avatar-help

[somber sequoia]

play more

[timber wharf]

?upload

[round swallow]

Yeah , my thoughts

[flat musk]

You must obtain at least "New User" Trust Rank in our Trust and Safety system in order to upload content. You can get this by just spending a few hours in VRChat, hop some worlds, and make some friends. Give it some time and you'll be able to upload content in no time.

As an aside, you must have a VRChat account to upload content. That means you can't use a Steam account, Oculus account, or Viveport account to upload content like worlds or avatars.

Source: https://docs.vrchat.com/docs/frequently-asked-questions

[round swallow]

Would anyone knows what that might be linked to ?

[timber wharf]

@dapper osprey and you cant be asking other people to upload for you, thats against tos and makes youre vulnerable to those people getting baned and your acc along

[ornate stump]

Try screenshot again but entire unity screen.

[round swallow]

Coming up

Tell me if a specific screen is needed

[ornate stump]

You are in prefab editing mode and the sdk doesn't like it. You have to be in the regular scene.

[grim python]

i'm still a beginner but it honestly just looks like a issue with vrc sdk, i take it as you've done the usual failtesting (restarting)
sdk is known to be... less then ideal sometimes

i take it as all versions are right

[grim python]

🫠 thats an actual thing that happens???

[somber sequoia]

Yes

[ornate stump]

3 years of being here and happens to people hundreds of times.

[dapper osprey]

okay im sorry

[round swallow]

holy it was that

thank you so much

😭

[grim python]

getting from visitor to new user takes... less time then making a avatar usually does

[round swallow]

i struggled so much yesterday night

[grim python]

vrc sdk the magic machine, now i know it doesn't like prefab editing mode

[round swallow]

Me too dawg, I will remember it !!

[grim python]

was there seriously no like reddit post from 2 years back

[round swallow]

I searched on ends yesterday night ,couldnt find it 😭

[severe crown]

I don’t know how to place it in the avatar I tried before but couldn’t figure it out I even googled it

[ornate stump]

Notice the object in hierarchy, if you can collapse it and hide the object, that mean the object is inside of the another object, it's parent-child hierarchy relation.

[pine valley]

as an example: the "Chest" object is parented to the "Spine" object

[grim python]

i'm still new to making avas but i'm about to enter the finishing touches -> optimising & upload

[pine valley]

anything parented to your avatar's root object – the one with the Avatar Descriptor on it – is attached to your avatar

[lunar needle]

hi can anyone help me make this car meow

[pine valley]

(you can also be a "grandchild" object, of course)

[grim python]

i'm probably gonna run into something similar so it would be nice to have someone to go to

[full field]

hey my avatar is stuck in the floor in the motorcycle pose, its not in a preview state of an animation, exiting and reopening the project doesnt fix it nor does entering and exiting play mode

[pine valley]

Pumkin's Avatar Tools can reset this, iirc

[full field]

oh thats what the name was

[pine valley]

if you don't mind installing code from a complete rando, I wrote a small tool for this

[full field]

ill look it up

[grim python]

ohmygod i feel like giving up just seeing this

[full field]

like an editor script?

[full field]

?

[pine valley]

yeag

it adds a menu at Tools > Pose Fixer

[full field]

ill trust ya

[pine valley]

Drag your avatar's root object in and hit the button

[full field]

sound

[pine valley]

This only works if you have not unpacked your model prefab

[full field]

nah its still packed

[pine valley]

(which you shouldn't!)

good

All it does is revert the overrides on the position and rotation of each humanoid bone

[full field]

did mochifit the outfit

not sure if that will break it

[pine valley]

should be fine

There's some kind of bug with animation previews where the humanoid pose gets stuck

[full field]

ough

[pine valley]

hmmmmmmm

[grim python]

😭

[pine valley]

that's alarming

should be able to undo it :p

[full field]

yeah

[pine valley]

I think that's an Apply Scalings issue, actually

[full field]

its the outfit being modular avatared

since its staying in its base pose

its why aniation previews in the anim prev window dont move the outfit if used on by MA

[pine valley]

if you use the wrong mode, you wind up with very weird bone scales

[grim python]

what about unions/parents, the outfit doesn't stick to the rig?

[pine valley]

Yeah, it hasn't been welded on yet

[grim python]

that yeah

[pine valley]

Does the base model look correct if you drag a new copy into the scene?

[full field]

wdym? like if i just drag a basic velle in?

[grim python]

but its weird why the outfit would move into that animation in that case and not go back

[pine valley]

yeah, drag in the model asset

[full field]

its fine

[ornate stump]

You can also reset position rotation of the merge armature component.

[pine valley]

actually, this is very weird: my script doesn't try to change the scales at all

[full field]

could you elaborate?

[pine valley]

foreach (HumanBodyBones bone in Enum.GetValues(typeof(HumanBodyBones)))
{
    if (bone == HumanBodyBones.LastBone)
        break;
    
    var target = animator.GetBoneTransform(bone);

    if (!target)
        continue;

    var so = new SerializedObject(target);

    var positionProperty = so.FindProperty("m_LocalPosition");
    var rotationProperty = so.FindProperty("m_LocalRotation");
    PrefabUtility.RevertPropertyOverride(positionProperty, InteractionMode.UserAction);
    PrefabUtility.RevertPropertyOverride(rotationProperty, InteractionMode.UserAction);

    so.ApplyModifiedProperties();
}

i have no idea how that would cause the dreaded Skinny Syndrome

oh!

wait

duh, that's just your clothing blendshapes

[full field]

oh thats just my shrinks

LMAO

[pine valley]

Apply the pose fixer to the clothing's root as well

[ornate stump]

If you take a look in Merge Armature component of the cloth you will see it.

[pine valley]

whatever object has the Animator on it

[full field]

wont work

[grim python]

how did it get worse

[full field]

it didnt lol

ill install pumpkins tools and see if that fixes it

[pine valley]

ah, i guess the clothing does not have a humanoid avatar?

[ornate stump]

The answer is no.

[pine valley]

that's a bit odd

[timber wharf]

stickman

[pine valley]

Did you refit the clothing while in the motorcycle pose?

I'm not very familiar with the mochifitter

[full field]

nop

[pine valley]

i'm trying to imagine how it even got posed in the first place

[full field]

i have no idea

lilemo maybe did it

i didnt mean to add it

[ornate stump]

As I said, you have to find the merge armature component and use the reset position inside of the componetn..

[full field]

oh dugh

[pine valley]

Ah, that makes more sense!

[full field]

HAHA

[pine valley]

oh dear

[grim python]

🫠

[pine valley]

operating operationally

[full field]

dud im so gassy

there we go

[pine valley]

I know very little about MA, so Renfrew might have an idea of what to do

ah, excellent

[grim python]

chicken legs

[full field]

yippee

[pine valley]

vrchat put the "skip leg day" button where the camera toggle normally is

we had someone accidentally enable it and not notice for a while at an event lmao

[full field]

ty @ornate stump

[ornate stump]

I primarily use modular avatar instead of vrcfury.

[full field]

same

[pine valley]

i copy this thing from project to project every time I run into the bug

[full field]

i really gotta make a blender tool to add clothing in blender so i dont have the MA it

optimisations people

if i can make a tool to do this, it should be too hard

[grim python]

-# wtf

this is doing too much

[somber sequoia]

it's pretty simple really, especially if the clothing is already rigged for the model in question

[full field]

yeah, mochifitted stuff i aint gonna touch

its just merging with armature which i think cats already does but idfk how it works

[pine valley]

if the bone names and positions match, you can just switch the clothing's Armature modifier to target the original armature

[somber sequoia]

yeah, that's one way, but you don't really need a tool for it

[pine valley]

actually, even if the positions don't match, you can just switch it

[full field]

oookay lads we have a new issue

[pine valley]

non-matching names requires some more work

i've done a fair bit of evil stuff in python scripts

[full field]

going into an animation and exiting does this

dreaded motorcycle pose

[somber sequoia]

that is normal - choose a different animation to reset it

literally just pick another from the dropdown

[full field]

nop

its stuck in this pose

[pine valley]

oh, it's sticking after ending the preview?

