avatar-help

[junior void]

i answered it already

[olive cedar]

i didn't get your meaninng

[junior void]

each avatar has an avatar ID

its in the avatar descriptor

just upload it using the same id

[olive cedar]

ok but what will happen to the last one i linked to

coz i will link it to new one

is it fine ?

[junior void]

it will overwrite the last version

the files will not be touched. its just changing ingame

[olive cedar]

okayyyyyyy

thank you

[hearty gazelle]

Is there a way you can change the name of your toggle?

[ornate stump]

Just set menu path in the toggle component.

[copper wraith]

So I am looking for some info. So before the update I had an avatar that I added Liindy's bow to and did some lite modifications to it so it would fit onto a medium avatar. After I was done it was 16 Materials (1 material for AV + 15 for the bow). After the latest update I was checking and it went from 16 materials to 5. I have heard its because its not counting particles as materials but I am not seeing anything in the patch notes to confirm that. I tried searching the discord to see if anyone else was seeing this and not seeing it so not sure it bug or feature

[mild vapor]

Im looking for a avatar i only have a picture of it but don’t have the name or anything how would I find it

[broken bone]

#1138520828556890214

[worthy elk]

I'm rigging up an avatar in blender, do I need to setup inverse kinematics or can I skip that?

[junior void]

skip

[worthy elk]

sweet, thanks

[night ember]

you only need bones and weight painting

[worthy elk]

awesome sauce, thanks!

[night ember]

#avatar-rigging message

theres a humanoid bone guide

[civic patrol]

i need help with bones

[burnt briar]

anyone know how to use darkblades shaders?

[civic patrol]

@broken bone i mean avatar bones

[broken bone]

What exactly do you need help with?

[civic patrol]

convert into humanoid with 4 bones

[ornate stump]

Do you actually want people do to it for you?

[civic patrol]

no

[junior void]

then why send the file

take a picture or video at best

[civic patrol]

AHHH

sorry

for that

[ornate stump]

You can't really complain though because you actually put the file into discord already.

[civic patrol]

i spent hours of my life in that

U

NIN

Stall it right now

[junior void]

its getting silly now

[karmic lion]

ive been trying to scale the avatar or change the view position and nothing changes

[ornate stump]

create a cube and use it as size reference. The cube has size of 1x1x1 meter.

[stiff kiln]

I need a little help.
Im making a puppet avatar and im using a Two Axis Puppet to move the head. But now im in the animator and im hesitant on which blendtree I should use. There's 3 versions of 2D, and idk which one would be the more appropriate. Any tips?

[lilac orbit]

2d freeform directional:)

[stiff kiln]

Alright :3

(Idk whats the difference between the 3, but oki ^w^")

[somber sequoia]

explained in the Unity docs, of course!
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/Manual/BlendTree-2DBlending.html

[civic patrol]

i need help with what sans its made of

🦴

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure what that means

[broken bone]

Your character's shoulders are under the floor. Your character should be standing on the floor grid

[karmic lion]

pretty much like this? it still says the avatar is too short

[balmy barn]

origin probably way off, when you have a vrcdescriptor on it shows the origin, need to move that closer to feet in blender

[karmic lion]

oof this looks most likely, is there a way to move the origin?

[somber sequoia]

In Blender, yes.

[balmy barn]

2 modes of that , you probably have center try pivot , any av with 'tail' tend to be where yours is'h

that however origin is in center

[karmic lion]

ah so the white line?

i did do pivot it just brought it to the head

[river fossil]

i am trying to add a toggle

it works in unity

but not ingame

[balmy barn]

is this a generic av with no mesh to talk to

[river fossil]

its a flat avi

i jus wanna add a laser

im using vrcfury

[balmy barn]

theres your problem

you have nothing filled in avatar slot

[uneven whale]

I've been pretty exhausted trying to combine GoGo Loco, GoGo Freeze and Arm Moving in my avatar... And I can't do it, there are always some errors. When I try to combine GoGo Loco MA version with Vrcfury I get an error when the character is sitting, it's like in a motorcycle pose, and if I try to add Gogo Loco with Vrcfury, it conflicts with Arm Moving, I was told that animators can be combined, but I have no idea how to do it...

https://booth.pm/en/items/4348178?srsltid=AfmBOoqXr-TJegm0D8CrFHMtl1-d6P0rJpwlxslixdMTFEePBifkoxRW

[river fossil]

what do i select?

theres nothing

[balmy barn]

make a plane in blender , set origin , import to unity it now wont sink into ground and have a selectable 'avatar' mesh

[river fossil]

imported it

this right?

[balmy barn]

sorta , need to rotate it so its not laying on ground and move it up abit or it will sink into ground

[river fossil]

i rotated it in unity

but im guessing i need to do it in blender

[balmy barn]

yup it wont like it in vrchat

[river fossil]

i rotated it

and did the same

it wont enable when i press it

[cloud jolt]

I need help with this Avi I've been trying to fix this for so long these are screenshots i put in another group

It usually happens in worlds That have like dynamic shadows if that is how you call them

The original Avi is Katherine but I edited it a lot

[uncut lotus]

Is this hiarchy right?

[somber sequoia]

I'd suggest naming all the "spine" bones something more descriptive. hips -> spine -> chest -> upper chest (optional) -> neck -> head

[uncut lotus]

Its saying somethings wrong but I can't tell which

[balmy barn]

neck too many and confusing names

[somber sequoia]

Looks ok otherwise, though you don't need individual pelvis bones

If you have an error message, please post that.

[uncut lotus]

Oh ok thanks

Just says this

[somber sequoia]

And show which of these spine bones are mapped into which slots

[uncut lotus]

Ima go re-name them rq, but these are which are highlighted when I click the select part

[somber sequoia]

not useful - show which bone is in which slot in the rig setup. But renaming them first is probably ideal.

[uncut lotus]

This stuff?

waot

WHY ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh

sec

[somber sequoia]

Yes - that looks good other than spine.004 - what is that

[somber sequoia]

I didn't mean show me, I meant why is it there? This will confuse VRChat, so unless you need it, probably merge it into the neck bone

[uncut lotus]

I wasnt sure if it had helped the head move better, but ight

[somber sequoia]

you can set this up but it'll be a lot more complex. Ideally just chest (or upper) -> neck -> head

and the shoulders come off the upper of chest or upper chest

[river fossil]

can anyone help?

[somber sequoia]

You'd have to explain and/or show how it's setup, we can tell you nothing from this picture alone. Probably check that your animation layer does what you think it ought.

[river fossil]

theres chats before showing my setup

[uncut lotus]

I deleted it and it worked. Thanks a bunch

[somber sequoia]

nice

[somber sequoia]

oh this is the image one, I see.

[river fossil]

yeah

[coarse flint]

In general, I figured it out. No Animators are needed for weapons on VRCfury, I found a setting that allows you to broadcast animations for a certain time, thereby removing the abrupt sound cutoff

[coarse flint]

And when you press a gesture on the controller, the sound/animation will go at a strictly defined time

and all this, which is the most interesting, will be played even when you have disabled the gesture( just once)

I hope I can help other people with the same problem

[civic patrol]

guys i need help with bones

[coarse flint]

?

[keen crystal]

Still new to making avatars, can someone help me get this gal uploaded? This keeps popping up and says the file failed to upload 🙁

[sharp oasis]

What would be the most effective way of setting up an avatar that switches between two sets of visemes based on a boolean??

[tame surge]

So this model I bought has this nonstandard shader set that causes the characters face to not be affected by lighting in some situations?
Ill send more info in a bit, but any idea what it can be?

