avatar-help

[crude anvil]

i cant figure out how

[heavy zephyr]

You can right click anywhere in the project tab to create a new material, drag an drop it onto the eyes

[crude anvil]

this one?

[heavy zephyr]

The correct object seems selected yes but you need to create a material first

[crude anvil]

i dont know where i can do that

theres no emission shader

[balmy barn]

thats the new quest one with more options

[crude anvil]

i was expecting it to get bright enough to bloom

[balmy barn]

you wont see it in unity unless you add postprocessing/bloom

every world is different so dont expect it to be like what you see in unity

some worlds are super bloomy , so its handy to make a radial to tune it down

[vapid tangle]

I'm looking for help with something, I have an avatar i'm working on and I'm trying to see if I can do something, I wanted it to have a toggle to give it a separate mesh but so far each time I try to do it it ends up in a t pose

[errant jacinth]

Everytime I click auto fix this shows up and does nothing

[lilac musk]

Your toggling just a simple mesh like a prop or something in your hand, and it's causing you avatar to tpos? Or are you trying to toggle a whole avatar mesh like body and all to a whole new one?

[vapid tangle]

It's like a whole new body, apologies I didn't make that clear

I've seen things like it done on other avatars I was just unsure how to do it

[lilac musk]

Is this new body rigged to the previous avatars rig?

[vapid tangle]

It's rigged to the same skeleton

If that's the question

[lilac musk]

To clarify, when you rotate one of the bones on the rig, both meshes move correctly?

[vapid tangle]

I may need to fix some things, thank you

I'll probably figure it out lol

[lilac musk]

It is possible to do what your trying to accomplish in theory, just takes a bit of setting up in blender or unity

[vapid tangle]

I seeeee

Because right now they're two seperate fbx's

They're just based off the same skeleton, get what I mean?

[hallow coyote]

how do i make it so i can set my model into a t-pose? it wont let me and im not sure how to fix it so i can:(

[lilac musk]

I assume you're using CATS? If so, try just doing it the manual way. CATS isn't perfect so it can pay off to learn the steps yourself

[agile reef]

anyone experienced with face tracking able to help me out? I want my ears to go down when I frown in VRC but I have no idea how to do that

[hallow coyote]

the manual way? like in edit mode..?

[lilac musk]

Select the rig and go to pose mode. You can then rotate the bones to be in a tpos. Might have to apply as rest pose after, I don't remember.

[hallow coyote]

thats what i did using cats

[balmy barn]

get minum 4.5 blender and its cats, is that a xna

[hallow coyote]

im using 4.3, theres a new one?

[west magnet]

I'm having an issue where the eyes on my avatar aren't moving even though I turned on Eye look and put in the correct bones

[balmy barn]

there is a 5 blender but i tend to stick to LTS wich one is 4.5 (some scripts not updated and 5 probably gonna change randomly)

[pine valley]

I'm guessing that your version of CATS is not compatible with your version of Blender.

Note how the error says "no attribute named use_inherit_scale; did you mean inherit_scale?"

I'm guessing that this thing got renamed between 4.3 and 4.5

[mossy ridge]

i cant move the view position properly
it usually adds like the dot with the move tool but its just
not there when i press edit

[hallow coyote]

oh

[pine valley]

You might have gizmos turned off

top right corner of the scene view

[mossy ridge]

i did
thank u!!!

[pine valley]

also, for easy positioning, turn on iso mode by clicking that cube, then switch to a side view by clicking the red cone

[proven dome]

can anyone here teach me how to put clothing on vrchat avatars? 😭

[wary trail]

All i did was inport it into unity and fix clipping issues and once imported back into unity it gave me this even after going back to a later version that did work

[pine valley]

you mean import it into Blender?

[wary trail]

Yes lol sorry

[pine valley]

make suer that you actually included the Armature object when exporting from Blender

this looks like what would happen if there was no armature

[wary trail]

It is there i even had another creator look at it and he couldn't find a issue

[pine valley]

select the model, go to the Rig tab in the inspector, and hit Configure

screenshot the entire editor afterwards

[wary trail]

The configure option isnt work that's the other issue once clicked it dosnt do anything

Like it usally dose

[pine valley]

you're probably getting an error in the console when you click it

[opal vine]

Getting compiler errors just on launch...

[pine valley]

switch it to Generic and back to Humanoid

see if that un-sticks it

(hit Apply after setting it to Generic)

[wary trail]

even after trying what you said it still dosnt work

[pine valley]

i saw this happen recently; the issue resolved itself without an obvious cause

have you restarted the editor yet?

[regal tulip]

I notice how there’s project diva avatars how were they uploaded

[wary trail]

i can try

[hard turtle]

still cant find it can you send me the FBX ?

[pine valley]

show me your project window with the search query entered

remember that you need to switch to "In Packages"

the default setting is "In Assets"

is this the "test avi" you're talking about?

[errant jacinth]

How do I fix this?

[brittle hemlock]

Is there any good tools for optimization on quest? I’m making this really cool avatar with like a lot of toggles and stuff but it kind of gets repetitive because there’s a lot of armatures of the same thing. Is there anyway I could cut down on that with like a VRC fury controller?

I know I can use the blend shape optimizer tool as well. I don’t know if that does the same thing or not.

[hard turtle]

ye

its a great referance for making humanoid avis

[pine valley]

do you actually have the SDK packages installed?

[pine valley]

"armatures of the same thing"?

do you mean lots of repetitive animator layers?

VRCF can alleviate some of that; you create Toggle components instead of manually creating animator layers

[brittle hemlock]

Well I mean like one asset comes with the whole armature of the model I’m using like armature/spine/hips/legs, etc

It’s a booth model I bought and assets I’m adding to it milltina,

[pine valley]

oh, yeah, the point is that you can use a VRCF Armature Link to attach that asset to your avatar

it switches the asset over to using your main armature

[brittle hemlock]

Ooo okay so instead of doing th modular avatar to make it go on the model I should try that

[pine valley]

You can also use Modular Avatar

I am not familiar with it, but I presume it's pretty similar

what's the actual repetitive work? i'm still a bit unclear..

[brittle hemlock]

Okay I will try both when I get home from work thank you for your time

Oh so

If I can’t modular avatar it like say it’s a hat and only has th head armature I have to drag everything in manually like unpack the prefab and drag armature into armature and the head into head on th model, I’m just trying to optimize as much as possible because pc has not limits but when I go to convert it to quest usually the only thing I know how to optimize is making the textures smaller and using blend shape optimizer

[pine valley]

you wouldn't drag the hat's armature into your own avatar

that wouldn't do anything; you'd still have two armatures

(and the hat's armature would not move at all)

[brittle hemlock]

It always works when I do that? Maybe I’m not explaining it right

[pine valley]

I guess that for some stuff, you can just parent a single bone to a bone on your armature

(e.g. a hat)

oh, yeah, and you could reparent every single bone

that would work...and be a real headache (and it'd double your bone count)

[brittle hemlock]

OOOf yeah

That might be what I was doing, I’ll try some new stuff because I did learn how to use parent constraint

[pine valley]

Parent constraints are useful for tying different things together without redoing the hierarchy

but in this case, definitely look at either VRCF Armature Link or Modular Avatar

(it has to have something for this; i just don't use it much)

[brittle hemlock]

Okay I will def look into this thank you you so smart fr

[wary trail]

still did it even after re setting vcc and everything

[pine valley]

one oddball thing to try: reset your editor layout

top right corner, the "Layout" dropdown

also, can you show me the console window after you click the Configure button?

[placid bison]

I'm trying to change the secondary material from standard to toon lite for a quest publish, but I don't know how. The avatar is a file I bought

[pine valley]

You'll need to create a new material.

Material.022 is a sub-asset of an imported model. It can't be modified

[placid bison]

I made the new material, but how do I replace the original?

[pine valley]

there is a list of materials in the inspector

it'll be part of the SkinnedMeshRenderer

plug a new material into that list

[blazing harness]

im having an issue with my avatar in unity where there are a bunch of floating lines and such when i enter play mode, i can send a gif real quick

anyone seen this before? hoping its an easy fix..

