avatar-help

[night ember]

Yes

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[spark walrus]

awww dang dont have blender or know how to use it

alrighty thanks!

thanks for eveyones help!

[night ember]

Still should probably say dont screenshot clearly visible nsfw content as its not that great of an idea

[ornate stump]

When moving the head you'd have to also move the head bone and eye bones from the FT one into the head bone of cloth one.

[barren wharf]

hmmmm how do i headswap

[spark walrus]

lol my bad yall

[ornate stump]

I just explained it.

[night ember]

Do whatever you want but not a great idea to publicly post it 👍

[barren wharf]

oh wait i see

[spark walrus]

you aight i aint trynna get banned

[night ember]

Fair

[ornate stump]

Also that avatar would already exceed size limit for quest without having to fix in blender anyway.

[night ember]

Thatd be an annoying problem to fix ye

[ornate stump]

Absolutely.

[night ember]

Its easier to add to the file size than remove from it

[lime rover]

Hello, does anyone know how I could configure one material to reflect another? This is a vtuber/vrchat model, so I was trying with MToon and Poiyomi but I couldn't find a solution. I want the skin to reflect the shadow of the hair

So if the hair moves, the shadow too, or I don't know if it's better to just draw the shadow directly on the texture even if it remains static

[night ember]

Recieve casted shadows in poiyomi

[spark walrus]

im still getting this problem when im trying to make my pc avi into quest

[night ember]

You need to use quest compatible shaders

[spark walrus]

how do i do that?

[night ember]

Also you need to somehow gut that avatar by another 21.68 mb

[night ember]

Change the shader of the material to a vrchat one

[spark walrus]

i dont know how

i did all them and i still got that in the end

[night ember]

You didnt do all of them then

[desert elk]

remember to check particles!

easy to miss

[spark walrus]

it has none surprisingly

[desert elk]

well you missed something

[gaunt sleet]

Hi, I just started and was wondering if blender is the only way to make an avatar? I was hoping I could create it in the game

[desert elk]

I believe questtools can help locating the material? I could be wrong though

[desert elk]

in VRChat? no

a different game, sure. VRoid for example

[spark walrus]

the other materials wont let mr

[night ember]

Then swap it out with one you can

[gaunt sleet]

Ok thank you, suppose I'll just have to figure it out lol

[desert elk]

you can convert to an fbx in blender later

[spark walrus]

i already did :-:

[desert elk]

its an easy way to start

[night ember]

You sure you did?

[spark walrus]

went to every folder and made sure

[night ember]

Check every mesh on the avatar

[midnight flame]

Hey, so I can't upload avatars yet because I'm new, but do I need some hours logged to even be able to test my custom avatars?

[lime rover]

I have been trying, but I still don't know how to configure it, I don't know which of each material I have to edit, or if the mesh is edited, or not

[night ember]

Just do it to all of them

[night ember]

Its not time based and idk if it counts for test uploads but you need to be at least new user on a vrchat account

[midnight flame]

Yeah, I get the warning even trying "Build and Test" instead of "Build and Publish"

so if it isn't time based, what is it?

[night ember]

Play the game

You cant just idle

[desert elk]

yeah, play the game, visit worlds, befriend people

afk time doesn't count

just have fun and you'll hit the rank soon

[untold minnow]

What does this mean? I can’t put humanoid animator on it

[ornate stump]

Enforce Tpose

[untold minnow]

Much appreciated brudda

[frail temple]

Make sure the ends of the fingers are selected in the animation rig, otherwise they're not gonna be functional

@untold minnow

[soft sentinel]

Does vrchat suppert .dds texture maps?

[ornate stump]

It's the matter of unity is able to import it or not. But dds can be imported but without any configuration which could pose problematic.

[soft sentinel]

So yes but it's a pain to get working proporly?

[ornate stump]

Maybe.

[untold minnow]

I will try this when I am home

Thank you

[frail temple]

Left and Right hand, don't forget

[untold minnow]

I won’t, thank you thank you

Screenshotting this just in case lol

[frail temple]

Anyone have any good vrchat avatar creation videos? i just hit this point and my brain stopped working

[winter edge]

Is it possible to make a toggle that turns on a bunch of params to trigger existing toggles?

[ornate stump]

Yes. Incoporate with parameter driver.

[nimble olive]

Hello there, need help with Rexouium. How to turn off idle breathing? i can't find anywhere. srceen shot that location where can turn off idle breathing?

[winter edge]

What’s a parameter driver. Is that the parameters on an animation?

[ornate stump]

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/state-behaviors#avatar-parameter-driver

[winter edge]

Thanks

[cold swift]

So everytime I try to upload an avatar to VRChat it says this in the console. 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.createnewavatar (system.string id, vrc.sdkbase.editor.api.vrcavatar data, system.string pathtobundle, system.string pathtoimage, system.action2[t1,t2] onprogress, system.threading.cancellationtoken cancellationtoken) (at ./packages/com.vrchat.base/editor/vrcsdk/dependencies/vrchat/api/vrcapi.cs:664)

Anyone know how to fix it?

[ornate stump]

Try using different thumbnail for the avatar. Or take image on empty part of the scene.

[cold swift]

ok thank you

[astral lark]

Anybody who knows more about constraints and rigging who might be able to lend a hand? Doing an avatar for a client and on that avatar is a flamethrower.

The cable connecting the back pack to the handle of the flamethrower is currently a separate mesh with roughly 20 bones starting from its origin point (bottom of back pack) and bends around to roughly the end position (handle).

I've also tried the cable just going straight down but more or less, my main issue is that I need to constrain the end of the cable to the flamethrower handle **without ** the bone with the constraint stretching insane lengths and not dragging the previous bones along with it. Just trying to get semi-realistic cable physics rly. I feel like I'm on the right track but this is new territory for me.

Thx

[ornate stump]

Physbone can't be used for linking between 2 points. You could try using ParentConstraint component to constraint each bone between 2 point, vary on the weight between point.

[cold swift]

it still isn't working..

[ornate stump]

Then you would have to get more information by enabling API Loggin in the sdk settings.

[astral lark]

Yeah should've mentioned I have a ParentConstraint on the last cable bone, with the source being the target bone. Assumed multiple components would hinder performance rating but I'll play around. Thx.

[ornate stump]

Physbone work independently from constraint. Physbone just do physics normally from head to tail, and it doesn't care wherever the tail is contrainted to.

[astral lark]

So it'll probably have to be a sort of faux-physics solution with no phys bones ig. Imma give it a go 🤙

[cold swift]

i enabled it and it says this [API] Request finished - result: StatusCode: 404, ReasonPhrase: 'Not Found', Version: 1.1, Content: System.Net.Http.StreamContent, Headers:
{
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2025 16:07:45 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
x-powered-by: Code that has passed an extremely laconic review process
x-vrc-api-group: green
x-vrc-api-version: master-build-2025-04-02-felix-i-grimefougasse
x-vrc-api-server: prod-api-green-she-qww
x-vrc-request-id: m91jurkp30sglam6
x-jobs: Like poking around our API? Come apply to work for us instead. https://vrchat.com/careers
Cache-Control: private, no-cache
vary: Authorization, Accept-Encoding
access-control-allow-credentials: true
x-frame-options: deny
CF-Cache-Status: BYPASS
pragma: no-cache
Server: cloudflare
CF-RAY: 92a9d21c9c3743b8-EWR
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 58
}
UnityEngine.Debug:Log (object,UnityEngine.Object)
VRC.Core.Logger:Log (string,string,UnityEngine.Object)
VRC.SDKBase.Editor.Api.VRCApi/<MakeRequestWithResponse>d__15`2<object, VRC.SDKBase.Editor.Api.VRCAvatar>:MoveNext () (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.base/Editor/VRCSDK/Dependencies/VRChat/API/VRCApi.cs:271)
UnityEngine.UnitySynchronizationContext:ExecuteTasks ()

[somber sequoia]

pro tip: triple back-quotes (```) will put stuff like this into a pre-formatted box:

this is code

anyway, looks like the usual timeouts, unfortunately. I do really like the x-jobs item though

[fervent crest]

I'm trying to set some customized parameters as the default on my new upload, but the debug screen is doing this. Is there a way to see the full parameter names? Like could I export this somehow?

[cunning swan]

quick question how do i make a particle with a texture not follow the camera and just keep the side it needs to be

[somber sequoia]

you can change the orientation in the particle render settings, make it something other than "billboard"

[mental estuary]

Use GestureManager to test and view the parameter values in Unity

[untold minnow]

why is unity not seeing my fingertip bones and why it it labeling the ball point as my fingertip bone? can anyone help?

[somber sequoia]

Unity doesn't really know about bone lengths, so this is basically correct. You may want a third bone in those

[untold minnow]

I see, thank you.

