avatar-help

[night ember]

Editing while enabled doesnt update

[wanton island]

i fixed it

thanks you for the help

[plucky drum]

my avatar keeps looking like this when importing it, already checked the face orientation and its all in order

[edgy wind]

I am going nuts I just got avi and sure I have everything done setup right but it say their no avi? stuck

🧐 maybe I need to update stuff?

[somber sequoia]

the console errors are probably the issue. Which SDK is this, is it the beta?

[edgy wind]

ohh it is in beta yeah

[somber sequoia]

otherwise yeah, update the various dependences to the latest stable releases.

ahh

yep, beta channel then

[edgy wind]

😭

thx

[somber sequoia]

but probably the answer is: package incompatabilities

[edgy wind]

yeah that what I am starting think maybe I did not setup the avi unity project and files wrong

[somber sequoia]

it's quite possible that Modular Avatar can't work with the beta SDK yet.

[edgy wind]

ahhh I see

[thorny turret]

I bought a custom avatar and I can’t upload it to my vrchat account. I get this popup.

The problem with this is I’ve actually had my vrchat account and have played it for several years/hours. but I assume the problem is I have barely made any friends.

I just want to confirm that this is the issue and not something else

[plucky drum]

so i have a partially transparent visor with eyes and stuff behind it, however despite being set to transparent theres still a noticable material difference visible on the eye mesh that should be transparent. is there any way to fix this or am i kinda boned?

[somber sequoia]

What is your user ranking? Also is it actually a VRChat account and not a platform (i.e. steam) one?

[rugged vortex]

You're not a user yet

[limber monolith]

Hey can I change avatars on mobile?

If so how?

[edgy wind]

Just wanted to say thank you after downgrade sdk and such it works! thank so much

[thin sonnet]

my friend is having an issue when uploading any avatar thing on unity, whenever he clicks Build & Publish, it grays out the information area and nothing happens, no error or anything, another friend made my friend reinstall unity and to upload just a cube and the same thing happens, it grays out the information area and there is no error message, anyone know fixes for this?

[placid mica]

Unity wont detect my rig as humanoid and I dont know why. also says its not in t-pose

[fresh rose]

tryna upload rn and keep gettin this error,idk what it means tho,can anyone help?

[somber sequoia]

what do you mean "change"?

[limber monolith]

Like change to a different avatar on mobile (I have saved ones but idk how to access them)

[somber sequoia]

if this is a question about using the game, you mean another channel

this one is about creating avatars

[jagged marlin]

heyo, im having a few troubles exporting my avatar into unity again after porting it into blender.

its a selestia and after a few edits the exports as fbx are no longer smooth. it looks ok in blender but breaks in unity.
ive tried all combinations from scale local to fbx all with all combinations of apply transforms and apply unit.
it used to work with scale local but then the armature was scaled 100% messing with components placed on there. i also had it work for a second with fbx all and apply units unchecked but after a few further edits on a different mesh it no longer works at all

[somber sequoia]

you probably want scaling to be "FBX All", and this issue should not be related. Hard to see what's going on from this picture though.

[jagged marlin]

yep, fbx all is the only one that preserves scales correctly but for some reason the avi became rough

gimme a sec im sending how its supposed to look

[somber sequoia]

usually stuff regarding normal smoothing are well, normal smoothing - either legacy blendshape normals, or leave that off and set normals to "import" but also export from blender with "smoothing" under "Geometry" set to "Face"

yeah seeing the "correct" pic will help

without reference I'm like uh..

[somber sequoia]

this looks like weird shader things to me

[shy forge]

ive been trying to upload this avatar for a bit but the progress is stuck at 0 percent. does it have to do something with having multiple avatar prefabs? i had the same issue with another avatar that also has multiple avatar prefabs

[jagged marlin]

its the exact same material on both. it also looks weird on the default no material shader

and it used to depend on the export settings

[somber sequoia]

hmm yeah no idea what that'd be other than maybe something something normals

[jagged marlin]

oh my god. it was blendshape normals. it jumps around depending on the export type. apparently its semi random what unity thinks is best to use when it imports a fbx. I set that one to import as well instead of calculate. thank you for pointing it out. Have a nice Evening

[somber sequoia]

yup.

I will say though that you should test what I said about setting "Smoothing" to "Face" - if you don't, you might find blendshapes cause mesh faces to be sharp, it's weird.

You'll notice it with visemes for sure

[jagged marlin]

already was

[somber sequoia]

oh - weird, the default is "normals only"

[rich crown]

so what ive found to work is just closing the sdk window and re-opening it and make sure you are out of the prefab on your avatar and it should work 🙀

[jagged marlin]

that was the default but i changed it sometime earlier. it only actually worked once i manually set the blendshape normals to import

[somber sequoia]

ahh. Yeah I have operator presets for avatars and worlds, in the export dialog, so I don't screw it up 🙂

[thin sonnet]

my friend is getting this error but he is agreeing to the ownership agreement, and he had to switch the SDK version to 3.8.2 just to see this because in 3.9 nothing happens, how does he fix this? he's already logged out and back in several times and he is a "User"

[somber sequoia]

anything in the console?

[thin sonnet]

this

[somber sequoia]

anything before that top one? Always show the first 2-3 errors if you can.

[thin sonnet]

this was the whole thing

[somber sequoia]

huh, not alot to go on there

[thin sonnet]

we've done so much, right now we're just trying to upload a newly created cube in unity with an animator and vrc avatar descriptor and this happens

[thin sonnet]

could it be an account issue? it says he's permitted to upload avatars but i dont know what else it could be

[somber sequoia]

I have no idea from here, sorry

[thorny turret]

Pretty sure it’s a vrchat account? Im labeled as a visitor though. If I’m wrong, how can I fix that?

[somber sequoia]

if you're visitor, you have to play more

[thorny turret]

How long do I need to play? I’ve played for several hours, does friend count matter too?

[somber sequoia]

?upload

[flat musk]

You must obtain at least "New User" Trust Rank in our Trust and Safety system in order to upload content. You can get this by just spending a few hours in VRChat, hop some worlds, and make some friends. Give it some time and you'll be able to upload content in no time.

As an aside, you must have a VRChat account to upload content. That means you can't use a Steam account, Oculus account, or Viveport account to upload content like worlds or avatars.

Source: https://docs.vrchat.com/docs/frequently-asked-questions

[somber sequoia]

best answer I've got. Or you could buy a month of VRC+

[thorny turret]

Thank you so much for your time and advice!

[thin sonnet]

i found somewhere that they said it is a network issue, that the SDK cant talk to the vrchat servers or something

any idea with that information?

[somber sequoia]

nope

I've never seen this myself, best I could say is search the history here.

[placid mica]

Help

[somber sequoia]

it says the error right there in the second image

you can't have a mesh object the same name as a humanoid bone

oh you have two armatures on there, don't do that

[placid mica]

Oh is that why? Oops

I'll fix that!

[somber sequoia]

I also notice you've unpacked this, probably not a great idea

[gentle bison]

help im can't search avatar in this map

[placid mica]

Enable the setting Allow Untrusted URLs in your settings and try again.

[gentle bison]

how do I do this?

[placid mica]

Look for it in your settings

Theres a search function I think

[somber sequoia]

not an avatar creation question though

[misty spear]

hey, does anyone know why my avatars facial animations have stopped working. Thye worked fine earlier today until i exported the avatar to blender to fix a clipping issue and after reimporting it i cannot get my expressions to work in any way. The layers and parameters are labled the same as the int in the expression parameter, ive also tried remaking an expression but i cannot get them to toggle on at all

[gentle bison]

@placid mica thanks

it work

[still hinge]

keep having this issue is there anything i could do to make it stop? cant upload the avi or put it into play/test mode

[somber sequoia]

look in the console for clues

[somber sequoia]

that's the only error?

[still hinge]

uhh it said there was around 2-300 😭 i just took a ss of the most recent one

[somber sequoia]

oh, that's the least useful one. The first 2-3 are most useful.

Clear the console and do the build again, then grab the first 2-3.

[still hinge]

ah ill take one of that one second

[somber sequoia]

Just the summaries are fine, no need to open them for the full details.

[mint vine]

It means the avatar didn’t link to their VRChat account. To fix it, log into the right account in Unity, clear the blueprint ID, then re-upload using the latest VRChat SDK.

[somber sequoia]

eh.... if that's the only error, sure.

[still hinge]

uhhh i think the problem fixed itself i tried uploading again and it just started uploading without a problem 😭

i dont like unity bro

it works i didnt do anything 😭

[thorny turret]

Prepping my avatar for upload, I have all textures equipped with the vrchat mobile toon lit (because that’s all I can use) and I’m having blackout issues on the body area.
How can I fix this?

