avatar-help

[ornate stump]

If you can change then sure.

[languid summit]

How do I setup a toggle thingy for certain objects on my body

I wanna make a few outfits but I’ve found that it’d be way too all over the place on my model at the same time

[ornate stump]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqtSg6_W07Y

Or use vrcfury to create toggle..

[languid summit]

Hmm do I have to add it a place on the armature I’ve only got 1 armature that point nowhere

[ornate stump]

That's irrelevant though.

[languid summit]

Oh cool

Sweet

[shut flume]

around a year ago before i took a year long break from avatar making i just forgot vrcfury existed

everything was hell 😭

[languid summit]

Im gonna have 4-5 props though

So is it wise to create duplicate avatars for the prop on and prop off

Or is there a easier way to do prop on and prop off without creating so many duplicates for different props

[ornate stump]

Why do you even need the duplicates?

[languid summit]

According to the video that’s what he did

[ornate stump]

The duplicate avatar's purpose is for recording animation without messing with the main one.

[languid summit]

Right so you’d only need 1 duplicate?

[ornate stump]

In fact you don't even need to create a duplicate for it.

[languid summit]

Oh?

[dense fractal]

does anybody

know how to fix

bycicle pose stuck on gesture manager playmode?

its annoying asf.....

[ornate stump]

Make sure that the base layer in playable layer is valid.

[dense fractal]

do i have to apply a base layer in my avi?

cause theres none

[ornate stump]

You have to at least reset it to default. You can't leave it "None".

[dense fractal]

i did it with other avis...

well il try to put a default base layer

from vrlabs

[ornate stump]

That isn't a default layer then if you acquired it from somewhere.

[dense fractal]

the avi still goes in stuck even if i apply a base layer on it

[ornate stump]

What did you set it?

[dense fractal]

see

even with base layer set

it still

goes there

in bicycle pose

[ornate stump]

Is it even the correct base layer? Where did you get it from?

[dense fractal]

avatar 3 manager?

cause my avi doesnt come with a base layer

sooo

[ornate stump]

I have never heard av3 manager provide its own base layer.

[dense fractal]

it does

and so it also does provide a fx layer

ecc

and it get stuck with an animation from the fx layer aka a expression

too

so idk

[somber sequoia]

huh, I've been using it for years, and also never heard of this

[dense fractal]

well

it does

so idk what to say

[ornate stump]

It likely is a layer for merging, so that's unusable by its own.

[somber sequoia]

news to me.

[dense fractal]

but-

even before

i put the base layer

leaving the base layer off

it did the same thing

soo..

[ornate stump]

No but. Just reset to default.

[dense fractal]

so i leave the avi without fx layer

[ornate stump]

Reset only the base layer with the X button to the right.

[dense fractal]

ok

you do know that aint the proble...

m..

right?

[ornate stump]

Based on the limited information from you, that's the problem.

[dense fractal]

nope

since i said "fx layer" means something is wrong probably...with the fx layer?

cause it does have custom animations like blink ecc

and idk what i did the poses just broke

[ornate stump]

FX layer can't control humanoid bones at all so it can't make avatar pose.

[dense fractal]

even with other fx layer the pose on gesture manager is the exact fuckin same....

what does interfere

[ornate stump]

That means FX layer isn't the problem.

[dense fractal]

with the pose?

[ornate stump]

Can you also screenshot entire unity screen while testing with gesture manager?

[dense fractal]

ok

[burnt drift]

Why does the normals hate me, I also don’t think I got roughness on this (this is the quest version I was using to test textures) anyone know how to fix this?

[dense fractal]

like why???

why this shitty pose??

[ornate stump]

I'm not sure if having 2 gesture managers in the scene could cause this problem. Also screenshot the base layer assignment.

[dense fractal]

is none

[somber sequoia]

wow yeah why do you have so many gesture managers

[ornate stump]

You still haven't reset to "Default"?

[dense fractal]

i did

[white jungle]

do you have a controller assigned under the 'animator'?

[dense fractal]

here

[dense fractal]

yes

[white jungle]

remove that

[dense fractal]

no result

same pose

[ornate stump]

Then try adding gogoloco to your avatar.

[white jungle]

this one? should be left blank. 90% of the time that's the reason ime

[true flower]

TIL: IME = In My Experience. This is a new one for me, thank you 😅

[ornate stump]

Leaving it there should get ignored when testing with gesture manager.

[white jungle]

not in my experience

[dense fractal]

gogo

lock

loco

absolutely*

does nothing

so...

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot to confirm you added to your avatar?

[dense fractal]

i just said it doesnt do shit- but k

[white jungle]

could we get a screenshot of that pose from the side? want to check if it's the 'biker pose' or something else

[dense fractal]

there

this damn useless

pose

[white jungle]

using gesture manager, if you go to Options>States and select T Pose - does it work?

[ornate stump]

To the last point, now we aren't even sure if your gesture manager is working. All the setup should work, so try testing in game.

[dense fractal]

no

[dense fractal]

wouldnt really want that...

if gesture manager sees like that it prolly be on game too

its not worth-

[white jungle]

sounds like gesture manager is not in control of the avi, a different animator is taking over giving you the biker pose. do you have other avatars in the scene? avatar descriptor set up etc?

[dense fractal]

negative

[ornate stump]

As I said, it might be because gesture manager isn't working properly and your avatar setup has no issue whatsoever.

[white jungle]

if you click the play button in unity (gesture manager not selected), does the avatar go into that pose or do nothing?

[dense fractal]

great

not the fucking vrcdsdk broke my avi

BRUUH

[elfin viper]

Hi

What's going on

[ornate stump]

What did you do?

[elfin viper]

Is this chat over bicycle pose...?

[white jungle]

most recently, yes lol

I do have a Q of my own however ; anyone have an opinion on the most optimal way to apply a material to a tail like this - made up of a whole bunch of polys? Sprite w/o backface culling vs duplicate and flip the normals to use a standard material?

not sure if there's hidden 'cost' to sprites

[elfin viper]

What shader are you using for it?

[dense fractal]

auto fix

idk?

[dense fractal]

yes it is

[ornate stump]

How did it break?

[elfin viper]

You know that there is a plugin that auto fix bicycle pose right?

[ornate stump]

The problem is bike pose being in testing with gesture manager. Not getting stuck on animation preview.

[dense fractal]

i dont..

what is the name?

im trying to reopen

the project..

im literally losing it rn-ù

[elfin viper]

Im away from my pc i would've shared the package ik is somewhere on an internet vcc listing

[elfin viper]

Seeing the problem

Mmm

[dense fractal]

when i apply a avatar rig and the fx layer

the shit brokes

[elfin viper]

Might be your animator not running your FX controller

Even tho it can be assigned

Try removing the FX from animator

The controller field

[dense fractal]

brother...

i updated gesture manager

and the problem fixed.....

💀

[elfin viper]

Ah

[dense fractal]

😭

[elfin viper]

I assumed you had everything updated

Make sure you do

[dense fractal]

why is gesture manager so ni-

i aint gonna finish that sentence

i aint on instagram reels

[elfin viper]

Well good

U can now finish your avatar :p

[ornate stump]

As I said, gesture manager didn't work correctly.

