avatar-help

[cobalt cloak]

its like the animation is not playing

[somber sequoia]

oh, well that you could test in play mode with a tool like AV3 emulator or gesture manager - do the toggle and watch the state of the animator, make sure it's actually running that animation

[cobalt cloak]

okay wait i send video

oh i see wen i go in to play mod the skeleton is not turned off

It only stops briefly and then starts again. Do I have to loop the animation?

[somber sequoia]

I wouldn't expect so

[cobalt cloak]

okay

But why does it only go out briefly and then come back on again?

[somber sequoia]

no idea, I'd suggest watching the layer in the animation controller while you toggle that in play mode, so you can see what it's actually doing

[cobalt cloak]

hmmm

[somber sequoia]

FYI no need to zoom like that - you could just look at the state of the GameObject in the hierarchy, to see if it's on or off.

[cobalt cloak]

ye i know

but still

why is it not staying on

off sry

[somber sequoia]

yep, definitely looks like it's on when it shouldn't be

[cobalt cloak]

its like the animation plays and just stap

[proper fjord]

does anyone know how to put cloths on a avi

[arctic ginkgo]

Oh sure! Just parent it to a bone that's parented to the neck, and then you can use constraints on this bone however you'd like to follow the head

What's important is just that the rotation of the parent of the bone that actually moves the head matches the rotation of the actual head

[wide canyon]

Is there a way to change the default height my avatar is set to when I reset?

[runic spade]

avatar looks like this and I want to add a detail normal

but when I do it does this

how do I go about fixing this? it's in poiyomi shader

[torpid blade]

I rerigged these ammo belts and wires and quickly figured out idk how to use rotation constraints. how could I get the wires and belts to move with the arm? blender or unity options are both helpful

[hot wadi]

My Blendshape parameters don't appear in Unity's Play mode the same as they are in Scene. Can't seem to find an answer to fix this.

[somber sequoia]

are you sure there aren't multiple active and possibly acting together?

[bitter oasis]

hi! im new to both blender and unity and trying to add visemes to my avatar, but it seems like when i export the model from blender all my blend shapes are toggled at the same time... at least i can only assume its from how im exporting it because when i put the FBX back into blender it looked the same as it did in unity. ive tried a number of different settings and nothing changes. any idea whats going on?

[somber sequoia]

probably set them all to 0 before exporting

but also, if you re-ordered any of the shape keys, unity will get confused, you may have to just revert them all in Unity too

[bitter oasis]

ok that worked i think thank you!!

[somber sequoia]

I love when it's an easy one

[open sage]

How do I keep the body texter on and edit the sweater texture?

[somber sequoia]

are they separate materials/textures now? Or all the same?

[open sage]

There separate. I can turn them on and off

[somber sequoia]

then turn off the one you aren't working on?

maybe I'm misunderstanding

[open sage]

I want to work on the sweater texture but keep the body texted on as well. It makes the body white when I switch to the sweater

[somber sequoia]

are you in Blender's texture painting mode?

[open sage]

Yes

[somber sequoia]

ah I'm not sure how to do that, I rarely use that mode

[open sage]

Ahh alright. I’m gonna google it then lol. I just wanted to see if anyone had a faster answer lol

[gaunt knoll]

not many easy one in here xD

[somber sequoia]

it's true

[somber sequoia]

My first thought is something in one of the display settings, the stuff in the upper right of the 3D view

[open sage]

I figured it out. You gotta go to the red ball and make it an image

[hot wadi]

fixed: Issue was that the blend shapes were animated. VRCfury baked my new parameters in for me after I deleted the animations.

[somber sequoia]

ahh, yup, that'll do it

[somber sequoia]

ooh - good to know, thanks for sharing!

[odd crow]

hello i downloaded the avatar punk posse by saffron the bat and for some reason the eye toggles and color hue isnt working?

[bitter oasis]

sorry for a slightly less easy fix, how do i test to make sure it is working?

[somber sequoia]

hmm?

[bitter oasis]

what should i do to make sure the visemes are working as they should?

[somber sequoia]

you can test those in play mode with an emulator like AV3 emulator or gesture manager

[bitter oasis]

ok thank you!

[ember flame]

can someone help me dm me if you can

[sinful obsidian]

how would i go about making a projectile that bounces off walls?

[somber sequoia]

difficult, rigid body physics on avatars are really janky. VRLabs has some stuff for throwables and physics objecs, you could try to start with one of those

[sinful obsidian]

hmmm

could i use a particle?

make a particle use a mesh

[somber sequoia]

Yeah, a particle could work too

[sinful obsidian]

can i make a particle appear whenever i want or does that only work "on wake"?

[somber sequoia]

no, you can animate the emitter too

hmmm actually I think I may be thinking of worlds, that'd be something to try

[sinful obsidian]

what about making a mesh follow a particle

[ember flame]

anybody?

[somber sequoia]

you could always use the buffer particle trick (look it up) too spawn particles that don't go away when you toggle on/off the parent emitter

[sinful obsidian]

ooh ok

[somber sequoia]

probably you won't get much with this but feel free to ask your questions publicly

[sinful obsidian]

is this something i could do?

i've got a grabbable object parented to an empty that i think would be entertaining to be able to launch with cartoon smoke particles trailing

[somber sequoia]

you could spawn mesh particles but otherwise, I can't think of how you'd do that

[ember flame]

it embarrassing so i guess ill ask somewhere else

[somber sequoia]

I wish you luck

[sinful obsidian]

the particles were easy i'm just wondering about actually launching, whether i can send a particle with collision forward with that empty parented so the mesh and bones are carried by the empty

if that makes sense

basically can i parent or copy transform on an actual particle

[somber sequoia]

oh I see. no, you can make mesh particles but you can't launch or spawn or attach any other real objects to a particle

[sinful obsidian]

daaamn

unlucky

can i make particles emit their own particles?

[somber sequoia]

yep, sub-emitters exist

[sinful obsidian]

sick

i'll look into that

thank ya

[mortal dagger]

I have an issue i tried putting Liindy's assests (a webslinger and an eclipse greatsword)
but weird enough when i put one they work but when i put them together in the same avatar they both break can someone explain?

[thin rivet]

It's better with the 0 offset but now instead of jerking around randomly, the head 180s at ~35 degrees on the X axis, even though the X axis isn't frozen

[thin rivet]

Maybe ran out of parameter space? At least that would be the first thing I would check

[mortal dagger]

i only download prefabs there is a parameter space?

[thin rivet]

Cap of 256 synced bits, the prefabs usually say how much they use on their webpage
VRCFury has an 'unlimited parameters' feature built in, but I think due to how that works it isn't perfect

[mortal dagger]

how do i check them?

[thin rivet]

Look for these in the asset browser
If you're using VRCFury it will merge the ones you're using when you upload the avatar

[mortal dagger]

So vrcfury dosent allow me to see the maximum totally

[thin rivet]

Yeah not that I'm aware of

[mortal dagger]

I searched it online if you do play mode it will show the tottal

while using gesture manager

[thin rivet]

Thank you! That's useful

[thin rivet]

For more context regarding my issue, the 180 flip happens at 30 degrees on X, if weight is set to 2 it happens at 50 degrees, at 1.1 weight it flips at ~80 degrees, etc
And this is the only active rotation constraint on the two bones

I feel like moving X for HeadTracking (which is the real head bone) shouldn't cause Y to move at all for Head (the weight painted bone)

[spark walrus]

can someone tell me the correct fbx import settings to use where my normals dont mess up and my face blendshapes dont break

[teal laurel]

Select your entire avi and Ctrl n re-calc normals in blender and see if that does the trick ig

just a guess, but since you mentioned normals thats why i said that

[spark walrus]

my normals are fine in blenderthats not the problem, look at the eyes

the verticies fuck up

[junior void]

If you use imported blendshape normals, you can try setting the export to 'face' instead of smoothing groups

Recent blender versions do some fuckery with blendshape normals on export

Depending on your settings, loading the fbx in unity might take way longer tho. It's 5 minutes for me for example

[hushed torrent]

i bought a tattoo texture, how do i add it?????

[teal laurel]

Grab your texture, slap it on there, move to right position and done

[junior void]

Don't think they'd ask if 'slap it on' helped them

Also don't assume it's a decal, they may have a full body texture

[spark walrus]

do i change settings in unity or blender

[junior void]

Export of blender

[spark walrus]

okay

[junior void]

Alternatively, you can also try setting blendshape normals to calculate in unity

It depends what works best for you

[surreal timber]

So I vaguely remember something about objects not being able to be seen through transparent textures. Was there a workaround for that?

