avatar-help

[grizzled knoll]

thanks y'all

[severe field]

I'm painfully close to solving this

someone pointed out the "LipSync" layer was at 0 and needed to be set to 1

that did a lot

[compact dust]

spaghetti animation

[somber sequoia]

I'd think you would want to have sil turn off when another shape is active

[severe field]

but the trouble is, every layer I have on this controller, the viseme has "sil" set to 100%, even though-- that's the thing

[balmy barn]

check your first layer, probably a bunch of them there

[somber sequoia]

every layer? why?

[severe field]

no I didn't do it on purpose it's a weird glitch. But yeah thulen I think you might be right

[balmy barn]

when you add animations by dragging its in first layer, i leave it blank

[somber sequoia]

yeah delete all that stuff

[severe field]

do I just... snip the connection between "entry" and "v0?"

[somber sequoia]

no, delete all of those states.

[severe field]

ahhhh

[somber sequoia]

you can put a sort of "reset" state in there if you like, lower layers can then override it

[compact dust]

hey so what if the hair doesnt have an armature

[somber sequoia]

but you don't need anything

[severe field]

gonna see if it works now

[somber sequoia]

make one if you want it to move. Otherwise you can weight paint the hair 100% to the head bone

well

I mean make bones - they don't need to be a separate armature at all

ha

[severe field]

Hallelujah it's working!!!

[somber sequoia]

yay!

[severe field]

https://tenor.com/view/he-has-risen-happy-easter-gif-14831638473077428015

gonna upload it right now and see if its finally working!

[hollow moon]

So I'm working on an accessory for my next project, and when this is finished, I'm picturing this being a locket, but I don't know what to do next to make the chains for the necklace part of the locket.

[compact dust]

so make extra bones to account for the hair

obviously wouldnt make one for each hair

[somber sequoia]

if you want the hair to move with bones, then yeah, make bones, weight paint hair sections to those bones

[compact dust]

think i could merge it to the current armature and just paint it to the body one, which is just 1 long bone that runs from the tail to the head

then weight paint

[somber sequoia]

if you have no armature/bones there's no merging though

[compact dust]

i mean set the hair mesh to use the current body armature

idk how to word it

[balmy barn]

if its for pc just use a fur shader , warren v5 have alot of new things now and locking

[compact dust]

would a fur shader recreate the same thing but not using a seperate mesh

[somber sequoia]

simply add an armature modifier to the hair mesh, that connects it to the avatar's armature. Then weight paint.

[balmy barn]

warren you can pain directly on the mesh in unity colors, hue/wind direction'n, audiolink, decal, ectect

https://warrenwolfy.gumroad.com/l/atntv just try the lite version

havnt touched it much but this is a thing too

[compact dust]

ermm how do you get textures from blender to unity again, i forgetted

[somber sequoia]

if they're image textures, then just copy the files. If not, you'll have to bake procedural materials into image textures

[compact dust]

gots it

[fiery dirge]

Anyone know a way to get the eyes to look at the camera in game when taking pictures? Is there a way to make it lock on, or do I have to do it the long way and just make a puppet in unity lol

[severe field]

@somber sequoia @balmy barn Thank you both, sincerely, for tolerating me this afternoon while I tried to make this thing work

I knew it was something simple! It was just deleting the animations off the first layer and then turning the second layer up to a weight of 1! Of all things!

The animations work appropriately but the lipsyncing is awkward and doesn't perfectly match what I'm saying and when I'm saying it. I have to figure out how to make it more accurate from here. That's a whole different issue for another day though

[somber sequoia]

I tried this once and was not happy with the performance

[hollow moon]

I need help with this whenever anyone's able to help me with this question.

[compact dust]

just like..
make chains?

seperate mesh, same mesh, doesnt matter too much

[hollow moon]

Yeah, I just need help making a chain for the necklace part of the locket.

[somber sequoia]

specifically what sort of help are you looking for?

[compact dust]

is there a way to get rid of the mats bc its messing up a vrcf controller

[somber sequoia]

those are files you can delete, if you want

[compact dust]

yeah but how

[somber sequoia]

... select, click the delete key on your keyboard

[compact dust]

selecting and pressing del doesnt work

[somber sequoia]

that's weird, it does for me

[compact dust]

maybe cus its part of the fbx?

[somber sequoia]

oh you can't delete embedded materials

it's not clear those are embedded from that image

[compact dust]

mb thought it was bc of the arrow or wtv

[somber sequoia]

oh I see, I never use that icon view, forgot what the "these are part of that" icon looks like

[compact dust]

np

meh ill just not use the controller

not that important for this

[somber sequoia]

the embedded materials shouldn't affect that though

[compact dust]

well the controller wasnt doing what it's supposed to anyways, and dk how to use it

it was just a thing that gives the hair on the shader that thulen suggested some physics

but the fur is so short it doesnt rlly matter

[somber sequoia]

yeah not sure what you're trying to do there

[compact dust]

idk the shader doesnt explain what its supposed to do

[somber sequoia]

Warren's? It's got lots of docs, the last time I looked

[compact dust]

it has an option to create a vrcf controller if you want physics

[somber sequoia]

ah, interesting

[compact dust]

but then doesnt say what to do w/ said controller

in unity anyways, probably has info on the docs

not important enough tho

[hollow moon]

The help I'm looking for is just like how to get the general shape of a chain link started, from there I'd be able to figure out how to connect the links for the necklace shape.

[somber sequoia]

well if you model each link, then that'll be a TON of polygons, and very inefficient. You might consider a cord.
Otherwise perhaps a chain of very simple polys with a cut-out image of a chain link.

beyond that... this is modeling skills, there are lots of tutorial videos. If I were doing this super-high poly I'd turn a torus into a chain link and make an array along a path.

(but I wouldn't do that for vrchat)

[hollow moon]

Ok, I think I'll go with the simple polys option with the image of a chain link.

So is there like a video tutorial I can use for that? Or something else?

[somber sequoia]

not that I know of, but I haven't really looked for something so specific

[hollow moon]

I see. Just thought I'd ask.

[knotty lichen]

a possible future client is asking about centaur avatars, is there a tool I can use for making four legged avatars?

[somber sequoia]

there's a discord for this, and some models you can buy! gg/Limbs

[knotty lichen]

thank you

[somber sequoia]

it's pretty involved to do from scratch

[compact dust]

theres a discord specifically for centaur avis?

[somber sequoia]

well various alternate limb patterns, that's one of them

there's a good mer-thing base too

[ebon tusk]

I'm getting the "Spine hierarchy incorrect" issue

[somber sequoia]

correct the spine hierarchy! 🙂

(show what you have)

[ebon tusk]

The rig is fine. I have no idea wht it's telling me it's wrong

[gentle torrent]

hello everyone am new here

[ebon tusk]

I auto fixed the other stuff

[somber sequoia]

that first error means it isn't fine

[ebon tusk]

I know but I can't figure it out

[shadow bane]

Is anyone else having issues with the ears animations just not working?
Physbone is ticked for IS ANIMATED
it works in the fx preview
animation transitions are set right
But it just refuses to work in game
All my avatars are doing this right now. Specifically with ears

It was fine before this recent update, now suddenly they don't work anymore.

[somber sequoia]

show the hierarchy from the root armature down to head.

[somber sequoia]

not what I asked for

[gentle torrent]

i have that issue also

[shadow bane]

did you find any fix for it?

[gentle torrent]

someone help me fix it

[ebon tusk]

This?

[somber sequoia]

that

[gentle torrent]

will you like to talk to her?