[somber sequoia]

two guesses: if they were meant to be transparent, you don't get that on quest, so cut out that mesh.
Or... maybe they are black because of vertex colors, you'd need to remove those in blender or I think vrc quest tools

[pine valley]

I'm guessing it's vertex colors

[somber sequoia]

yep, same

[pine valley]

You can also just swap to Toon Standard

which lets you decide if you want vertex colors

[somber sequoia]

oh that's right, I forgot it does that

[pine valley]

(vertex colors give each vertex in your model a color; they're handy for storing low-fidelity color data)

sometimes you inadvertantly get weird vertex colors, and shaders that use the will cause you to look weird as a result

[vernal iron]

Hey, hi, hello.

For the past few days ive been fumbling around on unity, trying to figure this out.

Im attempting to make a 2d vrc avatar. Ive made a bunch of animations for it, both available as sprite sheets, and regular individual frames.

Ive tried a few methods, all presented their own issues.

As niche as 2d avatars are, im hoping someone has a tip for me, or some advice.

[spare lantern]

ok so on a earlier version of my avatar i had a tail wag on my happy animation. when i did the happy gesture (assigned to my Fist hand state 1) the tail would loop a wagging animation. i had to remake my avi but now after recreating the animation the tail just doesnt move at all. the facial anim works but the tail wont move at all.

i tried

1. checking to see if any other anim is afecting the tail
2. making the tail anim a normal toggle
3. making a version of the animation with a drastic change (extremly outstretched to see if the anim even works and it some how made the tail change immediately even before i triggered the gesture.

does anyone know what could be the problem?

oh did i fatfinger caps lock?

my b

but i found it!

some how my pohysbone is getting in the way of the animation

oki SO. i needed to hit the "Is Animated" button on the physbone!

[half ice]

can anyone please tell me whats the best export sittings in blender to unity for FBX File maybe send me Pic.....

[somber sequoia]

set "Apply Scalings" to "FBX All", disable leaf bones, under Armature.

I also set "smoothing" under "Geometry" to "Face" but then you should import normals in the Unity FBX import settings.

head over to the VRC Traders discord, link is in #1204490664637890580

you'll just attract scammers here

[hazy spear]

Thank you i appreciate it

Won’t let me look at community servers 😭

[still hinge]

and its back to being broken 😭

[somber sequoia]

no need to ping me for this, anyone here can answer.

[still hinge]

sorry just you were the one originally helping me so thought id ask you

[somber sequoia]

I was just making sure you provided enough information.

[vague eagle]

Hello 👋 friend

[vague eagle]

How are you doing

[somber sequoia]

hello scammer

[coral shell]

i have a question for yall, i added a outfit to my avatar, but everytime my friends load my avatar its on by default even tho its off in the parameters and synced, any idea why ?

[junior void]

how would we know without seeing the setup?

[fiery dirge]

I am having this exact issue and it's makin me wanna wig out 💢 Anyone know a fix?

[fiery dirge]

An exact hour later, I found the fix... delete the blueprint n make a new one lol

[vestal sand]

okay, so i've noticed this on some avatars i was making but why are there holes appearing out of nowhere even though they aren't present when i check the blender files ?

[ornate stump]

You will have to check face orientation in blender.

[vestal sand]

alright

found the issue! thx ^^

[still hinge]

having this issue anyone got an idea why it isnt working?
thats all 6 errors i get when trying to upload/play test the avi

[amber gull]

can someone tell me please why the arm is not straight?

the fingers also looks weird

[sinful urchin]

Hey, can anyone help out?

[sinful urchin]

are you looking at the avatar in blender?

[amber gull]

no unity, blender looks fine

[sinful urchin]

that is interesting...maybe you have rotated some parts of the rig?

hard to see whats going on from that screenshot

[amber gull]

in blender it looks perfect no issues at all

[sinful urchin]

thats weird. I wish I could help :((

[half ice]

if i export fbx file can i change file size some how like i have some clothing that are 20mb and its even a small objekts

[half ice]

why the fk evryone is adding me 🙂

answers me herer

1000000% scammers

[torn crypt]

Yes you can change the file size of the fbx and sometime there is a lot of unnecessary data store in the objects that makes it's size big

[torn crypt]

just ignore all of them

[stray lintel]

anyone know how to restore a project scene?

I made a grave mistake and reimported my scene when I was just trying to import materials

[grand scaffold]

Since it sounds like you've overwritten it, not much you can do unless you have version control / backups in place. If you deleted the scene and reimported the package the old scene would be in your recycling folder but it doesn't sound like that's the case

[stray lintel]

ah mk

frick

my edits are all gone T_T

dangit

wanna bash my head against the wall

[grand scaffold]

Best you can do now is to learn from this and set up version control, github desktop is probably the easiest way of going about it. You'll find tutorials on how to setup github desktop for unity projects online

[pure dragon]

Hello! How is everyone doing? I am completely new to avatar making, and using blender and such. I thought it'd be fun trying to make an avatar using Zelda from Zelda Skyward Sword as an avatar, and I was following some videos on how to import models and such and turn them into VRChat avatars, but when I try importing the model, it gives me tons of errors, and nothing happens. I have no clue what to do lol, as I'm doing this for the first time. Here's a screenshot of the error if this helps. Thank you in advance for the help.

[twin meteor]

Hi, are there tutorials on how to place an object in a world that is part of an avatar? (Not interactable and that it stays in a specific place in a world once enabled & turns off and resets when reenabled).

Okay I found it: https://ask.vrchat.com/t/how-to-create-a-custom-world-constraint/8481

[half ice]

and how ?

like i have small mashes that they took 20 mb how to change the size if this mashes

[torn crypt]

Before exporting your FBX in Blender:
Select your clothing.
Go to File then Export then FBX.
In the export panel on the right
Check Limit to Selected Objects
Uncheck “Embed Textures”
Uncheck “Bake Animation”
you can also add a Decimate Modifier to lower poly count before export.

[half ice]

ahh okk thanks gona tryy

[modest trench]

Hi everyone! I just had a question regarding lights in vrchat avatars. I have a simple particle effect on an iPhone prop that activates when I do a hand gesture in order to simulate the flash of a photo being taken, but all of a sudden none of the lights on any of my avatars work? All my avatars are quest compatible because I play on quest so I don't know if it was a latest update thing or if anyone else out there is having a similar problem?

[timber wharf]

cant have any lights on mobile

couldve been a bug if it worked somehow

[modest trench]

Right but I didn't have any "light" lights, its like a particle effect that simulated the lights, it worked for years so I don't know why it stopped working, my friend who also makes avis had the same prefabs I was using and it worked fine until a few weeks ago

[ornate stump]

Particle light has been patched so you can't use that exploit anymore.

[timber wharf]

lights section and spot light is not emulating lights, its a proper light source. so apparently devs somehow managed to overlook it for all this time

emulating light would be flashing additive sprite particle

[modest trench]

dang, big f, I didn't even know it was like an exploit lol, whenever I was going to upload the control panel would get rid of like a "light" component or something but it kept everything else and it worked, that's too bad :(. Thank you for the information!

[shadow agate]

does q*est seriously not support any form of transparency

[ornate stump]

Only the particle additive and multiply.

[shadow agate]

lovely...

[inland seal]

Why does this happen? The first image is how it looks in studio and 2nd in play mode

[junior void]

Maybe an animated blendshape

[inland seal]

This model doenst have any

[pure dragon]

Hey guys, sorry to show this message again, just was wondering if anyone knew what to do with an issue like this?

[junior void]

Then maybe weight stripping

[inland seal]

No

[junior void]

Ok then

It's just unity hating you

[inland seal]

-w-

[keen crystal]

after changing bone sizing in unity, how do i get those proportions to transfer over or like save or whatever, they reset when i go into the gesture manager

[junior void]

Change the rest pose in blender

[last tulip]

I made a face tracking Avatar for the first time. And it works fine in VR chat, but if I switch the world or switch my Avatar and back to it, almost everything gets reseted, like u press the Avatar reset button. But what do i need to change in unity?

[junior void]

Sounds like you didn't set your parameters to saved

[last tulip]

oh thanks. never knew for what this is

[sinful urchin]

Sorry I’m gonna send the message again. Can anyone help out with how to fix this ?

