avatar-help

[mint badger]

k

[junior void]

get vrcfury if you dont have it yet

[mint badger]

oh yeah

i got it

[junior void]

ok now go to the collar, hit "add component"

select "vrcf armature link"

then set the hips part to "neck"

that should be it iirc

[mint badger]

ok

what do i do with the assets thing?

[junior void]

it should be on your avatar

its just a holder for all assets that may be added later

think of it as a folder

[junior void]

drag it onto the avi

right now it is not part of it

[mint badger]

yeah I think I mixed myself up lol

[junior void]

yep

[mint badger]

ok but that does makes sense having it all in one place and just using fury to do its thing

[junior void]

see

physbones in dynamics, colliders and vrcf stuff all ordered

imagine the mess if it was all directly on avi

go digging good luck

[mint badger]

wow this fucking garbage refuse of an avatar must being giving you a stroke huh? youa re so neat and organized

[junior void]

ive been doing this stuff for years

but yes, unorganized things give me a stroke in general

[mint badger]

whats funny is I had someone redo this avatar but unfortunatlly... uh... he kinda ignored everthing I said and made him all smoooottthh

[junior void]

tbf this is a base, i didnt set it up

im optimizing it rn after i made massive edits

but i do have my own model too

[mint badger]

okay so where do I set up expressions

[junior void]

gesture expressions?

[mint badger]

yeah. i think I still ahve the file trying to figure out where I put it in unity

[junior void]

your avatar has playable layers in the descriptor

playable layers such as fx ones go there

[mint badger]

hm

how the hell did I get it to work last time?? Its empty in ym old broken one

[junior void]

no idea

you can set this up using vrcfury too

[mint badger]

wuh. really?

[junior void]

pretty straight forward imo

[balmy barn]

or just a blendtree wich is pretty easy

[mint badger]

jesus I had no idea

[junior void]

many ways to do it

[mint badger]

damn things really have changed

[junior void]

i told you xD

[mint badger]

I feel so old... like an old man buying his first smartphone and asking his grandkids how to open an app

ok I have some of the animations/gestures or whatever. how do I do it with vrcfury

[junior void]

the image above should tell you

[mint badger]

I dont ee where that goes. its cut off

[junior void]

i have it on an empty

same as "assets"

[mint badger]

oh

OHHHHH

I was always bad with context clues

[junior void]

is fine

[mint badger]

OH! I remmebr something. I have a tail wag animation thats supposed to always be on but its does tdo jack when I add it

[void mango]

Does anyone know how to make textures easily on complex models?

[junior void]

what does that mean

[void mango]

Uhh

[junior void]

like paint on a model?

[void mango]

Like, making this

As a texture

[junior void]

is it uv unwrapped already?

[void mango]

I kinda made it in blender, so there's no textures at all

[void mango]

No idea what this is

[junior void]

a uv unwrap is a 2d map of the mesh on a flat surface

its the basis for making textures

[void mango]

Ahh

[void mango]

I'm not on my laptop rn, but based on the look of this, how complex would you think the map would be?

Like, would it be simple or really confusing?

[junior void]

definitely far away from simple if you want to be able to put proper detail

[void mango]

I'm really just trying to start with a very basic texture

[balmy barn]

a cube is basic this is like going to the moon

[void mango]

Oh, I don't mean basic like that

[balmy barn]

learning uv's is handy

[junior void]

i mean sure you can just cut it up on uv map straight across

[void mango]

I mean, is there a way to just paint colour onto the mesh?

[junior void]

vertex paint but it sucks

[void mango]

Fair point

[balmy barn]

heres 2 ways to make a tail wag, if im ever animating it to do other things (speed/rotation) im so not putting it in a blendtree - too much setup , just have to be sure animation from root of avatar to tail/ears/whatever is correct and have it looping

[verbal bone]

so im tryna do the quest thing

and this thing is 0.9 bigger

[stable citrus]

Reduce Texture size by a little and/or enable crunch compression

[verbal bone]

I'll have to find the crouch compression thing then @stable citrus

Is it in materials or..

[stable citrus]

Select all the textures used by your avatar, usually inside the same directory. Press Ctrl+A to select everything, then go to Properties.

[verbal bone]

Oh it's already enabled

😭

[balmy barn]

texture setting , probably last thing id recommend is crunch cause it can 'hitch' when loading avatar (zipbomb) , fbx / blendshapes / animations / texture resolution in that order what id check for size , crunch can be very bad

[verbal bone]

Bruhh

How can I get rid of 0.9.. hmm

[stable citrus]

Then reduce their size or remove any unwanted/unused GameObjects.

[balmy barn]

vrcfury have that to remove unused blendshapes , can shave off 1 mb iiish

heavy depends how many you got

[verbal bone]

Ahh okay

[stable citrus]

https://github.com/MunifiSense/VRChat-Build-Size-Viewer
This tool is goated if you want to know what takes up the most space on your avatar.

[balmy barn]

it a easier way to read unity output log or just find it manually

[long sedge]

i changed my username on VRC and now i cant sign in to the SDK

cant use my email either

the password im using is correct, and works on the website

never mind it randomly started working now

awesome

wtf

[limpid cargo]

what are the settings for a physbone that only moves when grabbed?

[harsh hedge]

how can i delete all unused vertex group ? i don't have an option

[nimble skiff]

Can someone help me with a custom avatar I'm working on? It's mostly set up, but. I have a clipboard item that should be grabbable, but when I'm in the game, it is not grabbable. My hand will break every now and then. Modular avatar moslt yset it up, there was a broken bone selection thing that I fixed. Also, for VRC Fury toggles, I have no idea on how to make those saved, if you can.

Can someone DM me and help me with this please?

[limpid cargo]

for vrcfury, making toggles, there is an option "saved between worlds"

[nimble skiff]

i mean when i take the avi off and put it back on

[limpid cargo]

that... should be the option for that

i think "saved between worlds" is easier wording for saved in general

[nimble skiff]

ah

[rancid ibex]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-hello-cat-peek-cat-door-cat-peek-door-gif-18353326185439865604

Hello

[limpid cargo]

hi

[nimble skiff]

i dont see it

i may be stupid

wait i found it

[limpid cargo]

options section

when making the toggle

[nimble skiff]

yea i got it. Thanks. Any way you could help me with the clipboard thing tho?

[limpid cargo]

i... don't know, i'm sorry

there isn't enough explanataion on it

[nimble skiff]

The only thing is that I can't grab it. Everything should be set up right, I made sure all the bones were right, positioned all the stuff that told me to, I dunno what you need to know what's wrong.

wait it hink i just put it too low

or its a constraint thing

[nimble skiff]

would this have anything to do with it

op

i fixed it

lmao

[radiant night]

Can you toggle physbones and if you can, does that freeze the bones in place or does it return them to 0,0,0

If you cant, can you use an animation to force them to stay at 0,0,0?

[junior void]

Iirc you can and they'll jump back to their resting position

[tardy rover]

Hey was wondering if anyone knows why this is happening? I got the NovaBeast avi and didnt like the goggles so I got rid of them... or so I thought but now they wont dissapear no matter what I do and seem to only do so when I get rid of the body, any help at all would be appreciated :p The Goggles need to go...

[gaunt knoll]

You didn't delete the mesh you just deleted the link to the body

[odd cobalt]

hi is here sombody that knows how to upload a avi from blender to VRC?
i got the avi in blender and VRC creator companion plus uni but no idea how

[night ember]

Dont delete bones

You need to go into blender and actually delete the mesh

[gaunt knoll]

I have something for that

I believe

HERE no blender needed

this tool deletes meshes in unity its really good for getting rid of stuff thats connect to other stuff have a go

[tardy rover]

I shall give this a whirl give me a sec

[thorny tartan]

what is that one blender modifer that alows a mesh to copy the weight of the nearest vertices from a different mesh

I've been tweaking about this

nvm I found it

[gaunt knoll]

What was it

[night ember]

I dont think theres a modifier but its just transfer weights

[thorny tartan]

Data transfer modifier

[violet surge]

how do add my avatars to prismic's?

