avatar-help

[orchid abyss]

having a problem where my avatars eyes roll away when I try to set up eye look

[somber sequoia]

make sure the eye bones have the head in the exact center of rotation, are perfectly vertical and have 0 bone roll

[orchid abyss]

I'm not sure how to make the head the exact center, but it looks like it is. the bones seem to be vertical and have 0 bone roll. I've also recalculated the bone roll on the armature, and applied all transforms in blender with ctrl+a. the eye bones are perfectly mirrored across from each other too

[somber sequoia]

what I'd do is find that center point - usually if it's a sphere it's easy, just select the sphere and put the 3D cursor at that point, then edit the armature and snap the bone's head to the 3D cursor.

if the bone roll is 0 there's no need to recalculate it.

but yeah it sounds like it ought to be correct

also I admit I didn't realize you had the item properties box open in that blender image, where I can clearly see bone roll is 0.

[wet pier]

Bit confused with this error, everything seems fine to me.

[somber sequoia]

your have bones between shoulder and chest though

[wet pier]

shit

I forgot to merge them into one

[sick star]

How hard is it to make an audio play when a collider touches a head collider? im trying to make a minecraft sword play a hit sound when i hit someone

[wet pier]

I'll go fix the rig

[somber sequoia]

pretty easy, put an AudioSource on your avatar somewhere, and then put VRC Animator Play Audio on the animation state that's triggered by the contact, use it to cause the AudioSource to play the sound effect.

[wet pier]

its not letting me dissolve the bones in blender, im clicking dissolve and its doing nothing.

[sick star]

so i need to animate? a bit slow at responding because im multitasking

[somber sequoia]

as I recall, dissolve is weird - doesn't it need the bone to be connected to the parent or something?

[somber sequoia]

Yes, you will need to animate things for something like this

[wet pier]

the bones connected to the parent so

(Dont know why the rigs like that in blender, but it works in unity so im not gonna bother fixing it)

[somber sequoia]

ah most of those are not connected

[sick star]

theyre import/export settings that are doing that

[somber sequoia]

game rip, of course

[teal field]

whats the best/easiest way to make clothing swap toggles (just swaps between clothing and dont have to toggle it off to toggle another on) that also toggles blendshapes?

[sick star]

you can use vrcf to add exclusive tags if the toggles use vrcf

[sick star]

im pretty new to working with colliders (and animations) because i just never touch them but i dont really get the animator play on audio part

[wet pier]

trying to dissolve the extra left over from the original game to convert it to vrchat but its still not let me dissolve, everythings connected

[somber sequoia]

You can stick this on a state in the animator to trigger audio:
https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/state-behaviors/#animator-play-audio

[somber sequoia]

these are NOT connected - connected means the bone's head is snapped to its parent's tail.

I don't remember if that matters for dissolve, been a while and I don't have an armature open right now

[sick star]

i dont have this as an option anywhere ot a component, is it an add-on?

[wet pier]

im stupid

found where to actually connect it

[somber sequoia]

it's in the SDK as of something like 3.7. It's a component you add to an animation state, it should be visible there. You can't add it to a game object, if that's what you're trying to do.

[sick star]

im on the latest sdk (3.8.2) was it renamed by chance?

[somber sequoia]

no?

Exactly what are you doing?

[sick star]

im not even sure atp, im a next level visual learner for everything

[somber sequoia]

okay, not sure how I can help then

[sick star]

ill prob figure it out lol

[wet pier]

cursing an ancient hex on whoever modelled for the game this was ripped from

this took forever to figure out

Fixed the rig, how do i remove this object above his head (its tied to the models eyes so it cant just be normally deleted)

workaround

[worldly plume]

i hate my life its my first time making an avatar and i cant make hair do yall have any tips

[austere bay]

hiya i posted here a few days ago with this issue, still haven't solved it, my avatar's eyes are stuck looking off to the side. She should look like the second picture. I've tried reimporting, and she's completely fine in blender. No blendshapes are active and I haven't even opened her armature so it's not like I've manually changed the rotation somehow. Also, the eyes stay like this even when I remove the transforms

[austere bay]

if you're just getting into it, buy a head you like and a body and then make the clothes if you want (or buy the clothes/find free clothes). You can find assets for sale and for free on https://jinxxy.com/ :)

there's a lot to learn and if you've got no experience with blender/unity starting completely from scratch is a massive project

[worldly plume]

i do have experience with blender, i just didnt make any humanoid things, i used to make props for games before

[versed marsh]

would there be any easy way to slim down the lower part of these pants to better fit to the skin rather than being flared?

or would i just need to sculpt

[cyan kettle]

how can i fix the Armature to be above all the meshes?

[versed marsh]

it just goes by name

rename the meshes

delete the A_

[stoic cargo]

Avatar out of play mode VS in play mode... I put it into blender to make some pants and exported the FBX. I messed with some blendshapes and the position of the eyes.

[austere bay]

#1138520828556890214

[surreal salmon]

is there a way to mirror the weight painting onto another bone?

like for hands

[halcyon kayak]

if you're looking at your weighted mesh in Blender, look at the Vertex groups and there's a little drop down menu on the left side. i believe you can "copy" a vertex group for your relevant bone (left hand for example) and then mirror THAT copied version, then just rename it to "right hand" afer

[surreal salmon]

i see some of what u mean

[versed marsh]

is there a way to bypass parameter stuff in unity? or no

[surreal salmon]

u can delete them (am bird brained

[versed marsh]

theres nothing i want to delete though

thats why im wondering if i can bypass

[halcyon kayak]

unrelated:
been thinking about a problem with an unorthodox model for a while now.

my armature is a set of human bones, with a separate set of unconnected bones controlling another part (kind of a two-part avatar.)

made a custom set of NLA animation clips in Blender which import weirdly into Unity. the automation for the human bones imports into Unity, but not the other set of bones.

does the Hips bone (base of spine set) HAVE to be the highest bone in the hierarchy of an armature? if there was one more bone above it, would that break something? i don't plan on using any of the stock VRC animations.

[halcyon kayak]

you could always just replace the default Parameter and Menu by adding some blank ones into your project and putting them into the avatar descriptor

maybe i'm misunderstanding what you wanna do tho

[versed marsh]

too many parameters

more stuff i want to add

[halcyon kayak]

it sounds like you want to remove them instead of bypassing them lol

i'd look into making your own parameters and menu

youtube looks like they have some solid tutorials on parameters, toggles, all that kind of stuff!

[versed marsh]

nvm i just deleted something that took up like 40 bits

holy shit

[halcyon kayak]

guess that'll do it xD

[versed marsh]

back to my initial question

which tool would be the best to shrink down the lower half of the pants to be more fitted?

[halcyon kayak]

about the pants

yes

[versed marsh]

yess

[halcyon kayak]

okay it's a little complicated but i'll try and be short and clear

[balmy barn]

proportional editing , set range , select lower part - shrink

[stoic cargo]

Elastic Deform

[halcyon kayak]

• select the pants > Edit Mode
• hit 1 to do "select vertexes"
• Box select all part of the pants you wanna "shrink down" (i would do this in front orthographic mode, 5 then 1 on your numpad, just to make sure you have a solid front face so it's symmetrical)
• add a vertex group and assign those vertices to it (you can name it like Pants Shrink or something)
• leave edit mode, add a modifier called Shrink Wrap to the pants object
• target is your body mesh, and specify the new Pants Shrink vertex group
• play around with the offset setting because it will default to SNAPPING directly to the legs
• when you're happy then hit "apply modifier" in the little arrow dropdown menu above the shrinkwrap

my way is probably not the best way at all lmao

[versed marsh]

ok how do i get it so its like this

[halcyon kayak]

select the pants > Edit mode

near the top, make sure that little blue target looking symbol is clicked ON

[steady summit]

any idea what this means? I already reset avatar multiple times!

[halcyon kayak]

the one in their video

[versed marsh]

ive done that

i dont know how he does the scaling though

is there a tool for that?

[halcyon kayak]

S to scale

grab the vertices you want then click S

[versed marsh]

it scales the whole thing

[halcyon kayak]

scroll way down on your mouse wheel

unless you have the whole thing selected

make sure you're in Edit mode not Object mode

[versed marsh]

if i go to scale it does the whole thing

[halcyon kayak]

while you have that scroll around on your mouse wheel

you should see a circle appear

that shows the range of the proportional editing

as you scroll it'll get bigger or smaller

you'll have to do each leg separate probably

you can also S X and S Y to do one axis at a time, you probably don't want to do the Z axis which is up and down

i'll try and take a quick vid

[versed marsh]

i think i got it kinda

let me get this good looking one moment

[arctic ginkgo]

also set the pivot point to individual origins

press the > key and then select Individual Origins

[cyan kettle]

how is it that the FBX for the outfit has the Armature below the meshes, but in the prefab the Armature is above like this? I'm trying to edit a shapekey on the outfit but when I reupload it breaks, assuming it's because of the hierarchy being mismatched?

