avatar-help

[weak cobalt]

But if anyone does know how to do blender stuff hopefully I get reached out to but ye

[somber sequoia]

Lots of people know how to do blender stuff?

[weak cobalt]

I don't know how and I need someone who can add me or dm me so I can get help lol

[somber sequoia]

feel free to ask questions here or in #3d-modeling

[weak cobalt]

Lol it's more like I need a tutorial from someone who's experienced

[somber sequoia]

there are lots of them on the internet though

I'd be surprised if you find someone interested in teaching you a class for free, but I wish you luck finding one

[weak cobalt]

I don't got money and also YouTube don't work at all it's half @$$d

[somber sequoia]

I'm sure I could recommend a video or two, but it doesn't seem like you're interested.

[umbral oriole]

i got you home slice. im down to help whenever i can

[weak cobalt]

Are u okay with direct messages?

[umbral oriole]

ofcourse ive called and dm'd a couple people from here helping them out

im always down to give advice and help out cause part of my learning was people doing the same for me

[viral field]

Anyone have a general idea on physbone limits for a tail?

I don't want it to clip into me all the time, so I wonder if limits would help with that

[somber sequoia]

they do - I tend to use a gradient, with less movement at the root and more at the tip

it depends a lot on the kind of tail you have, and how stiff you want it, but usually you want it stiffer than most people seem to make them 🙂

[candid ember]

can anyone help me? When i try to configure my avatar bones in the rig section, the creator companion almost always crashes. It even crashes on just normal .fbx imports

it seems to be when i configure the chest usually. When i boot up the project again, the fbx is corrupt.

[gentle maple]

Hello! I'm having an issue with the shader's "shading" breaking and creating vertical stripes (for stuff like rimlight, matcaps, shademaps, etc) on poiyomi
For context, because this could be related??
My unity project has one of the decently recent versions of poiyomi, as well as an avatar unity package imported that has an older version of poiyomi locked into the materials. I never noticed this issue until recently so I don't know if I added the poiyomi package or the avatar package first (mentioning because I worry that could be relevant) I've never had this issue before, despite importing avatar projects with different poi versions/types in the past. It also affects all new poiyomi materials made, even if i choose the old version options
Left sphere has normal material (old and locked from unity package), Right sphere has broken material (newer version) (rimlight being shown)

[void kettle]

I beg someone…😭😭🙏

[distant nimbus]

i have waterguns on my avatar and they're supposed to be grabable but i cant grab them? does anyone have a clue as to what the issue could be?

[somber sequoia]

not really without knowing how they're supposed to work

I'm guessing a contact receiver waiting for your hand and a grab gesture?

[versed pewter]

Where do I go to get commissions

[somber sequoia]

VRC Traders discord, link is in #1204490664637890580

[versed pewter]

Thank you

[arctic ginkgo]

does anyone know how you could make a material have a matcap on quest that also isn't affected by lighting/has emission?

I think I may just have to comprimise between the brightness and the visibility of the matcap..

just annoying since it's suposed to be a flame

[weak cobalt]

Lf someone who can do renders

[somber sequoia]

very broad topic but you can commission artists at the VRC Traders discord - see up a few messages for the link

[tribal oracle]

Anyone experience this problem before? Whenever I try to go to build and publish this world, this object keeps turning itself back on. It doesn't seem to happen if the VRChat SDK screen isn't up.

[radiant night]

How can I change the physbone to not rotate but rather move back and forth?

[radiant night]

You probably have an issue with the animation that turns the object off or on

[tribal oracle]

It's not in play mode, which is the weird part

[radiant night]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[somber sequoia]

Physbones don't move, they rotate.

well, they can also stretch - you could try that

[night ember]

Angle limit and then use stretch and squish

[latent elbow]

Particles under my head done though toggles appear on my screen. I assume everything under the head would be shrunk so you wouldnt be blinded by it. I tried moving the particles outside the head and placed a vrc scale constraint and it still appears on the screen. Any pointers?

[somber sequoia]

You can just use the VRC Head Chop component if you want to see them yourself

...or to not see them, it works both ways

[night ember]

Particles dont scale but any offset position goes to 0 cause its scaled down to 0

[somber sequoia]

they should if you set the system's scaling option to "hierarchy"

[latent elbow]

Unity by default makes particle systems for me as Local, I will switch it to hierarchy to see if it works. VRC Head chop? I must be a bit new to the newer stuff added.

[dire dagger]

It always does this and never ever uploads, and even if it does it somehow fails, anyone got any ideas why

It sits on that for like hours

And never fully loads

[ornate stump]

You should screenshot when it failed.

[ornate stump]

What you're showing is shader compilation, and its length depends on how many material you had on your avatar. And if you had underpowered PC, it will take even longer to process all the material.

[short ferry]

ok so I'm in the scene view of my avatar and whenever I turn off the checkmark for an item too be visible... it turns itself back on-

[ornate stump]

Do you mean the enabling check box is off but the item is still showing, or checkbox turn on back by itself?

[short ferry]

the checkbox turns on by itself

there is no animation running

[ornate stump]

Is that when testing in gesture manager?

[somber sequoia]

were you the one who posted that earlier? I saw someone had a video of it, very weird.

[short ferry]

no

just the scene

[ornate stump]

Is that only when the sdk window visible? Try closing the sdk then change the checkbox.

[short ferry]

ok that fixed it but I need the sdk window to upload the avatar

[ornate stump]

So open the sdk back, does the check box stay?

[short ferry]

no it goes back on

[ornate stump]

Try again but save the scene before open the sdk.

[short ferry]

opening the control panel broke it again, even after saving

[untold escarp]

does anyone know how to take textures from a png and put them on a avatar? im lost

[ornate stump]

Can you click Edit > Redo button after the check box turn back?

[ornate stump]

Pngs already are texture. You have to put them in material asset.

[short ferry]

no

[untold escarp]

I dont know how to do that

[lean edge]

Is there any bugs with radials at the moment? cause im trying to set up HSV sliders for different parts of my avatar and so far only 3 of them work out of 7 ive set up so far

paramaters check out, settings do too

[ornate stump]

https://youtu.be/rRAnDMUbWt8?t=143

[ornate stump]

Does it happen to only that object, or every other objects as well? This seems to be a new sdk bug.

[short ferry]

it does it on blendshapes too

[stray lintel]

hi, is it possible to render a custom camera onto an overlay?

so thatohe plays can see from the camera?

other players*

[short ferry]

and other objects yeah

[ornate stump]

Does it show any error in console?

[short ferry]

nope

[somber sequoia]

the camera would write to a Render Texture, which can then be used by a material. I'm not entirely sure this works on avatars, I haven't tried it personally

[stray lintel]

mk

So like

want other players to see through my custom cam

[somber sequoia]

yes

[stray lintel]

So

Uh can i use render pipeline?

URP?

[somber sequoia]

VRChat uses the built-in render pipeline.

[stray lintel]

or is that not necesscary

Ah

So like i want uh people in a certain uh radius to see my camera on their screen

[somber sequoia]

like taking over their screen? screenspace shader, but of course this is very rude.

[short ferry]

yep its an SDK bug since I rolledback to the previous SDK and it was fixed

[ornate stump]

Strange bug it is.

[short ferry]

yep-

[somber sequoia]

this looks like blender - is it multiple armatures, or just one?

[alpine perch]

there's two the green circled one is the main armature and the red one is the choker armature

[somber sequoia]

I'd use just one, and re-parent the bones to whatever seems most appropriate, probably the neck

unless you specifically want to make an asset you'll attach with something like VRC Fury in Unity, like for sharing purposes, I'd just use one armature.

[alpine perch]

how would i go about that tho??

[somber sequoia]

strip the new armature down to only the bones you want to add, ctrl+j to join it to the avatar's armature, re-parent the new bones properly

[alpine perch]

like deleting the pre-exiting bones that are on the choker?

