avatar-help

[balmy barn]

try the [ auto fix ] in your sdk

[unborn meteor]

textures not texturing

why cant it just take the materials i baked into the blender file and just understand that X texture is assigned to Y material

[somber sequoia]

It'll do that but you really want to setup your materials in Unity. If you use the embedded stuff you're stuck with a read-only material with the Standard shader.

[minor vapor]

Anyone know where I can find the default backflip animation, I wanna slightly edit it. But can't seem to find it anywhere?

[unborn meteor]

it shouldnt do the read only tho? weird ... i would think it would know better than to do read only?

[somber sequoia]

Materials embedded in the .fbx are read-only. If you want to edit them, copy them out or make new ones. It probably can still use the embedded texture? I think?

[somber sequoia]

I don't think we get those, but you could grab one from Mixamo and use that instead

[minor vapor]

ah I see, thank you

[unborn meteor]

well i just know each material is set to a set of polygons so i have control in Blender

[balmy barn]

mixamo probably have the entire backflip animations since most what vrchat use is from it

[unborn meteor]

is there a means to force Unity to accept the reality that i should be able to modify the existing materials

[somber sequoia]

As I said, you either copy the embedded one out of the FBX, or make a new one in Unity.

[unborn meteor]

i cant edit them and i dont know what you mean copy because they exist but refuse to let me edit them this kind of software wall is absurd

[lilac musk]

That's not the material. That's a shader.

[unborn meteor]

either way i cant edit them when i should be able to

[somber sequoia]

last tab in the inspector for the model file lists materials and has an extract button, or you can click the little arrow on the icon for the model file to expand it and ctrl+d to duplicate one of the materials in there

you should not be able to edit the embedded ones, not sure why you're trying to insist on this

[balmy barn]

vrchat uses mixamo animations for stuff, they cant link it directly but can be grabbed from mixamo

[unborn meteor]

because i set them up in Blender and Unity refuses to read a simple diffuse material properly and i want to apply the textures to each materail

[lunar cape]

is anyone familar with converting to vrm?

[balmy barn]

whatever you setup in blender material dont carry over

[somber sequoia]

No idea what "refuses to read material properly" could mean.

[brisk goblet]

Hello!, so i have a novabeast base file to make my own avi and i have unity, vcc and blender installed. So im wondering where i go from there

[unborn meteor]

does he look correct to you?

[somber sequoia]

I don't know what "correct" is for your model

[unborn meteor]

incorrect

[somber sequoia]

okay

[unborn meteor]

correct

[somber sequoia]

So setup your materials in Unity.

[unborn meteor]

they are set to specific polygons

[somber sequoia]

yes, and?

[lilac musk]

IDK why you just don't do what is the norm for Unity. Setup your materials and apply them.

[unborn meteor]

unity doesnt have poly editor?

[somber sequoia]

That's a matter of having materials applied to faces, and the UV map. Which you do in Blender anyway.

[unborn meteor]

and the UV maps would overlap if i just bind them all to one material and the texture would need to be 8k

if i was to not allow overlap

[somber sequoia]

If you have procedural materials in blender you'll have to do something like bake them to textures for use in Unity.

[unborn meteor]

i baked them

[balmy barn]

xwear packager can convert any fbx in unity thats also using vrchat physbone to a vrm ( offical vroid download )

[somber sequoia]

there's no need for that model to use 8k textures

[unborn meteor]

no

he uses 2k

but many materials with UVs that would overlap if i made it one material

[lilac musk]

Nobody said to make it one material.

[unborn meteor]

how would i assign polygons to specific materials then ? why cant it just take the material data from blender and let me edit what it has

in unity

[somber sequoia]

nothing there ^ is anything weird

In Edit mode, you select faces, then in the properties on teh side, where the materials are, you assign the material to those faces.

Unity is not a 3D modeling too, no matter how much you want it to be.

[lunar cape]

oh shoot can you send me that

[balmy barn]

https://vroid.pixiv.help/hc/en-us/articles/38903414455449-How-to-install-the-XWear-Packager << better link , its has a vcc repository

[unborn meteor]

not saying that and i did all this assigning in blender

[somber sequoia]

well, I wouldnt' have that UV map overlap like that.

[unborn meteor]

so why cant it just take that data and let me edit the materials in UNITY

[somber sequoia]

then I don't know what it is you want to do from there

[unborn meteor]

... how is it not clear?

the material slots exist in unity and it refuses to let me edit them

[somber sequoia]

if you've assigned materials to faces in blender, that should be sufficient?

You can drag new materials into the slots in Unity, that works fine.

[unborn meteor]

i drag the textures in and it doesnt do anything?

[somber sequoia]

I said materials, not textures.

materials go in material slots.

Textures go into material properties

[balmy barn]

3d modeler ? guess its first time in unity

[honest swallow]

Its still an issue

[unborn meteor]

it should just let me apply the textures to the material like ... it should just be the same as when i drag and drop the FBX into unity?

the material properties refuese to be edited

see its greyed out

this is his kilt

[somber sequoia]

you seem to not be listening - I told you why you can't edit those embedded materials and what to do about it.

twice.

[balmy barn]

did you actually make one or still trying to edit one embedded

now you can edit the body mat

[worthy pier]

Went to upload a avatar and i get this error

[unborn meteor]

if i made a new material it would not be assigned to the same polygons

[somber sequoia]

show/look at the first few errors

[somber sequoia]

Yes it would, because that assignment is on the slot, not the material

[unborn meteor]

why isnt there a clear cut tutorial on this?

[lilac musk]

False. This isn't blender.

[balmy barn]

mesh can have multiple materials

[somber sequoia]

dunno, I didn't think it was too complex.

[unborn meteor]

it really should be tho .. ...?

[lilac musk]

There are TONS of tutorials on how to set up stuff in Unity.

[unborn meteor]

i should be able to edit embedded materials

i should not need to make a new one

[balmy barn]

yell at unity it wont let you do that

[lilac musk]

Game engine should be the same as a 3d modeling and animation program? WTF?

[unborn meteor]

no just this one thing

i just want to edit the embedded materials

[somber sequoia]

but insisting on this does not make it so 🙂

[unborn meteor]

well if enough people insist on it then it will be so as they will fix it

[lilac musk]

Make your own game engine then. This is how it is, and compaining wont change that.

[unborn meteor]

no

thats irrational

[lilac musk]

"fix"

[somber sequoia]

then tell Unity

[balmy barn]

[unborn meteor]

if we all tell then it will work one person wont fix many people can

all people need to understand is that this program doesnt make sense ... if an object has materials why would anyone not want to edit the embedded materials?

[lilac musk]

I wouldn't tell them anything, cause I can click a couple buttons and create whole new materials.

[balmy barn]

i just extract materials and texture from a fbx, its in import

[unborn meteor]

what buttons then?

[unborn meteor]

i have the texturs

i baked them to files

[lilac musk]

They have told you multiple times.

[unborn meteor]

no they just said to make new materials

not how

and i have the textures baked

they are Jpegs

[somber sequoia]

you probably want to be using PNG here.

[unborn meteor]

none have transparency? i just want to give the model his textures so i can work on getting the VR part working

[lilac musk]

Go to your import settings of your model, go to materials, click extract.

Another way would be go to the model in your assets and just simply duplicate the ones that are embedded.

[somber sequoia]

it's due to how the texture reading and compression stuff works internally in Unity, use png if possible. But that's a minor point anyway.

[balmy barn]

what i use when i dont feel like finding the textures, sometime it fails to embed one tho not a big deal

[somber sequoia]

this is the third time it's been said in this discussion 🙂

[unborn meteor]

all of his textures and materials are broken in unity

[lilac musk]

Oh I know, I'm just making sure its said AGAIN.

[unborn meteor]

i cant see wherre to click to extract

[somber sequoia]

In Thulen's last image ^

[lilac musk]

A basic Unity tutorial might be needed here.

