avatar-help

[balmy barn]

should make it a toggle if you plan on using 3rd person

[crude anvil]

I gotta figure out how to make it a toggle

Im still zero at the moment like I did this just today

[elfin pendant]

Does anyone know if its possible to make hueshift and color change animations with liltoon? (Like hueshifting rimlight ect)

[agile reef]

hiya so, I have an issue with my model where the feet are strange in-game but they're fine in unity out of play mode. when I hit play mode the feet go weird. It's like the model moves downward into the floor slightly and the feet turn outwards from their original position-

[somber sequoia]

first thought is to make sure bone roll is 0 for all humanoid bones (except fingers/toes)

[agile reef]

where would I find this setting to check? o:

[somber sequoia]

in blender or similar

[agile reef]

if it were in blender then wouldnt the whole model be affected instead of it being JUST when I hit play mode or in-game?

[somber sequoia]

no, not if the bone roll was weird

[agile reef]

okay, so where in blender would I check those settings?

[somber sequoia]

edit the armature, select a bone, look in the item properties

[agile reef]

it seems every bone has a diff number

[somber sequoia]

every humanoid bone should be 0

[agile reef]

by humanoid do you mean like, the base armature ( hips, spine, chest, etc?

[somber sequoia]

Yes, not including fingers or toes, those can be whatever is needed

[rapid forum]

ive been making avatars for years and ive never seen this happen. why on gods green earth is her head snapping backwards everytime i put it in play mode 💀 even when i play around w go loco and stuff her head moves normally but its still snapped backwards?? im so confused. everything is normal in blender/not in playmode

[somber sequoia]

any animations doing that?

[rapid forum]

i dont think so. i dont have toggles set up yet and i use the same facial expression animations over and over again from previous avatars since i use the same base. i can check tho

okay. i found out my issue. i think i broke something when i imported the fbx LOL whenever i preview the animations every single one of them snaps the neck back

[somber sequoia]

ah weird

[vast crystal]

Any idea how to fix this??
Everytime I enter pose mode the arm does this and I don’t understand what’s causing it

[somber sequoia]

select all bones, clear transforms

then look

[thorn orbit]

looks like bad weight painting to me

like a bone got deleted or sumn

[somber sequoia]

yep, to me also

[agile reef]

ok so the issue has something to do with the FX garunteed. I re-exported a new fbx to test and it only does this when I add the FX

[somber sequoia]

a trick you can do is to set the weight for each layer in that animator to 0, then when in play mode, enable them one by one until you find the problem layer. Then debug that.

[rapid hazel]

so i am working on a protogen from a vrc avatar to a vrm vtuber, but my issue is the eyes sit behind the visor and it dosent show up how would i fix that?

[rapid hazel]

Any help would be great

[floral fable]

Dunno if you found a solution but how does it look when you configure the bones?

[round prairie]

ok, I'm having a problem where Goco Loco is duplicating in-game, only one set works, and I don't know how to fix this. I'm using the goco loco beyond prefab for vrcfury.

it does this for all of the pages, and nothing works on the intial page ;-;

[gaunt knoll]

did you avi come with gogo and you added beyond?

[ashen bridge]

Hello is ther anyone I can talk to with helping me with an avatar I have purchased, for context it is the Komano avatar

[gaunt knoll]

thats what this discord is for

just say your issue

[round prairie]

no, I added goco loco myself. I am in the process of making this avi and I am so confused on what is happening ;-;

[gaunt knoll]

Remove the prefab from the hierarchy

Then check if the dup is still there

[ashen bridge]

well for example there is this asset to open usually for avatars and I cannot find it on this avatar

[round prairie]

the dup is gone, but now gocoloco doesnt work

[gaunt knoll]

Looks like you didn't install gogo correctly

[round prairie]

ah, thanks! Now I need to figure out how to install it correctly lol

[gaunt knoll]

It's in prefab as this is a base model not a whole Avi it doesn't have the "open me!" To open a scene

[round prairie]

I figured out what I did, I made a custom expressions thingy in the avatar descriptor lol

[gaunt knoll]

Nice job
On figuring it out

[vast crystal]

so after seeing this i did see i was missing a bone and i managed to get the bone back but now im having this problem lol

only on the left side tho, and the shoulder bone is not matched up with the other one?

[somber sequoia]

that is a scene file. Your package may not have included one.

[ashen bridge]

Yea I understand that now but I have no idea how to convert it into an avatar to upload

[somber sequoia]

if your creator didn't provide a scene, drag the model into the scene and follow one of the many tutorials to setup from scratch.

[rapid hazel]

so i am working on a protogen from a vrc avatar to a vrm vtuber, but my issue is the eyes sit behind the visor and it dosent show up how would i fix that?

[somber sequoia]

do you know how this is supposed to work? like, is it transparency, or two shaders with stencil settings, etc...

[rapid hazel]

Im new to everything

This is only my second project

[somber sequoia]

okay..'

[rapid hazel]

I can vc if needed to show everything and explain

[somber sequoia]

this may be of some use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSwMz4WcajQ

[cobalt cloak]

How do I get eye and face tracking on the Nova? Is that something I have to buy separately?

[heavy marsh]

What do I do when the "assigned ID doesn't match the API id."

[simple ocean]

hey so i have this calibration issue - in the avatar humaoid rig configuration it looks normal and it also looks normal when i'm in desktop vr. however in full body vr my arms are fully extended and they wont drop to my sides/reach the length of the models arms- it's calibrating to the length of my arms irl instead. the same problem with my hip and legs! is this a tracking issue or a model issue in unity?

[rapid hazel]

Would this work for a protogen as well?

[somber sequoia]

it's an avatar, yeah?

[rapid hazel]

Yes

Im at a loss

[wanton cedar]

Any idea why this is happening? no colliders are on the head. it doesn't play in gesture manager. Not sure why its an in game only issue

[somber sequoia]

it's not really clear what you're trying to do

[somber sequoia]

"this"?

wait, is that a jittering physbone?

[wanton cedar]

I felt like the issue was pretty clear if you watch the video

[wanton cedar]

Yup

[somber sequoia]

try to use SDK 3.10.2

Fixed PhysBones regression which caused bones resting on PhysBone colliders to jitter.

[wanton cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/markiplier-fire-fnaf-3-ending-hospital-disaster-gif-1976739374427047349

damn, my gif

Well, I will try that. thank you

[rapid hazel]

Im converting a vrc avatar to vrm for a vtubing avatar and when I apply univrm the eyes and mouth sit behind the visor and does not show on final product

[somber sequoia]

no idea about univrm at all, but if you knew how this worked in vrchat, we might have a bit of guidance on what to look for. Such as if the visor is partly transparent, then verify that's possible and that you have configured the shaders properly

[rapid hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/jddjxj-dmndnd-head-smash-gif-17979724

[somber sequoia]

also I only now just realized I meant to reply with this message, it should have been directed at @azure sonnet

[tepid patrol]

Been for the life of me trying to fix this shader issue, it renders fine in the project but loading it into VRChat keeps giving invalid shaders

and also a weird misplacement on the left hand

[somber sequoia]

Does it happen in play mode in Unity? Likely it's a material swapped on via animation.
The sticking out vertex looks like bad weight painting

[tepid patrol]

let me check

how do a make a camera render in play mode

[rapid hazel]

I can also mess with the blend shapes to get the eyes and mouth shown but i don't know

[somber sequoia]

the default one in the scene should, assuming it's tagged "Main Camera"

[tepid patrol]

Looks normal in play mode

[rapid hazel]

From what im seeing it's something in blender that's an issue

[tepid patrol]

want me to send the FBX?

[rapid hazel]

Im meaning my own project dont mind me

[tepid patrol]

ah

[tepid patrol]

tried with the raw blender file, still the same thing

it might be the fact that im using the unity engine on linux and there might be a mismatch

ill try it later on my windows partition

[honest pasture]

Hello I'm encountering a problem with one of my avatar when i upload it for me i can see all the preview of goco loco normally, but i upload it for my friend and i only see standing position even if it's technically working .

Thanks for the future Help

[simple ocean]

bump 😭🔑

[tribal cipher]

Did you make sure to weight paint correctly? I think part of the hand is missing weights.

