avatar-help

[brazen stream]

nothing happend

[loud topaz]

have you uploaded this avatar successfully before?

[brazen stream]

nope

[loud topaz]

oh ok then you legit don't have a blueprint ID for it at all

dumb question - have you closed and reopened unity?

[brazen stream]

yes

create new proyects too

[loud topaz]

oh what the heck

so you've done a lot

[brazen stream]

I've tried too many things, that's why it comes here

[loud topaz]

can you show what you have entered in the sdk in regards to the avatar's name and image etc

have you tried taking a new photo?

[brazen stream]

okey

[brazen stream]

this?

[timber wharf]

uh, wheres console

[loud topaz]

yeah, h ave you tried a different photo?

[timber wharf]

#avatar-help message

[loud topaz]

like take one from the scene as a test

[brazen stream]

from escene no, i can try

uh??!!

why that works?

[loud topaz]

somethign must be wrong with your image

[brazen stream]

oh

[loud topaz]

probably not a good idea to use somethign that risque anyways

since everyone will see it when you're in that avi

[brazen stream]

okey, thx you so much ❤️

really helped me a lot

[loud topaz]

no problem! Now, anyone know why i can't change physbone values and have them be reflected within play mode? I'm using using vrcfury and gesturemanager.

[celest trench]

Scripts look fine. Can't find any errors in the logs. Idk what's wrong here.

[loud topaz]

#avatar-help message

[celest trench]

But

It is ava help?

Oh

[loud topaz]

it is, click on the link, it's a specific post

[celest trench]

FFS I'm tired

[loud topaz]

lol

[celest trench]

Sry

[loud topaz]

np

[celest trench]

fallowed the steps, nothing changed that i can see and ive done what i normally do to fix the issue. still wont work though :/

i have this avatar setup on my account already with no issues. was making this for a wedding. i dont have this issue with my other file which is whats confusing me, i changed nothing on the avatar...

[eternal wedge]

Random question. I just uploaded my first avi. And my quest version is appearing on pc as well, And don't have any clue what to do for that, I'm very new to all this.

[loud topaz]

i wish it said which scripts had compiler errors... if you click on that one, does it show you any other details? usually the script errors are an outdated package or something

[wooden nova]

what does this mean im helping a person upload an avi and ive never seen this error

nvm it worked

[loud topaz]

yeah it kinda sounded like they hit the cancel button on accident XD

[celest trench]

That's the annoying bit, it doesn't. I've reset every script I know of and confirmed there were no duplicates

[wooden nova]

ive hade this happen a while ago but idk how to get the avatar descriptor add the other layers back

[unkempt canopy]

how hard is it to set up a contact purr toggle for an existing avi ?

[shadow bane]

The fuck does this mean

I've never seen this error before

Avatar will reach 100%, say built sucessfully, then fail and throw this

[main finch]

Uploaded my avatar but its flying in the worlds anyone know why<?

[prisma sedge]

Sounds like you have a non-physbone collider somewhere on your avatar

[dire flicker]

I've got some odd texture bleeding in unity, the UVs are pixel perfect

The model looks fine in blockbench, and in blender (when the texture is set to "Closest" interpolation)

should I add padding?

[somber sequoia]

always add padding between islands

[dire flicker]

is there anything else i can do? otherwise i'm going to have to reimport all the way from blockbench

[main finch]

Is there a way to find that out ? im a total noob and bought the avatar the person who helped me upload told me to "push" the avatar to the floor. thats what i did ... still nothing changed. On my pc without my headset the avatar is standing on the floor... on the glasses its levetating

My avatar is now on the floor as it looks but when i open it its still levetating

[dire flicker]

i tried adding two pixels of padding but it still looks bad and when you zoom out it looks worse

[ornate stump]

Then add more

[ornate stump]

But it shouldn't be split on individual face like that, or is each individual face split into individual uv island?

[dire flicker]

yeah they look like this

[ornate stump]

Pad it more then.

[arctic ginkgo]

having a strange issue, i get this error when trying to upload even though it is not true

i tried figuring out where it is coming from by deleting submenus from my main menu, and it seems like it's coming from everything except gogo loco...

then i tried deleting all toggles except one

i'ts still there

neither have that parameter

even changing control type to controls with more parameters to check if it is in there (like rotation parameter) and it's not there...

i'm opening the asset in text editor and i see the parameter there though... weird

[marble rampart]

first time making avatars but nothing I download wants to show up in blender?

[ornate stump]

Try switching inspector to debug mode and see if it's also there.

[ornate stump]

Did you actually import or open the file?

[marble rampart]

i didnt have to there packages

@ornate stump

[ornate stump]

I mean open or import the file you want in blender.

It won't magically show up in blender after you download.

[marble rampart]

I dont know how thats done?

[ornate stump]

What file that you currently have now?

[marble rampart]

I dont have a file

its a package?

unity package

[hollow phoenix]

I have this Rex model downloaded and imported into Unity, and now I just want to know how to edit the colors to my liking using Adobe Substance. Is Substance a good software for that, or should I pick something else?

[ornate stump]

That's also the file. Unitypackage, you have to import into unity first.

[marble rampart]

How i do this?

[ornate stump]

It's a good software.

[hollow phoenix]

I don't understand how to change the texture from it, though

[ornate stump]

In most basic way, just open avatar project first then drag the package into unity.

[hollow phoenix]

I tried clicking Open Sample. and neither the textures nor the model itself show up

[ornate stump]

I don't use substance painter so I can't answer that.

[hollow phoenix]

And yes I'm looking at where the files are according to file explorer

[marble rampart]

Huh?

[ornate stump]

What part got you confused?

[marble rampart]

All of it

[ornate stump]

Have you create unity project?

[marble rampart]

I dont understand it because this is my first at all messing with this kinda stuff

[marble rampart]

Nope

I just downloaded blender thats it

[ornate stump]

#1139228456090087495 message read this first.

Also read links contained in that post.

[marble rampart]

okay

[dire flicker]

it's still happening, i've got other models that don't use per-face uvs and only need about two pixels of padding

[ornate stump]

Padding amount should be relative to texture size. The larger texture needs more padding.

[dire flicker]

it's 128 x 128 pixels... i shouldn't need that much

i've got 4 pixels of padding now to no luck

[ornate stump]

How is your whole texture actually look like?

[dire flicker]

this is the whole texture

full size

[ornate stump]

The problem is at mip level 1, the white part just got blended into the black below so it became grey much early. You should keep each part within squared-number size.

[ornate stump]

For example the white part should start at 32px to 64px.

Or just think link dividing texture into 4 columns and 4 rows evenly, and each part must not exceed the owned col and row.

[dire flicker]

what? can you rephrase that?

this is what all of the uvs look like

[ornate stump]

Divide texture into 16 parts, and scale your individual texture to fit into those part.

[dire flicker]

split the uvs into multiple textures/materials???

[ornate stump]

No. More like allocate parts of texture evenly. Because your current texture is uneven.

[dire flicker]

oh, get rid of the extra blank area then?

[ornate stump]

How could you fit 6 parts into 16 parts without having empty area? You need empty area.

[dire flicker]

i don't know what you're getting at...

[ornate stump]

Allocate area like this instead

But evenly.

[dire flicker]

okay... i think i see

like this?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[dire flicker]

it looks, a little better

but at some point when i zoom out it looks bad again

[ornate stump]

It wouldn't be perfect.

[dire flicker]

even when i'm closer its pretty noticeable

[ornate stump]

It's rather because of flat shaded faces.

[dire flicker]

i got rid of the filter and it helped a bit more

if the problem is with the mipmaps... could i disable them without issues? that seemed to fix it

[ornate stump]

Not having mipmap is bad for performance. If you don't want mipmap then you should reduce texture size even more.

[dire flicker]

it's 152x152 pixels right now

[ornate stump]

The size should be 2n square, 8 16 32 64 128 and so on.

[marble rampart]

Do i really have to buy a license @ornate stump

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[dire flicker]

no???

the personal one is free

[ornate stump]

It's substance painter.

[dire flicker]

ah

not unity

mb

[marble rampart]

Any other route to go were I dont have to buy unity?

[somber sequoia]

you don't have to buy unity to make vrchat content

[ornate stump]

You don't have to buy unity.