[dense fractal]

3 hrs

when i all i had to do

is update it

FUUUUH

[elfin viper]

Y you didn't have it update it in the first place

[dense fractal]

cause i didnt know there was one

😭

[elfin viper]

You use vcc?

https://vrc.school/

To however has interest

[dense fractal]

i do use vcc

[elfin viper]

It always gives you that little upgrade button whenever there is an update of a package

Make sure to always check your project packages atleast like every 2 weeks or smth

[dense fractal]

after this il make sure

[elfin viper]

[dense fractal]

now i do pose normally

finally

[true flower]

Two questions: One, How does one test, on PC, if a Quest upload (particularly with mods) is working? Second, is there a page somewhere in Unity that shows the details of a loaded avatar, specifically parameters like file size and parameter count? For the purposes of tracking down where a given problem might be and what areas need focus for troubleshooting, I mean.

[elfin viper]

🙃

Yes

is called VRC parameters

On your Unity

[white jungle]

upload the quest version like you would a PC avi and test it that way.

[elfin viper]

The sdk tells you how big is your avatar

[true flower]

Oh, duh... that makes sense... I've been uploading both to the same Blueprint ID, and didn't think about other options

[white jungle]

would also note, use the same parameter file for both versions even if the quest one does not make use of some of the PC parameters - this ensures that there's no errors between them since VRC only tracks the parameter position on the list, not the name.

[true flower]

That, too, makes sense. Thank you for the advice. 😁

[true flower]

Annnnnddddd....... if you were talking to someone who didn't know what you meant, you would say...?

[elfin viper]

You don't know what SDK mean...?

Your panel

That you use to upload your vrchat avatar...

[dense fractal]

just asking

its me again

uh

[steep herald]

Hello, you may want to start with this. - https://creators.vrchat.com/sdk/ - From the comments it seems like you're missing some stuff, is this the case?

[dense fractal]

i wanted to know is there any way to unlock the ability on a avi

to when for example lets say i do the thumbs up it plays a facial animation?

[white jungle]

think they mean here, shows more info when uploading. not complete list, but more info

[dense fractal]

if possible ofc-

[elfin viper]

https://vrc.school/

[elfin viper]

What are you trying to do specifically

You want to play a gesture and it plays your avatar blendshape if im correct right?

It is

[dense fractal]

so basically ex

i do the thumbs up

i smile

thats that

[white jungle]

that would be your FX controller

[elfin viper]

Yah avi facial blendshapes

[true flower]

Thank you for the clear and precise answer to the question, I appreciate the time and effort.

[dense fractal]

how can i make the thumbs up work?

cause i have no thumbs up option in my fx layer

[elfin viper]

@true flower This is what i meant yes here

[elfin viper]

Vrc school is a good website I'd recommend you to use

[white jungle]

look at the examples in the SDK, should be able to adapt those to your purpose (Packages\vrchat sdk - avatars\Samples\AV3 Demo Assets\Animation\Controllers)

[true flower]

I already have that turned on, it's not telling me what I need to know. And most of those websites are not set up for simple, direct requests for the information needed to look up the information needed. Which is why I come experienced humans, instead.

[elfin viper]

I have barely touched this topic since i rarely ever done it so i wouldn't be too sure what to say

My bet is VRCFURY add gesture component

And then assign your smile animation or blendshape to thumbs up

[dense fractal]

oh

il try that..

it works!!

thank you!!

[elfin viper]

:p

[elfin viper]

Ok let me think humanly

Answering your 2 questions to my amazing knowledge:

1st You can upload your quest avatar on PC side and test it without actually being on quest. You could use tools like gesture manager to manage what works or not.

2. You can use ur unity to see details of your avatar you can double click your FX layer it will list your every parameters your avatar has and see how many exist and check your VRC EXPRESSIONS PARAMATER

Unity doesn't really give you a prefab size

I would recommend you using THRY performance tools

Is a unity package that lets you see how big is your avatar size etc

https://github.com/Thryrallo/VRC-Avatar-Performance-Tools

Again you could also upload the quest version of your avatar using platform windows to see it your PC and use vrchat avatar stats if you want to be even more specific on how your avatar can be on quest...

According to my knowledge

🤷‍♀️

If is not what you seeked for then i might be a little special :c

Sometimes high parameters counts the SDK itself will tell you but vrc expression paramter tells you how many you have and double click your avatar FX opens the animator tab for you to see every PARAMATER it's bool, int etc

[true flower]

THAT'S the kind of information I was looking for, thank you. I have Thry-- a previous upload insisted I needed it but never explained why or what I was supposed to do with it. Basically what I'm trying to do is chase down where the discrepancy is between the PC version I uploaded and the Quest, despite being virtually the exact same files. It's perfectly reasonable to assume the last mod I tried to install is the problem, but HOW is it the problem, is what I want to figure out.

I apologize for my snark but too many times I, as a first grader, have asked college students how two plus two works and gotten snubbed and snarked in return, and it gets to a point where I am gunshy at asking questions at all.

[opaque thicket]

how do i scale up an avi in unity?

[elfin viper]

You could use THRY> VRAM> and there you select your PC avatar check what's it's size etc and then on the quest side you could isolate the mod and just compare them to see any difference

[night ember]

you just literally scale it up from the root object

[elfin viper]

You can also use VRCQUESTOOLS to convert to quest then have a prefab one PC and one QUEST and use gesture manager to manage and compare both

[opaque thicket]

last time i did my head was inside my chest

[night ember]

well you need to move the viewpoint

[opaque thicket]

oke

[true flower]

The Thry I'm using does not have a VRAM option... I'm assuming I have an outdated version, then. Lemme download from that link posted before

[elfin viper]

Thyrallo

[fair star]

is there any way to have VRC Animator Layer Control use a parameter for the weight?

[night ember]

why?

[mental abyss]

I need help and advice. Because I am new to custom the avi
I made toggle item and grabbable prop by creating FX.
Right now, I can turning on and off to make my prop appear and disappear.
And I can grab my prop from my hip to my hand.

The problem is I can't make it reset if I turn off the toggle, the prop should move back to the hip.

[night ember]

make a transition back to the hip

[fair star]

i have an animation that flickers a lightsource's intensity, and i want to control the max intensity from a float. only ways i can think of are either animating weight or the lightsource's color from the target to black\

[night ember]

if the weight isnt 1 its not going to animate

[mental abyss]

Uhhhh
I made two layers of them.
Contact layer and Toggle layers.

[night ember]

and?

[fair star]

ahh oki

[mental abyss]

Which one should I put transition?

[night ember]

well if its going to toggle it off and move to hip then wherever the placement is?

[mental abyss]

The toggle one. But I tried to make transition and it stuck on "toggle on"

When load avi

[night ember]

dont know how you set it up

[mental abyss]

Can I send the tutorial videos that I used them?

[jaunty urchin]

Alright so

Unity is giving me errors that I don't know how to fix

Any help would be appreciated

[somber sequoia]

first one: you can't use that shader on quest, you can only use quest shaders

[jaunty urchin]

I don't have a quest

[somber sequoia]

also first pic: look over your rig setup, it doesn't look correct for VRChat

you must have chosen android build target then?

[jaunty urchin]

I followed the tutorial to get the VRM file into Unity

I don't know Unity at all, I'm completely new to this

[somber sequoia]

I always suggest importing the vrm file into blender then exporting as fbx and following any other standard setup tutorial

[night ember]

thats not exactly showing what exactly you did

[jaunty urchin]

Blender won't let me

[somber sequoia]

You'd have to explain what that means.