[grand scaffold]

Pretty sure they just get scraped automatically, you can msg prismic to have your avatars taken down so I assume he's okay with requests to add avatars as well. Though you'll have to ask him yourself

[violet surge]

ok cool thx

[cunning crypt]

can someone who is fluent in making avis, using blender / unity and has good skill w physbones help my error in https://discord.com/channels/189511567539306508/1454240146340843735 ? it’s been happening for a bit and im abt to give up

[heavy ingot]

Anyone know where I can buy assets from? Like emotes, poses, and things like that? Not clothes

Gimmicks

[gaunt knoll]

theres a discord server for stuff like that i dont remember what one tho i will look for one

[heavy ingot]

If u find it lmk bruh

I love crazy stuff hahah

[gaunt knoll]

yeah if you have imu's you can do them yourself

[heavy ingot]

Imu?

Whats that

Damn yo we got scammers in here

[gaunt knoll]

where?

imu's are a type of FBT

they are the ones that you dont need base stations for

[heavy ingot]

Oh no im not talking about FBT, im saying like- systems kinda like sync dance system, pole dance system

Poses- mmd dances or like other cool animation gimmicks

[gaunt knoll]

yeah i know

[heavy ingot]

The moment I bring up assets I get a bunch of ppl trying to sell me their stuff rn- shoot ur shot ig but no thanks- lol

[gaunt knoll]

NOOOOO

[heavy ingot]

Randoms are trying to dm me noweeghh

[gaunt knoll]

i was just saying if you wanted to make your own you would need that

[heavy ingot]

Oh lol

Naur

[gaunt knoll]

i cant find that one discord server with all the mmds stuff in it

[heavy ingot]

🐒

[arctic ginkgo]

Those are all scammers. They take any talk of avatar creation, selling, or buying as an excuse to dm you

[heavy ingot]

Yes, such weird behavior

[wide lagoon]

I've been bashing my head against a wall for the past three hours... can anyone tell me how tf Station sitting animation controllers are meant to work?

I used the example as a base, swapped out the sitting animation (leaving the standing one alone) and it worked, BUT on switching out from the "PoseSpace" state I noticed the avatar was scrunching up. On checking, I guessed this was due to the TrackingControl state not having a Desktop vs VR checker (I was using Desktop to check - specifically via a secondary Unity project with VRChat's world checker, so I can get two clients running at the same time).
But, I addeda "VRMode" bool check, branching into Desktop (everything set to Animation minus jaw/eyes/fingers) and VR (only hips and legs set to Animation) and it's... working? But not? Like - no matter what I do to the state, it ALWAYS force-enables the Head, Left Hand, and Right Hand tracking, causing the avatar to fold almost entirely in half.

Am I doing something wrong? Is it just... like this? Or is there summat else going on?

[lavish cosmos]

Eves Motion Empire?

[gaunt knoll]

YES

[shut bough]

I have a general question; i made an avi and chose a public upload on unity, but my friends are saying they cannot clone it. Cloning is allowed by me and as I said, it was uploaded "public" so why can't anyone clone it?

[lavish cosmos]

Probably some other controller (likely Base or Action) is conflicting with tracking control behaviors.

[gaunt knoll]

turn it off and on again xD

[shut bough]

i legit tried that XD

[gaunt knoll]

you can send them a link on the vrchat website

[spiral lintel]

Idk what happend but my hood is doing this to the model 😭 😭

[wide lagoon]

That's the thing, there AREN'T any. The avatar itself is the Avatar Dynamics Tutorial Robot, I'm using it for testing a VRCFury asset.
(I originally asked them about this, but they said to ask here 'cos it's just a Stations issue)
The Avatar has an FX layer (with no tracking control stuff anywhere), and VRCFury adds an Additive layer, BUT that also has nothing in it other than an empty "Base Mask" layer

...wait

[gaunt knoll]

oh

he got it

[wide lagoon]

I'm a fuckin' idiot... apparently the tutorial robot uses tracking control in its FX layer, for... some reason?

Thought I'd deleted that, genuinely XD

Welp, there goes the last three-to-five-ish hours

[spiral lintel]

I did weight painting and idk how but the fluffy part of the hood is affected by the arm movements what do i do

[wanton schooner]

trying to upload an avatar for the first time but every time i try to put it on it says its unavailable 😔

[timber wharf]

@spiral lintel you can manualy edit weights, in edit mode select hair only, select vertex group (ie arm) and underneath it drag slider to 0

and click assign iirc

[somber sequoia]

or just remove those vertices from the vertex group

[spiral lintel]

i have absolutly no idea what both of those mean cuz im new to blender

[somber sequoia]

weight data is kept in vertex groups named for the bone in question

[spiral lintel]

okayy

[somber sequoia]

weight is how much a vertex moves with the bone

[spiral lintel]

ohhhh

[somber sequoia]

when you weight paint, you set these values

if you have some mesh moving with a bone you don't want it to move with, that means it's painted to that bone, at least somewhat.

[spiral lintel]

oh yeah i see it

how do i erase it tho

[somber sequoia]

there's no erase, there's setting it to 0 for no movement, or 1 for full movement. You can erase by removing a vertex from the group, but always remember that weights are relative. 0 weight means it's 1 for some other bone. Hips is the default though, since the whole avatar moves with that.

[crystal whale]

How do I use two textures for my avatar using toon standard? Like a normal texture and then one to add lines and detail on top?

[spiral lintel]

but i dont wanna get rid of the arm vertex bc i still need it to move

[somber sequoia]

I didn't say to remove any vertex, nor did I refer to any specific one

[spiral lintel]

oh

so how do i make it so that my hood isnt affected by the weight

[somber sequoia]

you can remove a vertex from a vertex group which is named for a bone, and it'll effectively make that vertex not affected by that bone.

Or, you can paint it to 0

[spiral lintel]

ohhhh

I get it now tysm :D

[cedar grail]

help, why does it say id is not allowed to be used?

[left wharf]

because VRChat changed their id generation
just update the sdk

[somber sequoia]

You know, the second sentence in that reason box.

[prime escarp]

Nah. Some do get to me through people sending them to me, but you can't scrape new avatars from VRChat outright.

[mint badger]

question. is there a way to set blendshapes as the default state when you get in game? as in I want my arms to stay thicker and not go back to skinny and have to use the taggle in game all the time when I start up

[somber sequoia]

just set the value and then don't have an animation change it

[mint badger]

oh. so when I reset avatar in game it will go back to that state?

the one in unity I set I mena

[somber sequoia]

it'll go back to whatever the default state in Unity is, then start your animator

[mint badger]

oh ok thanks

[pure thicket]

something I was wondering a while back;
how does vrchat handle its walk/run animations? In the blendtrees they are just a single key frame, I tried adjusting the position of the legs in that key frame and I just get weird results in game. Any info on like the rules for editing these animations properly? (still using one frame)

Trying to look up this kind of stuff online, you just get only tutorials for how to add in premade animations, which I already know how to do

[timber wharf]

i believe sdk's bundled animations are one frame for some license reasons ie vrc cannot distribute og ones with them being bought from mixamo or smth. in game theyre replaced with proper ones

in fanct any animation called proxy_* doesnt get uploaded at all and just already exists in client

[mint badger]

si there an easy way to clone an avatar for another unity project? or should I just make a unity package?

well I mean just copy the unity project

[timber wharf]

@mint badger drag root object from hierarchy into assets, youd get prefab, right click - export unity package

[mint badger]

oh. well shit thats way esier than what ive been doing. thanks

[pure thicket]

oh thats crazy, thanks

i have to animate an actual walk cycle then

[timber wharf]

you can get them from mixamo yourself😉

[pure thicket]

i did actually make one before in blender but it bugged out in unity

so I thought there mightve been some magic one frame thing i couldve been doing instead

[somber sequoia]

are you trying to do this not in vrchat or something?

[pure thicket]

me?

[somber sequoia]

yeah

[pure thicket]

its for vrchat yeah

[somber sequoia]

if you have a humanoid rig it ought to just work as is though right? or are you trying to alter it

[pure thicket]

ohh yeah no it works fine, I was trying to make a custom walk cycle for something

[somber sequoia]

ah ok

[pure thicket]

its just this bird avatar im experimenting with building

so the default walk cycle doesnt really suit it

[somber sequoia]

ah ok that makes sense then

[pure thicket]

i can send a gif later of how the animation bugs out if you have any experience with that

[tiny bronze]

how do i make my own avatar

[somber sequoia]

do you have a base or are you talking about modeling from scratch?

