avatar-help

[cyan swan]

not about the wings

[junior void]

update your sdk to the latest available version

[cyan swan]

maybe those wings WERE from imvu

idk

[junior void]

possible but imo youre playing with fire here

[snow valve]

im not quite sure how to do that i have tried searching up how but nothing seems to help

[junior void]

if youre using the creator companion, you can do it through there using the "manage project" button

[cyan swan]

well if it had gotten banned it wouldnt be on my side since i was gonna upload to her account

[junior void]

uploading to another persons account is not allowed by vrchat for the simple reason that then your ip is on their account and if either party gets banned, all associated ips will as well

meaning you will get banned too, wondering why all of a sudden, hence the rule

[cyan swan]

ok

everybody does that tho

[junior void]

so if everyone jumps off a bridge, so will you?

[cyan swan]

thats diff

[junior void]

do whatever you want i dont care

im here to tell you what can happen

[cyan swan]

ok sorry

if i get banned can i get new acc

[junior void]

please dont ask me questions to literally bypass a ban

[cyan swan]

ok sorry

its just bc ik roblox only shuts down your acc

not perma ban ip

i didnt upload avi yet anyway

i wont upload the avi

dw

[junior void]

i would answer this but i feel like you are just trying to find ways to upload it and evade the ban if you do get banned using my answers to get back to

you shouldnt push it for something so simple

[cyan swan]

i mean i wanna upload avis with imvu clothes and makeup

thats it

[junior void]

then get in contact with imvu and get a statement from them

[cyan swan]

ok

Third Party Content
Certain information and content that are not Submissions may be provided by third party licensors and suppliers to IMVU ("Third Party Content"). The Third Party Content is, in each case, the copyrighted and/or trademarked work of the creator/licensor. Unless you have permission from the owner of the Third Party Content, or as otherwise set forth in these Terms, you agree to only display the Third Party Content on your personal computer solely for your personal use. You acknowledge and agree that you have no right to download, cache, reproduce, modify, display (except as set forth in this paragraph), edit, alter or enhance any of the Third Party Content in any manner unless you have permission from the owner/licensor of the Third Party Content or as otherwise expressly authorized in these Terms.

so just ask the creator?

i assume thats what this means

like ugc on roblox

[junior void]

i understand you want an answer

but im serious: i cant answer this

if youre unsure how to interpret this text, please ask THEM

[cyan swan]

ok

sorry

thought i just couldnt ask stuff about bans

sorry...

[junior void]

i dont wanna get in trouble by giving you advice on legal stuff

understandable, no?

[cyan swan]

ok ty

yes

sorry

[dark jay]

had a question for textures what takes up less mb dxt5 or bc7

[somber sequoia]

"it depends"

there's a few decent pages I've read about this, for example https://techarthub.com/an-introduction-to-texture-compression-in-unity/

[timber wharf]

@dark jay https://www.poiyomi.com/blog/2022-10-17-texture-optimization

[tacit moss]

I wanna ask in here- is there a place to ask about what a model is? I really like a model and I can’t find it anywhere- or can someone recommend a place to ask that would be amazing! Thank you!

[ornate stump]

#1138520828556890214

[tacit moss]

Thank you so much!!

[next sigil]

Sooo my chest seems to be snapping like this no matter what I do. I thought it was the chest physbones but I removed them and it still did it. It seems to be fine at times and then spaz out randomly as shown in the video. I didn't mess with the armature at all so I'm a little concerned. Anyone have anything helpful I could try? qwq

Avatar base is kitcat btw

[umbral oriole]

short answer realistically it doesn't matter, the only real thing you can get in hot water for is ripping from a vrchat made avatar. Everything, outside that isnt a big deal unless you inted to sell said things if you want to upload it go ahead if you dont thats your choice too

[fringe wing]

She blocked me so basically the whole avatar was made by me and I got the clothes on IMVU so I guess they find the wings I found on IMVU so they saying it’s on a ripper program 🤷🏾‍♀️i only use IMVU and free assets that’s all no ripping or nothing that’s bad i just can’t upload the avatar it self period

A lot people gets commission done and uploaded on they accounts so I don’t know or the creators that do commissions don’t know that they can get ban uploading on others accounts

[umbral oriole]

damn thats a bit extreme lol, ive seen many imvu converts for vrc, and considering i imagine its your avatar from imvu i dont really think its much different from taking a minecraft skin but hey some people are really sensitive to potential riupped assets here

[umbral oriole]

unless youve done something insane your not likely getting ip banned

[fringe wing]

Here’s the thing a lot people rip from IMVU or sims or other games and put it on vrchat

[fringe wing]

I don’t get it how you can get ban uploading a commission the person pay for i can’t even upload nothing I don’t have a pc right now

[umbral oriole]

yeah i get you, i can somewhat understand them being paranoid about it but damn, hope you havent paid them yet

[fringe wing]

Then she’s asking me to pay for the ripper for her to rip on IMVU

[umbral oriole]

oh wait i think i mioght be confused here

who is uploading and whose the commissioner?

[fringe wing]

If you look up it’s messagings of them saying the wings on a ripper program

I told her it’s not 🤦🏾‍♀️

I can show yall proof of it being on IMVU

[umbral oriole]

you mean the generic fairy wings?

[fringe wing]

Yes

[fringe wing]

They probably talking about other ones because IMVU clothes are like images

[umbral oriole]

sorry you have to deal with this

[fringe wing]

It’s not made by someone it’s not a paid or free asset it’s just off IMVU it’s okay but ima try to find out how to fix the avatar myself

[umbral oriole]

i can help if you want whats the issue?

[fringe wing]

No it’s all right ima just give up on making Avatars

[umbral oriole]

damn thats a bit extreme from just this, you dont have to give up on just from a bad interaction,

[fringe wing]

I know but it affected my mental health little bit so I lost interest in making avatars

[umbral oriole]

i get you well wishing you the best tho hope things go well for you

[fringe wing]

Thanks

[tough marsh]

I need some help with creating a world drop.. i'm still very much a noob with this but i've tried using vrcfury and a friend helped me try with using parameters (?) and it still won't work. i'm not sure what i could be doing wrong, the object isn't connected to the armature or anything like that.

[gaunt knoll]

VrcFury toggle world drop then set the path of the toggle and the object you want to drop

That's the easiest way

[tough marsh]

yeah, i did that and it stayed stuck to her, thankfully i believe i've figured it out now? the object still had an armature link.. but now i've run into a different problem

[ornate stump]

Are you able to understand the Import Message written to the right side?

[tough marsh]

Looking at it once i open the import message my brain just like.. nuh. i don't understand it at all

[still shuttle]

You have a mesh named the same as a bone

That's a nono for unity

So rename the mesh that's named head to something like face or whatever

[mild temple]

Hello

what up guy's

[tough marsh]

that makes so much more sense than 'avatar is not set to humanoid', thank you 😭

[mild temple]

what up

[mild temple]

what up

[still shuttle]

Do you need help with something?

[mild temple]

no

[still shuttle]

This is not just a chat channel, go to #vrchat-general-1 if your are looking to just talk

[ornate stump]

If you want to just chat then better go to #vrchat-general-1

[tough marsh]

Do i need to rename it in blender and re-import it? seems to still be broken

[still shuttle]

Yes typically that works best

[mortal knoll]

I cannot upload my avatar, I set everything up correctly too, what do I do?

(once again btw)

[ornate stump]

What is the indication showing that you can't upload?

[mortal knoll]

let me send pic rq

saying something about to script I think

[ornate stump]

You had missing script which usually mean you didn't import all the required package.

[mortal knoll]

hm

let me check smth

It said I need 'modularavatar', how do I get that?

[ornate stump]

You could try using google search to look for something first.

[mortal knoll]

I'll try that

it worked :0

ty

[cyan heron]

my vrc avi, keeps on looking up for some reason, any idea how to solve it?

