avatar-help

[desert elk]

https://youtu.be/6ITTI5KwC3o?si=-lMbajWGraRE3Y75

here's a tutorial

[humble yew]

ty

[desert elk]

shows the avatar descriptor too if I remember correctly

[unkempt marsh]

do yall crunch compress your textures or no?

I like small file sizes but also it takes longer to load in right?

[desert elk]

I don't, because I was told it's worse than not doing it (probably because of that reason)

[wanton cedar]

Does anyone know how this water in the bowl was done? It moves around with the player and such. Not sure if its a shader or not

[ornate stump]

It's hard to analyze from just a single picture.

[wanton cedar]

want the avatar name to see it more??

[ornate stump]

Probably help but I can't get into the game now.

[wanton cedar]

https://payhip.com/b/tQayX

Angelo by lilmisspasta

[ornate stump]

Do you mean the bowl itself or the water in the bowl?

[wanton cedar]

yes

water

another image

i saw its on the quest ver as well so idk if its a shader

[ornate stump]

If you meant the part where it orient with gravity, it's likely using physbone.

[wanton cedar]

but like how would one make that? im trying to make it on an arm so i cant just make it rotate around an axis

[ornate stump]

This works only on a sphere because it can rotate and orient to any direction. But if you used on cylinder, that would require custom shader to cull the part that clipped outside of the container.

[wanton cedar]

What shader would work? I figured i'd need to use a shader to cover up the part, but i only know of poi and lilitoon

[heavy zephyr]

Could make it with stencils

[ornate stump]

Any shader that can customize stencil.

[wanton cedar]

stencil is like an alpha map, correct?

[ornate stump]

It isn't.

[heavy zephyr]

No, it's (very much simplified) a way to assign a value to pixels and compare them with other pixels to dictate which ones should render or not-

[wanton cedar]

Interesting, ive never heard of that. Thank you

[fierce hedge]

May I ask why the scene seen by the left and right eyes of my avatar are different? It's obvious that the display of the right eye is not normal.

[heavy zephyr]

The shader used doesn't support VR rendering

Or was made specifically to mess* with your eyes lmao

[fierce hedge]

Im just using the latest liltoon

[heavy zephyr]

I'm not sure if liltoon has an option for rendering in a specific eye or not, but do check

[fierce hedge]

hmm

It seems that this shader does not have the function you mentioned

By the way, this issue occurred after a build when the Unity Editor crashed, the shader script was damaged, and it appeared after reinstallation

It now looks normal in the editor

[young bear]

why is toon standard so sparkly/shiny in certain worlds?

[fervent spear]

hi guys, if im making a glowy material is it a good idea to turn off 'limit brightness'? also some explanation of what the other sliders are for would help too pls and thankyou :)

[ornate stump]

Brightness affects from external light, not the emission from material. So that doesn't have effect on the glowiness.

[fervent spear]

ohh ok thank you!

[arctic ginkgo]

what platform are you on?

[arctic ginkgo]

shadow tint is how much the shadows are tinted by the color ramp (which doesn't matter if you're using flat shading)

[arctic ginkgo]

shadow boost increases the brightness of shadows, while min brightness increases the minimum brightness

again i don't believe these matter for flat shading

[fervent spear]

oh awesome, thank you for the help! :)

[royal hazel]

Ingame my entire avatar is shifted down about .2 meters from where it is in unity,
and my viewpoint stays up where it's set originally, ending up above the avatar's head ingame, everything else moves down with the avatar,
and this is even on a fresh export of the model from blender into a brand new unity project

[desert elk]

is your avatar's position the world origin? and what's the scale?

[supple sage]

is there an asset for addin eye tracking only to avis

jerrys seems to not work with only eye tracking

[young bear]

PC

[arctic ginkgo]

it's a bug with toon standard that has been patched on Android and iOS but not yet in the SDK or on Windows. Not sure why they haven't pushed the fix to all platforms but it is known 🤷

[zenith escarp]

I need opinions. Which rim shading looks better. The lighter one is my original, but the darker one is a bit more piercing.

[young bear]

:(

[young bear]

imo the first one. it's more realistiic. the second one looks like the dramatic face meme

[zenith escarp]

xD Yeah I like the first one more too.

[young bear]

no i know what it looks like

IMVU

[zenith escarp]

Honestly it just looks like every eboy avatar in this game even. Though because of how often I see that lighting setup, I'm wondering if that's just what people like

which is part of the reason why I am curious of it in the first place. Though I do prefer the less intense shading

[crisp trail]

buttons.

[steady summit]

hey, any idea how I can get rid of the discoloration of the mesh? I already tried Mask -> Clear Mask

the jacket is wrong colour

[sacred hound]

why all my ays purple?

[desert elk]

missing shadee

shader

[sacred hound]

where find place to put shade

[desert elk]

you need to install the missing shader

poiyomi, liltoon are the two most often used ones

[sacred hound]

I have both of thoes already installed

[desert elk]

what were the instructions for the avatar?

and if you converted it to quest, there's a chance that some materials didn't switch to quest compatible shaders

[sacred hound]

the avy is set to pc rn

[junior void]

That's not how it works. You should read about the relationship between vertex groups, and bones

[true flower]

Suppose, for example, I have a gun or a cartoon mallet. Is it possible to have my fist automatically curl around the handle when it's equipped? Basically, "when (Mallet)=TRUE, then (Fist)"?

[desert elk]

Yes

I think this is for custom hand gestures, but I think the process would be the same

just without recording the animation

https://youtu.be/xOGc8CetyXs?si=vUuScNHfyFtDp07E

[true flower]

Awesome! I just needed to be validated before I spent three days trying to do something that can't be done. 😅 🤪

[true flower]

I'm ten seconds into the video and can already tell it's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

[desert elk]

Great

[ashen meadow]

Every time I go to edit mode the hair moves, how do I fix it

[somber sequoia]

It'll usually default to the rest position - have you posed the hair or something?

[night gazelle]

can you guys help me with my texture, it looks weird in unity but in adobe substance painter its fine, 3rd image is how i exported it
and i would like to keep the details

[ashen meadow]

Yeah, I posed all of the bones in order to make the hair fit the avatar

[somber sequoia]

yeah you'd need to apply that pose to become the rest pose.

[ashen meadow]

How do I do that

[somber sequoia]

I usually do it via applying the armature modifier, but I think cats has some method also.

[ashen meadow]

Thank youuu

[echo osprey]

Hey, could I save some help putting this avatar together? I’m using blender 4.4, and just using blender in general for the first time

Trying to port it to Unity and eventually vrchat

[desert elk]

You can ask specific questions

"Putting it together" can mean a lot of things

just say what step you're stuck at and people can help then

[echo osprey]

So at the moment I have 3 major problems

1. I’ve sculpted the model, and finally textured it, but have no idea how to get the textures working when I move it over to Unity, it said there’s some kind of shader error.

2. When I port it, for some reason, the skeleton decides it is no longer confined to the prisons of the flesh. It was pre-rigged, so I have no idea how to rig it manually.

3. I’m just, in general, trying to figure out toggles and importing things into the model making, like clothing and the like

[sick loom]

do you have screenshots?

[echo osprey]

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I do also have the polyomi shader

I literally just have no idea what to do with any of it

[desert elk]

you don't need the blender camera there, it often causes issues, delete it from the blender scene before exporting

for the shaders you need to apply the textures to materials and materials to the avatar

the armature looks attached to me.

is there something that makes you think it's not correct?

[echo osprey]

I’m trying to test rotate them, and for some reason, they’re just not working

Even full body rotation

[somber sequoia]

define "not working"

[echo osprey]

Like, they’re lined up, but the actual bones aren’t attached to anything for some reason

[night ember]

Weight painting

[somber sequoia]

Do you mean that moving the bones does not move the mesh?

[echo osprey]

I think so, like I said, I’m new-

[somber sequoia]

Yes, weight painting.

[desert elk]

do they move the mesh in Blender?

if they don't then that's a weight painting problem

[echo osprey]

How do i check that and how do I do weight painting?

I’ll do the skeleton rigging first

[desert elk]

Pose mode

[desert elk]

if you didn't rig it, it's not going to move anything

[desert elk]

check in pose mode
add in weight pode

[night ember]

Or you dont have an armature modifier with the armature selected

[desert elk]

or

there's a lot of things xr

[echo osprey]

How do i get to pose mode?