[jaunty urchin]

All I want to do is get the model working with eye tracking

Yesterday someone told me "it will just work" but it doesn't seem to be working

[true flower]

This may be what I was looking for. Thank you. (I installed Thryallo as a repository, so keeping it updated shouldn't be an issue anymore) 😁

[elfin viper]

[mental abyss]

Here. Inside toggle layer.
PropHip is "Hand to hip" animation
Layers is toggle conditions to trigger on/off prop animation

The transition Layers to PropHip is when PropToggle's value is less than "1"

[dense fractal]

why is

unity so shit

breaking the meshes of my avi..

[somber sequoia]

how did you cause that?

[dense fractal]

a fucking error from the sdk

i clicked auto fix

it killed my shit

i shouldnt have clicked it

tbh

[somber sequoia]

What was the auto fix in this case?

[dense fractal]

i dont rember

something with blendshapes

[somber sequoia]

oh well

[dense fractal]

idk

eh

unity suck ass,.,,omfg

[somber sequoia]

that auto-fix isn't a unity thing, it's a VRChat SDK thing

[dense fractal]

vrchat sdk is shit then

[somber sequoia]

haha, I'm not gonna argue too hard there.

I'm pretty curious what this auto fix was though. You should be able to undo that action too.

[dense fractal]

no i couldnt

lol

.....

i have to restart 8 hrs

of avatar...

fuck me

[somber sequoia]

you can't just drag the model into the scene again and copy stuff over to it?

[wild basin]

so im making a sonic avi but he ended up like this.

any way to fix it?

[night ember]

move the view point?

[plain mural]

I'm trying to animate a property in the poiyomi shader. Here are my steps
It still doesn't add a keyframe to the animation. Why?

[somber sequoia]

Because you're trying to animate a Material property directly. You have to animate the material that's on the Mesh Renderer component.

Click the mesh object and scroll down to the material and animate the property there.

[plain mural]

thanks, i'll try it

[somber sequoia]

The material itself isn't an object in your scene, but the mesh renderer is

[austere dome]

Is there any way to support an audio-statemachine of sorts which allows us in the animator to switch audio clips of an audio output? An avatar for a friend wants some minimal sound effects for little interactions like fwoops when a sign pops up. I'd like to keep the avatar optimized and have animated everything on the same skinned mesh renderer, this would be the only thing to break the excellent optimization the avatar currently has.

[somber sequoia]

VRC Animator Play Audio may be what you want: https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/state-behaviors/#animator-play-audio

[solar sand]

Can anyone else not upload avatars right now?

[amber gull]

any idea why some mats gets locked when uploading an avi that it doesnt show the shader or the alpha map when its uploaded in game?

[icy badger]

Can someone help me figure out how to make fire orbs in blender for a vrchat avatar ? Kind of like the image, I was thinking inverting it and putting another sphere inside but I don't know how I would do that , , ,

[somber sequoia]

Probably use the particle system. there are lots of tutorials and a bunch of free particle packs on the Unity store that are good to examine

[icy badger]

I've tried to look for tutorials and I couldn't find any, this was my last resort

[somber sequoia]

first hit for "unity particle system fireball tutorial": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpllBs22rHU

[olive pelican]

The best way to make cartoony flame is honestly with a rigged model with blend shapes, IMHO. It's annoying to do so most people do it with paricles and a specialized shader.

And if you wana throw it? particles are the way to go.

[icy badger]

I kind of want it to look like this

Its a part of a tail

[jaunty urchin]

I'm using avatars that have eyelook enabled, and I'm using the VRC face tracking app. Can someone explain to me how this actualy works? I can't get eye tracking to work

I can't find any tutorial videos that explain this at all

[olive pelican]

VRCFT has a discord.

The people there tend to be knowledgable and helpful.

[jaunty urchin]

noted

[opaque thicket]

i was trying to add a gun with vrcfury
this happends every time i try to test it

[somber sequoia]

does your avatar have that bone?

[opaque thicket]

no it doesnt

i mean it has a thumb

its just named differently

[somber sequoia]

oh then that seems like an expected error, if the prefab requires that bone

"distal" is the end bone

[opaque thicket]

i have it

[somber sequoia]

make sure that bone is in the rig setup in the proper slot

[opaque thicket]

what?

[dire rivet]

Hey I'm sorry to interrupt but can someone help or kinda explain why this happpens when it didnt happen before, this is in unity

[somber sequoia]

find your model file, click it, look in the rig tab in the inspector, click "configure" and then verify the thumb distal bone slot has that bone in it.

[somber sequoia]

you'd need to explain what this is supposed to be

[dire rivet]

The arrows are really far off from the asset im trying to add so it makes it really hard to position the asset correctly

[opaque thicket]

i dont think i have a rig tab

[somber sequoia]

if you have a model file that contains an avatar, you should

[somber sequoia]

you can also position using the parameters in the transform component, in the inspector. Not great, I know.
Usually when the location is far from where you think it's because that's either the center or pivot of that object, depending on which mode you're in

[somber sequoia]

This seems to be your avatar, and I said "model file"

as in the .fbx file in your project window

[dire rivet]

Ohhh okayy i got it thank you!

[somber sequoia]

This is a body object?

[opaque thicket]

this appereaed when i pressed on the fbx

[somber sequoia]

then you didn't press on the fbx file

the project window is the one at the bottom, with the files you can drag into your scene. It's not anything in your scene or in the hierarchy window.

[opaque thicket]

yeah

i know

[somber sequoia]

but that isn't what you should see if you clicked on the model file.

[opaque thicket]

i think i found it

scary unknown terrain

[somber sequoia]

That

[opaque thicket]

what do i do now?

[somber sequoia]

in the hand tab make sure your thumb bones are right

[opaque thicket]

alr thanks

srry for being a pain

[somber sequoia]

'sokay, there's some learning curve here

[final bear]

im unsure what it uses to track the angles but despite it being rotated the same direction in blender its all over the place in unity

[somber sequoia]

check your bone roll values in blender

[final bear]

They're all the same to

I edited them to make sure that's not what tracks

And there was no change

[alpine canyon]

how jiggle physics?

[olive pelican]

Physbone.

[alpine canyon]

how physbone?

i don't know how to unity lol

[olive pelican]

Oh, you're in for some hell, lmao.

First, model needs bones, bones are blender. Then after you're sure it has the boens you need, you need ot add a VRCPhysBone prefab.

[alpine canyon]

i used vroid so i have bones

[olive pelican]

There's vids on how to do both, the terms you need are "physbones setup VRChat"

[alpine canyon]

is there an package that can do it so i don't have to?

[olive pelican]

Not unless they've found a way to cram a human soul into unity.

Jiggle comes from the heart

Speaking as a robot.

[alpine canyon]

what soul i have none

[olive pelican]

Skill issue TBH

But yeah, the big things for physbones is settign rotation limits.

[alpine canyon]

i sold it for reasons

[olive pelican]

That plus the ability to set curves, lets you do cool shit.

Genuinely, though, the best place to start with avatars is probabaly either modding vroids or ybots or some premade optimized base body. You will learn goofy shit, and eventually wanna make your own stuff, and then blender appears and you're here forever.

[static perch]

sorry for interrupting your coversasion, but how to i get armature on a base in blender?

[olive pelican]

(I'm not complaining, I found my soon to be IRL wife because of VRChat)

[olive pelican]

Define. Do you have a base body model that doesn't have an armature?

[static perch]

im just kinda fucking around and i made something. its my first time in blender (really second, i just didnt do really snything the first)

[olive pelican]

ah, well, first off, that's AWESOME, good shit, keep that up

Second, you have two paths, the dark, evil path of auto-rigging, and the based path of manual rigging. If you're planning to do a lot more avatar stuff, learnt o manually rig, using RoyalSkiesLLC youtube tutorials. If you aren't, use Mixamo, or some equivalent.