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot showing how it actually is?

[teal mulch]

I imported and exported this fbx with no modifications/changes through CATS (Blender 5.0.0 and Cats 5.0.2.1) and when I change the mesh property, the entire thing becomes invisible
I can't see the mesh from the inside either
Does anyone have a clue on what's wrong with this?

[somber sequoia]

why would you change the mesh propety?

[cyan heron]

sorry for the delayed response

[somber sequoia]

that's cute.

[ornate stump]

Is that about eye look settings?

[cyan heron]

It seems fine on the eye look settings so im not sure what it is.

[ornate stump]

Is it looking up like that in testing, or always even in edit mode?

[cyan heron]

its not like that in edit mode, it does it in play mode, and vrc

[ornate stump]

Show the eye look settings then.

[ornate stump]

Can you widen the panel so we can see the number in full?

[teal mulch]

I don't know what else I am supposed to do, my friend told me to do that

[ornate stump]

Since the eye bones aren't zeroed when looking straight so you ended up with the odd number. If you edit the model in blender, the eye bone must point up so the straight look is all zeroed.

[somber sequoia]

you're trying to replace the model with one you updated in blender, right? Simply overwrite the .fbx file.

if that's not what you want to do, please explain

[teal mulch]

I did that but it removed/turned everything invisible as well

[cyan heron]

so you want me to rotate the eyes in blender to look up?

[ornate stump]

To point up would be a better word to describe it.

[somber sequoia]

Probably you'll need to redo the rig setup, or simply drag a new copy into the scene and copy stuff over. It can happen if you drastically change the armature. or again, if it's unpacked.

[teal mulch]

I changed nothing with the outfit itself when I imported it to blender and exported it back to Unity

simply drag a new copy into the scene and copy stuff over
By this do you mean I just make a new unity scene and copy & paste everything I had over there?
Everything is still a prefab with the blue name so I don't think anything it's unpacked

[somber sequoia]

no, same scene.
Also your blender export settings might be wrong - set "Apply scalings" to "FBX All" unless you know for sure it should be otherwise.

[torn hound]

does anyone know why this error keeps showing up? ive tried everything. ive updated VCC, everything in the project is up to date, and it always gets stuck at this error. ive let it run for over an hour and it just never uploads

[teal mulch]

I used CATS to import & export, is it the same?

[somber sequoia]

I don't use cats for this, can't help there.

[cyan heron]

so i made it zero on each axis on unity and it still does it sadly, any idea?

[ornate stump]

Did you edit the bone in blender?

[cyan heron]

yes

[ornate stump]

How is it look like in blender?

[cyan heron]

I rested the pose on blender, to make it zero on each axis on unity I made the bone point behind.

[ornate stump]

Can you actually screenshot how the bone is in blender?

[cyan heron]

@ornate stump

[ornate stump]

The bones still aren't pointing up though.

[ornate stump]

Should be like that.

[cyan heron]

it wouldnt be all zeros on the axis then.

[balmy barn]

value on looking straight its not right

also where did you get that avatar from

[cyan heron]

fortnite lol, I really liked the model, and I wanted it in vrc but no one ported it yet

[balmy barn]

didnt know they used vrc prefab ids

[cyan heron]

nah, I was building it, but then it canceled and crashed unity. When i opened it back up, It was just renamed like that and I never bothered to change it

[ornate stump]

Make sure the head bone also point up as well. This rather seems all other bones aren't in the right orientation as well.

[harsh hedge]

i don't understand wheni import my fbx to blender, there are no shapekey but on unity i have a lot

is it because i don't have to correct version of blender ?

[somber sequoia]

This can happen if you export your model without having applied all modifiers first (except armature)

if it finds one that can't auto-apply, it'll kinda force it by removing all shape keys

wait sorry, backwards - you mean to blender? Don't export to blender

just find your .fbx file and import it directly

[harsh hedge]

i mean import my model from unity to blender to change some shapekey ( sry )

[harsh hedge]

that's what i did

[somber sequoia]

you didn't run some export process in Unity, right? Okay good.

[harsh hedge]

and i tried with CATS

[somber sequoia]

cats is not relevant here, you don't need it for this at all

[harsh hedge]

oh ok

[somber sequoia]

you cropped the unity image so I can't verify this, but make sure you're looking at the same objects

[harsh hedge]

i did the import without CATS and everything is broken and still no shapekeys

[somber sequoia]

nothing looks "broken"

[harsh hedge]

i don't get it everything work perfectly in unity and i can upload to vrchat

[somber sequoia]

in Unity, show the inspector with shape keys and showing the name of the object you have clicked on

[harsh hedge]

body_all

[somber sequoia]

ooh you unpacked this model - going back to Unity is not going to work as-is.

and the object you clicked on may not be the one in the .fbx - I'd say drag a new copy of the .fbx into the Unity scene and verify it's what you think it is there.

[harsh hedge]

ohhhh

it's a completly different one

[somber sequoia]

yep, that makes sense.

[harsh hedge]

is it possible to "repack" and export it ?

[somber sequoia]

no

[harsh hedge]

that mean i have to redo everything but on the fbx file and without unpacking it ?

[somber sequoia]

I'd drag a new .fbx into the scene and transfer over whatever you want to it, then do not unpack in the future.

[harsh hedge]

ty sir you're the goat 👍

[somber sequoia]

just someone who's done stuff wrong in the past 🙂

[harsh hedge]

oh wait

that doesn't fix anything because i still don't have any shapekey in blender

[somber sequoia]

oh it fixes lots of things, just perhaps not that

[harsh hedge]

the green icon means there is some Shapekey right ?

[lilac musk]

Just Vertex Data

[foggy nova]

'Tom'

???

😔

[somber sequoia]

what about it?

[foggy nova]

Tom 3D evnilsn datnavetod

wtf

[lilac musk]

What does your avatar's name have to do with the fact your account doesn't meet the requirements to upload?

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure I speak that language

[lilac musk]

lol

[somber sequoia]

?upload

[flat musk]

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

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

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

[foggy nova]

Tom upload Fix

Teniaon tixd anon what

'User'

Onilne

[somber sequoia]

I really have no idea what it is you are saying

but read the thing I just had the bot spit out, that's likely your problem.

[foggy nova]

ok

sorry Kazin

like

[violet sapphire]

help where did my terms go? 😭

ive tried updating the sdk and reloading it but its just gone?

[foggy nova]

@somber sequoia

!tom!

[somber sequoia]

yes? I've already told you what the answer is

[foggy nova]

520

152

[cyan swan]

@fringe wing sorry for blocking i unblocked, was just paranoid

bc of what someone said earlier

[cyan swan]

i was planning on doing it for free

please forgive and unblock me...... i feel guilty

sorry.....

i was saying they had to pay asset price for paid assets/bases, not that theyd have to pay an upload fee

uploading is free.

this is what i was worried about

scam

[somber sequoia]

Rule #10 violation

[slow hawk]

I think I'm just setting it up wildly incorrect but I was trying to make it so when the food is toggled it helps also toggle the tray? But setting it up like this has the tray enable and then disable when the food is on do I need to just toggle on the tray in both their animations or is there a way to set it up like this?

[balmy barn]

include the off in any state

[slow hawk]

?

Make a transition or?

[slow hawk]

oh

[balmy barn]

just have it as default ( 0 i guess )

[slow hawk]

So try this?

[balmy barn]

yup just remember to turn off 'can transition to self' when using transitions from -any state- , with it on you are doing it many times a minute instead of once

[slow hawk]

It's now doing this?