[pine valley]

kinda looks like bad geometry -- a few vertices floating out in a weird spot

Click your model asset and look in the inspector. Does it say there were any warnings during import?

[errant jacinth]

no idea how to fix this. auto fix just puts me in a loop

[pine valley]

"a loop"?

[errant jacinth]

just infinite loading

[blazing harness]

doesnt look like it 🤔

[pine valley]

what does your hierarchy look like?

[pine valley]

if you manually pose yourself outside of play mode, can you get the lines to appear?

[pine valley]

VRChat wants you to have "Novabeast_V1_2" be the root of your avatar

i.e. the object with the avatar descriptor

rather than having an empty object that everything is parented to

[blazing harness]

yeah there are a few dots even without play on, i also toggled all my extra meshes off and its still there so its gotta be a problem with the main body mesh

[pine valley]

These could be wonky blendshapes for hiding parts of the body

normally you shrink them away into the body

if they go to the side, then they'll look really weird

you should have a look in Blender

if they are just random stray vertices, you can delete them no problem

[blazing harness]

good chance its blendshapes i was messing with them a bit

[errant jacinth]

since its a fbx file how would i change the texture?

[pine valley]

i don't get how that's relevant

the armature and the model came from an FBX file, but so what?

(also, it looks like you unpacked your model prefab, which is very problematic)

you want to see a package icon like this; that means it's linked to the prefab that unity created by importing the FBX

this makes sure that any changes you make (adding bones, adjusting weight painting, etc.) shows up correctly on your avatar

[errant jacinth]

The package came like this

I’m not very Good with unity yet so apologies

[timid phoenix]

How may one updating an existing Avatar with a different model

I dont wanna reupload an avatar every time i update its model

[errant jacinth]

When I go into the hierarchy it allows me to drag a texture then unlock it but cannot access these

[blazing harness]

this is 100 percent what it is thank you 😭 time to go back to blender\

[errant jacinth]

^

[placid bison]

I tried to upload the avatar to quest but all I got was this and I don't understand a thing

[brittle hemlock]

Can you take a picture of the vrchat panel errors like the yellow an red hexagons

[hard turtle]

can someone please send me the fbx for the vrchat test aavi its not in my vrchat folder for some reason?

[hidden hazel]

I always get this for like so many avatars.

[pine valley]

these are not "textures"; these are materials. They're sub-assets of the model asset (the FBX file). You can't modify them.

You can duplicate the materials to get new assets that you can modify

You can also just create new materials

I'm still unclear how this has anything to do with your hierarchy setup

[rose badge]

Can someone help me update gogo loco for an avatar, it’ll probably be quick, im just unsure what to do.

[brittle hemlock]

Hat do you want to change? The afk animation?

[rose badge]

The fly

it doesn’t work o. the old one. so im trying to replace it

[rose badge]

but when i do it stops allowing me to publish

[brittle hemlock]

Actually that I don’t know but I’ve also had that issue where the fly doesn’t work

[rose badge]

im pretty sure its the version

[brittle hemlock]

Oh okay so you have the most recent one already?

[rose badge]

no

don’t think so

[brittle hemlock]

https://franadavrc.gumroad.com/l/gogoloco

Most recent here

[rose badge]

imma going to attempt that but im unsure where to find it

[brittle hemlock]

Find what, all of it? When you open the avatar in unity click on it in the hierarchy in the top left

Then on the right inspector layer, there should be an action layer. That’s where the gogo Loco is I think

[rose badge]

the remapping

[brittle hemlock]

I will be home in like 30 I could explain better once I’m on a computer

[rose badge]

if you could that would be awesome

[rose badge]

Once you do pls dm

[vestal sand]

hi, i was wondering if there was a way to have those spider legs moving with the VRC constraints

[drowsy flicker]

Ok does anyone know how to fix this ?

[vestal sand]

the way it is showing ?

[drowsy flicker]

Yeah

[vestal sand]

ok, i guess you chose a transparent option for the material

[drowsy flicker]

It was the shader option that made it like that

[vestal sand]

ye

[drowsy flicker]

But any other shader shows the black background for mobile

[vestal sand]

ah, sorry i don't know about mobile

[drowsy flicker]

Yeah I probably should have specified that part mb

[vestal sand]

you good

i mean it could work the same as on android, no ?

try those to see which one works best

[drowsy flicker]

Ight thank you my man

[vestal sand]

oh, it worked ?

[drowsy flicker]

Oh wait I’m missing alpha blended and additive

[vestal sand]

it's just to see which one works best

[drowsy flicker]

Ok

[trim rover]

i'm having an issue with an animation not triggering and i cant seem to figure out why

i have a float and i want the animation to activate once the value is between .42 and .58 but it won't

if i leave the radial pupit and swap off then onto the avater at .50 the aninmation plays

but onve i exit the rangeof .42 and .58 it won't replay

anyone know what the issue is?

[proven quail]

Use the plus button on the material slot, and use two materials. One addivite, and the other multiply

[trim rover]

idk what i have set up wrong

i have the avatar's hats allready set up in a similar way and i can't understand why it isn't working here

i mean it IS working, but not as intended

[ornate stump]

What do you mean by "replay"? Do you see the state being changed when testing?

[trim rover]

nvm i found the issue, it was write defaults being on, disabeling it fixed the problem

idk how or why that makes a diffrence but it did

[trim rover]

i mean the animation only plays once and couldn't be replayed without swapping off the avater

[ornate stump]

write defaults will reset the properties that aren't animated in that state.

[trim rover]

and now i understand even less how that solved my problem

[ornate stump]

This sounds more like you had mixed write defaults settings among the states.

Write default have to be either same on or off on every animator state.

[trim rover]

yah they were diffrent, that was the problem then

[supple cloud]

i keep getting a black texture

[ornate stump]

What shader you are using and is it look fine in material preview?

[supple cloud]

toon stander

[supple cloud]

yes it looks fine in blender

[ornate stump]

Material preview is in unity when you select the material asset.

[supple cloud]

oh ye it looks fine

[ornate stump]

Then disable Apply Vertex Color in the material settings.

[supple cloud]

i'm very dumb. thank you so much

[fickle jewel]

I re-uploaded an avi to add shorts to an avi on quest and now after I upload it. It saying security checks failed when it worked fine before

[ancient grotto]

How do you upload an avatar with both a quest and pc version

[ornate stump]

Change build target to android and upload avatar with same blueprint ID.

[icy peak]

Alright small problem, I'm trying to mainly make this avatar to use on Mobile, but it doesn't seem standard lite has a cutout shader

[ornate stump]

Then you have to edit the model in blender, use knife tool to cut the mesh to the shape.

[icy peak]

I see, so the hard way it is

[remote bison]

[Modular Avatar] How to remove unused/removed asset from MENU? It's still there/still showing in AV3Emulator even when I removed it already.

[ornate stump]

Given the asset is added via prefab with its own MenuItem component, it should be removed out from the menu if you remove the prefab object from the avatar. Otherwise, it isn't problem about modular avatar.

[remote bison]

Okay! Thank you very much.

[remote bison]

Hi! I did remove it and its folder (to see what happens) but it's still there. I also tried it with Gesture Emulator, still shows.

[ornate stump]

Did you actually remove the object from avatar? You sounded like you removed the asset from the project.

[remote bison]

Yes, I did both.

[ornate stump]

Did you check your menu file?

[remote bison]

I also tried to create a new menu but it still shows. It's confusing me 💀

[ornate stump]

Then find MenuItem component in your avatar.

[spark walrus]

Is anyone making for free 2 avatars?.. for vrchat..?

I don't want anyone to say later that it's on budget or options..

[scenic ether]

If your asking if people are making avatars for free, probably in the wrong place

[spark walrus]

Where should i ask then..?

Sinxe I'm trying to find someone who can help me because I was almost scammed and cheated twice.

