avatar-help

[gaunt knoll]

you exported the avi wrong in blender

[woven pulsar]

how do I do it properly

[night ember]

dont know what your blender looks like

[night ember]

why is it lying down in blender

where are the bones

why is there a light and camera in the hierarchy

[stray trench]

make sure you watch a tutorial and follow it every step of the way

[woven pulsar]

I did

this has been an issue an there is already bones inside the avatar

[night ember]

I see no bones at all

[woven pulsar]

@rich cypresssaid he fixed it but went afk

[stray trench]

did sheol make you pay them money

[woven pulsar]

the bones show up in unity

I used Mixamo to add in the bones

[night ember]

there are no bones I see in blender

[woven pulsar]

where would I go to fix this though

[night ember]

actually fix it in blender

[woven pulsar]

because I don't have the warnings I did before

[night ember]

what you have in blender is just a mesh with no bones
its lying down
the root is in the crotch not at the feet
you never deleted the camera or light from blender so they exported with it

[woven pulsar]

I have him standing upright now in blender and got rid of the lights and camera

[night ember]

did you apply transforms

[woven pulsar]

I scaled him larger

[night ember]

that wouldnt be a problem

the fact he was in the floor was

[woven pulsar]

might just pay someone to do this it's taking too long

[gaunt knoll]

https://discord.com/channels/189511567539306508/1204506421631393913

[woven pulsar]

that server is dead

[gaunt knoll]

no its not xD

[somber sequoia]

gogo loco documentation explains exactly how to replace its animations with your own, even has pictures

[half sandal]

question I'm struggling with, how would I go about restraining both sides of a physbone chain to different body parts (In this case, head bone and chest bone)? I've seen a friend do it, but they said it was janky and had to sleep,, I know constraints and physbones don't mix well, but I at least know it's possible

[ornate stump]

Physbone can't be fixed on both end. The chain is rather a physbone that pivot at the middle between 2 ends with a constraint and the entire length of chain is weight painted to one bone.

[solar warren]

how do i hide an object from my view? (aka make it invisible on my screen)

[ornate stump]

Look into HeadChop component.

[solar warren]

thanks, i'll try

[solar warren]

How do I make a two handed gun? Like, to be able to grab it with your other hand and aim it

[pliant garden]

Sorry for such a basic question, but someone on Fiver made me an avatar compatible with Quest and PC. For the Avatar to be viewable for both PC and Quest users, when I upload the avatar do I check BOTH the PC and Android boxes for the same upload or do I upload a PC version, then repeat it again for the Android version? The goal is to select one avatar and just have everyone be able to see it.

[solar warren]

The second I fucking try my vr dies

[solar warren]

You check both

If it was made directly with quest support you wont need anything else

[pliant garden]

okay thank you. Someone on Reddit said to do PC first, then re-upload with only Android checked which did not really make any sense.

[solar warren]

Thats only if theres big differences like shaders

You'd upload pc first, modify whats needed to be modified

Then upload

[balmy barn]

you can have 2 avatars in scene, one for quest other for pc - we have multi upload option like this but its abit hidden

ios can just use whatever android using

[pliant garden]

Thank you I will try this too

[fresh rose]

does anyone know how to fix these into a t-psoe without having to pose manually

[balmy barn]

cats can sometime rotate them auto right way, but names must match ( it will yell at you if it isnt) otherwise you can use this way

[eternal grotto]

Hey everyone! 👋
I’m a 3D artist specializing in VRChat avatars, modeling, optimization, and customization.
I enjoy collaborating with creators and helping players bring their avatar ideas to life.
Happy to connect, learn, and contribute to the community.

[fresh rose]

all the names match but cats isnt fixing

[balmy barn]

then its the manual way

looks like a xna

[fresh rose]

ughhh i gotta do it with hundreds of face bones too 😭

[balmy barn]

many facebones

[fresh rose]

yeahhh

[balmy barn]

you also need to make the shapekeys for it using those facebones

[fresh rose]

hypothetically i get rid of them what happens,all i use is the jaw

oh wait hang on

[balmy barn]

ive tried using facebons in visemes animating by detecting sound but it was alooot of work , jaw tend to be terrible flapping wierd

[fresh rose]

some fixed

teh finger tips,toes and face boens are all pointed up still

[dull monolith]

does anyone know why that can happen?
in blender separate command copies wireframe on all other geometry.

[junior void]

Viewing backface with culling on? Doubt there's no faces

[hasty plover]

I’m sorry for asking again but I didn’t get any response last time, does anyone have any suggestions on how to make the face topology of this character? Like I’m struggling it’s not a like an anime face or realistic like the tutorials… my goal is to have the ability to blink and have mouth movements when my character speaks.

[junior void]

It will probably become more clear to you once you create a side view

Not sure what you're struggling with. The head shape is a sphere. Eyes and mouth need edge loops like any humanoid.

[hasty plover]

The side veiw looks like this I should have added that mb. My issue is that the loops whenever I do it are very close and it like makes the mouth stretch or wrinkle not sure what the term is. Let me try it again and if I still have the issue I can better show it.

[somber sequoia]

yeah I saw this question also and I'm not really sure what you're asking for. Maybe show the current topology in #3d-modeling ?

[pine valley]

if the issue is that the bones are rotated wrongly, there's an FBX importer option to forcibly connect bones to their parents

[somber sequoia]

oh I didn't realize that exists, very nice

[wanton pulsar]

hey so i used the animation tab bar thingy and after i was done testing my animations its been stuck like this any way to fix it

[hasty plover]

thanks for the idea I’ll try that

[still shuttle]

tried to make a toggle for gestures to turn one set of animations off and active another set but when the main set (fake index animations) are turned off, the hand just spases out and doesnt actually do gestures

[inland seal]

Is there a way to apply the Gradient on each feather in the Substance Painter?

Because all the Feathers are rotated in other directions

[somber sequoia]

I'd do it with a bunch of layers - select all the islands that face one way and gradient them, repeat for the other ones. Some might end up being kinda custom.

[somber sequoia]

Pumkin's Tools has a resetter for this

[pine valley]

I wonder if you could create a second UV set that's identical for every feather

I'm not sure how you'd use that in Substance Painter, though...

[grand scaffold]

^That would be a lot more efficient, if possible.

[pine valley]

a shader like Poiyomi Toon could use to apply a simple gradient texture to every feather

but it'd be ideal if you could just bake the gradient into that existing texture

I know the math you'd use, but I'm not sure you could actually do it in Substance Painter

(you'd basically just use the UV x or y coordinate to pick a grayscale color)

You could definitely do this in Blender and then bake a texture out

[grand scaffold]

You'd have to use substance designer, not painter, but you could export your UV as a black & white image, white being islands. Then use a flood fill and flood fill to gradient node which should leave you with a texture you can export back into substance

Edit, when I say 'have to', I mean for this method, there's def other ways

[wanton pulsar]

thanks it worked

[inland seal]

Ye I figured it out, But I dont have the designer downloaded

[grand scaffold]

How'd you do it in the end?

[inland seal]

?

[grand scaffold]

How'd you end up making the gradients?

[inland seal]

They're implemented into the Substance?

Atleast some

[grand scaffold]

Not the actual gradient image but yknow, how you oriented the gradient per-feather

the question you had

[inland seal]

I didnt

Im doing the thing Kazin told me

the lazy and long way one

[grand scaffold]

ooh ok

[rotund solstice]

Hiii. A friend of mine recently got marshmallow PB for their Ichigo model but everytime something interacts with them the boob physics just freak out. Does anyone know what could cause this and how do fix it? There hasn't been any other PB's on the model before.

[olive pelican]

...Physbones? Wait are people selling physbone setups?

[wanton solar]

Is there any way to make "fake blinking" using parameters? My avatar uses UV-moving for different expressions instead of blendshapes

[olive pelican]

Sure. Use a random time delay.

[wanton solar]

How would I go about doing that? I'm fairly inexperienced with slightly more in-depth avatar stuff

[rotund solstice]

A friend of them told them to get marshmallow's. I know nothing about stuff like that cause I don't use a female model

[olive pelican]

Enter>Blinkwait (empty 6 second animation set to have Multiplier at a float parameter named "BlinkMult") > BLINK (also sets parameter "Blinkmult" to random between .2 and 1)

Blink goes to exit

All transitions have 1 as their exit time and 0.1 as their transition time.

