avatar-help

[ember viper]

no idea what that even is

[somber sequoia]

it's a component you put on an animator state

documented on vrchat's site

[ember viper]

tried searching for an answer online before coming here, couldn't find nothin :(

i see

[somber sequoia]

right here: https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/state-behaviors/#animator-play-audio

[ember viper]

ty i'll take a look into it

gonna get some food in me then tackle it

[sleek agate]

It keeps doing this an i dont know whats causing it

[distant sleet]

im using jerry's template why theres no mapping here?

this is the avatar component

[somber sequoia]

FYI, there's a discord specifically for face tracking, if you don't get help here. It's linked on that vrcft.io page

[distant sleet]

jaw opening is not working

[distant sleet]

ohh

thank uu

[ember viper]

not gonna lie looking at this didn't do much to help me in the way of how to go about setting it up, but i'll figure it out, ty again :D

[opal ferry]

how do I update my SDK?
it said "Make sure you're using SDK 3.9.0 or newer"

but I thought VCC automatically does that?

[balmy barn]

it does not

[mint badge]

is there any fast way to find out what is toggleing an animation bc ive been looking and i cant find it

[somber sequoia]

you put this component onto a state in the animator

[somber sequoia]

what I like to do is disable all the animator layers and enable each one by one to see when things happen

[mint badge]

i mean i know when it happends im just trying to make it a toggle

so when i make both hands to fists claws come out of my hands

but i cant find it anywhere in the animation controllers

[somber sequoia]

Right, so what I suggested might work

[mint badge]

mhm

[frail vessel]

okay, so i changed the colours of my clothing but as soon as i go to play mode they cdhange back to the original colour

[junior void]

Sounds like an animated material

[frail vessel]

i just dragged the colour wheel

like when i change the colour of the material

[mint badge]

anyone?😿

[somber sequoia]

you mean other than what I suggested?

[ember viper]

i still don't know how this works.. sorry im feelin a little foggy headed today, I am in the animation editor, and i've added a state but i still have no idea how or what im supposed to be doing 😭

[somber sequoia]

you add this component to the state, it'll run when that state becomes active

have a single audio source, drag that into the play audio component.

you can have multiple states which use this to play different audio files using the same audio source.

or use this to randomize a list of clips, or do them in sequence or something

[ember viper]

I only need a single state, right? Also, do i put this in here?

like when you click into it

it opens up the animator thing

[somber sequoia]

That is your FX animator, which is where you should be doing this, yes.

[ember viper]

okay making sure, and I only need a single state?

I was trying to follow a video and they were using two, one for on and one for off

[somber sequoia]

I don't know what you want to do. With one state in a layer, that state will always be active, probably not what you want.

[ember viper]

okay

I have a radio object that I can world drop, trying to make it so turning it on plays a one of the few songs I put into the animator component thingy

i would like it to be able to be turned off

and be off by default

[somber sequoia]

entry -> off -> (some condition) -> play a song -> (some other condition) -> back to off

etc, etc.

[mint badge]

idek what exactly you want me to do

[harsh hedge]

is it better to add the VRC avatar descriptor on a PREFAB or on the FBX directly ?

[somber sequoia]

an FBX is a prefab basically, not sure why you'd need another

[mint badge]

i found it now i just need to add a toggle in between

[somber sequoia]

I said here: #avatar-help message

oh but if you found it, great.

[mint badge]

yea idk why its in there supper wierd

[gloomy notch]

Own this model from jinxy was wondering if this is a good model and not sure how to add it to vrchat

[somber sequoia]

is it a model or an avatar?

[main remnant]

Any model should be good. You can check the basics about how to make avatars on this vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSwMz4WcajQ

[rapid stump]

how i fix this? pls help T~T

[somber sequoia]

"missing script" is the issue.

you'l have to install whatever is missing, check the avatar provider's documentation for clues

[rapid stump]

Alr ty

[mint badge]

why cant i put the parameter i put as a condition for an animation?

[harsh hedge]

if i want to move my hair armature, i have to unpack it ? but i wont be able to modify it later ?

[somber sequoia]

why would you move this? If you're going to add stuff as separate prefabs in unity, use a tool like Fury's armature link to connect things.
Otherwise bring it all back into Blender, set it up how you want, and export it as a whole

[harsh hedge]

i can't with modular avatar

i have this bug

[somber sequoia]

I haven't used modular, can't help you there.

[mint badge]

can you not use menu parameters as animation conditions?

[somber sequoia]

of course you can - you have to add them to the animator though

[mint badge]

oh

[somber sequoia]

At the top of the layers is a tab for parameters, go there.

[mint badge]

yea i made one how do i trigger that now

[somber sequoia]

trigger what

[mint badge]

allg it work

[atomic hound]

Anyone know how to deal with this error in vrcc when making a new project?

[fiery linden]

Because, This SDK Error said build failed avatar validation failed

[harsh hedge]

how do i save my model ? because it's not on my folder

the "v2"

[frozen glen]

hello i have came here for some help i am making my first every avatar its not really a human avatar its more of a tank avatar since i am really into tanks i got the 3D model done i think i got the texture down i just dont know what to after that if you can help reach out to me! thank you!

[somber sequoia]

what do you need help with though?

[somber sequoia]

save?

[harsh hedge]

i mean, if i close or delete v2 prefab i can't re-open it

it's not on my folder

[somber sequoia]

what does "on my folder" mean?

[harsh hedge]

this x)

idk how you call it

[somber sequoia]

that is your project window, the previous view you shared is the hierarchy of what's in the scene

project window is actual files on disk, stuff you can put in your scene or attach to your avatar or other things

[frozen glen]

I kinda need help with everything it's my very first avatar I tried to watch videos but it didnt help out one bit

[somber sequoia]

this works better if you ask specific questions

[reef cove]

The animation I made, which works in unity, does not work inside VRC. The animation state changes like it should (I checked with the debugger) and the layer weight is set to 1, but the item does not change. It's making me crazy. The thing I animate is on my hands and the layer is on the fx animator, but things like this usually work and I haven't applied any layer masks. Any ideas?

[somber sequoia]

are you trying to animate humanoid bones?

(because you don't do that in FX)

[reef cove]

The import settings on the prefab says generic, but I can't deny the possibility that it's related

[somber sequoia]

Didn't answer my question, but generic won't get any ik movement

[harsh hedge]

When I press “select,” it takes me to my Fbx, but it doesn't have the changes I made (such as adding my glasses). This means that if I delete “V2,” I will lose everything I added. I would like to be able to save the changes I made.

[reef cove]

Wait, there's an animator on the parent gameobject, maybe it's messing things up
Edit: That was it! The animator was animating the same thing as me, overwriting it

[nocturne frigate]

so someone commed me to make png avis and i went in blender and used the knife tool to cut around the image then exported the model and blah blah but then it errors when i try to upload it, i just wanna know if you would know if somthing is missing
so its just a cut up cube to fit the picture
these are it

its just a cut up blender cube to fit the tex

[round zenith]

When i have my avatar in blender it looks fine, but when i put my avatar in unity it loses its textures and its just gray :( help please

[somber sequoia]

Changes you make in Unity will not be saved to the .fbx, no. They are saved in the unity project, while you work (also hit ctrl+s)

I don't know why you would delete that from the scene though.

[somber sequoia]

Scroll up the list of errors and look at the first 2-3, not the last.

[round zenith]

Help

[somber sequoia]

Yes - you'll have to make new materials in Unity anyway, using the textures that were used in Blender

[round zenith]

😢

It wont take my textures

Theyre in dds format

Do I have to convert them...

[zenith isle]

Can someone help me? I'm very, very fairly new to making avatars for VRchat and i've only seem some videos, this is an mmd avatar i ported for myself and I would like to know why in certain worlds the texture does that? in the mirror

[hidden ferry]

sending the avatar to quest makes the windows security checks fail and I can't use it on any platform. sdk v3.10.1 on linux

[fiery linden]

same too, but it's looks like this

[nocturne frigate]

i realised i needed to add a animator and update sdk but now the avatar is just randomly sideways

in game

[viral elbow]

how do fix this?

[cyan swan]

do u know where i can find a muscular man body and masc head for free (not piracy, actually free dl like for joining a discord server)

[somber sequoia]

you want png

[round zenith]

Okay thank you

[cunning spindle]

my transp texture just nukes my fur around my neck'

what it should be

[somber sequoia]

show the material maybe

[cunning spindle]

also ignore the helmet coloration the unity one is more accurate

[somber sequoia]

"opaque" is not transparent...

