avatar-help

[somber meadow]

Oh that's pretty simple anyway

I wouldn't migrate your current project, I'd just make a new 2022 project and follow the same instructions from step 2

[vagrant raven]

Should I still let Creator Companion put it all in?

[pine valley]

Yes, it's all done for you now

you don't need to manually import anything beyond the actual avatar package

[somber meadow]

yeah use creator companion for VRCFuy and 3.0 manager

[pine valley]

the VCC will automatically give you the Avatars SDK, and then Fury can be installed through it as well

[vagrant raven]

what about the poiyomi pro package?

[pine valley]

Ah, that needs to be imported manually

[somber meadow]

you wanna get in the hang of using creator companion packages whenever you can for majority of stuff

[pine valley]

since it's not distributed through the VCC

[tiny dock]

this is a weight painting issue

you can only really fix it by re-rigging in blender

[marble meteor]

Yop, that's all it was... Am mad. But thanks for the help.

[vagrant raven]

Okay so I made a new project and switched it to 2022 and it opened my unity hub. Thats it.

[somber meadow]

Oh fun, VCC path issues

do you have 2022.3.22 installed in Unity hub?

[vagrant raven]

Im currently installing it on the unity hub to see if that works

[vagrant raven]

When importing the poiyomi shaders I got this

[marble meteor]

Okay. I have one more question. How the heck does the Additive Layer work? I've seen a bunch of videos about what the Additive Layer is but not a single person talks about how to make it work. Halp. I want my tail to just idly wag at all times. How does magnets this thing work?

[heavy zephyr]

If you just want your tail to wag you can do it in the FX layer easier. Don't bother with the additive layer unless you really need it (which is most often not the case)

[somber meadow]

Do you have the latest pro package?

[marble meteor]

Alright, then how would I do it so that it's just always doing that?

[heavy zephyr]

Make it a looping animation?

[somber meadow]

Animations have loop time enabled by default

[heavy zephyr]

Just a single state, always playing your animation that wags the tail on a loop

[marble meteor]

Huh. If it's that easy, then why does the Additive Layer even exist?

[vagrant raven]

Prob not, just what was in the avatar package

[somber meadow]

they shouldn't be including poiyomi pro, as that's against the license. If not, you can just use the latest Poiyomi Toon package then

[heavy zephyr]

In that case the additive layer would be useful if you had multiple things affecting your tail movements as it animates additively. But if that's the only animation your tail does, then don't bother.

[vagrant raven]

its 7.3.5-8.1.149

[marble meteor]

Alrighty then. Thanks a bunch!

[somber meadow]

That's a really old version not ready for 2022

https://www.poiyomi.com/download#method-2-creator-companion

You can get poiyomi toon as a creator companion repository

[vagrant raven]

Alright

Im guessing I will have to make a new project since I alr put it in

[somber meadow]

you can delete the _PoiyomiShaders folder from the assets and import the new one

[vagrant raven]

Alright, here goes another try

[somber sequoia]

you can almost always clean up old stuff

[vagrant raven]

I always thought you had to follow the instructions to the letter or the avatar would come out in a mess

[somber meadow]

not really

it's only really the SDK due to the animator state behaviors

[somber sequoia]

haha not even close

[vagrant raven]

oh....so the sdk should be the other version then?

[somber meadow]

no

not having the SDK or having a really out of date SDK before the avatar is imported is the only issue that can happen

[vagrant raven]

So I just tried putting the avatar in and it said failed to decompress package

[somber meadow]

do you have space on your drive

[vagrant raven]

Omg all these projects are eatingggggg my space

I didnt even realize

[somber meadow]

yeah VCC projects usually start up as 2gb

you'll need to delete the project folder manually, VCC only just removes it from the list

[pine valley]

Unity is remarkably durable if you know what you're doing (:

[vagrant raven]

The problem is I dont know XD

[pine valley]

you can throw out random assets and, as long as you put them back properly, it's fine

[vagrant raven]

Oh ofc.....Alright lemme look for em

[pine valley]

A side note: If you have a project you aren't actively working on, you can delete its Library folder

[somber sequoia]

eyes one avatar project that's 43GB (with all the source (substance, blender, textures, etc) files in it

[pine valley]

That's a huge chunk of your project's size

[vagrant raven]

where can I find that

[pine valley]

Unity generates its contents by importing assets

it also stores stuff like which scene you last had open

[pine valley]

If you're completely getting rid of unwanted projects, this isn't necessary

you'd just delete the entire project folder

otherwise, the Library folder is in the root of the project, alongside the Assets folder

[vagrant raven]

I have like 4 projects I deleted from the list because I thought that free'd up the space but

it did not

[pine valley]

that just makes the VCC forget about the project

you'd get a very loud 120-point all-caps warning if it were actually destroying the project

[vagrant raven]

How do I actually destroy it?

[somber meadow]

go to your folder with all your projects and delete the folders of the projects you don't need

[vagrant raven]

Currently everything is forcing warning on my screen because my C file has 0 space XD

Aight

[somber meadow]

that's not good to not have 0 space on your C drive

especially for your pagefile

[vagrant raven]

Yea creator companion isnt even responding to me anymore

Is the projects folder somewhere in the unity folder?

[somber meadow]

you can click the 3 dots next to your project in VCC and click "Open containing folder"

go back one folder in explorer after it opens and you should be at your projects folder

[vagrant raven]

the problem is vcc is no longer showing my projects

wait there we go, slowly but surely

[gilded flicker]

I need help 😭 I've been trying to upload a model I bought. I am rank User so thats not the issue but I can't get the SDK to show up at all in my unity.
I'm running the correct version I have enabled the sdk model verion in the cc before launching and I AM CONFUSED

[somber sequoia]

look in the Console window, that happens if there's an error there that's happening before it can get the SDK stuff working

[vagrant raven]

Im assuming I can just press yes on this

Unless this messes with the shaders

[somber sequoia]

yes

[vagrant raven]

bet

[pine valley]

It sets the anchor override property on each Renderer (MeshRenderer and SkinnedMeshRenderer, most likely)

[uncut lotus]

So, IDK what I coulda done, but for some reason, the mouth wont move? It worked before, but now its stopped. Its got the blendshapes for everything

[somber meadow]

As in when talking? Screenshot the avatar descriptor viseme section

[uncut lotus]

Ya when your talking

Sorry, my brains lagging, but this is my last main issue 🙏🏿

[nova nebula]

so when i uploaded him to VR, my camera was freaking out, he was T posing, and no animations

anyone know how i messed up? because his rigs humanoid, hes only slightly larger then base humans

[somber meadow]

Does the mouth move when you manipulate the sliders?

[uncut lotus]

Ya

[somber meadow]

Did you use VCC to create this project?

[gilded flicker]

yes

[somber meadow]

Is there the SDK inside of the packages folder

[gilded flicker]

yes and its enabled

[somber meadow]

that's VCC, I mean Unity's packages folder

[gilded flicker]

oh let me check

nooo?

[somber meadow]

I don't think you're in the right project then

this just looks like a project made from Unity Hub, not VCC

[pine valley]

Especially because you've got "Core RP Library" in there

that is very wrong

[somber meadow]

Click "Open Project" at the top right of the VCC page you're on

[gilded flicker]

sorry I went to the bathroom gonna try again 7th try is a the charm right?

OMG T_T I

thank you

it exists

[somber meadow]

Just clicking Open Project?

[gilded flicker]

no it wasnt connected to the right version of unity so techinically my fault but I fixed it

last night I somehow downloaded something unity 6/7??? idk it something weird

[somber meadow]

I'm guessing you installed Unity Hub and went through the "Unity Installation" page when you first installed it instead of clicking skip

[vagrant raven]

Omg it finally uploaded, thank you so much. Ima have to upload the quest version soon but ima let my head rest for today. Thank you some much

[uncut lotus]

Any ideas how to fix this issue? I got rid of everything that coulda affect the mouth besides expressions, but the mouth still isn't talking

[gilded flicker]

yes T_T was that not good?

