avatar-help

[edgy pendant]

So I exported it in blender with .fbx. Once it loads in do I just drag it into the hierarchy? Or like do I attach it to smthing?

[junior void]

Did you overwrite the fbx from your unity files directly?

Again, you DO NOT drag the fbx into unity

You set your export path to where the fbx is saved in your unity project, skipping the "dragging it in"

If you did that, the prefab (which uses the fbx that you just updated) should update by itself

No new prefab or dragging in needed whatsoever

[edgy pendant]

okok so thats prob what i was doing wrong i was just dragging it in. so before i click export i just select the file for the avatar project?

[somber sequoia]

file -> export -> fbx, pick the file that already exists in your project, set "apply scalings" to FBX All and uncheck the leaf bones checkbox under "armature", click "export" (or save or whatever it is, I have no idea what this looks like in Windows)

[edgy pendant]

okok

[junior void]

Correct

Dragging the fbx in will make unity see it as unrelated new asset

Saving it where it originated from will update it

[edgy pendant]

Everything turned red😭

Oh nvm I fixed it

[somber sequoia]

red = the object is from a prefab but the prefab's file is missing

[edgy pendant]

It’s working now thanks for helping I rlly appreciate it

[somber sequoia]

excellent!

[wet pier]

trying to work with a mmd model and its bones are like this

i already put it through cats

also since the models japanese. all the bone names are in japanese

i have no clue what im doing

[balmy barn]

cats can translate the bones so they make more sense

that skirt is not fun so its better to just weight it to legs and leave bottom flowy

[muted wharf]

i need help adding glow to my VRM because unity is being a pain

there discord server

sucks

[somber sequoia]

if by "glow" you mean "emission" and you can use shaders that we use in VRChat, it should be roughly the same

[muted wharf]

how do i add it tho

with unity?

[somber sequoia]

which shader are you using?

the generic answer is to figure out what your shader does for emissions and use that feature according to its documentation

I said before about making a mask too

[tired steeple]

Anyone know how to fix these errors i recently decided to upgrade from using unity hub to using VCC but when i tried to make a new project it launched in safe mode and showed me a bunch of these errors i tried looking up solutions but most of them said the same thing which was deleting the package cache folder but even that didn't work, i even tried going back to using unity hub and nothing changed i've also tried reinstalling VCC, Unity Hub and the Uinty Editor thats used to upload vrc avatars

[somber sequoia]

this is Unity 2022.3.22f1 right?

[tired steeple]

yes

[rotund mountain]

I have problems with uploading an avatar on vrchat, it’s already made and I’ve spent about 10 hours on blender and unity and all I have is a block on vrchat, is it possible that anyone can help me

[somber sequoia]

If you provide details, quite possibly

but if you mean "a block on vrchat" by vrchat itself is blocking you somehow, you'd need to engage the support team, they don't do support here.

[rotund mountain]

I’m completely new to using unity

[halcyon kayak]

i assumed they meant like, a cube

lol

[somber sequoia]

oh could be!

aha! a block

[rotund mountain]

yep ;-;

[muted wharf]

are you wanting to retexture things? like a vrm?

does anyone know how to apply emission to a vrm?

without VRCHAT

just a vrm

[still jasper]

Yeah, no, I still can't figure out why my gesture expressions + visemes don't work. Here are some pictures of how they're setup, I followed a couple videos. The expressions are on the first model, and the video about the gesture expressions told me to duplicate the model and apply the gesture animation controller to the FX of the second one so it's on the second one in my hierarchy. I also put one of the blendshapes out ("closedmouth") just to show that the blendshapes do work.

In VRC, my visemes and gesture expressions don't trigger whatsoever.

[somber sequoia]

uncheck 'can transition to self' on all of those anystate transitions.

[muted wharf]

SFSEFS

[still jasper]

Okay, they're all off now.

They've been off on the gesture expressions already, but they still don't work. Do I have to fix anything else?

[sudden violet]

i've never done viseme in an FX, but i'm going to guess you want "equals" not "greater" in the transitions

[still jasper]

They were supposed to be equal- maybe they reset when I updated my file, lemme fix that real fast

Yeah, it was only three of them

The rest are all equal

[sudden violet]

does it work now? Even having just one broken could lead to a lot of issues

[still jasper]

I'm not home yet, so I'll check when I get home The tester bugs out for me when I try, so I'll just have to update my upload and see if it works on VR in about 20 or so minutes.

Would it really bug the gestures out too?

[fiery crow]

whats the use of this? is it for a vrchat avatar?
vrm -> vrchat avi?

[somber sequoia]

not vrchat

[still jasper]

Oh, and does it matter if I use the same blendshape for multiple visemes?
For example, my "closed mouth" blendshape is applied to multiple animations/visemes like rr, kk, nn, th, ch (etc).

I've seen some people make copies of the same blenshape to apply it and I didn't know if I had to do that when I made the blendshapes

blendshape*

[somber sequoia]

if you're using the vrchat-driven ones, all slots must be a unique blendshape. Here.... I'm not sure.

I suspect so though, it'd be weird otherwise

[still jasper]

Hmmm. If it doesn't work, I'll update my file and make 14-15 blendshapes and just copy the repeat ones.

[somber sequoia]

not sure how much blending happens in this case though? I'd suspect none really

[still jasper]

We'll see soon

[tired steeple]

no just trying to fix unity so i can upload an avatar

[oblique rover]

what does this mean?

[somber sequoia]

Look in the console, there is a compile error you have to fix before you can use play mode

[oblique rover]

how do i know which parent constraint?

[somber sequoia]

no idea. But make sure you start at the first error, later ones are often side-effects of the first

that one seems more runtime, it probably isn't the root cause

clear the console if you have to, probably the problem will persist

[oblique rover]

ill try

[oblique rover]

It was just a runtime error

i just restarted my console and tried again and it just fixed the issue

[short ferry]

how do I make physbones constantly flow? like constantly moving

[amber gull]

any idea how to fix this error?

it wont let me upload

[somber sequoia]

That's not the root cause error - look at the top of the console, not the bottom

[somber sequoia]

you'll want to fix the mipmap one, usually there's an autofix button in the build window

[amber gull]

i did press it but still

[ornate stump]

Physbones are either pulling toward resting position, pulling toward gravity, or stay unaffected by pull. Physbone constantly moving doesn't actually make sense, apart from you have to make it move by animations.

[somber sequoia]

it may not have found all the textures

[hot walrus]

I am going crazy, for some reason my lipsync just isn't doing anything ingame, I added visame for aa, E, ih, oh, ou and sil, but it doesn't seem to move at all when I speak ingame?

if I move the blend shapes on my mesh manually it moves the mouth

[ornate stump]

All of the viseme slot must be uniquely assigned.

[hot walrus]

I see

do they really need to be unique?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[amber gull]

i swear its bugged

[supple trout]

i know this is the avatar help section but does anybody know how to make an udon script global toggle for worlds i got no one to help and i came to this server for help TvT

https://tenor.com/view/sadhamstergirl-gif-4231717927828306245

[ornate stump]

#udon-general

[oblique rover]

why is the shader grayed out?

[ornate stump]

Because it's embedded material and you can't change settings of embedded material. You have to create new materials and replace it in the scene.

[oblique rover]

am i able to just remove it entirely?

[ornate stump]

Why would you?

[oblique rover]

i honestly got no idea on how to replace it

[ornate stump]

https://youtu.be/rRAnDMUbWt8?t=143

[rotund mountain]

its weird because it says humanoid, so i dont know what im doing wrong

[somber sequoia]

it says it's not right there

[hot walrus]

huh, why is it recommended to have 2 meshes (for Viseme ) but the recommended number of skinned meshes is 1?

[somber sequoia]

check the rig setup

[somber sequoia]

That's a bit old - in older Unity versions, it was way more efficient to split the head off at a certain poly count, since shape keys were expensive. That no longer applies, so it's usually better to have one now.

[somber sequoia]

Then there's some issue with the rig - click "configure" and see what it looks like. Just because this is selected doesn't mean the rig is actually valid.

[oblique rover]

goat thank you :3

[hot walrus]

kk, thanks

[rotund mountain]

im all green ;-;

[somber sequoia]

Looks reasonable

And no, I don't do one-on-one help in DM or voice calls for free.

[turbid wigeon]

Im not sure if this is an avatar thing or just a unity problem but I keep opening my project and after about a minute or two it just closes. no crash warning or anything just completely shuts it down.

[balmy barn]

rare time library or the scene you had open is bad, you can delete library or just rename it temporary to see if it behaves

[amber gull]

any idea how to fix it?

[somber sequoia]

That error doesn't mean anything by itself - did you fix the streaming mipmaps one?