[desert elk]

top corner

... left

i think

there's a drop down menu

I think you need to make the armature selected or the armature and mesh

i don't remember

[somber sequoia]

select armature, then also select mesh, go into weight paint mode.

[echo osprey]

I see object mode, edit mode, sculpt mode, vertex paint, weight paint, and texture paint

[desert elk]

yup, do this

my second guess was right

gotta have the things selected

[echo osprey]

Ok they’re both selected

Now how do i do the weighting

Do i just

[desert elk]

check if it moves first

in posemode

[echo osprey]

How do i do that

[desert elk]

move the bones? with the rotation tools

[echo osprey]

I’m not seeing a rotation tool

[desert elk]

left side

don't they show up automatically with you click on a bone in pose mode?

[echo osprey]

Should i call and stream?

[desert elk]

no

you can take screenshots

[desert elk]

okay, that's weight paint mode

I'm talking about checking if it moves in pose mode

weight paint mode ≠ pose mode

[somber sequoia]

there are also lots of tutorial videos for weight painting, and a bunch of discussion in #avatar-rigging

[desert elk]

exactly

[somber sequoia]

it's kinda difficult to describe this well in text

[somber sequoia]

Yeah, that looks like it's not weight painted, or you don't have an armature modifier setup right

[echo osprey]

Alright, so how do I weight paint it? How do I drag the tool

[desert elk]

google or read some of the #avatar-rigging pins

it's a lot to explain

[echo osprey]

So i finally got to posing mode, but now all the other options like weight painting aren’t there

[somber sequoia]

Yes, because you don't weight paint in pose mode, and you can't weight paint if you only have the armature selected - weight painting is done on a mesh object.

#avatar-help message

[untold minnow]

The bone selected (The head bone) Is the only bone moving the hair but its showing nothing as weight painted. Can anyone provide a solutuion? I asked in the blender server but nobody has responded yet.

[somber sequoia]

note that just because something looks blue does not mean it has no weight, or the weight is exactly 0.

[echo osprey]

Right, i have no idea how to select armature and mesh

I have almost no experience with blender

[somber sequoia]

time for a basic tutorial. But in Blender most things you can select with a click, then you can shift- or ctrl- click to select another thing.

[echo osprey]

I understand that part, but the problem is trying to figure out the “where in blender” part of everything

[untold minnow]

I know which is why I made sure nothing was weight painted to the heair but things still move with the head bone

[somber sequoia]

right but if they're painted to a child of the head bone, of course they'll move with the head bone

[somber sequoia]

If you start in object mode in the Layout view, you are in the right place to do the thing I said.

[untold minnow]

Its just the head bone, it moves with nothing else

[somber sequoia]

so the head bone has no child bones?

[untold minnow]

it does, but its weighted to none of them

[somber sequoia]

In exactly which order did you click those things?
Also does that mesh object have an armature modifier?

[echo osprey]

I retried it and did armature, and then body, and that seemed to do it

[night gazelle]

can someone help me with this question.

[somber sequoia]

I'm out of ideas given the info I have, not sure what else to ask for either.

[somber sequoia]

Yes, that is exactly the order in which I said to do it.

[echo osprey]

No idea how to check if a mesh object has an armature modifier

[somber sequoia]

wrench icon in the properties box with the object selected, where all modifiers live

[untold minnow]

is there a way I can see every bone its weighted to at one time

[somber sequoia]

I don't think there's a specific display for that, but if you look at the object's vertex groups, it'll have one for each bone that there are weights for.

[echo osprey]

Sorry again, I do appreciate your help, Even if the burnout of trying to figure this out is making me a box of stupid

[somber sequoia]

Understandable.

[untold minnow]

thanks

ill check it out

[echo osprey]

I think this might be the modifier?

[somber sequoia]

Yep, that's it.

[untold minnow]

That fixed it, thanks

just cleared everything

[somber sequoia]

yeah that's a good way to remove all weights, just delete those groups.

[night gazelle]

can you guys help me with my texture, it looks weird in unity but in adobe substance painter its fine, 3rd image is how i exported it
and i would like to keep the details, its only one material for the whole thing

[somber sequoia]

Show your material settings perhaps?

[oblique agate]

how would i sync material swap toggles between quest and pc? do i just skimp out on skin shading for pc?

[somber sequoia]

usually you produce two avatars - are you doing it with just one?

[night ember]

just use different materials between the 2 avatars?

[zenith escarp]

if both avatars are in the same project, make sure to make a quest version of the FX layer and replace the animations to swap materials with ones that swap out for the quest compatible materials

otherwise it will try to swap into pc only shaders on the quest, and will use fallback shaders instead

[craggy plaza]

Just a quick question: My glasses look like this in this world. I use "Shader Forge/Crystal Shader FIX" with render queue set to 3000. So now my question is this my fault or the world?

[glass lotus]

Any clue on why if I select my main avatar in Unity with every game object disabled it lags my editor down to 5 fps

[wanton cedar]

interesting blend shapes, but ig you need to make your own

[midnight needle]

really quick question that probably has a simple answer I just dunno about: is there a way to change, lime, the default amount of height change when using the crouch or prone buttons?
I wanna replace the default crouch pose/animation with a sitting-down one, but when I test it in-game the avvie isn't actually on the ground but floating above it. I could be wrong, but my guess is that it's just cause the avvie's head is too far upwards in the crouch state so the rest of the avvie gets moved upwards to match it. Assuming that's the case, I want to move the default crouch "height" lower so that the sitting pose looks right (unless there's another way to fix it I guess).

[desert elk]

Blender

[wanton cedar]

Youtube can explain in like 30 seconds

[light cloak]

huh

[night ember]

you cant change the crouch height of desktop mode
if vr you need to physically lower yourself

[midnight needle]

ah ok, thank you

[stray gorge]

is there a way to see what is causing my avatar to be high in mg? currently it shows 27.5mg/10mg but i can only count everything to total around 15mg (i can easily compress textures asdwell as the model if i need)

[robust kiln]

Is there any way to make avatar haptics go off when I touch a part of my own avatar? I'm making a double avatar with constraints and it would be fun to be able to touch the other half of it

[somber sequoia]

I'm assuming you mean MB as in megabytes rather than milligrams, but yeah, Thry's avatar tools has a thing (mostly for textures), as does VRC World Toolkit (yes it works for avatars)

[stray gorge]

where can I install those?

[somber sequoia]

I don't have links, but I'm sure a web search will turn them up

[stray gorge]

and which one is probably better?

[somber sequoia]

I've only used Thry's personally.

[stray gorge]

kk

installing thry rn

how do i use thry to see the MB?

i can only see the vram

[stray gorge]

i see it now. it says my model is 80 MB, yet my full size was 27mg. That literally doesnt make sense.

[outer turtle]

wasnt the limit like 100 mb?

i dont see whats the problem

[somber sequoia]

I really don't know what you're looking at here, I was just offering a useful tool.

[stray gorge]

oh, mk

im trying to upload on quest

[outer turtle]

the limit is 100 MB

unless they made it lower

[stray gorge]

it says the limit is 10 for quest

[outer turtle]

wait no, its 10 mb compressed

mb

how many blendshapes you have

[stray gorge]

face tracking and lots more

[outer turtle]

thats why

[stray gorge]

default kitavali with face tracking add on

[outer turtle]

the more blendshapes, the bigger the size

[somber sequoia]

you aren't using the kita with the 4k textures, are you? That one is kinda crazy.

[stray gorge]

i dont know tbh

[outer turtle]

plus, having face tracking and uploading to quest seems kinda pointless if i may say so

[stray gorge]

well quest users have to see the face tracking aswell

[outer turtle]

theres the 10 mb size limit tho

and blendshapes take quite a bit of that 10 mb in my experience

[stray gorge]

dang

any other way to have the avatar fbx not be 80 mb?

[gleaming plume]

hii ppl dont know whats the problem but i cant psuh buttons with my hands ingame maybe i failed something in unity i dunno (pls dm if ya know what could be the problem)

[stray trench]

hey guys, does rindo share a body with any other models?

