avatar-help

[ocean stag]

posting this again here because it seems like it would fit this channell too. original: #avatar-rigging message

alright so i just got 6x slimes for fbt and i turned on lock head and hips because otherwise my camera is in my neck. now how tf do i orient these bones to not make my avi a hunchback or have it's chest poking out or laying down on a slant? ive been experimenting for a while and every time i fix one of these issue another one comes up. whats the secret combo for good fbt? can someone draw me a picture pls? that would actually be super helpful. here's what i got right now:

[fathom current]

How do I make a non humanoid avatar I’m working on a uploading a model of scp 939 but none of the animations work after I port it from blender in blender they work perfectly

[sick loom]

how does the rig look?

[white moth]

Does anyone know how to fix this?

[desert elk]

reparent your bones properly in blender, it's hard to tell from this screenshot what should be where because of the naming

[hidden knot]

anyone know how to fix it

id like some 1 on 1 to help tackle this because im new to this

[hexed mist]

I am running into an issue i cant seem to fix on my own, I am trying to work on an avatar but cannot for the life of me fix one of the facial expressions that is broken. this is supposed to just be a blush and not a pink bar across the face what am i doing wrong? I am still pretty new to Unity but i am learning.

Nevermind i figured it out, I was using an outdated version of poiyomi, once i switched to the newest version i was able to adjust the alpha cutoff and fixed it.

[fallow grail]

something with the mayu im trying to make for a friend

[hidden knot]

I thought it was full blush

[umbral oriole]

can you send a screenshot of the of the descripto lip sync section

[umbral oriole]

your avi being hunchback with fbt isnt usually a rigging issue, usually has to do with your tracker placement and posture when calibrating fbt

[umbral oriole]

go configure the bones on the fbx and make sure they are set correctly

[umbral oriole]

reimport gogo loco then check the base avata params and remove any gogo loco parameters that are there if they are

[whole lark]

what is going on here

(i have intentionally moved the head)

but something seems to be stuck and im not sure how to fix it

[junior void]

looks like severely messed up weight painting

[whole lark]

okay thanks

thought maybe that was it

[umbral oriole]

yeah and salso looks like an eror with the neck bone but maybe just cause yu moved the head

[whole lark]

yeah

[umbral oriole]

but damn eldritch horror

[whole lark]

neck bone was fine otherwise

LMAO

[umbral oriole]

when you go weightpaint it

make sure to do it in wirefrane easier to catch spots that you miss

[whole lark]

ty for the tip :3

(i've never weight painted before, lets ball)

[umbral oriole]

You got this 👍
(you are in for pain and suffering beyond comprehension)

[whole lark]

i have successfully done it (i think)

didn't seem all that messed up at least

[umbral oriole]

sick hell yeahhh

glad its coming out well

[tidal void]

Can someone try and explain to me how this animation is done? I can open/close the eyelids slowly by slowly pressing/letting go of the grabbing trigger.

https://streamable.com/3im2s9

I know how to make a simple blendtree that ranges between "Blendshape > Blink 0" and "Blendshape > Blink 100", but how do you link that to the amount of pressure you put on the trigger itself?

Trying to replicate it on an avatar of mine, hence the questions, of course

[umbral oriole]

very interesting

never seen that before

[west maple]

can someone help me with an isssue? everytime i try to upload a avatar it says it needs to remove the avatar descriptor and pipeline managaer, which you need that to upload. ive tried uninstalling unity, and tried using diffrent sdk's because i use vrchats sdk. ive never had this issue where i just cant upload my avatar, i cant upload even regular avatars.
regular as in the provided robot avatar.

[junior void]

Like so

Use the vrc default added parameter GestureLeftWeight or GestureRightWeight

This is my FX layer in case you need to see that too

[umbral oriole]

omg i completey forgopt about thse cause litertally no avatar i had ever used them lol even if i saw it in th fx

[still shuttle]

They are usually just used for face expressions or stuff that toggles when you do a certain hand gesture. They're pretty handy for a few things

[tidal void]

Huh, these exist by default like that? Are there any more of these default parameters I can find anywhere?

And thank you so much for the illustrative help ❤️

Nvm found them

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/animator-parameters/#built-in-parameters

[junior void]

https://vrc.school/docs/Avatars/VRC-Parameters/

perhaps a easier to understand site

[tidal void]

By the way, how do you add tags like those to layer states?

Indicating (Blend Tree) in blue and such

[junior void]

https://mcardellje.gumroad.com/l/macs

Very handy as creator

I wouldnt have gotten it though if only i made an avi for myself

[whole lark]

Is it possible to edit an avatar after it is already uploaded? Like if i wanted to add an animation or something something that ive already uploaded

[junior void]

After every change you make, you need to upload your avi again in order to get the change ingame

Not a problem

[tidal void]

Is Unity drunk?

[junior void]

Is it in your layers' parameters?

[umbral oriole]

you can still modify it in unity as long as the blueprint ID is the same it will overide the previously uploaded one

[tidal void]

Oh

[whole lark]

Ooo nice. Where would i get the blueprint id of the currently uploaded one

Or is that done automatically

[umbral oriole]

-as long as its the same one you uploaded the bleuprint id is the same

[junior void]

During the first upload, a random id is generated

It wont change unless you touch it

[whole lark]

I see. Very nicee

[umbral oriole]

but if its a new scene or new project then you can find the blueprint id in the sdk panel and going to your uploaded avatars copy the ID and paste it in the blueprint ID section of the avatar descriprtor

[whole lark]

Thank yall for all the help :]]

[umbral oriole]

ofcourse keeep up the good work bro

[tidal void]

Thank you, works flawlessly ❤️ > https://streamable.com/t25rf7

[junior void]

👍

[umbral oriole]

hell yeah

[trail quartz]

Hi, does anyone know if avatar paramater drivers are able to add 2 paramaters together? it only seems to be able to add a fixed value onto a paramater

[junior void]

sounds like youre trying to drive two parameters at the same time. how about we start with getting to know what it is youre looking to achieve

[umbral oriole]

do you mean activate 2 parameters at the same time or? can you please explain in greater detail;

[tidal void]

Can I make a Expressions Menu toggle that swaps one animation with another on a certain Animator layer state?

In short, I'd like to enable a toggle and have it swap my Idle animation for a different one. Not sure if this is doable the way I said it

[junior void]

I dont see why not

Maybe not in the same exact layer, but you could duplicate a layer, say for your hands and add another boolean as a condition

[junior void]

What i mean is for example twice this. See how the second condition is facial expressions disabled? Thats because of my face tracking.

If face tracking, play x, if not face tracking, dont play (but play the same thing on another layer)

[tidal void]

Oh, I see. Wonderful, thanks!

On a side note, do you happen to know if it's possible to detect whether you have enabled hand tracking or not in any way? I'd love to make it so that my facial gestures disable themselves whenever I go into hand tracking, but I'm unsure if that's feasible.

Mainly because gesturing with your fingers will still produce facial animations the same way as if you were using controllers, and looks a bit off. I have a toggle for it, but being able to automate it would be much nicer

[junior void]

i dont think theres a sufficient parameter for that

[rotund solstice]

I think one of the outfits have automatic body changes once it's on. Could that have anything to do with it?

[indigo pendant]

Hi, I need some help with my avatar. How do I hide the pants so the impostor doesn't have them?

[trail quartz]

no i mean add 2 paramaters together

with avatar paramater driver

[vivid birch]

[Status: Fixed, Reason: Modular Avatar component]
Hello im reaching out because my BlendShapes are clamped (stuck at 0).

The Skinned Mesh Renderer Component reads: "note that blendshape weight range is clamped this can be disabled in player settings."
I dont know what or where the player settings are. Does anybody mind explaining it to me?

[timber wharf]

theyre clamped by devs to 0-1 range

[junior void]

i assume you mean in play mode

[vivid birch]

nope

[timber wharf]

if theyre stuck at 0 in playmode, then theyre animated by a controller. if theyre at 0 outside of it, ???

[vivid birch]

im not in play mode and they used to work normally from 0-100

[vivid birch]

thats why im asking here
they are stuck outside of playmode

[vivid birch]

Yesterday I made the avatar and uploaded it
Today I opened the project and cant move them anymore

[trail quartz]

i believe the imposter is based off of what it looks like on upload (like the avatar preview), so disabling them then uploading it and regenerating the imposter might do it. you might then be able to reupload the avatar if you want the preview to have them on

[indigo pendant]

thanks

[trail quartz]

you you have an animator on the avatar?

[vivid birch]

yes

[trail quartz]

if you delete the animator controller in the animator section does that fix it ?

[vivid birch]

let me try

[vivid birch]

does nothing

[trail quartz]

is your avatar in an A / T pose, or is it sitting down

[vivid birch]

normal T pose

I did unpack the prefab maybe it has something to do with that

[trail quartz]

is this while animating or in general when you can't move the blendshapes?

[vivid birch]

general

[trail quartz]

is there multiple meshes on the avatar? are you making sure to select the right mesh to change the blendshape(s)?

[vivid birch]

because the outfit is acting up, the blendshapes on the body work normally

[vivid birch]

yes and yes

[trail quartz]

that should be fine but i do know unpacking can mess with the avatar

[vivid birch]

let me try getting a fresh prefab

works on the new one
but setting it up again is a little annoying

[trail quartz]

pumpkin tools can help a little with that

[vivid birch]

Im not sure if it can with this

But it should be fine
the specific part I need to work right now is not that much work to set up again

[trail quartz]

it can copy contents of one avatar onto another

[vivid birch]

I have heard of the tool

never used it before tho

once I put the outfit under the model the blendshapes clamp

if I change the blendshapes outside of the model and drag the outfit under it again they jump back to zero

I think it has something to do with modular avatar

Found it!

