avatar-help

[sly rose]

Okay thanks you guys !

[frail temple]

Apparently not, i don't know if I am wrong but they're real time

[somber sequoia]

wow nice

[arctic ginkgo]

Your head one rotates around your viewpoint (aka your headset) so that your head moves with you, which means that if you have your viewpoint really far from the head bone, the avatar lifts off the ground to compensate

It happens when your head is very large compared to your body

[frail temple]

I am guessing there's tricks to getting the particle system be optimized, I just don't know them, it would be a massive bummer to have a cut down version for quest, but it's required

I'll go and research on how to do the particle system for this avatar, thanks kazin and sunshine

[round comet]

Any good tutorials for adding contacts? ^^ I wanted to add one for a head pat on my avi

Maybe with particles

[somber sequoia]

the usual resources, Sipp's Avatar Box, PxINKY, etc.

[round comet]

Oo ye I should go bother Sipp too

Big brain, ty as always, Kazin

[somber sequoia]

well don't bother them, the video already exists

[somber sequoia]

haha nah, it's just a lint trap

[round comet]

Nonono I just mean if I need help I’ll ask HAHA

[frail temple]

Dude pinky is a god and he doesn't know it, ran into him on vrchat and his friends just found he's kinda popular

[somber sequoia]

Haha yep

[little steeple]

theres 4 submeshes to the model and 4 uv maps. 3 of which map correctly, and one that doesnt

[frail temple]

Eye look is making me go insane... why does this happen??

[somber sequoia]

how do those eye bones move in Blender? Got too much weight painted to them?

oh I should just watch

oh I see - eye bones should be vertical.

(also 0 bone roll)

[tranquil sundial]

It wont let me export because it says its too big of a package, what do i do?

[frail temple]

Press on review any alerts

[tranquil sundial]

wheere is that

OH

okay

[frail temple]

Also you can't upload on quest with Poiyomi

[tranquil sundial]

frick

[frail temple]

They should be vertical?? Fuck

[somber sequoia]

easy fix!

[unreal owl]

Everytime that I create an avatar project through creator companion and choose a version for both base and avatar it comes up with this error message. does anyone know what this is or how to fix this? I haven't tried with worlds and don't know if its happening on world projects too

[tranquil sundial]

how do i fix this

[left gull]

You've gotta lower the avatars size, signifigantly too because even 500 is OD imo

[stable isle]

is there a way to do face expressions in hand track mode?
i don't have my controllers atm, and want to use hand tracking on quest. My avi currently has expressions, but i can't use em cuz it's hand tracking mode.

[somber sequoia]

woooooow that's big

[left gull]

lower texture res, remove unused blendshapes, merge and atlas materials etc. you could use Thry's avatar performance tool to figure out what parts of the model are taking up the most space to better optimize it/get more specific suggestions

[somber sequoia]

if you have many outfit changes consider making each an entirely separate avatar. Swapping is really not a big deal.

[supple needle]

Does anyone know why my scene is completely blank like this ? I have the avatar in hierarchy, but I can’t find it anywhere 😭

[desert elk]

is it hidden with the eye icon? or the disable box in the inspector

[supple needle]

It is not disabled in the inspector, when I hit the eye icon nothing happens

Left it open overnight and I wake up to this sob

[limpid cargo]

“fuckingwork3” 😭

[frail temple]

blender has made me go insane and so has unity

[supple needle]

When I go into play mode > game I can see the avatar. But in scene it’s all just grey

[limpid cargo]

that’s so relatable i get it…

[frail temple]

d4rk avatars optimizer and thrys optimizer are your best bets for a newbie, Google them and you'll be able to download them into your vrchat companion app

[limpid cargo]

how does one manage to attain 900mb 😭

[fast urchin]

The VRC SDK made me more insane.
Why is the documentation so bad? 😩

[frail temple]

I wonder, why instead of avatar creators dumping all their assets and textures into a single file, they make separate files for newbies so they could upload it immediately? No idea...

Like Optimized (atlas'd version, blend shape version instead of skinned meshes)

[limpid cargo]

i mostly make avatars for myself, so i keep all of those in separate blend files

blendshape toggles is one of the best things i’ve ever seen,
as someone who is obsessed with optimising my avatars to green

[ashen tinsel]

https://tenor.com/view/ghost-ri-durrr-fortnite-beef-boss-what-you-want-what-you-want-emote-gif-636882128617089321

[ashen tinsel]

Does anyone have the animation of this emote? (What You Want)

[limpid cargo]

internet search is your best friend
or #1138520828556890214 possibly….

[turbid charm]

Hi, This is like. my second or third avatar that I'm trying to upload, but it's saying in the alerts tab "Spine hierarchy missing elements, please map: chest" and i'm trying to figure out exactly why its not working. i've tried google, reddit, youtube, and i still cant figure it out. i might be stupid tho and the problem is right in front of me, but as i said im a total noob at this type of stuff. would someone please help me?

[frail temple]

yknow what this is better, only difference is -80 degrees on the x-axis, quick question, when applying the "Looking straight" angle, should i just have the iris in the middle or just have it the same as the default? (example in pics)

[frail temple]

Can we see the rig in blender?

[desert elk]

i tried to recreate the set up but couldn't get the error, so yeah, maybe show it in blender

[frail temple]

could also just be unity being stupid and a new project would fix it

[desert elk]

true

[turbid charm]

here's what it looks like in blender

[somber sequoia]

we'd need to see the bone hierarchy.
It needs to go: hips -> spine -> chest -> upper chest (optional) -> neck -> head.
You can't be missing any required bones.

it looks reasonable from the 3D view though

oh I see you showed that in Unity, that looks ok

hmmmm so in stick mode you can't see which way the bones are facing - can you switch to octahedral mode? maybe one of them is upside-down

(also I really should click open these images before commenting - the thumbnail clipped the hierarchy, thanks discord)

[frail temple]

wtf? 1 face of the eye is not displaying any textures, on opaque render it looks fine, Normals seem fine, even with Alpha channel disabled, it's not there, the face is there, but it's not displaying texture, even when changing it on UV Editing tab.. ( i am going to explode )

[craggy plaza]

Anyone else having the same problem? These are the 2 impostor settings I use on the avi

[limpid cargo]

so… having a pretty insane problem
my avatars bounding box is insanely large because i used an mmd base (not tda, don’t worry!) and the head came with glasses. i THOUGHT i removed everything on the head, but im just now finding out that the glasses that came with it are somehow still there, and are extremely low under the ground so it still counts as part of my avatar. i tried going to blender to fix it, but its so far down that i dont even know how to get to it.

[turbid charm]

had a hard time finding where to change it, but i eventually got there ^^;

it seems like the bones are all facing the correct way tho...

[somber sequoia]

Yep! That looks correct

[turbid charm]

im thinking its because it doesnt have an upper chest bone, there's only the one chest bone in the armature.

[light silo]

whenever I download avatars from any website or an avatar that someone bought me it wont turn into a unity package and just turns into some random white paper file. I have winrar and its working but the avatars wont turn into unity packages. Please help

[somber sequoia]

that's going to be specific to the file you download, not really much generic

[somber sequoia]

that's an optional bone

[light silo]

I have tried basically any avatar yet it wont turn into a unity package

[frail temple]

open a new project in unity just to get unity's possible tomfuckery out the way

[light silo]

Turns into these

[somber sequoia]

really nothing we can tell you without knowing what kind of file you've got

[desert elk]

what's after the dot?
when you anable file endings

[light silo]

from what I can see at least

[desert elk]

wrong unity version would be issue

[light silo]

damn it

why is it stuck at that version

I uploaded an avatar without problem earlier today

[somber sequoia]

probably uninstall 6000

[light silo]

lemme try that

[somber sequoia]

(verify anything I say about Windows though, I don't use it)

[light silo]

noted, thanks

[turbid charm]

I'm using the creator companion to use unity, but okay

[light silo]

same problem even after uninstalling 6000

files still lock onto unity 6000 for some reason

[desert elk]

you're still using unity

it can still break sometimes xD

[somber sequoia]

how are you trying to open the file though? Open Unity then in the menu: Assets -> Import package -> custom package, and pick your .unitypackage

[light silo]

what do you mean?

[turbid charm]

i guess youre right on that lmao

[light silo]

sorry it is hard for me to understand a few things

[somber sequoia]

which part?

