avatar-help

[dusk falcon]

I got this Stolas avatar , but I wanted to change his shoes , how do I delete the other one

[daring lark]

Should I just start over completely?

[dusk falcon]

Or like copy it so it can fit the other foot

[limber birch]

I got it to work don't worry, I was just being a dumbass

[umbral oriole]

ok simply go into edit mode then wire frame view and then shift select one of the boots then move it

[limber birch]

I did basically everything you said I was just doing it on the wrong FX layer for some reason

[umbral oriole]

oh hell yeah looks sick

[umbral oriole]

ohhhh lol that would do it

[daring lark]

Anyone I can videochat about optimizing vroid?

For quest

Without it looking like crap at the end

[umbral oriole]

damn never dealt with vroid avatars before

[dusk falcon]

How do I enter wireframe mode , this boot is a fbx model

[junior void]

I dont think youll be able to separate the boots in unity

id just do it in blender

[umbral oriole]

hold z and you should see view options

[umbral oriole]

question why did you take this into blender? im not familliar with how vriod works but i thought you could like just put it in unity???

[daring lark]

Because it’s not optimized for quest

[umbral oriole]

ohhh damn i thought that was blender lmaooo yeahhhhh your gonna want go into blender to get that done

[daring lark]

And I like to give them bbls 😂

[dusk falcon]

I pressed z and it’s just the basic tools

I just wanna add some boots to my man he putting them dawgs out !

[daring lark]

I’m starting over

[umbral oriole]

how so? i doudt vriod is that unoptimized unless your trying to go for medium or good rating right/

[umbral oriole]

yeah sorry thats on me i didnt know that was unity. your gonna want to go into blender

[dusk falcon]

Ah shit

Il try tmw its late for me when i have more energy

[umbral oriole]

got you no worries

its a process lol

good lucvk

[umbral oriole]

thats is nice to add lol

[dusk falcon]

Bruh Stolas put them dogs away

[daring lark]

Can anyone help or no

Before baking

[junior void]

i think what youre doing is decimating, not baking

[daring lark]

Nah that previous model was a baked one

[lavish hull]

don't mean to pester too much, but anyone available to help?

[river jewel]

yes 🥲

yes I do

[umbral oriole]

why are you baking the avatar??

[umbral oriole]

ok easy but tedious fix remake all the toggles the old fashion way

also alternatively
you can use the exlusive tag function on vrcfury

hmm hard to say but it should work

i would def need to see the extent of how the toggles work o the avatar

[river jewel]

all of those toggle use exclusive tags

[river jewel]

here's a start

rn I'm watching the tutorial for the prefab I downloaded

it's by DeliriousJax

but I'm stuck on the same boat that he's on 🥲

kicker is I got it worse

[umbral oriole]

wait is this in play mode???

[river jewel]

well it ain't in play mode rn

I just selected it

[umbral oriole]

hmm ok i wish this server had vc;'s

i would have to take a look at the avatar in unity properly to really know what can be done

[river jewel]

we could call later today when I get the chance to use that laptop once more

yea I'm borrowing my brother's laptop for this

[umbral oriole]

got you

[river jewel]

there, added ya :D

[daring lark]

To optimize for quest

[umbral oriole]

im sorry i don't know much about vriod models,
but i dont think you need to go that far if you just want it quest compatible, unless you are really worried about the performance rating

[daring lark]

Well it won’t let me upload if the performance rating is too low

[junior void]

right but poly count is not the only thing contributing to the size it complains about in the end

its texture memory, blendshapes and massive amounts of animations

[umbral oriole]

really well damn im pretty sure like most egirls likely have double if not triple the polycount tho

[umbral oriole]

wait what?? what error do you get when you tried uploading it before?

[junior void]

perhaps, yea, but dissolving geometry should be done by hand. you as the user knows better than any automated decimation process where you need to keep more or less geometry. dissolving edge loops will result in a cleaner decimation

[daring lark]

Um

[umbral oriole]

my main concern rn is that the blender stuff is kinda not really needed in this case. vroid models seem pretty good as is from what i know

[daring lark]

Um can you dumb that down for me

Or how do I do that

[junior void]

they havent shared what the upload screen in unity is complaining about so i couldnt say

[umbral oriole]

yeah i would love to see that too. this whole blender stuff could be unnecessary

[daring lark]

I have 33k triangles I need at least 20k to upload

[umbral oriole]

lmaooo no you dont

thats just a performance rating thing

[daring lark]

So it lets yall post to quest without making the performance better?

[umbral oriole]

i see 500k triangles on the daily

[umbral oriole]

YES absolutely

[junior void]

wasnt there like if its bad perf, it will just not be shown by default

anyway, if you want to suffer, this is the way

[daring lark]

Zero

Idek what dissolving loops meannnn

[umbral oriole]

the only things that stop you uploading an avatyar are either compilation errors, or if you have Hexagon Red error in the uupload screen.

otherwise you can upload your avatar

[junior void]

dissolve = make disappear? remove without consequence for nearby topology

[umbral oriole]

also keep physbone count and transforms down

[craggy plaza]

A quick question, is there some way to hide something if it is constraint to the head? Like the HeadChop but in revese?

[umbral oriole]

Quick question how do I change the pivot point of an FBX?

[daring lark]

Yea yall speaking a foreign language to me atp

[umbral oriole]

lmaooooo

[daring lark]

Idk what topology is

[umbral oriole]

can we call i really dfo want to get to the bottom of this

[daring lark]

Is there a video I can watch to learn what these terms even mean

[daring lark]

Yes

I was just asking if I could call

Also usual when I upload these the hair is stiff and see thru

Well everything be stiff

[limber birch]

Physbones probably need to be set up in unity

[daring lark]

Boobas don’t bounce or nothing

[umbral oriole]

oh well thats something that can be fixed

[umbral oriole]

just sent you friend request

[daring lark]

What about the hair being see thru in the front

[limber birch]

"Easily"
Takes a bit of time but it's a fairly simple process

[umbral oriole]

yeah tho i hope they do have the necessary bones

[limber birch]

That'd be a pain if they didn't lmao

[arctic ginkgo]

That's because of backface culling. You can turn that off in most shaders on the material settings, or you can fix it in blender by duplicating the hair and flipping the normals.

[junior void]

quest shaders be an exception

[arctic ginkgo]

Basically for optimization, the backside of everything is invisible. If you have a solid object, that should be in the inside (so you never see it), but for something flat, you can see both sides

[arctic ginkgo]

Nope, toon standard has this feature

[junior void]

since when

[arctic ginkgo]

Since it was released to beta initially?

So the whole time we've had it

[unborn moon]

quick question, tryna work on a quest avi, however when slidng blendshapes, toggling anything, and swapping a material in the scene, it just shortly reverts back after. This has been going on for days and is very annoying. Anyone know how to fix it?

[umbral oriole]

wait what??? toon shader you can turn off culling?

[unborn moon]

first pic is it normally, second is me trying to apply a material to the earrings, notice how the material applies, it changes the eye sclera, and the ears return to human, before suddenly snapping back

[south light]

is there a good physbone setup for long hairs? Ive been struggling for half an hour with an avatar Im doing. No matter what I do, if I fix the hair from clipping the chest, then it looks rigid when looking down, and if I fix it, then it clips through the chest again 😦

[junior void]

use a collider in the chest?

[south light]

every time I use a collider it ignores it, idk why

[junior void]

did you add the collider to the collission entries on the physbone script

[south light]

yes

[junior void]

if you did, then it should collide with the chest collider

[junior void]

fr

[umbral oriole]

oh myu days

thats a game changer right there

[junior void]

yea

[umbral oriole]

can you animate any of the sliders in the material?

[junior void]

i havent kept up with vrc updates and this is what i miss the one time i sleep for a bit lol

[umbral oriole]

reall this like makes quest side so much easier to work with tho still sucks about the quest limit tho

i think when the quest 2 is fazed out it might increase

[arctic ginkgo]

Yes, as well as switch to frontface culling

[arctic ginkgo]

I believe so. There's still a few small features I'd like to have (emissions mask, matcap emissions, matcap hueshift, switching UV channel for all maps) but this is still a HUGE improvement over what we previously had.

I know it hasn't been out long, but atp I'm not even sure how I made avatars without it. It's just so much better than anything we've had before.