[full field]

its not in preiew

yep

[somber sequoia]

ah, then pumkin's tools

[pine valley]

i haven't seen it happen this regularly

Actually

What SDK version are you on?

[somber sequoia]

if you always pick a different animation from the list after editing, then it will reset.

[full field]

most recent

[pine valley]

There was a bug that caused the animator's default values to get applied over and over by the control panel

which caused this sort of behavior

just as a sanity check, fix the pose again and then reopen the scene

[full field]

ill just install pumpkins stuff

[pine valley]

i wonder if the animator still has the old default values (which leave you in the motorcycle pose)

[full field]

nah it did it before

i just ignored it but now since im here i wanna see if i can get it fixed

what

how are we going backwards now

because the pumpkin tools did fix it and fixes this

[grim python]

😔✌️

[full field]

but now the clothing wont go with it

[somber sequoia]

I experienced this bug, it was annoying, but not once did it ever force any of my avatars into bicycle pose, I suspect that was something else if you had that happen.

[pine valley]

it would happen if you also experienced the bug that leaves you in the default humanoid pose, then closed and opened the scene

[somber sequoia]

I have never heard of that

[pine valley]

although, on second thought, i don't know if the animator even captures default values for the humanoid muscles

i'm not sure how it would do that

[somber sequoia]

as far as I can tell, it does not

[balmy barn]

wasnt that a sdk bug , like this one - it will read controller if anything was in animator

last what 1-2 sdk versions

but the muscle one ive not seen , but i dont add things in unity much

[somber sequoia]

3.7.0-3.9.x were just full of weird bugs.

[pine valley]

yeah, it caused the controller to re-apply all of its defaults

which led to very confusing behavior

unity got haunted

I use the animator so little for actual animation that I wasn't sure about the muscle thing 😉

[chrome shard]

hello there , what to do if there isnt a Blueprint ID but it wants one?

[lunar needle]

still need help please

[pine valley]

The ID will be filled in on first upload.

[balmy barn]

that prefab probably have more path issues - didnt bother checking its audio

animation path must be correct to do stuff

[pine valley]

do you see any more warnings on the Full Controller?

[lunar needle]

is there a way to fix it?

[balmy barn]

my pc is using like alot.. of memory right now so its scary to open anything 57gb memory and 15.9gb vram

[lunar needle]

oh sorry i can wait

[balmy barn]

anything is fixable

[chrome shard]

it says there is a clone , but i cant find it....and i shall remove the clone

nevermind... i think i got it...

its loading now atleast

[balmy barn]

think it just mews every 7 seconds or something, its bit of a mess (vrcfury ) im so not touching it , something setting the layer to 0 somewhere in a layer and the audio it comes with is a instant block if its near me ( very loud annoying ones, but replacable )

[chrome shard]

it was a script that had no role... removed it and now it seems to work :P ty for trying to help tho .. .i was just oblivious :P

[lunar needle]

i had to delete stretch and tail

to save on parameters

[pine valley]

the layer's weight is irrelevant if you aren't playing any animations

so VRCF sets it to zero for a tiny performance gain

[uneven slate]

does someone know why i cant move the mesh only the origin point. I have reassinged everything and i have spent 10 + hours trying to figure this one out. the clothes are duplicates but they dissapere visually if i remove the avatar version they where originally on but exsist everywhere else.

[somber sequoia]

that green plus means it got added, the one without is part of the avatar prefab and can't be moved to another place without unpacking it. best to duplicate that if you really want it.... but if it's part of the .fbx this is not likely going to work like you want it to

[uneven slate]

thats the duplicate already

[pine valley]

You can't copy an object with a SkinnedMeshRenderer on it and move it elsewhere

It's still looking at the original armature

the actual position of the object is irrelevant

[somber sequoia]

yeah if it's skinned you really don't want to try detaching it from its armature.

[uneven slate]

but ive rassinged the rootbone and anchor override

if that does not work whats the way to do it correctly

[urban scarab]

can i send my blender avatar project to someone to upload it for me i would but im gonna be out of town for awhile it has been riged and i used vertex paint to color it i just need someone to import it to unity and publish it

[minor trail]

Dangerous. Not a good idea.

[urban scarab]

We all there's also not much I can do im not very tech savy and my model just breaks in unity I'll send photos give me a sec

[pine valley]

that doesn't matter; there is an internal list of objects that it's using

I think the best way to do this would be to:

• Copy the original avatar
• Delete everything off of it except for the armature and the object(s) you want to keep
  • Remove all of the components from its root, too, except for the Animator
• Add a VRCFury Armature Link component
• Parent the entire thing to the target avatar
  • Set its position/rotation to 0 and its scale to 1

[pine valley]

the Armature Link component is designed to do exactly this: attach an armature (and any skinned mesh renderers that depend on it) to another armature

[minor trail]

Only in playmode and in game it looks like this but completely normal in normal unity

How hair is supposed to look

[urban scarab]

The first photo is in blender the rest is unity

[minor trail]

Supposed to make a material and put the textures in

[urban scarab]

Ok one sec

[minor trail]

Also assign armature and stuff I think as well. Humanoid

Install vrcfury and gesture manager in vcc

[urban scarab]

I did the armature and rigging already

[minor trail]

Yes but you have to do it again in unity

[urban scarab]

Ok

How

[minor trail]

Click the model, go to rig, set animation type to humanoid

[urban scarab]

Ok

[minor trail]

Nvm misinput mods. It vanished as I did that

[minor trail]

There were be a thing there like a layout of everything. Make sure it's correct

[urban scarab]

Ok

[minor trail]

If everything is where it should be, from there do the material n texture thing I said

[solemn drum]

why does the Animator Play Audio component not work at all if i tell it to play a sound based on a paramater

[somber sequoia]

it does for me

you have an audio source, right?

[solemn drum]

i hav this and if i tell it to play a cerain clip based on this paramater it just never works ever

but if i set it to just play a random sound then it works completly fine

i also tried makign a new paramater that just always has the value of 4 and if i plug it in and try and play it nothing happens

[somber sequoia]

hmm not sure I tried doing that

[pine valley]

your paramter is an integer, right?

[solemn drum]

ya

could it hav anythign to do with it being synced??

ive also only testedd this in the avatar emulator so like could that be why?

[somber sequoia]

it ought to work there

[pine valley]

being synced does not matter

[pine valley]

that's what I would've tried first

so the only change you're making to make it work is to set the Playback Order to random?

[solemn drum]

i mane a new patameter of type int called Test and made it the value of 3 and when i set it to that still nothing happens

[solemn drum]

if i set the order to random then it works fine but i wnan be able to control which sound i play so random wont work for my usecase

[pine valley]

yeah, i'm just making sure there were no other changes

I guess I would test it in-game, just in case this is a problem with the emulator

[solemn drum]

ig the only other thing is make it just being for some weird reason it speseficlly wont work in the editor on mac os but idk why since everything else works

ill hav to test in game later since i dont hav acces to my main pc rn just unity on mac atm

[pine valley]

some stuff does break on macOS because editor patching doesn't work correctly (the version of Harmony that comes with the SDK doesn't work on ARM)

is this AV3Emu or Gesture Manager?

(i'm only really familiar with the latter)

[solemn drum]

its AV3Emu

do the both do emulation of the avatar or is it just one that does it?

[pine valley]

doesn't look like it uses Harmony, so that's not the issue

ah https://github.com/lyuma/Av3Emulator/issues/218

[solemn drum]

oh that would explain it

cuz i was just abt to say it also does not work with the round about option too

[solar lance]

Anybody know why this is happening? i just spent about 4 hours rigging this thing and when i do a play test it does this.

[solemn drum]

issue still open so i assume its not fixed yet

tnx for finding that

[pine valley]

click on the Gesture Manager object to activate it

you're currently seeing whatever animations are in that FX controller

although I still wouldn't expect the entire armature to flip over like that

[solar lance]

i've checked both the fx and that.

activating it only makes it move further away.

[pine valley]

select the model asset in the project window and look at the Rig tab in the Inspector

• see if there are any errors
• if it's humanoid, hit Configure and screenshot the entire editor afterwards

[solar lance]

no errors, but here ya go.

