avatar-help

[round comet]

It adds upon build though

[night ember]

Or just use av3 to do it then and there

[round comet]

Oo thats smart too

[night ember]

No reason to use fury for that

[sinful forge]

If you see that message, that may cause strange animation state issues. So in some edge cases, your animations might get weird for you or other people. VRCFury can do some checking for that. Avatars 3.0 Manager can do it directly https://github.com/VRLabs/Avatars-3.0-Manager

[fluid flame]

That sounds familiar! I am booting up unity!

[round comet]

better than stuff that adds upon build. Imma start doing that

Bless you, Diven

[fluid flame]

I am discovering so many things ahaha

[night ember]

Outside of using prefabs or making your own prefab you should generally avoid using fury

[round comet]

I usually use it for blendshape optimizer and anchor override fix

[fluid flame]

I believe I am using a lot of prefabs :O
But I'll keep that in mind if I learn to do it another way!

[night ember]

it tries to be the "I can do everything" tool but ends up just doing it worse

[round comet]

Having an issue rn because of it

And I’m like “ough”

[sinful forge]

The general recommendation is to check this page in Avatars 3.0 Manager, and see how many boxes are checked. If more are checked, then push the "Set WD On". If more are unchecked, push "Set WD Off"

[fluid flame]

Those are my messages!

[fluid flame]

I don't think I have Avatars 3.0 Manager :O

[sinful forge]

Try out Avatars 3.0 Manager. Click "Add to VRChat Creator Companion" on its website https://github.com/VRLabs/Avatars-3.0-Manager

[fluid flame]

Yisss

Okay I'm re-opening with it installed in my VRCCC

[sinful forge]

In VCC add it to your project

[fluid flame]

This is the message Avatar manager is giving me now^^

[sinful forge]

Excellent. Scroll through them. Are most unchecked?

[fluid flame]

Everything is unchecked until the "FX" section where everything is checked!

[sinful forge]

Great. If most are unchecked, press Set Write Defaults Off. That will fix your animation controllers to all be consistent.

[fluid flame]

Okay!

Nothing seems to have changed :O

[sinful forge]

You won't notice the difference unless you look inside your FX animation controller.

[fluid flame]

Do I need to check the "Force all Write Default"?

[sinful forge]

Did it not clear all the checkboxes when you pressed 'Set Write Defaults Off' ?

[fluid flame]

No :O

They're all still checked

[sinful forge]

Ah, ok. Sorry, I haven't used it in awhile.

[fluid flame]

Could this at the top be the issue?

[fluid flame]

No worries! I am super duper grateful that you are trying to help me! Playing vrchat alone because I don't want people to have to see me naked is a bit lonely ahah

[sinful forge]

I can't test it myself, but ultimately you want all the checkboxes cleared. There may be youtube vids on how to do it correctly.

https://youtu.be/bbdQRs8He44?si=u0KLKXLWyhO99_Wz&t=147

[fluid flame]

I could try looking for it! And if you want I could also screen share in a voice chat so you can see my screen (we don't have to have mics on if we don't want!)

[fluid flame]

Wow you were much faster than me ahaha

Thank you so much 🥺

[sinful forge]

Sorry, that video might not actually shows how to do it...

[sinful forge]

Gosh, I've seen so many tutorials on how to fix write defaults with Avatars 3.0 Manager, but can't find any now that I need one

[fluid flame]

Hmmmmm I am unsure :O
I tried understanding but I had many differences with what they were doing^^'
Would it be because I don't have anything in my Animator Controller?

[fluid flame]

I feel like that's always how it goes ahah
You find something interesting but it is not your current issue and when you actually need it again you just can't find it X3

[sinful forge]

That looks fine. Never add a controller there, it can cause issues 😅

[fluid flame]

Okay!^^

Is it normal that nothing is checked outside of FX?

[night ember]

what

[sinful forge]

Yeah, unfortunately it's really easy for Write Defaults to get inconsistent.

[fluid flame]

XD

[fluid flame]

Like this :O

[night ember]

gonna have to bare with my half asleep brain rn so Idk what you are asking about specifically

[sinful forge]

Did you add all those toggles yourself? That's impressive.

[fluid flame]

Well the original issue is that my model appeared naked to some players^^'

[night ember]

is your avatar naked by default or no

[fluid flame]

I actually didn't, it's my first time doing all of this! I though buying a premade model would be an easier start to learn ahah

[balmy barn]

glitching out peoples bounding boxes pretty easy, if its all one mesh way harder

[fluid flame]

It is in Unity yes but I export it with the clothes and in VRCC I cannot see it naked, even when looking at the impostor avatar

[fluid flame]

I'm guessing they were all made by the avatar creator

[sinful forge]

We were looking at these possible root causes:

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
   Number 2 is my best guess at this point

I'm surprised pressing 'Set Write Defaults Off' didn't do anything. It's supposed to. I just tested it.

I think you can also just manually click each checkbox to turn them off. (haven't ever tried that before though)

[fluid flame]

Hmmm unless I've missed that it changed something? Those are my console messages now

Nope, still the same errors Xp

[sinful forge]

Oops. I didn't read your error messages carefully. "the animation clip is either missing or empty" is a separate issue than mixing Write Defaults.

[fluid flame]

Ooooh?

And no problems! Your guesses are still a 1000% better than mine ahaha

[arctic ginkgo]

Just means there's no data. You can make a "null" clip by just adding a gameobject, animating it on, then deleting the object

Really it can be anything, you just need to have garbage data in it

[sinful forge]

I'll have to defer to someone who better understand animation controllers...

[fluid flame]

Ooooh how do I do that?^^

[fluid flame]

Thank yo so much for all of your help!

[arctic ginkgo]

I kind of explained how, which part do you need further clarification on?

[fluid flame]

How do I make a null clip? And where do I put the gameobject?

I am so sorry, I am very very new to all of this 🥺

[sinful forge]

Sorry, I've gone as far as I can without examining your controllers in detail. 🙁

[arctic ginkgo]

It's not really a specific thing, you basically just need an animation clip that does something

What i typically do is add an empty gameobject to the avatar (literally can be anywhere), name it something I know I'm never going to use again ("null", keyboard smash, etc), and then animate something random (like disabling the object). Then once you're done you can just delete it

The animation doesn't practically do anything now, but it has data which does for some reason make a difference to the animation controller and can prevent bugs and unexpected behavior

[fluid flame]

I see! I am sorry to ask but how do I add a gameobject? And how can I animate it?^^

[arctic ginkgo]

To add an empty gameobject, right click on the hierarchy and go to "Create", then "Empty Gameobject". Make sure to have it parented to your avatar. Then to animate, open the animation window (Window > Animation > Animation). Select your avatar, and press the red record button. Then do what you want to animate (disabling the gameobject, or moving it, for example), and press the red button again to stop it.

[sinful forge]

Avatar root most likely means add it as a direct child under the object with your avatar descriptor

[fluid flame]

Is it normal that my avatar became really small and changed pose when I started recording and that it hasn't gone back to its original t-pose?

It gave me those errors

[hazy quest]

Can I use a gmail account to login to VRChat?

[little plume]

how can i make a quest compatible invisibility material?

i have a model that has 2 models on the same rig, and i want a toggle to swap the invisible material between meshes

[hazy quest]

I think there's Vrchat>Mobile>(IDK)>Additive. Something like that.
Try it.

[quaint hound]

hey hello can someone HASHTAG help me :P

For some reason, when importing an Avatar FBX into Unity makes my wrist bone appear higher than where it should be

oh, so it actually isnt the wrist moving, its the elbow moving...?