[amber gull]

theres no texture without streaming map enabled- i dont know why its happening but still cant upload

i just wana know what does "avatar validation failed" means

[somber sequoia]

It means exactly that - but doesn't tell you why.

maybe clear the console and try a build again?

[amber gull]

still, kinda driving me crazy ngl lol

[somber sequoia]

ok so same error

[amber gull]

same 3 errors

[somber sequoia]

welp, fix the middle one. You probably missed a texture.

[balmy barn]

use something like vram checker and find all materials & their textures , not yet gotten an av i couldnt click autofix on tho

[amber gull]

still..

only this one left lol

idk what to do

[foggy tiger]

Nardo 3.0 has a boop thing which idk if that would make the whiskers do what they're doing

Sorry for ping if ur busy

I've been working in blender on and off for the past while since I got home so haven't had time to focus back in on unity side of the avi

Failed to figure out weight painting lol

[amber gull]

is that the reason?

vrchat changed their TOS

[remote otter]

gesture manager wont import

[balmy barn]

delete/update , if you are on older sdk it wont like it

[remote otter]

update these?

[balmy barn]

yup

first time you add something might not work so i often restart after i add a script , just a unity thing

[remote otter]

it didn't work

[left gull]

<@&397642795457970181> ?

[balmy barn]

av3 / gesturemanager might need need updates

99% of the time i just use av3

[remote otter]

how do I update?

[balmy barn]

vcc gottem

[remote otter]

those are the recent updates

[foggy tiger]

Does unity save backups of projects by default?

If not I have to remake my whole avatar...

[remote otter]

bc mine are the same

[left gull]

do you have both in the same project?

pretty sure it'll only work with one or the other not both

[remote otter]

yea

[left gull]

try removing one and see if that fixes it

[foggy tiger]

Okay judging by the "create backup" button in VCC I assume I have to remake my whole avi because I didn't manually make a backup

I accidentally exported my avatar from blender without an armature and it removed every bone for all my assets

So now all my assets are broken

But the whiskers I spent 10 hours on work fine...

[somber sequoia]

This is partly why I don't hang anything off the armature if I can help it

BUT

[remote otter]

that worked got rid of Av3 hope it isnt important

[somber sequoia]

you might be able to just re-export with the armature and that stuff will magically re-appear

[foggy tiger]

I don't like VRC Fury armature link

It broke my whole avatar one time

So I don't trust it

[foggy tiger]

Tried alr with my backup of my avatar model

[somber sequoia]

You tried by overwriting the file, right?

[left gull]

both of them function the same iirc so you'll be good unless theres something really specific to AV3 though unlikely

[foggy tiger]

Honestly

I think I deleted the bones

But unintentionally

And I have no way to go back that far to undelete them

Because all the bones on the armature ended up just under the avatar in the hierarchy and I deleted them thinking they were the normal bones from the armature but just in the main area because I forgot to export the armature

[somber sequoia]

yeah. I did this a few times, then I quit putting stuff in the armature.

Sucks.

[foggy tiger]

I'd rather put it in the armature than use vrcfury still

[somber sequoia]

I don't use fury unless I have to

[foggy tiger]

then how do you link armatures?

Do you just add assets in blender

[somber sequoia]

yes

[foggy tiger]

💀

[somber sequoia]

I don't do multiple armatures on my personal stuff.

[foggy tiger]

😭 I just suffered through 10 hours of ripping the rex whiskers to use them on my nardo

[somber sequoia]

(well, the occasional prop might have something)

[foggy tiger]

If I put all my assets on in blender it would genuinely take me about 80-150 hours

I have like 18 assets

Of varying complexities

if I can't even get whiskers to function properly in 10 I'd be horrified by a shirt

[somber sequoia]

you only need to do it once

[foggy tiger]

Yeah but that's still 30x longer than just doing it in unity

[somber sequoia]

okay

[foggy tiger]

Yeah, sorry

[somber sequoia]

you do you 🙂

[foggy tiger]

I'll shut up and remake my avatar

Blender is just too unintuitive of a program for me to want to learn

Coding is easier

[somber sequoia]

I feel like there's a bit of a learning curve to start, but once you get the hang of the interface and such, it gets pretty easy to do avatar stuff with it. Still can't say I've sculpted an avatar model from scratch but I make a ton of props and world stuff with it.

[foggy tiger]

I get it's a tool that has a lot of uses, but my opinion of blender is that it should be more like photoshop. Photoshop is pretty self explanitory for the basics, but you still gotta take time to master it. Blender is just not in the slightest self explanitory at any step of the way.

[somber sequoia]

I have no idea how to use Photoshop, but I don't see how these are too vastly different.

[foggy tiger]

Photoshop is easy to pick up hard to master blender is hard to pick up harder to master

I feel like they could've made it more understandable without outside knowledge while not sacrificing the ability to do more advanced things

Because I hear that excuse all the time that because it has advanced uses when you understand the program that it can't be simplified for a new user.

[somber sequoia]

eh, I feel like you need a bit of "outside knowledge" to start with anything specialized like this

haha, as a professional software engineer, I'd never say that 🙂

[foggy tiger]

Yeah of course, I just feel as though it relies too much on that.

[somber sequoia]

Anyone who does should hire a UX expert. But that's digressing far from avatar stuff.

[foggy tiger]

Because not everyone can attend an irl blender class

And I'm not the only person in the world who can't learn from a video or piece of text

Anyways yeah, topic has gone off the rails

Cya lol

[somber sequoia]

I'll just continue to blender. I'm making furniture today 🙂

[umbral tusk]

im currently making an avatar for a friend but the base we use its feet were made heels on them
How do i deform the feet so they are straight to fit in normal shoes?

[oblique rover]

where and how do i find this?

[somber sequoia]

I'm curious what causes that, seen it a few times in here.

[west temple]

any idea why my avatar is like this

[somber sequoia]

like what

[west temple]

the green lines i mean

[somber sequoia]

some sort of shader, for sure.

[west temple]

wait let me see if it has to do with the hud

its okay with my other avatars which is strange

[left gull]

its likely the HUD based off the top-left

[west temple]

yeah

let me just check it out

[somber sequoia]

it'd be an asset added to this avatar specifically. Is this something you have in Unity? If not, probably wrong channel.
I've seen this shader package on other avatars, it's pretty neat.

[west temple]

oh hey i just closed the game and it works

[somber sequoia]

I forget what it's called though

[west temple]

jarvis type thank you in the chat

[oblique rover]

im trying to change the shader of this specific material

[somber sequoia]

You can't, that's the one embedded in the model file. You'll need to replace the material

[oblique rover]

i cant find the material

everytime i right click it and try to select material

it just points me to assets

[somber sequoia]

it's embedded in your model file

you need a new material

[oblique rover]

i made this one

how do i use it to replace that one

[somber sequoia]

drag this material into the appropriate slot on the object you're working with

[oblique rover]

where do i find that

the other ones were easy

this one is a particle system

[somber sequoia]

in your project somewhere, but no idea - you had clicked on it before, so...

[oblique rover]

i clicked on it before?

[somber sequoia]

you were showing me the material, so presumably you clicked on the object which had that material embedded in it

[oblique rover]

its in here

[somber sequoia]

if it's in a particle system you probably don't want that shader, but if you scroll to the bottom of the particle system in the inspector window, there's a section for "renderer" or something like that, the material slot is in there.

[oblique rover]

that was for another material

i cant seem to find this default-particlesystem

[white topaz]

could anyone tell me why my phybones look like a ball of yarn?

[somber sequoia]

exported from blender with mismatched scaling settings - set "apply scalings" to FBX All in the export dialog.

it results in the avatar being scaled weirdly and those physbone radii are now 10x the size

[white topaz]

TYSM! ez fix

[somber sequoia]

yeah!

[still jasper]

Sooo.. I think I found out why the visemes won't work. I must've messed up some or all of the animations. I don't know how though, I thought you literally just make an animation asset, drag it onto the object with the blendshape in the hierarchy, select it in the animation window, hit record, adjust the blendshape to how you wanted it, and stop recording? Am I doing this wrong?? 😭

When I play the animation in the window, it says it plays and it pops up the blendshape where I want it to, but I might've missed a step or something I dunno

[somber sequoia]

that's pretty much what I do

[still jasper]

Weird. What would cause them to be invalid then?

[somber sequoia]

you dragged the animation into the slot in the animation state in that layer, right? (for each animation)

And made sure the layer's weight is 1?

[still jasper]

Weight is 1
Lemme get another screenshot of their animation slots in the layers

The motions, right?

[somber sequoia]

looks fine

[still jasper]

Weird. Idk why they're invalid, I must've made some really tiny error along the way

I know I updated my file a buncha times. Would that mess with them?

Huh, that's new.🆕

[static mica]

I don't know exactly where to ask this but is the audiolink thing in Unity broken again? It's not working for neither me nor my friend.

