avatar-help

[torpid flame]

Yes, I can navigate to the correct binding where my settings are visible

But like I said, it doesn’t translate in game

Should the steam VR binding settings be set to default or custom?

[somber meadow]

it'll work no matter what, as it runs as a VR overlay within SteamVR

don't change the steamvr bindings for VRChat itself

[torpid flame]

So leave that at default?

[somber meadow]

unless you want to change the bindings for the game

[torpid flame]

When I do that that default setting overrides whatever I do and OVR though

In+

It’s like the steam VR controller settings are dominant

Hella frustrating

[somber meadow]

something got confused when setting it back up

[torpid flame]

Any suggestions?

[scarlet zinc]

How do I fix this error for making an avatar? I'm an amateur creator so idk what to do.

[pine valley]

I've had this happen in a world because UdonSharp was watching way too many directories for script changes

i'm not sure how it'd happen on an avatar...

(well, at least, a very similar error -- it wasn't a problem with setting up communication with a build process)

i'd restart your computer

[scarlet zinc]

Ive been trying to figure it out for like an hour or two -^-

[scarlet zinc]

Lemme see if it'll work

[cunning grove]

How to I get the head and heart to look the same in Unity?
I love how it looks in Blender and i want it to look the same in unity :<

[pine valley]

set poiyomi's lighting mode to "Realistic". It looks like it's on "Flat" right now

you also need reflections and specular enabled, but I see that is turned on

turn the smoothness up a fair bit (and maybe make it metallic)

[sullen mulch]

Can anyone tell me how to make a contact toggle where it toggles on when it goes in.. but has to be touched again to toggle it off?
Like, I want to be able to touch something.. and it toggles on but I have to touch it again to turn it off

[cunning grove]

[pine valley]

To get a specific reflection, rather than just reflecting your environment, you'll want to look at using either the Cubemap or Matcap modules

Cubemaps are 360 degree photos; Matcaps are just a 2D picture of a sphere

blender has some matcaps for the Solid viewport shading mode!

[bold swallow]

I need some help with the fingers for this model that I've been rigging. In Blender, they look fine, but when I port the model to Unity, the left hand middle finger and right hand ring finger get bent out of shape.

[sullen mulch]

Try changing it to "transclipping" ? (I could be wrong on using this setting but it looks like theres like.. another mesh on the inside that you want to be seen..)

[cunning grove]

Noe, there isnt anything inside. This is what i did in blender for it to look like that

[pine valley]

oh, I see; the outer shell is transparent

i thought that was just a very thick dark area on the edge

Is that right?

[sullen mulch]

yee this is what i was meaning as well

[pine valley]

Do you have separate materials for the outer shell and the inside?

If so, you can put the outer shell's material on Transparent mode, then turn down the base color's alpha to make it mostly transparent

[sullen mulch]

Im thinking if they turn on transclipping itll actually show the inside possibly because theres definitely meshes on the inside (the teeth and the inner shell)

[cunning grove]

Nooo, its just a big orb ;w;
The material i used in blender made it look like that

[sullen mulch]

erm wait lemme see if i can recreate it

[sullen mulch]

okay no -- i was wrong so
maybe if you turn on transparent mode like they were saying

[sullen mulch]

Blender shaders + Poiyomi are entirely different

[cunning grove]

I know, but i like the way blender makes it look, and i wanna have the same look in unity T^T

[sullen mulch]

Try transparent mode like they were saying

[chilly kelp]

hi I am new here but how do I fix this? I have no clue on what I am doing...

[pine valley]

VRCInterface is a script that comes with the Thry Editor, which you probably have because you have Poiyomi Toon

is this a very old avatar?

i'm looking at the script right now, and it's not a MonoBehaviour -- so, it shouldn't be attached to an object in the first place

[cunning grove]

No, I finished making it today

[pine valley]

i'm talking to Soberith there

[cunning grove]

ohh

sorry

[pine valley]

Click here and turn down the alpha slider

Right now, the alpha of the base color is 1, meaning it's 100% opaque

[slim hollow]

im trying to upload my avi and its saying this? what do i do?

[pine valley]

are there any other red errors in the console?

if not, this could be a netework problem

[slim hollow]

only those 2

should i restart my unity?

[cunning grove]

It just looks like this when i do that though

[pine valley]

ah, I see

Try using the Rim Light module

You could use a negative rim light to darken the edges

you'd need to change the blend mode

change the Blend Mode from Add to Multiply and make the rim light black

(or some other dark color)

[sweet charm]

haiii

[cunning grove]

Ykw, I can live with that. That looks pretty close. TYSMMM!!

[pine valley]

There ya go

You can sharpen it too

I'd assign a nice-looking cubemap into the "Fallback" property of the Reflections & Specular module

if the world you're in has no reflection probes at all, the material will use that cubemap

Poiyomi Toon comes with a few cubemaps

You can also make the "Force Override" toggle animated, and then add a toggle in your menu

I like to be able to override the world's lighting when it's bad

me when i load into a 34 gigabyte world and it still, somehow, has bogus reflection probes

[sour sparrow]

how do i make it so that when i have a toggle on, and i do a specific gesture it'll toggle something else? the context is that im trying to make a power and i wanna make it so that when i toggle it, it charges, and when i do a specific gesture, it fires, but the fire is a seperate toggle

[lusty shadow]

how do i fix this

[timber wharf]

@sour sparrow https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/animator-parameters/#built-in-parameters
ie on toggle on - charge , from there on toggle on AND gesture left = 1 - fire.

tho maybe you want just to have a toggle to on/off whole system to prevent random triggers, and then use like fist for charge and open hand to release etc.

[sour sparrow]

thank you

[ember obsidian]

hii!! ive been trying to add some clothing to an avatar and the clothes wont follow the physic of the butt, how do i fix this?

[spark walrus]

I'm want to set up voice activated effects on my avatar so that whenever I speak into my microphone, my avatar's blendshapes will contract. How can I do that?

I could only find one tutorial online and it didn't work.

[bold swallow]

I just want to bring this up again because I don't think I got an answer to this

[timber wharf]

@spark walrus same https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/animator-parameters/#built-in-parameters
Voice parameter as motion time for a clip that has first frame as idle blendhsape, last as contracted

disable loop on animation clip!

[hybrid arch]

Physbone grabbing on PC not visible on quest and same vice versa, anyone know how to fix?

Allow Grabbing and Posing is enabled on both ends, and from what I can tell the physbone components are identical. I'm testing it with a friend and they can grab the bone chain, and so can I, but we don't see it move when the other grabs it

[indigo compass]

If I remember correctly, the exact same hierarchy is needed too.
If you have anything differing then place those after the physbones.
This might include colliders and constraints, I am not sure.

The ideal setup is to have physbones and such on separate objects outside the armature, alongside the mesh

[arctic ginkgo]

oh is that why people do that?

[timber wharf]

dont you just need proper networking ids. well and amount of bones i guesss, cause if pc grabbing 5th bone in strand and quest has only 3, not much will happen obviously

[hybrid arch]

Okay thanks, so I'll place the physbones at the very top of the hierarchy below the armature and see if that fixes. I removed some stuff from quest but I didn't touch these physbone chains so they should be identical

[heavy zephyr]

You need the exact same number of bones and on the same objects. Which results in same network IDs, so yeah, I'd recommend having them on separate objects.

[timber wharf]

https://creators.vrchat.com/worlds/udon/networking/network-id-utility/

[hybrid arch]

Okay thx I'll look into it
I'll look into network ID stuff too am noob to network ID stuff

[worldly whale]

hey yall, my thumbs are broken and i dont exactly remember how to fix it. i know it involves blender and bones or something, like how there are 8 or more when vrc can only handle 6

or something like that

anyone know how to help?

[floral crystal]

does anyone know how to make a 2d image avatar that looks at you wherever you go

[spark walrus]

So I have a voice parameter and a voice layer in the Animator tab. In the voice layer, I created a blend tree and enabled motion time in the Inspector. I then connected my animation within the blend tree. I uploaded my avatar and it still doesn't work. I think it has to do with the values in the parameter, voice layer, and/or the blend tree.

Voice parameter value: 0
Voice layer value: 1
Blend tree value: 0

[timber wharf]

why would you need a blend tree

[lethal temple]

Anyone happen to know why an avi wouldnt be able to generate an imposter? Only having this happen on 1 avi of mine

[quasi folio]

https://tenor.com/view/scream-gif-17708585304680560976

[heavy zephyr]

Make it a particle lmao

[spark walrus]

That is what the tutorial I followed said to do.

I did try to connect the animation to the entry at root level of the voice layer, but that also didn't work.

Surely I am doing something wrong

[night pasture]

Anyone else not able to authenticate?

[floral crystal]

like shader or literal component?

[heavy zephyr]

No, a particle, that way you can set to render to view.

[floral crystal]

so I just make a particle system in my hierchy?

[floral crystal]

is that what u mean?

[frail badger]

asked this before but i wanna double check because im copium/in denial over this not working. but unity contact receivers + getting them to sync between local and what other people see

i have like 4 set up and only 1 works like half of the time

since this is contact receivers, its PC only, between desktop and PCVR

[arctic ginkgo]

Are you using your debug menu to confirm that the paramter values are or aren't being changed?

[arctic ginkgo]

also I'm confused what you mean by this, since contacts are allowed on Quest

[frail badger]

oh the tutorial i followed said they were PC only

[arctic ginkgo]

afaik they've always been allowed on Quest

[frail badger]

also they 100% work on my end

but my friends cant see what they change

[arctic ginkgo]

are your contacts local only?

[frail badger]

ive tried making them local only and not local only and it doesnt change anything

they are currently all local only and 1/4 works

[arctic ginkgo]

have your friends used the contact avatar overlay to confirm if the contacts are colliding? They will turn green when touched

try setting them to not be local only so your friends can check with contact avatar overlay

[drowsy crane]

Im trying to pose my avatar with an addon, but the blue stuff keeps popping up making it imposible for me to pose it well without lag, how can I hide the blue stuff so i don't lag??