[desert elk]

try to import the package into unity

[light silo]

tried that, didnt work

[light silo]

first question

[somber sequoia]

explain exactly how you get this file and then what you do to it

[light silo]

every unity files lock onto unity 6000 even after uninstalling it

[light silo]

I get it from gumroad or any other avatar market. I press download and I get the zip file like normally. I unzip it and all i get are those white files that wont turn into unity packages

[somber sequoia]

do any of "those white files" have a .unitypackage extension?

[light silo]

not from what i can see at least

[somber sequoia]

huh, I wonder what sort of avatar package you got then

[light silo]

they work for my friends

without problem

[turbid charm]

i closed unity completely and reopened the avatar project, and it fixed itself. LOL

[somber sequoia]

....

oh Unity.

[turbid charm]

i guess unity is also made of spaghetti code, anyways lol. thanks for trying to help, yall!

[limpid cargo]

still need some help with this plesse 🙏🏻

[somber sequoia]

select the object in Blender from the hierarchy, move it to the origin

apply transforms

[light silo]

type file changed but still doesnt turn into a unity package

still a "white paper"

[desert elk]

"doesn't turn'?

[light silo]

idk how to word it

[desert elk]

mine would show up like that if i had multiple unity editors installed

can you import it?

[somber sequoia]

it's already a unitypackage though

[light silo]

i got 2

wait lemme ss

[somber sequoia]

the little icon is kinda irrelevant

[light silo]

these are the only ones I have

[somber sequoia]

you don't need 2022.3.61f1 either, for VRChat

[light silo]

lemme uninstall it

[limpid cargo]

it’s a part of the body mesh, my avatar is all 1 mesh
its also at origin with transform applied, i did this before i exported
i think the object is just actually glitched so far out

[somber sequoia]

ok tricker, you'd have to go into edit mode and grab it to move it up

If you can't reach it, you could of course select all the rest of the avatar, then invert the selection.

I can't think of what "glitched out" would mean, it seems reasonable so far

[limpid cargo]

i might have to do that. because it shows at fucking -75 in unity

i have noooo idea where that is

in blender terms

[somber sequoia]

Probably -75

[limpid cargo]

i mean as in i don’t see how it got there

[limpid cargo]

i’ve always been told that the scale was different

[somber sequoia]

Nope, unity units are 1 meter, unless you do really strange things.

I mean you can make the units different, but why do that.

[limpid cargo]

yeah that’s fair.
i’ll try to find it with both ways you said

[limpid cargo]

!! right lol

[somber sequoia]

(see also exporting with "apply scaling" set to FBX All)

[limpid cargo]

i use cats to export
i noticed when using normal blender fbx things get weird

[desert elk]

cats automatically sets the scale to fbx all

[somber sequoia]

yep

[limpid cargo]

i thought so

[somber sequoia]

yep, likely because you didn't set this 🙂

[limpid cargo]

hm? i used cats only to export this model

i was referring to past projects

[somber sequoia]

yeah I meant in the past ones

nothing to do with this one

[limpid cargo]

ahhh

sorry, i misunderstood

[light silo]

okay it worked now thank you @somber sequoia and @desert elk

[somber sequoia]

oh cool!

[limpid cargo]

after hiding the mesh, i notice these little lines around
is it safe to delete these?

i think theyre a result of decimation

[somber sequoia]

those look like actual edges. Switch to vertex mode and I bet you see vertices too.

[limpid cargo]

so what if i already deleted them...

[somber sequoia]

but maybe those are parts of mesh you need and when you selected stuff then hid it, you didn't actually select everything

hard to say what they are.

[limpid cargo]

think they are pieces of decimated mesh

oh well we'll see

[crystal marten]

does anyone know how to import .RAR file assets into blender 😭

[somber sequoia]

unpack the .rar file to see what's inside

[desert elk]

this

unpack it first

[crystal marten]

I don’t see that option, do I need a third party app in order to do it?

[somber sequoia]

I'm assuming winrar is the thing

[crystal marten]

Okk

[somber sequoia]

(again, verify with an actual windows user)

[limpid cargo]

winrar or breezip are the most popular

[crystal marten]

tysmmm!! :)

[desert elk]

i used to use 7zip

doesn't have adds

[limpid cargo]

7zip is a better one

yeah breezip is just straight up adware but it came with my laptop so i've just used it

[somber sequoia]

oh I've never heard of breezip

[limpid cargo]

winrar and 7zip i think are top 2 popular

breezip is somewhere in top 5 maybe

because it came on both of my laptops, different companies and manufactor

[proven harbor]

How do I remove parameters😭😭

[somber sequoia]

edit parameters file, at the bottom is a - button

[proven harbor]

Where😭😭 I don’t see it

Can someone show me😭

How do I get to it

[desert elk]

click avatar, scroll in the inspector till you see the parameters unless it's vrcfury, idk vrcfury

[proven harbor]

I use vrch fury

[hazy flax]

what should I do about quest lenses shaders?

i don't want them to see a whitened version of my eyes..

[somber sequoia]

I'd bring the mesh into Blender and delete it, it's just polygons you don't need

[desert elk]

yeah

I just delete mine

[gritty ore]

Does anyone knows whats this problem? Because its not letting me upload the avatar itself i do have the CC updated

[hazy flax]

wha is going on

[compact dust]

missing face tracking object

[hazy flax]

but

[compact dust]

or prefab, wtv it is

[hazy flax]

i don't even use face tracking

wth

[somber sequoia]

that tool may be out of date for current VRChat SDK stuff, maybe try removing it if you don't need it

[compact dust]

the avatar still has a face tracking component it seems

so you need to import whatever it's asking for

[somber sequoia]

or remove that component

[compact dust]

or that

[gritty ore]

Cant bc the folder does not appear, also seams like its the viewpoint plugin so... if i do delete it, it will not have viewpoint XD

[somber sequoia]

it not appearing in Unity might mean you aren't looking in the right place or you have some stuff hidden, see the eyeball in the upper-right of the project window.

I don't know what the tool is, just going off the errors

[glass solar]

I wanna add unique locomotion animtation to ym avi but they have final IK and constraints (mainly on the legs) that mess up the whole avi with movement, any way i can fix it with the settings here?

[limpid cargo]

so um, my contacts aren’t working.
i have 2 contacts set, one for nose and one for head to change face expression. one set to finger, the other set to hand. i followed a tutorial, and i can see both in game (avatar debug) and in unity that the contacts are THERE, but nothing happens.

[modern tundra]

trying to use vrc play audio script but I keep getting this error when I run the animation.

[teal field]

shouldnt i have more packages here? like an sdk folder and stuff

[somber sequoia]

there's an eyeball at the top left, perhaps you have some things hidden.

... top right.

[teal field]

there isnt anything hidden

omg nvm

i fixed it

[barren wharf]

how do i fit an item made for gumroad onto my booth avatar

[somber sequoia]

it's less about where you got it and more about the avatar base

[barren wharf]

it's made for panda

i want to fit it onto milltina

[quiet sinew]

what's going on with the skin? Is there a way I can change the skin because the there's a head and body discoloration going on

[small valve]

Is there a way to make that my boots are on the floor and not 2 inch in the floor?

[atomic hound]

Move the foot bone up in blender or use OVR to drag yourself up

[small valve]

I moved it lower and it solved it, but it also glitched the polygons of the shoe.

and adding an extra bone to the toe bone will just get ingnored.

[atomic hound]

nice

[kindred plover]

ok so, sdk and all plugins are all up to date, it lets me upload it and everything but inside of vrchat i show up as a robot and it says "secruity checks failed" is this because its a vroid model or? does vrchat not allow vroid models?

[proper storm]

I forgot, how can I fix the material order and make it render properly (body texture writing to eye texture when adding new material on top slot)

I could probably just material swap with a anim instead?

I dont know which is better

I kind of want to make both materials exist on the body at the same time, I dont know how to really do that, its been a while lol

[kindred plover]

another thing, it uploads fine to pc but not to quest.

[devout tree]

Does anyone know how to add Audio to a radial slider on an Avi?

[mild solar]

in terms of face tracking, is there any way to bypass the need to have RightEye and LeftEye directly under the avatar’s headbone?

