avatar-help

[bleak ruin]

If it's encrypted then even if you rip it you won't be able to decrypt it without the key

[timid coyote]

I tried to ripping my own avatar I created

It doesn’t give me the asset file

[ornate stump]

Do you know what encryption it use?

[bleak ruin]

downloading/ripping avis is no longer "supported", as in the old way through the API has been removed. There are still ways to rip, but you will only get the textures afaik

You won't get any assets

[timid coyote]

I lost my old assets

Cuse I got a new pc

[left gull]

if your asking for assistance with ripping you'll get no help here

it breaks the #rules aswell as breaking TOS iirc

[timid coyote]

I dont want to spend years trying to remake them lol

[bleak ruin]

then you're SOL, because there's no way to download your avis. You might try reaching out to support to see if they could provide the zip but I doubt that would work

That is your only option though

[timid coyote]

Thanks

[ornate stump]

Even ripped, you won't get usable file out of them.

[bleak ruin]

I went through the same thing - had an avi I made a few years ago and I tried every which way to get a copy of it. Ended up just rebuilding from scratch again

[timid coyote]

Mine took me years to make

And I have 85 avatars I made

[ornate stump]

Lesson learnt, make backup.

[timid coyote]

Li got a new pc didn’t think to back up

[bleak ruin]

If you still have the old PC then just pop the storage out and connect it to your new PC, there are USB to SATA/NVME adapters if you have a laptop

assuming the old PC doesn't work

[timid coyote]

I don’t have it

[bleak ruin]

If you got rid of your old PC without saving the storage drive... well, uh, yeah

[timid coyote]

The pc legit commited delete system 32 on itself

The hard drive itself is legit fried

[bleak ruin]

deleting OS files won't fry your HDD. But if you don't have it anymore then there's not much you can do

[timid coyote]

Nothing salvageable on the pc

No I mean the hard drive legit Burst into flames

It’s that old

[bleak ruin]

uh huh... HDDs don't do that either, but sure. Long story short, data's gone. So, you can try contacting support but I doubt they'll cooperate. There's no other official option, aside from just... rebuilding it

[left gull]

theres always the option of commissioning someone to re-make the stuff for you but it'll likely be costly

[timid coyote]

Ya rip my hard worked Avis oof

Ya

Especially cuse they were detailed as hell

And didn’t need toggles to equip the guns

[ornate stump]

Now you know how to create them, you could just recreate them again in less time.

[timid coyote]

True

[ornate stump]

At least, your brain didn't get fried along with the HDD.

[timid coyote]

XD

[native rampart]

its too late for this, i just realized i forgot to weight paint the torso

[timid coyote]

I’ll just have to spend hours trying to find the prefabs and stuff somewhere

[left gull]

if there were assets you purchased depening on the storefront you may still be able to download them

[ornate stump]

So that makes some residual weight on arm bones can 100% effecting deformation.

[uncut lotus]

I dont get why the ear and the piece of hair in front of it isnt moving. Those blue cone things (I dont know the name of stuff mb) arent near them, IDK why, and they dont move with the hair

[ornate stump]

If bones branched out to multiple child end up as a single bone, in the branch, that will stop physbone from being applied to that branch.

[uncut lotus]

So what should I do to fix it?

[ornate stump]

Might try settings end position for physbone first.

[uncut lotus]

In Unity or blender?

[ornate stump]

physbone is in unity.

Endpoint position.

[uncut lotus]

Its all at 0

[ornate stump]

Setting means change its value.

[uncut lotus]

OH. I sorta got that. Its moving weird though. Like, one side is more one way then the other?

Is there a way to change this in Blender or something?

[ornate stump]

Might have to reconsider how each bone parent to anything.

[uncut lotus]

Ok, so, I could re-parent, or parent those bones too somethin else?

[ornate stump]

The main point is to have bone chain with 2 bones or longer from common branching bone.

[uncut lotus]

So if I add a bone to the end of the others it should work?

[ornate stump]

Maybe.

I still don't know exactly how your bone hierarchy is.

[chilly aurora]

i was told about an app that detects when you fall asleep, would anyone know how to tie that into vrcf so i can have the eyes closed while i sleep?

[ornate stump]

Probably via osc parameter, just create animator layer that react to that parameter.

[chilly aurora]

wouldnt that conflict with vrcf which im using to halt the blink manager when my eyes are closed?

[ornate stump]

I don't know. You might have to read the document for that.

It's just the same way as creating any animation involves blinking.

[past sky]

Sorry am super late but actually do it cause I'm just a basic tech guy, and I just got into VR in general like a week so complete noob pub here. So yeah someone to do it for me

[junior void]

know that theres a lot of scammers lurking. you should go to the vrc traders discord and only trust people who have appropriate roles. theres no such verification system here so

[past sky]

Oh ummm and where that? Again completely new here or to VR so I know scammers concept, but didn't know of that channel

[junior void]

search for "trader" in the #1204490664637890580 channel

i wanted to link it but was blocked

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[past sky]

Done sorry for late again, but already put my comm up

Thank you for directing ^^

[idle pawn]

alr!! today it works but the particles don't play!

they turn on but don't show

can someone help? they show only when i click play on the tab that opens whenever i click the gameobject that contains the particle system

it doesn't work anymore even tho i didn't do anything-

[ornate stump]

How did you test it? Clicking on particle play is only for previewing, not testing.

[compact smelt]

whenever I enter play-mode to test if the toggle for the jacket works, this box unchecks itself automatically and I cant see the jacket model in-game whether its toggled on or off
anyone know how to fix this?

[desert elk]

do you have a vrcfury component that automatically toggles it off?
or an animation that's set to off by default?

[split fable]

Maybe it's a silly question but I don't understand what I have to do now. Seems like there is a second head bone, if I get that right?

[compact smelt]

when I open up the gesture manager and look at the debug menu every other toggle works, they have the same exact animation maps as the jacket
yet it still automatically turns itself off

[left gull]

Does anyone have any good videos/docs on how to make a toggleable idle animation? (if its possible to)

[gusty perch]

Need help with key shapes in blender being buggy behaving super strange what I see on object mode is different to edit mode trying to remove faces but it disappears every time I enter to edit mode

[bronze loom]

Could some assist me with this error on my particles?

[ornate stump]

The mesh you used for particle must have only one material slot.

[bronze loom]

It does

[ornate stump]

How did you check?

[bronze loom]

I made it

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot your mesh asset inspector like this?

[bronze loom]

How to i view it like that?

[ornate stump]

Then can you check the other particle system as well?

[bronze loom]

Both are set up like this

[idle pawn]

play mode, gameobject with collider and contact sender set to the same as the contact receiver for the headpats, doesn't work

[ornate stump]

Did you test with gesture manager?

[idle pawn]

yes

[ornate stump]

Do you see the game object of the particle system get enabled when the contact triggered?

[ornate stump]

You should try exit prefab editing mode, clear console, and see if the same error still show up.

[idle pawn]

lemme check but i think i did, also the rest of the animations i put (face blendshapes and tail wag) are working so there's no reason for it not to work

[ornate stump]

Also screenshot the hierarchy when enabled.

[south kraken]

maybe this is a dumb Question, but can i use the Manuka head commercially?
I did read her terms of use on booth but its kind of unclear to me for this context, i have seen people use her head on avatars, Is it okay to use on an avatar I plan to sell?
Better to ask than to find out i have to change it.

[ornate stump]

No. Most booth avatar doesn't permit reselling.

[bronze loom]

I havent been in prefab edit mode the entire time :,)

[south kraken]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QxPH35idalnqYYCs9zS9DDuTvhNSfnOv/view this was her terms of use page
it says permitted to use in activities with commercial or non profit seeking purposes
????

[idle pawn]

this is what it looks like out of play mode

[ornate stump]

Also see 5. Distribution and redistribution

[south kraken]

ah i see that now, this is why i wanted to get someone else to look

thank you

[idle pawn]

alr welp it doesn't even work anymore

[ornate stump]

Then check again if animation still can enable that object.

[idle pawn]

i turned on the bool parameter for the headpats in the gesture manager debug menu and it works and the particles turn on but they don't show

[ornate stump]

So you see the "Particles" object got enabled but doesn't emitting particle?

[idle pawn]

yes

and the play on awake is enabled

[ornate stump]

Try move the particle object to avatar root instead and see if it works. Also don't forget to change animation path.

[idle pawn]

to avatar root?

[ornate stump]

At the same level as other mesh such as Body mesh.

[idle pawn]

oh

wait but they won't stick to the head tho right ?

[ornate stump]

Just for testing.

[idle pawn]

okiw

[bronze loom]

It still shows

[idle pawn]

still doesn't work, it only shows barely one second when i turn the parameter off

[ornate stump]

The sdk seems to not like some if the particle system mesh, that's the problem. Does it still show the error if the particle isn't on the avatar?