That will randomize the blink time from 1.2 to 6 seconds.

BLINK is the total blink animation, whatever that is.

You can also set an anystate interrupt for certain visemes, (F or P would be most common) to force a blink when using strong plosives by making it transition when Viseme is correct and Voice is .9 or higher.

Animation Controllers are magic.

[olive pelican]

I'm just staggered that people pay for a handful of settings.

They'll have to show what the settings actually are to get help fixing them.

[night ember]

Its more than just a singular physbone componeny

Its an overcomplicated mess

[lament mountain]

Hey. Does anyone here know how to import a roblox avatar in vrchat? I know the jist, im just struggling with bone modifications. If theres a base or something that people use, I wouldn't mind a blend file or something in dms or wtv

[olive pelican]

Do I wanna know how wackadoo it is, or will it make me very angery?

[olive pelican]

Give it humanoid bones. Humanoid bone list is on the VRC documentationw ebsite.

[solar warren]

How can I test contacts using gesture manager? I want to place my hand on one and thats all I need to test, would it work?

Oh I cant, amazing

[balmy barn]

tested it again cause i rarely use gesturemanager, it works - so how are you testing it

old av touch nose it blows up - using gesturemanager , 99.99% of the time i prefer av3

[solar warren]

I was tryna move the hand

Found out I can use pose mode

Either my thing is shit or it doesn't work

[final forum]

omg bunny

[lament mountain]

Oh alright

Appreciate it

[solar warren]

How do I do something based off the hand gesture? I mean it like, if I close my left hand, how do I trigger something?

[lilac musk]

Add the GestureLeft or GestureRight parameter to your animation controller, and when the appropriate value is changed to, transition to the animation.

More info here: https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/animator-parameters/

[solar warren]

It doesn't seem to be working tho, could it be because of me using gesture manager?

I hate you dyno

[lilac musk]

I don't know, I also do use gesture manager

[solar warren]

As I was saying

I'm so dumb

The weight was at 0

[lilac musk]

lol that would probably be it

[solar warren]

...and it isn't working!

Oh i'm dumb

[wheat gyro]

Hi, I have a problem with my VRChat avatar.
When I use it in-game, the clothes and hair stay in a T-pose and don’t move with the body.
They look stiff and not properly attached.

Unity looks fine, but in VRChat it’s broken.
Any help would be appreciated.

[foggy wadi]

I'm kind of in the same situation but I know it is just a matter of setting up the armature correctly, in my case anyways. It may look normal in unity because both your avatar and the clothes are in T-pose.

[somber sequoia]

check in play mode (with Gesture Manager or AV3 Emulator), see if it moves right. If not, it's not attached right.

[foggy wadi]

What this expert said ^

[left wharf]

it looks like the armatures haven't been linked.
also, you should downloading packages(e.g. lilToon) from vcc instead of using .unitypackage since they seem to be old.

[woven pulsar]

how do I make this less shiny and more matte

like this

[grand scaffold]

Set the material's smoothness to 0, or roughness to 1, depending which one you have on your shader.
It looks kinda like your texture is also whiter thean the one in the below image

[woven pulsar]

I am sorta new to unity where would I go for that

[grand scaffold]

Double click the model in your scene view to select the mesh, then in the inspector you'll see a Meshrenderer comonent. Find where it says material and click on that

[solar warren]

Are animated materials possible? I tried putting a gif on a material but it ended up just being a static image

[balmy barn]

animate offset / tiling on a spritesheet, any gif can be converted to one

[night ember]

If the shader supports it or if you manually animate a sprite sheet

[solar warren]

Aight thanks

[somber sequoia]

sure

can't think of what armature link would help with there though

@wheat gyro So since you seem to be active again, did you confirm it does not work in play mode, as I asked?

Alright.

[stoic bobcat]

I’m trying to make toggles for a spawnable prop but they don’t seem to work. It’s one that uses the world constraint so It would be stationary on the world but I’d like to have toggles to give it actions, I tried connecting a controller to it with the same parameters as my main avi.

[timid kite]

im playing with raivo's particles. how do i make it so that particle stays still after its done playing? i dont wanna loop. just want the last frame to stay

[somber sequoia]

just use your avatar's animation controller (likely FX)

[stoic bobcat]

Ok that what I thought I was doing wrong, I used a different one. Thanks for the confirmation I’ll try that!

[somber sequoia]

Yeah thats complication that you really don't need

[wheat gyro]

Sorry, I don’t understand you. I am new at unity and my English is 60%

[somber sequoia]

With one of the add-ons I mentioned, you can hit the play button at the top of the unity editor and then see your avatar in the Game view as if it would be in vrchat. It's a great way to test without going through the trouble of uploading and then starting the game.
I suggest doing that first.

Otherwise, if you could explain in detail how you added the clothing, we might be able to figure out where you went wrong.

[wheat gyro]

It say like that
When I hit the play button

[prisma whale]

Hi I need help with a general blender question.

I am trying to weight paint the leg that is greyed out.
Right now the bone that is selected is the root bone.

Whenever I try to alt click to the bone the greyed leg is on, it's not switching.

Am I missing something?

I already went to the edit > unchecked Lock Object Modes.. But it's still not working.

[somber sequoia]

oh I have no idea what NDMF is

[left wharf]

ndmf is non-destructive modular framework that many japanese non-destructive tools depend on

[somber sequoia]

ahh

well maybe someone else has suggestions then, I've never used it.

[left wharf]

you might don't need merge skinned mesh component on the latest version
download latest aao

also you need to link the armature by using vrcfury or modular avatar to link clothes and body

[wanton pulsar]

is there any way to fix my wrist? cause while im in game and move my wrist it doesnt move at all and everything is rigged properly and idk what the problem could be. like my right wrist works but not my left

[cobalt cloak]

Question: I have two avatars, one for quests and one for PC, but both have the same outfit. Do the toggles still work, e.g. when I put on the hoodie, do the quest players in Dan also see it?

[north lark]

Anyone know if there is a avatar that looks like this?

[somber sequoia]

if you use the same avatar parameters list, then yes.

[somber sequoia]

#1138520828556890214

[cobalt cloak]

its vrcfury

and i copy past its

[somber sequoia]

oh then I think there's some tool for that they have

[cobalt cloak]

The clothes use VRFury toggles,
and I copied them from the main to the quest avatar with the appropriate shaders, but somehow the others cantsee the clothes

[stoic bobcat]

something is messing it up, would this look right for what im trying to do? making sure I placed it right

[pine valley]

The Animator component doesn't really matter

oh, you added another animator component, right?

That sub-animator is not going to respond to your menus at all

VRCFury's Full Controller component can give you this kind of behavior

(it merges the controller into your FX layer)

[stoic bobcat]

dang

im trying to make a object im spawning in the world have toggles for it but all its doing is rotating my entire avatar

[pine valley]

you should add them to your FX controller, and you should record the animations relative to the root of your avatar

so, plug the FX controller into your main animator

that will produce animations with the correct path

[somber sequoia]

Yes, you put your FX controller in that slot while you are recording animations

[pine valley]

If you use another animaotr, the paths will be wrong

[somber sequoia]

assuming that's the one on your avatar root

[pine valley]

(the main job of the Full Controller is to rewrite the paths)

[stoic bobcat]

just so im thinking right, i need to plug this into the animator while recording the animations for the object? if thats what you mean

[somber sequoia]

In order to record animations, you must have the object with the animator component on it selected, and the animation controller containing the animation clip in question in the slot on the animator component.
For avatars, in 99% of cases this all happens on the avatar itself. I just mention objects because you can do similar for worlds where you might have various animation controllers around

[stoic bobcat]

i think i understand, ill try again and see if I can get it to work

looks like I got it to move, but still need to figure out why my avatar is leaning forward when these are active

thanks for the help on this! ill redo my anims and figure out why my avatar wants to be Michael Jackson 😭

[hybrid iron]

Hello , got an issue that i never saw before. I have 2 bones for this cape. Both are parented to the Root and i applied all transformed. But in unity , the import window shows it completely flipped 90 degrees ! I checked and none of the bones of the cape is used in any of the mapping

[stoic bobcat]

try holding control and rotating the root bone of the cape thats messed up into the right spot

then test it in vrc, very weird its like that

[hybrid iron]

it's not just weirdly rotated , its also scale up for no reason

[stoic bobcat]

odd

[short ferry]

I got a problem. I have a world drop for my avatar. when I toggle it on it stays in place like it should. but when I toggle it off it doesn't turn off-
I'm using VRCFury to do this, it worked before
ok so I sort of fixed it? I put the VRC component on the object itself and now it works, but breaks after a few times toggling it off and on

[wanton pulsar]

any idea on how to fix this??

