avatar-help

[empty ermine]

my friend was the one who weigh painted it, heres the screenshots

[somber sequoia]

just confirm it moves with the bone in Blender in pose mode, that should be sufficient

[empty ermine]

it does

what do I do then?

[night ember]

did you enter playmode

[empty ermine]

I dont think I did, how to I enter it?

[somber sequoia]

oh

push play.

[empty ermine]

I presssed the play button but uh it sent me here

[desert elk]

try moving your model

and see if the cape moves

I like to go back to scene view and move it there

[cyan torrent]

does throwing a collision box into yourself for "dash" still work? I was following a turtorial on yourube

[somber sequoia]

the camera is pointing at the back of the avatar. move it around

[empty ermine]

i tried moving it but it doesnt work, i dont know if its like a wasd movement or not

[somber sequoia]

no, move the camera in the scene view

[empty ermine]

oh i did that

ok so how can i check to see if the cape moves in play mode then?

[desert elk]

move the model around

[empty ermine]

im so sorry for sounding dumb but how do i do that?

[somber sequoia]

same way you moved the camera

[desert elk]

select the avatar in hierarchy, arrows should appear

[somber sequoia]

any object in Unity may be moved this way

[empty ermine]

it doesnt show up in play mode

idk why this is so difficult for me when all i want to do is add physics to the cape-

[somber sequoia]

what doesn't "show up"?

[empty ermine]

the transformation arrows

[somber sequoia]

no, they don't show in the "Game" view, they show in the "Scene" view. I'd really suggest some basic tutorials at this point.

[junior kayak]

my viewpoint disapeared/not selectable even tho i have an avatar descriptor please help

[somber sequoia]

turn on gizmos, little globe icon at the top right of scene view

[empty ermine]

i moved it around and the cape still doesnt move, idk what im doing wrong

i added the pyshics bones and everything

[desert elk]

do the physbones show up on the model at all?

maybe mess with endpoint settings

[somber sequoia]

it's got a leaf bone, that shouldn't be the issue

[empty ermine]

they do show up, i checked on blender to see if the cape moves with the bones and it does

[desert elk]

the only thing that comes to my mind is maybe the radius? but I'm not sure

that shouldn't affect it

[somber sequoia]

shouldn't matter here, that matters for collision

[desert elk]

yeah, that's what I thought

[empty ermine]

maybe I didnt add it to the right bone? even tho i prob shouldve bc i added it to the connect bone

[night ember]

you arent in playmode in this screenshot

[empty ermine]

ok i entered it

[night ember]

now move it

[empty ermine]

i cant, at least, I dont know how

[night ember]

go back to scene view

[desert elk]

but don't exit playmode

just select Scene

[somber sequoia]

Ideally make another window pane with the game view so you can see both it and the scene view at the same time.

[empty ermine]

ok there we go

im so sorry for sounding dumb, this is my first time using unity

im more used to blender lol

[night ember]

also any changes made in playmode wont save

[empty ermine]

got it, so to save changes i just exit playmode right?

[night ember]

well that will undo all that you did in playmode

like if you change the physbones settings right click and copy component then after exiting playmode just paste the physbone settings

[empty ermine]

got it tysm

[karmic spindle]

does anyone have a good tutorial thats up to date on how to add custom animations to avatars ?

[somber sequoia]

honestly basically any of them, not much has changed about the animator

[karmic spindle]

ive tried this tutorial but its doesnt seem to work for some reason

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ_5aLx7pmU

[uneven tundra]

I am still stumped, I've looked at everything in my entire avatar multiple times. There are no bounding boxes that are huge. The bounds display as is normal in avatar data after upload, and the avatar looks fine when worn. But the preview is still between the size of a RL squirrel and an ant depending on what's added, but with no logical reason as to why those things would cause the avatar to look that small in preview.

[somber sequoia]

scale factor in the fbx import settings?

[uneven tundra]

Checked that too, they are all set at 1, the default.

[cyan torrent]

is there a way to make your avatar freeze in place in animation? Like, physically, stopping velocity ingame

[balmy barn]

should i say it or does anyone else want to tell them whats wrong with this av

its a ripped av , you wont get any help

[timid inlet]

a oka

[inland pawn]

Does anyone know what ikehud is and how to set it up?

[idle stag]

im trying to pair these two objects i made to the head of my avatar but im not sure how i want it to move with the head and teeth

[deft kite]

Does anyone know how to fix the avatar bug where your hand gestures look like you’re using quest controllers rather than index for others but normal for yourself. I cannot for the life of me figure it out and I wanted to ask before I tried switching builds. I’m using the hands layer provided for gestures and it’s how I’ve set up any other avatar without this issue.

[static harbor]

does anyone know how to fix this so im trying to use the oscleash and for some reason on the debug menu the /run and /look the blue squares are filling it and the /horizontal and /vertical are stuck in the bottom so whenever someone grabs the physbone it says its being pulled but never actually drags me and im using the same settings as my friend both unity wise and config so im unsure how to proceed and would love any help i can get
P.s. I've already tried reinstalling vrchat and did reset config but it changed nothing

[daring axle]

object reference not set instance of object what does this mean and how can I fix it?

[somber sequoia]

insufficient information

[gentle goblet]

Hi so I added a little tag on a chain to my ears, and since they are shark ears they are larger and have their own physbones but now the tag I added is stretching and acting super weird..how do I fix that >~>

[daring axle]

and how can i fix this?

[somber sequoia]

I don't know what the problem is, those message are often without much context.

[somber sequoia]

hang the tag from the physbone

Or weight paint it entirely to one of the bones

depends on how you've set it up

[gentle goblet]

So I am trying to weight paint it because I found the part that is the issue but this happened >~>

And it isn't weight painted to any of the other chain parts or ear bones that I can see >~>

[somber sequoia]

I'm not entirely sure what I'm looking at, but it looks wrong.

[gentle goblet]

So the red is the tag and from my knowledge it should be straight up now that it is all red but it is not >~> It is also connected to my ear that I bent a weird was to get it to stretch

[somber sequoia]

in mesh edit mode you can click on a vertex and see what weights it has, in the Item box of the 'n' popup menu. I'd guess you probably want that to just be weighted to one bone

[timid kite]

is there ANY way to set up a toggle that will play for X amount of time and then turn ITSELF off or the effect its doing with a help of a tool? i refuse to use full controller

[tall dock]

Any free alternative to substance painter? I'm too broke to pay for it and I want to customize my textures without sharp edges when painting the png

[somber sequoia]

Blender plugins ucuPaint and LayerPainter, Armor Paint (very alpha, buggy), quixel mixer maybe

[tall dock]

I've kinda heard about layerpainter once but I did not know it was for it, who's the best of those in your opinion?

[somber sequoia]

is it a looping animation? You could do it in two layers if so, or just make the animation the time you need, then use VRC Avatar Parameter Driver on a subsequent state to turn off the toggle

[somber sequoia]

Substance Painter 😦

[tall dock]

Of the free ones I'm talking but I did try substance painter on the free trial and helped me a lot

[somber sequoia]

oh I know, but unfortunately, my answer still stands

[gentle goblet]

Okay so yeah I did as you said, there were 5 bones on the chain so I only kept them on the tag and then weight painted the tag and that fixed it, thank you <3

[tall dock]

Sadge

[somber sequoia]

very. ArmorPaint is promising, I like where it's going but it's so crashy it's not usable yet

[somber sequoia]

awesome!

[tall dock]

I'll see if I can get another free trial of substance

[timid kite]

i want to spawn with red skin and after a few seconds for skin to go back to human color. i only use vrcfury

[empty ermine]

hey question: I want to flatten the material so I can put VRChat supported shaders for quest, is there a way I could do it?

