avatar-help

[surreal salmon]

• apply modifeirs

_leaf bones

and switch all local to fbx all

this will update within unity

this also will update in ur scene

[queen reef]

alright, so after exporting it (i cant figure out how to do the last thing you said) things appear top have changed. the purple one is from opening the unity package and the white one is the one i just exported back from blender

[surreal salmon]

as long as u do this u should be good

just drag and drop ur materials back on

[queen reef]

is this in blender or unity? i cant find it

[queen reef]

ah, i missed that

[surreal salmon]

copy ur file location in unity then paste it in there

u will see ur fbx

select that then do previous stated step

[queen reef]

alright, i got it into unity and it looks fine, just now theres 167 body parts in the hierarchy TwT

[surreal salmon]

ah u didnt join the mesh together

but it should still work as intended

just a lot more drag and dropping

[queen reef]

i have to drag and drop the material onto every individual part D:>

every tuft of fur..

[surreal salmon]

thats why we join the mesh together

its not that bad tho just inconvenient

[balmy barn]

you got this avatar from where , cause i see something

[queen reef]

idk, i just found a free nova online

[balmy barn]

you used a known stolen/leaked/ripped page , dont recommend that

[queen reef]

this is my first venture into working on avis, idk jack diddly

[queen reef]

well ill keep that in mind for the future

[balmy barn]

https://kittomatic.gumroad.com/l/Novabeast actual model its not free

[queen reef]

well shit

is there some actually free nova i can use?? i had a hard time finding anything myself

[radiant night]

If you want to modify it, not legally, if you just want a nova, you can find plenty of public novas

[timber wharf]

there cant be free nova, since any edit would require to own an original

[queen reef]

damn, guess ill just put this hobby on the back burner :P

i wanted to kitbash because i refuse to buy an avi but if i still have to buy one to kitbash at all, i might as well not even do it

[timber wharf]

cant buy barbie dresses without buying a barbie🤷‍♂️

[queen reef]

i thought that the base models were free, like someone made them and just put them out for anyone to use. guess i was wrong :P

[surreal salmon]

some models are free but some arent

im actually working on one now that i plan on making free once its finnished

(making a cuphead avatar from scratch- the robot boss)

[obtuse bronze]

is there any way to fix this?

[surreal salmon]

ah ye btw im having issues with pov, ^

[surreal salmon]

did u delete something?

[obtuse bronze]

not that I know of

[balmy barn]

that error can happen , doesnt really break anything but you might be able to clean up that controller

https://github.com/VRLabs/ControllerCleaner theres a script that you can use or you edit whatever its trying to reference yourself (good luck )

vrchat controllers in sdk already riddled with it too

exsample i have

sdk

[obtuse bronze]

ah ok thank you

[obtuse bronze]

How do I put this into Unity?

[balmy barn]

releases on side, unitypackage there

[obtuse bronze]

ok'

[versed marsh]

how would i go about setting up a toggle to change my scalera from white to black? (eye white part)

would that be under my eye materials?

[somber sequoia]

yeah either swap material or alter a material property, such as the base color

[obtuse bronze]

OK so sadly it did not work

[versed marsh]

so would i set up two different face materials just for the scalera color?

[somber sequoia]

Really up to you - if you use a shader that lets you change the color and that looks right, you can go with that option.

[hollow cloud]

I exported one of my models That was a GLB To a FBX in blender and the texture UV's Are wrong Could i get help? [Photo's below]

[somber sequoia]

You can import .glb directly into Blender - is that what you did?

[white jungle]

does anyone know why my avi sometimes has a dark gray area on the avatar height slider? the slider goes from 0-4m, but 4 is at ~ 9 o'clock instead of 12p

[somber meadow]

Worlds can enforce specific height limits

[white jungle]

ahhh interesting, did not connect that it was in a particular world. thanks!

[somber meadow]

https://creators.vrchat.com/worlds/udon/players/player-avatar-scaling/

[somber sequoia]

oh I didn't know that's what it'd look like, neat

[brittle wave]

Hey quick question. Can you use blender constraints in vrcavatars or does it have to be vrc's constraints?

[somber meadow]

constraints aren't able to be exported from Blender in a Unity format

[sour sparrow]

how do i make those directional arrow toggles? they are pretty obscure but when you toggle them, you have a forward, right, left, and down arrow to flick to

[brittle wave]

Really? I thought they could cause of the import option "import constraints"

[sour sparrow]

what

a toggle im talking abt

[somber meadow]

you'd have to give a better example

[left gull]

id imagine they're talking about the toggle option in the R menu where its got up,down,right and left arrows

[somber meadow]

they are pretty obscure but when you toggle them
makes me think it's some asset/prefab now

[sour sparrow]

yeah that

[left gull]

idk its actual name but its one of the other options from where you'd set a toggle to be radial,button etc

[sour sparrow]

idk what its called tho

[somber meadow]

oh

that's a Four Axis puppet control

[sour sparrow]

thank you so much!!

[primal swift]

i just found out my physbones dont work on quest, and i have no idea why

[left gull]

are they outside the set limits?

[primal swift]

set limit?

[left gull]

theres only a certain amount of phybones permitted for mobile, any that go over that amount get all their components turned off during upload

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/avatar-performance-ranking-system/#mobile-limits

[primal swift]

oh nevermind i figured it out

turns out i have 9

i thought i had 8

i can definately remove a lot of those xD

[magic dune]

hi there, I need some help with a New Eden avi, Idk why it's not showing up on my end and is saying its missing a prefab? im still kinda new to this so

[left gull]

seems like either the package you imported is broken or it broke on import, try re-importing and if that doesnt work ask in new eden's discord about it

[surreal salmon]

my pov wont change

it keeps pulling back to where i dont want it

[hollow cloud]

I imported into blender As a GLB then exported as a FBX

[somber sequoia]

ah okay

could be the UV map you're looking for is not the default for that mesh

[hollow cloud]

Damn

[somber sequoia]

you can re-order them in blender, though I'm not entirely sure you can do it without add-ons, I tend to use ZenUV for this stuff.

[neat coral]

anyone got any Ideas?

[somber sequoia]

no idea what I'm looking at there

[somber meadow]

just simply looks like flipped normals

[devout fulcrum]

how do i make him tpose without manually rotating

[left gull]

there should be a button in the bottom right section that'll say something like "enforce t-pose"

[devout fulcrum]

cool

[winter perch]

There's value in the paramater, but no change on model expression

[neat coral]

dose any one know why it dose this when i import it into unity. In blender its fine and only WP to the head but keeps breaking.

[vague lichen]

is there a way to sync a world object on an avatar ? so that if somebody join late they see the world object at the right spot ? as in no need to retoggle it everytime someone joins ?

[stark meadow]

looks like a corrupted shapekey

does it go away or get worse when you apply a shapekey in unity?

[neat coral]

It has no shapekeys

[stark meadow]

did it before?

you can try selecting the mesh (ONLY the selected part, this will break shapekeys otherwise) and press space and propagate to shapes

otherwise the only thing i can think of is weight painting but you already said it wasnt that

[heavy zephyr]

https://github.com/VRLabs/Custom-Object-Sync

[vague lichen]

Legend 🎃

[karmic jay]

When adding something to the avatar it pops onto the avatar but modular avatar still says it needs to be attached inside the avatar somewhere what am I missing?

[slow niche]

hello i want to ask if someone have tutorial that can help make a fire orb that can be animated floating around behind my avatar?

[sleek ember]

Does anyone know why my avatar is just backwards?

[night ember]

because you made it backwards

it needs to face -y in blender

[sleek ember]

I didn't make it backwards it was just like that...

[night ember]

if you didnt make it backwards then it wouldnt be backwards

[worldly nebula]

can someone please help me

[night ember]

dont ask to ask just state the issue

[sleek ember]

Tried seeing what would happen if i face the other way
yeah still the same..

[worldly nebula]

ok so im new to making avatars and i js baught a spiderlair texture pack and stuff but where do i get the actual model

like to pt the textures on ive done it once before but ive just completelt forgot

[gilded canopy]

Does anyone happen to have any knowledge as to why my avatar's audio source suddenly sounds muffled?
I did two tests. One with my main avatar, which has the muffled audio package, and that same audio on a dummy avatar, which didn't have muffled audio. Both have audio locations at 0,0,0 xyz.
I'm just starting to lose my mind a bit at his point, because I copied everything I could 1:1, stripped my avatar barebones yet the issue persists

[night ember]

location compared to your view point

specifically with where you hear in general

[sleek ember]

yeah
it keeps staying the same every time...

