avatar-help

[somber meadow]

there's going to be an dropdown named "Import messages", open that up and see what the errors are saying

[slow panther]

so im creating an avatar

ngl idk what im doing, im trying to make the hookshot (it has a blendshape 0 is fully retracted)

how could i make it retractable based on someone grabbing it while snapping back to its default when let go

[still shuttle]

still cant figure this out lol

[shell kindle]

Ok the renaming worked afterall

had to change a few more names fromt the bones

[night ember]

fury always builds a test copy when entering playmode

[still shuttle]

I've never seen this on any other models tho?

[night ember]

its what fury fucks with the avatar but tells you fuck all about what it did when uploaded

[still shuttle]

this is my main issue however

[night ember]

it only does it when you are actively using fury cause it makes all the changes when entering playmode that it would when uploading
which is why it permanently takes 10 years for it to enter playmode

[coarse thistle]

question so when i get a certain distance or look a certain way the hair dissapears i tried extending the bound box for it but it still dissapears
is there any way to fix it? that im just being stupid

[short ferry]

uhm, Avatar 3.0 Manager is putting the SDK back to 3.8.2-

[night ember]

update it then

[still shuttle]

try this
https://jessycat92.gumroad.com/l/RQDoUj

[short ferry]

thats the thing, it is updated

[night ember]

then its just using whatever latest it can

[short ferry]

so I'm guessing I gotta use 3.8.2 to use avatars 3.0 manager, damn

[somber meadow]

just use ALCOM so it doesn't actually enforce vpm dependencies and just tells you about it and lets you just force it

[short ferry]

I'll just wait till it updates

[night ember]

or just import it yourself

[frail badger]

so ive got an animation later checking isLocal = true, in the debugger it's true but my animator won't transition off that state. it transitions off for isLocal = false. this is under my own, local debugger. any ideas why?

[spark walrus]

uhm why?

[agile birch]

it keeps saying i have script compiler errors when uploading avatar but when i go in playmode, everything is fine, can i have help?

trying to upload kipfel 1.1.1 avatar

[somber meadow]

what're the details of that top highlighted error

[somber meadow]

Vertex Colors, either use VRCQuestTools (Unity Script) to remove them, or go into Blender and remove them

[frail badger]

ok, all of my emotes are being "added" on to my defaule post in vrchat, how do i make the emote 100% override my movement

also i have an animation separated out into 3 groups to make each happen 1 at a time but all 3 are happening at the same time. why?

[spark walrus]

how do I use VRCQuestTools?

[agile birch]

give me a sec

[agile birch]

i use 3.7.6 btw

well that really didnt matter, switched to 3.9.0 and still does the same thing

except it changed

[agile birch]

man

[ripe tide]

Okay...this is just some insane....stuff happening with my avatar....everything that is happening right now is completely wrong and contradictory

that sign is a solid object that should only come out when hands are doing "rocknroll" neither of them are and its also invisible in the mirror despite being an object, furthermore it shouldnt be activated by my avatar's "dirty" state i checked the animation theres nothing there that somehow seemingly activates rocknroll

this is super weird

its like its somehow corrupted

[night ember]

Write defaults and the mirror is its own version of your avatar

Like

Theres 4 of you in any given moment

Local, remote, shadow, mirror

[ripe tide]

hm

still why is my dirty toggle activating the sign?!

which is only a hand gesture

not a toggle

like....completely different system how

[night ember]

Who said it was the dirty toggle

[ripe tide]

it activates on that trust me

[night ember]

Could easily just be a case of write defaults off

[ripe tide]

it shouldnt

[night ember]

You sure the dirty toggle is activating it

[ripe tide]

yeah

[night ember]

Cause if it is then that animation has it keyed

Dont even know how you are toggling the sign

[ripe tide]

its supposed to show when i do rocknroll gesture

and only then

Checked dirty toggle it aint there

[night ember]

Like I said

Dont know how you are toggling it

Like is it its own object is it scaling a bone are you mat swapping

[ripe tide]

its literally just a thing i toggle on

but anyways i fixed it

just uh...yes dirty state had write defaults off...which was conflicting idle state....yes i know write defaults should be off but my avatar's animation will literally wreck itself without them

ill get them off someday i swear

[night ember]

You either have it all on or all off

[ripe tide]

yeah.....well thanks anyways i suppose...noww to verryyy carefully get vrcfury to- EXPLOSION

I both love and hate vrcfury

[night ember]

Just dont use fury to begin with

[agile birch]

i love unique fucking issues

[little plume]

who knows how to make a raindbow gradient shader?

im trying to remake this effect, for now just the gradient part, I will worry about the wavy effect later
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/361741445352259584/1426719005674045643/1011.mp4?ex=68ec3f1e&is=68eaed9e&hm=13e522eecc923bbc73e5779d94444dc605c75f3ab5c23a96dbace88bc86cb892&

why didnt it embed

[night ember]

Why do you need a shader for a rainbow gradient

[little plume]

huh?

wym shadow??

[night ember]

Like any shader supports color shifting

[little plume]

like what?

it needs to be animated like in the video without having to manually change it

here since the video didnt embed

im trying to make this

not whats on the player but what is on the outline on travis

my version atm is just pink

[night ember]

just find any shader that has a hue slider

[little plume]

ok but heres the thing

i cant control it with a slider

it needs to do it by itself

[night ember]

you can very easily control it

[little plume]

also I dont need it as 1 solid color I need the gradient

[little plume]

not the way im doing things no

i cant even control shapekeys without baking them in blender first

[night ember]

no?

Im assuming this has an animator of its own or something

[little plume]

this isnt even an avatar actually but i do plan on using the same shader for the avatar version

[night ember]

you can still animate things you know that right?

[hot zinc]

does anyone know why when i open the SDK that it turns my avatars skin pitch black and I cant change the color

[night ember]

what

[night ember]

then just make the uv not 1 solid color

[little plume]

again not the way im doing things dude...

[night ember]

and how are you doing these "things"

[little plume]

a playable director

[night ember]

you can easily just still animate the slider anyways

[little plume]

....

if i could I would

[night ember]

like just because you are using a timeline it doesnt just delete your access to animating a slider

[little plume]

and that still wouldnt look right

[little plume]

i would have to do it manually on every single fucking keyframe

there is a keyframe on everyframe

[night ember]

thats not how animations work

[little plume]

because these animations are ripped straight from fortnite

[night ember]

animations interpolate

[little plume]

yeah between 2 keyframes

😭

[night ember]

then just slap one keyframe at the start and one at the end

[little plume]

but there are already keyframes on every frame...

dawg did you not read what i just said

[night ember]

thats not how animations work

[little plume]

really?

[night ember]

just because there are keyframes it doesnt just magically break everything else

every single object you key has its own slot in an animation

they are entirely independant

[little plume]

....

also my animations are read only

like i said

i cnat do it that way

[night ember]

then make it not read only

[little plume]

i need a material that just automatically does it anyway im not wanting to use keyframes

that was my question

a shader that has a GRADIENT

not just a hue shift

a gradient

[night ember]

my guy

you dont need a shader that specifically gradients

[night ember]

literally just do a rainbow gradient texture and pan it

every single shader has panning

[little plume]

here are my keyframes

[night ember]

and?