[idle pawn]

i think it has to do with the way i did the particle system, does anyone have a free one that i can just drag and drop and change the texture ?

[ornate stump]

It only shows barely one second? Is it actually one frame?

[idle pawn]

it only shows when turned off for barely a frame yes

[ornate stump]

So, when turned off parameter, you see the particle system object also got disabled, but it showed the particle within one frame during disabling time?

[idle pawn]

yes

[ornate stump]

Not even sure how you could achieve that.

MIght be better to record video to confirm what it does.

[bronze loom]

yeah

[ornate stump]

If even you moved the particle out of the avatar, that means the problem is somewhere else on the avatar.

[bronze loom]

Thats the thing im using a premade avatar that ahs never had this issue before

[ornate stump]

The latest sdk might be strange. Try downgrade the sdk one version down.

[bronze loom]

I ultimate downgraded and restarted my computer casue it been on for 2 days now and that fixed it

[ornate stump]

You must not use parameter driver to change contact parameter.

[idle pawn]

ah?

i followed a tut and it said it needed it

still doesnt work

[ornate stump]

That must be a sync parameter, which is a different parameter from the contact parameter used in the condition.

[ornate stump]

For your case you should not need the parameter driver.

[idle pawn]

oh ok

there's no sync parameter?

i don't understand- i'm sorry i'm new to actually using unity

[ornate stump]

Sync parameters are the one you defined in expression parameter file.

And you should not need sync parameter either.

[idle pawn]

i have no parameters file tho

idk where it is

[ornate stump]

You didn't show the particle system object got enabled in this video.

You show only the "Particles" object which is the parant of the actual particle system object.

[idle pawn]

the particle thing is always on, i tuthe empty object on and off

i saw that if i did that it'd fix it but it didn't but i kept it as is

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot content of the animation files?

Both on and off.

[idle pawn]

i'mma stop for today, i've been working trying to fix these for freaking days non-stop, i need a break

[wild vapor]

Is there a way to get pc toggles to work on quest as well

Sorry dead tired.

[ornate stump]

It should work given you can resolve issues reported in the sdk.

[wild vapor]

It's hard

My uploader can't do it

[ornate stump]

So the question has been answered: there is a way to get pc toggles to work on quest. It's just too difficult for your uploader.

[wild vapor]

Alright..

Thank you

[ornate stump]

That means you'd have to find other person more competent to do that.

[timid kite]

piercings chain in motion. last bone stretches out the whole thing. any solution?

[ornate stump]

Physbone isn't made to link chain between 2 locations.

[timid kite]

any thoughts on solutions?

[ornate stump]

Do you really need physic on that location?

[timid kite]

can somebody whos not trying to judge me but actually can offer solutions respond please, thank you

[junior void]

how was that judging

personally i would not add physics there either because of said problem

[ornate stump]

There is no way to link physbone between 2 locations. You will have to find alternative way to add physic which require you to edit the mesh in blender.

[ornate stump]

You could, the easiest way, limit physbone angle to very small degree. But this make it better, not perfect though.

[cold mirage]

It’s not letting me post an avatar search thread?

[ornate stump]

What does it say? Select some tag?

[cold mirage]

I don’t think it says anything bad, and I did select tags. Just whenever I click post it either says “an error occurred” or it gets posted and instantly deleted.

[ornate stump]

Probably try again at some other time.

[viral raft]

My SDK menu changed and I dont know how to fix it

[unique cloud]

Heya, I have run into a strange issue. I'm selling several assets, and they re-use animations/textures/etc among themselves but live in separate folder structures. Now. I have already removed the .meta files off of all of these copied assets and let them regenerate, however when a user installs more than one of my asset packs, unity still wants to merge the last imported file into the folder structure of the first one. What can I actually do against that? I've already cleared the meta files on everything and it's still treated as the same file by unity.

[ornate stump]

Right click on "Debug" tab header and change to "Normal".

[viral raft]

Oh yea I had to do that in the animator layers thing I diddnt know it applied to everything, thank you

[cold mirage]

Got it working! One of the pictures was causing an error for some reason

[shell flicker]

Hello! After newest vrchat update my physbone gravity feels like it's 10x what it used to be

qwq

Does anyone know any quick way to fix

Or do I just edit each bone manually

[arctic ginkgo]

Angle limiter and aim constraints maybe? Take the last 1 or 2 bones and reverse the order, then add aim constraint to the end of the bone it was previously parented to, add angle limit on physbone component

Just an idea

Another idea is have it copy rotation

I've seen for chains connected at 2 points, there is a physbone chain on both ends

[timid kite]

tysm!!

[left gull]

is there a way to animate UV panning on a blendshape/shapekey?

[ornate stump]

There isn't. Blendshape stores only vertex position, normals, and tangent.

[queen nimbus]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lxot11kWxM4&t=52s&pp=2AE0kAIB would that work ?

[desert elk]

i don't know, I don't speak Japanese

[lavish obsidian]

idk why its get stuck like this how can i fix it?

[viral raft]

I got an error telling me security checks failed and I cannot load the avatar

[left gull]

Pretty sure Pumpkintools has a button to fix that but generally happens when you animate onto the model (instead of making a duplicate) or if your model has something in the Animator component for some reason (generally keep the top bar empty)

[fierce ingot]

my avatar says build faild

failed

i need sum help chat

imma just make a new project

[ornate stump]

#avatar-help message

[lavish obsidian]

so how can i fix it now?

[viral raft]

When I upload the windows version it works fine but when I upload the quest version it says "Security checks failed" and gives me the blank robot avatar

[inland seal]

The avatar I made doesnt work on MMD world as I wanted it to be.

I made an avi that works completely fine and the mouth + all expressions work with it bust for some reason when in MMD world I'm trying to put any music the mouth wont move at all when it should.

I did testing with other avatar bases and it works fine so I can't tell what is wrong with it (Also all Blend shapes are working and I tested with Regulus avatar and it has the same ones but Regulus mouth works with MMD while mine doesn't)

[viral raft]

Im so confused now, It says on the website that its on android, But in game it still has the X

[indigo compass]

So you got japanese named blendshapes then?
(I know some MMD worlds do support using regular visemes too or just english MMD blendshapes.)
If so then are the blendshapes being animated by anything in your animator and are you using something that might be stripping the blendshapes on upload?
If you are using VRCFury's blendshape optimizer then I think you need to add the MMD compatibility component too.
D4rk's avatar optimizer I think has a toggle for it to ignore MMD blendshapes.

[inland seal]

I have Bledshapes optimizer on both of my avatars but the Regulus one works while Regulus/Mayu Hybrid doesnt

[indigo compass]

Try removing it momentarily

[inland seal]

Sure

works ;D

I wasted 3 days fixing this

[rocky axle]

Does anyone else have that bug, where when you try to Multi upload Quest and PC, that it finishes one, then when its about to start the 2nd time, it greys out and Fails to work?

Like your forced to close down your project and reopen it cause its all greyed out,

[indigo compass]

Possible that you just needed to add the MMD compatibility component then, I have never had it remove my MMD blendshapes on any of my avatars.

-# I thought it ignored them in general tbh.

[inland seal]

Whats that?

I cant find it in VRCFury

[indigo compass]

It is just called "MMD Compatibility" https://vrcfury.com/components/other#mmd-compatibility
And as I can see in the docs right now, yeah, you do need it for the blendshape optimizer to not strip MMD blendshapes.

[novel narwhal]

how do i fix this?

[desert elk]

lower texture size for example

[novel narwhal]

i have on all textures max 512 as a size

[indigo compass]

If you are using crunch then it is causing that.
Use the ASTC texture format on Quest.

[desert elk]

also that

[indigo compass]

A common mistake is for people to miss the "recent avatar build" part of that warning, so did you change the texture resolution after or before you saw that warning?

[desert elk]

oh I didn't even see that xd

oops

[indigo compass]

Basically it only updates each time you try to upload.

[novel narwhal]

everytime when i changed something i tried to upload it

[inland seal]

Alr It works but now for some reason the clothes dissapear on my friends pc view

but from my view everything is fine

[novel narwhal]

which format should i use? it seems, that i have the 6x6 block format on every texture

[novel narwhal]

(even with this format it doesnt upload)

[indigo compass]

I.. don't know why that would be.

[inland seal]

Its fine

thx for help ;D

[indigo compass]

It should be doing something, but you can try just increasing the block size one step to 8x8, that will make the textures even smaller.

[novel narwhal]

okay thanks, i will try that

[native rampart]

one peice not moving with the leg?

[viral epoch]

cant get my project open

[bronze loom]

About every avatar i try and upload gets hit with this lately adn the only way around it is reseting my pc and that only works some of the time

[pine valley]

Check if that vertex has any other weights on it

[olive pelican]

there's a single vert that's not being effected by the bone, or has another bone it's linked to.