It’s supposed to have little eyes

(They’re on the same material so I’m not sure if it’s a render queue issue)

[ornate stump]

Make the eye as opaque or cutout material instead.

[surreal timber]

they need to be on different materials?

[ornate stump]

If it's on the same material then use Transparent instead of Transclipping

[surreal timber]

hm-

my normals are all facing ouward

[ornate stump]

You should separate transparent material from opaque one.

[surreal timber]

turning culling from "off" to "back" is still bugged here

[surreal timber]

wrah, fair enough. muh draw calls

[ornate stump]

It isn't going to look right if you use transparent material on everything.

[surreal timber]

yeah one sec

there we go, thank you!

[slow briar]

Never run into this issue b4, so idk what to do. it wont let me upload my model because of some "check"

[balmy barn]

scroll up, you showing 3 of 5 red ones

[alpine turret]

Im trying to give my character "magic" using particle systems, which has been going well, i've achieved the desired look i wanted, but the issue is, that in edit mode the particles show up just fine, but in play mode, when toggled on they're just... Gone?

[round comet]

Any good places to get decent normal maps?

[ornate stump]

any website for pbr material.

[solar warren]

anyone know how to fix this?

[ornate stump]

You might have to also explain how did you do it.

[solar warren]

Just an aim constraint

Thought it was obvious

I'm trying smth rn

Editing the offset instead of aim vector

Oh yeah that seemingly fixed it

[wintry ledge]

does anyone know if its possible to make an outline toggle with vrc fury? My avi has a blue outline normally but i wanna be able to switch back to "skin color" do i just need to make a body material swap or can i swap only outlines?

[somber sequoia]

If your outlines are done via shader, then yes, it's likely a material swap

[solar warren]

How would I make the gun go straight again? Tried using animations to reset the rotation but it didn't work

[dusk juniper]

If this is avatar-related, make sure the avatar is Quest-compatible (no unsupported shaders, dynamic bones, constraints, or >10k polygons per mesh). Try switching to a default VRChat avatar to confirm.

[solar warren]

I fixed it

Also

I meant the offset

Of the gun

If it was an avatar issue it wouldn't show the gun

I just used the robot thing to test since it's built into the sdk

[solar warren]

I need help with this now tho

[alpine path]

real quick, if i direct cloned my avatar project files and tried uploading that on a diff computer, that should be fine? tried earlier and it was all broken, had to do it because computer was corrupting

[round comet]

You could export it as a unity package if that isn’t what you did

[left wharf]

try clone everything except Library folder
that should work

[alpine path]

i cant clone it again- the entire drive died

i only was able to clone the project in the projects folder

i dont know if that was the right one

the name of the folder was the name of the project

https://tenor.com/view/chung-sanghyeon-ald1-sanghyeon-sanghyeon-gif-6828226834710263395

[left wharf]

oh
then try closing Unity and deleting Library folder in the Project

Library folder is a cache folder, so it should be recreated by opening Unity

[alpine path]

ill have to try this when i get home

[rare jacinth]

Ok so new question. I ended up editing hair in blender by merging the mesh and armature of two hairs.

It wont let me parent this new blended hair to the body on my avatar in blender. Im using 5.0.

I did try to use CATs but that didnt work either.

So my question is if I just export just the hair from blender. Armature and all. Can I use it in unity by linking it to the head? And will it be able to move if I copy over the physbones to it?

[balmy barn]

can just join them manually (align hair , join , parent hair root/ect)

1 mesh no wierd bounding box issues , where it vanish at certain angles

[solar warren]

.

[somber osprey]

How do I bind a Slider to an animation speed?

[somber sequoia]

Use the slider/radial to set a float parameter, add that parameter to the animator, use the parameter in the animation state

[gray frigate]

Hello

[timber wharf]

sup def not scam person

[somber osprey]

Sorry for testing your patience. But can I not put the animation in the parameter?

I'm used to using Toggles from VRCFury

[somber sequoia]

"put the animation"?

[somber osprey]

the Beat_v1

that's an animation file, no?

[somber sequoia]

that's an animation, yes

[somber osprey]

so how can I bind the animation file to that expression?
it wouldn't let me

[somber sequoia]

that's not how it works, you have to setup a layer in an animation controller

that "expression" is asking for a parameter from the avatar parameters list

[somber osprey]

may you help me how?

[somber sequoia]

I'd suggest watching a tutorial on how to use Unity's animation stuff, there are many, and Unity has decent documentation on this as well.

[somber osprey]

Dang. alright

[timber wharf]

cant fury just bind animation straight to toggle tho? no idea but sounds like the first thing to do

if youre developing fury

[somber sequoia]

Yeah, I don't use Fury for this, so no idea

[somber osprey]

you can. but only the point in animation

you can't do it for animation speed

[timber wharf]

ah

well yes, subtle control is where it fails

[somber osprey]

they said do it the normal way, VRCF can't do that

[timber wharf]

time to learn for real

[somber osprey]

problem is, idk which tutorial is reliable and not too much

[somber sequoia]

this hasn't changed in many unity versions

[somber osprey]

the methods are, compared to one creator from another

[timber wharf]

ye any vrc av3 tutorial since 2020 should work

[balmy barn]

tail but its a radial and you just animate the state speed from 0 to 100 % ( see mulitiplier = float used in radial )

[timber wharf]

@balmy barn can we have your clips hosted and tagged somewhere, pain in ass to search for one through discord🤣

[balmy barn]

have 300 something, cause the same questions keep appearing , faster for me to use a video then text

[solar warren]

.

[timber wharf]

@solar warren need like a whole setup. normally you reset (or enable) alignment by animating constraint weight

[solar warren]

Wdym

I use aim contraints

[mossy ridge]

this keeps happening no matter what i do

i tried looking at the console but theres nothing that seems to explain it (atleast not that i can understand)

[timber wharf]

@solar warren again, idk your setup

[solar warren]

Its just an aim contraint

Isn't that the only way to do it?

[timber wharf]

to have two hand grab youre indeed supposed to use aim constraint. when grabbing you animate it to weght 1, when releasing to 0

[solar warren]

I just disable to stop it

[left wharf]

try reopening unity and upload again first

[mossy ridge]

thank you!!

[obtuse bronze]

Can somebody please tell me how to fix this quickly I am in a rush

[somber sequoia]

Likely a submenu item missing an actual menu reference

[obtuse bronze]

All right so how do I fix that?

[somber sequoia]

find it and delete the menu item or put a submenu into it

[obtuse bronze]

uhhh

[somber sequoia]

Those are menus looking for parameters not in your avatar parameters list.

[obtuse bronze]

So how do I fix that

[somber sequoia]

add those parameters

[obtuse bronze]

how?

[somber sequoia]

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

[thin rivet]

Having X and Y locked with a weight of 3 mostly works, though now I ran into an issue where the camera I'm attaching to the weight painted head bone "bounces back" after rotating ~90 degrees to the right or left
It's like it has a rotation angle cap, but I never gave it one

Speaking of camera, does anyone have established settings for matching the player's view? I'm using it with Stereocancer to "replace" what you can see, and 1920x1080 with dynamic resolution on the render texture was a bit pixelated

[silver goblet]

Hi everyone.

Got a question I had on my mind for a while, but had no idea where to even start when executing it.
How would one approach creating a toggle that would switch the avatar's mesh to a different mesh that's also animated?
Basically, I felt like busting a Maxwell the cat meme from time to time with my own little twist on it, but without making a whole separate avatar for it.
Is that even possible?

[timber wharf]

q2 had maxed out res for pixel perfect middle of the screen @ 5.4x3k or smth, idk whats meta value for q3 but vd godlike is like 6.4x3.2. god i hope its local only

@thin rivet

[rare jacinth]

Thanks a bunch ima try this

[thin rivet]

Thank you! Yes it's local only, it's so that you can turn your head further than you actually can

[solar warren]

How would I make the gun go back to how it was before being grabbed?

[timber wharf]

@solar warren ive told you

[solar warren]

You haven't

[surreal timber]

Actually one additional question.
Since I had an opacity mask in the mask slot, do poi’s transparency options other than “cutout” ignore opacity masks?

[timber wharf]

@solar warren k🤷‍♂️

[ornate stump]

Do you mean alpha mask? It just alters alpha output on the surface. However the shader decide it to be transparent or just depends on the render preset or render settings.