[restive loom]

dose any one know how to fix this wired shading thing i add these to the panda base v2

[balmy barn]

merge by distance / clear custom normal , either or both maybe

reminds me when i see things that got seperated and merged later,

[restive loom]

how do you clear custom normal becuse its all ready mearged

[balmy barn]

select entire av , clear custom split normals data (blender versions have different names this is 4.5) , then add one after, see if shadow goes away

[restive loom]

thank u

will the old normal maps still work

[thorn tide]

is anybody able to help me with uploading an avatar?

i bought an avatar from mai and imported everything she said on gumroad but i can't get it to work somehow

[somber sequoia]

You'd have to provide details - what did you do, what is the result you got

[thorn tide]

well, first of all i had to install locomotion vrcfury and GoLoco 1.8.6. then 2 shader packs. i installed everything. then i imported everything into my project and opened the avatar scene. The Shaders and everything load normal but GoLoco isn't working.

I put GoLoco into the avatar, hit play so vrcfury does its thing and it tells me i am missing GoLoco Assets which shouldn't be the case?

[somber sequoia]

Share the error

[thorn tide]

yeah, one moment

[somber sequoia]

also explain how you installed those things

[thorn tide]

well, i imported the shader packs via drag and drop into the project. VRCFury is in my installed packages in VCC. GoLoco is also imported via drag and drop or installed inside of VCC, i need to check

Error:

[somber sequoia]

yeah you need to check - this seems to think it's in Assets, it'd be in Packages if it came from VCC

[thorn tide]

i have it in VCC

it's in Packages

[somber sequoia]

curious why that ^ is looking for it in Assets then.

[thorn tide]

problem is, this is my very first time ever doing this xD

[thorn tide]

and same

[somber sequoia]

hmm.

I don't use either of these things, so I'm not sure why it'd be looking there specifically.

[thorn tide]

it seems to be missing controllers but idk where they have gone?

[chilly solar]

hey yall ive asked in here before i think but didnt really get an answer, why do my vrc fury toggles randomly turn off and also dont save when taking my avi off and putting it back on?

[fleet island]

i havent even put any pakcage in and ive cleared up a ton of space

hellppp

[opal relic]

Anyone know where to locate the hand rest pose? I'd like to reuse it in my avatar.

nvm found it!

Actually, one other thing. I know how to add a singular sound effect, but how do I add a pool of sound effects for one toggle? For each activation, it randomly pulls from a collection of sound files.

[thorn tide]

@somber sequoia i fixed it

i just had to not press anything else besides the things it said lmao

[somber sequoia]

hah!

I guess that works

[thorn tide]

yeah hahahah

[fossil idol]

Does anyone know how to render hair in unity? I am trying to apply the textures I have here but I am unsure how to add them properly to make them render

[somber sequoia]

you don't really "render" hair in unity, probably these textures just go into a material with a decent shader. Can't tell which those are from the truncated filenames though.

[opal relic]

The animator setup looks a bit different from this tutorial compared to my project. Do I set mine up any differently?

[timber wharf]

what, its the same just with default nodes out of screen due to zoom in.

[opal relic]

Just making double sure. I am not familiar with using this animator.

[opal relic]

Is mine set up correctly? Do I need to worry about the "exit" bit?

[somber sequoia]

worry about it if you use it, otherwise don't 🙂

[timber wharf]

@opal relic with avatars exit basically teleports you back to entry, so most cases it useless

[opal relic]

I don't know if I'd use it, that's the thing. I am not experienced working with the animator.
What I am doing is adding hair brush sound effects. Rather than leaving it as a simple sfx toggle, I am having it to where it pulls from a list of sfx variants when the sound is toggled by a hand gesture.

[timber wharf]

back and forth from A <-> B is the same as entry->A->B->exit

[somber sequoia]

I often use exit... but sometimes I don't

what's the real difference between going back to your start state vs. exiting and letting unity do that? uh....

[supple prawn]

got this hair that works with Alpha. It was going well, but on Unity it becomes TOO transparent, can anyone help?

[fossil idol]

Lol I'm trying to do a cloud one to xD

[supple prawn]

Really? Which

[fossil idol]

I'm trying to do some ever crisis models and his swimsuit from rebirth but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get it properly into unity, most of the textures mess up and the only ones I've not been able to get in are the eyes and hair, which is the texture issue I was having above

I'm not sure how to render / map em, I'm totally new to this LOL

[supple prawn]

So cool. Can we move to DMs? Don’t wanna cloud the server but I wanna ask more!

[fossil idol]

Yeyeye

Also LOL

[opal relic]

Like I mentioned, the goal is when "Hairbrush.L/R" is toggled on (which is just an empty) and a fist hand gesture is made, it plays a random sfx from a list of hairbrush sounds. I have it set up as such. I followed this tutorial: https://youtu.be/BmXCXP6UsQ8
Yet it plays no audio. Where did I go wrong?

[frosty junco]

trying to add a new material to an avatar but I can only find the "Mesh" in the files, no fbx

is there a way to get the fbx from the mesh or something

[little plume]

anyone know how to make visemes using bones?

ive never done mouth animations

i want to make hand geature controlled eyebrow expressions that also change which talking animation is playing

[opal relic]

Just noticed there is nothing in the audio source in the animator, yet it won't let me add any.

[vapid relic]

So me and my friend are working on a avatar and what happens is when we join a new instance in that avatar it looks like the viewport gets moved forward a little but and when we look down the avatars chest and dress moves backwards when it shouldnt so does anyone know what may be causing this? We went making this avatar from scratch btw too and yeah we have been stuck on this.

[crude anvil]

i was told to make this a toggle

so how do i do that

[tepid patrol]

How do I fix the eye position when tracking

oh wait nvm rotation was just messed up

[somber sequoia]

make what a toggle?

[crude anvil]

this

the camera

[somber sequoia]

is this just someone playing in the beta 3rd-person mode?

or is this actually a camera behind the avatar

[crude anvil]

A camera behind the avatar

[somber sequoia]

neat

[crude anvil]

Marvel rivals style

[somber sequoia]

if you say so

[patent frigate]

if I made a model in blender and ported it to Gmod would it be easier to decompile the mod or just use the blender file with the armature to put it into vrchat?

[somber sequoia]

just export as fbx into unity

[patent frigate]

through crowbar or blender?

[somber sequoia]

blender, I don't know what crowbar is

[stuck oxide]

Sooo i tried merging a head to a body in blender for an avi im making, but when i merged the armatures it messed up the parenting somehow and im not sure how to fix it. when i move the neck it doesnt move the head and vice versa. any ideas?

[ornate stump]

Parenting can be done in edit mode for armature. For the most basic part, select a bone and see in the Bones data tab in properties view. There will be "Relation" where you set parent.

[tepid patrol]

I finally found the reason for the broken vertex

I LITERALLY mispelt the vertex group

[ornate stump]

Try Robust Weight Transfer plugin.

https://discord.com/channels/189511567539306508/1139228456090087495

[errant jacinth]

I’m trying to add a new texture after removing the existing one

I’m new to unity

:(

[ornate stump]

If an object is in between multiple bones then it can't be "automated" correctly. You will have to manually do weight paint.

[errant jacinth]

When I open the unity package and delete the existing texture it doesn’t allow me to add another or a different one

[ornate stump]

https://youtu.be/rRAnDMUbWt8?t=80 Make new material for it.

[errant jacinth]

Didn’t do anything

[ornate stump]

What do you mean didn't do anything?

[stuck oxide]

how do you turn off backface culling with poiyomi?

[ornate stump]

Set culling in Rendering section

[stuck oxide]

ty!

[frosty junco]

when I put the original FBX in its normal, I only added two new materials and (presumably) used all the right export settings and it turned into a shoe

;-;

[ornate stump]

Apply Scalings should be "FBX All".

[frosty junco]

let me try that

[quasi cargo]

Hi I have a question. Is there a way to animate blendshapes this way? I want bouncy eyes but I am new to blender and unity and have no idea how to do it

Also I don't have face tracking

[frosty junco]

still a shoe :(

[ornate stump]

Then the inverse is Apply Scalings Local.

The model should update the scale correctly in the scene, unless you did Unpack Prefab the model in the scene.