[raw spindle]

so i have this catnap model im working on and i really want the pupils able to move, i dunno if this is a viable solution as i dunno how it would be done, but what i imagined is that you can move it around freely with say a bone and it would just move the texture around, but once it comes off its alpha it goes transparent so like its a cutoff

dunno if i explained that well at all

to summarize: if the eye goes near the edge, anything in transparent zone of the eye texture would be cutoff, but i dont want it able to be fully off

not sure how this would be done in a viable way

[wispy sluice]

I have a question.

If I were to make a public and the base has nsfw parts and if I were to keep them covered and there isn’t a toggle to make it nude is it still not allowed? Wanna be sure before doing so.

[keen crystal]

It should be fine, most female human avatars have bits underneath, you just dont see them obviously

[keen crystal]

cri i have to open blender, oh well thank you!

[left gull]

technically not allowed but its not super likely to get enough reports to be removed for that reason unless someone makes a proper ticket on it

theres not a bot that auto-detects that stuff so avatars really only get removed based off of reports ppl put in

better to cut the mesh out or if you're on PC using a mask to make those sections of the mesh transparent

[lusty thunder]

So im making an avatar. This was previous progress i made 2 weeks ago. I feel it's gone well, but im struggling with the retopology rn. I figured color coding the different parts would help section the topology but it's been a while since I've done it due to work.

I have sense then finished the body so the shoulders are fixed and I've modeled the tail and some of the head.

[lusty thunder]

If that's a glove overlaying the hand model, it might be the glove model is too thin or too close to the hand model. Thickening the glove might fix it, but I wouldn't trust my input.

[lone mica]

so im trying to test an avatar but i keep getting this error and I dont know how to fix it i havent renamed anything

[somber sequoia]

you would probably have to go over the whole rig configuration, make sure it's still correct

[inland seal]

I did try that, same problem

[lone mica]

i did that multiple times

[true flower]

I need a quick Yes or No confirmation: When converting an avatar for Quest use, textures with transparencies flatly will not work, correct? There's no useable VRChat/Mobile shader that will make it work the same way they do in the original PC version, right?

[somber sequoia]

well something about it still isn't right

[somber sequoia]

That is correct, there is no way to use alpha transparency on quest.

[lone mica]

only thing i know is im trying to add a prefab to an avatar that basically adds another armature but even then that armature is labled the same as im instucted to do

[true flower]

Thank you, now I can stop fighting with it and move on 😅

[half ice]

How can I change or reduce the mesh size? And why are some meshes larger than others? (although they have significantly fewer faces and bones) Can I change the larger meshes Size to save MB?

[somber sequoia]

shape keys take up a lot of space

[half ice]

even when i dont have a lout of shape keys

I have smaller object with fewer shape keys (10 MB). At the same time, I have a larger object with more faces and moreshape keys (720KiB).

can i some how change or reduce quality

[left stream]

if i have two different versions of my avi with different models (for separate outfits), how would i keep stuff like contacts and physbones and what not in sync between the two versions?

as in like, i want to change some property about them on one of the avatars and have it change on both versions

i tried to just put it in a prefab but that clears all the references to bones

[somber sequoia]

Stick those things in prefabs. It's what I do.

You do have to drag the local things in the first time, but after that it's fine

most of my avatars in one project have a group of common prefabs

[left stream]

ic

that's a little tedious but i can't think of anything else

[somber sequoia]

it takes like 5 minutes each time you setup a new avatar

otherwise I guess you could turn everything into VRCFury prefabs?

[raw spindle]

is there a way to add a poof effect to each toggle without having to go make animations for each one? im using vrcfury btw

[half ice]

just wanna know if i can do anything .... if there is a way or not if not im gona just delete the mashes ....

[somber sequoia]

hard to really tell you how to reduce space without knowing what's taking up the space

[crimson pike]

I was editing my avatar doing unrelated things to animations and editing a color, then my avatar started crouching and moved downward through the "floor" at 0. In edit mode.

That's weird. Has anyone heard of this and how to fix it?

[half ice]

thank you i know is hard i think im gona just delete the mashes

[somber sequoia]

That's "bike pose", it's the default pose when an animation is active in Unity

[raw spindle]

yo so im using vrcfury for a transition state, but how do i make sure it has no blend for turning on the object and from the transition, cuz rn it uses an animation to do a lil poof particle and then it turns on, but i want it to turn on during the poof particle

so after the poof is dont it will turn on, i want it to happen at the same time

but thing is i could make the toggle do the clip, but when i toggle it off it wouldnt play it again, so this is my problem

[uneven whale]

Avatar sitting issues. I'm using the latest version of Gogo Loco, and I noticed that when my character sits down, they start levitating. This has happened on two avatars. How can I fix this?

With the latest version of Gogo Loco, the avatar appears to rise higher when sitting.

[crimson pike]

Is there a way to make all animations inactive and go back to the T-Pose? I'm not seeing an obvious way to do it

[somber sequoia]

in the rigging setup there's an enforce t-pose thing, or Pumkin's Tools has a thing for this

[scarlet mortar]

anyone know how I can get the head to actually be attached to the neck instead of just hovering weirdly away from it during movement? I'm new to this whole thing and literally have no idea what i'm doing. Atleast it moves with the model now unlike before where it wasn't attached at all

[somber sequoia]

probably depends on how you attached this. Looks like things are weight painted differently but it's hard to say from that image

[scarlet mortar]

i don't know how weight painting works so that miiight be the problem...

[still hinge]

help ): i dont know how to explain it im ngl

[scarlet mortar]

okay so it's already weight painted and I have no idea what the problem is now

[somber sequoia]

just because it's weight painted doesn't mean it's done right

[scarlet mortar]

what part should I be looking at specifically?

...might also be because the head/hair aren't connected to the bodies by default

a better question at this point would probably be "How do I connect a head model to a body model?"

[somber sequoia]

I personally do this in Blender.

If you don't do it there, then a whole bunch of conditions are going to have to be perfect... looks like they aren't.

[scarlet mortar]

i blip between them whenever something messes up and I need to try and fix it, first the head wasnt moving with the body at all, and then when I joined the head and the body meshes with parenting the textures messed up and I had to go back and fix that, and then when that was solved the head did start moving with the body but now it's desynced like you've already seen.

And because I'm new to this whole thing I don't know what to look for and I can't seem to ask the right question to get the defacto answer

[verbal latch]

how do i fix the size issue

[left gull]

you could use thry's avatar performance tool to figure out what's taking up the most space on the model

[somber sequoia]

more importantly, that spine issue is a real issue.

[verbal latch]

i don't see anything bad

[somber sequoia]

it told you what's bad. It's not shown in this image

[manic verge]

Is there a way to turn off cheek puff face tracking blendshapes while a certain object is toggled on?

[somber sequoia]

Sure. It'll be some work but you can absolutely edit that stuff to make it do whatever you want

[undone oracle]

I can't find any good tutprials on how to add animation to pick up triggers (not props) anyone know one or know how to do it? Is there a componant to use, or a prarameter?

[somber sequoia]

what's a pickup trigger?

wait, you put that in the world channel too - do you want this on an avatar or world?

[undone oracle]

yea

[somber sequoia]

that wasn't a yes/no question

[undone oracle]

ah hahaha world

[manic verge]

How?

[somber sequoia]

do you know how to work with the animator? You'll have to go dig into the animation controller in the face tracking prefab and alter it

[somber sequoia]

not sure why you posted here then?

[undone oracle]

just in case somebody knows as there is no help area in world channels

[somber sequoia]

you literally posted in the world help channel

[manic verge]

I don’t- is there a tutorial somewhere?

[somber sequoia]

I'm sure there are lots of tutorials, yeah. specifically for this, I highly doubt it.

[manic verge]

So if i have to disable just cheek puffing, what would i have to do in the animator? I think if i have a general idea i can maybe figure it out. Sorry for so many questions!

[long elm]

so i accidentally broke my unity-

i moved all my projects to an external hard drive (stays plugged in constantly tho)
so i could have more space, and i was gonna try making it save specifically to that hard drive from now on.. but it all disappeared

[arctic ginkgo]

did you change the directory for your projects in Unity Hub?

[long elm]

No, idk how

[arctic ginkgo]

you can also add them in VCC

try VCC first

[long elm]

How do I do that?

[arctic ginkgo]

for VCC click the dropdown next to "create new project", it should let you add an existing project

[long elm]

That did it. Ty 🙏🏻

[somber sequoia]

Find the animations you want to add a condition to... and add a new condition to them.

[manic verge]

Thank you! Will try that now!

[somber sequoia]

it has blendtrees in there though, so it might get kinda complex 🙂

[misty spear]

Does anyone know why part of my avatars outfit isnt putting any weight paint on when i parent with automatic weights, i bought an outfit and the rest of it has weighted fine but i cannot get the pants to accept any weight paint automatically but when i try to paint it myself it lags behind and deforms weird

[somber sequoia]

are the pants a separate object? does it have an armature modifier?