[scenic ether]

@spark walrus best bet is here i guess

[spark walrus]

Jeez :((

Im losing hope..

[spark flame]

Hi, can you advice me on choosing an anime avatar base? most of anime bases I have found, have that waist-to-hip curve, wide hips, or big thigh. I tried to find a more natural body shape rather than the hourglass thing, but It seems like most anime avatar bases have that.

Maybe is there a way to edit the topology?
or do I understand the anatomy wrong?

[scenic ether]

Avatar work isnt really free, sorry to tell ya

[scenic ether]

#1138520828556890214

[spark walrus]

I.. have.. drawing of the project as it should be

[scenic ether]

?

[spark walrus]

The art

[scenic ether]

Sorry im kinda confused what your asking at this point

[spark walrus]

Well, I thought that if I gave the project it would make it easier for someone to help me with the avatar for free, but well...

[ornate stump]

The hardest part is creating 3D model. 2D drawing won't help much if it isn't designed for 3D model in mind.

Ok?

[scenic ether]

Whhhaatttss the problem??

[scenic ether]

Your in #avatar-help

A place meant for people to ask for help

I have a question for you

Oh wait nvm I found the original.
Probably not a good idea to claim you made an avatar you clearly didn't

Dont lie abt making avatars lol, youll just give people wrong advice and mess them up even more

?

[ornate stump]

And you just posted it earlier here?

[scenic ether]

Yet under the TikTok account it had socials linked and none of them match yours?

[ornate stump]

Obviously.

[scenic ether]

Reeks of scam as well

"600$ for a half body animation"

[ornate stump]

Well, since they claimed the account is their then might as well get rid of them too.

[scenic ether]

And using two accounts? Curious

[odd inlet]

sorry to interrupt, but are there any good websites or apps to use to replace a color of an image? im trying to change an eye texture of my conica avatar ^^'

[scenic ether]

Like a 2d image?

[odd inlet]

yeah

[ornate stump]

Use photopea.

[scenic ether]

Id suggest paint.net or krita

Or that ^

Never heard of it though

[ornate stump]

Very similar to photoshop than krita.

[scenic ether]

Huhh, might need to check that

[odd inlet]

oof i def dont know how to use this

[scenic ether]

Just been using krita since I love the filters

[scenic ether]

Everything takes a bit of practice

[odd inlet]

true

[ornate stump]

You will have to somehow tell the app to do something. And that's what you have to learn.

[scenic ether]

Considering your using images of other people's avatars and claiming your own, no thanks

[odd inlet]

i bought her a year or two ago and i decided to edit it now </3 LOL

[scenic ether]

Better late then never

Can I see the 2d image

[odd inlet]

how do yall report ppl in this server btw

[scenic ether]

Thats why its named "untitled" yeah?

[scenic ether]

@ornate stump

[odd inlet]

they def uploaded someone elses model

[scenic ether]

They might know

[odd inlet]

ooooh wait thats kinda cool

ty

[scenic ether]

Idk if what hes doing is punishable, should be but shrug

[ornate stump]

I already have reported though. Just have to wait until some mod get back to see.

[scenic ether]

@odd inlet can I see the 2d texture of what your trying to change color in

[odd inlet]

it most definitely is

[odd inlet]

sure!!

should i send it here or dms

[scenic ether]

Here is fine

[odd inlet]

alr

[scenic ether]

If idk how to help renfrew is here

[scenic ether]

Yikes.

@ornate stump yeah uhhh, this might be on you

[odd inlet]

i used Fiveko to just change the hair

but i still have the original texture

[scenic ether]

I dont really mess with those textures, lasso and fill tool / with adjust isn't really good for that

[odd inlet]

this is the original

[scenic ether]

My best guess is trying to select all the textures you want to change, HSV adjust them to the color you want. But might take a bit and can be tedious

Ren probably has better advice so id listen to them

[ornate stump]

Pretty much just make Hue/sat/value filter layer and mask only the part where you want to change the color.

[scenic ether]

I dont think they know how to do that

[odd inlet]

i dont 😔

this is a new app ive never used before so uhmm

[scenic ether]

There's probably a document or guide somewhere you can find

[odd inlet]

alr let me see if i can find anything

hopefully

[ornate stump]

Search about "Adjustment layer" for photopea if you're using that app.

[grave herald]

idk what bug this is how can i fix this

[odd inlet]

tysm!! ur a lifesaver fr

[scenic ether]

Is that vertices? Select your mesh and go to edit mode and send a pic

[grave herald]

give me a bit ill brb then!

[ornate stump]

Usually it's vertices that got weight painted to the bone they shouldn't.

[grave herald]

a pic of what exactly im sorry im jsut not sure

this?

[scenic ether]

Yeah, which looks normal so check your weight paints like ren said here ^

[grave herald]

ok ty!

[grave herald]

there is no wheight paint

[ornate stump]

Doesn't look like you're in weight paint mode.

[grave herald]

i think i am (im sorry im pretty new to this)

[ornate stump]

Screenshot the entire screen instead.

[ornate stump]

Strange that it's displayed as black. If black means zero then you might have to check for every other vertex group as well.

[grave herald]

ok got it ill send ya when i see something on the hand

ok yeah i found the problem and i think i know how to fix it tysm for all the help

[spark root]

Hi! Does anyone know the name of this avatar?

[heavy zephyr]

#1138520828556890214

[grave herald]

fixed tysm :>

[pine valley]

nice!

[gritty furnace]

Unity won't let me upload my avatar because of this thing, that I keep hitting Auto Fix, it says Fixed, but the error keeps coming back up.
And that's an error with Unity's default particle system...?
I don't even use particles on this avatar.

https://discussions.unity.com/t/texture-streaming-doesnt-work-on-particle-system/223981

Google is telling me that the particle system doesn't even use mip streaming, and if I click on the [Texture2D] Default-ParticleSystem, it just takes me to my root folder. Like, it's not there, Jim?

[scenic ether]

If you haven't already

Restart your unity

Reload the SDK

Check again

[gritty furnace]

Did that twice, the error is still coming up.

Fully restarted my PC, too.

[scenic ether]

Also what kinda console is this??

Go look in your VRC SDK Builder to fix your mip streaming

[gritty furnace]

It's the first time I've seen it, too. It popped up in the lower right corner as a new window when I tried uploading my avatar (I haven't updated this one in about 4 months, I went through and updated all the project components and only added one small prefab, and this is what Unity is doing right now).

Reloaded the SDK again. I see nothing about Mip Streaming in the Builder, only in that new window that pops up. Still getting the error.

This does, too, but I figure that's just the failure to upload.

There's that in the settings?

I unchecked it and tried uploading. Same error.

[scenic ether]

I really wanna know what this is, this is not the normal SDK

[gritty furnace]

Should be right.

[scenic ether]

show all alerts rq

[scenic ether]

SDK alerts

[gritty furnace]

Oh

[scenic ether]

your VRC sdk is reporting its fine to upload, are you able to just get rid of wtv the NDMF console thing is?

[gritty furnace]

No, the window pops up upon attempting to Build & Publish. Autofix doesn't actually fix it. Uploading is immediately aborted by it.

[scenic ether]

I meant, can you just completely uninstall the tool you installed

[gritty furnace]

I didn't install anything new to the SDK, just updated it to the current version.

[sudden sky]

I've uploaded the PC version already, now just trying to do the quest, sadly idk how to compress everything

[gritty furnace]

That NDMF Console is not something I added.

[scenic ether]

It probably came included with something else, should try looking through your package manager maybe?

[blissful bear]

you don't have any error on the sdk that prevents you from uploading it, if NDMF isn't a dependency you can try uninstalling it and trying to upload again

[gritty furnace]

Wait, I see where it is.

[scenic ether]

Id strongly suggest getting Thry's Avatar Performance Tools

[gritty furnace]

Trying to remember if I actually installed it for any purpose, but on this avatar, I don't think so. Just going to punt it.

[sudden sky]

Whats that?

