avatar-help

[mortal tangle]

yea

[topaz forge]

im just so confused why i keep getting this error i've added nothing and have had no problem uploading this avi before. any solution?

[quasi crypt]

is there a way to fix this texture its fine in unity but outside of unity it this

[mortal tangle]

uhhhhhhhh idk

edit it

[somber sequoia]

what's wrong about it?

[quasi crypt]

i wanted some of the parts white so i can do matcap on it for the gold part but from what im seeing for the image on the left is like some parts are missing

[somber sequoia]

uh... okay, so I guess paint on it?

[mortal tangle]

use krita for painting/ drawing

[quasi crypt]

i just figured out how to fix it

[quasi swallow]

does anyone know how to fix this? i just opened the project. it wasn't like this when i last had it open

[quasi crypt]

oh is it when you look a certain direction the mesh just vanish there is a way to fix it

[quasi swallow]

yeah, it seems to "clip" through the avatar's legs. i uploaded it to vrchat to see if it was just a unity issue but it's happening in game too. how can i fix it?

[quasi crypt]

so when you click on you mesh make sure it highlight orange then look at inspector and go to skinned mesh render and go to extent and increase the box size if that doesnt work then its might be pioyomi if so then scroll all the way down until you see rendering and turn culling off hope this help if not try searching up youtube videos maybe

[ruby summit]

my avatar is giginv a weird issue that doesnt let me upload it

i copy pasted the text on chatgpt (better than nothing) and it said its related to the sdk or smt like that

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder+<>c.<CreateContentInfoGUI>b__100_0 (System.String selected) (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.avatars/Editor/VRCSDK/SDK3A/VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.cs:1522)
UnityEngine.UIElements.PopupField1[T].GetValueToDisplay () (at <332857d8803a4878904bcf8f9581ec33>:0) UnityEngine.UIElements.BasePopupField2[TValueType,TValueChoice].SetValueWithoutNotify (TValueType newValue) (at <332857d8803a4878904bcf8f9581ec33>:0)
UnityEngine.UIElements.PopupField1[T].SetValueWithoutNotify (T newValue) (at <332857d8803a4878904bcf8f9581ec33>:0) UnityEngine.UIElements.BaseField1[TValueType].set_value (TValueType value) (at <332857d8803a4878904bcf8f9581ec33>:0)
UnityEngine.UIElements.PopupField`1[T].set_value (T value) (at <332857d8803a4878904bcf8f9581ec33>:0)
VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.HandleAvatarSwitch (UnityEngine.UIElements.VisualElement root) (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.avatars/Editor/VRCSDK/SDK3A/VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.cs:1721)
System.Runtime.CompilerServices.AsyncMethodBuilderCore+<>c.<ThrowAsync>b__7_0 (System.Object state) (at <27124aa0e30a41659b903b822b959bc7>:0)
UnityEngine.UnitySynchronizationContext+WorkRequest.Invoke () (at <cb81df0c49c643b1a04d9fc6ccca2433>:0)
UnityEngine.UnitySynchronizationContext.Exec () (at <cb81df0c49c643b1a04d9fc6ccca2433>:0)
UnityEngine.UnitySynchronizationContext.ExecuteTasks () (at <cb81df0c49c643b1a04d9fc6ccca2433>:0)

[placid mica]

I want to make a toggleable loop animation, and then make a separate radial toggle to change that one animations speed. Are there any good tutorials for this? Or can anybody help me?

[somber sequoia]

see the first pin in here on how to share console messages - this one usually isn't useful on its own, unfortunately

[somber sequoia]

radial sets a float parameter, use that for the looping animation's speed, it's one of the options on the animation state

[somber sequoia]

I can see there's more above - you need to look at the first 2-3 messages, not the last.

[somber sequoia]

oh, figures, only that one. maybe check the SDK's build window, see if there are any major errors there

[ruby summit]

oh, maybe could be this?

[ruby summit]

but apart of that theres no alerts that i had before that could affect

[somber sequoia]

This is a problem, yes.

[ruby summit]

yep that was surely the issue, tysmm

[somber sequoia]

nice

[placid mica]

I'm sorry, I'm really confused. I don't understand how to do this.. is there any possible video to show this? I've been at it for a while

[somber sequoia]

I don't have any video, sorry

explain where you're stuck

[placid mica]

I've made the radial, but it doesnt control anything
I dont understand how to make it change the animations speed

[somber sequoia]

I said - you put the variable the radial changes into the speed parameter on the animation state

[placid mica]

I know, but I don't know what that means.. I'm new to manually making radials

[somber sequoia]

details here:
https://docs.unity3d.com/2022.3/Documentation/Manual/class-State.html

vrchat menu docs here: https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/expression-menu-and-controls

Open a radial puppet menu that controls a single float parameter, kind of like a progress bar that you can fill! The float value is 0.0 to 1.0.

[placid mica]

this is what ive got 😅

[somber sequoia]

looks like a good start

[placid mica]

I have no clue where to go from here

This stuff has always been confusing to me

[somber sequoia]

me either, you haven't explained what it is or isn't doing

[placid mica]

Okay, Here's what Ive got

I want to make a radial looping animation that is at 25% by default, that way I can slow the animation down by 25% or increase its speed by 75%
"Speakers Boom" is that animation I am trying to control
All I have so far is this, and I don't know what else to do from here.

[somber sequoia]

ah if you want to be specific about numbers like that it's probably time to do some math. as I pasted, radial menu item only sets the value from 0 to 1

[placid mica]

Hm, okay.. what can I do from here? I've (clearly) never done something like this before, lol

[somber sequoia]

technically, neither have I 🙂

[placid mica]

Aw poo

Sources online havent been much help

[somber sequoia]

well I guess I did a tail wag speed thingy

[placid mica]

I think it would be similar to that

[somber sequoia]

but really, from here it's just about figuring out math that works, since that speed value is a multiplier on the base speed of the clip

[placid mica]

Even if the vallue is 0 by default that's fine

How did you do your tail wag?

[somber sequoia]

so set the speed to the maximum you want, and then the multipler which the radial controls is from 0 to 1

I did it basically like this but with numbers specific to my setup

it's not a radial though

[placid mica]

I appreciate you bringing up the tail wag, since I have an asset that has a speed control on it for a wagging tail. I can probably reference that for this purpose. Thank you!

[ruby summit]

okay now i found another error but this time was bc my friend

[somber sequoia]

no need to ping me for it

[ruby summit]

yeah my bad srry

well in resume he sent me an avatar that is 57m tall, so the gogoloco and most animations like that were extremely broken if i scaled it down on unity

[somber sequoia]

'cause you shouldn't scale it down in Unity

[ruby summit]

so i now scaled it correctly on blender, applied and redid scales on unity

[somber sequoia]

nice

[ruby summit]

forgot to reset the humanoid armature...

its a 57 meter tall spaghetti titan 😭

[uneven bough]

@ornate stump tested the audio scaling in game and it isn't working on any of the avatars i put it on

[minor crater]

;_: sometimes i can make edits and it doesnt break but its a gamble. i dont mess with anything but the mesh and it still breaks like this and even if i undo everything and export it stays broken 🙁 i have to reload the project, most of the time simply replacing the fbx doesnt even fix it 🙁 what am i doing wrong

all i did this time was cut out some mesh that would never be seen to optimize it

this is airi btw ive been trying so hard to make this model work for quest

even weider is when i drag the fbx into the scene its not broken...

[mortal tangle]

Cute !!

[minor crater]

❤️ ty the pc version is really cute too

[mortal tangle]

Try blender maybe ? And where did you get AIRI?????

I have Manuka !