[somber sequoia]

And unless you actually use the leaf bones, you can disable those in the export dialog, under Armature

[still shuttle]

Im making a contact receiver with a slap sound effect
How do I only make it play that sound effect once if you hold ur hand in the receiver? Cuz atm if you place ur hand in the reciever and hold it there it loops the slap sound effect 😭

Loop time on the anims is turned off

[somber sequoia]

show your animation layer - it could be you have looping checked on the clip, or you're using an AnyState transform with "can transition to self" on

[still shuttle]

Yep it was the "can transition to self"

turned it off and it fixed it! Tysm!

[somber sequoia]

excellent - make sure that's off in most cases

it's a performance drain

[still shuttle]

Awesome thank you for the info!

[fervent crest]

theissue is they are in vrchat not unity

[somber sequoia]

how would that be the case?

[pulsar rain]

Hi, I am so sorry to bother you guys. I am relatively new with avatar stuff, and I was honestly just trying to edit up an avatar my friend used for their birthday, and I tried to give their model heterochromia. I changed the UV map on it using blender, and when I export the .fbx file back to unity, the ears and tail end up stretching like crazy? Is there a fix for this? I am somewhat familiar with both blender and unity, but I just feel like I am so lost with this...

Here's a picture that may help explain it better? I don't know, honestly... I hardly even edited the UV map on the file, just messed with the eyes, and all I did was move and shrink the UV map a bit, not change the actual model at all, so idk why its like this. Any help would be greatly appreciated, 'cus I am so lost. 😭

[somber sequoia]

possibly you exported the FBX with different settings than the previous export did

[pulsar rain]

What would be the best way to resolve that?

[somber sequoia]

export with teh correct settings. Possibly it's just setting "Apply Scalings" to FBX All

[pulsar rain]

Ah, okay! thank you! I'll see if that works for me, let me relaunch blender real fast.

Alrighty, it was set originally to local all, so I'll see if FBX all works better. Thank you again!

omg it worked thank you!

[somber sequoia]

oh good 🙂

[pulsar rain]

that saves me so much headache and struggle. youre a saint

[dapper lagoon]

Is it possible to set a point for a camera to mount on an avatar/get the avatar to track the head? I'm interested in getting a helmet camera POV

[full field]

How can i increase the range that my 3d audio plays at, its too small for what i want and i cant seem to get it to go further

[arctic ginkgo]

You can always put cameras on your avatar, and those can either replace your POV or be rendered to a texture. I'm not 100% sure how to do that because I haven't personally ever used it before but I know it's possible

This is also PC only

[dapper lagoon]

Intending to work with PC yeah, but what do you mean rendered to a texture? I remember hearing something about overlay shaders

[hybrid musk]

does anyone know how to make a model go invisible after it plays an emote toggle? I did make a invisible toggle that work by itself.

But I made an animation where the avatar digs down and he was supposed to go invisible after the animation ends, but nothing happens.

[patent geyser]

How do I find this pose and edit its animation or whatever its called? I want to turn some stuff off.

[dapper lagoon]

This is called a preview animation, and you should be able to find the animation in the Base Layer of your avatar

[patent geyser]

base layer?

[dapper lagoon]

In your playable layers

[patent geyser]

I found it but... there's blendshapes missing from the animation.

[dapper lagoon]

That's strange

You mean for the stuff you want to remove?

[patent geyser]

yeah

its a gogoloco default it seems idk

i dont know enough to change this

[dapper lagoon]

Do you have VRCFury installed? If so, you can add a Full Controller and create a new base layer with it
In other words, you can add another property that allows you to essentially have two base layers

[patent geyser]

found it, dont know what its linked to

[patent geyser]

i hate fury.

its required for the model

i dont know how to use it

I removed a material. deleted two of them.

how do i get rid of this purple section

[grand geyser]

One message removed from a suspended account.

One message removed from a suspended account.

[rocky grail]

replacing the face texture on my avi and when i go into play mode and check gesture manager the face texture goes back to the old one

[somber sequoia]

you can also simply remove the vertex in question from the weight group

[dapper lagoon]

your model was using the materials you deleted

[patent geyser]

oh well i give up then

[arctic ginkgo]

I mean like if you want to have the camera view show up on a screen

[keen igloo]

How do I setup a playable sound effect from the radial menu?

I know there's the "animator play audio' compnent but I don't see any way to connect it to a parameter

[meager mirage]

When I modify my avatar in unity, I can't find the VRChat SDK and I'm having trouble. What should I do?

Sorry for my poor English.

[left wharf]

show me folders under Packages(it's in the left in Project tab)

[bronze loom]

Would there be a way to create a toggle that turns on another toggle both being vrcfury? I have a dual sword i made and i have open hand gesture set to trigger a spin animation. Would there be a way to make the that toggleable so it doesn't do it every time i open my hand?

[left wharf]

hmm, i guess you created that project from UnityHub.
you should use VCC or ALCOM(unofficial) to create unity project for VRChat.

[meager mirage]

Thank you, I'll try it

[tight walrus]

Hey I’ve ran into an issue with an avatar I’ve uploaded where when I toggle a piece of clothing only I can see it remove off the avatar can anyone tell me the fix?

[prisma sedge]

Make sure you have the box for "Synced" checked

[uncut lotus]

How come when Im joinging stuff to the armature, it loos like this in the Hyarchy? Like, it shows 2 diffrent things, one being under the armature, and the other ting being outside of it?

[tight walrus]

It is

[desert elk]

just move the one out under the armature
idk why that happens, sometimes happens to me too, I just drag it over where it should be
cause it's basically like the same thing, idk how to explain it

[uncut lotus]

.... This litterally turned into one of those situations where things start working after you ask for help. I swear I treid that befoer. But ya, it works now, thanks

[remote tusk]

can anyone help me figure out how to change the name/bio of already uploaded avatars

im relitively new to avatar stuff

[desert elk]

just go to the sdk and change it and a button should appear that says "save" or something like that

[remote tusk]

where do i find the sdk? i downloaded the avatar sdk from the website but im not sure if thats it

[bleak ruin]

should I wait for these plugins to update before I update the SDK or should I be fine to go ahead and update the SDK?

[untold minnow]

I dont understand what the problem is, I enforce the t-pose but it wont stay?

[charred epoch]

So i was trying to upload a quest version of an avatar, and it gave me the error that i am trying to access vrcparentconstraint but it does not exist

[charred epoch]

Did you click apply, also the enforce t-pose dose not actually show on the avatar

[untold minnow]

I did apply it but when I exit configuring and save it reverts back to A pose

[charred epoch]

Weird

[untold minnow]

very

[desert elk]

if you made the project with VCC (creator companion) it will automatically be added

[bleak ruin]

https://vrchat.com/home/download

big button labled "download the creator companion"

https://vcc.docs.vrchat.com/ - creator companion docs

[meager mirage]

I tried the method you taught me.
But it didn't work and the result didn't change.
I am predicting that perhaps there is something wrong with the transition from vcc to unity.
What do you think about this?
If you find out anything, I would be very happy to hear from you.
Sorry for the long post.

[desert elk]

what are you doing now?
if you make a project in vcc and click "open" it should automatically open in unity

[left wharf]

Have you tried recreating the project(i) or just adding old project into VCC(ii)?
if (i), it should work...
but if (ii), it shouldn't work with VCC as far as I know. you need to recreating project from vcc, or use alcom and add VRChat SDK - Avatars

[meager mirage]

Despite the fact that they were opened in this order
I have not been able to proceed with anything.

[karmic basalt]

What are some ways to deal with this? preferably a method that doesn't consume too much time

Tried using vrc constrains, they didnt work too well as it probably needs amateur tweaking which would be too time consuming. I also tried parenting the bones but it just breaks the mesh. Haven't tried weight painting yet as I don't have too much experience with it so no idea where to begin with that

Any ideas?

[meager mirage]

The project was carried out in (i).

[left wharf]

[Japanese]
VCCのOpen Projectから開いたほうが混乱が少なくて良いですね(何も変化がないのはおそらく開いているプロジェクトがおそらく間違っているためです)
基本的にUnity Hubは触らなくて良いですよ〜

(それと、PC名やプロジェクトパスに半角英数字以外が含まれているとアップロードできないことがあるので、今のうちに直しておくことをおすすめします)

[meager mirage]

Thank you for taking the trouble to answer in Japanese!

[flat mortar]

hello! i’m looking for assistance on a private project for vrchat, i’m making a pair of models but im quite lost on the process behinds bones/how to parent them properly, ive never made a model before and all i have to do is rig the hair for these edited models ❤️ if anyone has any suggestions or advice thank you very much!

[static bough]

I add physbones to my model's hair, it shows up, but in playmode they go away and the hair doesnt move, but other physbones do. Any idea whats up>

its seemingly only doing it with the root bone, though

[somber sequoia]

It's just a weight painting issue. I'm not sure what you're referring to about parenting bones here, you should setup the armature fully before you weight paint anyway.