[umbral oriole]

omg im so excited holy damn this is coolollll

[dusk falcon]

Ok update fixed the boots placement , but how do I get rid of this clipping

Do I remove the socks ?

Finally Stolas put them dawgs away !

[junior void]

you need to align them with the base in blender

[umbral oriole]

bro im actually flaberghasted this is insane.

[umbral oriole]

mhm i feel youu tho the worst thing about quest still being the very limited size of the avatar. so if i did want toi make full use with matcaps and emmision maps the avi would need way less stuff on it but honesltly worth it

[warm heron]

How come my model comes out like this after exporting it into unity

[arctic ginkgo]

A lot of maps you can get away with having low res textures though tbh. Only the main texture usually needs to be high res. Also good UVs and making use of the multiple UV channels goes a long way

[umbral oriole]

i reaaly do need to figure out uvs someday

[dusk falcon]

How do I get rid of these annoying sock things

[umbral oriole]

trying to break intop texturing

[umbral oriole]

bro not gopnna hold you if you want it to look proper your gonna have to get into blender

[arctic ginkgo]

Another thing, even though we don't have UV tile discard, I've found that using the "clamp" setting for the wrap mode on textures (especially masks and transparent detail textures) can make use of texture offset and separate UV tiles for some neat uses

[dusk falcon]

Il try something out

[arctic ginkgo]

Right now I'm using this on my jam avatar to separate the UVs for the emissions and detail texture and detail texture mask in order to use lower resolution textures for the detail and emissions (because the UVs are on a second channel and are much larger for the areas that need those textures). I'm using the detail texture and mask + texture offset to create a cooking system. Regular texture is raw, detail is cooked, and the mask uses a gradient and texture offset to "cook" the foods over time

[umbral oriole]

ok form the looks of it these boots are going to be influenced by the foot bone and the knee/lower leg bone, if you want them to actually work properly and actuyally follow your legs you need to go into blender and make sure they are set up properly for this avatars armature. you can ask someone to help figure out how to do that is a process but the only way to get the result you want. rn your kinda going about it wrong and it will definetly not look good

[mystic marten]

How do i turn my project into a unity package to sell it or give to others?

I was wondering cause im making my own avatars but i have no clue how people make their projects that way

cause when people sell their avis it gives them a unity package when bought idk how to do that

[umbral oriole]

well my friend thats very easy

[mystic marten]

im new with it i usually just do uploads so i have no clue how to do that 🥲

[umbral oriole]

one way is to right click the scene and export wih all dependecies except poiyomi as its best for the person buying the avatar to just add that to their project themselves

ofcourse i also encourage you to test putting it into a new project after exporting incase there are any issues

but generaly i believe thats how its done

[mystic marten]

Ohh ok thank you i expected it to be much more complicated

[split cairn]

Does anyone know of some hair assets? trying to get a better look on an avatar i'm making

[tall dock]

It is not

[distant hawk]

:,)))) how do I fix this

[balmy barn]

you have a mesh/something named head and a bone named head, it wont like it, rename the non bone one

[arctic ginkgo]

Also keep in mind that joints that only bend one way need less geometry on the inside (elbows, knees, knuckles)

[final hare]

Can someone explain to me what's going on here? I upload a medium avatar. The SDK says its medium. When uploaded, the website says its Very Poor, it says Very Poor above my head, but in the performance breakdown in game, it says its medium, but also very poor.

What is my avatar performance rank? What's going on?

I even tried deleting and reuploading, and still have this problem. I don't live on this discord, so if this is a known issue, I'd appreciate a pointer to where I can read about it

[round comet]

Do you have anything that adds upon build? Like vrcfury gogo?

Or systems?

[somber sequoia]

are any of the stats red in-game?

[round comet]

^ that too

[somber sequoia]

it'll give you a clue as to where to look

[final hare]

Ok, yeah, there are some VRCFury stuff. I scrolled down and found a red number, and ONLY THEN did the UI update to say Very Poor. Why would it do that? Does the game not know my numbers till they show up in the UI?

i guess that one spot doesnt know

[somber sequoia]

I think some things it can't tell very well until you do a build

[surreal salmon]

i have a avatar with no armature and isnt intended to have any, but while the togles for vrc fury work in gesture manager they dont when uploaded. is there something u need to have to have it work

[somber sequoia]

some it can't until you go to the console and it updates

[final hare]

No, the build was done, the avatar loaded , but that one "windows" line still showed medium until I scrolled down

[somber sequoia]

oh interesting

[surreal salmon]

basically do u need a humanoid rig tohave toggles or something

[somber sequoia]

I wouldn't think so, but I don't really use VRCFury in this situation so don't know what it does/needs

[surreal salmon]

my avatar btw

[daring lark]

So I thought I deleted this in vroid but apparently not is there a way to delete this in unity

[somber sequoia]

yeah you can't really remodel in Unity, bring it into Blender

[daring lark]

But I don’t wanna start overrr😭

[somber sequoia]

so don't?

[umbral oriole]

eait what did you want deleted?

[surreal salmon]

if ur just getting rid of something u dont actually have to start over completely

[daring lark]

Them lil triangles

[surreal salmon]

just export to blender

[somber sequoia]

don't export from Unity, the model is already a file blender will just import

[daring lark]

I can see them on blender

So if I delete this and export again I don’t have to do all my settings over again?

[somber sequoia]

If you overwrite the existing model file, using the same settings as before, and you didn't unpack the model in Unity, then yes, absolutely.

[surreal salmon]

when u export to unity to the selected file location it will only overwrite the mesh and armarure

[daring lark]

Kazan can you give me a walk thru?

A step by step

Just finished deleting them

[somber sequoia]

for what?

[daring lark]

This

Idk how to overwrite stuff

[somber sequoia]

file -> export -> export fbx, save the file over the existing file

I don't know what FBX export settings you had before but you probably want to set "apply scalings" to "FBX All" unless you know for sure it should be something else. And uncheck the option for leaf bones under "armature"

[daring lark]

Oh and how do I change this to body it keeps adding the numbers

[tropic aspen]

Hey I have no idea what im doing ive been trying to upload my avi i payed for to unity for the past two days can i PLEASE get some help.

[surreal salmon]

do u have vrcc

[tropic aspen]

yes'

[somber sequoia]

explain what you have done and where you are stuck, including sharing any error messages

[tropic aspen]

Well it wont let me into my project telling me access is denied

Im trying to make a new project

[mossy ridge]

is there a way to put vrcfury prefabs in a specific submenu instead of just the main one

[somber sequoia]

Yes - put a path in the name like Submenu/MenuName

[daring lark]

So if I do this it will overwrite it

[mossy ridge]

thank you!!!

[somber sequoia]

you'll probably have to explain that better

[desert elk]

you need to override in the unity's assets folder though. That doesn't look like it

[tropic aspen]

do you mind if i just show you?

like im so tired

[daring lark]

Hey Eliot! Ur videos helped me alot when will u drop the new one for quest

[somber sequoia]

feel free to post images in here, sure

[daring lark]

Also have. No clue how to do that

[desert elk]

you need to locate the unity's assets folder in the explorer and save your fbx file over that

open unity, in the assets right click, open in explorer, this will allow you to copy the path and export from blender directly to there if you paste the path in Blender's export window

[desert elk]

When I'm done with exams

[daring lark]

Open in explorer?

[desert elk]

yes

it'll say that

somewhere on yop

top

[daring lark]

Right click this or the actual folder

[desert elk]

whatever you want

just so you can locate the location that you need to save your fbx in

[daring lark]

Umm

[desert elk]

that doesn't look like windows

i don't know how this works if it's not windows

[daring lark]

Oh yeaaa I’m on Mac

[desert elk]

logic would say Reveal in folder but I can't be sire

sure

[daring lark]

So then drop this in blender?

[somber sequoia]

I do this on Linux, saving files seems to be pretty universal

[daring lark]

And click export?

[somber sequoia]

wait, drop what?

[daring lark]

This file

[somber sequoia]

.prefab is a unity thing, that won't go into blender

[daring lark]

I deleted them black triangles

[somber sequoia]

you export a .fbx file from blender

[daring lark]

I’m trynna get the avi over without starting all my settings over

[desert elk]

so do what Kazin said

export it from blender and save it over the fbx that's in unity's assets folder

[somber sequoia]

I assumed you started by loading your model into Blender, and it was a .fbx or .obj or something reasonable 🙂

[cedar echo]

What's the maximum amount of Bones before a avatar becomes unoptimized?