[frigid knoll]

looks like either monochrome lighting or greyscale lighting being different

[frigid knoll]

probably have an blueprint id on there that doesnt belong to your account, that is what i saw people say before

when they got this error

[keen crystal]

Hmm I didnt put anything in there, but something did pop up and I detached it, ill try again

Cause yeah this is a brand new one there shouldn't be anything there

[tame surge]

There's also this part of the glitch, half of the face just disappears when the skybox changes
I've tried setting render queue to 3100,
culling off
zwrite off
ztest always off
set -1,-1, offset 1,1

[frigid knoll]

i mean

a lot of worlds have things like water and some other things at render queue 3000+

[keen crystal]

It keeps trying to attach to something 😭

It worked!!!!! Magic! Idk what I did

Complaining always works

Im gonna try to put on clothes so I may come crying back for toggle help

[surreal silo]

hello wanted to ask if their is any modern solution to create viseme's to characters in blender for vrc , most tutorials use cats plugin but its outdated or are my option making them manually or downgrading blender , a thing that causes problems.

[balmy barn]

unoffical cats work up to 4.5

[surreal silo]

oh hell yeah where can i find that ?

[balmy barn]

https://github.com/teamneoneko/Cats-Blender-Plugin-Unofficial-/releases/tag/4.5.1.2

[surreal silo]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-patrick-star-i-love-you-ily-gif-4247002

[balmy barn]

havnt found a issue with it on 4.5 yet, going from 4.2 to 4.5,, oh lovely they moved and renamed things again blender loves doing that

[surreal silo]

frick embed fail

[surreal silo]

thank you that was a thing that really worried me

[olive escarp]

Hey! I'm having an issue when importing my vroid model from blender into unity. No textures are showing up, and I'm unable to assign the vrchat controller to it.

I am extremely new to this whole thing so I've been running into issues left and right 🙏

[uncut lotus]

Trying to make it so the stroller will sit on the ground. I get I gotta add colliders, but IDK if I added it wrong, positioned it wrong or what

[uncut lotus]

How I fixed this problem for me was I went to this materials tab, and had these settings. After applying it, Unity makes a materials folder, that you can then add your textures too. I had to manually drag the materials to the model after though

[olive escarp]

...theres no materials tab
oh dear

[uncut lotus]

MB, did you click model in the assests tab here?

[olive escarp]

GOT IT

okay

sorry i am super new thank you for your patience omg

how should i extract my textures from blender?

@uncut lotus

[uncut lotus]

MB, when you saved the textures, did you sort them in like a folder?

If so, you can drag and drop it from your files

[olive escarp]

i did not save the textures
i just went straight from vroid to blender because vroid wasnt going properly into unity

so i figured i'd convert from vroid to blender to go to unity because i was tired of dealing with vrm 💀

it's looking like the vroid textures saved as materials in blender

[uncut lotus]

I know theres other options, but the way I set the material is like this, but Im pretty sure theres other ways

[olive escarp]

how do you mean

[uncut lotus]

Im not fully sure how to from here then, if they aren't saved to an image or smthin, sorry

By image I mean like a png

[olive escarp]

💀 i dont think there even are any textures in the blender file

jesus wth

should i manually paint these on

[uncut lotus]

Idk, tbh, Im new to this too

Newish.....

[olive escarp]

oh wait

hangon we've got something

[keen crystal]

i have arrived with needing more help- I tried putting on a tongue piercing, positioned it, attached it to the tongue bone, but every time I go into play to make sure its in a good position, it pops up into a different position, either on the nose or just inside the nose. What can I do to make sure it stays on the tongue?

[uncut lotus]

I dont wanna suggest something and break it

[uncut lotus]

That looks like it could work. Is there one without the wire frames on it?

[uncut lotus]

Is the peircing joined to the tongue?

[keen crystal]

this is how i have it atm

[olive escarp]

no it's just showin up in the texture paint tab

umm

[keen crystal]

i thought so but maybe its on the wrong thing? this is my first time adding like piercings so im figuring it out

[uncut lotus]

Could also check the weight paint

[uncut lotus]

Id suggest double checking to make sure its attatched to the right things, and the weight paint is right

Also checking any blendshapes w it if you have any

[keen crystal]

ohhh i think it may be the blendshapes to move it, i may have moved it by mistake let me check

nope its still not attaching to the tongue... theres like a ton of dropdowns under the tongue maybe its one of those?

how do i check the weight paint? id love for it to attach to the tongue so it moves with it, but it just wants to sit in the jaw

[olive escarp]

@uncut lotus actually im looking now, there's the textures in the materials but it's still appearing as white

[uncut lotus]

Have you dragged the materials onto the model?

[olive escarp]

it just is pure white

[uncut lotus]

Think youd have to go throught the weight paint part in blender to check

[uncut lotus]

Can you edit the shaders?

[olive escarp]

i dont think so

im not seeing an option to

[uncut lotus]

Can you clicked the Standard tab?

[olive escarp]

GOT IT

it had white emission

i had to copy material properties onto a new material

[uncut lotus]

Yaaay

[olive escarp]

i'll deal with the animation stuff after i fix this

bc i fear there's an issue with that too

[uncut lotus]

The fun part....

Im struggling on collisons and stuff. Looked for a video, and I guess my avi decided that it just doesn't like them, and thinks colliders are icky

[olive escarp]

i give up for now
straight up still missing materials

i'll come backlater

[keen crystal]

ohh thats okay i have no idea how to use blender, i may just forego the tongue piercing

i just dont know why its not sticking to the tongue when it moves, it should stick to it and move with it right?

[uncut lotus]

If its attached to the bone I guess sorta

I would suggest to join the two pieces

[keen crystal]

how can I do that?

[drowsy crane]

I cant find a nice shark fin model asset for my avatar on unity, anyone have one?

[uncut lotus]

Go in blender, select the piercing and tongue, ctrl+J

[fluid wagon]

does anybody know why the arms are doing this? the last one is the “IK pose” and the arms just look kinda backwards.

[uncut lotus]

Also, anyone know how to make this wagon kinda, actually chill tf out on the ground

[lunar cape]

has anyone used the Chimera maker before? to swap booth avatar heads

[wicked charm]

its toggeled but doenst appear i did it with avatar modular

[rough crow]

you did the toggles with the avatar module?

VRCFury is easier to use for toggles and such, but it's a little hard to use at first.

just a huge tip: add the avatar descriptor before adding vrcfury.

hey, can anybody tell me how this is possible? (i'm looking at a Roblox avatar thats using the R6 model.)

[wicked charm]

how ?

[rough crow]

it'll say that VRCFury isn't placed onto the avatar.

[wicked charm]

i think i had it before itsrted crying about script missing

thats why i deleted it

[rough crow]

ahh.

vrcfury can be annoying to deal with, ive had some issues before they all just stopped.

[wicked charm]

i dont know actually ive been trying to fix it for 4 hours now lol

[rough crow]

thats strange.

have you looked and see if it got an update with the creator companion?

[wicked charm]

also if it works the main suit doesnt turn off

this is so strange its like as if its crazy

[rough crow]

very weird.

[wicked charm]

good point wait

[rough crow]

im not really the best person to ask for help, so maybe try to ask someone else? im just new to all of this..

[rough crow]

ah. what about vrcfury?

[wicked charm]

i didnt add it at all ill see ill add and open the poject again

[rough crow]

again, can someone tell me how does someone manage to do this?

[somber sequoia]

... have no bones?

[rough crow]

yeah.

how is that even possible?

it has animations, functioning everything!

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure what you mean. You don't need bones.

[rough crow]

..

what.