[kindred plover]

NVM no longer need help with this, i somehow got it to work

[patent jackal]

i'm trying to understand how to set up eye tracking in VRC / Unity.
I have already done the blender work needed, but I dont know what needs done in unity. Could someone point me to a good resource to get started on setting up eye tracking in Unity?

And maybe more info on the "native eye tracking" i heard about in open beta?

[somber sequoia]

make sure you use the same object as the anchor override in the mesh renderers - I usually use the chest bone

[quiet sinew]

how would I do that?

[vivid hatch]

how do i fix my avatar being in tippy toes

[supple needle]

Does anyone know why I suddenly can’t interact with my unity scene ? I can interact with the hierarchy but when I try to right click to move it doesn’t work

[vivid hatch]

Did u set ur gizmos to hide

[supple needle]

Hidden or not hidden I cannot interact with my unity scene

I can with the hierarchy, inspector, and console but trying to change perspective by right click won’t work

Went into play mode now I can’t drag

[supple cloud]

i uploaded my vrchat avatar but the lip sync isnt working

i have it set up but tried to use it on vrchat. his mouth isnt talking

[woven epoch]

hello! this might be the wrong place but im trying to add hana tool to a vrm model and the version in the tutorial (version 2020.3.13.f1 ) is bringing up this error when i open up a blank project

unity discord sent me here

[timber wharf]

uh, its 2022.1.31 not 2020.3.13

like, the order of digits kinda matters

@supple cloud you cant hsve empty slots, every one should be populated with some viseme

[supple cloud]

oh

[timber jewel]

Does anyone know why I keep getting this when I've used these Avis before (I'm on mobile w no issue w these Avis)

[limpid cargo]

this has to be done in blender, match up the armatures, sculpt it to fit your base, then rename the bones to match your avatar’s

[limpid cargo]

that isn’t true, i’ve had avatars that work just fine with only 3 there

most of the avatars i’ve made and bought actually only have the A O I

[wanton cedar]

did you check when they were updated?

[timber jewel]

Wdym updated u mean the app cuz it has most recent update

[wanton cedar]

the avatar

[timber jewel]

Idk but all my avatars aren't working

[wanton cedar]

then it might be the update if All of them arent working

[limpid cargo]

possible reasons for contacts not working pls

[timid kite]

when i turn up gravity and gravity falloff each to 1 hair still doesnt fall, it just normally moves with the head. why?

also why is the phys bone moving in game even tho immobility is at 1

[bright vapor]

i have a blinking animation and expression animations. how can i get the blink itself to play, but not

[supple needle]

Chat I still can’t move in unity with right click 💔 need a fix

[bright vapor]

override the expressions until the blink?

[supple needle]

Another ena troublemaker

[bright vapor]

CORAL 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[supple cloud]

i got a Avatar validation failed

[bright vapor]

this chat is dead

[wanton cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/jason-smiling-friends-screaming-shrivel-dying-gif-13942426314442894388

[bright vapor]

wish there was just an Any State keyframe

[supple cloud]

i think i set up the right lip sync

[somber sequoia]

drag a thing into the slot labeled "anchor override" on the mesh renderer components

[steel maple]

I'm trying to import a model I recently got, but each time I try it just says "Release of invalid GC handle. The handle is from a previous domain. The release operation is skipped.
UnityEditor.EditorApplication:Internal_RestoreLastOpenedScenes ()"

[quiet sinew]

okay i did that but it didn't change anything

[wanton cedar]

why do you have your normal map as a separate material??

[quiet sinew]

atp i have no idea ive followed so many tutorials and none of them work atm

[wanton cedar]

your normal map goes in the material with your main color

i can go open unity rq to show you

[somber sequoia]

then your problem may not have been difference in lighting. so it's something else

[quiet sinew]

please T_T

[somber sequoia]

just having that on a material doesn't mean it's applied to the avatar though

[rapid parrot]

can i make a toggle on quest by using skinned mesh renderers to remove certain parts of one model

basically toggling them on or off?

[somber sequoia]

yes

[rapid parrot]

dang

well for some reason the toggles show fine for pc but dont work on quest

[somber sequoia]

are you using the same menu parameter file for both?

[surreal salmon]

im trying to make a model stay in world and be grabable similarly to the fiddle cube prefab anyone able to explain how to make it work? (trird following a video)

[somber sequoia]

it's complicated. vrlabs has some prefabs to base stuff on, then there's Sophia's pickups and weapon system if you want to really make it usable by others

[surreal salmon]

would u happen to have a link u can give?

[somber sequoia]

a quick web search will find both

[surreal salmon]

will do

[wanton cedar]

sorry i kinda got distracted with my dog

[quiet sinew]

its alr

[wanton cedar]

ignore my special effects n stuff, i just like my skin looking nice

[somber sequoia]

hooray for the use of UV tile discard though

[wanton cedar]

hooray

[limpid cargo]

need help with contacts

[surreal salmon]

ive installed it to creatorcompanion but cant seem to get them to show up in my packages

is there a step im missing?

[somber sequoia]

I don't actually use these things, I just knew about them

[surreal salmon]

ah ok ill figure it out, thanks

[somber sequoia]

I used Sophia's, but that was before VCC existed

[somber sequoia]

guesses include you have "allow self" not checked.
maybe show an image of them in the scene and inspector.

[limpid cargo]

they don't work for other people in game.
i can only do desktop for now, so i tried the unity game mode sphere test with a sender but nothing.

the head contact parameter is empty in that image but i filled it in afterwards

[night ember]

I recommend doing the contact check locally then using a parameter driver for the actual synced toggle

[earnest dagger]

Hello i have a question about radials. i want to stop it so 100 is equal to 0 i would like 100 to be the full animation rather then the beginning/new start of it. how would i fix this?

[limpid cargo]

i tried checking it in unity, but it isnt working.
unless you mean something else, then i'm sorry and you might have to explain

[night ember]

Disable loop time

[earnest dagger]

where is that? (incase i cant find it on my own)

[night ember]

The animation

[earnest dagger]

found it thank you
do you know how to also stop blinking when a toggle is on? my partner meant to help me but their busy atm

[night ember]

Tracking control

[earnest dagger]

where is that???

[night ember]

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/state-behaviors/

theres google and documentation for a reason

[earnest dagger]

thank you for the link this is my frist time doing it and had no idea where to start

[night ember]

Is the conditions even met for the transition

[limpid cargo]

the sphere being in the contact, with the "finger" sender

if thats what you mean, then yes

[night ember]

In your animation controller

[stoic bobcat]

is it possible for the same avi to have synced audio with eachother

[crystal marten]

Does any1 know how to make the sleeve not do this?

[night ember]

Technically but latency/ping exists

Just have a shared contact sender/receiver name

[night ember]

And does the transition even work

[limpid cargo]

this is what its set to

[night ember]

Weight painting
Maybe give it its own bone

[night ember]

Thats not a transition

[limpid cargo]

ah yeah\

the arrows

[night ember]

Does the parameter even change values

[limpid cargo]

it should, its true/false

[night ember]

But does it

[stoic bobcat]

k wanna try to have togglrs for synced instrument songs

[limpid cargo]

the tutorial i followed didnt put a check on the parameters box
does it need to be checked?

im not sure how to check if they change values

[night ember]

You can start them at the same time but not late sync it

[night ember]

That check is just what the current state the parameter is in in the layer

[limpid cargo]

ah

then how do i check if they change values?

[night ember]

Enter playmode abd stick the sender in the receiver

Then look in the animator

[stoic bobcat]

dang

[limpid cargo]

nothing seems to be happening

[night ember]

Look in the actual animator

That doesnt show anything

[limpid cargo]

still looks like this

[night ember]

Parameter tab

[limpid cargo]

nothing is happening on any of the parts

[night ember]

The parameter doesnt match then or your contact isnt being triggered

[limpid cargo]

how do i fix it not being triggered?

the names on everything are the same, so i dont see how they wouldnt match

[night ember]

Well does whatever you are using have an actually proper set up contact

[limpid cargo]

is this correct?

[somber sequoia]

I looked all of this over and I don't see anything wrong either

[limpid cargo]

thats why im so confused, i follwed the tutorial exactly

does it maybe have to do with none of these being linked in the base layer?

the contact receiver on the nose also shows as having 1 receiver, so it does recognise it, i think

[somber sequoia]

you don't need those in the base layer at all

[limpid cargo]

they just got put there when i added the other things

i havent touched it

[somber sequoia]

also you probably don't want that one that's orange either, right there that means it's always on

[limpid cargo]

that is the contact

[somber sequoia]

yeah I hate how tutorials teach you to do it that way, it leaves a mess

so that's the issue

[limpid cargo]

thank you, how do i fix it?

