avatar-help

[somber sequoia]

at a guess, play with the alpha blending on the material

[sinful widget]

okay

[acoustic moth]

What does this mean? It keeps popping up

[somber sequoia]

5 errors in the console but you showed the last 2 - instead show the first 2-3, that's where the root cause will be.

[acoustic moth]

Okay!

[somber sequoia]

"missing script" - you need to install whatever requirement package is missing

[acoustic moth]

Its my first time seeing these errors

idk which package it is though

[somber sequoia]

it's on ears... so at a guess this is a very old avatar and has dynamic bones?

[acoustic moth]

NOOOO

[left gull]

if its a purchased model check if theres any requirements you didnt install beforehand aswell

[acoustic moth]

Ty so much

[somber sequoia]

If it is actually Dynamic Bones, there's a free stub package you can use then convert those to physbones.

[queen isle]

@sudden violet It turned out to be a hierarchy issue with the audio source being turned off and on for all of them playing at once. It has been fixed!

[acoustic moth]

Do i need to use blender for that?

[somber sequoia]

no

[acoustic moth]

thank god

[somber sequoia]

don't fear blender! Blender is great 🙂

[acoustic moth]

Idk how to use blender

[somber sequoia]

I didn't either, at one point.

[acoustic moth]

I use Vroid for my avatars so i usually just make everything in vroid

[balmy barn]

to fix this you'd need blender and euw its converted in unity

[somber sequoia]

yeah if you use vroid it's way better to run it through blender

[balmy barn]

get so much less wierdness

[somber sequoia]

yep

[acoustic moth]

Thank yall

[sudden violet]

Oh hey, good stuff!

[gleaming steeple]

@vernal quartz still doesnt work U_u I surrend

[fervent spear]

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

also pls let me know if im actually allowed to do this and not breaking any tos ?😭

[somber sequoia]

No, quest shaders are replaced by the server's version of those in-game, so no editing you do will be used.

[fervent spear]

ah ok thanks!

[glad dirge]

How do I make the character look more raised up when I put these heel boots on

THe outfit is a toggle but I don't want the boots to clip through the ground

[vernal quartz]

let me upload a test avi later tn with eyepointer to get hands on with it and I can probably help more, if you don't mind I'll add you and shoot a dm when I get familiar with it

[gleaming steeple]

of course thanks a lot to you I really did my best trying everything but Im not him apparently YwY

[brave viper]

so i'm trying to diagnose a physbones issue and I don't know why my belt is distorting like this

FWIW I have two colliders, an inner collider and an outer collider

i just tried to copy from the prefab i sourced the pants from as accurately as i could

[graceful mango]

does anyone know why my ears do this and how to fix it, thanks :p

(its totally fine in unity playmode, idk why it does this ingame)

it just starts jittering and is extremely sensitive to where i look

[daring lark]

Can anyone do a video call with me for weight painting I watched videos still having difficulty

Also the videos be for windows instead of Mac

[idle crown]

can someone help im trying to make my model into a vtuber but the textures are coming up right and all the scripts were missing

[somber sequoia]

win/mac/linux shouldn't matter at all here though

[daring lark]

All the shortcuts are different ngl

[somber sequoia]

they are? huh, I guess I didn't realize

[fringe belfry]

does anyone know what this error is, istg this is a headache

[somber sequoia]

Yes - it means you didn't install whatever package that object requires. Check the documentation for the asset or avatar

[fringe belfry]

great TwT

[somber sequoia]

a guess is that it's Dynamic Bones though

which you should just convert to Physbones anyway after installing the package or the free stub package

[fringe belfry]

i do want to convert it to physbones anyway, but what do i need to manually import the dynamic bones or???

its my first time, but i think thats pretty obvious

[somber sequoia]

Either the paid package or there's a free "stub" package somewhere that's only useful for converting to physbones. Couldn't tell you where though, I've not used it.

[fringe belfry]

ill do some research, thanks tho, but if i do just buy the paid package do i just import it or is there more steps?

[somber sequoia]

I also haven't done that, I think it's in the VRChat SDK menu?

or it may just popup in the build window when it figures out that's dynamic bones there

[fringe belfry]

i mean the convert option is there but when i click convert it just says that it cant find any dynamicbones

[somber sequoia]

but don't buy it unless you'll actually use it in worlds

right because you don't have dynamic bones, you have broken scripts that might be dynamic bones once you install the package

[fringe belfry]

yeah, now where do i find that package TwT

found it

[fringe belfry]

i got the dynamic bones package and dragged it into the project but it doesnt do anything, am i just stupid and do i need to drag it somewhere else?

[somber sequoia]

is it a .unitypackage?

[fringe belfry]

yes

[somber sequoia]

I usually install those via the menu, assets -> add package or something.

[fringe belfry]

ill try that

[somber sequoia]

it should popup and ask you about installing the package contents though

[fringe belfry]

it did, im re-installing it

[somber sequoia]

oh - I misunderstood "it doesn't do anything" then

[fringe belfry]

oh?, i think it worked

the error messages are gone

[somber sequoia]

now if you click on one of those objects that had a broken script it's probably not broken anymore

[fringe belfry]

yea, the error is gone

do i convert it to physbones now?

[somber sequoia]

yep

[fringe belfry]

ok, i think its physbones now, tysm

[somber sequoia]

nice

[fringe belfry]

one small question tho

when i went into play mode to test expressions the avatar wasnt there any idea why?

[somber sequoia]

not from here, nope

[fringe belfry]

alr, maybe it works now since the script is fixed

thanks a lot

[drowsy crane]

How can I make clothing morph with the nardoragon chub slider?

[fervent spear]

hello sorry for the ping but i had another question about this, will the edited shader appear on pc?

[somber sequoia]

sure

you can upload any shader you want for PC

[fervent spear]

awesome thank you!

[somber sequoia]

remodel the clothing to have a similar blendshape if there isn't one, and setup your animations to act on both at the same time. Or maybe use VRCFury's blendshape link component.

[drowsy crane]

Okay

[gentle viper]

hey so im fairly new to unity and avatars but i was wondering why in unity the bottom looks fine in the first pic where as when i get into the game doing the same pose it looks like the second pic?

[dawn wharf]

looks like a weight paint issue

[gentle viper]

im sorry but i have no idea what that even means 😭

[lament ivy]

has anyone seen this? im trying to update the vcc

[round comet]

any tips on fixing weightpainting like this? I'm not the best at it still?

[lament ivy]

in blender, select bones the ctrl click the sweater. go to weightpaint mode and ctrl click the arm bone and R to rotate. then lower the weights around the armpit

[round comet]

oh thanks!

[lament ivy]

alt r to reset the rotation in weightpaint mode

[round comet]

awesome!!

I'm still not too experienced so I've been using robust weight transfer as a crutch a lot haha. I appreciate it!

[lament ivy]

its a good tool but it does 90% of the work for you, theres a few good guides out there

[round comet]

I wanna get more of her clipping fixed before I get her butt in game for photos

[round comet]

I'll def do some research!

[lament ivy]

ask amber has some good guides for intro to everything avi creation

id reccommend starting there

[round comet]

oo ok! I'll google that right now

[somber sequoia]

don't be afraid to actually move clothing the mesh further from the body

sometimes that's the right solution

[boreal ore]

where the hell do you find decent male avatars that dont look like they wanna make babies with everyone they see

[round comet]

I did that originally but the sweater was just so bulky so it looked a bit gross bahh. I'll usually do that or shrink meshes

[somber sequoia]

haha, seriously

[boreal ore]

also may i add that i do not want to pay for it im just looking for search suggestions on that avatar search world

[round comet]

its a tad bulky to begin with too so I'm contemplative about sculpting any further

[round comet]

you can probably make a post in #1138520828556890214 lol

[boreal ore]

oh right.

i literally just joined and its half 2 in the morning i am not focused thank you ma'am 🙏

[round comet]

gotchu, dawg

[boreal ore]

now we wait

[supple needle]

For some reason I cannot interact with my animator. It won’t let me create a new parameter or layer

[somber sequoia]

make sure that animation controller is in the Animator component on your avatar root, and you have your avatar selected

[supple needle]

I thought toggles were made through the animator at the top next to game

[somber sequoia]

next to game?

[supple needle]

Yes

[somber sequoia]

oh! the window

no I'm not talking about Unity windows

[supple needle]

Yeah lmao didn’t know what to call it

[somber sequoia]

you are correct, that's where you work with the animation controller

here, I edited what I said to be a bit more clear

but I also think I misread a bit - you should still be able to create parameters and such in any animation controller

[supple needle]

I got it working, thank you.