[night ember]

well did you redo the rig after changing

[somber meadow]

you need to do "Pose > Reset" and "Pose > Enforce T-Pose" every time you make changes to the rig (within Unity's rig configurator)

[night ember]

and did you even apply the transform

[sleek ember]

yes
I have...

[sleek ember]

applying it with what?

[sleek ember]

Where do i find teh pose?

[night ember]

theres an entire apply tab in the drop down in blender

just because you rotated it doesnt mean it was actually changing the root

[worldly nebula]

where can i find a good base mesh fro a spiderman avi

[sleek ember]

the applying didn't work

[night ember]

#1138520828556890214

[gilded canopy]

On both the test avatar and current avatar, the audio source is at 0 X,Y,Z. The audio plays correctly in 3D space, even if it's technically originating from the avatar's feet. On the main avatar, the audio sounds muffled with the same positioning. I don't know, this seems like such a random and niche case..

[night ember]

the unity camera is not your viewpoint in game

[gilded canopy]

That's the thing—I tested both avatars in-game. Test avatar sounds fine, main avatar is muffled. Coordinates and settings (as far as I could triple-check) are identical

They are the same model, both are stripped down to just core elements and the audio source. One is fine, the other isn't

[night ember]

spatial audio source component

[whole sigil]

Is there a way to use the Standard Colliders as sources for custom physbone colliders? I'd image there would be but I don't see the option for them in the element list

[gilded canopy]

I believe it to be the culprit. I initially added it, set the gain and far to match min/max distances, left near & volumetric at 0, spatialization was ticked on and audiosource volume curve on. The original audio did not come with spatial audio source components, hence why the test avatar sounds fine, but even since removing the component, the audio seems to remain.. muffled

[night ember]

you need the source for spatialization to work properly

also theres a checkbox to just use the audio source settings

if an audio source is directly center with your view point or behind it itll be muffled

[gilded canopy]

As I said, coordinates 0-X, 0-Y, 0-Z. It's at the feet/base of the avatar. Test avatar's audio is fine at the feet, no spatialization was ever added or modified. Main avatar had spetialization added and modified, seemingly causing the muffled audio, but it's still stuck like this even when the components have been removed. It seems like some kind of metadata persisted, and I don't know how I could resolve this

[sleek ember]

I tried following what I was told to do
Starting to think it just hates me atp

[somber sequoia]

you can only use custom colliders - standard colliders for hands are already physbone colliders.

[whole sigil]

here I was hoping I had found a clever way to improve my performance rank >.> oh well, thanks

[gilded canopy]

I could try and help you out. I'm always happy to learn new things and help where possible. Would you be fine talking in DM's?

[sleek ember]

i kinda just closed everything already atm
cause its close to 3am and I should get to bed
but i would be fine with that

[undone oracle]

hi, I made an object with blendshapes. I gave its own armture and made sure there were no other things to be applied. is there any other reason I can't see the blendshapes in unity?

[left gull]

For layers is it the lower a layer is the higher its priority or is it vice versa?

[night ember]

Lower since it animates after the higher layer

In execution I mean

[night ember]

The only time blendshapes dont show up is if you have unapplied modifiers other than the armature one

[strange thicket]

Hi, I was curious on how to add a face tracking to a VRC model in unity? The creator I bought this model from deleted all of their discord stuff and is reworking everything so I cant ask there (and last time I asked they just said "do you not know a tutorial?" sooo... help appreciated :"D

It's a simple .fbx (not a package or separate avatar) and I've never seen it done like this before! It says it uses Unified Face Shapes. If anyone has a tutorial of how to use this type of method!!

[left gull]

you might get better luck asking in the VRCFT discord though they've also got a pretty well done doc you can read: https://docs.vrcft.io/

[night ember]

Its not as simple as a drag and drop

The model actually needs the blendshapes for it

[strange thicket]

tysm!! I'll check this out!

[left gull]

sounds like it might already have the blenshapes

[strange thicket]

It does indeed already have the blendshapes, yes!

[night ember]

Then vrcft

[undone oracle]

it doesn't

does it have to be a human rig too see the blenshapes?

[night ember]

Thats not how skinned mesh renderers work so no

Whats all that extra stuff in that blender scene

If you export the fbx and then reimport into a fresh blender project and it doesnt have the visemes then blender isnt exporting them

[shell kindle]

I have a question. I have been trying to lern how to make my own avatar for that Id like to use a pokemon.
which is using a UV map for expressions. What is the best way to make expressions/blinking work?
I just cant figure out how to make shape keys with that mentioned UV map so is there another way, or is it possible afterall? I know I could make face plates for each expression but leaves ugly boxes on the face for me.

[night ember]

Sprite sheet or a bunch of planes that shift up front for each viseme

[shell kindle]

what exactly do you mean with sprite sheet or planes

[night ember]

You either make a sprite sheet and jist pan the uv with animations

Or literally make a bunch of planes 1 for each face texture and use visemes to kove them forward or back

[shell kindle]

so yea the second option is what I meant with face plates. Those leave some visible boxes in the face that arent pretty. Panning the UV with aniamtions sounds intresting

I do have the texture so thats no problem

[nimble zenith]

Well I am only seeing the mesh renderer component? What happens when you add the Skinned Mesh Render Component manually ?

[night ember]

Oh that is a mesh renderer

[nimble zenith]

Theres two types tho

[night ember]

Gotta be skinned

(Which is such an insane sentence out of context)

[nimble zenith]

Yeah thats what I was trying to say though , they only have the non-skinned. Which I don't see why cause unity is supposed to add that automatically

[undone oracle]

thats ok I just started again. my problem now is that it is stuck in the animation fetal postion even if i try to add a new animation or exprt to vrchat

changing the avatar controller doesn't help either

[digital river]

Anyone know how to do face tracking for avatars? i heard i also need to do blender work,if anyone know pls dm me !

[nimble zenith]

Did it break after trying to do a animation ?

[undone oracle]

possibly

Am I screwed?

give it too me straight dock

[nimble zenith]

Well practice is when creating animations to duplicate a model before doing so, there is a way to revert it but I cant remember atm. Only thing I can think of rn is Redrag the fbx then copy it all over with pumkin avatar tools

[undone oracle]

pumkin avatar tools?

[earnest basin]

Can somebody find the name of this avatar base and outfit for me 🙂

[nimble zenith]

https://rurre.github.io/vpm/

Can copy things over from one avatar to another, saves a lot of time when things go wrong, doesnt always do materials right but drag and drop to fix that.

[sharp ocean]

https://hyuuganatu.booth.pm/items/3162696

[earnest basin]

@sharp oceanthank you

[sharp ocean]

No prob~

[spark walrus]

uh help?

[fringe bobcat]

Help My avatar lip wont open at mmd world, what to should I do

[balmy barn]

unless you know what shapekeys they are using in the animation not much , there is default ones it should have usually japanease characters

need to add those in blender if you dont have them

mesh of your character should also be 'Body' never seen mmd converted animation that target any other mesh

eng/jap motion exsample

[fringe bobcat]

I have the mmd part like あいうえお, i should assign it into the lipsync?

First time upload avatar btw

[balmy barn]

dont assign to lipsynch should just exsist on your avatars Body mesh

[fringe bobcat]

Ok

[balmy barn]

got a blender script i use to just generate the blendshapes if mesh dont have any , if you are using vrcfury blendshape optimizer thing it will also remove them unless you tell it not to

https://github.com/The-Beebz/Add-MMD-ShapeKeys , had to edit it abit think it was making one wrong

ウインク２ or this ウィンク2右 was wrong , dunno

[fringe bobcat]

Thank you very much 👍
but I'll do it later, rn my soul are refusing to learn blender

[prisma thunder]

VRC Fury has a World Drop feature, but to my knowledge, you can only use that in game by playing a gesture. Is there any way I can have this in an animation? I want to world drop something on front of me, then have it animate rising from the ground. I want this done with a contact as well, which is why I need the world drop to be part of an animation

[balmy barn]

its just a toggle to the constraint , 'freeze to world'

dont need vrcfury for that

[prisma thunder]

Thanks lol

Oh! Is there any way for an object to use my rotation related to either it or the world?

