avatar-help

[somber sequoia]

but I tend to make toe physbones only react to touch, not movement or gravity.

[teal laurel]

Don't ask how i found it out lol

[somber sequoia]

hehe

[teal laurel]

(No, it wasn't sps)

[somber sequoia]

(I wasn't gonna ask)

[teal laurel]

x3

Paws 🥺🥺

Aaanyways

[pine valley]

(to explain why: if the humanoid animation system controls your jaw, it'll wind up in a neutral, half-open position)

the built in locomotion animations do not close the jaw correctly

unmapping the jaw also makes it easier to animate yourself, since you can use a generic animation in your FX layer

[lunar barn]

Does anyone know a quick way of creating Visemes in blender for a custom head model? I did it before with some other headmodel I had but compleately forgot how to.

[unborn thistle]

how do i assign chest

[somber sequoia]

Drag the right bone into the slot. You seem to have chest in hips, that is probably not right, but the names don't technically matter.

[pine valley]

There may not be a spine bone at all here

[somber sequoia]

the hierarchy should be, in order, hips -> spine -> chest -> upper chest (optional) -> neck -> head

[unborn thistle]

i'm so confused

[somber sequoia]

by what?

[unborn thistle]

what is the right bone

or where

[somber sequoia]

we haven't seen your armature so can't really tell you exactly

[unborn thistle]

what's an armature

by the way there isn't neck nor head

i can't find it

[pine valley]

screenshot the entire Hierarchy window

[somber sequoia]

then this isn't a humanoid avatar

[unborn thistle]

oh damn it

[pine valley]

this will show us what bones your model actually has

[unborn thistle]

huh

what's a hierarchy

i mean

where

is it

[somber sequoia]

in Unity it's the tree view usually on the left

[unborn thistle]

i see it

[pine valley]

Okay, that's going to be fine

[somber sequoia]

spine0 = spine, spine1 = chest, chest = upper chest

if I'm reading that right.

[pine valley]

yep; drag those objects into the slots on the right

You also might wind up just skipping Spine1 entirely

[unborn thistle]

what slot

[somber sequoia]

the ones in this image: #avatar-help message

[pine valley]

stop and think for a minute about what we're doing here

the problem is that unity doesn't know what bone is the chest bone

therefore, you need to assign the bones!

[unborn thistle]

oh ok

i still have no clue on what i'm supposed to do

[somber sequoia]

Fen just told you

[unborn thistle]

how do i assign the bone

bones

[somber sequoia]

drag it into the slot

[unborn thistle]

what bone do i drag into which slot

[somber sequoia]

... we just told you this.

[pine valley]

please read the messages we are sending you

[unborn thistle]

i don't know what that's supposed to mean

[unborn thistle]

sorry

[somber sequoia]

left side is the name of your bone, right side is the slot name

[pine valley]

Spine0 goes in the Spine slot
Spine1 goes in the Chest slot
Chest goes in the Upper Chest slot

[unborn thistle]

like this?

[pine valley]

any time you see a field like this, you can drag objects (e.g. from the Hierarchy) into it

yep!

that's correct

hit Done and it should be happy now

[unborn thistle]

thank you

where's done

[somber sequoia]

assuming there are no red slots there

[unborn thistle]

nope

where's done tho

[pine valley]

bottom right of the inspector

[unborn thistle]

oh

new problem

[somber sequoia]

That's a warning, it's usually not a big problem

[unborn thistle]

oh ok

by the way

uh

gimme a sec

do i have to put a texture

onto uh asset

[somber sequoia]

if you want a texture

[unborn thistle]

or does texture put itself

[somber sequoia]

not many things put themselves here 🙂

[unborn thistle]

how do i put texture

i downloaded an asset

like

the one

which

i was having problems with

[somber sequoia]

I suggest basic setup tutorials, such as this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSwMz4WcajQ

[unborn thistle]

new problem

it doesn't have an unity package

but it does come with textures

it has a folder

named textures

[sleek pebble]

You need a unity package

Wait is it a regular asset or a vrc asset

[unborn thistle]

what's the difference

[sleek pebble]

Because if it’s just a regular asset it’s only an fbx and it doesn’t have an armature

[unborn thistle]

i got it from marketplace (it was free)

fbx

i'm pretty sure it's fbx

[sleek pebble]

Yeah so you’d need to rig it in blender

[unborn thistle]

oh my days

is there a tutorial on how?

to do it?

[sleek pebble]

And the fbx file type comes with materials embedded, you just need to drag in the texture images into the project to make them work

[sleek pebble]

Yeah there’s plenty

[unborn thistle]

wait what

i don't understand

what does that mean

[sleek pebble]

FBX is a file type, and materials are inside the file

However the textures for the materials are separate

[proud timber]

Ok so

I have a question i believe i know the answer to

531 mb is bad for an avatar... isnt it...

[sleek pebble]

The sdk will compress that amount to like 300-400mb

[proud timber]

Well the problem is im not done 😭

[sleek pebble]

The max you can usually go for uncompressed is like 680mb (don’t ask me how I know)

[proud timber]

Ive barely finished the head 💀

[sleek pebble]

💀💀

[sleek pebble]

Are you making a Milsim avatar or something

[proud timber]

Nope 😭

Its just got a really detailed skull that i need to optimize

[sleek pebble]

You can try lowering the texture res

[proud timber]

There is no textures yet idk how 😭

[sleek pebble]

Oh…

Wait are you in blender

[proud timber]

Indeed

[sleek pebble]

If so you don’t need to worry because the fbx type is memory efficient

[proud timber]

I need some help texturing 😭

[sleek pebble]

When you export to fbx it’ll cut down the size by a lot

[sleek pebble]

You should probably join the blender server then

[proud timber]

Im sorry idk abt that 😭

Do you have an inv?

[sleek pebble]

I can’t send links here but it’s a public server so you’ll find it easy

[unborn thistle]

hey uh igna

how do i put the asset from unity to blender and how do i put the asset from blender to unity after i'm done texturing

[proud timber]

I found it!! Ty!!

[sleek pebble]

Just use the fbx you downloaded

[unborn thistle]

i've never used blende

blender

how do i import stuff into blender

[sleek pebble]

Then you need to learn the ropes

[unborn thistle]

i was about to type hell no

but you're right

[sleek pebble]

The same way you do with any other creative program, File > Import

[unborn thistle]

uh

[sleek pebble]

There’s an fbx plugin for exporting as fbx I’m pretty sure

[unborn thistle]

oh i see it now

[sleek pebble]

It’s gonna be stressful at first, you might get a few headaches too, but it’s a fun skill to learn

[unborn thistle]

it doesn't let me open the file

*import

nvm i figured it out

[somber sequoia]

You don't need a plugin for the fbx format for modern blender

[unborn thistle]

what

[steep herald]

W mods

[odd inlet]

didnt know where else to ask, but does anyone know where to find free avatars besides booth?? i dont wanna go to vrcmods or vrmodels since i know they have ripped models 😭

[somber sequoia]

jinxxy, gumroad

[odd inlet]

thank you!!

[sterile radish]

Heya. I gave it a go. I can get it to do the walk animation. But not the idle. So it's just constantly walking. Any ideas?

[sleek pebble]

oh alright, im on 4.0 and im pretty sure i needed to get it

[somber sequoia]

shouldn't have, it was there in 3.something

[sleek pebble]

really? i wonder if i got it without needing to then💀

[somber sequoia]

I didn't do much work with 2.x so I don't really remember those

[odd inlet]

can someone help 😭

[somber sequoia]

that second error is a problem, your armature isn't setup properly

same answer as this: #avatar-help message

[odd inlet]

i dont see any errors, did i do this right?

[somber sequoia]

Click in the head section - Humanoid avatars need neck and head bones

[odd inlet]

thank you!!

[simple dove]

Bonjour, je rencontre un problème avec un avatar que j'essaie de rendre Android compatible, mais je n'arrive pas avec les shaders. J'ai essayer déjà énormément de test, si vous auriez une solution pour m'aider, sa serait grave gentil et je vous serzit reconnaissant. Voici un rendu en jeu qui est parail que sur unity o-o

[uneven whale]

I'm using Gogo Loco via Modular Avatar and I noticed that some poses aren't resetting when I re-enter the game and are starting to break. The Vrcfury version works fine, but I need to install the MA version. Is there a way to reset the poses? I was told to go to the Debug tab, but it doesn't work in the mobile version. This happens with absolutely all avatars that have GGL from the MA version 😭

[somber sequoia]

Je ne parle pas très bien le français, donc ceci est une traduction, mais il semblerait que vos ressources soient endommagées d'une manière ou d'une autre ; il faudrait les examiner dans Unity pour en être sûr. Il s'agit peut-être d'un shader défectueux, ou bien de fichiers de texture manquants.