[compact dust]

any reason the face would be tearing like this if its weight painted to not move

[shadow bane]

nah just send me a screenshot

[somber sequoia]

actually can you close everything below the upper arms? I can't see where the head is

oh that's better

yeah you have too many spine bones between "spine 003" and the head

extra neck bone

also you can turn off leaf bones in the blender export.

[gentle torrent]

should i send you her username?

[shadow bane]

i dont want more dms from strangers.
If its a fix, share it here

[ebon tusk]

So what should I do?

[ebon tusk]

If you mean the "bones" instead of circles. I happen to like the bones.

[gentle torrent]

she just help me finish it

[somber sequoia]

combine those two bones into one

[ebon tusk]

4 and 5?

[somber sequoia]

and no I mean you have all the _end bones which aren't necessary.

[somber sequoia]

read the error - it should go chest -> neck -> head. You have 4 there instead of 3

[hidden loom]

How do I go about animating based on someone touching a spot on my avatar. For example, I want an emission to play if another players contacts touch a particular part of my avatar and increase in intensity the closer they touch the center of that place.

[somber sequoia]

it may mean simply merging those two

[somber sequoia]

contact receiver that listens for another avatar's default contact sender on their hand/finger (up to you)

the contact receiver sets a variable that you use in an animation state machine

[ebon tusk]

I'll let my friend who did the rig know

Hopefully I can get it fixed that way I can use thee avatar.

[hidden loom]

I dont even know what that means. Can you help me find a ressource that explains it to me?

I usually use VRCF toggles or do simple animation clips I tie in with VRCF

[somber sequoia]

docs on vrchat's site of course: https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/avatar-dynamics/contacts/

[hidden loom]

I need to understand or learn to understand "Animation state machine"

[somber sequoia]

the animator is a finite state machine. "animation layer" might be another term for this, but you'll need to understand how animators in unity work to do this

[hidden loom]

I see, so basically it's like I need an animator that somehow interacts or reads what the "reciever" recieves and then somehow animate my emissions based on the value it gets out of that? I think this is too much of a project to just pick up, I will have to ask a friend to guide me through this visually

[somber sequoia]

there are lots of tutorials for this stuff

[hidden loom]

Oh wait I kind of get it? So it writes the value in the parameter I set in my animation controller right? So for example set up like this the closer to the center the value of the parameter, likely "float"? will be seen as that. And now All i need to do is make the animation I make for my emission intensity sync up to that read value?

That sounds like programming. How do I make my animation sync to my parameter value though?

[somber sequoia]

you could use that variable in a blendtree, blending from off to on. Or in a single animation which goes from off to on, with the variable as the motion time parameter. there are a few ways to do this.

[hidden loom]

What even is a blendtree AAAAAAAAAHH why is this so complicated XD

I regret learning most things about unity besides animations now more and more.
So what I want is:
The closer to the center the touch happens = increases the value of my emisison intensity.
Use Blendtree for that or "motion time parameter" thing?

[somber sequoia]

either one would work

[hidden loom]

I guess the second option confuses me as you said "Or in a single animation which goes from off to on" which describes it as from 0 - 1?

[somber sequoia]

it would help if you had a fundamental understanding of the animator, there's a lot of stuff to explain to get to this point

[hidden loom]

Oh wait, are you saying that lets say I make an animation clip, first keyframe on 0.00 with value 0 on intensity of emisison, and on 60sec it has a value of 1.00. Then the motion time moves along 0.01 - 1.00 all values inbetween?

[somber sequoia]

but if you make one animation which sets whatever parameter off at frame 0 and on at frame 100, then you can use the motion time parameter to move along that animation

oh you DO get it

excellent

[hidden loom]

so if I set the same parameter that I sync to the reciever and the reciever picks up depth at 0.37, the motion time parameter using the same parameter as the reciever picks up 0.37 and then the animation uses that value for the emisison?

[somber sequoia]

contact sender on the syringe, receiver on the target avatar which must be specifically setup to receive it and do things with it

[somber sequoia]

yep, that's the basics

[hidden loom]

so all I need is one animation clip, then assign motion time to it with that parameter name and done?

[tiny dock]

never done any of these things

again i'd need like detailed screenshots

[somber sequoia]

all I can provide you is a hint in the right direction, I can't hold your hand and walk you through it

[tiny dock]

the syringe is also a blendshape and not a seperate mesh

[somber sequoia]

doesn't matter what it is, you need a contact sender somewhere if you want to send data to another avatar.

[tiny dock]

yeah but i only want it when the syringe is enabled

[hidden loom]

Ok, let me summarize and please correct me if I'm wrong:

Create animation clip with emission intensity from 0 - 1 between two keyframes.
Create Parameter named EmissionRecieve as float
Assign Parameter to Reciever.
Set new layer in animation controller, include animation clip recorded.
Set motion time parameter to EmissionRecieve.
Done?

[somber sequoia]

Seems like a decent method

[hidden loom]

I will try that!

[somber sequoia]

use the toggle that enables the syringe to enable the contact sender also

[tiny dock]

got it

[tepid kite]

can someone help me figure out how to upload this avatar i bought ill cashapp $5

i need someone to hop on vc with me and show me pls

[compact dust]

repost ^

[somber sequoia]

honestly can't even tell what that is from that image

[compact dust]

whenever it moves it goes ee

only the body does, all the other bones work as intended

the body doesnt even have a bone that's affected by the script

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure I get what part of that is the body?

[compact dust]

the part to the right, being deformed when moved in playmode, not supposed to be moving at all

only the frills/feet are supposed to

[somber sequoia]

uh... I guess inspect weight painting?

[compact dust]

tried that, face doesnt have any painting besides 0

im gonna try smth else first

[hidden loom]

Kazin, you are amazing, you dont just give the solution, you actually lead people to the solution like you did for me. It worked. My emission test worked exactly as I needed it to. The face getting red was just a test. Thank you for guiding me into this unknown territory, much appreciated. It was successful!

[somber sequoia]

feel free to provide details in this channel, perhaps someone here isn't busy and can help.

[somber sequoia]

woo excellent!

[tepid kite]

im a noob idk what to do

[somber sequoia]

you start by describing the problem and what you have done so far to solve it.

[tepid kite]

im trying to upload a quest compatable avatar and its saying i cant use the shaders and its too big

[somber sequoia]

#quest-optimization is a good place to find clues for the second part

[tepid kite]

and whenever i click "build and upload" the loading bar is stuck at 0

[tepid kite]

can u just hop on a call rq

pls

i have 3 files, one says ivan, another says ivan opti, and another says ivan quest

whats the difference between opti and quest

[somber sequoia]

no

[late heath]

i have an avatar with 2d lipsync that uses viseme parameters that change the image with animations, if i were to do a material swap toggle, how would i work around changing the visemes into different images if its possible? would i have to use shapekeys?

[tepid kite]

u a lame

[somber sequoia]

so you're going to insult me because I am working on my own projects rather than helping you?

that sure is a way to get people to help.

[tepid kite]

be quiet if ur just gonna type "no" and not help with anything

[compact dust]

maybe learn how to upload an avi like the person who you're insulting

[tepid kite]

what exactly do you think im doing here?

[compact dust]

also he didnt say he wouldnt help, just that he wouldnt get on a call

[somber sequoia]

You asked if I could help in VC. I said no. That was a perfectly legitimate answer to your question.

[compact dust]

not looking at an upload tutorial which has every step

[tepid kite]

so you check every single post from everyone and type "no" and ping people?

when you have nothing of value to add?

[somber sequoia]

no, I answer direct questions though

[compact dust]

buddy did not read it

[tepid kite]

anyone know what to do here

[tepid kite]

"no"

[somber meadow]

You need VRCFury installed in this project

[compact dust]

looks like a ripped avi with those prefab names

[somber sequoia]

Yes - that was a direct answer to your question, I don't see why you're getting all upset about that.