[surreal timber]

Got it got it

[solar warren]

I finally figured out what you meant i'm sorry
You should've phrased it better tho
Thanks a lot

[rare jacinth]

ok so question i tried to parent the bones like you did in the video but its not giving that option. its only giving me this. im not sure if im doing something wrong here

[timber wharf]

@rare jacinth ctrl+p?

i think youre not in armature mode or smth

[rare jacinth]

there is a armature mode? i did ctrl+p

[timber wharf]

idk how its called. the one where clicking select bones🫠

i sound like an idiot ye

[rare jacinth]

i apologize im confused 0-0

[balmy barn]

edit mode then you can select bone to parent to something else

[rare jacinth]

ok that worked but when you used CATs you did zero weight vertex on the head right?

[balmy barn]

its does the entire armature , since those weight already exsist ( head + head0 = head ) , just a way to cleanup uncessary bones

[rare jacinth]

it wont mess up anything if i do it though right?

[balmy barn]

only if you must have end bones they usually not weighted , physbone can use them but endpoint setting on physbone does it too

[rare jacinth]

alrighty sorry im new. it sounds like i might not wanna do that then. im not too sure what i got going on im just winging it for my first time XD

[balmy barn]

never seen a model that need empty bones

used them for physbones until we got endpoints (or ancient dynamic bones) cause it was easy to make things flow in that direction they point , pretty useless now

[rare jacinth]

it for some reason still didnt work. not sure why this hair wont do right

the hair still isnt connecting with the head. the armature is but thats all

[somber osprey]

I'm still confused about the Animation speed toggle

I saw a Tutorial oh binding animation to radial puppet but radial controls the point in animation, not the speed

I googled everywhere but can't find anything directly I needed, could anyone help me?

[somber sequoia]

Find your animation state in the animation controller. Click it. Look in the inspector for a speed parameter. Put a float variable into there.

[somber osprey]

I don't see speed anywhere in the Inspector

[somber sequoia]

that is an animation clip.

States are the boxes in the animation controller

[somber osprey]

the one that has "0" in it?

I'm still struggling

[somber sequoia]

I have no idea what you mean?

[somber osprey]

are you referring this as "state?"

apologies if I'm testing your patience

I looked everywhere online for this, But the tutorials I found just involved changing stuff through radial puppet. But nothing to do with animation speed

[somber sequoia]

no, that is not a state, and you are still looking in the animation clip, not in the animation controller where you setup the logic to run this animation

[somber osprey]

oh this?

[somber sequoia]

that

click on the state which is to run your animation.

[somber osprey]

I just see that as "Animator" but I guess people call this "Animation Controller" as well?

[somber sequoia]

The view is the animator

There - you see the speed slot now?

"multiplier" is probably what you want

[somber osprey]

Yes. But I wanna bind that to a radial puppet

did that help?

[somber sequoia]

This has nothing to do with menus - you do that elsewhere.

[somber osprey]

Really?

[somber sequoia]

Note that you've used the "motion time" slot - that's basically the point in time along the animation, probably not what you're looking for here, but I'm not entirely sure what the goal is

[somber osprey]

is it oaky if I can explain it to you in hopes of you understanding what my goal is?

[somber sequoia]

Yes - Menus and such can set parameters. You can then use those parameters in the animator if you want.

feel free.

[somber osprey]

may i DM you?

I can't send attachments here

[somber sequoia]

no, I don't do private help, and here others may join in.

[somber osprey]

Okay nvm I can send videos, discord was having issue

So here's the animation I made, it works without any issue

my goal is that I wanna control the speed of this on the fly, instead of in Editor

[somber sequoia]

okay so remove that variable in the motion time slot, and instead add it to the multiplier slot.

[somber osprey]

and control that speed with this
where 0% lets say the animation speed is palying at 0.5x fast

where 100% would play the animation speed at 2x fast

hopefully that helped you understand my motive

Done. but should the naming matter?

Like the name of the animation and parameter must be the same?

[somber sequoia]

if you want 100% to be 2x fast then probably set the speed variable to "2". Then have 50% be the default value.

you may have to do some math

[somber osprey]

I'm just saying as an example

anyway Multiplier has "para_BPM" and motion time is disabled, what's next?

[somber sequoia]

do menu things now I guess - that should be all you need here

[somber osprey]

I'm still confused

in the Controls, Cause here its taking a parameter of BPM that I just created which is in 2nd picture

But I feel liek that parameter I created isn't related to the one in the animation controller

[somber sequoia]

the parameter used by the menu option and the one in the animator must be the exact same parameter name.

[somber osprey]

okay named them all exactly the same. Doing play mode, I can't find that menu in the gesture radial menu

I'll share everything that's involved

[balmy barn]

keep the rotation, not the other

[somber osprey]

Anything else?

[stoic bobcat]

im using vrcplayaudio and when I use toggle it plays different audio to other people, is there a way to make it synced so everyone hears the same audio

[elder latch]

so uh when i wanna sculp a mesh below another one (like a shirt below a jacket for example) and move the jacket out the way, sculpt the shirt and THEN the jacket doesnt fit anymore and nothing with scaling and stuff works
are there any shortcuts to make the mesh fit onto the one underneath?

idk if i explained this right

[somber sequoia]

no real shortcuts. You can do a shape key to shrink the underneath stuff, or make the on-top stuff big enough to go over. or outright hide faces under if you want too, via various methods.

[stoic bobcat]

for context, I use the same audio source for my sounds but when I play one it plays something different for everyone, idk if theres a way to sync that. Not like its playing a different toggle or anything, but I could have a sound that says "what are you doing" but someone could hear "why dont you trust me"

[elder latch]

alright ill try this out tommorrow ty

[heavy zephyr]

Show the whole thing not just this

[stoic bobcat]

ill show my vrcplayaudio, waiting for unity to load

heres one of them, all of them have the same issue

just dont know why different audio toggles play unless unique random is the issue

[somber sequoia]

I suspect because that random is done on the client side

I think to fix it you'd have to generate a random number with VRC Avatar Parameter driver and store it as a synced variable, then use that to trigger a specific clip

[stoic bobcat]

ill see if I can figure that out, kinda sounds complex but ill try to look stuff up for it 😵‍💫

[somber sequoia]

it's not very - the docs on Avatar Parameter Driver specifically mention this case

[stoic bobcat]

https://ask.vrchat.com/t/synced-randomizer-for-avatars/26426 would this be the right place to look?

[stoic bobcat]

ill look into those, thanks for the help!

[somber sequoia]

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/state-behaviors/#random

[stoic bobcat]

thanks, ill use that!

[alpine path]

notepad on new install of windows seemingly cant open xmls

[somber sequoia]

is that the one that's a security risk?

[somber osprey]

okay named them all exactly the same. Doing play mode, I can't find that menu in the gesture radial menu

I'll share everything that's involved

only thing I've done is removing the parameter for the first one, leaving only rotation on

[somber sequoia]

Do not put the same parameter in both parameter and rotation slots in the radial control.

Putting it in the "parameter" one means it's set to 1 when you open up the radial control to use it.

[somber osprey]

its currently this right now

[somber sequoia]

Good, that is correct.

[somber osprey]

the current problem is that it doesn't appear in the Radial menu

so I didn't test if it works for not cause VRC radial menu can't find this

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure what that means?

[somber osprey]

Gesture manager I mean

[somber sequoia]

is that menu on your avatar?

[somber osprey]

like that menu isn't here at all, checked all of them

[somber sequoia]

You have to add this control to that ^ main menu, or add a submenu item for the new menu you created

[somber osprey]

Okay how exactly?

Doesn't this one allows me to put the controls in the radial menu

[somber sequoia]

you seem to have put the control in a new sub-menu but not added that to the menus currently on the avatar.

those are parameters, not menu items.

[somber osprey]

how can you tell and how can I fix it?

[somber sequoia]

Look in the avatar descriptor under "expressions" to find the main menu

[somber osprey]

Ohhh....this part is where the actual stuff you can control with?

[somber sequoia]

That is a menu. I have no idea if it's the right one though.

If so you can add a sub-menu object then drag in that new menu, or just add the radial control there directly. Up to you.

[somber osprey]

okay something's going wrong

I can add it in that VRC Fury menu. But once I click the play mode, that Control disappears completely

[somber sequoia]

I don't use Fury for this, so probably can't help here.