[dark jay]

whats causing my unity scene when moving to stutter? i restarted unity and it still does it

[sour sparrow]

is there a way to make a particle not added or multiplied for the quest particle shaders?

[somber meadow]

try disabling gizmos

[fiery crow]

has to be quest only shaders, u can use meshes for particle systems too but ofc need to be very low poly and isnt recommended probably

[paper delta]

@fiery crow do you know how to upload an avi to VRC quest

[fiery crow]

youll need to have downloaded the android sdk module for the unity version firstly

[paper delta]

can you call me and walk me through the process

if poss

[fiery crow]

but in the sdk menu where u upload, there will be a tick mark to choose which platform u want to upload for

youd just tick "android" and untick "windows" and upload

[paper delta]

i am a new person

i dont anything on this

i dont know anything on this

can you just call me plz if poss i dont know what i am doing

i bought an avi and i just want to upload it

@fiery crow

[fiery crow]

im not able to call at all as its pretty late for me

have you already installed the VCC app?

https://youtu.be/T0Zu3PeLUWE?si=dbiMCiDAmudRCOiH

[paper delta]

yes i did that and unity

[fiery crow]

the video above will guide you through the process of uploading

[outer temple]

I wanna pull my hair and eyes out god Substance painter it finnicky I did nto achieve my goal of using projection brush of the multiview eref images i wanted it keep showing blank no paint nothing shows. I did learn substance painter but cant say im happier for it so far lol

[fiery crow]

substance being like 90% learning masking, and 10% texturing

😔

[outer temple]

I've started this morning be kind lol ( its fine )

[brittle wave]

Is there a way to change the view point through animation? I'm trying to pull off a rig change system and part of that involves changing the view point higher

[balmy barn]

nope , there is one way but i do not recommend it - switching viewpoint to camera but its nausiating

i call it barf cam in vr - fov is extremely strange

[junior void]

barf cam XD

i am dying hahahaha

[brittle wave]

oh gawd well maybe I can make it work.

[balmy barn]

add empty gameobject add camera on it, move it somewhere keep it off and toggle it on in game - now its your viewpoint , in desktop it behaves vr tend to be way way off where it should be

[brittle wave]

What do you mean way off in vr?

[balmy barn]

not where you actually have the camera

offset in vr wierd

[brittle wave]

Even if the gameobject is parented to a bone?

[balmy barn]

last time i tried it yes

[ornate stump]

A simple camera doesn't have depth perception for vr, which make it nauseating.

[balmy barn]

got a smaller copy of my av i could drop anywhere and move viewpoint to, its camera offset way 1m ~ away where it should be

[brittle wave]

Man I wish there was a way to move the viewport, or a camera with depth

[ornate stump]

Make a feature suggestion post in vrchat feedback website.

[brittle wave]

good idea

[vagrant hare]

ok i js like all the android sdk install 9/10 the last one js stuck 11% so when i check my wifi it went bad in 10sec so when it went back to fast the 11% still stuck in 10min so i Cancel by closing the unity hub and open back go to install/manage/add modules android build support/openJDK/android SDK & NDK tools all install and when i open the project all load it it gave me this error how can i fix this?

[vagrant hare]

nvm the error is gone when i re-open the project cuz by install the android studio

and btw how can i fix this?

gogo loco

[ornate stump]

Import required packages.

[vagrant hare]

what kind? like a unity packges?

[ornate stump]

Partially. Depends on whether the package can be installed via vcc or unitypackage only. Read what package required by the avatar.

[vagrant hare]

well what does gogo loco required my avatar

[ornate stump]

Does the avatar page say any list of required packages at all?

[vagrant hare]

no and where can i find that?

[night ember]

can you link the avatar

[ornate stump]

The page where you downloaded your avatar from.

[junior void]

who else here has a fishy feeling

[vagrant hare]

oh i didn't download it i make it my own

[ornate stump]

Then you have to read what gogoloco required in their page.

[vagrant hare]

ok i got to check

[vagrant hare]

alr i got it fix now

why is my audio mixer not playing a sound anim i add in my avatar

[ornate stump]

Because audio mixer isn't supposed to be in avatar.

[vagrant hare]

oh ok but why is not playing a sound in play mode

*did not put in my avatar

[ornate stump]

I should rather say you aren't supposed to use audio mixer at all for avatar project.

[vagrant hare]

oh ok

[vagrant hare]

but for some reason i got it working in my old project but is gone now

like it play a emote music when i Select a emote i add sound in

[ornate stump]

You obviously did something different and this time it's incorrect.

[vagrant hare]

damn ok😔 👌

[balmy barn]

added gogo on my webcam desktop test avatars some days ago , all i did was this

audio testing in unity is 'fun', add a audio listener if you dont have one and keep it 3d - yet to have any luck with 2d and limited range (same setting in a world build behave - avatar no )

[junior void]

Anyone know where i can find this icon ?

[sudden violet]

looks familiar, i think it's a plugin. Give me a minute

unity, right?

[junior void]

plugin?

Its just the material icon used in unity

[sudden violet]

oh never mind, i confused it for something else that looks similar, and missunderstood the question

[tardy locust]

Are there any good places to get extended blender help?

[ornate stump]

Blender community discord.

[sour sparrow]

is it possible for a contact receiver to work on a particle effect?

[tardy locust]

Er, more specifically with modifying avatars / assets / etc for VRC, not making stuff from scratch

[ornate stump]

Maybe try VRC Traders discord. Link in #1204490664637890580

[ornate stump]

If you meant having particle to trigger contact receiver, then the answer is No.

[sour sparrow]

damn... would there be a way to attach an invisible plane to the end of my particle stream that has collision on?

im trying to make a dragon ball beam clash system and thats the only way I could really think of it working

[ornate stump]

Final answer is contacts only work between sender and receiver.

[sour sparrow]

but blank planes can have a contact sender and receiver, correct..?

[ornate stump]

You could put sender or receiver on any game object.

But keep in mind that receiver dosn't have a flat shape.

[sour sparrow]

thats good to hear, thanks. like I said before, is there a way to attach a blank plane to the end of that particle effect?

[sour sparrow]

im aware, I would just use a capsule and scale it to the plane.

[ornate stump]

What is the purpose of the blank plane again?

[sour sparrow]

have a clash system, idk if you know exactly what a beam clash is the context im using it, but its where two energy beams collide, so that blank plane would be that clash point if that makes sense.

its just gonna be invisible, but it'll be a point in which both the beams on my avatars would clash, like a wall.

[ornate stump]

Then the problem will be determining the location the 2 beams meet. I can't think of any method for that.

[sour sparrow]

I know, but the plane will determine exactly where they would meet. it would be on both avatars so both beams would meet with each other.

[ornate stump]

I still can't see how that would help.

[sour sparrow]

I jus wanna know if its possible or not

[ornate stump]

Likely not possible or very complicated to setup.

[balmy barn]

gameobjects + physbone stretch / animated + contacts + particles ? , dunno whats in making

particles i dont do much , find them fun about 5 seconds then never use them again

[sudden violet]

i've seen people do interesting systems with rigidbodies that could work for what you are describing, but i'm nowhere near good enough to know how they work, and if they'd help here.

[sour sparrow]

damn

[sudden dew]

whast the best method to replace the fbx on an avatar prefab? i repropotioned my avatr but im not sure about hwo to implement it back into unity

[somber sequoia]

just overwrite the file

if you didn't unpack in the scene it'll just update

[sudden dew]

but does everything stay linked? i see that i lsoe all of my scripts and textures

[balmy barn]

yes

overwrite my fbx's all the time, unless you drasticly change the bone hiarchy it will stay

[sudden dew]

i jsut made the legs 0.8 of the length they were before

[sudden violet]

yea, what thulen said will work in that case.

[sudden dew]

well i guess i did remove thw wing bones but it still feels like there is a lot missing

[sudden violet]

did you overwrite the FBX?

[sudden dew]

so these are my files, do you mean i need to overite the original artist fbx?

[junior void]

if thats what youve used so far, yes

if you import a new fbx, it will be a blank fbx with nothing on it but armature and meshes

[halcyon kayak]

yea, usually i copy the old FBX into a separate folder on my desktop as a safety, then export the FBX from Blender directly into the Unity project folder with the same name

[sudden dew]

siluspropo is a COPY i made of the artist original nd then i applied it to the prefab which is also a copy of the original

[halcyon kayak]

Go into the Unity project files (easily accessible from VCC little hub thingie) and look for that specific FBX

in Assets

THAT'S the fbx you need to overwrite

[sudden dew]

in blender it works as import/export, exporting to overwrite works right?