[outer turtle]

compress textures? Remove unused blendshapes, shorten audio clips if any

[stray gorge]

kk

[outer turtle]

that are the only things I can think off

[stray gorge]

should i mention the fact the same model shows its 10MB in file explorer

[outer turtle]

is it quest compatible?

[honest crown]

Hey everyone I was wondering where I could find someone who could make an avatar?

If not can anyone help me with the pmx editor I can't seem to open it

[somber sequoia]

VRC Traders discord - link is in #1204490664637890580

[honest crown]

Oh ok thank you

[quasi folio]

My anchored object toggle doesnt reset places when i toggle it, it will stay in one place but won’t reset to a new position, how do i fix that?

[median aurora]

for some reason the viewpoint doesn't seem to be attached to the head?
I marked where the viewpoint should be with red in the in game image

like when I look down im clipping but considering the head can't look down that much I shouldn't be clipping

[somber sequoia]

you don't have an extra camera on the avatar, do you?

[median aurora]

which leads me to believe it's not attached to the head somehow

[median aurora]

no

[royal hazel]

The scale is 1,1,1 in blender and unity, and how do i see if the position is world origin

[median aurora]

ok now I got another issue, when I look barely down im floating

in vr

why is half of the body ik based on head rotation

[royal hazel]

Try moving the viewpoint back

[median aurora]

here?

[somber sequoia]

You want it to not move that much when you move your head around, so yeah the further towards the beak, the worse it'll be

[gilded turret]

Is there a way to bypass the texture memory limit for test builds? I really want a higher quality texture version for local use.

[lavish cosmos]

Let's say there is an animation clip with 3 keyframes, and it's set up with radial puppet with Motion Time enabled. In theory, when the float parameter is 0, it should play the first key frame, when it's 0.5, play the second, and when it's 1, play the third (last) keyframe. Or at least that's what I expect. However, when it's dialed up all the way to 100%, it actually plays the first keyframe. everything from 0% to 99% are played as expected but not at 100%. I guess it's because there are two keyframes at exactly the third frame. If the animation curves are smooth, continuous, and sinusoidal, this shouldn't be a problem. But for animation curves that look like / / /, not so lucky. This is something I wish to be fixed. Or, can someone suggest some workarounds?

[somber sequoia]

you could use a blendtree instead, even linear you can get kinda complicated with what clips are in it

[lavish cosmos]

Oh you're absolutely right. Why haven't i thought of that? I even have some of those types of blendtrees. Thanks!

[stray gorge]

i have a unsupported shader on my avatar but i cannot find it. Is there an easy way to find this?

found it and fixed it

[open spindle]

Im trying to make a phone toggle that has a specific hand gesture attached to it i watched @gilded seal s tutorial hut every time i untoggle it i get stuck with claw hands and the gestures break write defaults is on

[vernal quarry]

is it possible to add a collider to the claws so that they can interact with objects, like them playable pianos?
If so, how?

[somber sequoia]

sorta, kinda, not really, BUT - fingers get colliders and you can resize those so they extend out to the claws, iirc by default they're the size of your finger bones.

[glass geyser]

not really avatar help, but with my avatar project. what do I do in the case unity decides to be a d**k and corrupt my project with all my things in it and can't acess it anymore?

[somber sequoia]

close unity, delete the Library directory, open it again

[timber wharf]

you inspect model and fugure out what shader/material is actually takes care of rendering the eye, as of now its clearly doesnt give a single about tranparency. alternatively/prefferably you remove verticies in blender if you wont need them

[wooden nova]

particles are not playing when i try to view them in unity i pressed play too so idk why they're not visible

[vestal haven]

Are avatar seats/stations doomed to be broken or am I setting them up wrong? Everytime I setup a station on an avatar, other users who sit on it will find themselves seated waayyy off from where they should be. This appears to occur randomly, sometimes they're sitting in the perfect position.

This doesn't happen on desktop either! Only VR users 💀

[wooden nova]

its how they are it takes a couple tries for vr users to get seated correctly

i believe it only reacts that way due to tracking reasons

[timber wharf]

https://github.com/poiyomi/PoiyomiToonShader uh, its not hard to find

unless you need pro and thats paid/pateron whatever

[somber sequoia]

web search is your friend

[oblique agate]

how to fix? 😭 it’s like my second time doing an avi ever

[somber sequoia]

describe what you think needs fixing.

[oblique agate]

the shading keeps messing up when i do facial expressions

[somber sequoia]

Go see what the facial expression animations do, maybe they do a material swap?

[mild sandal]

Sorry to interrupt, am looking for anyone open to mentor? Building avi from blender w assets 🙏 would love to ask questions for help filling in the blanks?

[somber sequoia]

feel free to ask questions in here.

[oblique agate]

no dice :/

[vernal quarry]

Aaah okai, thank you 👍

[fickle hamlet]

Is it possible to import models from older games to be used as an avatar, or would it be easier to just make one from scratch using the game model in question as a reference?

[arctic ginkgo]

depends on how easy the models are to access, and the formats and state they are in. If they are able to easily be imported to blender and are easy to clean up, then it's better to import it from the game. This will also preserve accuracy, which is better for more detailed models.

also just make sure you have the rights to do this

dm me if you want more info

[fickle hamlet]

rights D:

[coral pebble]

Hey so giving a avi gogoloco and the ik on the avatar in game is breaking Like the knees bend in into each other when I add it, any tip on how to fix??

[snow patio]

would anyone be willing to hop into a VC with me to help me with a substance painter problem?

fill layer 1 is a carbon fiber texture and I was wondering if there's a way to get layer 1 and layer 2 to like. go on top of it in a way that doesn't make them emulate the carbon fiber material. I'm not big on them taking that line-texture thing

[naive carbon]

i recently got this n panic au model and i tried making my md oc out of it and i cant really publish it for some reason iit always has all this show up, what am i doing wrong

[ornate stump]

Scroll up see more error above.

[naive carbon]

my small brain has no idea what any of this means

[ornate stump]

Yellows are just warning. That one error written Error while saving Prefab that's the problem.

[naive carbon]

i wish i knew what you were talking about

but do you know how to fix it?

[ornate stump]

Do you see the error written "Error while saving Prefab"?

[naive carbon]

it just doesnt let me save in general

[ornate stump]

That's irrelevant. Do you see that error? Read more detail about it.

[naive carbon]

i dont think ive seen any error like that

[snow patio]

nvm, looks like I can't streamline this and I just have to use a mask

[ornate stump]

It's half shown in your last screenshot.

[naive carbon]

this?

[ornate stump]

Yes. Missing script usually mean you haven't imported all necessary package required by the avatar.

[idle jetty]

Need help unity keeps crashing when importing an avatar during the upload process

[ornate stump]

Importing and uploading are 2 different steps.

[idle jetty]

When it is importing

[ornate stump]

Importing unitypackage?

[idle jetty]

Yes

[naive carbon]

i deleted a broken script and its actually saving i think now

[ornate stump]

That might break your avatar when you use it.

[naive carbon]

oh

welp lets hope it works

[ornate stump]

What package that you're trying to import?

[idle jetty]

RexouiumUnity_VRC_V007

[ornate stump]

Is it only one package that crash unity?

[idle jetty]

Yep

[naive carbon]

its currently doing this right now, i dunno if this is bad orrrr

[ornate stump]

You will know when you use it.

[naive carbon]

alrighty

[ornate stump]

Try downloading the package again.

[naive carbon]

the avatar published now time to see if it works

ok so it worked, only problem is i cant make it quest compadable [wow spelling issues]

[unborn kite]

Anyone know how to fix this?

I got this Avi from a friend and have been modifying it but the panosphere galaxy doesn't stay when the world is hidden

[arctic ginkgo]

world is hidden? what do you mean by that?

[unborn kite]

Like in camera masks I turn the world off and my hair vanishes

[arctic ginkgo]

the world doesn't look hidden in that picture, maybe it's an issue with the world?

[unborn kite]

This happens in png camera mode

[arctic ginkgo]

alright, it may be that your mesh is on the wrong layer

it should be default

[unborn kite]

It's on default

[indigo compass]

Quite sure you can't even change the layer, it is forced to be on the player layer.

