avatar-help

[iron dove]

It was in base

[somber sequoia]

"base"?

[iron dove]

I deleted it

Like the base itself

right here at the tonuge

[somber sequoia]

oh okay. yeah there should be only ever one actual Animator component on your avatar, on the avatar root where the VRC Avatar Descriptor is. Unless you're doing really strange things.

I definitely can't comment on Modular Avatar though.

[iron dove]

vrcfury did better but the issue is it's suppose to go through modular

[versed steppe]

Can someone help? I have no idea what this means

[night ember]

dafuq

how do you have that many constraints

[versed steppe]

IDK

i dont even really know what that means dude

[somber sequoia]

wow what have you added

[versed steppe]

Thats the thing, I didn't add anything

Thats just the base avatar

[somber sequoia]

well something has added too many constraints

[versed steppe]

well yeah I know that, but how do i fix it

[somber sequoia]

you'll have to find out what added them

[versed steppe]

.

okay then

[somber meadow]

I'm guessing it's a old clone system

[somber sequoia]

could search the hierarchy for Constraint maybe.
yeah probably something like that

[versed steppe]

alrighty then

🫶

[iron dove]

I DID IT

[limpid cargo]

good job

[iron dove]

I used animator editor

gonna apply more emotes later on I just really need this one for the tonuge

[pearl fable]

Anyone knows how the stationary toggle from gogoloco works?

the one where you can't move anymore

[night ember]

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

[pearl fable]

was searching for an animation, but the Animator Locomotion Control makes so much more sense... thanks!

[night ember]

animations cant exactly control stuff like that

[pearl fable]

I thought like disabling the animator or something of the sorts

[night ember]

avatar animations dont control the player pill

[pearl fable]

I meant the armature, my bad

can't even disable the animator

[somber meadow]

you'd be a T-Pose if you had no animator

[night ember]

^

[pearl fable]

so I can huh

maybe it is just in recording mode

[night ember]

well

you can control other animators

not the animator the animation is contained in

[pearl fable]

oh yeah that makes sense actually

[night ember]

recording mode disables it so you can freely animate

[pearl fable]

yeah it seems to puts a blank one in there

[fresh raft]

Hey yall, how in the world do I did this avatar to NOT be in the preview animation anymore.

[limpid cargo]

i need to know too, it’s so annoying

[sour linden]

uh

[fresh raft]

so, I found out just now, that is basically is NOT able to be fixed and you need to do everything again :/

[limpid cargo]

o.

[austere bay]

sorry it's been a minute, you've probably already redone everything but there should be a way to not reset everything you've done

there are multiple things that can cause issues with animation previews

[still shuttle]

It can be fixed with pumpkins avatar tools

[pine valley]

You can also just revert the changes to the position and rotation of each humanoid bone

I wrote a little script to do that

(Pumkin's tools does that, though, so just use them!)

[still shuttle]

It has an option to apply the pose as t pose and it'll fix it

[pine valley]

well...i think it does that -- it can certainly fix your pose, regardless (:

[unkempt cobalt]

Why is the radial puppet menu snapping and automatically exiting whenever I try to adjust it in-game?

This is what I mean.

I've tried multiple things to try and resolve it, and nothing is working at all. I've tried readjusting the values in the blend tree and I've tried readjusting the value in the expression menu.

[hearty relic]

do you only have one blend tree for all your menus?

i usually have a separate blend tree for each menu or toggle

does anyone know how to, when uploading an avatar, force the pipeline manager to treat an avatar that has been copied/pasted differently? i tried detaching the pipeline and it doesn't work, and i want to upload a similar version of an avatar with a smaller size

[unkempt cobalt]

It is more optimized that way, so yes. I tried out other random avatars that have these radial menus, and they all function as they should.

[hearty relic]

what makes it more optimized

[unkempt cobalt]

Because it uses just the one animation layer.

[unkempt cobalt]

If I use more than one animation layer, it duplicates across every player in the instance, as Sipp explained as far as I'm aware.

[still shuttle]

Yeah direct blend shapes are a good way to help performance if i remember correctly

[still shuttle]

how do they look in your menus?

[unkempt cobalt]

wdym

[still shuttle]

How is the radial set up in ur menus

[unkempt cobalt]

It's in the video.

[still shuttle]

thats a vide of the game

a mean in unity

should look something like this but a list of ur toggles

[unkempt cobalt]

Finally got it to work in unity, now to test it in-game.

I heard that the parameter is supposed to be null, and the parameter rotation is supposed to be filled in.

[craggy widget]

nevermind I found it

[unkempt cobalt]

It has to be a radial, not a toggle.

I tested it in-game, and the exact same bug is still occuring.

[unkempt cobalt]

This is what it looks like.

I'm bringing the parameter parts back in.

[still shuttle]

there shouldnt be a parameter in that area for a radial puppet

[unkempt cobalt]

That's exactly what I did last time, and the bug still occured.

[unkempt cobalt]

Since I did exactly that earlier, and the bug still occured, now what?

Essentially, the radial menu is snapping to a position and instantly exiting the exact frame I change the value within the radial puppet. This is happening in-game.

[still shuttle]

Thats what causes stuff to happen when you select/leave the radial menu I know that much.
Not entirely sure why they are spazzing tho, I usually only use direct blend trees for matswaps, so im not sure if maybe the way it's set up in the direct blend tree could be causing anything

[unkempt cobalt]

I tried a different setup within the game using different animation layers instead, and it's doing the exact same thing.

I even tested out different avatars using radial puppets, and they behave exactly as they should.

[still shuttle]

Hmm I know that wing poses are commonly done using axis puppets instead of radial menus.. maybe it could have somethin to do with that?

[unkempt cobalt]

My client asked specifically for the ability to scale them up and down, as well as an opening and closing sequence.

Wait, hold on, now I can see why you say that.

Though I'm still kinda skeptical on that idea.

Because not only do we need an opening and closing sequence, but we also need a way to scale them up and down regardless of the pose of the wings.

[still shuttle]

Yeah I've looked at different systems for wings and movements and stuff, and while I was never fully able to grasp how it worked I did notice they often used axis puppets for things like controlling movements.

[unkempt cobalt]

I never really looked at different systems for wings, though.

[still shuttle]

and for scaling, are you using a scaling constraint?

[unkempt cobalt]

No. I'm using an animation.

[still shuttle]

Maybe try using vrcfury to make the scaling toggle. This is how it is set up with one asset I use that has a working scale feature, and it uses one animation.

and the anim just scales it up with different key frames

[unkempt cobalt]

.

[still shuttle]

It may be worth a try

[unkempt cobalt]

I have no idea how that fixes literally anything related to the in-game bug.

I'm starting to think that this is an issue with VRChat itself.

Because I've tried literally everything to fix this, and nothing worked, so I think we might have to file a bug report to the VRChat devs regarding this.

[tranquil spear]

if i wanted to group assets of... lets say hair.... and make it one large physbone, could i do that, and how? is it possible in unity?

[void kettle]

How do I fix this? (Right picture this time) I dont know if I messed it up in blender or not

[placid mica]

Why do I keep getting these errors.. I'm losing my mind

[timber wharf]

@placid mica try mobile data, vpn or rebooting your router, sometimes aws that vrc uses to store files, temporarily blocks your ip

[round comet]

I always see you and remember you from bunny’s server

[supple needle]

I’m trying to quest convert an avatar right now but every time I go to lower the texture resolution everything but the tail disappears… how do I fix it ?

This is like my 8th reimport because this keeps happening when I go to lower res, delete assets, etc.

[somber sequoia]

disappears?

[calm dove]

can u share how u lower the texture resolution

[somber sequoia]

in the inspector for the texture image file itself, at the bottom, you can decrease the maximum size. Or literally scale the image itself in an image editing program like photoshop or gimp

[echo vault]

is there a way i can get my avatar to AFK on command? i have a bigscreen so opening the steamvr menu doesn't cause me to go afk.

[radiant pewter]

So I’m still having issues with this and for the life of me I can’t figure it out. I tried what the VRCFury forums suggested but it didn’t work unfortunately. If anyone had any other ideas that’d be helpful. T^T

[sudden field]

Need some help myself. Im following the directions but i dont have editing knowledge.

" Select the prefab that is right for your use case, and drag it into the scene, then in the hierarchy
window, make sure to drag it onto your avatar."

Im not sure what its asking. What prefab?

wait, hang on

[kindred saddle]

Who can make me a free VRChat avatar

[ornate stump]

If it's a block of cube, probably.

[somber sequoia]

presumably one in the package you are reading the instructions for

[tidal void]

How do I make a different avatar upload from the same prefab?

I think it has something to do with blueprints but I don't know how that works... could some good soul help me out?