[ornate stump]

Not in a very straight forward way. It's quiet complicate since you have to also simulate bouncing physic and link it to blendshape animation.

[frosty junco]

pinning this for tomorrow, ty

[quasi cargo]

But possible?

[ornate stump]

Yes. There already are some avatars doing that.

[quasi cargo]

Do you know where I could find one?

[ornate stump]

I can't recall any of them.

[strong summit]

ummm, help?

I dont know how i can explain my problem now, but my friends told me am cooked

[round comet]

it’s called like — a jelly blink

Some people have made animations for certain heads

Or the bouncy looking blinks

What head are you trying to animate it on?

[balmy barn]

ignore and see console what errors you have - fix usually add what its missing , fixed a few of them myself

[spiral jay]

Is there a way to animate this on a willa head?

[round comet]

Most likely! The head itself has enough blendshapes for it. I’ve seen creators like femcel and cozu do it

[spiral jay]

Rightttt. Ugh I like the way cozu does it. Didn’t know they used willa tho. Def gotta go back n look

[round comet]

I’m not sure they do :o but they’ve done it on several of their heads. Willa is probably similar. You could always ask cozu for advice. They’re really kind and helpful

[spiral jay]

Really? I’ll def see then

[unkempt canopy]

does liltoon shader have cubemaps or only poiyomi

[round comet]

I dunno if I see cubemaps

[west cipher]

Legit came here for the exact advice!!

[shrewd wyvern]

Hi guys! Is there anyone here who could help me one-on-one with making anime-style hair in Blender? I really want to learn, but I’m stuck and can’t figure it out. I’m willing to pay for tutoring if needed. Please DM me!

[little plume]

my model has already existing face bones that id like to use to make the talking animations but I dont know how to do this

id also like to make hand geatures that change the facial expression and mouth animation

and also setup random blinking

[spiral jay]

Right it was so cutesy. It really is blendshapes tho. Pupil ones. You just gotta watch a few yt videos on animating blendshapes and make an animation clip. You link that to your blink blendshapes

It sounds like a lot but it was super easy

[spiral jay]

I believe that’s a poi thing

[west cipher]

Think you could send me a few yt vids? Or what helped you?

[little plume]

every video I find about making face animations in blender uses shape keys and not bone animations

idk why i would make them from scratch like that when I already have face bones that are perfectly weighted to the model

[somber sequoia]

You could just start from scratch instead. Or hide parts you don't want to paint.

[west cipher]

I’m confused on what blendshapes I need to create in particular to get that jelly eye look

[balmy barn]

pose every bone for a viseme and record it as animation then detect whenever you speak and animate , done it and its ALOT of work compared to creating 3 visemes in blender then auto generate rest

blendtree way, you need to pose every mouth bone for every viseme

cant remember if i still have that avatar anymore , probably buried in test ones

every xna model that comes with alot of facebones its way faster to do it blender

[pliant niche]

toggles that are in the gesture manager aren't showing up in vrchat what do i do

[void thunder]

Is there any way I can get this model to work or should I just make a new one?

[still shuttle]

That is very high poly. Technically it could work depending on the exact poly count but the performance will be not very good.

I highly recommend redoing the topology

[stoic dew]

can someone please help me with properly exporting an outfit from blender?

left is only the fbx and right is my avatar with the provided prefab which doesnt show the outfit.

[spark walrus]

Can someone help me and my friend on an avatar they are uploading for me, It’s a blender model and we are trying to get it ready for Unity and compatible

[lone shoal]

im having issues with a particle on one of my avatars - the first instance that the particle runs works perfectly fine, but anything from a looped iteration (or if prewarm is enabled) will always fire perpendicular to the direction the shape is pointing and is unaffected by the object rotating (ie if the object rotates 45* up it still points straight down as that is 90* from its original rest point)

[still shuttle]

Do you have legacy blendshape normals on?

Mk, and import normals?

Is it your material settings? Its possible it could be lighting settings

It almost looks like the vertices are separate. Like the chest vertices aren't connected to the torso, I might be wrong tho

[buoyant escarp]

Honestly if you’ve applied smooth shading already it might just be the shader?

I’m an amateur though so I may be wrong

[still shuttle]

Have you tried merging by distance in edit mode?

You should try that

Have you tried merging by distance in blender tho? Specifically where the lines occur?

[buoyant escarp]

Export as fbx, make sure to have mesh, and textures eported so you don’t export an empty model.

From there change generic rig to humanoid and manually assigned bones as needed. Make sure vismes are proper and other minute mesh details such as blend shapes.

[buoyant escarp]

You might wanna export these separately tbh.

As separate fbx’s if trying to export the outfits as a “standalone” to the avatar.

I recommend having VRCfury to automatically attach/link armatures.

[balmy barn]

try a blank texture see if it still does those lines , if your uv too close to another color you get funny lines like that (got one that red lines appear on head when viewed from distance even with 16 pixel texture 'bleed' )

[stoic dew]

Yes exporting just the outfit.

[buoyant escarp]

You should file>export>fbx

Select “selection only” or “collection only” (requires objects to be in separate collections)

[stoic dew]

It's something else I need help with

[somber sequoia]

what specifically do you need help with though?

[spark walrus]

I Got someone helping

I’ll let you know if we need back up 😄

[spark walrus]

We’re trying to get it ready for unity

[somber sequoia]

that's the opposite of specific

[spark walrus]

Sorry-

[somber sequoia]

that's ok, it's just difficult to provide advice without knowing what to advise on.

[ancient drift]

im trying to find the code for one of merz' avatars. does anyone know where to find it?

[somber sequoia]

I don't know those specifically but it sounds like the kind of thing you get if you purchase it.

Pay your artists.

[night ember]

The actual person that uploaded it
If you dont know it or how to get it then you arent meant to use it

[ancient drift]

in the bio of the avi it just said to join the v.c.a discord for the code.

[somber sequoia]

doesn't sound like this discord

[night ember]

This isnt "the v.c.a. discord"

[ancient drift]

well do one of you know what is???

[balmy barn]

never heard of it - vrhcat have no system to share with x person only, so some use a password system on it (been there done that)

[somber sequoia]

never heard of it.

[ancient drift]

oh ok...

[night ember]

Im assuming you found this avatar in a search world instead of the actual world it came from

[ancient drift]

yeah

[night ember]

Thats your first mistake

[ancient drift]

oh

[night ember]

Search worlds dont automatically mean they are all free to use
Just that the avatar id was grabbed and put there

[frosty junco]

are these the correct export settings for an fbx?

my avatar is turning into a shoe every time I try to update the fbx (by editing the original) and all im doing is adding two new materials

the shoe in question

[somber sequoia]

the only things I mess with are what to export, "apply scalings = FBX All", disable leaf bones, and I personally set "smoothing" to "face" for avatars, and then import blendshape normals in the import in Unity. that last one is kinda optional, if stuff works for you

[frosty junco]

what does setting the smoothing to face do?

[somber sequoia]

that plus importing normals is what worked for me having blendshapes look correctly.

[trim rover]

i'm having an odd problem, physbones won't work with rotation constraints even if "is animated" is enabled

i never had this problem before and am failing to see the diffrence between how my new avatar is set up and how my older ones were

also the pinky on my modle won't open all the way no matter what i do in the fbx settings

[frosty junco]

where is the setting for the blendshape normals?

[trim rover]

all the other fingers i was able to work out in muscles and settings but not the pinky

[somber sequoia]

in the import settings in the inspector for the FBX file in Unity

[wanton cedar]

I've seen a way to make still mesh wave like its fabric in the wind, where is that setting in poi again? I don't think im talking about vertex glitching.

[somber sequoia]

I don't see such a thing

[gray compass]

how do i fix this?

im using unity 2022

[somber sequoia]

never seen that one before

[wanton cedar]

Found it. It's tornado. I expected it to be a literal tornado effect.

