avatar-help

[somber sequoia]

It may be your avatar isn't at the origin properly

[frail temple]

Do you have a video to explain this? since the other videos i am looking at have specific textures for specific bodyparts, but i only have one PNG for the entire avatar, plus they tell you to make the background black even though the bowtie is black itself

[somber sequoia]

specifics would depend on the shader in use, and most of the good ones have at least some documentation

[frail temple]

this is all i got

[timid inlet]

help wut dis mean lol how do I add 'animator'

[somber sequoia]

expand that, there's some autofix buttons. Beyond that, do the rig setup as documented by most tutorial videos, that usually adds one

[somber sequoia]

Standard has a checkbox where you can turn on emissions and feed it a texture

[civic bone]

is someone able to call and help me with a problem i think its an animator problem or a state problem i have no idea ive been working with unity for 6 days btw

[desert elk]

did you set the rig as humanoid? it should automatically add one

if your rig is humanoid ofc

[civic bone]

?

[desert elk]

explain the problem first, no one's gonna get on call if we have no idea what's going on

[timid inlet]

uhhhhh I dont think I set to humanoid youre right

[civic bone]

its hard to explain but my avatar has a get punched in the face feature and gets BSOD ERROR with others punching me. im trying to make it were my menue can reboot it. it reboots it but its annoying me cuz after BSOD it shows the eyes and reboots like it resets to a default state and then reboots

[timid inlet]

any way I can back track and change to humanoid?

[civic bone]

everything else works fine

[timid inlet]

where to click to change :/ 🙂

[desert elk]

select your fbx in assets
in the inspector go to "rig"

set to humanoid and apply

[timid inlet]

aha thank you sir

[desert elk]

after that you may need to go to configure to make sure everything is set up properly there

[civic bone]

my friend and i were trying to figure it out but we dont know why it does this

[timid inlet]

I hope everything works 🙂

[civic bone]

why this chat so dead

[somber sequoia]

often happens this time of day

[civic bone]

with more than 7000 people on is crazy tho

all i want is help but idfk what is happening with this anymore

[arctic ginkgo]

how do you have your animator set up?

[civic bone]

idk how to explain that

[arctic ginkgo]

screenshots perhaps

[civic bone]

me and my freind have been messing with this for a bit

its an avatar i bought

[somber sequoia]

have you watched the animator (that layer specifically) while testing in play mode in unity? that's usually what I do for stuff like this

[civic bone]

it doesnt do anything idk why

i saw videos but mine is not doing anything

it was before but it isnt now

[somber sequoia]

then start by checking the first condition. Often it's nice to disable all other animation layers to focus on one at a time

[civic bone]

idk what that means

[somber sequoia]

set the layer's weight to 0 and it's disabled.

[civic bone]

dont know what that means either

like i sad ive only been doing this for 6 days

[somber sequoia]

do you know what a layer in the animator is?

[civic bone]

i learned some stuff but its so confusing

there are multiple layers on the left of it

[somber sequoia]

that's a start

[somber sequoia]

click the gear, in there is a weight option. 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled

[civic bone]

i mean i had to put audio in this avatar so i figured that out earlier

its mainly in this layer thats on the screenshot that im having trouble with

everything else is fine

[somber sequoia]

other layers can affect or even supersede, which is why I mentioned that one thing

[civic bone]

this would be so much easier if i shared my screen

idk why tf they dont have vcs in this server

[desert elk]

my guess would be trolls

much easier to manage text channels than vc

[civic bone]

just make it like 2 people per vc or something

its stupid

sorry im really freaking annoyed rn cuz of this bs

[frail temple]

prepare to feel like that for a while , while using blender and unity

[somber sequoia]

this is a normal part of building avatars, in my experience.

[frail temple]

@somber sequoia you are a godsend

[civic bone]

i can tell

[somber sequoia]

huh, what'd I do?

[frail temple]

Thanks, i didn't like the emission on the avatar but still, you taught me

[somber sequoia]

oh!

hey, cool 🙂

[frail temple]

way better than smacking my head for two hours on the wall

[somber sequoia]

yeah that's annoying

I just did 30min of that though

[civic bone]

been doing it for 6 days now

[somber sequoia]

and 30min of digging through chat archives in this server

[dense moth]

Hey, idk which channel this goes into but um, any idea why the tail would be doin this? (It was a vrcsdk 2 avi that Ive sat and converted to sdk3) and I cant figure out whats up with it.

Tail looks fine in pause but in play mode its just broke

[somber sequoia]

hard to tell from there, unweighted vertices? unconnected bone? weird constraint?

[dense moth]

Ive tried removing physbones, etc and it just breaks

[desert elk]

woah, that's a long tail

[dense moth]

Yeah! And Ive no idea how to fix it

Which is sad cause I absolutely love this tail, I think its cute

[desert elk]

it is cute, yeah

I never converted from sdk2 to 3 so idk what could've happened

[somber sequoia]

I'd move the tail bones around in the editor, see if all the vertices move properly, to rule out a weight paint issue

[frail temple]

Is there a reason why this happens?

avatar sometimes just has it's animations stop or where it spazzes out

[ornate stump]

Might have to double check how you installed gogoloco

[frail temple]

I just put it in the hierarchy and it worked

according to this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnbcQAqnruo)

[ornate stump]

Latest version requires additional step didn't mentioned in the video.

[frail temple]

Do you have a video, i looked at another video posted 3 months ago and it's the same steps

[ornate stump]

Just see the file that shouted "IMPORTANT!" in the same folder as you drag your prefab in.

[placid mica]

I have physbones in the clothes of my avatar, but whenever I enter play mode they disappear, but only some of them? I don't know what's causing this.

1st image shows all the physbones that are there, 2nd shows what appears in playmode/when the avatar is uploaded. I don't have (to my knowledge) any toggles that disable these specific physbones, because other ones in the same piece of clothing work just fine..

Any idea as to what could be causing this?

[ornate stump]

Do you still see the object the physbone attached to being active in playmode?

[frail temple]

Oh i see, how do you reach the write default tab?

[somber sequoia]

it's a checkbox on each animation state

[placid mica]

I dont- the armature isnt visible in playmode, but the physbones that are in the sleeves of the same armature still work

[somber sequoia]

.. why wouldn't the armature be visible?

[placid mica]

Its a separate armature than the avatar's, and it gets merged using the modular avatar script

[somber sequoia]

ah, modular.

[placid mica]

It's always worked like a gem, never had an issue. And it worked earlier on when I was working, but I didn't notice until later that this was an issue, so I'm not able to pinpoint where things went wrong

[ornate stump]

Then the physbone should be moved with the bones You should be able to see the actual bone that get moved that has physbone on it.

[frail temple]

Found it, i think

I haven't added any personal animation to the avatar itself, and gogo loco looks like it has Write defaults off by default

[somber sequoia]

use the WD on version if you want WD on

[frail temple]

I didn't know i had to add the controllers if there's no animator states besides the gogo loco itself, how do i add it?

[somber sequoia]

if you aren't using vrcfury to add it, the gogo loco documentation has detailed install instructions

[ornate stump]

That's a different IMPORTANT file. You shouldn't have to choose whether WD is on or off.

[frail temple]

Huh, i don't get these

[ornate stump]

That's still the old gogoloco then.

[frail temple]

V 1.8.6?

I got it on Gumroad

[ornate stump]

It's same version but latest package has extra proxy controllers for installation.

[ornate stump]

If you don't have those then make sure that you have make playable layers in avatar descriptor as default.

[ornate stump]

Might have to try download from booth.pm. It seem the version from booth is 1.8.6u.

[frail temple]

I just downloaded it from Booth.PM and it's also 1.8.6u

Can you just send it to me?

[ornate stump]

You can try create them. They are just a controller with one layer and one empty animation clip.