[austere bay]

if anyone could help I'd really appreciate it :) Here's a video explaining whats wrong
also; I forgot to add it's completely fine when i open the prefab or I start animating, I tried removing the animator component but it didn't do anything so I'm just stumped :/

[worldly plume]

can i ask why yall use 1 million triangles and polygons for avatars

nah why did i even ask that yall probably dont even know what those are

[halcyon kayak]

hey don't look at me, my latest is like 8k

xD

[halcyon kayak]

i have a dumb answer maybe, double check your eye bones in Edit mode of Blender to make sure they're properly symmetrical, as opposed to having maybe corrected them in pose mode by accident or something?

[surreal salmon]

im still a lil confused on the mirroring thing

[halcyon kayak]

lemme try and quick vid

@surreal salmon ⬆️🫡

[surreal salmon]

ok that makes sense

[rapid cloak]

how do i download the sdk to make a character

avatar

[halcyon kayak]

https://vcc.docs.vrchat.com/

that lil video in there should tell ya how to get started

[rapid cloak]

thank you

[surreal salmon]

works

[halcyon kayak]

heck yea

i'm having an issue with an avatar:

• animation clips that move the armature bones are porting fine into Unity, but NOT animation clips that move around blendshapes on my mesh. i have an idle state i want to set up that doesn't involve bones, only blendshapes.

[rapid cloak]

Everytime I try to get it to send me a email to reset my password it won’t send

[halcyon kayak]

i'm not sure this is the place for that kind of help. you may wanna get in touch with VRChat official support, or i'm sure there's FAQs for that kind of thing. sorry

[rapid cloak]

Mb

[halcyon kayak]

good luck tho, once you're all set up in Unity, there's a bajillion tutorials and stuff to get you started working on avatars

[rapid cloak]

I have unity im a game developer

I just recently got into demon slayer so I wanted to make kokushibo

[versed marsh]

how could i go about making a toggle to turn on and off the tattoo material on my skin?

preferably though vrcfury..

and possibly turn the emission on and off

[halcyon kayak]

bump on if anyone can help with this.
the bottom animation clip which animates blendshapes does not seem to import with the FBX. my blender export settings seem to include all animated clips, but that specific clip refuses to show up in Unity.

it's weird because the blendshapes appear in the animations that DO make it to unity...

[austere bay]

I reset all poses and applied all transforms before exporting so I don't think its that :(

[halcyon kayak]

there was someone in here a while ago asking about something similar, lemme see if it's actually the same issue

double check Bone Roll on your eye bones

should be 0

[steady summit]

My avatar's knees are bending in game when I play in VR, any idea why?

[halcyon kayak]

Unity is changing the position of the "humanoid" part of my non-humanoid humanoid rig... 😭😭😭

i just want to preserve the location relationship between the Hip bone and Cube0 bone

[floral fable]

Yo, I'm having trouble with some physbones. They're on the avatar and work in Unity but they don't seem to exist in game at all. They are here because I can see them in the performance section but for whatever reason they don't move and they don't appear with the physbone overlay on.

[high rapids]

https://booth.pm/ja/items/6337376
Is it possible to buy the hair by itself? Or is it possible for to take the hair of this and put it on a different head?

[somber sequoia]

you can always take parts off and put them on another model

[stiff mica]

Do yall know where I can find this avatar ?

[somber sequoia]

#1138520828556890214

[stiff mica]

Bet bet thanks

[hollow crystal]

Anyone know how to fix this? saying its not mapped even though it is

[high rapids]

How do I separate a hair from a model? I want to re-attach it to a different model

[floral fable]

Check the bones, based on the names it looks like you should be using either GD or G?

[floral fable]

Using Blender?

[high rapids]

I have both unity and blender idk which to use for this

[somber sequoia]

select the mesh parts you want, then 'p' to "part" it out into a separate object

unless it's already a separate object, you do this in blender.

[high rapids]

Nothing happens when I press p

[floral fable]

The be a little more detailed, if the hair is apart of another mesh enter into edit mode and do the above mentioned.

[somber sequoia]

I'm assuming basic blender knowledge here.

of course you have to go into mesh edit mode to select parts of the mesh.

[floral fable]

To add said hair to another model you can do in multiple ways but I’d parent with “armature deform” to your rig then weight paint

[somber sequoia]

ah I just drag it to be a child of the armature, add the armature modifier, and go weight paint. Though it may have its own bones, which you'll have to merge into the new avatar's armautre

[floral fable]

That’s pretty much what parenting with armature deform does, it adds the armature modifier and parents in one click.

[somber sequoia]

whichever way works for you

[floral fable]

Say, while I have you here do you happen to know anything on this? ^^^
Found out the bones actually work on PC too.

[halcyon kayak]

swapped some animations usinng AV3 Manager, now i'm getting this error upon upload.

so weird that AV3 has the ability to use/swap default controllers and parameters, but not give you the Expressions Menu to make it work...

any way to fix this without fully recreating the default expressions menu?

[somber sequoia]

you can't really tell what's wrong from just that message

[halcyon kayak]

Well normally I presume that, even if you don't have a set of Parameter and Menu, by using default settings for Avatar Descriptor, they end up on the avatar anyways. While AV3 has tools to mess with parameters, it appears one needs to redo Menus by hand, since I guess the way it interacts with Avatar removes the default Menu in the process.

[somber sequoia]

once you add a menu, you don't have a default menu, so you'll have to make everything you need there

[halcyon kayak]

yeah, i get that part now. i think what i'll do to save time in the future, since i'm mostly just mildly editing default Playable Layers, is to throw a copy of the default menu on all of my future projects

[somber sequoia]

I don't even know what's in there anymore

[halcyon kayak]

in AV3? it's got a good amount of utility, easy to swap animations in and out. the parameters section confuses me a bit, i don't make a ton of custom controllers though

[somber sequoia]

no no, the default menu

I use AV3 manager often

[halcyon kayak]

oh lol, yeah i mean unless you add extra stuff it's pretty much just default emotes with a few extra face blend shape ones that i don't quite understand

er, they'rer not in the default menu but in the default parameters

[digital pelican]

Hey everyine quick question, so i wanna switch my physbones into ones with more "jiggle" right, is it as simple as just copy/paste ?

[somber sequoia]

copy and paste what though?

[halcyon kayak]

i mean, you can edit the phys bone component you already have

[somber sequoia]

yeah

[halcyon kayak]

i do it in play mode and then just remember the settings lol

maybe you can even copy them, not sure it saves the copy after you exit play mode

[somber sequoia]

yep, you can copy in play mode and paste in edit mode

[halcyon kayak]

my unity seems to undo everything i do in play mode upon exit

[somber sequoia]

yep, changes made in play mode don't stick

[digital pelican]

I mean like

I have two avis, mine and another one with physbones everywhere

Its the same model ofc

[somber sequoia]

you can copy the components and paste them onto the other avatar

[digital pelican]

Can i just copy them from one avi to another so i dont have to remake everything

[somber sequoia]

I like to stick my physbones into a tree of empty game objects then prefab it, so I can just reuse it for all variants of that avatar base

[digital pelican]

Ngl i am too fresh in unity to fully grasp what u mean here

Well if its as easy as just copy/paste it then ill give it a go later

[somber sequoia]

yep, there's copy and paste in the "3 dots" menu at the upper right of a component

[night ember]

Copy component
Paste component as new

[night ember]

Ypu can also right click an existing component

[somber sequoia]

yep, and that

[night ember]

One being the transform component

[digital pelican]

Alright i see that

Thanks ill be trying to make it work soon

[warm glacier]

I am trying to test and preview animations to change my gestures; I used to have a really good tool similar too vrc avatar editor but I lost it. Is there anything similar to it @.@?

[halcyon kayak]

expressions menu not displaying text of my button, and the button is not interactable O_o

[halcyon kayak]

AV3 Manager for relatively easy swaps, Gesture Manager for testing easily in Unity?

i've heard good things about Pumkin's Avatar Tools as well

[versed pasture]

I imported an avatar with some assets that i bought. It has some objects that are beigng activated or deactivated in the hierarchy by default when I toggle the item. But I can't find where the settigs are. Looks like some tool is setting them directly after 2 seconds again. Which tool is it?

[junior void]

Vrcfury can create toggles etc but you shouldnt remove the package

Find the toggle component of vrcfury for the item you want to edit it for

[somber meadow]

SDK 3.8.2 bug when you have a controller in the animator component

[junior void]

Was that whats meant by "by default"?

[remote tangle]

my gesture manager seems to be duplicating buttons/toggles/submenus/etc, i'm unsure what's causing the issue but it's getting to be pretty annoying

i'm not sure if this is part of the problem but im using both modular avatar and vrcfury in the same project since some of the prefabs im using for one avatar require either or

i created a test button to show what exactly's been going on, there is supposed to be a singular test button but when i go into play mode and into gesture manager, there is two ;n;

okok so i fixed it, but i will keep this here in case anyone has the same issue

simple fix, didn't think of it until now cause im stupid lol- but create a new menu for your avatar and it shouldn't duplicate anything in the radial menu anymore 🐥

[deft iron]

Dunno if i can ask that here, but I have been thinking on how i should go about starting to create avatars and to that end how i can best get comfortable with blender so i know what is where and what is what.
You guys got any pointers?

[ornate stump]

For blender, start with donut tutorial video series.