[marble rampart]

Says i need to buy a licens

[somber sequoia]

no, it says you need to obtain a license. you can use the free personal one

[dire flicker]

you can use the personal non-commercial one

[ornate stump]

You get "Free Personal License".

[marble rampart]

oh okay.

[dry cedar]

hey everyone... i need a help...

this is my first time going to vrchat.. i downloaded a model, all unity stuff, imported it to unity, everything cool... i just need to know how do i send the avatar to my profile so i can use it

im using vrchat creator companion also

[ornate stump]

Open the sdk and build&publish.

[dry cedar]

hmm it says i need to spend some time on the app... is there a minimum ?

[ornate stump]

You have to get upgrade to "New User" rank. #vrchat-general-1 message

[dry cedar]

oof.. 20-40h..

okay, thank you so much..

[uncut lotus]

So my goofy ah, forgot to apply the mirror modfyer before doing a bunch of blendshapes, or shapekeys. Will that cause problems in Unity?

[heady linden]

it still does this for me in mirrors no matter which version my drivers are

[night ember]

You need to apply the modifier

[uncut lotus]

What could happen if I didn't

[carmine fulcrum]

sorry for the years later reply but THANK YOU I was losing my mind after scouring my project for this ghost parameter! Why does the SDK even do that?

[night ember]

You dont get blendshapes

[uncut lotus]

Thanks

[vast gulch]

That bug still exists?
I’ve been using vrcfury to make menus so I haven’t thought about this in a while

[carmine fulcrum]

it's been driving me wild for a week now LOL I'm making a canny post so maybe it'll get fixed

[ornate stump]

Pretty much just engineering oversight.

[stoic sand]

why does this happen to my avatar :C

[desert elk]

is the view point's X 0? and is the avatar at world origin?

[mental flare]

mhm

[stoic sand]

this?

sorry qwq

[desert elk]

yeag

yeah

[mental flare]

hey eliot

u know how to change color of an avatar in unity?

[desert elk]

edit the texture

[mental flare]

oh

[stoic sand]

its been like that i dont understand what happened i put it back into blender to add socks put back in unity it does that

[mental flare]

mhh

[ornate stump]

You likely had extra camera on your avatar.

[stoic sand]

i looked everywhere and there isnt one

[ornate stump]

Try search for t:camera in unity scene heirarchy.

[stoic sand]

just my cam for rendering but its not on the avatar itself

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot to confirm the result?

[ornate stump]

Have you tested with gesture manager?

[stoic sand]

it disappears-

[ornate stump]

Then the scale you exported didn't match with its previous scale.

[stoic sand]

how do i fix that?

[ornate stump]

When exporting try set "Apply Scalings" to "FBX All".

[stoic sand]

:D it worked

ty!!

[limpid cargo]

all of my other physbones on this avatar work, but for some reason the hair just... doesn't fall? it's a vroid model

[desert elk]

doesn't fall? is there a collider blocking it?

[limpid cargo]

no, the only colliders are on the head and torso, and they don't ever hit the hair

gravity settings also don't help

[mental flare]

hooowiieee

rendering new colors on avatars takes a bit time

[desert elk]

was it posed and is stuck like that?
can you show your physbone setup?

[limpid cargo]

no it's just like that

even in play mode

there is 1 physbone on the parent

the 01 above it in the hierarchy is the bangs, its separate and those work fine

[ornate stump]

There is no pull force so it isn't going to move into original position.

[limpid cargo]

wait really

i thought that would make it very fluid

[ornate stump]

You would be incorrect.

[limpid cargo]

clearly

thank you i'll test it out now

ahhh it works thank you

[stoic sand]

im having a new issue now.. qwq ill send a video

[ornate stump]

Does it look fine without gogoloco?

[stoic sand]

the walking is weird same with the crouch/lay when you move

[ornate stump]

Try set humanoid rig to generic, apply, and change back to humanoid, and test.

[willow carbon]

avatar validation failed
i dont think the console helps lmao

[wind oasis]

Hey I'm working on avatar I'm confused

[ornate stump]

You have to look for red error above those.

[willow carbon]

there was no red error above

just gonna slowly disable the changes i made recently so i can find culprit

[spare raft]

Heya everyone - don't know if I'm just being an idiot but I can't work out how to set up the SDK on Linux

Any assistance would be appreciated

[stoic sand]

still weird :c

[ornate stump]

Then click on the first Avatar validation failed and read details.

[ornate stump]

Is it actually the avatar sunk to the knee?

[ornate stump]

#avatar-help message

[spare raft]

Thanks

[stoic sand]

i think so

[ornate stump]

Inspect the avatar object and see a whiteline pointing out from avatar, see where the white line is.

[spare raft]

Okay this doesn't really solve my issue, as the problem I'm having hasn't even gotten as far as Unity yet

I'm trying to install VCC

[stoic sand]

i am so sorry how do i do that

[ornate stump]

There is no VCC on linux.

[spare raft]

Okay, that'll be my problem then lol

How do I get the SDK then?

[ornate stump]

Just select your avatar in the scene.

[stoic sand]

oh! is it this white line?

[ornate stump]

Yes. That looks fine.

[spare raft]

It's just that all the info on the website about how to install the SDK just says to use VCC

[ornate stump]

https://vcc.docs.vrchat.com/vpm/cli/#mac-and-linux-support

[stoic sand]

ahh okay. so is there nothing i can do about it?

[spare raft]

Yeah, this is the instructions I've been following but it just keeps telling me dotnet doesn't exist or can't be found, despite the fact I've tried several different ways of installing it now

[ornate stump]

Once you switch between generic and humanoid, you should recheck rigconfiguration again.

[stoic sand]

i have done that and it didnt help

[ornate stump]

What does it do if you entirely remove gogoloco?

[willow carbon]

ok nvm, found the issue this time.
guessing i ran out of bits?

[desert elk]

just state your issue

[ornate stump]

Yes you did.

[willow carbon]

hmm

wonder if i can vrcfury this

[wind oasis]

this

[willow carbon]

prob gonna fix that param issue

[ornate stump]

https://youtu.be/rRAnDMUbWt8?t=80 Configure chest. And chaning shader is later in the video.

[wind oasis]

Thanks I'm still kind of new working on avatar

[limpid cargo]

i'm having another issue
my eye height/view is set properly in unity but in game it's in the default place.

[desert elk]

is your avatar set as humanoid?

[limpid cargo]

yes

[frail temple]

Delete cameras in scene, if issue is not resolved after restarting project, open second project and copy over everything

[limpid cargo]

camera one didn't work, i'll try the second one

[dim nebula]

How to animate a particle emitter to only emit one particle? This is probably basic level question but im new to avatars

[gilded turret]

Hello, why would a Animation Layer for one piece of clothing give this error when it is 1:1 a copy of another piece of clothing that doesn't give the error?

[ornate stump]

In a matter of fact, that isn't an error, and can be safely ignore.

[gilded turret]

Then why will one toggle save but the other won't.. this is crazy..

[ornate stump]

Save as in how?

[gilded turret]

Save between worlds.

The bra saves but the shirt doesnt.

I'm frustrated.

[ornate stump]

That has to do with parameter in expression parameter file wasn't marked as "Saved".

[gilded turret]

It is

It absolutely is

I don't know what is interfereing

they used whatever this is

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot to confirm?

[gilded turret]

first is sfw set of params, second is nsfw

I don't know if they're interfering with one another or what.

I didn't make this and the creator is being a dickhead.

[spring jolt]

Hello guys. Can anybody tell me, should I move fingers to ✋ before import into unity?

[ornate stump]

What even is this?

[gilded turret]

No

idea

Not included

[spring jolt]

Oof...

[ornate stump]

Not really necessary, unless it's failed at rig configuration.

[spring jolt]

I'm asking because my model have 🫳 instead of ✋

[ornate stump]

Not necessary, unless as I stated above.

[spring jolt]

Thanks

Just I saw that bones of fingers could move in tests

[ornate stump]

Do you recall any parameter driver in any animator controller?

[somber wind]

Hello. I need help with the VRChat scaling. My avatar no longer scales with the in-game tool, only my eye height changes

[celest trench]

Could security software cause issues uploading avatars?