[pine valley]

You can select a specific vertex in Edit Mode and look in the Item menu on the right to see every vertex group it's in.

that kind of stretching would be consistent with two 1.0 weights for a single vertex

[lucid rapids]

can someone help ?

[pine valley]

Look at this earlier error.

It's cut off at the top.

You have a broken component on one of the objects on your avatar.

[native rampart]

take the model on the left side drag it into the bottom reput it in\

[pine valley]

This often means that you don't have a package installed.

Every other error, warning, and info message is just the build process failing

[pine valley]

did you reply to the wrong message? this doesn't have anything to do with what fabls posted

[lucid rapids]

ohh yeah i just deleted it it was missing script and now its uploding hope its will work

[pine valley]

It...may have been important

especially if it was on a prefab

[lucid rapids]

hmmm

what else i can do ?

[native rampart]

yes i think someone deleted a message and i replied to the wrong one

[lucid rapids]

its okk

[pine valley]

ah woops

that explains it :p

[safe mesa]

How do I make an avatar's textures support transparency? This fella right here, I want his face to look seperate, and not need this ugly border around it.

[pine valley]

The material needs to be configured correctly.

[round comet]

Is this pc or quest also?

[safe mesa]

It's technically both.

[pine valley]

You can't do non-opaque rendering on Quest avatars

(not even Cutout, surprisingly)

[round comet]

I mean, you can use the knife topology tool maybe

[safe mesa]

That's bullshit!

[round comet]

And technically, while it isn’t the best practice you can use mobile particles if its a seperate mesh lol

It’ll just look weird

[pine valley]

you only get Additive and Multiply particle shaders on avatars, don't you

[round comet]

Yeah

Multiply works to get rid of anything pure white basically, so I’ve used it for transparent lashes on occasion

It’s just not too good for performance, but one must make sacrifice for their transparency

[night ember]

Not really considering the mobile hardware doesnt exactly like transparency

[pine valley]

I'm still largely out-of-the-loop on how mobile GPUs differ from desktop GPUs

something about tiles

[round comet]

No clue, but even overusing the particle shaders for fake transparency is a little taxing

[bronze loom]

Help

[pine valley]

are those errors still being printed?

the mesh you currently have assigned looks fine

[bronze loom]

Yeah the only fix i can sometimes manages to get is restarting my computer

[pine valley]

that shouldn't be necessary -- clear the console and see if more messages appear

[bronze loom]

Even with themcleared and particles removed for some reason still pop up

[bronze loom]

For some reason works tho

the computer restart part

[pine valley]

i don't know what "particles removed" means here

are you deleting the entire particle system?

[bronze loom]

Yeah

[pine valley]

then another particle system is complaining, most likely

[bronze loom]

there are only 2 on the avatar the ones i added

And i only have a particle count of 2000 so i doubt thats it if for some reason it was

[pine valley]

The particle count has nothing to do with the error.

[safe mesa]

Well the avatar is mostly just flat colors, so is anyone really going to be like

hEy yOuR MoUtH LoOkS WeIrD

[night ember]

if its flat then why didnt you just make the mouth line up with the head

[safe mesa]

Even if I did that I feel like my point still stands lol

[hard turtle]

is there any way to auto generate Visemes on Blender 4.4 or to revert a blender 4.4 model to 2.93 with no missing blendshapes?

[viral raft]

when im in unity testing my avatar with gesture emulator and i get to close my hands dissapear

[hard turtle]

Wheres the robot vrc avatar base>

i cant find it for the life of meeee

i just need a referance on how to rig my hands

[cold perch]

quick question i need help with. in unity i dont have a "scene" anymore so i never see the avatar preview in the middle screen, how do i get the scene back. i googled, but it always shows opening new scenes without data. i might have deleted the scene tab a few weeks ago when i bought my first avatar. but i really would like to see what im working with in unity, only have the "game" tab in the middle:

[left gull]

it should be something like Window>Scene at the top

[cold perch]

OMG thank you xD

thats it...

thats so much different than what i found on google xD

everything there was file-> build settings

[pine valley]

Are your hands a separate object?

If so, their bounding box might be going off-screen (if ONLY the hands are vanishing)

if your entire body is vanishing as you get too close, that's more of a camera problem

[left gull]

yeah those are just explaining on how to make a new scene save thats why you've gotta keep rewording it over and over if you cant find the right answer but know the naming scheme of what you're looking for (i usually only look at unity discussion boards or reddit for actual unity engine assistance alot of the other stuff is meh helpfulness-wise)

[pine valley]

the Build Settings window would be for configuring which scenes go into a build of your game

One general tip for this: you can always reset your layout

the Layout dropdown in the top right has a bunch of options

[hazy pendant]

Does anyone teach others blender by any chance?

[tardy quartz]

how do I create a hierachy without breaking a prefab?

specifically, I'm looking to create a hierarchy gameobject that lets me toggle multiple outfit pieces at once like children, but I cannot drag and drop without breaking a prefab, which I cannot do.

[pine valley]

You cannot reparent objects in a prefab instance without unpacking the prefab.

So I don't think there's a good way to do that.

You can make animation clips that toggle all of the objects at once, though.

you'd have, say:

Toggles - Accessories - Off
Toggles - Accessories - On
Toggles - Piercings - Off
Toggles - Piercings - On
Toggles - Huge Pile Of Hats - Off
Toggles - Huge Pile Of Hats - On

each pair would turn a set of objects off or on

[queen nimbus]

Does anyone know how I can get the Chiffon tail onto Chocolat without using Blender?

[pine valley]

If you just need to attach one model to another, that's trivial

parent the tail prefab onto your hips

[surreal salmon]

is there a way to scale up phys bone radious without scaling up its root transform?

[pine valley]

yes, there's a radius property

[surreal salmon]

im trying to scale it independently with a blend shape but i dont see how to i do see the colision radious property but thats where im stuck

idk how to connect those 2 things

i got the toggle for said blend shape

[fervent spear]

hi guys is there a way to add in extra dances and animations to the gogoloco radial menu with the vrcfury version of the beyond prefab? i only know how to replace the premade animations
also for some reason there isnt a way to change the names/icons of the emotes?

[surreal salmon]

also cool to see ya here fen

u dont know me tho i just like ur games

[wild needle]

I cant upload avatars

thats it I can

upload them sometimes

[surreal salmon]

what errors do u get

[wild needle]

I need to try and upload again

but if I do get the error get cause

I get it like all the time i can send it

im trying to make a new project to see if that will fix it

[surreal salmon]

first try seeeing if it works for pc but not quest

[wild needle]

I will

[timid kite]

can anybody link me to an avatar or a particle system that charms? for rp purposes. like ur screen goes a certain color when they interact with u and stuff

[safe mesa]

Why is making 2d visemes so hard

[frail temple]

Anyone having any idea why this happens? Face orientations are normal, Custom vertex data is off, Atlas'ing doesn't fix it

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/scaramouche-the-merciless-2d8425c1af3a48a7bc5dc9f856f41cb9

[wild needle]

weird thing but the colors are the same on the texture (they are both white) but one appears as like a grayish color, but it appears fine in blender (left is unity, right is blender)

[viral raft]

Yea, Its whatever its only when im in play mode and dosent happen in game, If i just stay a little ways away its alright

[wild needle]

another thing is it possible to make is so this isnt weird looking

[viral raft]

either way my lil guy came out amazing, first model from scratch and he has a 2d animated face c:

[fervent spear]

how do i rename wave to something else

[frail temple]

Go to your GoGo Loco folder, and go through this directory

[proper epoch]

can someone help me with something

[fervent spear]

thank you:))

[frail temple]

ask

[proper epoch]

give me like 2 mins really quick

[proper epoch]

can you help with that

[arctic ginkgo]

reduce texture size first, also try removing unused blendshapes

[frail temple]

Anyone have any idea why this happens? Download link is above

[arctic ginkgo]

the magenta areas may just be that your texture files aren't assigned correctly to the blender materials

[proper epoch]

if i share screen in a call or somthing could you help out?

[wild needle]

alright I accidentally fixed this soooo nvm

[proper epoch]

first what are blendshapes and how do i reduce texture size

[bleak ruin]

I've seen some avis where when you clip into them and look inside their body all you see is a solid color instead of behind the textures. Does anyone know how to add something like that to an avi?

[frail temple]

Fixed it, the one material that covered that area was somehow broken even though replacing it with the textures from the files was the exact same, extremely weird....

Never question blender when importing models...

[proper epoch]

Ok i think i did what you said buy how do i fix this one

[frail temple]

What in the hell are the avatars you're trying to import?

[proper epoch]

Its a really cool avatar

[native rampart]

how do i make the whole neck move with the head?