1st. RIGHT elbow
2nd NORMAL/Left elbow
im using a squished cube to see hight differences and you can clearly see the right elbow poking out below, while the left elbow isnt

[hazy quest]

Try enforcing T-pose in the Rig Window.

or try setting to Generic rig and then Humanoid again.

[quaint hound]

but it only happens to the right wrist

the left wrist is how its supposed to be

did that, didnt change anything

its so weird though

some transforms are different in the avatar config

and it does transfer into the game aswell

multiple reimports havent fixed it eitherr

my issue is that its ASYMMETRICAL... if it was the same on both, even if it was different from how its in blender, i could let it pass

but ugh not when its not asymmetrical

but why!!!

UGHHHH

yet its fine in blender

i really dont understand

importing it without an animation type fixes it.

how interesting

but well. i dont want htat

[little plume]

how do i get audio distortion on poiyomi to work?

[north ivy]

Hi i'm new to Unity and was working on my avatar optimized it and was going to work on adding clothing next then the scene or page in unity changed and now I cant find the model I was working on. I think its something simple I clicked and can't find it. Can someone please guide me.

[rustic barn]

no one can hear me talk

my payment also never came through on steam

[coral patrol]

I dont know why in the avatar descriptor, it say that my avatar is not humanoid. But I properly setup my bones...

[coral patrol]

IDK

[little plume]

ive followed every audiolink tutorial i can find it jsut doesnt work idk why

[rustic barn]

ill google it

[round comet]

Are you using poiyomi or liltoon

It’s pretty easy to turn on. The settings are just confusing to fiddle with imo

[little plume]

poi

im trying to make it effect a distortion on a jacket and emission on the helmet

[round comet]

Idk about distortion but the emission part is easy

[night ember]

its just enabling audiolink in poiyomi and then enabling it under the emission and setting the min and max brightness

[coral patrol]

I dont know why in the avatar descriptor, it say that my avatar is not humanoid. But I properly setup my bones...

[quaint hound]

hey sorry to bump this again but this is super weird...
this only occurs when setting the models import settings to humanoid or generic

[quaint hound]

can you show a screenshot?

[night ember]

you sure you did?

[quaint hound]

make sure to set your fbx imports rig to humanoid

incase you forgot maybe

[coral patrol]

I will check

[little plume]

does nothing

[round comet]

Are you testing it in-game?

[coral patrol]

Yes i did

[night ember]

are you actually testing in game in a world with audiolink

[quaint hound]

@coral patrol

[coral patrol]

I did

[quaint hound]

else send a screenshot of both the error and your avatars fbx

[quaint hound]

open the import messages thingy

[coral patrol]

Cant open it

[quaint hound]

interesting

[round comet]

[coral patrol]

Yea i know

[round comet]

Do any of your meshes have the same names as bones?

Like the head being named head or something like that

[coral patrol]

Yea

[round comet]

If they have the same name errors like this can occur

You do?

[coral patrol]

Yea

[round comet]

Change the name of the mesh to something else

[quaint hound]

didnt know that, thats cool to know

[round comet]

Then reimport

[coral patrol]

In data

[quaint hound]

also bunnicuda............. 🥺🥺🥺🥺 do you have a fix for my problem

[round comet]

Whats your problem? :o

[quaint hound]

pray to the unity gods with me to manifest a solution

[round comet]

Praying

[quaint hound]

my avatar's mesh gets weirdly moved when importing it into unity

i mean like

not weridly moved but like

the mesh is slightly off

[quaint hound]

here

look

the left (from avatars view) wrist is fine, but the right one is too high

[round comet]

Oh— that’s so weird

[quaint hound]

yea yea

and

wait ill record a video

[round comet]

Is this like an avi you made or some editing you did in blender then reimported?

You might need to force t-pose

[quaint hound]

none, actually came with the avatar

[round comet]

Hoh ok

[little plume]

no im using the in editor audio link tester

like the unitypackage

[quaint hound]

here

its so weirdx

like, looking at the avatar def, all the values are the same too

it literally shifts the mesh for some reason

[quaint hound]

the armature is all completely mirrored, same as the mesh

but ???? unity is doing some weirdness

[night ember]

test it in game

[quaint hound]

doesnt help either

tried

[round comet]

Your emission strength is set to zero?

[quaint hound]

enforcing tpose literally doesnt move anything 😭

[round comet]

All the bones are mapped properly too?

[quaint hound]

yea

[round comet]

Hm

[quaint hound]

and blender's bones are all properly aligned

and as you can see, in blender the arms behave properly

*wrists

???ELBOW??

i think the reason its breaking is the elbow

because i did some measuring in unity and the elbow is whats moving, the hand/wrist is correct (world space)

[round comet]

Are transforms applied upon export? :o

And scaling is consistent?

[quaint hound]

yes

[quaint hound]

also yes

[round comet]

What the flip

[quaint hound]

god, i havent even exported to the fbx's that came from the asset

i duplicated it to test with

[round comet]

That’s so odd

[quaint hound]

IT ISSS

and the rotation/position values in the avatar definition are the same thing mirrored too

its just the mesh

honestly i wouldnt mind if it did it to BOTH left and right because then itd be symetrical..

but now i have this 😭

its making me lowk CRY

[round comet]

I wonder if anyone else has any ideas

[quaint hound]

and its almost 3am

and i have to sleep because of work

like im actually crying

[round comet]

Noo its ok

[quaint hound]

i sure do hope someone does 😭

[round comet]

The project isn’t going anywhere

[quaint hound]

please ask around if you can lmao

i knowwww but i want it to be done eventually 💔

BUT ALSO??? there isnt anything inherently wrong with it

im so confusde

right, missing a bone, having it be messed up in blender, id understand

but it isnt any of that so im super confused

also, looked at other public avatars, the problem persists there too

[round comet]

I wonder if its the base itself?

[quaint hound]

it probably is

but like i said, the blender file is clean

the weights are the same

so im like at an complete lack of ideas

@round comet mind you this is a an avatar i havent touched

found this off avatar search

and it has the same issues

it is the same base though

god, its the same paid avatar

im SO confused

[obtuse hare]

hellooo can someone help me with the downloading with everything i need for uploading avis? i got a new compuyter and lost everything

[coral patrol]

Thanks this was the solution

[quaint hound]

UGHH

LIFE hates me

[round comet]

Yippie. I’ve had the issue myself before

[round comet]

https://vcc.docs.vrchat.com

This will have all the info you need

[broken vector]

so everytime i upload for quest it always says it uploads but when i check on the website it says windows security checks failed, idk what i should do bc this has been happening to me for months now & im very confused. it happened with the updates of the sdk & everything like that. could anyone help?

[little plume]

audio link is supposed to change it?

[warped turtle]

I hate this error

What ever

[round comet]

you still need a bit of emmission strength I think

[warped turtle]

wha

[round comet]

you could set it super low if you want

[warped turtle]

Yeah

[round comet]

what

[warped turtle]

Wait is VRChat 13 + because there is a 13 year old in my lobby😭

[round comet]

it is 13+, yes

[warped turtle]

Bro why

[round comet]

I didnt make the game

idk

random for the avatar help channel

[warped turtle]

Why not 15+ I hate lil kids

[round comet]

ok

[warped turtle]

there always in the way

Ew

it would be ok if there 15 or somthing

[round comet]

thats not even a difference if you dont like kids lol

[stuck ridge]

Why not 21+

[round comet]

^

[warped turtle]

See it has to be 18+

at least

[stuck ridge]

Agreed!

