it additive ?

[blissful mantle]

why is it adding these to base layer when i make na animation?

[ornate stump]

If you don't want it to add to base layer then you should use menu Assets -> Create instead.

[winter veldt]

you got link to cats blender blupin?

[blissful mantle]

how do i use an animation clip created using create

its greyed out

[ornate stump]

You have to drag the created clip into animator controller.

[balmy barn]

https://www.blender.org/download/lts/4-2/
https://github.com/teamneoneko/Cats-Blender-Plugin-Unofficial-/releases/tag/4.2.2.5
cats plugins
+ vrm importer
+ matcombiner
+ whatever other things cats want to install

vrm v0 or v1 doesnt matter

[winter veldt]

i use bender on steam

[desert elk]

i'd reccomend not

it's buggy

especially with add ons

but i think you can switch the version if properties or something like that

[timber wharf]

@rapid wharf show some animation clip keyframes for toggle?

[winter veldt]

is still say this cats not suport

[desert elk]

did you unzip it? don't

[winter veldt]

say need 4,2

[desert elk]

yes

[winter veldt]

i did not

[desert elk]

because that link if for 4.2

[hidden loom]

I made a mistake when animating. I animated an object on my avatar but I didn't select my Avatar as root to animate on but the object. So the animation clip is created and works well in preview but only for the object. When I try to set the animation clip to be used in VRCfury it tells me that it won't do anything because it's not connected in any path to the avatar (object is a child of my avatar root). Can I still somehow inplement the recordings of that animation clip and use it on my avatar and how?

[winter veldt]

but that link send me to 4,3,2

[desert elk]

if you really need a different blender version get cats from here
https://catsblenderplugin.xyz/

[balmy barn]

yeh it does , try that https://www.blender.org/download/lts/4-2/

4.2.7 should behave, im on a slightly older 4.2

[rapid wharf]

got it sorry just finishing it up for quest now

[timber wharf]

@hidden loom same

(or just open .anim in like notepad++ and replace all - add root part in transform path)

dont forget to delete an animator from object itself

[hidden loom]

Thank you I will try the github package. You are very helpful, thank you very much

[shadow agate]

Does anyone have an ideas on how to replace a body part on a model with a robotic one that normally wouldn’t fit on it

[fiery crow]

blender majority of the times

just reparent rig, set armature modifier

change, vertex group names if needed

depending on what it is, probably edit weight paint too

[autumn rover]

the left is the original and the right is the newly importet mode.
ive tried to edit this model in blender but when i put it back into unity it gets this weird shiny effect, i assume ive made a mistake with importing or exporting settings. what i did was selecting what i wanted to make into a fbx, then click export->fbx and use these settings

[fiery crow]

autofix in the sdk or tick legacy blendshape normals in the fbx settings

[shadow agate]

I may commission it’s too much for me 😭🙏 but thank you for your help

[fiery crow]

arms are generally the easiest, if u cant get weights perfect then u can do simple workarounds

where weight doesnt need fine tuning

[shadow agate]

yeah I’m just like someone who struggles easy

[fiery crow]

like an area of the arm where the bone is basically solid 1

[shadow agate]

So I would probably just pay someone to do it

But idk who so that’ll be a challenge of its own

[fiery crow]

the joints are the annoying areas, like the shoulder where it meets the arm or chest

what asset is it by chance?

u got a pic?

[shadow agate]

Its a robotic arm

[desert elk]

it's worth checking if it's already weight painted

if it has bones there's a high chance it is

[fiery crow]

first thing to do would be to scale it to fit, if u need to make it longer, u could even do that in pose mode (may affect some mesh parts tho, could seperate it if need be)

thats a super simple arm tho luckily

[desert elk]

yeah

looks easy

[fiery crow]

u can chop off that body's arm by deleting the mesh, remove the body's arm bones, and parent that arm's rig to the body's

then change the body's arm vertex name to match that robotic arm

if that makes sense

[shadow agate]

Alright

I’ll try it

[fiery crow]

ofc make a duplicate as a backup

or backup the whole blendfile

[autumn rover]

omg thank you so much, i feel so silly for not checking for auto fixes i will keep that in mind in the future

