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[ornate stump]

What shader is it and what platform?

[tribal bane]

liltoon for pc

[ornate stump]

Are you sure there isn't material swap animation?

[tribal bane]

i dont believe there is

[ornate stump]

Try reset fx layer to default and see if the settings stays.

[trim prism]

anyone know why my fallback has no clothes? I'm using vrcfury for the toggles and modular avatar to link the clothes. so is it related to that? all the clothes are enabled in unity so i assumed they'd just appear on the fallback too but they aren't for some reason.

[tribal bane]

i reset the fx and it doesnt have a seethrough bit anymore but im not sure why it would be doing that when all the materials on the fx have backface culling tirned off. could you maybe help explain why?

or is it one of those unexplained unity problems??

😂

[junior void]

that means theres a material animation in your fx

[ornate stump]

That definitely means there is material swap animation.

[tribal bane]

yeah but looking through it they all dont have backface culling

[ornate stump]

Try using gesture manager to test in unity and you will see what the material get swapped to.

[spark walrus]

i need some help on a bone not moving when i want to turn on a toggle, on the chainsaws i dont want the wrists to move at all, like its not rigged. any tips?

[pseudo mica]

Hi, can someone help me add stuff to my avatar? thank you.

[stark fable]

depends what - toggles? dances? emotes? etc?

[sand goblet]

I honestly have no idea how to explain this or how it is happening. Trying to add a quest version of an existing material but it keeps changing back to the PC Shader. What do I do??? My Unity's haunted or some shit

It's everytime I go into the builder screen it causes it to change back. WHAT

[balmy barn]

remove controller in your animator

see hat constantly going away , cause it has the fx assigned to animator

[sand goblet]

Oh thank you so much!

[maiden yoke]

how do i fix the facial blendshapes from changing when i enter play mode/ in vrchat?, the first image is my blendshapes the 2nd image is of it resetting

how would lock the facial structure basically?

[random crown]

Hey, i have a problem with an avatar that i bought. Someone told me its a Network Sync problem.

One of my sword is working perfectly, i can pull it out and everyone see it.
But the other one is bugged, my friends and ppl don't see the sword when i have it in my hand

[ornate stump]

Did you make the sword grabbing system yourself?

[random crown]

No, its from a package that the seller and me bought online

i have 0 knowledge on avatar creation or unity

there is the package

https://keiros.booth.pm/items/5038529

[ornate stump]

The problem is the grabbing system itself. And if it's premade, you can't do much without reverse engineering the system.

[random crown]

but why the first sword is working fine tho ?

[ornate stump]

Dozen of possible reasons. I don't have an answer for that.

[random crown]

alright

So what can i do ? Create a commision to fix that or ?

[ornate stump]

If you can afford it sure.

[random crown]

Alright i see, ty

i'll try to find someone

[ornate stump]

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[viral sorrel]

I need some help with models view point on desktop the first photo is before play mode in gesture manager and the 2nd one is in play mode in gesture manager this also translates to in game my view point is in the nose only on desktop that makes looking down look into the body and makes the heads chin go into the body some the view point is perfectly fine and moves how its suppose to on vr tho i have enforced t posed everything's 0 out in blender and unity as well idk what to really do i never have came across this problem I've also tried switching the locomotion to gogo lock and has a similar effect where the view point moves

[ornate stump]

View point gizmos is just a preview relative to global space and doesn't move along with avatar movement when testing.

[soft estuary]

had a question, if i had a prop/prop model, how would i make the hand/hands wrap around the object?

[viral sorrel]

this translates to game as well tho only on desktop

[silk panther]

Help

[balmy barn]

update or remove av3 emulator , could be your gesturemanager too

( see names in error )

[still jasper]

Okay so, I have NEVER used unity before. I just finished doing the shapekeys and stuff, that was the last thing I did. It has it's armature, and it's weightpainted. I really hope there are no extra steps.
What do I do with the model from blender to move it to Unity?

[somber sequoia]

export as fbx, in the export dialog set "apply scalings" to "FBX All" and uncheck the option for leaf bones under "armature"

save it in the Unity project somewhere.

[still jasper]

Save it in the Unity project?

Lemme do what you said rq

Okay, done

[tawny juniper]

any chance someone who has knowlage of both blender and unity get in contact with me? im trying to do a headswap for my most recent project but one of the heads has no rig too it and its just a blender file, sadly i have no skill with blender

[still jasper]

I'm just waiting for the Unity editor to install now, I didn't know the hub and Unity editor were separate

[still jasper]

Ik blender, just not unity. It sounds like you would need to put it in blender and add a rig to it.

I don't think you can do any of that in just unity, you NEED a rig

[junior void]

youll have to parent it under the armature

[tawny juniper]

like its got some armature to the head but its literally JUST a head

[junior void]

if it has a head bone and the base also has a head bone, you may get away with using vrcf armature link

id suggest combining the armatures in blender tho

[tawny juniper]

ohh the pain for blender

could anyone guide meee

[still jasper]

Have you used it before?

[tawny juniper]

ive used blender before but never really succeeded with it

im mainly a unity user

[still jasper]

Gotcha

I haven't used unity before yet, but if you know how to move the model to blender, do that
If you don't, I hope someone else can help you with that part

[tawny juniper]

yee i got the fbx file for the head n body i want to use i just dont know what to do from there

[still jasper]

You'd need to have your armature unhidden
If you open the file in blender and your armature isn't there, try Alt+h to unhide it

Make sure both files are on the scene

You need both armatures in the base model and the head present and viewable because you may need to delete one

Idk if you're doing a toggleable headswap or something like one of those genshin avis with the different character heads

[junior void]

it would help if we saw your bone structure

[still jasper]

Yes yes

[tawny juniper]

okays one moment whilst i throw both files into it

okay so this is what im seeing

[balmy barn]

seperate some head , import it to some avatar without one, adjust some join & parent bones ( might want to merge meshes after or you get some funny seperation )

[tawny juniper]

thats very complicated lmfao, i rlly dont know much when it comes to blender

[tawny juniper]

its just a singular headswap, removing the head off the base and replacing it with another to keep

[still jasper]

Gotcha

[tawny juniper]

i got this here

[still jasper]

Can you zoom in on both indiviually so I can your bones better?

[tawny juniper]

im not gonna need the skirt bones or the hair bones as they get taken out of unity

[still jasper]

One moment

[junior void]

what

[tawny juniper]

man idk whatever those things are on the skirt lmao

[tawny juniper]

inside the head

[junior void]

if thulens video is too much for you, id like to recommend to go to vrc traders discord and request a freebie there

[tawny juniper]

oh okay, i was just hoping to learn but ig i can do that

[junior void]

Sure i mean technically all you need to do is scale the new head, remove old head mesh, remove old head bones and anything under it such as eyes and then join the armatures reparenting the head to the neck bone

[random crown]

I have a portal accessory (look good in unity). But in game, the render ugly and glitched.

liltoon is necessary

[still jasper]

Those are skirt bones. You use them for physbones or just locking your skirt a certain way to move with your legs

[tawny juniper]

yeee i womt be using any of the outfit shown in that picture

so idm if it would get removed

[still jasper]

I can show you

Hold on

[tawny juniper]

i posted my rq in the vrctraders lol

[still jasper]

It's probably better if you learn tho idk what vrctraders is

[lilac orbit]

try this:
use lilToon. Set it to Transparent, enable Double-Sided, and adjust Render Queue (around 3000) to fix the glitch.

[tawny juniper]

i mean if ur willing to show me how to do it i can just turn the status over on it

[lilac orbit]

it's a server with artist to commission avatar

[still jasper]

Okay, make sure your mouse is near the model and press 1 to move to front view, don't zoom around or it'll reset the view
Zoom in
Select the original model you had and press TAB on your keyboard
Press Alt+Z
It'll look like this

I'll use my current model project for reference
Mine's head is seperate but I think I can still show you how to do it

I can do it step by step to make it simple

[still jasper]

Ohhhh

Are you switching out JUST the head, or the hair too?