[stoic folio]

hey im new here, made an avatar for a friend but i cant upload it. about how long does it take before im able to upload avatars?

[ornate stump]

#vrchat-general-1 message

[frail temple]

I am kind of a newbie, do you have step by step instruction on how to create them and which controller goes where?

[ornate stump]

It took only menu Asset -> Create -> Animator Controller to create one

[hollow trail]

?

[ornate stump]

It'd be better if you screenshot or take video while you're doing it.

[hollow trail]

kk

[compact dust]

hi renfrew

[ornate stump]

Try selecting the object renderer and assign material in the inspector instead.

[compact dust]

how da hek do you make a new project tab go back to the first picture

so not skibidi

[hollow trail]

so like in the mesh then materials dropdown?

[ornate stump]

Zoom slider at bottom-right corner.

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[frail temple]

Done, now how do i create an animation clip?

Since there's no go_empty_clip

[somber sequoia]

Asset -> create -> animation

[ornate stump]

Same way as creating any asset.

[hollow trail]

Would you happen to know why I cannot just drag and apply them onto the mesh directly as shown in the video, though?

[frail temple]

Oh that's the animation clip? my bad

[somber sequoia]

Layered meshes will make this difficult, it's always better to pick the specific slot to be accurate

[ornate stump]

The mesh changed position and hance you might not got accurate casting directly on the scene mesh.

[mellow vigil]

Does anyone know how to fix these?

[somber sequoia]

always paste the first few errors, often the later ones are the result of the first.
But note that shaders with C# scripts won't work on avatars anyway.

That one looks like it's trying to access an older API, possibly it's old

[frail temple]

@ornate stump Uhhhh, i found the proxy action , turns out it's in Modular avatar folder...

Woops....

[mellow vigil]

Thats why confused, I'm not using any of those shaders, I'm only using The VRC/Moblie Particals so it can work for quest later on

[somber sequoia]

you may have to simply delete the scripts from your project then - if they won't compile, it'll break other things.

[ornate stump]

Strange. I have them in both MA and Fury folder.

[mellow vigil]

heres them in full]

[frail temple]

Very weird, i'll use the modular avatar scripts instead since they're the same, i'll get back to you if it fixes it

[somber sequoia]

yeah, same answer in this case, but always good to see the start of the error chain

[mellow vigil]

alright, I hope it doesnt break anything, it weirded me out because I wasn't using what ever shaders it thought I was.

[somber sequoia]

it doesn't matter if you're using shaders in that package or not. if the included scripts won't compile, it'll break everything

[mellow vigil]

that makes sense

[compact dust]

chat how do i use a roughness map in poi 😭

[somber sequoia]

https://www.poiyomi.com/shading/reflections-and-specular#smoothness

(smoothness is the inverse of roughness)

[mellow vigil]

It looks like that worked, thank you so much man.

[compact dust]

so put it in the smooth slot and use the invert option?

[somber sequoia]

is that what the documentation tells you to do?

[compact dust]

darn you kazin 😔

[somber sequoia]

🙂

[compact dust]

now i have to read

[somber sequoia]

yup

don't listen to me, I might be wrong.

[compact dust]

this metallic map makes the wrong parts shiny

but i also need the parts that arent supposed to be shiny, somewhat shiny

[somber sequoia]

yeah that's what roughness/smoothness can do

[compact dust]

well yeah

but i need specific parts to shine more

yet map does not do that

[proper storm]

Hey, anyway I can fix my avatar having no clothes in its defaul state (aka someone not having my avi turned on, its really annoying and people turn my avatar off)

I have a hoodie with default on, on vrcfury, but still shows with no clothes when someone doesnt have my animations on

[compact dust]

flasher

[somber sequoia]

then your map is inappropriate for what you're trying to do

[compact dust]

blender is a map making liar

[proper storm]

😭

[compact dust]

texture vs. roughness map

[proper storm]

anyways, i dont know how to fix it, Ive been looking for a few days but nothing worked

[somber sequoia]

this right side one is a packed map, a plain map to do one thing would be greyscale

[compact dust]

erm

how to unpack.

[frail temple]

@ornate stump Didn't work, i think it's just the world, kinda weird that only this avatar breaks on certain grounds in furry hideout but other avatars with Gogo loco dont break

[compact dust]

the only unpacking i know for textures is to make it unity usable

[somber sequoia]

why? you can use it packed - the page I linked described doing so. you'd need to know which channel is which though

(also it's not "unpacking" like that, it's splitting the R, G, B, and A channels out, if you actually want to do this)

[compact dust]

idk, the fbx wouldnt transfer over the blender material when exported

[somber sequoia]

channel-packing like this lets you use a single texture for multiple things

[compact dust]

so how would i transfer over the unpacked if it doesnt work correctly

unless its just the roughness map itself

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure what you're wanting to do here

[arctic ginkgo]

if you want to unpack them you can do so pretty easily with an image editing software

[somber sequoia]

I'm guessing that that map has roughness on green, so use it in poiyomi like that

[arctic ginkgo]

you could also do this in unity by discarding the other channels in import settings

set them to 0

[compact dust]

i have it poi in the right spots, but it doesnt make the correct parts metallic, just the whole thing

this is so weird 😭

[somber sequoia]

show a screenshot of the "right spot"

[arctic ginkgo]

duplicate the texture so you have 4 versions, then for each you set all channels except for one to 0. The channel remaining should be different for each texture.

but it should work right anyways

[somber sequoia]

eh, really don't split these unless you actually need to work on them separately

[compact dust]

?

is this le right map spot

[somber sequoia]

no

you want "reflections & specular" not that one

[compact dust]

sob.

[somber sequoia]

there's a "?" on the heading there, it takes you to the docs for that section. I strongly suggest reading these.

[frail temple]

I'll just abandon making this avatar better because the avatar doesnt really have feet so i am guessing that's the problem lol, already spent too much time on it xD @ornate stump, still, massive thanks for your help!!

[somber sequoia]

where you put that packed texture is: Shading -> Reflections & Specular -> Packed Maps

[somber sequoia]

It also has a tool where you can put individual maps then pack them

that!

[compact dust]

still no work (unless its the settings)

[somber sequoia]

Now assuming that map is the right format.......

[compact dust]

does look better tho

[somber sequoia]

but without knowing how it was made, we can only guess or separate channels and experiment with them

[compact dust]

what is, le channel

[somber sequoia]

But you can play with those metallic/smoothness sliders too.

[ornate stump]

You have to also set the correct channel in the texture.

[compact dust]

(what's a channel)

[somber sequoia]

Red, green, blue, alpha

combine those and you have a RGBA texture

[compact dust]

change the channel in the texture, or the roughness map

[somber sequoia]

it's not a roughness map

[ornate stump]

Packed map contains multiple texture for different purposes stored in different color, or so called "channel".

[somber sequoia]

let's be clear on this

[compact dust]

textures make brain hurt >:c

[ornate stump]

That means you have to tell the shader, what color of texture is used for what purpose.

[compact dust]

so i assume thats the rgba part then

or the part in the texture

not roughness wtv

[somber sequoia]

one of those channels (I'm guessing green) might be roughness

[compact dust]

so then i'd tell the texture that green = rough

[somber sequoia]

you don't tell the texture anything, it's just an image file

[compact dust]

shader, not texture

[somber sequoia]

you can tell the shader how to use it though, but for Poiyomi, it's a specific order

[compact dust]

order of which i do not understand

[somber sequoia]

(expand that "packed maps (click to expand)" thing to see which order it is)

also again, this is all documented

I'm an engineer who writes a lot of docs (that nobody reads), I have to harp on this 🙂

[compact dust]

kazin is too smart for many of us to understand

[somber sequoia]

eh, I know a few things

[compact dust]

theres a rat in the 2d texture thingy when you click to search for one apparently

[somber sequoia]

haha nice

[compact dust]

oh shoot i figured it out

kazin goated teacher

[somber sequoia]

I just want people to make optimized avatars 🙂

[compact dust]

i need to make it a bit brighter tho

erm

[arctic ginkgo]

i love documentation. it makes me so happy when i want to know how to do something and someone has already written the perfect explanation on the functionality of the thing i want to use

[somber sequoia]

yes! I especially love when it's text and not a 25 minute youtube video.