[arctic ginkgo]

press this button

top right

[drowsy crane]

it hid everything😔

[arctic ginkgo]

ah yeah, it does that

you can adjust what is visible with the dropdown

[drowsy crane]

thanks!

[steady nimbus]

SO, my phys bones are not updating their position when in use, first image is me using an animation i made, and the second is disabling that animation, and for some reason the phys bones are not properly following the arms, any fix for this?

in the first image you can see the phys bones properly following the wings, then in the second they dont

[frail badger]

just did this and can confirm the contacts work up until its time to do the animation

getting a ss in unity to explain

so from the holstered position to holding, it works. i cant put it away, and cant change where im holding it from

this all works fine on my end but does this to everyone else

all relevant params

[arctic ginkgo]

okay, so this should actually work, but it's likely there's some kind of desynchronization happening

so what I prefer doing instead, is using the IsLocal parameter to fork the state machine into a local side and remote side

local side stays the same, doing all the logic, but with parameter drivers that drive a synced parameter

then remote side uses this parameter to transition between states

[arctic ginkgo]

also having the contact parameters synced is not a good idea imo

i believe this can cause delay vs simulating locally

but either way, if there is another parameter (say a hand gesture) that also has to meet a condition simultaniously with the contact parameter, they won't always have the values at the same time for local and remote users, which causes desync

for example, say you touch a contact and make a fist gesture to grab something

for a remote user, you may touch it, then not touch it, then make the fist gesture

it just won't line up

then it never transitions correctly

[frail badger]

ohhhh thats probably whats doing it then

because i do have some animations triggered by fist + open

[frail badger]

but is this circumvented with the split local remote thing? or am i just like Screwed lmao

and how do i actually specify this. like im actually remotely new to unity, all this i got from messing around and some familiarity with FSMs/programming logic

[arctic ginkgo]

yeah! it makes a slight delay since you have to wait for the sync (less than a second usually) but it ensures everything is synced correctly

[frail badger]

awesome

like as an example HoldTrident is set up like this (idk why i actually made something to track if its in the right or left hand. maybe paranoia)

spinlights can be ignored thats just for like aesthetic flair

[arctic ginkgo]

I'd typically use an Int parameter on the parameter driver and then have each animation state assigned to a specific value

then for the remote side, it'll just transitions to each state based on the corresponding value

[frail badger]

oooh i think i got that

so its not gonna change anything locally because it's "applying the same animation" but it has (hopefully) the added bonus of making it work remote

[arctic ginkgo]

mhm

[frail badger]

so hows this bit done actually? i just set up a separate layer that does the same thing based on the integer that the OG is now driving

ohhh just found it on a doc, nvm

ok i mustve fucked it up because it isnt working

current setup: right is the old stuff and is access by isLocal = true, left is cleared of all parameter drivers, transitions happen based on the synced integer tracking the current animation state, and is accessed by isLocal = false

in my debugger, the integer is changing correctly

i wish someone else can pull up a debugger of your avatar...

maybe it does need its own layer

[arctic ginkgo]

Try adding a transition from the default state to the remote side's first state

I think sometimes there's like a buffer when the avatar first loads so it defaults to the default state and gets stuck so you need a transition out

I usually have a default state that acts as the origin for the fork

[arctic ginkgo]

and yeah i really wish we had this 😔

[frail badger]

?

[arctic ginkgo]

Right click on this and set it to the default state (it will turn orange to indicate this) and the take the entry transition to the local state and copy it from the default state, then remove it from the entry state

https://feedback.vrchat.com/feature-requests/p/avatars-30-remote-debug

I found this canny for it

for the remote debug thing

[floral crystal]

does anyone know how to make a 2d image avatar that looks at you wherever you go?

[frail badger]

?

[arctic ginkgo]

that should work, but there should only be one transition from entry to default (the default transition)

[frail badger]

oh idk how the extra got in there lmao

[frail badger]

i live. now it doesnt work for me either

[frail badger]

aurgh i dont get ittttttt

it transitions to the default state and then to the local side, then the only things im looking for are the hand on the contact and the right hand gesture

[dire heart]

help? Idk what I did wrong D: All I did was remove some stuff in blender and thats what it looks like now in GestureManager/Ingame-

[rigid hemlock]

hello, is it not possible to default bool parameters to on and have a parameter driver change that value after?

[frail badger]

i dont see why not, you set its default state in params

[rigid hemlock]

for some reason it locks out the expression button when the default is set to true

I was trying to create outfit toggles using parameter drivers

but it only works if i set all the defaults to false in the expression parameters

my outfit toggles work on another avatar but i noticed they're all floats not bools

weird, it works with floats but not bools

[misty comet]

how do you make the avatar t pose but it don't t pose the bones do but not the model with the bones in unity?

[sudden flume]

hey! i tried searching for a tutorial of this on youtube but couldn’t find anything. maybe i didn’t word it right

could anyone help me make a toggle on an avatar that allows you to change bone direction with joystick movement? i’ve seen people do it on tails and such

[arctic ginkgo]

go to blender, and export it again, but this time change the setting Apply Scalings to FBX All

[carmine flint]

It's a 2-axis puppet! Neffertity has a great tutorial for it on YouTube.

[indigo kernel]

Ive been adding stuff to rindo and I want to make her hair glow a bright neon blue anyone got any idea how to do that

[rigid hemlock]

Emissions i think

[urban current]

v new to editing avis, how would i add a heartbeat to my avis chest?

[indigo kernel]

Yep thanks

[indigo kernel]

Shit your guess is as good as mine lmao

[carmine flint]

Do you mean the sound? Or are you trying to do something visually?

[urban current]

just sound

[carmine flint]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmXCXP6UsQ8&t=79s
This video should help! Just set it up to be a toggle that loops the heartbeat SFX while its active.

[urban current]

ill give it a shot, thank you!

[carmine flint]

Npnp!

[formal willow]

idk whats going on ... everything looks mapped right. unity animations will work on this thing too.. but vrc sdk doesnt like it. any ideas?

[rigid hemlock]

Np! It looks great

[spark wagon]

what does this error mean?

[spark walrus]

Bump

[spark walrus]

^

[final ferry]

Hello, excuse me for bothering you, do you know how to add clothing to an avatar please because I have some problem when putting my clothing in place, when I adapt the clothing to my avatar and I activate the play mode, when I move the avatar the clothing is not at the top of the moving avatar...

[jagged stag]

heya, stupid question - just bought some stuff for the first time off the store and these last two steps for the install are pretty non-descript. how do i disable a prefab? do i just hide it with the eye button?

when the dude says "vrcfury does the rest" like do i hit a button to make it do stuff or is that automatically applied when i hit export?

maybe it's this toggle..? seems like it's gone but not hidden so i assume that is disabled

[somber meadow]

Yes, it’s this toggle. VRCFury applies everything on upload or play mode temporarily as a way to be non destructive

[jagged stag]

gotcha, thank you!

[floral crystal]

can anyone help me with the 2d avatar that follows your camera around thing?

[pine valley]

Your animator controller is missing some data.

It could be missing a state, a transition, an entire layer...

I'm not sure how this can happen without straight-up disk corruption

[barren wharf]

is there a way i can set an avatar's torso to be seperate from the limbs?

i want to apply a certain shader to only the torso

and another to only the limbs

[jagged stag]

is there a way to lower the resolution of textures within unity without redoing all of them? it appears my textures are too large and i'd love to just like export them in 1/4th res or something if that's possible

[pine valley]

You need to assign different materials to those areas in Blender.

[pine valley]

Sure -- just change the importer settings

The "Max Size" setting controls how large the texture is allowed to be. Unity will downscale the texture if necessary.

[barren wharf]

how do i do that

[pine valley]

first, you'll want to add more material slots by clicking the + button. You can duplicate the existing material by picking it in the dropdown, then clicking the "2".

By selecting the material again, you have two material slots that both use the same material. Clicking the "2" makes a unique copy of the material for that slot.

[jagged stag]

thanks! also wow these look worse at 1/4th

[pine valley]

so now i've got two material slots instead of one, and they both look the same

next, you'll want to select the right areas of your model

Select your body object and go into Edit Mode. You'll probably want to use the "Select Linked" operator here.

So, hit 3 to go into face selection mode, then hover over the torso and hit L

This will probably select your entire body.

In the bottom left, you'll see the Adjust Last Operation panel

Try switching it to "Seam"

This will cause it to stop at UV seams.

your torso is often unwrapped separately from your limbs, so this might wind up being a good fit

You may also need to use the "UVs" mode if your model doesn't have any seams marked

notice how this selected just the front of my torso

which worked because the front of the torso is one big UV island

you can keep hitting L to select more faces

Once you have a good selection, you can go back to the material list and hit "Assign" with your new material selected.

[jagged stag]

another question - i'm only using one of these things rn, but they're all still in the project file. will they also get uploaded with the avatar? if so i should like delete as much unused stuff as possible right?

[pine valley]

Unity will only include assets that are actually referenced by something on your avatar.

This can be sneaky, though -- if you switch a material's shader to something that doesn't use all of the textures on the material, the material will still pull those textures in

(even though you can't see them in the inspector)

I'd suggest installing the VRWorld Toolkit package. It's in the curated package list in the VCC.