[cunning spindle]

it is actually

[somber sequoia]

that's news to me.

[cunning spindle]

wait no

where did you see it

i might be stupid

[somber sequoia]

in your image, at the top of the shader

[cunning spindle]

looks trippy

[somber sequoia]

I'd probably be trying cutout first

[cunning spindle]

made a seperate material for the plume? and set it to cutout

mane?

idk

[cunning spindle]

whgat

wheres the rig tab

[main remnant]

In your assets click on the model and on the inspector you'll have a rig tab

Adding me out of nowhere just grants an immediate block

Probably scammer beware.

[somber sequoia]

yeah, happens all the time here

[barren radish]

what is this error?

[somber sequoia]

I wish that one provided more useful detail

[barren radish]

How do I fix it?

[somber sequoia]

No idea without knowing what's wrong

[gaunt knoll]

xD

[heavy ingot]

emote audio plays upon opening gesture manager, how to stop that? it wont play if toggled either.

i have the audios conneected to an animation toggle

but its playing without being toggled on

also using vr spatial audio

[main remnant]

https://youtu.be/BmXCXP6UsQ8
Watch this

[heavy ingot]

i love you.

thank you

[hot vector]

does anyone know how to fix this

[gaunt knoll]

I know this is pretty dumb but I was bored and wanted to look more into the files of the Creator Companion so I can help people more
I've found a way to add stuff when you load a new project

[gaunt knoll]

you need to delete the parameters as you have deleted the menu

[hot vector]

ohh

[barren radish]

what do you meannnn

[gaunt knoll]

your Vrchat sdk in on 3.9.0

update it

[barren radish]

It's on 3.10

[main remnant]

Try any other image. You can change it later

[hot vector]

does anyone know how to fix this

[rough rose]

no

[hot vector]

[main remnant]

You have probably deleted a parent constraint that is used somewhere

[zenith isle]

does someone have an answer for this lol

[main remnant]

You could have used an actual mirror or at least point the camera at the spot where the texture "does that"

[kind ether]

help

i cant build my avatar

i ned help

[main remnant]

The error is self explanatory

You don't reach the requirements to upload

[kind ether]

nooo

como se consigue? (how i can get it?)

[main remnant]

Playing the game. Read pinned comments on the server

[kind ether]

a ok

thanks you

[zenith isle]

Sure I can rerecord

[gilded vector]

what does this error mean?

Edit: fixed it, modular avatar removed itself for some reason and unity went awol over it

[arctic ginkgo]

use rotation constraints for most bones, parent constraint for the hips

it takes a lot of constraints though

you need to have a duplicate of your avatar's armature with the same constraints

the respective bones target each other (left hand targets left hand copy and vice versa)

then you toggle the components' enabled states

so by default the constraints on your main armature are off, while the copy is on

this way they'll track your body

when you go AFK, turn on the constraints on your main armature (locks your body to the clone armature) and turn off the constraints on the clone (so it freezes in place)

it happens in the same frame, so they just instantly switch places

since the copy isn't being animated/tracked by your body, it should remain frozen

it works the same way as this: https://github.com/VRLabs/Offset-Constraint

well

similarly

the idea here is that instead of keeping track of just rotation, you're keeping track of rotation and position relative to a world-dropped object and the hand you're picking it up with

this way when you pick it up (in your use-case, freeze your body) it gets constrained to the exact position and rotation it was at in that very moment

this makes it very natural to grab objects, since they just get picked up by your hand in the location you grab them at, rather than "teleporting" the center of the object to your hand

for objects that are centered around being world-dropped, I prefer this method, while for hand-held objects that can be world dropped, especially those with a handle (like a weapon for example) I prefer the "teleport" method, so your grip is always aligned correctly

[pure thicket]

i figured it out

[pallid drift]

i think i actually broke my entire project and i need help like now

i thought re opening it would help so the undo button is a no no

i broke it im pretty sure while i was animating the magnum

but i didnt notice

[ornate stump]

If you meant the model stays in bike pose, then use Pumkin's avatar tools to reset avatar pose.

[pallid drift]

i dont think ive ever rushed to google that fast before, thank you

[fair solar]

i uh need help cause i cant really import avi into vrc

[ornate stump]

The screenshot shows nothing important.

[fair solar]

I know I'm noob

Idk what to send

Just 312 warnings looked funny

[ornate stump]

Warnings can be ignored.

[fair solar]

I'm reinstalling unity rn

If it occurs again can you let me know what I should send here?

[ornate stump]

Just screenshot the entire unity screen that's showing a sign that doesn't let you proceed.

[fair solar]

Kk

[ornate stump]

reinstalling unity is just very unnecessary.

[fair solar]

Editor didn't install properly

That's why

I just had to remove my tunneling and firewall

To install it properly

Sorry its kinda like my first time with avis

[fair solar]

is it supposed to open the projects from vcc straight up or is it supposed to put me on unity hub ?

[ornate stump]

It should open unity editor. If you just reinstalled it, go to double check unity path in the VCC settings.

[fair solar]

set it up as 2022.3.22f1

but it opens unity hub for some reason

[ornate stump]

Check the installation path.

[fair solar]

seems right when i backtrack

C:\Program Files\Unity\Hub\Editor\2022.3.22f1\Editor\Unity.exe

[ornate stump]

Does the file really exist there?

[fair solar]

yeah i just checked

both uninstall and unity .exe files are there

[ornate stump]

Was there any dialog show some message when you clicked on Open Project?

[fair solar]

nope ill check again

[ornate stump]

Also screenshot the unity path in vcc settings to confirm.

[fair solar]

yeah checked

[ornate stump]

Screenshot to confirm it.

[fair solar]

should i send it to you cause i did ??

[ornate stump]

When did you?

[fair solar]

i didnt send the screenshot i was meaning i took a screenshot

i can send it if u want

lemme

gimme a second

discord is acting all fucky

[ornate stump]

When people helping you asking for screenshot that means they want you to send them screenshot of what they asked for.

[fair solar]

https://imgur.com/es6zCGU

i cant send pics for some reason

imgur.com/SAawHbK

just add https:// to last one

[ornate stump]

The bot is preventing people spamming links.

[fair solar]

straight up pictures cause of my vpn probably

so i sent imgur link

[ornate stump]

No. It discriminated against anyone posting multiple link too fast.

[fair solar]

i know

i was saying something else

i had to send links

because could not send images

[ornate stump]

In this case, try adding your project into the unity hub*(not creating a new project)*, and try opening it from the hub instead.

[fair solar]

also this is what happens if i try to open a 2022.3.22f1 and add vrchat avatar sdk 3.10 to it https://imgur.com/eyaAneJ

aaaaa

there u go fixed the link

[fair solar]

trying that rn

[ornate stump]

Is that what you had before reinstalling?

[fair solar]

same thing yeah

[ornate stump]

Look for the topmost red error.

[fair solar]

it gave me an error when i tried to open the vcc file https://imgur.com/qcJ8Hj8

[fair solar]

they dont own the avi ?

idk what u mean

[ornate stump]

No. Scroll the console up to see more.

[fair solar]

aight boss gimme a sec

oh says vrcfury and gesturemanager

seems like i need em

[fervent spear]

hi guys i noticed my arm bone was not very straight (birds eye view of the arm btw), was wondering if it affects the avatar at all if its not completely straight? and if it would matter if i straightened it?
sorry if this is a dumb question

[junior void]

the elbow should actually have a slight bend so that the ik knows in which direction to bend it when you move your arm

[fervent spear]

ohh ok thanks!

[tiny dock]

how do you make an animation clip play passively?

wait nvm i have an idea

[junior void]

passively?

[tiny dock]

as in playing without turning it on

i think i'm just gonna have it default on as a toggle that's easier and allows it to be turned off

i'm trying to make wall nut from plants vs zombies and i made an idle animation out of blendshapes

[junior void]

you can surely use contacts to drive a parameter and animation or use another parameter to drive something else

[fervent spear]

hey i have another question, for the spines and chest bones, are they okay like this or are they supposed to be straighter? planning on trying fbt soon and wondering if it will affect it or not
(i just saw other rigs and they looked kinda straighter than this lol)

[tiny dock]

i believe they're normally straighter

i make mine that way but i do very unconventional rigs most of the time so i'm not 100%

[fervent spear]

oo alright, thankyou

[arctic ginkgo]

just put it in your animation controller?

like just put it in a new layer...

