avatar-help

[crisp flicker]

im tryna set up an armature link to the novabeast and it isnt working to well

like its on the avi

but isnt moving with the avatar

ik i need a blendshape aswell

[ornate stump]

Assuming you're using vrcfury, does the armature link component say anything or suggest you to do something?

[crisp flicker]

ive tried linking it to a few things because it stretches over a few areas

[crisp flicker]

no it just lets me do whatever

idk if im just a dumbass or sum

[analog bison]

thank you thank you so much 🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂it worked

[vapid slate]

is there a way to get the positioning table up for the poiyomi decals? it wont give me the option </3

[ornate stump]

You are having 2 armature link components so that's going to conflict with each other.

[crisp flicker]

but what would i link it to?

idk if its hips or the chest

[ornate stump]

If it's clothing, you must put the armature link component into the cloth bone in its armature.

[crisp flicker]

i think i might have it sorted

the bones arent in the same area as the clothes names and shtuff

[somber osprey]

so how do I fix it?

I just duplicated an existing layer

[ornate stump]

You have to change the FX layer in avatar descriptor to use the new controller you created.

[crisp flicker]

so.... something went right. and sum went wrong too

;-; fml

[ornate stump]

Where did you put the armature link now?

[crisp flicker]

i put the hips on the hips and the chest on the chest

wait

[ornate stump]

Do not use multiple armature link component.

[crisp flicker]

i forgot to remove the links on the actual bodysuit

[somber osprey]

I changed the fx layer to that

it sees it but still it didn't do anything

the radial puppet doesn't change the emission texture

[ornate stump]

Screenshot the animator state debug again.

[somber osprey]

the weight is stuck on 1

no matter what the radial puppet value is

[ornate stump]

The layer weight is irrelevant.

[somber osprey]

So what's the issue then?

[ornate stump]

You said you duplicate the animator controller? Try creating a new one instead.

[somber osprey]

How?

idk what's the name of it when right click "Create"?

[ornate stump]

"Animator Controller"

[somber osprey]

and after I create the controller. I drag that onto the FX box in the avatar descriptor?

[ornate stump]

Yes. And setup the layer for your emission too.

[somber osprey]

here's how it looks

anything I need to check before I run it?

[ornate stump]

Just that. Try it.

[somber osprey]

still nothing

[ornate stump]

I just saw that you have Action layer assigned in Additive layer. So you will have to rectify that as well.

[somber osprey]

what do you mean rectify?

[ornate stump]

Fix it.

[somber osprey]

How...?

the original avi doesn't come with Additive layer

[ornate stump]

Leave it as default.

[somber osprey]

made it to default idle

played it. still the radial puppet doesn't do anything

[ornate stump]

Ok for testing further, change the parameter name from "emission" to "GestureLeftWeight" in the animator controller. Don't change in parameter file or menu. When testing, change the left hand gesture and see if it work.

[somber osprey]

before I test, like this?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[somber osprey]

in testing mode, I clicked through all of these Left hand gestures

There was no change

[ornate stump]

Do you see the Alpha slider change though?

There would be only different between when some gesture on and all gesture off.

[somber osprey]

not at all

[ornate stump]

Can you move the alpha slider?

[somber osprey]

during playtest. no

any idea?

[vapid slate]

okay, so i added tattoos to my avi and only one of them appears, but when i change the skintone the second one appears but the face gets messed up.... any suggestions?

[ornate stump]

When you test and look in the animator controller like this, change to Parameters tab and see if the parameter change accordingly.

[civic wharf]

Yo guys

Is there a way to make a png avatar without unity? I'm asking cause my Wi-Fi sucks it won't download

And idk anything about unity or making things

[vapid slate]

how to make decals glow/scroll?

[ornate stump]

Every avatar requires Unity to be made.

[civic wharf]

Thanks

[somber osprey]

like this?

[ornate stump]

Yes. But did you also try to change gesture as well?

[somber osprey]

the GestureLeftWeight parameters goes to 1 if any of the left hand gesture is ticked

but if none of the gesture is ticked, then the gestureleftweightr goes back to 0

[ornate stump]

That should be correct. Revert the name back to "emission" and see if it change when you move the radial puppet.

[somber osprey]

It didn't

[ornate stump]

You're selecting the controller in the different way from previous image.

You're showing the one that's inactive.

[somber osprey]

Oh
hang on

Here. idk why it does that

[ornate stump]

Try disabling loop time in the animation clip, it will stop the blue play at the end instead.

[ornate stump]

I think that's the same video.

[somber osprey]

oh sorry

[ornate stump]

Does the Alpha slider change accordingly?

[somber osprey]

No

[ornate stump]

Try search t:animator in hierarchy. Screenshot how many object that's shown up.

[ornate stump]

Well, that might be the whole reason. Delete the animator component from face object and test again.

[somber osprey]

But if I do that. it'll delete the animation clip as well

the animation clip that controls the emission texture is in the face objects

[ornate stump]

Animation clip is saved as asset file already so it shouldn't get deleted.

[somber osprey]

oaky removed animator component from the face. what's next?

[ornate stump]

Test.

[somber osprey]

Nothing

still the emission alpha value doesn't change

[ornate stump]

Can you show the content in animation clip again?

[somber osprey]

could it be that the controller is FXLayer. not the animation controller

[ornate stump]

Chance is that if you had animator component in the face object, you likely recorded the animation wrong.

[somber osprey]

I did recorded it in the face object

[somber osprey]

It wouldn't let me record the emission slider if I click the face object instead of the avi root

[ornate stump]

That is incorrect animation. You will have to record again from avatar animator, not from the face animator.

[somber osprey]

like this?

last time I did this

it wouldn't let me do it for some reason

[ornate stump]

Probably you had conflicting animator component.

[somber sequoia]

oh - do you have more than one animator?

[somber osprey]

I don't know anymore

[somber sequoia]

I was wondering why you were having issues with this

[somber osprey]

okay after I record it. Test it?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[somber osprey]

Now it works

so all this time

The anim clip was made in the wrong animator @ornate stump?

[ornate stump]

Yes it is.

I saw you had it correctly before.

[somber osprey]

so why did this happen @ornate stump back then?

[ornate stump]

That's exactly why. It changed recording context from avatar animator to face animator.

[somber osprey]

so once again. check that the avatar only has one animator

and doing "t:animator" is an easy way to do it?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[somber osprey]

okay so now

the first setup I told you which you said that was originally correct

Repeat all of that now?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

Make sure that you actually delete the animator component from all other faces too.

[subtle seal]

Wasp guys is there any1 here that makes avatars i have a few questions and such

[ornate stump]

Ask right away.

[subtle seal]

I want to start working on my first avatar or look for some1 that will makw it with me/for me for a resonble price

[round comet]

If you want someone to make it you’d probably need to refer to VRCTraders. Otherwise, were you hoping to make one from assets or scratch?

[subtle seal]

I alredy know exactly what i want to do and i can set a mood board up

[round comet]

[ornate stump]

?tag scam

[flat musk]

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

You will probably receive DM's or friend requests from scammers now (or later) that will try to offer you their services. 😖

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

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

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

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

[round comet]

Bless

[ornate stump]

And if you want to create one, start from https://discord.com/channels/189511567539306508/1139228456090087495

[subtle seal]

Ok ty

[ornate stump]

You might be getting few scam bot messages for next few hours once you mention it.

[analog bison]

okay i’m back once again to ask for some help .. the avatar i uploaded works fine, but when i go choosing the stuff to make her hold stuff or things it won’t work and idk why

[somber sequoia]

you'll probably need to explain "stuff to make her hold stuff or things" in detail

[analog bison]

how?

[somber sequoia]

how what?

how to explain?

Assume we have no idea what that means, and have never seen your project.

How is it set up?

[analog bison]

it’s an avatar i was gifted by my friend! but im very new in uploading avis. what do u need me to show u?

[pine valley]

i'm guessing your action menu controls aren't working

if the avatar isn't working out-of-the-box, then that's a problem with the avatar, and you should ask your friend or the creator for support

[analog bison]

thank you lots!

[pine valley]

make sure you followed any instructions that came with the avatar, though

[low gulch]

sorry for the late reply lol, I fixed it! it was indeed a weight paint thing
I needed to paint the first bone in the tag to the body

[blazing harness]

when i export my edited mesh from blender and overwrite the old fbx this happens.. im assuming its some sort of error on import or export but i have no idea what that is

[pine valley]

I bet you have the wrong scaling settings

There's a setting in Blender's FBX exporter called "Apply Scalings"

it has two meaningful choices:

• "All Local": your Armature will have a scale of 100
• "FBX All": your Armature will have a scale of 1

It looks like your model was originally exported with "FBX All", and then you exported with "All Local"

[somber sequoia]

ahhh that makes sense! Glad you worked it out

[pine valley]

This will cause everything on your avatar to wind up 100 times too large

because the scale of the armature just went from 1 to 100

It'll also cause really weird animation issues, because Unity thinks your skeleton should be a different size than it actually is

re-export the model with the correct Apply Scalings setting (FBX All) and see if it looks correct again

[blazing harness]

thank you its fixed!!!!