[somber osprey]

okay for some reason reason, the Menu in the expression tab changes between the normal Menu and the VRCFury when I press play mode

I got the menu part to show up, but its not doing anything at all

[somber sequoia]

Same answer I just said.

[somber osprey]

I forgot to mention, this isn't under VRCFury

This is the default main menu. VRC fury isn't involved

[somber sequoia]

okay well it looks correct, so if it isn't showing up in the game, maybe that's not the right menu file?

[main moon]

Could someone help me apply animations using VRCFury? It’s honestly pretty difficult now, I used to be able to do it pretty well.

[somber osprey]

I know that you can bind animation clip to VRCFury via toggle, that's all I know for now

[somber osprey]

the game you mean play mode? its there in radial menu

The game can see it! but that radial puppet isn't doing anything, so idk if I set it up correctly in parameter or animator

[somber sequoia]

you'll have to debug then, see if the parameter is changing, see what the animator is doing, etc.

[somber osprey]

I don't even know how to check any of these while its running

[somber sequoia]

you push play and then go observe things in the gesture manager component or in the animator itself

[somber osprey]

in the debug tab of Gesture manager. Its parameter is working cause I can see the float value changing in time

as for animator itself, I havce no idea how to check if something's working or not

[stoic bobcat]

still dont know if im doing it right, hoping something works where it will play the same sound when I activate the toggle instead of it being different on everyones end

[somber sequoia]

I bet min/max of 1 means you'll always get exactly 1

Also read the warning text in the parameter driver

[stoic bobcat]

if i change it, it will play the other toggles

[somber sequoia]

I don't know what else you have setup to use this variable so I definitely can't say it'll do anything

[stoic bobcat]

i have five other toggles using the same parameter, so idk if thats it

im trying to do it on one right now and if it works ill add it to the others 🤷‍♂️

[balmy barn]

how i do audio randomizers , it will never be 0 (thats resets for next audio since it cant switch to another sfx/audio without it)

synch wise no clue if it behaves, if it doesnt id use a randomizer

[stoic bobcat]

so for element 0 i should have that one empty too?

ill give it a try and hopefully the audio that plays is the same for everyone else

[static seal]

guys This is my first avatar and ai has not been much help, so im turning to the experts! so im trying to get my avatar to toggle between differnt models (they both are rigged through maximo.com) I simply dont know how to fix this and youtube tuttorials dont cover this as far as my research goes. (am using vcr fury)

[somber sequoia]

I really suggest you just upload two avatars.

[static seal]

lol its that dificult?

[somber sequoia]

Depends. If you're just swapping meshes, that's not too bad, though you have to animate visemes yourself.
If you want two armatures, yes, very - vrchat will only run one, you'd need to run rotation constraints to run a second one off the first.
Overall there's very little reason to try doing this - swapping avatars is pretty trivial.

[static seal]

ahh ok thats understandable ima js upload two it makes it easier anyways

[somber sequoia]

yeah - two is easy 🙂

[static seal]

lol thanks man

[wide aurora]

I have a parent constraint question.
I have an object parented to my foot initially, when a toggle is used I want the object to be parented to my hand.
However, I do not wish the object to snap to my hand. I want the object to start following the hand from wherever it currently is, even if they are apart by some distance.
In a sense I need the parent constraint to recalculate the offset between the object and the hand and then lock it afterwards.

Is this possible, and if so how would I properly animate this.

[stoic bobcat]

tried doing this but its still not the same for others :/

[balmy barn]

parameter driver probably would be better for random audio if synch is off - but that means you dont setup as random but every state play one instead

like that except every ( afk ) has the playaudio and not random

audio is very low on things i do , my jukebox is synched cause its not random

[stoic bobcat]

i may try this, i just have so many voicelines on my avi that I want to play the same for everyone :/

[unborn vessel]

Hello. I keep seeing this despite me making sure everything is quest compatible and functional, it’s below 10 MB and everything, but it does this for multiple of my avatars. Does anyone know why?

[random raptor]

hey dose anyone know whats happening everything was fine then i switched to quest and this is now filling my console

[cyan heron]

I have VRCfury toggle on an object and yet it does not work, any ideas?

[round comet]

Save then close and re-open unity

Probably happening if you deleted stuff to quest convert it

[cyan heron]

nvm figured it out

[placid idol]

how do i stop Marycia from doing this, sos

[night ember]

Dont delete bones

[unreal juniper]

Yeah, if you're trying to remove Physbones for performance reasons, click the 3 dots on the Component in the Inspector and "Remove Component" that way - you can't delete them from the hierarchy directly

[placid idol]

i got it sorted out thanks

[timid kite]

feet are kinda crooked in the play mode. whats going on?

legs in the scene - legs in play mode - legs in game

i cut off some parts of the mesh for optimization purposes and combined some materials in blender thats about it

[proven quail]

The in-game screenshot looks fine, unless I'm missing something?

[timid kite]

i cant even tell anymore. i think its fine? maybe just a bit crooked? but why is it wrong in the play mode

[proven quail]

It might be the locomotion animations? But if it's okay in game then there's no issue right?

[timid kite]

possibly

ill try to remove gogoloco for play mode

nah still same

[proven quail]

Hmm. Well like I said. Does the play mode state need to be fixed really? It seems to correct itself in-game

[timid kite]

i just worry that if theres an issue it will show itself in the future

[vernal light]

is there any way to make contact receivers and senders radius' to be like massive? or are they stuck at a max of 3?

[burnt rose]

last i tried they are just size limited, which makes sense
but you can move them with animations

[vernal light]

okay ty!

i remember one time i made it bigger, but i dont remember what

oh figured it out

[stuck ridge]

Does anyone know how to make a avatar w outlines on quest ?

[pure gust]

Does anyone know any good avatar protection systems cuz I just had my personal model that I made. ripped and made public

[somber sequoia]

there aren't any. There are a bunch of okay ones that can be defeated.

[pure gust]

Oh okay sorry didn't know that💔

[agile reef]

im making shape keys for my model for anti-clip purposes in the clothing and I just noticed that when I changed modes in blender- they have these weird cuts in them almost and the texture looked a little funny- did I click something on accident to do this and how can I fix it?

[agile reef]

tested it in unity and put a texture on it- looks fine. . . so maybe its ok?

[atomic hound]

anyone know how to use vrcfury to gesture something but only when a certain object is toggled?

[nimble umbra]

quick question fella's
is animating the root bone not possible?
im attempting to get a endorphin push animation working, but instead of going back, they just kinda.....f l o a t in the same place while it happens

the animation works fine in the previewer, its just in the actual avatar it decides it wants to stay in place

n e v e r m i n d i f i g u r e d i t o u t

[tardy locust]

Has there ever been any talk of increasing the ridiculous 70k poly limit? 🤔

[shadow agate]

set this in blender's FBX export
if that doesn't help then that's between you and god

[mortal bridge]

Hey has anyone seen this error

A VisualElement must not allocate more than 65535 vertices.
UnityEngine.Logger:Log (UnityEngine.LogType,object)
(wrapper dynamic-method) UnityEngine.Debug:UnityEngine.Debug.LogError_Patch1 (object)
UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent (int,intptr,bool&)

Trying to upload an avi and this error keeps popping up anyone got any ideas

[sinful pumice]

So i bought a avi and the upload says theres 3 files Pc Quest and Opti what do i for the opti

Like

do i use the opti instead of the quest

[mortal bridge]

No opti is for a separate avatar use the quest version for quest the opti will work for pc just be a green avi

[sinful pumice]

so what do i do with the opti

[mortal bridge]

Sometimes ill use easy quest switch and use the opti as the apple version but its not neccesary since the quest version will do just as well for the apple version

Upload it separately or dont use it

[sinful pumice]

Ah o,

ok ty

[mortal bridge]

Its not necessary to use it and np

[sinful pumice]

im new to uploading and eventually wanna make avis

[dawn oak]

i reset my playable layers to default and now my hand gestures dont move is there any specific thing i need to add back?

ive been trying to figure it out

i added the old gesture back into the gesture slot but nothing

[ornate stump]

Default gesture layer should already work as is.

[dawn oak]

weird it seemed to break it

anyone know what else couldve caused it?

[ornate stump]

If you manually move the finger bone in the scene, does the finger move?

[dawn oak]

during playmode or editing?

[ornate stump]

Editing

[dawn oak]

i can move it

[ornate stump]

Do you have something in FX layer?