[rugged night]

Trying to lean how to make an Avatar for the first time... idk waht I'm doing, but it feels like me brain is eploding

[ornate stump]

https://discord.com/channels/189511567539306508/1139228456090087495

[rugged night]

I still don't understand ;-; (sorry)
Feels like my brain is being blended

[main remnant]

Watch tutorials, read pinned comments, and if you still don't get the basics you might want to work on your attention span

[pine fable]

hi so uhhhhh
gogoloco issue
is this a common thing to happen?
i can't find it online anywhere, the positioning is just really off for the limbs when doing some specific laying down poses.
also is this fixable? i dont wanna spacedrag every time i lay down with gglc

[lavish cosmos]

Idk the exact cause of it but I had the same problem. I fixed it by clearing the sitting controller (the one below fx controller) in my avatar descriptive component

[junior void]

if you mean the legs being so stretched, i can imagine that unassigning toe bones from the rig might work. i had something similar where the foot overly stretched just like in your picture

[alpine turret]

So, ive been fighting with making this avatar work for a bit, and i finally have fixed the rigging issues i had on my own with the help of some youtube tutorials and whatnot, but i have a new issue. Every time i load in with the avatar, or enter play-mode in unity, his face does... This? How would one go about fixing this strange expression?

[pine fable]

this is actually really smart. i'll try this later.

thanks

[gray copper]

I tried uploading and this happened. What can i do? I tried using vpn. Stuff like this happens for the first time

[main remnant]

The animation is being enabled first thing

[alpine turret]

?

[gaunt knoll]

I believe he's trying to say thats your idle position in your gestures

[alpine turret]

Well I found out what the issue was, cause it turns out it wasn't an expression, it was the jaw being bound to the wrong bone...

[grim crescent]

looking for help from someone whos good with particles

[gaunt knoll]

Anddddd

[grim crescent]

i need help to make a visualizer for a piano

[torn hound]

i cannot find this anywhere, and its been preventing me from doing anything with any models, idk what it is. i make a new project, it immedietly doesnt allow me to upload, its just constantly stuck forever :c

[junior void]

That's not going to prevent you from uploading

Are there more errors or anything in the upload screen?

[grim crescent]

anyone able to help me make a visualizer for my piano?

[ember viper]

I feel so stupid but I still am having trouble figuring out the Animator Play Audio component, and how to use it to cycle through different audios from one source

i have made two states, one for on and one for off, but I don't know how to make it switch between them

[balmy barn]

except not random , if you trigger parameter Audio = 1 - 2 - 3 it plays those , 0 stops it

[fickle ivy]

Is it not possible to animate a bones position/rotation if its being used by the player? Like can I animate the hand bone moving to a different location from the players hand?

[timber wharf]

@fickle ivy it can be done via humanoid bones being empty (unweighted) and mesh using bone copies with rotation constraints to original bones

same as second set of hands just first one being invisible

you probly can try just positon constraining actual upper hand but i think it will be more broken? maybe not

[fickle ivy]

Ahhh Yeah I had a feeling I would have to do that. So simply put. Duplicate hand. no weight. just constraints. One invisible. When I start animating they flip

Just oh boy a lot of work just to do that lol

[gaunt knoll]

ohhh i guess thats how my friend animated their legs differently

[smoky anchor]

hi, i'm applying animations to some of my assets to give them shape, is there a way to make an aaset do HALF an animation ?
Like here the wings up animations make my wings go way to straight in the air, is there a way to make my asset do half of this animation ? (going through all the value and dividing them by 2 would take forever ngl)

[dense meadow]

question that probably is answered somewhere im too blind to see- i wanted to make two separate versions of an avatar i already had uploaded and set up so i duplicated the project folder, but the sdk has both projects uploading to the same avatar. is there a way to disconnect it and upload the duplicated one as a separate avatar? or is there a better way of doing this? i just didnt want to start an entirely new project and have to set up all of the base avatar things again :,)

[still shuttle]

Just detach the blueprint id from whatever version you want to be a separate avatar and then upload again

[dense meadow]

OH DUH- i knew it'd be something super obvious lmao. thank you!!

[south rain]

How do I stop my avatar from breathing? Is that a blender thing?

Like the tummy moving in and out

[torn hound]

nope, its mainly just gets stuck on a singular thing for like hours

i left it at this for over like 2hrs once,

[heavy zephyr]

You can play half of the animation's length using motion time or transitions with exit time.

You might be able to get the animation to affect you by half if you use it in a blendtree and have the basic pose as one animation weighted 0.5 and the full wing animation weighted the other 0.5 but unsure on that.

[smoky anchor]

i tried using a motion time paramaeter set to 0,5 as we can see in my screenshot, and it did not affect the animation.
As for the blend tree i'm not sure if i got it the way you explained it but my goal is not to set a toggle with a blend tree but just to play half of the animation, if i can how do i do this through a blend tree ?

[heavy zephyr]

You'll have to specify what you mean by half the animation

[stable citrus]

Which shaders are you using in your project?

[torn hound]

just poiyomi

[smoky anchor]

look a the big wings
this is the full animation (pic 1)
This is half the animation (pic 2)
that's what i want to add to one pair of the small wings on my neck

[stable citrus]

Make sure it is up to date then

[torn hound]

it is

[heavy zephyr]

How many keyframs does your animation have? Cause you could just delete the last half and that would do it

[smoky anchor]

like i bring all the right dots to 0:005 ?

i can't xd i tried

[stable citrus]

Is your avatar that's quite heavy ?

If you have a lot of material, it can take a long time.

I had the same problem on one of my projects, but I solved it just by updating the poiyomi shader.

[heavy zephyr]

Oh I see, no, legit just move the right part to an even number like 0.006, put the line at half that 0.003, click on the second button after your animation name (that will create a keyframe at that time for all values) and then delete the last keyframes at 0.006

[torn hound]

nope, the avatar is very small, its a genshin avi so it barely has like 4-5 materials at most

[smoky anchor]

hum it snaps to O:00 and 0:01 i cant go in the 0:00x

[heavy zephyr]

Then 0.02, as long as it's even, works

Just put to even, got to half, create keyframe, delete end

[smoky anchor]

i did it i build and test

changed nothing, strange

[heavy zephyr]

uh-

[stable citrus]

Try changing all of your avatar's material shaders to another one (exemple VRChat/ToonShader or StandardToon).

If the upload goes through successfully, the problem is definitely caused by the poiyomi shader.

[torn hound]

hmm, possibly. its jsut such a weird error and gets stuck uploading

[smoky anchor]

the animation have the same pose at both timeframes

[heavy zephyr]

right, that's dum-

[stable citrus]

Lmk if it works

[smoky anchor]

it's ment to work with other a,imations in a blend tree, i'm just trying to use a single one
is there a way to tell the asset "ok go make the animation half up, half spread" or smthg like that ?

[wispy zealot]

so uhh my rig is completely fucked

[zenith isle]

Hello, i'd like help with something that has been troubling me lately, ive recently began making avatars to vrchat and this one is ported from an MMD model the avatar is for my own use, I'd like to know why in the second video his face looking like it's glitching? Only happens in certain worlds, in the first video that doesn't happen at all, is it a shader issue? i'm using the toon shader with outlines on

[lavish cosmos]

I’ve noticed that whenever it happens it happens to most of the avatars in the same world. And yeah usually this happens in MMD. I think it’s the lighting of the world, not avatar shaders

[haughty plaza]

why does vrchat assume there arent bones when they are selected here

[pallid drift]

trying to make it so you can remove the orange sleves by hiding the sleve mesh and replacing it with a custom mesh, but it doesnt seem to move where the old sleve mesh did, how can i fix this?

[lavish cosmos]

double check your hand/feet bones. it looks like you did select them but the green human thing is missing them (gray hand/feet)

[haughty plaza]

do you need to have them weight painted to something?

some of my bones dont have weight painting

[zenith isle]

So I don't need to fix anything? I have other mmd avatars from other creators and they don't do that, so i'm stumped

[pallid drift]

nvm i got it

[rapid stump]

How i fix this

[balmy barn]

colliders and cloth used? they will collide with your avatar and send you flying around randomly unless set to 'is trigger'

[rapid stump]

how i do that im new at this

[balmy barn]

you'd want to avoid using cloth its terrible and local for one , but if using colliders with it they must be set 'is trigger'

[rapid stump]

Alr Ty

[alpine turret]

Would it be possible for some to help me put an avatar's head onto a different body? (Both are already rigged, I'm just having issues actually making them work together)

[tired vapor]

hey iv got an issue with finding where an avi was bought, would i ask for help in this channel?

[round wadi]

Hello! I'm recently new in avatar making but I need help, I've been working on this 2d avatar for ages and the SDK wont work at all, it keep son glitching and the first tow tabs work but never the third one. HELP PLEASE

[gaunt knoll]

your on a unsupported unity for Vrchat

[round wadi]

I am? Which one woudl you reccomend?

[gaunt knoll]

the supported one that CC makes you download

2022.3.22f1

[round wadi]

Let me change it in settings rq, ill update if that fixed it!

[gaunt knoll]

you dont do it in unity hub if thats what your doing

[round wadi]

I changed it to that on creator but then it brign sme to the hub

[gaunt knoll]

as you need to download it from unity hub

and then open the project in CC

[round wadi]

im sorry to ask this but, how would i download it?

[round wadi]

OOOH- I alreayd changed that, let me try and mess with soemthing rq

So this keeps happening everytome i try and change it

should I just make a new one?

[gaunt knoll]

@round wadi

[round wadi]

heres al that i installed

[gaunt knoll]

yes and none of those are supported

uninstall them if you dont use unity 6

all that vrchat care about is 2022.3.22f1

[round wadi]

Ooohhh, let me do that rq!

[round wadi]

Okay im back and I was wondering, what shoudl i change the vrc sdk sicne its red and everijme i boot it up it is always a mess

[gaunt knoll]

What do you mean red?

[round wadi]

Okay if you look to thr far right theres pluses and one minus thats red

[gaunt knoll]

That's normal

[round wadi]

Oh so proceed woth it?

[gaunt knoll]

Yeah you press open project

[round wadi]

Okay so- now its jsut jot showing vrc sdk at all now

Let me look bakc to see what I did wrong g

[gaunt knoll]

2022.3.22f1 you are not

[round wadi]

Wait

...wait did you say 22 and nkt 62

Okay so Tuesday Vrc cc IS 22 but for some reason the unity hub wont let me choose anything else but this one

[gaunt knoll]

Bottom left install other editor

[gaunt knoll]

Hang on your interrupting my fishing session xD

[round wadi]

sorry man, i just thought it be easier than this, of course not ToT

[gaunt knoll]

I've got cookies to get 🤣

aaa i see now as it an older unity you have to go into their website and download it there now

https://unity.com/releases/editor/whats-new/2022.3.22f1#installs

[round wadi]

Thank You!!

[blazing marlin]

how would i make this disappear from the view point like anything attached to the head bone, without it moving with the head bone?

[round wadi]

I keep getting mroe issues ToT

[heavy zephyr]

Use the head chop component

[round wadi]

and now its gone...

[blazing marlin]

bless

[hot vector]

does anyone know the solution to this?

it prevents me from uploading my avi

[lavish cosmos]

Looks like an error from SeeThroughHair component. Find the component from hierarchy. It's likely on hair mesh. Remove the component. If you really need it, follow the instruction and add it again. The instruction is at https://booth.pm/en/items/6610175

[modern creek]

Does anyone know how to add a texture into a Skin Slider?

[hot vector]

I tried looking for it but it's not there

[plain lava]

Any idea how to get the texture without a texture id in Roblox?

[alpine turret]

?

[lavish obsidian]

can somebody explain to me, why does my model follow the bone correctly in Blender but not in Unity, even though I transferred it correctly?

[balmy barn]

depends if you know blender somewhat, seperate head from other av - delete bones not needed (anything from neck and down usually) export that somewhere as fbx, load up other av you want it on , chop its head off/hair remove useless bones it might have after , import the other head adjust , merge armatures , select new head root bone merge , remove empty bones again after ((** tldr ; youtube tutorials or you get a wall of text ** )

learning navigating blender and stuff is the 'fun' part, practice and its pretty fast

[still thunder]

is there a way to prevent toe movement on an avatar with an animation? for example, turning off toe rotation so they dont clip through the mesh of certain kinds of footwear

my first guess is the animator tracking controller, but idk if that would stop movement of the whole foot or not

[ornate stump]

It usually is using blendshape to shrink body part.

[still thunder]

well, in my case, the footwear is high heels

so the feet would hella clip through due to the difference in toe rotation point

[low hedge]

Has anyone else come across this issue when using the CATS plugin on an MMD model? She works in every other area, except for her hips twisting like this, and I haven’t been able to find a solution… (I have also used the humanoid rig, with everything lining up well in the configuration menu, and no sign of the cause of this issue)

[ornate stump]

Then your should would be either make the high heel have toe bones, or unassign toe bone from amature entirely.

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot how the model look like in unity?

[low hedge]

My computer is currently going slow right now, but I’ll try and send an image as soon as I can

Got it (...well, the main scene)

[ornate stump]

Select the Left Leg bone and screenshot again.

[ornate stump]

And pro tip: only ping when you got what I asked for. If you ping on any message prior, there is a high chance that I go to do something else and forget about you.

[mint badge]

hallo im trying to add a energy sword type thing to my avi rn (im editing an avi) and im trying to make the sword the same texture as the claws that are already on the avi how would i do that? the texture is just 2 diff colors as far as i know

[balmy barn]

extremely small hip on that avatar , its inside spine

[ornate stump]

What do you mean making them same texture? Like merging or atlasing?

[mint badge]

so the first one is the sword i made and the sec one is the claws that are already on the avi

and the avi has like hue shift in stuff build in so i was tryna reuse the texture if yk what i mean

[low hedge]

I see. How should I go about removing it from the spine?

[ornate stump]

Is it really a "texture" that you talked about? Textures are image files that's used in materials.

[mint badge]

this is the texture file yea

[ornate stump]

The models must have correct uv map for the texture. So try putting the material onto the sword and see the result.

[mint badge]

it just makes this

i mean theres all these diff maps and i kinda can guess what they do but thats about it lol

[ornate stump]

That means you have to edit the sword model to move uv map to the correct location.

[mint badge]

how would i do that

[ornate stump]

Edit the model in blender.

[mint badge]

i mdde the sword in blender and just moved it into unity

[mint badge]

ahhh

[low hedge]

Should I reparent the hip to the spine?

[ornate stump]

Did you do the uv unwrapping?

[balmy barn]

you'd want the hip under spine , not inside it - id also straighten the bones abit - default has wonky bones

[mint badge]

wouldnt that kinda break everything?

[mint badge]

idek what that is so prob not

[ornate stump]

Why it would?

[mint badge]

like animations n shit like that

idk i like never work with blender

[balmy barn]

uv have to be somewhere on your texture , that is blender

[ornate stump]

Didn't you just say you made the sword in blender?

[mint badge]

yea but dont i have to put the whole model in blender?

and that was like the 2nd time ever i used blender

😭

[low hedge]

So I should just move where my spine bone is?

[ornate stump]

You only have to make change to the sword model.

Not the entire avatar.

[mint badge]

oka

i still got it open in blender

[ornate stump]

Then edit the uvmap. If you don't know about uvmapping, there are lot of tutorial for it.

[mint badge]

eh okay

[low hedge]

If I may ask, which mode in blender is this? It’s a little hard to see the hip bone in edit mode for me

[ornate stump]

Edit mode.

[low hedge]

Okay

[mint badge]

ok ig i kinda understand it but is there a way to add it to the existing uvmap?

or can i just add one bc my goal is just to be able to use the already existing avi texture

[ornate stump]

Each object has its own uvmap so if you unwrapped the entire sword, there won't be any uvmap left exists for the sword.

[dusty orchid]

Hi all, I'm completely new to making avatars and would love if someone could give me some guidance, and maybe help point me in the right direction. Right now I'm trying to start simple, and just combine an avatar base with a head, I believe the best way to do this is to import the fbx files into unity, scale them and then combine the meshes?
I've been able to successfully(I think) do this, and then export the new combined fbx file into unity.

My main questions are, does it look like the armatures combined correctly, secondly why can I not change the materials/textures on the head? everything is grayed out in the settings I'm confused what I did wrong, and third it says a polgyon of mesh 'body' is self-intersecting and has been discarded, in blender I did merge by distance, I thought that would stop an error like this from occuring, what happened and should I be concerned?

note: I just grabbed a couple random heads to test out this is not one I was going to use lol

[junior void]

So the rig hierarchy is incorrect. head should be under neck

you cannot edit embedded materials that are part of a model, extract them or make new ones in unity and apply

the self intersecting warning can be problematic but doesnt have to be. if your model looks fine both out and inside of play mode, i wouldnt worry. this happens often for things like mouths, eyelids etc where its likely that polygons are squished

[dusty orchid]

This is set up in Blender yeah? Is there a specific hierarchy that people follow? As for the materials, it's weird because the head came with all the PNG and PSD files for the textures and without importing them into unity the textures don't show up, how do I make them into independant materials that I can actually manipulate and edit?

I appreciate your time btw, thank you!

[low hedge]

Didn’t think to ask, the placement of the hip will affect how the CATS plugin makes it appear and affect the rig, right? Because after using the CATS plugin for the first time and looking at the hips bone now I realize that the hip incredibly minuscule…

[stoic zinc]

Hey everyone, I recently started working with avatars, and when I download an avatar it downloads as a WinRAR file and I can't open it in Unity. Could someone help me?

[dusty orchid]

Are you using winrar to extract the contents of the rar?

[stoic zinc]

I tried both but without success.

The file looks like this to me.

[dusty orchid]

you have to unzip/extract that file

i believe

[mint badge]

ok so i did that now how do i import it into unity? is it saved with the object?

[junior void]

Yes, the usual setup is what youre expecting irl. Hips -> Spine -> Chest -> (optional upper chest) -> neck -> head -> eyes. From hips, you also got both legs, shins, toes. From chest or upper chest if available, you got shoulders, elbows, and hands. Fingers and toes are also optional, a rig doesnt need them in order to qualify as a humanoid setup.

As for the materials, go to the import settings of the head. On the last page you can extract materials which you can then edit and apply.

[ornate stump]

The same way as you did before.

[mint badge]

oh shit it worked tysm

i just fucked the model somehow

[alpine turret]

?

[mint badge]

is there any way to best find out the uv map for the claws? so i can recreate the same texture effect (there is like a secondary collor as the rim)

[ornate stump]

Inspect the object mesh asset, it change preview type to show uv map.

[mint badge]

in unity?

[ornate stump]

In unity.

[ornate stump]

If you can import into blender, you can see it from there too.

[balmy barn]

then you can move it around if you want it to be somewhere else on a texture

[mint badge]

trying to find it in blender rn

found it

looks like that are the claws

[alpine turret]

I really need help.

[junior void]

well, where are you stuck at

[mint badge]

so now texture n everything works but the hue change doesnt work

😭

[junior void]

using poi?

[mint badge]

dont think so i have amplifyshadereditor

on this avi

[junior void]

dont think so?

is the new thing using the same material

[mint badge]

yes

[junior void]

ok so how is it "not working"

are you using gesture manager to test?

is it an auto rolling hue, a menu setting one?

how is the hue shift set up? manually or vrcfury?

[mint badge]

so i got a whole bunch of "skins" that are just hue changes but those dont apply to the new object for some reason

[junior void]

sorry that answers none of my questions

[mint badge]

its menu settings

this is the shader thing idek

and the "skins" are just animations that change those values

idk more

[junior void]

Well then i guess you have to learn how to operate/debug amplifyshadereditor scripting

id argue the most common shader used for pc is poiyomi, probably closely followed by liltoon. And those are just guis with shader settings, not node style scripting. So we, the poi users, will have no clue what this is that you got there

[mint badge]

yea i just tought it would just work bc same texture n everything

and when i change the color in unity it does change for everything

[junior void]

I cannot speak for the shader you got there but for poiyomi, you have to mark material properties "as animated" for them in order to work, otherwise the material locks down and the value is unchangeable

[mint badge]

ohhhhhhhh

[junior void]

maybe there is something similar, where you need to tell the shader to include that sword mesh

[mint badge]

that might be it icl

i might have just bricked the shader tho lol

[alpine turret]

this is the effect i've managed to achieve after working through the night, the model looks fine, has no rig errors, but when entering play mode... Splat.

[junior void]

did you merge pieces while a blendshape was active

looks like base is messed up

[balmy barn]

base (probably) shapekeys broke , hope you have backups - if it doesnt affect head you can shape propagate

[alpine turret]

thank yall for the ideas, just uh...

Im like, really new to the whole avatar stuff, and blender and whatnot in general, so all ive been able to do so far is add toggles onto bases, and decided to give myself a challenge of... This. So if yall could, please try and explain what those mean? XD

[balmy barn]

ive done this too when i delete things in blender, so now i tend to part it before i delete havnt had one explode since

[alpine turret]

Okay

So part, yeah?

[mint badge]

dont see anything like that

[mint badge]

ok i found the problem

and idk if theres a quick fix

bc the skins are done with animation it animates the body mesh itself not the shader

so i would have to edit every skin and change every lil number by hand

or can i just combine meshes?

[stray trench]

i added face tracking to an avatar and hopped on vrc on desktop to check it and the mouth doesnt move? i have visemes enabled and face tracking off

[stray trench]

read what i wrote again

im testing it on desktop, checking visemes, obviously face tracking off does not matter lol

[hot vector]

I need help, im unsure how to fix this issue

[gaunt knoll]

You havent added a package you need

[hot vector]

yep i fixed it

but now i ran into this

[gaunt knoll]

message wataam about that

not a vrchat thing its someone in the community

also i think its ment to be on the base avi not the clothes

[hot vector]

it is on the base avi

[stable citrus]

Hey, before uploading your avatar try to test all individual face tracking blendsshapes inside Unity Editor in play mode with Av3Emulator

[stray trench]

im pretty sure face tracking works, but the normal viseme based mouth movement doesnt seem to be working

[junior void]

did you enable visemes in the radial menu?

how did you add ft anyway? some third party package? installation via vrcf?

[stray trench]

yes i did

[stray trench]

i used hash's face tracking which comes with a prefab of the avatar that has the ft blendshapes on it already

it requires jerry's ft add on which i do have installed

[junior void]

ok so have you had a look at the animator states to make sure the viseme toggle works as it should

[gaunt knoll]

you have Vrcfacetracking app on

[harsh hedge]

how can i group my 3 meshes without merging them ? ( i want to control each one individually in unity later )

[gaunt knoll]

Create a parent object

[harsh hedge]

an empty ?

[gaunt knoll]

yeah I belive you select them then press the object tab and press join

then that makes one of the objects a parent

[stray trench]

no as I dont really understand anything related to the animator

but ill watch some videos and try to figure it out

[balmy barn]

quickest way to test, remove any controllers and upload a test version , otherwise be sure you filled all visemes - one missing it breaks the entire thing ingame

[stray trench]

is there a way to make these teeth move along with the mouth? instead of just floating

i assume itd need done in blender but im not sure what would need done

[timber wharf]

theyd need to be merged with the same mesh as mouth if not already and follow same blendshapes (ie edited for each blendshape individually). if it have visemes and not just jaw flap

[stray trench]

the avatar does have visemes

if i merged the meshes would it just work?

[timber wharf]

no

youd need to select each viseme (blendshapes in unity, shape keys in blender) and 'bend' teeth to look good for every current mouth shape

[stray trench]

oh man thats tedious

[timber wharf]

well unless theyre already have their own blendshapes

[stray trench]

it has blendshapes for the teeth being next to each ot her, or being farther apart

[timber wharf]

if its just one or two then prob wont help much

[stray trench]

yeah probably not, ill just leave it alone

[brittle condor]

extremely confused about how colliders work

I want it so that the legs don't clip through the skirt but no matter what I do it doesn't work how I want it to. I've tried colliders on the legs but the either make the skirt balloon up or don't work at all. Skirt phys bones are at near maximum stiffness but that only helps a little

[gaunt knoll]

add angel limiter to the bones

[brittle condor]

which ones? skirt or legs?