[somber sequoia]

remove all of those states from the base layer

[limpid cargo]

you got it

[somber sequoia]

I should say that's possibly the issue.

[limpid cargo]

wait should i remove that other unrelated one? (The bodysuit) it works in game, so i dont know if i should touch it

[somber sequoia]

unless you are intentionally using that animation in a given layer, it has no business being there.

[limpid cargo]

it has its own layer in another controller

so i'll get rid of it

what do i do now?

[somber sequoia]

test, debug?

[limpid cargo]

still nothing

thats why i asked what to do now

[night ember]

Could ask after removing the animation from base layer did it fix in game

[limpid cargo]

i’ll try in game then

[limpid cargo]

it did not work in game

[night ember]

Weird

[limpid cargo]

unless Kazin has some idea, i'll try to use a different tutorial

[bitter estuary]

could someone help me out trying to upload for the first time struggling

[limpid cargo]

what’s wrong?

[bitter estuary]

Thats the thing I dont even know
I was hoping to stream unity to someone for some help bc I have no idea whats goin on

[limpid cargo]

i would recommend watching a youtube tutorial 😊

there are plenty out there

[bitter estuary]

I cant find one for this

[limpid cargo]

what’s the issue?

[spark walrus]

Srry, does anyone know how to fix the hands of an avatar whose hand animations are not individual? (For example ,you make a peace sign with one hand and the other hand does the same)

[somber sequoia]

check the transition conditions in the gesture layers. probably the masks on those too

[spark walrus]

I apologize, I'm not very expert in Unity but I'm already in the avatar's animator section... In the transitions it says "solo mute", the mask I don't know exactly where to see them or edit them

[somber sequoia]

masks are in the gear on the layer itself.
for transitions you want to look at the conditions, near the bottom.
I recommend a tutorial on using the animator.

[spark walrus]

I've been looking, I disabled motion time since in a tutorial they didn't have it enabled ,But I don't know exactly how to edit the transitions, although the tutorial had that section in "list in empty"

I also tried to put a mask that was already created of "mask for left hand" and "mask for right hand" for each corresponding hand, but when I upload the avatar and look again, the selection I put in mask disappears and is back in "None"

I don't know exactly what the error could be 😦

[onyx gale]

is there a way to find non quest materials on a model? I cannot for the LIFE of me find this last material

[merry kayak]

hi everyone 👋 , I want to ask some beginner questions about Av3Emulator. Can Av3emulator connect to VRCFT?

I am trying to capture the face tracking data in unity editor😂

[night ember]

Dont think so

[merry kayak]

I enabled the OSC option in unity and started the vrcft

VRCFT has received messages from the Unity editor but the avatar status hasn’t changed. Am I doing something wrong or it is not support for doing this?😂

[mental estuary]

AV3 and GestureManager likely don't send out the /avatar/change event required for VRCFT to know what avatar you're in. It's easier to test anything to do with fact tracking in-game

[merry kayak]

🤣 thank you so much, seems i asked a dum question.

[stable arrow]

Is there a way to adjust the Viewpoint to an animation for crouch/prone or do i have to adjust the animation to the default viewpoint height?

[drifting temple]

How do I make a forever looping animation? I created a layer with its weight set to 1 adn the entry connected to my animation I want to loop, but it doesn't work

nervermind it works now!

[fervent rune]

Hallo guys Does the dressing tool have a limit on how many outfits you can make? I can't create more than 4. If so, does anyone know how to get around this?

[limpid cargo]

dressing tool?

[fervent rune]

!

[limpid cargo]

oh i’ve never seen that before

[balmy barn]

tool for racing for that extremely very poor avatar

[drifting temple]

I have a dilemma:
either my avatar view is too low and too far into my head and I can see my chest cevering up 30% of my screen when I look down halfway (even though my avatar deosn't have boobs!)
or my viewport is too high and too far and my neck and body move dramatically up when I look down.

Is there something wrong with my rig? my mesh?

this is how it looks liek from the side

[full furnace]

Hi. I am struggling with rating of my avis. Creator companion ranks it as poor, but the game as very poor

Any idea why?

[timber wharf]

@full furnace maybe texture memory? i dont think sdk can calculate this prior to building

[barren wharf]

how do i sculpt it to fit the base

[limpid cargo]

select it, then look at the top that says “object mode” and change it to “sculpt mode”

[barren wharf]

okie

[limpid cargo]

racing?

[barren wharf]

what do i do once im in sculpt mode

[limpid cargo]

um

sculpt it?

you pick a brush and start moving it around

[barren wharf]

ohhh ok

[limpid cargo]

i recommend elastic grab for general use, and Grab for extreme precision

if you’re on a recent version of blender there is a search bar @barren wharf

[barren wharf]

ty

[bright vigil]

can someone please upload an avatar for me bc I am only a new user?

[desert elk]

good for you, you need to be at least a new user

so you can do it yourself

[drifting temple]

can you show the details? it usually tells you what category is poor performance

[balmy barn]

sdk cant tell what size will be if you are using vrcfurcy/ect

certain things they add easy get you very poor rated

[full furnace]

Maybe. I removed some things and it helped.

[full furnace]

The problem was that everything in the creator was poor or better, but in-game it was ranked as very poor

[ornate stump]

You just have to look into what number made it very poor in game.

[drifting temple]

are you sure it isn't an issue of some othe objectsin oyur scene being exported with your avatar or something? have you trried disabling everything but your avatar and things you need in your avatar?

[full furnace]

Nothing that creator was showing

[ornate stump]

You have to look in game.

[full furnace]

Oh. Sorry, was being an idiot 😅

[full furnace]

Hmm. I haven't tried that. I solveed the problem by removing things from the avi, but maybe that would have helped.

Is that disabled?

[drifting temple]

that's only set to invisible, you have to click on the little box on the top of the inspector for each object

[ornate stump]

It's hidden in editor.

[full furnace]

Kk, will try that when I am uploading the avatar again with a different shader o7 . Thank you all for help! ❤️

[drifting temple]

can you change the value of parameters in animations in unity?

or in the animator using states?

[somber sequoia]

you can use VRC Avatar Parameter Driver, it's a component you put onto an animation state

[drifting temple]

thank you, I've been tryign to figure that our for hours😂

[somber sequoia]

yeah this is why I read all the docs, hopefully then I'll remember there's a thing for the weird thing I didn't need before but suddenly do now

[calm quartz]

anyone know how to fix the Liltoon transparent issue?

[ornate stump]

What issue? That error likely had nothing to do with your issue.

[calm quartz]

Liltoon transparent is completly invincible

[ornate stump]

"Invisible"?

[ornate stump]

Make sure that material settings has color alpha set, and texture also properly has alpha channel.

[ornate stump]

Just trying to make sure, do you really want to make body to have transparency?

[calm quartz]

no it is an example
the shirt is also transparent

[ornate stump]

Make sure that you double check what I told you above.

[calm quartz]

changed the render queue to transparent. alphatest doesnt work on linux?

[somber sequoia]

sure it does

[hollow grove]

so i tried uploading and avatar as usal but it just dident work and told me a bunch of problems, so i made a new project with unity 2022.3.22f1 and vrchat 3.8.0 and added a empty animator and vrc avatar descriptor too an gameobject and uploaded it with a random name and picture, and it just dosent work and gives me these problems

[somber sequoia]

any errors above those? Always show the first 2-3

[hollow grove]

nah

[somber sequoia]

well that's not useful at all

[hollow grove]

im just utterly confused

[austere pivot]

This is my friends avatar but how do they fix this? Because it works completely fine on theirs, but not for me because it just looks like this for me

[somber sequoia]

Please always describe "this" for those of us who don't know what it is supposed to look like

[austere pivot]

Sorry I was panicking

And I don’t really know how to describe stuff kinda

[somber sequoia]

at least point out what in the image you want us to look at

is the hair the wrong shape? wrong gesture? bad face texture?