[frail temple]

Most of the time you have way too many toggles / blendshapes / materials for it to reach that high of a download size

[proper epoch]

yo am i able to like call you and screen share or somthing

[frail temple]

honestly i'll do it this once since i am really curious what avatar you're trying to upload

[proper epoch]

thanks bro

[dapper lagoon]

The way I have my avatar currently configured, I have hand gestures in my FX layer because I have objects that depend on the current hand gesture (i.e. firearms). However, I cannot, for the life of me, get facial expressions to work anymore.

I currently have them on a separate FX layer and am merging it via VRCFury, but nothing seems to be working. I'm willing to bet something needs to change with the hand gestures in the FX layer, but what exactly should I do?

[wild needle]

how do I fix the skinned mesh renderers issue?

[pine valley]

you'll need to explain what that means

[pine valley]

is this your current issue?

[wild needle]

no I already fixed that, I need this one to be fixed

[pine valley]

do you understand what the problem is here?

[wild needle]

no cause I dont really make avatars

[pine valley]

each skinned mesh renderer draws a single mesh

which will correspond to a single object in Blender

you have too many of these right now, so you need to join smaller objects into a single large object in Blender

[wild needle]

ok

that worked so ty

[static bough]

any idea why this may be there? Avatar isnt using unlit but only had this error when i attached my face tracking addon (trying to make it quest)

[pine valley]

click Select and see what object it takes you to

[static bough]

just took me to the prefab

but i found it!

[pine valley]

If this is the face tracking prefab I'm thinking of, it'll be the preview window

[static bough]

it was in the packages section for the debug

[static bough]

jerry's

[wild needle]

this is the error I got thats not letting me upload

[pine valley]

It's either taking too long to get a response at all, or it's uploading too slowly.

Check if you can edit your avatar's name/description/picture.

[wild needle]

ok

[pine valley]

That doesn't involve uploading the avatar. If that also fails, you're having problems connecting to VRChat's servers

[wild needle]

mmmm

my computer has trouble doing that sometimes

like just opening the game in general

[surreal salmon]

so im trying to get this spacifically to scale up with a blend shape

how do i do that without scaling up the armature

[cedar bear]

Does anyone have any idea on how to make toggles for foot wear with high heels move the whole character up so that the shoes look correct?

it seems like its not as simple as keying the root bone with the shoe toggle since the root bone is part of the main humanoid rig

[surreal salmon]

i seen a tuttorial on exactly that but im still confused there too

[cedar bear]

if you could send a link id be grateful :3

[surreal salmon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnLgw-ihPiQ

[surreal salmon]

^

[cedar bear]

thanks :P

too sad her microhpne is on another room though

[frail temple]

there's an addon called volume booster, for some reason half the unity/blender tutorials sound way too quiet

if you don't use chromium you're shit outta luck

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/volume-booster/ejkiikneibegknkgimmihdpcbcedgmpo

[cedar bear]

well she does make a fix for it, but im pretty sure once the shoes get toggled off the character will be floating off the ground, no?

[cedar bear]

does opera use chromium? 😭

[frail temple]

yee

[blissful kraken]

I'm having issues updating my avatars it's giving me this error in unity
UploadException: Failed to upload file
VRC.SDKBase.Editor.Api.VRCApi.UploadFile (System.String filename, System.String fileId, System.String friendlyFileName, System.Action2[T1,T2] onProgress, System.Threading.CancellationToken cancellationToken) (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.base/Editor/VRCSDK/Dependencies/VRChat/API/VRCApi.cs:973) VRC.SDKBase.Editor.Api.VRCApi.UpdateAvatarBundle (System.String id, VRC.SDKBase.Editor.Api.VRCAvatar data, System.String pathToBundle, System.Action2[T1,T2] onProgress, System.Threading.CancellationToken cancellationToken) (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.base/Editor/VRCSDK/Dependencies/VRChat/API/VRCApi.cs:633)
VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.Upload (UnityEngine.GameObject target, VRC.SDKBase.Editor.Api.VRCAvatar avatar, System.String bundlePath, System.String thumbnailPath, System.Threading.CancellationToken cancellationToken) (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.avatars/Editor/VRCSDK/SDK3A/VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.cs:2678)
Rethrow as UploadException: Failed to upload file
VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.Upload (UnityEngine.GameObject target, VRC.SDKBase.Editor.Api.VRCAvatar avatar, System.String bundlePath, System.String thumbnailPath, System.Threading.CancellationToken cancellationToken) (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.avatars/Editor/VRCSDK/SDK3A/VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.cs:2705)
VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.BuildAndUpload (UnityEngine.GameObject target, VRC.SDKBase.Editor.Api.VRCAvatar avatar, System.String thumbnailPath, System.Threading.CancellationToken cancellationToken) (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.avatars/Editor/VRCSDK/SDK3A/VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.cs:2999)
VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.OnBuildAndPublishAction () (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.avatars/Editor/VRCSDK/SDK3A/VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.cs:2021)
System.Runtime.CompilerServices.AsyncMethodBuilderCore+<>c.<ThrowAsync>b__7_0 (System.Object state) (at <27124aa0e30a41659b903b822b959bc7>:0)
UnityEngine.UnitySynchronizationContext+WorkRequest.Invoke () (at <cb81df0c49c643b1a04d9fc6ccca2433>:0)
UnityEngine.UnitySynchronizationContext.Exec () (at <cb81df0c49c643b1a04d9fc6ccca2433>:0)
UnityEngine.UnitySynchronizationContext.ExecuteTasks () (at <cb81df0c49c643b1a04d9fc6ccca2433>:0)

The project was backed up from a backup on the previous update and was working

[pine valley]

Look at the first error in the console.

You may need to scroll up.

[blissful kraken]

this is the other error message with the code from the first error code
Failed to upload file
UnityEngine.Logger:Log (UnityEngine.LogType,object,UnityEngine.Object)
(wrapper dynamic-method) UnityEngine.Debug:UnityEngine.Debug.LogError_Patch1 (object,UnityEngine.Object)
VRC.Core.Logger:LogError (string,string,UnityEngine.Object)
VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder/<UploadError>d__144:MoveNext () (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.avatars/Editor/VRCSDK/SDK3A/VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.cs:2891)
System.Runtime.CompilerServices.AsyncVoidMethodBuilder:Start<VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder/<UploadError>d__144> (VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder/<UploadError>d__144&)
VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder:UploadError (object,string)
VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder/<HandleUploadError>d__133:MoveNext () (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.avatars/Editor/VRCSDK/SDK3A/VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.cs:2725)
System.Runtime.CompilerServices.AsyncTaskMethodBuilder1<System.Exception>:Start<VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder/<HandleUploadError>d__133> (VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder/<HandleUploadError>d__133&) VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder:HandleUploadError (System.Exception) VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder/<Upload>d__131:MoveNext () (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.avatars/Editor/VRCSDK/SDK3A/VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.cs:2705) System.Runtime.CompilerServices.AsyncTaskMethodBuilder1<VRC.SDKBase.Editor.Api.VRCAvatar>:SetException (System.Exception)
VRC.SDKBase.Editor.Api.VRCApi/<UpdateAvatarBundle>d__34:MoveNext () (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.base/Editor/VRCSDK/Dependencies/VRChat/API/VRCApi.cs:650)
System.Runtime.CompilerServices.AsyncTaskMethodBuilder1<string>:SetException (System.Exception) VRC.SDKBase.Editor.Api.VRCApi/<UploadFile>d__38:MoveNext () (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.base/Editor/VRCSDK/Dependencies/VRChat/API/VRCApi.cs:1055) System.Runtime.CompilerServices.AsyncTaskMethodBuilder1<bool>:SetResult (bool)
VRC.SDKBase.Editor.Api.VRCApi/<UploadSimple>d__40:MoveNext () (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.base/Editor/VRCSDK/Dependencies/VRChat/API/VRCApi.cs:1097)
System.Runtime.CompilerServices.AsyncTaskMethodBuilder1<VRC.SDKBase.Editor.Api.VRCApi/EmptyResponse>:SetException (System.Exception) VRC.SDKBase.Editor.Api.VRCApi/<MakeRequest>d__162<byte[], VRC.SDKBase.Editor.Api.VRCApi/EmptyResponse>:MoveNext () (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.base/Editor/VRCSDK/Dependencies/VRChat/API/VRCApi.cs:341)
System.Runtime.CompilerServices.AsyncTaskMethodBuilder1<System.ValueTuple2<VRC.SDKBase.Editor.Api.VRCApi/EmptyResponse, System.Net.Http.HttpResponseMessage>>:SetException (System.Exception)
VRC.SDKBase.Editor.Api.VRCApi/<MakeRequestWithResponse>d__15`2<byte[], VRC.SDKBase.Editor.Api.VRCApi/EmptyResponse>:MoveNext () (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.base/Editor/VRCSDK/Dependencies/VRChat/API/VRCApi.cs:332)
UnityEngine.UnitySynchronizationContext:ExecuteTasks ()

^ that is the first error code

and it's doing that on 2 other avatars that are on 3.7.5

and I am using the latest VCC

with the correct version of unity

and this is occuring with my Synth from Lux, my Kitavali and the custom Synthvali for the kitavali

So far only one of my avatars have updated to 3.7.6 and that is my Seeker Avali

will my avatars still work if they are using 3.7.5 cause I'm not sure if any of them are using any of the newer features in 3.7.6

I usually only update for keeping things current or if I plan to later use any of the newer features which i usually don't

[tidal stone]

I need help with this

[somber sequoia]

yes, don't worry

[blissful kraken]

ahh good then I will update using 3.7.5 for now

[wild needle]

ive been doing this for an hour

trying to connect to the vrc servers

[shrewd stirrup]

its supposed to be transparent help

the alpha thing doenst show up either

[blissful kraken]

oh yikes

[shrewd stirrup]

did this to a lot of my effects after turning to pc version

idk why

[blissful kraken]

I haven't seen that for a bit

forgot how i fixed that, have you checked your uv's or textures?