It's not just for worlds – the important bit here is the build report viewer

it'll list every asset that your last build referenced

these are the uncompressed sizes, so they won't sum up to your actual upload size

I use this to catch goofy things, like random textures that shouldn't be included

[pine valley]

To check which materials are assigned to which faces, clear your selection and then click "Select" in the material list. It'll select every face assigned to that material

[jagged stag]

well that's better

hopefully its not too crunchy in game lol

[barren wharf]

@pine valleyis there a way i can hide selected parts so i can get a clean torso selection?

in edit mode

[pine valley]

Yep, hit H

Alt-H to unhide later

You can select a face loop by holding alt (?) and left clicking

Then hide it

Then you can hit L to select the entire limb and hide it

[dull sable]

For anyone have a good yt vid on a universal face tracking adding

[pine valley]

and remember that you can undo/redo selection changes

also, to stop delimiting the Select Linked operator entirely, hold shift and click on the currently selected mode

[jagged stag]

for some reason in some lighting - and in the avatar selection menu - my hands don't appear to have a material. does anyone know why? using poiyomi toon shader, i don't think i set them up any different than the gloves that are working fine

[pine valley]

The light may be bright enough to hit the default brightness limit for Poiyomi Toon

alternatively, depending on the world's post-processing settings, the light may be bright enough to completely wash out the details on your hand

[jagged stag]

the rest of the avatar is using the same shader and is fine though - is there a setting i can change to make it.. not do that?

[pine valley]

Try adding a very intense directional light in Unity and seeing how your body looks

[jagged stag]

uhhhhhh how do I do that i have never used unity before this and only really have learned how to set up my materials

[barren wharf]

@pine valleyok i exported so now i just apply the materials in unity?

[pine valley]

Yeah, you should now be able to apply a different material to your torso

[pine valley]

in the top menubar: GameObject -> Light -> Directional Light

set its intensity to 3 or something

see if you get the same issue

[wicked sand]

hey hi hello, uh im just asking if avatars are easy to find if I wanted to find one I found on TikTok

[barren wharf]

wait but there's only one material in unity now

[pine valley]

Do you see a little package icon next to your avatar's object in the hierarchy? You should see something like this

with child objects like "Armature" and "Body"

[barren wharf]

ye

what about it

[jagged stag]

i fixed a couple of settings in reflections and put the light in front and it appears normal now

[jagged stag]

directional looks kind of wrong

oh nvm its just insanely blown out

maybe its fixed??

[barren wharf]

i don't see what's in the picture tho

[pine valley]

You are looking for this package icon next to your avatar's root object

which is the one that has the Avatar Descriptor on it

If you don't see that, you unpacked your model prefab

This breaks the connection between the objects in your scene and the objects created by unity when it imported the model

which causes a lot of issues -- one of which would be that new material slots would not appear correctly

[jagged stag]

yeah, hands are fixed, confirmed in vr. neck has the same problem though, where it doesn't appear to have its colors when in a super bright area. ig i'll just go through and compare the two's materials and see what's different

ah shit the neck was missing the alpha map

that's what it was

[barren wharf]

@pine valleywait i notice that when i apply the material in blender, it dosen't apply to just the torso even though i followed your instructions correctly

[pine valley]

Did you make a second material slot in Blender?

You should have at least two materials in the list

[pine valley]

It's possible that everything is assigned to the second slot already

I'd assign every face to the first slot, then go and assign specific faces to the second slot afterwards

[jagged stag]

no its still broken 🙁

oh my god

i'm a fucking moron

i was applying the thing to the wrong place

[barren wharf]

ok did that

[jagged stag]

yeah i'm a moron and had two different necks duplicated in place and the one on top was not textured because i did not know it was there

[pine valley]

ha, that'll do it

[barren wharf]

hmmmm

it still won't apply the materials seperately

[jagged stag]

slowly unfucking all my previous mistakes.. the duplicate neck is from an ik rig which apparently unity does not like so i re-imported it as an fk rig and forgot to delete the ik rig neck and hands

thank y'all for bearing with me

[pine valley]

as Arthur Doyle wrote -- when you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth

debugging can be like that, sometimes :p

it's good to start questioning everything when an issue overstays is welcome

"does ANYTHING makes sense?"

[plain mural]

can i make it so that the avatar spawns an asset that anyone can contact (take a cube for example), and when this cube is contact with the head - an animation starts (for example, the avatar closes its eyes by 10%), then the asset spawns again, contacts the avatar and the eyes close by 20%

[pine valley]

so when anyone's head touches the object, your avatar plays an animation?

[sleek fern]

Hello, how do I add Emotes to my avatar?

[plain mural]

something like that, but the animation is saved and updated to a new one when the asset is touched again

[pine valley]

You can use a parameter driver to change a parameter by a fixed amount

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/state-behaviors/#avatar-parameter-driver

Set it to Local Only and have it modify a synced float variable

(using the "Add" type)

[plain mural]

I know about the usual contact-reciever/simple activations of emotions
will this work as I want? Like the asset adds value each time, right?

[pine valley]

You'd create an animator layer that has two empty states. One would have the parameter driver on it.

This layer would not directly play any animations

It's only job would be to add a fixed amount to your parameter each time the contact receiver is triggered

[plain mural]

I'll dig deeper into this, thanks

[spark walrus]

I need help setting up voice activated effects on my avatar. More info is available above.

[pine valley]

the Motion Time parameter on the animator state will control where in each animation clip you're sampling from; the blend tree's parameter will control how much weight each animation clip gets

TheLeastMost's suggestion was to use a single animation clip, without a blend tree

the start of the animation clip is 0% voice; the end is 100% voice

[civic cliff]

is there a way to prevent the stylized reflections in the hair from becoming big shadowy spots in the dark? i already have ignore shadow on

[pine valley]

for a movement blend tree, Motion Time would control where you are in the walk/run cycle, whilst the blend tree parameter would control whether you're walking or running

(it's unusual to use both at once)

[spark walrus]

So I should connect the animation directly to the entry node in the voice layer?

[pine valley]

You'll have one animator state, which is the rectangle in the Animator window

its Motion will be the animation clip you created

and it'll be connected to the Entry state, because it's the default state

[fast nimbus]

Hi does anyone know how to fix this?

So I customised the blendshapes for my avatar but it won't apply to the actual avatar in game, same with custom idle animation

[rain badger]

hey everyone, i need help with exporting my .unitypackage that have my 3D model in it to VRM.

Already got unity 2019.4.31f1 and uniVRM 0.93.0
when i import it to unity, it's all pink.

Im very very new to this, so i would gladly appreciate the help!

[balmy barn]

xwear much easier then that old thing

offcial vroid unitypackage, can export any fbx to xwear/vrm

[rain badger]

oooo

now i feel stupid getting advice from gpt how to export it lmao

never again

[balmy barn]

https://vroid.pixiv.help/hc/en-us/articles/38903414455449-How-to-install-the-XWear-Packager support vcc too

[rain badger]

thank you very much my friend!

i appreciate it

[spark wagon]

i had never done anything with the file that wouldve corrupted, plus i have a good amount of disk space left

if the context helps, the controller has a lot to do with toggling audios, and occasionally when running the scene the audio glitches out

[balmy barn]

broken pptr is.. wierd and ive gotten a few of them but there are scripts out there to clean them instead of doing it manually (edit in notepad)

[pine valley]

It's probably not why you're having that audio issue

Unity is just complaining that an object is missing from the animator

one important thing: you can only have three audio sources playing at once in VRChat

i'm not sure what "glitches out" means, but if you mean that it doesn't play at all, that could be why

[balmy barn]

dreadrith controller cleaner can fix those broken pptrs

[spark wagon]

like HARD stuttering
it could be because multiple audios are playing at once, but i dont feel like that goes over 3

[pine valley]

it could also stutter if there are too many audio sources playing at once, in total

there is a hard limit of 32 audio sources

someone who is actively speaking (in voice range) takes up a slot

mousing over menus also plays oneshot audio clips, and each of those takes a slot!

Some worlds also have a lot of audio sources -- importantly, they still count even if you're out of range

vrchat restricts the priority values for audio sources on avatars to a narrow range -- something like 240-256?

[spark walrus]

So I attached the animation to the entry state, enabled the voice parameter, and I uploaded the avatar. It still didn't work. Should the value of the Voice parameter be 1 so that it recognizes the voice?

[pine valley]

this means that world audio sources always beat avatar audio by default

[pine valley]

test it in the editor with the Gesture Manager package

i forget if it has an actual Voice slider, but you can use the debug menu to manually set Voice to something like 0.5

also ensure that your animator layer's weight isn't set to zero -- that is the default

[spark wagon]

the stuttering happens in the unity editor as well, so i doubt this would be the cause of it

[spark walrus]

Is it able to run without vr?

[pine valley]

it works fine in the editor

i've tested Voice this way before

[graceful fox]

how do i fix this?

if i delete a prop or something?

[spark wagon]

how did you get it?

like what caused it

[rain badger]

hey thulen, managed to get all this packages, VCC and vroid etc

but i still have no idea how to get rid of the pink textures on the model
Have any idea what can be the issue?

[balmy barn]

broken / missing shader for whatever that av requires

[pine valley]

Are you using VRCFury to add things to your avatar?

[spark walrus]

I got the gesture manager and went into the debug menu. I set the voice parameter value to .5 as you said and it did nothing. I noticed that for some reason when I enter play mode, the voice layer value goes to -1. I did set it to 1 in the editor. That's probably why it didn't do anything.

[pine valley]

what does "voice layer value" mean?

screenshot what you're looking at

[spark walrus]

Im in the Animator tab

This is in edit mode

[pine valley]

and what is becoming -1? the weight of that layer?

[spark walrus]

Yes

When I enter game mode

[pine valley]

if you're using VRCFury to build your avatar, it will set the weight of any layer with no valid animations to zero

but that would be in a generated controller, separate from the one you actually work on

show me how it looks in play mode.

[spark walrus]

I don't use VRCFury

Game mode:

Same layer, different value

[pine valley]

Select the New Animation state and show me the inspetor

[pine valley]

The weight of a layer could be changed by a VRC Animator Layer Control state machine behaviour, which would be attached to an animator state

I guess you should go to the Base Layer and look at all of the states it has. Make sure none of them have anything attached in the inspector

you'd see something like this

But you can't even type a -1 in here, I'm pretty sure

[spark walrus]

All three states in the Base Layer have no attachments.

You mentioned VRC Animator layer controller, and I don't have that behavior in the Voice Layer. Should it be added?