(I'm sure that's quite awful)

[simple dove]

Les shaders sont des poiyomi, et en essayant de les rendres Android Compatible, il s'affiche correctement dans Unity, mais lors du test, il devient rose ...

[somber sequoia]

oui, Poiyomi ne fonctionne pas sous Android

Hard to suggest without seeing your setup, sorry.

er, C'est difficile de faire une suggestion sans connaître la configuration 🙂

(that one I could almost do without translating)

[simple dove]

En les remplacent par des shaders de VRChat Mobile, cela change rien

Can you wait 1min ? pls

[somber sequoia]

oui, il faudra peut-être effectuer d'autres réglages, et pas seulement remplacer

[simple dove]

Je n'ai plus la version afficher sur la photo que j'ai partagé ( j'ai essayer et je viens de casser plusieurs trucs, donc j'ai perdu plusieurs petites configs, mais le problème ne change pas)

[somber sequoia]

"None" is of course a problem

[proud timber]

@sleek pebble again thank you SOMUCH for the blender server, got in touch with a couple skilled people and i went from my avatar just having a head to a full body, your the bomb twin 🫂

[sleek pebble]

its no problem at all

[proud timber]

i also got ahold of some texturing software, thats next on my learning list 😭

[simple dove]

The problem is that I've already looked into why it's happening, but I don't understand why it's not showing up on the Android version when I compile it.

[proud timber]

it could have to do with mobile processing power? to be honest im not very mobile educated

[simple dove]

The Android version is usually the same one used for Quests and phones. The tests are run on my PC's performance, so my phone's performance shouldn't be very important.

[pine valley]

VRChat only permits a specific set of shaders for Android avatars.

You cannot use any other shaders.

[simple dove]

I know o-o

But it's the shader of VRChat Mobile is bug

[pine valley]

Show the inspector for the material

(like this)

[hard hatch]

Okay so if I add to the mesh of an avatar that already has a UV map set up for it, how would I edit the UV map to make the added part of the mesh also be added to the overall UV map itself?

Because I did that, but cannot texture the added part since it has no tile on the UV map of the mesh

[pine valley]

This would be done in Blender (presumably, also, where you've been modifying the mesh itself)

[simple dove]

Of those, only Color Eyes works

[hard hatch]

Yeah I'm more so wondering how I would do that inside of blender

[pine valley]

You probably have an animation that is changing the materials.

(and those materials are using invalid shaders)

[pine valley]

switch to the UV Editing workspace up top. You'll probably see something like this: overlapping UV islands

[simple dove]

Ah, what you're saying isn't impossible, because I'm not 100% sure, but I have the impression that sometimes it works for just 1ms before turning pink. I'll look into it, but I don't know where that might be managed.

[pine valley]

this is the cube and monkey objects joined together

[pine valley]

That's definitely an animation then

Your avatar appears for a moment before animations start playing

[pine valley]

if I wanted to put them all into one UV map, I'd need to rearrange these UVs to fit into the square

It might be easier to just use two different UV maps.

although, you'd need a shader that can handle that

I believe Poiyomi Toon could be used to sample colors from two different textures, for example

[tepid dagger]

Hello i don't know if this is the correct channel im new to vrchat i was using this anime girl it was avatar given to me when i started but when i was using it earlier i suddenly changed to something else and the old avatar was not in the recently used is this normal?

[somber sequoia]

did you upload this, or is this someone else's avatar you are just using?

[tepid dagger]

I dont know when i started it was my default

[somber sequoia]

Did you use the Unity Editor to upload this avatar yourself?

[tepid dagger]

No

[somber sequoia]

Then you have no control over the avatar, the owner can change it however they want

[tepid dagger]

All i remember was my first started my vr chat account it was already there

I see the author probably privated it or something

[hard hatch]

yeah I know how to get to the things on blender, I'm just unsure how or if I can add to the UV map without having to remake it completely

[pine valley]

That map is very densely packed. There isn’t really any room to snag something in

What are you adding?

[hard hatch]

I just want to add the little fin on the head

[spark walrus]

My friends has an avatar that says

“assetbundle has not been set for the build”

[somber sequoia]

See the first pin on how to share error messages, not much we can tell you from just that.

[mental fulcrum]

Not really an avatar question but im not sure where else to ask, how do people display their pc specs like that?

[somber sequoia]

what, in the chat box? Please don't.

[mental fulcrum]

Why not?

Does it cause lag

[somber sequoia]

it's annoying, and nobody cares

[ornate stump]

It's unnecessary and obstructive.

[tall saddle]

Anyone know how to fix this issue? Had it a few times before and was able to fix it once but I don't remember how

[pine valley]

How do the bones look in Blender?

I think this is happening because you don't have end bones, and because the final finger bone points in a notably different direction than the other bones

[tall saddle]

It does have end bones I even applied them and there was no change. hands also look fine in blender

[pine valley]

can you turn off the custom models for the bones?

i'm not sure if there's a good way to do that other than removing them individually

i'd like to see them with the Octahedral display mode

[tall saddle]

yeah

one sec

[somber sequoia]

pose mode, select bones, reset transforms?

[pine valley]

also, if you tried turning on end bones, you may need to reset your pose in the humanoid avatar configuration screen

Blender is unique in having "heads" and "tails" for its bones

the FBX format only has the heads

therefore, the last bone in the chain doesn't have a meaningful direction -- it's just a point

Unity deals with this by extruding the last bone outwards a bit

...although, actually, that would produce less wrong behavior

[pine valley]

the issue here is that the final bone in the chain got rotated so that it's pointing straight ahead

("Enforce T-Pose" might have done that)

[pine valley]

now I'm not sure what actually winds up happening, haha

[tall saddle]

Alrighty. I'll screenshot this thread and try fixing it when I'm a bit more awake, thank you

[pine valley]

This would be good to check too

if that causes the fingers to warp, then you just need to fix the rest position of the bones

you'd rotate them in edit mode to point in a more sensible direction

(the actual direction a bone appears to point doesn't really matter -- you only care about how you've rotated relative to the rest pose)

[grave belfry]

SO, I'm getting into avi creation. and I added a few toggles. They work fine. But on quest, they have no texture. Why?

[ornate stump]

What is it displayed as?

[simple dove]

Thank you, I was able to solve the problem thanks to you, thank you so much

[cunning swift]

How do I have an animation go through a certain part of a texture

[round comet]

How do you mean

[cunning swift]

Can I dm you?

[mental fulcrum]

I got an avatar, but the gesture menu is all in Japanese - how do I go about changing it to English?

[round comet]

My dms aren’t open at the moment, but I’m chill answering here as long as you’re comfortable with it

[jagged stone]

two questions, if i uploaded an avatar 2 years ago and got rrid of the download file but not the unity file can i still open it and update it without it ruining the avatar? and secondly where can i buy accessories like spring joints

[cunning swift]

Like the pants on this avi is what I mean

[round comet]

You’d need some sort of texture mask. Black being the parts you don’t want and white being the parts you do — Looks sorta like a pulsing emission then a metallic mask to make the design look shiny too

[cunning swift]

Alr I’ll see what I can do

[round comet]

Poiyomi is super versatile, so I’d recommend that

[cunning swift]

Yeah that’s what’s I got

[cunning swift]

Thank you

[round comet]

No probs. I hope it works out

[rustic bolt]

someone help idk how to fix this in unity im trying to upload a private avatar download

[sudden grove]

Uh I’m trying to like make a Pete kowalski avatar on vrchat!, mostly cause they already have Jimmy and Gary, but I lowkey have no clue what to do in unity or vrchat CC, I know I need those two, but the model isn’t going into the thing

Idk if I’m doing this stuff right or not, but im struggling a bunch😭🙏

[wheat horizon]

found out its the vrchat animations themself for some reason

[frigid glade]

Is the file for the model in an fbx format??