[dawn oak]

no its ondefualt

[ornate stump]

How is the hand look like when testing?

[dawn oak]

oh huh it works without one of the prefabsi have now so i know where the issue is

[somber osprey]

I was told I needed FX_Layer for controlling Animation speed via Radial puppet

But idk what I need exactly and I can't find the tutorial exactly for my case

[mortal dagger]

Hey guys i downloaded this Coat online but its a hassle to put it all together isnt there an automatic Binder that makes the coat work with the avatar?

[ornate stump]

VRCFury Armature Link

[mortal dagger]

What do i set the amature link to?

[ornate stump]

https://vrcfury.com/components/armature-link/

https://vrcfury.com/tutorials/linking-clothes

[limpid shoal]

I'm encountering a visual bug and I'm wondering if there's a trick to fixing it. The bug in question is where the avatar's right leg is a little more inward than the other, making the avatar asymmetrical from the waist down. Me and my avatar guy can't figure out any way to fix it but we did learn that it also effects some public avatars as well. If any one knows a workaround or a fix, I'd greatly appreciate it. The strange thing is that I think only I can see it. My friends say my avatars are perfect.

[coarse copper]

It looks like the armiture for the fingers are moved lol

[somber osprey]

why is it showing up like that?

I'm importing an fbx

[ornate stump]

What is wrong with it?

[somber osprey]

the model doesn't show up

[ornate stump]

Are you sure that you're exporting something in blender? Or had "Export Selected" set without select anything?

[somber osprey]

Oh I'm supposed to select the mesh and then export?

[ornate stump]

Only if you enabled "Selected Object" when exporting.

[somber osprey]

I selected the mesh and then export it

still nothing, here's my export settings

[ornate stump]

What do you have in the blender?

[ornate stump]

You have to also select Object Type Mesh.

[ornate stump]

If it also has armature then choose Object Type Armature too.

[somber osprey]

I don't wanna include the Armature in it

could I just delete the aramture in blender?

[ornate stump]

Sure.

[teal verge]

do i just move body bones up to make my body not go up like this i want to be more like loaf form when crouching

[balmy barn]

no clue what im looking at, could be tracking control not set for all i know

[teal verge]

quadrupe avatar

[round comet]

Looks pretty loaf-y to me

[teal verge]

yea but like when crouching it gets weirdd like this

[balmy barn]

check your tracking control, should be set to animation or it will crunch up (head important)

prone uses upright parameter to check and set it for you

(debug ingame can tell you if its set to animation)

since thats not a humanoid take its generic wich is.. 'fun'

[hasty plover]

Does anyone know how to fix this weird connection line? It appeared after I symmetrized the armature.

[brazen peak]

Anyone know what this means and how to get to these dependencies? How to fix as well?

[somber sequoia]

you'd have to look at your physbones - I'm guessing this means you have a physbone chain with a collider on it that is used by that physbone

[junior void]

this is called a relationship line. they do what it sounds like - point to their relatives/parents

[hasty plover]

Thank you

[brazen peak]

I’m just unsure where to look at within the physbones

I’m a bit newish to unity

[somber sequoia]

The "Colldiers" section has the colliders

[brazen peak]

Gotcha

[somber sequoia]

I'm assuming there's a collider on some object in the physbone chain

[brazen peak]

Do you really not need colliders on avatar?

[somber sequoia]

that's not at all what that means

I'm assuming that means that you should not have a physbone collider on the chain it's setup to collider with

[brazen peak]

Gotcha alright

[stoic bobcat]

tried making custom hand gestures for an avatar with three fingers, it works with index on my test avatar but not when I upload it

[night ember]

Why are you needing to make custom gestures?

[stoic bobcat]

the way one of the hands are does not work for a regular hand

[night ember]

How are the hands?

[night ember]

Use rotation constraints

[stoic bobcat]

it works fine with my index controllers when i upload as a test but for some reason just didnt work when I uploaded it fully

i mean, i guess

[night ember]

Did you do the whole tracking control

[stoic bobcat]

not sure if i know what part you mean, I just replaced the animations in the left hand gesture menu

[night ember]

So you didnt

Index controllers dont use the animations unless you specifically tell it to

[stoic bobcat]

ah ok, then ill figure that out, just weird it works on the test avatar 🤷‍♂️

[night ember]

Like test in game or in unity

[stoic bobcat]

in game

i used the test avi in game in vr and it worked but not on the upload

[somber osprey]

may anyone tell me what am I doing wrong?

I'm trying to bind a Radial puppet to an animation speed

I've done a Debug, the parameter is working fine

idk how to debug an issue in the animator controller

[shadow agate]

has anyone had this issue with Separate -> By Selection

separates the selection
but also all of the other edges that I didn't have selected

[frail vessel]

how do i add this tattoo to my avatar without it turning the skin black? the background of the texture is black but idk how to make it transparent

[junior void]

What shader do you use

[sleek pebble]

i got an error in unity while trying to upload an avi to vrc telling me to make sure i was using sdk 3.9.0 or above... how do i check that?

[balmy barn]

this looks like a emission map not for transparency

[plain elk]

Where would I go to find avatars for pc?

[sleek pebble]

as in buy them?

[plain elk]

buy or find

if there's free ones that'd be nice as well

[sleek pebble]

wait where do you see this

i think i found it in package manager actually? im on sdk 3.7.6

[sturdy prawn]

how would i fit this?

[solar warren]

How would I make an asset always stay on the ground no matter what?

[sturdy prawn]

nuke ur local pedo

[solar warren]

What 😭

Tf are you on

@sturdy prawn

[sturdy prawn]

idk

im trying to fit ts

[solar warren]

😭

[junior void]

The hell is going on here

[shadow agate]

select the tattoo's texture and enable Alpha Is Transparency in the Inspector
also consider Alpha Source: From Greyscale

[ivory wadi]

can someone please help me upload a avatar i tried to upload it a month ago and haven’t tried again since

[shadow agate]

paypal me $5

[ivory wadi]

welp i can’t cause my bank don’t allow me to do dat

[balmy barn]

try again ? , having someone upload on your account is a super bad idea

[shadow agate]

^

try it and post the error

[frail vessel]

it works now its just barely visible

[mortal dagger]

help me the compression size never changes no matter how much i delete or add stuff it won't budge

[night ember]

pretty sure you need to upload again for it to update
iirc it says last build

[mortal dagger]

Okay

let me try although last time it didn't work

and it didn't work again

its says uncompressed sizs is too large

and its keeps giving me the same number

[tight crater]

Question. What do I do if I've been waiting for over 3 hours and my avatar still isn't "being built"?

[somber sequoia]

iirc it doesn't change in the SDK console display until you do a build

the size I mean

[mortal dagger]

So how can i compress my avatar more

[somber sequoia]

don't - instead remove extra parts or assets you don't need, decrease texture sizes, remove unneeded shape keys, etc.

if the uncompressed size is the issue, compressing isn't going to do anything

[mortal dagger]

Eh i was aiming to get an amazing coat on my avi but its literally smaller then the coat

[obtuse bronze]

Anyone know how to find this so I can rename it

[somber sequoia]

other than looking through each of the menu files... not really

Also if it's not obviously in one, it might be due to a 2-year-old bug that can hide parameters

[obtuse bronze]

ok

[sturdy prawn]

so im trying to make this work and anytime i try to parent them it does this and idk why

[gentle iris]

how can i add a working particle to my avatar?

[night ember]

thats very vague

[gentle iris]

like a beam coming from a weapon

like medics medi gun

[night ember]

ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

you cant exactly do the whole 2 target thing with another avatar easily

[gentle iris]

not like connect to another just be there

like have it shoot out

[night ember]

particle system with trail enabled?

[gentle iris]

i think

[night ember]

or a line renderer

[gentle iris]

a line

so i can point and shoot and the beam comes out

[night ember]

that wasnt a question

could technically also do it with a mesh

[gentle iris]

oh?

[night ember]

depends on what you mean by shoot

[gentle iris]

i want to down a gesture and just have the beam shoot

[night ember]

thats not what I asked

[gentle iris]

i cant really think of a better way to explain what i mean

[night ember]

you didnt explain what the beam would actually look like

[gentle iris]

oh, just like medic medi gun beam

[night ember]

could technically get away with using a trail on a particle system set to ribbon

[gentle iris]

how would i do that?