[umbral oriole]

hello does anyone have any advice for this?
when i ad the arnmature modifier after weightpainting it does this
the weight painbt looks fine so im not sure whats causing this
added context
i had to pose the avatars armature in this position to make things easier
i set it as rest pose with cats
did i make a mistake somewhere any advice pls

[umbral oriole]

im not sure what thats supposed to mean can youy explain?

[junior void]

Try applying the armature modifier, then add a new one

[umbral oriole]

add a new one?

what do you mean?

[junior void]

a new armature modifier

[umbral oriole]

so i apply the first one then do a second armature modifier?

[junior void]

an applied armature modifier will be gone, not red

[umbral oriole]

umm

[junior void]

whys there a broken one

[umbral oriole]

oh thats what you mean

yeahhh im still lost when i apply it there is no change

still ends up like this

[junior void]

did you pose the armour before

[umbral oriole]

yes i posed it then romoved the armature

[junior void]

its about rest pose. a posed mesh will go into its original rest position if you just exchange things without applying a new rest pose

[umbral oriole]

i did apply a new rest pose to the armour

the exact same pose as the main avatar

[junior void]

id have to actually see this in that case

[umbral oriole]

i can share screen in a call?

[junior void]

probably easy fix but im also working here rn so i cant be typing out every scenario lol

[umbral oriole]

i feel you

[quiet cairn]

Does anyone know what is going on with Unity 2022? I have been using first bloodborn sdk to upload my model. Failed. Then i used the new VRCSDK, failed again. Then i made a whole new file of unity with just the VRCDK new one i just downloaded and the model i paid for. and i get this.

Also that same issue is happening with another model i am doing as commision.

[hard turtle]

hey yall how would ya achieve a distortion affect for plain images with poyomi im trying to use the dissolve feature but it appears as tho my brain has malfunctioned.

[celest bane]

Did you manage to fix this? Have the same issue here

Did you manage to fix this at all?

[somber sequoia]

You can turn on and off layers by setting their weights with VRC Animator Layer Control, but probably it's easier to just build your logic into a single layer.

[hard turtle]

im trying to make the borders of it distort

[somber sequoia]

you can put (nearly) whatever shader you want onto particles, and do lots of things in the shader, hue shifting, vertex displacement with noise, flipbooks, etc.

[hard turtle]

is that to me? cause im not trying to do that to the particles i want the actual image to have a scrolling dissolve but my brain cant remember how to do it for the life of me

[somber sequoia]

ohh I see

got an example of this?

[hard turtle]

ok so in the actual game when you go to the end the boarders of this ring are like burning im trying to achieve that i have my particles done im just having a sieizure trying to remember how to make images have a sort of burning distort effect

also my backface culling isnt working for some reason using poyomi-

i think ive got it

i just gotta make an idle animation for how i want it to burng

[arctic ginkgo]

poiyomi has a dissolve feature if that's what you're asking

i've never used it on particles though so i'm not sure if it works on them

[hard turtle]

yes im just trying to wrap my head around how u make a scrolling dissolve

[somber sequoia]

yeah - I'm thinking Poi's dissolve and the "continuous dissolve speed" parameter might work

I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'scrolling' here

[arctic ginkgo]

you could animate the texture offset of the dissolve noise?

[somber sequoia]

yep

I was kinda assuming that's what 'scrolling' meant here

[hard turtle]

yeh im trying to do this but it just isnt behaving how i expect it too and thus my brain is malfunctioning

[somber sequoia]

oof

[hard turtle]

also backface culling isnt workin?

the backside stil dissapears TwT

[arctic ginkgo]

did you check your render settings?

[hard turtle]

oml

ty

[somber sequoia]

Yeah backface culling is at the very bottom

[trail quartz]

don't think youd be able to help if you dont know lol

[proper turtle]

Yeah so I think my laptop can't run Unity

I left it to install for 4 hours

Nothing

I need someone to upload it for me ig

[junior void]

you shouldnt say that here, scammers will dm you

[desert elk]

yup

a lot of scammers

never give people the password to your account

[quiet cairn]

Does anyone know this issue?

[junior void]

Gotta see the topmost error

[spark walrus]

Bloodborne is a modded SDK. You won't get much help here if you do stuff like that.

[opal carbon]

Any tips on how to make clothes??

[junior void]

depends what clothes

[mystic tinsel]

does anyone remember the name of the running animation? it's not the default, it's when you lean foward and run like a raptor, i've seen several avatars do that

[spark walrus]

I assume the automatic body changes are done in the FX layer? Then it has an anim that modifies the same values you are tryin to modify. Even if it doesn't change them, it might have an animation that animates them to 0. Then yes. If turning the layers to 0 won't work, you can duplicate the FX layer, start deleting things until you narrow down the problem area.

[arctic ginkgo]

naruto run?

https://tenor.com/view/naruto-seishun-kyousoukyoku-naruto-run-run-neji-gif-22614495

embed fail 😭

forgot i can't send gifs

[spark walrus]

https://www.reddit.com/r/VRchat/comments/87fhwz/meta_big_animation_pack_363_files/
in here, there's one where you run like a dog. You can search for animations in vrcmods.com, might be there?

[arctic ginkgo]

here are two animations

First is naruto/raptor run and 2nd is run on all fours/dog run

[primal wind]

Does anybody know how to fix these errors?

[somber sequoia]

you did logout and in again, right?

[primal wind]

I’m posting this to see why somebody’s upload failed on my avatar, as it’s client side

[rotund solstice]

So the clothing itself has the ”modular avatar blendshape” thingy which forces the model’s body to activate all the necessary blendshapes to not have any clipping.
I just had to remove it completely and instead add them into the toggle animation instead.

[somber sequoia]

Still, I assume you did as it said. After that, if you're using windows, perhaps it's the ipv6 issue people have been having

try turning that off

[primal wind]

Thank you! I’ll let them know

[hard turtle]

is there a way to animate alpha cut off with poyomi?

[junior void]

isnt every property good to be animated in poi

[hard turtle]

wait

They are?

i thought

Huh

[junior void]

why not

[somber sequoia]

and make sure you right click the property and check "animated when locked"

[unique knoll]

Anyone know why my VRC SDK is just completely broken at the moment? Won't let me upload nor enter any details for avatars. I've tried reinstalling unity and VRC Creator companion but nothing changed, also tried making a new unity project and still nothing.

(Btw pressing build and publish does not work)

[somber sequoia]

by "does not work" what exactly do you mean?

[unique knoll]

Nothing works, like at all. won't let me upload or switch to different avatars, all that works is swapping to the content manager or settings tab

tried this aswell but still nothing

[arctic ginkgo]

have you tried closing the project and reopening?

that usually works for me

[unique knoll]

multiple times

like at least 20 times now

[arctic ginkgo]

it may also be a network issue

[somber sequoia]

right but I mean when you push the build and test button, what happens, nothing at all? no messages in the console at all?

[arctic ginkgo]

check your console, see if you have any errors

[unique knoll]

it was fine two days ago

[unique knoll]

build and test works fine

[somber sequoia]

sorry I meant "build and publish"

[arctic ginkgo]

network issues usually show up and disappear faster than that in my experience

[unique knoll]

Nope nothing

[somber sequoia]

huh

[unique knoll]

wait nvm

whatever that means

[somber sequoia]

Yep, you have to click that

[unique knoll]

the SDK is really bugging out

[unique knoll]

Tried that, the stuff at the top is still greyed out

also this pops up also

never done this before and I've been making avatars for like 2 years

[somber sequoia]

this ^ is a newish step

possibly you also have the networking issues that disabling ipv6 might help with

[unique knoll]

This is still all greyed out though so idk if that would change anything

[somber sequoia]

I suspect so, based on other people's reports on this

[unique knoll]

Only started happening yesterday though, day before I was completely fine

[lilac musk]

Anyone else go to use the multiplatform upload system and it uploads to the various platforms, but then starts over, uploading again?

[arctic ginkgo]

yes this is a known bug

[mystic tinsel]

i'll take the first one, awesome, so, where do i put this in locomotion?

[arctic ginkgo]

depends if you want it to be your default animation or an emote

[mystic tinsel]

default animation

[arctic ginkgo]

but there are plenty of youtube tutorials on how to add or replace these animations

[mystic tinsel]

i tried that, but the avatar i wanted to use has no custom locomotion, just default locomotion, or does it not mater?

[arctic ginkgo]

then you can use the default locomotion layer in the samples folder

[mystic tinsel]

i assume i change the proxy_run_forward?

[spark walrus]

Better to duplicate it edit that one. Yes but rename it, can't start with proxy_. Fake dummy file to save space, it gets replaced in-game with the real one.

[twilit crater]

i love you

[spark walrus]

I know

[amber gull]

can someone please tell me why the metal looks like this?

i use poiyomi

it should be like this

[glad thunder]

Anyone have any videos on how to add colliders so like hair/ skirt with physbones dont clip through the body?

[desert elk]

try setting limits first

[long shale]

Hello can I ask some one to help me with a model

[somber sequoia]

yep, feel free to just ask right here

[long shale]

Its my first time doing this so i'm out of my depth

I'm trying to import a zzz model but it's ended up like this

all i did was import it to blender then move the .blend file to unity

it was textured in blender

[somber sequoia]

it's better to export a .fbx instead of that. In the export dialog, set "apply scalings" to FBX All and under "armature", turn off leaf bones.
Also make sure you aren't exporting cameras or lights, just armature + mesh

Texutres won't automatically show up, you'll need to import the texture files into Unity and make materials with them.

[long shale]

okay

[glad thunder]

setting limits?

[long shale]

How do i select both?

[somber sequoia]

shift I think? I forget offhand.

[long shale]

Yep that worked

Should it look the same when I import it

[somber sequoia]

I definitely don't know your model, but probably the mesh looks the same either way.

[long shale]

It was a Wise MMD

[somber sequoia]

I don't know what that is, but it doesn't really matter either way.