[cinder frost]

Depends on the platform

[cedar echo]

Quest and Pc

[cinder frost]

If Quest, 150, if PC, 400 I believe

[cedar echo]

Thank you
-# time to add like 40 bones to a fish

[cinder frost]

Wiggly fish time

[desert elk]

i assumed so as well

[somber sequoia]

details here: https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/avatar-performance-ranking-system/#pc-limits

[daring lark]

Well it’s making me restart I saved it over but it just made a copy

[somber sequoia]

well even if you end up with a copy, you can drag that into the scene and use Pumkin's Tools to copy everything from one avatar to the other

but I'm not sure why overwriting didn't work, assuming it's the same file type.

[daring lark]

Pumpkins tools?

[somber sequoia]

only one 'p'

[daring lark]

What is that? How do I find it?

[somber sequoia]

how does one find anything these days? (web search engine)

[daring lark]

So it’s something I need to download?

[cedar echo]

Bones
-# it's a hand puppet so this is fine that the amount of bones are like this

[somber sequoia]

If you want to use it, yes, you would need to get it and install it into your Unity project.

[daring lark]

Ok just installed it

How do I use it

[mossy ridge]

i'm either just really stupid or that does not work

i'm most likely doing it wrong

[pearl furnace]

Is it possible to make the background of flipbook transparent? (nvm found it)

[daring lark]

How do I change body.001 back to body

[desert elk]

rename it (two objects can't have the same name in Blender, if you have an object named Body you cannot name a different object Body)

additionally if you had an object named Body and you deleted it, Blender still remembers it being there so you won't be able to use the name Body

[daring lark]

Oh what so I can’t do it at all?

I had something I deleted

[somber sequoia]

check the docs, I thought that was the right method, but I really don't use fury much at all, so I may be wrong here.

[desert elk]

I export and import into a new blender project usually. I think there's a way to do it without that, but idk how

[mossy ridge]

i figured it out i went and asked in the vrcfury discord

[eager stump]

having some issues, how do i texture the quest version?

[untold bolt]

ok so, i encountered something weird

trying to upload an avi that wouldn't upload cuz of some prefab for muting or being afk, removed it, it starts uploading without throwing any errors then gets to shadowcaster and my pc starts to lag then freezes completly and have to hard reset the pc

[daring lark]

Ok I did it yay

[static basalt]

Upload Freeze at ShadowCaster and try this out to fix it:

1. Turn off “Auto Generate Lighting” in:
   i. Window > Rendering > Lighting > Scene → Uncheck Auto Generate

2. Check materials:
   i. Large or corrupted textures can crash Unity.
   ii. Replace or resize huge textures (keep under 4K max).

3. Delete or disable ShadowCaster pass in shader:
   i. Some shaders (like Poiyomi) let you disable shadow casting in material settings.

4. Check Skinned Mesh Renderer:
   i. Select avatar mesh → uncheck Cast Shadows.

5. Clear Cache & Rebuild:
   i. Edit > Preferences > GI Cache → Clear Cache
   ii. Reimport the model fresh into a new Unity project if issues persist.

Let me know the shader you're using or if you want help disabling ShadowCaster manually!, and then i detail it like this so that you can able to follow this steps easily so i hope it helps you out

[pearl furnace]

How do you make a flipbook stop looping

[arctic ginkgo]

Dude can you stop with the chatgpt responses

[pearl furnace]

I have this thing opened. but it still is looping

[arctic ginkgo]

I mean by the name I'd guess you need to disable that

You can always check poiyomi docs

[pearl furnace]

even if it is disabled, it still loops

[arctic ginkgo]

Not sure then. I can't check on my computer right now, but again, try checking poi docs.

You can also try asking in the poi discord

[pearl furnace]

I already am, but yea maybe i could ask in their discord

tyty

[sharp nebula]

does any1 else have a quest issue where you put a material on and in guesture manager play mode, it puts a diferenttexture on?

[somber sequoia]

sounds like you have an animation changing that at runtime

[lavish hull]

still struggling with this issue since im still really lost, anyone happen to know how to fix?
im trying to import some custom animations from blender, being an idle and crouch, but the crouch is just completely broken, the lower half of the body doesnt seem to play the animation and the hands wont animate at all, does this have something to do with locomotion layers or smth????

[shut parrot]

My avatar keeps spawning below the ground in VRChat, even though in Blender and Unity the shoes and armature are above the ground.
I moved the armature up, applied all transforms, and exported it. Any help is appreciated!

[somber sequoia]

the toes don't seem to be on the ground

[shut parrot]

Yeah, the avatar uses a blend shape to move into the heeled position, but I’ve also tried manually moving the foot and toe bones into the correct heel position in Blender (so they match the shoe soles). It still doesn’t change anything in VRChat... the avatar keeps spawning too low

[lavish hull]

try bringing the bones down like this mayhaps?????\

[somber sequoia]

yeah I think it wants the toe bones actually on the floor.

[lavish hull]

as well as the root bone if it has one

[spark walrus]

anyone wanna help me upload a avatar the area where you look is fucked up

its near the feet

[shut parrot]

hmmmm oki, I will try that

[shut parrot]

also root bone? what do you mean by that

[somber sequoia]

the root bone is generally the one called "hips"

[lavish hull]

some models have a bone on the floor where everything's connected, though i dont see one on your's
though i dunno if its actually called a root bone or something else

[somber sequoia]

VRChat doesn't really care about that, but you certainly can have one

[shut parrot]

Oh? So you mean using a bone to tell VRChat, “this is the floor position” like a reference point?

[somber sequoia]

no

the floor is 0,0,0 in Unity

[lavish hull]

also this is the issue i've been having, still no clue how to fix this

[somber sequoia]

but if your feet aren't there, I think the IK system will drop you until they are on the floor

because that's how people work 🙂

[shut parrot]

haha oki oki fair pointxD

[shut parrot]

yeah no, still in the ground 😅

[round comet]

I feel like my feet sink in the vrc home

Try another world maybabs :o

[shut parrot]

yeah thought about the same as well, sadly happens in every world iv been in so far

[round comet]

Oughhh

[simple hill]

i checked all of them,and there not even on standered. so idk what do to

[surreal salmon]

trust me, u missed one

it rlly do be the most inconvenient places

check to see if ur eye has 2 layers maybe

if ur using a humanoid model

[simple hill]

I think I know why

its locked

nvm. I found i what i needed to do

[simple hill]

Do I need to fix the size? because it said this

[short ferry]

this is a really weird question but does anyone know how to have an avatar feature where when you change the scale of an avatar, it toggles an animation or toggle?

[timber wharf]

@simple hill size should fail you on the upload stage afaik. given you do use a recent sdk and not smth from 2024 or earlier.

so most likely its smth deeper

[simple hill]

ah

[somber meadow]

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/animator-parameters/#avatar-scaling-parameters

[short ferry]

ahhh I see

[cedar echo]

Any idea on how I add transparency to a avatar

[somber meadow]

Is this for PC or Mobile Platforms (Quest)

[cedar echo]

Preferably both, but if I'm forced to PC I'll deal with it

[austere bay]

poiyomi has transparency options

[austere bay]

hope this helps :D

[daring lark]

Hey

So real quick how do I adjust physbones so the hair doesn’t go into my face when walking?

[daring lark]

How do I reduce contact components

[fossil pasture]

im like on the verge of tweaking out. so for some reason the texture on the jacket looks perfectly fine on blender but when i put it into unity it just doesn't do the same. i tried alot of things so now im coming to this channel.

[earnest jay]

how can i fix my blend shapes being so stubborn?? every time i move it it goes back to where it was, same thing with materials, whenever i change it it changes back... this is in unity btw

[somber meadow]

are you animating the effected blendshapes?

[earnest jay]

not sure?? im working on a novabeast

[somber meadow]

Screenshot what the shading tab looks like for the jacket in blender

[earnest jay]

it also takes like a split second before i tgoes back

alsos ays this

[somber meadow]

That's normal, VRChat clamps blendshapes to 0-100 (preventing you going above or below it)

[somber meadow]

What does the Unity material look like

[somber meadow]

expand the texture slot

it could be using a different UV

[fossil pasture]

it looks the same even if i use the normal vrchat shaders

i only have one uv

also looks the same with uv 0-3

[somber meadow]

I'm assuming the texture isn't the same then

[fossil pasture]

neverminddd i fixed it!. it was with the import settings. i had the normals as calculated instead of import. which is weird cuz i always have it as calculate. i pray nobody go through this pain.