[somber meadow]

Depends on what it is. I've seen 3rd party antiviruses break package caches and a lot of stuff regarding unity

[void elbow]

hi does anyone know how to make tails in avatars moove?

becouse the tail in mine is just...static?

isnt affected by gravity movement etc

[desert elk]

do you have a phsybone on it?

[void elbow]

yep

[desert elk]

is the phsybone visible on the avatar?

in the scene view

[void elbow]

do you mean this big white line?

[celest trench]

Sadly it was the case 🤣 kill me

How do I merge bone sets to each other? Or add clothing to the bone preset of an avatar?

Disregard, I'm dumb.

[rugged lagoon]

Hey can someone give me value for chest physbone plz idk what to put on here

[desert elk]

it depends on the model tbh

and how much you want it to movr

[rugged lagoon]

not that much uk basic

[timid kite]

dont forget the curve

why do my eyes move out of the socket?

[somber sequoia]

did you bring this in from Blender or was it a pre-made avatar?

[timid kite]

from blender, i am the creator

the last change was adding a second head

[somber sequoia]

how are your eye bones setup?

[timid kite]

no phys bones unless u mean something else?

[somber sequoia]

no, I'd have said physbones

[timid kite]

i am trying immobile physbones on the eyes rn

[somber sequoia]

uh... ok then I'm not sure what you're doing

[timid kite]

im looking for an advice on how to fix it so anything helps

[somber sequoia]

but what's your actual goal? why put physbones on eyes?

[timid kite]

my goal is for eyes to look normal again and not fd up

[desert elk]

how do the bones look like?

show in blender

[timid kite]

sec

[somber sequoia]

also explain what physbones have to do with this

[timid kite]

#1: a newly imported head, original.
#2: bones in my avatar

looks similar

[somber sequoia]

not sure I can see what's what in that right pic, but the left looks correct. Make sure bone roll is 0 while you're there.

[fallow briar]

anyone knowledgeable about stencils can tell me how to fix this?

[timid kite]

it looks the same 100%
where is the eye roll?

[somber sequoia]

properties on an individual bone, in the 'n' pop-up menu, 'item' tab

[timid kite]

where in here ><

[rugged lagoon]

We agree that i have to put it on the Main root right ? Not On the L and R Root

[somber sequoia]

you have to be in armature edit mode to change the properties of a bone

can't tell from that which mode you're in

[timid kite]

u dont need to specify root transform if thats what u mean

[timid kite]

oh yeah in the edit mode roll is at 0

[rugged lagoon]

it's not my avatar uk i just wonder where do i put it

[timid kite]

ohhh yes put it in boob root

[rugged lagoon]

Alr

But it's still Wiggle asf

[somber sequoia]

Ok good

[timid kite]

anything else that could be causing this?

[somber sequoia]

I'm not clear on what "this" is here

[timid kite]

weird eye movement

[lethal ibex]

guys, how do i fix my audio source? I really dont fucking know whats wrong. it just doesnt play anything on load and I don't know what to do....

[somber sequoia]

sorry but this image doesn't really show much - maybe try rotating the bones around in blender, make sure they move the eyes right. Then do that in Unity. Then test in play mode.

[rugged lagoon]

Maybe becauyse u haven't set an output ??

[somber sequoia]

you don't set an output for avatars

[timid kite]

ty

[rugged lagoon]

ok

[lethal ibex]

it must work without output

[rugged lagoon]

@timid kite (srry for ping) but is it suppose to wiggle that much ?

[lethal ibex]

or maybe im dumb and something was changed... anyways, Ill try

[timid kite]

nop. especially my settings arent for super jiggly stuff. try playing with settings in the play mode u will get the hang of it

[lethal ibex]

no, it must stay emty.

[rugged lagoon]

alr

[lethal ibex]

no help... okay

[timber stump]

quirked up white chick

[limpid cargo]

this still didn’t work, the eye height is still not working

[frail temple]

All avatar positions are 0,0,0?

Only thing that might be the problem is the avatars origin is not set correctly

[limpid cargo]

yes, transform is at 0,0,0

[limpid cargo]

i’m guessing i’d have to do that in blender and reimport?

[timid kite]

some blendshapes dont do anything in unity but work fine in blender, whats wrong?

[limpid cargo]

should i set the origin to geometry or set it to world origin at 0,0,0?

it’s all one mesh

[celest scaffold]

Any way to make it easier to work with this? 😬 maybe a script/tool?

[limpid cargo]

change your viewport display for bones

like how they get shown in the 3d space

[frail temple]

world origin

[limpid cargo]

okay

[limpid cargo]

should i do the same for the armature or just the mesh

[frail temple]

both

[limpid cargo]

okay

[celest scaffold]

Got it. Thanks 👍

[limpid cargo]

it should be in that right side menu btw

[celest scaffold]

Now what about removing unnecessary bones? It's a unreal engine model that contains too many bones and i just don't want to spend so much time making visemes haha

[limpid cargo]

holy

i would say delete them but i don’t know if that would mess up the weights

maybe someone more expressed than me could help you there

[celest scaffold]

thats the thing. it usually messes up the weights 😭

[limpid cargo]

yeaaa

i would say find the ones that don’t directly affect anything (like end bones for example) and delete those as a place to start

in my experience end bones do nothing in vrchat

[limpid cargo]

by the way, i don’t know if it was that helped me or moving the feet to the floor (avatar has high heels so i put them in the ground and aligned the feet) but the view is fixed now

[desert elk]

did you apply all modifiers?

[timid kite]

good question...

[void elbow]

hellllo i hopped into beldner to make a quick blinking shape key by mixing blink R and blink L key and importing the model back into unity and now something like this happens

does anyone know what might be the cause?

*onle one eye closed png apearing and at the wrong spot)

[desert elk]

did you apply all transforms?

[barren wharf]

how would i attach accessories to my avatar without vrcfury

[void elbow]

nope no idea how to do that

[desert elk]

a - to select everything
ctrl a - apply all transforms

in object mode

[void elbow]

i just used the

[desert elk]

either in blender or manually in unity

[barren wharf]

how would i do it manually in unity

[night ember]

you just slap it on the bone

[desert elk]

yeah

slap it to the bone you want it to move with

[woven zinc]

How do you publish two different avatars of the same ID on both platforms? I used to be able to do this with the pc version and quest version of an avatar by uploading seperately after copying the id over to the other avatar but it seems I can't do that anymore

it's still saying it only has a pc version even though I uploaded the quest version under the same ID

[timber wharf]

it is still the way to do it. are you sure you upload succesfully?

even if ids were wrong youd get separate android avatar

[woven zinc]

Yes it does say it's uploaded and the thumbnails are automatically matching

this is the setting I use for my pc version

and the quest version is set to android

[young bear]

I have an avatar with a motorcycle and i want to make an anim clip that makes it so the character is sitting on the motorcycle so i can move around with it. I still want the upper body to be movable. How would i go about doing that?

[barren wharf]

about that, what if the accessory has multiple parts?

[desert elk]

like, multiple bones or what?

[barren wharf]

like multiple pieces of clothing

[night ember]

annoying cause youd need to make an animation that doesnt break when you keep the upper body tracked

[young bear]

I mean i could theoretically have two different animations that play depending on your IK state

[night ember]

well the one animation by itself would be really annoying

[young bear]

the main problem is i can't use the FX layer since i need to animate the humanoid bones

[night ember]

its just the action layer

[young bear]

wouldn't it be the gesture layer, since that's the one thats used for partial IK overriding instead of complete IK overriding?

[night ember]

no

[arctic ginkgo]

you can do it on base layer as well

since it's locomotion

kinda up to you

[young bear]

the base layer seems like it'd be the last resort given how complicated it looks to be

and how it's even more poorly documented

[arctic ginkgo]

it's not really, there's not much to document other than it controls humanoid animations

you can use default base layer or something like gogo loco base layer if you use that and customize it from there

so you won't have to make all the default locomotion from scratch

[tropic parcel]

Running into an issue with Unity's play mode where I change the values of my physbones, but the physics won't update until I change them outside of play mode, is there a fix for this?