[near ice]

any weightpainting pros?
ive been stuck trying to figure out this shirt for 3 hours

[somber sequoia]

not a pro but I've been mildly successful

[slow hawk]

Fixed the blinking but now the toggle only toggles the tray and not the food? Should I adjust something in the animator more? This is how I have it and I kept moving it around but idk what I'm doing wrong

[near ice]

also whenever i draw weights, it gets applied throught the shirt and its pretty annoying to delete weights

[bleak citrus]

anyone know why my avis do this when i overide them on unity, rarley happens but i need a fix for this

[balmy barn]

still using can transition to self and i dont trust 0 time ever , 0.1 tend to be my default - off probably should be your default state instead of on

[somber sequoia]

unfortunately, an image like this isn't really helpful to someone else looking at it. much of the kind of advice I'd give is to always have auto-normalize on, use the "restrict" option if needed, be careful about not painting on other parts, and don't be afraid of moving the clothing mesh further from the body

[near ice]

oh okay, thank you for the tips

[somber sequoia]

specifically how the weights will look is going to strongly depend on how you want it to move, so just looking at them I can say yep, some weight painting there 🙂

[slow hawk]

The write defaults should be off?

[balmy barn]

yes , exsample what happen if its on

having it on you are hammering the state constantly 100000's times instead of once

seen it do some funny things with synch

same with 0 time in transitions seen that fail

[slow hawk]

I did all the things but I'm having this flickering still

[slow hawk]

Didn't know that one I'll keep note of it

[balmy barn]

no idea what im looking at, if its a offset thing you need to set animation to broken/ect or it will do wierd things

[slow hawk]

broken/ect?

How do I set it to that?

[balmy barn]

is it a uv offset

then youd want animation set 'broken and constant' or it will slide wierdly to next instead of instant

[slow hawk]

Sorry, I'm confused

[vernal tusk]

sorry to ask but i keep getting this error , how do i fix it ?

[heavy ingot]

yall why tf the hair shaking?

[somber sequoia]

usually there's not enough context to be able to fix it. If it's the only error it's probably not very relevant

[vernal tusk]

well gonna show the second error i got then one sec

[somber sequoia]

always show the first 2-3 errors and don't clip the console window

[vernal tusk]

well fixed the problem idk how but it work now

[light charm]

does anybody know how to fix this issue? using latest gogo loco, and when i use the "float" option (the one with the ufo icon), it keeps doing this pose, but on other people's avatars i've seen that it's supposed to do a different pose with the arms down by its side instead of the way it looks in this picture

[void mango]

How do I fix it?

Bruh, I deleted stuff and it went up

[light charm]

nope

no, tell me here. other people may need an answer too

no?

[void mango]

Tf you mean no?

[light charm]

thats not the problem

it has something to do with animations

[void mango]

Definitely not animations

[night ember]

You are 2 people having different problems

[lilac musk]

Yea... I have a feeling the one asking people to DM them is ... sus

[night ember]

Remove stuff and/or make the textures smaller

[void mango]

Shockingly not

[void mango]

Deleted half of my effects and models, done nothing

[night ember]

Have you considered building again

[void mango]

I'm just testing it with texture quality lowered

[void mango]

I've tried building it 14 times already

[night ember]

How dense is that model

[void mango]

Idk, it's literally just a vecna

[night ember]

Jeez
200k tris
8 skinned mesh
10 mesh
67 fucking materials

[lilac musk]

Yea...

[void mango]

Can't lower any of those

At all

[night ember]

That is not even close to being quest

[lilac musk]

Yes you can

[night ember]

You installed go loco wrong

[void mango]

Then how are there people with avatars that have like 500,000 triangles that still function on quest with the most insane textures physically possible

[night ember]

Because tris are not the worst offender there

[void mango]

Plus, that's the same as all of my avatars, they've usually worked perfectly fine

[lilac musk]

Asymmetrical uploads

[night ember]

Its still bad but like

[void mango]

Hold on

[night ember]

Thats insanely bad

[void mango]

I just straight up fixed it

Turns out it was the textures

Cause they were at 2048 💔

One of them were 40mb for a texture

[night ember]

2048

[void mango]

I knew I got that wrong

[night ember]

1024
2048
4096

Funny numbers

[lilac musk]

Just multiples

[night ember]

Yes

[void mango]

Wait, does lowering textures like that just straight up lower it a bunch?

[lilac musk]

1 lower is 4x smaller

[night ember]

Technically?

[void mango]

Damn

[night ember]

2048 is 4x 1024

[void mango]

Jesus

[lilac musk]

It's why you really dont need much more than 2048

8k is DUMB

[night ember]

Well unless atlas

[lilac musk]

true

[void mango]

So, I think I'll be sticking to 512 from now on

[void mango]

Unless you're a pc user 💔

[night ember]

512 is ps1 resolution

[lilac musk]

No it's still dumb

[night ember]

Even then its unneeded

[void mango]

Shockingly, doesn't look too bad on it

[lilac musk]

A very crunched texture is better than no texture at all in most cases

[indigo compass]

A crunched texture on an avatar means subjecting everyone who loads it to a hard stutter, the more the worse of course.
But be considerate and don't use crunch compression on avatars, they only make sense on worlds since every texture is loaded on when in the loading screen.

[void mango]

I don't use crunch compression. It's genuinely horrible

[scenic ether]

This is happening for my clothing, has some vrcfury prefabs for setup.
Where should I look to fix this? Only happens in play mode

• Avi gets stuck in bicycle pose out of play mode?

[void mango]

Based on the fact the clothing isn't even on the right parts of the avatar, that might be a fix

[scenic ether]

It is

At the far bottom

[void mango]

As in the model itself

Show me the scene when it's not in play mode

[scenic ether]

For some reason, avi is down in bicycle and not t-posed, not sure why

[void mango]

Usually that shouldn't matter when not in play mode, but try moving the accessories to the right places

[scenic ether]

They technically should already be there, vrcfury controls it all and all my other clothing works fine when it's above

[proven quail]

Are you in record mode in an animation?

[scenic ether]

This hoodie works fine

[scenic ether]

Already checked, no

[proven quail]

Do you have a controller on the animator for the Avi?

[scenic ether]

Yeah, even if I get rid of it nothing changes

[proven quail]

Did you do animations on this Avi? Generally you want to duplicate the Avi and animate on that because the bicycle pose glitch can happen

[void mango]

Usually i just put them on my model so it has a higher chance of functioning, but try checking your armature @scenic ether

[scenic ether]

I haven't made any changes to this avi in a while, I use multiple scenes for different variations and I was working on a seperate one

[proven quail]

The fact the animator had a controller leads me to believe you did animating on this Avi.

[scenic ether]

Honestly, probably at one point maybe but was weeks ago

[proven quail]

I don't know the fix it's been awhile but see if Google has any info

[scenic ether]

If thats the case let me run it with pumpkins avi tools

[proven quail]

Yeah pumpkin might fix it

[scenic ether]

so if I'm making animations with an avi, what should I be doing?

[proven quail]

Ctrl + D the avi in the scene, use the duplicated one for all animation creation and recording

I usually name the duplicated one "[name] animate"

[scenic ether]

That seemed to also fix the original issue so thank you

[wraith geyser]

hi, i dont understand what im doing wrong

in gesture manager i go to that Tops menu and none of the button work

[lilac musk]

I think if you read what we were talking about, you'd see it was just a bad choice of words. I should have said something like small or less. Just used crunched as it sounded funnier but didn't think right of way about the semantic mix up

[lilac musk]

Read above ^

[lilac musk]

Might want to explain a bit more. The image has a lot of info which is good, but without knowing what is/isn't working, it's hard to say anything

[near ice]

anybody know how to fix this trail so it comes from the sword? also its white even tho it's orange in the renderer

[wraith geyser]

well in gesture manager i go to that Tops menu and none of the button work, everything else works fine

[lilac musk]

So you have 4 states, but they are all coming from the 'Entry' but no trasitions to any of the other states from there or to the exit. This would mean that the animation would simply play it's default and nothing else. You need to provide a way for the controller to trasition to the other states

Might work if you have all those transitions from the 'any state', but just make sure you have "can transitions to self" disabled

[wraith geyser]

awww i feel so stoopid thank you so much

[lilac musk]

Don't be too hard on yourself. Its all part of learning

[dry ibex]

how do i fix this

[round comet]

Use the latest SDK if you can :)

[dry ibex]

How do i download thelatest sdk?