[naive carbon]

does anyone know how to make an avatar able to have quest support? i tried watching a video on how to do it but it still didnt work

[arctic ginkgo]

i'm not really sure otherwise..

[arctic ginkgo]

you need to install the android built target

[naive carbon]

how do you do that?

[indigo compass]

You want Android build support and potentially IOS if you want to upload there too.

[naive carbon]

alrighty

[naive carbon]

i installed the android thing but it still wont let me change it, am i missing something or am i just dumb

[desert elk]

try restarting unity

[naive carbon]

oki

still didnt work, im deffinetly doing something wrong or im missing something

[dry phoenix]

what videos do u recommend for people trying to recolor a base

[night ember]

thats jut editing the texture

which is just an image file

[dry phoenix]

Ohhh so esentially a skin

[night ember]

if you wanna think of it that way sure?

[tight gull]

how do i make sliders

just in general

i know they're tied to animations but i dont know how

is there anything that can help make it easier

[desert elk]

You mean Blendshapes?

[tight gull]

oh yeah

truwe

my bad lol

wait idk

I just meant like

The user facing side

Like having it on your action menu

[desert elk]

Radial Wheels?

[tight gull]

yeah

[desert elk]

you can record animations and set up the FX yourself or use Vrcfury

[tight gull]

how would i do it with vrcfury

[desert elk]

idk, I don't use it

[arctic ginkgo]

• add a control
• set the type to radial puppet
• set the "rotation parameter" to the float parameter you want to use

[tight gull]

using dolphin for 24 hours challenge (success???)

[tight gull]

kthx :3

[arctic ginkgo]

oh lol i have it open in the background

i'm not even playing anything rn

[tight gull]

wait how do i add controls >w<

[arctic ginkgo]

there should be a + button

[tight gull]

where

[arctic ginkgo]

on your menu asset

in the inspector

[tight gull]

damn this might be an xy problem

i'm tyring to use an fbx so i don't have an expressions menu right now

[arctic ginkgo]

alright, then just right click in your assets, and click Create > VRChat > Avatars > Expression Menu

it should all be the top option except for the last one

[tight gull]

hu?

create doesn't exist for me

is it cus you're on a mac?

oh wait

[arctic ginkgo]

no, this is on all platforms

[tight gull]

you don't right click on Windows, you go to Assets in the menu bar

[arctic ginkgo]

you should be right clicking in this area

[arctic ginkgo]

right clicking works on windows, I've done it on windows and mac

[tight gull]

i think im stuped (sic) but this is all i see

but whatevs i made it

[arctic ginkgo]

it looks like you are right clicking in the hierarchy, which is the area on the left side. You should be right clicking in the project/assets tab, by default on the bottom side of the window

[tight gull]

Ah

yeah i'm a unity noob

[tight gull]

yeah i got it

[spark walrus]

any idea why I can't select different avatar all of sudden?

[autumn rover]

heyo, i were just curious if its possible to have a toggle for a head on a avatar, so you can switch between them. the thing im a bit unsure on is if it would be possible to still have avatar expressions on the avi

[wanton cedar]

ive seen it done so it is possible, but i dont think the expressions will work on one of them

[viral thorn]

hey hey, just wondering if i have assest i want to add to my avi do i have to add them to both my pc and quest versions?

[timber wharf]

if you dont add it to one, it wont have it. wether to add extra stuff questies can live (and perform better) without is up to you tho

[somber sequoia]

Yes, but you can only have one mesh object driven by VRChat's expression stuff. So you have two options:

1. make the heads a single mesh and use something like UV tile discard to hide the one not active
2. use two mesh objects and toggle them on/off, but implement visemes yourself in a layer in the FX animator using the Viseme parameter.

[primal spruce]

trynna do sum for particles and i need to use alpha blended but it says its not comp for quest so any ideas? (Not using additive cause it dont work like that for me ) (and yes i know alpha blended is a quest world shader, but i need something just like it)

[valid jetty]

My friend and I are currently trying to import a model of Viktor to VRChat, but he has a few problems- Whenever the avatar is uploaded into VRChat, the shoulders are super broad for no apparent reason, and the arms are bent weirdly, but the model is perfectly fine in both Blender and Unity. (Shown above) We aren't really sure if it's a Blender problem or a Unity problem. I rigged the model entirely myself, and may have made a few errors here and there as I'm not extremely familiar with the process yet hehe any help would be appreciated!!!!

[somber sequoia]

no shoulder bones?

[tight gull]

how do you make physbones? i'm sure someone's told me before but i forgor

Wait nvm i found it

gotta look in Component > Scripts

[placid mica]

What does "creating a backup" of an avatar project do? I assumed it would just duplicate the project, but I don't see one.

[valid jetty]

oh my god im dumb thank you

[tight gull]

when i try using the camera in play mode it's very pixelated and i swear I remember cameras used to just show a live preview from a given angle. Wtf?

idk

i dont think so

how do i fix this? this is an fbx

that just brings me back as if i didn't even go into play mode?

[somber sequoia]

You'll have to do the rig setup - most "from scratch" tutorial videos will cover this

[tight gull]

???

yes i do have gesture manager

bro what

how do you get there???

tools > gesture manager emulator ?

I'm just trying to test a physbone jesus christ

this is confusing me a lot

i just want it to work

Okay

I still can't see any change

i don't know if the rig's been set up and this is all confusing me i'm gonna take a break

[primal spruce]

How can i add outlines to avatar(anime/cartoony outlines) quest comp?

[viral thorn]

anyone know why this is happening? only thing I put on here was gogo

[junior void]

are you sure thats the only thing and that theres nothing above it?

[viral thorn]

between the first and second i turned off quest upload

[night ember]

it says right there that you have missing script

[junior void]

If you added gogo, you likely miss vrcfury

it says "vrcfury" for a reason - it depends on it being present

[viral thorn]

i have vrc fury ive never gotten this message before ;~;

[junior void]

in that case you missed to put the basic gogo loco package

[viral thorn]

ok so it was gogo the second i took it off it uploaded just fine

[junior void]

the gogo vrcf package needs vrcfury and gogo loco basic from gumroad added to the project

[viral thorn]

...

[junior void]

and where is gogo loco

[viral thorn]

its always the simple things

[thick dirge]

Is there a way to generate an imposter that is not on the website because the imposter I get from it is very bad...

[somber sequoia]

no, you could make a fallback though, so far.

[thick dirge]

"VRCImpostorSettings
Impostors come out pretty good by default. However, complex avatars may benefit from some customization.

To customize your impostor, add the "VRCImpostorSettings" component to your avatar before uploading it. Changing the settings of this component allows you to change the impostor's appearance. You can add multiple "VRCImpostorSettings" to customize different body parts."

I cant find this anywhere ?

[somber sequoia]

It's a component you add to some part of your avatar (usually the root)

[placid cedar]

Is there a way to make your avatar flat foot and heeled? I want to make my bee girl have heels but I don't know how to change the floor height so the heels dont clip into the floor

[somber sequoia]

make sure you have a recent SDK, 3.7.x+ I think

[thick dirge]

I cant find it however

[somber sequoia]

You've found your avatar root and have clicked "Add component" in the inspector?

[thick dirge]

Where is the Add Components exactly, I dont think I see it

[somber sequoia]

all the way at the bottom of the inspector

[thick dirge]

Oh there it is

[balmy plover]

is there a way to make the chunky quest eyelashes in blender not chunky and ugly? i know it doesnt matter bc it gets fixed in unity but im tryna see how this new head's gonna look all put together and its kinda hard when all i see is giant black squares for eyelashes 😭

wait nvm i can literally turn them off, my bad chat

[radiant night]

I have been really wanting to add this feature to my avatar for a while but I dont know where to start. I want to add a toggle that will allow me to manually control each eyelid (analog not digital) using the grip buttons on my controllers, the face would also remain in its default expression when toggled. I want to be able to reproduce this face

https://tenor.com/view/smooth-brain-kitty-boykisser-gif-8234569603800668383

Damn

Embed fail

[somber sequoia]

Also if you're good enough with blender, there's a way to anything 🙂

[somber sequoia]

You'd need one blendshape per eye, then setup a bunch of animations triggered by a hand gesture

[radiant night]

Would I put it on the action, fx, or gesture layer?

[somber sequoia]

FX

[radiant night]

How would I override the face animations when toggled?