[deft iron]

Guess I will

[versed pasture]

I updated to 3.9.0 and it still happens. Its like a script that automatically toggles the gameobjects in unity every 2 seconds

[versed pasture]

Some objects in thie hierarchy are deactivated and some are activated. Everytime i activate a deactivated element, its being deactivated and the other way around. These default settings must be somewhere...

[proud otter]

Hey just wondering if someone can help me with this trying to upload the quest side of an avi

[pearl fable]

I made a toggle that checks for IsOnFriendsList to make sure friends don’t see that specific toggle. It works great when they are in the lobby with me and I turn it on, they don’t see it. However, if the toggle is turned on and they disable and re-enable my avatar or they join/rejoin whilst it’s on the toggle suddenly shows for them. Anyone knows of a fix?

[ornate stump]

You might have to double check the transition condition.

[pearl fable]

Either putting a second transition from the on state back to the empty state with IsOnFirendsList true or adding an actual animation that turns it back off like it is in default in the hierarchy fixed it

I just don't get how it goes from "entry" to on state without going through the empty state and being blocked by my parameters

[ornate stump]

If you want other people to confirm its working then you have to post screenshot and detail how you setup the layer.

[pearl fable]

idk why exit time is on

[ornate stump]

You can set it off. Exit time usually isn't necessary if condition only relies on parameter.

[pearl fable]

Yeah I think I was testing fixes and turned it on

[ornate stump]

It's On by default when creating a new transition.

[pearl fable]

I know, I turn it off when making transitions. I turned it back on because I thought the game needed more time to check my parameters and hoped exit time would supply that

[terse tulip]

want to ask, i cant upload this avi, its not lagging or freezing, its just dont move

i already press the auto fix, but still after i press build & publish, ntg happens

[ornate stump]

You're in prefab editing mode which can't start building avatar.

[terse tulip]

so, how do i proceed with this? cause i just follow the manual given with the avatar and it didn't state anything about it

[ornate stump]

Back to normal scene editing and drag the avatar prefab into the scene.

[terse tulip]

oh wait, so i just need to save it THEN publish

[ornate stump]

It's auto saved already in the prefab edit mode.

[terse tulip]

ohh, 1 more question, after i finish uploading it and publish, i can just delete the project and the package file?

no need to keep anything right?

[ornate stump]

Sure. But you will no longer be able to edit the avatar.

[terse tulip]

alright, thank youuu, its my first time using it so im kinda in a lost of everything

[hazy quest]

Prevent Physbones from going back to the original / parent root?
I've tried setting immobile to 1, but of no help.
I've set MaxStretch to a 1000.

When I release the physbone it goes back automatically.

[ornate stump]

Set Pull zero

[late heath]

does anybody know how to keep ik bones still, but only by a little bit? these hands have a tendency of clipping inside of the "fist" when balled up, and i want to make it where it only moves a little bit and somewhat keeps a static rotation

[hazy quest]

Thanks ❤️

[late heath]

nevermind i found a sort of backwards way of doing it through rotation constraints i think

[fair falcon]

can someone help me? how do i fix blue print error

i downloaded an avatar, and it keeps giving me that error

[ornate stump]

#avatar-help message

Take topmost error.

[ornate stump]

Is that topmost only 2 errors?

[fair falcon]

oops, sorry

those are the ones that appear

[ornate stump]

Does the sdk show you "Autofix" button?

[fair falcon]

it gave me some

[ornate stump]

Then do autofix.

[fair falcon]

okay

it worked, sorry, since the error said blueprint error, i thought it didnt had to do with problems with the avatar

tysm 😭

[ornate stump]

It's usually a side effect of other errors.

[fair falcon]

ooh okay, thanks for the help!

[strange shore]

Why 🤣

I think I know why I'm t-posing but what's with the isometric view

[ornate stump]

Because it's the extra camera on your avatar.

[strange shore]

oh right of course

thanks

[hollow mountain]

If an avatar comes with face tracking by default, am I simply able to remove the prefab and it not damage anything?

[ornate stump]

If it's using vrcfury or modular avatar then it likely not to break.

[olive pelican]

I really gotta learn VRCF and ma.

[hollow mountain]

I beleive its.. jerrys face tracking?

[ornate stump]

I have never looked into it so you have to take a look yourself.

[hollow mountain]

There's also this absolutely halarious expression blendshape that's just, never animated with any of the gestures. If I just make a simple toggle to turn it on, that'd work?

Cause imagine talking to someone, you look away, and look back at THIS

[ornate stump]

If other animator layer doesn't control the same blendshapes then it might work.

[hollow mountain]

At worst it'd just distort the funny face a bit, I beleive? Lemme do some testing, I'll let you know if I need more help, much appriciated you wonderful human :3

I might just leave the FT on incase I ever get a quest pro. That way I don't have to reupload.

[somber sequoia]

remember that FT takes up a LOT of synced parameter space

[somber sequoia]

feel free to ask questions about where you're stuck

[hollow mountain]

Speaking of that, do parameters take up actual like, file size? I know textures and stuff like physbones drink it down, but I've never thought about parameters.

[somber sequoia]

not file size but there's a limited number of bits that will be synced over the network to other players

[olive pelican]

Didn't you get hard banned from VRCTraders like five minutes ago for suspicious activity?

[ornate stump]

Bio already is the red flag.

[olive pelican]

Deadass.

You realize I'm a moderator for that server, right? I can pull the audit logs.

[ornate stump]

If you can't see the server in your server list that means you has been banned.

[olive pelican]

@pearl flower oh no wait, the audit log says you had a set of messages referring to ripping models removed, and you left before you could be banned.

[ornate stump]

[olive pelican]

Thanks for posting here, now we have your user ID. That will be useful for our bookkeeping.

[ornate stump]

I guess that's going to be the question to be asked next.

It's accusation if it doesn't have proof.

Blackmail means you already had done something and they had proof.

[olive pelican]

It's a language barrier thing, I think.

[wicked fulcrum]

anyone know whats causing this with the textures ?

[olive pelican]

Mipmapping

Check the UVs, the UV seam is probably less than 1/16th away from the edge of the texture, with a transparent background.

[wicked fulcrum]

Fixed it. Thanks

[olive pelican]

All good.

[zinc willow]

is there a way to add a roblox walk/r6 animation to my avi?

[olive pelican]

Sure. Get the animation, replace your locomotion animations with that animation.

The search terms you'll want are "replace locomotion animation VRChat"

[zinc willow]

Thank you, but where can I get the animation?

[topaz lantern]

Well, you’d need to send your avi file over to a 3D modeler so they can properly add the animation into it

[zinc willow]

Okay

[balmy barn]

Not how its done, animations are for humanoid and works on anything similar

no way you need someones avatar for that

[olive pelican]

Agreed

And the Roblox walk anim is almost certainly popular enough for it to already be out there

[balmy barn]

'3d modeler' that dont even know that

[olive pelican]

Sus

[zinc willow]

Still where could I find it, I've been trying to find some and I'm not sure where

[balmy barn]

never played it wouldnt know what you are after , im in fbt so locomotion animations not a thing i make

[timber wharf]

normally you judt import both elsewhere sourced model and animations fbx, set it up as humanoid in unity to convert it from generic, done, now you can extract/duplicate humanoid animation from it and itd work with any humanoid

[dense knot]

so there are no world help tabs nowhere... im about done with vrc 🙁 too much exceptions with no logical reason. this one I cant upload a world for quest. it successfully uploads for questbut the world is not available... only world I can upload is if it has NOTHING in it.
wrost sdk 3.8.1 and 3.8.2 gets some error while building which already have been reported.. it stucks at 25% need to close vrc sdk and reopen it while uploading if doing multi upload... but now what are common reason for a world uploaded to quest only to be PC only...

I need to go develop on a more recent game I sadly think today 🙁

[timber wharf]

https://discord.com/channels/189511567539306508/361741445352259584

[austere bay]

there are several world help channels, you just have to enable them

[rocky salmon]

Guys is there a way to use shaders that are hidden?

[somber sequoia]

do you have the liltoon package installed?

[rocky salmon]

I do, but these are all my shaders

[somber sequoia]

I'd think it'd be in the lilToon section, but I've never actually used this shader.

[rocky salmon]

I'm just trying different shaders and I was wondering :'3

Also, lilToon doesn't contain any shaders, it's just the shader itself

I swear to god these used to be available back then

[rocky salmon]

So yeah... This is the only thing keeping me away from uploading my avatar

[somber sequoia]

I was just making sure you had the package installed, as that's a common error. I know nothing about this shader otherwise.

[rocky salmon]

q-q

Thanks for the help tho!

[rocky salmon]

Welp, it was a toggle all along...

It's not the same as it used to be

Welp the more I know!

