avatar-help

[obtuse bronze]

Ok

Im gonna see what happens if I delete them

[somber sequoia]

yeah I'd probably do that, then setup physbones as needed.

[obtuse bronze]

Ok

Thank you^^

[vapid slate]

how to fix

[somber sequoia]

look in the console to see what the errors are.

[vapid slate]

it says

but i cant find anything with that name

[somber sequoia]

Always look at the first 2-3 errors. Feel free to paste them.

see the first pin in here for detail on how to share errors

[vapid slate]

theres only 2

[somber sequoia]

cropping them makes helping very difficult - see that pin.

[balmy barn]

marker would be my guess, probably old

easy test, duplicate av, remove it

[somber sequoia]

better - and yeah, same guess.

[vapid slate]

i did remove it

it says "boo" but ive looked everywhere and theres nothing named boo

[somber sequoia]

it's looking for C# code, not necessarily a file with that in the name

[vapid slate]

is there a way to find that?

[somber sequoia]

you could grep all the files, or probably look at that specific script to see what it wants. Or perhaps it's an outdated package, you could try updating it.

Haven't used that one so can't suggest much about it otherwise.

[vapid slate]

i cant find it anywhere T-T

how do i update an avatar?

[somber sequoia]

"update"?

[vapid slate]

u said updating

[somber sequoia]

no I meant the package

not the avatar

[vapid slate]

ph

oh

how tho

[somber sequoia]

install a newer version?

[vapid slate]

everything is updated

[somber sequoia]

Okay then that isn't an outdated package, and so no need to update it.

[vapid slate]

so theres no way to fix that stupid error...

ive tried everything

[balmy barn]

id move folder out of assets/delete it

[somber sequoia]

definitely not what I said

[vapid slate]

yeah but thats what im starting to think bc ive literally tried everything and nothing is working

[somber sequoia]

Did you install the Marker package yourself, or did it come with the avatar?

[vapid slate]

it came with the avatar

[somber sequoia]

Did you verify it's the latest version of the package?

[vapid slate]

yes

[balmy barn]

its not in packages to its defiantly old

[somber sequoia]

exactly

[balmy barn]

https://vrlabs.dev/packages/ newer here

[vapid slate]

i just delted the files to it

i got it working

thanks for the help guys :3

[little plume]

how can I make hand geasture controlled eyebrows?

thumbsup raises them, pointing lowers them.

i already have the shapekeys

[somber sequoia]

trigger your animation states based on the GestureRight or GestureLeft parameters

[plain mural]

Can I see which animation turns on the shapekey? I have too many animations, and one of them turns on a shapekey that should be off. Do I have to check everything manually, or is there a way to check?

[little plume]

aight bet

[somber sequoia]

there's no easy way - I usually will just turn off all the animation layers using the weight parameter, then turn on each one to see what causes the problem

[little plume]

my face mesh is rigged with shape keys but the teeth are rigged to a bone

how can i make the teeth move with the viseme shape keys

[somber sequoia]

re-rig the teeth to the head bone and make them move with the viseme shape keys

[little plume]

??

theres gotta be a way to turn the bone pose into a shape key

[somber sequoia]

sure is, you can apply an armature modifier as a shape key

[little plume]

ik

but

that doesnt put the shape key on the head

let me just make my mouth poses first then ill worry about teeth

[somber sequoia]

if your teeth mesh and head are separate mesh objects then no, of course it would not do so

[little plume]

so just join their meshs?

[somber sequoia]

probably those should be joined at some point

[night ember]

you could join them temporarily to sync the viseme list then separate them again to work on them separately

[somber sequoia]

definitely

[little plume]

ill try to figure it out when I make all the face poses themselves

im scrolling through the big list of face mocap shape keys to make realistic face poses

[worn kiln]

thanks

[pallid rapids]

My avi continues to fail uploading last second and I cannot tell what this error means 🙁

[plain mural]

I don't understand why the normals on the chest are breaking
I don't have custom normals data enabled in Blender (even if I do, everything breaks). It's not a problem with the polygons overlapping each other, everything remains smooth

[somber sequoia]

Try exporting with "smoothing" under "Geometry" set to "face", then import normals (rather than calculate or using legacy) in the Unity import settings

[little plume]

will these all show up in unity?

so i can turn them into hand geature expressions

[somber sequoia]

what even are those? You clipped the pic so we can't see any context

[little plume]

shape keys

[somber sequoia]

oh, all of them should.

[little plume]

"see a spider"

i didnt make that

that was just something that was originally on the rig lol

ok now that all my shape keys are done

how do i do teeth

its really noticble with the a pose how the teeth dont move

[still shuttle]

Hello! I am having a new issue with the Dynamig Gesture prefrab that I dont usually have. It is causing the hands to "claw" and not play any of the default animations.
I attached a video to help visualize my issue better, I tried to ask in the creators help discord but I havent gotten a response there so I figured i would post here too!

[summer hearth]

cant, quite show the avatar right now but, im trynna add some extra hands on it and it uses vrcfury to add to the armature and link it

issue is, the avatar doesnt, have any fingers at all in its armature or mesh... how to i deal with this?

[somber sequoia]

Add finger bones to the armature so VRChat can control them via IK, then you can use those as the source for controlling other things including your add-on extra hands.

[summer hearth]

does that require blender tho?

[somber sequoia]

Blender or something else that can rig, yep.

[summer hearth]

damnit alr

ty

[vapid slate]

okay, so i made my avi's eyes different [not even edit them, just change the color, and whenever the material locks to upload, it appears as a missing texture in game and in unity and it keeps doing it, any suggestions?

[somber sequoia]

I assume this is Poiyomi? What happens when you manually lock it in the editor?

[vapid slate]

becomes a missing texture

[somber sequoia]

You'll need to inspect the material to find out what is missing.

[vapid slate]

its the origninal material for the avi T-T

it doesnt say or look like anything is wrong

the other eye is the exact same edits as the other and it works completely fine

[hybrid basin]

Having an issue with an avi I'm working on.

I can't see it, and my camera can't see it, but my friends can see assets from the avi floating in the sky. Horns, earrings, glasses chains. I can't figure out why for the life of me

[somber sequoia]

are all of those objects attached to the avatar's head?

[hybrid basin]

Yes

[somber sequoia]

You can't see them because VRChat scales your head bone to 0 so your head isn't in the way of your viewpoint.
As to why they are out of place.... definitely no idea from just that image.

[hybrid basin]

I can't see anything out of place in my project. I've worked on dozens and dozens of booth avis and never had this issue

I don't even know where to start looking

[junior void]

I'd use gesture manager in unity and pose the Avi in play mode to verify it's doing there too

[hybrid basin]

Doing that as we speak, but I see nothing weird. The assets are all where they should be. Nothing floating. Toggles all working properly

[junior void]

Move the head, arms, legs

[hybrid basin]

No issues there either :/

[junior void]

Perhaps a quest side issue?

[little plume]

how tall is the base robot avatar?

in meters

so I can scale my model based off of it

[junior void]

Just Spawn a cube that's 1m by 1m?

[hybrid basin]

The avatar is PC only

[little plume]

you right

unitys default scale is meters right?

[zenith spade]

Do these eyes look flat enough for 2D blinking textures?

[nova flicker]

Hi hiii, does anyone know how to make their models MMD compatiable in the MMD dance worlds? my avatar use to be compatible, but after working on it in blender n such, it stopped working? The blendshapes for the MMD are all still there though.
Even my old avatars that I know was MMD compatible is no longer working, and I ahvent even brought them into blender yet .

[karmic osprey]

Did you got who can help about that?

Or if I can see

[hazy surge]

Hi! I have an avatar with 500k polygons, I don’t wanna get rid of any assets or nothing, any tips? (It’s still in blender) it’s a pc/quest avatar)

[nova flicker]

i havent gotten help yet

[exotic yoke]

So im trying to get a billboard effect on my avatar but it gets anchored to a specific spot instead of my head, how could i fix it?

[karmic osprey]

Can you show me so I can help about it?

[karmic osprey]

First of all is your billboard script using world space?