[somber sequoia]

oh, yeah given that you said "fabric", tornado wasn't what I was thinking of at all

[gray compass]

never fucking mind

[somber sequoia]

Yeah if you're not on that one, that's the problem

[gray compass]

istg ima crash out

[tight gale]

hey does anyone know if there's like a Shader or something that would give avatar stitches to my avatar?
similar to the ones that you would see on plush animals

[somber sequoia]

there's a tool in Substance Painter that lets you do that along UV borders or along paths, or simply freehand painting. Haven't seen a shader for it though

[quasi cargo]

Milltina but I don't mind head swapping. Since I found a way to do itpretty easily.

https://maewbaewshop.booth.pm/items/4232601

I found this if anyone else is ever looking for jelly blink

[buoyant escarp]

Yeah VCC and VRC website has conflicting 2022 versions stated…

[marsh basin]

Hello i have a question, i created an avatar on vroid, and unity says i don't have the permission to use the avatar :(

[left wharf]

?upload

[flat musk]

You must obtain at least "New User" Trust Rank in our Trust and Safety system in order to upload content. You can get this by just spending a few hours in VRChat, hop some worlds, and make some friends. Give it some time and you'll be able to upload content in no time.

As an aside, you must have a VRChat account to upload content. That means you can't use a Steam account, Oculus account, or Viveport account to upload content like worlds or avatars.

Source: https://docs.vrchat.com/docs/frequently-asked-questions

[marsh basin]

oooh ok.

[errant jacinth]

How do you get clothing to appear for other people?

[lilac musk]

Make sure the parameters those animations are using are set to synced

[supple prawn]

Can someone explain to me how to switch avatar Meshes with Vrcfury? I hear you have to animate it, but im confused

[somber sequoia]

it could be as easy as toggling off one mesh object and on the other, but you can't swap which mesh vrchat does visemes on so usually this isn't what you want to do. I usually just switch avatar.

[spark steeple]

would anyone be able to help me uploading my avi im having some trouble even though i followed all the instructions your supposed to

[mystic tendon]

hey! i updated my avatar recently and now its failing to verify, and i honestly have no idea why. im very new to this, so its very plausible that i have made a simple mistake. if you can help me out, that would be a big help!

[somber sequoia]

Explain what you just did and where you are stuck

[somber sequoia]

I recommend taking a look at the console for more details.

[spark steeple]

so i have the avi uploaded technically, like it appears on the website, but it doesnt in game, and i beleive i made some error along the way as when i go to upload it it hangs on the build phase. no errors appear that are like not normal either

[mystic tendon]

i did, but i couldn't understand what any of the errors meant 😅

[somber sequoia]

that's ok - we can help if you paste them. That second one is a problem - you'll find an "auto fix" button in the build window, above the "build and publish" button. Do that first.

[mystic tendon]

alright, i did that. what should i do next?

im assuming paste the errors?

[somber sequoia]

dunno, depends on what else is wrong. Always look at the first 2-3 errors first.

[spark steeple]

would u be able to help fix my issue kazin? id need u to take a look at a screenshare ig bc im so lost 😭

[somber sequoia]

I'm not going to do a screenshare, but feel free to post images in here so that anyone present can help.

[spark steeple]

thats fair

ty

[jovial forum]

can anyone help me fix a bone weighting issue? its been bothering me for a while and i cant get it to work how i want. dm if u can pls

[somber sequoia]

you'll more likely get help if you explain your issue right here

(also I don't do private help in DMs)

[jovial forum]

all good, wasnt expecting any help there just wanted to explain the situation :)

[somber sequoia]

I admit I didn't even read it, sorry.

(I get a lot of these)

[jovial forum]

lol all good

[stuck oxide]

if im trying to update a model i already have in unity, how do i export my blender fbx directly to the pre existing version instead of having to reimport the new one and set it up again?

[proud cobalt]

Hey! I currently have a Mamehinata avi and want to add the brushing option. I followed the instructions as the manual said but in the scene my avi has it in her hand; I'm worrying that when I log into the game after uploading her, she'll always have it in her hand? Is there a set up I need to do? Does anyone know?

[somber sequoia]

Overwrite the .fbx file, using the same settings previously used, especially "Apply Scalings".
Also don't unpack the model in the scene - if you unpacked it, this won't work.

[stuck oxide]

how do you overwrite it?

[somber sequoia]

literally file-save as over the file

[stuck oxide]

ive saved the file already as the exact same name, so the fbx is overridden, but i mean getting it in unity to override the model without having to drag and drop it and override the prefab, when i overide the prefab it removes all the materials and i have to put them on all over again

nvm

[somber sequoia]

no really - if you overwrite the file, and did not unpack the model prefab, it will ebcome updated in Unity automatically

[stuck oxide]

im so confused 😭 sorry im so slow with verbal instructions

[somber sequoia]

okay.... which part needs clarification?

[stuck oxide]

what do i do in either blender/unity to make it directly override the model once i export it

[somber sequoia]

export your FBX, overwriting the .fbx file that's in your Unity project.

like, literally select the existing file in the filename part of the export dialog.

[stuck oxide]

well..yes, i do that

that doesnt override the one in unity

thats my issue

it just updates the file on my computer, i still have to reimport the updated one

[somber sequoia]

if you are saving over the same file, I don't see how that is not overridding the file

how exactly do you do this "reimport" part?

[stuck oxide]

just dragging and dropping the fbx back into unity, the same way ive always done it, because for me it doesnt automatically override it i have to reimport the fbx and turn it into a humanoid and override it myself

[somber sequoia]

no no

[stuck oxide]

[somber sequoia]

where are you dragging from?

[stuck oxide]

my files

[somber sequoia]

no

[stuck oxide]

file explorer

[somber sequoia]

the file that's in unity is the one you need to overwrite

not the one you are dragging from

[pseudo minnow]

hello all. I am currently trying to get my wifes avatar to convert to VRc. its a .fbx and i cannot for the life of me, even with the help of the almighty youtube and google get this thing to work at all. i have unity, blender, everything i think i need. I apologive is this isnt allowed here but i didnt see any threads or posts about this already. can anyone here help me out or at least point me towards a good step by step guide so she can use her new avatar?

[somber sequoia]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSwMz4WcajQ

[pseudo minnow]

tysm

[somber sequoia]

come back and ask if you get stuck

[pseudo minnow]

i will thank you

[pseudo minnow]

that was beyond helpful. though the model doesnt show any color. is there a way to fix that?

[somber sequoia]

of course, apply properly set-up materials

I'm sure there are tutorials for that too

[pseudo minnow]

i can do that. the hard part was learning how to make it go to vr chat. i appreciate the help immensely

[somber sequoia]

I don't have links - this is the only one I regularly share

[jovial forum]

What would be the easiest set-up to animating physbone properties with a radial slider? (since they update when you turn the component on and off)

I am trying to adjust the max pitch with a radial slider

[somber sequoia]

I don't do this but it just now occurs to me that you can have a boolean set true when you open the radial - you could use that to disable the component, then re-enable when you exit the radial

[jovial forum]

That would work, Ill fall back to that if theres not another way, but would there be a way to do it in real time?

as in like, it moves as you move the radial

[somber sequoia]

not sure how you do that since, as you said, you can't edit it while it's on

[jovial forum]

Could you have a bool activate a loop where the component turns on and off very quickly?

Cause the object itself doesnt need to be turned off, just the component

[somber sequoia]

possibly, sure

[jovial forum]

And if so, would that tank performance?

[lilac musk]

Oh interesting idea

[somber sequoia]

probably

[jovial forum]

Lemme try it out

[jovial forum]

It sort of works, very buggy looking

When you turn back on the physbone, the bone resets to its base position, leading to it kinda buggin around all over the place

[gray compass]

yeah but i never knew they used THAT specific version now

[primal swift]

aaaaaaaaaaaa

[sick star]

is this fixable? not sure what i did

[buoyant escarp]

It says certain vars don’t exist.

Make sure you download VRCSDK and Avatar 3.0

And I’m assuming AV3 avatar manager or whatever.

You’re opening in safe mode doesn’t mean the avatar will fail to upload.

I have a duplicated shader definition under a backup folder. That cuases C# to freak out. I’m yet to see if adding “.ignore” does anything

[buoyant escarp]

Might have to reinstall VRCSDK (Base)

[sick star]

it lets yall do that?