[karmic basalt]

My apologies, I realized that I worded that horribly

The amateur is already setup, the skirt has its own bones and it’s already weight painted

What I wanted to ask is if there is easy way to make it so the skirt bones move along with the legs

I parented the skirt bones to the right and left leg, unfortunate it made the stomach area fold inwards when the leg was extended forward, so that didn’t work, I also tried using VRC Constrains but they acted weirdly with this model

[somber sequoia]

yeah I've mostly done this with constraints and physbones... skirts are hard.

that one doesnt seem like it needs much in the way of physbones, so I'd just weight it to the legs

[karmic basalt]

Yeah, I thought this type of skirt would be much easier but it seems like I was wrong lmao

[somber sequoia]

none of them are easy 🙂

[karmic basalt]

Gotchu, I’m not really skilled at weight painting though , do you have any resources you would recommend ?

[somber sequoia]

practice

I mean, there's lots of videos? But really just moving bones around and painting, you'll start to get it

I definitely recommend using a pen tablet if you can.

[karmic basalt]

https://tenor.com/view/monkey-give-up-accept-fate-monkey-accept-fate-monkey-gif-2601277400290330104

Time to get the dust off mine

Thanks for the help

[somber sequoia]

haha yeah I literally dusted off mine when I started weight painting 🙂

[languid wyvern]

Been trying to get around this for a while. I reduced the size to 10mb, now this is what I'm facing

[candid elbow]

Hi, does anyone have the name of the site or tool that allows you to put any png (tatto) correctly and quickly on a base, thank you

[somber sequoia]

you can do that with any shader that supports decals

[candid elbow]

Yes, I know that, I just heard that a tool or site existed to put them in the right place by yourself.

To avoid spending 20 minutes on getting a tattoo placed correctly

[somber sequoia]

hmm not sure how it would put something in "the right place" when you'd have to tell it where that is anyway

[frank spruce]

Does anyone know why the precentage doesn't change at all? its only like this for a couple of the emotes and the rest are fine. Also three of the emotes don't stop after I turn them on

[somber sequoia]

you'd need to go see what this variable is doing in the animator. It could be two layers are trying to set the value at the same time

[candid elbow]

This is precisely the purpose of this tool, to put a png in the right place to indicate the body (the png, not the avatar itself). I only heard it, I don't know more, but thank you

Sorry if I speak badly, I'm not good at English.

[frank spruce]

How do I check that

[somber sequoia]

explore the animator, I have no idea what to tell you as I've never seen your specific one

[somber sequoia]

that's fascinating, I can't imagine how that actually works 🙂

[solar wasp]

I don't know what this means and I am kinda stuck lol

does anyone know how to fix this error

[bleak ruin]

is there a way to adjust the floor collider depending on the height of the shoes?

[candid elbow]

i have no idea

[frank spruce]

Anyone ???

I've messed with stuff and still have nothing

[placid mica]

Does anybody know how to get lines like this in-between items in the Unity heirarchy?

[arctic zodiac]

why is it doing this, i somehow fixed it before but i made a new project and dont remember what i did

[night ember]

Whered you get the avatar

[solar wasp]

nvm I figured it out it was a shader bug messing everything up

[rocky hazel]

Hello

I am losing my mind

I commissioned an avatar and keep trying to upload it

but it isnt working

keeps failing in build

[night ember]

Gonna show the errors?

[rocky hazel]

yes, sorry

Ive been at this four four hours so im frazzled

I dont know what im doing wrong

[night ember]

Show the entire console

[clever magnet]

hey guys! if anyones free atm. i uploaded an avatar for pc and quest and used vrcfury for some toggles and dont think they synced up, so when i toggle something on the pc version doesnt show on quest, and vise versa. if someone is free atm please dm me so i can maybe screen share and just show. cause i learn better when shown and guided rather than told. which is why im here. youtube was no help.

[modern totem]

click the white ! box in the top right of the console, it will hide those ones im pretty sure, they arent very important usually, look for the yellow and red ones

[night ember]

You have 176 errors

[rocky hazel]

I have never done this before

I am trying

I keep following tutorials I dont understand, so I started over

[clever magnet]

anyone??

[night ember]

You have missing scripts whered you get the avatar

[rocky hazel]

It was a comission

[modern totem]

looks like theres assets the person you comissioned didnt give you thats why its breaking

they might not be able to give you said assets depending on the actual terms of those assets i think? not sure

[rocky hazel]

they actually gave me all of these

The tutorials only showed dragging this thing though

[modern totem]

unzip and add all the assets they shared, they should be unitypackages as well

[modern totem]

im unfortunately not available to voice otherwise id try even if i might not be able to actually help, sorry

[clever magnet]

that's fine.

do you know how to sync up/make parameters. cause i really want this to work on both sides

the cheek floof works on pc but not on quest when toggled on pc. but when its toggled on quest, its not toggled on pc.

[night ember]

Use the same parameter list on both platforms

[clever magnet]

yea heres the thing. there arent any params for those

[night ember]

It needs to be the exact same parameter list

[clever magnet]

i know

but said parameters dont exist

[night ember]

How are you toggling them without parameters

[clever magnet]

vrcfury

idk

[night ember]

Your first mistake is using fury without knowing how to actually make them to begin with

[clever magnet]

toggles?

i mean, isnt that what fury is for? to help and simplify

[modern totem]

if you're new to avatars, honestly what id suggest is finding a free avatar and looking at how things work, delete things and see how it breaks, mess with values, click boxes, just mess with it and see what you can glean from that, you probably already have it but just incase not, use gesture manager, that allows you to test gestures in unity and forces the avatar to mostly work the way it will once you upload it (make sure you only have 1 avatar active when you use it or it might select the wrong avatar or get confused)

always keep fresh zip files of project files so if you need to you can nuke things completely and start fresh

[clever magnet]

i do use gesture manager. been using it since i started (nearly 7 months now)

[modern totem]

oh okay

my bad

[clever magnet]

im just trying to figure out how to sync up paramters that dont exist so my toggles work both ways. thats all

[clever magnet]

dont worry about it at all

[modern totem]

ill be honest and think its a bit out of my wheel house as well unfortunately, wish i could help :/

havent really messed with them all that much

[clever magnet]

awhh alrighty

[modern totem]

https://vrc.school/docs/Avatars/Expressions-Menu-Params/

this may help?

theres a few other things about parameters on there so look around on that site

[clever magnet]

i think i had a brain fart moment and figured out something that i should've seen... now i feel dumb lol

there legit a while param list called "vrcfury params"

[modern totem]

gesture manager? i ignore those, they should fix if/when you upload i think

grr.. default emotes only.....

[rocky hazel]

I forgot Vrfury

that was the issue

thanks for everything though fellows

[vague breach]

Packages\vrchat.blackstartx.gesture-manager\Scripts\Editor\Modules\Vrc3\Tools\AvatarTools.cs(254,67): error CS0012: The type 'float3' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced. You must add a reference to assembly 'Unity.Mathematics, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'.

heeelp

[sage dragon]

i keep getting this error even if i do my prefabs on vcfurry

[teal field]

how do i connect these two parts so the leg doesnt separate when its up?

[junior void]

Either make sure the edges have the exact same weight and keep the gap or stitch the mesh and smooth the weights there a bit.

[inland seal]

Go to edit mode in blender and click on the bone image

Then parent it to the bone

Or check weight paint

The easiest way is to select armature and parent it with premade weight paints

[languid wyvern]

I mean, can anyone help?

[left gull]

gotta make you model size smaller so like remove some stuff from the model, lower texture size, remove unused blendshapes etc

you can use thry's avatar performance tools to find out what part of the model is taking up the most space for a better idea at what needs to be fixed to lower your models size

[languid wyvern]

I mean, I did all that but it's still stuck with that. I even went ahead deleting some assets

[languid wyvern]

Kk

[idle pawn]

henlow ! i have an issue that idk how to fix, does anyone knows where this issue might come from ?

that's the quest version btw

[desert elk]

i'd assume something with the weight painting is wrong

[idle pawn]

that's what i was thinking, thank you for the second opinion!

[timid kite]

any idea on how id make a phone prefab for an avatar that would have a youtube option so i can watch videos on it? vrcfury and osc maybe?

[night ember]

not possible

videoplayers are world only

[timid kite]

please if u dont know just dont respond. thank you. i know its possible.

[balmy barn]

its not

[night ember]

no its not?

[balmy barn]

you can fake stuff with spritesheet & certain shaders + audio , but its not a url to a video

[night ember]

the closest you get to watching youtube is putting a video you converted to a sprite sheet in poiyomi and then had an audio component at the same time

there is no possible way to just load up a video onto the avatar

[somber sequoia]

you can actually put the display of a world video player onto an avatar material though, but that requires both setup properly ahead of time.