Because if it’s set to world, the particles will only stay in one place whenever you move

[nova flicker]

is there somethign specifc you want to look at ?

[exotic yoke]

i think so\

how do i change that?

because it looks fine in unity but it breaks once its inside vrchat

[undone sluice]

Hi! That can happen if something changed in the rig, armature setup, or blendshape names after editing in Blender. Sometimes the MMD worlds stop recognizing the avatar if the required bones or shape keys were modified.

[nova flicker]

hmmm.. but even the models that I havent changed at all, my really old models back in 2018~2020 which I know has MMD compatability, arent working at all either.

[karmic osprey]

If the mesh was re-exported from Blender, sometimes the shape keys lose their index order
Also check if the avatar descriptor still detects the visemes

If you want, you can send me the avatar or screenshot of the skinned mesh + blendshapes in Unity, I’ve fixed MMD compatibility issues like that before and can help figure out what broke.

Let me see the screenshot of it

[exotic yoke]

i think it is, how do i make it so its on my avatar?

[undone sluice]

Hmm that’s interesting. it might actually be a change in the MMD world or VRChat updates rather than the models themselves. Sometimes updates break compatibility with older setups

[nova flicker]

oh man :(( I really hope its not broken from vrchat.
Cuz i've also tried out other MMD worlds, and they also dont work on my face or other models at all.

[karmic osprey]

Select your avatar and open the VRC Avatar Descriptor
Make sure the Lip Sync is set to Viseme Blend Shape
Check that the visemes (aa, ih, ou, ee, oh, things like that)are still assigned to the correct blendshapes
Also make sure the Skinned Mesh with those blendshapes is the one assigned in the descriptor
Sometimes Unity or VRChat updates reset those settings, so the MMD worlds can’t detect the visemes anymore.
If everything looks correct and it still doesn’t work, it could also be the blendshape order changing after export, which can break MMD detection.

[nova flicker]

hmmm.. everything does look correct

[karmic osprey]

You must be missing something I can only try it if the model is being uploaded to my computer here I do make model so maybe I can take a look if you want

[undone sluice]

Hmm yeah if it’s happening across multiple MMD worlds and even with older avatars, it’s probably something related to how the visemes or blendshapes are mapped now rather than the models being broken. VRChat has changed a few things over time. From the screenshot it looks like the VRC visemes are there, but the world might be expecting specific MMD shape keys or naming. You can check the avatar setup or Unity inspector you might be able to figure out what wrong there

[balmy barn]

tested random ones earlier, no issues with mine

cause i just added a bunch of stuff

layer order matters alot tho, the first 3 you should highly avoid since stations have to use tracking control yoinked from avatar sdk (since they still have no other way of doing it)

[nova flicker]

I see, well i appreciate the help.

[nova flicker]

hmmm not sure what to based it off of. cuz tehre isnt really any tutorials on how to make vrchat models MMD compatible ^^;

[balmy barn]

your average vmd/anim in vrchat , unless you know their shapekeys is translated or not its guess work

[karmic osprey]

Will you?

[nova flicker]

no thank you 😭
Its a custom model of mine, so i dont feel comfortable sharing the avatar package. im sorry ^^;

[nova flicker]

hmm i appreciate it! ill check this out

[karmic osprey]

I made this model for someone, it got me soooooooo frustrated to the stage that I had to break it all down a remake from the start, now Its working so perfectly, sometimes model just need to be remake to work well

[karmic osprey]

Well I understand that

[exotic yoke]

yeah, i don't know how to script so i just grabbed a code off of github. it looks fine in unity, but its locked in place in vrchat. is there a seperate thing to make it lock onto your avatar instead of the world?

[karmic osprey]

1. Open your avatar in Unity.
2. In the Hierarchy, check the object that is following world space (hair, prop, mesh, etc).
3. Make sure it is parented to the avatar armature, not to the scene root.

And that’s all.

For example
Avatar
Armature
Hips
Spine
Chest
Head
YourObject
Something like that

[undone sluice]

Yeah that’s true, there aren’t many clear tutorials for MMD compatibility in VRChat. Usually it depends on the correct viseme/blendshape setup and how the avatar descriptor is configured in Unity. If something changed there, the MMD worlds might not detect properly

[exotic yoke]

nono like, it doesnt matter where i put it in the armature, its in the same spot everytime, and its locked there

i dont understand why it does that

even though its in the armature

[fervent relic]

edited the model in blender and now my ears and tongue do this,

[little plume]

what the fuck could even be causing this issue

oh i know

i htink

let me fix it

[obtuse canyon]

getting out of the default shape
it becomes crancked

[somber sequoia]

like I said, you'll need to explain in ways that make sense to people here who have never seen your avatar, and don't know what you mean by "crancked" or "bugged".

feel free to provide images to show

[limpid cairn]

would anyone be able to help me combined a blendshap with a contact?

[gilded ember]

may i ask how I fix this? if anyone knows how to fix this

[little plume]

????

idk why i get this error

[somber sequoia]

see the first pin in this channel - we need more info

[little plume]

i get the error alot

[limpid cairn]

that should not mater

[little plume]

i usually just delete the fbx and reimport until it works

[somber sequoia]

because vrchat thinks your avatar is not humanoid. Just setting it so does not make it so.

[little plume]

i think it does

[little plume]

then what do i do to fix it

[undone sluice]

Yes, I might be able to help with that. Do you want the blendshape to activate when the contact triggers?

[little plume]

bc this happened after reimporting the model

[somber sequoia]

I don't know what is wrong

[limpid cairn]

yes

[gilded ember]

alright

[somber sequoia]

verify the armature hierarchy is correct, and that all the required humanoid bones are mapped correctly.

[little plume]

also gotta limit the eye look

[little plume]

ok but it was fine before

[little plume]

like what

[somber sequoia]

okay

[little plume]

all i did was fix the head not being rigged

[somber sequoia]

then whatever you changed broke it - maybe you can explain in more detail what you changed?

[candid swallow]

an avatar i got from booth is A posing how can i make it t pose?

[little plume]

you change its pose

[candid swallow]

https://tenor.com/view/fig-gif-26092737

[little plume]

like, make the head actually grouped with the armature

bc it wasnt

[somber sequoia]

what does that mean?

[little plume]

like

rigging

[somber sequoia]

"grouped"?

[little plume]

you group the mesh and armature?

what

[little plume]

you literally just pose it in blender

[undone sluice]

If the avatar is in an A-pose, you can convert it to a T-pose in Blender pretty easily. Go into Pose Mode, rotate the arms upward until they are straight out, then apply it as the new rest pose. After that it should match the normal T-pose for rigging or VRChat upload.

[little plume]

like this

make sure to apply pose as rest pose tho

ctrl + a apply as rest pose

[candid swallow]

🤔

is that expected

[fiery sundial]

anyone know how to fix this

[somber sequoia]

fix what about it?

[little plume]

select your bones then apply as rest pose

[fiery sundial]

when i use visemes the eyesbrows and eye line move

[somber sequoia]

... I have no idea what your image has to do with that

[fiery sundial]

ill record it

[gilded ember]

this is what it says

[somber sequoia]

install whatever missing package provides that script that is missing

(see the avatar/asset creator's documentation for clues)

[obtuse canyon]

Like this

[little plume]

whats the issue?

[somber sequoia]

sorry what about this is a problem?

[little plume]

it looks normal

[somber sequoia]

use like, words. Explain what your problem is.

[little plume]

wtf is wrong with my avatar

suddenly saying its not a humanoid

[somber sequoia]

by "suddenly" you mean after you did something, right? what exactly was that something?

[little plume]

reimported it

after fixing the head

[little plume]

like i said before

[little plume]

what are you even trying to show here

[fiery sundial]

the eyebrows move iwth th visemes

[somber sequoia]

okay so you have a shape key that does something you don't want it to do. Rework the shape key so it moves those vertices where you want them to be.

[fiery sundial]

theyre not supposed to

[fiery sundial]

ah i didnt make the shape keys

it was already on the model

[somber sequoia]

okay then you might have to remake it

it seems wrong

[little plume]

how th do i fix my avatar not being a humanoid

it looks like a human to me

[fiery sundial]

ok thanks

[little plume]

is there a setting i change?