[arctic ginkgo]

the unity docs kinda suck though unfortunately.. they typically provide little detail and are self-referential

[somber sequoia]

I've been reasonably happy with the API docs

[arctic ginkgo]

i think it's mostly the documentation on components that is lacking

[somber sequoia]

hmm, I suppose it depends, some is good, and some you're like "what, that's it?"

[compact dust]

ngl this wouldve been so much easier if i had just made the metal parts a seperate object

then i could use my metal materials

[somber sequoia]

but that's unoptimized 🙂

[compact dust]

and blender wouldnt work

when i had multiple

or i was just being dumb

[somber sequoia]

you can use matcaps though, and apply them in specific places with.... of course maps

[compact dust]

hm.

[somber sequoia]

I tend to use a matcap for piercing jewelry, it's easy and a small area so it looks fine

[compact dust]

i put shiny cubemap on it and now its way shinier

thats actually kinda what i wanted it to look like

[somber sequoia]

that looks right

[compact dust]

only works with force fallback enabled tho

without it, doesnt change much

next step is to figure out how to export one single thing as a unity file

[civic bone]

how would i make a contact point more interactable my avatar has a get punched in the face and break the screen interaction im curious how i can make it more consistent for me and others? ill send a screen shot of what my recievers look like

[compact dust]

probably make the contact bigger, and the animation replay time lower

[civic bone]

there are 2 because the avatar came this way and i have made some changes

its the big blue capsules

[compact dust]

id recommend making them a little bit bigger, not much tho

personal preference

[civic bone]

like the radius

[compact dust]

yeah

[civic bone]

also ive only been using unity for 6 days XD and its a pain

[compact dust]

maybe like .02

.01

smth like that might be a bit better

[civic bone]

u mean 0.2 or 0.1 because it made it smaller with the radius

[compact dust]

i meant that much bigger

so like if its 0.2, then 0.22 or smth like that

my experience is that the contact being a little bit outside the object is better so that it activates sooner, so that when the contact sender touches the actual object then the receiver already has the signal

[civic bone]

i made it bigger and one a sphere so i think this might be good

[proper storm]

why can I not delete my impostors and make new ones

the option just doesnt work

it works now i guess, vrc website sucks lolol

[compact dust]

nuh uh

[ruby summit]

toaster

[civic bone]

embrace the toaster

[proper storm]

local only meaning its only on local client

[civic bone]

ye i watched a video

[proper storm]

not server synced

[civic bone]

is there a way to fix desync on a contact?

or make it less

[proper storm]

not from what I know, I think its a vrc network issue more than anything

or unity jank

[civic bone]

dang i wanted to be punched in the face and actually see it when others can

it likes to desync a lot XD

[proper storm]

Im already having an issue where my toggles are default on, but they dont show as so in the default state

[civic bone]

interesting

[proper storm]

people with high shield level see me as no clothes

[civic bone]

XD

[proper storm]

but its default on

idfk

[civic bone]

idk either

[proper storm]

vrcfury dev has no idea too

[jolly vessel]

For some reason all my toggles are instantly turned off when joining a world? I checked the parameters and they are synced and saved-

[civic bone]

ive only been using unity for 6 days

[light lion]

im working on making an avatar but i cant run vrchat because my pc doo doo rn (im working on getting upgrade) once it is finished will someone test it to see if it works properly :D

[jolly vessel]

Even in playmode its bizzare, in playmode everything is fine, no toggles are off

But in vrc everything turns off automatically

[compact dust]

gonna crashout because physbones are being wonky
one side works but the other doesnt (they have the same physics) 😭

[compact dust]

for some reason the child will not parent to the bone, as in it doesnt stick

i deleted the one that doesnt work
now the one that did, doesnt.

wat the hek

[small plover]

can anybody help me with this error?

It was working fine then just started oing this

[compact dust]

what are the first 2-3 errors

82 contact components??

also not in the 2022 version of unity

not that the version is the problem, but idk

[small plover]

Yeah so I was in 2022

Then it started giving me a preupload hook problm

[compact dust]

2022.3.22f1 i think

[small plover]

so I was trying to fix it

and I tried using the newer version

then it started giving me this error

[compact dust]

if im not mistaken it only works in the 2022 or old 2019 version

[small plover]

haptic vest LOL

[compact dust]

can it not use 1 per area?

idk how ze haptics work

[small plover]

no bc each vibration point is 1 contact

but imma try to swth it to 2022 again

and its also taking so long to load these scenes now for some reason bruh

wtf is happening

[compact dust]

assuming you're switching versions inside the unity project instead of making a new one and importing, its bc it has to switch files

so like an entirely new project kinda

[small plover]

is it better to make a new project and import the scene

[compact dust]

that's what i would do

make sure its 2022.3.22f1

[small plover]

makes sense

[compact dust]

i think thats the right one

prob use VCC

if you dont

[small plover]

yeha I got it

when I load it in 2022 the vrc SDK i gone

[compact dust]

is the file there?

[small plover]

I looked at the top and there was nothing to click to make it show up

[small plover]

wdym

[compact dust]

the sdk file

in your packages i think

[small plover]

I think so

[compact dust]

is it in the tool bar at the top?

[small plover]

yeah

I looked there

[compact dust]

then its not missing
its just not open

you have to open it

[small plover]

when I click at the top it says lackage maker

package

[compact dust]

open control panel?

[small plover]

Yeha thats whats missing

[compact dust]

._.

[small plover]

lmao

[compact dust]

try importing it from the vrc website

vrchat.com/home/download i think

[small plover]

this also pops up when I launch the project

[small plover]

just tried and nothing happen😭

[compact dust]

that looks like a unity package issue, not vrc

[small plover]

yeah

idk what to do I didnt even delete anything

[compact dust]

not sure

[restive hare]

Don't know much about the VRC SDK, but I do know my unity errors. The error is from it needing the unity accessibility package, you should just be able to add it manually.

[small plover]

how do I do that

[restive hare]

Quick google search shows that it's a common error when downgrading a project to an older editor version, currently having a look to see how to manually add it on a version-by-version basis. One sec

[small plover]

do I need these?

[restive hare]

Ah, so you don't need to add it the module, you have to remove it. The accessibility module is from Unity 2023.2.0b8 onwards, and is added by default when starting a new project. According to a couple Unity support threads, the fix is to open Packages/manifest.json and remove the line reading ""com.unity.modules.accessibility": "1.0.0","

As for the vrc required packages, yes you will need those. Those are the base packages for VRC, and you can either install them automatically through the Creator Companion or manually at vrchat.com/home/download

[proud yacht]

so ermm when i try to import my emission texture it does either this or it makes the background green instead of transparent, am i doing anything wrong or??

the texture btw

[visual tartan]

is anybody able too upload avatars i keep getting builder exception i redid everything 4 times and nothing is helping

do i degrade the sdk?

[junior void]

The important error is the first one

Theres something on the chest thats problematic

[ornate stump]

You should export emission texture with black background instead of transparent.

[proud yacht]

okk

[bright silo]

If you were unable to solve this issue, I can see the 2023.2.20f1 at the top of the screen. The sdk will not run as intended on this version

[spark walrus]

Trying to get my model to have an inside and out like other VRChat models and like it does normally, but it only does this:

How do I achieve what others have?