I have an autorig tool somewhere, moment.

[static perch]

its an eggy boi. (easter egg)

im not good learning through videos cuz it actually repels me from wanting to learn. lmao..

also sorry for the shitty vid

nvm its 0 seconds what

nvm im slow

[olive pelican]

https://x.com/ArtellBlender/status/1975614070544806173

Might be useful, but maximo is probabsly a good start

as for being bad with tutorials, nothing I can do to save you there.

[static perch]

alright

also how do i remove the stupid blue lines/annotation

[solemn heart]

everytime my avitar is in gesture manager the mouth is open. play mode no mouth open. the values are all sent to 0

No idea what it is...

[white jungle]

do you have a jawbone assigned in the armature config?

[radiant night]

I want to add heels to a model, can I just have the toggle for the heels also move the bones to match the heels or will that cause issues

Nevermind, apparently you cant move bones in animations

[static perch]

i have the armature in place but where do i weight paint? front, back, sides, or everywhere?

[sullen mulch]

creator companion still down?

[static perch]

shrug idk

[sullen mulch]

🧍‍♀️

[static perch]

i misspelled..

[half solstice]

for whatever reason I keep getting a message that a thumbnail image is required for avatar creation despite having one set (tried actual images and scene captures, nither work)

[gentle goblet]

I don't know why this isn't uploading ;-;

[heavy zephyr]

Seems like it didn't register your thumbnail, try adding it again

[gentle goblet]

I have, I've also changed it to other things, closed and re opened unity, it still just isn't working ;-;

[surreal salmon]

sometimes unity is weird. maybe try just rebooting unity

[gentle goblet]

Oki I'll try

[gentle goblet]

That didn't work ;-;

[left gull]

what were the other 3 red errors the console gave?

[surreal salmon]

how do yall merge armature withoutmessing up the mesh?

[gentle goblet]

The error in the second picture is there on launch

[broken yarrow]

i have an avatar someone made that im unwilling to part with, but it flashes textures in my face when i run due to the rigging, is there a way to disable it for first person view

[wanton cedar]

Why is it that when I make an empty, copy one bones properties and such to the empty (to zero it out and make it rotate on one axis) it worked for my fans, but for my antenna with a single bone, it still acts like I didnt change anything(wobbles around and rotates on every axis). Do I need 2 bones to make it move on one axis?? Im just not too sure whats going on.

[wanton cedar]

I tried to animate that bone, just sliding it down for one of my expression animations, but when played, with loop toggled off, it bounces slightly up and down. whats the reason for this??

Just set up to the default position then it goes down

[floral zephyr]

How could i setup somthing for my Avatar where i push a button and it plays a Random animation from a list?

So turn my avatar, red, blue, green
at random

[wanton cedar]

Contacts?

[floral zephyr]

Contacts?

Ive never messed with them

[wanton cedar]

youtube has a few videos to set them up

[floral zephyr]

how does that cause a random animation to play?

[wanton cedar]

scammer

Bad english, new, claims to make avatars, checks out

yeah thats right

[floral zephyr]

They did seem like one

[wanton cedar]

It was one

But I was going to say im not exactly sure how to explain it, I myself am new to the whole contacts thing, but im sure someone can help

[floral zephyr]

this video im going through looks good

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

Well ill watch through it and see if i can figure it out, it looks like good stuff to know anyway even if it dosen't lead me to randomizing animations

[surreal salmon]

I'm trying to kitbash an Idk how to join armature together without it messing up the objects

Advice?

[waxen bobcat]

Hello everyone, I'm a little new to setting up my avatar. After using a public manuka avatar I decided to get it myself to setup my own version but I've been trying to figure out what animations they used for the ears. The default manuka ear animation gets tucked in but these ones just go down and to the side. Any ideas what they are? thank you :)

[pseudo furnace]

Hi, i had a small question. I'm trying to find where this is in the milltina texture because it shows up when i do the gun motion on vrc, do you know where it would be so i can fix it? ?

[junior void]

This?

[proven quail]

Find the animation for the hand gesture in FX, then find the blendhsape that makes the part show, then import the fbx into blender, do the blendhsape, and select the vertices in edit mode with the uv map showing. It will show exactly on the texture where it is at

[frail vessel]

can anybody help me with blender, i think i have to weigh paint the clothing im adding to my avatar because it isnt attached to the avatar

[somber sequoia]

if it isn't weight painted yet, yep, that's what you have to do

[frail vessel]

idk how to do it, i added the CATS add-on like a video told me but when i press "Fix Model" my avatars face gets all messed up

[somber sequoia]

don't use fix model unless you have a MMD model or something from vroid

[frail vessel]

well every video for weigh painting tells me to do it, so im a little lost

[somber sequoia]

I don't know why they would

in object mode: select the armature, then shift-select the mesh you want to edit, switch into weight paint mode.
ctrl+click on a bone, then weight paint the mesh however you need so it moves along with that bone, when you rotate the bone.

repeat for all bones

probably have X mirroring enabled, unless your avatar is not symmetrical

[frail vessel]

even if the clothing has no bones itself?

[somber sequoia]

the whole point is to weigh the clothing so it moves with the avatar's armature, right?

[frail vessel]

yes

[somber sequoia]

then you don't need more than one armature

[frail vessel]

right now it just floats on the hi[

hip

[somber sequoia]

yes, that's correct for unweighted mesh

[frail vessel]

yes

[somber sequoia]

watch tutorials, ideally those that do NOT tell you to use "fix model"

[left gull]

so you'll have to manually weightpaint the mesh to its proper bone, this is a quick guide on how the painting part works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fICQmBEt4Y

[somber sequoia]

ah nice, a video link, perfect 🙂

[left gull]

honestly unless its a vrchat specific thing for blender (which i cant think of one other then converting MMD stuff) id avoid vrchat content creator's suggestions with how to use/do blender stuffz

[somber sequoia]

that's good advice, yeah

I almost never look for blender tutorials or info with 'vrchat' in my search criteria

[frail vessel]

i messed something up so imma restart it, should i import the clothing with bones? i deleted them last time

[somber sequoia]

we don't know what you have so.. no idea?

your clothing has an armature already?

[frail vessel]

it's a hoodie and a pair of pants ill get a pic

[somber sequoia]

no need for a pic

[frail vessel]

armature is like bones, right?

[somber sequoia]

an armature is the object which has bones, yes.

[frail vessel]

then yes i have the option to add it with the armature

[somber sequoia]

ok then probably it's already weight painted to that armature. which means you could probably just rename all the vertex groups so they match your avatar's armature bone names and not have to do much more than touching up weight paint

no, I have no link to a tutorial on this.

[frail vessel]

so should i just keep the armature of the clothing removed and follow the video you sent me, or import it with the armature

[somber sequoia]

I haven't looked at that video so can't comment on it. But you only need one armature, if you're doing this in Blender.