[tepid kite]

i bought it

[somber sequoia]

from where?

[tepid kite]

how do i do that

[compact dust]

you install it

[tepid kite]

how

[compact dust]

by installing it

[tepid kite]

doesnt answer the question

[compact dust]

hard to explain installing smth

[compact dust]

yes it does

[tepid kite]

how do i use it with vrchatsdk

[warm trench]

try google

[somber sequoia]

especially when the website for the thing has instructions 🙂

[compact dust]

is this what i seem like to you sometimes

[tepid kite]

because i need it to be there when i open the project with vrchat creator companion

[tepid kite]

this is the help channel dummy

[somber sequoia]

you seem to have much more clue, though I have no idea what your purple blob is 🙂

[compact dust]

and sometimes the answer is better read on google

[tepid kite]

this is the research

[compact dust]

yeah idk i redid the bones and now the physbones dont work at all lmao

[tepid kite]

already checked. nothing. thats what this channel is for

[somber sequoia]

vrcfury.com?

(they have their own discord too)

[tepid kite]

how do u know it needs vrcfury

[somber sequoia]

your error messages clearly say VRC Fury on them

[compact dust]

bc if im not mistaken they all do

if they use components from it at least

[warm trench]

i helped

[compact dust]

big red arros

[tepid kite]

it worked

[subtle oasis]

Yo what happens to VRChat?

Happened*

For some reason it wouldn't lete or my friends log in

Let*

Me*

[placid valley]

Rn?

[frail temple]

maintenace i think

[tepid kite]

guys theres 2 .prefab models and one says "ivan" and the other says "ivanFT" and i want the one with full body tracking. both of the models open when i double click the .unity file that says "click me", and the "ivan" is in the middle and the "ivanFT" is a few feet to the right. what do i do

[compact dust]

ft is face tracking buddy

usually

[tepid kite]

oh

yea i dont need that

what do i do though

do i just delete the ft model

[compact dust]

no

it doesnt matter

just upload one

[tepid kite]

do i need to click the one that says "ivan" before clicking build and upload so it knows not to use ivanFT

[compact dust]

just check which on the sdk has selected

[tepid kite]

it says im missing a billion materials

[compact dust]

uhuh

[compact dust]

if only there was a screenshot

good job

those dont matter

yellow errors mean basically nothing

[somber sequoia]

probably reinstall whatever shader that got you the Thry editor, probably poiyomi

[tepid kite]

build failed tho

[compact dust]

maybe look for red errors at ze top

[somber sequoia]

yeah, 8 errors

[tardy walrus]

I've been struggling to actually get the ability to transform my model to be quest compatible but it just isn't giving me the option to tick android and I got this one thing that'll let you convert to android and it still wasn't giving me the option. If someone like knows a really good video that goes step by step of everything I need please help me out 😭 been stuck on this for like 5 days

[tepid kite]

im not sure if it came with shaders, i only got a .unitypackage file

[compact dust]

well look for instructions that say what shader it uses

[somber sequoia]

do what's in here, if you haven't: https://creators.vrchat.com/platforms/android/setting-up-unity-for-creating-quest-content

[somber sequoia]

missing script means you didnt install something the avatar requires

[tardy walrus]

Yea i can't switch to android lol

[compact dust]

hand missing script, haptic plug wtv that is, smth in the avatar, and gogoloco

[tardy walrus]

I have the option but it's greyed out and untoggleable

[compact dust]

missing scripts kablooey

[tepid kite]

what do i do

[compact dust]

install wtv is missing

[somber sequoia]

probably means you didn't install the android build stuff in the link I provided

[tardy walrus]

Ans the thing i downloaded is suppose to do all the converting it's self but it hates me

[tardy walrus]

Lemme see

[compact dust]

there should be instructions that have what you need in them

[tardy walrus]

I have an android sdk on mine tut

[foggy dragon]

hello! anyone know how to disable the default vrchat foot IK? im trying to make a tank avatar and its very annoying when i turn and the entire tank just starts jittering on the ground because of it

[tepid kite]

cant i install poyami and itll fix?

[compact dust]

should be a setting in unity to disable feet moving

or you can use gogoloco to do that too i think

[somber sequoia]

that's not a missing script

[tardy walrus]

do i have the wrong one maybe?

[somber sequoia]

you don't need 6 or 2021.3.45f1

2022.3.22f1 doesn't seem to have android - there's your problem

[foggy dragon]

Where, exactly?

[tardy walrus]

it doesnt let me add modules

[compact dust]

unity 6000.0.41f1🗣️🔥

[compact dust]

its the auto footsteps at the bottom

[foggy dragon]

oh my god im so blind thank you so much

[compact dust]

there should also be a setting in game that does it but idk where it is

[tepid kite]

it says i need poiyami 8.1 but it doesnt say if i download 8.1.66 or 8.1.67

[somber sequoia]

just get the latest

[tepid kite]

ill pay someone $10 cashapp to get these models in the game and let me clone them off you. this too much

[tardy walrus]

i still cant add modules tut

[tepid kite]

says i need scripts that dont exist

i have a unitypackage file and nothing else. instructions just say add vrcfury and poiyami

[somber sequoia]

usually the creator's got a webpage or instruction that tells you want to get

[somber sequoia]

don't get scammed by people DMing you now and offering their avatar creation services

especially when they just joined this server yesterday

[tepid kite]

yea that dude did dm me

like a moth to a flame

broken english and all

who woulda thought

[proper storm]

this place is filled with scammers lol

question, does using parameter drivers w/ contacts solve syncing issues?

I had a friend make a guide for me, works, but just wondering the logic around why it doesnt sync if I dont use drivers to toggle a second parameter after contact touched

(there is no info online about this)

[tepid kite]

i just needed vrcfury

i didnt have it on

now i just gotta figure out how to add the quest version

[proper storm]

it might also be a bug, or intended because of ping and network syncing, but contacts that will disappear in 1 frame, after being disabled by a animator, will only be triggered locally, not globally

I just found this out yesterday when messing with some stuff, so I have no idea if its a bug or not

[proper storm]

You should start by watching guides on how to optimize avatars to be quest compatible

[tepid kite]

i did watch a lot

all i could find

theres always little stuff missing though

[proper storm]

you can have as many poly count, contacts, mesh particles etc, but some stuff will not work on quest and refuse to upload

[tepid kite]

wish i could just have someone show me

[proper storm]

I would start by making a copy of the avatar, and stripping all shaders

[tardy walrus]

ok think i got it now seems like my unity just mightve been hating me installed a diff versions and it works

[proper storm]

(or adding quest compatible ones and replacing)

it will refuse to upload

[proper storm]

any info on this btw if anyone knows, nobody seems to know anything on this

[somber sequoia]

Report them in #discord-tickets

[proper storm]

even forums have no result really

[tardy walrus]

welp nvm still doing it

[tepid kite]

he didnt say anything incriminating, pretty sure it wouldnt do anything

[proper storm]

they will ban

[tepid kite]

ik what he was trying though

[proper storm]

people do this stuff all the time

[somber sequoia]

they'd get kicked and not scam someone else

[proper storm]

its already suspicous

[tepid kite]

true

ill say hes using broken english and messaging right when i bring up $10

cuz he probably was a scammer

[proper storm]

welcome to the hellpit that is, my spam dms

[tepid kite]

ill see what they do

damn

[proper storm]

all commision scammers

[somber sequoia]

not sure how you installed this, but on Linux I found I had to install the editor through unity hub, rather than a standalone package. I think vcc does this for you on windows, you might try uninstalling and reinstalling via vcc

[tardy walrus]

what is vcc

[somber sequoia]

https://vcc.docs.vrchat.com/

[proper storm]

creator companion

[tardy walrus]

oo i have that

[proper storm]

the thing you are using

for like

projects

and packages

[tardy walrus]

yes i see that

what package on there do i need?

or well what one im suppose to uninstall

these are the community ones i have

[somber sequoia]

are any of those the unity editor?

