avatar-help

[cedar echo]

Hey question does anyone know how to add multiple animations for FX layers
Because I want to have my gesture 2 animations

Or do I just have to make animation that does both at the same time

[somber sequoia]

each layer can only do one thing at a time, unless you use a blendtree

[night ember]

Yesnt

[somber sequoia]

?

[night ember]

Funny thing with avatars is you can have layers do different things for specific people

[somber sequoia]

Also, you can use the same parameter to drive animations in many layers, so you could simply add another layer and just drive a new animation with the same parameter

[somber sequoia]

of course, but I don't think that's the goal here, and I didn't want to complicate things

[night ember]

For what this person is wanting no
Which usually people just make a left hand right hand and both hands layers

[somber sequoia]

I have a few things with an IsLocal check that splits into two different sections in the one layer

[night ember]

or sometimes just make the both hands under one of the other layers but thats neither here or there

[brittle hemlock]

where can i go to find someone who can upload an avi for me would you know

[somber sequoia]

VRC Traders discord, link is in #1204490664637890580

[somber maple]

hii guys i add this when i try to upload my avatar but i dont know why i have this text because i am trusted one vrc so idk why pls helps me

(sorry if my english is bad im french at base)

[ornate stump]

If your trust rank already exceed the requirement, then that's a temporary issue and have to try again some time later.

[somber maple]

hooo okay tysm

[sharp oasis]

I wanted to ask the pros and cons of using blendshapes to hide and show sections of an avatar by shrinking them vs using UV Tile Discarding?

I want optimization to be a focus, most importantly texture memory. Though doesn't need to be like super super optimized.

[timber wharf]

@sharp oasis blendshape shrinking is the worst option performance wise, its just allows you to have less mesh renderers.

and the only such option available for quest

[cedar echo]

I'll keep that in mind for other things I make, but I'll probably just make one animation

[sterile flicker]

trying to setup a thing for a friend and I'm trying to figure out how to fix this issue, any advice on how to?

[unkempt canopy]

wdym

I never used blender

do you have to do it on that

[ornate stump]

The suggestions are written there.

[sterile flicker]

I'm not sure how to fix it, that's the issue I'm trying to figure out. It's been troubleshooting even after the fix

[ornate stump]

Do you know the problem that this issue is causing?

[sterile flicker]

It's causing one of the toggles in one of the submenus making it work incorrectly, and when looking into the VRCFury guide it's just a bit confusing on how to properly fix it

[ornate stump]

It's suggesting that your recorded animation is incorrect and you have to fixed your animation file.

[ebon flower]

ok so im totally new to this. i bought an avatar and cant figure out how to upload it at all

idk even how to ask for help atp

[ornate stump]

Does it has writen instructions in the page where you download your avatar from?

[ebon flower]

yeah, and i followed them.. and multiple reddit posts and youtube videos

im just at a loss

i just restarted again

[ornate stump]

If you got blocked by any problem then you should elaborate the problem.

[ebon flower]

ill get back to you after this loads

thanks for at least trying to help 😭

[dawn wharf]

Is the asset working in play mode?

[true birch]

helloooo i need help really quickly. i want to use this head but it comes out like that. i downloaded the add on for it and it still wont work. im so confused.

[ornate stump]

You have to set the material render preset to anything but Opaque.

[true birch]

im sorry how do i do that? :(

[ornate stump]

See your material file.

[true birch]

im sorry im still really confused.

[alpine perch]

So my partner is trying to upload a avi but for some reason it doesn’t work and takes HOURS to try to upload, the longest she’s waited was 8 hours to upload a simple avi, is there a way to fix this issue??

[ornate stump]

Just select that part in the scene and you will see material detail in the inspector.

[ornate stump]

This might have to do with low PC specs. Do you know the specs of her PC?

[true birch]

how come it wont let me edit it?

[ornate stump]

Because it's embedded material. Then you have to create new material and assign to the part instead.

[alpine perch]

Yea

[ornate stump]

So what PC specs?

[alpine perch]

@ornate stump

[ornate stump]

It should be quiet OK. Have them try with fresh new project and build upload the sample dynamic avatar for benchmarking.

[alpine perch]

Alrightyy

[true birch]

ive comepletly gotten confused. im sorry

[ornate stump]

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

[true birch]

its like this now?

[junior void]

you need to use a shader with transparency/alpha option

[true birch]

what shader would you say i should use?

[junior void]

my all time go to is poiyomi

[somber sequoia]

for avatars, yep, same.

[true birch]

aaahhhh how do i add it or do it?

[somber sequoia]

poiyomi.com has documentation

[junior void]

thats a question for google

[true birch]

what one?

[junior void]

toon

[true birch]

im confused on what to do next sorry

[junior void]

change the settings to what you want it to look like

and also set the rendering mode to cutout instead of opaque

but we cant tell you what to set shading etc to bc we dont know what you want it to look like overall aside from the opacity thing

[true birch]

i gave up on it

i got really confused cause it made the eyelash the entire head

im not sure 😭

[ornate stump]

That's because you put eyelash material onto the head object.

[true birch]

im sorry i just followed the video and it started to outline to head

[ornate stump]

Because it's selecting the head. Click on them more to select different object.

[true birch]

Could someone walk me through it with screenshots? I’m sorry

[junior void]

what are you afraid of

[true birch]

Sorry?

[junior void]

to me, you seem to be absolutely terrified

renfrew said click on them more - i dont get how that requires a screenshot tutorial. try some things, mess around, find out by doing, navigating ,reading docs etc

[ornate stump]

Feel free to break the heck out of everything. That's how people should learn.

[true birch]

It’s not that I’m scared I just don’t want to get frustrated, I apologise

[ornate stump]

Making mistake is a part of learning so that's natural.

[half ice]

anyone know whats the problem ...

[junior void]

did you re-export/import the model where the armature now has a different name

for example armature.001 like blender likes to do

[half ice]

i have the same name and i already checked evrything

[junior void]

show us?

[half ice]

like what screen shot of armature ?

[somber sequoia]

Avatar hierarchy, from root down to say, the hips and spine bones

[pallid sun]

Hi, i'm working on some clothes for my avatar, i've seen a lot of people adding clothes on top of their avatar while managing to avoid clipping but wouldn't be easier to delete the parts of the body hidden by the clothes?

[somber sequoia]

Yes, absolutely that's better

[junior void]

if you never take off the clothes, sure

[somber sequoia]

yep, exactly

[somber sequoia]

you didn't show the actual avatar root, but at least here we can see that there is an armature and it's named Armature

[junior void]

well then create a new avatar

after all, its the rig configuration that shouldnt be a problem

[somber sequoia]

Probably just switch the rig to generic, apply, then redo the Humanoid setup.

[half ice]

okk..

[pallid sun]

For that i could just save the part of the body that would be hidden as another object and just switch it on while turning off the clothing, right?

[junior void]

you can, but that would be as optimized as just not deleting the underlying body

[pallid sun]

:/

[junior void]

whether you cut or not doesnt matter but whether you decimate

[somber sequoia]

You could do that a few ways. A separate object is not ideal, since it means extra draw calls and thus inefficient for rendering.

[junior void]

you can make an avatar per clothing option

[somber sequoia]

Again, if you don't need the body under, deleting it is best. If you do, you could try shrinking with shape keys, or maybe UV tile discarding.

you absolutely should make an avatar per clothing outfit, don't put everything on one 🙂

[balmy barn]

uv discard/alpha it out works but if you are waay above limits you better off removing anything under clothing in blender

[somber sequoia]

definitely

[balmy barn]

forgot putting everything in a blendtree on first layer + station = 2 first layers in fx are disabled, there goes all the setting until i stand up again

[somber sequoia]

oh hah, yep

[cinder frost]

Oh boy I think the new VRC update broke stations

Haven’t touched one of my avatars in a month but I come back and now the station just doesn’t work

[pallid sun]

is there a way to avoid shoulders to deform when the arms rotate in front of the avatar or is it just a weight paint skill issue?

[cinder frost]

Wondering if it’s because it’s constrained to a physbone

[cinder frost]

Weight paint skill issue + tweak muscle settings

[pallid sun]

Damn 😔

[somber sequoia]

one I've got worked Sunday night...

[cinder frost]

Yeah I have an old avatar with stations that work fine

[somber sequoia]

this one was also uploaded Sunday afternoon

[cinder frost]

But a more recent one I worked on has the seat location constrained to a physbone and it’s no longer showing collision at all

[somber sequoia]

ah, that I don't have on mine

[cinder frost]

And then when I modified it, it placed me in the wrong location

I’m guessing they broke something when they tweaked physbones in the recent builds

[sharp oasis]

I should NOT have the same parameter driver on both islocal true and islocal false side for contact reciever dual setups, right?

they're synced parameters

what about tracking controls and animator layer controls?

