avatar-help

[edgy spindle]

He aint gonna hel

Just as stupid as a sped kid

[somber sequoia]

"sped kid"?

[edgy spindle]

U read it right

Special

Needs

Kid

[placid mica]

Just ignore them lol. Pretend they arent here. Theyre doing it for the attention now, so dont give them what they want

[somber sequoia]

yep

[edgy spindle]

Ur so immature bro?

Like

[rough crow]

so, there's somethign wrong with an avatar i made for a friend, whenever i move the arms at a certain angle or point them forward, they shrink and look like paper.

i swear i have everything weightpainted just fine.

[heavy zephyr]

Do you have a screenshot of it perhaps?

[rough crow]

lemme get side views

[edgy spindle]

Ill go to the blenrder chat where they respect theyre members

[somber sequoia]

ideally if we can see the shrinking too

[edgy spindle]

Scree u guys im going to the blender chat

[rough crow]

sure sure!

[balmy barn]

be sure its not affected by other bones, funny things happen

[somber sequoia]

yeah that's what I was thinking, weight painted to more than one bone

[rough crow]

here's a video.

[rough crow]

maybe.

[left gull]

it could be an issue with how limited poly-wise the model is

[somber sequoia]

what in this video are we looking at though?

[left gull]

the arm on the right pretty sure

[rough crow]

the arms.

[placid mica]

The arms shrink

Like on the sides, i can see it

[somber sequoia]

oh! I see it, I was looking at the left

[rough crow]

they like...look weird when i jump, i tried the avi on vr and moved my arms forward and they shrink and turn to paper.

[somber sequoia]

yeah - weight paint for sure

[left gull]

what does the wireframe of the arms look like?

[sour sparrow]

anyone know how to add a decal to the head?

[rough crow]

you mean this?

[somber sequoia]

if these arms have only one segment and should be rigid, I'd paint them 100% to one bone and no others.

[rough crow]

yeah, thats what im gonna try to do.

[pine valley]

yep -- hard surfaces can be weighted to exactly one bone

[rough crow]

cuz it turned out that i had the hand (both left and right) weighpainted when only the forearm needs it.

[pine valley]

ctrl-x to set the weight of the currently selected vertices for the currently selected bone

the default weight setting is 1

tada

[somber sequoia]

aha! That makes sense

[rough crow]

so imma get rid of the weightpaint on the hand.

and see if that fixes it, cuz i made this avi for a friend. and i was taught how to weightpaint roblox models really well, so since thats engraved in my head i can actually make avis whenever i want! :D

[heavy zephyr]

Crazy how we can actually help when provided with accurate information and a little bit of patience hehe, glad your problem is fixed!

[placid mica]

Trueee, haha. However, someone should help this guy. I personally havent worked with decals so I cant help

[somber sequoia]

not sure what shader you use, but Poiyomi has decals, here are the docs:
https://www.poiyomi.com/color-and-normals/decals

[heavy zephyr]

Yup, was gonna say that ^

[somber sequoia]

I've used this a lot

[heavy zephyr]

It's super useful for sure

[placid mica]

Btw, I love your guild tag lmao. For Democracy!

[somber sequoia]

including just today complaining about it lacking a true "disable this decal" option 🙂

[heavy zephyr]

🔥 🫡 🔥

[heavy zephyr]

(Ahem-)

[placid mica]

Oh hell yeah!

[lime cipher]

Hope this is the right place. Something happened and I can't upload any avatars... I'm trying to add assets for a draconian and it refuses to upload. Even starting a BRAND NEW PROJECT (no VRCFury, no shaders, no NOTHING) I get this error... I don't know what to do... any insight appreciated because I'm at my wits' end, here...

[balmy barn]

disable all the others in scene except one you trying to upload, not sure that matters anymore but has caused issues before , also click that

[heavy zephyr]

Is there already an ID tied to the avatar? It is very odd that those are the only 3 errors you get.

[lime cipher]

Still new to avatar creation so I've a lot to learn (Also no ID, this is a fresh start)

[lime cipher]

Got it.

I'll do that

..... It worked

[placid mica]

Yay!

If theres an “Auto fix” button for anything in the SDK console, I always recommend clicking them. Theres a reason that it suggests a fix, anyways

[lime cipher]

I was trying to add these: https://blu3dmodels.gumroad.com/l/DraconianOTPants?layout=discover&recommended_by=search

[sour sparrow]

wait I thought poiyomi couldnt be used on quest

[lime cipher]

Everything uploaded just fine until those

The ID I have has a quest friendly version so i reeeeally wanted to be able to use (it)

[placid mica]

It cant, no. If its quest youre trying to add a decal to then it cant. You’d have to add it to the texture itself

[somber sequoia]

You said nothing about quest. No quest shader supports decals, so.....

[heavy zephyr]

Oh, if you are on quest then you will need to edit the texture yourself yeah. Or maybe using the standard lite shader, adding the "decal" as an emission with low value?

[placid mica]

That’s a smart thing to try! It might work in some scenarios.

[heavy zephyr]

That's an easy way to add details fast, using emission slots, details slots if available or anything really.

[lime cipher]

Gonna attempt to attach my Avatar ID to this new Draconian (and pray it works/uploads) because I kinda really wanna keep my "streak"... 😅

[placid mica]

I never really play around with decals since I always like to make my stuff as quest-friendly/easy to convert as possible. So I usually just edit my textures. Thats a cool thing to know.

[heavy zephyr]

Here, using standard lite.

[lime cipher]

Wait a second... My regular avatar somehow uploaded sucsessfully... ??? This same avatar was giving me so much trouble. I was wrestling with it vor over 9 hours last night (which is why I started this new draconian)

I have so much to learn 😅

[placid mica]

Its probably because whatever asset you added had those constraints that needed to be converted.

[rough crow]

okay! so i weightpainted the forearm only, and it works! its just the arms remain so low and stiff.

[somber sequoia]

the number of times that I've said, "wait, that worked?" when doing stuff in unity is.... large.

[placid path]

Anyone knows how to fix like my arm length on my avatar, like I have my arm a lil bent but in the avi it shows completely stretched off and its so annoying? 👋

[rough crow]

so i believe that means if i weightpaint the hands, the arms would go up like the default animations...

[somber sequoia]

for one avatar, I scaled my upper and lower arm bones down 5% on the Y axis to combat this

[lime cipher]

I... I see

[placid mica]

Thats is exactly what i was about to type out.

I was going to say that originally, too

[sour sparrow]

I'll give jt a try, thanks!!

[lime cipher]

I suppose even the best an dbrightest still have their dumfounded moments...

[placid mica]

Oh yeah. Theres always new stuff to learn

[lime cipher]

A friend taught me how to manually remove paramaters (which is coming in really handy ngl)

I went from barely able to upload an avatar in dec 2022 to.... this (The texture was a collab between me and a friend) 🙂

[heavy zephyr]

Colors go brrrr

[placid mica]

It’s a gratifying feeling, being able to wear something you made like that in-game.

[lime cipher]

I'll be sure to come back to this server if I have any questions

[olive pelican]

Is that an OSHA compliant furry?

Wait no, no steel toes.

[lime cipher]

Y'all were pretty nice to me and I really appreciate that 😅

[olive pelican]

That is pretty psychadelic, ngl

[placid mica]

Of course! It’s nice here too, since the people who reply are actually willing to help, since its mostly just fellow creators and community members. Theres no obligation, it’s just passion.

[heavy zephyr]

And peeps like me who sometimes stumble upon black magic that kills the game-

[placid mica]

Pfff

[olive pelican]

...Wh. How?!

[heavy zephyr]

(Yes the only avatar that is supposed to be there is the kyle robot, everything else is just the game freaking out)

[placid mica]

What in the worlddd

[heavy zephyr]

✨ Magic✨

In this picture you can see :

• The actual avatar I switched to in the middle (kyle, red/white/black robot)
• The previous avatar I had loaded now stuck in bike pose (the lil witch)
• The error robot T-posing
• The loading avatar T-posing

(Not to mention the other side effects this caused, this is still by far my favorite screenshot)

[lime cipher]

Is there an objectively best Gogo Loco to use for new avatars? Some recommend "beyond", others recommond "all"... The sitting/laying positions are nice but all I need to be able to do is fly, lay on my side, back, or stomach (when watching vids with friends)

[placid mica]

Ah!

[lime cipher]

Aaaand the avatar stopped uploading correclt

[placid mica]

I didnt even notice the last two, LMAO

[placid mica]

I like beyond, personally

[heavy zephyr]

I would say beyond if you have the parameters to spare. Just gives you a bit of everything without adding too much still

[placid mica]

Yep

Theres also always the “paramater compresser” feature from VRCFury that you can add to your avatar component

[lime cipher]

A'ight.

[heavy zephyr]

(It also broke every vrc constraints till game restart for everyone who saw the witch loaded for even a frame and broke mirror/camera reflections when she was loaded too)

[placid mica]

Unless optimization is your goal, it comes in handy

[placid mica]

Oh my gosh, Ive never heard of “magic” that bad before

[heavy zephyr]

There was also the bug that allowed your colliders to affect other players, that was fun while it lasted too xD

[placid mica]

Oh pfff

I cant imagine a game like this with player collisions. Oh lawrd

[heavy zephyr]

Want to see a vid of it?