[uncut lotus]

Like you can see the mics activated when its detecting audio, and the face stuff works, so I dont get what cpuld be going on with the model

[somber meadow]

you can uninstall Unity 6 if you haven't already cause VRChat isn't gonna be using it for a bit.

[uncut lotus]

Are these guys case sensative?

[pine valley]

They must match exactly.

[uncut lotus]

So fix in blender?

Like a simple re-name?

[pine valley]

Oh, I see what you're asking

The names of the visemes can be anything. You just pick them in the dropdowns

I believe blendshape names are case-sensitive (so one can be named "Foo" and one can be named "FOO")

It looks like VRChat already found all of the correct blendshapes

[pine valley]

this wouldn't work if there was no blendshape named vrc.v_pp on your model

[uncut lotus]

My problem is that my avitars mouth wont open and close like its talking, and a vid I saw said it could be an issue with viseme

[uncut lotus]

Any other ideas what could be wrong with the avi then?

[pine valley]

Do you have a separate head mesh?

[uncut lotus]

ya

[pine valley]

You're targeting the "Body" object's skinned mesh renderer here

[uncut lotus]

Oh, its the head. Its confusing but the vid I was watching called the head the body, and the body the bodice, and I was too lazy to change it

Would this maybe help?

[pine valley]

Do the blendshapes actually do anything?

select the appropriate object and mess with the blendshape sliders in the inspector

[uncut lotus]

This?

[pine valley]

yeah

hmm, everything seems fine

viseme blendshapes are set by VRChat directly (the animator isn't involved), so it shouldn't be possible for the animator to be interfering

[uncut lotus]

oh

[pine valley]

I guess I'd try removing the custom playable layers and seeing if anything changes

but that's a stretch

[uncut lotus]

Does it mean anything that a few pf these are bold?

[pine valley]

That means you changed them in the scene view

doesn't matter

(even though the values match the original values from the prefab)

[somber sequoia]

hey - do you actually have all of the viseme slots filled in the avatar descriptor?

[uncut lotus]

this?

[somber sequoia]

That. Good. You can't have any empty.

[uncut lotus]

I checked the whole making sure nothing is equiped for the jaw too

Now when I went to go test it these errors are stoppin me'

[pine valley]

you may be targeting the wrong object

do you have several avatars in the scene?

[uncut lotus]

Oh wait techinically

Didnt realize that matter

*mattered

[frank pilot]

i don't know why but i was trying to make a avatar and upload for quest but it wont upload no matter how much i optimize it

[somber sequoia]

surely there's an error?

[pine valley]

perhps you are getting an --

yes

[pine valley]

notably, if you upload avatar X, avatar Y won't change...

(and avatar X won't change either if you get an error)

[uncut lotus]

Well....

The original one is unchecked, and hidden.

[frank pilot]

what do i do about this error at the top

[somber meadow]

Is this the entire console? The warning can be ignored

[frank pilot]

this?

[sterile cedar]

howdy, how do i make a simple locomotion lock for my model? :>

[frank pilot]

what do i do ?

[frank pilot]

gogoloco dont work?

[somber meadow]

Are you using VRCFury for this avatar

[frank pilot]

yes

[somber meadow]

what's it being used for. Validation errors are usually for preprocess scripts like vrcfury

[sterile cedar]

i dont need gogoloco and it takes up too many params, i just need a single toggle

[pine valley]

You can use the "Build an Editor Test Copy" tool and see what the SDK window says about the result.

Tools > VRCFury > Build an Editor Test Copy

[somber meadow]

Like prevent the player from moving?

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/state-behaviors#animator-locomotion-control

[sterile cedar]

yea, unsure where to find that locomotion control

[somber meadow]

it's a state behavior, basically components for animator states

do you already know the basics of making an animator toggle?

[sterile cedar]

yea

[somber meadow]

basically just make a new toggle setup and use the state behavior on both states

you don't need animation clips in them

[pine valley]

the animator states don't have to actually animate anything at all

the layer weight can be zero, even!

I discovered the play audio behavior immediately after building an elaborate contraption to randomly select an audio source

😭

[sterile cedar]

thats pretty interesting though :D

and ty for the help!

[pine valley]

VRC's state machine behaviours are really cool

[somber meadow]

I mean shit, saves on performance

[pine valley]

most notably: the Parameter Driver lets you set, randomize, add to, or copy parameters

This opens the door to a LOT of funny contraptions

[small solstice]

I'm having a problem with making an Expressions menu using Int. I have been doing the same process for years, but for some reason it isn't working now. It seems when the toggle is turned off, the face does not revert back to an idle state.

So I can just stack the different expression for some reason

[somber meadow]

This is write defaults, I'd highly recommend having it on

make sure all states use the same write defaults state in the animator

[small solstice]

Oh! I'll check it out, thank you

Write Defaults are checked for each node

[somber meadow]

this applies for all the layers as well

Go through each of these and make sure all the states have it on

[small solstice]

Ohhh yeah the expressions layer I've been duplicating didn't have it on for those first 3 and now with it on, it works

Thank you!

How annoying lol

[somber meadow]

Yeah VRChat for a long time was saying "Never use WD on" for some reason, until Senky (VRCFury creator) said to not take that approach

WD on makes animators 10x easier

[balmy barn]

disable can transition to self [ ] or you will be hammering the state ALOT instead of once

the one thing i wish any state didnt have set as default

I never trust 0 time, seen it do wierd things so 0.1 what i use

[tropic gyro]

hi, i tried to edit my fbx on my avatar. ( just body sculpting ) and when i go to import the edited fbx ontop of the old one, it disappears in unity. the prefab isn’t unpacked

[somber meadow]

is the FBX using a different scaling than the original

[arctic ginkgo]

may be export settings, try changing your scaling to FBX all or All local

it's usually one of those and it's just been mistmatched, so whichever it is right now, change it to the other

[tropic gyro]

thank u SO much!!

[spark walrus]

Hey! So I'm trying to make a custom avi for myself on quest using a razor laptop, does anyone have advice on how to help me? I have blender 4.3.3 and unity hub 3.10.0 installed, I'm VERY very new to this and I was curious if anyone has any video reccomendations on how to use these two properly let alone make an avatar for myself 🫶

[native steppe]

I have copied and pasted the full log list of the errors I received when I tried to upload any Avatar into a notepad file if it'll help resolve whatever issue I've been facing

[pine valley]

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/

follow the instructions here

this is how I figured out how to get an avatar created

[somber meadow]

Have you already tried using Cloudflare's WARP service

[native steppe]

I have not, nor do I know how to, I will give it a try

[somber meadow]

https://one.one.one.one/

[pine valley]

oh, just using an alternative DNS

[somber meadow]

They've already attempting using Google DNS, I think it's an ISP firewall issue now

[pine valley]

The error says it's failing to parse the hostname. This means something is wrong with the URL

DNS hasn't even gotten involved yet.

e.g. https:// what.com

[native steppe]

I did try the DNS fix that was suggested to me, it made my connection faster though

[pine valley]

or https://.vrchat.com/whoops

Something along those lines.

That's very odd. It'd be nice if we could see the malformed URL.

[native steppe]

You know, maybe I should try turning the firewall off briefly and see if that works?

[somber meadow]

What ISP do you use and what router

don't touch the Windows Firewall however

[pine valley]

None of that is relevant at all. A malformed URL is a malformed URL.