[tawny juniper]

just the head

[still jasper]

Okay, when you get to the part I just told you to do, make sure your tool is box select and press 3. If it doesn't look like this, press w until it changes to this icon

Face select is one when that upper blue one is the third one

[tawny juniper]

is there a way we can vc? idm if u type it out

[still jasper]

I'm in school, so no sadly

You could wait until I'm off school though if you want to VC

[tawny juniper]

sure how long do u got left

[still jasper]

Hmmmmmm

About roughly 4 hours

[tawny juniper]

ah so about 3pm

[still jasper]

Yes

It's 1 PM my time but you're two hours ahead

[tawny juniper]

i can make it work, shouldnt take more that like 40 mins lol

[still jasper]

Alr sweet

One sec, I'm tryna figure out how to upload my model to Unity
Never used it before

[still jasper]

It's been exported already

Just tryna figure out how to get it into Unity

[tawny juniper]

ah, then take the fbx n drag it into the unity asset area

[still jasper]

Huh? 😭

[still jasper]

Ohh. Okay lemme just wait for the thing to even boot up

[tawny juniper]

okiii

[still jasper]

I don't think my file is exporting correctly- I've done it a few times, but it won't show up in my files

Oh wait nvm now it works

It's always when I complain about something and then it works 😭

[tawny juniper]

xD exactly how it works

[somber sequoia]

I love that.

(not)

[tawny juniper]

if it imports with no textures

[lilac orbit]

you posted in Vrctrader still didn't got help?

[tawny juniper]

not as of right now but fanimatic if gonna try n help after school in about 4 hours

if ur able to try n help how idm lol all the help i can take

[lilac orbit]

well that's weird, in which channel did you posted your request?

[tawny juniper]

the free commissons

[lilac orbit]

Aah that's the reason

[tawny juniper]

mannn, the thing is, is that i know myself its such an easy task

[lilac orbit]

artist there really not work for free

But it's really good that fanatic is helping you:3

[random crown]

ty

[tawny juniper]

yeeeee

[still jasper]

How do I get it to have that plane? I opened it and it looks like this

[tawny juniper]

oof

one min do you have the sdk for vrc

ohh

okay you need to install a few more things

[still jasper]

Extract materials?

Oh boy

Okay

Where do I get that?

[tawny juniper]

rahhh, so go onto the vrc webside n download vrchat creator companion

[somber sequoia]

(alcom is better....)

[tawny juniper]

huh

[tawny juniper]

https://vrchat.com/home/download if u download the creator companion it will download everything u need

[still jasper]

Okay, it's downloaded

[tawny juniper]

id close out of unity n launch it through that

[tawny juniper]

should look somewhat like this without the butt load of projects

[balmy barn]

remember to get the right unity version for vrchat

[tawny juniper]

once youve installed the unity version you require on this just click onto new project, then choose the thing ur making n drag that fbx into scene like b4

yaaa

(i like older versions T-T less breaking)

[still jasper]

I think that's the version I have, it says that on my project

[somber sequoia]

You want 2022.3.22f1 for VRChat.

[still jasper]

Downloading it already took like 50% of my battery and like 30 minutes, I really don't want to redownload it.. 😭

[somber sequoia]

you don't have a choice, the version you have cannot be used to create VRChat content.

[still jasper]

Really?

[lilac orbit]

it happens

[still jasper]

I'm confused, Thulen said to use the other one

[lilac orbit]

yes

[still jasper]

Llleett me go see where to redownload it

[somber sequoia]

no, Thulen was pointing out that you had the wrong one. I agree it wasn't clear.

[still jasper]

Ohhhh.

Shoot.

How do I get a specific version??

[somber sequoia]

as said before, use VCC (or alcom)

[lilac orbit]

alcom is preferred more

[balmy barn]

i just grab unity manually https://unity.com/releases/editor/whats-new/2022.3.22f1 , never used the hub/vcc to grab unity

[still jasper]

This?

[somber sequoia]

I use UnityHub 'cause I use Linux and VCC doesn't work there. Haven't tried via alcom though.

that

[still jasper]

Okay, they're both downloaded

Lemme set them up rq

So I connect it to the Unity hub??

[somber meadow]

if you installed Unity Hub in the default location, you can just click next

[still jasper]

This too?

Like do I check off the box?

[heavy fable]

Hi.
I and other people have sometimes issues with avatar sounds.
It happens at times that outside of the audio range the audio cuts in and out fast.

Range is usually linear and 3d

[somber meadow]

yes

you can set it later in the settings anyway

[still jasper]

Okay

Problem with the Unity link I was given, it keeps opening as a browser file and then redownloads.. and keeps doing that. Let me try redoing it.

[lilac orbit]

Try Setting the audio source to 3D, use a Custom Rolloff Curve, and increase Max Distance a bit. This stops the cutting in/out.

[dusty rose]

Toon standard. The blush doesn't work cuz quest don't got no transparency

[still jasper]

Okay, both Alcom and the proper Unity version are downloaded and set up. Now what do I do?
I don't know how to connect the 2022 version to Alcom.

Nvm, I got it

Uhhhh

????

I have it-

[somber meadow]

Screenshot the installs tab of Unity Hub

[still jasper]

Okay fixed

[still jasper]

It's because I installed it after alcom was already opened, I had to restart alcom

[cunning grove]

Why does my avatar put herself in the floor??

[opal dragon]

how would one disable the blinking animation on an avatar?

[somber meadow]

your avatar's in the floor in Unity as well, the origin needs to be at the avatar's feet

[gilded turret]

Why is play mode removing expression menu?

[somber meadow]

Does your avatar have a menu set? and is it deemed a humanoid avatar in the avatar descriptor

[gilded turret]

yes

[somber meadow]

Disable entirely? or only at a specific time

[still jasper]

Disable the shape keys that make it blink

[gilded turret]

it removes it every time

[opal dragon]

onI just want to make it a toggle i can turn on and off due to expression shape keys

[cunning grove]

how do i fix the origin?

[opal dragon]

do I just make a bool animation that just sets the blink value to 0?

[somber meadow]

you need to use a animator state behavior tracking control that effects the eyes

[gilded turret]

Another day of unity breaking itself

[still jasper]

That could work

How do I make my model show up on the plane??

[somber meadow]

drag the model into the hierarchy

[still jasper]

Ohhhh.

And to fix the textures?

[somber meadow]

You'll need to import the textures in the project and set up the materials yourself

[gilded turret]

gues i have another corrupted for no reason project

¯_(ツ)_/¯

restarted, same issue

It doesnt matter what i put in for a menu, its just gone

unity removes it.

[still jasper]

I'm a little confused on how to do that

[still jasper]

There are a lot of forums online that discuss Unity issues, I'm sure someone's asked for help on one before and gotten a reply. Might wanna look it up

[somber meadow]

what files do you have with this model

[still jasper]

fbx if that's what you mean

[somber meadow]

is that all you got from it?

[still jasper]

That's all I was told to export

[somber meadow]

you'll need the textures alongside with it

[still jasper]

So then how do I do that??

[somber meadow]

where did you obtain the model

[still jasper]

blender

[somber meadow]

Did you make it yourself?

[still jasper]

Yes

I made it from scratch in blender

[somber meadow]

So you already went through the rigging and modeling process? Did you ever texture the avatar in blender or other software

[still jasper]

Yes, and I textured it in blender

It has been modeled, rigged, weight painted, the shape keys are set, and it's been UV mapped and textured

[somber meadow]

you'll need to export the textures out of blender and into your project

in the texture paint space, you can click "Image > Save as", and save those textures in your Unity Project's asset folder

[still jasper]

Do I restart the project after to reload it?

[vast viper]

i found this skin how do i get this into the game?

[still jasper]

Okay, they're in the asset folder. Now what?

I figured it out, but bigger problem. my model is literally missing faces.

[somber meadow]

There's no other errors in the console?

your first screenshot was the console

avatar validation errors on build will usually be because of preprocess scripts like VRCFury, or Modular Avatar

usually the SDK should list what validation failed alongside that error

that's the normal state when an avatar's muscles are not being animated in Unity (Bicycle pose)

this'll be normal on completely empty animations that don't effect the avatar's muscle transforms

Then you had the rare chance of Unity not resetting it back it's default pose, if your avatar is still in a prefab state you can use Pumkin's avatar tools to reset the pose back

[dire heart]

any idea why it does that?

[somber sequoia]

after you're done working on an animation, just switch to a different animation and it'll reset.
if you didn't and it's stuck now, pumkin's tools has a reset thingy

[heavy zephyr]

Your hair might be set to cutout for dissolve and those glasses set to fade.

Fade renders over any transparency behind it, hence why your hair would dissapear.

Do show your shader settings

[dire heart]

these? or the other stuff

[heavy zephyr]

Just the general stuff and things like the render queue

[dire heart]

thats all I have on the glasses, just made the material myself + the hair

[heavy zephyr]

Try setting the glasses to only use one pass?

Also does the hair need to be on queue 2465?