[turbid cedar]

what does this mean..

[raw spindle]

how could i achieve that galaxy pan effect if you get what i mean? - using poiyomi

[lone brook]

for avatars with big boobs, whats a good phys bone setting for them to not jiggle as much but still feel realistic?

i dont wanna have it do the helicopters when i slightly tap A and D

[turbid cedar]

i may have a preset two secs!

theres some all by mayes baes!

[trim edge]

how would one go about adding nails to an avatar? the only youtube video i can find involves blender but im unsure how to even get the avatar into blender to begin with as it is a unity package. any help appreciated ❤️

[somber sequoia]

find the .fbx file in your project and import that into blender.

then do some modeling

[turbid cedar]

so about this..

[somber sequoia]

is that the only error?

[turbid cedar]

uh i can send the whole error panel

gimme two secs

[somber sequoia]

always show the first 2-3 errors, that's likely where the root cause is.

(see the first pinned message for visual details on how to share this)

[turbid cedar]

kk!

[turbid cedar]

?

[somber sequoia]

there's nothing above that?

huh, that's not really useful.

[turbid cedar]

maybe this?

or this

[junior void]

2nd pic, 3rd error

[somber sequoia]

yep

[junior void]

Avatar descriptor is set to use visemes but face mesh is not assigned

[turbid cedar]

ahhh

lemme see

[somber sequoia]

Also for the record, the "first 2-3 errors" are at the top of that scroll back, you seem to be scrolled way down.
Don't worry now, since we found the error, but always start at the top

[turbid cedar]

kk!

also, im trying to put the face mesh in and it wont let me

i click it and it doesnt work

[somber sequoia]

does it have viseme blendshapes?

[turbid cedar]

i think i have no cule its a paid avi not a made one

[somber sequoia]

probably would, but you can check by clicking the mesh object and looking in the inspector

[turbid cedar]

it does

[somber sequoia]

you ought to be able to simply drag that into the slot in the VRC Avatar Descriptor then.

[turbid cedar]

the mesh or the vismes

bc i tried to drag the mesh

did not work

[somber sequoia]

the mesh object.

viseme blendshapes are not a thing you can drag in unity 🙂

[turbid cedar]

didnt think so XD

ahahah

[somber sequoia]

click that object and show the inspector, please.

[turbid cedar]

lemme know if i gotta scroll

[somber sequoia]

hmm why wouldn't that work?

[turbid cedar]

i gtg soo replys in a little

i have no clue ima minor so i cant join their discord

[gaunt knoll]

Weird

You can't click on the circle

[hasty gorge]

I’m making a VRChat avi using VRCFury. My avatar has two modes: a regular mode that transforms into a car and a seeker mode that transforms into a jet. Is there a way to make one transform button that automatically plays the correct transform animation depending on which mode is active? If possible, how would I set that up (Animator or VRCFury)?

[sudden quiver]

what am i doing wrong here it looks fine in blender then i bring it to unity to configure and it does this

( referring to the ears floating )

[ashen sphinx]

Hey, I tried finding some info elsewhere but couldnt find it. I am recently new to avatar 3.0 and tried to make a mono eye cat. So I use a invisible left eye and set rotation states so it cant move outside range. But when I am in game, as soon as I move the avi the eyes go outside and everywhere freaking out. Even though rotation states seem okay in the avatar controller. If anyone has any idea as to what is happening.

[somber sequoia]

where's the eye bone there?

[ashen sphinx]

Its in the middle of the eye mesh.

[somber sequoia]

ok that does look like the center of rotation

[ashen sphinx]

It feels like the rotation states dont matter once I get in game.

[unborn summit]

Do any of y’all know what this mean?

[raw spindle]

anyone got some good long tail physbone presets?

[hallow coyote]

how would you go about making an avatar blind? like a black void only you could see, with minimal things visible(like when you touch something?)

[dusty elm]

is there a way to change Idle arm angle for specific toggles?

[turbid cedar]

didnt work

[teal laurel]

Not to be rude but AAAAA
are those bones im the head??? How many does it have 💀💀💀

https://tenor.com/view/bobr-screaming-aaa-gif-27711008

[sudden quiver]

idk man -- its an avatar i bought 😢

[teal laurel]

a

[sudden quiver]

turns out i added the assest in the most complicated way so im restarting lol

[teal laurel]

Whatcha trying to do?

[sudden quiver]

add dog ears and a tail to it -- she currently has cat ears and a tail

[clever pivot]

Wow

[narrow vigil]

Hey so I know I’m kinda butting in but I kinda need help upload my avi. So I can upload it perfectly fine for PC but no matter what I do android is always grayed out

[teal laurel]

What settings did you use when exporting the model?

[sudden quiver]

i havent reuploaded her. i just simply figured out that the way i was editing her, would require me to resetup everything and go through adding all toggles again which is too much work 😭

[teal laurel]

You have to install the android paltform thingy.
Go to your "Unity Hub" look for installs, edit it and add the android thing to it.
you can uncheck visual studio at the top
Then restart your unity and it should work

[teal laurel]

Depends on what you do. When you don't touch the bones, no animations break

When you add, remove or edit bones, this might consider some fixing later on in unity for your animations

[flat tree]

Haaai everyone, hope someone will be able to help me with my blender frustration... I have a Rexoumium and a cheek floof asset for it. I want to merge it so I can texture it better in Substance painter. (Cause I have trouble perfectly painting over a line over two textures, the white of a fox).. My problem now is If I merge everything perfectly so the blendshapes and all are connected and move. As soon as I bake the textures in Substance it gets all messy and broken. Not only are the edges of the cheek floof visible, but also other places break. Is that an export issue I have or did I do something wrong in Blender during Merging? - The screenshot is after baking, nothing is painted yet.

[gilded lichen]

imported textures from substance and it decided to scramble and i cant figure out how to fix it

[teal laurel]

Looks like you still gotta assign your textures and stuff to your material

You are currently on "Unlit/Texture"

Try out something like Poiyomi for PC or VRChat/Mobile/ToonStandard for mobile
-# https://github.com/poiyomi/PoiyomiToonShader/releases/tag/v9.3.64 (.unitypackage) .poiyomi/Toon whatever it is called

[frail vessel]

for some reason my avatar does this to the fingers in unity but looks fine in blender

[ancient parcel]

Anyone.. how make a toggle in unity…

[half swift]

I'm using a custom Locomotion Base for my movement, but It's strait up not working in VRC, it's just using the default VRChat Locomotion in VRC when fully uploaded?

[cobalt phoenix]

anyone else experiencing the vrchat sdk menu taking over a minute to load and then having the "prepare your content" part of the menu grayed out ? it does this after ive been working in unity for a considerable amount of time , but clears when i restart my computer . you could just reply to me going "ok restart your computer then" but i dont want to have to restart my computer every single time i want to update an avatar :/

it also acknowledges my avatar and all its performance stats in the second part of the menu but doesnt let me publish in that state

[little plume]

vrc fury

[low gulch]

hi again lol
so how can i make it so my limbs dont move so much to the point they are dislocating and stretching out of place like this? do i have to change the position of the bones in my armature? i dont really know what to do to rememdy this
again let me know if more screenshots/clips/context is needed :P👍

[little plume]

i wish i could view the quest version of avatars on pc

[devout cliff]

Hi! I'm trying to upload my first avatar for Quest 3.
I've installed the Android Build Support module for Unity 2022.3.22f1, and the Unity Hub shows the Android icon, but the Editor still says 'No Android module loaded.'
I've tried restarting, clearing the Hub cache, and deleting the AndroidPlayer folder, but the Hub still shows it as 'Installed' and won't let me re-install or switch platforms.
Any ideas on how to force Unity to see the module?

[split island]

Anyone know how to get vcc to work on steam deck?

[deft robin]

I need to turn this thruster animation clip into something that controls the full body
but I don't know how to
I animated it via blender and imported it through FBX but it doesnt have the same settings

the flame pops up (doing the spinning animation) but any other animation to the body (that being the pose) doesn't animate

this is the first time i've tried to port animations to VRC any help?

I solved my issue after fiddling around after like 5 seconds

[little plume]

make sure you upload to pc first btw or the avatar will break

[devout cliff]

I have done that, thanks for the tip. For some reason when I try to switch to andriod the files were showing as not loaded. I've had to install the latest patch, hopefully that fixes it.

[little plume]

If you mean unity build then you have to be using the version that matches creator companion

[devout cliff]

There was a patch for the 2022 version, I've just downloaded that and I'm now updating everything.

[rugged gazelle]

hey so i have a refrence to an avatar i really want and i have zero idea on how to make it and if anybody has experience in doing avatar work i would love help on how to start bcuz i have zero idea please thank you <3!