Working on implementing an earth bending system from one of my favorite games, and right now, I can only modify in one direction lmao

I could do this with like, 8 more colliders, but I'd rather keep this performant lol

[daring mountain]

Does disabling a Physbone with the "reset when Disabled" not reset the animated parameters as well?
For an example, if I stretch a bone and my stretch parameter becomes = 1.
When I turn off that bone my stretch parameter is still = 1.
Shouldn't it be = 0 as I just reset the bone?

nvm, just found a post from 2023 talking about this and it still isn't a thing

[main fiber]

I've got claw hands while using default gestures and dont remember how to fix it :<

[somber sequoia]

wait, that really doesn't reset? Interesting.

[steady rose]

So a friend has asked me to make his avatar quest compatible. It is 2.46MB above the uncompressed size. I can't change any more textures down as they are a low as possible. There are no assets bar one that is a quest lite asset. Any ideas?

I've tried to change the compression but it just stays as is.

[balmy barn]

its 256 you wont save much there

try the blendshape optimizer if mesh is big

[steady rose]

Where is that?

[balmy barn]

vrcfury blendshape optimizer, removes shapekeys not in use (or blender)

output log can tell you what taking up space after you uploaded offline/online and see the compression on everything on avatar

[steady rose]

IDK if I'm blind lol

[balmy barn]

you need to add vrcfury

[main fiber]

its something you apply to the root of the avatar, a component

[steady rose]

I have VRCFury on this project (never do one without it lol)

[balmy barn]

saves vram and download size

[steady rose]

Just on the avatar itself, Correct?

[balmy barn]

yup it will complain if its in wrong place

[steady rose]

sweet, lemme try now. Thank you 🙂

You're a star, Thank you so much!

[amber gull]

can someone help me fix this error please

[main fiber]

i usually just close the unity file and try again, and it works

[amber gull]

it didnt work for me :/

[main fiber]

I've got claw hands while using default gestures and don't remember how to fix it :<

[surreal salmon]

still no idea how to fix this pov issue

[somber meadow]

is your armature's origin properly set centered at the bottom of the feet

[somber meadow]

Your issue is listed in the console, make sure VRCFury is up to date. If VRCFury already is up to date, then you're going to have to find the image responsible and enable streaming mip-maps

[amber gull]

thank uu

[surreal salmon]

how do i check that

[somber meadow]

I'm assuming you have this avatar in blender as well

[surreal salmon]

yes

[somber meadow]

select the armature and look for the armature's origin point, make sure it's positioned similarly to this

the foot needs to lay on the floor and be centered to the origin

you can use the 3D cursor to set the origin. Shift + C resets the cursor back to the world origin to assist this

[balmy barn]

merge your meshes while you are in blender , so people can render you once instead of 33 times

[surreal salmon]

no

[balmy barn]

terrible made it is

[surreal salmon]

gonna make every face a seperate mesh now

[balmy barn]

your visemes already wont work how you set it up

[surreal salmon]

i know i am trying to work on that

[main fiber]

I've got claw hands while using default gestures and don't remember how to fix it :< help please!

[somber meadow]

What does your avatar descriptor's playable layers tab look like

[somber meadow]

does your FX animator have layer masks accidentally

[main fiber]

it doesnt have any masks, no

[balmy barn]

can try proxy_idle2 instead of default wich is more clawlike or check your fingerbones in blender if they are wierd

used idle2 forever since default is wierd

[gilded canopy]

Is there any way to get a full body animation to play via controller? I set it to use the action layer, but the animation doesn't seem to have access to the head despite the action layer. Simple audio source/toggle works fine for single audio clips/animations, but I have two I need to put together hence the controller

[wispy spear]

i dont understand what my problem is?

[timber wharf]

@gilded canopy use tracking control and check default action controller, like default emotes as death or backflip clearly do use head. unless by head you mean camera, then no

[gilded canopy]

Basically, I get the animation to play perfectly in blender, but when I upload to VRChat, The animation tries to play, but only the head remains locked in place. The camera itself doesn't need to move

[balmy barn]

managed to obscure it , theres your issue

didnt add whatever that av requires

[wispy spear]

fixing that now, didint notice it

[surreal salmon]

for the armature its set at the feet

[balmy barn]

when you have a vrcdescriptor on your avatar it shows where your origin, why is it over here

[surreal salmon]

om right

[balmy barn]

your av isnt at 0.0.0

[surreal salmon]

ye

moved it to world origin

issue still present

also i joined all the mesh together and the blend shapes dont work in vrc but do work in unity

[timber sparrow]

Should I be worried about this

[balmy barn]

not for vrchat #announcements message

far we know so far anyway

[timber sparrow]

Kk

[gilded canopy]

@timber sparrow Unity sent out an email stating that they have identified a security breach within their engine. They've issued a warning to everyone that have used using their engine, and suggest immediate update to patch the potential risk to consumers and creators

[timber sparrow]

On

Do I update my version Cuz I don't know what version I need for VR chat

[left gull]

no

[timber sparrow]

I just followed the tutorial

Kk

[left gull]

dont update

[fallen beacon]

Oh shit just got summoned here

Okay so

[left gull]

its ignorable for vrchat users and if you use a newer version you'll be unable to upload

[timber sparrow]

Ok

[fallen beacon]

Can someone help me like if I have a really cool avatar but I just wanna change the shirt to have a different design on it

I have the assets just don’t know what tf to do

Someone please save me

[surreal salmon]

sure

[left gull]

take the texture used for the shirt to an image editing program (gimp,MSpaint, Photoshop etc) and change the design there

[fallen beacon]

I can do that prolly

[left gull]

its one of the easiest things to edit

so hopefully

[timber sparrow]

My unity open and this keeps happening

[fallen beacon]

Well I

Am a bit slow

I'm something of a good photo editor if I say so myself tho

[timber sparrow]

Have no clue what to do

[surreal salmon]

none of the problems with my model have been resolved

[balmy barn]

unless it has some wierd uv thats half the shirt it should be easy , find and change the texture for the shirt

[misty laurel]

I’m trying to use VRCFury Armature Link for the first time and I’m a bit confused.

I have an armature with five different clothes that I want to add to my avatar. I’ve added the VRCFury Armature Link component, dragged the hip in there, and then dragged the whole prefab onto my avatar. Looks fine in Play Mode — the clothes move correctly with the avatar.

However, when trying to set up the toggles and the avatar goes into the animation crouch pose, the clothes stop following the body and stay in a T-pose instead.

[gilded canopy]

It looks like it isn't actually linking to the armature. I'm not a huge expert, but I'd be fine with helping as best I could, if you'd like

[misty laurel]

I appreciate any help, but yeah idk what's going on, it's linked to the armature when in playmode and I move avatar around

[gilded canopy]

I had sent you a friend request since your DM's are closed ^^

[timber sparrow]

Okay new problem inspector will not close

Anyone know what I'm supposed to do

Cuz I really need it working I have a project I got to finish as soon as possible

If anyone knows please DM me

[somber sequoia]

looks like you maximized the inspector, try double-clicking the tab or there's a window layout reset thing in one of the menus

(guessing 'window' - I don't have Unity open)

[balmy barn]

upper right change your unity layout/reset

it can get stuck for reasons

[somber sequoia]

ah that's it, thanks

[surreal salmon]

the avatar descripter isnt out of the norm right?

[timber sparrow]

Thank you so much now I can finally make my sister's Avatar

One question though what do I use to edit textures

[surreal salmon]

a lotta people use substance painter, i persinally use blender but any sort of art software works

[olive pelican]

Any software that can edit images

[balmy barn]

i use gimp , ages ago photoshop/paintshop/deluxe paint

[somber sequoia]

gimp + substance painter, starting to use armor paint

[surreal salmon]

its just a matter of what ur used to or what works for u

[olive pelican]

If you wanna paint ont he model directly, use ucpaint addon for blender, if you wanna jsut draw it, use krita or gimp.

But as you can see, lots of ways to skin that cat (ha).