[placid mica]

Sure!

[rough crow]

so i weightpainted the hands

and it works

perfectly.

[olive pelican]

swag

[rough crow]

so, tip for people wanting to make roblox avi's.

weightpaint the hand bone ONLY at 100% weight.

well actually weight paint the hands, legs, torso, and head with 100% weight.

[somber sequoia]

yes - do this for anything that's rigid 🙂

[olive pelican]

Mechanical and rigid stuff always gets full weight on a single bone, yeah.

Softbody stuff is where the "oh god why" is, ngl.

[somber sequoia]

hahaha yes

[lethal temple]

I just uploaded my newest avi, and noticed this bad clipping with one gesture.
How to fix this id have zero idea. All I've ever dealt with is texturing. If anyone has recommendations, or even yt vids to help me learn, that'd be great, thanks!

[heavy zephyr]

You want to locate the state in your FX controller that this gesture triggers and edit the animation

[lethal temple]

Alrighty, tbh i got no idea where how to even find it xD. But I know what to start looking for now

[heavy zephyr]

On the root of your avatar -> Avatar descriptor component -> Playable layers section -> FX controller

[lethal temple]

Sweet, thanks. Ill start looking into that tonight. Much appreciated

[light charm]

does anybody know how to fix the "transparent box" on the icons? the lower icons are what they are supposed to look like, it's just the upper ones that have this issue
i noticed that when i imported the icons into unity, the background was white, unlike the others which were black? i believe that might have something to do with it? i just don't know how to fix it, any help would be appreciated, thanks ^^

[somber sequoia]

check the "alpha is transparency" box on the image files in the inspector, but they should probably also have alpha transparency rather than a colored background

[pine valley]

If you don't check that, the image preview in the inspector will ignore the alpha channel

it shouldn't prevent the icons from actually rendering properly, though

i suspect your icons have a non-transparent background

[light charm]

they have a transparent background

[pine valley]

share one of the broken images in here

[edgy needle]

Need help with VRCFury - Some of my facial blendshapes are getting stuck toggled on and it'd driving me insane. Let me know if I've set the toggles up totally wrong. It seems to be like a layer issue

Also while you're at it, how do I change the GoGoLoco desktop sitting pose for when you click Z? I managed to replace the standing and prone poses but still can't find the root of that one

[light charm]

they seem to have this very slight background??? which i have no idea what causes that

[heavy zephyr]

They do have a background

[light charm]

but they shouldn't

and i don't know why they do

[heavy zephyr]

Edit them to remove the background

[light charm]

how?

[heavy zephyr]

Any image editing software, GIMP for example is free

[somber sequoia]

image editor, select that color, erase it, assuming you have an alpha channel

[light charm]

thx, i fixed it

[wintry ledge]

when i switch to another tail in playmode its shaking a bit,a bit worse when i sit down,what could be the cause? is something wrong with the tail itself or is another asset making it shake? 🤔

[west elm]

I'm a bit new to this so bare with me. I just added a new outfit on blender to an avatar i paid for. In unity, the outfit is showing on the FBX but not on the prefab and i have 0 clue why

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure what you mean here, what prefab? and what does "showing" mean here? are you speaking of just the textures?

[west elm]

The model or mesh while in the hierarchy, isn't showing up in the scene. The prefab meaning like the drag and drop the part with all the textures, scripts, coliders, etc

The left being the FBX without all the textures just the raw model and the right being the prefab with everything on it

[drowsy crane]

whenever I change something in blender for an object/accessory, whenever I go back to unity the objects appear extremely small, without color, and out of place, why does that happen?

[somber sequoia]

ok so it's an avatar prefab, got it. Probably just doesn't have the right materials applied, and if the FBX file looks like it does, it's using the embedded stuff from Blender (or whatever)

[somber sequoia]

I'd bet you're exporting them with different scaling settings than they previously had

[west elm]

Nope! i had tested that theory cuz that was my first thought as well, both of them are using the same mat

I applied it the same blender mat to test as well and didn't seem to help either

[raven field]

Im trying to add a new racesuit that i made for my avatar, I have the armature setup and everything, and im using vrcfury armature link, but its just not working, i can send more info if needed but im just stuck

[eternal shuttle]

when i add a new prefab in unity, it takes FOREVER to load in

highest it got was close to an hour before i used task manager to unfreeze unity

i get an editor.unknown.oninspectorGUI popup and it just locks unity in place until it goes away

any suggestions?

[young bear]

Is it possible to control the stretch of a physbone with animation?

I'm trying to make a system that relies on a bone's stretch value to move a specific object towards a separate specific object without using constraints but the problem with that is I can't figure out how to set the stretch value to start with. I wanted to start off stretched and I can't figure out how to get that to work.

[dark jay]

I did eye movement right it moves in blender and in unity right but in vrchat it doesnt seem to move. What should i do

Doesnt blink either

[somber sequoia]

there are preview buttons in the VRC avatar descriptor, do those work?

[proper depot]

I have never experienced this before? Somehow my avatar's face is changing back it its original shape? Mia has a head edit, and when looking up and down her face changes? This blendshape also does not exist anymore, not too sure.

Found the fix nvm xDD

[night ember]

theres a look up look down under blink

[proper depot]

yup thats what it is xD

tysm!

[frail badger]

question just in case someone knows more about the Av3Emulator addon thingy: im trying to set up a new 2022 avatar project via the creator companion, and when i use the latest version for both the VRChat SDK and Av3Emulator, I get a bunch of compile errors along the lines of Packages\lyuma.av3emulator\Editor\GestureManagerBridge\GestureManagerAv3MenuEditor.cs(129,70): error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'Vrc3' does not exist in the namespace 'BlackStartX.GestureManager.Editor.Modules' (are you missing an assembly reference?)
Anyone know how to fix this? im not afraid of digging through code, but i have no idea what id change the correlating reference to in order to fix this

i've been downgrading both packages all this time but im just like. curious if theres an easy fix i can do

[cursive belfry]

can someone help me out i want to try to make my first avatar but tuts are rly hard for me and i need like step by step as i go and ive wanted to for a super long time

[junior void]

its unlikely someone will volunteer to give you a 1:1 teaching because "making an avatar" can take weeks if not months. i did that before <.<

you might want to go one question at a time to get support

[odd dust]

Hey im having a really weird issue and im asking here because i cannot figure this out myself. There is a material on my avatar im making that i edited to be different colors than the base of what it was and it works in both unity and the preview when you select the test build of the avatar, however when actually using said avatar the material is not correct. I have even attempted using a different material on that same body part and it refuses to change after rebuilding the avatar several time and deleting the previous test builds from my avatar list to prevent any issues there

Has anyone had this issue before? and if so what can i do to solve this/what causes it?

[junior void]

it sounds like you may have an animated material in your fx layer

try removing the fx layer temporarily and see if that fixes it

[odd dust]

here are images showcasing the issue if that helps at all.

The arms are supposed to be a different color than the defult material but they refuse to actually load as such in game

[odd dust]

Im testing removing the clothing since it does have an animated glow in the clothing however i dont really know how that would affect the arms?

[uneven phoenix]

This video here demonstrates the amount of problems with my avatar I made.

• First: The arms are just wrong. Hard to describe, really. Somethin's just up with em. In the clip, I reach my hands as far forward, and to the sides as I can, but you can't tell I'm doing thay because of how messed up the arms are.
• Second: (the desktop recording isn't doing it justice) when I move my head up, the whole body, like, moves to reach for it? So whenever I look up, the body levitates off the ground to reach the head. (Which is why I'm constantly looking around)
• Third: The reason you can hardly see Reason Second is because my character's neck is blocking the view. The neck is a seperate object, so it makes sense that it's visible, but what's strange is that, the neck just shouldn't be visible from where I placed the View Position (See attached photo)

Help lol

[junior void]

Are your arm bones 100% straight?

[uneven phoenix]

They might not be.
Would that really cause them to scrunch up THAT much? They're definitely only bent a little

I'll get back to you on that

[junior void]

If your elbows are not bent whatsoever, the ik will not know which way is backwards, so which way to bend the arms, resulting in them also bending forwards

you should really share an image of your armature

[uneven phoenix]

It's 1am, and I didn't expect a reply so quickly. I'll come back with updates tomorrow lol

Thank you for being so fast

[junior void]

Well, it's middle of the day for me ;P

[dawn wharf]

the fx layer is changing it

[shut yoke]

What is happening here? Yesterday it was fine...

[junior void]

I dont see the problem?

Tick the box

[ornate stump]

Have you tried this?

[shut yoke]

yes, I've tried that. Maybe something is wrong with my account, because in the game I can't log in

[ornate stump]

Side note, be aware when using scene from sample assets. It will get wiped out when there is package updating. You will have to duplicate the scene file and move into Assets folder.