[arctic ginkgo]

also @young bear are you intending this to be used for 3pt VR, FBT, or Desktop? (or a combo of some of them)

[desert elk]

no that's how it works

[young bear]

3pt and desktop ideally

[desert elk]

stuff like that isn't saved in playmode

you need to copy it

[arctic ginkgo]

okay so you don't really have to worry about how it looks in FBT which is usually the hardest. For some reason the Base controller doesn't have access to animator layer control, so action or gesture would work, you can set up the toggle for the animations to blend the layer off/on

[young bear]

Im also struggling to understand how the gesture layer's mask system works

with the provided one it's set up to only mask the hands, which is fine. However, If i set the AllParts mask to include the legs they go into default ik "bike" pose even when nothing in that animator is controlling them

[tropic parcel]

No, what I mean is I tend to change the values inside of play mode in order to see how things like gravity will change them in real time. Right now, even if I change them in play mode for testing, there's no active changes; dampening, momentum, etc. Nothing changes if I set the values different, they move the same as if they were the previous values

[night ember]

the bike pose is the default unity pose that every model goes into no matter what is being animated on it

[young bear]

i'm using gesture manager

[arctic ginkgo]

well yeah you do need to have something controlling it, or it will go to the default pose, try setting the layer weight to 0 when it's not in use

[young bear]

I tried that and it didn't work. It prevented the layer from activating when the toggle was enabled, but the legs were still in IK pose

This is what I mean by the legs specifically being in IK pose

the problem i'm running into with the gesture layer is
A: if i don't mask the legs in the AllParts layer, then the legs don't go into IK pose but the animation doesn't control them
B: if i do mask the legs in the AllParts layer, i can control them with the animation but they're stuck in IK pose otherwise

And i can't find any actual documentation on how the gesture anim layer works besides just the fact that it uses masks

[arctic ginkgo]

iirc you aren't supposed to have a mask in the first layer

[young bear]

well that's what the the example gesture anim controller has (the one that controls the hand anims)

if i remove it then the sit animation doesn't work

[arctic ginkgo]

@young bear honestly when i've done this before, it's been through the base layer, but it is kind of annoying since there are some strange limitations. You're right that there isn't much documentation, but i'm looking at what documentation I can find and experimenting a bit rn to figure out what the best solution is

It seems like the gesture layer is intended for animations that indefinitely overwrite the base humanoid animations, which is why it's typically used for hands not not much else

[young bear]

I really wish that the vrchat docs were had a community wiki aspect of it so you could add documentation for things that don't have them

I tried using the base layer and adding my animation to that but it didn't seem to do anything either

can you use masks in the action layer?

[arctic ginkgo]

yeah, i just messed around with it and i think i have something that works

[young bear]

honestly IMO "gesture" really isn't a good name for the layer

[young bear]

what did you set up?

[arctic ginkgo]

you can just use the same layer as your emotes in the action layer, or you can set up a toggle in the action controller on another layer, and just mess with the tracking control and weights

just double checking it works with the other emotes rq

the "zombee" thing is just some old loco animation i resused from a character i made called "zombee"

so i have the "zombee" toggle to turn on the animation

i made this setup so it doesn't interfere with the original action layer, just overrides it if the toggle is enabled

[young bear]

ok, it's better, but the mask isn't being used

ok no that's wrong

it IS being used

[arctic ginkgo]

the "reset emote weight" just sets the layer weight for the "Action&AFK" layer to 1, so when i do use an emote it will play correctly, but if the toggle gets enabled, it immediately transitions to the idle animation, which instantly sets the "Action&AFK" layer weight to 0, the "Zombee" layer weight to 1, and the whole action layer to 0. It does have a transition duration for when it's disabled, and that hasn't caused any problems that I've noticed for enabling the animation, but if it does you can always make this a separate animation state from the disabling one. It also enables tracking.

Then it transitions to the animation, which blends the action weight to 1 and sets the legs and hips to use animation instead of tracking

[young bear]

here's my problem now

the mask IS being used, but now the parts that ARENT masked in the animation are being set to the bike/IK pose

[barren wharf]

i can't get my fbx with multiple pieces of clothing attached to my avatar in blender

[somber sequoia]

How are you attempting, and what happens?

[barren wharf]

im using cats

[young bear]

@arctic ginkgo the right side is masked, and is playing the animation as desired. the left side is not masked and is using the IK pose

[barren wharf]

and i just get a crash when i try to export

[somber sequoia]

you don't need cats to export

[barren wharf]

yes ik

but im using cats to attach the accessories

[spark walrus]

failed to build avatar :(

[somber sequoia]

70 errors - show the first 2-3, not the last.

[somber sequoia]

unfortunately, that's really not useful

Errors are the red ones

[somber sequoia]

again, you seem to be showing a random single error, not what I was asking for. Scroll to the top of that list and show the first 2-3 errors.

You probably don't need to click it to show the detail either.

[light charm]

does anybody know if there is a way to check if the chair on an avatar is facing the right direction?

[somber sequoia]

iirc the blue arrow is forward

I may be wrong though, or thinking of spawn points

[rocky grail]

Change the animation?

[hollow phoenix]

No I'm at the very top

[compact dust]

that's not what you showed before

[somber sequoia]

sorry, that reply wasn't to you

[hollow phoenix]

oh oops

[somber sequoia]

(we were doing the same thing in #avatar-optimization)

[lament jolt]

Hey! On Unity I'm getting this prompt when trying to upload. I'm a trusted user and have been on since like 2019. I've uploaded multiple avis including just 2 days ago. So why would I be getting this now?

[crimson pilot]

Is it possible to have 2 material sliders on one float? Where the first .5 is used for slider A and the other .5 is used for slider B

[spark walrus]

it's not letting me upload the avatar and i'm really confused

[somber sequoia]

Because you have errors.

[spark walrus]

what do you want me to show you? i'm confused please help

[somber sequoia]

I already said twice

[balmy barn]

close, see the red on there, its saying missing script

[spark walrus]

how do i fix it? :(

[somber sequoia]

install whatever the avatar creator says is required

[somber sequoia]

also, this isn't nitpicking but constructive help for the next time - we need to see the first 2-3 errors. Errors are red. The rest of these messages are less important.

[spark walrus]

ahh okay

[royal loom]

Can someone help me make my own VR chat avatar

[somber sequoia]

that's what this channel is for

[plain wagon]

Actually, I want to add an option where people can grab my head in their hands. And when they do, the body just stop responding and collapse on the floor, with me continuing speaking to you like nothing happened lmao.
Do you guys know how I can do that?

[somber sequoia]

I'd probably start with a grab contact that triggers the ragdoll system

[plain wagon]

i need to learn how to do that yeah

[night ember]

Youd need to constrain the head bone

[somber sequoia]

yep

[royal loom]

@odd marsh ok

[night ember]

Definitely dont go to dms for it

[somber sequoia]

beware that you'll often get people trying to scam you around here

[royal loom]

@somber sequoia how do people scam so I no what to do just in case

[night ember]

Dont download software, dont ever send them money

The only things you will ever need is unity, blender, and vrchat creator companion

Also generally avoid going to dms

[somber sequoia]

especially when they then suggest you go chat on whatsapp instead

[mental pawn]

hi, i was wondering why the freak at least on blender my character just doesnt seem to be able to have consistent deformations

[mental pawn]

you can start with Vroid studio to make a quick little anime character

[night ember]

Weight painting

[mental pawn]

i was thinking i could hide parts of the skin that wont be visible BUT this character has multiple clothes

[mental pawn]

i have been breaking my head with it for so long

and it still wont deform correctly

and robust weight transfer really barely helps

[night ember]

multiple bones can be weighted to the same vertices

[mental pawn]

thats what i thougt, auto normalize can be a little weird, but i havent found little deformations on any bone so far

hmm, i forgot to remove the inside of the sweater lmao

kind of managed to fix it by enabling preserve volume

but i dont know if its supported within unity

[somber sequoia]

yeah auto-normalize is weird at first

[mental pawn]

still, even tho i removed weird weight paintings. deformations like this happened

the lazy solution as i mentioned would be to straight up remove skin parts that arent even visible but its a very hard task for this character that is supposed to have interchangeable clothing

and what i used on blender at least was smooth corrective but its not something you can use on unity

[stone citrus]

All my avatars disappeared last week after I booted it up, is there a fix or am I going to have to restart

[somber sequoia]

do you mean in game or in unity/vcc?

