avatar-help

[dense nest]

unless its okay to rename armatures?

[somber sequoia]

you could use this method but you may need to rework the prefab.

you shouldn't need to make new bones, it's probably about differences in the armature you have vs. the hierarchy the prefab expects.

without looking at the project I couldn't really guess what though

[dense nest]

i just like have no clue what to do from here lol

[dense nest]

i could send it ig if u need? not like its private or anything i'm just trying to figure this sh out for my gf 😔

[somber sequoia]

I'm not really doing commissions at the moment

[dense nest]

mb pimp

[somber sequoia]

?

[dense nest]

my bad pimp

[somber sequoia]

pimp?

[dense nest]

yeah yk pimp

[somber sequoia]

what a strange thing to call someone

[dense nest]

like boss but like

pimp

yk cause pimps dress cool asf would u not wanna be a pimp without all the bad stuff

i mean have you SEEN pimp named slickback

[left gull]

ik its a bit of a late response but if you're unable to figure out how to add the clothing and stuff yourself you could try asking in the VRCFury discord about it or just commission someone in VRCTraders

[ivory jackal]

I'm trying to edit the default walking animation to fit my avatar BUT for some reason, anytime I rename an exact copy of proxy_walk_forwards(or backwards) animation file anything but the original name, the avatar in game does this akward shuffle. like the animation is playing for 1/4 of a second and then restarting. again, I'm doing NOTHING to the file BUT renaming it

even if I make a copy of the files, keep their names the same; if I edit the animation, it creates no effect in the game. Before I did have a problem where the animation edits had no effect BUT I THOUGHT I had solved it. NOPE!! I noticed that in the home world, the animations worked fine, BUT in any other world, it did the weird 'only play 1/4 of the animation' shuffle.

I honestly might be going a bit mad trying to figure this out, HOW was making the damn model in blender, as a person with close to 0 experience in 3d art, easier than the unity crap. Which in almost every tutorial I've seen, people finish it in an hour, TOPS

[valid marsh]

is it possible to make particles track other players (such as nearest player with direct sightline) because i want to make a spinbot avatar (of the tf2 sniper bot)

[somber sequoia]

you'd probably have to manually target them via raycast or something

[ember rune]

hey im new to avi creating and im on the last step of setting up my avatar, which is making toggles, i already have the animations and everything i just dont know to make the toggles and then upload it. if anyone wants to help it would be very appreciated 🙏

[somber sequoia]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqtSg6_W07Y

[ember rune]

thank you 🙏

[somber sequoia]

ask in here if you get stuck

[ember rune]

this is the most embarrassing thing to get stuck on but i cant get to the playable layers to put in the menu and parameters

[fresh lava]

Does anyone know how to use VRC Expression Menus?

[stark meadow]

add component on the right side and add a vrchat avatar descriptor component

[ember rune]

oh thank you so much 🙏

[somber sequoia]

yes, some of us do, just ask your (detailed) questions

[ember rune]

im sorry, how do you open the fx controller

[somber sequoia]

in the menu: window -> animation -> animator

then select your animation controller

[fresh lava]

Im just curious as how to move the prefab (I think thats what its called, the thing that allows me to toggle it on and off) with a expression menu... I cant seem to find where to edit it.

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure what the prefab is

[fresh lava]

So ive got this.

1 sec

It seems to make its own little page...

I want it to go into Items.

[gentle iris]

with a avatar what needs to be the root of the model?

in unity it says my model is too small, in blender how big does it need to be to not have that msg in unity

the cube is just a default cube, does the avatar need to be bigger than the cube?

[somber sequoia]

is this a vrcfury prefab?

for the menu name, use Items/name (replace name)

[fresh lava]

Im not sure... Its hard to explain without screensharing... I dont see an area to change this and if I add a vrcfury toggle it doesnt allow me to change the textures.

[somber sequoia]

blender units are meters by default, size it reasonably

[balmy barn]

your origin is middle of av 'ish , half the size of a cube unity will think its in ground - move it to 'feet'

[somber sequoia]

good catch

[gentle iris]

with my model each limb is seperate other wise it breaks due to weight paint issues

[somber sequoia]

So yes, it's vrcfury. under menu, that "prefix"

[somber sequoia]

this is inefficient and weird, joining meshes, assuming they all have transforms applied first, should not break anything

[gentle iris]

it will deform random parts, like if i move the arm the hip deforms

[somber sequoia]

it does look like they all have different origins

oh that's because you have weight paint for the arm on the hips

[gentle iris]

i manually did the paint after and it still deformed

[somber sequoia]

weight painting is hard. Probably instead of trying to paint those areas to 0, just remove those vertices from the vertex group

[gentle iris]

like the entire part would deform

and since its a transformer i dont want parts deforming

[somber sequoia]

if you have it separated right now, just remove the wrong groups from the parts, like remove the arm groups from the hip object

[fresh lava]

That worked, but the toggle isnt here

[strange sparrow]

has anyone found a way to fix this yet? (project with many avatars in diff. folders)

[somber sequoia]

I don't really know this feature well, but there's documentation and a discord for vrcfury

[strange sparrow]

it does this when i make alot of avatars on the same project

do i just make a new project?

[gentle iris]

the hips isnt meant to be the first one right?

[somber sequoia]

Hips should be the root bone, yes.

that looks correct

[strange sparrow]

the hip is the root bone for most if not all models

so sure

[gentle iris]

also its the origins of the rig that needs to be at the bottom right?

[somber sequoia]

the avatar should be standing on 0,0,0

and origins should all be there

[gentle iris]

i have another avatar and the mesh for the model has the origins in the middle but armature at 0,0,0

[somber sequoia]

don't do that, even if maybe it worked once

[gentle iris]

it worked twice

[fresh lava]

I just made my own toggle. Thank you so much for your help!

[gentle iris]

what if i made each limbs origins 0,0,0

[somber sequoia]

that is exactly what I said.

(I'd still join them afterwards)

[ember rune]

how do you publish the avatar

[gentle iris]

joining them completely breaks it

with weight painting is there a way to completely make a object blue?

[somber sequoia]

I explained one way already, yes.

you can also use "set weight" in the menu to set everything to one value

[gentle iris]

oh

i just woke up so im a bit slow rn
sorry

[somber sequoia]

if you're setting it all to 0 though removing the vertices from the group is better

[reef elk]

Does anyone know if the unity animator is supposed to always run while offscreen? I was under the impression it was if you had Always Animate on, it would run in the background. Hide by distance and vrchats avatar culling does make it stop and I'm aware of that.

I'm having an issue where my animator and all parameter drivers and synced parameters are not updating while not being looked at at all. Everything that happens when a player isnt looking doesn't get saved on it at all (except for static synced parameters)

[gentle iris]

ummmm, this aint normal, is it

[fresh lava]

Does anyone know how to make a gesture thingy? So like when I make a fist it pulls out a laser pointer ect...?

[ornate stump]

Everything is made in animator state logic. It's just making animation play according to various parameters.

[fresh lava]

Yeah, thats beyond me LOL

[ornate stump]

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsQ86hFQ6wxX_CsWMp8DJVw You might find something useful.

[gentle iris]

anyone know how to fix this?

[ornate stump]

Does it report something about bounds in the sdk?

[gentle iris]

no

[ornate stump]

If nothing else break and the avatar works as intended that shouldn't be anything to concern.

[gentle iris]

the green is the boundary right?

[ornate stump]

Yes,

[gentle iris]

how do i change it in unity since it shows like that

[ornate stump]

It's in skinned mesh renderer component.

[gentle iris]

i got it on, i press edit bounds right?

[ornate stump]

You have to edit the existing mesh renderer, not adding a new one. That's totally pointless.

[gentle iris]

wdym?

[ornate stump]

Why you're adding a new skinned mesh renderer?

[gentle iris]

i need to fix the boundary and isnt that how you do it?

[ornate stump]

Bounds are on the existing mesh you have to edit bound of existing mesh.

[gentle iris]

in blender?

[ornate stump]

In unity.

[gentle iris]

i got no clue then

i have no idea how i would do that

[ornate stump]

Then what kind of renderer your model has?

Is it just Skinned Mesh Renderer, or just Mesh Renderer?

[gentle iris]

what ever the default is

i dont really understand unity

[ornate stump]

Default depends on how the model is made, so you have to actually look into it.

[ornate stump]

Just try selecting a limb and see what component it has.

[gentle iris]

by limb like model or bone?

[ornate stump]

The model. The visible part is called "Mesh".

[gentle iris]

from what i can understand mesh renderer

[ornate stump]

Then it's mesh renderer. You can't change bound of mesh renderer.

[gentle iris]

so its stuck as broken then?