[timber wharf]

use any shader with backface culling off. pc only. for quest youd have to duplicate polygons and flip their normals.

[spark walrus]

Is there a place I can download that?

[timber wharf]

uh for pbr standard not sure where to get, prob this or smth https://gist.github.com/naojitaniguchi/62ccf37c801ea55517b7

all stylised ubershaders like poi or liltoon have it

[lean edge]

Quick but simple question, when the game does the slider for avatar height, does it use a custom paramater? if so what name? ive been wanting to have some effects on my avatars scale with height (for context they arent parented to the armature or body parts as theyre aura like effects) and currently they dont for some odd reason, ive tried parent and scale constraints and neither work also when i say they arent parented they are parented to the main game object that houses the avatar descriptor

[timber wharf]

are they particles?

[lean edge]

yeah

[timber wharf]

scale mode - hierarchy

[lean edge]

ooooh never messed with that setting before, thanks a bunch

[spark walrus]

Why does it not work for me?

It is odd because it works in unity

But when I publish it I see no change

[spark walrus]

Nvm fixed it

[candid mica]

heya i was curious, by a chance would anyone know how to make an avatar gesture face their default face and replace the default resting face with the other one, im new to unity n all that and my friend who's been teaching me isnt online so im kinda lost

but i wanna get it working ]

[junior kayak]

neck/head gets detached from the body on full body, also view point gets lower. tried lockin on head but no luck, please helps

[ebon cove]

has anyone ever had a bug like this?
When I check the VRC constraints in the editor, they work fine with any rotation, not sticking out anywhere, but in-game, they just go all over the place, not following the constraints at all

[austere bay]

I'm trying to record a toggle animation but it says the object is missing? but it isn't. Any idea how to fix this? :)

[left gull]

it doesnt look like its animating the correct mesh, its trying to animate "Dog Tail" rather then "Animal- Cat/Dog Tail"

[austere bay]

I don't have any mesh called "dog tail". The mesh is called "Animal - Cat/Dog Tail", I've had no other issues with this naming convention, I don't get what it's trying to animate. I've selected the right mesh

here's it in blender, I don't know why it thinks I'm trying to animate "dog tail"

[left gull]

did you used to have a mesh on the model called "Dog Tail" at all?

[austere bay]

not that I remember, definitely not since it's been in unity

if I did it was when it was in blender and I can't find anything in any settings that says "dog tail"

see, the mesh itself is called Animal - Cat/Dog Tail T-T

and I'm selecting it from the hierarchy to animate it so it should jsut animate that mesh right? not the "dog tail"

[round comet]

You animate using the bones / physbones usually

As long as “Is Animated” is checked on

So you’d animate according to the corresponding bones— so for you, that’d be the tail bone

[austere bay]

I'm just toggling a mesh

I should just be able to press record and toggle the mesh on and off

and it should work

[round comet]

Oh? So just a toggle. That’s mesh then yeye

[austere bay]

there's no bone called "dog tail"

or mesh

[round comet]

I thought this was related to other animations mb

[austere bay]

I don't know why it thinks theres something called dog tail T-T

[round comet]

You could always just rename it in blender and reimport

As long as your prefab isn’t unpacked

[austere bay]

yeah I'm gonna try that next, just taking a little break rn

[round comet]

Understandable

Also to do your animations I’d say copy the prefab and do it on there instead

In case you mess up the main avi and it gets stuck in the bicycle pose or something

And then just hide the main one till you’re done

[junior kayak]

how do i attach this to the chest ?

[stable zealot]

I for some reason can't add any Phys Bone Colliders to this avatar?
I have changed the scale a LOT cause I thought "Oh what if it's just so small/big that I can't see the radius indicator?" but it just never appears.
Am I doing something wrong?

[balmy barn]

turn on your gizmo's cant tell

[stable zealot]

I.. I'm gonna go shut myself in the fridge and cry

LOL

Thank you!!!

[pastel nest]

having some issues with particles, it haas play on enable: enabled. but it only emits for the first enable, if it gets disabled and enabled again it doesn't emit again

[timber wharf]

is it looping?

[pastel nest]

no

i dont want it to loop

i am dropping something on the floor so what i am holding is disabled then i enable the particle system and it creates 1 particle with mesh renderer

it has collision and gravity

it falls on the floor and stays there until i disable the particle system

but then re enabling it doesn't create a new particle

[timber wharf]

use burst of 1 in emission+long wait time, use looping, then reenabling should restart it

[pastel nest]

it has a burst of 1

what is the wait time is that in the burst?

[left gull]

weightpaint that mesh to the chest bone

[pastel nest]

i dont see something called wait time

is this the duration?

ok so for somereason i have accidentally added a rigid body to the object that contained the particle system

after removing that it started working correctly again. so not sure why that is a thing

[frail temple]

Just wanted to check, Before i rig this in blender, Unity can detect a humanoid armature rig when imported from blender, right?

[pastel nest]

yes

[kind heath]

My avatar's viewpoint in Unity is perfectly centered, but ingame it's off to the left. Anyone know what causes it?

[frail temple]

You sure you removed all cameras before you uploaded it?

[frail temple]

Okay i see, one last thing, should i keep the pelvis like this or move it? i am afraid center tracking is gonna be completely off if i move it

[kind heath]

yep! it's very faint but messes up my fbt calibration so i'm trying to fix it 🥲 no cameras in the scene. i've also checked the scaling and position and it seems to be fine

[pastel nest]

there is a specific bone structure to follow hips(has legs) -> spine -> chest(has shoulders with arms) -> neck -> head

but it should be ok i think

[frail temple]

I am gonna be honest i have no idea, drawing blanks here

For a hand like this, should i remove atleast one finger or keep all five fingers and cram 3 into the right section of this hand?

[ebon cove]

you can bind the fingers on the far right to the middle finger - it'd be pretty close to how it should be
if you were to bind all of 'em individually, the finger flap would stretch and look weird imo

[frail temple]

Oh so i'll go into edit mode, Bone properties then link each of the 3 fingers to each other?

[ebon cove]

thumb to thumb, index to index, middle to thumb, ye

and if you're talking about the armature in blender, you could just trim the pinky and ring ngl

[frail temple]

Oh, i'll just port this to vrchat so i don't know if that'll hold up well lol

I'll finish rigging this up then show you

[ebon cove]

aight, we'll see how it goes, then :D

[frail temple]

Ah okay i see, quick question, should i extrude one more layer of bones for the hands or just stretch the existing three bones on each finger?

This hand is a bit longer than normal

[ebon cove]

nah, just make the existing ones longer

VRC doesn't support more than 3 finger bones anyway

[frail temple]

Perfect, less work for me, thanks for the quick advice!!

[kind heath]

Okay so I've noticed that the model actually moves off to the right when I use Gesture Manager/Ingame, even though in editor it looks like the second image. Both the prefabs and armatures scale and position is 1/1/1 and 0/0/0

[frail temple]

@ebon cove

Donezo

Now do i just connect these ? @ebon cove

Sorry for the bother, no idea how to do this xD

[somber sequoia]

connect them in what way?

[frail temple]

He said it like this @somber sequoia

[somber sequoia]

so you're removing a finger? Just omit the bones

[frail temple]

it's because the model has 3-4 fingers and i have no idea where to put the extra bones

[somber sequoia]

delete 'em

[frail temple]

i contemplated removing the extra bones but he said this way is better

[balmy barn]

cats way

[somber sequoia]

yeah if you want to also merge weights, that'll work nicely

[frail temple]

Oh that looks perfect

Quick question, how come in unity there's an extra finger but in blender it's gone ? https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/730948173379535022/1344673949329391728/image.png?ex=67c1c4b4&is=67c07334&hm=3068c80dd9ebc9cdaa9933b81232df9586745ca6400a8b64d24dba4389e4435e&

Blender, and this is unity

[somber sequoia]

how did you do whatever you did here?