[shut yoke]

Ok, but i have updated the avatar yesterday at night, but when i turned my PC on and opened my project, it gave me that error. It was working fine, I haven't touched anything

[placid mica]

I'm still a newb to blender. I tried to add these little mouth teeth to the top teeth in blender, which seemed to work fine, but when T imported back into unity it's still independent? I tried following a guide on how to add a seperate mesh to a vertex and I thought it worked but apparently not

[ornate stump]

You should merge the tooth into the face mesh.

[placid mica]

How do I do that?

[ornate stump]

Joining mesh: select objects, and main object last, ctrl+J

[placid mica]

Thank you! I'll try it now.

[ornate stump]

How did you made it move to begin with?

[placid mica]

Selected the teeth vertex on the head and the mouse teeth mesh and used ctrl + p -> vertex

[ornate stump]

So that's parenting to vertex which doesn't apply to unity.

After joining you have to edit the shapekey to move the teeth.

[placid mica]

Oh okay

But, does that mean I'd have to do it for every mouth shapekey?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[placid mica]

Aw hell naw

Mannnn

I messed up my previous avi in the unity project because I didnt know how to just import the FBX so it overwrites the old one

It caused the entire body to dissapear

[ornate stump]

This could be prevented by not unpacking prefab in the scene.

[placid mica]

I assume theres no way to undo it?

[ornate stump]

No.

[placid mica]

Fuck

It's okay, pumpkins avatar tools saved me

[pale knoll]

Oh

[gentle goblet]

Um...so idk what I've done wrong but my boobs don't have colliders properly, like the collider is SUPER specific and small unlike other avis where the entire boob moves when your hand brushes over it and idk how to fix this >~>

[frigid glade]

You can just adjust the collider radius in the physbone section

[gentle goblet]

Oh? Wait but if you change the collision radius doesn't it change how they can move too or am I just dumb >~>

[balmy barn]

just how they interact with finger colliders

bone should me middle ish then radius for rest

[heavy zephyr]

Hello again :p

The collider size only determines interactions with hands and other physbone colliders you may have specified on the component itself. It has nothing to do with how it moves just how large the area that detects collision is.

[warm magnet]

Hey, I just wanted to see if anyone recognised this hair asset? I've been trying to find this exact one for a while now so i thought I'd chance my arm at trying to find it here

[somber sequoia]

#1138520828556890214 is your best bet

[warm magnet]

okay cool thanks

[lilac musk]

From how that avatar looks, I doubt that hair is a separate asset. It was likely modeled with the other parts for purpose of building the character.

[surreal salmon]

i am trying to export a fbx back into inity after having added a few blend shapes. but the entire mesh dissapears. i set to fbx all didnt apply modifiers and turned off leaf bones butthis still occurs

all objects are selected prior to export including armature

is there something im missing

[somber sequoia]

Is your avatar prefab unpacked in the scene?

[surreal salmon]

unpack completely?

that dont help

[somber sequoia]

no I did not say to do that

[surreal salmon]

undid

[somber sequoia]

If it is unpacked, this will prevent updating it by updating the FBX

[surreal salmon]

they were prefabs

[surreal salmon]

an no it wasnt unpacked

[somber sequoia]

Good. That's usually the cause of this.
Do you see the mesh objects in the hierarchy?

[surreal salmon]

yes

the objects have that lil box but no outline when selected

[somber sequoia]

huh no outline is weird, seems like a mesh issue rather than material.

if you drag a new copy of the fbx into the scene, does that work?

[surreal salmon]

fbx looks normal until i run it through gesture manager, then it kinda scrunches up

[somber sequoia]

ok - I'd probably try to switch the rig setup to generic and apply, then redo the humanoid setup.

(make backups, etc, etc)

[surreal salmon]

ill try brb

just re added the fx layers and stuff to the fbx an that seems to resolve it

[somber sequoia]

oh cool

[coarse flint]

How do I create a Transparent texture but for the mobile version? Using Vrchat/Mobile

[somber sequoia]

you don't

transparency is not supported on mobile devices.

[coarse flint]

Particles Textures are not suit?

[somber sequoia]

are you making particles?

[coarse flint]

No. glass

[somber sequoia]

then no. You can try tricks with additive (probably look in #avatar-quest history) but you won't get real transparency

[coarse flint]

Another person has already tried to do the same thing as me, thanks for the hint

[somber sequoia]

it's a rather common question

[surreal salmon]

how do u turn a blend shape into a animation?

in unity

[somber sequoia]

Do you know how to make animations in general?

[surreal salmon]

no

im kinda aiming for something functionally likehow u might use a radial slider to change the shape of a mesh but automatically going back an forth

[somber sequoia]

ah well there are LOTS of tutorials about making animations. In this case once you hit the record button, you just slide the blendshape slider to the value you want, and it'll record that.

[surreal salmon]

aight

[naive quartz]

if i want to make an avatar run on custom animations, do i use generic rig? for example, model + all animations such as jumping, running etc.

[steep herald]

You want to use Humanoid Rig

[balmy barn]

Just make the generic av in blender, so it has a 'avatar' mesh animator can talk to, if theres none it will fail ( what you get if you try to do it in unity )

this is a ' plane ' avatar from blender just flipped abit and set origin to bottom of it

what you get if theres no mesh

[naive quartz]

With tracking components on each state?

Because when I just change the animations inside the blendtree, replacing animations like stand still don’t seem to play the replaced animation correctly in - game. Mainly the legs.

[steep herald]

This is a common issue, but yes you still want Humanoid. It just has a lot of upsides, the ability to retarget anims, Unity is specifically designed and optimized for it, it also just handles locomotion really well. Unless youre making charles the choo choo engine or some monstrosity. What exactly are you making/trying to do?

[naive quartz]

Just a game model with game animations, running, strafe right strafe left, jumping etc. want to make an avatar that runs fully on animations.

It’s just for personal use, as I’m desktop myself.

[plucky mantle]

#1405784687871398039 Help please? This has been open

[stray trench]

anybody know why my left hand is pointing when im on desktop?

[slender loom]

Hello, sorry for the random question. I know this will probably sound odd like this should be basic but does anyone know how to scale an object so it fits on a characters head or body perfectly? I'm just having trouble with this since with the regular cosmetic your not supposed to see the hairline. Also side question, is it possible to make facial hair track the mouth movements of a character?

[plucky mantle]

https://feedback.vrchat.com/bug-reports/p/execution-order-of-constraints-and-physbones-incorrect-on-the-local-client-after Please uprate this

[quasi kestrel]

Hey so im having an issue when I uploaded my avatar my hands dont move and their stuck in a claw position

[toxic dagger]

Very Unique scenario i have but does anyone know any way I can change the name to a part on an avi and not have to redo all the animations for it?

Im trying make this avi MMD World compatible and the only reason it's not is cause the head is named "Face" Instead of "Body"

[toxic dagger]

Do you have the gestures controller on your avi?

[stark meadow]

idk but you could make a copy or new fbx with the change to test before you overwrite what works

[candid thorn]

How do i change materials that are greyed out (please explain in images if you can bc I've had really good explanation in words but i can't seem to find it well)

[surreal salmon]

place another material on the object its assaighned to

[candid thorn]

Right but how

[surreal salmon]

drag and drop

[candid thorn]

And that will change the material

[surreal salmon]

yes

on said object

[surreal salmon]

if u find where that material is on the object u can replace it with another

either in hierarchy or in scene

[candid thorn]

What do you know that actually worked thank you

The other explanation were more convoluted

[frail badger]

having an issue where my jacket's UV mapping is being completely ignored in unity. first is how it looks in unity, second is how it looks in blender

[primal wind]

Does anybody know how to fix this?

I imported an FBX and it did this

[balmy barn]

your av is unpacked, overwriting it does funny things like that

[surreal salmon]

u wont see the standard texture anymore

[uneven phoenix]

My problems, explained via new video
(I fixed the issues in the screenshot, so it's not that)

[primal wind]

No that wasn’t the issue, I reimported the FBX and it did that

Know how to fix it though?

[digital cairn]

Does anyone know of any prefabs or props that are of a waiter's plate and top cover with food on it? I'm looking for one to put on my maid avatar (I dont know the proper name of it but basically what's being held in the gif below)

[somber meadow]

would be a pretty easy asset to create ngl

[dry ibex]

How to fix texture looking liek this in unity?

[somber sequoia]

you'd need to explain what is wrong and needs to be "fixed", we don't know what you are going for.

[dry ibex]

bru its like lower quality look at the unity photo

[somber sequoia]

okay, it's not clear from your statement that that was what you were trying to fix

[balmy barn]

remove power of 2 if you want crunchy textures

unity will smudge it slighty when you have any

(very low texture)

[dry ibex]

This worked!! thank you so much

[quasi kestrel]

I think so it came with the animations

[limpid nest]

Anybody else getting avatar upload fail with no error besides it saying it failed to upload, and granted I have tried it on multiple models on multiple unity projects and avatars

[surreal salmon]

try sketchfab

[cedar echo]

I'm having a weird issue
My physbones are showing and are working in unity, but they aren't showing up in game

[somber sequoia]

You'd need to provide detail, of course.