[ornate stump]

Is it actually broken?

[gentle iris]

in vrchat its broken

[ornate stump]

How is it broken? Apart from bound showing incorrectly.

[gentle iris]

you can barely see cosmos up at the top then it just randomly extends down

[ornate stump]

Apart from bound showing incorrectly, anything else broke?

[gentle iris]

when i use the gesture maganger the model disapears

[ornate stump]

That can't be issue about the bounds. That means you probably had another issue on top of the bound.

[gentle iris]

so with the bounds is there anything i can do to fix it?

[ornate stump]

Is the sdk showing info about avatar bound? Screenshot the sdk build panel.

[ornate stump]

Then that likely is a stray object on your model that extruded far down. Check in blender if it had any object that far down.

[gentle iris]

ok

couldnt find anything

[ornate stump]

Then screenshot front view when you select the armature.

[gentle iris]

i think its a rotation issue

i exported again and in unity i uses gesture manager again and the avatar goes far one distance and on its back

you can see the model in the top left corner

[ornate stump]

Take screenshot front view when you select the armature in blender.

[ornate stump]

How did you parent the meshs to the armature bones?

[gentle iris]

i parented the limb to the bone, if joined the limbs to each other and did automatic weights it would break

like each part is parented to a bone

[ornate stump]

Have you tested with pose mode?

[gentle iris]

yes

[ornate stump]

Select all objects and use Apply Transform All command. Import back to unity, reconfigure rig, then see how it is.

[gentle iris]

including the armature?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[ornate stump]

Scale is also the problem then. Try only apply position and rotation.

[gentle iris]

should i try exporting to unity

[ornate stump]

Test with pose mode first then export.

[gentle iris]

works with pose mode

is this all right?

exported and still broken

like there is no reason it should be breaking, everything is done right so it needs to work

[ornate stump]

Change Apply Scaling = FBX All

[cedar matrix]

do I need any visual studios on unity to make an avatar?

[ornate stump]

no.

[cedar matrix]

ok thank you

[gentle iris]

ok

in the asset browser the model isnt meant to be laying down right?

[hazy marten]

alrighty, i'm hoping someone sees this because i've trying to upload a avatar i bought for 5hrs already and encounter a new problem everytime. i'm currently trying to build the avatar and publish it for my personal use. however, it appears to be stuck in the middle and keeps reloading the same things and doesn't budge an inch. any advice??

ive tried receiving help from the creator's server however, no one is actually responsive or being resourceful

[gentle iris]

just got to fix the view and maybe the size

[hazy marten]

its finally uploaded YIPEE

[snow goblet]

poiyomi locking in can sometimes take a really long time. just bear with it for a few more minutes longer!

[cedar matrix]

if I made a character on vroid and got them in unity and then downloaded clothing assets and put those in I figured out how to put the model in but how do i put the clothes on the model?

[hazy marten]

Thanks however, I've sadly ran into another issue.. It failed security checks even though it should pass due to it being sold by an creator.

I don't know how to fix it so it appears in vrchat

[snow goblet]

looking here, seems like you have missing scripts or a shader thats not allowed on android. have you fixed these?

[hazy marten]

I'm on pc

[snow goblet]

oh then, not sure.
you may need to upload to another avatar id if this one is marked as security checks failed.

[hazy marten]

How would I do that?

[snow goblet]

ah? then, there could be many things that fail security checks. (speculative) vrchat fails security checks when an avatar looks too similar to a crasher, so try making sure your avatar isnt too far past the Very Poor performance limit.

[hazy marten]

i see

is there any where to improve its performance?

[snow goblet]

to upload to another avatar id, you just need to remove the old id. vrchat automatically makes a new id when you upload

[hazy marten]

ok did that

[snow goblet]

as for this, try a tool like d4rk's avatar optimizer or a similar addon. but ultimately you may just want to ask the creator for help with this :< since there's no reason it should be security check failing in the first place if this is uploaded just like the original

[hazy marten]

ill try it and I have but no one is responding 😭

[inland lake]

hey i wanted to somehow make a 30min delay between stats example is i enable the toggle a and it stays on a for 30min it will automaticly switch to b

any idea how i could make this?

[hazy marten]

i might just tweak

[hazy marten]

hey what if the pipeline manager keeps attaching itself back on everytime i detatch..?

[snow goblet]

havent seen this happen before, i really recommend restarting your unity

[sudden violet]

Most creators don't care about performance, don't expect much help.

[hazy marten]

sobbin

[hazy marten]

alrighty

[sudden violet]

One strong advice i can give, is that generally what tanks the performance the most, is texture memory, as that gets allocated in the Vram, and that's not too hard to lower down.

most avatar creators, as you might imagine, don't care and put 4k or 8k textures to what might need like, 1k, or even 512.

i literally kitbashed an avatar and it was at 300mb texture memory. After i BARELY tweaked it for 2 minutes, it already went down to 110mb, and i could do even better if i wanted to.

[teal laurel]

Also an easy thing is to drop your textures. That gets texture memory (vram), download size and uncompressed size down.
2k is usually enough, but it can be dropped further for some textures

[sudden violet]

Vram tends to be what limits people the most

[hazy marten]

okay

how would i excatly tune down the texture memory on unity?

[sudden violet]

Either by manually clicking the texture and lowering the resolution (kinda tedious if you have a lot of textures), or a tool like Thry's avatar performance tools that nicely lays out all the textures your avatar uses.

look at your avatar at about 1m distance, and lower the textures till you notice it's losing too much detail

[balmy barn]

https://vpm.thry.dev/

[teal laurel]

Fr best tool

[balmy barn]

but im guessing your av is extremely high in vertices if its failing security checks

[hazy marten]

yeahh

[sudden violet]

oh, i didn't know it was failing security checks.

doesn't that happen when you go above 500mb download size?

[teal laurel]

Yep

[sudden violet]

yeikes

did you put like, a lot of clothes and random stuff on the avi?

[hazy marten]

nah it came with it

[sudden violet]

ah, that's the issue then.

(probably)

generally, it's advised to separate the avatars instead of making one with all the clothes, for performance reasons.

[balmy barn]

would be guesswork until you show perf in vrchat sdk , having ALOT of meshes also terrible

[sudden violet]

^

i know that meshes that are turned off don't affect performance, i wonder if they still get stored in VRAM doh.

[hazy marten]

how would i find perf so you guys can figure it out ? 😭

its my first bought avatar

[sudden violet]

sharing the stats would be a good starting point

[balmy barn]

If i can make an av fit good or medium rating ive done it wrong

(excellent annoying)

[hazy marten]

where..?

[balmy barn]

that thing in sdk

[sudden violet]

when you try to upload the avatar in the VRCSDK, it shows you the most problematic statistics at "very poor"

^

[balmy barn]

red/terrible ones will be the first ones

[hazy marten]

okay.. theres 19 of them

[sudden violet]

yup, share a screenshot to show them all

[balmy barn]

casual 419k avatar

[sudden violet]

-# ouch

[teal laurel]

Could be worse tbh

[sudden violet]

could be, that's what i was thinking.

i feel like if you delete some of the different extra clothing toggles, you might make it.

[balmy barn]

this one is very high

[sudden violet]

^^^^

[hazy marten]

how do i fix it?

[gentle iris]

anyone know why my model is floating above the floor

[sudden violet]

deleting physbones is the quick answer.

if the model has something like, a skirt, avatar creators tend to go insane with physbones on these.

[hazy marten]

ohh i see

would it become stiff though?

[sudden violet]

it would only move with weight-painting

[balmy barn]

sdk have a option to click [select] on phys bone components and it will show where they all are on the model - you would need serious blender work to optimzie that mess of a av

[sudden violet]

realistically you can have a good skirt with A LOT less physbones than what people put. Let's say you can have a good skirt with like, 6 physbones. Avatar creators whom don't care about performance will put like 30 bones.

if you're not experienced with blender/unity, the easiest thing to do, is to simply delete the clothing toggles that are the most problematic.

or, upload the different clothing toggles by themselfs.

[hazy marten]

i see

[sudden violet]

to give you the idea, i don't have a SINGLE avatar that has clothing toggles, unless it's like, accessories. It's just really bad practice.

i upload one avi per clothing set.

avi creators tend to put 1000 toggles because people whom don't know better look at an avi they want to purchase, go like "omg so many toggles, i should buy it", and we get here.

[hazy marten]

sob

where do i change the physbone count

[sudden violet]

it's not a number you can change.

It's a component that gets added to bones in the armature.

[hazy marten]

oh

[sudden violet]

What thulen said here will select all the physbones in your avatar.