[umbral oriole]

easy fix go to the configure screen on the fbx click on the hip bone and raise it up to a certian point make sure to copy the position tranform so you can put it on the hip in again in the heiarchy after you apply on the fbx should work

[hazy pike]

went into play mode, came back out and have been met with "vrcscaleconstraint has been destroyed"

how do I fix this? 😭

[ornate stump]

Does it actually break something? If not then ignore it.

[crude briar]

Does someone know whats causing those weird black stripes? As soon as I turn MSVO on, I get em on my avatar.
I already tried multiple base textures, the issue comes with all of them :x

[sweet crypt]

how do i fix this to make head and body match

[junior void]

i dont see what you mean

[sweet crypt]

the body is a whole different txt and hade then the head

[mild mango]

Anyone able to tell me what Im doing wrong, its regarding MMD.

My Avatar has its Write Defaults On, it has the proper blendshapes for MMD, it has the VRC Fury MMD Compatibility placed under where the Descriptor goes, and my Vismes work perfectly fine. Im at like a complete loss.

[junior void]

sorry, hade?

[shut parrot]

ahhh thank you! I will try that out the moment I get home!!

[junior void]

well, gotta check the shader settings as well as anchor and also lasty consider that if the head texture is from a separate asset (did not come with the body) the maker may have used a slightly different shade when texturing

[quaint frost]

im trying to upload my first ever avatar and i almost got it but his rig isnt working in vr and this keeps popping up with something about one bone not being a child to another

[desert elk]

you can't have a mesh with the same name as a bone, i think that's what this error means. And you have wrong parenting in the hierarchy most likely based on the second screenshot

[quaint frost]

do you know how to fix the hierarchy

[junior void]

either rename the mesh that is called neck or if you have two bones named neck, rename one to something else than neck

[quaint frost]

thank you ill try those

[desert elk]

reparent in blender

[quaint frost]

im trying to figure out the hierarchy in blender but im struggling to

this is what order his bones are

[junior void]

use the search field above that and search for "neck"

what comes up?

[quaint frost]

this is what shows up

[sullen mulch]

Can someone tell me what this means exactly? I'm getting it whenever I try to make my model humanoid

[ornate stump]

Scroll up the chat just a bit and you will see people is discussing about that.

[sullen mulch]

OH- That's actually crazy one sec LOL my bad

[sullen mulch]

thank you so much

[junior void]

You have a mesh named "neck" which is not allowed. Rename it and youll be good

[quaint frost]

then just to the normal process in unity ?

[junior void]

yes

[sullen mulch]

Can someone tell me in depth how I'd create "footstep" sounds with contacts where if I lift my leg and step (like.. even in fullbody, not just when I'm running) it makes a sound? 🤔 I've been trying to figure it out for months. X(

[quaint frost]

the head is green but now this happened

[junior void]

This has to do with bone parenting

you will need to go to blender and have a look what the hand is the child of. it should be lower arm, but isnt

[quaint frost]

strange it is

[junior void]

is the bone name maybe wrong where you see its "r" but really its named "l" by accident, confusing sides

also consoder cropping away less in the rig configuration, the more we see the better we can help

[quaint frost]

will do and they both are R

[shut parrot]

MY MAN, it worked! thank you 💖

[quaint frost]

the side is green but even after renaming it still has the error message

[junior void]

This time its the head

i assume your avatar is blocked out using multiple mesh pieces which you named after their positions, aka "head, neck, hands" and so forth

so this is the same problem: unity does not allow mesh names that are the same name as a humanoid bone, such as neck, head, hand, etc

[quaint frost]

even if i added bon at the beginning of the name?

[junior void]

its not about what you name the bones. its about the slot names that the rig configuration gives you and the mesh names

[quaint frost]

ah ok so how would i got about fixing that just so i dont mess anything else up

[junior void]

i personally would just rename the meshes

[quaint frost]

like this?

[grim scroll]

i think i accidently imported different liltoon versions and i have compiler errors now, any idea how to fix?

[still shuttle]

Delete lil toon and re import it

[grim scroll]

thats kind of what im stuck on, where do i delete it from?

[junior void]

and clear the console, see whats left after

[grim scroll]

i deleted and re imported, getting those errors

oh i had an extra copy of it in one of my files, i fixed it, thanks guys

[still shuttle]

Your project window should have a folder for it

Unless you imported it via the vcc. Then you have to remove it via the vcc

[sullen mulch]

Can someone explain to me how to set up something where I have different sound effects toggling when I step? (I figured out the contacts - I'm talking about it being random)

[still shuttle]

Your gonna want one of these bad boys

Add it onto the animation that's supposed to active the sounds, all you need is one audio source, and then you add your audio clips into the "clips" area and change playback order to unique random

[sullen mulch]

Oh so, is it just the animation that turns on the sounds then that I need to put into the layer? 🤔

[still shuttle]

Yeah the animation itself should turn on the audio source you plan on using

Then in ur fx layer, you put that behavior on top of said animation

[sullen mulch]

Oohh I see! lemme see if i can get it workingg one sec

[quaint frost]

finally fixed the rig now is just this stopping me

[sullen mulch]

Gosh thank you for this. This literally makes everything so much easier oh my god 😭 🙏

[still shuttle]

Ikr I love it sm

[sullen mulch]

i SWEAR I forgot about this thing coz I know I did something similar once with minecraft cat meows.. but I totally lost the project. so truly thank you. my brain was legit melting X_X

[limber birch]

Does anyone know how to do matcap on android without the texture going missing?

[junior void]

Am i dumb or did model blendshapes get moved?

[dusk falcon]

Why is my avatar not in a t pose ?

[indigo compass]

You weren't very specific, but they are where they always have been.
If there is nothing there then you don't have any I guess.

[dusk falcon]

Was trying to add this coat using vrcfury

[indigo compass]

Was the coat made for that base?

A-pose is a common pose

[dusk falcon]

I got it off booth

[indigo compass]

The avatar and/or the coat?

[dusk falcon]

The avatar is from payhip , I think it’s using an anime style base

[indigo compass]

If they coat didn't list the base avatar as supported then it won't work without being weightpainted.

[dusk falcon]

Il see

[indigo compass]

If you know how to use Blender then I recommend just using this addon to quickly weightpaint it. https://jinxxy.com/SentFromSpaceVR/robust-weight-transfer

[junior void]

Clearly my mesh has shape keys upon export. In unity, none are showing. The only thing i changed today was updating the sdk

[dusk falcon]

I got rid of the cape and wings cuz I didn’t like em

Trying to find Victorian style boots since this is a Stolas avatar , the shoes that were on were Hugh heels and his dawgs were out so I took em off

[indigo compass]

What file format are you exporting it as?

[junior void]

fbx

[indigo compass]

No clue how the SDK could break blendshapes

[quaint frost]

trying to fix the avatar validation fail and saw his torso like this

[junior void]

you need to map chest

upper chest is optional but chest isnt

[quaint frost]

i tried but it causes the rest to turn red

[junior void]

probably because your bone order/parenting is wrong

[quaint frost]

i redid it several times and it worked earlier so im honestly not sure

[junior void]

only you are able to check it

it should be hips - spine - chest. from chest off go shoulders, then upper arms, lower arms, hands. from chest also neck, then head. from hips upper legs, lower legs, then feet

[quaint frost]

it looks like that to me i could be wrong

[junior void]

that looks fine so whats the issue

[quaint frost]

the shrunken torso when i go into config

[junior void]

did you apply transforms in blender

[quaint frost]

plus the avatar validation fails and yes i did apply all transform

[junior void]

show the validation messages then

what makes you think these bone assignments are incorrect, i dont get it

[quaint frost]

i thought the torso srinking meant i did something wrong there

[junior void]

ah, i missed that

you need to map shoulders

it say optional but it aint

[quaint frost]

ah but he doesn't have any

[junior void]

you have to have them

thats why your rig keeps complaining

[quaint frost]

ah so i should go back in blender and add some

[somber sequoia]

you don't need to weight paint anything to those bones but they have to exist

[sullen mulch]

hmm, my stepping contacts dont really work in vr except when its first toggled. everythings fine in unity?