[somber sequoia]

it's not a requirement as far as I know

[rough crow]

i thought it was for a humanoid rig..

[somber sequoia]

oh sure, for humanoid it is, but you don't need to use that

[rough crow]

but since im making an avatar (Roblox r6 model), it needs to be humanoid.

[rough crow]

but this says 0 bones for an avatar thats R6!

[somber sequoia]

it doesn't need to be humanoid

[rough crow]

so i've been adding bones to my r6 model for nothing?

[somber sequoia]

You can do this in a bunch of ways - doing it humanoid means you get all of the automatically provided locomotion animation and such. Without that, you'd have to do all of that yourself.
I have never played Roblox so I have no idea what you're going for here so can't really suggest what you do.

[rough crow]

im just wanting the default vrchat animations, so that means i need it humanoid?

[somber sequoia]

yes

[rough crow]

okay okay. i was just misunderstanding things.

[worldly whale]

Question! what vrcfury component replaces the mats on upload?

[toxic dagger]

Why don't you have the Mats applied before uploading? Unless you mean a mat swap as a toggle

[worldly whale]

i got it fixed, there were hidden mats in an apply on upload vrcfury node

[toxic dagger]

ahh ok!

[tiny pawn]

I have a avatar that I want but it appears to be taken down and I'm upset

[rough crow]

what does it show?

if it's an error robot, then that means the ranking of your avatar is "VeryPoor" which means that it goes above and beyond for other devices.

[tiny pawn]

It says it failed to pass security checks and can't be used or favorited

It's the darkisser Avi I used to have qnq

Id like it to be usable

It just ligit not let me use it

[vernal quartz]

VRC updated their security checks to make sure avis aren't too heavy, several avis that used to work got caught by it

[tiny pawn]

It might have been banned, it wasn't even like a nsfw the only thing it had was a leash-

[ornate stump]

Is it an avatar you uploaded yourself or public avatar?

[tiny pawn]

Im pretty sure it was a public upload-

I don't remember

[ornate stump]

If it wasn't your uploaded then it's public avatar. You won't actually know the reason why the avatar is getting private or deleted because it wasn't yours.

[tiny pawn]

Ik and am sad qnq

[lean garnet]

Does anyone know why my avatar is slightly rotated to the right in Unity ? I'm using the VRBase Egirl base by ZinPia, I've used it before but haven't seen this happen, it's not like that in Blender
It seems fine ingame

Also it's rotated on import, I didn't rotate it in the fbx config or in the scene

[somber sequoia]

all transforms applied in Blender?

[lean garnet]

I tried that & checked bone rolls but it didn't change anything

[fervent void]

I really want to kitbash my prefab avatar but I have no clue how, any ideas?

[ornate stump]

Do you actually saw the camera is tilting?

[somber sequoia]

by prefab do you mean there's no actual model file(s)?

[lean garnet]

omg wait ur so right it is the camera not the model lol

[lean garnet]

Assuming you have the fbx you can try right clicking on the prefab in the scene , going to prefab > reconnect prefab and selecting the fbx, doesnt work for every model though

otherwise (again assuming you have the fbx) you can still go into blender and edit it, you'll just have to copy & paste the components and whatnot after putting the updated fbx in the scene

[fervent void]

The prefab is premade and I want to replace the fbx with a kitbashed one

[somber sequoia]

not at all what I was asking.

[frigid egret]

Basically, this is with the disko rex specifically. When you import the unity package, you ofc have the prefab that you then put into the scene. The prefab contains the fbx for the bosy and all the clothes which are on the body etc etc. He's essentially asking if there is a way that he can take the original fbx of the body, kitbash it and swap the original body fbx within the diskos prefab with the new kitbashed one

[somber sequoia]

Yes, I understood most of what he was asking for. I was asking if the avatar came with a model file or the meshes embedded in a prefab somehow.

you've answered that though, thanks.

[frigid egret]

Yea, np

[upbeat pebble]

Hey! I have an animation ready to go but I am having trouble adding it to the radial menu, either via the avatar itself, GogoLoco, or VRCFury, which I have installed. The animation is a tail wag and it animates the root bone of the tail (which is also a phys bone) back and forth. I want to add it as a toggle so that it can be turned on and off. How would I do that?

I'm sure the answer is super simple I'm just new to Unity + adding toggles and animations.

[hollow summit]

yep vrcfury makes like easy

add a toggle and set it to toggle an animation clip

[wanton cedar]

im not sure how to weight paint this in a way where it wont... do that

[upbeat pebble]

Sorry how do I do that? 😭

Wait sorry nvm I figured it out

[hollow summit]

give me 2 seconds

💔

[upbeat pebble]

Wait no this is still helpful let me see if I did it right

[hollow summit]

i mean thats how id do it

idk if it the "right way"

but it is my way so

^^

make sure you enable 'save between worlds' under the toggle options if you dont want to keep having to turn it on

my rookie mistake

</3

[upbeat pebble]

It works! TYSM!

[upbeat pebble]

ooooo okie will do ❤️

[hollow summit]

YAY!

i actually know enough about unity to help others 🥹

[hollow summit]

np 🙏

[upbeat pebble]

https://tenor.com/view/worship-praise-bow-spongebob-gif-11700824

[hollow summit]

embed fail but A for effort

🫶

[upbeat pebble]

Lmaooo ik I just searched via gifs idk why it did that

[upbeat pebble]

Whatever it's spongebob bowing

Just imagine it in your mind idk

[hollow summit]

lol

[upbeat pebble]

Thank you so much again 😊

[hollow summit]

yes yes

feel free to lmk if u need help with anything else

no promise ill know how to do it but hey

worth a shot

[upbeat pebble]

Yes will do! 💞 And if u need help w Blender hit me up bc I'm so much better at that than Unity lmao

[hollow summit]

gah I need to learn how to use blender

Ive tried decimating clothing and hair and got my butt whooped

like what do you mean my physbones are gone 💔

[upbeat pebble]

Yeah physbones in Blender would be AMAZING

You can set them up w drivers and kinematics but it’s not the same and no where near as easy

[jagged stag]

heya - stupid/new here - I just pulled my stuff from blender and it does not appear that any of the textures came from blender into unity.. is there some documentation i can look at to figure out how to get all my stuff from blender into unity properly? left is unity, right is blender

[upbeat pebble]

You’ll need to create a new texture(s) in Unity, import the image texture(s), add that image to the albedo of the Unity texture, and drag the new texture from the assets window onto the avatar.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vWr4diTDqJM&pp=ygUdUGhpYSBob3cgdG8gdXBsb2FkIGJyYyBhYmF0YXI%3D

This video covers it

[ornate stump]

You are missing the terminology for "material". Texture and material are differents things.

[jagged stag]

so like

in theory

if my node tree is a little much is this just going to be a hundred hours of my life figuring out how this maps into unity

most of this stuff is also built by someone else so i don't really understand it lmao

[ornate stump]

There won't be a shader that does the same in unity unless you have to make a custom shader that work the same way.

[jagged stag]

ok i am just going to give up i am too far out of my depth for that lol

thank you for the information

[hollow summit]

ok ive got my own issue lol, I have all my visemes set up properly (I havent touched them since opening the unity package for my base) but they dont seem to want to work. all they do is just slightly open for a second whenever I try talking and im not quite sure how to fix it, anyone mind helping me out?

[ornate stump]

How did you actually set viseme? Screenshot where you set it.

[hollow summit]

this?

[ornate stump]

Then that should work. Are you sure that your mic can input proper audio level? If it's slightly, it likely mean your voice isn't loud enough.