[unborn meteor]

i followed one to export him from Blender to Unity and i wound up with broken materials ...

so ... i dunno i would like a play by play or a live stream so people can go "look there or here"

i just know that this material thing makes no sense ... why would it need to be extracted or duplicated when its right there ..?

i have the direct files on my PC as i baked them manually

[somber sequoia]

because it's not an editable material file.

[unborn meteor]

why tho .. that doesnt make sense to me ... all materials should be able to be edited

[somber sequoia]

sighs

[unborn meteor]

well im trying to understand

[worthy pier]

Tried looking it up nothing made sense

[lilac musk]

Unity isn't a 3d modeling software...

[unborn meteor]

it just doesnt make sense

[somber sequoia]

Unity cannot edit/write .FBX files. That should be sufficient for you.

[unborn meteor]

it uses materials one can have embedded

[left gull]

there are very few people here who'd do something like a call, have you tried watching/reading the stuff in https://discord.com/channels/189511567539306508/1139228456090087495 ? theres likely a good in-depth doc/tutorial that'll help with all your confusion

[unborn meteor]

that says unknown

[somber sequoia]

works for me

[lilac musk]

Just click it, it will take you to the proper channel

[balmy barn]

many channels here says # uknown for me too

[left gull]

highly suggest using the screenshot tool to make your screenies easier to read, are those the top-most 3 red errors that show up in your console?

[somber sequoia]

if you could post the whole list of errors as a screenshot rather than photo, with the entire console window including error counts shown, that may be helpful.
Also make sure there are no blocking errors in the build stats window

[balmy barn]

use that not a phone

easy paste into discord

[unborn meteor]

i use snip

its neat

[lunar cape]

uhm....

[worthy pier]

Yup give me a bit for unity to load and to connect my wifi to my mobile hotspot

[unborn meteor]

i dunno .. i just know that if it can duplicate the material and make the dupe editable then the base material it copied from should also be editable ..
will keep poking it to see what happens

[honest swallow]

I still can't get it figured out

[balmy barn]

managed to cut out the parameter missing

[somber sequoia]

Sorry, read that - so these menu parameters being missing is a problem. Add them to your parameter list if you want to use them

[honest swallow]

How would I do that?

[unborn meteor]

i cant get the dupe material to accept the texture

i mean it let me pick the texture but it wont apply to my OC

[somber sequoia]

what does that mean?

[somber sequoia]

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/expression-menu-and-controls

[unborn meteor]

see this

i got the texture and things to be in it sure

but its not working

[somber sequoia]

standard is pretty limited, but it looks like the texture is in there

[unborn meteor]

its not showing up

[somber sequoia]

did you drag this material into the material slot on the mesh renderer?

[unborn meteor]

if it was he would look like this

what do you mean

[somber sequoia]

did you watch any basic tutorials?

[unborn meteor]

i watched the one on importing a character from Blender to unity and for him it just worked with diffuse materials all embedded all textures working

if i set it in Blender to use just a color texture on a diffuse shader unity should know what that is

[lunar cape]

would anyone know how to fix the white ball issue.....

[balmy barn]

outline probably massive

[unborn meteor]

this material is as simple as it gets for Blender

[balmy barn]

again unity dont care about that

[somber sequoia]

You can from here either: drag the material into the slot in the Materials tab in the inspector for the model file, and apply:
Drag the material into the right slot in the mesh object it should be applied to.

[unborn meteor]

if it could read basic shaders with no procedural bits from Blender it would speed up things a great deal

from where ..

[somber sequoia]

sorry, what do you mean?

[unborn meteor]

there is no mateiral slots

[somber sequoia]

what did you even click on here?

I said "inspector for the model file"

[unborn meteor]

i mean to put it plainly ... there is material slots but unity is refusing to let me use them

i made a duplicate and then was able to apply a texture to it but now that new dupe material is just there

[somber sequoia]

I have no idea what "refusing to let you use them" might mean here.

[unborn meteor]

they exist

it refuses to let me use them it greys out like i showe

[honest swallow]

What parameters work for items? Like a phone?

[somber sequoia]

parameters are used in the animator

[unborn meteor]

see here is the proper material in its proper slot but this material refuses to let me do anything

[somber sequoia]

no, that's still an embedded material.

[unborn meteor]

why would duplicating it work

that implies that the original can work

all i want is to put a texture in the albedo channel

[somber sequoia]

Duplicating it creates a new material and then you have to put that new material into the slot on the model file and apply, or into the slot in a mesh renderer.

[balmy barn]

tip - learn to merge meshes and bake textures you will have one material/mesh for the entire thing - right now you need to put a material on every mesh (and more if its has multiple materials slot)

[somber sequoia]

The amount of arguing you are doing about this is frustrating.

[unborn meteor]

because it doesnt make sense for it to be designed like this

[left gull]

that's just unity for you 🤷‍♀️

[unborn meteor]

i cant understand why it cant just let me use and modify the embedded materials as they clearly do something in the viewport

[somber sequoia]

and yet, here it is, and this is how it works. Complaining about that here is a waste of time. if you want help working with what we have, this is the place.

[unborn meteor]

which means i should be able to do simple changes like apply a texture to a channel

[balmy barn]

you are getting annoying

[somber sequoia]

If you just want to keep complaining, I'll just do something else.

[unborn meteor]

im sorry that having autism and a few gaps in my education along with needing visual information on what you mean makes it hard

[lunar cape]

😢

[balmy barn]

thats fine but we cant change unity its just how it is

[somber sequoia]

If you want a picture for a specific thing, then ask for it.

[unborn meteor]

i would need a play by play on how to get the materials to work as i said before with the best way being a stream call or the other way a few images

[left gull]

if you're looking for hand-hold teaching then you should look for a discord dedicated to 1on1 avatar teaching (theres likely a few in #1204490664637890580 ) but victimizing yourself in here really isnt gonna do you any good, it'll just put people off from wanting to help and converse with you

[unborn meteor]

i am not vicitmizing myself i am responding to people who think i am being deliberately obtuse when that is not the case

i am trying to understand what is happening and why it doesnt make sense

[left gull]

^^^ this is self-victimization after being told that what you're wanting just isnt possible and consistently bringing it up is becoming an annoyance

[unborn meteor]

it is a fact that i have autism and i am irritated and am working hard at not being excessively irrassible

i am simply just trying to get something to work that is proving to be designed coutner intuitively

[somber sequoia]

If you could accept that this thing is the way it is, you'd be in a better position to accomplish your goal.

[unborn meteor]

i am trying ...

you said to drag to the material slots but i cant seem to get that panel to appear tho i did see it once

[somber sequoia]

find model file. Click model file. Look in inspector window. Select materials tab. Observe slots.

[unborn meteor]

....

the layout is ... not exactly clear on where "model file" is

tho i dont really know where to look

[somber sequoia]

it's your .fbx file, you find it in the Project window, as that is where the files available to your project are displayed.

[unborn meteor]

i am not seeing the slots?

[somber sequoia]

You have clicked on your avatar I think?

"project" window is the one at the bottom labeled "project"

back in a bit - lunch.

[unborn meteor]

i think this is it?

[junior void]

Ye

[unborn meteor]

my head is starting to do a different thing ...

but ye

the little target thingy seems to hold some materials?

[worthy pier]

Messed up files

[unborn meteor]

OH

eyebrows

yey

now for the rest ... and coffeee

bleeee head hurty

and ibprofen

dialup brain

[honest swallow]

I mean, how would I get an item to work.
Because I have items and outfits, but they're not appearing

[junior void]

You need to make parameters, use them exactly there but also make the logic for them in the animator

For a simple toggle, you want to use bool

[honest swallow]

Stationary? or?

[junior void]

What

No. You do not want to use parameters that control gogo loco for anything else

You want to create your very own and once you do, they will appear in that list, too

I suggest a toggle creation tutorial that does not use vrcfury or modular avatar - the good old manual way

[honest swallow]

Oh sorry, I purchased this avatar.
And it was working, but for some reason the toggles don't work anymore.