[signal drum]

hi friends! this is my first time ever modeling clothes and i'm having trouble getting it to line up. i've got it perfectly weight painted, but it won't deform when i emulate it! i have some images if they help.

[night ember]

creator companion

[round comet]

Are you using creator companion?

[dry ibex]

ya

[round comet]

In the settings of the project via vcc

^^

[signal drum]

yeah do manage project and you'll see the option to update your sdk

[dry ibex]

Okay thank you

[signal drum]

i had this problem too isdfojgkm

[prisma scroll]

How could I go about adding folds to this? Ive been struggling with modeling clothing for a while and I just cant seem to add depth to stuff

[night ember]

wdym folds

[prisma scroll]

Like this

Ive tried sculpting but it just refuses to work how I want, and very few tutorials on how to do it without a multires modifier

[night ember]

loop cut or inset the area

then scult and scrape away that part

[prisma scroll]

Hmmm I see I see

[night ember]

or just use a modifier then retopologize later

[signal drum]

i did loop cuts for mine

pretty much just sizing up and smoothing things out as i went

[prisma scroll]

Hmm okay Ill try that first I suppose, id realllly rather not do retopology like, ever but if I have to xd

[harsh hedge]

why my avatar look like this (pic 1 ) in blender but like this ( pic 2 ) in unity ? did i messed up the import ?

[night ember]

whered you get the model?

[harsh hedge]

the creator send it to me

it's an fbx file

[night ember]

that doesnt tell me much

though youd probably need to ask said creator for the import settings

[harsh hedge]

okay

[signal drum]

this is an inconsistency i noticed with me and tutorials, but i don't know how to fix it. everything's named fine on my end.

[snow valve]

does anyone know why this might be happening?, i am trusted user and its saying this when i try and update my avatar

[somber sequoia]

are you sure you're logged in with the right account?

[snow valve]

yeah im sure

[somber sequoia]

also - is it a VRChat account or some other platform account?

[snow valve]

no i am logged into my account but it also wont let me click on the authentication tab on the vrchat sdk

[somber sequoia]

that's weird. errors in the console?

[snow valve]

probably

[somber sequoia]

fix those

[snow valve]

alright thank you for the help

[light zinc]

How to fix? Happens when creating project but cant view my packages in settings

[signal drum]

update your project sdk

3.10.1 i think

[somber sequoia]

That error is from VCC, not Unity, nothing to do with the SDK

[uneven whale]

I can't be grabbed by both ears at the same time. Also, when I use the "network id utility," when someone tries to grab me by the ears, the tail works.

[somber sequoia]

if both ears share the same physbone component, that's expected

[light zinc]

My vcc is up to date.

[signal drum]

not the vcc, the sdk

click manage project

you'll see it there

[light zinc]

Yes the sdk is updated with ur vcc

that error comes from trying to CREATE a project

[signal drum]

oh i see

i misread methinks

my apologies

[light zinc]

you ok

I may need to just reinstall clean

[uneven whale]

Do I need to split the ears into different bone components? My physics for both ears are set to "ears parent." Should I split them into ear L and ear R?

[somber sequoia]

if you want to be able to grab each one separately, yes, they must be separate physbone components.

[rare jacinth]

Anyone know how to fix buckling legs on a avatar? It only does it when I add gogoloco and I like to sit because im half body. Anyway to fix this? Its on a chibi avatar

[arctic ginkgo]

check that your legs are straight. If the legs have a wide stance the knees will bend inwards

[rare jacinth]

How would I check that?

[arctic ginkgo]

well, i mean if it's extreme enough to notice, you should be able to see that the model has a wide stance in unity

if you want to keep this stance you can try changing the animation in the IK pose layer

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

here is the documentation on the IK pose layer

[rare jacinth]

I think im a little confused on what your telling me on how to fix it 🤔

Alright ill look at that. I've been stuck on this for awhile and haven't been able to fix the issue

[arctic ginkgo]

your legs are supposed to look like the first picture (straight down) if the feet are further out than the hips then it will cause the buckling issue

altering the ik pose can help by bending the knees in the expected direction

another way to fix this is to pose the model in the rig configuration so that the legs are straight

sometimes characters, especially chibi ones, will have this stance on purpose, since their legs get bigger as the go down, or they have large feet, but the ik targeting for the feet will remove this stance anyways. If you want to keep it, i'd suggest changing the ik pose to have the legs further apart, and using an additive animation on the base layer that disables with fbt

[umbral oriole]

question are the hair and glasses parented properly?

[harsh hedge]

in blender or unity ?

[rare jacinth]

Ohhh gotcha and I have to go into the area where I set the bones? Im sorry if you have a visual by chance that would be much appreciated 🙏

[umbral oriole]

in blender since thats where they look off

like are they in a seperate collection or properly under the amrature

[harsh hedge]

in the same collection

under my armature

[umbral oriole]

hmm and its only with the glasses and hair?

[harsh hedge]

yes

[arctic ginkgo]

if you select your fbx for your avatar you should see this menu, click on "configure" and then you can adjust the rotation of the leg bones

[harsh hedge]

and only in blender

[umbral oriole]

what are you trying to do in blender btw? cause if when reimported to unity it looks fine i would suggest ignoring it

[harsh hedge]

i'm trying to edit the shapekey and some cloth for my avatar

[umbral oriole]

in thats case just focus on the clothes then

[rare jacinth]

Oh! Thanks a bunch ill make sure to look there 🙂

[umbral oriole]

unless the hair and gl;asses stay messed up in unity i wouldnt sweat it tbh

[near ice]

can someone help me weightpaint these two shorts please? i can join a vc and stream it

[umbral oriole]

what issues are you having?

[near ice]

i got these two shorts that are like looking weird whenever you spread out the legs

the other pair of shorts has the same issue

im dumb when it comes to weightpainting

[umbral oriole]

do you do the weight painting by hand or use any plug ins?

[near ice]

i weightpaint by hand if needed

idk of any plug ins

[umbral oriole]

ok let me open your eyes oh sweet summer child

[somber sequoia]

Robust Weight Transfer is pretty great for getting you 90% complete

[umbral oriole]

ill send a link to an excelent plug in

exactlyyy

[umbral oriole]

https://jinxxy.com/SentFromSpaceVR/robust-weight-transfer

[near ice]

what do plug ins do?

[umbral oriole]

so basiclyt the plug in does the weight painting for you

[somber sequoia]

depends on the add-on really.

[umbral oriole]

they add extra functions or streamline existing ones,

[near ice]

ok brb let me try this out

[near ice]

yea it still looks weird no matter what source i put

i put body as the source and still looked weird

and tried out a pair of pants that are weightpainted properly and still looked weird

[somber sequoia]

it's not perfect - nothing is

[near ice]

oh wait

im cooking hol on

[umbral oriole]

hell yeah

[near ice]

tysm for that suggestion its fixed now

and if logic applies, i can transfer these weights to the other set of shorts i have right?

[umbral oriole]

yes you can

[exotic nexus]

How hard is it to add custom movement animations to an avatar

Actually is this the right place to ask that

[arctic ginkgo]

adding them? super easy. Animating them yourself? not as much

if you have the animations already, you can just duplicate the example base layer (or the one you're currently using, like gogo loco for example), and just replace all the animations

[exotic nexus]

Got it

I'll find some somewhere

[arctic ginkgo]

mixamo is a good website to look

[dark jay]

Just a simple question is it a bad idea to compress normal maps to 1k from 2k and lq them

[ornate stump]

Reducing max size is not the same as compressing.