[hollow summit]

my mic picks up my voice just fine

other avis that ive uploaded and worked on dont have this isssue

i dont know why this one is different

[ornate stump]

Have you check each viseme individually and see if they can make mouth movement correctly?

[hollow summit]

not yet

tbh i dont even know where theyd be

[ornate stump]

It's will be in the object that's the avatar head.

[hollow summit]

i dont follow 🥲

[hollow summit]

they work

unless that "blendshape weight range is clamped" message means anything idk

[ornate stump]

Clamped means it's limiting value in between 0 to 100.

[hollow summit]

ah

[ornate stump]

That should work. If you still think it's problem then you might have to record how the lipsync is like when in game.

[ornate stump]

Try reset FX layer to defauly and test again.

[hollow summit]

like this?

[ornate stump]

Yes

[hollow summit]

that did the trick!

i no longer have duct tape over my mouth lol

[ornate stump]

No. That just identified that something in FX is causing the problem.

[hollow summit]

do you know why that causes the viseme to mess up?

oh 💔

[ornate stump]

No idea. You will have to look into each layer in fx what it does and how it affects lipsync.

[hollow summit]

how would I do that

nvm got it

[ornate stump]

Just do it like creating layer. I'm not going to go into detail.

[hollow summit]

im thinking about cranking the speed to 100 and seeing what that does

though that might make it worse

idk

[ornate stump]

Well try it and see what it does.

[hollow summit]

can I test the viseme in unity using gesture manager emulator or do i need to rebuild and test every time?

ok that did nothing

[gleaming plume]

if someone has the knowlegde to convert to vrm pls dm

[frail drift]

help... how do i apply mirror modifier not sacrifising shape keys 💀

[hollow summit]

Still need help with this if anyone is able to

id very much apreciate it 🙏

[wanton whale]

hi im mesing around with adding pointless assets money spread and other things and it keeps showing me this error Error while saving Prefab: 'Assets/_Pointless Assets/Money Spread/Money Spread.prefab'. You are trying to save a Prefab that contains the script '', which does not derive from MonoBehaviour. This is not allowed.
Please change the script to derive from MonoBehaviour or remove it from the GameObject 'Money Spread'.
UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent (int,intptr,bool&)

how do i fix this

[junior void]

Sounds like you missed a dependency

[wanton whale]

but all the dependencys are instaled and on

[wanton cedar]

Any thoughts on fixing this issue when i lean the head back, it all collapses

Not sure if I should just make a single bone for each tube and call it a day

[wanton whale]

idk about dependencys but i think this is whats wrong and i dont know how to fix it

[jagged stag]

heya, i'm new to using unity and wanted to import my destiny 2 guardian into vrchat and stuff

initially i was not sure how to get the textures but some people in another server helped me figure out how to bake them.. but in unity I don't really understand how to like... put them into place really. using the chest as a test i tried importing this after baking it, but the shader looks really dull here like it isn't using all of the pieces of the baked texture and I'm not really sure how to manually tell it to use stuff. my first thought was this section (pic 2) under the material thing but I can't click on any of the options there

3rd pic is how the chest looks with baked textures in blender

export process i did export to fbx and then drag and dropped the resulting file into unity

any help would be appreciated!

[ornate stump]

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

Watch material setup part

[jagged stag]

thank you!

[jagged stag]

sorry for the ping! that video helped a ton and i have most of the colors assigned right on here, but the video didn't go over how to do transparency - do you know how to apply baked transparency maps? i tried the "occlusion" tab but it didn't seem to be it

[ornate stump]

Transparency is from Alpha channel.

[jagged stag]

I do not see an alpha channel option anywhere in this - is it somewhere else in the program?

[ornate stump]

You have to pack alpha channel into main color texture. However, Toon Standard shader and other mobile shader don't support transparency.

[jagged stag]

Do you have a recommendation for an alternative shader that does support transparency? the toon one looks right color wise, but the robes look kinda funky without the transparent bits

[ornate stump]

Are you going to build avatar for Quest and Android? Because your choice of using toonstandard implies you're going to.

[jagged stag]

I picked the one that said "vrchat" on it because this is my first time using unity haha - I'm planning to use it on PCVR

[ornate stump]

Then most shaders out there support transparency.

[uncut lotus]

AGHHHH Im so closeeeeee. The wagon does this little spinny thingy as if the colider isnt flat

IDK if this helps, but this is the radius thingy

[broken orbit]

Does anybody know what might be causing the face to be so scrambled in game ? It's a quest avatar I've uploaded to test out

it looks like it might be linked to the visemes but I'm not sure how to fix this

[heavy zephyr]

If it needs to stay flat on the ground, you probably want to add limits to how much the bone can rotate.

[modern glen]

my expressions dont work

i can show the fx

[ornate stump]

Show it.

[modern glen]

like none of them work

[ornate stump]

Do you have other layers that's controlling face expression via hand gesture?

[modern glen]

nope

[ornate stump]

Screenshot again but whole unity screen.

[balmy barn]

when using any state , disable transitions that are using this , very bad

instead of doing it once, you are now doing it 10000 a minute

[modern glen]

but the tutorial has it on

ill disable it and test it

[balmy barn]

tutorial doing it wrong

[ornate stump]

This shouldn't cause the issue if your animation clips are constant. Also try using gesture manager for faster testing.

[modern glen]

well i cant use vr rn

so im testing on desktop

[ornate stump]

Gesture manager allows you to test in unity.

[modern glen]

oh

[broken orbit]

Found the culprit but don't know how to fix this ( UPDATE: it's not only this blendshape, most of them are broken 😭 )

[small valve]

So I tried ALCOM instead of the official VRChat Creator Companion. It works on Windows and Linux, but on Linux, it runs with 2 fps as AppImage or with 4fps if you choose the .deb installer version.
(I also tried the Windows version but this runs smooth like it should)

Only the Appimage and .deb have some serious performance issues.
Any idea why? (I use Linux Mint 22.0 by the way)

[ornate stump]

Try exporting the model again if you're using blender.

[somber sequoia]

Fedora here, using the AppImage, it works just fine for me

I mostly just use vpm though.

[modern glen]

yup youre right it wasnt the issue

[ornate stump]

Check with gesture manager debug menu and see how the animator layers react to your controls.

[modern glen]

where is gesture manager

[ornate stump]

Should be added via vcc.

[modern glen]

vcc?

im sorry

i dont know that

[ornate stump]

vrchat creator companion app.

[modern glen]

oh

yeah it would probably be ther

e

well where is it though

[ornate stump]

manage project button.

[broken orbit]

These are the messages I'm getting when exporting from Blender in VRM format, somehow it doesnt want to export the mesh associated with the blendshapes

[somber sequoia]

does it have an un-applied modifier on it?

[modern glen]

could the problem be that the controler is set to non

[broken orbit]

I'm not sure where I can check that information 😅

[ornate stump]

No.

[modern glen]

so it should be non

[somber sequoia]

click the mesh, look at the wrench icon in the properties box, usually bottom right of the Layout view

[modern glen]

e

[ornate stump]

It's irrelavant.

[somber sequoia]

should only have Armature in there

[modern glen]

okay im sorry

i still cant find gestures

thingy

[ornate stump]

Are you looking in vcc?

[modern glen]

i was looking in the project

[ornate stump]

Screenshot what you're looking at.

[ornate stump]

Gesture manager is right there.

[modern glen]

oh yeah

sorry

will i have to reopen the project

[ornate stump]

Not necessary.

[modern glen]

like close it and open it

ok good

okay its installed

[broken orbit]

that's what it looks like for me

[somber sequoia]

k, this looks fine

[modern glen]

same as vrchat

[ornate stump]

Obviously and I asked you to check the debug menu.