[prisma monolith]

ok so how would I go about making a transforming animation for my avatar? it said I had to use a generic rig because my rig is already controlled by the humanoid one so i added in a seperate one with the generic rig and animated that one

but I just don't know how to switch between the humanoid one and the generic one to give the illusion of an actual transform

mb an ad was playing in the background

i was about to watch a video

[left stream]

is it just me, or are thumbnails just completely borked rn

the sdk builder tab is borked for me, i get 'No such host is known' if i have a blueprint ID attached, it's failing to resolve api.vrchat.cloud seemingly

like..? it's redirecting to null

it happens with most of my avatar's thumbnails except for one specific one

size 512 works but not size 256

it also works for my friend in the EU but not for me nor for one of my friends in the US

[stuck oxide]

Howdoyoufixthis

[ornate stump]

What is wrong with it?

[fleet ingot]

Hey there, I am currently working on Resident Evil Requiem avatars. Ngl I don’t work with bones or physics a whole bunch. Anyone got some tips and pointers on hair bones and cloth physics?

[stuck oxide]

my head like moves with my chest? idk, it stretches my body around

[left gull]

they're the same as normal bones alot of the guess work you'd be doing is messing with physbone settings and colliders in unity

[formal pawn]

How do I switch my poiyomi shaders to mobile shaders

Im a newbie at this

[ornate stump]

Look for materials in the renderer object, and change the shader in dropdown menu.

[formal pawn]

Where would I find the renderer object?

[ornate stump]

You just click on whatever object you had in the scene.

[formal pawn]

Uh

Ok

[proud cobalt]

I'm currently trying to attach a bandaid to my character's knee, but when I upload it to VRC and move around, the bandaid just lags behind rather than being attached to the knee.
I've dropped the prefab itself onto the body as most tutorials say to do but I can't find any answers to fix the problem.

[ornate stump]

The "Drop and Works" is assuming that the asset already preconfigured with armature linking tools. If it doesn't have that, then you have to find someway to do armature link.

[formal pawn]

I clicked on my model

But theres no renderer option

[proud cobalt]

Not sure what you mean but the prefab has the armature in it already.

[ornate stump]

Renderer is a component of an object. If you doesn't see renderer in the inspector panel, you will have to click on the object again until it selects different objects.

[formal pawn]

I found the mobile shaders

[ornate stump]

Armature link tool is a component usually named with "Armature Link" or "Merge Armature". If you don't see either in any object then it hasn't been preconfigured.

[formal pawn]

What shaders do I put them to

[ornate stump]

Good choices are:

• Standard Lit
• Toon Lit
• Standard Toon

[night ember]

toon standard but yesw

[proud cobalt]

How can I do that, sorry? I'm guessing the whole "bearweat" (the bandaids) asset needs to be manually attached to the main body, but I don't know how to do that myself...

[ornate stump]

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

[proud cobalt]

Thank you sm.

[formal pawn]

I set them, but it still shows this

[night ember]

so you didnt set them

[ornate stump]

You have to be thorough and check on every object.

[night ember]

and every material that gets matswapped via animation

[formal pawn]

Am I not doing this right??

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[formal pawn]

Slu6m6ivr

GRAH

Ok

I will click on every object

And set their shaders correctly.

I dont understand

[night ember]

you selected on one object

thats it

[formal pawn]

Watch the video

[ornate stump]

You might have to select object from hierarchy panel for more accurate selection.

[night ember]

I literally did and all you did was select the same mesh repeatedly

[formal pawn]

Ugh ill do this in the morning

Im tired

Gn yall

[vapid hedge]

if i want to make a beard in blender what would be the best shape to start with?

[ornate stump]

Cube, probably.

[void thunder]

Anyone have any tips or ideas on how I can finish the head?

[ornate stump]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PjJuasy4pk

[void thunder]

Thank you

[proud cobalt]

Trying to upload an avi I've finished up, but it tells me "Avatar validation failed" and then suggests I check the console but I don't know what this means,

[spice ruin]

Not sure whether this would go in optimization or not, but would anyone know why my both my shirt and tank top are showing up as this bright white when viewing with my impostor fallback shaders? I've tried changing the color of the default material in blender (which then gets replaced in unity with the pc shaders) but it's still a bright white and I've had multiple complaints about it...

[proud cobalt]

Does anyone know what this means and how to fix it?

[ornate stump]

You have to check more error above that.

[ornate stump]

How is your avatar object hierarchy look like?

[proud cobalt]

It's been working up until I updated Unity and then "migrated" my project.

Now it keeps saying that.

[left wharf]

you're opening two scenes.
this causes weird issues so close unused one.

[proud cobalt]

OHHH.

I've closed one and it still tells me avatar validation failed, same string of errors.

[ornate stump]

How is the hierarchy look like in play mode?

[proud cobalt]

Oh sorry I didn't open it-

Nvm it is, my bad.

[west cipher]

If I’m trying to have the tail wag when an expression is enabled. How would I go about adding that in?

[umbral crow]

hey, im new to creating avatar stuf. i managed to successfully upload the char i wanted to pc vr, but on android it says avatar validation failed. apparently the shader liltoon is not supported by that? or smth? and trying with the mobile shader rn, but now it looks ass, and idk what to do, smb please help qwq

[ornate stump]

You should use Toon Standard shader. And adjust the shading option until you are okay with it.

[umbral crow]

maybe its asked too much but would you be okay helping me? since i never done that nor anything in unity

[ornate stump]

You can ask specific questions.

[umbral crow]

idk, how to everything xD i changed the shader and looks pretty awakward and idk how to really adjust stuff in there to not break smth

[ornate stump]

First option is trial and error. Just try various settings and see the result, adjust, and so on.
Second option is you post the screenshot before and after you change the shader to compare and ask how to match the shading.

[ornate stump]

Breaking thing is a part of learning so just break it.

[umbral crow]

just wanted that avatar and not fully learn everything ^^'

[ornate stump]

You're asking question that means you're learning it.

[proud cobalt]

Either that or you commission someone </3

I'm still struggling and might give up and just ask for a commission. I can't figure it out and I've scoured the internet without success.

[umbral crow]

yea, looks like i have to

[proud cobalt]

Honestly all shaders for both Quest and Android don't look as detailed as your usual PC/VR ones so I wouldn't try to aim for something super detailed either. So long as it shows I'd take it lol

[slow briar]

How do people make avatars glow? [Pc and quest compatible]

[ornate stump]

Glow in what way? Emitting light on some part or stop the model affecting by darkness?

[slow briar]

Stop the model from being affected by darkness [didn't know that was possible tbh]

[ornate stump]

Some PC shader has "Minimum Brightness" or other option with similar name. For quest, you have to use Toon Standard shader, with adding texture image to emission map.

[slow briar]

Tysm ^^

[upper fog]

i have an audiolink visualizer prefab and i want to make it react to my voice instead of world audio, is that something that is possible/easy ?

[ornate stump]

Not possible.

[haughty citrus]

so when i start moving it starts to do that but when im standing still its fine how do i fix it

[somber sequoia]

is that some of the hair separate from the avatar?

[haughty citrus]

No when I start moving it just separates but when I stand still its on the head

[somber sequoia]

So yes, what I said, in that photo. Okay - how did you attach the hair?

[haughty citrus]

Thats the thing lol so the avi was purchased and the person that did the com dont wana help out apparently so thats why im here asking ) the pc version hair is good but for quests people the hair does that

[somber sequoia]

okay, well it's difficult to provide advice without knowing how it was done

I guess all I can say is that it's not attached right - perhaps it's a weight paint issue? maybe bone parenting?

[haughty citrus]

Thx I guess

[somber sequoia]

wish I could tell you more without really digging into the project to see how it's put together

[haughty citrus]

every thing is put together and done correctly for the pc version but when i just ply on my quest the front hair when i start moving it detach but it follows the head moments from a distance its alright im just ply around with it and see what i can do

[somber sequoia]

I wonder if it used a Unity constraint for the PC one, those aren't available on quest

[haughty citrus]

maybe that might be the prob

[junior void]

Only you can go and look at that

[formal pawn]

I'm back from last night, and the avatar I bought does have a quest version, but the textures look blocky.

Can someone help me make it not look like that?

[ornate stump]

Is it actually better for PC version?

[formal pawn]

Yes, the pc version doesnt have this, but the download size is making me not upload the pc avatar

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshpt the PC version for comparison?

[formal pawn]

Yuh

[formal pawn]

This is the version that the now deleted public version had

Grah

I love aliasing

[ornate stump]

What you mean "blocky" actually mean the red and black border has blurry seam?