[minor crater]

airi is a base booth model, i considered manuka but i like airis body a bit more. and yeah this happened from using blender. idk even when i change how i export it stays broken too

[mortal tangle]

Damnm

[minor crater]

i just want everyone to see her lol im so desperate to make a fallback or opti of her too

[placid mica]

Having a problem on the gesture weight of my fist closed expression, where when at 99% the expression animation is working but at 100% it snaps back to the start of the animation
(For example the eyes are closed at 99 but open back up at a fully closed fist/100%)

[woeful wren]

is there a way to edit between our heels and the floor in game? my foot keep clipping

[timber wharf]

@placid mica uncheck loop or looping or whatever in clip's properties

[shrewd sorrel]

i am unable to figure out why the fbx animation preview is correct for my gestures, but when i click the clips themselves, which are the very same ones, the preview is wrong. it is also wrong in game. only the fbx animation preview window shows the correct deformation. for reference i have a rather complicated rig in blender, and the stuff that is incorrect in the clip preview is anything using transform and IK constraints.

in bottom right is the same hand gun gesture

do i have to somehow bake the constraint-controlled bone positions before export?

[shrewd sorrel]

even if i bake it as follows the same issue somehow persists:

or does using a humanoid rig retarget everything somehow?

[shrewd sorrel]

seems like i'm maybe out of luck

[lucid crypt]

is this supposed to happen? 3 body parts are kind of curled up together not looking like the original mesh

[radiant tree]

I'm a bit rusty with the blender mirror tool, the other hand of my model is badly weight painted, but the other hand is perfect, how would I mirror that so I don't have the error?

in other words, trying to do a lazy way of making my rig look smoother-

[hollow rover]

Hey guys i need help with a particle system issue
So whenever i play a toggle in unity it works perfectly fine but the moment i log in on the game the animation wont play when i toggle it on

[ornate stump]

You need to explain context too, what are you doing?

[flint talon]

okay so i got a novabeast, i put diffrent ears on it and the hair did not fit the new ears, a friend edited the fbx of the hair for me in blender so it would fit and send me the blender file, i exported everything and now this is just there

but only when i go into playmode

[ornate stump]

Did you make sure that the hair in blender still have armature?

[flint talon]

yeah

[ornate stump]

Does the hair still follow bone in blender?

[flint talon]

yes

[flint talon]

it does follow it

[ornate stump]

Can you screenshot the entire unity screen when that error show up?

[flint talon]

the hair isnt even showing up in playmode

[ornate stump]

Screenshot the same way again but not in play mode.

[ornate stump]

What actually is the "Armature Test" object?

[flint talon]

that is the fbx i exported from blender, i just named it that way

[ornate stump]

Bad naming causes confusion. If you put that in the scene again, does it have the actual armature object?

[flint talon]

like delete the one that is in there rn and the armature and drop it in there again?

[ornate stump]

That also should do it. And do not "Unpack Prefab".

[flint talon]

looks like this now

[ornate stump]

Then you have to start from there. Use armature link component to link armature.

[flint talon]

tbh i tried that a few times but it never worked, i dont understand armature link haha

like no idea what to put in there so it works

[ornate stump]

Assign the bone you want to move into it, and choose where to link to.

[flint talon]

i guess like that?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[flint talon]

i just used the first thing in the armature

[flint talon]

should i try playmode now?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[ornate stump]

Do you use some kind of optimizer like d4rkavatar optimizer?

[flint talon]

Yep exactly that one

[ornate stump]

That's probably the cause. Try disabling it and see the result.

[flint talon]

should i just delete it?

[elder coyote]

Anyone know how to make a model

[ornate stump]

If you don't know option to disable it then delete it.

[ornate stump]

Someone know how to make a model.

[flint talon]

i deleted it, gonna try playmode now

[elder coyote]

I can’t find the model I’m looking for. I’d have to actually rip it. And I don’t know how to do that either

[flint talon]

okay now its there in playmode and the error is gone, but its very small and rotated now for some reason

[ornate stump]

What model exactly?

[ornate stump]

Disable transform alignment in the armature link.

[elder coyote]

Taygedo

From nte

[flint talon]

everything in there?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[ornate stump]

Never heard of it.

[elder coyote]

This is him

I want an avi of him so badly

[ornate stump]

Ok. If you want to rip from other game, this channel or this server isn't the place for discussing for such topic.

[flint talon]

Alr Hair is there and in the right scale and position, no more errors, now i just have to figure out if im able to get the physbones to work

[elder coyote]

Thing is I don’t want to rip

I think it’s illegal

[ornate stump]

And what kind of help you need exactly?

[elder coyote]

Modeling

[ornate stump]

?tag comm

[flat musk]

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

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

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

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

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

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

[elder coyote]

I don’t have any money😭

That’s why I want to know how to do it myself

[ornate stump]

Modeling is done in blender. There are lot of topics you have to learn first.

[flint talon]

any idea on how to fix this?

i keep having problems with physbones

[ornate stump]

You will have to confirm that there is no other physbone component trying to control the same bone.

[flint talon]

its the only one

[ornate stump]

Also enable gizmos here and see what bone are look like.

[flint talon]

I got it to work!

Really thank you sooooo much

i asked so many people and no one could help me

[earnest goblet]

anyone knows how to fix this? when far away in game or in unity white outlines appear on the model but when close up, it disappears. i dont want any white outline

(sorry for the small first image, it had to be far away)

[ornate stump]

Probably mipmap dilation. You have to paint texture beyond its uv edge.

[earnest goblet]

ohhh will give that a try! thank you

[earnest goblet]

that was it! thank you very much

[somber osprey]

I was told VRChat had an update and now everyone can hear the audio file from my Avi even tho I have range limiter on it

how do I fix this?

[somber sequoia]

show your AudioSource component

[somber sequoia]

you have that set to 2D - set it to 3D instead and the falloff stuff should work

[somber osprey]

okay thank you

[pine valley]

You may be thinking of how the public Steam Audio release caused some audio source to get louder

(2D audio sources have always been global)

[somber osprey]

ah
well someone point it out like that when I was with them

[pine valley]

people do like to blame "the recent update" for everything 😉

[somber sequoia]

And don't read the changelog

[lucid crypt]

(MA) anyone know why having the toggle off makes an accessory visible instead of invisible? and why some toggles doesnt work entirely

[sharp lily]

People, please, I need help. Like, when I launch VRChat, my avatar doesn't load. I don't know what's going on. I can't change my avatar, I can't change worlds, I can't do anything.

[somber sequoia]

you can change out of the problem avatar by switching on the website

[somber sequoia]

you'd have to investigate each toggle, there's nothing we can tell you from this image

[sharp lily]

It's exactly the same thing; no matter how many times I change my avatar on the site, I have the same problem.

[lucid crypt]

it's first time making avatars
dont really know what im doing wrong there

[somber sequoia]

Sorry, I don't know anything about Modular Avatar, just saying that you'd have to look at how each toggle works.

[lucid crypt]

well alr i'll see what i can fix

[somber sequoia]

maybe try #1138891887374237706 then, this channel is about building new avatars, not really runtime issues

[balmy barn]

dont really use it either, but isnt 1 bool true, you want false as default

uh maybe ive tried it once ever

that probably setting it to true when toggled 🥴 dont really like these tools

[somber sequoia]

same

[steady wave]

is there any fix to double vision of avatars? it shows it double visioned for me and other players

[somber sequoia]

never heard of it - got some weird shader going on? maybe a screenshot of this?

[steady wave]

unfortunately i dont have any screenshots

[somber sequoia]

hard to know what to suggest without seeing it

[steady wave]

it shows the avatar in the left lense of the vr headset normaly but the right lense shows it offset to the right

[ornate stump]

It usually causes by incorrect shader usage.

[balmy barn]

yup shaders can do that, try another one see if it still happen

[somber sequoia]

Yeah that's a shader not setup for vrchat

[steady wave]

Ive tried like 3 different shaders but does the same thing

[somber sequoia]

which shaders?

and what are you doing with it?

[steady wave]

i took an avatar with a poiyomi shader and swaped it for standard lite shader to optimize it for quest.

would that have anything to do with double vision?

[ornate stump]

Possibly. Also try creating new materials instead of just swapping out shader in old material.

[somber sequoia]

I really want to know what this "double vision" looks like

[ornate stump]

It's when stereo eye parallax isn't working. Probably similar to having a model rendered at the same position on the skybox.

[steady wave]

I cant really take a screenshot but this is the best way i can describe it

[somber sequoia]

right but why would that happen when using normal things like poiyomi?

