avatar-help

[sour jolt]

hi!, I want to start making avatars and I'm starting with a VRoid model, but i have a lot of troubles in the installation of unity, can somebody help me? thanks 😋

[somber sequoia]

describe the troubles

[sour jolt]

well, i downloaded the vrchat creator companion and the version that it needed in the unity hub, but it won't recognize it

[somber sequoia]

for VCC help you might try #creator-companion - I personally don't use it so can't help there, sorry

[sour jolt]

okay, ty!

[silent yarrow]

thanks for the tip, I got it working

[somber sequoia]

oh nice!

[modest ridge]

im trying to create a headpat animation, i have a working avatar that has one but on my new avatar it just wont work, it wont play the animation when the contact receiver is triggered
can anyone help me

just dont understand why it wont trigger the sound

ignore the head as activator just recreated the contact reciver and accidentaly set it to head

[balmy barn]

dont use any state for simple things 99% sure you didnt disable can transiton to self

you are triggering it alot of times instead of once when its on

[modest ridge]

this is how it was told me when i made my old avatar. it worked once on my new avatar then i wanted to create a new animation to also enable something else and now it just wont work anymore

[somber sequoia]

Just because it was told to you doesn't mean it was right.

You definitely want "can transition to self" off if you are using AnyState.

[modest ridge]

yeah but it worked, and that was enough

[somber sequoia]

Except it often doesn't, and even if it does, you're wasting CPU time when you don't need to.

[balmy barn]

simplest toggle there is , any state is terrible use it if you must have many transitions

testing that in unity just use a empty gameobject and see if it activates

[modest ridge]

omg i now know what is missing... i didnt remember you could press on the arrows 😭

[balmy barn]

av3 emulator handy

[modest ridge]

still doesnt work

[modest ridge]

how exactly does each of the states look like?

[soft crater]

Heyo! quick question that i need some ~aid~ with, my blendshapes work perfectly fine in blender, but when i export them into unity they dont work, any fixes or explainations?

[balmy barn]

contact receiver on head set to detect someones hand , then set parameter box = true it does stuff (sdk 3.10+ so i have a slightly different look on receiver)

seems they added a bunch of default things

[vernal tusk]

(mb for sending again idk in wich room i need to send it , i'm new to this server)

[heavy zephyr]

Only the shaders under vrchat/mobile are allowed on quest. And out of those, I believe only 2 under the particles section have any kind of transparency

[vernal tusk]

oh i see

[heavy zephyr]

Still not recommended tho

[vernal tusk]

alright ty for the help

[harsh hedge]

can someone help me 😭

[high slate]

hello im doing some uploads and I got this :

too many failed login attempts from network

Is this a new error , right ? how much time dose it take to be able to upload again? thank you

[round comet]

oh hi pol!

[high slate]

hello !

💕

[warped quartz]

has anyone been able to upload a avatar?

[night ember]

several people yes?

[ocean rover]

i request help from anyone who bought cyn/myths 1x, how do i get the toggles to work?

[round comet]

If you've bought a specific avatar its probably better to refer to the creator with any inquiries

[ocean rover]

i dont know how-

[untold minnow]

in unity I have a imported project, i try to open the unity package but for some reason I cant enable most of the things outside the fbx

when I click all it does nothing

[azure flame]

dose anyone know how to fix its in japanese

[balmy barn]

auto translating it will save you alot of annoyance when you try to assign it in the unity rig

throw it in blender and use cats translate or do it manually

[little plume]

Any idea why my animation seems to be locked to the hip when it plays normally in blender?

[balmy barn]

need to set tracking control to animate hip and especially head or it goes wierd

for toggles like that i just set tracking to animation on everything

[dapper echo]

Help... It keeps undoing the change by itself when the SDK is open.

[stray trench]

im trying to add a plane behind the avi and make it green so I can use it as a green screen but the shader is locked, any advice?

[night ember]

"locked"

[glass geyser]

so a friend's model they have for vrchat has a slight problem, the first person model isn't there, how would I fix that?

like there's no visible arms or body in first person in vrchat, don't know why

[lime gorge]

my avatar floats and sinks for some reason?

not to mention the friend who made this is critically offline

[rich mason]

SO. What's the deal with taller/shorter avatars having jacked up voice/sound placement? I'm having some issues with a 3 meter tall avatar and being heard by people on the ground at normal, smaller heights, even when using sitting/crawling animations.

[somber sequoia]

beta or not-beta? if beta, mention it in #open-beta-discussion probably

[rich mason]

UH how do I know which I'm on?

I definitely did not go to download an open beta

[somber sequoia]

should show up in steam, but check #open-beta-info for info

if you didn't pick it on purpose, probably it's not then

[rich mason]

yeah I definitely didn't do that yeah

[halcyon torrent]

Heyoo!! if anyone has experience with face tracking i would be so grateful for some help- The PC version of my avi has face tracking and it works properly. it also came with a face tracking quest version, but when i uploaded the quest side, quest users can only see my eyes move, not the lips. Is there any way to fix this?

in gesture manager the quest version has all the toggles for face tracking as well

unsure if its relevant but i use the VRCFacetracking app with Virtual Desktop

[somber sequoia]

sounds like probably a mismatch in the parameters lists, or order. I've not done this with VRCFT though, so not sure the best way to sync that.

[halcyon torrent]

wait, so the parameters should look identical and in the same order?

[somber sequoia]

Yes, that's how the quest+PC sync is handled

[halcyon torrent]

It looks like all the params are in the same order n such

[sick star]

ive realized reanimating an afk animation is tricky, is it even possible to change an afk anims keyframes without the original armature or whatever it is?

[brittle condor]

why are her feet sinking into the floor? moving the avatar higher in unity doesn't seem to do anything

[wide bay]

does the avatar have gogoloco?

[brittle condor]

yes

[wide bay]

try fiddling with that

[brittle condor]

will do, thanks!

[wide bay]

mmhm!

does um .. anybody know how to fix this

[somber sequoia]

add the required package that script needs. check the documentation from the asset creators for clues as to what it is

[wide bay]

i figured out i just had to put in the pc package first

sniff .. unity is hard

[glass geyser]

can someone help with this please

[wide bay]

nevermind my stuffs outdated

[lilac musk]

Could be an animation toggle that turned off the mesh locally, or a shader animation setting it to fully transparent. Might also be a broken locomotion kind of animation that is putting the avatar in the ground or somewhere really far. If it's any of those, they could upload a version of the avatar that has no animation controllers as a test to verify it's animation based issue or not.

[glass geyser]

Alright I'll try that

[stray trench]

what was the point of this

[glass geyser]

Turns out the view position was just too much forward so I pushed it back and can see the body now thanks

[sleek tapir]

I have a model that I wanna make into an avi, the only issue is it’s IK, how would I go about turning an IK into an FK?

[somber sequoia]

most ignore it, just make a valid armature for vrchat and let it handle IK

[glass geyser]

sigh ok I have a problem with an avatar here. I tested it on pc it's perfectly fine. but I make an exact copy of it for quest, I can only test quest version on my android phone which I'm aware is buggy as hell, but so far on there, the view is all high up from the avatar. I don't know how to fix this.

it's an exact copy, meaning nothing has changed from the pc version (except shaders of course) so I don't know why it's doing that.

[left gull]

Im using a 500x500 texture atlas for a screen on my model but even after messing with the texture settings i cant get the texture to not be blurry, does anyone know how i can up the quality so it looks the way it does in blender?

[timber wharf]

texture resolution can only be power of 2 so it can only downscale it to 256. add borders and edit uvs so source texture is 512

[balmy barn]

disable power of 2 to avoid very blurry images on low resolution on stuff

pixel art get smudged to hell if its on in unity

(this one is 256x256)

[sleek tapir]

Wait VRChat also handles IK?

[ornate stump]

All the tracking limbs already are IK. But it doesn't use IK bone in your avatar.

[sleek tapir]

So how do ik the IK rig for the model works with VRC?

I was told making it FK would make my life easier when turning it into an avatar

But I don’t know how to turn IK into FK

[ornate stump]

It doesn't use IK rig of your avatar because it has its own IK system. And all IK rig already is FK underlying.

[ornate stump]

That means if you just removed IK, it would become FK.