[heavy zephyr]

If you have too many physbones, they get removed at upload, the SDK warns you of it. This is especially prevalent on Quest.

[cedar echo]

That's probably why, what's the max

For quest

[heavy zephyr]

Just look at the builder section of the SDK and read the part about physbones. If it's red and telling you it will be removed, that's your culprit.

[cedar echo]

Yep, it's telling me that
It wasn't saying the earlier tho

Thank you
I'll optimize them

Am I able to make one bone the put all of the bones under it to make that more optimized?

This is for hair and a hat

And they have all the same stuff

[heavy zephyr]

An easy way to reduce their numbers is by combining physbones using the exact same settings into one.

Usually on hair, beginners tend to add one physbone per hair string. Instead, create an empty object and put all the strings as child then add a physbone to that empty object with those same settings

[cedar echo]

Thanks for confirming that

[sly rose]

Heyy, is there a shader for Quest for Transparent Textures ?
Cause the mouth of my avatar is a png image

[somber sequoia]

no

[frosty junco]

trying to edit the bounding box for an avatar's body because it is phasing in and out of reality when I look at it from certain angles, but when I click "edit bounding box" nothing pops up

cant for the life of me figure out why

[somber sequoia]

make sure you have gizmos on - upper right icon in the scene view

[frosty junco]

oh

duh

[somber sequoia]

yep

[frosty junco]

thank you

[sour sparrow]

anyone know of a quest-compatable way to add outlines to my avatar?

[sly rose]

so how can I do it then ?

[somber sequoia]

You can't have transparency on mobile/quest. If you have things you want to not show up, cut them out of the mesh.

[sour sparrow]

why dont you just use toon standard and make the main texture your mouth texture

and make shading flat or however you need

[sour sparrow]

also, would there also be a way to add a noise kinda texture to my whole avatar? or is that in toon standard and i just need a noise texture

[sly rose]

wait what do you mean by that ?

[sour sparrow]

use the vrchat shader called toon standard in unity

[sly rose]

I already tried that it just make a black plane

[somber sequoia]

Possibly you have black vertex colors causing that

[cinder frost]

Suggestions for keeping avatar feet from clipping through the floor?

[modest ridge]

i have 14 materials in total on my avatar, when i upload it in game it says i have 17 materials
what am i missing?

also today i only edited a texture and after i uploaded it it went from 16 to 17 which made my medium avatar poor, i juts dont get it

[somber meadow]

Material slots are different. If you have multiple material slots on a mesh using the same material, you should merge them in blender

[modest ridge]

everything would be fine if there didnt suddenly a new material slot appear, i literally just changed the color of a texture and reuploaded it

[modest ridge]

can you recommend a tutorial video on how to do that? never used blender before

[somber meadow]

I mean as a basic remedy, you could also use D4rk's avatar optimizer in Unity.

[modest ridge]

i already use that

it says 16 there

ingame

[naive kelp]

i had just purchased the nemesis ver 1.11 avatar off of booth vr and i'm very lost on what to do to bring it into vrchat

[orchid gazelle]

Hello everyone! I was wondering if I could get some guidance on something. There was an avatar I found that had this neat Repo death effect that I wanted to try making for myself.

I'm a complete novice though with Unity and still have yet to touch Blender. Would anyone be kind enough to at least give me some guiding points on how I can replicate this?

[ornate stump]

Most of them are just vfx, made with particle system, and audio.

[orchid gazelle]

Yes, I've gathered that much ahaha. I'm just not sure how to add some sort of shader to the entirety of the avatar to be red like that, and then have some sort of shattering particle system similar to that

[timber wharf]

you just animate existing shader, add red emission

as for particles, unity asset store has a few their own free particle packs that are great to look for how its done, including explosion with debris

you can set your own skinned mesh as a shape for emission

[orchid gazelle]

Oh okay, I see. So I would have to do an animation to essentially toggle all these things

So for the particle effect, I assume the way it works is that the process would be

Red emission > disable viewing the avatar > enable the particle exploding effect + explosion

also I didn't know you could set a skinned mesh as a shape. Interesting! Thank you. I think this might help me get a bit of a better idea on how to move forward with this

[timber wharf]

ye sounds about right

[orchid gazelle]

Great, thank you

[fallow dome]

Does anyone know why my texture looks like this in blender?

[arctic ginkgo]

looks like a specular or metallic map, that looks like it's reflecting the default HDRI

[fallow dome]

How do I get rid of it?

[arctic ginkgo]

well you can remove the map from the slot. It could also be roughness

[glad jackal]

Okay, how do I change the shape of the nose? There is a transformation bone indicator for the nose, but it is only for the 'boop' feature's hitbox. not the shape of the nose itself.

[arctic ginkgo]

I'm honestly not too familiar with blender's shader stuff, since I mostly just use it for making models to export

[arctic ginkgo]

you would need to edit the model in blender if there are no blendshapes or bones that deform it

[glad jackal]

so I cannot add a blendshape through unity?

[placid mica]

Nope

You can only add shapekeys (blendshapes) in blender

[arctic ginkgo]

I believe you can with scripts, but you'd have to have the know-how for that

that's a lot more difficult than just editing the model in blender anyways

[glad jackal]

So it is a matter of practicality then...

[arctic ginkgo]

yeah, it's technically possible, but it's more practical to use scripts to generate things like shapekeys depending on other things, and impractical for pretty much anything else when Blender is right there

for example, there's a tool that adds shapekeys to your body mesh to make the skin appear to have clothes digging in to the skin/skin sticking out of the clothes

[tall juniper]

what do i do when my png avatare is under ground

[junior void]

you check the origin

[tall juniper]

alright i will do that

[tall juniper]

how do i fix this

[gentle goblet]

So I changed the colliders and now my hands actually move my boobs better, but since I changed them my boobs try to clip through my when I move and yeah, move in a weird way >~>

[junior void]

clip through what

[ornate stump]

Your cube object must be a child object of avatar root.

[tall juniper]

Oh alright

[chrome veldt]

hey can somebody help me with something.

im having issues with the sdk when it comes to a project of mine.

i input the code on the sdk the right way and it just wont work, this started as soon as the new tos update after it logged me out.

[ornate stump]

This isn't even a question for "experience avatar creator".

[junior void]

what

[chrome veldt]

What do I do. It's not letting me log in even though i can log into all my other avatars just fine.

[ornate stump]

Into other unity projects you said? It might be just cache being weird, so try deleting Library folder from project folder and open your project again. Close unity first.

[chrome veldt]

what is in that folder anyway?

[ornate stump]

Unity generated data which will be auto generated whenever you work with the project.

[chrome veldt]

oh pk

ok*

[chrome veldt]

didnt work.

[ornate stump]

Then you might have to create a new project and move the Assets folder into the new project.

[chrome veldt]

pain

[tidal void]

Been using Moe for a while, and something weird occurs with her eyes. Any facial animation that happens due to hand gestures has its eye movement locked lookijg straight ahead.

Not holding anything will allow your eyes to move normally and look other people, etc. But any of the gesture animations will cause eyes to freeze dead center.

I checked the animations and there don't seem to be any eye blendshapes in them.

What could be the cause of it?

[pine valley]

Click on the animator states and see if they have any behaviors attached to them

[pine valley]

e.g.

It's possible that the states are turning eye controls on and off

IIRC this prevents blinking?

(otherwise, you can have issues with "double blinking")

[pine valley]

the "animator states" are these things in the Animator window, btw

[tidal void]

Interesting

[pine valley]

Yeah, that'll do it.

If you don't mind double-blinking, I think you want to set the "Eye & Eyelids" row to "No Change"

(I'm a little unsure; I haven't actually used that thing before)

[tidal void]

I see that the creator added a blinking thing with a parameter driver below. I gotta see if I can unlock the eye look without messing up blinking

[pine valley]

There is probably another layer that reacts to that parameter.

[silver trail]

I need help. I'm not sure how to get the head to have color I've been trying everything 😭 🙏

[ornate stump]

You just have to set texture in the Shading tab.

[silver trail]

I'm a beginner so I'm slow

What do i do next???

[ornate stump]

See the button with open icon? That's where you choose your texture.

[silver trail]

IC

so this?

[deft dock]

Hey, im trying to make my first avatar quest compatable, but it ruined the poor thing and she's become this weird creature, and tips?

[ornate stump]

That too. If texture you wanted didn't exist there then you open with the 📁 button. That's the universal icon meaning "open file".

[ornate stump]

Your material has to be cutout but quest doesn't support cutout material. So you have to actually edit the mesh to "Knife" it to the shape.

[deft dock]

Oh ok, do you have a tutorial for that? I am not that good with this

[silver trail]

all the textures exist it just doesn't want to apply it.

[ornate stump]

Try searching for "knife" in this channel.

[ornate stump]

Are you sure you're selecting the correct material?

[silver trail]

I believe so yeah

[deft dock]

theres nothing here

[ornate stump]

What nothing?