[ornate stump]

Detach blueprint ID in pipeline manager.

[tidal void]

Thanks! If I want to continue uploading to the original blueprint ID, where do I find it to add it back?

[somber sequoia]

should be in the asset manager thing in the SDK console, one tab over from the build window.

OR, you can just duplicate the avatar in the hierarchy, work on that one

[tidal void]

Thanks!

[vocal hawk]

Hello!! I am wanting to edit an existing avatar that is free to the public but I am new to everything with avatar creation. What I'm trying to do is change the body shape and have the clothing fit to what I change the body to be.

Dms are open if there is any more questions!!
(Placing here because I may have put it in the wrong channel but not entirely sure.)

[somber sequoia]

feel free to ask specific questions, otherwise there are lots of tutorials

(this is the right channel)

[tacit swallow]

Is it possible to link a bone to the emision brightness of a material?

[somber sequoia]

no

[tacit swallow]

Darn

[somber sequoia]

best you could do is vertex glitching

[arctic ginkgo]

gogo loco has this option built into it if you have that

if you want to create something like this yourself just do it in the action layer

[amber pivot]

im making a avatar that I want to be able to switch out toggles based off the form it takes.
Like first pic, I want the eyes to be normal while the second one, the eyes would turn. is there a way to like make it overwrite a toggle ? if it can, i need like a screenshot i am not good at written out words😭

[iron dove]

Is there a way to learn how to do toggles? I struggle with it

[ornate stump]

Youtube tutorial. Try Sippbox's.

[desert elk]

yup, I recommend that channel too

[arctic ginkgo]

think about things logically instead of just based on "toggles". You can do pretty much whatever you want with animator logic, it's just up to you to decide how to use it

for example if you want a toggle to change behavior based on another toggle, you would have multiple animation states that are transitioned to based on multiple parameters

[amber pivot]

i think i understand i think

[sick loom]

if you understand traditional logic, then many of the principles apply with animations too

[iron dove]

Could you send me that

[ornate stump]

You could search for it on youtube.

[iron dove]

Aight

Is there also a tutorial there how to make shit quest compatible?

A lot of my friends are on quest and they can't see my avatar

Which sucks

[desert elk]

you need to optimize it first (lots of info in #avatar-optimization ) and upload it to the quest platform

for toggles to sync, you need to press the sync box and the parameters lists need to be identical

[amber pivot]

😭 bro i need like baby goo goo words to explain what to do
idk alot of unity, i mostly make simple avatars

[timber crown]

anyone know why an avi would be turning clothes off everytime i reload into that avi and if so how do i fix that? never seen this problem before in the past (*edit feel free to @ me i wont be awake when this probably gets answered)

[ornate stump]

Mark parameters as "Saved".

[timber crown]

Ah ok will do couldnt remember how to fix this 😂 thank you

[ornate stump]

It's obvious once you looked in your parameter file.

[timber crown]

Prob over looked it since its my first avi in quite a while

i will fix it tomorrow thank you for the help

[surreal mist]

when i import this model into unity the hand is broken and i already chcked everything in blender the hand isnt broken in blender so i have no idea how to fix this

[primal spruce]

anybody know how to fix this? (im somewhat of a noob at unity, so idk how to fix this)

[desert elk]

go to the menu where you picked the humanoid rig

press configure

and assign the neck

if you don't have a neck bone you'll need to add one in blender

[frigid glade]

Did you import over an existing model??

[surreal mist]

nope it was a brand new project ive had this issue with only 2 models and have no idea how to fix it

[primal spruce]

well im not sure what to do exactly, i think i have one?

[surreal mist]

you click on that button thats next to where it says neck and then assign the neck

[timid terrace]

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

[primal spruce]

anybody know how to fix the arms?

(and btw if i align the arms, it looks like this)

[light charm]

those are the wrong arm bones

[primal spruce]

huh? is it?

[light charm]

yes

see the bone in between the shoulder and upper arm, the gray one? try using that as the upper arm bone instead

[dense fractal]

hello

does anyone know if the "among us follower" prefab works on quest

and if so how do i set it up?

[primal spruce]

Thank you doc

[light charm]

no problem, marty 😂

[dense fractal]

?

[left gull]

If you're talking about the prefab made by HFCRed then you could ask them on their twitter

[round jolt]

Hello I'm working on my own avatar and its going well so far except for something that it would be cool if someone can tell me or teach me how to connect the face tracking with the cat ears for instance when i smile ears go up and when i'm mad ears go down and so on ...😊
If someone can Help me I will be thankful

[dense fractal]

im is he active there?

[verbal totem]

Here's what I hope to make into my new avatar. Sadly, I think "Medium" on mobile is the best it could get, due to having two material slots.

Left: Reworked model for human-like arms.
Right: Original, show-accurate model```

But what I'm primarily having trouble with is his face. I don't quite know all the different faces that I need, nor the best way to organize them on a texture.

[frigid glade]

All you would have to do is rotate the cat ears to the position you want on the same facial expression that you choose

[primal spruce]

Anybody know how to make a swap toggle? where if i toggle one thing the other thing dissapears or goes somewhere else?
(perchance a yotuube viodeo you gusy might have?)

[somber sequoia]

Use one boolean variable, one thing is on when it's true, the other is on when it's false

[timid terrace]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_At596jLi3k

[somber sequoia]

haha, of course you have a video for this

[timid terrace]

hehe

[junior frigate]

I think you will need to use the animator at some point to specify what's going on, and what's going off.

[timid terrace]

It's a direcct blendtrees video but from 6:30 it explains toggles with condition

[primal spruce]

But to do the toggle with conditon, i need to watch from the start about the blendtree?

[junior frigate]

I have a bit of an issue, here. My contacts seem to work fine in scene view, but go missing in game view. Not sure if this is expected behavior, but people try to use head contacts and my finger contacts don't work. Only my hand colliders work. I think the avatar was, at one point, accidentally loaded with local scaling, so the values are very small.

[timid terrace]

Yeah the basics hpw to srt up a blendtree

[timid terrace]

delete 2 zeroes

[junior frigate]

The scaling won't look right in the engine, but it'll work in the game?

[fierce thunder]

not sure what channel im suppose to ask this in but where can i buy this hoodie asset?

[timid terrace]

Or just export the model with the right scaling ?

[somber sequoia]

#1138520828556890214 perhaps

[runic smelt]

is it possible for someone to post an avatar i made for me if i dont have trusted user yet? or is that against the rules?

[somber sequoia]

if it's all free or they also own all of the assets and such, they could make it a public

that's about it.

[runic smelt]

so if i send them the avatar file they can post it?

[somber sequoia]

That is what I said

[runic smelt]

alright thanks

[somber sequoia]

So long as you respect creators' terms of service

[junior frigate]

@timid terrace It seems the most recent upload with the numbers that look good in the engine also look good in the avatar. Scaling up by 100 just put big yellow blobs everywhere, it wasn't right. Would be nice to try testing this somehow...

[dawn oak]

my avatars hands dont change theyre just stuck in one pose

can someone help

[junior frigate]

Damn... doesn't work. Torso and hands are OK, fingers and head are not!

[dawn oak]

its a base from a unitypackage

[timid terrace]

Sorry it was for someone esle

[timid terrace]

Apply all transforms in Blender and export with FBX all settings on scaling

[junior frigate]

This?

[timid terrace]

Yeah

But also apply all tranforms

Before exporting

Like select everything and go Object -> Apply -> All transforms

[loud gust]

Question. How does one forcibly enable physbones on a Quest avi?

Physbones are enabled on my VRC, they just refuse to upload on the Quest/Android version of the avi from the SDK/CC

And yes, it is trying to upload the physbones.

[timber wharf]

are you okay? youre asking it secomd time

[loud gust]

Everything else on the avi is working, the issue with the FX manager is fixed.

[somber sequoia]

You don't - you have fewer physbones so it doesn't remove them.

[loud gust]

Not the same issue as yesterday.

[broken bone]

It says right in your error that you have 11 and the maximum is 8

[timber wharf]

it WILL upload when above the limit, just when exceeding physbones limits, theyll be removed. All of them. Just go below the limit.

[loud gust]

e_e

I fail to understand how that is possible when the same base is used and widely tested to be quest compatible, but uh. Alright.

I'll see what I can figure out, in that case.

[junior frigate]

Royally fucked, dude!

[timber wharf]

given you had fx problems and such you def not uploading bare base

[somber sequoia]

If you did literally nothing to this, then contact the creator and tell them it's not quest compatible.

[somber sequoia]

yeah that was my assumption too

"I did nothing" (actually changed many things)

[loud gust]

In fact, I was. However, I've switched to a different base, an older version, as the current version on Booth is apparently known to be bugged.