I don't use Unity, so this is all new to me

I see where the animations are in the folders, but I don't understand how they got detached from their toggle, nor how to readd them.

[junior void]

Aha that changes everything

There is a chance that the parameters file was accidentally removed from the avatar descriptor.

Maybe load the original in a new project and compare things assigned in it

[mint mountain]

I'm a noob when it comes to substance painter, are there folks here that could help me with a small problem involving my avatar I'm working on? I feel like there's an easy fix to it, I just don't know the technology yet so I'm pretty lost.

[somber sequoia]

maybe? what's the problem?

[mint mountain]

I'm trying to paint on one of the texture sets but unlike the others, this one won't let me put down paint. I have a paint layer, I've made sure said paint layer is in the correct place in the hierarchy, reset my brushes, all the stuff google told me. The only thing different about this texture set is that the texture is above the Grey Box of Mystery (I don't know what this does/is called) and not in it. I think that's the problem but I have no idea how to fix. That is how the UVs want the texture to be positioned so it looks right on the model.

The model came programmed that way

[somber sequoia]

Oh interesting. Weird that the texture is up one like that

[mint mountain]

Also sorry if I butchered the terminology

I swear I'm tryin

[somber sequoia]

probably if you go into the UV editor in Blender, you'll see it's moved up one tile - could just select all the UV islands and move them Y - 1

but that's definitely a guess.

[mint mountain]

ohhh ok I have to fix it in blender, I will try that. I had a feeling it would be a blender fix but without specific instructions I'd just as likely destroy the model in my attempts to fix it. Blender scares me. I will carefully try what you've suggested on a copy of the model

[somber sequoia]

Bonus points for making backups 🙂

[mint mountain]

I have learned the hard way, as many do

[somber sequoia]

yup.

[mint mountain]

Ok so I have them highlighted but how do I move them y-1?

[somber sequoia]

g, y, -1

[mint mountain]

There's so many goddamn modes in Blender I swear. Edit, object, sculpt, vertex, weight, paint, pastrami sandwich, taffeta, ffs

[somber sequoia]

'g' is for "grab and move"

pastrami sandwich? where is that one, I want that right now...

[mint mountain]

lmao

ok so I hit g on my keyboard?

then y, then -1?

[somber sequoia]

That is correct.

grab thing, lock translation to y axis, move -1 unit

[mint mountain]

ok, I never use the keyboard shortcuts so this sounds like black magic but I'll try it.

[somber sequoia]

I never click on any of the tools in the 't' popup sidebar on the left

like, ever.

[mint mountain]

oh my god it worked

you people are wizards

Thank you so much

[somber sequoia]

"wizard" is just an word for "someone with slightly more experience than you" 🙂

[mint mountain]

Fair. I am really good at irl crafts and people often say they don't know how I learned how to do so many kinds. This is just that but digital

Y'all are artists, I commend your skill

Alright so one more problem

How do I replace the current mesh in substance with the new one?

[somber sequoia]

in the project settings is a place to swap out the model file

Note that if it's not export exactly the same way, it might try to recalculate all your layers, or just ditch them.

[mint mountain]

hmmmm

I'll make a copy before I re-export

[somber sequoia]

you can undo that action in substance

but yes, make backups!

[mint mountain]

ahhhh it worked! Now to see if I can paint finally

oh I got in trouble with the bot

too over-exuberant

It worked yay

Tysm again for the help!

[somber sequoia]

excellent!

but!

before you paint: one very good practice is to use a Fill layer instead of a paint layer, then paint on a black mask instead, that way you can later change the color/material used by that layer and not have to re-paint

[pine valley]

i do almost everything through Fill layers

since i'm usually using whole materials

[somber sequoia]

yep, same

[pine valley]

painting just color is fine, but you can get really nice results if you're also generating normals/smoothness/etc. data

[polar pelican]

I tried to upload an avatar using VCC. im using the lates supported 2022.3.22f1 Unity. What should i do, because this is the only error im getting?

[somber sequoia]

That one unfortunately doesn't tell us much 🙁

[polar pelican]

.....then what should tell you more?

sorry im kinda new to this

[somber sequoia]

nothing as far as I've seen, often that seems like networking issues

[polar pelican]

it cant be network tho, because i get the same result on LAN, Wi-fi, even on Hotspot.

and it cant be the model either, because i cant upload even a cube.

[somber sequoia]

it could be network issues outside your own network

and as I said, that's what it "seems like" to me

[lone shoal]

i imported an fbx file in unity and did a ton of work on it in-scene, then realised i forgot to set the rig type to humanoid and changing the asset's rig type doesnt affect the in-scene version, any way to fix it without redoing all my work?

[somber sequoia]

Unless you unpacked your .fbx file in the scene, changes to it will apply to the model in the scene

if you did unpack... don't do that.

[lone shoal]

didnt unpack it

but the changes dont apply

[somber sequoia]

Just because you set it to be humanoid doesn't make it actually a valid humanoid armature, there may be errors

ah! there are errors

left image, see that notice? Do what it says

[lone shoal]

that error is unrelated i had it in other situations and it didnt affect whether or not it was humanoid

[somber sequoia]

I'll assume it's directly related until you show it.

[lone shoal]

⁨Ambiguous Transform 'neck' and 'rig/root/spine1/spine2/chest/neck' found in hierarchy for human bone 'Neck'. Transform name mapped to a human bone must be unique.⁩

[somber sequoia]

that'll be why.

it cannot be humanoid while that error exists.

[lone shoal]

mk how do i fix that then

[somber sequoia]

basically you cannot have an object with the same name as a humanoid bone

so rename one of those things named neck

[lone shoal]

so my neck cant be called neck thats stupid 💀

[balmy barn]

you have a neck bone and a neck mesh , unity hates it

[somber sequoia]

I'm slightly curious why you have an actual separate mesh object for the neck.

[balmy barn]

why would you want a mesh named neck tho

thats usually Body

[lone shoal]

just how the asset im using is set up

i intend to join all the meshes later tho

[somber sequoia]

yeah always best to join them

[lone shoal]

i have resolved that error but the issue persists

[somber sequoia]

you may have to set it to generic and apply, then redo the humanoid setup

[lone shoal]

still nope

[somber sequoia]

possibly there are other issues?

[lone shoal]

nothing in the console so no idea

[honest swallow]

I just reopened it and it has the same problem

They DID work during playmode, but when I go to upload the avatar, it doesn't end up working

Has anyone else messed with this avatar before? I just need it figured out 💀

[somber sequoia]

well that error is easy - add that parameter to the parameters list used in the avatar descriptor

[honest swallow]

With the drop down? Do I drag anything anywhere?

[somber sequoia]

you go find the avatar parameters list and add that variable, exactly as it is named.

[left gull]

is that graveteeth's verosika?

[honest swallow]

I... found the animations for the toggle?

[honest swallow]

It is! I bought it last week

[left gull]

that model should work out of box so if it isnt you should contact them about something being broken

just so they know for other customers + they might already have a fix for it that you can just swap out to upload

[honest swallow]

well, It said on their description that they wouldn't be helping since it's a old model and that I'd either have to figure it out myself or have someone who knows

I assumed it was just going to be ready out of the box, but I've been having a few errors here and there

[balmy barn]

my guess is that

its trying to use some other VRCExpressionParameters

[pure sky]

my avater crashes me when i go on vrchat any ideas to help?

[balmy barn]

reset avatar on webpage or hold ?? buttons to force reset it when vrchat start

( never remember the buttons )

[pure sky]

ill try it

[honest swallow]

Omg it worked...

I feel... really stupid rn, I'm so sorry.

[balmy barn]

https://help.vrchat.com/hc/en-us/articles/360060847634-Unable-to-switch-out-of-an-avatar found it, yeh some avatars can do that, made one by accident once it was corrupted or something and instantly crashed me (sub 70k tris)

[warped scroll]

Hey, my avatar is slightly in the ground, does anyone know why it might be doing that and how to fix it?