[night ember]

Which is not what the person is wanting

[night ember]

Please if you dont know how avatars work dont be outright dismissive if someone says its not possible

[placid mica]

I am trying to make a toggle for ear and tail animations, but no matter what I do I'm not able to get them to toggle off. I want to spawn with the animations enabled and be able to toggle them off. Why is this not working?
Same thing is happening with the ear animation, but for the video I'm just showing the tail.

[somber sequoia]

nope, it's not, but it and what you suggested are the closest you can get

[night ember]

[night ember]

Is the animation also in the base layer since thats where they are stored when you create them

[somber sequoia]

Watch the animator rather than the model when you're testing with GestureManager - you want to see what's happening there.

[placid mica]

Yes

I think?

[placid mica]

What exactly am I supposed to be seeing there?

[somber sequoia]

watch to see if the state transitions work as you expect, make sure the correct state is active when you think it should be.

[placid mica]

Uhhhh

I don't see anything different

[somber sequoia]

I wasn't suggesting anything different just that you should verify things work how you expect there, to eliminate logic issues as the cause.

[night ember]

If it is and is currenrly the default state in it then itll not toggle when you switch away from it in another layer

[placid mica]

I am so confused

[placid mica]

I don't know what I'm suppost to be expecting, though. Is there something visual that is supposed to be happening in the animator?

[night ember]

You should see the transitions changing

[somber sequoia]

that.

[timid kite]

i cant find a tutorial on how to change default spawn and afk animations, please help

[placid mica]

I don't see anything happening

[somber sequoia]

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/playable-layers/
Some detail here. The SDK includes sample animators for these layers too.

[timid kite]

anything more digestable?

[night ember]

So it isnt transitioning?

[somber sequoia]

sorry, this works for me, I don't know what would for you and have no other references available.

[placid mica]

No, if there's supposed to be something visual, it's all static

[night ember]

Does the layer have a weight of 1
Is the parameter named exactly the same
Are you meeting the conditions to transition

[placid mica]

Yes, yes, and ..yess? It's just a toggle condition, so I don't see why it wouldn't work

[somber sequoia]

I don't use GM - do you have to make sure it's debugging the FX animator before this works? You do with AV3 Emulator

[placid mica]

Weight, params, and conditions

[distant summit]

so.... the physbones on my avatar have ceased functioning out of nowhere

[desert elk]

pc or quest?

if quest and you have more than 8 components that's normal

cause if you have more than 8 all of them will get deleted

[distant summit]

PC

the weird thing is that it works in unity, but not vrchat, and it was LITERALLY working this morning

[glass condor]

Quick question, do we need the Avatar 3.0 Manager? Because the VRC SDK Avatars and VRC SDK Base both updated, and adding the Avatar 3.0 Manager would force them to DOWNGRADE. Does that mean that the 3.0 Manager is defunct now...?

[somber sequoia]

it may just mean that it's not quite as up to date as the brand new SDK release is.

you don't need it unless you actually use it

hmm I seem to have SDK 3.8 and AV3Manager 2.0.34, literally just installed both in the past 10 minutes

[distant summit]

still trying to find the cause of why all of my physbones act like they're disabled when they're not

ok FINALLY got them working again. had to go back to 3.7.4 for some reason. going back one version to 3.7.6 didn't fix it

[wind iron]

ive seen some avatars have a low fps toggle where you can customize how choppy your movement is how do people do that??

[night ember]

constraints

[winter edge]

How do people trigger sounds / animations when they disconnect from the instance?

[somber sequoia]

ideally don't 🙂

but also there's no event you get into an avatar for "leaving", so you'd have to trigger it manually

[mental estuary]

You can use VRCOSC and listen for when these parameters become true in the ClientInfo module

[somber sequoia]

does that happen before you leave though?

[mental estuary]

Yup

[somber sequoia]

huh neat

[mental estuary]

It uses the log event that happens right when you click the join instance button, and then there's a few seconds while you fade out that you can still play animations

[somber sequoia]

ahhh

[near cape]

just wondering but how do i add like trails to my props
example if i have a sword and i wanna add like a cool ass trail on it, what do i do?

[somber sequoia]

trail renderer, or perhaps a particle system with trails

[willow carbon]

Hello.
I recently installed an avatar liedown/sleep pose system known as RBS SuiminSystem 2.

It doesn't seem to work at all with GoGoLoco being in my avatar.
Is there a possible workaround or a way to prevent both from conflicting? They both do change poses on the avatar..

[signal meteor]

can anyone tell me what is wrong with my springtrap

my friend added the shoulders because the avi did not have them. i cant' use blender

[somber sequoia]

you seem to have right arm bones in the left arm bones slots

or maybe not - I can't read the full names of those, but it has a _r on it

either way can't really tell enough from that image

[willow carbon]

I'm thinking that the GoGo's base animator that merges with the avatar will conflict with the Suimin one

[somber sequoia]

yeah most likely

[signal meteor]

i am changing it

i can't.. change the name in unity???

i tried in this mode and the scene

update

fixed the hands somehow but now..

why

[desert elk]

you need to have a chest bone and have it mapped, you don't currently

you only have hips and spine

you need chest

[signal meteor]

he has it

i was just messing diffferent combos

i am trying to change the L AND R name because they are reversed in the bones

[desert elk]

okay, I just pointed out a mistake I saw on the most recent screenshot

[signal meteor]

and they keep going back to their original names

i don't know why

in rig configure mode

[desert elk]

you don't really rename bones in unity, I don't think so
and idk why you'd need to

[signal meteor]

somoene told me it's messed up because of that

the right is in the left named and reverse

[desert elk]

naming doesn't matter, the order does and the mapping in the rig config

[signal meteor]

well the thing is , he has all his bones

[desert elk]

it's more confusing

but that wouldn't break it

[signal meteor]

and its pissing me off :(

ikr

[light charm]

you can't rename bones inside of unity (also hi luci!)

[signal meteor]

oH ***** .....

WELL... since naming does not matter

then what do i do?

he seems to be well mapped

[desert elk]

honestly I can just show you a screenshot of a correct bone set up, cause you have a lot of bones and I'm not sure what most of them is for

[somber sequoia]

there's one pinned in #avatar-rigging

[desert elk]

or that

[signal meteor]

can i dm the unity project to anyone?

[desert elk]

i keep forgetting that channel is a thing xd

no

[signal meteor]

please. i am not asking for a re rig or something

[desert elk]

and don't offer DMs here cause you'll get a ton of scammers

[signal meteor]

well i have no money just asking for sending the unity project

all they get is a unity project

[bleak ruin]

Is it okay that these red spheres are this far away from the avi? Also the blue sphere doesn't move when I drag the avatar around

[signal meteor]

so they can tell me what is wrong and if it's not so much, fix it

[somber sequoia]

The red ones are IK targets, you can ignore them. And yes, they should be right there.

[bleak ruin]

gotcha. Is the blue sphere supposed to move with the avi? from my understanding it's the center of mass

er, mass center

[keen igloo]

How do you setup an avatar prop that has a secondary hold point to aim it around?

Like so

[somber sequoia]

I love the cave drawing style there

[desert elk]

wouldn't it just be two different props?

[keen igloo]

The idea is it'd have a second grab point higher up yo ucan hold onto with the other hand

[desert elk]

ahh

I misunderstood

[keen igloo]

I know I've seen some stuff around that has it

I just don't know what kind of keywords to search for to find out how to do it

[somber sequoia]

iirc two contact receivers, each that triggers a specific parent constraint

[light ravine]

i found a video on that a bit back if i can find it

[keen igloo]

Ah, and how convenient they added a built in constraint that quest can use now too

[somber sequoia]

indeed!

I have a free avatar that has such a thing, I used it as a reference, I can try to find that though

ah, found it - mind a DM?

[left basin]

yoo can i get some help with an avatar?

[somber sequoia]

just ask your questions

[left basin]

i need help uploading an avatar but its old apparently idk what im doing with this particular avi

idk how to explain it tbh i would rather show it to whom ever is willing to help me

[keen igloo]

Sorry bout the delayed response, reallife adruptly butted in. And ye that'd be fine!

[somber sequoia]

so inconvenient!

[vestal yew]

I'm going to ask an incredibly stupid question, sorry. I'm learning unity specifically to add a gun (the model has multiple parts) which is interactable (rack the slide, etc) and none of the videos I've found seem to quite explain how to make those parts grabbable. Or rather they do, but that doesn't work, so I must be doing something wrong.

So for example I attached it to the hand and added a VRCFury toggle to the entire gun (this part works great) and a VRC Phys Bone (Script) based on the only gun animation video I've been able to find. Would post a screenshot but I guess that's blocked here, but essentially the slide isn't grabbable.