Some others that use the base contacted me.

[timid terrace]

Put the fbx again in the scene and use pumpkin tools to copy stuff from the original

Should work

[loud gust]

Apparently the original creator of the base, when updating to 3.0, broke the FX controller and never realized, so the community has just decided to use the 2.0 version instead.

[junior frigate]

So, drag the model in again?

[timid terrace]

Like I said

[junior frigate]

Where's pumpkin tools?

[timid terrace]

https://github.com/rurre/PumkinsAvatarTools

[junior frigate]

OK, copied components, going to test now

Thanks for your help in all this, btw

[dawn oak]

i set all params to default and still dont move

[junior frigate]

Still broken!

[timber wharf]

@dawn oak probly masks on FX layer, reset fx to default and check

[junior frigate]

@timid terrace

[dawn oak]

as i said i set everything to default

[junior frigate]

Engine, vs game

I am very tired of Unity and VRChat avatars just screwing me every chance they get...

Everything always looks fine in the engine... Unity looks flawless... but then everything gets messed up importing to the game.

[rotund solstice]

Does anyone know why this is happening?

[timid terrace]

Are you using gesture manager to test ? It saves you a lot of time

When you copy using pumkin's, only copy skinned meshes materials, vrcavatar descriptor, physbones etc, do not copy transforms

Then check if removing the extra 00 on some sizes you showed before helps

[vocal hawk]

I guess my main issue is that it has to be very direct and the tutorials I have been finding don't stay on the actual topic then timeskip a lot. I can't find one that is thorough and not rushed or not well thought out, you know?

[desert elk]

if you want to reshape the clothes you should probably look into sculpting in blender

[dense fractal]

does anybody know how import amongus follower prefab on quest..?

[somber sequoia]

honestly, not really, I'm not the type who needs exact tutorials. Also, there's a lot of "here's how it works for me, adjust for you" in everything related to avatar and world creation. You often have to figure out the stuff in between, usually by trying things out and poking around.

[desert elk]

true

plus you'll have more luck finding a tutorial for "How to attach clothing to an avatar" than "How to attach this specific piece of clothing to that specific avatar"

[timid terrace]

I do a bit of sculpting here
https://youtu.be/hsuElg2Mcno

[somber sequoia]

This channel is often good for specific questions, but really not great for "teach me how to do [very specific thing about my own avatar that nobody else has seen before]"

[junior frigate]

It's not showing anything for transforms.

[junior frigate]

Still issues...

[timid terrace]

If you put an empty FBX and just put a descriptor on it and test, it works ? If so, you are copying with pumpkins wrongly.
Also you need to put the FBX fresh into the scene, not copy over setting on a broken one like this

[vernal pecan]

that many end.end.end bones - is this functional at all, or it's just an accumulated incorrect export side effects and should be deleted?

[primal spruce]

any one know whats wrong with this? i cant seem to udnerstand (the figners are just broken?)

[junior frigate]

I added a new FBX entirely and copied everything except transforms. It just keeps getting royally screwed over.

This ruined my model.

All I needed to do was get contacts working on the fingers... that's all. Now the entire thing is screwed, and I don't know how to fix it.

[timid terrace]

Not it didn't

You are not listening tbh

I said this "If you put an empty FBX and just put a descriptor on it and test, it works ? If so, you are copying with pumpkins wrongly."

[pine valley]

Assuming you haven't attached anything to the bones, you can toss them

This looks like what happens when you don't have your anchor overrides set

you're sampling light probes at different places (the center of each renderer's bounding box)

[vernal pecan]

nothing is attached to them, but i wander why there is so many extra ends, maybe for more attractive physics behavior?

[pine valley]

This'll happen if you keep importing and exporting an FBX

by default, Blender will keep end bones

and by default, Blender will add end bones

Look at the objects with SkinnedMeshRenderer components on them.

I don't think your problem has anything to do with PCSS

[pine valley]

Do they have anything assigned in the "Anchor Override" field?

[pine valley]

End bones are necessary because Blender cares about both the head and tail of each bone. Most 3D applications treat bones as points, not lines

To preserve the last bone's length, you need to slap an additional bone on

Try dragging your chest bone in there.

To do it quickly, search your scene for t:skinnedmeshrenderer

[junior frigate]

I don't know how to add a completely empty FBX. I added an empty game object, but it didn't copy the FBX over. It needs another FBX to do this.

[pine valley]

you can then select all of the objects at once and multi-edit them

[pine valley]

This reminds me of what happens when you export an FBX with the wrong scaling settings

you have to pick either "All Local" (the default) or "FBX All"

The former will give your armature a scale of [100, 100, 100]

The latter gives you a [1, 1, 1] scale

[timid terrace]

You just drag and fbx from the files explorer in Unity into the scene hiearchy

[pine valley]

If the animator + its humanoid avatar definition is getting copied over, then Pumkin' tool might be trying to enforce a t-pose based on a completely wrongly sized skeleton

(the position/rotation/scale of your humanoid bones are baked into that definition)

[timid terrace]

Yes

I also told him to apply all transforms before exporting

[pine valley]

Look at the "Avatar" field in the Animator before and after the copy operation. Does it change?

[junior frigate]

Blender warns that apply all transforms will cause issues with armature from the export menu. I applied all transforms from the model itself...

[pine valley]

That is correct.

You don't check the "Apply Transforms" option when exporting

but you do want to apply the transforms on the individual objects, so that everything has a position of 0 and a scale of 1

[timid terrace]

True, I never had that checked. I didn't notice he had

[junior frigate]

That's what was wrong. But it's not getting fixed, even when I uncheck.

[pine valley]

After re-exporting, you may need to tell Unity to reset the humanoid avatar's pose

[timid terrace]

You just drag and fbx from the files explorer in Unity into the scene hiearchy
You just drag and fbx from the files explorer in Unity into the scene hiearchy
You just drag and fbx from the files explorer in Unity into the scene hiearchy

And then copy with Pumkin's without transforms and scales

[timid terrace]

This also

[pine valley]

To do this, you need to:

• Select the model in the Project window
• In the inspector, go to the "Rig" tab
• Hit "Configure"
• At the bottom of the inspector, reset the pose

I know you have to do this if you've just changed the Apply Scalings mode in Blender's export settings

Otherwise, Unity will have a very warped view of the model's default t-pose

which generally shows up as a really weird scrungling

all of your bones get pulled together

[junior frigate]

I get this, and he's very small.

[dense fractal]

doesnt really anybody know how to help?

[junior frigate]

Good news is I think this fixed it. Gesture manager looks OK. But all sliders are broken, now.

[pine valley]

If you remove PCSS, does your avatar light up correctly?

[primal spruce]

anybody know how to fix the Figners on this avatar?

[somber sequoia]

why does that thumb bone go that way?

You can probably rotate it right there, but I'd probably want to check what's going on in Blender. ANd probably name the bones something sane 🙂

[pine valley]

your bone hierarchy is wrong

it's telling you that the last thumb bone isn't a child of the middle thumb bone

[somber sequoia]

ah yes, that's what's going on there

[pine valley]

the bone names make it hard to understand what's going on here

[somber sequoia]

yep

[junior frigate]

Scene view vs. Game view. All of this effort to fix the colliders broke the sliders and variables and still didn't fix the colliders.

[copper crater]

I need help getting started on making an avi

[feral spindle]

Im lost…

whats all going on and what is happening.

[desert elk]

https://discord.com/channels/189511567539306508/1139228456090087495

[junior frigate]

For some reason my hand and torso contact colliders worked, but not fingers, head, or feet. Those appeared erased in game and uploading to VRC, checking contacts. Absolutely everything looked fine in scene views. It was believed uploading the avatar with local scaling was the source of the problems, so we uploaded different versions, but that broke the entire rig. Right now the sliders broke, and colliders are still broken, but the mesh has been uploaded with FBX All and the scale of colliders is more reasonable.

But it's BROKEN.

Had to reconfigure the avatar, which broke a lot of things.

If I see a collider on a finger, you'd expect that collider to appear on the finger. Especially if other colliders work just fine. But that's not what was happening, for some reason.

[pine valley]

switching from "All Local" to "FBX All" will reduce the scale of your armature by 100x

so if a collider had its radius set to 1 meter, it would've been a 100-meter-radius sphere before switching

[junior frigate]

The collider sizes are fixed and look fine in the scene view (see above screenshot, left). But they still don't appear right in game views. I can try exporting to VRC and seeing if they appear there, but the sliders are broken.

[pine valley]

the game view does not show gizmos by default

i think you have them enabled

[feral spindle]

I feel like ive had an issue like this before

But i did mine through all local…

Not fbx all…

[pine valley]

Either is fine

You just need to scale things differently

[junior frigate]

Oh wow... I think it's fixed now.