[tardy walrus]

nopee

i did the unity editor stuff fully through unity i believe

[somber sequoia]

probably not those then

[tardy walrus]

got chu

do i need to maybe install the ios one as well?

imma see if that does it or anythin

[tepid kite]

when uploading the quest version after the pc version of an avatar, do the name and description have to be the same, or just the name

[proper storm]

blueprint id have to match iicr

[tepid kite]

also what do i do now. i just uploaded the pc version rn and i have the quest file of the model

not sure where to put it, do i open a new project

[proper storm]

no

keep it in same project

[tepid kite]

same unity instance to?

[proper storm]

yes

[tepid kite]

ok

how do i get blueprint id to match

[proper storm]

check both, inside the avatar descriptor component

if they match up, i think you are able to upload on quest

dont qoute me, I think thats how it works

you upload with same name and stuff, just to android/quest then

if you have more than one avatar in the project, you can choose which one to upload

Can you use sprite renderers in the avatar sdk? I saw I cant in my thing when I try to push my build, anyway to use something similar?

[somber sequoia]

name is not relevant - copy one blueprint ID into the other avatar

[somber sequoia]

that message says you can't, so...

[proper storm]

Well, yeah, but there are workarounds

as per usual

[somber sequoia]

no there aren't

[proper storm]

not this time actually?

[somber sequoia]

it's not a whitelisted component, so you can't use it

[steady nimbus]

So phys bone issue, for some reason on a constranted arm the phys bone doesnt move when moving your arm in vr, but when you move around in general (the controls) the phys bone moves correctly, any ideas on why

[tulip wigeon]

can anyone help me fiqure out how to upload my avatar on to my avatars list on vrc

[tepid kite]

do i remove the poiyami shaders

because i just upoaded a pc avatar and i know quest cant use them

and i need to add quest version of this same avatar

[proper storm]

if you remove them, you would break avatar

[tepid kite]

what do

[proper storm]

I would say to just change all materials back to normal unity shader

[tepid kite]

chatgpt said remove them and switch to android build

[proper storm]

on the copy avatar

[proper storm]

🚮

[tepid kite]

how do i do that

[proper storm]

garbage

would think just to change all materials back to texture

[tepid kite]

are u sure i would break it

also how do i view the avatars materials

[proper storm]

materials folder

[proper storm]

no

[proper storm]

there is a quest version

did you ever open that one in the scene

[tepid kite]

yea i added the quest verison

at first it was just "open me" and that opened "ivan" and "ivanft" then i added quest

then theres the "ivan Q" prefab in the heirarchy, but its not in the assets. do i drag it in there

ivan Q only appeared once i double clicked the "ivan Quest" unity file

do i copy this and put it there

my god.. did i do it

did i upload my first avatar

[thorn tiger]

what is this?

[somber sequoia]

not a very useful error message, unfortunately

[thorn tiger]

okay one sec!

[ornate stump]

Are you sure you've imported all the packageds needed?

[thorn tiger]

i read what the instructions said, which was poitoon 9 which i imported before, and fury

maybe if i start over and put gogo in there before?

[ornate stump]

Just install gogoloco as vrm package. No need to start over.

[thorn tiger]

oki well i dropped it in after the first time and it still didnt work

whats vrm

[ornate stump]

Package that installed via vcc.

[thorn tiger]

ohhh

i can try to do thatt

[ornate stump]

Or you could just delete Gogoloco object in your avatar and add a new one back.

[thorn tiger]

i actually dont see it in the file menus

[ornate stump]

Which file menu?

[thorn tiger]

conten drawer

or sorry that unreal term, the project assets

i usually see a gogo prefab of some kind

[ornate stump]

That's even less understandable.

[thorn tiger]

yeah as i said, thats unreal engine. their assets get put into the content drawer. what i mean was project assets menu

[ornate stump]

You should see Gogologo folder in asset menu. If not then you didn't import it.

[thorn tiger]

okay, ill import it before i import the unity scene along with the rest of the instructed and see how that goes

[thorn tiger]

nope same error

[tardy walrus]

any idea on how to fix these

[thorn tiger]

im a dumb ass

[thorn tiger]

there a blueprint at all?

[tardy walrus]

blueprint?

[thorn tiger]

yeah sometimes if a blueprint is attatched by the creator you wont hve perms to upload since you wouldnt own it by unity terms. nor would it validate it

[tardy walrus]

i think the outfit was bugging it out but the model its self is fine ive uploaded it a few times but keep running into an issue where im invisble and my turning just makes me like fly through walls n shit lol

[thorn tiger]

LMAO

OH

[ornate stump]

Does this mean you found your mistake?

[thorn tiger]

yeaahh

[tardy walrus]

idk why its being so fussy its literally just a base novabeast with just texture 😭

[ornate stump]

Shader is the problem.

[tardy walrus]

im using the vrchat mobile toonlit shader on all the textures im usin TuT

[ornate stump]

You're missing some of the materials.

[tardy walrus]

oo lemme see

idk what im missing everything thats suppose to be on there is one there TuT

[zealous pine]

VRCFury is giving me this error and I tried to solve it by searching my whole avatar's hierarchy but found nothing. I tried uploading a new project and it gave me the same error so I suspect there is an issue with VRCFury that I'm missing but I would like to know if anybody can help

[tardy walrus]

oo found it its whatever tf this is

unity literally hates me

[somber sequoia]

that's not the vpm repo link

there's an "add to vcc" button here: https://www.poiyomi.com/download

[tardy walrus]

i did the add to vcc n it did that lol

[somber sequoia]

that doesn't seem likely

[tardy walrus]

the one that shows up on this screensot

[somber sequoia]

do the one in the link I just gave you

[tardy walrus]

seems they added the wrong one in unity lmfao

still giving me it

[somber sequoia]

you're trying to do a quest version, you can't use poiyomi

[somber sequoia]

that last one, it's a material embedded in the FBX, you'll need to replace it

[tardy walrus]

im not sure how to

[somber sequoia]

make a new material, drag it into the slot. there are lots of tutorials for this if you need visuals

[tardy walrus]

it wont let me change it

[somber sequoia]

change what

[zealous pine]

what was the solution? I'm currently having the same issue

[tardy walrus]

the material

[somber sequoia]

exactly what are you doing?

[tardy walrus]

i dont think thats the issue anyways cuz i was able to get the model in before even with that there but it was missing things so i went back and then everything just got worst

[somber sequoia]

it clearly states in the error report that this is an issue

[tardy walrus]

it wont let me drop or change the matieral

[somber sequoia]

that's weird.

where exactly are you trying to drop it?

[tardy walrus]

ok it went away

[woven jewel]

Im trying to help a freind, they have a free to use model they want to reduce the size of the butt prortions. is there an easy way to do this? we are both new to this.