[stone citrus]

Vcc if that means the game

[somber sequoia]

it doesn't. Try #1138891887374237706

this channel is about creating avatars

[stone citrus]

Oh ok

Thx

[mental pawn]

oof its gonna be ranked as poor

[somber sequoia]

you've got almost 40k left!

[mental pawn]

anyway, kind of struggling with deformations because blender's solutions are NOWHERE compatible with unity

such as what i used. corrective smooth and the preserve volume toggle on the rig modifier

[somber sequoia]

yeah it'd be nice to have those. But you can add bones and use rotation constraints.

[cloud vale]

Need help.. avatar doesn't seem to stand properly in game, when I move head around, the model stretches weirdly like something's off center.

[somber sequoia]

can you show it?

[cloud vale]

Actually I might've figured out why, and it may be because of there being conflicting phys bone colliders

[somber sequoia]

we can answer specific questions in here. But past that it depends on what you mean by help

[worn kiln]

?tag scam

[flat musk]

Hey ho 👋 I see you're looking for commissions.

You will probably receive DM's or friend requests from scammers now (or later) that will try to offer you their services. 😖

🚫 Absolutely DO NOT engage with those, regardless of how competent they might seem or their excuse to why they contact you.
This is unsafe practice used by scammers, and also breaks this Discord's rules. 👮

If you seek a creator, check out VRCTraders and follow their protocols strictly 🥺

🌠 It's extremely important to always DEEPLY investigate the account and social media of the person you plan to commission.
Is their social media linked in Discord? Is it legitimate? Are the references stolen? (Try to reverse image search posts to check.) 👀
The quality of fake profiles out there can be crazy good, be aware of that and NEVER engage with DM or friend requests that originate from the artist.

When in the slightest doubt, do not commission them and contact the moderators of the involved communities. 😱

[main finch]

Does anyone know how i can find out the bodytype of my model / to install SPS / Could anyone help me find it out?

[royal loom]

@worn kiln so how do I find someone who can make me a free one

[worn kiln]

no one really make you free now on days, most likely scammer you get in DM at all.....

[somber sequoia]

yeah why would someone work for free?

(but you can download lots of free avatars)

[royal loom]

@worn kiln oh ok. So why do they cost so much though

[somber sequoia]

it's a lot of work

[royal loom]

@somber sequoia so it's not the avatar that cost money it's the work

[somber sequoia]

is that not the same thing?

[royal loom]

Not really

[somber sequoia]

seems like either way you are paying for someone else's labour.

[worn kiln]

simply worse money working paid really....

[compact dust]

ill make a free one!
but only the assets are free, otherwise pay me $100 for work frfr

[worn kiln]

and more people struggle living so less free stuff now on days.

[compact dust]

also hi toni_lewys

[worn kiln]

(no comission taking here)

[worn kiln]

hi

[compact dust]

its a joke nerdy nerd

[worn kiln]

people can confuse as always

[royal loom]

@worn kiln oh that gets pretty pricey quick

[worn kiln]

for field engineer callout matter, now on days....I charge 100GBP per hour minimum. (yeap, I finish quick so mostly finish in hour so)
Previously 40GBP per hour kind. cost of living really suck.

[worn kiln]

yeah

[somber sequoia]

yeah same, there's no way I'd do anything for less than about that

[cloud vale]

so the problem still persists, and it might be armature related.. also it's only the head that's affected and will warp strangely when the head turns

[somber sequoia]

really not sure what I'm looking at here

[cloud vale]

when the head turns, it gets flatter and stretched

[compact dust]

head squish

[cloud vale]

p much

[somber sequoia]

did you create the model?

[cloud vale]

it's a deira base by mari

[somber sequoia]

so no. I guess "what did you do?" might be the next question

[cloud vale]

adjusted proportions by scaling the armature bones in creator companion. as for why it's the just the head, I just don't know what went wrong

[somber sequoia]

in the Unity editor. Creator Companion is just for managing projects and launching unity.

[cloud vale]

then yeah, that

[mental pawn]

Any solutions into how could i help this? Its driving me crazy since i can't really find yet a way to make the deformations consistent without relying on a blender solution

I have tried smoothing, redoing weight pants and it wont work

Actually the more red the parts are the worse it gets

[somber sequoia]

really difficult to provide advice from just a text description though

[main finch]

Anyone ever worked with sps and could help me out fixing it?

[mental pawn]

You may want yo look at the images

[somber sequoia]

yeah not much more I can get from those either, can't really clearly see the topology, definitely no weight paint display showing

[mental pawn]

Okay You could have said that from the beginnig! Hold me up rn

[somber sequoia]

I hadn't looked at the images again when I said that, it was a while ago I glanced

I do find a lot of weight painting is "fiddle around with it until it looks ok"

but also don't be afraid to retopologize

bad topology won't bend how you want

[fervent spear]

hey guys im in blender and i wanted to add an object to my avatars fbx, is it safe to select all these and join them together? so that the object is apart of my avatars mesh

[somber sequoia]

you can't join different types. But yeah, you can join mesh objects together

[royal loom]

@somber sequoia we got a scammer

[somber sequoia]

I'm not a mod

[fervent spear]

it acts weird if i dont select the armature also

[somber sequoia]

what does that mean?

[royal loom]

@somber sequoia I know that

[fervent spear]

well if i only select the body and icosphere and join them together, it renames the body to icosphere

[somber sequoia]

not sure why you pinged me then?

[royal loom]

Look at the dm

[somber sequoia]

it joins to the last thing you clicked. Select in the other order

[fervent spear]

oh!

[somber sequoia]

... really I'm not involved in this

[fervent spear]

thank you lol

[royal loom]

@somber sequoia I know just showing you because you said beware of scammers

[somber sequoia]

most blender operations use the target as the last thing you select - you can select 12 parts and join, they'll all end up as part of the last

[somber sequoia]

again, I have nothing to do with scammers or policing them, please don't ping me for this.

[fervent spear]

oooh ok ty!

[compact dust]

has nothing to do with kazin, he does not care, also stop pinging him 🙏

[somber sequoia]

thank you but I don't need help here 🙂

[frail temple]

When adding an object in blender, if you want to make the object a toggle in the future, make a blend shape

[somber sequoia]

I know how to use the ignore button.

[royal loom]

Ok my bad bro

[compact dust]

wasnt trying to help you

[fervent spear]

yeaa at the time of adding the object i didnt know how to make blendshapes so im trying to turn it into one

[frail temple]

It's easy, just make a basis blendshape, make a second blendshape and edit the object in edit mode, scale it down to zero and put it inside the avatar to make it disappear

https://youtu.be/YtJ1Dbv-XUA?si=KOmvWpcM2_o4cJjR

Pinky's guide is great for this

[fervent spear]

ohh its ok i know how to do it now! and yes haha i learnt from pinky xD

[mental pawn]

Actually i Made sure it has a great flow and it's all quads But still idk why it won't bend correctly

[frail temple]

You can try adding a middle point bone to make it deform the way you like

[somber sequoia]

all quads isn't necessarily the best option

don't be afraid of putting an edge in to split a quad where you want it to bend

[mental pawn]

I mean mostly the issue Is about clothing getting through the skin

Which Is something i don't really want

[somber sequoia]

also don't be afraid to move the clothing further from the body

[mental pawn]

The clothes are actually bigger than the body itself, yet it still goes through

[somber sequoia]

of course they are

[mental pawn]

Kind of weird since literally the clothing Is an exact copy of the body, its just bigger

[somber sequoia]

that's not necessarily ideal though either

[odd ivy]

Hi! 🙂 Is this the channel where I ask for help on avi work in Unity?

My question I have is, how do you take an avi you posted privately to your account back to Unity to rework it?

[mental pawn]

let me send you a pic of the weight painting too

[somber sequoia]

you cannot get an avatar out of the game, ideally you saved the Unity project beforehand.

[odd ivy]

Oh! Thank you. I'm really new to all of this. Eager to learn the ropes.

I had created an avi (but messed up and accidentally erased the entire project) and I had the jewllry piece (from the Kurai Female Nova) to where the ball piece would fluctuate and change color...I can't remember how to do that, sadly...can someone help me on that?