I suspect I've gone completely down the wrong path and hoping someone can just point me in the right direction of what to actually start with for an interactable object.

[unborn sail]

hey, my friend was trying to unlock a shader then their unity crash and now trying to open the project gives these errors, any ideas on how to fix?

[arctic zodiac]

how do i fix this? this is just with a booth model i bought. i somehow fixed this before but its doing it again on a new project.

i fixed this before by hitting the run migration button with liltoon but its doing nothing this time

[somber sequoia]

you don't actually need to

but you can check "legacy blendshape normals" in the inspector for the model file, or pick the appropriate option for importing your normal blendshapes

[civic hornet]

I... I don't understand whats going on here. I got the new sdk update, and I can no longer upload to quest as according to the unity editor, I don't have the module installed. but I.. do have it installed according to the unity hub..? what am I supposed to do?

I need to upload avatars to quest. but I cannot do that if this issue persists!

[arctic zodiac]

Legacy blend Shapes Normals is already checked and im not even sure what the appropiate option for importing would be

[somber sequoia]

it doesn't matter if you have that box checked

[arctic zodiac]

sorry i dont understand then

it shows up messed up like this when uploaded too so its not really just fixing itself magically

[somber sequoia]

oh? what's actually messed up?

[arctic zodiac]

her skin is stretching like this

[bleak ruin]

that's a bone issue

[somber sequoia]

that looks like weight painting errors

[bleak ruin]

if you delete a bone you get issues like that

[arctic zodiac]

this is imported as is from booth and i know its worked before so im not sure whats causing it

is there any way to fix it in unity?

[somber sequoia]

no

[bleak ruin]

Have you changed anything after dropping your prefab in?

anything at all

[somber sequoia]

well probably not - it's not clear what the actual problem is.

[arctic zodiac]

no this is a fresh project and after moving the prefab into the hierachy is just Looks like this

[bleak ruin]

drop the fbx into the hierarchy and see if it also looks like that

If it does then it's a blender issue. If not then the avi creator messed up when making the prefab

[somber sequoia]

oh is the model inside a prefab?

[bleak ruin]

no idea, just a shot in the dark

hopefully that's all it is and the fbx is fine

[arctic zodiac]

yeah its the same

i know this worked in the older versions of unity but im just trying to fix this in 2022 because i got it fixed once and now im just confused

[bleak ruin]

how old is the avi?

that might be the problem

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure why unity version matters here

[bleak ruin]

db vs pb

could be a conversion error

if it's deleting an entire bone isntead of just the component

something like that idk

[arctic zodiac]

the version i have is from 2023/3/31

[bleak ruin]

oh yeah then that would be fine

that's still unity 2022

no issue there

[arctic zodiac]

and its also the most recent version

[bleak ruin]

Does the booth download page have multiple versions of the avi?

[arctic zodiac]

did vrc use 2022 in 2023? i know its been on 2019 for awhile

[bleak ruin]

if so try an older one

uh, vrc is on 2022 right now

[arctic zodiac]

yeah thats the version im using

[bleak ruin]

still, 2019 to 2022 wouldn't be an issue

would only be like way older. I import avis from 21/22 quite a lot

a 2023 should be fine

[arctic zodiac]

its only got the most recent version avaliable

[bleak ruin]

hmm... yeah I dunno. that seems like quite the oversight by the creator

and it's obvious when looking at the model

[arctic zodiac]

idk maybe my download got fucked up? i'll try redownloading it and see if it magically fixes

[bleak ruin]

redownload, new project, only import the sdk

[arctic zodiac]

2023/3/31
Fixed bug that breaks body_2 mesh in Unity2021

is on the patch notes so uhhh

sounds maybe like my problem

good news im not that crazy i did already have the most recent version

[bleak ruin]

were you not using that version just now?

[arctic zodiac]

no i was

the (1) shows i already downloaded this

[bleak ruin]

ah I see what you mean

[somber sequoia]

ooh a patch note, very nice

[arctic zodiac]

????????????????????????????????????

okay i think i might understand what happened

i put the updated files in my old file

and it got fucked somewhere idk thats the only thing i can think of cuz im positive i did download anduse the recent version i apologize 😭

[bleak ruin]

oh yeah, sometimes importing an fbx over an old one can cause issues. Especially if there's an armature change

[arctic zodiac]

thank you regardless talking through the issue got us there 💖 appreciate it

[bleak ruin]

mhm

so, question. I have an animator that adjusts the body position and floor collider on switching to/from high heels. It works in the editor animator and in play mode using gesture manager. But not ingame. Is there no way to adjust the ground offset in vrc?

[spark walrus]

does anyone know why my validations keep disapearing?

[static harbor]

does anyone know how to fix this i wanted to put the picture in osc but it wouldnt let me as i believed it would be better to show than describe it as im trying to use the osc leash system but because of this the tail wont work even using my friends config and same settings for both unity and application

[wind pelican]

heyy im having some issues with the 23mink's male head i cant find discussed anywhere
ive attached the head to a body, but when any animation plays on the model in unity (including the "bike pose") the head mesh will rotate backwards and be looking straight up.
the head bone is unaffected, it's literally just the mesh
all transforms are applied, everything named properly (nothing named 'head'), it's properly weight painted and it moves properly in blender and outside of play mode in unity
i haven't had this issue with any other model and it's infuriating 😭

[spark walrus]

does anyone know what to do here? my validations are gone completly, i dont understand my consol errors, ive reloded my sdk and restarted unity im beying lost

[bleak ruin]

object referencing another object that doesn't exist? never seen that one before

[stone delta]

Why does my unity break every time I restart it, nothing will rotate or nothing, just completely breaks?

[remote osprey]

So I'm struggling to find the said Shader in my unity project,
I've went through every asset and changed it into a supported shader just trying to get rid of the message however it's still appearing.
Is there a way to check hidden materials on an avatar? When I press "Select" it just selects the whole avatar and not any asset.

[somber sequoia]

check particle systems, check materials swapped in via animation

[remote osprey]

Thank you so much! I found it!

[timid kite]

after using certain tools my avatar's arms are a bit jittery. i removed the tool and its effects but the effect is still there. its definitely something about the descriptor so maybe parameters? how would i fix this?

[copper kernel]

Yo, so I'm uploading a bunch of avatars at once cause i usually put off uploading even after I've bought them, but my email is only sending the same code over and over that wont work.

[somber sequoia]

it's time based, they usually rotate in a minute

[timid kite]

how is this possible? wouldnt uncompressed be larger than texture memory?

[slim fern]

im trying to upload an avi but i know next to nothing about Unity and im getting this error. can anyone help me please?

[twin raft]

texture memory is not relevant to download size

just how gpu's read the format

[timid kite]

does that mean uncompressed size is different for different people?

[twin raft]

no

[wooden nova]

so what constraints would i use to make this tube move with the arm

as one end is parented with the spine and i cant parent the other end

and im hoping the constraints would also be quest compatible

[ornate stump]

Constraint component can be constrainted to one and more point. So put source for hand and spine.

[onyx gale]

how do i change what my avatars hidden state looks like? (The state that shows when calibrating in fullbody, or when someone has your avatar hidden either manually or through safty settings (shield) )

[ornate stump]

It's the default state as you set in unity.

[west magnet]

I was trying to keyframe the emission of a material to change with a float value but it won't let me, I've done it before but for some reason its not letting me now

It seems to be because it wasnt set to realtime

[ornate stump]

The Info means some properties are being controlled by animation. You should screenshot entire unity window to provide more clue.

[west magnet]

I figured it out, it was just because the global illumination wasn't set to realtime, cause I extracted the materials

[untold minnow]

What is my avatars problem, it says it’s not in tpose but when I apply and close it is a shitty apparently

[wooden nova]

idk which ones though as idk what each one does

[ornate stump]

It works as there name suggested. You could also do experiment on them to learn their functions.

[full furnace]

Hi. I just got a bunch of new textures for my avatar, but I have no idea how to apply them 😅 There is no manual in the readme file>

They looks like this. Any idea?

[ornate stump]

You just need to replace texture in the material asset. You could access by selecting material asset file, or select your model in the scene.

[spice stag]

Any way for me to fix this? 🤔
(Model is Moe by kyubihome)

It's a thing in the chest area as well, me and a friend of mine just don't know how to fix it. We're using Unity 2022.

[balmy barn]

looks like a blendshape, the mesh shrinks vertices to avoid clipping (quest thing) have to check them if they are set to 100 on the mesh

[slim fern]

so im trying to upload an avi and whenever i hit upload and build. the bar is stuck at zero and nothing happens. this is my guess at why it wont work. however i have no idea how to fix this as i know next to nothing about unity

[spice stag]

How do I do that? 🤔

[desert elk]

click the mesh, in the inspector locate blendshapes, and look there

[ornate stump]

That isn't the reason.