[somber sequoia]

ah I don't use Fury for this so wouldn't know how to do it with only that tool

but that's a single animation really.

[timid kite]

how?

[somber sequoia]

make an animation that turns you red and then later in the same animation turns you not red. Put it into a layer by itself.

[timid kite]

i have 4 material slots tho

ive never done an animation before ><

[somber sequoia]

doesn't matter how many slots you have

though if you want to only animate one you'll need to consider property renaming like Poiyomi can do. Not sure of other shaders.

[timid kite]

how would i make an animation that only affects the skin?

[somber sequoia]

I suggest looking up tutorials on animating material properties

the visuals will help

[gentle goblet]

Quick question about sps but should you enable the sounds with that if you have pcs too? I don't want to like go into more details because yeah, but I was just curious

[lament belfry]

does anyone teach unity for an absolute newbie who has never touched blender nor unity in her life?

tutorials are hard for me to grasp I do better one on one lol

dms are open if you can direct me or help me lol!!

[acoustic folio]

I’m willing to give all my information away in hopes anyone here is trust worthy enough to possibly privately upload an avatar I just made. OR if anyone knows any other ways to upload avatars through mac please let me know! Never knew mac couldnt use the creator companion… shucks

[left gull]

Not allowed here nor per the games TOS, doing it will likely get your account in trouble and hit with a ban

• its just unsafe practice

[compact dust]

Not against TOS if the uploader has permission though i believe

cus otherwise it's account stealing or wtv you wanna call it

[bold obsidian]

Quick question, can you upload two different Avis under the same name

[verbal stratus]

I bought an avatar recently and trying to upload, I havent touched an avi in a while but it keeps giving me an ownership failed to agree after clicking ok

is it me or is it the sdk

This has never been an issue before

nvm it just started building after i built a test avi

the new popup for uploading an sdk is hella bugged

[proper storm]

You need to make the drool in blender

Needs to be weight painted and add a armature

[wanton cedar]

Is there any reason why my avi when exporting to quest just exploded? literally. Like I was optimizing him, made sure the bones were fine, mesh, etc. everythings parented and transforms are good. I just replace the fbx in unity (it has vrcfury which might be the cause) but when i went to go see how it did, everything but the body was giant and just stacked on top of eachother. What in the world is going on

[vivid plaza]

Can I not change the key binds if I'm playing on Desktop? I haven't been on in FOREVER and I been seeing a whole lot of updates. Am I missing it?

[tall dock]

How can I stop textures from overlapping in substance painter? Is there a way to move the overlapped texture so everything is organized?

[night ember]

Dont unpack your model

[night ember]

Blender uv editing

[tall dock]

But it's one single mesh, how?

And I didn't know that was a thing

[night ember]

Its how it was even able to be textured to begin with

Theres an entire tab for uv editing in blender

[tall dock]

Ahhh nice, do you have a video on how can I do that with a single mesh? Do I have to eliminate vertices and separate things?

[night ember]

Wat

Uv mapping is just the 3d polygons slapped onto a 2d image

Mesh count doesnt matter

[tall dock]

Ehhh

But it's intuitive or something cause I've never been to the UV Editing tab

[night ember]

Surprising considering you need to in order to unwrap the uvs so you can actually texture a model

[tall dock]

The thing is that the model got textures but it's my first time doing a custom one

I can't do a lot of complex things in blender, I've been using it for a short time

This window popped up, what do I do here?

[night ember]

Select the entire model

[tall dock]

Entire model or the mesh I want to map?

[vast falcon]

anyone know how to stop the arm from bending backwards like this? i know it has to do with irl arm length vs avatar, but im not sure if theres a trick in blender/vrcfury/vrcsdk

im currently straightening all the arm bones and only moveing the elbow a bit back

[wanton cedar]

I didnt

[thorn eagle]

All the meshes that have the same material, but if the model only has one material you can just select the whole model

You can easily select everything that is assigned that material by going into edit mode, head on over to the material tab (red circle on the right panel) and under the materials list there is a "Select" button

[tall dock]

I mean in the body I got there is like 4 mats

Claws, body, legs and arms

[thorn eagle]

Well, use the method I described to select everything that is part of the problematic uv map

After that you can move the UVs in the UV Editing tab so that they don't overlap

Although I'm not sure how they ended up overlapping in the first place

[night ember]

Shared texture probably

[reef wedge]

i need help related to vroid models and trying to put a hat on one

[ornate stump]

Do you have a specific question about it?

[reef wedge]

i try to import the unitypackage for the hat but unity doesnt accept it and turns my cursor into the 🚫 sign

every acessory i tried it doesnt work

its more unity problem sided but its still a problme

nevermind i think i found a answer.

[cosmic temple]

hi im new to this server and id like to know;
why did i get this message when i tried to publish my avatar?

[junior void]

?upload

[flat musk]

You must obtain at least "New User" Trust Rank in our Trust and Safety system in order to upload content. You can get this by just spending a few hours in VRChat, hop some worlds, and make some friends. Give it some time and you'll be able to upload content in no time.

As an aside, you must have a VRChat account to upload content. That means you can't use a Steam account, Oculus account, or Viveport account to upload content like worlds or avatars.

Source: https://docs.vrchat.com/docs/frequently-asked-questions

[cosmic temple]

Ohhh i see, thanks!

[fast urchin]

Use an account from VRChat it self. That way you get that rank very quickly.

[cosmic temple]

I see, alright thank you!

wait i just have to hop on vrchat right? or do i have to make some interactions

[junior void]

just afk'ing wont do anything

[cosmic temple]

Ohh ok

[fast urchin]

Also make friends with whoever. That + your usage time upgrades your rank.

[unkempt cobalt]

So, I'm having trouble trying to figure out how to play a particle when I activate/deactivate a specific prop.

Basically, I'll have a toggle in the expressions that will allow me to manifest/demanifest a weapon in my hand. However, I can't seem to figure out how I can make it so that it plays the particles on both activating AND deactivating, without being interrupted by their GameObjects being disabled and without automatically playing when joining a game/loading in on someone else's client.

Avatars cannot use custom scripts that will allow us to use a simple ParticleSystem.Play(); function for animation events, so what now?

[barren wharf]

hey why when i go in play mode, my avatar's body parts disappear?

[junior void]

your torso is definitely morphed by a blendshape

[barren wharf]

how do i tell which one

wait it was modular avatar causing it

[junior void]

in play mode you can view the blendshapes on your avatars mesh.

well, this happens when you remove clothing but dont fully get rid of the scripts that make these blendshapes activate as they assume the clothing to be on

[final kiln]

hey i need some help I'm trying to upload a avatar and this is the quest version but I cant see the inspector page on the right

[junior void]

Click the avatar in scene or in the hierarchy

[final kiln]

oh lol thanks i havent imported avatars in like a year lol

[final kiln]

can anyone help me to why it wont publish the quest version sorry if its very easy to figure out im very dumb lol

[junior void]

There are scripts missing

Did you forget to look at dependencies in the description of the avi? Gogo loco and vrcfury, and maybe more are missing

[mental flare]

does anyone know how to make a new condition for the animator menu?

[ornate stump]

Condition as in transition condition? That's where you have to select the transition to set it.

[trim girder]

can we fix the uv seams visible?
its make that only in unity

[wind skiff]

interactions with people of a high trust rank will speed it up

you can also just buy vrc+ to immediately rank up

[cosmic temple]

just by talking to ppl with a high rank can speed it up?

[wind skiff]

idk the exact metrics, but friending people is a big part i think

[placid mica]

I keep getting this upload error and idk why?