[somber sequoia]

I don't know what's on there so I'm not going to say what you should delete

[alpine perch]

idk if i explained it properly my apologize but i just want to see if i can connect the asset that was already rigged and connect it with my avi but the bones don't attach to said choker/main armature

[somber sequoia]

you did, and I understood

well I'm not sure what you mean by "the bones don't attach"

[low ferry]

idk how you fellas do this stuff my mind is being fried by how much of this i dont understand

[olive yoke]

Is there a way to stop a set hand from grabbing physbones
for example
I have a physbone in my right had that I dont want to be able to grab with my right hand, only with my left

[olive yoke]

you need to parent the bone

[timber wharf]

@alpine perch join armatures, reparent 2nd old root to neck, set armature modifier to a new one for bell

[somber sequoia]

all of which was already said, yup

[alpine perch]

jus to make sure so ctrl+j the main armature and the choker armature together. then how would i reparent? T0T

[somber sequoia]

edit the armature, select the bone, and you can set the parent in the bone properties box. Or select the bone, then select the new parent, and I think it's ctrl+p to do it?

[copper kernel]

hello! are any of you here experienced in texture painting in blender? I'm a little lost as to what I'm doing an dcould use some help.

[somber sequoia]

kinda? Blender isn't great for this

[copper kernel]

what im trying to do is use this as a decal, and have it be on the avatar. the issssuuueee comes when i turn the avi

Im not really great with figuring out how to decipher the textures

[somber sequoia]

is this for vrchat? I'd apply decals in your shader in unity

[copper kernel]

so ive been trying to do it in blender

it is yeah, the issue with that though is the decals arent reallllyyy finished

I only have the top parts and was gonna freehand the rest

trying to put my own tattoos on the avatar lol

[somber sequoia]

ok so what's the issue? trying to find where 3D parts are on the 2D texture? You can go into "UV Editing" and select faces in 3D and see them in 2D.
Or in the texture paint mode, you can tab the 3D view over to edit mode, select some faces, tab back to paint mode, and turn on the paint masking so you can only paint in the selected area

[copper kernel]

im not very experinced in blender to begin with, so i'm not sure how to explain the issue. I'm sorry
im guess im looking for a way for the texture to wrap properly arounnd the neck instead of stretching like that

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure if you can really do that in Blender

[copper kernel]

damn ahhhh

well thank you!

[somber sequoia]

some other tools like Substance Painter let you project overlay textures in 3D. maybe blender can, I've just not tried

[dry ibex]

help

[somber sequoia]

post the first 2-3 errors, there's unfortunately nothing of use in those.

[somber sequoia]

go into the build control panel, there's probably a few "auto fix" buttons

I saw it, don't worry 🙂

[hoary void]

how do i made a costome animation for my model if i dont have an action in theis section?

[night ember]

make an action layer

[timber wharf]

or rather copy og one to assets and edit, its somewhere in packages/sdk/examples or like that

[tardy nymph]

i... hate.. unity

it worked fine last time

why now!!!!!

[ornate stump]

You probably had Animator disabled or on preview when you were uploading it.

[ruby gazelle]

i'm trying to edit this avatar but for some reason the face keeps messing up(left) i'm using the same texture for both but it keeps happening. please help

[tardy nymph]

wait that is a thing..? i thought the animator didn't count

(new to unity if anyone can't tell)

[ornate stump]

the animator didn't count
This doesn't make sense.

If you have the avatar in bike pose not reacting to any animation, that likely mean you had animation on preview while uploading it.

[untold escarp]

So this new texture i have for my saavi avatar I've managed to figure most of it out but i don't know where eve emmisive or where metalic is meant to go, anyone here able to help me out?

[ornate stump]

It basically go into slot with those names on it.

[untold escarp]

I cant find any slots called eye emmissive or body metalic tho, its showing me normal map and alpha map

[ornate stump]

Eye and body are objects the texture supposed to be used on.

Emission and metallic are ones of material properties where it depends on shader you're using.

[tall carbon]

anyone know how to solve this?

[ornate stump]

You have to look for more errors above that.

[vast quartz]

so I am really new to blender and Unity I was wondering if someone can teach me how to create avatars and other things like rigging adding bones the whole bunch

[ornate stump]

That's a lot, somewhat in degree of a whole collage course for that.

[untold escarp]

Question, do y'all know where i can find someone to comm to do some avi work? Im done trying to figure this out

[ornate stump]

#avatar-general message

[untold escarp]

Dang, didn't know it was that bad

[tardy nymph]

huh?

oh right..

WHY NOT

i mean.. it says ok but that is not ok

[sudden violet]

i'd advise to check how that looks like in blender, the two bones should look the same as all the other fingers.

if it looks fine in blender, you might have changed the transforms of your armature in unity.

[strange sparrow]

i need help with particles

i'm making a blood effect for an avatar

when i rotate the arm, it rotated the previous particles

i'd like the particles to constrain to the world

like this

the particles have gravity

but when i rotate my arm, the particles that appear before rotates with it

[sinful widget]

I have a gif shader for my avatar model but when i add it the gif is not playing and is static

will thisi work for quest btw

[strange sparrow]

prob not

if its a custom shader it probably wont work for quest

thats my guess tho

[strange sparrow]

never mind, i found the problem

i had the simulation space set to "Local" and not "World"

[night ember]

just change from local to world

[night ember]

you need to convert the gif to a sprite sheet then either manually animate it or use a particle to automatically animate it

[meager trout]

i changed the pants on my model.
and, the skeleton is the same, just weight painting changed.
the general position of the skeleton in blender is almost one for one but the one with the new pants is a bit broken.
(left is new) (right is old and working)

i don't know how to fix this problem of knees inverting in

[balmy barn]

station you drop from avatar ?, cannot sit on your own station

[umbral oriole]

you can reposition the bones in that screen go to the the bottom or just select the bone yourself and try to reposition it to look more natural

[iron dove]

I uploaded a bike and it does this

[long lava]

Question!!
I want to make a 3D eyeball, which isn't round.
Is there any way to make the eye movements by offsetting the texture of the eye, instead of rotating the mesh

[ivory ermine]

I have a question: Who makes avatars here?

[ornate stump]

Most people here make avatar.

[ivory ermine]

What about for someone who has a project that needs to be done?

[long lava]

............. Is that a scam

[somber sequoia]

This sounds like it's about to be a rule 10 violation

but here, I have lots of projects that need to be done 🙂

[ivory ermine]

No, I have a payment coming in just wanted to work with someone on an idea.

[somber sequoia]

if you want to commission an artist, go to the VRC Traders discord, the link is in #1204490664637890580

[ivory ermine]

Ok thank

I'm trying to make one of my characters from my book for an avatar so thanks.

[arctic ginkgo]

yes, you can use the rotation of the eye bone to move contacts using position constraints. These contacts will write to X and Y values that can be used to animate the texture offset

ofc since you don't want the eye to move with the bone, it shouldn't be weightpainted to the bone.

[cinder frost]

I wouldn’t use position constraints for that

I would add a contact sender to the eye bone and move it between two proximity based receivers, one determining X axis and one determining Y axis

Default value would be 0.5, 0.5
Up would be 0.3, 1
Down would be 0.3, 0
Left would be 0, 0.3
Right would be 1, 0.3

I’ve done this setup a lot

[surreal salmon]

How does one put a video on a model in vrc. Like if I wanted it on a sighn or something

I've seen videos with audio on a avi before but idk how to replicate that

Or where I'd start

[long lava]

Thanks!!! I'll look into it!

[arctic ginkgo]

I've also done this setup a lot, and I use constraints so that the shape of the contacts doesn't interfere with the collision

[long lava]

all that sounds complicated
never used contacts before

[arctic ginkgo]

technically it doesn't give exact X and Y values, it gives sin(eyeX) and sin(eyeY)

[long lava]

i appreciate the vrchat documentation, very precise

[arctic ginkgo]

it's not too complicated to set up imo, but you do have to be precise with the position and size of the contacts

[long lava]

I've never really used Unity other than for VRChat content creation, is there a reason why VRChat only accept bone rotation for the eye tracking?