[fiery crow]

yeah any new fbx, its best to do that

its kinda inconvenient to do it manually it from a sdk menu or the fbx setting tho

but it is what it is

[mystic wharf]

I have a friend that does avatar, he should be able to help you

[balmy barn]

👉 exit over there

[untold bolt]

can someone help me? i'm trying to add the wholesome flashlight but when i use the flip option it goes somewhere else and not in hand

its in the armature

but i can't for the life of me figure out how to make it stay in hand but flip and not go somewhere else when i flip it from the menu

[fiery crow]

yeah im v sure

he does avatar

[mystic wharf]

yeah, he has been a great creator i know

[fiery crow]

but dont u do the expert 3D characater modeling?

ur bio says that, so why dont u know? and whys it only ur friend?

[mystic wharf]

I did in the past, not really into it again

[desert elk]

🐟 interesting

"I can"

shouldn't it be "I could, but I don't do it anymore"

[mystic wharf]

oh thanks for correction, it's a misuse of words

[desert elk]

mmm

[mystic wharf]

mmmm

[hollow trail]

I am having trouble animating a material swap. The problem being that I cannot click and drag the material to apply it onto the mesh when animating, but I can if I am not recording or previewing an animation. I am not sure why. AI said it was some sort of animator lock for materials, or something.

[desert elk]

i could never do that for some reason so i always just dragged it to the material slot

[austere bay]

I need some help </3 my avatars boob bones aren't moving but they're rigged, not sure if it's an issue with my phys bones or rigging? pls lmk! It's happening with all of my avatar's body bones, her ass bones, her thigh bones and her tummy bones :( Her hair is fine though so I don't think it's a phys bone issue. Any help would be appreciated!! (I also can't see the phys bone gizmo stuff on the body, only the hair and tails)

I hope that all makes sense :3

here you can see what i mean about the gizmos, I hid the head gizmos in the last pic :)

[somber sequoia]

Make sure the animation clip is in the animator that's active on your avatar (in the Animator component), and that you've selected the avatar then chosen the clip from the dropdown of clips in the "Animation" window.

there is no such lock in this case

[stray trench]

is this a backface issue?

[austere bay]

yes

[vestal nova]

Anyone know how to make a see through glass shader/material on blender? I've been trying to make one from multiple tutorials and it keeps coming out like this

[austere bay]

are you using poiyomi?

[stray trench]

ive been fixing this by duplicating the mesh and flipping normals, is this the best practice?

[desert elk]

if for quest, yes

[vestal nova]

I'm talking about blender, not unity

[stray trench]

this is a pc avatar but may be made quest compatible later if youre talking to me

[desert elk]

if for PC just turn off backface culling on your shader

[austere bay]

oh then just use the alpha option in the shader, you'll have to swap the blend mode in the shader settings to hashed or alpha

[desert elk]

yes, that was to you

[somber sequoia]

Alpha transparency, roughness < .5, maybe a bit of metallic

[stray trench]

here?

[somber sequoia]

possibly play with the refraction settings too

[hollow trail]

Yes, it is in the animator controller that is active on my avatar. Ive also selected the correct clip.

Like I have said, I can freely apply a material so long as I’m not recordong or previewing the animation. But when I am, i cannot apply the material for some reason

[somber sequoia]

and you are attempting to drag a material into a slot on a mesh renderer that's a child of the avatar object with the animator?

[hollow trail]

Yea, I’m trying to click and drag it onto the mesh.

[stray trench]

is this how i disable backface culling for poi?

[somber sequoia]

no - bottom, under "rendering", you want "Cull" set to off

[stray trench]

tytyty

[balmy barn]

add endpoint, physbone want 2 'bones' easy way to test if they ever move add radius - doesnt show up ? add endpoint

[austere bay]

tysm

[iron kindle]

Hello, i tried to search everywhere about this but i can't find anything:
In short i want to add a sound for each time i jump, that's it, how can i make an audioclip play everytime i jump?

[somber sequoia]

you might try checking the parameter Grounded

maybe along with Upright

[austere bay]

this link might be helpful :)
https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/animator-parameters/

[somber sequoia]

yeah that's what I was just looking at 🙂

maybe both of those and VelocityY

[iron kindle]

ah, i'll give a look, thanks

is there a way to test it inside unity?