[little plume]

it has to be the exact version

that vcc says

because the vrchat sdk is made for it

[devout cliff]

Yes, omg Isee that now. Back to the drawing board. I couldn't get the android build to be recognised in the SDK for some reason.

[devout cliff]

Can anyone help me? I have been going around in circles trying to get the Andriod module recognised. It is already downloaded and when I click on the Open download page and try to download it again, it doesn' work. I can see the files for it I dont know whats happening here.
Edit: figured it out.

[grave belfry]

so i decided to create a new project, and I have Gesture manager installed. but its not in the hierarchy- where else would it be?

[somber osprey]

once again I need help

I followed this tutorial here but when I try it on my avi, the 2 axis puppet did nothing
https://youtu.be/kNUNOrHmOrQ

here's all the screenshots involved

[somber sequoia]

you have to put it there, there should be a menu item for that

[grave belfry]

gotchaaaa thank uuuu

[somber osprey]

anyone how how to fix this?

[somber sequoia]

can't tell what's wrong from there

[somber osprey]

what about this tutorial?

is this tutorial reliable even tho its that old?

[somber sequoia]

watch what happens when you actuate the menu stuff in play mode with gesture manager or av3 emulator, then debug that

this mostly looks like how I have such things setup

I do it all in a direct blend tree, but that shouldn't matter.

[rotund drift]

does anyone know alot about like textures?

[night ember]

Id assume several people do yes?

[nova flicker]

Anyone know how to fix this?
I checked my armature in blender and it looks the exact same as my working fbx.
it says 'Spine Transform "Spine" has bone length of zero'

but the bone has a length at : 0.09m

[somber osprey]

The parameter values is changing in the debug menu

so the 2 axis is working but its not being applied on my avi

[somber sequoia]

is that that the hip bone pointing down? don't do that.

[nova flicker]

hmmm.. but my working fbx has the same bone structure, and it works fine 😔

[somber sequoia]

I assume the mask is doing something sane? and are you moving the actual eye bones themselves in these animations?

[somber osprey]

Yes

the Eye.End.L and Eye.End.R is part of an animation clip

[somber sequoia]

are you using VRC Animator Tracking Control to take over that?

[somber osprey]

the tutorial didn't mention anything about that so no

[somber sequoia]

if those are the humanoid eye bones this is not how you move them.
Are those end bones the right ones to move?

[somber osprey]

well idk which eye bone I'm supposed to move or animate

the avi deson't have blendshapes for moving the eyes

[somber sequoia]

you'll need to figure that out. It should be the bone that moves the part you want moved.

[rotund drift]

i was looking on tik tok and someone has the same paid avi as me but theres is heavly customized like glowing green that flows though the avi and i was try to find out how i would even begin to try that

[somber osprey]

Both the Eye.L and the Eye.End.L moves the exact same thing. so idk what's the problem

is the issue the bone I'm trying to animate?

[somber sequoia]

you cannot rotate humanoid bones directly

[somber osprey]

what does that mean?

[somber sequoia]

well show what one of these animations does, maybe it's setup right.

[somber osprey]

which animation?

the one I made?

[somber sequoia]

either way you will still need VRC Animator Tracking Control to mark the eye bones as "animated" while you move them, and "tracking" when you are not (so VRChat can move them)

Whatever animation you intend to move the eye. show one of those, the keyframes in it, I'm curious what it is acting on

[somber osprey]

here

[somber sequoia]

yes, this will not work, if those bones are the actual humanoid eye bones listed in the rig setup.
If they are not then uh... maybe it'll work? they're children of the not-end bones so their movement will depend on the parent bones too

[somber osprey]

so how do you usually move the eyes in the animation?

[somber sequoia]

I don't have a link to anything useful to show you, nor do I have Unity open, but when you click "add property" in that animation, there's a tree of stuff under iirc "animator" and there are eye movements in there which you can animate

[somber osprey]

you mea within this list?

I should find the eye?

[somber sequoia]

I wasn't looking closely earlier, thought you were trying to move like ears or a tail, tha's way easier

yes - in there somewhere

[somber osprey]

no I'm trying to make the eyes like look around with the 4 axis. as if it has eye trackings

[somber sequoia]

don't forget VRC Animator Tracking Control

[somber osprey]

wdym by that exactly?

[somber sequoia]

I said above

Also VRChat's documentation explains it as well

[somber osprey]

so like this?

The documentation is vague for me

Sorry I meant to set Eyes & Eyelids to Animation, not tracking

I tested it. it still doesn't work

I don't knwo hwo to fix it, the document doesn't tell much

[somber sequoia]

sorry, I'm having internet issues, it's windy here

[somber sequoia]

tracking = vrchat controls. animation = you can animate

[somber osprey]

So the 2 axis puppet is VRChat controls, correct?

[somber sequoia]

no, that's you animating it

[somber osprey]

so that means I have to set it to "Animation" then?

[somber sequoia]

again, internet issues and I have said that more than once

[somber osprey]

I'm trying to make sure, I get confused really easily

[somber sequoia]

try it and find out.

I'm not giving you a step-by-step guide, I'm making suggestions and giving hints. It's up to you to read the docs and experiment and work things out for what you need them to do.

[somber osprey]

I'm getting a warning saying that this Layer has no valid animation

but here there;s only a blend tree. not a state

and within blend-tree all of these have animation so why is it giving an error?

I'm not good at figuring stuff out

its saying no valid animation but there are animations

[silent hearth]

Trying to upload but keep getting this error in Unity.

[somber osprey]

So the 2-axis IS WORKING. Moving it around does actually update and trigger these blend trees

but it still doesn't show any changes on my Avi. is it because of the Copied from FX Layer thing?

[lone brook]

little help here?
my main project has already reached it 500MB upload limit and i want to add more outfits.
is there a way for me to duplicate the project so i can upload a separate avatar?

[ornate stump]

You only would have to duplicate the avatar in the scene.

[lone brook]

eh?

[ornate stump]

There is no need for a separate project, or "one project, one avatar" as of what you thought.

[lone brook]

i still dont get it :c

[ornate stump]

Why can't you work in the same project then?

[lone brook]

i mean, i already have multiple outfits added
so the file size is 500MB> if i were to add more

so i was thinking to make a seperate avi as a 2nd outfit folder

in a sense

[ornate stump]

You have to realize that one project can work with multiple avatars.

Project size has nothing to do with avatar size.

[lone brook]

oh. then how do i upload another then?

[ornate stump]

Just setup another avatar like you did, either in the same scene or different scene.

[lone brook]

aaah..

[ornate stump]

Even one scene can contain multiple avatars.

[lone brook]

do u know a way to fix this?
the skin is clipping through the clothes and thers isnt any armanent blendshape or anything to fix it

[ornate stump]

Try adjusting cloth bone position then.

[lone brook]

where do i do that?

[ornate stump]

Find the bone in cloth's armature and move.

[lone brook]

like.. these?

[ornate stump]

Yes. Try out all and see what works.

[lone brook]

yeah i tried those, doesnt work

[ornate stump]

Then you have to adjust cloth model in blender.

[lone brook]

ah...

[silent hearth]

Anyone have an idea from the error text shown below. why the avatar is failing to upload?

[ornate stump]

You had missing scripts which usually mean you didn't import all the required package.

[silent hearth]

ah

[lone brook]

from one error to another.
what the solution to this?

[ornate stump]

It depends on what problem it's causing.

[lone brook]

i dont even know where the problem is coming from

😭

[ornate stump]

Is it really doing something other than just saying it has an error?

[lone brook]

i cant upload the avi, thats the problem its causing ig

[ornate stump]

Does it have more error than that one?

[lone brook]

just that one

no yellows, just that one red

[ornate stump]

Does it show up right after you click Build Publish, or after it does some processing?

[lone brook]

after

[ornate stump]

After what?

[lone brook]

after pressing publish

[ornate stump]

Does the sdk show some error?

[lone brook]

oh wtf? it just fixed itself

unity is weird :c

[ornate stump]

Like I said, that error really depends on what problem it's causing. This time it isn't even a problem.

[somber osprey]

The 2 axis Controller is working. But it doesn't play the animation clip. Why is that?

[ornate stump]

The layer weight is zero.

[somber osprey]

No its a bug. it does that in the Play test but in normal mode the weight is 1

see?

[ornate stump]

What does the animation is controlling?

[somber osprey]

The Animator for eyes

and also yeah that is an issue. the Weight is going and stuck on 0 if I go play mode

[ornate stump]

What do you mean "the Animator for eyes"?

[somber osprey]

This

Animator.Left Eye

[ornate stump]

It's animation, not animator. That's a part of humanoid bone so that won't work.

[somber osprey]

so...what will work?

last time I did Eye Transform but I was told not to use that

[ornate stump]

You should move eye transform.

[ornate stump]

If eye bones are humanoid bone then you have to remove their humanoid bone assignment.