[tiny bronze]

like making one from scratch

[somber sequoia]

do you know how to model?

[tiny bronze]

no but ima learn on my own

[somber sequoia]

yep, that's where I'd start, learning that.

[tiny bronze]

where i go

[somber sequoia]

tutorial videos for your modeling software of choice?

[pure thicket]

i learnt modelling just for vrchat avatar too

but to be honest most of the youtube tutorials for it are super annoying

you have your work cut out for you lol

https://youtu.be/hRwnXnQ5kYs
i used this video but in retrospect its missing out a lot of stuff and teaches some bad habits

[lavish cosmos]

same. i dont believe there is a single video that covers it all. you need to learn bits from here and there

[pure thicket]

it is Doable to make one knowing nothing, but god its frustrating lmao

[gaunt burrow]

How would I fix this? I just imported an avatar, and it's giving me this error. I don't know if its a major error or not (note: the avatar didn't come with gogoloco already with it)

[lavish cosmos]

add gogoloco prefab. it can be added via VCC. or you can manually add the missing parameters in the avatar expression parameters

[gaunt burrow]

it shows this in inspector when i drag & drop the gogoloco prefab

and idk how to manually add the missing parameters

[lavish cosmos]

you also need to install VRCFury. also via VCC

the best bet is adding both VRCFury and GogoLoco via VCC

[gaunt burrow]

It's added as well, thats why im confused

[dusty orchid]

Does anyone have a dope tutorial for kitbashing avatar bases + heads that yall liked learning off of?

[lavish cosmos]

delete the existing gogoloco prefab from avatar hierarchy and add it back through Tools menu

[gaunt burrow]

it's still not working...

[lavish cosmos]

hmm that's odd. what if you find gogoloco prefab from Project tab and see its Inspector tab withouot adding it to the avatar? do you still see script missing errors?

it should be somewhere under Packages

if i remember correctly, gogoloco prefab comes with two versions: VRCFury and Modular Avatar

maybe what's being added is Modular Avatar variant

[somber sequoia]

it also comes with the version for using neither

[stiff cedar]

I can't see this avatar outfit every time I go into play mode and VRC but I don't know why
I can see the light orange outline of the outfit but I went to blendShapes to see if it was that but it wasn't
The toggles work their here and working fine

But I can't tell whats wrong

I'm thing something went wrong in the armatures but I don't see any problems

[pure thicket]

something wrong with your animator logic probably?

[lethal flower]

Random question but if I had a custom avi made can someone search it in the avatar search worlds?

[stiff cedar]

Sure

Name?

[stiff cedar]

Yea I check and made new toggles it still didn't work

[lethal flower]

Nono I mean like hypothetically if I had an avatar made for just me, would people be able to find it in the search? Bc it would be a private avi for just me

[pure thicket]

no

[night ember]

if its marked as public then anyone can freely use it

[lethal flower]

Interesting okay

[stiff cedar]

If it's upload on your account and it's private and it's not made public it's fine

[lethal flower]

Sorry i haven’t touched vrchat in years and im finally coming back to it and wanna get a custom avi and am so lost so far LOL

[stiff cedar]

understood and welcome back to VRChat

[lethal flower]

Ty!

[stiff cedar]

It's fine I had to remove the outfit since I don't know what wrong

[pure thicket]

take a photo of the animation layer that controls it so we can see

[stiff cedar]

Np just stay safe stay and take care

[stiff cedar]

Alright

It's uploading right now T.T might have wait a minute

Sorry

It's still uploading

Might take a minute T-T

or a hour

[pure thicket]

i was just asking for a a screenshot

[stiff cedar]

I can't click anything else when it's uploading T-T

[lilac scaffold]

Hello, Question, does anybody here have any tutorial videos or instructions on how to do 2D face rigging with images(not a texture painted face) ? or of the similar, specifically for VRChat avatars (obviously), the program i use is Blender, and i am a beginner so warning for that.

[stiff cedar]

Sorry I know nothing about about Blender I wish I could help maybe someone else could help

[halcyon coral]

Apologies if I end up double posting, seems like Discord ate up my message - I'm having an issue while using Deira Neo by Mari where a hair I'm trying to attach is flying off my head when moving. It seems to be following the same movement path as the ears. I'm new to Unity and feel I'm missing an obvious setting or folder placement to "anchor" the hair mesh - any help would be greatly appreciated.

[stiff cedar]

I saw you texting I was wondering what were you going say but sorry for being rude

I'm not good at understand how to help without seeing it

Are able take a picture to show me?

[halcyon coral]

No worries, Discord ate up my longer post with screenshots (potentially security since I'm new to the server.) Let me try and link those instead.

[stiff cedar]

Alrighty

[halcyon coral]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1219852241427501116/1454324208954769429/image.png?ex=6950ac77&is=694f5af7&hm=c329cb09ef42e66d2f459b364da3b91bfca30bb15f0dd4d57a1ad3c255452534
Here's what I mean by my hair "flying off" the head -

And here's a broad look at my PhysBone settings & model hierarchy
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1219852241427501116/1454334543065645251/image.png?ex=6950b617&is=694f6497&hm=c9882e41fe4c91ea944d01b59b45f08d93facb7972a903aa7e20ee39a609424e

[stiff cedar]

Do you use VRCfury?

For the armatures?

Did you put on the head?

[stiff cedar]

Did you?

[lilac scaffold]

^ what im looking to make is just having the face non-talking image switch to a talking one when the user is talking, thats about it (please dont respond if its not helpful or telling me how).

[halcyon coral]

I believe I have VRCfury imported based on the documentation tutorial for Deira Neo but I haven't "applied" it or utilized it in any way.

[pure thicket]

i think you can just set the talking blendshapes in the avatar discriptor to move your "talking" image in front of the default face image

[stiff cedar]

mhm

I can't really do much when I can't see much

Could I add you?

[lilac scaffold]

Sorry, No idea what any of that means-- as i said, im a beginner, and mainly looking for a tutorial.

[halcyon coral]

On Discord? Go for it - in VRChat I'm under Scizoden, also.

[stiff cedar]

uummm discord

[pure thicket]

https://youtu.be/l--1c8QGpVw
there multiple youtube videos about it

[lilac scaffold]

Thanks.

[oak raptor]

hi, hello c: im completely new to this discord and im sure this same exact question comes up a lot, but im looking for someone who can help me put together my avatar >~<
i bought a base yesterday and was messing with it trying to follow a couple youtube videos but for me its kinda one of those things where i need help with specific stuff that videos cant fully help me with. if theres anyone who would like to take the time to help me my dms are open i can show u all the details and everything i would really appreciate some help rn thank u ❤️

[proven quail]

Usually, you post details here, and someone or multiple people give feedback and help. No dms needed.

[oak raptor]

oh fhbfgf ok thats fair, theres like several things i really need help with tho and im kinda dumb the videos arent helping me much 😭

[somber sequoia]

one at a time

[oak raptor]

one of the main things i need help with is i have like a set of parts i wanna put on my avatars body but it comes as an fbx and i have no idea how to do like rig it and everything

[somber sequoia]

by "parts" what do you mean?

[oak raptor]

lmfao that sounds wrong how do i put it.. i have like a set of bat ears, bat wings, and tail i wanna put on my avi

[somber sequoia]

ah, I'd do that in blender.

[oak raptor]

😭

this is gonna be a lot harder than i thought

i cant just rig it like i would with clothes?

[somber sequoia]

sure.

[oak raptor]

idek how to do that but im sure i can do it in unity right..?

[somber sequoia]

but you rig it in blender.

[oak raptor]

hfdghdf

[somber sequoia]

unless it's specifically setup for your avatar base, it's not likely to be simple

[oak raptor]

;-;

it like

fits almost perfectly on my avi

just need to figure out how to like

attach it yk..

[somber sequoia]

you might get lucky and be able to just drag the parts below the bone you want them on. I don't do this method, so can't really help here.