[night ember]

add a particle system
enable trail
set it to ribbon

fuck about with the emission settings and material till you get it how you want it

[gentle iris]

ok

where do i find ribbon

[somber sequoia]

it's an option for particle trails

[gentle iris]

i see it

[night ember]

if you dont want the particles to get dragged along when you move the object set the simulation space to world

[slender vigil]

so i did the weight paint perfectly and everything, why is it still clipping?

[night ember]

you didnt do the weight paint correctly then

[slender vigil]

i even sculpted it up

idk then

[night ember]

are you using auto normalize

[somber sequoia]

Looks like the pants need to move more with the leg.

[slender vigil]

no? i use cats

[somber sequoia]

what does cats have to do with weight painting?

[night ember]

what does cats have to do with the weights auto normalizing

[slender vigil]

it fixes the model and makes the avatar move w the pants / vise versa

its a program for 3.6

[somber sequoia]

yeah it doesn't do any weight paint, you'll still have to do that

[slender vigil]

well even still

[somber sequoia]

(also cats can run on 5.0, and also also it's being deprecated)

[slender vigil]

it still works

[somber sequoia]

right, but it still doesn't do what you need done here.

[night ember]

but it doesnt weight paint

[slender vigil]

i did weight paint b4 using cats

thats how it works

at least 4 me

[somber sequoia]

Sounds like you're confusing things here.

[night ember]

whyd you even use cats if you were weight painting it to the armature already

[slender vigil]

hold on

[somber sequoia]

regardless of how you got here, the solution is to weight paint the pants better.

[slender vigil]

i followed this vid https://youtu.be/BjlJF-aGrlE?si=6nIZTxshgY7ZNV54

[somber sequoia]

I don't even have to click play to know that the solution here is still to do better weight painting. Automated tools can only get you close in the best cases.

[night ember]

also enable auto normalize

weights can only ever be 1

no more

[somber sequoia]

definitely enable auto-normalize, it makes things way easier.

[slender vigil]

where is that in blender

[sturdy prawn]

how do i fix this?

[somber sequoia]

it's an option on the "Tool" tab once you get in weight painting mode

[somber sequoia]

where "this" is what exactly?

[sturdy prawn]

shirt

[somber sequoia]

And what about it needs fixing?

[sturdy prawn]

its noy going on the avi right

not*

[sturdy prawn]

as you can see in the photo

[somber sequoia]

Just making sure it's clear which problem you're asking about. Looks like an issue with armature link, but I've never seen those error messages before.

[sturdy prawn]

it wont lynk

[sturdy prawn]

ofc :3 and i have i just forgot how they fixed it

[slender vigil]

do i have to repaint it?

[somber sequoia]

you might not have to entirely repaint, but you definitely need to do some painting if you want the pants to move more (which you probably do)

[night ember]

theres a normalize all in the dropdown

[sturdy prawn]

my avi is set to huminoid

[night ember]

but is it actually rigged as humanoid

[somber sequoia]

Just because it's set to humanoid doesn't mean it actually is correctly

[night ember]

rigging an fbx as humanoid in unity isnt a singular button click

you need to configure and actually check the bones are set correctly

[sturdy prawn]

how do i do that?

[night ember]

click configure in the rig tab

[slender vigil]

It worked! tysm!

[sturdy prawn]

wheres the rig tab?

[night ember]

click the fbx file

[sturdy prawn]

on unity or blender?

[night ember]

unity cause its the unity rig setting?

[sturdy prawn]

sorry im just confused

[sturdy prawn]

wheres that at?

[night ember]

in the assets

the actual file

[sturdy prawn]

there isnt any

[night ember]

wdym there isnt an fbx file

[sturdy prawn]

fbx files

there isnt

[night ember]

howd you get the model in unity then

[solar warren]

How do I make an object always stay on the ground under my avatar

[night ember]

why are you looking in file explorer

[sturdy prawn]

you said that

in the actual file

[night ember]

no I said the assets tab

and yes the actual fbx file

[sturdy prawn]

this?

[night ember]

whats in meshes

[sturdy prawn]

oh

[night ember]

whichever one the avatar in scene uses

[night ember]

and what tab did I tell you earlier

[night ember]

and what did I tell you to click in this tab

[sturdy prawn]

mb i got dinner

[night ember]

Does the build window say anything

[night ember]

Thats not the build window

[quartz slate]

so idk if anyone would know how or if its possible,

but how exactly would i go about making it so other people can pull my robot arm off using physbones and constraints while still having the arm function normaly,
i dont wish to use anything like finalIK because i want it to be quest compatible

[night ember]

Just set the physbone to is animated and itll keep the tracking

Otherwise add an entire second arm as the humanoid rig and constrain the mesh's armature to it

[sturdy prawn]

okay act like idk where anything is cuz idk where anything is

[night ember]

The vrcsdk

[wide hedge]

Quick question for anyone who can help - I'm currently trying to upload an avatar for PC and Quest. It's working fine on the PC side but when I get on quest, it just shows the error robot. Is it because I uploaded it wrong?

[night ember]

what is said stats of the avatar

[wide hedge]

nevermind I just found out what the issue was. Thanks though!

[sturdy prawn]

?

[night ember]

thr vrcsdk window where you build the avatar

[wide hedge]

well never mind. Its not working on either side.

[somber sequoia]

above the "build and publish" button

[quartz slate]

neither worked

[somber sequoia]

Yes, so this entire window is "the build window" that Diven was referring to.

[night ember]

wdym neither worked

[quartz slate]

idk what to tell you, neither worked for letting me pull the arm off

[somber sequoia]

I'd setup the arm with a separate set of bones, use rotation constraints from the main skeleton bones so they move normally, then treat the whole thing like a grabbable prop

constraints with local orientation ought to still work, if you want that. Or just disable them when the arm is removed

[sturdy prawn]

?

[somber sequoia]

Yes, this window

looks like you have a few errors to fix

[grizzled sand]

Can someone help me it says it's building the avi when I try to upload it but nothing is happening

[sturdy prawn]

fixed it

[somber sequoia]

if you say so

[sturdy prawn]

hopefully

[night ember]

why are you in prefab view

[grizzled sand]

That's what they told me to do when uploading it

[night ember]

"they"

you dont upload while in prefab view

you drag the prefab into scene not open it

[grizzled sand]

How do I get the avi from prefab into the normal mode ?

[night ember]

go back to scene view at the top

[daring oasis]

Is there anyone who can help me upload a avatar with a new asset, i don't know how to change my rig to humanoid in unity and am genuinely stressed, please someone help

[night ember]

rig tab on the actual fbx file

[somber sequoia]

find your model file, click it, look in the Inspector window, select the "Rig" tab, it's there

(tutorial videos generally go over this too)

[daring oasis]

So, I already uploaded the avatar and it says it humanoid but when I go to add the asset it doesn't work

[somber sequoia]

explain "doesn't work"?

[daring oasis]

Idk how to explain, I can't find or use the skeleton to it

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure what that means.

[night ember]

you havent even told us what the "asset" is

[daring oasis]

FYI, this is a personal here's a screenshot

[somber sequoia]

whatever that object is, put it on your avatar. As the error says to do.

[daring oasis]

It keeps saying there is no skeleton

[somber sequoia]

it says the word "skeleton"?

[daring oasis]

No, I was watching a video and thats what they called it

[somber sequoia]

I'm really not sure what issue you are having here, sorry.

[grizzled sand]

It says I need to drag something into the hierarchy what's that ?

[night ember]

the list of objects on the left

[deft ledge]

hey so i am new to vr chat modeling how should i rig this poncho

[daring oasis]

Okay, I somewhat figured smth out but, now it says I dont have a avatar descriptor

Nvm

[grizzled sand]

I still can't figure out what to do cus am a dumbass

[somber sequoia]

perhaps you could explain what you're trying to do?

[grizzled sand]

The person who Gabe me this avi told me I needed to drag a specific prefab into the hierarchy and then upload it

[somber sequoia]

nothing in this images is helpful, but that's ok - if you know where the file is in the "Project" window (bottom by default), you can drag it into the "Hierarchy" (left by default), somewhere under the main avatar object.

[jade mural]

Huh... for some reason my shader is looking for audiolink in the wrong place. You have audiolink in your project right?