[frail vessel]

well theres pants and a shirt

my avatar obviously has an armature

[somber sequoia]

of course it does

[frail vessel]

ye

[left gull]

it'd be quicker to just keep the armature and either makes sure the bone names match up between the two and merge with CATS or like kazin said change vertex names (both options would mean touching up the weightpaint slightly unless that outfit was made specifically for that avatar base)

if you import w/o the armature you'd basically be doing alot more weightpainting

[somber sequoia]

I haven't tried cats for this

[frail vessel]

here, ill re-import then with the bones real quick

[somber sequoia]

eh? why? the armature isn't relevant, no information is contained there

[frail vessel]

wait so what am i doing then

[left gull]

is the outfit not weightpainted to its own armature already? thats what it sounds like atleast

[somber sequoia]

sure, but the weight information is in the vertex groups on the mesh

[frail vessel]

okay so, it has it's own armature, but i deleted it in unity, i can re add it though if need be

[somber sequoia]

unity wouldn't be relevant here if we're talking about blender though

[left gull]

with the CATS merge it requires 2 armatures one for w/e the mesh is weighted to and one for the body its merging to so usually the base's, thought that it was the same with vertex merging that it'd need to be weightpainted previously. though i might just be confused with if they're talking about having a fully rigged and unrigged version of the mesh

[somber sequoia]

oh you're talking about cats, okay

I've never used that so I'll defer to you there

without cats, it doesn't matter which armature you have or want to swap around, the mesh weight data is in vertex groups which match bones by name

name the vertex groups to match the bone names and hey, weighted to that new armature

anyway, gtg

[frail vessel]

im so confused lol

[frail vessel]

i apologize but im so slow :c

[uneven bough]

hi, i'm making assets for Quest so i have to use these flat plane meshes instead of the quads with transparency like i normally do, so how do i replace the particles in my particle system with these and keep the billboard rendering? also it seems like one is facing the wrong way, how do i fix that?

[dense pebble]

Checked all the materials and turns out I literally changed ALL of it but still gives this error. I'm trying to upload this avatar to quest as well and when I click on where the error might be it takes me back to the main model

[ancient adder]

there is a package by happyrobot33 called Shader Finder that lets you find what mesh a shader is attatched to, you can use it to see if the SDK is broken or if you randomly have a broken shader on one of your meshes

[sharp wind]

Hey people, I bought an avatar a while ago n' I wanted to try to assemble it in blender today and i've been struggling very horribly. I don't know what to specifically look for on youtube to help, cause Blender is very confusing. But this avatar is rigged and everything but I wouldn't know how to check if it needs stuff done to it. It def does n I emailed the creator, but I was hoping someone who KNEW blender and works with avatars could help me make this work.

[dense pebble]

Okay cool, tysm 🙏 ❤️

[sharp wind]

I'mma send a pic on what I "tweaked" because some chest bits n clipping was happening and them bits were exposed but other than that i'm 100% lost.

[ancient adder]

where's your armature?

[sharp wind]

It's there but hidden

[ancient adder]

i assume this model was not originally made for VRC?

[sharp wind]

nope

the creator made other avis that ARE but this one wasn't for some reason, but it does say in the package that it can be made for vrc

[ancient adder]

when you go into pose mode (select the armature and change object mode in the top left to pose mode) do the bones all affect the respective parts of the body correctly?

[sharp wind]

They line up, i dunno how to check what you mean

like can i move the fingers?

[ancient adder]

yeah pretty much

the main one i would want to check would probably be the eyes

[sharp wind]

So if I move the arm bone, the whole arm is supposed to move, Which it's not in my case

[ancient adder]

ok so you have an armature but nothing is moving with it

[sharp wind]

yeah

[ancient adder]

ok, so first i want you to select all the meshes in the scene hierarchy, they'll have this icon:

you can select them individually by holding CTRL

[sharp wind]

got it

[ancient adder]

after theyre all selected, hold ctrl and select the armature

then hover over the main viewport, press CTRL+P, and select armature deform

[sharp wind]

What's the mainviewport

[sharp wind]

O

[ancient adder]

the bit with the 3d model

[sharp wind]

Did it

[ancient adder]

after that, select the armature, then switch to pose mode

then grab a random bone and hit R to rotate it

if it rotates correctly just hit Esc and it should return to its original position

[sharp wind]

It didn't

[ancient adder]

nothing moved?

[sharp wind]

nope

I'll redo the steps

1. It won't move in pose mod even after doing that

2. I did it in object mode on accident and the clothes stay still

[ancient adder]

just realized my mic wasnt recording sorry

your meshes appear to already have vertex groups so unless all the bones somehow got renamed or the vertex groups are wrong this should work

[frail vessel]

If im rigging these pants to my avatar, do i need to drags the bones ontop of my avatars bones

[slow panther]

you should just position them where u want them then parent them to ur armature and delete the pants armature

keep object transform

[frail vessel]

i have the pants where i want them, but im not sure how to rig them to move with the legs

[slow panther]

you should look a tutorial on youtube, youll need to weight paint them, its easier if those shorts are already rigged to that base

if not youll need to sculpt them ./ remap/ weight paint them

[frail vessel]

they're already weigh painted i think idk

i already sculpted them to my avatar

[slow panther]

theres some nice tutorials on youtube that are short and simple

[frail vessel]

ive watched them and they're so confusing

because im lowkey dumb ashhhh

[slow panther]

click your shorts in object mode then ctrl p to your armature

i sent you a dm link

for a youtube

[frail vessel]

ctrl p?

[sharp wind]

Most of this is losing me as is

[frail vessel]

a little menu pops up

[ancient adder]

select armature deform if its an option

[ancient adder]

blender is a bit tough to explain through only text

[ancient adder]

the armature should have a brighter orange outline, hold ctrl and select the armature again to make it the main selection

[ancient adder]

i think im probably a bit too tired to competently explain what to do

[frail vessel]

well i got 3 different armatures rn

[slow panther]

im making a rideable horse mount, does anyone have any idea how to hook up my custom locomotion to my avatars
i have all the animations ready to go, she mounts it fine other than a few thing i need to figure out to change but

[ancient adder]

oh armatures are specifically the object with the man sticking his hands out, make sure youre selecting that one

[slow panther]

right now the horse is just stuck in the idle pose so playout out the first one then stopping

[frail vessel]

yes, i got 3, one from my avatar, one for the hoodie im putting on, and one for the pants

[ancient adder]

the top one should be the one youre parenting to

[frail vessel]

so what do i do with the other 2?

[ancient adder]

not sure since i dont know how the full hierarchy is organized

[ancient adder]

do either of the bottom 2 armatures have a mesh as a child? your scene inspector is too narrow for me to see if they do, either scroll to the side or make your hierarchy wider

[ancient adder]

ok, open the dropdown on each of the armatures and select the mesh, then hold CTRL and select the top hips armature

then hover over the viewport and press ctrl+P

[frail vessel]

is the mesh the piece of clothing?

[ancient adder]

yes

[frail vessel]

okk

[ancient adder]

the hood has only one mesh, the pants appear to have 2

[frail vessel]

which option do i press on the little drop box

[ancient adder]

armature deform

[frail vessel]

waittt

am i suppose to hold ctrl + p while clicking from the mesh to the avatars hip armature

[ancient adder]

no no

[frail vessel]

bc when i do it shows up

[ancient adder]

ok maybe then

im not really good at explaining over text

at least for blender, im way better at the unity side of things lol

[frail vessel]

yeahh im just slow lol

am i clicking hips or armature?

bc it shows up on hips but not armature

ill send a video

[frail vessel]

yeah, i think hips is right but i won't press anything until i get confirmation so i don't mess anything up lmao

[ancient adder]

yeah hips

[frail vessel]

okk

and do the same with the pants/harness

[ancient adder]

the armature object is just an empty called armature

[ancient adder]

yep

should be

[frail vessel]

okk

the waist rig wont let me deform it

[ancient adder]

hmm

[frail vessel]

nvm i did it

[ancient adder]

oh ok great

[frail vessel]

i had to select both at once

but they dissapeared

when i did it

still in the hiearchy tho

just not on the avatar itself

[frail vessel]

this is how it looks now but the clothing is under the hips at the top

[ancient adder]

ok now you should be good to delete everything below the main hips

so all of the stuff in red can be deleted pretty much

[ancient adder]

alright

ok so back to the viewport

if you select the armature(Hips) and set it to pose mode, does moving the bones make the clothes move?

