avatar-help

[manic olive]

the reason why i speciffy this is the video i used said to swap branches to "main". in the desc it says to not do that anymore, but i can't find a video that says otherwise in the actual video, and i was too stupid to read it at first lol

ok hold up it isn't showing the 'add device(quest)' button

been a long time since i've made smth how do i set up the image

[somber sequoia]

click it?

[manic olive]

Nothing happens on clicking

[somber sequoia]

I don't have Unity open but I thought there was a very obvious button to click right there

[manic olive]

there was a scroll bar i had to use

i am'

a dumbass

[somber sequoia]

ah yes.

[manic olive]

ok hold up

i can't build or publish the avatar again and it's not showing on vrc

[swift cipher]

So question, I am trying to hide my avatars head to easily fit inside a combat helmet. WOuld the best/easy way to do that be to scale/shrink the head on the armature/skeleton?

[somber sequoia]

look for errors in the console.

[somber sequoia]

assuming your helmet is not a child of the head bone, that could work

[swift cipher]

Shit it is

@somber sequoia You recommend any other solutions?

[somber sequoia]

blendshape to shrink the mesh, though make sure you disable visemes when doing that

[swift cipher]

Fuck... I hate blender lol

[somber sequoia]

I usually prefer doing UV tile discarding for stuff like this

[swift cipher]

I have done UV discard before. I'll probably do that.

[manic olive]

bad day for me to have eyes

[marsh walrus]

Hey does anyone have an avatar that is good for people that sing and play guitar? I am gonna record some clips in a bit but i have been trying to find an avatar for that for ages now

And letting someone make an avatar for me is way too expensive

[somber sequoia]

#1138520828556890214 probably

[left gull]

Still kinda breaks rule 3 though, most wont help with NSFW add-ons here

[marsh walrus]

Appreciate it

[sour sphinx]

in vrc tos tho, its ok to have nsfw aslong as its private?

@left gull

[left gull]

as long as the content stays in private worlds yes (iirc) but im reffering to the server's #rules

its also just a morals thing aswell

[spark walrus]

I have a gun prop i'm trying to put on my avatar but i'm only able to fire once and can't fire again without disabling the toggle for the prop. I was looking through the asset's files to see what may be causing this and I saw these warnings on the VRCFury full controller component for the prop. How exactly am I meant to fix this?

[somber sequoia]

these aren't errors, they are warnings, mostly that you see when you are looking at the overall avatar, not the prop itself. Generally don't worry about them.

Basically when you use this component and refer to stuff outside that one object, this happens, such as when building a complex prop.

[sour sphinx]

ur right, sorry i thought it was related to images but the rules say "if u have to ask..."

[somber sequoia]

generically if your VRCFury prop has a menu on it (i.e. via the Full Controller component), that's where you handle the icons, on that menu.

I don't see useful docs on that component, but there's also a component called "Override Menu Item"

(there is a VRCFury discord too)

[spark walrus]

I didn't know that. I'll join it and ask in there later. I don't really know what's causing the issue so i'm going to take a break and come back later

[somber sequoia]

it's clearly listed on the main page of their docs site 🙂

[sour sphinx]

thank u

[manic olive]

i still need help setting up the haptic vest for quest... doesn't show the option on the bhaptic menu to add a device with quest compatability, only to add a device (and it doesn't work with quest)

figured it out

the bhaptic osc i've been using with unity is outdated

go to the notion tutorial for pc and you'll see the bhaptics vrchat avatar package on step 3

[weary pilot]

Hello, does anyone know how to work with VRChat, where they can help me upload an Avatar for me? Please IM me if so.

[long lava]

I need y'all pro avatar wisdom
Would it be possible to "flatten" an avatar on the ground.
I had an idea for an avatar which can turn into a shadow, but have ZERO CLUE on how I could do it
I suppose we got tools like FinalIK's grounder? But I've never used it and i've heard it's more for legs than anything else.

[somber sequoia]

could just scale it to 0 on the Y axis.

[long lava]

There are easy to understand guides to for that!
https://vcc.docs.vrchat.com/guides/getting-started/
This is a cool guide that explains how to setup VRChat Creator Companion, and how to upload a world or avatar.

[austere bay]

some people do commissions to upload an avatar 🤷‍♀️

[somber sequoia]

Lots of us do, have you watched a tutorial video on this? If so, you could explain where you're stuck.

[balmy barn]

never use those 'services' you might as well give your account away

[timber wharf]

uploading an avatar for someone is against tos🤷‍♂️

[weary pilot]

My computer does not have enough power to convert the model.

[manic olive]

thunderbolts reference real....?

[long lava]

Sadly no, it is an OC 😊

[austere bay]

i did not know that sorry, I've just seen a lot of creators charge a little extra to upload it

my bad!

[left gull]

lots of creators dont really care about the TOS more about making a quick profit/attempt at making an income from it

its also just a super unsafe practice since you'd becomse that creators alt account and vice versa in most cases which is bad if they're not a good person and get hit with a ban

[long lava]

when vrchat godot engine port so that you don't need a beast just to run the creation software /j

[somber sequoia]

unlikely ever

[long lava]

yeah nah it's NEVER going to happen

~~ when pico8 port~~

[somber sequoia]

maybe with an infusion of tens of millions of dollars, but just why

[long lava]

"okay guys now we need to make our avatar run on pico8 devices"

[balmy barn]

my 12 year (13ish soon) old laptop can run unity (cause it has a dedicated gpu and not some onboard junk)

but vrchat , doubt it anymore

[tacit forum]

I tried using the creator companion to make an avatar, but I can't even make a project :c

pls help

[somber sequoia]

explain what you did and where you are stuck

[mental pawn]

the control panel is stuck like this

[plain robin]

does anyone know what this cat avatar is called?

[split wing]

I’m trying to upload avatars but it gets stuck like this

It doesn’t load or anything

Does anyone know how to fix this?

[balmy barn]

14 red errors id look at, could just be a connection issue

[austere bay]

#1138520828556890214

[plain robin]

Thanks I just wasn't sure

[ruby gazelle]

does anyone know how to fix this? the arm on top is suppose to look like the bottom are but it keeps bending. how do i fix this?

[distant nimbus]

https://medal.tv/games/vrchat/clips/kGYP9I0lmQfuLI5EU?invite=cr-MSxObXAsODU4MjA1MDI
physbones doing weird throbbing and chest physbones are lopsided... ideas?

[mental pawn]

this has happened to me too

[timber wharf]

@distant nimbus make sure none of humanoid bones got any physbones

[distant nimbus]

would you be able to explain "humaoid bones"?

[timber wharf]

used there #avatar-help message

[distant nimbus]

im sorry, i have no clue what that is, what im looking for, nor even how to get to that menu

[grizzled crow]

modeling an avatar head.. how do I make the eyes look.. not sunken?

[edgy spindle]

Sorry guys

Not a scammer

Just need help

😭

Im so dedicated for help

SORRY

[arctic ginkgo]

eyelids

[grizzled crow]

how do you recommend I should add eyelids?

[queen isle]

Are there any tutorials out there to set up buffer particles? I've been struggling to set one up properly

[green bough]

On unity on PC, trying to run my avatar and upload it to use on meta quest 2.. Ive been told i have to upload it for android devices by tutorials but when I try to do a test build it gives me this error

these are the alerts i was given, they never saidit wouldnt work but it does say poor performance.
I dont have my quest connected to my pc. Is that necessary to do this?

[timber wharf]

@green bough you dont normally need to do test builds for android, thats very niche feature

just upload normally

[green bough]

oh. it is uploading normally now

[timber wharf]

@queen isle https://github.com/VRLabs/Particle-Bufferer

i think that one should work in 2022

[queen isle]

Thank you!

[green bough]

Working now thanksss! avatar works fine!!

:D

[modern glen]

why is his left pupil invisible

[arctic ginkgo]

you're gonna get nothing but scammers

go to VRCTraders server and make sure you follow the instructions of the bot that dms you when you post a commission listing

they vet their artists to ensure you won't get scammed, just follow their protocol and only commission authorized artists

[rapid orbit]

oh sweet youre actually the best

[distant nimbus]

Im trying to create a dissolve toggle for the entire avatar to go invisible. however, only on certain assets, the dissolve wont work and will turn white instead of transparent. i have my "dissolved color" set to transparent, but it turns white instead.. any ideas?