[gentle iris]

how do i fix this. my model is not touching the floor

[teal laurel]

Is that for all avatars you switch into or just for that one

[gentle iris]

just that one

[teal laurel]

You are standing straight right? No bent knees?

[gentle iris]

in unity the model is floor level

[gentle iris]

standing straight

[teal laurel]

Hmm
-# At this point i am out, maybe something todo with with the rotation limits or something. No idea

[hazy marten]

okay, how do i delete them though..??

im like a complete newbie

[sudden violet]

you'd delete the physbone component. I'd show you with screenshots, but i don't have access to unity atm

[gentle iris]

tried moving the model down not even that worked

[hazy marten]

do i just uncheck the script of physbones maybe?

[ornate stump]

You have to actually remove the component.

[hazy marten]

i would like an example please 😭

[ornate stump]

Click on the three-dots menu to open context menu and you will see Remove Component button.

[hazy marten]

ok did it

its no longer showing me any alerts after that, hopefully it works.. thanks!

its failed again

[ornate stump]

For what reason?

[hazy marten]

performace rating still i guess

[ornate stump]

What performance number reported in the sdk?

[sudden violet]

@ornate stump

[ornate stump]

They might had been change so better take screenshot again.

[sudden violet]

Valid

i wonder if there is a tool to show what takes up most of your download size

[hazy marten]

nothing is showing up though 😭

[ornate stump]

Check errors in console.

[hazy marten]

ok

[ornate stump]

Thry's avatar performance tool can get uncompressed size which might be better than compressed size.

[sudden violet]

oh didn't know that one, good stuff

[ornate stump]

Try restart unity once.

[hazy marten]

ok

[gentle iris]

apparently when i change the view position it changes how high my model is from the ground too

is it meant to do that?

[main moon]

Could someone please help me set up animations on my avatar? My DM's are open

[sudden violet]

did you check with a mirror if your avi is actually moving when you change the view position?

view position shouldn't affect how high/low your avatar is, but just the view.

[ornate stump]

Install VRC World Toolkit from VCC. And use world toolkit to inspect the avatar build size.

[hazy marten]

ok

[hazy marten]

got it, now do i exactly click on to inspect and look for?

[ornate stump]

I don't remember exactly. There will be a World Debugger in some menu in top menubar.

[gentle iris]

the lowest it goes is not even close to touching the floor, still floating without any reason

[ornate stump]

That's still within acceptable size. I have no other idea why it would security check failed.

[hazy marten]

sob

ill try again

[gentle iris]

turns out view point isnt even changing the view on my model either, why is it refusing to work like its meant to

[hazy marten]

now its saying avatar is not found??

[ornate stump]

Where is it saying that?

[hazy marten]

when i did build and finish, it came back as upload failed due to reason: avatar was not found

restarting unity again

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot the error?

[gentle iris]

its now moved the view point itself to inside the body

[hazy marten]

yeah

gimme a sec

[hazy marten]

oddly uploaded after the restart but ill let you know if it fails again

[gentle iris]

so i tried everything and my model just refuses to touch the floor

[hazy marten]

yeah same issue

[ornate stump]

Just screenshot the error.

[hazy marten]

ok

as in failed security

[ornate stump]

There is no more "Avatar not found"?

[hazy marten]

nope

went away when i restarted it

[gentle iris]

anyone have any ideas on how to fix the issue i got?

[ornate stump]

If it's security check, I can't help with that. Other suspicious is there is are too many material slots.

Another there reason could be bad shaders.

[hazy marten]

sob

finna tweak if the creator's server dont respond by tomorrow night

[leaden lotus]

if an avatar i have gets removed i am no longer able to select it anymore is there any way to remove it?

[gilded turret]

Why is unity forcing a material swap on my model's body without permission or reason

ive spent 8+ hours on this model and im fuckin tired of it

Its normal then go into gestuire manager and boom its a different one

[ornate stump]

Because it's animated in the FX layer.

[gilded turret]

i made an entire new project and its STILL doing it

[gilded turret]

whaaa

im mentally taxed can you provide a way to fix

[ornate stump]

To verity, just set FX layer in avatar descriptor to default and test again.

[gilded turret]

it worked

oh my god i hate unity

[ornate stump]

You just don't get it yet.

[ornate stump]

That means your avatar has FX controlling material swap. If you just reset FX to default, other functions of your avatar would seize as well. If you want to keep other part working, you must edit the FX to remove layer that's controlling material swap.

[strange field]

Hey guys, I have this issue where my avatar position is completely wrong when people see my fallback/robot if I sit or lay down

I've attached some pics of me stood up/laying down with avatar shown/hidden for examples

It only happens with this specific avatar, how can I look into fixing this?

As you can see, standing is fine its only when I sit/lay and it seems to be most impacted when I move my hips around in FBT

[cedar matrix]

how do I fix this?

[somber sequoia]

Use a supported shader for your quest avatar. The list is here: https://creators.vrchat.com/platforms/android/quest-content-limitations#shaders

[cedar matrix]

how do I swap my shader?

[somber sequoia]

there's a dropdown at the top of the material

[cedar matrix]

I swapped all my materials to standard lite but it made my characters eyesbrows huge and put her clothes I didn't want on by default on and solid black is that supposed to happen? theres also a weird green ring around her iris's

[somber sequoia]

vroid avatar? Look for tutorials - this is because those use a lot of transparency and you can't do that on mobile devices, so you'll have to deal with this stuff.

[balmy barn]

normal for a opaque shader , you want cutout but if its for quest you need to get it back to blender and do alot of knife cutting

least quest have backface culling now 👍

[cedar matrix]

swapping to toon lit instead fixed them being black but not the eyebrows or them not disappearing

[ornate stump]

Reposition view position.

Can you screenshot how you set?

Have you checked from side view?

No.

I asked you to look at the avatar from another side.

It's clearly out of your head.

It must be in between both eyes of the model.

Because your avatar isn't positioned at world zero pos.

[somber sequoia]

also at the top of the scene window, check the upper-left dropdown that might say "pivot" or "center'

0,0,0

[ornate stump]

At zero obviously.

I mean I said the problem is it isn't "X", so the solution is to make it "X".

Otherwise you'd have to ask what the zero position is.

How do you set to now?

How much you sure that's a front side of your model?

Note the white line that extrude out from avatar feet. Screenshot the whole avatar including that white line.

It extruded back that means the model orientation is backward.

Rotate your model in blender so the model is facing -Y direction in blender. And Apply Transform Rotation.

[proud zealot]

how d i make avis

[somber sequoia]

big question

[jade parcel]

Dunno if this is the right spot for this but if not, if someone can redirect where to paste it.

For those who have or use the HUD addon, does anyone know exactly what part of the HUD is placing the darker shade overlay when toggling it on? Trying to find that part to disable/remove it as it makes my screen too dark

[olive pelican]

Depends. How knowledgeable are you with computers?

[proud zealot]

uh knowledgeable

[olive pelican]

Then you're about half way there already.
Blender, Unity, Creator Companion.
Flipped normals tutorials for blender.
RoyalSkies for character modelling and rigging.
Modify an avatar to start, you can get free base bodies on gumroad.
Sippbox has tutorials on unity setup.
The better you are with computers, or with 2d or 3d art, the easier it is.

[proud zealot]

ok

[sick loom]

That is a very broad question

[fallow aspen]

and if you have any problem in anything you can just ask here:)

[proud zealot]

ok

[limpid cargo]

sorry, maybe can ask creator have a server

[jade parcel]

Sorry I think I got the answer I needed already, thanks

[soft aurora]

I want to begin working on a new avatar (a roblox noob for the goofs) and I want to know if its possible to recreate the spawn particles via unity?

[somber sequoia]

not sure what particles you mean, but the particle system is quite powerful, so probably

[soft aurora]

This

[somber sequoia]

about all you can't do is have particles follow explicit paths

[soft aurora]

Better image

[soft aurora]

Ok

So realistically just the blue bubble works

[somber sequoia]

no no - you can have particles rotate just fine, by paths I meant complex guided paths

[soft aurora]

Ohh

[somber sequoia]

the swirling around wouldn't be hard, that's just a matter of rotation around a center point. you may have to animate the particle system itself, but that's easy enough

[soft aurora]

Yeah

Ok, That seems easy enough, only a matter of messing with the particle system, thanks!

[somber sequoia]

the unity package store has a bunch of free particle packs, you can learn a lot by inspecting those to see how they work

[soft aurora]

Ok

I tried looking for the particle itself somewhere since I've seen it on another avi, but the Roblox particle sys vs the Unity particle sys is a high difference (from what I've been told)

[somber sequoia]

yeah I would not expect that to be usable directly

[soft aurora]

I can probably find something similar on the asset store and just tweak it.