[crimson flax]

yo im trying to upload this avi and i keep getting this error when uploading?? i exported the unity package from my old laptop and fixed up the shaders, im using an updated version of unity and vrc sdk so im assuming thats where the issues are coming from because ive been able to update other avis just fine

[balmy barn]

scroll up for errors that caused it

[crimson flax]

oop nvm i figured it out

i had an outdated prefab

[blissful quartz]

okay, I recently finished editing and making an avatar

but I noticed something wrong: the chest was moving weirdly. I meant that it moves.. kinda too much?

on the original model, it doesn't do that

does anyone know how to fix this?

specifically, the parts where I snap my head up, the chest would also snap upwards

and the parts where I "bop" my shoulders, the chest just

wobbles too much

[olive pelican]

Is that a canned animation or is it FBT?

[dense knot]

Same I'm wondering. I assume it's only anination. If it is, duplicate animation and tweak torso/chest . Best would be to play animation, when you see what you dislike pause animation, tweak values for torso/chest until you find which bones act up , and adjust.

[blissful quartz]

fbt

[olive pelican]

It's possible that your IK is doing weird stuff, I'd suggest not using Lock Both on your IK setup, it tends ot do weird shit.

Especially if you have a chest tracker

[teal field]

is there a way to have an emission only light up if you touch it?

[balmy barn]

contacts and tell material to change emission value

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

detect hand/fingers/senders do stuff

[sharp blaze]

My friends making an avatar that has a katana in the right hand and a toggle so you can hold the sheath in your left hand and he doesn't know how to make it so that when you equip the sword the handle of the sword on the sheath automatically disappears does anyone have a video that can explain it or can explain it themselves?

[acoustic island]

Anyone know if its possible to make a parameter than only animates an avatar when someone is not looking at it?

[versed marsh]

can someone give me a quick rundown on how weight paintinng works?

does red mean more weighted/stiff?

[olive pelican]

Yes

Larger value is more weight towards that bone.

[versed marsh]

so say for the knee it clips on the back here

would i need to make it lighter?

or heavier on the weight

[lilac musk]

You would (Likely) want the thigh/upper leg to have less weight, and the calf/lower leg to have more weight

[versed marsh]

ive tried less weight and more weight and it still clips

this stuff is so confusing

[fresh rose]

How does one make it so that when i toggle somin

The avi will lock the hands into a certain pose? Is it just animator or?

[lilac musk]

It might also have weighs from some another bone. Another thing you can do is simply add blenshapes to the base model that shrink it. Might even have them already. Something else you can try is transfer weights from the original mesh the clothes were built for. This will get it mostly correct and will only need minor tweaks if any at all.

[versed marsh]

thats a slight issue

i cant interfere with the body at all

the fbx is broken in some fashion and the creator didnt offer any help on the issue when exporting from blender back into unity

so i have to use modular avatar and rig it in unity.

so i cant add any body blendshapes

and no matter what i do its still clipping here

[lilac musk]

Oof, yea modular avatar is great for what it does, but its really just a crutch. Causes issues when you want to get deeper into modeling.

So look into the transfer weights or just keep tweaking it

[versed marsh]

this is genuinely so ass

omfg

weight painting is probably the worst thing

[lilac musk]

Lot's of people struggle with it

Can you show me the weight of the upper leg in that same area?

[versed marsh]

is it supposed to be more??

im so confused

the fact i need to do this with the other leg too and other bones gives me a headache

[lilac musk]

This is likely your issue. There is just a small amount of weight from the upper leg on the lower portion of the pants

[versed marsh]

omfg

how did you even see that

is my eyesight that bad

[worldly whale]

so my avatar is stuck in this pose and i dont know how to fix it, i tried removing all the controllers/fxs and it doesnt change it at all. i have no idea what could be causing this. any ideas?

and its not in preview, i have no idea whats causing this...

[versed marsh]

now the thigh jiggle is the bane of my existence

[lilac musk]

Again, I'd look into just using data transfer. It'll set up so much of this for you.

[versed marsh]

how do i do that

would i just transfer the vertex groups?

[lilac musk]

https://youtu.be/IPQ2QVVIxLU?feature=shared Here's a video showing one way to do it

The relevent info starts at around 2 min

[versed marsh]

^^^

if its just this ik already how to do that

[teal field]

how do i tell the matierial to do that

[versed marsh]

should i just transfer from pretty similar pair of pants thats already weighted?

[lilac musk]

No, transfer from the base model. Unless that was what you were talking about things not working.

[versed marsh]

I mean

if i have a pair of pants already rigged and weighted to the model that are perfect

and the pants i want to add are very similar

would it work transfering the data from current pants to new pants?

[lilac musk]

That would likely work, but it's not ideal

[versed marsh]

and just smoothing the weight out?

eh let me try that and see

[visual vault]

is personal avatars menu missing for anyone else ?

no idea how it is gone suddenly

[worn kiln]

https://feedback.vrchat.com/bug-reports/p/missing-upload-i-cant-find-uploaded-avatars-tab-build-1708-beta

Switch back to live for now.

[visual vault]

appreciate it 👍

[teal field]

ive managed to do this, however i want to make the emission fade up the leg when in proximity. how can i do that

[knotty pier]

does anyone know how to remove the lenses off the mayu in blender??

[polar obsidian]

edit mode, click on the eye crtl+l then delete.

[knotty pier]

thank youuuuuu!!!

[polar obsidian]

If youre doing this for quest I will let you know that VRChat/Mobile/Particles/Multiply material will cause the lenses not to render on quest.

[knotty pier]

just making a render for a cool photo 👍

[polar obsidian]

aight cool. I need some help myself, pretty much all of my avatars do not sync their physbones to quest. As in, a physbone is grabbed on quest it isnt grabbed on PC and the vice versa. I find this desync quite annoying personally and would like to get it fixed. However, I do not know why the desync happens, like at all. I will note I am using Dark Player's avatar optimizer, not sure if that would mess with it?

A lot of VRC Fury components as well but its not complaining about anything.

Ill get back to yall after testing with the avatar optimizer off. I dont need all the bits and bobs its doing with physbones ill be fine with just getting VR Chat to say its not very poor. So basically all I need it to do is merge my skinned mesh renders.

[polar obsidian]

Well given I cant even UPLOAD to quest without using it idk how to check that.

At least with my main avi.

[somber sequoia]

if your model is symmetrical, turn on mirroring before you start painting

[crisp temple]

I need help finding this one avatar that is a black and blue protogen mixed with a bat I used last time now I can't find it

[plain nexus]

can somone help me work unity 😭

i got the files for mayu and cant figure out how to open them

[somber sequoia]

have you watched a basic tutorial such as this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSwMz4WcajQ

[plain nexus]

ion use youtube so no

[somber sequoia]

ah, I'd suggest you start there.

[plain nexus]

So far my problem was I was trying to launch it in Unity 6

[somber sequoia]

ah yep, that's a problem

https://vcc.docs.vrchat.com/guides/getting-started

[sharp lily]

So I’m looking to make 2D eyes and mouth for an avatar I have but idk how to do that in a way where they’re visible inside the model or something

[plain nexus]

now i cant figure anything out

it diffrent from the vid

[uncut wasp]

i just uploaded some avatars can someone help me with expression toggles

[plain nexus]

ts hard

[analog vine]

i just tried updating my avatar and exported it to all platforms and now I can't select it, why?

this is on my PC btw

im about to test my Quest 2

ok it works on my quest 2 but not my PC

[wicked tide]

need help with my clothing when i tried the clothing in vrchat the clothing is in t pose

never had any issues before until now

[ornate stump]

Have you actually do armature link?

[wicked tide]

how normally i just had to drop the clothing in and fir the body then good

[ornate stump]

That means those cloths have been preconfigured with armature linking. If it doesn't then you have to configure armature link yourself.

[wicked tide]

how?

[ornate stump]

Are you using vrfury or modular avatar in your avatar project?

[wicked tide]

vrcfury

but i tried that and it did not work

[ornate stump]

Clearly you didn't do correctly https://vrcfury.com/tutorials/linking-clothes

[wicked tide]

yea that did not work

im trying to put a mame outfit on azuki which i never had any issues with other mame clothes but this one is not wanting to work

[cinder mortar]

If I try to copy a vcc project, it copies the existing version of the avatar too. So, I won’t be able to upload a changed version of the avatar as a new avatar. Is there a way to change that if I want to use a base, for example?

[timber wharf]

near avatar descriptor find pipeline manager, detach id

now its brand new avatar, regardless of being a different or the same project

[ornate stump]

Can you show how you configure it?

[cinder mortar]

Ohh thank you so much!!

[wicked tide]

im getting off for the night i will have to do it another time

[wicked tide]

https://booth.pm/ja/items/4420345

thats the outfit im trying to add to azuki

[raven bane]

Helloo! Sorry for the novice question, but I added these eye textures to Kanata, but I'm not sure how to make the one I put show up.

the brown ones instead of the circular ones

[junior void]

looks like a blendshape-controlled mesh

anime style chars often have multiple eye mesh parts so go play with blendshapes on the head mesh

[ornate stump]

If it isn't made for your avatar it isn't going to work well.

[raven bane]

Sweet thanks! it was in the blendshapes section

[junior void]

keep in mind once you press play, an animation may be reversing this

[raven bane]

oh crap let me check that then

alright it stayed the same :D

[junior void]

tried gestures?

[raven bane]

yes!

[junior void]

lucky then

[wicked tide]

But all the other mame outfits work for azuki

[hollow mountain]

Pretty confused, literally all I've done was remove some physbones and change the materials to be quest compatible?