[slim fern]

then i have no cue

clue

because i just uploaded a different avi and it uploaded fine once i fixed all the issues unity had lol

but this one just wont upload

[ornate stump]

Might have to look in unirt console for error

[void socket]

Can someone help me? I'm trying to learn how to anchor accessories

I got the tails to work but now they don't flow

[ornate stump]

What actually work to what extent?

[void socket]

It works unless if i use gogoloco

[ornate stump]

Working means as in having physic?

[void socket]

Yeah. Flowing. And following me when I sit down. The tail follows. But it doesn't move anymore. And the hands just stay in the air when I use gogoloco

[spice stag]

& @balmy barn
Thank yooou! ❤️

[ornate stump]

Does the DEVIL's GAZE object always have red text?

[void socket]

No

[ornate stump]

Is it red now?

[void socket]

Nope

[neon root]

Ok. . So. Before I end up making a whole anime fighting scene with unity. PLEASE. Tell me why this isn't parenting to what I want it to parent to?

Bc every time I do parent it to what it wants me to it goes back to how it was. So I'm just lost. .

[ornate stump]

Does the Gogoloco require you to add Proxy Controller?

[void socket]

I don't think so

[desert elk]

the eyes should be parented to the head bone, currently it's the neck bone. You need to fix that in blender, not unity

I'd suggest going back to blender and reparenting it properly, and disable leaf bones in export settings

[ornate stump]

Look into folder that contains gogologo vrcfury prefab file and screenshot.

[neon root]

Is that in blender or unity? (The leaf bone thing)

[desert elk]

blender

when you click export fbx

under armature on the left

untick leaf bones

cause you don't really need them

the 3rd one here

[neon root]

Alr!

[rocky grail]

My body texture saves but my face texture doesn’t please help 🥲

[ornate stump]

Provide screenshot of what you're talking about.

[amber gull]

any idea how can i fix this error please?

[ornate stump]

#avatar-help message

[amber gull]

thanks !

[untold minnow]

How can I fix this issue? When I try to enforce Tpose it doesn’t stay when I click apply and just reverts back to A pose?

[north geyser]

oh good lord this is so bad how do you people design things??? (reference img second pic)

[ornate stump]

Hit Done to return back and see if there is error on Rig selection menu.

[mental flare]

yellów

[untold minnow]

this?

[ornate stump]

There's the reason.

[untold minnow]

I dont understand it

can you perhaps simplify it?

[ornate stump]

You had a mesh named Neck, you also had a bone named Neck. You can't have object with the same name within a fbx file.

[untold minnow]

Ah I see

thhank you

[mental flare]

trying to export file to unity package but it doesn't want to work, do i do it in a special program or in unity itself?

looked pretty much everywhere online and i see no hint

[desert elk]

what does "doesn't work" mean?

[mental flare]

can't find a way to

[ornate stump]

Your description is too broad for anyone to understand. Try eraborate more thoroughly.

Also provide screenshot.

[mental flare]

hmmm, okay

bought a skin on booth, downloaded it as a zip file, now i need to find a way to make it into a unity package so i can put it into unity

[ornate stump]

Do you see content of zip file?

[mental flare]

you mean that i can go into the file and browse the content in it?

[ornate stump]

Of course that's the standard procedure for any zip file.

[mental flare]

ok, yes i can

[ornate stump]

What does it contain? Also screenshot.

[mental flare]

it contains all the parts of the avatar

[ornate stump]

That's a really old avatar.

[mental flare]

ahh ****, is that it?

[ornate stump]

See the year. 2020 isn't it?

[mental flare]

it goes to 2021

the normal one

[ornate stump]

This doesn't look like a preconfigure avatar so you will have to setup all the part yourself.

Those file you have to just import into your unity project.

[mental flare]

oh wait no, the release date is 2018 even

1 by 1?

[ornate stump]

Do you know multi selection?

[mental flare]

on unity on files?

well i know on files

[ornate stump]

Just anywhere.

Multi selection is almost universal for every app.

[mental flare]

don't really know how to multi select on unity

well u can't drag a box atleast

[ornate stump]

You know the modifier key? Hold Ctrl or Shift and click select.

[mental flare]

ooooooo

[ornate stump]

That's also universal.

[mental flare]

oooooo woooah

doood

ok but so i just drag the avatar parts into unity then?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[balmy barn]

is it this one https://booth.pm/ja/items/954376 , seen a few variants of it

it has a scene

[mental flare]

where do i drag it? cus when i drag it into assets it just shows a stop symbol

[ornate stump]

If it's still contains in zip file then you have to extract to somewhere else first. Or just extract directly to your project folder in file explorer.

[mental flare]

extracted the zip file and just took me to the file folder

[ornate stump]

Just drag that into unity asset.

[mental flare]

ahhh okay

now i just export that file?

[ornate stump]

Why export?

[mental flare]

to a unity package so i can put it in the avatar list

sorry, bit unspesific

now ive only got it in unity assets

gotta get it to the avatar file

[ornate stump]

You must be misunderstanding. Avatar is built and uploaded within unity. Unitypackage is just a package for transfering file between unity project.

[mental flare]

ooooh noooooooooo

well 2 hours aint nuttn

[mental flare]

how do i get it into avatar files?

[ornate stump]

There is no "files". The sdk buid and upload the avatar for you. Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRAnDMUbWt8

[mental flare]

starting to understand, going through it now

[stark hedge]

Does someone know what the issue might be here? im at a roadblock

[mental flare]

thank you so much for your help, i nearly burned myself out with this, you really did save me like 3 hours

[hexed flame]

I just uploaded my avatar into the game and it looks like this ingame

What on earth is happening o.O

[ornate stump]

What even is wrong with it? The light?

[hexed flame]

Well, yes and also my game is now in third person lol

I'm on desktop

[ornate stump]

You had camera object and light included in your avatar.

[hexed flame]

OHH

Did I copy that from blender? Smh

[ornate stump]

You did.

[hexed flame]

Ahhh I just saw it in my hierarchy now, thank you

[unique surge]

no one running into this with gesture manager?
unclearable error. i mean just for play mode i don't mind play mode-ing with old SDK..

couldn't get it working since 3.7.7 beta, 3.8 same issue

[somber sequoia]

Yeah GM has a patch on the github that works with this change, or you can downgrade the SDK to pre-3.7.7 beta

oh they released an update, nice

[mental flare]

btw can u use ur skins on meta pc or does it have to be steam?

[somber sequoia]

GestureManager 3.9.4

[somber sequoia]

what do you mean by "skin" here exactly?

[mental flare]

my own made avatar

[somber sequoia]

actually also - what is "meta pc"?

yeah you can make your own avatar for all versions of VRChat

[mental flare]

meta app on pc

[somber sequoia]

no matter how you run it. Though for the mobile versions (including Quest headsets native) there are differences.

[mental flare]

ok nice

[somber sequoia]

how you run PCVR with a Meta headset is not relevant.

(pro tip: the Meta software sucks, use SteamLink or VirtualDesktop)

[mental flare]

no i use the meta app on virtual desktop

but it's cus the sdk dun wanna take my meta account login

[void elbow]

hi i have a gigantic issue with my 3d model, after uploading it its invisble in game and it has 0 traingles somehow.
I tried everything and nothing works

[somber sequoia]

... I'm not sure why you'd use anything meta on your PC if you're running virtual desktop

[desert elk]

you put the avatar descriptor in the wrong place

most likely

it needs to be on the avatar root

aka the highest object in the hierarchy

[night ember]

you need to make a vrchat account to upload anything to begin with

[somber sequoia]

ahhhhhh that's why, yeah

[vestal yew]

Any ideas? Pretty much just looking to get set on the right path and hopefully pointed to the right kind of guide.

[night ember]

physbones

[vestal yew]

Thank you.

[void elbow]

thanks that fixed it

but now this thing is happening

its just ragdolling around

[somber sequoia]

install the gogo loco package?

[void kettle]

i did

i inported it and it does this. i even opened a new one and its still giving me this error. is there a new one of gogo?

[safe prism]

So I'm currently annoyed at something, whenever I wear a specific avatar, it's feet doesn't touch the floor, I've tried to fix it on meta quest 3, changing arm and height ratio, the height adjustment settings in meta quest settings nothings working, does anyone have any idea what's causing it??

[wind pelican]

[desert elk]

it could be just the avatar being positioned wrong in unity/blender

[rocky grail]

I currently cannot screen shot not home but when for example my booth model has a face texture on it and I dragged a new texture on it’s face and when I go into play mode with gesture manager to check my toggles the face reverts to its original texture

[ornate stump]

The material probably got changed by some animation.

Animation commonly is used for changing skin tone and such.

[tired vale]

Hello trying to learn how to use substance painter
Anyone open to sit with me either in dms or call to walk me through while I try and retexture a base I bought?