[halcyon kayak]

I don't ever import into blender

[sudden violet]

as in, in export, you select the file you want to overwrite? Yes, that's how i do it, do be mindfull you'll lose the original FBX this way doh, so you might want to make a copy of it.

[sudden dew]

i made a backup of everything

[sudden violet]

then ye, go for it

[real timber]

I have seen models where the weapons are able to count the ammo and stop firing, along with you have to actually reload. is there a way to learn wizardry. I am trying to make a fully working Halo Assault rifle. Thank you!

[sudden violet]

• create an INT to count ammo, set it to the ammo count.
• make a parameter driver onto the shooting animation that reduces said parameter by -1
  you can probably figure out the reloading from here. It will need to set this parameter back to the ammo count.

[real timber]

Huh

is there a video on this by chance

[sudden dew]

i can drag in the modified fbx fine but my prefabs become invisible

[sudden violet]

did you, on export:

• Set scaling to: FBX all
• Apply all transforms
• Remove leaf bones

[sudden violet]

not that i am aware of, but if you learn about the basics, what i said will make sense fairly quickly, as it is just 3~5 animations in total for a simple system.

[sudden dew]

i didnt do leaf bones im not sure where/what that is

[real timber]

okay, what about INT? as i have no idea what it is .-.

[sudden violet]

it's probably not what is breaking it anyways. I'd need to check further to know why it is breaking, but i gtg sadly

[sudden dew]

np, thansk for the help

[sudden violet]

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/animator-parameters/

One of the 3 types of parameters you can use

[real timber]

Okay thanks

[real timber]

How would i setup the bones for the model

[steel hatch]

ive placed the shirt onto my avi,and i have merge armature on but it dosent seem to help, anyone got any ideas?

[ornate stump]

How did you merge armature?

[steel hatch]

i used the module avatar on the armature of the shirt, then dragged my avatars armature onto it

hats how i usually do it

[ornate stump]

Is the cloth made specifically for that avatar?

[steel hatch]

🌝

[ornate stump]

What that supposed to mean?

[steel hatch]

noooo

[sudden dew]

i reproportioned my avi and now im prefab in blank after i exported fbx for rig changes, any help?

[steel hatch]

lowkey couldnt find a shirt for my avatar so i tried just slapping one on

[ornate stump]

Then you have to make sure that the cloth bones have matching name with the base avatar bone.

[steel hatch]

how does one do that

Because idk if it helps or not, but i tried the adjust bone names to match target

Oh wait

I just did it on the wrong ting

[steel hatch]

Thanks ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[radiant night]

how can I play an animation when a physbone is stretched beyond a certain point

[balmy barn]

stretch float greater then -numberhere- animate

[radiant night]

Okay... I think I got it, thank you

[balmy barn]

action controller [ wait/nothing ] < less then 0.2 || greater then 0.2 > [ animate ] , but i will likely need tracking control

unless its not humanoid bones then its easy in fx

[radiant night]

Got it, now time to fight with mekanim 🥲

[slow panther]

anyone that knows contact senders/receivers well for unity around?

idk why its not working, whenever someone touches it i want it to be able to play this clip\

ive added the fx to both my main avi and the bookshelf fx the same but still not working

[balmy barn]

avoid 2d audio its going to be global , using av3 to test ? , 2 fx? as in audio sfx ?

[slow panther]

i have a spare headset im using to test while uploading and i mean fx layer

i tried creating agame object as the sender but its not doing anything as expected xD

[balmy barn]

no need for 2 fx controller, everything should be animated from root of avatar

[slow panther]

but the bookshelf has its own fx layer it uses

[balmy barn]

wont work

[slow panther]

huh?

[balmy barn]

you can test in unity and it might tell you it is, but having 'none' in avatar fails in vrchat

[slow panther]

but it works for my idle animation\

(it moves the mask up and down)

[balmy barn]

you do not need 2 animators, stick to only on root

it cannot send parameters to other ones

[slow panther]

its what came with the bookshelf i havent transfered it over yet

i see so youre saying if i transfer this over to the other animator it should work?

[dull hedge]

can someone help?

[somber sequoia]

?upload

ah I forgot what that was

[somber sequoia]

You have to be "new user" or higher to upload

[shadow mirage]

added some clothing from blender to an avatar and in game it causes the lighting around me to go all white anyone had this happend to them?

[sour sparrow]

im not currently at home so ive never checked, but can I play a special animation when making a toggle for turning the toggle on and off?

[somber sequoia]

did you export the sun light from blender into unity? Don't do that.

[somber sequoia]

probably

[shadow mirage]

o shit i might have!?

[somber sequoia]

Best to select just mesh & armature in the export dialog

[dull hedge]

how?

[somber sequoia]

https://docs.vrchat.com/docs/vrchat-safety-and-trust-system#trust-rank etc etc

[dull hedge]

If I send you the file, can you help me?

[somber sequoia]

help you do what, upload your avatar? no way. Go play the game a bit and rank up.

(or buy VRC+ for a month)

[dull hedge]

I'm getting an error not to upload avatar and I can't fix it

[somber sequoia]

Yes, I told you how to fix it. It's listed as a requirement here: https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/creating-your-first-avatar#requirements

[lyric flume]

hey there! ive edited a an ear bone in my unity rig but it keeps perking back up, how do i enforce the flop?

[halcyon kayak]

personally i will be adding a sun light to all of my avatars... all of thesse horror worlds are too dark and scary...

[shadow mirage]

yea you were right it was the light from blender I appreciate it!

[somber sequoia]

Yup, I've done that 🙂

[olive pelican]

Something is animating the bone. Go look at the animations, and see what might cause it.

[lyric flume]

oh hold on, it looks like theres already an aniamtion clip in here for the floppy, but why isnt it on the menu...

ohhhhhhh

ok im dumb

[azure tapir]

Hello hello. I am in need of a little help in learning how to add earrings to a furry VRchat avatar's ears.

I am doing this in blender.

[junior void]

Whats the trouble exactly

[azure tapir]

In Blender: How to add each earring and when the ears bend or flex they move with the ear.

[white jungle]

is there a quick way to update the armature in Unity if you have to scale it down in blender - quick meaning dont have to redo the physbones etc.

[white jungle]

This will be tricky. usually better to add a disconnected child bone for each ear ring than trying to paint them into the existing ones as they will warp a lot. but depends on how the ear armatures are done

[balmy barn]

merge some object to your av so its apart of it , seperate it again , weightpaint it to some bone

[olive pelican]

Pick an adjacent vert on the ear, copy it's weight paint, apply to whole earring.

Ezpz

[azure tapir]

Does this help to see how the ears will behave?

[real timber]

Hi, im a bit lost are you able to help a bit more in depth?

[white jungle]

depends on what the weight painting on the top two bones looks like. would try painting the top two rings to the top bone & bottom two rings to the 2nd bone down and seeing how bad the warping is. might get lucky. If not and it's bad on the middle two, adding a child bone is the cure. generally the further the rings are from the bone, and the closer they are to a joint - the more they will warp. the 3rd ring down is the one I'd be worried about

[sudden dew]

is reproportioning an avatar different if youre fbt?

[olive pelican]

Not really

[sudden dew]

i was having an issues where the legs were too long, i shrank the legs 0.8 and the difference was negligible

my feet are in the ankles

[white jungle]

in unity or blender?

[balmy barn]

https://github.com/kittynXR/imscaler , can scale stuff with modular avatar in unity, that script also for blender , i use a body for ages thats pretty close to mine already so i dont really need it much

ect

not a fan of modular avatar either so i just briefly tried it then went, meh

arms ive just edited in unity legs never

[white jungle]

if you re-scaled the armature in blender, unity armature wont update with the fbx - will stretch the mesh to the orig proportions.

[sudden dew]

i used cats to scale the legs to 0.8 in blender and then brought the fbx to unity

so is there something i need to change in unity?

[balmy barn]

set it generic and back to humanoid if you overwrite the fbx or it will yell at you values not the same

[white jungle]

^ that. but it may erase physbones constraintes etc if you have them set already

[sudden dew]

i can import and use the fbx fine but the prefabs yell at me for diffferent bone sizes

[white jungle]

does the body look right when you go to the config?

[sudden dew]

yea looks good

[white jungle]

the avatar model preview i meant, the linked bones shouldn't change

[balmy barn]

from earlier, cause size isnt same, set generic and back to humanoid , it wont touch anything you already setup on avatar since nothing really change

done it on quite a few models when i noticed legs were very off

[sudden dew]

has the checkmark if thast what you mean

[white jungle]

@sudden dew did the above fix it for you? I tested on an avi and doesn't look like anything was lost. does reparent the bones obvi, remember to unlink jaw if using visemes. also check viewpoint (view position, avi descriptor).