[junior void]

Sculpt it down in blender or see if it already has such a blendshape

[hot anvil]

I'm uploading an avatar for the first time so be patient with me please.. 😭😭 this keeps popping up whenever I try to upload I tried searching online and nothing helped

[somber meadow]

Please use screenshots (Windows Key + Shift + S), scroll up in the console, and send the screenshot in this channel

[hot anvil]

Okay

[somber meadow]

anything above "assetbundle was not built" are the important errors

[somber meadow]

You still need to scroll up

[night ember]

You have 11 errors

You are only showing the 3 that are just the ones saying it failed

[somber meadow]

you need VRCFury imported into the project

[hot anvil]

oh

[somber meadow]

https://vrcfury.com/download/

[hot anvil]

thank you 😭

[night ember]

Whered you get the avatar

The place should have instructions

[hot anvil]

I bought it i can check the files

[night ember]

Bought it isnt a place

[hot anvil]

Payhip

Found it

Im slow

Thank you

[desert elk]

yeah, that's what happens if you export the model with different scale settings. I'm not sure why the author gave the wrong settings

[neon osprey]

I figured something out in the meantime. I found out I can just completely replace the old armature and body. That worked great! Unfortunately the weight painting is a bit messed up but thats a new issue entirely XD

[keen orbit]

how would I fix thid?

this*

[keen orbit]

Nvm I think

[zinc surge]

Hello again, im trying to uploud a character into unity so i can take him as my avatar in VR Chat but since its my first time ever doing this i dont know how it works. Would someone be so kind to tell me step by step how i do this or dm me maybe so i can make a discord stream and someone could guide me through this. Im suffering very hard with stuff like this and i bought an Avatar so it would be a shame if i cant do this now, if someone could help me it would be very nice!

[desert elk]

better not ask for DMS, there's a ton of scammers here that will make you pay money for help. This is a tutorial on how to upload an avatar if it's an fbx that's ready for vrchat: https://youtu.be/rRAnDMUbWt8?si=L5g2K9Aj-97OLsV4
If you need any other help a text here

[zinc surge]

Okay okay thank you very much!

[desert elk]

if it's a bought avatar it probably has instructions and a list of addons that you'll need

like custom shaders for example

[zinc surge]

yea it has Requirements but sadly no instructions

[desert elk]

remember to import the required stuff before the avatar file

otherwise it may break

[zinc surge]

ok

[zinc surge]

does this need to be installed too? It is not in the Requirements so im asking

[desert elk]

i'd get gesture manager so you can check if the toggles work

other than that, no. Unless you'll be modifying your avatar in some way (than avatars 3.0 could be useful)

[zinc surge]

ok

[zinc surge]

@desert elk At this point it looks like it's working, but if there's a new problem I'll get back to you, but I'm really grateful for your help!!!

[desert elk]

no problem 👍

[zinc surge]

where do i find my created avatars in vr chat i cant find it 😅...?

[ornate stump]

In avatar listing menu, Uploaded section.

[zinc surge]

thx

[civic hornet]

uuuuuuummm... how come android support just... vanished? I tried reinstalling it like.. 3 times now. Whatever the new sdk update did, it broke quite a few things. Lack of android support so porting to quest is impossible, the fact that my wolf avatar's expression menu is completely empty in-game while it's not empty in unity. there are so many issues here, I don't know what to do!

[balmy barn]

totally broken , no idea what happened to your unity for all i know you could have no space to install android support (restart after)

[inland pumice]

what shader should i use for the rindo gesture particles?

i´m using standard but it looks bugged in vrc

the tears look like this and when i blush for example, i have a huge red box on my face

[heavy zephyr]

Anything that supports transparency.

[inland pumice]

okay

[violet cedar]

Hello people ^_^
how would I go by making a toggle that has an animation, and during it's transition I can pause it and unpause it with a button, I've gotten close to doing it but I think I need to start fresh and do a different process so any tips/ways of doing it would be appreciated!

[grizzled crow]

I am not sure why even those two visemes are not working. I am trying to setup visemes for an avatar im making

[balmy barn]

you need all or nothing will work

[round comet]

You may just need to add them into those slots yourself

In cases where I didn’t have them all, I just had to use the ones I did have and wing it, seeing what lined up the best for which noise

But that’s also tedious and doesn’t always work

[balmy barn]

state multiplier set it to 0 , animation stop

back to 1 it continues

(float) can also speed/slow things down with a radial

[zealous pine]

I still need help with this issue

[somber sequoia]

somewhere you have a prefab with a FullController component.

[zealous pine]

I know but there are many

And they are all detrimental to the avatar

[somber sequoia]

radius is zero?

[junior void]

Interaction ingame disabled or set to friends only?

Im a radius 🤤

[somber sequoia]

apparently you are

[ornate stump]

If bone gizmos show volume and set isGrabbable then it should work.

Can you screenshot physbone settings and in the scene?

[somber sequoia]

you can set that colliders "size" property to 0 if you aren't actually putting colliders in that list

otherwise that looks ok, though immobile is set to 1 so it probably won't do that much

the docs are a bit unclear, but yeah it helps with that

[astral viper]

are there any guides on how to make an audiolink toggle? i’ve seen a lot of guides on how to make audiolink but now how to make it a toggle

[somber sequoia]

depends on your shader

you'd need to toggle whatever property your shader uses. Poiyomi has a master toggle, others don't

[astral viper]

would be poiyomi!

[somber sequoia]

the docs are your friend: https://www.poiyomi.com/audio-link/#anim-toggle (updated link)

[round comet]

how should I fix this?

[balmy barn]

Dont have a mesh use a humanoid bone name already in use (rename your mesh)

[round comet]

oh alright

what do you suggest is a better name?

[dim nebula]

do you have two head bones in your avatar?

[round comet]

imma just rename it face or sumn

[somber sequoia]

ugh, obvious, I should have asked that first.

you do have more than one bone in this chain, right?

[balmy barn]

long as you see the radius its fine, if not it need a endpoint

1 bone exsample

[dim nebula]

a bone for the face? isn't that just the head

[round comet]

Huh? No the mesh for her face was named the same as the bone

So I was trying to decide a new name

They were both called “Head”

[dim nebula]

Oh, just call it Head_mesh or something

[balmy barn]

Head (bone) Head (mesh) unity will go uh wich one is wich , why isnt it merged so you just have one mesh usually named Body

[round comet]

I suppose I could merge them

[inland pumice]

how do i fix this?

[somber sequoia]

go find that transition and add an exit time or condition, just like it says

[gritty temple]

Anyone know why an uploaded VRChat avatar would suddenly turn invisible for seemingly no reason? The file hasn’t been messed with since it was uploaded and worked perfectly fine until I entered an egg hunt map with it, and suddenly it’s no longer visible to myself or anyone when equipped.

[left gull]

is it just that map?

if it is then might be a screen effect they use on the map that's over-rendering whatever shader you use for your model

[fossil kiln]

Hey guys, I recently purchased a Rusk base to edit and learn avatar creation/editing with but I'm hitting a hiccup now and can't find any information online to help.

There's a prefab I'd like to add via VCFury, the prefab has to be place on the hand for it to function correctly, but the avatars hierarchy in Unity of has armersture for hips down and a spot for body. Anything from the torso up isn't showing. Same for head and adding hats etc. I've checked all the other options I have, the rusk prefab, the .fbx file. No other body parts listed in the hierarchy from the waist up.

What am I missing here? Thanks. 😊

[desert elk]

it should be there

if you expaned hips fully

[fossil kiln]

Am I just not looking in the correct spot?

Ohhhh, ok, so I'm not looking into it deep enough?

[final ferry]

I have a question, when we finish importing an avatar via unity on vr chat, the avatar folder created by VRCompanion beforehand to import/edit the avatar, can we delete this file without it having a direct impact on vrc or do we not care about it at all?

[desert elk]

if you click the arrow while holding alt it will expand everything

if it didn't have stuff above hips it wouldn't function in vrchat

[fossil kiln]

Thank you. I'll try this when I get home from work then.

That's what I thought.

[desert elk]

if you're sure about not wanting to do any further edits you can delete it

[fossil kiln]

I assumed it would be like, head down, but I guess everything starts at the hips.