[somber sequoia]

"this"?

[wanton pulsar]

sorry the wrist isn’t working but if you look the chain it is moving with the wrist bone idk how to explain it

[somber sequoia]

ahh, chain moving with wrist is probably a matter of weight painting.

[wanton pulsar]

no no that’s the thing the chain is supposed to move with the wrist

[stoic bobcat]

do you have hand gesture toggles on it

[somber sequoia]

oh - so the chain is right and the wrist is not?

[wanton pulsar]

yes

[stoic bobcat]

if you have the tracking and animated on the hand it will lock the wrist

[somber sequoia]

if you rotate the hand/wrist bone in the editor, not in play mode, does it move the mesh also?
(ctrl+z to undo afterwards)

[wanton pulsar]

gestures are on pretty sure

[stoic bobcat]

did you to these

[wanton pulsar]

i can move it fine

[wanton pulsar]

one sec lemme check rq

[somber sequoia]

ok cool, then it's probably a runtime thing, like what the Dr. is suggesting

[wanton pulsar]

hmm ok ima test and see if what hes saying will work rq brb

[wanton pulsar]

how do i find this, sorry for asking allot of question i just started

[somber sequoia]

that's a component added to an animation state, in the animation controller

[stoic bobcat]

should be where your gestures are

but if you dont have something to lock your hand in a animated position then its prob not it

[wanton pulsar]

yeah i dont think i have that the only things i have is the things for my eye movement gestures

[stoic bobcat]

then its prob not it then :/

not sure why your wrist is locked

[wanton pulsar]

yeah idk ive been looking to see if its any other problem and it hasnt been. and its killing me cause the right hand is perfectly fine

thanks for the help though both of you, now ik for the future what to look for.

[wanton pulsar]

wait no flipping way, i guess i had an accessorie abouve the left wrist and it was doing something to it idk but idk, but is fixed now

[stoic bobcat]

yay!

[wanton pulsar]

so tuffy thanks allot thought cya

[sinful obsidian]

how do i set up a bone to constantly copy another bone's rotation

the rotation constraint component doesn't seem to be working for me

ignore that the first is disabled rn, neither seems to be copying the rotation

[junior void]

the first one has same bones assigned so not surprised about that

[sinful obsidian]

upperarm_l is the one that i want copying, ArmUpper.L is the one to be copied

which should the copy be in?

[junior void]

Are you trying to add clothing like this?

[sinful obsidian]

duplicate arms/legs

i've done it before

don't remember how though and the file's inaccessible

[junior void]

well you need to use at least one axis as well

[sinful obsidian]

oh i see

i thought those checkmarks were to lock them and prevent movement

one moment

[balmy barn]

mixing unity and vrchat constraints there

[sinful obsidian]

yeah i know

was just to show my settings on both

i had tried them separately

[sinful obsidian]

thank you!!

we all good now

[junior void]

https://creators.vrchat.com/common-components/constraints/vrc-rotation-constraint

[random prawn]

hey i uploaded my first avatar however there is something off with the eyes when i look up the eyes look down instead idk what is going on

please ping me if anyone have a fix i will appreciate it a lot

[junior void]

why dm for that

[random prawn]

sure i'll do that thank you so much i can send a screenshot here tho

[balmy barn]

dont fill in these unless you plan on using eye tracking, in desktop looking up down eyes go all over the place , if you using a webcam / vr for eyetracking its handy

(up/down)

thats one of my webcam test av , eyes all over the place when moving

never really bother filling the eyelid type on my avatars before the whole desktop webcam face tracking

[solar warren]

Can someone help? I'm trying to add a hud to my avatar, but whenever I put the shader to Toon Standard, the back becomes black

[balmy barn]

hud probablyusing cutout/alpha , toon standard cannot

[random prawn]

No bro im using mouse and keyboard

[random prawn]

what is that lid up and lid down Im so confused

i don't have that in my end

[solar warren]

If?

[solar warren]

Had to figure it out myself, thanks anyways

i'll just make a quest version with the black background and a pc version without

I'll just make separate versions for quest/pc

[balmy barn]

vrchat mobile shaders get affected if you have vertex colors , newer quest shader you can just disable them if its that causing the color

old one dont have a option for it

[agile shell]

Hello everyone!
So I've been customising my avatar for a bit and there's a thing I cannot resolve. In general, the chat box appears high, but when I use a Gogoloco sitting animation (or I guess anything that lowers the head...), it refuses to follow the head at all, staying at the same height. Anyone knows a solution?

[cobalt zephyr]

so "forced" dosent let ppl see my avatar when getting close,
any way to fix this?

[junior void]

What

[cobalt zephyr]

on vrc, forced culling

it dosent work on me

[shut oxide]

is it normal to have different rotations on bones in unity or will that cause problems with physbones

[vapid slate]

anyone know if its possible to make an asset thats not fit for the base im using fit on the avi anyway? [sorry if thats worded weird]

[lilac musk]

With a little work in blender, it should be possible

[solar warren]

Anyone know how to make something stick to the camera? Having it linked to the head causes some bobbing (i'm trying to make a hud)

[vapid slate]

do i need to edit my avatars fbx or just the assets fbx?

[lilac musk]

You'd need both. The idea is to simply treat the asset as a newly modeled mesh and rig it to your base.

[vapid slate]

how do i do rigs? also i edited my avatar heavily but none of the things i added are apart of the fbx... and last time i edited the fbx everything broke when it updated and i had to redo literally everything... is there a way to do it so it doesnt break? or make the assets i created apart of the fbx?

[solar warren]

.

[balmy barn]

your viewpoint isnt affected by locomotion animation so it just looks wierd having a object in headbone(linked to it) it wont follow and wobble , only way is to move viewpoint to a camera (dont in vr) then it will also have whatever object in face follow properly

this one uses a camera as viewpoint it will follow headbone in any animation , vr its super nausiating

[lilac musk]

When you want to get into that level of customization, you're going to have to use blender. If you're that new to blender, I'd recommend not overriding your current unity assets and make a new project for all of the blender stuff. As you'll probably make mistakes.

[vapid slate]

alright thanks ^w^

[tame knoll]

I'm masking a toggle to switch face mesh on my avatr and want both meshes to have visemes. How could I make that swicth through an animation?

[balmy barn]

id just use a blendtree and tell other meshes to do stuff based on currently used viseme

vrcfury have something something you can use for it too

[tame knoll]

Oh ok sure

I lit have never used vrc fury before

[solar warren]

How do I make something only show for the client?

[lilac musk]

Could use animation states with the IsLocal parameter

[solar warren]

Is there any way to do it with vrcfury?

[lilac musk]

No idea, I don't really use fury much

[solar warren]

Thanks anyways

[random prawn]

anyone here good with animation in vr chat i have a question about something

[ornate stump]

You should just ask the question.

[random prawn]

how do i add sit gesture the one when you press W i want to add a custom one for my custom avatar

could you tell me the steps i need to follow

[ornate stump]

You could use gogoloco. Otherwise you have to edit the layer. If you meant sitting on a seat, it's on Sitting layer. If cloaching or proning, you have to edit blendtree in Base layer.

[random prawn]

can i show you an example just so you can get the point

one sec

for example i want to add this custom animation when i press W on my keyboard my character will perform that sitting animation

[ornate stump]

W is walking forward though.

[random prawn]

ah you must have the english keyboard

[ornate stump]

Standard QWERTY keyboard rather.