[short ferry]

how do I make the colored bones go back to just the grey ones?

[somber sequoia]

some of those colors are probably due to constraints on the bones

otherwise, in armature edit mode in the bone tab in properties, near the bottom, color is in "viewport display"

that green in particular is the default color to indicate the bone has a constraint on it

[short ferry]

how do I not make them constraints then? like revert them

[somber sequoia]

go into pose mode and select the bone, then the constraints tab in the properties box

I use a ton of constraints, lots of green on my armatures

[short ferry]

can they be used in vrc or no?

[somber sequoia]

no, they don't carry over. I just create the same constraints there

[short ferry]

gotcha

[somber sequoia]

you don't get limiters though unfortunately

[short ferry]

ah I see

[misty spear]

yes and yes

[somber sequoia]

I haven't found automatic weights to be of much value anyway. I'd probably use Robust Weight Transfer (with the body as the source) to get close, then touch it up manually.

[misty spear]

alright ill give that a shot

[peak glen]

May someone help me with this.

[autumn orchid]

how do you add a quest compatible light to an avi?

[midnight kite]

Alright.. It's time for another inquiry about stations on avatars...

First and foremost, my avatar is a forklift. Nonhumanoid as you can imagine.

I've got everything on my end working the way I want as a user. My issue is I've tried adding a station component and setting it up into the cab of the lift (can provide images for clarity's sake,) but no matter where I move the x/y/z of the component, anyone sitting is forced to 0,0,0 of the forklift model. This is the case if I add another station component to the fork itself.

I've also tried using VRCChair3 and setting up a place to sit through that to no avail.

Alongside this, i've tried setting the Station Enter Player Location in the inspector to a 3d object with the mesh turned off, or setting a Coordinate Constraint. Nothing seems to resolve the issue that by default, anyone sitting down is forced to 0,0,0 of my avatar.

[indigo compass]

You don't.

There was a workaround for a while using particle systems but VRChat patched that, lights were never supposed to be on Quest avatars anyway, they can be incredibly expensive.

And for this to not get into any larger conversation, a lot of people have already voiced their annoyance over this and how it was fine for them.

[autumn orchid]

ohhh makes sense thank you for the info!

[somber sequoia]

not sure what your problem is but for the enter/exit locations you can just use an empty GameObject, it doesn't need to be something with actual mesh.

I'm now reminded I had to fix the seating position of one I put on a prop.

[midnight kite]

Ultimately my problem is when someone interacts with the station, their model and their viewport are nowhere aligned with the station in question

[somber sequoia]

oh I understood the problem, just don't know the answer.

[midnight kite]

Ah

[somber sequoia]

oh I see, I didn't word my response well

[midnight kite]

The whole enter/exit stuff I mentioned was just one way I assumed would be a resolution

[somber sequoia]

I wouldn't think so, that's just to control where the enter and exit is, not the actual station's position

[midnight kite]

Would I leave those alone then?

[somber sequoia]

hmm I wonder if those actually work on avatars.

yeah they're not needed - if you don't have them the station is automatically the enter and exit location

[midnight kite]

Alright

[somber sequoia]

Obviously check this in the docs, I may be misremembering 🙂

[midnight kite]

I've definitely tried going through the official docs alongside forum posts, videos and the like. It doesn't really seem like stations on avatars are working right

For example, I have a station at the end of the forks here

but if someone uses it they're oriented sideways (facing upwards) and bound to the center of the model, not at the forks

[somber sequoia]

they're quite janky even at the best of times

[midnight kite]

I appreciate the consideration

[manic verge]

Lmao i got too confused and gave up, but thanks for helping!!

[somber sequoia]

yeah that thing is really complex

[stray lintel]

what is going on T_T

I've set the materials to standar in built shaders and it's all purple

[silver sleet]

mabe the second one doesnt use the same materals at the first?

[stray lintel]

maybe

ive been messing with it for about an hour

idk anymore

i give up

[left stream]

i am in quite the predicament with clothing toggles i'm making
i have two different outfits, and for each i have a toggle to set the right blendshapes on my body (to hide parts) and enable the gameobject
then i have individual toggles that hide different parts by setting the blendshapes back to 0 and enabling tile discard on a part of the uv

my issue is that some of the 'hide' toggles set the same blendshapes, so they interfere when only one is enabled but not both

im not really sure how to handle this, blendtrees are a little difficult for me to understand

[timber wharf]

@left stream try just dragging individual toggles layer above global outfit one

[left stream]

hm, i'm doing it all in one blendtree

should i just have another blendtree on another layer

i don't really understand animations

[timber wharf]

youre using direct blend tree?

[left stream]

mhm

[timber wharf]

cant you just move all blendshape toggles into toggle part?

wait theres two. idk how prioritisation goes in dbt

[left stream]

it's really annoying me how i can't just have like

actual code in my avatar, instead of this animator crap

[stray lintel]

help

what is wrong with the animator

[light charm]

does anyone know how to install the face tracking package but in unity package form?

it only downloaded a zip file when i went to the github page

[ornate stump]

Which github page?

[light charm]

the one that's linked to the vrc face tracking website

[ornate stump]

I have no idea. Could you just post the link?

[light charm]

https://github.com/benaclejames/VRCFaceTracking

[ornate stump]

It's an app to connect the face tracking into the game.

[light charm]

oh
then how do i get the face tracking package itself?

[ornate stump]

Do you already have an avatar with face tracking compatible blendshapes?

[stray lintel]

why is my thigh highs not fitted to my avatar when i go into play mode, scene mode it's perfectly fine

[ornate stump]

How did you add it to the avatar?

[stray lintel]

added it manually, pmupkins

[ornate stump]

Pumkin tools? It isn't even for adding clothing.

[stray lintel]

should i just have used vrcfury

[ornate stump]

Ofcourse.

[stray lintel]

oh

T_T

outdated tutorial

its for dynamic thigh highs

by seraphime

[ornate stump]

It likely is incorrect to begin with if it said to use pumkin tools to add clothing.

[stray lintel]

ah mk

well no the problem is it has a avatar desriptor

[ornate stump]

Avatar descriptor has nothing to do with clothing.

[stray lintel]

the thigh highs have physbones parented to my FBX

[light charm]

yes

[ornate stump]

https://github.com/Adjerry91/VRCFaceTracking-Templates

[light charm]

that doesn't have a unitypackage either
i don't use creator companion

[ornate stump]

Did you look in the "Release" page?

[stray lintel]

still no dice with the thigh highs changing to fit the avatar

even with vrcfury

[ornate stump]

https://vrcfury.com/tutorials/linking-clothes

[light charm]

ohhhhh

thanks

[stray lintel]

did that

still no dice

[ornate stump]

Whenever you want to download something off github, always look in the Releases page.

[ornate stump]

Did you do it correctly? Show how you did it.

[stray lintel]

parented to the legs bc i know the root bone isn't hip

[ornate stump]

It's supposed to be added to the armature of the cloth.

[stray lintel]

oh my lord

it had parent constraints that wern't attached

that's why

[ornate stump]

I don't even see parent constraint from your screenshots.

[stray lintel]

didn't have the thigh high armature selected

[ornate stump]

If clothing relies on using constraint component to attach, that's also kinda incorrect setup.

[stray lintel]

hm

mk

ugh uh

now my clothing dissappeared

[light charm]

btw do you know if this works with webcam face tracking too?

[ornate stump]

Not the webcam tracking in default game.

[light charm]

how do i set it up for webcam tracking?

[stray lintel]

nvm was able to see it after i entered play mode

[ornate stump]

It just uses only with eye look, eye blink, and viseme.

[light charm]

then how come i've seen avatars that work with webcam tracking that doesn't break the mouth? sometimes the mouth closes too far and clips through the face

[ornate stump]

Probably some extra fx layer that disable face emote while face tracking is active.

[sharp osprey]

Hello, i need help with my model, i did outlines in Blender and everything looked fine there but once i put it in Unity only the hoodie is all Black. Any fix for that? i tried checking if the hoodie mesh isnt flipped but it isnt only the outline is as it should be.

here's the model in blender

[balmy barn]

shader ? if using the old quest one try the newer since it can ignore vertex color

[sharp osprey]

i put poiyomi on it

should i put vrchat shaders on outline and poiyomi on the rest?

[balmy barn]

check for multiple uvs or could just be outline gigantic

[sharp osprey]

whats outline gigantic? i kinda dont understand

oh i fixed it!