[frail temple]

Only difference is one of them has the textures applies, legit did nothing to change the shape itself lol

[somber sequoia]

that doesn't look like only a texture difference

[frail temple]

Yeah i thought the same, can't figure out why just applying the textures added an extra gap

[somber sequoia]

re: "what did you do" I meant what did you do to make the blender version look this way? I haven't been following and don't see it in scrollback

[frail temple]

How do i uh reach this menu?

[desert elk]

you need to get the cats add on first if you don't have it

and press N on your keyboard to open the side menu

[frail temple]

I'll go get it

was looking over my head trying to find the menu lol

[desert elk]

it's a very helpful add on for making avatars

[balmy barn]

recommend these versions of blender/cats

https://www.blender.org/download/lts/4-2/
https://github.com/teamneoneko/Cats-Blender-Plugin-Unofficial-/releases/tag/4.2.2.5

[desert elk]

yup, they're the most stable

[frail temple]

I got it, Should i do this one aswell?

[civic bone]

stuck on 5 i know were avatars 3.0 is but idk how to merge

[frail temple]

Stupid question, dont answer mine

[civic bone]

im assuming the gesture goes in the gesture and the fx goes in the fx but its the "merge gun parameters" at the end of 5 im confused on

[desert elk]

you need to merge the gun parameters with the ones you're using now

save with gunfx and gesture
merge it with the ones you're using now

[civic bone]

so save them to my avatars gesture and fx?

[desert elk]

the fx layers should be in the first menu you, see. the parameters I think are in the second one, the three lines on the left

[desert elk]

merge it with the ones you're currently using, with the avatars 3.0 manager

[desert elk]

yeah, expand the gesture and fx and you will have something like "add animator to merge"

drag the gun stuff there

[civic bone]

and that would be with the thing in the conroller

so add animator to merge?

[desert elk]

yup

and drag the gun fx in the fx layer and click the merge button

or whatever else it says

[civic bone]

do i do anything with this

[desert elk]

nope

[civic bone]

ok

[desert elk]

just scroll down and merge

[civic bone]

ye

[desert elk]

same with the fx and parameters

[frail temple]

Did CTRL + P then automatic weights, this happened

[desert elk]

parameters are on the left, the three lines

[civic bone]

did it

now what exactly

i know its the lines in the right

[desert elk]

so open it and there should be "add parameters to copy"

or something like that

[civic bone]

at the bottom?

[desert elk]

yeah

drag the gun parameters in the spot and copy

[civic bone]

for both?

nvm im stupid XD

[desert elk]

both?

[civic bone]

there is 1

ok i pressed copy

[desert elk]

now you just need to add a sub menu to your main menu and set it to the gun menu

and it should work

[civic bone]

now gotta figure that out XD

there is a gun menu in the assets

im assuming i drop it in with the other menues on my avatar

[desert elk]

yeah, basically. If you ever added a menu it's the same thing

[civic bone]

ive never done it but i know were it is

[desert elk]

click plus, set it to sub menu, drag the gun menu there

[desert elk]

did you apply transforms before doing that? if not, that could be the issue

[frail temple]

I may have exported this avatar originally to unity, then sized it down there, and then put it back in blender

since the original model was huge

[civic bone]

it was a prefab idk what it means but i would assume it had everything

[desert elk]

why not just size it down in blender???

[left lion]

heyy, so not sure if im missing something here, but if anyone possibly knows- is there a reason that we're not even able to use the mobile particle shaders for quest despite them being under the 'mobile' tab? I just wanted some decent eyes without having to go back in blender to cut it all out by hand

[frail temple]

because i didn't have a reference to how big the model was in blender but in unity i had the previous avatar i worked on as a reference

now that i think about it that was really stupid

[desert elk]

blender has a scale system too, where you can see how many meters your avatar is 😭

[frail temple]

Oops

didn't know that was a thing

[desert elk]

i didn't either, I found it by accident xd

[frail temple]

Don't tell me i gotta rig this model again because of this

already spent too much time

[desert elk]

well

did you make a back up? :)

[frail temple]

i started rigging after i imported from unity

should i make another project and just take the armature from this current one?

[desert elk]

that's the menu for the gun, you need to add it as a sub menu to your current menu

that the avatar is using

you can click on your avatar in the hierarchy and scroll down to open it

[civic bone]

1 min

[round comet]

Alpha Blended doesn’t work but multiply and additive do

[civic bone]

it went poof???

gotta redo the first stuff 1 min

[left lion]

thanks, though im pretty sure the look im going for cant be acheived by either of those two blend modes. did a quick search and quickly found out its just not possible. thankyou though 🙏

[round comet]

No problem :)

[frail temple]

@desert elk Imported from GLB file straight up from sketchfab, same thing happens

wasn't my fault

[civic bone]

do i need to toggle it in the inspector window for it to be on?

[desert elk]

like

toggle on the gun?

I wouldn't, it looks like the gun was made to be off on upload and toggling it on would break the animation

[civic bone]

i ment heirachy

cant spell lol

[desert elk]

is it hidden with the eye? or with the box in the inspector?

if eye, I think you can safely unhide it
if box, don't

[civic bone]

i mean like check the box

does that need to be checked for it to work?

[desert elk]

don't

nope

[civic bone]

ok

[desert elk]

the menu has a toggle for turning it on

[civic bone]

fair enough

[desert elk]

it would break if you turned it on here

[civic bone]

ok

ok so how do i do the sub menu thing

i figured it out i think

[desert elk]

nice

[civic bone]

what do i do with the rest tho?

[desert elk]

rest?

[civic bone]

do i need to put a parameter?

[somber sequoia]

only if you want one

[desert elk]

didn't you already?

ah in the menu

no

[civic bone]

ok

[frail temple]

I just did the automatic weight thing, however the jacket and the arm have merged together

Is there a video specifically to fix this? since the model i got wasn't in a t pose

[civic bone]

its not working XD

[frail temple]

how does it feel playing the same game of hitting your head against the wall simulator?

[civic bone]

its taking me to the same menu as another one i already have

[civic bone]

its great

7 days and currently suffering

[desert elk]

ah cause you didn't put in the correct one

[civic bone]

ok

like in the parameters area?

[desert elk]

in the sub menu, bottom, place the gun menu

[desert elk]

here

[civic bone]

oh

[desert elk]

drag the gun menu there

[civic bone]

okii

ima test now

[frail temple]

@desert elk So uhhh, do i just weight paint to fix the problem where the hand merges with the coat?

[frail temple]

As in this problem

[civic bone]

is the gun supposed to be dropped on avatar or somewere specific like in hand

because its showing at my feet

[latent pebble]

anyone knows where I could find outfits for the Mamehinata base?

[civic bone]

also the gun is pink

[desert elk]

i would guess so

[desert elk]

did you move it to the correct spot?

[desert elk]

do you have the shader for the gun?

[civic bone]

i thought u drop it on the character also yes i do

[frail temple]

Alright, also quick question, if i select all then do Weight texture, it only shows me one vertice for some reason?

[somber sequoia]

looks like you only have one bone selected

[desert elk]

you also need to reposition it to the correct spot, like the guide days

[somber sequoia]

(this is normal in weight paint mode)

[desert elk]

and check the gun material if it's set up correctly

[civic bone]

ok how would i reposition it?

[desert elk]

with the arrows

[frail temple]

Oh i see, how do i select all of them at once?

[desert elk]

I can't send a photo, I don't have my laptop with me

[frail temple]

Or should i do it one by one? cause the guide i am looking at is doing them all at once

[somber sequoia]

same way you select anything else, though I'm not sure why you'd want to do this, it doesn't really make sense in weight paint mode

[civic bone]

do i line it with the t pose?

