avatar-help

[ornate stump]

Then your only option is to separate the mounh into a different object.

[verbal oar]

where can i get poiyomi shaders?

[arctic ginkgo]

well solution 1 does work for quest

although these are solutions to fixing the issue of animating the texture offset

there's other ways to create 2D visemes on quest

also you aren't using quest compatible shaders

like i had mentioned earlier, proper trasparency is not allowed on quest

so your method will not work

[soft thistle]

o

[arctic ginkgo]

^

[soft thistle]

so i should have kept the white background

[arctic ginkgo]

well then you would have a white background on your mouth

i think you should make the background the same as your character's face

[soft thistle]

something like this?

[arctic ginkgo]

yes

what i do is make copies of the lower portion of the face, then they can be swapped

would anyone happen to know why in the world this is happening?

my contact receiver is giving an output of 0 despite there clearly being a sender with the appropriate tag well inside the collider

this is with AV3 Emulator

[ornate stump]

Might be because it doesn't allow others?

[soft thistle]

do i also add the beige background to my character's eyes

[verbal oar]

quick question

how do i have multiple materials on one model

its only allowing one material on the avatar model

[snow sluice]

Hello if anyone can help me please DM me

[wanton cedar]

Help with what?

Why can't you send your project in here?

[stark plank]

So I just got a new pc and wanted to do avatars again what's the best app/website to texture avatars other than substance painter

[soft thistle]

there should be Krita

or armorpaint

2nd choice is promising

[wanton cedar]

blender as well

its not great, but it works with basic textures

[wanton cedar]

you have to set that up in blender

your mesh only has one slot if its only allowing a single material

[verbal oar]

thanks

quick question

how do i fix this

[bronze thunder]

how would i move the hair to the other avatar model if its not gonna move (with the physbones)

[night ember]

Why is the avatar unpacked

[bronze thunder]

?

[night ember]

Why is it unpacked

[bronze thunder]

wym

[night ember]

In the scene its unpacked

[verbal oar]

anybody know how to fix this

[wanton cedar]

Why would you unpack an avi 🥲

[wanton cedar]

Honestly should be fine

But if you wanted to fix it I'm pretty sure that's a blender thing

I couldn't tell you exactly because I'm not at my pc

[verbal oar]

is there at least a way to fix this? the body moves but the head doesn't

the one on the left im looking all the way up but the body moves a bit

the one on the right is normal

my bad those photos stink

ok so i figured the problem

the neck isnt turning at all

its just the head

and then it makes the chest move forward for some reason

[wanton cedar]

Sounds fun

[verbal oar]

messed around with muscle settings and it changed nothing

[potent elk]

What do i need todo to get FABRIK to work?

[tired arch]

Hey! So it's my first time ever trying to do anything with vrchat avis, and I've followed a tutorial up until the rigging point and I'm just. So confused, the tutorial didn't have anything like this, there were missing bones yeah but none of this error, I'm going a little insane :shock:

[junior void]

Well, its complaining about the parenting. It should make sense to you that the hand bone should be a child of the lower arm. And if the hand bone is instead a child of the upper arm or a completely unrelated bone, the humanoid skeleton doesnt apply

[tired arch]

I'm just trying to figure out how to assign the parent/child things. I've worded it poorly but I have no experience with unity LOL, I just wanted to rig and import this than be done with it but I'm going to assume it's just not that simple

[desert elk]

You do that in blender

click a bone

in edit mode

and on the right side under the green bone menu there will be "relations"

find parent and set the parent there

[tired arch]

I love you

thank you

omg

[supple kindle]

does anyone know how I can turn a VTube Model (2D) into a VRChat Model (3D) ?

I have no idea about Blender

[desert elk]

you could try using VRoid Studio to recreate your model in 3D than convert it in Blender to a format that VRC accepts and upload it

[supple kindle]

where to do that in Vroid studio

[desert elk]

in VRoid Studio

it's an app on steam

[frail temple]

Is there a way to extract an Animation clip from Unity to blender?

[desert elk]

https://vroid.com/en/studio

[supple kindle]

I'll take a look at it because ^^

[desert elk]

good luck

[supple kindle]

thx ^^

[tired arch]

Just discovered blender textures aren't compatible with unity argahragh I might just. Stop LOL

twas not meant to be it seems

[still shuttle]

What do you mean by blender textures aren't compatible with unity?

[tired arch]

They upload weird or something? Either way I'm not able to get the textures to appear

[still shuttle]

You have to make a material, put the material on the avatar and then put the texture in the material

[tired arch]

i feel incredibly silly right now

lolol

[still shuttle]

https://docs.unity3d.com/2019.3/Documentation/Manual/Materials.html

[tired arch]

This entire process has been struggle after struggle, I don't even plan to make any other avis in the future, I just wanted the one

[tired arch]

tyty

[cloud owl]

can someone help me in #avatar-rigging ?

[supple kindle]

Can't find the point where I can insert my own textures

[supple kindle]

.

[desert elk]

did you get the texture somewhere online?

it should say what base to use in the description

make a new piece of clothing with that base and add the texture as a new layer and delete the default layer

[supple kindle]

I bought my Vtube model online

[desert elk]

no

VRoid doesn't use the same textures as your 2D model

you will need to recreate them

you can't convert a 2D to a 3D with one button

[supple kindle]

New is not possible because I have special

[desert elk]

special?

i'm not sure i understand you

what's stopping you from recreating the model in 3D?

[supple kindle]

I want to make a 3D model out of the model shown above, but I have no idea how to create it

[still shuttle]

I'd kitbash it

[tired arch]

Hey sorry I'm looking at this and you said you bought it right?

[desert elk]

I told you, you can recreate the model in VRoid. Or make it from scratch in Blender. But you will need to create new textures. Or use pre-existing assets that you combine together - kitbash. You can't use the same textures as your 2D uses.

[tired arch]

Like you paid for it custom?

[supple kindle]

ye

[tired arch]

I think you might've been scammed, that's an ai generated image

[desert elk]

damn, looking closer at it

you're right

it looks ai

damn

[tired arch]

Yeah. And I've just done some reverse searching, you're not the only one

[supple kindle]

no I have the original pictures, but not sent them in here

[desert elk]

original pictures?

[supple kindle]

wait

[desert elk]

cause it gives off ai vibes

[tired arch]

Bro I'm so sorry, you got scammed for sure 😭

[tired arch]

ai cutting is a thing

[supple kindle]

that and more is the original

[desert elk]

you def got scammed

[desert elk]

ouch

[tired arch]

It's definitely ai generated, who did you buy it from?

[desert elk]

Etsy is a scam mine, i'm so sorry 😭

[tired arch]

Ohhh yikes... Yeah Etsy is big on ai scams

[desert elk]

also the fact that it has like 2 poses is very odd

[supple kindle]

Is there a site where I can buy this avatar again and in 3D?

[tired arch]

I'm an Avatar fan, unfortunately whenever I look for merch there's always busted up ai generated neytiri pictures lolol

[desert elk]

if you can you should try to get your money back.
And next time consider using a more legit site, VGen for example

[desert elk]

No. It's ai.

[desert elk]

that sucks

[tired arch]

Mmm no, unless you commission a trustworthy 3d artist (Which will run you a couple hundred dollars probably) you're out of luck, also a lot of artists will not even reference ai

[supple kindle]

Can you recommend me a site where I can get an avi that I can use 2d and 3d?