[little plume]

and since they are read only i cant even adjust them in unity

but hypothetically if I could I would have to change the hue every frame so it interpolates between each and every single frame

[night ember]

you dont need to do every single frame

just the start and end

[little plume]

but that is hypothetical

[little plume]

by default the other frames would have a starting value

[night ember]

and

[little plume]

ok

id have to adjust that every frame

[night ember]

no

you do know how 3d animation works right?

[little plume]

🤦

dude ive tried to do this with shapekeys already

[night ember]

the animation doesnt just magically add a keyframe every single one for a random thing you added to the animation

[little plume]

yes i get what you are saying but your not understanding that there are more keyframes than just a start and end keyframe

[little plume]

but there is already all those keyframes

[night ember]

A N D ?

you adding something else to the animation that isnt animated by those frames already doesnt just magically add keyframes for it

[little plume]

again

read only animation

like i said

i cant do it that way

[night ember]

make it not read only

[little plume]

and that wouldnt even look accurate

[little plume]

yeah i didnt think of that thanks

now can somebody answer my question

how to make a shader use a rainbow gradient?

[worthy storm]

There’s a YouTube for it.

[little plume]

there actually isnt i looked

[worthy storm]

Is this right?

https://youtu.be/Uiho4gL532M?si=lhVXghtASyplFkMt

[little plume]

ok well that tutorial doesnt say rainbow gradient so that wouldnt show up in my search

same technology but that video wasnt exactly for a rainbow gradient

[night ember]

default standard shader

[little plume]

mk but i was asking how to do that

[worthy storm]

https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_07a85b95-cf1e-4ae9-a880-a3108ac44bf6

this is a grok request for it.

[little plume]

😭

[night ember]

and I told you

[little plume]

that was literally what my question was but you just started talking about hue shifts with keyframes

[night ember]

you can pan the uv or hue shift it if the shader has a hue shift

[night ember]

thats literally what I did

and heres it with already existing keyframes

[little plume]

ok i thought you meant to make keyframes on my already existing timeline

[night ember]

I said add to the animation

also the timeline doesnt just delete the rest of an animator

[little plume]

which made me think add to my already existing animation

you worded that poorly

make an animation for the material wouldve been a better way to word it

[night ember]

I literally said that

I quite literally just said animate the panning/hue shift

[little plume]

ive been confusing myself trying to animate shapekeys so i was still thinking with that method

sorry 😢

[night ember]

why didnt you just make an animation for the shapekeys

[little plume]

wait thats so smart i didnt do that

theres not an animation for that made in blender baked into my model or anything

with shapekey animation

without

[night ember]

you do know you can play multiple animations at the same time right?

[frail badger]

I managed to set up my avatar emotes without VRCFury, but when i play them in game, it's as if my default standing position is mixing with my animation, and i'm stuck twitching in place. How do I set my playable layers so this doesn't happen/ what is the fix for this? They work just fine in unity, but not in-game. I'm inclined to think it's an issue of the action layer not taking over the base layer like it should

I understand when starting the emote, you set the action layer's weight to 1 and back to 0 when it's done, but what about the base layer? Action layer is supposed to override it for the duration of the animation/emote, right?

here's an example of one of my animation layers. Is this not the process?

[night ember]

does this even tracking control

[ruby summit]

my avatar looks crispy when using blendshapes, my friend told me to enable legacy or sometig like that but idk how

[night ember]

blendshape normals

[ruby summit]

and where is that is the question

[night ember]

the fbx

[frail badger]

i have no idea what you mean by this

[night ember]

you need a tracking control component

the action layer doesnt just override the tracking for no reason

[ruby summit]

ok found, it should work now

[night ember]

just test in unity

[ruby summit]

it still doesnt

[night ember]

then you dont have any blendshape normals at all

either make them in blender or use calculate in unity

[ruby summit]

ill use calculate then

since this model is from fortnite i doubt it has that

still looks ass, i need to play wit the settings a little bit

[night ember]

could just be your material

[ruby summit]

im using poiyomi

[night ember]

thats poiyomi?

[ruby summit]

yeah...

[night ember]

that looks like standard not poiyomi

[ruby summit]

she looks fine when not posing dw

[frail badger]

youre the GOAT one last question: how do i stop my animation from rotating when i look around? do i need to disable body orientation on the animation

[night ember]

you cant

[frail badger]

ok wig ill live with it

[main fiber]

where do creators usually put the facial expressions during gestures- like, where would I start looking to change them?

[frail badger]

wait my movement turns into pc movement when the emotes are over, how do i return to VR tracking?

i put another tracking control on my state to turn the action layer weight back down and set it to "Tracking" and now im doing PC movement in VR

[left gull]

FX layer, check the left and right hand layers

it'll have the different options like point,rocknroll,thumbsup,victory etc then click those and in the inspector choose the animations linked

you can swap those out with your new ones or drag the animations onto a duplicated version of your avatar in the heirarchy and edit them

[main fiber]

it shows this destination instead, and idk where i look for that instead-

[frail badger]

sorry VRChat bot, i was really excited

-# [restrained enthusiasm] it randomly started working lets fucking goooooooooo

[main fiber]

oh nvm i found them, thanks lilpimpen

[night ember]

I sent you a video of what the default action layer looks like

[proud moss]

is anyone available need help uploading a avatar

[night ember]

just state your issue

[proud moss]

ok so i have a avatar that i bought from a user and i have everything for it, but its giving me an error saying like something with the geasures options

[left gull]

send a screenshot of the error

[proud moss]

ok

@left gull

[night ember]

you need to install gesture manager

[proud moss]

is it like a thing i gotta add or?

nvm i see what you mean my bad

[left gull]

you could also just remove it from the heirarchy since it's mainly just for in-unity testing

(also that model kinda reminds me of a game character )

[little plume]

i made the material without using a single animation
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/361741445352259584/1426784624188719256/10111.mp4?ex=68ec7c3a&is=68eb2aba&hm=8413d9202265db2b3a6a851dd8fa3ecbce14c075adc1ca1bcdaa7b29fb3ad9d7&

or it can just not embed yeah

[proud moss]

yo @left gull so everything was fine at first but i got an error saying that im missing face tracking for the avatar

[left gull]

highly suggest looking for a requirements section on the purchase page or in an included .txt file of somekind with the download, its likely asking for another vcc add-on like what gesturemanager was

probs this: https://adjerry91.github.io/VRCFaceTracking-Templates/

[upper venture]

hiii im trying to add face tracking to an avatar i dont need the WHOLLEE set up just a mouth open and mouth closed thing thats it

[junior void]

is that a question

[fresh egret]

dos anyone know how to fix evil weigh painting..

[ornate stump]

What are you even showing?

[night ingot]

is there a way to add custom poses to gogoloco? if so can someone show me?

[spark walrus]

???

[somber sequoia]

The gogo documentation covers this

[night ingot]

thanks

[undone oracle]

if you make a prop attacked to an avatar can you not also play blenshape animations on that prop?

[ornate stump]

Why not?

[night ember]

Why couldnt you?

[undone oracle]

ive been trying but it won't let me

[undone oracle]

eveytime I test in play mode the prop gets stuck in one of the animations whether its attacked to the body bone or not. Ive started from scratch a couple of times and it always does it

[ornate stump]

Do you rather mean "attached"?

The real question would be how much you sure you're doing correctly.

[undone oracle]

I put the prop in, record animations to it, play the gesture manager and its in the animation already. I don'teven need it to be constrained yet

[ornate stump]

When does it stop working?