[steady wave]

the avatar came with poiyomi but i swaped it for standard lite so i can use it for quest

[ornate stump]

I had a friend did that by accident. Still not sure what actually was causing it other than shader.

[rose vine]

Heyo so im trying to download a shader thing for an avi, but im new to this an dont kniw how to download this from here:

Any assistence would be helpful

[rose vine]

ok which one? or all of them?

[ornate stump]

For the most thing you want to get for unity, you have to get it by unitypackage.

[rose vine]

ok so the 3rd option

[ornate stump]

Other package may not locates at 3rd option, so you have to actually read the file name.

[timber wharf]

@rose vine you dont want to use unitypackage at all

[rose vine]

wheres that?

[timber wharf]

readme

ie main page

[somber sequoia]

why not just do this in VCC?

[timber wharf]

scroll down

[rose vine]

i dont know what that stands for

[somber sequoia]

Vrchat Creator Companion, it's discussed in the getting started page:
https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/creating-your-first-avatar

[rose vine]

oh that yeah i have that already

[somber sequoia]

that's where you should probably manage packages like Poiyomi

[rose vine]

ok yeah, im just trying to get the poiyomi file first

[somber sequoia]

this is what VCC is for though

it handles getting that package and installing it

[rose vine]

Pressing this button got me to VCC an installed it too

[somber sequoia]

yes

[rose vine]

ok thx yall

whats the differnece between Unity 2022 an unity 2019 in the VCC?

Does it matter which one i use?

[timber wharf]

2019 is legacy and cannot upload any new stuff, only update your old projects

[rose vine]

ok so any avi I am gonna upload use Unity 2022

[supple prawn]

does anyone know how to put a loop animation on a avatar?

[rose vine]

So if an avi has an adult version an a SFW version would i upload together or separate, the file i have has both in place but the directions i was given for it doesnt say not to upload together or will this corrupt each other?

Or would i have to upload separately, new to this is all sorry for if these questions are dumb

[night ember]

Thats bold to ask in the server since nsfw content is against tos entirely
Id suggest only uploading the sfw

[sharp osprey]

sorry for the dumb question, but if i had a model with multiple face meshes that have their own visemes, how would i go about having more than one mesh use their visemes when speaking?

[night ember]

ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

making a blendtree

and using the Viseme parameter

[sharp osprey]

is there a list that shows which Viseme int values correspond to which viseme state

that would actually be super helpful

[night ember]

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/animator-parameters/

[sharp osprey]

im on that page already but it doesn't show which numbers go to which visemes (like, random example, 4 = ch)

oh

wait no it does my bad

thank you!

[main kiln]

I'm trying to find tutorials online for this, but I don't think I'm looking at the right videos for this, but I'm trying to animate a shapekey and I'm not sure how keyframes work with it. It seems to only add a key frame to it's final value

[somber sequoia]

make a new keyframe at the target time, set the value you want. repeat for all keyframes

[main kiln]

I tried doing that it didn't seem to work, though I might be doing it in the wrong order

I tried to set at like 0.90 value, but it still registered it as 1.000

Though maybe I'm just not far enough into it, but everytime I would try to set a new value, it would just go back to 0.90

Even if I inserted a new keyframe at a different value

[somber sequoia]

you can always set it in the animator at the keyframe, rather than setting the property in the inspector

otherwise maybe you'd have to show what you're doing

[pine valley]

is this in Blender or in Unity?

[main kiln]

I should probably clarify in case this makes things less confusing, Blender 😅

[pine valley]

you're saying "shape key" and using a value of 0.9

so yeah, Blender

[somber sequoia]

ohhh

[main kiln]

Yeah no I should've been more specific lol

[pine valley]

I'm guessing you just aren't inserting a new keyframe correctly

[main kiln]

Probably not, but I'm not sure how to lol

[pine valley]

If you don't have the auto-record mode turned on, you must right click the property and hit Add Key

[somber sequoia]

ok then you have to add or replace the value when you set it

right

[main kiln]

Animating in Unity is fine, I can manage that LOL

[pine valley]

er, "Insert Keyframe"

[somber sequoia]

Yeah I should have asked up front

[main kiln]

I should've been more clear though tbh 😅 Cause I realized there were two programs to animate on

[pine valley]

Unity is somewhat similar: if you don't have the recording mode enabled, then you aren't actually inserting keyframes automatically

[main kiln]

True, maybe I just forgot to do the recording thing

But it wasn't really doing anything when I tried to insert keyframes so it was confusing to me

[somber sequoia]

if you right-click the property you're changing, there's options to insert or overwrite keyframes, I use those

[main kiln]

The issue is I want to build up into 1.000 value so ig Blender doesn't like that 😅

I noticed that, yeah

Could I add all the keyframes first and then animate the shapekey from all those keyframes?

Or do I have to do that one at a time?

[pine valley]

i don't understand what the problem is

move to a certain time, set the appropriate shape key influence, and add a keyframe

If you're trying to adjust how quickly the value changes, perhaps you're looking for a different interpolation mode

[main kiln]

I think I'm just not sure how to ask the question 😭

[pine valley]

Explain what you're actually trying to do

not your attempted solution

[main kiln]

I'm trying to make a shapekey animate in a way that I want through the different values, not just from 0>1.000

Like 0.1 has a different look, then it goes to 0.2, and so forth until 1

[pine valley]

you can't record "different poses" for different shape key values

[main kiln]

Well then maybe that's the problem 😭

[pine valley]

A shape key moves each vertex by a specific amount

the Value of the shape key controls how strongly it applies

[main kiln]

So then I need a different technique for what I'm trying to do

[pine valley]

now explain the original problem, before you even decided you need shape keys :p

[main kiln]

It wasn't like an issue, just something I wasn't sure how to do 😭

I don't know how animation works in blender

So that's what I'm trying to figure out 😔

[mint silo]

So i am currently trying to make a root beer float nanachi. i was wondering if anyone would like to help me make this plausible. What im trying to do is to make the face like the mix of the both and have a tint of root beer if that make any sense?

[somber sequoia]

it's just coloring the texture, right?

sounds quite plausible.

[mint silo]

well i want to make the root beer brown somewhat see through, like make it look like the actual drink

[somber sequoia]

Well if you're doing this for PC, that's just alpha transparency, again in the texture.

[mint silo]

im lost lol

[proven quail]

The easiest thing to do would to be to make the brown root beer section its own material in blender, so that you can apply the material properly. Or, you could duplicate the mesh only on the brown part and slightly scale it up to have an outer layer where the root beer will be. Then you would use translucent textures and maybe some normal map stuff with the fizz/bubbles

[mint silo]

my only downfall is that i know nothing about blender

[proven quail]

Ahh, yeah that might be tricky. I was thinking about how cool it would look with maybe a 2-3 layer parallax scrolling animation with the 'bubbles' moving up like it does in a glass of soda. You might be able to get some effect with just masking and such but it won't be like what you could do with layering.

[mint silo]

i remember doing something along the lines of doing honey hair a while back and it turned out so well, but i forgot how i did it lol

like this

[rose vine]

Alright thx

[soft thistle]

i've been trying to fix my character's default face sticking to the confident face, it even stays the same after resetting avatar

[balmy barn]

using a int to change them ? , have the faces in same layer in fx somewhere to avoid stacking

[soft thistle]

yea i mostly use int

[outer condor]

scam alert !!!

[soft thistle]

fixed 👍

[proven quail]

I did a little thing. Maybe something like this could be applied for root beer? (You would have to texture edit to fit the uv map)

[proven quail]

Forgor to reply ^

[floral estuary]

How much would a custom avi cost ?

[proven quail]

Separate pieces

[mint silo]

oh shii nice

[proven quail]

Here's without the textures bubbles. You could instead use a normal map for bubbles and have a bubble matcap and they might look better

[slim heath]

how do i make it so that the correct mouth shapes are linked to the correct sounds? rn, the blendshapes in blender have been made, but i need to know how i can make it so that when i would make an "a" sound the "a" mouth actually would show in game

[pine valley]

this is configured on the Avatar Descriptor

see https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/creating-your-first-avatar#lip-sync-mode

[proven quail]

In unity, there is an avatar descriptor attached to the avatar. In that component, you can set the blendshape for each viseme sound

[slim heath]

thanks!!