[misty laurel]

Does anybody know how to fix the armature linking issue I have above? It has not been resolved

[surreal salmon]

ill look into that

[somber sequoia]

Link to the post?

[misty laurel]

here

[somber sequoia]

show some setup, nothing to see in that pic

but do you mean when recording an animation? ArmatureLink won't really work like you expect then

oh you do, now that I read it thoroughly

I've used this a few times and yes, it doesn't work how I'd expect in that case, so I only ever use it for making stuff I'll give to others.

[misty laurel]

you gotta tell me what you want to see, I am completely clueless. it looks fine in gogoloco animations etc, it's just when entering that crouching pose while making animations it just nopes

[somber sequoia]

I haven't gone to their discord to ask about it though

hmm I bet if you put an animator component on the base fury-linked object and put your animator into that, then you could actually use it how you expect

but yeah, I dunno.

[somber meadow]

armature link, and VRCFury as a whole only executes on play mode/build

it's not going to be bound to your armature outside of these scenarios

[misty laurel]

I've seen a youtube video explaining how to add, but they only had one piece of clothing, I have 5 in the same armature.

[somber sequoia]

so do it separately for each

[misty laurel]

I add a armature link on each piece?

[somber meadow]

your setup looks fine

[somber sequoia]

I'd really suggest adding clothing in blender though with a single armature.

[balmy barn]

ctrl+j done if its made for it, or transfer weight before you do that

[misty laurel]

so even though it doesn't really fully represent what it'll look like in game, it'll be fine even with the clothes t-posing?

[balmy barn]

play mode should show you if it still hangs on, then use some dance or something how i test for random clipping

[surreal salmon]

is there something wrong with the model thats keeping it from having blend visemes work or its pov acting weird?

[somber meadow]

yes

[radiant night]

Im trying to figure out how to do this with as few parameters as possible, I want 2 buttons, a reset and a button that plays another animation, picture it like numbers 0-3, I start at zero, and can go up 1 increment with a button press to a max of 3 and can press the reset button to go back to zero at any posint

How would I do that with as few parameters as possible?

[somber sequoia]

it's only one parameter, for the state, the rest are local drivers for the state

VRC Avatar Parameter Driver is your friend

[radiant night]

Not sure I get it...

[somber sequoia]

each button uses parameter driver to change the state value

[radiant night]

I see, but would that mean I have to have 1 parameter per increment or am I misunderstanding

[somber sequoia]

no, the "increment" button has a bool paramter in the animator only, use that to run parameter driver to set the integer one that's the actual state, and that is the only parameter that's actually synced

Oh I should have been more clear - you only need one synced parameter, but each button gets an animator parameter that's only used in the animator.

[radiant night]

Okay, that makes more sense

I have only worked with bool parameters before, does an integer take up a set amount of synced bits or does it change depeneding on what it is being used for

[somber sequoia]

8 bits

[radiant night]

Hm, shouldnt I used 5 bools then? that would use less bits

[somber sequoia]

that depends on what you're doing, I was assuming you wanted to use an integer if you were saying integer

[radiant night]

I thought you were suggesting I use an integer, I didnt specify what type I was using until after you said it here

[somber sequoia]

ah you said it was to increment a number, so that's why I thought integer

[radiant night]

I see, a misunderstanding then

[somber sequoia]

yep, I've no idea what you're trying to do if not that 🙂

[radiant night]

I understand now, thank you

[surreal salmon]

ok now its just visemes not working

[olive pelican]

Do you have the blendshapes in the visemes being used anywhere else in any other animation?

That will break them.

Also, you need to fill every slot, even "sil"

[surreal salmon]

ah ok

had 2 empty

that was it

[olive pelican]

Yep, that'll do it.

[surreal salmon]

finally, inner peace

[olive pelican]

Fun fact, you can use the Voice parameter to control particle emission.

Which means you could make Jack Frost have winter breath when he talks.

You can even discriminate for only specific sounds, or certain volume levels. Or both.

[surreal salmon]

excellent idea

[olive pelican]

waves goodbye to inner peace🤗

Muehehehehe

[surreal salmon]

i tried moving the pov via animation clips and was dissapointed

[fallen beacon]

Yo okay

[olive pelican]

Pro tip, make it two layers. Voice parameter controls the velocity using a blend tree, and Viseme params control emission amount. Turn it off for plosives and consonants, highest for AA.
Make sure it has drag/speed over time with a sharp falloff.

[fallen beacon]

Got the assets to an avatar

Just wanna replace the crop top design with a design I made

That’s it

Can someone please do this for me

I have no idea how

[olive pelican]

Have you modeled the outfit? Have you rigged it?

[somber sequoia]

You should commission people at the VRC Traders discord, you'll just invite scammers in your DMs around here.
Link is in #1204490664637890580

[fallen beacon]

No like I got the avatar and I got the assets

And I assume you just replace the texture

But I just don’t know how to do shit

[olive pelican]

Well, best time to learn was two years ago, second best time is today.

[fallen beacon]

Well yes but

I'm very very slow

I got everything anyone needs to do it just don't know how at all

[olive pelican]

Well, that sucks.

[proven quail]

So put the stuff in unity, and find the material for the crop top. Then find the texture in the material. Edit that texture in some texture editor and then replace the texture in the material with your new texture

[dapper widget]

Help please

Idk where my face is or anything I bought this avatar and idk what to do

[spark walrus]

what does this mean? I'm building an avi from the ground up and this just happened.

[sleek tapir]

how do i add a jaw puppet to my avatar?

whenever i try to animate the jaw it just goes back to default pose all the time

[spark walrus]

It also says its not a humanoid and I think the reason is because of the tail and hands but IDK how to fix that either.

[somber sequoia]

Tail doesn't matter - you'll need to check in the rig setup, maybe there's an error or a bone in the wrong place. Maybe more errors listed in the console.

[sleek tapir]

any help?

[somber sequoia]

You might give people more than 4 minutes 🙂

[sleek tapir]

sorry, dont wanna sound rushy but i was asking since i gotta finish 4 of these with mouth puppets till tommorow.

😭

[spark walrus]

what I replied to is all of the errors in the console. Back in blender, this is the rig. Every bone is located in the correct place as far as I'm aware. they're all inside the model, I just have "View in front" on right now to show the rig.

[covert surge]

Look at this to help with rigging issues in unity, vrchat rigging also sends you here
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/FBXImporter-Rig.html

[somber sequoia]

Looks fine here, assuming those bones are parented correctly

[spark walrus]

I belive so.

[somber sequoia]

Also looks fine

[sleek tapir]

have u turned the model in unity into a humanoid naybe?

unity sometimes doesnt detect it automatically

[fallen beacon]

Yall it won’t let me like

[somber sequoia]

yeah you could go to the rig setup, set it to generic, apply, then back to humanoid and apply

[fallen beacon]

Upload the avatar with android and its comparability too

[somber sequoia]

Provide details - error message, popup notice, etc.

[fallen beacon]

It’s just like greyed out when I try to select them on the platforms

[somber sequoia]

do this: https://creators.vrchat.com/platforms/android/build-test-mobile/#set-up-unity-android-tools

[spark walrus]

wait how do I do that?

[somber sequoia]

#avatar-help message

[spark walrus]

is that in blender or Unity?

[somber sequoia]

Unity

[covert surge]

It's in unity

I have no idea where the menu for it is in u2022, was easier in u2019

[somber sequoia]

same place, you click the model file and look in the inspector

[sleek tapir]

you click the model in the assets tab and where it says "Rig: turn it from generic to Humanoid

[somber sequoia]

I can't think of anything about the UI that changed significantly from 2019 to 2022

[spark walrus]

ok can you tell me how to get to the rig setup? after that I should be able to figure out the rest on my own

[covert surge]

Find the model FBX, click it, look in the inspector tab and you should see settings for model>rig>animation, click on RIG and from there you can set the animation type.

[somber sequoia]

literally just did?

[sleek tapir]

U see ur models FBX in the assets tab, where u pick them out and drag and drop them

click that go to rig and from generic turn it to humanoid

[spark walrus]

ok ty

Apparently it was already on generic so that was the problem. ty all!

[somber sequoia]

yep, that'd do it

[sleek tapir]

yeah unity doesnt automatically turn it to humanoid.