[pine valley]

It should not.

I'm thinking of reasons why the weight would be set to -1

[balmy barn]

if you want voice to do something id use greater then 0.2

[ do nothing ] 0.2 < Voice > 0.2 [ do stuff ]

got one like it that just move this mouth around like that , mouth loops but it can be anything

but if you want something to move depending on voice loudness its more like this

volume = ball go up/down

[pine valley]

this is the other way to do it, using a blend tree

the pressing issues seems to be that the layer's weight is getting set to -1

[spark wagon]

this parameter is set up correctly in the menu, animator controller, expression parameters, and avatar descriptor, and yet the toggle is locked to stay on but none of the animation states have a parameter driver that changes it. clicking the toggle does nothing and it stays on

[pine valley]

Your toggle is set to turn the parameter off

the Value box should be checked

This behavior makes more sense for int toggles -- you can have a toggle that's active when the value is 0

[spark wagon]

ah

[pine valley]

for bools, it's a bit silly

i guess you can still use it to make "OFF" and "ON" toggles in your menu

[spark walrus]

I did a bit searching and I found this

The voice parameter type is a float

[pine valley]

this is unrelated to layer weights

to sanity check, remove the state from the Voice layer -- so that there's only the "Enter"/"Exit"/"Any State" nodes -- and see what happens when you enter play mode

also, add another layer and see if it changes too

[plain mural]

is it possible to make animation activation gradual?
head has hand receiver (oval mesh)
i want to do it like this - when i bring it up for the first time - blendshape activates at 10%, when i touch it for the second time - up to 20% and so on

is it possible?

[spark walrus]

I deleted the animation node. I also entered play mode as well as adjusting the voice parameter in the debug panel. Despite the animation state not being present, the weight layer value is still -1. I created another layer without adding anything to it, entered play mode, and it also shows -1.

[bold swallow]

I asked about this twice yesterday. Still no responses. Can I please get some help here?

[junior void]

perhaps bone roll

id censor the nsfw things here

[muted ibex]

is the sdk broken?

[spark walrus]

Why do you ask?

[fervent nacelle]

would you guys say putting a rigged blender model in vrchat is a hard/time consuming thing to do

[muted ibex]

tried to upload an update to one of my avatars and it casually died

now the sdk doenst works in any project

[spark walrus]

I'm going to give my computer a reset and see if anything changes

[austere bay]

you have over 400 serious errors, clear your console, try to upload again then show just the errors with the red circle, deselect the yellow triangle

[muted ibex]

that is the point

[austere bay]

whats the point? you're not showing what we need to see to help you

[austere bay]

that's how you make avatars, it's not too time consuming, depends on what you want to add in unity

[paper wedge]

Hello, i'm trying to make a custom bloodborne themed avatar, @sterile spoke i like your Bloodborne_maya, if you have time can you tell me where to find the right assets?

[muted ibex]

sdk doenst even show at unity

[fervent nacelle]

oh it would just be this guy and like a gross bunny thing i made a while ago both are rigged is it easy to put them on private n stuff

[austere bay]

okay but i need to see your errors T-T pls send your errors in the console

clear the console, then show the red errors only

[austere bay]

I'll make a little video showing how :) it might take a minute to record though and it won't go over everything, just the basics <3

[fervent nacelle]

that would be amazing thank you!! i am like suuuper new to this stuff lol

[austere bay]

it's okay!!! everyone starts somewhere, if you need more indepth videos on how to make toggles and fancy materials there's loads on youtube! some creators have even made youtube series'

[fervent nacelle]

sounds good!! thank you!! I think ill try to just start out with base stuff trying to get him inside the game n all but maybe for another model ill check out the toggles! thank you for letting me know!

[spark walrus]

I restarted my computer, opened VRC companion and my Unity project, and started play mode. The weight layer values are normal now.

[spark wagon]

i remember there was a way to fix this, but everytime i run the scene the animator changes to "Failed to Load" and breaks the layout
anybody know?

[spark walrus]

So I connected my animation to the entry state, enabled the parameter, started play mode, configured the voive debug panel in the gesture manager, and it still didn't work.

Seems like deja vu

I created a blend tree again, entered play mode, adjusted voice parameter in debug panel, and it still doesn't work. Im back where I started.

Has anyone here created an avatar with voice activated effects?

I would like to see a more simple animation system.

[austere bay]

I hope this is an okay explanation!! (I said FBX at the start but i meant armature)
This is the fancier shader I talk about in the video, it's really good, safe and free! I definitely recommend using it https://www.poiyomi.com/download

[austere bay]

are you using the vrchat creator companion?

[muted ibex]

yes

[austere bay]

did you import a different version of the sdk?

and if not can you take a full screenshot of your package page like this

[muted ibex]

nop im using the 3.8.2 too

[austere bay]

can you still show your package page pls!!

and did you import an avatar package? as in did you purchase an avatar and import it?

[austere bay]

that's not the full picture, I wanna see the whole thing

like unity version, whether your vrccc is up to date etc

[muted ibex]

yes purchased from booth, and as i said the SDK is breaking and im getting the same errors even if I create another project without nothing

[muted ibex]

oh sorry

[austere bay]

honestly you have so many packages on, do you usually have that many? I would start removing some to see if they're causing issues

[austere bay]

so you've made a project with absolutely no packages, no imports and it's still got issues?

[muted ibex]

mostly yes

[austere bay]

all your stuff is up to date

I would make a project with absolutely nothing but the vrchat sdk

[muted ibex]

gonna try

[austere bay]

just ignore

[muted ibex]

same thing

[austere bay]

you can try checking for updates in the settings but tbh I have no idea whats going on with your projects

I would just assume your installation is corrupted and reinstall the creator companion, or you can wait for someone a bit more qualified to have a look

[muted ibex]

ok, but thank you for your help

[austere bay]

sorry i couldn't be more help , I've genuinely never had any issue like that, usually issues with the sdk are cuased by mismatched versions or people importing the wrong stuff, I don't know what could be causing your issues besides just corrupted files

[fervent nacelle]

Thank you for this! I am a little stuck on this part due to i think a lack of bones or something ( thats what it says ) idk if there is a way to avoid this at all

[austere bay]

yeah vrchat requires humanoid rigs to use its animations etc. you can use non-humanoid rigs but it's just a bit more complicated and may not work with vrchats animations (like crouching etc)

I'll record a little video explaining

[muted ibex]

np, maybe is more an unity it self than the sdk or vrcc

[austere bay]

well yeah it says the errors there are unity errors but im not sure if they're linking to the sdk or not, you could try using the unity hub to create a completely blank unity project?

[sullen ocean]

Heya !

just came in to check if anyone uses the CreatorCompanion on linux,cause im struggling with it

[spark walrus]

#creator-companion

[austere bay]

I hope this makes sense! essentially vrchat locomotion requires you to have certain bones, it might not be an issue, you can try uploading and just seeing what it's like (if it lets you)

[fervent nacelle]

thank you!! ill try to see what i can do!

[final ferry]

Hello, excuse me for bothering you. I'm trying to implement clothing for my VR chat avatar to use in-game. I adapted it to my avatar using Unity and Blender tools. I placed it in the hierarchy below my avatar's "Armature."

The clothing isn't attached to the avatar's body. It doesn't follow the avatar, and it's constantly in a T-pose. Does anyone have a solution to make it adapt to my avatar's arms and body parts?

[sullen ocean]

ty

[spark walrus]

Bump

[austere bay]

I'm not sure how to add clothing in unity since I do everything in blender but if you'd like to know how to add it in blender lmk and I'll try help!!

[austere bay]

you can use visemes, don't think you can have it like audio link (detecting bass, volume etc) if that's what you're looking for without OSC

[spark walrus]

I'm not using audiolink. I want to create an avatar that deforms it's blendshapes when you speak into the microphone.

[fresh rose]

anybody have the thing that helps makin a humanoid bone rig on blender?

[austere bay]

you can use visemes then, if you're just using 1 mesh then I'd just make shapekeys to match the visemes, if not you can animate it, can't remember how sorry

[final ferry]

Hello, thank you for the answer, it would be an honor if you could help me put clothes on an avatar with blender, do you know how to make the clothes have movements that follow the movements of the avatar (a sweater for example that follows the movements of the avatar without the clothes remaining fixed?

[spark walrus]

Is visemes a separate package, or is it part of poiyomi?

[austere bay]

yeah ofc! it's just weight painting, do you speak english? just because i would usually record a video showing how but i wont if it's not a language you're comfortable with!

[austere bay]

it's part of your mesh, they're shapekeys that correspond with specific sounds in game, eg. when you say "AA" into your mic, usually there will be a shapekey that corresponds with that noise to make it look like your avatar is saying "AA"

[final ferry]

Normally in English there is no problem if you make me a video how to do it I will be able to understand don't worry, or just explain in broad outline without video ^^ with video is good !

[austere bay]

it's a lot easier to show you how to do it!
this is the plugin you need (https://github.com/teamneoneko/Cats-Blender-Plugin-Unofficial-/releases), the second video is showing how to install it, you can do it without if you don't want to use it! I do explain how to add the clothing with and without the addon in the video

[fresh rose]

again does anybody have the download or link for the blender humanoid bone rig asset?

[austere bay]

google is free
Rigify
CATS
Auto-Rig Pro
idk what else you might be looking for but you can definitely find it with a quick google/youtube search

if you're just looking for a humanoid rig you can find plenty of free ones online, you can also buy a base from https://jinxxy.com/

[final ferry]

Okay, I'll look at it tomorrow. Thank you very much. If I have any other problems related to this, I'll let you know.

[sour sparrow]

how to i make it so my hair bones arent affecting anything because when i import a fbx that uses one armature but 2 models that have seperate hairs, the second models hair is like a seperate object and looks really distorted.