[long shale]

Also the mapping looks like this

[somber sequoia]

heh, kinda hard to read

[long shale]

yeah

[somber sequoia]

I'd probably translate and rename them in Blender

well lots you probably won't need to translate, they'd be pretty obvious

[limber hedge]

lmao tf??

anyways I came here to ask some questions. I have this p2u model that has really unoptimized topology, so I optimized it in blender and exported it, but it turns invisible when it reloads in unity. It works if I drag and drop the model into the scene, but not when updated on the original avatar. I really don't wanna redo all the toggles and stuff.

The armature and bounding box shows up, but not the mesh. And lastly here's if I drag and drop it into the scene

I managed to fix it. Prefab disconnected issue

[umbral oriole]

working on converting a model from sketch fab into a vrc avatar
gettng hooked up at the hand bones

any advice?

[somber sequoia]

show the hand bone page in the rig setup? it might be you have the bones in the wrong places

[somber sequoia]

ugh, those names suck 🙂

you could try to enforce t-pose, it may just be annoyed at that. You clipped the error message from the pic so I'm guessing

[umbral oriole]

thanks for the advice

your righht they werent set up properly

[somber sequoia]

oh good, I like when it's simple

[quasi folio]

I plead

[spark walrus]

Looks like you're on desktop mode but not your friend. It could be their own settings if they setup stuff wrong, like wrong IRL height. It might not even be broken, looks like they're slouching in a chair. Probably not close enough to the ground for the Grounded param to trigger, which would trigger a sit pose. Without fbt, the avatar naturally crosses its legs when sitting while being high up. You should add something like GoGoLoco to give them poses, is what I'm guessing.

[young bear]

why am I getting this artifacting on this hammer I modeled? It's got SOMETHING to do with the UV's, but I've got no clue how it's breaking like this. There's nowhere I can see on the UVs that has any significant overlap that would cause issues i've seen like this before (with mipmapping)

[nocturne shell]

Anyone telling me why the avatar can't be saved or downloaded ?
It's a downloaded avatar, requiring Poiyomi 9.1.25

I don't know why it does that

[young bear]

on further testing, it seems to be an issue specifically with toon standard's specular. This is the same hammer with none of the maps enabled, but with metallic set to 100%

this does not happen with standard lite

[hard turtle]

how would yall achieve a burning effect on a png using a shader?

[nimble bloom]

Anyone available for a quick walk-through on how to properly add this asset to my avatar? I can't seem to wrap my head around it, I bought Kitsune Tails from ThiccWitch and can't seem to get the radial wheel to work.

[wicked charm]

i cannot see vrchat sdk i already installed it

[glossy copper]

anyone know how to resolve this? I already reimported shaders, restarted unity, did all the bare fixes.

[glossy copper]

you're not on the right version of unity, you should be using 2022.3.22f1

https://unity.com/releases/editor/whats-new/2022.3.22

[wicked charm]

but i downloaded it form VCC and same one as this one i guess

[glossy copper]

Weird

try launching the project from inside of unity hub and ensuring it's the correct version

[wicked charm]

i'll try

[olive yoke]

what causes this and how do i fix it

[olive yoke]

are there any errors in console? also do you have both the base sdk and avatar or world

[wicked charm]

i dont know what that is at all

i installed sdk base and the other sdk and opened new project

and whatever i see the top tap i dont see vrchat sdk

the unity works fine but without vrchat sdk

the only thing i didnt try is reinstalling vcc

[surreal salmon]

are there any shaders that are quest compatible capable of creating an outline

[olive yoke]

VRChat has one in SDK 3.8.1+

[surreal salmon]

ooh whats it called

[olive yoke]

VRChat/Mobile/Toon Standard (outline)

[olive yoke]

check console then

[wicked charm]

vcc console ? in settings ?

[olive yoke]

The video here @wicked charm

[narrow sorrel]

Hi guys! I’ve never uploaded a VR chat avatar before and I just downloaded one off of payhip and I’m on mobile. I have no access to a computer. Is there anyway I can upload it?

[wicked charm]

ahhh wait ill see

[wicked charm]

appearntly no error

[olive yoke]

See if the creator has a discord server and create a ticking/dm them asking if they do uploads. Most avatar creators offer uploads for $0-$5. Also almost everyone who sells avatars states that you CANNOT share the files with anyone so please do not do that! :)

[narrow sorrel]

Oh thank you sm !!

[hard turtle]

how would u achieve making a png burn? as if it had like a little burning rim around it

[wicked charm]

seems like i cant even remove sdks from vcc

[olive yoke]

yea vcc dosn't let you remove it

try downgradeing the sdk, tabbing into unity, and the upgradeing and tabbing back in maybe

[olive yoke]

Poiyomi toon or pro shader has a dissolve effect you could use for that

https://www.poiyomi.com/special-fx/dissolve

[wicked charm]

ill try

[wicked charm]

sadly still the same should i delet all vcc and reinstall it again and see ?

[lofty cliff]

trying to change an audio file for my avatar's nose boops and the sounds doesn't seem to save at all

does anyone happen to have any suggestions? i'm still pretty new to unity and cannot figure this out to save my life lol

oop i got it

upon exploring the animator i figured out what i did wrong

[random ivy]

trying to add a property to an animation but the "add property" button is greyed out. Any help?

[graceful latch]

Hii!! Can anyone tell me why my guy is crumpled??

(This is in play mode)

[graceful latch]

(I’m not at my PC to test it exactly but I think this is what I normally do). Try dragging the fx that you’re working on into the animator on the root of your avi, then go to your animation and click the root of your avi once. It should pop up the drop down in the animation tab. Idk why it’s so finicky but that’s the only solution I’ve found

[night ember]

you need to click on the avatar in scene not the animation

[random ivy]

i got it. though it's not working. i'm trying to have the ankles and feet on when the stockings are off.

[brave viper]

Hey so I'm doing some custom clothes fitting and a lot of tutorials do the "delete the armature, use data transfer" method for basic weight painting

but what if, say, the clothes have some belts that are rigged to have physics? is there a way I can preserve the belts while using data transfer to quickly rig the pants?

[desert elk]

separate the mesh? keep the belts separate

[brave viper]

then just unparent the pants and merge everything later...?

[hollow coral]

hey so im having issues with the blueprint id whenever i attach a id to a avatar i cant upload it

[visual tartan]

how do you fix this

[trail quartz]

are you doing this via manual animation or via vrcfury?

[hexed sonnet]

Anyone good at blender and unity

[junior void]

why

[alpine knot]

Hey guys! I’m working on some League of Legends/TFT avatars with full animations, and I’ve set up some emotes to be triggered by buttons. They work great, the emote plays and reverts back to idle. But I’ve noticed I have to wait a few seconds before I can use the same emote again.

I'm using the default VRCActionLayer as it's already half set up so it's easier for me, and I don't know the deep logic of doing that myself yet. Other emotes/animations are handled in a separate FX layer as simple toggle animations.

Is there a way to make the button-triggered emote instantly reusable without delay? Any tips or ideas would be super appreciated!

[timber wharf]

action layer basically applies tracking control, then disables it after exiting an animation, but it does so in a bunch of states controller goes through. so as long as you use the same approach in your own logic, you can build it differently https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/state-behaviors/#animator-tracking-control

[small valve]

Any idea how I can make VRC receivers that can detect finger interactions in a specific direction?
Not just if a finger entered the collider

I want to make it as realistic as possible with the lates VRCSDK3 tools. but I dont know how to get information of the VRC Receivers in what direction the finger collider did entered it or if I make multiple receivers, what would be more complicated and less performant, to make a bool or int sequence of which receiver are touched to enable parameters to start a animation that will move the shapekey.
But that would be the more complicated plan B, hope there is an easier way?

[spark walrus]

Im trying to make an avatar of grovyle (because its my fave pokemon and for some reason nobody made one) and i cant figure out how to make it since its my first time making an avatar. could anyone help me with creating physbones and meta support?

i literally pulled an all nighter trying to figure this out please help me

[spark walrus]

Making it from scratch? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlPPYkZg9D4
Physbone tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTTnWUkswkU
How to get it to Quest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MkgXcidxg4
Some steps might be out-of-date, so refer to the VRChat docs when in doubt, which is also often out of date so use your best judgement.

[spark walrus]

Probably will end up using multiple contacts. Like two, to detect orientation. It can still be optimized, have the second one always disabled until the first one is made contact with. Then it activates the second one. You probably won't need to worry about it, it's okay if some flashy toys are performance-costly as they'll be disabled 90% of the time.
https://github.com/ThatFatKidsMom/Avatar-Prop might be inspiring, it allows other players to grab and rotate the prop. It uses constraints to turn it and contacts to check where the player fingers moved to know how to orient it.
https://vrc.school/docs/Other/Benchmarks/#f1c3c67f6e384fb7b8a853fdcc29f95a here is a benchmark of contacts.

[fair star]

does anyone know if impostors have loaded the fx layer for a few seconds or no? noticing some clipping in lower areas and trying to figure out how to make the body texture black there on the impostor

[narrow vigil]

anyone know where i can find some hairs for a nardodragon?

[junior void]

gumroad, jinxxy, booth

[topaz mulch]

hey is there a way to search for specific blendshapes on an model?

[narrow vigil]

yeah but what would i look up on gumroad? ive been up all night looking lmao

[junior void]

youd look for "hair"?

[slow fable]

Could someone with A LOT of knowledge of seting up custom avatar from blender to Unity help me. If bought a base off of gumroad and recoloered in in blender but idk how to import it to vrchat. And I have no idea how to use unity

[junior void]

There are tutorials on how to export textures from blender on youtube

[slow fable]

I can't seem to find them

[junior void]

Really now

[white bough]

this is not avatar help was not to sure where to put this so i have gotten a issue recently where my sdk menu to upload my avatar loads up really slow it takes a while then its greyed out once it loaded in you hit ok on the copyright stuff then you have to wait again then it say you didnt agree to the terms ever tho i did any idea in what the issue is i just tyed to reinstall every thing but that didnt help

i also tryed different sdks but still getting the same issues

[jade garnet]

I have an avatar that I want to upload to my account, but the avatar has separate pc and quest versions. is there a way to upload it as one avatar thats visible on both pc and quest?