[modern glen]

here it is

sorry

[ornate stump]

That's parameter list.

[modern glen]

please be this

[ornate stump]

You didn't set layer weight.

[modern glen]

oh.

well that was stupid

[ornate stump]

That would be visible if you actually screenshot whole unity screen that I asked earlier.

[modern glen]

thanks though

[jagged stag]

I ended up using poiyomi's toon shader and it worked super well

[rough crow]

why...why is it doing this?

[night ember]

weight painting

either weighted the wrong thing or didnt weight it

[rough crow]

hm.

[night ember]

not sure why you are bothering with the weight paint tab when roblox r6 models dont have the topology to be able to morph and bend properly so you can just set 100 weights in edit mode

[rough crow]

100 weights to everything?

[night ember]

personally I wouldve given the roblox model its own separate armature that then used vrc constraints to be controlled by the humanoid armature

[night ember]

the entire individual meshes for each piece

you only have 6 unique joints with r6

[rough crow]

ohh i seeee.

sorry if im being a pain in the ass its just that im so new having problems of the most common (i think common) things ^^'

[rough crow]

so basically

the arm is 100 weight, the leg is 100 weight, ect?

[night ember]

for each bone you want it weight to yes

you cant have multiple things use 100% weight to the same vertice

[rough crow]

or else everything is gonna fall apart?

[night ember]

well no

itd just shrink the mesh to 0 cause they are fighting for weight

well if you tried to move the bones separately

[rough crow]

sorry for the late response. but i use blender's riggify plugin for the bones if that'll give you some needed info.

[small valve]

Any idea why it could only run at 2 FPS on my Distro? And how could it be fixed?

[rough crow]

is that what i need to shape the skeleton to look like?

[night ember]

for it to not move weirdly

[rough crow]

alright, so despite what my model looks like...the skeleton needs to look like that?

[night ember]

though upper chest is optional
fingers are optional

[rough crow]

ok!

[night ember]

you need to remember its humanoid so your chest isnt smaller than your neck

[rough crow]

ahhhh

i believe that's what i've been doing wrong...

i've been making my skeleton match my roblox model.

[night ember]

which is weird cause the entire torso is just chest

so I dont see why you didnt just make the hip spine and chest the same size

[rough crow]

yeaaaaah, i've been doing THIS.

alright, so does my skeleton have to be A-Pose or T-Pose? unless they're both the same thing...

[night ember]

thats called a reference pose

[rough crow]

oh..i forgot.

[night ember]

a reference pose can be literally any shape

[rough crow]

as long as it's humanoid?

[night ember]

for vrchat yes

[rough crow]

so it should look like this?

i just dont touch the skeleton

then i weight paint?

[night ember]

Id personally make a separate rig for the roblox model

[maiden yoke]

if your trying to add a toggle into unity but that object has multiple toggles that you select from it, how do you get it to work? idrk how to word that properly, but if someone can dm to help me id appreciate it

[rough crow]

so one for the head, and the other for the body?

[night ember]

no

the one on the left is just the roblox rig the head just happens to not need its own bone cause its just the humanoids head bone

you have them separate then just constrain the roblox bones to the humanoid bones

depending on how you want to do it

from experience have the torso be a child of the neck aim constrained to the hip so your head doesnt detach

[somber sequoia]

none, sorry

[rough crow]

alrighty!

[night ember]

what are you even trying to do

[rough crow]

i think they mean settings for a toggle.

I.E.
A basic sword, but you can set a toggle for it to spin.

[maiden yoke]

yeaaaa, im not the best at wording but what they said

[night ember]

just have it be a separate toggle?

[rough crow]

possibly make it a sub-menu?

[night ember]

you can have more than one animation

[maiden yoke]

basically theres this campfire toggle thing i wann add but it has more toggles u can select for it, like color and brightness, im curious how id add all of that onto one toggle, like how u choose clothes, and it gives options

[night ember]

are you wanting 1 button to do everything or

[maiden yoke]

no no

[night ember]

you said one toggle

[rough crow]

i think they meant by one toggle for each thing.

[maiden yoke]

i gave an example?

[night ember]

you just make multiple animations that change each thing

[rough crow]

i believe you can do something like this

"Campfire" (Main Toggle)
"Campfire Settings" (Sub-Menu)

[night ember]

it doesnt really help cause you said "add all of that onto one toggle"

wdym by one toggle

[rough crow]

i believe its missing texture.

[night ember]

did you change the name of something

[night ember]

missing texture would just make the material default to white not go missing material

[rough crow]

ohh

mb <:)

[night ember]

did you change the name of something or delete it

[azure patrol]

no?

[night ember]

the only reason it does that is cause it cant find it

[azure patrol]

that doesnt make any sense tho, the actual toggle for it works just the mats are being like this

[night ember]

then the material is messed up

[azure patrol]

ive copied and redid it idk what im doing wrong

sob

[rough crow]

does this look better? i tried to make the bones as close as the model on the right.

[night ember]

mine was just an example

just think of where the bones are going to rotate from

those arms are very short tho

[rough crow]

just fixed them.

i realized that too.

much longer now.

[night ember]

cause again you are trying to take humanoid tracking and put it on a roblox model

[rough crow]

yeah, and when i view the details of a R6 roblox model, it says that they have 0 bones.

and i just stare at the screen like "how tf do they do that?"

[night ember]

you do know that roblox's game engine just uses objects right?

[rough crow]

...nope.

[rough crow]

alright, so how much weight do i set the head to?

[somber sequoia]

start with 100% and then fade into the neck bone as needed.

[rough crow]

alr ty!

[somber sequoia]

The answer to "how much weight" is in most cases "enough such that it moves how you want it to move"

(but rigid things it's almost always 100%)

[rough crow]

did i weight paint it good?

i spent like

almost an hour weight painting this?

[rough crow]

im actually gonna give up.

i cant figure any of this out, yet people can make these in less than 5 seconds.

[somber sequoia]

Nobody can tell you if this is good from an image like this. The way to confirm is: does it move how you want it to move

[rough crow]

nope.

my entire model is stretched and broken.

[somber sequoia]

(also if your weights aren't normalized (pro tip: turn on auto-normalization) the colors aren't meaningful either)

[rough crow]

what is auto-normalization supossed to do?

[junior void]

Say you paint the head. It will "normalize" other groups involved such as neck and shoulders (depends if they already have a bit of weight added). So it evens it out so that every vertex in the end has a weight of 1 (max) throughout all its groups

[somber sequoia]

the blender manual is your friend: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/sculpt_paint/weight_paint/tool_settings/options.html

hmm though that's a bit overly technical, interesting

[junior void]

If you add weight 1 on head, the weights from all other groups are removed, cuz 1 is max across the rig

[rough crow]

so basically, auto-normalization will be my best friend when weight painting?

[somber sequoia]

Up to you, but I personally like it quite a bit for avatar work.

[junior void]

I like it to get the base working but auto normalize does not know how you expect very tricky areas such as elbows knees and hips to work. So i personally disable it when it comes to detailing bendy areas

[somber sequoia]

yeah I agree with that.

[rough crow]

yeah, im using a roblox R6 model. which doesnt have any bendy parts like knees and elbows.

isnt the subtract blend supossed to act as an eraser?

cuz it isnt erasing anything, its just adding.

[somber sequoia]

I hold control when painting to un-paint. but I also use a Wacom tablet for this.

[long sierra]

My avatar's mouth visemes aren't working, even with the default expressions, playable layers and expression menu, and they are in the list.

[frigid glade]

Do you have any toggles or animations that turn visemes off??