[arctic ginkgo]

no probably not, just because it's what's typically used i guess

this is how i set up my contacts

[long lava]

thanks for the help :)

[arctic ginkgo]

the blue are recievers, the yellow is a sender. Black represents the radius, and red represents 1/2 of the radius (which is how much they should be colliding by default

they should all be the same size. The senders should be position constrained to an empty object that is a fixed distance away from the eye bone and parented to it. The radius of all contacts should be twice this distance.

then the top reciever should only have the X freeze axis enabled, while the bottom one should only have the Y freeze axis enabled

[long lava]

okay!

thanks :)

[somber sequoia]

you can't really do this except as a flipbook

[vast quartz]

hello I would like someones help with creating and uploading my first avatar I was wondering if someone can help me with it? your allowd to dm me and I appreciate it 🙏

[soft aurora]

Im trying to basically add a walkman onto my avatar, but i want the wire to move with the body and not stay still, aswell as the headphones move with the wire, Basically in a way so that the wire mesh stretches and compresses depending on how the body moves

[somber sequoia]

you're more likely to get help if you just ask in here.

[vast quartz]

fair welll is anyone willing to go into a call?

[somber sequoia]

not me

[soft aurora]

Is there a way to fix this?

[somber sequoia]

You'd have to rig the wire with bones and use a physbone chain. You can't anchor it to both ends though, so it'll be tricky to get it to look decent.

[green sleet]

guys idk what email is for my vrchat account and ive done the email thingy is there anyway i can make a ticket so the game can tell me my email if i show proof its my acc

cuz i got vrchat plus and would like to make use of it

i feel so stupid for forgetting

[soft aurora]

I meant not with physics, like i saw an avatar once with a gun strap and the mesh stretched to go forwards with the gun, is there a way to do that so the wire stretches with the body starting from the head?

[ornate stump]

#vrchat-support

[somber sequoia]

Okay, well the answer is still likely weight painting the wire's mesh to various bones, be it the existing bones, or a new chain

[soft aurora]

I tried weight painting, but it still acts weird in blender

[somber sequoia]

yeah, I imagine it will

[somber sequoia]

ah ok now I see what you have. Yeah, this is really tricky to get looking good

[soft aurora]

So what am i going to have to do? (sorry if this sounds rude, not trying to be : (. )

[somber sequoia]

also not trying to be rude, but "better weight painting"

[green sleet]

i need my emaail for that too

[somber sequoia]

I'm really not sure without playing with it, but I think it's going to be a pain in the butt 🙂

[soft aurora]

So try and not red out it? More light weight paint?

[green sleet]

#discord-tickets

[ornate stump]

Discord ticket is for moderation within discord server. It isn't for resolving your vrchat account issue.

[somber sequoia]

I'd be trying to do gradients between the parts it's supposed to move with. I did this on a strap for a shoulder bag and... well it isn't great.

[soft aurora]

Okay, makes sense

[worn kiln]

we don't deal account issue and not has access as Ren told you.

[green sleet]

hey chat

can anybody upload an print of an pfp i want

so i can

make a pic of it

i would rlly apreciatte it

[somber sequoia]

upload?

[green sleet]

ye like

print smth i want

[worn kiln]

There is many image hosting service there.
Just upload to there.
https://imgbb.com/

[somber sequoia]

print?

[worn kiln]

if need

[green sleet]

i cant get it to my account

i cant log in

[worn kiln]

if you mean just want to save as picture file, paste it to paint kind of app and save it.

[green sleet]

ill just wait for someone kind to help me out

[somber sequoia]

it's really not clear what you want

[green sleet]

yk like with vrchat plus u can print pictures

i cant log into the app on my phone forgot my email

[somber sequoia]

ahhh, why didn't you say that in the first place?

[green sleet]

and making a ticket is to complicated for me

so i need someone to print it

so i can make a picture

of a profile picture i want

[soft aurora]

Ive managed to make it look better, but the headphone input is still finnicky, I might know why though

[arctic ginkgo]

dude is that mike dirnt?

[green sleet]

good keep up the great work

[soft aurora]

yes

[arctic ginkgo]

that's awesome lol

[worn kiln]

@green sleetcopy and paste here, then right click on visual and save it, then delete. (lazy way)

[soft aurora]

i am a great green day fan

[green sleet]

idk what ur talkin gabt

[soft aurora]

i made countless green day avatars for my friends, some are funny as hell

[green sleet]

abt

on my vr?

[somber sequoia]

wow I'd never have guessed that

[green sleet]

i go on dc on my vr?

[arctic ginkgo]

where do you get the models? the first place I'd think would be from the green day rockband game, is that where you get them?

[soft aurora]

yes!

exactly!

some are on sketch but you need to rig them

[green sleet]

akimitsu?

[vast quartz]

im still looking for help on tryintg to get these toggles to work

[somber sequoia]

provide details?

[green sleet]

your name sound fimiliar

[vast quartz]

no

[arctic ginkgo]

that is so cool, I loved that game when I was younger and I'm a huge green day fan too :D

[green sleet]

syfm

[worn kiln]

but you don't need screenshot to make ticket? don't you?

[arctic ginkgo]

the models are stylized really well and capture their liknesses too

[green sleet]

im to dumbb

tony

can u upload it for me?

load.

[green sleet]

if ur not busy atm

[worn kiln]

you don't need it....just type it

[green sleet]

bro my brain is smaller then a goldfish

idk what ur talking abt

[soft aurora]

yeah, i (funnily attempted) to make acdc out of their bases of avis

[green sleet]

tf is that

is that a dragon

[vast quartz]

kooky kobold

[green sleet]

never heard of that

[graceful fox]

hello can someone help me with fixing some stuff ? is my 1st time uploading an avatar and i got some errors

[somber sequoia]

Show errors, describe the problem, describe what you've done.

[green sleet]

https://tenor.com/view/gojo-satoru-jujutsu-kaisen-gif-8872922284431337007

wait so do i copy paste that on my vr?

not waht im gonna use but

is that waht i need to do

[graceful fox]

well i bought an avatar from gumroad, i got the avatar package and stuff, i installed unity and vrchat companion. But when i upload the avatar it downt work, but in unity it seems like it works

this is the 1st error i got

sorry for my english is not my main lenguage

[worn kiln]

just type your username by hand.

simple

[green sleet]

ye nty is this what i have to o

and then copy paste it

[somber sequoia]

Open the package manager and upgrade what it tells you to. This is Unity 2022.3.22f1, right?

[green sleet]

on my vr

and then what

[worn kiln]

are you logged in on browser?

[green sleet]

no other wise i wouldnt be making a ticket

[worn kiln]

then how am I suppose to know your username really....

[green sleet]

majdi_6678

[worn kiln]

then put that there

simple

[green sleet]

it lit says email above it

[worn kiln]

enter e-mail address you have access to.
then state it on description

[green sleet]

even fucking ai didnt know what i was talking abt

[graceful fox]

i dont know how to change to the older 2022 version it opens the 6.1

[green sleet]

i did that i lost my acc

not that sh

even ai doesnt get my stupid ahh

[somber sequoia]

there's your problem, you cannot use that for VRChat.

[worn kiln]

now you wait....that's it.

[somber sequoia]

https://vcc.docs.vrchat.com/guides/getting-started

includes install instructions and such.

[green sleet]

cuh

syfm

[worn kiln]

that's not available

[somber sequoia]

does this all need to be in avatar help?

[soft aurora]

Now im having an issue with the walkman not moving with the leg, hmm

[green sleet]

wdym😭

[worn kiln]

reply to e-mail if you want to add more info.

login is for support staff only

[green sleet]

see

where is my email recovery

even ai doesnt understand my stupid ahh

[worn kiln]

you just wait by now as you already submit ticket, that's it.

[green sleet]

well

can u help me get that print tho

cud u print smth out for me

[worn kiln]

I don't know what you are talking about.

[green sleet]

u got vrchat plus?

[worn kiln]

yeah?

[graceful fox]

damn i had 2 versions selected

[green sleet]

cud u add me on vrchat print out the foto i send u

so i can make foto

and set it as my pfp

[worn kiln]

do yourself....