[night ember]

you just upload it under the same avatar id?

[wanton cedar]

whats that avatars name??

[graceful latch]

I ended up figuring out my issue! I was overriding an fbx, and I just exported as a new one :) it was a weird scaling issue

[wanton cedar]

no no

like whats the name of the moedl

model

it looks nice

[graceful latch]

Lucas! I just added face tracking to it :3 super cute @wanton cedar

[somber sequoia]

did you overwrite with different scaling settings? Generally you want "Apply Scalings" set to "FBX All"

[graceful latch]

I’ll have to check my fbx export settings for next time. Thank you!

[dusty rose]

So when I use a blendtree and join different worlds the toggles I have activated on the blendtree are untoggled. How I change that?

[somber sequoia]

use the "saved" checkbox in the avatar parameters list

Or set the defaults the way you want there.

blendtree has nothing to do with it

[paper flower]

Hey everyone!
Does anyone have the assets for the #VrRat# skin? Or maybe any ideas on how to get it?
I've been searching for a while with no luck, so any tips or help would be awesome.
Thanks!

[timber patio]

yo i am having a bit of a problem with the eddeting of a mesh that i have downloaded. the waightmap was a bit off so i have fixed it in blender but i am having trubble replacing the mesh. if i try and replace the entire mesh all "avatar" disapers from the scene.
what i realy just need is a way to preplace one mesh in an fbx file could anyone help with that?

[lost umbra]

Hey, my friend is having issues with his hands not animating. This avatar needs to be completed by 7 hours from now today. Can someone help him?

[somber sequoia]

You just overwrite the .fbx file using the same settings as previous, and make sure you didn't unpack the avatar prefab in Unity

[timber patio]

how would i get my hands on the fbx without unpacking it of unity?

[timber patio]

yo

[somber sequoia]

unless you have a very very weird setup, there ought to be a model file just sitting in your project

[timber patio]

that ther is

shitbox 1 is the one i have imported after edeting to see the difference between it and shitbox. after edeting with blender

[timber patio]

yo

[somber sequoia]

?

[timber patio]

XD would be nice to have a voice chat in this server

[lunar cape]

does anyone have a 3.0.0 sdk i can have?

[somber sequoia]

seems a weird thing to want

[lunar cape]

i try to use the cc but it wont download my older ver of unity :(/takes forever

[somber sequoia]

not sure I see the point in an older Unity either, but you do you 🙂

[lunar cape]

because certain avatars use older vers?

its just the 2022.3.62f1 ver

[somber sequoia]

that's too new for VRChat

but still, upgrading to current ought to work fine

[celest spoke]

anyone know what to do

[desert elk]

delete the controllers from the avatar descriptor or delete the vrcf prefab

[stoic bobcat]

If I wanted this to follow my foot but not lift up off the ground, would that need a rotation contraint?

[night ember]

you would need to set up ik
or aim constraint
or just use a physbone with a floor collider

[stoic bobcat]

ill try the aim contraint, ill have to look up tutorials on how to do it right, thanks! trying to just make it stay on the floor but still follow where my foot goes

[night ember]

if you mean the toe then sure

if you mean the entire foot then ehhhhhhhhhhh

[stoic bobcat]

ill just keep trying stuff, avatars ive seen that use this to make footstep sounds both have it so it never rotates with the foot but follows it on the ground, if that makes sense

[somber sequoia]

oh that's what you're doing

[night ember]

oh then thats just a position constraint with the y axis disabled

[stoic bobcat]

OH OK, ill try that!

[stoic bobcat]

only used it once and my friend who taught me kinda was vague

[honest ravine]

How do I fix this?

[night ember]

that doesnt tell you anything

thats just the error telling you it failed

[honest ravine]

So what do I do?

[somber sequoia]

Show the first 2-3 errors in that console, if that isn't literally the only one.

[honest ravine]

Okay

[somber sequoia]

huh those aren't very useful either, unfortunately

[honest ravine]

Failed to build the Avatar, check logs for more details
UnityEngine.Logger:Log (UnityEngine.LogType,object,UnityEngine.Object)
(wrapper dynamic-method) UnityEngine.Debug:UnityEngine.Debug.LogError_Patch1 (object,UnityEngine.Object)
VRC.Core.Logger:LogError (string,string,UnityEngine.Object)
VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder/<BuildError>d__137:MoveNext () (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.avatars/Editor/VRCSDK/SDK3A/VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.cs:2786)
System.Runtime.CompilerServices.AsyncVoidMethodBuilder:Start<VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder/<BuildError>d__137> (VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder/<BuildError>d__137&)
VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder:BuildError (object,string)
VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder/<HandleBuildError>d__130:MoveNext () (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.avatars/Editor/VRCSDK/SDK3A/VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.cs:2578)
System.Runtime.CompilerServices.AsyncTaskMethodBuilder`1<System.Exception>:Start<VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder/<HandleBuildError>d__130> (VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder/<HandleBuildError>d__130&)
VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder:HandleBuildError (System.Exception)
VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder/<Build>d__128:MoveNext () (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.avatars/Editor/VRCSDK/SDK3A/VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.cs:2553)
UnityEngine.UnitySynchronizationContext:ExecuteTasks ()

[stoic bobcat]

that worked! gonna touch it up but thanks!

[honest ravine]

Everytime I try it does that so im not sure what to do

[night ember]

need to see all of the errors

[honest ravine]

i tried to upload again and it did that

[night ember]

it says right there that you have missing scripts

[honest ravine]

ohh

im so sorry im new to this stuff

[somber sequoia]

ah there we are

[honest ravine]

How am I supposed to remove or change it though?

[somber sequoia]

you'll need to install whatever requirement you didn't. Check the avatar creator's documentation or webpage for clues

[honest ravine]

okay

[somber sequoia]

based on its name I'm guessing it's something related to face tracking?

maybe not, not sure why it says "(Clone)" either.

[honest ravine]

I only see Lelin NO vrcFT

[frigid kraken]

can someone help me with my avi in #avatar-quest

qwq

[misty scroll]

I want to have a collider turn on a toggle on my avatar would anyone know what I would need to do in unity to achieve that?

[glossy copper]

anyone know how to resolve this? working on an avatar and my shaders keep giving me issues. Already done reimports, restarts, etc, but the issue persists.

[somber sequoia]

what kind of collider to you mean exactly?

[misty scroll]

well i have a button on a avatar and i want to add a collider to the button that would like toggle a hat or smth (im not sure if this answers it)

[somber sequoia]

right but do you mean a contact receiver or a physbone collider?

[misty scroll]

contact reciver

[somber sequoia]

Probably just a contact receiver would do

[misty scroll]

mb

i have the reciver on the button but how would i make it turn on a toggle?

[somber sequoia]

just trying to understand what you want 🙂
So yeah, in the "Parameter" slot on the contact receiver, you put in the variable you want it to toggle, and it'll be active while the sender is in the receiver.

But if you want this to be the kind of button you push to turn on then push to turn off, you'd need two variables, one you put in the contact receiver to know when it's touched, then another that you build some animation logic to toggle using VRC Avatar Parameter Driver.

[misty scroll]

thank you ill try this out and let u know if it works

do you think if i somehow cant figure it out could u direct me?

[somber sequoia]

I'll be around for a bit

[frank nova]

Trying to make a collider which activates a toggle, i got it to work before on a different avatar but it's not seeming to be working for some reason with a different one.

[somber sequoia]

looks reasonable

[frank nova]

buh

[lost nest]

Why does my unity keep doing this?

The initial uploading of the avi all the way up until after the building and compressing data is perfectly fine. But it get's stuck at like a quarter building then it just fails and then gives me the option to press ok to the ownership agreement, I press it and then instant failure.

I tried downgrading sdk in case it was an sdk issue but it's happening across all my projects no matter the sdk.

[somber sequoia]

if you use windows, try disabling ipv6

[lost nest]

How do I do that?

[somber sequoia]

some have reported in here that it works

I don't know, I don't use Windows

[stoic bobcat]

thank you very much with this! I got it figured out and its working much better!

[spark walrus]

how the heck do i set up physbones theyre so confusing ;-;

[desert elk]

there are tutorials on YouTube, it's basically keep trying till you get it

[spark walrus]

is there a way to test the physbones in unity to see how they interact with the avatatr?

[unkempt marsh]

you can use the gesture manager plugin to run the avatar inside unity if thats what youre looking for

[desert elk]

yup, and move the avatar around to see how the phsybones move

[cyan light]

anyone know how i could get the same effect as the dots on the arm? to where it fades out instead of in?

[winged radish]

any help would be GLADLY appreciated please- been beating my head against the wall for 8 hours jsut trying to figure out WHY it wont show up on vr chat but will on unity

i need it to be quest friendly as thats my main way i play VR chat, but I also don't have blender to easily make a blend shape of his quills up- im having to rely on the phys
bones to move them up- and it is working on unity and toggle correctly but the moment it's uploaded and i hop on the quills won't move

[random ivy]

The outfit's prefab uses MA

[empty epoch]

would anyone be able to get in a call and help me understand how to upload? everywhere i look doesnt seem to work, and ive even downloaded a few tools and they dont even help me, i cant figure out for the life of me how to upload an avi i bought specifically for quest to quest ;-;

[somber sequoia]

I can't do a call but have you watched a decent intro tutorial such as this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSwMz4WcajQ

[empty epoch]

yes i have

its 7pm ive been doing this since 1am lmao

[somber sequoia]

ok so where exactly are you stuck?

[empty epoch]

anytime i go to upload the avi, i can upload it zero issues and even get it to upload through to quest, or so it says, cause then i go to the webset to check it and its pc only there despite me selecting the dropdown for android

[somber sequoia]

oh, you're using that multi-platform thing, got it. I haven't tried that myself.

[empty epoch]

the what?

im just usuing unity with a few downloaded tools, krt, vrcquest tools, d4rkavatar optimizer, and polytool

i get no error prompts, it just doesnt upload as pc + quest, only as pc

[somber sequoia]

There's a feature in the SDK to upload multiple versions of the avatar at once, is that not what you are doing?

[empty epoch]

no just 1 version that is pc+quest

[somber sequoia]

Otherwise you upload one version, then switch platform, and do the other with the same blueprint ID.

[empty epoch]

ooh

so

what i should do is upload to quest

then pc?

[somber sequoia]

sure

is this the same avatar or a different one for each platform?

[empty epoch]

the same avatar for both platforms

as im pc with quest buddies

[somber sequoia]

then switching should work, assuming it's fully quest compatible

[empty epoch]

ok let me give it a shot

ok the avi IS quest compatable now, tho is it quest only? or will i still be able to see it?

[somber sequoia]

seems like that's just the one platform - did you upload to PC also?

[empty epoch]

it says index was outside of the bounds of the array

[somber sequoia]

that's usually not a useful error message

[empty epoch]

any tips on what to do?

like can i now just upload the pc version and itd be both quest and pc

or would it be 2 different avis

[somber sequoia]

if they have the same blueprint ID, they'll be the same avatar, so yeah, you switch platform and do it again

[empty epoch]

ok so as long as i dont touch anything and just upload as pc it would work?

[somber sequoia]

I don't really know your project, and rarely do multi-platform stuff, but that sounds right 🙂

[empty epoch]

ok

i was tired of my friends not able to see me in my avatars so i wanted to take a crack at quest avis

bought a whole quest avi and never expected it to be this difficult

it worked!

thank you so so very much!

over 15 hours

finally overrr

[somber sequoia]

excellent

[verbal latch]

Does anyone know how to change hand gestures on unity

[somber sequoia]

yes

[earnest dove]

anybody find the fix for this?

[spark walrus]

There are many recommendations here, above, and below how to fix the pose.
<#avatar-general message>
T-pose is preferred and should be setup in blender, but if you use GoGoLoco it'll change it to T-Pose when calibrating for FBT. Just so you know. It's an anim in the baselayer.
You should also set it to humanoid rig, you'll do that by clicking the FBX.
The animator above the vrc avatar descriptor is also toggled off, it should be toggled on.

VRChat doesn't support animating physbone properties, like toggling them on/off. It does work but strange behavior like what you're experiencing happens. You're also animating the gameobjects it controls, so you need to toggle on IsAnimated.
*Try setting them to 1.0 then upload and see. If don't work, turn back to 1.1.
*Might have to seperate the physbone on/off into an animation then you change the rotation on a subsequent one. Or move the rotation property a few frames ahead of the physbone on/off properties. Just one/two might not be enough.

In the future, a text description is preferred and screenshots. I had to watch that video 3 times to get it.

[past escarp]

attempting make a particle system for an avatar where something shoots out, hoping to have it be usable for vr and nonvr players. i got the particle system set up, and gesture control stuff for the vr players all figured out, but is there some kind of parameter one could add that checks if the left mouse button is being clicked to do the same thing? if thats how it works lol (this is for an avatar, not an object in a world!)

[spark walrus]

Desktop players can press shift+f1 (or some variation) to grip, and other gestures. Deskies usually figure it out, so they can do face expressions. You could probably just also add a "manual fire" toggle, as there are some VR players with DYI controllers that can't do the finger gestures needed either, and they'd appreciate it too.

@past escarp

[past escarp]

Gotcha! that makes sense. Just wanted to make sure if i wasnt missing something while looking at the animator parameters stuff in vrchat's website lol! thank you!

[spark walrus]

This should roughly cover it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOGc8CetyXs

[spark walrus]

Easiest fix is get it into Blender, use cat's "fix model." It might break other things but you can click the cog/wrench symbol and toggle things off. You should get GestureManager and run it in Unity, then you'll see what you'll end up seeing in VRChat. You could probably just click the FBX, and change its rotation to 90 somewhere.

(I assume you are the OP asking, otherwise you'd have to ping them)

[hexed sonnet]

Anyone good at blender and unity?

[spark walrus]

https://dontasktoask.com/ or if you're looking for commissions, go to VRCtraders in #1204490664637890580

[little sphinx]

hey so it says my head hands and feet bones need to be mapped but i have the bones in those areas and its green in the configure screen

so idk whats wrong

and everytime i change the bones it goe red so idk what im doing wrong

im going insane

[spark walrus]

If the bones in the FBX are green, they are correct. Assuming everything is mapped correct (left finger in left finger, etc). If the error is shown in the SDK panel, it's probably that a gamemode is not the direct childobject. hips>spine>chest>head. hips>leg>knee>ankle. A screenshot would help.

[little sphinx]

ok ill send a screenshot and it is appearing in the sdk

@spark walrus

[spark walrus]

Also send a screenshot of your FBX. The green panel thing.

[little sphinx]

sure

i got no clue what the issue is it all looks good

[nova spear]

where exactly do i find my fbx file-?

i need to port it to blender but it doesn't exist, even when i go into "all models"

as i need to stuff around with shape keys, as new clothing don't actually move when the chest changes in size.

[spark walrus]

In the animator on the right side, you should see Avatar. Click that and it should lead you to the FBX.
If it doesn't, it's somewhere in those folders. If you really can't search fbx, maybe t:prefab helps finding it.

[little sphinx]

you see why im going insane

[spark walrus]

Very cropped. Harder to see. The blue figure is withing the FBX. click the < arrow or something to close it. YOu have found the FBX file. It goes in Blender. The blue thing is the avatar definition, and not the FBX itself.

[nova spear]

i see the fbx. it is there, but it doesn't have the new clothing i gave it. it only has the default clothing.

[spark walrus]

Forearm is not in elbow, it is under it. See how Hand is in Forearm? It needs to be like that. Drag-drop. Do for both sides. Do for everything else. The names aren't easy, so you should try to figure out what goes where. By seeing the FBX, the green screen, you can click on them to figure out where things are, and it tells you what is what.

[spark walrus]

You only asked how to find the FBX. If you instead wanted to know this, you did a https://xyproblem.info/
Are you using the drag-drop method to replace the FBX to get the new clothes in or what, what are you doing? How?
Are you asking how to find it after Blender exported it? It'll have exported to whatever folder you chose?

[little sphinx]

can i please call you and screenshare becacuse now my arm is turning red and im scared

[quasi briar]

I'm having a pretty weird problem and not sure how to resolve it exactly. I have a blep expression on my avatar controlled by a gesture. The blep activates a blendshape and a physbone at the same time, which gives the tongue physics. The problem: when the expression is turned off, sometimes the tongue actually manages to clip through the jaw and get stuck rather than returning to its original position inside the mouth?? I'm checking in Unity and the physbone always turns off completely so how could it possibly be getting stuck? I am genuinely confused lol. Also this usually only happens in VR because theres such organic movement that I can't really replicate in Unity, so it's a nightmare to test.

[nova spear]

no, i just double click on the unity package and drag and drop the preset into the rig

[little sphinx]

also its telling me everything is correct

[nova spear]

and i didn't know what the problem was, cause i didn't actually know where the fbx file was.

dick.

[little sphinx]

please could we call

[nova spear]

no. dude.

i haven't even gotten it INTO blender.

thats what im trying to do.

but the clothing. thats on the rig, isn't on the fbx file.

its the default clothing.

[spark walrus]

No.
If it turned red, you are changing the FBX. Leave that alone. Reset it. The left side, in the hierarchy panel. Drag ValveBiped.Bip01_R_Forearm onto ValveBiped.Bip01_R_Elbow. Do this for all the rest, and whatever else (ankles, knees) might need it. You can use the FBX panel, the green one, only as a means to find the gameobjects easier (because the names are bad) by clicking on them once.

[little sphinx]

ok thanks

sorry im really stupid

[spark walrus]

Don't say that. Just keep on trying, and ask a new question if you get really stuck.
This might help: https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/rig-requirements/ but it's as simple as I said. Drag-drop, for all that are wrong.

[little sphinx]

ok

[quasi briar]

Lol. I'm silly. Thankfully was a super easy fix.

[spark walrus]

You mean the sio_simplebikini? You want that to go into Blender alongside the FBX? It's its own different asset, messing with it could break your toggle system and other blendshapes. The clothes are also an FBX that you can add the same way. There is an FBX exporter method to merge the two into a single FBX and export both together into Blender, but might cause breakage.

[nova spear]

so how am i supposed to fix the blendshapes not moving on it when i use the radial for the chest

[spark walrus]

The clothes likely have their own blendshapes, and you add them to the anim file the radial toggle trigers. So it also affects the clothes.

[nova spear]

where abouts are the anim files located?

[spark walrus]

Somewhere. But it's easier for you to find out where the radial toggle is. You have GestureManager, so you can use that to test the toggle in Unity. Leave playmode after. It'll show you what param is being enabled. Then you can look for that in the FX layer. The layer that has the radial toggle has the anim in a state. You can double click it and it will take you to where it is. Then you use the Animation tab, select that anim in it, then click the clothing mesh. You'll see its skinned mesh renderer, and a blendshape section, and find the correct one.

[nova spear]

i think i might have found it? i really don't know lol

[spark walrus]

Sure, the breast float. Somewhere in your FX controller there is a layer. Probably called boobs, but maybe something more obscure (if more obscure, something that uses the breast float). In there you'll find your anim.