[left gull]

did the person that "gabe" you that model purchase it directly for you? that looks like flexuh's old sirai 2.0 model

[grizzled sand]

It is and am not sure if the did the send me the files and said they bought it for le so yeah

[left gull]

the only way you'd legitimately be able to use those files would be if they bought it as a gift for you, it'd send you and email with the files linked for most sites

[grizzled sand]

Ooh okay

[left gull]

so them sending the files directly means you shouldnt be using them

[grizzled sand]

Ooh okay

[trim prism]

is there a way to do dissolve toggles in vrcfury? ive just been doing them manually. like, making an on and off animation then setting it up in the avatars FX layer and stuff, but i feel like maybe i could do it with vrcfury?

[left gull]

have you looked in the VRCFury discord yet? someone might've already asked/explained it there, or even in their docs

[trim prism]

ill do that first!!

[mint sphinx]

how do i fix this...? iv look at all the things that would be wrong I.E, the avatar rig, the Avatar discripter, and such but i still cant find where its getting this error from

[somber sequoia]

find your model file, click it. In the inspector, in the rig tab, look for any errors at the top. If not, make sure the rig is set to humanoid, click configure, and make sure those ^ bones are mapped

[mint sphinx]

its all maped properly, the only warning i have is with the blend shapes

[somber sequoia]

did you look specifically where I said for any errors?

[mint sphinx]

yes

[somber sequoia]

ok, no idea then, with only that information.

I'd assume that something about the rig isn't right if it's still complaining.

[west dome]

i need some help setting up my avatar for eye tracking with vrcft
blinking was set to blendshape, so i set it to bones to have individual eye blinking, my avatar just happened to have individual eyelid bones
but now i can't blink fully anymore, my lower eyelid doesn't move and somehow my eyes are still linked together (tested with another avatar that is set up for vrcft, individual eye blinking worked fine on that)

[somber sequoia]

huh I'm not sure I've heard of anyone using bones for that

[west dome]

twhen i click the preview on "closed" in the avatar descriptor it only moves the upper eyelid same as in game but i've checked in blender and the bones are definitely assigned correctly

[west dome]

you have to

vrc doesn't let you set individual blendshapes for left and right eye blink

[somber sequoia]

oh I see

[round prairie]

Im confused. How do I fix this?

[west dome]

so this is the only way

[somber sequoia]

All of those parameter errors, you have to add the missing parameters into your avatar parameters list.

[west dome]

what happened to jacob?

[round prairie]

Cdarchives avatar, Its a refrence to the other character my friend made lol

[round prairie]

ok, I will figure out how to do that lol. Thanks!

[somber sequoia]

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

[west dome]

i think this is the issue

the bottom eyelids have no values filled in

but im not sure what to fill in

or if linked should be checked or unchecked

it doesn't have an editor for that so i can drag a marker around

[round prairie]

Now I have this ;-; Im so stumped

[fathom atlas]

Ive been told others are experiencing this but I will walk away from "uploading avatar" for an hour, come back, no changes.
I even tried to let it run for 8+ hours while i SLEPT and it was the same thing of no changes.
Is there any work around happening?
I am not banned, I am not suspended, I am stumped.

[west dome]

i think i've got it

[west dome]

how's your internet?

[fathom atlas]

at the max capacity. I played vrchat and unity ran at the same time when it was working

[west dome]

also, do you use vrcfury or modular avatar or anything like that? they apply during upload

[fathom atlas]

I use vrcfury as people say its needed

[west dome]

it's not, i don't use it

[fathom atlas]

idk i just put what people say i need

[west dome]

they slow down the upload too much, i prefer to just apply stuff to my avatar manually once, but thats personal preference

vrcfury makes it easier to update stuff

[fathom atlas]

its never been an issue before 5 days ago so im lost @.@

[west dome]

might be random server issues, i think i had the same issue once

why are my programs closing themselves

oh, steamvr closed

[fathom atlas]

i hope so. but again, others have experienced the same issues so im just wanting upload my 6 avis Ive got

[west dome]

anybody built avatars for ios? how does it work

ask a friend

[worn kiln]

?Tag scam

[flat musk]

Hey ho 👋 I see you're looking for commissions.

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🚫 Absolutely DO NOT engage with those, regardless of how competent they might seem or their excuse to why they contact you.
This is unsafe practice used by scammers, and also breaks this Discord's rules. 👮

If you seek a creator, check out VRCTraders and follow their protocols strictly 🥺
(You will get DM from bot to verify your account upon join.)

🌠 It's extremely important to always DEEPLY investigate the account and social media of the person you plan to commission.
Is their social media linked in Discord? Is it legitimate? Are the references stolen? (Try to reverse image search posts to check.) 👀
The quality of fake profiles out there can be crazy good, be aware of that and NEVER engage with DM or friend requests that originate from the artist.

When in the slightest doubt, do not commission them and contact the moderators of the involved communities. 😱

[west dome]

nobody does free commissions unless you know them well

[storm arrow]

scam?

No

[worn kiln]

read well, you get scammed.

[west dome]

you should expect to pay 50 bucks for a basic retexture, if you want something fully custom you better be rich (300++), they're a lot of work to make

how do i unlink my eyelids so they can close separately... it works with other avatars

instead of being able to control the eyelids separately, each eye controls half the eyelid movement of both eyes

so if i close one eye my eyes are half closed

apparently vrchat doesn't support this natively

[sharp nebula]

Yeah

[wicked cradle]

anyone who can help me figure out why cc wont let me change to the android and saying i need to select a cpu output despite it already being selected???

thats a scam

also im geninly about to throw cc if it keeps throwing these errors ive tried selectin just 1, then 2, then all and it keeps giving this

im just trying to make my most optimised avi quest friendly

[slow briar]

I have no pictures but, what could be the cause of my model's heads getting bigger when I upload them to Android? I assumed it was a scaling issue, but it looks fine on pc?

[worn kiln]

thanks

[sinful obsidian]

is there any reason buttons would be buffering icons in the radial menu?

[verbal marsh]

Hey, i'm looking for a plus size/"dad bod" male avatar base for a decent price. Anyone know of any?

[wanton cedar]

go to https://discord.com/channels/189511567539306508/1138520828556890214

[verbal marsh]

sorry? i thought that was for avatars. i'm just looking for a base model.

[wanton cedar]

base models are still in that category

[verbal marsh]

okay

well

i decided to just make my own edit of zin rp base lol

[west dome]

why don't my eye bone animations do anything 🙁

[west dome]

no matter what i do, i can't edit the position or rotation of the eye bones even in the editor while the scene is running, but i can edit the scale

not even if i remove the eye bones from the avatar descriptor

and i can't even play the animation in the editor without the scene running, it doesn't work there either

recording an animation doesn't work either on the eye bones, it doesn't get added to the animator

this stuff is borked

[ornate stump]

You could just animate eye bones in FX layer instead of Gesture.

[west dome]

and also it doesn't want to display the value i have it set to in the animator either, it just shows 0 when i select the animation from the avatar controller

[west dome]

i did

i also tried additive

[ornate stump]

Keep it in FX then. Your last screenshot showed it's in Gesture.

[west dome]

i moved it

this is what it shows when i open it from the avatar controller

[west dome]

when i open the animation directly it looks correct

is this why?

[ornate stump]

Did you make sure that eye bones aren't part of humanoid rig?

[west dome]

that's not possible

[ornate stump]

How is it not?

[west dome]

there are no eyes

[ornate stump]

In the Head.

[west dome]

oh

would removing it from there hurt anything?

[ornate stump]

Just remove it.

[west dome]

hmm

that gives me an idea

[ornate stump]

Don't use that.

[west dome]

why not?

[ornate stump]

Because vrchat doesn't utilize humanoid eye bones so you have to remove eye bone assignment from humanoid rig, this stop the property you pointed out from working.

[west dome]

but i can still use them

[ornate stump]

Waste of time.

[west dome]

i guess

if vrchat doesn't use it i'll just remove it

it might break some animations though

i mean, not the ones i have, but if i downloaded animations somewhere like dances and stuff

[ornate stump]

There only a few that has eyes animation. Most of the time it's just the avatar descriptor simulate eye look.

[west dome]

i think it works

only tested with av3 emulator

thanks for the tip

it's always minor things like this that break everything, and google is useless

[quasi delta]

hey, ive got some clothes on my avatar that im trying to scale to my model, but it wont let me scale or rotate the clothes to fit the model

trying to put the utility core clothes from pancake onto the stylized experiment by akittu

i uh, dont know what im doing lol 😭

so pls be kind to me

[ornate stump]

Are you doing this in unity or blender?

[quasi delta]

unity

[ornate stump]

Did you scale by bone?

[quasi delta]

uhh how would i check that

[ornate stump]

Then how did you scale?