[urban current]

how would i make the heartbeat audio i have set in my avis chest stay in the chest? like if i go go or crouch it doesnt follow, it just stays in place within my “bubble”

[austere bay]

parent constraint

[somber meadow]

why would you use an expensive constraint for that when you could make it a child of the chest bone

[urban current]

i’m so new to this that all of this is just words to me

[austere bay]

I'm just assuming they wanna do it quickly and easily in unity T-T

plus it's really not that "expensive" it's just one, this is a completely normal way to use a parent constraint

[urban current]

so uhm… how exactly?

[somber meadow]

it's simply unneeded and just more work for the same execution

[austere bay]

I'll make a video explaining bc it's easier to show you

[urban current]

thank you greatly🙏

[somber meadow]

show where your audio source is in your hierarchy, and the inspector screen

[native cairn]

Is View Position broken or something?

[somber meadow]

and it's a unity constraint

[austere bay]

literally did this in 30 seconds, idk why that person was acting like it's more work and super unorthodox

[somber meadow]

1 method is just simply dragging it to the chest bone in the hierarchy, the other is using an unneeded component that takes 10x the time to setup and wastes performance

since you're also showcasing using Unity constraints and not the more performant VRC constraints, you're going to have a worse problem with more wasteful frametime waste https://vrc.school/docs/Other/Benchmarks/#caec003575e446d2bf97a8a23de7daf8

[austere bay]

it really doesn't jeopardise performance that much and I think it makes the project much easier to work with as you can just add anything you want, phys reactions, particles, audio in one place and you don't have to fish through the hierarchy every time to edit things

but we all do things differently

[urban current]

uhm...

[austere bay]

it's under spine

[balmy barn]

no reason to use a constraint unless you plan on moving it around , otherwise just shove it under bone its ment to follow , very much a preference thing

[austere bay]

I just like using contraints for my projects bc whenever I want to add more to the head, or the chest etc. I can do it simply by shoving it under the constraint, I can find it easily, just makes sense for me

[somber meadow]

you're not having to edit these objects that much to warrant that, even if you did use VRCFury armature links which will place it as a child non-destructively

[austere bay]

if they want to shove it under the bone they've been told they can do that, I'm not saying that's a bad thing

[austere bay]

i do edit those objects though, that's just me personally, why is this a whole issue lmao (and i dont use VRCFury sorry)

[chrome crane]

oh looking at all of this...

makes me wanna sob

i got a long way to go 😭

[somber meadow]

if you edit them almost absolutely constantly, I guess then just use hierarchy search

and if you do this with multiple things, the performance impact will exponentially get worse for 0 good reason

[austere bay]

let me live

[civic cliff]

is there a way to prevent the stylized reflections in the hair from becoming big shadowy spots in the dark? i already have ignore shadow on, reposting this while at work so i can fix it at home if somebody has a solution

[urban current]

i went down a whole rabbit hole because TELL ME WHY MY CHEST PHYSBONE IS IN MY LOWER STOMACH

and even now, no way to test if it’s fixed😔

[austere bay]

you'll have to just play around with the material, if it's poiyomi and you've got styalised specular or whatever it's called on sometimes that causes those spots

[native cairn]

How do you even fix the weird View Position, because I did put the white dot in the centre of the character, and I went to in game, and for some reason, my white dot just randomly moved or something else

[balmy barn]

av at 0.0.0 ?

[sour sparrow]

would it be possible to make head/hair/outfit changes on one armature but have everything stay aligned with my character?

[native cairn]

I dont know what's the issue

[native cairn]

It was

[balmy barn]

you have this white line wich tends to appear when you click avatar with a descriptor, yours going the wrong way (unless thats something else)

[native cairn]

Do I just rotate the character instead?

[balmy barn]

you need blender to fix that

[native cairn]

ah I see what you mean

[native cairn]

yeah, I see the issue

[balmy barn]

probably fbx export settings, cant say i touched those in ages (cats does it for me)

[native cairn]

yo, thank you so much!

[civic cliff]

yeah its poiyomi, like i said the setting is stylized reflections, that sucks though i wouldve hoped somebody could at least point me in the right direction

[arctic laurel]

can anyone help me figure out why the phys bones in my avis hair wont work when in play mode i have re done the bones multiple times i have no clue why they wont work

[somber meadow]

when you're in play mode, is the pause button also highlighted

[stray trench]

i was kindly given an avatar by a creator bc i wanted to tweak it to my liking, they mentioned they had to "separate" the VRC FT because they ran out of parameters or bits, and the vrcfury parameter thing wasnt working

this is new territory for me, can anybody give me any clarity on what they mean? can i fix this without butchering things?

[somber meadow]

as in they made a seperate version of the avatar with face tracking?

[arctic laurel]

no its not some of the hair is moving but some of its not both have the right stuff to so idk\

[spark wagon]

so uh
i dont think audio is supposed to sound like that

[somber meadow]

what kind of audio file format is it?

and ofc just to make sure, it sounds normal played in a normal audio player

[spark wagon]

.wav, and yes they sound normal in an audio player, and unity's audio player

[somber meadow]

Unity really likes OGG files, have you seen if converting them to that has a better outcome? Also can you share the audio source properties look like

[spark wagon]

all of the audio files have these properties, with varied falloff and volume settings for some

[stray trench]

i guess so? they used the word "separate" which is confusing me, and i wouldnt know how to add it back

[somber meadow]

there's most likely 2 different prefabs or a scene file with 2 different avatars

[spark wagon]

also, no i havent tried converting them to ogg

[spark wagon]

also, some of them are mp3

[urban current]

i got it to follow my chest physbone, audio emanates from my lower stomach because for some reason thats where the root for the chest is??? even after transforming it(as shown first pic) still doesnt come from there

[still shuttle]

view point feels higher up in-game than what it's set to in unity. Is there a fix to this other than moving the viewpoint down?

[somber meadow]

are you sure that's where the pivot is or are you set to "Center" in Unity. If you do the simple method of putting the audio source object on the chest bone you can make an easy offset by physically dragging the object up

[somber meadow]

are the feet touching the ground in the Unity rig configurator?

[sour sparrow]

why is it doing this

[still shuttle]

oh huh, no they arent

[sour sparrow]

the hair isnt supposed to be all distorted like that

[still shuttle]

Do I just move the avi down in unity or should I check to see if it is also floating a bit in blender?

[somber meadow]

you can do either, if you're going to do it in the Unity rig configurator just drag the armature object down

[spark wagon]

do you know of any converters? preferably one that doesnt have a limit?

[arctic ginkgo]

just use audacity

free, no sketchy website, open source, software

[spark wagon]

ah

[somber meadow]

I forgot which version was the last one before they got bought out by that sketchy company that put telemetry in it

looks like you can opt out easily in the installer though

[urban current]

your method works better in my case because my chest root is in a weird ahh position, but required me to transform it more, hers would work just outright given the root was in the center of the chest like it should be

both are valid solutions

[somber meadow]

that'll be because when you move objects to a different parent, they'll keep their world position. You can reset it by setting all the location transforms to 0

[rancid pike]

hey my vrc fury is not working but idk how to fix thattt

[somber meadow]

is there any errors inside of the console? and how're you adding VRCFury to your project

[rancid pike]

were do i check the console

[somber meadow]

Ctrl + Shift + C is the bind for it, it's usually at the bottom of your screen next to the project tab if you're using the default layout

[modest ridge]

since today unity is filling my ram and crashes, this happens in every project. did anyone else have this problem? literally cant find much when i google it

[somber meadow]

What Unity version are you using

[modest ridge]

2022.3.22f1

[somber meadow]

does this occur in a brand new project? I only recall 2022.3.6f1 having memory leak issues

[modest ridge]

i tried 3 different projects, ill quickly make a completely new one to check

if it is what i think it is im going insane

omg it is

[somber meadow]

is it a editor script

[modest ridge]

im using a vpn and enabled split tunneling yesterday so i dont have to log in the vrchat sdk every time i start unity
THATS CAUSING THE RAM USAGE FROM UNITY

how tf

[somber meadow]

Mullvad Windows split tunneling is pretty bizzare in general

I know it breaks VRCX heavily

[modest ridge]

for wahtever reason i dont get logged out of vrcx while using a vpn, but i get logged out from website, game, sdk

[worldly whale]

Hey yall! Im having issues with my avatar, i converted it to quest and when i enter play mode to test it using gesture manager, some of the mats are replaced with poi mats for some reason. i dont know why, does anyone have any idea what could be causeing this? its not vrc fury, i made it not be enabled when in play mode. but i dont know whats causing this..

[somber meadow]

yeah VRChat is heavy on locking tokens to IPs

[somber meadow]

Your FX layer has material swap animations you'll need to go in and find

[spark wagon]

excuse me?

[somber meadow]

easy fix for that is to press Ctrl + Shift + B and reselect windows here

even if it's the only option, Unity will wake up and figure out the platform is still windows

[spark wagon]

ooookay

also switching the audios to ogg didnt seem to fix it in unity but maybe something changed ingame

nnnnnnope

why is it genuinely hell making avatars

[somber meadow]

could you send one audio file that shows this issue to see if I can reproduce it

[somber meadow]

seems to be fine with just a simple audio source on my end, it could be how you're enabling the audio

[spark wagon]

the audio source is on an empty, which is toggled on/off to replay the audio

[sour sparrow]

how do I make it so my hair stays on the head of my character

[spark wagon]

what do you mean

[sour sparrow]

when im in vrc and even the gesture manager, the hair will not be connected to my head on the root and it'll look distorted

[sour sparrow]

I took this earlier but the ends of the hair will follow my avatar but the hair will not be attached to my head

[spark wagon]

are parts of the hair not parented to the head?

[sour sparrow]

its all patented to the head

[spark wagon]

hmm

any way you can provide a video of whats happening

[sour sparrow]

sure i could try

[worldly whale]

what would be the fastest way to find it>?