[night ember]

And are you leaving the animation in the base layer

[undone oracle]

im trying to make a prop head, I add it in the scene, record an animation and go into gesture manager to play and in the scene it in teh animation

[undone oracle]

should I not be?

[ornate stump]

Then you moved the CatHead into CatBody hierarchy and put the animation into the avatar fx? That causes the animation path to be mismatch.

[undone oracle]

I haven't actually done that yet, i haven't even moved it into the cat body

[night ember]

No cause if its there and the default state then its just going to be permanently playing

[ornate stump]

You have to put object into avatar first then record animation for the avatar animator itself. Not with animator on the object.

[night ember]

Also why is the head even a separate object

[undone oracle]

cause i want to make it like a prop so that i can take it on and off

I can grab it in the characters hadn

will that not be possible?

[ornate stump]

Still you have to put in the avatar hierarchy before recording animation.

[night ember]

It doesnt need to be a separate fbx for that

[undone oracle]

it wont be upset if i add a parent contraint?

[night ember]

No?

[ornate stump]

No.

[undone oracle]

ok ill try

[night ember]

The only thing youd need to do if its under the head is add a headchop so it scales up so you can see it or vice versa if it isnt under the head bone

[undone oracle]

I added a parent constraint but it doesn't move when I move the empty its constrained too.

[ornate stump]

What is the animation and the object hierarchy?

[undone oracle]

nevermind I think i got it working

[sharp lily]

so i have a mouth thats a 2d plane with a texture on it with all the expressions in a grid, can someon please explain to me how to animate that into a working mouth because youtube isnt helping

[timber wharf]

@sharp lily https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l--1c8QGpVw

#avatar-help message

[sharp lily]

thanks but ive seen that video and its not helpful because of how i have it set up, sorry

[teal laurel]

I have a very particular issue, that only happened on Quest/Android so far.

TLDR:
I use jackalseatingsystem on my avatar. The issue was, that it would show the seat when people have my animations (animator) disabled via safety settings.
I disabled the game object (parent, as the seat game object has to stay on for it to register as the docs mention), but yet the seat still shows when my animations (animator) is disabled

https://blackwolfwoof.com/s/YY6LQkSMPDmt8qg/preview

is there something i am missing here?
For reference, gogoloco also manages to do this somehow

and their game object is on by default

https://blackwolfwoof.com/s/J3EJLPP64m7nrQ7/preview
-# For whatever reason, we do not have embed perms here, so yea. You gotta open it in web to see

[sharp lily]

how do i set that up?

[timber wharf]

@sharp lily what exactly is the problem. visemes are ints so motion time ie single animation wont work, 2nd and 3rd are viable options

#avatar-help message

[sharp lily]

ive just never done this before

[undone cargo]

I need someone to help me out with converting my model to VRChat. I have it rigged (and it's a very simple avatar, so it's only got 6 bones), but the problem is, Unity flat out refuses to install on my computer. Which, i mean, is pretty based, but it also makes it literally impossible to finish making my avatar.

[timid phoenix]

Does anyone know how I can make my toggle expressions be prioritized more then my gesture expressions? im having issues figuring it out and I dont really want a disable gestures toggle just for this issue

[timber wharf]

depends on how its done, overall when two layers try to animate the same parameter, topmost takes priority. so simply dragging toggle layer higher than gesture may help

@undone cargo if you cant install unity, probly should try unity support, not vrc🤷‍♂️ also 6 bones is not enough for humanoid animations

[timid phoenix]

I have the toggle dragged above but theyre colliding with my gestures

[timber wharf]

then they do different things

tbf just make it one layer. for gestures use if toggle = false and gesure x then x

and there as well if toggle true then do toggle

[timid phoenix]

Alright Ill try that thanks!

[fickle aspen]

Hello! Can someone help me?.. I havent played vrchat in around half a year, (i assume theres new updates.) I started uploading my models again to my account, for some reason PC users can see my model but for quest users, it doesnt show up in my uploaded nor will it even show up!! It pops up as a robot for me, I know this isnt just the avatar being low, due to me uploading MULTIPLE avatars and all of them have became robots on quest. :,< is this a bug for vrc!??!?! (dont know this is related for avatrs but mainly is help with my uploading-) :,3

[agile reef]

Hello help chat! I was wanting to apply a hoodie on my avatar but I also want to make it so I can grab the hoodie to bring it up and pull it down. I want other people to be able to grab it too- is there someone who has a tutorial video for something like that or someone willing to walk me through it? I am a visual learner and I semi-know what im doing in blender and unity lol

[fickle aspen]

thats in physbones!! :) I can help a bit if you need.

I think its in physbones

are you talking about your own model pulling up the hoodie??

If so thats an interaction :3

[agile reef]

yes, being able to grab it and move it around, I'd assume it needs the blendshapes for "up" and "down" but im not sure how to animate or set it up to where its grabbable. do I need to add a bone in blender for it or something?

[fickle aspen]

https://www.reddit.com/r/VRchat/comments/zf6mmb/here_is_a_short_tutorial_on_how_to_pull_clothing/ Here you go lovely!

it is indeed a blendshape ^^

Found a video to help you more because your a visual learner!

[agile reef]

You're a godsend truly ❤️ Thank you so much

[fickle aspen]

Ofc!! <3 Hope the video helps you sm and wish you well on your journey >:3

[cyan kestrel]

Does having a Contact Receiver script on the same bone that has a Physbone script normally break the Physbone/Stop it from working?

[somber sequoia]

hmm I'd think that would work fine

[cyan kestrel]

I removed the contacts just to see and they started working/acting normally again.
(This is after hours of uninstalling and reinstalling packages, new projects, blender checking, etc...)
I didn't think it'd be something this simple.

[somber sequoia]

huh!

I wonder if having "is animated" checked helps

now I want to try this

[cyan kestrel]

Tried that too funny enough, it didn't help.

Forgot to mention the Physbone is directly on the bone itself, the contact is on it's own Child Object.. not sure if that matters.

[somber sequoia]

yeah that shouldn't make any difference

if this absolutely doesn't work, I wonder if using a parent constraint on the contact object would

[cyan kestrel]

I put them under the base of the avatar and "root transform"d them to the correlating bones and they follow the bones!... except now they aren't working properly and don't play the animation 😭

Physbones work but now the Contact is borked

[somber sequoia]

wow I'd not have thought that would matter

[cyan kestrel]

I'll try with actual Parent Constraint next- just to see

It worked, so I guess I'll just have to Parent constraint any Contacts I want to work ontop of Physbones

[modest kestrel]

gon do a render 4 a friend and i havent done it in a whiiiile, the opaque etc setting isnt there, im using the newest blender version on steam with cats plugin. howdo i fix it?

[somber sequoia]

you're in blender, right? Opacity is the alpha property in your materials

[modest kestrel]

thats the thing, its not there

[somber sequoia]

not sure what you mean by that

[somber sequoia]

it should be above that, in the "surface" section, though it's often easier to look in the node editor in the Shading tab

I'm not sure if that MMD material thing changes this though, never used it

[somber sequoia]

"alpha" is right there

[modest kestrel]

doesnt do anything tho

[somber sequoia]

depends on which view mode you're in and the "render method" in the settings -> surface section in the material properties

I'm assuming that in these images, you're referring to the eyelashes?