[sudden dew]

maybe?

not sure yet but i dont have error

[west kestrel]

okie, so question, i workin on an avatar but one vertex isnt weight painted. any help on ways to find that vertex?

[slow panther]

gonna cri ive been stuck on thisd problem for 7 hours

10 different videos idk what im doing wrong

[white jungle]

try this (weight paint mode, vertex mode, then menu). that should work if the point has never been weight painted / has no bone assigned but ive had mixed results. Unity usually tells you the vertex ID (a number) which you can show in blender, but honestly the easier way is to just grab the armature and move it around - the unpainted vert will stay put, making it pretty easy to find and solve.

[white jungle]

whats the issue?

[slow panther]

ill just record

one second

[lucid current]

Can someone help me? My avatars fingers are doing this in unity and vrchat but look fine in blender

[balmy barn]

rather see how they are in blender

ive seen fingers like that on some avatars

[lucid current]

This is in blender

[white jungle]

did you scale the armature in blender recently? if so, unity armature need to be reset. quickest way is to change the rig to generic then back to humanoid

[balmy barn]

yeeh those dont fit the mesh at all

[lucid current]

Oh that fixed it thanks

[slow panther]

its taking a min i tried restarting the project to see if it was a bug or not

[radiant night]

I havent worked with particles before so idk if this is possible, how can I stop new particles from being emitted without them pausing mid-air or removing the ones that already exist

[slow panther]

idk why the animation is suddenly just going floppy and im just trying to trigger a contact reciever to it so it makes a little noise when someone touches that area

(i added a rotation to the animation clip to try to default keep it in that state but it didnt do anything)

ive also tried setting idle/contact receiver up with my avatars fx layer and same result \

[balmy barn]

never gonna work, you still trying to do contacts from a 2nd animator

do it from FX on root of avatar, generic avatars/objects do not have a 'avatar' so it will have no idea where to send parameters

i wish we could talk to other animators , things i could do then (worlds can)

[white jungle]

would a global parameter work here? been a while

i know you dont NEED to add them for contacts, but i wonder what would happen

[slow panther]

ive set up the idle and the other with the avatars animator and now the mask isnt moving (its set up the same)
and the contact reciever still isnt doing anything i mean i can click on it in game mode still
\

[slow panther]

i can try

[white jungle]

also verify removing/disabling the contact receiver 'fixes' things, i've spent so many hours chasing my tail only to find out I goofed somewhere else

[slow panther]

xD i felt this yeah unfortunately ive done this back and forth

im like .0007 just putting this down and being done with it idk whats going on
whenever i exit out of play mode it keeps swapping the controller, disabling the animator

and sticking the old fx on the bookshelf animator if i dont delete it

idk how all my layers are working in that regard bc my tail and ears go off my FX layer but its defaulting my controller to Avatar 3 when it only has a base layer on it

🫃🏻 idek what unity is rn

[white jungle]

blender is the grind of avi creation; unity the boss fight

[slow panther]

i love blender sm but unity is gonna make me aksdjf ;aksdui fgo

i deleted useless fx controllers to see if itll stop

OKOK i got the animation working

but the sender is still being broken\

do i need to add a blendshape to blender for this to work

[slow panther]

i give up

[sour sparrow]

how do I make it so an animation plays when I turn a toggle on as well as off?

[night ember]

Just have an animation you go to when toggling off?

[sour sparrow]

but idk how to get that

like i want a custom made animation to play when I toggle it off

[heavy zephyr]

The question itself makes little sense. Turning something off doesn't mean anything without context.

Are you asking how to play an animation if your parameter is false/0?

If so it's not any different than any other toggles, just change the value in your transitions.

[sour sparrow]

I guess that would apply, for context, im trying to make my character move when the toggle is turned off

apologies if what I say doesnt make sense, im still kinda new to this whole thing

[heavy zephyr]

A toggle off just means the associated value turns back to false for bools or 0 for ints.

Simply create a state that gets transitioned to when your parameter gets to that value.

[sour sparrow]

alright, thank you

[spring vessel]

Anyone know how to fix feet that gets stuck in heal pose when its supposed to have heal and flat feet bc when I take the shoes completely off they go flat but when I put shoes on the go to heal mode

This is in unity btw

[azure tapir]

In blender, the mirror modifier is not mirroring the body. I am trying to make... a nipple and have it on the other pec and the mirror is acting up

XD

[somber meadow]

Mirror is based off of the origin point

set the object's origin on the the world origin (assuming your avatar is at 0,0,0) if you want it to mirror properly in this context

[sour sparrow]

how do I make a wind sorta system in an animation? I want a characters hair to flow in an animation

[balmy sun]

The audiolink youtube player isnt playing any youtube link I put in there- does anyone know a fix?

[somber meadow]

#1319443884568215593 message

[sour sparrow]

I have phys bones on the hair, I wanna make a system that makes it so I have a wind sorta thing that activates the phys bones during the anim

[glad drift]

Im trying to import a MMD model into blender but im only getting this

what am i doing wrong 😭

[somber sequoia]

looks like you're in x-ray mode

[sour sparrow]

yeah ur in wireframe mode I think

[glad drift]

im in the solid mode and its still silly 😔 🥀

[somber sequoia]

probably overly high poly

hard to tell from here though

[sour sparrow]

yeah what is going on there lol

try going to the blender discord

[glad drift]

what if they call me names for trying to rig a furry vrchat avatar

[somber sequoia]

do they do that?

[sour sparrow]

they probably have done worse, dw

[dark jay]

just curipus if i wanted toe tracking how would i do it

[somber sequoia]

#full-body-tracking - but get trackers and put them on your toes.

[glad drift]

Full body tracking - but get a tracker and put it on your tougue

[sour sparrow]

how do i make an animation not play by default?

[somber sequoia]

lots of ways - one is to use a variable that's false by default

then two states in the animator, so it goes enter -> animation off -> animation on, but the off->on transition only happens when the variable turns to true

[sour sparrow]

how do i make the variable false by default?

[somber sequoia]

set it false in the animator and/or the avatar parameters list

[sour sparrow]

i got it, thank you

[ruby igloo]

For starters, I do not know anything about unity. I’m trying to upload an avi and when I upload the files the model is all pink. The pc version worked fine once I switched from poi pro to poi toon but for the quest version I obviously can’t use poi

[somber sequoia]

wrong shader, broken shader, missing textures... you'd have to look at the material in the inspector

[ruby igloo]

I have no idea how to use unity, where can I find that?

[somber sequoia]

I'd suggest some basic tutorials. It looks like all your materials are a problem, you'd have to click on the mesh objects and look in the inspector for them, materials will be at the bottom.

[ruby igloo]

I think they are all missing

[sour sparrow]

how do i make it so my exit animation plays faster and overrides the enter animation?

[stone trellis]

using a new hair texture and it has a blue square on where its transparent how do i fix that on poiyomi

[upper ridge]

Everytime i try to upload a new avi it has this error and i dont know how to fix it help, it works if i put in a previous avatar's code or build and test but i need to upload a new avi

I tried:

• Using a vpn
• Switching builds
• re adding vrc fury
• logging out and back in
• resetting password
• Im not missing any scripts

[stone trellis]

nvm had to replace it again, works now

[somber meadow]

Show all the errors in the console, that error is just a byproduct of a failed build and shouldn't be looked at

[upper ridge]

Thats the only one

[somber meadow]

screenshot the whole console including the buttons

[upper ridge]

alr 1 sec

[somber meadow]

your console is obstructed by the SDK panel

also when you click the down arrow on the "Clear" button, is anything enabled

[somber meadow]

uncheck all of them

[upper ridge]

Ill try to build it again rq

[coarse thistle]

So i tried to enforce a t pose and hit apply but it reverts back any way to fix it?

[somber meadow]

Look for import errors in the inspector before entering the rig configurator

[solemn wyvern]

hey can I have some help? I put my rig as a humanoid rig in unity and it works really well ihn unity but the moment I put it into vr chat it basically is stuck in tpose

[somber meadow]

does the avatar have an animator component

[solemn wyvern]

yes

[somber meadow]

screenshot it and where your avatar descriptor is

[somber meadow]

did you modify the animator in an attempt to fix it?

update mode should be normal and culling should be update transforms

and can you show the rig tab of the model file's properties within the inspector

[solemn wyvern]

Yes

[solemn wyvern]

sure!

I was following a tutorial (the digitigrade legs tutorial by kaidearts) so it's supposed to be like that

And it’s worked before

Which is the thing

[solemn wyvern]

I just said it’s supposed to be like that from the tutorial

[ornate stump]

If it stays red, it's invalid and can't be saved.

[solemn wyvern]

It’s worked before why doesn’t it work now?

[ornate stump]

Worked as in it didn't show red error?