[balmy barn]

pretty sure i have a test for that, but need to update it for the new audioplay so it can do random audio

[somber sequoia]

absolutely, AV3 emulator at the least has a jump button

[iron kindle]

nice!

before i do anything, how can i export my avatar as a whole unitypackage? i'm not really super experienced yet

so i have a backup in case i make some mistake

[unkempt cobalt]

Uh... What the hell just happened to my VRChat Base SDK?

[somber sequoia]

Assets -> Export Package. Though I'd just backup the whole Assets folder outside of Unity.

[iron kindle]

Ah, got it, thanks

Do i need to add additional parameters? if i go to my menus, i reached the limit of 8/8, unless i make it a default feature which can't be disabled

[umbral star]

how do i give the folder an icon? im using VRCfury toggles

[unkempt cobalt]

Isn't it this?

[high cedar]

Dose anyone have this avatar I NEED it

[somber sequoia]

make a post in #1138520828556890214

[somber sequoia]

not sure what parameters you mean here?

[high cedar]

I have looked there

[iron kindle]

The expressions menus

[somber sequoia]

add a sub-menu

[hexed aurora]

hey, long story short i think i need some help with shaders, namely geometry shader that should be in screen space renders in the face preview camera rather than the main screen and i don't know how to fix it

[somber sequoia]

#shaders is a thing

[hexed aurora]

ty

[fleet veldt]

I keep seeing people have this exact layout in their avatar menus with the same options, is this some addon idk about that people be adding to their avatars

[hexed aurora]

gogoloco

says in the middle :p

[fleet veldt]

fuck im stupid it literally says it in the middle

thanks!

[civic bone]

trying to figure out a animator issue and its great

its hard to explain it

if i could show someone while sharing my screen it would be nice

[crisp trail]

anyone know good guides for setting up lip snyc? i have all the shape keys set up i just dont know how to set it up in unity.

[hexed aurora]

look at the vrc avatar descriptor

there's lipsync there, which should autodetect the settings you need

[crisp trail]

okay where is the tab that adds said descriptor. im still learning the unity UI so im not the best at this

[hexed aurora]

you click at the root avatar object in the hierarchy and you 'add component' the vrc avatar descriptor in the inspector

you need to do that to be able to upload anyway, if you open the vrchat sdk control panel from the top bar i think it links to some docs

[desert elk]

oh actually, does anyone know how gogo loco got that text in the middle? What option is that? 🤔

[hexed aurora]

custom menu maybe

[placid cedar]

this weight paint refuses to work :( idk how and every youtube video makes it seem so easy

[fiery crow]

manual weight paint mode and blur tool the leg vertex groups gradually

[fiery crow]

probably just a bunch of filler text maybe

[fiery lily]

hey can any1 help? im trying to make the bicep on this avatar a little wider

[crisp trail]

strange how the polly count for this is so off to what it says in unity. any ideas why?

clearly in blender my model is below 30k tries

yet it gives me a insanely large and stupid number when i try to upload

[balmy barn]

read/write on your mesh(es) are off

click fbx set that

[crisp trail]

ahh idk why that isnt on by default

[somber sequoia]

blur tool is so useful for this

[fiery crow]

basically the equivalent of smooth sculpting but for weights, its so nice

[placid cedar]

The avi is so stinkin cute but I give up I have been at this for days :(

[kind tusk]

probably a dumb question but in unity, the stupid png is standing but in vrc the stupid png sinks into the floor even though the view point is the same. any help and my life is yours

[balmy barn]

origin of that is likely in the middle, you want it near feet (blender or use a gameobject as origin)

[tidal dune]

bumping this. just gonna work on a better texture in the meantime.

[kind tusk]

i will try this. thank you so much!

[balmy barn]

with descriptor on avatar, white line shows your origin wich should be at feet

[spark burrow]

idk if this is the right channel, but im trying to upload an avatar to vrchat through the sdk, but i cannot open the sdk. whenever i try it just gives me this error

ive tried alot and nothing has worked 😓

[ashen pelican]

how do you edit the speaking animations? Like if I have an object in my mouth that needs to move with A E I O U?

[compact dust]

did you use VCC to open the project?