[deft dock]

"knife" is only mentions and some guy spamming bump 😭

[ornate stump]

Are you actually searching in this channel?

[deft dock]

Oh sorry

[silver trail]

Now I need material for my head

[ornate stump]

Add Image Texture node and link to the base color slot.

[silver trail]

how do i add "image texture"?

[ornate stump]

There is a "Add" menu button above.

[somber sequoia]

shortcut is shift-A

[silver trail]

Yay!

@ornate stump Thank you ❤️

[silver trail]

does anyone know how to size this onto my model?

[somber sequoia]

What I do for this is push and pull vertices around with Proportional editing on. Often scaling from a center point.

[silver trail]

https://tenor.com/view/loading-brainlet-slow-drool-stupid-gif-17153019376913981122

[silver trail]

how do i "push and pull verticles"

[somber sequoia]

My best advice if you don't know what that means is: learn blender

select a vetex, 'g' to grab and move it around, that sort of thing.

[silver trail]

yeah I'm learning right now while making this avatar.

[somber sequoia]

this will be very hard if you don't know blender, but if you've done one of the decent tutorials, probably you'll already know what I mean

[silver trail]

I don't know any good tutorials

Do you have any?

[somber sequoia]

"The Donut Tutorial" comes to mind, or various ones by someone named Rainhet. But I honestly haven't really looked lately since I don't need basic tutorials.

[silver trail]

[somber sequoia]

I'm sure others here probably have some suggestions

[silver trail]

Do you know anybody that can personally tutor me.

I'll pay em

[somber sequoia]

I don't, sorry. Perhaps the Blender Community discord?

[silver trail]

[junior void]

🤔

[azure snow]

I'm sure there's a better way or a script for this that I've seen it in the past, is there a script that exists for multiplatform uploads, but attaching a different object - and if so, is it in the sdk or is it an external package, if so, could I have the name please

Oh nevermind! If you click the 3 dots next to "Selected avatar" there's a Per platform override
https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/per-platform-avatar-overrides/
Should have read more before posting

[drowsy crane]

i used a drawing program called fire alpaca to make my albedos,
what I did was grab the original textures of the assets im using, then I went into fire alpaca and added my own colors/patters, then I "saved as..." and then I changed it from a fire alpaca file, to a png file, then I opened my files app, and dragged and dropped said textures into unity, THEN I slapped said textures into the albedo of the materials that came with the asset, would they work for my avatar?

[quasi frigate]

How do I fix this? My avatar has arm up like this

[ornate stump]

If you can view that png file then sure you can.

[drowsy crane]

hell yeah, didn't have to spend a single penny on some frickahh app

[ornate stump]

There are more others free alternative as well.

[somber sequoia]

is that just a 2D image editor?

[drowsy crane]

just a drawing software that I use

[somber sequoia]

cool

[drowsy crane]

yeah, had to use all three of my neurons to be able to think of that and actually act upon it

[somber sequoia]

I'm always on the lookout for new things to replace Substance Painter.

(got high hopes for ArmorPaint, it's just not stable yet)

[drowsy crane]

now I gotta learn how to attach objects to the nardoragon model in blender and optimizing the mesh in Blender and adapting everything

[junior void]

keep dreaming

[somber sequoia]

me? yep, I know.

[junior void]

ye lol

[drowsy crane]

it was kind of a pain to paint it, because I didn't know where the colors would end up, but I solved it by painting each bodypart a different color

[silver trail]

Does anyone have knowledge on how to add clothes to avatars that don't fit? Please let me know. I can pay you handsomely if you can get on a call with me and show me step-by-step on how I can do this.

[somber sequoia]

Yeah you'd need to look at the UV map for that. This is why Substance is so good

[somber sequoia]

Happy to give you pointers and nudges in the right direction, but I don't do calls

[junior void]

depends on the asset and the way you aim to add it later really. also be aware of scammers

[silver trail]

I'll pay up front

[drowsy crane]

yeah, but you gotta pay for substance painter 🥀

[somber sequoia]

Yeah you do. I'm very annoyed that I think it's worth the money.

[junior void]

that seems fairly easy

what are you stuck at?

[somber sequoia]

The weight painting is going to be way worse than just the reshaping.

[junior void]

data transfer and anti clip blendshape

[drowsy crane]

weight painting is to separate things that move more from the things that move less?

[somber sequoia]

no, it's to make things move when a bone moves

[junior void]

weight painting dictates how much a vertex moves with any given bone

[drowsy crane]

ahhh

kinda what I was thinking

ish

[silver trail]

[drowsy crane]

I do NOT wanna work with Blender, but I am forced to😔

[junior void]

once you got the hang of it, youll laugh at yourself aving procrastinated at all

[somber sequoia]

Once you get started, you realize that using Blender opens up a whole world of possibilities

and that.

[silver trail]

I hate blender 😭

[drowsy crane]

you guys are synced 😭

[somber sequoia]

We might do this a lot

[junior void]

yea we sorta know each other a little lol

[drowsy crane]

nice nice

[junior void]

we keep bumping in here together xD

[ruby summit]

im trying to add these clothes to my friend's avatar but the rig doesnt wanna follow the arms (im using vrcfury armature link)

[drowsy crane]

you guys really do help

[junior void]

double check that the bones of the short are the same names as the names on your base

that is how vrcf matches bones

[drowsy crane]

how long have you guys been working with blender and untiy?

[ruby summit]

they are named the same as the ones from the base

[junior void]

mind showing us screenshots of your asset hierarchy and the base?

[ruby summit]

its really messy since i literally imported the outfit from fortnite's eleven

[junior void]

i started in unity, dreading blender. did that for 7 months ish until i met my master - an asset that does not have one single anchor point but multiple, so i had to use blender to attach it. that was 2 years ago

[drowsy crane]

dangg

[somber sequoia]

I started working with Autodesk 3D studio a long time ago. Not Max.
Only picked up Blender when I got into VR, maybe 3 years ago?

[ruby summit]

so...

[drowsy crane]

what I would do is finding clothes made for that model, and make my own texture bc im lazy

[junior void]

so you ripped apart the shirts armature to parent the bones under the base bones?

[silver trail]

👨‍💻

[ashen crane]

when importing my avatar to unity, it seems to have flipped all the bones to the wrong side??? in blender its normal, but in unity it seems to have mirrored my model in the wrong way? (notice how the shield switched sides)

plus unity seems to confuse left bones with right ones, and vice versa

[somber sequoia]

probably scaling or other transforms in Blender

select all (probably) objects there, and apply all transforms

[covert fiber]

can't believe i joined in vrchat server because very desperate trying to make roblox avatar into vrchat and the obj not appearing in pmx editor when i try to import or drag

uh hello, needing help

if it's okay

[ashen crane]

partially fixed, having another problem where it doesnt seem to save the avatar definition when pressing "apply"

[somber sequoia]

exactly where is this apply button?

[lilac musk]

Why are you using pmx? I'd assume roblox models are just simple shapes and so blender would probably be better.

[covert fiber]

well i keep following a tutorial and it said to use pmx editor for accessories and avatar separated (?) i'm really confused at everything

i know how to use blender like modelling but not at rigging

[lilac musk]

I'd suggest looking up rigging tutorials and import your roblox stuff to give it a shot. Blender is what most people use for VRC avatars and therefore you'll likely get more help if you too are using it.

[covert fiber]

okayy, will look up for rigging tutorials and try to import the roblox avatar

thank you for the advices

[lilac musk]

Maybe it's not applying because it's encountering issues? Did you fix that spine and chest issue you have? I'd assume chest shouldn't be set to root

[ashen crane]

the chest bone in this case is called root (for some reason), but idk how to fix the spine issue of "length of zero"

[lilac musk]

Probably means the hip and spine are in the same location. Might try skipping that bone and set it's child as spine?

[ashen crane]

hm ill see what i can do

another problem that keeps happening is that it moves my model super far away, messing up the bounding box of it

[lilac musk]

Strange. That model and it's rig might need to be reworked

[ashen crane]

ive viewed the rig thorougly tho, i dont see any problems that could mess up the importing THAT bad

[pine valley]

the object itself might have a weird position / rotation / scale

I like to apply all transforms to both the armature and the models

[drowsy crane]

I cant find the quest nardoragon fbx in blender, why is that?

[lilac musk]

What? Are you trying to import an FBX from a Unity project or something?

[drowsy crane]

Im trying to add the hair, fins, and clothing into the nardoragon model itself so it doesn’t ask me about material slots, and the fins look weird

[ashen crane]

i have done that already tho, im having a major problem where even if i press apply to the avatar definition when configuring the T-Pose, it seems to not want to save my pose, even if there is NO problems in it

[somber sequoia]

Yeah looks like that's not the right bone in that slot

you'd need to fix that first.

[ashen crane]

i did

[drowsy crane]

I found the fbx :p

[somber sequoia]

ah good

[ashen crane]

but it still doesnt want to save my t-pose

😭

[somber sequoia]

not sure what you mean by that?

[ashen crane]

ok so i have found issues in the head bones and now unity finally saves my t-pose!!