[pine valley]

I prefer FBX All because that gives me a [1, 1, 1] scale

[junior frigate]

The large yellow blob is just because my view is inside the head collider. All fingers, hands, feet, torso, and head work well.

[somber sequoia]

if we all use FBX All then everything is all scaled the same. If not... have fun resizing.

[junior frigate]

And the sliders work! Can change shirt just fine!

I'm exhausted... thank you. Avatar making shouldn't be this complicated...

[dawn oak]

please help

[feral spindle]

Sorry i wasnt able to help… im just lost and confused as hell right now since i just woke up like an hour ago

[somber sequoia]

you've provided no information - have you tried to debug this yet? does it work in unity in play mode? what did you recently change?

[dawn oak]

its been liek this since i uploaded it first, i have everything on default but the expressinos dont move the fingers still, and no, the hands do work with other animations

[desert elk]

do you have gestures enabled in the circle menu in game?

[dawn oak]

yes

other avatars work fine

[junior frigate]

Unfortunately, it's still broken... the colliders appear properly in the test version, but uploading to the main avatar didn't work.

I'm really tired of this.

[bright citrus]

Could someone please help me?
I'm trying to add poses and emotes to my avatar, but since I don't have much experience, I'm following video tutorials. I always get an error, but I'm trying to solve it.

However, now I'm facing a more serious problem:
After I tried to add Kali Locomotion, my avatar simply stopped working properly. I can't change clothes anymore, Gogo Loco is bugged (the avatar starts sinking into the ground), although the Kali Locomotion poses are working.

If anyone knows how to solve this or can give me any tips, I would be very grateful

[somber sequoia]

Exactly what error?

[bright citrus]

my avatar simply stopped working properly. I can't change clothes anymore, Gogo Loco is bugged (the avatar starts sinking into the ground), but Kali Locomotion poses are working.

[somber sequoia]

Yes, thank you for repeating. But... you said "I always get an error" - as in an error message?

(sorry, thought I'd replied to @bright citrus there)

[bright citrus]

Yes, something always goes wrong but I try to solve it but this time the error would be this

[somber sequoia]

got it.

[sour linden]

anyone wanna explain what this mean

means*

[bright citrus]

Can you help me?

[sour linden]

im REALLY an amateur at unity

[somber sequoia]

I have no idea what you've done and don't know what "Kali Locomotion" is, so no

[bright citrus]

poses and animations

[somber sequoia]

only thing I can think of is to set the same transform as the "Anchor override" in the mesh renderers. I use the chest bone.

[bright citrus]

,

[somber sequoia]

do you really need to bump a message that was from 2 minutes ago?

[sour linden]

mine was 4 minutes ago

so yes

[somber sequoia]

Yes, you said you did that

[pine valley]

A VRCParentConstraint component makes its object follow another object around

To try this out, create two cubes, then add a VRCParentConstraint to one

Add a source and plug the second cube into it

[sour linden]

could i dm you?

[pine valley]

The first cube will now follow the second cube's position and rotation

no, just ask your questions here

[sour linden]

okay!

[pine valley]

i'm about to run out and get melted by the houston sun

[sour linden]

oh wait

[pine valley]

so i'll be out for a while

[sour linden]

i have img perms here

i forgot

[pine valley]

ah, yeah, you can share them here

[glass condor]

Anyone good with VRCFury?

Is there Any way to password-lock a commissioned avatar AND have it saved between worlds/avatar changes?

I put the pin on the avi, but if you change or go to a different world, you have to put in the pin again. I feel like the customer might find this to be a nuisance, so I'm wondering if there's a way to make it so that you only do it once?

[pine valley]

(...after you click the "Activate" button, at least!)

A constraint has one or more sources. It tries to follow the sources based on their weights

Typically, you just have one source with a weight of 1

So if you put the constraint on the laser emitter object, and target your right hand with it, it'll start following your hand.

When you hit "Activate", Unity figures out the position + rotation offset between your object and its target. It preserves that offset.

If you don't want that, you can click "Zero".

[bright citrus]

Could someone please help me?
I'm trying to add poses and emotes to my avatar, but since I don't have much experience, I'm following video tutorials. I always get an error, but I'm trying to solve it.

However, now I'm facing a more serious problem:
After I tried to add Kali Locomotion, my avatar simply stopped working properly. I can't change clothes anymore, Gogo Loco is bugged (the avatar starts sinking into the ground), although the Kali Locomotion poses are working.

If anyone knows how to solve this or can give me any tips, I would be very grateful

[sour linden]

oh god which of these correspond with that

[pine valley]

probably the "death beam" prefab asset

the little cube is the icon for a prefab

You'll want to drag it into the scene, then drag the object onto your avatar in the hierarchy. This will parent it to your avatar.

[desert elk]

what error? can you screenshot it?

[pine valley]

If it isn't parented to your avatar, it won't get included when you upload.

[sour linden]

so do i plop that onto my avatar in the hierarchy?

[pine valley]

yeah, something like this

Your constraint will look something like this after setting it up.

I hit "Zero" so that it would snap onto the wrist bone.

If the orientation is wrong, you can uncheck the "Lock" box, rotate the object, and then check "Lock" again

[sour linden]

and how did i make one again?, this is what i have rn (and then a floating invisible box)

[bright citrus]

Could someone please help me?
I'm trying to add poses and emotes to my avatar, but since I don't have much experience, I'm following video tutorials. I always get an error, but I'm trying to solve it.

However, now I'm facing a more serious problem:
After I tried to add Kali Locomotion, my avatar simply stopped working properly. I can't change clothes anymore, Gogo Loco is bugged (the avatar starts sinking into the ground), although the Kali Locomotion poses are working.

If anyone knows how to solve this or can give me any tips, I would be very grateful

[somber sequoia]

... really?

[pine valley]

hit "Add Component" and then search for "VRCParentConstraint"

[somber sequoia]

Take a hint, nobody currently here knows.

[desert elk]

I-

wow

stop spamming please

[sour linden]

done, im guessing i gotta do sm extra stuff after that right?

[pine valley]

yes, you'll want to set it up like this #avatar-help message

add one source, drag in or pick your wrist bone, and then hit "Zero"

I'm not sure how this thing actually turns on and off

you may need to create an animation or slap on a VRCFury Toggle component

(and if you're using VRCFury, you can use the Armature Link component to pin it to your hand)

[sour linden]

good god what

[sour linden]

is that easier..

[pine valley]

you'll need to be more specific (:

i started talking about how you would turn the laser on and off

which is separate from getting it to follow your hand

[fierce thunder]

pcss works in unity but not ingame

any1 got a fix?

its not the world glitching it btw i tried diffrent worlds

[sour linden]

so

i have 100 million percent done something wrong

and its definitely my fault

[somber sequoia]

doesn't this have its own discord? there's a link on the booth site

[fierce thunder]

oh yeah i forgot

[kindred saddle]

who can make me a free avatar for my YouTube channel

[somber sequoia]

we've answered that one already

[night ember]

we already told you no one

[kindred saddle]

Oki cool

In reality I test the regniosity of people in video and then I make a video

[somber sequoia]

the what?

[wind skiff]

the what now

[kindred saddle]

I'm on video right now

[wind skiff]

that's insane

[kindred saddle]

Yea

I'm testing people's generosity to make an avatar for a subscriber but no one wants to.

[somber sequoia]

I feel like you don't realize just how much work this is.

[kindred saddle]

yeah I meet some but it's for a subscriber

[night ember]

begging for someone to spend the effort to make an avatar for free isnt exactly a generosity test

[somber sequoia]

yeah, it feels more like taking advantage of the artist

[night ember]

especially after failing twice to then change the story to a supposed "subscriber"

if its for a subscriber then how about pay the artist to make it

[somber sequoia]

Please everyone, pay your artists.

We all want them to keep arting.

[kindred saddle]

because it is to see generosity

[night ember]

also

I dont think you are doing this for your SINGULAR youtube subscriber

if you are going to beg for free shit dont just change your story to whatever this guilt trip attempt is

[kindred saddle]

you may not believe me hyn

[fathom fossil]

not really avatar related but i modelled this face for the player for my game. is there anything i could improve?

[kindred saddle]

I'm really a YouTuber

[night ember]

with a singular subscriber and no videos

[desert elk]

ye

very big ytuber

making avatars is a big task. Barely anyone is gonna do it for free

you seem to not understand how complicated it actually is

but people pointed it out already

[pine valley]

I’m generous, but I’m not a machine 😉

[kindred saddle]

Reel

[desert elk]

True!

same here

[night ember]

people can be generous but not for bullshitting beggars

[desert elk]

yup

this exactly

[night ember]

what exactly would this supposed video be? you calling yourself out for begging for free shit?