[spark burrow]

yes

[compact dust]

what sdk version

[spark burrow]

uhhh

[compact dust]

also maybe try importing it manually from the vrc website

[spark burrow]

3.7.5

[spark burrow]

you can do that?

[compact dust]

yeah

[spark burrow]

i woulda just done that if i knew

[young needle]

does anyone have any programs that arent paid and have a decent texturing range? more so where theres painting the texture onto the model, i dont know how to explain it but im sure someone would know what im talking about.

the only reason why im not positive on texturing in blender for vrchat avatars is mostly just because of ive heard it can be laggy and sometimes not save, and i dont have a ton of experience with avatars since im quite new to it. a little guidance would be appreciated though !!

[compact dust]

blender

[spark burrow]

do you know how? i cant find it anywhere

[compact dust]

vrchat.com/home/download

[tepid sage]

Anyone know the best settings for bows with VRC fury physbone component?

[compact dust]

it all depends on your preferences and the bone structure

[tepid sage]

kk

[compact dust]

ik theres a tutorial on yt that has some good base values though

[tepid sage]

Could you link one if possible?

[compact dust]

lemme see if i can find it

cant find the one im thinking of

[spark burrow]

that didnt work 😭

i think its a unity error

[compact dust]

probably then

not sure tho

[tepid sage]

It’s Okie I will search some myself, thanks for looking tho!

[fluid niche]

Soooo, I figured I'd give MakeHuman a shot, given I can't find any decent avatar creation stuff that allows for multiple clothing styles/undressing for more cartoony (but not anime) avatars.

Anyway, my attempts to import the fbx files it generates into Unity are producing items that look like they've come out of some horror movie 😅

Anyone able to say what I'm doing wrong?

[somber sequoia]

it's an interesting texture you have applied there

[compact dust]

tattoos

[fluid niche]

It's not brilliant in Make Human, but it's a starting point, but this is what it should have imported 😦

To be honest, what I really want is something that makes avatars like what Meta/Facebook makes. I can actually get that thing looking like me, even in a cartoony form that I assume would work very well cross platform. But I'd just want to be able to switch outfits and have some control over things 😦

[desert elk]

what type of file is it? fbx?

[fluid niche]

Yeah, just exported an fbx file from MakeHuman

These are its export options.

[desert elk]

never heard of makehuman, but my first thought was to try importing it to blender to see if it looks good there
If it doesn't there's either something with the fbx itself, maybe wrong export settings?

[fluid niche]

I'll have a look. In the mean time, are there any other character creation wizard type things out there that folk can recommend I give a shot? The other option I've tried is VRoid Studio, but it's very anime centric.

[desert elk]

VRoid is the only one I know, you could get more realistic looking models but it requires a lot of art skills 😭 I've seen people do beautiful stuff there

i don't know any other character creation software

[somber sequoia]

something like ready player me?

[fluid niche]

Exactly, I've got a ready player me one, which looked great but when you start taking clothes off it, there's no chest under there, so I can't start playing with other clothes or, well, nude options should I ever find myself desiring them 😅

Er... remind me how I turn off these bones? This is looking a little insane right now...

[somber sequoia]

eyeball on the armature object

[fluid niche]

Thank you XD

[somber sequoia]

or select it and hit 'h' - which hides mostly anything

[fluid niche]

Hmmm, either something is wrong with the materials or I need a light source added. But I've not had to add one in the past for things like this :/

[somber sequoia]

possibly you have objects colored by vertex colors, in that display mode

[compact dust]

wild bones

scary

hi eli

[desert elk]

that's definitely a weird looking skeleton

hello michstan

[compact dust]

a bit wonky

[fluid niche]

To be honest, I just clicked these buttons in the top right until it wasn't just showing this grey shape rendering. I am so lost in Blender... or any of these tools, and yet I'm diving head first into learning all of them at the same time in the deepend of each of them!

But yet, that skeleton MakeHuman has come up with does seem a bit unlikely to be correct :/

[desert elk]

it looks like it has some correct bones

just the star is making me curious

[compact dust]

ball of bones

[fluid niche]

It all seems to map happily in unity to humanoid bones, but yeah, I wasn't expecting that star when I loaded it up in Blender there.