[stray trench]

this avatar's eyebrows are it's own material that uses transparency, causing the quest version to look like this

is there any clever trickery i can do here? or is my only solution to paint the eyebrows onto the skin texture

[crude moat]

I ran into an issue when trying to put player pickup prefab on my avatar. IsLocal parameter is intager on avatar and boolean on prefab so I can't merge controllers. Will just removing the parameter and replacing it with correct type work or will I have to manually edit every instance of IsLocal appearing on either avatar or prefab to match the other or is there any easier way to do it?

[somber sequoia]

IsLocal comes from VRChat as a boolean. You can make it something else and it'll be translated, but yeah, you should be able to just delete it and remake it with the right type.

[crude moat]

Thanks

[stray trench]

any ideas for this?

[somber sequoia]

Cut out the mesh where it's transparent.

there are many tutorials for this, it's needed on basically all vroid avatars

[silver trail]

When sculpting, is there a smoothing-out button? I need to know because some outfits don't fit, so I'm sculpting, and it's coming out pretty horrible.

[somber meadow]

Look through the different brushes in sculpt mode. A smoothing and elastic deform brush exists

[silver trail]

Which one is best when it comes to stuff like this?

[somber sequoia]

the one that does the thing you want - I'd say try them all.

I almost never use sculpting mode for this, but the smoothing one is pretty ok

[silver trail]

Thanks for the input. I'll try it out.

[crude moat]

I have a quesion. Can IsLocal be anything other than true or false? I'm not asking if theoritically it can be set to something else I'm asking if there is any real difference for it to be something else. The reason why Im asking this is that I just realized that IsLocal on my avatar is float... And to check if its 1 or 0 it does 'IsLocal greater than 0.5000001'. Is there any possible reason why it's like that or is it as pointless as it looks like?

[indigo compass]

Pretty sure that is simply an optimization that VRCFury or something is doing.

Converting to a blendtree is generally better performance wise, but it only works with floats.

[somber sequoia]

VRChat will set it to true or false, but if you make the variable in your animator not be a bool, then it'll be set to the equivalent for whatever data type you use

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/animator-parameters/#mismatched-parameter-type-conversion

[crude moat]

Ohh. Thanks for explaining that to me.

[stray trench]

im trying to search for it on youtube, what would i search? or any videos you can recommend?

[drowsy crane]

How can I attach this hair piece to the nardoragon fbx itself?

[grim condor]

You can join the meshes by selecting both in object mode then using ctrl + j

[drowsy crane]

Thats it?

[grim condor]

should be yea. You may want to ensure that the UVMaps have the same name, and if you have a seperate rig on that object then you will have to deal with that too--but the process of joining a mesh is technically just ctrl + j

[lilac musk]

So if I've got an unsynced parameter, can I use a parameter driver to sync it manually or are those only for proper synced parameters?

[grim condor]

also you can use alt + PrtSc on your keyboard to take a capture of your monitor, instead of using a camera like your phone

[drowsy crane]

Thx

[bright silo]

afaik, parameter drivers don't sync the parameters they drive, they only set the parameter to the desired value.

[lilac musk]

Ah dang, alright thanks

[grim condor]

Second this,

but you should be able to use them like a failsafe.
Like if you have a system with many stages, so long as theres a way to trigger that driver to bring it to where you are locally/where you want it to be-you can kinda ensure syncing like that

ie. itd be a way to "unstick" a state in your animator if things do get desynced

[drowsy crane]

Just ruined my whole project, gotta start it over again 😁 🔫

[somber sequoia]

I don't really have a list of these but I imagine any one of the vroid -> quest avatar tutorials will have this.

[rough crow]

hey, someone is wanting me to do something to their avatar.

basically, they want me to do this thing where you set the avatar to a certain height, then the model changes. i've seen an avatar that does something similar to this.

[pine valley]

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/animator-parameters/#avatar-scaling-parameters

[somber sequoia]

you can trigger animations bas... that 🙂

[pine valley]

There are some built-in animator parameters that tell you about your scale

[rough crow]

oh, ty!!

[ruby summit]

does anyone used CATS before? im trying to re-rig something for my friend by using cats but each time i fix the armature it changes the things i already did on the model

[somber meadow]

“Fix model” should only be used on MMD models or some VRoid models

Never use it on already working avatars

[ruby summit]

thats the thing, it doesnt work properly

the shirt and pants are both the same model but the rig doesnt wanna follow the movements (im using vrcfury)

[unborn fox]

Does anyone know of a guide or are willing to assist with teaching me on how to make particles become pvp particles?

I'm working on a series of weapons with them for pvp worlds.

[ruby summit]

i already renamed all bones i have and it still looks the same

okay this might be the problem?

ok no still the same

any ideas?

idk why everything follows the body perfectly EXCEPT the arms

[frosty junco]

something ive been struggling with recently is the fact that if you look at my avatar straight on and get close to em his body dissapears, ive already altered the bounding box but to no avail

cant figure out whats wrong

[sour sparrow]

this is probably very obvious, but what I find useful to be is save a prefab of everything before you do something that your unsure will work.

[sour sparrow]

is your clothing model mapped to your main armature in blender?

[sour sparrow]

(i did this with particles, its very useful for if you mess up your model

[ruby summit]

??

I don't think so

[sour sparrow]

try doing that, in blender there should be a wrench icon, if you have your base character and clothes in the same file, go to your clothes, click on the wrench, then set the modifier to deform and armature, then under that you should be able to apply the armature to the clothes in the first field.

[quasi frigate]

why does my avatar hay her arm like this when i upload her and in play mode?

[gentle goblet]

Hey so how do I move the physbone collider for things, whenever I move it then it also moves the body part

[sour sparrow]

wdym?

[sour sparrow]

I could be wrong, but I think thats normal sometimes with models in play mode, but I could be wrong.

[gentle goblet]

Well the physbone collider is off for my boob abit so I want to move it but whenever I move it my boob moves with it.

[quasi frigate]

It keeps doing it once I'm in vrchat too though

[sour sparrow]

maybe you have a physique collider active on another body part, like the spine or smth?

[sour sparrow]

strange... your armature might be messed up then. im not 100% but you should probably wait until someone more experienced can answer that.

[gentle goblet]

No not like that, even out of playmode. I don't know how to change where the collider starts so all the changes just pivot it

[somber sequoia]

where it starts?

[sour sparrow]

I forgot what setting it is but isnt there a setting to change that kinda thing?

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure I know what this means yet

[gentle goblet]

So the green is my collider for other things but shows where my boob would be, but the white is the actual physbone collider. I need the white to move down more

I can only angle it

[somber sequoia]

You can't move the physbone, it's the actual bone

Move the bone if you want to do that

[gentle goblet]

Shouldn't it be aligned already then >~>

[somber sequoia]

if by "aligned" you mean the same position/length as the actual bone then it should already be

[gentle goblet]

Well it is aligned with the bone but it's slightly above the actual boob design

[somber sequoia]

"boob design"?

[gentle goblet]

~> If I could send it this would be so much easier

[somber sequoia]

do you mean the mesh?

if so then again, move the bone

[gentle goblet]

Hmmm alright

[ruby summit]

Just in case the body and the clothes uses a different armature

would that work even with that?

[sour sparrow]

no you would have to have them be the same armature

[somber sequoia]

if you're working in blender there's no real reason to use multiple armatures other than you're making an asset for sale. If you're just making your own avatar, just use one

[sour sparrow]

exactly

plus thats the only way it can work with unity

[somber sequoia]

nah, you can use multiple in Unity, it's just some work to setup, or use something like VRCFury's Armature Link.

[sour sparrow]

oh wow

well its recommended anyway so

thanks for that bit of info, im learning more everyday

[somber sequoia]

any day you learn something new is a good day

[sour sparrow]

yes

I do need something that might be useful if you or anyone knows, is there a way to get outlines on quest?

[chrome veldt]

so this error is making me lose my mind

does anyone know how to fix this.

[ruby summit]

well thast the issue, there are 2 different armatures

[ruby summit]

the real reason: im not good at re-rigging and weight painting

[sour sparrow]

I think you can use a blender plug in called cats to merge them but I could be wrong

[somber sequoia]

you don't need to re-rig but might need to touch up the weight paint.

[ruby summit]

ok so how do i do that then, like transfer the mesh to the new armature

[ruby summit]

thast what i was using but their server already told me that method is wrong

[somber sequoia]

change which armature is in the armature modifier for the mesh. That's it.

BUT. You probably need to rename the weight paint groups to match the bone names.

if they aren't already the same, that is.

[ruby summit]

i already did that multiple times and never worked

[ruby summit]

yeah thats the thing

[somber sequoia]

obviously I've no idea what you did or didn't do but that's literally all you do to swap armatures.

[ruby summit]

so i gotta switch these

the names

i mean

[somber sequoia]

Weight paint vertex groups are matched to bones based on the name of them.

So yes

[ruby summit]

ok its starting to work :D

good part of this is i can now do a quest version for my friend

[sour sparrow]

oh goodie

[ruby summit]

okay now how do i export the new clothes, do i just export the mesh or do i need to export it with the rig?