It'd only be relevant if one request resulted in bogus data that was then used to construct another URL

but that should be causing an error earlier on

[somber meadow]

All I can guess is try a new avatar ID cause the asseturl is cooked or cloudflare warp

[native steppe]

I believe it's ATT, I don't know the details about the router

[somber meadow]

oh my god wait

[arctic ginkgo]

First thing you need to do is make a model, UV unwrap, texture. First thing you'll run into that requries specification is the rig. You need to make sure it's compatible with the Unity humanoid rig standards. Make sure to have these bones chains:

• Hips/Spine/Chest/Neck/Head
• *Chest/Shoulder/Upper Arm/Forearm/Hand
• *Hips/Thigh/Shin/Foot

*symmetrical

These bones are optional, and you may or may not need them depending on your model:

• Fingers, you can have up to 3 bones each and 5 fingers per hand
• Eye Left and Eye Right
• Toe Left and Toe Right
• Jaw
• Upper Chest

None of these need to have specific names, they just have a specific order that is necessary.

You can get through pretty much all the Blender stuff with general blender/character modelling tutorials, this is all you need to know for VRChat until you get to the Unity side, although there are some additional features that can be set up in blender. If you would like your avatar's mouth and/or eyes to move, you can set up bones for your eyes, and jaw. You can also set up shapekeys for mouth movement (called visemes) and shapekeys for blinking. Here is the link for the Viseme reference: https://developers.meta.com/horizon/documentation/unity/audio-ovrlipsync-viseme-reference/#reference-images
Name your shapekeys accordingly and shape your mouth to their respective shapes as shown in the chart.

[somber meadow]

Disable the proxy settings in windows

The stacktrace is from the proxy acting up

[native steppe]

It won't remain off, and the Save option is greyed out

[somber meadow]

screenshot what you're seeing

[native steppe]

I turned it off, but I cannot select save

[somber meadow]

oh you're on windows 10

it doesn't matter if that stuff below is greyed out, the main "use a proxy server" option is off anyway

make sure all of those are off

[native steppe]

Ok, they are. And they should remain off if I go to the previous page, yes?

[somber meadow]

you may need to restart your PC after turning them off, doesn't hurt to try again right now though. If it doesn't work, just restart your PC

[native steppe]

Alright, I'll turn it off, restart my compy and report back on everything

[native steppe]

PC restarted, settings have remained off

[somber meadow]

see if you can upload now

[native steppe]

Alright , launching the program now. Stand by please

[nova nebula]

so i see an iOS version in my uploads? i cant seem to activate it and theres no talk about it...how would i make it iOS ready?

[native steppe]

It turned back on...

[somber meadow]

install the iOS build module, press Ctrl + Shift + B, find the iOS tab, click it and follow the instructions

[pine valley]

oh damn, you're right! I didn't catch that it was trying to set up a proxy instance

but yeah, that's totally what's going on there

[nova nebula]

oh fun, another build module

[somber meadow]

you don't need it if you don't want to make a specfic iOS build

iOS VRChat can translate Android avatars

[somber meadow]

Do you have some sort of weird antivirus app? or parental controls

[nova nebula]

ah i see, great to know

[native steppe]

I have malwarebytes, and to my knowledge no such controls are on this system

[nova nebula]

is the iOS weaker or stronger then the Q2?

so i know if i can use better textures or need to make them worse

[somber meadow]

iOS would have some more leeway for textures I guess cause more ram, but they have the same upload limits

[nova nebula]

hm

[grim valley]

what could 6this be? im standing up and it thinks im like sitting (desktop), idk if its gogoloco fuckin wi tit or

[somber meadow]

Do you use any vpn?

[nova nebula]

that sitting pose looks to be gogo, so check to make sure you didnt cross some wires

[native steppe]

I have one installed but it is currently inactive

[somber meadow]

it'll most likely still run a service that keeps that option enabled

[native steppe]

Oh, think it might be an adblocker?

[somber meadow]

a systemwide adblocker might, yes

anything that you'd think of dealing with proxying or vpn stuff

[grim valley]

yeah

i think its that too, i just dont know hwo to go ablout finding it

time to do some debuggin

[native steppe]

Even the proxy option in control panel keeps turning on

[somber meadow]

yeah it's the same thing there

you'll need to uninstalled whatever's doing that

[native steppe]

That's part of the problem, I don't know what's doing it, or how to find it. Any ideas?

[somber meadow]

it's tough to trace whatever it is

are you able to just enable the manual proxy back and just empty all the fields

[native steppe]

Yes, but the fields just fill back in and turn back on

[lucid rapids]

what does impostors feature means ?

[somber sequoia]

first google hit is the correct one: https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/avatar-impostors/

[lucid rapids]

ty

[cold mesa]

my buddy gave me an avatar to upload.. buttt it says theres a missing script and it failed to save, and to delete the files, any way to fix it without deleting? edit: this is my first upload so im really new, any help is apprec!

[native steppe]

I think I found it, it may be the Fiddler programs

[somber sequoia]

you'd need to know what package the script requires

[cold mesa]

no idea how to check that

[somber sequoia]

it might not be possible - go look at the what the avatar base creator suggests, or ask your friend

[cold mesa]

tysm, il go have a look

[somber sequoia]

(if you're uploading for your friend to their account, it's probable you'll end up with your accounts linked, and so you risk getting banned along with them if they get banned)

[west kestrel]

anybody have an idea on how or why the eyes move like this when trying to get the vrc avatar descriptor eye movement system working?

[cold mesa]

he bought the avi for me, so im uploading it for my self

tysm for the help

[somber meadow]

W avatar, but make sure the eye bones have a roll of 0 in blender

[west kestrel]

already checked that, the only thing i can possibly think of is the idea that its parent bone is the jaw, and not the head, but at the same time, i tested that and same result

[somber meadow]

actually, make sure all the bones have a roll of 0

if any parent bones are like that it'll occur to the children too

[west kestrel]

all bones got zero'd still iffed

okay so rotated the eye bones so they are facing forward now, and its at this point, what cause them to move?

[somber sequoia]

ideally you want them facing straight up, but rotating them in Unity is not the way to fix it if they aren't

[west kestrel]

i rotated them in blender

[somber sequoia]

Good - they should be perfectly straight up, with the head in the exact center of rotation, and zero bone roll.

no idea why the parent bone of those would be the jaw, it should be the head.

[native steppe]

Good news! Problem resolved

[west kestrel]

best way for me to mimic the speaking from the game was a jaw bone movement. and i couldnt blendshape the speaking cause it would scale the mesh when i only want rotate

(old Video Rig)

[somber sequoia]

yeah the jaw bone for speaking makes a lot of sense here

[west kestrel]

like this thing is a tiny detail that I'd just like to figure out how to fix

[round bloom]

I built a avatar But there's no animation to it

How do I fix that

[somber sequoia]

what do you mean by "no animation"?

[round bloom]

She Permanently has her arms up

[somber sequoia]

is that rigged and weight painted?

[round bloom]

Huh

It's from the avatar builder

[somber sequoia]

so probably. any errors in the console?

[round bloom]

Pc

[somber sequoia]

?

[round bloom]

I'm on pc

Desktop

Computer

[somber sequoia]

okay, not too relevant here. But I'm kinda guessing it's not humanoid rigged, and should be. We'd probably have to see the build stats or something though

[round bloom]

Using vroid

[grim valley]

you gotta add its rig and allat into it, vroid probably doesnt do allat for u

[somber sequoia]

vroid does rig and weight paint

[grim valley]

oh i didnt know that

anywasy

how would i go about making like "a bridge" for vrcft and my current fx layer? i want to make it so when i smile the tail and ears wag , if i frown they go down, there is animations built for them, but i dont know if i can access VRCFTs stuff for that using the prefab (using old version of ECHOs mamehinata ft)

[somber sequoia]

VRCFT just uses animator parameters to do its stuff, you can use those same variables to do other things also

[round bloom]

I'm sorry I really don't understand I'm completely new to this

Newbie here

[somber sequoia]

that shape key you have in the sil slot is not at all the right one, there should be one explicitly named with sil in it

[grim valley]

how would you access those though if it’s not in the same like animator? cuz it’s using Vrcf full controller to merge everything

[somber sequoia]

(not the primary issue but it is still an issue)

[somber sequoia]

animator parameters are global, if you need them simply add the same variables to your own animator (same exact names and case)

[round bloom]

So vrc.v_sil?