[sudden grove]

I Don’t really know, I don’t make avatars at all!, I don’t think I got the right model

I followed a YouTube tutorial and it’s just the model which isn’t working well

[frigid glade]

Is this a model you made yourself or did you download it from somewhere??

[sudden grove]

I uh downloaded it

From some where yeah

I clicked on the very first website and I downloaded them there

[prisma sedge]

What was the website?

[grizzled rose]

Im really wanting to get an eyelook working for this guy,,,, however his eyes arent really standard. How would yall go about it? His eyes are seperate meshes kinda outside of the head.

Thing is, i HAVE seen avis that have an eyelook with this kind of style, though, i have no clue how they did it

[sudden grove]

Agh! I can’t remember but it looked kinda childish in a way so I probably just got the wrong website

[vestal mist]

Does anyone know any cheap avatar commissions.
It needs to be 10-35$ & I need it PC+Q.

Lmk if anyone can refer me to someone or anything of the sort!☺️👍💙

[balmy barn]

you can make eyelook on anything, just use fake eyebones that tell mesh/texture to shift when it hits a contact /use float values inside one , this one just shifts texture abit whenever the fake eyebone hit a contact

[lilac musk]

Careful, you're going to get all kinds of scammers DM'ing you. They are a major issue with this topic. I'd recommend you head to VRCTraders discord and look how to commission someone there. You can find a link in #1204490664637890580 to their server.

[vestal mist]

I got banned from there so thats why im asking here.

Dw. I know the risks lol.

[lilac musk]

Huh. Good luck.

[vestal mist]

Thank you.💙

[wheat horizon]

have a weird issue with vrchat's proxy animations specifically where in play mode it does this, vrchat and animations like gogo and syncdances seem to work fine but its only when it stands (have tried without gogo as well and it still does it) my bone rolls have been reset as well but still having this issue specifically only in unity

[grizzled rose]

thank ya!!

[naive bough]

Quick question for you guys.. Is it possible to upload two of the same exact versions of an pc avatar, except for the quest side is different on each?

[zenith spade]

Is there something that can automatically weight paint low poly avatars? I just tried weight painting for the first time and failed hard. I followed three different tutorials to try and figure it out. I think that where I got mixed up. My avatar was all red and didn’t bind to the bones at all.

[somber sequoia]

sure

[naive bough]

Would I need to make two separate projects? Or can I use the same one?

[somber sequoia]

most of the automatic tools I've seen kinda suck. RobustWeightTransfer is great but that's for transfer, not doing it from scratch

[somber sequoia]

nah, one project can have many avatars. I use one per base model generally

[naive bough]

I see i see! Thank you!

[zenith spade]

Ok.

[cunning swift]

Got this when trying to add materials, how do I fix this?

[somber sequoia]

I'd delete that _Poiyomi folder in Assets and install it the modern way via VCC/Alcom

ah that's really old locked shaders too

[hot vector]

can someone help me out?

[somber sequoia]

with what? It tells you what to do.

for further details, the poiyomi docs on locking: https://www.poiyomi.com/general/locking

[hot vector]

i right clicked on the textures inside the materials and selected animated when locked but it still appears inside the yellow box

i'm not sure what im doing wrong

[somber sequoia]

I don't use that Fury component so I can't help with that specifically.

[sharp osprey]

ill put it here since it's the "help" chat. my bad.

so I'd like to make the glow of an object scroll vertically. I know that's probably easy to do, but I can't figure out how to do it for this one specific thing. I want to do it with Toon Standard so it'll be cross platform.

it's like a megaman buster, and the glow of it moves slowly up from the "barrel" and towards where one would insert their hand or forearm to use it

can this be done with Toon Standard? I know there's a hue shift feature, but I'm trying to mask the emission map to only affect the white parts of the texture. im not sure if color ramp is the correct term here but that's what im thinking of

[west magnet]

does anyone know how to disable this popping up every time i switch avatars? normally it only happens with test avatars but now its happening with every avatar, its annoying

[prisma frigate]

i ignore it honestly. i dont even think you can turn that off-

[prisma monolith]

how do i fix my arms

im gonna send the rig in blender in a few seconds

[burnt nova]

uh t-pose? and or a-pose i would try that

[prisma monolith]

in blender?

is there a way i can get it to automatically tpose kinda like the enforce t pose in unity or no

[grave belfry]

Huh?

Im too new to avi stuff-

[ornate stump]

Literally just what you're seeing it as.

[grave belfry]

What part of it displayed as what?

[ornate stump]

You have to show the actual problem you're seeing.

[grave belfry]

whenever Im in game, playing vrchat on quest. the wings and gun has no texture. but on pc it does. dont really have my vr with me to play test again

[ornate stump]

You have to take screenshot of the actual problem. Because saying just "it doesn't do the thing" doesn't help to understand the problem. You have to see what it's currently doing.

"It has no texture" but it also has like 99 possible things that's currently doing.

[ornate stump]

And what does it do if you switch build target to android?

[grave belfry]

let me check

[ornate stump]

Saying it's showing as flat magenta color would be more accurate. That's "missing shader".

[grave belfry]

ok. then how do I get it to where there is no missing shader?

[ornate stump]

Did you switch build target to Android as I asked before?

[grave belfry]

yeah

[ornate stump]

Does the sdk say something is using unsupported shader?

[grave belfry]

yeahhh. unfortunately

[ornate stump]

That's the reason.

[grave belfry]

is there an easy was to optimize it?

[ornate stump]

Optimization is irrelevant to your current problem.

[grave belfry]

how would I make the shader supported? if thats possible?

[ornate stump]

You just change shader in the material.

[grave belfry]

this might sound stupid. how would one do that?

[ornate stump]

You're missing a lot. So better watch this first https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRAnDMUbWt8

[vapid cosmos]

Really strange issue. So I'm trying to import blendshapes from blender. They're all set up correctly, I don't have any modifiers on them other than the armature modifier. However, the only time they woke if the Normlas are set to 'Calculated' and I'm genuinely at a loss lol

[ornate stump]

Normals and Blendshape normals options shouldn't affect the blendshape import. It's more likely because blendshape didn't get exported into fbx file to begin with.

[vapid cosmos]

I fixed it! It was a blender thing, I had to mess with the export settings

[zealous pine]

So I'm trying to put shoes on my avatar but they are a unique shape which do not fit my avatar, so I want to make a toggle to make the lower legs not showing because the shoes are tall but everytime I tried to import a mesh with a blendshape from blender, the mesh just turned tiny and sideways, then I tried to make a vrcfurry scale toggle with the lower leg bones but that didn't work either and I even tried making an animation but it also didn't work. Please help I've been at this for hours

I just want to make it so my legs don't show but my shoes do

[junior void]

How about hiding it with alpha texture?

[zealous pine]

Well I only want to hide the legs and not the rest of the body so wouldn't that affect the entire body

[ornate stump]

That's exactly what the alpha cutout is for.

[zealous pine]

Mfw I completely forget cutouts existed

[restive chasm]

Hi I have a question since I have no idea how to fix this
I have uploaded a avi for quest and he seemed to work just fine in unity
everything worked and all particles were fine
all animations worked perfectly fine
but when I tested it in vrchat it just broke
the animations started to behave different than in unity
particles just don't work
toggles are suddenly broken
nothing works the way it does unity
I dunno what to do and how to fix it :c

[ornate stump]

We need more information than just something is broken. You might have to take screenshot of what the avatar is doing in game as well.

[livid seal]

My avatar's shoulders droop in VR when using the model on the right and don't droop when using the model on the left. Is it just because of the shoulder bones? I can't check for myself now. Haven't touched Blender or Unity in four years.

[restive chasm]

alright so a particle that suppose to shoot out of a cannon does not do anything when I activate it
the shield which need to spin till the next stage just rapidly spins and doesn't go to the next stage
the sword just spawns and despawns over and over when I toggle it
some toggles just don't do anything

I tested it in unity and it all just works there

[ornate stump]

You said animations, are the animation just for the toggles or animation for locomotion as well?

[restive chasm]

toggle animations

[ornate stump]

How did you test in unity?

[restive chasm]

with the gesture manager

[ornate stump]

When testing in game, open Debug menu for avatar and see how your animator layers are working and transitioning. Menu is in the radial menu > Options > Avatar > Debug.