[frail vessel]

the clothing i had added isn't visible anymore after we deformed it

[ancient adder]

do you want to call? i could probably guide you through this quicker that way

[frail vessel]

yeah sure

dm's open

[sharp flint]

can someone help me with fixing the stretching on my avatars pants?

[ornate stump]

You need to explain your issue.

[sharp flint]

I can provide a clip with medal if that works

[ornate stump]

Anything that can explain your issue.

[sharp flint]

10-4 gimme a few

alright

so the top part stretching is not an issue

but the bottom near the shoes area is

Because the top is js the mesh itself

but the bottom is the mesh not wanting to let go for some reason

[ornate stump]

You have to clean up weight paint.

[slow panther]

idk how to get my avatar to control her but she seems to strop after this idle state

i have been having an issue with finding videos or anything really on this

if anyone could point me in the right direction id be so happy

[ornate stump]

SpeedMagnitude? Where is that from?

[slow panther]

i have no idea how to hook this up to my avatars locomotion

[slow panther]

i have no idea i found some random tutorial that said to do this

nothing after that

so

[ornate stump]

You don't even need to copy.

[slow panther]

but i have my avatars layer and a horse layer

oj

do you have an idea why shes just stuck in idle

[ornate stump]

Because you can't copy using built-in parameter as source.

[slow panther]

i was havbing this issue before ading the horse driver

before i just had the locomotion

[ornate stump]

Just use VelocityMagnitude in blendtree.

[slow panther]

okay ill try this

thank you

[slow panther]

she just stops in idle after playing it out

[ornate stump]

How did you test?

[sharp flint]

How do I do this?

[slow panther]

play mode, at default 0 she should have a looping idle

[ornate stump]

How did you do weight paint?

[sharp flint]

Robust weight transfer

[ornate stump]

Isn't what you're showing a looping idle?

[slow panther]

it stops after playing it once

and then just is stuck in that stand up state while i move around

[ornate stump]

Watch some tutorial about weight painting first. You will have to manually weight paint to clean up those stray weight.

[ornate stump]

Then you have to enable loop time in the animation clip.

[slow panther]

should i screenshot/record anything that may help

[sharp flint]

Could you recommend one by chance?

[slow panther]

but when im walking or running she is just still

[ornate stump]

No. It's also better to watch more than one tutorial.

[slow panther]

i can record after uploading one second

[ornate stump]

For the record, how did you put the animator controller into the avatar?

[slow panther]

i have her rig as legacy

then theres mine

[ornate stump]

Nested animator can't receive parameters from avatar so it won't react to anything.

[slow panther]

Ah okay, so should i merge controllers onto my original

im so sorry im so new to this part of unity

[ornate stump]

Yes. Juse use VRCFury Full Controller for it.

[ornate stump]

Is that a question?

[slow panther]

i added it and changed her controller to mine and its still frozen

im not sure

[ornate stump]

Aren't you using vrcfury full controller?

[slow panther]

in play mode my avatar does say vrcfury fx and then for her it says copied from fx fx epona but its my avatars fx layer when i double click it

not in play mode just links to my FX

[ornate stump]

I'm not sure if that answered my question. How did you set the full controller?

[slow panther]

like the gogoloco all in my hierarchy?

im sorry im also confused

i am using vrcfury

but ik i have a customf x layer i use ontop

[ornate stump]

Are you using vrcfury full controller to merge animator controller?

[slow panther]

the av3 manager

to merge those two

[ornate stump]

I already told you to use vrcfury full controller.

[slow panther]

OH okay okay adding that now

[ornate stump]

Is that a question?

[slow panther]

just showing what i did

[ornate stump]

Read it.

[slow panther]

oop i put it on the wrong one my bad its good now, testing play mode

im gonna upload and test

shes not moving in the idle state but if she works while runninng ill just make a seperate default idle state

in animations

[slow panther]

well shes doing something which feels big for me

i recorded it weird my bad

shes doing a the start of her run animation i think when shes falling

[ornate stump]

I can't even see what it did. Also is that a question?

[slow panther]

OH so she is starting the run animation when im moving now

but she is just not having that run animation?

just a frozen frame

[ornate stump]

Did you set loop time in all animation clip?

[slow panther]

ill double check to make sure the clips are working too

this might take me awhile to figure out why the animations arnt working atm but thank you for the help

enabled loop time on all, gonna check if its working now

[slow panther]

she works you are a blessing

[solemn heart]

Yep

[dense oriole]

So can you download avatars from another place or how does this work 😭

[ornate stump]

Like getting avatar from booth.pm and gumroad.com and such?

[slow panther]

i do have one more question, do you know how to make my mount pose not freeze my upper body? would i have to create an avatar mask? i just need my legs to be entirely still while i can move my head around and such

first animation clip is just for my leggies but i do have a full mount pose

[ornate stump]

You probably want to look into Tracking Control state behaviour.

[slow panther]

ah okay, thank you! <3

[dense oriole]

I think so? Just In General like how this works

[ornate stump]

You download avatar model. Integrate with avatar sdk in unity. And Upload.

[dense oriole]

uhmmm, unity-? im so confused

[ornate stump]

Then you better read this first. https://discord.com/channels/189511567539306508/1139228456090087495

[dense oriole]

Thx

[obtuse bronze]

How do I fix this I can't find all the side tabs and all that stuff and I don't know where it all went

oh wait never mind got it

[muted wharf]

How do i rig my models in blender?

or unity

[ornate stump]

It's a part of model creation step so do that in blender.

[muted wharf]

how tho

[ornate stump]

There are lot of tutorials for rigging in the internet.

[muted wharf]

but its to harddd

[ornate stump]

Are you going to learn it or no?

[muted wharf]

ill try

[buoyant mountain]

Can anyone help me with this

[ornate stump]

You have to change the invalid shader in your materials.

[buoyant mountain]

Honestly it’s on the ft model when I only really need the normal could I just delete it?

[ornate stump]

I don't clearly understand your statement. If you can also get rid of the object then do it.

[arctic shuttle]

ok, dont quite understand, i've got a simple character model here, its got a body, arms, and legs, problem is, it has too many meshes because the arms and legs are meshes, how do i fix that

i assume, because it isnt actually rigged with bones, i cant fix it

[ornate stump]

You have to edit the model in blender and merge all the mesh into a single mesh. You might have to also do weight painting to rig it.

[arctic shuttle]

yeah alright, i'll live with a very poor rating on quest lol

[waxen bobcat]

anyone able to help with this pls :o

[torn crypt]

I think the “ears down and to the side” animation is probably a custom animation added to the avatar.

[waxen bobcat]

like they edited the keyframes themselves?

[torn crypt]

most likely

[waxen bobcat]

I could probably do that but very bad things happen whenever I mess with the animation T_T

I was hoping it was a known animation thing I could just plug in

[torn crypt]

You can't as it's not a default animation:(

[sharp wind]

Alr @ancient adder we looking a bit more on track than last night

[long sierra]

So I have a bit of a situation. I have an avatar I wanted to make for a friend, but there are users that caused some really messed-up slander drama about me, and I don't want them to be able to find it on Prismic or other avatar search worlds/sites. Is it possible I could make it, have my friend clone and save it, and then make it private? I've had friends clone my private avatars off of me before, which is why I thought it might work.

[junior void]

Making an avatar private removes it from the person who cloned it.

[chilly thorn]

so i dont belive this can happen, i will say if its for a friend to upload the avi to their account for them so they dont have to deal with the private. if there is a way to do this please lmk lol

[exotic steppe]

can someone help me with generating vertex group data layers for clothes in blender? Ive made the source the body of the avatar, enabled vertex data, but when i click to generate vertex groups they just wont generate.

teh body itself has vertex groups

nvm im stupid

forgot to hit the vertex groups button

[long sierra]

I literally remember that happening and I was just as confused then as I am now

I think I might even have a screenshot of it

Could've been a glitch, it happened in July, because I have screenshots from when it happened, but not of it happening

[gusty meteor]

Hey ! 👋
I want to make an animation where my avatar comes out of the ground but I can't find a way of moving the whole avatar in the animation. Preferably while still being able to move the arms, head etc...
I've tried the avatar's gameobject's transform, the armature's hips's transform, I even tried some properties in the animator but couldn't find one that work.

[hushed torrent]

can someone help me? i loaded an avi into unity and tried not to mess with her too much, i just uploaded her but she has no toggles

[exotic steppe]

now weight painting just doesnt work

i can get into weight painting, i can select the vertex group i want, but the brush just does nothing

[grizzled saddle]

anyone here know how to make avatars? because i'm not good at making avatars. but i would definently love for someone to possibly help me out with making a custom avatar. i could possibly give ideas for avatars

[exotic steppe]

opening a new blender file and weight painting the default cube works, so im at a bit of a loss as to what could be causing this

[somber sequoia]

Many people here know, feel free to ask questions.

[somber sequoia]

Got an armature modifier on the mesh object you're painting?
For that matter, did you select the armature, then shift-select that mesh, then go into weight paint mode?

[exotic steppe]

yes to all

[somber sequoia]

hmm not sure what else then

[exotic steppe]

ill post a screenshot not sure if thall help but maybe someone could point out a mistake

[somber sequoia]

maybe open up the "Tool" tab on the "n" sidebar popup too

[exotic steppe]

ive played around with the radius to no obvious result

strength doesnt have any impact either

[somber sequoia]

nothing looks weird

[peak furnace]

Does anyone know where I can get free boop and or head pats asset? That works for every avi, I have fury if that helps :’ ) I’m struggling

[spark walrus]

Prismatic excludes avis that has [private] in their bio. Others might respect it too, not sure. But private databases will always exist.
Whenever someone's cloned the avi, then you private it, they have to leave the world for it to take effect. During that time, you can do nothing.
You can upload the private avi for your friends, they'd give you their password and change it immedietly after. ToS allows this.
Avi passwords exist too. You could have the entire avi be disabled and the first menu seen be the password.

[spark walrus]

ask in vrctraders #1204490664637890580. DMs from here are likely scams.

[spark walrus]

Ask your question again, this time provide screenshots of your FX layer, avatar descriptor. Explain what you did and how it's broken. Or no one can help.

[exotic steppe]

should also mention that weight options like smooth do nothing too

[spark walrus]

The FX layer is only for non-humanoid toggles. Physbones, items, hair extensions.
The Action layer is where you'll make the animation. If you need to both move the avi and toggle things, you'll make two anims in each with the same condition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOGc8CetyXs this is an example to animate the humanoid rig. Be aware, it's changing hand stuff which goes in the gesture layer. You'll be using Action, which overrides everything.

[exotic steppe]

interestingly enough creating a cube in this save and trying to weightpaint it doesnt work either

[gusty meteor]

Oh yeah 🤦
Action layer, forgot about that. I'll look into it thanks

[exotic steppe]

copied the entire colelction to a new save and deleted my avatar's body

weightpainting works now

not sure what about my avatar disables weightpainting globally across an entire blender scene

[grizzled saddle]

that's fair

[lunar marsh]

Hi~~
I want to share my vrm models to VRchat, but I've been playing for days now and the unity converter software still says that I don't have permissions to upload models after I log in my user.
How much exactly do I have to wait?

[exotic steppe]

im so stupid

i forgot to hit apply on the data transfer modifier

after makign a new one

[still shuttle]

purchasing vrc+ helps boost it. IK someone who made their account same day, purchased vrc plus and only had to play for maybe an hour or so before becoming new user

[spark walrus]

be in public, get friended, dont get blocked, upload an avi and a world, have others favorite them, buy vrc+, can get trusted after 300 hours. Typical routine of those that get banned. For new user, a day of murder 4 should be enough (gameworld), will get it next day.
you can also change .vrm to .gltf and import directly to blender, no unity. if that's of interest

[long sierra]

If I use a password on the avatar, it's not visible on the site or avatar search worlds?

[spark walrus]

It is, but no one can use it. until the password is entered, its meshes and items will be off. or whatever you want it to do, enable stationary so it cant move, spawn a black shader that covers the HUD. thanks to vrc adding aes-gcm encryption to the avi files, most people wont be able to easily see the password by ripping it.

[somber sequoia]

this was re: the weight painting not working?

[sleek dagger]

Anyone able to help a VCC noob with getting their commissioned Avi into the game?

[exotic steppe]

yep

[somber sequoia]

huh! Wouldn't have thought of that

[somber sequoia]

Feel free to ask specific questions in here

[sleek dagger]

Ok.
I commissioned a Fiverr artist to make me an Avi.
It came back with a bunch of files I have no idea how to manage.
I got the Avi into Unity, but its all white and has no like.. textures?
I have been working with him for days after delivery but the first version has its hands clipping thru everything and now IDEK what to do.

[somber sequoia]

have you watched a basic avatar setup tutorial video?

[sleek dagger]

Yes, along with several others on YT.

[somber sequoia]

ok well the textures part is probably that you didn't setup your materials in Unity to use the textures provided by the creator

that ought to be covered in a decent setup video

not sure what you mean about hands clipping through everything though

[sleek dagger]

Sorry, I have dysthymia so I wont be able to get help like this.
I guess I will have to find someone that can walk me step by step.
Thanks tho.

[somber sequoia]

okay, good luck

[ancient adder]

could you send a screenshot of your unity project?

[ancient adder]

to me the white looks like a broken shader, ive seen it before when there were multiple instances of poiyomi installed on the same project

find the material used in the coat and see if its that same bright white

[pearl furnace]

Why am I not hearing any audio when I put the spatial blend to 1, and how to fix this?

[peak furnace]

could anyone help me with adding a flow toy to an avi? ive already imported it and everything. I just need a little help

[ancient adder]

min distance/max distance maybe?

[ancient adder]

ok so the white is intentional. There should probably be a something that looks like a circle in your porject folder. This is the avatar's material. You can use it to change the avatar's shading, every texture has a material its assigned to

[sleek dagger]

I have all of these but most of them dont work and the ones that do apply arent right. Like they have weird effects or some XRay look to them.

[pearl furnace]

Dang it is, i wanted to make the audio just really small inside the head

[somber sequoia]

many of these are not simply color textures, probably some are maps or masks for other attributes of the materials (roughness, metallic, etc)

[ancient adder]

set min distance to like 0.002 instead and try 0.04 for the head

[sleek dagger]

Ok well they are labeled terribly and I feel as if there is no real way of telling what goes where.