[formal pawn]

No I mean the model looks blocky on the quest version

I've disabled crunch compression on the textures and masks

[ornate stump]

Do you actually mean the model has lower polygon count?

[formal pawn]

No, the pc version has less polygons than the quest version, so that can't be it

[ornate stump]

Super weird that it's really nonsensical to have quest version higher polygon than PC. Did you check in the sdk and see the tris count?

[formal pawn]

Uh

What

[ornate stump]

What of it?

[formal pawn]

The vrchat sdk?

[opaque thicket]

ok if i have this tail, how could i potentially duplicate it so that the avatar has more than 1
(doesnt have to connect to the avi, i just want to dupe it)

[ornate stump]

It's the only one sdk there.

[formal pawn]

Uh

Let me check

Yea, the vrchat sdk says 74011 polygons

[ornate stump]

If you work in unity and the tail has its own renderer, you will have to select the tail object and its binding bones and duplicate.

[formal pawn]

I don't really know where the breakdown is

[opaque thicket]

what if the tail is part of avatar and doesnt have its own rederear?

[ornate stump]

You should just use PC version and change shader to quest compatible then.

[ornate stump]

Then you have to edit the model in blender.

[opaque thicket]

aa

cripe

[formal pawn]

Theres another problem, the download size for android is 10.00 MB, and the pc avatar is 47 MB

So either I have to suck it up and deal with a worse model than the public avatar, or switch to pc entirely and inconvenience all my android users

All the shaders for the pc version are indeed set to vrchat mobile

[sullen fern]

How can I change the shader? It won’t let me for sum reason

I’m trying to change it so it can be quest compatible

[formal pawn]

Look for Shader and click it to drop down the menu, then click vrchat then mobile

[ornate stump]

Your model is strengly oversized. My avatar has even lot more features than this and still only 25MB download size.

[formal pawn]

Were you able to upload for android?

[ornate stump]

You have to create new material.

[ornate stump]

Android I cut a alot of features.

[formal pawn]

I see

So what am I supposed to do??

I don't want to have a worse model than the public version

[ornate stump]

Were you able to uploaded as Android?

[formal pawn]

I paid for it, I should get the same quality as pc

[formal pawn]

The pc version or quest?

[ornate stump]

The quest version.

[formal pawn]

Yes, I was

And no surprise that it just looks bad

[ornate stump]

I'm more surprised that the quest version has more tris than PC version and yet lower quality.

[formal pawn]

I'm just kind of upset..

Because I did what Saffron told me to do to upscale the quality

But it still looks the same..

[ornate stump]

Can't you just use the PC model file and replace all the shader?

[formal pawn]

Download size

Thats the problem

[ornate stump]

Have you tried?

[formal pawn]

Yes

It says it cant upload to android platform

[ornate stump]

Did you do exactly like:

1. Put the fbx model file into the scene.
2. Setup material for android
3. Add avatar descriptor.
4. Upload
   ?

[formal pawn]

No

Brb

How do I do step 2

And 3

[ornate stump]

Find material files that you already a have for android version and assign in the renderers.

[ornate stump]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRAnDMUbWt8

[formal pawn]

Do i just go into materials and set shaders to vrchat mobile?

[ornate stump]

No. You should already have the material with shader aldready set.

[formal pawn]

On the pc version I didnt

It said standard

[ornate stump]

Does the quest version already have material set to the mobile shader?

[formal pawn]

Yes

Im on the pc version rn

[ornate stump]

Are you working on a different project?

[formal pawn]

The pc avatar

[ornate stump]

Like you have one project for PC and one project for Android?

[formal pawn]

Yes

[final tusk]

I have an avatar with a skirt and when I run, the skirt flips up and shows the underwear of the avatar, I tried fixing this by limiting the angle on the skirt physbones and it kind of fixed it but it caused another problem with collision, for example when I crouch the skirt clips through the avatars legs. I'm new here so I don't know if I'm posting this in the right channel but if someone could help me with it I'd appreciate it

[ornate stump]

You shouldn't have to do that. Just put both in the same project.

[formal pawn]

Ugfhhfhfdod

Im so confused

[sullen fern]

I tried that

[formal pawn]

Ok

Delete the projects

[ornate stump]

And the result?

[formal pawn]

Put both quest and pc in same projecy

[sullen fern]

Still doesn’t work

[ornate stump]

Did you assign the new material you created into the model?

[sullen fern]

Still shows it is a standard material in the upload sdk

[sullen fern]

Wdym

[ornate stump]

https://youtu.be/rRAnDMUbWt8?t=42 Watch this video.

[formal pawn]

What plugins do I need

[ornate stump]

Only the sdk, package resolver, and see what the avatar package required.

[formal pawn]

So n9thing else out of this list?

[ornate stump]

Only the top 3 are the essential, the rest you will have to read in the page where you bought the avatar from.

And the rest you only import only when you know exactly why you need it.

[formal pawn]

It says 3.0 avatar

[ornate stump]

Of course that's the sdk.

[formal pawn]

Uh ok

[ornate stump]

Couldn't you just import another avatar package instead of just creating the new project though?

[formal pawn]

Well the two projects are gone already

[ornate stump]

I'm more like asking why you have to create new project instead of just using the old one.

[formal pawn]

Idk

The projects were deleted

So import both Unity packages into the scene?

[ornate stump]

"Import the packages into unity project"

[formal pawn]

Ok

Ok

They both imported

At least i think so, theres only one Karma unity thing

[formal pawn]

What do I do next? @ornate stump

[ornate stump]

1. Put the fbx model file into the scene.
2. Setup material for android
3. Add avatar descriptor.
4. Upload

[formal pawn]

Huh..

[ornate stump]

Pretty much watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRAnDMUbWt8

[formal pawn]

On the quest model or pc model??

I imported both packages into the project like you asked

There is only one scene asset

[ornate stump]

I suggested to use PC model so find fbx file for PC version and put it in the scene..

[formal pawn]

WHARE

is this the fbx model?

[ornate stump]

You have to find it within your project.

[formal pawn]

I dont understand

[ornate stump]

If you select a file, it will show the full file name at the bottom. The fbx file will literally have ".fbx" at the end.

[formal pawn]

So this isn't the fbx file then

Great

[ornate stump]

Did you actually take a look in each folder?

[formal pawn]

I found it

[somber sequoia]

right channel, but skirts are hard. Try until you get it right 🙂

[formal pawn]

How do I undo smth

I accidentally flipped the model when trying to drag the cube

[final tusk]

any hint so i can start by going in some direction?

[formal pawn]

Im following the video

I dint know what is happening

How do I know if it worked or not?

Why is the avatar description cube off the avatar?

I genuinely dont understand

This isn't the problem

This is not the problem

It is the download size I am trying to shrink down

None of this is my issue

OMG

[ornate stump]

To recap: your problem was your Quest model was so blocky, so the plan was to use PC model for quest instead.

[formal pawn]

yes

but the pc model has too high of a download size to upload

that

is

the

issue

[ornate stump]

And my problem, which is potentially your next problem, is we don't know whether the avatar size was made up with. So it's safer to setup the model for the avatar from ground up.

[formal pawn]

l cohvndi

i quit

fuck this

[ornate stump]

Ok.

[formal pawn]

ill come back in a bit

im too frustrated to deal with any of this

[jovial yarrow]

hey,
im looking for someone to teach me how to create my avatar, i don’t know how to use unity and i have a lot of trouble when i tried, and i only use free bases and pressets

(if a french person goes through there preferably it would be easier for me)

please thxx

[vapid slate]

does this mean anything or nah

[opal relic]

Oh shit hi @formal pawn !

[formal pawn]

OMG!

[opal relic]

Yo, is it possible to add a toggle to move an object to be parented to a different bone?

I don't want to do duplicates. Especially since it as physbones.

[opal relic]

I'm just fiddling with my super cool Beat Saber avi:

[timber wharf]

thats what constraints, especially parent constraint, are for

[opal relic]

Like so?

And if I want to make a toggle, I just gotta start recording an animation and drag and drop whichever else bone I want to use?

[timber wharf]

no, you animate weight between two bones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp0ysawmizM

watch this or smth. tho its old so its not vrc constraints but the same idea

(or just weight between 0 and 1 for it to be in the og spot or constrained, if 2 places are enough)

[opal relic]

Eeh, I see they use the animator, which I have never had any luck using it. But I'll try.

[vapid slate]

is it normal for poi pro to crash the unity project

[timber wharf]

@vapid slate you want to ask in poi discord

[prisma monolith]

I animated this thing of bumblebee transforming, how would I go about exporting this to unity and making it a toggle for when he transforms?

[timber wharf]

@opal relic vid is older than vrcf as well🤷‍♂️

@prisma monolith if its humanoid then its going to be tough, unity doesnt allow humanoid bones to move in an impossible way. car itself can be easily scaled, and kneeling as well but scaling limbs, uuuh.

[prisma monolith]

for unity instead of the scaling i just want to hide them once their animation is done

[timber wharf]

well then export fbx with animation included. set its rig to humanoid. now you should have a useable humanoid animation you can export from fbx, and it should be used in action layer. disabling body mesh and enabling/scaling car mesh should be relatively easy from there, fx layer

[prisma monolith]

ok ty

[timber wharf]

@mortal ibex https://discord.com/channels/189511567539306508/1204506421631393913

[covert surge]

Does anyone know why some shaders show up entirely transparent on linux in unity?

(this looks fine on windows, but I've switched to linux because microslop)

[gaunt knoll]

best to delete that

[mortal ibex]

Okay

Where do I go if I want a commission?

[timber wharf]

ive sent a link

[mortal ibex]

Thanks

[somber sequoia]

I run Linux - is it Poiyomi? there's a case where if you have many textures on a material that it'll basically crash the rendering. Very frustrating, but it seems nobody who knows how has any interest in fixing it, as they aren't Linux users.
What I do to work around it is try to deal with one section at a time, then combine everything into a shader and lock it - it'll work while locked.
But: I have been running Unity in Vulkan mode lately and I'm not sure this has shown up, I think I should give that a real test, I've been working around the problem for so long I'm not sure I've tried.

[covert surge]

How would I run in vulkan mode?

I'm willing to test stuff

[somber sequoia]

command-line arguments: -force-vulkan-layers -force-vulkan -force-gfx-direct
I have to run Unity from Alcom or the commandline for this to work, you can't change the editor command as launched from unity hub.

[covert surge]

nice nice, i already have alcom

[somber sequoia]

(have vulkan libraries, drivers, etc, etc)

I upgraded my OS and Nvidia drivers this year and was having serious slowness in OpenGL mode - switched and it's all good at this point.

[covert surge]

It may be a bit different for me, I'm using a full AMD build but I'll research what I can and see if there's any possible fix

[somber sequoia]

Yeah, I have an AMD CPU but Nvidia GPU so this is just what I've found to work.

[covert surge]

works in vulkan mode 👍

[somber sequoia]

oh awesome!

[prisma monolith]

i imported the animated one, what do I do now?

[formal pawn]

I have made a discorvery

My quest model for the karma dragon is compressed everywhere

I un crunched the material

But not the model itself

So im gonna try that

[night ember]

shut scammer

[opal relic]

I've had this issue before. I just simply reopen the project. It's still not uploading the Android version.

[somber sequoia]

That first error in the "review any alerts" list is the problem, fix it

(you cannot put audio sources on Quest avatars)

[opal relic]

I am very well aware. I usually leave on the audio sources anyway for it removes them for me during upload. I don't want to bother readding them .

Leaving them on is usually no problem.

[somber sequoia]

The errors shown are saying it's a problem though.

I'm not sure what you're asking us otherwise

[opal relic]

. . .

So that was the problem.

[somber sequoia]

yes.

[formal pawn]

Anyone know how to uncompress the model

[somber sequoia]

uncompress?

what sort of model file do you have?

[formal pawn]

Kamra dragon quest

karma

the model looks a little blocky

[errant jacinth]

I have clothing made for different models and was wondering if anyone knew how to put those assets on my model. I’ve seen a few people do it with blender, but I’m not very skilled in that department :(

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure what this is or if it even answers my question

[somber sequoia]

Yeah if it doesn't fit you need to remodel it so that it does. Blender is a good tool for this.

[formal pawn]

quest looks blocky

pc doesnt

[errant jacinth]

I don’t know how to use blender but I could try. Thanks for the tip!

[somber sequoia]

It's probably very low poly - you'd have to put it into a modeling program (i.e. Blender) to look closer

[formal pawn]

it has a higher polygon count than pc.

idk why its happening

i assume its to compression

[somber sequoia]

textures perhaps, it's not at all clear from this image

[formal pawn]

i set all texture to no crunch compression

[somber sequoia]

is it a really small image maybe?

[formal pawn]

Wdym

[somber sequoia]

the texture size, if it's a small image there will likely be less detail

[formal pawn]

Uh

How do i check

[somber sequoia]

view the image in the image editor of your choice

I usually like the identify tool from ImageMagick, but I enjoy working on the command-line 🙂

[formal pawn]

I dont think its the textures, the model itself is conpressed

[somber sequoia]

I don't really know what you mean by that.

oh I just realized you can see the texture size in the inspector if you show the actual image at the bottom, that's nice

[formal pawn]

its not the tetures

the same blockiness is on the model

[somber sequoia]

I'd be looking at this in Blender, personally.

[formal pawn]

Ok then

How do I import it

[patent frigate]

So I'm importing my model from blender I saved as my materials into a materials folder but they're not showing? I have them as a png

[somber sequoia]

blender tutorials!

[somber sequoia]

You'll need to create materials in Unity and add those textures, this won't carry over in a useful way from Blender.

[patent frigate]

will just dragging the png into unity be enough?

seems like it worked I meant as in showing as in when I tried to import them they weren't showing on the show folder thing

[somber sequoia]

sure, that'll get the image into Unity, but not apply it to a material

[patent frigate]

well how do I apply it as a material?

[somber sequoia]

textures are not materials, so you don't apply them "as a" material

[patent frigate]

well pray tell then, how do I do it right?

[somber sequoia]

I'd suggest finding a tutorial for it.

[patent frigate]

this is the avatar-help channel

[somber sequoia]

Sure is, perhaps someone is able to instruct you.

[light heath]

how do I make an avatar quest compatible?

they’ll only let me click on windows

[balmy barn]

add android support [download] appear there (ios optional)

[light heath]

Tyy also, do you know how to make a PNG clear?

[balmy barn]

if its low res disable filter so it doesnt get all smudged up

power of 2 if it has a 1:2/2:1 not a square (might not be a option

[light heath]

What would i need to click?

[arctic ginkgo]

make sure that you have import alpha enabled and that alpha is set to transparency

you need to click on the png itself to change the settings

[light heath]

I clicked the PNG and this is what it shows me

What do i click?

@arctic ginkgo

[gaunt knoll]

on the mat click cutout

use poi

[light heath]

This?

[gaunt knoll]

no

Use poi shaders on the material and select cutout

[light heath]

This shader?

this is where I need to click?

Sorry im very confused this first avatar

[balmy barn]

quest av cant use those

[light heath]

I just don’t know how to make the PNG transparent because the thing that you told me is not available for me to click

[somber sequoia]

If you're doing this for a quest/mobile avatar, you can't anyway. But in the inspector for the image file itself, enable "alpha is transparency"

[light heath]

but I’ve seen PNG avatars that are clear..

[somber sequoia]

You can do transparency with particle shaders but not with alpha

[wheat coral]

need help

[drowsy hawk]

So the pc vers uploaded fine but i get this error when trying to upload quest

(ignore how messy my layout is)

[drowsy hawk]

u gotta lower the count to 10mb or lower

[wheat coral]

Idk what to do

[drowsy hawk]

i usually just start deleting uselss shit like physbones

[gaunt knoll]

add fury it will add compessers

[drowsy hawk]

and toggles that arent needed

[wheat coral]

?

[gaunt knoll]

your shader isnt compatable with quest

[drowsy hawk]

all of them ar

[gaunt knoll]

https://vrcfury.com/

[wanton cedar]

do i spy.. dynamic bones

[wheat coral]

Yes

[wanton cedar]

burn it asap

[wheat coral]

Nooooo

[wanton cedar]

Are you still using dynamic bones or something

[drowsy hawk]

they are all the vrc mobile shaders on pc and quest

[wheat coral]

This avatar needs it

[drowsy hawk]

no it doesnt

[wanton cedar]

no

[wheat coral]

Yes

[drowsy hawk]

nothing needs dynamic bones anymore

[wanton cedar]

it needs physbones not dynamic bones

dynamic bones are so outdated

[drowsy hawk]

thats why its too big lmao

since 22

[wheat coral]

Ok

[drowsy hawk]

youtube vid

[wanton cedar]

i forget how you can swap them over to physbones. was it like avi manager??

[drowsy hawk]

never used em so idk

[wanton cedar]

Ive seen a dropdown somewhere

let me look

[gaunt knoll]

vrc sdk can

[drowsy hawk]

#avatar-optimization

this should help you

[wheat coral]

?

[drowsy hawk]

i double checked my shaders, all are toon standard outline

[drowsy hawk]

help you optimize

[errant jacinth]

How do I fix this

[low gulch]

how would i go about adding an "entrance sound" to my avatar? yknow when you switch to a new avatar and some of them have a custom sound play automatically
i made a new audio source > added my sound > made sure the priority and stuff was set correctly > and play on awake is enabled
but when i make a test upload it doesnt play it :T
i feel like theres more i should be doing but idk what, i couldnt really find anything for specifically an "entrance" sound
this is like bottom of the barrel of importance to me cause i know its not quest compatible, i just moreover wanna have the knowledge under my belt

[wheat coral]

Have you found it

[drowsy hawk]

youtube would prob help with that honestly

ive seen some simply vids on it

all by gang monkeys but still helps

[wanton cedar]

Anyone know why it only shows up in the mirror??

[somber sequoia]

is it a child of your head bone?

[low gulch]

what should i look up specifically
cause ive only been finding tutorials for toggles specifically

[wanton cedar]

Yes

It has head chop on it

[somber sequoia]

oh if you have head chop setup right, it should be visible

[wanton cedar]

im using this one. Dont know if it makes a difference

[somber sequoia]

oh I have no idea what that is, sorry

[wanton cedar]

Its the booth asset most people use to put clothes on models

modular avatar

[somber sequoia]

no, I mean I have no idea what that specific component does

[wanton cedar]

ohh

[somber sequoia]

judging by the comment I'd assume it would work, but...

[wanton cedar]

Maybe its just being stubborn again

[wheat coral]

I did not work

[gaunt knoll]

didnt vrchat come out with something for this

[wanton cedar]

What did it say

[somber sequoia]

Yes, VRC Head Chop

[wanton cedar]

For some reason the vrc head chop for me kept shaking my hat

even after changing sdks

[gaunt knoll]

did your press ok

[wheat coral]

You mean prosead

[wanton cedar]

Proceed, yes

[gaunt knoll]

same thing

[wheat coral]

What should it do

[wanton cedar]

press proceed

[gaunt knoll]

left click it

[wheat coral]

Did

[wanton cedar]

What does it say now?

[wheat coral]

Nothing

[wanton cedar]

try checking one of the spots that had dynamic bones

[gaunt knoll]

press upload

[wanton cedar]

well its best to check first before uploading

[wheat coral]

Idk where Thay at

[wanton cedar]

one of those I assume

[wheat coral]

Ass wiggle L

[wanton cedar]

I said one of those. You can check any

[gaunt knoll]

anything that may move has it

[wanton cedar]

If it originally had a dynamic bone, check that same bone for a physbone that would look something like this.

[wheat coral]

It doesn’t have it

[wanton cedar]

Time to manually add them i suppose

[green abyss]

how do i set the animation type to humanoid if the model is a gltf? i can't find the option

[somber sequoia]

does it have an armature?

it needs to have a humanoid armature for that to work

[wheat coral]

Me

[green abyss]

yeah it does(?)

[somber sequoia]

no

[somber sequoia]

you seem unsure 🙂

[green abyss]

it has animations that work

so i'm assuming yes

the model is rigged

[wheat coral]

Ugg

[wanton cedar]

Its not hard

[wheat coral]

How

[green abyss]

no it does have that

[somber sequoia]

is there a 'rig' tab in the inspector for the model file?

[wanton cedar]

pick a bone with at least one childbone, go to the side where it says add component, search up physbone, select that, and then change it to whatever settings you'd like.

[wheat coral]

Ok

[green abyss]

there are no tabs at all

[wanton cedar]

these settings might be to your liking. or you can just use the base settings. your choice

[somber sequoia]

oh interesting, I've never tried one of these before. I bet it's that "Animation" setting though

[green abyss]

it is unfortunately not

looking it up it seems like gltfast just doesn't support the option

so i guess i gotta figure out how to get this working as an fbx

[wheat coral]

Is this all I need

[somber sequoia]

I didn't mean it should say "humanoid", but I wouldn't be surprised if that ^ is

I bet you can import it into Blender then export as FBX

[green abyss]

not rlly, because there's this fucked up pose it starts in that only goes away when i use the gltf but stays on the fbx even when i get rid of it in pose mode in blender

[somber sequoia]

you can always rework it if needed.

[wheat coral]

@wanton cedar

[wanton cedar]

yeah

[wheat coral]

Is there anything else

[wanton cedar]

No

[violet falcon]

does anyone know how to fix this?

i havent seen this before and dont understand what needs to be fixed

[somber sequoia]

unfortunately, these messages don't really say much

[violet falcon]

drats

ill mess around w some stuff and see if i can figure it out

[wanton cedar]

Maybe clear the blueprint ID and let it make a new one???

[violet falcon]

tried that im removing vrc fury bc sometimes it tends to ruin some of my avis if that doesnt work ill try something else

[somber sequoia]

maaaaaybe, but that's almost never the actual error, it's usually a side-effect of a previous error.

[violet falcon]

no clue what this means

sobs

[somber sequoia]

without a clue as to which object, it's usually not a useful message

[violet falcon]

it doesnt say

AUGRH im gonna tweak

[somber sequoia]

nope, it never really does 🙁

[violet falcon]

i reloaded the sdk

slight changes

[somber sequoia]

are there any errors above that?

[violet falcon]

nope

[somber sequoia]

what's the SDK window say above the "build and publish" button, any errors?

[violet falcon]

just check the thingy is what it says

unity hates me bro

ill try findling with something else and see if that works if not ill give up for now

[somber sequoia]

"check the thingy"?

no no, above that, the list of stats

anything there blocking it

[violet falcon]

OHH

sorry im slow

[somber sequoia]

ah, very very poor.

nothing is an obvious block there though

[wheat coral]

why it look like that

[somber sequoia]

what did you just do?

[wheat coral]

Add phisbones

[somber sequoia]

Looks like your avatar scaling is wonky, or all your physbone components are scaled up huge

[wheat coral]

What do I do

[wanton cedar]

scale the collider settings down?

[somber sequoia]

figure out which of those is true, I'm guessing. Click on a physbone and see if it looks too big. make it not too big.

If you'd said you just exported the model from Blender I'd have had a different thing to say.

[wheat coral]

How

[wanton cedar]

maybe you should go to youtube and look up how to add physbones

[somber sequoia]

Taking a wild guess here, perhaps it's the "radius" setting

[wanton cedar]

try adding one more zero to this

one or two more

[wheat coral]

To what

[wanton cedar]

The radius?

[somber sequoia]

but if it's that small already, your avatar scaling is wonky - if you exported the model from Blender recently, you should redo that but set "Apply scalings" to "FBX All"

[wheat coral]

What do I set it to

[somber sequoia]

You set it to whatever value looks right for your avatar

[wanton cedar]

it really depends on your avatar..

[somber sequoia]

we can't tell you this.

[wheat coral]

I put it to 0 and it’s gone

[wanton cedar]

yeah because it doesnt exist at 0

I said add another 0

not make it 0

this is how a normal physbone usually looks. Something similar to this.

[wheat coral]

So it works at 0.0

[somber sequoia]

no radius = no collision.

[wheat coral]

?

[wanton cedar]

0.0 is still 0

0 means no radius

[wheat coral]

?

[wanton cedar]

I told you to add another zero to your 0.025 radius