[pine smelt]

Hello there !
So, I'm trying to make myself an avatar by using a model I've found from a game
I want to use this one but I'm not sure if I can do something with it
(The model comes directly from the game files)

[desert elk]

make it have one armature and ideally as little meshes as possible would be the first step

[pine smelt]

Alr, thanks !

[frigid grove]

How can I increase the size of a blendshape to prevent my clothes from clipping through eachother?
I want to make the shirt a little bigger, but only when there is another clothing item under it.

[desert elk]

Modify the Blendshape in blender

[half chasm]

hey so i have a slight issue, my avatars commpressed and ucompressed size wont change no matter what i do, even removing items from the Fbx dident lower it

[ornate stump]

Did you start build process again after doing changes?

[half chasm]

i hope this fixes my issue

on moment i gotta fix my blender issues

[junior void]

the number does not automatically update, you need to hit build again

[sick ice]

Does anyone how to fix scripts that are missing?

idk if i imported something wrong or what

[junior void]

recheck your dependencies

[sick ice]

whats that?

[frigid grove]

^^ It's like what your avatar needs. Check where you got your avatar from, usually the avatar creator tells you if you need something else like vrcfury, etc.

[sick ice]

It says the only thing i need is vrcfury and poi. i have both of them installed.

could it be the version of the sdk im using?

[ornate stump]

Something broke. Check for error in console.

[misty ridge]

wat do i ned to do to not maek physbone go like weee /\_/\_/\

[half chasm]

so......

how do i upload onto quest

[somber sequoia]

make sure you have the android build tools installed

https://creators.vrchat.com/platforms/android/setting-up-unity-for-creating-quest-content

[austere bay]

did you add them before or after you imported the avatar?

[sick ice]

yea

[austere bay]

yes to which? you added them before or after?

because if you added them after that can cause issues

and you'd have to reimport the avatar

[sick ice]

i added them before i imported the avi

[sick ice]

wait huh

[ornate stump]

Yellow is warning. Look for red error.

[austere bay]

if you add vrcfury and poiyomi after you've imported the avatar that can cause issues

[sick ice]

no no. i imported poi and vrcf than i imported the avi

[sick ice]

theres no red

[ornate stump]

Enter play mode and see if some shows up.

[jaunty horizon]

any help on these?

imported a material pack, then got those errors.

[somber sequoia]

in my experience, that hasn't mattered in the slightest.

[somber sequoia]

make sure your SDK is up to date and try restarting Unity. But depending on what "material pack" means, it may not support the latest SDK or something

[jaunty horizon]

Funktronic Labs' Volumetric Crystal Materials

[sick ice]

Still no reds

[somber sequoia]

the unity store says that package is deprecated and now removed, that might be an indicator

[jaunty horizon]

ah.

found it on an alternate site, figures.

[somber sequoia]

usually that kind of thing is just scripts though, which you can't use on avatars anyway, so maybe the materials are still useful

it seems to have been a purchaseable item from the unity store, so if you found it elsewhere, that's pirated.

[ocean verge]

hey so everytime i import a model from unity into vrchat through sdk im just invisible, anyone know how i can fix this?

[somber sequoia]

maybe show some stats, like the build window in Unity

[ocean verge]

this?

[somber sequoia]

no, where you click "build and publish", there's a whole list of stats and warnings and such about your avatar.

[somber sequoia]

your bounding box is huge, and you could probably join all the SkinnedMeshRenderers, but otherwise, the rest of that looks like just typical VeryPoor.

probably it shouldn't make it invisible

[ocean verge]

y is it poor anyway?

[somber sequoia]

it lists why clearly, all those red indicators

[ocean verge]

its a low poly model with low res textures

and it has 1 material

and 1 texture

[somber sequoia]

with too many mesh renderers, material slots, and a huge bounding box.

[ocean verge]

whats a bounding box?

[half belfry]

Just reading all of those warnings with no 3d modeling experience I feel like those stats would be for a movie or a game I'd see in 10 years lmao

[somber sequoia]

a box that encompasses your avatar

it being large means you have something inside it too large or positioned too far from the origin

[ocean verge]

like too wide?

[somber sequoia]

or tall

[ocean verge]

when i change the size it doesnt make a difference so

hmmm

so i have to make it taller or it wont work

[somber sequoia]

make what taller?

[ocean verge]

the model

[somber sequoia]

how tall is it now?

[ocean verge]

i mean less wide compared to how tall it is

is that right?

[somber sequoia]

it looks in the floor, it should be standing on the origin.

[ocean verge]

i tried that and it was still invisible

[somber sequoia]

yeah that wouldn't likely make it invisible, unless it's really in the floor maybe

[ocean verge]

is there a way to like snap the bottom of the model to the origin? i dont want it to be slightly above or below

also how much do i need to stretch the model until its narrow enough?

[somber sequoia]

you can rework the model's origin in blender

re: stretching, I'm not sure what you're trying to do there

[ocean verge]

i thought my model was too wide

and thats what broke it

[somber sequoia]

look in the build stats, it tells you the size of the bounding box and the size it should be

[ocean verge]

where can i find build stats?

[somber sequoia]

you just posted images of them?

[ocean verge]

oh build and publish?

[somber sequoia]

also now I see the warning about the feet in the floor too

[ocean verge]

how are all the axis too big?

isnt it a ratio thing?

[somber sequoia]

it's whatever size you made it

there aren't rules

only rule is that bigger than 5,5,5 means it's very poor

(those are in meters)

[ocean verge]

so if i shrank it down in blender it would be better?

[somber sequoia]

that's generally where I size my avatars

[ocean verge]

oh ok

[somber sequoia]

fix the origin point while you're there

[ocean verge]

yeah origin is 3d cursor

[somber sequoia]

the avatar should be standing on that point, and the origins of all the meshes should also be that point

and all transforms applied

[ocean verge]

does it matter if it think my model isnt in a t pose?

[somber sequoia]

maybe, it depends why

[short trellis]

Idk if I put this here to get help but this won't load at all I've reloaded the skd reopened unity reopened the project deleted things for storage and it still won't load

[somber sequoia]

"won't load"?

[short trellis]

Yeah the prepare your content tab won't load it shows it but won't let me click on anything

[somber sequoia]

oh interesting

[short trellis]

Yup

[ocean verge]

ok so i have no idea how to fix these

im using 1 material

[somber sequoia]

the mesh render one you could join those in Blender

each one has a material slot

[ocean verge]

wait so the problem is im using multiple meshes?

[somber sequoia]

that's what it means by "mesh renderers"

you have 15

[desert elk]

okay, so. In vrc, i can see the avatars hair in front of the view. Is there a way to prevent that?

[plucky mantle]

Having issues with this. The humanoid is mapped without import errors and the armature is quite literally there. Auto fix will hang unity on a "MouseDown".

[somber sequoia]

huh, that's a weird error - can you show the avatar in the hierarchy? I wonder if it got exported from Blender badly

[plucky mantle]

ignore warnings. works fine if i drop in the original model file and put a descriptor on it. but not my actual avatar.

[plucky mantle]

I also re-exported, but again, I work directly from blender files. not fbx.

Theres also no child animators

[somber sequoia]

no I meant in the hierarchy, because it's talking abo- that yes. nothing about that looks weird.

ohh hang on

this has a digitgrade setup, right?

[plucky mantle]

also again, important fact. if i drag the normal model in, add a vrc descriptor, it doesnt give me that warn.

[somber sequoia]

ah yep, it does

[plucky mantle]

yes. humanoid uses planti.

[somber sequoia]

what is "the normal model"?

vs. whatever you did, I mean

[plucky mantle]

Just dragging and dropping the unmodified raw .blend file into the scene and adding nothing but a vrc avi descriptor

As opposed to my fully decked out prefab I made of the custom rex

[somber sequoia]

this prefab, you setup an avatar and then dragged that into your project to turn it into a prefab?

[plucky mantle]

It worked perfectly fine before, and I opened the project today, making no changes whatsoever, and I went to check the SDK as I was logging in, made sure it was selected, and logged in

[desert elk]

nvm, had my hierarchy wrong

[plucky mantle]

I even deleted the .meta files to regen that and re-setup the humanoid on the model

[somber sequoia]

ok I'm not sure what the prefab situation would do, and I never do that, so I'm not sure what to suggest

[plucky mantle]

So it's something to do with that model/prefab, but I really want to avoid setting it up all over again because it's one prefab that goes to a bunch of others for commissions. I'd have to reset up all of them

Even with tooks like Pumpkin, that's going to set me back hours of work

[somber sequoia]

I tend to prefab all my add-ons and such, thus sharing things between avatars. But not the model itself

(and constraints and physbones and...)