[somber sequoia]

In icon view it's hard to see the names of the files - at the upper-right of that window is a slider, if you decrease it you'll get list view which will show the full filenames better.

[ancient adder]

click and drag the material called Base onto the hood part of your avi, if thats not the one try different materials

[pearl furnace]

That's what i had close earlier, you can only hear a faint of sound around when the max distance is at 10 :v

i guess i have to tweak the max distance, but tyty

[ancient adder]

set volume rolloff to custom rolloff and play around with the curves, that lets you fine tune the volume at different distances using curves

[ancient adder]

sure, give more details and i should be able to get you some pointers

[undone cargo]

Hello. I have my project file with my completed avatar, as i got someone else to help me do it. However, i'm running into a problem when trying to open the specific Unity version i need to run VRChat.

(forgot that i can't send pictures here. always thought that was suicidally stupid for support channels, but oh well.)

[ancient adder]

you should be able to send pictures

[undone cargo]

(well, i can't for some reason.)

Not only is Unity refusing to let me select my project file, but even if i try to start a new project to access the editor, it's telling me that i can't start the project because i "don't have any templates"

[pearl furnace]

Lemme try this one

[ancient adder]

are you launching through Unity Hub or VCC?

[undone cargo]

I literally can't use VCC because i'm on Linux. Every time i open VCC, it crashes.

[ancient adder]

try ALCOM then, by anatawa12

[undone cargo]

got it.

[ancient adder]

works on linux

[peak furnace]

could i dm ya?

[ancient adder]

sure

[somber sequoia]

yeah Alcom or vrc-get for Linux

I still install Unity via UnityHub though

[undone cargo]

Alcom gives me a white screen.

Guess i'm using VRC-Get then

[somber sequoia]

yeah there's some bug about Tauri version, I find that if I run it on the command-line sometimes it works rather than from a launcher.. not sure about fixes yet.
vrc-get works decently though

a whole bunch of programs built with Tauri are broken right now and I don't know what they're doing about it, been meaning to look into that.

[peak furnace]

@ancient adder sent

[random ridge]

Try closing unity hub then set your clock to before March then open it then set it back and see if that helps I was having issues with the unity phoning home a few weeks ago and that was how I fixed it

[undone cargo]

Ok, i have vrc-get. What now?

[exotic steppe]

is there a way to carefully paint in weight paint?

im getting a headache from this

[timber wharf]

you can set weights manually in vertex group section, as carefull as it gets.

[somber sequoia]

decrease the strength of the brush. I do this with a drawing tablet with the strength set by pressure, and the weight at full 1.

but without a tablet it still works well

[exotic steppe]

thanks for the advice

[undone cargo]

Wait, does the 2022 version you can install from UnityHub still work?

It doesn't match the exact same version name.

[somber sequoia]

You have to go to the archived versions

installs -> install editor -> archive -> click "download archive" and get it there

[undone cargo]

ok i see it now.

[primal swift]

aaaa i am going insane trying to figure out how to fix a gesture

i want it to play a different animation when it exits than when it first plays

and it just will not work, it worked on one hand once, and then randomly stopped working

[inland seal]

Does anyone know how to fix this problem with Lighting on hair and tail? I'm using poiyomi toon shader

Changing Lighting type to Realistic doesnt help

[primal swift]

are you on the newest version of poiyomi?

[inland seal]

yes

[primal swift]

hmmm

[inland seal]

I mean, all other materials are using the same settings

and they seem to work just fine

[undone cargo]

Okay, i've got the right version of Unity working

Now how do i install the SDK?

[inland seal]

Go to VRChat SDK website

and install it?

[primal swift]

you should probably go to the poiyomi discord server for that, i would guess its this thing but im not really familiar with what it does :/

[undone cargo]

Can't figure out where tf it even is.

[surreal salmon]

object mode vs edit mode

[inland seal]

oh

Might be actually

[somber sequoia]

alt+h to unhide hidden parts?

[surreal salmon]

im modifying the antigen but the hand is the issue

[somber sequoia]

what's the problem here? Not sure what we're looking at

[inland seal]

Lighting on the parts is completely black and not realistic even when Im using the same settings

tho Im updating the avi again, I'll tell if it worked in a minute

[somber sequoia]

ahhh

[undone cargo]

I literally can't install the SDK.

[somber sequoia]

I wasn't sure if the black color was intentional

[inland seal]

?

[undone cargo]

It's tied behind VCC, and every time i try to open it, it crashes.

[inland seal]

hm

[somber sequoia]

you could try to use vpm or vrc-get or alcom instead

[undone cargo]

Alcom does the same thing

I've installed vrc-get and have no clue how to use it

Haven't tried VPM yet

[somber sequoia]

in your project directory, vrc-get install com.vrchat.avatars

for vpm it's vpm add package com.vrchat.avatars

What crashes though - vcc and alcom? or unity?

[undone cargo]

VCC and Alcom

[somber sequoia]

huh weird

[primal swift]

my expression is like a whole second delayed but im not really sure why?

hmmm

oh nevermind i just had to tick that silly box

[inland seal]

Thx 👍

[somber sequoia]

oh nice

[inland seal]

My explanation can be in VCC already installed some corrupted data

Sometimes VCC corrupts its local data and won’t launch :/

Happened to me

go to %AppData%\VRChatCreatorCompanion and delete everyting there

[undone cargo]

Problem.

[inland seal]

also %LocalAppData%\VRChatCreatorCompanion

[undone cargo]

🐧

[inland seal]

huh?

[inland seal]

oh

Yeah, that makes it a little harder

[inland seal]

ok then uh

open terminal and type: cd ~/.wine/drive_c/users/

lmk when you do that

[undone cargo]

Done it already.

[inland seal]

ah

do ls to check for all users

select the one that is connected to your pc

Then do this cd ~/.wine/drive_c/users/<yourusername>/AppData

[primal swift]

how would i make it so the physbone collider doesnt follow the avatar when it jumps and stuff?

[inland seal]

Attach it to Armature

[undone cargo]

I'm there.

[little plume]

how can i remake the jacket material on the second avatar shown in this video clip. it is made with poi but i cant figure out what he did
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1236883218322686053/1421380849756278784/VRChat_2025-09-27_02-08-17_online-video-cutter.com.mp4?ex=68f3da52&is=68f288d2&hm=429d461d6332b89a7f7e523f63a1499f2dc8bcf928d85a8564dd511efc8ba2fc&

[inland seal]

Atleast worked for me

[little plume]

video didnt embed idk why ill send it as a file in a sec

[inland seal]

Then run these:

rm -rf Roaming/VRChatCreatorCompanion
rm -rf Local/VRChatCreatorCompanion

It will delete these 2 folders if they exist

[little plume]

i actually have the node graph for the material but its for unreal engine not unity if it helps

[undone cargo]

done it.

How do i install VCC now?

[inland seal]

So it didnt gave any errors?

If the answer is yes

[undone cargo]

I asked How. Not if i should.

[somber sequoia]

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

[inland seal]

then try installing it again using vrc-get install com.vrchat.avatars

[undone cargo]

got it

"error finding unity project"

[inland seal]

are you doing the command I gave?

[undone cargo]

Yes.

[idle marten]

I have an avatar that i didnt favourite but cant find because i went through too many other ones that my recently used ones were overwritten. Is there a place i can look deeper to try and find the avatar or maybe a place that i can use to help search for one?

[inland seal]

hmm

[inland seal]

It means that you're not inside a unity project

[undone cargo]

hold on

opened it in a unity project