[sour sparrow]

in vr its not on the head

but here it obviously is, i still dunno what the problem could be

[slender loom]

Question can anyone either send me a link on how to fix janky texture or just tell me how to fix this cause i've been bashing my head into a wall to get this to work. it's supposed to look like this but comes out when i put the texture on it like this.

[sour sparrow]

also this is something weird thats happening, in the image i just posted (which is the old one), his hair stays with his head and only does the weird thing in the pink hair form, but in the new version his hair is weird no matter what

[spark wagon]

this looks like either a parenting problem or weight painting problem

[sour sparrow]

most likely a weight painting thing, but the thing is that obviously theres two hair meshes but I only use one armature

[spark wagon]

oh

[sour sparrow]

yeah, I tried deleting the hair bones for the second one but it still doesnt work

[spark wagon]

im not too knowledgable in weightpainting so i dont exactly know how to fix stuff like this

sorry

[sour sparrow]

awe damn, well thanks for your help anyways

[spark wagon]

is the first screenshot taken in blender?

it might be because the mesh is using the wrong UV map, and isnt the same one that unity is using

[spark wagon]

i found out something interesting: reloading the avatar several times gets it to work properly

[sour sparrow]

why is the view that high lol

[spark wagon]

so that the players face isnt inside the model

[sour sparrow]

ohh that makes sense

[spark wagon]

because the avatar is animated, and is seperate from the model, the player cant have their head too low or they wont be able to see

[sour sparrow]

yeah yeah

quick thing, my projects have been saying i have a lot of space that im taking up, but its only when i create clones of my avatars for animation/testing purposes, is there anywhere that these copies are held after i delete them from the project or hiearchy spaces?

also just letting you know, i got it to work, what i did was merge the skeletons from the other hair and body models (because parts of the avatar are kitbashed/combined for different stuff) so i put the hair armatures and the body armature of the alt outfit and combined them with CATS in blender and the hair is normal.

[spark wagon]

ah okay

[spark wagon]

you mean like a temp file or something?

[sour sparrow]

yeah

because ive noticed before that i accidently found a copy of y prevous avatar within the same project

[nova ember]

My partner keeps getting this message and it wont let them upload the avatar. Any ideas on how to help? (Its the last error)

[spark wagon]

i dont know where unity stores temp files, probably somewhere in its directory, maybe the directory associated with the project

[silk panther]

I need help on how to put my avatar in VRChat and one of Anya Forger. I have everything, I just need help to upload it.

[spark wagon]

"I hate everything"
dw, me too

making avatars is issue after issue and its a living hell

[silk panther]

yeah

[somber meadow]

You have too many parameters defined in the VRCExpressionParameters list. Try using VRCFury's Parameter Compressor

[spark wagon]

like when will they make vrchat 2 and make it in unreal engine so i can actually make things with a software that works

[spark wagon]

maybe go to the pipeline manager underneath the avatar descriptor and click detach, then try to upload

[somber meadow]

the actual issue is here

[spark wagon]

if they already have an existing version of the avatar uploaded, then paste that avatars blueprint id in there if they are trying to update it

[spark wagon]

ohhhh

[somber meadow]

"Clearing blueprint ID" is a generic error VRChat implemented which misleads a lot of people

[spark wagon]

they said "last error" so i thought they meant the blueprint id error

mb

[sour sparrow]

but then it wouldnt be so easy unless they make a vrchat creator companion 2 thats accessible with unreal

[spark wagon]

they did it with unity so i wouldnt be surprised if they could do it with unreal

knowing vrchat tho, they are never gonna switch to unreal even if they could

knowing a little bit about unreal and how it packages projects, its a lot like unity so probably wouldnt be out of the question

[sour sparrow]

yeah true, lets bet on vrchat 2 in 2050

the thing i hope they wouldnt do is make everything so coorperate and lifeless tho, me personally at least

[spark wagon]

dawg ill be like 50ish 😭

[spark wagon]

eh they kinda are already corporate and lifeless tbh

[sour sparrow]

i guess so, but other people make it less like that

[spark wagon]

ill just wait until some other people make a vrchat 2 in unreal so we have a higher chance of actually decent moderation
bc whoever works this moderation in vrchat needs to be fired fr

ive recently been getting notifications for someone ive reported getting punished, and i havent even reported anyone in the past 5 months

[sudden flume]

this might be an obvious-answer question but im so blind 😭 how do i get my model out of the default animation preview pose after making an animation file ? like, knees bent & arms up

ive been trying to get it to go back to the default t pose but i cant seem to figure it out

[sour sparrow]

yeah true

[spark wagon]

is this preview button highlighted?

dw, we all learners here

[orchid abyss]

putting a chair on my avatar, and it breaks the bodies of whoever sits on it. like my friend folded in half and was hovering waaaay above the seat. this is my first time using a chair on an avi, and idk how to fix

[spark wagon]

welcome to vrchat chairs: they dont work right

[gentle cobalt]

what would cause my avatar to do this? how would i fix this?

[stray trench]

any way to check draw calls for an avi in unity?

[arctic ginkgo]

shouldn't it be the same amount of total material slots?

just check that with the sdk

[gentle cobalt]

semi solved, but my custom FX layer doesnt work + theres some other weird things like physbones breaking entirely

i also have this weird stray polygon i cant solve

[stray trench]

i heard using outlines increases them because it is just drawing the mesh again but slightly bigger

[arctic ginkgo]

I don't believe shaders can increase draw calls by themselves (like adding outlines), but I think you are able to check how many draw calls are in the scene with the debugger in play mode

[stray trench]

thats mainly what i am trying to get to the bottom of, ive never heard a concrete yes/no about that

okay awesome, ty

[tiny haven]

does anyone know what this error means

[left gull]

is there any other's in the console? that one doesnt explain why it failed just that it happened

[tiny haven]

that's the only one that shows up

weirdly enough i turned off my windows defender and its working?

I don't know

[royal crescent]

For some reason my materials swap or get rendered incorrectly (the eyes) and the only way to make it stay put is to reload the SDK, but then the material cant be changed again unless I do another reload. help?

[arctic ginkgo]

oh i had a weird issue like that

only thing that fixed it (temporarily) was to go to the animation tab, press "preview" make the changes i want, then press preview again

even while in preview it didn't stay

no idea why that fixed it

[royal crescent]

Did you ever get a permanent fix?

[arctic ginkgo]

no, but it sometimes went away when restarting unity i think

[upbeat haven]

I can't seem to figure out how to tweak this one item I got from Booth

I bought a set of dog ears + tail cause it has a shiba set I need for my vtuber model (a vroid model) and I want to change the fur colour from brown to black

Tried whatever I can and even asked my Twitch mod for help (cause she knows more about VRChat model making than I do), and it still doesn't look that good or accurate to what I need 😔

If anyone can help I'll send the textures over in DMs

[honest iron]

If i grab an avatar from.thw vr chat store....is there anything I have to do like or is it just a install and use?

[teal magnet]

my friends avatar wont work anymore, anyone know what could be the problem?

[junior void]

why would it not be stiff without physbones

[lofty bane]

I need help, when doing fbt calibration, the hip is completely twisted or inverted, this happens in a friend pc but doesn't happen on my case, every time he does a fbt calibration the hip is twisted or inverted to the other side, any help to resolve this?

[lofty bane]

for reference I (right) look fine, my friend (left) has its hip flipped 180

[languid cipher]

hey is anyone able to help? i found an avatar in prismac's avatar search and i really want to figure out who the creator is so i can go personally buy the avatar from them. i took some screenshot of the avatar as well and put them linked to this message

[arctic helm]

anyone knows what this could mean?

[junior void]

is that the topmost error?

[echo yoke]

guys how do i add a locomotion layer for my vr chat avatar(its a horse with generic rig)pls help and also i want help i wont pay someone to help me

[feral shell]

for some reason the avatars iv been uploading has been saying it failed a security check and this confuses me dose any one know how to fix it ???

[balmy barn]

generic locomotion goes into fx controller , detect velocity and animate it you chose hardmode btw this isnt easy

[arctic helm]

actually no i found out it has something to do with my dressingtools

[oblique rover]

Any fbt users advice on this? I have 2 2.0 base stations and 3 vive 3.0 trackers but which would be the best to get even smoother tracking, an extra tracker or an extra base station?

[balmy barn]

im using 3 lighthouses , havnt had 'flying' trackers off my avatars in years

using hybrid tracking and havnt had a drift in ages either, vd made it much easier to remember roomscale now

[oblique rover]

So 3 basestations is probably the way to go then

[next leaf]

hi i'm very new to vrchat and avatars in general, i got a model online that i customized a bit but im having trouble uploading it to vrchat thru the SDK. It's been stuck on the 'building avatar' screen for ages and im not quite sure what to do

[hidden monolith]

how do i make radial menus look nice, i just add toggles with vrc fury but it just chucks the toggle in the radial menu, how do i move them around

[next leaf]

fixed it! had to drag the prefab into the hierarchy woops

[midnight briar]

hellu , when i animate the BodyEyes Material , its animate the BodyHead Material by itself , but i just want to animate the BodyEyes material , Do you suggest a solution?

[balmy barn]

sush scammer, right click the property on the shader and have it renamed

[balmy barn]

lock materials - anything not set animated wont change , but if its unlocked it will do them all on the mesh < you will notice this when you recording animations

https://www.poiyomi.com/general/locking#rename-animated

[midnight briar]

i will try it , thank you <33

[midnight briar]

thank you man its worked

nahhh

your indian

[lilac orbit]

then don't try to take commission

[gusty meteor]

Hey ! 👋
I use gogoloco for my hand gestures but I want to edit it.
I don't really understand how they did it but how can I edit the Animator so that if some bool value equals true, it does another gesture animation instead ?

[prime escarp]

You should be able to see who uploaded it on the avatar details. Even if they didn't make the base, then if all else fails, maybe send them a friend request to ask?