[somber sequoia]

Unity won't set that up for you, you always have to do it on a new model.

[sleek tapir]

sorta stupid

[somber sequoia]

it's not stupid at all - how would it know?

[sleek tapir]

i mean true.

but it used to automatically set it up for me somehow

[somber sequoia]

I can't imagine why it would

[sleek tapir]

idk

unity be having moments like these

[covert surge]

changing from 2019 to 2022 broke a lot of things, I wouldn't be surprised if that was one of them

[spark walrus]

like this right? just double checking

[somber sequoia]

Yes, that.

[covert surge]

yup

[spark walrus]

ok ty

[sleek tapir]

i should prolly show what the jaw does for me too woopsies, brb chat

im tryna make a jaw puppet and this happens.

[somber sequoia]

Is your jaw rigged in the rig setup?

[balmy barn]

if you planning on animating jaw do not assign it to humanoid

[somber sequoia]

I'd think you have to use the muscle movements instead of the bone rotation then

[sleek tapir]

how do i do that?

[somber sequoia]

And you'd need to use VRC Animator Tracking Control to "take over" control of the jaw bone, and restore it later.

I don't have a reference for this offhand, but there should be tutorials

[sleek tapir]

all the tutorials ive seen are outdated and dont help with this

[sleek tapir]

also yeah it is

[somber sequoia]

"outdated" shouldn't matter, as this hasn't changed in a long time

[sleek tapir]

i did find a tutorial for a tail puppet

but it doesnt rlly explain it that well

[somber sequoia]

also not what you want here, you want something that shows you how to animate humanoid movements for vrchat

[sleek tapir]

i found one! the issue is, it doesnt explain it at all

he just shows what he did, thats it

doesnt show you how to do the animation part

[misty laurel]

Hey again, I’m running into an issue with conflicting blendshapes.

I have a T-shirt toggle that triggers a blendshape to shrink the armpit area to prevent clipping. In the animation, I reset the armpit back to normal when the T-shirt is removed — which works fine.

But I want to be able to wear a jacket or cardigan without the T-shirt. But since the T-shirt is off, the armpit blendshape stays normal, which causes clipping again.

How do I give them rules so they don't conflict with each other? Like "t-shirt OFF + cardigan ON = shrink" for example?

[silent yarrow]

Hey quick question, is it possible to use a skeletal animation and a blendshape animation at the same time? I tried to add a blendshape expression to a mixamo animation, and it's animating correctly in unity, but in-game the facial animation doesn't play. What am I missing?

[somber sequoia]

Yes - but you have to do them in different layers - blendshapes in FX, humanoid animations in base or action, etc.

[silent yarrow]

oh okay thanks its all in the action slot, do i just copy the action setup nand paste the face anim in instead?

[somber sequoia]

sure, that can work

[prisma thunder]

^

[spark walrus]

so, I want to change the texture of the face whenever she talks. any way I can do that?

[spark walrus]

is it any of these?

[balmy barn]

parameters only for 2d face , you can use a tilesheet / swap the material / offset and other ways instead of shapekeys

[plucky mantle]

Hey, I made this custom component for a avatar I'm redistributing, but I get the following message (in 2nd screenshot). What do I need to do to the script to get it so it doesn't throw this? It doesn't do anything functionally and I know it can be done if other creators like Pointless Assets do it with their assets.

[peak glen]

Can someone help me with adding clothing to a mamehinata base? Every time I do it, it stays in the t-pose, it's starting to get on my nerves and id love help

Please @ me if you reply! I don't check servers unless i get @'ed

[sour linden]

what is the chance somebody actually helps in #1138520828556890214

[misty laurel]

^

This is how far I've gotten, still doesn't work but I feel like I'm on the right track. I've made 2 separate animations with the armpit blendshape set to 100 and 0 respectively, and trying to trigger it if any of the 3 clothes are on or off.

[frail badger]

trying to make a halloween costume and all the arm bones on the left rotate from the wrong end :( the armature is symmetrized + works fine on the right, why is this happening?

[fallen beacon]

You predicted this so hard holy shit

They will NOT leave me alone

[somber meadow]

Disable DMs from this server

[fallen beacon]

One more dm and I will

[main fiber]

My hands are stuck doing claws and idk how to fix it :( pls help it's been hours

[white jungle]

try unlinking your animation controllers from avi and seeing if the defaults 'fix' it - if so, issue with your custom controllers somewhere. plug and chug until you isolate the cause. if that doesnt fix it, might have armature or config issues? hard to say without knowing more / seeing the avi

[frail badger]

update: none of like anywhere else appears to be Giving a problem. like in the muscles and settings in the rig settings its normal and in-game its normal. its just weird in unity fhjdgf

OH fixed it. that was weird

[sleek tapir]

Urgent need of help, i tried adding puppeteering and now the avatars broken

tried reuploading multiple times and changing stuff but whatever I do VRChat declines to process the avatar and just hits me with the error bot

i dont want to have to remake this cus this would be days of work down the drain

[somber meadow]

Avatar processing service is having issues and is slowly recovering

your only fix is to wait

[sleek tapir]

that is refreshing at least.

thanks

i thought i lost days of work here

I found a rlly good tutorial on puppetry that i can do with the jaw

too bad the jaw doesnt want to animate properly

[main fiber]

all i know is that it isnt my fx layer doing it because it being unlinked still didnt fix it, the gesture animations work just fine because the animations work in gesture manager, and I somehow was able to link my left and right hand to just be controlled by my right hand at one point.

the gestures did work, but then i tried to change them by swapping out the default gesture fx with one that ive used on plenty of other avatars

[white jungle]

so hand gestures all work normally, but at idle / no hand gesture triggered the hands go into the claw shape?

[main fiber]

well, at one point I was able to only gesture my right hand, and it would show up on both hands at the same time (ive got no clue 🤷), but me messing with it just made it go back to permanent claw hands no matter what I do.

[white jungle]

what's your gesture controller look like, default 'proxy' on all positions or custom? Do you have layer masks set up right?

gesture controller uses layer masks to seperate the right and left hands, if the mask is removed/wrong it'll play the animation on both hands from one gesture. if you have that issue, likely the claw issue is related as well? you should be able to plug the default/example gesture controller in and check, compare

[main fiber]

yea, so funny story-

it was uhh..

POINTLESS' Vander Gauntlets that broke my gestures, and I didnt think it was the issue for the longest time because I hadn't encountered this on any other avatar used by them.

[fallen beacon]

Really quickly

How do I replace the image of a texture

Without replacing the paremeters or like any other shit

in unity

[white jungle]

the texture file, not the material? just save over the top of it from your image editor. make a duplicate of the orig in unity first if you want to keep it

[fallen beacon]

Yeah like I wanna change the material I guess it's in the texture thingy

I just don't know how to change it

[white jungle]

click the material, browse to our new texture, then drag n drop the new texture into the little preview here. can also click the little dot next to the preview and browse to your new texture

[modest ridge]

isnt there a limit in texture memory??

thought new limit is 500mb?

[somber meadow]

there's a limit for uncompressed memory, not VRAM

they're slightly different, but holy fuck

instantly "Block avatar globally"

[white jungle]

safety shield exists for this reason lol

[somber meadow]

gig of vram is fucking nuts

my avatar is 50mb

[modest ridge]

im in a full rave instance btw

[white jungle]

126 material slots, >1mil poly, 1gb vram - we used to call these crashers

[frail badger]

so how would someone like. generate a random number. or randomly pick between 3 things

[somber sequoia]

hah yup

[timber wharf]

@frail badger state behaviours

[solemn sinew]

anyone know why hands get 90 degree inwards angled from uploading from sdk https://discord.com/channels/189511567539306508/1426304052517666856

[timber wharf]

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

@modest ridge i even wonder how uncompressed can be lower than vram since its usually 98% of textures (vram) and audio clips (non vram)

[wispy dust]

does anyone know how to make features on a quest/pc avatar pc exclusive?

Im using the IK hud and i have no clue how to make it so pc can use it while quest cant

[spark walrus]

(VRCFury)
how do I add more slots for advanced Visemes

[somber sequoia]

more slots? you can click the + button but that would just render over the existing material, which is a weird thing to do

[kindred kite]

anyone having the issue where when you upload it says it doesnt have a thumbnail even though i selected a image and everything, ive uploaded hundreds of avis and it wont upload no matter my pain and trials

nvm got it to work

[sleek ember]

Still dealing with the same issues as yesterday
I've redone the rig multiple times...
i've set the rotation and made sure to apply it correctly
and yet...
still backwards, and unity clearly hates me...