[somber sequoia]

you might have to explain what you're doing

[sharp oasis]

this kind of thing where you have the whole setup duplicated but using synced parameters for stuff moved around with contact revievers

So all this stuff on the Local side I imagine shouldn't be on the Net side?
They're synced parameters

[rare yarrow]

Why is my avatar's imposter just magenta?

[somber sequoia]

a synced parameter will be set the same on both sides of the IsLocal check. What you do with that is up to you though

[sharp oasis]

that is what I assumed. what about layer control and tracking control over on the gesture layer?
If it happens on the local side of the animation tree does it also happen on the net?

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure about those actually, I don't think I've considered this before

[sharp oasis]

in this case at least, becuase they do the same thing, I doubt there's any harm having double

last quick question: regarding particles. I currently have a smoke effect, but if you lean in close, the particles become mini, and if you lean out far (or use the mirror) they become giant.
How can I have them be a set size regardless of where they're seen from?

I'm very likely missing some redner setting or something but I can't seem to find any info on it

[proud jasper]

Hi everyone I want to make a custom avatar fully from scratch does anyone know of any good videos I can watch that'll help me through the process?

[ornate stump]

Most of 3D character modeling videos work.

[proud jasper]

I can't find any good one that are really helpful most of the ones I found aren't that helpful

[ornate stump]

You might have to also explain how some of them aren't helpful to you.

[balmy barn]

start with donut then blocks weightpainted to humanoid bones to get a functional robot av , gonna take a very long time no matter

[somber sequoia]

#3d-modeling also but yeah, explain what you're looking for maybe.

[proud jasper]

So the ones I've found go straight into it and are too quick I want a video that is slow since I've only ever worked on bases and made a kitbash I've never done a model fully from scratch before

[somber sequoia]

Donut tutorial

[lofty flower]

Hey uh, just gonna ask a question here, I'm sure there's an easy fix for this but I just can't seem to find a proper way to explain it

For some reason my avatar makes my world look too big? My actual height doesn't go towards the vrchat avatar, it doesn't properly fix my view to make it as such even though my View Position is at the face...

[proud jasper]

I've never heard of the donut tutorial before

[somber sequoia]

huh! I figured it was popular enough that searching for basic stuff would lead you there.

[lofty flower]

I'm all for trying to explain it further but it's just a weird occurance I never found a solution to with all of my avatars

[proud jasper]

I've never done this before so it's a big step for me and a commissioner really messed up my commission so I'm taking it into my own hands and learning how to do it

[somber sequoia]

Awesome, it's a fun journey 🙂

[proud jasper]

I'll have a Google and see if it helps

[sharp oasis]

Anybody know anything regarding these particles?

[ornate stump]

It's Min/Max size settings in the renderer module.

[sharp oasis]

This is based on the viewport it says..
Is there no way I can set the size of the particle like normal and have this not affect it?

max particle size 1 I guess?

[ornate stump]

It's percentage relative to screen height and can be more than 1.

[sharp oasis]

ok as far as I can tell having min 0 and max 1 makes it ignore the viewport and only uses the particle's real size

[ornate stump]

It doesn't ignore. 1 just means big equal to screen height

[sharp oasis]

so is there no way of having particles that are always the same size? regardless of how close you are to them?

[ornate stump]

Just make max size more than 1.

[sharp oasis]

that looks good

thanks

much appreciated

question regarding floats.
So an int has greater than, equals to, less than, etc. Float only has greater than and less than.

if I have a state with two transitions, one greater than 0.5 and one less than 0.5, and the float is exactly 0.5, will it get stuck?
Should I have something like greater than 0.5, less than 0.51??

[somber sequoia]

yeah basically that's what would happen

[sharp oasis]

noted. so that 0,01 is good to avoid that

[somber sequoia]

it's a weird case that you hopefully don't get stuck in

[sharp oasis]

its a one in who knows how much thousands of posibilities as it's currently an RNG between 0.0 and 1.0

but still

thanks

and if both conditions are true, I assume it choses one at random or whichever is highest in the transitions list?
It doesn't really matter for the functionality but just curious

[ornate stump]

For record, vrchat syncs 8-bit float in range [-1,1] so there are 256 possible values.

[west sluice]

Would anyone be able to help me setup an avatar? The person who made it originally got banned but they uploaded all their files so now I'm trying to get back the avatar for personal use

if possible I'd like to VC so I can share my screen just @ me

[somber sequoia]

it's less likely that people are willing to do that for free, but this channel is a useful place to ask specific questions and get answers, that may help your progress a bit.

[west sluice]

Oh ok, how do I get the additional FBX things to attach to the Avatar?

They appear in world but don't interact with the radial menu or move with the rest of the body just kind of floating in place

[somber sequoia]

huh where is the main armature?

But I'd consider using VRCFury's ArmatureLink to do this, if you don't want to build the avatar in Blender.
But there's a lot of stuff there....

[west sluice]

Whats an Armature?

[somber sequoia]

The avatar's skeleton

[west sluice]

Would the characters movements work without one?

[somber sequoia]

no

[split mantle]

So in this video, the blasting part, I'm trying to delay the audio at first when it charges so it doesn't sound weird, how can I do that. {I use vrc fury for most of it}

[west sluice]

The characters movements are working just not the hair

[modern cypress]

This might be the same question

So I have a separate object, like the hair is a separate object from the avatar

IWhen I try to add physbones to an object that's not the avatar, the physbones don't do anything

[west sluice]

Could the Armature be named something else?

[somber sequoia]

I'm guessing it's that Sentry!!! object

[west sluice]

Hips is referenced in body

assuming that its hips what do I do now to connect the hair to the rest of the body?

[split mantle]

Wouldn't you normally just connect it to the head bone

[somber sequoia]

yeah

[west sluice]

So dump the hair object in there?

[modern cypress]

yes, then turn it on, and you'll have to move it around

[split mantle]

Yea

[modern cypress]

so my question following that

let's say I did the same thing, made the hair a separate object, attached it to the avatar's head

I can't get physbones to work off of it

[split mantle]

So wait, when you move the bones in the hair, do they move with the objects?

[west sluice]

That worked! Now I just need to figure out why switching colors to something other than default works but default does not

[modern cypress]

nevermind, it's a user error, the bones got fucked up

[split mantle]

Oh alright

[modern cypress]

okay, here's my new question

can I import a fbx with a minor adjustment and have it be in the same position or do I have to start from scratch with a brand new object

[somber sequoia]

If your fbx prefab is not unpacked in Unity, you can just overwrite the file and updates will be applied.

[split mantle]

As long as it's the same name, don't delete it from the hierarchy and just reimport it

Or that

[modern cypress]

is this unpacked

[somber sequoia]

that's a file in the project, unpacking is not a thing for that. It's the prefab object in the hierarchy which can be unpacked.

[modern cypress]

okay

I will give it a try, thank you!

[split mantle]

You should be fine to just put it back in, as long as the name stays the same

Now my question, how can I have two audios separately play, for a charge up, loop and then power down in the same particle animation

Three*

[somber sequoia]

Sure.

[modern cypress]

yea it just disappeared it

[split mantle]

Disappeared?

[modern cypress]

gonezo

[split mantle]

Did you delete it from the hierarchy as well?

[modern cypress]

nope

[split mantle]

And it's the same exact name no numbers at the end of it?

[modern cypress]

yep

[split mantle]

So you just removed it and then reimported it and it's gone?

[swift sierra]

does anyone know where to get avatar bases..? i want to start making some but idk how

[modern cypress]

yep, tried refresh and import and everything

[split mantle]

Booth or gumroad is a good start

[split mantle]

That's actually wild, this is past my knowledge

[swift sierra]

oo ok.. are they all paid?

[split mantle]

Some can be free, just gotta look

[swift sierra]

alright!! thanks :3

[modern cypress]

it's fine, it could be worse, at least I know what I'm replacing

[split mantle]

Thats fair

[modern cypress]

Thank you!

[split mantle]

Of course

[rose siren]

Need some help with an odd Local animation issue. So I've been making an animation for drills to spin. The odd part is that on my end the drills are jittering than spinning; but on other peoples ends the animation works perfectly. How do I fix this?

[swift sierra]

also what would i use to color an avatar since im using a base?

[modern cypress]

I also might have fucked up the export process! so I'll test it out a bit

lucky I don't have to redo all the animator and set up, it sees it as the same thing. just gotta copy a new particle emitter onto it and I'm STILL GOOD.

[timber wharf]

@swift sierra krita is pretty powerfull free image editor

[inner sorrel]

If I wanted someone to alter an avatar for me, does anyone know where I could go to commission somebody to upload and edit an avatar?