[manic olive]

hey is my asset supposed to come like this lmao

the shirt

[frosty junco]

not sure why my ears are see through

[frosty junco]

fit and size it to the avatar and then follow this tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV2Dr5F445w&ab_channel=PxINKY****

there is also a script that auto does all the armature for you

[manic olive]

thanks

[frosty junco]

ye

[round comet]

backface culling

set your culling to off

in your shader settings

[frosty junco]

ooh thank you

[manic olive]

i was slightly correct on my guess

maybe

[frosty junco]

it is off :(

[manic olive]

anyone know where to get animate shaders like shown in this gif

https://tenor.com/view/furry-protogen-proto-vr-chat-vr-gif-26371811

or do i just have to learn how to make shaders

[round comet]

I dont think its that, hold on lol

[manic olive]

(i lack a brain)

[round comet]

let me screencap poiyomi

[round comet]

I think liltoon is similar with cull settings

[brave viper]

hey so I just found out that Blender is taking out the last bones in the belts in my armature when I export to fbx, why is that?

[frosty junco]

bre

[frosty junco]

Thank you :)

[round comet]

np c:

[frosty junco]

okay now I have another silly question

[round comet]

wazzap

[frosty junco]

is there a way to flip the texture

like from front to back

[round comet]

oh, yeah

[frosty junco]

guh

[round comet]

just double click the texture itself and it'll open it lol. Then click edit and you can flip and rotate, save and when you exit and close the tab, it'll load and apply in unity

[somber sequoia]

This just looks like emission enhanced by bloom from the world

[supple needle]

How do I get this onto my avatar ? I usually use vrcfury toggles so this is new to me.

[somber sequoia]

In the export dialog, there's a setting about leaf bones under "armature" - did you want it on? It's rare to use that these days

[brave viper]

do i want it on? is that what's stripping the belt's end bones?

[somber sequoia]

with it on, it'll add an extra bone at the end of every branch. Blender shouldn't strip anything

[brave viper]

so the hiearchy looks like this in blender

but there is no 004 in Unity

[somber sequoia]

is there no weight paint for that bone? I thought somewhere there's a setting to not export bones with no weight

[brave viper]

wait i'm stupid

[somber sequoia]

or that might be it 🙂

[brave viper]

i compared StrapF.L to StrapB.L

[somber sequoia]

ahhh

[brave viper]

B doesn't have a fourth bone

BUT

that still doesn't solve this weird problem i'm having

[somber sequoia]

what's the weird problem?

[brave viper]

bone physics are distorting the belts

lemme get screens real quick

[somber sequoia]

that's probably a combination of weight paint and your physbone settings

[somber sequoia]

what do the bones look like?

[fringe belfry]

anyone know why this is happening TwT

[somber sequoia]

999+ errors, clear the console and try again

[brave viper]

idk how to present this less cluttered

[fringe belfry]

how do i clean the console TwT

[somber sequoia]

oh yep, this makes sense, there's not a great way to do this because you have the center mesh being affected by two different bone chains

[somber sequoia]

with the "clear" button at the top of the console, of course.

[fringe belfry]

thanks, im blind

[brave viper]

it's weird because i preserved the belt bones and weightpaints from the original model

[brave viper]

and that's why i assumed both the F and B chains were both 4 bones long lol...

[fringe belfry]

now i got this TwT, sorry for needing ur help so much

[somber sequoia]

"missing script"

[fringe belfry]

T---T

[somber sequoia]

this time, guessing by the names, it's FinalIK - probably you added a prop and didn't install everything it requires

vrlabs has a free stub package that'll let you upload

[fringe belfry]

where in vrlabs, also i dont think i missed anything, all of my props should be working since its made by a famous person

[somber sequoia]

doesn't matter who made it, if you didn't install this thing

[fringe belfry]

true

TwT

[somber sequoia]

see https://vrlabs.dev - it's there somewhere

[fringe belfry]

i was just guessing that it included everything needed

[somber sequoia]

always actually read the documentation that comes with the assets.

[brave viper]

yeah most addons have dependencies that you install, it's ultra rare to not need to install additional things

[somber sequoia]

(I'm assuming there is some, no idea what asset it is)

[fringe belfry]

guilty as charged for not reading

[somber sequoia]

well then

[dawn wharf]

Usually not the case

[brave viper]

yeah so i'm guessing something in Physbones is making the belt structure act up; this thing was rigged with Dynamic Bones

it's an old outfit

[fringe belfry]

at least im learning from my errors ig

[brave viper]

live and learn~

[somber sequoia]

that's a problem that's extremely hard to solve with two bone chains like that

[brave viper]

should i try rerigging it?

[dawn wharf]

Very much so, did this yesterday xd

[somber sequoia]

that's a sub-menu, you can add it directly to another menu or perhaps use VRCFury's "full controller"

[supple needle]

How does one do that ? Apologies for the slowness

[somber sequoia]

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

[brave viper]

also Kazin i see you here all the time, you're based thank you for helping the community

[somber sequoia]

oh damn, I should go touch grass more then

[supple needle]

Vrchat staff should pay you at least minimum wage..

[somber sequoia]

haha

[brave viper]

I kinda(?) fixed it!

just needed to tweak the collider values a bit

[astral pelican]

this makes 0 sense

h e l p

[spark walrus]

I had the same problem

[astral pelican]

what was the solution

[spark walrus]

Uhhh let me find it

[spark walrus]

I used these shaders https://github.com/Xiexe/Xiexes-Unity-Shaders/releases/tag/v3.5.1

It took me a couple days how to figure it out

[astral pelican]

that works for vrchat?

im confused

[spark walrus]

Ya at least for me

[astral pelican]

for the particle right

[spark walrus]

I just made every material use it

[astral pelican]

its so odd, Vrchat/Mobile/Particls/AlphaBlended doesnt work

[spark walrus]

Yeah It should

[astral pelican]

my avatar is just using this idk why its screaming at "Alpha Blended"

[spark walrus]

Hmmmm

57 materials is a lot 😬

[astral pelican]

nahh

[brave viper]

t-that's a lot...

[astral pelican]

i just changed Alpha Blended to Additive and it worked

57 materials isnt 57 different materials just 57 objects using thoes 5 material types

[brave viper]

a

[vapid hamlet]

57 materials what the HELL

I mean goddamn it must be cool

[dawn wharf]

i would hope so

[proud cobalt]

I tried fixing my avatar's POV thingy (the camera view's height) because it was a little too low and I followed a tutorial but now when I use my avi in game the view is all the way on the floor????

Literally UNDER the map altogether

I even tried to put the X, Y and Z values back to what they originally were and it's still under the map when I play wth

[green bough]

I was adding clothing to my avatar. One part introduced a hat that has its own bones which for some reason throws off everything when I imported it to unity. Now its turned my hair_root bone, the thing the new hat bones were parented to, like 100x its size lol.
I imported the clothes to unity with CATS, and the weights are good and move normally in blender. Is there anything I can do to make sure it doesnt deform the armature in unity?

[radiant night]

Is it possible to port mmd dances to unity for use in VRC avatars?

[proud cobalt]

How can I fix this camera view issue?
I tried touching it up on Unity by moving the little avatar descriptor's view position's ball but no matter how high I put it, it's always below the map as shown in the picture.

[ornate stump]

It's rather your avatar has broken camera object in it.

[proud cobalt]

How do I fix it?

[ornate stump]

Identify the broken camera whether it has to be fixed or just simply delete it.

[proud cobalt]

There's multiple...?

[ornate stump]

That's even a bigger issue.

Why does it has multiple camera to begin with?

[proud cobalt]

No, I'm asking if there are more than one since you said "identify the broken camera"

[ornate stump]

Just check first, don't "if".

[proud cobalt]

I know I only have one, as far as I know, but even then I place it where I'm supposed to and it still doesn't go where it needs to go; It got messed up after I touched said camera to make its position just a bit higher so I know which one is the issue, I'm pretty sure

Because it was fine up until I touched it

[ornate stump]

I'm talking about the actual camera object, not the avatar view point.

[proud cobalt]

I have no clue what that is, I'm trying my best to learn

Nvm I found it

I think

[ornate stump]

If unsure then screenshot it.

[ornate stump]

That's it. Can you recall what it's there?

[proud cobalt]

I don't know, this is a commission I made, I'm just trying to touch up stuff I wanted to change

Am I gonna break this thing if I delete it?

[ornate stump]

Rather having it there is breaking thing.

[proud cobalt]

Friggin thing breaking everything >:C

[ornate stump]

Are you saying that the camera came with the avatar?

[proud cobalt]

I removed it, I'm gonna test it now, hopefully it works out

[proud cobalt]

Yeah

[ornate stump]

You might have to ask a person who made your commission why it's even the camera there.