[dire heart]

i dint think so? It just came out of the package like that, i didnt even knew they do anything

also tried the one pass, even normal, it all causes that issue

ah changing the rendering queue to from shader fixed it :D

[heavy zephyr]

Glad that could help, what did you set it to?

[dire heart]

just from alphatest to from shader and that fixed it!

[heavy zephyr]

Did that put it back to 2450?

[dire heart]

yea

[heavy zephyr]

Okay yeah makes sense. Does your hair have some dissolve effect or any special effects at all?

Because 2450 is the queue typically used for cutouts.

[dire heart]

not that im aware of, no

[heavy zephyr]

Then you could set it to 2000 as well, might work and prevent some other transparency effects from rendering over it

[dire heart]

thanks!

[spark walrus]

i need some help on a bone not moving when i want to turn on a toggle, on the chainsaws i dont want the wrists to move at all, like its not rigged. any tips?

[somber sequoia]

by wrists, you mean the humanoid bones? You'll have to lock them in the Gesture or Additive layer, using VRC Animator Tracking Control.

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/state-behaviors/#animator-tracking-control

[sly peak]

Does anyone know how to make dissolve toggles using liltoon?

[alpine badge]

u save me every time

[somber sequoia]

every time?

[green raptor]

does anyone know how to make 2 animations in 1 toggle? u.u

[somber sequoia]

Sure, you can make any number of animations be run by the same parameter.

[spark walrus]

is there a tutorial?

[somber sequoia]

I have no idea

[green raptor]

is there a video of it to follow?

[spark walrus]

hm, so where do i put this animation tracking thing

[somber sequoia]

Any video tutorial which shows you how to use a parameter to run an animation, just use the same parameter for all the animations you want to do

[somber sequoia]

it's a component you add onto a state in the animator

[spark walrus]

this one?

[somber sequoia]

No, that's the animator component on your avatar descriptor. Click the controller there and you'll be brought to your animation controller in the project. You want to be looking in the "Animator" unity window, where you see the layers in the animation controller itself.

[unreal bobcat]

Would anyone happen to know why the texture memory would go up after upload? its 104 in unity, but 113 in game.

[spark walrus]

right here?

[somber sequoia]

if that is the animation layer you want to edit, sure.

[wide aurora]

I am playing audio using AnimatorPlayAudio
The audio source has a max range, most of the time the sound respects this, however randomly every now and then the audio is played globally across the entire map. And I am unsure as to why this happens.

[spark walrus]

i have an fx layer and an animator

[somber sequoia]

(but if you're working on animating humanoid bones you have to do that in base or gesture or action, not FX)

[spark walrus]

this is my fx layer

[spark walrus]

okay so do i make one of those?

[somber sequoia]

if you don't have one, sure

[rigid hemlock]

helloo, is it better to have one layer and one big blendtree, or multiple layers with smaller blendtrees?

[spark walrus]

okay, i made the base animator

what next?

[somber sequoia]

one layer!

[somber sequoia]

animate whatever you want

[spark walrus]

like a toggle?

[somber sequoia]

I really don't know what your primary goal is, and I'm working on my own stuff so I can't hold your hand through this, I was just giving you a push in the right direction.
But yes, probably you want to create a toggle which does whatever humanoid bone positioning you want, triggered by the same parameters that do whatever it should match with in your FX animator.

On the "active" state there, you put that Animator Tracking Control component, remembering to undo whatever change it makes when the toggle goes to the off state.

[green raptor]

sorry I think I didn't explain it well, the situation is this, is a dragon ball character where "hand" recharge the kamehameha and "Ha" throws it. What I want to do is just have 1 toggle there which is going to be "hand", and I want to throw it with "open hand gesture". How can I do that?

[low mason]

hi so im working with a model that i want to have a color wheel for people to customize its appearance in-game, but im not sure how to have two parts of one material change color seperately? id like to have the purple part be changable to any color, aswell as the white part. i dont want to made them both seperate materials as im trying to keep this as optomized as i can with its features, anyone have any tips? im probably missing something simple as im not too familiar with texture mapping just yet as iv only just gotten into that

[somber sequoia]

I do a gun fire method in an animation layer, moving from a "wait" state to "ready" state when you do the pointer gesture, then from there any gesture other than fist goes back to wait, and fist goes to "fire".
All driven by the one hand's gesture value. It's pretty simple logic, might work for you as well.

[somber sequoia]

You'd need to do this with a shader that has some masking system, like Poiyomi does with the RGBA masking feature.

[low mason]

im trying to use the new toon standard shader as it does have some minor masking setup

i want the color swapping to be quest compatible

[wet pier]

After switching textures to be quest compatabile (Matcap Lit) it went from normal looking textures to this heavy pink/purple/red, how do i fix this?

[low mason]

try using toon standard or another shader, matcap lit is a bit buggy iirc

i assume you want to use a matcap since you're trying to use matcap lit, so toon standard should still work as it has a matcap option

[somber sequoia]

I've not used that yet so I don't know what it can do

[low mason]

its basically poiyomi but leight weight for quest

[balmy barn]

masks'n stuff

better yet it has backface culling

[wet pier]

tried toon lit, doesnt currently work

textures look the same

[somber sequoia]

oh cool, I didn't realize

[low mason]

toon standard* update your sdk to use it

[balmy barn]

remove vertex colors if a vrchat mobile shader changes your entire av color, blender also calls it 'color attributes' now

[wet pier]

toon standard doesnt appear

[low mason]

this is currently how it looks when i dont use any masking, i want to be able to control both colors but im unsure how to really go about it without changing how it looks by default

[wet pier]

im very new, how do i remove vertex colors?

[low mason]

no, update your SDK not the creator companion

here

[wet pier]

ohhhhhhhhhh

thx

all my other avatars were on older versions

[low mason]

you can either remove the attribute in blender, or disable vertex colors in toon standard

[wet pier]

it works now

thanks

i found a bunch of really good models that all had textures like this

[exotic rover]

What...lol does this usually happen this is my second avatar ever.....

[somber sequoia]

just what it says, the account you are using needs to be "user" rank instead of "visitor"

[low mason]

stretch out the keyframes in the animation so it plays out longer

[somber sequoia]

animations have a speed option in the animator, or also that, yes.

[alpine badge]

thanks

[wet pier]

Im getting this error, i have gotten it before and fixed it before but for the life of me i dont remember how to fix it

it fixed itself

i did nothing and it just

went away

dont know what that was about

[primal swift]

aaaaaaaaaaaa

i could import it just fine a couple of weeks ago

something was missing so i tried deleting it and adding it again and now it just wont work

[plush fractal]

hey i need some advice my model wont scale in game using the radial menu built into vrc the camera moves but model doesnt

[somber meadow]

do you have an older scaling system still on the avatar, or do you have any VRC/Unity constraints on the avatar

[plush fractal]

i dont have an older one but idk what the constraint is

im new to making avatars

[plush fractal]

how would i find this out?

[rigid hemlock]

Hello

On my one avi if any of my blendtrees have more than 3 motions the animations get messed up for other people. It looks completely fine on my end though?

Well I fixed it by not using blendtrees and using one layer per parameter and the old transition to animation state method. But I'm still perplexed as to why this happens.

[somber sequoia]

I use blendtrees for a bunch of stuff, wouldn't think that would be a problem.

[glass solar]

to all the folks that use fury, where do i add an option for a transition out anim when turning off the toggle

[somber meadow]

Uncheck "transition out is reverse of transition in" if you want to customize it from that

[viral field]

Anyone know why in blender when I try to add a new shape key to the object I'm editing I can no longer edit the mesh, like deform it and stuff

I'm trying to set up pants to follow a certain blendshape

[somber meadow]

You need to select basis, or set the shape key to the value of 1 in order to edit it

[viral field]

I've tried that, but it doesn't work

[somber meadow]

screenshot your blender when attempting to edit the mesh (your problem) with the shape keys shown

[rigid hemlock]

Yeah I have no idea how to troubleshoot it, everything looks normal in unity and I had no idea anything was wrong until someone told me it looked funny

[ionic mortar]

Hello, for some reason my Shape Keys for expressions are not importing into unity, intead, it was giving me this error message.
I already had tryed to re-make the unity project, run CATS twice, importing with different options, create anims, and it started giving me a "Avatar is Null" error, I can't find anything on google, does anyone know why is it doing this?