[green sleet]

idk ho

how

bc i cant log into the web

[worn kiln]

do it once recovered, that's it.

[green sleet]

bro help ur guy out

cmon

[prisma sedge]

Whats the link you're trying to login?

[green sleet]

idk my email

i need a fricking recovery

[prisma sedge]

Not what I asked

[green sleet]

finna take so long

[still shuttle]

You can use your username to log in

[green sleet]

and my pass

or email

is u stupid

[still shuttle]

Why don't you know your own password?

Did you not write it down?

[somber sequoia]

why are we doing this in this channel?

[green sleet]

wanna see the size of my brain

[prisma sedge]

Good question

[green sleet]

thats the size of my brain

[surreal salmon]

That's fine I already use flipbook a lit

[alpine delta]

https://fxtwitter.com/kitnxi/status/1513784768281853953

I hope im supposed to put this here but im wondering if anyone has these files because the link is broken

[surreal salmon]

Bit

[green sleet]

rlly bro

nobody finna help me out

nobody that nice to just say ye ofc bro whats ur user

[still shuttle]

You can wait til you recover ur account g

[green sleet]

G

i think u is just mentally retarted

[soft aurora]

Probably because they either dont understand what the issue is or you are spamming into the wrong channel for help

[somber sequoia]

I'd have considered it if you asked in a reasonable channel

[still shuttle]

It's not our fault you don't know ur info

[green sleet]

not my fault ur not in a mental hospital yet

get out of here

[soft aurora]

Thats harrasment

[green sleet]

mb

[somber sequoia]

already reported

[still shuttle]

Calling me a slur yet you can't remember basic shit like a password insane behavior ngl

[green sleet]

i just showed u the size of my brain

here it is again

[still shuttle]

But uh yeah this is the avatar help chat so if you don't need help with avis we can stop this conversation

[graceful fox]

do i click autofix?

[somber sequoia]

Yes

[surreal salmon]

Yes

Always auto fix

[somber sequoia]

eh.... be careful 🙂

[soft aurora]

Thanks, also would you know whats up with the walkman? I may have messed up on weight paint so ill check first

[somber sequoia]

I don't have anything else I can really suggest without me having the model and trying to do the actual work myself

[graceful fox]

oke got this, is it good to upload?

[devout mason]

Looks good 2 me :-)

[soft aurora]

Yeah, I understand, I would ask if you could do it but ive already asked for a lot, thanks : )

[somber sequoia]

no way would I want to do this, this is the most annoying part of avatar creation 🙂

[soft aurora]

Real!

[soft aurora]

Any reason to why this happens?

[somber sequoia]

"this"

[soft aurora]

?

If nothings showing I did upload a video to go with it

[somber sequoia]

no it's a video but exactly what are you referring to in it?

[soft aurora]

Why it seperates when moved

[somber sequoia]

oh - because those two vertices don't have exactly the same weight.

[soft aurora]

ooh

so what would be the solution? putting them together?

ctrl j?

[somber sequoia]

you could join the vertices, or you could give them exactly the same weight.

[soft aurora]

that seems painful

[somber sequoia]

(all weights, not just that one bone)

yep!

isn't it great

[soft aurora]

And how would i do that? not a blender pro lol sorry

[somber sequoia]

which one?

for weight you can sample the weight with the eyedropper tool, or you can look at the vertex in edit mode, in the "item" box you'll see weights.

[soft aurora]

Sample? Im trying but it doesnt seem to work

[somber sequoia]

works for me

[soft aurora]

Do i just click?

[somber sequoia]

yeah just click and then at the upper left it'll report the weight, and when you switch back to a paint tool, your weight value will be set to that

[soft aurora]

Figured it out!

I put the same exact weight on these points, but still nothing. Hmm

(color is orange for mesh)

They are both red but dont seem to move the same

[gilded spindle]

very gj!

[sudden violet]

Edit mode, click on a vertice, check on the top-right if it ONLY has weights from the head-bone

[soft aurora]

It doesnt have bones on the wire

[sudden violet]

If it has weights from other bones too, they won't act the same as blended auto-normalizes first

[soft aurora]

Its just a mesh on its own (id rather not pain myself lol)

[sudden violet]

Yea, but the mesh has weights of 1 to the head bone, correct?

[somber sequoia]

yeah you have to check all the weights on those, not just the one you're painting

[soft aurora]

Im not sure what you mean? (blender noob here lol)

I have to restart the WHOLE project, i accidentally joined something and now its too late to undo it

The texture doesnt go on correct now

I hate blender

[arctic ginkgo]

you can try looking in your autosave folder

and also your blend1 file

[sudden violet]

That happens when UVmaps of meshes you join have a different name

[soft aurora]

And its sadly unreversible?

[sudden violet]

Unless you can "undo", try what Sun said

[arctic ginkgo]

it should be reversible

it might not be

[soft aurora]

I went to autosave and it just got me back to where i was 5 secs ago

[sudden violet]

Actually, it might be

[arctic ginkgo]

try separating them and looking at the UV map channels

[soft aurora]

Ok

WAIT

I can just reimport the thing

[sudden violet]

I figure you can reimport the original mesh and copy-paste the UVmap as well

[arctic ginkgo]

this is a backup btw, it's saved in the same location as your .blend file. If you just change the filetype from .blend1 to .blend (and rename the file) you can open it

[sudden violet]

Or that

[arctic ginkgo]

there's typically a lot of solutions

also I recommend increasing your undos

[sudden violet]

That's a thing???

[arctic ginkgo]

yes, increase undo steps

[sudden violet]

Goddamn you saved me so much stress, thanks

[arctic ginkgo]

make sure you save your preferences with the hamburger menu in the bottom left

[soft aurora]

Wait

Do i HAVE to Weight paint EVERY mesh?

[somber sequoia]

if you want it to move, it must be weight painted

else it'll just get dragged along with the root bone

[soft aurora]

If its seperated on the dae?

[soft aurora]

I may have an easy solution to what you just said

What if

nvm

that was my original question lol

[somber sequoia]

yep, each object 🙂

[soft aurora]

jeez

[arctic ginkgo]

I would merge them once you are done as well

it's super unoptimized to have them all separate

[soft aurora]

It messed up the textures

[arctic ginkgo]

you may need to atlas the textures

[soft aurora]

oh jeez

[arctic ginkgo]

https://github.com/Grim-es/material-combiner-addon

this can do it automatically

[somber sequoia]

Yeah merge them when you export. I often keep parts (such as clothing) separate in blender

[soft aurora]

its all one texture

[somber sequoia]

when you merge make sure you have all transforms applied first

[soft aurora]

it follows one texture, its just the UV

[arctic ginkgo]

if it's all using the same texture, it may be that they have different UV channels

[soft aurora]

That!

[somber sequoia]

AND ideally your UV map names should match

if they need to.

[arctic ginkgo]

You should make sure that the UV channel you want them to use has the same UV Map name for each object

in the vertex data properties

[soft aurora]

i might not use the walman

this is very stressful

[somber sequoia]

I use a great plugin called ZenUV for managing UV maps, you can copy and paste data between them

(not free)

[soft aurora]

would this be easier if the headphones and the walkman come from the same fbx/dae/obj, etc?

[somber sequoia]

irrelevant

once you have them in blender, it doesn't matter how they got there

[soft aurora]

so it doesnt matte rif they are made differently?

like one is from something different and so on?

[somber sequoia]

it's all just mesh and bones inside blender

[soft aurora]

damn

[somber sequoia]

unless there's really weird things going on

[soft aurora]

Well

Ill thank you all for helping

Ill use this knowledge in the future, but for now the walkmans going to rest

I cant stress about this anymore lol

[arctic ginkgo]

where'd you get the walkman model from?

[soft aurora]

sketch

should be called "Old Walkman" or the sorts

[gilded spindle]

Real brief,
this error in the logs, What is VPM, and am I expected to migrate my project to it manually?
Im trying to update a 2019 project via VCC.