I was just messing with it one day and I loved what I did. But idk what I did and then it was gone.

Its like the outer lining was a rainbow 🌈 fluctuating line, inside was black ⚫️ with a backlight to it.

I apologize if I'm not making sense 😔...

[somber sequoia]

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/animator-parameters/
Add a condition to your transitions which uses IsOnFriendsList

[polar edge]

what unity installer we using

[somber sequoia]

https://vcc.docs.vrchat.com

[chilly steeple]

For some reason, I'm having issues with vcc when clicking add existing project my file explorer dose not open and Allow me the chance to select my project. instead nothing seems to happen and i get an error in logs saying "No valid projects selected" have already done a reinstall of vcc issue still persists. Any ideas as to what the cause could be?

having the same thing when trying to create a new project in vcc and trying to change the save path

[uncut lotus]

Im thinking about adding a flashlight to an avatar, and was wondering, are you able to make a functional flashlight for an avatar that would work for quest?

Im not finding much vids that cover making it yourself, and I dont wanna download like, a pre-made one

[somber sequoia]

can't put lights on quest, and they're awful for performance

[night ember]

Realtime lights are incredibly shit performance

[uncut lotus]

Oh. Any idea of some way to kida, fake it in a way?

[desert elk]

emissions?

[uncut lotus]

Whats that?

Sorry if its a dumb question Im tired

[night ember]

The thing that makes mesh glowy

[uncut lotus]

Oh!

That only iluminates an object, not like, lights stuff on its own?

[somber sequoia]

yeah avatar emission doesn't light anything else

[night ember]

Quest avatars cant have an actual light at all

[uncut lotus]

Could I technically, make like, a light shape, and give that emissons, but like, make it kinda see through?

[somber sequoia]

you could make a flashlight that looks like it works but it wouldn't actually light things

[uncut lotus]

Ta thats sorta what I mean

[somber sequoia]

sure, make a cone that has emissions

[night ember]

Not on quest

Quest doesnt support transparency other than the particles materials that fake it

[uncut lotus]

So lowering the opacity on the texture wont do anything?

[somber sequoia]

yeah it'd have to be a solid cone

[night ember]

No

[somber sequoia]

correct

[night ember]

Quest materials dont support transparency

[uncut lotus]

Bummer

Ight thanks for yalls help

[arctic ginkgo]

make a cone with a gradient transparent texture on it and use the vrchat/mobile/particles/additive shader

i wouldn't have the bottom circle in it

[uncut lotus]

Will this have any potential problems in the future?

[echo blaze]

hey, I have an issue with vrchat constraints. I made a jojo character and added constraints to the stand so it would copy the movement of my avatar but for some reason it just tposes on quest. It looks fine and works on pc but on quest it tposes. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

[ornate stump]

Probably too many constraint components? Maximum is 150.

[echo blaze]

it cant be because other people have done it. Also i know im not using that many constraints

[timber wharf]

well, stupid question but those are vrc constraints and not unity ones right?

[echo blaze]

yes

[ornate stump]

Is it all constraint isn't working or just the ones you put on the stand?

[echo blaze]

well the only constraints i have on the whole avatar are the stand ones. None of them are working but its only on quest. PC works fine

[thin compass]

How do i ensure my avatar's hand gestures work on non-index users, but stops using the hand animations when using index?
I've seen people use a simple toggle to switch between modes, but i was wondering if there is somekind of internal variable that knows this or similar

[full furnace]

Hi. I am uploading an avatar to Android and getting those Warnings

It is still lettim me to upload. it means they just wont download by default and android users will have to manualy enable the avatar?

[desert elk]

"the most recent"

Maybe they're from the pc version?

[full furnace]

Hmm. Maybe. It appears to work just fine on quest

[ornate stump]

That's the size from last time it built. You have to build again to recheck the size. Your avatar is hidden by default because it is Poor rating.

[spring jolt]

Hello guys, I'm just wondering, what feature of GoGo Loco turns flying on? I would like to use it in my avatar without Gogo Loco

[desert elk]

GoGo Loco Beyond

all - no flying
beyond - flying

remember about the head prefab thing if you're installing it manually

or do it through vrcf

[spring jolt]

I removed VRCF and GoGo loco because it ruining animations and emote menus

[desert elk]

I see

ahh

without GoGo loco

[spring jolt]

Especially which I did myself

[desert elk]

I misread

https://franadavrc.gumroad.com/l/gogofly

[spring jolt]

That's fine

[desert elk]

I believe this is flight only

[spring jolt]

Thank you, I will check it

[ripe pond]

what is this error? help!!

[glad breach]

I can help it’s pretty easy

[ripe pond]

trust me I reimport like 10 time alrady

[glad breach]

I can help more if I was in a call with you

[ripe pond]

ok

[desert elk]

🐟

[blissful surge]

Hello, I'm running into a problem:
I want to have a particle play a sound at its point of impact, but I don't know how to do that.
Does someone know how to do that, please?

[somber sequoia]

I don't believe you can on an avatar

[oak vector]

I dont know what happend here but after reimporting my fbx from blender back into unity all the faces are visable and not smoothed out, how does that happen and how could i fix it?

[blissful surge]

I know it's possible but it's very convoluted

[somber sequoia]

assuming you didn't change the model's smoothing, in the inspector for the fbx file, first tab, probably either use legacy blendshape normals, or set normals to import rather than calculate

[junior void]

Iirc a certain blender version had this problem

[oak vector]

it was set to import but after setting blendshape normal to calculate it fixed it thank you so much i just spend more then hour tinkering with blender settings with no result

[oak vector]

its the newest one, it seems it doesnt work well with unity, it already broke my blendshapes 2 times and now that happend

[somber sequoia]

well in Blender if you export with smoothing set to "face" then you can use import

[somber sequoia]

you know.... I did notice stuff related to this change and I totally thought it was Unity 2022 but now I think you're right, it was blender

kinda wish I'd investigated that at the time though

[oak vector]

before exporting with normals only worked as well but good to know will test it the next time

[ripe pond]

what am I spose to put in these box?

[ornate stump]

viseme mount shapes. If you don't have them, you have to create them.

[frail temple]

How do you increase transparency on an avatar? i want to make the lenses look a little bit more transparent here

[ornate stump]

Reduce Alpha.

[desert elk]

it looks like a VRoid model, you can use blender and cats plugin to create the rest of the visemes

[frail temple]

Thanks

[ripe pond]

thank

is this fine as I don't have the CH Viseme directly

[desert elk]

Use I

I is the closest mouth shape to Ch

[ripe pond]

Like this?

[desert elk]

yeah, and create them

when you import your model to unity again you can auto detect and it will fill everything properly

[ripe pond]

thank alot

[mental pawn]

I was thinking to straight up make each toggle hide invisible parts of the body but idk if thats a good idea

[left gull]

alot of creators make blendshapes that shrink those sections of the mesh, its likely a bit more optimized then what you're thinking of doing

[worldly marlin]

is there a quest compatible way to do a billboard texture for a toggle?

[somber sequoia]

you can do it with a particle system, sure

[plush dawn]

does anyone know a shader/setup that allows avatars to project something on a surface? im trying to have my avatar project a circle on the floor but without having it clip trough or float above it

[somber sequoia]

You could use a realtime light with a cookie, but that's expensive in terms of processing. Maybe a particle that collides with the floor then spawns a child particle with a horizontal billboard renderer

[plush dawn]

thatd still face the issue of clipping trough things , i might try the realtime light option though im hoping to get it to apply only to world and not avatars

[somber sequoia]

yeah, no real way to avoid such clipping

I mean, you could do something complex with particles and ray casting, but...

[plush dawn]

yea thats probably more work than its worth for a tiny gimmick

[somber sequoia]

yup

[frail temple]

Where do you put a specular map in Poiyomi? Only thing i see is Specular Tint

[somber sequoia]

open "packed maps"

[mental pawn]

Hmm but the approach was simpler, just make duplicates of the body with unused parts removed entirely and just the clothing on top

Still i could try that

Lets hope it doesnt look weird

[frail temple]

Thanks!!