[west cipher]

so need a bit of help. i have the bones for the eyes centered but when i set up the descriptor and try to have them move any direction they shoot straight up

well to the back

[modern glen]

why does my avatar look like this

[arctic ginkgo]

When an avatar is inside a station, what part is centered on the station transform? I would assume either the root or hips, I just want to know if there's a way to ensure the hips are in the correct place, since there's often issues with people not being in the right location when sitting on avatar stations, and I'm not sure exactly what causes that

[distant nimbus]

avatar was deleted, most likely ripped and not supposed to be public

[modern glen]

but its my avatar made by my account😭

[distant nimbus]

oooo, mightve been flagged or reported

[modern glen]

i literally just uploaded it

[distant nimbus]

mightve been flagged ^

[modern glen]

like 2 minutes ago

i mean if it was flagged it wouldve said so right?>

like on the site or smth

[arctic ginkgo]

that's not what happened

not flagged like for breaking tos or anything

just may have failed security checks

or there was just an error loading it

so try reloading the avatar, and check in your menu if it's grayed out

[modern glen]

well how do i fix that

uhh how do i reload the avatar

[somber sequoia]

probably you want to set the dissolved alpha to 0 and use a rendering mode that's compatible with that, such as cutout.

[arctic ginkgo]

open your radial menu and it should be in the expressions under quick actions

[modern glen]

well its the same even after reloading

could this be the problem

although i followed the tutorials

they all used humanoid rigs

[somber sequoia]

Probably go look in the rig setup, there may be an error listed, or a bone wrong;

[muted badge]

how does one edit the idle facial expression of an avatar? even though I edit the blendshapes on the face it doesn't carry over to the actual avi uploaded.

[modern glen]

yeah i dont understand whats happening

[somber sequoia]

you have the wrong bones in the slots that are red

or the hierarchy of your armature is incompatible with vrchat

[modern glen]

that suck

how do i fix it

[somber sequoia]

rework the armature in blender if needed, drag the right bones into the right slots if not

spine hierarchy should go from hips -> spine -> chest -> upper chest (optional) -> neck -> head, with shoulders coming from chest or upper chest, whichever is higher..
Names don't matter, but it helps to use standard ones.

[modern glen]

i mean the armature works fine in blender

i dont understnad whats wrong

[somber sequoia]

doesn't matter how well it works in blender

And also it's telling you exactly what's wrong there - the bones in the slots with the red notices are the wrong ones, or the armature hierarchy is wrong at those points.

[sacred topaz]

so im attempting to add this headset accessory for a friend of mine and i cant seem to get the pads to move as if theyre connected to the ears (yes ik theyre not positioned correctly) can somebody help explain what Im doing wrong?

[muted badge]

idk what happened but this won't stop now. anyone know a fix?

[somber sequoia]

do you have an animation that blinks the eyes in some animator layer with an AnyState transform with "allow transition to self" enabled?

[muted badge]

no I don't think so. I was just messing around with blendshapes and when I went into play mode it was like that

[somber sequoia]

ok well you'd have to figure out which layer it's in

[muted badge]

yeah.. welp.. this is fun

[mental pawn]

im starting to feel a little too desperate since well the issue here is that i have been fighting with unity and it would nowhere allow me to upload

its always stuck like this and uploading errors out

i have tried restarting my pc, waiting and retry and nothing has worked and i really neeed to upload it

[junior void]

Time out could be slow internet. Reboot your router/use ethernet rather than wifi if you can

[mental pawn]

i mean, if it was my wifi nothing would work smoothly at all

its only the SDK for some reason and even the vrc website loads up quickly

for instance this is my upload speed which shouldnt be as bad

[edgy spindle]

I made my avatar but how do i make it compatible with quest users

[mental pawn]

this is new

[modern glen]

i keep fixing it but when i apply it just goes back as it was

i dont understand whats wrong

[ornate stump]

Exit from that page and read Import Messages.

[modern glen]

where do i read imported messages

[ornate stump]

After you click done.

[modern glen]

what does this mean

[ornate stump]

That's the issue.

[modern glen]

how do i fix it

[ornate stump]

You have to edit the model in blender to correct the bones structure.

[solemn drum]

did the sdk add a limit for the distance a chair can be from a avatar? i hav a chair toggel and since u cant make a chair disabled by default i just move it super high up so that way u cant accidently click on it until i toggel the chair on

but now if i do that the chair no longer appears in game

[somber sequoia]

you can turn it off 2-3 frames after start though

[solemn drum]

the issue is that that requires people dont have your avatars animations blocked or else their will always be a invisble seat there

[somber sequoia]

ah, this is true

[modern glen]

but the model is fine in blender

[somber sequoia]

still not really relevant

[modern glen]

yeah how am i suppose to fix it in blender if theres nothing to fix

the problem is clearly in unity

[somber sequoia]

the spine hierarchy doesn't matter in blender, it does for vrchat.

[modern glen]

well how do i edit the hierarchy in blender

[somber sequoia]

edit the armature and re-order the bones to match what vrchat expects. There's a diagram pinned in #avatar-rigging though it doesn't name the bones

[solemn drum]

it looks like lowering the chairs height from 1024 meteers up to just 100 fixes it idk why it worked before but no longer

tbh they should just let us create chairs that are disabled by default. most avatars with chairs have to do some hacky workaround to make them off by default

[somber sequoia]

yeah I suspect that issue wasn't intentional, but they don't seem interested in fixing it.
I should probably find and +1 a canny about it.

[junior void]

Tag me if you find it

[somber sequoia]

k

[modern glen]

im trying to find where i can re order them in blender

[somber sequoia]

"edit the armature"

[modern glen]

that doesnt reallly make it clearer

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure how it doesn't? you select the armature, go into edit mode, and re-parent the bones as needed.

Hmm, I suppose "learn blender" is part of this

[modern glen]

is the problem that the spine and shoulders dont connect

[somber sequoia]

that's fine though

[modern glen]

i mean the bones seem fine

yeah the parent bones are correct

[mighty mantle]

My friend is trying to upload a avi and they told me I see the textures but it won't let me apply while sending a ss

[modern glen]

how do i fix this

[somber sequoia]

that should be the upper leg bone

[supple needle]

Could someone help me fix this ? I find that “failed to build” errors are usually missing scripts, but it doesn’t seem to be the case for this one.

[teal laurel]

Make that bone longer

You'll have to do that in blender

[modern glen]

i did though

[somber sequoia]

longer?

[solemn drum]

is fly for gogo logo broken?

it no longer works when i upload a avatar with it

[teal laurel]

Did you make sure to enable your personal mirror before turning on collider flight?

<insert reason here why it needs mirrors>

[solemn drum]

ye its just this one avtara for some reason maybe i have to randomly reuplaod it to fix it idk

[teal laurel]

Hmm, latest version of gogoloco too?

[solemn drum]

cuz it worked for the other avatars but randomly stopped for just one despite me making no changes to it

[solemn drum]

im pretty sure

[somber sequoia]

I keep meaning to go look 'cause this makes no sense to me 🙂

[teal laurel]

Huh, you didn't cut down on any colliders or other stuff from it right?

There is some technical reasons behind it but i forgot it

[somber sequoia]

At one point I made my own version of the flying, which works fine, so I haven't used gogo in a while, but I'm a little curious

[solemn drum]

im deleting and readding it to see if that fixes since one time thats what randomly fixed it

ok that worked

ifk why i have to randomly delete and re add gogo sometimes

[mighty mantle]

?

[somber sequoia]

no idea what you're talking about there, maybe explain more?

[supple needle]

[somber sequoia]

I saw that one too, nothing useful in those errors, unfortunately.

[supple needle]

Something I’ll have to start fresh on, I assume

Usually vrcquesttools takes care of the missing scripts and everything works, I guess the SDK just chose violence today

[mighty mantle]

It wouldn’t allow them to put on textures onto the avi

Or hold on

[supple needle]

Is this unity or blender

[mighty mantle]

@iron thistle

Tell em💔

[iron thistle]

that picture is from vrchat, i uploaded it as a test avatar

it wouldnt show the textures in the sdk, just blender

i imported it from blender just how the website told me

[supple needle]

Textures in the SDK ?

[iron thistle]

uhh, i can reopen the sdk and show you

like a screenshot

it looks like this

i think thats unity or smth, its the project opened from the vrc cc

[supple needle]

That’s not the SDK. You need to create materials to put into the slots

[mighty mantle]

HUH

[iron thistle]

when i click on the circle next to the none it says the textures but wont let me put it there

idk how any of this works

[supple needle]

Can you send a picture

[supple needle]

You need to put a texture on the material

Then material itself is not the texture

[somber sequoia]

textures go into materials, materials go into (skinned) mesh renderers

[mighty mantle]

Could ask nezix rq of what material they used if they aren’t busy

[iron thistle]

i have no idea what yall are talking about, how do i get the texture? how do i put it on the material? what material😭

[somber sequoia]

textures are image files

[mighty mantle]

I think there was one in blender that you can take a photo of

[supple needle]

Export the texture from blender

[iron thistle]

how do i do that

[supple needle]

Did you make the texture from scratch

https://youtu.be/wJqNeqvwNQw?si=C3caH8qVFvzxlFpg

[mighty mantle]

The owner gave me the file and then I gave her the file so she can import it on vrc, Idrk if it is or not

[supple needle]

Follow the video above, it’s straightforward

[iron thistle]

so after i export it how to i put it on the material

[supple needle]

I assume these are already existing materials, so you probably have to create a new one to add the texture.