[balmy barn]

have a scuffed 3d version

euw

[desert elk]

i doubt those exist. It's either 2D or 3D, very little artists make both
you could search on vgen maybe

[tired arch]

Vgen is good for 2d, but since it's legit it'll probably be pretty expensive. Drawing, cutting, rigging, all intensive

[supple kindle]

Where can I find it

[desert elk]

Thulen just made it

it like a minute

[still shuttle]

You can convert a vrchat avatar into a vtubing model but it's a little tricky and takes a bit of research

[desert elk]

it's not a real thing that you can buy

[balmy barn]

id suggest vroid too , texturing a black/whatever color one isnt too hard (spelling apperantly is)

[desert elk]

it's possible! you can use a 3D to vtube!

[desert elk]

yeah, same

[still shuttle]

Yeah I made one before! It was hard haha

[desert elk]

i made some too

you just need to understand that you will need to recreate it, not slap the images you have to a 3D software

[balmy barn]

image to 3d is very meh

[desert elk]

i agree

[supple kindle]

I'll see if I can get one created. Thanks for your help and feedback. ❤️

[tired arch]

I have so much more respect for Avi creators now than I did before (which was still a lot) how does anyone do this

Somehow I thought it was going to be as simple as "import file from blender to unity, rig, export"

Oh how naive I was

[balmy barn]

time , practice but the last one patience seems to be short on many

[tired arch]

I'm patient I'm just in anguish

[balmy barn]

3-6 years patience

[desert elk]

same!

[tired arch]

hhh i'll figure it out

[balmy barn]

I have 20 something years doing stuff with 3d

[tired arch]

waow

[desert elk]

wow

[tired arch]

I used to mess around with blender when I was younger but that was the extent of it and I've forgotten everything

[desert elk]

i only started like a year and a half ago

[frail temple]

Is there no way to convert an animation to FBX within unity? I am trying to get the default animations and edit them myself in blender but online there's no tutorial

[tired arch]

I don't even plan to continue making avis

I just want this One

[frail temple]

Closest I've gotten is converting one to a .unity package file

[tired arch]

I've got the model, but I guess I have to rig it in blender which. fine a little annoying but I'll figure it out

Then I can export it to unity which I know how, it's just the textures and bones I've been having issues with

going insane I feel like this is way easier than it seems but I'm just not able to figure it out

Would anybody be able to just like. Give me a small idea on what I'm meant to do, I'll send some screenshots of what I've got

[desert elk]

if you're struggling with rigging you can check out the pinned stuff in #avatar-rigging

[tired arch]

Oh hey one of those is actually my exact problem

tysm holy crap

Now onto textures

or materials

whatever they called

the "lowerarm/leg" is not a child of "upperarm/leg" whatever

Was the bug

bug?

[desert elk]

not a child or not the first child?

those are different errors

[tired arch]

First child bug but only once, it's been not a child otherwise

[desert elk]

yeah, you gotta parent it properly in blender

[tired arch]

again, much more respect for anybody who does this constantly

[balmy barn]

I just rename the bones in arms/legs that have multiple to Z_whatever in blender, those errors go away (can also merge the bone(s))

that one wont throw ' not child of blabla '

arm exsample

[desert elk]

yeah, I've started using the ~ trick that Kazin mentioned a couple of times, previously I did Z too

[tired arch]

https://tenor.com/view/ascending-energy-galaxy-gif-17739196

oh

forgot

[cloud owl]

hol up what do i do if i cant tpose my avatar, i cant bone it without tpose

[desert elk]

you can move the mesh in Blender

[tired arch]

thank you elders of rigging 🙏

[desert elk]

can you not?

[cloud owl]

😭

i cant tpose it

its on big object for blender

how do i rig it now

i have idea

im gonna export my character as 6 parts

1 is going to be head+accecories or sthng

[desert elk]

you can separate it to be multiple parts

[gray fractal]

Does this blocking make sense for this style??

[cloud owl]

on a scale of 1/10 how trash is my bone structure

yes i used an image behind

[desert elk]

it doesn't need to be identical in where they are

you can move them to fit your avatar better

if you know what I mean

[cloud owl]

im just tryna learn how it work

rn

[desert elk]

tbh I'm not a fan of some of those bones, idk if that was the idea of the person who made this or what, but some look odd to me

[cloud owl]

so i can make my avatar right

[cloud owl]

its in pinged messages in #avatar-rigging

[desert elk]

yeah, I saw that

[cloud owl]

you know how to rig?

[desert elk]

kinda

I know what an armature should look like

[cloud owl]

could you help me out?

[desert elk]

rig for you? no. give advice? yes

[cloud owl]

thats what i wanted fr i dont understand at all rigging

[cloud owl]

dm me bcus there seems to be no vocal channels in that server 😭

[desert elk]

I don't dm

[cloud owl]

oh ok

then we gonna have to talk

not the best but we'll make it work ig

so hum any advise to rig an roblox avatar? (im going simple since idk how to make 3D models atm)

[desert elk]

here's an example of one of my armatures

i can already see that some of your bones are the wrong way around

[cloud owl]

ah crap

time to fix this

[cloud owl]

you'd mind exporting one of your saved rigging?

so i can use that and reshape it

[desert elk]

it's the one i got from the vrm blender plugin

i just deleted the root and finger bones

cause i didn't need them

https://vrm-addon-for-blender.info/en/

it's my fast way of adding armatures when i need to

everything is pretty parented and named

just delete the root and other bones I don't need

[cloud owl]

how do i change its shape

its "protected"

i cant reshape it for my avatar

and my avatar isnt tposing 😭

[cloud owl]

from there i cant do shit

for some reason i cant manipulate a single object

[desert elk]

you're in object mode

you can't move singular bones in object mode

go to edit mode if that's what you mean

and it's not gonna automatically weight paint for you btw

you can delete the bone at the bottom - the root - you don't need it for vrchat

[cloud owl]

whats edit mod????

(im like super new to blender sorry)

[desert elk]

here is says object mode

switch to edit mode

this will allow you to move singular bones

and btw you should probably watch some tutorials first

[cloud owl]

why doesent it let me move bones?

[desert elk]

did you go to edit mode while having the armature selected?

a selected armature should light up orange

[cloud owl]

oh

thx it works now

[tired arch]

I need a bit of help with the rigging, posted my issue in #avatar-rigging but I don't think people check there as frequently as they do here lolol

[cloud owl]

is hand bone needed?

[desert elk]

I think so, better keep it and just don't weight paint it if you don't need to

some bones need to exist, but they don't need to be weight painted

[cloud owl]

i tried no handbone

ill see if it break or not

[tired arch]

For some reason, every time after I fix the parent/rigging stuff and exit to the main scene thing, it resets, and it's getting a little annoying

I've applied the changes

[mental pawn]

If You don't want to weight paint, if im not wrong You can just hit bone, and it Will work

[mental pawn]

Although it Will only rotate, not deform

[mental pawn]

I mean, when parenting instead of hitting automatic weights or something like that, just hit "bone"

[cedar grail]

i have been on a break from vrchat for a while. and i come back now. i tried uploading an avatar like usual, but the options i get looks a little bit different. wich one is the (upload personal avatar only for me) option

[mental pawn]

You can set it to be private

Build and publish Will upload it to vrchat servers

While the other one triggers offline local testing

[mental pawn]

Check on the other tabs

[cedar grail]

all my old avatars i have uploaded. are they public now?

[mental pawn]

Nope

[cedar grail]

soo how would i go about uploading an private avatar now? i do the Build and publish you're avatar online?

[mental pawn]

No, check the past tabs

There Should be a privacy setting

Where You can set your avatar to be public or private

I mean on the tab where You set a description, name and image for your avatar

[cedar grail]

ohhh okey. i see it now

now i understand

thank you ❤️

[mental pawn]

And you are good to go! Just hit build and publish

You're welcome

[heady sail]

Hi, I'm new to avatar making and am using a booth avatar (Shinano). When hitting play or testing in VRChat part of the Body_base stretches to the point of origin. I can't find a way to fix this through the armature and have gone through everything manually to try. Turning off the base prevents this, though this also means losing the hand and other parts of the model I want to keep.