[somber sequoia]

if that's the name of the one your avatar has, yeah, that seems like the right one

(sil = "silent", as in not speaking)

[grim valley]

i did not know that, thank you. so copying this exact variables realistically would work?

[somber sequoia]

Yes

[grim valley]

wow

i did not know that.

[somber sequoia]

now... I don't know what sets those variables or when, I've not used FT long and so far have just used pre-made fury packages so I dunno what does what just yet

so test/verify anything I say here

[grim valley]

ofc, im gonna just debug and see what changes when doing those expressions and just add them into the current fx for when those animations are supposed to play

[somber sequoia]

the in-game FT debugging thingy is really useful to see what expressions cause what values to change too

[round bloom]

And now she's invisible

I don't understand

[median sun]

Not sure where to put this since it's not technically an avatar issue, but I've been having issues with my right arm rotations when using FBT.

For background, the issue goes away when going out of FBT. This started happening recently when I switched from my old index to a quest pro setup. I use index controllers and vive trackers (three 2.0 and one 3.0 for the headset). I stream the game via virtual desktop.

You can see my issue in the attached video. I am doing the same exact motions irl with both arms, but my right arm rotates in an awkward unnatural way. My right shoulder is also higher. This happens with every avatar and is not a local ik problem; other players have confirmed they see this happen on me.

[round bloom]

Don't get what I'm doing wrong

I just need help

[grim valley]

I had this issue too. what are you using in terms of finding your height (arm span or the other option)

and are you using continuous calibration?

[median sun]

i think it was arm span and yes i am

i am using continuous

[somber sequoia]

maybe #full-body-tracking too - that's weird, haven't seen that except when I get my slime mounting calibration wrong, but that clearly doesn't apply here.

[grim valley]

Try using height and make sure it’s your actual irl height, don’t use the automated one (sometimes if ur using ovr and allat it fucks up), and trying to reach a little bit more can help with that bend. you have to play around with it to get it to stop bending. since you are using a mixed setup it also doesn’t help, do you have elbow tracking or no?

[median sun]

no. trackers on waist and feet

let me go on the actual game to try height. i think i tried it before and it didnt work, but might as well check again

[grim valley]

are you using just your fbt? standable or anything else being used to FBT

[patent geyser]

How do I know how many bits a parameter is taking up?

[median sun]

smooth tracking is also on, but i had the problem beforehand.

[red igloo]

How Do I Do To Make Vrchat Sdk Builder Not Delete This

[patent geyser]

You don't. No one wants to hear your videos and be forced to stream content you want to force on them.

'-'

[red igloo]

the avatar is for fun not to annoy people

[median sun]

i dont think it's possible to upload avatars with actual video players on them

[red igloo]

ive seen multiple that do it

[round bloom]

My avatar doesn't exist now

Help please

[red igloo]

Is Your Mesh Renderer on

On Your Model

[round bloom]

What is that

[red igloo]

The Thing That Actually Shows Your Model

[median sun]

still broke

[round bloom]

Ya?

[red igloo]

scroll down a bit

[red igloo]

Do You Even Have A Mesh Renderer

[round bloom]

I'm new I'm using void and unity

I literally don't know what your talking about I'm confused

[red igloo]

Add This

[round bloom]

What are you using

[red igloo]

unity

[round bloom]

I don't have those settings

I don't understand

[red igloo]

on the prefab scroll all the way down on the right and press add component then search mesh renderer

[broken bone]

Hey folks! I have a bit of a problem I'd love some help with--I have this hammer prop with a cute lil' face on it, and I have some blend shapes to give it different facial expressions--I'd like to make the hammer's expression match the avatar's, so when she's angry, the hammer is angry too, etc. I've tried setting it up with the GestureLeft and GestureRight parameters in the Animator, but it didn't seem to work. I also tried VRCFury's Gestures component, also with no success. Is there something I'm missing? Any help would be greatly appreciated! 👍

[round bloom]

Ok I got it

What now

[red igloo]

it Should Show Your Model Now

idk About Your Arms

[round comet]

Sorta wanting to add more stuff to this avi. Any ideas? ^^

Ideas for textures accepted too since I’m gonna be drawing some stuff

She’s just blank rn since I don’t do any material stuff in blender lol

[placid mica]

How do I make facial gestures not mix? For example, If I make a peace on my right hand but a thumbs up on my left, I want only the facial gesture for the peace sign on my right hand to apply?

Yes, I still want gestures on my left hand. I just want the ones on the right hand to take priority. How can I do this? Any good guides? I haven't found one specifially for this

[somber sequoia]

one way would be to for each of the left gestures, add GestureRight equals 0 as a condition, then they only work when you right hand is doing nothing

[placid mica]

Thank you! I'll give this a shot!

[placid mica]

Sorry- but, how exactly do I add a condition?

[somber sequoia]

click on a transition then there's a + button

[placid mica]

My transitions list is empty, so I don't see the +

[somber sequoia]

I suggest some tutorials on the animator. Transitions are the lines from one state to another state.

[unborn pine]

i need help with a texture in unity, i use poiyomi and did it before but forget how i did it
making a texture pan

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1263625247739871262/1291647913117876305/mematicMeme.gif?ex=67e0529c&is=67df011c&hm=bd153b48b46c02934fa6e785680420b10e65948067727643cbcde7ac45466332&

seen in that

help would be greatly appreciated

[timid kite]

how do i fix certain world coloring some of my assets a different color

[round comet]

seem like an inconsistency with your materials or anchor light stuff maybe

if you're using poi you can check light settings

[timid kite]

Yes correct. I’m asking which setting do I need to tweak. Grayscale lighting didn’t work

[grim valley]

when i do the tpose for fbt calibration my arms are GONE!!!!! (i deleted a bunch of gogo anims before this happened)

idk what to do tho

[ashen crane]

uh help??? it almost seems like the moment i import a model into unity, the uv map has changed drastically??

a texture that seemed fine on the model in blender is now messy in unity

[timber wharf]

you may have more than one UV in blender

[ashen crane]

uh...

i did in fact

[unborn pine]

still need help with this

[round bloom]

I want to know how to make a furry avatar on pc

[left gull]

https://discord.com/channels/189511567539306508/1139228456090087495 is a good start point for info on how to

you're about to get major scammer DMs from people in here now though

[hollow meteor]

Does anybody know why this happens when I try to make matswaps.. it keeps happening and im not able to finish an avatar

[small solstice]

I'm messing with avatar gestures as I want a toggle to have a particular hand shape when holding an item. I've been using a tutorial but realize my unity doesn't have vrc masks, such as vrc_Hand Right avatar mask. Is there any way to get these?

[timber wharf]

should come with sdk. did you manage to find examplary hands controller?

[small solstice]

Controllers yes, no masks though

Nvm I'm silly

Lol

I hate that things are categorized in the Packages rather than the Assets for the SDK

[balmy lantern]

Do all local only contacts get stripped from remote players' avatars?

or is the local only toggle limiting the param syncing

[ornate stump]

They don't get removed.
Contact params don't network sync, rather, they update param remotely depend on how remote player observe contact being touch.

[balmy lantern]

That's what I meant yeah. Just needed to know if they get stripped. All that matters is what the local user sees but remote clients need to be able to turn on contacts

Can contacts only have a radius up to 3

[ornate stump]

It has some certain size limit. Probably that.

[balmy lantern]

Okay

[patent geyser]

can someone tell me what is wrong here? the particles for this wont turn off. Its not a model i made, and its one they no longer support.

[patent geyser]

why cant i edit this animation??

[drifting temple]

I can't interact wit hphysbones in unity play mode for some reason. my physbones have collision radius and grabbing enabled.