[lilac orbit]

you should add a new bool parameter in the animator, create an alternate gesture state with your animation, and set transitions so when the bool is true it switches to that state

[balmy barn]

[gusty meteor]

no thx

[lilac orbit]

<@&397642795457970181>

[balmy barn]

scammer dont know how to do a single transition anyay

[gusty meteor]

lmao ok

[gusty meteor]

Yeah but there's nothing linking to the gestures here so I cannot say do the original one if bool = false, else do the new one.
I don't know how to explain more clearly

[ornate stump]

Why don't you stay here and help answering a few technical questions in public first? There is no need to DM.

[gusty meteor]

If it was like this I could easily chose which one to do in the transition's conditions but they didn't do it that way

Maybe it is not triggered in the Gesture playable layer ?

[lilac orbit]

you can use an extra animator layer set to override, add your custom gesture animation there, and control its weight with your bool so it plays only when true otherwise the base gestures show as normal..

[ornate stump]

If you do this, it won't go back to the idle state.

[gusty meteor]

Yeah I know it was just to illustrate my point sorry

[gusty meteor]

Hm but will that not make both animations play at the same time ? The old one and the new one ? How can I disable the default gestures when a bool is true is another way of describing my issue.
How does their gesture system work. I'm missing something

[balmy barn]

add a bool/whatever as a second condition

probably a blendtree way too, but that was a quick mockup

[gusty meteor]

Yeah but gogo does it like this :
That's why I'm confused 🫠

Ooooooh okay, I didn't mess a lot with entry nodes so I just saw where the conditions were.
I'm sorry, I understand how it works now

Now I can put a bool condition

[placid mica]

Is there a way to make audiolink emmissions not show at all when not in a world with audiolink?

[lilac orbit]

you can make audiolink emissions invisible outside AudioLink worlds by multiplying the emission by the _AudioLinkActive parameter in your shader. If it’s 0, emission stays off.

[placid mica]

Thank you!

[placid mica]

If I'm using Poiyomi to do this, where would I find it?

[lilac orbit]

In Poiyomi, go to AudioLink then Emission, and enable “Only When Active” (or similar) so emission is zero when AudioLink isn’t running.

[spark wagon]

did you check the avi's description and such? anything that might lead you to the name of the avatar, or the creator?

or try to get a hold of the uploader

[placid mica]

I'm having trouble finding what you mean; is it something shown here that I'm missing?

[spark wagon]

i think the "Audio Link" section has to be toggled on for the AudioLink subsection under Emission to do anything

[placid mica]

it is

[spark wagon]

ah

[placid mica]

Shown in 1st screenshot

[spark wagon]

okie

[placid mica]

The audiolink is working, but I cant find these settings they are talking about

[spark wagon]

honestly dont even know why i said anything cuz i didnt really read any of yalls messages beforehand, i just assumed what was happening

[lilac orbit]

Set Emission Strength to 0 and let AudioLink Strength Multiply/Add control it. That way, no AudioLink = no emission.

[placid mica]

Oh, uh. Lol.

guh

thank you.

[spark wagon]

wth?

[spark wagon]

did the bot get mad at you for saying thank you in all caps?

[lilac orbit]

I think she mistyped something that why that happened

[placid mica]

Yep it did

It yells at you if you type in caps

[spark wagon]

cant even show appreciation smh

[placid mica]

see

[lilac orbit]

in small lol

[placid mica]

I hate that feature. Its ridiculous.

[spark wagon]

the caps are necessary to emphasize how thankful they are for your help

[placid mica]

But I digress. Thank you Melissa for your help

[lilac orbit]

well sometimes it's fun LOL

[lilac orbit]

you're welcome:3

[long gull]

OK, so it’s not much avatar hope so my friend his name is sunlight. He’s having a problem with his ex who just made a comment that he has all kinds of clients and has all kinds of stuff to do him and he’s afraid and apparently starlight is the exes name. He has clients and people on the other side to get him off of the game so where he can no longer have his stuff his account or be able to get on VR chat anymore.

And doesn’t see our chat have the Aunty sheet so nobody can access those clients or mods anymore

[somber meadow]

Are you using a bad voice dictation? Cause your text is almost unreadable, and no. Mods cannot stop someone from logging into the game, it’s just a coincidence that spectrum (internet service provider) is having connectivity issues with VRChat at the same time.

Anti-Cheat doesn’t completely prevent modders getting into the game as well

[long gull]

So sorry I’m also driving well he’s just afraid and I need some help because this person starlight I can give you all of the evidence that I possibly have cause starlight has also been accused of being a pedo and then being 28 being with a 17-year-old And I can also get them in here to tell you everything the full story cause I only know if it’s in pieces of what they’ve told me and I’ve seen it firsthand. They also spy on sunlight, which was their ex partner now and they are afraid that they’re going to just dox everything with clients and an ex VR chatter forgot the name, but like I said, I can have them explain more of everything

[somber meadow]

You’re not going to get official help over in the discord. You’ll need to make a ticket and report them through that

#moderation-reports

[rough crow]

just an avatar question, but is it possible to make a vignette on an avatar? i've seen some avatars do stuff like that, which is i believe PC only...

[somber meadow]

Do you mean a vignette that covers your screen? Or a material effect

[rough crow]

that covers the screen, mb.

[heavy zephyr]

You can do that using specific "screenspace" shaders. And yes, that means PC only.

[rough crow]

alright! ty!!

do you have any recommendations for screenspace shaders, or is there only one? :P

cuz i did find this.

[heavy zephyr]

There's a few out there, I know june lite got updated not long ago : https://kleineluka.gumroad.com/l/junelite?layout=profile&a=298000307

[rough crow]

okay!

[somber meadow]

CancerSpace is popular. Please use it responsibly, and not be an annoyance in public worlds with it

[heavy zephyr]

To add to what Blanke just said, if you use if to make an effect just for yourself, use the built-in "IsLocal" parameter to only toggle it locally for you, you'll save a lot of performance for others.

[rough crow]

okay, so im using june lite, and for some reason. when i apply a custom shader...thing. the material vanishes.

[heavy zephyr]

Yeah by default no effects are on, you need to enable them in the shader settings. Select a range, what effects, what strength, etc...

[rough crow]

ahhhhh.

[autumn tulip]

hi! Been trying to work out all the issues trying to upload my avatar and just got this error and I have no idea what it means, could someone explain pls?

The errors “Loaded data for an avatar we do not own, clearing blueprint ID”

Another issue I think tied to it is anytime d4rkpl4y3rs avatar optimizer it comes out as a broken copy? It’s never done that to me before and I seriously have no clue why.

[heavy zephyr]

In short : This error alone doesn't mean anything, look for more errors in the console.

Second : Using d4rkpl4y3rs avatar optimizer is very nice but not all features will work on all avatars, try disabling some and try again. Some features will warn you about what they do and what they might break, read that carefully.

[pine valley]

You should look for the first red error in the console

there will be several that just mean "idk it broke"

[next yew]

whats the difference between gogoloco beyond and gogoloco all

[somber meadow]

Beyond has features like dash and flying

[next yew]

got it thank you

[hollow mesa]

Hey so ive been following the guide on something i was adding to a avatar and the guide was going fine until the last part became very vague and i wasnt too sure what i was doing wrong?
Im not used to setting up toggles so if some 1 can dm me it might be a lil easier and i cant just send u the vid then point out the part.

[past glacier]

why does my animations/toggles only work for people when they are looking at me? and is there a way to fix it

cause i thought by default animations and toggles should sync but ig not

[night ember]

culled avatars dont animate

[past glacier]

anyway to fix?

[night ember]

dont get culled

[past glacier]

my avatar is shown by my friend and even when its shown and avatar culling is off for him it doesnt sync my toggle till he looks at me

not just my avatar trying diff ones and the toggles dont update until its in my fov

vrchat devs havent made a option to disable this i dont think

crazy

lazy ass devs

[somber sequoia]

that'd be a Unity thing

[past glacier]

found a fix made a cube

made it invisible with partcile shader thats black and now it plays without someones fov on me

https://tenor.com/view/igor-gif-15774701431756002568

[indigo falcon]

This is my first time making an avatar and I was wondering how to disable the fish like an toggle since I don't really like it that much

[somber sequoia]

you'd need to figure out what causes it. If you can find it in the menus, then you can see what variable the menu activates, and then find that in the animator somewhere

[vestal nebula]

anyone know what texture this is on the avatar?

[stray trench]

when people arent using vrcfury what determines which assets are toggles on? is it animations?

i deleted a hairstyle i didnt want but when i preview the avatar theyre bald now isnce that was the default hair

[somber sequoia]

animations and the parameters that run them

[stray trench]

so i should be looking at parameters? what would i do in this instance to stop the hair i deleted from being the one toggled on?

[somber sequoia]

without debugging myself I could only suggest finding which animation layer it is, and checking the default values of the parameters used

[stray trench]

so id fine the anim and then look in the inspecotr window?

find* my spelling has gotten worse and worse with time apparently

[somber sequoia]

no, you'd look in the animator and figure out what runs the animation you're referring to

[stray trench]

animator controller, right?

[somber sequoia]

yes

[stray trench]

i found this layer, where do i go from here?

sorry for all the questions ive been avoiding messing with the animator since i started making avis

or ig i should just watch a video about how to make radial toggle menus with the animator and go from there

[somber sequoia]

this one uses a blend tree, I wouldn't expect a basic toggle tutorial to teach that

[stray trench]

a video about blendtrees then?

i vaguely understand animation layers and parameters just from context but i have no idea what a blendtree is

i think i understand it enough now to remove stuff but this is still probably the most confusing aspect of avatars to me

[spark wagon]

ive fixed it (mostly), it still happens sometimes because the issue seems to be caused by multiple things
if i have transitions in the animation controller that dont have any conditions, the issue is more common.
so what i did was created a new bool thats always on, and made it so that transitions that wouldnt have a condition otherwise, are given the condition of "New Bool" being true
in this case, those transitions arent affected and function the same, only now the issue seems to happen significantly less
i would appreciate any suggestions that could fix the audio bug, tho as far as ive found out here, audios werent the issue at all as other animations break completely, and removing the audio sources did not fix the issue, nor affect it in any capacity.