[desert elk]

yes

[civic bone]

ok

[frail temple]

Ah alright, i'll do it one by one then

[desert elk]

put it in the correct spot, aka, your hand I'm assuming

[somber sequoia]

what are you actually trying to do?

[frail temple]

Seperate the hand from the coat https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/730948173379535022/1344701689093165066/image.png?ex=67c1de8a&is=67c08d0a&hm=f06c6831f242161b08656b8dd9d68c8046540d83b1b0d9371ee09b857568f68b&

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/730948173379535022/1344701689093165066/image.png?ex=67c1de8a&is=67c08d0a&hm=f06c6831f242161b08656b8dd9d68c8046540d83b1b0d9371ee09b857568f68b&

[civic bone]

it shows 2 guns rn

[frail temple]

model didnt come in a t pose

[somber sequoia]

can you just go back to before you joined them? I'm not sure what you did here

[desert elk]

idk how that prefab looks, I don't think I can help anymore

[civic bone]

its a dual pistol currently

[frail temple]

This was the model before i applied automatic weights, i was setting up the animation rig for it, then bam

[somber sequoia]

what were you trying to achieve with automatic weights?

[frail temple]

to make the animation rig like they do in the guide video, but since the hand is stuck to the coat, i gotta use weight paint to seperate both

i think

[somber sequoia]

I haven't seen this video, so I have no idea why this is a weight paint issue

[frail temple]

You might be right, What do i do to seperate the hand from the coat?

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure I understand how this is "joined"

[frail temple]

i rigged the model that wasn't in a t pose, pressed the automatic weights button to make the rig automatically choose which bones use which vertices, realised that both hands are inside the coat and not in a t pose

and now i am trying to seperate the hands from the coat

[somber sequoia]

yeah still not sure what happened there

[frail temple]

i'll record a vid, gimme a sec

[somber sequoia]

also I have never used that automatic weights button 🙂

[civic bone]

reciever contact allows me to interact right

???

[balmy barn]

avoid auto weights on that , too close to things - get it into T pose then run it through mixamo

[somber sequoia]

ohh. Yeah so I'd split the coat off before trying to do this... and yeah T-pose it first

that's never going to work like that

[balmy barn]

arm down pose you bound to glue things togeather

[frail temple]

How do i get it to t pose?

[earnest wind]

So for some reason VRChat is detecting my avatar as imported without a Humanoid Rig, despite it is. Does anyone know how to fix this issue?

[frail temple]

Since i got it from sketch fab, have no idea how to t pose it

[somber sequoia]

Does it not already have an armature?

[frail temple]

I made this armature

took me some hours

[somber sequoia]

ahh. Then you may have to weight paint it as-is, then pose it. That'll be fun.

[kind heath]

I'm still having problems with my avatars viewpoint 🥲 In Unity it's perfectly centered between the eyes, ingame it's off to the left (looking straight down on the screenshot). I've checked the armature position and applied transforms in blender already

[frail temple]

Mixamo?

[balmy barn]

auto rigger online thing, works 'ok' for T pose A maybe

https://www.mixamo.com/

[civic bone]

i think i figured out my issue so the guns have contact points for reciever i think im able to grab it

[earnest wind]

try making a sphere, make it tiny, place it between the eyes, and copy and paste the coordinates into the appropriate areas

[balmy barn]

check origin , off side like that usually not center , never move viewpoint left or right (then its wrong)

[kind heath]

trying that now!

[frail temple]

Huh, since i made this armature i am gonna assume this doesnt work?

[frail temple]

Don't worry, i am a masochist, if i don't quit blender now because of burdening myself with teeth grinding projects i won't quit in atleast a year...

[kind heath]

it's definitely dead center, x coordinate is 0

Unless I'm missing something 🥲

[civic bone]

yup there able to be grabbed

[earnest wind]

still need help with this tho

[balmy barn]

import error , see fbx = non humanoid

[kind heath]

I've tried the sphere method with no luck, if anyone has another idea pls lmk! <3

So I've double checked in gesture manager with gizmos, the viewpoint moves to the cheek and the colliders look completely wonky

[balmy barn]

check if its actually centered , mesh looks like its more to left for me

(blender would be easier to see)

[kind heath]

It looks perfectly centered outside of gesture manager and in blender, but skews off whenever I test it

first screen is in gesture manager, forgot to add

if I reset the pose with Pumkin's tools, it also goes off to the side like this. Everything looks fine in the FBX configuration though

[somber sequoia]

something is definitely not centered

[kind heath]

Yeah, I'm just trying to figure out what the issue is. Everything is 0/0/0 both in Blender and Unity and then it breaks when testing

[prisma sedge]

In blender where is your origin point? Is it between the model's feet or is it at one of the feet?

[kind heath]

Between the model's feet!

[balmy barn]

check armature/mesh(es) if they have any value its going to shift (unity), noticed you have a dashed line in blender - shouldnt be one

something isnt 0.0.0

[kind heath]

thank you, let me check!

[sand jackal]

has anyone had this open jaw problem? happens in play mode with gesture manager and in vrchat, but looks normal otherwise

[desert elk]

are you using visemes or a jaw bone for speaking? if visemes just unmap the jaw bone from the unity rig

[sand jackal]

if i do that, the lower teeth and tongue dont move which make it look weird

[kind heath]

to come back to this - i've checked every object in Blender and they're all on X 0. Only the Z axis isn't on 0 because I've moved the armature up a little to make up for platformed shoes. Normally this was never cause for any major issues, though

[civic bone]

is there a way to make a fist collision tag?

where it knows its a fist

because im setting up a face punch to be diffrent i want it to register someones fist and not just a slap or something because im gonna make it a constant reciever type but only register for fists like an actual punch

[desert elk]

for safety you can (in object mode) press A to select everything, and press CTRL A - Apply - All Transforms. That should hopefully fix it

[civic bone]

@desert elk can u help me with my problem?

[desert elk]

if I knew how to help I would respond

[civic bone]

ok

[desert elk]

I've never done stuff like that

[civic bone]

fair

sorry

[kind heath]

I tried, unfortunately didn't fix it :( I did kinda use the tackier solution of adjusting the viewpoint in play mode when it's skewed and copying that into the coordinates when it's paused, gonna see if that actually worked as a temporary fix

[rare pasture]

can someone help with converting an avatar to pc/quest?

[desert elk]

from pc to quest?

[rare pasture]

well i want both preferably

i already have the pc avi, just dont know how to make it quest compat

[somber sequoia]

you cannot detect other players' hand gestures

[civic bone]

https://youtu.be/Lc1PuEatrCA?si=KWL8R6e402XK5JGH

i found this

[somber sequoia]

They could have a contact sender with "Fist" as the tag that only becomes active when they make a fist, and then you could watch for that, but of course this requires both of you to coordinate.

[rare pasture]

so how exactly would i uh... do that?

[desert elk]

it would depend on the stats, usually: change shader to a quest one, lower polygon count, lower mesh count, lower texture resolution. It depends on the stats of your avatar

[rare pasture]

well yeah but i dont even know how to get to where i could upload for quest

thats what i need help with lol

[cedar umbra]

have a question, do any of you know how to add a radial slider to adjust lighting on an avatar using liltoon shaders, if you do could you maybe quickly walk me through it; it would mean a lot. feel free to ping me if your able to help

[somber sequoia]

there are many many tutorial videos on this

[rare pasture]

yeah but they are all like months old

[desert elk]

change the platform to android, done

[somber sequoia]

nothing there has changed significantly

[desert elk]

yeah

[rare pasture]

That.. that’s it?