[night ember]

just make it 100% weights for the head and hair

[modern glen]

how does this meter work

[somber sequoia]

to the docs with you! https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/#simulated-eye-movement

[modern glen]

thanks

[keen crystal]

how do i anchor hair to an avatar so it moves with it rather than lag behind? i have it on the head bone

[somber meadow]

exclude the hair's root bone. show your physbone's properties and where it's at in the hierarchy

[night ember]

1 how often it changes targets
2 eye contact

[modern glen]

thanks

[keen crystal]

its a seperate asset i found so idk how this works lol

[somber sequoia]

Oh if it has its own armature consider VRCFury's armature link

[keen crystal]

ohhh ill try that

didnt even think about that

[somber meadow]

you don't need to do that for things like hair

your physbone component is just too high up in the armature

[somber sequoia]

I'd do it in Blender, but that should make things easy in Unity.

Ahh

[keen crystal]

oh where should i move it to?

[somber meadow]

expand the armature object on the hair and show that

there's most likely a "Hair root" object within it

[keen crystal]

oh yeah i see it

so i need it to be on the hair root rather than the armature as a whole then?

[somber meadow]

yeah, but that's weird for a hair asset to have a full armature instead of just the hair

[somber sequoia]

eh, makes it easy to turn it into a VRCFury prefab.

wait, is that ^ the hair's armature?

[keen crystal]

yeah its all under armature

[somber sequoia]

k yeah, that's silly.

[keen crystal]

do i need to do anything specific with the physbones or just keep it as it defaults to?

[somber sequoia]

tweak them as needed until you like them

[soft ember]

heya! I'm just starting out in tryna make a personal avatar for myself, does anyone recommend some like easy tutorials?

I've got a base I wanna use already, main thing i just wanna add to it are clothes

[keen crystal]

omg that fixed it thank you!!! While im here, im having trouble putting on a tongue piercing, i found some made for a different avatar, but im having trouble getting it to move with the tongue. I assume its a matter of maually linking all the blendshapes since the piercings werent made for this avi but is there any easier way?

[junior void]

Nop

[round comet]

Gotta go through and do it manually

Its tedious but worth it

[somber sequoia]

Yeah - "tedious" is the word I'd use too

[uncut lotus]

I was kinda mad now that I think about it. But anyways, I tried to use the hinges, and was confused. Is there a way to have like, 1 hinge vertical, and the other horizontal?

[heavy zephyr]

Use polar?

[somber sequoia]

Yeah use polar then have fun with curves

[modern glen]

why do i look like this in my friend's quest vrchat

[somber sequoia]

which is you here?

[modern glen]

the one thats not a robot girl

hes the bald one ig

[somber sequoia]

okay. I'm guessing from your question that that's not what you intended to look like?

[modern glen]

yes

[night ember]

you probably fucked up the quest version of the avatar

[modern glen]

were supposed to have the same avatar

[somber sequoia]

Do try to ask questions with enough detail so we don't have to interview you to figure out what you mean.

[modern glen]

hes using quest and he sees him self fine

[somber sequoia]

Is your avatar Very Poor?

[night ember]

and?

[modern glen]

it means it works

[somber sequoia]

have your friend look at your nameplate, see if it says it's a fallback. Probably he didn't show you

[night ember]

doesnt look like a fallback

[modern glen]

he says no

[somber sequoia]

Ok well without knowing what it should look like, I have no more guesses.

[night ember]

if it was working perfectly then you wouldnt be asking about it

[modern glen]

okay explain if he sees him self as legoshi how come he cant see me as legoshi

were using the same thing

i dont understand what have possibly went wrong

i uploaded the quest version to android

and the windows version to windows

[night ember]

seeing you as bald or

[modern glen]

okay the baldthing is a joke feature just dont bother

the problem is that he sees me as a robot girl

this is his pov

[night ember]

then thats a fallback avatar

[balmy barn]

need to be uploaded on pc & quest if they are on a different platform

[modern glen]

i did do that though.

[somber sequoia]

yeah my assumption was it'd be a fallback situation

[modern glen]

but theres no fallback text

as you said

[night ember]

there isnt fallback "text"

you need to be fully shown

theres an icon

[modern glen]

okay ill make him send me ss

of the fallback avatar

[somber sequoia]

I haven't got on VRChat with a quest in a long time, so I was guessing what it'd say

[night ember]

its the blue feather icon

[somber sequoia]

but just have your friend show your avatar, or optimize it so it's not Very Poor

[modern glen]

okay he says it shows when he presses the action menu

[somber sequoia]

it says right there, "fallback"

[modern glen]

yeah i said that

[somber sequoia]

you said the opposite: #avatar-help message

[night ember]

have you considered getting force shown

[burnt briar]

whenever i get into the avi the body just starts tweaking

[modern glen]

yeah i also said the it only shows when he turns on the action menu

[night ember]

vague

[somber sequoia]

Yes, and?

[modern glen]

how do i do that

[somber sequoia]

he must have the smaller version of nameplates active.

[night ember]

by having him click on you and clicking the force show?

[night ember]

Im not downloading that

[somber sequoia]

FYI, if you convert this to .mp4 it'll embed

Looks like physbone collisions being weird.

[burnt briar]

there are no physbones tho

[somber sequoia]

well describe/explain how that part is attached, show images, etc.

[burnt briar]

its the entire body thats doing it, not just the chestrig

[modern glen]

okay it worked

[night ember]

whered you get the model
what does the rig look like

[burnt briar]

Gmod workshop

[night ember]

and did you remake the armature

[burnt briar]

no

[night ember]

thats why

[night ember]

you cant just rip the model from the source engine and expect it to work with the broken armature

[burnt briar]

ive used Gmod rigs before that have worked perfectly tho

[night ember]

and?

it needs to be facing -y and not doing whatever its doing in that image

[somber sequoia]

unless every single one is exactly the same, I'm not sure how that's really useful info.

[burnt briar]

Gmod rigs always are

[night ember]

incorrect

[burnt briar]

T-posing?

[night ember]

you have fucked up bones

especially in the fingers where it thinks its not tpose

[rough crow]

mm...how do i replace a model with a different model?

a friend of mine gave me a rig (said friend is a very good avi maker) to use due to the amounts of trouble i've been having with mine.

[somber sequoia]

overwrite the .fbx file

[rough crow]

just that?

[somber sequoia]

Well you may have to deal with things being a bit different in Unity afterwards.

[rough crow]

ah. well, having my model have their rig's components/skeletal structure.

thats what i meant.

unless i just gotta overwrite the fbx and that does that.

[somber sequoia]

It's how you make changes to the model. Those changes could really be anything. The more extreme the difference, the more you'll have to deal with that

[rough crow]

so if i just overwrite the fbx file, my model will have that rig's components and everything that i need?

[somber sequoia]

it will have whatever you put in the fbx file. Whether that's what you need, I certainly couldn't say from here 🙂

[rough crow]

okay!! tyy!!

[somber sequoia]

Physbone on it?

FBT using lock both?

you might have to show it then

[light charm]

hey uhh, guys? how come my avatar can't close it's right hand? like, all the hand gestures don't work on it
i think it may be due to an item toggle i added, how would i fix this?
it's only the right hand btw

[somber sequoia]

start by removing the item toggle you added to verify that broke it

[light charm]

pretty sure it was, since it only started happening after i added the toggle, and the toggle only affects the right hand, so yeahhh

[somber sequoia]

ok then dig into its animator to see what it's doing. I'm guessing it animates the hand because it's a grabbed item or something?