[desert elk]

yes

[fossil kiln]

Thanks for answering my silly question. 😅

Appreciate ya

[final ferry]

Okay thanks u are a GOAT

[somber sequoia]

hips -> spine -> chest -> upper chest (optional) -> shoulders, neck...

[desert elk]

here's an example

of what an armature looks like

[somber sequoia]

oh that's even better 🙂

[desert elk]

yay

[nimble sierra]

Hey Guys! Its been a hot minute since i touched VRChat or Unity, but i found a really nice model on Booth and decided to get back into it, one question tho which i cant find answers to googling. Do i merge these prefabs or not?

[somber sequoia]

merge? that's not a thing, is it?

[left gull]

they're likely different shader, ranking, outfit or platform options so no dont do any type of "merging" unless some instructions that came with the model say to

[nimble sierra]

Well i might just be confusing this with other Unity shenanigans...

[nimble sierra]

Ok!

[somber sequoia]

ah, could be! What's your actual goal?

[keen igloo]

Is there a way to set up texture swap toggles without needing to shove em all into a dozen animation clips?

[nimble sierra]

Just building the Avi really, i bought quite a few of them and am working myself down the list now

[somber sequoia]

there's not really another way to animate that

[nimble sierra]

and this view position should be fine right?

[arctic ginkgo]

you can use one animation clip that has all of the texture swaps and use motion time to change it

i always worry though that it might not sync correctly if you have too many or just happen to set it to the wrong value since the local precision is higher than synced precision

for floats

so i guess I'd reccomend converting the parameter range to whole numbers locally, syncing that, and then converting it back to 0-1 range remotely so that it synced correctly

if you're worried about that

[keen igloo]

How would do that with the motion time?

This is about as complex as I've ever really done with manipulating the blend trees

[arctic ginkgo]

just set up the animation to change between the texture swaps over time and then use the parameter for motion time

[keen igloo]

the parameter for motion time
I'm kind of lost at this part I admit. How do you make a parameter for motion time?

Would that be a float?

[somber sequoia]

yes

[keen igloo]

My current parameter attached to that blendtree already is one, but I'm still not sure how to make it change through the materials with the single animation as I see no effect when I slider the red bar around

Oh I found the motion time spot

Alas I'm still not having any luck figureing out how that is meant to work

[somber sequoia]

make an animation that's 100 frames long. When you move the Motion Time float from 0 to 1 it'll move the animation from frame 1 to 100

[keen igloo]

Oh I'm a dummy. I forgotten to attach the FX to the model. No wonder the gesture manager didn't seem to work

[cyan torrent]

noticed and tested ingame that my model had lost all hair and tail physics, while the bones are still there I think?

What do I do?

[somber sequoia]

first guess: missing physbone component

yeah I definitely don't see one

[cyan torrent]

doh-

how do I fix that?

[somber sequoia]

add a physbone component

[keen igloo]

How do you set up toggles to disable one another?

Like say you have different hats you can swap between

[desert elk]

int

int toggles

[somber sequoia]

you could use an integer instead. Or you could use VRC Avatar Parameter driver to turn the other off

[keen igloo]

I saw mention of something called Avatar Parameter Driver that could possibly be used for it too

[desert elk]

int toggles at 3:30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqtSg6_W07Y

idk how to set it up with the Parameter Driver

cause i've never done it like that

[calm umbra]

Is there a way to see from the POV of yourself in Unity? For testing the head crunch thing?

[grizzled crow]

how do i make expressions change when I click my controllers? some avatars have different expressions depending on which trigger is pressed

[somber meadow]

Are you asking this for an avatar you own and have inside of unity?

You can't change existing avatar's animations if it's just a public avatar you've found that doesn't have it's files shared in some way

[grizzled crow]

its an avatar i made from scratch

[desert elk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU9NFJz2qls&t=268s

it's shown here

the first part of the video

obv you will need blendshapes for facial expressions

[keen igloo]

Was actually rather straight forward and toggled each other off but I ran into an issue with that trick.
They don't turn themselves off when untoggled

[marble niche]

having this issue where i go to upload my avatar and it fails, even on old projects it doesnt work. I've tried literally everything and made multiple new projects and completely reinstalled vcc and unity but it still doesnt work. It can happen at random points during the upload too, like even if the avatar says 100% it times out and doesnt upload. i recently upgraded hardware (cpu ram and mobo) and also upgraded to winddows 11 idk if that helps diagnose.

[gritty temple]

It happened on that map, but then the effect persisted no matter what I did or what map I went to. Resetting the avatar didn't help either, which was odd because before that map the avatar worked fine for 3+ hours

[gentle tinsel]

if i tell a parameter driver to enable other bools, can i also have it disable those bools once the action it's attached to gets disabled?

[keen igloo]

I've run into a peculiar bug
https://i.gyazo.com/fe16a64a1f4e8bcde3d56909b0bfd182.mp4
When I have a pair of toggles that instantly untoggle themselves when I click on them, but the thing they toggled stays on

They're both set up the exact same way as the poncho

[fiery reef]

I've got a question for people who're familiar with Substance painter.
I've only recently started getting into Substance painter, since before I only ever did Blender, Unity and I use Krita and shitty PNG's and such for my Tattoo's and such, but I want to have quality stuff, now I've tried and seen plentiful youtube tutorials, but they don't really help for me personally, from these i've come to understand some basic elements of Substance painter, yet succuessfully adding a tattoo that looks good has yet to happen. If anyone has tips, or is willing to help, that'd be awesome!

[somber sequoia]

I add stuff like that (usually TShirt logos) in Unity with the decal feature on Poyiomi shaders.
Otherwise, you're at the mercy of the resolution of the UV island you want to put the tattoo onto, it might be too small for any real detail. You'd need to resize that or use decals, or perhaps a secondary UV map if your shader supports it.

[fiery reef]

Well thing is, using Alpha's usually gives good results. (given that the Tattoo's resolution is good) only, I've yet to get something properly done, and since this is (As far as i've heard and seen) The best way to add high quality tattoo's, I'm kind of out of options, so I'm just learning this, although I do struggle with it.

[halcyon vale]

Is there a way to copy paste blendshape settings? Aside from pumpkin tools that is

[marble niche]

does this exact same thing on my laptop too now it makes no sense 😭

[balmy barn]

try vpn/warp your connection seems to time out

[marble niche]

dont have a vpn, what's warp?

i did reset my router too

reboot

also if i didnt need a vpn before why do i need one now

[balmy barn]

never needed glasses, i do now, things change

search this discord to find the link to cloudflare warp, cant post it bot hate it

#1349050359540355093 message

Cloudflare's WARP tool

[marble niche]

ur kidding me lmao

why does that work

well thank you very much

annoying that i have to use it but oh well i guess

[balmy barn]

isp can have bad routing sometime, so vpn/warp thing might help

[cyan torrent]

huh, my face seem to have a different shading to everyelse

only in the dark tho

is this something to do with material or texture?

[somber sequoia]

is the head/face a separate mesh object? If so, set the "anchor override" in the mesh renderer to the same bone as the body, I usually use the chest bone

[cyan torrent]

also I mess alots of files in the same folder/project

when I upload avatar do the unused stuffs get leave out or they got drag along?

[somber sequoia]

only what's actually on the avatar is uploaded

(or swapped onto it)

[slow pulsar]

Having a strange issue atm. The View Position parameter isn't being obeyed, instead the camera is somewhere in the Avi's chest. At first I thought it was the accessories I added causing issues, but after removal the issue still persists. I've made dozens of Avis using this vroid base model and never had this issue before. Any ideas what could be the issue? The preview in the testing menu also seems funky, so I took a screenshot of that too.