[pine valley]

it has weird proportions, but it looks valid

[timber wharf]

does it tho, looks like shoulders are out of spine

ie 2nd bone not 3rd

[solar lance]

yeah, i've checked everything.

there are only two bones upper and lower torso

and hips

[timber wharf]

well you do need hips, spine, chest, (optional upper chest), shoulders from whatever chest you have, neck head

[solar lance]

correct.

i do.

[timber wharf]

and i see shoulders coming out of 2nd bone it being spine then, not even lower chest

[pine valley]

the spine + chest bones are very short

the large bone you're seeing is the neck bone

[solar lance]

its coming out from where the upper chest rotates

ie the bottom

[timber wharf]

ah k

[solar lance]

the actual bone for shoulders floats

[pine valley]

drag another copy of the model into the scene and see if it also poses weirdly when you enter play mode

(don't assign anything to its animator)

[timber wharf]

i manged to miss the whole hierarchy being right there🫠

[solar lance]

just checked that, it only does the issue when the fx is involved, even though the fx is currently completely empty

[pine valley]

Go back to the humanoid avatar configuration screen and switch to "Muscles & Settings"

Adjust these sliders. Does the model move in a sensible way?

Open-Close should cause it to splay out or curl up

[solar lance]

just did, looks fine.

based on what i can see, it's just moving the hip bone.

[pine valley]

Oh! that might be it

I noticed that you don't have an Armature object

you go straight to the Hips bone

The armature is generally rotated by 90 degrees, and is also located at your feet

[solar lance]

that actually makes alot of sense.

[pine valley]

so if you applied that offset to the hips, it'd cause the offset you're seeing

[solar lance]

im gonna give that a try.

[pine valley]

did you create this armature in Blender?

[solar lance]

yes.

[pine valley]

here's how it looks in one of my projects

I'm not sure how you'd lose that Armature object

[solar lance]

i don't know, i just checked it, mine looks the same in blender yet in unity it loses the armature root object.

[uneven slate]

do i delete all components from the avatar i want to add to or the avatars i want the other clothing from

or both

[pine valley]

Only from the copy of the avatar whose clothing you want to re-use

[solar lance]

figured it, if you export just an armature it doesnt get the armature object for some reason. trying this now.

[solar lance]

that was it, thanks.

[winged cedar]

Looking for someone who knows their way around animated emotes.
I want to make an emote that will have multiple copies of my avatar doing different dances. I have the individual animations made already.

[somber sequoia]

multiple copies? I don't believe you can cause that at runtime, but there is (was?) a non-free package you could use to setup clones in Unity

[alpine ingot]

Quick question, does anybody still do texture atlasing for models in blender?.. or is that something of the past?

[somber sequoia]

sure

[alpine ingot]

So its still actively used for models?

[somber sequoia]

sure, people still do it

[alpine ingot]

So i should use it? Just making sure since the tutorial is 8 years old by now..

[somber sequoia]

If you feel it's the best method for you, sure. it's still a perfectly valid technique.

[alpine ingot]

Well.. i never did it before. so i got no idea if it will go badly when i have to reapply the textures in unity

or if its more work

[somber sequoia]

more work than what?

[alpine ingot]

than not using texture atlas

[somber sequoia]

yes, of course it's more work than not doing the work

[zenith spade]

I’m trying to connect my rig to my mesh but if I do shift control p and auto weight it nothing happens!? Any help is appreciated.

[somber sequoia]

Drag the mesh to be a child of the armature object, and make sure it has an armature modifier pointing at that armature.

Auto weights are.... generally pretty awful, but good luck

[alpine ingot]

I mean for when the model gets put into blender. Is it more work to work with a atlas or with the individual materials?

[somber sequoia]

Yes, it's more work to atlas vs. not atlasing

[alpine ingot]

Which is good for optimization then?

[somber sequoia]

but that's not really the relevant part - if you need to reduce the number of materials, it's a decent option. If you don't then you don't need to do it.

[alpine ingot]

I´ll just try without for now since its my first model.. i can always go back and try to improve if it doesnt work out

[somber sequoia]

Yeah if you get it into Unity and then are required to reduce materials, you can decide to use this technique then

[alpine ingot]

Gotcha!

Though tbh

it might be too early rn to work on the model

i literally got all 4 of my wisdom teeth removed today....

[somber sequoia]

ugh, that sucks

[alpine ingot]

It was anesthesia though

The part that sucks is only really that it bled for hours

[zenith spade]

Ok. I figured it out. Thanks!

[severe crown]

I tried to add the object to the hierarchy in the new one but it still said the same thing:(

[ornate stump]

Do you notice the indentation of the object list in hierarchy, or just collaspable arrow at the front of object name?

[steel urchin]

I had tried to get the Particles for my animation to work with my World Constraint I had set it up with but It never works despite the other being perfectly fine. Is there a way to fix this? I may not have the greatest knowledge in Animation much at all.

[ornate stump]

You might have to take a look for some other people screenshot here.

[ornate stump]

Did you make sure that the emitter position is correct?

[steel urchin]

I may not know what you mean by Emitter position but every particle is where they should be. In playmode above I had moved the model more infront to show the contrast between the working and non-working constraints

[heavy zephyr]

Seems like you're using an old method of making world constraints.

You could just delete the constraints on the "Container" objects and animate the "Freeze to world" toggle on the position constraints under your "World Constraint" objects

[ornate stump]

That should be the better way.

[heavy zephyr]

I'm also confused as to why you have 2 of them? Do you need them to be at different positions? Or freeze at a different time?

[night ember]

The only time youd really ever use the old method is to grab global position

[steel urchin]

I've never done world constraints much so I learned quickly by just looking up an old tutorial on youtube and went with that. It worked before on a few previous avatars, but considering that I've been at this problem for some time I tried different methods like separating the Flames & The Swords into different constraints it might work but to no avail.

[heavy zephyr]

Just put everything you need frozen under one object. Put a parent constraint on that object and simply toggle the "Freeze to world" checkbox on that constraint to freeze/unfreeze your objects. Just make sure to have a source (could be your avatar root) so it can return properly to you when unfrozen.

[steel urchin]

So If absolutely anything the settings should be like this?

I moved all my particles onto the first constraint under the same object of the swords

[heavy zephyr]

Yup, and you can just toggle that checkbox with animations

[heavy zephyr]

Tho, go to constraint settings and don't forget to lock it

[severe crown]

i just made it home looking at unity rn

[uneven slate]

thanks i think this could work (finally) now i only have to understand how to set up my toggles with animiations when enabeling and disabeling on the new one🙃

[steel urchin]

I'm not sure If this is a dumb question but I can assume it works but is there more of a way to have it spawn ontop of my avatar's location?

[heavy zephyr]

You had it offset when you locked it probably, unlock it, set the position to be 0,0,0 and lock again.

Otherwise maybe the objects under it have an offset, make sure those are zeroed out as well.

[steel urchin]

Just before I do anything else for better understanding, do I put the object inside target transform or leave it empty as is?

[heavy zephyr]

Leave that empty

[somber sequoia]

That's useful if the component is not actually on the target transform itself.

[steel urchin]

I do believe I have done it right but it does persist. I can only guess there's a limit to how much can be locked???

All pos are at 0,0,0 I have made sure of that.

[heavy zephyr]

Can you show me those particles? Like the objects those particles come from and their settings?

[steel urchin]

I'm not sure if it's a collision thing but everything should be fine I'd hope

[heavy zephyr]

That's odd, are they moved at all in your animation?

You could try changing the scaling mode to hierarchy as well

[steel urchin]

Not at all, they're just enabled and disabled for respective ON/OFF anims

I looked at the scaling mode and everything grew about 10x bigger and covered the screen as well.

[heavy zephyr]

That would be why (I think). I'd say just reduce the size in the particle settings and you should be fine

[steel urchin]

It's just really strange that the small ring of fire that emerges is indeed a particle itself and it's constrained perfectly fine but the rest arent. I'll see if this works and hopefully it does

[heavy zephyr]

It just seems like some object it's parented to had a different scaling and it might mess with it

[fallow knot]

How do I get my avatar to work for headsets and not look like the starters?

[warm bolt]

Is there’s a way to replicate the avatar with the blendshape and animations is already been setup without duplicate or I need to do all the time as new?

[somber sequoia]

what does this mean?