Does anyone know what I might be able to do to fix this?

my best guess of what might work is booting up the fpx model in blender and culling the parts of the model that aren't visible, since they seem to be where the glitching is happening and it was on the todo when optimising later

[junior void]

If you deleted any bones, then that would be why

[heady sail]

okay, thanks

[sage hawk]

When I do face and delete It only deletes a bigger part but doesn't delete it only deletes the black square

[desert elk]

what?

can you take a screenshot and explain what you're trying to do?

[cloud owl]

looks like an animatronic ngl

[tired arch]

Sorry to bump but it got lost in the flood lmao, but yeah does anybody know why this resets?

[somber sequoia]

open up that little dropdown with the errors and see why it's complaining

[tired arch]

Ah. Missed that, yep

Also apparently the rig is being detected as "non-humanoid"

[somber sequoia]

Yes, because you can't have two objects named the same as a humanoid bone - change one of those

[tired arch]

🫡

That fixed everything tysm

[round comet]

Any good tuts for making afk animations? ^^

[heady sail]

this worked. Scuffed as all hell solution but yeah

[junior void]

To avoid that in the future, rather than plain out deleting bones, merge the bones to their parents instead. This will preserve the weights and avoid floating mesh with no bone

[lost umbra]

Hey, I don't have the option to change to android mode

[somber sequoia]

probably didn't install the android build tools?

[desert elk]

do you have android build support installed?

probably not if it's gray

[lost umbra]

I had it updated from 2019 to the latest one

[desert elk]

Not here

in unity's build settings

[lost umbra]

where can I get it then? I'm still new to this build. I been using 2019 until yesterday when 2019 no longer works outright

[desert elk]

here

check if you have android build support installed

if you don't, install it

[lost umbra]

thx

also gonna install ios too I guess

[desert elk]

if you want your avatars to be available on iOS, yes

[lost umbra]

what's the spec requirment for ios btw?

same as 10mb with ton of restrictions like android?

[desert elk]

same as Android

its also a phone

[lost umbra]

kinda figures

oh btw, any recommendation on new chapter of updating avatars? (for context, I'm remastering all of my avatar which I haven't done since like march of last year.)

I was doing a basic optimization update where I removes stuff I dont use and downscale the download size

(I will do one for now as Until next month or two, I dont have access to the other project until I get my files recovered)

[candid comet]

can anyone help me figure out how to make a custom idle and walking animations for my avatar

[somber sequoia]

where are you stuck?

[candid comet]

wdym

[somber sequoia]

specifically what help do you need?

[candid comet]

how to put a custom animation into the idle im tryna have different animations when i walk

[somber sequoia]

do you have the animation already?

[candid comet]

yes

[somber sequoia]

do you have a custom locomotion (the base layer) controller already?

[candid comet]

i have no clue on what that is

[somber sequoia]

it's where the walking animations are

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/playable-layers/

[lost umbra]

btw, can I upload to android and ios at the same time as in tick both boxes or do I have to do it one at a time?

[desert elk]

yes

you can do it at once

[candid comet]

ok imma just let you know im new like really new just started yesterday type new so i might be really slow

[snow sluice]

hello I need help I don't know how to fix this, so if you can please DM me

[somber sequoia]

not going to DM, but are there any other errors above that?

[ashen tinsel]

Does anyone know how to make a plane follow the player's eyes? I want to add a black square over one of my avatar's face but I want it to be followed by people's eyes and where they are looking.

[somber sequoia]

you mean someone else's eyes?

billboard renderer on a particle maybe

[mental pawn]

Does anyone know how could i make a basic cell shading with poiyomi?

Kind of like TLOZ wind waker's cell shading

[somber sequoia]

probably start under Shading -> Shading, set lighting type to toon. But the poi discord is pretty helpful too

(maaaaaybe texture ramp, that seems popular too)

[mental pawn]

Since for example, at least in blender, what i did was to take a property of a principled BDSF and then use it as a color ramp's factor)

[snow sluice]

This is an 18+ avatar and I cannot show it here that's why I want you to DM me

[mental pawn]

That would simulate flat lighting

And then what i did was to use a mix color shader to mix it with the model's texture

[sage hawk]

I want to add a bottom ear that is attached to the head how do I do this? a square which I want then to turn the square thin.

[desert elk]

show the top errors, not the avatar.

[snow sluice]

Here

[copper light]

i need help

pwiebufyvwefwe

idk what im doing

everything went fine while i was on blender

then unity came into play

and idk what im doing

and the videos dont help either

[desert elk]

what part are you struggling with?

[copper light]

everything that involves unity

i already gpt the render and the textures, but i've NEVER used unity before

so i am LOST

[somber sequoia]

which tutorial are you trying to follow, and where are you stuck?

it's hard to know what to suggest otherwise

[copper light]

i’ve tried a bunch but when it comes to the texture part i just get lost

i already got the bones right

[somber sequoia]

presumably those are already in the model

[copper light]

and i downloaded something that allows me to check the animations, and it does move

[snow sluice]

no just 2

[copper light]

not a single error, i’m just lost when it comes to the textures

[night ember]

stick the texture on the material

[somber sequoia]

well there's nothing further to be gained from those messages so I wouldn't know where to go next

[distant ibex]

I've been getting that issue too

On 2 completely unrelated avatars too

[soft thistle]

is there a way to make this only affect the mouth and not the other body textures?

[nocturne inlet]

can someone please help me, why will this not install?

[somber sequoia]

do you have one single material?

Also how are you swapping the textures?

oh I see it, yeah use a separate material for the mouth, or perhaps a decal texture instead

[soft thistle]

k

[somber sequoia]

oh wait, you have two materials, right

So changing a material's property will change that property for all materials on a given mesh. Poiyomi has a "renaming" feature so you can edit the same property on different materials. Or it can just have some properties not set to animated while locked.
I'm not sure if other shaders do this, but you'd have to work around this somehow, either having a separate object or a cool shader like this

I don't know how people do this on quest, maybe there are tricks?

[nocturne inlet]

unless im in the wrong channel with my problem, i just dont understand why it doesnt install

[snow sluice]

dude when I try to upload the avatar it just can't upload

[somber sequoia]

no idea but unless you're going to write scripts for worlds, you don't need that for avatars.

[somber sequoia]

I get it but I don't have any idea why

[nocturne inlet]

ok im using creator companion

when i try to open project it opens unity hub

but nothing else

am i doing something wrong?

[somber sequoia]

#creator-companion might be helpful there

[nocturne inlet]

cheers

[soft thistle]

i went to blender and seperated the 2d eyes and mouth, should that work?

[somber sequoia]

sure, try that

[soft thistle]

seperating the objects actually works

i should also be able to get the hang of animating the 2d visemes

[somber sequoia]

hey, that looks great

[soft thistle]

oh wait i forgot i had to select the mouth to animate 😁

also thank you

[mental pawn]

hey, i only found a little bug with this, its that for some reason the sleves clip through

this doesnt happen at all in blender

[somber sequoia]

You've gone into pose mode in blender and rotated the humanoid bones around and verified it doesn't clip when posing?

[mental pawn]

yeah, rotated even the fake ones and its not a misweight

since the sleeve is actually weighted to the hand bone

[opal carbon]

i checked everywhere and where else

nvm figured it out

[soft thistle]

i got all of the neutral 2d visemes set up, what's next?

[snow sluice]

ok now how can I fix this

[somber sequoia]

that message by itself isn't really useful

[mental flare]

ok i have a problem, when i turn into a specific avi i made, people say i get an afk tag and that the avi dun follow me

[somber sequoia]

did you upload the avatar?