[fiery sundial]

can u send a screenshot

[somber sequoia]

I said what to look at

[little plume]

when?

[little plume]

i already did

[somber sequoia]

#avatar-help message

[little plume]

wtf does that even mean

yes its correct

its the same one as before

literally 0 difference

just the head is actually rigged

[somber sequoia]

if it was correct it wouldn't be complaining though

[little plume]

how tf am I supposed to tell why the computer is whining

thats what im asking

if everything is the same

[somber sequoia]

shrugs

[little plume]

why is unity being stupid

looks pretty human to me

everything looks correct idk why it wants to whine

its done this for my astrojack avatar i just finished before

reimporting the mesh fixed it

randomly

so idk what its deciding to whine abt now

bc reimporting it doesnt fix it

[fiery sundial]

maybe its because of spine 2 but i could be wrong

try setting it to none and see what it does

[little plume]

oops

[fiery sundial]

remove upper chest aswell

oh there

[little plume]

yeah i clicked the wrong thing

[fiery sundial]

if it still says not humanoid then im at a loss

[little plume]

bro what

its still not

let me use spine 1 instead of 2

it worked before why is it being a little whiney crybaby

its the same model

nope still not a humanoid

how do i chagne the neck and head bone

that could be the issue

[somber sequoia]

upper chest is fully supported, but if you use it, you must have the shoulders be children of this bone

[fiery sundial]

ooh

never knew that

[somber sequoia]

You can omit it though, in which case the shoulders must be children of the chest bone

[little plume]

ima do what i did for astrojack

restart unity

and reimport the model

bc that fixed it previously

and if this fixes it ima be so pissed

[karmic osprey]

Hey

[little plume]

how can I change the neck bone?

[somber sequoia]

change in what way?

[little plume]

which bone it usees

nvrm

its literally a humanoid

theres no reason for it to be whining like this

could it be leaf bones or whatever

idk why it would be it worked fine before

[proper depot]

Is there anyway to achieve a toggle where when putting on something it raises the wearer's viewpoint? I am making an avatar with stilts and would be dope to have it on the same model as her humanoid legs but I dont want the stilts clipping into the floor ig idk xD anyone have any idea??

[somber sequoia]

Unfortunately, you can't change the viewpoint at runtime

[little plume]

oh and ofc suddenly import my original fbx model into blender is also suddnely messed up!

ofc why wouldnt it be

[proper depot]

Okay thank you!!

[little plume]

looks like some pretty human movements

honestly this guy looks like a human no clue how unity confuses it

heres a picture of him in court yesterday

[somber sequoia]

Unity/VRChat wants a very specific bone configuration, "looks right" is of course not sufficient.

[little plume]

its was fine until the head was rigged which is odd

[somber sequoia]

again, I'm very curious what you changed there.

so far you've said just "I rigged the head" but didn't describe in detail what that means.

[little plume]

its exactly what i said

you know how you rig things to an armature?

to make it deform

add weights and such

thats literally all I did

[somber sequoia]

okay I guess I don't know what that might mean, since surely you had the head as part of the armature before, or it would not have been humanoid

[little plume]

did you not see the clip of it floating around?

[somber sequoia]

sure, but that is not of much use, since "it moves around" is not the criteria VRChat uses for "it's humanoid"

You can rig and animate something in Blender in an infinite number of ways that are not exactly what vrchat wants.

[frank spruce]

Does anyone know why this is popping up

I only have one parameter

[somber sequoia]

maybe check the console, it might have more information

[stone lion]

Hoping to get some help with uploading my avatar, never seen this error before. I'm getting the "security checks failed" after I've uploaded it. I'm on the current sdk version vrchat uses, 2022.3.22f1. I end up with a medium rating solely from physbone transform count, I removed the poi shader I had to try and narrow down anything, and yet I still can't get it to upload properly.

I am using Nobara and linux, and had to use ALCOM to set up the unity vrchat avatar file and opened it in the default unity program since VCC isn't compatible and ALCOM refused to recognize my license

[somber sequoia]

... alcom has no license

[stone lion]

mhm

I tried following steps to carry my license from unity over to ALCOM and it didn't work, so I just used my workaround

[somber sequoia]

no, I mean, it doesn't ask you for one since there isn't one. Do you mean Unity? Alcom (and VCC) are just package managers and Unity launchers.

You're still using Unity.

[stone lion]

Yes, it refused to recognize my unity license

[somber sequoia]

it being Unity, okay

you may have to launch unity hub and sign in again

[stone lion]

No, when I tried to load into the unity project from ALCOM it tells me I am missing a unity license

[somber sequoia]

that's fine, but again, that's unity doing it, alcom does not ask you for a license.

[stone lion]

Okay

Reloaded unity hub and logged back in and it still had the security check fail

🤷‍♀️

[somber sequoia]

right, these are unrelated things

the security check is VRChat's servers rejecting your avatar for some reason

[stone lion]

I understand that

Any suggestions?

[somber sequoia]

normally I'd think it was way out side of reasonable stats, but you said it was a medium, so nope, no idea why it would be rejected

[stone lion]

Solved it

[somber osprey]

so what do you suggest then if the float is too fiddly?

[stone lion]

My workaround here had me skip one step when I was adding the correct unity version to unity hub where I missed the windows/android build support

To fix the problem I ran into on linux where you are getting the "security checks failed", double check you have all the build support installed by clicking on the manage button and selecting modules, and picking the windows and android modules

[somber sequoia]

never had that one on linux myself

I don't really do android stuff so I don't have that installed

[stone lion]

neat

[somber osprey]

why is this Audio radial puppet not control any of this?

[somber sequoia]

can't tell you anything without seeing the transition conditions

[fluid remnant]

Imported from a .vrm model, and still relatively new to making avatars, how do I get this idiot into VRChat? What packages would I need to download?

[somber sequoia]

just the vrchat sdk

https://creators.vrchat.com/sdk/

[fluid remnant]

I am....?

[somber sequoia]

no other packages are required

assuming that ^ is unity and you already have the model in there.

[fluid remnant]

Ok, but how does one fix... this.

[somber sequoia]

remove those VRM components that you can't use on vrchat

[fluid remnant]

Items removed. But how would I improve performance rating? Like how do I combine materials and atlas textures? I barely worked in Unity before.

[somber sequoia]

there are lots of tutorial videos for such things, but medium is a pretty nice ranking already

you combine material slots in blender (or similar), you can work on textures in whatever image editor you like

[fluid remnant]

-# Oh dear lord Blender I know next to nothing
Alrighty, I'll attempt to do so.

[somber sequoia]

Blender is fun 🙂

[fluid remnant]

Alright, I (somehow) made it into Blender, where would I find material slots? In Material Properties?

Wait, it only uses 5 material slots... how is it reading 13 material slots???

[somber sequoia]

all slots on each mesh object count, even if the material in them is the same

5 material slots on each of 5 mesh objects could be 5 materials but is 25 material slots

[fluid remnant]

Alrighty, but I decided to just not mess with material slots.
But how do I switch shaders for the quest build

[fluid remnant]

Found it, but why does it remove all transparency on the material?

[ornate stump]

Because quest shader doesn't support transparency.

[fluid remnant]

Ok... so I don't exactly know how to fix it because my avatar materials use transparency heavily, and changing it to mobile results in my sleep paralysis demon

[somber sequoia]

there are tutorials for that too

[ornate stump]

#avatar-help message

[limber bison]

does anybody know how to parent bones from other armatures?

[ornate stump]

You have to "Join" armature first.

[limber bison]

But when i do that the right arm no longer moves when I try to pose it

[ornate stump]

You also have to change armature assignment in the armature deform modifier.

[limber bison]

where's that located?

[ornate stump]

"Modifiers" in property tab of the mesh object.

[limber bison]

Alright I got it now, Thank you!