[somber sequoia]

in Unity, select the avatar root, ctrl+d to duplicate.

[fallow knot]

i've been try to upload my avatar onto the game. Every time i do it. It turns into a dan avatar insted of my fnaf avatar

[simple root]

hi does anyone know how booth model makers have the face shaded flat?
like the normals for the face are completely flat, giving the anime look

usually done in blender, not trying to use a mat

[mellow crane]

i assume this is a very stupid question but how do you install Chimera Maker? whenever I import it into my project it just becomes an asset and doesn't do anything.

i haven't found ANYONE ELSE who's asked this question and all pieces of information about it just have it already installed i am genuinely dumbfounded here

[odd inlet]

why is the eye texture not popping up when i use Poiyomi?

[gaunt knoll]

i would say try changing the cutout

[odd inlet]

i did

and the eye texture was there until i just replaced it :/

[mellow crane]

why

[odd inlet]

i decided to restart and when i just import the green texture its still blue??

[gaunt knoll]

You decreased the blendshape of the legs

[mellow crane]

Great! ..how do i do that!

[gaunt knoll]

Click on the body
Under inspection there an option called blendshapes

[warm vortex]

you're in edit prefab mode, exit out of that first

[mellow crane]

okay! ..how do i do that!

[gaunt knoll]

Top left there's an arrow

[mellow crane]

im a toddler you gotta talk to me like im 4

okay i am out of edit prefab mode

[gaunt knoll]

Okay so first you open up your file fine one called system 32 and start deleting stuff in their (please don't do that I'm joking)

Click on the body and go to blendshapes

[mellow crane]

okay i fixed it

idk HOW that happened

[gaunt knoll]

Miss clicked on it or their was clothes there that you deleted

[mellow crane]

please if anyone knows help i am literally the only stupid person on earth apparently

[mellow crane]

there was clothes there but they didn't fit on the avatar which is a whole other problem

[gaunt knoll]

You can use the blendshape to make it fit that's how I put maid outfits on my Avi 😂

[gaunt knoll]

Its probably at the top either called what it is or under tools

[pallid drift]

im a little new to the particle system and so uh, does anyone know how i can set the particle to a fixed size?

[heavy zephyr]

In the renderer module, set the min size to be a really high number like 999.

By default particles shrink as you go close to them to avoid cluttering your screen.

[mellow crane]

i wish it were so simple

[pallid drift]

thanku

[gaunt knoll]

Might be because your using an out of date unity

[mellow crane]

well i have to for everything to work

[gaunt knoll]

Really what's not working on 2022.3.22f1

[mellow crane]

it won't. open.

[gaunt knoll]

Huh like it just won't open what so ever or it opens unity hub

[mellow crane]

i can't even OPEN 2022

unity hub was already open

it just keeps opening until it stops and lets me try again

what can i do about this

[warm vortex]

i think for a lot of things you need to use unity 2022

[mellow crane]

well i wanted to but it wouldn't open

[warm vortex]

i think you should probably find out that issue first

are you using creator companion/alcom?

[mellow crane]

creator companion

[warm vortex]

so what happens when you try to open unity 2022?

it just closes?

[somber sequoia]

close unity, delete the Library folder in your project, run Alcom to upgrade the SDK to 3.10+, start Unity 2022.3.22f1

[little plume]

why is my toggle only spawning hte particles and not doing cancerspace

[hazy quest]

i just made the project

[somber sequoia]

ignore, see what errors show up

[hazy quest]

THIS ISwhat i ha

[somber sequoia]

I'd remove gesture manager.

it's often a problem with incompatibilites.

[hazy quest]

whats it do?

is it importent if so i dont want to remove it

[somber sequoia]

I always recommending knowing what software does before installing it.

[hazy quest]

im new to vr chat creation i assumed
it was important

[lapis talon]

Hello. I am having an issue where my avatar's hands won't do what my controllers are doing, are stuck as static. Also, people see me as frozen and not moving at all. I believe these issues are related. Any ideas about what causes this?

[solar sand]

Basically lets you test all the menu stuff in unity instead of having to launch vrchat to see

[hazy quest]

whats everything else do?

[supple lotus]

Hello there peoples, I was wanting to make some modifications to my avatar (Moonfang creature) and could use some advice.

Does anyone know if there is a way to force a floor collider to be on all the time and ignore the toggle? Or set up separate ones so they can be toggled independently?

What I am trying to do is force the toes/feet collider to be on all the time so the toe tips don't dip into the ground but sometimes I want to disabled the floor collider for the tail as in some positions it just goes nearly straight up behind me and I'd like to turn it off for like, photos and sitting in interactable chairs and such.

I am very new to Unity but have been figuring things out decently well. Any help would be appreciated! Thx

[delicate trout]

I honestly have no clue what I'm doing wrong. I need the "toon standard" shaders but cant find a link to download them since they arent already in my VCC, I have the textures applied but everytime I try uploading the avatar I get a list of texture and shader errors I dont understand what I'm doing wrong. I thought if i could understand Unreal and blender I could understand Unity but it feels like Unity is bashing my head against a brick wall and calling me stupid.

[supple lotus]

Actually, I may have figured it out.

...just copy the collider and make separate ones with different names. Duh, of course.

[fleet drift]

idk if I should ask people to message me direct but, I was wanting to see if anyone can go into decent detail when it comes to adding eyetracking on an avi; I put eyetracking on my current avatar, it does work, but I was curious of how to go about making eyes widen/pupil (I think called miosis? sorry if I'm wrong, but basically where pupils go small)
And for hardware/software since I think it also makes a difference (and if it even allows it to work), I use bigscreen beyond 2e with Baballonia software for the eye tracking

[warm bolt]

I do this but I notice when I install the addon PCSS and upload it give me error and can't upload, only work if I put the normal Avi from zero but it bothers to me I need to do the blend shape and the animations...

[jade aspen]

hey.. is it possible to make a toggle for it to switch on/off in vrchat? i dont want always to have the shiny skin. mby you can tell me how to do it? >w<

as anohter solution i would just upload 2diff models

also i would like to add a wet body. but the thing is other than pink glow skin i dont have it as a preset. its just a 2d texture.
i t might not work on my model but still want see how it would look like

[radiant vigil]

Umm how do I fix this with my avatar?

[ancient adder]

at a glance it looks like there are two meshes stacked on top of each other with different materials and they're z-fighting. If there is a second mesh, disable it, delete it, or set the material of the clipping mesh to an invisble shader (e.g. VRC Mobile Particles Multiply)

I'm having trouble with animating the hand on my avatar. I have a layer in the gesture controller that transitions to an animation state and sets Animator Tracking control to "Right Fingers Animation", then sets it back to tracking once it transitions to the main animation, but when it transitions back, the hand gets stuck in a claw animation. Any ideas?

[radiant vigil]

It didn’t work…

[ancient adder]

Update: Fixed it, turns out the "Empty animation, in fact, was not empty

[ancient adder]

withhout seeing the project, not much more i can do

[lapis talon]

Please? 🥺

[ancient adder]

hands at side or t-posing

[lapis talon]

My hands move with my controllers, but the fingers do not do gestures or do the grab animations and such. my fingers stay stuck straight or in a random gesture like peace sign

And no one can see me move around, i'm like a statue

even though i can see myself move around

[ancient adder]

sounds to me like somethings messed up in the animator

check your layers and look at your animation states, look for any state behaviors they might have

[lapis talon]

I added some to try ato fix this behavior, they used to have no behaviors and this wass still happening

[ancient adder]

did this just start happening one day?

[lapis talon]

Yeah I wish I knew exaactly the moment. I had figured out sliders, got them all working. I was working on blinking which I couldn't get to work (but now I do). I had also just gotten an outfit to work that day I think

[ancient adder]

hmm

make a duplicate of your avatar (so you dont touch the original) in your unity scene and start removing things from it one at a time, then do sdk test builds and check the hands to see if they are still broken.

if the hand animations start woking again, do a build and publish and test it with remote users.
if that fixes it then start adding everything back except for the bit that broke the avi.

[lapis talon]

Ok, thank you. I guess that's all i can do

[hazy quest]

why cant i move the view position

[ornate stump]

Can you type the position values instead?

[hazy quest]

idk what they would be

[ornate stump]

Just try out.