[dark jay]

Ah,i meant like reduce it to lower mb size should i be lowering normal map size

Or is it a bad idea on normal maps

[ornate stump]

Lower is always better for performance so lower it until it's acceptable quality.

This applies to every kind of texture.

[dark jay]

So lower it but not too low so its not bad

I generally dont really do it with normal maps unless its 4k so i do 4k to 2k

[ornate stump]

It depends on how small detail is in your normal map and how much you want to retain those detail.

[tame surge]

Quick question:
Do you need all of the finger bones in a hierarchy for you to close your hands?
Im making a model with cartoonier less articulated paws, but they keep clipping through themselves when they make a fist.

[ornate stump]

If the map doesn't have tiny detail then it can go even lower than 1k.

[ornate stump]

Finger bones are optional.

[light charm]

how do i install it properly then? everything else seems to work just fine

[dark jay]

As much as possible while reducing mb

What if i keep them at 2k but lq instead of 1k

[ornate stump]

LQ is the same as MQ.

It applies to compressor parameter. But on PC, MQ is the lowest compressor.

[dark jay]

Low quality is the same as mq?

[ornate stump]

That's what I said.

[dark jay]

Whats mq

[ornate stump]

Medium Quality.

[dark jay]

So normal is mid quality

Or am i wrong

[ornate stump]

It's rather the compressor doesn't have LQ preset for PC texture.

[timber wharf]

@dark jay https://www.poiyomi.com/blog/2022-10-17-texture-optimization

[dark jay]

Ok

[dark jay]

What

Was talking about this

[ornate stump]

That's exactly what I talked about.

[dark jay]

I got confused what u meant by PC doesn't have a lq preset

So what is the lq preset here then

[ornate stump]

That means if you picked LQ, the result would be the same as Normal Quality.

[dark jay]

Ah so for recap no quality would be lost compared to nq

Ive noticed lq reduces mb size so i ask

[ornate stump]

It only affects if you enable crunch compression. But enabling crunch compression is a bad idea on itself.

[dark jay]

Why is that

[ornate stump]

There were a link to detail posted just earlier.

[dark jay]

Ah

[raw citrus]

How do I see my bones in Unity? Blender has em all but for some reason Unity thinks I dont have legs or something?

[umbral oriole]

you kinda dont for the most part in normal view, you can see the bones if you cliock on the fbx and configure

[raw citrus]

I cannot figure these out then. Really stumped with whats infront of me

[ornate stump]

Those are warning and it shouldn't prevent you from uploading.

[umbral oriole]

the fisrt one is the most concerning i would take a look at the fbx

[raw citrus]

Yea still trying to figure that one out. Its a native .vrm I imported. It has bones and ARkit blendshapes bc its made for Vtubing/Nyan. So its def out of my area

[umbral oriole]

ok im opening up a projext to show you where you can go to to make sure the bones are set up properly

[ornate stump]

That said the humanoid bone should be at topmost in hierarchy among its sibling bones.

[raw citrus]

Say it like Im 9 please Unity is scary

[barren hinge]

Hey can anyone upload an avi for me, my pc is out of commission rn and im broke as shi rn so I cant get it fixed 😭

[ornate stump]

It's also better to learn about terminologies.

[raw citrus]

bones?

[ornate stump]

You see the butt bone is the first bone of Upper leg. So move the lower leg bone up.

[umbral oriole]

find the fbx for ther avatar click on it and inthe inpector go to rig

[ornate stump]

They are using vrm converter so fbx file doesn't exist for the model.

[umbral oriole]

oh? damn i didnt know that

never worked with vrm

[raw citrus]

ty both sm!!\

Moving the order worked wonders

[ornate stump]

Next problem is since vrm converter doesn't have fbx file so you can't configure rig to fix incorrect pelvis bone assignment. That's the usual problem with vrm converter.

[raw citrus]

Yea I was thinking about that being the reason. I might upload it just to see what it does with it

I might have to suck it up and convert it. Would give me a chance to change the face shapes from ARkit to Visemes

[gentle mason]

I'm trying to upload this avatar and it keeps saying failed to upload, and shader warning hidden/locked/.poiyomi something how do i fix this?

Its a pc version full

[ornate stump]

Restart unity once and try upload again.

[gentle mason]

it said the same thing again

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot the sdk panel?

[gentle mason]

the alerts?

[ornate stump]

Entire screen.

[gentle mason]

i cant get to my screen shots

[ornate stump]

You aren't able to work on unity right now? Post it when you can.

[gentle mason]

got it

[ornate stump]

Those are just warning and can be ignored. Your problem is the "Failed to upload file".

[gentle mason]

Yeah

[ornate stump]

#avatar-help message

[gentle mason]

i just tried what it said using cloudflare and using a screenshot from the screen and it still said upload fail

[ornate stump]

Have you tried using other internet like mobile hotspot?

[umbral oriole]

are there any other red errors?

[gentle mason]

I'm using ethernet directly connected to my hotspot

i mean router

[umbral oriole]

those would be what prevents you from uploading and if not that then make sure your sdk is up to date too

[gentle mason]

No.

[gentle mason]

its 2022.3.22 right?

[umbral oriole]

wait how many times have you attempted to upload? try closing the project and turning on and off your wifi then upload again

could help

[gentle mason]

ive tried maybe like 5 times

[umbral oriole]

no i mean vrc avatar sdk, needs to be 3.9 or higher

[ornate stump]

Have you tried different internet was the question. How you connect your PC to router doesn't change the internet.

[gentle mason]

Oh yeah its 3.10

[gentle mason]

yeah i just tried hotspot and that didnt work either

[gentle mason]

ill try reopening the project and the wifi again

[ornate stump]

You have to make sure that you disconnect from ethernet first.

[gentle mason]

I did

[ornate stump]

Is your home internet the same provider as your mobile phone?

[gentle mason]

Yeah

[ornate stump]

Is the provider Spectrum?

[gentle mason]

No its xfinity

[ornate stump]

So there were Spectrum and xfinity that often have issue with vrchat server, showing as how often people talked about in the general chat.

The cloudflare warp should be able to bypass that though.\

[gentle mason]

Yeah I'm using Cloudflare and its up to date but for some reason it just keeps saying failed upload

And every time i start to publish the image disappears

[ornate stump]

Just for confirmation, did you enable the warp after installing?

[gentle mason]

Yeah

i clicked enable

this is what it looks like now

[ornate stump]

Is this first time upload for this avatar?

[gentle mason]

first time?

like first time uploading the avatar, yeah

[ornate stump]

Actually not the first time for your entire avatar making career, but that answer works.

[ornate stump]

Go to check in pipeline manager component in the avatar and see if there is blueprint ID attached. If there is blueprint ID, then detach it.

[gentle mason]

Yeah, i did that aswell

do i need to attach a new one after detaching it

[ornate stump]

You must have it blank if you're uploading as a new avatar.

[gentle mason]

Okay i have it blank

[ornate stump]

Make sure warp is on, and upload again.

[gentle mason]

It still says failed to upload file

[ornate stump]

To get more information of what happened during upload, go to Settings in the SDK and enable API Logging.

And start upload again, the console will say a lot more.

[gentle mason]

how do i go to setting in the sdk

[gentle mason]

this is what it says now

[ornate stump]

Click on Failed to Send Request and see if there is more detail written below.

[ornate stump]

No. That's a different one.

[ornate stump]

This doesn't say much other than your internet can't connect to the uploading server.

[gentle mason]

I dont know why though

with Cloudflare

[ornate stump]

Does the API log say the same for both with and without warp enabled?

[gentle mason]

Yeah

[ornate stump]

So check whether you had any other vpn enabled or not.

[foggy nova]

🙁

😭

[ornate stump]

Have you reached New User trust rank?