[random prawn]

I see well anyways for me Z is forward W is where i can sit

[balmy barn]

is this afk , sitting would be a toggle , just have to replace the afk (or station animation)

or the upright one, where you prone enough

[ornate stump]

There are 3 upright levels: standing, crouche, and prone.

So you have to change animation of either crouch or prone to be your sitting animation

[random prawn]

all i have to do is replace the animation clip right ?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[ornate stump]

Or you actually could just add gogoloco to your avatar. I believe it has a similar sitting animation to what you're showing.

[balmy barn]

prone one - id rather use a toggle tho since you can trigger random ones in action controller with parameter driver

[random prawn]

yeah i tried to install the package but its not working i will try to do something but thanks you guys for your help

[ornate stump]

You should just look into the reason why it isn't working. Because it usually should just work if you followed its instruction correctly.

[random prawn]

hello im back

i fixed the issue and installed the package successfully i got to this part

[fierce raptor]

Did we ever figure this out?

I really want to be able to use my audio link lights when i play music through my mic

[heavy zephyr]

You can't affect audio link from an avatar, the best you can do is either use the voice parameter to animate things based on volume

Or

Use OSC and an app to get data about the song you're playing and send parameters to your avatar so it can react to those

[fierce raptor]

I use spotify. Would i be able to use osc with that?

[heavy zephyr]

Probably? You could look up if anyone made an app for that or code your own.

Your limitations would be what you can get through Spotify's app or API

[fierce raptor]

Thank you!!

[random prawn]

im not sure what causing this issue it shows up when i try to install gogo loco

[fierce raptor]

I normally only get missing scripts if a dependency wasnt installed first

Like VRCFury or modular avatars

[random prawn]

modular avatars ? is that also a must installed package

[somber sequoia]

Only if you want to use it.

[fierce raptor]

depends on what youre using. If its for go loco, I would say its just vrcfury. specifically if youre using the vrcfury prefab. if its installed, make sure its updated

[random prawn]

nvm i fixed the problem

[trim prism]

anyone know why this happens? i was adding shrink shapekeys to this avatars body, but when i export the body as an FBX into unity and use the new mesh, it goes invisible. when i put the body mesh into the hierarchy it shows it rotated wrong. ive had this happen before and i never found a fix, the last pic is my blender export settings btw

[runic pawn]

Hey, I’m looking for help right now to help with an avatar

[fierce raptor]

Have you checked the bone parentage in blender?

[fierce raptor]

If the data on the mesh has changed, itll often freak out. Idk why. But i have found that you just have to reimport the model and add everything back onto it. Pumpkin avatar tools is pretty great for that. I also like to save a copy of my project directly into the unity project that way any time I save it, itll auto update in unity

[solar warren]

Oh yeah I had that issue too, a real pain the ass to fix

I dont remember much but you need to use blender to reparent the bones and edit some stuff on the rig by clicking the prefab then edit the skeleton in unity to fix a few things

[restive loom]

dose anyone know how to fix this it happen on all of the pants and shorts i weight paint

[round comet]

You could always shapekey the body mesh a bit

So when the shorts are on the parts that clip don’t show

Are you using yamu’s safety shorts?

[restive loom]

no im not i dont remember what shorts im useing

[round comet]

Alrighty

[restive loom]

but ive tired the thing with shape keys but it still isn't working

[round comet]

Do you use robust weight transfer to do the weightpainting?

Or are you doing it manually

[restive loom]

transfer

[round comet]

You may need to tweak things manually. This is a decent tutorial to understand the basics from what I’ve seen

https://youtu.be/k8DQY_DNDPM

It isn’t a horribly long video and has positive feedback

[restive loom]

oki thank you so much

[round comet]

No problem ^^

[trim prism]

oh so reimport into unity or blender? i tried to put the FBX into unity twice on blender and then another time on an older blender version, and all times i had that issue...

[round comet]

Into unity you reimport

But dont overwrite the original fbx

Which is why they’re recommending pumkins

[lucid ice]

Is there a way to have physbones actually collide with a physbone collider?

I've added some new hair to my avatar, given it physics and i'm trying to prevent it from clipping into the face

[round comet]

You could also try adding an angle limiter to help with clipping if you haven’t yet

[lucid ice]

oh yeah good idea

[somber sequoia]

that's the entire point of physbone colliders

[cedar bear]

Why does my crouching idle animation make the character go a bit below the floor when in utiny its the exact same level?

[lucid ice]

yes but i haven't actually gotten it to work

i'm asking how to get it to work since there's no actual documentation

[somber sequoia]

? https://creators.vrchat.com/common-components/physbones/#vrcphysbonecollider

[lucid ice]

bruh

[somber sequoia]

well then explain what you have done and what isn't working

[lucid ice]

nevermind

[somber sequoia]

you need to put the collider in the collider slot on the physbone, otherwise we'll need more detail.

[lucid ice]

I didn't see a slot for it, I figured it out though

[heavy ingot]

does anyone know how to convert mmd to an animation file??

[balmy barn]

you can convert a vmd to anim in unity ( google vmd2anim ) , then grab shapekeys from blender merge anims or use layers in controller after

[glad thunder]

Anyone know how to merge two meshes together like merge to body bases into one base ?

[somber sequoia]

put them in blender, select both mesh objects, ctrl+j to join, then it depends on what you want to do from there.

[pine valley]

if they have armatures, you'll also need to join the armatures together

this will take some work if they have matching bone names

[glad thunder]

So for the one base I want to keep the everything except for the chest and butt area and go the other base I wanted to merge the first with the seconds base is chest and butt

[glad thunder]

Ohh ok

[somber sequoia]

I'd probably delete what you don't want first, then merge them

[glad thunder]

Ok ill try that

Also looking for someone that does textures for face and body (both human and furry textures)

[soft sun]

how can i make my avatar platform on android? because my friend can put windows and android at the same time but i can't for some reason

[arctic ginkgo]

You need to install the android build target. Try going to file > build settings, and then select android to go to the download page

[soft sun]

i don't see the android option

Ohhh

my bad

i'm so blind jesus

[solar warren]

How would I remake gogo loco's fly, but upwards only? I'm trying to make a working portal elevator on my avatar

[somber sequoia]

Just don't use a rotation constraint on the flying collider - theirs copies rotation from your head so it'll angle around.

(I haven't tested this)

[solar warren]

I meant like

How do I do it?

Like

Actually move my avatar

Because I have no idea

[somber sequoia]

well if you have gogo loco you can study their flying animations and controller

[solar warren]

Thats what i've been trying

Or like, doing

But I asked here incase someone knew and said before I found myself

[strong summit]

A question, so i found a holster on booth, can i use it with every pistol i find or does it have to be compactible in any ways

It's my first time in unity

[somber sequoia]

There's no standards for props like that, so I wouldn't bet on it

[strong summit]

?

[sinful obsidian]

can you set a physbone up without its children also becoming physbones?

[somber sequoia]

If you use the "ignore transforms" slot, yes

[strong summit]

I kinda dont understand it

[sinful obsidian]

ooh ok

so if i set it to 1 does that mean the first child and all its children are no longer affected?

[strong summit]

Sorry, what? My English isnt that good

[somber sequoia]

I meant that there's no standard "holster" prop, it's whatever someone made, so there's no guarantee it'll fit anything else, or act in the way some other gun needs it to.

[sinful obsidian]

nvm got it

hmmm

[strong summit]

So its better to buy it from the same place

[sinful obsidian]

tail1 is the bone i want grabbable via physbone, and i don't want any of its children grabbable or anything; when i set Ignore Transforms to tail2, all the collision bounding boxes disappear but when it's set to tail3 there's a box around tail1 like i'm guessing there should be

does excluding a bone fully exclude both ends, meaning tail1 would be partially excluded so you'd only be able to grab the joint or something?

[somber sequoia]

it treats the bones as the whole

[sinful obsidian]

so i should exclude tail2, not tail3?

[novel nacelle]

Is anyone able to help me with resizing a set of clothing to a model through blender?

[somber sequoia]

Best to just ask your specific questions

[novel nacelle]

wdym?