[round comet]

I'm just confused why you specified 15 specifically if you wanted an 18+ game

[warped turtle]

because every 15-year-old ik is chill

[round comet]

didnt you just say you dont like kids tho

[warped turtle]

damn

yes i did

but u know im right about 18+ thing

[round comet]

never said you were wrong haha

[warped turtle]

but am i wrong tho

[round comet]

but if you have a preference, you can always age verify or join group instances. With any free game there's a younger playerbase, as irritating as that can be

[warped turtle]

ohh damn witch groups like sunset ?

[round comet]

otherwise complaining isnt gonna do much. I don't think many people like it either so there's a similar consensus

[warped turtle]

alr mb

[round comet]

there's age verified groups that host instances

no problem. I'm just saying its random to talk about in the avatar channel 😭

[warped turtle]

ik

[round comet]

probably better for #vrchat-general-1 or #vrchat-general-2

[warped turtle]

yeah mb

[round comet]

all good, dude

also for your error (the one you sent a photo of) you can probably ask for help in #1138891887374237706 if it continues

[warped turtle]

wait do u live stream?

[round comet]

I don't, no

[warped turtle]

i seen ur name before

[stuck ridge]

https://discord.com/channels/189511567539306508/189511567539306508

[gloomy breach]

I need help with this

I can't seem to get the front visor transparent enough to show the skull

[trim trellis]

Can someone help me with uploading avatars? I swear everytime I purchase a avatar that is quest compatible I always have issues going over the 10mb limit? and on this avatar I have I cannot get below 10mb. I can't get it lower than the 10.4MB. It already uses blendshape optimization and I have downscaled all textures to 256 and below? Using thry's it seems all the assets are taking up most of the space but I am not that experienced and have no idea of how to go about making the assets smaller? I can't get it below 10.4 mb

[little plume]

Usually there is a quest version and pc version in the files

Quest having mobile shaders, lower quality textures, and less toggles

[trim trellis]

I'm using the quest version of the avatar and I am on android build, on the last 2 avatars I have bought and one from awhile ago have given me this issue

[round comet]

Have you contacted the creator?

[little plume]

how do i make it so the backside of a mesh doesnt vanish?

[night ember]

give it an actual backside

[little plume]

?

like ik its bc the normals are facing one way

[night ember]

thats the front face

[little plume]

but is there not an option to disable culling

[night ember]

then give it a backface

[little plume]

nuh uh

[night ember]

ok then have it be invisible

[little plume]

thats be complicated

not my model

[night ember]

no?

literally just open blender
select jacket
shift d
alt n flip

takes like 2 seconds

[little plume]

i could duplicate it yeah

ill do that later thx

i was thinking about manually adding mesh or solidify

[fallow dome]

Does anyone know what this means and how I can fix it so I can upload my avatar?

[night ember]

that tells you nothing

you need to actually go look at the console

[fallow dome]

This is what I see when I look at the console

[night ember]

it tells you right there that your rig is wrong

[fallow dome]

Do you know how I can fix that?

Sorry im pretty new to this whole thing

[night ember]

go to the fbx in assets and configure the rig

[fallow dome]

Yeah but in what way? I don't know how to do what its saying

Sorry man

[night ember]

hip > spine > chest > Shoulder and neck

[chilly solar]

i want to copy and avatar project and make a new avi out of it, how would i do that. when i do it its saving over the avi it was in the vrchat sdk thing. idk how to make it like,,, not do that? if that makes sense

i wanna have 2 avis and have it be the same thing basically and just swap textures

[night ember]

remove the id in the pipeline manager

[junior void]

duplicate the avatar in your scene and delete the avatar id. make your changes and upload

[chilly solar]

does it give it a new id when i upload? i need it to make another project again for the quest version

[junior void]

it generates one at first upload

[chilly solar]

okay thank you i think that helps im kinda confused but i think i got it

[restive wave]

Hello! I am currently working on a Christmas lights asset. It has a switch you can turn the lights on and off with contacts.

When it is on and I join another world it resets it. I would like it to be saved and not reset (I would like it to stay on when I join another world). I was wondering if this is possible?

I have saved check marked in the parameters and I have looked into parameters drivers. Maybe parameter drivers is the solution but I’m not too knowledgeable about it and I haven’t gotten it to work as intended. I have read the VRCHAT website about the drivers and I still don’t understand how to apply it. Are there any other resources I could look into to try and figure it out?

[rotund berry]

I have a question, i have worked with this person to get a certain avatar made and i wanted to get a second opinion on if this is the right pricing for this kind of avatar. Its a Chibi Model Mamehinata Alastor that comes with all of his powers and can even change suits and hair color based on desire. How much does a huge project like this usually cost so i can compare.

[rotund berry]

And for it to be quest compatible

[ornate stump]

Lot of those feature likely not going to be quest compatible.

[tardy locust]

Is there any easy way to switch the variant parent on a prefab in unity? Or, basically, if I have a prefab and want to make a duplicate of it that's pointing at a different base.

[night ember]

Thats not how prefabs work

[tardy locust]

Then how do I make any sort of duplicate that keeps all of the overrides, settings, etc, intact?

Because it seems really stupid if the only easy solution is to duplicate the entire project

[night ember]

You can make a separate prefab by just dragging it into assets again

You just cant take a prefab and move it to a different fbx/base

[tardy locust]

That just deletes everything on the prefab that's been customized though

[night ember]

No?

Whatever you drag from scene into assets makes a prefab or varient

[tardy locust]

Okay, you're telling me to... Duplicate the .prefab file, basically, right?

Which still has the same issue of using the same .fbx as its parent.

[night ember]

I told you that you cant do that

You cant just swap fbxs

[tardy locust]

There's absolutely something better than manually maintaining multiple 5gb projects with half a dozen differences

[night ember]

Why are you even using different fbx files

Why not just have them be separate avatars in scene

[tardy locust]

Because we have limits to abide by for performance ranking, so I'm just separating them into variants

[night ember]

Then just have them be separate in scene

[tardy locust]

That's what I'm trying to do, but I'd also like to have everything still properly connected so that refactoring is easy

No one likes playing the magic string game

[night ember]

Using a prefab to begin with was your first mistake

[tardy locust]

I didn't make that

[hazy quest]

The problem is in the Unity Viewport Scene?
Or in the Rig Window?

[arctic ginkgo]

I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to do, but you can just duplicate a prefab in the scene and make changes to it there. If you want to make this a prefab, just drag it into your assets.

If you're looking to change the mesh of an avatar, it will only work if the armature is IDENTICAL. Otherwise the skinned mesh renderer will break. So this basically only works if you're just using the same model with changes to the mesh and mesh only (like lower polycount, blendshapes removed, etc). The better way to go about this is to drag the new FBX file in, copy the scale of the original avatar, and then use Pumkin's Avatar Tools to copy components.

https://github.com/rurre/PumkinsAvatarTools

[young hawk]

Hey i want someone who can help me link something to my arm movement. Like making multiple arms move in sync with each other or what i want, a mechanical arm to move with my arm when i want it to

if you can get in call that would be preferable

[summer hearth]

Is there a quest material thats a bit, transparent or fades?

[round comet]

Depends on what you’re trying to achieve

What are you needing it for

[summer hearth]

Transparent glasses

[round comet]

You could probably try mobile particle shaders but that isn’t always the most practical

If you don’t mind the lack of transparency you can mess about with reflectance using toon standard too

[balmy barn]

vrchat rotation constraints on the object you want to follow your actual hand bones , test in unity and you'll quickly figure it out

[halcyon geode]

SDK related issue when attempting to upload my avatar. Currently running Unity 2022.3.22f1 and using SDK version 3.9.1-beta.2. A similar issue happened in the past where I needed to downgrade to 3.8 of the SDK to be able to upload, but that version is going to soon be deprecated so I'm not sure how to solve this situation.