[shrewd stirrup]

for what

its just an effect tho

[shrewd stirrup]

what do i chek

[blissful kraken]

maybe the alpha is transparent

try checking that

[shrewd stirrup]

how

where clic

[blissful kraken]

under input texture alpha

[shrewd stirrup]

ok

[blissful kraken]

and sRGB

[shrewd stirrup]

didnt workm

[blissful kraken]

hmmm

what options are under alpha source that aren't greyed out

[shrewd stirrup]

wym theres nothin else there

[blissful kraken]

ok

are you trying to get rid of the white border?

[shrewd stirrup]

that and the extra purple shit

anything thats not the actual lettering

it worked for quest but once i switch it does ts

[blissful kraken]

how does it show up on your quest project

in the dialog box in unity

you may have to copy the details exactly from the quest project

while i'm not to familiar with conversion from quest to pc but I've had issues in unity in general on other unity based projects that i do

that aren't tied to VRChat

[native rampart]

how do i make the cloths visable fron the inside?

[blissful kraken]

looks like you need to make your legs semi-transparent

cause the outfit is clipping into your legs

[blissful kraken]

you might need to edit the texture in a photo-editor like GIMP, Kirita or, CSP if you have any of those programs

and only leave the text you want

[native rampart]

what is the problen here?

[blissful kraken]

is there a spine.002?

[native rampart]

yes

[blissful kraken]

since spine is spine.001, upper chest should be that

[tidal stone]

Can someone tell me what to do please

[native rampart]

so upper chest is 002 chest is 003 and spine 001?

[blissful kraken]

yeah

[native rampart]

ok

[blissful kraken]

they are usually in sequence

[tidal stone]

so anyone able to help in this server

[blissful kraken]

D3nnon your rig is missing those points if the model is missing those look in blender to see how it's rigged

your fbx might be broken

[tidal stone]

is there anyway to fix it

[blissful kraken]

you'll have to re rig the model correctly

[native rampart]

atill getting the error, i think it is a problem with the neck

[blissful kraken]

show your full armature Perfect

[tidal stone]

ight

[blissful kraken]

with the left side showing too please

[native rampart]

the neck bode isnt conected to the armature

[blissful kraken]

yeah hmm that is very weird

[native rampart]

but fully shows up in blender

[blissful kraken]

huh it's rendering fine in blender but it breaks in unity of course

show the entire armature in the upper left please

in both blender and unity

i'm kinda surprised there's no voice chats in this server, it would make helping other out alot more effective

[hazy pendant]

How much is a head swap and how long should that take to do?

[native rampart]

like the scene on the side

[blissful kraken]

I sent u a dm if you want to discuss in a VC and show what's going on

[still elbow]

avatar is pc only and i cant generate imposters, what's the issue i might be facing?

[west cipher]

anyway to copy whats on one uv map to another?

[whole matrix]

umm how do i fix this

[still elbow]

do i need to make it public? if i do that will others be able to use it without asking me?

[desert elk]

don't commission people here, mostly likely scams, and like 5 minutes in blender

[desert elk]

no, that shouldn't matter

maybe you just hit a daily limit?

[still elbow]

no, the first time i tried making imposters it didn't work

[desert elk]

hmm

[still elbow]

and neither did the 5 other times

[desert elk]

that's weird

[still elbow]

i need to know what to do before i hit the limit of 10

[desert elk]

did you try uploading the avatar again with a new blueprint id? maybe that one is just stuck

[hazy pendant]

idk where to find ppl Everyone is either too busy or has a 200$ rate for A head swap and ponytail add on

[still elbow]

i can try that

[desert elk]

if you really want to pay someone go to the vrc traders discord server #1204490664637890580

but doing it yourself isn't that hard

it's just a little blender work

[still elbow]

not the case

a reupload did not fix the issue

[desert elk]

are you getting any errors?

[still elbow]

no

atc ye

i wouldn't think this'd break it but maybe it does

[hazy pendant]

That’s practically a dead chat nobody talks in there unless they know each other are looking for assets.

[desert elk]

all I know is that here you'll get scammers

don't trust any DMs

[still elbow]

here's what it's like atm, but i dont see anything that's 90 degrees so idk what to do to fix the issue

[desert elk]

no, that doesn't affect impostors, it shouldn't at least

[native rampart]

FRR

[still elbow]

bruhhhh

[desert elk]

I meant the website more

when you click to generate Impostors

[still elbow]

it's 100% uploaded but the model is entirely pc and wont let me make imposters for vr

[desert elk]

are there any errors like "sorry couldn't generate"?

[still elbow]

nope

[desert elk]

so you click generate and it just doesn't do it?

[still elbow]

yeah

[desert elk]

that's weird

[still elbow]

it builds and uploads from my pc and then when i go to the website to build it it says nuh uh and gives me a notification in vr chat

[hazy pendant]

You do commissions ?

[still elbow]

my only thought is that i cant be IN vr chat while i do it

[desert elk]

No, but I can tell you how to do it yourself :)

[hazy pendant]

Tbh can u do a call I have questions ?

[desert elk]

No

this is a help chat, not my calls

:)

[still elbow]

maybe THEY are a scammer

[hazy pendant]

Was just asking

[still elbow]

bec they're adamant and not accepting no

[hazy pendant]

I keep forgetting people on discord don’t call much unless it’s for exclusive reasons. Makes getting information kind of hard.

[desert elk]

if texting is hard for you, you can always screen recording

[still elbow]

sorry for saying you're a scammer btw, it was too quick and you've been here too long

[desert elk]

that's mostly what people do when they can't describe a problem with words

[still elbow]

a real scammer would join then immediately start trying to do stuff with money

[desert elk]

yeah

[still elbow]

i would really like to figure out this issue btw

bec i'm literally just one error away from using my avatar

can i share the avatar link if it's private?

or does that mean 100% private not just no copying

[night ember]

a private avatar is a private avatar

[still elbow]

alr

[night ember]

its either only you can use it or everyone can use it

[still elbow]

wishful thinking that the page could provide insight that i'm not aware of

[night ember]

what error is it even giving you

[still elbow]

if i try to generate imposters for vr use, it says "ther was an error while making the imposters"

that's it

[night ember]

whats your avatar

[still elbow]

it gives me a notification in vrc that says almost exactly that

you need the appearance?

[night ember]

what is it

[still elbow]

humanoid, i have bones tied to nothing for the legs. here's the ref then the model

[night ember]

uh

that mesh is VERY abstract

[still elbow]

it says good performance

[night ember]

thats not the issue

[still elbow]

here's the proof i have it uploaded and everything

[night ember]

the issue being that its so incredibly not a solid mesh that vrchat cant get a proper scan of it to generate an imposter

[still elbow]

oh...............

and i'm asssuming i cant download all this on my headset and re-render it there???

[night ember]

wat

youd need to upload it to android for it to show up on quest

[still elbow]

so how do i do that?

[night ember]

switch to android build in unity

[still elbow]

am i able to do that in windows?