[oak raptor]

last time i did this i just had someone like watch my screen and guide me step by step ig thats kinda what i was looking for imma just have to beg one of my friends to help me atp lmao sorry am big dumb

[civic cliff]

i know im supposed to use the matcaps in the matcaps slot obviously but i dont know how to make it look like the advertised image, if i use them with a texture on the body it just looks extremely bright, the pictures are what it looks like without a texture, only the matcap, and for some reason, the effect has attached itself to the top even though it doesnt have the matcap on it at all

[civic cliff]

figured it out immediately, dont know why every time i ask i figure it out

[somber sequoia]

how it works sometimes 🙂

this is a SFW server

[arctic parrot]

Nah I'm jokin

[somber sequoia]

uh huh.

[arctic parrot]

Ok whatever

Bith

Jjsn

Snns

Snns

[somber sequoia]

You just got an answer in #avatar-general

[quasi pasture]

Ok

Sorry

[tired vale]

I can’t log into my unity
Trying to upload a avi but no matter how many times I put in my password it keeps telling me it’s wrong?? Even tried with my email and still nothing- anyone else dealing with this?

[dusty orchid]

Would any kind soul look over my merged armature of my body and head and see if anything look egregious before I add hair/clothes in blender

[willow grove]

does anyone know how to fix this- i feel like ive tried everything but idk- sobs

[halcyon coral]

Quick follow-up in case anyone is struggling with hair (in my case, Cyberpunk Inspired by OliverVRC) attachments on Deira Neo by Mari - I switched the Root Transform from the hair's "Head" to "Hair Root" under the Dynamic Physbones on the hair mesh. Hope this can help someone else in the future.

[dusty orchid]

Someone please help explain this 😭 I don't see multiple Head's in the armature so I don't understand what is going wrong or what this error is trying to tell me.

[pure thicket]

part of your mesh is probably labelled Head

[dusty orchid]

Embarassingly I think that might have been a previous error. I tried really hard to make sure the head was named body, the body was named body_all etc

[frosty junco]

in blender is there a way to select a portion of the avatar if its all one mesh

or am I doing this manually

[ornate stump]

What kind of portion?

[frosty junco]

I want to seperate a parrt of my avi into a new material

but the fbx is one mesh

when my friend did it in substance painter (to make a mask) it was one click, but when I'm selecting it in blender its in pieces

[ember escarp]

Press L for "Linked Selection". Extra window in the bottom left to modify whats linked.

[ember escarp]

Looks like backwards normals?

[willow grove]

It’s not- I’ve fixed it in blender and all the normals are facing outwards

[frosty junco]

actually

is there a way to put my avi's texture over the fbx in blender?

would make this way easier

nevermind

thanks a ton man @ember escarp

you just saved me like an hour

[ember escarp]

Could your shader in unity be transparent? lil hard to see in the screenshot but its the mesh overlapping with itself right?

[willow grove]

It’s kinda like backface culling but everything is regular or standard in unity, like the texture was all standard and it was just the actual model that was like see through

[bronze grove]

I assume people draw their own reference orthographic and then model around them as a base but I am extremely slow and cannot process the thought of drawing. Does anyone know how I could start to learn drawing art references or if there is places where I can find references to practice blocking around?

[frosty junco]

how do I replace the fbx on my avi

in unity

with my new fbx

e.e

[ember escarp]

hmm not really sure what else it could be, i might try to make a new material and just place the textures back in.

[willow grove]

Funny thing is I did that too 😭

[ember escarp]

you can just overwrite the fbx, or place it in the same folder with a name change to be less destructive

[ember escarp]

damn tuff, unity just being wierd ig

im not sure what else to trouble shoot, sorry

[frosty junco]

after putting it in the same folder with a different name where do I go from there?

[ember escarp]

just drag it into the scene the same as you wouldve with your avatar the first time. if you just replace the fbx it usually keeps whatever scripts youve put on it in the scene with your updated fbx

[frosty junco]

oh I see

thank you

when I overwrote it

this happened

I svaed copies of the fbx tho

[ember escarp]

ah fuck

[frosty junco]

ill redo it

was very easy

I probably messed it up some where since I was clicking blindly to figure out how to move in blender

[ember escarp]

smart to save another file but uhh, idk what mightve done that, did something change in the armature for those leg bones?

[frosty junco]

I dont even know e.e

ill redo it and see

[pure thicket]

sometimes if the topology on part of a mesh is really crazy unity will just remove it, thats what happens to me sometimes, i fix it by just doing a triangulate modifier in blender

[frosty junco]

when overwriting it is there anything spceific I should select?

[ember escarp]

i dont think so, should be just the same as how you first exported it

[frosty junco]

uh

it didnt work this time either

and now my eyes are gone

[somber sequoia]

"apply scalings" should be FBX All in most cases

[ember escarp]

is your rig still working in the blender scene before unity?

[frosty junco]

apply scalings?

oh nvm

[somber sequoia]

it's in the image

[frosty junco]

im blind

lol

that fixed it

thanks you

:D

[somber sequoia]

yep 🙂

[frosty junco]

now I need to figure out why my eyes dissapeared

[ember escarp]

noice

[frosty junco]

pupils still disappearing when I export the avi :(

I dont touch em at all

and im using that all fbx option

they are present in blender ;-;

nevermind im stupid

it had 3 matieral slots instead of 4

[supple needle]

Where do I turn off avatar culling

[frosty junco]

I think the body where the mesh is located

[supple needle]

So like the fbx ?

I can’t seem to find it

[frosty junco]

let me look

for mine

[heavy ingot]

I was able to get an FBX file for Komano Manato I want to make him into a vrchat model.

It says he has no animation connected to his model.

I set it up as humanoid model under inspection tab.
Added gesture manager and everything else, but it doesnt work. How can I get him to be molded into an avatar for VRCHAT?

[ornate stump]

You have to be more specific what doesn't work.

If you ask how to get it into vrchat, the answer would be general avatar tutorial. If something didn't work, you definite are missing something.

[heavy ingot]

I clicked gesture manager, as it is added to the project
But it gives me a,"no animation connected" error.

I figured okay,let me rig him-> 3d model -> right-> humanoid

And added VRC descriptor to his body.

But nothing still. Same error.

[ornate stump]

You have to copy or screenshot the error. Not typing it out because it often got misinterpretted.

[supple needle]

How do I import cats into blender, it for some reason is not allowing me to

When I go to preferences > install from disk > cats blender plugin it says “error extracting archive”

[lavish cosmos]

The original official cats plugin stopped updating so you can’t install it on newer version of blender (I forgot the exact version number) but other enthusiasts decided to take it from there and keep updating it: https://git.disroot.org/Neoneko/Cats-Blender-Plugin
this is the one that can be installed in newer version of blender

[errant karma]

ok i'm just really bored and decided "what if i try making avatars?" then i followed a video tutorial and i had that exact problem, imported the latest release from the link, and when i toggle it on i get an error that says "cannot import name 'tool' from 'mmd_tools_local.panels' (C.\Users\wryy\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\5.0\extensions\user_default\cats_blender_plugin\extern_tools\mmd_tools_local\panels_init_.py)"

[harsh hedge]

i don't get it i have weight paint on my knit but i still have a hole

not here when i lower my arms

[somber sequoia]

You need to watch which bone moves that part of the body, and weight the clothing to that bone also

Don't be afraid to go into edit mode and move parts of the mesh further from the body either

[crystal whale]

Can anybody help me figure out how to attach robot arms to my avatar? Theyre specifically made for my avatar and already weight painted.

I went into blender trying to delete the vertices of the arm it's replacing, but when I try to export that fbx to unity, it no longer recognizes it as an avatar.

[somber sequoia]

Did you unpack your avatar prefab in Unity?

you shouldn't, because if you did you can't just overwrite the FBX and have changes be applied.

[crystal whale]

No.

[somber sequoia]

ok cool. So what do you mean by "recognizes it as an avatar" then?

[crystal whale]

Among other things, it's saying there's no armature

[somber sequoia]

Did you export the armature in the .fbx?

Can you show the exact error message?

[crystal whale]

The armature was exported with the FBX

[somber sequoia]

ah that's a fury message - but it does say the armature isn't humanoid, that's the issue here. Did you alter the armature?

[crystal whale]

I didn't mess with the armature at all. I just imported the FBX into blender, removed the vertices where the arms are, then exported the fbx. Then sent it to unity and dropped it in the scene.