[stray lintel]

no matter what i try i cannot get the socks to parent right

[ornate stump]

When you drag the socks prefab to add to the avatar, you should not do anything else other than setup vrcfury armature link.

[stray lintel]

the clothes were added in blender

they did not fit the base skin tight so i had to reshape them

[raw plover]

what's lights under avatar stats in VRC? I have 1/1 but have no idea what it is. my newer unfinished version doesnt have it. and it's marked as red.

[ornate stump]

Did you test in blender in pose mode?

[stray lintel]

how do i do that?

[ornate stump]

Move bones in pose mode.

[stray lintel]

ah lol 🤦‍♀️

[night ember]

literally anything that has an emitting light
be it a light component or particle

[raw plover]

but not emission?

[night ember]

emission doesnt actually emit light
it just makes that part of the material brighter

[raw plover]

then it's my armband which is a particle system and it's lit up

[night ember]

does the particle actually have the light setting enabled

[raw plover]

new one doesnt have it cause wanna get a lower performance one. thanks

I mean it doesnt work in every world but it is bright like a light

and I dont have anything else it could be as bright stuff goes

and since one has it and other doesnt it's for sure that

[stray lintel]

ah the clothes don't move

the whole skelton isn't attached it looks like

[ornate stump]

That means you didn't change bone name to match with the base amature before merging.

[stray lintel]

Ah ok

[raw plover]

-# been trying to update a basic new version but it's so difficult in Unity now and more problems than before. sigh. I'll try soon again.

[stray lintel]

I used cats to merge the armature

[ornate stump]

Same answer.

[stray lintel]

what do i rename the thigh highs to

I think all the rest of the bones are named correctly

it was already pre setup by the creator

[ornate stump]

Screenshot the bone name of base armature as well to confirm.

[stray lintel]

base armature is just named armature

[ornate stump]

Not the armature name. I meant the name of the bones.

[stray lintel]

the names of the bones are in the picture?

[ornate stump]

You didn't show the bone from the base armature.

[ornate stump]

The bones those matter are leg bone, right? Show the leg bones.

[ornate stump]

Is it from base armature or the socks armature?

[stray lintel]

base

[ornate stump]

Bone names clearly aren't matching.

[west cipher]

anyone know how to make an avatars texture an alpha so it can have transparent bits

[stray lintel]

oki so

I did rename the bones and merge them after

[ornate stump]

It's same as transparent image. Unless you actually meant to ask for making material transparent.

Just note texture and material are 2 different things.

[stray lintel]

nothing happened

[west cipher]

no no i dont need the material transparent. the avatar has a skeleton under the mesh and i want it to be visible in some places. someone told me to make the texture an alpha so when you erase some of it, itll act as a window

[stray lintel]

you can use a grabpass filter

[west cipher]

grabpass filter?

[ornate stump]

You should move the base armature bone. Not the sock bone.

[stray lintel]

uh i think i definitly did something wrong

[ornate stump]

What you meant exactly is transparent material. Just change material render preset to some thing transparent. Alpha is just transparency level for an image where you can just erase in most of image editing software.

[west cipher]

if i make the material transparent than the avatar becomes see through. i dont want it see through all the way, just little windows

like a hole in the chest area

[ornate stump]

You just have to erase texture only on that part.

[stray lintel]

you need to make a mask

[stray lintel]

use paint or photoshop to make the parts you don't want to see transparent

[west cipher]

ive tried that and the part is just black. for this avatar that is see through in parts has this a in the texture window. but the one im working on doesnt

the A at the bottom. RBG A

[ornate stump]

Did you save as png?

[spark zealot]

Hi. Can someone help me make toggle for mesh? I wanna toggle the hair, but somehow it always stuck after go bald

[ornate stump]

How did you make the toggle?

[west cipher]

yes?

[spark zealot]

For animator, I tried both Any State to both Empty and Bald State, and I tried both INT and BOOL

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot how it is in your image editing app?

[spark zealot]

The menu is straightforward, but I tried both Bool and Int option there

[ornate stump]

You made it confusing. You should only make it using either all from anystate, or back and forth between 2 state. And you should have only 2 transitions, you're currently having 3, excluding state default. You're mixing them.

[spark zealot]

So, this is my very first setup, before trying things out

[cosmic lynx]

I have a problem with the blendshapes. whenever i add them with the MA shape changer and invert the condition it works fine, but as soon as i go into play mode and try changing the outfits it completely messes everything up. Idk what i did wrong. I also asked a guy on youtube who made a tutorial on how to set up different clothing toggles in vrc. he answered to the same question with: "It depends if the blendshape is being controlled by the avatar's original fx or an outfit. You might have to check and remove it from the FX controller or see if an has its own blendshape sync" it didnt really help me. Im using modular avatar. thanks for your help in advance :)

[spark zealot]

But it also stuck after the toggle is on

[cosmic lynx]

also my camera is crooked for some reason :c

[ornate stump]

Do you have animation in both state? Or both has Write defaults enabled?

[spark zealot]

No, the New State is just empty one.

I'm following Shonzo stream, and seems like this setup works for him, but not me

[ornate stump]

Of one is empty then you have to enable write defaults.

[spark zealot]

I got Write default for both of them.

I even tried turning both off, and one on one off

Still feel like the animatinon goes one way, not back

[ornate stump]

Then that mean you have other layers that's messing with write defaults. Your avatar must be using state either all with write default on, or off. Do not mix them.

[spark zealot]

This is my layer stack. The first 3 come with VR Chat default, the emotion seems to work just fine, and the Skirt toggle also got the same problem

[ornate stump]

Just check every other layers and make sure that all the state has same write default settings.

[ornate stump]

It's commonly because if you repurposed the sample hand layer, those states have write defaults off.

[spark zealot]

I just check the emotion, and something weird here

[ornate stump]

Same reason.

[spark zealot]

After toggle emotion on and off, her mouth slightly open up

I see. Lemme check

So, should I go for Write Defaults all On or Off?

[ornate stump]

Depend on whether is more convenience for you.

[spark zealot]

I'm new to all this, I don't understand that Write Default at all. What does it do exactly to my model?

[ornate stump]

It reset animation properties to default if that state doesn't control the property.

[spark zealot]

As I just check, except for default Left and Right hand are all off, all my emotions and toggle are on

Oh, btw, do I need to save before check in play mode, or just check right after changing is fine?

[ornate stump]

Not necessary.

There is no reason to not to save anyway.

[spark zealot]

I tried turned it all off. And after a few fine toggle, it refuse to toggle back now. Still because of that Default button?

[ornate stump]

If you want to use write default off then you must explicitly animate animation in every state.

[spark zealot]

I see. Let me change to On then

Should I change all the Write default for hand too, or just my own emoji and toggle?

[ornate stump]

You can't have both on and off in the same controller to begin with.

[spark zealot]

Sorry, I don't get that part. What do you mean by that?

[ornate stump]

You must not set write default on in one state, and off in another state.

[spark zealot]

So, for all my toggle and emotions here, I set Write default to On

But I didn't touch the default Right and Left Hand, so they are still off

Is that okay?

[somber sequoia]

probably not, no.

[ornate stump]

No.

[spark zealot]

So, all the hand also need to be turned on, yes?

[ornate stump]

They must be the same in the entire animator controller.

[spark zealot]

YESH

I DID IT

Thank you so much for your patient and stay with me

I can finally did it!!!

So the write default is the reason

Man, this feels so good. I have been asking ChatGPT all this afternoon with no result that it feels so hopeless

Thanks so much again. You really save me there

[ornate stump]

AI can't really be relied upon such a niche topic.

[spark zealot]

I don't really wanna bother people for every problem of mine

😔

But yeah, it feels so good now. Thanks so much

[balmy barn]

avoid toggles setup like this , any state comes with 'can transition to self' set as default you do not want that leads to toggling 1000's of times a minute instead of once

[pine valley]

that's only a problem if this causes an animation play over and over (or state behaviours to trigger repeatedly)

there is a minor perf impact if you leave self-transition enabled, too

I always turn it off unless I actually need it

[long sierra]

For some reason, my avatar imports with the skeleton rotated -90 degrees, even though in Blender, the rotation in both edit mode and pose mode is 0 degrees

[pine valley]

This is expected – Blender and Unity have different coordinate systems.