[slow notch]

yo anyone know good avi creators i can check out

[mortal tangle]

how do i fix this??? it has too be .001 in order for it too merge properly

[crimson locust]

hey i’m new to the server and i had this avatar i really liked back in 2023, and now it’s been token down the creator was “Luckyy” i really want to know what happened to it, ill send a photo of the avatar

[spiral shard]

how would i go about making a placeable camera like singularity's biopods in dbd (video demonstration above). i got the placement down but im struggling to make it actually look through the cameras. currently im using a plane that uses a render texture of the camera's view (shown in the screenshot) and it works fine on desktop, but in vr it breaks showing a split view. i dont know if there is a better way to do this or if i can just fix the split view somehow.

[pine valley]

presumably you can click the dropdown and select a different armature

[pine valley]

iirc, if you turn on a camera that doesn't have a render texture, your viewpoint switches to the camera

[tranquil locust]

how do i upload a avatar

am i doing it wrong

i did everything and it won’t let me

[pine valley]

look at the console

notably, i see these errors here

i have no idea what the script would be!

[tranquil locust]

idk i js might get a different avatar from someone

would that helpV

like the problem

[pine valley]

was this actually intended for use as a VRC avatar?

[somber sequoia]

#1138520828556890214

[tranquil locust]

yea

[pine valley]

it doesn't have to be, but it might have problems you need to fix

[tranquil locust]

i had bought it

it was a freebie in a server

[crimson locust]

noting pulled related to the character

[somber sequoia]

so make a post

Either way, this channel is about avatar creation, not searching

[mortal tangle]

i cant- the onlyone there is the 9 one

[spiral shard]

that worked, thank you

[slim heath]

cant log into the vrc sdk but the password and username/email is correct

[vapid slate]

if i add the pc avatars id to the quest one, will it show pc only toggles? [like yk how there are quest avatars that have pc only toggles?]

[somber sequoia]

Usually you want to share the parameters list for both versions. But you can have the avatars entirely different if you want

[worthy cedar]

I have a problem with installing unity editor

Can I send a screenshot of my problem?

[somber sequoia]

sure

[worthy cedar]

It shows me this

What do I do

If I do a manual install where do I put it

[surreal ridge]

my unity is broken

[echo halo]

is it normal for unity hub to constantly open when i use vcc?

[solemn drum]

why is the gester manager asset suddenly not working anymore unless i restart unity every single time i run it

like it will work one time then if i try and use it again it just does not work until i restart unity

[somber sequoia]

Yeah, anytime you run Unity, the hub will open.

I just close it and let it sit in the tray

[echo halo]

That’s strange I’ve used it for years and it just recently started doing that

[somber sequoia]

it always has for me

[shrewd sorrel]

@pine valley sorry for ping but any chance you know whats going on here?

[robust scarab]

My friend is helping me upload my avatar and we cant figure out what to do. He says the blue print ID is blank. There is nothing to clear he says

[somber sequoia]

that's not the real error - scroll up and look at the first 2-3

[somber sequoia]

there you go

you need to install the package that provides that script, whatever it is

it says "MA" - maybe it's Modular Avatar?

[robust scarab]

Its through lance armory

[somber sequoia]

no idea what that is

[dry patio]

Hello everyone I've been making avis for a long while now and I want to get into making my own textures, More specificly for the Origin base, but I can't figure out were to start. To be honest it feels a little daunting but I have done a million small texture projects like cloths and or tweaks to body textures so I want to try. If anyone could help me can you @ me and we can talk over dm or call.

[sudden ginkgo]

Hi, I've been having this problem very regularly with the SDK, where everything is greyed out and I cannot upload anything.
Is this a server issue? It happens quite often, and it's very random.

[brittle widget]

Does anyone know the name of this avi? Can't find anywhere

[timber lotus]

can someone help me?

[stark kiln]

does anyone know how to make hueshifts with poiyomi and get them to actually work? I've been trying and it literally doesn't work at all and i don't know why :c

[pallid drift]

hey, how could i make a slider to change the brightness/saturation on my avatar? im guessing you just make an animation that goes through changed main texture color but the thing is that theres over 100 meshes that ill have to manually add this option to

the reason why theres so many meshes is that its customizable

is there a faster way or no?

[spiral shard]

how do i make an animation that rotates the hand bone play in-game? i preferably would want it connected to a vrcfury toggle i already have set up (image below). animation clip i set up doesnt play, not even when i remove the toggle.

[hollow mesa]

not really a bug/struggle more asking for advice!
I wanna make this silly octoling modal I found more personal but I am finding it really hard to find any clothes or accessories that could fit over the model right

Anyone got suggestions of things they know?

ignore bad lighting

[shrewd sorrel]

for the record i managed to solve all this by making my own FX layer to control my hands instead of using the gesture layer, just read the gesture values and blend between my animations

[analog fog]

Im having problems with and avi and it keeps saying "Preprocess hooks failed" anyone know how to fix this

[ornate stump]

You have to get error detail in console panel.

[analog fog]

: (

[faint aspen]

My entire unity is fucked now and yes i have tried basically everything from reinstalling to removing and re adding the sdk i quite frankly dont know what to do anymore

[ornate stump]

Try changing sdk to another version.

[faint aspen]

in manage project?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[faint aspen]

Also tried that

didnt do anything

[dreamy needle]

anyone know how to turn a pc avi quest compatible?

[sick loom]

That is a bit of a vague question, and it’s probably something for #avatar-optimization or #avatar-quest

[dreamy needle]

also do u ahve any idea what this is🥹

sorry i havent uploaded avis in months

[sick loom]

judging by what it says I would assume it means the component does nothing and should probably just be removed

[pine valley]

yes, you can freely remove the component

[somber sequoia]

many many meshes is a performance issue though, and you're right, you have to do that animation for each one

[pallid drift]

https://tenor.com/view/iron-giant-sad-walk-away-hunched-gif-27471983

dear... god..

oh and my embed failed

FUCK

[somber sequoia]

yes, they don't work here

[stable citrus]

try to clean reinstall Unity Editor & Unity Hub & also check if you unity account have a valid license

[somber osprey]

why is my character always 1 or 2 feet above the ground?

I have space drag resetted

[somber sequoia]

is it not standing on the origin when positioned at 0,0,0?

[somber osprey]

only when I'm in VRChat in VR mode

but if I'm in desktop mode. I'm not floating too much

[dreamy needle]

is anyone able to help me imm unable to upload mmy avatar

[languid wyvern]

Where are you stuck?

[dreamy needle]

so i added vrc fury to vcc, imporated mmy avi and poi toon shaders and then went to vrchat sdk to upload it but its like not uploading idk how to explain it

its been stuck on buildingf avatar

[languid wyvern]

Send screenshot of your sdk screen showing the errors you got

[dreamy needle]

and nothing has popped up like it usally does

[winter sun]

i cant seem to find the missing texture for the bubble wand in unity

[dreamy needle]

also idk if this is important but i dont remember this

[languid wyvern]

The first message there is what most definitely is stopping it from uploading

[winter sun]

im not seeing any other material thats pink

[dreamy needle]

do yk how to fix it 💔

[languid wyvern]

Can you send a screenshot of your screen, I’m mean the actual vcc and not your sdk this time

[final wigeon]

how do i make my second outfit fit my first one

[languid wyvern]

So click on the avatar fbx on your hierarchy, then send a screenshot

If you understand what I mean?

[dreamy needle]

uhhh i dont know what an avatar fbx is sorry 😭

[languid wyvern]

That one

[pallid hedge]

Hate to interrupt but, does anyone know what this is? I got my hands on his files and none of the things for him were labelled

[languid wyvern]

You should click open on the inspector side

[dreamy needle]

this pops up

and when i click save it says failed

[languid wyvern]

You know what

You have to close the sdk screen

[dreamy needle]

ohh

[languid wyvern]

And try clicking that again and see what you find

[dreamy needle]

so when i click open it js brings me here

[languid wyvern]

But then did you follow every instructions provided by the creator though?