If anymore information is needed, inform me

[somber sequoia]

vpm is the command-line tool that does what vcc does

[gilded spindle]

I see, so what exactly is preventing VCC from accessinmg it?
I've tried closing all unity instances and vcc

[somber sequoia]

I don't use VCC, as it doesn't run on Linux, so not sure, but #creator-companion existis

[soft aurora]

i just found out the EASIEST way to fix ALL of this, wireless headphones, originally was hiding from them for realism

[somber sequoia]

hahaha

[gilded spindle]

ah, pardon. Thanks for the link.
I literally never go to this server anymore, didnt know iit existied <3

[somber sequoia]

how obvious

[gilded spindle]

lmao

[soft aurora]

Yeah i wanted it to look the most knowledable as i could

But now i gotta go with what works

[somber sequoia]

cat

[arctic ginkgo]

cat

[prisma ravine]

I can't not upload

[somber sequoia]

you haven't shown us anything about why though. maybe the build window or errors in the console?

[somber sequoia]

"missing credentials" seems like the network issue a bunch of people have had

[prisma ravine]

Okay

[sinful widget]

hi guys im usually an avi uploader but I want to get into modeling i have watched tons of tuts and know basics but if you guys got any tips please let me know as im still only a beginner avi creator

[somber sequoia]

always wear sunscreen

[sinful widget]

thanks

[somber sequoia]

seriously though I can't think of anything other than watching many tutorial videos

[sinful widget]

have any in particular?

[somber sequoia]

nope, not really

[tidal radish]

does anyone know how to fix this? I modified my avatar in blender to add some new blendshapes. But after importing the new FBX the fingers curl way differently. Toggling legacy fingers ingame doesnt change anything. The first 2 are before the edit, the last the pics are after the edit. As you can see my fingers curl way too much now. Does anyone know how to fix that?

[slow fable]

How do I fix this

[somber sequoia]

The blocking problem isn't shown

[hushed sphinx]

Hey sorry its been a hot minute but I got it to work thank you!

[heavy zephyr]

Glad I could help, you're very welcome !

[lilac musk]

Don't look up VR chat tutorials. Look up just regular 3D modeling blender tutorials

[arctic ginkgo]

is the SDK having issues with updating content metadata (names, thumbnail, description)?

[ebon jay]

i have too many assets in my scene to be able to upload to android version, how do i reduce?

[weak smelt]

i added a material to an avatar i bought but when i go into play mode the material switches back

[desert elk]

you probably have an animation that switches it

[desert elk]

delete them

[ebon jay]

delete what tho

[mossy ridge]

is there a way to make an avatar just not be affected by lighting at all that works for both pc and quest
i have a specific material on an avi that basically makes it look like when cartoon characters are in a really dark room and you can only see their eyes and i need the eyes to like glow in the dark and i have NO IDEA how to make that work

[sour sparrow]

yoyoyo! so im trying to make a bunch of stuff for vrchat but what i have tried already isnt working out.. could someone help pls!

[humble elk]

Yo bro, same thing, I used to upload avatars before too but I kinda forgot a lot and I’m just messing up lmao

[sour sparrow]

yeah lol, i had never actually learned so thats why im asking for more help

[humble elk]

We should find someone to help us both lol

[sour sparrow]

but what sucks is that im trying to port models from a game but the bones arent the same that are needed for vr chat

yeah

[humble elk]

You might have to remake the bones lol

[sour sparrow]

idk how

thats why im here

[humble elk]

I don’t know how to either lmao

But my problem is with textures

[sour sparrow]

ahh i gotcha

well i hope someone can help the both of us and soon

[humble elk]

You got mic?

[sour sparrow]

yeaah why

[humble elk]

Because trying to troubleshoot over text is going to be hell

[sour sparrow]

yeah but wdym

[humble elk]

Wdym Wdym

[sour sparrow]

i mean wdym trying to troubleshoot, like with me or yourself?

[humble elk]

With both of us, the third person who will help us

[sour sparrow]

oh yeah but its not like anyones here rn

[humble elk]

☹️

[sour sparrow]

I hate not knowing this stuff

[copper kernel]

yo, whats the name of the system that you can like. punch someone and they go flying? if anyone has a link to wheree i can buy it pls send

[still shuttle]

Look up videos on how to rig, you will most likely need to re rig

[sour sparrow]

I have but they dont work, and i think its very specific for the characters im doing

[vast quartz]

Hey is anybody willing to help me with unity

I’m trying to make an avatar

I have assets to make a kobold but idk how to use them

[still shuttle]

What do you mean they don't work?

[sour sparrow]

im trying to port models from a game but there arent any specific videos that tell me how to re-rig those models (game is dragon ball sparking zero)

[still shuttle]

Yeah you'll just have to rig it like every other vrchat avatar

What i do when I port roblox avatars into vrchat, since they don't come rigged, I import a body base that I purchased with a basic rig setup, delete the mesh and any extra bones, then I just line up the bones with the character, parent with automatic weights and then clean up the weight painting cuz automatic weights will not weight it right first try so you'll have to go in and touch it up

[sour sparrow]

interesting, thanks for the explanation!! but are there any videos that you know off the top of your head that could show that?

[still shuttle]

Not any of my specific technique. I taught myself lol but there are a shit ton of rigging tutorials that will go over the basic premis of how to rig

[vast quartz]

So I’m having a problem here I’m trying to get the accessories out of the model but unity isn’t letting me

[still shuttle]

Check for blend shapes maybe

[humble elk]

Can you help me with textures please 😺

[sour sparrow]

alr thanks

[vast quartz]

How would I do that I’m pretty new

[still shuttle]

What's ur issue?

[still shuttle]

Click on the mesh and look in the inspector window

If it has blendshapes, it will have a drop down menu labeled as such

[humble elk]

I apply textures in blender but when I import to unity it’s white like limestone

[still shuttle]

Yeah that usually happens

You can import the textures into unity

[north cradle]

What is this guy talkin about

[still shuttle]

Then make the materials urself. That's what I do

[humble elk]

I don’t know the ui anymore , it’s been like 3 years since I used to know

[still shuttle]

I just make a new folder in the project window and name it like materials and textures, then I go through one by one and import textures and make materials

If you don't know how to make materials, there are good resources and tutorials online

You can just drag and drop textures from your download folder into unity and they will import

[humble elk]

Is making a material same as importing texture?

[still shuttle]

No

A material is what you put on the avatar, you put the texture inside of the material

Importing textures is just drag and drop, but you actually gotta make the materials and put them on ur avi to see ur textures on the avatar

[lofty bane]

is there a way to animate the view position camera? as is, the avatar descriptor script cannot be animated because it doesn't exist in the game, but the viewpoint is on itself a Unity Camera. How do I override this camera with my own?

[humble elk]

Is a there a video you recommend? Or how do I even search for that?

[still shuttle]

I just googled "vrchat how to make materials for avatar" and this was the first video to pop up:
https://youtu.be/igDeAFJrFbo?si=FbwNXqv9NkhLGV5K

It should help

[sour sparrow]

I apologize for the continuous questions but where can I find the rigs that you use for this?

[austere bay]

https://zinpia.sellfy.store/bodys/ cosmo said they use a body they purchased, obviously I don't know which one they use but these are some of the most common ones people use

and imo, they're probably the best, just remove any twist bones for now since I think you're quite new to rigging

[sour sparrow]

yeahhh but ion have money so I was asking because I was hoping for a free alternative

but I think ill take the one of the vr chat base in unity

[austere bay]

https://jinxxy.com/ this websites pretty good for finding assets :) you might be able to find a free base on there

but otherwise yeah, vrchat should have a sample robot avatar you can just take the rig from

[rain sail]

trying to upload my own Vrchat Avatar but uh....

proving very hard

i have NO idea what im doing rn

[sour sparrow]

thank you!

[mighty copper]

how do I add bones too an existing humanoid armature? everytime I add bones in blender and export it with the same export settings when I simply add a blendshape or adjust weight painting it ends up fine, but when I add a bone the whole avatar dissapears

[austere bay]

what exactly are you trying to do?