[somber sequoia]

VRC Animator Tracking Control

well if you mean visemens

[radiant night]

Is that a component?

[somber sequoia]

Otherwise it's just animator logic

Yes, it's a component you can add to animator states

[radiant night]

I hate mekanim

Thank you for your help, do you mind if I DM you if (when) I need help?

[somber sequoia]

Yes, I don't do one-on-one help in DMs for free.

[radiant night]

Ill think about it

[tawny valley]

anyone knows that how to fix this problem?

[somber sequoia]

what is that rotation constraint supposed to do?

[fickle bridge]

can i get some help

[somber sequoia]

with?

[fickle bridge]

player head is way above the avatars

[fickle bridge]

holding a mirror on my face level here

[somber sequoia]

Where is the viewpoint positioned?

[fickle bridge]

I didn't do any changes to that,,

If i did accidentally, how do i check?

[desert elk]

you need to change it if you didn't

it needs to be at eye level

by default it may not be

[somber sequoia]

in Unity on the Avatar Descriptor, it's under "View"

[fickle bridge]

Oh,

my avatar didnt have avatar descriptor, i added it later on so it mustve been wrong..?

Like this?

Should i move the Z too

[somber sequoia]

Put it about half-way into the bridge between the eyes

[timber otter]

the white orb is ur eyes

u can press

edit

and move it with the arrow

or u can mess w the cordinates

[somber sequoia]

the white orb is the viewpoint - let's be clear here.

[timber otter]

i personally like messing with the cords

ya where u see out of

[timber otter]

i guess if u rlly wanted to it could be ur feet

[somber sequoia]

Looks decent

[fickle bridge]

is it good like this?

alright let me upload and try

[timber otter]

you can also test it in vrchat and adjust as needed

[tawny valley]

umm, wrist-driven forearm twist

[somber sequoia]

ahh. I set the weight on those to 0.5. And use VRC constraints now. Looks fine otherwise, assuming that's the right axis, mine seems to be Y, but I've also got "Solve in Local Space" checked.

[tawny valley]

thanks, i will try

[somber sequoia]

easy enough to check in the editor (play mode not needed)

[fickle bridge]

that seemed to work thank you~~

[tawny valley]

like this?@somber sequoia

[somber sequoia]

Assuming that's the right axis, that looks like mine, yep.

[tawny valley]

ohhh thanks

[somber sequoia]

hmm... pretty annoying that adding a particle system with a single particle that has no renderer still adds a material slot.

[valid jetty]

what in the World is wrong with him im cruing

[somber sequoia]

You are missing a chest bone

I can't tell if any of the others are right due to their naming

[valid jetty]

wrong screenshot sorry i meant to send this, i genuinelt dont know why he moves like that cuz all the bones are correctly selected

[somber sequoia]

I'm confused about the leg bones

Does it move properly in Blender?

[valid jetty]

yeah the whole thing moves perfectly

[timber otter]

i just had this problem

its a blender thing it sometimes messes up when it exports

i got a few solutions

1. Re-export it

which normally fixes it

but if it still doesnt work and give u problems you can replace the meshes like the body mesh

do mesh data transfer if u got the plugin, if not i can send it to you

and then have it copy weight paint from the bones

then delete old body and keep the new one

then just weightpaint again with data transfer

[timber otter]

mine broke like this lol

[somber sequoia]

can't say I've ever had this happen

[timber otter]

if that still doesnt fix him you can re-weight paint manually however im not 2 sure how that works

ya its rare for me

but sometimes it just spazzes out

[somber sequoia]

huh.

[timber otter]

blender sometimes just doesnt export right

its like

a 1/15 chance

for me

[somber sequoia]

yeah literally never experienced this

[timber otter]

how many bones do u normally have

the more bones, meshes, etc

the more liekly

[somber sequoia]

it varies a lot

[timber otter]

ya lol

u might just b lucky

O_O

sometimes itdoes it just for one area as well

like so

LOL

[trail quartz]

hi, i migrated an old avi, 2019, via creator companion and im getting these errors? i looked through every object in my scene and all the children and i dont see any missing scripts, and im not sure what this'd mean. I assume i'd just have to delete something i don't mind doing some of it from scratch if i must

[somber sequoia]

Did you update the VRChat SDK?

[trail quartz]

i updated the companion and pressed update on creator config is there more in also have to do?

[somber sequoia]

Make sure in the actual project, you have the latest SDK

[trail quartz]

luckily unity did it for me when i closed and reopened it lol

[timber otter]

vrcfury has a fix missing scripts command

so it can attempt to fix them or just remove them if unable 2

that looks like a more gogoloco thing bc the "float"

[trail quartz]

i don't use vrcfury

i also don't use gogoloco

[trail quartz]

float is a variable type so-

[timber otter]

mmm

then i dunno

bc when i get those its either gogo or i just use fury 🤷‍♀️

[somber sequoia]

it does say you should add the Mathematics package - you'll find it in the package manager

[drowsy crane]

I dont know how to make a custom texture for a nardoragon model without paying for apps etc, anyone got some help for that???

[desert elk]

put the texture in any art program 🤷
if you want an actual 3d model then idk, I think there was one but I don't remember the name

[drowsy crane]

Im new to all of this so I got no idea on how to put the texture in firealpaca

[desert elk]

i use Microsoft Paint 😎

[drowsy crane]

I’ll try and see how to do that, thanks

[white hamlet]

A client lost the files for their custom one off texture. Is there a good way to get those back?

[desert elk]

"lost"?

[white hamlet]

I didn't ask.

[desert elk]

if there's no backup or it's not in the trash bin, I don't think there's a way to recover deleted files

[primal spruce]

how to make invisible shader/texuter on quest? when i tried it became WHITE and not transparentat al

[somber sequoia]

You can't do alpha transparency on quest, best to remove the mesh entirely.

[white hamlet]

No way to download it off the website or something? Any history of support tickets helping to provide access? Only the textures are needed.

[primal spruce]

i got this model i found, and i wanna get ridof some parts of the mesh, So i made it transaprent witgh color of black + additive but it didnt work

[trail quartz]

blender has 3d painting options but it is shit

im annoyed myself no one mentioned any alternatives to paid stuff cus i wanna know too 😭

[somber sequoia]

ucuPaint and layerPainter are blender add-ons that make it less shit

ArmorPaint can be got for free, and it's really cool, but also really still an alpha release, it crashes a lot.

[primal spruce]

where caniput this? a middle finger fx gesture thing?
Idk where to find it so i can replace rock and roll for it

[somber sequoia]

Gesture animator. If you don't have one, you'll need to make one, I think there's an example somewhere in the SDK's samples section

[valid jetty]

ok so what in the world is happening here why is he turned around backwards except for his feet when i enforce t-pose IM SO TIRED

[latent lotus]

🥀

thats MY unity screenshot... growls... how dare you use it...

[valid jetty]

im gonna get u

we have been at this for 2 days im so tired

[latent lotus]

i know

[patent furnace]

is there any way to remove texture backgrounds for quest within the shaders available

[still thunder]

im getting an error on a simple on and off toggle, any reason why?

this is all it is for both on and off

[somber sequoia]

which way is it facing in Blender?

[sweet crypt]

how do i add these to an avi? its ReaLight on Booth

[marsh inlet]

I'm trying to set up a tail idle animation, and the animation works in preview, but when I go into gesture manager to test it, it only animates some of the bones. Can anyone help me troubleshoot please?

[somber sequoia]

got a physbone on there? Did you check "isAnimated" at the bottom?

[marsh inlet]

You know what, I thought of that the moment I hit send, that's most definitely the problem

Thank you

[latent lotus]

its facing forwards in blender as far as im aware

[somber sequoia]

"forward" meaning what?

[latent lotus]

like

[lethal sluice]

can anyone help me set up a proxy receiver with a blendtree animation?

[somber sequoia]

Also make sure you've applied all transforms.

[latent lotus]

@valid jetty

[valid jetty]

the avatar looks completely normal/correct in blender and all bones are correctly aligned and rotated

they all move normally too

[latent lotus]

what he said

[somber sequoia]

Okay so it should be facing -Y. If it's not, it's wrong, and can cause this problem unless you specifically work around it facing weird. That's why I was asking this very specific question.