[restive chasm]

alright lemme try

it says in the debug settings that it does what it suppose to do
but it doesn't

[ornate stump]

Do you see the states and parameters are changing correctly?

[restive chasm]

yup

[ornate stump]

Your sword for example, is it just a toggle game object or some effect that spawn things like you said?

[restive chasm]

when I toggle the right sword the animation is suppose to make the sword slide out of my arm armor
then when it is toggled and I would do fist it explodes
then when I toggle it off it suppose to slide in my arm armor again
now when I toggle it it will slide out of the arm armor
but then right away slide back in the arm armor and keeps repeating that without me even using the toggle

[ornate stump]

How did you setup the layer for animations? Preferably screenshot it.

[restive chasm]

this? 😮
it's the same as the left sword and the left sword just works

[ornate stump]

Does the sdk complain about using mixed write defaults state?

[restive chasm]

mixed write defaults state?

[ornate stump]

It's literally written "uses a mixture of write defaults" as a warning in the sdk if you're doing it.

[restive chasm]

no it has nothing to complain about that 😮

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot the debug menu in game?

[restive chasm]

o_o uh

[restive chasm]

I found the issue with the sword ._.

I feel so silly
I had Rightsword/True to spawn
and Leftsword/False to despawn...

😅

[ornate stump]

Ok. Assuming other problems are also from silly mistakes like this too.

[restive chasm]

I had 245 particles systems for quest ^^"
It only showed 200 cuz of the max amount ^^"
A friend told me

[ornate stump]

That's very excessive.

[restive chasm]

I got now 199 :3

Everything works now!
Thanks for the help 😄

[sudden grove]

Is uh model spriter a good place to get models

Or an other place cause I got an other model from voice model

[knotty river]

@potent scarab see: #avatar-help message

[mental fulcrum]

If ive imported a bunch of stuff onto an avatar but accidentally broke something, is there an easy way to reset it..?

[ornate stump]

Depends what you meant by breaking it.

[mental fulcrum]

Im trying to import an animation addon but in doing so broke some of the base animations

[ornate stump]

"Import" might not even be the correct word to describe what you did. Import usually mean putting files and assets into the project asset list.

[mental fulcrum]

That is what I did at first, then realised that did nothing so move the files into the avi's animation folder, which broke some animations

[mental fulcrum]

Ok i did fix it, but i lost all the translations i made 🫩

[drowsy crane]

cant upload avatar due to this

[balmy barn]

generic error, look for others

[balmy gyro]

so my issue is the hand is lookin alright in blender and in unity scene, but when i get in play mod something happens like this, and gestures are broken cuz of this i think.. idk what causes this

[azure glacier]

hey hey i have question

i bought a avi that PC QUEST

but when i went to upload it its 2 avis how do i make it one

[balmy gyro]

fixed.. i had to go into avatar conifiguration lol

[stiff kiln]

I need help with a shader for my avatar.

I need to have a mask in front of the camera, so that it doesn't render its own screen (otherwise it blocks the view of the camera). But for some reason, the screen is fully black. I tried using the ZWrite Off line, but when I do the screen is now masked no matter if its in front or behind the mask (which means that my screen become useless whenever I look down).

Does anyone know how to fix this?

[pine valley]

You could modify the shader that displays the screen so that it doesn't render in the camera

You can check for its resolution and FOV

[stiff kiln]

I dont really know how to do that.

[pine valley]

lemme grab an example; i happened to have done this last week :p

[stiff kiln]

Alright

Honestly, im starting to feel exhausted. I've been trying to solve this exact issue for a week now, and no matter how hard I looked online, I couldn't find anything. Heck, just to make the Stencil do what I wanted to do, I had to modify a youtube tutorial that was doing the exact opposite of what I wanted to do. (Aka, not rendering the screen when its behind the mask).

[pine valley]

float t = unity_CameraProjection._m11;
const float Rad2Deg = 180 / UNITY_PI;
float fov = atan(1.0f / t ) * 2.0 * Rad2Deg;

bool fov_match = abs(fov - _CameraFOV) < 0.03;
bool size_match = all(_ScreenParams.xy == _TextureSize);

if (fov_match && size_match)
{
    o.vertex = float4(0, 0, -2, 1);
    return o;
}

I did this in the vertex stage

_CameraFOV and _TextureSize are float properties; you could just hardcode them here

although, this was designed to only render the shader in a camera

just gotta negate it

adjusted

[stiff kiln]

I... dont really get where im supposed to put that. Im pretty new to unity shaders, and so far I just knew how to put stencils in a custom unlit shader .w.

[pine valley]

This will go into the vertex stage. You should see a function named "vert" or something like that

you can also look for this line:

#pragma vertex FUNCTION_NAME_HERE

this defines which function is the vertex stage

[pine valley]

You can put it at the very end.

right before it returns

This moves the mesh behind the camera, so that it doesn't wind up displaying on-screen

[stiff kiln]

Vertex stage... you mean this thing that was put by default when I created the shader?

[pine valley]

Yep, that's the vertex stage

insert that code before line 51

You can replace _CameraFOV and _TextureSize with the FOV of the camera and the resolution of the render texture

If the render texture isn't square, you'll need to adjust a bit

you'd do this for a 1920x1080 texture:

bool size_match = all(_ScreenParams.xy == float2(1920, 1080);

[stiff kiln]

I wasn't sure if I had to erase the old stuff or keep it.

[pine valley]

you needed to insert it before the return o; line

all of the existing code should be kept

you can fix this by moving line 49 -- return o; -- to the end of the function

[stiff kiln]

Aaaah... ok.

One last thing.

[stiff kiln]

You said I'll need to put the camera FOV, but my camera's FOV changes using an animation. It goes from 30 to 90.

[pine valley]

You can just get rid of that condition, then.

The idea is to be as specific as possible about which camera to hide from

but just filtering on resolution is probably fine

to do that, remove fov_match && from the if statement

[stiff kiln]

So... in theory, this should do the work and hide the screen without the need for a seperate mask?

[pine valley]

Yes -- it'll cause the screen shader to hide itself when it's rendered at a resolution of exactly 2560x1440

so it would fail to appear if you were playing on desktop at that resolution, notably

VR headsets tend to have weird resolutions, so that probably won't happen

[stiff kiln]

Oh...

So, if I play on VR, the screen will still appear to the camera?

[pine valley]

No

I mean that the screen will fail to appear at all if you're running the game at 2560x1440

[stiff kiln]

Oh

[pine valley]

When rendering to a render texture, _ScreenParams.xy is the size of the RT

[stiff kiln]

Ah... I was a bit worried for a sec.
Ngl, thats a lot of work just to make a plane not render to a camera component. (I would have used layers to make it easier, if VRChat didn't override them in the client -w-')

Uh...

I think its not working .w.

[pine valley]

_CameraFOV is not defined, so you're getting a compile error

you can get rid of the fov_match line

[stiff kiln]

Seems to have fixed it. Now I just hope this will work in game...

Seems to work, the screen is not in the way! :D

Plus, this also fixes my issue with the mask moving toward the camera when I shrink my avatar's size.
Thank you so much! ^w^

[pine valley]

nice (:

covering it up with a stencil was always going to be annoying

in fact, i wrote this code to help someone who was ALSO trying to cover up something with a stencil, haha

[west current]

So hold on will that avatar be public? My friend will be so happy

[clever fern]

If I get this working then most likely yes because of my 2 friends lmao

But I doubt I can release it because I still haven't found the issue

It's just
Yes if I fix it
No if it keeps persisting (and I'll give up on avatar making)

Cause I cannot possibly find why IS MY DAMN AVATAR IN THE FLOOR???

[ruby granite]

im still learning blender so I have no idea what im doing wrong...

I've tried searching online how to fix the blocky eyebrows and nothing seems to work
I wanted to have a greyscale skin tone but it seems I've also done something wrong there too

can someone please tell me what im doing wrong and how to fix this?