[somber osprey]

this one right?

cause I was told otherwise

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[somber osprey]

how do I do that? or how can I check if they are?

[ornate stump]

The rig configuration menu.

[somber osprey]

is this it?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[somber osprey]

so does that maen that its humanoid (Ik Animation Type said Humanoid but idk if that says for the eyes or the whole thing)

if so then do I unlick or remove the Left Eye and Right Eye from the mapping?

[ornate stump]

remove the Left Eye and Right Eye from the mapping

[somber osprey]

And then. test run it?

[ornate stump]

Did you re-record the animation to move eye bone transform?

[somber osprey]

Oh no not yet

I'll do that quickly

[somber osprey]

THAT'S IT?!

okay first of all, You are a life saver and I'm sorry if I'm bothering you too much for help

2nd of all, Why didn't it work before? why did the Eye being part of humanoid rig prevented it?

[ornate stump]

Yes. That's why it's telling you you can't move humanoid bone transform.

[somber osprey]

So if I wanna animate anything or any bone

I ahve to make sure that bone isn't using humanoid bone transform?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[somber osprey]

Okay. that's weird but thank you so much

am I allowed to ping you if I run into new problem that I' mtrying to accomplish

[ornate stump]

Should not. There are multiple people here able to help.

[somber osprey]

well sadly they're not able to, and told me to figure it out myself but I have no idea about unity and the documentation doesn't help alot

like I didn't knew I had to remove any bone from the humanoid rig just so I can animate those said bone

[gaunt knoll]

Unity is very well documented

The only thing that isn't documented well is the spirit avis

[snow rivet]

hi would anyone be able to help me with adding accessories to my avatar in unity? i am trying to attach a tail and have got as far as importing everything, making a material, then linking everything together. I have had problems all week with exporting, unity and uniVRM miss match and getting everything working in VseeFace

[gaunt knoll]

You can take it into blender and link it that way or use fury armature link

[snow rivet]

I tried using Blender it is equally as confusing

[gaunt knoll]

You got to start with the basics if your new to blender

Like doing the donut

Or making a cup

[snow rivet]

No thanks i dont have time to learn that stuff

Ill just have to leave it

[granite reef]

Hello, im using Alcom on Garuda Linux (Arch), the avatar test goes fine but i cannot select the platform, also i cannot use many functions in the menu Upward (to override the second problem i just press search and find what i need)

P.s. First time i use this tool lol

[somber osprey]

well how am I supposed to know that the humanoid Rig doesn't allow me to do animation on it?

[left wharf]

add modules for Unity 2022.3.22f1: Windows Build Support (Mono), Android Build Support, iOS Build Support from UnityHub

[granite reef]

im such a dumbass ahahahahahah now it works fine ahahahahahahah

[barren basin]

is anyone else having sdk issues

[upper kernel]

Idk where to put this but I need a blender nerd to help me fix my kitbash that my ex gf fucked up (ping me pls)

[somber sequoia]

here's probably ok

#3d-modeling if it's specifically modeling

[dark plaza]

hi for creating a toggle for an avatar for a different outfit do i have to use the same model in a different file with the outfit?

[somber sequoia]

different file?

[dark plaza]

like different obj

thing

sorry im new to this

[somber sequoia]

no worries, just trying to understand what you're doing

[dark plaza]

for blender btw

[somber sequoia]

What I personally do is make one avatar per "outfit", like a totally different set of clothing. And so I export that from blender as a different model file, and do the whole setup in Unity again.

It makes it easier to be reasonably efficient, I target Medium

[dark plaza]

but i wanna make it a toggle on my avatar

[somber sequoia]

I recommend not doing that, for efficiency purposes, but if you do really want to, I'd just export all the outfits you're using along with the body in the same model file.

[lone brook]

so i made two scenes now. so if i were to upload a different avi it wouldnt update my current avi right?

[ornate stump]

Different avatar or not is determine by blueprint ID in pipeline manager component.

[lone brook]

i... did not understand anything u just said

[ornate stump]

Just take a look in PipelineManager component.

[lone brook]

and that is wheree...? 😓

[ornate stump]

It's in the same object as avatar descriptor.

[lone brook]

still have no idea where that is..

cant find it

[ornate stump]

It'd be weird if you had never seen avatar descriptor at least once. It's in the avatar root object.

[lone brook]

ive prob seen it.. just forgot where it is or something

[ornate stump]

It's the most important component in your avatar so it should be in the avatar root object.

[gaunt knoll]

In the inspector on the main Avi

[lone brook]

oh it found it

so.. what do i do with it?

add in anything as a blueprint?

[ornate stump]

Do you see PipelineManager component in the same object?

[lone brook]

this right?

[somber sequoia]

That

[ornate stump]

If blueprint ID is blank, it's going to be a new avatar.

[lone brook]

oooh

[somber sequoia]

empty means when you upload it will be a new avatar, and then that slot will be filled in

[lone brook]

but i have it blanked still, and it has been updating my uploaded avi

so if i were to put in something as a blueprint, it'll make a new avi?

[ornate stump]

No. Blank mean uploading as a new avatar.

[somber sequoia]

there is no way for it to replace an existing avatar unless you put that avatar's blueprint ID in that slot.

[lone brook]

but itve been updating my uploaded avi the whole time?

[ornate stump]

You uploaded a different avatar that already have blueprint ID.

[lone brook]

see? only one

[somber sequoia]

Obviously we don't know how your project is setup, I suspect you're looking at something different

[lone brook]

eh weird. but nvm i kinda found a way

[somber sequoia]

try uninstalling then reinstalling the vrchat sdk

yes

you do this in VCC or Alcom, not within Unity

you can certainly open the Unity package manager window to remove it, but reinstall happens from VCC/Alcom

I don't use VCC, so I'll take your word for it

[ornate stump]

Remove avatar sdk first then remove base sdk.

[ancient parcel]

i do have vrcfury but it not working

[gaunt knoll]

Go read the the docs on how to setup Vrc fury

[round comet]

whats the best way to do 2d facial expressions?

UV Maps?

[timber wharf]

#avatar-help message yep

@round comet

[round comet]

tyty

[restive loom]

I have a question does anybody know how to do the shiny metals to where they kind of like glow I don’t know like what it’s called or anything you see it on a lot of like avatar is like necklaces, earrings, and stuff

[agile anvil]

question. Standard Toon since i see there's a hue shift, if possible that makes it easier for a hue shift toggle?

[balmy barn]

its pretty easy yes ? and you can mask part of the uv if you only want certain places to be affected , but it will also affect any using the same shader on same mesh

[somber sequoia]

There are lots of options here - if you mean actual glowing then that's emission, but if you just mean shiny then that's playing with metallic and roughness/smoothness settings to your liking, or perhaps using a matcap of a nice metallic material

[agile anvil]

aight also saturation and brightness are in there too?, i forgot if i saw there

[somber sequoia]

I tend to do matcaps for small items such as jewelry

[agile anvil]

i would check properly after making some popcorn

[pine valley]

matcaps make a lot of sense for jewelry

it's hard to actually recreate the look of a real gemstone

there's a lot of internal reflection and refraction and a bunch of other annoying concepts

matcaps are cool because you're just taking a picture of the thing you want

and that's it!

[sterile flicker]

Hi it's been a while since I worked on a project and decided to reinstall unity. But for some reason it's not allowing me to make parameters or view any. Is there a way to fix this? The "+" is greyed out and I can't interact with it

[somber sequoia]

You have not selected an animation controller to work on

Pick one in your Project window, or drag one into the Animator component on your avatar root, and select the avatar.

[spark walrus]

Me and @flat cradle need help on an avi, Can someone help plz??

[wanton cedar]

it helps to explain the issue first

[spark walrus]

Ok

@flat cradle can u explain?

[sand cedar]

how do i make an avatar with an avatar like this?

it has animations built in

any videos on how to do this?

[somber sequoia]

You really should use a Humanoid armature if you can. Otherwise any video describing how to animate in Unity will work, since you're going to be doing everything from scratch

(we discussed some of this in #avatar-rigging )

[agile anvil]

how do i make the only Blue ones change color? without changing the red one? i tried putting the texture only for the blue parts

in hue shift

[somber sequoia]

You'd need a mask for the hue shift - black = don't change, white = do change

[agile anvil]

i'll test

first i'll fix up the colors for emission to make both white eyes and red lights glow

done, seems it works also the option red instead of alpha

is there a way to add brightness and saturation? i dont see to find these

[somber sequoia]

it's a limited shader, I'm pretty sure what you see is what you get

[pine valley]

yeah, "Alpha" meant it looked at the alpha channel of the texture – and I'm guessing it was either:

• not present at all
• all at 100% alpha

[agile anvil]

i'll check around oh yeah, i forgot, i need to find a way to make the toggle for hue shift

this kinda works

but its not what i seek

[foggy tiger]

My physbone settings are all the exact same for each bone they effect but for some reason the bones in the wing on the left moves differently

It's supposed to be like the wing on the right which is working properly

All the physbones are the same except replace the root transform with the bone it's supposed to be effecting

I've made sure all the weights and vertex groups are good in blender and I applied all transforms before exporting as well

I even tried normalizing all weights just now and it's still behaving the same

So I'm all tapped out on the blender side of things

Any clues please?