[heavy cipher]

how do i fix this 😭

[somber sequoia]

explain what "this" is

[tired vale]

I think it’s the eyes

[somber sequoia]

I'm not going to assume

[tired vale]

@heavy cipher

[heavy cipher]

the eyes, theres supposed to be like a lens

[somber sequoia]

are you using quest-compatible shaders?

[heavy cipher]

no im using poi

[somber sequoia]

that "lens mat" should probably not be using opaque rendering then

[heavy cipher]

what should it be on

[somber sequoia]

change that, probably to transparent.

[heavy cipher]

Omg

[somber sequoia]

Guessing based on the alpha I can see there being very low

[heavy cipher]

it was that easy 😭

[somber sequoia]

yep, opaque mode is literally opaque 🙂

[gilded turret]

Could someone help me with a toggle problem? The clothing keeps reseting every world change and avatar change. Its not the parameters. I have them set to save. What else could be causing this?

[somber sequoia]

unless you have some sort of animation screwing with that, that's the only thing I'd consider checking

[void elbow]

hi again
i keep having this error

Can't generate normals for blendshape 'Blink.L' on mesh 'Hair.001', mesh has no smoothing groups.

does anyone know how can i add smoothing groups?

[gilded turret]

How would I tell? I did not make this toggle and the creator is being a jerk saying they won't help with "edits".

[somber sequoia]

Explore your animators I guess, I've no idea, just guessing. 99% of the time this is due to not checking the save checkbox

[somber sequoia]

that's a warning, it's not blocking anything. Do you find that something doesn't look right?

[void elbow]

everything seems fine other than one texture being blurry

[somber sequoia]

yeah the smoothing group thing wouldn't likely be the cause of that

[somber meadow]

A hair mesh doesn’t need a blinking animation, that can just be ignored

[gilded turret]

i said i checked that...

[somber sequoia]

no I know, that's why I was suggesting other things

[half apex]

i have everything imported so im not sure why its doing this

[somber sequoia]

got vrcfury and gogo loco up to date?

[half apex]

yeah just installed them from the websites

[somber meadow]

This could be the avatar including gogoloco in some other folders which they shouldn't move

Search "GoLocoBaseWD" in your project search and see if it's not in the same path listed in the error

[half apex]

its in my assets i can see it
and the error says its in the assets but if i go to the folder the file is there

[somber sequoia]

and there's only one, right?

[half apex]

the only gogoloco is in this asset folder

[somber meadow]

screenshot the path that it's in

[somber meadow]

Is GoLocoBaseWD inside of the ControllersWD folder

[half apex]

yeah

[somber meadow]

That has spaces. I'd delete the VRCFury prefab from your assets that the avatar uses and the GoGo folder, and import it again. either the VRCFury prefab or GoGo assets aren't up to date

[somber sequoia]

huh I thought it showed spaces in the inspector like that

[half apex]

in the inspector it has spaces but the file doesnt

[somber meadow]

Is this prefab from the contents of the GoGo folder or somewhere else

make sure VRCFury is up to date as well

[prisma thunder]

Hiya! I just wanna do a simple animation where my whole avatar moves for something, but I can't move any of the armature considered human in the animation

[half apex]

i installed VRCFury right from the websote so it has to be up to date

[half apex]

GoGo

[prisma thunder]

I just need my armature/Hips to move straight up, which should bring my avatar and everything attached to it upwards

[somber meadow]

Wait why is VRCFury in the assets folder

[somber sequoia]

didn't install via vpm

[somber sequoia]

you have to do this in base or action layers, and it can be complicated. Are you trying to do high heels?

[somber meadow]

The VRCFury installer isn't really supported anymore, using the VCC installation is the only recommended means

[prisma thunder]

No, I'm kinda inspired by resonite's "Exit Strategies"

I just need to move my avatar straight up lol

[somber sequoia]

ahh. it's probably a full-body emote type of action in the action layer then

[prisma thunder]

nono

I literally am making an animation that all my avatar needs to do is go up

[ripe tide]

Sooo im trying to get lipsync to work with visemes on this avatar for a friend, They work fine in unity, even in gesture manager testing but they don't work at all when its uploaded to vrc

[prisma thunder]

I suppose for now I'll just turn off my mesh

[ripe tide]

It has only AEIOU, works fine in unity but vrc doesn't seem to detect anything

[somber sequoia]

can you show the viseme slots in the avatar descriptor?
Also you must have something in sil

[somber sequoia]

hmm why are some of those none and some blank?

[ripe tide]

dont have em

theres only blendshapes for AEIOU

[somber sequoia]

hmm, I don't see any docs about which of these are required, that seems an oversight.

[ripe tide]

still it should just work with basic vowels

[somber sequoia]

can't say I've tried.

[ripe tide]

it works fine when I test visemes in gesture manager

[somber sequoia]

yeah but that's just tweaking the blendshapes

[desert elk]

why not generate the rest in blender? with cats

[ripe tide]

huh....okay thats werid....accoring to the debug in VRC Viseme parameter aint changing its value its just staying at 0

[desert elk]

it's one click

you wouldn't have anything missing 🤷

[ripe tide]

no thanks

[desert elk]

alright

if that's the case, idk how I else to help

[ripe tide]

as that would mess up the model in unity's scene view

[desert elk]

oh, that depends on your export settings

you probably exported it with different settings then originally

but anyways

that was the only thing I can suggest

[somber sequoia]

yeah it wouldn't mess up anything there.

[ripe tide]

regardless vrc aint changing the visemes on the avatar

like the actual parameter

its just staying at 0

[somber sequoia]

do you mean when looking at the in-game debug display?

[ripe tide]

yeah

[somber sequoia]

your mic isn't muted, is it?

[ripe tide]

no

its detecting voice level

works fine on my own avatars

which is really weird

It can't be anything preventing it from changing in the animator cause its not even defined In the animator....I tried adding it to check and no difference

[balmy barn]

if you dont fill in all visemes its not going to do anything

[ripe tide]

seriously? ok then ill try my best to do that then

huh...ok then

wow

[mental flare]

does anyone know how to remove own unity made avatars?

from avatar catalog ingame or files

[desert elk]

go to sdk, content manager, delete

if that's what you meant

[mental flare]

oh you can remove on sdk itself?

[timber wharf]

or vrc website home

[desert elk]

yeah, sdk or that

[mental flare]

ahh cool, thanks for helpin me out

[somber sequoia]

ok that's what I thought, but couldn't find confirmation of that in the docs

[ripe tide]

Using Poiomi, for some reason the emissions texture are bleeding over the body texture even though they're pixel perfect with each other....

giving it a white outline for some reason

ok nvm i got it fixed

[safe prism]

Is there anything I can do to make the feet stick back to the ground?

[desert elk]

not if you don't have the files for the avatar

if it's an avatar you uploaded and have the files for, yeah

[main finch]

Heya! Anyone willing to help me upload my avatar? I bought it on jinxxy and wanna upload it myself so I know how to do it in the future. But im super lost and videos dont really help. I would appriciate so guidence 😄

[somber sequoia]

Feel free to ask specific questions

[main finch]

Pretty much I bought it from jinxxy. But what do i do with it now? Do i need to install something else? Or can i upload it to the vrchat site? Every videcreator does it different and im looking for the easiest way

[somber sequoia]

I usually tell people to start here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSwMz4WcajQ&list=PLt8qiEFqNHFkPqpKLnVRx-G78mGvjPbFt

[main finch]

I will look at it. Thank you!! I appriciate it

I didnt see in the video which one they installed / they logged in and it was already installed , what do i pick?

Pretty much shows me errors the whole time o.o

[balmy barn]

https://unity.com/releases/editor/whats-new/2022.3.22 either use vcc , unity hub or manual

[somber sequoia]

you may wish to start here actually: https://vcc.docs.vrchat.com/guides/getting-started

[celest trench]

Anyone willing to help with an avatar problem?

[desert elk]

just describe your problem

[celest trench]

Kinda the issue. I fix one and another pops up. I'll try to describe it give me a sec.

[floral adder]

sorry to intrude the conversation here but i need a little bit of help of trying to figure out why my sdk takes a backseat and does nothing when i click "build and publish" i just see this bar and nothing happens, no movement, no window telling me the percentage, i have done all the autofixes,the rest of the things is normal messages about performance and lots of triangles etc etc

[celest trench]

Humanoid avatar must have head, hands and feet bones mapped

VRCExpressionsMenu uses a parameter that is not defined {parameter: Go/Viseme/Weight}

Your avatar is humanoid, but it's feet aren't specified

Your avatar is humanoid, but it's upper arms aren't specified

I've gone through bone napping and Reconfiguring what I thought would be the issue but it hasn't changed and the expression bit is a new error for me.