[night ember]

you upload it from a pc

[still elbow]

oh wiat i see

build settings

[night ember]

or in the vrcsdk window

either works

[still elbow]

wait, i can make ps5 games in unity??

das crazy

[night ember]

unity is just a 3d engine

its not exactly locked behind a specific platform

[still elbow]

alr

bruh

[night ember]

standard isnt a vrchat shader

[still elbow]

i dont see where to change it

[night ember]

the material

[still elbow]

ah

[odd pelican]

Help

[still elbow]

the model is verypoor apparently

[night ember]

describe the issue instead of just going "help"

[night ember]

modeled text is going to use up a lot of tris

[odd pelican]

I can’t find this avi

[still elbow]

i know, i already tried to reduce it with merge by distance but it wasn't working because some dumbass made letters with horrid typography in blender

[night ember]

I wouldnt call it horrid

[still elbow]

dude, hold on

what idiot thought that these symbols needed this much geometry???

i cant just remesh either bec that loses all detail

[night ember]

you mean topology and what do you expect with smooth curves literally everywhere

[still elbow]

unsubdivide also screws it all up

[night ember]

the letters are almost entirely curves

[still elbow]

even a 4th of the polygons would still look like a perfect curve tho...

like the top of the 2

[night ember]

then model them that way

[still elbow]

a 10th would work

idk how other than manually making EVERY shape

which would be hell ofc

[night ember]

idk what you expected from auto generated meshes

[whole matrix]

anyone know how to fix this error

[still elbow]

great, so i spent those 6 hours making the model for nothing, and then played for 2 days to get my acc verified only for it to not matter

[whole matrix]

i have done everything even uninstaled vcc and unity and im still getting this error

[velvet junco]

Arm bones and exclusively arm bones slightly move when I import into unity, anyone familiar?

[night ember]

are you not going to play on pc or what?

[desert elk]

#1138520828556890214

[west cipher]

i merged two bodies together and now have two uv maps. trying to get whats on one to the other. is there a way to do this?

[fervent spear]

anyone know how to add audio to gogoloco animation?

[night ember]

you just toggle it in the fx controller

[fervent spear]

ok, ill try that ty

[blissful kraken]

Seems like I figured out my updating issues with my avatars my primary network both on Wired and Wireless is actively blocking VRChat via Unity but not actual VRChat

I was actually able to upload when I switched over to a hotspot

[glass geyser]

trying to keep a poor rating for my quest avatar, but do you need another mesh to make something toggable or is there actually another way to do it without making another mesh?

[night ember]

Blendshapes, scaling bones, material swapping

[misty ridge]

Do quest avatars support physbone physics in response to movement or gravity? Like jiggling when i walk or move or smth

[night ember]

Toggling shades for example
Blendshape that shrinks it into the head
Adding a single extra bone that is a child of the head so you can scale it down to 0
Material swap to make it invisible

[night ember]

I mean its the same physbone component as pc so why wouldnt it?

[glass geyser]

oh, ok then thanks. I want toggable accessories on my avatar like shoes and another things, but that would already mean more than 2 meshes, they're already decimated to be within 20k tris, but the whole thing I was stuck on was making them toggable

[misty ridge]

Idk the physbones do load and work on quest but they just dont respond to movement or gravity for some reason

[night ember]

If you already dont have a lot of bones I recommend doing that

However if its like weighted to multiple bones then do blendshapes

[ornate stump]

Do they even move at all? Sound like it got removed in quest because of excessive physbone count.

[misty ridge]

They do move when grabbed or touched in quest

[night ember]

Whats the settings

[desert elk]

i think blendshapes could work for simple accessories

[next yew]

how can i make an avatar do this but with a toggle and a gesture

laser beam

but the beam only activates when the toggle is active and u use a specfiic gesture

and maybe sound effect whenever the laaser beam occures if im feeling fancy

[fervent spear]

how do i make it so that when i speed up a dance the music speeds up as well? (i can speed up the dance using radial menu but the song stays the same

[ornate stump]

Try animate chaning in audio pitch.

[fervent spear]

hmm ok thankyou, ill try

[sullen nacelle]

Can someone help me understand why when I edit an avatar on Blender and re-import it to Unity, the bones on the hair just stretch out?

idk if theres something i can do to prevent this or if theres some addon i can add to fix this

[rustic prairie]

okay so!! ive been trying to fix this issue for 3 hours and i need help please 🥺
what I did that seems to be causing the issue is i created new blendshapes on this avatar im working on, which had been working fine previously, and when I exported the fbx into my unity project the avatar did this and I can no longer access any game menus

(the avatar is completed crumpled in on itself and inside of the ground in case this image is confusing af)

[ornate stump]

Your FBX export settings didn't match with how it previously exported.

[rustic prairie]

How do I find out what export settings I need to use? This is an edit of a free avatar I got

[night ember]

What you mean free avatar you got

[rustic prairie]

was a free avatar someone had on jinxxy that I made a custom edit of

?? xD

im just expressing that i did not make it from scratch so i dont know what the orig export settings are

[ornate stump]

One common mistake is that Apply Scalings in export menu must be set to FBX All.

[rustic prairie]

unfortunately I tried all 4 of the different apply scalings and they were all broken :/

[ornate stump]

If your model was unpacked in the scene then it won't get update correctly.

[fervent spear]

need some more help x(

[ornate stump]

Didn't you get my answer?

[fervent spear]

i did im just confused sorry

[rustic prairie]

lemme open the project back up, so do I just need to repack the model? however i do that ill probably figure it out

[ornate stump]

Then you have to ask the actual question.

[ornate stump]

You can't repack prefab.

[fervent spear]

wdym? i did before

[ornate stump]

That question has been answered.

[rustic prairie]

ahhh okay but I did this exact same thing on a different avatar, because Im adding the blendshapes necessary for MMD world lipsync compatibility and it had no issue and works fine

[bright carbon]

Hi! I was wondering if you any of you can Possibly help me on emission syncing? (Like avatar to 3d model emission syncing) it would really help thanks! 👋

[quartz shadow]

Npc ahh message

[ornate stump]

You could just share the same parameter to animate the hueshift for both object.

[bright carbon]

May i have an Example? Sorry im just getting into Avatar creation😅

[ornate stump]

How did you create the hueshift?

[bright carbon]

Well i didn't really make the Hueshift it self, I bought an avatar base and it came with emissions😅

Im a noobie sorry

[ornate stump]

You might have to learn fundamental of how avatar work so you could fully customize your avatar.

[bright carbon]

I kinda know the basics of avatars like toggles, material swaps, animations, This has been the only road block ive been on.

[night ember]

Just animate the hue in the material

[ornate stump]

That means you should be able to take a look at how the current emission shifter work. Then you use the same method to create hueshift for the other object.

[frail temple]

Anyone have any idea what could be causing this? After Atlasi'ng, for some reason some materials get alpha transparency when they shouldn't, even though in shading they aren't connected in Alpha to anything...

Normals are fine, everything else seems normal

I clicked and restarted each texture from Principle BSDF to a random shader back to principle BSDF, even went as far as removing all materials and putting them back manually..

[desert elk]

generally you should keep transparent materials separate

[frail temple]

that's what perplexes me, even when only atlasing seperately it still puts it on alpha...

[desert elk]

hm, i've never seen that happen before

does it look like that in unity too?

if no, i wouldn't worry about it

[frail temple]

Yeah, cause it's Alpha

it literally connects it on alpha JUST for two/three materials by themselves

a second ago when i was atlasing it refused to allow body textures, i swear none of this makes sense

[desert elk]

i think this is too complicated for me

sorry

[frail temple]

nah it's fine, i just realised if you atlas the transparent textures sepertely and cut the alpha link in shading for the non transparent atlas it fixes the problem automatically

Still, super weird. never encountered this problem on any of the other models... why would it specifically choose to include alpha for 2-3 specific textures? i'll never understand...

[left gull]

Is it possible to keep physbone movement on an item that's parent constrainted? im trying to make my weapon grabbable off my back but my parent constraint seems to remove all the physbone component's movement, is there a way to keep the movement or limit what the constraint blocks?

[timber wharf]

active constraint will always be a final one to decide the position, overwriting anything else. explain setup and what each of components used for

[buoyant thorn]

What is the limit of constraints on quest

[timber wharf]

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/avatar-performance-ranking-system/#mobile-avatar-component-limits

[left gull]

just a simple pickup toggle, did the same as what's in this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL9JmlpV79g&t=67s just swapped the hand it uses and to the Chest bone instead of Hip, im trying to just make the weapon have a slight jiggle when moving around like what ive currently got on the right

havent worked with constraints like ever so im not too sure if theres a better way to set up something like this

[timber wharf]

you probly want to have constrained part to be an empty parent, while mesh stuff under it has physbone

[cerulean flax]

I'm going to try making an avatar without experience on steam in one day... I have a list of how to do each step (hopefully my notes are right). Any advice?? Is there any experienced avatar maker who would be an angel and check my notes?

My plan basically

[buoyant thorn]

you know any reason why constraints just stop working when I have a lot I have under 150, I don't know whats happening

[nocturne tendon]

so in unity, how do I join the rigs and meshes together without messing up either animation?
It's really complicating doing it in unity with controllers and parameters and stuff

[desert elk]

You don't in unity. Meshes and armatures are merged in blender

[copper carbon]

anyone know why this is showing 2147483647
this is WAAAY above the actual triangle count (76,640)

[desert elk]

read and write isn't checked

there should be an auto fix for that in the warnings

[copper carbon]

oh okie thanks :3

[safe mesa]

I got it to work in unity, but it doesn't show up properly in game.
(2d Visemes)

Is anyone willing to help me resolve this issue?