[scenic ether]

You def dont need it, from the description its just a plugin to help build plugins

[gritty furnace]

Aye, it was probably from someone's ancient install ReadMe, before VRCFury and stuff.

[scenic ether]

Avatar performance tool, https://github.com/Thryrallo/VRC-Avatar-Performance-Tools

[blissful bear]

lower texture resolution or remove textures that aren't significant form the materials
if you see there's still a lot of memory and you don't know where it's coming from you may need to create separate materials for the mobile version since very large shaders like poiyomi contain a lot of hidden parameters that would take a lot of time to find and remove

[scenic ether]

Perfect for seeing what textures is taking up the most memory

[gritty furnace]

Got it uploaded, woo woo~ Thanks!

[dawn oak]

anyone know what could cause my avatar to break like this in unity?

[blissful bear]

right where you are at right now, go to pose on the bottom of the left window, click on reset, the go there again and enforce t pose

[sudden sky]

I'm a moron ;w; it was "scene" wise, meaning the other 4 avatars were in the way

[hard turtle]

can someone dm me the test vrchat avatar its not in my files when i make an avi project?

[surreal salmon]

how do i disable this?

in blender

[blissful bear]

right click -> delete driver

[amber tusk]

does anyone know how to make my idle animation static?

The one on the left is in game, but the one on the right is unity (duh)

After I stop walking it staying normal for a bit but then the legs slowly move.
I honestly am stumped on what to do.

(im using gogo for animations btw)

[gaunt knoll]

theres 2 animations you have put your idle on

ones normal speed the other is slowed

[amber tusk]

do i change both of these?

[gaunt knoll]

i dont know where the idle is it

but

the normal afk has 2.
one normal the other slowed
ive deleted the slowed one and just kept the normal speed one

[amber tusk]

ohhhhhh

thank you

[gaunt knoll]

i think this is what your looking for

looks like its on speed 0.5

[woven jasper]

Hello, I'd like to explore the creation of an avatar, but it seems the Creator Companion is only available on Windows (whereas the Unity Hub is cross-platform). Does anyone know itf there is a way to make it run on Linux?
I tried with both Wine and GE-Proton but it seems broken... :/

[balmy barn]

https://vrc-get.anatawa12.com/en/alcom/ try that

A fast open-source alternative of VRChat Creator Companion (VCC)

[shy anvil]

im trying to upload a vrc avatar but it needs a actual shirt is there ANY way to mold a shirt to fit the body? other then blender its way to difficult

[scenic ether]

You could look into armature link with vrcfury

Assuming your asking how to have a shirt auto rigged, takes a bit to mess with to get right

But honestly rigging and setting it up with blender is usually the better route to learn

[shy anvil]

blender is too difficult i literally just need a shirt lol but yeah the shirt isnt for my avatar so would armature link help me have it fit my avatar

[late heath]

im really confused.. i reset my pc recently and the first time i installed ios it worked perfectly fine but now i cant build in ios this time around for some reason? and when i try to forcefully change the build to ios in the unity hub it boots me into safe mode.. please help

[balmy barn]

check build setting in unity and grab it from there

[late heath]

now im even more confused as to why its saying i dont have it installed.. but ill see what happens when i try to install from here, thank you

the installation seems to have failed

i may try to just uninstall my unity build entirely again and reinstall pc only, then go from there after i open the project again

[late heath]

ok so i tried to uninstall and reinstall unity.. but when i tried to reinstall it failed so i restarted my pc.. and then when i opened unity hub again the build was there even though i uninstalled it.. so i tried to just open the project and install ios from there and it worked.. dont know why that happened but at least it worked

[lilac musk]

Unity moment.

[lime gorge]

why is this texture file not applying properly?

my avatar's glasses are supposed to be cornflower blue

but for some reason they are purple and even in unity this occurs too

[ornate stump]

Have you made sure that the glasses are using the correct material?

[lime gorge]

no

all the other textures applied like normal

[odd inlet]

what do i do to fix this?

[low stratus]

hello, im having a problem adding these slides to my model, its separate from the outfit anf when i add them on unity theyre fine but when im on vr they kinda just clip n float

[lime gorge]

3,000 people and no replies

[ornate stump]

How did you apply this texture to the material?

[lime gorge]

i just opened the file and i thought it would magically apply

and it doesnt

[ornate stump]

Of course it doesn't.

[odd inlet]

nvm fixed it

[ornate stump]

You have to create material for the glasses, assign the material to the glasses, and setup the material to use the correct texture.

[manic copper]

Hey guys I’m just looking for a bit of help to make the heel foot of my avatar in to a flat foot when I toggle sneakers on

[lime gorge]

thanks, at least i know a little bit about unity

[ornate stump]

Did you do armature link on it?

[ornate stump]

It's mostly the same for blender too.

[low stratus]

how would i do that again sorry

[ornate stump]

Use something like vrcfury armature link component.

[random fossil]

What is "face tracking emulation" and how to use it and what exactly is "face tracking limits"?

[manic copper]

How do I make my avatar heel feet in to flat foot? For adding shoes

[low stratus]

i got it ty

[gaunt knoll]

scammer

rip account

[charred skiff]

I need a bit of help, for the past few hours I've been trying to fix this and I think there's something wrong with either the suit's rig or the VRCFury components

I'd have to get a better look quickly

Any idea on how to take care of this?

I'm still new to avatar creation so some advice would help

[hard turtle]

can someone please help me get the vrchat test avatar fbx

[light heath]

How do i get the png so people can see it and it’s not transparent. I tried with one thing but it said it’s not compatible.

[arctic ginkgo]

try this:

• create a second texture that's the same as the first but all black
• make a new material and use this black texture, but set the shader to VRChat/Mobile/Particles/Multiply
• add a new material slot to your mesh renderer, and drag this material into the first slot
• make sure the render queue on the material is lower on multiply than on additive

[quaint wind]

ive never had this issue before idk if its a vrc bug. but how do i fix this. my avatar shows in uploaded in unity and on the vrc web, but wont show on the game???

[charred skiff]

Nevermind, this has been resolved

[scenic ether]

Review your SDK Alerts and make sure all seem fine
I'd also check your animator, check "All parts" and make sure its empty and on top
I'd also just quickly make sure your avatar does appear in play mode too

I feel like I know what the problem is but I can't for the life of me remember what the solution was

[quaint wind]

the only alert that pops up after upload is but i add a thumb nail when i upload?? an it shows on the web as well

[safe junco]

Hi all - I'm hoping someone can help me add zoomies to my avatar. To go fast. I tried a box collider slightly behind me - (like with flight platforms) it no do. Can anyone help me? I don't want to add gogogo loco ._ .

[scenic ether]

When you try to load it in VRC, does it let you load it and you just appear invisible?

[scenic ether]

Why not gogoloco

Just strip it of everything you dont want

[quaint wind]

no like its not in my uploaded avis but it just shows in unity and on the vrc web

[scenic ether]

On the web, does it safe "safety check failed" or anything?

[safe junco]

Personal reasons that involve lore o- o Gotta keep it out of my project. I can open a new project and import an avatar and set up gogo and then rip it apart and then see how it made. But I'm hoping someone nice can tell me the fundamentals of what it's doing. o- o

[scenic ether]

I'm now more curious what kind of lore you have that makes it so you cant use gogo loco but uh, other then that I'm not sure

[safe junco]

help me out and earn it

[quaint wind]

it doesnt im at a lost

[scenic ether]

Show me your hierachy real quick

[scenic ether]

I'm afraid I have no idea how to accomplish that type of task

[quaint wind]

i got you

[scenic ether]

Add in Av3 emulator and run play mode to see if it works, it'll give you access to run expressions and etc, just make sure all your expressions/toggles works

[quaint wind]

expressions are not working in play mode

[scenic ether]

Click on the avatar in your hierachy and take a ss of your inspector

[scenic ether]

( And does the avatar go into a bicycle pose when in play mode with av3 emulator on?