[still shuttle]

Any body base will work honestly. I used pandas old female base cuz it had a very simple rig set up and i just delete any extra bones I don't need, like twist bones n stuff

[austere bay]

yeah that can happen if the heirarchy is disturbed i'm pretty sure, you should be able to just go into the import settings, remap any bones that need remapping then try forcing t-pose

reset the pose then force t-pose*

[wanton cedar]

fall back to an older ver of blender

i still use 3.4 and it works perfectly

[austere bay]

there's no reason to do that

[wanton cedar]

yes

[still shuttle]

Me too fr

[mighty copper]

remap? wdym?

[wanton cedar]

if the blender ver is too new it sometimes breaks the model and that happens

its happened to me before and plenty of other people

[austere bay]

I always use the most recent version, there are no issues lmao?

[still shuttle]

You can configure your avatar in unity to be able to map bones.

[wanton cedar]

lmao good for you then

but they have an issue

[rain sail]

well, im trying to figure out why its like...

[austere bay]

which likely isn't caused by the new blender version

[rain sail]

all just spheres

or dots

[wanton cedar]

yun just try an older ver of blender

see if that works

[rain sail]

alr alr

[still shuttle]

You got wire frame mode on?

[rain sail]

how old?

[austere bay]

what have you done so far? just imported an fbx?

[rain sail]

Yes

[wanton cedar]

just try 3.4

[rain sail]

just imported it

[rain sail]

How do you turn it off?

[mighty copper]

do I just click automap in the rig settings in unity?

[rain sail]

i dont remember having it on at all

[wanton cedar]

i dont see wireframe mode on

do you need the link for the 3.4?

ive got it bookmarked

[still shuttle]

Not sure
I wasn't aware you could fix the avatar disappearing that way.

[rain sail]

Does someone have the download link for 3.4 blender?

[wanton cedar]

https://download.blender.org/release/Blender3.4/

[rain sail]

ok ty!!

ill let you know how it goes

[wanton cedar]

you're welcome, i hope it fixes your issue

[sour sparrow]

alright so i found a base, your saying that if i match my character to this base armature, it would work?

[austere bay]

you'll have to weight paint the mesh to the rig

[rain sail]

so uh

[austere bay]

you can automatically do that but it'll likely be quite broken

[rain sail]

slight issue

[austere bay]

especially if you use an older blender version.

[wanton cedar]

weird

[sour sparrow]

i gotcha, im using 4.2 rn

[wanton cedar]

i got that from the official site

[austere bay]

it's honestly a waste of time but that's just a pop up that windows comes up with if it doesn't know the publisher, just ignore it

[rain sail]

no option to ignore it

wont let me download it

at all

[austere bay]

you should be able to view more options or something then tick that you accept the risks i think

then it lets you install

i can't remember exactly, I haven't had to install blender versions in a while

version 3.4 might be on steam though, just go into the options and change the version where you'd usually change to beta

[still shuttle]

As long as you rig it to work with the mesh, yes

[wanton cedar]

i can go check steam rq

yeah looks to be in there

[rain sail]

could you show me how to like

go to more earlier versions

[austere bay]

right click, select properties, then betas, then select a different version

[mighty copper]

yeah no this still isnt working

avatar is still vanished

[still shuttle]

I just reset it up ngl

[mighty copper]

reseting does nothing

[still shuttle]

I use pumpkins tools to copy shit like materials and physbones but then I just reset the avatar up with the fresh fbx

[mighty copper]

it's till vanished

[still shuttle]

You have to drag and drop the new fbx into the hierarchy

[austere bay]

just delete the fbx and import the new one

dont replace the old one

[mighty copper]

then I would have to make a new avatar ;-;

[austere bay]

yep </3

[still shuttle]

That's what I mean by "re set up the avatar" I didnt mean reset the fbx itself

[young bear]

why are my physbones wigging out on my avatar? i have a toggle that makes the bones longer and the 2nd picture is how they're supposed to look but the right picture is what happens if i have the physbones enabled when the animation is played.

[austere bay]

you could try importing the fbx into a different project and see if it comes up

bc if it's still invisible then then it's your export settings or something in blender at least

not unity

but if it shows up then it's unity and then if enforcing tpose doesn't work you'll have to just redo the whole thing i think </3

[austere bay]

colliders probably

[young bear]

the physbones don't have any colliders attatched to them

[still shuttle]

Yepp that's also why I mentioned pumkins avatar tools. It's good for instantly copying physbones, materials and other things from the broken avatar to the not broken avatar

It's soooo niceee

I used to manually put the materials and stuff back on and it would take me hours

[young bear]

i mean you can always just set the avatar in the heirarchy to use a different fbx and it will do all the conversion for you :P

[still shuttle]

That always caused weird issues for me

[rain sail]

not seeing a 3.4

beta

theres a 3.3

[austere bay]

just use 3.3 then

[wanton cedar]

yeah 3.3 should be fine

[rain sail]

alr alr

ill let yall know how it goes

[humble elk]

I don’t understand why people sell clothing in unity packs and not blend files or fbx?

[prisma monolith]

how do i fix these errors been having this for over an hour and im losin my shit.

[humble elk]

AM I supposed to put the clothes on in unity? Instead of blender?

[austere bay]

you sure there are no other errors?

[austere bay]

yeah some people do, i think it's lazy tbh since a lot of assets aren't optimised so the avatars they go on end up massively unoptimised, you can just extract the files out of the unity project though

[vast quartz]

Is anyone willing to go into a call and help me with making an avatar I have all of the assets I want and a model to work with I’m just having trouble with making sure it works and I could actually wear the avatar

[austere bay]

there's plenty of youtube videos, if you want links lmk :) it's usually something that takes a few days, not really a 1 call kinda thing and it takes a lot of time so you probably won't find someone who can spend that time teaching you for free

[prisma monolith]

these are the issues im having. however it let me upload with no chest thingy

[humble elk]

I second this

[austere bay]

it says right there you need to map the chest

[vast quartz]

Yeah that would be appreciated

[austere bay]

in the import settings

[prisma monolith]

it ltierally said it was optional tho

[austere bay]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dCqejz6_lU&ab_channel=Samaye this whole channel is really good for beginners!
https://www.youtube.com/@PxINKY and so is this one, but they have more specific videos, if you have an issue, they've likely covered it!

[austere bay]

if you wanna know how to export assets from unity into blender lmk!

[humble elk]

Is it easy?

[austere bay]

yes, very easy :)

[prisma monolith]

so what do i do?

[humble elk]

Me likely, me likely likey likey

[rain sail]

so

it worked

but uh

another issue

the hair is fine but everything else

kinda is messed up

[austere bay]

you just have to readd the texture to the materials

in the shader settings

[rain sail]

like..

no idea what to do next

is there lik

like

a video you can send on youtube or smth?

[rugged vortex]

Can someone tell what to tweak?

[austere bay]

this should help!

[obtuse flicker]

When configuring your avatars armature

Make sure everything is linked correctly

[austere bay]

it's telling you what to do

[obtuse flicker]

What could be causing this? Hips are wrong in-game but are fine in the SDK

[rugged vortex]

I can't get to figure it out

[obtuse flicker]

PC died doing this apparently lmao

[wanton cedar]

its just the textures are assigned to the wrong place

[obtuse flicker]

But the hips are messed up when standing still

[austere bay]

I'm not sure what i can tell you that isn't in the error message T-T

your bones are not parented properly, or you have something assigned as upper chest in the fbx import settings

[rain sail]

Ok!

imported it a second time

cause i wanted to start over

and it just kinda

fixed itself???

ty for the help now i just gotta upload it!!

[umbral oriole]

where si the chest bone? you kinda need that

[umbral oriole]

its in the fbx for the avatar looks like the spine bone is in the the wrong slot

[wanton cedar]

good luck

glad it worked

[umbral oriole]

likely cause might be armatre was set as the hip instead of the actual hip check the rig on the fbx

[obtuse flicker]

The pelvis is set as the hip

And walking and everything else seems normal

[umbral oriole]

hmmm then im not quite sure whats causing the wierdness

[snow goblet]

anyway to have liltoon fallback to toonstandard while preserving hue shifts?