[proud cobalt]

I definitely will, ty

Oh my bad

It worked, thank you

[fiery gazelle]

new day new problems 😭 anyone know why my topology for this blendshape gets all jumbled up upon import into unity?

[ornate stump]

Because of bad topology. Try triangulate the quads in blender first.

[fiery gazelle]

fixed and ha it's true! a lot of the blendshapes have super exaggerated cartoony expressions like "^-^" so i ended up pushing the topology to it's limits

[daring garden]

I've been trying this whole month to log into the vrchat SDK, anyone know why I never get an email?

*for the numeric code

[royal field]

So I'm rigging this looping strap ...

Sorry, moved question to #avatar-rigging

[obtuse anchor]

Hellooo! This is probably a question that has been asked many times but I want to customize a booth avatar. I have 0 experience with unity and feel kind of lost. Does anybody have good tutorial videos for this purpose?

[ornate stump]

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsQ86hFQ6wxX_CsWMp8DJVw

[obtuse anchor]

! ❤️ ty

[gleaming steeple]

hello everyone its me again hope you're doing well

can anyone help me on fixing my gaze i want/need it to look at camera when its out and nearby player when camera is off anyone?

(dont dm me for commission pls I just need help for this exact thing)

[green bough]

bump

[sudden violet]

1st, i advise to export with normal blender instead of CATS
2nd, export with Scaling set to FBX all, and un-tick Add leaf bones

[green bough]

seems to be working good now. I changed one root bone fromfacing downward to upward, then I did as you said alongside only selecting the armature when exporting. Thanks!

[somber sequoia]

did you try the new feature in Poiyomi Pro?

[obtuse anchor]

Ok, I got 90% of the way there. Things look correct in unity and look correct in the avatar preview.. but when I load into the avatar, my boobs are out T.T

I figure this is a pretty common issue, but I'm not sure where to start with fixing this

[somber sequoia]

What did you do to make them not "out" in the editor?

[obtuse anchor]

uhhh, that's just how they are. I can't say I did anything in particular. I just placed the clothing assets in my avatar and selected modular avatar --> setup outfit

and everything works fine except for that

[somber sequoia]

well it's probably an animation changing a blendshape, so you'd have to find out what does that

[obtuse anchor]

But what's getting me is that it looks correct in the preview

hmm

[ornate stump]

Did you actually test with gesture manager?

[obtuse anchor]

ahhh.. I don't know what that is! Sorry for being clueless lol

[ornate stump]

Then what does it mean by "the preview"?

[obtuse anchor]

Oh, like when you select the avatar in game; how it shows the floating and rotating animation of the avatar

[ornate stump]

So you have to actually test with gesture manager and see how the avatar is fully functional.

[obtuse anchor]

Ok, I'm going to try to do that!

Thank you

[obtuse anchor]

It looks normal in gesture manager, no boobs showing through!

Figured it out, it had to do with the breast size slider thing. I figure I just need to remove that (don't intend to use it, anyway) and it'll fix itself

[gleaming steeple]

I dont have poyomi pro :/

atm I need a toggle for two components (aim constraint)

[vernal light]

making a beast boy. how do I make a non-humaniod rig work? i know you can make new animations for the walk cycle just for the t-rex, how would i do that?

[somber sequoia]

you can get it though

[rugged vigil]

Hii. Trying to make av avatar with an object for the head. I got it clamped to the head but the inside of it still shows up in first person. Setting the viewpoint further out makes the avatar's whole body shift around when looking up and down and makes the arms behave strangely. Any way to possibly make the hat invisible for me but visible for other players?

[rugged vigil]

Nvm, fixed it! Turns out you can switch the render properties to "player" and it disables it in your view :]

[gleaming steeple]

and what can it do with the gaze about looking at camera or nearby people is it a setup or you just apply proyomi shaders pro and it works?

[somber sequoia]

I haven't used it (I don't have pro either) but I refer you to their documentation

FYI it's in the free version too, I totally forgot.

[gleaming steeple]

Really??

I look at the doc then

[somber sequoia]

you were part of that conversation we just had about that

[gleaming steeple]

sorry english not my main language and I tryhard since idk when to have a proper result about it so i dont know what i'm exactly looking for in the docc

[somber sequoia]

I'm not going to do this in two places, and I've not used this feature. Someone has gone over it for you in the other channel.

(also I don't think it's made it into the docs yet)

[gleaming steeple]

ok thanks for everything btw sorry to not be as focus as needed

[gleaming steeple]

do you know the feature name?

[somber sequoia]

again, the Poiyomi discord is the right place for this, and I know nothing more about this feature other than what I've already told you.

[misty lagoon]

Need some help here...one of my avatars has started having jacked up physbone default positions when spawning in/changing to her as if I was violently moving or falling when she spawned in, and it stays frozen this way until I toggle something on and off and everything will go back to "resting state".

It never used to do this and I've no idea how to reverse this. even though it's easy to "fix" this but it's annoying to have to do it everytime.

to add: according to other users, they do not witness this so this seems to be only visible locally? still annoying to me though.

[vernal quartz]

seems like vrcs latest update has done some funky stuff with physbones, few users have had similar problems

[balmy barn]

tested the toggling physbone on / off still behaves on mine

https://feedback.vrchat.com/bug-reports/p/physbone-not-working-properly , need more tests of it, might be some prefab with physbone or old dynbones auto converted something something, yet to encounter it

seen one using this as a toggle wich is probably the worst way you can make one

[misty lagoon]

that link sounds like my issue, because i fix it by toggling my jiggle physics

okay fine, VRchat problem

[foggy socket]

hi anyone know why this happen?

[spark walrus]

Creation companion doesn't allow me to create thumbnail for some reason -.-

[somber sequoia]

FYI this is unity, Creator Companion is just a tool to manage packages and launch unity.

Scroll that scrollbar down though.

[spark walrus]

maybe this is the problem - I only change some body portions on the avatar, not any meshes or materials. so it's weird if I can't upload this version

[somber sequoia]

that error is a blocker, yes.

or well, quite bad anyway 🙂

[spark walrus]

not helping. dude -.-

[somber sequoia]

sorry, exactly what do you need help with? It tells you what to do

[spark walrus]

idk how the texture memory suddenly exploded - I didn't load any new textures or anything since I already loaded one version of this

[somber sequoia]

I don't have your project so I can't really explain that from here

[spark walrus]

I'm just at loss how small body portion twick really effected the texture memory - idk how much better I can explain it other than what I wrote before

-lowering resolution does nothing to the texture memory ..... great... freaking great....

[worldly whale]

how would i fix this?

[somber sequoia]

edit the armature in blender and re-align the bone. But if you don't already think it's a problem when using FBT, then it's not worth bothering with

[worldly whale]

its a problem with and without FBT, its acting weird and i dont know exactly whats causing it. so imma try to fix this (also cause i use fullbody)

"edit the armature in blender and re-align the bone" how would i do this?

[somber sequoia]

I can't really teach you blender, but select the armature, go into edit mode, rotate the leg bone until it's straighter

[worldly whale]

straighter in what way? i know blender. i just dont know in what way to make it straighter

[somber sequoia]

see the error message?

it tells you what it prefers that angle to be

[balmy barn]

thats pretty close doubt you'd notice much , when looked from front vrchat wants legs straight down not bowlegged

[spark walrus]

I honestly don't know where there errors keep coming up when I manage to upload several versions without any problems

How I find "headchop" components?

[somber sequoia]

in the search box at the top of the hierarchy, click the magnifying glass and select 'type', then put VRCHeadChop

[worldly whale]

my model is in a near x pose. its kinda hard to get that to be like that.

[spark walrus]

Got it - the scene had other avatar containing it

Why the freak it complain about it now, and not before (especially since they are not contained in same avatar)

Stil - huge thank you
Didn't see the small search bar up there in hiearch 🙏

[balmy barn]

got that av (somewhere) you need to straighten it out alot more

[worldly whale]

you mean by moving the hip joint more to the right and lining up the upper leg bone with the thigh striaght up and done?

[spark walrus]

my problem earlier what that changing blendshaped increased texture file sizes - had normal file with 4k resolution that it did not need to be so big

[balmy barn]

closer you are to these , happier vrchat be - way off you will notice wierdness

[somber sequoia]

I really have nothing to add to this, sorry

[spark walrus]

was just stating what my problem was

and now I got a new one ....

https://tenor.com/view/argh-dcp-yelling-pillow-dad-gif-20244415

[manic olive]

How would I make an avatar accessory that when toggled spawns in front of the player and stays in that spot

[somber sequoia]

Relative to the world? Use a VRC Parent Constraint and check the box about anchoring it to the world

[manic olive]

thanks

[rotund oxide]

really struggling to get this whelpling by tokyozilla uploaded correctly :( visemes work but the jaw is stuck open when not talking, eyes don't move/blink, gestures aren't working, and the action menu is default when it should show this (2nd img) instead

[balmy barn]

unmap jaw bone or redo viseme's in blender if sil is open mouth

[dusty monolith]

How can i go about baking a normal map for my mesh?