[left gull]

what does the 2nd error say when opened? ive never seen that one before but im guessing it'll explain what you've gotta do somewhere in its text

[warm bolt]

Hello! I bought a pen to use with my avatar, but it didn’t come with the actual “pen” included. So for now, I’ll write using my finger. Does anyone know where I can get a generic pen that I can add to my avatar? I’d really appreciate any help 🙏

[junior void]

There is a free world prefab for pens, you could use the fbx from it and adapt it to work with your avatar

[cosmic temple]

can i fix all of these issues by reducing polygones and bones from my model?

[junior void]

All? No.

[cosmic temple]

how do i fix like

the red ones

[junior void]

first you should fix the top one even though its 'only' a warning

[cosmic temple]

the version one?

[junior void]

because upoading with wrong unity version can lead to avatar turning into a robot

[cosmic temple]

yeah idk how to fix that part specifically

cuz like

[somber sequoia]

you install the right Unity and open your project with it. VCC can help

[cosmic temple]

my unity automatically turns a 2022.3.22 version to 2022.3.22f1c1

[junior void]

install the mentioned unity version

[cosmic temple]

it gives me the c1 version of 2022.3.22f1

[somber sequoia]

That is the correct one

[cosmic temple]

is this too big for a vroid character still?

im trying to optimize my model without having to ruin it as much

[somber sequoia]

stats/requirements are here: https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/avatar-performance-ranking-system/

[junior void]

vroid?

[somber sequoia]

scroll down to the limits section

yeah I'm assuming it's just from vroid

[cosmic temple]

yeah vroid

[uneven tundra]

So in follow-up to yesterday I made a copy of my avatar project and tore it apart piece by piece until the preview rendered with the correct scale. I found the issue but was unable to fix the problematic asset without reverting it to a state that lacks any blendshapes.

If someone knows I'd really like to know how the existence of a 'hide' blendshape that moves all verts to a single point could mess up the avatar preview so badly even though it doesn't show any bounding box issues -anywhere-?

It messed up the preview even when it was inactive/optimized out by VRCFury

[desert elk]

if you convert it in blender instead it will have way better stats
Unity converters do a lot of useless things to vroid

[cosmic temple]

srsly? 💔

[desert elk]

yes

you don't need all of those physbones, materials, colliders

that's way too much

unity converters out everything everywhere

which is why they're not recommended

[cosmic temple]

so i should hop on blender and put my vrm there first

[desert elk]

it's better if you take your model to blender, fix it with unofficial cats add on, combine materials with a material combiner add on and after that put it to unity and out the phsybones and colliders where you need them

[desert elk]

yes

get cats and the material combiner, cause they'll be useful

[cosmic temple]

huuh

[desert elk]

they're add ons for blender

[cosmic temple]

wait hang on i need to install blender first

[desert elk]

yes

I use 4.2

[cosmic temple]

how do i get these addons

[desert elk]

version of blender I mean

get blender first

[cosmic temple]

would it be better to go for ur version or whatever is the newest

[somber sequoia]

I use the latest

[desert elk]

that's your preference

[somber sequoia]

yep

[cosmic temple]

ah alright

i never really thought that i had to resort to blender after using vroid

alright i got blender now and how do i get the addon?

[somber sequoia]

the best path from vroid to unity is through blender

[cosmic temple]

oh my god 💔

[desert elk]

https://catsblenderplugin.xyz

cats

https://github.com/Grim-es/material-combiner-addon/releases

material combiner

[desert elk]

it's not that bad if you're not doing any edits

[cosmic temple]

na i just wanna import my character thats pretty much it

how do i add these addons now that i got them?

[desert elk]

oh you'll need a vrm add on too

i forgot

[cosmic temple]

🥀

[desert elk]

because blender by default doesn't support vrm

sorry

[cosmic temple]

is it this site?

[desert elk]

yes

don't unzip the zipped files and go
edit > preferences > add-ons > arrow on the top right > install from disk
and pick the zip file
one by one, you can't do multiple at once

that's for 4.2 idk if other blenders have it different

[cosmic temple]

ookay i think i got all of it now

[desert elk]

awesome!

you can import the model now
file > import

vrm

and then go to cats (click N if the side menu doesn't show up)

[cosmic temple]

awesome i imported my character now

[desert elk]

MMD Options > Fix MMD Model > OK

[cosmic temple]

wait where do i find cats

[desert elk]

N

should be in the side bar thingy

here

on the right

[cosmic temple]

oh found it

[desert elk]

1st step

2nd step
Visemes > pick the correct stuff, aka AA: Fcl_MTH_A
OH: Fcl_MTH_O
CH: Fcl_MTH_I
click create visemes

eye tracking > pick the correct eye bones, press rotate eye bones

[somber sequoia]

oh I forgot those came oriented wrong

[desert elk]

Last step
MatCombiner
Generate Material List
If you don't want any switching to different colours and stuff you can combine everything besides transparent stuff (glasses lenses and eye highlights)
pick what you want to combine and press "Save Atlas to..."

[desert elk]

yeah it's very annoying xd

[desert elk]

and after that you can export as FBX, set the scaling to FBX All, and untick leaf bones

[cosmic temple]

the correct eye bones should be Eye_L and Eye_R right?

[desert elk]

yes

[cosmic temple]

kk thats done

[desert elk]

_L for left
_R for right

[cosmic temple]

oh do i need to install pillow

[desert elk]

oh right

install pillow

XD

whatever that means

[somber sequoia]

it's a Python library for manipulating images

[cosmic temple]

now it tells me to restart blender 🥀

[desert elk]

save your file and restart

[desert elk]

good to know

thanks

[cosmic temple]

this is unironically the first time ive ever spent so much time on a 3d model

[desert elk]

it takes like a minute if you've been doing it for a while xD

the longest part is downloading everything

[cosmic temple]

true

err is it normal that my model isnt fully outlined

[desert elk]

outlined?

[cosmic temple]

yeah like only the bones are selected

[desert elk]

you shouldn't worry about the shaders in blender, since that's set up in unity

[desert elk]

cause you only selected the armature

[cosmic temple]

ohh

[desert elk]

not the mesh

[cosmic temple]

do i select the armature and the body at the same time

[desert elk]

if you need to for something

sure

with shift

[cosmic temple]

im at the matcombiner part

[desert elk]

great

so think about what you want to combine and combine it

i just combine everything besides transparent things, cause they need a different shader

[cosmic temple]

i dont rlly have anything i needed to separate i dont think

[desert elk]

mhm, so you can do the same thing

[cosmic temple]

saved the atlas

[desert elk]

awesome

you can export the fbx now

[cosmic temple]

i dont have to keep everything selected when i export as fbx right?

[desert elk]

delete the cube, light and camera from your blender scene if they're there

[desert elk]

nope

export settings

[cosmic temple]

oh shit i forgot about the camera and light

[desert elk]

yeah, they can cause issues

[cosmic temple]

wait whered u get this part

[desert elk]

file > export > fbx

it's on the side

of the export window

[cosmic temple]

odd

it just sends me straight to exporting without having to pick anything

[desert elk]

it should show you this

full screen may help

[cosmic temple]

yeah i exported it now

[desert elk]

great, you can set it up in unity now

[cosmic temple]

tf

its not letting me open it

[desert elk]

what do you mean?

drag and drop into the assets

can you not do that?

[cosmic temple]

this pops up

its in the assets but its not letting me put it on the baseplate

[desert elk]

if that's the fbx, drag it to the hierarchy

[cosmic temple]

the hierarchy?

[desert elk]

left side

[cosmic temple]

ohh

[cosmic temple]

wait i can do that?

[desert elk]

yeah

[cosmic temple]

its not working

[desert elk]

that's what i always do, cause it puts it at world origin, which is needed

[desert elk]

wdym?