[dreamy needle]

their were no instructions 🥹

[languid wyvern]

Bruhhh… damn

[dreamy needle]

just the pc and quest files 😭

i dont remeber it being this diffuclt ususally it was just vcc->download vrcfurry-> immport shaders and avi-> click blue cube-> sdk panel upload

so idk

[languid wyvern]

Yeah, it’s always like that most of the time

[sick loom]

It says you can delete it because it means it does nothing

it probably wouldn’t make a difference to have it or not

[somber sequoia]

I stepped out but it sounds like the avatar's origin is wrong, I'd put it in Blender and see where that is.

[sick loom]

that is popping up because you are already editing a prefab, so either way you need to save it and exit, otherwise you might be losing any changes you made while editing the prefab

[final wigeon]

anyone know to to fix that

[somber sequoia]

it's not clear what you want fixed?

[final wigeon]

you see my avatar have a pose end a outfit have another pose i whant to fix it

i whant the pose to be the same so when i export it to unity im able to make toggle to switch outfit

[somber sequoia]

you want to re-pose the outfit?

[final wigeon]

the problem is that on the avatar i have 2 armature i try using cats to merge them but it make the outfit go in a t pose

[somber sequoia]

well you should probably start by posing the outfit to match the avatar's pose.

I've never done the armature merging with cats though.

[final wigeon]

im pretty new end everything i try did the same the outfit go in the t pose end dont go on my avatar bone

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure I understood that

[final wigeon]

end having 2 armature cause problem so idk how to fix that

[somber sequoia]

Yes, ideally you want the outfit to use the avatar's main armature, you can change that by updating the armature modifier. You might need to rename all the vertex groups to match the avatar's bone names though

I assume this is what cats does

[final wigeon]

What I mean is that I have a basic avatar, and I found an outfit for it, but it contains an armature. When I reconnect the two armatures, the outfit goes into a T-pose; it doesn't reconnect to the avatar's arm bones. Do you see what I mean?

[somber sequoia]

Yep, I get it

[final wigeon]

However, having two armatures is a problem because the outfit will only follow the avatar, so I don't understand how to solve the problem.

[somber sequoia]

you re-pose the clothing to match the avatar's pose, then you swap the clothing to use the avatar's armature, updating vertex group names to match the new armature's bone names.

Or you can use cats, but I don't know anything about that.

[final wigeon]

Cats does the bone-like pose well, but the problem remains that the outfit isn't integrated with the bone for the avatar's positioning to be correct, and moving the outfit while trying to change the position is complicated because I don't know how to do it.

It's annoying, there's no problem with the base, but it happens when I merge the two, and even if I use the correct vortex on the outfit, strangely the arms don't position correctly.

[molten linden]

Yo

I’m having trouble fixing this character

[junior brook]

hi!! im finishing up an avatar but i dont know how to make different expressions or how to make it so my avatar opens its mouth while speaking, the mouth and the eyes are flat and not in the model itself , and they have their own mesh, can somebody help me set this up? thank you
i can change the eyes OBVIOUSLY , and the mouth but i want it to do that in game

[somber sequoia]

fixing what about it?

[sick loom]

The problem is that it looks fine at a glance, so you need to explain

[winter sun]

idk why but everything except the bubble wand is textured

i fixed the emissions but the bubble wand is still missing a texture

[somber sequoia]

check its material?

[molten linden]

So basically when I put it into Unity from blender I don’t know if the size was messed up on the scale but like certain things weren’t right and I just wanna make sure that it works and functions right but I honestly need someone that doesn’t mind being on a discord call looking at my screen and helping me go over some things to make sure this would work or the proper way to put it into Unity like it has a few bones sets connected to it like that and I’m kind of new to this

[winter sun]

they're all on items

[somber sequoia]

if you exported from Blender with "apply scalings" set to "FBX All" then it'll be the same size in Unity.

[molten linden]

Would that be the reason that like say I had a bracelet and waste belly thing on there and like imported to Unity it’s like everything was fucked up like hair wasn’t sitting right all the stuff wasn’t sitting right so I just closed that file out and reopen it in blender and fix whatever the problem is what I’m also having a hard time getting the pants to fit exactly correct I’m not sure I know if I look at the pants in a certain way it has blowouts in it. I hope they aren’t gonna show up in the game.

This is why I want someone when they get a chance to help me like look at my screen while I’m fucking with it and go over everything make sure you know

Besides that the character look good ?

[lone niche]

Hello im new to this server and was told i could get some help here. Im new to making avatars and when i tried making my first one to test with i noticed that it appears like its clipping through the floor. does anyone know how to fix this?

[teal laurel]

When you exported the fbx in blender, was the mesh at 0 0 0?
And did you touch it in unity? If yes, try setting it back and test again

[lone niche]

Im not sure exactly. heres a picture of it in blender.

[lone niche]

this was how it was in blender but i tried to move it in unity but it wont seem to go anywhere

[molten linden]

How do I get clothes to stay on without making them look messed up like when they’re coming through

Because whenever I use the sculpting tool, it seems like it puts a lot of lumps and bumps and fucked up in there

[somber sequoia]

the scale of that object you have selected is not 1,1,1 - you'll want to select all objects and apply transforms, before exporting it.

[floral ibex]

hey guys, is there a way that could cause NDMF hooks to not launch on build? I've got an avatar with some toggles I added with MA, I tested it with gesture emulator in play mode and it worked fine but when I built and uploaded, the menu doesn't seem to appear. I don't see any errors and the only warning I got was "recovered 0 network IDs from <avatar name>" which I assume is innocuous

[lone niche]

That fixed it. cheers.

[soft thistle]

👍

[smoky kernel]

how do i put the camera to be in front of the avatar

i can't reach it

too far

hlep

[teal laurel]

what xyz is it under in blender and unity?

[teal laurel]

You can change the avatars viewpoint in the avatar descriptor. I suggest you move it in between the eyes and make it stick out of the head a bit

[smoky kernel]

already did that, sorry for making you type

[pallid hedge]

Anything?

[somber osprey]

so import its FBX and check its origin?
what am I supposed to look for exactly if the origin is correct or not?

[hollow axle]

So my quest version of my avatars mouth isn’t moving whenever I use my mic in game, is there a way to fix that because me and my friend looked on lip sync and nothing seemed wrong with it. I’m honestly out of ideas ngl on what could be the problem

[smoky kernel]

how do i add clothes to an avatar in unity

as in how do i make them move with me

i am clueless please help

[teal laurel]

You can use vrcfury and arature link and blendshape link. That should make it quite easy ti add things. ofc they have to fit your avatarm otherwiser you need to do some blender stuff

[smoky kernel]

tutorial?

[teal laurel]

yt

[smoky kernel]

like a link

[teal laurel]

busy, not gonna spoonfeed. you can search on your own

[smoky kernel]

oh im sorry

[somber sequoia]

In Blender, you can click on any object and its origin will be a teeny tiny orange dot. If you apply transforms, that'll be set to the origin. Basically have your avatar standing on 0,0,0, with +Z up and facing -Y (which comes out of the screen at you), then apply all transforms and it should be good for Unity.
Remember to set "Apply scalings" to "FBX All" in the export dialog.

[molten linden]

I got irritated and started over

Does anybody know where I can get a pre-rigged female body with jiggle physics

Free

[charred niche]

Can someone please upload my avatar to my account? I don't have a PC; I already have the avatar made.

[somber sequoia]

a) don't share your credentials
b) that associates the uploader with you, might lead to being banned if they do, or vise-versa
c) head over to the VRC Traders discord to commission people, you'll just find scammers here

[lapis shore]

I need help. I plan on getting Rosaline by Ezra.mp3, but it says I need basic knowledge of Unity and Blender.
I know Unity is for uploading, but why do I need Blender?
Can I just upload and use the avatar right away, or does it need editing first?
I'm new to this stuff, so if anyone knows the steps for uploading it, please let me know.