[plucky mantle]

I have a main rex, then prefab variant that to all my other rexes. All my rexouiums are in one project prefabbed of the main one

And then the quest versions are prefabbed off of those variants

Doing it that way allows me to update all my rexouiums for multiple people at once and its extremely streamlined doing it that way

If I can figure out simply whats causing it, then obviously I can fix it

[somber sequoia]

that looks reasonable to me

[plucky mantle]

Its just a really weird issue

It works perfectly fine in play mode with gesture manager too.

I'm starting to wonder if this isn't a bug in the SDK itself

[mental mirage]

i for some reason cant get the blush and stuff to render properly i have it set to transparent but when i do the entire material implodes on itself, if i set it to TransClipping the blush just becomes a hole where you can see the hair in the back and all other options dont really do what i need them to do, i think im mising a setting in poiyomi but im out of ideas.

[desert elk]

are you using the correct texture on that material?

[mental mirage]

yep

tripple checked

[dusky harness]

When I upload avatars the idle animation my avatar’s hands aren’t leveled as usually one hand is behind the other. Does anyone know how to fix this?

[snow goblet]

attemping to import a model from unity 2018.4.20f1
setup the project, installed dynamicbonestub, and it didnt seem to fix the "missing script" (the avatar descriptor?), and dynamic bones were not automatically converted.
anyway i could get it to fix the descriptor, or is setting it all back up from scratch the best option?

[zinc flicker]

is the texture set png and in its setting enabled alpha transparancy?

[mental mirage]

it is a png and Alpha is transparency is turned on

[zinc flicker]

The only thing i can think of is how its rendering or its render queue

[cinder pawn]

Hey Ive been trying to upload this avatar I just recently made and I can upload as a test avatar but it wont let me upload publically

I dont really know what to look up for this specific problem and I cant find any help online :(

[mental mirage]

you dont have an avatar name try naming it and try again

[cinder pawn]

it wont let me input anything there thats the problem

it sometimes says loading on the name input and some of the other things like content warning also appear as loading

[mental mirage]

i have no idea where to find that information

[zinc flicker]

in the shader

I wonder if the normals are flipped

thus having to change the cull from back to off

[mental mirage]

this is what its set to

[zinc flicker]

even after relaunching the project?

[cinder pawn]

yeahhh

it was doing this yesterday

[feral abyss]

is there a way to apply a shader across an avatar instead of one by one per material?

[cinder pawn]

ive relaunched the sdk and the project 😭

ive even restarted my computer

[zinc flicker]

I would remove the SDK from the project while its closed and readd, then reopen the project. Or if theres an update, push that instead.

do know make a backup just incase

[prisma monolith]

how would I go about adding an alt mode to my avatar

where in the armature do i put the alt mode

[zinc flicker]

if its culling is off thats good but now im worning whats the render queue

[cinder pawn]

you mean update the sdk?

or update the vrc companion?

[feral abyss]

any idea? just want to make sure before i go through the whole armature and begin the upload process

[zinc flicker]

IN VRC Creator companion you have an option to manange package. Which includes the SDK. If there is an update or try removing and readding it back may fix it. Though I advise to make a backup of the project for your sanity.

Cause I broke projects in the past and its good to have something to fall back on

[cinder pawn]

uhhh should I just copy and paste the unity file to make a backup?

[zinc flicker]

the ellipses

[cinder pawn]

thank you so much sorry im very new to this

[zinc flicker]

Are these the materials it came with or new materials you made from the ground up?

[mental mirage]

the ones that the base came with

thinking i may have to restart and install the files again instead of copying the files from my last project im thinking that something diddnt copy right or something

[zinc flicker]

Its rare but I think poiyomi may be breaking on that material. I would make a new material fresh start and mimic over the textures and settings to see if that matieral is just broken.

[mental mirage]

not a bad idea ill give it a shot

[zinc flicker]

Sometimes some settings break in poiyomi that worked in older version and when updates to a newer version it causes issues but I dont know what version it was made on, so im shooting blindly XD

[cinder pawn]

i just noticed a lot of these have a little plus sign, do I need some of these?

also once I remove it will the avatar sdk appear in the bottom list to add it again?

[mental mirage]

i think that was the reason cause it worked! thank you for your help!

[zinc flicker]

Those are extra addons for QOL when making avatars. Think of it as DLC creator tools. The main core ones you need are going to be the ones for VRChat in the name regarding Base, Avatar, and Resolver. Those are the SDK components for VRC Avatar projects.

[cinder pawn]

gotcha!

[zinc flicker]

VRCFury is a Staple in a lot of avatars so be wary if you get a missing script it most likely could be that.

[cinder pawn]

this appears now :(

also I keep getting this every so often could this be problematic?

[zinc flicker]

https://tenor.com/view/cr1tikal-penguinz0-meme-woo-yeah-baby-gif-19316511

[zinc flicker]

try down grading to 3.7.6

I dont know why the SDK is crying this much but this is also why we make backups so we can break and try to fix XD

[flint hamlet]

can someone help me with my avatar

[cinder pawn]

yeahh it didnt like this version either

[flint hamlet]

the ears and the bow aren't connected to the avatar

[zinc flicker]

YIKES....okay well this may be a SDK really borked itself.

I would raw dog it make a new project, go into file explore, and copy everything from the old assets folder over to the new project's assets folder. Reload the scene, and see if that works.

[cinder pawn]

aww man ill try that then

[zinc flicker]

I know im sorry

[cinder pawn]

i appreciate it though

[zinc flicker]

is the bow attached to hip/chest bone and ears attached to the head bone?

[cinder pawn]

do you know what this is though?

im worried I might have to just reinstall the companion

[zinc flicker]

I havent seen the error before but looks like it has the latest SDK so 3.8.2 to install so its up to date in a sense. If you need to you can reinstall it. Its more of middle ground for managing packages. Not the actual SDK itself.

[cinder pawn]

mk i made sure to update it before i did anything so it was just weird I kept getting that update message

thanks though ill probably come back if anything craazy happens again though

[zinc flicker]

huh i went through my logs and saw it mine too weird.

[cinder pawn]

oh man thats odd

[untold minnow]

there are many bones for this mesh that are not being used/ Not influencing the mesh. Is there any way to select all the bones that are not in use by the shown mesh and delete them instead of having to go in and delete them one by one?

[sacred horizon]

how do i make my avatar transparent for quest?

[feral hazel]

How does one fix idle animations locking head to where the user is facing?

Haven't tested if it messed up VR head tracking with these animations in half-body

[torn bramble]

I wiped my PC awhile ago so I no longer had any unity or the VRChat Creator Companion. I downloaded VRChat to play again and none of my avatars could be put on- I thought maybe because I didn't have the Companion or anything. I didn't know that affected it or if it even does but every avatar I had ever uploaded using the Companion was not there but ones I did before it ever existed was on there. So that's why I think it was that. But now I can't re upload her because of this and I am going insane.. I already had to lower all the quality of my textures and such but I don't know how to get around this.

[somber sequoia]

remove stuff - maybe consider splitting the avatar into 2-4 others, by outfit, or by prop or something.

[formal sparrow]

does anyone know how to fix this, it happens when i am using particle shaders, no matter what kind of shaders

[arctic ginkgo]

Im not sure what im looking at..

Are you trying to use transparency?

[formal sparrow]

yeah

[formal sparrow]

its just the particle material applied onto a surface

[arctic ginkgo]

What particle shader are you using?

[formal sparrow]

this is the particle, it doesnt matter what shader the issue always happens

[supple needle]

But the physbones on a lower bone. It’s because you have it on the first root, which makes it float away. Put it on the 2nd or 3rd bone.

[formal sparrow]

even with the standard shaders

[untold minnow]

there are many bones for this mesh that are not being used/ Not influencing the mesh. Is there any way to select all the bones that are not in use by the shown mesh and delete them instead of having to go in and delete them one by one?