[hazy quest]

didnt move the arrow

[night ember]

the hell is a character controller

[ornate stump]

Turned out, you didn't enable the Gizmos so you don't see the view position in the scene. Enable with this button

[ornate stump]

And you should not be using character control and animation component. You need to add Animator component.

[hazy quest]

whats the back cam do

[ornate stump]

Just a default scene camera.

[hazy quest]

ok

i build and tested it gave me this

[ornate stump]

You have to look for more error above that. Also screenshot the entire unity screen instead of just a portion of it.

[hazy quest]

oh

[ornate stump]

As I have told you earlier.

[hazy quest]

didnt see this part mb

[ornate stump]

And Autofix whatever it has.

[hazy quest]

this good

[ornate stump]

Did you remove character control and animation component?

[hazy quest]

ya

[ornate stump]

And if the model isn't humanoid compatible, it wouldn't take default vrchat animation.

[hazy quest]

i have the built in ones

[ornate stump]

What built in?

[hazy quest]

the ones from the prefab

[ornate stump]

Then you still have to setup animator controller to use that animation.

[hazy quest]

how do i do that?

[ornate stump]

Create animator controller asset, put your animation clip into that, and put the animator controller in the playable layers base layer in avatar descriptor.

[hazy quest]

how do i make it play on idal or walking

[ornate stump]

Better take a look in the Locomotion layer sample from the sdk and see how the animator is setup.

[hazy quest]

alr il do it in the morning its super late thanks for your help

[alpine ingot]

So i´m finally at the step to export my mmd model that i prepared as fbx. Is anyone familiar with the exporting settings so everything gets exported properly? The tutorial i´m trying to follow isnt exactly the newest.. like all of this here

[coarse merlin]

hello!!
I have an issue with poiyomi with making a flipbook
my gif has black in it (sunglasses)
the issue is that the flipbook doesn't read the colour black
I was able to make it work in the past but it isn't working at the moment sadly

[ornate stump]

Apply Scalings : FBX All
Apply Transforms : Checked

[alpine ingot]

Everything else good?

heres even the animation tab

[ornate stump]

Do you have animation? If not then it's irrelevant.

[alpine ingot]

I only have shape keys, which i assume dont apply here then?

[ornate stump]

It doesn't.

Shapekeys are not animation.

[alpine ingot]

then i´m checking that box off

[alpine ingot]

ok nvm, i thought i fixed it. Ok so, shes in unity now. No Materials though which i already got told happens. However.. do i need to manually add them now and if yes is there a easy way to know which Material belongs where? I also noticed if i just drag a material onto the model it applies it on all of it.

[balmy barn]

extract texture + material from fbx, but some dont include them (export setting in blender and sometime path to texture isnt right so it wont come with it) - not that much faster then manually assigning them

[alpine ingot]

where can i do/see that?

[balmy barn]

inspector - click fbx , some tab there forgot the name

[alpine ingot]

this here?

or this?

[balmy barn]

that

[alpine ingot]

Oh! before i even drag the model in?

[ornate stump]

Select FBX file in the asset. Not the FBX object you put in the scene.

[ornate stump]

Before or after doesn't matter.

What matter is where you select it.

[alpine ingot]

this here then

[ornate stump]

If it's grayed out, that mean it doesn't have embedded texture, but rather as separated image files.

[alpine ingot]

So i did something wrong in blender?

[ornate stump]

No.

It's just a different ways of how to put texture file.

[alpine ingot]

so what do i do then if its grayed out

[balmy barn]

manually add them aaall to every material

if you atlas/bake texture in blender you end up far less materials

(way better too)

[ornate stump]

Go to find where the texture image files actually are.

[alpine ingot]

if have them all already in unity, so do i turn them into materials then?

[ornate stump]

Create new Material.

[alpine ingot]

Like this?

[alpine ingot]

Ok so i created a new material. Then put the texture in Albode, correct?

[ornate stump]

If you see the result is correct then it's correct.

[alpine ingot]

i think so.. though i´m getting this here now

[ornate stump]

Does it do something? If not then ignore.

[alpine ingot]

I can still work on it

I just set a texture to transparent, like the background because it had black squares at the edges

Or is making material background transparent bad?

[ornate stump]

It's bad for android platform.

[alpine ingot]

Is that why i'm getting the error then?

[ornate stump]

No.

[alpine ingot]

Should i just ignore it for now.. or fix it somehow?

[ornate stump]

Does it do something? If not then ignore.
As I have said before.

[alpine ingot]

Ok ok.. and if things like that continue to pop up and dont seem to do anything i do the same?

Just ignore it

[ornate stump]

Of course.

[lament hatch]

I applied the Shirt Texture but when Running the Texture just becomes Pink...

[alpine ingot]

Gotcha

Thanks

[ornate stump]

Are you on PC or Android build?

[lament hatch]

Android Build.

PC is fine.,

[ornate stump]

Then that material isn't using supported shader.

[ornate stump]

How much you sure the material doesn't get changed because material swap toggle and such?

[lament hatch]

Before and after Running..

[lament hatch]

i dont have any Material Swap atm.

[ornate stump]

See the material slots in the renderer component.

If you can't switch the blank material in the slots while in play mode, that means something is animating material swap.

[lament hatch]

aaahhh....

how can i disable the "Mat swap" cause i think that is the case here.

[ornate stump]

Go find out whether the layers in FX is doing it, or some automation like vrcfury is changing it.

[lament hatch]

Thank you.

You helped me.

I will forever be in your Debt.

[lament hatch]

just stuck at this now...

[ornate stump]

Check with world toolkit and see what takes up the size.

[swift flume]

does anyone know how to fix this problem? the vest isnt attaching right (this is my 1st ever avi lol)

[ornate stump]

https://vrcfury.com/tutorials/linking-clothes

[swift flume]

tyyy i appreciate it

[solar violet]

I'm getting an issue where the view position is correct in unity (between the eyes) but in game it shifts it down to between the mouth and nose. Anyone know what could cause this?

I have my head position locked in VRChat

[alpine ingot]

okayyy, she has her materials where she needs em

Now my question would be... doesnt vrchat want a T-pose?

instead of a A pose

In the configuration of the Rig she is T-posing

[balmy barn]

either work, T just easier to add thing to

[ornate stump]

It does that only when doing rig configuration.

[alpine ingot]

Okay okay, because my friend told me Vrchat needs a T-pose

[ornate stump]

Not necessary.

[night ember]

the model can be in literally any pose
its just that the humanoid rig typically requires to be in a tpose to animate correctly

[alpine ingot]

gotcha, thx

[wide oar]

Hi! I'm having trouble uploading my avatar. there is no "Online Publishing" checkbox anywhere near the "Build & Publish" button. The build just does nothing when I click the button. Does anyone know how to fix this?

[night ember]

its be significantly better to screenshot the entire thing and not cropped

[alpine ingot]

okayyy, so to test out my avi i wanted to upload it... buuut....

What do i need to show so it can be helped?

[alpine ingot]

Yes, thats the main error. I have no idea what it means though

[ornate stump]

Entire screen showing this menu.

[gaunt knoll]

its left click not right click

[ornate stump]

I'd be damn if it's right-left click confusion.

[gaunt knoll]

xD

[ornate stump]

Also screenshot the hierarchy panel showing around chest bone.

[ornate stump]

Your model has upper chest bone so assign in the slot too.

[alpine ingot]

oh! i followd the Tupper tutorial. They said to not ever use Upper chest, so i just kinda did that

though its old..

so yeah

Like this?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[alpine ingot]

Gonna try to build again then and will share results

[wide oar]

i was definitely left clicking it😭

[gaunt knoll]

i win

[ornate stump]

Check console panel when you click on it and see what error that show up. Also better take screenshot of entire unity window.

[alpine ingot]

It uploaded! 👍

[wide oar]

nothing shows up in the console at all

[alpine ingot]

So it uploaded but the camera seems to be way above the head

[ornate stump]

You haven't set view position.

[alpine ingot]

Makes sense, okay i´ll stop yapping for now and see if its in the tutorial

[ornate stump]

Close the sdk panel, open and click build again.

[alpine ingot]

Walking animations work though, so thats good

[wide oar]

i already tried that multiple times, still nothing.