[somber sequoia]

ok - Unity will try to guess at what bones go where, and without mesh attached to the arm bones, it may not have mapped those properly. So you'll want to go into the rig setup and make sure the arm bones are indeed there

[crystal whale]

.... how?

[somber sequoia]

click on the fbx file in the project window, and in the inspector, go to the rig tab, make sure it's set to humanoid there, then click "configure"

this should be covered in a lot of the avatar setup tutorials if you need visuals

you want to make sure all of the arm bone slots in the rig setup have the correct arm bones. The avatar's bones, not those from the add-on arms.

[crystal whale]

Where's the rig tab?

[somber sequoia]

I said right there ^

"in the inspector"

[crystal whale]

There is no rig tab. Just a section in the descriptor that says rig type: non humanoid. I can't click on anything near there

[somber sequoia]

no, not the avatar descriptor

again, click the FBX file in your project window - not anything in the scene.

the project window is the one at the bottom of your screen

[agile birch]

is there a way for me to recover an avatar i lost that i uploaded 🙏

like a way to recover avatar lost

[ornate stump]

No.

[somber sequoia]

you should make your own backups

[crystal whale]

It's not working. At all. I tried adding all the bones that said were missing, then it kept telling me i was missing my left hand which i was not and it just kept that error message there.

[agile birch]

Thanks 🙏

[somber sequoia]

You could show us an image of this, it's hard to make suggestions without some more detail, unfortunately

[crystal whale]

No more errors, but it's still saying non humanoid.

I applied the changes

[somber sequoia]

then there's still something wrong with the rig

[crystal whale]

how?

All the bones are in the right place in the rig.

all of them

Everything is assigned except the upper chest and there's not even an option for that

[somber sequoia]

I can't tell you anything without further detail, sorry

[crystal whale]

What details do you need?

[somber sequoia]

to start, an image of the rig setup with the slots all shown and the bone hierarchy from hips down to head

[somber sequoia]

yep, that looks great. But I notice the animator on your avatar root doesn't have the avatar selected, that's strange

[junior void]

Avatar isn't in the slot

[somber sequoia]

Can you just drag that in there? I haven't had to

[junior void]

Put the blue man there

[crystal whale]

which slot?

[somber sequoia]

In the Animator component on your avatar root, the Avatar slot

[crystal whale]

... fuck

[somber sequoia]

hmm?

[crystal whale]

Okay so the avatar itself is working now as an avatar, but without the normal rusk expressions. Now how do i attach the arms?

[somber sequoia]

I'd do them in Blender, personally, but it looks like you are trying to use VRCFury's armature link?

[crystal whale]

Whatever the simplest solution is for somebody who doesn't know what the freak they're doing, really

[somber sequoia]

I don't really use Fury so the most I could do there is say that's a decent way to do this

[crystal whale]

I don't think armature link will work here because the armatures aren't exactly the same. The arms only have the arm bones.

not the full rusk skeleton

[somber sequoia]

If they have shoulder bones it probably will work if you attach them to the chest bone

but you can put the add-on arms into Blender and add the other bones too

[crystal whale]

how?

[somber sequoia]

how what, to add bones? What I'd probably do is make a copy of the avatar's armature, edit it and delete everything except the hips, spine, chest bones, then ctrl+j to join it to the arms' armature, and re-parent the arms to the chest bone.

[lyric sonnet]

how do i fix this?

[junior void]

Try reimporting poi, perhaps a newer version will do

[lyric sonnet]

worked thanksss

[heavy ingot]

how do i fix his eyesight range?

do i fix using this??

[gaunt knoll]

i mean if your not looking out of your head yes move it so its in the middle of eyes

[heavy ingot]

yes but how do i do that

[somber sequoia]

5,5,5 is likely way far from your avatar, click "edit" and position it as said.
also that's a weird scale, interesting.

[heavy ingot]

i was looking at this

but

how should i scale him?

hes a big guy-

[errant comet]

Big how, most standard height aren't going to be much more or less than 6ft or 1.5 to 1.8m

[somber sequoia]

One easy thing you can do is create a cube in Unity, and set the Y scale to be the height you want in meters, then scale your avatar up to match that.

[heavy ingot]

thank u both, so this model isnt originally for vrchat so the scaling is heavily off

i think he was meant for 3d printinh

when i imported him in, he was so tiny!

so i had to scale him oddly so thank you i will surely try that!!

[errant comet]

Should use the import scale instead of scaling in the scene

[crystal whale]

How do i send a file from unity to blender to make some changes? It's in a unity package.

[heavy ingot]

how do i find that ?

[errant comet]

It's what shows when you select the model file in project files, first tab in the inspector when selected

[errant comet]

In your project files, you probably have a fbx or blend file that is the model, you would edit that. You would need to have imported the avatar into a unity project, you can't just open a unity package with blender

[crystal whale]

I've got it into blender now

[heavy ingot]

yeah i'll have to check bc 1.8 is smaller than the viewpoint ball lmfao

[somber sequoia]

remember that for your avatar, 1.8 is the scale, it's not the actual size in meters

1 = 100% scale

[heavy ingot]

oh shet.

[somber sequoia]

that's why I suggested creating a reference cube

[heavy ingot]

how do i calculate the meters??

[somber sequoia]

not in Unity

hmm maybe there's a way in Unity, I'm not sure off hand.

[heavy ingot]

hmmm.. ok

[errant comet]

Cube is 1m cube, so just scale whichever direction to match what you want for avatar scale, change import setting until it matches what you set cube to. 1.87 ish is 6ft

You'll want to have the scale in the scene for the avatar set to 1x1x1

[heavy ingot]

thank you so much!

[errant comet]

Now you just have to set eye position

[heavy ingot]

yep another obstacle lol thanks!!

[errant comet]

Eye height is probably 1.5 with 1.8 being avatar height, or close. It has been a while since I had to set up eye

[heavy ingot]

i think thats a good position

[errant comet]

Yes that should be where you need it, minimal tweaks if any

[somber sequoia]

Looks great!

[heavy ingot]

what are these blue rings?

[gaunt knoll]

contacts

[heavy ingot]

how do i move it up?

[gaunt knoll]

some are like that

[junior void]

You shouldn't move things around before understanding how they work

[drowsy crane]

I'm trying to separate the jaw from the rest of the head for a movable jaw, idk how to properly do it, I already tried boolean but it just deforms the head

[lavish cosmos]

Click the game object that has the contact and move it, unless it’s constrained to another object

[junior void]

Just cut the mesh?

[drowsy crane]

i want somethingh more precise

[somber sequoia]

yeah how exactly are you trying to do it now? I'd probably mark seams, then select all the faces, and hit 'p' to "part" it out into a separate object

[drowsy crane]

what i was trying to do was use the bottom jaw like a cookie cutter for the head

[heavy ingot]

ah sync dances haha

[drowsy crane]

idk what you are talking about gng

[junior void]

Why can't you use an edge of the mesh to separate the parts? It should have edges flowing along the lips to the head

[somber sequoia]

You can select edges and right click and select "mark seam". Then when you select faces you can have the selection limited by seam borders. It's for convenience, but you can just select the faces manually.

Other than that, let me know what you don't understand about what I said.

[lavish cosmos]

In edit mode, click any vertex and ctrl+L assuming the jaw geometry is separate from the head. It should select all the jaw vertices. If it doesn’t, then you need to manually select jaw vertices. Then p to separate the jaw mesh. But typically, I would leave the jaw as is and rig the jaw instead and use blendshape to move the jaw

[somber sequoia]

Yeah I wouldn't separate this either.

but you certainly could

[junior void]

There may also be a jaw vertices group already

It looks like the nardo head

[drowsy crane]

it is the nardo head\

everything is one big thing\

[junior void]

Then it's rigged

Why would you separate the jaw tho

Like what's the goal

[drowsy crane]

im trying to 3d print these for a fursuit with a moving jaw

[junior void]

Ah

[somber sequoia]

ah neat

[lavish cosmos]

Ok separate that bad boi then lol

[junior void]

Ye in that case it makes sense

Show us the topology?

[drowsy crane]

uhmm, how do I access topology?

[somber sequoia]

x-ray view mode

[drowsy crane]

is it these?