[modest kestrel]

yes

im so confused what im doing wrong

now its just purple

[balmy barn]

if texture have alpha

[ornate stump]

Simple as linking Color to Color, and Alpha to Alpha.

[modest kestrel]

yea...but its not working, idk

[ornate stump]

You somehow also missing Material Output node.

[modest kestrel]

omg jeez thanks haha i got it now

[somber sequoia]

ah nice, that works

[heavy lantern]

when i try to put textures on the on the shirt and the rest this happens

[upper venture]

yes

[somber sequoia]

what specifically are we looking for here?

[upper venture]

how do i add just a mouth open/close face tracking

[timber wharf]

what kind of face tracking you have that just does that

[somber sequoia]

there's a discord for face tracking, that may help

but if you have some sort of avatar that has a rigid mouth instead, you could easily use the OSC input parameters from face tracking to run whatever animations you want

[upper venture]

it would be this avatar

they dont smile or anything they just flap their mouth lmao

[somber sequoia]

Ah so exactly that, yep

[heavy lantern]

im sorry the texture is applied the worng way

it should be like this

[somber sequoia]

Looks like flipped face normals to me

in blender in the viewport overlays, enable "face orientation" and then anything bright red is a backface, you want the front faces facing out of course.

[heavy lantern]

i don know how on blender they are ok but when i transfer it to unity everything becomes white and when i put the jpeg that happends

[somber sequoia]

Yes

Again, go look at the face orientation in Blender.

[balmy barn]

red is wrong way, newer blender wont show the blue anymore (annoying when you work with red outfits) so i just enabled it back in 3dviewport

[chilly raptor]

how dose one make the ears move like this

[somber sequoia]

I initially hated the lack of blue but now I find I'm often leaving this enabled and so that's better

[tiny grotto]

my avi looks fine in blender but when i bring it to unity the left arm goes like this?? does anyone have any clue how id fix this would really appreciate the help!! can't just adjust the left elbow up manually either, it reverts to looking like this in gesture manager

[balmy barn]

could be contacts + floats or just a 'physbone' stretch value , then change whenever head go up or down

[heavy lantern]

this is my first time making an avatar how do i do that

sorry

[somber sequoia]

I said how

#avatar-help message

[heavy lantern]

this should be right ???

[somber sequoia]

Looks good to me

[heavy lantern]

could it be the fact thet im using a jpeg directly and not a material

[somber sequoia]

it's impossible to use an image "directly", you always have a material

[balmy barn]

that creates a material in the material folder

[somber sequoia]

Also use .png instead of .jpg

[balmy barn]

you can mess with material setting after , try the backface culling off / back / front ,

only certain ones will have that option, poi or vrchat toon standard + liltoon mostly what i know people using

[heavy lantern]

i dont see something that could help

[hushed torrent]

Can someone help me upload my first avatr?

[junior void]

I think this is a support channel

[empty hornet]

Ohh

[somber sequoia]

Feel free to ask specific questions.

[umbral oriole]

hello does anyone know how to make whatever projects your voice in your avatar move to a different place kinda similar to how deamo works with its speech thing

[somber sequoia]

You can't in VRChat, unfortunately

[sour sparrow]

wtf is goin on here lol

also how do i fix whatever this is

[umbral oriole]

yes you can well atleast sdomething cause i have personaly witnessed avatars that have this feature

[somber sequoia]

Okay, find one and show us then.

[somber meadow]

Voice source is tied to the viewpoint. It’s not like CVR where you can adjust them separately unfortunately

[night ember]

incorrect

its attached to the head bone

the listener is attached to the viewpoint but not your voice audiosource

[night ember]

requires you beheading yourself

[umbral oriole]

so i would need to do the blender work to make it possible? or is there a way to do it in unity withough my head flying lol

[night ember]

blender

this isnt something thats intended for you to do

[umbral oriole]

dang it

[night ember]

just a side effect

[umbral oriole]

yeah i feel you

[umbral oriole]

so im guessing the way would be to make a secondary head bone and then in unity use rotation contraint so the fake headbone with the actual head moves normally??

[night ember]

🤷‍♂️

whatever you wanna do

[umbral oriole]

well thanks this helps

[faint ridge]

I need help with a Facial Expression toggles on it since the Smile Facial is mixing up the other facials.

[left gull]

do you have your WD off?

[faint ridge]

Wd? I'mma be honest this is my first time messing with the facials

[night ember]

thats transition conditions or an animation issue

either you have the hand in the transition conditions

or

you have everything animated in the animation for some reason

despite the fact you should only have what you are animating in it

[night ember]

write defaults is an animator thing in general not exclusive to facial animations

[slow panther]

i tried making all blendshapes that overlap default 0 of whatever animation im using
yeahh thats how it was set up originally im still a bit new to all this

she a little messy

[night ember]

doing that forces whatever lower layer to take priority

[faint ridge]

Ah ok I can try to find it

[night ember]

you either have it on and have it automatically reset to the default uploaded state when not animating it

or have it off requiring a reset animation

[slow panther]

the reset animation also has all of them off

[left gull]

WD= Write Defaults, having mixed or incorrect defaults causes shapekey/blendshape overlap

[night ember]

Im talking to the other person

[slow panther]

oop

[night ember]

but again

[slow panther]

were having similar stuff

[night ember]

you shouldnt ever do stuff like that

[slow panther]

[night ember]

you are forcefully animating it so that other animations cant animate it as well

[hollow sonnet]

anyone know any recent avatar creating tutorials with the new cats and blender in them

[faint ridge]

I just check for WD in the animator but there ON

[night ember]

there isnt going to be a jack of all trades video

[faint ridge]

Plus I'm more of a visual learner

[night ember]

dont know what your setup looks like

[faint ridge]

I'm really lost with the facial stuff rn

[slow panther]

same

[faint ridge]

Like I just wanna make a Art The Clown avatar man...

[night ember]

complaining about it isnt fixing it

[worn kiln]

?tag scam

[flat musk]

Hey ho 👋 I see you're looking for commissions.

You will probably receive DM's or friend requests from scammers now (or later) that will try to offer you their services. 😖

🚫 Absolutely DO NOT engage with those, regardless of how competent they might seem or their excuse to why they contact you.
This is unsafe practice used by scammers, and also breaks this Discord's rules. 👮

If you seek a creator, check out VRCTraders and follow their protocols strictly 🥺
(You will get DM from bot to verify your account upon join.)

🌠 It's extremely important to always DEEPLY investigate the account and social media of the person you plan to commission.
Is their social media linked in Discord? Is it legitimate? Are the references stolen? (Try to reverse image search posts to check.) 👀
The quality of fake profiles out there can be crazy good, be aware of that and NEVER engage with DM or friend requests that originate from the artist.

When in the slightest doubt, do not commission them and contact the moderators of the involved communities. 😱

[lunar bluff]

uh.. ok?

[night ember]

this isnt even a commission server

[worn vessel]

vrc traders like the bot said is a pretty good way to get coms lol, try there

[lunar bluff]

dude i was just askingh

[night ember]

and I told you this isnt a commission server?

[short ferry]

so I was testing my avatar with Gesture manager but I accidentally clicked ctrl-Z and now when I go into gesture manager it puts him into the motorcycle pose

any way to fix this?

[edgy ridge]

is anyone else having trouble uploading ?