[little plume]

Idk how to do that? The whole thing moves in blender but hes locked in place in game

[balmy barn]

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/state-behaviors/#animator-tracking-control whenever you trigger paramter to do that animation, set tracking = animation and back to tracking after

I just use the default VrcEmote greater then 0 , set tracking = animation , if 0 set tracking

[little plume]

I was using a vrcfury toggle for it

Questies couldnt see it for whatever reason although I built for both

[balmy barn]

learning how to do it manually is very handy , vrcfury can do basic things

[hard turtle]

any idea on why my hnd is doing this

[ornate stump]

Either weight paint wrong or bone rotation is incorrect.

[left gull]

My animation keeps breaking when attempting to animate the emission to match up with the albedo slot, how woud i prevent this or fix it? ive tried re-doing the animation entirely but it runs into the same issue Fixed, unity was just bugging out and saving as previous keyframe rather then the update input

[hard turtle]

they seem fine.

idk ive never worked with a bapper im usually in my own corner on my own models lmo

[ornate stump]

Have you actually tested in pose mode?

[hard turtle]

weights are their they re effected properly

[ornate stump]

Did you also test middle and ring finger?

[hard turtle]

mhm

i litterally just kitbashed the bapper with the fluffer and now its being wierd

other than the fluffer head its all just the same

[ornate stump]

In unity, try set the model rig to generic, apply and back to humanoid.

[hard turtle]

yeh just found that

the hnds are fucked in confid

wtf

never seen that hppen

wtf

but it is

TwT

[ornate stump]

How are the hand bones look like from hierarchy panel?

[hard turtle]

like this

gonna try something rq

[ornate stump]

That's the scene view, not hierarchy.

[hard turtle]

i sced the wrong thing

im tired

[ornate stump]

You should just assign Intermediate bones instead of Dummy bones.

[hard turtle]

the fingers are rigged this way and i really cba to go and reweight someone elses work rn TwT

[ornate stump]

You just only have to put the Intermediate bones into the Intermediate bone slots.

[hard turtle]

omw i really am sleep deprived

ty ill try that

[ornate stump]

Just go to sleep at this point.

[hard turtle]

its still happening

yeh its bed time

xD

i hate unity i just wnna stay in blender ;-;

[ornate stump]

Did you apply the change in the rig menu? Go back and double check again.

Or just go to bed.

[hard turtle]

yeh i did apply it just going over it 1 more time jusst incase yknow xD

i forgot to enforce tpose so yknow what i might just be a lil cooked in the head today

[balmy barn]

fingerbones not 'ish' inside mesh does funny things when bendt

rotation gets all wierd

[misty ridge]

is it possible to maek world lightign not affect the color of the rim light on toon standard

[round comet]

Is there a faster way to scroll through animations?

Instead of just

Clicking over and over

[timber wharf]

the what

[dusk sable]

Need help putting underwear on avatar🥀

[left gull]

explain/show what youre stuck on

[dusk sable]

i need underwear assets and shi and then idk how to put them on my avatar

but i still dk how to get them on the avatar

[left gull]

you can look on sites like Jinxxy,Gumroad,Booth or Payhip for assets and even ones specific to your base if you add that to the search function

and then depending on the asset you'd either manually add it in blender or add it through something like MA or VRCFury if its setup to work that way

[glass geyser]

Hi, does anyone know why my avatar is fine on pc with the viewpoint but on quest it's all high up? I literally just duplicated it and changed the shaders so it can work on quest so I don't know what the problem here is

[dusk sable]

yeah dont think i did it right💀

[left gull]

how'd you add it to the model

[dusk sable]

thru unity

i just realised

i cant do that

.....

[left gull]

yeah it'll only work if its specifically made for that model and pre-setup by the creator to be added in unity

time to weightpaint it in blender!

[dusk sable]

the original base model has underwear

but i accidentally deleted the underwear💀

if i reimport itll fuck shaders and everything up

[timber wharf]

oof took me a while to see floating undies

reimport as separate asset alongside, then use pumpkin avatar tools to move stuff over ig

[dusk sable]

tf is pumpkin avatar tools😭

[timber wharf]

wish i knew. just some silly asset you add from github to vcc

[dusk sable]

fair enough

[midnight finch]

Hi, does anyone know if changing these values for shapekeys in blender does anything in unity?

[timber wharf]

oof also pumpkins looks heavily outdated, is it even usefull anymore? ping pls

@midnight finch nope, need a way to apply non-zero to base as min and bake over one as separate blendshape for max cause unity only goes to 100 ie 1.0

[dusk sable]

could i not just make a new project with the original base model

then take the files for the underwear

[midnight finch]

okay, was more so like wanting to limit how much the eyes can close for a specific shape key for FT since eyelid is clipping but i'll find another way thank you

[dusk sable]

and wack them on mine

[timber wharf]

@midnight finch well, you close eyes as much as you wish, you propagate it to a new shapekey, now new_key 1.0 is your new fully closed eyes

[midnight finch]

just scared it'll break FT LOL

[timber wharf]

can try renaming em then idk

ie old_closed_eyes

[midnight finch]

in theory if i remade the blendshape and named it the same as the original one. it should reference the new one no issue right

🤔

[timber wharf]

ye

[midnight finch]

curioous and curiouser

[timber wharf]

other than shapekeys being weird even in blender itself so pls backup

[left gull]

its still functional for copying components and its "Tools" section (not sure about the rest since i dont use them) on the 3.9.0 sdk

not sure if most people even use the other options it provides

[round comet]

I use it to copy stuff sometimes :]

But I do most stuff manually

Still gud

[left gull]

iirc the other stuff it provides is for thumbnails and like avatar stats which ik alot of people use other scripts to do that

copying components is the only thing i ever install it for too :P

[balmy barn]

3.10.0 have funny new 'body' colliders

[red knoll]

hey, does anyone know what this problem is exactly?

[balmy barn]

never ran into that , id try saving the image in png/some other format

i use a gimp template for profile pic some years now that fit the odd 1600x900 format they use

[surreal marlin]

is there a good place to start learning how to use VRCCC? like a YouTube video series or something

or rather just using unity to make an avatar in general. i feel like im missing a lot of the basics when i try to start doing something

[timber wharf]

so three years later they came up with community driven tags?

fancy. and too fast

[left gull]

https://discord.com/channels/189511567539306508/1139228456090087495 has a buncha stuff

[dusk sable]

what do i do now?

its the underwear without animations how do i fix this

@left gull

[heavy zephyr]

Read the error in your first screenshot, you need an animator component on the root of your avatar

[somber sequoia]

usually you get that automatically after setting up the rig as humanoid

[surreal marlin]

tysm

[left gull]

Yeah like what the others said you'd need to add an animator if you model is already setup as humanoid (though it looked to be rigged correctly earlier id check for any errors in your configure menu)

[alpine sky]

Does anybody know how to turn off a filter?I broke mind.I don't know how to turn it off.I turned it off.I turned it on to everything I even reset it

Please help me

[past crane]

how do i fix this skirt issue 😰

[somber sequoia]

exactly what issue are you referring to?

[past crane]

the skirt at the front is like

bouncing

if u look closely

not sure how to describe it

[somber sequoia]

oh I see it, physbone jittering slightly

[past crane]

yes

[balmy barn]

waited 3 minutes to cross post

could be too close to a collider, rotation constraint doing wierd things , springyness ect, cant tell without seeing the physbone component

[past crane]

okay ill check some of these

or, i have the file, if anyone wants to try and fix it for me

[past crane]

that is what it is yes

i can send the model in dms if u wanna look at it

[somber sequoia]

you should head over to the VRC Traders discord if you want to commission someone, you'll only find scammers around here.

[past crane]

alr

[spark walrus]

quick fix might be to change physbone ver from 1.1 to 1.0, or to enable isAnimated. If it's not something like a collider

[spark walrus]

feels like you just have to go into settings, disable content gating stuff, and restart the game. or perhaps delete the cache in the settings.

[dusty monolith]

im trying to upload an avi and its telling me to add a avatar photo when i got one. i even switched it multiple times

[night ember]

Remove the blueprint id in pipeline manager

[dusty monolith]

tried that too but i reattached it. should i not?