[rich monolith]

Does anyone know why the avi's objects armature breaks on playmode?

[safe mesa]

Why is this not working someone please help

I am going to crash out

The layer's weight is set to 1

But it's not showing the animations correctly ingame

Someone please help

[desert elk]

how is it breaking?

[balmy barn]

using any state with 'can transition to self', can do wierd things disable it - if you have no shapekeys use lipsynch mode to viseme parameters only

blendtree exsample

[night ember]

theres a user support thread that already answered this

[queen nimbus]

Does anyone know why the tail clips through the body when walking slowly, even though I have colliders there?
And on top of that, it gets stuck because of the colliders when I stop moving forward.

[round comet]

You can just set the limit type to angle on your physbones if thats easier

Then adjust the number. The higher it is, the more movement, the lower it is, the less

[somber sequoia]

yeah use limits to prevent this

[desert elk]

yeah, limits would work better

[somber sequoia]

you could try setting the collision radius larger too, but I'd start with limits

[round comet]

Colliders screw with my sometimes so limits are great

Yes

[queen nimbus]

But wouldn’t that also limit movement to the left and right as well?

[somber sequoia]

yes

[queen nimbus]

:/

[somber sequoia]

or... you set it so it doesn't

[desert elk]

not necessarily

[somber sequoia]

i.e. using polar limits instead of simple angle

[round comet]

Just don’t have the number too low, and it won’t be an issue

[desert elk]

you can set it in a way that makes it look good

[somber sequoia]

And use a curve, so it's more limited at the base and less at the tip

[round comet]

Yours is super flowy so maybe try a limit (with angle) of like 20-30

The default it sets it to is 45

[queen nimbus]

I’ve never worked with limits before, only with colliders. And since I used the Chiffon tail, I just copied over the colliders from Chiffon, hoping it would work.

[round comet]

Yeahh, not always that easy! But limits are easy to find and not hard to use

Also it may be easier to test stuff if you add gesture mananger

Anyhow, just go into your physbone settings, find where it says “Limit Type” swap it from “None” to “Angle” and adjust as you please

Again, as I said, the higher the number, the more movement, the lower, the less.

It doesn’t butcher the bones or anything. They can still be as pretty and flowy as you want

[queen nimbus]

Thanks, everyone, for the motivation — I actually found a tab in mTailBone related to collider assignment, and it turned out the most important collider wasn’t even listed. I added it in there now (like it’s normally done with Chiffon), and now it works! 🙏🎉

[burnt briar]

Im trying to make an animation loop however when i set it to have a loop time it will only play 2 times in play mode. in the animation studio it will loop infinitely. any ideas?

[soft aurora]

Stuck on building avatar

[desert elk]

any alerts that need to be fixed?

[soft aurora]

not sure

found my issue

gesture manager was open

[desert elk]

oh yeah

that must've caused it

[viral raft]

Anyone got any ideas how I can make the mouth visemes less delayed? I love the look of them and im super proud of it but if im saying a long sentience, The mouth will hardly move till the end or just not move at all until after I say what I need to say

[pine valley]

Compare this to other avatars. It might just be the normal amount of latency.

you're capturing audio directly from your mic here, I'm guessing

[round comet]

Do you have vrchat face tracking on or anything

That can make a delay too, just locally

[viral raft]

I looked around in avatar search worlds for avatars with 2d faces, Majority didnt use the same method, they used planes i want able to find ones with the method I used

[viral raft]

No, I dont. My bank would cry at the thought of buying it

[pine valley]

3D would be fine too -- you just want to see if it takes a bit for the visemes to react

[round comet]

Noo the free built in one with vrchat plus HAHA

[viral raft]

Ooh, No I don't even have vrc+ lol, the tutorial I followed isn't like this. That's why im a little confused

I was just on desktop to test it out

[copper carbon]

thats vrc+ cus its in beta
we get early access :3
also ive tested it and its VERY obvious when used cus it moves head and hands too

anyway does anyone know how to disable visemes in an animator state
i tried the trackign control thing which ... did nothing

[pine valley]

Pretty sure that only affects humanoid animations affecting your jaw bone

[copper carbon]

=^=

[pine valley]

The viseme/flap-jaw/etc. stuff can't be controlled, afaik

[copper carbon]

soooo
what do i do then
cus mouth positions are making the face clip through the mask :P

[somber sequoia]

this will disable the vrchat-controlled viseme/jaw-flap stuff

[pine valley]

oh, yes, i should actually read the documentation

Setting Mouth and Jaw to Animation will disable visemes, and viseme parameters will stop being updated. Setting Mouth and Jaw will re-enable visemes and they will start updating again.

[copper carbon]

then why tf did it just not do anything

[round jolt]

Hey anyone who knows how to add the face tracking can help me with something small in call or smt its really small but I'm not really good at unity ,the avatar it selfs have the face tracking ready and everything but when I go to the gestrue manager I dont have all the options for the toggles of the face tracking

[viral raft]

Figured it out, in the animation layer I had 2 for the sil viseme so it was messing it up So I just deleted it and it worked fine

[pine valley]

assuming that your transitions have a non-zero duration and that "Allow Transition To Self" was off, that would have allowed it to constantly switch back and forth between the two silent states

which would add some delay, yeah

your transitions should be instant, though

[viral raft]

Yea once I removed it, it was instant swapping between visemes. Looks alot better now

Im finaly getting the hang of this lol

[lavish obsidian]

my avatar stuck in crouching pose in animation too how can i fix that too?

[copper carbon]

turns out it was just gesture manager being funky
works fine ingame

[somber sequoia]

pumkin's tools has a fix for this

[lavish obsidian]

it didn't fixed the animation

it just fixed the usual one

[somber sequoia]

I don't know what you mean?

do you mean that it automatically goes into that pose when you start editing or recording an animation?

'cause that is normal

[lavish obsidian]

no its going like that when i just press the play mode on the top

[somber sequoia]

ohh, are you using something like Gesture Manager or AV3 Emulator? If not, do so.

[lavish obsidian]

yea i did using it and then it bugged everything like that

[pine valley]

without using one of those tools, the state machine behaviours will do absolutely nothing

[somber sequoia]

you'll have to explain what "bugged" means

[lavish obsidian]

the pose i mean

[somber sequoia]

still, I have no idea what you mean by "bugged" unless you explain

[pine valley]

You need to show us exactly what is the problem is. I can't figure out what's wrong.

[round jolt]

idk what should i do

[pine valley]

Install the package.

You don't have the facetracking package installed, so the prefab is missing.

[lavish obsidian]

before that it was doing the T pose in both situations (i mean playing mode and normal) but something happened idk what exactly happened and it going to crouching pose and stuck like that after then i used pumpkin it fixed the normal situation but whenever i go the playing mode its just stuck in crouching pose

[pine valley]

If the avatar base came with face tracking installed, look at the install instructions

[round jolt]

I have cheacked the files is there when I play with the prefab a lil bit but wont upload do to weird issue

[pine valley]

Well, no, the files aren't there.

[somber sequoia]

Are you using GestureManager or AV3 Emulator?

[lavish obsidian]

gesture manager

[somber sequoia]

and it's enabled in the scene?

[lavish obsidian]

no

[somber sequoia]

then you are not using GestureManager.

simply having it installed in the project is not using it. This is your issue.

[pine valley]

None of these are prefabs.

[somber sequoia]

all those red things in the hierarchy there are also a problem

[pine valley]

I'm guessing that you need to install another package that gives you the face tracking prefabs.

Look at the instructions that came with your avatar.

[round jolt]

there is nothing for the face tracking I did everthing the avatar creator asked

[somber sequoia]

also not sure why you have the ears prefab twice

[round jolt]

this is what i meant when I said that if I played with the prefab everything is fine but wont upload

[somber sequoia]

possibly in your scene, those red prefabs are pointing at different versions than you have in the project

[round jolt]

the red things is stuff that the avatar files asked me to open

[somber sequoia]

I would delete all of those and redo the setup

the red things are missing prefabs, they are references to files which do not exist in your project

install the right ones, or delete those and add whatever it is you DO have in the project

[round jolt]

can you help me 🥹 im lost and stuck with this for 2 hours

[somber sequoia]

I have been helping you

[round jolt]

I know but im not really smart spically with unity

[pine valley]

Then the instructions are wrong, and you need to ask the avatar creator to fix them.

but there's a good chance you've just skipped a step

[somber sequoia]

Unity does require a bit of knowledge and learning, yes

[round jolt]

idk i tried to many times to redo everything but same result

[pine valley]

Given all of the missing prefabs, you've forgotten to install a VCC package or import a .unitypackage

[junior void]

if you need someone else to look over the instructions, then share the instructions

[round jolt]

There is someone that uploaded from the same files and she did it

[somber sequoia]

yeah without knowing what instructions/info you have, we're guessing here. And again, the VRCFT discord may be better.

none of this would likely be avatar-specific though

[round jolt]

okieee thank you guys 😢

ohhh i think i did it

I changed the prefab to vrcfury FT - ARkit Advance and it worked i think no errors

[grand talon]

can someone teach me how to do blendshapes? im completely new to avi editing btw

and youtube tutorials doesnt seem to do the trick for me

[granite ermine]

hey so I'm having an issue where my avatar isn't looking up when i look up in game, anybody run into this before?