[gaunt knoll]

skirt

[brittle condor]

it doesn't seem to have changed anything, the skirt still floats up when i move

[gaunt knoll]

is that because you have changed the gravity of the phys bones

[brittle condor]

the gravity is at 0

really all i've changed is the stiffness'

[gaunt knoll]

yeah that would be why you have zero gravity turned on

[brittle condor]

but the legs are still clipping through. I know the answer is colliders but I'm confused as to how to set it up

[gaunt knoll]

then on the thing you want it to not clip on

[brittle condor]

for some reason the capsule is reallyyyy big and I can't fine tune adjust it

[gaunt knoll]

you have to edit in the script not in the move tool

[brittle condor]

how do i edit its script?

[brittle condor]

it's still quite big. if I make the height smaller than 1 it just becomes a sphere

[gaunt knoll]

0 all of those in the transforn

and add 1 to the scales

[brittle condor]

but won't that make my leg bone distort?

[cosmic scaffold]

im trying to port a gmod model to vrc, but im having some problems and hard time

anyone that could guide me or something?

[gaunt knoll]

No thats ripping models you wont find help on this discord

[cosmic scaffold]

what is ripping models meaning

[gaunt knoll]

aaa got you you have to make it as a game object not on the leg itself

[gaunt knoll]

you taken a model from a game and putting it on another game

[cosmic scaffold]

and is that wrong?

[brittle condor]

oh? how do I do that?

[gaunt knoll]

yes it's called copyright infringement and you can go to jail for it

[gaunt knoll]

it doesnt go on the leg its self its their own object

[brittle condor]

ohhhhh I see

so like, an empty with phys bone collider?

[gaunt knoll]

YES

[cosmic scaffold]

85% of the vrc avatars are from other games??

[brittle condor]

i see now! so how would I connect it to the leg mesh so it applies to it?

[cosmic scaffold]

what

[gaunt knoll]

wrong guy

[gaunt knoll]

then you click or drag the thing you want it to connect to

[brittle condor]

aw, the capsule got huge again,,

[cosmic scaffold]

what am i supposed to do here

[gaunt knoll]

just make it smaller

[gaunt knoll]

read?

[cosmic scaffold]

why tf would i read

[brittle condor]

it won't let me resize it 🙁

[gaunt knoll]

i dont believe you

jk

can you send a video of you trying you resize it

[brittle condor]

here's what it looks like when root transform is set to none, I can make it fit her leg

[junior void]

You can just... Close it

[brittle condor]

and then...

[stoic zinc]

Does anyone know how I can fix this bug? It's the reason I can't use the access?

[junior void]

Divide by 100. This happens when the avatar was re exported from blender with different scale that originally

[brittle condor]

it's still quite big and won't fit around her leg

[balmy barn]

colliders arent reliable , id rather use angle limits and weighted to legs/separated to skirt bones after , exsample using zero colliders (skip to half ish for unity)

long skirts however

[stoic zinc]

How can I leave no doubt?

[brittle condor]

so how exactly do the angle limits work? it doesn't seem to do anything no matter how i adjust it

[balmy barn]

several ways to do it , need to rotate skirt/whatever bones towards avatar mesh in blender then set angle limits or they will only go in on direction instead of away/toward

[brittle condor]

did a quick search, it says the scale settings when exporting as fbx might have to do with the colliders being huge

[gaunt knoll]

but you made a new object

[brittle condor]

yeah, but the second i make the root transform the leg bone it becomes huge and I can't adjust it

[gaunt knoll]

aaa okay fair then

[brittle condor]

oh it's working now!!! the scaling thing

[gaunt knoll]

as its a new object you can use tranform

[cosmic scaffold]

what?

[gaunt knoll]

yeah its called unity?

[cosmic scaffold]

so what am i supposed to do

[gaunt knoll]

Use your own initiative

This discord isn't here to hold your hand

[cosmic scaffold]

here?

[gaunt knoll]

Use your own initiative

You can do it

[cosmic scaffold]

no i cant

what does the image even mean

[stoic zinc]

Does anyone know how to fix this bug?

[gaunt knoll]

What's the bug

Everything looks fine

@stoic zinc

[stoic zinc]

This debug info is nothing?

[gaunt knoll]

Yeah that's supposed to happen when you haven't unpacked the asset

[stoic zinc]

But then wouldn't that be the reason I can't equip it in terms of gestures?

[gaunt knoll]

@stray trench yo

https://carls3d.gumroad.com/l/glue2keys

[stray trench]

holy shit

thank you that looks perfect

[gaunt knoll]

yeah its not free but its easyier then doing it all by yourself

[lavish cosmos]

@stray trench https://docs.hai-vr.dev/docs/products/constraint-tools/skinned-mesh-constraint maybe this too. This links an object (teeth) directly to a mesh (lips/gum).

[gaunt knoll]

I completely forgot about hai

They does some really cool stuff

[wraith salmon]

Hey so I'm getting a very generic error trying to upload any avatar in one of my projects including the avatar dynamics test avatar

it stops uploading at like 20%

I'm able to build a test avatar just fine but actually uploading it doesn't work

[gaunt knoll]

I think vrchat sdk is down right now

[wraith salmon]

I was able to upload one in a different project

I am reinstalling all of my packages

It got to 81% but then failed

okay... it got to 100% then failed

I have no clue what's going wrong here

I tried again and got this

(the file was in fact not already uploaded)

[vapid slate]

when im adding wings, is it preferred to add it to the spine armature or the chest?

[wraith salmon]

assuming they're not super low on your back probably chest

[vapid slate]

okay

im putting them here

@wraith salmon

[wraith salmon]

okay

[vapid slate]

so chest?

[wraith salmon]

yes

[wraith salmon]

There is also another avatar in the project that I was able to upload perfectly fine before but can't now

[vapid slate]

ok so... i put my avatar into play mode... her tail is sticking up (could be colliders) but is there a way to make sure that it isnt broken and not just the coliders

[wraith salmon]

Move her upwards

[vapid slate]

i did

the tail stays like that

[wraith salmon]

It probably has negative gravity or something

[vapid oar]

Would I be able to just make planes for these types of "eyes" and just shrink wrap and make different versions for "expressions"

[lavish cosmos]

what was your method of adding the tail? did you put the tail directly under hips (i presume) bone in the base hierarchy? or did you link it to hips with something like vrcFury? was the tail sticking up even before adding the wings?

[vapid slate]

the tail did stick up before adding the wings, and i used a free base model for the avatar so im unsure.

when not in play mode the tail is normal

im probably gonna upload her, see if the tail will resolve itself in game

[glass condor]

Anyone familiar with SyncDances by Kinimara? I'm trying to get the dances to work on Quest, but the Quest prefab seems to be busted, and the PC prefab is too big for the android version (even after removing the music).

Anyone know of any fixes or alternatives?

[waxen jungle]

https://streamable.com/lv1f2l Blendshapes effecting my outlines? is there a way to fix this?

[dusty orchid]

Hey Zero, sorry for the late reply I appreciate your help, when you referenced the import settings for the head, is that in Blender? I'm not sure where to view import settings. I need them for the body too since the body materials aren't editable in unity as well.

Sorry hit enter when I was trying to hit the apostrophe so my post sent early lol.

[lavish cosmos]

Find the avatar's FBX file in Project in Unity. Click the FBX file. You'll see Import Settings under Inspector panel

[dusty orchid]

So I shouldn't have to worry about texture mismatching inside of blender when combining an avatar base, and head base correct? Because all the material settings should still be available once I import into unity...theoretically right?

[lavish cosmos]

Hmm it depends. I'm sorry but I don't know the context of your previoius conversations. What did you do in Blender? Did you combine your body mesh and head mesh into one mesh? Or are they still two separate meshes?

[dusty orchid]

I'm trying to take an avatar base(Kaycee's Inclusive Male Base) and add a prefab head to it (23Mink's Male Head) so in blender I used the CATS plugin to merge armatures and join meshes

Just trying to learn the basics in hopes that I can add custom props and personal items/clothes/hair to my own avatars.

[split mantle]

so i have a fnaf model im working on and it has eye emissions, i already made an animation of them fading on and off but i cant get the off animation to play, i use vrcfury mainly, the shaders i use is only mochi (i know poi can have them be animated) am i doing something wrong?

these are the settings, i got rid of the off animation (i touched nothing)

[waxen jungle]

Don't know if it's good practice but turning on "legacy blendshape normals" in the fbx settings fixed it for me

[lavish cosmos]

If the texture seemed ok before joining the meshes but not ok after joining the meshes in Blender, it's likely going to be an issue in Unity too. Typically when meshes are joined in Blender, they'll create two material slots (one for head, one for base, and geometry that used to be head mesh will automatically keep pointing to slot 1, and another to slot 2. The problem is that while materials usually transfer fine, UV Maps can sometimes break. If this is the case, you need to go back and join them again correctly.
If the texture seemed broken even before joining the meshes, the issue should be addressed first before joining them. So... you still have to go back.
Typically, unless you care about optimizing avatars, it's actually better to have separate head and face meshes (but both rigged to the same armature).