[night ember]

well no

you just rigged it backwards

unity only does what you tell it to do

[sleek ember]

so what should i do to make sure it isn't rigged backwards?

ok after a bit
I managed to rename all of it without going insane

now to fix the camera...
and find out what's goin on with the arms right there...

[fallen beacon]

Yall I am still struggling

Listen

I got the assets

I got the two textures that need to be swapped

Someone please just upload it cuz my shit keeps failing

I will hug whoever does

[winged sandal]

does anyone have any idea why this stuff sticks to the armature in blender but not in unity?

its made using a particle system (blender) weightpainted onto the outfit

[night ember]

you can have only a maximum amount of iirc 4 bones per vert

[somber sequoia]

Yes, max 4 bone weights per vertex

[glass solar]

why aint the animation playing, I have the parameters and everything set up

and it looks like it works in animator

what am I missing

[winged sandal]

those count as bones?

[languid summit]

What’s happening

[night ember]

no?

yknow

actual bones

the armature

if you have more than 4 bones weighted to a vert itll just not in unity

[night ember]

is there even an armature

[languid summit]

No

Because I don’t need an armature since I’m a head

[night ember]

well yes and no

[languid summit]

Well more like a object

[night ember]

you cant exactly just rotate an object then slap an avatar descriptor on it

[languid summit]

Right

[night ember]

itd just go to default rotation being 0,0,0

[languid summit]

But I don’t want a body armature though im just a object

[night ember]

it can literally just be an armature with no weights

generic rigs arent actually supported by vrchat
they just kinda exist

[winged sandal]

so im taking what's happening is that each of those objects and their verts are connected to a bunch of bones due to the way ive weight painted them for density, how do i make it so each section of the generated objects is weighted to only 1 bone each?

[night ember]

weight paint them that way

[winged sandal]

give me a bit

[sleek ember]

is there a easy way to fix up this little arm thing? i have going on

[night ember]

your rig is messed up in some way

probably bone roll

though

[sleek ember]

wait i found it
its part of the original rig of the model it just messes up in here

[night ember]

did you make it or get it from somewhere

[languid summit]

What now?

[night ember]

my guy

just drag in the example avatar

the sdk comes with one

[sleek ember]

the rig is from another game and just fit for vr chat it's coming from these parts here

[night ember]

wdym another game

[somber sequoia]

what are you even trying to show with this overly zoomed image?

[sleek ember]

Dragon ball xenoverse 2

[sleek ember]

wasn't thinking

there

[night ember]

looking at the arm band in the original image it looks like fucked up weight painting

[sleek ember]

yeah part of the rig there is connected to the bone in between the shoulder and arm
its a arm helper bone

[night ember]

"arm helper bone"

[sleek ember]

it's litterally a armhelper bone
all it is for is to make sure the arm doesn't look to distorted in the animations
but clearly doesn't translate well to vrchat

[night ember]

thats definitely not a vrchat rig

[somber sequoia]

correct, this won't translate well to VRChat.

[sleek ember]

yeah i can tell now...

[winged sandal]

im not sure how to get it to apply so i can weight paint them

[languid summit]

Wep it worked

[winged sandal]

its part of the same object

[somber sequoia]

apply what?

[languid summit]

Ty for helping with the armature shit

[winged sandal]

the particle system that produces those objects coming out of the model

[night ember]

you arent weight painting the planes

[winged sandal]

yes im aware.

[somber sequoia]

particle systems generally have nothing to do with weight painting

[night ember]

you need to actually convert it to a mesh and weight paint it

[sleek ember]

will i have to go back in blender to remove the bone...
cause i'm almost done with atleast having my own avatar in vrchat

[winged sandal]

@somber sequoia

[night ember]

you need to make it actually a vrchat humanoid rig

[somber sequoia]

what are you showing me here?

use words, please.

[winged sandal]

this is the thing, im trying to convert it to a mesh to weight paint it but im seemingly unable to but im not entirely sure why

[sleek ember]

i did make it a humanoid righ though

it's just a bone that didn't convert clearly

[somber sequoia]

"convert to mesh" - what is it?

[winged sandal]

the objects that were generated by the particle system

[night ember]

blender particles

[languid summit]

I don’t use humanoid rigs because im a floating object

[night ember]

Im not talking to you

[somber sequoia]

right-click the system, should be a convert to mesh option. But in the future, try to explain what you have rather than leave us guessing

[languid summit]

I know

[somber sequoia]

I forget if you have to bake those to a mesh though, been a while

[night ember]

there is several youtube tutorials

[winged sandal]

i did try to, i apologise if i dont know the terminology you folk use

[somber sequoia]

haha "you folk"

but ok, I just had no idea you were talking about blender-generated particles. You'll need to convert them to mesh regardless.

[winged sandal]

alright then

[sleek ember]

gotta love rigging...

[safe spire]

does anyone know how to fix my avatar snapping back into place in game when i stop moving

[night ember]

wdym snapping

[safe spire]

the torso or legs just instantly go back into the front position without any fluency

[night ember]

what

[safe spire]

could i vc with you so i can show you we dont have to talk

i just need to share my screen

[night ember]

you can just send a recording

[safe spire]

do i need obs for that?

[night ember]

can use that

[safe spire]

is there anything else i can do without needing to download anything?

[night ember]

snipping tool ig

[safe spire]

how do i acess that (im sorry i have never recorded anything)

[night ember]

its literally a default windows program

[safe spire]

ok i have done it

the torso is snapping

do you know anything that could be causing that?

[sleek ember]

How would i set this to android cause I use a meta quest and it reads as android

[left gull]

install the android build

[night ember]

the quest is android not reads as

[sleek ember]

where do i install that?

[night ember]

file > build settings

[safe spire]

diven do you know any fixes for whats going on?

this might have something to do with it

[night ember]

not in the slightest

[left gull]

are you using a custom locomotion setup?

[night ember]

you just dont use write defaults and have empty animation slots

[winged sandal]

having converted it to mesh and (automatic) weights set, still seems to not deform in unity, while deforming fine in blender

[safe spire]

where would I fix that?

[winged sandal]

checked too, in the pic, the verts of that object are entirely controlled by 1 bone

[night ember]

does it actually have the armature modifier

[night ember]

thats not an error

[safe spire]

how to i make that animation not snappy though

[night ember]

you completely ignored the question

[winged sandal]

does it need to at this stage?

[night ember]

no armature modifier
no movement

[safe spire]

what question?

[night ember]

^

[winged sandal]

it has the armature modifier yes,

[sleek ember]

one last quick question
when i do the Build & Publish part
where would the avatar be?
would it just be in that purchased bar?

[safe spire]

im sorry if im slow

[night ember]

no?
theres an uploaded group

[safe spire]

i dont see a question mark around anything though?

[night ember]

what

[safe spire]

sorry if im hard to understand I have bad autism

[night ember]

wdym question mark

[safe spire]

you said i ignored a question

[night ember]

looks like a question to me

[safe spire]

oh that was for me?

[left gull]

yeah

[safe spire]

so sorry

[sleek ember]

ok got errors
i have no idea what i'm suppose to do here...

[safe spire]

how would i tell if im using a custom locomotion?

in the inspector?

[night ember]

thats just telling you the upload failed
and that its clearing the blueprint id cause you didnt upload

[left gull]

yes under the avatar descriptor script ( if you've got a custom layer it'll be there )

[sleek ember]

what's a blueprint id?

[night ember]

tells the game what avatar to load

literally as the name says a "blueprint"

none of those errors tell you anything

[sleek ember]

Is this where i set it up?

[safe spire]

i dont see anything

[night ember]

you dont set anything up

[night ember]

have you considered clicking the dropdown arrows

[left gull]

open the playable layers dropdown

[sleek ember]

ok i just tried uploading again and it worked

[safe spire]

ok i did that

let me take a ss real fast

[sleek ember]

there. we. go.

thanks for your help

[night ember]

base

whatever thats doing is making it snap

[safe spire]

so i get rid of it?