[viral ivy]

I am trying to add a toggle that makes my snoot extremely stretchy, so I made a controller that gets merged into the avatar and made an animation graph with conditional transitions that plays animations that change the stretchiness, toggle off the physbone and toggle it on 19 frames later. But the physbone is unaffected. Even testing animations that simply disable the physbone seem to not work. The Block Grab on a different layer works perfectly fine and doesn't even need toggling the physbone. Does anyone have an idea as to how I would make a toggle that effectively changes the stretchiness of a physbone? Is my approach faulty?

[void kettle]

Ive been at this for hours so I decided to come here for help!

I’ve done restart my Unity, clearing the blueprints and redid the materials because of the shader warning but it didn’t help. I don’t know what else to try, any help will be appreciated! ^^

[somber sequoia]

can you scroll the SDK window such that we can see the 9 alerts it says are present?

[round comet]

what do yall think the easiest way to weightpaint this is? do I have enough bones

I noticed it also gets confused with the sprinkles I made and if it moves too much they warp </3

[somber sequoia]

Paint it and see, if it doesn't move how you want, perhaps add more. It's hard to give advice when we don't know what it is or how you want it to move.

[round comet]

hard to explain but I sorta just want it to have movement like all those cute mouth pastries people make not too much but something that wiggles with physbones

I suppose I'll just have to eyeball it

[tropic yacht]

can someone help me make a tanjiro avatar?

[real river]

Hey, I'm working on my first model and I'd love some feedback. I'm about to start weight painting, but I'm not sure if the topology is good enough yet. Could I get some advice ? (I can also share the model file if needed)

[somber sequoia]

Ah ok, nothing really weird there.

[somber sequoia]

that's what this channel is for

[void kettle]

Yea. I don’t have any other ideas on how to fix it

[gusty meteor]

Hellooo 👋
I'm trying to replicate this effect where we can see the eyes through the hair but without changing the hair's opacity because that would make everything show though the hair. I only want the eyes and eyebrows.
My face has everything on the same material including the eyes si I duplicated the head material, set it to cutout and I put an alpha mask to only keep the eyes and eyebrows.
I use Poiyomi shader. In the stencil I put the Stencil Ref to 1, the Pass Op to Replace and the Compare to Always.
I duplicated the Hair material too, one is set to Opaque with the Render Queue having the same value as the duplicated head material + 1.
In the stencil I put the same Ref, Pass Op to Keep and Compare to NotEqual.
The other Hair material is set to TransClipping with the Render Queue + 2 this time.
and this time in Compare I set to Equal.
Then I can change the second Hair Material's opacity and that changes how well I can see the eyes through the hair.
Now that's where I get stuck. If I only put the duplicated head material into the Head Skinned Mesh Renderer, the effect works but there's only the eyes. Now when I add the first Head Material too, the effect isn't there anymore.
How can I make this work ?

[strong granite]

I’m trying to upload some avatar , but I can’t do much . The asset store has moved so if anybody can help me with this it would help a lot

[foggy tiger]

Still no dice

[gusty meteor]

What do you need the asset store for ?

[strong granite]

So one of my friends tried to help me and they said I need that to upload avatars and to make avatars

[gusty meteor]

You don't.
You need VRChat Creator Companion and Unity but it can install the right version for you

[strong granite]

OK, so I did that but when I try to click create my project, this is what I gave me

[foggy tiger]

Aight the wings randomly fixed themselves

We're chillin

[somber sequoia]

gotta love that

[foggy tiger]

After I spent an hour messing with physbone settigns while they were broken lol

Anyways tho it works now

[little plume]

quick fix for bike pose?

[somber sequoia]

pumkin's tools

[shadow agate]

it's not really that the eyebrows are being drawn over the hair but rather that the hair is just transparent enough at the ends for the eyebrows to be visible
create a transparency map for the hair and adjust it to taste

you shouldn't need to do literally anything that you just wrote

[gusty meteor]

Transparency would make the skin visible through the hair, and that's not what I want, the picture doesn't show that well but I only want the eyes and eyebrows to be visible through the hair. Yeah I know I'm not making things easy for myself aha

[shadow agate]

that's still effectively what's happening

if you look extra hard you can still see shades of skintone through the hair

it doesn't have to be almost totally transparent or something, to my knowledge that's how the majority of booth models do it

[somber osprey]

how do I hide this ball when I select the face?

idk where this ball is coming from. I assume Hai's Lightboxviewer

[shadow agate]

Lighting >> Scene (I think) Light Probe Visualization to Off

[somber osprey]

where do you find "Lighting" tab?

I can't find it

[zealous hornet]

hi is there anyone that could add an avatar to my account, I suck with stuff like that

[left gull]

asking that here isnt safe nor supported, someone could help with you uploading it yourself but if you really cant do it see if the model's creator offers uploads for their stuff

[zealous hornet]

fair

[devout fulcrum]

whys my specular not working in some maps

or like so dark you cant see it

[trim prism]

whats the best or easiest way to change the proportions of my avatars body? (aside from built in blendshapes) i just wanna make the body look a little different, my first thought was the sculpt tool in blender but idk if im skilled enough for that hehe. is there an easier method? (im using lumina from booth btw and also some random western style avatars too)

[polar dirge]

does anyone know the best way to add a robotic limb onto an existing avatar?'

[somber sequoia]

blender, delete the old limb, add the new, rig/weight paint updates if needed, export to unity

[polar dirge]

so i dont have unity nor do i know how to rig or weight

[somber sequoia]

you need Unity in order to work on avatars.

[polar dirge]

i meant blender&*

sorry its 7am havent slept

[somber sequoia]

You'll need to rig and weight paint if the new arm isn't already rigged or weight painted.

If if is, you'll still want to get it attached to the avatar's armature, and again, I'd do this in Blender.

[lone brook]

found out my feet and boots doesnt match, anything to fix this?

[somber sequoia]

re-model and/or re-weight paint in blender or similar

[violet maple]

Hi, I have a problem with my Unity. When I launch it, it asks me to put it in safe mode and it blocks uploading to quests. But one day I had a bug and it fixed it, so I just duplicated the project to make others. But yesterday I bought an avatar for $45 and it broke everything, so I can't upload it to quests and I'd like to fix that first because it's not the only problem I have. (PS: I'm not at my PC right now so I can only try in a few hours.)

[balmy barn]

whenever unity wants to go to safe mode, hit ignore then look at errors in console after, some script broke , need updating or just plain delete

some 'creators' like to bundle things they shouldnt do in their packages (shaders/other scripts you should get yourself) then you might end up having duplicates or just waay too old scripts

[violet maple]

Yeah, I see, but the person I bought the avatar from doesn't want to help, and their file already has corrupted stuff in it.

[lone brook]

the bust size for the base outfit (left) of this model is smaller than my other toggles (right). is there a way to shrink the bust size while keeping it normal for other toggles?

its a like wearing a bra yk?

[gaunt knoll]

You change the blend shapes on the toggle

[lunar valve]

MA shape changer is a blessing in disguise for stuff like this, you just apply it to the specific article of clothing you want the blendshape changed for

it'll go back to normal if you toggle that piece of clothing off

[lone brook]

i have no idea where to do that..
i see the blendshape for the base model but not for the toggle itself

[silent trellis]

Looking to partner up with avatar creators, as a skilled game dev, I have no up front experience working with vrchat avatars and would love a partnership with seasoned creators. I strongly believe it would be a fun experience and a quick "team" workflow for creators looking to upload.

[lunar valve]

click on the clothing in the hierarchy (in this case, the shirt), go to add component in the inspector, add MA shape changer and choose the blendshape you need from the base model and change it to "set" and set the blendshape value

[balmy gyro]

i managed to add idle pose in game but the thing is the legs are moving forward in idle pose idk what causes this

[junior void]

Perhaps auto step (located as tiny checkbox at the bottom ish of the avatar descriptor)

[balmy gyro]

let me try that real quick

[balmy gyro]

yep that was it! thank youuu

[tepid barn]

i require some help. an avatar im uploading is just 2.03 mg over the uncompressed limit. what could i do to lower the size. ive tried reducing texture sizes, i maxed out the materiel compression size (does nothing), please help

[teal laurel]

Are you trying to upload for pc or quest?

[tepid barn]

quest. pc part is done

[teal laurel]

Do you have Thry's performance tools installed?

[tepid barn]

what?

[teal laurel]

You can use it to calculate the size it takes up and see what takes ip the most

https://vpm.thry.dev

[tepid barn]

ive changed textures, removed unused assets, even did 12x12 material compression

[teal laurel]

After adding to the project, click on Thry at the top in the toolbar and look for VRAM calculator or whatever it is called, and drag your avatar knto it

[teal laurel]

Hmm even 12x12...

Well, we will see how big the mesh is and stuff like that

Maybe we can also pack some maps together to save upon size, but i first wanted to see what your avatat all has / uses

[tepid barn]

6x6 and 12x12 are the same

wellllll

[tawny jolt]

Can someone make me a custom avatar

[somber sequoia]

same answer I gave to your other question 🙂

[tawny jolt]

Do you create stuff

[somber sequoia]

yes

[tawny jolt]

Can we hop on a call so I can explain what I would like

[somber sequoia]

I directed you where to go for commissions, I didn't say I was taking them on right now.

[olive pelican]

kek

[pine valley]

Show us the errors you're seeing after entering Safe Mode.

This is probably caused by duplicate scripts.

[pine valley]

Try making and uploading a new avatar in the same project

(it can be literally anything -- just to see if you can upload)

If that fails, make a new project and try to upload from it

[quiet vector]

I've already tried all of that but nothing works

[pine valley]

including making a completely separate project?

this sounds like a networking issue (which wouldn't be a problem with a specific project)

i remember seeing an issue where Windows was configured to use a proxy

and this was messing up the SDK

[somber sequoia]

Solve what about this?

[pine valley]

last image

it's failing to upload

the ever-vague "Failed to upload file!" exception

[somber sequoia]

oh! sorry, missed that there were 3 images

[quiet vector]

Weird cause the day I got the model it worked but since the second day it didn't

[somber sequoia]

Note that it is extremely poor...

[quiet vector]

Although I seem to not have any problems to upload quest avatars as of two days ago

[tepid barn]

brain hurting right now

need to make a mesh smaller. dont know how, brain hurts

[balmy barn]

most of these not hard to fix in blender ,but im pretty sure thats one thats mostly added things onto in unity

[tepid barn]

mesh it self is 41megabytes

[balmy barn]

vertices / shapekeys bloat

[tepid barn]

i found them. but im also new to blender

[main fiber]

how to I make a particle emitter that doesnt immediately stop all particles and remove them when it gets turned off?

[timber wharf]

@main fiber animate emission section, not object itself

[main fiber]

like, an animation that turns the 'rate over time' up / on or off?

[tepid barn]

working on this darn avatar for over 12 hours total. im not giving up. no matter how much my brain hurts

[devout fulcrum]

is it just me or does something feel off about this avatar

[tepid barn]

where the head at?

[devout fulcrum]

besides that

[tepid barn]

is that a top hat

[devout fulcrum]

kettle helm

[peak chasm]

homie must know a lot of tea

ha ha ha ha

k ill stop

[devout fulcrum]

https://tenor.com/view/ishowspeed-meme-trying-not-to-laugh-laugh-homeless-gif-9458928528704746136

[peak chasm]

https://tenor.com/view/mischief-mode-activated-cat-mischievous-gif-11351606775962937038

[tepid barn]

tbh. the avatar im trying to import. its making me very. very mad

[devout fulcrum]

same here

[tepid barn]

the only problom is uncompressed file size

[peak chasm]

btw could i also get some help?

[tepid barn]

how so

[peak chasm]

for some reason i cant export the avatar vrm

id show a screenshot but i got logged out me acc

[stark vapor]

how do i fix the floor clipping?

[balmy barn]

Blender, your origin is below feet

[peak chasm]

im new to this stuff so idk

[tepid barn]

same

[peak chasm]

i got it

[balmy barn]

see orange dot in blender, origin , you want that just below feet ( ctrl+a > all tranforms or search using spacebar )

[quaint wind]

Ive never messed with vrcfury toggle system. Question; what type of toggle do I need to make for a hair toggle? Im trying to add it to a existing hair slider but I have no idea how..

[peak chasm]

help? my brain got fried learning both blender and unity then after 8 tries it wont convert

i did click the t pose

[somber sequoia]

I'd import the .vrm into blender, then export a .fbx from there.

[peak chasm]

thats the problem its not exporting at all

[somber sequoia]

what does that mean?

[peak chasm]

export button is greyd out

[tepid barn]

my brain is about pop. (just so you know, im importing an avatar called zetka, i did not make but and all credit goes to the creator) and the mesh itself is about 41megabytes

[somber sequoia]

if you mean in the above image, this isn't blender

[peak chasm]

oh i thought you were talkin to me mb, i thought you told me to export it to blender then go from there mb

[somber sequoia]

No, read what I said again, I never said to export from unity

exporting from unity is often a problem, I'd avoid trying it

[peak chasm]

oh the thing is i rigged the clothing into the bons via unity cuz.....i forgot why since i did this months back

also the outfit and charchter are diffrent assets )i didnt make em)

[peak chasm]

i think i had trouble in blender or smthin

[somber sequoia]

none of these are really blockers to putting it all into Blender.

[peak chasm]

i remember having troubles with blender

also the outfit is a custom fit, i got it and it didnt fit the avatar so i had to edit it (it was advetrised that it would ;-;)

do i just restart it?

[devout fulcrum]

this model gave me way too many bones to work with for my skirt thing, is there any way i can just connect either half of it to each leg

[subtle violet]

any tips on making Roblox avatars for vrc

[somber sequoia]

You'd be redoing the weight painting in that case, that's how mesh is "connected" to the armature.

[subtle violet]

I'm trying to make this

[devout fulcrum]

that sounds hard

[somber sequoia]

It can be sometimes

[modest glade]

I need help with like

less triangles

[devout fulcrum]

also how do i disable culling on my avatar when i put it into unity

[somber sequoia]

which culling?

[devout fulcrum]

idk what its called but when the backface or something part of a model isnt loaded

[somber sequoia]

Yeah - backface culling. That's a shader setting. note that it increases render time/expense.

[devout fulcrum]

meh

whys this chainmail texture displaying different on this skirt

[somber sequoia]

different or incorrect material

[devout fulcrum]

is same texture

[somber sequoia]

possibly the UV map is such that that section is not in the right place on the texture

[devout fulcrum]

how do i configure this

[somber sequoia]

You work with UV maps in Blender or similar, can't really do anything to them in Unity

[devout fulcrum]

thanks imma go look up tuts for blender

[timber wharf]

you can just tick/untick the whole emission module iirc

[main fiber]

got it, thank you

[distant nimbus]

when creating faces, one side is rounded (my goal), and the other side is square???

[somber sequoia]

Turn on the face orientation overlay, make sure the faces are facing the right way

[dark jay]

my particles dont show up in the mirror how do i fix it

[somber sequoia]

Use a shader that doesn't cull the backside - the default ones do

[dark jay]

does particles standard unlit do it

[somber sequoia]

look and see, it should have a clearly listed option

[dark jay]

what should i look at

[somber sequoia]

probably look for something labeled with the word "cull"

[dark jay]

i dont see it

[somber sequoia]

Correct

[dark jay]

so

change shaders? or

[somber sequoia]

#avatar-help message

[dark jay]

ok

[dark jay]

i used poiyomi now and mobile particles should that be ok

[somber sequoia]

I don't use Poiyomi for this so can't really say if it's good or bad.

[dark jay]

still doesnt work

[somber sequoia]

Did you disable backface culling in the new shader?

[dark jay]

yes

[somber sequoia]

no idea why then, that worked the last time I did it.

[tepid barn]

i hate meshes

[tepid barn]

im going insane

[nocturne finch]

Hey all, I'm pretty new to the avatar system on VRCC, and am having issues creating emotes using CuteDancer, where I can get my animations working just fine, but can't for the life of me get audio to run with it. any input for this would be incredibly helpful!

[tepid barn]

audio does not work on quest

[nocturne finch]

The default emotes included all have their audio work though? and I run pc based

[tepid barn]

no avatar audio works on quest. check quest-development

not there. hold on

[balmy barn]

enable audio on fx controller , playaudio handy for 1 audio source and multiple tracks trigger by parameter

[lost umbra]

Hey, I'm having issues with the T shirt not hiding despite the animation seemingly correct. Can you take a look? It should default to 6 (which I checked) for the hoodie. But some reason, no matter what I do, T shirt seems to auto turn on.

and Hoodie for comparison

One thing I found out or noticed is, when I removed the animation outright, the T shirt is still auto turning itself back on but I'm not seeing a vrc fury on this t shirt asset

this is the asset I'm trying to use btw

[round comet]

Ohhh

[tepid barn]

yea

[round comet]

This is for quest, I see

[tepid barn]

its called zetka

[round comet]

Whats your triangle count?

[lost umbra]

nvm, figured it out, the animation was still in the AllParts section since I was I forgot to remove it after making the animation

[tepid barn]

117453 triangles

[round comet]

Do you have vrcfury? Maybe try adding their blendshape optimzier component on the android version of the avatar

Or just dissolve some edges on the avatar in blender to reduce tris

[tepid barn]

i do have vrcfury. i have blender open.

i have spent i think over a day in total trying to upload this thing

[round comet]

I’d say try the blendshape optimizer component and if that doesnt reduce the size enough reduce tris count

Its helpful if you have a lot of blendshapes

[pine mantle]

so, i've had people look at the blender and unity file and they couldn't find any issues, however, when loading the avi in, the preview model is upside down and the actual avatar look mangled, been at this for the last 2 days, any ideas on what i may have missed or done wrong?

[somber sequoia]

did they look at the orientation of the avatar in blender? Bone roll for all humanoid bones? Export with default orientation settings?

[pine mantle]

oooh, not too sure, how would i go about fixing that? (soz if that sounds dumb)

[somber sequoia]

make sure it's standing on the origin and +Z goes up, edit armature and set the bone roll value to 0 for all humanoid bones, export with default settings except set "apply scalings" to "fbx all" and uncheck the option about leaf bones, I think it's under "armature"

[pine mantle]

ight, done that, i'll let you know the results

anything in the Unity import settings that need to be done beforehand?

[tepid barn]

nothing i do to reduce the triangles on this darn mesh works!

[somber sequoia]

what have you tried?

[round comet]

Was just gonna ask

[pine mantle]

he's still doing the funny upside down, im so confused

[somber sequoia]

definitely something else then

[tepid barn]

nvm. i got it too around 58k triangles

[queen gate]

Hello,
I'm new here

I looking for an someone who can help me with my 3d avatar for vtuber and TikTok live streaming with face tracking

If you can do it my dm is open pls

[young bear]

I am trying to make animations for the hands, but for some reason the proxy animations look different when i copy them then when they're just applied directly. Anyone got any advice for that?

[tepid barn]

@round comet ok. so how do i put the avatar part in

[round comet]

Huh?

How do you mean?

[round comet]

I’m a bit lost

[tepid barn]

That

[pine mantle]

would sending a pic of the skeleton be useful?

[devout fulcrum]

is it just me or does something not look right with this chainmaile

[tepid barn]

How do I give a mesh blendshapes. or merge meshes

[stray lintel]

so uh

[indigo compass]

Blender or any other kind of 3d modelling program.
(You can kind of merge meshes in blender using d4rk's avatar optimizer but it is mostly out of your control what it does)

[stray lintel]

I accidentally deleted physbones

how do i get them back

[stray lintel]

looks like cloth

[devout fulcrum]

huh

ok

what should i do

[stray lintel]

for context i saved the project after i deleted the physbone so control z isn't a option

[stray lintel]

maybe edit the shader

[devout fulcrum]

sure

[stray lintel]

make is have a shine

glitter on poi

do i have to reimport the model itself?

[lilac musk]

You deleted the physbone component or the object the component was on?

[stray lintel]

the object the component was on

i have a backup of all my edits to the avi, I lowkey might just reimport my model

if no solution ofc

[tepid barn]

When I wanted to upload this avatar. I didn't want it to take more than 1 day

[indigo compass]

The black bits between the chains should probably not exist, it should be transparent.

[somber sequoia]

I'm busy elsewhere right now, but probably others would find that helpful

[devout fulcrum]

yeah but the torso part of the chain isnt modeled

inside

[pine mantle]

that works for me, thanks

[stray lintel]

is there a solution or

not?

is it possible to uh

remake the physbones or would i just have to reimport

[pine mantle]

i know this skeleton should work as another PAC-MAN avi used similar (if not the same) skeleton, but i have no clue why he goes upside down

[indigo compass]

Do you have a normal texture for those chains and specular/glossy texture?
Normals would make the chains pop out from the dark, which looking online isn't that strange if it is fabric backed chains, and the specular would make it so it is only shiny where the chains actually are.

[devout fulcrum]

yeah

what does the number next to the normal map do

[indigo compass]

Sets the intensity

[indigo compass]

That is a unusual rig, so how does it look like inside the rig tab here (inside the configure humanoid place)

[pine mantle]

i'll send a few images just so you can get most of the details (if there's any other image you need, lemme know)

[wispy spear]

im curious, how does one make gun particles fire with a specific gesture? i tried looking at liindy's video on gun particles but its a little older and i only use vrcfury

[pliant zodiac]

i dont know if i ask this but here but is there a free alternative to the vrlabs ragdoll system?

[wispy spear]

i don't believe so

[pine mantle]

oh, forgot to send the hands too as they're also muddled up

[indigo compass]

Well all I can say from that is that is that it is a bit odd that the feet and head of pacman are facing opposite ways, so something is off.

Did you do any posing in blender and not apply it as rest pose?

[pine mantle]

not sure, i can check real quick

[pine mantle]

how would i set a rest pose, is it just Alt+R?

[indigo compass]

If it breaks then great, it might be part of the problem, but the only way to properly apply a rest pose is by first applying the armature modifier, but you can't do that on a mesh with shapekeys without some addon like SKkeeper (available as a Blender extension inside preferences).

Otherwise I would guess it has to do with the specific rotation of certain bones, or just that there isn't enough room for the bones, with the former all I can do is direct you to look at the rig of a working avatar.

[pine mantle]

ok, hands are still messed up, but feet are fixed

it's progress at least

i think the issue is that it places the ring and index fingers too close together

[indigo compass]

Should be fine assuming the rig is set to those end bones instead of that split bone

[pine mantle]

just tested it in vrc and he still looks like a scrambled mess lol, but Unity says it's all clear

[somber sequoia]

not a humanoid rig - see the pin in #avatar-rigging - you must have a chest bone to be humanoid

[pine mantle]

oooh, so if i change the type, it may work?

[somber sequoia]

no, changing the type won't matter if the rig is not correct

[tepid barn]

okay. whenever i export a new version of an avatar im trying to upload. the mesh doesnt have the blend shapes. what do i do?

[queen gate]

Hey guys still looking for an artist asap

[tepid barn]

i just need to get the mesh with blend shapes then im done. but i dont know how to do it. please, somebody tell/teach me

[pine mantle]

honestly i may just have to start over

[somber sequoia]

I don't think so

[somber sequoia]

exported from blender? Do you have an un-applied mesh modifier? If so it'll often force-apply it and remove all the blendshapes

[tepid barn]

i needed to decimate. what should i click

[somber sequoia]

don't use the decimate modifier, there's a decimate function in the Mesh menu when in edit mode

or you can try something like to apply the modifier: https://github.com/przemir/ApplyModifierForObjectWithShapeKeys

[tepid barn]

okay. sorry if this sounds stupid but how do i enter edit mode

[somber sequoia]

basic blender tutorial time

[rancid cloak]

I’m not sure if this is the right channel but someone in the unity server said to come here, it’s my first time making an avatar from scratch and I’m not sure what this stuff means

[somber sequoia]

(select a mesh object, then in the upper left, it says "object mode" - make it "edit mode")

[somber sequoia]

#avatar-rigging - you have the wrong bone in the spine slot, it must be a child of the bone in the "hip" slot and parent of the bone in the "chest" slot

[tepid barn]

did it

[rancid cloak]

Thank you for the right channel, so I have to have the same bone in both slots?

[somber sequoia]

that is not at all what I said to do, no

[rancid cloak]

Sorry I’m really confused

[somber sequoia]

the spine hierarchy should be: hip -> spine -> chest -> neck -> head

see the ideal rig diagram pinned in #avatar-rigging

[rancid cloak]

Ohhh thank you

[tepid barn]

im in edit mode

[rancid cloak]

What do I put my head as if my neck goes to head?

[somber sequoia]

I don't understand what you're asking

[rancid cloak]

Should we talk in avatar rigging

[somber sequoia]

sure

[tepid barn]

@somber sequoia whenever i use the decimate. it never changes the amount

[somber sequoia]

I refer you to the blender documentation - I'm just offering suggestions here.
possibly you didn't select any mesh to decimate? It only works on selected parts

[tepid barn]

ok. so i did do it. but instead im now using the add-on. how do i use it

[somber sequoia]

the blender documentation does an ok job of explaining 🙂

[tepid barn]

ok

[pulsar condor]

Okay, I'm trying to port a blender model into unity to make it an avatar- but when i do so- the object associated with the head comes out like this-

how... how do i make the head work right

[somber sequoia]

what head?

what do you define as "right" for those of us who've never seen this avatar before

[pulsar condor]

this head-

this part should look like this

[somber sequoia]

aha. interesting

active blendshape maybe?

non-uniform scale of your mesh objects?

(why do you have that many mesh objects...)

[pulsar condor]

noticed

that all of the blendshapes

are 100

so its

probably blendshapes

okay yeahh

[somber sequoia]

yeah set those to 0 🙂

[pulsar condor]

when i take all the blend shaeps to 0

the head looks normal

[somber sequoia]

great

[tepid barn]

okay. it can be uploaded. now the only thing is its toggles, and that its stuck in t-pose and face first in the ground

[somber sequoia]

stuck in t-pose suggests a rigging problem

[tepid barn]

Like that. And that's how it loads in

[gaunt knoll]

He's just sad

[pulsar condor]

judging by some of the blendshapes- i'd assume that the other assets should be in a hierarchy with the Tailsko asset?