[gaunt knoll]

what version is your sdk on?

(in CC)

[somber sequoia]

obviously there's nothing we can suggest without seeing actual error messages

[weary yew]

Can someone help me make a World Constraint that's Quest compatible? I know that it is possible as I saw many avatars with them

[alpine ingot]

If i remember correctly, nowadays people dont use dynamic bones anymore, right? Instead it was something else?

Physbones was it?

[balmy barn]

ancient way of doing world drop, use vrc contraint - have a source that exsist and toggle 'freeze to world'

that old one wont work for quest

[ornate stump]

You need VRC Parent Constraint. Not the unity constraint.

[ornate stump]

Dynamic bones are totally deprecated for so long.

[alpine ingot]

So Physbones it is

Can i see in unity which bone i want to have the root for the physbones.. or do i need to look that up in blender?

[ornate stump]

You could just check in the hierarchy.

[alpine ingot]

I can look at it in the Configure of the rig, right?

so in this menu, yes?

[ornate stump]

Just check in the regular scene.

[alpine ingot]

this here?

How can i make the bones visible so i know iam picking the right ones

[ornate stump]

Select and try to move it in the scene.

[alpine ingot]

If i move the skirt i got here a Root bone i set up in blender for it

With Cats

[ornate stump]

Now you know which bone should be the root.

[alpine ingot]

Gotcha

thx

How can i test the Physbones out in unity?

When i press play nothing happens, could also be becasue i maybe didnt do correct settings

[ornate stump]

Did you actually move the avatar?

[pine valley]

note that depending on your physbone settings, moving the entire avatar might have no effect

[alpine ingot]

oh wait.. with gesture manager, right?

[pine valley]

(i.e. you turned on Immobile)

[ornate stump]

Physbones works even without gesture manager.

[alpine ingot]

oop

it works

a little too well

[pine valley]

If you're using Gesture Manager, you can move the Gesture Manager object to move the entire avatar around. You can also go to Options -> Locomotion -> Velocity to wiggle around

I find it very useful to have a walk cycle that I can play

[alpine ingot]

The clothes and Hair jump around a lot and clips through the body

[pine valley]

this can be solved in a few ways:

• make the bones less flexible
• use Limits to prevent the bones from going into the body
• use physbone colliders

I'd start with limits

they're cheap and simple

Colliders are good for things that you can't reliably do with a limit alone

[weary yew]

oh ok

[alpine ingot]

Its kinda a lot broken

I feel like i set up the skirt Physbone completely wrong with its root

The hair is also just kinda floating around

[ornate stump]

Make sure that there are only one physbone component controlling a bone.

[alpine ingot]

I have a Physbone with 3 scripts. 1 for the Backhair, 1 for the Long Hair and 1 for the skirt

like this

[ornate stump]

You should at least screenshot in full screen so we also we whether the physbone values make sense.

[alpine ingot]

I took the values from a tutorial

[ornate stump]

You should try different value combination.

[alpine ingot]

Like adding gravity?

So it isnt floating around?

if thats how it works

[ornate stump]

Maybe.

[alpine ingot]

How do i stop the hair from Flipping over itself? Decrease the momentum, add more limits?

[ornate stump]

Are you really sure you add the correct amount of physbone component and it has no some extra on it?

[alpine ingot]

I´m pretty sure because if i remove them the hair is completely still

so its most likely the values

[balmy barn]

immobile is very high and no curve so affecting everything

[ornate stump]

Then momentum probably is too high.

[alpine ingot]

I decreased the momentum, but now it just feels slow?

[ornate stump]

Feel free to adjust various value and find out what each value does.

[vernal pecan]

Is there a way to spawn some avi's mesh to world, but keep it at the same place globally even for those, who will load my avi later, not to reset mesh position every time my avi loaded/reloaded by others?

[pine valley]

you'll need something like https://github.com/VRLabs/Custom-Object-Sync

this actually sends the position + rotation of the object to other players, rather than just freezing it in place

[vernal pecan]

it can really eat some parameters, thou

[ornate stump]

Since it has to sync so it takes some parameters.

[vernal pecan]

i had an idea to somehow always keep avis spawn point at place (with gogoloco for example) but still move avi itself (with spacemover, but somehow also rotate)

[blazing plank]

hiya ! i have a really weird question LOL. when i upload my avatar to the quest platform, it seems it uploads fine but when i load on game its an error bot and greyed out for both pc and quest. and when i check the website it says something about a security error. this is odd because i know there isnt anything wrong with the avi

[vernal pecan]

so meshes constrainted to "world" will not be moved relative to initian avi's spawn point at all

[pine valley]

you need to communicate where you're moving the objects to, though

[vernal pecan]

and this point will be always the same for everyone

[gaunt knoll]

depends on how you config it

[pine valley]

I have done something like this before

I made my own object sync system and used that to create an "anchor"

I then positioned another object relative to that anchor with a few menu controls

(for fine adjustment)

my anchor placement was very coarse, since I wanted to sync it instantly without using too many parameters

it uses 8 bits each for X/Y/Z position and Y rotation

[vernal pecan]

i planning to just spawn object in front of me, then unconstraint it to outside avi's empty object, so im using my movespaced position and rotation to place it at first

[pine valley]

I'm not sure what you mean by 'unconstraint'

[vernal pecan]

i have barely ~10 parameters left ) anyway

well, i said it wrong i just set "freeze to world"

[pine valley]

This doesn't change anything; people will see the object wherever it happened to be when "Freeze to World" was enabled

if someone loads your avatar later, the object will appear wherever it happens to be by default

[vernal pecan]

yeah, relative to my avi.

[pine valley]

if someone loads your avatar late, this position will also be inconsistent

It is impossible to get consistency if you're using Freeze to World

You have to actively communicate the position and rotation of the object

[vernal pecan]

Well. It will be consistent relative to the point, where my avi was at the moment it was loaded.. so, what if i wiil never move my global avi point

like if i was stayed at the same point all the time

[pine valley]

there is no way to work around this. simply turning on freeze-to-world cannot possibly communicate the correct position + rotation to someone who shows up later

You can use a constraint that targets a prefab to consistently place an object at the world origin

I use that in my own object-sync system

I start at the world origin, then move based on a set of "coarse position" parameters

(I'm pretty sure that's also what the Custom Object Sync package is doing)

[vernal pecan]

doen't it makes it impossible to find the object in the huge worlds where world origin is at unknown point?

[pine valley]

Yes, if the world origin is too far away, then the system doesn't work right

In my case, I added a "range" setting

it still uses the same number of parameter bits, so I trade precision for range

[willow nacelle]

This might be a longshot, but figured I'd ask here in case anyone can help! Recently, my avatar has been having a weird issue where whenever I toggle something on or off, I see it immediatly, but it take anywhere from 10-20 seconds for others around me to see the change. I have confirmed it is not a network issue as when I switch to another avi of mine, the issue is not present.

I went through and removed every item of clothing I added to the avi and uploaded, but the issue still persists. The only recent additions I made that haven't been removed are the VRCFT parameters. And no, my parameters are not full, I still have a good amount of space. Every toggle is created using VRCFury. The base is a male Winterpaw by Julia Winterpaw.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

[indigo compass]

While it shouldn't be that slow, VRCFury forces parameter compression when you go over, so might be worth counting the parameters used when in play mode and checking that they haven't been compressed (look at if the names still exist I think).

[pine valley]

That sounds like the parameter compressor trying to send a ton of parameters with very little bandwidth, yep

I had the exact same issue

[willow nacelle]

Oh good to know, I will check on that for sure then. I am curious why it still happened even when I removed everything though? Because the parameters would be well below the limit, right? I guess I didn't remove them from the scene, just the avi before upload?

[pine valley]

VRCFT was the main culprit here

The parameter compressor cannot compress those parameters

this means that it winds up with very little space to send the rest of your parameters

if it needs to send 400 parameter bits and it can only send 40 bits at a time, it needs 10 cycles to send everything

[somber sequoia]

huh I didn't realize it adds that much lag

makes sense realy

[willow nacelle]

@pine valley That makes so much sense tbh

Well shoot, I will have to look into further optimizations then!