Right click > create > material

[iron thistle]

do i do anythng with these?

[supple needle]

No

I never mess with the premade ones personally

Once you create your material press on it, on the inspector (right hand side) it should appear.
There should be a box with a circle next to it, that’s where you’ll add the texture.

Then you drag and drop the material to where you want it on the avatar.

[frosty grove]

umm umm im starting a new project do i use 2022 or 2019?

[somber sequoia]

2022

[iron thistle]

this is what it shows, where is the circle and square

oh wait i did it

i can right cliuck the new material without messing with the thing on the right

it added it

[mighty mantle]

https://tenor.com/view/gojo-absolute-cinema-gif-8932131737123141805

[iron thistle]

awww yeahhh

[mighty mantle]

Oh your a bit-

[iron thistle]

HAH

[frosty grove]

ok ok ty!

[iron thistle]

alsoo, going back on this. when i uploaded it to vrchat that was my entire screen. i didnt let me look out of the eyes and the face mirror was on the legs. how do i fix this?

[frosty grove]

whut do i select here (i only selected the ones i remember needing)..

[somber sequoia]

the avatars SDK - everything else is optional

[frosty grove]

ok ty ty
-# btw imma be here for a bit ^_^ sorry im using unity after like. almost a year

[mighty mantle]

@supple needle

[supple needle]

Fix the eyesight

YouTube is your best friend

[mighty mantle]

Mb!

[timber wharf]

@frosty grove you always want gesture manager or av3emu, everything else only when required.

[frosty grove]

alr

[wide hawk]

hello so i am working on this particle effect i want to make it look more wavy and like its bouncing up and down i know its possible cause i had done it the other was just about to save then my power went out i cant rember how exactly i had done it so if you know how its done i know it has something with noise or emission shape but cant rember

[reef kraken]

any easy way to switch body mesh on a existing finished version or copying everything over?
i had to merge a muzzle mesh to the body through blender and i dont really want to redo my entire avatar. i try and replace the mesh for the body on the finished version but it just disappears, please help me

[timber wharf]

backup your project then just overwrite fbx in assets

[reef kraken]

im dumb af could you explain more

specifically how to overwrite it

[sudden violet]

If i remember correctly:

• First, make a backup. WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO DO IS NOT REVERSIBLE
• Delete the original FBX
• Rename the new FBX the same as the deleted FBX, and improt it into the project

I'm not 100% sure if this is how you do it, or if there is an easier way to do it.

[reef kraken]

alright thank you

[unkempt coyote]

Hello! I know how to make humanoid avatar but now i want to test non humanoid and need help..

first my english is not my main language so sorry if it's bad

i'm in unity 2022 with creator copagnon and don't see the armature for aniamte it (it's here but not visible in the scene)
i know how to animate but just don't know how to replace the "basic humanoid animation" to a custom one (like my avatar is not humanoid i want to create my custom run animation for exemple)
And it is possible to animate in blender and export it to unity to use it ? thank !

[timber wharf]

@reef kraken no need to delete anything, just when exporting from blender write it over existing file in Assets

[reef kraken]

ah okay thank you

[sudden violet]

good to know, ty as well

[digital kelp]

Hey guys I have an avatar but I can’t upload it because I’m a meta quest 2 user and I don’t have a pc so do someone here can upload the avatar for me ?

[teal laurel]

This would mean you'll have to give them full access to your account which is a dangerous thing to do

[digital kelp]

It ok for me

[teal laurel]

Do you have a friend you trust that can do it for you?

[digital kelp]

Or they can upload in their own account and simply I clone the avatar

[digital kelp]

Yeah I do

[teal laurel]

Then i suggest you ask them to upload the avatar on their account and make it public.
Otherwise if you want it to be private, ask them if they can log in for you and upload it.
After doing so, change your vrchat password to make sure they no longer have access

[digital kelp]

Ok Thank u

[teal laurel]

lmfao-

Looks fine to me XDDDD

[reef kraken]

lol

[teal laurel]

What did you use to copy stuff over?

ah you didn't copy, you just replaced the file

[reef kraken]

yeah

[teal laurel]

I can suggest you, that you copy stuff over, this way it is all detached from the original avatar and attaches to the new one.
Here is how i did it with my nardoragon:

(screenshots following, one minute pls)

[somber sequoia]

Probably you exported from blender with different scaling settings than were previously used. in most cases you want "Apply Scalings" set to "FBX All".

Possibly you have an unpacked model prefab in Unity - this technique won't work if you do.

[reef kraken]

uhhh okay

[sudden violet]

welp, average experience. It's what Kazin said above abou the scaling.

[reef kraken]

ah, is the option a blender setting or unity?

[somber sequoia]

it's in the export dialog

also there under "Armature", uncheck the one about leaf bones unless you know for sure your avatar needs them (most don't)

[spiral osprey]

Can i fix this in unity? If so, how?

[somber sequoia]

If it's actually wrong in the model, no. If it's just a matter of putting the right bone into the right slot in the rig setup... maybe - you should go look there

[spiral osprey]

I picked the WRONG model

It's BAD

[teal laurel]

what the frick

bruhhhhhh

how? what? why? aaa

😹

[somber sequoia]

eh, lots of that might not be relevant, Unity just doesn't display this well

[spiral osprey]

What was this guy THINKING???

5???

[somber sequoia]

hips -> spine -> chest -> upper chest -> neck ?

but possibly not, I'd inspect this in Blender.

[spiral osprey]

It has 3 bones in the body

Or chest area

[reef kraken]

@sudden violet so the fbx works it just doesnt when trying to switch it out

or could it be im using prefab id- yatta yatta

[sudden violet]

have you tried the approach Most advised? ^

[reef kraken]

pretty sure thats what i did

[sudden violet]

did you set the rig to humanoid, and checked that the rig was fine?

[reef kraken]

i exported from blender then overwrite the original fbx with the edited one and it turned into that mess of the finished avi

[reef kraken]

let me check it

the rig is all good and is set to humanoid

[sudden violet]

mmh.. maybe applying all transforms in blender first?

i'm really out of ideas

[reef kraken]

okay give me a minute

yeah so am i

nope still broken but only on the already done avi

[still shuttle]

Yeah this happens often when updating the fbx. Just drag and drop the updated fbx by itself into the hierarchy and set up the avatar again.

[reef kraken]

is there anything i can do about the couple of things that are setup through the armature or do i have to redo everything

(vrcfury didnt work on the things setup through armature)

[still shuttle]

You can use pumkins avatar tools to copy things like materials and physbones, but you will have to set up everything added through unity again to make sure it works properly

[reef kraken]

thats annoying but thank you a lot

[somber sequoia]

was the avatar prefab unpacked? 'cause this'll break things

[reef kraken]

expect me to return about pumkins tools in a bit

[reef kraken]

no

[somber sequoia]

huh, it should work then, unless you drastically changed the armature or screwed up scaling settings.
But Pumkin's tools can handle it easily.

[still shuttle]

https://github.com/rurre/PumkinsAvatarTools

[reef kraken]

i havent touched the armature other than merging clothing to it

[reef kraken]

thank you

[dawn wharf]

Hello, how to export a full mesh with prefabs added in Unity?

Wanting to export to an FBX file for rendering

[somber sequoia]

I'd import the various model files into Blender and combine them there.

[dawn wharf]

Is there a way I can go around piecing it together?

Piecing it together sounds intense

[somber sequoia]

there is a tool for exporting from Unity but it doesn't seem to work very well at all.

[night ember]

it hasnt worked for a long ass time

[dawn wharf]

The FBX exporter?

[night ember]

it doesnt work nor should you ever need to use it

[somber sequoia]

I haven't actually tried it 'cause I go one way from blender to unity, but yeah, that's what I keep hearing

[dawn wharf]

I am currently wanting to use it to make a render of my avatar

Lol

Blender render

[night ember]

it just breaks the avatar

[dawn wharf]

There is a backup

[night ember]

just import all the stuff on the avatar in blender

[dawn wharf]

Mm right, but I swear there's an easier way to export the mesh together since its linked now

[night ember]

doesnt matter cause the export doesnt overwrite anything? it just will not ever make a functional fbx

[somber sequoia]

it's not really "linked" in a way that's useful for blender

[night ember]

I definitely wouldnt call it "linked"

[dawn wharf]

Can merge armatures in blender

With CATS or something of the sort

[somber sequoia]

of course

[night ember]

yea? thats the correct way to do it

[dawn wharf]

I just wish there was an easier way

T. T

[somber sequoia]

that is the easier way?

[night ember]

what do you expect making something entirely out of prefabs

[dawn wharf]

Apologies,this is my first time

[somber sequoia]

prefabs being a concept in Unity but not in blender

[dawn wharf]

I don't work with blender often, so I am learning and asking questions, please be respectful

[night ember]

I mean it is a 3d modeling and animation engine compared to a game engine

[somber sequoia]

yep

[dawn wharf]

I am self learning

[night ember]

which is good but you should probably at least look into what you are being told instead of just denying it cause it looks hard

[dawn wharf]

Blender did used to have game engine but unfortunately not anymore

;((

[dawn wharf]

I am asking extra questions because I am confused, not denying help

[night ember]

that wouldnt really matter in any case itself since they would still be entirely independent

[dawn wharf]

Please be nicer to new learners, thank you for answering regardless

[rugged vigil]

Hii, currently updating an avatar and I want to disable gesture expressions as they look strange when talking to people. Any way to make an expression lock / disable it entirely? :0

[somber sequoia]

you could add a toggle variable and use it as part of the transitions in the gesture layer in your FX animator

[rugged vigil]

how would i do that? Sorry I'm still fairly new to making avatars

[somber sequoia]

Probably start with a tutorial on how to make basic toggles and how to work in the animator

[night ember]

like delete them or what

cause if you just want them gone you just delete the layer that has the expression animations

[rugged vigil]

yeah getting rid of them entirely. I already have a radial menu with the gestures so

[somber sequoia]

oh ok, I was assuming you wanted a toggle for it

[rugged vigil]

where would that be? /genq

[night ember]

the fx layer?

[rugged vigil]

this?

[sudden violet]

Either that, or gesture layer. Depends how it is setup.

You're looking for the layer that uses hand gestures that lead into the animations you want to get rid of

[night ember]

thats where animations are

[rugged vigil]

OHH ok i think i found it

this yeah?

[night ember]

gesture is for hand poses
fx is for the actual expressions

[rugged vigil]

just delete the expressions I dont want yeah?

[night ember]

or just delete the layer if you dont plan on using gestures for the expressions

well

[sudden violet]

Oh ops, i missunderstood what gesture was for. Ty

[night ember]

if its that layer

[rugged vigil]

awesome, tysm!!!

[sudden violet]

Now i'm curious where the radial wheel is, nothing there looks like it

[somber sequoia]

in the avatar descriptor under "expressions", it starts at the main menu there

[rugged vigil]

tbf I'm converting from a VRoid file so idk where anything is

[sudden violet]

Oh that's cool, i never did facial animations outside of the FXlayer

I'll have a peek

[somber sequoia]

? you still need the FX layer, the menu just sets variables that can be used in the animator

[sudden violet]

Oh, i might have not been clear then.

Exo said they have a radial menu setup. When i was looking at this, nothing looked like the radial menu layer

[rugged vigil]

that worked, thanks again! :]

[modern glen]

why are the arms red

[somber sequoia]

it says - because it's not t-posed.

there's an 'enforce t-pose' thing under "pose" just below the bone list on in the right image, but it's not strictly necessary for vrchat

(as far as I remember anyway?)

yeah ok - just checked one of mine that's a-posed, it's fine.

ah I apparently forced it into T-pose in the rig setup, interesting.

[balmy barn]

rather see how it looks in blender then unity, few bones there i got no idea what they are doing

[modern glen]

okay but i dont think it would work correctly like this right

[somber sequoia]

why do you have two sets of arm bones?

[night ember]

why is there 2 sets of bones

[hollow mesa]

anyone know how to fix this?

[somber sequoia]

always post the first 2-3 errors, from the top. this one is not useful without context.

[hollow mesa]

ah okay sorry

[hard turtle]

does anyone know a good heat distortion shader

[hollow mesa]

so any box at the very top of the console or onlt the red warnings?

[somber sequoia]

errors are the red ones, those are the interesting bits.

we look at the first few because that's where the root cause will likely be, many after that are just side-effects.

[hollow mesa]

thx just needed to confirm

all the stuff

[somber sequoia]

oh that first one is the issue, yep. Remove some add-ons, or some avatar parameters

that message is actually pretty detailed as to what to do already

[hollow mesa]

i just dont know how to do that

idk what the parameters are

[somber sequoia]

start here: https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/expression-menu-and-controls

[hollow mesa]

also i have to go afk could u dm me with a short guide or some sorry i do have to go

thx

[hollow mesa]

would removing small cosmetics work?

[somber sequoia]

I of course don't know what you have or if they added any parameters, but if they do add parameters then yes, probably.

[dawn wharf]

Ended up merging armatures and was able to do a render! thank you Kazin!

[modern glen]

one is called def

i just ignore it

[somber sequoia]

uh... okay...

[modern glen]

okay but this cant work right

its not in the right place

do i need to edit the model?

[somber sequoia]

what are you referring to here?

[night ember]

Why do you have 2 sets of bones

[somber sequoia]

it seems like the arm bones you have active are not the ones that actually move the mesh

so that whole bit where you said the bones "seemed right" in blender... yeah, this isn't right.

[modern glen]

those are the rig bones man

[balmy barn]

id throw it in mixamo for the 90% ish bone setup you have bones that not needed for vrchat

[lyric compass]

Anyone know why a puppet controller that uses a blendtree to animate non-humanoid bones would cause face blendshapes to stop working?

[grizzled crow]

is this.. ok for fur in the ears?
Its my second time making a head from scratch

[arctic ginkgo]

Looks good, just make sure you turn down the curve resolution before converting to a mesh, or it will be WAY higher poly than it needs to be

I'm assuming you're using curves

If not then this doesn't apply

[grizzled crow]

its using mesh set to shade smooth

[hollow mesa]

anyone know how to fix this? sorry not that well versed so none of this would make sesnse lol

i thought it would be best to get all of the errors for luck

[somber sequoia]

Classic missing script error. Install the missing dependency.

Judging by the names of them, it's FinalIK. VRLabs has a free "stub" package that you can use rather than paying for it.

[potent hollow]

Anyone willing to help? I have no slue how to fix this issue or whats wrong.

[somber sequoia]

did you click "auto fix"?

... wait how many triangles is that?

[potent hollow]

Yes, thats whats been causing me to wait hours.

[somber sequoia]

well there's no way to see why from there, is the armature really weird or something? Is this a normal "for vrchat" model, or something strange?

[potent hollow]

Nope, everything is normal and as it should look for VRC, Ive never ran into this issue. I just was trying to see if it could be posted and what fixes I needed before tackling the extra issues I needed to fix.

[hollow mesa]

where can i get this?

[somber sequoia]

if it were normal, it wouldn't do that.

[somber sequoia]

I assume you didn't try a web search then?

[dusk lily]

Did you happen to find a solution to this? I'm facing something similar.
Turning off or on some objects, one second later it reverts back to its previous state by itself. Rare occasion, trying to swap out materials, it also goes back to the one I swapped from.
Edit: Update #avatar-help message

[potent hollow]

Nuh uh no way? Toooooootally didn't think it had issues BEFORE doing this.....
-_-

[hollow mesa]

no lol i was in the middle of dealing with something so yk but ill take a look

thank you

[dusk lily]

Small update, I downgraded from SDK 3.8.2 to 3.8.1 and it's not doing it anymore, so whatever's causing it is within SDK 3.8.2.

[modern glen]

everything is black when using my avatar after i uploaded it

[royal pumice]

Can someone help me to find an avatar

[somber sequoia]

#1138520828556890214

[royal pumice]

I need a tag to post in that channel

[somber sequoia]

...okay?

[royal pumice]

How i get it

So i can post there

[somber sequoia]

don't you just pick one from the list?

also why are we discussing this in multiple channels

seems you already got this answer elsewhere

[karmic spindle]

can someone help me rq and tell me why some of my avatars are just errors ?

[somber sequoia]

possibly they failed security checks, which can happen if they're very very poor.

[karmic spindle]

how can i fix that then?

i mean one of them is medium and is also a error

[somber sequoia]

depends on what's wrong.

[karmic spindle]

wdym depends on whats wrong ? vrchat doesnt tell you on whats wrong

[somber sequoia]

Yep, I noticed that. It's annoying.

[karmic spindle]

nvm it was the cache had to clear it and restart steam

[somber sequoia]

oh interesting

[silk glacier]

anyone ever use the "solve in local space" feature in the VRC parent constraint component for avatars before?

im trying to solve a constraint issue but i can't tell if I am missing something, or if Solve in llocal space is broken

[somber sequoia]

often, yes

[silk glacier]

Im working on a PSX style avi, and have 2D eyes. Im rigging the eyes for VRChats avatar descriptor, and I clearly dont want them to rotate in the bones axi. so im using a dummy bone parent constrainted to the rotation bone, and locking the axis it can move in.

The red arrow is how its currently moving when I rotate the capsuel, the blue is the direction im hoping to get the plane to slide along

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1030925607602753536/1394776494814793749/2025-07-15_16-23-14.mp4?ex=68780a56&is=6876b8d6&hm=ae669652e935a55c9da9e780c35597e7a587ddbe8da73e39c442258c9aede4be& heres an example of what im trying to do, but I need to rotate the entire rig 20 degrees to line up with my avatars face geometry

Current constraint settings

[somber sequoia]

huh, that plane moves nicely, I hadn't thought of this method

[astral cosmos]

so this is the rig for my avatar and the arms are shorter than an actual humanoid model so how can i edit this rig so that the hands match up with my controllers in-game because right now they stay connected at the shoulders

this is how it looks like in blender (not t-posing)

[somber sequoia]

there are real limits here, if the avatar's proportions are too far from your own, it's just not going to work right

[silk glacier]

Kazin I solved my problem by just grouping it under an empty, and rotating the empty

im still unsure if solve local does anything, but that atleast is a solution.

[somber sequoia]

It does, the initial announcement post on the vrchat blog had a video showing what it's for

[silk glacier]

Unsure what you mean by "they stay connected at the shoulders" but kazin is correct. your arms are simply too short. they either wont line up, or you need to break the look. it also looks like your legs are not parented to your hips.

[silk glacier]

Ill have to go look for that, because outside a definition, the docs dont really give much more than that.

[somber sequoia]

ah I knew what it was from playing with the similar option in Blender.

[edgy spindle]

Can anyone help me with lighting it says unsupported shader

[somber sequoia]

trying to do a quest avatar?

[edgy spindle]

Yes

But

Its a png

And i dont wanna use their trash lighting

[somber sequoia]

all you get are VRChat-approved quest compatible shaders

[edgy spindle]

Bruu

Thats all i can use?

[somber sequoia]

yep

[edgy spindle]

💀

This sum bs

[somber sequoia]

it's what happens when your headset is basically a mobile phone

[edgy spindle]

So

The lighting just gonna b trash

For quest ppl

It looks see through

[somber sequoia]

well the new toon shader can be better, but yeah pretty much, the quest doesn't have a whole lot of processing power

[edgy spindle]

But i wanna use a cutout

Like this

[somber sequoia]

cutout isn't possible on quest

[edgy spindle]

It is

I have cutout avatra

[somber sequoia]

did you actually cut the mesh or something?

[edgy spindle]

Wdym

[somber sequoia]

explain how your cutout avatar works?

[fiery obsidian]

Hello, can anyone guide/teach me some stuff in unity/blender to further develop my avi?

[somber sequoia]

feel free to ask specific questions

[fiery obsidian]

I am trying to find the fbx for a unity model that is a 2.0K and I want to put it into unity to fix the bones to work on 3.0K. not sure, how to approach this. There is no 3D Model in the unity project and the bones are not working

[somber sequoia]

2.0k?

[fiery obsidian]

2.0 sdk

[somber sequoia]

oh - old SDK

[fiery obsidian]

ya

[somber sequoia]

it'll be hard to do anything related to the armature if you don't have a model file. Maybe it's a .obj?

[fiery obsidian]

I am not sure, I don't see an obj

Do you have time to talk/call?

[somber sequoia]

I don't do calls, sorry

[fiery obsidian]

fair enough

[arctic ginkgo]

if you haven't figured this out yet, it should move along its parent axis (regardless of the parent constraint). So your plane should have an empty transform as the parent, then rotate the parent object so it's facing the direction you want it to.

basically, the axes used in the "freeze axes" settings are determined by the axes of its parent object

again that is regardless of any constraint settings as well as the transform with the constraint, it all has to do with the parent object

if it has no parent object, the axes will be relative to the world

[remote grotto]

hello, dont mind the alt i lost my discord earlier today. anyways i made a new blendshape for this avatar but when i put the texture on it, it looks bad. is there anyway i can fix the texture through the blendshape? like i can import the model to substance painter with the blendshape toggled so i can actually work on the blendshape and not the original model? im very new to blender an unity anything helps

[limpid cargo]

you can try
… check “legacy blendshape normals” in model import
… edit the blendshape in blender (or 3d editing problem)
… change uv (not recommend)
but i don’t know the texture issue you have… i dont recommend change uv because i dont know your issue is.

[sleek pagoda]

when ever i try adding something to my avatar it keeps saying that my avatar is out of space and used 259/256 bits is there i way i can up the limit or just get it to use less bits without deleting the stuff im trying to add?

[arctic ginkgo]

if you have a stretchy physbone and your bounding box is not shown by a player, can they still see the affected transforms?

[spark walrus]

Can someone help me with my avatar? The Gogo Loco isn’t working properly, and the other Novabeast features and toggles aren’t working either

[pearl gale]

I am using digi legs that work perfectly fine walking around in FBT and Desktop version. The issue is when crouching in Desktop that the feet get pushed up into the body.
Has anyone encountered this before with digi legs particularly? Would I have to make custom crouch animations to fix this?

[somber sequoia]

yeah - they're not great when you get far from standing position

[brazen path]

What's the best way to do texture swaps for speaking/blinking?

I currently have separate planes for the closed/open eyes/mouth and move them behind/in front of the face with blendshapes, but I have issues with Z fighting when the planes are in the same place as the face, and intermediate points where neither plane is in front of the face

I had to make my mouth blendshape really exaggerated so it doesn't cause issues when speaking in a low volume, but I doubt this is the best approach

[stray trench]

what base is this?

[arctic ginkgo]

swap them out instead of moving one in front of the other. Then when animating, just remove the transitions (set duration to 0) so it's instant

[pearl gale]

Is it due to the digi constraints? I'm using the VRC Rotation Constraints instead of Unity's

I have been working on a one frame crouch animation for about a day and have made little progress as the right foot gets stuck under the floor in VRC but looks fine in the Unity scene. I've been making this animation just by duplicating the SDK animation and animating in unity itself.
Should I instead be animating in blender or is this way still possible?

[somber sequoia]

no it's just that the plantigrade->digitgrade translation is a compromise, that's a place where it just isn't ideal.

and yeah, you can animate in unity

[wanton cedar]

go to avatar search

[brazen path]

I can do custom animations for blinking/mouth movement? I haven't tried this, do I need to use any specific animation layer?

[stray trench]

?

oh okay

[pearl gale]

Comparing how it looks in unity vs vrchat, even the upperleg rotation looks more extreme than it appears in unity.
Is this still the planti-digi translation even if the digi upperleg and planti upperleg practically share the same bone positions?

[somber sequoia]

that's my guess, but I don't know how your setup works.

[pearl gale]

Yikes. I foresee a ton of jumping back and forth between the two programs to see how each frame looks.
Thankyou for explaining, I'll probably be back with new questions but I'll see where I can get with the information.

[charred epoch]

So I recently learned how ot use the any state part in the animator, my question is, is the any state better than a spider web set up for multiple animations? And are there any downsides to using any state over a spider web?

[arctic ginkgo]

FX

blinking you can just do by yourself.. i mean just set up an animation that loops forever and that's a basic blink cycle

for mouth movement, just set lip sync to "viseme parameter only"

then you can use the Int parameter Viseme to animate with

the parameters section of the creator docs has a table listing which mouth shape is which number

[sick shoal]

hi can anyone help me with a liltoon material? the one im using contains materials and textures files and i have no idea what to do

[brazen path]

Tyvm!!

[main cairn]

How do i pull up the nodes menu again? It's been a minute since I have done this

[queen isle]

I set up an Animator Play Audio but the audio never plays to completion when retriggering it. Is there a known method to make this possible?

[edgy spindle]

Helpppo

[sudden violet]

share a screenshot with the settings in the component

[junior void]

Depends how it is added

There are bone name differences. Vrcf merges same named bones. So i assume your real armature is under "armature flat"

Would need to compare body with prop armature

If your base has "Hips" then the prop hip needs the same name

Caps and whitespacr sensitive

[dawn wharf]

can i see the armature of the item?

[junior void]

If your prop are not clothes that may differ

[dawn wharf]

drop down the prefab

[junior void]

Clothes usually share base armature bones but stuff like guns etc dont

[edgy spindle]

Lizzzyy

Add me

[junior void]

What is this asset

[dawn wharf]

with?

[edgy spindle]

needing some help

[sudden violet]

why not describe your issue here?

[edgy spindle]

Bc i tried and u didn’t help me so id rather show u as u r very experienced and this would probably b a breeze for u

[ornate stump]

When asking for help, you should always describe the issue you need help for.

[shut leaf]

can someone help me convert a vroid avatar to quest ... 😓

im guessing the transparent shit uh is messing w the face but also the clothing is also like. becoming extremely low quality even tho it was low quality enough

like im talking low poly

the clothing also works with transparency so i dont understand why it works with the clothing,, but not the face? and it also like effects the neck as well for some reason

also some textures just dissapear as well even tho theyre not shaders.. so they relatively wouldnt have a problem with being in the quest version

ive seen a lot of hq quest shit and its just like

why

why me

[ornate stump]

If some part disappeared, that likely is backface which get culled by default.

[ornate stump]

Changing shader doesn't lower its polygon. Shader doesn't change mesh data.

[shut leaf]

o ya i know that

i mean like the clothing was low poly enough

it was the hair and face mostly

and body

someones like .. tryng to get my file withouteven like helping me at all

im just gonna block ths person

do you think adding textures manually would help with backface?

[ornate stump]

Face always is problem for vroid model. You would have to actually edit it in blender and knife the mesh to the shape of opaque part.

[shut leaf]

man i have no experience in blender

[ornate stump]

It doesn't work that way. If you choose to use Toon Standard, you can change culling option to off.

[shut leaf]

ohhh okay

i see

ill try to figure it out in blender later

for your experience is making avatars fully from start easy for you?

like im curious cuz ive seen someone post a livestream of them making one without even sculpting just doing the point things and its like wtf how did they do that

[teal laurel]

Easy? No.
Definitely not. From

• Blender
• Unity
• Texture editing (substance painter, gimp, blender)
  thats a lot to take in

[shut leaf]

yeah definitely lol

[teal laurel]

I started out with the Nardoragon prefab and started replacing or editing stuff. Then after some time i touched blender.

[shut leaf]

i only rlly have experience with sculpting in blender and even then i just struggle with the eyes and hair

[teal laurel]

I am now 8 months in

[ornate stump]

No easy. Or more on very tidious. That's why custom made model can cost more than 1000usd.

[zealous mantle]

hii erm, I'm trying to change the texture on a avi im working on, and everything looks fine in unity, but when I load the avi in game in vrchat, it still has the stock textures the avi is included with, even though the in-game preview shows the "new" textures
(I'm still fairly new to unity)

[teal laurel]

Did you switch out of the avatar, wait a few seconds and then switch back in after uploading?

Otherwise use the play test mode and the gesture manager you can find under "Tools" in unity.
Switch back to your Scene (don't use "game" window) and click on the gesture manager and try stuff out i guess

[zealous mantle]

yess I've restarted my game as well, I noticed that when I drag and drop a black texture for testing purposes onto the avatar in unity, it changes to that black texture, but in-game it sticks with the original avi textures, the only thing that changed were the glasses

[zealous mantle]

I willlll try this out tho

[zealous mantle]

OK I FIXED IT, was kinda chopped tho
all I did was rename my "new" textures that I wanted, to match with the textures I didnt want, dragged and dropped the "new" ones and replaced the files and it worked

[teal laurel]

Nice

[edgy spindle]

Well i fixed it now my issue is when i tru to upload my avatar as pc and Andriod it only works for
Pc it says it uploads it as a quest avatar too

But never dles

[digital forge]

hello i need to know what i need for the new ralsei model to work

and be able to upload

[fervent spear]

hey guys if i modified a quest shader to include hdr colour support would vrchat still load it on quest? the sdk says its fine
just worried about my avatar appearing as an error bot or something

also not sure if it is or not, but do let me know if im actually allowed to do this and not breaking any tos 😭

[manic sorrel]

yo so like i enter play mode in gesture manager, my facial expressions randomly stopped working, the clothing toggles dont work, and my avi is stuck in a t pose

i dont know whether im braindead or this issue is worse than hell, but i would appreciate some help ;;

[vernal quartz]

when you’re in play mode click on the gesture manager, and there should be a ‘selected avi’ or something similar, drag your avi from the hierarchy to it

[autumn dawn]

Hi I'm sorry if this is a dumb question but I'm completely new to this and I'm actually only doing it to prove a scammer wrong lol, but I'm trying to build and test an avatar but it's not letting me it's giving me this message. I don't intend on actually uploading this avatar I just want to see it in game and I'm wondering how to fix this

[still shuttle]

You have to be a certain rank to upload avatars if I remember correctly

[autumn dawn]

Am I not allowed to test them If I'm not by chance?

[still shuttle]

No

[autumn dawn]

Dang that stinks.

If I'm getting this message though would the model show up in game?

[edgy spindle]

Anyone?

[autumn dawn]

Because that's mainly what I'm trying to achieve

[still shuttle]

No it won't show up in game until you are a good enough rank to actually upload it

[autumn dawn]

I mean the tester tbh

I don't mean uploading

[still shuttle]

Yeah same thing

[autumn dawn]

I apologize I really don't know Unity or VRChat much

I'm mostly doing this to prove a point to someone trying to scam people in another server I'm in

They are trying to "commission" people to make VR chat models and I told them to essentially just import a model rigged to like one bone just to show that they can even import models into games and one thing led to another and I'm attempting to learn how to do it myself to prove they are lying lmao

[manic sorrel]

i do not see it

is the selection on the right side?

wait my animation clips just disappeared LOL WTF

[fiery gazelle]

can someone help with me this? i've never had this happen to me before and im puzzled, i cant locate them in the search either. i'm using 2022.3.22f1 and this is my first time actually using the creator companion

[ornate stump]

It's rather that your avatar doesn't have any of custom controller to begin with?

[fiery gazelle]

i was seemingly able to use the gestures just fine through the gesture manager, but when i try to find the controllers i cant, im not really sure

[ornate stump]

It's just reset to default by itself when testing perhaps.

[ornate stump]

How you are certain that it has custom controllers?

[uneven whale]

Please tell me what to do? I'm trying to add gogoloco and hand movement using sliders via vrcfury, it conflicts, I suppose, because of the "base" section. What should I do?

[ornate stump]

Are you sure that you can use gogoloco and hand movement without conflicting? You might have to try to ask in vrcfury discord.

[uneven whale]

Yes, because through modular avatar it works fine, but I don't know how to install gogo freeze there

[fiery gazelle]

im sorry i dont really understand all too well, im new to this version and i'm not sure if theres a new system but i cant find the default sdk controllers

[ornate stump]

You're asking for the sample assets. The sdk and sample assets has been moved into Packages folder.

[uneven whale]

I don't know what to do...

[ornate stump]

You usually have to make Base controller in avatar descriptor default, or add proxy controller there.

[uneven whale]

I also wanted to ask about physbone collider. I have avatar physics, 64 physbone, and physbone collider, on PC I can interact with my avatar, swing it, while on quest, when I touch myself, no reaction occurs. What to do with this?

[left gull]

you might have too many physbones for the quest side, was there any errors/warnings in the upload panel about your physbone count for quest?

[fiery gazelle]

found it omg sorry i had to change the little button under the search tab to in packages i feel so dumb haha

[uneven whale]

Yes, there were, the physics animation itself works fine, but when I try to touch myself, there is no reaction.

I hit the limit exactly

Do you suggest trying to reduce the amount of physbone?

[balmy barn]

8 physbone components , wich affect up to 64 transforms

[uneven whale]

Should I reduce their number?

[fiery gazelle]

still cant find anything that appears in the playable layers list other than the hand layers, locomotion layers, ect i still cant find the fx layer

oof

honestly might not need it since i have gogo loco on there though i gotta see

just doesnt have the hand gesture stuff

ohh i'm just really out of the loop sorry woah

i figured it out

[left gull]

if its 64 components yes but if its just 64 transforms then it should be working but you could try to remove one uneeded component and see if that works

if your adding stuff through MA or VRCFury there could be something adding phybones aswell that may effect it

[uneven whale]

I tried reducing the amount of physbone, but it didn't help.

[uneven whale]

I worked on physbone and physbone collider manually

I really don't know what this is connected with, I didn't go beyond physbone and physbone collider, I reduced the amount of both components and it doesn't work on quest. Maybe there are some special physbone settings?

This is of course not something critically important for me, but I would like to know what the reason is.

[left gull]

if its using the exact same settings as your PC version it shouldnt work any different for quest nor does quest have any special settings/limitations of the settings to my knowledge

[uneven whale]

I specified all the colliders for the collision, for all the defined components.

[uneven whale]

I changed the settings. Maybe I should copy the physics settings of an avatar that was already optimized for quest?

I just really have no idea what to do, since even reducing physbone and physbone collider doesn't help

[slim nacelle]

Hello, I like to ask for assistance on why i cannot uplaod avis onto vrchat since the maintenance

been trying to upload for several hours but all failed

[timber wharf]

@slim nacelle AWS loves to temporarily ban your ip, try mobile data/vpn/rebooting your router

[slim nacelle]

I got ban

?

but i never used clients or anything

[timber wharf]

amazon, not vrc

it probly wants you to enter some captcha but sdk doesnt have functions to display them

[slim nacelle]

I did not know that, I thought it was because of the maintenance

[timber wharf]

well, all i know is people sometimes get timeout error for past couple years and switching their ip to smth else whichever way usually fixes it. if it was a global current thing, thered be more messages i guess.

[slim nacelle]

like the errors?

[timber wharf]

no, more people with that problem here

[manic sorrel]

okay so i figured out how to fix gesture manager

my avi was t posing so i switched it to control my duplicate avi instead, and it worked, plus the facial expressions work too, however the toggles are on the main avi and the facial expressions + toggles are busted on there, and im p sure im supposed to hide the dupe before uploading hashhsbdx

wait do i just hide the main and make the dupe my main LOL

[west magnet]

when my avatar goes far from the screen this ugly seam line shows up in the middle of the head, is there anyway of fixing that?

[manic olive]

🥹

[manic olive]

probably part of the model i'd guess. take what i'm saying with a grain of salt though

[west magnet]

Its the texture itself, i tested it with a default unity texture and it doesn't do it

[balmy barn]

if your uv's dont have enough 'padding' (whatever its called) it will appear to have lines when looked at from distance , faces that uses half the face as uv is easy to get them

[manic olive]

damn

[timber wharf]

@west magnet you get mipmaps loaded ie lower res texture version. you need to expand main color beyond borders of uvs.

cause when compressed down to lower res, white pixels start to bleed in

[manic olive]

anywho anyone got any clue what this error means

[balmy barn]

face exsample , notice the colors kept on going even tho the uv stopped , blender calls it margin when baking

[manic olive]

testing if it's because my dumbass forgot a parameter for my cape

[slim nacelle]

it worked

gonna test to see if it uploaded correctly

[slim nacelle]

#avatar-help message

[manic olive]

ah fuck

💔

[manic sorrel]

nvm i encountered another issue

[manic olive]

welp can't say it isn't my fault with how many iterations i've uploaded

in the past few days

[slim nacelle]

I used the vrp

#1381368059201327264 message

vpm

[manic sorrel]

back to my duplicate. whichever one has the clothes and toggles and other stuff on it, is the one that t poses in gesture manager play mode, and makes the toggles not work, but the one without it (rn its the dupe which is only the avi and the hair) doesnt t pose in play mode and works just fine, along with the facial expressions working as intended (facial expressions dont work on the t posing avi)

ive swapped the contents back and forth, and the issue swaps back and forth between both avis so like what do i do LOL

[manic olive]

do i have to pay for it

🥹

omg it's still not working

mind you i'm on a hotspot now

turned out it was the cape i added (i have no clue why)

oml what is unity's problem

[somber sequoia]

it's unity

[manic olive]

i clicked a bunch of auto-fixes and it works now

hooray

[manic sorrel]

hate to ask again but could someone perhaps assist me 💔

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure I've followed any of that, sorry

[round comet]

Are you saying you made a copy of the avatar to make toggles on?

That’s what I’m getting

[somber sequoia]

seems like that's what's going on?

[round comet]

I do that too but I dunno why it’d break anything

[somber sequoia]

I don't, but it's reasonable.

probably if you do make a dupe and work with that, disable the non-dupe so it doesn't show up in play mode.

[round comet]

Ye exactly

I just copy it, turn off the original, drag the fx into the controller then do facial expressions and toggle work

It shouldn’t really break anything?

[muted bramble]

Who knows this problem, brothers?

[ornate stump]

What problem? Is it white?

[somber sequoia]

always explain your problem in words

[muted bramble]

but my friend he tell me winter and Blender you need

[somber sequoia]

... what?

[ornate stump]

Don't add friend.

[ornate stump]

You didn't even point out what is the problem.

[muted bramble]

I'm sorry for add

The problem is that they are deleting Muzan's file and it turns white.

[ornate stump]

So you're saying the problem is from deleting the file?

[somber sequoia]

white is probably because it does not have the proper materials applied, or the materials on there don't have the proper textures.

[manic sorrel]

i made a copy for expressions

[round comet]

I see

Honestly never had that issue

[muted bramble]

no my sister the problem When I put the character, it becomes white

[ornate stump]

Is it just being white from beginning, not becoming white later?

[manic sorrel]

fr same its lowk pmo!!!! (this is my 4th time that i started from scratch with over 20 hours lost in unity, my ass has NOT been sleeping well 😭)

[round comet]

Aghh oh noo

[manic sorrel]

im on the verge of like

[ornate stump]

https://youtu.be/rRAnDMUbWt8?t=144

[manic sorrel]

getting it commissioned instead

idk

[round comet]

I’m just wondering whats causing it to break

If all you’re doing is making a copy

[manic sorrel]

maybe its the toggles??? or SOMETHING in the animator…

i use vrcfury

as for the animator im lowk tweaking

[round comet]

Oh maybe thats why

vrcfury is just weird

I wouldn’t make a copy for vrcfury toggles maybe? Just the facial expressions if you’re doing those manually

[muted bramble]

This message is from my brother

[manic sorrel]

dw i didnt make a copy for my duplicate

perhaps i can screenshare it to you if you have time

[muted bramble]

You have to serve it in a blender, then add the nutty ones.

[ornate stump]

That makes zero sense. Is it translated from another language?

[frigid knoll]

yeah i think they are translating it

[muted bramble]

yep My friend speaks Arabic And I translate

[ornate stump]

Translation make no sense at all. If you really mean the model being white in the scene, just watch the video I sent.

[muted bramble]

okay

[feral hazel]

How does this make any sense and is there a way to fix this?

[round comet]

lightmapped isnt a quest shader, so whatever material is using it, change it to one thats compatible with quest

[feral hazel]

Alright, thank you

[round comet]

no problem

[timber wharf]

@feral hazel its a world shader, avatars being dynamic objects, dont have lightmaps and cant use them. not every vrc mobile shader is whitelisted for avatars (tho error message is meaningless ass, ye)

[dire rivet]

Hey does anyone know how to add avatar light to an avatar? I've noticed when I got into a world and if Its really dark the avatar sometimes appears almost if not fully black at times

[frigid knoll]

that would be on the materials in the shader

or i seen some people have light sources on their avi but idk that magic

that would be minimum brightness on poiyomi or lower brightness limit on liltoon for example

@dire rivet

[dire rivet]

Do you maybe have a video that explains it? If not thats alright with this information i can mess around with stuff for a bit

[frigid knoll]

uhh

for the first its pretty simple

just go on your material

[dire rivet]

Okay thank you!

[frigid knoll]

for liltoon for example

that makes it so it cant go lower as that brightness

for poiyomi its under the shading -> light data -> base pass (directional & baked lights)

[dire rivet]

Ughh thank youuuu!!!

Honestly a life saver

[frigid knoll]

i know with poiyomi you can animate those sliders when its locked in an animation, soo u could make a radial menu to move that limit up or down between values u have set

[dire rivet]

Okay thank you!

[ripe glade]

Hello, I use a booth avatar called Airi, and have put different things on. The issue I am having is when the avatar jumps it spins, and does some uncontrollable things, only when it jumps, etc like running in air, zooming around ... I am not sure what I have done, or haven't ticked.

[sterile pier]

i just lost all my avatars and i want to find only 2 of them that i really reallyyyy need if but i only have a picture of one can anyone help please! i posted in avatar search and i know im anoying maybe with talking in every channel but i really need that 2 avatars...

[vernal quartz]

Sorry for the late reply but it should look like this, gesture manager can try and control the wrong avi even if it's hidden in your hierarchy

[deft mango]

How do I fix this? 😭 This has happened for 2 avatars and im unsure how to upload them with this error popping up

[somber sequoia]

That is the right way to do this, spamming other channels isn't helpful

[somber sequoia]

Show the first 2-3 errors (errors are red) in the console, this message is not useful on its own.

[deft mango]

Oh im sorry! Im very new at unity so i dont know what im doing half the time

[somber sequoia]

no worries

we were all there at one point

[deft mango]

Is this what youre talkin about?

[ripe glade]

I have fixed this by removing the capsule colliders I had added. But without them how do I stop hair from sinking into my avatar?

[somber sequoia]

errors are red, those are warnings. Warnings should not block a build.

Ideally don't clip the console so much either, show the whole area if you can, including the message counts in the upper-right.

[uneven whale]

I have PC and Quest avatars that are not working synchronously. What should I do? I have PC and Quest versions in different projects and gogoloco was added there using modular avatar, also in the quest version end, bone were removed, and the animation of the object disappearing was slightly edited

What do I need to do to get the PC and Quest versions to work with synchronous animations?

[somber sequoia]

You should use the same avatar parameters file for both avatars. This is easy when they are in the same project.

[uneven whale]

So I should just make the Quest version a PC version?

[somber sequoia]

that's not required and entirely up to you

[uneven whale]

It was just a PC avatar that I edited for Quest, changed the settings, removed the end bone

[deft mango]

Lots of errors unity is so confusing

[somber sequoia]

"missing script" is the problem - you need to install whatever dependency is required here. Check the creator's docs for clues

[deft mango]

Ohh alright, thank you so much!

[still shuttle]

I use hierarchy plus a bunch, but today for some reason it wont let me add it via the VCC. It keeps failing to import and I have no idea why. I tried deleting the repo and re-adding it but it didnt work

[vernal quartz]

looks like the github page it's trying to pull from got taken down, I can't find it

[still shuttle]

I got it from here
https://vpm-catalog.vercel.app/repositories/com.dreadscripts.vpm-listing/

[somber sequoia]

vrlabs is hosting it now

[still shuttle]

does this mean I have to get it from somewhere else?

[somber sequoia]

yes

the creator removed his repos.

[still shuttle]

Do you know where I can get it?

[somber sequoia]

I said twice but sure, vrlabs.dev

ah the other was in another channel

[half rivet]

How long do I have to be on VRChat to upload my avatar?

[somber sequoia]

?upload

[flat musk]

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

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

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

[still shuttle]

damn I must be illiterate my bad

[somber sequoia]

no worries

[lunar wraith]

is it possible to make a toggle to stop all movement and tie it to a physbone parameter

if it is i just need the parameter i can do the rest

[night ember]

you set the parameter name yourself?

[glossy chasm]

ok im like below noob level on all of this, idek completely how any of this works so it may be a dumb question, an avatar i had bought a while back comes with a pc version and quest version. some of my friends are on quest and im on pc so i was wondering if i could make my avatar pc and quest compatible since it also has a quest model

[night ember]

just upload it under the same avatar id

[glossy chasm]

like copy the id of the pc one? or

bc i tried smth like that but it only showed the quest version on my side, and it didnt upload as windows/android compatible

[night ember]

then you didnt switch to android build

[glossy chasm]

ahh ok

i think i got it from here then

thanks a lot

[glossy chasm]

ok i attached the id, now do i just upload the quest one and ill have the pc version and quest version show for whichever ppl are on?

[night ember]

if you actually yknow upload it on android side

[glossy chasm]

..yes

okay

[vernal quartz]

make sure and go to File -> build settings -> click on android and click switch platform. Then it should upload for quest

[glossy chasm]

mhm i did

[night ember]

or just switch in the sdk window?

[vernal quartz]

breaks unity for me occasionally

[glossy chasm]

kay so its doing the same thing agaim

[balmy barn]

also check your build settings if you have android / optional ios installed

[glossy chasm]

i attached the id of the pc upload one to my quest model, this time it is cross platform

issue is i only see quest model on my side

despite being on pc

[glossy chasm]

i can try seeing this ig

[vernal quartz]

sounds like you accidentally uploaded the quest version to pc, try uploading the pc vers again. Make sure you have the right avi selected in the sdk

[glossy chasm]

i tried uploading the pc one first but it kept saying to fix some issues, i auto fixed the only thing that was able to be auto fixed, everything else was pc stuff i had to get rid of i believe

[glossy chasm]

did i have to switch back to windows build again maybe?

soryr for the stupid questions i just do not know what im doing so-

[vernal quartz]

no you're good, yes you will have to switch the build back to windows

[glossy chasm]

okay okay, ill try that

[frigid knoll]

would need to see it to see what going on there, make a video cus it can be lots of things

[balmy barn]

sounds like cloth physics and using a capsule collider not set right , you end up flying around (or any collider not set 'is trigger' )

end up colliding with your avatar capsule instead

[queen isle]

I have it currently set up where each trigger pull adds a int by one. I'm personally trying to set up that after the first trigger squeeze it sets it back to 0 which is on reset, but it's staying stuck on Fire 4 for some reason and not transition to reset when there are no conditions. The one that transition to default make it 0 when I turn the toggle off.

[surreal salmon]

ive tried increasing mesh compression lowering materials to lower quality and deleting stuff but none those seem to help, is there another option im missing?

baught an am modifying a avi

[somber sequoia]

maybe removing unused blendshapes

[surreal salmon]

oooh yea i missed some those

[vernal quartz]

d4rks optimizer can automatically remove unused blendshapes, usually quicker than doing it by hand

[surreal salmon]

ill look into it

luckily theres not a lot of different parts with unused blendshapes

[vernal quartz]

it also can merge meshes and other things to help 'clean up' the model in a way, life saver for quest builds

[sudden violet]

For what you said about the audio stopping, un-tick this.

[queen isle]

I did do that before, but it still happens

[sudden violet]

Do you have the audio component playing other sounds as well?

[queen isle]

Just the one.

[sudden violet]

Wait sorry, i meant the audio clip which is used by that component.

Oh wait disergard everything i said, your issue does not seem to be with the audio itself.

[surreal salmon]

somehow that increased it

[sudden violet]

What's the transition between fire 4 and reset?

[queen isle]

I made it so what toggles the fire mode to be the condition

[vernal quartz]

sizes tend to fluctuate a little when trying to upload, this seems to be within margin of error

[gleaming steeple]

hello everyone is there anything to have your avatar look at camera or near by players pls i'm strugling so hard to do it

[mental nest]

is this the correct place for ask for help about physbone colliders

[queen isle]

I'm also having the issue where whenever I toggle off and on the firing mode, all the audio clips play again

[sudden violet]

Ngl, this would need me to look over the entire layer to have an idea of what is going on. Hard to tell from here.

[gleaming steeple]

i did try this one (https://booth.pm/ja/items/4742883) but it doesnt work for me

[queen isle]

I can send it to your DMs on each aspect if you want so I do not spam here!

[sudden violet]

Go for it, i'll be able to reply a different day however (assuming the solution isn't too complicated)

[ripe glade]

Yeah disabling the capsule colliders fixed it, what does setting to is trigger do?

[balmy barn]

only allowed to trigger with script its set as a collider, not everything

[ripe glade]

Thank you so much Thulen-san!

[surreal salmon]

kaz was right the first time there was too manny objects with a lotta blendshapes

[somber sequoia]

yep

[surreal salmon]

its good now

they were just hard to find

[fossil lark]

does anyone know why and if there is a way to fix the lighting being very bright inside clothes or in this case inside hair in some worlds? the exterior looks fine but you can see how inside it's way brighter

[gleaming steeple]

someone getting crazy OVER here

I have autistic gaze pls help

I cant look at camera or nerby player YwY anybody plsssss

[somber sequoia]

iirc there's a Poiyomi pro feature that makes that kinda work

[glossy chasm]

it works, forgot to update you on that

tysm

[vernal quartz]

glad you got it!

[vernal quartz]

only way i know is the built in eye movement feature on the avatar descriptor, not much control over where you're looking though

[gleaming steeple]

all I have is this YwY

[somber sequoia]

that's all you can do by default

[gleaming steeple]

even added this but it doesnt work

im despair rn

ima eat something to recover from this

a baby panda maybe

[vernal quartz]

have you tried that asset without having this checked on? they could be conflicting

[gleaming steeple]

what do you mean by "this" ?

[vernal quartz]

the eye movements in the picture I responded to, if Eyepointer and the default eye movements are both on then they could be fighting for control

[gleaming steeple]

so i need to supress eye look in avatar descriptor ?

because in the tutorial they say to configure it U_U

[vernal quartz]

I'm not seeing that in the tutorial? Looks like you just need to add an aim constraint the to eye bones

[gleaming steeple]

yep and its done :/

but wont work for idk what reason

[vernal quartz]

then yeah i would try it with the default eye movements disabled

[somber sequoia]

if you want to animate the eyes you will need to disable the stuff VRChat does for that, either permanently or at runtime using VRC Animator Tracking Control

[sinful widget]

how can i make a starting animation pop up for every time i load my avatar

for example a text fade in+out of the creators name

[somber sequoia]

stick it in a layer by itself, it'll just run and stay on.

[sinful widget]

thanks

[gleaming steeple]

I think I know why it doesnt work i disconnected the prefab maybe its this

[sinful widget]

do you know how to animate it for it makes a fade in+out

?

or just a fade out