[quaint wind]

it doesnt go into a bicycle pose

[scenic ether]

I'm assuming your new ?

Not trying to be mean or anything, but want to just make sure

[quaint wind]

no ive just never ran into a issue like this before

[scenic ether]

Okay, well your avi descriptor is well

A mess?

Make sure your Avatar under Animator is connected to your avatar to your body you are uploading

You have 4 prefabs there, you should get rid of the ones you are not using

Expressions on the bottom should be opened up and made sure they are set to the correct menus

If you have already uploaded the avatar, you shouldnt need to detach the current blueprint ID but sometimes the old blueprint ID is connected to the original avatar owners upload, so doesn't hurt to detach and re-upload once your sure

Another thing you could check, is finding your FBX for the model and reviewing the Rig tab -> Configure and looking through the bones just to make sure all are there and good to go
Most look like this

Heres a good example of what the bottom of your Avi descriptor should look like as well

It's important that you check these and make sure all is aligned,
In specifics for the Expressions
Menu - This should be your MAIN menu, aka the menu that when you open your green radial in game, and click expressions, the menu that holds all sub menus
Paramaters - Your main paramater that holds all parameters for the menus / animators

( Sorry for the spam in the chat, theres just a lot of possibilities that could be causing your issues, ping me whenever you got smth @quaint wind )

I did have another idea if this ends up not fixing the problems

[quaint wind]

your alright im just reading and trying to fix the possible issues at the same time

[scenic ether]

Take your time, but real quick
You said the avatar uploads and even says its uploaded on the vrc website right?

[quaint wind]

yes

[scenic ether]

Okay, ballpark swing, theres a chance when you downloaded the avatar the previous owner did not change the blueprint ID,

It'll be under the avatar descriptor as pipeline manager

Looks like this

essentially, this is basically the line to your avatar, that code is your avatar, however if its someone elses code, your uploading the avatar and updating their avatar

[quaint wind]

im trying that now ive detached it im re uploading her if it doesnt work then i will inform you

[scenic ether]

Yeah, once its detached, it'll reset the builder tab in your VRC SDK, remake it as your own, re-upload, and let me know! 🩵

( Pls ping me to update me, I'm on red to get some stuff done so a ping will get my attention

[quaint wind]

it works now thank you T^T ive been struggling with this for like three hours thank you

[tepid whale]

Does anyone know how to make a guidable particle? For example, turning/rotating an object (like your hand) changes the particle's trajectory while the simulation space is set to world. I've seen it done on some avatars but i have no idea how to replicate it myself.

[scenic ether]

🩵 🩵 🩵 🩵

Enjoy your avatar!!

[quaint wind]

ty ^^

[strong badger]

I'm trying to upload an avatar to test, I've already done this once before about a year ago but now it's saying that I can't even though I've played VRC for a while and am trusted. Does anyone know what's going on?

[fallen forum]

Would it be possible to change the volume of an audio source on your avatar through a slider in the expressions menu, or not?

If so, how would I achieve this?

[lean fulcrum]

I haven't created avatars since 2021. This "VRChat Creator Companion" does it have a lot of bells and whistles or does it just install unity and the SDK for me instead of me just manually installing unity myself and downloading the SDK separately?

[gaunt knoll]

this is an error if you press reload sdk or restart your pc it should work

[strong badger]

aye aye! thank you! I'll try that!

I think it's working! Thank you! <3

[fallen forum]

It does that, but it also has good project management features, makes it a lot easier to upgrade the version of Unity or the SDK your project is on, if you ever need to, among other things. If you can, use the VCC. It's much nicer than trying to use Unity Hub and the downloaded SDK. (I'm not sure if you can even download the SDK by itself anymore?)

[gaunt knoll]

some of the packages like fury needs CC to work as well

[fallen forum]

Oh didn't know that

[gaunt knoll]

yeah sadly

[lean fulcrum]

I dunno, I just recently got a new PC, i don't have unity installed on it yet and i'm currently trying to rescue my old files, i thought the source files for my old avatars were gone. Which was half-correct as i can't find the blend files (yet) , but the unity asset files were just vibing on one of my external hard drives.

[gaunt knoll]

as long as its repo you should be fine
if you have never used CC before i suggest going straight to ALCOM faster and more lightweight then CC

[lean fulcrum]

sorry, unitypackage, not assets

[lean fulcrum]

pardon?

these abbreviations are foreign to me

[gaunt knoll]

File Repository. repo

[lean fulcrum]

I meant CC and ALCOM

[gaunt knoll]

https://vrc-get.anatawa12.com/en/alcom/

CC is vrchat's Creator Companion
ALCOM is a 3rd party but a lot of people that made packages like poi shaders suggests using it

faster

[lean fulcrum]

I see..

I guess right now i'

damn enter key.

I guess right now i'm mostly just trying to save what i've found, i found a folder called "VRChat Avatar 3.0" which i think is a unity project and i'm not certain how to recover it as i haven't used unity in 5 years

acutally there is a folder inside called "projectsettings" so i suppose it's safe to assume it is a project

[old beacon]

anyone have the assets needed for a working pistol?(basically the pistol rig that is used on most call of duty avatars) I am trying to make an avi

[hard turtle]

any tips for setting up the thumb rig-

xD

[solar violet]

???

Ok my post was deleted, thanks

So first time developing in Unity, bought a model off of Booth (OH it was probably the link I posted that deleted my post), Noiz, and none of the bones appear as capsules in Unity nor do they work in game. What am I missing here?

[flint rose]

bones never have capsules, you are probably referring to Physbones. it looks like you grabbed the FBX and put it in your scene, which will not have anything on it. that's just the raw 3D model

check the package for either a scene file (.unity, unity icon) or a prefabs folder

[solar violet]

Oh lmao, thanks boss

So what is an FBX file for?

[flint rose]

its the actual 3d model file

which said prefab is built from

[hard turtle]

whats the tool for auto generating face visemes

i forgor

[hard turtle]

does anyone know the name of the addon-

xD

[gentle iris]

anyone know how i can make these work on my avatar?

[lilac musk]

Can be as simple a toggle for a sword/axe, but could be complex when doing things like guns. I'd recommend starting off with toggles and learning what you can for more specific functions.

[gentle iris]

i can do toggles but the weapons animate and transform out when equipped and thats what i dont know

[lilac musk]

Do they have the animations already? Is it a prefab?

[gentle iris]

one weapon

some of the weapons have controllers

but no animations

[lilac musk]

That's very odd. I'm assuming they weren't intended for VRChat. You'd have to make animations and set them up in your FX controller

[gentle iris]

thats annoying

i see plenty of avis use the weapons and are animated the same way

[old beacon]

anyone know how I could make this gun work with a fist gesture only when it's toggled on?

[lilac musk]

I don't know what the assets are and could be wrong. Might be worth doing a little research into what exactly you have as it still could already be mostly setup. The idea that they supposedly have controllers but no animations suggests there might be more to them.

[gentle iris]

i tried asking in the TF discord but nothing

[lilac musk]

For the transition to fire animation, have conditions that check for is toggled on and fist gesture

[lilac musk]

The place you got it from could provide info on how to use them. Are they from a store page or just random stuff you found?

[gentle iris]

i found it on vrcmods

[lilac musk]

Don't use that site. Ripped/stolen content that could also very well have malicious stuff inside.

[gentle iris]

the page says they are animated and transform

[gentle iris]

what site should i use?

[lilac musk]

Places like gumroad or booth

[gentle iris]

ok

[merry ermine]

I swore I didnt need to come back here but I am so annoyed, Unity is just the worst. I had wasted a bunch of time in my day finally hoping to get this project done, so I finish modeling, rigging, weighpainting, and then go to upload it to unity. But it wont stop giving me errors that my dumb brain cant process, as I have NEVER done any coding in my life and am new to unity. Ill show below the problems

Difference: Unity VS Blender.

I was messing around with the texture to see what is wrong but it didnt help, the dark limbs and pieces ARE the outlines, and if you zoom in you can still find the base pieces inside.