[sweet crypt]

does anyone know how to add this im really struggling

[somber sequoia]

I do notice you have something labeled "left shoulder" in the right shoulder slot. I'm betting one of those is named wrong, but you should go make sure this is right.

[latent lotus]

we went back and fixed it

[somber sequoia]

this image doesn't tell us much useful - what are these? Does it come with any documentation?

[latent lotus]

the names were just pasted and he was too lazy to rename them

[sweet crypt]

its a ReaLight System by Miu for booth avis by Miu

[somber sequoia]

Hmm I'm not sure what to suggest then, if I don't know what state it's in.
I didn't see if you said you applied transforms on the objects though

[somber sequoia]

no idea what that is

[sweet crypt]

it looks like this when i click on it

[latent lotus]

im not sure either, im not the one doing the blender stuff im doing everything in unity

[somber sequoia]

"liltoon preset" - a shader preset probably. I'm not sure how that one does things but I bet there's docs on it.

[sweet crypt]

thats what i thought to but its only the unity package

[minor geode]

is there a way to have a bone parented to another bone but not copy the rotation of that bone? I'm trying to make something similar to mickey mouse's ears where they always face one way

[somber sequoia]

child bones always move with their parent, there's not really a way around that, but you could make it a child of a higher up bone

[minor geode]

well then could i have a bone that copies another bone's movement but not rotation?

[somber sequoia]

you can use constraints to do stuff like that. I'm not sure what bones these are but humanoid bones don't move, they rotate

[minor geode]

is there a tutorial on constraints ?

[timber wharf]

yo slap position constraint (while object is completely outside of the bone), you add source bone, you activate

[minor geode]

i dont know anything abt constraints though that's why i was asking if there's a tutorial

[somber sequoia]

as usual, start with the VRChat documentation. Also any Unity docs will apply even if the fields are slightly different.

[timber wharf]

havent seen any usefull vrc constraint ones and generic ones are less functional/obsolete

[minor geode]

how it feels trying to find anything vrchat related in video form

[timber wharf]

theres plenty

just vrc constrsints are fairly new

[latent lotus]

it is in fact facing -Y by the way, just checked

[somber sequoia]

honestly I specifically look for not video form

[somber sequoia]

Excellent, that's good

[somber sequoia]

also make sure you have no un-applied transforms

[minor geode]

i much prefer videos it's leagues easier for me to consume knowledge that way

[somber sequoia]

I'm the opposite, I don't want to watch a 20min video for 20 seconds of information

[minor geode]

reading is just confusing because im dyslexic as hell

i cannot read anything with more than one line of text i end up taking more time than if it was just read out to me in a video

[latent lotus]

ok so idk if it makes a difference but we just realized that the feet arent facing backwards, but his entire body EXCEPT his feet are facing backwards

[somber sequoia]

are the feet a separate object?

[latent lotus]

no

[somber sequoia]

then that is very strange

[latent lotus]

this is how he looks when i enforce the tpose

havent moved the camera at all

[marsh inlet]

Follow up to my previous problem, I have a tail puppet set up now, one of my transition parameters isn't working properly. When my parameter TailBlendH is greater than 0, it constantly plays a transition from the Blend Tree to another state, either the idle animation or the unmoving animation. I don't know what else to check that I haven't scrutinized like 5 times over already

[dry phoenix]

I wanna make my own avatar using a base but I want to know how I can make it transparent like this free avatar (I can use the same base, but I wanna have the same type of effect)

The inside of the tummy is like a moving texture but also hollow seeming

[somber sequoia]

Assuming not-quest, since transparency isn't allowed there, probably just alpha transparency for the outer texture and another bit of mesh inside? Or maybe custom shader.

[marsh inlet]

No issues when TailBlendH is less than 0, and no problems at all with TailBlendV. I'm not sure where to look here, every transition condition that should say when "TailBlendH is greater than 0" is seemingly exactly where it should be

[dry phoenix]

Ohhh I see, I see so if its for the quest, is there a way I can make it appear more jelly like without transparency?

[somber sequoia]

can't say I've really thought about that

[dry phoenix]

Ahh I see, hmm maybe in the future thank you for letting me know though! I would of been getting a head ache ❤️

[still thunder]

how do i set up custom viseme controls? and how come it keeps getting stuck on the first viseme, or just not transitioning to the next viseme, but would transition to the silent viseme just fine

[lethal sluice]

anyone know how to set up blendshapes with a proxy contact reciever?

closer the sender is i want the blendshape to be scaling up to 100.

Have the blenshape at zero when nothing is in the reciever

[floral beacon]

How do you turn off Visemes?

[somber sequoia]

you can do it with VRC Avatar Tracking Control, if you want to control it at runtime

[still thunder]

my current parameters

i want it to be snappy from one viseme to another, rather than smooth transitions

[floral beacon]

I'm trying to make an avatar stop mouth movements entirely

[somber sequoia]

Right, at runtime, what I said. But you can also just not configure visemes in the avatar descriptor

[short ferry]

so one of my avatars is now a default robot on pc only. They worked fine before and i made no changes to them since i uploaded them last year. thing is, it doesn't say security check failed so idk what happened.

[chilly ibex]

Could someone walk me through the vrchat importing process?

[somber sequoia]

We have videos for that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSwMz4WcajQ

[chilly ibex]

Tried

[somber sequoia]

Feel free to ask specific questions here.

[valid jetty]

sorry more questions i feel like a nuisance - he is fine in blender, and i have solved the previous issues but now when importing he has no head bone? he has one in blender, fully functional

[somber sequoia]

if it didn't show up automatically, drag the right bone into the slot.

sometimes it can't guess correctly

[valid jetty]

oh perfect thank you it worked

[chilly ibex]

How do I import blender files to unity? I ask because when I export it as fbx file, things go really wrong. It doesn't have the texture, it doesn't have the edits I made, and it probably doesn't have any of the bones and stuff I did too. I can show you what I mean by this more specifically if you'd like.

Before I even continue the youtube tutorial, I need to fix this for obvious reasons lol

[somber sequoia]

it's not going to have the texture, those are separate files you use to build a material in Unity.

[chilly ibex]

OH okay

I'm sure it's obvious I'm new to unity lol

Should it have the edits I made though?

[somber sequoia]

re: the other stuff, make sure you have mesh and armature selected when exporting, they'll be in the file

and set "apply scalings" to "FBX All" in the export window. And uncheck the option about leaf bones under Armature.

[chilly ibex]

I'll try something I just thought of which might have the problem and the thing you just told me to do brb sorry and thank you

@somber sequoia This shows up when I go to build and public

[somber sequoia]

add a VRC Avatar Descriptor to your avatar root. This is covered in that tutorial video.

[chilly ibex]

Manual avatar setup?

[somber sequoia]

?

[chilly ibex]

The video

[somber sequoia]

#avatar-help message

[chilly ibex]

This is avatar help

Yes

I am watching this video

lol

3:14 is manual setup

That's what comes up after it tells me to press build and publish

[somber sequoia]

I admit I've watched this like, once, and not recently, so I have no idea of timestamps or anything

but anyway, you don't have an avatar descriptor, and you need one.

[chilly ibex]

Okay

What is it and how do I do it because I'm not sure it explains it in the video and if it does, I have too little knowledge to identify when it starts talking about it

[somber sequoia]

if you haven't read all the docs on VRChat's website, this is explained here:
https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/creating-your-first-avatar

[chilly ibex]

Gonna read through this again ty

[full harbor]

Might anyone have an idea on why this happens?

[somber sequoia]

what did you do there?

[full harbor]

im currently merging vertices but i only noticed now that it for some reason looks different on object and edit mode

the vertices havent been merged yet on that part though

[somber sequoia]

ah ok yeah. What you have are edge normals not aligned the same. Once you join, you can select all the faces then in the mesh-> normals menu, "reset vectors". This will ruin any custom normals though, so if you use those, beware.

if you have custom normals and want to keep them you can get complicated with data transfer modifiers exchanging edge data between parts. it's tricky.

[buoyant musk]

Hi we're do I go to ask about a custom skin

[somber sequoia]

help on one? maybe here. commissioning one? VRC Traders discord, link is in #1204490664637890580

[buoyant musk]

Thx

[lethal sluice]

Running into an issue. im not sure why, but once the avi goes into playmode, it kinda shifts up a little bit? makes everything float a couple inches off the ground and messes up the avatar viewpoint. Any reason why this may be happening?

may be something to do with this? the avatar height is normal, its not microscopic, however all my recievers and stuff, once attached to the rig for the model, need to be made unnecessarily small. If anyone knows a fix for this, that would be amazing

[arctic ginkgo]

check your avatar's rig configuration

the height of the armature or hip transform may be in the wrong position

[lethal sluice]

what should I be looking for?

its quite a simple rig

[arctic ginkgo]

your avatar's feet not touching the ground

the same issue that is present in play mode

[lethal sluice]

ahhh

So i should just move it down and apply it?

[arctic ginkgo]

yes, or click "pose">"reset"

[lethal sluice]

yeah that fixed it, ty. Any way to fix the tiny scale on the bones? its not gamebreaking, just annoying to type all the zeros

[arctic ginkgo]

i'm not really sure what you mean

[full harbor]

oh all right. Thanks!

[lethal sluice]

like, every avatar I have ever used besides my own personal models, dont require recivers and colliders to be this tiny

must be exporting it wrong

its the same for phys bone colliders

have to make them tiny

[arctic ginkgo]

ohh yes, this is because your export settings have the scalings set to "All Local". Try setting it to "FBX All"

not on this avatar though

just in the future

unless you want to re-do your unity setup

since it will break the model and make it look all distorted and stretched

[lethal sluice]

ahhh i see

yeah cant be bothered to do that and it isnt broken

thanks for the information, legend!

[potent scarab]

I'm trying to add headpats to my avi. I have it all set up with a gameobject that gets toggled on and off via parameter, etc.

The one issue is that at runtime, although the animation starts playing in the AnimationController when the parameter is set, the actual gameobject doesn't get toggled. I also can't toggle it directly via the inspector. It seems something is forcing the gameobject off. Does that make sense?

Finally figured it out (of course, only after I post asking for help haha)

I needed to set the Hearts layer weight to 1

[still thunder]

im having an issue activating an animation with a bool controlled by grabbing a physbone, only the first frame of the animation is playing and not the rest of the animation

[timber wharf]

on transition back to idle set exit time 1

[still thunder]

nevermind, my issue is that i had "can transition to self" turned on

it was transitioning from the any state and into the animation over and over

[prisma parrot]

can anyone tell me why this is happening?

[junior void]

Depends entirely on how its set up

[glass geyser]

how do I add a toggable seat to my avatar I tried following a video it didn't work

[sick loom]

Pretty sure if you just disable the gameobject the seat is attached to then the seat will cease to exist

[glass geyser]

yeah but I want to be able to turn it on and off

[brave rock]

is there a way to change the idle hand gesture animation? and if so how?! ^_^

[ornate stump]

You have to customize gesture layer(or so called "hands layer") to switch out the motion in idle state.

[glass geyser]

I just want to use the quick launcher to test my avatar with myself on the same system but it doesn't even have the local option and just tries to open multiple games.

[sick loom]

is the problem that you don’t know how to get a toggle?

[glass geyser]

not necessarily, all the tutorials I find are outdated and apparently don't work how they're supposed to. I followed this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvlSJjfDgIc

and everything works except in gesture manager when I use the toggle, I don't see anything changing

[sick loom]

everything is named correctly?

[glass geyser]

yes.

[humble mulch]

Hello! are there any tutorials for audiolink using liltoon? I can't find any 😭

[glass geyser]

does anyone know why the local option in instance info of vrc quick launcher isn't showing? it was there before but now it isn't I need it so I can test my avatar with myself.

[ornate stump]

Local as for testing local world?

[sweet crypt]

i may be dumb asking this but can i use Modular avatar to set up the outfit then use VRCFury to link clothing or do i need to use armture link and blendshapelink

[timber wharf]

@glass geyser for chair to work it should be on by default. ie its active in hierarchy, then on start animator hides it, unhides on toggle

tho it shouldnt affect unity testing, only breaks in game itself

[glass geyser]

alright well maybe I was judging to early cause it was enabled as I built it, but it just didn't show the outline in gesture manager so I'm assuming despite that, it'll work in game?

[timber wharf]

you can just look at object's state in hierarchy🤷‍♂️

during testing

[glass geyser]

yeah, idk what happened, the game was outdated on that pc cause it's my secondary one so after updating it, and launched the quick launcher it was gone. but I learned I can create a new world project and build and test there with 2 instances and that will allow me to have a copy of myself in the same instance

[glass geyser]

I didn't know that, then.

[mortal cape]

can someone help me idk how to add gogoloco and i dk how to change the rig type cos its not a button its staying as non-humaniod

iv downloaded goloco

[somber sequoia]

use VRCFury for Gogo Loco, it's easy.

for rig type, find your model file in the Project window (usually at the bottom), click it, go in the Inspector and find the Rig tab. There'll be a dropdown to change type there.

(this part is also detailed in most of the basic avatar setup video tutorials)

[desert elk]

click your fbx in the assets, go to rig and set it as humanoid

[desert elk]

not right click

left click, normally

so it opens the inspector

[mortal cape]

ooh

its not doin it

[desert elk]

here, maybe this will help

instead of configure, you need to select humanoid from the drop-down

[mortal cape]

do i have to start all over again ?

[desert elk]

No?

You need to do what we're saying

set the animation type inside of the rig menu as humanoid

i sent a screenshot hoping it'd help you find the option

[mortal cape]

it wasnt there i gotta start again but thank youu

[desert elk]

That's not a thing

it needs to be there

[mortal cape]

?

[desert elk]

"it wasnt there"

[valid jetty]

hihi!!! friend and i finally got the avatar working nearly perfect, (thank u guys for ur help!!!) but i was wondering - he has four fingers on his right hand, how can i make it move more naturally? it looks kinda goofy cuz it auto-mapped his thumb to my pointer finger 😭

[desert elk]

if you mean the rig menu, it needs to be there, unless you're not clicking the fbx

[desert elk]

you can go to rig > configure and remap the fingers

[valid jetty]

thank you!!!

[placid mica]

How can I make a contact that switches a material once activated?
Ex: I want to make a cheek kiss contact that will swap the material once someones face gets close

[somber sequoia]

just like any other material swap toggle, but the contact receiver is what enables the variable

[near shuttle]

Potentially dumb question - I'm working on an avatar that has a substance painter file, but the export settings aren't preset - That is to say, the project's default metallic map contains a glossiness map in black and white on the alpha layer, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to export the file from substance painter to have a metallic map that has that same configuration. Any ideas?

I've made modifications to the roughness layer and want that reflected in the exported map.

[somber sequoia]

You edit the export preset, or pick one that is already setup to do exactly what you want.

it's pretty easy to reconfigure those.

[near shuttle]

I tried, but when importing the texture into VRchat it had no alpha layer. I guess I'm just confused

Into unity sorry

i did have it save as a PNG

[somber sequoia]

If you show the export preset you are using, that might help

[near shuttle]

Ah, sure. One moment

I modified a unity preset and made a copy hoping that would do it, but I think I'm doing something wrong.

[somber sequoia]

Ok so the metallic one you probably only want to have metallic on the R channel

if that's the one we're talking about here. Then of course drag the other channel onto A

[near shuttle]

Ah, gotcha. Actually one moment, let me show you the texture and the part that's confusing me, it may show you what I mean

So it appears pure black until I chekc the alpha layer

And the material is set up like this

That's the default one on the project

[somber sequoia]

as an aside, you almost certainly do NOT need this to be even 2k 🙂

[drowsy crane]

I keep getting "There are no VRC_AvatarDescriptors in your scene, Try adding one to your avatar before entering" I don't know how to fix this problem (im new to this)

[silent holly]

Hey! I know little about 3D modeling, but really want to begin making vr chat models. YouTube tutorials are all either outdated or too fast paced, so I was wondering if I could have someone 1 on 1 me?

If you’d like, I can pay you for your time! I know that sounds fishy but I’m being genuine haha 😭

I’m a 2D animator and artist, and know some stuff about modeling but not much. Please lmk!