[night ember]

No

If it never uploaded in the first place then that avatar id isnt actually used

[dusty monolith]

alr

it showed in my avis but it wasnt uploaded for quest or pc

we're good now thanks

[lusty berry]

I know its cause of the scripts, but one is gogo and idk what the others are and if i take them out it sometimes breaks the avatar. How do i fix this? If it helps the avi is Mimii by Offeset. Like i got the pc up, no problem at all, its just the quest that doesnt want to work

[night ember]

Whered you get the avatar

[lusty berry]

off offesets website

[night ember]

Link?

[lusty berry]

OFC!

[night ember]

Thats an image

[lusty berry]

hold on let me get it

https://payhip.com/b/nEOR6

[night ember]

Id contact the creator cause the description says fuck all about dependencies

[lusty berry]

well they have a google docs that shows the dependencies and i added them all, and they are all up to date

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W8cITCTFYkpglXf-773gB48FAj6Dd103KVVLKuo95Xk/edit?tab=t.l87xv6lq22p6

[night ember]

You sure about that?

[lusty berry]

mhm

[night ember]

You follow the import order?

[lusty berry]

yes

[night ember]

Then contact the creator

[lusty berry]

alright

[heady sparrow]

i'm having a weird issue rn

i'm putting a material on the socks, right ? and it works for a few seconds but as soon as i change tabs on the side, it turns back to the old material

[balmy barn]

try newer/older sdk and dont have any controllers in your animator it will revert things

3.10 sposdly finally fixed it 🐧

3.9.0 likes to read the controller if one is assigned and you select the sdk tab - does funny things

[somber sequoia]

yeah just don't use 3.8 or 3.9

[heady sparrow]

wdym??

so do i use 3.8 instead of 3.9?

[balmy barn]

id try 3.10.0-b1 , dont like going backward myself

[heady sparrow]

will it not break the project tho?

since it's a beta

[somber sequoia]

probably not?

[balmy barn]

havnt noticed any yet even some scripts i use behave

but could be some that doesnt 🐧 i always have backups

just revert sdk back if it misbehave rare it messes up things

[heady sparrow]

oukiw

anyone's got optimization tips btw?

like instead of deleting items off the avatar

[somber sequoia]

that's a big one 🙂

[past crane]

how do i do this

[spark walrus]

check the physbone component. it has the settings. you'll find them

[past crane]

found it

@

@spark walrus wheres the 'isAnimated'

[somber sequoia]

at the bottom. Or see the documentation:
https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/avatar-dynamics/physbones#options

[past crane]

tyty

[burnt scaffold]

hi can someone help me put a dance to an avatar, i just bought this dance for 2 euro

i wanna use it somehow its an unitypackage

[somber sequoia]

what's in the unitypackage?

[burnt scaffold]

just a dance

[somber sequoia]

but what is that exactly

animations? animation controller? prefab?

[burnt scaffold]

i think animation

[somber sequoia]

you'll need to know in order to get help on this

[burnt scaffold]

Hakari Dance .anim File

.anim = animations?

[somber sequoia]

Yes, good

it should be pretty easy to set that up in probably the Action animator

[burnt scaffold]

yea well i tried

couldnt figure it out

[balmy barn]

or just replace dance loop

( vrchat default action controller )

[burnt scaffold]

can u add the dance for me on any avatar

and i can copy your char or something

[balmy barn]

no i never upload for others , if i do its public easier to for me have them tell me what they want fixed then constantly giving them the project files for every iteration of it - whenever its good enough they will have the files

[silent yarrow]

Heyyy I rushed one of my sliders and forgot to dupe my avatar, and now the 0 to 100 animation is stuck on my avatar. How do I reset it? 🥲

[tulip surge]

Would anyone know what this means ive been trying to figure it out

[somber sequoia]

No, I recommend taking a look at the console for more details

oh! there's an error I missed - you have a menu that uses a parameter not on your avatar, the error tells you which one, you'll have to add that parameter

[tulip surge]

Kk

[shrewd stirrup]

so i have a particles multiply part on my quest avi and looks fine in unity testing but why is it broken on vr

[night ember]

thats vague

[shrewd stirrup]

ok hold on

[shrewd stirrup]

the eyelash and star are multiply here as they should be since they look fine playtested in unity right

[night ember]

the multiply shader is for particles

[somber sequoia]

oh you're trying to fake transparency

[shrewd stirrup]

been doin it for a while yes

[shrewd stirrup]

right and its been working on models too

but this happens when i try n playtest on quest itself

[night ember]

like I said

its for particles

this isnt an intended use of it

quest doesnt support transparency

[shrewd stirrup]

then why has it worked until now

[night ember]

🤷‍♂️

quest never support transparency

[shrewd stirrup]

im aware and it sucks

[harsh hedge]

when i enter play mode or when i upload my avatar in vrchat, he's naked.. why ??

how do i fix this

[night ember]

animation Ig?

Im assuming it does that when you enter playmode and isnt that by default

and I can see the meshes are disabled

[harsh hedge]

yes exactly

[night ember]

so thatd be an animation doing it

[harsh hedge]

weird because i don't remember making an animation

and on vrc fury my outfit is set to "On"

[dusk sable]

how do i get this animation to not bug out

and my hand to be on the floor

its the sit pose by wetcat

[night ember]

that says turn on so is the toggle enabled

[harsh hedge]

i've figured a way to fix my problem, ty anyway

[spark walrus]

looks like it's blending with another layer. the anim is suppose to be in the action layer to override the other layers. you can also use gogoloco, it's prebuilt, has stuff like this already, and slots to just put new anims in. unless you're in vr, and using ovr dragspace, then this can happen too, and you just have to reset ovr or drag your self back to the floor.

[little plume]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1421568758790750318/1443051588318138511/2025-11-25_20-31-28.mp4?ex=6927aa05&is=69265885&hm=3bbf3a02d69a01cbb827a07285a62589dab2d6f142c2ca9b2add278fce3452e7&

how do i mask where my dissolve is?

im already using a dissolve mask to make the effect

it didnt embed hold on

i need to make it so it only shows up on the jacket, not everwhere. i have a mask for this but i dont know how to apply it in this case

[somber sequoia]

You'll need to tell us what shader you're using and/or show an image of the material with the dissolve settings

[little plume]

poiyomi

i think im getting close to figuring it out tho

[somber sequoia]

well there's a dissolve mask slot under "Masking", that'd be the one

[little plume]

ok but thats how the flowing effect is made

thats my issue

[somber sequoia]

well it's not like you have another slot for this

[stray trench]

how can i rotate an avatars eyes while its in play mode? i cant get them to move even if i mess with the eye rotation states

[somber sequoia]

you need to use VRC Animator Tracking Control to "take over" control of the eyes (set them to "animation") before you animate them, and release it after (set them to "tracking")

[faint laurel]

yo does anyone have golo

[somber sequoia]

golo?

[stray trench]

gogoloco?

and thanks kaz

[fleet ingot]

how do i fix this its saying i have a missing script i think

[somber sequoia]

you install the package that provides the missing script

[faint laurel]

yes i need it for my avatar because i had to reset my pc

[somber sequoia]

look at the avatar or prop creator's documentation to figure out what it might be

[fleet ingot]

ok

[stray trench]

its free to download

dont need to steal it or get it from another person

[somber sequoia]

the creator offers it for free on gumroad and booth

[faint laurel]

do you have the link because im a little dumb 🙁

[stray trench]

kaz, do i add that as a component on the avatar base?

ill get them their link

[somber sequoia]

surely google does

[stray trench]

https://gogoloco.net/

[somber sequoia]

no, on an animation state

[stray trench]

okay, ty

[faint laurel]

thanks man

[fleet ingot]

i cant find what the problem is

how do i find it

[somber sequoia]

I don't know of any real way other than to install the requirements stated by whoever created the assets

[fleet ingot]

ok

so just install the requirements stateds in the discription of the avatar?

[somber sequoia]

you could always delete that script component, but that might cause problems.

[somber sequoia]

if you didn't already do that, yes of course

[fleet ingot]

?

@somber sequoia

[glossy copper]

What does your project file look like?

B/c this can be caused by a few things not just missing scripts, but having 2 of the same thing installed at the same time.

[fleet ingot]

like the file with avatars and textures and library?

[glossy copper]

yes

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure why you are pinging me for this?

[fleet ingot]

idk what you wanted to see

[glossy copper]

click assets

[glossy copper]

I'm thinking that file at the very top of the list here is in the wrong spot, try dragging it into packages and then building.

[somber sequoia]

you shouldn't put stuff in there manually, use VCC/Alcom for that

[fleet ingot]

i do

[somber sequoia]

install the face tracking package that way then. I'm not sure why you have it where it is now

[fleet ingot]

no i meant i use alcom to import it

[surreal salmon]

Is there a way to make mesh dissapear when in proximity of another players head

[night ember]

shader like poiyomi has support for range based transparency

you can also use a local only contact that whenever they see it trigger it disables the mesh

[surreal salmon]

NAh i mean to stop rendering or disable

[night ember]

like I said

both are options

[fleet ingot]

this didnt work, would the missing file be the problem? and if so, what can i do to find it?

[surreal salmon]

I was too hasty in my reply

[glossy copper]

You'd have to look at the avatar's listing to determine that and what's missing.

[surreal salmon]

Ima see bout the contact system

[night ember]

vrlabs has a prefab for targetted toggling I just forgot what its named

[surreal salmon]

I want something reactive

I got a good starting point ig

[little plume]

do the errors matter?

[night ember]

yes and no?

[little plume]

i just pressed done and my configure avatar button vanished

[night ember]

the configure was never on that

its on the fbx root

in the assets window

[little plume]

thats what i am on

[night ember]

no you are on the rig not the fbx

[little plume]

it was there before

[night ember]

they are entirely separate assets

[little plume]

you sure?

i reimported the mesh and suddnely its there

this is always where i came to get to it

[night ember]

itll always be on the fbx root

[little plume]

so why does it show here once then

[night ember]

if its still attached directly to the fbx

if there is no fbx it cant load it cause it literally has nothing to present or check for bones with

[little plume]

well can i ignore the not in t pose error?

[night ember]

the only way I think of that happening is if you unrooted it from the fbx

[night ember]

yes and no
generally you can only if the fbx is already in a tpose

[little plume]

well it is as you can see

[night ember]

but the rotation/positional offsets WILL effect the avatar in game

causing the position for it to be offset or bones to not rotate correctly

for hands the rotations of them can be easily broken

Idk why you didnt just click enforce tpose

[little plume]

ok aslong as it uploads ill be fine

[night ember]

well yea but it can still be fucked even after uploading

which is why I ask why you didnt just enforce tpose

[little plume]

huh

ive uploaded this model before its fine after you change the bones to what i change them to

but i lost my files and i made the jacket 50x better

[night ember]

which is lucky considering its very stingy about pose

[night ember]

I do love a video not loading

[little plume]

yeha discord on pc is stupid

it does it for me too on any video

[night ember]

Id also assume the file size

[little plume]

they always work fine on mobile tho

you just gotta switch channels a few times to fix it

[night ember]

did you manually put it in tpose or something?

[little plume]

ok now i need to setup audio link to the dissolve masks

[little plume]

no its in its defualt tpose when you rip it

[night ember]

wdym rip it

[little plume]

from fortnite?

[night ember]

you shouldnt be ripping assets

[little plume]

porting i should say

[glossy copper]

That's a blender thing to get it into a proper tpose atp

[little plume]

this is an interesting outcome

[night ember]

thats just ripping with a fancier name

[little plume]

ok heres the thing

ive ported the entire fucking travis scott event already

no problems

[somber sequoia]

contact receiver looking for another player's head, sure

[glossy copper]

Yeah this is just a blender thing

[little plume]

any clues on as to why this is happening?

[inland gyro]

tap configure and show a screenshot

[little plume]

of the bones tab

[somber sequoia]

it tells you clearly what the issue is

[little plume]

suddenly hes a posing now but he was tposing before

[inland gyro]

oh yeah it does. one of your finger bones are assigned twice (the left middle finger is assigned to the middle finger of both the left and right hands). make sure you have them mapped correctly in configure.
if it fails any checks, unity will leave it in t-pose and it wont play VRChat's animations

[little plume]

oh holdon

hes not t posing anymore

strange

he is set to humaniod

has an animator

so idk why hes stuck in an a pose

lemme build with the bones fixed and see if he moves now

[inland gyro]

try tapping Pose then Enforce T-Pose

[little plume]

ill try

wheres that at?

[inland gyro]

within the configure menu, to the left of the apply and done buttons

[little plume]

ummm

[inland gyro]

(oh goodness, someone else is going to have to take over)

[somber sequoia]

no, the list of bones, not the image of the avatar.

[little plume]

?

i did enable enforce t pose

but now his hands twisted

[somber sequoia]

make sure you have the right bones in the right slots before you go trying to enforce anything

good way to screw it up worse.

[inland gyro]

you can still tap revert now, i believe

;;;;

[little plume]

now only the fingertips are fucked

i think it was like this when i uploaded before and it was fine in game tho

[inland gyro]

you should now follow what kazin said and show your list of bones as well as the mappings of the hands (?)

[little plume]

yeah its fine now

[little plume]

i fixed it dw

left hand a lil fucked

i just gotta fix the fingertips being weird

old avatar for comparison

[fleet ingot]

i have everything needed in the listing.

[glossy copper]

if the listing calls for specific versions of things you'll prolly want those specific versions, sometimes they do. Otherwise without having more information there's not much anyone can do for you. If you have the listing up you'd probably have a better time contacting the avatar creator yourself.

[somber sequoia]

I'd probably just install vrcfury and gogo loco if you haven't, those are common ones people forget

[little plume]

how do i fix the curled fingers?

[hard hatch]

Im having a bit of an isssue with audiolink in vrc. I got it all set up in unity and even when I tested it out on there, everything was working great, however, in vrc itself, the emission mask that I have to be affected by audiolink just stays at the base emission brightness and doesnt change in accordance to the world's audio. anyone have a clue what I may be doing wrong?

[proud basin]

need help what do i do with this

i just waited 10 minutes for it to upload im actually pissed

[late heath]

are there any better ways of tackling semi-transparent materials using poiyomi? i'm having trouble figuring it out, though i did figure out dithering but i don't really like the appearance of it

[ornate stump]

You're showing mobile shader though?

[late heath]

the mobile shader is the best way ive found to get the desired effect i wanted, i'm asking if theres a way to do it through poiyomi since the only way i could figure out on my own was dithering

[ornate stump]

If you had separated material from the opaque body, then you could just set render preset to transparent, not cutout.

[late heath]

i've tried that but.. 😓

ohh wait if i had a seperated material i rushed my reply out..

thank you

[ornate stump]

You had 2 material in the asset below so I assumed it was separated.

[late heath]

i have 2 different versions of the base mesh one for pc and one for quest, i was planning to use alpha blend on mobile since quest doesnt support transparency otherwise, the pc one uses 1 material slot
i could probably get away with just using 2 materials if nothing works out to squeeze into 1 though

[timber wharf]

you cant have alpha blend on quest, only additive/multiply

[late heath]

darn
does additive come out transparent? last i remember i think it does cause ive used it on particle emitters before..

[gritty forge]

can't you technically use particle shader for semi transparency on quest?

[timber wharf]

@late heath both additive and multiply end up transparent in some form

@gritty forge yes. additive or multiply. alpha blend cant be used for whatever on avatars

[late heath]

hooray! thank you

[stoic bobcat]

no idea why, but physbones are only doing the strands and not the entire part, they are connected just dont know why its doing this

they are connected together, just dont know why its only grabbing the small ones

[ornate stump]

https://creators.vrchat.com/common-components/physbones#transforms The Caution of this section.

[stoic bobcat]

thanks

also i just changed a setting and it seemed to fix it

[hushed flume]

can I get some assistance for some reason I can't seem to the model to upload keep getting some api issue

[hushed flume]

heres what the failed to send request error says

and I do have a thumbnail set.. don't know why it gives a image empty thing.. (assuming its related to avi thumbnail)

[ornate stump]

Try updating the sdk. It's 3.10 now

[balmy barn]

now we get funny contact defaults for objects (future inventory stuff my guess)

[hushed flume]

completely updated

[woven berry]

is 3.10 acting normal now? 3.09 was completely unusable

[balmy barn]

havnt had issues with it 🤷‍♂️ (used the beta abit)

[ornate stump]

3.9 has some issue with thumbnail image uploading for new avatar.

[balmy barn]

uploaded 10 something avatars, cause i forgot poi fallback shader is just white if im using outlines had to change to toon fallback

[woven berry]

tried to use it and i couldn't adjust properties in poiyomi and anytime i'd deactivate something on a model, it'd reactivate by itself a couple seconds later

[timber wharf]

ye it was fixed

[woven berry]

also on an unrelated note how is texture memory calculated as a statistic

[balmy barn]

repliacted that just by having a controller in animator - 3.9

[woven berry]

does it take every single texture you upload regardless of whether it can even be active by way of material swaps

[balmy barn]

course

how would it know wich one was active

[woven berry]

my avatar's reading about 60mb on upload and each "outfit" only takes about that much as well but the statistic is saying 223mb

its completely impossible for the avatar to use that much due to material swaps n such

and i thought they'd fixed that earlier this month but now its back to that

[ornate stump]

Uploading is "compressed" package so size of package is much smaller than what it really takes.

[woven berry]

that's the uncompressed size

i'm talking the texture memory/vram

[timber wharf]

sdk probly fails to count matswaps

while ingame you see true value of all used textures

[woven berry]

thought it was smarter than that

[hushed flume]

sdk is 3.10 still having issue...

[balmy barn]

bubble ones are matswaps - vram calc handy, sdk 'soon' getting similar thing

[ornate stump]

Are you uploading as a new avatar? Also try detaching blueprint id in pipeline manager component.

[woven berry]

oh actually now that i'm looking, my stuff all lives in vrcfury away from an animation driving the mat swaps

[timber wharf]

with vrcf you should check stats in playmode only

[woven berry]

so that'll be a big contributor to the confusion

alright that clears some of it up, thank you

yep, a lot of my texture mgmt got away from me

[hushed flume]

Just tried still no luck

I wonder if its just my end having issues, I just got no one to upload it for me

[balmy barn]

isp goes herpderp , rare times ive had asw fail but worked a few hours later

id try vpn but then it wants me to login again

[ornate stump]

Also try changing thumbnail image, preferably capture from screen. And if it's internet connection issue, try another internet like mobile hotspot, or use vpn like cloudflare WARP.

[hushed flume]

flips table of course the issue is my internet thanks!

[hidden epoch]

Can someone give me a good full body tracking to get for Christmas

[blazing garnet]

Ooooo I’m curious too tbh

[balmy barn]

tundra/vive trackers

know a few with slimes and they dont like it

[blazing garnet]

Gotcha.

Sounds neat, just checked them out

[still shuttle]

Thats crazy, I own slimes and I absolutely love them. They are amazing for the price.

[oblique rover]

How do i just get rid of it entirely?

the blush effect doesnt work well on quest so id rather just get rid of it

[torn crypt]

Just delete the MatCap texture.

[oblique rover]

when i delete the texture it defaults to pure white

and my face instead of being covered in a pure red its pure white

[balmy barn]

seperate in blender and delete it

[placid mica]

I agree. Can attest to the good slime ratings.

[round comet]

Sometimes what I used to do (if you don’t know how to use blender) is set it to vrchat > mobile > particles > multiply

Then just delete the texture from the slot

It’s basically just invisible if there’s nothing there and you use multiply— just not super practical

[oblique rover]

Thanks a lot I’ll definitely try that

[round comet]

[somber sequoia]

I like mine!

[somber sequoia]

come into #full-body-tracking for more detail, but either vives + base stations or slimes. Or wait for fluxpose. No other options are reasonable.

[hidden epoch]

Mk slime it is

[somber sequoia]

do your research, make sure you're ok with the caveats (they all have caveats), etc, etc.

[little plume]

is there a way to make my 3D space effect on the helmet quest compatible?

id also really like to do my fancy dissolve stuff on questm but if not ill settle with a panning texture

[round comet]

You could probably set the space texture as a matcap or animate it

[little plume]

Can I use a mask to choose where the match goes?

Match

Iswtg autocorrect

Mat cap

[tacit bolt]

So idk how to actually import the avatar how can you do that? the charcter I made was on VRRoid Studio and im trying to tranfer the character into the unity hub

[balmy barn]

masks

apperantly i had one , ~~ then you can animate offet on it i guess~~ - nah wont work, you can animate the mask strength tho (pulsate effect)

[somber sequoia]

red like that means the file that provided those objects is missing

[outer lily]

Anyone ever encounter this in Unity? It just automatically reverts things when I am changing them. Toggling objects, blendshape changes, etc. No CTRL Z or trickery used.

[balmy barn]

try sdk 3.10

[outer lily]

Oh was THAT the reverting bug they were talking about?

I just read about that the other night, I'll try it here now.

[somber sequoia]

that's the one, yep

[arctic ginkgo]

Oh I am so glad that got patched, it's been annoying the hell out of me for months

[outer lily]

Its the first time I've ever seen it, at least I encountered it by the time they had 3.10 in beta

[somber sequoia]

same, extremely frustrating, and I'm surprised it took them so long to deal with it.

[balmy barn]

got it if i had a controller assigned to animator , kept toggling the hat but only when i clicked the sdk tab

[outer lily]

I got the SDK open in another window, so it was applying all the time I guess

Yeah that was it, love it when its that simple

[proven quail]

Use toon standard, and you can use a mask for your matcap

[little plume]

will just a normal 2d terxture work as a matcap or do i have to make a matcap using my 2d texture?

[somber sequoia]

a matcap is a 2D texture

[little plume]

ok

im thinking of those images that are warped to look 3d btw

but mine is just a normal flat image

[somber sequoia]

if you're actually going for a real material capture, then sure, but you're wanting to abuse this slot for slightly different purposes, so it can be whatever you want that looks how you want it to

[little plume]

it seems my mask needs to be red not green

[somber sequoia]

easy problem to solve

[little plume]

ok now i gotta add the face image back

[arctic ginkgo]

What I would do tbh to replicate the effect is actually set custom normals on the visor so they all face the same direction

That's something that would need to be done in Blender/your 3D program of choice

[little plume]

?

i aint doing all that the space effect looks fine

[arctic ginkgo]

For the face texture you can use detail map or emissions (emissions will glow)

[little plume]

how its supposed to look

[arctic ginkgo]

You totally don't have to btw, I understand. Just giving advice if you wanted to be more accurate to the PC version of the effect

[arctic ginkgo]

If this is supposed to glow, use emissions, otherwise, you can use the detail texture or main texture

[untold minnow]

can anyone help? I cant enable most of these things from my downloaded project and I cant figure out why?

[somber sequoia]

because they are already in your project

[arctic ginkgo]

Yeah that means you already have them and there's no difference between the ones in your project and the ones you're importing

[untold minnow]

Oh thank you

[little plume]

it doesnt seem to like the opacity

[junior void]

Adjust cutoff?

[little plume]

huh?

that doesnt seem to be an option on toon standard

[proven quail]

Emission doesn't use transparency. The detail layer will though

[little plume]

i need it to glow tho

[proven quail]

You will have to modify the texture

[little plume]

funny thing

im not using poiyomi

why is it saying im using poiyomi

the one thats disabled does use poiyomi

but not this one

[somber sequoia]

check all assets and material swaps

[little plume]

?

it shouldnt matter bc the other one is disabled

[somber sequoia]

sorry, what part of that is unclear?

[little plume]

like i dont have any other assets or material swaps on the avatar

[somber sequoia]

Okay - obviously I wouldn't have known that, so it's still good advice.

[little plume]

the pc one thats disabled uses poiyomi

it is disabled

the quest one is enabled

the quest one uses standard toon

its for some reason trying to build with the disabled pc one

event though its selected not too

[left gull]

yeah thats is/was probably a case of unity being buggy, just saving>closing>reopening project should fix it when it does that

[oblique rover]

this worked

thank you so much my goat

[round comet]

Good to know!

[arctic ginkgo]

you can try adjusting the import settings to remove transparency, but that might just keep it blue like this around the edges. If you have basic drawing or image editing software, you can use that to add a black background. If not, I can do it for you really quick if you just sent the texture file (it will literally take me like 30 seconds)

[little plume]

ill try adding a black background later, right now im making the deadeye skini into an avatar

ty for the idea tho ill try that later

[hazy quest]

Can you link blendshapes and active all using one slider? Without the use of drivers.
Just so that I can test Body+Clothes at the same time.

[somber sequoia]

you'd need a build-time tool to do that, like VRCFury does

Or just animate both objects in the same animation

[lusty hearth]

Anyone else having trouble uploading avatars right now?

[outer lily]

Anyone have any idea why verts might snap to WORLD origin like this from an an avatar? (Left). On the right side is the exact same FBX used, just freshly dragged into the scene. There are no constraints on this avatar.

Alternatively, Pumpkin tools doesn't seem to be copying everything over properly, if anyone has another avatar component copy tool thats currently working I could just drop things on to the fresh FBX drag-in and continue as normal.

[balmy barn]

missing weightpaint on some vertices

[outer lily]

Right side body is the exact same FBX

[little plume]

anyone have any clue on how i could do this with poiyomi?

heres how the textures look

its def using the rgb channels to distort the geletin

[left gull]

for the skin instead of opaque try messing with the other options to get a see-through look and for the blue blue use Rim lighting then for the rainbows do them as emissions with scrolling effect

idk how you'd do its default style well enough though :P

[lunar iris]

bruh

nvm im dumb its cause of its loading lol

[little plume]

is there a good video on how to make hand geature face expressions and talking animations?

[lunar iris]

how i didnt even change anything i hope my project isnt broken

ugh stupidity again forgot to delete the avatar id

[left gull]

face expressions via hand gestures would be done in the FX layer in the right/left hand slots and for talking animations do you mean viesemes?

[little plume]

yep

but i need a video on how to make both of these in unity without blender

if possible

[somber sequoia]

you don't make blendshapes in unity

[left gull]

both require the body mesh to have existing blendshapes if you're trying to set it up in unity

[little plume]

my mouth uses bones to move tho

not shapekeys

i was wondering if i cant just make an animation in unity of the jaw flapping since there is no actual mouth

[somber sequoia]

then you'll be making animations in Unity and a layer in FX to drive those bones from the Viseme parameter.

[hard hatch]

im having issues with this armature link. for some reason ONLY in vrc, the bones for the muzzle dont sync with the bones of the avatar, despite them being linked. I've tested it several times in unity and it works perfectly fine, but as soon as I open vrc and try it, the bone for the muzzle that's linked to the jaw just does not move at all. Anyone know what may be causing this?

[little plume]

sounds like itd work to me ill look at documentation in a bit

heres the avatar btw

well nvrm my pc decided to start lagging like hell and break file explorer

[indigo compass]

Probably because you use blendshapes to make the jaw move, jaw flap just looks bad in the vast majority of cases.

Most likely the asset wants you to add a blendshape link component from VRCFury too

[hard hatch]

Ohhhh okok that actually makes a lot of sense, thanks!

I'll try that out

It was an asset meant for the rex that I edited to the archer, so I'm kinda asking for issues, but hopefully this works lol

[surreal salmon]

how do u make a randomizer

like for dice or animations

[somber sequoia]

VRC Avatar Parameter Driver has a random option

[regal jay]

hey babes i've asked this before but i somehow keep struggling on it, i would super apreciate anyone's ping and help:

i got a prefab with a fbx,i would like to replace that fbx with a similiar one

if i delete the original fbx,and import the similiar fbx with same name and all,the prefab freaks out and says it cant find the fbx

what do?

i have also tried to unpack the prefab in scene, then delete the fbx and add the similiar one,unity seems to find it but its still all invisible,even the parts of the fbx that i have not edited

[hard hatch]

literally linked all of the visemes and still somehow, it's not working

🤦‍♂️

[somber sequoia]

don't delete, just overwrite.
Also never unpack - hopefully you made a backup of that

[regal jay]

thanks for your input <3, i dont knwo how to overwrite tho

[somber sequoia]

literally save the new file over the old one

[regal jay]

isnt that the same as deleting and importign a new one? or unity cares about it :?

[somber sequoia]

ideally use the same export settings though

no, don't delete it, just overwrite it. If you delete it in Unity you lose the .meta file and it's considered a different file

[regal jay]

ok! this is very helpful,it might even be the source of my problems,thank you ❤️

[somber sequoia]

and you break the link between the object in-scene and the file on disk

which is what unpacking does too, so don't unpack

[regal jay]

you got it boss 🫡

[somber sequoia]

(* avatars - some prop packages you can unpack in certain cases)

[regal jay]

is it possible to create some sort of variant?

[somber sequoia]

depends what you want, but each copy you drag into the scene is a separate object so can be somewhat varied

[regal jay]

for context,i have a female avatar that i've edited to be male
would be super poggers if i could have 2 prefabs,one for each, so i dont have more headaches in the future if i have to edit again

[somber sequoia]

oh you can - in that case you probably would have two different model files

[regal jay]

mhm!

but you tell me to overwrite,so how do i get 2 files @.@

[somber sequoia]

unless it's just a matter of blendshape differences, in which case just different scenes or even objects in one scene

save as a new file - again, this is basic computer file manipulation stuff, not unity at all

[regal jay]

okay

so for the edit,i overwrite, for the original ,i save as new

thank you so much fo rhte help! i apreicate it a lot!

[somber sequoia]

"linked" how?

[hard hatch]

Using blendshape link (vrcfury)

[frail badger]

is there a way to like, make something always render behind something from all angles like a halo?

[somber sequoia]

you can mess with the render queue values

[frail badger]

itd need its own unique material for that, right?

[somber sequoia]

that only works in play mode or in-game, it doesn't work in edit mode

[somber sequoia]

yes

[hard hatch]

I was also trying it in play mode. I must've accidentally exited lol

But it was the same result, sadly.

[somber sequoia]

ah ok, then something about it was done wrong. I generally don't use Fury so not really sure from here.

[hard hatch]

Hmmm this is so frustrating 😭

Worst case, I'll just scrap it and try to make it a toggle for when I'm muted

Which I'm also a little curious about how I would do that, since there doesn't seem to be any component options that allow that

[round quiver]

anyone know how people get their clothes to move perfectly with their avatars body's physbones, my body and clothes both move but the body just clips through the clothes

[somber sequoia]

you don't a component, there's an animator parameter for that:
https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/animator-parameters/

[slow terrace]

Heya ive been having an issue with both avatars and worlds where it stops uploaded and just says "Failed to upload file"
its super hit and miss- but it happens more often than not and its seriously preventing me from working on my projects

[somber sequoia]

there's nothing we can tell you without seeing actual error messages

[slow terrace]

One sec- I posted them a while ago in the worlds help channel too and nobody was able to decipher them

these are the only errors upon failing

[somber sequoia]

yeah if there are no others, maybe it's something about your network

[slow terrace]

What about my network could cause this? Nothing should be blocked by my router, I've checked through it

[somber sequoia]

I don't know, I don't have this issue. It may not actually be your network either, could be an upstream provider between you and vrchat

[slow terrace]

tried a VPN before and it didnt work- trying again and so far so good

-# grrr... stupid inconsistent little...

[somber sequoia]

I know there's often some suggestion of using Cloudflare's DNS thingy too

[lament zenith]

Hi, i had finished texturing a model last night, that all went fine. Today i wanted to edit the model slightly in blender, but after doing a test edit and re-importing that fbx, i can see that there are some issues i didnt have when importing the fbx and uploading the model last night. The components included with the model originally are missing, and i am unable to edit the textures.

Should i have saved my edited model with the original name?

Please @ me with a response as i would like to solve this, thank you

Made a backup of the original file and replaced it with my edit, that did infact replace the original model correctly and changed the model, i believe this solves my issue. again feel free to @ me if you believe i still may have done something improperly

[somber sequoia]

you'd need to provide some detail, it's not clear what is wrong here

[unreal juniper]

Are the clothes designed for that particular avatar?

Depending on what you got and what you're trying to apply, there's a lot of answers to that question LOL

[round quiver]

No

[unreal juniper]

Did you shape them in Blender?

[round quiver]

Yes

[unreal juniper]

Did you apply weights?

[round quiver]

Yes I used auto bone weight

[unreal juniper]

I recommend "Robust Weight Transfer Tool" plug in but if you did that, on the Unity side, are you using Fury to attach the clothing?

(and did you test the movement in pose mode in Blender after weight transfer?)

[round quiver]

No? I just parent them to the armature in blender

[round quiver]

Yes

[unreal juniper]

Hmm, I never do it this way so someone else probably has insight but can you show a screenshot of how much clipping you're having? Is it generally moving properly in the Unity side?

[idle palm]

how do i fix the black at the end, the texture doesn’t have that but it has it when i add it as the texture

it’s not transparent and idk how to fix it

i’ve tried.. LMAO

[unreal juniper]

If it's a little bit, Blender's auto weight kinda sucks and I'd again suggest the Robust tool, or going through and smoothing/tweaking your weights in problem areas

[round quiver]

I see one thing I’m noticing is while the clothes move with the physbones they don’t stretch at all to stick to them does that have a fix?

[unreal juniper]

Got a screenshot or two?

It's probably still weighting tbh

That's the hardest part of making clothing assets work right

[round quiver]

Sorry I don’t believe I can

[unreal juniper]

🤔

[round quiver]

Idk how I would take the picture 😭 while also moving the avatar and I don’t have a recording software

[unreal juniper]

Windows' Snipping tool, hit the clock thing to set a few second delay and start moving it after you hit "new"

Screen will turn white and you can select which part of the screen you want to save as a screenshot

[somber sequoia]

also OBS Studio is free

[lament zenith]

i believe i gave enough info, but im pretty sure its not a problem now anyways

[somber sequoia]

I wouldn't have asked for more if I thought it was enough to go on, but if it's no longer a problem, that's great.

[pine karma]

uhhh it keeps doing this idk how to fix

[somber sequoia]

is that one the only error in the console?

[pine karma]

yes

[hoary lintel]

does anyone know how to fix this issue when i press play for my avatar it gets stuuck on this viseme and it overlays the other lipsyncs even though i KNOW i didnt put the blendshapes as that

new to making vrchat models btw

[somber sequoia]

you only have three blend shapes for visemes?

[hoary lintel]

wanted to keep it simple

cuz this is my first one

is there a problem w that? /genq

[somber sequoia]

if you are doing the animation yourself with the Viseme parameter in the animator, nope, you can do whatever. If you're using the viseme stuff in the VRC Avatar Descriptor, I believe you need all of them

[hoary lintel]

i see i see

[hoary lintel]

does it help fix this issue though?

[somber sequoia]

I can't tell how you have this setup now, so no idea

[timber wharf]

@hoary lintel you def have smth animating it to 100, now figure out what layer does that

[hoary lintel]

how do i do this? bcs i might be doing it wrong

[timber wharf]

well first set your lipsync layer weight to 0

if they all 0 now then its the problem

[hoary lintel]

ok i did this now what

what do i look for?

nvm i fixed it!

[long kraken]

trying to upload a avatar my friend bought for them since they dont have a pc and its saying this

[junior void]

Well, did you not import what it's listing?

[long kraken]

i just removed it since i dont even have ft

its pointless

i'll add it if i ever get it

[little plume]

im trying to kitbash a few different avatars together to make something, how can i tranfer the weights from one rig to another?

[stark meadow]

robust weight transfer addon for blender

[little plume]

ill try that holdon

[hasty plover]

Hiii!!. I was hoping for some help on what to do next.. so I’m making my avatar from scratch on blender. The modeling for the base is complete. Everything is connected to one another except the head. I’m not sure what do next… should I make the clothing? Or rig it or what.. sorry if this is a big ask. This is my first model I’m making for myself

[little plume]

how do i use this

[hoary lintel]

does anyone know why this section of vrc phys bone is unavailable

i keep seeing it work in tutorials but not for me for some reason

[mighty widget]

to get eyes to glow like this is with Eye Hue color right?

[little plume]

cant i do it with cats?

my models got like 100 weights theres gotta be an easier way than using robust

[junior void]

Emission. Hue is just the color itself

[mighty widget]

Thank you!

[waxen jungle]

I cant seem to figure out why this is happening, i've cleared my transforms in blender, this issue also randomly started happening for seemingly no reason, the model was fine before. If i set it to humanoid it still shows up as non humanoid in the avatar descriptior

nvm figured it out, still a very strange issue though

[main moon]

Could someone help me make an animated mode for my avatar with like animated movement and stuff? I have all the animations, I just don’t know how to do it all. Ya can DM me or ping me here if you can help! I suck at this kind of stuff… ;-;

[junior void]

You mean animation dances?

[orchid lava]

im kinda new to vr chat and i downloaded a filw for an avatar but i don't have a pc to upload it can anyone help?

[ornate stump]

You will need a PC to upload avatar.

[spark walrus]

does anyone know why my unity crashes when i make a new expression menu??

[mortal sun]

can anyone help me out with a problem i'm having

i'm having a problem with an animation contact

and its just not working when i turn it on

it won't play the animation it keeps saying the animation is not valid

[arctic ginkgo]

idk what "it' is that is saying your animation isn't valid, but that likely means your animation properties have invalid paths

[mortal sun]

alr

[arctic ginkgo]

if you changed the name of something, moved it to a different place in the hierarchy, or changed the name of something it's parented to (or used a tool like VRCFury to do this) that's why it would be invalid

[mortal sun]

alr

[somber sequoia]

what's so difficult about using this tool? It's like 3 clicks

[little plume]

Didn't know how tk use it

Friend new how to use cats

Friend showed me

Cats worked

[somber sequoia]

there's a tutorial, you know

[modest ridge]

bought a tail for my avi but it isnt grabable ingame, is there something configured wrong in the VRC physbone Script? i just cant figure it out

[somber sequoia]

you probably want collision on

[arctic ginkgo]

collision radius needs to be nonzero

if you don't want collision you can disable that. iirc they are still grabable with collision disabled, just need a collision radius

[modest ridge]

ah now it looks different, thanks i had to put a really small number into the Collision Radius, was confused why it was so huge at first, thanks a lot!

[arctic ginkgo]

this happens if you export FBX scaling as All Local instead of FBX All

it basically makes everything 100x larger, but the avatar is 100x smaller so it cancels out, it just makes measurments really funky

like the mesh is smaller and the armature is scaled up

[frail badger]

so im controlling part of my model with a 2d puppet, and then also animating that part. the animation only works right if i set the puppet to a certain state, how do i make it so that when the animation is toggled, it takes "executive control"?

To elaborate, certain bones are out of position, as if the animation from the puppet is overriding the toggled animation, when the toggled animation should take "top priority"

[somber sequoia]

what are you puppeting, the humanoid bones?

[frail badger]

wings, actually, not like arms or legs or anything

[arctic ginkgo]

there's a few ways, but the easiest would be to have both in the same layer and toggle between the puppet and the animation

so instead of separate toggles, the "off" state is the puppet blendtree and the "on" state is the animation

if you want them to blend though, you'll need to use additive animations and have an additive layer (I usually put my puppet in this layer)

[frail badger]

huh! how would i do that, with like uhhhhhhhhhh

[arctic ginkgo]

that or have multiple variations of the animation and toggle to a different blendtree

[frail badger]

one of these in the layer?

wait i might be stupid

[arctic ginkgo]

are you wanting them to blend? I thought you wanted the toggled animation to have priority

[frail badger]

no yeah im doin a big think hang on

[arctic ginkgo]

i don't feel like opening unity but something like this

[frail badger]

ya i got that set up rn but its doing the same thing as before

[arctic ginkgo]

do you have any other animations that controll the wings?

[frail badger]

ya there are the 5 animations within the puppet, then the 6th one outside of it

[arctic ginkgo]

and these are all in the same layer?

[frail badger]

yep

im thinking the animation might be the problem, since the only wing state that works is the one i incidentally copied the rotation data from to use as the first frame

even though im Sure the first frame sets like. every bone in the wings

[arctic ginkgo]

wait so what exactly is broken? the toggle, or the puppet, or both?

[frail badger]

just the toggle

[frail badger]

no yeah this was exactly the problem LMAO

[arctic ginkgo]

The state of the puppet should have nothing to fo with it though, because the puppet shouldn't be playing when the toggle is on

Ohh alright

It could be a WD issue maybe? I don't really know how your animations are setup

[frail badger]

ty for the help though <3 at least im down a layer lmao

[proud badger]

has anyone else had issues signing in with the sdk? I haven't been able to get in for 3 days but I can sign in on the website

[slow panther]

how do you add multiple photos in an avatars description??

[somber sequoia]

no but I'm currently trying to remove worlds from my favorites list and the API is failing in a few different ways, not sure if it's related

[sinful widget]

can someone help me with this game model hopper

has an armature and everything just like the original outfit
the original body/outfit works but the other ones aren't connected to the armature/ wont move

[balmy barn]

self reporting again

[sinful widget]

how

[balmy barn]

you have a ripped avatar

[sinful widget]

its a game model????

[balmy barn]

game models dont come with what you have , dont want to point out the obvious here

[arctic ginkgo]

technically it's not allowed unless the assets are given freely by the devs

[sinful widget]

its quite litterally given to us through the website they provided

[somber sequoia]

This one though was clearly ripped from vrchat, even if wasn't by you directly

[balmy barn]

now show this page

[arctic ginkgo]

what game is this?

[sinful widget]

yes but i only used the armature not the model

[sinful widget]

idk tbh

[somber sequoia]

oh so you admit it

[sinful widget]

i know its from a game though

nope the model is not ripped

i have that legit

[arctic ginkgo]

wait what website is it from?

you might have gotten a ripped model without knowing it

happens here often

[sinful widget]

a public game model website

if anyone could fix that though that would be cool

[arctic ginkgo]

i think many people are hesitant to help if they think you ripped the model, so if you provide the website so we can confirm if it's legit then people are more likely to help

[sinful widget]

i mean I did just send it so it'll take some time

[arctic ginkgo]

?

the model or the link?

i think they're asking for the link to the website is all

[sinful widget]

i got given the website and told to gatekeep even though its public which doesn't help ;p

[arctic ginkgo]

ohh that's a big red flag imo

if they tell you to gatekeep it's probably because it's ripped/stolen

[sinful widget]

can i ask the ai

[arctic ginkgo]

i'm not sure what you mean

[slow panther]

does anyone know because id like to do this for mine, im not seeing a gallery option in the unity editor

[balmy barn]

only bought ones had more then 1 image far as i know

[slow panther]

from what i saw this was just a random public avatar not bought which is weird

i found it

yippie

[spark walrus]

My new 3.10 version avatar uploaded failed security check - why? how can I get more info on how to pass it?

[left gull]

usually its a case of something on the model stat-wise being too unoptimized, dont think theres a way to tell what exactly set it off more just guessing based of the upload panels info

[spark walrus]

Feel like there's gonna be lot of avatars needing re-modeling to fit the standards then

[left gull]

the standards havent been changed at all though?

[spark walrus]

like - ANY kinda hint to point out whats the problem would be SO helpful

[spark walrus]

the model goes over plenty of recommendations in performance, but it has worked before

[left gull]

these show the limits per platform: https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/avatar-performance-ranking-system/ and you can use stuff like thry's avatar performance tool to get better insight on what parts of the model specifically would be tanking the rating or taking up space

yeah thats not good and could've been a case of it slipping past the security check, ive had that happen to me with a few P2U models that werent optimized

better to atleast attempt to get it within reasonable limits and see if that fixes it then to keep shooting for bare minimum and hoping it passes the check

[spark walrus]

idk is the problem also that I am using ALCOM -uploader/editor in Linux as well

[somber sequoia]

alcom/vcc are just package managers and launchers, nothing to do with actually using the Unity editor

[spark walrus]

Thank you for ruling that out 🙏

[digital river]

anybody know how to fix this?

[frail badger]

is there a way to get a mesh particle to like, not be neon bright in comparison to the rest of the model

i found a way on an older version of poiyomi but i cant recreate it

[pine valley]

this is infuriatingly vague. I had this happen once because I was animating VRCConstraintBase instead of a specific kind of constraint

(i was generating animations via a script)

are you doing anything "interesting" like that?

[low mason]

so im using the toon standard shader and trying to map specular to specific parts of the texture, but its not mapping correctly. when i use the red channel nothing shows up, if i use the alpha channel, everything shows specular with or without a map

[viral gate]

can someone please help me upload an avatar

[sinful forge]

Is there a way to disable hand gesture expressions while AFK? I would like to simply disable (weight=0) the FX layer to prevent all excess animations from playing.

I've been trying to mess with Layer Control and Tracking Control in the FX, Action, and Gesture layers. But nothing stops the gestures from animating. Will I have to go through every layer in the FX layer to add a 'disabled' state? Or maybe add a layer at the end to override all the animations to a default state?

[left gull]

gotta explain what part you're stuck on if you want help :P

[haughty fossil]

what do you mean by while afk?

[arctic ginkgo]

layer control absolutely should stop all gesture animations from playing

if you want a specific pose (like idle pose) an easy way you can do this is just have an extra layer in your gesture controller that has a toggle (both animations can be the same) and just have each with layer control that drives the below (above) layers to 0 or 1 based on AFK parameter

[arctic ginkgo]

he probably means when the AFK parameter is set to true, AKA, when you take off your VR headset, open steamVR or Oculus menu, or press ESC on desktop

[sinful forge]

Thank you for the support. You are correct that I'm referring to the AFK parameter. And it sounds like then I'm on the right track.
Do you have any tips on where to put the Layer Control?
Working off the vrc_AvatarV3ActionLayer: the "Afk Init" state sets the Action layer with to 1.0, and the "BlendOut" sets the Action layer to 0.0. I tried adding another Layer Control to set the FX layer weight to 0.0 and 1.0, respectively, but that didn't work.
I know that's pretty technical. If you have any tips, that would be great. Otherwise I'll keep hacking at it until I find the right solution.

[arctic ginkgo]

Gestures are controlled in the Gesture layer, so that would be the one you'd want to change.

[balmy barn]

2nd parameter way (bit tedious to setup every transition) gestureleft (numberhere) + afk = false << allows gestures to be used , afk = true they wont work ,

[sinful forge]

Thanks for the help! Realized I incorrectly chose Animator Layer Control. Using Playable Layer Control as I was supposed to did the trick.

Edit: I found a better way. I added a bottom layer to the FX controller with a simple AFK parameter check, then put the AFK animation there as well. In the animation I made sure to animate all the blend-shapes I want to override.

[fluid flame]

Hello! I have a few questions! Is there a way to make my model lighter so the clothes don't disappear for some people (I believe it might be a performance issue)? And is there a way to check to make sure that even with lower performance setups the model appears presentable? I am deeply ashamed that some people saw my model naked, I had no idea that could even happen as for me everything looked normal 😭
It's my first time kitbashing a model so I need help 🥺

[indigo geode]

i need to put a prefab on an avatars root. Is that the hips?

[sinful forge]

I'm aware of 4 ways clothes could disappear:

1. culling issues (at certain angles they disappear)
2. animator write-default mixing (toggle animation states get mixed up)
3. people have custom animations disabled on your avatar and you don't have cloths on by default
4. shader issues
   (there may be more, or less, or I might be wrong)
   Do any of these look probable?

[fluid flame]

My avatar does start naked! I bought the Sio model as I wanted to learn how to customize and make my own avatar so I also bought a separate outfit and hairstyle!
I don't think it would be the first issue as the peoples who could see my avatar naked could see it from different angles and even from a bit further away
I am unsure about the other issues but I know my avatar is labelled as "Very poor" performance wise

[sinful forge]

Do you have toggles for your outfit? If so, are the outfits disabled when you uploaded the avatar (the avatar was without clothes when you pressed build)? Can you check what your imposter avatar looks like?

[fluid flame]

I don't think I have toggles for my outfit (unless I have set them up without knowing while following a tutorial!). The avatar looks dressed when I build :)
And I am unsure about where to check my impostor avatar as I am new to the term! :O

[sinful forge]

Alright. Can you give more details about the conditions when it happened? Was it visible to everyone? Was it visible to you? Was it intermittent?

[fluid flame]

I am so sorry for not being very clear! It's my first time doing this 🥺

[fluid flame]

I could see my avatar and outfit with no problem, including in photos! My boyfriend joined me (we're both on pc) and could see it as well. I went to a public server without knowing and if most people could see me dressed, a few saw me naked D:

[sinful forge]

The earlier questions were related to case number 3. The Safety Settings have "Custom Animations" you can disable on other people's avatars. Anyone with that turned off, they won't see any of your toggles. You will appear as you did when you uploaded your avatar.

[sinful forge]

Thanks for the details. Can you check your avatar info in game? At the bottom of the preview there's a little button you can press to see your imposter.

[fluid flame]

It looks like this!

(Also your model is super cute!)

[sinful forge]

Thanks. That's interesting, and probably rules out number 3 (custom animations disabled). Number 2 (write-default mixing) might be the culprit. Can you check your avatar in Unity for this message

"a mixture of Write Defaults"

[round comet]

You can always add vrcfury’s fix write defaults component