[desert elk]

make sure you have your parameters connected to the avatar and that that parameter is actually there

and show your hierarchy and bone configure cause something's definitely wrong there. If the bones are mapped correctly, it could be the parenting

[somber sequoia]

re: the menu item, did you upgrade gogo loco or install it manually? If so, you missed a parameter.

[desert elk]

oh yeah, that

[celest trench]

I've done both and neither worked :/

[desert elk]

so check your parameters list

and add it manually if it's not there 🤷

[somber sequoia]

if you haven't added that parameter into your list, I'm sure that'd be a problem.

[vagrant crater]

Dose anyone know of a video that shows you how to actually make it so you can make a gun on a avatar reload and be able to rack it

[main finch]

Im aboslutely too stupid when i open unity this is the only thing i see

[wooden nova]

what constraints would i use to get an ik effect for this tube? ive tried a bunch of them but cant seem to figure it out

[vagrant crater]

Are you trying to open a project or create a new project?

[main finch]

I want to open the avatar i bought on jinxxy

[vagrant crater]

So you’ll go to open project and find the unity file for the avatar

[main finch]

When i click open and on the folder where the avatar is.. its empty i only have a .tar

[vagrant crater]

There should be a unity file that you need to click on

[main finch]

thats the only file i can see in the whole folder

[vagrant crater]

There should be a unity file in the zip file you downloaded

[main finch]

Hmm. i unzipped the file and this was the only file inside , should i try reinsalling the file?

[vagrant crater]

Maybe I don’t know what’s the .tar file would be for normally when you download the file it has a unity file in the zip also make sure your downloading the correct thing

[main finch]

I just saw i can see it but not open it

[vagrant crater]

What?

[main finch]

the blender file is in my normal files. when i dounle click onto it nothing happens. and when i try open project in unity its notwehre to be found

[vagrant crater]

Oh wait did you download a blender file?

[main finch]

it says unity file

[compact dust]

where

show

[main finch]

this is what i downloaded

[floral adder]

can anyone help with this :') sorry

[compact dust]

any errors in console?

[floral adder]

nothing was coming up

[compact dust]

how many times have you tried to upload

[main finch]

this is what i looks like in my files

[floral adder]

twice i think but ye it doesnt actually start anything

[compact dust]

if there's no errors thenn

[floral adder]

if i click to one of the other tabs and go back it gives me the option to upload again

[compact dust]

try again

[floral adder]

its like i click it and it says "alr cool..." lol

[wooden nova]

can anyone help with this

[celest trench]

Ya I cant find an issue. Ima make a new file and try to redo this from scratch, shouldn't be but a day or 2. Been working on it for a month so 🤣

I appreciate the help peeps

[radiant tree]

so, i'm making an inanimate object avatar, and i try flipping it upright in blender and unity, but it's still face-down

anyone know how to help?

[static cipher]

Is there a way to have an avatar detect when the player wearing it is grabbing an in-world object?

[main finch]

Can anyone pls help me upload an avatar?

[compact dust]

probably against avi TOS

[main finch]

i need someone to talk me trough the process so i dont think it is against the TOS

[compact dust]

watch a yt tutorial on how to upload avis, or use the provided upload instructions that some avi creators provide

[main finch]

Well. As i said abit more up it doesnt work for me :/

[compact dust]

what doesnt

idk what you said, not my job to read msg history

[main finch]

if you scroll up you see pictures and the problem i dont rly want to resend the pics and spam this channel

[compact dust]

its not spam

im not scrolling, busy

jus resend

[main finch]

Well. If i download unity i cant install smth in the hub. If i install the unity version from the website i can only open a empty thing or a new project. If i click on open project i cant find the unity file i bought

[compact dust]

use vcc

also this is why i say use an avi upload tutorial

[main finch]

Nope not there either

[compact dust]

usually (the ones ive seen) say to import the unity file

you dont just double click it bc smt they arent that kind

some dont open (from my experience at least) if double clicked as a file, they have to be imported first

[main finch]

I opened vcc and tried to open the project. I cant open the project cause the file doesnt show up there

[compact dust]

then double click while in the unity project

what file ._.

[main finch]

The one i bought? The avatar im trying to upload

[compact dust]

wdym it doesnt show-

that's not what vcc does

its for creating unity projects, importing required files like VRCF, poi, gesture manager, that kinda stuff

[compact dust]

i dont see a problem

[main finch]

So what do i do there?

Pick project? Yeah?

Find the folder where the avatar is yeah?

[compact dust]

no ._.

create unity project

import ze avatar .unity file into said project

[main finch]

Can you stop being sassy for no reason at all please? I appriciate your help but not everyone knows everything thats why im trying to edjucate myself...

Its super hard for me. I dont even speak english really well

[wooden nova]

what specifically is the problem have you created a project before or are you trying to make a new one to upload the project?

[compact dust]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTdTq34BoQY

[main finch]

Iam trying to do everything from 0. The only steps already done is. Buying the avatar, downloading the file, downloading the vcc

[somber sequoia]

with VCC you don't open a "unity file" - you make a new project, launch unity, and then import the package (etc) for your avatar.

[compact dust]

like so

[night ember]

you dont even open unity files to begin with

[compact dust]

less than a minute tut

[somber sequoia]

hmm, if you double-click one in Windows, does it open the scene in the right project? I don't use Windows often so no idea

[compact dust]

only some do that from what ive seen

i think the scene ones open, but the ones that are just info do not

[night ember]

I mean you can click it and itll import it into the currently opened project but you dont just open a unity file like a project

[compact dust]

represented by big/small unity icons in the project i think

[somber sequoia]

yeah I just didn't know what that would even do

[compact dust]

i assume they have an info-only .unity file which will not open as a scene

[night ember]

a unity file is just a unity version of a zip folder

faster process than zipping your project folder and deleting what you dont need to export

[somber sequoia]

oh I thought those were scene files

a .unityproject is a .zip/.tgz file

[compact dust]

but specil

:D

[eternal wedge]

Hey, first time trying to upload an avi for quest, and I'm not able to swap to android at all. Am I missing anything? Thanks

[compact dust]

you have to download the android/ios builds in the unity hub

[loud topaz]

In the newest SDK version, are you unable to change the values of physbones in play mode in order to test them?

[compact dust]

you can search it on googl and it should be ze first result

[eternal wedge]

Awesome, thank you

[compact dust]

should be able to, but havent used new sdk so idk

[somber sequoia]

https://creators.vrchat.com/platforms/android/

first link there

[eternal wedge]

Sweeeeeeet

[loud topaz]

So what's happening is that I'm changing a tail's "pull" value to be 1, then going into play mode. While in play mode, I change the pull to 0 and move the model around, but the behavior doesn't change (acting like pull is set to 1). I have to exit and enter playmode in order to see my physbone values change and this is very annoying because vrcfury has to build every single time 😐

I'm used to just being able to lock the inspector on the bone I'm working on and drag the model around in play mode to tweak values.

[somber sequoia]

changes in play mode don't persist. set stuff how you like, then copy the component, go out of play mode, paste settings.

[compact dust]

i think they mean that they set the value to 1 outside of play mode, then they enter playmode and set it to 0, but it still behaves like the value is set to 1 (although visually it's 0), so they have to exit (setting it back to 1 like it should be) and enter again for it to look like 1 again

idk if i explained it very well

[brazen stream]

Hi, I'm having some problems uploading an avatar which I have some errors that I can't fix due to my little knowledge of unity, could someone help me to fix this? I would be very grateful if someone could help me. (if possible we could talk in a separate chat?)

[compact dust]

send ze problems here, more people to help

and for future reference it's better to just post it without asking bc the answer will normally be yeh

or we just respond with the fix

[brazen stream]

then i send a picture?

[compact dust]

ohh that avi

i can see why the "private chat"

how many times did you try uploading

[loud topaz]

The changes are not persisting within play mode, either. I know that they do not persist outside of it.

[brazen stream]

a lot of times trying different things ;-;

[compact dust]

soo what does the sdk say

[loud topaz]

Outdated SDK version possibly?

Those errors look like either corrupted SDK or incorrect SDK version to me, but it's been a while since I've run into that

[compact dust]

sdk just "nuh uh"

[brazen stream]

my knowledge of unity is almost minimal what do you mean? what do I say when I try to upload the avatar?

[compact dust]

the sdk control panel

it should give an error as to why it didnt upload

[brazen stream]

this?

[loud topaz]

lol that sucks

[compact dust]

._.

sdk you suck

[loud topaz]

it says it cleared the blueprint id for you but it might help to do that manually as well just in case

[brazen stream]

that was the first thing i do

[brazen stream]

what do you mean?

[compact dust]

on your vrc avi desc, press clear blueprint

[brazen stream]

is nothing

[loud topaz]

wait what's below it

[compact dust]

should say "attach"

the button under it

[brazen stream]

yeah under it

[loud topaz]

click the button under it yeah

if it lets you