[light charm]

indeed

[uncut lotus]

Is there a way for it to like, affect one point? Im messing around with it, but I just keep ending up with feeling like it would work better I could control one point diffrent than the other

[somber sequoia]

As I said right after, use a curve. Click the "C" button there and you'll get a curve you can use to adjust differently per bone if you want.

[keen crystal]

okay well ive given up on the togue but the nose bridge doesnt move with my avatar in game, is there an easy way to fix that?

[heavy zephyr]

Curves to control what parts of the chain

[uncut lotus]

OH. I didn't realize thats what you had meant. Thanks a bunch

[somber sequoia]

yep!

[keen crystal]

help T-T

[somber sequoia]

why is the nose jewelry on the jaw bone?

actually, if that prefab uses armature link, you can just put it on the avatar root, you don't need to hang it somewhere weird

[keen crystal]

like try putting it on the main prefab?

[somber sequoia]

if by "main prefab" you mean the avatar root object, here "Callisto Bear Prefab PC" then yes.

disclaimer: I rarely use VRC Fury

[rough crow]

alr so i was told to replace limbs of my avatar (ritzycheese) to the R6 rig. but nothing shows up but these two...can someone tell me why?

[keen crystal]

ill try it but i think i did try and it had the same result but ill do it again

[keen crystal]

yeah its not staying in place, same problem

[somber sequoia]

sure are a lot of spammers active today

[worn kiln]

yeah...

[modern glen]

how do i know if this is bool or int or trigger

etc

[somber sequoia]

You don't from there, but the weights are floats, the others integers. VRChat's docs cover all of their provided parameters.

[modern glen]

what are gestures usually

[modern glen]

thx

[rough crow]

can someone help me with this?

[somber sequoia]

it's not clear what you're trying to do

I'd think if you want to swap parts, you'd do that in blender.

[rough crow]

ohhh...

[uneven whale]

Hello. I'm using the latest version of gogoloco, and for some reason the "zombie" mode doesn't work, or rather, the avatar for some reason stands in place with outstretched arms, and can't move forward. What should I do?

[somber sequoia]

One channel is probably fine.

[modern glen]

why does does all right hand gestures do an angry expression while the left hand works perfectly

[keen crystal]

help how do i undo this 😭

i pressed something by mistake

undoing is not working

[modern glen]

nvm i fixed it

[uneven whale]

How can I fix this?

[rough crow]

okay so what im trying to do is make my model (ritzycheese) have the R6 rig. i have to replace textures of it and idk how.

i've been looking around for almost 30 minutes and i cant figure it out.

[somber sequoia]

I feel like I say this very often, but you'd have to explain whatever "this" means.

[somber sequoia]

I don't have a clue what the "R6 rig" is. Maybe it's an armature?

[rough crow]

i dunno if this helps..

[somber sequoia]

not at all. what, in words, are you trying to do?

[upper cave]

Anyone know how to fix this? Trying to model hair from scratch. Been tryign to watch vids on how and it seems to work, issue is that everytime I lift that second point above the first, the hair just twist around for some reason and I dont know why.

[rough crow]

oh. sorry.
basically im trying to replace the rig's arms/legs with my model's arms/legs. i dunno if i do it in unity or blender.

in unity, please tell me how to do that.

in blender. please tell me how to do that.

i was just given the rig, told what to do. then just told "replace limbs ig" with no explanation on how...

[somber sequoia]

blender, merge armatures, edit it to have whatever bones you want wherever you want them.

[rough crow]

do i put both rig and (my) model into blender?

[somber sequoia]

Your goal is to create a rigged model for use in Unity, so yes, you will need the armature and mesh together.

[tawny nest]

is there a tutorial to make a avatar quest and pc compatible

[keen crystal]

Whatever I pressed messed with the lighting, made everything brighter as well as made the eyes and unpainted mesh have the transparent texturing when it was previously solid grey

[keen crystal]

Youtube is a great resource

[somber sequoia]

many

[loud badger]

Hi all, im using vroid, and adding my character into unity, but when adding motions it kicks the left leg in front of right leg, nothing i do fixes this, ive tried in blender but it just confuses me Since I cant make it a fbx as it completely destroys the art work making building it in vroid useless

[somber sequoia]

destroys the art?

oh - do you mean you put it right into Unity and are trying to export a FBX from that? Don't do this.
go from vroid to blender to unity.

[pliant finch]

how do i fix this

[somber sequoia]

move your avatar's origin point so it's at the world origin and make the avatar standing on that point. In Blender or similar (and apply all transforms)

[hollow summit]

My visemes break when I use a custom FX layer for my avi, does anyone know how I can fix this?

[somber sequoia]

first figure out which layer in that animation controller is the problem

[modern glen]

how do i optimize my avatar to the max

so it doesnt show fallback on quest

or does quest just suck

[indigo compass]

You keep your avatar at medium or above, by default Quest blocks anything below medium. https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/avatar-performance-ranking-system/#mobile-limits

Avatar may still be blocked by other people depending on their security settings, but this way will maximize that your avatar is shown by default.

[hollow summit]

From the looks of it the one just called "fx" is causing the issue

when i set it to defualt the lipsync works again but the gestures and toggles break

since those are done by the cutsom fx\

[somber sequoia]

That's an animation controller, even if it says "layer" - I mean in your FX controller there are animation layers.

[hollow summit]

how would I test them individually?

[somber sequoia]

what I usually do is disable all of them but one by setting the weight to 0 in the gear menu for the layer

[hollow summit]

ah ok

do you know if theres a way to test my visemes without having to rebuild and test the avi every time?

like using gesture manager emulator

[somber sequoia]

I don't recall if Gesture Manager does but Avatar 3.0 Emulator does

[lyric yarrow]

Ive just purchased and imported an outfit into my project, and it uses quite a few phys bones, some of which I cannot figure out what in my armature I am meant to map them to.

a lot of these feel like they should already be placed at points in the outfit, however they all apear at my feet

[somber sequoia]

Probably each of those needs to have the target bone dragged into its "Root Transform" slot.

[hollow summit]

they seem to work in unity but not in vrchat

they like barely move at all in vrc

I checked my mic to see if that was the issue but no its being picked up fine

[lyric yarrow]

should the gizmo be moving to the location of the target bone when I do this?

cause at the moment it isnt

[thick basin]

Anyone who makes avatars, can you help me putting GogoLoco on my ReadyPlayerMe avatar?

i can pay with a free art commission!!

I've been trying to figure this out forever and it looks impossible

[somber sequoia]

it does for me, yep

[hollow summit]

The only layer that I could think thats causing an issue is one called 'lipsync' but setting that to 0 doesnt fix it

[lyric yarrow]

oh wait im stupid, yeah my issue now is that I dont seem targetbones to map them to

for some parts anyways

[lyric yarrow]

the ones with pairings are already mapped however they are still at the same location

[somber sequoia]

this is my best guess without having the project or model to look at

possibly the creator has instructions?

[lyric yarrow]

nothing I can find unfortunately, it doesnt seem to be completely broken so ill just see if it works. also rq, is there a way to auto remove physbones which are unused?

I had another part with this import which I have removed, however there are leftover physbones

[somber sequoia]

just select and delete them

[lyric yarrow]

alrighty, the names are kinda cryptic so was just wondering if there was another way

thank you for your help

[hollow summit]

Ive been testing different things that might be causing it but I still cant seem to find whats causing the issue

would you mind taking a look at the project itself?