[cosmic temple]

oh

nvm it works now

[desert elk]

:)

[cosmic temple]

but now its just a colorless statue

is that normal?

[desert elk]

yes

you need to assign materials to it

drag the atlassed textures in

[cosmic temple]

i see

[desert elk]

and whaterever you didn't atlas

into the assets

and right click > create > material

and set them up how you need

[desert elk]

remember to also connect the materials to your avatar's mesh

[cosmic temple]

is it normal for atlassed materials to look horrid

[desert elk]

wdym?

horrid how

?

[cosmic temple]

it looks kinda awful now compared to before

[desert elk]

cause you need to set up the shader

[cosmic temple]

o

how do i do that

[desert elk]

make a material or extract the materials

put the textures on the materials

set the shaders (you probably used MToon before)

and set it to "cutout"

and backface culling to off

[cosmic temple]

im a bit confused on this part srry

[desert elk]

i can send screenshots if that would help

[cosmic temple]

do i just make a random object?

[desert elk]

? why

[cosmic temple]

huuuuuuuuuhhh...??

oh its in assets nvm

[desert elk]

yeah

right click in the assets

[cosmic temple]

i got the material now

what do i do?

[cosmic temple]

after that?

[desert elk]

and that should be good

[desert elk]

remember to set the rendering type to cutout and cull mode to off

i forgot to highlight it on the photo

[cosmic temple]

oh do i also put the atlas into shade color

[desert elk]

it should put it automatically

but if it doesn't you can do it

[cosmic temple]

but rn it still looks the same

[desert elk]

did you do this?

cause it should look good, if you did that

[cosmic temple]

right i havent done that

OH

it works now!

[desert elk]

Awesome!

[cosmic temple]

tho my clothes are still a bit low in textures

its all a bit pixelated

[desert elk]

you can check the texture size and maybe increase it a bit

click the texture, there should be "max size"

or smth like that

[cosmic temple]

the atlas?

oh shit it worked-

[desert elk]

:)

awesome

[lament belfry]

Could I ask you a question?

[desert elk]

just ask

[cosmic temple]

wait but how do i convert this into a VR chat model

[lament belfry]

Do you or do you know anyone who knows how to teach blender? Like 1 on 1 type deal

im like

new new

[desert elk]

idk how to do everything

i just learn the things i need

and google specific tutorials

[somber sequoia]

there are many basic tutorials on setting up an avatar, I'd suggest watching one. like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSwMz4WcajQ

[somber sequoia]

this seems like something you'd have to pay for, like private tutoring

[cosmic temple]

ik how to convert a vrm model but idk about the new compressed one so i might have to ask eliot again

[lament belfry]

right Im just not the best with tutorials i guess, Scupling, shaping, shading

[somber sequoia]

once it's in Unity, it's all the same

[cosmic temple]

it is?

[desert elk]

yeah

[cosmic temple]

thats odd

[somber sequoia]

why?

[desert elk]

?

[cosmic temple]

my converter isnt letting me convert

[desert elk]

why are you using it?

you used blender

[somber sequoia]

if that's unity, don't try to convert vrm there

[cosmic temple]

o h

should i go back to blender

[somber sequoia]

once you export that .fbx from Blender you can follow any of the many tutorials like the one I provided

[desert elk]

if you want to upload a vrm to vrchat, you should always use blender

in my opinion

[somber sequoia]

and mine

[desert elk]

to convert it to fbx

[cosmic temple]

convert to fbx and then..?

[desert elk]

upload to vrchat

!

[somber sequoia]

... and then you do what's in that tutorial I've mentioned twice

[cosmic temple]

actually i should watch the tutorial

[desert elk]

yup

oh yeah, i noticed that tutorial kazin sent

you should watch it

[somber sequoia]

there are many, this one happens to be quite good and reasonably popular

[desert elk]

mhm

this channel generally has nice tutorials

[cosmic temple]

..now im getting these issues

[desert elk]

autofix

and set the rig to humanoid

click the fbx in assets

rig > humanoid > apply
configure and make sure everything is correct (you will most likely have a hair bone in the jaw bone, fix it)

and apply

[timid terrace]

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

💀 Pls load my thumbnails

[cosmic temple]

weird

[desert elk]

embeds appear to be broken lately

[cosmic temple]

oh now the bright orange warning symbols are autofixes

[desert elk]

yup yup

[cosmic temple]

praying to god that this works 🙏

[desert elk]

it should

hopefully

[cosmic temple]

how long does building and publishing usually take?

YES

[desert elk]

done and works?

yay

upload successful!

[cosmic temple]

now i need to see if i can find it on vr chat

[desert elk]

it should be in your uploaded folder

[cosmic temple]

i dunno ill have to see

it should automatically be public right?

[somber sequoia]

no, you set that in the SDK's build window

[desert elk]

nope

it's set to private

you can change to public in the sdk window or on the website

[cosmic temple]

ohhhh shit

alright

[cosmic temple]

do i have to publish it again?

if i were to do it in unity

[desert elk]

it should say "save changes" or something like that

[cosmic temple]

yeah it did

[desert elk]

idk i always do that on the website

[cosmic temple]

ill republish and see if that helps

it worked!!

theres only one issue im noticing rn tho

the iris doesnt rlly work smoothly

🥀

is there a way that i can fix that

[graceful mango]

so im working on a runa avatar edit and i did all the material steps correctly (drag in the alpha) and the palm is gone on the left hand but showing in the tutorial video?

[left gull]

did you bring the model outside of unity at all when editing it?

[idle jetty]

Does anyone know how to fix my avatar being way to high in the air and when i turn it is way to fast also in the avatar preview in the menu the avatar is as small as a dot

[mint garnet]

I need an expert on VRC animator play audio because ive followed tutorials and looked through forums and i still have the same issue, I cant hear the audio. It toggles the audio source when the sender reaches the contact its just not audibly playing anything and as you can see above there is audio in the animator so theres no reason for it not to play anything. I'm lost on this and its such a specific problem that theres nothing online helping. Some help on this would be greatly appreciated.

[tall dock]

Is there a way to do a seamless stitch with different parts joined to the avatar? When I merge vertices usually the model looks weird in the stitched zones, like this

[junior void]

Set the shading again or smooth vectors

[somber sequoia]

this is exactly how mine looks. I do leave the AudioSource enabled all the time though.

[tall dock]

Eh eh? How

[junior void]

Blender basics. In object mode right click, set smooth or auto smooth - you should learn about vectors and normal data

[tall dock]

But when I smooth vertices in the affected zones that scar-like skin doesn't dissapear

[somber sequoia]

you may have to reset vectors (in the normals menu) first

[tall dock]

Normals menu?

Ehh

[somber sequoia]

mesh -> normals, or alt+n

[tall dock]

alt+n doesn't do nothing and when I select the mesh and right click there isn't a tab called normales

[somber sequoia]

you must be in mesh edit mode to change the mesh

again, blender basics.

[tall dock]

I've been using blender for a short period, sorry if I missed some of the basics

[grim valley]

i might just be dumb but is there any way to fix this? if the knee bends it doesnt stay on the thigh. idk how to fix D:

i feel so dumb

[trim girder]

??

hes stupid?

[tepid jetty]

Attach to the lower leg not the upper then

Hey, I know there's ways to desync animations
But I'm unsure how to go about making animations that are triggered by contacts only happen for the user who activated them
(I want to make an avatar that looks different depending on if the observer is to the left/right front/back)

[desert elk]

make sure the hierarchy is alright and try dragging your model to the scene again

[trim girder]

Its root pelvis spine chest...
But i have clothes bones in pelvis its a problem ?
Like a skirt

[vast falcon]

arms work fine until trying to put them behind, and it seems to bend weirdly or break my arm. other models work fine. tried making the arm longer but doesn't seem to help.