It looks fine both in unity and blender

[fresh rose]

what does this mean

[somber sequoia]

something looking for a file that doesn't exist... did you just try to build your avatar?

[fresh rose]

mhm

[somber sequoia]

do you have enough disk space available?

[fresh rose]

yuh?

[gaunt knoll]

how much storage do you have in your C: drive

[fresh rose]

0- i physically cant delete stuff

[gaunt knoll]

?

[honest swallow]

Anyone know about this?

[olive pelican]

...why?

[fresh rose]

my pc is still on windows 10

alot of stuff is broken

[gaunt knoll]

soo

no

[fresh rose]

and my pc is too outdated to fix

[gaunt knoll]

no

[olive pelican]

what?

My main PC is Windows 10.

(Win10LTSC)

[somber sequoia]

7 errors, please show more.

[honest swallow]

It's about the parameters, but they work in playmode

[fresh rose]

yeah and miens been factory reset 12 times

cheap ahh pc

[olive pelican]

...I reformat my PC once every 12 months.

[gaunt knoll]

windows 10 isnt broken

but seem as you have less then 20 GB you cant do anything to do with unity or anything else
i suggest using https://www.revouninstaller.com/

[somber sequoia]

The other errors with 'parameter not defined' are the problem

Add those parameters to your avatar parameters list

[olive pelican]

Also use WinDirstat to see what's taking up space.

Wait...actually maybe don't do that you will probabaly delete a system file or something >.>

[fresh rose]

i can onlu delete 2 things and i need both

7 zip and my main browser

[olive pelican]

...How-you know what, what's the capacity of your harddrive

[fresh rose]

um

[olive pelican]

ohboyherewego

[fresh rose]

111 gb

um

[olive pelican]

Wh.

[gaunt knoll]

well windows 10 is only 20 GB so you must have stuff you can delete

[olive pelican]

How

I'm-

[fresh rose]

no everytime i try this comes up

[somber sequoia]

these are menus, not parameter lists.

[timber bay]

can i ask someone to assist me in understanding how to add an outfit, and edit a skin on a model i got from booth? I've tried watching videos on you tube, and followed their guide on the websites given but...im so lost DX

[olive pelican]

ffff-

Ha, haha, One Drive.

Google that error number 0x8007016A, it will show you how to fix it.

[fresh rose]

Ok?

[olive pelican]

That's the point of it giving you the error, by the way, it's so you can look it up and find the fix.

[fresh rose]

i have tried so many times

this dumb ahh pc been to a repair shop 6 times in 2 years

[olive pelican]

...I cannot comprehend that on a fundamnetal level.

That's my expertise bias showing, so pardon my shock.

[honest swallow]

is it this? sorry if I'm being difficult, I'm brand new to all of this

[fresh rose]

It says find one drive but uh-
I cant find it-

[olive pelican]

ok, so the file is trying to talk to a thing that doesn't exist. Which happens.

Wait, onedrive onyl syncs youe documents, usually.

[fresh rose]

Mhm

The thinf is those documents are taking up all my space

[somber sequoia]

No, that is the list of parameters in your animator. docs are here, but the link to find the parameter list is in your Avatar Descriptor, under Expressions
https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/expression-menu-and-controls

[olive pelican]

Do you have 80gb of files in your documents folder?

[fresh rose]

And i cant delete them bc of no onedrive

[fresh rose]

Idfk

That ontpp of the main system stuff

[olive pelican]

20gb for main system stuff.

I'm guessing you also have, yanno, games on here, yeah?

[fresh rose]

No their all on my secondary files

New volume

[olive pelican]

m.

I need AlexJonesrubbinFace.gif rn.

You can commandline delete them, but that might be more danger than it's worth.

[fresh rose]

Idek what that means

[olive pelican]

Check if you have onedrive installed on your PC, in Add/Remove programs.

[fresh rose]

No ima install it

If i can

[honest swallow]

Oh! I belive its this?

[olive pelican]

ok, do so, run it, see if it fixes it.

[somber sequoia]

That's it

[olive pelican]

I'm trying to recall if I lobotomized that in MY PC or if it just isn't on LTSC by default.

[honest swallow]

They look like they're all there.
The only things I see in the toggles are the hair, glasses, outfits and items. And they're on the list already

[fresh rose]

It worked omg

[bright raft]

hands don't interact with physbones, so I check contact overlay and the hands aren't visible in the contact overlay

[fresh rose]

After 6 years

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure why you got that message then.

[fresh rose]

https://tenor.com/view/kai-kung-fu-panda-kung-fu-panda-3-kai-kung-fu-panda-gif-3690482614125230741

Kai has retur-

Nvm

[olive pelican]

Nice.

That's my good deed done for the day, I can go back to being a jerk now.

[fresh rose]

Ok i deleted the millions of unjsed documents

And its still takin up 100 GB... 😭

[olive pelican]

Windirstat is next

[fresh rose]

1.22 GN

[fresh rose]

Eh?

[honest swallow]

Would there be anything else to do with them being "defined"?

[olive pelican]

Windirstat is a tool that shows you where your data is and what's taking up space

But Be Careful

Do NOT delete anything unless you know exactly what it is.

[timber bay]

how does one turn this into a proper outfit?

[somber sequoia]

If they are in the parameter list your avatar is using, exactly as written, case and all, then this should work. But I see one parameter with no name, you should probably delete that.

[olive pelican]

I have bricked my PC before because I deleted the wrong thing, lmao.

[somber sequoia]

what is a "proper outfit"?

[fresh rose]

Oop

[olive pelican]

With the addition of pantaloons, a purse, and a hat.

[timber bay]

so, the outfit in questions is meshing with the original outfit of the base model

the original in question

[somber sequoia]

"meshing"?

[timber bay]

i dont know DX im new to this stuff and ive tried following guides but i just have a headache

[somber sequoia]

okay but you said the word, I'm asking what it means to you

[timber bay]

oh..idk how to put the new clothes onto the character, ina way i can change it out within the game itself

i was told to use dressing tool but i think im not "getting" the process

[somber sequoia]

Okay - a number of ways, you could toggle the clothing game objects on and off, you could shrink the mesh, you could use UV tile discarding... If they're separate objects the first is the easiest.
There should be tutorials, though they may not match exactly to what you have.

[timber bay]

turning them off, as in making them invisible with the eye icon on the left?

[somber sequoia]

no, that's only for the view in Unity. Use the checkbox in the upper-left of the inspector when you've clicked on an object.

[timber bay]

OOH

ok, do i need to do anything beyond that?

[somber sequoia]

I'm not working on your project, just offering basic advice: that is how you toggle an object on and off.

Try animating that, see if it does what you want it to do.

[timber bay]

...animating?

[somber sequoia]

that's how you activate this when a menu item changes, unless you're using fury or modular or something like that.

[timber bay]

i dont think so? wheres the button

[somber sequoia]

button?

[timber bay]

oh, i assumed thats what animating was

[olive pelican]

AlexJonesRubbingFace.gif

[timber bay]

hey, i said i was new

my ignorance is based on not knowing and wanting to know

[olive pelican]

No, no, yeah that's valid.

Look up Sippbox's tutorials on toggling avatar props/meshes, that will teach you what you need to do.