[long sierra]

I exported it with Y up, -Z forward, which worked with every other avatar I made

[pine valley]

You can avoid this with non-rigged meshes by turning on "Apply Transform" when exporting the FBX, but this causes problems for skinned meshes

[long sierra]

it's a skinned mesh, it's an avatar

[pine valley]

these are the default export settings in Blender, yes

as far as I'm aware there isn't a way to avoid Unity giving you a rotated armature

[long sierra]

I actually had to copy the armature from another identical model to fix his ears being scrunched up, but his original armature was rotated 90

lemme try clearing parenting and redoing it

that seems to have fixed him being rotated but it scrunched his ears up again

clearing the parent to the armature, and also clearing the armature modifier before applying the rotation on the armature seems to make it mostly work

[pine valley]

there's nothing wrong with this image, though: I always see that -90 degree X-axis rotation on imported models. Was this causing a problem?

[fresh rose]

Um,i cant figure out why my avi validation keeps failint

Theres legit notin wrong with my avi i double checked

[somber sequoia]

feel free to paste the first 2-3 error messages

[fresh rose]

Ok i fixed that issue

But uh

Now its saying "object reference not set to an instancr of an object

[long sierra]

I fixed it by unparenting his mesh from the armature, removing the armature modifier, applying the rotation on the armature, and then re-parenting it and re-adding the modifier

[somber sequoia]

oh that makes sense, if you didn't have all transforms applied

[nocturne carbon]

i need help with something in the game

[junior void]

usually people state their problem and then get answers

[nocturne carbon]

ok

[nocturne carbon]

the thing is that every time I make account on the game it does not want to work when I make the account then login it keeps saying wrong password, I check 5 times

[amber gull]

its down

[junior void]

the vrchat api is down, you cant upload rn or log in

[nocturne carbon]

oh becuse it been happening for 3 weeks

[trim lagoon]

Hey! can anyone give me this hair link please?

[crimson pecan]

how do i make my own avatar and program should i use?

i also wanna know how do you upload it to vr after that.

[raw plover]

oh damn, welcome to the struggle. orz

you will need at least Unity, and a specific version. and VRC SDK

[crimson pecan]

lol okie dokie and how to you get more items to use for avatar like clothes that arent money costing

[raw plover]

haha, well there are some places but I havent gotten anything new in years

[crimson pecan]

which version of unity will i need again?

[raw plover]

also now VRC website is down, was gonna link to the SDK download page

[crimson pecan]

okie dokie i saw that i just need to work on the character i want first that will take some time

[raw plover]

yeah depends on what you start with and how much you wanna do to it

but there are guides for the basic stuff to get it working on VRC

[crimson pecan]

i know what i got in mind just need to find the props and all that for what im looking for lol

[raw plover]

putting together several parts of an avatar is a lot more work

unless they are made to fit together, so best would be to find something complete already. but depends on how much you wanna do

[crimson pecan]

I wanna go for something like a reaper but change it a bit

female anime reaper like

[raw plover]

https://booth.pm/en/search/VRChat reaper

here's one popular place

dont see anything free though

[crimson pecan]

tysmm imma bout to get in pc to get it started lol while server maintenance is ongoing i also can ask someone that prob knows what their doing

[raw plover]

*they're. yeah many others are better at helping than me

[west cipher]

i managed to get the hole in the avatar to show but i can see all the way through. is there a way to fix that? ive already turned on backface in the material but it does nothing

[ornate stump]

It's rather call "set Culling off" rather than turning on backface.

[west cipher]

omgosh thankyou!! i can finally finish this avi!

[crimson flax]

alr i have a weird blender issue, i cant get the axis thingy to parent (?) to the origin (circled in red)

ive never had this issue before so im not even sure how to describe it that well lol
-# also plz @ me if u reply

[somber sequoia]

you might be in some weird selection mode maybe? Are you in object mode here? And what is your transform pivot point?

I never use the "axis thingy"

but yeah it looks like it moves around with the transform pivot point, you probably have that set to the 3D cursor right now

[versed marsh]

Im trying to change an eye shader to a different one, but whenever i go into play mode or try to upload it reverts back to the original shader, anyone know why this happens and if i can fix it?

[arctic comet]

any way to test build while api is down?

[fiery crest]

If this is a previously made avi, you should go into into your FX controller and see if there is a layer called 'eyeswap' 'eyes' or some variation and delete the layer

[signal loom]

Whats the average cost for a good avatar?

[night ember]

Subjective

[signal loom]

huh

[balmy barn]

2000$ is cheap for some

[night ember]

Well no

"Good avatar" like actually good as in actually optimized?
Or "good" as in the most unoptimized but "good looking" despite the fact its unoptimized for no reason and would look identical to an optimized version of it

[inland seal]

This will work right? Cuz Contact sender doesnt trigger velocity

[ornate stump]

Should work.

[naive quartz]

can somebody help me understand why when i update to the latest packages via vcc, inside unity i have no animator controllers or anything... ?

[naive quartz]

????

[nimble zenith]

The error probably breaking everything. You probably need to figure out which package is breaking unity and refrain from updating or using it entirely.

[naive quartz]

but it's a brand new project, nothing imported.

[fiery crest]

What vcc extensions do you have on it?

[blazing nymph]

I need help optimising this avatar

if anyone

can

heh

[fiery crest]

What do you need help optimizing? If we're trying to lower triangles you will need to take it through blender but textures are easy to optimize if you just want the mb and texture memory down

[blazing nymph]

im uploading this avatar

and it wont work

because too much memory

or something

[blazing nymph]

download size

[fiery crest]

Whats the exact message and are you uploading quest or pc?

[blazing nymph]

quest

[fiery crest]

oof

[blazing nymph]

can we vc

[nimble zenith]

Adding stuff in VCC imports scripts etc into a fresh project.

[blazing nymph]

or something

[fiery crest]

Dm me

[naive quartz]

I’m literally just using VRCSDK - BASE
VRCHAT SDK - Avatars
VRCHAT packages resolver tool.

[cyan swan]

How do i add roblox avi to vrchat from
Studio to blender to vrchat

[fiery crest]

Ooof okay sorry that's way beyond my expertise >-<

[cyan swan]

I can export as fbx

[naive quartz]

lol okay.

[cyan swan]

@fiery crest can u help me add roblox avi to unity

[fiery crest]

Gonna be so honest, I cant unless you already have an fbx, all I know about are the unity sides of things

[cyan swan]

I can export as fbx

[fiery crest]

Oh, then yeah probably

[cyan swan]

Ok

Need help making him move

[fiery crest]

He already has a rig?

[cyan swan]

Hair doesnt have to move but thats a +

yes but its roblox starter rig

Bones look diff

[fiery crest]

Uhhh can you dm me

[cyan swan]

Yes

[sharp osprey]

i need help, those stitches are suppose to be white but for some reason its like this....any fix?

[somber sequoia]

you'd have to find out why - it's not clear from the image what this is or even what program it's in. Probaby that's from your texture or maybe material, if in Unity

[sharp osprey]

Blender

it also shows up darker

i checked and the faces arent flipped they are on right side

[somber sequoia]

select the faces, in the menu: mesh -> normals -> reset vectors

I think it's mesh - my blender seems to have just locked up 🙂

it's alt+n either way

[sharp osprey]

alright it fixed! thank you!

[somber sequoia]

excellent

[eager zinc]

does anyone know how to combine skinned meshes

[silver snow]

Blender or maybe polytool

Will this actually cause errors?

And is there any way to fix without unparenting and re-parenting both as that's the only fix I've seen, doesn't seem you can actually easily change the order

[modest ferry]

Not sure how to fix this. I weigh painted like i usually do (transfer weights, normalize all, smooth, clean, then added armature)

[versed marsh]

having a very annoying issue right now with unity

every time i try to go edit a skin material my unity just crashes

anybody know if its the version of unity im on or something or my poiyomi being buggy?

[rocky fractal]

im using the newest unity

[somber sequoia]

manually weight painting it

though I'm not sure why you put "then added armature" at the end - you need that to weight paint properly..

[bright stump]

If the original weight painting is all messed up I can show you how to properly weight paint it manually. Weightpainting can be confusing but I've taught many how to weightpaint and they've been doing it ever since .,. I practice weightpainting gloves.

But if ya want quick advice. Just make the center red. And the ends of the bone gradually green.

[somber sequoia]

for VRChat you want 2022.3.22f1, not the newest.

[bright stump]

Pretty much how weightpaints work.

Red is stiff. Blue is bend

In between determines how stiff.

[modest ferry]

if you could help that would be awesome!