[somber sequoia]

you don't have a camera on the avatar, do you?

[slow pulsar]

There isn't, no.

[austere bay]

I've had issues with the view position for a while, I'm not sure if it's a bug with the current sdk?

[slow pulsar]

Maybe? But I updated a texture on another avi just now and that's perfectly fine. I'm going mad trying to figure out what makes this one different.

[compact dust]

so many contacts

[balmy barn]

vrm converted in unity = mess

you get those funny arm colliders

[cyan torrent]

^^^^

Yeah

[compact dust]

collidsa

contactia ❌

[cyan torrent]

What I did is I use Unity to fix my tail, then port the vrm into blender to fix it using CATS, THEN I export the fbx into Unity again

lol

[slow pulsar]

I have.. zero Blender experience. And I've converted vrm files to vrc hundreds of times without issue over the years using univrm. No idea why now, suddenly, on this avatar specifically, the view position is busted.

[balmy barn]

those colliders do nothing, there's no long hair/ears anything to collide with (you'd need to set that up anyway in physbone)

blender would take about 5 min to convert a vrm

[compact dust]

colliders are friend
when they have an object that supposed to smash into it at least

not as friendly as angle limit tho

[limber hedge]

does anyone know how outlines for things like mouths are made on anime models? I've been doing it through texturing, but that sometimes causes some weird stretching when deformed.

and im not talking about outlines in general, I know you can just use poiyomi for that

[compact dust]

like 3d or 2d outlines

[limber hedge]

like whatever the mamehinata model has going on. I would buy it and check it for myself, but i dont got the funds rn

[compact dust]

i will check for you

[limber hedge]

thank you :3

[compact dust]

gimme 1s to open this unity project

[limber hedge]

im in no rush

[compact dust]

ok so mamehinata uses liltoon

which i think might be what causes the outline

[limber hedge]

thank you, I'll check it out

[compact dust]

lemme check to see if theres a specific setting that causes it tho

[woven gull]

How do you fix this?

[void kettle]

how do i get it to show? i have the box checked but i still see this'

[left gull]

Where'd you get the model?

[void kettle]

i bought it

its a prefab file

[night ember]

you sure the bought that?

[void kettle]

yea

[night ember]

thats totally not just a rip of a specific avatar id in game

[void kettle]

huh?

[left gull]

that doesnt look like just a "prefab file"

[night ember]

not how selling prefabs work bud

next time dont rip at all

[void kettle]

i dont

i dont even know how to do that

like dead ass

[left gull]

link the store page then?

[void kettle]

my friend made it

hold on

[left gull]

lmao

[void kettle]

??

[night ember]

your friend definitely did not make it

[compact dust]

ok so looked at it, made a new mat with no settings
its not the settings, its the texture itself (for the mamehinata at least)

[void kettle]

oh

can i still know how to fix it or no? im new to all of this im sorry

like i dont understand how some can rip 😭

[night ember]

no one here is going to help you with a ripped model

[left gull]

pirated/ripped content isnt allowed here nor is assisting with it

[void kettle]

okay sorry

[limber hedge]

Thank you, yeah I figured since I decided to go on my quest to check the sample models which does have an outline for the mouth (quest compatibility is the bane of my existance istg)

[void kettle]

i didnt even know god

[left gull]

legally purchase the content and then people here will help otherwise you're SOL

[void kettle]

like i said i didnt even know so no needed to get rude

[compact dust]

quest 😔

[left gull]

not being rude?

[limber hedge]

i wouldn't care about compatibility if half of my friends weren't on quest 😭 \

[compact dust]

yeah i gave up on attempting to make quest compatibility after the size reduction

[left gull]

Looks like a possible weightpainting issue, how're you adding the clothes on?

[limber hedge]

honestly fair. I was once asked why I play on pc with my quest as if it isn't obvious lol

anyways, thanks for the help, I shall head off and try and finish my models lol

[compact dust]

bc quest is cheaper
can run anywhere without being plugged in, etc..

can also be connected to a pc somewhat cheaply/ easily

[limber hedge]

yeah I use a quest 2 through air link, so i get the best of both worlds

[compact dust]

i will one day figure out how to get face tracking with my q2
unless i get a q3

doesnt q3 have ft

some kind

[desert elk]

I think it's pro that has it

[compact dust]

q2 pro or q3 pro

im not a quest nerd

i know nothing

[desert elk]

neither am I 😭

[compact dust]

darn you eli

[limber hedge]

i think q3 has upper body tracking, but not face tracking

[desert elk]

I just saw people say it online

[compact dust]

always so unhelpful

[desert elk]

I'm sorry

[compact dust]

do not apologize, youll make it worse

[desert elk]

wahhh

[compact dust]

anger.

[desert elk]

you're blocked

[compact dust]

ilyt

[woven gull]

Just dragging it on because there is no thing that says open me

[compact dust]

wdym open me

clothing should usually just be an fbx

and if its not meant for a specific avi, youll probably have to manually sculpt it to fit

[woven gull]

Ohh okayy i’m not used to adding clothes to avatars cause I’m a little new at it

[compact dust]

yeah if its meant for that base, you could just use smth like modular avatar or vrcf armature link to attach it without manually doin it

otherwise its manual editing before attaching

[woven gull]

Oh okayy

[cyan torrent]

I'm having trouble finding where is that

[somber sequoia]

expand "probes"

[left wharf]

there's three materials which set different property
i guess that is the issue

[somber sequoia]

yep!

having those be consistent is the key to everything looking the same

[cyan torrent]

wait wait wait hold on

why did I lose all the blendshape on the body

[somber sequoia]

did you just export from blender?

[cyan torrent]

yeah I export it from blender

[somber sequoia]

did you forget to apply all modifiers on your mesh objects first? (yes)

[cyan torrent]

uhm what are you refering to?

[somber sequoia]

modifiers on mesh objects

subdivision, mirror, etc.

[cyan torrent]

idk what are those @@ I just confuse that it didnt occur to my first model

[left wharf]

hmm Kazin is confusing now?
i think we just need to setup materials correctly

[somber sequoia]

ah if you didn't add one the maybe that isn't it, but I'd go look. Click on mesh objects and look under the wrench in the properties box (bottom right) - anything in there that is not Armature must be applied before exporting

[somber sequoia]

not sure what you're talking about?

oh

[left wharf]

i think it's not a lighting issue

[somber sequoia]

sorry both of you are talking 🙂

I'm talking to Lam, not sure what your issue is, @left wharf , I didn't scroll back yet

[cyan torrent]

this one ?

[somber sequoia]

that top one, not sure what that is, but it might be the problem

[left wharf]

i have no issue now
I'm seeing Lam's issue too

[somber sequoia]

ahhh

[cyan torrent]

yeah the newer one missing the blendshape

[slow pulsar]

New bug, very likely related to the first with the funky view position. That hat on my avi is duplicated in the world. Doesn't move with my avatar, just static where it is. Scaling is all messed up, but it's the hat. No idea what's causing this, hat was imported as a regular old fbx file

[cyan torrent]

this is the model before export fbx file

all the shape key are there i suppose

[hardy oxide]

hello im having a problem when updating my fbx to a more optimized version. the method i used has worked on other avatars but it makes this one dissapear for some reason. doen anyone know how/why this happens and how i can fix it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk3XKTS-NmY

[somber sequoia]

you unpacked your avatar prefab. Don't do that.