[somber sequoia]

the square one on the left, yes

oh - the left-most round one actually

[junior void]

Just edit mode would've done it

[somber sequoia]

(I always use the hotkeys)

[junior void]

Or view settings and enable grid

[junior void]

Does it still have vertex groups?

[drowsy crane]

how do I check that?

[somber sequoia]

in the properties box

[lavish cosmos]

Green triangle

[somber sequoia]

^

[junior void]

Bottom right panel

[junior void]

Bottom

[somber sequoia]

This panel is the outliner

[drowsy crane]

that?

[junior void]

Yep

If it also has shape keys, you can make it open the mouth

Easier to see then

[drowsy crane]

i can do that with the pose thingy

[junior void]

Then I'd use jaw group to start getting a shape you wanna cut

[drowsy crane]

im so lost

[junior void]

I gtg tho but I think kazin knows where I was going with this

[drowsy crane]

alr

[somber sequoia]

yeah but I wouldn't do it this way, I bet the vertices in that group are not exactly what you'll want for this

[drowsy crane]

are you able to hop on a call and I can share my screen for more direct instructions by any chance?

[somber sequoia]

sorry, not right now

[drowsy crane]

ok

nvm I found a way to do it, but thanks for the help anyway

[earnest gorge]

hey, i bought an avatar and im really struggling to upload it even though i think ive followed all the directions. it uploads but then its only visible on the website and i cant change into the avatar. any ideas?

[night ember]

are you even using the correct unity version

[earnest gorge]

im pretty sure

[somber sequoia]

Which one are you using?

(it's in the title bar)

[earnest gorge]

2022.3.22f1

i think

[somber sequoia]

good

[earnest gorge]

ive tried a lot of things but i am new to unity so i could just be missing something

and its hard to decipher what the error messages actually mean too

[lavish cosmos]

did you upload it as PC version but trying to assess it thru Quest?

[earnest gorge]

nope, uploaded as a pc avatar and im trying thru pc

[somber sequoia]

feel free to paste them, but remember to always look at the first few, at the top of the console.

[earnest gorge]

its also just not viewable in the actual game itself, only on the website

[somber sequoia]

by "viewable" what do you mean, it isn't shown in your avatar list?

[earnest gorge]

yeah

its just not there

even though i def uploaded it cause i can see it on the website

[somber sequoia]

I assume you're looking in the right place, in your uploaded section

[earnest gorge]

yeah, i have no other uploaded avatars so there just is no uploaded section

[lavish cosmos]

you're certain you logged into the same account, right?

[earnest gorge]

yep

like i can view it on the website, i just cant equip it

i think it might be something to do with the blueprint id cause im getting an error about that

[somber sequoia]

That's usually a side-effect error, look above it.

[earnest gorge]

it says something is missing prefab with guid whatever that means

[somber sequoia]

show the error, otherwise we're guessing. But my guess is that something is looking for a prefab from a package you haven't installed

[earnest gorge]

hmm maybe

i could try redownloading the files for the avatar

and just make a new project

[somber sequoia]

I'd be surprised if that helps at all

[earnest gorge]

yeah....

[somber sequoia]

but since you haven't shared the error, I can only guess

[earnest gorge]

yeah hold up ill share it

would u rather i send it here or dm it?

[somber sequoia]

here, so anyone present may help

[earnest gorge]

good point

[somber sequoia]

is that the first error?

[earnest gorge]

its the first one that doesnt just say to see following logs for details

[somber sequoia]

it's not really that useful unfortunately, but does suggest whatever prefab it's referring to is somehow weird or missing something

[earnest gorge]

hmmm

is this like an issue with the model itself or something i did, you think?

if ya had to guess

[somber sequoia]

it's hard to guess when I have no idea what object that's talking about or what it does

[earnest gorge]

yeah lol thats fair

[wicked pecan]

How do I add the texture from blender onto my avatar in the vrc creator companion editor?

[somber sequoia]

Creator Companion is just a package manager and launcher for the Unity editor. You're using Unity.
You put textures into materials, and materials into material slots on mesh objects.

[wicked pecan]

idk how to do that

[somber sequoia]

I'd suggest basic tutorials then. I don't have a link to one offhand though, sorry

[wicked pecan]

k

thank you

[somber sequoia]

maybe someone else does?

[wicked pecan]

I figured it out, thanks for the help

[somber sequoia]

ah good

[arctic ginkgo]

is anyone else having issues with the latest version of Gesture Manager? I'm getting errors related to the filepath using the character ""

oh

i can't type that

\

backslash

[somber sequoia]

yeah - I rolled back to the previous one, haven't checked if that got fixed yet though.

[vagrant dock]

i haveing trouble merging/joining hair armature to main armature, is it okay/safe if i use cats?

[arctic ginkgo]

should be easy without CATS. CATS is mainly for fixing MMD models for VRC

[harsh hedge]

when i update/edit in blender my fbx everything get deleted in unity ( option and stuff like vismeme ) how can i prevent that ?

[upbeat widget]

Anyone know the base of this avatar? Like what the name of it is?

[arctic ginkgo]

here's how I would do it:

• apply transforms on all related objects (meshes and armatures)
• join hair armature to main armature with ctrl+j
• in edit mode, select hair root bone, then select the head bone, press ctrl+p to parent with offset

[vagrant dock]

alr thx ill give that a shot

[arctic ginkgo]

try #1138520828556890214

[arctic ginkgo]

if you overwrite the file in your Unity project, it should keep everything, is this how you are updating the fbx?

[harsh hedge]

yes, is there another way ?

i mean, i do my change on my avi in blender then export it with the same name i had

[arctic ginkgo]

that should work

[vagrant dock]

maybe it already parented, but i dont see a line

[upbeat widget]

Thank you I posted it there now as well

[vagrant dock]

nvm it let me do it this time

their goes not having to weight paint it

[arctic ginkgo]

OH i missed one step I'm sorry

select the hair, go to the modifiers tab, and there should be an eyedropper icon in the armature slot

click on that and then click on the main armature

[vagrant dock]

its okay

[vagrant dock]

thank you so much

[wicked pecan]

Just got this message when i tried to upload, how do i get permission?

[harsh hedge]

is there a way to sync my quest and windows model ? i mean, when i do a change on 1 i would like to have it on my other avi. or do i have to do the change twice ?

[dusk pulsar]

get a rank, visitors cannot upload avatars

[wicked pecan]

how long will that take

i just had to make another account

[somber sequoia]

I don't see why visemes would unless you drastically changed the shape keys or something

[left gull]

?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

[barren lantern]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[somber sequoia]

"missing script" is the primary issue

looks like you're at least missing the face tracking prefabs

[barren lantern]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[somber sequoia]

no idea what the other ones are

[barren lantern]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[somber sequoia]

maybe gogo loco and/or vrc fury

[barren lantern]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[somber sequoia]

start by installing those

[kind flax]

mine says this what do i do

[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

[stable citrus]

check under the root of you avatar if you have missing prefab names VRCFT or FT

[shrewd stirrup]

Can anyone convert an mmd animation i have for me i bet its something many creators would want

[barren lantern]

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[somber sequoia]

do you at least have a list of requirements?

[barren lantern]

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[somber sequoia]

you could switch to alcom

https://vrc-get.anatawa12.com/alcom/

[gaunt knoll]

yeah sure alcom is way faster

[barren lantern]

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[somber sequoia]

just like VCC does

[gaunt knoll]

the same

[barren lantern]

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[spark walrus]

Create a new project then just go to the ID, detach then try and upload sometimes u just need a little luck i feel like, if u have any more questions abt that tbh just hit my line

[somber sequoia]

make sure you're using Unity 2022.3.22f1

[brittle condor]

how do i fix her feet sinking into the ground? adjusting in creator companion didn't do anything

[somber sequoia]

You mean the Unity editor. Creator Companion is just the package manager and launcher.

[brittle condor]

yes, unity

someone said gogoloco, but i'd like a permanent solution

[somber sequoia]

yeah that's not really a solution here. Are you using full body tracking?

[brittle condor]

no

[somber sequoia]

is this a pre-made avatar or a model you have in blender?

[brittle condor]

i made her in blender, but I'm a massive beginner when it comes to avatar creation

[craggy agate]

Anyone have a cool unity package

[somber sequoia]

Ok - make sure she's standing on the origin, and the armature (and probably all mesh objects) have all transforms applied

[gaunt knoll]

Like?