[night ember]

your whatever avatar you bought probably uses it

[left gull]

you could duplicate the avatar in the heirarchy>remove the layer from your duplicated version and upload, if nothing looks too weird and your fine with the turnout then you've got a simple fix

but if u wanna keep w/e that layer does or need it because it breaks something that's a bit harder and outside my knowledge base :P

[safe spire]

ok ty i will try this

[winged sandal]

im so confused by this, it should just be another mesh with an armature at this point, its weight painted to the armature, i wonder why it would not work

its got the armature modifier on it

its assigned to the right armature

[safe spire]

tysm this worked have a great day

[nimble zenith]

is it the right vertex group tho

if there is no upper_arm.R in the armature it wont move so make sure the bones are the same its case sensitive

[winged sandal]

its the right vertex group, it already works in blender just not in unity

[river python]

Every time, even when I'm under 10MB and what not. Just can't upload a Quest avatar. I have no idea why.

Trying to get it PC/Quest. So Quest can see it

Has 2 different versions. Tried multiple Avi's

[left gull]

is anything being added during upload via something like VRCFury? or are any of the stats in the upload panel too far outside the limits?

[vagrant summit]

Can anyone tell me why my bounding boxes are all tilted forward like this? every single one. All transforms applied in blender before I exported FBX, I checked.

[ornate stump]

It oriented with how the root bone rotated. Root bone is set in skinned mesh renderer. And it usually defaulted to hips bone.

[tardy locust]

What determines your avatar's floor collision?

[ornate stump]

See the white line at the feet of avatar when selecting it. That's the bottom of player collider.

[vagrant summit]

does it cause any problems? Rotating my hips is gonna probably mess up the rest of the bones :x

[ornate stump]

The bounding box itself isn't. But hip bone tilting would make it not 180degree with pelvis bone which will be reported in the sdk.

[vagrant summit]

my eyes also seem to have issues when I get to setting them up, can you tell me how to make them so that 0 0 0 rotation is the direction I want them to be instead of straight up?

[ornate stump]

If you edit in blender, the eye bones in blender must point up.

[vagrant summit]

what axis should point forward so that they don't rotate? and what fbx export settings should I use? My avatar is facing -Y

[ornate stump]

The export settings to change is only the Apply Scalings to FBX All. The rest can be default.

-Y is forward in blender to unity.

[vagrant summit]

excellent! thanks for clearing that up I've been wondering for a while ^^

[tardy locust]

That's set properly, but I'm still floating a bit above the ground.

[ornate stump]

Is it in VR?

[tardy locust]

Yeah

[ornate stump]

I'd say VR position can be off a bit. If headset can't track floor level correctly or your height measurement is off then the avatar get push up or down depending on it.

[tardy locust]

I'm basing it off of where the actual floor collision is and your knees start bending.

[frail badger]

how to set up an emote without using vrcfury

[strange saffron]

How does one properly add clothes to an existing model? I don't want to re-export from scratch so I'd want to update an existing model with new clothes. I made the clothes in blender with the existing model file in mind (did a save as so I can avoid not knowing which armature is which in Unity). I export this new model and import it into Unity in my existing file. Idk what I'm doing wrong from here on out when trying to use VRC Fury's armature thingy to transfer the information to my existing model, but it isn't working. If anyone has advice on how I may fix this, please lmk! As of right now the additions are a head piece which is part weight painted to head and part weightpainted to existing hair, and another piece which is long droopy sleeves I made so it bounces along with the existing arm and drooping bones in my original model's wrist cuff thingies. (Pls ping)

[junior void]

VRCFury works with armature link to match bone names. So if you want to use that, your clothing needs to have bones matching by name and order. So i guess the first question is, how did you export this? As part of the avatar? As its own asset? Does it have its own armature? Share pictures perhaps to make visualizing what you are working with easier

[serene lodge]

guess this never got fixed?

[grave herald]

why is this leg thingy conected to the right leg how can i fix this?

[serene lodge]

fix weights

part of it weighted to the other leg

[stray lintel]

hi, is anyone able to help me add this FBX to my model?

i'm trying to add the thigh highs to my main model

[ornate stump]

Just drag the prefab file into your avatar object in hierarchy. Correctly speaking, it isn't directly a fbx file.

[stray lintel]

Ah ok

[stray lintel]

Will it correctly animate?

[ornate stump]

Depend whether it has automatic tool pre-configured or not.

If not then further configuration is required.

[stray lintel]

Ah ok

Lemme try it out

[stuck thunder]

I am trying to make a functioning Phone. each screen is a blendshape. how can i use contacts to navigate thru the different screens? i have found videos on how to do toggles and videos on how to do contacts but cant figure out how to kind of combine the functionality of both. does anyone have any resources that might be helpful?

[somber sequoia]

Just have your contact animation layer run whatever animation changes the screen's blendshape

[stuck thunder]

maybe i dont know how to set up the animations then

[somber sequoia]

what have you got so far, where are you stuck?

[stuck thunder]

these are the blendshapes i have

this is the animation i have for going to the home screen

[somber sequoia]

ok then have the contact trigger the animation

[stuck thunder]

i have this contact

[somber sequoia]

I'd consider using two parameters in the animator, with two layers - one as a "state" variable that actually runs the screen. 0 = first screen, 1 = second, etc.
The other is the one that the contact receiver says, for detecting the touch. Using OnEnter is good. This second one is used in an animator layer which changes the state of the first via VRC Avatar Parameter Driver when it becomes true.

[stuck thunder]

:stare:

so have a parameter that is an int that is 0-10 (or however many screens)

and have the contacts set that int to a number for any given screen
yes?

[white jungle]

trying to prevent the shoulder from doing this in game (drooping very low, making the model look bad). note that this is not while standing idle, it happens when I reach across my body - like the ik is ignoring the limits/ranges set in the muscle config?

max forward/drop in the config - nowhere near what I see in game

[somber sequoia]

That's the right idea - you could have your button advance the screens by adding one to that state variable, or have a specific button set it to a specific value

[stuck thunder]

nodders

[somber sequoia]

you can probably do this in a single animation layer, it'll just be a bit more complex than using two

also note that the state variable should be synced so others see the screen change

[stuck thunder]

im ngl i think i have no idea how to set the animation layers up

[stuck thunder]

i think i gotta do smth with Parameter Drivers

[somber sequoia]

If you're doing the method I suggested, yep

[spark walrus]

Can someone help me on how to set up vrchat companion

I’m trying to make a demon slayer avatar but idk how to work everything

[somber sequoia]

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

[stuck thunder]

would each contact need its own parameter?

this is what ive got so far

[somber sequoia]

Yep

[strange saffron]

As I would an avatar so it has its own armature

It is basically the same as my old avatar, but with a different name and two different clothes to toggle

Like additional

[soft abyss]

does anyone have a vessal mask asset ive been looking everywhere and cant find any please help

[dense fractal]

stfu

anyways

why is my vrc validation tab empty

on my avis??

[soft abyss]

stfu

🙃

[dense fractal]

no u

https://tenor.com/view/reverse-card-uno-uno-cards-gif-13032597

[timber sparrow]

Yo question what do you use to edit Avatar textures

Cuz I got it remove some pattern on one

[timber wharf]

krita

[timber sparrow]

Kk

[errant matrix]

Really really need help with this animated texture I got for eyes if anyone is available to talk

[bold cave]

any 1 got any idea why when i press opne project my unity hub opens but nothing els

[somber meadow]

Switch to ALCOM

[bold cave]

elaberate more my friend cos i got no idea what is ALCOM :d

[somber meadow]

https://vrc-get.anatawa12.com/en/alcom/

[bold cave]

alrd lest give it a test

[bold cave]

same thing it stops at this point

[somber meadow]

What does the settings of ALCOM say for the unity editors

[somber meadow]

Also your unity hub is fairly out of date. Is that on purpose?

[somber meadow]

In the settings tab of ALCOM itself

[bold cave]

no thast just what my friend sed to download

[somber meadow]

That’s the issue. Show the installs tab of Unity Hub

[bold cave]

this?

[somber meadow]

2022.3.22 doesn’t seem to be installed

[bold cave]

should i download that manually?