[timber bay]

thank you c:

[honest swallow]

Now these are problems

[balmy barn]

sdk should already yell at you for that one - auto fix -

[worthy pier]

turns out something was broken in my fx layer i deleted some things and now none of my toggles work and i have this error

[balmy barn]

yellow errors rarely matter and this is a av3 derpyness

you can get those easy in play mode

[worthy pier]

I tried but this is avter i deleted all the vrfury stuff in the fx

This is what i got before

[plucky drum]

i have my model set to increase the emission strength when i talk and it works wonderfully. but after im done talking instead of resetting to the emission strengths base value of 7 it resets it to 0 before then a second later resetting back to its base value of 7 and im not sure what i can do to fix this

it works when set to instant mode but that looks really boring

[left gull]

if you're doing toggles through purely VRCFury you might have better luck getting help in the VRCFury's discord, there might even be an answer already there too

[plucky drum]

oh, alr

didnt know they had one

[robust axle]

im looking for manuka socks and or shoes that look at least somewhat similar to this (maybe shoes a bit closer to slippers?) if anyone can help me out

[left gull]

if you scroll down a bit on this page it'll show all Manuka compatible items available on booth (and it has its own little search bar so you could search slippers or kneehigh socks or sumn) :https://boothplorer.com/avatar/5058077

[robust axle]

https://gif.fxtwitter.com/tweet_video/G-vNVplX0AAfni1.gif

[bitter mural]

anyone know good outfits for a non furry avatar for free? im working on an avatar and cant find any

and i want a sfw one

[obtuse bronze]

hey so can someone help me i cant upload a avatar to vrchat on quest it wont give the option for android

[barren radish]

How do I get PC to see the PC version of this avatar and for quest to see the quest variant with different toggles?

[lilac musk]

As long as the parameter lists are the exact same, the FX controllers should behave correctly.

[barren radish]

What is the parameter list?

[gaunt knoll]

i can feel its going to be a long day

[lilac musk]

Oh I assumed you knew enough about animations and toggles. I'd suggest you learn about them as it is basically impossible to get it setup correctly without. Especially when your quest avatar is vastly different than your pc

[barren radish]

I would have assumed and been told by others I just copy the blue print ID onto the other avatar

But that has not been working

[lilac musk]

Wait, you talked about toggles, but now you're talking about something else. Are you not able to get both quest and pc to see the avatar at all or are you saying they are seeing them with the wrong toggles?

[barren radish]

I am unable to get PC to see the shiny version and the quest to see the one with the text on the bra

[lilac musk]

Are those toggles?

[barren radish]

I have been told by others who do it that it's a simple proces by copy and pasting the blue print ID onto the quest

[barren radish]

No, two different avatars

I want quest to see something different than adeliade

[lilac musk]

Well if you copied the ID the quest version, then it should work. Does your avatar show that its quest and pc compatible?

[barren radish]

No it only uploads as PC and breaks

I tried moving the ID from quest and it broke the phys bones on the PC, I tried copying the ID from the PC to the quest and it broke the shaders

[lilac musk]

If you upload an avatar on quest version with the same ID as the one on the PC version, then it will show that avatar for quest and all vice versa for PC

[barren radish]

So I should upload the quest version as android and the PC version as PC?

instead of upload ing one as PC and quest?

[gaunt knoll]

well you should upload the pc as pc and the quest as quest

[barren radish]

Using the PC blueprint ID?

[gaunt knoll]

yes?

pc first then copy the pc
id into the quest pipeline
switch platform to quest
upload

[opaque geyser]

so im having an issue. in blender all of my blendshapes are there but in unity their not. iv had this issue in the past but cant remember what to do to fix it.

[somber sequoia]

make sure your mesh objects don't have any un-applied modifiers

[scarlet fractal]

Im making an avatar for one of my buddies, he’s obsessed with Star Wars and he wants a toggle that has an ship fly in the sky and crash into the ground truly I use VRCFury for my toggles but idk how to incorporate that.

[opaque geyser]

your a life saver Lol

i didnt know there were modifiers on my model

[somber sequoia]

just been there, done that 🙂

[opaque geyser]

yup

[barren radish]

It uploaded just fine but now with the blueprint ID being changed it's 3mb over the limit?

[lilac musk]

From what I know of Fury, it's not really going to be able to accomplish this. You'd need to do a more typical Unity animation approach. This is the downside to systems like Fury. They do a lot for you, but it doesn't teach you anything. Leaving you without a solution to the complex animation stuff that avatars can do.

[trim rover]

why do my submenues look like this and how do i fix it?

I beleive this is all set up correct

[ornate stump]

Restart unity once. If if doesn't fix, that means some of playable layers in avatar descriptor is corrupted.

[bitter mural]

any idea how to fix this?

[ornate stump]

Do you have Animator component on the avatar object? Avatar object is the one you added avatar descriptor component.

[lofty condor]

Is t ok if i dm you?

[ornate stump]

No.

[lofty condor]

um ok

[ornate stump]

If you have a next question, ask in this channel.

[lofty condor]

ok :D

im a lil new to unity so where would i find the playable layers

[ornate stump]

It's in avatar descriptor.

[ornate stump]

One of those is corrupted. If you reset one to default and it no longer show error, it's the one.

[ornate stump]

"Review Any Alerts" first.

[ornate stump]

"Auto Fix"

[bitter mural]

I dont have an animator

anyone have a link to it?

[ornate stump]

It's a component. Just click on "Add Component" button.

[ornate stump]

And if it doesn't have animator to begin with, make sure that you watch and follow the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRAnDMUbWt8

[unborn meteor]

i know i was slow on the uptake earlir but thank you for helping me sort out how to assign materials 🙂

[bitter mural]

i already uploaded avis before

[unborn meteor]

does anyone know why the material for his Kilt is refusing to show up? i did his kilt like i did his hair (albedo and normal map)

the preview window shows his low resolution snapshot but that one looks like it works

the main real time viewport seems to refuse to show the right materials?

at least his mouth looks good more or less

[gaunt knoll]

That's because all the preview has a standard shader you need to select a shader

[unborn meteor]

but the kilt ... ?... the rest of him looks like he works? all of him uses standard shader with some using normal maps

i am confused again

his kilt uses this materials hader tho i might make it rougher so its less shiney but the kilt has a UV map

i am confused because the rest of him is basically the same shader too?

his body uses basically the same

[ornate stump]

It likely because the model in the scene is unpacked or has been override which stop it from updating data with the model file.

[unborn meteor]

but why would it let me update the skin eyes mouth and hair but not the kilt which is also part of the same mesh as his body hair nad horn

hair works (if you wanna see)

i basically do this:

create new material
assign albedo
assign normal(if needed) and label texture as normal
click a different thing
get prompted to save fbx

updated model with new thing shown in viewport

[ornate stump]

Overriding can be done on some material slot. If you had ever change or put material into model in the scene, that material slot is overrided and will stop updating with the model. So the model you had in the scene is using some material different from what you set in model import.

[unborn meteor]

thats every working material tho?

his skin and the rest of him was material broken and then i created new materials for each broken material (which was all of them) and then overwrote the slot with the new made material

the only thing that is refusing to work is the kilt now but the rest of him works

tail (currently broken)

new material made

[ornate stump]

It's better to change material in the model in the scene instead of from model import. Because that will definitely be the final result.

[ornate stump]

And what I talked is about assigning material onto the model. Not changing material settings.

[unborn meteor]

thats what i am doing i make a new material (this is his new tail material)

then apply it to this

[ornate stump]

Did you assigned the material onto the model in the scene?

[ornate stump]

That's what I talk about material in import settings. The model in the scene will ignore those if you change material assignment on the scene.

[unborn meteor]

i am confused .. i just know when i set a new material to the thing i get this

if i click "save" the change is seen on model

see now his tail works

but the same thing doesnt seem to work for his kilt

[ornate stump]

If you meant some material. Because those material assignment haven't been overrided so it update with the model import. But you had changed the the material on the knitted object in the scene, that has been overrided and will not take material from import settings.

[unborn meteor]

the only material that isnt working is the kilt...?

the rest is working perfectly

[ornate stump]

Because those material assignment haven't been overrided so it update with the model import. But you had changed the the material on the kilt object in the scene, that has been overrided and will not take material from import settings.

[unborn meteor]

so making a new material and slotting it in that slot wont do anything for the kilt..?

[ornate stump]

No. You had changed material in the model from the scene.

[unborn meteor]

i had to change them by making new materials as the base import was broken no textures just base colors or base white

[ornate stump]

Once you change something in model in the scene, that's called override and that part will stop updating with the model import settings.

[unborn meteor]

which is why i am confused because the model now has textures as i replaced the materials it had with the ones i made in unity

and the ones i made in unity show working (exception kilt)

in the mini window he looks correct tho very low res

[ornate stump]

Of course that's because that's how the model original is.

[bitter mural]

fixed my issue if you need help just type in animations

[unborn meteor]

No.. when i first imported him he looked like the main viewport all shades of yellow and white

mainly white with a yellow orange kilt

[ornate stump]

I meant that's the model after import settings is applied.

[unborn meteor]

ohh

why cant it show the same in the real time viewport?

[ornate stump]

Once you change something in model in the scene, that's called override and that part will stop updating with the model import settings.

[unborn meteor]

bleee

meenie

[ornate stump]

Be noted I clearly distinguish between model in the scene and model import settings.

[unborn meteor]

the mini window rotates :3

the vrc robot didnt let me show excitement

but anyways ye

hm

so how do i get model in the scene to match the mini window

[ornate stump]

If you recalled any thing you had change on the model, right click on the property you had changed, and use "Revert"

[unborn meteor]

but the mini window ... the original import before i changed things in unity was broken

i need to keep the changes and have them equal on all fronts as the changes are the correct result

i dont want to lose his textures or materials as the mini window shows the now corrected version

the main viewport doesnt

[ornate stump]

I mean you "Revert" what changes you had done to the model existing in the scene.

[unborn meteor]

the only thing i did was replace the broken non textured materials with textured materials i want the textures to show in all things...

[ornate stump]

This will stop the change you override in the scene and will take data from model import settings.

[ornate stump]

You can stop arguing and start trying to do what I said and see the result. If it doesn't do what you want you can start arguing later.

[unborn meteor]

i am not arguing ... i am simply trying to understand

why do people presume i am argujng

i am not .. i want to understand and i still dont ... can you show me what you mean

[ornate stump]

I have already explained in like 10 messages and you still keep asking the same question.

[unborn meteor]

because i cant see what you mean

i look at this and i cant see how to do what you say

clicking the lists in the right open a new window to save things

from how i understand things the model should look like the mini window one in both

[ornate stump]

You're still looking in the model import settings. The model in the scene Is the model in Scene view so you have to click on the model on the scene and make change from there.

[unborn meteor]

is "scene view" the main window with the not quite sky texture?

[ornate stump]

It's written Scene on the tab header.

[unborn meteor]

game mode and scene mode dont seem to be too different with the exception of moving the camera to a default positon ... ... ... ...

i think i get it hm ... let me see

[ornate stump]

You have to click on the kilt in the scene and see materials onn the renderer.

[ornate stump]

Keep clicking on it will select different object on the model. Click until it select the kilt object.

[unborn meteor]

this seems to be the correct one tho the purple pink color makes seeing the outline a little hard

AHH

hes good

thanks 😄

[ornate stump]

The Material is written in bold means it's overrided. So reverting will stop overriding and will take data from import.

[unborn meteor]

this feels like driving a high low for the first time after spending years driving a 5 speed

i almost quite get it but not quite lol

[unborn meteor]

does he have to be humanoid or can it be something else?

[unborn meteor]

i cant seem to find the view position ball thingy

[junior void]

its inside your belly it seems

[unborn meteor]

moving that moves the whole avatar

its not moving a ball

in this video its clearly a ball that spawns in but i dont see any ball spawn in and clicking edit view position results in the whole avatar moving

[junior void]

do you have gizmos enabled

[unborn meteor]

is that not hwat the arrows are?

is there some different one?... i am confused

the thing that i can choose to rotate or move only moves him

i dont see a button to enable or disable gizmos

[junior void]

you have a two-line symbol at the top right

perhaps its collapsed under it

try to click/drag that down?

[unborn meteor]

clickng what?

this only moves like a little box it doesnt hide or show anything

there is no button for gizmos to hide or show ... i would think that clicking edit view point would force it to work

[ornate stump]

Hit the ` key while cursor on Scene view and it will show option to show the tool settings.

[unborn meteor]

why would the default be to not have gizmos enabled?

[ornate stump]

It should already be default.

[junior void]

i had to open unity myself to see how to respawn the gizmo controls lol

opening a new scene window does it too

[unborn meteor]

well i enabled every option in the ` thing but now i am left wondering what these capsules are and where his view point is?

clicking edit view point still doesnt move the mover gizmoe or spawn a ball thingy

[junior void]

the capsules are colliders automatically generated

[ornate stump]

You should also set model object location to be (0,0,0).

[junior void]

they only show up when you have the section of it in the descriptor expanded

[unborn meteor]

it is ....

clicking it and unclicking it (it being the edit views) does nothing but make that button green or grey

[ornate stump]

Location is position.

[unborn meteor]

that doesnt help me tho ...

i need to see it

i dont have a reference for anything in this for how big he is ... for all i know he could be 2 inches or 2 miles in size

[ornate stump]

It moved in the world so you just have to reposition the camera to look at it.

[unborn meteor]

i need to see the view ball thingy

oh

its ..

why cant adding a model to the scene put it in the center of the world like Blender

[junior void]

it does if you drag the model to the hierarchy window

it doesnt if you drag it to the scene window

[unborn meteor]

hmm this program is weird lol (its so .. i dunno it feels wrong sometimes)

[ornate stump]

If you drag into the scene view, it will drop on where your cursor is on the scene.

[unborn meteor]

view ball not at gizmo location?

[ornate stump]

Is the model already at exacly 0,0,0 position?

[unborn meteor]

no

how do i make hoim zero out position

him"

ooh wait

neat

how do i make capsule different size?

[junior void]

what capsule

[unborn meteor]

the hand ones

[junior void]

edit them in the descriptor

[unborn meteor]

where?

i dont see anywhere to edit his capsules

[junior void]

i told you earlier they are colliders

so see where it says colliders

[unborn meteor]

i sent the whole descriptor i dont see anything about colliders

wait

brain slow

thanks 🙂

[jovial quartz]

Hello and good morning. I have been attempting to retexture something for the past several hours and I cannot get it to work. I made the texture in Substance painter, exported it correctly, i have Poiyomi toon that i’m using, which the base creater says should work, but everything I’m trying leads to the main texture showing up as bright red.

i cant send screenshots cause i’m borrowing a computer thats much more powerful than mine, but i can take pictures and send em. I have googled everything and i cant seem to find what i’m doing wrong, i’ve followed every step by step i found and still nothing is working

[clear bear]

same sdk version, different project, similar issue. rig is again all correct but sdk is insistent its not

[unborn meteor]

the program says my avatar is 57k polies when it wants 32k ...

[ornate stump]

It's a recommended number. Not the hard limit.

[unborn meteor]

cool

[ornate stump]

Things to check for when bones missing/ aren't specified:

1. Animator component has avatar slot assigned correctly with avatar asset of the model.
2. All bone name and hierarchy must not been changed in either the scene or rig configuration.
3. If problem persisted, try set animator's avatar slot to None, and choose the correct avatar asset again.

[unborn meteor]

but how am i to test it offline if i cant build it

i dont want to play VRC if i cant use my own character :<

[clear bear]

no dice, same error

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot model hierarchy from the scene compare to the rig configuration menu?

[unborn meteor]

how do i do the thing so i can test it locally on my PC so i can see how he works?

[unborn meteor]

ohhh

thank

[ornate stump]

Also the hierarchy that's shown in rig configuration menu.

[ornate stump]

The Armature object name doesn't match.

[clear bear]

renaming the armature name to remove the .002 doesnt fix it

annoyingly, everything animates in play mode

its just the sdk being stupid

[ornate stump]

After renaming, you might have to reassign the avatar slot to refresh it.

[ornate stump]

You shouldn't be renaming anything within the object prefab.

[unborn meteor]

where is the place it saves them after it builds?

[clear bear]

renaming in blender is the same issue

[ornate stump]

What "place"?

[clear bear]

im so close to giving up with vrchat again because of this sdk bro. this issue didnt exist before they forced the new update

[unborn meteor]

i dunno where does it save the built avatars for local testing ....

[ornate stump]

That isn't how it works.

[unborn meteor]

well it has to save them somwhere

because when i click build and it does its building then the result should be somewhere

i want to know where

[ornate stump]

You should keep do newly build everytime any way, so there is no point of saving "built avatar".

[unborn meteor]

clearly

there is

so i need to save it locally so where is it saved

[ornate stump]

That isn't how it works like I said before.

[clear bear]

errors print into the console tab, next to the project tab

[unborn meteor]

then explain please because its not obvious at all

[clear bear]

your build mode is set to publish online, not test locally

[unborn meteor]

i did publish locally the second time

[clear bear]

if you dont have new user or above in trust rank you cant upload content online

[unborn meteor]

i dont care about online i ran it again and did local

so where is it saved so i can put the avatar on my VR ready PC

[ornate stump]

Testing in game locally would require New User trust rank as well.

[clear bear]

oh in-game its in the other category in the avatar menu

[unborn meteor]

how am i supposed to test it if i cant use it or find it after its been built

i should be able to run a local offline world and mess about in a closed system to learn about it

[balmy barn]

in unity

[unborn meteor]

how?

my other pc has the vr setup

[ornate stump]

There are Gesture Manager and AV3 Emulator package for testing within unity.

[unborn meteor]

because running game mode in unity is entirely useless ...

[unborn meteor]

i could not get the program to work or compile with those enabled

i just want to know where it saved my vrchat avatar so i can put him on my other PC and run an offline world in vrchat to learn about how well or poorly i did

[clear bear]

disabling a different scene fixed it????

this new sdk update is so buggy

[ornate stump]

It has always been like that. It's the unity issue, not sdk.

[clear bear]

this is the only time ive had another scene interfere like this

the sdk should start referencing the object guids not the hierarchy

[unborn meteor]

so i want to know where the file is saved after it builds locally because it doesnt give me a directory to save it to

[ornate stump]

That would only cause the animator to refresh avatar rig so the sdk stop complaining about missing bones. I've got this issue since 3 years ago.

[ornate stump]

It just refuses to build if you don't have sufficient trust rank.

[clear bear]

i wish these stupid armature checks could be disabled, i dont really care if it was hidden away in a script somewhere to prevent normal users disabling it

[unborn meteor]

it literally built when i did "test locally"

[clear bear]

but these checks just dont work

[unborn meteor]

it literally built it when i did local only

[ornate stump]

If it's built, then you should open in game and it will show in the list of "SDK" avatar.

[unborn meteor]

how .. i want to move the built avatar onto a USB device and onto my VR ready PC

this PC i am using currently is for work not for games

i have the game installed on the other PC .... not this one

i want to move it onto the other pc with the game installed so where is the file saved

[balmy barn]

C:\Users\yourusernamehere\AppData\LocalLow\VRChat\VRChat\Avatars , any offline one is saved there

[unborn meteor]

thank you

[balmy barn]

was a time you could put someone else avatar from cache in there and wear it offline

[unborn meteor]

ohhh

he only 15 megs

neat

[prisma monolith]

anyone that knows how to properly setup gunshot effects without vrcfury, dm me.

[hexed oyster]

Does anyone know how to import your own avatar from Vrchat to Unity if the project is lost?

[junior void]

you cant

[hexed oyster]

uhm

tysm

[unborn meteor]

so i put it on my VR PC and could not get the program to let me load SDK avatars

so where do i place my locally saved VRC avatar that i transfered from my other PC so the game sees it?

how do i do an offline local world to test the avatars in VRC

by the avatars i mean the ones i make

i dont want to upload yet i just want to test locally first in a closed world

how do i do that

the game only launches in an online instance and doesnt seem to have an offline mode?

well it would be nice to know ... there doesnt seem to be a place to put avatars to test offline?

wait it loaded a different format for the localLow appdata folder lemme try again will let you know how it goes

[unborn meteor]

Test was functional

Only issues was a horrifying comical hand curling lol

I know now how to fix :>

[opal relic]

How exactly would I go about replicating the trails for the sabers from Beat Saber? I know I am to use the trail component. What should the settings be set to?

[heavy zephyr]

You can also use particle systems with the trail module on, that would give you even more options

[stiff kiln]

Does anyone know if Layer culling works on objects for avatars? I have an avatar with a Camera component and im trying to hide an object for it, but it only seem to work in Unity, not in-game.

[night ember]

all you get is ui menu

[stiff kiln]

I tried applying that layer to my screen, and it still shows up to the camera in-game.

This is what I see in Unity (it works fine).

But in game, the screen still shows up.

[steep portal]

just did thanks, i really dont like the imposters i wish i could disable seeing them locally lmao

[stiff kiln]

Idk how to hide the screen anymore.

I tried everything, but the screen doesn't seem to be hidden. It stays visible to the camera for some reason.

[unique knoll]

Can someone tell me what this means? I've spent the last hour trying to fix it 💀

[steep portal]

either something in vcc was corrupted, or its the recent windows bug that breaks localhost, try updating windows

[unique knoll]

alright, I've tried to reinstall already so I guess updating is the only option then

[gaunt knoll]

Your settings.json has been corrupted

[unique knoll]

and how would I fix that?

[gaunt knoll]

Give me a sec not at me pc

My*

[steep portal]

go to ⁨C:\Users\YOURUSER\AppData\Local\VRChatCreatorCompanion⁩ and rename ⁨settings.json⁩ to ⁨settings.json.old⁩

[gaunt knoll]

You can rename it or just delete it

Doesn't hold anything

[unique knoll]

Alright give me a minute

[steep portal]

you can also try going to http://localhost:5476 and see if the ui shows up fine in your browser

[unique knoll]

It worked

thanks for the help

[cobalt cloak]

How can I make it so that I can put a 3D object on, for example a hat, and then put it on my head?

[steep portal]

thank this person lol i didnt know this could cause that

[unique knoll]

I was thanking both of you, but anyway thank you both.

[gaunt knoll]

Haven't found the exact problem that makes it happen but he's probably the 100th person who has had this happen this month and ask for help

[umbral ice]

unity or blender?

[cobalt cloak]

in unity

[umbral ice]

Have you imported your object?

[cobalt cloak]

so i want that i still can muve it around but put it on

[gaunt knoll]

Like it off of your head and put it on your hand

[cobalt cloak]

ye

and its stays on my head

[gaunt knoll]

You would need to use colliders it trigger when your hand is near your head

Unless there's an easier way someone knows

Sorry a contact

[cobalt cloak]

?

what do y mean

[gaunt knoll]

You would need to use a Contact receiver

[cobalt cloak]

So, I give the 3D object a collider and my head, and how do I make them connect?

[cobalt cloak]

ha so my head gets a receiver and the objekt a collider

[gaunt knoll]

Okay so your have two hats one on your head the other in your hand

When your hand goes to the contact receiver turns one on and turns the other off

[cobalt cloak]

ahh

okay

[shut oxide]

exporting a model with physbones to another unity project resulted its raduis to increase massively even though the values on the phys components are still the same

anyone know why and how to fix it?

[stiff kiln]

Does anyone know a shader or something that could make that screen invisible to it's own camera? I starting to feel desperate...

[cobalt cloak]

Can I make it react to the 3D object and not to my hand with VRCFury?

[stiff kiln]

(Dont mind the smaller square, I had 2 screens)

[balmy barn]

some test ago, detect head/either hand , if hand + fist is used it will grab it, no fist drops it - same thing with a hat/other stuff can be used

vrcfury is super basic

[gaunt knoll]

I don't think you can do it with fury

[cobalt cloak]

okay

[cobalt cloak]

so i have to use that

[balmy barn]

someone forcing you to use it?

[cobalt cloak]

no but It looks like it's working.

[gaunt knoll]

Wish you luck it's been something I wanted to do but never found a hat I like 🤣

[cobalt cloak]

thx

[gaunt knoll]

Create a new layer, set the display to render on that layer, then make the camera not render that layer

If that makes sense

[cobalt cloak]

so how did you do that and is the animation in the objekt

[agile reef]

Hello! I am having parameter problems- I have specific clothing set to default in unity on a new model I am editing but the previous clothes that were the default are still on and I can't seem to figure out how to fix it and turn the previous clothes off- if anyone could help that'd be great

[stiff kiln]

I tried. I made a custom layer called ScreenLayer, and set the camera to not see it. Yet, it still shows up in-game.

[cobalt cloak]

or can you send me the unity pack so i can copy it

[stiff kiln]

I feel like an idiot...
No matter what I do, the screen in Unity is correctly hidden while in-game, it stays fully visible and blocks the view.

[cobalt cloak]

?

[stiff kiln]

So... after some test, it appears that for some reason, even tho I put my screen in the custom layer I made, the game considers it to be part of the PlayerLocal layer, which includes everything else on my avatar. So I can't just hide the screen itself and leave the avatar visible, its all or nothing...

Idk what to do.

[proven quail]

Add 2 zeros after the decimal point .1 > .001

[fresh raft]

-- Female Chest -- (NSFW parts covered by blocks)

WHY- Please help. I want the TRANSPARENT material to actually stay transparent. I change it to transclipping- BROKEN, fade- BROKEN, Transparent- BROKEN, Cutout? BROKEN.

Every single thing I do to this material breaks. I have created countless new materials, tried everything with the alphas. WHAT IS FREAKING GOING ON MAN?!? It was JUST working on my other model

[teal laurel]

I love the censoring 🖤

[dire heart]

Everytime I try to update my avi i get this ;; im so confused

[heavy zephyr]

Objects on avatar are restricted to the "PlayerLocal" layer for you and "Player" for anyone viewing you. You can use "UIMenu" as well but that's it.

If you want your camera to not see your screen, use stencils. Put a stencil cube around your camera and set it to discard anything pixels of your screen.

[stiff kiln]

I... have no clue how to do that.

[heavy zephyr]

You need to learn about stencils, look it up

[stiff kiln]

Alright

[stiff kiln]

I only find things on how to show things through a plane, but nothing about how to hide an object from a camera.

Like, the tutorials I find show stuff like "how to make a sphere invisible unless you look through a plane", which is the exact opposite of what I want.

[heavy zephyr]

Stencils allow you to pair 2 or more materials through a reference ID. Then, when they match, to apply an effect based on if they succeed or fail the Z test. You can choose to make one discard every pixels of the other regardless of success and achieve what you want

[stiff kiln]

So... with this small bit of code, I should be able to make the screen invisible to my camera, but still visible to the player?

[stiff kiln]

Okay, so now the shader seems to work. Now I need to figure out how to invert this...
(Right now, the plane is only visible when viewed through the mask. I want to do the opposite.)

[azure inlet]

is there a website or smth with trusted people to upload avatars for me ts is pissing me off

[umbral ice]

People often do it for $5-$10

[azure inlet]

okay but like where can i find these said people

[umbral ice]

I totally could, also, there's a server called VRC Traders

[azure inlet]

intresting

[left gull]

if its a P2U avatar ask in the creator's discord and you wont have to purchase a version for your uploader aswell

they likely have people on staff or something that'll do cheap/free uploads

[subtle canyon]

Is there a way to make it where I can link the game camera to an avatar bone? Kinda like mounting to an invisible selfie stick?

(Please ping me if you reply to this message)

[trim rover]

seriously why do my sub menues look like this

whare is everything at?

i've misconfigured my mmenues before but i've never seen this

and i've also checked in unity and i don't know what i did wrong

and those arn't actually loading animations it's just a stagnent icon

i tried making the menue from scratch and it's still the same

even if i put as the main menue

but this menue is fine

untill i open the sub menue

i can't tell what i've done diffrently between these menues

and i don't think the animations are messed up bacuse the menue should still be showing up if the animations were broken

[trim rover]

nvm i had it set to button not toggle

[short geyser]

what is the right unity version?

[solar warren]

Could anyone help me add parameters to my avatar? I'm new to this.
I'm just trying to toggle on/off a prefab or whatever

[solar warren]

Install the VRChat Creator Companion app, it'll install it for you + other stuff

[short geyser]

oki

[trim rover]

im the old man who has been using only unity since avatar 2.0 and fears the creator companion for no reason

[solar warren]

The only issue I ever had with it was crashing when installing the unity ver, but pressing the button at the bottom fast enough stops the crash

[bronze niche]

I can imagine your face when you finally say "why didnt I do this before?"

[trim rover]

eh, importing the avatar sdk is two clicks, i simply never used the creator companion because i see no way it could possably improve things

i don't think its bad, i just don't understand the point of using it outisde of it automatically updating things

[solar warren]

.

[trim rover]

there are plenty of videos out there

this is one of my favorites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqtSg6_W07Y

[river moat]

So say I wanted to add a toggle to my avatar, how would I do it (so my avatar has two diff body types bc two diff outfits) so how would I make it to where when pressing the toggle both body’s still function

[solar warren]

Thanks

[river moat]

One of the body’s is doing the T pose but it’s rigged

[trim rover]

it's concise, explains thing for befinners, and shows multiple methods

[trim rover]

wait, like you have a whole sepreate mesh for the second body type?

[river moat]

Yes

[bronze niche]

Only in using it will you get it, I guess? I tend to resist things as well, though not for years. VCC saves time and file sizes to an extent - you only save whats needed for the avatar to work. I resisted VRC fury as well for a time.

[river moat]

I tried to do it like an outfit toggle but it didn’t work

[trim rover]

i tried vrc furry and that one i actually don't like because it fucks with my toggles and limits your options. it does make things easier, but in the process of simplafying certian things get cut out.

[trim rover]

i mean if it's a sepreat mesh render just make animations that dissable hides one of the mesh renders at a time

or is you're issue that after doing the animatin one of the modles is stuck in t pose? because if that's the case it would likely be an issue with weight painting

[trim rover]

though saving space is actually a pretty good feature especally when it comes to unity

[solar warren]

Worksn't
The toggle is always on and cant be disable, and object doesn't appear

Fixed it

Thanks a lot

[clever stone]

so im having an issue
i just uploaded a avatar today and was trying to upload a second avatar when this pops up
the ID section is blank and i did nothing different from the first one i uploaded
i am running on the latest version of the SDK so i dont know why its having issues

[solar warren]

After 1h I have sucessfuly added a 2nd parameter

[rugged spear]

Hi @somber sequoia, sorry for the random ping, I just wanted to say that my avatars textures are fixed, and all I did was change it into a humanoid, I frankly do not even know how that fixed it, but its a win to me

[rare jacinth]

How do you add mmd blendshapes to a avatar? I still havent figured it out and the tutorials ive used broke my avi XD

[indigo compass]

The same way any kind of blendshapes are added to an avatar, they just have specific names.

[rare jacinth]

I tried doing it to where I make a copy of them and renaming them but it doesnt seem to work vary well

[left wharf]

which sdk version are you using?
can you take a screenshot of the whole (including top bar) unity and vcc (manage project) window?

[clever stone]

im using the creator companion and i would presume it should be up to date to the latest version
one sec while i launch the program

[left wharf]

and vcc window?

[left wharf]

oh great

[night ember]

thats not the sdk

[left wharf]

that's the VCC version

[clever stone]

ah

ok found it
looks like i do need to update but thats weird because i had just uploaded/updated a avatar no less than 30 minuets before this happened
is it because i was updating an avatar?

[left wharf]

old sdk can't make a new avatar, but still be able to upload an existing avatar

[clever stone]

ah i see
ok

[unborn herald]

so what is the VRchat crew gonna do about the pedo's? we just gotta keep running into them to get rid of them?

[timber wharf]

ye prob verified 18+ access only would be good, dont want any kids in my vrc. anyway, wrong channel