[edgy berry]

How can i only visible avatar to certain player, like grab a object and can see my avatar thing

[somber sequoia]

You can do it either for all friends, or for a specific user if you use a contact receiver on your avatar, and a contact sender on their avatar, and they are within that receiver's radius.

[edgy berry]

So i make a object to contact sender and place it, and make a contact receiver inside my avatar to visible?

[somber sequoia]

no, you put the sender on your friend's avatar

[edgy berry]

Mmm...

[somber sequoia]

yeah, not an ideal solution

[worldly marlin]

if i have a particle system that spams a .0000001 lifetime particle of my object that might work

thats armature linked to my hand

[mental pawn]

Hi, i want to know how AM i supposed to set up clothing as toggles? Do i need to duplicate My blender proyect and separate their armatures?

Since every clothing i Made Is already bound to the same skeleton

[edgy berry]

I want to place global object, and if anyone grab it and shows avi to grab ppl

[somber sequoia]

that's how I do it. If it's a separate mesh object, just toggle it on and off. If you want to toggle parts, I like to use UV tile discard, though it's PC only.

[mental pawn]

Its kind of a separate mesh, but it's bound to the character's skeleton

Like its not a standalone skeleton

[somber sequoia]

there's no "kind of" - either it's a separate mesh object or not.

one armature is just fine though.

[mental pawn]

But yeah it's a separate object just bound to the same armatures and i was wondering, just make the toggle to change its transparecy

But the meshes are still there

[somber sequoia]

just disable the object

[mental pawn]

Hmm that too, im right now on the rigging process still since i need to decorate it a little bit further

[edgy berry]

Wait. So if i want use contact reciver, other ppl's character NEEDS contact sender in their hands?

[somber sequoia]

yep

[edgy berry]

And i know most like any avi have some contact in hands...

[somber sequoia]

right, but you need a sender with a specific tag that only your friend has. otherwise it'll work for everyone

[edgy berry]

Oh ok

[somber sequoia]

it's not ideal, but probably the best you can do on an avatar

[edgy berry]

So place obj, add to contact reciver inside to obj and set a collision tag to specific text

And make an avi and add a contact sender with a text

[somber sequoia]

yeah pretty much like that. You could easily make the thing for your friend a prefab so they can just drop it onto the avatar and upload.

[edgy berry]

Oh... thats why maker can make a sync dance avi. Thanks a lot

[somber sequoia]

exactly how those work, yes

[stone ridge]

how do I fix my avatar's fingers breaking/not bending properly with gestures? They bend but not naturally, mainly/most noticeably the thumb seemingly forgetting it has another joint to bend...
(and if it helps any, the avatar configuration for the fbx avatar definition complains about parts of the bones for the fingers)

[gusty perch]

does anyone know the reason when I press play to test physbone physics the component I added does update along it so I constantly have to exit out of it and enter to see the changes

[edgy berry]

using contact reciver, what is filtering > local only?

[somber sequoia]

only you can trigger it

(you the avatar wearer)

[edgy berry]

Whats different to allow self and local only?

[somber sequoia]

oh! Sorry, I was wrong. I believe local only means it isn't synced

[edgy berry]

Oh. Ok so

[somber sequoia]

Local Only - Limit this contact to only work on the local client. If enabled, the contact doesn't reduce your avatar's performance rank.

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/avatar-dynamics/contacts#filtering-1

[edgy berry]

Allow other and local only means if triggers, trigger only to see the change?

[violet widget]

Haiii i tried to ask this in Reddit but didn't have enough karma uhhh I have a problem where on my avatar it has what I think is a contact idk but it sets off headpats and it puts ||lovesence|| stuff to max

[arctic ginkgo]

why is the lifetime so short?

[worldly marlin]

give the illusion of movement just have it attached to the hand

[arctic ginkgo]

movement? you mean like following the hand's movements?

[worldly marlin]

yeah'

[arctic ginkgo]

you can just have the simulation space set to local, which it should be by default

[worldly marlin]

oh rly

[arctic ginkgo]

yeah that should just work without changing any settings

i mean try it, when you make a default particle system and rotate/move it, the particles all move together

[worldly marlin]

ya

[soft cedar]

I need help with my avatar's animations.
How do I make it so the animation doesn't slow down when reaching the end? (Its supposed to be on loop since its my locomotion animation.)

[balmy barn]

select everything in animation, right click & set both tangents to broken (something cant remember)

[soft cedar]

Okay, I'll try.

[cunning swan]

whats the best physbone setting for bottom of a jacket

[desert elk]

depends on the model and jacket

for me it's nothing xd

[desert elk]

tbh i would just make it move with the legs 🤷
you will need to experiment

[frail temple]

Big Boss?

[cunning swan]

https://tenor.com/view/big-boss-metal-gear-big-boss-fish-eating-fish-speech-bubble-gif-25302549

[frail temple]

I know it didn't embed but I already know what it is

[cunning swan]

big boss eating fish

[frail temple]

Is that actually mgs4 big boss? I am trying to find mgs4 models but I can't

[soft cedar]

I... think I forgot something.

Idk what tho.

I tried changing stuff, but I have no clue why the animations jump like that on lower speeds.

[sharp oasis]

I want to lock the shoulder, upper and lower arm and wrist into a set position with a toggle animation.
I know I need to use the gesture or action layer, and use the animator.Right Arm etc properties in the animation and not transforms.
But I can't seem to see how to stop the arm tracking int he tracking controller

or is it right hand and left hand? I thought there was a full arm one

[lean panther]

Need help, I can't get into Play mode nor upload/update my avatar

[frail badger]

hey girls im back. why is there a line on the face

that shows in-game and idk whats causing it

the vertices are merged there

and you dont see it up close

nvm im Him

[frail badger]

sounds like you made your modifications within a viseme maybe (that isnt base)

what do i do to get these to stay in the skull? theyre fine in blender

[soft cedar]

I dont understand why my animation doesn't loop seemlesly. It keeps jumping no matter what I try to do.

[compact dust]

looks like it doesnt do a full 360 rotation before repeating

[soft cedar]

Normally the animation only does a 90 rotation, to keep the animation short and less heavy. But normally, it doesn't jump like that.

[compact dust]

it doesnt look like it's doing a 90 either]

[soft cedar]

Odly enough, it only does that between the idle animation and the slowest mouvement ones. Between the different speeds, it works fine.

[soft cedar]

I know, and im scratching my head trying to understand why its doing that.

[compact dust]

hm, my builder does not have a build.

[soft cedar]

oof

[wraith fern]

avatar showing up as uploaded to both platforms on the vrchat website and is able to generate imposters, yet is acting as if its not supported on either platform? Avatar works perfectly fine in offline test. have not tested on android yet.

both the sdk and vrchat itself are up to date

[compact dust]

all the other tabs work tho

[wraith fern]

did you try to reimport

[compact dust]

nah that's gonna break it more than it is

least that's what happened last time

[wraith fern]

i thought it may be a firewall issue, like it was allowing the actual upload but got stuck on the blueprint???? but fuck man i dont know what to do

its clearly in the servers but its just not in the game?????????

[somber meadow]

Look in the console for spammed errors

[compact dust]

nothin there that isnt normal

[somber meadow]

Screenshot your whole console window

[compact dust]

sdk errors only appeared after deleting the VRCQuestTools, build tab was messed up before that anyways

[somber meadow]

Delete the KRT folder in your assets folder, you should have quest tools installed through VCC

[compact dust]

W, qt does literally nothing for me but make errors, idk why i imported it anyways

[solid violet]

so question plz how dose one fix a uv map i added a tail to the body mesh joining it but now the uv is compoleatly messed up and the texture that i had made for it to match my avi is not working on it now

[errant aurora]

I'm using the default robot to store all of my toggles but I need an FX controller, the default robot doesn't have one??

[solid violet]

pic for Refrence the tail thats sepreated is what its supposed to look like but this is what it turned out to be once i joined the meshes

[errant aurora]

can i use VRCFury fx as the controller?

[arctic ginkgo]

the vrchat SDK keeps getting stuck in a loop of uploading PC and Quest, has anyone else experienced this?