[desert elk]

it depends on your stats

shaders need to be changed

I don't know what else your avatar has

if it has a lot of stuff it may need to be optimized

[rare pasture]

Well no i can do that i just didnt know how to upload for quest lol, thanks

Oh okay now i just have two different avatars.. i wanted one with both pc/quest

[somber sequoia]

go to the second one, find the Pipeline Manager, put in the blueprint ID from the first one.

[rare pasture]

Oh okay ty

[stray trench]

why is this normal map not affecting the bikini mesh?

[somber meadow]

You’ll need to use a different shading type in the shader other than flat

[stray trench]

sorry, where do i find that?

i found it

should i change the shading type for all materials to make it cohesive? or will it not make a big difference

[somber meadow]

Depends on what look you’re going for

Flat is for a really toon look

[timber wharf]

love me multilayer math. but requires extra maps for face, otherwise three day stubble

[stray trench]

probably, id like to keep this same aesthetic but just have the normals working

[stray trench]

is flat the only toon look?

[somber meadow]

Multilayer math which is basically what lil toon uses is used by booth creators

[timber wharf]

normal map can be used if you make it shiny/reflective as well

[spark walrus]

When I click the package to load in my avatar there is nothing

Nothing on the scene

[proper storm]

anyone know this error?

Material 'Map_01' with Shader '.poiyomi/Poiyomi Pro Geometric Dissolve' doesn't have a float or range property '_GlobalMaskTexture0'

Making global masks on poiyomi pro

[stray trench]

thanks so much

my matcap 0 is working properly but matcap 1 does nothing at all? even if i remove the mask

matcap 0 is using the same mask but inverted so i know the mask is functional

if i boost emission, that does work and also only applies to the masked area

im confused

[somber meadow]

What are the blending settings

[timber wharf]

@spark walrus you need to either open the scene it comes with or drag it into your scene

adding package just imports stuff to assets

[reef cove]

Just got my first avatar which is set up only with Write Defaults on. Anything I should know?
Apparently every shape key needs to be included in every animation?

[balmy barn]

wd off would want that or it wont reset

wd on just changes something and goes back to whatever default after

[timber wharf]

@reef cove https://vrc.school/docs/Unity-Animations/Write-Defaults/

so no, with wd on if nothing animates property currently, it goes to default state

[reef cove]

Thanks both of you!
Is one animation enough then? Instead of "hat_on" and "hat_off" could I just do with the "hat_on" now or did I misunderstood?

[timber wharf]

yes. and empty state for off

[civic bone]

has anyone done this addon to their avatar? https://itznikkitty.gumroad.com/l/MorphingGun?layout=profile

im still trying to figure it out

also have to redo everything

[balmy barn]

bunch of bones and constraints (likely alot of meshes)

another creator that doesnt tell stats could be a billion

[unborn robin]

Trying to use animated physbones with _Angle, but it’s not working. I’ve looked everything over, and it all looks good, but when i go into game mode and grab it, the physbone will move, but the animation float wont play.

added transitions between empty clip and the phys clip, greater and lesser than .05, just doesn’t seem to work. The animation doesn’t play at all

if anyone’s wondering; im trying to make it able to pull down the mask on my avi, using a blendshape

[junior void]

Did you give the parameter a name

[unborn robin]

yess, I did

PhysMask_Angle

for both FX para and main para

but only PhysMask in the physbone

[junior void]

Is it being driven at all? Youd see the value of it change in play mode

[unborn robin]

how so? i see that the actual physbone will move in play mode

or are you talking about like in the toggles

or para, sorry

[balmy barn]

just in controller

[unborn robin]

ohh, yeah i see that its like moving

and such

just no animation playing whenever i do move it and angle it

[timber wharf]

are you sure its the only (or rather, lowest) layer that animates that blendshape?

also are you using gesturemanager/avi3emu

[unborn robin]

nevermind LOL, i got it. i had to use a damn emulator for it to work.

thank you

gesturemanager saved me

[timber wharf]

ye, without it playmode doesnt care about your layers

[runic hinge]

Yo so an issue Ive had for a while now that I havent been able to find any fixes for,
My parameter drivers just refuse to work on any VRC project

Here in the image Im trying to change the layer weight of my Left and Right Hand expressions depending if the eye close toggle is on or off, so having 2 different sets of hand expressions depending on if the toggles on or not

But no matter the layer weight, or where the driver are, or if the toggles on, it doesnt do anything

Here below is my driver and layers setup, first time using drivers so hopefully just a beginner mistake lol

[somber sequoia]

(I'll read better first)

[weak forum]

Might be a dumb question but anyone know if I can do a local screenspace effect that adds outlines (similar to lilToon) to the world?
I'm not making a world, I just want to do a screenspace effect on my avatar

[somber sequoia]

you could apply a screenspace shader to you own view, sure

[weak forum]

I've researched that but can't find anything specifically about outlining. And I'm no graphics programmer so idk how I'd make a shader do that

[somber sequoia]

yeah I don't know of a shader to do that offhand

[heavy zephyr]

https://jinxxy.com/luka/junelite Here's one that is free and can do outlines. Just make sure to only toggle it if "IsLocal = True" and that should do what you want.

[somber sequoia]

oh neat, grabbing that. Thanks!

always fun to pick apart shaders to see how they work

[heavy zephyr]

Happy to help, I've got a lot of tools from everywhere when it comes to avatars haha

[somber sequoia]

hah same, yep

[merry maple]

i keep getting this weird error when i try to upload and im not sure how to fix it, could anyone guide me?

[runic hinge]

mm?

[balmy barn]

update or remove (be sure its the right unity too)

[cinder finch]

Hello, I am getting a validation error of my avatar not containing an animator? I am uncertain of how to resolve this, and I don't see anything on the forums. Thank you!

[somber meadow]

screenshot the full error

[somber meadow]

did you set this avatar as humanoid in the rig settings? Or is this a generic avatar (not rigged or abnormal rig)

[cinder finch]

I do not believe I set it to humanoid, where do I find the rig settings?

[somber meadow]

in the model's import settings when you click it inside of the project tab

[merry maple]

i have to reimport on a new cc project, ill be a bit

[civic bone]

has anyone done this before? https://itznikkitty.gumroad.com/l/MorphingGun?layout=profile

[cinder finch]

Rig is set to humanoid but it does not seem to have resolved the error. It has changed from the first to this

[weak forum]

Not sure if I'm missing something but it seems like the effect is only applying to my avatar. I also don't see any IsLocal value

[somber meadow]

Screenshot the rig tab where you set it to humanoid

[cinder finch]

I have reimported it

[somber meadow]

click configure, and make sure it's setup properly

[cinder finch]

bones look good, don't see any issues

[somber meadow]

are the bones properly mapped

[cinder finch]

appears so to me

[heavy zephyr]

Okay so :

1- This shader is meant to be applied to a cube or sphere that you place around your avatar. In your case since you only want it to affect your view, you can simply put a small cube/sphere in front of your eyes and toggle that on/off.

2- The "IsLocal" I talked about earlier is a vrchat built-in boolean. You will need to add it to your animator controller and create logic to toggle the object when this is true (I would advice to also add another condition if you don't want it to be always on).

Also feel free to consult the store page and associated github and documentation for more information about it

[weak forum]

I do have a cube surrounding the head of the avatar
As for the IsLocal, that's on me for forgetting that's native. Oops

[heavy zephyr]

Alrighty

[cinder finch]

VRC Descriptor is showing it's rigged as non-humanoid, but it is set to humanoid in unity... confusion

[heavy zephyr]

Also I don't remember if this shader has an option to not be seen in mirrors or not.

If not maybe you can pair it with VRLabs' mirror detection to toggle it off in mirrors.

[median umbra]

I'm having an issue I'm hoping that someone can help me with. When I use NDMF to bake an avatar, if I upload the baked version, my avatar just kind of floats when I move around kind of like the flying animation, instead of walking.

[somber sequoia]

NDMF?