I cant tell if this is a unity OR blender thing

Going to upload it to see if Unity was just being funny but it wont even let me

And I have no clue what these errors mean

Google is NO help

[gaunt knoll]

Well you can't use unsupported shaders on quest

[lilac musk]

So this is likely because your normals are backward on the black pieces, in blender you can flip them back around

Your issue with uploading is that the shader you have isn't supported on Quest. You can only use the shaders VRC provides you.

[merry ermine]

I used toon lit for all these pieces, Ill try to fix it

Thanks for the advice

[lilac musk]

Also, it's very common to get frustrated when learning things like Unity. Don't be too hard on yourself. It takes time to learn these things

[merry ermine]

Yeahh, learned that the hard way with blender

[gaunt knoll]

I've been doing this for work and I still fuck it up sometimes

[lilac musk]

You're already way ahead of the curve for making avatars if your getting into blender. Most people wont touch it lol

[merry ermine]

Blender is a mess

Okay so. I fixed it say this in all caps happy and gleefully because I cant

[lilac musk]

lol

[somber sequoia]

blender is great

[merry ermine]

Okay Ive removed every other material in here and its still giving me an error

I guess Ill just save and re open sigh

[ornate stump]

It still sounds like the model is using some embedded material, where you haven't change the material out yet.

[merry ermine]

Weird..

[ornate stump]

It isn't about exist material assets in your project.

[ornate stump]

Search t:renderer in hierarchy and look into all the shown renderer.

[merry ermine]

Ohh

Okay will do

Ok nvm I just had to re open it i think

Ok, FINALLY. phew

[somber osprey]

is it possible (via Goco Loco or anything else )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?

[ornate stump]

With gogoloco, no, it doesn't have this capability.
You might have to use VRCTrackingState behaviour to switch between tracking and animation for body part.

[somber osprey]

is that addon free?

[ornate stump]

It isn't an addon. It's a part of sdk.

[somber osprey]

does the tracking only limit to pipeline or webcam tracking?

or this also includes like where your looking via mouse?

[ornate stump]

What do you mean pipeline?

[somber osprey]

the name of the webcam tracker algorithim or API. I forgot what's it

I think MediaPipe

[ornate stump]

Tracking is any movement that vrchat avatar system give you, and the opposite is animation that comes from avatar animator controller.

[somber osprey]

and does this work with Goco Loco poses?

or it can only work alone?

[ornate stump]

It likely is going to conflict with gogoloco.

[somber osprey]

so I have to do poses and the headlock with VRCTrackingState alone?

or do I HAVE to remove Goco Loco from my avi?

[ornate stump]

Do the opposite of how you install it.

More infor about tracking control https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/state-behaviors#animator-tracking-control

[somber osprey]

"Do the opposite of how you install it"

so basically remove Goco Loco completely?

[ornate stump]

Just reverse the process until you reach the step where you add to the avatar in the scene.

[somber osprey]

okay

but before I do that. I need to fix another issue

Everytime I sit down in any seats in the world, my avi suddenly goes or clips too low. This is happening in all of the worlds, is there a way I can fix this?

[ornate stump]

Use gogoloco to adjust sitting height.

[somber osprey]

but I can't have Goco loco if I'm gonna use VRCTrackingBehaviour, you said it'll cause conflict

[ornate stump]

Adjusting sitting height isn't a straight forward and easy process. The main idea is to make animation to move avatar root position up/down according to parameter from radial puppet.

[somber osprey]

Okay but if I do that, then I can't use VRCTRackingState

so there is no way I can have VRCTRackingState and GocoLoco on together without much conflicts?

[ornate stump]

Not an easy way of course.

[chilly depot]

can i upload the same avi within the same project for me and my friend? like just changing the account

[ornate stump]

I explained how gogoloco does it in the previous message.

[somber osprey]

man that's a shame...

I was hoping I could make the head move around but keeping the body lock so it looks more natural

guess I can't

[ornate stump]

You can if you actually gave it more effort.

[somber osprey]

well I ahve no knowledge on Unity editor, period.

so I need alot of help which I"m most likely not gonna get cause no one really bothers for this

alright well before I edit the avi

in VCC,is there a way I can create a duplicate copy of an existing project? as a way to backup? (Ik it has "create backup" but idk where the backup is even stored or how to access it)

[ornate stump]

The backup location is in the vcc settings.

[somber osprey]

and how do I use those backups?

They're stored as a ZIP

[ornate stump]

https://vcc.docs.vrchat.com/guides/faq/#how-do-i-restore-a-backup

[gentle iris]

i got these wings from booth but not sure how to get them working

[ornate stump]

Does it include install instruction?

[gentle iris]

no

wait

it did, just didnt understand since the file is Japanese

instructions are also japanese

just translated and i need something called littoon

ah its a shader

[somber osprey]

how can I tell it to locate me where exactly this is located?

like if you double click on it, it usually sents you to where this is belongs to

I have too many stuff in Unity

[ornate stump]

You should just click it once and it highlight the object it's animating.

If you mean the material properties, you should look in the material settings after you select the object.

[somber osprey]

but where?

I don't wanna go through everysingle one of them

clicking it doesn't show me which material it is in the inspector

[ornate stump]

You could guess from the property name. It's _MainTex, so it's likely is in Main Color.

[somber osprey]

why is the scene camera not working in gesture manager?

[ornate stump]

Because it changed to Game view. Change it back to Scene view if you want to fly editor camera.

[somber osprey]

face expression is stuck on this. And switching to a different expression doesn't work immediately and takes time

This is my animator. the one labeled "4" is mine, the one with "3" is how came with it

I noticed that my transition has 1 arrow instead of 3 arrows. but that's all I know

[ornate stump]

If the transition is delay, that means you had Exit Time option enabled in the transition setting which is on by default. You have to disableit.

[ornate stump]

3 arrows means there are multiple transition between that 2 states.

[somber osprey]

I get a warning if I do that

[ornate stump]

You need at least one condition.

[somber osprey]

I did that. its still stuck on one expression

[ornate stump]

Did you add the correct condition?

[somber osprey]

i did AFK is true

just like the other transitions

left image is original
right image is mine

[ornate stump]

There are multiple transitions showing here.

[chilly depot]

anyone knows~?

[somber osprey]

so what do I do to make that happen?

[ornate stump]

As I said before, the 3 arrow means there are multiple transition between that 2 states.

[ornate stump]

Just do "Make Transition" between 2 states again

[somber osprey]

still happens

it gets stuck on one blendshape

[ornate stump]

Did you do it correctly?

[somber osprey]

I can't tell if I did

this one is mine

this is the original

could it be the timeline that's different?

or the "Settings"

[ornate stump]

Did you see actually click on other transition in the list to see how it's setup the condition?

[somber osprey]

Oh, no I didn't knew I can do that

[somber osprey]

how do I prevent splitting too many "close" box in the bottom

I'm trying t get only 2

[ornate stump]

Lower transition duration.

[somber osprey]

I'm having trouble trying to understand how this works

my model has a blush that only works with some of the expression. But the conditions here doesn't make any sense.

This is how its setup I didn't change or touch anything. Could anyone explain to me how this is working for some of the blendshapes?

here I have multiple expression toggles. for Toggles3, only the blush works in here for some of the gestures

that's how its setup

but trying to reverse engineer this, I'm lost

[dusk elk]

I have this edit of an avatar and it didnt have a fx and parameters so I added them, tho the wings still refuse to move, am I missing something?

[woven jasper]

hi, thanks for your answer!
I actually already found this, but the app doesn't work for me, I'm having this issue: https://github.com/vrc-get/vrc-get/issues/2319 :/

[wintry swallow]

I need help uploading and editing a avatar can anyone please

DM me if you can help

[dark echo]

I also need a help to upload avatar 😭 if anyone can help me, pls dm me!