[rapid parrot]

alr coming back at this with more info, so basically the toggles work on pc just fine, but on quest only the animations that adjust the clothing play but nothing is removed which means it interferes with other outfits i put on, it uses the same paramaters fx layers etc. as pc but seeming doesnt work (pictures have a few things for the toggles)

[somber sequoia]

are you using the same parameters file for both avatar versions? and don't have anything altering those as a build hook (like VRCFury)?

[austere pivot]

The bad face texture

[rapid parrot]

i do have fury, however i dont have it touch anything of that outfit and yes same paramaters file

[somber sequoia]

Ok - hard to say what that is from here, is this a quest-compatible shader? It might be vertex colors

[somber sequoia]

iirc Fury has a way to make sure the parameter lists stay in sync, you might check that. I don't use it so I don't know what that is called

[reef drum]

I keep getting this error when trying to import a model using cats

any idea as to why?

[desert elk]

are you using the correct version of cats for your blender?

[limber depot]

Hey a friend lost her avatar unity file, is it possible to “extract” the texture from vrc or whatever? She bought the model so it’s really just the texture

[desert elk]

No.

[limber depot]

There really isn’t any way at all to download it or get it back if she published it?

[wind pelican]

not without ripping, which is against tos

[limber depot]

Could you get banned from ripping your own avatar? 😂

[wind pelican]

yea

[limber depot]

That’s goofy

[wind pelican]

it's not about what avatar you rip, it's the fact you tamper with the client to rip at all

[limber depot]

I see

[somber sequoia]

get the right version of cats here: https://catsblenderplugin.xyz/
but note that you don't need cats to import a .fbx, just file -> import

[quiet sinew]

I'm not too sure what this really means tbh what head titles do I have to get rid of?

Im assuming I have to rename all the head titles to like head_0 and beyond?

[balmy barn]

dont have a mesh named the same as any humanoid bone

[quiet sinew]

I figured it out thanks

[tiny pendant]

I deleted a grounder accidentally and now everything is broken

[night ember]

Reinstall it then

[tiny pendant]

That’s the thing idk what to reinstall

[night ember]

It says final ik right there

[tiny pendant]

Yea

I’m going to do something rly quick and then look for final ik

[tiny pendant]

I don’t think i installed something with the name final ik something else come with it

[night ember]

Its your project not mine

[tiny pendant]

True

Welp time to go through folders and folders of stuff

[supple needle]

Asking this again 😞 I still can’t interact with the unity scene, as in I can’t right click to drag the pov or whatever- I can interact with the inspector, hierarchy, etc. but I can’t with the middle part. Looking for a fix

[night ember]

be in scene view not game view

[supple needle]

I am in scene view. I cannot right click to move (or move anything in general)

[velvet goblet]

Asking for help again. My avatar's tongue propels itself forward during gestures, and I have no clue what I'm doing wrong.

If more information is needed or even a picture, Please let me know

[tiny pendant]

i made it worse i deleted the whole grounder section

wait i may of fixed it

[night ember]

you have animations doing it

[tiny pendant]

nope

[chilly bone]

I've been getting this warning and error in my console, I am not sure what I am supposed to do to fix it
hair collider is a child of zhair_root_floofy

[proper storm]

is there anyways I can make particles only collide with avatar and other particles die?

probably will get what I mean from this

[tiny pendant]

i made it WORSE

[timber wharf]

@proper storm try again. you cannot make particles collide with an avatar as mesh, you need generic colliders for that.

[tiny pendant]

i may have FIXED ITTTTTTTTT

[proper storm]

I could add a mesh collider to the body but it will be removed when uploaded tho right?

[timber wharf]

ye pretty sure mesh collider not allowed, nor should it ever be used in dynamic objects

[proper storm]

ofc

[timber wharf]

so approximation with primitives, same as youd do for physbones

[proper storm]

whats that?

[timber wharf]

what?

like you take upper arm bone, and place capsule collider on it. repeat untill you have whole body. idk how bad vrc will think of your performance tho

so, just not physbone collider, like youd do for hair, but generic one

[proper storm]

ohhhhhhhh

okay i get it

yeah

I didnt know what kind of collider you meant

thanks

[timber wharf]

@proper storm tbf if youre going for holo shader, just having extra mesh weightpainted with some flickering effect makes way more sense than particle system

[proper storm]

nah, the particle system was for some projector to have a drawing effect of the hologram

I think it might be too complex for the client to make though but ill see

[timber wharf]

well i mean like godrays

[proper storm]

that could work hm

just have to add a constraint always pointing at the avatar and it would work

[magic yarrow]

how the hell do i import models from Unity into Blender, I've been trying to figure this out for over an hour

i just want to resize some stockings a little bit but i cannot figure out how to import the models into Blender

please help

i got this 'easy tool' but it has been no help because it won't let me choose an executable path

[compact dust]

open the file where the stockings FBX is at
drag into blender

[magic yarrow]

this is where i keep getting stuck- there is no FBX file. it only shows up as a Unity Package

[somber sequoia]

nevermind I'll read properly

Somewhere in your Unity project is a .fbx file.

[compact dust]

there's always an fbx, or it wouldnt be in scene

[magic yarrow]

okay i must not be seeing where it is then

[somber sequoia]

You can usually find it if you click on one of the mesh objects, then see the "mesh filter" component, and you can click on the object in that and it'll probably get you there in the Project window

otherwise you could use standard file-finding tools from your operating system to look for files with extension fbx

[magic yarrow]

okay im still very lost

maybe i've been trying for too long

i still can't find the fbx file

[somber sequoia]

some creators seem to unpack those and make a mess of things, which is really ridiculous. I hope you don't have one of those models.

[magic yarrow]

i don't know for sure. im still extremely new to model editing so idk if it's in a really obvious place and i just can't see it, or it's really messily packaged

[somber sequoia]

oh it's a Nova, that should be sane

[magic yarrow]

it's an edit of the novabeast called the lunabeast. not sure if that makes a difference, but idk

this is what i want to import as an fbx into blender but i can't because i can only see the unity package, idk how to find the fbx file

[somber sequoia]

it's already in your Unity project, not sure why you're looking at the unitypackage

[oak bone]

In package manager turn on the fbx exporter. It's a default unity plugin

Then you can export the avatar in your scene from one of the top drop down menus

[magic yarrow]

i have it toggled, i export, the package disappears and i can't import it to blender

im starting to go insane, going on 2-3 hours now. im gonna stop for now and come back later

[surreal salmon]

anyone have experience with sophias item and weapon pickup?

im trying to use it an having difficulty

[somber sequoia]

been a while, but I did use it. it's kinda janky, but most of that is not really Sophia's fault

(I wonder where I put that prop...)

[surreal salmon]

i tried following the listed instructions but couldnt quite get it

it seems top force the nest to my hand and my goals to have it remain on the ground, and for the center egg to be grabable

[somber sequoia]

put the thingy on the egg instead of the nest?

[surreal salmon]

target tracker?

or item target?

[somber sequoia]

I forget how this is setup but wherever you put the nest, put the egg, if that's what you want to be able to grab

is this the one where there's a sword as the default prop?

[surreal salmon]

yes

[final crag]

Is it possible to combine bones and their weights in Blender? And/or move the weight one bone controls to another bone.

[desert elk]

I know it's possible to combine weights with the cats plugin, idk if blender alone has that as well

[final crag]

An extra question but not necessary: How do I delete bones that seem to only exist in the right menu and seem to be invisible in the actual layout? If they're not invisible, how do I find them in the scene?

[final crag]

Heard of it before but had trouble installing, will try and update. Thank you.

[desert elk]

you can just click it and press X or delete on your keyboard

[desert elk]

you were probably installing the wrong version

visit this website https://catsblenderplugin.xyz/

and the correct one

[somber sequoia]

weights are in vertex groups, and attached to bones by name, so you can simply rename a vertex group to the name of a different bone and then all those vertices will be weighted to that new bone

merging is trickier though

[supple needle]

Does anyone know how I can get this coin to stay in the hand ? When I go into play mode it just floats

[desert elk]

show the hierarchy, is it attached to the hand?

[supple needle]

I couldn’t find a hand, I could only do wrists. I put both coins on the corresponding wrists

[somber sequoia]

yeah wrist is likely the hand bone

[supple needle]

I don’t know what more to do as I positioned it and put it to the closest thing to a hand bone, it still just floats

I followed the tutorial that came with the asset aswell

I tried putting it on every finger bone and such but it still won’t stick to the hand

[desert elk]

Maybe you missed an instruction step?