[somber sequoia]

What's your source data, a high-poly version of that mesh?

[dusty monolith]

I just have my normal mesh that has muscle sculpted onto it

[somber sequoia]

so you want to bake that to a low-poly version?

[dusty monolith]

I just wanna bake it as a normal onto the original sculpt before i sculpted it so i can use the muscles on other sculpts

[somber sequoia]

ok so yes.

I use a blender plugin called SimpleBake to make this really easy. Otherwise there are a bunch of tutorials... some of them even kinda okay. I mostly forget the manual process at this point, which is good, it's annoying 🙂

[turbid oar]

was curious how many hours do i gotta be on crcaht for it to allow me to upload models

[somber sequoia]

it's not about hours unfortunately

[turbid oar]

oh dear cuz i am trying to fix a model i have just uhh cant get it to get expressions fixed

[astral cosmos]

why do the arms do this

[night ember]

weight painting

[rigid flame]

is there a way to update a project as my project for my avatar is outdated and i want to add stuff to it?

[fringe belfry]

oh quick question, does someone know why when adding a prop it works fine in the play mode and everything but after i upload the avatar it turns invisible and it stops working, like the setting and menu is there but it doesnt do anything

[somber sequoia]

yes but update in what way?

[rigid flame]

like have it in a new project or something so that i can keep adding new stuff

[jaunty aspen]

Is there a way to "invert the output" so that i can just write "hat" instead of "hat off"?

[somber sequoia]

can't see what you have for variables but sure, make the animation happen when the variable is false instead of true

[jaunty aspen]

dude how did i not think of that

thanks

[somber sequoia]

np 🙂

[jaunty aspen]

whenever i sit in a chair and get up, my avatar starts to walk like i'm on desktop. Is there a way to fix that?

[runic sonnet]

Does anyone know the gesture manager VCC adder? Could anyone link me to it. I wanna add it to my Creator compainion.

[hard hatch]

Im trying to upload my avatar that im working on, but for some reason all of a sudden it keeps saying that the "avatar validation failed" and its not letting me finish the upload. Any idea what this means?

[short ferry]

so uh i have encountered a new bug with my personal avi, it just started yesterday. My physbones are locked in place, an won't move, even if i reset avatar or switch out of it-
i have not touched the unity project in a month
thing is, it only does it sometimes
it'll also turn off physbones and then turn them back on without me doing anything

[glass geyser]

tried to upload an avatar and it fails, it says this. any way to fix this

[vernal quartz]

From what I've seen No Asset Bundle errors usually mean missing scripts

[somber sequoia]

scroll up, post the first 2-3 errors.

[glass geyser]

its from a friend sharing their screen getting my help with their avi hold on

[glass geyser]

this is what it says

[ornate stump]

This clearly said VRCFury hasn't been imported.

[glass geyser]

oh I see

[radiant cape]

"This avatar is not imported as a humanoid rig and will not play VRChat's provided animation set." when my rig is literally set to humanoid 😐

[ornate stump]

Read the import messages.

[radiant cape]

dunno how to fix this nor do i even speak this language

oh wait ik what they're talking about

however, i dont know how to fix this

[ornate stump]

It's bones hierarchy is in correct.

[ornate stump]

Edit the model in blender to reparent bones.

[radiant cape]

God bless you for this

[slim nacelle]

I'm having the same issue with the upload. Been posting in the communion support 😅

[hard hatch]

Can anyone help with this? TvT

[glass geyser]

just had to install vrcfury for me which was the missing script

[tall carbon]

Does anyone know how to import a re uv mapped fbx into a prefab without breaking it?

[rare sage]

no it breaks then u cry and quit 😿

[tall carbon]

Nooo theres gotta be a way to fix it right?

[solemn drum]

why does the avatr descripter reset transforms of bones if i editor them or even reimport the model with the transform of a bone changed??

like if i wanna just edit the bpnes postiion do i have to recreate the entire avatar ?

[neat crow]

I made my own shirt for my avatar and im having troubles no matter if i change blend shapes it still clips

[glad rapids]

anyone know how to made the yukata fit the girl's body model ?

[neat crow]

blend shapes?

[young bear]

I'm suffering from a VERY STRANGE bug on my avatar. for some arcane reason, my tail physbone is disabled if the other disabled physbone components are disabled. However, If I turn any of them on, it suddenly starts working, but ONLY if they're on

it can't be that the physbone component is being disabled, because the outlines on it are still there.

[glad rapids]

can you detail about it?

[young bear]

I discovered the problem. Not sure why it was causing an issue, but i'll describe what I had

I have a bunch of physbones in components. I also have a "basis" animation which animates all of them besides the tail to off by default. However, one of them was left on in the inspector. Someohw, this caused the tail to break completely. how and why? i'm not sure. most likely a vrchat bug.

[teal laurel]

You may have to re-weightpaint that area in blender, or adjust the clothing in blender

Also remember that the clothing and the avi may be weightpainted differently which can cause issues
Ignore my advice, i am unsure if i am correct

[hard hatch]

What the hell does this mean bruh

I've tried literally everything but i still can't upload my avi

Someone PLEASE help

I beg

I pleade

[ornate stump]

Begging is pointless. Look for more info #avatar-help message

[hard hatch]

Ah thanks i didnt think of that

I think you solved my issue actually!

[ornate stump]

I didn't. I just told you to look deeper into your issue.

[hard hatch]

Oh thanks i didnt think of that one either

maybe this will help

i still have no clue what this error means so maybe someone could help me figure out a solution

[ornate stump]

Click to see detail on Failed to build and Validation failed.

[hard hatch]

not quite sure what any of this means tho

could it possibly be something to do with the sdk and not the avatar itself?

[ornate stump]

If you want to confirm that, then try uploading a different avatar.

[ornate stump]

Also screenshot the Validation failed detail.

[hard hatch]

Its all just the same mumbo jumbo as in the build fail error

[ornate stump]

Not same.

[hard hatch]

Okay one second. Im going to try uploading a different avatar real quick

[cinder hound]

I need help with something, I have a model (.fbx) woth the textures but my laptop can't handle Unity, plus I have no way to recolor the textures, plus I don't know if the model is rigged. Can someone help me please?

[ornate stump]

What kind of help you need?

[cinder hound]

I need help pretty much making sure a model is rigged and gets retextured and uploaded, cause my laptop is too shit to handle Blender and Unity

I have a model already that I want retextured and uploaded to my account, thing is though like I said, laptop is not good with handling Unity and/or Blender.

I have the fbx file with all of the original textures. That's about it.

[ornate stump]

That's kinda a whole commision for that. See more info #avatar-general message

[cinder hound]

Ough, no money though.

Never mind ig, seems like I'll never get the help...

[teal laurel]

Did you try if your laptop handled Unity?

[ornate stump]

Then no much to be expected for free labor.

[cinder hound]

I did

[teal laurel]

What issues did you run into?

[cinder hound]

My computer bluescreened

[teal laurel]

Lol

What did the error message say?

[cinder hound]

Blender wasn't as bad. Just made my computer run 10x slow until I closed it.

It just said that my computer had a fatal error.

[teal laurel]

It should usually also say an error code

[cinder hound]

I don't ever remember those.

[teal laurel]

https://www.lifewire.com/blue-screen-error-codes-4065576

Then we could figure out the whats wrong

[cinder hound]

I think it's the same like when I load VRChat and Easy Anti-Cheat would crazh then bluescreen my computer. (It used to do that, it doesn't anymore, but it still does as Unity.

Also google doesn't cooperate with me

I'll just stop looking for help with this small thing.

-# It's better to give up since like I said, nobody helps anyways. Either "too busy" or I have to pay amd wait for them to finish up like... 500 other comms. I'm broke asf.

[arctic ginkgo]

you could try using unity again

and if it doesn't work, document the process and error codes this time

[cinder hound]

Nope,.tried yesterday and it bluescreened me

[arctic ginkgo]

then you can look into the issue in order to potentially resolve it

[cinder hound]

It's just an application being too powerful.

[arctic ginkgo]

you said you don't remember the error code. Like I said, you can try using it again to get the error code and then look up what it is

there usually are ways to fix it

[cinder hound]

I am just giving up.