[desert elk]

and calling others mean for not wanting to work for free ofc

[night ember]

even more so when you begged in multiple channels before only to do it again later because it didnt work the first time

want for free? do it yourself

[uneven whale]

How to make emission on quest avatar so as not to overload it too much. I made glowing eyes, and my avatar loads very slowly in Vrchat

[fathom fossil]

guys is this topology good?

[somber sequoia]

looks overly dense, but not bad otherwise

er, I'm not sure why lots of the triangles are weirdly aligned though

[fathom fossil]

if you talking about around the eyes

i think thats because i used the boolean modifier to cut sphere shaped holes in the head for eyes

[somber sequoia]

no I meant the middle of the body

I don't tend to work in triangles though.

(it's annoying)

[fathom fossil]

i made a star pattern on it thats why

[somber sequoia]

oh I see. I'd consider just doing that with a texture instead.

[pine valley]

it can be nice for making very sharp patterns

or if you want to, say, stencil that area for some other special effect

[somber sequoia]

yep, absolutely

[dark hamlet]

hi chat I have blendshape clamping off but any edits I do to my face outside of usual clamped restrictions do not appear in game, anyone know why this happens?

[somber sequoia]

oh I thought those got clamped anyway

[nocturne tendon]

yk how there are those stripping pole avatar's where if you sit on it, there's an animation where you start dancing? how do I do something like that in unity? how do I make others do an animation i want when they sit on my vrcstation seat?

[dark hamlet]

as I have just learnt, you would be correct lol

blender time

[somber sequoia]

Put an animator on the station, in there you animate the player

[nocturne tendon]

and what do I do in that new animator controller? do i just drag my custom animation in there?

[somber sequoia]

I haven't tried this myself but as far as I know yeah, put it into the first layer.

[nocturne tendon]

what do i put into the other layers?

[somber sequoia]

nothing

[balmy barn]

you can force people's tracking if station has seated off - otherwise it will use avatar sitting controller wich default does not set tracking right

Will also break them after standing up since it doesn't set tracking back , worlds can reset person tracking stand up - reset it

[somber sequoia]

ah nice, I wasn't aware of that

[nocturne tendon]

is that all i do? or is there more?

by the way when i put the animation in there, does it automatically just detect any rig of anyone's model that gets on the seat and animates it?

[verbal totem]

Can anybody help with this?

[prime escarp]

Hello, Im changing a booth avatar on blender by adding one more blendshape in the face, and I export it back to unity, and then the facial expresions does not work anymore and neither the facial expresion for afk pose and for blinking animation, im just adding one blendshape and idk if this is cuz im not exporting with the same fbx configuration or cuz of the blendshape.... does anyone now how can I make this work?

[errant compass]

hey im trying to upload a avatar the pc version worked without a hitch but the quest version says that the shaders on it doesnt work ive tried switching the shaders and it does nothing. any1 with more knowledge think they could lend a hand

[sick loom]

what shader does it say is incompatible?

[errant compass]

ill load back up and see

i closed it after a hour of trying

[sick loom]

it helps to show images so we can see what may be wrong

[errant compass]

i can post ss in here?

[nocturne tendon]

what else do I do here? can you take more screenshots?

[desert elk]

vrc quest tools can generate a copy of your avatar with all shaders set to quest compatible ones if you can't find the missing one

[errant compass]

i dont think i have that 1

[desert elk]

can be added in VCC if you use it

[errant compass]

ill see if thats it

[pine valley]

make sure that you aren't losing all of your blendshapes

you should see a "Blendshapes" list on the SkinnedMeshRenderer component for your body

notably, Blender loses blendshapes if you have any modifiers other than the Armature modifier

[prime escarp]

yes, all the blendshapes are still there plus the one im adding in unity, but all the facial animations wont work

[errant compass]

ffs

UI/Unlit/transparent

[left gull]

discord images are broken rn sadly

:P

[desert elk]

transparent stuff doesn't work on quest unfortunately, so you will need to change that

[errant compass]

how i do dat?

[desert elk]

locate the material and change it, if you cannot locate it, consider using quest tools like I said before

if the material looks bad (black or solid colour or something) you will need to do some extra edits to it

[errant compass]

Oh god

i think imma just tell my girl i cant do it ive tried for 2 hrs and my head is spinning

wait so if all the other materials are like a white and 1 is black is that the 1 thats f-up?

@desert elk

[desert elk]

I can't tell without seeing the model

[sick loom]

i think the mobile particle shaders are the only transparent ones that work?

but they can look a bit weird

[sick loom]

they have to be a mobile shader, i don't think that is a mobile vrchat shader

[errant compass]

idk im so over this

[lost umbra]

Hey, how do you put clothes on the avatar if the clothes come out as A pose instead of T pose?

the suit and tie asset I bought for the avali came out in A pose

I can only find preset to make it T pose but no A pose

[limpid cargo]

any idea why?

[sleek pebble]

I'm trying to upload an avatar through unity for the first time in a while and when i go to publish i get a notif from the sdk telling me i don't have enough hours even though i have 500+ hours on vrchat

am i not logged in or something

[fiery lily]

Hey does anyone know a fix for this?? i put some assets in blender and made them fit but in certain poses it clips through, at this point the its going to be too big on the body if i keep expanding the skin mesh

[limpid cargo]

make body smaller

[limpid cargo]

have you received the email from vrchat letting you know you can upload things?

[still shuttle]

Adjust the weight painting in blender

[desert elk]

i guess that's fine

ah yeah I can't help with modular

[fiery lily]

i would but thats not in the ideal style in which im aiming for

[runic moat]

silly question but how do i change the pose of the hand when i do a hand gesture? every single thing i find online is how to change the expression and not the actual pose, for example rock and roll to middle finger

[fiery lily]

would you know how to do that possibly?

[still shuttle]

Click on the mesh, go into weight paint mode, adjust as needed
here is a tutorial on weight painting if you dont know how it works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCWZr-It1bE

[fiery lily]

within certain booth models there are options/ blendshapes in the body of that avi to make the costume fit

[fiery lily]

thx

[mystic flare]

So is it just me or is the sdk files not working on unity right now…

[still shuttle]

Everything seems to be workin fine for me

[mystic flare]

I’ve been at this for 3 hours, it’s not loading at all….

[desert elk]

switch the animation out in the gesture layer

[still shuttle]

wdym exactly?

[runic moat]

this?

[desert elk]

yes

switch the rock and roll for a middle finger

[runic moat]

i did nothing changed

[desert elk]

did you record the animation yourself? does it work in preview?

[runic moat]

yea it works in preview

i didn't record it myself i downloaded it

it works in preview but in vrchat it does rock and roll instead

[desert elk]

are you sure that layer is attached to your avatar?

[desert elk]

if it is, do you maybe have a copy of the hand gestures in the FX layer? maybe the animations aren't switched there and it's overriding the gesture somehow

[runic moat]

yeah it has facial expressions and the expressions work but the hands don't

[runic moat]

how do i check this

[still shuttle]

I just like to use pre-made gesture controllers like this one:
https://payhip.com/b/knU8R
it also comes with a flip-off animation

[runic moat]

i see

[desert elk]

in the same place you set up facial expressions in (I'm assuming they're controlled by hand gestures)

[still shuttle]

it makes it easy, just drag the new gesture controller into the "gesture" playable layer in ur avatar descriptor and it'll work

[desert elk]

not here

[runic moat]

oops

[desert elk]

this isn't the fx layer

[runic moat]

sorry i'm not the smartest when it comes to terms and stuff is it this?

[fiery lily]

you can

[desert elk]

okay, first of all that "Base Layer" should be empty in my opinion

unless you made it like that on purpose

[fiery lily]

vrc fury only links them not adjust the blendshapes

[runic moat]

like this

[runic moat]

nope

[desert elk]

yea

[runic moat]

genuinely i might be dumb asf

2.0 sdk knowledge burned into my brain made me think i could do it all on one anim

[mystic flare]

Basically my avatar isn’t downloading to unity anymore, it was working fine yesterday now it just won’t work. Probably have to start from scratch

[foggy saffron]

Nice Samus morph ball you got there.

[somber sequoia]

what does "isn't downloading to unity" mean though?

[pine valley]

show us exactly what is wrong

[rain summit]

My avatar keeps pulling in Open GL normals that's it's not using during during the upload process, causing file-size issues. They aren't attached to any materials or anything, it just... adds them.

[bronze loom]

how does one make a Gesture lock?