[somber sequoia]

What exactly do you need help with?

[solar warren]

Could you help further? I cant seem to find any actual lead on what they're doing for the fly, closest I found was the vrcemote thing being set to 123

[somber sequoia]

I don't have Unity open, and haven't dug in here in a while, but there's a layer that controls this in FX and the body motion stuff is in the base layer I think?

basically it bounces a collider up and down under your feet.

[novel nacelle]

That is a pretty specific question, but it's Pyro Hyenid clothing but I'm assuming due to my Yeen's(Redux) body type it's too small so i need to resize it to fit her.

[somber sequoia]

Right, so what help do you need?

[solar warren]

I haven't been able to find any fx controller or whatever with anything useful

[solar warren]

The only thing named collider is a station

[somber sequoia]

ah yes, it uses a station now (which automatically gets a collider at runtime)

[novel nacelle]

This

[somber sequoia]

I haven't really looked at gogo loco in over a year

[solar warren]

Damn

[somber sequoia]

Right but that's a hugely vague question

My answer to it is: yes.

[novel nacelle]

Your answer seems purposely sarcastic and not necessarily helpful. Thanks

[somber sequoia]

there's flying stuff in at least the GoLocoFXBeyondWD and GoLocoBaseWD controllers

[somber sequoia]

No it isn't - I'm trying to figure out what help you need, you haven't made that clear.

[gaunt knoll]

your not answering his questions how can he help you?

[solar warren]

I alr looked, and cant find much at all

[novel nacelle]

I'm not sure how i can be more specific with what I haven't given already

What all do you need me to give you to tell you what i need help with

[somber sequoia]

Where in this process are you right now? Do you even have the models in Blender?

[soft sun]

What does this means im dumb

[somber sequoia]

Make sure you're using SDK 3.9.0 or newer. Ideally 3.10.1, since the previous ones are buggy.

[novel nacelle]

I have very little to no experience in blender. So at most I have it open at best trying to get the models in.

[soft sun]

Where do i download it?

[somber sequoia]

Now we're getting somewhere. So, this is going to be nearly impossible without some blender knowledge, I'd suggest starting with some tutorials.

[somber sequoia]

VCC or Alcom, if you use such.

[soft sun]

oki

[solar warren]

Aight fuck it, no flying

I might know how to make my avatar follow fully

[ember hawk]

Does anyone have any assets for the Mayu avatar base they could share?

[river gazelle]

Having problems with uploading this avatar. don't really know what the errors mean for this is my first avatar i try to upload

[somber sequoia]

"timed out" = likely network issues of some sort

not very helpful, I know

[river gazelle]

Cleared the consol and these are the errors that are popping up

[somber sequoia]

huh, not sure what that first one is

[thorn garden]

I got same issues some days ago, but got it fixed earlier

[somber sequoia]

https://feedback.vrchat.com/sdk-bug-reports/p/replaced-submenu-prohibits-uploading

ok that wasn't too hard.

heh, Jan 2022.

[arctic ginkgo]

I don't believe you can move your avatar with colliders, though I could be wrong. AFAIK colliders can only be used to modify movement, but you do have to input something in order to move (jump or moving with thumbstick).

[somber sequoia]

yeah you'll still have to jump first

[solar warren]

I might have found a way, it worked in gesture manager

[fallow token]

I have a vtuber model, and I have the model converted to an fbx model, and I'm trying to add the materials included with it onto my model, but I can't seem to add them on

[solar warren]

If it works i'm gonna cry of joy

Fuck you dyno

dude

Istfg

WHY do y'all have this

Deadass most annoying dyno feature

As I was saying

It worksn't

My avatar follows but not my camera

it works on screen

[stray trench]

what is causing the necklace to be so bright? its poi shader and i have nothing enabled but the cubemap, if i disable the cubemap its just as bright

i tried fiddling with the max brightness, i put it to zero and nothing changed

[sturdy prawn]

im having issues with an avis shaders

[stray trench]

describe your issue

[arctic ginkgo]

OH I thought you meant moving the whole player. This looks like just moving the avatar up (your player collider still stays on the ground). This issue is that you aren't using temporary pose space

you need to spam transition between two states with it, that's what gogo loco does

[solar warren]

Wdym?

[solar warren]

Thats what I wanted at first, but what I have now is closest I got

[solar warren]

Also it doesn't work better on screen, i thought it did but no

[sturdy prawn]

i recently uploaded my avi and now its pink and idk why, in unity

[stray trench]

you dont have a shader selected on your materials

if i remember right

[sturdy prawn]

how do i do that?

[solar warren]

Change shaders on the materials
I was having that issue with my portal 2 elevator and just had to change shaders to something else

[stray trench]

click on one of your pink assets

[solar warren]

What do u mean?

[stray trench]

when you click on them youll see this in the corner

[arctic ginkgo]

sorry, got busy for a sec

[stray trench]

the orb is the material, and the little box to the right is what shader its using

yours probably says error

[solar warren]

Oh its fine dw

[arctic ginkgo]

writing an explanation now

[stray trench]

you need to select a shader

[solar warren]

Thanks a lot

[sturdy prawn]

how do i do that?

[stray trench]

i wrote you an explanation

scroll up

[arctic ginkgo]

okay, so "temporary pose space" is an animation state behavior, so it's a type of script that triggers when the animation state is transitioned to. What it does is set your viewpoint's height to match the height of wherever the head is currently being animated to. It only does this on the frame it's transitioned to though, so in order to constantly change position, you need to spam transitions back and forth between two animation states that both have "temporary pose space" on it

[sturdy prawn]

?

[stray trench]

read the rest of my explanation

[arctic ginkgo]

this is how gogo loco does the hover radial thing

[stray trench]

i gave you instructions for every step

[solar warren]

Thanks a lot, i'll try

[sturdy prawn]

im dumb

[solar warren]

I'm kinda confused (sorry, i'm still new to avatar making)

[torn token]

does anyone know how to make a glass material with liltoon? i don't want to download crystal shader this prefab depends on

[flat wraith]

i keep on having a issue with this animation in blender i already know how to import an animation from blender to unity but in blender it looks like the hips are stuck and everything else is messed up

[solar warren]

I think I understand now

[sturdy prawn]

what do i change it to?

[solar warren]

Okay I dont nevermind

Do I just spam an empty animation?

[sturdy prawn]

right

[solar warren]

I found half of it

But the how to use part not

Yeah I give up

[somber sequoia]

whichever shader you want to use

[still shuttle]

Having a texture issue

Added freckles to a face texture in blender, saved the image, image has the freckles. I add it in unity, freckles do not show up despite being on the texture. anybody know a fix or what the issue could be?

I have made sure that I:

1. saved the edited image in blender so its an actual image that I can use in unity
2. made sure I am using the exact same image in unity as I am in blender
3. Made sure the image I am using actually has the freckles (it does)

[stray trench]

either liltoon or poiyomi

[peak flare]

maybe try to make a new layer and colour a large area of the texture then save it and see if it shows up in unity

it will let you pinpoint the problem

if it doesent show up you know its not saving changes
if it does you might have made the freckles too small or on the wrong area of the texture

[still shuttle]

I actually did try something similar and it didnt work

[lunar cape]

i know how to fix the arms, but everything else is just confusing, how do i even fix this???

[still shuttle]

The weird thing is, when I open the texture outside of blender or unity, I can see the freckles fine

[peak flare]

huh

maybe the material has the wrong texture?

[still shuttle]

nope

I made sure it was right multiple times

[peak flare]

whaaa

[still shuttle]

also deleted all textures and re-imported it

[peak flare]

thats wild

[still shuttle]

Yeah im goin mad

[peak flare]

i can imagine

[somber sequoia]

wow that's creepy

kinda looks like a bunch of things all weight painted really weirdly

[lunar cape]

could... it be because i took a head off one booth model, and put it on a diff model in blender and now its f**cked

[somber sequoia]

yes

Did you do that entirely in Unity?

[lunar cape]

no i did it in blender, cause its a workload to do that in unity

i've done it before with my own model, so i thought itd be fine with my bfs model 😭

[somber sequoia]

you only have one set of bones there, right?