[somber meadow]

Do you have any modifiers on the meshes effected in blender

other than the Armature modifier

[ionic mortar]

I do have a solidify not applyed, for the avatar's outline

[somber meadow]

exporting an FBX will apply modifiers to the exported FBX, if the modifier cannot be applied due to shapekeys, it'll delete all the shapekeys in the exported avatar

[ionic mortar]

So to fix it I'll have to delite the shape keys, apply the modifier and remake the shape keys?

[somber meadow]

or use shader based outlines if you're not focusing on an Android release

[somber sequoia]

https://github.com/przemir/ApplyModifierForObjectWithShapeKeys

[ionic mortar]

Oh, tnx!

[static cipher]

Question, is there a way to create an object (on an avatar) that both grabbable by someone else, rideable by that same person, and also has physics when not being grabbed? I know it's possible in worlds (I've created such an effect in a world myself), but I'm not sure if it's possible for avatars,

[somber sequoia]

Probably? I don't expect you can grab an object with a station you're in though

[static cipher]

i mean, i've been done before (in the world example) via just having the station be on a parent constraint of the grabbable

[somber sequoia]

world vs. avatar is vastly different though

[static cipher]

yeahh

cause also you can't sit in your OWN stations in an avatar

[static cipher]

so an object with these conditions on someone else's avatar is the next best thing

[distant sleet]

how to marge it perfectly

[somber sequoia]

merge what?

[distant sleet]

head's neck with body's neck

[somber sequoia]

make sure both objects have all transofrms applied, then select head, then body, ctrl j.

then you'll have to actually join the faces and smooth them out and maybe retopo the joint.

fill in the holes, etc.

[distant sleet]

that what im asking about it

[somber sequoia]

in edit mode, select edges, 'f' to make a face. etc., standard modeling tools

it's hard to be very specific since every model is unique

[sour sparrow]

so i have 3 models in one and use one armature, but i wanna make it so that i can swap between the characters i have, but the problem is the armature wont account for the other models, is there any way i can make it work so that the other models follow the main armature?

the arms are all distorted and the necks are messed up, ive seen avatars that have seperate models that are way bigger than the main armature, but still work as if they had the main armature too.

[somber sequoia]

it's WAY easier to just swap avatars.

you can do this but you'd have to do rotation constraints from each of the main armature's bones to the secondary armature's bones

[sour sparrow]

i understand it would be but i did want to make it all in one so

is there a good guide on how i could achieve this?

[somber sequoia]

I have no idea if there's a guide or not, I don't think it's often done

[sour sparrow]

awe damn

[somber sequoia]

i mean, it's just rotation constraints though

put one on the new lower arm bone with source as the main lower arm bone

repeat for each bone

[sour sparrow]

i do see there is 3 different waist bones that go into the armatures of each character, your saying i add rotation contraints to those seperate bones for the different bodies?

waist is the main armature, so i should just add rotation contraints to the seperate waists and their bones?

[somber sequoia]

each bone you want to have driven from the main one needs a rotation constraint with the source as the main bone

[sour sparrow]

alright thanks

last thing but will the contraints be costly?

i still have the whole armature to do as well as particle effects

[somber sequoia]

depends on how many you have.

I'm betting you'll already be very poor due to poly count or mesh renderers or materials though

[sour sparrow]

yeah i guess, but i did make sure to force images to be smaller

okay sorry but one last thing, so i can just expand the amount of bones i need to do, how do i drop down all the parent and children of all the bones i need to do?

[somber sequoia]

huh?

[sour sparrow]

theres so many bones that I wanna just select them all so I can apply the rotation constraints in just a couple clicks instead of each individual one, how can I make it so I see ALL the bones in the hierarchy

[somber sequoia]

each one has a different source, you'll have to do each one individually.
But you can select them all and add the component

you could write a C# script to automate it 🙂

[sour sparrow]

awe jeez

[somber sequoia]

well that'd require bones to have matching names, or it'll get complicated. It'd be annoying.

[sour sparrow]

well there isnt a whole ton of bones besides just empty ones, hair, and tail bones.

which i wont touch the hair bones because they arent the same hair for each model.

[normal garden]

does anyone know why my textures change like this?

[sour sparrow]

so it fixed the hand but the arms are still stretched out lmao

[high tide]

Can someone tell me if 30k tris is acceptable for these shoes? Not for quest obv, but just in general. First time taking a crack at an avatar asset & as far as I'm aware, I can't optimize further without jeopardizing the look

[alpine crypt]

hi sorry if this is the wrong place to ask, i have an odd question kinda sorta

an asset i added is toggled by doing double fists but i want it to activate on just left hand finger point, how exactly could i change that

[sour sparrow]

its a long process to explain, but you would have to look up on your browser how to enable a toggle via gestures.

[alpine crypt]

ougghhh

i cant just go into the animator and change its animator thing to finger point

[sour sparrow]

wth thats weird

I think theres an option to be able to see whats inside

[alpine crypt]

basically its like

the asset activates on double closed fists

once it's toggled on

looks like this

or maybe this gives more information? idk

[sour sparrow]

try clicking those transitions/arrows between the new states

[alpine crypt]

theres also this when i click the blue arrows

[timber wharf]

it tells you about unsupported shader

[white sundial]

anyone knows why the rig isnt working even though the bones are all mapped correctly?

everything else is working properly, there's no unmapped bones

[ornate stump]

The problem is more like from inproper playable layers assignment.

[tardy bronze]

hello ^^ I'm new to blender and trying to edit my first avatar, I'm having an issue with the hair emission where the alpha becomes a big block on the ends once I insert the file I was given to use for emissions for this hair texture. is there a certain way I need to set up the nodes or edit the emission file to make it actually transparent? (pictures show without and with the emission) sorry if I worded this weirdly lol idk all the proper words

[ornate stump]

First of, material settings in blender will not reflect or get exported with the fbx file, so nailing out the material in blender is pointless.

[ornate stump]

If you're using gogoloco, did you also actually put gogoloco prefab in your avatar?

[white sundial]

i mean, idk

oh fuck

i did not

gimme a sec

ive been at this rigging and texturing for 6 hours and it's 5 am lol

i feel silly for forgetting this lol

[tardy bronze]

ohhh okay, sorry for asking 🙂‍↕️ should I instead just focus on the base and such before exporting to unity and doing the materials and such there? I was following a tutorial for things in blender but got carried away with it not looking perfect lol

[white sundial]

works like a charm, sorry for bothering, i guess i'm a lil sleep deprived

thanks for the help m8, you're the best

[ornate stump]

Yes. At most, you only need to base color and alpha for editing the model. No need something fancy.

[tardy bronze]

okay thank you!

[random crown]

Hey, i recently bought an avatar with a weapon system.
Each weapon trigger a slash vfx if the user make a strong enough movement.

The problem is, a lot of weapon have a too long slash cooldown.
Only 1 sword is perfect.
I have 0 knowledge on unity and would like to know if someone know how to reduce this cooldown. Ty

[ornate stump]

No one would know unless it has to be looked at in detail.

[random crown]

Welp, searching someone who could then

[ornate stump]

It's better to ask the author of the vfx.

[random crown]

Already tried, didn't response. Look like he gave up social media years ago

[ornate stump]

You could also play with its settings and see what affects what.

[random crown]

The package seems very complex for someone who never touched unity. Its just faster to ask if someone have an idea how its working

[ornate stump]

It really depends on how it's made so one have to actually look into it.

[random crown]

Yeah, i understand. Then i'll just ask if someone could.

[ornate stump]

While waiting why don't you also try to play with it more so you at least can understand it?

[random crown]

Sure that what im doing 👍 For now, i just understand where the emitter is at. I think the problem is from the animator itself ?

[ornate stump]

I don't have an answer to that.

[torpid flame]

Obviously most of us has had this issue but upon spending an hour trying to find it in the entire project it doesnt seem to exist anywhere. Even reloaded the sdk, did a fresh reimport of the project entirely etc

any takers?

if you click on the select button itll take you to the menus and parameters but theres nothing there in the way or errors, missing items etc

[ornate stump]

Could be one of lingering parameter like radial rotation parameter but control got changed to other type of control and hid the using parameter.

[torpid flame]

I ended up readding the parameter to the list and it fixed but its just strange i cannot find it to remove

None of my layers etc rely on this parameter anymore so

[ornate stump]

It got hid in some of the menus because control type got changed.

[torpid flame]

Is there a way to bring it back or to see it?

So i can remove it

[ornate stump]

Just change control to the original type. It will be easier if you can recall what you changed.

[torpid flame]

ahhhhhhhi there it is

thank you Irumi!!