[mellow scaffold]

is unity able to sign into two devices? cause its on my pc, but then i camt sign into my laptop

[patent geyser]

why isnt floor adjustor showing up? its setup properly :>

[fiery crow]

check your transition states from on to off

if its not disabling, its cause the transitions arent properly setup or maybe even animated incorrectly

u can use gesture manager or av3 to check the active states, that will give u more idea also

[fiery crow]

what floor adjustor? could you elaborate a bit more on the issue or show your logic

[patent geyser]

https://booth.pm/ja/items/5756378

script

dunno

not popping up so idk

looks like this

should be a white bar like this

¯_(ツ)_/¯

:/ nvm

[fiery crow]

did u enable gizmos?

[patent geyser]

found it. unity is trashy

[patent geyser]

idk what that is

[fiery crow]

far right sphere

[patent geyser]

oh. yes that was it. didnt know the name.

[fiery crow]

[shut oxide]

hello im so confused i keep getting this problem saying my avatar is too short to upload even though as u can see in the right the view hight is 1.7 meters and dk if thats related but it also says the character feet are under the origin(floor) when they obviously arent i even brought up the char so its floating nowhere near the floor and i still get this msg

[junior void]

so where actually is your origin then and what are your fbx size settings?

[shut oxide]

the blender origin carries out to unity ? if so its at the center of the mass so around stomach
as for fbx size setting i didnt mess with em i merely changed the size of avatar in unity to match the 1.7 view hight

[junior void]

yes, you will find a white line protruding forward in unity which is the origin from blender.

[shut oxide]

can i change it in unity without going back to blender?

[balmy lantern]

After some in game testing, it appears senders marked as local only get stripped from remote users' avatars

I'm making a system that interacts with itself and the other person I was testing with did a toggle which turns on senders, but it didn't appear on my end

unmarking them as local only worked

[ornate stump]

That's new, I didn't check the sender. What I mentioned were the receivers.

[balmy lantern]

Alright. My apologies if I didn't provide enough context, but yeah

[junior void]

no

[sour linden]

so uhh

im not sure how to creae "a new layer"

[ornate stump]

The + button in animator panel, Layers tab.

[sour linden]

animator tab?

?

[ornate stump]

You didn't select any animator controller.

[sour linden]

do i make a new one?

[ornate stump]

The message was telling you to make a new one.

[sour linden]

oh right.

so what the fuck is avatar mask menu

[desert elk]

you can also use a premade gesture layer from vrc and just drag it into the gesture layer spot

cause it has everything set up

🤷

[sour linden]

how?

[ornate stump]

The premade layer is in sdk avatar sample folder.

[sour linden]

bro please speak english

[desert elk]

if you search for hands

[sour linden]

its like my scond time using unity im sorry

[desert elk]

in the search bar

and click "in packages"

you will find a premade layer

[sour linden]

vrc hands only

[desert elk]

no

[sour linden]

oh

[desert elk]

that's the mask

if you were to make a layer from scratch

[sour linden]

?

🥹

[desert elk]

yes this

you can copy it, paste it in your assets and use it

drag it into the gesture layer

[sour linden]

where/what is that

[desert elk]

under playable layers in the inspector

in the avatar descriptor

[sour linden]

what does that even mean

[desert elk]

are you making an avatar from scratch or did you get one online?

[sour linden]

its the novabeast

[desert elk]

avatar descriptor - a component every avatar needs to have to function in VRChat
inspector - the box on the right side of the screen (in the default layout)

I don't know how else to explain it

I can't send screenshots, I don't have my laptop here

[ornate stump]

Everything has labeled, if you read.

[desert elk]

yeah, exactly that

[sour linden]

to start, is it in here?

[ornate stump]

If some word you don't know popup, it likely the name of something and you just have to take a look for those word on your screen.

[desert elk]

Yes

[sour linden]

i did. i couldnt find said word

do i replace this with the hands controller?

idfk anymroe

[desert elk]

No

under playable layers

please reread my message.

[desert elk]

here

[sour linden]

oh, im stupid

im in playable layers now

[ornate stump]

See what I meant.

[sour linden]

i didnt sleep okay cut me some slack 😔

where do i put the animator controller thingy in now?

[desert elk]

Read my message again

because I told you were like 3 times by now

[sour linden]

okay

i think i did it.

[desert elk]

yes

[sour linden]

thank youu

<33

[worldly whale]

So im trying to add a seat to my avatar and this video im watching says i need a box collier is that because thats where the seat hitbox is?

and is that required?

[brisk grove]

is anyone awake i need help with shaders

[ornate stump]

Box Collider will get added automatically in game when doesn't exist.

[ornate stump]

Might just have to leave a question so when someone know see it will answer right away.

[worldly whale]

ok so my other question is, when i first added it it worked and my friend could see it and could sit on it and everthing worked, then i added a toggle and the toggle worked once two days ago and i havent messed with the avatar sense. is there any reason it would just not work randomly?

[brisk grove]

im using poiymi

[ornate stump]

It's recommended to animate collider enabled state rather than the game object active state for the seat. That might be why it randomly stopped working.

[timber wharf]

@worldly whale make sure station is on by default, and animation turns it off.

[worldly whale]

does that matter that much?

[ornate stump]

Did you imported poiyomi shader package? Have you also checked whether the avatar require poiyomi pro or free version?

[brisk grove]

i have poiymi pro

[worldly whale]

the collider enable state? wheres that?

[ornate stump]

Does the avatar require pro with version matching you have?

[balmy barn]

dont toggle station, toggle box only or you end up breaking it

[ornate stump]

You haven't added the collider.

[brisk grove]

ill check

[worldly whale]

so how would i do it on quest? because i can add a box collider on pc but not on quest, how would i do this on quest. its the only reason i havent added a collider yet

[balmy barn]

if you uncheck seated you can use tracking control on whoever sits on it so sitting controller get bypassed (also break them when they stand up , fun)

[ornate stump]

You add one box collider, record animation, then delete the collider.

[worldly whale]

how does that work? wouldnt deleting the thing your toggling break the animation?

[ornate stump]

It doesn't.

[worldly whale]

and wouldnt it still not work on quest?

[worldly whale]

wait what? im so confused lol imma still do it but im still confused

[balmy barn]

stations get a box collider on upload , pc id still add one manually

had issues clickin on auto added on vs manual , for some reason it was harder to point at

[ornate stump]

Because as I said before, box collider get added automatically when it doesn't exist in game. The animation still see the collider and work upon it.

[timber wharf]

yes, tho its supposed to straight not work

[mellow scaffold]

?

[worldly whale]

so when you say animate collider enabled state you mean toggle it here?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[worldly whale]

and another question, does the box collider change how the person sits? or is it just for clicking?

[ornate stump]

Just for clicking

[balmy barn]

its where you end up sitting, station can component can be anywhere

Got one where station is root of object, but sitting isnt anywhere near it

[worldly whale]

ok now i have two conflicting answers

[ornate stump]

The position would be determine by Player Enter Location.

[balmy barn]

boxes where it clickable, stations not near them but you can use enter/exit i rarely do

[worldly whale]

i placed the seat on the avatar and when my friend sat on it she was like a mile in the aireven with the enter location being the seat that i placed so i moved it lower and lower till her was where she was supposed to be

Ignore the collider i just added that and havent moved it at all this is where i put the seat and station for her to sit on my shoulders

because she wouldnt be anywhere near my head and be a mile above me

[balmy barn]

stations always been wierd and quirky , you can also animate them up/down for smaller av's ect

[worldly whale]

i have no idea how to do that so imma just say na but would adding a collider effect where they sit at all? cause im thinkin about just making a long like pole down my spine as the interactible

[balmy barn]

its just animating the gameobject they are on up/down ect

can be added as physbone or contacts so they do it themself

(angle)

no idea if it work anymore but you were able to scale people on it too, had some that click on my ended up in a bottle scaled tiny (unlikely to work now)

[worldly whale]

so it does effect where they sit? so imma have to move the collider where i want them to sit?

[balmy barn]

center of box collider clickable , but moving them other places is annoying so i dont recommend it

then just use enter

old bed av thing, moved colliders so it was easier to know where to click, but you animate where station is , been awhile since i made it

[cedar bear]

Hey does anyone know what could be happening here? The eyes look funky when in game mode and don't blink even when setup correctly and previewing nice, and the feet get bent in a weird way when in play mode with Gesture Manager.

Now, i am trying to implement face tracking, but the prefab responsible for that is disabled on the recording so im pretty sure it can't be whats causing the error. Same thing happens when i delete the FX layer from the avatar descriptor so its not any of the toggles :,)

Also happens when i disable eye look

[tiny dock]

i made an emote animation in blender for my character but all the face customization blendshapes get set to zero and i can't figure out how to edit the animation in unity to remove the properties

i might have solved it

[worldly whale]

ok so i made the toggles for the collider and i deleted it and it isnt there on quest

[arctic ginkgo]

for the eyes, it could be an issue with bone roll, try clearing/recalculating it in blender. For the feet, it may be an issue with the pose in the rig configurator, try resetting the pose?

[timber wharf]

@worldly whale as i said, just make it toggled on by default (in the scene itself). you may or may not add collider on pc

but if its off by default it wont auto generate collider, and on quest thats the only way to get one.

[balmy plover]

how to i figure out where the back of the shirt is 😭 im trying to put a logo on this shirt i found but i cant seem to find the back middle of the shirt, is there like a way to draw on it in blender so i can see the mark in my photo editing app?

[timber wharf]

you can export uv layout from blender

but you probly want to look for tutorials how to stencil project images in blender, since uvs are usually not very uniform and just slapping a logo in image editor will get you stretched result

[worldly whale]

it works on pc perfectly, exactly how i want it. but on quest in order to upload it i have to delete the collider

[worldly whale]

its on by default in the scene and in the animations

hold up i had my parmas messed up

[timber wharf]

params shouldnt matter, only init state. unless theres vrcf or smth involved

[worldly whale]

what would vrcfury do involving it?

and again it works perfectly on pc

[timber wharf]

well it completely overwrites all states

[trim island]

anybody knows why the additive/gesture layer wont show on playable layers anymore? i have that sisue for a while and i cant upload without it since my vrcft needs it , ive bene looking on forums online and nothing to be found ,

my project is a humenoid i double checked and reimported into a new project with a working sdk but still it wont apear... why is it only on this avatar? all my other avatars are just fine with their sdk

[balmy barn]

check fbx rig , you have errors ? it will be generic

this part

[trim island]

i have written. it was a double checked humenoid.

the only fbx warning ig r these but it wont make sense to why i have my issue

[cedar bear]

oh ill try, thanks

[worldly whale]

it has vrcfury on the avatar but nothing should be interacting with the station atleast nothing i put

[cedar bear]

Well it turns out that resetting the pose also fixed the eyes :P

thancc

[grim valley]

any way to see params work in real time in game? i know about avatar debug but it cuts off the names with "...", its for ft so theres multiple of alot of stuff so idk what is what

[pine valley]

i've had major problems with that

i use long parameter names, such as Shared/SystemName/Whatever

[timber wharf]

doesnt ft prefab comes with some contol panel or smth?

[grim valley]

exactly, im trying to figure out what is what so i can have ears and tails move with it

[grim valley]

they come with puppets, but they dont do much since they dont affect the actual prefab

or param

[west kestrel]

Question for any,
A viewpoint on an avatar is off centered. Even when the avatar is set properly at 0,0,0 with viewpoint accurate between the eyes within unity. Any help?

[pine valley]

i'm unclear how the viewpoint would be "set properly" to [0,0,0]

since that'd be at the origin of your avatar

[somber sequoia]

is your avatar at 0,0,0?

[west kestrel]

Yea, the Avis set to 0,0,0. But the viewpoint is in between the eyes at the correct placement

[worldly whale]

so what do i do? cause i have everything matching both pc and quest and the quest side doesnt have the box collider

and it isnt adding one on quest

bro why is quest so damn hard to work on

like wtf

[willow carbon]

Does anyone know how to add this text to my menu? Would like a small watermark on my avatar's main menu

I use modular avatar.

[pine valley]

i wonder if that's done by doing something like this

hello



[several blank lines]

[willow carbon]

Might be

Considering that the text moves up when selecting bottom option

[pine valley]

ah, no, it's simpler

<b><size=23><line-height=100%><voffset=24.5em>GoGo Loco By Franada

straight from the menu

It looks like you have access to all TextMeshPro rich text tags

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.textmeshpro@4.0/manual/RichText.html

I do like the look. I might do that

[willow carbon]

Ty

[pine valley]

The offset was probably just eyeballed; there's no specific reason for it to be 24.5 em

[mellow vigil]

Does anyone know how to get a world constraint/parent constraint to work for quest avatars?

[pine valley]

constraints work fine on Quest in general

[balmy barn]

use vrcconstraints and freeze

[pine valley]

yeah, if you want to drop something in the world, the "Freeze to World" checkbox on a VRCParentConstraint will do the trick

note that the constraint must be active and enabled for at least one frame with "Freeze to World" unchecked

So if you want to spawn a prop and freeze it at the same time, give it a few frames

[mellow vigil]

its straight up not allowing the component?

[pine valley]

That's not a VRChat constraint.

You need to use the VRC*Constraint components

[gilded flicker]

I am back can someone tell me what this means? Am new and not very experienced as of yet I've signed out and back in already hoping it would fix it

[fiery crow]

are u not on a recent sdk?

it should have a auto fix conversion to vrc constraints option

[mellow vigil]

I should be? im using the creator companion

[pine valley]

Both of these errors just mean "it didn't work"

[worldly whale]

Hey yall i have a question, how do i add a seat onn my avatar on quest?

[pine valley]

See if there are other errors.

[gilded flicker]

okay T_T so this is why I checked console so I guess no reason lmao

[mellow vigil]

let me update the sdks

[pine valley]

oh yeah, there is an "auto fix" button there

[mellow vigil]

that autofix removed it?

[fiery crow]

no it should be a diff option

[pine valley]

Oh, duh

It's not "auto fix by upgrading"

[fiery crow]

double check to see if maybe u need to update the sdk from the vcc

[pine valley]

it's "auto fix by baleeting"

i mean...problem solved

💥

[fiery crow]

but yeah there should be 2 options, autofix removal on top (one present in ur ss), and below it there should be an autofix to convert it

[mellow vigil]

I def did, it looks like I was down a whole version

[willow carbon]

Dude

Rad

It works

[alpine badge]

so, ive never had this issue before, whenever i mess with bones in blender, and export to override the fbx, everything breaks, its a brand new project too, so i dont see why it would already have these issues

[pine valley]

Did you unpack your model prefab?

You should see a blue package icon in the hierarchy.

[alpine badge]

nope

[pine valley]

okay, good

You may be using the wrong scaling settings

when you export the FBX from Blender, you can choose either "All Local" or "FBX All"

The former gives your armature a scale of [100, 100, 100] in Unity

[alpine badge]

yeah i set to fbx all

[pine valley]

If you drag the original model into the scene, does its armature have a scale of [1, 1, 1]?

[alpine badge]

yeah, its a standard shinano

[pine valley]

also, what does "everything breaks" mean here?

does the model fold into a horrible ball when you enter play mode?

