avatar-help

[ornate stump]

Literally written Apply Scalings

[minor cradle]

apply scaling is the old version of apply transform no?

[brittle hemlock]

so this is probs more complex of a problem than i thought, i watched a youtube video about how to fix humanoid paths but not sure on this generic

[ornate stump]

No. It's to set how to store scaling value in fbx file.

[hardy breach]

I have an odd question. I have a model that I set the view ball for the eyes in the correct possition but when I go in game it's a good couple of inchest above where I set it. How would I go about fixing this? I've encountered this problem a couple of times but I genuinely have completely forgotten how I solved it in past. I know it's a rigging issue but I'm not entirely sure what exactly it is

[iron dove]

now it's not exporting at all

what the fuck

[ornate stump]

What do you mean not exporting?

[iron dove]

importing*

I haven't had the best night of sleep

let's just say that

and I just wanna finish fixing this god damn rig

[ornate stump]

You you mean you had the model in the scene and you update fbx file then it disappear?

[iron dove]

yeah

[ornate stump]

Put the new model file into the scene then. And DO NOT unpack prefab.

[ornate stump]

What Apply Scaling that you changed to anyway?

[iron dove]

I'm talking blender

Not unity...

[ornate stump]

Did you import fbx file into blender each time you wanted to edit something?

[iron dove]

Dude I'm going into blender to import a rig for a model I need

And the rig itself just gets bloated

When I import the second fbx

That's what I mean

[ornate stump]

The bones get bloated in blender? Can you screenshot how it's look like?

[minor cradle]

did we try selecting the mesh and armature and ctrl+a

[iron dove]

not suppose to be like that

[ornate stump]

I see nothing wrong though.

[iron dove]

the leg bones....

[brittle hemlock]

i think that is how they normally look in blender however i dont use blender much

[ornate stump]

There are extra sets of bone for the leg of course. But this shouldn't interfere with how the actual humanoid bones work.

[ornate stump]

So you had animations embedded in fbx file, did you put those animation into avatar playable layer controllers, or kept it on the asset animator?

[brittle hemlock]

so i tried this but it could very much be wrong

taking video now

let me know if this is not the correct way to approach this or if im mistaking something

im pretty new to animations, i know how to make new facial expressions, toggles for on and off but this is something im really struggling with

[iron dove]

oh ok the rig works well

[minor cradle]

ik targets.

[ornate stump]

"Bloat" usually refers to how the bone scaling get bigger in unity when editing fbx file. Did you actually mean the the rig just had some extra bones?

[iron dove]

listen if it works it works

I was just skeptical

[ornate stump]

So it wasn't a problem to begin with.

[minor cradle]

i thought they meant the whole scale was off compared to the mesh.

[iron dove]

exactly

[ornate stump]

Ok. Good then.

[minor cradle]

they are likely ik targets, probably originally shown as mesh for whoever made it.

[ornate stump]

You are showing only the toggle. Is the toggle animation working?

[brittle hemlock]

ah my bad i thought that was how i put it on the model, i didn't make a toggle for it ive just been trying to get it to animate when on the avatar

[ornate stump]

How did you put the asset to the avatar?

[brittle hemlock]

ive tried a lot of ways right now its just all inthe chest of the avatar model

[ornate stump]

Did you put the animation clip in avatar fx layer or in the asset animator?

[brittle hemlock]

fx later

i think

[ornate stump]

If you used embedded animation in avatar fx, you have to repath animation.

[brittle hemlock]

how does one do that, sorry or even a video to guide me in the correct direction, ive been trying to get this to work for days

[ornate stump]

It's easier if you use vrcfury to create modular asset https://vrcfury.com/tutorials/artists

[brittle hemlock]

okay i do have that installed i will update you

I tried the armature link with no luck, i also feel like im doing something wrong here, i dont think this is correct

something else i tried is to not but the armature or like the spider legs into the chest armature but instead do a parent to it but bleh

[ornate stump]

You also have add Full Controller to merge controller.

[brittle hemlock]

sorry im not super good at this i appreciate your help a lot

might be heading to bed soon

[flint rose]

the armature link is set to Hips. is that what you want, or should it parent to the spine or chest instead?

if so, change that

as for the animations, are you sure you are selecting the controller that came with the spider legs?

[iron dove]

how do I rig this?

I will keep it disabled for now on but I really want those

[ornate stump]

Weightpaint it to the closest bones.

[iron dove]

blue or red?

how much weight do I need

[ornate stump]

Blue means zero, means no effect. Red means one, means move with bone in full.

[ornate stump]

Usually just make it red for one bone.

[gloomy bolt]

Can anyone explain to me what does these mean and do?

and how do i disable crouch and craw control while playing animation clip?

[ornate stump]

It change how the animation mapping what to do with the root object movement.

Disable crouch sounds like you have to put your animation in action layer.

[gloomy bolt]

hmm

The problem i have is the pose work correctly but crouch and crawl still works so it just break everything, i just want it to be like locogogo

[ornate stump]

What about you just change out the animation for gogoloco?

[gloomy bolt]

hmm

[gloomy bolt]

I did i think

[ornate stump]

What is that?

[gloomy bolt]

Modular

[ornate stump]

For?

[ornate stump]

You rather have to customize the existing action layer to add pose. Not making new controller for it.

[iron dove]

how do I fix it

[ornate stump]

What needs to be fixed?

[iron dove]

look closely

the shirt is glitching

[ornate stump]

Fix weight paint in blender.

[iron dove]

what settings?

[ornate stump]

There is no settings.

[iron dove]

for the weight ones...

I did everything I usually do

[ornate stump]

There is no settings. Only adjustment until it look right.

[iron dove]

bruh

I might just completely remove the weight painting

and do physbones instead

[ornate stump]

Physbone also requires weight painting.

[iron dove]

god damnit

looks like I just need to grind it then

for some reason I can't do it by groups

[round comet]

Looks like that weightpaint would be a quick fix anyhow

Or you could try robust weight transfer

[solid steppe]

Hi~ Can I use my VRM model in VRChat?

[ornate stump]

Not directly. You will have to strip out anything vrm relate down to the bare model and setup the sdk for it.

[gusty spindle]

Hi I'm trying to get a avatar into VRchat. I made the avatar in Vroid, exported it to my PC, have unity and CC. I followed a guide that said when you import the VRM into unity it will automatically do the conversions but it's not doing anything. I have the correct packages and everything per the guide but nothing is happening in unity. Any tips on what could be wrong? Used CC to make avatar project, it opened unity 2022.3.22f1 I dragged the VRM file into unity and that's all.

[slow jacinth]

Is everyone having trouble with VRM avatars? I also got stuck... But rather in the uploading screen

[slow jacinth]

Did you duplicate for vrchat?

[gusty spindle]

The option is greyed out

[slow jacinth]

Select the model first

[gusty spindle]

I just figured it out. VRM 0.0 was needed I had 1.0

[slow jacinth]

Oh oop

[gusty spindle]

Thanks though man.

[slow jacinth]

No problem! I'm tryinf to figure it all out myself too... It's not working

[unkempt cobalt]

Why does this occur with my VRChat avatar's pelvis? Does its bone's Z axis need to point to the left like the rest of the bones here, or is it something else?

[slow jacinth]

Okay so, now I finally got the right version of Unity but VCC doesn't boot up in the editor

[lilac musk]

Can you explain what you mean by "VCC doesn't boot up in the editor"?

[slow jacinth]

Like, it doesn't show up, hold up

[lilac musk]

VCC isn't the SDK, it's a package manager for things like the SDK. Run VCC and create a new project and it will have the VRC SDK already installed.

[slow jacinth]

made a new project and...nope

[lilac musk]

You created a new project with VCC or with Unity Hub?