[craggy agate]

Idk 🤷‍♂️ just something cool

[gaunt knoll]

https://docs.hai-vr.dev/

Or where you thinking of a asset?

[craggy agate]

An asset

[gaunt knoll]

Then just look for yourself

[craggy agate]

I was thinking like a download?

Like any package

Could be a cat

Like whatever

[gaunt knoll]

Yeah sorry advertisement is against this discord rules

[brittle condor]

I’m assuming I do this in blender

[somber sequoia]

Yes.

[brittle condor]

She is on the origin in blender and transforms are applied

[fierce hazel]

can some one help me please. Ive rigged everything in blender, and know trying to publish it, its saying i need to map the feet, head, hands

im now in unity

[somber sequoia]

have you done the rig setup in Unity?

[vagrant dock]

Bruh the armrure it manual done after it auto assigned it and it correctly done what more could vrchat and unity want. I enforced t pose. And still says not humanoid

[somber sequoia]

depends on what else it says - often there's an error in the rig tab

[sweet cape]

is it safe to use unity 2022.3.22f1? for avatar uploading?

[somber sequoia]

or you don't have the right armature - show the spine hierarchy

[somber sequoia]

not only safe, that is the only version to use

[stable citrus]

@somber sequoia they did not provided any upload instructions for the avatar fr ?

[somber sequoia]

?

[sweet cape]

is there a specific place to get it?

[somber sequoia]

https://creators.vrchat.com/getting-started/

[vestal sand]

may i ask why is it doing this with the new sdk version when i use just "Toon Lit" ?

even, it does the same thing with the rest

[main remnant]

Why is it doing what?

How is it supposed to look?

[vestal sand]

like that (from blender)

[fringe grove]

I’m having a problem where the avatars I got uploaded today are not showing up on vr and when I check the website, they look like this. Anyone know what’s happening?

Nevermind, reuploaded them and they work now

[main remnant]

This doesn't look like a screenshot from blender, looks more like a render

[vestal sand]

it is

[main remnant]

Showing the tpose from blender would be more helpful than showing a render so we could actually see exactly what it looks like. Very hard to help otherwise. My bet would be wrong textures, bad uv map, and or wrong shaders

[gaunt knoll]

Fr can you send the whole screen as well it's a lot more easier to debug as you might have a settings turned on you don't know about

[main remnant]

Have you put the textures in unity as assets?

[vestal sand]

what do you mean ?

[main remnant]

The legs there don't look anything like in the first picture

[vestal sand]

????

what do you mean ?

[main remnant]

The first picture you sent is all black. There I can see the legs look correctly

[vestal sand]

this ?

[main remnant]

Yes

[gaunt knoll]

Yeah that's because the light is inside of you

...

Maybe try moving it

Dynamic lighting go brrr

[vestal sand]

nope

it's not that

i tried

[main remnant]

I don't really understand

It looks good in the last picture you sent

It doesn't look like in the first picture where you were showing your problem

[vestal sand]

here

[main remnant]

Ooh... You're trying to make it quest compatible

[vestal sand]

im mainly quest

yes

in both 3.9 and 3.10 the issue is there

[main remnant]

It looks good with the correct shaders because they are PC shaders. You can't just toggle it to another shader and expect it to work exactly the same

[gaunt knoll]

He's in quest shaders now and it looks fine

[main remnant]

If it looks fine on quest shaders what's the issue then?

I'm on mobile can't read very clearly the text on the video

I don't understand the problem

[vestal sand]

it's not that it's still an issue for me but im wondering why those shaders that used to work perfectly fine now doesn't, because now the A+ on the head is gone with the particles shader while usually it used to just get rid of the black

[main remnant]

As far as I know you can't have transparent textures on Quest. If it used to work on Quest I don't know how

[night ember]

you are using the shaders in a nonintended method

those are meant for particles

[gaunt knoll]

Yeah you know I don't know

[vestal sand]

this was from an older version and it worked well

[ornate stump]

It's fine for small part. Not for using on the entire model.

[vestal sand]

it didn't mattered if the meshes were big or small, it still worked

[ornate stump]

It doesn't have any change since the old version.

[ornate stump]

If a part became black, that's because of vertex color.

[vestal sand]

vertex color ? i didn't even used that

[ornate stump]

If you edited in blender, you might accidentally create new vertex color if you had accidentally enter vertex paint mode and paint on it.

[vestal sand]

here or in Data ?

[ornate stump]

You should just remove vertex color attribute if you aren't going to use it.

[vestal sand]

Thanks alot, it now works! 😄
and thanks to the others for still trying to help

[river hinge]

For buying avatars where’s a good place to buy avatars that isn’t gumroad

[ornate stump]

booth.pm

[river hinge]

Isn’t that mostly for anime type avatars?

[ornate stump]

Yes. You didn't specific what kind of avatar.

[river hinge]

Fair point

[arctic ginkgo]

nice oliver! second time i saw fpe in here recently, honestly i thought this fandom was mostly dead 😭

[wanton cedar]

Is there any reason why this shows up as non human even though it is rigged correctly

[ornate stump]

Did you read what the read text say?

[wanton cedar]

oh those are just shoulders. I never needed to use them

my other models are like that but still say humanoid

[ornate stump]

It can't apply the settings if you had error in the rig menu.

[wanton cedar]

You sure?

Because it applied

[ornate stump]

If it doesn't saved then it didn't get applied.

[ornate stump]

Then also look in the animator component and see if avatar slot is assigned correctly.

[wanton cedar]

It was that, thanks

[wanton cedar]

my model breaks apart like this in play mode, why does it do this?? i can add more screenshots if needed

[junior void]

"like this"? all i see is the feet separate a bit

[wanton cedar]

look at the joints

[teal laurel]

Stupid question, but how tf do i open my animation controller?
https://blackwolfwoof.com/s/JWdtGEwRyoRoKkq/download/Awooo_06WRa.mp4

[wanton cedar]

the right is the normal height, but for some reason every joint raised itself when in play mode and in game

[ornate stump]

You had Animator panel locked.

[teal laurel]

OH FUCK

ty xd

you saw nothing

I swear i was tripping balls

[junior void]

did you maybe scale the mesh but not the armature

[wanton cedar]

I dont think so, no

thats the mesh and armature

[junior void]

does the original have the same scale

[wanton cedar]

Yes

I did move 2 bones in blender, so maybe I need to reconfigure the entire uh.. rig?

I didn't think moving it 1 atom down would mess it all up

[junior void]

you might need to set the rig generic and back to humanoid

[alpine turret]

Would anyone be down to help me put a head onto a body, and combine their armatures without having the entire thing explode on build? XD

[ornate stump]

What had you tried so far?

[alpine turret]

I aint too proficient in blender but i tried placing em one on the other and lining it up, then combining the bones the way they should be, which worked cause it rigged up in unity just fine, but the model "explodes" upon building/entering play mode

[ornate stump]

What does actually "explodes" mean?

[alpine turret]

boom

[ornate stump]

Did you drag a new model into the scene?

[ornate stump]

Or you had the model already in the scene, then update its fbx file?

[alpine turret]

i removed the previous model and then imported the one i hacked together in blender

i mean i just think its cause i did something wrong in blender but i got no idea what

[ornate stump]

Have you tested the model in pose mode in blender?

[alpine turret]

i dunno how to do that

i have like

never used blender before and so far all ive been able to do is edit armatures

[ornate stump]

Aside of armature edit mode, there is also pose mode to switch to.

[alpine turret]

Alrighty, and how do i use it?

[ornate stump]

Use rotation tool to rotate the bones and see how it work.

[jaunty spear]

Be so fr with me, is this good avatar topology 😭

[junior void]

around the eyes isnt if you want to animate it such as blinking etc

[jaunty spear]

I can just use the knife tool to make it better correct? Or there a simpler method.

[junior void]

"more" is not always "better". you want to have some proper loops around the eyes, not just increase topology around them.

[barren thorn]

Has anyone used the dextro’s clone system?

[junior void]

think about how the eye closes

if you have only dense topology at the lid edges but not around the eye itself, you will need to massively stretch that lower density area for a blink

[jaunty spear]

Thought so, I reduced some edge loops inside the eye lids because that seemed excessive

[junior void]

yea

[barren thorn]

how do i fix this error?