[onyx ferry]

Good afternoon, all. I am trying to make bullet holes. I've succeeded in making a decal shader, but when I apply that shader to a particle-emitted cube it stretches the texture in a strange way. Any ideas?

[minor bronze]

I don't know if this is an appropriate place to ask this, but I am looking to commission someone, 100$ CAD or less for a quick and simple blue lock OC avatar, and It's hard to find such people skilled it anime avatars through fiverr or esty

[onyx ferry]

On the right, a cube decal that works as expected. On the left, the same material applied to a particle effect, resulting in a stretched green line

[soft aurora]

How would I make the particle one big blue circle? Just the forcefield.

[somber sequoia]

VRC traders discord, you'll find scammers around here. Link is in #1204490664637890580

[somber sequoia]

you could spawn a mesh particle using a sphere

[soft aurora]

Ok

[somber sequoia]

or not use a particle at all and just enable a sphere object on your avatar.

[soft aurora]

Oh right. Transparent materials exist, forgot entirely

[somber sequoia]

yep!

[onyx ferry]

Not for Quest, mind you.

[soft aurora]

Yeah, Expected that, I was gonna do Multiply and see what it looks like, if not, quest doesnt get it then : (

[plain pecan]

i need help ;-;

[umbral oriole]

what do you need help withj?

[junior void]

Youre in the right chat for that

[plain pecan]

2 things 1. blender file no wanna go in unity 2.blender file dont wanna export as a fbx. file

[somber sequoia]

file -> export -> export as fbx. set 'apply scalings' to 'FBX All' and uncheck the option about leaf bones under 'armature'.

[plain pecan]

i hope this works

[fallow aspen]

yeah this wasn't the right place to ask for

[somber sequoia]

works for most of us

[fallow aspen]

it definitely works

[soft aurora]

Is there a way, for an example, to use a particle system, to have the blue circle just, be a circle? Or no? Im trying different textures on the normal sphere, but I would loike to know if that works

[somber sequoia]

a circle is a 2D concept, do you actually want a circle?

[soft aurora]

Sorry, meant sphere

I confuse the two a LOT

[somber sequoia]

so you want a sphere? create a sphere mesh object then

[soft aurora]

I mean, hold on

[umbral oriole]

if your not seeing the file yu should also check and make sure its being exported to the correct folder

[plain pecan]

my blender crashed

[soft aurora]

To try and replicate this? For another example, Can it just be one big circle actually? Cause in Roblox itself, Its a circle that follows the players viewpoint and can be seen in first person

[somber sequoia]

are you using a reasonable version?

[soft aurora]

So not sphere, messed up lol

[plain pecan]

4.5

[umbral oriole]

yeah like they said make a spear mesh then use transparent material and you can have particles inside

you can also use emmision scrolling for added effect on the sphere

[somber sequoia]

you could create a 3D object that looks like a circle, sure (though it'd be a torus/ring)

[soft aurora]

Wait, Can I make a Sphere, With a transparent texture, BUT have a ring around it like that?

[somber sequoia]

I mean, you could make a cylinder mesh and animate stuff on the surface using a shader too, rather than doing particles. There are lots of ways to do this.

[umbral oriole]

i think particles is the easiest and quickest tho

[soft aurora]

Only reason why im staying away from animation till its time is because im not the best at it lol

[somber sequoia]

yeah I'd probably try to do it with particles

[soft aurora]

This is where im at

[umbral oriole]

hell yeahhhh

[somber sequoia]

nice start!

[umbral oriole]

you can go to emmission and if you are using poiyomi you can add scrolling then tweak the setting

[fallow aspen]

it's really good

[soft aurora]

Yeah, Idk how id do quest, maybe just this or remove it

Thanks!

[umbral oriole]

you can use multiply particle material to make it transparent

[soft aurora]

Im pretty sure i used additive for more light, but that works too

This is where im at for PC, Ill try Poi in a sec, Its just the part on how im gonna get the ring of particles moving now

[wanton cedar]

mmm glitter

[soft aurora]

Yeah, Im trying it as a substitute for the ring

[fresh lava]

Hello! Where do I search for the "BodyMesh"?

[wanton cedar]

very vauge question, what app are we in right now

[fresh lava]

Unity, sorry.

[somber sequoia]

It's a SkinnedMeshRenderer on your avatar. You can probably click the avatar and it'd select it, but it could be named anything in your project.

you could just click each one until you find the one with those blendshapes 🙂

[fresh lava]

Would it be on the left side (hierarchy) or the right (Inspector)

[somber sequoia]

in the hierarchy, assuming you have a model in there already

[fresh lava]

Any of these? (Sorry im pretty new to avatar development)

[somber sequoia]

at a guess, the body mesh is the one called "body"

[soft aurora]

Now my only other issue, Is there a way to make it so that the particles or system rotate in a circle without animation? (image shows how it is without the "rotation" im referencing

So it looks like a ring?

[fresh lava]

This right?

[somber sequoia]

again, I don't know your project and I guessed based on the name. Open up the skinned mesh renderer and see if it has the blendshapes mentioned in the instructions you have

You will have to do investigation and stuff yourself, there's a lot we can't do for you as we do not have your project.

[soft aurora]

This, just the arrow next to it needs to be clicked ^^

[fresh lava]

Does changing this mess with my avatar? Its telling me to change it

[somber sequoia]

assume we don't know what instructions you are reading, or your goals.

[soft aurora]

This or a way to make the particles follow in a circle pattern and not randomly

[soft aurora]

Thats a owner of the model issue I think 🤔 Best thing i can think is contact the seller

But thats just me

[fresh lava]

Also, my camera is locked and its VERY annoying...

[soft aurora]

Wdym?

Locked?

[fresh lava]

I cant right click and drag to move my camera...

[soft aurora]

Thats happened to me before I think, and I had to reset unity

Just restart unity from what i did before

[elfin mountain]

My avatar's arms are way too short. I feel like a T-rex! 🦖
When I see myself in a mirror they look okay, but then when I look down at my hands they are about where my elbows should be. It's very strange. I'm using the standard VRC armature, scaled down a little, but the proportions are the same and the rest of the rig seems to behave as expected.
Has anybody encountered this and know what's happening?

[fresh lava]

Sorry for all the questions, last one for a bit... But its telling me to open the animator and use the drop down box... But its greyed out...

[soft aurora]

You would need to select the model or aniamtion i think

[fresh lava]

I did.

[soft aurora]

Oh? Then im not too sure, sorry : (

[somber sequoia]

you'll have to drag an animation controller (FX, etc.) into the "animator" component on your avatar root, and then clicking the avatar will let you choose animations in that animator

tutorials on making animations ought to cover this

[soft aurora]

Also, Is there a way to make this like a ring? not a rotation circle? Or is that too complex for it? Like all the particles follow a ring area

[onyx ferry]

What I'm gathering from my attempt to make a particle decal is that particles are in a different world space than "World Space". I've set my "Simulation Space" to "World" but the texture still doesn't show up correctly, so the texture mapping must be different somehow for particles

[frigid glade]

Can someone help me with an animation for my avatar??? I have a toggle in which a mesh is animated and everything looks fine when I play it in animation mode however when I look at it in play mode and enable the toggle it only shows the first frame. I haven’t done any animations before so I’m probably missing something

[hallow root]

How do i fix this error-

[junior void]

Scroll up

Most useful errors are the top ones

[hallow root]

crap hold on i just closed it

This is the very top

[simple hill]

Idk what is going on here. The other eye has werid normal. I tried to flip them to see if that was the problem,but it wasn't.

[hallow root]

Ayo gerson?

Based

[junior void]

Id try reinstalling or updating modular avatar

[hallow root]

Me?

[junior void]

Ye

[simple hill]

nvm. I found out what to fix

[hallow root]

That didnt work, it gave me another error but ill just have to crack at it later cause this is exhausting cause it literally wasnt like this a few days ago 😮‍💨

[onyx ferry]

Am I just barking up the wrong tree by trying to use a decal shader in a particle emission? How else does one make bullet holes?

Everything I can find online requires either scripting or URP or HDRP, so can't be used for VRChat

But I've seen avatars that generate bullet holes

[soft aurora]

Basically if there was an invisible path like a ring, Can i make the particles follow that ring? OR the circle in the image? (light blue)

[somber sequoia]

you can't make particles follow a path

I think you may have to just rotate the whole system

[soft aurora]

But what about making it on the circle? (light blue) The Emit from edge option is gone too

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure what you mean?