[supple needle]

I don’t think so, it was a vrcfury installation, as in just drop it on the avatar and position it on the hands

Watched the tut for it and that was about all said

[desert elk]

ah I can't help with vrcf

[spring sierra]

(Using Rindo Base)
For some reason, and it's really random & client sided, I can't tell if it's my clothes or the actual body, but the breast flaps around like crazy. Either that or it's flickering between boob size 0 & boob size 100 constantly at lightspeed.

I saw it myself yesterday then it stopped, but then another individual saw it but then I couldn't, it's driving me crazy..

[left gull]

this is liindy's coinflip asset right?

they have their own discord for help with their content so there may be an existing solution there

[spark walrus]

Hey I'm looking for help with some unity stuff and avi stuff. Upload and all the things I need for that one avi I got cuz its a bit confusing. (I'm returning after like 7months.) And uhm be patient im a slow learner 😭🙏🏼 also if we can do it in vc would be amazing. Dm me!

[desert elk]

you'll get scammers in DMs, btw. Beware
https://youtu.be/rRAnDMUbWt8?si=fcB20LxiqCbvO_xt

[spark walrus]

Well appreciate you for letting me know ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

[desert elk]

if you have any specific questions, feel free to ask them here

[spark walrus]

I mean i just need more vc help honestly..hard for me to learn through vids ;-;

yah im dat stupid 😂

[spark walrus]

you mind if i ask u for help instead?

[desert elk]

Not in DMs :)

[spark walrus]

oh

well fk xD

[desert elk]

feel free to ask questions here and I'll respond if I know

[spark walrus]

there isn't vcs in this server ah

uh okay so

tf are these?

i need these in order for my avi to work or whatever

ig

[supple needle]

Vrcfury can be installed with vcc

[spark walrus]

vcc?

Im not sure what that is

like i clicked these links and installed whatever it told me to install

but idk if the istalltion worked bcs it doesn't say shit

[desert elk]

creator companion

[regal horizon]

hey im trying to upload a avater that i installed and its showing this can someone help

[spark walrus]

and the 2nd thing let me install smth into my own pc (a folder with bunch of stuff)

but can't figure out what it is or where it is

[desert elk]

you don't have an avatar descriptor, add one to the root of your avatar

[regal horizon]

how

dumb it down if you can

[desert elk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FacFEWXo6xo&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD
https://poiyomi.vercel.app/download/

[spark walrus]

😭 u said that and i felt u lmao

[desert elk]

click root > add component > vrc avatar descriptor

[spark walrus]

can u also dumb down stuff for me

lmfao

[desert elk]

That was to @regal horizon

to you were the links

[regal horizon]

2 secs

i need to smth irl

[spark walrus]

im sorry im really frekin dumb i can't understand this eliot

[desert elk]

1. join discord, download file
2. click the buttoms
3. click a different button
4. done

idk how else to explain it

[main finch]

I just bought an avatar from jinxxy and got some weird "warnings" ive never seen before anyone know how i can fix this?

[spark walrus]

bottms? different button? 😭

[desert elk]

misspelled

[desert elk]

if you're talking about gesture manager, they had it added to the scene when they made it. You can ignore it

[spark walrus]

hol up might have gotten it

[main finch]

Yup the stuff on the right side. Anddd another question i got is theres 2 unity packages to download one is names SizeFix. Do I NEED it? Cause i cant seem to download it

[desert elk]

Idk what that is

gesture manager you can ignore, I don't know what the other thing is

[regal horizon]

@desert elk https://poiyomi.vercel.app/download/ is there a vid for this too 😅😅

[desert elk]

🤷 I don't use poiyomi, you can look yourself

[regal horizon]

k

[floral token]

ok so i have an issue with an avi i made awhile ago! but the problem is it only looks like this for quest 2 users quest 3 users see it just fine! its like they removed the vertex painting! first photos on quest 2. second is quest 3. my boyfriend said the sdk could be bugged but idk i don't have wifi rn so i cant reupload her :((

[main finch]

https://jinxxy.com/mico/products/DsS8u

I bought this avatar and only got the Unitypack or quest what do I do? Did i miss something? I uploaded it and everything looked weird and had no texture

[torn vector]

No ones probably gonna be able to help but I imported a clothing asset and suddenly rimshade for liltoon doesnt work, everything else is fine but rimshade, and now my avatar looks dumb and I dont have the time to fix it.

[bright vapor]

Here's my expressions layer, all are animations that are 4 seconds long and have a blink at the end.

But on NONE OF them does the animation ever blink

Its not like they have motion time set to a parameter or something, and i know the animations start on toggle because the face expression changes

i think this server needs to get a dedicated avatar helper role lol

[desert elk]

why?

[bright vapor]

nobody EEEEEEEEVER talks in this channel in a timely manner

its been 50 minutes since мιмιzαяυ asked for help and nobody has said anything

[desert elk]

🤷 it looks like vertex, but they say it's not, and I don't have other ideas

so what do I say? nothing

[bright vapor]

how about ᴇᴀᴛᴋɪᴅꜱ, Shinoaa, me? nobodies helped us yet

[desert elk]

people check this server when they can and have free time to do so

no one is obligated to help people within 5 minutes of them asking for help.

[bright vapor]

i dont see what this has to do with my original point lol

[desert elk]

It seems as though you want to have a special role people can spam ping when they want help, this seems like a bad idea to me

the channel is enough :)

[bright vapor]

if you opt in to the ping role, why get upset if you get pinged? lol

prettyy much my exact issue, but motion time is NOT on

i almost wonder if the Any State transition is spamming itself? thus setting the animation back to 1 multiple times??

i foun it 😭

[proper storm]

do constraints look wonky like this when they are moving?

the target constraint is to the left of my head

I dont completely know how to fix it

[crystal marten]

I’m still having problems with this. I just don’t want the sleeve attached to the wrist armature but in blender, I already attached the top armature with the bodies armature.

[bright vapor]

just unweight paint the top

[crystal marten]

What tool do I use to erase the weight paint?

[bright vapor]

go into object mode, click on the top

then swap mode to weight paint mode

[night ember]

its not a tool its just a mode in blender

[proper storm]

weight paint tool

[somber sequoia]

often the reason is that the people present either do not know the answer, or don't want to be asked to hold someone's hand and walk them through the answer. Which is pretty reasonable. I mean, this is a free thing, nobody here is employed to do this.
I'd be willing to get pinged for help if there was money involved 🙂

[proper storm]

hmm do I have to redo my outfits?

I dont remember how to reset this 😭

[crystal marten]

?

[bright vapor]

it needs to all be dark blue

thats 0 weight, aka unaffected by selected bone

[surreal salmon]

re used the portal radio for it but still looking for a way to make the center egg grabable

[crystal marten]

I don’t think it worked 😭

[surreal salmon]

u trying remove the weight from the wrist on those cloths?

[dark jay]

been a while since ive done it but how do i do anisotropics on hair?

to get the hair shine on poiyomi

[crystal marten]

I js did that and it didint work 😭

[surreal salmon]

screen share in dms

[crystal marten]

do i call u?

[surreal salmon]

ye

[crystal marten]

okk

[sand dune]

could someone help me figure out why my pupil receiver/sender parameters just flicker from 0 to 1

i am a unity noob

[somber sequoia]

It's tricky to get right, I read a bunch in the poiyomi discord, and iirc I needed to do some new UV maps and haven't got back to it yet

[south schooner]

none of my clothes have blendshapes and idk how tf to make em. any help is appriciated thankssss ( it is my first avi nd ive never done anything like this before btw pls tag me i. Your responses since im trying to do some other stuff outside of disc thxxxx <3)

[dark jay]

ah

[somber sequoia]

in blender, create a new shape key, move vertices wherever you want them

[calm totem]

do i merge each parts into one model to rig and upload it, or...

[night ember]

Transition probably

[sand dune]

i swapped from using a blend tree to a state machine with transitions and it made the flickering smooth (like in the gif)

so i think the issue's with the senders and receivers

but i cant really find many resources on how they work online

[night ember]

Check the transitions

It just looks like you accidentally set both to the same condition

[arctic ginkgo]

jsyk this uses a LOT of contacts which are not necessary

[supple needle]

What’s a good quest compatible replacement for parent constraints ?