[little sphinx]

ok everything is good but thre is one material that is not in mobile bumped diffuse but the material is locked its grey and it wont let me change the albedo how do i remove it

[nova spear]

found it

[spark walrus]

If it's locked, it's empty. You can drag-drop a material onto it, you have many in the bottom panel of Unity.
If you want to delete it instead, you see a "Materials" section in skinned mesh renderer. It mentions numbers. rearrange it so the material you want to delete is at the bottom then reduce the number.

[spark walrus]

Top right. Double click the anim file. It'll take you to where it is. Then you can spawn the animator tab. I've forgotten the keybind for it (maybe ctrl+6), but one of the tabs at the top "file, view, etc" can also spawn it. Then in there, you select it, there's a drop-down menu. And you click the mesh and find its blendshapes so on.
It's probably best you try on your own without the updates, and return if you get stuck.

[nova spear]

ah i think ive found the screen, i should be fine from here, thanks man!

[little sphinx]

okay so my model got imported no issue but now my model is t posing

and i cant move my arms nd my legs aint moving lol

ok foumd ,y issue this is very confusing

[spark walrus]

There are many tutorials you can watch that should cover the basics

[nova spear]

update. the add property is grayed out lol

i tried to fix it but no luck

[nova spear]

it was grayed out once i got to the animator page as you can see above

[spark walrus]

Click Mapping, Enforce T-pose. Might be in Pose instead.

[little sphinx]

ok

[spark walrus]

You have to select your avatar first, or the mesh. So it's highlighted in blue text/other. Then it should work.
Could also be another thing, but try that first.

[nova spear]

i can't select both the avatar and the animation

[spark walrus]

You click on your avatar. The top gameobject that has the vrcavatardescriptor. Because it has the animator. Then you open the Animation tab. Then you find the anim file in it. Then edit properties should be visible.

See the breast ^ the little arrow you click and find it.

[nova spear]

im very confused.

[little sphinx]

ok soo whenever i drag my arm onto the elbow it erases the bone

@spark walrus

[nova spear]

dont ping him bruh.

hes here lol

[spark walrus]

So it's the other thing. It really should have come with a controller that contains all the anim files. It should go in the Animator, instead of Sio_2 (a controller). I think that exists, switch to it. You'll know it's correct if it has just a single layer, and all the anim files in it. It'll look messy. Then you get all your anim files back in the Animation tab. They need to be present in the animator controller in for them to become available to the Animation tab. It might not be called Sio_1. Might be called something else. Don't add the FX layer there.
If for some reason you can't find one, you can instead find the folder that contains all your anim files, and drag-drop them into the animator (near that orange layer would work, anywhere on the dark surface).

[lucid shadow]

i need help with my avatar, i want to make the mouth to move while i'm talking.

but idk how to do that

[nova spear]

these are all the controller animators it came with

[somber sequoia]

put the mesh with the mouth into the right slot in the avatar descriptor

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/creating-your-first-avatar#viseme-blend-shape-recommended

[spark walrus]

It can't erase the bone? If you dragged it correct, it'll have ended up underneith it, as a childobject. If the SDK isn't complaining, it should be go to upload.

[little sphinx]

but then it says it keeps failing to load as a humanoid an then it gives me the hand and stuff error

[spark walrus]

It might be in a different folder. But you click the little circle in the Controller slot to get a list of all of them. On the Animator. But if you really didn't get a controller containing all the anim files, then you just find all the anim files, select all of them, drag-drop into the sio_2 because that one exists, like I said. Then Animation tab should work.

[nova spear]

yeah i dont think i did. only ones that have all the animations are the fx controllers.

[spark walrus]

The red one in the FBX? You did enforce tpose, and click save after?

[little sphinx]

yes

[west dome]

i'm very confused. i optimized my avatar but the server still has it marked as very poor on PC

but in unity and in the avatar details at the top it shows correctly as medium

and everything in the details is either green or yellow and above my name it says medium

[spark walrus]

Try it again. This time do: Pose > Reset Pose, then Pose > Enforce T Pose, then Apply and Done.
If after you try uploading and it still doesn't work, test just a little bit mroe on your own. Then if nothing works, post a new question here and include screenshots.

[west dome]

but it will get perfblocked since it's still marked as very poor in the json (as confirmed with vrcx)

[spark walrus]

And you of course reuploaded it to Windows platform too, and you share the Android and Windows model. Maybe the API just takes a while. Maybe someone else knows

[west dome]

the android version was poor before i optimized it and that updated to medium fine

it's been hours

[spark walrus]

Right. But if there's two seperate versions, one for Quest and one for PC, optimizing just the Quest versions doesn't do anything for the PC version. If there's just one, then you still need to upload that one to PC too, so it gets updated for PC too.

[wild hare]

question does anyone know if there is a way to test my avatar without having to go through vrchat

[west dome]

gesturemanager or av3emulator

depends what you wanna test though

[wild hare]

I was wanting to just test animations and basically how well the avatar looks and moves and stuff thx

[west dome]

they are in VCC

[wild hare]

thx sorry just getting back into stuff so I can't remember everything

[west dome]

i optimized the PC version first

i think it just hasn't updated the texture memory usage on the server even though in the vrchat sdk window it says 102 MB texture memory usage in the performance analysis thing in vrcx it says totalTextureUsage 252.06 MB

[wild hare]

is there something to easily make a pc avi quest supported btw

[west dome]

do you know blender?

[wild hare]

yea I use it

[west dome]

CATS blender plugin->quick decimation
might also need to use the atlas generator if you have too many materials

[wild hare]

can you send me a link to get it

[west dome]

https://github.com/absolute-quantum/cats-blender-plugin/releases/tag/0.19.0'

[wild hare]

thx so much

[west dome]

then if you have too many physbones or constraints or something you'll have to get rid of some

it takes some effort

[wild hare]

k

[west dome]

there should be video guides for it

[somber sequoia]

you probably don't want that cats, go here: https://cats.neoneko.xyz/

[west dome]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[wild hare]

question btw do I need to reinstall my unity version or is this normal for vcc (happens even on first open and the rest of the times)

[ornate stump]

Something broke and you have to know what broke. So ignore and see what get reported.

[wild hare]

k

here is the whole thing if it helps

[wild hare]

do you know how to fix it I know avi emulator but idk what the other one is

[west dome]

try removing and reinstalling the package or using the non-vcc version which might be newer

i have had similar errors after adding packages and they were almost always fixed by uninstalling the package, deleting any left over folder, and reinstalling

[wild hare]

k thx

you have been a big help have a great day/night

[blissful steppe]

Do anyone know how to remove recent file from blender

And delete all history of it

[ornate stump]

The "Clear Recent File List" button at the bottom of recent file list.

[blissful steppe]

Do ya know how to fix this

It had duplicated

And Idont know how to get back to the screen

[wild hare]

let me find how to get to it real fast

[blissful steppe]

How*

[wild hare]

thx lol

right click it at the right spot and close area if you trying to remove this window

[blissful steppe]

Where

[wild hare]

blank space if you are trying to remove the 1 dupe window

also a simple close and reopen on blender works too lol

[blissful steppe]

Try

Um

My mind is uh

Confused

[wild hare]

you are trying to remove the cloned properties window right

[supple sage]

Question, is anyone well versed in doing metalic like textures for avatars? Im trying to do this texture how it is in the preview but lack the knowledge to acutally make it remotely similar
https://payhip.com/b/cWVm7

[blissful steppe]

Ya n I js deleted the whole file on accident

[wild hare]

let me look into it real quick

[supple sage]

i appreciate it, im not very good with metallics and the creator didnt even provide what matcap they used if any

everything im trying looks extremely jank lol

[wild hare]

was it not in the paid thing

[supple sage]

it wasnt

[wild hare]

weird

[supple sage]

they didnt include any pre requisites

Oddly enough

[blissful steppe]

Yes I’m back at the same place now

[blissful steppe]

U gotta be more specific plz

[white moth]

Can anyone possibly help me figure out what is going on here

Please

[wild hare]

you can right click next to the name literally any spot that dosen't have a button or something then it will have a area thing you hover over it and can click close area well at least for my version

[wild hare]

@blissful steppe

[blissful steppe]

Okay thank you so much

[wild hare]

np

[lucid shadow]

Alright so im still having the issue where my avatar's mouth won't open. oh, and what do i do about this bone degrees thing

[trail quartz]

MA being manual animations? Have you tried recreating the animations either maually or in vrcfury?

[junior void]

Modular Avatar

[wild hare]

question is there a good way to add a fur effect to a tail and it be seeable with quest

[wanton cedar]

not any good ways

[wild hare]

is it possible to do in blender

[wanton cedar]

here are some variations on a fur texture from poiyomi, as well as a noise normal you can use. These are rather large textures (aside from the noise normal) so I would suggest setting them to a lower resolution

[wild hare]

thx

[wanton cedar]

cant really make fur the old way anymore since vrcpatched the particle shader

[wild hare]

I see

[white moth]

Does ANYONE possibly know???

I have yet to figure it out

[wanton cedar]

hmm

is it connected to the hand bones

[lucid shadow]

dont want to repost this^^

[ornate stump]

Mount wont open, did you set lip sync in avatar descriptor?

[lucid shadow]

yeah

[ornate stump]

You didn't set blendshape for jaw flap.

[lucid shadow]

what do i put?

[ornate stump]

How does your model open the month to begin with?

[spark walrus]

how do i fix this

[lucid shadow]

there's bones that are attached to the muzzle

[cedar echo]

Hey got a question for anyone if they know the answer
For anything related to switchable pieces of my avatar do I keep them separate in blender or do I merge them

[ornate stump]

It's using multiple bone to properly move the lip which isn't supported by the avatar descriptor. You'd have to either record bone pose in to viseme shapekeys, or record bone animation in unity and make custom lipsync animator controller.

[lucid shadow]

dang

[ornate stump]

You could do either. For merged, you have to make shapekey or use UDIM discard shader. For separated, you just only have to disable the toggle.

[cedar echo]

Is one or the other better in general or are they better in specific situations?

[ornate stump]

Merged is better for performance rank, but has potential of wasting performance, and is more complicate to create.
Separated is simpler, not very good for rank because it's multiple object, but it actually is better performance because no wasted performance.

[cedar echo]

👍, I give no shit about my performance rank, because every good Avatar I've ever seen is always in the red

[desert elk]

mmm

that's cap

[sudden violet]

UDIM discard shader? is that like UVtile discard?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[sudden violet]

i love that one, best middle-ground performance wise.

unless you have something that will stay off for most of the time, then making it a separate mesh is better as far as i know.

[ornate stump]

One problem is it doesn't work if shader's blocked, or in quest.

[sudden violet]

noted, good to know

[sudden violet]

there is "this avatar has 500 drawcalls" red, and "this avatar has 80k polys, but 10 draw calls" red.

[spark walrus]

could someone help me upload this avi im trying to upload its being a pain

[desert elk]

what issues are you having?

[pearl gale]

anyone know how to fix this

[lucid shadow]

same problem here

[night ember]

those arent errors

the bottom one is just that you have animation states in the animator with no animation in it

the other 2 is just rig related which would be a blender thing but wont actually cause issues usually

none of them prevent you from uploading

[pearl gale]

I won’t let me upload

[primal spruce]

How do i make a transparent black item on a vrchat avatar? (quest comp)

[night ember]

quest doesnt support transparency

[primal spruce]

damn

[night ember]

just change the shader of the material on the avatar

[pearl gale]

how do i do thst

that

[night ember]

find the material and just change it

I dont have an image rn

its just the dropdown

[pearl gale]

ok thank you

[primal spruce]

i mean, there is additive and multi but, that doesnt help me in my situtation, Additive removes the black/makes black transparent, But what i need is for the texture i got, It needs a transparent backround. but the item/texture it self in the Texture, Is black

so im confused, if i need to put something black on my avatar with a transaprent backround, But additive removes black to make it transparent. what am i suppose to do?

cause then im jsut in a loop im sure

[night ember]

thats not the intented use of the particle shaders

[primal spruce]

Is it not? Huh, alright. well im not sure what else to do. cause ive seen avatar have transparent stuff before on vrchat (being quest comp)

[night ember]

every time someone makes a bypass it gets patched

the devs have made it very clear that quest does not have transparency support

[primal spruce]

damn

[sick loom]

I feel like the particle ones are the closest visually to transparency you’ll get?

[spark walrus]

Seems like it works fine. Just that it shoots forward when you're in Animating because you have the bicycle pose. In GestureManager, your character is idling and shoots up because the gun is held up? Or go into the particle system, renderer, view, and change it or some other settings there.

[sonic jewel]

hello, i'm looking for an avatar world and i forgot the name of it, i just have a screenshot of it's some part from my in game screenshots. here's the pic;
any help is appreciated, thank you ^^

here's another one

[somber sequoia]

#1138520828556890214 probably

[spark walrus]

I like how I know there's a canny ticket for adding a "help me find this world," like how there's find avi ones.
They didn't end up adding it.

[somber sequoia]

this channel is for developing avatars.

[sullen nacelle]

does anyone know how i can make an effect via particles or some other way to change peoples pov's to black and white?

[somber sequoia]

you'd need a screen space shader for that.

[sullen nacelle]

would that only effect myself or just other people in pc?

[somber sequoia]

it'd affect others if you want it to.

Generally this is kinda rude though, so make sure you know your audience first.

[sullen nacelle]

oh yeah i am aware of that
people dont want anything to mess with their screen

im just curious on how you'd go of making it

[somber sequoia]

yeah - screenspace shader, with a filter that will decrease the color saturation

[arctic ginkgo]

screenspace shaders are limited to the bounds of the mesh it's on though, correct?

you can have it just around your viewpoint

or disable it for remote users by switching the material

[spark walrus]

Sometines you only need to see them, depending on the settings. If you enable "update in background" everyone sees it always.

[somber sequoia]

Yep, if you want to just be for you, it's easy enough to put it on a small sphere around your viewpoint

[sullen nacelle]

is there anyway to make it a speficfic radius for other people too? so you wouldnt accidentally do it to everyone?

[somber sequoia]

yep

Most of these types of shaders have a range option

which reminds me to check if I implemented the range on mine correctly

[sullen nacelle]

oh in that case thats even better!
i only need like a small sphere radius

where would i get the screenspace shader again? im not too familiar with shaders in untiy

[somber sequoia]

There are a few known ones: Mochie has one, as does Leviant, then there's CancerSpace.

maybe one of these days I'll publish mine, though it's really intended for worlds

[sullen nacelle]

yeah i figured as such
but i would jsut need one that could make people see everything desaturated in a small radius

[somber sequoia]

Pretty much every one I've played with has that feature

(it's pretty simple to implement)

[sullen nacelle]

well which one would you personally recommend? or if you already have a prefab of one if its okay to ask

[somber sequoia]

I listed 3 that I've used (and read most of the code inside)

any differences are probably preference on UI style, or other features you might also want.

[west owl]

ok, so I've got a problem, so for some reason the wing parameters does not activate when selecting it from the expresions menu, idk if its because its an adive parameter or something like that, if someone know the problem could you help me please?

[snow sluice]

Hello , I need help I want to make my own custom avatars using the Milltina avatar and I also have the outfits as well so I have a question.

How did you add outfits to the avatar?

How do I add hair, skin colour and eye colour on the Milltina avater?

how do I add toggles to change the outfit and expressions?

And how can I increase Milltina bust size?

That's all I want to know

[somber sequoia]

most of those things are not specific to one avatar, you'll find general tutorials and just have to pick the appropriate materials or mesh renderers on your avatar.
re: increasing bust size, if there is already a blendshape on the body, use that. If not, you'd need to do some modeling in Blender or similar.

For adding outfits.. it depends on what you have. If they're designed specifically for that avatar, probably it's pretty easy and the outfit comes with instructions.

[vapid hound]

im having a problem with my avatar sound i added a headpat sound to my avatar
i can hear the headpat clearly but everyone else cant and i dont know what im doing wrong please help

[crude moat]

I tried to shorten legs on avatar but when I put it in unity(by replacing file with unedited avatar) everything except model(meaning hitboxes and positions) itself gets scaled like 50 times.
Any idea why that might be happening?

[somber sequoia]

make sure you export with the same scaling settings as previous - likely "Apply Scalings" should be "FBX All"

[sudden violet]

what's "Wings" exactly? just an idle animation for your wings, or a toggle?

[crude moat]

Thanks. I will try that

[sick loom]

so everyone is on pc?

[vapid hound]

yea

[west owl]

its a toggle, it starts off but while hitting the parameter is set to true, however when I try it, even if its true, the animation does not play

[vapid hound]

yea everyone is on pc i've followed multiple videos and looked at my other avatars that also has headpat sounds

[brisk wind]

Hey I bought a vrchat avatar and the physbones don’t work on quest…..can anyone help? It uses unity, vrcfury and poiyomi

[night ember]

you cant have more than 8 components

[brisk wind]

I have 7

[granite pawn]

Whenever i look down ingame i see into my avatars body. I tried moving my view point to my avatars nose and even far past it but it didnt help

[snow sluice]

ok how to turn on no bra on the Milltina avater

[grand scaffold]

wild

[snow sluice]

sorry because I have a dif bra for her but I don't know so I just need help 😭

[somber sequoia]

trail renderer or particle trail maybe.

[night ember]

that will multiply your poly count

[pearl thicket]

prob would end up being a PC-Only effect then?

[pearl thicket]

I thought about that, but I think that if I do that, the duplicates will only ever be in T-Pose, and not in whatever position I was in when it spawned the duplicate.

[somber sequoia]

oh sorry I didn't hover to see the animation. yeah, this is hard to do. I heard of someone doing it by emitting mesh particles, but it was expensive and janky

[pearl thicket]

Oh jeez...

[round canyon]

TADC Ribbit Fanmade Design Character Sheet

[topaz mulch]

hey do yall know what setting of the physbones i have to alter specifically so this is only poor rating?

[umbral oriole]

there is a holographic shader i cant remeber the name but ill look for it. it can do this

[arctic ginkgo]

without shaders, particles are the only feasable option. Also only quest compatible option outside of literally copying your whole avatar multiple times and constraining every bone

also you can use skinned mesh renderers, so it doesn't have to be in t-pose

[umbral oriole]

https://zekk.gumroad.com/l/AfterimagesInstallScript?ref=jinxxy

lucky you its free

[pearl thicket]

I'll look at both the shader/script and at the skinned mesh thing

[umbral oriole]

well i you want to use a mesh thing it will prob have to be a particle effect

a mesh aprticle i mean

[arctic ginkgo]

actually i might be misremembering, i think they can just be used for particle emission

i'm working on setting one up rn to see if i can get it working

[pearl thicket]

I'm also booting up my test file so i'm also gonna try and see if that is a thing

[umbral oriole]

looks like what you want right?

[pearl thicket]

still figuring out unity stuff

[pearl thicket]

yeah, basically!

[umbral oriole]

sick gald to help check it out i think you can customize it too

havent used it myself

[pearl thicket]

the link you sent tho the only free bit is the gradient, the installation is $15+

but at least I know what the effect is actually called now

[topaz mulch]

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

there ya go

it does multiply poly count tho

[pearl thicket]

i'm looking at that option while unity loads.
-# it is taking it's sweet time, lol

[umbral oriole]

oh dang sorry then

[pearl thicket]

you're good

[slate raven]

hey i made a avatar for vr, how do i upload it

??????

[stuck oxide]

how would i weight paint these if theyre going into eachother?

[junior void]

Hide one, paint the other, then mirror vertex groups

[stuck oxide]

okay ill try that

[white hearth]

could someone tell me if it is possible to bring back crouching ik foot placement like it was in sdk2? sdk3 avatars look so ugly when its legs are moving with its body during rotation

[blissful steppe]

Every time I tried my mouse doesn’t work

[desert elk]

censor that jezus

[junior void]

Could be that your body has blendshapes enabled that are not on the clothing?

[topaz mulch]

anyone know what setting i gotta tweak to reduce these?

[snow nexus]

oh😐

[blissful steppe]

Didnt work either

[blissful steppe]

Probably I’ll check

[arctic ginkgo]

What? Just draw over it

Or since you used a camera instead of taking a screenshot, just put something physically over it before taking the picture

[blissful steppe]

I found out why, it’s working now thanks for the help yall

[slate raven]

i made a avatar how do i upload it

?

[slate raven]

hey can u plz help me

[ruby summit]

does anyone know how to make an expression puppet with vrcfury? i wanna control my avatar's face expressions without using gestures

[night ember]

why not just make it manually

[dire dust]

If I had to guess. The fact they're using vrcfury probably means they are unfamiliar with the manual method.

[surreal salmon]

doing things manually is time consuming

[surreal salmon]

also yes

[night ember]

fury is even more time consuming

its understandable to use for prefabs but using it for every little thing ends up taking up more time than just actually doing it yourself

[wild hare]

question does anyone know if there is a way to have two avatars on one project and upload them in separate avatars easily so I don't have to keep switching through two projects

[dire dust]

Yes, just create a separate scene in Unity. 1 scene for 1 avatar

[frank helm]

I've been wondering. Is there a way to switch what part of your model is considered the hands for the sake of interactions? Like if you had a second set of mechanical arms would there be a way to switch those to be the ones you interact with everything with instead of your normal hands?

[timber wharf]

@frank helm nope, grabbing colliders are immutable, as well as what ik drives. you can assign some finger colliders to other bone via vrcfury, so the 2nd set of hands can collide with physbones, but not grab

[frank helm]

Ah ok, what a shame. Thank you though!

[tardy quartz]

Does anyone know how I could link a game object to follow a physbone as it deforms and moves? I want something like VRC fury's armature link, but that only works for the avatar's original armature.

[mystic turret]

Trying to add a face mask to an avatar but I cant see anything when its equipped in game (view is completely obstructed) not sure how to make it so the mask is on but my view is still the same as if it were off

[hard quest]

Just open up the armerature to the bone you want the object to link to and drag n drop

[fathom current]

If I want to make a dog model would I need to add a human skeleton still or would generic work

[dry ibex]

why are my textures different in unity (i did slightly change somethings between photos but the colors r entirelydiffernt

[hard quest]

I guess material backface culling but I could of swore vrc disables mesh from viewpoint if on head bone

[mystic turret]

Well, in unity, am I supposed to put under the base bone for the head? Because I have it under the eyes now that I think about it-

[tardy quartz]

it's a physbone, not a bone

and it's a physbone as part of another prefab, not the avatar

so there is no drag and drop

[tardy quartz]

for example, lets say I added a drag and drop store bought cat tail prefab, and I wanted to have a little bell drag and drop prefab attached to it as it sways

[wild hare]

thx

[tardy quartz]

how could I get the bell to follow along / deform with the cat tail prefab

even though neither prefab are original avatar bones in the armature link dropdown menu from the original avatar?

[dire dust]

If I had to take a wild guess. Looks like no lighting vs lighting.

[hard quest]

A physbone is just an animated chain of bones, you can add to prefab armeratures np

[dry ibex]

how itshould be vs unity

[tardy quartz]

please explain

When I click the dropdown menu of a vrc fury aramature link, the bone I want to connect the prop to does not exist

because it is apart of another prop, not the avatar bone armature

[mystic turret]

@hard quest

[dire dust]

Why not just take those files and put them into the unity folder. Unless you're saying that the images themselves are changing when you do that. In which case I would try opening the texture files that are in the unity folder and edit them to be darker

[dry ibex]

i dont know what idid butit randomly fixed itself

thanks

[hard quest]

You could unless you needed it to follow eye rotation for some reason, easiest fix is just change ur mesh material to back culling to make it a 1 way material

[tardy quartz]

@hard quest Okay, so lets start fresh. Assuming I have two separate prefabs I want to add to my avatar while chained, a bell and a cat tail, how do I make the bell follow the cat tail? Neither have bones in the original armature I can link them to with VRC fury

[hard quest]

I dont use Fury to often but on your hiarchy there should be a dropdown to the prefabs armerature if it is animated, im away from my pc so it kinda odd explaining from memory

[tardy quartz]

I know whatg you mean. the dropdown is the to the avatar armature. I want to link to the prefab armature

tail to bell

not bell to body

it doesn't exist

though if you have any other method, I'm begging you to tell me 🙏

if I link the bell to the hips, for example, when the tail sways the bell will get lost and stayh linked to hips

[tight pond]

not to intrude, but if anyone has a tutorial or follow along for beginners that would be awesome. (the actual page is great and all but its a whooole lot to try and wrap my head around)

[icy thorn]

yo i need help

with the sdk

nvm

[somber sequoia]

tutorial for what task specifically?

[tight pond]

uhhhhh, good question, i have no idea.

[somber sequoia]

hmm, kinda hard to help then.

[tight pond]

i guess, first off how to like, model an asset?

[somber sequoia]

there are lots of tutorials on 3D modeling, and classes and such

[tight pond]

ill deal with rigging later

[hard quest]

I can only assume your trying to link it with VRCfury, for your bell asset drag it directly onto your tail, open up your tail armerature and the children bones (hips>tail1>tail2... ect) and when you reach the point in the tail you wish to connect to drag the bell prefab into the actual bone. No vrcfury required

[dire dust]

Sounds like you don't have a clue where to even start. So start simple. Find a pre-made model and learn how to port it into Unity and make that into an avatar. No fancy gimmicks just the bare minimum. There are plenty of Youtube tutorials for the basics like these. Afterwards, you can learn how Visemes work aka what makes your mouth moves when speaking.

[tight pond]

Okey! ill add that as first on my list of thingies to learn.

[icy thorn]

Ok what do I do after I hit build and publish in the sdk builder?

[dire dust]

If you hit that button your avatar should have been uploaded to try on in VRC and see how it moves and check if anything broke.

[icy thorn]

Ok so it just says building avatar and the bar hasn’t moved sorry this is my first upload and there was 2 errors but I auto fixed them

[dire dust]

Depending on the errors it can prevent you from finishing the building process. Moreover, depending on how performance heavy the avatar is it can take awhile to upload.

[icy thorn]

Ok I’ll wait a little then if it doesn’t move I’ll get back here

[distant nimbus]

How can I remove avatar facial expressions? Im trying to do photos with my hands placed in a certain way, and the face of my avatar is just horrendous 💔

[somber sequoia]

there's a toggle in the radial menu that disables gestures.

it's a vrchat-provided one

[distant nimbus]

is it under expressions? or settings, just so ik where to look

[dire dust]

Setting

[distant nimbus]

tysm : )

[dire dust]

It's funny. It's problems like these I make toggles for my avatars where I can enable and disable my left and right hand face gestures.

[distant nimbus]

yess, i just didnt wanna go through the whole process of trying to figure it out

[dire dust]

Most don't based on a majority of avatars I've tried on in the past.

[somber sequoia]

you can also bind it to a hotkey in the controller mapping, if you prefer

[raven karma]

Would anyone have run into this with their avatar project before? x-x

[somber sequoia]

"this"?

[spark walrus]

Strange. They deleted all their screenshots and left the server.

[somber sequoia]

huh.

[junior void]

Either a self fix or a 'nobody helps here'-runaway

[somber sequoia]

whatever.

[spark walrus]

I guess, if you can't beat them, join them.

[junior void]

Lol

[icy thorn]

so its not moved at all

And hasent published

[hard quest]

I can only suggest following a youtube tutorial and if something seems odd close and relaunch unity as the occasional error happens

[icy thorn]

Ok

I’m guessing I save

[icy thorn]

I haven’t found a yt video a that is abt my problem and I relaunched and it didn’t work

[hard quest]

Using up to date creator companion sdk? What part is it getting stuck on? Anything in the console showing as error?

[icy thorn]

It only says missing prefab script but I can’t find it

[somber sequoia]

ohhh

see, that would have been useful information up front.

[hot heron]

Hello, I'm brand-new, I was wondering how I would go about uploading my VRChat Avatar to use? It's the Kooky Kobold model (yes, just purchased it for ~$40.)

[somber sequoia]

this may help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSwMz4WcajQ

[hot heron]

Oh, uh, I already watched it

It's giving me the error that I don't have permission to upload??

[somber sequoia]

okay.... maybe ask a more specific question then

?upload

[flat musk]

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

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

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

[somber sequoia]

^^^

[hot heron]

So wait, did I waste $40 because I can't use my model??

[somber sequoia]

no?

[hot heron]

Because I gotta level up?

Sorry I'm like, super confused.

[hard quest]

That could be several thing from missing packages to old avi sdk requirements, if this is a paid avi check the creators steps for uploading

[icy thorn]

Ok

[azure swift]

I'm so confused and trying to figure this out. I'm working on an edited avatar. I copied the phys bone component to the edited avatar, which is in the first pic. The second pic is the original avatar.
I applied the phys bone to the face
But for some reason, the edited avatar has phys bone on the tongue while the original one doesn't as you can see in the pics. Both settings are the same.

Like, how do I make it to ignore the tongue?

[somber sequoia]

Physbones apply to all children of the bone they are placed on. You can ignore it with the "ignore transforms" slot, or put it on a different bone.

[azure swift]

of course, ignore transforms. I'm an idiot. I forgot about that. Thank you lol

[somber sequoia]

np

[blazing bronze]

how do i upload a avatar i merged my trust rank user steam account into a vrchat account and i lost all my stuff can someone help me please?