[pine valley]

I believe VRCFury explains how the parameter compressor was set up

i'm not sure where to look, though

(i just examined the generated controller)

I had VRCFT plus quite a few two-axis puppets, which Fury also did not want to compress

[pine valley]

i want to say it attaches a component to the avatar's root with details

[somber sequoia]

wait, Fury automatically adds that? how do I make sure that is disabled?

[pine valley]

you can configure it to just abort if you use too many parameters

[somber sequoia]

I want an error when I go over, not some magic black-box behavior

Okay good

[pine valley]

you'll want to either:

• increase the amount of bandwidth by removing non-compressed things
• reduce the amount of data by removing compressed things

also, Fury will try to compress only float parameters first

if that isn't enough, it moves on to compressing bools as well

so, if you can free up some more space, your toggles will start syncing normally

[willow nacelle]

Thank you all for pointing me in the right direction! I was about to rebuild everything thinking I broke something on the avi itself, so this potentially saved me a good amout of time!

[pine valley]

yeah, it slaps this information on the avatar's root

[willow nacelle]

For best practice, should I remove the VRCFury Parameter Compressor or does it still have value?

[pine valley]

the component?

in sufficiently new versions of Fury, it's not necessary (and it'll tell you that)

[vernal pecan]

Can someone explain, why VRCfury says, that parameter compression comonent is no longer needed, it means that compression still going on, but without the component?

[candid patrol]

Hey, I've been having some issues with this Caine avatar I was making. In order for me to make the blendshapes work properly, I had to keep his mouth closed, so I made the sil blendshape open. It's open for me, but my girlfriend said she can't see it open. I read that there's sometimes issues with the sil viseme not syncing for others, but I don't know how I would go about making it so that his mouth is open for silent (Second picture used Gesture Manager to get to sil state. I do also have the jaw bone unmapped)

[pine valley]

Yes, it's applied automatically as long as VRCFury runs at all.

You can configure it to abort the build instead of running the compressor

[vernal pecan]

you can try to get all thing back to mouth closed default and at sil, BUT instead make a new open-mouthed blendshape and make an animation to open mouth as soon as your voice volume is close to zero

that way you will not make a blendshapes adding to each other for opened mouth

use condition Voice creater than 0 and less than 0.01

the second you will turn your mic off or vrchats noise cancelling drops it to 0 - your mouth will return to opened state

[royal lance]

I dont have the android build apparently but for some reason for vrchats unity version no matter where i look following the instructions I just can not find it anywhere, it i can download andriod just fine for other versions just this one is not even an option. what do I do?

[somber sequoia]

If you installed the editor via standalone package vs. from UnityHub, you can't manage the add-ons via hub, it's annoying.

But look under windows in that component installers section - if you're not using Linux there should be standalone packages for the add-ons there too

[royal lance]

ohhhhh i thought that was a download link not a menu, thanks i feel dense lmao

normally im good at menus but i got duped

[foggy crystal]

why do impostors hate meee

[candid patrol]

I created a new open mouth blendshape and set up an animation for it. How would I set this up? Is it something I have to do in the animator?

[vernal pecan]

do you using VRCFury?

[candid patrol]

I have VRCFury

[vernal pecan]

oh, sorry, this wouldn't be enough... wait, ill try to explain step by step

[candid patrol]

You're good

[vernal pecan]

first - you have to make 2 animation clips, first with mouth open, second with mouth closed

then you should select your avi and go to animator tab, layers section hit + and name you new layer

then you should press gear button and set weight to 1

then drag-n-drop your animations here, starting from open mouth one

select and check for each animation block to have Write Defaults checkbox in Inspector tab to be the same as other ones in other layers

this have to be the same in all avi's layers (mostly)

then you press right button at animation block and choose "make transition", and make it to another block, the same vice versa

now you need to add parameter Voice to tab Parameters in animator

[dense wren]

So i converted my VRM model to VRC and then added the Gogoloco to my model. When I sat down with the model tho it does this. How do i fix it?

[vernal pecan]

it should be float type

ow you should setup this arrows like this

now it should work.

[candid patrol]

Okay, I'll test that out. Thank you

[thin holly]

who knows how to fix infinite loading? The problem is specifically with this stuff, all the others are loaded, and it doesn't work through the site either

[dense wren]

The thing that fixed it for me was me having to literally delete and remove all files relating to VCC

[somber sequoia]

#creator-companion may be better for this question

[dense wren]

🔼

[thin holly]

oh thx im sorry

[somber sequoia]

no no, just suggesting where you might find better help

[alpine ingot]

I kinda need some help with the skirt. So i have been trying to work with the rotation constrains. they seem to work well.. however they dont exist once i press play and let the Physbones be active.. so the skirt just kinda bounces around weirdly?

[feral shell]

no matter what i do for some reson it wont lode my avatar i tried to put it under a new avatar id an it just dose not lode i left it last night to see if it will lode whil i was asleep an it was still lodeing i tryd to uninstall both unity and creator companion but that did not work

i just want to work on my avatars

[somber sequoia]

looks like you're having a network timeout there

[mellow crane]

does anyone know how to get rid of this extra eye stuff on Manuka?

[balmy barn]

blender , otherwise im guessing it might have a material for it you can change

[dense wren]

So i converted my VRM model to VRC and then added the Gogoloco to my model. When I sat down with the model tho it does this. How do i fix it?

[somber sequoia]

what about this needs fixing?

[warped blade]

Hey can anyone recreate a rec room avatar since the game is shutting down?

[somber sequoia]

Are you trying to find someone to commission?

[warped blade]

yeah my bad if this is the wrong channel were do I ask for commission?

[somber sequoia]

Head over to the VRC Traders discord to do that, you'll just find scammers in here.

[timber wharf]

?scam

[somber sequoia]

tag_scam?

[timber wharf]

oh f whats the co mmand

?scammers

nah

[warped blade]

thanks man

[somber sequoia]

Link is somewhere in #1204490664637890580

?tag_scam

I forget, Tony always does it

it's a bit overly verbose anyway

[timber wharf]

?tag scam

nope

well whatever

[dense wren]

The skirt is lifting up into the Avi body instead of staying down

[somber sequoia]

Ah - better weight painting required, or maybe physbones.

[timber wharf]

remove "floor" ie plane collider from physbones?

if its there

but again weve no idea

i dont see sny skirt doing anything weird, only tails

[somber sequoia]

I'm assuming it's the red mesh

now that I know I'm looking for a skirt, that's my guess

[dense wren]

It's a convert model so im not sure if it does have any physbones.

[dense wren]

yea

[somber sequoia]

You can certainly look in Unity to find out

[timber wharf]

convert from what. any conversion wants some proper blender love

[somber sequoia]

100% agreed, may as well just import the VRM into Blender and deal with it all there

[dense wren]

VRM to VRC using the VCC

[timber wharf]

otherwise its low effort, low quality output

ye vrm should be going through blender for sure but not an expert

[somber sequoia]

"the VCC" is just a package manager and launcher for the Unity editor - it takes no part in that conversion process beyond launching Unity

[dense wren]

I used the uhh converter mod/package? Sorry i'm new to all this

[timber wharf]

again, straight vrm to unity is ass. vrm to blender, then fixes in there to fbx then unity is the way. dont know much @balmy barn may tell more or check their prevous messages

tho none of those may fix your skirt, learning how to work with physbones may be more useful if its the only problem

[dense wren]

Got it. Thank you

[timber wharf]

@dense wren https://youtu.be/PTTnWUkswkU

[dense wren]

Oh thank you for the help

[jade aspen]

hey.. is it possible to make a toggle for it to switch on/off in vrchat? i dont want always to have the shiny skin. mby you can tell me how to do it? >w<

also i would like to add a wet body. but the thing is other than pink glow skin i dont have it as a preset. its just a 2d texture.
i t might not work on my model but still want see how it would look like

[timber wharf]

@jade aspen even if animating some shader property is impossible, which idk, then matswapping always is.

[somber sequoia]

That is almost certainly a normal map texture

[jade aspen]

so i cant make a toggle for the preset?