[cyan torrent]

yeah but that was the old one

which didnt have the problem I'm havin

[somber sequoia]

sorry, I didn't reply, I meant @hardy oxide

[cyan torrent]

wont do that for the new one

oh pfft yeah I did unpack an avatar anyway

[somber sequoia]

it goes for everyone though 🙂

[hardy oxide]

its not unpacked tho

sadly otherwise it would be an easy fix

[somber sequoia]

it isn't blue in your video, did I miss something?

[hardy oxide]

thats how i opened the unity package

[somber sequoia]

not sure what that means

oh - was it unpacked by default? that's still not going to work

[desert elk]

i unpacked mine before I knew it was bad 😅

[somber sequoia]

also who does that when publishing a package

[hardy oxide]

i've never had packaged avi's before tbh

[somber sequoia]

doesn't really matter how you got it

[hardy oxide]

lemme try to repack it

[somber sequoia]

if it's unpacked, overwriting the fbx isn't going to do the thing you want. And you don't repack

drag the model into the scene, start building from there

pumkin's tools to copy stuff from the old if you prefer.

[cyan torrent]

you refered to these bunch right?

what do I do with them

[somber sequoia]

I don't know what that top one is but if it can't be applied, that'll be your issue

this is useful here: https://github.com/przemir/ApplyModifierForObjectWithShapeKeys

[cinder finch]

Anyone have an idea for this?

[untold minnow]

why does the texture of my avatar degrade so much when its imported into unity?

[cyan torrent]

is this normal with texture after export fbx? I gonna cry

left is after

[desert elk]

set your texture to be bigger resolution

[untold minnow]

we share the same issue

[desert elk]

should fix it

[cyan torrent]

in Unity or Blender?

[desert elk]

unity

click on the texture, on the left you will have "texture size"

[somber meadow]

seems like the UV islands on that body are really bad requiring a higher texture resolution than 2k

is that entirely one material?

[cyan torrent]

oh i see

ty

[untold minnow]

I do not see

[cinder finch]

Is there a way to edit the toggles that come with a base?

[untold minnow]

what exactly do I click? i clicked on the texture

many options

[desert elk]

you can edit anything if you have the files for it

[cinder finch]

hrm

[desert elk]

not here, in the inspector

[somber meadow]

you're right clicking the texture, left click it and look in the inspector tab

[desert elk]

on the right side

[untold minnow]

I see

what should I set it to?

[somber meadow]

set the max size higher, please don't do this with too many textures as using anything larger than 2k for textures is really bad for VRAM usage

[cinder finch]

I don't see a toggles folder in my base files

[desert elk]

what do you mean by toggles?

it could be called something else: animations, menus, whatever else the author wants

[cinder finch]

My base comes with an outfit, and toggles that are default on, that I did not set up

I need to be able to remove the toggles for the base outfit so I can swap it

[desert elk]

is it a toggle on the circle menu? or does it just wear that outfit?

[cinder finch]

I have found them

Hopefully deleting them doesn't break it real bad

[somber sequoia]

oh if only "toggles" were clearly labeled as such.

[untold minnow]

I see

thank you

[cinder finch]

Hmmst. Toggles are in fact nonfunctional now. They're just there

Good enough I suppose

[desert elk]

you can modify the menu to delete them or replace them with your own

[cinder finch]

I do not see the ability to modify the menu

[somber sequoia]

menus are linked in your avatar descriptor

[cinder finch]

ohhhh

[tepid kite]

guys theres no .unity file in this avatar i bought

idk what to do

[desert elk]

did you open any of the folders?

it could be in !Avatar

[tepid kite]

the PC .unitypackage file had a .unity file that said "OPEN ME"

but the Quest .unitypackage has nothing

[desert elk]

quest files?

last folder

nothing there?

[tepid kite]

theres the prefab but it doesnt rlly do anything i dont think

[desert elk]

if it's a prefab you should be able to drag it to the hierarchy and it should be set up

with the menus and stuff

the descriptor

[tepid kite]

ah

wont i be missing something tho

[desert elk]

what would you be missing?

[tepid kite]

idk

im new at this i like clicking the open me file

also this always pops up and i always click auto fix is that okay

[candid mica]

having a werid issue with this avatar and its dlc, someone told me it may be the blend shape but idk, im new to unity also

[desert elk]

should be okay

[desert elk]

if the issue is the clipping there could be a Blendeshape. Click on your body or the mask in the hierarchy, in the inspector there will be a section called "blendshapes". Look through it

[tepid kite]

got this error when trying to upload

i uploaded the pc version no problem

[desert elk]

no idea, I don't use vrcf

and you should probably delete that, since that avatar is obviously against vrc tos

:)

[heavy zephyr]

Read the error, it tells you how to fix it

[tepid kite]

i uploaded the desktop version

and idk how to make the hiearchy the same, the quest .unityassets file didnt have a .unity file to open

but the pc .unityassets file had a .unity "open me" file, so im not sure if that has anything to do with it

also one more problem

it keeps opening file explorer every time i click something in unity

[candid mica]

having trouble finding it mn

mb

[desert elk]

click on the mesh, in the inspector there will be blendshapes

if the avatar has any

you may need to expand them

[young bear]

I don't know what happened, but for some reason the tips of my physbones are acting really weirdly. I don't know what's causing it but it only started happening recently. I have not modified how my physbones are set up. The only thing i've changed is that i updated my SDK

[candid mica]

it did not sadly

the other one was for he female body

the

[desert elk]

if it doesn't have blendshapes to modify the size to not clip, you will need to sculpt it in blender

so it fits properly

[cinder finch]

Has anyone had this issue? It's a toggle issue but I have no idea what is wrong with it

[pastel oracle]

We're you ever able to do this? I have a model from World of Warcraft that I would like to attempt converting. This is what it looks like in blender. I would like to somehow retain the idle animation, which requires a bunch of the twist bones all over the model which I am not sure is compatible with VRChat.

[somber sequoia]

twist bones use rotation constraints which all work great in vrchat

(those bones though, as-is, need some work)

[pastel oracle]

I just straight up put it into unity as is and it does a hella good job at detecting the bones through all that mess, but its just ever so slightly mangled.

[merry rock]

anyone know how to use krita + recolor a specific texture on an avatar* ? o.o

[somber sequoia]

I've been meaning to try Krita

[somber sequoia]

yeah Unity doesn't actually care where the bone end points are so as long as the roll is ok, that'll mostly work

[somber sequoia]

aha, not quite right 🙂

[pastel oracle]

This is what it does, which is wild that it was able to figure it out.

Actually tried it a second time and now it seems to have worked flawlessly

Can you walk around without actually exporting the avatar?

[somber sequoia]

exporting?

[pastel oracle]

Like could I test to see if it will work without publishing

[somber sequoia]

there's "build and test" which works locally I guess

I use Linux so it never worked for me (though I guess it does now?)

[pastel oracle]

Guess I need to play VRChat more to even test the avatar

[somber sequoia]

oh I thought you can upload it for your own private use without having a properly ranked account

ah maybe it's the thing where you can upload a test one

(I don't have unity open but thought I did this at some point)

[pastel oracle]

The idle animation from the game, is that something I could retain? I am guessing for like desktop players that move with keyboard?

[somber sequoia]

where "the game" is which game?

[pastel oracle]

WoW

[somber sequoia]

ah, I know nothing about ripping from games.

[compact dust]

serial ripper is lying about his illegal ripping activities

[night stream]

Can someone upload 2 avatars to my account for me I need help

[compact dust]

no

99% sure its gonna be against avi tos

[round comet]

Are they models you’ve purchased? Also unless its giving unity help, people can’t log in for you

Also yes, TOS as well. File-sharing is against 99% of creators rules

[night stream]

It’s on vrchat models

Well idk how to upload

I’ve tried but I’m confused

And idk anyone who can teach me

It’s these