[mental flare]

mhm

[somber sequoia]

that's "yes" right?

[mental flare]

yes

[somber sequoia]

Do you have an animation that's supposed to trigger that?

[mental flare]

yeah

[somber sequoia]

is it on by default when you didn't mean it to be?

[mental flare]

it has worked for awhile but yesterday i for sum reason gave in

yeah

i check afk toggle and it's off

[brittle wigeon]

how do i get acess to this theres no unlock shader option

[somber sequoia]

you can't, that's embedded in the FBX. You can extract it or just make a new material and put it into whatever slot that's in.

[mental pawn]

i have asked there and.. not pretty much

[brittle wigeon]

how would i do that

[somber sequoia]

in the menu: assets -> create -> material, name it whatever you like, setup however, drag it where you need it

[mental pawn]

oh thats my exact same issue

but how can i not make it loose mesh assignments?

[somber sequoia]

materials do not have mesh assignments. MeshRenderers have material assignments

[brittle wigeon]

im tryna make it quest compat so mostly jus wanna know why i cant change the shader

[somber sequoia]

again, because that material is embedded in the .FBX file, it's read-only.

[mental pawn]

oh well, i managed to even make it poiyomi toon

[brittle wigeon]

i managed to switch it but now the eyes are stuck white is there a way to make it work i tried to use the eye textures but is there jus a way to remove the lens from thing

[somber sequoia]

It's probably an extra layer of mesh, you'd need to remove that in Blender. You might be able to delete a material slot if it's the last slot of the object, but that may not work anymore, I'm not sure.

[mental pawn]

i also noticed the fact that there are mesh assignments not present on unity

[somber sequoia]

That usually requires transparency to work properly, which quest won't do.

[somber sequoia]

again, "mesh assignment"?

[mental pawn]

sorry, very used to blender

[somber sequoia]

I know blender too but still, what do you mean by that?

[mental pawn]

there are two materials in the jacket but if i drag a texture to such parts, it paints the entire jacket

[somber sequoia]

Ok, in edit mode you have to select faces and assign the material to them

if those materials use the same textures, well, of course that's how this works

[mental pawn]

i managed to fix that, just had to create a new material on unity

and drag it to such part, since i was dragging the image texture

[mossy hornet]

Hello. I seem to be running into an issue. Followed some tutorials on Youtube to decimate a base Booth model in Blender. When trying to test if everything is hooked up correctly in Gesture Manager, I get these errors. The only animation that seems to work is the AFK animation. Anyone have an idea what the fix for this could be?

I updated a lot of VCC plugins this morning, not sure if that broke anything

[balmy barn]

dont think any of those matters, if it breaks everything its red

easy to get alot of yellow errors constantly from imported packages like vrcfury/av3 ectect

[mossy hornet]

Oh yeah, I just figured maybe these errors were related to the fact my animations don't work at all

[mental pawn]

hi, i built and uploaded my avatar but its not showing with its upgrades on the game

like, its showing the old one

[desert elk]

are you sure it uploaded successfully?

and are you checking on the same platform you uploaded the avatar too?

[mental pawn]

i didnt changed it, like it says windows but its like it didnt publish at all

im retrying just in case

also i have setup a little viseem and its not really working

like a generic mouth open viseem and i talk and it doesnt work

[somber sequoia]

you'd have to show the visemes setup or something

[arctic ginkgo]

does anyone know how to make a particle system that changes radial velocity over time but uses the initial transform position the whole lifetime of the particle?

or maybe a way to change the velocity of a particle based initial direction/facing direction?

[mental pawn]

okay, hold up im doing a little test

[arctic ginkgo]

because right now i'm running into an issue where my particle system gets moved, which changes the center used for radial motion while the particles are still animating

it's supposed to look like how it does when it's still, but right now all particles move away from the transform, so when that is moved it won't expand radially anymore

[somber sequoia]

ooh that's interesting

is this a case for a buffer particle?

[arctic ginkgo]

yeah this particles system is being triggered by a buffer particle normally, i have the settings modified right now so i can test it easier

it's for a footstep particle system, so it moves around a LOT

[somber sequoia]

ah I'd have figured that would do it

[mental pawn]

and when i talk with these vowels it doesnt work

[balmy barn]

all need to be filled, one or more missing = breaks entire thing

[mental pawn]

so just put the same no matter the thing?

ok

[somber sequoia]

also sil needs to be a shape key you don't use for something else. That's "silent" so just duplicate basis.

[mental pawn]

also i havent found a solution to this, since on blender this doesnt happen no matter what you rotate

[fair jetty]

this is a wip for another project, i saw theres not really support for soft blending opacities and norms might look weird in vrc but is this level of head detail desirable or should i go more towards anime direction structurally?

[mental pawn]

you could bake those in the texture

although they will be static

[fair jetty]

bake into the base texture? not the normal map?

[night ember]

Theres a jawflap setting

[mental pawn]

It doesnt have a jaw bone setup tho

[night ember]

You dont need a bone

Theres literally a blendshape setting

Sure you are

[soft thistle]

does the layer need to be called a "voice" or something else for the 2d visemes to work?

no thank you

[night ember]

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/animator-parameters/

Shut the fuck up scammer

No one wants your scam

Definitely are

Definitely are

[soft thistle]

uh

[night ember]

Yes

[night ember]

Vrchat has a specific parameter for voice and visemes

They are separate

[soft thistle]

yea

and the scammer is gone

[fair jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/caught-sneaky-dr-evil-austin-powers-gif-16905074

"I'm not I swear"
"I SWEAR"

[pulsar onyx]

I'm not sure which channel to say this in. I tried using Multi-Platform Build and Publish, but now it seems to be stuck in a loop.

[mental pawn]

is this part of the process or the system found something that may be considered copyright?

since my avatar is totally original

[pulsar onyx]

it's part of the process, legal stuff and liability I assume

[pulsar onyx]

Here's a video of it looping... and it's still going

(4x speed)

[soft thistle]

are you able to cancel the upload if it loops?

[soft thistle]

how do i make a blinking animation for my character?

[vagrant dock]

Is vrchat not responding or loading slow for anyone?

[fickle bridge]

Im trying to export my avatar as .VRM/VSF

however no matter what i do, the items dont attach to the body

i tried modular avatar and manual bake

[desert elk]

why do you need a VRM?

unless the avatar isn't for vrchat

[fickle bridge]

i want to use this model in vseeface as well

[desert elk]

are you following any tutorials online?

I recommend this one
https://youtu.be/sSBFUj-D0U4?si=Mwn78OB0oQ7OdJg5

[fickle bridge]

i was following melloniacs tutorial since that one is much closer to what i have been trying

and i did everything as told unless manual baking with modular avatar is not the same with assigning eachbone and armatures by hand?

[desert elk]

I'm not sure I don't use modular

[fickle bridge]

do you know another tool to set armatures automatically?

im quite new in avatar making

[desert elk]

I use blender for everything, sorry

[fickle bridge]

i see, thank you

[soft thistle]

?

[night ember]

Just make an animation that switches it between the different blink states

[night ember]

Modular is vrchat only

You need to actually combine the armatures manually in blender

[proper harbor]

I haven't played in a month or so. Since then, the physbone changes broke my avatar. It seems to be if you change the size of a bone that has a physbone, it flys up. Is there something I'm missing?

[lyric talon]

Can someone help me? I commissioned an avi and got scammed greatly...

[soft thistle]

uh

[soft thistle]

some of these "avatar creators" here are scammers

no

jordan, leave them alone

at least leave it to me

[soft thistle]

anyway, know that they have a warning in #1138520828556890214 about the scammers

[night ember]

and gone

[night ember]

go to vrctraders for commissions

[soft thistle]

hmm, i dunno what i'm doing to make the blinking animation

[arctic ginkgo]

this has been happening to me too

my friend had it happen as well

[amber wraith]

There's no way to access the asset bundles of my own avatars on my own account right, in case I lost my source files?