[somber sequoia]

I would export the entire avatar in one go, armature and all the meshes.

[ruby summit]

okayy

[ruby summit]

fuck

[somber sequoia]

weight painting time

[ruby summit]

ill rather kms

[somber sequoia]

it's part of the process, you really can't avoid it

[ruby summit]

yeah

worst parts is im doing this for free for my bestie knowing he doesnt even play vrchat

at least he surely will use it as vtuber

[dawn wharf]

Where can I find my shader presets? I am working with liltoon at the moment

Ah, found 'em

[rigid turtle]

Hey no problem! Big tip here, if you want to do weight painting like (SUPER QUICK) try and download Robust Weight transfer for blender

As long as the mesh is fitting around the character and looks right you'd just transfer the weights from the original mesh to what you're trying to add!

:)

[somber sequoia]

Yeah that'll often get you 90% there

[rigid turtle]

Mhm!

[ruby summit]

yeah i luckily remember i had it tysmm

now for what im testing it works fime

now time to add my friend's tail since the base tail is too long

[frosty junco]

what else could cause a mesh to dissapear besides the bounding box being the incorrect size?

because every time I look up at my avatar it dissapears

and ive fixed the bounding box already

[rapid moat]

neck keeps snapping

[ruby summit]

each time i join meshes this happens

yk what fuck my friend ill keep them as different meshes for now

[somber sequoia]

hard to see, but are those different sizes?

if so, apply scaling transforms to all meshes before joining them

probably just do all transforms really

[ruby summit]

already applied them and still gets big

[somber sequoia]

that's quite strange

not sure I've seen that happen

[ruby summit]

ok finally most work done

[rigid turtle]

Hey thats a really cool design!

I like it! 🙂

[ruby summit]

tyy, ill make him know

[rigid turtle]

Super cool fursuit!

[ruby summit]

ill try if i can make one of those sunglassses assets where he can pull them up and down

[sour sparrow]

thats really impressive

[ruby summit]

tyy

also thank fortnite and stranger things for the outfit lol

[rapid moat]

i weirdly figured out it was from the fortnite model..

[ruby summit]

fortnite eats so bad with the outfits that i MUST take them

[maiden yoke]

how does one make a clothing toggle to where for example, if you toggle jeans it puts jeans on and takes the shorts off

[ruby summit]

this boi is done :D , tysm for yall's help

[somber sequoia]

looks fine to me. drag your model into the scene and start creating the avatar.

okay. it's not on the video

what is it you need help with then?

[primal spruce]

anybody know how to make a animation? (i wanna have a toggle where my hand stretches out, i love to make it a slider or gesture controlerd where if i make a fist it goes far, or just a simple toggle with a animation will do)

[lime marsh]

upload help? ive made many booth avatars b4, but now when i wanted to make a change and reupload the avi it says "avatar validation failed" and the sdk window doesnt show up warnings anymore. I've unattached the ID, closed the project, reopened the project, even reimported the project. there has to be a fix im missing thats not just "make a new project"😭

[somber meadow]

Open the console, enable collapse, and show the details of the error with the most outputs (number on the right)

[maiden yoke]

does anyone know how one can make a clothing toggle to where for example, if you toggle jeans it puts jeans on and takes the shorts off

[lime marsh]

is it okay if i dm or call u? i feel like it would be easier if u could see my screen😅

[lime marsh]

i use modular avatar to make toggles for my stuff, i could show u how i make the, its super ez

[maiden yoke]

sure just pm me

[lime marsh]

idk what pm means😭

[maiden yoke]

dm basically

[ruby summit]

for some reason MMD blendshapes doesnt work with my new avatar

does anyone know the problem? i even added the mmd compatibility from vrcfury, and i use this exact same base on other avatar that CAN use mmd

and they seem to work perfectly on unity

his face is not moving an inch

[junior void]

Do you have vrcfury blendshape optimizer on the avi?

[frosty junco]

how can I stop the root bone of my avatar's body mesh from changing once its rendered

like once I enter play mode the root bone changes from hips to another

[lunar umbra]

Looking to call someone while I learn blender

[primal spruce]

anybody know how to make a animation? (i wanna have a toggle where my hand stretches out, i love to make it a slider or gesture controlerd where if i make a fist it goes far, or just a simple toggle with a animation will do)

[mild sandal]

STUPID QUESTION: how do i get hairbases added to my avatar? / babyhairs underneath the mesh hairs?

[dull cypress]

Can anyone help me. im trying to upload an avi and it wont show in the game?

[lilac musk]

The channel name is Avatar Help, so if it's to do with avatars, then you in the right place.

[spark walrus]

does anyone know why my maya clothing i made would do this?

everything is auto weight painted but it is all flattened out and weird

[lilac musk]

Might help if you show a picture of the weight paint of the issue area

[spark walrus]

would it be ok if we moved to dms so we dont fill the chat?

i want people to be able to recieve equal help

[lilac musk]

It's best to keep the converation here for multiple reasons. Top of those being you get many eyes to help find your issue

[timid crown]

Anyone else having this issue?

• I'm using Unity 2022.3.22f1
• Opening a fresh project
• SDK3 Base and Avatar Repository ver 3.8.2
• VRC Package Resolver Tool Ver 0.1.29
• VCC ver 2.4.2
• Nothing else is in the project.

[spark walrus]

ah. ok. it's just i feel guilty when i fill a chat with something small like this

but ok

1 sec

[timid crown]

I can't just download an SDK3 package on the website because only VCC has the recent packages

but the VRC 3.0SDK doesn't seem to be installing/importing as intended on VCC

[arctic ginkgo]

they do anyways (at least people will respond to what they know how to help with just the same); don't feel bad bad for using the channel for its intended use.

[mild sandal]

will beg for hairbase avatar blender help

[timid crown]

I'm not that knowledgable when it comes to weight painting since it's been years since I last was doing 3D Modeling but.... What is up with the skirts weight painting?

[spark walrus]

thx. :3

i guess my dad was right about how im too hard on myself

[spark walrus]

everything is using auto weights

i am quickly learning blender skills day by day to support my new booth store i recently opened

[lilac musk]

I'm no expert on weight painting, but that looks odd. I'd suggest trying to do a data transfer from the base mesh of the avatar

[mild sandal]

speedrunning shapekeys rn

[timid crown]

it looks like it's weight is entirely on the knee armature

[spark walrus]

data transfer?

[timid crown]

just feels strange to me... again, Don't know much about weight painting but it really seems off.

[lilac musk]

It's a modifier that will transfer the vertex data (weights in this case) from one mesh to another.

[timid crown]

especially with the clipping

[lilac musk]

Though it wont do much with the skirt, so you'll probably have to do that manually

[spark walrus]

like the body mesh contains all of it?

[lilac musk]

The body mesh already has vertex data for the rig, so you'd use the data transfer to sample that data and add it to your new mesh

[mild sandal]

🥺

[spark walrus]

are you ok?

[mild sandal]

i need help of a wide variety

[lilac musk]

https://youtu.be/chhDOs-u-08?feature=shared This video shows it at the end. Don't know if it's a good video as I just skimmed through, but should give you an idea. Only thing I have to add onto the video is use "Nearest face interpolated" on the mapping.

[spark walrus]

ah. ok thx

[mild sandal]

was just lookin on how to apply shape keys to basis

sorry wanted a safe place to ask stupid questions

[spark walrus]

listen to me right now comrade. i may not know you but in my book no stupid questions about unity/blender exist. if you need help with something it is never stupid to seek help

[mild sandal]

dude im so scared to speak up

[timid crown]

BTW, Reasking again... Anyone else running into this issue or has a fix? It appears that my VCC is refusing to import/install some dependency from the VRC 3.0SDK despite loading the packages for them.

[mild sandal]

ily rn

[spark walrus]

im gonna do something rq

[timid crown]

2nd!

Blender's learning curve is like the difficulty scale of Library of Runia... That is to say it's VERTICAL

[mild sandal]

vertical, and fast 💖 i love blender rn

[timid crown]

Theres so much shit I don't understand about it and thats comming from taking a whole year of learning Autodesk Maya for professional level 3D modeling and animation.

the skills are the same but the way you go about it are so vastly diffrent

[mild sandal]

^^ this lol i pretend its microsoft powerpoint and hope for the bst haha

[lilac musk]

Select the basis shape key. In edit mode, select the parts of the mesh you wish to apply a shape key to, go to Vertex>Blend From Shape, then select the shape key in the popup window

[timid crown]

between all the addons that make life so much easier and the key bind changes and basic functionality of the program makes it one of those continuous learning programs

[mild sandal]

... oh god

[lilac musk]

?

[mild sandal]

select the parts of the mesh you wish to apply a shape to?

[lilac musk]

Yea, if you want it to apply fully, just select everything. It's just usefully to select part sometimes

You can also apply all shape keys if you need as well

Click

[mild sandal]

okay, i've adjusted the shapekeys to my liking, im just trying to apply them all to basis, as i want her face to just remain those features

how do i get to this?^^

[lilac musk]

It's in the shape key section of the vertex data

[mild sandal]

yes, i right click but it doesnt let me apply to basis?