[jaunty spear]

Also, speaking about the eyes. How does the rigging on them work? Since the actual, like, eye part is joined with the head mesh, but not the pupils. And I'm afraid that when the pupils look around, they'll just move out of the eye lids and just float.

[junior void]

depends on how you do this

the avatar im showing uses almost whole spheres

so a sphere can easiyl be rigged by setting the bone to its center of mass

its different if you want to use a flat circle as eye.

[jaunty spear]

Then, how would that work? If the pupil is a circle and not a sphere without it moving outside the eye lids? Do I have to guesstimate where the center of mass is on the eye?

[slender bronze]

Hey guys, I'm running into issues uploading this vroid avatar. I've tested it offline, but uploading it just... isn't working. Anyone run into this before? (Image with errors in unity attached)

[junior void]

no idea how others do it, sorry

maybe they add a sphere just to see the center?

[oblique adder]

Hey @TheNumbah3, I’ve run into similar issues before when uploading VRoid avatars. A few things you can check:

Unity version & VRChat SDK: Make sure you’re using a Unity version compatible with the latest VRChat SDK (usually LTS versions). Mismatched versions often cause upload errors.

Avatar settings: Check your VRoid export settings—especially the polygon count and materials. VRChat has a 70k triangle limit for Quest avatars, and too many materials can break the upload.

Naming & file conflicts: Avoid special characters in bones, blendshapes, or material names. Sometimes Unity fails silently if a name conflicts.

Missing components: Make sure your avatar has an Animator with a valid controller and that the VRChat Avatar Descriptor is properly configured (view position, lip sync, etc.).

Console errors: Check Unity’s Console window carefully; sometimes the error points to a missing shader, texture, or duplicate script

[barren thorn]

What does it mean validation failed ?

[oblique adder]

Validation failed basically means that the VRChat SDK ran a check on your avatar and found something that doesn’t meet their requirements. It’s not a Unity crash it’s VRChat telling you, something about this avatar isn’t allowed or supported for upload

[barren thorn]

I didn’t have that issue before I added this shader thing I just wanted to have a clone FX on my sbi

Avi*

[slender bronze]

Thanks much, I am using the most updated version of the SDK on a compatible version of unity - I /am/ in the red when it comes to the vertices/texture mapping. Atlas'ing absolutely /demolishes/ those textures aaaaa

I may have to re-export this model using 1.0vrm (it's currently 0.X) and delete invisible topology.

Thank you for the response!

[slender bronze]

Do you know any good ways to maybe get high-quality texture atlasing in blender? (I'm not an artist, this model was just requested for upload/basic armature assistance, so i'm just going the extra mile for a friend lmao)

[jaunty spear]

Oh, so that is how works? That makes a lot more sense

[barren thorn]

Oh nvm

Got it

[oblique adder]

Yeah Even if you’re not an artist, Blender can handle texture atlasing pretty well. Here’s a simple workflow you can follow for VRChat/VRoid avatars:

Smart UV Project: Select your mesh → UV → Smart UV Project. This automatically unwraps everything, which is perfect if you don’t want to manually unwrap

Bake your textures: In the Shader Editor, create a new image for your atlas. Then, bake all your materials (diffuse/color, normal, etc.) onto that single image. This merges multiple materials into one texture

Assign the baked texture: Replace the old multiple materials with one material using the new atlas texture. This reduces material count, which VRChat loves

Optimize texture size: Keep it reasonable (1024–2048px for Quest) to avoid heavy memory usage

Check in Unity: Import the model with the new atlas and make sure it passes VRChat validation before uploading

[junior void]

did you legit copy from chatgpt

[somber sequoia]

looks like it

it's not bad though

[junior void]

im not saying it is but it is weird

[round comet]

Also I wouldn’t recommend 2048 for quest HAHA

[junior void]

if its one single atlased texture it could work

[round comet]

That’s the only exception frfr

[oblique adder]

Nah I didn’t copy it from anywhere. That’s just the workflow I’ve been using for VRChat/VRoid avatars for a while it’s a standard method for texture atlasing in Blender. Works every time for baking, merging, and optimizing materials

[junior void]

thats not the point

my point being you didnt type that in 5 seconds

[oblique adder]

Haha fair point 😅 I didn’t type it out word-for-word in five seconds, but that’s because I know the workflow well and just wrote it out clearly for everyone. When you’ve done texture atlasing in Blender enough times, explaining it just comes naturally it’s basically second nature at this point

[junior void]

youre still shooting past me

[round comet]

[oblique adder]

Haha true 😅 I might’ve typed faster than expected, but that’s just experience showing. When you’ve done this workflow enough times, it’s not really thinking about it you just know the steps and can explain them quickly

[round comet]

What abt the arrows in your steps doe

[somber sequoia]

you bake normals into the same image as the diffuse?

[round comet]

→

[wide lagoon]

Bit of an odd question - is there a way to bypass the "Disable Exit Station always forced off on upload" for Avatar stations? Like - would having a menu-toggle to turn it on in-game work?
Working on a thing that requires it, I get why the limitation exists for a variety of reasons but still hoping XD

[icy moat]

Heyo! One of my friends is experiencing the exact same issues with his avatar now! Anyone got a solution?

[somber sequoia]

show the view position

[somber sequoia]

avatar isn't at 0,0,0, weird. Also weird rotation.

[icy moat]

Very weird rotation lol

[somber sequoia]

yeah - kinda wondering why that's the case, I'd go examine it in Blender

I'm not saying that's the actual problem, but it could be an indicator or something strange

[icy moat]

fixed the export options. hopefully this'll solve it.

[somber sequoia]

definitely looks better!

[icy moat]

Ayyy! Thank you so much!

[somber sequoia]

excellent, I was hoping it was that easy

[icy moat]

I never had these issues with my own avatars, so I'm glad someone was able to help 🙏

[fickle bridge]

how can i fix this_

[somber sequoia]

in words, what is "this"

[fickle bridge]

in words her neck shrinks in play mode

[somber sequoia]

like her head shifts down a bit?

wow this is a very very poor

[fickle bridge]

yeah

her spine too

[junior void]

Looks like adding clothes with third party package and bones being scaled on merge

[gaunt knoll]

Dammm 500k

[waxen jungle]

Anyone know if there’s a plugin that would allow me to quickly transfer stuff like physbones over to a new fbx? Every time I update my fbx it feels like there’s a 50/50 chance that I break everything and have to re add all of the physbones and toggles

[night ember]

the only reason itd remove them is if you changed the hierarchy

[somber sequoia]

Pumkin's tools can do that, but you could also put those kinds of things in a prefab, and then all you have to do when setting up a new avatar is drag the root transforms into the physbone components.
This is what I do in order to have the same settings for all variants of an avatar. (such as different clothing outfits)

[jaunty spear]

I'm trying to add a walking/running cycle to my avatar that changes its scale and position. I want the animation to change its scale, but it's not working as intended in Unity. When I tested it out in the home world, it was just making my avatar slide and A-pose.

I'm not sure if I'm exporting the animation correct since I'm doing everything from scratch

[short loom]

Can someone please help me I’m new here

[somber sequoia]

help you with what?

[short loom]

I’m new to this

[somber sequoia]

and?

I mean, it isn't clear what you are asking for help with, please explain.

[spark walrus]

are you wanting to start making an avatar from scratch or

because you're not gonna be able to do that in unity

[vagrant dock]

everytime i merge head armature with the head to male base armature unity then says humanoid is broken

[junior void]

Sounds like you need to configure the rig in the import settings

[vagrant dock]

i been changing it to humanoid bud

[somber sequoia]

doesn't mean it's actually humanoid though

you'd have to show the spine hierarchy, or the rig window, or look for possible errors in the rig window itself

[vagrant dock]

oh i think it because i have mesh name head and bone name head

[somber sequoia]

ah yeah, you can't do that. There should be an error message for that, probably in the rig tab

[vagrant dock]

this is what console said so im fix it

[somber sequoia]

ah yep, that's it

[vagrant dock]

it worked im so happy i can just move on

[flat elm]

Hey guys I need some help

So I am trying to find a fit female based model? Is there any good place to find?