[surreal salmon]

are u able to animate hand bones?

or do most people do blend shapes for that

[somber sequoia]

Yes but you have to do it right, and you don't technically animate the bones themselves, you animate the humanoid movements

[surreal salmon]

would u be able to elaberate further or link something

[somber sequoia]

I don't have one available, but I know there are tutorials for this, I used one at some point in the past

you do have to run this not in the FX animator, and use VRC Animator Tracking Control to take over control of those things from the IK system (and to give it back after)

[hollow latch]

Hi

Anyone here who knows how to upload avatars to quest for free and who knows a little Spanish?

Please

[somber sequoia]

solamente un poco - not sure if I know enough techy spanish to be useful here

[bright stump]

Dm me.

[dire dagger]

How do I fix this

[eager zinc]

im trying to upload an avatar, it says it will be blocked even though its not saying whats wrong, idk what to do

[somber sequoia]

surely it says why in the build console

[lusty berry]

how do i fix this- im new to unity

[somber sequoia]

the first one, you should drag the mesh with your visemes into the slot in your avatar descriptor - most of the setup tutorials will demonstrate this

[lusty berry]

uh- ima be so dead ass i didnt watch those... which one shows that- this was a free avatar i got in a server

[somber sequoia]

oh you should probably watch one, they'll explain a lot.

[lusty berry]

yeah...

[somber sequoia]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSwMz4WcajQ for example

[lusty berry]

okey- do yk if it shows the mesh stuff

[somber sequoia]

I would hope so, but I haven't watched this in a while

[lusty berry]

it doesnt ill just watch a few and hope i figure it out

[somber sequoia]

I would suggest that, yes.

[lusty berry]

man

[weary beacon]

i run into this issue alot with some outfits but can never find out why it happens

[hoary rain]

I have vrchat face tracking, and I'm attempting to try and fix the blendshape to be a ":3" as the default expression but it isn't loading in game properly and doesn't show up. Does anyone know a fix?

[somber sequoia]

probably look in the console for error messages

[hard turtle]

\

[inland yew]

How do I import a model o got into blender

[somber sequoia]

find the .fbx file in your project, then just file -> import -> FBX. There's a FBX add-on you have to enable first.

[fair star]

where does voice audio come from on avatars? the view position? wanting to put an audio source there

[heavy zephyr]

It comes out of the head bone assigned in your avatar rig

[fair star]

just the root of the head bone?

[heavy zephyr]

I think? I know it's from that bone for sure

[fair star]

im thinking either head bone 0,0,0 or head bone with the view position offsets

like here

[ocean berry]

why?

[surreal salmon]

how do u clean up spliced mesh to look good?

[ocean berry]

most of the bones that are the problem are the face bones, one being the tail and a few being part of the wings

I assume that I just have to make the problem bones a parent in blender which I am doing rn

fixed it

[grand geyser]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[ocean berry]

how do I do this?

[somber sequoia]

don't clip so much, it's hard to see what the context might be.

[winter perch]

Is there any way, to set these two "variables" in one single toggle :

1. Guitar on/off
2. Both hand "in playing position" whenever the guitar is toggled on.

[stray lintel]

why is my avatar like this

[graceful latch]

Try going into blender, selecting the armature, hit F3 and type in apply all transforms
Then apply rest pose inside cats
Then apply transforms again cuz idk it won’t hurt xD
Then export
If it’s still fucked, try converting fbx to generic then back to humanoid

Need some physbone help!!!!!

bone direction is correct. checked weights and everything looks to be in order. why would physbones be behaving like this? ;-;

[night ember]

"behaving like this"

[stray lintel]

where is the rest pose function

[graceful latch]

top of ribbon is pulling away from base. its deforming incorrectly

[night ember]

dont know how your bones look

[graceful latch]

it should technically be clipping into the arm, not coming out from it

[graceful latch]

does this help?

[night ember]

what about the physbone

[night ember]

thats not the component

[night ember]

Im guessing its just on that root bone

[graceful latch]

ive tried putting the components on the root bone as well as just the children and it acts the same either way. no matter how far down the chain i go it pulls out at the base

[daring frost]

Does anyone know how I would fix this issue with boots? One leg is in the boot and the other one is not. When I do an animation both boots move with the first leg

[night ember]

its not weight painted correctly

[night ember]

no idea

[stray lintel]

tried everything

nothing works

[ornate stump]

If you edit the model in blender then you must not unpack prefab the avatar model in the scene.

[stray lintel]

I didn't?

it was in play mode

[ornate stump]

Even you didn't, it had been unpacked anyway.

[stray lintel]

oh

[stray lintel]

wait so how do i stop it from unpacking

[ornate stump]

Too bad. You don't.

[stray lintel]

🤣

im just gonna import a new fbx

reset and try from zero

[ornate stump]

Your option is putting the new fbx in the scene and copy components using pumkin tools.

[stray lintel]

mk

doing that now

thanks so much for all the help you've given my lost ass

i hate unity

[stray lintel]

fixed it

finally

and everything with the thigh highs are working

thank god

[ornate stump]

Provide detail how you setup the gesture layer.

[vernal pecan]

They say my hair mesh sometimes disappear (from some distance) so i checked the mesh bounds, and they somehow was HUGE. Can it be the reason of mesh disappearing?

[ornate stump]

Possibly. It disappearance likely because of world occlusion culling.

[vagrant valve]

I got 4 parameter drivers that I want to use but the value seems to be stuck at zero (pulling from 4 values, one each from 4 proximity contacts. basically combining 4 into one)

[ornate stump]

What is the transition condition entering that state?

[cosmic lynx]

I have a problem with the blendshapes. whenever i add them with the MA shape changer and invert the condition it works fine, but as soon as i go into play mode and try changing the outfits it completely messes everything up. Idk what i did wrong. I also asked a guy on youtube who made a tutorial on how to set up different clothing toggles in vrc. he answered to the same question with: "It depends if the blendshape is being controlled by the avatar's original fx or an outfit. You might have to check and remove it from the FX controller or see if an has its own blendshape sync" it didnt really help me. Im using modular avatar. thanks for your help in advance :)

[ornate stump]

That mean you have to remove every layer in FX layer that related to clothing.

[vagrant valve]

which one? 1 is furthest 4 is closest. Im converting this from a blend tree and havent rlly used drivers before

[ornate stump]

Preferably all of them. Any if they are the same.

[cosmic lynx]

that would be here?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[cosmic lynx]

thank you so much ill try it out :)

[cosmic lynx]

it worked, youre a legend thank you!!!

[ornate stump]

This seem complicated. Are you sure the conditions can be met at all?

[vagrant valve]

uhhh yea. It is getting set now but only some random value I dont get. Basically the goal is to set the weight from 0-1 but mapped through 4 contacts. I also want closer ones to override further ones

I accidentally flipped the direction in my head OOPS

4 is furthest not closest

im retorded

[near zodiac]

Does anyone know how to setup a contact receiver audio where it'll only pickup the sender while its actively moving and stop detecting/stopping the audio when its not? Cause I'm genuinely so lost 😭

[cyan swan]

Shader cant be edited to standard lite, any help?

[timber wharf]

@cyan swan cant edit assets inside fbx. select all balls, right click - extract

[vagrant valve]

Do parameter drivers update if I stay on that animation or do I need to loop back to it for it to update

[stray lintel]

why are my thigh highs not moving with my avatar

they don't have any parent constraints attached to them that would zero them

idk why they're not at the world origin

outside of play mode they appear on my avatar fine

[timber wharf]

@vagrant valve no they dont

[ornate stump]

Did you somehow back to zero after I answer lot of things today and yesterday?

[timber wharf]

they run once on entry

[vagrant valve]

Time to instantly exit then

[timber wharf]

thatd be a bad decision performance wise. if you mean constant entry/exit

[stray lintel]

what

i had to reimport the model

so yes, back to zero

the fbx was imported corrupted so i fixed it

now im just having issues unity wise

[cyan swan]

Ok ty

Also how to pair a blender rig with the roblox model in unity? Also im in prismics i tested my avatar after scaling it down(it was big with viewpoint at feet) and somehow the viewpoint went UNDER the ground

[vagrant valve]

yup, its supposed to be just translating 4 values to 1 float for animation time, but if I can't sit on a single point and have it just refresh then thats what I gotta do then. If the performance is bad thats a missing feature and the only work around sucks

[ornate stump]

If you added the socks in blender, it's the blender issue. Not unity issue.

[stray lintel]

mmm

maybe i didn't put a data transfer

lemme check

[cyan swan]

Can u help

Its a comission for robux but idm if i dont get paid soon as hes under 18 also roblox avatars are simple

Shes*

forgot her gender oops

[torn crypt]

Export the rigged model from Blender as FBX
Import it into Unity.
In Rig settings, set Animation Type as Humanoid (or Generic if non-human).
Drag the model into the scene it’ll use your Blender armature.