[clever fern]

Check the material tab for the skin tone but the eyebrows idk

[ruby granite]

I have an eyebrows material but im unsure what texture to use and where to put it in the eyebrows material

[clever fern]

To make your skintone

Dude I hate discord

Uhh

Basically I think the skin is using the png texture as it's material

Which is why it looks like that

Just make a new material in the material tab and color it grey

That's it

[ruby granite]

huh? but then i wont have details at all and it will just be grey lol

[pine valley]

the second image looks like a bad normal map to me

Tangent-space normal maps depend on how each UV island is oriented

that causes the sudden changes in color: the surface winds up pointing in some bogus direction (and the direction is inconsistent between islands)

what did you actually do?

note that Blender materials will not transfer over to Unity at all

so you shouldn't be trying to set all of this up in Blender

[ruby granite]

I just took the body and head texture into photoshop and just tweaked the hue and vibrance

[ruby granite]

yeaah I just kinda wanted to see it fully in blender so I can get an idea of what it would look like before i carry on

[civic cliff]

some stuff is just straight up invisible and i dont know why, im guessing it has to do with the shaders but im not sure what in the shaders is doing this, the avi came like that so its not something i did either

ik it says nsfw btw and ik thats against TOS but im tryna make it SFW and the most covering clothes are invisible so first things first

it seems like it works in gesture manager but not in the scene

[pine valley]

i'm not sure what you mean by this

[civic cliff]

if i use gesture manager to toggle the invisible clothing on and off, i can see it, otherwise i cant, honestly atp im just gonna upload it and see if i can just use it via toggle instead since this is mainly an april fools thing anyway

[pine valley]

so after entering play mode, the clothing is invisible

but then you:

• turn the clothing OFF
• turn the clothing back ON

and now it's visible?

[civic cliff]

no, before entering play mode its invisible, after entering play mode, its off by default, then i turn it on, and its visible

[neat cedar]

I need help, I have an avatar that I bought on a trusted website, that is made for all platforms, but the guy who helped me only added it to PC, but it also needs to be accessible on Quest and Mobile

[wintry echo]

Convert the shaders

[neat cedar]

That’s it❔

[wintry echo]

Assuming it is "made for all platforms" p much

[neat cedar]

How do I convert the shaders

[wintry echo]

Click the material then select "toon standard" do this for every material on the avi

[neat cedar]

On The VRCHAT website?

[wintry echo]

You need unity

If you want add actual compatibility

If you dont have unity then id recommend hearing back from em. Or get a friend to upload it

[wheat herald]

Hai I am having a issue(?) with my direct blend tree setup with multiple bools, I don't know if it's working how it's intended to or I missed something!

each animations are 40 keyframes (0.4 seconds long) and when I go to toggle each bool the animations to the emoticons decreases speed each time I am not sure by how much, I've tried looking for a fix and a bit of troubleshooting, no luck :^P

I've provided a video of if it helps

Thanks for any help!

[proud vessel]

hey I'm wondering if anyone could help me, I'm trying to make a handpuppet attach to an armture in unity but it's just flinging everywhere and attaching backwards etc, im not sure if im doing something wrong? do i have to make a rig by hand on blender to force it to be handpuppet? i've tried armature link but it always attaches backwards instead of how its positioned in unity, but if i don't do an armature link just flings around like a yoyo with a major offset on the hand

[radiant jetty]

vcc isn't letting me import the VRChat Package Resolver 😭

it's struggling to connect to any remote repositories rn

couldn't add one from github

it's failing to show any of the community repositories i added in the settings, it's stuck loading

oh it's loading now yay

[mystic sentinel]

Does anyone know how to do this with the unity of now?
https://youtu.be/cYnJX7WZajk?si=jNDIIKIJtQTp1AqF

[heavy zephyr]

Yes this is pretty easy. I would advise looking up how to make simple toggles for 3.0. Then you just want to toggle an object with an audio source set to "Play on Awake"

[young tangle]

helppppp. unity keeps saying build failed and i dont know what to do

someone helpppppp

[heavy zephyr]

Look at the console for errors

[young tangle]

console after trying to upload

[heavy zephyr]

Your avatar has missing scripts, either delete the object mentioned or import the necessary files

[young tangle]

rogerrrrr

yayyyyyyy

thank uuuu

[lament ledge]

are these normal symbol wise for an animation in imported into unity? 😭
every time I've tried using the animation I made in blender from a fbx it includes the whole T-pose into the animation instead of just the animation I made🫠

for context I made a middle finger animation that I was planning to add on a gesture but the whole adding a t-pose issue is messing with it 😭

[lament ledge]

Oo ok I’ll check this out in the morning
Hopefully this works 🥹🙏
Thx a bunch for the help 🏃‍♂️

[naive raptor]

Very new to avatar editing and unity as a whole. Im trying to make buttons that toggle different color presets for my avatar, but the buttons dont seem to be loading at all. Ive been able to make toggles just fine with the bool parameter, but I cant seem to get buttons to work at all with the int parameter. Im a newbie so I dont have a whole lot of knowledge about this stuff

[naive raptor]

gotcha, ill reach out if I cant figure this out, thanks

[lilac musk]

Careful. That persons interaction with you screams suspicious. Scammers are all over discord and really like to prey on people looking for avatar help. People wanting to DM are usually doing it to keep it private so they don't get called out/banned.

As for your initial problem. I personally haven't seen expression wheels not load like that, but it seems like a bug. Might want to try to upload in a new project.

[naive raptor]

ok, thank you, ill try that out tomorrow, its too late now for me to want to struggle with this anymore right now

[lilac musk]

I just was talking to someone in another discord running into strange behaviors with expression menus. There might be a bug in VRC right now

[radiant tree]

Does anyone have any good IK rigged Mannequins? Something like this?

[balmy barn]

you can grab the mixamo one , blue one exist too

just log in on mixamo , find it 'download'

[radiant tree]

Ah, not what i'm Necesarrily lookkin' for, but thank you for showing an option.

[exotic slate]

anyone know how to fix these error

[ornate stump]

Did you assign viseme in avatar descriptor?

[exotic slate]

viseme ?

[ornate stump]

If you take a look in avatar descriptor first it will be obvious.

[exotic slate]

can i delete it

[ornate stump]

Delete what?

[exotic slate]

the viseme

[ornate stump]

It isn't "Delete". It's rather that you have to set lipsync to None if you aren't going to use it.

[exotic slate]

what ? so you saying the package i am using is not a avatar package ?

[ornate stump]

Are you actually looking at avatar descriptor component right now?

[exotic slate]

yeh but i dont know what is it

[ornate stump]

It's literally called "Lip Sync" section in avatar descriptor.

[exotic slate]

so i have to turn that off ?

[ornate stump]

Do you need lip sync? If not then just set lipsync to none.

[exotic slate]

i dont know where it at

[ornate stump]

Screenshot where you're looking at now.

[exotic slate]

so it in the project ?

[ornate stump]

I clearly mentioned Avatar Descriptor Component so it's in your project.

[exotic slate]

oh

sorry i got no experience

well umm

[ornate stump]

It's going to be strange if you had never once seen avatar descriptor.

[exotic slate]

well i though avatar descriptor mean in the unity editing

[ornate stump]

What even is "unity editing"?

[exotic slate]

oh i mean creator companies

[ornate stump]

Unity Editor and Creator Companion are 2 completely different apps and should be not called them the same.

[exotic slate]

oh i am so sorry

i am so stupid

so umm but i still dont know what like project package related to lip sync

because i only have poi shader and vrcfury on

[ornate stump]

It isn't a package. It's a settings in Avatar Descriptor Component.

[exotic slate]

the avatar that i download and try to upload, the author didnt like make a specific description so

you mean this ?

[ornate stump]

No.

[ornate stump]

I have said it isn't a package. It's a component in unity, literally written VRC Avatar Descriptor.

[exotic slate]

oh so

how do i know

where

is it

i just dont know where it sitting at

[ornate stump]

It's a component in your avatar object.

[ornate stump]

As I have said it's a component, component lives on a object, so you have to select object and see component list in the Inspector panel.

[exotic slate]

ohh is this it ?

[ornate stump]

See all what I have mentioned? VRC Avatar Descriptor. LipSync

[exotic slate]

so

i just turn it in default?

[exotic slate]

haha thank you

[ornate stump]

Set mode to None or default whatever it at the top.

[exotic slate]

hey but what does like lip sync do though ?

[ornate stump]

Literally as the name said.

[exotic slate]

ohh so it like for when you talking and the lip move with and when the voice come through ?

[ornate stump]

Of course.

[exotic slate]

i dont wanna turn that off though

is there another solution

[ornate stump]

It's already written in the first error.