[hot heron]

How do I make my Avatar IoS/quest Compatible?

It’s greyed out in the settings in the SDK

I’m now a new user not vistior

Sorry on headset rn expect typos

[snow goblet]

if your avatar has all the errors fixed, you may need to install Android Build Support for your unity version

[hot heron]

Ok ty!

I’ll see if yhats the culprit

[umbral oriole]

I had an issue like this i had to rename the bones in blender and then it worked. make sure its named Hips, Spine, Chest, Neck, Head

[obtuse flicker]

This is weirding me out cause its only when im not moving

[strange sandal]

Anyone on here able to help me get my avatar setup? i got odos pup pack

[graceful fox]

how can i change the textures of an avatar?

and how can i add weapons and clothes?

[snow goblet]

do you have the avatar in unity already?
it should be as simple as search for the .PNG or .PSD files inside your assets and edit them directly
you can find many prefabs for clothing or items and the like on sites like gumroad or booth. adding them with VRCFury is simple, just add an armature link!

[graceful fox]

well i got the avatar but it seems a bit bugged

is my 1st time doing an avatar

editing i mean

[wild basin]

how do i merge this shapekey into the base model

[lapis elm]

Hello this is the first avatar i've been working on (a lasyusha) and does anyone know how to make the lower part of the outer layer of bottoms follow the rest of the pants?

[graceful fox]

this is the avatar i want to edit, the eyes are all black (dont know why) now im trying to put some clothes on the avatar

[arctic ginkgo]

open it in blender and weightpaint it to the legs

[lapis elm]

Tyy

[sour sparrow]

I apologize for coming back for this but could I get someone that could personally help me with certain things if they dont mind questions and stuff

[arctic ginkgo]

probably not without paying someone. That's a lot of time to invest. I would just ask here and whoever sees it can answer. It's usually not too long until someone can help

[sour sparrow]

yeah thats true

I guess I want someone on standby thats all

[hot heron]

Hihi. sorry, I'm still having trouble

I checked and have android available to select, but in the actual VR Chat it's not showing the avatar I uploaded (through Android selection) as android-compatible???

It keeps saying Windows only.

How do I change supported Platforms?

Hello? Please help.

[somber sequoia]

if it's windows only somehow you didn't upload an android one

[hot heron]

I uploaded a Quest-compatible model??

[somber sequoia]

I'd think that if you did that, it would show that

did you use the same blueprint ID as the windows one?

[hot heron]

Here's what I'm looking at.

[somber sequoia]

none of that answers my last question though

[hot heron]

Idk what you mean

Whats a Blueprint ID?

[somber sequoia]

oh, if you don't know that then you definitely did not do this correctly

[hot heron]

ok?

[somber sequoia]

That is the avatar's ID - you must take the blueprint ID from the first version you uploaded and put it into the second version so when you upload they're matched

any tutorial on this should explain it

[unkempt marsh]

did VRC change performance ranks?

hmm nevermind I think its showing me quest performance even though my build platform is windows

[prime crescent]

nope, that's windows requirements, numbers seem extremely unoptimised

how do you have that many phys bones and phys bone collisions?

[unkempt marsh]

-_-

my theory was correct, it was showing me quest performance
have you seen the average VRC avatars performance? yes mine's bad but compared to most peoples its great

[prime crescent]

you're right .w.

[unkempt marsh]

that was a little rude of me sorry

[prime crescent]

nah dw

I was rude too

[vast quartz]

im working on that model can you help me with mine?

[hot heron]

I'm still working on mine.

Sorry.

[vast quartz]

I cant figure out how tf can i get the clothing out of the mfmodel

[hot heron]

Same...

I assumed it was using the Gogo App thing they recommded havinh

Sorry got typos headset & keyboard lol

[vast quartz]

yes

is it possible for me to make a quick gc and screen share with you

[ember blade]

Ok, let's try this:
I want my avatar to be cool and have cool custom animations that are toggleable, but there's no "animation library" that I can find anywhere.

[hot heron]

I'd also like to see the clothes ability

GL!

[vast quartz]

alright

okay thank you 🙏

[ember blade]

Where can I get cool custom animations for my avatars?

[somber sequoia]

mixamo has a bunch of interesting ones, decent place to start

[mild sandal]

i keep needing to start over so out of frustration ive begun making a step by step so i cant forget anything. would anyone be willing to help me with blender creation thru assets
?

[ember blade]

Just to clarify, I'm not looking to commission anyone if that's what you're intending.
But yeah, I'd love some animations for avatars 😀

[mild sandal]

got some hairs, shoes, outfits, one or two accessories, missing tattoo-type materials but got skin on a head n body in blender as two meshess

[ember blade]

He just got raptured 😰

[mild sandal]

couldnt figure out the stupid seamless neck eitherr

[somber sequoia]

that's tricky

you need to use data transfer modifiers... or you know, just join it to the body. there's little reason not to

[sour sparrow]

hiiii im back, so I got my model to work (im gonna focus on textures later on) but the hair for my character always seems to stay in place instead of on my characters head

[mild sandal]

in blender? I've had success with joining before but :c forgot how to do everything

[somber sequoia]

yeah

select head, body, ctrl+j

[mild sandal]

oh okay cooll! i remember my net question now..

[somber sequoia]

without knowing anything about how you've attached it to the avatar, it's difficult to suggest things

[sour sparrow]

it was already on, I used a model from dragon ball sparking zero

[mild sandal]

Im interested in complete customization of the AMour - Nessy head and Egirl Zinpia base. If I want to custom sculpt, what is best to keep in mind? - when do shapekeys come into play?

also forgive any typos, i just got new nails and idk how to use me 😭 🙏

[somber sequoia]

unfortunately, that doesn't help much

[sour sparrow]

my bad, may I dm you to show you whats going on?

[somber sequoia]

I don't do private help for free, sorry

[sour sparrow]

aw dang okay

[mild sandal]

bro id pay you for ur knowledge rn

[somber sequoia]

I'm not interested in teaching.

[mild sandal]

damn idek why i come here for help

im sorry i asked

[somber sequoia]

Don't assume that I speak for anyone but myself

[vast quartz]

I’m just gpting things at this point better off

[mild sandal]

that part its the same responses at this point

ill keep lookng

[somber sequoia]

I looked at what you posted, but I don't really have anything to suggest, I have never used those assets and much of that is really just "however you want to do it", as useless as that sounds. There's no one correct workflow for something like this.

specific questions are easy. "what should I do?" is not

[mild sandal]

advice i asked for was and is open ended. i feel personally your choice of response could have been more closed- ended. i appreciste the response regardless.

[modest spire]

anyone know how to fix this problem

[tardy nymph]

when i add a prop to the hand the prop disappears..?

uh

[modest spire]

the scale is at 0 try making it at 1 maybe? im not sure

[twilit fog]

guys i used character companion to open a unity project and when i publish the vrchat sdk always fails to authenticate and say missing credentials error. assuming that i have installed all proper and latest version of dependnecies in creator companion what else could be possibly the issue. my account is properly logged in on vrc sdk so theres just really a problem when i publish my model

when i test model it works fine on vrc but not publish because of authentication and missing credentials error

[ember blade]

☹️

[vast quartz]

hey this mi9ght help you out here you go: 🧰 Step-by-Step: Clothing Toggles for VRChat (Avatar 3.0)
✅ 1. Keep the Clothes as a Child Object
You already have the clothes object inside the avatar. That’s good — leave it there.

Make sure it's:

Skinned mesh renderer ✅

Parented to the same armature as the body ✅

Uses same root bone (usually Hips) ✅

From the screenshot, it looks correctly set up.

🗂 2. Make Two Animation Clips
You need two animations:

One to enable the clothes (set GameObject to "enabled")

One to disable the clothes

How to Make Them:
In Project tab, go to a folder like Assets/Vulthra/kobold/anim/ or make a new one called ClothingToggles.