[desert elk]

just have some additional bones for... something

[compact dust]

feel like this texture shouldnt be mostly white
how do you put a png onto a mesh in blender btw

[desert elk]

they're in a texture-less mode right now

[fluid niche]

It does seem to go into an enormous level of detail. Bones for all the parts of the tongue etc. I expect I'll be seeing most of those get stripped down and combine at some point.

[compact dust]

i mean this one

[desert elk]

it looks black with textures, for some reason

[compact dust]

didnt realize i didnt post it

[desert elk]

does it match up your uv maps?

[compact dust]

uhh

i mean i painted it directly onto the mesh, but not in blender

so technically it should

but idk how to change the png into a texture

except for in unity

[desert elk]

I do it like this

in blender

and pick the png

[compact dust]

yeah does not work

1s lemme google nomad to blender texture exporting

[desert elk]

the uvs don't match up

[compact dust]

uv is dumb

:c

wait

how do you re-wrap an image

bc i had to unwrap it to export it

[vagrant linden]

how can I use vrcfury to set a parameter? like when I toggle something on, I want it to toggle something else off

[compact dust]

yeah

[vagrant linden]

I know how to do it manually but if there is an option to do through vrcfury it could save so much time

[compact dust]

you add the on action for the one you want one, and another action for the one you want off

but one is set to on, one is set to off

[vagrant linden]

yeah but the other action also has a toggle for itself

[vagrant linden]

so wouldn't it mess up with the other one?

[compact dust]

it should still work

[vagrant linden]

okay I'll try

thanks

[fluid niche]

Managed to download a more likely looking rig in MakeHuman, down to 62 bones instead of 163!

[compact dust]

should be like 206

i always think its 268

[desert elk]

how do you have that many bones...

my models have like max 100

[compact dust]

thats how many bones exist in a human adult

[fluid niche]

...that seems a bit overboard

[compact dust]

i was making a joke 😔

[desert elk]

irl human ≠ unity human

[compact dust]

waaaa

frik bot

[vagrant linden]

Okay yeah it works, but I realized i dont even need it because if I turn off underwear my character is naked under the skirt.. well good to know at least, thanks!

[fluid niche]

I've downloaded this Unity one. I would have used the Game Engine one but it had no notion of eye bones and didn't fancy the idea of winning every staring contest.

Okay, so turning on this "Specular Colour" rendering mode seems to have helped a bit, but there's still something not right :/ Hard to tell if this is my avatar or blender with me not knowing how to control it properly.

[halcyon moth]

Avatar is stuck in preview mode pose even though I'm not in it. How do i fix it back to A Pose?

[desert elk]

I heard pumpkin tools can help with that

but idk how

[hollow trail]

I still need help if anyone can provide it.

[fluid niche]

Phew, this skeleton is looking a lot more reasonable in blender 🙂

[desert elk]

you can only have 2 eye bones, and they need to be vertical

so you're gonna need to fix that

[timid inlet]

how does one find the .fbx file they export from blender... I swear im not this dumb

[desert elk]

well

it is where you saved it

when exporting you picked a location

it's there

[fluid niche]

I would assume we're seeing the eyelid bones there too.

[desert elk]

yeah, they're not used in vrc

not really

[ruby summit]

guys im helping a user to make his avatar, is there any galaxy texture/shader that is quest compatible?

[fluid niche]

Really? The Avatar Descriptor has a whole section on them for setting open and closed and looking up and down etc for upper and lower eyelids :/

[desert elk]

blendshapes are used for open/close

[fluid niche]

I've found this nifty sounding "remesh" tool. May I assume it does what it sounds like, and will take out some of the complexity of this mesh? Because by the looks of things I've utterly covered in triangles I probably don't actually need.

[desert elk]

and the look up and look down will only work with 2 bones set up like this

with roll set to 0

[fluid niche]

Hmmm, I thought I'd seen settings for looking down that adjusted the eyelids too, thought it was quite nifty as we do move our eyelids when we're looking straight up and down. I'll have to check later when I'm back in that area.