[alpine badge]

ill get a screenshot sec

[pine valley]

hm, that really looks like you've got an unpacked model prefab

when you do that, your SkinnedMeshRenderer's list of bones gets out of sync with the actual bones

this results in the model being deformed by the wrong bones

ah, that's a prefab variant

[alpine badge]

Oo

[pine valley]

that's not necessarily wrong yet

but it could be wrong inside

[alpine badge]

it comes with the original

[pine valley]

hit the little arrow on the right to open the preview view, then show me the hierarchy

[alpine badge]

just the non clothed one

[pine valley]

okay, that's got the original model prefab inside, so that sounds okay

A wildcard possibility is that the bone list has somehow gotten overridden on the prefab variant

[alpine badge]

i think the easy approach would be to just work with the original, since thats what ive done before, just figured that this would have less bloat

[pine valley]

You can try reverting the SkinnedMeshRenderer component that's rendering the body

The list is hidden from the inspector

[alpine badge]

nop, it broke more, but ill try with the original and see how it goes

[pine valley]

It's possible that the model was "patched" in Unity. I've seen that before

generally for "add-ons" for model bases

[alpine badge]

Ooo

[pine valley]

If the mesh field in the SkinnedMeshRenderer has a blue bar next to it, then that's probably the case

In that case, overwriting the model would not change the mesh, but it would change the bones

...but then, I'd expect reverting the SkinnedMeshRenderer to at least give you a working model

I guess I'd make sure the new model at least looks right when you drag it into the scene view

[dry kindle]

hey yall, im trying to make a humanoid avatar, and i want to be able to make it so when someone uses it, the avatars head can only look left and right, and not up or down, as the avatar is a robot that isnt supposed to be able to move their head vertically. how do i do this?

[pine valley]

You can create a "fake" head bone that gets animated by Unity

and then use a rotation constraint to make the "real" head bone follow its Y-axis rotation

• Chest
  • Neck
    • Head <-- you tell Unity that this is the head
    • ActualHead <-- vertices are weighted to this

[dry kindle]

sorry, im not sure im following, uh

so i go in blender, make a fake bone with no weight, on top of the head bone?

[pine valley]

the "fake head" bone would be a child of the neck bone

it can be a copy of the real head bone

Since Unity is not animating the real head bone, you can do whatever you want with it

[dry kindle]

would i make the fake head have 0 weight, or should it have the same weight properties as the real head?

[pine valley]

Nothing on your model will care about the fake head bone

No vertices will have any weight for it at all.

[dry kindle]

i think i understand? sorry, im a little new to avi making haha

ok, ive made the fake bone. in unity, how should i set up the constraint?

[teal field]

i edited the texture with the nodes so how do i then make that an image?

[dry kindle]

@pine valley sorry for the ping x.x

[pine valley]

Start by adding a VRCRotationConstraint to the real head bone

Add the fake head bone as its only source, then hit "Zero" to activate and zero it out (it'll exactly match the fake head bone)

You will also need to configure the model importer to recognize the fake head bone as the one to be animated

[dry kindle]

so set the fake bone as the head in the model layout?

[pine valley]

in the humanoid avatar configuration screen, yeah

[dry kindle]

yeye ok, lemme do that

ok whats next? i set the constraint to the real head

[pine valley]

The real head -- the one that makes the model move -- should have the constraint on it

and it should be targeting the fake head

Once you turn it on by clicking "Zero", the head should be rotating normally again

[dry kindle]

like this?

[pine valley]

Use a VRCRotationConstraint.

That's the built-in Unity constraint.

[dry kindle]

OH MY BAD

so this then?

[pine valley]

That looks right

The last thing you'll do is unchecking the "X" and "Z" freeze checkboxes in the Constraint Settings section

It'll only copy the Y rotation

[dry kindle]

i uh. dont see checkboxes for those

[pine valley]

Your UI looks a bit wrong

Weight should be a slider

Is your Avatars SDK up to date?

[dry kindle]

i believe so?

[pine valley]

It's supposed to look like this.

[dry kindle]

oh i found the boxes, its clipped into the sources for some reason..

ok, i unchecked the boxes

do i lock it or just leave it as is?

[pine valley]

oh right, you had to unlock it to do that

check "Lock" after you're done

[dry kindle]

alright

is that all i need for the head then?

[pine valley]

Should be! Try rotating the fake head bone

[dry kindle]

oh my goodness it worked

thank you soso much <3

[pine valley]

no prob

splitting the weighted bones off of your animated armature allows for some really neat effects

[proper storm]

i dont mind using vrcfury, but how doyou manage to make the exclusive tags setting with stock animator manually, if it just a thing to drive a paramter to take all the other clothes off and put the one you selected on?

I never really did that sort of stuff

[mental estuary]

Create a VRCFury Toggle with Use Global Parameter enabled. Put in the parameter of the clothing you want to be managed, then put the exclusive tag in

Repeat for the other clothes

[proper storm]

Well,

Im switching off from vrcfury

I dont really like using it, not that its bad, I just like being way more in control

[mental estuary]

Oh I see what you mean now. Just use an int parameter

Also, you're still in control with VRCFury. You can use Full Controllers to merge your own animators

The Toggle component just makes things easier

[proper storm]

Yeah

It does

How would int param control it though?

like the int is tied to a clothes type?

[mental estuary]

If the int is 1, play clothing 1 toggle animation, if int is 2, play clothing 2 toggle animation

[proper storm]

OH

yeah no I see now

Ill try that

Would the toggle inthe menu set a int though?

[mental estuary]

Yup

[proper storm]

Ah okay ill try tty

[pine valley]

yes, it's a fantastic workflow

I do very technically elaborate avatars; my newer ones are almost entirely built out of Full Controllers

[broken bone]

Heya folks, I have a tail with physbones, but when I test grab them in Unity, the tail just kind of flies upwards. Anyone know what might be going on? The physbones work perfectly otherwise, and the only collider I'm using for it is a floor plane collider

physbone settings

[pine valley]

Make sure that the bones don't have a ridiculously high radius

if your model is scaled up a bunch, 0.3 will be a very large world-space size

turn on gizmos to check that

[broken bone]

Ty for the response! The radius is scaled and tapered to fit the tail so I don't think that's it

there are limiters, but they shouldn't make the grab do weird things like that I wouldn't think

[sacred canyon]

Hi hi! I'm having this issue while trying to upload my avatar... im kinda in a deadline so im stressing a little and dont know what to do ;-;
The SDK doesnt want to upload my avatar. Here is the troubleshooting but i really have no idea of all of that means.

[pine valley]

What does your SDK control panel window look like?

[sacred canyon]

i'll be honest that it is poorly optimized but im not planning on going on public world with it so i didnt pay attention

[balmy barn]

id fix that one

[sacred canyon]

what should i do ? reduce my texture? reduce the effect on it?

[pine valley]

I’m less interested in the optimization info — the error said that it didn’t try to build an asset bundle in the first place

What’s selected up top?

[sacred canyon]

i dont know if thats what you are looking for

[pine valley]

also, were there any interesting errors higher up in the console?

[sacred canyon]

where is the higher up console?

[pine valley]

scroll up in the console window

higher up in the console :p

[sacred canyon]

thats all of the console

[pine valley]

That's the interesting line.

You have a broken component on your avatar. You probably need to install a package.

If you're using an avatar base, check the instructions. It'll list everything you need to install through the VCC (or perhaps manually)

[sacred canyon]

oh should i reinstall the package of the asset?

[pine valley]

no, you're missing a separate package

[sacred canyon]

oof im sorry im confuse ;-;

[pine valley]

There is an object on your avatar named "randoresu"

If you select it, you should see a broken component in the inspector

I don't know what's actually missing -- unity doesn't store the name of the script that is now missing

[sacred canyon]

this?

[pine valley]

Yes.

If this is from an asset, go look at its installation instructions

A missing component is fine in the editor, but you aren't allowed to save a prefab if it contains any missing components

and part of the avatar build process is to save a prefab

[sacred canyon]

Manage to upload it! Thanks a lot!!😭

[dry kindle]

@pine valley im so sorry to bother you again, i managed to get the head restrictions to work, but they only seem to work on desktop. on vr, the head is still able to move freely.

[pine valley]

Oh, the neck is probably rotating too

[dry kindle]

how do i fix that?

[pine valley]

You’d want to do the same trick, but with the neck, not the head

You can confirm this by parenting a cube or something to your neck bone

See if it moves up and down as you look up and down

[dry kindle]

would i need to keep the restraints on the head as well, or only place it on the neck?