[crude anvil]

so the texture on the hair is transparent

how do i turn the color to alpha

like this for example

[dark echo]

Am fr struggle with these

[crude anvil]

nvm

[pine valley]

the important bit was turning on the "Cutout" rendering mode

By default, you're using the Opaque rendering mode

this doesn't care about the alpha channel at all, and every pixel will render unconditionally

Cutout mode uses the final alpha value to decide if the pixel should draw or not

[pine valley]

I've seen that "missing the class attribute" error before, but I don't remember what actually caused it

Possibly a non-MonoBehaviour class being attached to a game object anyway?

What happens when you clear the console?

Do any errors remain?

[somber sequoia]

do you have Dynamic Bones in this project for some reason? Or an outdated SDK?

[dark echo]

i don't have a dynamic bones-

i meant there's dynamicBone in Assets

but uhhhhh

[dark echo]

yes

[pine valley]

show the errors you now have

[dark echo]

wait

Wth it working for now

[harsh thicket]

Hello,
how can I emit just one particle by a trigger?
like for a gun for example

[heavy zephyr]

Easiest would be to use a particle system that doesn't loop, plays on awake and emits exactly one particle (as a burst).

Toggle the object on/off to shoot

[somber sequoia]

Look into "buffer particles" - I don't have a tutorial handy, but you have to have two particle systems, one that spawns another that's not a child of it.

(otherwise the in-motion particle will be disabled when you turn of the system)

[heavy zephyr]

For a gun specifically buffer particles are great yes. They allow you to fire particles and toggle the particle system on/off rapidly without deleting the particles fired before

[somber sequoia]

exactly

[crude anvil]

i think hes ready...

[pine valley]

this technique scares me

i've crashed the editor by having multiple particle systems target the same system as a sub-emitter

I prefer to use a parented sub-emitter. The parent particle system has an extremely high emission rate, but is only allowed to emit one particle at a time

and the particle lives for like 0.2 seconds

i animate the emission rate from 0 to a big number for 0.1 seconds and then stop it

[somber sequoia]

dunno, worked just fine for me.

I just make sure each system emits only one single particle.

[harsh thicket]

this is what I thought.
I think I'll keep it simple for now ^^

[pine valley]

the crashing happened when they were both trying to emit lots of particles at the same time

I was hoping to use many sources to feed into a single large particle system

praying for a state machine behaviour that fires a burst

[somber sequoia]

can you not animate that already?

[young token]

Anyone know how to fix this

[somber sequoia]

"this"?

[young token]

Look at the image

[somber sequoia]

I see the image, what about it do you think is wrong?

I have no idea what you are trying to do here

[young token]

The head is not post to be like that twin 😭

[somber sequoia]

can you explain what you're doing?

[young token]

Hold up

[pine valley]

i guess the mouth deformed a bit?

if so, the weights are probably wrong (e.g. the mouth area is weighted to the neck bone)

or even to the chest bone, etc.

[hidden pelican]

Hello.
I have an issue.
I got an avatar by one of my friends after I asked them for it. I have it uploaded aand it works perfectly on PC. However, on Quest I have no textures and it gives me this error alert: (Picture)

Can anyone tell me how I can fiix this?
-# I am very new to avatar stuff ._.

On quest it is just pink...

[somber sequoia]

You have some material that's using an incompatible shader.

it may be one swapped in via animation. You'll have to find it and change it

[hidden pelican]

The unity pacage my friend gave me only has those materials:

[somber sequoia]

okay...?

[hidden pelican]

uhhhhhhhhhhh

Me stupid

Me not know ._.

sry

II would ask my friend, but he is at work so he can't help atm

[somber sequoia]

Most of the tutorials for converting to a mobile-compatible avatar will show this, if you need visuals.

[hidden pelican]

For the textures too?

And they wont affect the windows version if changed?

[somber sequoia]

textures aren't a problem

as for affecting either version - I don't know how your project is setup, but you can use quest-compatible materials for PC, just not PC for quest. Often people will make separate materials for each version, with the appropriate shaders.

[hidden pelican]

uhhhhhhhhhhhh

[young token]

Okay so when i turn my head it like squishes

[somber sequoia]

I'll take a guess and say it's bad weight painting, but I can't tell for sure from the information given

[pine valley]

if the neck bone is selected in that image, then the weights are very wrong, indeed

[young token]

well idk how to fix them\

[pine valley]

most of the head should have zero weight from the neck

[somber sequoia]

is that the neck bone?

[young token]

let check

[somber sequoia]

the image is cropped so we can't see which bone is selected (it's displayed at the top of the window)

[somber sequoia]

seems the head bone is

[pine valley]

oh, okay, then that's fine

I'm guessing the head is incorrectly weighted to the neck or chest bones

[young token]

Its when i rotate the neck

[somber sequoia]

if the head squishes when you rotate the head bone, probably it's also weighted to some other bone. It probably should not be.

heads are usually pretty rigid

[pine valley]

You can find out by selecting the Neck vertex group and seeing if the head is still red

if so, you'll need to get rid of that weight. set the Weight slider to zero and then paint over the head area to make it dark blue

[pine valley]

yeah, your neck bone shouldn't touch your face at all

[young token]

Okay

[pine valley]

It should affect the neck area

[young token]

Okay thank you

W

[round comet]

Is there any easy way to find all my animation clips. I’m getting a warning in my sdk saying there’s missing or empty ones, but I don’t even know where to locate them. They aren’t in any of my folders from what I can see

[somber sequoia]

You'd need to look at each animation state in the animator, to see if there's a clip present. If what you're reading is a yellow warning about this, it's probably not a big deal, but you can make an empty clip (I call mine null) and drag it into the states.

[round comet]

Yeah, it’s a yellow warning

I’ll look through my animator

yeah, so weird -- nothings really out of place there. I'll just disregard it i guess

[somber sequoia]

check all animators

[pine valley]

what is the exact warning?

[round comet]

I'll screencap it

I think it might be in my gesture layer? I'm using gestures made by someone on booth

they made an empty clip already

by the looks of it

[proven quail]

you don't have to worry about this error unless the avatar isn't working properly in-game

[round comet]

Ohh gotcha! Yeah, she functions properly

Thanks guys

[crude anvil]

Alright ill need serious help from this point forward

Before I get started theres one last thing that needs addressing

The eyes

So i made a mesh that by default gives him this expression on his face

But when i go inside the game that mesh completely dissappears

How do I fix this

[somber sequoia]

you'd have to figure out why it's happening first. does it happen in play mode in Unity?

[crude anvil]

play mode????

[somber sequoia]

the play button at the top of the screen. use an emulator like AV3 Emulator or Gesture Manager to simulate in-game effects while in the editor.

you can watch and debug while that's happening.

[crude anvil]

Uhh

I dont think it worked

[somber sequoia]

you don't have gesture manager or AV3 emulator in the scene

[crude anvil]

I checked it before starting the project

[somber sequoia]

so this is doing what's expected.

"checked it"?

[crude anvil]

yeah

Enabled it

[somber sequoia]

no, you added it to the project, not the scene.

[crude anvil]

How do I add it to the scene

[somber sequoia]

there's an item in the menu somewhere, I don't use Gesture Manager personally so I refer you to its documentation.

[crude anvil]

It worked

But now here's the weird part

Im not allowed to move this mesh. Anywhere

How.

https://tenor.com/view/confused-white-persian-guardian-why-gif-10312546

[somber sequoia]

what do you mean move?

[crude anvil]

Change its position

[somber sequoia]

no I get that, but how are you attempting to do this?

[crude anvil]

Its been pushed back

Im trying to move it forward

[somber sequoia]

in the editor, via animation, at runtime? explain.

[crude anvil]

But i cant move it in any direction at all

Its stuck.

[somber sequoia]

Are you in play mode?

[crude anvil]

Yes

Thats how I found this

[somber sequoia]

Yea, you can't do that in play mode. You can move it when in edit mode.

Or make an animation which moves it in play mode

[crude anvil]

okay....