Its some sort of but though.. no matter what if i remove it or even make a new one

It needs the parameter added

[limber grove]

Is there a way to check how the impostor looks?

[ornate stump]

You can see in avatara detail menu in game.

[limber grove]

what the helly

it's censored

or low res

didn't expect it

they just took pics from all angles?

[ornate stump]

That's an imposter of course.

[ornate stump]

In case if you don't actually know what imposter is :https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/avatar-impostors

[limber grove]

i know what they are i just wonder how they're made

like they don't seem lower poly version of models

but something stitched out of photos

[ornate stump]

It's somewhat yes in that sense.

[barren wharf]

how do i fix my avatar's skin being blindingly bright

[ornate stump]

Depends on how you set material. Also take image for reference.

[barren wharf]

im using liltoon. people keep complaining about it being blindingly bright

[ornate stump]

Are you sure people has your avatar shader unblocked?

[barren wharf]

that idk

is it a shield settings moment?

[barren wharf]

do you know how i can make it so that people don't have to unblock it

[ornate stump]

You have to tell them.

[barren wharf]

aaaaa

i don't want to have to tell everyone

[ornate stump]

Also the brightness could be mitigate by changing fallback shader in liltoon to toon opaque.

[ornate stump]

And lastly, you could also preview fallback shader in game and see how people will see you when shader blocked.

[barren wharf]

how do i do that

[ornate stump]

Somewhere in radial menu.

[tame iris]

Does anyone have a node setup for blender to achieve a shader similar to the too standart shader, toon texture in blender?

[ornate stump]

Use principle bsdf shader node.

[tame iris]

It's missing a lot of the features in the standart toon shader, I want something that would work similar enough to texture not for just the albedo

[ornate stump]

What it doesn't have in standard?

"A lot" is very exaggerated.

[tame iris]

Not quite that it doesn't have the feature, rather that it doesn't have the same inputs, I'll have to set up the nodes to make it stuff like the masked matcap exactly like how it is in the standart toon shader.

[ornate stump]

So you actually mean "Toon Standard".

[tame iris]

Yea was missing one 'n' in the original post, will fix. Seems my auto correct doesn't like the word toon

[ornate stump]

In all message actually.

[tame iris]

Fixed. My autocorrect changed them to "too"

[ornate stump]

You could use mix shader node to mix between shader and use mask as Fac input for the node. Also you shouldn't take time to setup shader in blender. Just make something quiet close to to what you need for editing and done.

[tame iris]

I'd prefer it to be as close as possible, I hate having to export it again and again for every minor edit, and having no idea how it all looks.

Even with the lite standart shader, I had to constantly guess with the secondary albedo couldn't get it to work quite the same on blender

[ornate stump]

So you have to look into the shader code and see how the surface color got calculated then replicate it with blender shader nodes.

[tame iris]

Im asking if anyone might already have a setup for that... Shader stuff is a bit beyond my very limited skill set... ^^"

[tame iris]

Is there at the very least a simple eat to do it, or some tutorial or whatever. Not even sure how to approach trying to do it?

Besides guessing.

[sour sparrow]

anyone good with constrants,

?

[winter edge]

Is there a cheap way to handle body clipping through clothes like if it goes through my shirt I just don't show it?

[somber sequoia]

with the budget for medium at 70k, blowing half of that on some shoes seems crazy to me. You could probably do some high->low poly baking to get it down if you really wanted to.

[somber sequoia]

just ask your questions, don't ask to ask.

[stoic plover]

Guys, what if I block a friend by accident? How can I fix it?

[somber sequoia]

unblock them. I forget exactly where in the UI it is, but there's a list of people you've blocked.

it's definitely on the website

[sour sparrow]

mb but im still having the issue i had yesterday where the arms are stretched out, and I tried the constraints but they didnt work

[somber sequoia]

obviously you'd have to show some detail and explain what stretched out means

[sour sparrow]

the arms are supposed to follow the main armature but the arms, and fingers are stretched

[somber sequoia]

not sure what this picture is meant to indicate? It looks normal

[somber sequoia]

ohh I didn't see that.

[sour sparrow]

yeah its hard to convey that and i couldnt do it in vr where its way more apparent

[somber sequoia]

make sure you have the checkbox for local orientation checked in the rotation constraints

I'm not sure what else would cause that without actually playing with it

[sour sparrow]

gotcha

[somber sequoia]

but you can rotate the main armature's bones around in the unity editor to see the constrained bones move. Make sure you undo changes though 🙂

[sour sparrow]

solve in local space?

[somber sequoia]

that one

might fix it.

[sour sparrow]

alright i'll try it out

would a position contraint work as well or just rotation

[ornate stump]

You have to use rotation constraint for controlling armature.

[winter edge]

Is it normal for spotlights to struggle in mirrors? Like my avatar seems to be lit differently in world compared to mirrors with spotlights

[quartz bone]

Is it possible to update an avatar FBX without it messing up the bone transforms in a prefab?

I made the prefab to keep all the physbones and such intact, but it's starting to look like I'll have to redo them all if I can't

[somber meadow]

use a prefab variant of the model packed prefab instead of an original prefab when making them

or just use scene files with model packed prefabs within them

[high fable]

I got some blendshapes for my avatar but it’s not working- it says it’s missing a script, which is confusing

[somber meadow]

screenshot where you're seeing that

also what avatar are you working with, and did you import it's dependencies into your project

[sour sparrow]

how do I make it so that my avatar can have one body and multiple heads i can swap out? ive tried it before but the head would never stay on the body

[somber meadow]

you'd need to do it in blender and merging all the heads into one mesh, then using shader tricks to hide the other heads at a time if you want them to have avatar descriptor features like visemes

[high fable]

here's the error message I'm seeing. I'm using a booth avatar, "Orion". I imported everything I got

[somber meadow]

look in your console for errors like the warning says

[high fable]

I imported it and there weren't any errors at all

[sour sparrow]

shader tricks? wdym?

[somber meadow]

Either material swapping to an invisible material, or UDIM tile discards

[high fable]

I thought I found an error, but it was for something else

I cannot find a corresponding error

[sour sparrow]

is an invisible material possible on quest?

[somber meadow]

Transparency on avatars isn't supported on standalone Quest

[warped venture]

What are the best Physbones to remove from novabeast for quest?

[wooden nova]

project launched in safe mode how do i fix this?

[somber sequoia]

always look at the first (at the top) errors, often the rest are side-effects of the first

[wooden nova]

yea those are the top ones

only 4 errors in total

[somber sequoia]

oh! okay. Not sure what that is.

[wet pier]

my mouth is open when i enter vrchat but nowhere else in unity

is there any reason for this?

(the avatar has no lipsync)

[wooden nova]

there was some errors for poiyomi but they were minor and not at the top so im stumped

but i fixed the poiyomi ones

[somber sequoia]

unmap the jaw bone in the rig setup, if it's there and you don't use it.

[still jasper]

Hey, I sorta need help. I don't know if this is normal. In certain angles, it looks like faces of my model are completely missing, but there in different angles.

This is in Unity

I was applying the textures and I noticed it

[somber sequoia]

Probably the faces are oriented backwards. Do you have this in Blender?

[still jasper]

It's not present in Blender, no.

The error I mean

[somber sequoia]

no I know, I was asking if you were using Blender. Good - there, in the view overlays (upper right, one of the icons), enable "face orientation" and see if any faces are oriented wrong. Blue = front, red = back.

[still jasper]

Ohhh

Alright, let me see

[somber sequoia]

by default back faces are culled so you'll see through them

you can flip them by selecting the faces, then in the menu: mesh -> normals -> fip

(or just "recalculate outside")

[still jasper]

In Unity or Blender?

[somber sequoia]

all blender

[somber sequoia]

yup! there's your reason

oh right - the fronts aren't blue by default anymore, they changed it in Blender

[still jasper]

Thank you 🙏
It's probably from the way I extruded the faces when modeling.

[still jasper]

All the red ones, right?

[somber sequoia]

yeah it's pretty easy to do. These days I mostly just leave that setting on

I'm not gonna say all, it's your model, but I'll just say the red ones are the back faces, so orient them however you need to

usually that means red goes on the inside

but there are reasons to not sometimes

(hair cards, transparent stuff, other shenanigans)

[still jasper]

Alright, I'll experiment.
If for some reason I choose not to at all because it breaks my model, would these errors be present in VRC if I uploaded it there? Like.. would you be able to see through the model like that?

[somber sequoia]

Yes - by default, back faces don't render, so they'll be transparent.