[lunar cape]

yes, i merged them

[somber sequoia]

hmm yeah merging might be weird, I'd probably check over all of the weight painting.

[lunar cape]

crying why is only his toe weighted

[peak flare]

what tf 😭

[somber sequoia]

did you only select the toe bone?

[wanton pulsar]

hey. so how do i create a new texture for the chest piece?? im still trying to get use to blender.

[lunar cape]

no i didn't 😭

[peak flare]

im not very experienced with blender but i believe you need to do something called UV Unwrapping

[wanton pulsar]

hmm ok so im assuming that would be in uv editing tab right?

[somber sequoia]

Well that is only going to show you weight for one bone at a time

[peak flare]

probably
basically it gets the polygons from the model and places it on a 2d texture you can edit
like i said im not experienced with 3d modelling so i cant tell you exactly how but ive picked up some things from others

[somber sequoia]

Yes, but you'll probably want to mark seams before you just go unwrapping. Tutorials will help, as this is kinda visual

[wanton pulsar]

hmm alr thanks to the both of you 🫡

[peak flare]

np :3

[verbal anchor]

i dont get it]

as to why it wont upload

[peak flare]

well as it says its missing a script
it might be the avatar you got or you could have deleted it by accident
also could be an old avatar with dynamic bones

[candid swallow]

hi. does anyone know how i could remove hand-based gestures from an avatar?

[peak flare]

do you mean like expressions when you do a gesture?

[verbal anchor]

said i have to add some quest thing but i didnt cause im uploading the pc ver. should i try that or..

[candid swallow]

yes

i know you can disable gestures, but that disables hand animations too. i just want the face to be static

[peak flare]

it will be in the fx layer of your avatar

[candid swallow]

i don't really know where that is..

could you circle it maybe?

[verbal anchor]

What a cutie little avi

[candid swallow]

thank you

i just recolored it though nothing else is from me

[peak flare]

assuming Miku_LP is the avatar click onto that
then in the panel that pops up there should be a component called VRC Avatar Desscriptor
youll find the fx layer in there

[peak flare]

agree :3

[verbal anchor]

Still adorbs i love sakura miku

[candid swallow]

this?

[peak flare]

yep click on that then open it up

you should see a layer for right and left hand
you can then just delete the transitions to the gestures in those layers

[candid swallow]

but i want to still be able to use the gestures, just not have them change my expressions

[peak flare]

yeah thats what i mean

hold on lemme see if i can show you

[candid swallow]

so here i should delete the grey boxes?

[peak flare]

you can or you can just delete the arrows

just in case you want to use them again

[verbal anchor]

fucking poiyomi diddyblud expecting me to pay and taking awy my shaders

Hell nah

[peak flare]

lmfao

[candid swallow]

i already made a duplicate so i'll just delete them. i'm entering play mode now

[peak flare]

oki

[verbal anchor]

Boi...

[candid swallow]

seems to work. thank you!

the avatar base i use is named digi-el so it's quite funny seeing the first word as your name haha

[verbal anchor]

i cant even fix the texture shader shit thing omg..

poiyomi gotta die, sorry

[peak flare]

np ^^
basically that layer is just different states your avatar can be in
when doing stuff manually theyll be in there usually
but now sometimes people use vrcfury components like this (my avi)

[peak flare]

oh lol

[verbal anchor]

so i assume i cant fix ts

[somber sequoia]

sure you can - you just have to install whatever package is required, or remove that broken script.

[peak flare]

you can if you change the material to poiyomi toon or smth

toon is free

[verbal anchor]

why do i need questtools on a pc avi

N

Nah

not that one

ts two diff avis

[verbal anchor]

FUCK the questies

[somber sequoia]

ohh

[peak flare]

quest tools is useful tho

[verbal anchor]

gotta wait forf ths shitty ass website to load to accomodate them

[peak flare]

makes making a quest avi take 2 mins and its non destructive

[verbal anchor]

its n9ot quesst

im uploadin g

steelseries get out of my face

im uploading the pc version

[peak flare]

yeah but installing the quest tools might fix your problem you dont have to use them

[verbal anchor]

https://tenor.com/view/druski-shrug-idk-iono-hands-up-gif-7122581203490458147

[peak flare]

if it need something from there (which is weird anyway)

[verbal anchor]

oh ok discord

i guess bro

https://tenor.com/view/push-down-the-stairs-stan-twitter-shove-vexify-gif-7763828930106634688

REALLY

yk what fair

ok my other avi is nnow workig

tank god for toon, fuck pro

[peak flare]

pro is the paid version toon is the free
pro is just a couple versions ahead of toon
very generous business model tbh

[verbal anchor]

I hate patreon anything tbh

[peak flare]

i mean its fair that they get compensated for their work

[verbal anchor]

i was a sims player so

im a hater

a huge one

if i see patreon i gag

[peak flare]

especially when they do continued development

[verbal anchor]

i suppose

[peak flare]

and they give a very featureful free version

[verbal anchor]

the sims modders were vevry much entilted and thats what im used to

[peak flare]

fair

[verbal anchor]

"15 a month so you can download my shitty cc, or else i cant p;ay my bills" no one told you thnis had to be ur full time job yk, right?

im a hater, im a young ho

[wanton pulsar]

any easier ways to draw an symbol or a logo of sorts on to here

ive figured out how to add textures and all just don't know how to put logos on there easier

[somber sequoia]

Unwrap the chest UV, draw on the texture where that UV island is.

[verbal anchor]

its netanyahu

i blame netanyahu

[cold oxide]

Ive had this issues with blendshapes for months on my eyes i have no idea why they do this

[candid swallow]

girl chilllllllllllll

[verbal anchor]

its kinda fye

wait

not the pupil right

the

nvm

[cold oxide]

yeah i js need them to looks right for upclose shots this is how its meant to look [this is an old screenshot but same concept]

[ancient adder]

do particle materials take up a material slot in the performance evaluation?

[wanton pulsar]

is this a uv?? srry im slow

[ancient adder]

that is a UV, correct

[somber sequoia]

Looks like it

[peak flare]

yea it it
those are the polygons on your model if you colour them in youll see that reflected on the model itself

[wanton pulsar]

so now i just draw orr.. cause im not the best at drawing so i have a image reference next to the model.

[fast swan]

I need help finding a Avi

[peak flare]

you can or you can use fill tools, copy and pase stuff, etc

i dont really draw for the stuff i do i tend to use krita and the fill tool, brush and lasso

layers are your friend btw

[somber sequoia]

I'd probably find the logo I want as an existing texture, and in the node editor for the material, position it where it needs to be, then bake that to a texture for use in Unity.

[peak flare]

i am also fairly sure blender has a feature where you can paint directly on the model but im not 100% sure

[somber sequoia]

sure does, in the "texture paint" section

you can even make that better with some add-ons such as ucuPaint

[wanton pulsar]

hmm, so i have a existing texture with the logo i want, so i just go to node editor and do what uu said?

[somber sequoia]

it may be harder than I'm making it seem if you've never done it, but yeah, that's what I would probably do

[peak flare]

aha i was right! :3

[wanton pulsar]

well thanks ima go mess around

[peak flare]

np good luck!

[cold oxide]

anyone able 2 help?

[somber sequoia]

what is "this" here?

[cold oxide]

So on my eye blendshapes they seem to bug out and only move at certain parts at the eye unlike in blender

[somber sequoia]

are you testing by just changing the blendshape in the editor, not in play mode, and watching the effects there?

[cold oxide]

im doing a mix in vrc using gesture manager and js moving the slider

[somber sequoia]

ok so in play mode, animations are active, so it might be a combination of things adding up

[cold oxide]

could it be smth like gogoloco or anything?

[somber sequoia]

I don't think gogo loco would change eye blendshapes. Otherwise, no idea what's on your avatar - I'm suggesting you check the blendshape by itself, so you can confirm that works fine, then you'll know it's something to do with runtime animations

[peak flare]

Agree

[cold oxide]

the blendshape by itself still looks off

[peak flare]

Gogoloco shouldn't touch blend shapes like that

[peak flare]

Okay so it's an issue with the blend shape itself then
Sounds like you might have to manually fix it in blender or something unless I'm silly and there's another way

[somber sequoia]

Can you screenshot the eyes with the blendshape off, then also on so we can see the difference?