[ancient adder]

go to your avatar's armature, right click it, click select all children, then right click rotation and click revert

[ancient adder]

had an upload that failed earlier, worked after my second attempt

[edgy ridge]

I kept on getting this error

[somber sequoia]

Look in the console for more details

[edgy ridge]

I did

[somber sequoia]

ok so what's in there? any errors?

[somber sequoia]

Share the first 2-3 if you like, we can't tell you anything without

[edgy ridge]

I thought it was becuz this is an old projects, so I made a new one, but still getting this error

ok sec plz

[somber sequoia]

you only need to show the error summaries, no details. And show the first 2-3 - these are unfortunately not of any use.

[sour sparrow]

anyone know about this?

[ancient adder]

i think these 2 messages mean that there was no response on the vrc side

[somber sequoia]

Please explain what is wrong

[ancient adder]

weight painting issue

[edgy ridge]

is this is issue?

[somber sequoia]

that is a warning, you are looking for red error messages

[edgy ridge]

that the only red error i have

nothing else

[somber sequoia]

sucks, that's not really helpful 🙁

[edgy ridge]

ye... thats why i was confused too

[sour sparrow]

his mouth and eyes dont match up with the movement of his head

[ancient adder]

your teeth and eyes need to be weight painted in blender to match the head bone.
you can do this easily by going to edit mode, pressing L on the parts of the mesh that are broken, go to the vertex panel, select the "Head" vertex group, setting weight to 1, and clicking assign

[somber sequoia]

probably weight painting, yep

[sour sparrow]

thanks bunches, I'll give it a try!

[ancient adder]

do this for the corresponding vertex group

you'll probably want your eyes to be on their respective eye's vertex group, and all the mouth parts to be in head or jaw

[strange saffron]

I'm trying to move the head and arms I made in the new one to my existing model. They are identical in the sense I used the existing model as a base and weightpainted the new stuff on to the existing bones, not using any new bones for it. I don't know if I am using Pumpkin or VRC Fury wrong but I can't seem to get just the prefabs over to the existing model, at least not without it either creating a duplicate armature or some other weird unwanted shennanigans

[night ember]

why arent you just doing it in blender

[strange saffron]

it's already done in Blender?

[night ember]

also thats not a vrchat rig

[night ember]

why is it separate fbx's then

[strange saffron]

I didn't join the meshes

[ancient adder]

merge the armatures in blender as well

[night ember]

thats a bit more than joining meshes

[strange saffron]

each one is a clothing toggle

[night ember]

but why is it a separate fbx

that didnt answer my question

just make it a part of the same fbx and armature

[sour sparrow]

so it didnt work at all

[ancient adder]

ok looking more closely i don''t think i understand the underlying issue

[strange saffron]

It's easier for me to see what meshes I need to toggle on/off if I do it this way, though it doesn't look as optimized or correct overall

[night ember]

how

[ancient adder]

in the hierarchy there are 2 different avatars i think, not two prefabs as seperate children of the avatar

[strange saffron]

The parts I want to move to my existing idol model is the two new prefabs I added at the bottom of the newest import

One avatar is the one I already had brought into VRChat and works fine

the lower one is the newer one with the small adjustments

[night ember]

why are you using fury for this then

[strange saffron]

I am not sure I follow?

[night ember]

you mentioned pumpkin and vrcfury

[strange saffron]

there is an armature link component that VRC Fury has

I tried it but idk if I didn't set it up properly

[night ember]

why are you needing to link armatures

[ancient adder]

ok so to make sure i understand: you are trying to move the JirachiHead and JirachiSleeves from the new model (bottom) to your old model(top) and cant figure out how

[strange saffron]

yes

[ancient adder]

ok

[strange saffron]

that way it doesn't show up as a different model entirely in VRC and only shows up as a revision

[night ember]

then just replace the fbx for the original one with the new one

[ancient adder]

set up your pipeline manager component to use the same avatar ID as the other avatar

[strange saffron]

will that work as I saved it with a different name

[strange saffron]

wait how do you do that

[night ember]

its with the avatar descriptor

[ancient adder]

lol

[strange saffron]

thank you

[ancient adder]

np

[strange saffron]

I keep forgetting to not get too excited

[night ember]

self fulfilling name

[strange saffron]

hahaha

yep

[stray lintel]

Does anyone know how to add colliders to a weapon on the avi?

[ancient adder]

to interact with physbones or contacts

[stray lintel]

Contacts

[ancient adder]

ok you'll need some basic knowledge on parameters work

add a vrchat contact sender

[stray lintel]

Mk

[ancient adder]

set it to capsule and make it encompass your weapon

add a collision tag

set the collider

this makes it so that it will pretent to be a collider with that tag

wait wrong one crap

same setup but with reciever sorry

set the parameter whose value you want to change

then set the reciever type ot the relevant reciever

constant sets a boolean to 1 when the specified collision tag is inside of the reciever

on enter sets the bool to 1 the frame of contact then sets it back to 0 immediately, this is what you want for a sound effect

and proximity sets a float parameter from 0 to 1, useful for motion time animations like you closing your eyes if someone tries to poke you

since you have a weapon, you probably want the torso and head collision tags

then go to your animator and add the parameter you set the reciever to, in this case Hit

then create an animation layer that plays your desired animation (such as an audio source being enabled) and use the Hit parameter as the condition

[stray lintel]

oki

do you know if there is any video forms of that explanation?

sorry im a AV learner

[ancient adder]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOZu6e8ozns

[sour sparrow]

what if its a seperate mesh im trying to bind to my main mesh?

i just dont wanna merge them for modeling purposes

[somber sequoia]

Merge them when you export - I keep all my meshes separate for blender use

[ancient adder]

do the mouth and eyes not have an armature modifier?

[sour sparrow]

they do

[ancient adder]

and they have the vertex groups?

[sour sparrow]

they dont

[ancient adder]

oh ok

[sour sparrow]

just the main body does

[somber sequoia]

this won't work then - they need those vertex groups because that's where skin weights are stored

[ancient adder]

control click both, with the armature highlighted with bright orange, then do ctrl+p and select armature deform with empty groups

[sour sparrow]

awe dang

[still shuttle]

I am working on an avatar with a candy bucket. I want the avatar's hand to close around the bucket handle when the bucket is toggled on without having to do the fist gesture. Is this possible? I attempted to animate the hand closing around it, but it does not work when testing with gesture manager. The bucket toggles on but the hand stays open. Is there a way to get the result I want without having to do the fist gesture?

[somber sequoia]

You have to put that hand animation in the Gesture animator, not FX, and also use VRC Animator Tracking Control to "take over" control of the fingers, then return it back to "tracking" after.

You'll probably find tutorials about weapons or grabbable props will show this part

[still shuttle]

so I make the toggle in the gesture layer instead of the FX layer?

[somber sequoia]

no, you do the hand gesture part in gesture and the rest of whatever it is in FX

such as toggling on the bucket

[ancient adder]

toggle of the object needs to be in fx, the gesture override has its own layer in gesture

[still shuttle]

Im sorry I dont think Im understanding

[somber sequoia]

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/playable-layers

explains all the layers and what they are for

[still shuttle]

I am aware how the playable layers work and what they do. I just am not understanding what you are explaining

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure how to tell you in another way - what about it wasn't clear?

[ancient adder]

The object toggle must be in FX. FX cannot play gesture animations, so you must make an additional layer in the gesture controller that plays the hand animation

[somber sequoia]

technically you don't need this in its own layer, but sure, that'll work

[still shuttle]

ok, and I'm assuming I use the same parameter for it?

[somber sequoia]

yes

[ancient adder]

keeps it a bit more organized imo

[somber sequoia]

yep, it's entirely up to you

[still shuttle]

I am using the same animation key frames for the hand grab gesture (just copied it from one animation to another) that is in the gesture layer already but it is a custom made gesture controller so im not sure if that will change anything

[ancient adder]

yes and add an animator tracking control behavior to the hand animation that sets right hand to animation

[somber sequoia]

yeah in this case I'd do it with another layer - I wouldn't want to touch that mess

[somber sequoia]

Surely here you mean fingers, not hand.

[ancient adder]

oh yeah youre right whoops

[somber sequoia]

I literally made this mistake yesterday 🙂

[ancient adder]

dont want to break your wrist lol

[somber sequoia]

"wtf why is my hand- OH.... dammit."

[still shuttle]

im testing it out rn ty guys for your help 🫂

[sour sparrow]

it worked, you're a life saver!!!!!!

[still shuttle]

it works but it makes the other hand go into like a claw hand kinda

heres a video

[ancient adder]

first double check the tracking control is set to fingers, i told you the wrong thing by mistake. Next, add the right hand mask to your layer to make it only affect your right hand

i think that should work

[somber sequoia]

don't forget to restore the fingers after the animation is done

[still shuttle]

I cant seem to put the "vrc_handright" mask on the layer

[somber meadow]

click the eyeball icon on the top right to unhide hidden folders

[still shuttle]

omg tysm

i didnt see that haha

gonna test again and see if its fixed :D

it works you guys rock tysm

[somber sequoia]

awesome

[gloomy breach]

guys I need a bit of help when it comes to making toggles.

I have THREE assets that use Modular Avatar and my goal here is:

I am working on my own version of 77 Stellari's "Iron Cats" and I need a SINGLE toggle that will do the following:

1. Play an audio (i know how to do that)
2. Toggle a mask (I know how to do that)

3) Hard part: Toggle on the THREE of the assets that are already using Modular Avatar at the same time

[somber sequoia]

one toggle which changes the other variables via VRC avatar parameter driver

[gloomy breach]

i wish there were voice channels here so we can talk more.

[ancient adder]

vrc parameter drivers

ignore that mess on the right i didnt learn how motion time or blend trees worked yet

vrc parameter driver just modifies the corresponding parameter value when an animation is played, allowing you to control multiple multiple parameters, and thus animation layers, with a single animation layer

abstraction :D

[night ember]

modifies unless its controlled by something like a physbone, contact, or game itself

[gloomy breach]

i dont have the avatar parameter driver, can we do a discord call?

[gloomy breach]

maybe bring Kazin on the call?

[night ember]

what version of unity and sdk are you even using

[ancient adder]

sure I can call, just you need to add it to an animation in your animator, not to an object in your hierarchy

[somber sequoia]

I don't do calls

[somber sequoia]

It's a component you add to an animator state

[ancient adder]

if you still cant figure it out, feel free to call me, should only take like 2 minutes to get it set up

[sour sparrow]

also there was this issue I was having, hes supposed to be standing/leaned but hes underground

[ancient adder]

make sure your FBX is set to Humanoid in unity

[sour sparrow]

it is

[ancient adder]

is your locomotion set to something other than default in your avatar descriptor?

[sour sparrow]

nope

[ancient adder]

hmm

[sour sparrow]

I even have the root moved up

[ancient adder]

is the origin of the avatar the base of the feet or at the hip bone

[sour sparrow]

in unity

the hips i think

[ancient adder]

ok so if the avatar is at 0,0,0 hes in the floor?

at 0,0,0 the avatar's feet should be touching the ground. If not, you need to go to blender and set the origin to the feet of the avatar

do this but with the bottommost vertex of the avatar

[tulip pecan]

How do you place down multiple particle spawners from an avatar
Im tryna make a niko oneshot avatar, and I need to have it so I can place somthing down that emmits particles

[somber sequoia]

same as putting down any object, just put the particle system on that object

[ancient adder]

like place in the world? add a particle system with a world constraint

[tulip pecan]

I wanna be able to put multiple of them

Not just one.
Like I want to make a copy of the object or somthing

[somber sequoia]

you can't do that at runtime

[tulip pecan]

Is that possible? Ive seen some avatars do somthing like that,

[ancient adder]

you might be able to do something with sub emitters but idk how those work

[somber sequoia]

well technically you can by using a particle emitter to emit extra particle emitter

[tulip pecan]

The avatar would continuesly shoot out glowing balls that stick to things each time I did a gesture. Its laggy, but im wondering

[somber sequoia]

not sure how to effectively do the placement other than targeting by shooting a particle

Final IK maybe

[ancient adder]

should be possible to have it only emit one at a time, i'm just not the guy to ask for that. i have a pretty rudementary understanding of particle systems

[tulip pecan]

meh oh well

[sour sparrow]

ookay

[ancient adder]

figured out the spawn particles at command thing @tulip pecan a bit inconsistent since it only spawns on 1 second intervals but it works

emission settings

for the toggle i play an animation that turns probability to 1 for about a second then turns it back off. particles are set to worldspace and you never stop playing the animation so particles should last as long as the start lifetime

my particle system settings

[radiant night]

After changing the build platform to android Im getting this error message, I already tried changing the build platform on a different copy so its not a 1 time issue, any ideas?

Also, where can I find the binlog?

This is a copy so I'll try exiting safe mode

[left gull]

cutting off errors doesnt help with others helping you

[karmic jay]

How do you set say a pair of shoes as a child in modular avatar?

[radiant night]

That was the full thing, nothing else in the console

[worldly wadi]

would this be the right or wrong spot to ask for help with the whole adding an avatar into your cc to use in vr chat?

[ornate stump]

Help as in needing guidance or having other people do the work?

[worldly wadi]

as in i watched a video i read a text file i googled and googled and im pretty sure its all installed but i cant seem to get the model to work anyway

and im questioning my life choices that led to this moment and if someone could explain what im doing wrong that would be massively helpful

[ornate stump]

Where exactly you got stuck?

[worldly wadi]

so i have the cc and the hub and i am stuck trying to actually get the model open even when i open the file and i see all the parts listed it doesnt show up on the screen

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot what you see?

But when do you want it to enable back?

I don't get this part. What bounds?

You would have to leave the bounds first to touch it second time to enable it though. So that's conflicting with each other.

[worldly wadi]

the file is there but nothing is on the screen

[ornate stump]

Because you haven't either open the scene file or put prefab file into the scene. Depends on what you have.

[worldly wadi]

i didnt see a scene file i looked for one

what is a prefab file?

[ornate stump]

Have you looked into the "Amatousagi" folder?

[ornate stump]

It's a saved object file to be put in scene.

[worldly wadi]

of course

[ornate stump]

Can you show its contents?

[worldly wadi]

oop

[ornate stump]

That's the prefab files. The blue icon.

[worldly wadi]

how do i put it in

[ornate stump]

Drag it.

[worldly wadi]

im not sure i understand

im dragging the pink things towards the screen and i dont see it doing anything

[ornate stump]

You have to switch Game tab to Scene tab first.