[arctic ginkgo]

okay

no need to complain here then

we are here to help

[cinder hound]

Topic over, I'm never getting shit done anyways

[arctic ginkgo]

okay

[hard hatch]

okay so im still getting the same error. here is the details for the validation error

still no luck on finding out how i can fix

looked it up and googles said maybe logging back into vrc so i might try it out i guess

I think ima just move the files from this project into a new one because this is starting to feel a little mindmelting

[teal laurel]

Make sure you take backups and i guess if it happens again slowly add stuff to your avi until it breaks or upload a blank avatar (vrc robot) to test

I just revert back to my backup if i fuck shit up 😹 too lazy to fix most of the time

[solemn drum]

is their a way to geta roudn the avatra descripter undoing my changes to raise the hip bone?

[static herald]

Does anybody have any free clothing toggles for a Rexouium model?

[solemn drum]

im tring to make it farther off the ground to fix feet clipping but no mater what i do the avatr descripter keeps reverting the hip bone back to its old state

even if i re export the fbx with a new position for the bone it just gets reverted back

[static herald]

Does anybody have any free clothing toggles for a Rexouium model?….

[junior void]

Toggles?

[teal laurel]

What about toggles?

[ornate stump]

The question was about "free clothing toggles" which is... what?

[astral pelican]

it very is

i made a saitama avatar

quest comptiable too fully

got cool particle attacks n stuff

[river jewel]

dudes these masks wont turn on unless merc outfit is on, and mind you for all my clothing toggles I'm using a float parameter, and these masks aint animated with them at all, help ;-;

and yea well, me had 2 fix some things on my avi to make sure I dont get reported every 5 seconds for public indecency

[foggy palm]

someone can help ? my phybone bug after disable/enable object or enter/out instation

[ornate stump]

https://discord.com/channels/189511567539306508/1395261580186488872

[foggy palm]

oh it bug because game bug

[pseudo warren]

Did this start working? I've been able to upload content to VRC fine but as of the last few days I've been unable to upload anything due to validation errors on every single project, even a brand new project with just a mesh+vrc descriptor etc

[pine patrol]

hey im working on the bird from zenless zone zero right now and i was going to add the gogocolo for flying but its saying the armature isnt humanoid, is there any way around that or will i have to go to blender and redo the bones?

[junior void]

Setting the rig to humanoid is done in unity in the import settings of the fbx

Sure if it turns out it dont have leg bones, ofc it wont qualify to even be set humanoid

[pine patrol]

ah so I do have to redo the armature then, got cha

🫡

[tired saddle]

Hi i'm making an avatar from asset and base made by the real thicc witch i'm trying to add clothes to the base but if i do it in unity it make my bones go through the roof because (see screen) this is for one outfit armature and i don't really know how to add it on blender any help? thanks

[balmy barn]

id do blender / weight transfer ect

[somber sequoia]

pro tip: don't unpack your avatar prefab

oh those are add-ons

yeah if you have to do this in only Unit I'd look into VRCFury's ArmatureLink component.

(but I also do it in blender)

[tired saddle]

any tuto on how to do it?

[dim torrent]

Does anyone know how to connect a tail to the spine?

[somber sequoia]

put it in blender, make the tail root bone a child of the hip bone

[dim torrent]

is there a way to do it without unity

*blender

[somber sequoia]

depends on what you have for armature, but same comment about ArmatureLink isn't a bad idea

[olive pelican]

Wozzat

[somber sequoia]

vrcfury.com?

[olive pelican]

While there are ways, it is highly recommended that you learn a.bit of blender if you plan on making avatars or modifying them. It really isn't super complicated, and once you get over the initial hurdle, it opens WILD possibilities.

[olive pelican]

Ooooh that guy. I have to learn that guy for making guns and stuff for people. Eventually.

[somber sequoia]

yeah that's the only case I use it, making stuff for someone else.

[olive pelican]

It might be neat to be able to have iterative variations on a base model for optimization; being able to have one base model and a bunch of additional with their own rigs that all merge at runtime sounds lovely.

[rustic forge]

Question, what Shader do people use to display different images from each viewpoint? Im trying to make a 2D Avatar and i want the front/back and sides to show something different when looking at it

[hard hatch]

Haven't tried again since last night but as of now, still hasn't worked yet

[olive pelican]

https://www.artgram.co/a/2d-sprite-avatar-for-vrchat-tcRUYa

Maybe contact this user?

[rustic forge]

I think i found something, this one doesnt seem to have a download linked

[daring garden]

Why do these errors lie to me? ;w;

[somber sequoia]

are there any errors listed in the "rig" tab, before you click "configure"?

[daring garden]

Hm. Apparently it can't generate normals for... any shape keys.

"Can't generate normals for blendshape '{blendshape}' on mesh 'Mesh', mesh has no smoothing groups."

This is a custom model I made many many months ago and does need some fixing in Blender too, but I'm not sure exactly what causes errors with smoothing groups.

[somber sequoia]

that's a warning, probably not a big deal, but it may be that you're calculating normals without legacy blendshape normals checked?
I do import with specific blender settings instead. I'm not sure what ideal is here.

[olive pelican]

What, like using .blend in Unity?

[somber sequoia]

I'd never suggest using a .blend

[olive pelican]

Really? I use that all the time, mostly cause of how iterative my work is.

[somber sequoia]

you have no control over how the export to FBX and then import works

IMO it's trivial to export a .fbx. Also way easier to have one file with a ton of parts that you combine on export into a single model.

[daring garden]

I get the idea of having specific control over what you export, but do you know how many things I have to configure every time I make a change in Blender?

[somber sequoia]

what, in Unity? I wouldn't expect many

[daring garden]

Sometimes it's in the hundreds of configurations.
I can do it once per avatar, maybe thrice if I'm being paid for it, but if I have to make 40 little consecutive changes over the course of the setup that'll add up to thousands of re-reconfigurations.

[somber sequoia]

.... why?

I can update a model and make zero changes in Unity

[daring garden]

These are custom models.
One time I had to setup an avatar with another pair of arms.
Because Unity doesn't care about the bone constraints I already setup in Blender, I had to redo them in Unity which means going through each lower arm bone and making it copy the correct upper arm bone.
I don't know if Unity would even remember that change regardless of using the .blend.

[somber sequoia]

put your constraints in a prefab, then at the most you'd just have to drag the target bones onto them

most of my models use like 20-30 constraints, I never have to redo them

but yes, unity doesn't care about blender constraints.

[wintry ledge]

so,maybe im understanding wrong but,it says i got space for parameters in vrlabs but when i go into play mode it says i have too many??

[somber sequoia]

Probably you have something added with VRCFury at build time?

[wintry ledge]

build time? and i have a few vrcfury toggles,they count?

[somber sequoia]

all synced parameters count, yep

[wintry ledge]

frick 😔

alr ig ill remove some 💔

OML 1

[olive pelican]

...I'm terrified to ask what you have in your model.

[dim torrent]

I keep deleting stuff, but the number just keeps going up.. And the stuff I wanna keep I really dont wanna delete

[olive pelican]

But aim also intensely curious as to what you're using 257 params for.

[olive pelican]

Textures. Compress em.

[dim torrent]

Ive done that

[olive pelican]

Oh eat a phallus Marvin, that was funny.

[dim torrent]

Pft

To like, how low

[olive pelican]

Depends. Use Thry to check what's actually taking up space

It might just be that you have too many blendshapes.

It might be basically anything, really

[wintry ledge]

not that much actually 💔 i did add a pokemon follower that has quite a few toggles doe..

[rose ember]

Could someone help me make a coin flipping system that u can go hands to hands flip it in the air?

[olive pelican]

I mean, I can describe how you could make one.

[wintry ledge]

thats gonna take so long im pretty sure- ,theres is already assets that do it so u could buy em,if u wanna make from scratch doe i wish u luck

[rose ember]

ik but i aint finna buy something i can make

[olive pelican]

You need a synced bool paran and a synced int param. Bool controls the heads/tails, int controls animation state.

[rose ember]

im new to avatar making

[olive pelican]

Welcome to hell, thankfully what I'm desacribing is easy.

[rose ember]

could u call or are u gonna type?

[olive pelican]

I'm in my office listening to a video on how to build frame models for engineering, lmao.

[rose ember]

lol

[olive pelican]

But, short version, learn how to make prop toggles.

[rose ember]

could u explain what i should do first i have avatar model and coin model and what do i do nowヾ(•ω•`)o

[olive pelican]

That will teach you about animation controllers and animations/states

Sippbox has a video on how to do prop toggles, learn that

[rose ember]

bro

my brain hurts

so what does prop toggles do?

[olive pelican]

Then you'll understand a bit about parameters, which turns the explanation into a 15 minute one, lol

OH

Prop toggle is like...the prop turns on and off.

[rose ember]

im 0.01% into avatar

[rose ember]

like toggle it to show and not?

[olive pelican]

Mhmhm. No worries, yeah go peep Sippbox's tutorials on avatar stuff, specifically prop toggles, and everything will make sense, they got rhu it step by step.