[somber sequoia]

boolean variable that you add to the animation transitions - if true, do the gesture, if not, don't.

[bronze loom]

I tried that and it not workin

[somber sequoia]

what's not working?

[sick loom]

also when there is two conditions they act like an AND gate, both need to be active at the same time

unless that is intentional

so instead it only turns on if you have both active

you want it to lock the current gesture so you can't switch it?

[somber sequoia]

ah perhaps I misunderstood the goal

they didn't say which way the lock should work

[sick loom]

yeah

[bronze loom]

I want it to lock the gesture animations so like for exmaple i canlokc it to keep a nutural face or do a fist gesture and lock what ever animations are linked with it on

[somber sequoia]

vrchat does this already, there's a lock in the wheel menu

[sick loom]

true

[bronze loom]

BUt taht turns of the hand gestures im not trying to lock that

[somber sequoia]

ahh

[bronze loom]

Again im trying to lock animaiotns trugured by hand gestures

[somber sequoia]

now I get it

so yeah, put that boolean at the exit instead of the entrance to the face gesture state

so it won't exit if enabled

[sick loom]

also you might need to make it so it cannot enter any hand gesture states when gesturelock is on, so like add another condition to the enter transitions so gesturelock has to be false if that is a problem

[west cipher]

none of my hue shift attempts are recording. does anyone have any idea why?

[somber sequoia]

you cropped that so we can't see where that material is

make sure you're animating properties of a material in a mesh renderer, not the material file in the project

[austere crown]

why isnt there a rig configuration buttion in my unity (2022.3)

im getting the error " spine hierarchy missing elements, please map shoulders"

but there is NO buttion that would allow me to map the shoulders (on my vrm model)

[somber sequoia]

look in all your open Inspector windows. It probably popped up in the one you aren't expecting

I run 3 usually so this happens to me all the time.

also you can force it by locking the ones you don't want to be the target

[austere crown]

i could be blind, but i dont think its there

[somber sequoia]

er, are you looking at the rigging tab in the inspector for the model file?

that ^ looks like the avatar root

maybe - I don't know anything about the VRM stuff.

[austere crown]

the creator companion thing wont let me upload my avatar until i fix this error.
" spine hierarchy missing elements, please map shoulders"

the thing is , that im seemingly under the improession that to fix that error i need to get here...

[somber sequoia]

Yes, you need to get there

find your model file, click it, look in the inspector, go to the rig tab, make it humanoid and apply, click "configure"

[austere crown]

for some reason, the buttion to get there is just missing entireley.
, if im not mistake its supposed to be somewhere in the descriptor?

[somber sequoia]

not at all where I said to look, no

[austere crown]

o, my b, then i might be a bit lost

looking for a "rig" tab, but im not seeing one

[somber sequoia]

Again. Step one: find your model file. This is the .fbx file.

[austere crown]

mine is a vrm, but yeah, i found the file

[somber sequoia]

I don't know about .vrm but if it's like .fbx, do the rest of what I said

[austere crown]

forgive me if my dummy mode is activated rn, but i dont see a rig tab in my inspector, or anywhere else for that matter

[somber sequoia]

it again looks like you clicked on the avatar object in the hierarchy, not the model file. Files are in the "Project" window at the bottom.

[austere crown]

o...that is intresting -- it apears that .vrm file isnt there...

does the vrm converter automatically do something with the file the moment you drop it in?

[somber sequoia]

again, I don't know anything about vrm files. The only time I did one I converted it in Blender.

[austere crown]

i see..

and i found the vrm file, but it looks like it wont let me actually open an inspector window for it in unity --
y me... -u-

[somber sequoia]

that's very strange

maybe click on something else then back on it - Unity is a little buggy

make sure your inspector isn't locked

the one in that last image is

[austere crown]

it trys to open it in an eternal program like notepad or some crap

[somber sequoia]

don't double-click it, just single click it

[sick loom]

so vrm files don't have the option to be edited when selected in the project window?

[somber sequoia]

we're working on basic unity usage here, stand by 🙂

[somber sequoia]

welp, I dunno, again, because vrm. I'd convert that in Blender 🙂

[austere crown]

aight, looks like its goota be the hard way....gosh dangit

[austere crown]

intresting discovery

Vrm files exported into unity STRAIGHT from vroid do not have that spine hierarchy error.

the Vrm file that im trying to get working was one that i exported from Vroid into blender, edited, and then exported back out of blender as a VRM file -- for some reason it came back out with that hierarchy error

[sick loom]

out of habit i would probably just exported it as an fbx after blender

[ornate stump]

You should not export from blender as VRM. There's abosolutely no reason to do that.

[austere crown]

noted*
i had hopes that as a vrm the creator companion would better use the vroid addon thing to streamline my model faster, i guess not

[ornate stump]

There would be license dispute between 2 companies if vrchat choose to support it.

[misty ridge]

How to maek emission texture scroll not use up the whole texture? Like im tryina make it scroll through a rainbow texture but i dont want the whole texture to apply on the thing? Idk if im making sense lol. Maybe the tilting? Or smth? Like i want it to be rgb

[ornate stump]

Apply emission mask, given the shader support it.

[misty ridge]

I mean like how do u make it not use the whole rainbow thing like it goes from red to other colors instead of making the whole thing a rainbow gradient texture while scrolling

[ornate stump]

Then adjust tiling.

[misty ridge]

Okii tyy

[sick loom]

-# (shouldn't have invited me here, i knew i would get addicted)

[somber sequoia]

haha

[misty ridge]

[glacial vessel]

im new to avi creation and uh... idk where this second set of bones is comin from

can anyone help

[somber sequoia]

looks like you have two armatures?

[ornate stump]

If it's used by nothing then you could just delete them.

[prime escarp]

is there some kind of tool on unity to add the blendshapes on to the facial expresions already record or do i have to record new ones manually?

[somber sequoia]

If they don't exist on the model, you will have to make them

cats blender plugin has a thing where you can make 3 I think, and it'll generate the rest. Not sure how well it works.

[ornate stump]

Did you actually mean editing existing animation clip to add more blendshape to it?

[somber sequoia]

oh - yeah are you talking about editing animations?

[ornate stump]

I'm not even sure.

[prime escarp]

yes

[somber sequoia]

ahh

in that case all the tools you need are Unity

[ornate stump]

Just do the same way as creating new animation, but use existing file instead of creating a new one.

[glacial vessel]

i like used fix lemme show u wahat it is now

[wooden nova]

idk why this is happening and idk how to fix it but when i switch to a quest compatible shader it becomes black when its supposed to be red

[glacial vessel]

look normal?

[somber sequoia]

vertex colors

[ornate stump]

Probably.

[wooden nova]

where would i find that at

[glacial vessel]

alr

btw

[somber sequoia]

no, it looks like you have two armatures, or a duplicate set of bones in the one

[somber sequoia]

you can remove them with blender or I think vrc quest tools. There are tutorials.

[glacial vessel]

lemme show u the bones

[somber sequoia]

heh

[ornate stump]

You should ping only once when you got what you need to show.

[somber sequoia]

but yeah nothing weird about this

[glacial vessel]

hhm

so its good?

[somber sequoia]

it still looks like you have lots of extra bones

[glacial vessel]

oh wait

[ornate stump]

Are you sure it isn't from another armature?

[glacial vessel]

i just imported a fresh base

thats what it looks like when first added

[somber sequoia]

there is nothing of use in either of those images

[glacial vessel]

so what do i do 😭

[somber sequoia]

you haven't told us anything about your goal here, so no idea?

and we don't know what those bones do, or where they are, or even if they're a part of the right armature

[glacial vessel]

sorry, this is my first time doin this

so

what info should i provide you?

[somber sequoia]

start at the beginning and tell us what you did so far, and what your goal is

[glacial vessel]

my goal is jus to make a avatar, im using the zinfit base and ive added a head, pasties, undies, and a failed bra so far

[somber sequoia]

added how

[glacial vessel]

i imported and did the merge armature stuff

oh

i see what went wrong

[somber sequoia]

"the merge armature stuff"?

[glacial vessel]

ohh wait i just realised..

when i merged the armature with the pasties i forgot to remove the bones

yeah thats it

uhg

well ty

u sure gave me a lesson

[somber sequoia]

yep, sometimes it helps to explain in detail

[glacial vessel]

bros a life changer

[somber sequoia]

nah, just been there, done that 🙂

[glacial vessel]

well ty

[ornate stump]

Solutions are often found when someone tried to explain their situation.

[somber sequoia]

I had an older friend at university that I'd ask for help with my programming work and every time by explaining it to him, I'd figure out where I was stuck

[ornate stump]

That's pretty much dontasktoask paradigm at play.