[vast falcon]

try going into the data tab of the mesh and clearing any geometry data

[desert elk]

shouldn't be. By root do you mean the armature? or do you have a bone called root?

[trim girder]

A bone

[desert elk]

put it like this
Hips - Root
Spine - Pelvis
Chest - Spine
Upper Chest - Chest

and see if that helps

[trim girder]

I will try tomorrow
And if i put ankle in foot mapping its a problem when i have to walk ? Cause its animal leg so its like 2 knees so like this the feet of my character is on toes mapping

[desert elk]

I don't see why a normal humanoid armature wouldn't work for that avatar

[trim girder]

Ok i hope

[spark walrus]

heyy i know im not able to upload avatars yet due to my vrchat rank
but can i still test the avatar somehow on my computer? it's not letting me

[balmy barn]

av3/gesture emulator in unity closest you can do for now

[vast falcon]

bump

[grim valley]

thanks xd

[spark walrus]

Is there any good guide/tut for 2D mouths

[prisma slate]

In need of anyone good at 3d textures

[mild solar]

i have a personal avatar edit i bought and am working on*, that a friend of mine when getting close and looking at my avi completely lags out and freezes. they said because my avatar has “25 lights” on it, and while i do like working on edits and materials, im not sure what “lights” is exactly referring to, i was wondering what specifically i should look for when trying to optimize the avatar better, to not lag people out when they get close

[mental pawn]

how can you increase your trust as quickly as possible

i have been told that world hopping for 12 hours doesnt work

[somber sequoia]

do you have ... ahem... certain props which one does not use in public? Those use lights for .... targeting.

[mild solar]

the avatar does have it, but i havent used thm

[somber sequoia]

well that will count against you for performance ranking. if they aren't active at the time, probably shouldn't be causing lag, but realtime lights are very expensive, so ideally have none.

[mild solar]

where do i check for lights, is that in the poi pro mat?

in unity

[somber sequoia]

lights are components on your avatar in the hierarchy, this is not a material or shader thing

[vast falcon]

another bump 😭

[onyx sun]

looking for some help..

[somber sequoia]

pink = broken material, either invalid shader or maybe missing image textures

[onyx sun]

looked at the textures there all neeto

how does one look ateth the shaders?

[somber sequoia]

you look at the material, pick the shader from the dropdown at the top

[onyx sun]

im not seeing anything

[mild solar]

could this be the culprit?

[somber sequoia]

That is indeed a light

[mild solar]

thats the only light i canfind and when i toggle it on and off it really changes the shadows on the avi, could this one light be so bad its making my friend lag?

[somber sequoia]

yeah I could see that being a problem in some cases, such as everyone present already has very very poors

[onyx sun]

so that only happenes in play mode but when i bac out its fine asf

[somber sequoia]

then likely an animation swaps materials

[onyx sun]

how do i fix that issue

[somber sequoia]

find the material that the animation swaps to and fix it. if you go into play mode, then inspect the avatar, you should be able to check what materials are in use

[onyx sun]

alr tyyy

idk what i did but it fixed it

[unique axle]

Object animation works in the animation tab view but not on the actual toggle? the wings im animating do not have an actual bone but i am moving them up/down
(i do have Is Animated on)

is there any fix to this?

[timid kite]

i have an egg inside of me but i also want to make a toggle in my hands. how do i do that without adding a second mesh?

[sterile cedar]

i have a liltoon shader that would turn white in play mode, its used for the blush/ tears and within the animations/ blendshapes, it looks fine, but in play mode/ uploaded would cause it to be white

[somber sequoia]

do you want to move the existing egg? use a parent constraint to stick it to your hand

[timid kite]

idk how to use parent constraint

[somber sequoia]

okay

[inland pawn]

Quick question, how do you add a texture for an expression? Like say I’m doing a hand gesture and a blush shows up on the face, how do I do that?

[night ember]

its just a toggle like anything else you toggle on an avatar but you have the transition condition of said gesture

[glass ore]

when converting a PC avatar for quest, how do i lower the 'uncompressed size'? the build size is under 10mb as required but I cant figure the other bit out

[inland pawn]

Sorry I’m a bit slow, can you please explain how to do that? 😭

[somber sequoia]

you'd have to apply the texture to the face directly, or mesh over the face. using a shader that supports decals is an easy way

[inland pawn]

Does poiyomi support decals?

[azure crown]

Okay so for some Damm reason when I upload it gives me "error saving blueprint"

I've tried detaching the ID
I moved the pipeline management down

I've made the model a prefab and it didn't work.

I've restarted unity and didn't work

I've restarted laptop

I even reimport all and didn't work

Error I get is "missing AssetUrl" the heck do I do if anyone has a possible fix

[somber sequoia]

Yes

[somber sequoia]

paste the first 2-3 errors

[azure crown]

Before you ask I did try uploading with a different ID but I still get same result and it's an avatar I wanna work on and upload to same ID or at the least get it updated again

[somber sequoia]

looks like networking issues

[azure crown]

So just try changing my wifi and upload again?

[inland pawn]

How do I assign decals to certain expressions? Sorry for asking so many questions

[somber sequoia]

you make an animation that activates the decal. If you don't know how to animate material properties I'd suggest watching a tutorial

[inland pawn]

Okay, I’ll get to it

[azure crown]

Yeah tried changing connections and still giving me same thing "error saving blueprint"

And the console all it says is "Response was missing assetUrl"

[somber sequoia]

I don't know anything about how the SDK does networking, sorry

[stray sphinx]

So i made an emote for my friend, but my friend is on pc and cant see anything, is there a way to make the viewpoint stick to the head when the emote is played?

[inland pawn]

I can’t find any videos showing how to do this

[somber sequoia]

that seems surprising

still though, any video on animation should give you a start, like one about doing blendshapes. just change material properties instead of doing a blendshape

[charred dome]

can anyone help with exclusive tags

[hardy laurel]

Need a little help, I'm making an avatar that has an option to put a helmet on and off. The problem is, when she puts it on, she's bald, I have no idea why.

[mint garnet]

I left it on and it still isn't working

[thin sable]

Anyone familiar with trail renderers? I'm working on a sword asset and I need to know if there's a way to either:

• control trail size through speed or turn off the trail renderer entirely when it's not moving at the required velocity
• lock axis so the trail doesn't rotate along the wrong axis of the blade

[echo yoke]

hello ,so im trying to make my first vr chat avatar(its a dinosaur )and i want to add it to to main game to test it out but my avatar is invisible,the avatar is a generic one and i have the vr chat-mobile-standar lite shader on the materials

[junior void]

completely invisible?

[echo yoke]

yep

[junior void]

show the validations screen

[echo yoke]

whats that ?

[junior void]

the one where you hit the upload button and shows your stats and stuff

[echo yoke]

a ok

[junior void]

You know that in your upload screen you have windows platform selected right?

[echo yoke]

yea

its that the problem?

[junior void]

You showed specifically that you picked vrchat mobile shaders

So are you on mobile or on pc playing

[echo yoke]

pc

[junior void]

Then it should be fine and I don't see why it would be invisible. Maybe someone else can spot the issue

[echo yoke]

hmm ok ,thanks anyway for the help

[idle jetty]

Does anyone know how to fix my avatar body Being in the ground

[junior void]

Is your origin too far up maybe?

[graceful mango]

nope

[upper light]

how do i make it so whenever i use a blend shape on the avatar body, the clothing reacts to it. e.g. chest slider

[ornate stump]

Automatic way is using shape changer component from modular avatar.

[ornate stump]

No. it's rather the blendshape sync component.Both vrcfury and modular avatar have the component for it.

[balmy barn]

descriptor is not on root of avatar

[upper light]

im guessing that the vrc fury one is the blendshape link?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[upper light]

do i add it to the object or the avatar body or the fbx thing

[junior void]

I totally missed that x)

[ornate stump]

I'm not sure about the vrcfury one. Better go to read the doc in its website.

[upper light]

what about the modular avatar one?

[ornate stump]

The component is on the object you want to change blendshape.

[upper light]

is it supposed to be red or?

[ornate stump]

Red usually means something bad.

[upper light]

im guessing that the object has to have the same blendshape as well?

[ornate stump]

It searches for match by name first. If it doesn't then you'd have to manually choose blendshape. And if the object doesn't have blendshape for that specific part, then you have to create blendshape in blender by yourself.

[upper light]

oh dw i have a thing on blender that lets me transfer all the blend shapes i want to another object

[hollow hemlock]

Howd i fix this problem ??

[junior void]

you should clear your console and then see the first few at the top

[hollow hemlock]

Ive tried to downgrade n upgrade the sdk, but still has the same problem

[ornate stump]

Some of playable layer animator controller is corrupted

[hollow hemlock]

Ohhh thank you so muchhh, i love youuu

[gray fractal]

Can I ask someone who knows how to rig in Blender to breathe down my neck and tell me what I need to do, in order to simplify a rig with lots of superfluous bones that VRChat doesn’t use?

What I have: A VRM avatar I exported from an editor, which has way too many bones that my model doesn’t need. Imported onto a .blend project
What I need: The same avatar with edits necessary to make it usable on VRChat.
Help I want: Live troubleshooting/tutoring via screenshare. I easily get lost in Blender and I have no hope of doing this alone.

[junior void]

You'll likely get more help if you started it yourself and asked specific questions here so many people can see it and answer rather than relying on one person tutoring you for free who may be in a different time zone on top of the fact that Easter is around the corner

[gray fractal]

Well, to start with, my model’s rig looks like this: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/730948173379535022/1361634741106774076/image.png?ex=68036d2c&is=68021bac&hm=5523a88b5d4c1657de47b78b3efcbec197c077dd65072c93d3cad2aba2bea3a3&

My idea was to use a plugin to detect and delete zero-weight bones. However, the plugin I found removed all the bones, not just the zero-weight ones. So now I’m stuck.

I have like 200 bones, and if what I read is correct, I should only have like 30 or 40.

[junior void]

That really depends. Say if your avatar has long hair included, you might go above 100

So you cant just put any fixed number

Whats important is that your rig fits with what the sdk considers humanoid - plus any additional bones. So yes, theres a minimum for it to work as humanoid rig but minimum doesnt mean you cant have more

Here's how it should look like at minimum #avatar-rigging message

Here you can see the rig settings in unity https://docs.unity3d.com/2022.3/Documentation/Manual/class-Avatar.html
Note that bone names indicator with a dotted line are optional. So you can always go there in unity and have a look at whats absolutely necessary

[cosmic temple]

Is there a way that i can publish a vroid character successfully while keeping as much physics as possible?

like all the bones on the breast and hair part

[desert elk]

you need to add physbones in unity

unity converters add physbones to everything automatically
it's better if you do it yourself

google a physbone tutorial

[cosmic temple]

Ohh ic thanks

[desert elk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTTnWUkswkU&t=16s&pp=ygUQcGh5c2JvbmVzIHZyY2hhdA%3D%3D

this for example

[still shuttle]

If you haven't figured it out and you're not tryna do this yourself, i get commissioned to do this like constantly lol

[tacit fable]

Is there a way to play sounds when a particle dies? 🤔

[gray fractal]

I know, this is what I'm working with

What does "dissolve selected bones" actually do?

It doesn't seem to do anything when you select 1 bone

[balmy barn]

lots of useless bones there, throw it in cats and see if it explodes

[desert elk]

they tried that already

it didn't work

[gray fractal]

I've already thrown it in cats and it did explode

[balmy barn]

if its rigify good lock those are annoying , cant tell where its from

[gray fractal]

It's from Koikatsu's PMX export mod

[balmy barn]

ive converted some of those with cats

[desert elk]

when clicking "fix MMD model" it throws an error

[balmy barn]

but there is like 10 million versions of its exporters

[desert elk]

something about not finding the correct bones

[balmy barn]

renaming you can do after , it will not have names cats want

[desert elk]

hmm

I see

[balmy barn]

see if i still have mine somewhere

that one is from koikatsu

so many odd bones on them

[gray fractal]

biblically accurate rig

How do I show bone weights? To see if they're doing nothing?

[balmy barn]

it will throw this one or similar after but alot of bones that never do anything is gone

[gray fractal]

Straight out of CATS Fix MMD Model, there are a whole lot of others missing and most of the rig is gone

What are the correct names that CATS expects?

[balmy barn]

its there just inside mesh

[gray fractal]

I mean, what should I be renaming the bones, so that CATS can find them?

[balmy barn]

yep pretty much

enable that and bones are visible

[gray fractal]

Not what I asked

Before fix MMD model:

After Fix MMD model:

Most of the bones are deleted

With "in front" selected, it looks like this, wrong directions, sparse population

[balmy barn]

welcome to koikatsu convertion ?

you need to align them

like some model that have these

[gray fractal]

Wow

[balmy barn]

before & after mess wasnt fun

[cosmic temple]

is it normal for some of the bones to not be highlighted or does this mean they arent activated?

[timber wharf]

theyre not humanoid related, its normal

[cosmic temple]

ohh ic

im just tryna get its physics to actually work rn but im not sure how to

i tried adding a phys bone on one of the breasts to test but it doesnt really seem to work

[desert elk]

Can you show your physbone set up?

[cosmic temple]

wait how do i show that part

[desert elk]

well, you added a physbone component

and maybe set up some stuff in there

[cosmic temple]

yeah

[sharp oasis]

Quick clarification question.
So physbone_stretch values are all done locally and can be a little inconsistent, so using the value to trigger an animation could sometimes not work over the network very well, right?
But if I do something like if physbone_stretch greater than 0.9, drive synced bool to true, then use that bool to run the animation I want, that will ensure that everything will work well over the network, right?

Should I run the parameter driver and greaterthan 0.9 part as a islocal only animation? or will it make no difference?

[desert elk]

screenshot it

[desert elk]

I'd recommend deleting the "ignore transform"

and how are you testing to see if it works? in unity or in game?

[cosmic temple]

in unity

[gray fractal]

I went into Weight Paint mode to see which bones were doing what, and none of them have any weights attached to them

[cosmic temple]

i tried dragging the model to see if it works

[desert elk]

in play mode?

you need to do it in playmode

[cosmic temple]

...oh

[desert elk]

press the okay icon ▶️

just beware that if you make any changes inside of play mode they won't save

[cosmic temple]

wait they wont?

[sharp oasis]

if you like the changes you've made, top right of the physbone component, press the three dots > copy component values

[cosmic temple]

how do i save them then

[sharp oasis]

then paste them into the component once back out of play mode

[desert elk]

you don't, you copy them and paste them. Like Coffee said

[cosmic temple]

oh

[cosmic temple]

ahh i see

oh yeah how do i add phys bones for my hair if the model itself doesnt come with any?

[desert elk]

add a physbone to the head bone

that should affect all of the hair bones

if your model doesn't have hair bones

you'll need to add them in blender

[cosmic temple]

nope doesnt look like i have any

[desert elk]

so either add them in blender and weight paint them

or do that automatically in vroid and re-do the blender stuff (visemes, eyes, etc)

[cosmic temple]

can i do it with the fbx file i had yesterday with ur help?

[desert elk]

there's a "hair bounce" section

[desert elk]

I'm gonna be so real with you, I always do that in VRoid, so if you want to do it in blender with the fbx you're gonna need to figure it out

[cosmic temple]

for some reason mine doesnt come with any hair bones despite being clear that they actually did have bones in vroid studio's animation test thingy

[desert elk]

hm that's weird

it never happened to me

[cosmic temple]

could it be because i removed them while trying to optimize the model inside vroid?

[desert elk]

yes.

most definitely

[cosmic temple]

....shiiit.

[desert elk]

if you removed the bones they won't be there anymore

[cosmic temple]

would it be easier if i re-exported a model without optimizing rather than trying to fix the model from here

[desert elk]

yes

[cosmic temple]

welp back to work i go

wait just to confirm

i dont need to optimize in vroid right?

[desert elk]

just redo the blender steps in blender

[desert elk]

I'm not a fan of that optimizer tbh

you can if you want to for some reason

for quest it may be helpful for example

[cosmic temple]

no i dont really have any actual VR purposes just yet since i dont have a headset for that

i dont have to worry about these being too large right?

[desert elk]

Check if you have "delete transparent meshes" ticked

if yes you can export

since materials you fix in blender anyways

[cosmic temple]

alright

ok i do have delete transparent meshes

[desert elk]

it needs to be ticked ✅

[cosmic temple]

yep ticked

[desert elk]

so you can export

Blender steps
#avatar-help message

in case you don't wanna scroll up and don't remember

[cosmic temple]

you know me so well

[dense parrot]

My account is upgraded but I can't build, did I miss something?

[desert elk]

an official vrc account with a trust rank new user or higher?

[dense parrot]

Is there something I misread somewhere? That's possible I'm new to VRC

[desert elk]

yes

"you can now gain trust ranks"

you simply converted your account into an official one

[dense parrot]

Ah

[desert elk]

you still need to get the trust rank

[dense parrot]

Gotcha, well I guess that just boils down to lack of effort on my part in terms of reading 😅

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Okay I think I see what that trust rank thing is, and I'm assuming it has to be above visitor....welp

[desert elk]

yes

new user or higher

[dense parrot]

Yeah I noticed that

So indeed I did not read

[cosmic temple]

what limiter is recommended for hair?

[desert elk]

I think I have angle

just try stuff and see what works

[cosmic temple]

i ended up with polar and safe to say it works pretty well

minus the fact that my bangs look a bit weird

[desert elk]

it takes some trying to get them correct

[cloud owl]

im watching a tutorial on how to import a roblox avatar

ugh

it keeps breaking

PMXeditor wont load

wich is aparently important for a roblox avatar

[naive quartz]

can somebody plz explain to me why i am having this stupid error saving blueprint message

despite detaching the blueprint id

just doesn't make any sense

[wide prairie]

anyone know how to fix view distance? Like sometimes it looks like I'm seeing in someone's head but in the mirror they're not that close. I think the last time I got it fixed it had to do with like changing actual height or something

[cloud owl]

who knows how to make roblox avatar in vrchat?

im an idiot and cant manage to make it work

[somber sequoia]

you would have to post the relevant error messages, usually the first 2-3 visible, we can't tell you anything otherwise

[naive quartz]

response was missing assetUrl

[somber sequoia]

I meant literally paste

[somber sequoia]

wow that's really not helpful

I'm not sure what that one is

[naive quartz]

ok

[wind iron]

i made a material swap radial wheel and it works fine but when i go to one of the materials and select it reverts back to the normal one instead of the one i selected

[timber wharf]

you assigned param in both fields in menu, should only in one

[graceful elm]

would it be possible to reference a game object from another avatar in a component like a aim constraint?
Some way to maybe force reference a specific UID? Though I am not sure if UIDs are consistent between scenes and between clients

[timber wharf]

no

[naive quartz]

quick question if you dont mind?

[somber sequoia]

hmm?

[timber wharf]

@graceful elm theres contact tracker prefab that can somewhat track default contacts, thats the best youd get.

[graceful elm]

yeah sadly that ones practically unusable

[naive quartz]

when using vrchat creator companion it gives me the option to use 2019 unity, does that work with the latest sdk still?

[graceful elm]

I tried it before, it never worked correctly for more than 5 seconds

[somber sequoia]

Please don't ping me to ask questions you can just ask everyone.
I don't know why you would use 2019, and no, it won't work with the latest SDK.

[timber wharf]

@naive quartz no, its legacy, just happened to be around when vcc was released

it still can upload old projects but misses many new features and wont be verbose on many cases of upload fail (since it has no idea)

[naive quartz]

prefer the layout of 2019 and okay, just figured i'd ask you seeing as your the one who has replied to my message moments before.

[naive quartz]

okay, thankyou for that

[timber wharf]

how tf their layout is different lol. the only change is 'Gizmos' button got its own icon

[naive quartz]

nah i prefer 2019 lol

[somber sequoia]

... why?

[naive quartz]

but if it means i am missing out on features then i guess i will use 2022

[balmy barn]

old sdk aka 'i hate new vrchat features'

[naive quartz]

lol wat

[light charm]

nah, i personally use unity 2019 because unity 2022 is slow as hell :P

it keeps "loading" for seemingly no reason at all
clicking on anything? yep, that's a loading screen alright!

[naive quartz]

A lot of people still use 2019, me personally it’s just something I’m used to as I’ve used it since it’s release. Not sure why they got touchy about it.

[light charm]

i think it was to prevent people from easily ripping files from the game
as ripping things from a game that runs on a unity version above 2020 is nutoriously tricky

and yeah thats a good thing they updated to 2022

[tropic sierra]

Hello I have some questions

[somber sequoia]

this is a decent place to ask them

[tropic sierra]

So I’m pretty new to vrc and somebody has ask me for a commission for a avatar of my taste and idk how usually price are for a avatar and if the user is trust worthy

Those snall information could Help me not to wast some money that could go to the grocery

[somber sequoia]

find a verified artist on the VRC Traders discord

[ornate stump]

If they contacted you out of blue, definitely a scammer.

[somber sequoia]

definitely

[tropic sierra]

I see

And usually what the price ?

[somber sequoia]

that varies greatly, so many factors involved

[ornate stump]

It's widely ranged depends on amount of features.

[tropic sierra]

Multiple clothing

[ornate stump]

No definitive answer for that.

[tropic sierra]

If they have a fiver platform ?

Is it more accurate

[desert elk]

I wouldn't say so

[tropic sierra]

?

[desert elk]

go to VRC Traders and try looking there

[balmy barn]

id charge 200-5000$ (pst i dont make avatars for people , rare times ill update/fix some friends for free ) id be vary about scammers tho

[somber sequoia]

yeah that seems reasonable

[desert elk]

yeah, if someone massages you themselves, they're a scammer

[glass ore]

when converting a PC avatar for quest, how do i lower the 'uncompressed size'? the build size is under 10mb as required but I cant figure the other bit out

[desert elk]

there's a lot of info about it in #avatar-optimization

[glass ore]

im just wondering, broadly speaking, since crunching textures to almost byte size - is it more to do with the mesh etc?

[balmy barn]

crunch is like a zipbomb i avoid it like a plague, here is 2 ways to find your compressed/uncompressed size

you can try vrcfury blendshape optimzier, it removes unused shapekeys = mesh smaller in size , most of the time people cant hit <10mb its cause of those or a massive fbx 200k+++

[timid kite]

1. created parent constraint on the mesh
2. created an empty and armature linked it to the hand
3. added the empty to the sources in parent constraint in the mesh
4. pressed zero, then activate
5. moved the empty to the hand but the mesh didnt move

what am i doing wrong

[mental flare]

kay so im editing my avi's animations and i dun know how to make my tail bones be able to animate, anyone know?