Ye

After you learn how to show/not show it, you'll understand the principles of how all the stuff to control props works, give or take.

[rose ember]

dude u speak like u work at a million dollar company

[olive pelican]

Yes.

[rose ember]

the . at the end is crazy action

[olive pelican]

Lmao

[rose ember]

i know u make alot of money

[olive pelican]

Enough to do silly stuff with it, not enough to have a mansion, sadly.

But, yeah, basics of animation controllers and animations will open the door to doing WACKY shit.

[rose ember]

avatar toggle right?

[olive pelican]

Example, I have a pair of glasses on my avatar. To change them, I grab them, put them behind my back, let go, grab again, and it's a new pair. No menus, no weird hand gestures. All runs off basic stuff you learn from those tutorials.

[rose ember]

this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOGc8CetyXs

[olive pelican]

Ye, thats a good start.

[rose ember]

so i watch that one and follow it?

[olive pelican]

All their tutorials are pretty useful.

Ye

[rose ember]

but thats for hand gesture

shouldnt i have just expresion toggle?

[olive pelican]

It'll still teach you basics of paramaters, which is the key

[rose ember]

ok

[olive pelican]

All avatar animations utilize or can be controlled with the same system.

Which means once you learn it for one thing, it works for basically everything.

[rose ember]

where can i find this ?

[olive pelican]

You have to make a file, in the project, one for param one for menu.

[rose ember]

what

[olive pelican]

The param file lets you control what paramaters are global, what ones are saved, default values, etc.

In your project, right clight, got o new, VRC parameter

[rose ember]

brooooo

[olive pelican]

Menu file lets you make custom menus for expressions and toggles.

[rose ember]

i dont understandddd'

[rose ember]

my brain is overheating please explain easier

[rose ember]

yo

[olive pelican]

Hm.

Moment, lemme percolate.

[rose ember]

how can i add that animation to the expresion

[rugged mesa]

What version of unity editor would work best for uploading?

[olive pelican]

The simplest way to explain this is that the parameter file is sorta like where you save keywords that the avatar uses. So, for example, if I wanted to control a hat, I'd need a parameter named "hat" that told the avatar what it should be doing. It doesn't know unless I have a parameter to tell it.

The menu file is kinda like changing your keybinds in a game, but it lets you tell paramaaters to change. That lets the menu control your avatar.

[olive pelican]

The latest version supported by Creator Companion.

[rose ember]

im talking where could i find this right here so i can put in the stuff i need

where is my avatar descriptor or whatever is called

[olive pelican]

Yeah, so you need to go anywhere in the project, in the unity file browser, right click, and a menu will pop up. One of the options will be "new" or something. In there, there will be a "VRCParam" option. Click that, it makes you a new Param file.

[wintry ledge]

i got a problem where a prop doesnt show up in playmode,everything else works but this toggle,its a pokemon menu. The toys for the pokemon and him,his toggles works all great,everything apears and is animated,but for some reason the pokeball doesnt work. It doesnt wanna turn on :/ fx and parameters are added so idk whats wrong. Also in the ss u cant move pokeball in the prefab's hierachy,its the item itself im guessing? You use the "throw target" to move it around in the avis palm to desired position,also "move onto avatar" from the tut video the guy said u dont gotta move anything and it can stay there,any ideas whats wrong? Also the way u install the whole thing is just throw the pokemon prefab onto main avi hierarchy,add the pokemon menu to avi,add fx,paramenters and done

[rugged mesa]

Thank you

[rose ember]

dude can we call pls

[rugged mesa]

Alr thx

[rose ember]

i do not understand i single word

[olive pelican]

I'm in office till 5, and then I have to cook, kiss my slimegirl, and then stream Starsector homie. But I willl be working on a model tomorrow.

I can call then

[rose ember]

but listen explain me step by step how can i make a toggle because he didnt explain so good

[steep forge]

is kissing your slime girl scheduled in or is it just a daily occurrence ?

[spark walrus]

Hello I need Help. I just downloaded the Creator Companion. OK. Tells Me to Download Unity, OK. Download 2022 or 2019 OK I download all 3 why not. But When I try to create be it by the creator companion at directly by unity hub almost nothing creates. In Unity not a Folder gets created but on Creator Companion the folder with assets, packages and project settings are created nothing more.

[steep forge]

you definetly dont need 3 different versions of unity

[olive pelican]

Both, tbh. Gotta give her ALL the kisses, since she's so nice to me.

[spark walrus]

OK but still why wont any open.

[steep forge]

not sure if I was you I would just've reinsalled it

[spark walrus]

all 3 or 1

[steep forge]

uninstall all 3 and just install 2022.3.22f1 version

[spark walrus]

OK talk to you later after reinstallment.

[steep forge]

not sure why you would need the other versions of unity unless you're using really old proects I guess?

[steep forge]

gotta appriciate the slimegirls in your life

[reef kraken]

I merged a muzzle to my rex body mesh and made blendshapes for the body's mouth and the muzzle's mouth movement for it to work. But now when I go into vrc the tip of my mouth moves when I look up or down a little bit but the muzzle doesn't move with the body mesh moving, but then it snaps back into place. And the vismics are setup on custom blendshapes for the mouth and muzzle to both move and work, and im pretty sure I set then up correctly. So I have no idea what it is and I don't have face tracking or anything, im in index

[spark walrus]

Hello I'm back did what I was told and still the same results.

Opening 2022.3.22f1 directly from unity hub nothing happens. And on Creator Companion the folder with assets, packages and project settings are created nothing more and nothing opens.

[arctic ginkgo]

I'm trying to add a station to an object with "freeze to world" enabled, but when people sit in it, they jitter whenever I move around. Does anyone know why this might happen?

[olive pelican]

Weight paint.

[arctic ginkgo]

also whenever people sit in the station, they sit in different places, usually not actually on the chair.. They sit in the chair at first, then their body gets flung out to the side, in a random place each time. Sometimes thye are on the chair, but most of the time they need to use playspace mover to fix it

[balmy barn]

tracking control fail they go random derp , default vrchat sitting controller doesnt like custom animations

[reef kraken]

I have no idea how to do that or anything

[balmy barn]

you can disable their tracking but then it breaks them after

[olive pelican]

F

[arctic ginkgo]

I don't have any custom animations on the station

unless you mean the avatar sitting has custom animations in the sitting layer?

is there a way i can at least prevent the jitter?

[olive pelican]

Stations are broken tbh

[arctic ginkgo]

i'm assuming it's some issue with world drops

[olive pelican]

Super broken

[arctic ginkgo]

parent constraint with freeze to world enabled

[olive pelican]

Been for years, and I hate it

[balmy barn]

jitter i think is just local, ive seen that one before

[arctic ginkgo]

it happens for both players

i have the avatar, partner sits on it, we both see jitter

[balmy barn]

my noodle cup doesnt have that, but been a few months since ive had someone sit on it

[arctic ginkgo]

just wanted to make a camping chair for others to sit in 🥲

i place it down in the world, and can move it around

[balmy barn]

newer one of mine will disable your tracking so animation on it behaves (also breaks you)

[mental pawn]

could anyone tell me how to bring back the inspector

its stuck like this

no matter what i click

[mental pawn]

the inspector remains the same

[mental pawn]

Oh wow

thanks you so much

[balmy barn]

vrchat local testing also doesnt work for me anymore so its a pain to test stations , nothing really load , one av will other refuse

[worldly roost]

so ive been messing with this avatar getting its proportions right for FBT, and everything went well until out of nowhere i started having this issue where the avatar kinda floats to where the knees only start bending after i go down IRL a bunch.

origin in blender has been set to the floor, and the avatar is sitting in the right position in unity. rig has been flushed multiple times and ive tried messing with the armature but nothing seems to be able to fix it

[uneven whale]

please tell me how can i download gogo freeze using modular avatar?

[olive pelican]

Root bone?

Thou requireth a 🅱️one at the lowest point of the model.

Probabaly.

[open current]

does anyone know how to fix this issue ?

[balmy barn]

see white line that your origin, where your 'feet' should be so it sinks into ground, one way to avoid this is to use a gameobject as root or fix origin in blender

[olive pelican]

Boneless?

Aha. Yeah.

There's your problem, lmao

[open current]

?

[olive pelican]

Do you own that avatar? Kidding aside, just make a new blueprint ID.

[open current]

how do i do that ?

[olive pelican]

I'm guessing you bought an avatar or base body and it came ina unity project

[open current]

yeah exactly that

[olive pelican]

The UI cleared it, you'll be asked to make a new entry on upload.

[open current]

no it just says failed when i try to upload

[olive pelican]

Hm. Weird.