[slow jacinth]

both

[pine valley]

I'm getting stuck on the 'Uploading File' step.

[lilac musk]

Both? You only need to create the project with VCC. So the image is showing it's got the SDK installed, but your saying it's not showing up in the project?

[pine valley]

I've restarted Unity and the issue is persisting.

gonna go try another project

[lilac musk]

Stuck as in it's not responding or it's giving you errors or something?

[pine valley]

It's just sitting there.

No errors in the console. I'm seeing if another project works right now

yeah, another project is also failing to actually upload the file

time to turn on API logging

[slow jacinth]

like this, then it brings me to the hub

[pine valley]

clicking on "Open Project" in the VCC should cause the Unity Editor to open.

top right corner

[pine valley]

Nothing interesting there. The last log message is it reporting that it successfully read the avatar from disk.

I'm guessing I'm experiencing a Transient Network Problem™

[slow jacinth]

It didn't 😭

[pine valley]

so it opened the Unity Hub instead?

[slow jacinth]

yes

[pine valley]

open the Settings menu and show me this

[pine valley]

(in the Creator Companion)

[slow jacinth]

Ooooooh!

[pine valley]

was it pointed at the unity hub, rather than the actual editor install?

[slow jacinth]

Yep

[pine valley]

that'll do it

you can probaly just use the same path I have here

unless you've told the Hub to install the editor somewhere else

[pine valley]

You aren't seeing anything in this project because it's not the one that the VCC created!

[slow jacinth]

It's still opens the hub

[pine valley]

show me the settings menu now

[pine valley]

hm, maybe restart the companion

that looks correct

failing that, you can just add the project to the Unity Hub and open it through there

but it'd be nice to not have to do that

[gaunt knoll]

add fury

[slow jacinth]

Add fury?

[pine valley]

if you need VRCFury, you can install that package

wilfred's problem is that the Creator Companion isn't opening the project correctly

[gaunt knoll]

It's opening Unity hub?

Or it's opening a whole different project

[pine valley]

Indeed. It sounds like the VCC was incorrectly configured and was launching the Hub application instead of the actual editor.

[hot anchor]

Where can I buy a custom avatar of my sona? I joined thinking there'd be something like commissions channel

[pine valley]

It should now be opening the editor

[pine valley]

you are about to receive a large number of scam DMs 😉

[hot anchor]

Sorry if this question is unfitting

[pine valley]

look up VRCTraders

[hot anchor]

What's that

[gaunt knoll]

?tag traders

[pine valley]

it's another server that has vetted artists

unfortunately this is a very heavily botted topic and there are a ton of spammers

[hot anchor]

Epic tag fail!!

[gaunt knoll]

xD

?tag trader

I forgot it

[hot anchor]

Do you do avatrs

[pine valley]

I do, but I'm not taking commissions in this server (or in general, right now, too busy)

looks lke this tag works

?tag scam

[slow jacinth]

Yep. And if i manually open like a project it obviously doesn't open with my vcc add ons

[pine valley]

or maybe the bot exploded

[pine valley]

It will work just fine..if you open the right project

notice how the items in the Hub are "My Project (6)", etc.

[slow jacinth]

Yes

[pine valley]

but you named it "LM6em"

these are unrelated unity projects

You can add the existing project to the Hub if the VCC is still misbehaving

This is where the project is located

The VCC does not do anything special when it launches Unity

Notably: I do not use it at all! I'm on a Mac

i just open my projects through the Hub

(yes, I could use ALCOM; I just use vrc-get to manage my packages and then open my projects normally)

[pine valley]

The VCC's job is to manage your packages.

[slow jacinth]

Okay

[pine valley]

e.g. the VRCSDK packages, Gesture Manager, etc.

[slow jacinth]

Sooooo how do I open sdk in unity

[gaunt knoll]

Nope alcom won't work

Alcom and CC use the same files

@slow jacinth do you mind me testing something on you

[slow jacinth]

What 😟

[gaunt knoll]

it should fix it

we just going to do a reset CC thats all

[slow jacinth]

I mean as long as you don't need my passwords and home address, sure

[gaunt knoll]

no i dont lol xD

windows + r

%LocalAppData%\VRChatCreatorCompanion\

press ok

should take you to CC files

[slow jacinth]

Wait wait I'm not at my pc

[gaunt knoll]

all good

do you see the settings.json

i want you to move that file to your desktop

[slow jacinth]

Oh god

[gaunt knoll]

now open CC

[slow jacinth]

yes

Okay yes got it

[slow jacinth]

Uuuh

What if i don't got that

[slow jacinth]

OH pff haha. Yes.

[gaunt knoll]

add your project your trying to open

open it see if it take you to the correct one

[pine valley]

The project has already been added to the VCC.

[slow jacinth]

Oh man

[pine valley]

again: the problem is that you are opening the completely wrong project

you aren't going to "open the SDK"

you're just opening the correct project: the one that the Creator Companion has set up for you

to be sure: clicking on "Open Project" is just opening the Hub, right?

[slow jacinth]

Yes

[pine valley]

I know that trying to directly open an editor will just make the Hub come up if you don't tell it which project to open. So there may be something else wrong with the VCC.

Hence why imdjd suggested "resetting" it (just deleting the settings file)

[pine valley]

(and now i see why you were being told to add the project again, my bad 😉 )

So, even after resetting the settings, you're still unable to open the project.

[slow jacinth]

Wait lemme retry to download all my assets n such

[pine valley]

what does this mean?

if you're talking about .unitypackage files you have downloaded, those aren't relevant at all right now

[slow jacinth]

Oh

[pine valley]

all we're trying to do right now is open the project

that's it

[slow jacinth]

Why is this so difficult... 😭

[pine valley]

something is wrong with either:

• the Creator Companion, because it's not talking to Unity correctly
• your Unity Editor install

A workaround will be to open the project through the Unity Hub.

in the Hub, you can add an existing project to the list

[slow jacinth]

Wait... Maybe i did it

Fingers crossed

i think i did it

if my avatar doesnt upload well again, i will genuinely crash out

[sick ice]

Hello, For some reason when i import this model from blender to unity, the bones fuck up for some reason. Does anyone know how to fix it??

[hot anchor]

Wow you were right

[pine valley]

i'd start by resetting the humanoid pose

At the bottom of the list of bones in the inspector, you'll see a "Pose" dropdown

do Pose -> Reset

[sick ice]

didnt work

[slow jacinth]

thanks so much for the help! i was able to downlaod it to VRchat!

[eager gulch]

proximity contact doesn't have the depth number

[pine valley]

I'm not sure what you mean by the "depth number"

you need to give it a parameter name

otherwise it won't do anything

after you fix that, you should see a field that shows the current parameter value while you're in play mode

[eager gulch]

thank you, that line confused me since it made it look like it was missing a imput box

[brittle hemlock]

im not sure if it came with a controller

i just removed everthing and added it again, i can move the spider legs to the chest

[zealous pine]

Is there a way for me to move catagories in the radial menu with ones made with vrcfury? (for ex. If I want the clothings tab to be before the Items tab

[pine valley]

Yes, using the "Move or Reorder Menu Item" component

[pine valley]

ah, it should really say "The receiver will set"

[zealous pine]

Interesting name btw

[pine valley]

oh god there's two of me

lmao

[zealous pine]

Its, familiar

[zealous pine]

Do I input the menu path of the current item? Or where I wish it to be? And is the number from right to left? Or left to right

[pine valley]

the ? on the New Position field explains it

You'll pick the menu path of the thing you want to rearrange

If you want to move an item to a completely different menu, use the Move or Rename component

[pine valley]

(i got the name wrong here, whoops)

If you need to move it and then reorder it, you can use both components

[pine valley]

Restarting my laptop fixed this

Mysterious

[burnt briar]

how do i animate these while being able to view my changes while in the scene view without being in playmode

[pine valley]

You can't record humanoid animations in the editor, unfortunately

[burnt briar]

alr

[pine valley]

I guess you can edit the values, though

You can do that while previewing the animation clip

[burnt briar]

i tried this but there was no change

[pine valley]

can you show me your Animator component in the inspector?

[burnt briar]

1 sec

[pine valley]

as long as the animation clip is used in the "Rebel 5" controller, you should be able to preview it (and see changes live)

it works fine for me (changing Front-Back makes my body move)

[burnt briar]

idk

it just isnt working 4 me

[brittle hemlock]

how do you go inside an animation and change the path????

[cunning bobcat]

How would I go about making it so that a local bool is set to 'false' for the client but on the network its 'true'? This would be a default thing as well so the user isn't required to toggle anything for it.

would "isLocal" do the trick?

[pine valley]

select the animation clip, then click on a curve and hit F2 (on Windows)

you'll be able to rewrite the path

[pine valley]

If all you need is for:

• the local player to see "False"
• the remote players to see "True"

you can use parameter drivers to set a parameter to false/true based on IsLocal

IsLocal is the exact opposite: it's True for the player wearing the avatar and False for everyone else

[brittle hemlock]

would i just type in what i want the path to be? it just makes me able to change the name

[pine valley]

This is the path to the object being animated.

In this case, the animation targets an object called "Body"

It's attached to the root of the avatar, so there are no slashes

I could change this to "HeadGeo" to make it animate something on my head object instead

or Armature/Hips/Spine/Chest/Neck/ to target my neck bone

[cunning bobcat]

Ye, because I assume true would be the client and false would be other avatars around you. Thank you for the help ♥️

[pine valley]

this will not let you change what property is being animated (e.g. which material property you're changing)

just which object the animation looks for

[brittle hemlock]

this highlighted one is the one i would do yea?

saddly its not a humanoid rig its spider legs im adding to the back of the character, its been giving me a really hard time i've been trying to get it to animate for days, bought the asset

[timber wharf]

ye highlighted one is nonexistent

[brittle hemlock]

there is also this tool someone sugested, would this look correct or no?

or maybe this instead

[rich flower]

Can i make particles make sound at the point of impact where it spawns the sub emitter by just placing sound source in the sub emitter or is there something more to it?

[pine valley]

No, you can't cause sounds to play where the particles go.

[pine valley]

oh right, I should've told you about that :p

Animation Repathing is super useful

It can proactively fix your animations as you move or rename objects

[rich flower]

isnt sub emitter non existent before its spawned by the colliding particle tho?so it would spawn where the particle collided

[pine valley]

There are no missing paths in this image (the "Position" curve just looks like it's missing because the highlighter turned the text yellow)

[pine valley]

The sub-emitter itself is attached to a game object, and that object does not move

[brittle hemlock]

its just weird because the asset plays when its alone but it wont play when its on the avatar model

[pine valley]

"When it's alone"?

[brittle hemlock]

perhaps im missing a step in the animations

[main valve]

yo, for some reason when I build & publish the avatar I'm working on it doesn't work but when I built & test it works perfectly fine.
When I publish the avatar can be seen online but can't be found in the menu and if I force myself to use it then I simply become the grey error robot

Anyone know what might be going on?

[brittle hemlock]

here

[pine valley]

Oh, did you attach a prefab somewhere on your avatar?

If so, the animations will no longer work when played from the root of your avatar

because now you have something like this

• MyAvatar
  • Whatever
    • Spiderlegs
      • Leg

when the animation expected:

• Spiderlegs
  • Leg

You could use VRCFury to attach the original animator controller, using a Full Controller component

It rewrites the paths as needed

[pine valley]

see if the avatar says it 'failed security checks' anywhere

(i'm not sure how you're forcing yourself to wear the avatar)

[brittle hemlock]

i tried making my own controller, but i can also but the FX layer there i think

[pine valley]

That looks valid. "FX" is a catch-all for anything that isn't very specifically for locomotion or full-body humanoid actions

[main valve]

it doesn't in the unity console and it says "upload succeeded!" when I build it

[pine valley]

Yeah, it would upload successfully

But the post-upload checks would fail

I had that happen once when I tried to animate VRCConstraintBase instead of a specific kind of constraint

[brittle hemlock]

so would i need to upload the avatar to see if the animation works, or maybe just press play and use the gesture manager

then with the full controller and amature link do i need to change the path still

i could kiss you fen i got it to work

[pine valley]

the gesture manager should always work!

as long as VRCFury actually runs

which it should, since you now have a component on the avatar

[rich flower]

thats so unfortunate. i think i saw the lindesu guy make particle system that moves the particle with sound source but that was ages ago and he used some weird script magic.

[pine valley]

you're meant to record Full Controller animations from the object that the FC component is attached to

I use tons of them to make little "modules"

so, if you have a prefab with an Animator on it, and those animations work, you can use a Full Controller to merge it into your avatar

You can also just use a "sub-animator"

where you leave the animator where it was

You can't control any parameters on sub-animators, so they're hard to make use of

[brittle hemlock]

it seems like its good

[unkempt cobalt]

I tested out my avatar after fixing it up, but the hips keep spazzing out. How do I fix this?

If there's any additional information that is needed to help me out, please let me know.

[foggy thunder]

Hey is there anyone who can help me upload an avatar?

[main valve]

Any suggestions or help?

[hazy sage]

Is there any way to use cutoff with toon standard? I need to cut off a transparent bit because it turns black but Idk how.......

[still shuttle]

no, the mobile toon shaders do not support transparency

[pine valley]

I wonder if the humanoid bones are assigned wrongly

[hazy sage]

SIIGGH.

[pine valley]

Select the model asset in the Project window, like this

Then go to "Rig" in the inspector and hit Configure

The bone assignments should make sense

screenshot the entire screen if you're unsure about something

[pine valley]

I do see four bones in the spine chain. I wonder if Unity got the wrong ones

It's also possible that your Locomotion playable layer has a bad animation

[unkempt cobalt]

Shouldn't be. Their weights are pretty accurate and the bone hierarchy should be just fine.

[pine valley]

Everything looks fine except for the stationary jump

[pine valley]

I'm talking about how Unity is interpreting the bones

It needs to know which one is the hip, which is the spine, etc.

If it gets the wrong bones, you can get very weird results

[unkempt cobalt]

It's also buggy when you walk in VR.

[pine valley]

that's a bit weird

[unkempt cobalt]

That's a sword sheath for physics.

[pine valley]

this diagonal bone is suspicious

Ah, okay

But it's highlighted as if it's a humanoid bone

[unkempt cobalt]

Shouldn't be. It's not assigned to anything.

[pine valley]

What happens if you do Pose -> Reset at the bottom?

I'd also click on that diagonal bone and see what it actually is

I don't see any obvious reason for it to be highlighted

ooh, right

Every bone that's parented to the hip bone gets colored in

[unkempt cobalt]

It lowered the pelvis, it seems. Oh wait, yeah. That would definitely cause it.

[pine valley]

It's showing the connections between bones

I always get confused by that because only Blender has the concept of "heads" and "tails" for bones

for Unity, it only cares about points, and it's drawing lines between the bones

[pine valley]

see if anything changes in-game

At that point I can't say for sure what'll happen

[unkempt cobalt]

The only problem is the thumb. I have no clue what its T-pose should be.

[pine valley]

I usually just hit "Enforce T-Pose"

[unkempt cobalt]

Yeah, but then...

[pine valley]

oh dear

are both hands doing that?

[unkempt cobalt]

Yeah.

I instead just manually adjusted the hand poses.

[pine valley]

It looks like the last bone in the finger chain is rotated by 90 degrees

i think I can see that in this screenshot

Alternatively, you might just need end-bones

Not sure.

[wanton cedar]

I wonder if the rotation on the bones is off

[pine valley]

oh right – end bones are only really helpful if you need to remember the length of the last bone. This is just a rotation problem.

[unkempt cobalt]

For some reason, the inspector is not updating at all.

But that didn't stop me from testing out the avatar in-game, so lemme see.

[pine valley]

You've got it locked

[unkempt cobalt]

Oh.

Well, that certainly did the trick!

Alrighty, thank you!

[pine valley]

It gets locked when you configure the humanoid avatar, so you might've left that screen in a weird way

and nice (:

[unkempt cobalt]

(damn custom emojis disabled 😭)

[hazy sage]

Then is there any way at all I can get rid of that? Even if it's in Blender. I've been told that I should use the knife tool but when I try and click enter it makes the line but doesn't separate it, so when I try to go and delete the bit I cut off it just deletes the entire thing.

[pine valley]

The knife tool just creates new edges

for something low-poly and flat, just make the cut, then select the faces you don't want and delete them

[hazy sage]

Ohhh...

[pine valley]

For a more complex shape, hit C to enable "cut through" and then cut across the model

The resulting edges will now be selected

use the "Split Faces by Edges" operator to split the model in half

you can then switch to face-selection mode point at the unwanted half, and hit L to select linked

[pine valley]

make sure you're in edge-selection mode and have nothing selected

[zenith forge]

Ok i don't really know anything about making avatars in unity, but how do I add toggles? I have VRCFury installed.

[rich flower]

wait could i make this happen with throw joint somehow? idk how i would add force to the rigid body when firing from a bow but in my head this seems somewhat achieveable possibility?

[agile reef]

Hello- trying to test my model with gesture manager but cant because I need to compile all errors and I have a bunch of these. . ? not sure what to do-

[pine valley]

Harmony is a library that should be included with the VRChat SDK

[agile reef]

weird... should I click the X on the sdk and re click it in creator companion?

like, undo it here and re enable?

[pine valley]

I wouldn't expect it to be needed.

You can try the "Reinstall All Packages" button, though

[agile reef]

I'll give this a shot thank you 🙂

perfect it worked thank you!

[agile reef]

another different question, how do I toggle these off by default? none of them are set to be on but for some reason they're on default-

[lone token]

how does one adjust the minimum and maximum values of a pre-existing body slider? im trying to give my avatar a smaller chest.

[pine valley]

I'm not sure what you mean – all sixteen checkboxes are disabled

[pine valley]

If it uses animation clips, you'll need to edit the values in the clips.

do you know how the slider was added to your avatar?

[agile reef]

thats why I was also confused but I figured it out ahh thank you

[dense snow]

I need to get the default animations for vrc locomotion into blender. Where can i download an FBX or BLEND file with that data so i can modify them for weilding specific tools?

[crisp trail]

does anyone know good guides for setting up shells for fur?

its a trick ive heard about in game devolpment but not one ive figured out how to do

[lone token]

no clue. im kind of new to this and im using a avi i bought

[rich flower]

what does this exactly mean? it appeared as a dropdown on my controller when i was making stuff but didnt realize it untill later

[distant fossil]

I'm in a bit of a pickle, I'm trying to setup an ESP box around my avatar and I've now spent a couple hours finishing it up just to realize that it wont stay put... I can have it stay in place if i crouch but It rotates with my head when I want it to be stationary unless I turn using my controller does anyone know how I might go about that?

[summer hearth]

I am, lost here, i jus tried goin into play test with this new avi and, this kept comin up

[distant fossil]

Send a photo of your Inspector and Hiearchy. It could be a broken or missing script or a broken shader, you could have an old or broken SDK, if you have dynamic bones on the avatar you should switch them to Physbones. I can't think of much else but that issue is common

[vivid temple]

Working on adding a little parasol umbrella to my avatar. Would like it toggleable, and to be able to switch it from hand to hand. Ideally I'd love if it could be grabbed as if it was just a normal prop in the world but I'm okay with it just being locked to a particular hand position.

What's the best way to do this sort of thing? Still just assigning the prop to a parent constraint that's then animated? Or something with contacts?

[supple needle]

Where exactly do I map the chest

[pine valley]

I've done this by using contacts to decide which hand is trying to grab the parasol, then animating a parent constraint to actually attach it to that hand

Remembering the exact offset would be hard.

(in a way that syncs reliably, at least)

[vivid temple]

so contact receiver on the parasol and senders on the hands, I take it

[distant fossil]

I'm trying to setup an ESP box around my avatar and I've now spent a couple hours finishing it up just to realize that it wont stay put... I can have it stay in place if i crouch but It rotates with my head when I want it to be stationary unless I turn using my controller does anyone know how I might go about that?

[distant fossil]

You need to go to the FBX and go here and press configure and select chest to map it and make sure to select "Legacy Blendshape Normals" or the avatar will be huge (Storage wise)

[supple needle]

Thank you !!

[rare jacinth]

Is robust weight transfer better to use for long pants in blender? I tried using the data transfer but it messed up the crotch area. I tried to weight paint it but I made it worse. Any better ways to make the jeans work?

[pallid jolt]

tried a couple other places and wasnt able to get an answer but im having this issue with the first and second fingers where the tip is bent when its supposed to be straight, the other fingers look fine and the only difference in blender is that theres another bone parented to the end of the finger (but even when i cleared that parent it remained crooked)

[misty flax]

Can anyone help me with a vfx toggle for free? It’s one toggle and I’ve been getting bullied for asking everyone else dm me or replay if you can help

[brisk brook]

so, what kinds of things can prevent vblender from turning the avatar into an fbx, and why is that nessecary to begin with

[pine valley]

what are you trying to do here?

I presume you just mean "blender"

but I'm not aware of anythign that would stop blender from exporting a model

[brisk brook]

a warning popped up when i imprted the file to unity

[distant fossil]

If it's throwing an error thats why otherwise I dont know without further info

[pine valley]

I'm guessing that unity is failing to find your Blender install

look at the Console tab to see if there is an error message

I'd suggest exporting an FBX out of Blender instead of putting a .blend file directly in your project.

[brisk brook]

im litterally using the automatically updating steam version of blender

[distant fossil]

You didnt export it as an fbx

Export it as an FBX and then import

a blend file can work

[pine valley]

perhaps Unity is looking in the wrong place

[distant fossil]

but dont if you dont have to

[pine valley]

I've never liked relying on that

[pine valley]

what is the object parented to? your avatar's root?

[distant fossil]

Yes

[pine valley]

If you aren't in fullbody, then the root of your avatar moves with you at all times (even when you walk around)

So you want the box to move, but not rotate?

[distant fossil]

I figured as much, but there HAS to be a way to do it in halfbody as I have FBT but this is public so it should be fixed

I want it to only rotate when I turn with my controller

[pine valley]

but not if you turn your head?

I don't think you can tell the difference

[distant fossil]

I assure you, you can

[pine valley]

i wonder if the AngularY parameter only changes when using controller rotation

i do not have any other ideas for distinguishing those two kinds of movement

[uneven bough]

hey guys please help i just removed some geometry from my avatar's model in blender and now it won't export shape keys

[pine valley]

see if you have any modifiers on the object

anything other than the Armature modifier will break shape keys

[uneven bough]

k and don't have apply modifiers on in export settings right?

[pine valley]

That's fine to leave enabled.

I guess it would skip the problematic modifiers if you did uncheck it

[blazing inlet]

i actually know someone
But you can only order her service from a freelancing platform

[uneven bough]

yes the shape keys got imported, now is there an easy way to replace my avatar's current model with the new version i just made? it's only differences are some new shape keys and polycount

[pine valley]

Overwrite the existing FBX file.

Unity will reimport it

[uneven bough]

and how do i do that?

[pine valley]

when you export the FBX from Blender, save it over the existing file in your project

rather than giving it a new name (now you just have two FBX files)

[uneven bough]

are u sure this will work cause i made 2 versions (a high and low poly) of the model and exported them in a single fbx whereas the current versions of my avatar are in 2 separate prefabs in unity

[pine valley]

You should exactly match whatever existing setup you have. So if you have two FBX files, you need to export two FBX files

Make sure to include all objects that the original FBX files have

almost certainly including the Armature and Body

[uneven bough]

i remember trying this before and it completely messed up, is there another harder but still pretty easy method i could do instead?

[pine valley]

"completely messed up" is very vague

this is the correct way to update a model: you update it

I'm guessing you had the wrong "Apply Scalings" setting

this affects the scale of the Armature object

The default, "All Local", causes the Armature to wind up with a scale of 100

vs. "FBX All", which gives you an armature with a scale of 1

if you get this setting wrong (i.e. you don't match the existing FBX's setting), you'll wind up with really weird scaling on your body

[uneven bough]

i have no idea what that was set to for my current avatar

[pine valley]

Look at your Armature object

what is its scale?

[uneven bough]

the model i want to replace has an armature scale of 1,1,1

[pine valley]

okay, so you want to export with "FBX All", not "All Local"

make sure you export only the objects you need each time

you can set the fbx exporter to only export selected objects

also, just in case something breaks, I'd suggest backing up the original model files (or even just back up the entire project, really)

I've forgotten to include the Armature more than a few times

which leads to Big Problems as everything falls off of my avatar

I use Git for version control, so I can just reset if I make an error

[honest violet]

anyone know how to fix this? It randomy started happing?

[pine valley]

Click on your model in the Project window and check the Rig tab in the inspector

ensure that it's actually set to "Humanoid", not "Generic"

[honest violet]

it is @pine valley

[pine valley]

look at the Animator component on your avatar's root

it should have something plugged into its "avatar" field

[honest violet]

let me look...

[pine valley]

(this is an animator avatar -- nothing to do with a vrchat avatar)

If you removed it, the animator will no longer know which bones are which

[pine valley]

click on ZipV2Avatar; what does it highlight in the project window?

[pine valley]

it should be a sub-asset of your model

[honest violet]

is it that?

[pine valley]

If it's in a fold-out menu attached to your model, then yeah, that's right

[honest violet]

ok now what?

[uneven bough]

and what are the only objects i need to export?

[pine valley]

whichever ones are in the existing FBX files

so if you have Armature, Body, and HiPolyBody, you should only export Armature + Body for the low poly one and Armature + HiPolyBody for the high poly one

[pine valley]

Make sure there are no errors in that Rig tab

you'll see a message in the inspector if something was wrong

[uneven bough]

so all the visible stuff only?

[pine valley]

Look at what currently exists in the models that are in Unity. That's what you need to export.

I don't know what your models actually contain, so I can't give you an exact answer

[uneven bough]

i don't even know where to start....

[pine valley]

go look at what you already have in Unity

i presume you have two avatars set up there

[uneven bough]

yup

[pine valley]

show me the hierarchy for one of them

[uneven bough]

how much there's a lot of stuff under it

[pine valley]

Show me the entire hierarchy.

You can keep the child objects folded up, though.

[prisma monolith]

i got the transform toggle to work animation wise but the car won't go away after the toggle is disabled or even before I enable it how do i fix this?

[pine valley]

how did you create this toggle?

[prisma monolith]

mainly shapekeys

then animating the changes in the shapekeys

[pine valley]

did you use an animator layer with two states that you switch between?

or is it a VRCFury toggle?

[prisma monolith]

oh oh mb

vrcfury

honestly

imma switch over

[pine valley]

The default state has the car visible

This means that, when the toggle isn't turned on, the car will be visible

the animation hides the car at the end, yes, but once the animation is entirely done, it snaps back to the default state

You can use the "Apply During Upload" component to hide the car

[prisma monolith]

oh ok

[pine valley]

The same issue would happen in a manually created animator if your "off" state had no animation at all

without an animation controlling something, you get the default value

[prisma monolith]

im supposed to add the apply during upload thing to the vrcfury game object, yes?

and then the toggle should be turning it off?

[pine valley]

You can put it anywhere.

[prisma monolith]

oh

[pine valley]

The point is to hide the car by default

The toggle will then show the car

[prisma monolith]

should it look like this?

[pine valley]

Does your toggle turn on that game object?

[uneven bough]

what counts as a child object?

[pine valley]

if so, it should already be working correctly

[pine valley]

Every single object that is parented to your avatar's root object

the root object being the one with the avatar descriptor on it

[prisma monolith]

basically on the toggle, once it plays the animations, everything that should be hidden is properly hidden at the right timestamps.

the only issue here is the car appearing when im not using the toggle

like appearing with the robot mode

[pine valley]

Specifically, the "Object Toggle" action will deactivate the object by default

[prisma monolith]

ohh ok

[pine valley]

So you could just use that

I don't know how your toggle is set up right now

[prisma monolith]

which one the transform?

[pine valley]

i don't know what you mean by "Transform" here; that's a component that every game object has on it

show me the inspector for this toggle

[prisma monolith]

mb the transform is the name of my toggle but here's this portion of it, and this is what it looks like when the toggle is off

[pine valley]

gotcha

Add an Object Toggle action to the "main action"

click the + button on the right side

You can also remove the "Apply During Upload" component after doing that

Object Toggle will make the default state be 'off'

[prisma monolith]

oh ok thanks

so like this?

[pine valley]

Yep, that looks good

The "Extend object enabling.." checkbox should ensure that it's also turned on during the transitions

[prisma monolith]

oh ok, well atleast now i know

im testing it real quick

uhh its still there

[uneven bough]

so only show the body object that shows the blend shapes? cause everything else is parented to the root

[pine valley]

oh, that should be "turn on", not "turn off"

[prisma monolith]

ohh ok

[pine valley]

Just show me your avatar's hierarchy.

[pine valley]

I'm surprised you could see the car at all while the toggle was on, though

[late sentinel]

Is there a way to make an audio play when a bone is grabbed on the avatar?

[honest violet]

@pine valley

[pine valley]

Ah, this is a classic problem

Rename your "Head" object to "HeadGeo" or something in Blender

Unity can't deal with you having two objects named "Head"

it's really goofy

[prisma monolith]

alr it worked

thanks

[pine valley]

It caused the humanoid avatar to fail to import, so you no longer had humanoid bones

[honest violet]

k

[pine valley]

and that broke vrcfury

[pine valley]

sure; look at the 'parameter' setting on the physbone

you can react to the "grabbed" parameter changing

[uneven bough]

there's so much stuff only a fraction of it fits on my screen

[late sentinel]

oh nice thanks!

[pine valley]

I need to go to bed, so I won't be able to look until tomorrow.

[honest violet]

@pine valley also my other avatars are having the same problem, would i have to do that for the other avatars?

[teal laurel]

What are you even looking for 😂
Also that wording lol.
Are you looking for an sps plug / sender?
-# trying to call it by the technical terms lol

"The male part"

Tbh dunno. I personally only ever used sps for fun to make a (yes. Screw off mods xd) "weener" dip in sauce because i thought it is a funny use for sps.
-# It was an actual sausage, i ain't lying 😹

Usually assets you can download have an installation or readme thing for it which should tell you how to add it.
Also be aware, that adult content can get you in trouble. If you decide to use it, put it on a seperate version of your avatar and only use it in private.

VRChat will ban you when someone reports you for that, even if in private

[dense snow]

Is there anyway i get the VRC locomotions imported into blender?

[tulip geyser]

Is there any way to find what part of an avi is using an unsupported shader? Theres 3 shaders I see thats causing issues but I can't seem to find what they're being used on.

[spiral shard]

is there a way i can make an image appear like this on peoples screens with a toggle? preferably using vrcfury as i want it to happen with something else i already have set up. (video is a little loud sorry)

[uneven bough]

my normal maps are showing up on all textures except one, any help? yes i set the texture to normal map and that didn't work

[distant fossil]

Technically yes, utilizing screen space shaders but you'll have to either find one or Ai has gotten really good just diescribe in detail what you want the shader to do in either ChatGPT or Googles Gemini on its highest quality and specify that the shader is for "Unity and VRChat" "I need a shader that puts an image on the screen in VR that isint warped for unity in VRChat" and if you have any problems with it just ask it, they do a surprisingly good job these days

[gentle iris]

how can i get a custom hud for my avatar and have wireframe and other stuff

[ornate stump]

What is the wireframe for and what other stuff?

[gentle iris]

for a custom hud to mess with my mate

[ornate stump]

Put a quad mesh in front of avatar head and make some transparent material for hud.

[gentle iris]

ok

[hot heron]

Hi, there! I just made my first EVER proper 3D model for VRChat, and was wondering if it was acceptable to play as? (It's a closed species I created, and lore-wise, there should be no visibly (or at all really) 'suspicious' parts, but I figured I'd check just in case!)

(No I didn't make the hair, but everything else was me!)

[final forum]

your armature is fucked

[ornate stump]

There is too many spine bones.

[final forum]

way too many bones
won't work with vrchat's basic humanoid rig

check the pinned messages in #avatar-rigging

[uneven bough]

any help?

[ornate stump]

Do you rather mean showing on all materials?

[uneven bough]

the weird thing is when i drag the material onto another part of my avatar the normal details show up, the normal map only seams to not show up on the part of my avatar it's suppose to be on (my avatar is a single mesh that uses 3 materials)

[ornate stump]

Does the material has shade settings that isn't flat?

[uneven bough]

materials have shading settings?

[ornate stump]

It depends on what shader it's using. You might as well have provide detail on what shader it's using.

[uneven bough]

it's using the standard shader

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot how it's look like in the scene?

And the material settings.

[ornate stump]

If you change number at the normal map slot, you should see the light is changing.

[uneven bough]

it's still not showing the normal map details

[ornate stump]

Are you sure that the material is being used in the renderer?

[uneven bough]

how do i check?

[ornate stump]

Select the object from the scene.

[uneven bough]

what object?

[ornate stump]

The object you are having the issue with.

[uneven bough]

the material?

[ornate stump]

Not the material.

[final forum]

the actual object
you apply the material to an object in your scene (an avatar, a prop, or whatever)

[uneven bough]

my avatar model?

[ornate stump]

Just click to select the object in the scene. Your avatar model is the object of course.

[uneven bough]

k now what?

[ornate stump]

Does it show skinned mesh renderer component and it has correct material in it?

[uneven bough]

yup

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot to confirm?

[ornate stump]

That isn't showing any material.

[uneven bough]

here's the bottom half

[ornate stump]

You're selecting prefab asset, not the actual object in the scene.

[uneven bough]

oh woops there it is my bad

[ornate stump]

This isn't showing the material.

[uneven bough]

here they are at the bottom of the inspector

[ornate stump]

If you change material settings from there, do you see the change?

[uneven bough]

yup

[ornate stump]

Then it's a different material from what you're trying to change earlier.

[uneven bough]

and? the normal map still isn't showing up

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot material settings again from that object?

[ornate stump]

Try remove normal map assignment, and re-assign again.

[uneven bough]

didn't work

[ornate stump]

Select the material asset instead then to see material preview below. Do you see normal map change when you adjust the normal map value?

[uneven bough]

yup

[ornate stump]

To confirm again, if you change albedo color, do you see the color change in both material preview and in the scene?

[uneven bough]

yup

[ornate stump]

Screenshot the material and how it's look like in the scene like you did previously, while having the normal value very high and change albedo color.

Actually if you take out albedo texture first, it will be easier to understand.

[ornate stump]

This likely means the mesh has in correct UV map.

[uneven bough]

checked the UVs in it's blend file and it doesn't seem messed up

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot the uv to confirm?

[dusky walrus]

I am trying to use a bool paramater to make a toggle for an idle tail wag animation. I have done this multiple times on other avatars. For whatever reason, this avatar will not play the full length of an animation when it is toggled to, only the first frame. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong

I have the physbones set to is animated

[ornate stump]

You should not use exit time in the transition for toggle. Then make sure that animation speed is 1 on the state.

[dusky walrus]

Where can I find the animation speed setting?

And gotcha, yeah ive been messing with exit time and transition duration trying to find if that impacts it. It doesn't work on this model either way (I will turn it off though)

[ornate stump]

In the state, that rectangle thing where you link transition together.

[dusky walrus]

Everything seems okay, sorry if I am coming across rude or harsh I am just very frustrated with this as I've never had this issue before 😭

[patent elbow]

Does anyone use the Rexouium avatar model, or know how to work them? Im using Version 1.5 for quest, and 1.7 for my pc avatar. All of the toggles are broken from pc being able to toggle. I assume I will have to brick the PC model, and build PC from the ground up starting with quest, and add my extra PC only features; which Im ok with if it has to be done.

1.5 Quest Optimized

[hot heron]

Oh okay, ty!

I’ll fix it later I’m getting some sleep

[patent elbow]

1.7 PC Optimized. Base anim controls

[ornate stump]

Can you preview the animation and confirm the tail is actually wagging?

[dusky walrus]

The animation plays fine correctly when I preview it, and I believe I have it set to the correct FX which I have linked to the avatar

It just refuses to play any further than the first frame when I toggle it on in gesture manager or in the actual game

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot another transition as well?

[dusky walrus]

Here you go ^^

[ornate stump]

Did you enable loop time in the animation clip?

[ornate stump]

So when you toggle it. Do you see a little movement on the tail?

[dusky walrus]

Let me check again, one second Unity is loading lol

Yeah, it just snaps to the beginning of the tail wag animation. But refuses to play past the very start (does not play the whole animation)

It's no worries if you can't figure out the issue! I haven't done a lot in this scene and would not be bothered if I just had to set it up from scratch again and hopefully that would fix the issue. I just have never had an error like this before.

.
I am gonna try this, and will come back to this chat if it does not fix the issue. Apologies for the inconvenience!

[icy peak]

Need some help with converting Blender textures to unity. Supposed to look like the first but looks like the second in unity

[ornate stump]

All of those are so far corrected. Not sure what's next to check.

[dusky walrus]

Yeah I couldn't figure it out either. I do appreciate the feedback though because now I know I'm at least not missing something obvious!

[ornate stump]

Not sure if my eyes are bad but I think I see the Default idle state has darker drop shadow than other states. nevermind, that's normal.

[ornate stump]

Make sure that you set material render preset to cutout.

[icy peak]

I'm a total beginner at Unity where is that setting?

[sharp lotus]

So I checked in unity's playmode and in vrc itself, my outfit has blendshapes to match when the model's body is changed and it claims to have linked them but it still isn't moving with the body😐 halp edit // I figured it out and in cconclusion I am stupid

[ornate stump]

https://youtu.be/rRAnDMUbWt8?t=143 Watch to see how to basic material setup.

[icy peak]

Still unfortunately having trouble but probably going to sleep for the night. Thanks for the video tho

[dusky walrus]

Good news! I made a new project, set it all up again, and it works now. The only difference is I have not yet imported poiyomi. Still not sure what the original problem was though :C

[distant fossil]

You need to use a cutout shader or change a setting to do so. Poiyomi has it and theres a cutout shader built into unity

[misty flax]

If someone can help me dm me or reply I need help with a vfx toggle for my avi since my laptop has broken im not asking you for an upload just asking for help one toggle dm if you can help me

[brisk brook]

could anyone give me a hand setting up the mouth flaps for a model i imported from blender?

the tutorial i used only showed me how to do it with a bone locked to the z axis

[queen sparrow]

I uploaded an avatar but I made a few changes to the armature and mesh on blender (better weight paints, new blendshapes, a few extra bones and so on)
How do I update the FBX without having to reupload the avatar as a brand new avatar?

[ornate stump]

You just have to overwrite the fbx file.

Given that you didn't Unpack Prefab, it should just update by itself.

[proven quail]

overriding the fbx might break the scene, as export settings can differ and unity doesn't like when you touch the armature. export in the same file location as the original fbx (use fbx all for scaling and uncheck leaf bones), but if everything breaks you have to drag the fbx into the scene and copy over all the materials and physbones to the new fbx. (I think pumkins avatar tools can help with copying over stuff, but I've never used it). Then upload with the same build id as the old avatar to update the avi.

[crude anvil]

i tried to export the fbx file but when i look into the fbx it looks like this

how do i fix this?

[pine valley]

i'm not sure how this could "break the scene"

if the object names match and you used the same export settings, it will work fine

I don't think I've ever had to do what you're describing

(and the only export setting that really matters is Apply Scalings)

[pine valley]

(and you can very safely add new objects, whether those be bones in your armature or meshes)

You will have problems if you've removed objects; anything you've added to them will get lost (becaues the objects no longer exist!)

and renaming an object in Blender is the same as deleting it and then creating a new object

[pine valley]

i'm not sure what you mean: did you export an .fbx from Blender, then re-import it into Blender?

[knotty lichen]

the latest version of the vrc avatar sdk is 3.10.2 correct?

[gaunt knoll]

Yes

[knotty lichen]

I'm asking because I'm a little stumped right now.

I am trying to use a unity package called Avatar Limb Scaling and VRCFury reports this error upon trying to go into play mode in the Unity editor.

Any ideas?

[ornate stump]

Are you using latest sdk version?

[knotty lichen]

I'm using the latest version yes

[gaunt knoll]

Take a screenshot of all of your packages please

[gaunt knoll]

In CC

[knotty lichen]

important note, I am not using VCC, its more cumbersome to use for my setup. I'm aware that manual install is unsupported

[gaunt knoll]

You can use ALCOM

It's lightweight and faster then CC

[knotty lichen]

I'll take a look

[gaunt knoll]

It doesn't work if your using steam OS tho figured that one out yesterday lol

[knotty lichen]

I am using PopOS

[gaunt knoll]

Should be fine

[knotty lichen]

I am on the latest version of all relevant packages though. I've ensured that they're all up to date

[balmy barn]

wouldnt surprise me if either vrcfury or whatever that other thing is need update since sdk changed slightly (kinda why i dont recommend vrcfury)

mostly seen it on large sdk changes tho, no idea what this one .2 did

[knotty lichen]

is there a place I can grab a slightly older vrcsdk?

[balmy barn]

vcc / alcom just pick a older one

very fast

[gaunt knoll]

That WASN'T

[old marsh]

how do people usually deal with cutouts so it doesn't look bad on quest?

[gaunt knoll]

Just try ALCOM first see if that fixes everything

[vivid temple]

messing around with this today. thought process right now:

• parasol has two contacts, constant receiver, one for each hand
• animation graph, I guess I'd have it so that if both contact is...received, and the correct hand has the right grab/fist gesture, play the animation clip swapping the parent constraint to the other hand
• can switch parasol hands from one to the other
• maybe set it up so that if I do the grab gesture with the same hand it'll freeze to the world?

[knotty lichen]

aye aye

[balmy barn]

lots of knife tooling in blender

[knotty lichen]

I really appreciate the help - I was afraid I was gonna be exiled for not using VCC, lol

[gaunt knoll]

Nooo never

[old marsh]

is there perhaps an easier way to do it? like gettin' an alpha mask of it so it can recognise what and where needs to be cut?

[knotty lichen]

what should I do with alcom exactly? reinstall the packages through it?

[gaunt knoll]

Yeah

[knotty lichen]

aye aye

[gaunt knoll]

It's just a file repository

[elder latch]

soo if i put a blender model i downloaded off of sketchfab into blender it has textures but when its in unity its fully white.
does anyone know the issue?

[gaunt knoll]

Because you exported it out of blender without textures

[elder latch]

no i mean it was already a blender file to begin with
or do i needa export it again and put THAT into unity?

[gaunt knoll]

It was already a .FBX

Or was it a .blend file?

[balmy barn]

some models can be in a pose when in blender, pose mode usually put them back to T or A pose

[knotty lichen]

@gaunt knoll its a miracle, it works! thank you so much ❤️

[gaunt knoll]

And thulen

Don't forget about thulen

[knotty lichen]

hehe oops

sorry thulen

thank u too

I feel like I've seen thulen in here helping a lot, like last time I used this channel months ago, thulen was here

maybe im misremembering

[elder latch]

.blend

[knotty lichen]

you are a pillar of this community

[balmy barn]

going for the 9 year ,usually im bored of stuff after 10

[gaunt knoll]

Suprise you haven't gotten helper role tbh thulen

[elder latch]

does this mean im at a roadblock? or is there smth i can do to have the textures go into unity

[knotty lichen]

they're a vigilante

[somber osprey]

pressing F1 doesn't revert the blendshapes back to normal, its now stuck in this state

[fluid sinew]

Hey, I had this issue for a while.
Usually I have to press down on the trackpad on my index controller to toggle avatar gestures, however a while aho this stopped working. Does anybody know why this might be?

[boreal wedge]

ive had this issue where it goes to this point at stops i dont know what to do.

[round comet]

how easy is it to make an outline mask?

[stray lintel]

how do i stop this from happening

whenever i press play it puts a bunch of keyframes

hello?

its using dope

[somber osprey]

we have to wait until others able to know our situation

[gaunt knoll]

depends or you can use poi outline

[gaunt knoll]

what are all of your packages (CC)

[round comet]

I'm using it but its on the body and theres an outline on the tongue thats bothering me

I assume it wouldn't be too hard if its something that small, right?

[lunar wraith]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1156036364400332800/1479558226952327369/image.png?ex=69ac797a&is=69ab27fa&hm=de6e7fe01898d24689118dc48e9367b698b6fe4a5c67d54b3ab883889f90f585&
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1156036364400332800/1479565217405997057/image.png?ex=69ac7ffc&is=69ab2e7c&hm=a2c3408c53c6443c65572f585fcd9d2927e5cf1eb4705f414a5e85d775f07c78&

was curious if anyone might know what causes my avatar's hips to bend oddly when using fbt

[stray lintel]

anyone able to help

[gaunt knoll]

huh looking at the poi docs theres no way of saying dont put them on the tongue you might want to add a separate mat for the tongue

[gaunt knoll]

what fbt are you using

[round comet]

I cant make an outline mask?

[gaunt knoll]

https://www.poiyomi.com/outlines/

[lunar wraith]

Slimevr

i'm convinced there is a solution i just need to know what to change.

and i'm not huge on rigging so I'm unsure where the issue lies inherently

[somber osprey]

?

[gaunt knoll]

i think it because of this

the slight bend

[lunar wraith]

i was under the impression that the legs should bend slightly on vrc rigs

I can straighten it and see if it helps

[hard turtle]

hands folding in on themself in vr

everythings weighted correct

[gaunt knoll]

https://docs.vrchat.com/docs/full-body-tracking

[crude anvil]

Yes to check up on it

To see if the model is broken

And it is

[hard turtle]

also unity isnt automatically recognising my shoulders on the humanoid rig

[hard turtle]

fbt trackers aare showing up in the knee and not the foot????

[gaunt knoll]

huh

[silver bronze]

pls does somebody know how to fix this?

[somber osprey]

I made a mistake. I was messing around in the parameters but now I brick the avi where after I press shift F1 (or default hand gestures), my avi gets stuck on the blink and doesn't revert to the normal binding, how do I fix this?

[round comet]

any other errors or anything in your SDK/

[silver bronze]

lemme see

no

[round comet]

do you have write defaults on?

its just that red error? hoh

[hard turtle]

please help

[boreal wedge]

why in unity 2022 i cant see the particle tab like in 2019

[somber osprey]

where and how do I check it?

[round comet]

in your fx layer select your expressions and see if write defaults is checked on

if your expressions are getting stuck it usually means they arent on

[pine valley]

this skeleton looks okay

put your trackers on the floor and see if the game decides they're foot trackers now

[hard turtle]

not me testing it

my headset went kaput

[pine valley]

ah

[hard turtle]

so making hands and this stage is now extremely difficult

[pine valley]

doesn't the line point to the part of the body that they're tracking? in that case, they are being picked up as foot trackers

rather than as knee trackers

they're just high up

[hard turtle]

ye

[pine valley]

It looks like the entire body is being pulled off the ground

[hard turtle]

but its resultin in really wonky trackin

[pine valley]

I wonder if your humanoid bone assignments are wonky

Select the model in the Project window in Unity, go to the Rig tab in the inspector, and hit Configure

make sure the bone assignments are reasonable

[somber osprey]

for idle, write defaults is off

is that a bad thing?

[round comet]

No, not bad. Not everyone turns on write defaults

I’d say turn it on for idle along with your other hand gestures as a test to see how your expressions are in game

If they still get stuck or not

[pine valley]

Write Defaults determines what happens when a certain property is not being animated

WD On means that the animator will reset it to the value it first saw when it woke up

WD Off means that the animator will keep the last value from when the property was being animated

so it makes values "stick"

[somber osprey]

so wahteer the first animation plays that has the WD

that becomes the default animation if no other animation plays?

does it mean you can only have 1 WD?

[pine valley]

No, the "default" values are the ones that existed before the animator started running

so, they're the values you see before entering play mode

[junior brook]

i didnt know where to post this cuz i cant tell if its a mesh or bone problem 😭

[pine valley]

your humanoid bone settings may be messed up

see #avatar-help message

[hard turtle]

ima just remaake the unity project

[pine valley]

show us what that screen looks like

it's better to learn what is wrong so that you know how to avoid it in the future

[junior brook]

these are her bones btw

[pine valley]

the hip bone assignment is incorrect

[somber osprey]

also could we share issues with Goco Loco here?

ik they have a discord server but I already shared my issue there

[pine valley]

plug in the "hips" bone

that would explain why the entire thing is backwards

Unity tries to figure out the bone assignments automatically, and sometimes it screws up

[junior brook]

it does that when i do it

do i change the um,, order in the hierarchy??

so the hips are the parent

cuz the hips are kinda like the.. root bone

thats what the person that made the commision said

[pine valley]

hang on, are the thigh bones parented to "shadarmature"?

If so, they just need to be reparented in Blender

they should be attached to the hips bone

[cobalt cloak]

the armature from the wings link to the rong armatur how do i fix that

[junior brook]

i think so

so just attatch it to the hips?

[pine valley]

in Blender, yes: change the parent of those bones

You should also parent the tail to the hips

The Armature bone itself is just gonna sit on the floor. Your body won't be moving it at all

[pine valley]

i'm not sure what's going on here

[cobalt cloak]

okay the wings armatur is linkt to the sekeleton armatur but it shoud link to the body

[pine valley]

i still don't understand what that means

i presume your avatar looks like this:

• Avatar
  • Armature
  • Body

That Armature object is your skeleton

Are these wings being attached with VRCFury?

[cobalt cloak]

yea

[pine valley]

I don't understand how they could link to your body. Your body isn't an armature: it's a single object with a SkinnedMeshRenderer on it

Is the problem that the wings are deformed after linking?

i need a better image of the problem

[cobalt cloak]

Okay, sorry, I have a body
and a skeleton, and wings and all of Deri's have an armature (the skeleton is a skeleton image), and the wings should be linked to the body (the armature of the body), but they are linked to the skeleton. armature

boy/skeleton both have armature

[pine valley]

ah, okay, I see

Does the skeleton also use Armature Link?

showing me your hierarchy would help here

[cobalt cloak]

yes so i can link the skeleton with the body

[pine valley]

That shouldn't be an issue at all

I wonder if the problem is that the wings are being snapped into place

There are checkboxes for this on the Armature Link component (align position / rotation / scale)

[cobalt cloak]

on the skeleton

or the wings

[cobalt cloak]

and if i pull the prfabe for the skeleton aut of the avi the wings are still linkt to the selekton

[pine valley]

Oh! I think I know what's going on here

there's a bug where, when you parent one model to another, the parent's animator thinks the child's bones are its own bones

this caused problems for me when working on a freezing system

[cobalt cloak]

okay

[pine valley]

although, if you totally removed the skeleton from your avatar's hierarchy, then that sounds less likely

[cobalt cloak]

wait look

[pine valley]

click on the wings prefab and show me the Armature Link component in the inspector

[cobalt cloak]

okay

[pine valley]

did you open the prefab here?

[cobalt cloak]

yes

[pine valley]

or did you add these components to the existing wings prefab

okay

that's why it's complaining about the avatar's rig not being humanoid

(there is no avatar; we're in a prefab view)

show me the inspector when you aren't in prefab mode

it should be mostly grayed out

but there will still be debug info

[cobalt cloak]

here

[hard turtle]

where do you find the test avi agaain

[pine valley]

your armature is named "skeleton" , so that makes sense

[pine valley]

search for t:model in the Project window

switch it to "In Packages"

[pine valley]

i'm still confused here, though: the Skeleton (the literal skeleton) is being armature-linked onto you

[cobalt cloak]

yes

[pine valley]

it no longer has its own armature

how could the wings be getting attached to it?

[spark walrus]

Hello guys

[cobalt cloak]

idk

[pine valley]

uncheck "Align Position" in the prefab and see if it behaves the way you want

That may be the issue

[spark walrus]

I have a request: does anyone make free 2 avatars for VRChat? I'm a mobile person and would like someone to create for me. If anyone is interested, please reply and i will send photos of my drawings!

[cobalt cloak]

the thing is that part shoud be on the tail but its not why idk and i turnt it off still not fix

[somber osprey]

is it possible (via Goco Loco)if there's a way if I can lock the body from chest down but still able to move my head up down and left right

basically how it works when you're actually sitting in a world that has seats, is it possible to do that?

[spark walrus]

In dms

[agile reef]

hiya question! does anyone have any tutorial videos on how to get the face tracking animations to work?
I have mouth tracking- and I have seen some models make entire facial expressions when I do some mouth shapes or ears move in response to the face im making- I want to learn how to do this as ive just got face tracking- any videos or anyone out there who can help me?

[crude anvil]

after exporting the fbx file what happens now

i downloaded cats to get the model prepared

is this supposed to happen?

[boreal wedge]

this keeps happening over and over again, how do i fix it

[crude anvil]

Okay new question

how do i make the eyes glow

or bloom

[hard turtle]

aye fbt compatible now :)

[spark walrus]

Cool :(

[heavy zephyr]

Create a new material for them (or find a way to edit the one you have) and use a shader that supports emission then adjust the value