[quasi delta]

it wont let me, thats the issue

[ornate stump]

Let me rephrase: What did you do to scale it?

[quasi delta]

i cant scale it.

OH

im using the scale tool thingy

[ornate stump]

On what object?

[quasi delta]

the parts that i need scaled

i have to do it to different parts of the prefab

[ornate stump]

What object that you selected to scale?

[quasi delta]

i dont know what you mean by that

[ornate stump]

You have to at least realize what object you selected and that will be affected by tool you're working with.

[quasi delta]

im gonna wait for my friend to wake up so they can actually explain this in terms i can understand

[lucid nacelle]

hi and a question, is there important thing i missed? because the view isnt moved on Z axis but does moved on Y for some reason. because i dont know why this happen

i have made an avatar before and this is my 2nd :3

[maiden bane]

I want to create a toggle that would let me move a mask from the hip to the hand (by making the fist gesture when the hand is touching the mask at the hip) and then let me put it on the avatars face, and vice versa. Ideally, I'd also want this to be quest compatible. Anyone know how I'd be able to do this or have any good guides? I'm kinda lost with the tutorials I've found so far.

[still shuttle]

Contacts and parent constraints are what you'd wanna use for that

[timber wharf]

@maiden bane https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp0ysawmizM just use vrc constraints ofc

[still shuttle]

Yeah vrc constraints are quest compatible

[maiden bane]

I'll have a look at that, thank uu!

[sinful obsidian]

trying to upload to quest, what does this mean?

[mortal dagger]

what dose this error mean?

[sinful obsidian]

hey we're in the same boat

[grizzled sand]

Hi I got a avi yesterday I really like the body it has but not the head so could anyone explain to me how to replace the head of A avi or send me a vid explaining it

[lucid nacelle]

helloo is it finne that i re ask?

[fresh rose]

Does anyone know how to add particles to gogo dash?

[manic rover]

can someone help me with this error please

[mortal dagger]

help me my animations don't work properly every single gesture is messed up

[teal laurel]

Define messed up, what exactly does not behave and what did it do instead?

[mortal dagger]

i fixed it the avatar creator has mixed up the gestures and haven't even downloaded all off them into the avatar

[mortal dagger]

so i downloaded the default gestures and replaced them with the broken ones

i am now confused on why the avatar is face looks like a racoon

this happened because of the textures

[teal laurel]

Btw if you are on windows you can use "Snipping tool" to create screenshots and post them here. If you don't have discord on pc, you can use your browser too.

[lucid nacelle]

or press print screen button (there no feedback, just press, the image will be in clipboard) and paste in discord

[opaque rampart]

stuck in a upload loop

windows successfully upload

android version makes the windows upload go into "security checks failed"

[mortal dagger]

Okay

but do you know how to fix the eye thing?

[teal laurel]

What eye thing? I don't really know how it should look

[mortal dagger]

this

[somber sequoia]

which thing exactly?

[mortal dagger]

THE eyes MAN

look at them my boy looks like a racoon

[wind pelican]

assuming this is using quest shaders?

[somber sequoia]

Right, just making sure it's clear what the problem is. Looks like that texture probably uses alpha transparency? Or maybe the shader has vertex colors enabled

[wind pelican]

you'll have to edit the avatar a bit in blender to get rid of transparent areas of the mesh in that case

if it's for pc though just make sure your transparency setting is correct in the material

[mortal dagger]

yes

[somber sequoia]

and that "alpha is transparency" is enabled on the base color texture if that's where your transparency is

[mortal dagger]

when i use alpha for some reason i get a bug

[somber sequoia]

ah - yeah that's the issue, the quest shaders

you can't use alpha on quest

[mortal dagger]

it wont allow me to upload the avi

[wind pelican]

yeah, quest doesn't support transparency. not a bug

[mortal dagger]

so i am cooked?

[wind pelican]

you'll need to edit the mesh in blender like i said to remove transparent parts

[mortal dagger]

Problem i cant use blender its too big for my laptop

[wind pelican]

make sure you re export it correctly once you're done as well

[wind pelican]

wdym?

oh

[mortal dagger]

i mean laptop

[wind pelican]

if you can use unity you should be able to use blender?

[mortal dagger]

isnt blender way heavier?

and i am using a potato Laptop

[somber sequoia]

definitely not

[wind pelican]

unity is usually more intensive for me

[mortal dagger]

So i have NO IDEA how to use blender

[wind pelican]

ill see if i can find a good tutorial for this

[mortal dagger]

can you tell me what to look for instead

[somber sequoia]

this is the thing where you use the knife tool to cut out the mesh that's black and remove it, right?

[wind pelican]

knife tool can mess up blendshapes iirc

you should be deleting and sliding + merging

[somber sequoia]

hmm, I suppose it could. I've never done this specific thing.

[cobalt cloak]

how do you make that the audio Spectrum only in the yellow part

[wind pelican]

i cant find any that use the blender method im talkin about, but look into vroid -> blender -> vrchat tutorials. i remember at least one talking about this

if/when you do completely ignore anything about CATS

[somber sequoia]

make a mask for it, pretty sure that section supports a mask

[cobalt cloak]

were do i put a mask in the spectrum settings?

and what dose the UV Mode and UV setting do

[ornate stump]

It changes what and how UV map take from.

[cobalt cloak]

huh?

i dont get it

[ornate stump]

Do you understand "UV mapping" in general?

[cobalt cloak]

not full but a bit

[ornate stump]

It just change what kind of uv map to be used on that feature.

[cobalt cloak]

okay and how do i make difternt uvs

[somber sequoia]

Blender (or similar)

[cobalt cloak]

so i coud make a UV1 and say only that part shoud be uset

[somber sequoia]

I'm assuming we're talking Poiyomi here, and so it seems you mask in this section:
https://www.poiyomi.com/audio-link/spectrum#color--mask

but yeah now that I'm looking, this is done via UV map, not a traditional mask, interesting.

[mortal dagger]

Okay so i downloaded blender and i don't know how to put my avatar straight to Blender

[somber sequoia]

find the model file in your Unity project, then in Blender, file -> import -> import fbx

[mortal dagger]

can i drag a prefab or dose it have to be a model?

[cobalt cloak]

ye ill try to do a new uv but first i need to look how

but thx

[somber sequoia]

blender works on model files, not unity prefabs.

[cobalt cloak]

i know i have to use fbx

[opaque rampart]

switched to a non beta sdk its still doing this

[mortal dagger]

Can i use a Photo editor instead?

[somber sequoia]

you cannot edit a 3D model with an image editor

[cobalt cloak]

how do i save the uv map as new one like i have UV annd UV1. UV is the holl wing and UV1 is the part for the audio link

[somber sequoia]

It's part of the mesh object itself, you don't save it out. Re-export the model as .fbx.

[cobalt cloak]

okay

but how do i assigne the part i wana have to UV1

[somber sequoia]

assign?

[cobalt cloak]

only that part shoud be used by audiolink and not the whole wing

[somber sequoia]

I haven't tried this personally, so I could only guess, but I bet you could ask this in the Poiyomi discord and get a quick answer

[cobalt cloak]

okay

i go to the poiyomi dc

[warped flax]

Hey I got a problem with my avatar.I need some help here at the screenshots

[peak flare]

something wrong with the rigging i believe thatd be in the "Avatar" section on the right

[cobalt cloak]

noboy is helping in the pyo dic bu I've now managed to do something about UV1, but the tex is completely messed up

okay the wings are completely broken

[clear nova]

Hello, ive been wanting to make an avatar but im just not skilled enough to make what I want. I also want to make sure it is quest playable so I was hoping to find someone who can help me either by just showing me the way to do what I want or even manually help me 🙏😭

[junior void]

Are you saying you want someone to do it for you for free

[foggy wadi]

I know a guy, think his name's YouTube or something.

[solar warren]

Dont you mean AiSlopTube?

[foggy wadi]

Ah yes, I think thats it

[clear nova]

YouTube can only do so much but it was worth a try

[hushed torrent]

i need help, the avi i uploaded came with 4 prefabs in total, how do i mkae the toggles so i dont havet to upload all seperatly

[junior void]

why would you?

just pick one that has everything you want or at least most

[timber wharf]

me?

[rare jacinth]

So question. If im adding a new tail in blender do I have to link the armature of the new tail to the body? I wanna make it toggleable between two different tails

[sturdy prawn]

why is it doing this?