[soft aurora]

https://youtu.be/CVsZ98TSEwI I was trying to follow this

[somber sequoia]

oh hmm, old unity but that looks cool

[soft aurora]

yeah, so it sadly probably doesnt work in modern

[small berry]

I'm trying to upload an avatar and it's been stuck on Compiling Shader Variants for like 40 mins now, I'm using poiyomi shaders and it's been happening a lot, does anybody have a solution for this?

[fallow aspen]

maybe that's an update issue

[soft aurora]

Im not sure.

But Ill try everything that I can

[somber sequoia]

I can't play with it now but I'm curious, might have to try to do this later.

[soft aurora]

Ok

[fallow aspen]

it's really unique to have what you're looking for

[somber sequoia]

now that I'm looking, I think I did this at one point also

[fallow aspen]

really?

[soft aurora]

I also tried to see what AI said abouth this (my last resort) and its not any help

[somber sequoia]

oh wait, I know

[soft aurora]

oh?

[somber sequoia]

yeah ok. Emit from a circle, set the radius thickness to teeeny, like .001.
Then under "velocity over lifetime" set one of the orbital values to 1, probably Y in this case.

[soft aurora]

OOh

That looks pretty cool actually

[somber sequoia]

in the emitter, setting arc mode to loop is probably what you want too

ok back to work, have fun 🙂

[soft aurora]

Thanks!

[somber sequoia]

a lot of this stuff just poke everything until something looks ok 🙂

[open spindle]

Ok im having this issue again so ill explain it to the best of my abilities
.
Finished avatar and is fully weight painted
.
Export it as an fbx then reimports it into a new blender file to pose it with another avatar
.
On import weight paint data is gone

[onyx ferry]

If you're trying to pose avatars together in blender, you could skip the export to FBX part and just use the "append" option to bring parts of one blend file into your current project

[fallow aspen]

That happens sometimes when importing an FBX Blender unlinks the armature from the mesh. Just add an armature modifier back to the mesh and set it to your armature and the weights should work again. They’re still there, just not connected property.

properly*

[slender fern]

im having some trouble uploading my avatar and not sure how to fix it (windows upload)

[onyx ferry]

Looks like you're missing a script somewhere. Make sure you've installed all of the dependencies that the avatar creator has listed

[slender fern]

gotcha

[versed marsh]

Does this seem right for the rig for a pair of boxers?

[soft aurora]

Now the last thing before all the toggs, How do I make these all disappear after toggled and some time goes? (I use VRCFury, so I most likely have to ask this in their discord but just incase)

It should be toggled on when wore, then dissappear after like 10 secs.

[somber sequoia]

toggle the game object on and off via an animation

[soft aurora]

Ok

[fallow aspen]

looks okay

[versed marsh]

alright thank you

[soft aurora]

And it works for the same as its worn right?

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure what "worn" means here?

[fallow aspen]

wear*

[soft aurora]

When I wear the avatar it appears

[somber sequoia]

ohhh wear the avatar

[soft aurora]

Yeah sorry

[somber sequoia]

This depends on how you setup the animation

[soft aurora]

Ok

[fallow aspen]

you can check it once it's done I think it should be fine

[onyx ferry]

I think that the easiest way to do that would be to not actually use VRCFury. Use the FX controller to play the animation On Enter (as your default animation) and then set the transition between that and the Off animation to simply be time

[soft aurora]

I toggled the game object off but it didnt show in animation

[somber sequoia]

if you want it to be a spawn animation, make an animation that runs by default which switches this on, then add a keyframe at the end of the animation to turn it off. make that however long you want.

(and not loop)

[slender fern]

how do i make a material swap?

[night ember]

just record you swapping the material

[slender fern]

im confused </3

i use vrcfury

[night ember]

dont

you need to learn how to actually do it instead of relying on a tool to do it

[slender fern]

quite rude.. holy bro

[night ember]

that wasnt rude but go off

you just click on the record button which looks like a circle in the animation window
then just drag the material onto the avatar's material slot you are wanting to swap

[versed marsh]

So i changed absolutely nothinng besides adding a pair of boxers already rigged to an avatar and it breaks the face tracking?

[fallow aspen]

Just make or grab an idle animation, set it up in an Animator Controller, and assign that to your avatar in Unity. That way when you put it in a world, it'll play the idle instead of just standing there.

[fresh lava]

Im still SOOO confused, are you able to vc? If not thats okay. Thanks!

[fallow aspen]

You gotta put the idle animation in an Animator Controller and assign that in the Action slot of the VRC Avatar Descriptor. That’s the slot that handles idles and custom animations. Just make sure the animation loops and is the default state in the controller.

[limpid cargo]

loop in the animation…

[fallow aspen]

you just click the animation clip in the Project tab, check "Loop Time" in the inspector, and hit Apply. That’ll make it play on repeat.

[hexed perch]

when i load in i cant see anyone elses avatars its just triangles how do i fix this

[limpid cargo]

the avatar is a “loading” state.

wait,
or enable the avatar

[hexed perch]

i do wait and it just never shows up

[fallow aspen]

maybe try to change all avatr to show avatr in settings and clear cache.

[shut yoke]

Hello, idunno if someone can help me, but my avatar, and other's avatars keep looking like that (purple, i think, sory I'm not English hahaha). There's my graphics configurations too. Specs of the PC:
8Gb RAM DDr3
Intel Core I5 1200 (2nd generation)
500 Gb HDD

[balmy barn]

gpu lacking surprised it doesnt instantly crash

[fallow aspen]

no

it's only for the avatars

you don’t need to switch to an avatar project. Just remove the avatar descriptor and treat the model like a prop inside your world project. You can still make it idle using a regular Animator.

[shut yoke]

No, it works normally, and some worlds look like that too. Is there something I can do about It that is not replacing he whole PC?

[balmy barn]

if you have no gpu its trying to run some sort of apu on your cpu wich cannot do alot of things a dedicated gpu can , end up with purple stuff

[fallow aspen]

Make Animator Controller then add your idle animation to it and set it as default, make sure it loops, and assign that controller to your avatar’s Animator component.

[shut yoke]

Well, I don't have a dedicated GPU hahaha, bit anyways thank you, I was just wondering If my PC was broken or it was something that was not well configurated

[fallow aspen]

No, make an Animator Controller, put the idle in it, and assign that to the avatar’s Animator.

yes

yes you can

[nova briar]

im working on something in my avatar, but a specific part of it has no shading, its not connected to the base mesh,i dont know how to explain and i cant really send a screenshot of the issue here because its nsfw, if anyone could help me id appreciate

i can explain with some other example, imagine a sword, the handle has shading, but a gemstone on the handle that is not directly connected doesnt have shading, it appears fully lit

[frigid glade]

Does it have a separate material to the “handle”?

[nova briar]

no its the same material

[fallow aspen]

you have to add a collider and rigidbody to it.

[frigid glade]

What shader are you using??

[nova briar]

poiyomi 9.1

[fallow aspen]

Add a Capsule Collider to your idle avatar, then a Rigidbody and set it to Kinematic with gravity off. That’ll make it solid and block people from walking through it

and you can also watch online about itt

[frigid glade]

Hmmm…do you have a lighting anchor set??? Sometimes when you don’t have one it can mess up

[jade chasm]

Does any one know how to edit a text on a collar I’m so lost rn I really could use some help

[nova briar]

im not sure, where do i set it

[frigid glade]

You create an empty object on the chest(should name it Anchor but not mandatory) and assign it on all your avatar’s meshes in the anchor override section

That helped solve a lighting issue for me before

[timber wharf]

you can just use chest bone or whatever

its just a transform

[fresh lava]

Is 199,780 triangles for an advanced custom (PC ONLY) to much?

[nova briar]

ill try that, but the lighting issue happens in unity, not sure on vrchat because i havent published the updated version

[frigid glade]

You should probably test out what it looks like in vrchat first. Sometimes things don’t always look in unity how they are in vrchat

[timber wharf]

@fresh lava acceptable. especially if parts of it are off at a time

[fresh lava]

Most will be, thanks!

[somber sequoia]

ah, I'd gone out, but I don't really do that anyway. I'd say find a video on making animations for toggles, such as this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqtSg6_W07Y

[high trail]

hey, so, i got a quick question
i got a unity file that is for an avatar but whenever i try to open it (either thru unity hub or simply double clicking it) it simply wont open
is there something im missing?

doesnt work

[timber wharf]

@high trail unity file is not a thing, its usually unitypackage and its requires to be opened when a proper project is running already in unity editor (empty avatar project in your case)

[high trail]

i see....thanks!