[arctic ginkgo]

Do you have "alpha is transparency" enabled on the texture? Also please let me know what shader(s) you are using and what platform this is for (PC or Quest)

[formal sparrow]

pc,

rn its just on standard shader but ive tried zer0s anime shader, lombex shader, mochie shader, kryptofx, and so many more

its the same issue tho

[arctic ginkgo]

Have you used a shader that explicitly supports transparency (or changed the render settings on the shader)?

Try using vrchat/mobile/particles/alpha blender and send a screenshot

*alpha blended

[formal sparrow]

ive used particles exactly like this in the past woth no issues, same shaders and all but this texture just isnt working, also here

yeah it works with that, but not with the other ones which is confusing cause those are the onesz that have always worked inthe past

[plucky mantle]

Still not found the solution. This is really weird.

[left hemlock]

Okay so, if you buy a avatar off mobile how does that work? Like how would i save it/import it or whatever or can you not?

(I dont have a pc)

[still shuttle]

What do you mean by "buy an avatar off mobile"

[left hemlock]

Like buying it from a website

[somber sequoia]

"a website"?

[still shuttle]

You'll need a pc to upload it to your account

[left hemlock]

How would i use it after buying?

Ohhh

[still shuttle]

Or, this isn't recommended, you can get the creator to upload it for you, but they need your account information

[somber sequoia]

you can buy from VRChat's in-game store and not need Unity and a PC, but otherwise, you need Unity and a PC.

[left hemlock]

Oh okay

[somber sequoia]

(wherein PC = mac, linux, windows, whatever)

[arctic ginkgo]

Okay, seems like it may be an issue with your materials settings. What shader do you want to use (or what effect are you trying to get)?

[formal sparrow]

im tryna use either lombex or zer0's anime particle shader

[formal sparrow]

just for it to look like this

but yk that issue keeps happening

[arctic ginkgo]

I mean if you just want basic transparency, the mobile options work well. You can use alpha blended for regular flat-shaded transparency, or additive for a glowy effect.

[arctic ginkgo]

I've never used either of the shaders you mentioned, but if they have documentation, I would recommend looking there to find information on the way they handle transparency

[feral abyss]

...so unity and vrclens dont appear to be communicating the best, is there a way to basically trick vrclens into allowing me to apply it?

like i definitely have the bits for it

it just cant read

please help. i just want a cute high quality camera

[supple needle]

How do I get this off my screen, I pressed “layers” again but it won’t go away

Nvm got it

[flint hamlet]

im so confused??

[somber sequoia]

about?

[flint hamlet]

it says i need to fix something for me to upload

idk what to fix

[somber sequoia]

Yes, that first one is the main problem

You can't use that shader on quest

[flint hamlet]

how to fix

[somber sequoia]

there are lots of tutorials on this, but basically find the Material with the wrong shader and swap to a quest-supported one.

Clicking "select" might get you there.

[flint hamlet]

it says its in the main avatar

[somber sequoia]

I can't tell you where it is without having your project myself, so you'll need to find it.

[feral abyss]

getting a couple errors trying to upload an avatar, but have no clue what prefab or asset its pointing to, any help?

wait nvm ive found it

[somber sequoia]

it does tell you which game object it's on, so that might be a useful clue.
I'm guessing you need FinalIK, based on the names of those things. It's not free, but there's a stub package VRLabs has that'll make this uploadable as is and functional in game

[feral abyss]

hang on, it was included with the asset, must have just forgotten to drag it in!

[somber sequoia]

what, the stub package? nice of them.

[feral abyss]

liindy, adore their stuff purely because of how easy it is to include

[somber sequoia]

ah yes, Liindy's stuff works

[feral abyss]

cant say the same for my vrclens, which decided that i will never have enough parameters but hey ho

like im using the memory optimiser, managed to drop it to 90 bits

vrclens is CONVINCED i am 157 bits over budget

what is wrong with it

[flint hamlet]

the bows arent showing uo

[feral abyss]

you got textures on them? they look a little grey compared to the rest of the avi

[somber sequoia]

the left image also looks mirrored?

[flint hamlet]

its only white

[flint hamlet]

yeah it was taken on vrchat i have my mirror on

the issue on quest is the armature but idk how to fix that its the thing that keeps the bow up

[unborn moon]

does anyone know why some blendshapes and toggles revert back shortly after toggling or sliding them in unity? this ends up applying to uploads, and doesnt seem fixable

[somber sequoia]

do you have something animating them?

[unborn moon]

no

the toggle for it is fully deleted

[sturdy goblet]

Can anyone tell me why when I duplicate a folder of assets from a avatar that's blue (not unpacked) in the Hierarchy over to a white label avatar (unpacked avatar) underneath it will enlarge or shrink the assets when testing it in play mode

[waxen smelt]

can somone help me?

[night ember]

dont ask to ask

[waxen smelt]

like i need help because my friends sdk is not picking up unity

idk

why

[subtle python]

I tried reinstalling, did nothing

[prisma sedge]

Do you have any errors in the console?

[subtle python]

yes i was gonna ask abt that after

im out of ideas

[faint ridge]

I have no idea how to fix this

[subtle python]

ill paypal u 5$ if u fix this

[dire dagger]

Wot.

[umbral oriole]

click on the avatar root

check the playable layers

you will see gogoloco animation controllers there

just remove those and it should be fine

[umbral oriole]

are those fbx that you added. have you parented them or armature linked them to a bone??

[crimson pendant]

Is there a way to trigger particle emissions without the particle emitter being off beforehand?

[crystal quest]

Im a noob i need all the help i can get

PLEASE

https://tenor.com/view/broke-no-cash-gif-25565154

[ornate stump]

What kind of help you need to begin with?

[crystal quest]

I know NOTHIN with avatar creating lol

But someone said they’ll teach me

[ornate stump]

Not me for one. But you could also ask the more specific question here. Also https://discord.com/channels/189511567539306508/1139228456090087495

[crystal quest]

Okie

Thank you!:3

[wheat flame]

y'all I need help

I built a human avi for the first time and the pants are attached right but the legs won't stay in the pants, same with the boots for the feet I think

[ornate stump]

Legs won't stay in pants, or pants don't follow legs?

[wheat flame]

pants don't follow legs

same with shoes not following feet

[ornate stump]

Then it isn't "attached right". How did you do it?

[wheat flame]

i imported the outfit and attatched the parts to where they should be

[ornate stump]

What "attached" actually mean?

[wheat flame]

well I dragged them onto their respective root bones

also would it be easier to call for this? if it's possible for you at least cuz then I could share my screen

[ornate stump]

I don't get in call.

[wheat flame]

ok

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot the result in object hierarchy?

[wheat flame]

huh?

object what?

[ornate stump]

"Hierarchy" the panel to the left in unity.

[mellow vigil]

This is probably an easy fix but for the life of me I can't figure it out. My avatar has a TwoAxisPuppet toggle that moves the hair, it works fine, but when I clip the trigger in game, it doesnt save where I had it and resets

[ornate stump]

TwoAxisPuppet can't save its state.

[mellow vigil]

Well it used to work fine before. its a model I bought that im adding toggles too, but I havent touched anything to do with this toggle at all, and im just now noticing it.

[ornate stump]

Is "Pants (1)" a bone from armature object or mesh renderer?

[ornate stump]

TwoAxisPuppet can't save its state. Apart from closing the action menu instead of pressing trigger which would work, but it will reset when you open back the action menu.

[wheat flame]

It all came as one outfit so I duplicated the parts to move them onto the armature

That’s why it has (1) but I’m fairly sure it’s a mesh? Idk a lot about this cuz I’m new to making avis

[ornate stump]

Select the "Pants (1)" and see in the inspector.

[wheat flame]

Mesh

[ornate stump]

Screenshot.

[ornate stump]

Because you don't attach clothing by moving the mesh itself.

[ornate stump]

How the pants prefab originally is?

[wheat flame]

Idk

I never changed the pre-fab I just moved it to a different part of the armature

[ornate stump]

"Moving" is the changes you made.

[zinc flicker]

wait so the pants were from another model?

[night ember]

why isnt it packed with the avatar

[wheat flame]

It was a package that came as one outfit all put together

[night ember]

and you duplicated it without moving bones?