[exotic slate]

ohhhh so it overlap because the avatar itself already have the lip sync

[ornate stump]

How do you know it already has lipsync?

[exotic slate]

i just assume..?

so i was wrong ?

[ornate stump]

There is nothing to verify what you're assuming is true.

[exotic slate]

oh...sorry

[vapid hedge]

so im using rigify to rig my model still learning does the line line means its coneccted?

[ornate stump]

And I don't know whether your avatar already has custom lipsync in another place or not.

[exotic slate]

YES! it work

thank you so muuch irumi

you a savior

[ornate stump]

Dashed line mean parent-child relation. Connected is a different thing.

[vapid hedge]

oh

dang

ok ty

uh idk what to do now

when i try to do the parent thing it did not work

nvm i was in edit mode lol

[exotic slate]

hey sorry to bother you again

[ornate stump]

If you have a new question then you should not ping.

[exotic slate]

i am terribly sorry

i didnt mean to do that

[ornate stump]

Just type out the question so everyone can reply to you.

[exotic slate]

so umm do you know what does this related this too ?

is just that you are the only person here

so i dont know who else am i suppose to ask so

[ornate stump]

Missing Scripts means you haven't imported all the required packages yet.

[ornate stump]

It isn't like I will always be here. Typing out the question and wait for people to come across and answer you is the way of asking on discord.

[exotic slate]

well the author doesnt write any like specific description of what package should not missing and should be there so

[ornate stump]

Then it will be guess works. The common requires script usually is VRCFury and Modular Avatar.

Apart from that, you will have to ask the author.

[exotic slate]

ah i see

thank you

after i equipped one of the modular avatar it appear this

[ornate stump]

Read it.

[exotic slate]

i did

i dont like the sound it been added to my avatar root

should i just skip ?

[ornate stump]

The answer is written in the dialog.

[exotic slate]

i just pressx

sob

[ornate stump]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DAFS8sga2k

[sand thorn]

Hi everyone, I need a help to upload my avatar, when I upload my avatar they keep fail me, they said ‘loaded data for avatar we do not own, cleaning blueprint ID’. But I checked all of item and all item ID is empty and I watch the YouTube some one said make a prefab I also did that, but still failed. Does anyone can help me?

[ornate stump]

You have to see other error that came before Avatar Validation Failed.

[sand thorn]

how can i find it

[ornate stump]

Is there only 3 errors in total? You see the counting number at the top-right of the console.
Then screenshot the detail for Avatar validation failed and Failed to build avatar.

[sand thorn]

yes just 3

[ornate stump]

What is the detail of validation failed and failed to build?

[sand thorn]

1：[lilToon] PostprocessBuild
2：blueprint ID
3：Nullreference Exception

I check my blueprint ID its empty

[ornate stump]

Detail is from when you click on the error item in the list.

[ornate stump]

It's pointless to type out the error. You will likely miss some word. You instead have to take screenshot.

[sand thorn]

ok, I read these error first

[wispy horizon]

New avatar creator here. Is anyone familiar with this issue? I’ve adjusted the roll, and it looks correct in Unity viewport but the problem still persists

[ornate stump]

Unity viewport doesn't show bone so you won't be able to know actual bone angle. You have to check bone in blender and make sure that Hips bone and Upper Leg bones are totally pointing to opposite direction.

[wispy horizon]

I had the hips pointing straight up and the thighs pointing straight down but it still gives me the warning

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot to confirm?

[pine valley]

i'm pretty sure that this tilted bone is your hip bone, given that your spine bone is connected to it

[ornate stump]

Which one is hip bone? If it's the tilted one, clearly it isn't 180 degrees from the leg bones.

[wispy horizon]

the tilted one is the base of the spine. The hip is the connected one slightly behind it

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot from differnt angle?

[wispy horizon]

I straightened things out a little. went from 167.5 before to 170.5 now.

[ornate stump]

Base of the spine is the hip bone in rigging definition. As you can see it isn't exactly 180 degrees.

[balmy barn]

what are these

hip seem way too far down

[wispy horizon]

Oh I see. They're pelvis bones. I started from a meta rig. I'll remove them and try again

It's been solved with the removal and some proportion fixing! Thank you @ornate stump @balmy barn so much!

[stable oracle]

is this the place where i ask for help for my avatar?

[lilac musk]

Yes

[stable oracle]

im having trouble for switching my avatar to quest

[lilac musk]

Can you be more specific?

[stable oracle]

can i send a image?

[lilac musk]

Yea you can just paste them in here

[stable oracle]

the shader broke it

[lilac musk]

What shader broke what?

[stable oracle]

matcat

or something like that

but when i switch it to standered it works again

[steep herald]

For quest, when you swap to android, you'll be using mobile shaders.

[lilac musk]

Standard lite not work?

[stable oracle]

whats standard lite

?

[stable oracle]

that breaks it too

[steep herald]

What exactly is breaking?

[stable oracle]

the texture only works on standered

the uvs explode

[ornate stump]

Do you actually mean cutout, not matcap?

[stable oracle]

does this help at all?

[ornate stump]

No. You should screenshot how it supposed to look like.

[lilac musk]

We are still trying to understand what your problem is

[steep herald]

I'm only seeing a lighting difference with those pictures provided, no issues yet

[stable oracle]

this

is what happens when i switch the shader

[steep herald]

Oh.. the alpha / hair covering face?

[stable oracle]

thats the second layer

im using my minecraft skin

[steep herald]

Is that the issue though?

[stable oracle]

maybe?

[ornate stump]

That's what I said by "Cutout". There is no shader that support Cutout for quest.

[stable oracle]

oh

what can i use instead?

[ornate stump]

Nothing.

[stable oracle]

so my avatar just wont work

on quest

[ornate stump]

It may work but it requires different approach.

[stable oracle]

like what?

[balmy barn]

blender probably need to remove things thats infront of the texture thats ment to be showing

[ornate stump]

Use blender to edit the mesh by using knife tool to cut it to shape.

[steep herald]

That's a common problem for questies, they usually manually cutout whatever needs cutting in blender.

[stable oracle]

i dont exactly know how to do that

[steep herald]

Well, if you're lucky someone can walk you through it, YouTube is the greatest alternative teacher though. Trust me when I say you're not the first - https://www.reddit.com/r/VRchat/comments/1ltxja6/how_can_i_achieve_the_equivalent_of_cutout/

[balmy barn]

miiight be easy cant tell unless its in blender, could just be a bunch of squares you need to seperate/delete

[stable oracle]

ive tried youtube but it never works

ive been doing this for 2 weeks and its not working

[balmy barn]

10+ years and im still learning

[stable oracle]

lol

[steep herald]

The cube still gets me

[balmy barn]

always different ways to do the same thing

[stable oracle]

damn it

blender why

[ornate stump]

If you keep repeating the same steps, it isn't going to work. You better have to get to understand what and why it doesn't work.

[balmy barn]

thats very very high poly for cubes

[ornate stump]

Probably for animation rig.

[stable oracle]

welp im screwed

[ornate stump]

No.

[stable oracle]

wdym

[ornate stump]

If you think you're screwd because of the polygon count, then the answer is No.

[steep herald]

It's not difficult. Itll just be annoying, will have to cut the outer square in this exact hair shape all around. Same shape as the bangs etc

[stable oracle]

but then the second layer is gone

[steep herald]

Just the bottom part of the layer, not the top

[balmy barn]

triangles to quad and its probably just painted to each square , cant see a reason they wouldnt - so removing it shouldnt be hard

[steep herald]

Like an actual hair cut

[stable oracle]

idk how to do any of that

i might just take the model from the game at this point

lol

[steep herald]

I'd probably stick with just cutting imo. Your options are, find someone to walk you through it, make a request. YouTube, Google or Hire someone, or maybe have AI tell ya, but AI is often a liar 50/50.

[stable oracle]

damn it

[ornate stump]

Next question would be are you going to learn it?

[stable oracle]

probably

[ornate stump]

It also has the exact same problem.

[stable oracle]

but at this point itll take me years

for a bunch of squares

[ornate stump]

Just google "blender knife tool" watch some video and knife something easy first.

[stable oracle]

ive done that

ive done all of the tutorials

none of them are useful

[ornate stump]

Then what is your exact problem with the knife tool?