[timber wharf]

@inner sorrel https://discord.com/channels/189511567539306508/1204506421631393913

also dont mention commisions here, youd get lots of scammers in dms

[modern cypress]

christ. Now all my things import like and it's impossible to add a material to the eyes.

with meta rig instead of describing a bone.

top fucks up, bottom doesn't

then it imports with this weird transparency

[lilac orbit]

you shouln't said this here you dm would be full of scammers, you can try going to Trc trader or you can msg me I will guide you there...

[modern cypress]

okay, so I can't portt it in with an armature modifier, but if I delete the aramture modifier, it unparents the armature

[long sierra]

If I wanted to make an avatar with footstep sounds, would I put the left and right sounds in different animator layers?

[somber sequoia]

I'd do them in the same layer with the same audio source but use VRC Animator Play Audio to trigger them

[long sierra]

ah, okay

The animator trees are identical, the right sound plays but not the left one. All of the settings seem identical

The animator tree shows it's triggering properly, but the sound doesn't play even though the animation is selected and there is a keyframe to enable and play the sound source on awake

[native hinge]

What are some websites and/or discord servers where I can get models to make my own vrc avatar?

I keep getting ppl advertising their commissions and it’s starting to piss me off

[still shuttle]

jinxxy.com

[native hinge]

TYY

[tall pumice]

For some reason unlike avatars i download and upload, i just put this vrc avatar descriptor on my own avatar and it doesnt have any animations or a base, action

Why is that?

Other avatars look like this

I have no clue why but I just deleted it and reput it into my scene and now it works.. Okay I guess? xD

[somber sequoia]

any time it says "none" there, click that "x" so it says "default" instead. Or add your own controller.

Also it looks like your avatar isn't humanoid, that's why there's no gesture or additive layer. This is likely not what you want.

[serene trout]

demon

[serene trout]

oh i forgot to config his eye rotations

[lyric acorn]

nothings loading correctly on the sdk </3 also doesnt show any like alerts or anything i have no idea how the new sdk works </3

also wont let me put an thumbnail

or try building it

[limpid isle]

I've never had this issue. I didn't remove nor delete anything, and going into the build settings shows I have the android installed as is. Anyone know what I could really do to like, sort this out?

[lyric acorn]

nvm im js tweakin

[somber meadow]

Building and testing on android is way too much effort requiring wireless ADB and VRChat on an android mobile device. You’re best off just building and publishing the avatar instead since file sizes aren’t going to be an issue anyway

[limpid isle]

Oh my gosh I didn't even notice I had build and test selected instead of publish. I'm insanely air-headed, thank you!

[pallid sun]

i'm trying to do this kind of robe but the edge gets all weird. any tips to fix this? (i'm already working on the weight paint)

[balmy barn]

work on the body weightpainting , then try transfer weight from body to outfit

havnt done a long skirt in awhile , they can do funny stuff

[rose siren]

For fun, Should have that as a toggle maybe with glowing eyes

[trail nymph]

hey yall, im having an audio issue with unity. I made a contact that plays audio and that seemingly works. But when I hit play in the editor, my scene audio toggle turns off and greys out.

I looked at the a unity forum and tried the audio toggle in the game window and scene window combo, and that still didn't work- any tips?

[coral shell]

can anyone recommend a good video series on the basics of editing / customizing an avatar

[wind pelican]

why do rotation constraints do this 😭

[trail nymph]

PxINKY has great tutorials on yt

[frosty grove]

stupid ass question

does anyone here know how to make a good png avatar 😭 like one that works on quest too
if so i wanted to make one of my own and i need help w it:

[old condor]

Does anyone here know how i can permenetly set the scaling changes i made to my avi in unity? So instead of 0.9 1.1 0.9, it'll show 1 1 1?

[trail nymph]

click that

set one of the values to 1

[old condor]

Sorry, I should clarify. I have scaled multiple things on my avi to different things and I want them all to stay that same size but I want them all to show as 1 1 1 in the inspector.

[trail nymph]

I see, I'm not sure on how to do that

[near cradle]

How do i buy avis?

[hearty drift]

hi it's my first time making a vrchat avatar using blender and I don't know where to start or if i should do it from scrap or use free models, and if I do use models where do I get them from????

[lucid sundial]

how do i make the material transparent instead of opaque.

[somber sequoia]

That material is embedded in your model file, you cannot edit it. You can extract it in the 'Materials' tab in the inspector for the FBX, or just make a new one and drag it into the slot under "Mesh Renderer" in that image ^

[lucid sundial]

i can actully see skeletons in eather of them

[lucid sundial]

how was it? because the eyes need to be rigged like following you or other people. in 2D

[night ember]

the funny

[lucid sundial]

trying to export the shaders to the unity fbx is the impossible is it not?

[somber sequoia]

export from what?

[lucid sundial]

from blender

the 2D face rig has 3 parts, normal, pupils, eyelids.

[somber sequoia]

you don't export shaders from blender into unity

but also that's unrelated to rigging concerns

[lyric acorn]

what does this mean 😭

[somber sequoia]

nothing very useful by itself - instead look at (or paste) the first 2-3 errors in the console, at the top.

[lyric acorn]

which errors? im not sure whats considered as an error 😭

[somber sequoia]

red signs are errors

like that one you pasted

[lyric acorn]

ouu

[somber sequoia]

if you have one that says something about "missing script", no need to paste it, that's an easy one

[lyric acorn]

im still lost ngl

[somber sequoia]

with what?

[lyric acorn]

im supposed to be looking for the error right? am i looking for specific words in the error message or

[somber sequoia]

as I said, feel free to paste the first 2-3 in here.

just the summary is fine, no need to click it and get the full detail

[lyric acorn]

oh i figured it out ty!

[somber sequoia]

ah good

[cold lark]

guys i need some help.
I wanted to add a few bones for my avatar (Ear andTail) for physbones

I had a Prefab and luckily there was still a .fbx file of it, so i imported it into blender added some bones put weight on it everything seems to move and work in pose mode.
I exported it and then wanted to put it in unity again.

However i have no idea how to replace it in the already worked on previous Prefab (since i already made animations and everthing, etc). so how do i replace it?

[night ember]

you need to completely redo the prefab

[cold lark]

it worked Thank you

[rare yarrow]

How do I do custom gestures? Someone was helping me and they told me to select vrc_AvatarV3HandsGesture whatever but it’s not there

[somber sequoia]

#avatar-help message

[west magnet]

I've seen a few avatars that can move their global colliders to other bones, how would I do that?

[night ember]

its not really intended

[somber sequoia]

you can't do it at runtime, but at the bottom of the avatar descriptor you can adjust the position of those if you just want the size or position changed, and you can actually relocate them to different bones with a build-time script

[west magnet]

I was just curious, cause I'm working on an avatar with arms constrained to the main ones, and wanted to move the hand colliders off the invisible hands

[west magnet]

How would I do that?

[somber sequoia]

I listed three things - which?

[west magnet]

the build time script

[somber sequoia]

do you know how to write build scripts in C#?

[west magnet]

uhhh no

[somber sequoia]

you'll want to start there then

[night ember]

why are you wanting to do that?

[rare yarrow]

Ok I see it there. How do I like select it?

[west magnet]

so the arms that you can see has the colliders, and not the invisible useless ones

[somber sequoia]

not sure what you want to do but that's the sample gesture animator. copy it and build whatever you want from there.

[night ember]

just so you can push around physbones?

[somber sequoia]

I admit, that's why I did this 🙂

[west magnet]

I guess it can do without it

I didn't know code was involved to even do that

[night ember]

its not an intended feature

you arent really supposed to be able to move the colliders like that its just kinda an oversight

[lyric acorn]

hey im js asking when uploading an avi and the avi has 2 options ft and non ft if i were to upload the ft one but i dont have it do the finger expressions still toggle or no??

[somber meadow]

that totally depends on the avatar

[lyric acorn]

okay ty

[delicate owl]

can someone help me on how to fix the arm? like the entire arm is there but idk how to fully get it out lmao, im new to doing avis

[night ember]

blendshape

[delicate owl]

how exactly do i do that lmao

[still shuttle]

Click on the body mesh and search through the list of blend shapes in the inspector window

[delicate owl]

omg thank you so much

im like really new to this so thank you!

[still shuttle]

Of course! We all gotta start somewhere

[fallen wave]

I've made an animation that effects the arms - i want it to not track arms (animation effects arms so user cant use them) but maintain the other tracking

I've masked the arms and bones to the layer

But the locomotion animations on desktop etc dont play when its active for legs etc

any clues why?