[arctic ginkgo]

out cannot animate texture swaps

you can animate a material swap though

so make a different material that's a copy of the main one with different textures

[soft thistle]

like this?

[grim valley]

been trying to fix that blue for a bit, its supposed to be transparent not noticable (shown in second photo), how do i acchieve this lol im sure its somewhere here but idek

[proper storm]

no, use one material for the face swap the texture in the material

lock to animate

[soft thistle]

oh

[proper storm]

i can show a example

if you don't get what I mean

[soft thistle]

yea it's very efficient yet useful since i'm new to making avatars

[proper storm]

oh wait, I was wrong, I have used unity in a bit

you can just drag the material into the slot and animate it like that

[proper storm]

you can just record and swap the material

[wanton cedar]

what in the world

[proper storm]

?

[wanton cedar]

your screen is so crowded

[soft thistle]

cheers

[proper storm]

no, thats my average unity layout

[wanton cedar]

i know

im saying its crowded

[proper storm]

its so I can use everything and have gesture manager open

[wanton cedar]

Id go insane

[proper storm]

i need to open a new animation tab somewhere

[wanton cedar]

at the bottom?

i just flip to the tab

[proper storm]

probably... yeah

I think just having the animator and animation merged since you only use one at a time usually

unless testing animation transitions states I guess

[wanton cedar]

wdym

squeaky clean

[proper storm]

not cluttered enough to where i can see everything going on.....

[wanton cedar]

i mean all you mainly need to see is poi

and the left side

[snow sluice]

Can anyone test run the avatar I don't know what's going on or I am the only one having this problem so please dm me

[bright vapor]

uv map is fine in blender, but in unity its gone TERRIBLY AWRY

any explanations?

[somber sequoia]

do you have multiple UV maps? are you using textures made for the active uv map?

is this a quest-compatible shader and vertex colors are overpowering the rest?

[bright vapor]

this is just standard,

the textures came with thhe model

and i do believe theres multiple UVs, but i dont know how to work with that?

yes, there is 3 UVs

[somber sequoia]

Unity shaders by default will use the first one

if your active one in blender is not the first, that's probably the issue

(where "first" is the top in the list)

[bright vapor]

yep, thats definitely the issue, how would i select different UVs? because this model has a different uv for face and mouth regarding face expressions

[somber sequoia]

in Unity? depends on your shader

[bright vapor]

so im assuming this just isnt possible on quest?

[somber sequoia]

not that I'm aware of

[bright vapor]

yyyiiikes 😭

also, i cant seem to move around the uv maps at all

[somber sequoia]

standard navigation controls should work

er... did you mean in blender?

[bright vapor]

yep

[somber sequoia]

yeah

[bright vapor]

im trying to click and drag one to the top but it isnt moving

[somber sequoia]

oh that. yeah I don't actually know how to re-order those with just base blender, I use a few add-ons for working with UVs

[snow sluice]

look I well give you the avatar to test it and find out why the files won't upload

[somber sequoia]

I'm not currently taking commissions

[snow sluice]

no no not like that

I need you to find why the files won't upload

[somber sequoia]

sounds like a commission

[arctic ginkgo]

that is work, so you should pay someone to do that, but kazin isn't accepting that kind of work right now

[wanton cedar]

what they said

[proper storm]

I for the love of god hope I didnt brick my project. My armature position is off for some reason

I dragged a object inside it and it offset it, somehow

[wanton cedar]

imagine it just explodes

[proper storm]

Anyone know if there is a fix?

[somber sequoia]

you could always just reimport a new model

[soft thistle]

is this how to make the 2d blinking animation?

[wanton cedar]

looks right to me

🤷🏻‍♂️

[somber sequoia]

if it looks and works how you want it to, then yes. You don't need anyone else's approval 🙂

[proper storm]

I could, I dont know if it will mess anything else up though...

Ill make a backup just in case...

[somber sequoia]

you could restore from your backup from before you somehow moved the armature

[proper storm]

Yeah I didnt have a backup for this project for some reason, my other ones I do, unless there are auto backups

[wanton cedar]

this is why we make a copy of the project

[proper storm]

which I doubt

[wanton cedar]

blender and unity

[proper storm]

Im just gonna back this one up and hope for the best

[wanton cedar]

its saved me dozens of times from stupid mistakes i couldnt reverse

[carmine flint]

For some reason when you get far enough away from my avatar on Quest you can see the UV seams? They aren't visible up close and it's not an issue for the PC version.

What could be causing it?

Sorry for the poor quality screenshots, when I zoomed the camera in the seams disappeared.

[somber sequoia]

LOD - level of detail

[carmine flint]

What do you mean? Yes, the textures lose detail the further you are.

Are the seams becoming visible because of the resolution dropping from far away?

[somber sequoia]

it's a technique used to make rendering more efficient, you don't render the same level of detail for objects that are far vs. close. So yes, that's what it's doing.

[carmine flint]

I am aware. That wasn't what I'm concerned about. I'm wondering how to stop the UV seams from showing up as the detail lowers?

[ornate nebula]

I think this can be somewhat resolved by painting the texture larger than the UV islands. If there are different colors near the seams of the UV islands, they will be more noticeable, so I think it is necessary to paint a similar color to fill in those areas.

[carmine flint]

I think I figured it out. The textures don't go far enough over the edges of the UV islands. Adjusting the texture itself helped.

[carmine flint]

Thanks!!

[somber sequoia]

sorry yeah, I'm distracted, but yes, you want some "overspray"

[carmine flint]

Thank you for helping ^^

[ornate nebula]

It may be easier to understand if you think of the UV islands as individual "tables" and the textures as the "tablecloths" that you place over those tables.

[carmine flint]

Yeahh,,, I atlased the textures in Blender for the Quest materials and I made the margins too small. Baking it again with larger margins covered enough surface area to fix it.

[proper storm]

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

what why does it work like it should when turned off, then act broken when on

[ornate stump]

What even is broken?

[proper storm]

armature pos

I dont get it, I fixed it, I remvoed all the objects from inside the armature and now its fine again???

let me show

[ornate stump]

Do you mean move tool handle? You can switch between Pivot and Center position in the tool bar.

[proper storm]

huh, yeah... that completely fixed it now....

Why does it choose the last object I put into the armature though as the pivot, its in center so I would assume it chooses the center but its going off the object I put into the armature

[ornate stump]

Because bone doesn't have bounds, so it doesn't have center point. And you selected hair clip which has center bound and it ignore bone.

[proper storm]

ah

weird

[ornate stump]

Nuh uh

Bones in unity are just an empty object.

[wide canyon]

Hey, I have some particles on one of my avatars that form a crown of stars, and I recently noticed the stars don't show up in mirrors. Others can see them and I can see them in my face mirror and camera, but in world mirrors or my personal mirror. Anyone know how to fix that kind of issue?

[ornate stump]

Make sure particle shader settings is Double Sided.

[wide canyon]

Here?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[wide canyon]

Okay, thanks! I'll turn that on and try again 🙂

[turbid wagon]

Guys i downloaded android support for unity but its not registering i have it

[ornate stump]

Did you also install it?

[turbid wagon]

yes

[naive ferry]

anyone who use ssp know why its baking weirdly like this

[ornate stump]

Probably it has mirrored UV which share same UV space between left and right.

[naive ferry]

should i redo my uv map?

[ornate stump]

I'm not even sure how wrong it is.

[ornate stump]

What is this suppose to be?

normal map seems so messing up.