[somber sequoia]

it's difficult to give exact advice without having experience with those exact assets, you may not need Blender at all.

[supple marsh]

Should just be an upload kind of thing on unity only, I'm guessing blender is just for if you yourself wanna edit something with the files it comes with

Also I decided to take a look at the store page for that avatar and uh... 💀

[somber sequoia]

yow, that's quite poor

[supple marsh]

Idk about you guys this looks very poor to me

[golden grove]

I tried to sign in my sdk but it just keep showing me that,and i don't know why i couldn't to receive the email at all.

[crystal whale]

question: using vrcfury, how do i have multiple radial wheel material swaps for a single item? Trying to keep them organized and if i added them all to a single radial wheel, it'll become far too cramped.

[golden grove]

I tried to change my password and i can to received the email to change password but i still can receive the email from SDK

Can anyone help me plz?

[pine valley]

by "radial wheel", are you talking about a menu with multiple toggles in it?

("radial" makes me think of a radial puppet: the thing you use to set a percentage value)

[somber sequoia]

nobody here works for vrchat, seems like you've done all the right things

[crystal whale]

The slider. The radial percentage wheel

[pine valley]

and you're using multiple VRCFury Toggles?

if so, i think you can make this work by turning on the "passthrough at 0%" option

that'll make the slider do nothing when it's at 0%

allowing another toggle to control the material slots

[crystal whale]

so help me if this works.....

Kind of? But now it's mixing the two wheels

that are on two separate toggles

[lapis shore]

What's this mean?? 😭

[supple marsh]

In the avatar SDK it gives you any warnings and shows your avatar's performance rank

If you see a lot of the red circle with an exclamation mark then uh... yeah, it's not gonna run very well

[proven quail]

You mean like folders? Like on the radial folders?

[crystal whale]

No. I need separate radial wheel toggles for material swaps for different themed materials. but on the same item.

for example, a bunch of holiday shirts categorized into which holiday they are with different slider wheels.

[lapis shore]

I don't really go in public servers. I mainly just play with my girlfriend in private servers. Will it still suck?

[crystal whale]

but for the same shirt

[night ember]

Very poor performance is kinda in the name of the stat

[supple marsh]

If either yours or her fps starts tanking then yeah

Which is uhhh

very likely with those kinds of stats

[night ember]

Id personally do it manually rather than with fury

[crystal whale]

but how do you do it manually?

[proven quail]

Ok actually I think you could do that. So you could do what gogo does with their emotes where it assigns an int value and also uses a radial. So the int would control which animation is controlling the shirt material, and then the float would control the animation time

[lapis shore]

Soo not worth??

[crystal whale]

I'm not smart enough to mess with bools and ints and floats and stuff.

[proven quail]

Avatar creators should strive for better performance, but very poor avatars will not kill you. The Avi seems average for most gumroad/payhip avatars.

[night ember]

Make an animation that swaps the material between each themed material and control it with a float parameter tied to the wheel
When float = 0 do not animate so the other wheels can animate
When entering the animation so float greater than 0 parameter driver other floats to 0

[proven quail]

Still not great, but if it's just you and a few others it shouldn't be too bad

[supple marsh]

You can definitely cut out a lot of unnecessary stuff from the avatar's prefab if you're really that worried

If it's you and say like 1 or 2 others, it should be okay ig

Just don't be surprised when your friend's fps starts to tank

[lapis shore]

Ok ty 🙏

[lapis shore]

Ty 🙏

[ocean berry]

does anyone know how i can fix these feathers being a lot darker than the rest (its all the same material)

[proven quail]

is there vertex paint making it darker? is the texture darker in the section those feathers are uv mapped to? is there emission hitting the other feathers?

[ocean berry]

all the feathers have the same uv map and i never messed with the vertex paint so idk about that vertex paint part

[proven quail]

the two feathers seem to have different patterns on them? like the normal map maybe?

[spiral shard]

asking this again since i never got an answer, is there a way for me to make animations that animate bones? i couldnt get it to work.

[ocean berry]

i removed the material from it and its still dark

[ocean berry]

even with no normal maps its still dark

[proven quail]

seems like vertex paint. in blender, go to vertex paint and set it all to white

[pine valley]

The feathers look metallic to me.

show me the material for the feathers

[ocean berry]

those two are the same exact material its not metalic

[proven quail]

no metallic/smooth map?

[pine valley]

"those two"?

are you talking about the unity screenshot vs. the blender screenshot?

very little carries over from Blender

show me the material that you're using for the feathers in Unity

[subtle chasm]

Does anyone know why nothing is loading for me? I can't go to other worlds either

[proven quail]

do you know how to make a material swap animation?

[pine valley]

i heard that trying to use a random warp effect breaks the game

(if you own no warp effects)

[ocean berry]

no i mean the white shoulder on the shoulder and the messed up grey ones on the chest

its the exact same shader

[proven quail]

same shader or same material?

[pine valley]

Show me the material anyway.

[ocean berry]

there was no vertex painting when i checked then i painted it white like u said and it still didnt change

[crystal whale]

nope

[pine valley]

Okay, so you're using the default material there

Might be an issue with mesh normals

The feathers on the chest have a very weird sheen to them

[ocean berry]

how do i fix the normals

[proven quail]

the feathers look to be textured differently. The ones on the chest have these crossed lines while on the shoulder there isn't any. I wonder whats making them different

[pine valley]

In Blender, select the feathers in edit mode and then run the Reset Vectors operator (hit F3, type "reset vectors")

[ocean berry]

thank you

all done

[pine valley]

Custom normals are useful for making a mesh blend properly into another surface

[proven quail]

ok so first, ctrl + d the avatar in the scene to make a copy. we will animate on the copy so nothing happens to the main avatar.

[pine valley]

but if they don't make sense, you'll get very bad shading

[proven quail]

then click the copy avatar and click on the animation tab. Click create animation.

name it something, maybe like the holiday name or whatever the category is going to be

Then, you can click the record icon. For the first frame, change the mesh to the first material in the set. Then, go to 0:05 and change the matrial to the 2nd one, vise versa. Do this for all the materials in the set seperating them by :05.

when you click a value on the timeline and change the material in the inspector on the mesh, it will create a keyframe on the timeline. It will save the material swap you made.

[proven quail]

let me know if you are able to get to this point / are following. If you are having trouble, let me know and I can try to explain better.

[ocean berry]

how do i get sharp edges to show up in unity

[proven quail]

looks like the shading is making the edges blend in. you could try different shadow settings, metallic, or rim shading, etc.

[proven quail]

forgor to reply ^

@crystal whale so I didn't realise before but I do have to go soon, so I'll finish explaining here. Once you have the animation done. create animations for each holiday. then, you can slot the animations into the fx controller of this prefab I made for you

drag the prefab on the avatar and then edit the controller to add the animations

the prefab just installs and merges the fx controller, the parameter list, and menu

in stuff, find the menu and you can rename each holiday option to the desired holiday

[granite geyser]

All my uploads just dissappearrd from vrchat? And I didnt delete them

[crystal whale]

how do i add a decimate modifier on blender 5.1.1?

[somber sequoia]

same way as before, but you can also use the one in the mesh -> cleanup menu in edit mode if you don't want a modifier.

I like that one as it's way more targeted (works on only selected parts)

[crystal whale]

And that would be..... I remember having to right click something at the bottom right and clicking add modifier, decimate, but i can't find it now

[somber sequoia]

it's in the modifier list, wrench icon in the properties panel when you have a mesh object selected

blender docs are decent here: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/modeling/modifiers/introduction.html#interface

[crystal whale]

?

[somber sequoia]

right place, but you don't seem to have a mesh object selected

it'll be a blue wrench icon

[crystal whale]

I got it now, but how do i put multiple meshes in one decimate modifier?