[somber sequoia]

I have no idea what your project looks like

[pulsar condor]

here it is in blender with all the textures hooked up

[tepid barn]

okay. so in being able to upload it. it for some reason dont have bones

do i need to have rigify on

[somber sequoia]

rigify is just a tool to do some rigging setup. use it if you want

[tepid barn]

Missing the bones

[prisma monolith]

i have expression toggles on my avatar, but how do i make it so that one toggle activates the ability to use hand gestures to make those expressions?
cuz now I have it set up in a sub menu called "Faces" with all the respective names of the expressions? i used vrcfury for the setup i have now

[pulsar condor]

okay i nearly fixed it!

[grave belfry]

whenever I add a toggle on an avi, then go to gesture manager and toggle it. the toggle has no texture. Why?

[devout fulcrum]

which way do i move my viewport to avoid seeing my avatar when i look down like this (pic of my viewport if that helps)

[indigo compass]

You would need to move the viewpoint outwards.
The reason for the hole you are seeing btw is because VRChat by default shrinks the head to 0 scale, which I guess makes a hole on your avatar.

[devout fulcrum]

:)

[lone brook]

was playing a horror game, and found out the lighting was uhh.. yeah.
how do i fix this again?

[pulsar condor]

realized the model didn't have eyebones- now im trying to figure out if this... would even work 😭

[naive apex]

hey, not sure if there's anything i can do to fix this, but i figured i would ask

so theres this avatar i bought off the marketplace, and it seems like the viewpoint (where my "camera"/"virtual eyes" are located) is too far forward from the avatar's eyes
imagine if instead of looking out your eyeballs, you were looking out a point around 4 or 5 inches in front of your eyes, if that makes any sense

im trying to figure out if there is anything i can do to fix this, or if i need to ask the author to fix the avatar

not sure if this helps, but the viewpoint is correctly positioned in desktop mode
its just when i use the avatar in VR mode that the viewpoint is out in front

if you need any additional info, let me know

[tawny bluff]

Why is the back hair going back like that?

What it’s supposed to look like

(The cap does nothing I already tested it)

[somber osprey]

how do I upload the model as a New avatar instead of updating the current Avi?

[lapis prism]

can some one can make me smg4 avatar?

[ornate stump]

You shouldn't be asking same question in multiple channel, especially when someone had answered you.

[median cove]

How do i set my fallback avatar?

[violet maple]

I have a question. I tried to upload a quest version of one of my avatars and there were no problems, but on VRChat the avatar was grey and I couldn't use it. How do I fix this problem?And what is this due to?

[queen gate]

Can we discuss better in my dm

[ornate stump]

Don't trust any new account, especially the one that joined in just today.

[fierce thunder]

How does one create player / pickup / interactive Wallhacks? I tried reverse engineering ike hud, but it still doesn't work

[tender halo]

Anyone know or can explain why a free avatar i was using got removed from vrchat?

[fierce thunder]

Simply making a camera that renders those things, and the making it a toggle doesn't seem to work

[fierce thunder]

copyright or nsfw

or the maker just took it down

[tender halo]

Ah oki..

[fierce thunder]

How does one create player / pickup / interactive Wallhacks? I tried reverse engineering ike hud, but it still doesn't work
Simply making a camera that renders those things, and the making it a toggle doesn't seem to work

[inland stump]

im trying to figure out how to fix an issue with objects attached to my avatar but outside of the rig. they seem to shake a lot due to something with vrc's ik and im not sure how to fix it.

[ornate stump]

It used to be particle collision, but vrchat seems to had patched it.

[fierce thunder]

Making a camera and then making it so it only renders players seems to work for ikehud. But for some reason it doesn't work for me

I know the component is disabled, don't worry I'm not that dumb

But these are my settings

[ornate stump]

What does it do instead of just saying it doesn't work?

[fierce thunder]

It does nothing

I toggle it on, and nothing happens

[ornate stump]

What do you display it on though?

[fierce thunder]

Display it on? I don't know what you mean

[ornate stump]

You put camera to render on render texture. And where did you display that texture?

[fierce thunder]

Ah I see

You need to display that camera on a texture

I don't know how to do that lol

[ornate stump]

Just use that texture on some material and put that material on some mesh.

[fierce thunder]

So put this texture on a material and mesh?

[ornate stump]

That is for outputing texture.

[fierce thunder]

I have no clue what other texture you mean then

[ornate stump]

You already have the texture as you assigned in that slot. Then you have to use that texture and input it into some material.

[fierce thunder]

I see

Let me try it out real quick

[somber osprey]

help. how do I upload Avatars as its own Avi?

it keeps overriding the existing avi

[ornate stump]

Look in the PipelineManager component and detach blueprint ID.

[somber osprey]

and now what?

Upload it again?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[fierce thunder]

Does the material need to be a specific material?

[ornate stump]

Any material that you're going to use on some mesh on the avatar to display texture.

[fierce thunder]

This is suppose to display the camera's pov now right?

[ornate stump]

Usually yes.

[fierce thunder]

Eh, I'll figure it out

Thanks for you help tho I appreciate it

[ornate stump]

I still have a doubt about your camera and texture settings though. Is it supposed to be depth only?

[fierce thunder]

I have no clue what it does really, I just copied the same settings from Ikehud

[ornate stump]

It won't help much if you don't know how it works fundamentally.

[fierce thunder]

I'll do some research

[ornate stump]

If the camera is only outputting depth, you might have to use some specific shader that handles depth texture rendering. The system you're trying to replicate seems to be more than just a simple camera display.

[fierce thunder]

I see

I know what it is then

Figured it out

[fierce thunder]

This helped a lot

TYSM

Now I just need to tweak it

[fierce thunder]

How would I change what shader it renders to?

[ornate stump]

Change shader in matarial.

[pine mantle]

was that in response to me? (just wanted to be sure)

[queen gate]

Thanks I didn't notice

Pls is there any artist that can pls help me

[ornate stump]

?tag scam

[flat musk]

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

You will probably receive DM's or friend requests from scammers now (or later) that will try to offer you their services. 😖

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This is unsafe practice used by scammers, and also breaks this Discord's rules. 👮

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

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

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

[ornate stump]

Read the bot message.

[barren chasm]

anyone got any ideas why i removed like 8 things from my avatar for the file size to jump

file size was 520 mbs ( 20 above the limit) i removed a bunch of clothing and it turned into 800 mbs

[rigid magnet]

Hello, I need help with my vrchat model. I never used Unity and need some advice.

I already installed the vrcfury and liltoon addons for creator companion. The model is also more or less ready (I think). I just need some specific advice. Please.

[ornate stump]

If you need specific advice, you will have to be more specific about the question or explain the problem you're trying to solve.

[rigid magnet]

The textures are not loaded correctly, I dont know how to upload the model to use in vrchat and I have an addon that I cant figure out.

[somber sequoia]

probably

[ornate stump]

What did it display as, if not correctly? Explaining what it's doing helps to find what problem it currently have.

[rigid magnet]

This is the first error

the second one

[somber sequoia]

click "auto fix"

[ornate stump]

You shouldn't get those 2 images simultaneously. So it's just one problem after another.

[rigid magnet]

fixed that

[ornate stump]

There is no error left?

[barren chasm]

anyone got any idea why making textures lower, removing like over 10 items isnt dropping the size of the uncompressed / compressed at all

[rigid magnet]

These errors are still here

[ornate stump]

There is no error.

[barren chasm]

im still at over 700 and ive gone through and lowered small things to 32 res, clothing to 1000-500 res. body is the ONLY 4k texture and i removed like 10 different things on the avatar and instead of the file going down the file was at 520 mbs it went upto 780 mbs

[ornate stump]

The error icon is "warning" which shouldn't stop avatar from uploading. The below red icons are performance report which is just saying your avatar is bad for performance, which also is not error.

[ornate stump]

You should inspect the package build size. Use VRC World Toolkits to do so.

[barren chasm]

ive done both

thrys vram, and build size viewer

[ornate stump]

Do you see what's taking up the size?

[barren chasm]

somehow the avatar jumped when i removed and deleted stuff... it went from 520 mbs to 780 mbs

[rigid magnet]

ok, and how do I use the Avatar in vrchat?

[barren chasm]

somehow textures that are 2k were randomly out of nowhere taking up 20 mbs :l one did

i lowered it AGAIN but i have no idea how these textures were 1.3 mbs or 0.7899 kbs somehow now are jumping upto 5 mbps

the jump from 520 mbps to 780 after removing a bunch of clothing and stuff and optimizing textures is insane to me

ive lowered EVERYTHING on the avatar T-T

[ornate stump]

Did you click Build&Publish?

[rigid magnet]

yes