[worldly wadi]

oh i see

now theres a pink model on there

how do i make the other stuff appear?

[ornate stump]

What other stuff?

[worldly wadi]

shouldnt it me more than just pink?

[ornate stump]

You have to import whatever shader required by the avatar.

[worldly wadi]

oh

i think i imported everything at the same time tho

[ornate stump]

unitypackage file can only be imported one at time.

[worldly wadi]

oh im not sure i understand

wait

theres a folder called "texture"

[ornate stump]

It isn't shader.

[worldly wadi]

that is all i see

in the folder that came with it

[ornate stump]

Shader is a separate package to download.

[worldly wadi]

where do i get it?

[ornate stump]

I don't even know what shader your avatar is using. So go to read the instruction from the page where you got the avatar from.

How did you set up the animator for that?

[worldly wadi]

im an idiot i was reading the english parts but translating the japanese it litterally said download the shader pack

[ornate stump]

You shouldn't need exit time on each transition.

Also zero transition duration.

[distant sleet]

It is tposing in the scene, but in the game window it goes to motorcycle posing

[ornate stump]

Do you actually want to enable it back when untouching it, or touch it the second time?

[ornate stump]

You rather mean in "Play Mode"? That's normal because you put some animator controller in the animator component.

Really have to be sure what you need because that 2 methods are conflicting eith each other.

The Touched parameter is directly from the contact reciever?

[distant sleet]

you mean this?

i use vrcfury

[ornate stump]

Yes. This shouldn't have any effect in game though.

[distant sleet]

yeah i tried it in game is ok

but i want it ok in play mode too

[somber sequoia]

do you use gesture manager or AV3 emulator?

[ornate stump]

Then use Gesture Manager when testing in unity.

[distant sleet]

look

[somber sequoia]

yes, we know what this looks like

[ornate stump]

The avatar itself is really look wrong in edit mode.

[distant sleet]

what do u mean

[ornate stump]

The body part shouldn't be shrank in the edit mode.

[distant sleet]

i use prefab

[ornate stump]

Did you set contact receiver parameter type to constant?

[ornate stump]

Prefab of what?

[distant sleet]

i didnt make it i just edit it

[ornate stump]

Use constant.

[distant sleet]

i just added 2 clothes and did this 3 toggles

[ornate stump]

That should be irrelevant to the avatar getting bike pose. What did you set in the base layer of avatar playable layer?

[worldly wadi]

the instructions said to download drag to unity and drop and when i do that it just shows the no symbol or does nothing depending on if i have the file open or closed

[distant sleet]

as i told im using vrcfury

you pic of them in play mode?

[somber sequoia]

is it a .unitypackage though?

[ornate stump]

You didn't show anything related to vrcfury.

[distant sleet]

when i entering play mode vrcfury is work without i add it

[worldly wadi]

omg

i just had to double click it

[distant sleet]

look this in play mode

[worldly wadi]

wooh!

[ornate stump]

It's just doing preprocess in general and doesn't really do anything to the avatar if you didn't have any vrcfury component on it.

[worldly wadi]

so do i just save it and then upload it now?

[ornate stump]

I only saw that you reversed the condition between off and on state.

That's because the second touch it moved to the different state from the first time.

[distant sleet]

i added it by myself as you told me and then toggles are double

[ornate stump]

You don't need the third state in that layer.

[ornate stump]

So all of this is unrelated to the base locomotion layer.

Whatever the furthest from the Entry.

[distant sleet]

it should be related?

[ornate stump]

The object toggle work only with FX layer so this has no effect on how the avatar move its body.

[distant sleet]

how can i fix that

[ornate stump]

Try installing gogoloco then.

It's TouchedOff. It has 3 transitions away from entry.

[distant sleet]

the avatar has all these and i dont how i mix them with vrcdury

[distant sleet]

ok ill add it now

[ornate stump]

You don't have to use them all.

[distant sleet]

i know but this is the problem idk how i use what i want

ok i added it

[ornate stump]

It will be different for each thing you want.

[distant sleet]

now what should i do

and how t edit this body in prefab

[ornate stump]

Add gogoloco to your avatar. If you don't know how then you should read instruction included in the gogoloco website.

[distant sleet]

i know how

[ornate stump]

Set body blendshape.

[ornate stump]

Your question was too vague.

[distant sleet]

ok done

done

[ornate stump]

Should at least show the result when testing as well.

[distant sleet]

wow

how genous YOU ARE !

[worldly wadi]

thank you for the help

[ornate stump]

Did you also add transition back to the first state?

[distant sleet]

yo are so smaartt

[ornate stump]

No. This layer should have only 2 states: on and off. You're having 3 states now.

Just that. It should work.

It didn't work because how you set the contact parameter type.

Then you have to reverse the condition.

[distant sleet]

now i wanna mix my toggles and some creator toggles so i put all that in these places

but i didnt want costume

how i romove it

[ornate stump]

You shouldn't put Action layer controller in FX.

[ornate stump]

You have to edit the menu file.

[distant sleet]

oh sry by msitake

how can i edit it i didnt try to edit something like this

dont worry i understand very quickly

[ornate stump]

Just select the menu file and remove the menu item off it.

[distant sleet]

you mean this?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[distant sleet]

now in optioni want to remove all but breast size how?

[ornate stump]

Edit the menu the same way.

[distant sleet]

okkkk it works

[ornate stump]

You can't distinguish player who touch the contact. You can only rely on the custom tag for that player having.

[distant sleet]

ok last thing

[ornate stump]

Local only mean only yourself can touch the contact.

[timber wharf]

you cant make it work only for two, only limit it to friends

[cosmic bronze]

how do i do that then

[timber wharf]

wait, local only probly would work if youre fine with only local avatar playing animation

[distant sleet]

i uploaded an outfit and in the outfit's perfab there is physbones i drag this to my avatar how ? ( i marge the outfit bones with avatar in blender )

[timber wharf]

ie its like plays music or smth, not real animation

[ornate stump]

Because it's sampling light from different location.

[distant sleet]

look there are two same name what should i pick?

[ornate stump]

Are they standing at the exact same spot?

[ornate stump]

Usually it better to find the bone from within hierarchy and drag it in for more accurate selection.

[distant sleet]

should i pick with blue cube?

[ornate stump]

Is it always yellow in other location?

[distant sleet]

i like the way you are thinking

[ornate stump]

Because there is a chance for more than 2 transforms to have same name when working with multiple avatar, that isn't easy to guess from the object picker.

[timid phoenix]

I ask this yesterday but I fixed my main issue. how can i make it where my toggles expressions are higher prioritized then my gestures expressions

[somber sequoia]

order of layers in the animator

[distant sleet]

how can i do icons for anything that i want? like these icons

[somber sequoia]

like in the menu? they're just small .png files

[distant sleet]

yes yessss

how i can make them

[somber sequoia]

same way you make any image file?

[distant sleet]

noo

i wanna make icons for any outfit that i rigged

[somber sequoia]

yes, I understood that

[distant sleet]

how should i take a picture of the outfit? or rendering form unity or blender or what?

[somber sequoia]

whatever you want?

anything you want use is fine as long as it can make a .png file that looks like what you want it to look like

[distant sleet]

i want the best way and how could make the background trans

[somber sequoia]

background transparency is just a matter of using an image editor that can do an alpha channel, you just erase the background then

[distant sleet]

just like that? no unity method so can make it faster and more quailty?