[somber sequoia]

I'm not really taking commissions at the moment, sorry

[sinful widget]

the sword is messed up even after i weight painted the fix

the bottom of the mask is aswell

[night ember]

so you didnt weight paint it properly or tried to delete bones in unity

[sinful widget]

I didn't delete unity bones

ill send the weight paint

is this wrong

[pliant finch]

hes been imported into vrchat and. he can walk and move just fine but the camera is completely screwed up 😭

[sinful widget]

check your vrc avatar descriptor

make sure the ball is infront of the character

[pliant finch]

where do i find this

[somber sequoia]

there's really nothing useful we can discover from these images

[sinful widget]

that's the way that I weight painted

its all blue

[somber sequoia]

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/creating-your-first-avatar#view-position

[sinful widget]

which

the ball?

or the avatar descriptor

[somber sequoia]

it's a rigid item, and I'd expect weighted to a single bone. why would it be blue?

[zenith minnow]

Could anyone help with this?

[sinful widget]

I haven't weight painted in a while but isn't blue weight means that it would stay together

[somber sequoia]

blue generally indicates a low weight value, red high. It's a heat map.

[sinful widget]

Oh well then ill switch it

[somber sequoia]

but weights are also relative, so....

[sinful widget]

thanks

[sinful widget]

waity

the sword has multiple bones

[pliant finch]

nvm i figured it out tysm

[somber sequoia]

does it flex or something?

[sinful widget]

it can but I don't want it too

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure why it'd have multiple bones then

[sinful widget]

can that really affect the movement?

if its not

set to move the bones

in any way

[long sierra]

I don't think so, but I'll check

[pliant finch]

nope. i have no idea whats wrong with it

[sinful widget]

yea ngl i had this problem before but the vrc avatar descriptor is what fixed it for me

[pliant finch]

now its above his head. Am i simply misplacing the ball? i cant figure out whats wrong

[sinful widget]

is the avatar in unity location set to 0

[pliant finch]

yes

[sinful widget]

i think the view position is somehow glitched in terms of how you place it on the avatar

beyond this the best you could do right now is keep messing with it

[pliant finch]

yeah it wont fix itself. im not sure now to approach this

[rough crow]

so after around an hour, the rig is a unitypackage so i cant add it to blender.

no matter what i add or do

that means i have to do this in unity only.

but the person that gave me the rig is offline, and the person that was helping me is obviously annoyed that im constantly asking for help from them because they know how to make avatars with an indentical rig.

im probably just gonna go to sleep soon...im too stressed out rn.

please. someone just tell me how to replace a rig's limbs in unity, i cant use blender because said rig is a unitypackage.

[somber sequoia]

I really don't see how this can work in unity, nor what your actual goal is.

[rough crow]

they're making it sound extremely easy. its just 2 steps is what they're telling me.

1. unpack prefab
2. replace limbs.

but the question is.

how do i even replace the limbs of the rig!?

they dont tell me. they just say "replace".

[somber sequoia]

again, what is your goal? None of this makes any sense to me

[night ember]

definitely do not unpack

[somber sequoia]

but if someone is giving you instructions maybe ask them to clarify instead of us

[pliant finch]

If anyone else has any ideas for what may be causing this and what the problem may be, just let me know. Everything else is fully functional except for this one thing!!

[rough crow]

cant really clarify if one sounds extremely annoyed by me and the other is offline.

[somber sequoia]

well without some sort of understanding about what your goal is, I have no idea what to tell you except that this sounds really strange.

[rough crow]

so, i'll try to make sense.

my goal is to make my model (first image), to be a part of this rig (second image), textures, bones, and everything.

[somber sequoia]

but why?

[rough crow]

when i try to add my own skeleton, it looks extremely fucked up.

[somber sequoia]

it's far less effort to simply make a basic rig in Blender, and that'll actually work.

I don't understand why you think trying this will 'fix' anything

If you got the armature into Blender, then sure, it's probably doable.

[rough crow]

i cant get the armature since its a unitypackage. blender doesnt accept unitypackages.

[somber sequoia]

put it into unity and extract the model file from it. If there isn't one, go get one from whoever gave you this

[trim shale]

can someone help me a toggle that when u clcik it it works right but when u click on a specific toggle it switched to that one so both of them are not on?

i forgot how

[somber sequoia]

VRC Avatar Parameter Driver on one of your animation states to set the other variable

[trim shale]

i have to go in fx?

[somber sequoia]

wherever that animation is

[trim shale]

its toggles not animations

[somber sequoia]

toggles are animations.

[trim shale]

oh mb lmao

i thought u didnt need to go into animator

i thought just do it in menu expression

[somber sequoia]

you can't do much on an avatar without there being an animation to change things, even if you have something like VRCFury that hides that from you

the menu only sets parameter values, parameter values drive animation state machines, which run animations.

(which do cool things)

[trim shale]

so i needa make a new state

in fx

[somber sequoia]

you can add the parameter driver to an existing state

[trim shale]

wdym by driver

[somber sequoia]

this: #avatar-help message

(edited that, I got the name wrong)

[trim shale]

do i have to create animation

[somber sequoia]

not for that component specifically

[rigid crag]

im trying to find this model

[somber sequoia]

#1138520828556890214

[heavy cargo]

Hey guys! I have the yummers asset by tonicc and it has an audio source trigger on avatar interaction with it I personally can't hear it, but others who interact with it can, is there any way I can make it so that I can also hear the sound effect?

[junior void]

Have you checked ingame if you have avatar sounds disabled

[heavy cargo]

That works! Tysm

[sour sparrow]

anyone have a good tutorial on how to make a good lazer beam?

[somber sequoia]

best advice I have is: play with particles until you get something you like

[sour sparrow]

i see

[somber sequoia]

(it's kinda fun too)

[sour sparrow]

do you know how i can make it so it fires a fast beam but fires another one quickly after and just keeps doing that

[somber sequoia]

there's a bunch of free particle packs on the unity store, I'd suggest going to explore that and see how they all work, you'll get a better idea of stuff like this. A lot of it is experimentation

[sour sparrow]

alright thanks a ton!

[wanton cedar]

Booth, not allowed to be public. (if no one told you already)

[drowsy crane]

how can I get rid of bones off my avatar? I have 584/400 bones, and I got no idea how to get rid of them

[junior void]

blender time

[somber sequoia]

put it into blender and start making hard decisions

[drowsy crane]

shit.

no idea on how to do that either

[somber sequoia]

with that many I'm betting you have a whole bunch of add-on props, maybe try removing some.

or maybe chains 🙂

[drowsy crane]

chains?

[stray trench]

hey guys, any advice for removing makeup from a face texture?

im not very versed with photoshop

[somber sequoia]

a thing lots of avatars have that are usually very very poor.

[stray trench]

i cant stand all the chains

i cant hate all black clothing or the cat ears on everything but the chains is where i draw the line

[somber sequoia]

you can do them reasonably efficiently, but yeah, not really my scene.

[drowsy crane]

no idea...

[junior void]

its also possible that many bones are _end_end_end_end bones^^

[somber sequoia]

haha true

[drowsy crane]

😰

[rigid crag]

yes it is???

[rigid crag]

Booths can be pubs

[wanton cedar]

Theres a Comma

I did not say Every single booth model, just that one

[rigid crag]

the one im wearing is pub

[wanton cedar]

Annnd we do realize that a model which is not allowed to be public can yk.... be uploaded as a public.

😬

[rigid crag]

yeah

[wanton cedar]

Thats the case with that one

[rigid crag]

bru

[wanton cedar]

Sucks, i know

[rigid crag]

wanna know smth

[wanton cedar]

Nah

[rigid crag]

ok

[stray trench]

any advice for this?

i want to remove it with photoshop, the makeup isn't a decal and desaturating didnt work

[somber sequoia]

you'll probably have to paint

[stray trench]

yeah of course i just wanted advice on making it look good

since i cant just use a flat color