[median umbra]

Non-Destructive Modular Framework

I've been doing this to commit any blend shapes I freeze with another tool if I'm going to decimate the polygons, as it seems like it comes out better.

[balmy barn]

sure the 10 other that used that could answer never seen anyone in here

[somber sequoia]

yeah, never heard of it

[median umbra]

Oh well, thank you anyways.

[stray trench]

this was the issue, thank you

[real birch]

Hey have a question

[cinder finch]

One more quick question, I have a base avatar and an outfit, how do I take parts of the outfit from the heigherarchy and make it a child to the part of the body? i.e. how do I make gloves stay on the hands

[somber sequoia]

just ask it

[real birch]

So I'm trying to get VCC to work with me and I have Unity Hub installed with a personal license on there. Do I need some sort of different license to get the latest thing it keeps asking me to get?

[somber meadow]

You have 2022.3.10 installed

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

[real birch]

Thanks i've been trying to find it cause i keep seeing it but it never took me to the place to actually install it

[rose edge]

uhm

this isn't even supposed to play audios

[somber sequoia]

probably you have an outdated SDK but are using some other package that is looking for a newer SDK

[rose edge]

well im tryna make a minecraft-related avatar, plus im using the SDK that the creator package gave me

[somber sequoia]

yeah that's probably the problem. Don't use that one.

delete it from your project and install the SDK properly

[cinder finch]

I am incredibly perplexed... errors saying arms and feet aren't mapped but they sure are...

[rose edge]

aight

wait- im using the most recent SDK

[somber sequoia]

do you also have an SDK package in your project's Assets folder?
maybe show the first 2-3 errors, you seem to have picked middle ones, usually the first couple are the relevant ones

[rose edge]

aight, im opening it again

doing safe mode just in case

aaaand backpedaling into ignoring it

opened it, came up with this

and a lot more- jeezums-

it's possible cuz it has PolyomiShaders and XR but i dunno about those

[somber meadow]

You have 2 SDKs imported

[rose edge]

ohhh-

hmm

[somber meadow]

Go into VCC, click manage project on your project, click the 3 dots, and click "reinstall all packages"

this'll remove any conflicting folders of legacy scripts

[rose edge]

will do

[real birch]

Omg its loading

[somber sequoia]

yep, exactly what I thought

[stray trench]

how do i fix this issue with the neck and head?

[real birch]

Off the computer screen but I guess I'm missing a few thing

[balmy barn]

merge stuff and hope it doesnt look wierd

[balmy barn]

update or delete your av3 emulator

its hating on your gesturemanager, so might need to update both

[real birch]

Okay and how would i do that?

[balmy barn]

vcc

[real birch]

Ah okay

[real birch]

I looked at all of them and they all are at that same spot whats with the red box?

[desert elk]

that's to delete

[somber meadow]

Just remove av3emulator, you don't need to import all the curated packages in order to upload

[desert elk]

sometimes having both causes glitches, cause they mostly do the same stuff

[somber meadow]

you can keep GestureManager if you want to test things in Unity

[real birch]

Lol funny enough i dm'd a friend who created my fursona on VRC and they said the same thing

[desert elk]

cause it's true xd

[somber meadow]

Av3 Emulator, and Gesture Manager mainly do the same thing

I prefer Gesture Manager as the Animator Play Audio behavior works properly on it, and it's more lightweight

[south kraken]

You have to edit the model in blender, pull some the head verts down into the neck to close the hole

Or another editing software of your choice I guess

[stray trench]

is that the common practice for this?

i was wat ching a fairly modern tutorial and she didnt even mention this

[south kraken]

If you bought the avatar no it should not come like that

If you made it yourself yes

[stray trench]

no no

im assembling one

[south kraken]

Then yeah

[stray trench]

but ive never seen anyone mention this in the tutorials

[south kraken]

Sometimes you have to edit things to make them fit

[stray trench]

would you happen to have a video specifically for this? i know its simple in theory but i just wanted something to watch

[real timber]

im trying to delay a particle effect from when i press activate. How would i go about this

[south kraken]

Not sure, probably looking at blender tutorials on how to select and move vertices, and maybe proportional editing.
They got shorts on that stuff

[stray trench]

for sure, thanks so much for your help

[livid palm]

I'm needing some help with some advanced stuff, I'm not really sure where to look. The rig looks fine and everything is standing straight and symmetrical, until I enter play mode/in game the avatar's legs shift and cause the feet to be crooked. I did an fbx replacement using pumpkin's tools, after doing some edits it blender. I didnt shift around any bones in blender, or at least I dont think I did. I'm guessing it has something to do with possibly a controller or something? Idk lol, if anyone has any ideas please let me know :wearysigh:

^the rig is set to humanoid, I enforced T-pose in the rig options, idk what is awry

[balmy barn]

play mode wobble feet like that cause of controllers

base & additive to blame

it sinks your feet slightly into ground too see randomly people asking why

default one is lower

look up proxy_idle (think its called)

[livid palm]

oh will do thank you

am I adding a different controller? which spot does it go in/do I remove any?

[balmy barn]

default you get vrchat default controller

I wouldnt really bother about changing the stance its very minor

vrc_AvatarV3LocomotionLayer is what you are getting when you leave it default

[livid palm]

okie dokie ty

[balmy barn]

guessing its that one

wobbly feet

[livid palm]

I'm still not really sure where to even find that layer

[balmy barn]

blendtree in the locomotion layer, double click it to expand

[toxic grotto]

can somone help my prodjects not loading and i cant make a charecter

[small plover]

can anybody explain this error and how to fix it?

The VRCSDK build was aborted because the VRCSDKPreprocessAvatarCallback 'BuildFrameworkPreprocessHook' reported a failure.

[livid palm]

okay I finally figured out where that layer and controller is. I'm just kinda messing around, but maybe I'm doing nothing lol. I put the example controller in there, but maybe I'm missing some settings?

[winter veldt]

queston everytime i open the projest is always show me the core and when i choose 3D is not show me the VRC SDK

[rose edge]

so rn im tryna export a minecraft avatar under a different model to quest but every other shader doesn't support the textures, as it's required to be on the standard shader
help

[toxic grotto]

its not opening

[somber sequoia]

you cannot use that editor version with vrchat

[toxic grotto]

wym'

[somber sequoia]

it says unity 6000.something, that is not a version that can be used for vrchat

[somber sequoia]

if this ^ is with Unity 6000 it's not relevant. Install the proper version of Unity and use that.

[toxic grotto]

nope its not

[somber sequoia]

that isn't correct either.

[toxic grotto]

then what is it because i checked

[somber sequoia]

2022.3.22f1

[toxic grotto]

thats not a thing

[somber sequoia]

sure is, most of us have it installed

[toxic grotto]

thats all i see

[somber sequoia]

you have to get it from the archives, or just have VCC install it for you

[toxic grotto]

im installing it

[worthy compass]

How do I go about brightening up a material in unity so it’s affected less by world lighting in vrchat? The main material for the body is poiyomi toon but the hair is liltoon and thus it is shaded differently in different worlds. How can I go about brightening this up so they match when worlds are dark? (First pic is avatar in bright lighting, second pic is in dark lighting. the body stays bright but the hair becomes super dark)

[weak cobalt]

so i retextured this avatar, i uploaded it, however, its invisible to me unless im looking in a mirror. Like i cant see my hands or look down and see my body. and when i am looking in a mirror my hands are really high up and the character is like squatting? i only have a quest so i cant really get a picture of what its doing. how do i fix it 😭

[winter veldt]

litile help

[toxic grotto]

what do i do now i installed it

[somber sequoia]

I have no idea what you were trying to do before

but whatever it was, that I guess?

[toxic grotto]

wym it just wont open

[somber sequoia]

can you make a new project with vcc and open that?