[hot vector]

anyone know how to fix?

[pallid drift]

i have this avatar with toggleable stilts and i was wondering how id make it so i could make the body rise like the flying on gogoloco but also to keep the walking animation, the avatar does have gogoloco on it so maybe theres a way to disable that "legs-crossed animation it uses?

[split mantle]

okay new issue, i want a sound to play when turning it off how do i do that

[nova trench]

How do I fix this avatar falling bug? The avi jurks down after jumping or falling

[pallid drift]

im pretty sure thats normal, it even happens when in vr

[nova trench]

I have other avis that dont do that

[pallid drift]

i use full body but back when i didnt and back when i was on quest it did that

[pallid drift]

oh

[gaunt knoll]

thats the default animation for falling

[nova trench]

So its an animation i have to tern off for it to stop?

[pallid drift]

how could i remove this animation when using gogoloco and just keep the normal standing IK and walking animation(s)?

[gaunt knoll]

you add your own the easy way is to add gogoloco

[gaunt knoll]

you remove the animation for it

[pallid drift]

that felt stupidly obvious for me lmao

ill see

[split mantle]

i need help with adding feet colliders that play a sound with each step how do i do that

[main remnant]

Have you tried looking for a tutorial?

[split mantle]

i did, none seem to show what i need to do, closest i got was contact senders and receivers

but it wasnt in depth

[main remnant]

These videos are the top results when looking info about that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOZu6e8ozns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmXCXP6UsQ8

[split mantle]

yea those are the vids i watched

[main remnant]

I made something similar just today following them

[lavish cosmos]

i tried making the same effect recently too. i looked for some footstep products on gumroad and booth to get some inspiration. i found the best one but im not sure if i can share the link here or not bc i dont want to look like i'm advertising a paid product (soliticing is against the rules here).

[split mantle]

you can dm me it, although i may know what it is

[frail vessel]

how do i rig clothing to an avatar again? i remember VRCFury having a tool for it

[eager valley]

So this is gonna sound dumb, but does anyone know how to make a VRChat model?

Obviously but still

[spiral jay]

I CANT SEE THE but physbones 😭 they won’t even move man

Like making a model and I got her chest to work just fine butt her but phys bones won’t show up more will her stomach and thighs. I have gizmos turned on too

[eager valley]

Jeez… what software is that and where can I download?

[spiral jay]

Unity

[timber wharf]

@eager valley https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/creating-your-first-avatar/

[spiral jay]

U gotta download the vrchat creator companion. It’ll pretty much walk u through the rest

What that guy said

[eager valley]

Thanks, am I gonna need my laptop?

[spiral jay]

Ermmmmmm. It’s takes up a good bit of space so if you have a pc that’d be better. I’m using shadow on my laptop so I’m fine. You could get that but if your laptop is good enough then ur fine

[timber wharf]

@spiral jay theres no endbone so you need to set endbone position. also win+shift+s

[eager valley]

My laptop should be fine. Don’t have much in it..

[spiral jay]

Wait slow downnnnn

What’s an endbone?

[timber wharf]

endpoint

[frail vessel]

does anybody know how to fix this lol

i tried armature link

[spiral jay]

I got it like that

It didn’t have an end point

[timber wharf]

.......

show physbone setup

[spiral jay]

Ong I see it. But how do I set it up?

[timber wharf]

#avatar-help message

[spiral jay]

Thank you sooooo much

U deserve the world

[frail vessel]

omgg this is coooooked

[gaunt knoll]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV2Dr5F445w&t=1s

[frail vessel]

i just watched that and it didnt work

[gaunt knoll]

yes it does

[stray trench]

what would cause the pants mesh to shrink like this? it has no blendshape that does this, and doesn't have any kind of component on it that affects meshes

[lavish cosmos]

did you put these pants on using VRCFury Armature Link? If you did, uncheck all alignments under advanced option from the Armature Link component

[stray trench]

thank you, this fixed it

[west fable]

anyone know why my head is moving like a physbone i checked and theres no physbones at all on the head

[arctic ginkgo]

it looks like something is scaled weird

if you scaled your head, neck, etc it'll rotate weird

[west fable]

i think i may of on the head how do i fix that just resort back to normal?

[arctic ginkgo]

yes, i would suggest to make edits to the shape of the head in blender rather than unity

[dusty orchid]

Hello sorry to keep asking such noob questions but I realize I keep jumping the gun. Can someone help me figure out my bone structure hierarchy? I'm trying to combine the Akii base and 23Mink's Male head in blender, and keep getting errors in unity that I can't make the model an avatar due to the bones not being set up correctly. I have them in blender right now set to where I want them to merge, but unmerged currently. I believe part of the issue was that the head had a bone that was labelled as "Head" and the body also had a bone labeled the same thing so I changed the hea'd's bone to "Face" CATS is also asking me when I merge armatures where I want the head to attach to, can someone verify that "Neck" is correct to attach it to? Heres a screenshot of my setup currently.

Or maybe I'm supposed to attach at the "Head" Bone?

[junior void]

Keeping "Head" as bone is fine

What you want to do is delete the bones "head, eye l and eye r" of the original body since there is no longer mesh for that. Then you want to merge the armatures of your new head with the body armature. And yes, you obviously want to merge head bone as child of neck. You currently have 2 independent armatures so yea thats problematic

[spiral jay]

Erm I have a question. So when I tested my avi in vrchat her pants didn’t move with her mesh? Like her thighs had the physbone and what not and I could touch it but as for her jeans they didn’t move. Her butt as well

[summer hearth]

Is there like a, clone system that instead of using a mesh fbx of your own avatar, it just makes a puff of smoke in a rough shape of yours so it saves heavily on polys?

[harsh hedge]

how can i fix this hole ?

it only appear when i lift my arm

Merry xhristmas btw 🎄

[junior void]

Either:

• fix the weight painting
• thump out the base shape a bit so that it doesnt cause clipping
• use a "body hide" shape that sucks in the body so it also prevents clipping

[junior void]

Sounds like you have not correctly merged the armatures of the pants with the body one. How did you add the pants? Share some pictures of the setup

[spiral jay]

It wasn’t made for my base so I used data transfer

Give me a second

[junior void]

so there is only one armature here?

[spiral jay]

Yuppers

[junior void]

i cant see al objects so ye

[spiral jay]

It moves just fine in blender

But when I get in the game it funky

[junior void]

funky as in

[spiral jay]

The rest are clothes. I just tried to transfer the weights so I’m hoping that makes it work better

[spiral jay]

I’ll try and record a video

[junior void]

ye that would help

kinda hard to diagnose something you havent seen before

[spiral jay]

Yeah I’m sorry. Just gotta upload her

[junior void]

youre not testing in unity?

[spiral jay]

I did but it looks okay in unity. Like it did before. But when I get in the game it’s buggy

That’s why I was so confused

[junior void]

thats why you can use gesture manager in unity

it simulates "play" mode aka being ingame

without that, play mode does nothing

[spiral jay]

I did that. Idk if I broke something or what but it looks fine in play mode

Maybe I fixed it??? Imma hop in to see

I fixed ittttt

[spiral lintel]

My clothes wont stick to my avatar in blender and idk how to get them to work 😭

[ornate stump]

1. Make sure the cloth has Armature Deform modifier, and has assigned with the correct armature object.
2. Make sure the vertex group in the cloth matched names with the armature bones.
3. Make sure to check for weight paint.

[spiral lintel]

Im a bit confused, whats armature deform modifier?

[ornate stump]

It's just the same as any object modifier that you see in "Modifier" tab in property panel.

[spiral lintel]

oh okay

[spiral lintel]

one of my items has bones in it so i can't use modifiers, what do i do?

[ornate stump]

You likely describe something incorrectly here.

[spiral lintel]

oh

uhm

the pants of my model has bones in the model, do i just take them out and use them without amature?

[ornate stump]

You will have to make sure that the pant bones name is matching with the base avatar model first, then you can change armature assignment of the pants to the base avatar.