[naive ferry]

its supposed to be like this

[ornate stump]

What did you do to get to that?

[naive ferry]

idk

i fixed it tho by redoing every uv

[soft thistle]

i'm a bit lost on how to set up the blinking animation i just created

[night ember]

You dont use the vrchat eye settings

[soft thistle]

o

[night ember]

You just play the animation in fx

[soft thistle]

should it go in here?

[night ember]

If you want it to

[carmine flint]

Somehow uploading the Quest version of the avatar broke the visemes for both versions. Everything was working as expected until I uploaded the Quest version. In the Debug menu it shows that it's cycling through all the visemes it should be. Everything works fine in Unity, just not in-game. Is this a recent bug or did I break something I'm not seeing here?

[soft thistle]

do i need to set up the stuff in the inspector or is it already done?

like in its own way

[carmine flint]

Figured it out. The GogoLoco prefab I had attached broke it for some reason. Removing Gogo solved the issue.

[verbal oar]

how do i make it so phys bones dont self collide

im trying to make a part of this outfit stop clipping through so i put phys bone colliders

but the phys bone just curls up

[ornate stump]

That mean physbone is inside of the colliders.

[verbal oar]

how would i fix this?

[ornate stump]

Make sure that physbone isn't inside of collider. Probably move collider away or make it smaller.

[verbal oar]

alright

i found the fix

and the problem

the problem was that the phys bones were going inbetween the 2 colliders

i just moved the phys bone lower on the cloth

thank you for helping tho

[heady sail]

Hi, I increased the height/scale on my avatar, uploaded it and it worked, realised i had forgot to change the viewpoint so i went to change that but now whenever I try to upload I'm getting the attached popup error and log.

I've tried some solutions i found for the popup error online such as running Unity in administrator and disabling “Allow files in this folder to have contents indexed in addition to file properties” but neither has worked.

Does anybody know how to fix this?

[round comet]

You may just be better keeping the original size and scaling up in game honestly

[heady sail]

yeah, probably. Thanks though

[ornate stump]

Check max size in texture settings in unity.

[tranquil sundial]

Does anyone know how to import booth models into vrchat? I have a free model that i want imported

[desert elk]

the same way any model is imported. Get unity and vcc. Import the files and needed additional files (shaders etc). Open the scene/drag the prefab to the hierarchy and upload

if the avatar wasn't made for vrc you may need to do additional stuff

[soft thistle]

is there anything I need to change in the animator or in the inspector for the blinking animation to work?

[somber sequoia]

does it not work or something?

[soft thistle]

no i just put in the 2d blinking animation inside of the "allparts" layer in the FX

[ornate stump]

Layer weight.

[somber sequoia]

I mean, you could certainly put it there, but it'd be to your advantage later to name that layer so you know what it is at a glance layer, like "Blinking"

Also you probably don't need that mask

personally I would use the base layer for resetting things, and put my idle blinking on its own layer.

(technically I put mine in a direct blend tree)

[soft thistle]

do i also make a Blinking parameter or not

[somber sequoia]

do you want one?

You keep asking questions to which the answers are really a matter of personal preference. If you want this feature, add it. If you don't, don't.

[soft thistle]

yea

the thing is, i'm new to unity & making avatars

[somber sequoia]

Yeah I get that, but still

[full briar]

Just joined literally a minute ago. How would I go about having someone make an Avatar for me?

It doesn't exist in VRChat and I've looked at different worlds and searched the discord

[ornate stump]

#avatar-general message

[full briar]

ty

[sleek tapir]

im tryna make these models into a VRC avatar but the onbly problem is that the chest and shoulder bones dont wanna connect properly

[desert elk]

check out pinned stuff in #avatar-rigging
and what do you mean by "dont wanna connect"?

[left stream]

is there any way to have two avatar scenes, one being the 'base' and one being 'derived' from the other, meaning I can make changes to the base and have them mirrored in the derived one, but also add new stuff to the derived one without that being mirrored back? I want to have a lighter version of my avatar and a heavier one with more stuff

[somber sequoia]

Not quite like that, but depending on what you want to add, much of the add-ons could be prefabs, possibly using VRCFury

[left stream]

so I guess if I make a change to the base scene i just have to manually add it to the other scene?

[somber sequoia]

again, depends on what kind of change you mean and how you've set things up

[left stream]

like adding extra prefabs for items

[junior void]

Well, there are prefab variants and nested prefabs

[somber sequoia]

I prefab most of my settings so if I do something like tweak a physbone, I don't have to worry about applying it to all avatar variants

[left stream]

ahh, I don't really understand prefabs. I'm still pretty new to unity

maybe i should read some docs

[junior void]

https://docs.unity3d.com/2022.3/Documentation/Manual/CreatingPrefabs.html

[sleek tapir]

as in the shoulder pads go thru the feet, cus the rig was missing a shoulder and a chest bone

[somber sequoia]

make an empty game object, put stuff on it, drag it into the Project view and now it's a prefab you can drop on any avatar variant and it'll be the same

[sleek tapir]

I even tried rerigging the entire model which it helped but then arises the issue of the model beeing made mostly for blender so stuff isnt connected the way it should. which makes the moddel EVEN HARDER to parent.

[somber sequoia]

if you don't currently have shoulder bones but want to add them, you'll probably have to weight paint mesh to move with those bones. You might be able to just split the upper arm bone though

[desert elk]

i don't see why parenting would be an issue, it's one button
i don't see why you wouldn't be able to parent things properly

[somber sequoia]

(also as said, #avatar-rigging if we're getting deep into it 🙂 )

[sleek tapir]

lets move there, ill show u an issue I have

[wet finch]

Question, is there some sort of quest friendly transparent material shader?

[spark walrus]

is there any way to share/give an avatar to someone other than making them download unity and ect..?

[keen olive]

Yeah there's a way

[desert elk]

You mean private avatar?

No

If it's public they can clone it

[keen olive]

Yeah actually

[spark walrus]

Alright thanks

[soft thistle]

no there's only mobile shaders that are compatible to quest, like Toon Lit and Standard Lite

[left stream]

figured it out - make a new prefab, make my changes and apply the changes to the prefab, then the other avatar scene will also have it! thank you

[somber sequoia]

Prefab everything 🙂

[left stream]

i just dragged the whole avatar object and made that into a prefab then dragged it onto the other scene

[somber sequoia]

for some things though you have to do a bit of setup the first time - like I said, I do my physbones and digitgrade leg constraints in prefabs, when setting up a new avatar I just drag the right bones into the slots and from then on it's fine.

ah if you're doing the whole avatar, that works too

[placid mica]

Best youll get is playing with the particles “multiply” or “additive” i think its called. It works for some things, but not everything

[wet finch]

Damn, so I have to get rid of that layer entirely then, or just put the eyeball texture on it. Lmao

Or just leave it white like I am some god

[lost umbra]

How do you edit the clothing size for some these avatars? Body has plenty of way to edit them but clothings do not sync with the body and I cant find any blend shape for the clothes themselves.

[snow sluice]

hello I need help, when I try to upload the avatar it gave me this warning and not let me upload it, is there a way to fix it?

[lost umbra]

This isn't the only avatar to do this, would like to know what method I'm supposed to do when I encounter this issue

[snow sluice]

yes pls

[lost umbra]

this the only error or was there other ones as well and you just kept this error?

I usually find this error with other errors.

[snow sluice]

yes this is the only error and I didn't encounter any error looking like this

[lost umbra]

you could do the usual just in case. When trying to upload, go through your script lists and find any missing scripts. Delete them.

look to see if any missing parameters, fix them

[snow sluice]

excuse me for asking but I am not usually good at using Unity can you give me the extrusion like a video

[lost umbra]

not atm, but there is a script that deletes broken/missing scripts I don't remember where I got it or if's free or not since I got it 2 years ago but go look for that online.