[devout knoll]

not quite sure what caused this. it's supposed to be a cape but its not showing from the back. everything looked fine in blender

[lilac musk]

Blackface culling is on, you'll either want to disable it via the shader, or duplicate the faces and flip them

[light heath]

is there any way to use this type of shader it keeps saying that I’m not allowed to use it, but I know that people used it before and I wanna know because I know there’s a way to go around it

[lilac musk]

If it says you can't use it, then you can't use it. If you did find a way to get it to upload, I'd probably just fail security checks and leave you with an error bot.

[light heath]

then how do people upload clear PNG avatars that are not see-through or any type of way like that. I need to know.

[ornate stump]

Knifing it #avatar-help message

[light heath]

I do not use blender

none of this makes sense

[ornate stump]

That's the way.

[light heath]

using blender?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[light heath]

I don’t know how to use blender ;-;

[devout knoll]

how would one go about adding this cape (with physics) to the avatar? it already has some bones.

nvm- thought physbones would be more complicated but no it was actually quite simple :) i did run into this problem though

[light heath]

is there any way to combine two material types? In Unity.

like if I wanted to combine multiply with additive

[ornate stump]

No.

[ornate stump]

What about the transition from AnyState to the "New State"

[devout knoll]

one problem after another 😔 running into this odd issue where the android build setting is grayed out, despite unity hub saying android tools are installed

[somber osprey]

oh that's empty, idk what condition to put in

[ornate stump]

Then why did you need that state to begin with?

[somber osprey]

cause I followed this @ornate stump

[ornate stump]

The condition must have both greater and less in range for the "New State 0", and only less into the "New State".

If you don't need all 4 states then you have to remove some states and adjust the transition condition accordingly.

[somber osprey]

like this?

sorry, this

[ornate stump]

Is that what you want?

[ornate stump]

Probably.

[somber osprey]

I just want the radial puppet to work

like from 10-30%, triggers state 1
30%-50%, triggers states 2 and so on

[ornate stump]

Radial puppet already works by itself.

[somber osprey]

I'm trying to do this

[somber osprey]

so why isn't it working it here?

like I don't see the blue bar on the states during playmode

[ornate stump]

Because "Radial Puppet" and "state logic" are 2 different things. Radial puppet purpose is for setting float parameter, then you take that float parameter and put into your state logic.

[somber osprey]

so how can I tell if this is working or not?

[ornate stump]

By testing it.

The problem you're trying to solve is in the state logic part which is what you're doing currently.

[somber osprey]

I have hte playmode on but the Animator doesn't update the values in real time

like I don't see the blue bars from here

[ornate stump]

You have to use Gesture Manager and have the FX controller assigned in avatar animator.

[somber osprey]

like this?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[somber osprey]

it was already like this, it still doesn't show

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot the unity screen when you test it instead?

[somber osprey]

do I need to add anim or motion file fori t to work? I can't leave it blank?

[ornate stump]

You usually have to put some animation clip into state, even the clip is blank.

[ornate stump]

If there is no animation, did you use parameter driver in those states?

[vague cedar]

hey does anyone know how to fix the cloth clipping when switching shaders from mtoon to poiyomi

[ornate stump]

I read your initial question here, you talked about how to select audio to play, but didn't mention about when the audio is played.

[somber osprey]

I can actually see the blue bar updating real time, but if I click "Gesture Manager" doesn't it disappears

[somber osprey]

what do you mean?

it always stays on unless the radial puppet is at 0% which won't play any audio

[ornate stump]

You can ignore the blue bar when testing for now. How did you make it play? By enabling via animation clip?

[somber osprey]

I don't have the audio in for now cause I need to produce the audio

I just wanna see if this state logic set up is correct or not

[ornate stump]

Take a look in Gesture Manager in Debug tab and see Animation State tab. It show what animation it's playing in each layer.

[vague cedar]

anyone?

[ornate stump]

Is it really clipping? Because changing shader shouldn't be a reason it's clipping unless it's already clipped from the start.

[vague cedar]

when i switch to poiyomi the clothes clips into the skin a little

[ornate stump]

It isn't "clipping". It's just the material is "Opaque". So change Opaque to something else.

[vague cedar]

it worked thanks alot

[somber osprey]

how do I add the audio to this animation clip?

[ornate stump]

You put Audio Source object and assign the clip into the source, then animate the source on and off.

[somber osprey]

I made animatino clips that has the audio volume in it. but it doesn't work

did I do something wrong here?

[ornate stump]

Did you record it in animation?

[somber osprey]

yes
the volume is actually moving

[ornate stump]

Then it's working.

[somber osprey]

then why don't I hear it?

[ornate stump]

Because default audio range is too low and the listening camera is placed too far.

[ornate stump]

And you should animate toggle on-off for audio source instead of just volume.

[somber osprey]

what do you mean?

[ornate stump]

Toggle the checkbox that set object active in the scene.

[somber osprey]

where do I find that?

[somber osprey]

they're all on

[ornate stump]

You have to animate to turn off too.

[somber osprey]

I made aanother animation and state where all audio files is set to 0 volume

I think that's how it works right?

[ornate stump]

Setting volume zero doesn't mean turning it off.

[somber osprey]

then idk how

[ornate stump]

Just record you toggle that checkbox.

[somber osprey]

also Tested it. the audio works but all audio are playing

[somber osprey]

like this?

[ornate stump]

Yes. And have the one you need for an animation to be on.

[somber osprey]

like this right?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[obtuse canyon]

could you please follow the shape it looks weird you can tell if you look closely ?

[somber osprey]

oaky it fully works. tho the transition from others isn't smooth, very abrupt

is there a way to do a toggle to disable this whole state or not?

[ornate stump]

Did you set transition duration?

[somber osprey]

idk what that means

you mean this?

[ornate stump]

In "Settings".

[ornate stump]

The source is going to be disable at half-way during transition. If you want smoother transition, it's going to be more complex setup.

[somber osprey]

better not cause I'm not experienced at all

[quiet cairn]

So i have a issue with VRChat Compainion. When i want to add a project in there, it gives me this in my logs, i dont understand.

[somber osprey]

new problem. other people can hear the audio even tho its way far from the max distance

[ornate stump]

Add VRCSpatialAudioSource component to your audio sources and adjust range.

[somber osprey]

and match gain and far with min and max respectively?

[ornate stump]

No.

[somber osprey]

then what do I set Gain and far?

[ornate stump]

Gain leave it as is. Far for how far range for your audio to go, in meters.

[somber osprey]

so if my max distance is 0.5
the far should be 0.5?

[ornate stump]

Probably.

[somber osprey]

okay the audio isn't working when I test it in-game but it works in playtest mode

I got an warning saying "Load in background is disabled". I did auto fix and that didn't do anything

[ornate stump]

Does it make the warning disappeared?

[somber osprey]

oh nvm I hear it, it just suddenly became so quiet

idk if its cause of the spatial audio or not

[ornate stump]

That's because dropoff is shorter. You might have to increase "Near" range a bit to compensate.

[somber osprey]

even tho the audio source is right inside me?

also where do I find that?

[ornate stump]

The listening camera is still relatively far from the audio source.

[ornate stump]

The spatial component. Expand "Advanced".

[somber osprey]

like this?

[somber osprey]

do I need to fix that?

[ornate stump]

If it's make sense by moving the heart to your head then sure.

[ornate stump]

You should realize that Near can't be further than Far.

[somber osprey]

oh

[vague cedar]

anyone one know how to unmerge merged mesh using vrfury and no blender? i imported my avatar body merged with the clothes

[ornate stump]

Not a job for vrcfury.

[somber osprey]

okay fixed it

but how can I add a Toggle where the toggle tells the animator state to not work?

[vague cedar]

can do this in unity without touching blender

[ornate stump]

Is that a question?

[vague cedar]

yes please

[ornate stump]

Don't you already have the state that turn off all the audio source?

[ornate stump]

No. Blender.

[somber osprey]

yes but I plan to merge this with another radial puppet

so one radial puppet will control the audio and the animation

[ornate stump]

Can you just add the animation to the same animation clip as the audio?

[somber osprey]

I don't know if that imght break it or not

the animation only has 2 clips, the audio has 3 so I'm not sure

this is what the animation config looks like

[ornate stump]

You could also make another layer and setup separate state logic again.