[still jasper]

Gotcha. Alright, I'll see if I can try to fix it.

[wet pier]

the skirt of the avatar clips through and i cant identify why

[somber sequoia]

you might have to orient the angle of those limiters out a bit. Does it have some gravity? that'll pull it down straight too

[wet pier]

it has gravity fallback set to .5 right now and gravity set to one

[somber sequoia]

yeah not surprised then

[wet pier]

ill try setting it to 40 degrees

[wet pier]

what should it be set to then?

[somber sequoia]

usually I have the bone roll set based around the center, then use limiters to prevent it from going too inward. But skirts are tricky.

I can't tell you exactly what to set anything to without actually playing with the model myself.

[alpine crypt]

Hi maybe dumb question, an asset i added is toggled by doing double fists but i want it to activate on just left hand finger point, how exactly could i change that

Its got an animation controller n such

[fresh rose]

Ok so like

How do i make somin like a fireable gun

Eg i turn on a toggle then make a gesture and whatever the toggle has activated will plau e.g a particle

Cus im sick of being unable to do certain gestures without my particles playing

[somber sequoia]

I usually go with if the gun is in my hand, then the gesture makes it fire, otherwise it just does the normal thing

[gentle iris]

would the root of a avatar be the armature?

[somber sequoia]

it's the object above that

[zinc shuttle]

is there a way to set the priority layers for animations (VRC Avatar Descriptor > Playable Layers > FX > Layers) like it works already for the Left Hand/Right Hand (these layers where built in my avatar 'Rusk') so the Left Hand has higher priority? For now my animations KISS and 42Expressions are blending with each other and with animations from Left Hand/Right Hand.

I have set Blending to Override and weight to 1 in every layer

[plush fractal]

hey my gestures are broken the face changes but not hands

[slow panther]

okay so i edited the materials in blender so the leather and spikes are seperate
however when i export the fbx and update it in unity, the new material or element slot doesnt show up on the original project model

but it does on just fbx

and of course i cant just drag the tail onto the original model and i tried upating the mesh

im just confused

[slow panther]

i accidently just figured out my problem by simply removing all the elements and adding them back im both happy and frustrated

[slate jackal]

can someone teach me how to bring a avatar in blender to unity and upload it in a vc

[elfin dagger]

when I've been trying to reupload a couple projects under a new blueprint ID but everytime I try to do that or even just change the photo on an existing uploaded avatar I get these errors

and I'm hoping there is an easier solution than just completely remaking the project file as I'm not having this issue with a new project I recently made

[somber sequoia]

that seems like some sort of networking error

[elfin dagger]

it seems to be, but that begs the question why it's project file specific

[slate jackal]

can someone help me rig an avatar in blender in a voice call

cause I litterally have no clue

cause its not a humanoid

[placid sage]

im trying to upload an avi and it keeps giving me this error. Does anyone know how to fix it

[somber meadow]

That error is just telling you to look in the console, show all the other errors

[somber meadow]

that's just the details of the error, is there other errors that come with you upload being interrupted

[somber meadow]

is there an error stating "Assetbundle was not built"

[placid sage]

yes

[somber meadow]

then please show your entire console instead of snippets

enable collapse if there's spammed errors to make it more digestible

[plush fractal]

what goes here

[somber meadow]

are these errors above "AssetBundle was not Built" also what SDK version are you on

[placid sage]

no below

[somber meadow]

those don't detail as to why your build was interrupted, the console goes from oldest to latest

[placid sage]

oh sorry lol

[placid sage]

i reopened the project and tried uploading again and these are the only errors i get

[somber meadow]

your avatar's root object has a missing script, make sure you imported the scripts the avatar needs into the project

[fluid ledge]

Hi

[turbid sluice]

Hey, can someone help me with the SDK rq? Im trying to upload to pc and it won't let me select windows. I've tried doing it manually through File>Build Settings>Windows and it translates everything into windows, but it still won't let me select this. Is there something I did wrong?

[somber meadow]

Is your PC running windows or are you on another OS

[turbid sluice]

Im on a mac

[slate jackal]

Im trying to make this as an avatar but theres issues with the sdk

can anyone help

[atomic hound]

Why does his fallback shaders look like this evil thing?

[night ember]

What does your materials look like normally cause the fallback is just that material but set to a vrchat one

[atomic hound]

black clothes normally

its why im confused as to why its been made red lol

[night ember]

Vertex colors or emissions

[sharp lily]

so some more fbx stuff. added a blendshape to a different avatar and it seems to be using VRCfury for the toggles which includes a hueshift option. it seems to be done through poyomi? anyway when i replaced the FBX it seems to have removed all the prefabs or something that the model had? im not sure whats happening

[sharp lily]

so i figured this out but i havea bit of a new problem? the poyomi shader i imported to make it work does not have the same settings and code as the shader file in the project so the hueshift doesnt work. how do i apply this shader file to the material so the hueshift code works again?

[ornate stump]

You are looking at shader file, instead you must look at material file.

[sharp lily]

According to the vrc fury options in the “toggle” object, the material file is missing the options that are present in the shader file I have selected?

I set up a test version of the original unchanged scene and the material file’s options have the same settings but the vrcfury toggles for the hue shift require references to scripts that ARE in the shader file but it says that it’s “not on my avatar” so the hue shift doesn’t work

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot what you're talking about?

[sharp lily]

sure give me a sec

according to the origional its animated through poiyomi

[ornate stump]

Did you actually mark Animated when Locked in material?

[junior void]

you have overcomplicated the whole thing

[sharp lily]

reset? yeah ok

i just wanted to do what i did with another avatar and replace teh FBX with a updated one with a new blendshape

[junior void]

you need to mark the material property as animated AND lock the material

a fbx swap doesnt break materials also

youre probably only seeing this bc you changed stuff in the shader and its now still unlocked, making you think the fbx swap did something

[sharp lily]

yeah i think i had the wrong version of poiyomi\

ahhhhhh

[junior void]

Is that a question or are we just spamming now

[sharp lily]

i just reimported the original and that warning was there so looks like i do need to label it as animated

[junior void]

We have told you that twice

[sharp lily]

yeah i just thought it would have been already so i was confused. im not very well experienced so i dont really know what to do 😅

i can look it up tho, thanks for your help!

[amber pivot]

does anyone know if its possible to make a string mesh that's connected to a object on the hand and the other half is connected on the chest WHILE making it having somewhat realistic and not weird looking
since whenever i try, it comes out looking bad and im not really a expert on stuff like this. sorry if i don't make sense, i made a crappy picture to explain it better

[umbral tusk]

Anyone knows an asset thats like these coconut cocktail thingys ? im working on a summer avatar right now and want this as a prop

[spark walrus]

You mean the umbrellas?

[umbral tusk]

No a drink thats like in the picture

a coconut cocktail with umbrella,some fruits and a straw

or something similar

By the way my avatar just jumbles up into a ball when i enter play mode ?
How can i fix it

[ornate stump]

If you edited in blender and export to replace fbx file, make sure you export with same settings as previous fbx file.

[umbral tusk]

oooh

that fixed it

thanks didnt know that

on my second iteration i exported the scaling to "FBX all"

[radiant scarab]

hey can someone help, my clothes clip thru the ereas tat have phys bones and i wanna know how to fix that

[junior void]

either the clothing needs weight painting to move with the ears (done in blender) or you can limit the angle of the physbones if its not too much but youre not sharing a picture so cant say for sure what works best

[latent swallow]

Im having the same problem, is there a way to tell what these settings were previously?

[ornate stump]

If objects in the model prefab has scale 1 then it's FBX all, otherwise if 100 then it's Local.

[latent swallow]

Thank you!

[umbral tusk]

I noticed that the inside of the mouth isnt covered
Do i have to fix that in blender somehow ? and how?

[ornate stump]

Flip face normals.

[umbral tusk]

how do i do that?

[ornate stump]

Select faces and use flip normals command.

In blender.

[umbral tusk]

i dont think it has anything inside the mouth ?

its just the eyes and toung

[ornate stump]

Are you sure it isn't shapekey that's hiding it?

[umbral tusk]

im new to blender and stuff so i dont know alot of the things

[ornate stump]

If it doesn't have inside month then you have to make them. No other way around.

[umbral tusk]

in the shape keys ?

[ornate stump]

Actually create the inside mouth part.

[umbral tusk]

ooh ill try to do it

Turns out it was poiyomi shaders not getting set up right

[sour sparrow]

how do i make it so particles appear behind my avatar?