[foggy nova]

yep

🙁

halo

😢 🥺

[ornate stump]

Also make sure to Autofix the error.

If you just reach New User rank recently, you will have to wait for a few hours until the system update your permission.

[ornate stump]

And spamming doesn't help so don't do it.

[foggy nova]

Renfrw lrumi

[ornate stump]

What is it?

[foggy nova]

wait

Renfrew lrumi >>> teamviewer >>> Foyetiz VRChat 3D

skins pls me

🤷‍♂️

[ornate stump]

Don't send friend request. I don't help in private.

[foggy nova]

)= ok sorry

like

[heady compass]

Does anyone know how to make avatars???

[proven quail]

look up youtube tutorials, and come here when you are stuck with a specific problem

[somber sequoia]

lots of us do, yes.

[ornate stump]

What will you do if someone know how to make avatars?

[heady compass]

You don't wanna know...

[ornate stump]

Then your question was just pointless.

[heady compass]

I thought we were joking it out mb

[ornate stump]

I take this discipline https://dontasktoask.com/

So better stating out what you actually need from people instead of asking if someone can do something that may not even relevant to what you need.

[crystal fulcrum]

hey guys, I have been having a lot of trouble trying to sync my avatar, So Ive been working on this cool menu system for some deltarune avatars but when I do some stuff some people say that they dont see it sometimes, Im not really sure what I have to do to make it sync up, If anyone knows Id appreciate it alot!

[heady compass]

Alright I was asking if anyone could make avatars as in I wanted to know

[ornate stump]

Do you have a next question after that?

If someone can make avatars is a question that can be skipped since you're in avatar help channel, you scroll up abit and you will see lot of people can make avatars.

[vapid slate]

How to export a material from unity?

[sweet charm]

don't make posts like this it'll attract bots lmao

[somber sequoia]

you don't generally do that, but what would you like to import it into?

[vapid slate]

Like a unity package so I can put the material onto a different avatar

Idk if that's even possible

[somber sequoia]

oh just grab the material file itself

[vapid slate]

How

[somber sequoia]

it's literally a file on your disk

[vapid slate]

I'm a little stupid lol

Oh wait

I think I get it now

I'm stupid 🥹

[somber sequoia]

no, you're inexperienced

[vapid slate]

stupid...

I have experience, just not with exporting stuff

[rigid imp]

Hey y’all! ^^ I’m somewhat new to avatar creation and I need a little help with this part. I’m attempting to connect this hairtie to the different shape keys so that it will move with the head’s lip sync, but when I try to move the hairtie into a specific place, the whole body moves with it. Any idea how to fix this issue? Thx in advance!!

[somber sequoia]

Do you have proportional editing on? Hotkey is o

[rigid imp]

I’m not too sure, how do I check?

[somber sequoia]

... o

[rigid imp]

Ohh! The button, okay.

[somber sequoia]

or there's an icon for it at the top of the layout view

looks like a circle with a spot in the middle

[rigid imp]

This thing?

[somber sequoia]

that thing

it's off though, so that's not it.

[rigid imp]

Just turned it off-

._.

[somber sequoia]

oh okay 🙂

[rigid imp]

XD Huh, so don’t have that on, got it. Thx!!

[somber sequoia]

depends - it's really useful

[rigid imp]

Ooh? 👀

If I may ask, how so, for future projects?

[somber sequoia]

it's great for manipulating clothing or organic parts, stretching and pulling and such. The scroll wheel controls the range of what moves along with the selected part

it's probably the primary tool I use to refit clothing

[rigid imp]

Ooh, okay! Good to know! Thanks for the advice! I’ll have to remember that for future creations. ^^

[merry thistle]

Hey guys I think I did something I’m not sure it is but by mistake i disabled the avi face expressions can someone help me to get it back?

[harsh hedge]

why is my hair not moving with my avatar ?

i used CATS to merge my armature

[night ember]

Why is spine not a child of hip
Why is there a head.001

[static sparrow]

does anyone know how to use the updated ComboGesture? ive alwys ever used the drag and drop folder but now its not working so i had to update

[harsh hedge]

head 001 is my hair

[night ember]

Why is it not just head

[harsh hedge]

idk

like this ?

[night ember]

Why is there so many objects labeled as bones

[sharp kayak]

Hey, so I don't have any photos to show so I'll try to explain my problem the best I can.

I am trying to make a puppetry toggle for the first time on my avatars Jaw bone, and there aren't really any good tutorials for that specifically, and nothing I try is working. Can anyone help/teach me?

[night ember]

Wdym puppetry toggle

[sharp kayak]

Like, a puppet menu toggle, where you can move the jaw with the joystick instead of yourvoice

[merry thistle]

.

[night ember]

axis puppet or radial puppet that has the float set as the parameter
in the animation just have a starting frame be the jaw closed
the other frame be jaw opened
then set the float as the motion time in the animation state itself

[somber sequoia]

does the hair object have an armature modifier, pointing at the avatar's armature? is the hair weight painted to the head bone?
Or if the hair has bones, are they a child of the head bone?

[harsh hedge]

like this ( don't mind the hair placement it's just a test )

[somber sequoia]

sure

[hollow maple]

Hey uhhhh,
I've been looking for an human avatar for quite some time now, do you guys have any useful tips?? I've tried getting on public servers and copying other people's ones, but they all have avatar copying disabled 😔

[vapid oar]

How can I get a smooth gradient like a glow without emission using substance painter, ive been playing with it for a bit but I cant find a combination that works well

[cold temple]

Is it possible to invert a contact, i want to setup a contact to toggle something off when i trigger it

[near ice]

how do you add bones to something like earrings for example to give it physics?

[cold temple]

Does your object have an armature?

[near ice]

yea its got neck/head/head_end

[cold temple]

then you should be able to add a physbone to head or neck and it will automatically do the rest

u gotta be in play mode to test it tho

[vagrant dock]

What Should I avoid doing when creating custom hair for avatar?

[near ice]

mkay i'll try it again

[night ember]

just make it when the parameter is true the thing is toggled off?

[cold temple]

I ended up figuring it out by using a separate parameter to toggle it off, but i couldnt have done that as the paramaters true was already toggling it (it was a constraint thing to constrain two models together)

[night ember]

parameter driver

[somber sequoia]

you can trigger whatever you want on whatever conditions you want, so yes.

if contact = on: turn thingy off. etc.

[cold temple]

thing was i alr had a contact for turn thingy on

[near ice]

im trying to give this purple chain physics, i dont think im doing it right

[cold temple]

put the physbone on charm 001

[near ice]

and set root transform to charm001?

[cold temple]

it should automatically do it but yes

[near ice]

still not working

just stays in place attached to the hips

[cold temple]

are you checking in play mode

physbones only move on play mode/on the actual built avatar

[near ice]

yea i did it in play mode and toggled on an emote

[cold temple]

hmm

check the physbone component in play mode

[near ice]

i put random gravity settings just for testing purposes

not sure if it matters

[cold temple]

try removing the root transform

from the physbone

[near ice]

mkay

[spark walrus]

Try "Is Animated," changing the Endpoint position, setting multi child type from ignore to one of the others, switching version to 1.0. One of those'll be it.

[somber sequoia]

note that if you remove that root transform, it means that physbone component must be on the root bone itself

[near ice]

tried is animated and version 1.0, still nothing, idk how to do the other suggestions

[near ice]

yea it should be charm001

which is where the physbone is on

[somber sequoia]

Cool, then you don't also need the root transform slot.

[spark walrus]

ther other suggestions are buttons in the physbone components. look closer

[near ice]

yea still nothing

i put multi child to first, and moved the endpoint

[spark walrus]

You cropped the screenshot with the scene hierarchy. do you have multiple avis? RumiShortsNew, RumiShortsOld. ArmatureRelink targetting old avi?