Sorry this is so random 😭

[somber sequoia]

Add a VRC Avatar Descriptor to the root of your avatar. Most tutorial videos will cover this.

[silent holly]

I plan to use blender and such :>

[near shuttle]

So you see where it says "Metallic alpha" and the only black and white detail on the texture shows when I look at the alpha channel. So what I'm trying to figure out is how to export it exactly like that

[drowsy crane]

any video recommendations?

[somber sequoia]

Youtube creators "Sipp's Avatar Box" and PxINKY and FuuujinVRC have a lot of great tutorials.

[somber sequoia]

Right, if you put the glossiness channel into 'A' in that export preset, and metallic into 'R', ignoring the others, it ought to work.

[near shuttle]

Ahhh. I will try that, thank you

I really appreciate the prompt answer, I got maybe a half hour before work and thought I'd have to wait days to get an answer on the creator's (not very active) discord lol

[somber sequoia]

You can always export them as independent greyscale images then combine them with a tool afterwards, such as Thry's texture packer or even ImageMagick.

[drowsy crane]

thanks

[near shuttle]

It worked! You're a miracle worker.

[placid mica]

I keep gettin these errors when trying to animate a material swap

I know a lot of people use this as a base. Maybe this will help if you dont wanna make it from scratch
https://hfcred.gumroad.com/l/Among-Us-Follower

[somber sequoia]

ah that was the thing I was going to link also

[placid mica]

Any ideas?

[somber sequoia]

never seen that one before

[placid mica]

It happens just when trying to animate a mat swap like normal. It wont let me place the material on the avatar

I made the first animation with no issue, but now I can't make one to turn it OFF.

[placid mica]

Could this have anything to do with it?

[void elbow]

does anyone know how to make eyes work in a low poly avatar?

because for some reason the pupils just dissapear

[night ember]

well how did you make the pupils

[void elbow]

i didnt make the avatar so idk

[night ember]

whered you get it

[void elbow]

i ordered it from a guy on twitter

[night ember]

should probably ask him then

[void elbow]

i will try ig

that is if he will respond

[somber sequoia]

possibly there's a gloss layer of mesh over the regular eye mesh, which you'd have to make transparent or remove. I kinda wish people wouldn't do this.

[void elbow]

that might be the issue becouse i can play around with the eyes in unity by simply rotating the eye bone

and it works there

i found the issue
the 0.0.0 eye rotation is way out of the eye sockets

the normal eye rotation turs out to be 3.409005,67.5933,81.02155

alltho the new issue is that now both eyes are in one socket

figured it out

[primal spruce]

How does Exclusive Tags work?

what do i put in here?

[ornate stump]

https://vrcfury.com/components/toggle/#exclusive-tags

[ashen meadow]

When I import any mesh to the blend project and move it around it always moves the whole thing??? Help

[placid mica]

I made a video to help explain the issue I'm having, because I feel its easier to understand than trying to type it out.
I need help on figuring out how to make the proximity override the toggle no matter what. Please help!

Sorry for the crunchy mic, I have a fan blowing on me so my noise suppression is working overtime. Lol

[primal spruce]

I checked that out, but i still dont understand

stil ldoesnt work

[soft aurora]

i keep getting this error everytime i upload an avatar

could this be the issue?

[glossy copper]

I'm adding emotes to an avatar, I've made a good handful enough for gestures but for some reason they break visemes.

I have an example animation from another avatar that's compatible and I've added it and it doesn't break them for some reason, so I'm trying to figure out what is causing my new animations to break but these ready-made ones to work just fine?

Where would I begin to diagnose this issue?

.Anims were corrupted fsr!

[soft aurora]

tried updating, still errors, ive tried many different unity projects with no avail

[glossy copper]

Have you tried restarting unity? If not, first try reimporting your shaders.

[soft aurora]

ive restarted yes, also im a bit new, how do you reimport shaders?

[glossy copper]

are you using the creator companion or a raw unity package?

[soft aurora]

cc

[glossy copper]

Gimme a second to open vcc rq

[soft aurora]

also keeps saying loaded data for an avatar i dont own?

[glossy copper]

Oohh

Okay no, go to the avatar, find this field

click the detach button at the bottom

[soft aurora]

it already is

[glossy copper]

are there any missing scripts on your avatar?

Otherwise to reinsall shaders, go to the vcc, find the shader package, hit the minus button, go back into unity once it's done uninstalling and hit ctrl+r, then go back into vcc and reinstall by hitting the +

[soft aurora]

no? i have just imported the model(s), its textures, and gogo, then done toggles with vrcfury

ill show the avata and its assets rq

[glossy copper]

Well, try the shader thing unless that just uses the standard unity shader.

If you haven't restarted unity I'd do that b/c it can be finnicky sometimes.

[soft aurora]

Its using mobile diff

[glossy copper]

also: no, it shouldn't unless it becomes a requirement.

devs will let you know if that's the case

[soft aurora]

ok, i updated in case anyways

ill reimport shaders

[worn jay]

Hey does anyone know why when I go to the sdk and look at the content manager I cant see my uploaded avatars? When I hit fetch nothing happens

[soft aurora]

another issue, i dont see shaders srry

[glossy copper]

Textures won't appear here, shaders are a different thing.

also you won't for the mobile shader, it's a unity default

[glossy copper]

If you go to it and already see your uploaded avatars, then hit fetch, nothing will happen unless you upload a new avatar or change something about an avatar, like their name, tags, thumbnail

[soft aurora]

heres the error log for the avatar validation if it helps

[glossy copper]

TY!

[worn jay]

I dont see my avatars though. I know i have them as i was using them last night and i wanted to remove one

and nothing is showing up

[glossy copper]

Check on the website itself, servers might just be being funky.

[desert elk]

did you try clicking "fetch'?

[soft aurora]

new errors i didnt see??

[glossy copper]

Okay, click on your avatar and their mesh

[soft aurora]

the model doesnt have eyes, jaw, or fingers

[glossy copper]

the mesh just needs to have its limbs and stuff paired up properly that's an easy fix

[soft aurora]

and it has toes

[glossy copper]

you still need to set where those would be

[soft aurora]

i have

but also

[glossy copper]

you don't need to set each individual finger iirc

I have an avatar that doesn't and it uploads fine

[desert elk]

The config looks like, is the hierarchy correct?

[soft aurora]

so just set to any?

[desert elk]

They can be empty

[desert elk]

that's a bit messy

probably why you're getting errors

[soft aurora]

man, back to blender i assume?

[desert elk]

you have way too many spines

yeah

[soft aurora]

this is gonna suck, alright

ill go edit thanks

[desert elk]

this is what a hierarchy should look like

[soft aurora]

for me i just leave their respective names so it all works out

only had to change hips name

[desert elk]

names don't matter

the order/parenting and config matters

[soft aurora]

Assuming i have to just get rid of one spine right?

[desert elk]

you have 14 (15 with hips) pelvis and spine bones

that's way too much

[soft aurora]

i did this with the spine

[desert elk]

you should check pinned messages in #avatar-rigging to see what a vrchat rig should look like

[soft aurora]

removed one bone and enlarged the rest

see, i wanna use rigify, but i like the normal rig

it fits good

[desert elk]

your rig needs to fit the vrchat requirements if you want it to play the animations

[soft aurora]

yeah

does this look better?

[desert elk]

plus remember to untick the leafbones when exporting from blender, you don't need them

[desert elk]

i don't even know what I'm looking at here

[soft aurora]

these 3

here

[soft aurora]

so do i have to use rigify then?

[desert elk]

okay, this isn't that bad, except the hip area is still messy

[soft aurora]

wait, this is hips apparently?

[desert elk]

what are these for?

[primal spruce]

anybody know what to do ?

[desert elk]

i have never used it in my life, i do not know how it works

[soft aurora]

pelvis

[desert elk]

okay

why?

what do they do in vrchat?

vrchat doesn't use those bones

[soft aurora]

ill delete em

[soft aurora]

bottom one is hips, spine, then upper chest

[desert elk]

it def looks better

[soft aurora]

thats what i got

[desert elk]

just map the upper chest to chest in unity and it should be good

[soft aurora]

ok!

[desert elk]

why do you have 3 head bones?

[soft aurora]

apparently there are called spines 4 and 5?

ill delete and rearange