[somber sequoia]

you don't, these modifiers only work on each mesh independently

So if you want to do it to multiple, you have to do the same thing to each

[smoky kernel]

when i click the play button on unity all my textures gone

nvm

[tranquil locust]

how do i do this? can someone call and help me i would appreciate it i cant find it

[gaunt knoll]

In unity top left tab then build opinions I believe (I don't have unity open rn)

[tranquil locust]

tysm i found it

how do i fix this??

aughhh this is stressful

[somber sequoia]

make it smaller some way - see #avatar-optimization or #quest-optimization for hints as to how. The usual stuff includes : fewer add-ons, smaller texture images, remove unused blendshapes, etc.

[tranquil locust]

i don’t know how to so do i remove stuff off the avatar?

[somber sequoia]

That could be included in "fewer add-ons", sure.

[smoky kernel]

how do i use vrcfury if i wanted to attach clothes

it ain't working for me

[somber sequoia]

Armature Link is probably the component you want

there's also a vrcfury discord

[smoky kernel]

oh shi for real?

[somber sequoia]

well I saw it mentioned on the website, haven't been there myself

[hidden sparrow]

my avatar base was updated; when I import a new version of the avatar .unitypackage onto unity do I have to do anything or does it replace all the base stuff?

[somber sequoia]

it'll replace all files in the package

[hidden sparrow]

and in the scene

[somber sequoia]

when you import it, you'll be presented with a list of those files, and you can check some on or off if you like

[hidden sparrow]

ye I did that

[smoky kernel]

also when i export the avatar to vrchat the textures are not there

[crystal whale]

Any clue why blender is failing to load an FBX I'm trying to import?

It's not corrupted, and works in unity just fine

[somber sequoia]

any error messages?

[crystal whale]

It's saying it failed to import. Nothing else.

"Cannot import, failed to load"

[crystal whale]

?

[somber sequoia]

yes?

[crystal whale]

The error message is just saying failed to load.

[somber sequoia]

yes, you said that.

[crystal whale]

How do i fix it so it loads?

I need this particular fbx because it's fitted specifically to my avatar

and i need to use it as a basis to fit something else.

[somber sequoia]

couldn't tell you from just that message, but Blender only supports one kind of .FBX, there are others, maybe yours is that. Check me on this, been a while, but I think blender only does the binary format, not the ascii one

[crystal whale]

How do i convert it?

[somber sequoia]

Dunno, I'd probably go search the web.

I know there used to be a tool from Autodesk but no idea if that still exists

[crystal whale]

fuck

the tool still exists. trying to get it to work

[somber sequoia]

ah neat

I saw it in use at work like 20 years ago

damn, that was 20 years

[candid patrol]

Hey, I was wondering if anyone here would maybe know how to make a throwable axe like the one on this Springtrap avatar. I wanted to get something similar to how it works on this avatar with mine. I want it to spin in the air and embed into the environment (like how it does on the avatar and in Dead by Daylight)

Also want it to travel where I'm looking (as shown briefly in the video)

[night ember]

is it tied to how you throw it or does it always fly at that speed etc

[onyx bloom]

Hey! I've been playing vrc for a good few years now and now I want to make my own avatars! the thing is I dont know what I need or have to do and the versions I see being used on youtube are so outdated that I dont know whats what (compared to my current settup) I was wondering if (depending if I have time tomorrow or not, Im in US-EST timezone) maybe me and someone could hop onto a discord call and maybe could run me through how to upload to vrc? (I have blender and I think the right kind of unity)

[candid patrol]

It always travels at that speed. Honestly, you don't have to move your arm to throw it, it goes where you're looking. I just like moving my arm like I'm throwing it (sorry it that made it confusing)

[night ember]

then it just looks like a particle

[somber sequoia]

there's s a good primer here: https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/creating-your-first-avatar

[onyx bloom]

thank you! :>

[candid patrol]

That's what I thought it might be, I just wouldn't know how to go about setting up something similar to that

[somber sequoia]

yeah my first thought is also particle

[night ember]

a particle that shoots an axe with rotation over lifetime and probably set to velocity so the axe follows the direction it was throne
then as a sub emitter either on collision or on death that is just the bubble and axe in the ground

[radiant tree]

In any way, is there a better way in blender how to get your avatar to have cleaner outlines?

[candid patrol]

How would I get the rotation over lifetime to spin in the direction it moves towards?

[somber sequoia]

ooh that's a good point, you would want to align that

[somber sequoia]

do you mean outlines like a shader would cause?

[radiant tree]

Kinda yeah, considering I want my quest models looking crisp without a shader doing the heavy lifting

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure how you achieve that.

[night ember]

just fuck with the settings of it

you can set it to 3d rotation etc

[timber wharf]

@radiant tree outlines in blender (or a shader for that matter) is just doubling mesh, inflating it, reversing normals and painting black. its not even about heavy lifiting by shader in case of quest cause no outlines allowed on quest exactly forca reason of doubling vertex shader work

[burnt hull]

Does anyone know how to fix face gestures in game but they work fine in gesture manager?

[radiant tree]

I know that. i mean how would I specifically make it look better, I'm not worried about my other stuff when I already optimize all my materials and such to be just one material,

[timber wharf]

better than what

should look just like in blender

[radiant tree]

My outlines are usually choppy, badly pointed ends, other people's when they attempt, manage to get it spot on, perfectly rounded

[timber wharf]

images pls
id guess too much of thickness or not enough polygons to begin with

[radiant tree]

Like how some of my outline just straight up gets choppy, making it look like pieces are missing if you look closely at the hand.

[somber sequoia]

do you notice that in vrchat or only in pictures of vrchat?

[radiant tree]

i look at it around my model on all platforms, like how sometimes the outline model itself will just start to unfold or come apart

[timber wharf]

you mean like fingertip? thats weird ye, probly some messed up normals?

[somber sequoia]

I don't think I'd ever notice that bit on the fingertip while in vrchat, but maybe you do.

[meager pewter]

Is there a way to "place" something at world origin reliably? Via parent/position constraints or sth?

[timber wharf]

i mean shouldn't be there at all

@meager pewter sure, vrc parent constraint+freeze to world for short term

[radiant tree]

I am a person who likes attention to detail.

and also highly on the spectrum lol

[timber wharf]

@meager pewter https://github.com/VRLabs/Custom-Object-Sync and this (or maybe theres a better version idk) for late joiners. quite expensive tho

[meager pewter]

16 contraints to sync one object, ouch

[timber wharf]

yep, gotta make you buy vrc+ campfires

[meager pewter]

what do you mean with 'for short term'?

[timber wharf]

no late join sync. no sync for hidden by distance avatar. etc

as long as theyve seen it spawn and from there on, its there. if theyre late, rejoined etc its wherever

[meager pewter]

bummer

I wanted this to have a reliable way of sending parameters between two+ people using contacts.
The idea was the contacts being frozen to world origin or something, but idk about all this now.
Maybe with this explanation you know of any other possible ways i could do my plan?

[timber wharf]

well at least the old world constraint withut parent would spawn at 0 0 0 afaik so this could work

but again, distance hidden

https://github.com/VRLabs/World-Constraint

[meager pewter]

sounds like it would also be affected by late join, so for my idea of 2 people using this, they would have to wait for both being in the world, then reload their avatars in the same position, hm

If only there was a global parameter sender and receiver 😭

[timber wharf]

no itd take only them seeing each other. if 0 0 0 still works

[sick loom]

yeah, those happen because the shader seems to just add copies of each plane and moves them outwards, so they aren’t actually connected inbetween like they would be for something like solidifying

[radiant tree]

So how could I mimic it to be smooth, other people seem to do it without shaders

[sick loom]

the most common ways I know is using a solidify modifier in blender and inverting it, or just copying the mesh and fattening it and inverting normals

that makes it part of the mesh so it’s easier to control

but it can double your triangle count

[radiant tree]

Usually ends up more jagged

[sick loom]

is the problem with the gaps between faces?

[crisp trail]

Any good pictures for visemes

[somber sequoia]

there's one linked from vrchat's docs on visemes

on this page, in the section on the Viseme parameter:
https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/animator-parameters/
is this link: https://developers.meta.com/horizon/documentation/unity/audio-ovrlipsync-viseme-reference/

[grizzled sundial]

Im having issues with my avatar in unity.
Basically, when i go to set the rig to humanoid & config the rig, the mesh is on backwards. I have tried flipping my normals, changing the direction of the mesh, and everything Google has told me. But nothing works. PLEASE SOMEONE HELP MEEEHSHXBC

(When I go to muscles and settings, everything is flipped / backwards except the armature)

[somber sequoia]

can you show this?