I'm not sure what it is we're looking at yet

[somber sequoia]

.. and make sure we know which is which 🙂

[cold oxide]

off

on

[somber sequoia]

are we looking at the eyelid?

[cold oxide]

yes

[somber sequoia]

Looks like you need to fix that in blender

[ancient adder]

i assume the problem is the bit on the edge where it doesnt move?

[somber sequoia]

that's what I'm assuming

[cold oxide]

yeah

[ancient adder]

does it look fine in blender too or just broken in unity

[cold oxide]

this is it in blender perfectly fine

[ancient adder]

in the fbx, if optimize mesh is set to everything, set it to nothing

[cold oxide]

ok it did nothing

[ancient adder]

apply and test blendshape again

[cold oxide]

nah same thing

[ancient adder]

hmm

[cold oxide]

i was messin around with the legacy blendshape thing turned it off set it to import but then my models would go low quality when using blendshapes

[ancient adder]

yeah idk whats going on then, afaik blendshape normals shouldnt affect that

[cold oxide]

ight

[hard hatch]

this is more of a SubstancePainter/Blender issue, but does anyone know why this might be happening? i blender, the UV maps and model look completely fine, but when I try and open the Mesh in SP, one part of the mesh is microscopic while the other is normal.

[ancient adder]

probably apply scale before export

[hard hatch]

in blender?

[ancient adder]

yes

select all meshes > ctrl+a > scale

[somber sequoia]

absolutely apply all transforms before export

[hard hatch]

should anything pop up when I hit scale, or does it just do it automatically?

[ancient adder]

it should apply automatically

[hard hatch]

I'll give this a try as well

[round comet]

Ayee you’re blue role’d. Dubs

[somber sequoia]

I didn't do nothin'!

[hard hatch]

okay that completely fixed the issue! you guys have no idea how much of a headache this has been giving me 😭

much appreciation

[somber sequoia]

excellent!

[placid fiber]

does anyone know how to make metal on quest look like this? its shiny and dark at the same time, on PC i use a cubemap but i have no clue how to get the same effect on quest

[somber sequoia]

Yeah metal is going to be dark - try decreasing the metallic slider a little

[placid fiber]

i want it to look like this, im not used to quest upload and i wanna know what shader to use

[somber sequoia]

oh, I don't know, I rarely make quest content

[round comet]

Just use matcap lit or toon standard and put a metal matcap in the matcap slot

I think that matcap in particular is just a poiyomi one

[cold oxide]

i ended up fixing it in unity cheers for yalls help

[queen trail]

my vcc keep logging me out and wont load my vrc descriptor and wont fully load the vcc assets so i can update

(i have logged in 3 time atm)

my upload tab is staying like this

[somber sequoia]

FYI, VCC has nothing to do with this, this is the VRChat SDK running in Unity.

ooh I wonder if the API errors are affecting you

[queen trail]

I didn’t see the announcement until I posted this

[somber sequoia]

me either

[queen trail]

Funny rat

Hopefully they get it back online

[wheat horizon]

Just letting everyone know as of today CATS Plugin is no longer going to be maintained, so for future blender versions I do suggest finding alternatives or learning to fix stuff yourself

[round comet]

Unofficial CATS ?

Waittt I just looked. What a bummer

[worthy bramble]

can someone help me with some sort of sahder thingy? i uploaded an avatar but 3 things are showing pink and it seems to be a pattern. 2 types of glasses and a watch is showing pink where it should be kind of see through? i tried going into the inspector and changing the shader but its just like a default grey color.

[wheat horizon]

Its very disheartening but I understand considering how cruel this community can be

[wheat horizon]

have you tried dragging and dropping a material over the spot instead of the inspector?

[worthy bramble]

absolute masterclass 🙏 its been so long since ive messed with all of this i forgot everything thanks for the help

[wheat horizon]

all good, unsure exactly what the issue is but if the materials in the inspector act odd than yeah sometimes drag and drop will help

[mystic mountain]

Does someone know how to add textures to a model in unity??

[somber sequoia]

lots of people here do. where are you stuck?

[mystic mountain]

i imported my model and i dont know on where to start to add the textures

im watching a video rq to see if it helps

[somber sequoia]

textures go into materials, materials go into material slots on mesh objects

[mystic mountain]

okay, ill try it fr

[mystic mountain]

Managed to add textures, but I can't ads gogo loco for some reason

[mystic mountain]

Try avi search thing

[high sun]

I've been searching

for hours😭

[prisma monolith]

is there a way i can make him use gestures to fire these weapons with vrcfury?

i also need it so that everyone can see it, not just me

[somber sequoia]

100% possible, but I don't use Fury for this so can't help much more.

[prisma monolith]

can you teach me your method?

because i know about something having to do with layers

[valid cedar]

@somber sequoia it wont let me submit a appeal and i got perma banned for chatbox abuse even though i got hacked and doxxed

[somber sequoia]

why are you pinging me about this?

[valid cedar]

your a community helper

[prisma monolith]

sorry to hear that bro

[somber sequoia]

I don't work here, submit a support ticket or something

[valid cedar]

it says that i cant do tickets about moderation issues

[somber sequoia]

do you know how to work with the animation controller?

[prisma monolith]

a little, but the last time i tried it didn't work

u mind showing me?

[somber sequoia]

nope, there are lots of tutorials for this.

[prisma monolith]

most of the ones i find are for worlds, so they don't necessarily help

[somber sequoia]

animators are the same

[ancient adder]

submit an appeal on the help desk site

[prisma monolith]

oh ok

ok so in the tutorial i found he does his stuff in a udon graph script, is it basically the same as the animator on the avatar?

[somber sequoia]

not at all

[valid cedar]

i cant my vrchat website just stays loading forever

[lilac musk]

Is that a new role Kazin? I don't think I've seen it before.

[somber sequoia]

no idea, it happened today

[prisma monolith]

yall wanna hear something funny? the video im watching, i followed these exact same steps the first time

but i think i realized my mistake:

i NEVER set the weights on the layer to 1 so it never did anything 😭

[lilac musk]

Interesting! You are probably one of the most helpful people on here, so it makes sense lol

[somber sequoia]

I hope it doesn't get me pinged for silly things

[prisma monolith]

😭 like 20 minutes ago

[somber sequoia]

yep

[prisma monolith]

hope that guy's stuff gets solved tho

bro got hit with the combo of doom

[prisma monolith]

ok so i followed the tutorial but when i run gesture manager and test to see if it worked

the gunshots play over and over

without my avatar even doing a fist

[somber sequoia]

check the conditions on the transition from enter to the gunshot state

btw, for guns I like to have the "ready to shoot" gesture be the point gesture, and "fire" be fist - it feels most natural that way.

[prisma monolith]

ill send ss of my conditions in a few i tried something ill see if it works

ill send if what i tried doesn't work

first is from off to on and 2nd is from on to off

so what do i do?

[somber sequoia]

watch the animator when in play mode, see what it does

[prisma monolith]

ok well i fixed the issue but now im just trying to get the effects to actually show

apparently from a quick search its saying i need to add another frame in the animation because it only toggles for 1 really quick frame

[ancient adder]

how do i make a sub emitter particle align with the normal of a mesh?

[sinful obsidian]

my parameters are linked to my menu, and both are linked to the avatar
the parameters file and the parameters in the Animator match exactly
the buttons in the menus are all set correctly
yet when i test, nothing happens

both ingame and with the gesture manager

[ancient adder]

send screenshots of one of the params that isnt working

[sinful obsidian]

the layer that uses the parameter has all of its transitions set correctly as well and the weight is set to 1

[somber sequoia]

You can't connect a physbone chain on both ends.

[digital roost]

how should i go about making something like that then

cloth sim?

[sinful obsidian]

could set a position or parent constraint on the final bone and lock it to something

[ancient adder]

only thing that comes to mind is that the animations arent working properly, a transition condition is wrong, or youre being tripped up by write defaults somewhere

[sinful obsidian]

write defaults?