[somber osprey]

idk what that really tells me

[ornate stump]

You're already doing that.

[somber osprey]

The picture I sent?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[somber osprey]

So what do I do next to make one radial puppet control 2 layers?

[ornate stump]

Just use the same parameter.

[somber osprey]

but that means the 2 layers needs to have the same name so radial puppet can use them?

[ornate stump]

Animator doesn't care whether the parameter is from and doesn't need to know it. What it have to use only is the parameter name.

[somber osprey]

so for here. the "BPM" and "AudioHeart"

I have to rename them both to be the same?

[ornate stump]

You would have only one parameter for it.

Not 2 with same name.

[somber osprey]

I did that but now neither of them work

why?

[ornate stump]

Don't you want a single radial puppet?

[somber osprey]

oh right. I didn't knew that could cause problem

[ornate stump]

That isn't the problem.

[somber osprey]

well tried that. still doesn't work at all

[ornate stump]

I see you changed the parameter name. Did you also update the parameter name in animator to match with what you changed?

[somber osprey]

Oh, no

Idk how to assign the animation layer with the parameter

I have these 2 before. should I delete one of them and rename the other as "Heart"?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

Whether you have deleted, you will have to recheck every transtion that you used the parameter.

[somber osprey]

I deleted the BPM> and it said that the transition in the "BPM" layer will be affected

I don't remember how to fix it

[ornate stump]

Just delete it.

[somber osprey]

the parameter?

already did, now what, test it?

[ornate stump]

Did you change whatever state that used the deleted parameter to use the other parameter?

[somber osprey]

no, Idk how exactly

[ornate stump]

Just do the same way as how you select the previous parameter.

[somber osprey]

they both work but the Radial puppet isn't change the animation speed

and for some reason, it broke the stencils a bit

in the playmode, the model isn't being phrased through another model even tho they both have stencils on

[ornate stump]

Did you put the parameter to control the animation speed?

[somber osprey]

oh no I fix it. I didn't knew "Multiplier" is where the parameter goes but now I have a new problem

in playmode, the heart model isn't phasing through the coat

but if I exit playmode, then it shows. why?

[ornate stump]

Because if those materials are the same render queue then the rendering order may be swapped.

[somber osprey]

okay I fixed it. now about adding a toggle button that only disables the audio of the radial puppet?

is that possible?

[ornate stump]

Why do you need a separate toggle when you already put the radial puppet to put those source when the parameter is zero?

[somber osprey]

cause what if I wanna keep the animation going but disable the audio?

[lone shoal]

how do i see the contact tags of a contact on an avatar that isnt mine? im trying to add compatibility with an avatar, but the contacts overlay doesnt show what tags the contact sender has so i cant place a receiver for it

[ornate stump]

Then you make new transition in the audio layer from anystate into the off state, add the parameter from toggle button to the new transition.

[somber osprey]

or what if I do a condition for all of these states where the toggle button is set to true, if its false then none of them will work?

[ornate stump]

There isn't a way to show contact tag of other avatars.

[lone shoal]

ok

[ornate stump]

That also works if you want to do that way.

[somber osprey]

I added a parameter called "AudioHeart"

but how do i make it show up on the left side of the parameter list?

[ornate stump]

Haven't you done that dozens of time already? Adding the parameter into animator parameter list.

[wanton robin]

how do i remove the ahir off of w a model?

[somber osprey]

I tend to forget alot

I tried it but now the audio system is bugged. It doesn't change the state properlly and if I press the button to off, the audio still plays

what did I do wrong?

[ornate stump]

What about the "New State"?

Which one is the Off state?

[somber osprey]

I didn't do anything to either of them

and its "new state 1" that's supposed to be an off state

[ornate stump]

Then you have to Make a transition from anystate to the of state, with condition only is the AudioHeart false.

[ornate stump]

And you should just delete the "New State" if you don't use it for anything.

[calm galleon]

While helping test an avatar for a friend that places an object in world position we noticed that there were situations where the animations won't play for remote users.

1. If they are out of view
2. If all the renderers on the avatar were disabled
   We thought this was a culling issue on the animator so we changed the cullingMode on the avatar to be "AlwaysAnimate" but that didn't seem to work. Does anyone know the reason for this or have a work around for this? I didn't really test this but assuming the entire animation is disabled wouldn't animations that enable things like audio sources and particle systems also be disabled? I could of swore there were times when i heard or saw particles/sounds from people behind me.

[somber osprey]

New problem. upon spawning in the world, all of the 3 audios are playing at once

but if I press the toggle to stop and then press play that fixes it

how do I make sure this issue doesn't happen everytime I spawn in?

[calm galleon]

it could be the default values for the params, make sure the params u set the default value of whatever controls the audios to be off, and uncheck the saved option so that if the audio was on last time u used the avatar it won't be on when u use it again.
Other then that in ur controller, make sure the default states don't enable the audio.

[somber osprey]

the button for this is defaulted to off
But still the audio plays regardless when I first spawn in

[calm galleon]

what does the controller look like then?

[junior void]

debug it in play mode

[somber osprey]

Here

unless I'm showing the wrong thing

[somber osprey]

it says its off

but all 3 audios are playing anyway when i first join in the world or start the play-mode

the issue is gone if I press the toggle on and off again

[ornate stump]

You have to Make Transition. Not adding another condition to off state.

[junior void]

perhaps your default anim state is the clip that plays the audio

[somber osprey]

so I have to make another state?

I'm confused

[ornate stump]

Make Transition

[calm galleon]

please name ur states

[ornate stump]

You said yourself the "New State 1" is the off state.

[junior void]

right click, new transition iirc

[calm galleon]

what does "New State" do

[ornate stump]

"New State" does nothing and I kept telling them to delete it.

[junior void]

😵‍💫

[calm galleon]

that could be it then

because if the audios are enabled by default on upload

and New State doesn't change it

then if the heart value is above 0.3 the animation state will be at NewState when they load in

[somber osprey]

I deleted the new state but now it made that as the default. won't it cause an issue?

[ornate stump]

The "New State" itself isn't a problem, it's only causing confusion.

[somber osprey]

sorry for testing your patience, Idk how to use unity

[calm galleon]

write click the "Off" state and click set default state

[ornate stump]

I only tell you to make transition from any state to off state, not into every other state.

[somber osprey]

is this okay now?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[ornate stump]

Also make sure that you also toggle off those audio source in the scene for redundancy.

[somber osprey]

you mean this?

otherwise I'm confused how to do that

[ornate stump]

No. In the scene.

[somber osprey]

like this?

I did it from the hierarchy but idk how to do it exactly in the scene, again sorry for my confusion

[junior void]

the object toggle

[ornate stump]

Selecting from hierarchy is effectively the same as selecting from the scene.

[calm galleon]

look for the inspector window after u select the object in he hierarchy, in the upper left side of the inspector view you should see a checkbox next to the object's name. Uncheck that to untoggle the object

[viral ivy]

Something is weird about my avatar. I am trying to implement some tail animations for the custom tail I added to the Kita'vali, but even without any animations affecting the tail, when entering play mode, the angle of the base bone changes, making it point up instead of keeping the flat angle it is supposed to have. Why is it doing that?

[junior void]

There may be an animation in place on the base where the bone is named the same, so literally default avali animation

[viral ivy]

I am using the Jaco fork and I don't believe there are any animations. There is a default tail puppet, but I believe we completely removed the animation layer for that.

[calm galleon]

do u have any physbones on the tail?

[viral ivy]

Yeah

[junior void]

it could also be colliders

[calm galleon]

check the gravity on the physbone it could be gravity, or like zero said a collider or the angle of the physbone

[junior void]

perhaps physbone collider being huge and colliding with floor

[viral ivy]

There are two colliders. A hip collider and the floor collider are assigned to the physbone.

Oh, I see. The base bone of the tail collides with the hip collider. But the hip collider is there for a reason. I wouldn't change much about it. But maybe it's not necessary for the tail? Only reason I can imagine is so that the tail physbone doesn't clip into the avatar.

[viral ivy]

The tail is clipping into the hip collider.