Honestly a good script, recommend everyone to have them

[ember blade]

Hey chat
Wondering what material + texturing work I would need to pull off to mimic a shiny metal material

[somber sequoia]

start by simply cranking up the metallic and down the roughness (or up smoothness)

[soft thistle]

how do i add in more toggles slots for my expressions since there's more than 7

[somber sequoia]

what does the number 7 have to do with anything?

[snow sluice]

can you at least tell me the name of the script

[lost umbra]

missing script remover

[teal field]

has anyone got a good tut on making a seamless head-body

[snow sluice]

ok thank you

[lost umbra]

here it's free https://rinvo.gumroad.com/l/RinvosMissingScriptsRemover

[soft thistle]

well i checked and saw the maximum amount of the slots, i'm trying to figure out how to add something the "next page" in the toggles, like the locomotion has one for example

[somber sequoia]

you usually do that by adding a sub-menu, it's nothing to do with the animator

[soft thistle]

oh gotcha

[teal field]

has anyone got a good tut on making a seamless head-body

[snow sluice]

yeah there is no missing scripts in this avatar

[lost umbra]

well, worth a shot, at least you got a free and useful tool now for future issues

[snow sluice]

😦

[snow sluice]

ok now anyone know how to fix it

[desert elk]

are there any other errors?

the top ones

[snow sluice]

no just one

[snow sluice]

hello

[desert elk]

if there are no more errors I can only suggest to try again, maybe on a different WiFi 🤷

[snow sluice]

dude I only have one wifi

[desert elk]

do you have a phone with data you could make a hot spot of? 🤷

if there are no more errors it's hard to guess what could cause it

[snow sluice]

you mine how many red error or any errors

[desert elk]

generally red errors, but if there are no more red errors, maybe the other ones could be important too

[snow sluice]

ok

[snow sluice]

ok there is this one

[desert elk]

can you post a not-cut screenshot?

[somber sequoia]

usually we need the events leading up to these

[desert elk]

true

cause the screenshots tell nothing

[tepid jetty]

I normally import the clothing into Blender and do a data transfer to copy the body blendshapes to the clothing
Personally there's an addon I like for this but I believe you can do it without any addons

[somber sequoia]

if you mean Robust Weight Transfer - get the add-on, it's vastly better 🙂

[snow sluice]

ok

[nova flicker]

Weird question
But did VRC update their physbones?
I am trying to adjust my physbones and for some reason like..? not updating in real time when i adjust the numbers.

when i fiddle around with the gravity to test it, it didnt update it at all.
Back then i was able to see it adjust in real time in play mode, but now its not doing anything at all.

[chilly summit]

I was just wondering if anyone have time to just help me with a project I'm working with. Piercinging isn't connecting and I need extra help and question if you're experience at unity. if you're available for a call, that would be nice. I would prefer that. I really want to finish this avatar... but don't know who else to go to for help

[mental pawn]

hi, i was wondering. how could i use a vrcfury toggle to well toggle a blendshape?

like for emotions such as happy, sad, angry and whatnot

[desert elk]

it's a bug in the sdk version you're using

[night ember]

Why not just learn how to make toggles

[mental pawn]

well vrcfury streamlines it, i used it to make my avatar's clothing toggles since theyre quite a lot of clothes

[nova flicker]

hmmmm oki-
cuz im using SDK ver 3.8.0

[vagrant dock]

alr im tire of players aavatars never loading

[desert elk]

clear your cache, if that doesn't help, blame avatar creators for making avatars that are way too big

🤷

[clear sonnet]

Anyone know why I can't see my own hat in my hand and how to fix?

[night ember]

your hat is under the head bone

the head gets scaled to 0

[clear sonnet]

I'm not sure I can move it out of the head. There's already a lot going on with it that requires it to be in the head.

[night ember]

headchop

[clear sonnet]

huh?

[night ember]

the component

[soft thistle]

i think i've stumbled across another problem, my oc's right shoulder is a bit more higher than the left shoulder (the left shoulder should look fine)

[desert elk]

enforce t pose first
make sure it's all level in blender second
apply transforms and re-export from blender third

[nova briar]

im having a weird issue with toggles, for some reason it turns on but doesnt turn off, i just remade all toggles, some i can toggle on and off like usual but some i cant, everything is exactly the same between the one that works and the one that dont

[desert elk]

manual? vrcf?

[nova briar]

manual

[desert elk]

did you make sure the animations itself turn off the stuff as they should?

[nova briar]

yes, i previewed them all individually

okay, i fixed it, dont know what was causing, but i deleted the toggles that didnt work in the radial menu and created new ones

[somber sequoia]

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/avatar-dynamics/vrc-headchop/

[frail badger]

returning to this issue because flipping z writing didnt fix it, anyone know how to make transparency work? it works within unity but not vrchat, i'm using poiyomi shaders (i did ask in their discord :( )

[unborn mirage]

Running into a lot of vertex limit while weight painting tyhe torso. The goal is to have better torso deformation but the vertex limit constantly popping up is making the task a bit of a nightmare. Are there tools or suggestions on how to have better torso weights?

[frail badger]

could this be a discrepancy between vrchat's rendering priority and unity's? am i trying to do something that isnt even possible to do?

it shows for just a second then disappears

[somber sequoia]

I feel like I've done transparency before and I'm not clear on what isn't working for you

[frail badger]

the eyes arent rendering behind the glasses within vrchat and specifically within vrchat. works perfectly in blender

somehow, there is a discrepancy between what i'm exporting in unity and what's showing up in vrchat

i can post the images again if that helps

[somber sequoia]

no, I saw the images but that unfortunately doesn't give me a clue about why it isn't working

[frail badger]

i've also watched the video released on poiyomi transparency, and tried to apply their recommendations, and it doesn't change anything. its as if none of my other settings are respected inside of vrchat

[pseudo rover]

anyone now know how to actually fix this? ive tried apply transforms

[somber sequoia]

fix what exactly?

[frail badger]

forearm being a bit high, id imagine. does it look alright in blender?

[pseudo rover]

the broke arm

yes

[somber sequoia]

people often don't know what "correct" is so it really helps to explain what part of an image you feel is wrong.
It's possible you moved the bone or rotated it - if you haven't unpacked your avatar prefab (don't) then you could select that bone, and in its Transform component, reset the values

[pseudo rover]

idk its perfectly fine and blender and im not seeing any obvious issue with the transforms in unity

[somber sequoia]

compare left and right transform values?

[ripe tide]

Some assistance plz

Unity is apparently deciding to not transition to an animation because apparently it does not exist, even though it literally does

That animation its refrencing? yeah...totally fine its just being a whinny brat and culling it for some reason

This avatar is also using VRCFury but that doesnt seem to be interfering with anything

[somber sequoia]

Fury does do weird things with animators though, sometimes outright deleting layers when it detects they don't do anything

[ripe tide]

Yeah...though its not deleting the layer these animations are on

[final crag]

(Blender) Let's say I have a texture on a set of vertices, and I wanna clone the UV map/apply the texture exactly as it is on another set of vertices with the exact same measurements. What would be the easiest way to go about that?
I want to copy the right to the left.

[ripe tide]

ok dont know how but its fixed now I hate unity

[somber sequoia]

textures go on faces, but that's semantics.
If you're ok with stacking UVs you could always move the target faces' UVs to the same place on the UV map. Otherwise you'd have to duplicate that part of the texture and apply it elsewhere, in your image editing software.

In the UV editor you can even snap the vertices and such while reshaping the island

[final crag]

That's kinda what I'm doing but I'm trying to get it exact.

[somber sequoia]

snap!