[sand dune]

what do u think would be a better way to do it

[arctic ginkgo]

unless you plan on moving your eyes separately from one another, you don't need two sets of contacts for each eye, just for one, and you only need 1 sender and 2 receivers. If you use proximity contact receivers you can align them so that 0.5, 0.5 is the center, and 0-1 are the positive and negative X and Y values. You move the receivers with position constraints locked to one axis

[sand dune]

that makes sense, ill try that

[arctic ginkgo]

they should all be the same radius, and they are aligned with the X receiver on the bottom right, the Y receiver on the top left, and the sender in the bottom left

the receivers should be overlapping with the sender by 1/2 the radius

add an empty to the eye that is the same distance away from the eye as 1/2 the radius, and that's what is used as the constraint target

[sand dune]

okay tysm

i figured the radii were off

[arctic ginkgo]

also your eyes should rotate 90º in all directions. This does make the eyes difficult to move, so I reccomend creating a second set of eye bones. One is used for the contacts and one is used for the descriptor

you can just use empty transforms btw, no need to add bones in blender

the one used in the descriptor should rotate about 30º in each direction from my experimentation, which works nicely with the 90ª since you can use a constraint to multiply the motion

add a rotation constraint to the bone used for rotating the position constraint target, then set the rotation constraint target to the descriptor bones. Enable free edit on the global weight to set it to 3

now you only need to rotate your eye 30º to rotate the position constraint target 90º, which will slide the contacts 1/2 the distance of the radius each way

for some reason the angle you set the eyelook with in the descriptor changes how easily the eyes move when moving your head around

30º tends to work for me, not too sensitive or insensitive

[sand dune]

okay, ill play around with it

ur a life saver

[supple cloud]

is there a free classic robot avatar that i can download and modify it?

[sand dune]

i think there is in the vrchat sdk

[supple cloud]

oh

its like this

i have him already so, now how do i get HIM into blender?

[somber meadow]

import the FBX file in your unity project assets folder into blender

[supple cloud]

so like this?

[sudden tendon]

I think drag and drop works...? I know it works from blender to unity. Might be wrong, it was like 2 years ago since I last did that.

[supple cloud]

ok i think i got it

[daring lark]

Heyy so when I move the head down the avatar goes on its tippy toes

[supple needle]

Bumping this 😼

[somber sequoia]

view point is too far foward, move it back into the face more

[dry ibex]

why is my png avatar on the floor in vrchat?

[south schooner]

Ah okay, is there a way i can change the unityfile of the clothing into a fbx or another file type blender would accept? I only got a unityfile when i got the clothing

[supple cloud]

it prob the eye view

[somber sequoia]

load the unitypackage into Unity, find the .fbx now in your project, import it into Blender

[south schooner]

I didnt see one for the clothing but i’ll double check. Thankssss

[somber sequoia]

unless the creator did something really weird, it's probably there

[supple cloud]

wowie

[icy wyvern]

bro why tf is my avi in third person mode when i load it

😭

[supple cloud]

the view point

[icy wyvern]

i checked the view point

its inside the head

[somber sequoia]

got an extra camera on the avatar? Don't.

[icy wyvern]

that changes it? wild

ty

[somber sequoia]

yeah there are ways to do that, but by default this happens.

[icy wyvern]

damn

easy fix ig

curse you blender, sticking sneaky cameras into my model /j

[somber sequoia]

yeah I make sure I don't export with those but then also don't import them, there's a checkbox in the inspector for the .fbx file

[icy wyvern]

yeah im just like a noob at editing and didnt know it made a difference 💀

[somber sequoia]

that's how I discovered it

[mild solar]

appreciate any info on this

[somber sequoia]

huh, why do you need to?

[supple cloud]

the view postition have to be infront of the eyes

[icy wyvern]

it is

[supple cloud]

how do i fix this

ok i still need help

[somber sequoia]

not enough information in just that one message, unfortunately

[supple cloud]

i send the full one

[somber sequoia]

still no idea, sorry

[supple cloud]

bruh

[hollow osprey]

Is there a way to merge 8 Expression menus into one? idk if that makes sense or not. Im working on getting this avatar's customization working, since the original untiy package doesnt have the expression menus set up

this is what i mean when i say 8 expression menus

Im sorry if its really simple and im overlooking something

[daring lark]

Is there a good setting to use so my eyes don’t mess up after baking?

[somber sequoia]

baking what though?

[coral spade]

hello I'm getting this error it says " failed to build the avatar, check logos for more details " is there any solution anyone may have to this problem ?

[daring lark]

I’m using the tuxedo plugin to optimize

[mild solar]

i’m trying a head swap and for some reason when i merge head bones, or move any of the bones on the head sculpt i’m using so they’re under the original avatar’s head bone, it makes the eyes bulge out from the sockets in preview bicycle pose and gesture manager play mode

more information on my issue

[supple cloud]

it not letting me close this folder

[somber sequoia]

ah. yeah I'd do that in Blender.

[mild solar]

i tried merging armatures in blender and same thing happened ):

i tried everything i could think of, which is why i’m trying to see if there’s a way to bypass the need for LeftEye and RightEye to be under avatar head in hierarchy

[somber sequoia]

I probably wouldn't actually merge armatures. Depends on what you've got, but in most cases it seems like a waste of time

I don't think you can bypass that, but you could just not weight paint anything to those bones, and setup different bones for the eyes and use rotation constraints, but I'm not really sure I understand the problem you're trying to solve here.

[supple cloud]

DUDE i cant even close it at all

[mild solar]

this explains it better @somber sequoia

[somber sequoia]

no I mean, I read what you said but without actually looking in depth, it's difficult to understand what the actual problem is

[mild solar]

ohhhh

yeah, i’m a bit lost on why it’s happening

[somber sequoia]

I wouldn't attempt any of what you're doing there in Unity either, so...

[mild solar]

i’m not sure how to do this, in terms of blender i tried merging meshes and armatures but that didn’t help at all

i can look into how to do that, in the meantime is there any other possible fixes/things you’d look for when it comes to this issue?

[somber sequoia]

not without actually having the project to look at

I'd probably consider just merging the meshes into one body, tossing out any armatures other than one, and redoing whatever weight painting needs redoing. it'd be a bit of work but it'd end up much cleaner than what sounds like a mess that you have now.

but of course, that's advice from an ideallistic point of view 🙂

[formal rivet]

im having issues with my avatar. visemes work perfectly in unity but whenever i upload it ingame and talk they dont work. i tried deleting all layers and removing the menu/perams but still doesnt fix it. i never had this issue and any other avatar i use has working visemes

i even tested the visemes in vrcfurys play scene testing where its basically like its ingame and it works

[solar wedge]

first time uploading an avi and i cant figure out how to fix this pls help

[somber sequoia]

proximal is the bone closest to your hand, distal is the fingertip. it looks like you have them out of order

[solar wedge]

How do I fix it?

[bright vapor]

By... changing the order?

Lol

It'd be easier if it was in english

[fierce tide]

Does anyone know how to fix this error? Modular Avatar is breaking my avi when entering playmode bc of some animator but idk how to fix it bc it works on all my other avi's that ive uploaded

if i can only be helped if i pay someone,then cool

i just want my avi to work with modular avatar

I'm heading to bed but my DM's are open if anyone can help me to get my avi working with MA(Modular Avatar)

[somber sequoia]

put the right bones into the right slots

[solar wedge]

Ar fixed it thanks

[clever matrix]

unsure what's going on here, suddenly happened after a while of working on avatars and uploading them
restarting unity fixed it

[formal rivet]

anyone???

[timber wharf]

@formal rivet you must have every viseme slot populated, -none- not allowed

duplicates are fine tho

[formal rivet]

idk what u mean by this

[night ember]

You have visemes that have no blendshape selected

[night ember]

^

[formal rivet]

so this 1 missing viseme is why none of mine work? that would be crazy

[night ember]

You didnt set it up properly

[formal rivet]

?

[night ember]

You didnt set it up properly so vrchat wont use it

[formal rivet]

so this 1 viseme missing is causing all of them to not work is what ur saying?