[autumn gyro]

I need an avatar working gun.

does not really matter what gun but like a m4 style and a glock.

[ornate stump]

Try asking in #1138520828556890214

[river jewel]

so uuuh dudesssss, cant really move my avatar at all, I got a whole humanoid rig and its still in this t-pose, I know I get into alot of pickles but I need halp :')

[ornate stump]

Have you set humanoid rig?

[void mango]

The gesture manager would crash if it wasn't

[ornate stump]

I don't see Armature object in the hierarchy so that's a red flag.

Also I believe I have tested generic rig with gesture manager a few times in the past.

[void mango]

"Pillar's Rig"

That's probably it

[ornate stump]

Possibly.

[void mango]

But honestly, if it didn't have a rig, one, it wouldn't have the option to be humanoid and two, gesture manager wouldn't work

[river jewel]

I did, twice, and it STILL stayed in that t-pose in play mode, I even checked the configuration (yk, the settings whereas you delete optional bones 'n all), and the rig moved just fine there, but in play mode? t-pose 🥲

[river jewel]

yeaaaaa neat name huh? this is actually a Christmas gift for a friend 😌

[ornate stump]

Does the model have Animator component enabled?

[river jewel]

in the avatar descriptor?

[ornate stump]

Beside avatar descriptor.

[river jewel]

well, I'm not sure ;-;

[ornate stump]

Do you see Animator component on the avatar object?

[river jewel]

oooh is that where I was supposed to turn it on?

[ornate stump]

Wasn't it on?

[river jewel]

probably not

[ornate stump]

You just have to see whether the checkbox in front of component checked or not. It just can't be "probably".

[river jewel]

so go to the avatar object (found in assets) find the animator component, and CHECK THE BOX, that right?

[ornate stump]

Your avatar object already is in the scene.

[river jewel]

oh

I'll do that now 🥲

[onyx monolith]

hello guys, i recently started to change the clothes of the avatar i bought. I heard that its better to upload a different avatar with a new outfit instead of using toggles. I was just wondering if i should create a new avatar project for each outfit, or just duping the avatar and then detach it? what will you recommend?

[mint badge]

is there any way to combine meshes is unity or do i have to use blender?

[junior void]

blender

careful tho, combining meshes takes the ability to toggle the objects separately

so to hide stuff, you then have to make blendshapes instead and that can get funky especially when there are physics attached

[mint badge]

so how they did it with the stuff that already on the avi its just an animation and its hid inside the hand would that be easyer?

and how much of the avi would i break replacing the body mesh with the new one?

[ornate stump]

Very high chance of completely break.

[mint badge]

😬

not good

[pure sky]

I cant sign back in

[mint badge]

do you know anything about hue shifting with animations

bc i could just add the thing into the animation ig to get the hue shift

[ornate stump]

Just ask the question. I don't promise that I know everything.

[mint badge]

basicly this is what it looks like idk what the skinned mesh value means tho so

and if i can just add the sword into that to just get the hue shift

[ornate stump]

Widen the animation property tab and you will see what it does there.

[ornate stump]

It's animating material property.

[mint badge]

yea but its only doing to the main body mesh so if i just do the same to the sword mesh it sould work no?

it just doesnt let me add a property

[ornate stump]

Maybe, maybe not. Depend on whether the sword material can do hue shift or not.

[mint badge]

its the same material then the rest of the avi

[ornate stump]

Do you know how to record animation at all?

[mint badge]

never touched it nope

[ornate stump]

You need to put animator controller into animator component of the avatar, then put animation clip there, then you select the model in the scene and you can record.

[mint badge]

you mean these?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[mint badge]

so these are for the avi i just need the same for the sword

[ornate stump]

You have to make it only from the avatar object.

[mint badge]

but like looking at these they dont seem to be doing anything

[mint badge]

so then i dont have to do it bc its already there?

[ornate stump]

You still want to add new object hue shift so you have to either edit the existing animation or create a new layer for it.

[mint badge]

so with animations you mean these?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[mint badge]

how do i add it

bc i also just tought i just add the same value again just for the sword mesh

[ornate stump]

Did you put the animator controller into the avatar animator component?

[mint badge]

the what

sorry dont know what you mean

where do i put the controller

and just the one or the whole tree?

[balmy barn]

animations are from root of avatar to a mesh if you ever want to change something

[ornate stump]

When someone referring to a "component" you see the components in the inspector when after you select object in the scne.

[mint badge]

THIS?

caps

[ornate stump]

That.

[ornate stump]

Then you select object you want to animate from the scene, and select animation from dropdown menu in Animations panel.

[balmy barn]

not sure how you managed to remove the mesh from animator

[ornate stump]

Having animator on the same object with material is quiet concerning.

[mint badge]

idk its been like this 😭

[balmy barn]

and this av was from where , i know that robot (friend uses it alot)

[mint badge]

im super confused rn sry

[ornate stump]

If it isn't animator component at the avatar root object, then you have to remove that animator.

[mint badge]

i got it a while ago from gumroad

just never edited it

[balmy barn]

probably should open the right scene then

[mint badge]

oh

[mint badge]

wdym

[mint badge]

yea did that

[ornate stump]

Then proceed.

[mint badge]

what menu?

btw i sould add a animator to the sword too then or?

[mint badge]

i cant click that

[ornate stump]

You should have only one animator component at the root avatar object, which was I said earlier.

[mint badge]

okay

[ornate stump]

Did you select the object you wanted to animate from the scene?

NOT selecting animation clip from the assets.

[mint badge]

how else?

im sorry to be that person rn

😭

[ornate stump]

Then you select object you want to animate from the scene, and select animation from dropdown menu in Animations panel.

[mint badge]

ok so theres nothing in the dropdown menu

[ornate stump]

Did you put the correct animator controller that has the animation into the avatar animator component?

[mint badge]

so you want me to replace the controller that is in there rn with the one that has the hue shift?

[ornate stump]

Yes. What did you put there earlier?

[mint badge]

nothing i didnt change anything on the controllers

this is the controller rn

[ornate stump]

The controller must have animation clip you wanted to edit. The avatar fx controller already have the animation so just put the correct animator controller there.

[mint badge]

and put that one back later or doesnt mater?

[ornate stump]

Which one?

[mint badge]

the one that is there rn idek i have like a bunch of diff controllers

😭

the fx one is the one that has the hue shift in it

[ornate stump]

I don't even know what you had it having it currently. But the animator controller in animator component doesn't affect how the avatar function so it doesn't matter what you left there. Its purpose is for editing and recording animation.

[mint badge]

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

yea didnt know that sry

alr got it

so now i just add the same value as is in there just for the sword mesh right?

[marsh geyser]

hello! bought an avatar off booth and tried tinkering and following vague instructions on its page to no avail. how do I attach the costume set on the right to the base body on the left?

[ornate stump]

Does the store page say anything about modular avatar or vrcfury?

[marsh geyser]

not that I'm aware of
base: https://ande.booth.pm/items/5555466
costume: https://ande.booth.pm/items/6400524 (has gdoc instructions)

[ornate stump]

Then setup with modular avatar https://modular-avatar.nadena.dev/docs/tutorials/clothing
How to install https://modular-avatar.nadena.dev/docs/intro#installation

[mint badge]

@ornate stump it works tysm

now i just gotta do the same for the skins and set all the values by hand 😭

can i somehow copy all these values and just add them to the same things just for the sword mesh?

[vague spade]

does any1 know how to fix the error: "we do not own this avatar"?? i dont have a blueprint added. no matter what i do it keeps saying i do not own it. im new to unity so this is kinda stressing me out lolz

[warm vortex]

d4rks avatar optimiser can do this!

[marsh geyser]

thank you sm that worked 🙂

[stable citrus]

Do you mean copy and paste these properties into another animation ?

[mint badge]

so i have the same material for 2 diff mashes and i want these same vaules in the same animation for a diff mesh

can i do a "do not if" here somehow?

nvm thing i got it

[stable citrus]

[mint badge]

ok now it just doesnt go in again

[junior void]

that error is not the original cause, it is a symptom of something else and that something else could be a lot of things. best be if you shared a full sized screenshot of the first 3-5 errors (scroll up!) of the console

[junior void]

looks like a network issue

[vague spade]

im just so confused cuz i read sometimes its the tumbnail

is it really my shit wifi </3

[junior void]

what sdk version are you on?

[vague spade]

lemme try to see

i cant find how to see it