[smoky kernel]

i got my rigged avatar ready but it shows up some errors when i upload it to unity

a little help

im gonna upload some images of the errors in a little bit

just let me open up unity

[spark wagon]

alright

i might be able to help

[smoky kernel]

really appreciate it :)

taking a while

got it

ImportFBX Warnings:
Mesh '02 - Default|C[c3850]_Body.mtd|mesh0' has 1923 (out of 14506) vertices with no weight and bone assigned (they will be assigned to bone #0 with weight 1). The list of vertices: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 862, 863 and so on...

Rig Error: Invalid Avatar Rig Configuration. Missing or invalid transform:
Required human bone 'Head' not found

there's more but im afraid of getting banned for flood

[spark wagon]

This means that there are parts of the model that arent weightpainted, and hence arent attatched to a bone in the rig (this can be ignored if the model still works normally when you move certain bones)

[spark wagon]

This just means that unity couldnt find a bone named "Head" and that you manually need to assign a bone to be the head because it doesnt know what the head should be

[smoky kernel]

like in blender?

[spark wagon]

you can do it in unity by clicking configure, and manually inputting a bone to be the head here

in blender you can fix it by just renaming the head bone to include "head" in the name

[smoky kernel]

but the character doesn't show up in unity

[spark wagon]

are there other error messages? if so just take a screenshot so you dont have to worry about getting muted for flooding chat

[smoky kernel]

can't find them anymore ill try to look

[spark wagon]

you dont see the errors in the console?

[smoky kernel]

nope

[spark wagon]

if you try reimporting the model do they not show up?

[spark wagon]

any other errors?

[smoky kernel]

no

[spark wagon]

have you tried the solution in blender?

[smoky kernel]

?

[spark wagon]

^

[smoky kernel]

i was thinking of doing it in unity but ill try

[spark wagon]

you can still do it in unity if you can

[smoky kernel]

would you pass me a tutorial?

in the (avatar) i can't see the configuration button

[smoky kernel]

thx

[spark wagon]

also dont ask why there isnt a model there for me

[smoky kernel]

uhm...

i might re rig the whole thing

but any help

[spark wagon]

youll need to manually apply each bone to their respective slots in unity, the same way i showed for the head
only these bones are required for a vrchat avatar

others are optional

or, like i said with the head, you can rename them in blender

[bitter lichen]

hello ! im v new to making avatars so any help would be appreciated tho pls explain things to me like im 5 LMFAO. im making this avatar and i want a toggle between this outfit and the bikini but for some reason the main outfit warps the body despite me not messing w any of the blend shapes

[spark wagon]

is the avatar being made from scratch? or did you get a unitypackage from somewhere

[bitter lichen]

im using this as a base ;o;
https://booth.pm/en/items/5058077

[spark wagon]

did it come as an fbx or blender file?

or was it JUST a unitypackage

[bitter lichen]

oh, unity

[spark wagon]

what exactly did you do that caused it to happen?

or provide a clip of it occurring

[bitter lichen]

all i did was add that dress ;w; it's never happened w any other outfit either

[spark wagon]

there might be a blendshape on the model that changes the model to fit the dress, and it might be at max value by default
some models do that to allow certain clothing to actually fit properly without clipping
what blendshapes are there?

[ebon maple]

Anyone know any avatars that look similar to the character in these pictures

[spark wagon]

"MA Shape Changer" might confirm my suspicion

[bitter lichen]

ooo i didn't even see that tbh, i could try deleting them ? bc the only blend shapes is to make the bottom of the cross longer and then to make the breasts bigger which are both at the min value

[spark wagon]

does clicking "Inverse Condition" fix it?

if so, the toggling animation might need to include toggling that option

[bitter lichen]

i lowkey set all the things there to negative so now it doesn't mess up the body anymore LOL so i guess ill never know 🥹

[spark wagon]

so the issue is fixed?

[bitter lichen]

yis ! if you didn't point out the shape changer thing i would have been stuck on this forever so tysm for the help !!

[spark wagon]

alr np

[loud forge]

Hi, I have a question. Does having missing armatures break the model at all? (weight painting / rigging problems), whatsoever, because the person I’m making a model of has a missing arm, and I’d prefer to know if it does or I need to do anything first.

[ornate stump]

You mean missing bones. It doesn't allow missing bone or it would be incompleted humanoid. You must at least add bone but doesn't need to weight paint to anything.

[loud forge]

Ah okay. Thank you.

[alpine cosmos]

hey guys, i need help with something. so there is like a mmd motion i downloaded that comes with 2 types of files, one was vdm something and the other is fbx, i want to convert the motion to be useable in my avatar but I can't find any tutorials of how it's actually done. if anyone knows anything, any help is really appreciated.

[spark wagon]

vrchat requires all of these highlighted bones, although it doesnt matter if the bones are actually weightpainted or do anything to the model, they just need to be present

just for context, even though they already answered the question

[hollow mesa]

does anyone know the best method on saving space so it lets me upload? also I forgot if i should unpack the prefabs could that possibly help my issue?

[urban current]

does anyone know this avis model name ???

[mellow scaffold]

how would i add a third arm to my avatar? its one of the last things i need to do

[somber meadow]

Unpacking wouldn’t do anything but make things worse. Go through your textures and lower the resolution. 4k textures are usually never needed and cause unnecessary VRAM usage. See if you can lower those textures to use a max resolution of 1024 and if it looks bad, do 2048.

[somber sequoia]

go into blender, duplicate the mesh, move it down, remodel the area to make it fit somehow. Edit the armature, duplicate the bones of the arm, move them to the right location. Then decide how you want it to move, if you just want to duplicate the other arm's movements, use one rotation constraint on each arm bone to copy the rotation of the main arm.

[scenic bridge]

Hi people, im making this model and i wanted to know if someone can explain to me how to bring 2D expressions to vrchat, if someone has a video tutorial or something, thanks

[spark walrus]

So I find it cool that I’m having somebody maybe help me with an avatar for VR but it’s one of those things where it’s like you don’t have enough money to just handover five $600 for what you need

[random tangle]

Uploading a quest avatar, and I am getting this error, not sure how to fix it. Any suggestions?

[somber sequoia]

install whatever pre-requisite you didn't. You can't really figure it out from just that, maybe there's a clue in the creator's documentation, maybe the error message.

[left gull]

the setup would depend on what type of 2d viesemes/expression method you'd wanna use so you could do a texture sheet with all your face expressions and do UV tiling or you could do multiple face meshes and do swaps via shapekeys/blendshapes which is easier to setup imo but not as optimized (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l--1c8QGpVw&t=46s), this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw1kZuKDPX8&t=84s) also shows a even less optimized way of how to setup the mouth on just a single seperated mesh but they use multiple images for the mouth rather then just a single sheet so its another option but a less suggested one

couldnt find a video of the UV tiling method but its been talked about alot in this discord so theres likely one in here somewhere

[scenic bridge]

Yeah, i have an uv tiling method, but i cant find where to do it in Unity, i have in blender but not in unity

[somber sequoia]

material properties I'd assume

[balmy barn]

2d face - values for a 4x4 tilesheet , blendtree / any state , quest need to use it on a seperate mesh , pc can use decals / lock shader to avoid it affecting other ones

animate tiling/offset , want eye / mouth to be seperate they need their own material (quest mesh)

[prisma thunder]

I'm using the Poiyomi Toon shader (and Toon Standard for Android), and I'm using a decal for some of my skin-tight clothing (like fishnets). I have two questions;

A) How would I toggle just the decal, without changing materials?
B) How would I go about making a blendshape in blender that would sink the skin along the fishnets, slightly? Could I use the texture itself to deform it?

[somber meadow]

toggling features like decals in poiyomi is simple as animating the "Alpha" slider. You can't animate toggling entire categories as Poiyomi uses the category on/off state for the shader optimizer

[lilac orbit]

Animate the decal Strength (set to 0 for off, normal value for on) with an Animator toggleno material swap needed

You can’t use the texture to deform; make a blendshape in Blender by sculpting the skin inward where the fishnets press, then export with shape keys.

[prisma thunder]

Sorry, how do I report these avatar commission scammers -w-

[prisma thunder]

Oh! Thanks!

[somber meadow]

#discord-tickets

[prisma thunder]

I take it I need to manually select all the vertices for that?

Also, I shrink clothing inwards to toggle it, but that sometimes results in little sticks coming off of the avatar, how would I fix that -w-

[somber meadow]

Don't use blendshapes for toggles, sure it'll trick VRChat's flimsy performance ranks, but it's way worse the GPU to do skinning on every vertex on the mesh when compared to just simple object toggles

[prisma thunder]

They're one skinned mesh uh

And one material slot

I don't see any other way to do that

[junior void]

you can make it a separate object easily

[somber meadow]

on PC you can use UDIM discards with Poiyomi

[prisma thunder]

That calls for more draw cells, no?

[somber meadow]

sure, but the trade off is better than Unity doing a skinning call on every vertex to the GPU each frame and having "sticks" popping out

[prisma thunder]

What about invisible textures?

[somber meadow]

use UDIM discarding if you want to go that far

[prisma thunder]

No clue what that is

[lilac orbit]

yep, and for the little stick you can add a Shrinkwrap Modifier to the clothing, targeting the body mesh.

[somber meadow]

https://www.poiyomi.com/special-fx/uv-tile-discard

this'll keep the mesh in one material slot and one renderer but give the ability to toggle specified parts of a mesh

and discard it from the GPU as the vertices are tossed a NaN value until you toggle them back on

[lilac orbit]

this method would be much easier..

[prisma thunder]

Would there be any way to allow this to work with quest? If not, would using the blendshapes (for quest specifically) instead be a viable option?

[lilac orbit]

using blendshape is always a better when it comes to quest

[prisma thunder]

Alrighty!