Manually clear the blueprint

[open current]

what just delete the script ?

[olive pelican]

Nah, just the blueprint ID

There's a button.

[open current]

i cant

there is no button

[olive pelican]

Wait no that got removed in a prev version of vrc, I think, uhh

Shit if I had my PC I could tell ya

Lemme look it up

[somber sequoia]

This is probably not the root cause - instead paste the first 2-3 errors from the top of the console.

[open current]

wha

[olive pelican]

Ah. It may be an old version of the SDK or not using the Creator Companion.

[open current]

its all updated

[olive pelican]

Model might have come with the old SDK crammed up its[redacted]

[balmy barn]

in unity create a gameobject drop plane/meshes/ect in - good luck sending parameters to the mesh using fx tho - it wants a mesh to talk to and making it this way it wont have any ( here is a plane one made in blender ) , notice it has avatar slot filled in so it can talk to that mesh

[olive pelican]

In blender

[balmy barn]

laziest way of making a plane one in unity (pretty meh)

quest shaders have backface culling now so its abit outdated

(only need one quad)

[bronze loom]

Is there an upto date guide on teh VRC Parent Contraints?

[night ember]

its just the same as unity constraints

[vernal quartz]

Honestly you can also just use old constraints and use the sdk utilities to update them automatically, I haven't had anything break yet

[bronze loom]

Alright casue im just trying to a quick little hand swap is all and i havent used eitehr in like 8 months

[vernal quartz]

yeah it's under the sdk tab on the top of unity

[mystic marten]

How do i uh fix this issue

[somber sequoia]

please explain the issue for those of us who have no idea what it should look like

[mystic marten]

Everytime i upload it the head is in the floor and the arms are stuck upwards

[night ember]

view point or the root of the avatar is fucked

[feral viper]

Your view point might be higher then your head point is i suggest putting the view point the middle of both eyes and pushing it to where its slightly visable

[mystic marten]

Oh how do i fix that if you don’t mind me asking

[somber sequoia]

in the avatar descriptor you'll find a place to set it

[mystic marten]

Oh i see now

Thank you

[arctic ginkgo]

I'm having an issue with my imposter. I keep deleting and regenerating it, as well as restarting my game to load it in again, and re-uploading my avatar, but it keeps generating in a way that looks like the old version of the avatar..

[feral viper]

What do you mean by this?

[arctic ginkgo]

there's an item that's supposed to be disabled, but it is visible in the imposter

in the unity editor it's not visible, both inside and outside of playmode

it's not visible in the 3D thumbnail/preview

it doesn't load in right away on the avatar

i'm not sure why it's visible other than it having been visible on upload in previous versions

i might try using imposter settings to fix this.. but otherwise I'm not sure what's wrong

[feral viper]

Try re importing it into unity maybe?

[arctic ginkgo]

i'm not sure how that will help?

just reimport the FBX?

[feral viper]

Is it only a fbx?

[arctic ginkgo]

no

[feral viper]

Also check the skinned mesh renders and etc

[arctic ginkgo]

it uses bone scaling

for the item toggle

so the scale is set to 0

[feral viper]

Is it also 0 out of play mode

[arctic ginkgo]

yes

like i said, it's not visible anywhere (except the imposter) until enabling the toggle

[feral viper]

I think that maybe why

[arctic ginkgo]

?

it's supposed to be invisible

[feral viper]

It sounds like it

Until you toggle the set toggle in the menu it appears correct?

[arctic ginkgo]

it doesn't appear until you toggle it on

which is intentional

everything is working correctly except the imposter generation

[feral viper]

Huh

Idk

[night ember]

I dont think bone scaling exists for the imposter

[arctic ginkgo]

I also tried using the "ignore transform" option in the imposter settings and that did nothing as well

[wintry ledge]

guys why my avis eyes are so off,i put up my hands to where my eyes are but they are so high up on the avi 😔 how to fix

[arctic ginkgo]

I'm going to try uploading to a new ID and seeing if that works

[night ember]

View point or your root is fucked

[arctic ginkgo]

if not I may just upload a version with the prop entirely removed, generate imposters, then upload the original again

[wintry ledge]

how do i fix it 💔 what do i do in unity? what should i drag to make it work

[night ember]

Move the view point

Or if not that you need to go into blender

[wintry ledge]

changing it rn

[limpid cargo]

find avatar descriptor
enable “gizmos”
edit “view”(?)

[fast plank]

hi there my hair physbones are moving ever so slightly when i enter play mode and i have no idea why, see the video for demonstration

it's a booth asset that i linked to her head armature using vrcfury armature link

[arctic ginkgo]

alright, I figured out that the imposter is generating correctly, but still is using an old version. So it's not an issue of something invisible being hidden, but that for some reason it's not using the newest version of the avatar to generate it

using a new ID generates the imposter correctly

has anyone ran into this issue?

[gentle goblet]

Huff so I need help setting up an sps socket on my avi, I don't want to go into details because yeah but would someone be able to help me out please and thank you <3

[left gull]

to get help you'd need to go into details but since its sounding like NSFW stuff you should probably just look into its docs on VRCFury's site (or even ask in their discord)

[gentle goblet]

Yeahhh I would probably need to dm someone who knows stuff about it

[still shuttle]

you can also auto generate sockets with the sps configurator

[gentle goblet]

Wait you can..I need to look at this~

[still shuttle]

the store page has a tutorial
https://wholesomevr.gumroad.com/l/sps

[gentle goblet]

Yeah I have seen this, the config doesn't let me add my own and the instructions on the product don't make much sense to me, that's kinda why I want someone who knows how to help to like yeah run me through it I guess 👉 👈

[still shuttle]

It has a gif tutorial tho? Like it literally shows you what to click. and you can just hit the generic option and adjust the sockets positions as needed

but if you need it for something other than the nsfw body parts, I recommend doing what the other person said and ask in the discord or look into the docs on it

[gentle goblet]

Yeah the normal ones are all set up and that's what it was showing, but yeah I am asking around it's just hard finding people rn XD

[still shuttle]

What are you using it for if not the generic set up?

[gentle goblet]

I want to add a new plug for my tongue mhm mhm

[still shuttle]

It comes with a mouth socket tho?
Do you mean you want to make the tongue a penetrator?

[gentle goblet]

Yeah that

[still shuttle]

Yeah I would ask in their discord about that

[brittle grove]

i need help getting my avatar set to be customized in substancepainter, its my first time using it and i am dying over here, its all too confusing and my texture files arent from substance painter!

please qwq

[somber sequoia]

just import the model into substance

the .fbx file

[brittle grove]

but it doesnt come with the textures

[somber sequoia]

you can load the existing ones into a fill layer

[brittle grove]

all at once?

[somber sequoia]

if you don't have any, start from scratch

sure, make a fill layer and add each of the PBR textures into their right channels, assuming you have them

[brittle grove]

this is what i see

[somber sequoia]

oh so you have an existing project

oh - I see, you have multiple materials

[brittle grove]

well i just brought in the fbx file and textures (used chatgpt for help)

yeahhh

[somber sequoia]

yeah substance gives you a layer to start, I think it's a paint one? I delete it and just start from none

[brittle grove]

will do rq!

do i delete it for all channels?

[somber sequoia]

you do this however you want 🙂

but if I'm starting from an existing texture I'll clear out all the layers for a material and add the textures I have in a single base layer

(per material)

[brittle grove]

single base layer per material? im sorry this is legit my first time using this i have no idea what you mean

[somber sequoia]

I suggest tutorials of course

the whole principle of substance is layering

I don't know what your goal is but if you want to paint on top of an existing texture, you put it in a layer, and then add new ones on top

[brittle grove]

its that simple?

so i just make a fill layer and throw in all of my corresponding textures? and then just thug it out?

[somber sequoia]

that's a good way to start

[brittle grove]

ookay

[wicked valley]

is there anything else other than textures i can reduce teh size of?
its slightly too big

[somber sequoia]

mesh - blendshapes take up space

[wicked valley]

how do i reduce the size of those?

[arctic ginkgo]

removing them or decreasing how many verts are affected by them

you can use buildsizeviewer to see a breakdown of what is contributing to size

animations can also sometimes take up a lot of size if they have a lot of frames and/or have a lot of properties

[somber sequoia]

oh yeah, animations too

[jade oracle]

idk how to fix this

[fluid pebble]

hey pookies, i have no clue what this means :3 anyone able to help?

[jade oracle]

ok

[arctic ginkgo]

be careful, that seems really suspicous

[arctic ginkgo]

this person just joined, pretty much blank profile, and that's their first message. Likely a scammer

[jade oracle]

ok

[ornate stump]

That excuse could be a lie. You should be starting helping in public channel for transparency.