[lilac musk]

Click the down arrow thing on the right

[mild sandal]

"Apply selected key to basis"?

[frail badger]

hey yall im ✨ losing my mind ✨

Im trying to set up expressions and toggles and whatnot and i set them up exactly like how i set up my first (working) one and they arent working. theyre set up identically. how. is it not working. does anyone see a problem

.

i think i. just. figured it out

maybe.

[lilac musk]

I've never understood what this setting is in your first pic, but it seems to disable the menu item if it's disabled. Might want to enable it again?

[faint pike]

I want to change one of my gogo loco sitting animations but whenever i switch the animations to the one i want to use it just doesnt work how would i do it properly

[lilac musk]

The documentation for Gogo explains how to add new stuff. https://teeth-fetch-gdl.craft.me/CxY701Ne9Ng5Ev

[fathom flicker]

Can anyone help me

[somber sequoia]

maybe if you explain

[mild sandal]

okay after applying shape keys to basis, they all disappeared. does this mean theire deleted? and i can import to unity?

[fathom flicker]

it shows sdk error

[somber sequoia]

show the first 2-3 errors, not the last. And this one is unfortunately not useful

[somber sequoia]

oh one of those situations. I usually restart unity for that

[fathom flicker]

i did

created a new project and restarte the pc

@somber sequoia \

can ya help me

plssss

[mild sandal]

kazin our superhero fr ngl

[fathom flicker]

🙏

@somber sequoia

[mild sandal]

because i sculpted th eE-girl body base thinner using blender-sculpt, do i have to add every clothing in blender, and hand-sculpt it to the base?

[somber sequoia]

wow you pinged me twice?

[fathom flicker]

i did it

[somber sequoia]

chill, dude.

[fathom flicker]

it uploaded after i used vrc quest tools to bake it

idk what that is but it worked

[spark walrus]

does anyone know why this is doing this? it's for @mild sandal

[mild sandal]

fixed it

❤️

[fathom flicker]

Is it alright if i use normal sdk instead of legacy sdk

@somber sequoia

[ornate stump]

You might want to answer why you still want to use the legacy sdk.

[fathom flicker]

it says on the avatar pagfe

can ya help me

[ornate stump]

Does the avatar page also say it requires unity 2019?

[fathom flicker]

no

it says 2022

how to solve the prefab error pls help me

[ornate stump]

It's saying right there

[fathom flicker]

idk?

@ornate stump im new to this idk what to do

[ornate stump]

Please change the script or remove it from the GameObject 'Right Lower Arm'

[fathom flicker]

i found this in the ,menu

[ornate stump]

That doesn't even relate.

[mild sandal]

https://gyazo.com/d2adb52c0449662bd6c5c617e91929a6 anyone got a unity materials fix for the eyelashes?

[ornate stump]

You have to create new material an use it instead.

[mild sandal]

how would i do that? add a component?

[ornate stump]

If you had zero idea on everything then you should watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRAnDMUbWt8

[mild sandal]

what do i do if it won't let me change from standard to poyomi??

[ornate stump]

Can you change shader to anything at all?

[mild sandal]

nothing at all, its shaded out and i cant shsnge it to anything..

[ornate stump]

Did you watch the video the part that create new material?

[mild sandal]

it just opens the drop-menu to show more options i cant change, yes, and now my materials are solid black

no alpha

[ornate stump]

Did you watch the video the part that create new material? That's what I said to "create new material an use it instead".

[mild sandal]

okay im so so soryr if im that much of a dumbass but i created a new material , and its STILL solid black..

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot your unity screen?

[mild sandal]

1 moment

https://gyazo.com/96d9373164af24ccbcf5be526981b916

sorry bc gyazo

:c

[ornate stump]

You didn't select the new material.

[mild sandal]

https://gyazo.com/326d6c9de047171b7841a5e6bd45ed9c

what am i missing

im so embarrased rn im beyond stupid

[ornate stump]

You clearly didn't watch the video thoroughly.

[mild sandal]

brb one more time.

[ornate stump]

Just focus on material setup part.

[opaque birch]

Good morning everyone, I ended up picking up a face mask to use for my avatar, It comes with a gimmick that allows you to lift it up via it's Physbone, However it seems that whenever I grab it's physbone the bone freaks out and starts vibrating causing the mask to flicker.

Was wondering if anyone would have an idea on where to start troubleshooting this? I'm sort of at a loss.

[This only seems to happen in game as well in the editor the mask/bone moves smoothly]

[lucid shadow]

Is this an internal vrchat error?

[ornate stump]

Some other people also got that and seems to be specific to a project.

[lucid shadow]

what do i do then?

[ornate stump]

If you're really sure that you're inputing the code correctly. Then you would have to create new project and move assets into it.

[mild sandal]

I am starting over by imprting my blender FBX into unity. would these be approproaite "basic" repositories to start with? https://gyazo.com/45319e35317418e49a6c0e9a60acaeea

[ornate stump]

The basic would be only the vrchat sdk.

[ornate stump]

And there is no reason to startover. I'm saying to you to focus on "material setup" part.

[mild sandal]

i became uncertain of where i started. It felt better to cscrap and start fresh

[mild sandal]

I'll be honest I'm afraid to ask further questions haha. I have an empty unity project now, and am following the instructions given

will lyk how it goes this time 🙏

[ornate stump]

No need to.

[mild sandal]

importing textures first, organizing now! thank you for your time

[mild sandal]

i made a new material. now i need to make it transparent?

therye white now hahaha im going in circles

[wanton cedar]

Are you using Poi?

[mild sandal]

yep!

[wanton cedar]

Are you trying to make the entire area transparent like glass or just part of it

[mild sandal]

transparent like for lashes and brows :c i cant figure out how to do it

[wanton cedar]

You would do the transparent option

just need your image with the transparent parts

[mild sandal]

https://gyazo.com/d8c1137176178eb1a41c62eaa0e3de52 what does it mean if it doesnt looo like that?

[wanton cedar]

I dont click links

you could just send the image here

[mild sandal]

sorry, its a gyazo=screenshot

im unsure how to senc direct images, im really really not tech savvy. im from SL lool

[wanton cedar]

do you not have snipping tool on your device??

[mild sandal]

no, i've only used gyazo to screenshot my whole time :c i apologize for the sketxhiness

[wanton cedar]

Its fine

You should probably look into the snipping tool because that just makes pngs to your clipboard

but you would need to make a new material and replace the old standard ones

you can do that by just dragging the new one on top of the area containing the old material, aka lashes

[junior void]

Windows + s key

[mild sandal]

it wont allow me to drag onto it as of now, but let me try another way

[wanton cedar]

you can go over to the side and assign mats here if you cant drag and drop

[junior void]

Does it become a block sign when you try to drag it in?

[mild sandal]

yes!^^

[junior void]

Then youre trying to drag it onto the material settings

Go above that, there are materials again, probably collapsed

[mild sandal]

sorrry. been looking for a person to ask the stupid questions^ thank you tons for this

[junior void]

The image above shows the correct place expanded

[mild sandal]

i fee llike such an idiot

[wanton cedar]

You're just learning

we were all at that same stage at some point

[mild sandal]

I feel so scared to ask nowadays haha. Im really gld yall are willing to trnslate what things mean instead of just what goes where. Its the little things im desperate t learn

[wanton cedar]

Better to ask than remain confused

[mild sandal]

I see 0-4 elements, one is for "Browlash".. if i have one for color, and one for the transparency, how do i apply that in unity?

https://gyazo.com/f41aaadd9309a0e2a684f70907799a03

[wanton cedar]

do you have an alpha map?

[mild sandal]

I have a base color and black n white texture?

nessy's AMOUR head

[wanton cedar]

you can put the color in texture and alpha in well, alpha (black and white texture)

[mild sandal]

added.. should i see a difference? https://gyazo.com/838b153e347263456c0c5e31f3a28f32

[wanton cedar]

swap opaque to transclipping for start

[mild sandal]

.....

that fixed it lmfffao

omggg i feel so stupid but i would NOT have known to do that!! hahahaha

im laughing so hard omg

thank you

[wanton cedar]

you're welcome

you can play around with those settings to see which one works better for the lashes

its a lot easier if the color options have a transparent bg tho

[mild sandal]

I see, it provides different "look" options for the texture?

[wanton cedar]

mhm

cutout and transclipping are best for hairs (personal opinion

transparent is good for flat surfaces like face shadows

[mild sandal]

shoot, then things like metal, and eyes shouldnt be too hard.. its just assigning materials..?

[wanton cedar]

mhm

[mild sandal]

thank you for teaching slow for me 🙏

[wanton cedar]

id recommend using the outline for the body and such

gives it a nice look

[mild sandal]

i just clicked outline and it drowned my avi in a huge white blob haha im curious about that look youre describing?

[wanton cedar]

you need to adjust the size

like 0.0008