[ornate stump]

Doesn't work well I mean the will be clipping while moving. If it's stay in T-pose then that mean the armature link isn't properly configured.

[hollow mountain]

Still gotta cram the textures down even more though anyways, AA

[wicked tide]

Well i have it resized to fit but the arms not moving with the body

[ornate stump]

That means the armature link isn't properly configured.

[wicked tide]

Ok ty for that info I will look up on how to link the armatures to azuki then because the vrcfury armature link did not work

[ornate stump]

VRCFury should work but need to properly configure it.

[hollow mountain]

These paramaters don't seem very important, if I go ahead and upload, it's just those specifically that won't sync, right?

[wicked tide]

Next time I get on pc I will take a pic on how I have it

[teal field]

can somone help me with emissions ?

[ornate stump]

Ask the question.

[teal field]

so i made an emission that kughts up the feet when in contact with colliders, but it just lights up and off, is there a way to make it fade on and fade off?

does that make sense

[ornate stump]

Depends on how you made it. How did you make the animation?

[teal field]

this? turned the em on at .05 then off at.10

[ornate stump]

And how did you set the animator layer?

[ornate stump]

Do you need it to lit up only for a fraction of second?

[teal field]

hold on let me be more specific i dont think i worded it right xd. so the proximity with colliders works, it turns the emission on and then off but i want it to be more animated. like the emission to scoll up the leg instead of the whole thing turning on and off

does that make more sense

(ignore that foot that doesnt work properly)

[ornate stump]

Then this rather is about scrolling emission mask in material.

[teal field]

i guess. sorry for not being specific. i tried using the scroll but it just continuously scrolls instead of stopping

[ornate stump]

Not the actual scrolling property. I mean scrolling by moving texture offset.

The Emission mask should be black and white gradient texture and you have to animate its offset.

[teal field]

this part?

[ornate stump]

All of that is about emission.

[teal field]

so this is how id do it or no?

[ornate stump]

If you like that then sure.

[ornate stump]

But I'm talking specifically about "Emission Mask" which a different method. But if you like how the way you set above then don't mind.

[teal field]

ahh can you explain this please. i wastn sure what you meant by offset

[ornate stump]

I'm talking about offset of Emission Mask. But you're changing offset of Emission Map.

And I said to make Emission Mask black and white gradient texture for it.

[teal field]

alright. how would i make the gradient texture

[ornate stump]

Any image editor app.

[teal field]

so its going to look like this?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[ornate stump]

Direction depends on direction of offset you're going to scroll.

Or just try yourself first and see the result. Learning by doing experiment.

[teal field]

how do i animate the offset? the same way you animate the emission strength?

[ornate stump]

Yes

[balmy barn]

decals handy for that can be scaled / alpha / offsets / emissions , you uv might not work with it tho

[light matrix]

I need help brainstorming how to do something with a model. I wanna know if its even possible before i get started.

SO! Im making a Model with a lava lamp tummy, and i want to make it look concave from all angles. Normally id just invert the faces (which is how im doing the roblox version of this model) but i know the faces will render from the back (see images attached). How would i do about making the furthest faces not transparent while making the nearest faces transparent? is it a material? a shader?

IMG guide
Img 1 and 2: intended affect (done in roblox studio)
img 3 past avi where the back faces rendered (intended for that avi)

[night ember]

why not just do the same thing you did in roblox

[pine pike]

Hey guys, could somebody help me?
For some reason, I can’t connect unity to VRchat creator
Yes, I installed unity version (2022.3.22f1) it’s driving me crazy please somebody does anybody know why doesn’t connect

[ornate stump]

What did you do to connect?

[pine pike]

Like go in and press installed

[ornate stump]

You should just skip installation if you already have installed in some other way.

[pine pike]

Yeah, but I’m trying to get an avatar that I purchased and I need to open up project but I need unity installed and it can’t find it

[ornate stump]

Then you will have to manually set installation path in the settings menu in VCC.

[pine pike]

Yeah, I tried to click on already installed and then it said add unity edition but I can’t find it

I’m trying to drag it in I’m trying to search it up nothing

Am I stupid probably but I seen like five videos and all of them can do it easily

[ornate stump]

Can't find it as in you can't find where you installed unity?

[pine pike]

No, no I can see it on the desktop but when I click search in creative it can’t find it anywhere and I can’t drag it in either

[night ember]

the desktop isnt where its installed

[ornate stump]

The desktop icon is just a shortcut to the actual installation.

[pine pike]

Like this one

[ornate stump]

That's exactly what I meant. It isn't the actual installed location.

[pine pike]

But I have it installed here

[night ember]

it literally is telling you the installed location right there in the image

[ornate stump]

You see the little arrow to the bottom left of the icon? That's indicating it's a shortcut for the actual file.

[pine pike]

What I don’t understand I need this one to go to create but when I click pick unity edition
I can’t find it am I stupid?

[night ember]

its looking for the actual unity.exe

[pine pike]

OK, and I don’t have that when it’s installed in unity itself so how could I get it?

[night ember]

it literally tells you the installed location

[pine pike]

I really don’t understand. Sorry I’m stupid really what should I click on? What should I do? I I’m sorry I’m so. Useless.

[night ember]

its telling you which folder it is literally in

[ornate stump]

You just have to navigate to that location and pick the Unity.exe file.

[light matrix]

i explained why if you read the entire message

[pine pike]

Wait, no I picked show in Explorer to find it. I dragged the unity symbol that light up in to create. But still, it’s saying no.

[night ember]

the only time a face renders from both sides is if you specifically tell it to in the shader settings of the material

[ornate stump]

"it’s saying no" what does that actually do?

Because app doesn't just simply say "No".

[pine pike]

This file does not have the app permission with it from perform the action. Please install an app or if one is already installed create and access in the default app settings

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot instead? And use Window+Shift+S key to properly take screenshot.

[pine pike]

Like I don’t understand

[ornate stump]

You're trying to pick a wrong file.

[pine pike]

How that’s the only file I’m sorry I don’t understand technology ha

[ornate stump]

You have to navigate to this location

You see the location is different from what you picked?

[pine pike]

OK let me see I pick pick unity edition it opening my documents and I need to find that unit works in here the only problem I know where it lies I think but it doesn’t show up there

The only thing I can find is unity and unity hub set up

[ornate stump]

You have to stop looking at the desktop because that isn't the installation location.

[pine pike]

No, I know, but I can’t search for it either. It doesn’t exist like.

[ornate stump]

Do you see "Program Files" folder in your C: drive at all?

[pine pike]

Yes

[ornate stump]

And where did you go after that?

[pine pike]

Unit and unity hub
Then I clicked on unity I clicked on hub edit and the version I need and nothing

That’s only like linked to websites

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot where you found that?

[pine pike]

Wait

Oh my it works I couldn’t figure it out. I just dragged everything in at the end. Holy God, thank you thank you, my angels I’m so happy thank you so much. I owe you all one. (gives hug to everybody.) >\\<

[ornate stump]

What even is "everything" while you just need only a single "Unity.exe" file?

[pine pike]

Yeah, but it was many of them there so I just keep on dragging everything to something worked I have trouble reading so I just went for it but thank you so much

[ornate stump]

Just be sure it actually is "Unity.exe" file because if you picked other random exe, it won't work at all.

[pine pike]

What do you mean like this?

[random ridge]

I think Microsoft disables file extensions by default nowadays which might have been their issue

[ornate stump]

That somehow is a different location from what it's shown in your unity hub.

[random ridge]

I stand corrected

[random ridge]

Select the file labeled unity and then click open

[pine pike]

Yeah, it says I already have it

It says it’s already installed

[random ridge]

Would you happen to have any third party security software installed

[pine pike]

I don’t think so

[random ridge]

Unity might be triggering a false positive

[pine pike]

Shit, OK well I got it installed now I have it connected to create now I only need it to open project in unity hmmmm

[random ridge]

If that dialog comes up again you can try hitting the diagnose button it might just fix it itself

[pine pike]

No, it comes up every time I close and reopen and I tried to click on it and it’s trying to open the window and it just closing it immediately

[random ridge]

Huh

[pine pike]

Yeah, I know God dammit right so close

Well, you guys tried and almost made it. Thank you for your help.

I think I’m gonna give up

[random ridge]

You can always try reinstalling unity

Or rebooting the computer

[pine pike]

I tried to

[cinder mortar]

What count as phys bone transforms

[halcyon kayak]

you may be talking about culling the front face, i know poiyomi shader has front/back face culling, i'm sure plenty of other (maybe even the default unity i just don't use it as much)

[cinder mortar]

Update: figured it out

[surreal salmon]

Assuming I wanted to add a entire books work of information to an avatar what would be the optimal means of doing so?

For example. The dictionary

I've been using image textures for this but there's only so much u can get from screen shots

[olive pelican]

Funny story, you can encode textual data into a model via shader logic.

There's a gumroad for it, forgot the name.

Someone mentioned it in another server for doing a bible study in VR, seemed neat.

[surreal salmon]

🤩

I need to see this

But, would it be viable for quest

[olive pelican]

No.