[misty ridge]

anyone knows why and how like when my friend sits on my other friends avatar, the uv texture just goes on their face?

[somber sequoia]

got physbones on it? check the "is animated" checkbox near the bottom

[karmic spindle]

can someone help me when im in unity and add a animation to my emote wheel and i activate gesturemanager to see my emote wheel the animation is there but when i start the game the animation isnt there

[mental flare]

thing is that i think i have to activate the bones in avi config, or maybe im off my gourd

[somber sequoia]

"activate"?

[mental flare]

by that i mean like

on body there is hips,spine,chest,uppchest

all the green bones on the avi scene

[ornate stump]

Is the mesh skinned mesh renderer?

[somber sequoia]

those are humanoid bones used for IK, a tail is not. You can simply animate it directly.

[mental flare]

ooooooo, hmmmmm, is it just in animator then now?

[somber sequoia]

click record in the animation, rotate whatever non-humanoid bones you want

[wind iron]

so even though i fully deleted it still gives me an error on it

[mental flare]

hmm but when i add the tail it gives me a (tail: game object is active)

[somber sequoia]

I have no idea what that might mean

or what you might be doing there

[mental flare]

okay, hmmmm

[azure crown]

Idk what's going on with unity I cannot upload anything not even on a new project. Keeps telling me "error saving blueprint" I've detach the ID. Restated unity. Restarted my laptop and made a new project
And it still gives me it and a "Cannot load avatar (avatar id) because response was missing AssetUrl."

[somber sequoia]

which unity + which SDK version?

[azure crown]

2019 unity using old ones since i never had issues with them.

[somber sequoia]

yeah but here you are having issues.

[azure crown]

So I gotta finally update it then eh?
Never uograded since my friends typically have issues with newer ones

So which unity do I gotta swap to?

[somber sequoia]

can't say I have any issues with the latest.

2022.3.22f1, as stated in the VRChat docs

[tired forum]

For whataver reason certain parts of my avatar are black in some worlds, and in other worlds with AreaLit avatars they bloom like crazy with emissions. I have tried all kinds of shaders and they all have the same problem, so I doubt it has something to do with the shader. The shader and respective settings are identical on the parts that are black compared to the ones that aren't. I have ajusted the minimum light, which didn't help, I have adjusted emission strength and even at 0 it does that thing you see in the image

[azure crown]

Got it. I'll update and see what happens

[tired forum]

I have been troubleshooting for six hours so this is my last resort

reference of how it's meant to look and how it does in most worlds

[karmic spindle]

can someone help me with this issue please idk how to fix this im looking for solutions now for almost 1 week without success (im not paying anyone to change my avatar to something like that)

[feral isle]

Anyone able to help with the error here?

[somber sequoia]

don't put a cube map texture into a normal texture slot

[feral isle]

Its the way the avatar came

[true comet]

Anyone guess getting a problem with the Radial Puppet?
like you put it to like 50% then it just go off on one?
like spinning around without player input
if there a fix please let me know

it happens when i go into other avatars too public and my own

NVM ITS SLIMEVR

[soft thistle]

i can't seem to apply the humanoid rig to my OC, any solution?

[desert elk]

well, do you have a leftupperarm bone?

if yes, go to configure and make sure everything is correct there

[soft thistle]

this is how i named the left arm stuff

(it's all in the highlighted blue box)

[somber sequoia]

go into the rig configuration in Unity and make sure that bone is in the proper slot.
It may not be present if that bone has no mesh weighted to it... so you may wish to verify that while you're in Blender.

[balmy barn]

your arms? isnt connected to chest

[somber sequoia]

oh! obvious now

[soft thistle]

i found out that problem sooner

somehow

[stray sphinx]

bump

[covert delta]

Hey I'm new here but how the hell does any of this work 😭😭😭
I've been trying to upload my ironlights avatar for a few months now and the only progress I've made is opening unity

And getting the avatar itself of course

[stray sphinx]

you have vrchat creator companion?

[covert delta]

Been using it

[stray sphinx]

I would guess if you want I can send you a playlist that will help

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSwMz4WcajQ&list=PLt8qiEFqNHFkPqpKLnVRx-G78mGvjPbFt&ab_channel=Sipp'sAvatarBox

[covert delta]

Thanks 🥲

[stray sphinx]

nw

the first time I did avi was with those videos

[covert delta]

huh

thats weird

[stray sphinx]

?

[covert delta]

my creator companion looks nothing like that

[stray sphinx]

this is an older version -w-

in the video

nvm

this is mine

[covert delta]

welp

[stray sphinx]

.w.

[covert delta]

hes missing all his textures and half his torso

🥀

[stray sphinx]

was the textures inside the fbx?

[covert delta]

i believe so

[stray sphinx]

you can extract them if it was inside of it

fake ah link

ty mods

was about to ping -w-

[covert delta]

I just pressed import new asset

And uploaded the fbx

[stray sphinx]

in blender?

[covert delta]

Yep

[stray sphinx]

AI Overview
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To extract textures from an FBX file within Unity, you need to first ensure the textures are embedded within the FBX file. You can then use the "Extract Textures" option in the Unity Inspector to separate the textures from the FBX asset.

I copied the ai overwiew with it lol

[covert delta]

Alright interesting

I still have no idea as to why half the model is missing

Does my pc just suck

[stray sphinx]

that's the model's problem

you sure ur file aint corrupted or something?

[covert delta]

I really hope not

[frigid grove]

How would I go about enabling foot ik on an animation? The only thing i can find relating to foot ik is on the animation preview, and without enabling it my avatar wiggles around like a worm . w .

[stray sphinx]

then I can't really know

[covert delta]

Would it tell me if it was corrupted

[somber sequoia]

wiggles? do you have physbone components acting on humanoid bones? Don't do that.

[stray sphinx]

idk

for me sometimes I had missing fbx things or ect

[covert delta]

I'm so lost 😭😭

[stray sphinx]

rn your model is like that because it's something with the model

was it something you downloaded or?

something you created

[somber sequoia]

I'd look and see if you have texture files in your project already.

[covert delta]

Well I originally downloaded the model

From ironstrike

[stray sphinx]

try redoawnloading it?

[covert delta]

Then I remade the textures because apparently unity doesn't like textures

[covert delta]

Have done

[somber sequoia]

er, what?

[covert delta]

Textures just wouldn't import no matter how many tutorials I watched

[stray sphinx]

are the textures are in a file seperated?

[covert delta]

I tried that

[somber sequoia]

unless they are some weird format, that seems quite strange.

[stray sphinx]

-v-

[covert delta]

Didn't work for some reason

[frigid grove]

No, I don't have dynamicbones on my legs. My feet don't connect to the ground so my legs have all of the control over the feet. I don't know how to describe it.

[carmine flint]

I've been having an issue where I can't live test the changes made to physbones in play mode. No matter how I adjust the sliders the physics stay the same. I have to stop play mode, adjust, then start play mode to see changes instead of being able to test the adjustments in real time like before.

I've toggled off and on the physbone components and I've removed and re-added them and the issue persists. It persists between projects and different models, too. I got desperate enough to uninstall and reinstall both VRCCC and Unity but I'm having the same problem still. :[

Does anyone know what's broken and how to go about fixing it?

[somber sequoia]

perhaps a video might help

[somber sequoia]

this is a bug in the current SDK, try going back a version

[stray sphinx]

I still wanna know btw if I can make an animation with atleast the camera sticking to the head -w- for pc

[covert delta]

If it helps this was the original file

[carmine flint]

It's in the previous one, too.

[somber sequoia]

ah, I'm not exactly sure which version, but there's a canny for it that says a fix is "available in a future release"