[pine valley]

I think you’d want to constrain both

[dry kindle]

ok, thank you <3

[foggy saffron]

pretty much try and error, upload, check ingame, try again and so on

as big and center as possible

[shy pollen]

Hi! I have this avatar made by @hearty patio its the Roxanne wolf one! I cant seem to find the endo mode for the parts toggle, i tried looking through all the toggles and found nothing, tried asking the creator themselves but they aren't online, so a little help?

[round bloom]

I still need help with making a furry avatar

[left gull]

gotta specify what you need help with

like what part you're stuck on

[left gull]

w/o someone also having the model and seeing whats in the package or how the model is setup there isnt really anything anyone here can do to help

[shy pollen]

Ah, alright, it was worth a shot

[round bloom]

I Want it to look like it has furr

Furry

[left gull]

like it has fur or like a full furry model? also suggest watching v-roid specific guides/how to videos on how that program works before jumping into attempting to model make with it

[round bloom]

Ok

[left gull]

from the few times ive messed with it the "modeling" in the program seems to be alot of texture work rather then messing with meshes too so make sure you've got a image editor on hand that you know how to use

[round bloom]

I'm having a hard time

[compact dust]

is there an object that is w i de

[pine valley]

Check the bounding box of each of your renderers.

You can search for t:renderer to get a nice list of every object with a Renderer on it

although, doesn't this suggest that the bounding box of the avatar is a neat 2-meter cube?

[alpine badge]

yeah

odd

[sterile swan]

im having a strange problem. my pc blue screened when i was uploading my avatar. and now after fixing the project. and reuploading the project my left eye sees everything as it should and my right lense sees all my clothes shifted by like 12 inches. which is insaely weird. how do i fix this without redoing my entire project?

the weird effect doesnt happen on other avatars. meaning its likely an SDK issue if i had to guess. but im unsure how to fix it

[pine valley]

oh, I've seen this before

remove the SDK packages from your Packages/ directory and reinstall them through the VCC

It's failing to compile shaders for VR

[sterile swan]

its like. my left eye is completely fine no issues. everything works

[pine valley]

(you may also be able to just uninstall and reinstall them in the VCC -- I don't use it, so I'm not familiar)

[sterile swan]

right eye...is super cursed

ok

vcc doesnt let you

[pine valley]

In my case, this happened because I was using a project someone sent me. The included shader compiler program wasn't running on my device

[sterile swan]

gotta do it in unity i just didnt try it

ok ill try it

[pine valley]

I'm surprised it even uploaded tbh

but yeah, the left eye is fine

but the right eye winds up rendering with the left eye's camera position, I think

[sterile swan]

it shows my thigh highs and hair 12 inches to the left. even inside the avatar preview window lol

yeah

thats what its doing

[pine valley]

everything is used "single-pass instanced" rendering

instead of rendering the entire scene twice, it's rendering everything in one go

which takes some extra work to figure out stuff like "Where is the camera?"

and if you don't do that extra work, you get...weird stuff

[sterile swan]

having trouble locating the package

im in packages but dont see the main sdk folder

isnt it supposed to be "base?"

[pine valley]

yeah

[sterile swan]

i have a ton of packages lol ill use the search function..

[pine valley]

...that's odd

[sterile swan]

delete it?

[pine valley]

yeah, you can just delete the Base and Avatars packages

the VCC should be able to reinstall them

I only use the VPM directly (i'm on a macbook, and I can't use the VCC)

so I'm not very familiar with this

[sterile swan]

delete is grayed out

[pine valley]

you can't delete entire package folders from within Unity

[sterile swan]

oh

[pine valley]

you can also probably just downgrade and upgrade the package

switch to an older version, then back to the latest

[sterile swan]

ok

uploading to see if she works

[spark walrus]

So basically I was wondering if y’all changed the avatar size for pc? I thought it was 500.00. If it did change, WHYYY??
-# I THINK this is the right channel

[pine valley]

the maximum uncompressed size is 500MB

this is how much space your avatar takes up on disk

the maximum compressed size is 200MB

which is how large the download is

[compact dust]

how someone is maxing 200 compressed but not 500 uncompressed is scary

[pine valley]

noisy/crunch-compressed textures take up about the same amount of space in both cases

[spark walrus]

OH

OK

-# I don’t get it

[pine valley]

vs., say, a solid white square

[pine valley]

what is your actual problem?

[spark walrus]

It’s not my problem it’s a friends

I can ask

Hold up

[loud cloud]

Hello, I was wondering if someone could walk me through how to install clothing on an avatar and use blender with cats plugin. Also teach me where to add physbones.

[spark walrus]

Uhmmm NVMM!!

Mb

[distant bison]

why cant i switch my project to andriod???

[pine valley]

presumably because...

the android module isn't installed!

[distant bison]

where do i install it

[pine valley]

I think you'll need to install this through the Unity Hub

[distant bison]

i never had to do that befroe

[distant bison]

ok ty

[pine valley]

go to the Installs section

and then add the Android module in there

[distant bison]

i have to do it in unity hub not vcc?

[pine valley]

I think the creator companion can install the editor for you, but I don't know if it can add the module if the editor is already installed

(I don't use it, so I'm not sure)

[distant bison]

cuz i only use vcc now i have untity hub but i havent touched it at all ever since vcc came out

[errant aurora]

should I click yes or no?

[sterile swan]

thanks @pine valley you came in super clutch just now. project is back up and working after downgrading and upgrading to current. originally i was out of date. so i updated to current and that didnt work. but by downgrading then upgrading. now suddenly everything is working

[pine valley]

it was such a weird issue, haha

[sterile swan]

i dont know what i would have done had you not been here haha

[pine valley]

I got some warnings about my mac not wanting to run the shader compiler program, which I eventually clued in on

I do a lot of shader programming, so the problem mostly made sense after the fact

but it sure was confusing still

[sterile swan]

i figured it was SDK related since the model was completely fine in my left eye. not a headset issue since it doesnt happen on other models

thanks friend

during my original upload when my pc blue screened. my liltoon shader borked. everything was broken. i uninstalled it and reinstalled an older version and thats when i got a message from the SDK saying "not everything was there so it would now download what was needed" i click ok and thats when the issue started

[distant bison]

ok i get it now but its not showing it on here when i click it it shows it on the one on top but not the one below and the one below is the one i use

[pine valley]

ah, that means that the editor wasn't installed through the Hub

that might be what happens when the VCC installs it

[sterile swan]

yeah

i never used to use VCC

until recently

making me want to go back lol

[pine valley]

I use the VPM (vrchat package manager) directly because the VCC isn't available on a mac

e.g. vpm add package com.poiyomi.toon

i do enjoy my comand line interfaces

[distant bison]

do me a favor

could you send me the link to your untiy ver to downlaod

[pine valley]

i mean, it's just 2022.3.22f1

[distant bison]

cuz i realize mine only for windows it says

[distant bison]

yours says everythign el;se

then wth

[pine valley]

That means you have just the Windows module installed

(which is expected)

I'm not sure why I have the macOS and Linux modules installed, actually

I usually install windows+mac+linux, so I might've just done that on autopilot

[distant bison]

what if i remove from the hub and re add it back

[pine valley]

how did you actually get Unity installed in the first place?

did you download an installer and run it separately from the Hub?

[distant bison]

i dont remember

[pine valley]

I'd remove it from the hub, see if there's an uninstaller you can run, and then reinstall it again through the VCC

It sounds like you installed it with a standalone installer

You can still add such an install to the Hub, but it can't add modules

[distant bison]

ok so i fxied it but now it says this

and im in player setting sand i dont see cpu

[pine valley]

How did this project get created in the first place?

the Creator Companion should've gotten this stuff set up for you

[distant bison]

windows

[distant bison]

i had to re install it and use untiy hub

[pine valley]

no, I mean, how did you create this unity project?

[distant bison]

with vcc and i added poi and then the avatar thats it

[pine valley]

I'd try creating a new project and seeing how that behaves

[distant bison]

ok