Right-click → Create > Animation

Call one Clothes_On

Call the other Clothes_Off

Open each one in the Animation window:

Open Window > Animation > Animation if it's not already open

Select your Avatar in the Hierarchy

Open the animation clip (Clothes_On), click "Add Property"

Navigate to:

nginx
Copy
Edit
kobold > clothes > SkinnedMeshRenderer > enabled
For Clothes_On: Check the box ✅

For Clothes_Off: Uncheck the box ❌

Save both animations.

🎛 3. Create an Animator Toggle Parameter
Go to your FX Animator Controller:

Open FX controller (usually found in your avatar's folders or assets).

In the Parameters tab, click the + button → Choose Bool.

Name it something like ClothesToggle

🎞 4. Set Up Animator States
Inside the FX Animator:

Drag both Clothes_On and Clothes_Off animations into the Animator grid.

Create a Default state (usually Clothes_Off).

Create a transition between Clothes_Off → Clothes_On

Set condition: ClothesToggle == true

Create transition from Clothes_On → Clothes_Off

Set condition: ClothesToggle == false

🧠 5. Add to Expressions Menu
Go to Avatar Descriptor (click your root avatar object).

In the Inspector:

Expand Expressions

Add a new Parameter:

Name: ClothesToggle (same as in animator)

Type: Bool

Add a Control to your Expressions Menu:

Type: Toggle

Name: Clothes

Parameter: ClothesToggle

🧪 6. Test in Unity or Upload
Now you can:

Press Play in Unity and toggle the ClothesToggle parameter manually in Animator to test

Or upload to VRChat and toggle using the Expressions Menu

[hot heron]

Tysm!

[vast quartz]

no problem

just follow it step by step

[devout tree]

I keep getting the Avatar validation failed error when I try to upload, how do I fix this?

[twilit fog]

also guys question. can you share a unity package with the plugins and addon on the package? im thinking of just sharing the package to another person to publish there if i cant get past this authentication error

[twilit fog]

im having the same problem TVT

[devout tree]

Odd

[twilit fog]

yea. im having the missing credentials error and authorization errors

this shouldnt happen, theres nothing wrong with my rig

the test work and i can see the avatar on my vrc

but for some reason uploading fails. at start avatar uploads and then it gets interrupted by an authentication error

perhaps something is wrong with our computer or network

[vast quartz]

✅ Common Causes & Fixes for "Avatar validation failed" in Unity

1. Check Your Rig Configuration
   Go to:

Inspector → Rig tab (after selecting the avatar model)
Make sure:

Animation Type is set to Humanoid

Click "Configure..." → ensure all bones are correctly mapped

Fix any red warnings (like missing head, spine, or limbs)

🔧 If mapping fails: Try selecting Create from This Model under Avatar Definition and then manually assign the bones.

2. Model Is Not Marked as Humanoid
   Unity will only validate avatars that are set up as Humanoid rigs.

If your model is set as Generic or Legacy, the validation will fail.

Change the Animation Type to Humanoid, then click Apply.

3. Model Has Missing or Invalid Bones
   Open the Avatar Configuration and verify all bones (especially spine, chest, head, arms, legs) are assigned.

Any unassigned or incorrectly mapped bones will cause validation to fail.

⚠️ If you see warnings like "Required human bone ‘Hips’ not found," Unity won’t let the avatar validate.

4. Fixing T-Pose or Pose Issues
   Some platforms (like VRChat) require the avatar to be in a T-pose.

In Avatar Configuration, click the “Pose” button and make sure it's set to T-Pose.

You may also use the “Enforce T-Pose” button if available.

5. Too Many Materials or Polygons (VRChat-specific)
   If you're using this avatar in VRChat, it might fail validation due to:

Too many materials, polygons, or mesh renderers

Fix by:

Reducing texture size

Combining materials or meshes in Blender

6. Using VRC SDK? Check the Console
   If you're using VRChat SDK, go to:

VRChat SDK → Show Control Panel → Builder

Click "Build & Publish" — any validation errors will be shown in the Console and Builder tab. Fix them before proceeding.

7. Reimport or Re-Export the Model
   Try re-exporting the model from Blender or whatever 3D tool you used

Ensure it's exported as .fbx and set up for Unity

🧰 Still Stuck?
If you can:

Share the platform you’re developing for (e.g., VRChat, game, AR app)

Let me know the source of the avatar (Blender? Asset store?)

Paste the exact error from the Console

[devout tree]

Wait if I am required to have a chest bone than why am I being told In Unity that it's optional to use?

[vast quartz]

Unity’s Built-in Validation:
In Unity's Avatar Configuration, the Chest bone is marked as optional because:

Not every humanoid model has a chest bone.

The Humanoid rig can still work without it by interpolating spine movement between other bones (like Spine → UpperChest or Spine → Head).

Unity will still create a valid humanoid avatar without it.

Some Platforms or Tools Require It
Even though Unity doesn’t require the chest bone, other platforms or SDKs might — such as:

VRChat (with SDK3):
While technically optional, avatars work much better with a Chest bone.

Many VRChat animations assume it exists — so if it’s missing, things like arm twists, breathing, or gestures may look wrong.

VRChat's validator might still let it pass, but your avatar could behave oddly.

Animation Retargeting:
If you plan to retarget animations, missing bones (like Chest) can cause glitches, missing motions, or bad interpolation.

Unity may give you warnings, or skip applying parts of animations.

[somber sequoia]

Because Unity thinks it's optional but vrchat requires it.

much of the response from this chatbot are misleading or wrong.

[vast quartz]

not a chat bot womp womp

[devout tree]

XD

[somber sequoia]

congratulations then

[vast quartz]

👍

[somber sequoia]

you successfully sound like a poor-quality chat bot

[vast quartz]

thanks I take pride in that mr helpful

[arctic ginkgo]

the emojis really sell it... people don't typically add emojis as "icons", but rather to convey an emoji or expression

[vast quartz]

im copying and pasting gpt

[arctic ginkgo]

well that makes sense

[somber sequoia]

... so it is a chatbot

[arctic ginkgo]

so chat bot responses, you're just not a bot personally

[vast quartz]

you called me the bot not gpt

[arctic ginkgo]

"response from this chatbot".. not calling you a bot, just saying the responses are from one.. which they are.

[somber sequoia]

Yes, that.

[vast quartz]

thanks

I still need help myself but I said fuckit and went to gpt

[ember blade]

Ok, so lookie here:
I want this toggle to make my avatar a shiny gold, ok?
I recorded an animation of the avatar switching to this golden material, and it seems to be just not doing anything

Can someone help me make the toggle trigger the matcap?

[ornate stump]

How did you make the animator layer for it?

[sour sparrow]

am I allowed to post videos here to show an example of what I need help with?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[stray lintel]

hi uh

Is this error any issue

[ornate stump]

There is no error shown in your image.

[stray lintel]

for uh reference imtrying to uh

Make a camera that is veiwable by other playera

but uh what is the non local contact component?

Should i be worried about that or no

[ornate stump]

Not an error.

[stray lintel]

also uh

How would i go about uh

Making the camera not auto delete

[ornate stump]

Camera is disabled by default on remote player. You have to make animation to toggle to enable it.

[stray lintel]

ok

So

Uh one sec

[ornate stump]

And camera only work in player who is your friend.

[stray lintel]

mmm

Ok

Yeah thats fine

I am friends with most of the people i do stage work with

[ornate stump]

You have to animate to enable the camera component. Toggle game object the camera is on doesn't do it.

[sour sparrow]

heres what im experiencing (yes he has no textures that was intended) but his hair is doing that weird thing

[ornate stump]

Look like the hair is missing weight paint or bones aren't parented to head.

[sour sparrow]

i see... thanks

what do you recommend

[stray lintel]

mk sooooo

I did this before i

[ornate stump]

Did you edit the model yourself in blender?

[sour sparrow]

nope, its ported from a game

[stray lintel]

Do you need to see my animation layers?

[ornate stump]

Does the hair have bones?