I got an idea

WHAT

So i can move stuff in play mode except that one mesh in particular

https://tenor.com/view/dog-side-eye-staring-gif-24666090

[somber sequoia]

kinda depends on what it is, what's controlling it, a bunch of things. Also, if you do manage to move a thing in play mode, that movement will not be preserved when you exit play mode anwyay.

[crude anvil]

This shouldn't even be possible

Unless shape keys are getting in the way of it which is impossible by itself since during my process of exporting the fbx the shape keys got deleted

[somber sequoia]

Shape keys being deleted in the FBX export is likely due to an un-applied modifier which couldn't be auto-applied at export time. Such as subdivision surface or mirror.

[crude anvil]

Shrink wrap

[somber sequoia]

Yep, that one too

you'll need to apply that before exporting

and before you ask, I use this tool: https://github.com/przemir/ApplyModifierForObjectWithShapeKeys

it usually works.

[crude anvil]

Its not that I cant move it.
It literally resets itself

This is the only mesh that does this

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to do here

[echo dagger]

im editing an avatar and it has gogoloco ingame but i can't see it in the avatar unity screen.

how do i see the hidden toggles and stuff

[somber sequoia]

"hidden" toggles?

[modest ferry]

Would anyone know how to do different poses on avatars or have any tips? I’m trying to figure out how to go about it and haven’t found much on it yet

[round comet]

like gogo?

[modest ferry]

No. For example, like if I’m standing, I don’t want the normal pose, I’d want to have my arms crossed. Something like that

[crude anvil]

Im trying to push it forward

[round comet]

Ohhh

[crude anvil]

It got pushed way too far back

[somber sequoia]

Ah, you'll probably have to build a base locomotion controller for that

[somber sequoia]

Do that in edit mode then

[crude anvil]

In the clip I did

[somber sequoia]

Unless you mean you want to actually animate it.

[crude anvil]

No. Im trying to put it back to its original position

Idk why it got pushed back during play mode

[somber sequoia]

is there an animation affecting this somehow?

That's all I can think of, I don't see a constraint there

[crude anvil]

There shouldn't be and idk how to check

The animations got deleted too during the fbx export

[somber sequoia]

You may not have included them, or may have the import of animations disabled - but blender ones don't matter, it's the ones in unity which do matter.
Did you create this avatar yourself?

[crude anvil]

Yes

[somber sequoia]

oh, then if you didn't purposely make an animation affect this, there probably isn't one doing so

[crude anvil]

This model has zero shape keys. Zero animations. This things empty

[somber sequoia]

how is that part even attached? It seems to be under the armature

[somber sequoia]

it's definitely not a skinned mesh renderer either

[crude anvil]

Just like the hair and eyes and the rest of the head. Its parented to the bone

[somber sequoia]

is it a mesh object in blender that's a child of a bone or something?

or did you do that in Unity

[shy anvil]

i used armature link and the shirt distorted itself anyone know how to fix it?

[crude anvil]

The head bone specifically yes

[somber sequoia]

ah, not at all the way I'd do that. I'd weight paint it to the head bone instead, making it a skinned mesh renderer.

[round comet]

Is the top meant for that base

[shy anvil]

yeah

[gaunt knoll]

Fiddle with the settings for the link
Should be align the position something like that

[crude anvil]

As seen here it does not look like this in blender

Its pushed forward by default

[pine valley]

What did you do at 0:18?

It looks like the object could be moved before that point, and could not be moved afterwards.

[crude anvil]

I was trying to select the mesh that wouldnt move

[shy anvil]

wym settings for the link

[crude anvil]

But I was in the wrong spot

The eyes are fine. In fact every thing is fine

[pine valley]

oh, so you hit undo to reset the eyes before selecting the other part of the object

[pine valley]

gotcha

[crude anvil]

Its this guy specifically

Nothing else

[pine valley]

That means there is an animation controlling the position of that object.

Note that this animation would not have to have been made in Blender.

[crude anvil]

That shouldn't be possible. Is there a way to delete it in unity?

[pine valley]

you may have accidentally created an animation for that object at some point

[quick pine]

Quick question, how do I detach a row of physbones from my avatar? Like scarf that you can rip off of someone and then take with you.

[gaunt knoll]

Look at the component there are settings you can change

[pine valley]

you are looking for the "Armature Link" component; you'll have to edit the prefab to change its settings

[pine valley]

For a quick sanity check, rename the object

[crude anvil]

I wasnt trying to

[pine valley]

This will break any animation that's trying to control it

If you the position stops changing after renaming it, then that's the problem

[crude anvil]

I was going to do all my animations in blender and then slap it in unity

[pine valley]

(rename the object in Unity)

[crude anvil]

If theres a animation in unity somewhere I dont know where to look

[gaunt knoll]

Have a look at VrLabs they have some stuff in their website for that

[crude anvil]

Its called eyebrows now

Since thats what they are

[pine valley]

Are you now able to move the object in play mode?

I would exit play mode, rename it, then go back into play mode

I'm actually not sure what happens if you rename an object while the animator is already running

I imagine the animator has already found the object and won't look for it again

[shy anvil]

like in the inpector? i dont see anything\

[crude anvil]

In object mode or edit i can move them just fine

Its play mode where this happens

[pine valley]

I'm asking you to:

• In edit mode, rename the object
• Enter play mode
• Try to move the object

[crude anvil]

Now the hat i can't move that either. But its fine because its in the right place

[quick pine]

I already looked at those but I don't think the packages on there are what I need.

[gaunt knoll]

Take a screenshot of it

[crude anvil]

there we go

Its back to its default state

[pine valley]

that means an animation is controlling the position of the object

Are you currently using the Gesture Manager or Av3Emu to preview your avatar?

[crude anvil]

Both

I select one of the two

They both work either way

[pine valley]

And the hat still does not move after activating the Gesture Manager, correct?

[crude anvil]

No. But thats okay since its right where it needs to be

[pine valley]

Okay, so that means that one of your playable layers has an animation that controls the hat's position

[crude anvil]

I would want that to stay put at all costs

[pine valley]

(and the eyebrows' position -- but that animation is now broken)

[pine valley]

unfold Advaned Options in the Armature Link

uncheck "Align Position"

[pine valley]

screenshot the playable layers section of your avatar descriptor

this'll show me where to look next

Ideally, you don't want to have rename random objects to break animations you didn't want in the first place 😉

[crude anvil]

Im not sure what im looking at but sure

[pine valley]

Do the same outside of play mode.

[pine valley]

okay, so it has the default playable layers

that means that you don't have an FX animator controller that could be animating those objects

[crude anvil]

Idk what those are

[pine valley]

they're different sets of animations

Base is for your locomotion animations, like walking

FX is used for most object toggles (and most animations, really)

[crude anvil]

That explains why he can walk

[pine valley]

However, your avatar is being built with VRCFury. That means you could have a toggle somewhere that's trying to position those objects

[shy anvil]

it like kinds almost did smth

[pine valley]

You can quickly look for these things by searching the hierarchy for t:vrcfury

This will list every VRCFury component on your avatar

[pine valley]

you may also need to uncheck Align Rotation and Align Scale

alternatively, it just has weird blendshapes on

that does kinda look like an "unzipped" blendshape...although it is a bit exploded

[pine valley]

okay, so there's only one on the root of your avatar

show me the rest of the inspector for the "MR (1)" object

[shy anvil]

IT WORKEDDD thanksss

[pine valley]

scroll down to show the rest of the inspector

[pine valley]

Those make sure that the object attaches right if it's not aligned properly – but they also mean that you lose any adjustments you've made

So if you've customized the shape by moving the bones around, you want to uncheck that

[pine valley]

hm, that shouldn't be doing anything

[crude anvil]

Well as long as the eyebrows work the way they're supposed to i will do just fine

[pine valley]

the Toggle component doesn't have an object to turn on and off, so it should just do nothing

[crude anvil]

Cause that was the only issue the avatar had

And its been fixed

[pine valley]

I always try to figure out what's causing weird behaviors, since it can be a good learning experience

[crude anvil]

Hmmmm

That is a good point