[coral orbit]

anyone kno where to get dis?

or which avi it is

[somber sequoia]

#1138520828556890214

[coral orbit]

thx

[dark frigate]

been trying to open a project on VCC, everytime i try to it just opens file explorer and never opens a project

[timber wharf]

try opening it via unity hub

[dark frigate]

when i do that im not sure how to get VCC in there so I can actually upload it

[timber wharf]

@dark frigate existing project, not a new one

should have all vrc packages just fine afaik

[dark frigate]

i dont have any existing ones in hub just new ones

[timber wharf]

k, i mostly expected license issue🤷‍♂️

[fresh lava]

Why does my PC KEEEEP freezing during upload?

I've uploaded others perfectly fine, if you're not gonna help please don't say anything.

<@&397642795457970181>

[nova briar]

just tested in vrchat, looks the same as in unity but i dont think its an issue with anchors, its a new part of the main mesh that i added, so think its just something to do with how the lighing is being calculated because its not connected and quite small

[cinder frost]

So I have a game object that I toggle on and off and I want it to stay in world place and match my avatar's position and rotation whenever I do that. I have it set up so it has a position and rotation constraint, and when a parameter is true, it enables the game object and turns on freeze to world. When I turn it off, however, the disabled game object does not snap back to my position. How do I fix this?

[ornate stump]

Have you changed rig configuration of the model to Humanoid?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRAnDMUbWt8

It created one once you change it to Humanoid.

Yes. Have you done that?

Then what is it?

Watch the first part of the same video.

From the start.

You said your model is unitypackage which mean your model hasn't been import yet?

[plucky berry]

how the actual heck do i set a fallback? like i have it uploaded on all platforms even ios and i cant set it as a fallback? there isnt any checkbox to set it as one and in the avatar menu theres no section for fallbacks anymore and idk. ive asked google, chatgpt, and google even more, and CANT FIGURE IT OUT

[ornate stump]

Then you have to do change to Humanoid rig on your model file.

[plucky berry]

this is my last resort

[ornate stump]

Fallback avatars are going to be deprecated soon.

[plucky berry]

oh.

why?

[agile haven]

How would i model and make Ribs? Like a skeleton, cause im trying to make something skeleton related

Lastly, how would i make textures? Like, how do i make the uvs look nice so i can texture them correctly

[plucky berry]

i kinda dislike imposters tbh

[ornate stump]

Just follow the video, you had to select your model file from within unity first.

[ornate stump]

https://feedback.vrchat.com/impostors/p/dont-get-rid-of-fallback-avatars-in-favor-of-imposters Go upvote

It's changing rigging to humanoid, included in the video.

[sacred girder]

hey just wanted to ask.. can anything be done to have this not register as 'not tpose'? ive been tweaking the rig all day and still havent been able to fix it

[ornate stump]

If that is a proxy bone for controlling the digitigrade bone, you would have to make the proxy bone structure like actual humanoid bone.

[somber sequoia]

Yep, that's the answer

[sacred girder]

yeah its the actual leg

[somber sequoia]

that's not how the bones driven by VRChat's IK are supposed to be oriented.

[sacred girder]

maybe it was wrong but from the tutorials i saw on the system you needed to keep the angles the same

oh.

[somber sequoia]

I don't like that method.

[sacred girder]

do you know another meathod :O?

[somber sequoia]

there are a few I've seen, sure

it's a whole bunch of work to get it right on a new avatar though, be prepared to be tweaking it for a month

[sacred girder]

goodie!

[crude moat]

I shortened legs on avatar but that broke how knees bend. I thought it was matter of weights changing but I'm not sure anymore. I cut out knees from not edited version and connected it to version with shorter legs. Weights are exactly the same. Bone structure is exactly the same(except a bit of length). They bend in exact same way in blender. I have no clue what is wrong with it anymore.
Any idea why that happens?

[late heath]

my security checks ended up failing when i uploaded this avatar to quest (it worked fine when i first uploaded it to pc), but i've uploaded much denser avatars without issues like this. my sdk is up to date and reuploading doesn't seem to fix my issue. how can i fix this?

[junior void]

The further away a bone is from the bend point, the more it lashes out. You shouldve used cats, go into pose with it, pose the legs shorter (deforms the mesh so the bend point stay the same) and click set as rest pose. Thats the easiest way i see to adjust limb length without offsetting bones

Also when changing bone length, you might get a fbx error in the unity import screen. Fix it by setting your rig to generic, back to humanoid and configure it again

[crude moat]

So if I have model with shorter legs already I just need to press "Apply as rest pose" and export? Or do I need to start over from beggining?

[limpid cargo]

restart…
if it edited, can redo or restart

[cedar matrix]

does this mean the physbone I'm looking at is in the boob?

I confirmed it was, does the black spots over what supposed to be transparent disappear in game or do I need to do something cause I don't like those (standard lite, toon lit, matcap lit shaders)

[timber wharf]

it will be as you see it now

[cedar matrix]

is there a way to remove it?

[crude moat]

It worked, thanks

[timber wharf]

@cedar matrix #avatar-help message

[frozen steeple]

Anyone know how to do a "tail pull" interaction? I know how to do contact receiver, but how to get it to activate only on tail pull...?

[cedar matrix]

what do I press for that to show up?

[timber wharf]

blender - knife tool

[cedar matrix]

is there not a knife in unity?

[soft flame]

A friend is having the "You do not own this Blueprint ID" bug. Anyone know what the source is?

[ornate stump]

Unity isn't made for editing mesh. That's the the job for blender.

[ornate stump]

Look for more error above that.

[soft flame]

The only other errors is the Failed to Upload log entry.

[ornate stump]

More above that. Also just screenshot the list.

[cedar matrix]

how do I put the one I edited on unity into blender so I can cut it up

or do I gotta restart with the original one I exported from vroid

[ornate stump]

If you have vrm file then use CATS plugin in blender to import the vrm file.

[cedar matrix]

only of the original version for some reason the duplicate saved as meta and prefab

[ornate stump]

Meta file is a data of the original file used by unity.

[steel niche]

a, how do i tell if the avatar is able to move o.o

[ornate stump]

Prefab is the converted vrm file from unity vrm converter.

[cedar matrix]

is there a way to save the one edited back as vrm tho or do I gotta restart from the orignal I exported from vroid?

[ornate stump]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRAnDMUbWt8 Watch rig configuration part.

[ornate stump]

You won't get vrm file back.

[cedar matrix]

sad

how do I change the shader in blender so I know what I need to cut

[ornate stump]

Assign texture in shading tab.

[cedar matrix]

in the shading tab how do I assign texture, I've never used blender

[ornate stump]

Add image texture node, select texture in it, connect color slot to material output or to another shader node color slot.

[cedar matrix]

how do I select texture in it I see linear flat repeat and then the ones on the sides

[ornate stump]

"Open"

[cedar matrix]

do I have to do one for every texture? or are they able to stack or sumn

[ornate stump]

You must do that for every material that has its own texture.

Or just do only for some material that matters for what you're going to do next.

[cedar matrix]

do I put it lit color?

[ornate stump]

What lit color?

[cedar matrix]

I put it on the box to the left and turned the entire model black

[ornate stump]

I'm not sure about this node but try it.

[cedar matrix]

it turned the avatar black but didn't show the extra stuff I need to cut

[ornate stump]

How is the whole blender look like now?

[cedar matrix]

not sure what you mean by that but

[ornate stump]

The other image texture nodes, what get connected into vector slot?

[cedar matrix]

I didn't connect anything to the vector unless you mean one other than the one I made in which case I have no idea what you're talking about

[ornate stump]

"The other nodes" is what I meant.

[cedar matrix]

I took a picture of most of the vectors cause I am still unsure what you meant

[ornate stump]

Copy some of the texture uv node and link the same way to your image texture node.

[cedar matrix]

how do I make a green UV

[steel niche]

i haves another issue, where did the shape key things go?

[ornate stump]

What green UV?

[cedar matrix]

most of them say texture uv with a green bar, but when I made a uv it's pink

[ornate stump]

If object had unapplied modifier other than armature, the blendshape will not get exported.

[cedar matrix]

also it turned the avatar white for a second but went back to black

[ornate stump]

You just have to select some of them and dubplicate.

[steel niche]

oo how do i do that?

[ornate stump]

Just delete the modifier?

[steel niche]

is it the empty one?

[ornate stump]

Of course it is.

[steel niche]

oh haha! thank yous!

[cedar matrix]

I did that it gained purple tips on the hair and turned white longer because blender started lagging like crazy

[ornate stump]

You haven't linked the UV Vector slot.

[cedar matrix]

I connected it to the same the original is connected to and it turned white without lag but still when back to black with the hair tip purple

[ornate stump]

Doublecheck if Image Width and Height in the slot match with your actual texture dimension.

[cedar matrix]

both say 4096 but I haven't tried swapping which texture I'm using so??

it turned purple

I got to original colors

[ornate stump]

Because you put in a different texture.

[cedar matrix]

I know but i was hoping by swapping it would make the invisible visible, I went through all 11 and it did not do that

[ornate stump]

Then you have to do something in the material output node. See if it has anything relate to alpha or transparency and try to mess with it.

[cedar matrix]

this?

[ornate stump]

That too.

[cedar matrix]

wait that wasn't what you meant? it was at the bottom of the output

[ornate stump]

just try out and see result

[cedar matrix]

it covered the clothes and accessories but not the face

but that's better than what I had so yay

[ornate stump]

The face probably is another material to begin with.

[cedar matrix]

probably I was able to narrow it to 2 materials in vroid cause I saw a tutorial say that's a good way to optimize it

now how do I cut it

[ornate stump]

Knife it.

[cedar matrix]

and I do that how?

[ornate stump]

Select the mesh and into edit mode and find knife tool.

And watch tutorial for knife tool to get better use from it.

[cedar matrix]

I watched a tutorial figured out how to get to the knife but not how to actually cut off what I want cut off

watched second tutorial still no idea how to take off what I don't want but I have figured out how to apply my cut

[wanton cedar]

Cut it like normal, hit enter. Then hit alt on the line you just made, click h, and then go to the part you cut off, hit L and select the part or do it by hand. (This is the only time I'm responding because I am going to BeD.) Then either x to delete or P to make it it's own mesh

Alt as in hold alt and then click the line. Prefer to be on the vertices section

[cedar matrix]

I gave up on blender because I am too dumb to understand it, why are my bangs doing that?

also how do I turn off the eyes moving around

[wanton cedar]

Do you have a collider on the head

[cedar matrix]

yes

just checked that and I do

[wanton cedar]

Try making it smaller. It's pushing up the hair bones

Get gesture manager if you don't have it

[cedar matrix]

I do have it

[wanton cedar]

And in the avatar descriptor there should be a setting to turn off the eye movement all together

[wanton cedar]

Just play around with the size of the head collider until it looks good on gesture M

[cedar matrix]

this?

[wanton cedar]

It's around there

But yes

Should be a disable button somewhere. I can't get into unity atm so you'll have to nose around

[cedar matrix]

i found this with gesture manager how can I fix that?

[wanton cedar]

Looks like colliders again. Either lower the size of the collider on the hair or chest

[cedar matrix]

if I have published it already and I publish it again does it make a second one or just update the first one?

I can't look at the sdk authentication and it's saying I don't have access to publish avatars atm?

oh I figured it out I was still in play mode whoops

is there a way to make my hair stay down when I look down or up?

[misty ridge]

why do meshes connected to bones i put inside my avi's armature kinda glitch out inside unity like they disappear and appear over certain distances?

like this exists, but if i go closer a little it appears and disappears and even disappears completely

like its not rlly a problem for the avi but its kind of annoying

is ther any way to fix or avoid this?

[crude moat]

I have trouble with animator. I created new parameter. I linked it to menu. I have working animation but when I try to add this parameter as condition for animation playing it's just not there.

[limpid cargo]

gravity

[ornate stump]

You have to add the parameter in the animator parameter list too.

[crude moat]

Omg thank you. It worked.

[sweet galleon]

hello! has anyone had success making a dynamic slider for in game color changes using toon standard? i cant get it to work. it will animate in an animation preview but once i tryt to go into play mode it wont change anymore

I have confirmed it’s nor an issue with my animator setup, as it works w the normal way of doing a hue slider (color change rather than hue shift)

[loud geode]

Hey Everybody! Did Avatar Udon come out yet?

Would anyone have resources udon development for avatars? I want to push what my avi can do.

[ornate stump]

No. Not even a news.

[delicate current]

hi I just joined, I'm stuck on this why

[ornate stump]

1. You haven't imported all the package required by the avatar.
2. You must not be in prefab editing mode when build and publish.

[delicate current]

ok this is my first time doing how do i do any of that

[ornate stump]

Exit back to scenes

[ornate stump]

Did you add gogologo yourself?

[delicate current]

uh no

[ornate stump]

Then go to the page where you got your avatar from and read what other package you have to download and import.

[delicate current]

this is all I have

[balmy barn]

what is the normal way of doing a hue slider ? just setting a color on main texture? - it works but better off using mask+hue so it doesnt affect entire avatar , that is one less material you need

[ornate stump]

What page you downloaded your avatar from? Read in that page.

[delicate current]

I modelled it, and a friend uploaded and ported it to Unity for me, but they deleted the avatar from their account and passed it to me

[sweet galleon]

Yes just setting the color. And I would love to use the hue slider but it won’t animate live time, that’s the problem

[balmy barn]

tested it right now both work, something in your setup

[ornate stump]

So your friend added gogoloco but didn't tell you what package you have to add for it to work.

[sweet galleon]

In play mode? It will work in the animation preview no problem

[balmy barn]

enjoy hdr blowing up the colors , ingame hue and main color change

[delicate current]

yeah well they're not rlly a friend anymore

[ornate stump]

That gogoloco requires you to install VRCFury package to work.

[sweet galleon]

And to be clear, this was not don’t by setting the color on the texture map, but using hue shift on toon standard?

[balmy barn]

both

[sweet galleon]

At the same time?

Can I see your setup?

[balmy barn]

all 3 can be animated , just the first is a bad idea

[delicate current]

ok what then

[ornate stump]

What with that question?

[sweet galleon]

Ok but I would rather not have the top 2 animated bc I have objects with seperate materials that I don’t want affected

[delicate current]

is this what i'm supposed to install?

[ornate stump]

That's the list of package listing. You have to install in Manage Project button.

[sweet galleon]

To be clear, the object has multiple materials which use emission so I can’t just mask emission color either

[delicate current]

do the versions of the package matter? or just the latest one

[ornate stump]

Use latest or whatever that works in your project.

[sweet galleon]

When I try to animate the slider I can animate it but then once I make a test avatar it does not function

Is this a “it’s new and doesn’t really work well on test builds” kind of situation?

[delicate current]

Ok I'm doing something now

idk what but things are happening

oh it worked
@ornate stump tysm!

[balmy barn]

didnt feel like making multiple animations for a blendtree , so just used motion time and many color variations in one animation

( same for hue one )

instead of emission

my quest av is 1 material and under 10k so dont think its gonna murder anyone having a few layers

[sweet galleon]

Yes this is also how I have my animation set up. But if I try and use an animation that only has _Hue Shift and not _Color or _Emission Color it doesn’t work on a built avatar even if it works in the animation panel

Maybe if I use a blend tree it will work

[balmy barn]

either work - done both on multiple avs

[sweet galleon]

Hold on lemme see if I can get a video of what’s happening

[balmy barn]

you need to figure out where it breaks for you , can be layers below it locking it its also trying to animate it, transitions / parameter name wrong ect

[sweet galleon]

Exact same setup with a different animation works without issue

Animation works in the animator preview but not in play mode

And of course…the second I go to show someone the issue it fixes itself

Bruh

Maybe it only doesn’t work if I animate the emission slider

[sweet galleon]

Nope just…magically fixed itself overnight

Fun

[jolly turret]

not on my pc right now but is it possible to do 2d texture switching by shifting uv unwrap but implement that into gesture expressions on vrc ?

it works fine in blender but i'm at a loss on putting it in unity

[timber wharf]

@jolly turret sure, shaders allow to animate uv shift

#avatar-help message

[jolly turret]

i have it all sorted in blender would i just do the same thing in unity

ur a godsend ty ill start on it after rest time

[snow solar]

How do I import an avatar which I downloaded from a website ? (I’m on steam vr)

[junior void]

What website

[snow solar]

Vrmodels

[cedar matrix]

I have solved most of the issues I've had with the hair how do I get it to stop going in front of me when I look up?\

[ornate stump]

That's a leaked asset site. So do not.

[fallow aspen]

sorry I went to sleep...

[snow solar]

how do i know what sites are safe and what arent 😭

hell nah, them ticket servers are all scams

[ornate stump]

Search in Jinxxy and Boothplorer. Legit seller will include license document attached to the asset.

[snow solar]

thanks👍

[dawn wharf]

Welp

[snow solar]

guessing ur not allowed to say which arent safe lol

[dawn wharf]

Rightfully so

[worn kiln]

best be point to check pinned post on #1139216499123437668 which only says well-known site which suitable to use.

[tranquil remnant]

does anyone know how to upload avis?

[worn kiln]

some resource post pinned on #1139216499123437668

[somber sequoia]

Many people here do, yes. Feel free to ask specific questions.

[tranquil remnant]

I bought two avi's one for me and one for my wife I'm willing to pay someone to upload them for me

[left gull]

thats extremely risky and would require you to buy a version of each model for the uploader

[dawn wharf]

DM me?

[left gull]

remember whomever you share the account info with becomes your alt account and vice versa so if one gets banned the other does aswell

[dawn wharf]

Fiverr also has people who upload avis ^.^

[left gull]

Fiverr is riddled with scammers though

[dawn wharf]

I haven't had any issues

My husband is a fiverr worker dkcksjcjsk

[left gull]

worst case scenario someone should only share account info with someone they know/trust or the creator of the model

[fallow aspen]

why don't you try to do it yourself?

[dawn wharf]

This is also a safe alternative

If I recall they needed help doing so

[tranquil remnant]

i dont know how

[left gull]

what parts are you stuck on?

[dawn wharf]

There's some videos out there as well

[fallow aspen]

you can watch some videos about it and if you still need to ask something you can ask here

[tranquil remnant]

all of it ive only been playing vrc for a year

[left gull]

well what part of the uploading process did you get stuck on specifically

like what step were you at and what was the issue you ran into

[fallow aspen]

I think he hasn't started yet

[left gull]

if thats the case reading the stuff here is a good start: https://discord.com/channels/189511567539306508/1139228456090087495

[fallow aspen]

yeah but he's really confused..

[left gull]

kinda why i asked what part they got stuck on specifically

i linked the thread because thats the place to start looking at stuff if they havent started yet but if they have then they'd need to describe the issue or id be throwing out suggestions that might not even help their situation

[fallow aspen]

yeah lol

[cedar matrix]

how do I stop the hair from going in front of the legs?

[zenith seal]

im sorry if i did this wrong but do yall got any advice-.. :,D

[night ember]

colliders

[dawn wharf]

Is this an avatar?

[zenith seal]

yes

based off one of my ocs.

this guy

[dawn wharf]

You got your bones yet?

[zenith seal]

i dont know how to put them on 🥀

[dawn wharf]

object show!!

[ornate stump]

The model must be facing -Y direction, and feet stand on scene zero position.

[zenith seal]

ohh ok

[zenith seal]

:3

[zenith seal]

ty for lmk!! ^u^

[zenith seal]

how do we find it- :,)

[ionic mortar]

Hello, I'm trying to create my first avatar but is not allowing me to build & test, even I already having a 'User' trust rank. Help?

[somber sequoia]

are you sure that's the right account?

[ionic mortar]

Yes, I think this is happening becouse I used to use just a steam account, I only conected with a VRC account today

[somber sequoia]

ahh yes, that would be why

[ionic mortar]

But on my profile it show the 'user' rank, thats confusing

[fallow aspen]

that's the reason

[wintry ledge]

can i paint the hair texture while in unity? i usually get the texture png and edit in another program but this one is so complicated and has so many strands i cant tell which is which

[balmy barn]

grabbing the uv from blender helps or just paint directly in it to guidelines

[fallow aspen]

No, you can’t realistically paint hair texture in Unity. Use Blender to paint directly on the mesh, or reverse-engineer the UV layout from there.

[wintry ledge]

ah dang it,i see

[limpid cargo]

angle limit +
colliders (worse performance ranking)

[hard hatch]

does anyone know what this 'mipmapp' issue means and how to possibly fix it?

[somber sequoia]

there's a checkbox in the inspector for texture files to enable mip streaming, you want that on.
The build window should have an auto fix option for it, go click that.

[dawn wharf]

Hello, any videos on how to use "Radial puppet" ?

I would like to add it to items such as ears, tail, and toes

Wait, I found one, this has helped

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

[hard hatch]

its not giving me the option to autofix it in the sdk, should i maybe try to close and reopen unity?

[somber sequoia]

scroll to the right in that window

if you don't have it wide enough the button can get cut off

[hard hatch]

yeah i have it open all the way but im not seeing the notification for it

[somber sequoia]

maybe it's on a material swap and the SDK can't see it

[hard hatch]

hoping im not gonna have to go through my whole project and check each and every texture 😭

[steep forge]

hi trying to fix this collar on my avatar on my quest version the pc version is using poiyomi and 4 decals not sure how I would get that to work on the toon standard shader any suggestions?

[somber sequoia]

you'd need to modify the base texture

add that logo there.

[steep forge]

right but I'm also wondering on how I would get the colouring on the collar since the texture for it just looks like this just paint it in manually?

[somber sequoia]

I don't know what you have for textures, but you can bring them into your image editing software of choice and change them however you want.

[nova briar]

im working on something in my avatar, but a specific part of it has no shading, its not connected to the base mesh,i dont know how to explain and i cant really send a screenshot of the issue here because its nsfw, if anyone could help me id appreciate

i can explain with some other example, imagine a sword, the handle has shading, but a gemstone on the handle that is not directly connected doesnt have shading, it appears fully lit

[fallow aspen]

you said it yesterday I remember

[frigid glade]

Any help would be really appreciated :D

[iron dove]

I can't switch fbx for some reason I tried even with FACS tools

[sharp nebula]

Anybody got this error before??

[nova briar]

if anyone could help me i'd appreciate

[zenith seal]

coughghg

idk where the hell the bones are-

🥀

wait is it in this.

[stable isle]

heya, is there any way to use the physbone physics system on a generic unity game? i'm trying to work with dynamic bones, but a lot of things are only in physbones that would help significantly.

• physbone physics looking realistic
• physbones gravity
• angle limits
• shrink/stretch bones

[frigid glade]

Did you model it yourself???

[zenith seal]

wdym- 😭

[zenith seal]

mean like- this or smth? and put it in this?

[still shuttle]

they are asking if you created this model yourself from scratch

if you did, you will have to rig it yourself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzRLR8SGVK0

skip to about 5 mins to figure out how to add bones 🫡

[zenith seal]

Ohh yea

[zenith seal]

TY ONG- 💔

[cunning bobcat]

Is there any explanation to why the VRC Avatar Parameter Driver takes longer to process the more variables are added to the driver?

I want to move to the next animation after the driver has finished processing the changes but no matter what I cant seem to find a solution :/ (exit time does not resolve it)

or is the slowness caused by isLocal being false?

[arctic ginkgo]

I have not experienced this. The only issue I could image you are having is that the animation is a single frame long rather than two?

[cunning bobcat]

I could try that to see if a 2nd frame would work since it does indeed have 1 frame added to it. Though I also have additional checks to make sure things run but im just stumped at this x_x

but I'll give that a go though, thank you

[balmy barn]

1 is slower 👍

[cunning bobcat]

Wait, so do the frames also affect how the avatar parameter driver works as well?

[cunning bobcat]

Well I just checked and I have 2 frames anyway x_x

[arctic ginkgo]

Parameters should all update on the frame the animation state is transitioned to

How long is it taking them to update?

[cunning bobcat]

thats what I figured too, but for some strange reason there's a noticeable delay where the Parameter Driver is running through assigning values to each parameter

[arctic ginkgo]

Also how are you testing this?

[balmy barn]

found parameter driver slower then an animation , rare i use a parameter driver if i can use an animation

[cunning bobcat]

Mainly testing it with a button and the parameters assigned to the driver, then another test to see if it applies everything before moving on to the next animation in the graph. From what it seems, holding down the button is taking about 1 second to apply the parameters from the driver. If its running through other animations with 0.1 second transition and exit time as 1, the driver gets cut off

[cunning bobcat]

would it be faster with local only enabled even though the variables I have added are synced or would it not matter?

[versed marsh]

I just got a horns and tail asset for one of my avatars and im wondering how i could go about getting it rigged to my armature in unity if its already pre rigged

[somber sequoia]

VRCFury Armature Link is one way. Adding it to the avatar in blender is another.

[cunning bobcat]

if you're wondering too mainly the whole reason for adding a parameter driver is for a preset system I have so that it acts as a shortcut for setting things. Just wish it worked faster 😦

[arctic ginkgo]

No, I mean how are you checking the parameters changing and stuff (gesture manager, av3 emulator, in-game with debug menu)

[cunning bobcat]

oh gesture manager, also in-game as well and same result

[versed marsh]

I tried that and went into play mode and it didnt rig

maybe i did it wrong?

[arctic ginkgo]

I've done that a lot and it's always been instant. I find that buttons don't always work the best though, so I prefer using toggles instead

[versed marsh]

Holdon let me see

[arctic ginkgo]

You can turn a toggle into a button by having a parameter driver set the value back to 0/false

[cunning bobcat]

Yeah, I tried toggles to see if it would work better but still same result as well when it comes to the driver taking too long 😢

[arctic ginkgo]

Are you using "any state" transitions by chance?