[random pike]

i got the stupid horrible unity bug that ruins everything, where your avatar gets stuck into the animator pose and not a t pose anymore, but i also use MA to merge armatures, so when i used pumkins to reset avatar pose, my clothes are still floating in the animator pose, and didnt reset with the rest of the armature...

is there any way to fix this or am i doomed several hours of work? there is so much custom work on this, i can't just restore from prefab, its put together from like 30 different prefabs, and every single material is edited, there's a ton of added gimmicks where the locations are important too...

[ornate stump]

MA animator merge has a button to set bone transform to match with the base avatar.

[random pike]

i think misunderstanding problem

this isn't appearing while in play mode

this is just how things look in the editor now, a transform for the animation has been applied to like 80% but not all of my avatar

while in play mode it appears even MORe broken

but basically half of my components all have their armatures broken, the one that are unpacked aren't even recognized as having transforms and don't have their own animators

[ornate stump]

My answer is still the same as above.

[random pike]

i guess i'm confused because i don't know how to use that to fix anything

[ornate stump]

It's just a one-click button.

[random pike]

sorry for now understanding

so from here?

i had to add this component to the inspector because it doesn't exist anywhere in heirarchy for the improperly posed armature

[ornate stump]

Sorry I meant "MA Merge Armature" the one that you used to merge your cloth armature.

[random pike]

oh right, but this is already done and its still broken

basically my avatar saved while previewing animation and now none of the armatures are synced properly

[ornate stump]

See "Reset position".

[random pike]

which options should i select here? i just closed without saving and reopened because the scale broke the first time and wouldn't fix with ctrl z undo

[ornate stump]

The one that can reset position and rotation.

[random pike]

you are a true hero

i googled this first and everyone suggested options llike using pumpkins which fixed the base avatar but didnt work with MA

components

[ornate stump]

The solution was right under your nose.

[unborn glen]

How do I just put it in VRChat of what I brought for a Avatar?

[ornate stump]

Start with the instructions written in the page where you downloaded your avatar from.

[unborn glen]

Gunroad

[ornate stump]

That's just the whole market. You have to get to the page where you bought your avatar.

[unborn glen]

It doesn't tell me

[ornate stump]

Can you link the page?

[unborn glen]

Nvm

[unborn glen]

What is VCC?

[ornate stump]

VRChat Creator Companion

[unborn glen]

https://hihiokyle.gumroad.com/l/Luu

I'm getting more confused

[ornate stump]

You can ask more specific question.

[unborn glen]

Talk a while to install

[unborn glen]

What do you mean by project location, made a new folder it doesn't like it.

[ornate stump]

The folder that will contain that project. You will have to elaborate what actually "it doesn't like it" is.

[unborn glen]

It won't let me click Create Project

[ornate stump]

You haven't select the project template.

[unborn glen]

Ops

[warped venture]

How long does this usually take, ive been waiting for 30+ minutes

[compact kestrel]

so erm, ive got no clue how to do this AT ALL

[radiant scarab]

depends on your wifi

[night ember]

depends on how weak your hardware is

[radiant scarab]

import lil toon or poiyomi to your avatar then click the mat ball twice and click standard then look up the name of whatever shader your using

[unborn glen]

Why is not working?

[ornate stump]

Check console for more detail. Unity console.

[sly wigeon]

hey guys! for some reason "VRC Rotation Constraints" is not showing up on unity even though i have VRChat SDK installed and open, any help?

or is it ok if i just use Rotation Constraints and thats it, i want this to work for Quest

[ornate stump]

Make sure that you're using latest sdk.

[sly wigeon]

hmmm i havent used it in a while so i probably still have an old version, do you know where i can download the latest?

[ornate stump]

Didn't you use VCC?

[sly wigeon]

yes, but i did in 2023

or eary 2024

[ornate stump]

Are you using it now? Or how did you actually add the sdk to your project?

[sly wigeon]

i did create it through Creator Companion

[ornate stump]

Then use vcc to update the sdk.

Of course proceed.

[sly wigeon]

with the update?

[ornate stump]

Obviously.

[sly wigeon]

i see

thank you

ill let you know if it works again

[ornate stump]

If you meant the Update to the the side, that is updating the vcc itself, not sdk.

You better update both anyway.

[sly wigeon]

stupid question but how do i update the sdk?

[ornate stump]

See the "Latest Version" column?

[sly wigeon]

no </3

[ornate stump]

It was in your previously deleted screenshot.

[sly wigeon]

you mean the update button?

oh wait i see

what about it?

[ornate stump]

If you meant the Update to the the side, that is updating the vcc itself, not sdk.

[ornate stump]

See the green up arrow button?

[sly wigeon]

oh i see!

aaah ok!

ive clicked them

should i install anything else?

[ornate stump]

If you need them sure.

[sly wigeon]

dont know if i do

maybe i should just in case

[ornate stump]

You better understand what they are first before installing.

[sly wigeon]

ok

thank you

i shall close and reopen the project

[dark saddle]

Does VRChats new toon shader take roughness maps?

[ornate stump]

It doesn't.

[wet quest]

hey i bought and the past three hours ive been trying to upload it and now i cant can anyone mind uploading it for me

[dark saddle]

Alrighty thanks, just wanted to double check because I wasnt seeing anything

[sour sparrow]

how do i make it so that i have an entrance animation upon spawning in?

[somber sequoia]

if you must, animation that plays by default, in a layer by itself. But probably don't.

[sour sparrow]

hmm, its just that i wanna make it so that when i enter a server my avatar has a particle effect that plays for a couple of seconds

[compact kestrel]

where exactly where i get these

[radiant scarab]

Just look up poiyomi or lil toon on Google

Should find it

[sour sparrow]

also also, would it be possible to include material changes in an animation?

[somber sequoia]

poiyomi.com

[somber sequoia]

definitely

[sour sparrow]

how so, because there arent any properties i saw that could do that

[somber meadow]

just record in an animation changing a material slot's material

[long sierra]

Can I use a VRCFury armature link to link an animated armature prop (jetpack) to my avatar and have it activate when I fly with GoGoLoco?

[somber sequoia]

sure

[long sierra]

How would I do that? I can't seem to get it to work, it complains about there being no valid animations and that it'll be removed

[somber sequoia]

verify the animations are valid I guess? I might not use fury enough to know what causes this

[long sierra]

they play properly in the preview on the controller editor

maybe I need to just parent the jetpack armature to the spine bone instead of using an armaturel ink

[somber sequoia]

might be the target in armature link or hwo the animation paths are rewritten

[sour sparrow]

excuse me for asking again, but how could i display an animation upon spawn again

[night ember]

what

[sour sparrow]

i wanna make it so an animation plays as soon as i spawn in

[night ember]

just have it be the default state?

depending on what said "animation" is

you might get blocked on the spot for having that

[sour sparrow]

its just a material swap and particle thing

[somber sequoia]

definitely

[night ember]

why isnt the materials you are using just the avatar by default

[sour sparrow]

ehh i dont mind

i dunno

okay i wont do that i dont think

its mostly to show around my friends but there was gonna be a diff version without it

[sour sparrow]

i made it default but it doesnt play when i emulate a start

[still jasper]

Okay, I just finished re-modeling part of the hair in blender to fix the broken faces, re-imported, and the model looks fine now. Has been textured. That's all I've done so far. What do I do next? Don't I need to asign bones somehow?

[somber meadow]

first I'd merge those meshes together in blender to keep it from using unneeded material slots causing lag

but yes, click the model in your project tab (where the assets are), and set the rigging to "Humanoid" in the rig tab, configure it and make sure the chest bone is assigned and nothing is in the jaw bone slot

[compact kestrel]

followed your steps but i feel dumb, not figuring stuff out

[still jasper]

I ran into an error.

I can fix it I think

[somber sequoia]

Yeah you can't have multiple humanoid bones with the same name, or the same name as a mesh object.

do you have multiple armatures there?

[still jasper]

I think it's just bad naming lol

[still jasper]

Wdym?

[somber sequoia]

Armature and metarig

[still jasper]

I don't think so?

I think I legit just named all of the bones incorrectly

[somber sequoia]

what is that object then?

[compact kestrel]

i lowk need help combinding all these textures onto this model

[still jasper]

Sorry, I'm a little confused what you're talking about. I don't exactly understand a lot of this yet

[somber sequoia]

It looks like that might be a second armature, guessing based on that error message and the name of the object. Probably that's not what you want.