[somber meadow]

https://unity.com/releases/editor/whats-new/2022.3.22f1

Click install at the top of this page, it should prompt unity hub

You don’t need any of the modules unless you want to upload for quest, which then you’d only need the main android build module and none of its submodules

[bold cave]

alrd now i just need to wait 15 mins fore it to download 😄

[somber meadow]

Yeah editor installations take a weird amount of time

[bold cave]

ye but my 10-50mb aint helpping whit that 😄

[somber meadow]

After that’s done make sure ALCOM only has the 2022.3.22 editor in its list

[frail badger]

so i have an animation split up into 5 pieces, how do i make 1 start where the previous one finished?

[timber wharf]

just connect them in a chain

[frail badger]

that works great to make it start when the previous one finishes; what i want to do is update what it treats as "root position" and make the next one start where the previous one finished

[slow panther]

Any suggestions for a material setup for my my fairy follower

[desert cradle]

what is the most current unity install ?

[slow panther]

i need her to be a glowing orb without illuminating anything

[slow panther]

6.2?

[bold cave]

how cani remove the other versios?

[somber meadow]

try using the "reload Unity from Unity Hub" button

make sure it doesn't read Unity Hub.exe for the 2022.3.22 binary

[bold cave]

i think i need to go on unit and just remove the others from there?

[somber meadow]

I'd uninstall your 3 other editors if you don't actually use them to save on storage

[bold cave]

i prob wont

[somber meadow]

scroll down and click "Settings.json" inside of ALCOM, and open it with Notepad. Show the contents

we need to remove that manual addition of the Unity Hub.exe in your editors list

[bold cave]

this?

[somber meadow]

this is gonna be a bit jank if you're not used to editing json format, but you need to match how this preferredUnityEditors line looks in my screenshot and remove Unity Hub.exe from it

you just simply need to delete the middle line in between those 2 brackets

[bold cave]

ok i deleted it

[somber meadow]

honestly that should even work, close out of ALCOM, save the file in Notepad (ctrl + s), and reopen ALCOM

see if the manual addition of Unity Hub is gone in the settings list

[bold cave]

its not gone but this still looks right i think 😄

[somber meadow]

it's not gone? show the ALCOM settings screen (not settings.json)

[bold cave]

and i did pres reload unity from unit hub few times none happend

[somber meadow]

Idk if you already done this, but have you tried opening a project

see if it just knows what to do I guess?

[bold cave]

lest try

do i pres keep using this version?

[somber meadow]

select the bottom one which is the correct install

and keep using this version

[bold cave]

i did not pres it on but somes happening :d

[somber meadow]

next time you open a project through it, you'll get the same prompt to say "Keep using this version" that time

don't worry

[bold cave]

yep worked less gooooo ;d thanks fore the help

[somber meadow]

enable API Logging in the SDK settings, clear the console, attempt to upload, and show the console

I'm guessing it's the bizzare thumbnail issue

[wicked helm]

anyone goot with cc and untiy it just all off a sudden started giving me an error thingy saying ( it might harm my pc ) and i never got that before..

unity*

[night ember]

or the funny connection issue

[somber meadow]

can you screenshot it

[night ember]

since build & test is local

[somber meadow]

if you downloaded it from the correct place, then just click run. I'd honeslty just use ALCOM anyway

[wicked helm]

see i did download it from when vrchat posted it and ive never gott an issue before it scared me xD

or is it cuz my d drive dident start ?

i manualy started it cuz i accidently plugged it out ( its a usb d drive )

[somber meadow]

I'm guessing VRChat might be doing automatic moderation on thumbnails and giving out vague errors when it hits a positive. This is hella skepticism and should be taken with a heavy dose of salt, this could just be thumbnail signatures somehow being broken in the SDK.

[night ember]

my guess would be the occasional connection issue where it fails to send but doesnt report the error which is fairly common

[somber meadow]

also thumbnails have secretly shrunken down to 800x600

instead of the 1200x900

so if your thumbnails look blurry, their downscaling is just jank. You can instead upload it in a 800x600 format and it'll look proper

[neat tinsel]

anyone know of a blender feature that shrinks a mesh reletive to the skeleton? i want to add blendshapes that hide the clothes

[full meadow]

Yo anyone know what avi this is

[night ember]

#1138520828556890214

[rugged solar]

I have a material in blender that appears to duplicate on fbx export. In unity, if I do not keep the second (duplicated) material, part of the mesh disappears. How can I fix this?

Blender did not used to duplicate the material and I'm not sure what is causing the behavior

[somber sequoia]

materials should not duplicate. Do you have multiple mesh objects here?

[rugged solar]

the meshes were merged by cats so I would not expect any except the transparent whiskers

[somber sequoia]

ah you do, but I see you're not joining, just working on the body one

not seeing what'd cause that - are there any modifiers other than armature?

[rugged solar]

none

[somber sequoia]

strange, never seen that before

I don't use cats though

[rugged solar]

even without cats, it does the same

[somber sequoia]

are there too many materials if you look in the Materials tab in the inspector for the model file itself, rather than the avatar in-scene?

(in Unity)

[rugged solar]

Unity only shows the hat when I add the duplicate material slot back

[novel oxide]

hi

[rugged solar]

I fixed it! I've been informed this occurs when the keep quads box is checked on import

[somber meadow]

Yeah don't keep quads in game engines

GPUs very much prefer triangles

[somber sequoia]

ohhhhhh yeah ok that makes sense

I've never tried that so didn't think of it

[shell kindle]

I have a problem and need help. The Avatar I have been working on for the past 3 days suddenly is giving me these errors and isnt allowing me to test it anymore. The model is rigged and has been working fine all the time

I checked and every bone is working fine like it has been

[left gull]

are there any warnings in the .fbx's import messages dropdown?

[shell kindle]

yes actually this

[left gull]

hrmm ive never seen that before but its likely ignorable and not what's causing the issue

are there any meshes that share the same name as your bones?

[shell kindle]

only in clothing

[left gull]

wdym?

[shell kindle]

actually no nvm

I miss remembered

no meshes that are named identical or even similar like bones

[left gull]

have you re-imported/updated the .fbx recently since the last time you rigged the model?

[shell kindle]

yes actually

but even with the older fbx before it didnt work anymore

but even then I was going through the rig again and it is fine

nothing that didnt work before

[left gull]

oh

your naming scheme might be the issue

[shell kindle]

oh?

[left gull]

try changing the names to what the unity configure menu wants them to be and see if that works

multiple things named spine could be causing issues

so change the spine2 to chest,waist to hips etc

[shell kindle]

hm...alright gonna give that a try and let ya know in a sec thank you

I cant believe it that actually worked

thank you so much

now I more wanna know why now out of the sudden that became a problem and worked for like 3 days before just fine

[left gull]

t'was just a guess, id imagine its the sdk not throwing the errors initally because it bugged out

[still shuttle]

avatar is not going into bycicle pose when animating. It is set to humanoid and has an avatar descriptor, what could be the issue?

[somber meadow]

does the animator component have a filled avatar slot

[still shuttle]

ye

[somber meadow]

show the rig tab of the model's import settings

btw if you're using the record function within VRCFury, it's normal for the avatar to not go into a bicycle pose

[still shuttle]

I dont use vrcfury to make toggles so idk

[wild sphinx]

i've recieved this error i don't know how to fix it

[somber meadow]

are all your packages up to date within creator companion?

[wild sphinx]

yes

[shell kindle]

actually never mind... this is now happening

[still shuttle]

vrcfury also says this in playmode with the avatar for some reason?
There is only one version of the avatar in the hierarchy.

[shell kindle]

it tells me its not set as humanoid

[somber meadow]

show the import errors when scrolling down

[somber meadow]

Is this a paid avatar?

No one should be selling/giving avatars as a test-copy

[still shuttle]

it is a commission, I am bein commissioned to do the toggles on it

[somber meadow]

on the rig tab itself in the inspector

[still shuttle]

Open import messages and see what it says

I see that most often when a mesh is named the same as a bone

[wild sphinx]

Fixed it, i closed all of unity down and restarted laptop and it working thanks for help

[shell kindle]

this is the rig tab in the inspector if you mean that... if not uh... help me out what do you wanna see exactly?

I am rn trying to rename every bone to what the rigging thing says so it just is the same

[somber meadow]

in this area