Can't do custom shaders for quest

[surreal salmon]

Shame. But hey don't this mean u could theoretically have a functional library within vrc?

[ornate stump]

It would still gets limited by avatar data size.

[surreal salmon]

Not too big a deal. I mean I already have the entire constitution on a quest avatar

[olive pelican]

Text data on it's own, especially basic unicode data means you can cram a LOT of stuff into a small file size

The way the shader works IIRC is that it has a flipbook texture of Unicode (or more likely ascii or limited unicode) characters, or generates them from vector data that's stored, it then complies them in order at runtime, per page.

10mb of .txt file is a LOT of text.

[surreal salmon]

Yea if I could fit the constitution on a quest avatar the amount this shader will improve data compression I imagine will be huge

[olive pelican]

This would mean you'd be limited to simple formatting, and no images, but still

wild shit

[surreal salmon]

Yea this is something I definitely need to get my hands on

[olive pelican]

And a generic text shader module would be immensely useful for HUDs and stuff.

[surreal salmon]

If u can manage to get the name of the shader It'd make my day

I td be cool to be able to cram all the data from research studies an shit onto a avatar

[olive pelican]

https://finntherabbot.gumroad.com/l/readable-bible I think this is it?

https://github.com/lambdalemon/pdf2vrc

There ya go, found it.

[surreal salmon]

I know some people who will want that Bible. That said I'll probably try to make my own vrc library

Even if one already exists

[olive pelican]

Theoretically possible, ye.

[surreal salmon]

I was gonna do so using the portal radio prefab and image flip book builder. May still be necessary to do for quest users

[signal meteor]

i hate the new avatar descriptor, how do i get back to the one from before?

with my FX layers and the mouth open mouth close and the eye rotators etc

[surreal salmon]

If u got creator companion then u should be able to just change to older versions within the program?

[balmy barn]

if you want less features

[signal meteor]

what components to change?

it' so annoying it has too many things i don't get

okay downgraded to 2.8.0

[ornate stump]

How old is the old one you talked about?

[signal meteor]

a month old

the new facial tracking stuff is bugging me out

im a creator of avatars but i never use blender /Blendshapes

[ornate stump]

There literrally no sdk update for a few month.

[somber sequoia]

new facial tracking stuff?

[signal meteor]

i just articulate stuff

oh i think im been too long without making avis

[ornate stump]

If you meant SDK 2 then it's like half a decade old.

[signal meteor]

no no

i mean 5 months ago

the vrc avatar script

where you set the eyes

[somber sequoia]

I don't recall any changes to that in the last like 3 years

[ornate stump]

There is also no change visually for a year. Last change was adding custom body trigger sender.

And that's almost 2 years.

[signal meteor]

i think my project is corrupted

[ornate stump]

Probably that.

[signal meteor]

????

[somber sequoia]

do you have debug mode on?

[signal meteor]

hmm idk i never touched it

[ornate stump]

Check console for errors.

[somber sequoia]

looks like that, or something broke, check your console for errors

[signal meteor]

i want it to look like this

there is a weird error

[somber sequoia]

Yes, that's how it should look by default, not in debug mode.

[signal meteor]

ill make a new project

[somber sequoia]

drastic, but sure, it could work 🙂

[ornate stump]

If you repeat same step it will cause the same error anyway so better get to know what the error is first.

[signal meteor]

oh i think i know what happened

i ran out of disk space

[somber sequoia]

ahh

[signal meteor]

and i always force unity to start

thank you for the feedback

fixed

[cerulean gull]

So im trying to export a mayu from blender but one of the piece of clothing keep going big and I dont know what I did wrong
I removed the animations cause that usually help but still doesnt work

[halcyon kayak]

has anyone ever had an issue where an imported animation plays slower than normal upon upload? i have an idle animation which is supposed to be a three second loop but takes at least 6

[dark jay]

is it possible to vrchat avatar so when a certain user uses it it becomes a different avi for only them?

[round comet]

whats the fastest way to delete bones w/ no weight in blender

I deleted some stuffs and theres a ton of bones and I can't tell which to delete

[left gull]

CATS/unoffical CATS has a button that deletes zero weight bones iirc

[somber sequoia]

there isn't a way on an avatar to check the wearer's ID

[simple inlet]

Heyo! Having a weird issue where my AFK animation works completely fine in the animator, but in game/in play mode it's missing the eye closed blendshape keyframes and the up/down floating keyframes.
The keyframes that aren't animating in play mode are highlighted in blue in the second image. From what I can tell the're not obviously missing as they aren't outlined in yellow, but who knows. I've never really worked with AFK anims before beyond shoving an animation in the AFK init slots.

[balmy barn]

your blink shapekeys wont do a thing on action controller, put those in fx

[simple inlet]

Works fine on other avis?

If it means anything I'm not using the VRC blink blendshape, I have a seperate eyes closed blendshape for animations

[balmy barn]

you are testing in unity thats wild west - wont work ingame , blendshapes does nothing on any other controlller then fx

whttps://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/playable-layers/#fx

[hasty night]

when i click on the pose avatar button it's turn to green but i can't move the bone of the avatar

[somber sequoia]

what does that do?

[somber sequoia]

okay... what is providing these things?

[hasty night]

it's with the gesture manager

[somber sequoia]

ahhh

[hasty night]

test to reload Sdk

[hazy quest]

Thanks, it worked.
can this also happen because of poor internet connection?
I paused my steam downloading too.

[hasty night]

yes if you have not a great connection it can happen but it's depends.
the better thing to do if that happen it's to reload the sdk

[ocean marsh]

Hi!
Quick question here
im missing something on my avi params or something else?
Like...
I have couple outfits, but when i try some MMD worlds with certain motions, my clothes go back to the default ones

Is there a way to fix this or is something about the motion itself?

[simple inlet]

mmm okay good to know! though I swear it works in game too o_0 Explains why the blinking isnt working in any case. Any idea about the root keyframes not working?

[somber sequoia]

I believe MMD takes over the first two layers of your FX animator - don't put that stuff there.

[ocean marsh]

i remember somebody said to me the same
but only first layer, guess i can try leaving another empty layer for test right now

[balmy barn]

Ran into this when i was testing since i had toggle outfits on the first 1 or 2 it would always revert to default, so my fx layers are default | 0 nothing | 1 blink/disable when using vrcemotes/ect | 2 left hand | 3 right hand | 4 all the other toggles here

[somber sequoia]

yeah I use 0 for blendshape resets and 1 for an idle blinking animation

[ocean marsh]

just tested this rn
didnt work

[somber sequoia]

it's a good suggestion either way, though perhaps not the solution here.

[wise river]

has anyone had isues seein their uploaded tab on vrchat?

[somber sequoia]

if you're on the beta, see #open-beta-discussion - there's been comments about such things

[ocean marsh]

Yeah, i have been strugling with this for a while

Also, i saw the same motion on different MMD worlds
Here [https://vrchat.com/home/world/wrld_6aa7e36a-1449-4033-aaa0-3470a8460cfa] my clothes turn back to default
but here [https://vrchat.com/home/world/wrld_776a6a37-f307-43f4-aeef-8f151f38dba4] my clothes are normal, doesnt change to default, also i can swap while the motion is playing

i think the world author give the motion some treatment after upload?
a friend told me something about this

[mental glen]

Anyone else having trouble seeing there uploaded avatars tab gone?

[somber sequoia]

see my comment 2 messages above

[surreal salmon]

im trying to launch the encoder but it keeps crashing

is there a discord server for this?

[olive pelican]

Probably? Check the git page

[alpine crypt]

hi, i have an asset that plays an fx when activated, however the audio is very choppy, even in gesture manager. I've tried looking around but i've not found much in the way of knowing how to fix it, would anyone know where i might look to fix it? these are the current settings for the audio clip

[olive pelican]

Does the audio clip sound like trash when you play it in a media player like VLC?

[lethal ibex]

heyo, after i imported my blender avatar to unity via creator companion it showed an error that where it appears red that an skeleton or armature is incorrectly placed while the armature is exactly same place where the red dot is. How do i fix this??

[olive pelican]

Screenshot

[alpine crypt]

nah, when played in anything else the clip sounds normal

23 second long clip

[olive pelican]

Hm. Maybe the postprocessing?

Audio isn't usually my aeea

[lethal ibex]

wait loading up my unity rn

[surreal sage]

without using blender how would i fix the heels?

[olive pelican]

Prayer, mostly.

[surreal sage]

[olive pelican]

There's probably a bone floating around that has the heel

Parent it to the foot.bone.

Good luck finding it that model definitely has 500 bones, lmao

[surreal sage]

its a pretty simple avatar actually , i can always send the paylink if needed (the avatar is sfw!!! before i get told off for sendin a "nsfw" avi)

[lethal ibex]

the avatar was in t pose btw

[surreal sage]

it also happened when i tried to add my own shoes to her in unity

yeah no im stupid

looks fine in normal unity view, also doesnt do it if i mess with the legs in normal view

i lied. i moved the foot and its still stuck</3

[mighty totem]

I was wondering if anyone on here could help me set up multiple sets of visemes for 2D expressions?