[wispy mango]

I downloaded a model from modelers resource and this is the texture it came with. I have no idea how in the world I am supposed to use this

[somber sequoia]

you'd have to look at the UV map to see what parts of that go where

[blissful quartz]

Ok so i have a weird question i think. How do i add all of a fit on to my avatar? like the fit and its recolors under on folder so i dont have to scroll through all of them every time i wanna change? Im using unity and cloth utility

[still jasper]

When I renamed the parts that it said were an issue, the error message changed. The names of the bones really were that.
Though, if I somehow do have a second armature, how would I fix that?

[somber sequoia]

without knowing why it's there I'm not sure I could tell you much more than figure out why it's there and decide if you need it

[blissful quartz]

or for preformance should i just add a couple i like and not have all the diff ones?

also why in the world is there no good in depth vid about this type of stuff?

[somber sequoia]

there generally is, but there isn't one that matches exactly with your specific avatar and assets and such, you really have to extrapolate from a bunch of things

[still jasper]

I fixed it I think.

So after I have all of the textures and rig done, is there anything else I need to do??

[somber meadow]

have you already assigned the avatar descriptor on the avatar's root object

[compact kestrel]

someone help..

[somber sequoia]

?

[blissful quartz]

crazy

bro just wanted to tell the world ig

[compact kestrel]

mb i left my desk QUICKLY after saying that

i need help porting my stupid roblox avatar into vrchat, ive added bones and all, i just CANNOT get the textures to work

[wet pier]

what shader are you using?

if your using standard, the avatar isnt going to function with quest

for quest compatible avatars, click on your material and then go to the top and click on "shader", afterwards click on the drop down menu, afterwards you should see a menu like this, after that click on vrchat, then mobile. select any of the shaders in mobile and it will work with quest

i personally use matcap lit and toon standard outline

[still jasper]

I have no idea what that means so probably not..

[wet pier]

if your textures are offset, its a issue with the models textures themselves, to reallign the areas, open the uv map for the textures and try to allign it with the areas you want it to match

[still jasper]

The textures aren't assigned to the mesh areas you want, you'd probably need to make sure your textures were mapped in whichever modeling program you used before

[granite narwhal]

Question I want to add an dance animation to my avatar how do I go about doing this?

[wet pier]

are you using vrcfury or modular avatar?

[granite narwhal]

Vrcfury

[blissful quartz]

anyreason this is getting stuck?

[wet pier]

do you have an animation already

[granite narwhal]

I downloaded one

[wet pier]

add a toggle to your avatar your using vrcfury

depending on the folder you want it in name it as such Insertname/Emote, if you dont want it in a folder, just name it Emote

set the toggles function as animation clip

drag the animation into the toggle

bam

done

forgot to mention

drag the animation file into the avatar

when done, it should look something like this (i just put a random emote i had saved into the slot, any name will work)

[granite narwhal]

Okay now how do I test to see if it work

[wet pier]

do you have gesture manager?

[granite narwhal]

yes

[wet pier]

add gesture manager to your avatar

click on gesture manager

press play mode

you can now test emotes and your toggles

[granite narwhal]

okay did that but the model not show I am kinda getting this

[wet pier]

click on scene

[granite narwhal]

It work

thanks you

the animation came out just like ya said

[still jasper]

Can someone tell me how to do this?

[wet pier]

double click on your avatar

does that have a descriptor?

[still jasper]

Is there a specific tool I need to use to select the whole avatar with a double click? it won't let me

This is what it looks like currently

[compact kestrel]

no clue how to do that, i’ve never used blender and kinda just followed a youtube video

[still jasper]

I have a video you can follow

[wet pier]

sometimes it doesnt work, it automatically selects your root

try rebooting unity

sometimes fixes it

[compact kestrel]

anything would help honestly

[still jasper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKOlyzXFf4U&list=PLcaQc6eQjXCxWXmn5jxE_GTOft9ZxChu1&index=7
This is part of a tutorial I followed to make lpoly avatars, but the explanation of the UV unwrapping is the same. Basically you map out the 2d texture onto a 3d plane.
To make several material textures using more than one image, you just repeat the step of making a material and you just switch between them in the UV mapping area. Hope it kinda helps!!

[still jasper]

It only lets me double click specific parts of the mesh

[wet pier]

huh

dont know then

dont typically deal with multiple meshes with my avatars

[still jasper]

Sigh. If anyone can show me how to do the description and root thing PLEASE lmk. I can't finish this avatar without help

[somber sequoia]

like all the tutorial videos show you this. But just click on the root avatar object and in the inspector, add a component, look for VRC Avatar Descriptor

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/creating-your-first-avatar#step-5---adding-an-avatar-descriptor

[still jasper]

What is the root avatar object-? I don't know these terms

Lemme check out that link rq

[somber sequoia]

root as in the root of a tree. the highest element in your hierarchy that's an avatar

[vocal torrent]

Hello i need some help, i made an avi and while editing it i had the sdk option on unity but when i left and opened it back up again the option isnt there?

[somber sequoia]

look for errors in the console. share the first two if there are some

[somber sequoia]

huh, something quite broken there

[vocal torrent]

does this have any issue with it? like if it finishes loading it'll work?

nvm guess not :<

[still jasper]

Thank you so much 🙏

I just need to find out how to do 2d shapekeys now for the expressions and mouth movement-

Oh and physbones

[gilded turret]

Does anyone know why i suddenly cant drag and drop anything in unity anymore?

it just started and i dont know whats wrong

[outer sigil]

hey so im using GoGoLoco, latest. so the hand gesture layer is a little different than what im used to...

I'm trying to have my right hand animate to grip something ONLY when a certain prop toggle is on. otherwise i want it to stay default animation...
can anyone help with that? ive been struggling all day ;-;

[opaque turtle]

I’m lowkey a noob at uploading avatars and trying to upload one I got to PC and Quest, when trying to change the build to android, it says something about android cpu architecture. Is there something I can help that with or is it something I need to download?

[outer sigil]

i got everything to work except the animation itself... it will always spam play the idle when the prop toggle is on and the hand gesture is played at the same time. otherwise it does the normal handgun gesture when the prop toggle is off.
i dont know why it's defaulting to the idle animation or spamming it instead of long pressing like the left gesture layer does... but i want it to default on another hand animation only when a certain prop is toggled on

[ornate stump]

You might have to double check transition condition again. Also Can Transition to Self has to be off if playing long running animation.

[outer sigil]

its not a long playing animation, its just in play mode it takes a second to play a full animation on the layer screen, but for one of mine on default it's like cookie clicker ._.
and i have been checking all day, im changing things as i go cause im trying to get it to do what i want, but i dont know what i need to do to get there, it's all trial and error, thats why im asking here to have more directive

all i want... is to have a prop toggle. and a hand gesture to activate it. but have a special hand animation when the prop toggle is on. while when the prop toggle is off the hand gesture is normal handgun again.

[nova nebula]

anyone know a good way to stop getting security failures? its a 2.5 GB uncompressed upload, with a majority of the size being the texture

[timber wharf]

well, make them smaller and/or stop cramming everything into one upload and do upload versions

[nova nebula]

??

everything in 1 upload? as in?

[timber wharf]

as in toggles for outfits etc

each outfit can be its own avatar

[nova nebula]

this was for my fallback

so apparently, changing nothing, and waiting 5 mins worked? how? who knows

[outer sigil]

personally id remove some vertices and shape it how i want... not before making the uv map though... or you could make the texture have transparent textures of the holes within it

[unkempt iris]

dont think transparent textures work on quest

[outer sigil]

ohhh, ya prob not

[unkempt iris]

i tried using the knife tool and failed miserably 😭

i will.. figure something out

[jaunty harness]

Hey, so I just tried to put MMD lipsync blendshapes on my avatar, but when I replace the original fbx in my unity project, it ends up looking like this
Does anyone know how I might be able to fix it?

[junior void]

did you use correct export settings?

mesh likes to explode x100 if you use a different scaling factor than the original used

[jaunty harness]

I didn't change anything while exporting, not sure if it did it by itself

[junior void]

Well, the default blender export settings are often not what avatars use by default

In many cases, scaling is set to fbx all. Default in blender is all local.

[jaunty harness]

It worked!!!
Thank you so much!!!! ^^

[balmy fulcrum]

adding a new texture to my velle has made the blush texture cut off in a wierd way, does anyone know how to fix this?

[fresh rose]

Hi again everyone

I tried askin before but i didnt get much help
How would i make it so gesture activated particles only appear when a toggle is turned on?