[desert elk]

i never messed with eyelids, the only thing i can tell you is that the bones responsible for your irises need to be set like on that photo, otherwise this section isn't going to work properly

and i have the other part set up with blendshapes (the eye close one), there's a setting for bones, but i can't tell you how to set it up with bones

[fluid niche]

So the answer was yes, that remesh tool actually does a pretty nice job of smoothing away some of those triangles. It also seems to make me topple over onto the ground... that's my hair and glasses still up there in the sky. Most odd.

[desert elk]

you can rotate it back up and apply transforms

always apply transforms before expecting

[fluid niche]

Remeshing everything else makes it join the rest of me down there. But my poor skeleton has certainly been left behind XD

[desert elk]

you can just rotate the mesh

[fluid niche]

Will do 🙂

[desert elk]

and apply transforms

[fluid niche]

Righto, where's this "apply transforms" you speak of?

[desert elk]

A to select everything

Crtl A - apply - all transforms

in object mode

[fluid niche]

Done. But... er... maybe I should have left those meshes alone. Pretty sure my clothes weren't this see through last time I checked XD

Time to try tinkering with the ReadyPlayerMe option instead. This is definitely a very different set of bones to what I was looking at before.
They're balls!

[vagrant linden]

Can I have two shaders on the same model? Like poiyomi for clothes and liltoon for the character etc.

[desert elk]

ofc

if it's separate materials

[vagrant linden]

yeah they are, thank you.

another question, I have couple of prefabs that come with no materials attached to them. The materials are provided in a separate folder, which I also imported. I'm pretty certain that it should have the materials on there because it has options for different colors, does this happen because I don't have the required shader?

[desert elk]

it could be that

if you didn't have the shader it would most likely just turn pink

[shut oxide]

Use quad remesher it works perfectly for me even though i wouldnt recomend any auto retopology addons for base body better do it manually

How do i remove the optional bones and leave em empty it automatically selected objects as bones for sum reason (i dont have eyes or jaw bones in my rig

[desert elk]

click on it and press delete (or backspace?) on your keyboard, or click on the circle and select none

the circle on the right

[fluid niche]

So trying to open the glb file from Ready Player Me in Blender, then export it to FBX results in this What-In-The-BB8-Hybrid nonsense appearing.

Eugh, never mind. Another day wasted trying to figure out this stuff. Can't believe I'm now I think three weeks into all of this and still no closer to having my first custom avatar.

[left gull]

its a bit of a learning curve for sure

[desert elk]

it's a ball

[bright silo]

And it's not previewing any of the blendshapes in the eyelook section of your descriptor?

[tepid sage]

Does anyone know how to the fix the eye look feature? When I set it and open up vrchat the camera is always offset to the side a little bit, I’ve tried moving it but it didn’t do anything. Anyone know how to fix?

[bright silo]

What about the blendshapes on the mesh itself. is the blink shape set to 100 by accident?

[bright silo]

in unity, when you set the viewpoint to have an x value of 0, is it in between your eyes?

Select the Body object in the Hierarchy. Look to the Inspector, the SkinnedMeshRenderer conponent will have a foldout labelled Blendshapes

[frail temple]

I spent 2 hours trying to apply textures on a FBX file only to realise it took two clicks
everyone who starts to learn blender and unity feels regarded

I want to increase the brightness of the bowtie in this model, how do i select it by itself? I only had one texture png

[bright silo]

Increase it's brightness as in change the colour of it from black to grey? or increase the brightness as in make it glow?

[frail temple]

Slight glow

i've tried googling it and looking on youtube but i can't figure out what the singular layer on the model is called, closest thing i found was the bone of the bowtie

[bright silo]

Best you can really do is give it emission in the material. If the shader has the ability you'll need a Mask texture that tells it where on the texture to add said glow, w/ white allowing and black disallowing.

[lucid nova]

his neck bone is conflicting with vrc's heiarchy (hl1 model) would it be best to import a unity skeleton into blender to redo him?

[tepid sage]

Does anyone know how to the fix the eye look feature? When I set it and open up vrchat the camera is always offset to the side a little bit, I’ve tried moving it but it didn’t do anything. Anyone know how to fix?

[somber sequoia]

you can import the FBX into blender, but ideally you should treat this as one way - blender (or similar) -> unity

[lucid nova]

ofc ofc

[somber sequoia]

make sure you don't have a camera on the avatar, then position the viewpoint properly, with x = 0