[wheat flame]

Yeah

[mellow vigil]

then how do people have them stay where they left them? on other avatars ive adjust a puppet menu before, then clicked trigger to close it, and everything it controlled stayed where I moved it until I moved the puppet back to the middle 🤔

[night ember]

thats not how that works

[mellow vigil]

thats also what it was doing before

[night ember]

skinned meshes require the bones

and you cant just use bones from another armature without reparenting in blender

[wheat flame]

Ah fu- ok

[ornate stump]

I press the menu button to close the menu instead of using trigger to close the control.

[night ember]

you could technically but that requires the fbx's of both the outfit and the avatar to be IDENTICAL

[zinc flicker]

Oh yeah if you just dragged a mesh object without its weight painted armature It doesnt see that new armature as its so it will stay solid like.

[night ember]

if they arent identical and you try swapping meshes itll just disappear

[wheat flame]

Ok

[night ember]

and spontaneously turn into a blob of vertices at the root if you delete the armature

[mellow vigil]

that makes more sense, I think I started clicking the trigger instead of the menu button without noticing, thank you so much 😁

[wheat flame]

Okay so if it comes as one outfit put together then where do I put it on the armature to make it follow the body??

[night ember]

you dont

you do that in blender

[zinc flicker]

you can use VRCfury to take care of that for you.

[desert elk]

only if it has bones

[night ember]

otherwise youd have to double the bones

[ornate stump]

The easiest way would be using vrcfury.

[wheat flame]

I don’t think I have blender and idk how to use blender either

[wheat flame]

Ok

How?

[desert elk]

they have documentation

[ornate stump]

https://vrcfury.com/tutorials/linking-clothes

[desert elk]

yeah

[wheat flame]

Alr thx

[zinc flicker]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhDjnI4Xy6o

you are looking for armature linking

it links two aramatures togeather like clothing.

[dire dagger]

Gogo loco won’t work, any ideas why

Like I have the gogo loco on the gesture

But it won’t do anything

[ornate stump]

Might have to explain you you installed it.

[dire dagger]

When I tried to upload it

I put it on the avatar and then this popped up

[wheat flame]

It worked tysm!!! Now I only have one other issue

Idk what it is and I’ll get a pic but there’s a string of smth on the avi

There it looks like her hair

[desert elk]

delete the components from the avatar's playable layers or delete the vrcfury component

your avatar already has gogoloco

[wheat flame]

I can’t figure out why the hair is doing that cuz the hair itself when I use the avi is not stretched it just has that long ass string of hair coming from her legs

[somber sequoia]

looks like stray pixels, maybe not weight painted properly?

[night ember]

or deleted bones

that really shouldnt have been deleted

[somber sequoia]

yeah, that wouldn't surprise me in the case of hair

[night ember]

cause the vertices are shooting to the root of the fbx which usually indicates you deleted bones that were weighted

[subtle python]

I've been trying to texture in blender but nothing I do seems to solve the problem of my stokes being very low res, even if im drawing on a 4k texture. Is this a blender issue?

[wheat flame]

Oof

[night ember]

pretty sure thats just how the pen works

you kinda gotta set up the pen or get in close to the mesh/uv window

[subtle python]

No

Doesn't help

[night ember]

are you even sure its a 4k texture

[subtle python]

You don't understand the issue so I'll wait for someone else

[night ember]

c o o l

you didnt like my answer so I apparently didnt understand you

[stray lintel]

hi

I need help

[somber sequoia]

with?

[stray lintel]

Making a 6 armed avatar

I’m trying to create duplicate arms in blender

The tutorial I’m following isn’t very clear on how I get to the mats tab

[somber sequoia]

I'm guessing you mean the one called "shading"?

[night ember]

the circle on the bottom right side

[somber sequoia]

oh in the properties box, yeah that

[night ember]

but if you mean the rendering then itd be at the top right

[stray lintel]

OH pfft

[night ember]

click the mesh first

[stray lintel]

Now I find it

LOL

sorry beginner question lol

[night ember]

it makes sense after you learn how it works

but before you do it is VERY annoying

[stray lintel]

Well I uh clicked edit mode and click on the mesh

[night ember]

that works too

[night ember]

but you just need to have the mesh selected

[stray lintel]

Ah yea

I was wondering like hm

[night ember]

the properties tools swap out depending on what is selected

like if you have an armature selected it swaps to the bone tools

[stray lintel]

Ok welp I’m gonna try and muddle my way through I’ll give a holler if I need help

Thanks guys

[night ember]

if nothing is select its just the default tools

[wheat flame]

for tops would Ilink it to the chest or spine??

[ornate stump]

Link to the matching bone. Look for bone name.

[wheat flame]

alr

[idle jetty]

Does anyone know how to use a gz file in unity

[night ember]

Arent gz files a type of zip file

Also where are you getting a gz from

[desert elk]

there's a change that a unitypackage will add .gz after it when downloaded from Google Drive

if that's what happened to you, I just edit the file name to delete the .gz

[uneven whale]

I found a legal way to increase the amount of physics simulation in the quest avatar. To do this, you need to use rotation constraint on adjacent bones and bind them to bones that have physbone, so bones without physbone will be able to simulate movements. I think this technique is great for hair

[ornate stump]

This doesn't increase the amount of physics simulation.

[night ember]

This doesnt actually increase it you are just copying from the 1 simulation

[radiant oar]

Hey guys can one of you guys hop in a call with me and help me figure out why I can't upload anything lmaooo like I go to upload it and I get the same error for every model?

[left gull]

someone is more likely to help you if you just send a screen shot of the consoles errors here, not many here are willing to do calls or even private DMs

[sand garnet]

Hey people, I'm having trouble with my avatar's textures in unity, whenever my character blushes, this happens. How can I fix this? Please help!~ 🫠 https://gyazo.com/492804a7607d2ba310cec94d43863720 , https://gyazo.com/9f3da2d0f6098db628ddeeaa3ecf47f5 (with 'transparency')

[iron dove]

Hi people I need help, I can't find a fitting suit for my avatar

I don't know what based she's using

It's from sukhaVR from gumroad

it says it's an editied base, what should I do?

[left gull]

if its their own edit of an existing base its unlikely anyone would be selling clothing specifically fitted to it, your best bet is finding an outfit you like made for the original base the edit uses and sculpting/possibly also weightpainting it to fit the edits rig and mesh

[olive schooner]

does anyone know how i fix this ;-;

[ornate stump]

What does it even do? Did you set view position in avatar descriptor?

[olive schooner]

this is what i see when i edit the view position, so it should be fine right?

[ornate stump]

Have you tested with gesture manager as well?

[olive schooner]

in gesture manager she stands perfectly fine

[ornate stump]

Screenshot the whole avatar in unity how it actually look like.

[olive schooner]

in gesture mode or just normally?

[ornate stump]

Could using both for reference.

[balmy barn]

flipped hip would be my guess, rare to see those

[feral hazel]

How does one fix idle animations locking head to where the user is facing?
Haven't tested if it messed up VR head tracking with these animations in half-body

[olive schooner]

it just looks normal to me ;-;

[feral hazel]

The feet are also messed up and bent

[stable isle]

heya, so i have a fidget toy im working on. Basically it's a rope dart knife that uses:

• a springjoint that has the knife attached to it
• a rotation constraint (to keep the knife pointed away from the pivot point)
• liindy's "liish" asset to provide a visual for the rope, connecting the pivot point and the springjoint
• and nebulaanimations' magic decal for a blood effect at the end of the knife

what i'd like to do next is make the knife stick into world geometry.

does anyone have any insight on how that might be doable?

[ornate stump]

Also test on desktop mode. See different between standing still and walking animation.

[olive schooner]

i noticed that the avatar goes back to normal after turning off fbt, i wasn't using fbt bc i'm lazy rn but i was using standable if that helps

could it be bc i'm not actually using fbt?

[ornate stump]

So does the sdk warned about pelvis bone?

[olive schooner]

the vrcsdk? no not at all

[olive schooner]

on desktop she stand and walks fine

[ornate stump]

Can you check again aan screenshot the sdk build panel?

[olive schooner]

it's mostly just optimization i think

[ornate stump]

Then check in the fbx file rig configuration.

[olive schooner]

this ?

[ornate stump]

Yes. Configure.

[ornate stump]

The hips bone position is below upper leg bones, that could be the issue when using fbt.

[olive schooner]

can i fix that myself?

[ornate stump]

If you can use blender then you can.

[olive schooner]

ugh, i can't ;-;, thank you so much for the help though

[flint hamlet]

gogo logo wont go in am i doing something wrong??