[solemn wyvern]

No like worked as in it’s showed red error and didn’t really mess with it

I’ve been able to get away with it

[somber meadow]

the t-pose one, maybe

but if unity sees a malformed rig it just will reject it

[ornate stump]

That likely means the rig was fine for most part except for the toe bones.

[solemn wyvern]

Ok nevermind I rewatched it and I did do it wrong

[glass geyser]

Does anyone know how to copy physbones from one avatar to another that has the same bones

In short there's this complicated ass avatar I have I trying to set as a fallback cause I want something that still represents me but it's medium on desktop and of course very poor on quest and can't so when I optimize it where they're both good it just breaks when I replace the model the prefab is using

So I gotta use the optimized model by itself with everything removed from it

[somber meadow]

Pumkin’s avatar tools

[winged condor]

I'm trying to use the move tool to move the hat part of this outfit a bit down so that it rests on the head, but I can't get it to move. Is there a way to unlock the position?

[glass geyser]

Ok thanks

[ornate stump]

You have to move the bone in armature.

[winged condor]

Thank you!

[sharp lily]

I don’t know how to make good looking eyes for my model. Ive tried cutting holes or shrink wrapped circles but still I have no idea how to make good eyes that are expressive :(

plus these shrink wrapped eyes and pupils just don’t work at all.

[glass geyser]

How do I do that I try copying from the model nothing happens

[ornate stump]

Did you set it to copy physbone?

[glass geyser]

yes I select my avatar at the top then choose the one to copy from and just left everything checked

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot the copy component section?

[urban tulip]

so im having trouble here the physbones on a avatar im editing is clipping the breast pysbones seem to move more than the physbones on the shirt which causes clipping idk what to fix

[quick ridge]

Does anyone know why my outline looks like this?

as if it were shining brightly

[glass geyser]

it's ok I already spent enough time working on this I just want it as a fallback that hardly anyone's gonna see anyway and not really gonna use. might as well leave the physbones out too

[ornate stump]

How did you set the outline?

[ornate stump]

The color you set might be too intensive.

[quick ridge]

ok

[umbral tusk]

making avi for a friend rn and i have this clipping issue at the shoulder
No matter what i do weight painting or sculpting it it dosent fix it.
in unity it changes like you would expect but ingame it dosent change anything

yes i have the avatar selected its the only avatar in the project

[junior void]

It must be either weights, base shape, or the topology in that area is just so grim, that it wont properly deform no matter what

[still shuttle]

I would just make a blendshape on the body that sucks that part of it inward so there isn't clipping and then if the sweater is toggle able, animate the blendshape so it's only on when the sweater is on

[glass geyser]

ok I got a slight problem with this fluttershy I optimized for a fallback, so as you can see here this is how it's supposed to look with it's motuh closed;

But in vrchat it's open for some reason and I swear I'm not speaking here

Is there like a way to fix this

[still shuttle]

Is it using a jaw bone at all?

Could also be a blendshape animating it

[glass geyser]

No it uses blendshapes, while it does have vismises blendshapes wouldn't know why it's appearing like that, the silent one has its mouth shut too

[still shuttle]

Look through its animations and see if any of them are forcing the mouth open when it shouldn't be.
I would also double check the configuration and make sure nothing is set as a jaw bone cuz ive had similar issues when there was something set as the jaw bone when it shouldn't have been

Also is it always open by default or does it open when you say, look up or down?

Cuz it could also be something in the avatar descriptior if like its blinking/looking blendshapes are accidentally set to a mouth blendshape

[junior void]

if you forgot to unmap the jaw bone, that could be why

[glossy quarry]

Can someone help me with an error I have? I installed Modular Avatar, I have it in the project but it doesn't work. I go to the avatar, I click on the Modular Avatar-) extract menu and nothing comes up. I feel like it's not installed correctly. Talk to me in MD and I'll send you the video that gives the error.

[glass geyser]

its always like that in game, it still moves when I speak though. also I do notice it has has a jaw bone but it's supposed to be using blendshapes here

[glass geyser]

could be possible here how do I check

[junior void]

click your fbx in the assets -> inspector window go to "rig" -> "configure"

[still shuttle]

Yeye that was what I was talking about earlier here when referencing configuration

If the jaw bone is mapped, just remove it and upload, should fix it up

[glass geyser]

ok it looks like it is using a jaw bone here, is that what's causing it? and if so, I just remove it from there?

[junior void]

yep there it is

set jaw to "none"

[umbral tusk]

no those arent any of the problems
The problem is that In unity the changes take place
But in VRchat itself in game it dosent change anything

I tried stretching out a part of the clothing really long and im right in unity the changes take place but when i upload it and go ingame there arent any changes

[glass geyser]

alright thanks for the help

[still shuttle]

Have you tried deleting the avatar and re-uploading

[umbral tusk]

ill do that

[earnest spruce]

Hey there i got a question
whats the best way to make an Object grabbable for other players and to move it around the world.
I tryed and couldnt figure it out

[glossy quarry]

Can someone help me with an error I have? I installed Modular Avatar, I have it in the project but it doesn't work. I go to the avatar, I click on the Modular Avatar-) extract menu and nothing comes up. I feel like it's not installed correctly. Talk to me in MD and I'll send you the video that gives the error.

[ornate stump]

You could post the video here.

[glossy quarry]

https://medal.tv/es/games/screen-capture/clips/lbgpWtMgdwYQDHnpL?invite=cr-MSxpRWUsMzc0MjQzOTI1&v=38

What is error?

[ornate stump]

This actually show nothing.

See #avatar-help message

[glossy quarry]

Is correct?

[ornate stump]

You shouldn't be using beta version.

[proven quail]

I followed this tutorial to create a prop that you can place in the world, but its not working properly. I have used the tutorial in the past but have had no issues. Has something changed with unity and world constraints? https://ask.vrchat.com/t/how-to-create-a-custom-world-constraint/8481

When I toggle the constraint to freeze it, it moves the chair to 0 0 0, but I want it to freeze and not move

[earnest spruce]

normaly i use VRCFury's World Drop it drops it right at your feet in VRChat

[proven quail]

I'll try that, thanks

it worked. I wonder why the old tutorial doesn't work anymore

[earnest spruce]

Well i got a Problem to.
I cant get the Hair, Wings and tail to stick to the Mesh.
Everytime i try to parent it to the hips it breaks all the Physbones exept the tail dor some reason

[earnest spruce]

most tutorials are over 2jears old and a lot can change in that time

[proven quail]

are you talking about the fact that the physbones got really big?

for some reason the scale of objects can be effected by parenting them and stuff. in the physbone, just move the decimal point two places to the left on the radius of the physbone and it will be the correct scale

[earnest spruce]

oh jea but the next probliem is that it wont follow the mesh of the body

it just stays in the same position no matter what i try

[proven quail]

well the hair stuff should be parented to the head, not the hips

the armature looks weird, why does it go Armature > Head ?

shouldn't it be Armature > Hips > Spine > Chest > Neck > Head?

[earnest spruce]

I tryed to convert an AV into an Object

Im trying to make it into somthing like a puppet

[proven quail]

i see

ok, so in the physbones, what bones is it controlling?

[earnest spruce]

so basicly all the Physbones are in the Body

[proven quail]

because it seems to move the head mesh, but mayby Armature > Head isnt the bone actually moving the head

like what is the root bone of the physbone that moves the head?

[earnest spruce]

everything goes to the hips

[proven quail]

I see Spine in the armature, follow spine up and see if there is another head bone

[earnest spruce]

the hips render the Body Mesh and i had to manuly add the Physbone but it somehow had physbones it used for it

the whole model only has 1 physbone component i had to manuly add

[proven quail]

right, but Hips isn't the only bone moving the body mesh, as you can see with the physbones they are mapped out to multiple bones. If the root transform is hips then all the bones under hips would also be affected. I think there is another head bone hiding in Spine, open that one up and see if the real head bone is in there

you would want the wings on the chest bone as well

[earnest spruce]

i think the file was corrupted somehow.
Ther were no physbones in the Model at all but when i added 1 physbone componend to the Hips all the other physbones somehow connected to that 1 Physbone component

[junior void]

what

you do realize any bone under hips will be affected right

[earnest spruce]

i checked everything only that 1 Physbone component on the hips

[junior void]

you never put physbones on humanoid bones to begin with

including the hips

[earnest spruce]

I tryed making an AV into an asset (Somthing like a doll i can put on any AV)

[junior void]

fine but then why do you need to put a physbone onto the hips

ah wait now i get it

fair enough, so you want the whole thing to jiggle

[earnest spruce]

jes just like a doll

XD prommised a friend ill make him (His av) into a doll as a joke

[junior void]

are the wings and hair part of the avatar or are they added somehow differently aka with MA or VRCFury

[earnest spruce]

there there own assets but from the same av

i might have to redo the whole thing maybe thers somthing missing from the AV i got it from

[junior void]

Why is your armature so weird

generally looks like you unpacked the whole thing

[sour sparrow]

why is it that when i tried to put new gestures and changed the hands for my character, the left hand doesnt move at all and when the right hand has a animation, the left copies it?

[earnest spruce]

The head was just an attempt to get the Hair, Wings and Tail to work.
Everything else is under the Hips

[junior void]

are the tail bones right under hips

i have a feeling that the tail, wings and hair may have come with the avatar, but are parented to the rig using some toolbox like vrcfury

[earnest spruce]

jea everything is connected and uses the Hips as Root Like everything els on the Model

[junior void]

then this is hard to long-distance-diagnose

[earnest spruce]

at this point i think that somthing didnt transfer from the original model

that some important thing is missing

[junior void]

i see your gizmos blew up when you put tail under hips

that speaks for that the tail uses different scale than the body

[earnest spruce]

that and it didnt fix the stuck in place thing

when i move the model in the game the added stuff stays in place

might be best if i add the Original Unity Package and change it there

[junior void]

id also go fo the original and if the not unpacked original has issues, check that in blender

screw unity and dragging bones around in it

[earnest spruce]

XD

jea thats my first time using unity trying to learn as much as possible on my own XD

[earnest spruce]

but i do have another questions

how can i make it so that other Player can grab the object and move it around in the world?

[sudden violet]

could be the masks on the gesture layers

[sour sparrow]

the video i saw told me to not have masks

[glass geyser]

Don't know where to post than here for this but literally even though my avatar on pc is excellent and android is good, it says "it can't be used as a fallback" why?

[sudden violet]

I'm unsure if it'd fix it, and if it is even necessary, but i remember having the same problem, and setting the masks properly fixed it. Worth a shot

[sour sparrow]

oh alright, thanks I will certainly try

[balmy barn]

set this flag in android build when you are in unity , but fallsbacks going byebye soon so 🤷‍♂️

no idea if its already gone, this is a older model

[glass geyser]

I mean this is what it's giving me right now idk if I have to upload it for IOS too

[balmy barn]

just updated mine with webcam tracking so i just did them all

[glass geyser]

Idk anymore what the problem is it's almost about to be 9 AM with no sleep cause of this, literally. I'm never doing this again

[balmy barn]

uploaded a new version , android > pc > back to android and it can be set as fallback - so still work 3.8.2 sdk

[glass geyser]

Huh guess ill try switching to pc then back to android

Vrchat is a real buggy hellhole

[balmy barn]

vrchat removing custom fallbacks anyway so no point

[glass geyser]

Yeah I didn't know that till now wish I was notified of these things sooner otherwise I wouldn'tve bothered optimizing this avatar as a fallback since there's no optimized mlp avatar on there

Yeah still didn't work I'm done with this shit, never doing this again in my life

Good thing I don't use vrchat often anymore and moved on to better things it's only getting worse as time goes on

[olive pelican]

Whhhyyyy

[radiant night]

Can I toggle particle emissions with animations without having the particles freeze midair or removing already existing particles

[grand scaffold]

Have you tried animating the emission value to zero?

[radiant night]

where is the emission value?

I havent worked with particles before

[olive pelican]

It's in the part of the particle system called emission

[radiant night]

I dont see any input that says value, I see rate over time and rate over distance but no value

[torn vector]

An avatar I have uploaded for quest and PC is having a problem where on some peoples screens its an error robot but not on others, its not only for one platform either, if they restart they can see the avatar ubtil I change avatar then chnage back it will be a an error robot again. Does anyone know the cause for this?

[tulip radish]

How do I lock in outfits in quest side? The clothes on the pc I use makes the avatar go naked on quest. I tried taking the toggles off but it did nothing for quest. How do I keep an outfit locked in so it doesn’t affect it when I switch outfits on pc side?

[radiant night]

Just change the animations on the quest side to toggle the main outfit

[tulip radish]

How do I do that? I’m new to it.

[radiant night]

Or remove the animations and have the main outfit always enabled

[tulip radish]

Will it keep it there even if I change outfits on pc side?

[tulip radish]

How do I do that?

[radiant night]

Yes

One moment

Do you want to only have one outfit?

And that outfit always be enabled, or have the option to go naked

[radiant night]

Have you tried reuploading both?

[torn vector]

No, I can try that now

[prisma isle]

Im trying to compile with linux but i cant find wherever the files are being placed

Is there a config file so i can manually set the export path or something

[somber sequoia]

compile what?

[prisma isle]

Compiling the avatar

[somber sequoia]

not sure what you mean by where the files are then, they'd be in the unity project

(I use Linux also)

[prisma isle]

When the avatar is completed the local avatar file that lets you choose the avatar in game goes somwhere

But i cant find it

[somber sequoia]

that's not really of much use to you, and typically only lives long enough for the upload to happen

[prisma isle]

I was trying to test it because i was getting security check fails

[rough moat]

i have a question does anyone know how to add an parameter to an already existing one?

[somber sequoia]

add like in math?

[rough moat]

like u have an asset witch already has an parameter and an expression menu and i dont know how to add this to my avi

[somber sequoia]

do you want to add a parameter to an existing parameter list?

[rough moat]

yes otherwise the menu wont be working

[somber sequoia]

Find the parameter list, there's an add button at the bottom right like in the second image here:
https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/expression-menu-and-controls#creating-an-expressions-menu

[prisma isle]

Pretty sure this is happening because i didnt have the proper windows linux build version because for some god forsaken reason unity made it so you cant manually install modules on older unity versions via unity hub if you downloaded them manually so ive had to reinstall the editor T_T

[prisma isle]

Yup that fixed it

[dusk elk]

Guys I seem to be having blendshape issues with this lip piercing over and over again, in unity the piercings look perfectly fitted but in VRC it somehow ''resets'' how do I fix this?

[somber sequoia]

those blendshapes look like they have the same names as typical visemes

oh sorry, missed the fury component, that'd make sense

[dusk elk]

so what do I do?

[somber sequoia]

I've never used Fury like this, not sure I can help you

[dusk elk]

ah okay

[lone shoal]

what does this error mean when building for Windows (building for Quest works fine)

VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.Build (UnityEngine.GameObject target, System.Boolean testAvatar, System.Collections.Generic.List`1[T] overrides) (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.avatars/Editor/VRCSDK/SDK3A/VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.cs:2779)
VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.BuildAndUploadMultiPlatform (UnityEngine.GameObject target, System.Collections.Generic.List`1[T] overrides, VRC.SDKBase.Editor.Api.VRCAvatar avatar, System.String thumbnailPath, System.Threading.CancellationToken cancellationToken) (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.avatars/Editor/VRCSDK/SDK3A/VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.cs:3602)
VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.BuildAndUploadMultiPlatform (UnityEngine.GameObject target, System.Collections.Generic.List`1[T] overrides, VRC.SDKBase.Editor.Api.VRCAvatar avatar, System.String thumbnailPath, System.Threading.CancellationToken cancellationToken) (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.avatars/Editor/VRCSDK/SDK3A/VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.cs:3605)
VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.StartMultiPlatformBuild (System.Object sender, System.Object data) (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.avatars/Editor/VRCSDK/SDK3A/VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.cs:2621)
System.Runtime.CompilerServices.AsyncMethodBuilderCore+<>c.<ThrowAsync>b__7_0 (System.Object state) (at <27124aa0e30a41659b903b822b959bc7>:0)
UnityEngine.UnitySynchronizationContext+WorkRequest.Invoke () (at <cb81df0c49c643b1a04d9fc6ccca2433>:0)
UnityEngine.UnitySynchronizationContext.Exec () (at <cb81df0c49c643b1a04d9fc6ccca2433>:0)
UnityEngine.UnitySynchronizationContext.ExecuteTasks () (at <cb81df0c49c643b1a04d9fc6ccca2433>:0)```

[somber sequoia]

"something broke"

[lone shoal]

not helping

[somber sequoia]

yeah unfortunately, neither is that error message

[prisma frigate]

Pft- I'm sorry- the level of sass was funny

[somber sequoia]

oh it was 🙂

[balmy barn]

post the red console errors starting from top,never bottom

[lone shoal]

agreed

[somber sequoia]

you probably don't need to show the full details either

[lone shoal]

ah wait hang on i see the issue

bcs im doing an upload from a different computer than my original upload it cant find the same directory

[radiant night]

What do the 0-1 numbers next to float parameters determine?

[tulip radish]

would like to have a sfw and nsfw and to keep the one outfit.

[lone shoal]

theyre the value the parameter outputs for anims and such

[somber sequoia]

current value of that parameter

[lone shoal]

generally theyre the most useful as they can store any value from 0 - 1 so it isnt just a true or false but can have many options from the same input

[somber sequoia]

-1 to +1

(well more than that, but that if you want them synced)

[radiant night]

Okay, that makes sense

[lone shoal]

from what ive seen its good for having multiple outfits on an avi by just checking what that value equals

-# "what ive seen" being the one avi that im currently modifying

[fiery crow]

clothing on a radial float is atrocious menu ui tho

[lone shoal]

just have several toggles

[fiery crow]

yeah much cleaner

[lone shoal]

i mean several toggles that each just set the value of the float

[alpine crypt]

Hi, I've got a weird issue. An asset I added had an fx audio clip, I deleted the asset and removed it from the project file, but somehow the audio is still playing when gesture manager is opened, how could I figure out what's still playing it? I checked all audio sources, I looked through all audio clips, I'm stuck kinda

[lone shoal]

how much of a failed build log do i need to send to figure out what the issue is?

[somber meadow]

don't send a log, just send a screenshot of the console's recent errors

anything above "Assetbundle was not build"

[lone shoal]

:P

i dont understand the long error with the missing script in the middle because i removed that prefab

[somber meadow]

as well the gesture layer doesn't have a valid mask

are you using VRCFury/Modular Avatar

[lone shoal]

maybe?? the avatar had been made with vrcfury when i got it but i dont know how to use it so i mightve disabled it or smth

oh figured it out

[vivid trail]

Guys, is there any way to attach audio to a subemitted particle?

[sudden dew]

i have the same gesture controller on the original avatar and my reproportioned one, but none of the custom radials show on the new avatr, any idea why?

[shy drum]

any videos on how to get a flying toggle, and a thruster effect like a gundam avatar?

[somber meadow]

The ExpressionMenu asset also needs to match or have the same controls. Scroll down

[sudden dew]

yup bingo, missed the drop down thank you

and how would i go about editing defaults

[somber meadow]

in the parameter asset below the menu asset

there will be a default section there

[amber pivot]

does anyone know why my hat legit wont show up when I toggle it into my hands??
i dont have headchop on any of the bones or whatevers so idk why its not working?

[somber sequoia]

alas, nope.

[vivid trail]

Ahh darn, trying to make me some mc potions haha

[kindred cypress]

I can't seem to animate this avatar's ears if its rig is set to humanoid mode. If I add an animation controller I get the following warning:

Nevermind; The ears were set up as eyes in the animator

[sudden dew]

so, im an fbt user and i was tryin got scale the model i use to match my own body proportions. I took the fbx to blender and scaled it based on the provided image i attached that showed the differences in game. For reference legs went to 0.65 and arms were 0.95. When import it back into unity and place the viewport where it is supposed to be in relation to the character, im now seeing from the chest of the avatar i scaled. I jsut want to have an avatar that matches with my body proportions, where am i going wrong?

[wintry creek]

I have a question I had avatar made like twice is it possible for another avatar maker to put her online vrchat?

This guy tried to scam me by making her but I think she might be in an avatar shop.

I know

That’s why I came here

Also I dm you

[spark walrus]

This is a scammer as well

The “Opey” person is

[wintry creek]

Ok

[spark walrus]

💔

[wintry creek]

It’s fine

[somber meadow]

Don't trust comissioners who DM you, they'd never do that. Ask for reviews and a portfolio, if they say they use fiverr that's an immediate red flag

[wintry creek]

I learned that one the hard way because that was my birthday gift

[sudden dew]

do you have the whole file and everything it just need top be uploaded?

[limpid cargo]

so cool idea

[wintry creek]

Sadly no

[limpid cargo]

after reimport, please check and move the “eye view” also.

[sudden dew]

is eye view seperate from viewport?

[wintry creek]

Oh ok

[sudden dew]

the "Avatar" is still from the original though, could this be causing issues?

[limpid cargo]

please view “view position”

[wintry creek]

Looks great to me

[limpid cargo]

how is the fbx modified?

[sudden dew]

arm and leg length is shrunk to match my proportions

[limpid cargo]

no, no, sorry…
is the fbx modified with using “overwrite fbx”? or is a new fbx was created?

[somber meadow]

Your piss poor English doesn't help

[sudden dew]

new fbx

when i overwite the prefabs go invisible

[limpid cargo]

in this case, please create from new…
do not reuse the old fbx’s components

i hope you understand it well !

[sudden dew]

is this component required?

im not sure how to create a new one

[naive copper]

This is a very simple question
I've seen avatars use lamps that actually work, but I keep getting told the same question
"Quest avatars can't use lights"

I had made an avatar with a working flashlight using particles that emit light, but how can one be done for stuff like lanterns?

[limpid cargo]

i don’t know with your avatar was created, i can’t say it surely…

[limpid cargo]

lantern?
is it not ok to reuse the particles emit light again?

[naive copper]

That's the thing
I want to do it but it just creates the stupid flashlight glow, and that looks really weird for something that's supposed to have a soft glow that spreads out

[limpid cargo]

i understand…
i don’t know many about it, i’m sorry 🙇🏻‍♀️

[naive copper]

Dang.. I guess I'll try to look for a prefab

[limpid cargo]

i think another person can help you!

[naive copper]

Hm?

[limpid cargo]

just me don’t know it!

[naive copper]

[somber sequoia]

The best you could do is something kinda hacky by making a cone that looks sorta lit, or using particles.

[naive copper]

Okay here's the thing

I'm relatively new so I don't know how it works..

I used a prefab for the flashlight

But other than that, I'm kind of a newbie when it comes to the particle system

[mental topaz]

Anyone able to explain how to add audio clips to a contact? Or able to provide a good tutorial? I have an object that I attached a contact receiver to and I want it to play an audio clip whenever the object hits something and im not sure how to do it. The tutorials im finding are no help.

Another note, is it correct to have contact receiver on the object or should I make it a contact sender?

[somber sequoia]

receivers are what receive a contact from the sender - so you want a receiver.

[austere bay]

lights arent allowed on quest avatars

[austere bay]

just make animations toggling the audio, link the animations to the receivers on your avatar through parameters

[mental topaz]

Ive tried, but no luck

[austere bay]

then you're not doing it right </3 just set it up like you would a normal animation in your FX

[somber sequoia]

I'd use VRC Animator Play Audio probably

[austere bay]

make sure you've spelt the parameter the same in the FX and in the component

capitalisation matters

[arctic gate]

what do i do when i can see blendshapes in blender but not unity?

[somber sequoia]

make sure you didn't export with an un-applied modifier

that usually results in no blendshapes in unity

[arctic gate]

how do i make sure i do that?

[somber sequoia]

(armature modifier doesn't count)

apply all your modifiers

[sour sparrow]

so im making toggles traditionally now, but when im doing a shader change for the hair and eyes on one toggle, then toggling another toggle that also changes the hair, the second toggle that was activated wont change the hair to its change

[arctic gate]

i did that and all blendshapes disappeared-

[somber sequoia]

you'd have to better explain exactly what you did

[somber sequoia]

Don't change a thing with more than one animation at the same time

[sour sparrow]

but how else would i change the hair texture during

[arctic gate]

went to reddit did this

[somber sequoia]

huh I've never tried that, interesting.

[arctic gate]

yeah i gotta try another way bc it didnt work

[somber sequoia]

Yeah this is where your animator state machine starts to get complex

[somber sequoia]

in the little drop-down menu at the top-right of a modifier is "apply"

[naive copper]

But I have a working flashlight.. am I breaking the rules for making it work?

[somber sequoia]

it probably won't work in-game

if you uploaded now anyway

[naive copper]

It does-

Unity's particle system comes with this little emission thing for lights

[somber sequoia]

ohhh that, okay.

[arctic gate]

only thing i see i dont see apply unless im pressing the wrong thing

[somber sequoia]

Rememember that realtime lights are really awful for performance

[sour sparrow]

dammit

[naive copper]

I know.. but it's fun to use

Especially for horror games

[somber sequoia]

don't apply the armature modifier, but disable that collision stuff, you don't need that to export to unity.

(in the physics tab)

[naive copper]

That's kind of why I wanted to figure out how to get the little lamp effect working

I've been talking about this for a while now- I've been working on this goofy Avatar

And I've been thinking it'll be pretty cool if I can make the stuff on it actually glow

[somber sequoia]

upgrade to PCVR and it's easy 🙂

[arctic gate]

alright and i found the shapekeys on the body but i still dont see anything that says apply

[naive copper]

:/

[somber sequoia]

not sure why you're there, we were talking about modifiers

I'm betting it's that collision one.

[naive copper]

People who say that genuinely annoy me
Like my PC can't even run VRC dude :(

[somber sequoia]

shrugs

[naive copper]

I've always tried thinking of quest compatible methods