[pine valley]

this is a very vague question

are you trying to solve a specific problem using blendshapes?

[pine valley]

Is it a humanoid-shaped model?

If so, you should make sure it actually got imported as Humanoid, not Generic

(although, you'd get no animations at all if that was the case)

[grand talon]

just dont want the hair to be clipping ahahha

[pine valley]

Blendshapes are created in an external program (probably Blender).

The rough idea is that you:

• add a new Shape Key
• select it
• go into Edit Mode and mess with the model

("Shape Key" is what Blender calls the concept -- most other things call them "Blendshapes")

[junior void]

hair not clipping doesnt sound like blendshapes are appropriate here

[grand talon]

i kinda need more in-depth help lmao- since this is a small edit on a bought avatar, so i dont rly have any clue how to import all of it into blender and all that

[pine valley]

you'd scrunch all of the hair under the hat with a shape key

[junior void]

fair enough i guess

but yea, blendshapes are made in blender.

[granite ermine]

yes and yes its set to humanoid and the arms, legs, chest n spine, move fine, just the head isnt rotating up or down

[grand talon]

^^

[pine valley]

Does rotating the neck and head bones in the editor correctly move the head?

[raw mason]

https://i.gyazo.com/7208affbe1a7cd475ecc544416813622.gif

having an issue with my radial wheel - in game it like "kicks" me out of it, i can still swap the 3 mats i have on it BUT it doesnt do it smoothly. not sure what i did wrong here, i had followed a tutorial and it all looks correct in unity

[granite ermine]

yup I was doing emotes with guesture manager and it all looks ok

[junior void]

your avatar is already an fbx file in unity. you want to open blender and select the fbx in the import screen

[pine valley]

I've seen similar behavior caused by an incorrect parameter name

[midnight dew]

Vrc SDK doesn't seem to want to work for me. I feel like ripping all my hair out haha...

[pine valley]

but that's not the case here

[raw mason]

let me double check real fast

[pine valley]

You will need to explain what your problem is

[grand talon]

welp does it automatically update if i put new assets onto it, when connecting it to the bones?

[pine valley]

Given that the face is changing, that's probably not the case

Oh, one thing -- make sure you haven't plugged the float parameter into the "Parameter" section of the control

Every control has a "Parameter" property. For Toggles, this is the parameter that gets toggled.

But for other control types, it's the parameter that gets set when you're using the control

[raw mason]

so like this? it was in both options before

[junior void]

In blender or unity? Generally youll want to overwrite the fbx when saving from blender into unity.

[pine valley]

Yeah, that was your issue

[raw mason]

okay ty lmao let me reupload it real fast

[midnight dew]

Unity doesn't give me any options for it except to reload it. I've looked up guides and tutorials and it all looks perfectly fine on those videos but I all get is 1 option and like 65 errors

[pine valley]

Correct. You should overwrite the existing model file. Unity will see that it has changed and reimport it.

[junior void]

Caution tho, you should use same export settings

[pine valley]

You need to show the actual error.

I don't know what you're talking about here.

[junior void]

Backup backup backup

[somber sequoia]

(also if the model prefab is unpacked, this won't work properly)

[grand talon]

see this is why i need more in-depth. 😭 english isnt my first language, and i also have never done anything like this before AND im still kinda new to unity and blender

[junior void]

All i can do is offer english and german

Im sure you can open blender tho

And click file -> import fbx and find your avi file

[grand talon]

yeah dude i know, but i still need the hat yk? thats the thing i wanna add

[junior void]

Then import the hat too

After that, we can talk again but you cant ask me to write a step by step guide on mobile keyboard

Ill be sitting here for hours if i did that lol

[grand talon]

i know

[novel narwhal]

i can select 2 platforms at once in unity, is it possible to upload both of the pc and quest avatar at once?

[midnight dew]

This is what I'm talking about. I'm not seeing any options like the Control Panel or utilities and I have all of these errors that I'm not sure is even related. I'm using a specific tool for this avatar and in the guide that came with it, none of these issues were mentioned or encountered, so I have no idea what I did to mess it all up

[pine valley]

Something is wrong with the packages in your project.

I've seen a few cases where one of Unity's packages is just...missing a file

notably, CreatePropertyAttribute is from a core engine module, so it's very weird to see that other Unity code can't find it

first thing to try: close the project, delete the Library folder, and reopen the project

the Library folder is in the root of your project, next to the Assets folder

[velvet junco]

arms break on import, even before selecting a rig, and yes i've applied rest pose in blender, any thoughts?

[native rampart]

why does the head go oblong?

[somber meadow]

Transforms aren't applied to the head mesh

[native rampart]

such an easy fix

[pseudo nest]

stupid question but i kinda want to do something like this as a flat thing on the floor any idea how too ?

[uncut lotus]

Anyone I kida learned this in Unity, you can while rigging things, can adjust the bones

[frosty summit]

how do you add material swap for eyes with vrcfury? I know how to do it for hair and such because you can select stuff like hair on the hierachy, but eyes don't appear there, so how does it work?

[pseudo nest]

sorta like a spreading miasma that disappears behind me

[uncut lotus]

Hold

[somber sequoia]

Fury is not relevant here. But if you can't "select" eyes then they perhaps don't have a separate material. So you'd have to figure out which material they are on, and deal with that somehow.

[frosty summit]

oh, thanks for the heads up about fury

noted

[uncut lotus]

Wolf link pfp spotted-

[somber sequoia]

sometimes thumbs are weird - in here you can adjust the rotation (almost never position) and maybe get it to be not red

[uncut lotus]

I was showing how you can adjust things in Unity.

[dreamy harness]

Anyone know how to fix this issue?

[timber wharf]

whatever 'vgc utility' is, it doesnt behave. it being in the assets instead of packages indicates it being quite old

[midnight dew]

Just tried this it didn't work

[pine valley]

If you create a new Avatars project, is it also busted?

I need to scram in a minute, so i'll just give the next step now --

if the new project is also broken, you'll want to clear Unity's global package cache

I've seen cases where one of the cached packages is just wrong

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/upm-cache.html

You'll delete the entire "upm" folder at the path given in that article

Also go ahead and delete the Library folder again, then reopen the project

That will make Unity redownload everything and reinstall all of the packages

[pine valley]

If the new project isn't busted, then...actually, i don't know what would cause that

[winter edge]

How do I get particles and lights to show up in mirrors?

[somber sequoia]

for particles the default is backface culling, so you'd need to turn that off

(the mirror shows the back-side)

[winter edge]

Like under rendering turn this to off? but not front?

[somber sequoia]

front means it'll cull the front and only show the back

so you probably want off here, though remember it's worse performance

[timber wharf]

@winter edge iirc it usually comes form being animated not on fx layer

[winter edge]

animated? You have to animate it specifically for mirrors?

[timber wharf]

no i mean, toggle for it

like, usually its not normal to have particles 24/7, theyre conditional

[rich monolith]

I link it to its bone and hit play mode and voilla, just becomes off centered

[feral isle]

Anyone able to help with this problem?

[somber sequoia]

paste the first 2-3 errors

[feral isle]

Paste in what way?

nvm all of those are gone, i just have a script i gotta remove, i will try to find it

[somber sequoia]

paste as in screencap somehow like you did, but always show the first few errors. Subsequent ones are often side-effects of the first.

but yeah if it's a missing script, there's the problem 🙂

[feral isle]

I got this now, looking for the script

[split sentinel]

trying to make a minecraft bow with a particle system but when the arrow hits the wall it resets to its original rotation

[wild needle]

how do I fix this??????????????????

[compact dust]

wat da hek

send an ss instead

[wild needle]

what?

[split sentinel]

screenshot

[compact dust]

where are those from

[midnight dew]

Not sure what I did, but I figured it out. Thanks for helping!

[wild needle]

idk whats causeing them but these are the errors

that keep showing up

I was able to upload avatars fine

but now for some reason i cant

[compact dust]

are those the top 3 errors

[wild needle]

theres 4

[compact dust]

blueprint ID you dont own

clear that if you havent already

[wild needle]

it is cleared

I thin

think*