I'm using the multiple platform upload to upload to Android and Windows, and instead of uploading once for each platform, it keeps switching platform, uploading, then repeating forever, like this:

• Switch to Windows build target
• Build and upload for Windows
• Switch to Android build target
• Build and upload for Android
• Repeat

I can only stop it by cancelling the upload or build

and sometimes that will cause unity editor to crash

[somber sequoia]

you'd have to go see what's weird about these. It's hard to say what might have happened

[solid violet]

gotcha gotcha i ended up just re doing it i was adding it to the body so it fit into the skin mesh render for my lightining effects to go over the tail simply but didnt wanna work that way so im trying to see if i can add another skin mesh render to a partical system

[somber sequoia]

are you merging the materials too somehow?

'cause there's not a whole lot of gain to merge meshes but still have separate materials

(I mean, I would anyway, but it's still at least two draw calls)

[idle jetty]

Does anyone know how to get a scaled sweater to keep the same scale from edit mode for other modes it only reverts back to normal when leaving edit mode in blender

[somber sequoia]

if something "reverts back" you probably were editing a shape key that isn't Basis

[solid violet]

only reason i was gonna merg the meshes cuz on the partycal system and animation i made it would kinda by pass remaking the animationa and it would make the lighting particals go all the way down the tail as well since it seems i can only put one skin mesh render in the partical system the materials were sepreate so i was able to still throw a dif mat on it just the uvs seem to just go poof when joining to the body

[somber sequoia]

oh I think it's a good idea overall

[bleak ruin]

Is there a way to automatically remove crunch compression from textures when importing?

[somber sequoia]

UVs don't "go poof" though. Possibly you have uv0 (the first one) named differently in each of those mesh objects, when joining the meshes that would result in two different UV maps rather than those being merged. This one gets me once in a while.

[solid violet]

ahh gotcha yeah i know they dont go poof thats why i was mad confused but thank you ima check it out

[somber sequoia]

yeah it'd help to know what is going on, to provide further help

[ripe pond]

Does everyone know how to merge a material? I try to find a tutorial online but I seem to can't find it

[compact dust]

you have to do that type of stuff in blender i think

[somber sequoia]

yep, blender or similar

[ripe pond]

how?

[compact dust]

atlasing or smth, idk

[somber sequoia]

depends, there are a few methods. atlasing is one. I tend to bake to a new UV map, though that's technically a bit lossy since it's reprojection.

if you're making a whole new texture then it's just a matter of making a new UV map then texturing to fit into that

[compact dust]

im really bad at baking and uv maps

idk why

[somber sequoia]

UVMapping is annoying

[compact dust]

yeah i've tried learning how, im still dumb when it comes to that

[buoyant zodiac]

hey can someone help me with audio sources for avatars?

[soft cedar]

I still can't figure out why the animation jumps like that. I tried remaking the idle animation and the slow mouvement ones, but nothing works -w-"

I feel like im gonna give up.

[somber sequoia]

ask your questions

[somber sequoia]

what do you mean by jumping? Do you mean the looping isn't smooth?
You might try editing the animation and going into curves mode and adjusting the curves at the end to be more linear

ah I see the video now - can't tell from there if that's what it is

[soft cedar]

For some reason, when the value of the velocity is low, the wheels dont spin correctly. They snap into position, as if the animation was only playing halfway.

[buoyant zodiac]

so im working on a mayu avi that has default audio sources. i wanted to add my own sound so i looked it up and pretty much all i had to do was put a new audio source on top of it. i did that and it still plays the default one

[soft cedar]

I tried editing the animations, but it changes nothing.

[somber sequoia]

well you seem to have this in a blendtree... which gets a little weird

[somber sequoia]

not sure what you mean "put a new audio source" - do you want to play an additional one but keep the existing?

[buoyant zodiac]

i want to replace the default one it has

[somber sequoia]

change the audio clip then

[buoyant zodiac]

i think i did that

the deafult one says no audio clip, then i added a new one and it doesnt play it

[soft cedar]

Thats fair... Tbh, I just took the default locomotion blendtree, changed a few things and palced my own animations.

[somber sequoia]

ahh

[somber sequoia]

does the default one just use that player but instead use VRC Animator Play Audio in the animator instead?

[buoyant zodiac]

uh, not sure what any of that means lol

[somber sequoia]

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/state-behaviors/#animator-play-audio

[soft cedar]

I know the idle animation has the wheels not moving while all the other animations have the wheels moving, just not at the same speed or directions. Maybe thats why its doing that?

[ripe pond]

Which one should I use

[somber sequoia]

whichever achieves the result you want

there's no right or wrong answer, and lots of other tools which do it in their own way

I'd add some margin though, you want space between islands

[buoyant zodiac]

i couldnt find anything that helps me replace an audio for a different one

[bleak crown]

i need help setting up my unity for vrc if can pls dm me

[somber sequoia]

https://vcc.docs.vrchat.com/guides/getting-started

[bleak crown]

i tried that im just stupid

[somber sequoia]

without knowing what you currently have I couldn't recommend how to "replace"

[somber sequoia]

feel free to ask specific questions or post errors or similar in here, or #creator-companion if it's an issue with that application.

[bleak crown]

no it i need to show my screen so i know what im doing

im just stupid like i said

[buoyant zodiac]

so theres a speak audio source on the avi, when i click it, in the inspector is shows that audio source, but it doesnt show the sound effect its using, but it still plays one. i tried inputting my sound in the audio clip box and it doesnt work

[soft cedar]

cat :3

[buoyant zodiac]

mow :3

[somber sequoia]

right so I am guessing that if there's no audio clip in that source, it uses VRC Animator Play Audio, and so you'd have to go examine the animation layer which does this.

[buoyant zodiac]

ill try that, its weird cuz it plays a meow audio

[soft cedar]

:3

||I prefer wickerbeasts and novabeast -w-||

[somber sequoia]

well yeah, it's a cat 🙂

[somber sequoia]

||cats rule||

(I suck at discord)

[buoyant zodiac]

ive never used the animation layer so im stumped lmao

[soft cedar]

:[

[dark saddle]

Would someone mind explainig to me the Far and Gain here?

Some people tell you to make sure the Gain and Far match the Min and Max. Why is this?

[somber sequoia]

have you read this?
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/Manual/class-AudioSource.html

[dark saddle]

That's Unity documentation

[somber sequoia]

oh - the VRC one

[dark saddle]

VRC Spatial Audio is a VRChat component

[somber sequoia]

well it's got pretty decent docs too

[dark saddle]

The docs don't explain much

https://creators.vrchat.com/worlds/components/vrc_spatialaudiosource/

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure what people suggest, but that seems reasonably clear

[dark saddle]

The documentation explain technically

It gives no clear examples or demonstration, so when left with public tutorials why do people make this match with the Min and Max?

[somber sequoia]

those seem roughly the same parameters to me

I mean "far" and "max"

[dark saddle]

https://youtu.be/BmXCXP6UsQ8?t=123

https://youtu.be/9ZaOGvi1H1A?t=121

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[burnt spade]

any ideas how to fix?

damn embed fail

[compact dust]

ive yet to see a .png embed fail

[burnt spade]

there we go

[compact dust]

ur sdk is messed up

in someway

idk

i know nothing about sdk errors

[burnt spade]

damn

[compact dust]

least i think its the sdk-

[burnt spade]

so just like

reimport sdk?

[compact dust]

what im reading is more than likely just the sdk saying "didnt upload"

shorten the bottom tab with all the jibber jabber and sho the top 3 errors

[somber sequoia]

are those the only two errors? If not, post the first 2-3

[burnt spade]

those were the only errors from the problem happening earlier, tried uploading it again to recreate for screenshot and got a different error

wtf

[somber sequoia]

seems like networking issues

[burnt spade]

I've done this multiple times and this has not been thrown the previous times I got errors

so a problem on my network side?

[compact dust]

ohh

might be cus servers are all wonky rn (apparently)

[burnt spade]

hm

strange

cus it lets me upload test avis just fine

[somber sequoia]

could be weird network routing too, that error message is kinda vague

[burnt spade]

and now the error isn't thowing anymore????

its back to the old one

is my unity just scuffed?

[dark saddle]

Did anyone else notice this?

In unity, the hand gestures transition smoothly

but in VRChat, the default state does not

[buoyant hawk]

so i know IsOnFriendsList parameter makes toggles only to friends but u cant see it yourself is there a way to make you be able to see it too