I know how to do the basics I just want to be able to have sad, angry happy, ect visemes

And I draw each set

[frosty junco]

ive just got a unity question, how can I change my background from the default sky to the grey void?

[surreal sage]

this??

forgive me for the pixelated screenshot </3

[frosty junco]

LETS GO

thanks

[surreal sage]

ofc!!<3

thats 1 thing i know how to do LOL

[frosty junco]

thats so real

[surreal sage]

lowkey might use the grey more often, its more calming

[frosty junco]

it also contrasts the colors better

[surreal sage]

another unity question.. how does one stop this. i just wanna zoom in

its horrifiying seeing inside my head

[frosty junco]

do this

[somber meadow]

or just middle click the area you want to focus on with dynamic clipping enabled

setting your near clip that far will cause displacement issues like that warning tells you

[surreal sage]

thank you two!!

needa remeber that i love zoomin in to see textures

[somber meadow]

you can hold alt + right click and drag your mouse for a finer zoom in the scene view btw

[frosty junco]

color contrast is so nice now compared to the skybox

[olive pelican]

Got a whole stream vid of me making visemes, if that's what you're looking for.

[mighty totem]

I know how to make 'em, but if you show how to assign visemes to expression, maybe ^^ Any research helps!

[balmy barn]

2d tilesheet exsample

blendtree vs anystate

[mighty totem]

Of course! Totally forgot about tilesheets, gotta look into that.

[spark wagon]

i cant see the "uploaded" avatars list in the menu, but i can on the website

[balmy barn]

open beta bug

https://feedback.vrchat.com/bug-reports/p/missing-upload-i-cant-find-uploaded-avatars-tab-build-1708-beta

[frosty junco]

heyy, when I render my avatar in unity or in game

the root bone for the body mesh changes

how can I stop that from happening ;-;

[somber meadow]

by "render" do you mean play mode?

[frosty junco]

yeah

like it being put in game

cuz it happens in the actual game too

where it dissapears at certain angles

and it isnt the bounding box its specifically the root bone changing

[tepid mauve]

How do I import it/publish? I got the novabeast and am really exited to use it but when I try to publish it as private it says "current user does not have permissions to build avatars" how to I get perms??

[flat musk]

You must obtain at least "New User" Trust Rank in our Trust and Safety system in order to upload content. You can get this by just spending a few hours in VRChat, hop some worlds, and make some friends. Give it some time and you'll be able to upload content in no time.

As an aside, you must have a VRChat account to upload content. That means you can't use a Steam account, Oculus account, or Viveport account to upload content like worlds or avatars.

Source: https://docs.vrchat.com/docs/frequently-asked-questions

[somber meadow]

^

[tepid mauve]

ty!

[somber mural]

if i bought a tail ribbon for my kipfel model how would i do a radial wheel toggle to change between the colors it comes in

[analog vine]

trying to add Gogo Loco to my avatar, is this normal to see when you go to the SDK screen?

they all point to stuff like this

did i miss a step?

[sharp lily]

So I wanted to change the proportions and stuff of a model I have. It has a rig already but after making the edits this happened. Idk how to fix this

[short ferry]

I exported an FBX and it deformed when put into unity. I have applied all transforms in blender and still nothing. Funny thing it works as an OBJ though. I have no idea how to fix it

[somber sequoia]

yes, you didn't add the parameters to the avatar parameters list. You must be doing this manually, so somewhere in the menu directory is a parameter list you can merge in with Avatars 3.0 manager.

[analog vine]

let me go check it quick.

because another thing I encountered said I had to install VRCFury or something and I was able to upload it then after I installed that

[somber sequoia]

oh if you used the fury version then this should have just worked™

[analog vine]

is it this?

[analog vine]

i mean i installed it after doing some googling

and it worked after I installed it

[somber sequoia]

I don't use it anymore, and haven't ever with fury, so I'm not sure about that, but yes, that looks like the parameter files

[analog vine]

hm

well if my actual avatar in the game doesnt work as i expect, ill come back

[somber sequoia]

we'll be here

[cedar echo]

I'm having a weird issue, for some reason whenever I try to click to configure button under my avatar rig nothing shows up, I'll be dropping a screenshot in a few seconds

I'm very confused what I did to make it work, I clicked on a random thing and now it's working

[frosty junco]

been having a problem that I cant for the life of me solve
when looking at the body from certain angles it disappears, this is because the Root Bone for the Body mesh changes from the Hips to another Root Bone when the avatar is being rendered in game (i.e gesture manager or vrchat)
I cant figure out WHY this happens, or how to prevent it ;-;

[limber briar]

Will someone teach and guide me so I can make avatars

Please

[heavy zephyr]

Look up youtube tutorials

[cedar echo]

There's quite a few videos that teach everything

Myself I learned almost entirely off of YouTube videos and reading documentation

[heavy zephyr]

Adjust your bounding boxes for your meshes so they all cover all your avatar

[frosty junco]

isnt the bounding box

ive checked trust me

[heavy zephyr]

Can you send a video then? For example using Gesture Manager?

[frosty junco]

of what the avatr dissapearing or the root bone changing

[heavy zephyr]

Both preferably?

[frosty junco]

sure gimme a sec

[cedar echo]

Anyone know this fix to this error, ive never had it before

[heavy zephyr]

Pretty self explanatory, add an animator component on the root of your avatar and put it's avatar object in it

[dense knot]

Evertide click same object that holds the descriptor, the root, and add component called "animator"

[heavy zephyr]

Can you show me what the bounding box looks like in play mode?

Also you seem to be using something like VRCFury or similar. Try without and see if the issue persists.

[frosty junco]

ive never had any issues like this with vrc fury

[dense knot]

😂 bounding box shape hahaha God sorry

[frosty junco]

it was initially made for sfm ;-;

[heavy zephyr]

Try without still? Doesn't hurt to check

[dense knot]

The box size is funny but it won't cause problem afaik

Or will it ? It's so close to feet actually

[cedar echo]

@dense knot @heavy zephyr thank both of you

This is going to be my first good rated Avatar

[dense knot]

My asset folder probably contains hundreds of items. I feel bad right now haha

[queen isle]

How do I get the buffer particle to start from the end of the shotgun with the 0.5 second delay?

[heavy zephyr]

Probably by adding another sub-emitter as intermediary. Your buffer triggers the sub-emitter with delay, then it triggers your actual shot

[queen isle]

That will add a material on the model, no?

[round creek]

is anyone having issues connecting to vrchat servers through unity? my internet is fine but for some reason its taking hella long to load stuff from creator companion project manages. Im also trying to upload but its not loading

[heavy zephyr]

Your particle systems that are only for buffer/timers/etc do not need to have a material assigned, set the renderer to none and turn it off. Unsure if vrchat still counts that as a material but that's the best you can do

[queen isle]

VRChat does count that unfortunately! Thank you for the suggestion! I will try it out!

[spare needle]

Question - what causes an avatar's scaling to break? 🤔
When I try to change my avatar's size, the model doesn';t move with the scaling. Camera just goes up (or down) and the body stays there for me to look down at...

Any idea wtf would cause that and/or how to fix it?

[frosty junco]

ive done extensive testing with the bounding box, the issue that ive narrowed it down to is the root bone for the body mesh is changing

when its rendered in play mode or in game

I know the issue, I just dont know WHY it happens or HOW to fix it :(

[frosty junco]

no change ;-;

[heavy zephyr]

What script is making that object that gets assigned when in play mode? Try without it too

[frosty junco]

no clue ;-;

[neat flume]

how the fuck do i fix this

[heavy zephyr]

It's talking about SPS plugs... I think you know what that is

[frosty junco]

yeah but I dont know where to find it

[queen isle]

Another method of animating the buffer turning on at the correct frame instead of start delay on the particle fixes it!

[spare needle]

Assets > click the FBX > inspector > rig > configure

make sure you scroll all the way down and click apply after.

[heavy zephyr]

Oh yeah, should've thought of that lmao

[queen isle]

Now we know!

[limber briar]

Im cant figure out how to make this work, This is my very first avatar and ive tried youtube and its not helping, tomarrow would anyone be willing to walk me through making one

[high rapids]

Does anyone know what menu this is?

[twin raft]

liltoon material settings?

[unreal crow]

been trying to upload this avatar FOREVERRR and i keep getting this error, but i have no idea whats doing it!

[ornate stump]

Are you building for android?

[unreal crow]

yes i am

[ornate stump]

You can't have audio on android avatar.

[unreal crow]

i know, but i was guessing it would just remove it no? i didnt want to remove it because i want it on pc but not on quest, ive done this before without having to remove it.

ah well i guess i DID have to remove it, so weird i didnt have to do that before :(

[ornate stump]

You have to remove. And you usually better have 2 avatar object for different platform in case both platform can't be the exactly same avatar.

[arctic ginkgo]

you can create a prefab of your avatar and then for quest use the prefab and remove the audio source. This way you can restore it if necessary

also should keep updates to the PC version and transfer them to Quest (in the scene, but you will have to upload to both platforms again)

[unreal crow]

thats fair the sdk would just remove it for quest for me, so i never had to do that, weird it didnt do it for this one

[ornate stump]

The sdk would only tell you to "Autofix" which will permanently remove the component from the avatar. The autofix would be at the top of the performance list that you didn't show.