[proven dome]

Where does the avatar descriptor go on an avatar?

Does it go on the body under hierarchy??

I’m like half asleep trying to help my boyfriend and I just deadass can’t remember 😭

[near ice]

nah just one avi

[arctic ginkgo]

just on the avatar root

[proven dome]

Wdym by avatar root?

[arctic ginkgo]

the main object that everything is under basically

[proven dome]

Armatur eright?

[arctic ginkgo]

no

[proven dome]

ohoh

[arctic ginkgo]

just the main object

like

the first one

if you collapse everything that should be the only one left

[near ice]

this is the only area the chain is in so i dont think other prefabs are affecting it

[proven dome]

This is what he has on his avi he made

[arctic ginkgo]

the one named "ALASTOR"

the first object

[proven dome]

Okay I thought so

Ty ty I appreciate it

[arctic ginkgo]

mhm

it always goes on the object that has everything attached to it

it usually is named the same as the avatar

[fresh quartz]

Anyone know how to make the file size lower I optimized everything already

[balmy barn]

reduce vertices/mesh fluff , remove audio/animations, bake texture or reduce its size (s?) , remove blendshapes you arent using

[proven dome]

( again I remember this when im awake I promise )
Where do we find the meshes to do animations again?

[sudden obsidian]

Hola buenas tardes

[somber sequoia]

what does this mean, and in what program are you talking about?

[proven dome]

It’s for Unity,

[sudden obsidian]

Hello, is there anyone who can help me? I have an age verification problem in VRChat.

[somber sequoia]

click on an object, if it has a (Skinned) Mesh Renderer component, it's a mesh

[sudden obsidian]

and I can't find any means of support to communicate

[somber sequoia]

this channel is about creating avatars, probably submit a support ticket

[proven dome]

My boyfriend and I are struggling lmao I’m trying to help him do animations for toggles and for some reason we also can’t figure out why his blink is not working

[arctic ginkgo]

if you're animating a blendshape for the face it's probably on the "basebody" mesh. In any case, the objects that are directly under the root (aside from the armature) will usually be meshes

sometimes creators will put other things on the avatar root, but all skinned meshes will be siblings of the armature that controls them

[proven dome]

Ok we found the meshes sorryyyyy ( this is an avatar he created he’s still learning everything and is really new to unity and also not used to blender completely ) 😭now we’re having struggles with his blink not working

[arctic ginkgo]

https://help.vrchat.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

[sudden obsidian]

I understand, man. I'm new to creating 3D VRoid models, but I'm having trouble using my custom models.
I'm joining this Discord group now to find out if anything can be done about my problem.

[proven dome]

This is what his blink looks like, he’s clicking preview but it’s not closing the eyes for some odd reason,

[arctic ginkgo]

not sure if this is the root of the problem, but you definitely shouldn't have the blink blendshape in the "looking up" and "looking down" slots

what those are for are blendshapes that move the eyelids up/down a little bit when you look in that direction

[proven dome]

It’s not letting him change it that’s the problem

[sudden obsidian]

Thanks friend

[arctic ginkgo]

he can't open the dropdown?

[proven dome]

Sorry I should be more descriptive 😭

So he has the dropdown and he clicks like look up or look down but it’s not saving the state and is only letting it be blink

[arctic ginkgo]

OH

um tell him to update his sdk

that might be the issue

there was a bug in some recent versions that reverts things back when you change them

[proven dome]

Okk!! We’ll see if that helps, he walked away for a bit

[fresh quartz]

Can anyone help me i am trying to publish my avatar but it says file size is too big even though i deleted some of my clothes and even optimized the compress size

[proven dome]

Oh my god THANK YOU!
It worked!!! I appreciate you so dearly

We both are like breathing fresh air right now 😭

[proven quail]

You reduced texture resolution?

Mesh compression?

Removed mipmaps?

[vagrant dock]

What difference in imposter avatar and a fallback avatar?

[undone creek]

can i help you out ?

[somber sequoia]

sus.

[fresh quartz]

Sorry dm me

[static sparrow]

i made some animations for this prop i made but i cant figure out how to get them to work. im VERY new to animating

[balmy barn]

try to animate everything from root of avatar, having animators other places do work for very simple toggle only - but you cannot talk to them so recommend sticking to one

[viral elbow]

dose anyone know how to fix this?

[somber sequoia]

if that is not the only error, share the first 2-3, ideally showing the whole console

[somber sequoia]

that first one looks like a problem

[viral elbow]

yea

idk how to fix that

[somber sequoia]

it tells you though

[viral elbow]

i thing i know how to fix that one i think let me try something

[static sparrow]

it kinda worked! the box spawned in closed. but the other animations still dont work

[viral elbow]

i tried something and it still says this

[somber sequoia]

explain "something"

[viral elbow]

phys bones

[somber sequoia]

what has that got to do with this error?

[vagrant dock]

How do I pull up vrcfurry?

[viral elbow]

i put it on the body in the hierarchy and not on the avi its self

[somber sequoia]

"it" - you put what on the body?

[somber sequoia]

what do you mean by "pull up"?

[viral elbow]

phy bones

[vagrant dock]

I want to pull up the menu for it

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure why you're working with physbones when trying to fix an error about the "Fix Write Defaults" component

[viral elbow]

ill scrap the avi and do it form the start

[somber sequoia]

just move the component, like the error tells you to do

[viral elbow]

and see where im going wrong

[balmy barn]

you are putting a component that need to be on root of avatar somewhere else

[viral elbow]

oh

[somber sequoia]

The error message literally says this

[viral elbow]

oh

[somber sequoia]

which menu do you mean?

[viral elbow]

how would i fix that?

[vagrant dock]

The vrcfurry plugin…

[somber sequoia]

?

[vagrant dock]

😑

I feel like I'm being trolled

[somber sequoia]

same 🙂

[proven dome]

okay so!! we have one more issue, my boyfriends avatar is now completely ( from our knowledge ) up to the tea on what is done to our knowledge combined?? but now his avatar is doing this thing where when he loads into worlds he can walk around and see things correctly but his avatar is frozen in place and is doing animations

[viral elbow]

do you mean vrcfury

[vagrant dock]

That not a good thing

[vagrant dock]

Yea that what I said vrcfurry

[proven dome]

from the screenshot you sent it literally does tell you your problem, you write defaults are off and some are different than others

[viral elbow]

okie are you wanting the avi upload menu

[proven dome]

you need to have everything as the same write defaults if that makes sense,

[vagrant dock]

Wrong person

[vagrant dock]

Yea

[proven dome]

oohhh i see

yes

[proven dome]

mbmbm

[viral elbow]

send a screenshot of you entire screen moondancer

[proven dome]

^ do need help wih this tho

[vapid slate]

how to export an asset (like a bunny tail) and import it onto a different avi :3

[somber sequoia]

You could drag it into your project window, turning it into a prefab, then copy the prefab file into the other project.

[vapid slate]

how to turn into a prefab? .,.

[somber sequoia]

...

[vapid slate]

i told u yesterday. im stupid

OH WAIT

[somber sequoia]

I probably need to do something else for a while.

[vapid slate]

i read it wrong

im so sorry

i feel bad that u have to deal w my bs

[somber sequoia]

No I don't, I have an ignore button 🙂

[vapid slate]

um ok....?

[somber sequoia]

kidding, I didn't ignore you.

[shrewd path]

im a bit confused becasue im trying to upload my avi but the SDK is being stupid. it refuses to upload when all the info is put in

[vapid slate]

i was about to say what did i doooo...

[somber sequoia]

provide details.

[vapid slate]

how do i do this?

[arctic ginkgo]

so everything is working correctly, but the avatar stays in the same place in the world?