[ancient adder]

setting that automatically resets the animator state to default for anything not animated in the state

its kinda hard to explain with words

[sinful obsidian]

oh huh

could be the issue

where do i find it?

[ancient adder]

well you have to work around it, the problem would probably be in your animations if write defaults is causing issues

[sinful obsidian]

oh i see what you mean, it's not something to be disabled

i'll look into it then

[ancient adder]

all animator states in a controller have to be Write Defaults on or off, you cant have a mix

[sinful obsidian]

i see

ohh found it

ok so write defaults just says whether it's persistent or not

[ancient adder]

yeah

[sinful obsidian]

i don't have it disabled anywhere

[ancient adder]

ye

your problem is probably in the transitions or the animations tho

[sinful obsidian]

the example param i used is for the mouth opening and a light enabling, and vice versa

nothing happens when i toggle it, other than the spinning arrows to say the toggle's on

[ancient adder]

check to make sure the animation turns on the right gameobject or that no parent objects are off when theyre turned on

[sinful obsidian]

yeah

i'm pretty certain all the animations are set correctly

certainly looks that way

[ancient adder]

take a screenshot of the animator transition going between them

[sinful obsidian]

there's other nodes that can't interfere and aren't important

[ancient adder]

does off transition only to lightmouth-open or does it transition to other stuff too

[sinful obsidian]

off goes to one other, but only if a different param is true

as well as beacon

[ancient adder]

ok hmm

can you take a screenshot of the animation dopesheet for lightmouth-open

[sinful obsidian]

by default all params are off

[ancient adder]

oh well theres one problem

you cant animate the jaw in the fx layer

anything with bones goes in the additive layer

[sinful obsidian]

oh huh

is that only when transforming bones or does it include changing settings related to bones?

[ancient adder]

transforms

[somber sequoia]

any humanoid bones

[sinful obsidian]

if it means anything i don't have the jaw set in the import settings

only in the vrc descriptor

i removed it when i noticed it wouldn't let me move it in an animation

lol

i do have another toggle that is just supposed to disable one object and enable another

and it doesn't seem to work either

[prisma monolith]

am i cooked? i used the vrcfury fx thingy, menu, and parameters, but i don't think thats even close to right

because the gunshots still don't work

can someone send screenshots of a better setup in the animator for the toggles?

cuz i managed to get em to show up in the expressions menu, its just they don't do anything

[somber sequoia]

menu sets parameters, use those parameters in the animator

[ornate stump]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqtSg6_W07Y

[prisma monolith]

ok watching it rq

[sinful obsidian]

if i want an animation looping should loop pose be enabled as well or just loop time?

[ornate stump]

Loop time. Loop pose is for blending motion between start and end of animation clip.

[sinful obsidian]

wonder if that's got anything to do with it then

doesn't seem like it

there's nothing wrong here right

[ornate stump]

Have bone like this. The middle bone is constraint in between 2 bones and the chain is weight paint to only middle bone.

[digital roost]

define constraint here

[loud wave]

can leap motion work consecutively w/ webcam? I can't find an option

[sinful obsidian]

i think i found the issue

it's on the wrong controller

knew it was something stupidly simple

[ornate stump]

Constraint means fixing transform to one or more locations.

[cobalt zephyr]

so whenever i open the expression menu it sends me back to where i was after opening for a second, avatar isint uploaded and im using gesture manager

[ancient adder]

afaik theres no way to automatically change what menu youre in, so its likely either a bug in gesture manager or you're accidentally going back up a directory

[prisma monolith]

i set it up like how he did in the video with only the addition of the gesture thingy in the conditions, and it doesn't even activate now

idk if i need to turn on the rate for the animation or the entire effect itself

[ornate stump]

Can you elaborate what you're trying to do?

[prisma monolith]

ok so im using a custom layer to make it so that

when my character does a fist

these effects will play and shoot once the toggles for them are on

if it makes sense

basically im trying to setup a gesture particle kinda thing

[ornate stump]

Then you should be using particle burst and animate enabling emission.

[prisma monolith]

how do i setup particle burst?

[ornate stump]

Rate over time is not for one time shooting particle.

[ornate stump]

It's call "Burst" right under the rate over time and distance.

[prisma monolith]

OHH ok

so how much should i put for that?

its at 1 rn

[ornate stump]

How much you want to output per burst.

[prisma monolith]

so the avatar has weaponized arms with 2 barrels on the guns each

so its 4 effects, 1 per nozzle

so for each effect every time it shoots

i just want one shot

per fire

[ornate stump]

It wasn't a question. You put the number of particle count you want to emit into the burst count.

[prisma monolith]

OH

mb

so this is good?

[steep bobcat]

Can someone help me with VCC and Unity? I can't figure ts out.

DM me if you can, I'mma need to share my screen for this.

[undone oracle]

anyone know how to turn a particle system off and on in an animation without it cutting off abruptly

[ornate stump]

You should try out and see the result.

[prisma monolith]

dont i have to fix it in the animator?

[cobalt zephyr]

how do i fix these?

[prisma monolith]

i meant the animation tab?

[ornate stump]

That's what I meant by "animate enabling emission".

[ornate stump]

Make sure that you imported all the required packages.

[steep bobcat]

Which Unity editor does VCC want me to pick? 😭

[ornate stump]

That's because it's wrong version.

[steep bobcat]

What?

[ornate stump]

Literally wrong version. You installed 6000.3.7

[steep bobcat]

So, 2022.3 LTS then?

[ornate stump]

2022.3.22 to be exact.

[gaunt knoll]

2022.3.22f1

[steep bobcat]

So I have to search for a version that Unity doesn't show me? It shows me two releases of Unity 6 and then 2022.3 LTS.

[ornate stump]

You have to get it from unity archive website.

[ancient adder]

is there a way to match sub emitter particle rotation with the normal of the face the parent particle collided with?

[gaunt knoll]

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

[ornate stump]

It's better to install via unity hub link in the page above.

[prisma monolith]

ok so i followed what u said but now when i run gesture emulator, it only shoots after it loads the test and never fires again

not even when i activate fists

[ornate stump]

What did you actually animate?

[prisma monolith]

i animated in 2 seperate animations for turning on and off the emissions tab

[ancient adder]

set cycles to infinite, have the firing animation turn count to 1 for ~6 frames (depends on your interval) then turn it back to 0

[prisma monolith]

ok

[ancient adder]

actually in your case have it be one frame

so frame one is count 1, frame 2 is count 0

that should probably work

[prisma monolith]

for which anim? cuz for both sides i have the on and off

or should i follow the steps for all?

[ancient adder]

for the firing animation, exampe

[prisma monolith]

oh ok

when i do it it refuses to play the entire clip like yours

it wont even switch the count in the next frame to 0

oh wait

i didn't set cycles to infnite

lemme try again

yeah

once i set one count to 1, it does it for both

and ontop of that the animation doesn't even get to the next frame

[lilac musk]

Wasn't there a way to show the full breakdown of the performance? I don't know why my avatar is only good on quest.

Also, WTH? It's a simple skinned mesh renderer and 2 physbones. How would that fail?

Oh, the physbones are causing the performance rank of good. I see now.

[prisma monolith]

im at a loss its 3 in the morning bro

ive been trying to solve this issue since like 9 pm yesterday 😭

[sinful obsidian]

what does this mean?

that's the avatar name

[prisma monolith]

ngl im not getting this done

imma just publish it yet again without gunshot effects

cuz i did make many changes and stuff so i dont wanna have to start those again

[strong summit]

How can i change hair color

[gaunt knoll]

change the color of the texture?

[strong summit]

yea

[gaunt knoll]

change the color of the texture

[junior void]

or hue shift for lazy edit

[gaunt knoll]

anyone got any good info on how to do sprites that isnt 4 years old

[dreamy storm]

how do i unpack a prefab instance

[gaunt knoll]

why do you need to

[dreamy storm]

or how do i set the chest to be the parent of the neck and shoulder bones

[junior void]

in the import settings

never unpack an avatar

[dreamy storm]

alr alr noted

[dreamy storm]

ughhh wheres that at?

im so new to unity

[junior void]

find the fbx in your assets folder, not the one youre viewing in the scene. literally in files at the bottom