[spark walrus]

why do the options keep dissappearing?
It's like, every time I remove them from their own prefab and then add them to this one, they dissappear after a few minutes. why is that?????

[ornate stump]

What options you talked about?

[spark walrus]

these 4. 1 hair option and 3 clothing options. they just went invisible a few minutes ago. the root bone is the correct one, but it just stopped rendering, even in game

[ornate stump]

So you rather means "objects" not "options".

[spark walrus]

yeah sorry

[ornate stump]

Skinned mesh renderer have armature with associated bone which you have to move them together. Moving only the mesh will lost the associated armature bone which make mesh disappeared. Root bone is only for determine rendering bound which doesn't have anything to do with armature.

[spark walrus]

oh

how would I tell what bone I have to move? or is it the whole armature?

[ornate stump]

If you moved the bone with move tool and it moved the mesh then those are associated armature bones.

[spark walrus]

alr

[spark walrus]

something like this?
reference: the hip bone is the one that moved all the parts I needed in the object "body"

[ornate stump]

Yes. But its child bones also move different part so each of them are associated.

[spark walrus]

oki

ty

[spark walrus]

would I put this hip bone in "root"?

or no

[ornate stump]

Then this is called "armature link" or merge, which is putting each of the merging armature bone into each matching base armature bone.

[spark walrus]

ok so I would merge Hip with Hip for example?

[ornate stump]

Yes. Spine to spine, chest to chest, and so on.

[spark walrus]

ok tyyyy!!!!

^^

ok rq bc I am unfamiliar with unity... what does this mean? for toggles

[ornate stump]

I believe that doesn't exist in default unity.

[spark walrus]

its VRCfury I think

[ornate stump]

https://vrcfury.com/components/toggle

[spark walrus]

thanks

[sharp lily]

How do I fix this?

[spark walrus]

how do I get rid of these black splotches? I cant seem to find one that works.

[spark walrus]

they also dont exist on the texture

[spark walrus]

I would do the same for the children right?

[ornate stump]

It's the same.

[spark walrus]

kk just making sure

[balmy barn]

vroid? you need a cutout shader or knife tool in blender

[spark walrus]

cutout shader?

also is that quest compatible?

[balmy barn]

nope

[spark walrus]

ah-

[balmy barn]

quest cannot use a shader that has cutout option, so you spend time in blender with knife tool to do it

pretty easy to make a new vertice and you end up with something that doesnt have weightpainting

[spark walrus]

cant I just edit the texture in photo software or is it a problem with the UV map?

[balmy barn]

its the shader must be cutout to avoid black spots

[spark walrus]

nvm

ok ill see what I can do

the main problem is I cant import VRMs into Blender

and IDK how to do so

[balmy barn]

#avatar-general message , converting a vrm/vroid to fbx in blender - much better then the vrm thing in unity

[fossil raven]

olamilekan55
You can add the person he is my friend he will guide you through

[balmy barn]

generic scammer spam

[spark walrus]

I figured

[spark walrus]

I got it working! srry for being new to this guys!

[south jackal]

anyone knows how to make work yodare system

[ornate stump]

Do you read its instruction?

[south jackal]

yeah i did but i just cantmake it work

[ornate stump]

Make sure that you follow its instruction strictly.

[south jackal]

I did it multiple times

[ornate stump]

Show how you set it up then.

[shut spear]

how can i fully remove a gogoloco?

[somber sequoia]

remove that object

[supple parcel]

I've downloaded and done some rocoloring of the PBR Protogen avatar online and can't seem to figure out how to set up the lip sync and differenr expressions, I recolored and modified in blender then imported to unity.
Any help is appreciated as it's my first time!

[ornate stump]

That already is correct.

[supple parcel]

I just don't understand, will it automatically show up in the VRC avatar options menu?

[ornate stump]

Lipsync doesn't have any control at all. So whatever menu you mean doesn't exist.

[supple parcel]

Okay, thanks!
And it also has multiple expressions, is there a specific way to set that up?

[ornate stump]

There is no specific way. Any animation is made in animator controller so you can decide however you like to control it. If you asked for a "common" way then it's repurposing hand gesture layer to control face expression.

[supple parcel]

Thanks a lot!

[hollow sonnet]

im buying an avatar for the first time and was wondering if anyone could help me

[left gull]

What're you stuck on?

[peak glen]

I need help with the error VRCAvatarParameter Driver' does not contain a definition for 'Initialize'

[verbal warren]

would anyone happen to know the hair on this avi?

not the emissions or anything just the base hair

[somber sequoia]

Show where/how you are using the VRCAvatarParameterDriver component

[olive pelican]

Looks like a normal hair asset?

Probably from booth, they like super strandy

[cinder mortar]

I've been told this isn't an unheard of glitch on my avatar model (the rex), but the way I was told to fix it (turning off align rotation in the armature link) causes clipping in the thighs and the hem to be too low (the belly peircing can kind of show how signficant that 'too low' is.) What should I do? (1st picture is the glitch, 2nd is with align rotation off, and third is what it's supposed to look like and my settings for the arm. link)

[modern glen]

My model has this weird stand pose I suppose it's from the weight painting but it doesn't help

Also the fingers are really off

[olive pelican]

Yeah, fix it in blender.

[molten rampart]

Gogo loco makes me wave?

[crimson plover]

quick question,
with having a pc and quest version,
how do the toggles sync if i add more to the pc version of the avi?

like say, a set of clothes that only work on pc, will it break things when using the toggle or will it not do anything

[left gull]

as long as the parameter list is the same for both nothing should break/mismatch

[crimson plover]

parameter list?

[left gull]

that's what sync's toggles/makes them function

[crimson plover]

so if i make a toggle for the windows avi, but dont put that on the quest side avi

[boreal sky]

i have a prbl i cant upload i dnt kn anything of unity it my gf helped me but she dnt know to why its making this

[left gull]

if you dont want quest-side to see it then make it under an unshared int/bool/float, its just a matter of making the toggles you dont want see not added to your quest's list.

[crimson plover]

ok so 2 different models in unity and it should be fine

[left gull]

2 different models and 2 different parameter lists yeah

[crimson plover]

one for quest only, one for pc only, and then blueprint ID them into the same Avi

[left gull]

unsure of what the red error is but the yellow warning also'll cause you issues, you're gonna need to unsync some of your parameters (if you're doing add-ons through something like VRCFury you should spread them across multiple avatar IDs to avoid issues. its also just better optimization-wise)

[remote otter]

help when I go to texture paint my verts aren't showing up on my image editor. when i have the verts selected in edit mode.

[radiant night]

Press the dropdown menu near the top that looks like 2 circles overlapping

Then in that menu turn on wireframe

Why are my normals being weird when in unity but they look fine in blender? (hidden for close up shot on breasts, no nipples)

[remote otter]

didnt work

[radiant night]

I dont usually work with vertex painting so im not sure, you should ask in the blender discord

I will send you an invite through DM's

[radiant night]

Also, quick tip, quads are better to use when the object moves around or deforms, select these faces in edit mode then press alt + j

Do that on any faces you notice have those unnecessary lines

Dont do it for the tris around the breasts, see how they cant easily turn to quads by removing an edge?

Dont do it for areas like that

[remote otter]

will I have to unwrap my uvs again?

[radiant night]

No

[spark walrus]

whenever I exported the file as a VRM in blender, it had this exra bone. I think it's the cause of the issues. anyone know how to remove it without breaking the avatar?

[radiant night]

Are you using modular avatar

[spark walrus]

elaborate?

im new to avi making

[radiant night]

Modular avatar is a plugin for unity that allows you to add clothes modually, it can sometimes cause this, since you dont know I assume not

[spark walrus]

yeah im not

[radiant night]

You should export it as a fbx file

[spark walrus]

alright! I didnt think of that but that makes sense

[radiant night]

When exporting, set "apply scalings" to FBX all

On an unrelated note, both flavor foley and cyn are extremely based

Also, if you use gesture manager, you can test your avatar in unity without uploading to vrc

https://github.com/BlackStartx/VRC-Gesture-Manager

It is included in CC by default, I just linked the github becuase there are instrutions

[spark walrus]

ty ^^

[mild solar]

separated eye mesh from body mesh to do a minor sculpt edit, rejoined afterwards and reimported to unity, same process as i always do but now every single blendshape i use incrementally raises the eyes more and more until the irises are barely visible. is there any easy way to fix this if i dont have the original unedited version

the eye bones don’t move at all but the mesh for them do

[pallid sail]

hey so i'm just getting started into trying to edit avatars from pre made models and i was wondering if anyone had or knew of a up to date tutorial for downloading the right systems and actually editing avatars

[terse tartan]

That happens because splitting/rejoining changed the vertex order, so the blendshapes don’t map right anymore. Only fix is to use the original mesh or rebuild/transfer the blendshapes onto the new one.

[mild solar]

the body mesh is a neck merge, will the transfer option get rid of the body blendshapes part of the mesh, or will it get rid of my sculpt blendshape?