[somber sequoia]

you could copy that object then unpack it (right-click, prefab menu, unpack)

if that's your avatar though this may not work how you think

[ember viper]

Hey so, I have been trying to make an avatar for the past 3-4 hours, and I am honestly way too stoned for this and I think even if i wasn't stoned i would have no idea what I'm doing, I just wanna be a lil dude doin lil dude things, is it possible, if at all, someone can help me just getting the model functional? I have the .blend file, and it's completely rigged already, but i'm not entirely sure what im doing when it comes to VRC avatar stuff or unity as a whole,

TLDR: I'm stoned, lost as fuck, and require an adult.

[proven dome]

yesss, like from his perspective is working exactly as it should but for other people it is frozen in place

[somber sequoia]

So this object, a tail was it? Is it part of the .fbx file?

[vapid slate]

im not sure

[proven dome]

ike it says hes floating pretty much in the spawn section r stnadin , walking , ect.

[somber sequoia]

you'll need to be sure here - if it's in the .fbx then break it up in Blender.

[shrewd path]

so i made my avi, shaders are good and everything else is good, however when i click build/publish, it starts up the process but doesnt ever acutally finish it

[cerulean moat]

does anyone in here have any tips on weight painting an armpit?

[somber sequoia]

"keep trying" - it's a hard spot 🙁

[proven dome]

ex. his screen, then my screen

[shrewd path]

literally i let it sit for 40mins and have had zero progress

[arctic ginkgo]

it's only not moving for other players? and is the player collider moving with you or is that staying still as well?

[shrewd path]

ive logged out and in and nothing works

[vapid slate]

omg i got it working but i dont see it in unity...

i exported it as a unity project and imported it into my other avatar but i dont see it

[vagrant dock]

wait vrcfury automaticaly adds a aminator.........

[vapid slate]

its a missing a mesh

[ember viper]

I am gonna just assume I will most likely get no help from this, which is totally fair, getting an entire avatar working seems like a lot of work, i am gonna keep stumbling and fumbling my way through this process though i suppose 😭

[stable blade]

it moves with me but not for her

its rigged properly i just dont get what this is

[arctic ginkgo]

is the player collider moving or is that frozen as well?

[stable blade]

its moving as well

[arctic ginkgo]

okay this is definitely strange, do you have anything on your avatar that uses constraints?

[stable blade]

im not sure if im being honest

[arctic ginkgo]

well the only thing I can think of is somehow your avatar is being constrained either with "freeze to world" enabled, or using an old vrlabs world constraint

[stable blade]

im not sure if i have anything like that attached to any part of it

[proven dome]

what do you mean by freeze to world by chance??? i dont believe he imported anything with vrlabs\

[arctic ginkgo]

it's a setting on all VRC constraints

[proven dome]

weird,

[arctic ginkgo]

also a lot of assets do come with vrlab's world constraint. Usually prop items that have the option to set them down in the world

that's the old method of doing it, and some assets are outdated, the new method is with VRC Constraint's "freeze to world"

[proven dome]

well the only thing hes imported is poiyomi and the things he created in unity that's why im confused....

[arctic ginkgo]

i'm really not sure then :/

[proven dome]

i appreciate your help sm though!!

im sorry if we just arent understanding :((

[arctic ginkgo]

the best advice i can give really is to try and debug by removing things or by temporarily starting over with unity work. If adding/removing something adds/removes the issue, then you know where to investigate

[proven dome]

okay!

[arctic ginkgo]

i'd start by just dragging in the fbx to the scene, copy+pasting the avatar descriptor, and uploading this. If it works, then you know something else you added may be the problem

I'd also try going to a different world just in case it's not actually the avatar causing the problem

i wouldn't want you pulling your hair out over a world/game bug

[ember viper]

that sounds like a hair pulling moment for sure, if my avatar was working (which it's most definitely not) and i only though it was non functional due to a world / game bug i would be so mad

[proven dome]

sooo he sent me his package and i uploaded it fo myelf and for some reason it is now fized!! so now im going to try to upload it from my side to see if that fixes anything....\

i appreciate your help so much!

[wheat spoke]

Yo does anyone know how to make separate hue sliders for each eye the way I have it currently is using the hue shift but on the head(which the eye are attached on) which currently works for just the one shared slider but for separate eye materials it seems to effect all the materials hue shifts?

[fresh quartz]

My avi i uploaded is all pink how
Do i fix?

[night ember]

Broken shader

Maybe a mat swap?

[vapid slate]

Does anyone want to help me beat up the unity creators for making ts difficult 😂

[ember viper]

where do I sign up?

I have been trying to do this shit since like 12-1pm my time (it's 6PM now) and the progress i've made is quite literally nothing almost

i have my 3d model, and it's rigged, but the bone editing menu is so confusing 😭

[lavish cosmos]

It's a Unity limitation. Hue sliders affect all materials within the same game object. Use Blender to separate eye objects from the rest.

[fresh quartz]

Anyone know how to fix all pink avatar i use toon standard shader

[lavish cosmos]

The materials the avatar came with are using different shaders. Either you have to make materials by yourself and swap them or install the same shader the avatar is already using. Usually they list what shader they're using in the product description.

[ember viper]

I don't know if this is a proper place to ask but, if someone were looking to have someone take a model of theirs, along w it's texture & rig, and just make it a functional avatar (basic default animations n whatnot) how much would it cost and or would there be someone willing to do such a thing for free ( i know there is likely little to no people who would do it for free )

[viral elbow]

how do i fix me clothes?

[left gull]

they seem like they're either rigged to another armature or not rigged at all. how'd you attempt to add them to the model?

[fresh quartz]

They r using poi toon shader

[heavy ingot]

how do i fix this error??

[fresh quartz]

Anyone know how to fix all pink avatar i use toon standard shader

[sharp bluff]

(SEMI-NSFW I guess) I smoothed it out, deleted the interior, painted the texture to hide it. And STILL this appears on unity. What can I do ??

Second picture is to show that Theres technically nothing there

[somber sequoia]

it should be easy enough - put the right bones into the right slots

[ember viper]

yeah uh

let me just get a screenshot of what is confusing me

:d

[heavy ingot]

did you install the texture?

[fresh quartz]

Yes it has the textures it also uses poiyoni shaders

[ember viper]

i just have no idea wtf im lookin at!

it's rigged for game work, not for VSC

so it's uh

a process.

[somber sequoia]

So part of the problem is knowing the bone names for your avatar. If the bones are named weird, you'll need to figure out what they are and put them where they need to be.

[heavy ingot]

is poiyomi installed? dumb question but just asking first haha

[somber sequoia]

those look weird and also you are missing some required, such as lower arm bones

[ember viper]

yeah i know ;-;

[heavy ingot]

bump

[fresh quartz]

Yea but when i put it on it just has all pink

[somber sequoia]

ok so what's confusing then?

[heavy ingot]

can u screenshot the texture file?

[somber sequoia]

Which error? I see no error.

[heavy ingot]

i cant fix the clamping

i cant adjust the blendshapes

[somber sequoia]

what needs fixing though?

adjust how? explain what you are trying to do.

[heavy ingot]

one sec

[ember viper]

I haven't really used something like this, when trying to select bones it tells me it's not under something or another, i can't quite remember the error off the top of my head, and with how it's rigged it's mostly for game work / GFX / Artwork, so it's not really rigged with something like this in mind i suppose

so it's making it a bit more confusing,

[somber sequoia]

come to #avatar-rigging

[heavy ingot]

trying to adjust the clothing to fit around the avatar, the blendshapes is not letting me use the slider

[fresh quartz]

Anyone know how to fix?

[somber sequoia]

"not letting me use the slider" - what does this mean exactly?

[somber sequoia]

fix what

[fresh quartz]

My avatar is all pink

[somber sequoia]

pink is a broken shader/material somehow, you'll have to investigate it

[fresh quartz]

Mmmm okkk so is there an easier way to fix it like to find the broken shader/material

[somber sequoia]

are you in play mode or something?