[stable oracle]

the avatar is just always gonna break

idk how to use it in the way of the videos

[steep herald]

There's also the blender documentation: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/2.81/modeling/meshes/editing/subdividing/knife.html

[stable oracle]

at this point the model is gonna be broken

[ornate stump]

What do you mean break? There are multiple reason why the model break, depend on how it actually broke.

[stable oracle]

the shader broke it

only the shader

the model works fine on standered but quest doesnt use it for some damn reason

[steep herald]

The shader didn't break it, the mobile version just doesn't have a cutout option

So you need to pivot your methods for android

[ornate stump]

That's your initial problem, we suggested you to use knife tool to solve it. It should not revert back to your original problem.

[stable oracle]

yea ik but its already taken so long

just to fix it

at this point it might just be not worth it

to make it

work

[steep herald]

I've spent over 1000 hours over 2 years constantly working on and modifying a single avatar alone. For a lot of people it's not worth, which is why VRCTraders exists

[ornate stump]

Learn from mistake. Learning what doesn't work to narrow down other method that actually might work.

[stable oracle]

I’ve done everything I can. All the tutorials are useless, and whenever I try to make it work, it just breaks in a different way.

[ornate stump]

You have to actually learn why it broke it as well.

[stable oracle]

i tried

ive installed like 100 plugins at this point

and it all breaks the damn texture

[ornate stump]

We don't even know what you did wrong so we can't actaully guide or give suggestion to you. You have to actually try it one more time, and let us know how it break so we and suggest what you actually have to do.

[stable oracle]

i would share my screen but well i cant

[ornate stump]

I wouldn't be sitting here and watch you do it either. Just proceed until you get stuck.

[stable oracle]

yea i wasnt saying it like that

I was just saying something infuriating.

[balmy barn]

hair could just be a bunch of quads like this

[stable oracle]

youve given me a idea

thank you

[balmy barn]

havnt used blockbench much but you can make a rudementary one there not too hard , need some blender knowledge tho

'hat layer' is used for hair i guess , they have a template for you to just draw on

[vague cedar]

I've graduated from sculpting custom clothes to fit on my base model and its all thanks to most of the admins here, that i ever opened blender in the first place. im now feeling confident enough to get to the part where i make those clothes move with my avatar's body parts with no clipping; allegedly weight painting. if anyone has any advice what or how i should do please let me know. you dont have to be detailed much i can research so long as im informed

[zenith escarp]

This is what I did for my minecraft avatar

[pearl swan]

Hello! Is there a way to convert an asset, that still uses parent constraints, to VRCFury for easier setup/install?

[balmy barn]

vrchat sdk should do it (auto fix)

[pine valley]

Sort of

You'd add new empty objects and have your constraints target them

and then you'd use Armature Link components on those new objects to attach them to the avatar

[pine valley]

you're thinking of VRC constraints vs. the built-in Unity constraints; this is asking about making the prop installable with VRCFury

[balmy barn]

there is any difference ? (i dont use vrcfury for stuff)

props just using constraints or dropped into gameobject/bones

[pine valley]

VRCFury lets you attach props to humanoid bones without any manual configuration

[azure glacier]

can i get some help uploading a pc quest avi my android sdk isnt showing up

[livid seal]

Hi, so my avatar's shoulders are now too stiff. Is this fixable?
When I test my arm length by T-posing, the length is fine, but when I put my arms down, they come up too short, because the shoulders barely move.

[pearl swan]

Where would I put those new objects?

[pine valley]

You would add them to the prop. It'll look a bit like this:

• Prop
  • Head Target <-- uses an Armature Link to follow your head
  • Head Follower <-- point its Parent Constraint at the Head Target

obviously, you could go a step further and get rid of the parent constraint entirely

but you might have a more complex setup (e.g. the constraint follows many different objects)

[pearl swan]

Hmm

[proven quail]

Use additive and multiply on top of one another. You will get an alpha blend effect for quest.

Vrchat > mobile > particles > additive and vrchat > mobile > particles > multiply

[finite python]

does anyone know how to fully work VRCEmoteManager?

[proven quail]

You can add another material slot on the hair (if it is it's own mesh) or duplicate the hair mesh in blender.

[hexed summit]

heyy i got sum issue with my avatar textures pc/vs quest everything is ok with the pc version as long as i dont use gesture manager, the preview is ok on vr chat, but whenever i use gesture manager the textures juste get to the quest ones , same when im ingame

i re uploaded multiple time the pc one to windows

:c

[proven quail]

Do you have any material swaps that could be activating? You need to change the animations to use the PC materials or change the materials in the animation to be pc

[hexed summit]

ohh lemme check

actually that may be the issue but i dont really get how to find the materials that are used in the animations

lemme search a bit

[proven quail]

In gesture manager in play mode, check the material on the meshes. You can click on them in the material list on the mesh and it will open the location in assets

[hexed summit]

tysm

actually they are all poiyomi

[proven quail]

So the poiyomi material is looking like quest?

[hexed summit]

yup

only in play mode

but also i think it comes from the anims like u said

[proven quail]

Yeah maybe some animations changing the poi settings

[hexed summit]

yess thats it

excatly

but

how do i fix it then ? i just remove the changes ?

[proven quail]

I don't know what it would do to make it quest looking but you can look in the poiyomi shader and see what things are set to animated (will have a green A next to the setting)

Since poi locks on upload, the animations can only touch those settings that are marked as animated. That narrows down that the problem might be

[proven quail]

So that's just blendshapes, those aren't effecting the material.

[hexed summit]

arghh

[proven quail]

Wait, is the problem blush box?

[hexed summit]

yea i think so

[proven quail]

Like quest blush box?

[hexed summit]

it looks like a quest one even when im out of play mode

but the material has poi

[proven quail]

Ohh, your poi mat might be set to opaque instead of transparent or cutout

[hexed summit]

sooo

[hexed summit]

lemme show u screenshots

[proven quail]

Because blush usually uses transparency, and if your poi mat is set to opaque it will look like a quest blush box issue.

[hexed summit]

it will be more helpfull ig

[proven quail]

Yeah screenshots will help

[hexed summit]

1 outside play mode
2 inside play mode once gesture is enabled

dont ask why the booba so big im looking for the setting to lower them 💔

[proven quail]

Ok, it's possible the PC material isn't having proper transparency on the blush. Or it could be something else. When you do the gesture, does the material change? (Even if they are both poi you might need to edit the changed mat to match the changes you did on the one in editor)

[hexed summit]

yep

[proven quail]

Ok, so edit the material it changes to to match the material you have it in editor

Maybe it's a texture, or decal, whatever you did to the mat to make it have the details

[hexed summit]

actually i think it even just, put the quest version

because

look

the rope

or whateva is this

the black lines

the model isnt here anymore when i open gesture manager

lemme check

nevermind

that is probably my fault

ok ok

[proven quail]

Could be a toggle, like the lines could come back when you toggle something on.

[hexed summit]

yes it was a toogle

so at least i know its not a quest problem

[proven quail]

So maybe you can look in the FX or anything you added with vrcfury or anything else and see if you can find the animation swapping the material.

You could remove that animation or see if it's supposed to be a toggle or something

[hexed summit]

hmmm

[proven quail]

That's normal

[ornate stump]

That actually mean the animation is controlling that renderer material.

[hexed summit]

thank

[proven quail]

Ahh

[hexed summit]

i tried fixing the materials in play mode it doesn change anything tho

i removed all anims to try

oop

still the same

[jade aspen]

i got my model from my 3d aritist, she said she cant work on it any longer so i have to add stuff myself now i want. but when i try to open it in vrchat unity this error comes. any ideas?

[hexed summit]

i found it

no way

im gonna go crazy

tyy

the problem was

i had a toogle on a deleted texture that was on

true

so

yeah

tysm

[young vigil]

Anybody know what I'm doing wrong with these radial wheels?

They're supposed to change to a different material and then cycle through different decals that just go on top, but for some reason it only cycles through the decals

[ornate stump]

You probably mixed up the parameters.

[young vigil]

Nope I've triple checked that

[ornate stump]

In both the radial puppet control and in animator controller?

[young vigil]

Yep

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot to confirm correctness?

[crimson canyon]

Sorry for coming in mid situation, I’ve imported an edited model (I edited a dress onto her) into unity from blender as fbx, yet I can’t change the materials at all, and everything is grey

Idk what to do

[ornate stump]

It sounds more like you can't change shader because materials are embedded. You have to create new material and replace it in renderer in unity.