[dry ibex]

help

[ornate stump]

You could just randomly pick a random person name in this server so that means nothing.

[fluid pebble]

make it make sense

how would you accept it?
if you dont know what happened to it.

[ornate stump]

You said you didn't know what happen to your account? Then how can you accept it?

[arctic ginkgo]

just looking out for others. I know a scammer when I see one

that one isn't even in this server

that means nothing anyways

scammers can have alt accounts

[ornate stump]

Everything you said just shouting out you're a scammer.

You have zero credibility, made up story, conflicting statements, and so on.

Post the link here then.

That isn't even a portfolio. It's just a contact page.

Ok nvm. I scrolled down.

That's a different person.

<@&397642795457970181> Scammer above.

You.

[arctic ginkgo]

looks like there may be a scammer in #avatar-showcase message too, but they haven't tried dming anyone yet so

afaik

but they've only shown that model and asked people to dm them..

brand new account too

[fluid pebble]

im so sorry to post again, i still cannot figure out how to fix this.... anyone able to help?

[somber sequoia]

looks like an incompatibility with that vrcfury version and the SDK, maybe try upgrading both, or ask in the vrcfury server

[fluid pebble]

:3 could you pm me a link to the server?

[somber sequoia]

vrcfury.com

[somber sequoia]

they're trying it in #open-beta-discussion too

[valid marsh]

is it possible at all to make the root motion of an animation move a vrchat avatar (using unity 2019)

[white moth]

Anyone knows how to fix this?

[rose ember]

could anybody help me with toggles?

[blazing marlin]

I'm trying to find a way to make a particle system only be active for avatars of the same type. I'm creating a line of avatars, 3-4 ish, and I want there to be a particle system that works between all of them, but doesn't show for anyone that isn't in the 3-4 avatars. Is there a way I can do this via colliders or an animation?

Any help or guidance would be helpful. Even if just pointing me in the right direction

[wicked valley]

mild inconvenience

[dawn wharf]

make sure your avatar's default pose is correct, if this doesn't fix the issue, you need to re-weight paint through blender

[robust dirge]

Anyone know what could be causing this? I have enough space

[dawn wharf]

Do I need to armature link a contact receiver? Headpat/Boop etc? Or do I just move the contact itself?

Just taking extra precaution before uploading because I can't quite remember, it's on the tip of my tongue!

[junior void]

Either is an option

[frigid glade]

What kind of help do you need?

[mint yarrow]

if the other two recommendation doesn't work. Double check your bone rotations and see if they are the wrong axis

[tame grove]

Some help pls T_T
My avi (Rindo) the hair not moving i try to change the Dynamic bone to Phys bone but i cant

[balmy barn]

go into blender and check your finger bones, im guessing they look like this , xna models tend to have em

[vocal swan]

do you guys know a fix where the model suddenly cant do any vrchat default emotes? some of my models suddenly cant do the default emotes out of nowhere

[dawn wharf]

ty !

[graceful mango]

bringing light to this again, i still havent found a fix qwq

[ornate stump]

This often causes by the bones are being controlled by multiple physbone components.

[foggy plume]

hey, I was wondering how I could take like espessions off an avi on quest

so like when you do a thumbs up, the little like chat bubble or wtv I need that off

[ornate stump]

You could do just like PC avatar. You might have to change shader and that's it.

[foggy plume]

alright yea I'll try that

[drifting ginkgo]

Hey I am trying to figure out how to use a VRCStation on my avatar to force a sitting pose when someone uses it. How exactly can I do that ? I know you can add a animator but the animation is only mapped to my avatar isnt it ?

[ornate stump]

Animator on station gets applied to a person who sit on the station.

[naive copper]

I've been having this one issue with my avatar and it's really pushing me to my limit.

First off my unity project doesn't have a skybox, it's just Gray. It's not that big of an issue though.

My issue is that whenever I update the Avatar and make a copy for Quest, physbones that literally do not exist are in the performance ranking, it's gotten so bad to the point where the quest Avatar has NO physbones, yet it claims it's over 64.

[drifting ginkgo]

I know but the armature may be different to my avatar. So how can I make it that it works with other vatars when creating the sitting animation ?

[balmy barn]

if you disable seated and set tracking it will force anyone to animate properly on a station, this will also break their tracking after (they have to reset avatar to 'fix' it)

[ornate stump]

Humanoid animation will map to correct bones by itself. It's the same principle of any model can share the same animation regardless of armature structure.

[drifting ginkgo]

Okay but how do I create a humanoid animation ? Just using my own avatar or something specific ?

[ornate stump]

You probably has physbone somewhere, or it gets added with automation like vrcfury or modular avatar.

[ornate stump]

Just use your own avatar to create one, probably starting with T-pose animation file that will have all muscle parameter added.

[drifting ginkgo]

but what do I need to move then to pose ? My armature or something different ?

[balmy barn]

mixamo have a bunch of random sitting/ect you can grab, vrchat uses them for random things

[ornate stump]

You input muscle parameters in animation tab.

[drifting ginkgo]

which one would that be ?

[ornate stump]

In Animator

[ornate stump]

And you won't be able to animate by moving rotating any bone transform of humanoid bone.

[drifting ginkgo]

So no normal animation then ?

[naive copper]

I do all myself manually.

[ornate stump]

Where does it said it's having exceeding physbone count?

[naive copper]

That's the issue :(
It's claiming it's exceeding the account, but the extra physbones legit do not exist

I have to cut off the existing ones to bring it BACK down

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot where it said that?

[naive copper]

give me a sec.

[drifting ginkgo]

Is Preview working for that ?

[ornate stump]

You're changing IK locations (Q,T,TDOF) and that doesn't have effect on the model itself.

[drifting ginkgo]

how can I then figure out how to to properly place everything ?

[ornate stump]

I mean you're changing wrong properties.

[drifting ginkgo]

so which one should I use ?

[ornate stump]

Just try everything else and see if those have effect on your model.

[drifting ginkgo]

thge twist and foot up does

[ornate stump]

Of course I didn't include those in the IK location I previously mentioned.

[drifting ginkgo]

so I have to use those to somehow get my pose ?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[drifting ginkgo]

damm that looks painfull

thanks anyway

[naive copper]

It's literally finding bones that do not exist anymore

[drifting ginkgo]

aren't those counts for physbones ?

[naive copper]

It is, but the issue is that there's this bug with my project, that's adding physbones that do not exist on the avatar.

[ornate stump]

It might have physbone component from outside of the avatar that has root transform set to those bones.

[modern cypress]

slowly laying my face down in the dirt. I've been working on this side project for 2 months. I can't get my vertex paints to transfer from blender to unity. is this a thing.

[ornate stump]

Do you mean vertex color?

[naive copper]

I know it doesn't. When I first made the project there was nothing wrong with it

[modern cypress]

Yes

[somber sequoia]

are you using a shader which handles them?

[naive copper]

It's only when I started making additional updates when I started seeing issues

Whenever I replaced the quest version with the new updated model, it would still have physbones that should not exist

[modern cypress]

The vrchat standard lite should bring them up but it comes up as black

[somber sequoia]

yep, that one ought to

[ornate stump]

Did you have vertex color attribute type set to face corner and byte color?

[deft mango]

How do I disconnect a quest version from a PC version? I tried making it quest compatible and it turned out bad so Im just wanting it to be PC only 😅

[ornate stump]

There are too many color attribute. Unity supports only one color attribute.

[somber sequoia]

upload a new avatar without a quest version and delete the old

[deft mango]

Thanks!

[modern cypress]

thaaaat did iiiiit, thank you

[prime agate]

I have a pretty old object that had dynamic bones on it. I wanted to convert these over to physbones but the scripts for the bones are just broken in general. Missing (Mono Script). Is there anything I can do about this to restore the bones temporarily?

[ornate stump]

Import a replacement https://github.com/VRLabs/Dynamic-Bones-Stub

[prime agate]

Cool, thanks a lot

[valid marsh]

bumping

[lusty night]

what is VRLabs?

[timber wharf]

a community of devs who make general tools/prefabs

[bitter bay]

hey im trying to fix this seam that's appearing on my retexture

[mystic marten]

How do i make a collider toggle able? im working on a mermaid avatar so i want people to be able to turn it off and on!

[mystic marten]

???

whats your problem-

[desert cradle]

does anyone have avi world suggestions ? >.> that are quest compatible im only on quest

[desert cradle]

theyre ragebaiting

[mystic marten]

Gmsbox avatars are pretty thats the one i usually go for i don’t really know a lot i usually just go to prismics and make sure the avatar im using isnt ripped or something

Heres the world they have unique male and female avis i like em personally https://vrchat.com/home/launch?worldId=wrld_5e15cf05-5f60-459f-baac-f1e2fe9ae78b