I'd select the source island and pin it so the vertices show up red, then turn on vertex snapping and move the target island's vertices so they snap to the source

[lost umbra]

How do I connect the tail, youtube tutorial didint help

[final crag]

Managed to find them both, thank you very much. +rep

[somber sequoia]

Depends on what your goal is - it looks pretty good there, is it a separate armature?

[somber sequoia]

excellent! I do this way too often, it's really annoying 🙂
Some nice plugins let you stack UVs if they match closely, but most are paid. Such as ZenUV.

[lost umbra]

I need to move it down and scale it down. I just imported it

this is a pre abused version. Original model is of a abused and amputated dog girl

I'm fixing her ears, and giving her tail back (pre abuse)

So far, I have managed to give her ears back but her bone is messed up and not sure what do here

I also imported this husky tail but need to scale it down, and place it here

just like where the original tail nub was

[vivid hatch]

How do i fix my eyes sometimes going too far one direction?

(for context normally its not like that)

(just when the built in vrc eye movement kicks in)

[somber sequoia]

set the left or right movement values in the avatar descriptor

[vivid hatch]

got it

Is this what im looking for?

[somber sequoia]

yep

[vivid hatch]

So i just preview and make sure it doesnt go crazy

[somber sequoia]

yep

[vivid hatch]

awesome thanks

[honest grotto]

Hi, Sorry for asking a weird question, but I encountered an issue where my face would be completely still and wouldn't moved

If I activate Gesture Manager it would be center, but when i drag around my face would just stay

[quick parrot]

does anyone know how to convert a unity package to an fbx? i’m really bad with computers sorry D:

[honest grotto]

well technically not completely center

[night ember]

A unity package is just a unity zip folder

Import it in a project

[quick parrot]

okay!! i’ll get back to u in a sec

[honest grotto]

I found the problem, I copied the face's Skinned Mesh Render and pasted somewhere else, so its following other avatar, now I do not know how to get it back

[west magnet]

I was trying to make a particle system but any time I use any other shader other than particle or unlit, it goes pitch black in certain worlds or appears darker than the rest of the avatar, is there any way of fixing this?

[night ember]

Particles dont get lighting

[frail badger]

guys i may be stupid, how do you make lights toggleable? i set up an on and off animation, but the toggle isnt toggling

i mean its registering as turning on and off within the menu in game and in gesture manager, but the lights arent activating

[somber sequoia]

should be the same way as toggling any other game object on and off

[frail badger]

it looks correct within the animation 🤔

[frail badger]

ok so actually none of my lights are working in-game, do i need a special kind of light or should they just be working?

[somber sequoia]

quest or PC?

[frail badger]

pc

[somber sequoia]

Realtime lights are supported, though pretty expensive for graphics

baked of course are not on avatars

[frail badger]

i have a realtime light connected to my head

within unity + the gesture manager, i can see my toggle for it working, but in game its as if it was deleted

[somber sequoia]

oh, your head gets scaled to 0, so you won't see that light. use HeadChop to prevent that

[frail badger]

?

[somber sequoia]

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/avatar-dynamics/vrc-headchop

[frail badger]

and that keeps you from seeing a light in the mirror, or otherwise seeing the glow from it?

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure how that works in mirrors offhand

you could put it not on your head as a test

[frail badger]

i have one not on my head, doesnt render

[ornate stump]

Light in mirror depend on whether pixel light option is enabled for mirror in a world or not. It isn't about the avatar part.

[wary perch]

The bug with avatar buttons has really ruined my mood. I find a fix, the next day, said fix doesn't work. I have a chargeable ability on my avatar, an animation that adds intensity if you hold the button, the problem is now those appear as "button text". I've had someone fix this before, now that fix no longer works. I cannot use buttons on ANY of my avatars.

[wary perch]

Only toggles work.

[wary perch]

Why do only toggles work?

What changed about buttons? Why are systems I made previously impossible to pull off now? They worked before, and if I manually enable the bool within the gesture manager, it works, but holding a button refuses to work, and I can't figure out what would be causing such a problem, as realistically, it should play through the animator as it had previously over the past few versions, but now no matter what I do, buttons are completely impossible to get to work. There's no logical explanation for why it doesn't work. It's clearly a problem with the SDK, as avatars previously uploaded with said systems are functional, I directly copied them over with ctrl/C, ctrl/V. Even the parameter names were copied over character for character.

Something had to have changed regarding buttons.

There's no other explanation.

Why else would manually turning the bool on in debug allow the animation to play as intended?

If I am correct, a button is supposed to set a bool to true while said button is pressed, and set it to false when you take your finger off said button. Why would it refuse to work with a bool?

[ornate stump]

It should work. Have you actually tried to isolate the issue so you are really sure that the issue happen on what you suspected, and not interfere by anything else in the animator controller?

[wary perch]

I've tried putting it into another project. It simply won't work, and now me and my friend are at a complete loss for words. I'm beginning to suspect either a bad SDK update, or Windows 11 to be at fault at this point.

[ornate stump]

And you created a new animator controller that has only one layer for the required animation?

[wary perch]

I'm trying that now to see if I get better luck. My theory is that when I copied the states from another, it corrupted them.

[desert elk]

are you sure you copied the stuff 1:1? There could be something you missed, just saying.

[ornate stump]

Also create a new menu and parameter file just to test it.

[wary perch]

Okie.

I'll try it.

I'm getting the "button text" bug.

Button has no icon, displays the name as "button text" that one.

[ornate stump]

I have seen some other people got that bug. But still have no idea how to replicate the bug.

[wary perch]

So it could be a corruption issue?

[ornate stump]

If you can't replicate the issue then it could be.

[wary perch]

I have replicated it countless times, with the fix each time being wildly different. Once I had to set a bool to a trigger, the second time, that didn't work. Now I can't use a trigger, as I require a bool for the true/false value, and button capabilities. How it works is when you start holding it, it plays through one animation if you continue to hold it, which triggers a transition to the state that plays the high power animation. If you let go mid animation, there's another state for a less extreme animation.

Sorry, I've been up for over 48 hours due to the heat.

[somber sequoia]

what exactly says "button text" here?

rule #10, don't advertise here

[frail temple]

What's the reason that when assigning the maximum angle for eyes in Eyelook (VRC Avatar descriptor) the eyes go all over the place? (they rotate vertically and horizontally by alot, it is a pain getting them back to the exact same position

Is this normal? and if so, is there a preferred value that puts the eyes back to the same position as they were?

[somber sequoia]

it's really hard to see what's going on, but eye bones should have their head at the center of the rotation, facing straight up, with 0 bone roll.

[frail temple]

I see my mistake, thank you

[somber sequoia]

bones in the wrong place?

[frail temple]

Yes

[quick parrot]

is there a way to fix this?

[somber sequoia]

what is "this"?

[quick parrot]

the texture is weird, I imported it from my ipad to the computer i’m using, im super new to this I don’t really know what i’m doing sorry :(

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure what's "weird" as I don't know what "not weird" should be

[quick parrot]

the face texture isn’t applying properly

same for other textures, i’ll get a better pic

[somber sequoia]

again, not sure what it's supposed to look like but maybe that texture was made with a different UV map than the model has?

[quick parrot]

ohhhh

hmm

i’ll try something rq

[timid shoal]

I’m on quest and I want to know exactly how it works to buy a avatar from a creator and then have them give it to me to upload it myself and also want to know SOME TRUSTWORTHY creators that can make a variety of styles when it comes to avatars. I get messages from ppl that are scams so I’m really afraid to try to even attempt to learn or to buy. Cheers

[desert elk]

I'm assuming you want a custom avatar?

or do you wanna buy a pre-existing one?

You could check VRC Traders