[night ember]

dont think you need to mask

the tracking control component is all you need

[fallen wave]

let me try removing the mask

[night ember]

also

you should just leave the stuff you arent animating to no change

if you force it to tracking then its just going to track when you go to that state

[fallen wave]

Gotcha, remove mask ill change to no change

When i remove the mask etc @night ember goes into bicycle pose

and locomoation animations still dont play

[night ember]

goes into bike pose where

secondly

what layer even is this

[fallen wave]

action

[night ember]

what are you even trying to do

[fallen wave]

transform arms, remove them from tracking, still allow legs and everything else to work

i have the animation which only effects arms

the layer stuff is what's confusing

[night ember]

you never answered where it goes into bike pose

[fallen wave]

when the animation plays

arms transform as expected legs go into bike mode, doesnt happen with mask on

[night ember]

that could easily just be gesture manager

[fallen wave]

let me try in game

While it builds do you think amybe it has to do with action layer being set to weight of 1?

maybe action might be wrong layer for this?

[night ember]

if it isnt set to a weight of 1 then it wont do anything

what are you even trying to do with the arms

[fallen wave]

lock them in a pose with the animation

might be worth looking at how gogo does it with legs actually 🤔

[night ember]

it just does it there

[delicate owl]

so i fixed the arm but its not popping up on vrc... its still noodle arms

[night ember]

then you have an animation changing it

[fallen wave]

zyoom - same issue

ima take a look at gogo maybe im just being dumb with how i have the layer setup

[delicate owl]

how would i fix the animation so it doesnt make it all noodle arm

[night ember]

just dont animate the blendshape?

[thin crypt]

I need help adding melts composite rapier to an avatar, been trying on my own for days and I gave up on toughing it through on my own...I need help T_T

[night ember]

have you considered asking the creator?

[thin crypt]

I may be a dumb...

ill get back to you in 2-3 buissness days

I uh...dont see a way to contact them

im actively looseing my mind...ima bout to scrap this whole thing and just get a different easier to use sword system

[fallen wave]

@night ember update: i put it on gesture works totally fine

pose works and rest of tracking is preserved

[dark jay]

So im working on this character and was wondering since the coat has bones that go from the upper chest down would it be better to do physbones or would it be better if i merged the coat bone weights to the body weights

Lmk

[ornate stump]

It's just better on different way. If you can take effort to do physbone then sure you can do it.

[void ginkgo]

does anyone have an inv to saffronthebat's discord/the punk-epossuim FT fix files?

[pallid sun]

What could be causing this? (Please ignore the fact that i'm recording the screen with my phone)

[night ember]

physbones Im guessing?

[delicate urchin]

if my avi didnt come with a texture asset to color the avi with how would i make my own?

[harsh field]

Does anyone know where I can find a Spartan model for VR? But not the Halo ones, but a real Spartan.

??

[still shuttle]

Look or make a post in #1138520828556890214

[harsh field]

@still shuttle I tried but only the halo ones are there. I'm looking for something like this:

[still shuttle]

Make a post about it then. This is not the channel to search for avatars lol

[harsh field]

Okey thx

[amber gull]

can someone please tell me why his foot are under the ground?

[supple zinc]

So ive ran into an issue for my rig when making it a Humanoid one within Unity, essentially the model no longer is in its T-pose when I turn it into the humanoid one but when having no armature applied then its back in T.

[supple zinc]

Is your pivot below the feet?

[amber gull]

it look like this on unity

[balmy barn]

vrchat likes to shove your feet underground (locomotion) , id have it slightly below to avoid it

[amber gull]

i noticed that even the eye view point i needed to lower it under the eyes

i thought maybe theres a fix

[amber gull]

but mine goes wayyy down

[balmy barn]

if you use fbt most people just turn off locomotion so it doesnt do wierd things

[amber gull]

i do but i want it fixed so i can sell it

:/

[next sand]

would anyone potentially be willing to call on here and help me figure out some avatar issues with gestures while i share my screen? i’m pretty new and have been struggling, and youtube isn’t cutting it haha

[safe sun]

I need help with my avatar, it’s windows only and I wanna make it android. When I try to check android it won’t work because it’s grey?

[somber sequoia]

you haven't installed the Android build tools.

[safe sun]

how do I do that?

[junior void]

Beat me to it

[somber sequoia]

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

[safe sun]

Gulp it’s not letting me press the gear to do it

[cloud river]

Question for anyone who might have had this issue:

I have an avatar that appears to always float off the ground but only in my local view (i.e from my perspective when I look down)
If I view my avatar from say the VRchat camera my avatar appears to be on the ground like normal and I've not had anyone say that my avatar is floating and I appear to be on the ground when looking in mirrors as far as I can tell.

Anyone have any idea what could cause this?

[cinder frost]

That’s an issue caused by your view position

The farther your view point is forward, the worse that effect gets

[somber sequoia]

common with putting it too far down your muzzle on furries 🙂

[cloud river]

Does the problem become worse the futher the viewpoint is from the rig or the avatars center position?

If it's the latter I could probably get away with having the whole model set back a little bit, if it's in relation to the rig then well.. I guess I'll put up with it for now.

[somber sequoia]

If you float when looking down, almost certainly it's the viewpoint.

[cloud river]

I'll have to do some tests, see if I can find a middle ground between looking into my chest when looking down and floating.

Gotta love avatars with weird shaped heads and not standard proportioned humanoid rigs

[somber sequoia]

just stick it in the face, just in front of the eyeballs. On a human, right in the bridge of the nose.

I should say that I'm considering the view ball's center as my reference point here.

[pallid sun]

Whay's a good way to model muscles?

[cloud river]

Deffo to far forward can almost guarentee though looking down will clip with my chest floof, perhaps I could hid that from my perspective somehow.

[somber sequoia]

ah yeah, on this one that's probably too far. Trial and error time 🙂

you can hide stuff like the chest fluff, see the VRC Head Chop component.

[trim shale]

Can Someone Help Me Make a Dance toggle

[somber sequoia]

Probably someone can - explain what you have done so far and where you are stuck.

[trim shale]

i just need help setting the dance toggles

[balmy barn]

grab a copy of vrc_AvatarV3ActionLayer drop it on your avatar action slot
make a toggle VRCEmote = 100 , it will start your dance until its toggled off

add this >

[trim shale]

do i add diffrent transitons to add 2 toggles like do i have to have to animationclips in theere

like ive tried to add 2 toggles but only the first one i make works

[balmy barn]

same thing just a different VRCEmote up to 255

[trim shale]

whats the parameter gonna be for the toggle vrc emote

[balmy barn]

that one?

[trim shale]

yes do i click the vrc emote i already have that for my first toggle

or do i make a new param and assign it to that menu toggle

like im so confused

[balmy barn]

where is your avatar from

[trim shale]

its the normal vrc avi im just using it too learn how to make dance toggles

but one question do i create a new param or just use the exsiting one i already have on a toggle

@balmy barn

[somber sequoia]

you make a new parameter if it doesn't exist

[trim shale]

i got it lets go

[river fossil]

im using mobile toonlit but im on a blank texture and for some reason there is color

[arctic ginkgo]

may be vertex colors

[river fossil]

and it goes over my custom texture

[river fossil]

how do i turn that off

[arctic ginkgo]

you can't disable it using toon lit, but you can if you use toon standard iirc

you can also remove them from the model in blender

[river fossil]

where do i get that?

i am very new to unity n avatar creation

[arctic ginkgo]

same place as toon lit?

[frigid glade]

It’s in a later unity version. You’d have to update your unity project

[balmy barn]

gotto update that old sdk

[quaint oak]

So, this is the first time I've ever received this issue and I really have no idea why it keeps popping up everytime I try to upload this avatar, the performance is medium and all I had added to it was that one fishing rod prefab and gogo loco and even upon removing those to see if it'd do anything it still gives me this error

[somber sequoia]

Do as said - look at the console window for more details. Feel free to post the first 2-3 errors (at the top) you find in here if you need help.

[inland seal]

What is the key so I can get all surrounded orange cubes?

[timber wharf]

ctrl+ +

[inland seal]

didnt work

[somber sequoia]

it should increase the selection size - and you need to use the + on the number pad.

if you don't have one select -> more/less -> more

(this one annoys me on my laptop, I keep meaning to remap it)

[inland seal]

Thx

works now

[quaint oak]

These are the 3 errors I'm gettin

[trim shale]

anyone know how to have the default Vrchat expressions menu

like the emotes

[somber sequoia]

You'd need to go over the rigging setup, seems like something is wrong with your armature

[quaint oak]

Alright i'll take a look at it

[trim shale]

?

[wild tangle]

Where does one find the base model

[trim shale]

me? i found it in a server

[somber sequoia]

which base model though?

[astral coral]

What does that mean? And idk where or how to fix it 😭

[inland seal]

How do I fix this error, I assume it's from blender

[inland seal]

Fixed

[somber sequoia]

out of curiosity, what'd you do?

[inland seal]

I changed it to Triangulate

Ctrl + TT

T*

It worked

Then I got a small error but it was because I had to paint again

No more errors

But I do have small problem

[somber sequoia]

ah cool, I thought that might be the answer, but I've not seen that error before.

[inland seal]

None of my blendshapes are visible

[somber sequoia]

do you have an un-applied modifier on the mesh in blender?

[inland seal]

I do ;D

[somber sequoia]

that's why. You'll need to apply that before exporting

[inland seal]

Ah

it works ;D

Thx

[inland seal]

I cant really apply anything If I have a Keyframe

But I added it by accident

So its ok

anyways, It works so im happy

:D

[somber sequoia]

this can work in many cases: https://github.com/przemir/ApplyModifierForObjectWithShapeKeys

[inland seal]

damn

It looks pretty usefull

alr, Ill save it for later

[somber sequoia]

yep - doesn't work for everything, but it works for a lot

[inland seal]

Aslong as it works with Particles

[somber sequoia]

(make backups)

[inland seal]

im happy

[trim shale]

nvm i found how

[modest edge]

Heyy, currently trying to upload this avatar right here, but I can't figure out how to set the colors properly like shown on the image (I want to set it to the rose pink)

[trim shale]

anyone know why my vrc descriptors are like this. i have the latest vrc sdk and fairly new project

its not really that big of a prob bc i just grab vrc descriptors from other avis ive made but still would be nice to know why

[dawn wharf]

What asset are you inputing for Kanata? I have worked with this model a bit before

[dawn wharf]

Click the drop down for "color adjust", apply it, move the color accordingly

On the costume material

[trim shale]

do you know what my problem is

[dawn wharf]

Not sure, I'm not too familiar with vrc descriptors

Lower the radius of the physbone, it will become smaller

Is there an extra bone in the hierarchy?

Could you send a screenshot of your game component?

[woven field]

can someone make this a png avatar for me?

[night ember]

why cant you

[astral coral]

I’ve figured out, it’s because I used an clothes assets that has toggles but I deleted some of the clothes part and kept some for the accessories and now that happened

[dawn wharf]

No worries! Glad you could get it fixed!

[woven field]

im broke and homeless and don’t have a pc to do it

[trim shale]

i will but u mean like 2d

[gloomy wren]

Hello, i wanted to know something about the VRC Sender and Receiver Component

i can't make the Radius of my Sender more than 10 is it normal ?

like i'm puttin heavy number like 100 and the circle don't go bigger.

did they put a limit for the Radius of Sender and Receiver component ?

[heavy zephyr]

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/avatar-dynamics/contacts

Yes, the max range is 6 meters

[gloomy wren]

Damn.. i wanted to make a signal to make an animation for other avatar in the same instance

[heavy zephyr]

Use world constrained contacts for this, or dampening constraints to artificially extend the range of your contacts (scratch the second part)

[gloomy wren]

i want to make like a button on my hand, when i press it, a sender grow slowy from my position and when it hit the avatar receiver it do an animation

[heavy zephyr]

You could just move the contact instead then no?

What receiver are you targeting?

[gloomy wren]

i put a VRC contact receiver on the spine of another avatar,

when it receive a param, it do an animation

[heavy zephyr]

Then why do you need it to grow?

[gloomy wren]

to make a cool effect :3

[heavy zephyr]

The contact itself I mean

[gloomy wren]

i'm trying to have like the closest avatar will do the animation before the far one

doing like a chain reaction

[heavy zephyr]

So you need distance measurement AND world-sized detection

Then yeah, you'd need to set it up at world origin with world constraints then measure the distance using dampening constraints and finally choose your target that way

Bit of a hassle but possible

[gloomy wren]

since i'm still a newbie with unity, i have no idea what dampening constraint is

but i will look foward

[heavy zephyr]

In short, a constraint that targets its own object with a weight of 1 and it's destination with a very low weight, making it follow its destination while "lagging behind".

[gloomy wren]

oh i see

[heavy zephyr]

Let me grab a screenshot that you could use

[woven field]

yeah like just the picture

[heavy zephyr]

In your case you can probably do something like that. This will make this receiver get to it's sender but while still having 1% of it's position being dictated by it's parent.

[gloomy wren]

Oki Thanks ! i will try it !

[heavy zephyr]

For your use case, have the receiver parented to your avatars and constrained like that to the world origin. That will give each avatar their distance to world origin. Now you're still going to need a lot of math and other tricks to do what you want, but that can be a start. Alternatively you can use https://github.com/VRLabs/Contact-Tracker to attach an object to a player and use it as a target for your receiver's constraint. Lots of options.

I see we have a lot of friends in common, don't hesitate to ask in DMs too haha

[gloomy wren]

oki !

[nocturne tendon]

hey, guys? how do I make it to where in VRChat my avatar isnt put into that one floating pose when i only want the head to be animated? basically

i used avatar masks and animator tracking control and it still does this

[somber sequoia]

In Unity, this is the pose you get when animating, it's normal. But it's fine in most cases, if you're just going to animate the head, then just animate the head and ignore the body.

[nocturne tendon]

well the thing is in vrchat on quest, the legs still move up and I cant even crouch

for tracking, i have the hips, feet, and both left and right hands and all fingers checked and for animation i have the head checked, and for the avatar mask I have the head part highlighted green and everything else even the IK dots are red, and in the transform i made sure only the head bone was checked on and everything else was unchecked

but still, it does this

[deft pewter]

How do I use light volumes? I have them added to my world but my avatar doesn’t react to the lights? I feel like I’m missing something

[heavy zephyr]

You need a compatible shader

[wild tangle]

What do you mean which?

[somber sequoia]

you said "where does one find the base model" but I wasn't sure which model you're asking about

[wild tangle]

Male and female i guess?

[somber sequoia]

right but what model? are you looking for just something generic?

maybe describe what you want in #1138520828556890214 - otherwise uh... gumroad or jinxxy or booth are good sites to search for avatar base models

[wild tangle]

Yea just generic

[queen trail]

i dont understandhow this happens

[keen ravine]

would anyone care to help me with an asset?
simple explanation is that i want to make it where an effect/sphere to follow a player or myself upon impact.
it's for the lobotomy asset by kai.
it usually just stays in one spot when it hits someone, i want it to follow someone instead.

if you can, or want to, dm me please c: or @ me here.

[somber sequoia]

on an avatar? not sure how you'd do that

[keen ravine]

the creator said it was possible so

no idea if it actually is or whatnot.

[somber sequoia]

well how did they do it?

[keen ravine]

normally when you hit a player with the spike, it puts a sphere where it hits their head.

[somber sequoia]

Yes

[keen ravine]

the sphere is simply just a loopy effect

and an audio playing

[somber sequoia]

I don't know the asset but the initial targeting is not very hard to do

follow-up targeting I don't know how you would make work

[keen ravine]

hmm.

[keen ravine]

i can send you it real quick?

its on gumroad

https://thedefactokai.gumroad.com/l/Lobotomy

or that works

[somber sequoia]

oh I see, so it's attaching, not re-targeting

got it, attaching a mesh with a screenspace shader. Interesting, I know this is doable but I personally haven't looked into it yet, it's somewhere on my todo list.

[keen ravine]

it'd be sick if you get to learn it, ive been tryna figure out how i could do this, but

zero clue

im not the smartest with unity

[somber sequoia]

I'm sure someone here knows

hmm I bet I know someone who does

[keen ravine]

can you check if they can? whenever they are free

[trim shale]

okk

[lilac wraith]

helloooow I need help with this since I have no idea what went wrong
Pretty sure pressing auto fix on one of the things messed up the entire thing on my character 😔
Someone recommended me to download vrcfury but I have no idea what to do with it

[somber sequoia]

first error, "missing script" means your project has some requirement you didn't install.

check the avatar or prefab creators' documentation to see what they say you need

[lilac wraith]

I think I found the thing thats script is missing

its a hairpin

does it really need one if its just decoration 😔

[somber sequoia]

dunno!

maybe what you need is VRCfury though - accessories often use that these days

[lilac wraith]

dont mind me just.......... deletes it

[somber sequoia]

ooooorr that solves it 🙂

[lilac wraith]

LMAO

I just put the model itself on her head instead of the bone for it

thank you... still 😩
I'm too tired for this

[somber sequoia]

that's a thing, certainly

I'm often too tired to deal with Unity 🙂

[lilac wraith]

I get that, I dropped the game years ago and got the suddent urge to mix avatars together again with assets I payed for so yurrr

[keen ravine]

did u ever get a hold of em?

[valid pebble]

guys

im going crazy

[dawn wharf]

Crazy? I was crazy once...

No but seriously, what's up!

[nova flicker]

Heya! Im having issues with Audio Sources in an Avatar.
Im trying to put a heartbeat onto my model, however when I test it out in vrchat, no one hears it.
IN Unity, when you have the camera near the model, you DO hear it though.
I tried redoing the audio source, implement the VRC Spatial Audio Source, but none of that worked.

[stark meadow]

any blender 4+ users in chat? i cant select bones in weight paint mode

[ornate stump]

You have to hold Alt and click to select a bone.

[stark meadow]

i tried every combination of alt/shift/ctrl none of them worked

it has armature modifier and is parented to the armature

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot blender while you're trying to select the bone?

[stark meadow]

at this point i already backported to 2.93 and finished what i was gonna do 😔

[ornate stump]

You might have to increase Near range in spatial audio source. To around 50-80% of Far range.

[stark meadow]

it just literally did nothing

i tried object mode, shift clicking mesh then going to weight paint

nothing in the first page of search results worked so i just moved back

[ornate stump]

Alt click work for me on 4.2

[stark meadow]

yeah i have a technology curse that breaks software in inexplicable ways 😔

[valid pebble]

Could yall help me

[ornate stump]

You will have to explain what help you need.

[valid pebble]

May I show you

Look at the arms

[ornate stump]

You have to fix weight painting in blender.

[valid pebble]

How I fix in game looks like his arms are falling off

Could you Help😭😭😭😭😭

[ornate stump]

What kind of help you need me to do?

[valid pebble]

I don’t know how to do that

[ornate stump]

How much you know about blender?

[valid pebble]

Lil Bit

[ornate stump]

Watch some weight painting tutorials on blender and use that knowledge try to fix the issue.

[somber sequoia]

that's not really how this works

[keen ravine]

what?

[somber sequoia]

I'll see them when I see them

[keen ravine]

okay! i was just asking if they replied or anything to you

[junior rock]

👀

[severe tundra]

chiffon :D

seems like you just need to swap the textures in the materials

[summer mist]

im so new too unity lol. Anyone wanna help a noob? I made my first avatar but still need simple tips

[ornate stump]

If you had a specific question, you could ask here and someone might answer you of they know the answer.

[summer mist]

Wellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll. how do I find my toggles? I need to remove and add things about my clothing

[ornate stump]

I'm not sure what you meant by "pull up your toggles". Here is how to setup object toggle in general https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqtSg6_W07Y

[summer mist]

sorry

I’ve got a project and I’m wanting to mess around with how it’s set up, but I don’t want to make any wrong changes so I tried making a backup but I’m hoping to get maybe a duplicate of two. The main one that I use that is important and the other one to just test around what I’ve done so far.

[light charm]

does anyone know how to add facial expression toggles through the menu? i already have all the animations done
(no video tutorials please, they never work for me)

i can't ever seem to be able to turn the toggles off

only on

and then they get stuck (yes i have write defaults on, that's not the issue)

[somber sequoia]

you'd probably have to show the animation layer

[unkempt canopy]

how do you make clothes stay on during imposter generation?

[trim shale]

Anyone know how to Add like a changing speed dance animation toggle?

LIke a Radius

hold i found a tuyt

[balmy barn]

float as a multiplayer on the animation state 0 stops it up to x10 speed on this ( 0.1 is normal speed )

[median glade]

have a contact trigger on my uploaded avatar that just stopped working about a week ago, anyone know if any of the vrchat updates effected this . No work was done on that avatar durign the timeframe

[light charm]

there's a lot so i hope this is enough

[somber sequoia]

that's the gogo loco animation controller - what part of this are you working on?

[light charm]

yes, but i replaced VRCEmote with Face, so it doesn't affect the emotes at all

[light charm]

all of them, i deleted all the parts i didn't need

[somber sequoia]

ok yeah this looks really complex and I'm not sure I get why.

[stray trench]

anyone here use face tracking? trying to help my friend set theirs up but i think im forgetting a step

vrcft is receiving but not sending messages and they can see their meta avatars eyes and face moving in hte home world

[balmy barn]

overcomplicated - id just use parameter = whatever > do stuff - shouldnt need a tracking or parameter driver for anything thats driven by shapekeys/non humanoid bones

[junior void]

Pc? Quest? Headset? What software?

[stray trench]

sorry was multi tasking and forgot to finish

it was quest pro with VD and vrcft, she apparently has never seen the VD menu you see in vr so she hadnt turned on the setting to pass on face tracking through VD

all good now

[fresh merlin]

Hi, i'm tryna upload this avatar (i have SOME basic knowledge of unity) but i'm getting this error and m not quite sure what to do? or the easiest fix. Any help?

[junior void]

First error tells you

[dawn wharf]

You're missing a script

[light charm]

how would i make it more simple?

[balmy barn]

gesture controller look at the any state one there , can use similar setup for toggling or a blendtree but found those to snap in too fast when toggling face things and look wierd

[somber sequoia]

what Thulen said.

[light charm]

ah... the problem is i have about... 30-ish something toggles? xD...
gesture only has 7 i think

[balmy barn]

you can add more up to 255 for one int parameter

trying to find that exsample controller page , have some exsamples , this is sorta similar , 0 would be idle, then 1 2 3 4 , and keep adding, whenever not that number go to exit

(or id go back to idle but it get messy when you add alot)

[light charm]

tysm, it works!

[minor geode]

is there an outline shader compatible w quest ?

i tried looking it up and for some reason literally every video was completely unrelated

[balmy barn]

nope

[minor geode]

ouaahfghg okay

[civic cliff]

just curious, would it be possible to do this effect with liltoon shaders? i dont know how i would google this or look it up on youtube so im asking here

and i mean besides the fact that you could just fade transparency at the tips of the hair, id want it to be just the eyes and the brows

[light charm]

uhm... now the facial expressions in my emotes stopped working...
how do i fix this?

[somber sequoia]

as usual: first you find out why

[light charm]

i dont know why, thats why im asking

[somber sequoia]

start debugging - watch what happens to the animator when you trigger whatever action

[light charm]

i think it might be because of the facial expressions i added? it might conflict with the emotes
should i try adding a parameter driver in the emotes to see if that fixes it?

[somber sequoia]

what's an "emote" in this case?

[balmy barn]

refuse other gesture to do anything when you manually trigger the thing you are doing , in gesture use your toggle parameter must be 0 to trigger a gesture to avoid squishing faces ( im guessing thats what you doing )

kinda confused what you doing tho

[somber sequoia]

same, not sure what is going on here without further detail

[coral minnow]

The avatar review is normal but my avatars now fail security checks when running on linux mint any ideas as to why? this is not a issue I've had on windows

[balmy barn]

using vrcfury/modular/other things? stats is a lie then it adds stuff - seen that av multiple times

but for android no way you get that to work, too high vram

[timber wharf]

security check runs server side anyway, pc platform doesnt matter🤷‍♂️

[light charm]

no, the facial expressions are not showing up in the emotes at all
lets say i do a die animation where i have animated the eyes to close (and have the tracking eyes off), well the eyes don't close at all, which they did do before i added the expressions in the menu today (i'm tired, forgive me for my poor wording)

[unique herald]

can someone help me upload a avatar im having problems doing so can someone help me. Thank You

[somber sequoia]

In your full-body emote animation you're using VRC animator tracking control to also take control of the eyes, right?

[somber sequoia]

Explain what you've done and where you're stuck.

[unique herald]

stuck at unity

[light charm]

yep

[somber sequoia]

then provided you don't have another animation taking priority, that should make at least this part work

[unique herald]

i used vroid to make smt bc its my first and i just need help exporting it into vrchat

[light charm]

well yeah uhh some other animation is taking priority i think
so how would i fix that?

[somber sequoia]

I'd suggest going from vroid to blender and doing cleanup and fixes there, then Unity. Various tutorials will describe this process.

[somber sequoia]

find what animation is taking priority and decide how you want to deal with that

[unique herald]

whtas blender?

[somber sequoia]

a 3D modeling/animation/etc program.

[light charm]

what options are there?

[somber sequoia]

I don't have your project so there's no way I could guess from here

clearly though it'd be something else that animates that same thing

[unique herald]

why does it come to a text?

[light charm]

so like, a parameter driver?

[somber sequoia]

maybe? might be some other animation layer?

[light charm]

i'll try messing with it tomorrow, i'm too tired rn

[unique herald]

i just need to upload it into vrchat

idk how to use the creator companion

[somber sequoia]

for info, you can start here: https://vcc.docs.vrchat.com/

[lapis jungle]

hey im wondering if there is a way I can make a toggle between 2 different levels of emissions for my hoodie and have it be quest compatible so I can be bright in social settings and dim while relaxing

[balmy barn]

animate emission strength / float or bool

tested it on a quest when we got the new shader

[unique herald]

@somber sequoia

why does this come up?

thats the probloem im having

[sage gust]

uh guys i need help im trying to convert this avatar for quest but when i open vrcquest tools and i drag and drop the avatar there it dosent work

[timber wharf]

that doesnt seem to have a descriptor at all, succesfully upload pc version then think about converting it

[lean panther]

is there any way to make my particles render above the world? i try to take transparent pictures but my halo just doesnt appear in them.

[heavy zephyr]

Just use a shader that can change it's render queue/zwrite/blending options

[sage gust]

already did that it was uploaded to pc successfully

[foggy vessel]

How can I grab a public avi and modify it

[timber wharf]

you cant

@sage gust then reuse the same project or its copy. theres no avatar descriptor on this one.

[sage gust]

one monent gotta find it again

[hasty hornet]

can anyone tell me what setting to use if i want my float animations to snap? for example im animating a blendshape that hides a body part or piece of clothing, and when i use the radial instead of smoothly transitioning between the frames, i want them to more snappy or instantaneous if that makes sense?? and i should note i dont wanna use an animation for each state just one animation that has all the states on it in frames (eg. top & bottom > just top > just bottom > none)

[clever cloak]

Quick question, I just got a new avatar and some shoes for it as well. I got the avatar itself (mostly) working fine, but the shoes are fairly tall and they clip through the floor in the game. I was wondering if there was a way to adjust my avatars height to properly accomadate for the shoes. Ideally in unity since this is a preset i bought off booth but if i need to pull out blender I can try

example photo

even in unity its beneath the floor line

my guess is that since they are not from the avatar itself but an add on, i need to shift the hip up to get the base height of the avatar to be slightly taller so that it can properly accommodate the new height gained from the shoes, problem being I have no clue how to do that

I tried shifting the avatar up in unity and uploading it but that had no effect, and if I select everything but the armature and move it up nothing happens either (saw a reddit thread saying to try that)

[heavy zephyr]

It's based on the lowest bone not mesh position

[clever cloak]

I see

is it possible to adjust that in unity or is this a blender thing

[slim ether]

i need help uploading avatars to my an my wifes accounts

[clever cloak]

these seem to be the lowest bones on the list. should i just move the foot l and r down to match the bottom of the shoes?

and should i then readjust my view position

ah thats part of the mesh nvm

dog warning. this is the height the shoes add from the foot

[somber meadow]

Go into the rig configuration of your avatar and raise the armature object till the shoes are properly against the floor

[clever cloak]

the shoes are a seperate object to the armature, should i move the shoes up to the floor line and then also move the armature up to match it?

[somber meadow]

guessing you're applying them with something like VRCFury

[clever cloak]

modular avatar yea

ok moved the stuff gonna test it now

hm no dice

still clipping

gotta go for now but ill try some more stuff later when i get back

[lapis jungle]

would anyone be willing to get on vc and help me through this step by step I have been trying for the last 3 hours and I cannot find a video that explains it simply without either trying to do several things at once or even talking about what im aiming to do originally

every time I try and animate turning up or down emission strength it just doesnt work full stop. I get errors from vrc fury and im at a loss of what to try

[elfin sparrow]

i need someone to help me with some changes in my world

[wraith jasper]

this has been ongoing for 3 days, I click on one menu, or go to create a new menu, and I get stuck in a loading loop for 5-6 minutes. I've even made a whole new project, and I still have this issue!

Is there something I need to do or remove? Everything is up to date

[fallow acorn]

Would anyone know why an animation works just fine on a model. Works perfectly when you press play and it plays as it should. But the moment you go in playmode and turn on gesture animator. the thing that was animated just find is stretched out and not where the animation should be?(IE: Misplaced as opposed to before play mode.)

The only difference from the two model is me adding marshmallow and BPPP(Breast physics plus.)

So... I don't have any posotion to fix in the animation, because it plays out just fine out of play mode. Attached to the model and everything.

any position*

New discovery: Its only with gesture Manager. In playmode, and I play the animation, its fine. Its only when I try to activate.. Gesture manager.

[fallow acorn]

That is literally how Unity 2022 is now. Its 'normal' despite how excruciatingly annoying that is.

[wraith jasper]

Auuuuuuuuuuuuugh

That's so dumb

[fallow acorn]

Yea....

I think theres ways to... make it happen less but thats all you can do. and a lot of that depends on your machine most of the time.

[wraith jasper]

so idk why but i fixed it because apparently VRCFury wasn't up to date? and immediately after updating it.... perfect load times

[fallow acorn]

Wuh...?

[wraith jasper]

Nnnno clue, but it... fixed my problem?

[fallow acorn]

I mean, hey, Hell yea! I wish I could find an accidental fix for my issue too. I'm so confused.

I'm about to upload my model and see if its fine in game and its just gesture manager thats messing up.

[fallow acorn]

Yea so uhhh... My issue was Gesture manager... Its fine in game.

[valid pebble]

Guys

Could yall help me

[somber sequoia]

Sorry, I have no idea what that is or why you're asking me specifically

[lilac musk]

With?

[copper kernel]

is there anyone here that can help me jog my memory with blender things? basically trying ot combine everything into one mesh, but i forgot how exactly to parent the bones/join meshes

i had a friend teach me a bit ago so im sure once i get back into it i may remember but as is my brain is GONEEE

skills? GONEE

[valid pebble]

Ok I have a model but I do not like his face. It’s fully rigged when I put in blender to change the head and then put it back to unity and by the way I fully parented. It how do I do it uinity

[valid pebble]

No help

Is here dude

[ivory ermine]

I need help

I have a bon avatar that can play music and I don't know how to use it

It's two and I have my laptop if I need it

[tame cave]

Can someone help me with this?

[indigo compass]

If it just now happened then it would be because VRC tweaked the server-side security checks to detect various things that previously let you bypass certain restrictions, the one I have heard the most about being putting lights on particles to hide them from the rankings.

[tame cave]

It was because of the textures, they were over the limit.

[timid gust]

Im not sure where to go for this kind of help but I’ve been having trouble figuring out how to use the Awtter 3.0 base. I purchased it about 8 months ago and ever since ive only had problems trying to get it to work. I need a step by step or a guided type of help. I know pretty much nothing and people who do make other Awtter avatars have no clue either. Im open to any help. I hope im in the right area lol?

[worthy walrus]

Anyone having an issue lately where this crash happens within moments of joining specific worlds? I can join most worlds just fine but some start at an extremely low FPS and eventually crash. I'm currently on the latest Poiyomi Toon, latest SDK,, latest GPU drivers, and latest Windows update.
Thing is I have another avatar also using Poi Toon etc that isn't experiencing either the low FPS or the crash at all. In fact it's butter smooth but once I switch to this specific avatar the FPS tanks and crashes and only in a very small number of very oddly specific worlds. "Sunset Bay" (https://vrchat.com/home/world/wrld_36117d86-d759-4b9c-962e-eb25c8caebdf) is one of the worlds.
I actually rebuilt the entire avatar project to see if I could find any issues but couldn't so I decided to see if anyone else has seen this issue.

[trim shale]

anyone know why my hue shift slider isnt working with a poiyomi shader

its with everyshader acc

[junior rock]

Whoever helps me optimize my avatar is getting paid. I can pay in nitro or I can gift steam games

[teal laurel]

Optimizing shouldn't be too difficult.

• VRCFury gives you some things you can do
• Dark avatar optimizer, can merge some meshes and bring stats down
• Drop textures. Your eyes do not need to be 4k. I suggest using something like Thry's performance tools to look at the compression and size of each texture and see how low you can drop it.
  This got someone from 320MB to 30MB VRAM, without any visible quality loss.
  Those are the easiest things you can do

also #avatar-optimization might be better for this

[nimble chasm]

the blue vrc contact reciever ring doesnt show up anymore, any tips?

[teal laurel]

In unity? In vrchat with the contact overlay?

[nimble chasm]

yes

[nimble chasm]

its really odd it shows up in other projects just fine so i know its not my specific unity but just this one project

[teal laurel]

yes for both questions?

[nimble chasm]

yes for both

[strong fossil]

I need to know about setting up the avatar without legs, because i'm trying to use the Boss Magolor from Kirby Return to Dreamland

[balmy barn]

add some fake legs/arms ect, just need to exsist

[strong fossil]

i don't know where should i create the fake limbs bones?

[balmy barn]

Blender

could also just add a empty skeleton in unity but thats pretty bad way of doing it and will have massive issues with sending parameters to a mesh that doesnt exsist in animator

[strong fossil]

Really confused why this might be it

[balmy barn]

chest is missing too , vrchat dont need toes/fingers/upper chest/eye and jaw bone , rest must just exsist

[strong fossil]

so what's next? FBX exporting may be the problem because of... bones of these legs are ruined

[balmy barn]

sdk probably going to complain since legs are under origin of avatar

not sure havnt made a legless in awhile, can always just make them super tiny unless its ment to float

blender / unity hiarchy to make a functional humanoid

[strong fossil]

Hmm, let me try

[hot forum]

Hello all! Hope everyone is well.
Not to be too much of a nuisance but I've been trying to set up some functional coat physics for my avatar and struggling a lot with it.

I tried to use physbones at first with the cloth bones being attached to the hip bone, but it seemed like no matter what I tried it would always end up clipping with the legs even with colliders and angle limits in place (I may have been setting it up poorly though since I'm new to it.)

Second attempt was to use a cloth sim on the coat cloth which worked flawlessly, flowing and moving beautifully but as soon as I tried it with my headset on it would stutter terribly, especially when looking down, even with the coat itself turned off.

So if it's not too much to ask, would anyone have any advice on how to set this up well so that it moves at least somewhat flowingly without clipping with my thighs or shins?

And thank you all in advance!

[balmy barn]

that one will not be fun, id weight transfer so it follows legs and have only the bottom be able to move using physbones

colliders and cloth will never behave

[hot forum]

Not fun indeed lol, there's no way to have it move with the thighs and the hips? Maybe two different bone sets for each part of the leg?

[hot forum]

Oh actually yeah that's not so bad

[balmy barn]

old avatar i got exsample , its weightpainted and only lower parts will flow so barely any physbone neeed

[delicate lava]

Who could make me one🙏

[hot forum]

I'll see what I can do and report back if I need a bit more help, but thanks a ton!

[balmy barn]

https://github.com/sentfromspacevr/robust-weight-transfer this one is handy to transfer weight from main body then stuffhere after

[delicate lava]

Please what do I
Have to do
To get a avatar

[fresh jacinth]

Go to VRCTraders you're gonna get scammers here

Don't trust any DMs you might get now

You could also buy something already made on booth, gumroad or jinxxy

[strong fossil]

Update: looks like the fbx could not handle to exporting

[wanton cedar]

also check the person before you commission them

[delicate lava]

What do I have to do for
You take make a clown avatar but not scary a cute clown that’s short and has a red nose and long clothes and the sleeves cover my hand kinds life

[strong fossil]

i should redo again

[wanton cedar]

https://discord.com/channels/189511567539306508/1204506421631393913

[drifting bay]

Can anyone help me with this?

h-hello?

[fresh jacinth]

What is your vrchat rank?

You need to be new user at minimum, not visitor

[drifting bay]

wait i check this

visitor

[still shuttle]

You can't upload avatars at visitor rank

[drifting bay]

okay thanks

[delicate lava]

Doesn’t allow me to join

[hot forum]

So I tried again to get physbones on the whole thing just as a test, and in movement it's like the colliders don't work at all, and the cloth is super jittery no matter what settings I put

[balmy barn]

colliders go hurgh, too close

I angle limits and weightpaints nearly everything i can , my very old avs can have some colliders but they are ancient

[hot forum]

It seems more like the physics itself is to sensitive, not the colliders, like the cloth is overly reactive

[balmy barn]

cloth is unreliable cause its all local, people will never see your avatar right its enough to turn around (culled) and back it does something else or get stuck on some collider

that thing v

one of my larger weightpaint test , still can clip it if i want to , only 2 physbones

angle limits + transfered weight from legs , those skirtbones parented to legs , still 'so'so'

[delicate lava]

Could I get one 🙏

[hot forum]

Oh sorry I meant the cloth on the model, not a cloth sim hah, my bad

[hot forum]

that looks alright

I'll keep messing with it, just thinking about how to do it best since it has the coat split down the front but ye

[junior void]

Not sus at all

[hearty gazelle]

Can someone walk me through this whole thing bc this is my first time trying to publish an avatar onto android

Mostly cause I need help with this

[junior void]

The only thing actually preventing you from uploading is your shader choice

[hearty gazelle]

Oh ok

So I just need to change the shader

[junior void]

To something mobile compatible, yes. Also note that physbone scripts get removed if they exceed 8

[hearty gazelle]

Oki so where can I reduce the physbone and what shaders can mobile use?

[junior void]

The avatar may or may not also be too big for mobile but that you will see once you try

Shaders from vrchat/mobile

You can reduce physbones by deleting scripts or by combining bones in blender

[hearty gazelle]

Ok and which of these shaders am I supposed to use

[hearty gazelle]

So I have to use blender for that

[hearty gazelle]

Just wondering

[junior void]

Personally i use toon lit for quest

[balmy barn]

vrm converted in unity you would have a good rated avatar if you did blender first and not all these wierd colliders

[junior void]

Good catch

Ye converting in unity = issues

[hearty gazelle]

Ok so do it in blender first to convert instead then add it into unity?

Or would that not work?

[junior void]

It would

I did that

[hearty gazelle]

Ok I might need help walking through that then cause idk how to use blender cause blenders not really my strong suit

[balmy barn]

recommend this shader , have alot of features for quest and backface culling , no cutout tho and vrm/vroids use it alot

[hearty gazelle]

Ok

So just add the avatar onto blender first tho no?

Before adding it into unity

[balmy barn]

you need cats or its pain to convert, with it just a few clicks

#avatar-general message

you will get the black alpha parts tho (blender work to knife tool them away) , but least it has culling now

[hearty gazelle]

The cars or pain stuff is that separate things I need to install or is it already in blender?

[junior void]

The what

[balmy barn]

install blender, add cats, install the vrm/matcombiner , import vrm * do stuff * export to unity, then set it up for vrchat

[hearty gazelle]

Ok so I tried to get in blender but it says it stopped working unexpectedly

When I tried to open blender

Do I need another application or smth In order to open blender

[balmy barn]

should just work , if you pc instantly crashing blender - i dunno

[hearty gazelle]

Yea cause it’s popping this up every time I try to open blender

And idk what to really do

[junior void]

Maybe you can find a hint in the crash log

[hearty gazelle]

Ok

This is what it shows

[junior void]

When have you last updated your drivers?

Have you tried the latest lts version of blender yet?

[hearty gazelle]

That’s the latest version

[junior void]

Latest is not always best

I said LTS also

Developers are also just humans who make mistakes from time to time

[somber sequoia]

hi, pro developer here - this is very true 🙂

[hearty gazelle]

Ah ok True

Wait a sec what LTS?

[junior void]

^

[balmy barn]

im still on 4.2 lts

[somber sequoia]

I'm enjoying 4.5

ooh there's a 4.5.1, cool

[hearty gazelle]

Ok I’ll try to download 4.2 to see if it’ll change anything

But if I can’t get blender to work I might have to send someone the files instead cause idk what the problem is anymore

[hardy fulcrum]

Is anyone else seeing inconsistencies with avatar ratings after the update? I have an avatar that has 2 skinned meshes and one basic mesh, but in the VRC client, it is showing in the ratings 4 skinned and 1 basic mesh.

[balmy barn]

had it before the update, now they are correct

[hardy fulcrum]

I disagree. In Blender and Unity, there are only 2 skinned meshes. The avatar rating is showing an incorrect number.

[balmy barn]

if you use vrcfury/ect/matswaps its gonna add more

sdk dont tell the correct numbers

[hardy fulcrum]

I am not

Very basic avatar

[hearty gazelle]

What version for blender can run of any computer the most

[somber sequoia]

I just use the latest one

(4.5.1)

[junior void]

I use 4.0 and 4.2

But there is no one perfect version.

[balmy barn]

3.6 probably lowest id suggest, some scripts arent updated so held me back abit , now switched to 4.5.1 tested the ones i use seems to behave

[hearty gazelle]

Ok

Imma try to reinstall blender now

If it don’t work idk what I’ll do

[junior void]

I feel like 3.6 was faster on my machine ngl

[balmy barn]

same it was quick

[hearty gazelle]

So 3.6?

[balmy barn]

its like paintshop pro7, used it forever cause it started instantly , gimp slow , but now i use paint if i need something fast

[hearty gazelle]

I’m downloading 4.5.1 LTS

[balmy barn]

*hit delete in unity 2022 ...waiting you clicked mouse down... processing okey you want to delete these? *

[junior void]

Since when is there an lts version past 4.2?

[balmy barn]

some weeks ago , dunno date

[junior void]

Ah 4.5

Not 4.5.1 tho

[junior void]

Idk ive had issues with blendshape normals starting at 4.1

[somber sequoia]

I've been exporting with smoothing set to face and haven't had any issues with 4.1+

(that I have noticed)

[junior void]

Hm

Honestly whatever

4 vs 4.5 whats the difference if all you do is vrchat models