avatar-help

[sage prairie]

i owe my life to whoever knows whats going on here

only happens when i pose my arms down in blender

[left gull]

weightpaint is messed up

[sage prairie]

ah. damn

easy fixx..?

[left gull]

errr

its better you manually paint it

[sage prairie]

alr lemme go into weight paint and see whats going on

dark blue everything

[left gull]

select armature then mesh>go into weightpaint mode> shift select bone it should be weighted to> paint those stray pixels (move the arm down to get a better idea and swap viewmode to wireframe)

it'll fix it unless theres something other then weightpaint issues going on

[sage prairie]

alright thank you! ill take that advice and see what i can do with it

[open merlin]

Can someone please tell me why all of a sudden Poiyomi Fade has this super annoying bug where if it's not viewed from the correct angle, the mesh just totally vanishes? it's EXTREMELY annoying, any fixes??

[wanton dew]

my eyes disappear in unity 😔

[swift finch]

how do i update my avatar to the latest SDK?

[swift finch]

im not good with unity how do i get there?\

[open merlin]

That is using VCC

Creator Companion

[swift finch]

quite sure i have that

just dont know how to access it

a friend helped me a lot ok

[open merlin]

Download it, use it

it's a godsend

[swift finch]

i said i have it downloaded

[open merlin]

Does all the hard work for you in terms of project creation

[swift finch]

just dont know how to access it

[open merlin]

you just have to launch it

it's called "VRChat Creator Companion"

[inland seal]

Who knows what property here will disable double halo? Because in the game I can see the halo twice while I dont want that to happen

[inland seal]

I think what he meant is that he has VCC downloaded but he doenst know how to follow instructions

[sage prairie]

worked perfectly goat

get yourslf a drink on my behalf

[mellow scaffold]

does anyone know any yt vds on animation files for idle tail movement, and ear flickering? not an idle animation, just one that continnuously goes on while you have the avi on

[timber wharf]

@mellow scaffold anything that is nonhumanoid , can go to fx. so just create an additional layer there and drop your animation unconditionally. dont forget to allow "is animated" in physbone

[mellow scaffold]

thank you!

[wanton dew]

once i've got the blendshapes, what's next.... i don't see anything in unity for looking left and right using blendshapes

[inland seal]

Animations is the way

If you need blinking just make a blink animation, for left and right look, it will be made by VRC avatar descriptor wich should make it automatic if you made it correctly

Unless if you have other ideas on your mind, tell me

[wanton dew]

my model has peculiar eyes

[inland seal]

That doesnt tell me anything ;D

But ok

[wanton dew]

my eyes are flat!

i can't use vrchat's automatic look left and right stuff

[lone birch]

hey guys, what would i have to do with the shader for these fishnets to work, suppost to be black and transparent

[inland seal]

Well, if you dont care about auto looking then just animate constant animation

Or remake them so they'll work with VRC component

[left gull]

i dont know how to setup 2d stuff for view targeting mine are setup like how blinks are, randomly looking left/right. https://camsaviis.gumroad.com/l/SimpleBlink i use this prefab and edit one of the animations it uses to do the randomization work for me

its deff possible for it to work as proper-ish tracking just not something im knowledgable on

[wanton dew]

damn alright

[inland seal]

Why not use VRC fury's auto blinking function?

I mean it does have this

Also blinking

[left gull]

i dont use VRCFury for anything because of how broken it often becomes.

[inland seal]

Idk, for me it makes my work a lot faster

never had problems :D

[left gull]

its far faster for me to manually do stuff then to mess around with it so i dont use it unless needed for a prefab or something

[somber sequoia]

I only use it for adding the face tracking stuff to my avatars.

[left gull]

what shader are you using?

[inland seal]

Go to the texture and check "Alpha is transparency"

[lone birch]

usually poi toon newest

ja

[misty spear]

Can someone tell me why objects on my avatar keep vanishing when I try parenting with automatic weights in blender. I’ve been trying to use google but nothing seems to be working

[lone birch]

Done that just now anything need doing in the shader part?

[inland seal]

I mean, you can change colour to black

if you wanted it to be that colour

but it should be fixed

[ancient adder]

Maybe try applying scale and rotation on the armature and all meshes before doing weights?

[lone birch]

in blender its black with the see through holes but in unity its opposite and not transparent

[lone birch]

oh wait it worked cheers man

[inland seal]

I was about to say to check Color attributes in blender

but glad it worked

[upbeat ruin]

where can i find good demon slayer avatars

[left gull]

look at existing posts in #1138520828556890214 or make a post there

[lone birch]

what about i do about this, looks fine in blender and original ver, does that in play mode aswell and ingame

[light charm]

does anybody have any experience with gogo loco?
i'm experiencing an issue that i haven't seen anyone else struggle with
so, there's this button that makes you float/hover, right? (the one that looks like a ufo)
well it's supposed to have an animation, but for some reason, mine doesn't? it's just the default humanoid pose (the "bike" pose), i tried replacing the animations within the float/hover controller but that just broke things like sitting poses (the ones that come with gogo loco)

[uncut lotus]

The hair has this red outline in Blender (I did the solidifier modifyer method to make it here) but it didn't work in Unity. I tried another tutorial of duplicating it, flipping the norms, but then it all just went red. How can I keep the outline/add one, that works for quest

Also, just noticed, the VRChat SDK tap is missing?

[misty spear]

unfortunately that doesnt seem to be fixing it either

[lone birch]

is this at the top of unity, show control panel, if not then import sdk

[uncut lotus]

Thanks

I....don't know how or why this happened

[rich girder]

Hey so a buddy of mine is trying to upload a avi on my account but the SDK is not allowing him what could be the issue

[supple needle]

Does disconnecting from unity cloud and removing the project from the list in unity hub free space ?

[surreal salmon]

its ascending

the rapture

[lethal ibex]

how come when all my rig are on wrong place where it wasnt supposed to be and i did the t pose thing (for exmaple bone09 arm -> bone09 neck, bone01 torso-> bone01 head)

[surreal salmon]

thats x man known as William Hanover

[plucky drum]

im trying to add eye movement to my avatar but if i set it to the eye bone it does nothing and if i set it to the end of the bone it just disappears from the tiniest movement

[uncut lotus]

If you move the spherical gizmo, does the eye move?

[wanton dew]

my physbone doesn't stretch :(

it just rotates

i want to be able to pull it

i'm not sure what other info i could give, i don't really understand how the stretch works at all, the stretch values aren't changing anything for me

[still shuttle]

Anyone know why physbones arent working on quest but work fine in play mode?

[plucky drum]

no it either does nothing or vanishes depending on if its on the eye bone or the eye bone end

[wanton dew]

could this have something to do with the fact that it's only one bone (it's the frog)

[still shuttle]

really need help figuring this out
Edit: figured it out

[uncut lotus]

WHY must his neck stretch? his head is so high and your view is stuck to it

[whole acorn]

Hey I’m not a robot just checking in how’s everyone doing ?

[plucky drum]

Been trying to make these eyes work for so long that my actual eyes are starting to strain

So aight

[hybrid citrus]

how is that possible 😭

[misty spear]

hey could someone tell me why my avatars head wont move with the body at all in blender, it was working before but i messed something up without realizing and now i cant figure it out. Ive checked the weight paint and tried parenting to the bones and it does both fine but just wont move

[uncut lotus]

I generally don't know and am really struggling on where and how I went wrong

[oak bone]

Eyes aren't weighted to the bones?

[oak bone]

Yes

[oak bone]

Does it have an armature modifier on it?

[plucky drum]

They are

I assume that's why they're disappearing whenever I try moving them

[misty spear]

yes it does i believe, i dont believe ive changed it, but when i swap it to the other one it moves but lags behind the body

[oak bone]

It's possible your weightpainting could be weird. I'd try checking all those vertex groups first

[stuck forge]

can someone teach me how to upload thiiis paid avatar on my account?

[proper depot]

Heyo, is there any setting in unity that could fix this texture mask's mask-age? Its kinda hard to see but the tattoo is leaving these squares around the eyes, is that with the actual texture itself?? I changed it to 4k and it didnt change anything

[misty spear]

thank you for the help, i finally got it to work after trying to clear the parenting and reparenting with auto weights and tried parenting to bone for some reaosn

[stray lintel]

help

why is my avatar showing like this

in play mode

in scene mode it's perfectly fine

[proper depot]

you are using gesture manager, it automatically puts you in the normal standing position when testing toggles

[stray lintel]

no the shader

it's not rendering

the uh textures aren't correct

[frank slate]

Is it possible to put my vtube avatar into a 3d model for VRChat? If so how can I do that, ik i have to make one from scratch since my avatar is live2d model and wouldn’t import it cuz avatars are made in 3d model but i wonder if I could use the design that looks like in the image. I’m definitely new and don’t have any good skills but it’ll be appreciated for a guide. Thanks!

[stuck forge]

can someone please help me uploading this paid avi? a video will surfise

[proper depot]

ohhh, is there a chance you have an animation that records that specific material on the avatar? or do you not have any toggles ?

[stray lintel]

Yes, I do have a specific material

[honest warren]

Looking for help on unity if anyone can help out!

I have a little bit of experience, just running into some errors that I dont know how to solve

Porting over a pc avi to quest, just need to fix these and cut down the memory a lil bit

[stray lintel]

turns out i had an animation for mat swap set to the wrong mat

[somber sequoia]

First one - as it says, that shader is not allowed on quest, swap it out for one in the folder it specifies.
for the second... what does your armature look like? Something about it is wrong, you'll have to go into the rig setup and see which bones are where

[somber sequoia]

that looks fine

[honest warren]

figuring out the shaders rn, dont know how to 'map' how it wants me to is all

[somber sequoia]

map?

[honest warren]

please map: Chest, the second error

I dont know how I go about 'mapping' it

[bold turret]

Anyone know why the eye tracking on my avatar with the bsb2e isn't as good as other avis, the pupils can clip throught the eyelids when looking to the edge of the displays and when blinking the eyelids can clip into each other

[misty spear]

im back with my avatars head having more problems. The avatar works just about perfectly through blender and unity, i have no visible problems but when i get into the game the head is no longer connected to the body. it acts as though it isnt parented or weight painted at all even though it works just fine and moves along with everything in unity and blender. Ive checked everything and im kind of at a loss because of how it broke now

[somber sequoia]

rig setup. Find your model file in the project window, click it, look in the inspector, in the rig tab. Look for errors there, and if there are none, set it to humanoid and apply if it isn't, then click "configure" and make sure the right bones are in the right slots.

[honest warren]

Done! know what you're talking about, I'll ss to make sure

[somber sequoia]

cool, no errors, that's a start

[honest warren]

mhm! The same error persists ofc, I'm still tearing through all the files on the model for the unlit shader- cannot find it for the life of me lmao

[somber sequoia]

yeah that's really annoying. Maybe a particle system?

maybe a material swap?

[honest warren]

Yeah, Im testing it out in playmode but that error goes away when doing so- its weird

FIXED THE SHADER, it was my face tracking debug menu lmao

[somber sequoia]

ha!

[honest warren]

just gotta get that chest thing

[somber sequoia]

that's good to know - I keep forgetting to remove that and then wonder why there's an extra material I can't find

[honest warren]

and then figure out how to get the size of the avi down a couple mb

[pine valley]

to find all of the materials your avatar is using, you can search the hierarchy for t:renderer

that will show you every object that's got a MeshRenderer/SkinnedMeshRenderer/ParticleSystem/LineRenderer/TrailRenderer on it

(well, to be pedantic, it finds the ParticleSystemRenderer, but that's hidden in the inspector)

[honest warren]

Just this bit left

[south rain]

How do I get the bottom ears to move with the head?

[echo heath]

Hihii, im having issues with my models rig being "Non humanoid". Jst it case it matters its a vroid model made for quest. I went through the rig and checked everything and it seems proper

Im curious if the model itself is jst too stylized and I'll have to change the proportions and start over?

I'd rather check and make sure theres a fix before i go back to square one lol

[somber sequoia]

proportions don't matter. Any errors?

[echo heath]

The third image shows this is the only error in the creator, the rig shows all joints as green

The jaw was attached to a hair piece and has nothing rigged to it now though, in the tut I watched he didnt have issues with it so i assumed it was ok

He also had it attached to a hair piece and jst unrigged it so i followed lol

[somber sequoia]

first image: click "configure"

[echo heath]

tadaa

[dusty rose]

Wym exactly?

[pine fable]

shrinking the upper leg for example shrinks the ENTIRE upper leg, not just the part in the sock. so the thigh looks really squished

[echo heath]

Only piece not rigged is his jaw

[uncut lotus]

I'm struggling bad. I can't figure out why or how this happened, but the head stretched stupid high when In game, and in Unity when testing it. The head, and physbone stuff works fine

[echo heath]

Was still having the non humanoid issue before I removed the rig it was set

[somber sequoia]

looks good

[echo heath]

Does the rig look ok?

oh lol

wait isnt that bad and means the issue isnt surface level

im on like hour ten for a vroid model..

[echo heath]

Hmm if it looks good do u know what the issue may be?

[plucky drum]

i managed to get one of the pupils to work and look around but when setting any of the states it also affects the other eye and shifts it back into the head, is there any way to tweak each eye individually?

[somber sequoia]

nope, from the info I have so far, you've checked all the things I'd check

[plucky drum]

is this a thing or am i just out of luck

[echo heath]

huffff idk I posted about it on tiktok as a last resort, alot of people rlly want an avatar of this character so I'm hoping it'll reach someone who can help or upload it themselves

[somber sequoia]

Probably depends on your UV map. If both eyes share the same space on the UV map, you can't do them separately, you'd have to rework that in Blender.

[plucky drum]

nope, they are in seperate spots

its 2 flat planes on the same UV but on diff spots of it

[somber sequoia]

oh 2D stuff, I've never done that

[plucky drum]

i can tweak it a but but then its just cross eyes all the time

[somber sequoia]

but possibly the bones aren't setup right - make sure they're perfectly vertical, with no roll, and the head is at the center of rotation

[plucky drum]

no roll, vertical

is this aight?

[somber sequoia]

really hard to make out what this is without reference, maybe zoom out or something

which direction is that facing, and which bone is what

[plucky drum]

big bone is the head, 2 smaller ones control the eyes

[somber sequoia]

you mean the ones that are horizontal?

horizontal is not vertical

[plucky drum]

how should they look?

[somber sequoia]

I said

[plucky drum]

i know im asking if you have an example

1 sec

lemme try something

[somber sequoia]

my description isn't enough?

I mean, I could show you a picture of a single bone if you want

[plucky drum]

so should the eye be like this?

[plucky drum]

i know what verticle means im asking where it should be positioned

[somber sequoia]

... I said that too though

[plucky drum]

said what

[somber sequoia]

#avatar-help message

[plucky drum]

i

i read the message dude

[somber sequoia]

ok then what part of that needs clarification?

[plucky drum]

specify what you mean

the bone position

where should it be

[somber sequoia]

put the bone head at the center of rotation

[plucky drum]

all im askin

[echo heath]

its all gone??

like the right tab with all his stuff is empty wth what did i do

[somber sequoia]

what tab?

[echo heath]

like all the stuff in the right from before

u can see the model highlighted in the bottom i have that selected

but when i select them from the left thing (the blue text) its still nuthin

[somber sequoia]

"the stuff"?

you mean in the inspector?

[echo heath]

yeah the inspector is empty

[somber sequoia]

you could try clicking some other object then back to that one

[echo heath]

still nothing </3

i got it back using dark magic (I unlocked and relocked the inspector idk and idc how it worked)

ok google.. plz help fr this time </3

[somber sequoia]

ohhh you locked it, yeah that'd do it

[echo heath]

not as in u literally google itself btw

[plucky drum]

with the new bones the eyes are now just super far apart

[somber sequoia]

the centers look kinda reasonable from that angle

[plucky drum]

wdym?

[somber sequoia]

the centers of those gizmos look roughly centered where I'd think the eye centers would be

[plucky drum]

then why are the eyes all over the place

or so far apart

i mean

[somber sequoia]

I have no idea what you mean - they don't look far in that pic?

[plucky drum]

theyre on the cheeks

they start off fine, but the second i tweak it they both go to their own repective cheek on the sides of the head

last time they were too close together now theyre too far apart

[stark meadow]

i would move the bones forward towards the actual eyes

[plucky drum]

with where theyre currently positioned they eyes can glide over the face without clipping

this is like the sweet spot i found

im gonna try clearing boneroll and re export and see if that happends

[stark meadow]

it may also help setting the .fbx to default then back to humanoid

in unity

[plucky drum]

alright

nope same issue

[stark meadow]

did u roll them to be the same?

[plucky drum]

in blender or unity

[lost swan]

I need help with an issue. When I put my avatar into unity the front bangs are away from the body and rotated in the wrong position. Is there a solution for this problem?

[echo heath]

Different issue on a different upload </3

When I look down his body floats up if that gives any reference to where the issue is

[echo heath]

I changed the viewpoint uploading now hoping it works lol

[mighty basin]

im dumb dumb stupid what does this mean in dumb dumb terms

[wraith blaze]

what? it was fine when i left it

[plucky drum]

for some reason the more i talk and use (a currently broken)Viseme the more my avatars blinking starts to break and unsync from itself

for reference, the blinking and Viseme are both being handled by VRCfury cause im dumb and it was the first solution i found to making both work

the aformentioned blink controller, swaps the eye texture from open to closed and hides the pupil with an invisible texture

[mighty basin]

huh, so the issue i had was because a mesh was the same name as a bone

thats boof

[pliant bronze]

i dont know if i post this here
but where would one start with creating there first avatar?

[mighty basin]

if you are making it from scratch, learning a program like blender is a good place to start

[pliant bronze]

ok, i know a reference is also needed for it
-# im just scared and nervous TwT

[mighty basin]

im still learning majorly, dont be scared. i mainly used a youtube channel called "Rainhet Chaneru 3D" to learn how to do some stuff

[lost swan]

I fixed the problem nvm

[olive tendon]

Hi hi, can someone help me on why my avatars goodie and clothes on the Northern Aspil model don’t upload correctly on quest? They show up in unity just fine, but they don’t show up at all. Like, the menus are connected and everything but they are just non existent

Please @ me or reply if you reply

[keen rover]

How do i get android

[pliant bronze]

i'll have to check them out

[echo heath]

It didnt work and apparently it wasnt taking awhile uploading, my laptop froze XD

[wraith blaze]

you have to download the android build version

[keen rover]

how

nvm

[echo heath]

Oh my god I wish I could've captured my gasp the camera is way above his head cuz hes short, I never went that high lolol

[lime hawk]

how would i setup the Fx for a toggle that should occur when i have my contact receiver get hit by a sender and it toggled immediately off when nothings inside?

[plucky drum]

im following a tutorial to make grabbable props attached to an avatar, at one point he goes over the conditions and sets one of em to gesture, to require a gesture to grab the object, however when i open the dropdown i dont have that option

just grab

vs his perspective

[main fiber]

I'm using a random number generator to make an int chose an sound to play, but my animations aren't turning off, so they get stuck and wont play any sound if the same number is chosen. how can i fix this?

[olive tendon]

bump, still need help

[main fiber]

are you using vrcfury on the pc and/or quest side?

[olive tendon]

yes, it's the same for both sides

[main fiber]

same fx, same param?

[olive tendon]

The clothes just don't exsist

yes

[lime hawk]

Does anyone have any tutorials i could follow for this?

[timber wharf]

@plucky drum you just add it manually to animator🤷‍♂️

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

[undone oracle]

#world-development message

[craggy torrent]

Is this normal? every time I make a new project and install av3 with the creator companion it says this and asks if I want to use safe mode

[ornate stump]

Every error isn't normal to begin with. Are you sure you have the compatible gesture manager version? I'd use only gesture manager, not av3 emulator.

[craggy torrent]

its my first time trying out something like this so asked google and installed all of these becasue it said they can be useful

[ornate stump]

"Can be useful" doesn't necessary mean you have to use it. Since av3 emulator is causing the problem then you have to remove it.

[craggy torrent]

okay, thanks

[ornate stump]

You should always get to understand what addon do what and not just adding them all blindly. Otherwise you'd have to add every addon in existent as well.

[craggy torrent]

fair, do you also know how to make the avatar have textures? in blender it has textures but when exporting it into unity as .fbx it doesnt its just gray, the avatar im trying to make is from a new game and the devs of it made the model public so ppl can use it for stuff

[ornate stump]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRAnDMUbWt8

[craggy torrent]

I dont have texture files, at least that I know of

[ornate stump]

If that means textures are embedbed in the fbx file then you have to do "Extract Textures" in the fbx import menu, material tab, in unity.

[grand coyote]

sooooo i'm trying to add mmd lip sync to my avatar (its a vroid). I followed this tutorial (youtube link) and in unity the blend-shapes are there and when i move the sliders it shows on the avatar. is there an extra step/ plugin i'm missing because its a Vroid model?
(photos attached in order; blendshapes in blender, blendshapes in unity, blendshapes working on model)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ddZOj0JMpA

[honest warren]

Still having this issue, can anyone help me figure out how to fix it?

[night ember]

you need to go into the rig tab of the fbx and actually assign it

[honest warren]

Where from here?

[somber sequoia]

click "configure"

[honest warren]

It worked!! i tried so many times last night trying to open the menu but it never worked

dont know whats diff this time but im so happy lmao

[somber sequoia]

yeah it sometimes opens in an inspector window you aren't expecting. I run three usually and it randomly shows up in the least-convenient one

The solution is to lock the ones you don't want it to go into

[honest warren]

🫡

Just need to delete a few accessories probs to get it below the size limits, I wanna delete face plates and its choker- but it wont let me delete them. What should I do?

[somber sequoia]

this window is your project - stuff that is available for use, not stuff already on your avatar

[honest warren]

so delete from from the heirachy?

[somber sequoia]

That is how to remove things from the avatar, yes.

[honest warren]

gotcha thank you!

[pine valley]

to elaborate: what you see in the Project Window is all of the assets in your project

In this case, you're looking at sub-assets produced from your model file. You can't delete or modify these; they're created by Unity based on what it found in the FBX

it creates prefabs (things you can put in the scene), meshes (the actual model data), and materials (which tell you what a surface looks like)

The model prefab uses all of these assets to render the model

(and by deleting things from the instance of the model prefab in your scene, you can get rid of parts of the model)

[sonic jacinth]

I’d make sure you clear any sharps that you may have there in blender or reset vectors

[loud grail]

Howdy! So I’m trying to add a hair asset I purchased onto this avatar, but even with the hair under the head root it still moves around like it’s not attached properly.

From the information given to me about the hair, it’s not rigged for a specific head. I tried fury armature link and it did nothing. I’m not sure what else to try at this point lol

[pine valley]

the hair is following your head; it's just following it slowly for some reason

maybe you have a physbone affecting the wrong things?

Ah, you may have a physbone component on the Head with a bunch of ignored transforms

[loud grail]

could be. I've found that unpacking the prefab and attaching the hair root to the head has helped, but now it's stiff so im trying to add physbones

[pine valley]

(so that it only affects your ears, for example)

[loud grail]

I'll look into that!

[pine valley]

In that case, you'd need to ignore the hair object as well

you'd increase the size of the Ignore list by 1 and drag the hair object into it

but i'm just spitballing there

[loud grail]

i getcha, thank you!

[cosmic sigil]

so i added some toggles to my avatar but whenver i switch avatars then go back to it the toggles reset

[charred escarp]

go to your pramaters and tick defalt, sorry mind spelling im typing fast

no not defaut saved

look at the bottom couple

[cosmic sigil]

ooohh

okay

[charred escarp]

and the synced one makes it so other people can see your toggles

[cosmic sigil]

wait i can't find where the parameters are

im pretty new to this sorry

[charred escarp]

should be where you put then in your expressions, when first setting up your avi

[cosmic sigil]

oh well apparently i dont have expressions

[charred escarp]

hmm, if you can toggle then you should do.
are you using fury by any chance?

[cosmic sigil]

yea

oh nvm i found it

[charred escarp]

oh good good

[cosmic sigil]

unfortunately i cant find any of my toggles there like it has here

[charred escarp]

it looks different for fury than what i normally see, and i refuse to learn that lol. sorry looks like someone else would have to help you

[cosmic sigil]

okay

[lime hawk]

how would i setup the Fx for a toggle that should occur when i have my contact receiver get hit by a sender and it toggled immediately off when no sender is touching it

[open jetty]

hi one simple question

idk what happen, but know my avatar disapear in weird angles

friends told me its the bounding boxes

or something like that

[lime hawk]

yea you can adjust them by clicking the mesh and editing the bounds

it should usually be the same size as your Body mesh (best case

[charred escarp]

this is what a friend said. but i don't have any idea where it is

[open jetty]

oki thankS

[lime hawk]

np ^^

[cosmic sigil]

i found it tell them thank you ^-^

[charred escarp]

oh thats great kk i will

[wanton dew]

i'm going insane

viseme parameters work perfectly in unity

when i load into the game nothing happens

i had it working not too long ago too

i have no idea what to even

check for

my mic is working too but aaaaaaa

mouth stays shut

[marsh jungle]

How did you set up the visemes in unity?

[wanton dew]

with the fx layer

[marsh jungle]

Not like this?

[wanton dew]

not like that because that doesn't work for 2d mouths

i know those aren't the correct names for the visemes but the conditions are correct

[balmy barn]

your states does not have 'can transition to self' riiight

when you use any state thats default - bad

[wanton dew]

elaborate?

[balmy barn]

it does it once instead of 10000 times a minute when its on

disable it , i have never seen a use for it but it can cause issues

[marsh jungle]

You're not making yourself clear cuz even I don't know what you mean

[wanton dew]

no i get it

[marsh jungle]

oh dang

[wanton dew]

doesn't change anything

[balmy barn]

this happens when its on, spams it infinite times instead of one

[marsh jungle]

Oh because "any state" occurs to itself as well, I see, that makes sense

[balmy barn]

try blendtree, its the fastest

wait what is your voice set to, cause it should be 'viseme parameters only'

[wanton dew]

it is

[wanton dew]

^

[marsh jungle]

Can you show me one of the path connection settings, so we can make sure that you have the conditions correct?

[balmy barn]

done multiple ways but this is the fastest setup

[wanton dew]

i have no idea what i'm even looking at

[marsh jungle]

Does this effect functionality or optimization?

because right now it's not even working for them

[balmy barn]

id check debug ingame, but no clue if quest have it

easy to see if it picks up visemes

[wanton dew]

i'm using windows right now

[marsh jungle]

oh the debug overlay on PC, that will show the name of the proper parameter to make sure it's working

[balmy barn]

any and blendtree way (learn blendtree it will save you alot of setup in future)

no need to setup transtions

but its also hell if you need more then 1

[marsh jungle]

Well this is for if you have custom shaders

[balmy barn]

its not custom this is offset/scaling

[wanton dew]

i completely forgot how to activate that 😭 sorry i'm new

op nevermind

found it

[marsh jungle]

Oh wait right, you can modify the scaling and position of course in default shaders, I forgot that was a function

[wanton dew]

nevermind 😭

[marsh jungle]

I think it's in your radial quick menu in the options? like the same general place personal mirror is available

[wanton dew]

well

viseme is changing but that makes sense since it's a built-in parameter 😭

[marsh jungle]

Is it capital or lowercase

[charred escarp]

does anyone have an idea of why this is happening and/or how to fix it?
my running theory is that for the expressions i set up i have it so that it rotates the ears and whiskers for some animations. but i don't know why they are constantly spinning because they shouldn't be playing

[wanton dew]

i mean this at least shows something

it's a problem with the animations themselves or something but like

i don't understand

[marsh jungle]

And you have Viseme set as an int in your avatar controller, yeah?

[wanton dew]

yeah

[balmy barn]

make noise, numbers should change 0 nothing and check your animator if it doesnt have a mesh it wont work in vrchat

[marsh jungle]

Okay so we're sure that it's changing, and should be driven, that's good.

[wanton dew]

the animator on the mesh itself?

but yes the built-in Viseme thing is changing, just chose a bad time to screenshot

[balmy barn]

roof of avatar

seen my share of plane avs without it , wont work if its 'none'

[marsh jungle]

that's the avatar definition, sometimes shortened to "avatar" in unity

[wanton dew]

i have the avatar set

is this a possible cause for the problem then?

this is the controller on the mesh

[balmy barn]

layer weight = 1 only thing i can think of then

[wanton dew]

done

already

[marsh jungle]

Oh, yeah you're not supposed to use that component I don't think?

[wanton dew]

so take the animator off of my mesh?

[marsh jungle]

You would need to put it in your avatar playable layers section

[wanton dew]

or just the controller

[marsh jungle]

you may need to ask VRChat for a default one of these, and then add your layer there

sorry, let me specify

this should not have a controller by default, vrchat fills in the controller by default for this component

[wanton dew]

clicking default doesn't do anything

[raw spindle]

when was the last time VRChat updated the performance ranks?

because i feel even with very poor avatars, quest users can run it just fine?

no like serious question?

[marsh jungle]

does it fill in a controller for you or does it turn the section blank?

[wanton dew]

this happens

[marsh jungle]

last time I heard they even touched it was when they added VRAM consideration calculation and broke some people's avatars, it's been at least years since they changed it seriously besides adding things like physbone components

[wanton dew]

if i ask for a default

[balmy barn]

vrchat limited to q2 wich is still a potato , they cant have 2 different builds for q2/3

[marsh jungle]

Uhhh does anyone here know where to get the default FX controller?

[raw spindle]

i always thought of this idea that quest avatars could have a performance mode, so like by default its on for questies but if you turn it off it allows certain shaders like poiyomi

[balmy barn]

v.poor is anywhere from ok to -instant crash-

[raw spindle]

that way q3 can have some better graphics

its really annoying, especially for 2d faced avatars that we cant have transparent materials

[balmy barn]

q3 pretty weak still

[marsh jungle]

okay looks like these are the default ones, FX looks like it may actually be free to override?

[marsh jungle]

hoping for transparency on quest has driven many mad

which is funny because they made impostor avatars which literally use cutout shaders

[raw spindle]

ik 😭 when can we have it, surley its not that bad

[marsh jungle]

and made them almost REQUIRED on quest

[raw spindle]

exactly

[wanton dew]

😔

[marsh jungle]

fill in your "Visemes" controller here

[wanton dew]

i did already

that was just to show me trying to grab the default FX layer

[marsh jungle]

ah okay, try it now?

[balmy barn]

vrchat default fx controller is pretty useless , most just copy the gesture and remove the masks

nothing interesting in their stock

[marsh jungle]

FX used to hold the hands but I think they moved it?

I'm seeing the old hands stuff under "Action" now

[wanton dew]

what changed?

[marsh jungle]

you added your controller to a playable mask on the avatar, vrchat will combine these on upload

and make the combined controllers the official controller

[wanton dew]

i already had that

[marsh jungle]

you had it in your animator component, or maybe I misreading you

[wanton dew]

yes but i also had it in the fx layer

[marsh jungle]

Oh

[wanton dew]

and now that it's off of the animator component nothing changes when i test it in unity

[marsh jungle]

which tester are you using

[raw spindle]

i have a question actually, is there a way to make a bone move with the hip but not rotate with it?

[marsh jungle]

if it has a way to test which controller you are debugging, set it to "FX"

[marsh jungle]

VRC Parent Constraint

[raw spindle]

thanks

[marsh jungle]

fiddle with the settings

[wanton dew]

this part works

already

[marsh jungle]

Sorry I meant in editor

[wanton dew]

all i'm doing in the editor is going into play mode and changing the values in the animation controller

[marsh jungle]

Oh

wait are you not using like AV3 emulator or gesture manager?

[wanton dew]

nope

[marsh jungle]

Those would give you more reliable tests and able to view how they would work with everything going on at once

as in, it more accurately reproduces the conditions of VRChat

[wanton dew]

how do i add it into my existing project

[marsh jungle]

do you use VRChat creator companion?

[wanton dew]

yes

oh

manage project

[marsh jungle]

mhm!

[wanton dew]

what else do i do though

once i get it in

do i need to

restart unity or something

op nevermind

sorry

[marsh jungle]

Depending on the one you use, you will need to let me know, I use Av3 emulator

[raw spindle]

do these work with quest?

[marsh jungle]

I press play, then go to tools > AV3 emulator > enable

[raw spindle]

alr

[wanton dew]

alright. will it give me any info that vrchat doesn't already show though

[marsh jungle]

you can literally watch your avatar and debug the controllers live, yes

with all layers active and moving

[wanton dew]

ok

[marsh jungle]

select FX

[wanton dew]

have no idea what i did

[marsh jungle]

Um

Restart project maybe?

[wanton dew]

alright

[lime hawk]

how would i setup the Fx for a toggle that should occur when i have my contact receiver get hit by a sender and it toggled immediately off when no sender is touching it?

[marsh jungle]

how familiar are you with unity animation controllers

[lime hawk]

pretty familiar

ive done lotta other stuff just cant find out how to do this

[marsh jungle]

So contact receivers set a boolean when they get touched, yeah?

[lime hawk]

what im basically trying to do is when my sword hits chest and head colliders it plays the particles its simple but im kinda dumb

[lime hawk]

yea

[marsh jungle]

So animation state 1 with animation clip of particles off, state transition to state 2 (conditoned on that boolean being true) with state 2 having an animation clip of the particles being on**, and then a transition back to state 1 if that boolean becomes false

in it's own animation layer

[wanton dew]

alright it's still happening

i'll just

make

the unity project from scratch

[marsh jungle]

Hm that's odd, when does it happen? on hit play? always?

[wanton dew]

whenever i hit play

[marsh jungle]

perhaps update your avatar sdk? or did you do that

[wanton dew]

or well

[lime hawk]

would i be okay to use on enter or do i stay with constant?

[wanton dew]

while it's playing

[marsh jungle]

constant because "on enter" makes it flash and then turn off if I recall

[balmy barn]

unless it stops you from uploading , wouldnt bother with that error

[marsh jungle]

ehhh constant errors are a bad thing usually lol

[balmy barn]

can generate 100's of them if use av3 and certain settings, wont break anything

physbone math can throw alot of them for reasons

[marsh jungle]

this feels like the control panel drawer function is erroring out

which means the script might not be functioning

[wanton dew]

ough

[balmy barn]

just ui

[wanton dew]

well apparently it uploads

i do have physbones so

[marsh jungle]

well does it test in editor properly, as in, sliding the visemes slider in the emulator script, does it work?

[wanton dew]

where do i even view the animator i'm debugging

[lime hawk]

but shouldn't one clip be the particles turning on?

[marsh jungle]

sorry yes, typo on my end

good catch

[marsh jungle]

on the avatar itself

the root object

with the vrcdescriptor

[wanton dew]

viseme automatically sets itself to 0

[marsh jungle]

screenshot plz

[lime hawk]

Hell yeah got it working youre the best!

[marsh jungle]

cool that's not where you're meant to edit during play mode

[wanton dew]

found it

still doesn't do anything

[marsh jungle]

Right, so it's not working?

[wanton dew]

yes indeed

[marsh jungle]

this is good news, because now we've reproduced your problem in editor

instead of vrchat

[wanton dew]

coolio!

[marsh jungle]

just to be clear, you're sliding this, yeah?

[wanton dew]

yeah

[marsh jungle]

okay, NOW, set the "debug duplicate animator" to "FX"

and THEN you can actually see if your animator is being driven properly

[wanton dew]

where

sorry i'm stupid

[marsh jungle]

the dropdowns above

you're okay!

[wanton dew]

well i set it to FX

[marsh jungle]

now go to your animator unity tab

[wanton dew]

yeah

[marsh jungle]

show me the layers

[balmy barn]

i tend to avoid first layer in fx

always left it empty (digging up reason in docs)

[marsh jungle]

and if you slide around the viseme slider, does this change?

[wanton dew]

yes

[marsh jungle]

and your avatar doesn't change?

[wanton dew]

doesn't

[marsh jungle]

okay that's very interesting

and is there animation clips in each one?

I assume yes

[wanton dew]

yeah

[balmy barn]

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

and some worlds like to disable the first 2 layers/mmd worlds

[marsh jungle]

what why

[wanton dew]

the first 2 layers?

why?

[marsh jungle]

that's dumb lol

but you can fix it by making two new layers and dragging yours down below them

[balmy barn]

cause we gotto use some hacky way to setup stations and force tracking control it breaks the first 2 layers

so its using a avatar component in a world sdk

no idea if it will help your case tho, but i always avoid anything in first layer on FX

[marsh jungle]

But that may not make a difference, so we'll leave it alone for now

So, I have a theory, spook

[wanton dew]

go on

[marsh jungle]

Is ANY other animation in your avatar animating whatever is making your face move?

[wanton dew]

yes

[marsh jungle]

outside of this tree

[wanton dew]

blinking

[marsh jungle]

is it the same properties?

[wanton dew]

i might be stupid let me reread

[wanton dew]

would you rephrase this 😭

[marsh jungle]

if two animations ON DIFFERENT LAYERS are trying to animate the same properties of your avatar that make your face do "the thing", you may need to change your approach

sorry , changing that post

[wanton dew]

my blinking is a blendshape/shapekey and my visemes are all blendshapes/shapekeys

that's it though

[marsh jungle]

Oh blendshapes

does any other layers in your avatar animate those mouth blendshapes?

[wanton dew]

uhm

[marsh jungle]

Okay, and since this is layer 1 the layer weight should be set to 1, and do you use WD on or off?

(write defaults)

I don't think that matters but just wondering

[wanton dew]

write defaults is on

[marsh jungle]

Oh okay, I use off but I don't think that's a concern yet

[wanton dew]

oh what the heck

when it's playing the weight of the layer is set to 0

[marsh jungle]

okays

so we found the bug

change that layer

[wanton dew]

that's so weird

[marsh jungle]

vrchat yall!

[wanton dew]

i can't change anything here

[marsh jungle]

set weight to 1

[wanton dew]

i can't change the weight

[marsh jungle]

are you in play mode

[wanton dew]

i think you aren't understanding

when it's out of play mode, it's set to 1

when it's in play mode, it's set to 0

and i believe that this is a new problem

because it doesn't change the weight on the top layer

[balmy barn]

av3 just does that in playmode

[wanton dew]

specifically the emulator to be clear

[marsh jungle]

I have a bunch of these layers and this is what they look like when I press play and have the amulator running

I can change the weights freely for anything except the first

by clicking the cog wheels

[wanton dew]

i can't

okay i'm gonna leave it on the first layer so that i can deal with this later

this seems like a different problem that i'm not that interested in solving

[marsh jungle]

right

[wanton dew]

bhhhhh sorry

[balmy barn]

really should check your weights 1 or it wont do anything

[wanton dew]

the weights are 1 now because it's on the top layer

[balmy barn]

shoving it to top does that, not reliable

[wanton dew]

alright

i uh

i don't know

[wanton dew]

that's not helpful lol, it's because of the avatar 3 emulator

the weight is set to 1 outside of that

damn i really hope i can get this working today 🥲

[marsh jungle]

which is weird because I'm not getting that with the emulator

[wanton dew]

maybe i'm doing something really weird

idk

by the way thank you for all of your time so far you two

i'm so sorry 😭

i'm just

so confused

[marsh jungle]

so the layer is just having zero weight in playmode?

[wanton dew]

wh

it's

back?

i didn't even change anything

[wanton dew]

it's the right weight in playmode. what was happening with it earlier is that the weight was being set to 0 whenever i turned on the emulator

but for some reason the weight is correct right now

oh, it's the incorrect weight when i click on anything besides the body mesh

[marsh jungle]

well the emulator is doing what vrchat is doing, we think, we hope, we pray

[wanton dew]

the thing is

[marsh jungle]

so if we can figure this out, we might be able to figure out why it's not working in vrchat

[wanton dew]

even if the weight is 100, it does nothing

so

i dunno

[marsh jungle]

weight changing when you click different objects is crazy

[wanton dew]

new development

juno is what sets the latter two layer's weights to 0, body is what sets them to full, and clicking on anything else will just keep the current weight

[lone birch]

how would i be able to fix this, original to left edit to right looks fine in blender but not in unity?

something to do with the bones maybe

[marsh jungle]

is it like this in blender

[lone birch]

nope

[lone birch]

okok ill try that

it moved the wrist in the config but in scene looks the same

[marsh jungle]

right click the bone's position in unity and go >revert

if you unpacked the prefab, save your soul, spawn in the avatar, check the hand position manually, type that into the position

[wanton dew]

if i restarted the project entirely could i set this up a better way

i'm willing to restart at this point because

it's been 2 hours and

no progress

[left gull]

restarting the project entirely kinda just wastes time though

[marsh jungle]

I don't think this something you can fix with a restart, unless some other package or setup is messing with the emulator

[wanton dew]

but so does fumbling around here..... and it's not that much stuff that i would have to redo

just the physbones

and. this

[left gull]

only thing that really messes with AV3 generally is if you've also got Gesturemanager in your project

[wanton dew]

don't have that

[left gull]

hrm, have you saved ur project and re-opened it to see if any red errors are getting thrown in console? they might not be showing up currently cause of a bug or sumn

[wanton dew]

there are red errors

[lone birch]

Yea looks fine in playmode now i think its fixed thank you man

[wanton dew]

i've restarted the project

[left gull]

send the topmost red errors in your console (and hit the collapse button to remove dup errors)

as a screenshot

[left gull]

what are the other 2 topmost red errrors (if any)

[wanton dew]

that's the only one

[left gull]

hmm well thats a like

ignorable/clearable error that doesnt really say anything specific that'd cause issues

so no dice there ig

[wanton dew]

yeah 😔

[wanton dew]

man i really wanted to use it tonight </3

cryging

[wanton dew]

i'm just thinking that i probably accidentally changed some value that i didn't know about or something

i don't know

[devout pond]

hey guys, I'm very new to Unity and uploading avatars this is my first and im attempting to add all the accessories toggles and sliders, but i can't figure out what I'm looking for. I'm not sure if that makes sense

[wanton dew]

do i want the fx layer's animation controller to be anywhere else besides on that layer

fixed

!!!

i'm so happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[raw pendant]

is this a problem?

[marsh jungle]

not neccesarily, play with it in-game and see if it looks bad, it's your call

[devout pond]

Still looking for help on this if anybody has a chance to take a look

[gilded canopy]

I am going to need some help with this. My avatar is having some really strange issue with idle animation, even in T-Pose. The avatar's arms and chest seem to move subtly and I am struggling to figure out what the root cause is. This seemed to have possibly stemmed from one of the packages I installed in VCC, but I'm unsure how I could undo what it did. The avatar's idle movement is just jittery or mildly shaky, not at all what other avatars have. Pretty sure this is something to do with some form of animation within the controllers, but I have no idea what to look for

I have tested with 3 different avatars, all having the same issue, but older avatars are unaffected, meaning this stems from my upload

[raw pendant]

ok thanks man

[marsh jungle]

toggle, it's a vrcfury component

[thorny tartan]

does anyone know why empty states aren't causing my animations to stop when I transition to them

[gilded canopy]

Check if you have looping enabled anywhere. Alternatively, it could be that whatever is triggering the animation doesn't actually end the trigger. Take a look at the pipeline in play mode if needed and see if the parameters turn off as intended

[thorny tartan]

how do I turn off looping?

[gilded canopy]

Animation clips have an option "loop time". Make sure it's unticked

[thorny tartan]

would that be found in assets or the animation layer?

[gilded canopy]

Within your project files. Look for the animation clip in question, click on it and you'll see some options in the inspector

[supple needle]

I’m still having this issue where my blender is distorting. My focal length is at 50mm

When I open blender it’s automatically like this

[barren thorn]

I have the files and textures on but I need too create a armature and vertex group to send too the person doing my custom avi can anyone help really fast on how to do that

[somber sequoia]

in Blender, hit 'A' and select armature. Do you need to like, fully rig an avatar?

[calm zenith]

I’ve got like a 3d model of this Jo Jo avatar but when I go to import it into unity it doesn’t show up I’m not sure what I’m doing this is my first time doing it and I’m so lost

[tired steeple]

So I managed to fix it by just using a downgraded version of the a
SDK specifically 3.8.0

I guess problem solved imma be real I only upgraded to creator companion from bloodborne for the other quest shaders

[amber gull]

it wont let me upload the avi

any idea how to fix? i think its bugged

[teal laurel]

Try it again. This recently happened to me and upon saving the project and trying again, or re-opening it that fixed it.

I forgot what of the ones it was

[amber gull]

thanks

[teal laurel]

Probably a bug in the vrchat sdk

[amber gull]

still the same issue :/

[safe spire]

everytime I calibrate my avatar with full body all the animations go off at once is there any way to fix this?

[somber sequoia]

920k triangles.... ye gods. But that error seems to be a server thing, I haven't seen an official answer yet.

[amber gull]

i know its too much im planning to sell it xD

[somber sequoia]

... wow.

okay.

Thanks VRChat for download size limiters 🙂

[amber gull]

hahahahaha

[crimson flax]

does anyone know what the issue is?? im so confused

[amber gull]

same with me..

[crimson flax]

oh gosh

the sdk just updated im pretty sure

cuz i just updated it so maybe it has to do with that

[amber gull]

its still 3.9 for me tho

[crimson flax]

i downgraded to 3.80 and it uploaded

try that and see if it works

[amber gull]

i see ima give it a try

[tender mica]

So I need help I don’t have a PC or a computer, but I wanna figure out how to upload an avatar that I bought onto my oculus with my oculus, but I don’t know how to do it is it possible that I can do it without a computer?

[broken fog]

Is there any way for me to tell why the quest version of an avatar is failing the security checks? This avi was uploaded once before and worked just fine. The only thing I did was update the SDK via VCC and actually reduced the number of Mats used on the avi. The PC version works find but when I upload the Quest version it says it failed the security checks. So my main question is, is there any way to see what made the avi fail so I can address the problme? And yes, the avi actually uploads to VRC with out error. Its only after it uploads does it say it failed. SDK version 3.7.6 (as defaulted by VCC itself)

[crimson flax]

nope u need a pc to download unity and then upload the avi

[tender mica]

Aw dang well thank you for letting me know

[crimson flax]

ofc!!

[amber gull]

worked thanks!! ^^

[crimson flax]

np!!

[devout pond]

i know this im unsure where im supposed to place that component and then how i get get expressions from the animations folder onto the actual radial

[gilded canopy]

I have a little bit of experience so I could try and help you out real quick before I head off to bed

[devout pond]

i would thoroughly appreciate

[gilded canopy]

Free to vc and stream your screen?

[devout pond]

yeth one second

[sharp cloak]

Whenever i upload a model into unity, it's not visible and I don't know why :_:

[hardy crest]

Is there a guide somewhere of exactly where the bones should be on a model? I'm having issues with the head refusing to angle up when crouching, or turning the head causing the body to pivot.

[somber sequoia]

Pinned in #avatar-rigging is a pretty decent diagram

[hardy crest]

Thanks, unfortunately that already looks pretty much the same, damn.

[gilded canopy]

Look for a .unityproject or prefab file within the projects section. The avatar may be tucked away.

If the model is already in the hierarchy, make sure it's actually active by selecting the avatar itself and ticking the box at the top inside the inspector. You can tell if an item is active or inactive from whether they are grayed out or not.

[muted wharf]

Can someone please put my avatar called some proot in a world called some proots world

its been rigged

in blender

[left wren]

I have a contact receiver set up so that when i grab the gun at my side it equips it in my hand. However despite the fact that i buffered its loop, if i grab it too fast friends of mine cant see it. Is there a better method of syncing bools activated by contact receivers?

i chocked it up to a latency issue that vrchat has between players. I'm just hoping there is a way to make it function better so that i can quickdraw the gun.

[mellow scaffold]

anyone know where to find a aizawa model from mha?

[somber sequoia]

#1138520828556890214

[somber sequoia]

you should head over to the VRC Traders discord to commission people, you'll get scammers DMing you here.
Link is in #1204490664637890580

[sharp cloak]

I'm trying to upload a FNAF Puppet model, but it's not visible in Unity. All of the assets are there, and the asset file thing shows the model as pink, but it doesn't appear in the preview area

How do I combine skin meshes in Unity?

[timber wharf]

blender🤷‍♂️

[sharp cloak]

;-;

Then how do I make my model visible in the preview window? It's in the hiearchy and the box is checked off

[somber sequoia]

off? if you mean the checkbox in the upper left of the inspector, you want that on

[devout pond]

anybody understand whats happening here

[sharp cloak]

It's on. My model just won't show up

[still shuttle]

you have a missing script it seems

[devout pond]

unrelated i just changed my pfp it used to be the same as yours

[devout pond]

hwo does one figure out what script is missing lol

[still shuttle]

I just look through my hierarchy until I find it

it'll say in ur inspector window "missing script"

on whatever object has a missing script

[devout pond]

would that be this ?lol

[still shuttle]

yep

[devout pond]

its litteraly on the entire avi i think

[uncut lotus]

Im lost on what I need to get rid of.....

[still shuttle]

just remove it or if its an avatar u purchased make sure you imported all necessary dependencies

[sharp cloak]

My avi isn't visible in unity. I was wondering if anyone could help me with it? I've been at this for hours. The model is in the hierarchy, the boxes are checked, and all layers have been set to default. I've tried reuploading the assets and even scaling down the model, but it won't show up.

[somber sequoia]

double-click on the avatar root object, do you now see it?
If not, click on the Body object - do you see an outline?

[devout pond]

i removed it, avatar buiild gopnna test in vr and ill be back if it blows up lol

[uncut lotus]

Like it lets me test the avi but not upload it....

[sharp cloak]

Where do I find the root objects? I see a check box that says appply root motion

[somber sequoia]

root as in the root of the tree - the upper-most object in the hierarchy that is still your avatar

[sharp cloak]

Ah. Nothing happened. Nor when I clicked on the body

[cursive spade]

Is it possible to adjust physics parameters with animations?

Like when my tail gets huge, it kinda freaks out with the physics-

[spare valve]

Guess what iam wearing from Halloween

[ornate stump]

Do you actually need help for that? This is #avatar-help

[spare valve]

NVM

[placid mica]

I've got one error that I am not able to clear that's preventing me from entering playmode

[magic storm]

^^^ ????

^^^ ????

[rich crown]

anyone else having an issue where it doesnt recognize you have an avatar thumbnail or am i doing something wrong? screenshots dont work, downloading images dont work, even doing in scene thumbnails dont work???

[rich raptor]

Does anyone have any idea how to fix this problem? If you're wondering, yes. I've already tried uploading a thumbnail, even with a screenshot of the scene, but the error persists.

[rich crown]

im not sure if this helps but i think its a api issue, i fully read through my consoles error and it kept bringing up api something something, i think its just a vrchat server issue

[teal laurel]

Try to upload it again or save, close and re-open the project. Thats what worked for me.

Seems to be a bug in the sdk

[rich crown]

thats what im trying right now

this has happened a few times

i tried like... 4 times?

[placid mica]

Tried moving to a completely new unity project and also using something like pumpkins avi tools to convert but apparently Its something within the avatar and I don't know how to get rid of it without completely remaking it

but the error wont leave

it wont let me enter playmode

[timber wharf]

it says gesturemanager, make sure its up to date or start with removing it from a project

[mellow sapphire]

Hi! I'm completely discouraged at this point. I'm trying to make a custom avatar, I bought a bunch of assets and I use the CATS addon in Blender to help merge the armatures but not really anything else. I import each FBX I need in Blender, remove the bones I don't need, then merge the armatures together. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but once I import it back into Unity, my blendshapes are all messed up. Sometimes they'll just weirdly distort some other parts (especially in the face) or sometimes when expanding them, they will look very low poly (as if there was no shadesmooth). I tried a bunch of different export settings from blender, and a bunch of different import settings in Unity. Everytime I try something it fixes one thing and breaks another. In blender, all the shapekeys seem fine when I play around with them. In unity, when I put blendshapes to "Import" it sometimes would fix the blenshapes (not always all of them though, weirdly) and the "Tangents" setting on Import would also kinda mostly fix the weird lowpoly look, but then ONE braid would still be messed up (Out of two braids lol). I imported the base model, with no modification and exported back into unity, and it still breaks (the face) so there must be something wrong with the process of importing to blender, exporting and then reimporting to unity, but I have no idea where. I'm really new at this but I've been at it for 3 days from morning to night with no success. I'm on the verge of a mental breakdown, please help. 🙃

[junior void]

lets start by what blender version are you using and how do you "export to blender"

[mellow sapphire]

I drag the FBX from Unity in a folder and then Import it in blender through the FBX Import/export addon (I also tried the Better FBX "..." but it's been no different, it could be the settings though, Idk)

But I also tried with a FBX of my base model that came with the ZIP (so not dragged from unity, directly from the folder) and it still did the same

[solar shard]

Short question, i was investigating a theory about dividing complex animation controllers into smaller ones by having separate animators but those doesn't seem to be working in game, is there any limitation on which animators can use avatar parameters?

It may help reduce cpu time on complex avatars, by my own test case it can help with a ~10fps boost versus single animator which kinda aligns with this testing too https://vrc.school/docs/Other/Benchmarks/#5b4def9bfebe4193b32c5a6559771a79

but when i try to test that in vrc they seem to ve unresponsive to parameter changes

[balmy barn]

cant talk to other animators , only world can send commands to other

[solar shard]

just in case i am not speaking of animator to animator comunication

i'm speaking about if one animator that is not the main animator can read parameter values or if those have to always go to the main animator

(if second case that's sad because it could potentially make the game run better for a lot of people if used correctly)

[timber wharf]

animators other than main one are uncontrollable

[raw pendant]

how do i fix GLSL compilation failed for shader .poiyomi/Poiyomi Pro ShatterWave ??

[solar shard]

that's sad, thank you Thulen and TheLeastMost for the answer

[solar shard]

which error does it throw?

[raw pendant]

there are 47 errors and if it makes a diffrence i use arch btw

[mighty basin]

hypothetically if i throw some rotation constraints on this would it work like a leg?

[solar shard]

(just in case try to unlock the so just in case basic compiler stuff to maybe fix it

be sure no unicode characters in the path to the project file

try reinstalling poiyomi in case it's corrupted

unlock the shader and let it re-lock/recompile

[raw pendant]

how do i unlock it?

[solar shard]

on the materail using it

click the big button that says unlock

[raw pendant]

btw if the button is in the inspector i cant see it bc nothing gets displayed in it doesnt matter what i slect there is just blank

[solar shard]

humm if you are willing to screenshare i can take a look

[still shuttle]

Is it possible it sync up physbones for pc/quest avatars? I was told that all they need to be synced are to be on the same bones and have the same settings, but that doesn't seem to be the case

[shut oxide]

how do i make it so the physbones for chain has two still spots where it hooks to the belt (included how the rig for the chain looks cuz i imagine that might not be the best setup)

[junior void]

you cant really do that. maybe with some constraint wizardry

[proper tulip]

Hi question
Anyone know a place here you can like ask someone to upload an avatar for you or that not something we can do here?

I have a link to a public model but I don't own a PC only a quest so I can't do anything with it myself was hoping someone could just upload it but idk how that works

[junior void]

It is prohibited by vrchat rules. Reason being if you or they get banned, so will the other one.

Doubt you want that

[proper tulip]

Whuh so no one can upload a public model for me to use? I mean I use models made by other people is that different?

[junior void]

To their own account, sure. To your account no

[night ember]

if its a publicly uploaded avatar you can clone thats fine

but uploading it to your account no

[proper tulip]

Oh no yeah I was hoping someone could just upload it to theirs n share with me 😭

[night ember]

well

[proper tulip]

I wouldn't share my account with anyone lol that'd be scary

[night ember]

as long as you are even allowed to upload it as public

avatars have terms of use

[junior void]

^

[proper tulip]

As far as I'm seeing w the creator they have uploaded the model publicly and said they may make it a vrc model but haven't done anything with it
Maybe I could DM them and ask?

Thanks for the help btw!

[junior void]

Isnt there a page of sort

[night ember]

could link where you are getting this avatar

[proper tulip]

Yeah it's here!
https://mightbemod.itch.io/benrey-blender-model

See they like said they had plans to upload but haven't gotten around to it
So I wonder if I should just ask them lol

[junior void]

The creator says he plans to make it a vrchat avatar

the package only includes blender and fbx model so its not just "upload" its the whole unity setup missing

[uncut lotus]

I'm confused of the problem? Asked reddit and so far the only thing I haven't tried is downgrading the version yet, but would that work out?

[proper tulip]

I saw someone on twitter message and ask them to use it and it looks like they said yes!

I may ask this user to share with me!

[still shuttle]

still need help with thia

[raw pendant]

ok when do you have time?

[slow panther]

?????????

and it keeps saying validation failed

[broken fog]

Still looking for some info or guidance on my question here if anyone has any input on this.

[somber sequoia]

the latest gesture manager is incompatible with the beta SDK at the moment

[junior void]

Is the avatar (blue man symbol, the config of the humanoid rig) assigned to your avatar in your scene?

[finite bone]

How to make avatar

[left stream]

i just used vrcquesttools's network id assigner

[somber sequoia]

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

[raw pendant]

how do i fix this?

[still shuttle]

How does that work

[still shuttle]

Rename head mesh. Meshes cannot have the same name as bones

[left stream]

https://kurotu.github.io/VRCQuestTools/docs/tutorial/non-destructive-workflow/#assigning-network-ids

just have NDMF and VRCQT in the project, then add the network id assigner component to the pc and quest avis

as long as they're in the same path on hierarchy it should work

[still shuttle]

whats NDMF?

Modular avatar?

[left stream]

i believe it's like, the "backbone" of modular avatar

[raw pendant]

how do i rename it in unity?

[still shuttle]

I would rename it in blender and then update the fbx

[still shuttle]

do I add the network ID thing to both pc and quest versions of the avatar?

nvm

[left stream]

yes

[still shuttle]

u answered that already haha

my bad

[fiery tiger]

Anyone here familiar with Jerrys FaceTracking? I am trying to disconnect the eyebrows from moving with certian mouth movements (like how frowning makes the eyebrows move) but i can't find what causes it. It's not an animation, or at least the ones I can see, and i cant locate where the actual cause of it is

[raw pendant]

ok i think the problem was the vertex group

[still shuttle]

is NDMF needed for the network assigner?

[still shuttle]

uh no vertex groups are for weight painting

the issue is the name of the mesh

you want the vertex group the same name as the bone so it moves with the necessary bone

[raw pendant]

its named face so i dont get it

[left stream]

i believe so yes

[gilded canopy]

Does anybody have any idea why my avatar's arms (and subtly chest) move this way? I am using the gogoloco T-Pose as a default standing animation for the sake of the example, but the arms move like this even when standing, sitting or crouching, and I am unsure why. This happened after I installed a package, and managed to fix it on my other avatars, but not this one. Any help would be appreciated!

[versed granite]

is it an animation on the mesh using blend shapes?

so my phybones are there, everything is weight painted, but the bones are frozen in place and nothing moves?

[gilded canopy]

Nothing relating to blendshapes. There's some kind of animation playing that's affecting the whole body. What I believe this is, is the finger movement animation being played on the whole body instead of the fingers (but fingers also seem to subtly move, so it appears both are affected). It's most likely something within the playable layers, but even after getting a fresh replacement of gogoloco for mayu, the issue persists

[violet coral]

Im trying to make a Mobile version of my avatar and I can build for windows and andriod, how ever I can't build for IOS (which is what I use for my phone) is there some sort of thing im missing?

[vernal moss]

Have you had this issue before?

[violet coral]

nope, first time doing this, for IOS

[vernal moss]

Okay, similar to the android build for Unity

Did you install the IOS support

Go to file, then build settings. Click on IOS. if it says you need to install it. Do that

[violet coral]

ah thank you

[vernal moss]

Yep

No worries

[versed granite]

anyone else have stiff physbone issues?

[gilded canopy]

Physbones are highly customizable. I'm not sure if it's the case, but make sure you don't have "Limit type" as none

[versed granite]

I dont want limits lol

[gilded canopy]

Could you show me what settings you've applied to the phys bone?

[versed granite]

none just applied physbones to test it and nothings moving

the physbone trail is there so i know its at least there

[gilded canopy]

If you want them to be affected by gravity, make sure you actually increase the gravity slider for the physbone

[versed granite]

I just want them to move ill worry about everything else later

[gilded canopy]

Oof.. All I can say is that you should go into play mode, get a camera and use gesture manager emulator, enable scene camera and clickable contacts under the "tools" tab. While in the "game" window, try grabbing the physbone with your cursor and see if it moves at all. Make sure grabbing is set to true for the physbone as well

Physbones overall try to stay in their resting position, so without external input, they do not move on their own. Hence my suggestion to use gravity

[versed granite]

you can select the object in the hierarchy enter play mode and when you move it around the phys bones should move while your dragging it around

[gilded canopy]

Then I'm out of ideas, sorry

[mild parrot]

looking for a chain avatar

[versed granite]

might want to go to avatar search

[chilly raptor]

what the frick man

[still shuttle]

Ty for ur help, I tested it out and NDMF is not needed for it to work :D

[left stream]

huh, i thought it wouldve needed ndmf to actually run the hook before build

[still shuttle]

Surprisingly not! I tried one version of the avatar with it and then one without and they both worked perfectly! So my guess is that is doesn't need it to work

[left stream]

you probably need to add jerry's vrcft templates in vcc

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

[chilly raptor]

THANK you'

[broken vector]

so everytime i upload for quest when my pc sides are done, it always says "window security checks failed" how do i fix that?
i remember i clicked something in unity hub that made it work. but i dont remember how i did it. can someone help me?

[somber sequoia]

bones on your avatar which are humanoid bones specifically

[gilded canopy]

I've come to realize the issue is in gogoloco specifically. If I remove gogoloco and test the avi in vrchat, the weird movement disappears. I have deleted the gogoloco package, reinstalled it, deleted the gogoloco project files and reinstalled those, but it's still seemingly happening, and I'm unsure why. Any thoughts?

[slow crane]

idk what i did wrong, i had 15 alerts but now I have 20, i'm not the best at reading and im not familiar with this type of things cuz i never done this before

[gilded canopy]

Most of those you can ignore. They're VRChat's suggested limits just for avatar performance ratings

[slow crane]

ooo bc what i wanted to do was like upload this for pcvr but it said its too big so i tried to use d4rk or poly but idk how to use it

[fair star]

your physbones are too heavy for quest. if you try to upload there will be no physbones

i reccomend https://kurotu.github.io/VRCQuestTools/ for helping with physbone limits