[balmy barn]

where is your weight ?, you dont want to do a bunch of radials like that it reaally dont like it

[young vigil]

I wanted to do 1 radial wheel but it made it so you had to be SUPER precise with selecting whatever Decal you want

[ornate stump]

Did you actually switched out material instead of animating material properties?

[young vigil]

The first animation in the Radial wheel is a material swap, then the rest after that are decal swaps on that material

[balmy barn]

you can set it so it detect int , just ive noticed a bunch of issus with shapekeys kinda hard to explain but id recommend doing it like this

[ornate stump]

It's just switching out material in the same slot so that's conflicting with each other.

[ornate stump]

Remember that you can't switch texture in the material. You're actually switching out the entire material.

[young vigil]

That's what I'm doing

I'm switching out the materials then all the other animations in the radial wheel are decal swaps on that material

[ornate stump]

There are 2 layers that trying to do material swap in the same slot. So the layer below is the one that's switching the material.

[young vigil]

So I should switch the material on the second part of the radial wheel

[ornate stump]

Remember again, one properties should be animated by one layer. And the said property is the material reference. And you're having 2 layers that's animating the material reference in the same slot.

[young vigil]

yeah I don't understand you at all

[ornate stump]

The layer above switched the material first, then the layer below replace the material that got set by the layer above with its own material.

[young vigil]

Layers in the blend tree?

[ornate stump]

Blendtree doesn't have layer.

[young vigil]

yeah then I don't understand what you're saying

What layers?

[ornate stump]

Literrally written Layers here.

[young vigil]

ohhhh

[balmy barn]

try to keep everything in one layer for blendtrees , easier to notice when something else messing with it

[ornate stump]

Root of the problem is they wanted to swap texture for different parts in the same material slot which isn't going to happens.

[balmy barn]

uv shift decals poi have many slots , just make a tilesheet and tell it to shift one , wont affect the others

bit fiddly but ive done it for eyes on a 2d model

2x2 one on each and you have 16 different decals on one material on poi

[rancid cloak]

Does anyone know why there is a hole here and how I can fix it

[light heath]

How do I put on a toggle on a PNG avatar with VRC fury? Without it breaking.

Because it won’t let me test it out nor the toggles are not working whatsoever

[little plume]

are you trying to make it swap between images?

[light heath]

Yeah

[little plume]

make multiple toggles with material swaps

set the one you want as the default to exclusive off state

[light heath]

That’s it?

[little plume]

yeah

and just make material swaps toggles for each image

also setup layer tag

and set the tag name to image or something

[light heath]

Would I want to toggle it to the setting that I want the toggle to be named?

[little plume]

??

huh

[light heath]

Sorry bad grammar let me try to word this

[little plume]

menu path is the toggle name

[light heath]

Ohhh ok yeah that’s what I was trying to say

[little plume]

the tag makes it so if you enable something else with the same tag it disables the one you had on before and replaces it

[hallow coyote]

any reason why my unity wouldnt have an asset, like hair from a model which i had in blender?

[light heath]

OK also how do I get? Just your manager so I can test out the toggles because I know I need that.

[little plume]

what?

[light heath]

Fuck sorry

I use voice typing so a lot of things don’t work

I’m trying to say how do I get the gesture manager, so I could test out the toggles.

[spark walrus]

hi i'm currently making an avatar of my oc samplette and i ran into this problem
(not enough bones) you see i made the model in maya and i tried everything to fix it adding more bones renaming stuff

but nothing seems to be working

[spark walrus]

update added more bones and i still got problems

what does this mean

[lilac musk]

You have 2 things named chest which it doesn't like. Rename one of the two it mentioned.

[strange saffron]

Is there a way to make an object grabbable for all even though it is part of an avatar?

[lilac musk]

Physbones

[strange saffron]

this is a prop tho so no bones currently attached

would that still work?

I'm also not talking about the beta because idk how accessories works yet

[unkempt iris]

how would i go about making a light switch toggle on an avatar..? like you pull a string on a lamp and it switches to on ..

i know it needs to be done in unity with a material swap but IDK how to set it up so it isnt a toggle in the gesture menu and instead you just do the action

[lilac musk]

Bones in Unity are just empty objects, so you could just make a chain of empties with some distance between them and put the and object on the end

[lilac musk]

The light itself is a component you'd add to an object and toggle it on/off via an animations. You can have the toggle by string be done with a physbone and it's length value parameter, along with some simple logic in the animation controller. Create an empty state to be your default state. When the physbone is stretched long enough, transition to a state with the aforementioned on animation. Then have another trasition to a new empty state when the physbone is let go. Transition to an the off animation when they pull it again and then finely to the first empty state when they let got, forming a loop of logic.

[strange saffron]

I'm going to add bones to it in Blender and reimport it into Unity

Goal: make a playable violin
Subgoal: make it under 6k tris
Current: 65k

[unkempt iris]

iss this possible to do with vrcfury 😭 im a bit confused, a visual would help BUT i can probably figure it out with time

[lilac musk]

I don't really use fury, but I don't think so. Look into how animation controllers and animations work in Unity. It's the two main categories of what you'd need to know

[unkempt iris]

ALRIGHT ! thank you

[tired slate]

hey everyone.. could someone recommend an avatar creation tutorial? I'm in the early stages of learning blender and have no idea where to start. I don't know a single thing about making avatars for VRC lol

[lilac musk]

For Blender:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-yhjgnhaNw
For Unity:
https://youtu.be/vWr4diTDqJM?si=LBm-ANHWHn4xh24m

[tired slate]

thank you! will check both out!!

[unkempt iris]

how to make it so when i drag over a new material onto an object in the hierarchy it doesnt remove all the materials and instead replaces a pre-existing one... 😢

[spark walrus]

update i got the rig and changing the name of the mesh

now i gotta upload it and do the finishing touches

[lilac musk]

Select the object and find it's renderer component. It will have a list of the materials and you can drag your new one onto them

[spark walrus]

recently uploaded the avatar privatly how do i fix this

the arms are messed up

[lilac musk]

Looks like the upper arms are being set as shoulders. Does the rig have shoulders?

[heady raptor]

cant upload models, all do this
help

[lilac musk]

It's saying you have missing scripts. You need to either add those scripts or remove them

[spark walrus]

those parts were meant to be the shoulders but i tried putting it into an a pose but that didn't work

here is a diagram of what i want the arms to be like not disproportionate like very straight

[lilac musk]

The pose doesn't define how the avatar is animated, IK does. I'd recommend you make them the upper arm as they should be and add shoulders

[spark walrus]

ok

[heady raptor]

it does this now

[lilac musk]

What's the first errors?

[heady raptor]

this seems to be all it gives i think

[lilac musk]

Still got missing scripts

[heady raptor]

they cant freaking find the scripts for some reason

[lilac musk]

Looks like they are on Hand.L and Hand.R

[heady raptor]

yea exactly what i told them
must be something in the dropdown menus tagged as "missing script" and should be clicked none i think

its been over a year i dont mess with unity

[lilac musk]

...what?

[spark walrus]

ok in maya just recently added these cubes and they are gonna be the shoulders

havent binded it yet but i'm gonna

[heady raptor]

yeah its not me but my roommate lol

i told them the obvious and looks like it worked
simply told them pls search the hands in the hierarchy and there was the culprit, told get rid of these

seems like its compiling now

i have to always invade their computer bc telling in words never work ..........

[naive raptor]

I'm making like a million animations to have color toggles for different clothing pieces on this avatar I'm editing and the way its setup, the entire body is set as 1 object so I have all these animations stacking up in the list for body, is there a way to limit how many show here, or do I just have to keep clicking the down arrow like 30 times to get to the new animation button?

[lilac musk]

That list is of all the animations in the animation controller's top layer that your animator component is targeting. If you no longer need to edit them, you can just remove them from that layer/animation controller

[naive raptor]

Thank you so much, that was very helpful, I saw them stacking up there and I just didnt realize that was what was going on

Im super new to unity so Im kinda just learning as I go

[lilac musk]

You're doing good! Keep it up!

[spark walrus]

good news everyone

i finished the avatar

and i am proud of it

[gaunt burrow]

pasting this from avatar quest: