avatar-help

[vagrant dock]

can you alaborate on the word fit female

[flat elm]

Like she has abs and muscles

[vagrant dock]

eh i have seen any on the market

[flat elm]

But not too muscaline

[somber sequoia]

#1138520828556890214 or try avatar search worlds

[vagrant dock]

ive been all over the sites and havent came acros any

[river jewel]

SUP DOODZ guess who got THIS MESSAGE WHEN UPLOADING MA AVIIIII eheheheeeee

eheheee

help me

[somber sequoia]

Look in the SDK build window, maybe there's an error there.

[river jewel]

huh where's that??

OH the control panel yea?

[somber sequoia]

yes

[river jewel]

well this is what I got now

should I be worried about the 1st errors?

[somber sequoia]

yep, probably fix that.

look in your avatar descriptor, the menu under "expressions" is probably invalid

[river jewel]

I checked

and its just the default vrc parameters

see?

[heavy ingot]

can someone dumb this down for me

trying to instal sync dances dlc

but its not letting me

i have the main system as well but trying to add the dlc to the main system

[sick bear]

Anybody know why this keeps happening when importing a unity fbx file to substance painter? its either this or only one UV for the whole model
the console keeps saying [Scene 3D] Skipping one or more lines with the same contents

[somber sequoia]

put a menu there

[somber sequoia]

what does your UV map look like?

[river jewel]

GOT IT

[sick bear]

Im new to all this, is my UV map the model? The photo is the map on the side

[somber sequoia]

no

you'll want to learn what UV maps are, it'll be very important for using Substance Painter

[nimble bloom]

I am adding an outfit that is defaulted to T-pose to an avatar that is set in A-pose, How do I change the outfit to default to A-pose? I did pose mode and moved the stuff to where I want it and did all my sculpting already, now I need it to be the default where it is posed at

[somber sequoia]

Yeah.... this is annoying. You pose one of them with the armature it's got, then apply the armature modifier. Then add another using the other armature and deal with any vertex group name changes.

[nimble bloom]

You just spoke greek to me

[somber sequoia]

well it at least gives you things to learn about

[heavy ingot]

i dont understand this error. anything after sync dances 3.0 doesn't work

[somber sequoia]

it says it's missing required files

even tells you where it expects them to be

[civic rose]

how do you do constraints for monster avatars

[jade falcon]

I'm getting an error about a missing parameter that exists
anyone got any ideas on how to fix this?

the error doesn't show if I change it to use any of the other parameters

its just this one giving an error
it also works fine with gesture manager

nvm I fixed the problem

[somber sequoia]

can you be more specific?

this is a good place to start: https://creators.vrchat.com/common-components/constraints/

[civic rose]

Yk how like kaiju or dinosaur avis are like puppets?

bottom one is with constraints

[somber sequoia]

Yes, I get that, but what exactly do you want to do with constraints?

[civic rose]

I wanna learn how to use them and put em on my godzilla avi

[somber sequoia]

But what do you want to do with them?

[civic rose]

cuz idk what to do

[civic rose]

Wdym

[somber sequoia]

What exactly do you want to use constraints for?

[civic rose]

The godzilla avatar

[somber sequoia]

...

[civic rose]

im gonna have a stroke

All I want is to use rotation constraints

On my Godzilla avi

So it could look good

[modest ferry]

how would i switch the sdk-?

[somber sequoia]

VCC or Alcom

[civic rose]

Update the base and avatar in CC

it will show a green arrow

[somber sequoia]

I get that, but to do what? Maybe copy rotation from one armature to another?

[modest ferry]

tyty :D

[civic rose]

sigh

[somber sequoia]

what? Be specific

[civic rose]

I dont understand

[somber sequoia]

read the doc I linked to learn what constraints are

they have many uses other than making godzilla

[civic rose]

I have an invisble armature

And I was told to use to rotation constraints to make godzilla look like this

[somber sequoia]

okay so you want to use rotation constraints to copy from the armature VRChat runs to the one that runs the mesh.

[civic rose]

yes

[somber sequoia]

Okay

[civic rose]

so what do i do

[atomic rapids]

[somber sequoia]

best I could suggest is put one rotation constraint on each dinosaur bone, with the source being the matching humanoid bone, and.... hope that works ok.

[somber sequoia]

not sure what you're showing but on the rig tab before you click "configure" it tells you there is an error and how to see it - you probably want to look at that.

[sick bear]

what went wrong here?

[somber sequoia]

why export? do you not already have the model as a fbx?

[nova igloo]

Hi i need help with an avatar i just downloaded, i wanna upload it but in the files the unitypackage is actually a zip file, how do i load the project then ? When i take a look into the folder it looks like this :

[somber sequoia]

don't unzip the unitypackage

(technically they are either .zip or .tar files)

[nova igloo]

Okay so how do i load the file on my unity project ?

[somber sequoia]

assets -> import package -> custom package -> select the .unitypackage

[tropic obsidian]

is there anyone here experienced with flipbook/sprite sheet textures
is there a way i can only make an animation start when i want it to like with a or keyframe

[nova igloo]

Ok i will try thanks

[nova igloo]

It's only showing the extracted file but not the zip one

[somber sequoia]

nothing I can tell you about whatever files you have from here, of course.

Just that you don't unpack .unitypackge files

[somber sequoia]

yes?

[nova igloo]

This is the actual content of my avatar folder

On my unity project i cant see the zip folder, it's only showing me the last folder

[sick bear]

I combined several models, so when I save it the full model saves as unity project and I need to use an fbx exporter

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure why you want to

[somber sequoia]

I suspect this is not going to go well at all.

[nova igloo]

I just wanna load this avatar on my project

[sick bear]

me too

[nova igloo]

But i don't know how

[somber sequoia]

I also don't know what you mean "on my unity project" - do you mean in unity? you don't work with .zip files in unity.

[warm phoenix]

how do i upload this to vr chat

[somber sequoia]

same way as any other avatar? There are tutorials for this, have you watched any?

[warm phoenix]

nope

[somber sequoia]

oh, well probably start there. But at a glance, it may not have the kind of rig needed for VRChat, so that might take some work.

[warm phoenix]

damnit

[nova igloo]

Usually when i create a unity project for a vrchat avatar i just have to drag and drop my unitypackage into the assets on the project, but here the unitypackage is a zip file and it's not working at all i mean its not importing anything

[somber sequoia]

If you have a .zip file then unzip it. If you have a .unitypackage simply import it as I said and do NOT unpack it.

As I said, .unitypackage files are either .zip or .tar files, just renamed and with special files and such. You don't unpack them manually.

As for "it's not working at all" please explain what this means if you want help with it.

[nova igloo]

I mean like this

[somber sequoia]

I have no idea what you are showing here

looks like an empty project?

[nova igloo]

Yes it's empty cuz i try to import the avatar on it

[somber sequoia]

maybe it's a bad file

[random ridge]

Open the zip file with winrar and drag the contents into your projects asset folder

Unity can't import zip files

[somber sequoia]

yeah it's not clear if they have a .zip or .unitypackage

[nova igloo]

Here is the content of the zip file idk if it's normal

[nova igloo]

But when i unzip it looks like that

[somber sequoia]

a .zip file could contain anything

[random ridge]

That is not an avatar ._.

[somber sequoia]

maybe extract the .tar file and open that with winrar and see what's up but yeah, this doesn't look like avatar stuff, so dunno

[nova igloo]

But i downloaded that on vrmodel, its supposed to be an avatar

[somber sequoia]

ohhhh

is this a ripped avatar you should have paid for?

if so I've already wasted my time here.

[random ridge]

Also nested compressed files smells like a zip bomb

[somber sequoia]

yeah this looks really sketchy

[random ridge]

Maybe don't open that tar file

[nova igloo]

The content of the tar file is the same as here

[random ridge]

It's a bomb

[nova igloo]

Wdym ?

[somber sequoia]

that looks like the contents of a unitypackage to me

[random ridge]

A zip bomb is compressed file that That's usually around a few kilobytes to a megabyte in size that extracts to several petabytes and crashes your computer by filling up its memory

Essentially small file become really really really big

[nova igloo]

I already extracted the zip file but it's seems like the unitypackage is broken

But usually you just have to drag and drop a unitypackage into your asset folder on the project then it's opening a window for the import right ? So how do i deal with this type of file exactly i dont understand

[somber sequoia]

If you got it from that site, you won't get help here. Pay artists for their work.

[random ridge]

Yeah

[sick bear]

everything seems to be connected properly though, its just the UVs I'm having problems with

[somber sequoia]

uh, okay..

[nova igloo]

Nvm i found how i load the unitypackage thanks for the help tho

[somber sequoia]

You should still pay artists for their work.

[lilac musk]

smh

[sick bear]

this is what happens when I preserve uv layout, its probably an issue in unity

[fluid wagon]

i need to upload an avatar to quest, so i went to unity to add the module for android but theres no “add modules” button

[somber sequoia]

yeah that happens if you install the editor via a standalone package instead of through the unity hub archive link, it's annoying.

I'm not sure the right way to fix it on Windows but on Linux I'd remove it and then reinstall the editor from the archive link in hub.
probably doing it via VCC works?

you can probably get the add-on module packages for windows separately too, the linux links are broken so I've had to reinstall the editor

[fluid wagon]

i’m just gonna reinstall it and see if that works

[winged bobcat]

i'm trying to use a custom script to add delay to a looping sound on an avatar but the sdk is saying it will be removed? how do i keep the script?

[somber sequoia]

you don't - no custom scripts on avatars. Do it in the animator.

[winged bobcat]

ok so how would i add the desired delay to the sound? i'm using VRCEmoteManager to turn on the motion and sound from an object

[somber sequoia]

no idea about that tool, but you can use transition times in the animator, or put the keyframes in your animation not at frame 0, but at a later one

[winged bobcat]

looking at the animator, its supposed to swap between two objects with the sound to play it on time, but i can't hear it doing that in play mode using gesture animator

nvm it works now

[fluid wagon]

It did let me add it, but its still doesn’t let me change the platform

[hard hatch]

does anyone know how to change the default transition for an aminator layer? I would like to change the default state to Metal Off

[somber sequoia]

right click the other state, there's an option there

I forget what it's actually called and don't have an animator in my open project

[hard hatch]

ohhh okay I actaully found it. Thanks!

[somber sequoia]

np

[main remnant]

You have to go to preferences or something like that and it lets you install the files. After that you'll be able

[somber sequoia]

Blender

hmm

[vapid cipher]

yeah thanks, i just found out it just doesnt fit and i had to use the bigger chest models lol

[viral elbow]

anyone know how to fix this?

[somber sequoia]

are there any other errors?

[somber sequoia]

are those the first few, or are there any above? Always share the first 2-3 errors, and ideally don't clip the image so much so we can see the count indicators at the upper right

[viral elbow]

ohhhh okie

and theres the first few errors

[somber sequoia]

huh, 26 of them

[viral elbow]

yeah

[somber sequoia]

I'd clear them and build again

[viral elbow]

ohhh okie

uno momento

[viral elbow]

i didnt touch anything just ported everything in

[somber sequoia]

well click that "autofix" button in the build window at least.

no idea about that prefab import error, but it seems important

[night ember]

Iirc its like missing script but prefab

[somber sequoia]

no I get that, but I mean I don't know what it's looking for.

[viral elbow]

idk either i didnt add face tracking to it yat it looks like its saying i did?

do i just add the face tracking to it?

[somber sequoia]

do you have a face tracking headset?

[spiral lintel]

Idk what happend but like di weight painting for my model and theres no other colors besids dark blue on the hood yet it still moves with the arm

[somber sequoia]

remember the color is meaningless unless normalized

[spiral lintel]

oh

how do i do that

[somber sequoia]

I like to paint with auto-normalize on, but there's a way to do it in the menus somewhere

[spiral lintel]

i pressed normalize all and it just made it worse

[somber sequoia]

no, it made it accurate

[spiral lintel]

the hood came down more and worse

[somber sequoia]

so paint it to 0

[main remnant]

Just paint it with weight 0 for the arm

[spiral lintel]

it is already painted at 0

[somber sequoia]

definitely isn't if it's moving

remember to look at child bones too

[main remnant]

Check all the bones

[spiral lintel]

the only thing with bones is the armature

[somber sequoia]

if you tab back to edit mode you can select a vertex and see its weights in the "item" box of the "n" popup sidebar

[spiral lintel]

for the body

[somber sequoia]

well yes, bones belong to armatures.

[spiral lintel]

its not showing me the weight

[somber sequoia]

?

[somber sequoia]

what are we looking at here

[spiral lintel]

edit mode on the jacket

[somber sequoia]

yes, but why are you showing us this?

[spiral lintel]

i dont see the weights

[somber sequoia]

weights aren't shown there

[main remnant]

Click on the vertex from the hoodie that moves with the arm and you'll see in the n sidebar what weights it has, I think that's what kazin said

[somber sequoia]

if you mean this, re-read what I said here: #avatar-help message

[main remnant]

Or go to weight paint mode and check each bone to see which one paints the hoodie

[spiral lintel]

ok i might just be dumb but is the bottm right not the item box?

[somber sequoia]

no that's the properties box, and nothing to do with the "n" popup sidebar

hit 'n' and it'll toggle the sidebar, right?

that has tabs. Click the "item" tab, you're on the "cats" tab.

[spiral lintel]

didnt even knw i had caps on

but nowww i see it thank u

[somber sequoia]

though I bet the weights are in the properties box somewhere too, I haven't looked for it.

[viral elbow]

i got it to upload but the femfluff and the clothes isnt staying with the model?

[somber sequoia]

probably not attached properly or not weight painted?

[viral elbow]

ohhhhh i have no idea how to do that

[somber sequoia]

I'm sure there are tutorials

[viral elbow]

ohhokie ill see what i can find :)

[vapid slate]

what to do if a project is missing the avatar sdk but it appears in the creator companion?

[somber sequoia]

you could remove it and reinstall it with VCC

[vapid slate]

it wont let me remove it

[storm sapphire]

Hi, does anyone know how to fix this error that only happens when I "build and test" my model in the SDK panel? When I click "play," there's no error on the console, and I'm sure it's something to do with the rigging so my model appears in T-pose when I open VRC and view the model 😵‍💫

[somber sequoia]

often that's irrelevant

[storm sapphire]

oh really ?

:0

[ancient adder]

For the tpose issue, do you have your fbx set to humanoid?

[storm sapphire]

yep

[storm sapphire]

Then I'll have to see what else is causing my model to appear in T pose when I enter VRC 🫠

[night pasture]

am having this isues with uploading my avatar these are sdk error can anyone help me out

[foggy socket]

hi i got this weird white place in some faces ,though i m using basic color now ,not sure what they re ,anyone know ?

[junior void]

looks like normals. set shading to smooth and/or reset vectors

[foggy socket]

i ll try that thx

that worked thx again

[oblique adder]

Have you got helped ?

[haughty plaza]

does anyone know what viseme gets triggered by snorting

[ornate stump]

You can open avatar debug menu in game, and you will see the Viseme parameter gets changed while you're doing voice.

[haughty plaza]

omg ty

[oblique adder]

@alpine turret i sent you friend request on my back up acc ?

[slender spire]

is there a way i could have two viewpoints? ik abt having a camera on where u want it but it doesn't rlly work could anyone explain how i can toggle a different view

[main remnant]

On unity or blender?

[slender spire]

unity

[main remnant]

In your hierarchy you must have a camera, that's where the point of view goes when you hit play. You can move it anywhere you want

You must do all these changes BEFORE hitting play. Any changes that you make WHILE on play will be undone once you hit stop

You can have 2 viewports though. Just grab the tab you want to move and drag it where you want. You'll see it creates another panel for it, or even leave it as an independent window

[indigo compass]

The only way to have two "viewpoints" on an avatar is with the other being done with a camera.

I think it was as simple as if a camera is in your avatars hierarchy then it will override your view, but that just comes from accidents with me importing the Blender camera into Unity years ago might have changed.

Regardless overriding your viewpoint is probably not going to be as good as you are expecting, it is pretty bad in all avatars I have seen it done on, cool gimmick but that's it.

[main remnant]

Oh viewpoint I read viewport

My bad

[plucky hearth]

anyone know why my avi is stuck like this in edit mode. im not previewing any animations

[somber sequoia]

because you left it like that after making an animation. Pumkin's tools has a reset feature.

[plucky hearth]

whats pumkin?

[ivory kayak]

I want to edit the highlighted picture but it is all gryed out when i try, and it dosent let me open it eith my painting softwhere

@ me of you know how to fix it

[plucky hearth]

ctrl + d will make an editable version

[ivory kayak]

Heck yeah, thanks

[somber sequoia]

a person who makes avatar tools

[plucky hearth]

oh fair will download that and try it thanks

[plucky hearth]

ooo i like this tool thanks it also fixed the issue

[somber sequoia]

yeah, some useful stuff in there

[hazy quest]

Unity PP (。_。) Bloom values equivalent to Vrchat's?
And can you preview material animtions in the scene view without being in the play/game-mode.

[balmy barn]

https://docs.hai-vr.dev/docs/products/lightbox-viewer theres one thing you can use to test light / pp in unity

[viral gate]

could someone upload an avi forme? i got the filess

[kindred leaf]

if anyone is willing...i got a free AVI but i have to upload it...and i got pretty far but theres so many problems with it when i try to upload it that it wont let me...could someone maybe walk me though the process...at any time today im just a girl and im so confused

[somber sequoia]

have you watched tutorial videos?

[viral gate]

yes but its giving error and imv dumb

[kindred leaf]

yes 😭

[kindred leaf]

literally me too

[somber sequoia]

Show the error, maybe someone here can help with it

[viral gate]

null reference

so methinglike that

[somber sequoia]

I should say specifically: paste the first (top) 2-3 errors in the console window, and don't crop it too much, so we can see the error counts in the upper-right.

[viral gate]

oki

[somber sequoia]

we can't help with "something like that"

[junior void]

Don't crop the error count at the top right

[somber sequoia]

Please re-read what I said.

Also no need to click on a specific error, the summaries are fine right now.

[plucky moth]

Would anyone mind helping me out with uploading my laptop keeps crashing

[gaunt knoll]

What's crashing

Would love some more information besides my laptop keeps crashing

@plucky moth

[plucky moth]

Like when i open unity itself

My entire laptop crashes

[gaunt knoll]

So when you just open up unity on your laptop

[plucky moth]

Correct

[gaunt knoll]

That's it you haven't done anything besides open unity through CC

Is the laptop plugged in

[plucky moth]

Its not on the charger no

[gaunt knoll]

Try it on the charger if you have a boost button turn it on turbo

If the laptop is 5 years old then you can't do anything with unity

[somber sequoia]

did they bring back the turbo button and I missed it?

[gaunt knoll]

Asus have it and I think some dell ones

[somber sequoia]

Huh, not on my Asus. Interesting.

[gaunt knoll]

What model?

[somber sequoia]

Zephyrus 14, like 2 years old though

[gaunt knoll]

Yes you have one

Hold fn and press f5

[somber sequoia]

ah is that what that symbol is

[gaunt knoll]

Yeeeee

[somber sequoia]

well I'm running Linux so I didn't map that keycode to anything anyway 🙂

[gaunt knoll]

Sammme

[plucky moth]

Its an older dell chromebook

With a hard drive plugged in

[gaunt knoll]

Yeah I'm sorry but any Chromebook it doesn't work with as the Chromebooks are only ment for running stuff for school like word
So they make the hardware for them really bad

[plucky moth]

Ah

Well crap 🙁

[gaunt knoll]

Sorry

[plucky moth]

Whats my best option then i bought an avatar

[gaunt knoll]

you can ask the creator of the Avi and they can do it

They normally do it for free and your not going to get scammed by giving someone random your login details

[stiff wagon]

if gumroad avi upload instructions say "Unity 2019.4.31 is needed!", does that mean i cannot use the latest 2022.3.22f1 unity to upload it?

[somber sequoia]

Those instructions are out of date - use the current version VRChat supports, which is 2022.3.22f1.

[inland gyro]

anyone know how i could make an FBX Patcher so that i can distribute a model without providing the original?

[somber sequoia]

one exists, let me see if I can find the name

hmm this seems to have used HDiffPatch

Yep: https://github.com/sisong/HDiffPatch

[crystal whale]

Could somebody please for the love of the gods help me attach this damn robot arm to my avatar?

[somber sequoia]

I've seen it used for adding face tracking shape keys to FBX files

[inland gyro]

appreciated, ill look into it !

[crystal whale]

I've tried everything by this point. I've tried modular avatar and VRCFury, i've tried manually adding back in the damn bones to the avatar, i've tried manually parenting the bones of the robot arm to the avatar. Nothing is fucking working

[somber sequoia]

I'd be doing that in Blender probably.

[crystal whale]

Tried that. still didn't fucking work

[somber sequoia]

you'd have to explain/show what you did and why it isn't working probably

Assuming the arm is positioned right and already weight painted, it should be as simple as updating the vertex group names to match those of your avatar's armature, and if you aren't joining mesh objects, updating the arm's armature modifier to point at the avatar's armature.

[fervent oxide]

I need help making a custom recolor of an NKD Protogen

(More like have someone help walk me through it lol)

[crystal whale]

I figured it out. i have to manually unpack the armature and slowly move everything to match the avatars armature. This is going to take fucking ages.

[somber sequoia]

strip the new arm's armature down to only the bones you want to add, then join it with the avatar's armature (and then edit the combined armature and re-parent the new bones properly)
That is, assuming it has bones that are vastly different than the avatar's, if not there's really little reason to use it at all.

[slender bronze]

Guys, I am losing my /MIND/, I have a model i'm trying to upload, but whenever I boot the creator companion, it says "Can't check for updates, please check your internet connection. "Timed Out"" And it won't open the unity project. So, instead, I used unity hub and loaded the SDK and appropriate packages manually. Logged into the SDK fine, but when I select "build and publish" for the model, the information boxes grey out (like I assume they would while submitting the info), but the model doesn't build /or/ upload. My internet has been fine, I even went the extra mile of giving Unity + VCC permissions on the firewall to make sure it wasn't getting blocked by security. Nothing seems to be working.

If anyone has any direction/experience with this issue, please let me know. I am going mad lol

Could it potentially be this???

That wouldn't mess with the companion though aaaaaa

[stiff wagon]

turns out it actually needs to be the Unity 2019.4.31 due to some old libraries used for the avi that don't work in the latest unity anymore

[somber sequoia]

you really want to update that, I don't think you can run the current acceptable SDKs in that old Unity.

[stiff wagon]

but unlucky for me, trying to create a 2019.4.31 project in Unity hub resulted in some type of corruption that made Unity Hub completely inoperable

[stiff wagon]

so basically i should've made sure i wasn't buying some outdated avi before actually buying it 🙁

[somber sequoia]

anything can be updated

[stiff wagon]

that's beyond my skill set at this time

[crystal whale]

I unpacked the prefab and slowly dragged each bone to the corresponding one then added vrc fury armature link for the bits that didnt quite sync up. Then did some other fuckery and it works now!

Now just to figure out how to get the normal rusk expressions back that got removed when I took the fbx from blender into unity.

Can you help with that last one? I just want normal rusk expressions.

[junior void]

Blendshapes getting lost on export is a sign that there are unapplied modifiers other than armature

[somber sequoia]

this method is really not at all what I'd have suggested, but I'm glad it worked for you.

[crystal whale]

The blendshapes are still there. I think it's just missing a FX controller or something?

[crystal whale]

It works. Thank the gods. Now I just need to do it again for the left arm. 🤣

[storm sapphire]

Nope, but it's not necessary, thanks anyway. I already fixed the error, and it happened because I had set the skeleton's HIPS as the "root transform" in the Phys Bones component

Although I have a question: is it illogical or incorrect to add physics to a skeleton? Because my idea was for it to have smooth movement. Do you know how to achieve that? Or does it require something else before exporting or importing it into Unity?

[somber sequoia]

What exactly are you trying to achieve?

[storm sapphire]

Or is it simply not possible, in particular?

[somber sequoia]

Putting physbones on humanoid bones is going to make you a rag doll

[storm sapphire]

Ohhh I understand

[storm sapphire]

My idea was to make the weighted mesh react to gravity using Phys Bones, but of course I suppose that can be achieved by adding more bones to specific parts of the body so they move more dynamically, right?