[night ember]

Just buy a rubber duck and explain your problems to it

[somber sequoia]

yeah, that might work now, but then I didn't quite get how it worked yet 🙂

[night ember]

Funny how explaining in detail your problem tricka your brain into getting unstuck

[somber sequoia]

yep

[timber wharf]

thats what this server is for, honestly

at least world channels for me

[somber sequoia]

yeah, world channels for me too, or clarifying stuff that either isn't in any useful documentation, or is wrong or ambiguous.

[misty ridge]

Is it possible to make emissions scroll on the new shader?

[timid terrace]

We do not have a emission hue shift yet, but we might, it's a tracked canny.

[misty ridge]

Ow oka thxx

[wispy moon]

is there any reason why my animations arent changing for other players, despite the parameters being network synced?

i have a costume toggle on an integer. when people load my avi, they see the outfit that correlates with the param, but do not see a costume change if the parameter changes,

same with a mask boolean. its on by default, but turns off immediately. other players do not see this

unless this is a known vrchat bug, then disregard this

[timid terrace]

Is this difference between Quest and PC or just PC ?

[wispy moon]

Just on pc

[timid terrace]

Are you parameter driving in the controller ?

[wispy moon]

Animation controller def works, my face and eye tracking are visible.

The only thing i can think of is that somehow the animation controller is getting caught on the costume and mask toggles..

Not parameter driving them, just an integer that changes.

The animation controller is a series of outfit toggles that pretty much go “turn on if costume == x, turn off if costume != x”

[timid terrace]

Can you show the controller

[wispy moon]

I cant tonight, just got off

Whats weirding me out the most is that reloading my avi causes it to swap to the proper costume….

Sample size is limited to one instance of it happening, but multiple people reported the issue

[timid terrace]

Yeah I would have to see it

[wispy moon]

Perhaps tomorrow after work sadge

[verbal totem]

Having trouble with this big guy. His screen is supposed to be transparent scrolling lines over transparent eye meshes.

What shaders am I supposed to use?

[timid terrace]

On mobile the only transparent thing you can use on avatars is mobile particles additive or multiply

[pallid mirage]

Hey guys, i notice some flickering on my avatar in certain worlds. Does anyone know what could be causing this?

[verbal totem]

https://vrchat.com/home/avatar/avtr_c9b4e9ca-6501-48db-a07b-34200b77b40a

whyyyyyyyyyyy...

[broken bone]

Looks like Zfighting maybe. Zfighting occurs when polygons are exactly on top of each other and the engine can't determine an order to render them in. Are there overlapping meshes in those spots?

could also be Zfighting with the backfaces of the clothing if its thin enough

[verbal totem]

"Security checks failed"...

What am I supposed to do?

[desert elk]

they failed for a reason, avatar could be too big

[simple adder]

Could the fact that the build settings is set to Mac have anything to do with it?

[desert elk]

no, because windows = mac in unity

[fallow flame]

Hi, I'm new and I have a problem adding a skin from viroidstudio to Unity. Can someone help me? I tried but I'm so bad at unity

[stable basin]

Hello! I'm working on some toggles for my avi and I can't figure this one out. Does anyone know how to create a toggle that sets an existing slider to a specific weight. I'm wanting to basically create preset blend shapes to a toggle rather than going through and changing each slider to its desired weight?

[desert elk]

you will need blender

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxL5TxNc6MA&t=690s

tutorial

read the pinned comment first

[fallow flame]

thx

[compact night]

Im working on Kiris model and i cant seem to remove those effects on her body ?

[ornate stump]

It can be anything in your material. So find in other settings of your material too. Likely emission.

[compact night]

(im very new to avater and things

[compact night]

the em test ?

[ornate stump]

The material for the body. The sphere icons are materials.

[compact night]

What do i do in it ?

I found something with emission

[ornate stump]

Unlock material first.

[compact night]

How ? xD

[ornate stump]

Scroll to the top.

[compact night]

its already unlocked i think

[compact night]

Oh oki

[balmy barn]

cant change any settings if its locked

[compact night]

Done

[ornate stump]

That means "click to unlock".

[compact night]

I messed up my thing

it even crashed

Bruh why is this kind of thing so hard lol

2D art is way easier

[left gull]

it only feels hard because you dont have experience with it, messing with simple stuff like this will get wayy easier with time

[compact night]

How much would it be for me to pay someone to modify a model x)

Like, i can even do the textures myself lol

But i just want it to be set up etc

[ornate stump]

It depends.

[balmy barn]

a few 100 hours and this is a thing you can half awake , and hello incomming scammers in your dm

[compact night]

Whut ? xD

[compact night]

Yeah like, i make the 2d file for the texture, i just want it set up as a vr chat avater

[desert elk]

you mentioned paying

[compact night]

and the hair color changed

[desert elk]

there's a lot of scammers here

[ornate stump]

Once you mention about commission and pay, the scammer bots will swarm at you.

[balmy barn]

mention pay in here and scammers likely to go 'hello i make 3d - pay using friends and family pay pal only - 100$ right now , you get it later '

[compact night]

Yeah ofc, nobodys gonna do it for free

[desert elk]

they'll flood your dms

[compact night]

Unless you do ?

xD

[desert elk]

if you want to commission someone, join VRC Traders #1204490664637890580

here we have a bunch of scammers

[compact night]

Okay i'll do

[left gull]

generally the cost of the model for the other person to buy it so they legally own it aswell+ whatever they charge for their work as not every creators pricing is the same

[compact night]

That doesnt help lol, i dont know what people usually charge for that

Does any of you two would be capable of doing it btw ? x)

[somber sequoia]

definitely capable

[left gull]

no

[balmy barn]

no clue either i dont charge for things money dont interest me , but rare i fix/make avs for friends

[somber sequoia]

probably not willing 🙂

[balmy barn]

depends what need fixing some can be short 5-10 min while some 4+ days

[compact night]

Why

[compact night]

Idk what needs to be fixed lmao

[left gull]

nobody can give a good estimate if they dont know what work would actually need to be done on it

base prices are different from creator to creator and extra things being broken/needing changing can cost more ontop of that

[compact night]

Like, i have this model https://foxipaws.gumroad.com/l/kiri

[balmy barn]

already cant be shared with others

[compact night]

So its not supposed to be broken

[somber sequoia]

ah, heh. Foxipaws are fun.

[compact night]

wdym ?

[left gull]

the model's TOU

[balmy barn]

kitbash selling is not really thing id care much for its slapping a price on other peoples work

[compact night]

Well yeah... but its found for free very easily i mean...

[left gull]

ew

[compact night]

And even, i could pay the ammount of the model

[fallow flame]

@desert elk i have problem with extract textures...

[balmy barn]

well there goes the helpers

[somber sequoia]

are you implying that we pirate some other artist's work? that's a greaty way to get ignored around here.

[balmy barn]

IF i were to ever charge it will be like 70$/hour (im fast) so if you cant even afford the model, good luck

[compact night]

No, im saying i could pay for the person if he buys the model

But as a matter of fact it IS found easily, im not saying you should

[somber sequoia]

yeah - I'd need one to buy me this avatar and all non-free parts, and pay me for my time, Thulen's rate seems reasonable.

so take that into account.

[compact night]

I said i could afford xD

[somber sequoia]

again, VRC Traders discord is where to go to commission people.

[compact night]

I'll do ^^

[left gull]

no commissioner is going to risk their rep to work on an edit for someone who pirated the original model even if you bought them their own version

[compact night]

Why did i get banned from the vr trader lmao

[somber sequoia]

how would I know?

[compact night]

xD

It didnt even send a verification link when i ask to get verified

[desert elk]

I responded to the comment. I am not on my computer 24/7

let me breathe

[somber sequoia]

I admit I'm very slightly tempted to do this to get that model for free (because it's really cute), but I also know most of Foxi's stuff is a nightmare to try to get to Medium, and I probably don't want to put in that kind of effort 🙂

[balmy barn]

seen a few of them, none were even close to 'very poor' more like extremely poor

[left gull]

Depending on how old your account is you could've been flagged by the bot bit hard to tell but you could ask a friend whos in the server/ isnt using a brand new account to make a ticket for you about a ban appeal

[somber sequoia]

yep, they're really bad

[compact night]

Nah Its good, i contacted a mod

it was an error x)

[balmy barn]

if you are making stuff/avatars ALWAYS put your stats of the av in description or im thinking its absolutly a nightmere of a kitbash (hello 360k vertices shoes ive seen)

[desert elk]

THIS

I would never buy anything that doesn't have stats listed

[sick loom]

Those shoes are 36 of my avatars

[somber sequoia]

switch to a different one and back?

huh I thought that'd work, interesting

oh good

[uneven whale]

Who can help with shaders for quest avatar? Write in private messages! 🙏🏻😭

[desert elk]

you'll get a bunch of scammers

just state your issue

[somber sequoia]

many of us... in here.