[somber sequoia]

I don't have any advice on how to do a project I know nothing about.

also Unity isn't an image editor, so not sure why you'd use it for this

[left gull]

its very likely they used blender to get the 3d shots, its pretty good at transparent shots but might need a bit of cleanup in a seperate image editor aswell

[somber sequoia]

oh do you mean make images of the actual 3D asset in Blender?

either do a render, or just screenshot it

remove the background in your image editor of choice

[distant sleet]

Yeah

Can do it in untiy by somehow?

[somber sequoia]

screenshot

[distant sleet]

Because in unity the shader is more better

I don’t think this how is creators work with this

[timid phoenix]

I did my toggle is dragged to the top but its still having the gesture ignore the toggle

[somber sequoia]

bottom is what you want

[timid phoenix]

Oh! okay for some reason i thought iwas the top ty

[heavy lantern]

i still cant get this texure to work😭

[ornate stump]

Did you create a material for it?

[heavy lantern]

sorry for the music

[ornate stump]

Select the mesh asset from the model file and see how many UV is in there.

[heavy lantern]

can you tell me how this is my first time

[timber wharf]

@heavy lantern #avatar-help message

[ornate stump]

Find your model file from the Project asset panel first.

[heavy lantern]

found now what

[ornate stump]

Expand the file and find a mesh asset.

[heavy lantern]

this right

[ornate stump]

Yes. See the mesh object in there.

[heavy lantern]

now what

[ornate stump]

See info in inspector.

[heavy lantern]

sorry but what am i looking for

[ornate stump]

You're still selecting the main object. I told you to select some of the mesh asset that's a part of the main object.

[heavy lantern]

ok sorry

[heavy lantern]

this one right??

[ornate stump]

Yes. Is that the one having the issue?

[heavy lantern]

im having the same problem on all of the clothing

[ornate stump]

That confirmed it has multiple uvmaps and it's using the incorrect uv for texturing.
Solution: try enable Swap UVs in the settings of the model file.

[heavy lantern]

how do i do that

[ornate stump]

I'm not sure what part need explaining.

[heavy lantern]

Solution: try enable Swap UVs in the settings of the model file.

[ornate stump]

Select the model file and you will see it.

[heavy lantern]

done now i re apply the texture ???

[ornate stump]

Yes.

If other parts become wrong then you have to fix in blender.

[heavy lantern]

still the same

[ornate stump]

Did you hit Apply button yet?

[heavy lantern]

yes

[ornate stump]

Then you have to actually fix the UV in blender.

[heavy lantern]

they work in blender

[ornate stump]

Make sure that there is only one UVmap on the mesh.

[heavy lantern]

how

[heavy lantern]

sorry but i did something wrong and i cant find the blender file where i rigged the clothing an i have only the fbx file how do i convert it back to .blend

[ornate stump]

How did you take the screenshot from blender if you didn't have it?

[heavy lantern]

thats an older save file

[ornate stump]

Are you sure you didn't save .blend file any where? That's pretty much throwing your work in the trash.

[heavy lantern]

found ittttt

[heavy lantern]

where do i go now

[ornate stump]

As in my screenshot.

[heavy lantern]

sorry but i dont see it

[ornate stump]

You have to select some object first. The one that's having the issue.

[ornate stump]

Make sure it has only one UV.

[heavy lantern]

do i have to delete one

[ornate stump]

Of course.

[heavy lantern]

Which one

[ornate stump]

See when texture is being shown, and if one left and texture is wrong then you deleted the wrong one.

[heavy lantern]

they both work ?

[ornate stump]

So still keep only one. And do the same check for every other object.

[ornate stump]

This rather seems you're using a different texture from what you had in unity though.

[heavy lantern]

now i import this to unity??

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[heavy lantern]

still nothing

😭

[heavy lantern]

.

[ornate stump]

Are you sure it's the right texture?

[heavy lantern]

yes

i just check

[heavy lantern]

...

[ornate stump]

Go to this part again and see preview below. If there is no preview then drag the panel at the bottom up. Change preview Shaded to UV layout and screenshot.

[balmy barn]

cant tell where your shirt is from but even any backface culling wont show those hands on the back for me

[ornate stump]

Can you show the material setting in blender?

[heavy lantern]

is this it

???

[ornate stump]

That's texture. Material is in the shading tab.

[balmy barn]

its upside down vs one i got

but problably not the same mesh source

[heavy lantern]

i took the cloth from this https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/chell-09393f4e04ab477a81b46a0f29487e5f

[balmy barn]

fun glb format , mine just a fbx so no converting needed , but its also this way not upside down

[heavy lantern]

where

[heavy lantern]

...

[ornate stump]

Nothing out of ordinary. Next is checking in UV editor tab. In edit mode for that object.

[heavy lantern]

.

[ornate stump]

Select the faces too and see the view in the left side.

[heavy lantern]

.

[ornate stump]

Zoom out on the left side view.

[ornate stump]

I just saw that in unity, your texture is right-side up. But in blender your texture is upside down.

So that's clearly different texture.

[ornate stump]

So what's shown in blender is embedded texture. Which still is a different texture from the standalone file.

[ornate stump]

But the solution should be set Tiling Y for the texture in material to -1.

[heavy lantern]

it workssssss

do i have to put the material shader to toon lit

[ornate stump]

Do you want to?

[quaint frost]

so im struggling to but my modle in vrchat ive tried so many times and with so many vids but no matter what it doesnt work ive tried putting cat addon in blender but it doesnt work

[heavy lantern]

yes but i know how

[ornate stump]

Didn't you already change it in some other materials?

[heavy lantern]

yes but i put it back to normal

i didnt like it

[ornate stump]

Then don't use it.

[urban cobalt]

why is my eyes purple but i did not make them purple

[ornate stump]

Material is missing shader.

[urban cobalt]

?

this is how it mast look

[ornate stump]

Of course it became magenta because the shader in material is invalid.

[urban cobalt]

how do i fix it

[ornate stump]

Change to a valid shader or import the shader that's missing.

[urban cobalt]

how do i know what is missing

[ornate stump]

Depends on how you got your avatar. If you downloaded, then read the instruction in the page where you got it.

[urban cobalt]

i used v

VRoidStudio

i make it using VRoidStudio

[ornate stump]

Then I have no idea what shader it's using. You usually have to change shader to anything commonly used in vrc anyway.

[urban cobalt]

me to im new to this

was thinking useing VRoidStudio would make it eazy to make a avater for me

[urban cobalt]

they said this

do they mean vrchat app

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[urban cobalt]

okay thx

[balmy barn]

you used this vrm tool in unity so it spits out a very unoptimized fbx with many materials generally a mess , have to find wich one is the slot for eyes on the mesh , recommend learning the blender way then you end up with a very optimized model and way less materials 1-3 max needed for a vrm #avatar-general message

[nocturne shell]

Hi !
Please, I need to know.
I have 9 outfits for my booth avatar.
If I get all of the 9 outfit on it but add toggles, will it make people lag please ? Or I rlly should make one avatar per outfit ?

[balmy barn]

many outfits = more vram use and its a booth so likely to be heavy , stick to one outfit on a avatar

id check how much tho sometime you can have 2-3 without going WAY over limits

[nocturne shell]

Oki. Thank you 💖

[ornate stump]

It still take RAM space so pretty much hogging all while 80% isn't being used.