[night ember]

Because you didnt set it up properly

[desert elk]

yes

[formal rivet]

im having another issue

part of my hair is invis from the front

and i was told there is an sdk with a mobile toon lit shader that has double side culling

but idk which sdk it is

[desert elk]

no mobile shaders have culling to off

you will need to double the mesh in blender if you want the hair to be visible

and flip the normals in blender

to my knowledge no quest shaders have off culling

[clever matrix]

how do I remove these white edges around these particles? the sprites they use are completely transparent around the edges
edited alpha cutoff, fixed it

[thorn eagle]

Try adding a bit of padding around the sprites in the texture. I think that can happen if you have pixels touching the edge of the image

[lethal sluice]

when i reimport the FBX files with some simple modifications, why do all the contacts and stuff increase in size by like 100 times?

easy fix or do i need to do it all over again?

[somber sequoia]

because you used different scaling settings than previously. In the Blender export dialog, set "Apply scalings" to "FBX All" unless you specifically know it should be otherwise.

[daring lark]

Ima just ask againnnn anyone familiar with blender tuxedo plugin and can give me some better settings for baking or how to keep my eyes in tact

Alsoooo

I keep all my bones but in game no jiggle

So I have to do something in unity?

[ornate stump]

Physbone is unity part.

[daring lark]

Can u give me a quick 1-2 on that

[ornate stump]

I don't even know where you currently have.

[daring lark]

Like which unity?

[ornate stump]

Did you add physbone component to the bones?

[daring lark]

Ummm

No

[ornate stump]

That's it.

[daring lark]

Link to that component?

Ion even that I have that

[ornate stump]

It's included in the sdk.

[daring lark]

I just search physbone in add component or is it named sum else

[desert elk]

https://youtu.be/DyY6VFjOMz8?si=Fij0Jq7VsY69553j

damn

anyways

I linked a tutorial

for physbones

https://youtu.be/PTTnWUkswkU?si=UFoyBbJEKKREggkj

[daring lark]

Uhuhuuu not they took the link down

[desert elk]

and another one

[daring lark]

THANK U

[ornate stump]

Full name is VRCPhysbone. But seaching Physbone should show up as well.

[daring lark]

What about the baking issue I’m having?

[ornate stump]

I don't even know what tuxedo plugin is.

[daring lark]

Body and clothes look good eyes looking scary

[desert elk]

Tuxedo makes your avatar have less polygons.

[desert elk]

less polygons = less detail

[ornate stump]

So simply an auto-baker?

[desert elk]

yes

[daring lark]

This one came out good

Yes

[somber sequoia]

for reference:
https://github.com/feilen/tuxedo-blender-plugin

[desert elk]

they won't all be the same

[somber sequoia]

I like the twist bones tool, it works very well

[desert elk]

if you want more control do things manually

[daring lark]

Anyway to notttt touch the eyes

[desert elk]

make your avatar have less polygons manually

[daring lark]

Seee

[desert elk]

and don't rely on the tool

[daring lark]

Manually is how I got to nightmare fuel

[desert elk]

"nightmare fuel"?

[daring lark]

Remeber this

[desert elk]

you mean your first attempt?

[daring lark]

This was me attempting to optimize manually

[desert elk]

I don't mean don't do the quests transparency fixed

do those

but don't use tuxedo plugin to make it have less polygons

do it manually

so you have control over what gets decimated etc

[daring lark]

There gonna look ass

[desert elk]

No.

you're not understanding me at all

it looks like that because of the fact that you didn't do the transparency/cutout fixes. Not because you tried to optimize it manually.

[daring lark]

This was me doing it manually the ugin does alot better .

[desert elk]

Alright

option 2

separate the head, throw it to a different project

tuxedo the body

attach the head back

🤷

[daring lark]

Well if I had a way to video u would see it actually looks super blocky

[supple needle]

How do you delete unity projects from the disk

[daring lark]

Ouuuu

[queen trail]

im trying to get my turret to align with the head but it doing this its using a vrc rotation constant and wont lock properly how do i fix this?

[desert elk]

locate where they're saved and delete the folder

[daring lark]

Ok imma try that

[somber sequoia]

same way as any other files?

[supple needle]

I don’t know where to find the files is my thing

[somber sequoia]

weird

[echo yoke]

hey guys do u know how can i make emotes like roaring ,attacking and eating for this guy?It has a generic rig and i already done the locomotion layer where i made the crouch a siting animation and the prone a sleeping one

[desert elk]

if you didn't change the location it should be the default VCC one (if you use VCC)

[supple needle]

That’s where they were- thanks !

[chilly summit]

So yet again I need assistance. Apparently I uploaded an avatar as pc/quest, but according to people on only quest, my clothes keep clipping and stuff, so I want need help with fixing.

[ornate stump]

How did you create the model for quest version?

[ornate stump]

That isn't the answer to my question.

[chilly summit]

Oh! Do you mean as if the avi came with a quest version already? or if I MADE the quest version myself?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[supple needle]

How does one fix this ?

[somber sequoia]

really?

it says "no space left on device" - clean up some files.

[supple needle]

Yk I’m slow 💔

[chilly summit]

Sorry it took a while. I had to load up the unity to check, but the file comes already with a quest version, so I just built and changed it to android then added my pc blueprint to it then just upload. I might just redo the project to test again

[supple needle]

I deleted tons files from my vcc folder but it’s still saying this

[light silo]

says i need to fix the issues before uploading but I can't find what's wrong and what I need to change

[ornate stump]

Then it's responsibility of the avatar creator to fix the clipping issue.

For the fix itself, you'd need to use blender to fix weightpainting which it quiet a task if you have never used blender before.

[light silo]

Or am I just missing something

[chilly summit]

I've used blender before, and okay then. I can try that idea to see if it works. Thanks

[supple needle]

I’m still deleting things from my vcc folder and I’m deleting things from my OS(C:) but it’s still telling me I don’t have enough storage on my disk, I’m really confused as to where I’m supposed to free the storage when I’ve been deleting a ton of projects

[long lava]

Just a little question to know if an avatar idea I have is even possible
Can you change the point of view with the expression menu?
Like-- Where the camera ball thingy is located

I want to be able to have an avatar with two anumations states: grounded and flying, which makes it float over the ground, but it would be quite dumb if the camera doesn't follow

well,,,, either way i'll see it once i'm home

[balmy barn]

camera can move where you look from - just enable a camera on your av expect the fov to be wierd , dont do it in vr its nausiating

[long lava]

uh
well
If you want my honest answer. EVERYTHING.
If you just want to upload this avatar,,,, it's the texture memory usage. The wiki says the maximum download size must be 200 MB and the uncompressed size must be 500 MB.
Yours is lower than that, so I don't know why it's blocking it, but maybe fusing some materials, or lowering the resolution of textures would absolutely help

[long lava]

Oh thanks for the confirmation !!!
i'm going to have so much fun

[obsidian flame]

anybody know how to fix this error, been trying different methods there are no compile errors and there is no blueprint id attached to the avatar, tried to upload multiple times but no luck.

[balmy barn]

could be a timeout , see yellow errors too , sometime it says something about asw fail somethingsomething, nothing to do with the blueprint error its a generic fail message

[obsidian flame]

these are the yellow warnings but its all shader related idk if it could be the issue

[ashen hinge]

I can't seem to get the hair flowing properly, it only flows when I shake my mouse and physbones aren't working properly

https://medal.tv/games/vrchat/clips/kb5q3D7H99j6oL2vu?invite=cr-MSwyTWcsNDQwMTEwMDI

[arctic ginkgo]

well they are moving, just not much since you have immoblie set to 0.75 on all motion

you need to turn that down if you want them to move more

[ashen hinge]

Okay, I'll give that a try!

[limpid cargo]

just removing the project from vcc doesn’t delete it.
you have to actually go to where unity is installed in your files, and delete the folders manually

i can’t really explain right now but please look into how to completely delete a unity project

[compact ridge]

I don't know where to go with this but I have a blender model that I want be made into a unity ready model and I tried to do it my self but I couldn't figure it out I just need it to be unity ready I can do the rest can anybody help me with this

[supple needle]

It was just at 10.3. How do I compress it back ?

[balmy barn]

uncompressed size is too big, other would be compressed

[night ember]

You cant compress the uncompressed size
Youd need to literally use smaller files

[vast geyser]

any way to test headchop in unity with gesture manager or something?

[night ember]

Not really

[balmy barn]

av3 enable head scaling, any component using headchop stays

[night ember]

Or dies since it does both