[uneven whale]

How to make emission on quest avatar so as not to overload it too much. I made glowing eyes, and my avatar loads very slowly in Vrchat

I am still being ignored

[somber sequoia]

yeah well, quest.

[uneven whale]

Avatar takes about 25-30 minutes to load when I set emission to glow eyes

[somber sequoia]

I wouldn't expect emission to be too much though. Nor would I expect that to affect actual loading time

wait what?

30 minutes to load in vrchat?

[uneven whale]

Yes

[desert elk]

what are the stats of that???

eyes itself wouldn't do it

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure how that makes any sense unless it's something crazy

[balmy barn]

someone on playing a 56k modem?

[uneven whale]

Can you recommend some lighter shaders for eye glow? The problem is that loading takes too long, before using emission the avatar loaded for about 8 minutes, after using emission loading in Vrchat increased to 30 minutes

[somber sequoia]

you only get the quest-compatible shaders, so no

I really can't see why this would affect load time

[uneven whale]

I have a very weak laptop.

[somber sequoia]

what's that got to do with running on quest?

you said "quest avatar"

[uneven whale]

I don't know honestly what the reason is for such a long loading time...

[somber sequoia]

Are you using quest standalone or do you have your quest linked to your computer and run VRChat on the computer?

[uneven whale]

I'm making an avatar quest for the android version of vrchat. On android everything is fine when I load avatars, but such a long loading of the avatars themselves really annoys me

[left gull]

just like a world drop item that you can pickup and set down wherever?

Thatfatkidsmom has a prefab where you can drop in your item that does that if you're just trying to add something quick

this: https://thatfatkidsmom.gumroad.com/l/lxgbv

way easier then setting up your own stuff or you could look at how its setup to figure out how it works

[somber sequoia]

ok then your slow computer is not relevant

[sick loom]

I think you need to buy a new laptop

[uneven whale]

I don't think I need to follow this advice right now, because I don't have the budget for it.

[sick loom]

oh well

why is a quest shader lagging

[somber sequoia]

also if you're playing standalone, your computer has nothing to do with this

[wicked fulcrum]

I wanna know, does anyone know how to do lightsaber trails ? Like when you swing them, im making a vader and this is my first time working around with lightsabers. I know theres a lightsaber prefab out there but i dont have the money for it so im doing it manually.

[pseudo stone]

Okay so I'm completely at a loss with this. I had a brief power outage with my computer while working on a project and now the VCC won't recognize the project or open it at all, but I can still open the project with the Unity Hub. It won't even let me make a new project to migrate things over to, which is concerning as well.

Other projects work just fine, just this one is toasted and my ability to make new ones

[shadow bane]

About to have a damn headache

[wind skiff]

The wonderful vrchat sdk throws this error for completely unrelated issues, what other errors are you getting?

[shadow bane]

thats the only error.
Brand new package, brand new model fbx, no cross data, no vrcfury elements

[somber sequoia]

I've not seen what this looks like, but either a Trail Renderer or particles. For the latter you could just put an emitter at some place on the light and have it emit via the Emission -> Rate over Distance setting

[wicked fulcrum]

this is roughly how it should look like

[void kettle]

How do I fix this? It’s floating in the air and gogoloco won’t work

[somber sequoia]

ahh like that. Almost seems like maybe an extra bit of mesh and a physbone would do that

[wicked fulcrum]

it seems like it but it is made out of particles

[glacial helm]

Question: i made a new avatar proejct by using a Manuka base and i added custom clothes as usual. when i create a imposter the clothes are not there and the model it self appears as naked imposter. the Manuka base does use VRCFury for Armature Link. The Armature Link Component is on the Armature bone of the Clothes object. i dont use toggles to enable/disable clothes as this is my Mediumk Avatar its literally just the Manuka base with one piece of clothes

[austere bay]

is there a quick way to remove 0 weight vertex groups from an object?

similar to how you can remove unused materials

[somber sequoia]

https://github.com/alertedsnake/blender/blob/main/RemoveEmptyVertexGroups.py

i.e. there isn't so I wrote it.

[timid terrace]

Lol that's nice

[somber sequoia]

much of the reason I'm a software engineer 🙂

[timid terrace]

I might make a youtube short called "How to remove empty vertex groups in Blender fast"

[dark jay]

whenever i unlock poiyomi shader materials it breaks my settings for any model on this unity project how do i fix it

[somber sequoia]

breaks in what way?

[chilly solar]

hey yall, im making an avatar and im gonna use a toon shader and have flipped normal outlines on it. for some reason i cant do it and have visemes. the visemes just dont work with the outline. i know for a fact its possible because ive seen it, but i was told a few months ago here by someone that i cant?? ive seen so many avatars with outlines and visemes, what do i have to do to make it work?

[austere bay]

tyyyy

[sly birch]

Hey people of the party, I have an avatar that I've uploaded in the past before, now when I try to reupload it on a new blueprint id it returns with this error (I've detached the bp id)

[somber sequoia]

is that red one the only error in the console? If not, post the first 2-3 errors, at the top

[sly birch]

^^

[dark jay]

why are my physbones jittery

it happens standing still

[sly birch]

are your physbones on a parent constraint? if so, that might be the reason

it sometimes happens to me too

[raw saddle]

is this about blender refusing to apply modifiers (e.g. outline) when there are shape keys on the mesh? there's a plugin for it, look up "Apply Modifiers With Shape Keys"

[chilly solar]

ahh i think it was tbh, ill try that when i get there

[dark jay]

no i dont think so

im checking it rn

[spark walrus]

This off topic but in roblox has anyone ever go to place called public bathroom simulator..its basically a ring for hacker pedos and when u go into there discord and request condos ur sent in a private chat with a pedo ..I thought wasn't real tell I actually visited and it's actually fucked

[balmy barn]

if you are using constraints where physbone are , that bone/gameobject need to be excluded in physbone setting or jittering happen (curves in component)

[glacial vessel]

is there a workaround to linking clothes that arent made for your base?

[balmy barn]

blender sculpt/weight transfer onto any avatar

[dark jay]

im not

not using constraints

[wispy moon]

revisiting this issue..

for some reason, some of my animations in my FX layer are getting "stuck".

it appears that the parameters that drive the transitions between the states on my avatar are working and network synced. When i have outfit 2 selected and someone reloads my avatar, outfit 2 is on.

BUT for some reason, if the parameter changes to outfit 3, the animations will not transist to outfit 3, unless they reload my avatar.

this is the same for a mask animation i have, that always starts in the "on" state. so even if the mask boolean is False, the mask is stuck on for other players. The thing is, this mask's toggle is a simple boolean trigger.

SOME of the animations and parameters in my FX layer ARE working just fine, such as the face tracking, and a new animation i created that just toggles a hat on and off, made for the purpose of sanity checking myself

all the outfits and the mask are on different layers themselves.

[uncut lotus]

More of a blender problem, the arrows are gone. How do I make them come back? I know you can use G, but Im more comfy using the arrows

[hollow stirrup]

Did you accidentally change the origin point?

Looks like it

try this:
R. Click > Set Origin > Origin to Geometry

[uncut lotus]

The origin was off, but the arrows are still gone

Some of those menu thingys

[ruby gazelle]

i'm trying attach an addon to an avatar but this keep popping up. how do i fix it? i already have vrcfury so i don't know what else to do. please help

[glacial vessel]

can anyone help i cant merge these pants for some reason

"cargo sweatshirt" is just that these will be the pants if the sweatshirt is on

i did data transfer and and stuff

it wont workk

[viral cove]

I need help with updating a exisitng VR chat avatar base, but it's a bit too complicated for me to do alone. Does anyone know how to do it?

[frozen rain]

hey so this might be a weird question, is there a way to make the avatar descriptor in unity visible when placing it?
i am making my very first avatar from scratch rn and i have no idea how or where to place the camera

[somber sequoia]

you can't merge a mesh object to an armature, if you're trying that on the two objects in that image

[somber sequoia]

lots of people do - you'll need to be way more specific about what you want to accomplish

[viral cove]

like body color changes, add some props to the dial, files to upload, basically.

[somber sequoia]

there are many many tutorials for each of these, I'd suggest starting there and then asking specific questions if you get stuck

[left gull]

they should come with the VRChat avatar SDK, something like Packages>whatever the vrchat.avatars folder is called>Samples>AV3demo something>Expressions menu>Textures>icons iirc?

[uncut lotus]

Are your gizmo's off?

Im assuming your talking about like, where your eyes would be whe using the avi