[jade aspen]

how do i add it over my body?

im new to unity 😄

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure why you would "overlay" a normal map

but perhaps your shader of choice has some way of adding this as a second normal map or something, it's difficult to provide more specific advice

[jade aspen]

i want to add a wet layer on my body, so i have a wet skin. idk how to do that 😄

like this

[ornate stump]

You may use detail normal slot for that if it isn't used by something else.

[jade aspen]

where can i find it? under my body?

[ornate stump]

Of course whereever you want to put it on.

[jade aspen]

let me check 😄

idk there are so many options it took me hours to add 1 thing haha

[soft aurora]

I'm just not sure where to set a viewpoint on this avatar. I set it between the eyes with one half of the view orb clipped into the head, failed. now i placed it directly in the middle of the head still lined between the eyes and still does this?

[jade aspen]

hmm i dont see a option to add it or am i missing something

[ornate stump]

The material below.

[jade aspen]

yea but i cant overvrite it, i would have to layer it over it

or not

[ornate stump]

You have to edit the material.

You can't just slap any texture directly on everything. It has to be done via material.

[jade aspen]

sadly i cant do it like the shine body, it had preset xD

can you tell me how i do it in the program then after clicking edit? downloading the needed stuff^^

[ornate stump]

You could just edit the material after you set the preset.

[timber wharf]

search for some vrc material swap guide, then make two marerials

[jade aspen]

thanks

[ornate stump]

That "Edit" button is for editing the shader. Editing material is just changing value and texture inside of the material.

[jade aspen]

so then how i do it? i will not figure it out myself 😄 and idk what to look for for a guide^^

[ornate stump]

And edit whatever show up.

[merry ermine]

Why does the clothing here turn black when uploaded.. I tried using poiyomi to fix its brightness but its 'not compatible' 🙄

Do I need to just.. Brighten the textures or something?? Im confused

[ornate stump]

Only "when uploaded" or you saw the same black in unity too?

[pine valley]

dark-gray clothes will look nearly black if the world has dim light

[tiny dock]

Head bone

Always set it right in front of the base of the head bone

I do avatars with massive heads all the time and it's a super common misconception to put the viewpoint at the eyes

Worst case you might see chest or neck in which case just add a vrc head chop

[jade aspen]

is it somehow possible to change the material + settings?

[tiny dock]

Too lazy to verify i'm thinking the same thing but just duplicate the material and change the settings

I do that for different shading options w/ toon standard

[merry ermine]

It shows normally in unity

I think Ill just change the brightness of the textures and see if that helps

[jade aspen]

hmm guess i will just upload 2 different models and just swap when i want use glowy skin 😄 idk how to set it up. i mean, it uses normal map, anistropy, matcap, matcap 2nd and such.. and idk how to apply it with the settings i want use.

mby i can save it as preset and then is it possible to make a toggle for a preset?

[stoic bobcat]

not sure why, every time I try to make expressions it just never works, it can work on one avatar, but when I do the same method again, it just doesnt work

[dark jay]

My avatars eyes dont move or blink but its set right in unity how do i fix it

[stoic bobcat]

remove the eye bones from the rig menu

[somber sequoia]

that's a weird thing to do

[stoic bobcat]

thats what i do, same issue if you keep the jaw on the rig menu when doing jaw flap, it wont move if its there

[somber sequoia]

you won't get eye rotations if you do this

[stoic bobcat]

weird

ive done that to make sure my eyes can move

i guess ill keep them there

[foggy tiger]

None of my physbones are working

I just added them and they have the default stuff and I added the correct root transforms

Like I haven't messed with physbones but there is no prefab for this avi

So I gotta do it all myself

[dark jay]

Ah ok

[foggy tiger]

I added some to my nardo and it just worked

I don't get what the difference is

[stoic bobcat]

tried adding expressions now my fingers wont move i swear everytime i have the right method for doing something, i try it again and it breaks

[foggy tiger]

Ong king

[stoic bobcat]

i removed the proxy anims for the fingers because if I kept them the avatar would just get stuck in the edit pose

but now nothing moves 😭

[foggy tiger]

Okay never mind, I changed literally nothing and rentered play mode and now the physbone

[somber sequoia]

getting stuck in edit pose is easy to prevent - just select a different animation from the dropdown and it'll reset

[icy iris]

Anyone know how to flip faces in unity?
I'm stuck 😢

[still shuttle]

vrchat mobile toon standard shader, turn back face culling off

you can also flip face orintation in blender

You want the red to be on the inside of ur mesh

you can see face orientation by checking this box here

[icy iris]

Yea I've done that but for some reason it's not fixed in unity?

I'm trying the shader method but I dont see the back face culling option

[still shuttle]

Did you re-import ur fbx?

[still shuttle]

ur using the wrong shader

needs to be toon standard

not standard lite

[icy iris]

I see toonlit no toon standard, do I download that from somewhere?

[still shuttle]

no its just in vrchat/moble

[still shuttle]

is ur sdk up to date?

[icy iris]

Just updated it

[still shuttle]

weird, no idea then

you can also use poiyomi toon but that isnt quest compat

All I can say for the vrchat/mobile/Toon Standard shader is just make sure ur using the most recent SDK, and if you are and still arent seeing it, maybe close ur project and open it again lol

[icy iris]

I'll just download the sdk again maybe it just didn't update

[still shuttle]

You're using the vcc right?

[icy iris]

I should

Okay nvm I fixed it I see the shader now

It was the sdk It just didn't update

Wheres the option for back face culling again?

[still shuttle]

Culling is currently set to back

Set it to off

[icy iris]

Yay!

[still shuttle]

[icy iris]

Thank you a lotta

[still shuttle]

Npnp

[stoic bobcat]

trying to find the right way to do constraints for shoulders, i have an avatar that i dont want the shoulders to move at all

[coral shoal]

i have an avatar that has its windows and quest versions uploaded seperately is there any way i can merge them into one so i can have 1 avatar that just has a pc and quest version?

it sucks because its pc and quest versions are seperate unity files and when i try to import the quest one after the pc one it overwrites the pc one

[lilac musk]

The different versions need to have the same ID in the pipeline manager.

[coral shoal]

ok

[fathom current]

how can i swap this to a quest compatible particle system

[still thunder]

is there any way to give a broken prefab a new parent? because i have a prefab file that was missing its original model file, but now that i have the model back, the prefab isnt detecting it

[ornate stump]

You have to create new a material to replace that.

[indigo bluff]

why

ignore the materials

[ornate stump]

It might be expecting Hips should be a bone inside of Armature object. But your shirt Hips bone is just by itself.

[indigo bluff]

what do you mean exactly

like i should create a parent armature for hips or..

[ornate stump]

Because bones usuaully contains in Armature object, like what you see for your avatar bones.

[indigo bluff]

ig tbf the video im watching on the subject never actually opens the prefab to show its structure

so ill test with something i find online and see

created an empty "armature" object and parented it to hips and it worked

im lwk pissed abt that

alright different problem

im trying to import these pants but when i try to reapply the texture to a new material to retexture and reshade the pants, the texture is misaligned

i have no idea why

[ornate stump]

Probably wrong UV map is being use.

[indigo bluff]

from where?

[marsh pier]

What does this mean?

[ornate stump]

The pants. Did you check whether the pants have more than one uv map?

[indigo bluff]

no, didn't see

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot where you checked for it?

[ornate stump]

Check console panel for errors.

[indigo bluff]

i found a bunch of seemingly vestigial ones in the data panel

[ornate stump]

Not even sure what you meant by that.

[indigo bluff]

well i checked just now for the UV maps on the pants object itself and it not only had the original UV map, but it also had a bunch of other blank ones

with differing names

not interestingly different

[ornate stump]

Better keep only one uv that matters.

And delete the rest.

[indigo bluff]

yeah ill see if that fixes it with new porting into unity

nah still messed up

ill have to come back to this tomorrow

or later today, i mean

dk what time it is for anyone else in here

in the AMs for me

[blazing plank]

hiya ! i have a really weird question LOL. when i upload my avatar to the quest platform, it seems it uploads fine but when i load on game its an error bot and greyed out for both pc and quest. and when i check the website it says something about a security error. this is odd because i know there isnt anything wrong with the avi

[alpine ingot]

ok yeah, even after tweaking the values around the skirt keeps being this stiff bouncy mass. Did i set up the physbone wrong or like.. what did i do?