[timber wharf]

and youre not on 3.10.0 why?

[mellow scaffold]

im wondering if someone could upload an avatar for me that has experience in realistic-esc avatars? i only ever worked with anime models so i dont know the more complex stuff to unity, im unable to pay since i spent all my money on the avatar itself, im willing to give the actual file and my account info later since its not done yet💔

[junior void]

you do know its against tos to upload to an acc not belonging to you?

[halcyon geode]

I was not aware it was out already. Updated and it works now

[rich monolith]

Anyone know of a destructive clothing tool (want it for an avi in a world)?

[grizzled sand]

Hey does anyone know why my avi won't upload

[ornate stump]

#avatar-help message The link I sent you was a direct link to another message that you have to read.

[balmy barn]

tip ; dont buy a avatar if you dont have a pc , having others upload for you is one way to get both that av stolen and your account - bought avatars tend to come with their own tos sharing them usually a big no-no

[mellow scaffold]

but what about avatar commissioners that its in their tos that they need the stuff uploaded for them?

[grizzled sand]

K thank you lol I see

[sharp ocean]

Doesn't really change it's against tos.
You shouldn't ask for it to begin with

[junior void]

uploading as artist to their own account and letting the buyer clone it from them is not the same as the artist uploading to the account of the buyer. people who do commissions and upload to the customers accounts break tos

[grizzled sand]

Wait yall read the tos I didn't know people read that lol

[ornate stump]

That also breaks ToS. The common misconception is saying you will get banned instantly if you shared account to other which isn't the case. Rather, it's when either you or commissioner got into any other problem, both you and your commissioner will be held liable for the action.

[grizzled sand]

Thank you so much it was the pic that was invalid lol

[mellow scaffold]

oh i see, my fault

im just having a lot of problems

i dont know how to work an fbx animator, and the hair isnt like the usual mesh so its hard to figure out how to put it in the vrchat>mobile stuff since it doesnt look right if i do it normally

and i cant find any help or sources

[junior void]

you could ask for help with each problem one at a time here instead

[dire dagger]

Why does cats do this..

[left gull]

idk about that exact error but you're not even meant to ever touch that button unless you're porting something like a MMD or a .VRM to a vrchat model

it loves to break stuff on models for no reason

[spice ridge]

hello, i am wanting to get into making avatars but i have no idea how to use blender and unity. youtube is not helping

[balmy barn]

is this cats 5.0.1.5 , that looks old

https://github.com/teamneoneko/Cats-Blender-Plugin/releases

[dire dagger]

This is indeed cats 5.0.0

[balmy barn]

mine comes with a giant warning, i tend to stick to lts so im mostly on 4.5

[night ember]

going into it with the expectation to just make an avatar from scratch with having no blender skills was your first problem
fuck around and learn how to use blender first before trying to model a whole avatar

[spice ridge]

alright

[balmy barn]

here is the cats for blender 5 , it also dont have a 'supporters' tab, you got a ancient cats

2.9x something so old

[deft cloak]

Hello everyone, I'm having a fatal error that I don't know how to fix or even what the cause of it really is. Could someone help? Here is the error it is throwing up if that helps.

[celest scaffold]

New empty avatar project with latest updates and sdk and already getting errors.

[spare gust]

is there a way to make a toggle between diffrent hand gestures?

[balmy barn]

adding a second parameter to toggle alternative is one way

( when using any state disable 'can transition to self' on every one of them 🐧 )

[mellow scaffold]

does anyone know how to correctly import a fbx animation file without the bones selected getting super large and actually make the ears and tail move correctly?

[junior void]

Fbx animation file?

[quaint hound]

im crying

it just deleted itself

thx UNITY

[quaint hound]

both

[storm marten]

Does anyone know what this means? I've been working on trying to upload an avi for two days now but I'm not very savvy with the creator companion

[short ferry]

uhm I have never seen this bug before

Feet in play mode

not in play mode

any help please?

[timber wharf]

bike pose, normal for lacking main controller. make sure youre using and activated gesture manager or av3emu

[short ferry]

i am, it's just the feet

only the feet do that

[timber wharf]

then probly feet/toes bones is not placed correctly, did you blender it?

[short ferry]

yes I made it in blender

[timber wharf]

show sideview with armature visible

[short ferry]

bones in blender

[timber wharf]

well, looks fine as far as i see, im out🤷‍♂️

[short ferry]

new unity/sdk bug??

[night ember]

thats blender
what about in unity's rig menu

[short ferry]

does the same thing

could the roll of the bones be fucked?

[sinful widget]

anyone know how to make a gif material??? i have a spritesheet thats animated

[short ferry]

fixed it, I went into the armature set up and just twisted them up lol

[night ember]

same what

[short ferry]

in unity's rig menu it twisted them down as well, but I fixed it

[night ember]

whatever the rig menu shows thats whats going to happen when you animate it

[short ferry]

gotcha

[night ember]

its why tpose is a requirement albeit not a hard limit

[short ferry]

understandable

[vagrant grail]

does anyone know how i get this light around the eyes on my avatar?

[gloomy breach]

I bought a cloak for an avatar, but the cloak doesn't come with any armature. Anyone willing to help me on this plz?

[nova saffron]

If anyone’s worked with avatars that do a toggle for specific parts to appear/vanish (Ex. Human head to helmet) what would I have to do with blender and Unity for something like that?

[mental pawn]

Do You mean like a little glowing halo?

Its totally possible, all You need Is a texture image with a black background, enable emission 0 on poiyomi, add the image there and customize how much You want it to glow and thats it

[mellow scaffold]

yea, an fbx file that is animated, or an animation of a specific spot on the avatar

[hard hatch]

anyone know why unity refuses to let me record animation clips?

i have the animation selected and set up, however it's just greyed out no matter what I do

literally can't do anything

idk much about how this stuff works but I know that I should be able to at least click to record

[crimson lodge]

gang, u gotta put the controller in the animator in ur avi and click on any part of ur avi in the hiearchy, then go to Animation and from the top left of the animation panel, click on the drop down and select an animation to edit or make a new one

@hard hatch

Now for issue, if anyone here is reading

why the hell r my fingers doing this :c

[hard hatch]

i dont really understand lol

[crimson lodge]

We can call and I can show u rq

I'm terrible at explaining bruh

always been

its like

ik how to do it

but I try n explain it and it confuses ppl TvT

@hard hatch

[crimson lodge]

anyway

[hard hatch]

im down lol

[crimson lodge]

yerp

uh

idk if the calls here allow u to stream

lemme see rq big dawg

nvm

there's just no vc channels

uh

ill just message u rq then

[hard hatch]

okay lmao

[vagrant grail]

I mean the white glowy bits next to the glasses

[mental pawn]

Hmm You could use flat meshes and just slap a transparent texture on them

[vagrant grail]

Okay, thank you. I feel like I’ve also seen an asset of it floating around a few years ago, but I really can’t remember and haven’t been able to find it by searching for it

[sick star]

has particle optimization ever been a thing or is vrc just always dramatic over particles?

[hazy quest]

Well, can you share your file?

[ember lynx]

I need help uploading my avatar to vrc ,dm me plz

[ornate stump]

That actually is a very basic particle system.

[quaint hound]

no. paid avatar

[hazy quest]

Then, There should be a scene or a prefab for it with everything correctly setup.
Or else this is the seller's mistake 🤔

[fathom atlas]

The creator may have a discord you could join if you need help from them JUST in case there is an issue at all

[supple fiber]

what does this mean

please help my back aches and i need to get this done

[still hinge]

anyone having issues uploading avatars? or is it just me, my unity keeps getting stuck on building avatar

[spark walrus]

I think vr chat uploading avatars is down I think I'm not smart because I had to ask a friend to re-upload my avatar for me since my pc fried TwT

[supple fiber]

please no i want this uploaded tonight so i can see if its ok

[spark walrus]

I would say wait 20 or 30 minutes than try again to upload if its not that won't work something is bugged on the avatar thing

[supple fiber]

im so tired ill upload tommorrow

maybe its because it needs to be updated?

[ornate stump]

It's a sideeffect of other errors. You have to check for error that came before it.

[supple fiber]

Yeah that was it

its on vrc now

[round zenith]

Has anyone here made a Pokemon Masters EX avatar?

I need help making the avatar have blinking/eye animations.

[junior void]

usually, blinking is done through blendshapes.

[round zenith]

How do I make a blendshape?

[junior void]

they are made in blender. youtube has plenty of tutorials on that

[verbal latch]

the blendshapes are messing up

[junior void]

looks like a rig issue, not blendshapes

[verbal latch]

no no it's not the rig ik it

i've done similar poses and the armatures were just right on other avatars but they still messed up

[ornate stump]

Did you use blendshape to scale the body? That's the worst way to do it.

[verbal latch]

ohhhhh maybe

[ornate stump]

Emphasizing on "the worst".

[spark walrus]

does this have anything to do with the recent issue's the servers had?

[late sentinel]

Say I have 2extra arms and I want to control them and not the first par of arms is there a way to make a switch/toggle for that? and can it be done to things like wings/props with bones on them?

[somber sequoia]

sure, you can enable/disable rotation constraints, just set their weight value to 0 or 1.

[still shuttle]

Im tryna make an avatar keep her hand open when a cookie tray is enabled, I remember doing something similar with a bucket for a halloween avatar but the hand was closed. I can recall using that "Animator tracking control" Component but I need a refresher on how to properly use it so it works as intended. Right now this is how I have it set up, did i do it properly?

The animation itself only toggles on the cookie tray, I cant remember if Im supposed to animate the finger position or not lol

[somber sequoia]

tracking = VRChat runs that part.
animation = you can animate that part.
basically: enter -> wait for condition -> set part to "animation" -> animate the part -> set part to "tracking" -> exit

[pearl rampart]

someone know how to convert .vmd to .anim?

[somber sequoia]

you can possibly simplify some of that, but it's the basic workflow

[still shuttle]

im so sorry but this is really confusing

[somber sequoia]

Happy to explain further - which part?

I do assume you know how to make animations and work with the animation controller and such. if not, there are lots of tutorials on that

[still shuttle]

I guess im just not understanding like how you explained this last part

[somber sequoia]

I need to know what about that you need help with

[still shuttle]

I've been workin with unity for at least 3 years so I def know the basics of animations and controllers n stuff, I just very rarely ever use the animator tracking component.

[somber sequoia]

cool

[still shuttle]

It just doesn't really make sense?
Could you explain in greater detail?

[somber sequoia]

Specifically which part

[somber sequoia]

that line describes the workflow in one layer in the animation controller

each of those is an animation state

[still shuttle]

HUH
The last time I did it I only used like 2 animations that seems like a bit much

[somber sequoia]

you only need two animations

also enter and exit are states already in each layer

And you could make your "wait for condition" state actually just be the off state - I did say it could be simplified, this is just the basic workflow of how to use animator tracking control

[inland seal]

My friend is having this error when uploading an avatar, I never saw this one before myself

[somber sequoia]

SDK bug, some say you can clear your avatar blueprint ID (thus making it a new avatar) and it works

[junior void]

some also say updating sdk works

[dusk elk]

why are my ears like ts😭

[round comet]

like what?

[dusk elk]

So like

1 sec

Its suppost to look like this

But in game they are kinda spread

[junior void]

perhaps colission

[dusk elk]

so what should I do

[junior void]

go to play mode in unity using gesture manager

then, you can see the gizmos of physbones and colliders while playing is simulated

[dusk elk]

I mean they seem fine

[junior void]

another option is its just a gesture controlled position or a radial menu option

[dusk elk]

oke ill try

thanks

[hollow adder]

This is my first time uploading a avatar and my friend is saying to change the texture capacity but I’m not too sure on how to do it

To downsize it

[junior void]

resolution, not capacity

[hollow adder]

How can I change it?

[junior void]

if you click the texture images in your project, you will find the inspector giving you import options

at the bottom of the inspector are resolution and override settings

[fallen hedge]

Yo can someone help me make a avatar

[hollow adder]

Awesome thank you

[somber sequoia]

Again, ask detailed questions - what exactly do you need help with?

[fallen hedge]

Never made a avatar before so I'm just curious about the basics like toggle and stuff

[somber sequoia]

toggle angles?

[fallen hedge]

No I meant just like normal toggles

It auto corrected

[somber sequoia]

oh ok. There are lots of tutorials, have you watched any?

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

[fallen hedge]

I ll watch this one

[silver sleet]

So I made this shader in blender and I wanna use the textures baked from all the nodes into unity but I don’t know how to get the same results

I remember a furality theme with a bunch of crystals and I want to know how they managed that effect

[torn galleon]

I have returned with the same avatar!
because I cannot for the life of me figure out how to change physics bones properties. :/

this is why I need to edit these settings by the way

-# my tail just wont behave

[dense moth]

Does anyone know why this would break the way it does? I used the gesture emulator to see what it would look like and then it broke like this for some reason.

[mellow scaffold]

idk if im saying this right, but is this understandable?

[wide bay]

does anybody know the updated way to add gogoloco onto an avatar? all of the tutorials that pop up when i search it up are outdated and dont work anymore ☹️

[silver sleet]

vrc fury its just a drag and drop now

the unity package itself has instructions in it as a image in the files

[wide bay]

oohh

[silver sleet]

but just drag the prefab under your avis main object

most likely the same layer as your armature

[wide bay]

so drag it under the armature?

[silver sleet]

it has to be the same layer as the armature but not under it

put it under the object that has your VRC avi compoents on it

[wide bay]

ooh like the head and stuff?

[somber sequoia]

just put it onto your avatar's root object.

(we of course don't know where your "head and stuff" are)

[wide bay]

SORRY i work better with videos

i think i got it though

[cedar garnet]

how do i fix this-

[foggy tiger]

The struggle of using 2d image editing programs in a world of Substance Painter users

If I got substance painter could I add this image as the texture and reexport it to not auto fill the gaps

Or does it always do this

[somber sequoia]

You want the gaps filled though

[foggy tiger]

You only need a tiny bit of overhang for downscaling the texture

Not the whole shebang

[somber sequoia]

ok well sure, you could probably do that in substance, import it as a fill layer then re-export without the fill on

[foggy tiger]

Damn, it's all or nothing?

Fair enough

[somber sequoia]

I can't remember if you can control how much "overhang" there is but I suspect it's an option, I've just never looked

I've never actually needed to

[foggy tiger]

Yeah makes sense

I just can't make textures in 3d

It confuses me

Also I don't wanna buy substance painter either

[somber sequoia]

yeah that's a problem. You could try ArmorPaint - it's a bit unstable still but I've had good enough luck with the current version that this would probably be doable

not sure what else to use, maybe blender, but I'm not sure if that'll compromise quality

[foggy tiger]

I'm very excited to work on the base wicker texture but the other texture for it I honestly might just leave.

Base is gonna be so easy to recolour

[foggy tiger]

I'll find a way around it

Thx for the suggestions

[foggy tiger]

Yeah I'll just leave the other texture for unedited and just have it be my 2ndary texture.

[rose valve]

Okay i have like an actual question and i dont know where else i could ask this, does anyone here know how to make like avatars? Uhm, i don't want to like commission because I'm kinda low on money right now but what do you use?? I'm a quest user and stuff i just wanna know

[somber sequoia]

lots of us do. are you starting from scratch or have a model already?

[rose valve]

from scratch unfortunately, i apologize I'd jus like to have something of my own haha

what could i use to uhh

Start one?

[somber sequoia]

Blender for 3D modeling and rigging and sometimes texture painting

[rose valve]

okay!

I'll get there and ill ge back to here in a bit to see what i can do

[somber sequoia]

you need Unity to turn a rigged 3D model into a VRChat avatar, when you get there, read this: https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars

[pearl rampart]

i just convert my .vmd into a .anim but idk why i cant use this anim on my avi

can someone help me?

[foggy tiger]

ArmorPaint seems to be paid now

And I don't think that fill thing is a thing on blender

I think that just exports the png with no export options

It automatically does the overhang when painting on the model im pretty sure

[somber sequoia]

it's paid for a built version but you can get source and build it for free

[foggy tiger]

😔

They don't even have a tutorial to follow for building the source

[somber sequoia]

I followed one successfully

[foggy tiger]

Yeah but I mean like there's not one on the github which is crazy

I'll probably try to figure it out in a little bit

[somber sequoia]

it's literally on the readme:
https://github.com/armory3d/armortools/tree/main/paint

[foggy tiger]

That's not the same page I found for the source wtf

😭

https://github.com/armory3d/armortools?tab=readme-ov-file

[somber sequoia]

right - you want paint, not the base library

the link for armorpaint is on that page you linked

[foggy tiger]

I got that link from the website

[somber sequoia]

right and on that link is the link to the actual painting program, that's the base repo with all of the tools

[foggy tiger]

Gotcha

I'll clone is and see what happens

An extra 8gb to the visual studio

[somber sequoia]

wow that's huge

[foggy tiger]

Yeah and it didnt' even work

Lol

I give up lmao

It needed the ClangCL build tools

Installed it

And it says it still needs it

[somber sequoia]

I did this in Linux, no idea bout Windows

[foggy tiger]

Yeah it's jsut visual studio being stupid probably

Then again trying to compile literally anything from a repo has never worked for me ever so honestly idk

No matter how many dependencies I install or anything

Something about building shit always breaks on any pc I've ever owned

It genuinely makes no sense

I have everything it says I need and it just doesn't work.

[lofty condor]

how the tuna do i set up pcss for a booth ava can someone help me?

[night ember]

I forgor what pcss is

[lofty condor]

its the shading light thing

[night ember]

it comes with installation instructions

[lofty condor]

ive done evrything it says it wont show on the ava

[night ember]

then you likely havent done everything

booth avatars are no different from avatars from other places
booth is just where it was sold

[chilly solar]

i dont understand this, im trying to make a fallback and upload it for andriod rn. what do i do? the console doesnt even say anything :c

[somber kiln]

🤔 Anything causing the finger here to bend so much? This is both with a custom fist animation and the default VRC SDK

It seems to only be the Fist..

the other fingers bend into the hand

[proud basin]

is there a way for me to get only the ears off of this model and make it into a toggle for the normal novabeast?

also these tails

ykw alternatively is there a way for me to just get normal novabeast arms onto the novapup?

and get the normal ears as a toggle too

the only problem i really have is the texture i want not working with this model

[little plume]

anyone know how to make new face shape keys using already existing ones?

basically instead of sculpting them from scratch i want to use these to make the face poses

[foggy tiger]

How do I get the hoodie and the body to be the same object when joining

[little plume]

i use cats for this

the unofficial one

[foggy tiger]

God I hate blender

[foggy tiger]

Is it updated to blender 5 yet?

[nova crystal]

first time making a vrchat avi by turning an old blockbench model into a vrchat avatar via blender.

pretty big in size but not in disk space

textures work.
rigging is fine.

it works fine
but for some reason
its stuck halfway in the floor?

[little plume]

i wouldnt use blender 5 yet its not stable

how do i make animations in unity for shapekeys to use on visemes?

[foggy tiger]

Steam autoupdate

[little plume]

rollback with betas

to like 4.5

thats what i use for cats and other vrchat stuff

i recommend not using the steam version

[blazing marlin]

So this might sound crazy to most, but there was an avatar I used to have where, unless you were in the avatar as well, it sounded like you were talking just straight gibberish. I wish to make an avatar just like that. How would I go about that?

[night ember]

your voice is attached to the head bone

[silver sleet]

i think that was a resonite avali thing

[blazing marlin]

It was on a little cube guy with a propeller hat. unless you are talking about the system

[silver sleet]

ive only seen that on resonite :P could be wrong

[silver sleet]

poiyomi toon is goated

[little plume]

How can I make animations to use for visemes in unity?

Ive not really messed with face animations on avatars yet

[hidden epoch]

Can someone please help- im trying to convert the avi but i keep getting this

[foggy tiger]

Cba to update when I don't have it on steam. Also jsut a pain in the ass to reinstall every couple months from OS reisntalls. Just pressing 1 button is better.

Anyways

How does substance painter work

[foggy tiger]

How would I get the wickerbeast into it to re-export this texture that was causing me issues before

[odd inlet]

is it normal to be stuck on this for like.. more than 20 minutes? and is there a solution?

[foggy tiger]

Nevermind, I got the wickerbeast in, but how do I get the texture in?

[little plume]

why am i getting this error when every single material is locked?

not a single material is unlocked

[foggy tiger]

Why is it so shiny

That's not at all what the textures look like :(

Oh the lighting thing

I got it fixed

[proud basin]

is there any blendshape for tailsize in novabeasts? i want to make a swappable tail but i cant find one

figured that out, how do i make the shark tail behave like the normal tail though?

figured it out

[full vigil]

I uploaded this avatar a few days ago and went to update it but everytime I open the control panel it's stuck on this

[chilly solar]

pls help :c

[pearl rampart]

by any chance someone know how to fix the face of my avi when i do a dance?

[vague spade]

can anyone help me upload an avatar?

[foggy tiger]

how do I disable this popup

[winged bobcat]

can anyone help me figure out why my outfit components are disappearing when i try to swap the mesh to an edited one?

OH

the new fbx doesnt have an armature???

why isnt it exporting with an armature??

[wraith geyser]

hi, by default my eyes are a bit "inside" (pic 1) but as soon as i go to play mode it looks like they move forward and glitch through eyelid (pic 2). Any ideas of what is going on?

[sand verge]

Is there any way to keep unclamped blendshapes in VRChat/Gesture Manager?

I'm looking to keep it at 170

[dry ibex]

I was on vrc wearing the avi i made and i noticed the preview of my avi showed the mesh was flickering/flashing white, i asked my friends if they see that too and they said yes, so i checked blender and saw the edge(?) lines on the mesh that was flashing was darker than every other line. I tried clicking L to see if there was any duplicate mesh that was messing everything up but nothing seperated. does anyone know how i could fix this or what could be causing this?

[wraith geyser]

i'm having the same issue, did u manage to fix it? do you remember how? pretty please

[lusty gust]

can someone help me im having trouble with textures when i put standard lite it turns black idk why if someone could help i would appreciate it

[timber wharf]

you have vertex colors

#avatar-help message

[lusty gust]

thx

[timber wharf]

@dry ibex L wont help it thyere connected, try just H(ide)

[dry ibex]

This only hides the mesh tho does that mean i wont be able to fix the flashing problem

[timber wharf]

i mean select vertex and hide it

to see if theres indeed a duplicate

[dry ibex]

Oh yea there is

[timber wharf]

you can try merge by distance if you dont care much for UVs

[dry ibex]

Okay

Thank you

[ornate stump]

If you tried everything. there wouldn't be anything left to do.

[split carbon]

does anyone know how to fix this? D:

[ornate stump]

Because the blendshapes don't exist in the source mesh.

[split carbon]

how do i fix it if theres no such thing as it </3

[ornate stump]

Just don't use it.

[blazing marlin]

if I'm making a camera hud, what would the best aspect ration for it? i want to do it with like a plane in front of the camera and then put a transparent texture on it

[ornate stump]

What is camera hub?

[blazing marlin]

Hud

sorry

[ornate stump]

There is no best aspect ratio since screen ratio is dynamic.

[blazing marlin]

rahh

okay

[dawn oak]

how do i fix this compiler error? its a new project with only a humanoid model dragged into it so i dont get how this couldve happened

[pearl rampart]

by any chance someone know how to fix the face of my avi when i do a dance?

[slow panther]

any idea why the parent constraint works while im playing the animation, but as soon as i go in play mode it just ignores all logic

what its supposed to do

[still shuttle]

What are you using to make ur animation rainbow like that

[slow panther]

i fixed it it ended up bc i accidently added scale rotation and position into the animation xD

idk its the default for me

ive always noticed it was rainbow

[still shuttle]

It's definitely not default unity settings

[slow panther]

it is

The "rainbow colors" you are seeing are the normal, default behavior of the Unity Animation window when in Dope Sheet or Curves mode. Each color is assigned by the editor to visually distinguish between the different properties you are animating.
What the Colors Mean
Color-Coded Properties: Every animatable property listed on the left side of the window (like STE: Animator Chest Front-Back, STE: Animator Left Arm Down-Up, etc.) is assigned a unique color.
Visual Tracking: The corresponding horizontal track of keyframes (the small diamonds) on the right will use that same color, allowing you to easily see which track belongs to which property at a glance.
This coloring helps you manage complex animations, especially when viewing multiple curves overlaid in the Graph/Curves mode. It is not an error or an issue, but a core feature of the Unity Editor's UI

[wraith geyser]

hi, i still didnt find any answer so im asking again, help pls
by default my eyes are a bit "inside" (pic 1) but as soon as i go to play mode it looks like they move forward and glitch through eyelid (pic 2). Any ideas of what is going on?

or a quick fix to bypass ? maybe a new blendshape to move em back?

[somber sequoia]

that's from vrcfury, I'd suggest asking in their discord

[somber sequoia]

I'd bring the model into Blender and reposition the bone

[wraith geyser]

you mean in pose mode with cats or in edit mode?

coz in blender it looks fine, this happen only in unity play mode

[somber sequoia]

edit mode, nothing about cats here.

So in Blender the eye bone should be perfectly vertical, with 0 bone roll, and the head positioned at the exact center of rotation. My guess is it's not quite right

[wraith geyser]

ok ill try this thanks

it looks vertical to me (its a manuka head)

[still shuttle]

My unity animation window has never looked like this.

[wraith geyser]

any tips to make em perfectly vertical?

[somber sequoia]

Yeah I look at the position values in the "item" tab of the "n" popup sidebar and simply set the tail's X and Y values to match the head's values.

you can copy/paste them

[still shuttle]

this has always been the default for me-

[cyan kestrel]

Is there a way to use the Parameter Driver with the Random option to randomize only whole values and not partials, for Integers? (ex: 1, 2, 3 not 1.2, 2.5, 3.7, etc.)

Have some Int toggles that use Blendshapes and when some are partially randomized/enabled it causes some weird looks

[somber sequoia]

if your data type is integer, yeah, that's what it ought to do

[somber sequoia]

I've also never seen this

[cyan kestrel]

Huh.. wonder why some of my blendshapes aren't fully being enabled to 100 then when it gets randomized. Maybe the timing/transition being 0 causes it to stop partial way through

[slow panther]

yeah i looked through all my other animations no idea lol

[somber sequoia]

what's your animation layer look like for this?

[north cradle]

literally never seen this, been using unity for like 4 years

[cyan kestrel]

2 Empties with blank/null anims, on active the parameter driver, and the listed values for transitions are in the image.
Everything works, just not sure why my blendshapes are getting caught in between values.

[slow panther]

could just be a package im using, but i use it for every avatar ill see if its what i think it is one sec

[wide whale]

hi i tried exporting my roblox hats and instead of them being obj they got saved as mtl can i still use these for my models

[slow panther]

found it

[still shuttle]

i see it as a .obj in the screenshot you provided tho
Usually when exporting models from roblox studio, they export with both a .obj and .mtl

[slow panther]

dopesheet colors is bd_'s misc tools

That package includes editor scripts that modify Unity’s Animation window to add:

✔ Colored Dopesheet rows
✔ Colored keyframe channels
✔ Extra animation visibility/debug helpers

[somber sequoia]

no, I meant the one where you use the value you got

ahh that's what that is

[wide whale]

i accidently

made both of their names

"hats"

🥀

i just realized it now

wait what

[slow panther]

its this

[wide whale]

oh

[slow panther]

idk where i got it or when but 😂

[still shuttle]

its on github, thank you!

[slow panther]

no problem! helped me learn smth new xD

[odd inlet]

still having the same issue

😭

[still shuttle]

yeah sometimes it takes a long time, I've had it take hours before

[odd inlet]

is it normal for it to last 7 hours ?? 😔

[pseudo crag]

How do I do this

I'm rusty

I swear I fixed this before

[somber sequoia]

do what?

[pseudo crag]

The textures are not adding properly

For the body

It’s the last thing I need to do

[pseudo crag]

You helped me on this

I think

Like last year

[somber sequoia]

no idea. and the video isn't playing for me, what do you mean "not adding correctly"?

[pseudo crag]

It’s not?

Ok well uh

So I got a model

It included textures

Extracted the mats

Applied the textures to the mats and then there’s the body

There’s one mat for the entire body

Let me show you how much textures there are.

[somber sequoia]

not sure how that's relevant, but ok

[somber sequoia]

looks like textures for UDIM tiles, is that how this came?

[pseudo crag]

yes

Just plugging everythin in

[somber sequoia]

interesting, maybe there's instructions to tell you what goes where?

[pseudo crag]

Not from this creator

[somber sequoia]

unfortunate

[pseudo crag]

The video will show my problems

I've been able to plug everything else in

[somber sequoia]

you really need to explain what to look for in the video

in words, what is the exact problem?

[pseudo crag]

I can't fit all of those diffuse textures into the albedo

[somber sequoia]

what?

only one goes into that slot

[pseudo crag]

That's what I'm having problems with

[somber sequoia]

oh I think I get what you're trying to do

[pseudo crag]

mmhmm

[somber sequoia]

yeah nothing here really supports UDIM tiles, so I'm not sure what you'd do with those textures

could probably do something complex with multiple materials in Blender and bake them down into a single texture set

[pseudo crag]

I got simplebake

[somber sequoia]

this definitely looks like the wrong texture for the UVmap it's using

[pseudo crag]

It says it's a texture for the body

looks like it

but it's seperated into 3 parts

when the body mat is only 1

[somber sequoia]

yep

[pseudo crag]

I don't think I'm at that level yet

so I'll put this on hold

The thing is

The creator made both a .blend file and a .fbx file

knowing people would use his model for vrchat

but the textures are fubared

[wide whale]

so um im using pmxeditor and opening the obj file but nothing happens

it doesnt ask me for scale or anything

wt am i supposed to do

fixed this

[heady dirge]

Hello, i need some help, im tryin to fix the armature on this model, and its not a vrc model its supposed to be a nimation model but i would like to put it on vrc, the problem is that its sayin its not on t pose, and the fingers didnt map, but they r on the model already, theres no fingers missing, its the only problem gettin me away from uploadin the avatar, and i cannot access the muscles and settings tab

[wide whale]

i was pressing open instead of import

[somber sequoia]

total guess but maybe "chest lower" doesn't go into "upper chest"

[quick dagger]

i have a problem when it comes to uploading the avatar doesn't build and it infinity loads this happens when ever the sdk updates the only fix i have for this is to make a new project and move my old stuff to the new stuff

[heady dirge]

i did change it, but its doesnt fix the fingers

thks thou

[somber sequoia]

no, it wouldn't fix those

but you don't need accurate fingers in order to be considered humanoid

re: t-pose, you may be able to use the "force t-pose" option under "pose" right below the bone slot list

[mystic verge]

Hey guys i have a quick question is it possiable to use the parameter driver to also scale your avi ? using like the regular built in scale, i want to be able to use a transformation toggle in the menu that also turns you taller, when switching into like mech armor. withouth doing it manualy

[somber sequoia]

Sorta - you can't change the viewpoint so it's not really great

[timber wharf]

ie no you cannot access built-in radial scale from animator

[spark walrus]

Hopefully someone can help me with this, but what does it mean? Normally it should just be smooth and no have these random patterns

[somber sequoia]

is the left pic a 3D view and the right the 2D view?

that ring looks like maybe the mesh was moved around but the UVs not reworked, as if it's stretching the texture weirdly. You'd have to look at this in the UV editor in Blender (or similar) to see where that part is

[pseudo crag]

Kazin

[somber sequoia]

?

[pseudo crag]

Can you add the textures in blender then export to unity

Or will it not work

[somber sequoia]

please don't reply to a totally different topic

[pseudo crag]

I’m talking about the one I was talking about

Like

More than an hour ago.

[somber sequoia]

yes but you replied to my comment on someone else's post.
Anyway, Ultimately you have to have your textures in Unity and setup your materials there, so doing much texture work in Blender is fine, you'll just export to files for use in Unity.

[pseudo crag]

Oh thanks.

[foggy tiger]

Where can I find this?

[somber sequoia]

https://cats.neoneko.xyz/

[foggy tiger]

Yea I almost got a virus lmao

Uhh

Will this fuck with me trying to just join 2 meshes?

[somber sequoia]

select both mesh objects, ctrl+j

[foggy tiger]

I needed the meshes to be the same tho

[somber sequoia]

what does that mean?

this combines the two objects into one

(ctrl+j = join, works on many kinds of objects)

[foggy tiger]

Yea but they still remain as 2 seperate meshes

[somber sequoia]

no they don't?

[foggy tiger]

See the gif I replied to

[somber sequoia]

link me, no idea which message you mean

[foggy tiger]

I'll just resend

[somber sequoia]

but this is a thing I do all the time in Blender. so

Oh you're trying to join armatures, not meshes

[foggy tiger]

2 seperate meshes

[foggy tiger]

???

The armature linked fine

[somber sequoia]

right, so now join the mesh objects

[foggy tiger]

💀

Damn

[somber sequoia]

?

[foggy tiger]

I didn't think to try that

[somber sequoia]

ohh

[foggy tiger]

Thanks 😅

[somber sequoia]

np

[boreal horizon]

does anyone know why it's giving me this error?

[foggy tiger]

Now it made a whole other issue where I just have a massive eye in my neck, but that's not on blender so idk what I did wrong

My export settings

the eye bones didn't move either

Idek how stuff like this happens, I just pressed ctrl + j and it doesn't look messed up in blender

[somber sequoia]

make sure your objects have the same scaling before joining - applying all transforms is generally a good idea

[foggy tiger]

Everything was the same :/

Could it just be a bad export setting

[somber sequoia]

those look fine

[foggy tiger]

I'll just add the fluff in unity :(

[dense moth]

I once again ask cause no one responded, how do I fix this, does anyone know

[hot vector]

does anyone know how to fix this?

I'm not smart in unity

[somber sequoia]

can you explain what is happening here?

[dense moth]

Im not even sure, I got it that way

Put it on the Novabeast and it did that

[somber sequoia]

I mean what action did you take that made it look like this?

[dense moth]

I clicked play, used the gesture manager to see what it looked like live time

[somber sequoia]

oh okay. Is this a rigged asset for this avatar? or for some other...

[dense moth]

Yeah its rigged for the novabeast apparently is what it said

So I went to try to use it and well here we are

[somber sequoia]

yeah I'm not sure what's going on there to cause that

[hot vector]

nevermind it fixed itself

[somber sequoia]

looks like maybe bones moving differently than they ought

[dense moth]

Yeah Im not sure, its just really weird

Hoped someone could help fix it cause its so cute

[hot vector]

nevermind it did not fix itself

it's being sent here everytime a moving image on my outfit updates

[round comet]

Close and re open unity

Thats usually from deleting physbones

[hot vector]

oh

[foggy tiger]

Does anyone know anything about texturing

Bc I just realized that the texture I have doesn't work with the custom fluff I put on

And I was kinda hoping to understand how they made the texture because I was hoping I could make a version of it for the custom fluff

[somber sequoia]

yes, lots of us do

[foggy tiger]

I can only really do like simple patterns and recolours

But this texture I have has a like knitted thing all over it

As you can see the custom fluff doesn't have it

[somber sequoia]

looks like a normal map

[foggy tiger]

And the UVs aren't the same so trying to use the same material doesn't work

[foggy tiger]

It's both

It's part of the texture and it has a normal map to make it bump up

I don't know how they got the knitted thing to be part of the texture tho

I can also just go back into blender and make a blendshape to hide the custom fluff when I use this texture, but I'd rather not

[somber sequoia]

You'd probably have to at least get a plain, seamless texture that's this thing if you want to apply it to the fluff. But you also might have to do that in 3D, if the UV islands don't line up in a good way, it'll take some work

[foggy tiger]

Yeah the person who made this avi did it in substance

I wouldn't even know where to begin doing smthn like that tho

This is part of the normal fluff texture, it's not just a repeating plane

It's different for each plume of hair

[somber sequoia]

yeah I'd do that in substance

[foggy tiger]

But idk how I would

Like where would I even start other than getting the current texture and model imported

[somber sequoia]

import the model, find a texture you want to use, then make a layer per UV island and position the image how you want it

you may not need one per island but it's a good way to think about it

[foggy tiger]

But like it isn't just overlayed on the uv

It actually wraps around each plume of fluff

[somber sequoia]

yep, that looks really well done

[foggy tiger]

Yeah which is my issue bc that's above my skill level and I can't contact the creator bc their twitter got taken down or they deleted it

So like I can't even ask him how he did it

I just made a blendshape to disable the custom hair for now until I find a workaround for that

[still shuttle]

Trying to make it so where a bell on the collar of an avatar I am working on jingles every time I walk while also having a toggle for the sound. Cant seem to get it to work for some reason, I feel like im doing something wrong.

Currently using 3 animations for it,
Jingles off = audio source off
Jingles on = audio source on
wait = empty animation, thought it would help for like the mid point when you arent walking to stop the noise but im unsure.
I am using the VelocityX parameter but im not sure if that is the right one to use.
I provided images of how I have it set up.

[heavy zephyr]

Your wait state doesn't have a transition back to your sound being on. So when you start walking again it stays stuck on wait.

[still shuttle]

ur so right how did I not think of that

[heavy zephyr]

All good it happens

[foggy tiger]

Unity keeps switching my material for a part of my avi without me doing anything

[somber sequoia]

do you mean In play mode?

[foggy tiger]

Nope