[cyan swan]

Ok ty

It says it cant read head

Is that the one that gets checked first or last?

[torn crypt]

that means that unity can't find the bone with name head in your avatar

[cyan swan]

Oh

Should i add a new bone

[torn crypt]

it's usually the first bone unity looks for

[cyan swan]

These dont show either

[torn crypt]

if your current rig doesn’t have a proper “Head” bone, you should add one.

[cyan swan]

Ok

Can u help me fix the viewport issue

[torn crypt]

what's the issue?

[cyan swan]

im in prismics i tested my avatar after scaling it down(it was big with viewpoint at feet) and somehow the viewpoint went UNDER the ground

And glitched my vrchat a little

Like it went all blue

(Prismic underneath lol)

Also i added toggles they dont show up

[torn crypt]

the vieepoint is tied to the head bone I think you done have one that why it would have been happened try adding the bone and then see if it works

[cyan swan]

Ok ty

Do i have to redo full toggle process

[torn crypt]

and if it went all blue it means the shader you have applied failed

[cyan swan]

Can u help me over vc

I mean the screen

Not the avi

Like prismics underworld lol

[torn crypt]

Try doing what you can do first

[cyan swan]

Ok ty

[torn crypt]

add the headbone

[cyan swan]

How do i export from unity

Does it save progress automatically so when i open fbx in blender it has the edits?

[torn crypt]

Unity does not automatically save edits to the FBX.
use Unity’s FBX Exporter: select your avatar → Export to FBX → save a new file. That FBX will include your Unity edits.

[cyan swan]

I dont see it

How do ppl rig roblox in vrc

@torn crypt

[torn crypt]

roblox avatar?

[cyan swan]

Yes

Like this

[torn crypt]

just combine the meshes, make the armature and the use rigify it will do most of the animation and then Parent the mesh to the rig and weight-paint it so the bones move the mesh properly.

[cyan swan]

Well i dont want it to stretch i want the arms and legs to float and the head and hips to turn

Also idk how to combine accesssories without joining which ruins toggles

I already combined the tail and bi pin

Btw i cant find fbx export

Nvm im dumb i need to install the plugin

Can we just vc?

@torn crypt

[torn crypt]

I'm busy rn

[cyan swan]

Ok sorry

Can u still help via text

[torn crypt]

I'll try

[cyan swan]

Ok

i dont want it to stretch i want the arms and legs to float and the head and hips to turn

The model

Also idk how to combine accesssories without joining which ruins toggles

[torn crypt]

Use a Generic rig instead of Humanoid
In Blender, give each limb its own bone (arms/legs separate).
Assign mesh parts to their own bones (weight paint).
Export as FBX → import to Unity.
In Unity, set Rig → Generic.

Animate or track head and hips,leave arms/legs free to float.

[cyan swan]

Responding to this

Ok ty

Can u teach me weight paint

Nvm ik how to assign mesh parts to bones

Isnt that ctrl p bone

How do i set up the rig in unity

[junior void]

it really sounds like you need to go watch a tutorial from the ground up

[cyan swan]

the rig

Well i learn better by teaching but sometimes do good with tutorials

[sudden gust]

hihi i got this weird message, idk why i was able to upload 3 days ago btw

[junior void]

your questions are all so scattered and spread out that it feel like youre missing the base understanding of rigging

[cyan swan]

Im tired lol

Also i have autism:(

[junior void]

just saying, its hard to help if the topic changes every 2 seconds

[cyan swan]

Ok

I have adhd

😆

That might be the problem

Sorry

[lone mica]

anyone know how to deal with this im trying to upload an avatar but i cant because of this but the eyes use this shader

[still thunder]

i keep getting these errors when i try to upload with vrcFury, any idea what these might be caused by?

[cyan swan]

Found the problem

[ornate stump]

VRCFury doesn't do the uploading. Your problem is from the vrchat server is unstable right now.

[ornate stump]

The shader is invalid so you can't use it.

[lone mica]

elaborate because ive had avatars with those shaders upload before

[ornate stump]

Then you rather are having other issue that preventing it from uploading. Likely because the vrchat server is unstatble right now.

[lone mica]

Probably

[stray lintel]

Try changing your shader

[fresh rose]

ok so um im tryna upload a avi,im usin the same stuff i have several times before,but now this keeps happening

[lone mica]

I'm waiting for servers to be fixed to try again before I do shader changes because I got hit with API unstable when uploading

[stray lintel]

Yeah prolly server side issue

[fresh rose]

are u also getting application error?

[lone mica]

Yes that's to due with servers being unstable atm

[fresh rose]

ahh ok

i was wonderin why i couldnt upload

[lone mica]

Just keep an eye on #server-status

[fresh rose]

aight

also is 3.9.0 the newest sdk?

[lone mica]

I can double check

Yes

[fresh rose]

aight thx just wanted to make sure

[amber gull]

how can i fix it

[cyan swan]

Same thing happened to me

[ornate stump]

Just wait.

[cyan swan]

Is the cannot upload avatar yet issue from the same api outage

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[cyan swan]

Ok good

Can i at least log in to vrc

[sour quartz]

Anyone know why avatar sounds sometimes stop working in vrchat while they do work in Unity? I remember it had a reason but I can't find it

[naive mango]

Came here cuz of the application errors, glad to see its not just me lol, time to go back to sleep and hope things are fixed when I wake up zzzz

[safe raft]

Same here LOL, thought my account got poofed or something

[pine valley]

i was just coming in to ask about that

ha

[livid lion]

Application error.

[vast oasis]

why does it say that i do not have permissions to build avatars? is it because of the API outage?

[rocky fractal]

Yea

[vast oasis]

thanks, i was worried because i thought i got banned or something😓

[wooden nova]

is the api still down

oh

[hasty river]

guys hello i have problem

all packages disapeared and i only seeing this

[somber sequoia]

eyeball in the upper-right of that window

[hasty river]

ohhh

thank you

😰

[sinful urchin]

heyyy heyyy can anyone help me 😅

[somber sequoia]

if you want to build and test you need ADB and an android phone hooked up or the emulator active. Probably you don't actually want to use this

[sinful urchin]

oooh okay

so I shuld just upoad it?

[somber sequoia]

I don't know what you're trying to do?

but if you want to test in Unity, just go into play mode. Unity add-ons Gesture Manager and AV3 Emulator are really useful in this case.

[sinful urchin]

just trying to see if the model looks good while used in vrchat

like how the model acts with body movement

[somber sequoia]

yep, play mode then.

[sinful urchin]

okay

tysm!

[ionic fern]

Anyone know how to set up PHYSbones on Ears and Tails?
Got a nice avatar, but it's a little stiff.

[junior void]

its pretty straight forward

slap a script on, tweak settings, done

[ionic fern]

Yeah, but what settings?

[junior void]

that is up to your preference

[ionic fern]

But I need the actual settings, I don't know what to do.

[junior void]

some people prefer jiggly ears, others prefer half-stiff like cartilage. we cant decide that for you

[ionic fern]

That's why I put "and tails"

[junior void]

literally just go into play more with gesture manager and play with the settings sliders until you found a mix of settings you like

[ionic fern]

I've tried, nothing works.

That's why I'm asking for help.

[junior void]

aorry but i dont see how you cannot find settings you like by playing with the sliders but expect an answer that works for you here from strangers

[cedar shuttle]

does anyone know how to fix the issue where everything is flipped on your Avatar in a mirror or camera

[oak bone]

wondering if maybe this is backface culling and you have it flipped to look fine in the shader, but the camera isn't rendering the backfaces? or it's rendering the inside of the faces and it looks flipped?

[cedar shuttle]

@oak bone well its meant to look like this

but it looks like this

as you can see its flipped very bad

[oak bone]

there's a button to flip your image on the camera, i believe

or maybe your camera is upside down? this doesnt seem like an issue

[somber sequoia]

Got this in blender? Check your scaling, it should be 1,1,1 for all objects.

[oak bone]

What type of file is the picture you're trying to use? have you tried deleting and reimporting the SDK?

[cedar shuttle]

blender and the preview on vrchat look normal

[somber sequoia]

I didn't ask if it looked normal

[oak bone]

looking it up, it seems this is an intended function of the vrchat camera

https://feedback.vrchat.com/bug-reports/p/about-inverting-the-saved-image-when-taking-a-selfie-with-the-camera

[somber sequoia]

ohh, fascinating.

[cedar shuttle]

oh thanks for the link

will read it quick

[indigo valley]

Hello, I have a question for an avatar.
Where can we find all the files for this avatar and reproduce it.?