[calm galleon]

adjust the size of the hip collider then and see if it helps

[junior void]

either that or you can use thigh colliders instead

[viral ivy]

I wanna try and find out whether any other physbone references the hip collider.

[viral ivy]

There are no thigh colliders.

[junior void]

i meant make them

cuz why not if the hip collider is needed for something else and youre not sure if resizing it could break something else

[viral ivy]

Okay, nothing else is referencing it, so I'll try resizing the hip collier so it doesn't clip.

Okay, this fixed it.
Thanks @junior void and @calm galleon for the help. I probably never would've figured out that it was the hip collider causing the problem.

[pine valley]

this also makes sure that the audio doesn't play if your animator is not running (e.g. when you load in off-screen)

[inner sage]

can anyone help me upload an avatar? im kind of confused on how to do it

[somber sequoia]

that's what this channel is for. Explain where you are stuck.

[inner sage]

its just the idea in general i dont know how to do any of it and when i follow stuff on google it doesnt end up helping

[somber sequoia]

start here, read it all, ask when you get stuck on something: https://creators.vrchat.com/sdk/

oh I meant this one: https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/creating-your-first-avatar

[inner sage]

i have a model already that ive been trying to upload though

[somber sequoia]

good

[inner sage]

im just unsure of what to do with it because ive followed things that say exporting it from blender as an fbx and then putting it in unity but im unsure if what im doing should be working

[somber sequoia]

like I said, explain where you are stuck

[inner sage]

i dont really know where im stuck to begin with because i have no idea what im doing as i jus said im unsure if what im doing should be working

i can run you through what im doing if thatll help?

[somber sequoia]

that is literally what I'm suggesting you do

[inner sage]

sorry

[junior void]

tough starting point. just keep in mind we dont even know what you have. a prefab? fbx? pre set up scene? a sketchfab model?

[inner sage]

ok yeah so i have an avatar but only the blender file and some texture images and google told me to basically export the model in blender as an fbx file and then drag it into unity so i do that and it comes up grey but i assigned the textures through the vrchat unity plugin thing (i think it was called like mobile and then something else) and i uploaded it successfully but when i switch to the avatar in the game its like massive and also it isnt animated (like when im walking) and its too big to tell if its t-posing or not because it literally goes off the screen and it also doesnt have like toggles when it should

[junior void]

yea you skipped the entire unity setup

exporting as fbx is good. but once the model is in unity, you must specify the character to be humanoid or else vrchat will not apply its animations like walking, sitting, crouch etc

[somber sequoia]

if you are starting from a model file and didn't setup toggles yourself, there will be no toggles

[inner sage]

i did set it as humanoid

[somber sequoia]

this is a decent from-scratch setup video tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSwMz4WcajQ

[inner sage]

are you supposed to set up toggles in blender to start off with

[junior void]

unity

anything related to "functions" is done on unity

same with physics

[inner sage]

i noticed the person in the video mentions having an fbx file and a folder with textures but when i export on blender it only exports like 2 textures for some reason? is it supposed to be a fbx file and then all textures that are used

[somber sequoia]

you can have whatever, it depends on what you got from the creator. Usually you don't export textures from blender anyway.

[inner sage]

i just have the blender file and texture images so how would i fix it being grey in unity when i import it

[somber sequoia]

you setup materials in unity, using the textures, the apply them to the mesh objects

in that video roughtly around 3:45

ah they have materials already, you might have to create them

[inner sage]

i think i created them before but it didnt work

like it was on the model but glitchy or something

also my avatar has like toggles for a colored variant and a non-colored one how would i go about creating the materials for that? would i have to overlap them

[somber sequoia]

each color variant is a different material, or you animate color changing by animating material properties

"material swap" is the usual term, if you want to search for tutorials

[inner sage]

im so ass at this bro

[little plume]

why does merging my armature make the model go back to its original pose?

[somber sequoia]

Probably the pose it's in wasn't applied as the rest position

[little plume]

Applying it as rest position moves the mesh back down to the same pose

[somber sequoia]

you may have to apply the armature modifier to the mesh in order to get it to stay in a new pose

[nocturne nimbus]

How do I make toggles on the expression menu like hide a mesh and then show a mesh?

[vague cedar]

im very new to this but i exported a vrm avatar to unity which merged the clothes mesh to the body as one. the best advice i got was to use blender for this. i have blender and now ive managed to load my avatar to it but im genuinely clueless where to star. if anyone would be kind as to even suggest a tutorial for this id be glad. and again im trying to separate the bodies mesh from the cloth

[little plume]

getting closer

[round comet]

Looks like a weightpaint issue on those teeth

Or just your mouth in general ngl

[little plume]

yeah ik exactly what caused it

all the other roblox lil nas x avatars are just the avatar packages and not the real model

the real model is pretty gate keeped tho

me and 2 other people have the real maya files, with all the shapekeys and stuff

you can easily get the mesh from roblox but its not rigged or anything

[little plume]

this is an interesting silence shapekey..

i forgot to put the material on the mouth ik why its white but why is it posed like that

[junior void]

possibly jaw bone is still assigned in humanoid rig

[little plume]

maybe because hes not like that in unity

let me configure the rig

just unassign the jaw?

[lilac musk]

If your new to avatars/Unity, you can use things like VRCFury to make a toggle for you the easy way. If not, you'd need to create 2 new animations, one with the mesh on and off. You'd then add those to your FX controller in a new layer. Add a bool parameter to that controller and your avatar parameters list. Add transitions to each of the animation states with conditions being bool true and bool false. Add the button to your expression wheel as a toggle targeting the bool.

[junior void]

yes, since you use blendshapes it must be empty

only use if you set visemes to jaw flap

[little plume]

alr now to figure out how to make hand gestures control the eyebrows

[sullen fern]

can i have sum help? i was making a avi and when i went into quest the veiwpoint was lower then the head and made the head movement weird

[hard zenith]

Any tips to making avatars from scratch?

[hot loom]

How to fix lip/eyes/emote?

MMD to VRchat

[gaunt knoll]

should be a blendshape

[hot loom]

Like this?

[junior void]

no

on the mesh of the models are blendshapes

multiple seem to be active rn

you can just turn them to 0

[somber sequoia]

but when you get back to this, you need a shape key in all of those slots

[hot loom]

then.

I think 23 material.

[junior void]

what

[hot loom]

Oh ah

[junior void]

you are looking for "blendshapes" on the mesh

[hot loom]

Her emote?

How to fix?

[junior void]

we told you

[somber sequoia]

what about it is broken?

[junior void]

click on the mesh and turn down the blendshapes doing it

you know what

i give up

good luck

[hot loom]

I think from MMD.

[somber sequoia]

you'll probably want to put that into Blender and generate the rest of the viseme shape keys

[hot loom]

ok

[opaque rampart]

huh.

[bronze karma]

Corrupted?

[high coral]

I have this avatar (the original file from the creator) I took off the hair in blender since I was going to change it, I believe everything is correct in unity, I copied everything from the original unity files but the tail just stretches off to oblivion. Can anyone help?

[balmy barn]

some stray vertice not weightpainted is my guess

[junior void]

doubt it, its the whole tail

[warped fjord]

When making new shape keys in blender is it possible to have the default weight always set to 0? on my old version it would do that and now it's always 1 which makes mass copying shape keys a nightmare since they're all on max

[night ember]

what

[warped fjord]

when you create a new shape key in blender

the weight is set to 1

is there a way to make the default for the weight to be set to 0

instead of it instantly putting it at 1

(i had an old version where i changed that somehow or something to set to 0 instead of 1 upon creation of a new shape key)

[warped fjord]

yeah so imagine that

but it is set to 1

i have a fresh install of blender

[junior void]

what version

[warped fjord]

5.0.1

[junior void]

i have not tried that version yet

i use 4.5 lts and its not doing that

i assume its something new

[warped fjord]

ugh

if i download blender 4.5 can i throw in this project file into it or will it not be compatiable since it's an older version of blender

[dusk elk]

Hi guys, again I cannot fix my wing controller on this avatar can someone help me? I tried merging FX'es and it didnt work

[lilac musk]

Might be that. You combined the controllers but it created duplicate/copied parameters. If you're merging them with Avatar Manager, you need to delete the " 0" on the parameters you don't what it to do that to

[dusk elk]

So do I delete one of the parameters?

[lilac musk]

If you simply delete it, the transitions that use it will no longer work. I'd suggest getting the original 2 FX controllers and re-merge them and make sure to delete the 0 before you click merge

[dusk elk]

Okee

[subtle sparrow]

i need some help so my friend is trying to upload a avi but the problem is there vrchat sdk control panel doesnt show up in there unity any fix?

[lilac musk]

Do they have the SDK installed?

[subtle sparrow]

does creator companion count?

[lilac musk]

That is a package manager and can install the SDK if you create the project through it. In the Creator companion, does it say it's installed if you click 'Manage Project'?

[subtle sparrow]

lemme show u a pic off the thing

[lilac musk]

It says its installed. Can you show me a screenshot of the project itself?

[subtle sparrow]

yeah one sec

[lilac musk]

Is that the same project as the one you shown in the Creator Companion? Cause they seem to have different names.

[subtle sparrow]

its the same project with the same stuff but it doesnt work still

[lilac musk]

These are different project names. I'm pretty sure that's the problem

[lyric sonnet]

wth is this and how do i go about fixing it?

[subtle sparrow]

i know there diff ones it still does the same thing in both doesnt show the sdk panel

[lilac musk]

Are those the first 2-3 errors? If not, check the pinned comment on getting that

[lilac musk]

Well show me the project and it's settings that is currently open, in the creator companion

[lyric sonnet]

to get what? i'm so confused

[hard hatch]

does anyone know how one might fix this issue

[lilac musk]

The first 2-3 errors. If we aren't seeing the first errors, then trying to help you becomes much harder.

[subtle sparrow]

this is all it shows no sdk

[lyric sonnet]

this is all i have

[lilac musk]

So that does seem like something is off. I'd ask in #creator-companion and see if you can get further help there

[lilac musk]

Okay, that does seem like the first errors. However it seems like it's Unity itself having the problem and not an avatar thing. Have you tried closing it and reopening again?

[lyric sonnet]

i did yeah, i'm making a whole new project

[lilac musk]

It says your avatar isn't set as Humanoid. Try setting that and see

[lilac musk]

Probably a good idea

[hard hatch]

i dont understand because it already is set to humanoid

would this be like a blender issue or something?

[lilac musk]

Odd. Now it's saying the avatar naming is not what it expects. I don't use VRCFury myself so I don't know if I can help any further. They do have their own discord you can ask for help there if anything.

[hard hatch]

ok so pretty much I just lost months of work progress due to a single misclick 🙃

is there any way to just use a different avatar and still be able to use the model itself?

[lilac musk]

Use a different avatar and still be able to use the model? I don't understand what your asking.

[hard hatch]

Nvm. Im asking if i can import the same fbx original fbx into the project and be able to use the data from that instead of the one im using now, but it just doesn't work

[analog bison]

hey everyone. i am very sorry to bother. i’ve never done this before so there may be mistakes i keep missing, but it’s been a few hours im trying to fix this but cant.

i’m trying to upload to one of my avatars a pose pack, but on 2/2 avatars it wont load, nor with 2 different pose packs.

it either says there’s a bug when i say build and upload and to control logs.

also, i’ve put the avataloselibrary in the projects but won’t load when i chose it for any project.

id be deeply grateful if anyone could help me

basically, i can upload the avatar itself but for whatever reason i can’t add the pose packs

[hard hatch]

whenever I try that, it imports the fbx but it has no "Avatar" included with the fbx @lilac musk

so I think I genuinely just lost all of my work due to a misclick

[lyric sonnet]

still the same issue

[analog bison]

feel free to also dm me in private if anyone would be willing to help

[lilac musk]

Importing an FBX and an Avatar are 2 different things. An FBX is a model that an avatar can be built from, an Avatar is an already built Unity asset that comes with a FBX/Model.

[hard hatch]

That's what I'm realizing now. So essentially there is no way for me to recover or undo the changes from accidentally editting the fbx

There is no way for me to know how the creator of the avatar imported it from blender, so I cannot undo any changes I make after I already import the changes back into unity

I cannot think of any other way to fix this than to start over from scratch, because there is no way for me to fix the avatar

and as seen above, the error Im getting does not make any sense

[lilac musk]

If you have no other copy of the FBX, then no. However if you got your avatar from a UnityPackage, then it will have a copy in it. Just make a new project and import that package again.

[gilded apex]

i made an emission map for my friends avatar for audio link and its clearly fine in poiyomi and works when i turn up the emission slider but audio link just wont work no matter what i do

[hard hatch]

Do you mean import the original package or the broken one? My goal is to attemp to solve this without having to completely restart from the base avatar, which would be having to reimport all of my assets and having to recreate all of my added parameters, unless there is a way that I can also import the params into the fresh project.

[somber sequoia]

yes, parameters are just a file you can copy or move into your project

[little plume]

my avatar isnt using a single standard shader

[somber sequoia]

it definitely is

[little plume]

im using mobile toon standard

[somber sequoia]

and yet, somewhere there is some object using an incorrect shader. Check material swaps and particle systems.

[little plume]

alr i just switched every material on the avatar

to the same material

i swtg

if its because of an object thats disabled

[somber sequoia]

disabled objects on your avatar are still on your avatar

[little plume]

bruhhh

ok i fixed it

thats dumb as shit

[hard hatch]

If I just import the scene as a whole, will it also import params and settings as well?

[somber sequoia]

The scene contains details about what's in the hierarchy and any settings used there, but parameters are stored in their own file and thus not in the scene file.

[hard hatch]

Yeah I just puzzled that together in my head. The scene wouldn't function unless I also import all the object from the scene as well

[analog bison]

sharing this again

hey everyone. i am very sorry to bother. i’ve never done this before so there may be mistakes i keep missing, but it’s been a few hours im trying to fix this but cant.

i’m trying to upload to one of my avatars a pose pack, but on 2/2 avatars it wont load, nor with 2 different pose packs.

it either says there’s a bug when i say build and upload and to control logs.

also, i’ve put the avataloselibrary in the projects but won’t load when i chose it for any project.

id be deeply grateful if anyone could help me

basically, i can upload the avatar itself but for whatever reason i can’t add the pose packs

[somber sequoia]

feel free to post actual error messages, otherwise there's not much detail to go on

[analog bison]

okay hold on!

[little plume]

ok now i know that it isnt using anything but the avatar is still saying it failed the security check

[analog bison]

this is one of the problems it gives me

[somber sequoia]

sorry, what is the problem there?

[scenic ether]

I'm trying to make a system that's similiar to Forsakens chase theme, where if you are far from the avatar it plays music, then if you get closer, plays different music, then closer, different music, then closer different music
Is there a way to make this so that once you get closer the music that was playing before gets overlapped or removed

[somber sequoia]

oh it can't find the repository or something

it seems you have to install whatever that package is.

[analog bison]

the library pose thing won’t work for my project, making it impossible to upload poses on my avatar

but i have no idea how to fix both of these

i’m very new at this things

[somber sequoia]

the left image says which package it requires, go find and install that

otherwise maybe #creator-companion might be helpful

[analog bison]

i did try everything, and deleting & doing it all again as well

but it seems not to work

[somber sequoia]

did you install the package it says to in that error?

[little plume]

why does my avatar say security check failed?

[hasty gorge]

i did everything right but for some reason the rig wont be excepted by the SDK dose anyone know why?

[analog bison]

yes

[somber sequoia]

you must have a chest bone

[hasty gorge]

but there optional

[somber sequoia]

rather - you must have a bone in the chest slot.

[somber sequoia]

No they aren't, not for VRChat to think it's humanoid.

[scenic ether]

@somber sequoia any idea or nah

[little plume]

everything is now a quest compatbiel shader but its still saying security check failed

[somber sequoia]

what? please don't ping me for new questions I'm not already helping with

[scenic ether]

alr

[hasty gorge]

what if there is not enough bones for that

[balmy barn]

merge those meshes would be a start for a quest av

[analog bison]

(ignore the background)

everytime i try uploading an avatar this is what it shows me (who keeps going back & forward) till i delete the process after maybe 5-7 mins and it says this

[somber sequoia]

did you check the log for more details?