[somber sequoia]

I'm not entirely sure I follow, but yeah, physbones are how you get parts to react to gravity.

[ivory kayak]

how do i go about making this into a texture i can edit and bring inro my painting sophwere

[somber sequoia]

where "this" is which of those, and what type of object is it?

if you mean the highlighted one, it looks like an image texture to me.

[ivory kayak]

i just cant edit it

this ius the error it has

[somber sequoia]

Unity isn't an image editor? what are you trying to do here

oh that looks like it might be embedded in a .fbx?

[ivory kayak]

yes

[somber sequoia]

extract it, either in blender or similar, or in the Materials tab in the inspector for the model object in Unity

[ivory kayak]

how do i extract it in blender?

[somber sequoia]

I forget, I almost never work with embedded textures

[balmy barn]

ctrl+d , but they already have it

[ivory kayak]

thats a ss of the picture and then blown up on a painting sohwere and its to pixilated

ctrl+D just made a copy of the unedibal one

[balmy barn]

unity set texture default to 2k

[ivory kayak]

editable*

[balmy barn]

just drop it in gimp/whatever you are using

[ivory kayak]

it says its unsuported file type

[storm sapphire]

i mean, yes, but it was trying to do it with the skeleton bones as a simpler solution so that the mesh with influence would react with gravity, but that, seeing the sdk document and a little help from an AI, I understood that it is not recommended to use a humanoid skeleton bone in the phys bones.

anyway thanks for the help! 🙂

[ivory kayak]

Lucky, your ai actually works, when I asked it how ti change the texture to somthing readable and I gave it a picture I told it to show me by highlighting the button and it edited in a new button that didn't exist 😭

[proven quail]

You want to weight the mesh to its own bones to react with gravity. Make some of the mesh (it's like clothes, right?) Be weighted to the humanoid rig (like the arms, etc) and then some parts that should move or dangle need their own bones. Then those extra bones can have the physics

If you post an image of the mesh here and the rig (like the bones) people will be able to better understand what you are asking and give you specific tips like where bones should go to make it look like gravity effects the entire piece like in real life

[grizzled sand]

Does anyone know how to fix this issue when uploading a avi ?

[proven quail]

Check the validations list. Does it say anything there

[grizzled sand]

What's the validations list ?

[somber sequoia]

Also scroll up the console here and look at the first 2-3 errors, not the last. Those are usually where the root cause is.

[proven quail]

Above the upload section. It will say things like so and so polygons, will be very poor, and stuff like that

[somber sequoia]

there ought to be an auto-fix button for the mipmaps issue

[somber sequoia]

there it is

[proven quail]

Click auto fix on that top one there

[grizzled sand]

Ooh thank yall lol

[proven quail]

Yeah, so sometimes the SDK will have the upload button avalible before it refreshes the validations. So basically the SDK let's you upload, and then in the middle realizes that oops, you can't actually upload because the validations refreshed and something needs a fix. So then you get that error

[grizzled sand]

Ooh okay thank you all for the help lol

Damm it didn't even take a min to upload lmao

[alpine turret]

I have a question, so...

In unity, visemes work fine and whatnot, using gesture manager and vrcfury, but upon upload they don't work in game, why would this be?

I'm using VRCFury, if that helps

[balmy barn]

you missing one in descriptor?, they break in vrchat then

[alpine turret]

They're all binded in the descriptor

Besides ff

[somber sequoia]

you need all of them

[alpine turret]

ff don't exist tho-

[somber sequoia]

you'll need to make something for it then

[alpine turret]

Hopefully that fixes it then XD

[lilac musk]

Usually FF is similar enough to PP or TH, so you could just use one of them a second time in its place.

[hard hatch]

I would like to make a toggle for my avatar that makes it so that whenever I turn on mute, it toggles on an object on my avatar. Anyone know where to start?

[agile sapphire]

does anyone know if you can put the same parameter on 2 different physbones?

[somber sequoia]

use animator parameter MuteSelf: https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/animator-parameters/

[somber sequoia]

what do you mean "parameter on physbones"?

[somber sequoia]

oh that. I bet you could but it'd conflict like crazy

[agile sapphire]

not risking it then, split parameters it is

[feral drift]

I used to have non humanoid avatar with animations and toggles
now all animations no longer works, toggles still works
I made a new one, same thing, toggles works, animations don't
Anybody know what caused this or why it happens, and how to fix it?

[somber sequoia]

if it's non-humanoid we assume you've done all the locomotion stuff yourself? Are you using the same base animator on those?

[hard hatch]

Do I just add that to my parameters and name it that? Or is there anything else I would need to do to make it function the way I need it to?

[somber sequoia]

yeah just add it, named exactly as it is and the data type specified.

that's all

[hard hatch]

okay thanks

[hard hatch]

should this param be synced?

[somber sequoia]

there's no need to put it in your avatar parameters list

also the docs page ^ says how it's synced, VRChat does it for you

[frank dawn]

Can someone help me with this issue. my view point keeps setting itself to high and no matter how i keep readjusting it it sets it above my head even though its set to my eyes and its locked there

if anyone knows how to fix this error please @ me

[agile sapphire]

does your humanoid rig match the placement of the version of the avatar in the scene?

[frank dawn]

yes its a humanoid rig and the same version

[warm fable]

Does anyone know how to swap a material on an avatar?

[noble chasm]

can anyone help me figure out how to make my models arms track better to the remotes

This is how it looks with a non custom model

[cursive elbow]

guys it says that my avatar failed to uploade bc ''thumbnail image is required for avatar creation''

but i do have a thumbnail

[gaunt knoll]

did you update to 3.10.1

[cursive elbow]

no why?

should i?

[gaunt knoll]

yes

your sdk

3.9.0 has a lot of issues

[cursive elbow]

whenever i created a new project

it always goes to 3.9.0

[modest veldt]

so, im getting a TON of compilation errors.

[cursive elbow]

never updates it

[modest veldt]

using liltoon

[gaunt knoll]

yeah you have to press 3.9.0 all the time i will update to it just takes a couple of trys

[cursive elbow]

would updating my sdk also better my compiling times

i compiled for like 2h

[modest veldt]

3.8.2 vrc sdk btw

[gaunt knoll]

nope

[cursive elbow]

it uploaded now thanks i was about to break mentally

[gaunt knoll]

3.8.2 is not supported anymore

only 3.9.0 and up

[modest veldt]

hm

[gaunt knoll]

(#announcements message)

[modest veldt]

ah

[balmy barn]

you dont want 3.9 it has funny bugs - so 3.10.1

[gaunt knoll]

i wonder where in the files it says oh you want a lower version when you just made it

[modest veldt]

Oh wow.

All 700 some errors just went poof

thanks.

[gaunt knoll]

yep

[modest veldt]

I didnt think an sdk error since it was mainly liltoon

[balmy barn]

same thing happens if you use a newer package/script on a older sdk

[modest veldt]

Ahh

[gaunt knoll]

no point in supporting something thats the old version

[modest veldt]

Well this saved my brain from an explosion, thank you all. (I definently didnt link my phone to my discord just to chat here)

[onyx drum]

i have this issue wich now pops up in multiple of my projects when trying to upload avis

its completely stopping me from uplaoding avis

[gaunt knoll]

what sdk are you on

[onyx drum]

VRChat SDK - Avatars 3.10.1

VRChat SDK - Base 3.10.1

[gaunt knoll]

is that the only error

[onyx drum]

jup, that is the only error that has popped up when uploading

sometimes the windows uplaod succeeds

but it then fails on the quest one

but mostly it just fails at the windows upload too

[gaunt knoll]

what are you doing putting the quest on the the same project? as the windows one

[onyx drum]

nope, the project has purely the quest prefab, only other thing i did was make an fbx edit where i added a new shapekey, but my other avatr where i did that uplaoded fine

this issue spans across multiple projects though

[warm fable]

Could I have someone help me troubleshoot an issue I have with an avatar

[modest veldt]

I know this is a newbie kind of question, but... well, just look

how fix

[gaunt knoll]

what using to link them

[devout fulcrum]

anybody know any shaders that work like the standard (specular) shader but quest compatible

[modest veldt]

elaborate

i dont get it

[gaunt knoll]

what are you using to connect them

[warm fable]

Did you just drop it in the scene or did you put it under something

[modest veldt]

empty objects

"Manuka" under head is the hair

[balmy barn]

hair goes under head bone

[modest veldt]

oh

[balmy barn]

easiest way to add something just adjust where it need to be, move it under the bone it should follow

(id use blender)

[modest veldt]

I just drop it into the scene and drop it under something

however im just starting out with unity

[gaunt knoll]

or just add fury armature link

[modest veldt]

I dropped it under the head bone and it still isnt linked

so ima try vrc fury link

[gaunt knoll]

hey @balmy barn what's up with the green plus lately is a just saying this isnt part of the avi from blender?

[modest veldt]

the green plus is an empty object

I think

thats where ive seen it at least

[somber sequoia]

don't ask to ask, just ask your detailed question

[warm fable]

Well ok, since someone else in another server told me what my problem is.... How do I disable a toggle?

[somber sequoia]

depends on how the toggle has been made

[gaunt knoll]

maids where

[somber sequoia]

yeah I dunno wtf my brain was doing there

[warm fable]

Its a female slider that turns a male body into a female

[somber sequoia]

not what it does, that's not relevant. How it was created is.

[warm fable]

Uh i dont follow?

[somber sequoia]

fury? modular avatar? is it a layer in the animator? part of a direct blend tree?

there are many ways to create a "toggle"

[warm fable]

How doe one check?

[gaunt knoll]

what base is it

sounds like your talking about the rex

[warm fable]

Skullbeast

[gaunt knoll]

oh

loading up unity now give me a sec

do you want it gone from the action menu

[warm fable]

Idk, My issue is the female toggles is messing up my avatar's body materials

[modest veldt]

scrapped the entire idea and just used modular avatar "setup outfit" on the hair. works fine now with all positions on gogoloco

[warm fable]

Its fine in scene mode but in play mode and in-game its the default body textures

[somber sequoia]

if you can't find it, one thing i'll often do is disable all of the layers in the animator and enable them one by one in play mode (with gesture manager and/or avatars 3.0 emulator) until the errant behavior occurs, then you know where it is at least.

[gaunt knoll]

there

should be in there

[warm fable]

I'm... not super familiar with animator tbh so I don't know where it would be, whenever i open up animator I don't see anything in there

[somber sequoia]

There's nothing there unless you select an animator. You can put one in the Animator component on your avatar root and then it'll be active by default if you click the avatar root. Probably you want the FX animator your avatar uses. See in the avatar descriptor to find it.
(or watch a tutorial on animating, etc.)

[gaunt knoll]

theres nothing there because i just made a new one to it

[rich mason]

Okay, I have never done any avatar work before. How do I drag n drop Gogo Loco to a free avatar I use that doesn't already have it?

[gaunt knoll]

what

[somber sequoia]

I was replying to Rydux there, missed what your issue is

[somber sequoia]

you'd need VRCFury to do the drag an ddrop thing

oh I see, I'll stop being confused now 🙂

[gaunt knoll]

xD

maid

[somber sequoia]

pfft.

[warm fable]

@somber sequoia I fixed it with the help of a few other people in other servers

[somber sequoia]

excellent

[warm fable]

how do I remove the now useless toggles from the action menu?

[somber sequoia]

if you find the menu file and click it, you can edit in the inspector. vrchat's docs site has some detail, if you haven't read it: https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/expression-menu-and-controls

[gaunt knoll]

i know this is really lazy but i use https://shatteredfur.gumroad.com/l/vrctoggle

xD

[pseudo basalt]

where do i find the fire contact trait

[warm fable]

Are you talking about animator or parameters?

[somber sequoia]

you asked about menu files so that's what I meant.

[somber sequoia]

no such thing. But you can make a contact receiver which uses a specific tag to accept contacts from a sender using that tag

[pseudo basalt]

https://creators.vrchat.com/common-components/contacts/built-in-contact-tags

[warm fable]

Is this it

[gaunt knoll]

YEP

[somber sequoia]

I can't read what's behind the glare but I think so

[gaunt knoll]

thats it

[warm fable]

So what do I need to do to remove them?

[somber sequoia]

oh they actually called them "traits", I missed that. Still, they're just tags.

[pseudo basalt]

ah ty

[somber sequoia]

the minus button?

[warm fable]

Oh im stupid

[somber sequoia]

no, you're inexperienced

[gaunt knoll]

you said it not me

[somber sequoia]

inexperienced is not stupid

[main remnant]

I'm stupid and inexperienced

[gaunt knoll]

that what he said

[somber sequoia]

it's not stupid, it's advanced

[warm fable]

Well thanks

Damnit

The avatar is over 500mb

[somber sequoia]

oof

[warm fable]

All that work for it to be pointless anyways

How do I compress materials

I know thats what's screwing me over

[pseudo basalt]

if this works properly people will be able to light their stuff off my eye fire

[warm fable]

The person who retexture the base for me didn't optimize the files

[pseudo basalt]

https://github.com/Thryrallo/VRC-Avatar-Performance-Tools

optimize you vram and it'll also bring down your mbs

[warm fable]

Im kinda really frustrated rn

[gaunt knoll]

why

[warm fable]

You would think people who do retextures would make sure the assets actually work in vrc

[somber sequoia]

haha, nope, most people really have no idea how to make anything efficient

[gaunt knoll]

you can change the quality texture

[warm fable]

Maybe I shouldn't use VRC traders for commissions

[somber sequoia]

I wouldn't know, never been there.

[gaunt knoll]

if you want something good then do it yourself

[warm fable]

Was about to say

Maybe it's time for me to actually learn unity more

[gaunt knoll]

all 4 of them

[pseudo basalt]

@warm fable

[warm fable]

I seen that

[vernal haven]

Anyone who knows how to create an Avy available?

Mid-process with mine running into issues.

[gaunt knoll]

more info a avy

avi?

[somber sequoia]

describe the issues, maybe we can help

[mint badger]

why wouldent vrchat build menu not update????

it keeps showing the same size even thouhg I removed a bunch of stuff

[wraith saffron]

Has anyone gotten Hai's ComboGestures working with Kipfel without breaking all the other stuff on it? If so please message me!

Trying to make combo gestures but the existing avatar is kinda complicated so I would appreciate the help.

[somber sequoia]

I believe it doesn't update until you do another build

[mint badger]

ah ok. thats silly

what does this symbol mean? I cnat see my boyfriends android avatar only his fallback

ignore his labels he is my silly boyfriend lol

[sterile finch]

Ok quick question for anyone who may know about Loco gogo

So normally you'd select "fly", open your mirror, and then press the jump button/key to fly

Well I finally added fly to my avatar but for some reason the jump button doesn't make it fly. Instead I need to press that fist icon on the Loco gogo menu and I do fly but at the speed of light 😅

Any idea how I'd fix this? (Or what I may be doing wrong?)

I'm so lost on this TvT

[prisma sedge]

That icon just mean the avatar is only uploaded for a single platform

[sterile finch]

This is what I'm talking about with my avatar not flying with the jump button

[icy pewter]

does anyone know about mmd? idk why when i play the animation in unity the motions is weird and the legs wont move , anyone know how to fix this? ic ry

[ember viper]

My avatar looks like this in unity, but looks completely different in game, any way to make SURE the lighting is consistent no matter where I'm at?

[devout fulcrum]

why is my imposter and my avatar in some instances black?

heres my avatar normally

here it is without my specular map

here is the specular map

im using standard (specular setup)

[haughty plaza]

Quick question, does additive animation override the default arm ik/ hand animations?

[slender bronze]

I've been trying to get the creator companion/unity to let me upload an avatar for like 3 days, and the log says its unable to check for updates/connect to the internet. But my internet has been fine, and everything else is working perfectly. I made exceptions for it in the firewall so it's not that. Any help?

[grand scaffold]

If the world is missing light / reflection probes in that area your avi won't render right. The reason you can see others is likely due to the fact their shader is using toon shading with a min brightness value.

[devout fulcrum]

is standard specular setup compatible with quest?

[grand scaffold]

Only the shaders under the VRChat/Mobile category, which doesn't include standard specular

[devout fulcrum]

oh

there a shader thata acts the same?

[grand scaffold]

Standard Mobile is likely to be the closest but not sure if it has a specular setup.

[ember viper]

anyone got any advice for this?

trying to make it so the lighting stays the same no matter where i'm at

[somber sequoia]

probably use a toon shader then

[ember viper]

I am using a toon shader, with flat lighting

nothin is workin ;-;

[haughty plaza]

bump

[somber sequoia]

assuming you mean the additive animator, the docs say it adds, not overrides:
https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/playable-layers#additive

[haughty plaza]

Okay then I appreciate it

Looks like I would wanna use action then

[somber sequoia]

if you want to entirely take over, yeah, probably

[ember viper]

still haven't figured out this issue, even though i'm using toon shaders, it changes based on the instance lighting which i don't like, but anyway i've gotten this far at least

[civic rose]

help

[junior void]

The highlighted error tells you

[flat elm]

Okay when I tried to flip the arm in edit mode its fine. But somehow when i turned back to object mode. THis happened

[junior void]

maybe because of the vertex groups still being tied to the other side

[spark gulch]

Anyone know how to get a character model from a game and upload it into Vrchat?

[lyric sonnet]

how do i fix ts

[junior void]

this looks like a blendshape to hide the arm when clothing is on

just turn it off from the blendshapes section of the mesh in question

[lyric sonnet]

removed but now it looks like this

and the legs are still weird

[junior void]

"like this" like what

[lyric sonnet]

i gotta mess with this right?

[junior void]

it looks like youre using vrcfury

[junior void]

i hope youre not currently in play mode making changes because when you get out, your changes will be gone

[cursive elbow]

its not letting me upload an avatar

[lyric sonnet]

i'm not

the legs still do it too

[cursive elbow]

can anyone help me it wont let me upload the avi

it gets to uplloading file 90% then just breaks

[left gull]

are there any errors in the SDK upload panel? not 100% but im pretty sure the error shown doesnt actually give any explanation as to whats failing

[junior void]

it should do that in order to avoid clipping

its to counteract that the body pokes through clothes

[lyric sonnet]

oh so the rest is basically fixed and i can't do anything about the legs?

bc there's no option for the legs

[junior void]

again, theres nothing to fix with the legs. pants on = hide body mesh to avoid clipping

it should go back to normal when you toggle the pants off

assuming its set up with vrcfury

[cursive elbow]

can anyone help meh

[lyric sonnet]

awesome thanks idrc about the legs bc it's a sfw avi

[lyric sonnet]

the pants can't come off at all

[cursive elbow]

please someone helppp

[gaunt knoll]

What version of sdk are you on

@cursive elbow

[stray trench]

can someone tell me a bit about what the process would look like for taking an already completed non booth avi (like one of the eboy/egirl ones from payhip) and adding new clothes to it?

i know i can find clothes already sculpted to whatever the body is, but id need to take everything into blender right? and that'd mean losing all the unity specific components like physbones and vrcfury and itd need completely redone?

[cursive elbow]

Latest

[gaunt knoll]

If it's made for that body all you need to do is put it in unity and add armature link to it

But yes usually you will have to put it into blender and connect it to the Avi there a 100s of YouTube videos explaining this

[somber sequoia]

no need to show the shader warnings, are there any other errors?

[cursive elbow]

no

just 1

[somber sequoia]

Yes, I saw that one, that's not a useful message by itself, and probably not blocking your build anyway.

[eternal knot]

I want to make a button that spawns a balloon at my hands position as a world drop, i want to make it so every time i press the button it spawns a balloon and a seperate button to delete all of them

[somber sequoia]

I'd consider using a particle system

[vapid slate]

trying to the project open (HAS NOTHING IN IT) and it keeps giving me this error

[junior void]

i assume its this

[somber sequoia]

Yeah, did you actually read the error?

[gaunt knoll]

consider compressing your avi files

[vapid cipher]

anyway to fit the sandals ?

[gaunt knoll]

blender @vapid cipher

[devout fulcrum]

anyone know how i can make this toon standard look more like the standard specular setup?

specular setup

[ornate stump]

You could use matcap feature for that.

[devout fulcrum]

what is it and how does it work?

[ornate stump]

It stands for "material capture" which will overlay matcap texture on surface based on incident angle.

[devout fulcrum]

ok

damn

[vapid cipher]

any other way than blender ?

[gaunt knoll]

yeah not to use them

[somber sequoia]

not any good ways, no

[desert bronze]

how can i fix it?

[spare dome]

yo can i get some help with this

[somber sequoia]

better weight paint or hide the mesh below

[somber sequoia]

Show the spine hierarchy from root to head, we can't see it from that first pic

also with the shoulder bones shown, you can collapse the arms so the rest of the bones don't get in the way of the image

[spare dome]

what do you mean form root to head

[somber sequoia]

show the root bone and all bones on the way down to the head bone.

in the hierarchy window, I mean.

[limpid cargo]

some people tell me they can’t see my shorts, that it only appears in certain angle. but i can see it all the time.

[proven quail]

Check the body mesh for any blendshapes that are like 'heel' or 'high heel'.

[storm sapphire]

Of course! I deduced that, and it is the best way to achieve what I want.

[storm sapphire]

No need, thanks anyway! I've already solved my problem, but if I run into another one, I'll share it.

🙂

[somber sequoia]

Ok the way you have this it's extremely hard to see, so I'll just give advice instead.
The spine hierarchy must be:
hips -> spine -> chest -> upper chest (optional) -> neck -> head.
Shoulders must be direct children of chest or upper chest, whichever is higher.
Bone names don't matter to Unity.

Rearrange if you need to.

[spare dome]

i cant get all the things in one pic its litearly to much in the hirarchey

[proven quail]

It could be a bounding box issue. When you click on the shorts mesh in unity see the box around it. The box should be about the size of the avatar since the bounding box for some reason doesn't move with the mesh, it moves with the avatar.

If the bounding box is too big vrchat will also restrict I believe so that can also cause the same issue

[somber sequoia]

You can easily hide the stuff that isn't relevant, which is what I suggested. But that's ok - I don't actually need to see it, you need to verify it's correct.

[spare dome]

i moved the shoulders into the chest but its still saying it isnt right

[somber sequoia]

did you move that in Unity?

[spare dome]

yeah

[somber sequoia]

ah you must have an unpacked model prefab. I don't think that works how you want, the right place to do this is in Blender, but it'll be some work to be able to update it there.

[spare dome]

i dont have he blender files this is a premade package

[somber sequoia]

there's a .fbx which can be imported. But if it's not something you made I'm curious why it's incorrect.

[spare dome]

ight i got the fbx in blender now what

[limpid cargo]

ah thank you so much! 🥺 that’s so helpful!!!

[grizzled sand]

Hello could anyone help me am tryna add a clothing add-ons to a avi and if I look at the instructions am supposed to also see something saying editor lite here but I don't see It

Also does anyone know what the parent box is ?

[somber sequoia]

check the console to see if there are any errors, they can prevent custom editors from showing up

[grizzled sand]

Am only seeing 1 error

[somber sequoia]

that seems like it'd be the problem

[grizzled sand]

Any idea on how I can fix the error lol ?

[somber sequoia]

not a clue, I don't know anything about this package

[grizzled sand]

Well dammit

[wheat horizon]

having issues having the collider show up, ive tried deleting and even adding zeros to the radius with no luck

other colliders show up on models but im having alot of trouble with this one

[gaunt knoll]

im confused you having issues with the colliders

[wheat horizon]

thats what I said, there is no colliders showing up

[wheat horizon]

you dont need colliders for them to show up
example is my hair

[gaunt knoll]

those are the hair phys bones

[wheat horizon]

😐 i know that

I think you are confused on what im asking about

[balmy barn]

physbones radius, colliders are green

[gaunt knoll]

yeaaaa you want to add colliders to the head

so the hair doesnt clip

[wheat horizon]

😐

i dont think you guys understand ive been doing avatrs since 2017

there is miscommunication

[balmy barn]

if radius dont show up its usually cause theres not enough bones, but i can see that endpoint you have setup

[wheat horizon]

the white circles around a physbone are also colliders

[balmy barn]

ive been doing avatars longer way way longer

[wheat horizon]

ok cool

Ive done all the other physbones on this model they work fine this is the only one im having issues with

[gaunt knoll]

i work at blizzard

[grizzled sand]

👍

[wheat horizon]

nvm my mistake was asking the vrc community, ill figure it out on my own

[gaunt knoll]

all you need to do is say your issue

[wheat horizon]

👍

[spare dome]

so can someone else help me the dude who was just ghosted i need to get thes two bones to be connected to the chest bone but i cant move them

thought i could just do it in unity but appartleny i need to do it in blender

i just need to fix this error

[grizzled sand]

Lmfao

[balmy barn]

their physbone was like this even with radius (left one) , but guess troubleshooting is hard, just make its gigantic and have endpoint and it would appear as right one

[sleek oxide]

Guys on unity VrchatSDK doesnt show up im very confused

[gaunt knoll]

in cc

[sleek oxide]

yeah whats with it sry im new

do i need an older version of sdk?

[balmy barn]

3.10.1 only one id recommend now

[gaunt knoll]

can you screenshots of it

[sleek oxide]

oki

[gaunt knoll]

snip tool pls

[sleek oxide]

like it is installed

when i import the avi files still not there

[gaunt knoll]

did you add everything to that project

[sleek oxide]

yeah all the three files the shaders and the pc and the quest unity packages

[gaunt knoll]

no as in like you added everything to it

like you clicked on everything

[sleek oxide]

yup

[junior void]

World toolkit = won't upload

[sleek oxide]

do i need to maybe reinstall cc?

[gaunt knoll]

what

no

[sleek oxide]

or change the unity version

[gaunt knoll]

noo

you ddont add must to thge project

you clicked on everything you only need like 5 things

[sleek oxide]

ouh which ones i need

[gaunt knoll]

read the instructions for uploading that avi again

make a new project and try again

[sleek oxide]

oki

tnx

sry i bothered u

[junior void]

You deffo don't need WORLD dev stuff for an avatar

[gaunt knoll]

no your all good its a steep learning curve

[gaunt knoll]

you can upload with world toolkit its useful for making avis

shows whats the biggest thing on your avi

really handy

[junior void]

Really not necessary

[gaunt knoll]

not for uploading no but for Optimizing your avi yes

[junior void]

No

[gaunt knoll]

wow thanks

[sleek oxide]

oki i just manually installed sdk and it worked

[somber sequoia]

Been working on my own stuff, didn't know you needed more help? Rearrange the bones properly in Blender, export back to unity, etc.
Also your upper arms must be direct children of their respective shoulder bones, I don't see that in this image either.

[junior void]

Faking screenshots is really not cool, not even as a joke

[gaunt knoll]

bro its me changing no to something silly its not like im changing you to say something bad

[junior void]

You overstepped and don't accept that others have boundaries that don't align with your own. I'm blocking you.

[spare dome]

i dont know how to do that

[somber sequoia]

edit the armature, change the bone parents, there's a parent property in the properties box for a bone. Possibly find a blender tutorial

[gaunt knoll]

👍

no skin off of my teeth you cant take a joke not my problem

[sleek oxide]

object reference not set to an instance of an object

can someone help?

😅

[somber sequoia]

it's a common error that often means nothing and is not actually the root cause of your problem

[sleek oxide]

do i just delete it?

[somber sequoia]

delete what?

[sleek oxide]

remove the error or what to do with it

[somber sequoia]

is it the only error?

[sleek oxide]

naa i got alot of them first avi trying to upload

[somber sequoia]

oh, then share the first 2-3, that's probably where the actual problem is

[sleek oxide]

how to do that? i feel stupid xd

[somber sequoia]

screenshot the error messages in the console, the first 2-3 at the top, ideally with the console window so we can also see the error count

[somber sequoia]

I said the first 2-3 several times, but in this case it's ok - "missing script" is your problem. You need to install all the required packages for this avatar.

[sleek oxide]

but if i installed all the packages

and it still shows it

[somber sequoia]

you must have missed something then

[sleek oxide]

i bought the avi and there was only 3 packages

oki il try to find it on youtube then

[somber sequoia]

not packages it came with, packages the creator says you have to download and install

such as VRCFury maybe? I see GogoLoco in one of the errors there, make sure you added that too

[sleek oxide]

Yeah vrcfury is the only one it meantioned

[sleek oxide]

i got my errors down to 4 from 14 now god its so frustrating

these ones i dont understand

[junior void]

I can't read it on mobile lul

[somber sequoia]

still says missing script

[round comet]

Seems like you’re still missing vrcfury to some capacity

[crystal whale]

I need some help again. I finished my robot arms and they work perfectly no problem, and everything works in the unity test play, but I uploaded it to VRC and for some reason my eyes are like a solid meter above the top of my head and it's causing the arms to always be sticking up as well. The avatar height also says its a meter higher than it's supposed to be.

[simple lynx]

Good evening, I wanted to know the most efficient method to avoid data loss if I want to transfer Unity VRChat Creator Companion projects to another PC. Should I send them by email? Or something else? Thank you.

[crystal whale]

Compress into a .zip file then Google drive

Or put on a flash drive/ external harddrive

[somber sequoia]

they're all just files on disk, copy them like any other files. thumbdrive works

[crystal whale]

This thing is annoying as hell though. I dont know whats causing it.

[simple lynx]

Okay thx

[simple lynx]

Okay thx

[astral atlas]

Is there a way to make a fx trigger when a gesture happens without making the gesture layer itself?

[somber sequoia]

gesture layer is for the actual hand movements. gesture-triggered anything else goes in FX, so yes, absolutely.

[astral atlas]

Would it be one of the behaviors on the nodes in fx I would use?

[somber sequoia]

there's no reason you must use what's already there

[astral atlas]

I want a FX bool to only trigger via fist but dont want to premake the fist gesture itself incase the user has their own fist gesture already.

[somber sequoia]

Right - what I mean is there's no reason you need to make any animation for a fist gesture if it's already there

ignore anything about what the hand does, and just trigger your animation off the GestureRight or GestureLeft parameter.

[proven quail]

Adjust the view on the avatar descriptor on unity. It's towards the top of the component. Make the ball between the eyes of the avatar.

[crystal whale]

I figured it out. Thank you.

[proven quail]

So they aren't called the colliders, it's called the physbone radius. Increase the radius of the physbone until it is to the desired size

[wheat horizon]

idc anymore i figured it out 🤷 , they just arent showing up for some reason but the radius still works fine if I just guessed what size it would be. I know how they work there is just a bug and that specific one wasnt showing for some reason. Like I said I already had physics on multiple other things in my project that did show and no matter how high or low the number was it wasnt showing in the preview.

and yes they count as colliders as depending how big the radius is is where a collider would contact, they are technically still colliders

[waxen jungle]

Are there any tutorials for how to make a grabable object on your avatar that can also be placed in the world, also is there a way to do this via vrcfury or a prefab?

[waxen jungle]

if not, im not opposed to using the animator if I have to but I wanna know of theres an easier option

[azure hornet]

Help me please my avi i have has 4 toggleable sets of arms 2 pairs work and the other 2 dont, the 2 non working when i toggle then play the animation of going away but then they immediately come back ive been fighting with this thing for hours. someone save me

[crystal whale]

Okay, next and hopefully final question: even though the arms are using the same materials, same shader, same normal maps, etc, one shows a carbon fiber pattern and has emissions, the other does not.

Is there a way I can get them to be the same?

[slender bronze]

Hey guys, I got this avatar all ready for someone and it's not letting me upload it from unity for some reason. So I was gonna just... compile it, with everything done, and send it to them and run them through how to upload the avatar. How would I package it up to make it easy on them?

https://tenor.com/view/tom-cardy-nat-1-gif-1628699040727457815

[civic rose]

how do I compress bruh

Im trying n this shit barely goes down

[slender bronze]

Depends on the kind of model, are you trying to reduce vertices in blender? Or atlas textures? What format of model? etc

[civic rose]

Im literally fucking lowering the texture quality and it keeps going up

This is so dumb

[slender bronze]

Is it a texture atlas? Or a bunch of different materials?

[civic rose]

wdym

[slender bronze]

Is it a bunch of textures on a single image, or a bunch of different images for the texture? Cause crunching the textures only does so much, if it's bad materials + shaders they are gonna be big

[civic rose]

Bunch of materials andf bunch of textures

[slender bronze]

You need to atlas the textures. I'd help more but it varries from project to project. I recommend using "Material Combiner" in Blender, and then adding the materials in unity after exporting them.

There's plenty of guides on youtube for that sort of thing, should heavilly reduce your texture issues.

[civic rose]

what is an atlas

[slender bronze]

An atlas is basically taking all of your texture images and smacking them on a single image, which is then draped over the model.

Reduces the amount of times the program has to call the textures, and reduces their overall size, while maintaining quality.

[gaunt knoll]

how much bigger is it

[civic rose]

I dont have enought time to figure that out

[gaunt knoll]

?

[gaunt knoll]

hi sorry i was just throw back by that

[slender bronze]

Oh I figured it out.

[gaunt knoll]

nice man

[slender bronze]

Just needed to export as a package and I missed the option lmao

[gaunt knoll]

yessss

you got it

remember to add a scene to it as well

you know you open me things

to do with it not uploading properly is probably the SDK a version. Make sure it's a 3.9.0 or up

recommend 3.10.1

[waxen jungle]

Bump

[gaunt knoll]

put a phys bone on the object

you can use vrcfury world drop

[waxen jungle]

Ill try world drop

but Ive seen some avatars that have a knife or sword that can be picked up from the hip and then dropped in the world

[verbal plover]

can anyone help me out with why my avatar's mouth wont move?

[somber sequoia]

got all the viseme slots filled in?

[frosty junco]

is there any way to get my scene back from the void

it was deleted for some reason

I dont want to remake my whole avatar ;-;

[somber sequoia]

only if you made backups

[frosty junco]

damn it

[verbal plover]

no and the sil is completely missing from the drop down menu

[somber sequoia]

that's your problem - you must fill in all slots with unique shape keys

(sil = silent)

[gaunt knoll]

vrcfury can do that

[waxen jungle]

ah, ill look into it

[verbal plover]

alrighty thank u

[dusty monolith]

why is my blendshape like broken in unity? they both have no shapekeys on

i have a shapekey to turn the spiral on right now its off, if i turn on any other shapekey it just turns the spiral off which isnt supposed to happen

[frosty jacinth]

Layer weight = 1
Parameter names are all consistent
Parameters do change
Animations work
Trees work in the animator preview

No movement during runtime, any tips?

[civic sinew]

Heyo so im tryna make my first avatar and i have the Minase model from booth which requires liltoon but when i downloaded the most up to date version the shader itself wasnt in there

[frosty jacinth]

did you download it from here? https://github.com/lilxyzw/lilToon/releases/download/2.3.2/jp.lilxyzw.liltoon-2.3.2.zip

[civic sinew]

Yup

[frosty jacinth]

and you extracted it into your project?

it's weird that it's not a unitypackage

[civic sinew]

Yea, I did everything properly as far as I can tell

this is all i see in the zip folder

[civic cliff]

if i wanted to use a matcap as the texture for an entire avatar, and make the skin of the avi slightly transparent along with that, would that theoretically be possible? because i just tried and its just making the skin very faded

[frosty jacinth]

yeah just throw everything into your unity project. it should be a unitypackage. if that breaks just find an older version that is a unitypackage

[civic sinew]

alr then ill see if that work tho i thought i did that before-

[twin raft]

youre downloading the source code

just import it into the VCC and add it that way

gonna be the easiest

[paper cedar]

Yo can someone help me with editing this model In blender I don't really know how to edit models. And I really do want to know How to

[civic sinew]

that doesnt seem to be working- idk if im slow orrrrrr

[frosty jacinth]

as much as im not a fan of blender tutorials, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-fetDXDXX8&list=PLgO2ChD7acqH5S3fCO1GbAJC55NeVaCCp this is good

[twin raft]

https://lilxyzw.github.io/lilToon/

click "vcc"

done

[civic sinew]

alr

[frosty jacinth]

could anybody help me out with this .>.

[paper cedar]

thanks

[civic cliff]

i feel like ive tried most of everything i could so im gonna just guess that this isnt possible but if it isnt too horribly specific and somebody just happens to know how to do it lmk

[supple cloud]

i forgot the rig plugin for blender to rig my avatar

[civic sinew]

ok so now i cant drop the minase model in, mb if im being slow but idk

[frosty jacinth]

into what? unity, blender, substance painter?

[civic sinew]

unity

am i doing somth wrong? i even opened it up and just tried to drop the package by itself in but it wouldnt let me

[frosty jacinth]

so you did extract it and try to drag and drop the .unitypackage into the project?

[civic sinew]

yea

[frosty jacinth]

you can also go to Assets > Import New Asset

[frigid void]

Does anyone know the best way to remove npples from a base? I have a female body base I like to use for my avatars, but it has npples, and Im not sure how to get rid of that without ruining the model

[civic cliff]

sometimes theres a blendshape

[frosty jacinth]

in regards to textures or the actual mesh?

[frigid void]

the actual mesh

[frigid void]

the base has no preset blendshapes unfortunately

Its pandas female base v1 if anyone has used that before

[civic cliff]

me personally id just take it into an image editing software and remove the texture part and pray people dont notice the bits sticking out

[frosty jacinth]

it's not really that linear, there are a few ways to do it and it's really just up to how much you want to learn and if you don't mind a potentially botched result

[frigid void]

Lol i know ive been adding pasties onto the avatars bit its stil visible if youre inside the avatar in game

[frosty jacinth]

i mean if you're not taking off any of the clothes you could just delete the faces and not bother to add new geometry lmao

[frigid void]

I dont mind learning new methods, i do it all the time, im just not really sure what to look up to find a method that would potentially work

[frosty jacinth]

https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/modeling/meshes/editing/face/grid_fill.html

[civic sinew]

i got it, thanks a bunch (that was low-key aids though)

[frosty jacinth]

still need somebody who can help me with these puppets, they don't work .>.

[frigid void]

Thanks!

[verbal plover]

my sdk has been stuck like this for over half an hour and i've tried restarting my pc and everything

[frosty jacinth]

in your toolbar at the top: VRChat SDK > Reload SDK if you haven't tried it yet

[verbal plover]

yeah i just now tried that. it's still doing it, very confusing

ope nvm i just had to do it 2 times. thanks for your help i totally forgot that button existed 😂

[obsidian isle]

hello! I wanted to ask if there are other ways to get eye movement working for my model other than messing with the bone.
My iris is a transparent texture on a mesh that basically fits perfectly within the eye socket, and I was intending to either:
- make the texture itself move across the mesh for movement
- make up some blender shape keys of the eye in the up/down and left/right positions and use those shapekeys for movement
am I out of luck, or is there a way to get this to work the way i want it to?

[crystal whale]

So can somebody help me? My arms are different despite using the exact same materials and shaders. There is nothing different. But one arm has the proper carbon fiber look and emissions and the other has nothing.

[frosty jacinth]

id highly recommend just using bones for eye movement

[frosty jacinth]

what shader are you using

[obsidian isle]

my eyes are flat tho, and doing any sort of rotation just gets some ugly clipping of the eye into the socket :(

[crystal whale]

Toon standard, realistic very soft, with normal map.

[frosty jacinth]

from appearance alone it looks like one material might have reflections on

if you need the metal look, make sure to either find an already existing metallic mask or make one

[crystal whale]

It's the same f*cking material. Theyre using the same material. The exact same one.

The left arm is proper. The right arm is messed up

[frosty jacinth]

as i said, maybe it's an issue with the metallic mask if reflections are enabled

reflections/clear coat or something of the like

[crystal whale]

If its enabled in one, shouldnt it be enabled in both because again, its the exact same material.

[frosty jacinth]

masks

[crystal whale]

There is no metallic mask.

[frosty jacinth]

okay, what all do you have in the shader?

albedos, masks, maps, ect

[glass ridge]

Hello, rq anyone know of a video showing how to make a seat that causes anyone who sits on it to do an animation?

[obsidian isle]

i guess i could throw the eye bone way behind the head so the movements are small, but the socket is also curved, so finding the appropriate position for the bone to be and to match the socket curvature is a hassle 😔

is there really no way of getting boneless eye movement??

[frosty jacinth]

not in a straightforward way, no

[crystal whale]

Just a normal map.

[frosty jacinth]

maybe it's an fbx issue, have you played around with the normals in your fbx import settings?

these options specifically