[analog bison]

yeah
and unfortunately i do not understand what’s wrong with it

[somber sequoia]

feel free to share error messages. See the first pin in this channel for help on how to do so

[analog bison]

thank you! may i tag you when i find it?

[somber sequoia]

please don't - anyone here can help

[night ember]

then you cant use it

[little plume]

what the fuck does security checks failed mean

theres nothing on the avatar that uses anything thats not compatible with quest

[night ember]

not one bit of that shows the actual stats

[somber sequoia]

show your build stats, sometimes it's way out of normal

[little plume]

?

[little plume]

how do i check that

[somber sequoia]

but we don't actually know how vrchat does these checks.

[somber sequoia]

in the build window, above where the 'build and publish' button is

[little plume]

the alerts?

[somber sequoia]

yes

[somber sequoia]

yeah not surprised.

[little plume]

why exactly is this not letting it even work

[night ember]

there is absolutely no reason to be using 19 individual renderers

[little plume]

?

[somber sequoia]

that's exceptionally poor for quest.

19 material slots.

[little plume]

there is a reason for 19 meshs

[balmy barn]

merge 🔨 and you wont have wierd bounding box issue

[somber sequoia]

that's not at all a good reason.

merge those things

[little plume]

how

[night ember]

there is absolutely no reason for those being separate

[little plume]

there absolutely is because they all use different materials

[hard hatch]

Okay so I got my new project all set up and have all of the old menus and params imported, but for some reason, it wont let me use the old menus. You can see in the SS (1 after the name means that it's from the old project and are replaced)

[night ember]

there is no reason for it to be using separate materials either

[balmy barn]

one mesh can have many many materials

[night ember]

learn to optimize

[little plume]

there is because thats how the model was made

[somber sequoia]

each one is a draw call and greatly increases the render time and complexity, making everyone's performance wors.

[night ember]

and the model is terrible

[little plume]

tell that to roblox

[somber sequoia]

You should merge these and merge the materials.

[little plume]

my astrojack model literally has more shit than this and it uploads

so idk what the problem is

[night ember]

its your fault for ripping from roblox to try and use it in an entirely different engine

[somber sequoia]

for quest?

[little plume]

i didint rip it?

[balmy barn]

blender, import av, select all meshees / join its now 19 times 'better'

[little plume]

i literally have the maya project files for everything

mocap rig

models

animations

[night ember]

which wasnt built for vrchat

[little plume]

yeah no duh

[night ember]

actually take it through blender and fix it for vrchat

[somber sequoia]

or Maya if you actually prefer.

but this is likely why you're getting the security check failure message

[little plume]

build failed

deleted all the unused meshs

[somber sequoia]

most of my avatars have only 2 meshes: body, clothing.

[little plume]

well now theres no reason for it to not upload tho

[night ember]

if there was no reason then it would upload

[little plume]

it is

i forgot to do 1 thing mb

[hard hatch]

issue solved

[little plume]

lets see if that fixes the security issue

nope

the fuck

ive uploaded avatars with way more meshes than this btw

[night ember]

that doesnt make it not terrible for performance

[little plume]

ok this is all one mesh lets see if still cries

[somber sequoia]

how many material slots though?

[little plume]

1 for each part

now theres 4 parts

ears

body

hair

[somber sequoia]

so 4, that's good

[little plume]

head

still nothing changed

tf

[zenith spade]

How does this avatar look so far?

[little plume]

enable shade smooth unless you are going for that lighting style

[somber sequoia]

Looks like a great start!

[hardy crest]

Is there a common reason for why the View Position in-game wouldn't match where it is in Unity?

[night ember]

root not being at 0,0,0 aka the feet

[zenith spade]

Thanks! He’s going to be low poly.

With 2D textures for blinking and mouth movements.

[little plume]

hey so i fixed it you wanna know how?

i made a new unity project

dragged my files from one into the other

reuploaded it

it worked

so it was just vrchat being stupid

[hot grotto]

The visemes on the avatar I'm working on are barley moving or not moving at all. How can I fix this?

[little plume]

if I upload an animation that messes with my avatars face bones but I also have blendshape visemes will that cause issues?

[little plume]

could just be your microphone volume or the visemes themselves

[hot grotto]

Maxed it out still the same result. It gets stuck and all.

[somber sequoia]

How are you testing this?

[little plume]

uhm

looks about right

but fr is there like a setting im supposed to enable?

[trail crag]

I'm working on an avatar right now and some of my physbones aren't working. The ears, tail, and hair all move just fine; but there are body physbones that don't move at all despite having the default physbone component on them. They are weight painted correctly in Blender. So I'm assuming its a Unity issue. Can someone help me fix this?

I would also like to add this is my first time putting an avatar together in Blender then putting it into Unity/VRChat. Up until this point I've only ever done very small edits. Mostly to textures and materials.

[static crown]

gents

i added 3d audio to my avi

sooo onto my fixed object but

the thing is on the left yet audio enters from the right

[plain mural]

Any guesses as to what caused this error? In the project, all files are in place

[little plume]

animation should look like this btw

[clear bear]

is latest avatar sdk broken?

it wont log in properly and it wont load the review alerts tab correctly

[somber sequoia]

worked last time I tried it

[clear bear]

it conflicts with khronjos gltf exporter for me

weird

[zenith spade]

Would this Shiba Inu make a good avatar? So far he is made with block bench. I reused the same body for the dragon I posted earlier today. The dog I made a few days ago. I’m thinking the dog maybe easier to work with?

[late tinsel]

im having a mental breakdown my physbones arnt working and i did this before and i guess i forgot chat gpt is making me run loops with nothing going right

please somneone help im crashing out

even yt tutorials aint helping

[somber sequoia]

provide details: show your setup, explain what about it is not working.

[radiant loom]

can someone help with this, ive never ran into the issue where i cant upload an avi, tried restarting and making it a new project

[heavy zephyr]

Do read the text, it explains the issue

[radiant loom]

yea i get that but again, never had this problem before and ive been using vrc for a few years now

ive already uploaded quite a few things and worlds so i dont understand the issue w this specific project

[heavy zephyr]

Are you not logged in with the same account as before? Did you get banned?

[radiant loom]

didnt get banned, yes im logged in with my usual account

[heavy zephyr]

Any errors in the console?

[radiant loom]

none

[heavy zephyr]

Tried logging out and back in?

[radiant loom]

ill try

[blissful quartz]

so, I'm trying to do a quadraped avi but i have no clue how to rig the hip bone in unity. So when i crouch or maybe look to the sides, the hip just moves and rotates in ways that it shouldn't do.

I don't know if there's any proper tutorials online of how to rig a quadraped properly but if anyone knows, I would love some knowledge please,,

[somber sequoia]

There's a discord specifically for this, "Virtual Limbs"

[blissful quartz]

oh?? that i have not heard of :00 imma take a looksie

[vagrant totem]

How can you know if pacific avatars have cross interaction
Cause I’m trying to find a jujutsu Kaisen avatar that can do domain crashing

[little plume]

youd just need to rig it in blender with a vrc compatible armature

[zenith spade]

Yeah. He needs to be Uv unwrapped first. His textures were also done in blockbench so id assume I just import the premade textures in after the UVs.

[worthy urchin]

what can cause a mismatch between the view position in the editor and the camera's actual percieved position? when i look straight into a mirror, i appear to be looking at my mouth or neck but in the editor it shows the camera should be at eye level. Can I just drag it up a bit or is there a better fix?

[somber osprey]

how do I make the audio more louder?

in the actual game, tis ounds too compared comapred to unity editor

[versed oriole]

hello everyone i'm having a problem that never happen to me before and its been going for weeks now and its getting very annoying and worse,
So basically any photo is just a NO IMAGE FOUND
i tried to reinstalling the game and clear the cache and change the location of the game nothing at all helping its just getting worse and photos just all white,

• world image
• emojis
• banners
• stickers
  latterly everything

please help