[grizzled sundial]

Yeah ill get some pictures rn

[somber sequoia]

hmm that doesn't really show why

[grizzled sundial]

Im just so confused idk what to do, when I playtest it with animations she's backwards as well

[somber sequoia]

got it in Blender? I'd check to be sure all transforms are applied

[grizzled sundial]

Yeah I've done that and re-exported it
Ive done scaling, transforms, and rotation

Ive tested multiple FBX files and still get the same results

[somber sequoia]

Bone roll not zero for all humanoid bones?

[grizzled sundial]

I haven't checked

Lemme see rq

[brittle grove]

yall pleaaase help, i had recently purchased an avatar base that I recolored through it's substance painter files, however I don't know how to put them back onto the avatar 😭

it uses poiyomi toon and I dont know a thing about working with thatt

[somber sequoia]

poiyomi documentation includes a substance painter export template, I'd suggest using that to export your images

[brittle grove]

ohh thank you, i'll try that

[brittle grove]

so after it's imported, I just export as normal?

im so confused im sorry

[somber sequoia]

There's lots of tutorial videos for substance painter, but yeah, export those files then use them in your materials in Unity

[lyric sonnet]

bro, i'm trying to make a custom booth edit, i've spent so much money on trying to get clothes that doesn't doe this i'm at the end of my rope, how do i fix this

[somber sequoia]

how are you trying to attach that?

[lyric sonnet]

i just drag the prefab onto the model like i was told

[somber sequoia]

is the prefab specifically for this model, and has some method of attaching the rigging?

i.e. VRC Fury armature link or something

[lyric sonnet]

it is for this model but i'm not sure, i usually use modular avatar for booth models

[somber sequoia]

oh then I guess use that

[lyric sonnet]

this clothing set works

[somber sequoia]

not sure how that's relevant, but cool

I dig the coat

[lyric sonnet]

it's relevent because it's the same model, so maybe the othe one i tried is somehow messed up

[somber sequoia]

compare 'em

[solemn drum]

why do scale constrains only apply locally

i added a scale co nstraint to a object that i want to be independant of the avatars size

but it only works for whoever is wearign the avatar

[ornate stump]

https://vrc.school/docs/Other/Scale-Friendly

[solemn drum]

the docs say scale paramaters arnt synced is that just with constraints or also the paramaters like ScaleFactor

[ornate stump]

Constraint doesn't sync to begin with. It only sync if used in conjunction with animation controlled by synced parameter.

[solemn drum]

so if i wanna make somthing that keeps a constant size no mater what the avatars scale is would i need to use the built in ScaleFactor paramaters?

[ornate stump]

You should read the page I sent.

[solemn drum]

looking at it tho just confused on what paramamters this refers too

idk if they are just talking abount constraints or the built in ones

[ornate stump]

Constraint doesn't provide any parameter so you're misunderstanding something.

[solemn drum]

so then is the waring talking about these?

[ornate stump]

Yes.

[solemn drum]

oh saw it hasnt been updated in 2 years so has this been fixed sicne then or is it still broken the vrc docs say they are synced

[ornate stump]

It should work for late joiner sync now. And it certainly isn't an issue if you scale your avatar in front of them.

[grizzled drum]

Does Raycast colide with players on PC?
I know it doesn't on Quest because coliders are stripped

[somber osprey]

the origin (orange dot) is fine. mind you I didn't modify the FBX at all, this is how the FBX is designed straight out of a unity package, so this FBX that I'm using is how the author set it up

idk if its because of Goco Loco cause I can recall this issue didn't happen before I added Goco loco

[dull totem]

my unity wont let me convert my stuff to quest like it wont change to the quest side so i can uploaded it

does anyone know a fix

[ornate stump]

What do you mean "convert"?

[ornate stump]

If you mean you can't change build target, you have to make sure to install Android build module.

Autofix

[somber osprey]

why is my character always 1 or 2 feet above the ground? this only seems to be prominent in VR mode

I have space drag resetted

[proven quail]

Did you right-click the outfit set and click modular avatar setup outfit? Or check if the modular avatar can't find the armature or something (the armature of the outfit will have the armature slot in red, or the overrides on the main prefab will be in red)

[heavy zephyr]

Player colliders and built-in colliders are very different. If you try adding a collider yourself, it'll be stripped but the local, player and other colliders that vrchat uses by default are still here.

So yes, it should. Tho remember that the remote Player collider is not the full capsule

[silent hearth]

Trying to upload avatar and keep getting this message. I've tried downgrading the VRChat SDK Base and Avatars in the manage project tab and that hasn't worked. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[ornate stump]

You have to see more error in the console above that one.

[astral locust]

if it didn't happen before you added GoGo Loco maybe it is GoGo Loco Playspace feature itself 🤔

[ornate stump]

You should screenshot the list of error instead.

[silent hearth]

This?

[ornate stump]

Clear console and see what error left.

[balmy barn]

is that 4 / 4 red errors or you have any more - imma blame this one

[silent hearth]

So there's around 769 errors mostly related to the Lil Toon Shader

[ornate stump]

Screenshot a few top most one.

[silent hearth]

Here are the top ones

[ornate stump]

You had 2 installations of liltoon. You have to remove the one imported and exists in Assets folder.

[astral locust]

am I the only one still using this? https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W5KFa_aszCMrJaFD8mb9a-GHYO4X4S9M63GjM4UwuEw/pub 😅

[silent hearth]

So delete the "Lil Toon" folder in Packages?

[ornate stump]

You have to remove the one imported and exists in **Assets **folder.

[silent hearth]

I don't see one in the Assets folder

[ornate stump]

If you click on one of the error and you will see detail where it exists.

[somber osprey]

so ask help from Goco Loco?

[ornate stump]

You should at least confirm by removing gogoloco and test first.

[silent hearth]

I ended up deleting the editor folder in the Lil Toon folder and that seems to have worked. Thank you for your help.

[ornate stump]

You likely are going to have bigger issue in the future if you don't deal with it properly.

[silent hearth]

It's uploaded thankfully, We're over the biggest hurdle.

[somber sequoia]

I've never seen this before, so dunno

[astral locust]

it is link from 8 years old VRCMods video 😭 I feel old now 😅

[somber sequoia]

haha

[heavy zephyr]

You need to be speaking English here

But to answer your question, asking for free avatars will do nothing but attract scammers. I would HIGHLY suggest you either learn yourself or get a free avatar that already exists and go from that.

[somber sequoia]

It's rare people will do that kind of work for free.

[heavy zephyr]

There's free avatars out there that already exist but yeah. Fully custom for free is 99.99% of the time a scam

[amber pivot]

is there a way to rig the eyes while the face/eye sockets itself is/are flat? I feel like pushing the eye bones far back would be unnecessary/unoptimized

[ornate stump]

You have to push the bone further back. It isn't "unoptimized".

[somber sequoia]

You want the bone's head to be at the exact center of rotation, wherever that is.

[indigo compass]

Not sure it would be unoptimized really, ~~but I think the best option would be one VRC positional constraint for each eye. ~~

You have normal eye bones and then a pair of fake one that are what the eye mesh is actually attached to (you will have to be specific about it to Unity's rigging), the constraints will then just position them at the right spot.

[somber sequoia]

why would you need that?

Just put the bones where they need to be.

[indigo compass]

Completely flat eyes driven by normal eye look, wouldn't you have to do something like this?
But thinking about it further I suppose there is no way to really make sure it entirely sticks onto a plane that way.

The way I have seen it done is with fake eye bones and then actually movev the eyes using poi decal offsets.

But that isn't ideal

[somber sequoia]

I suppose if what you need is the eye bones moved so far back that they move weirdly when the head bone rotates, then yeah, rotation constraints might be useful maybe.

[strong summit]

Why is it not pulling? the yellow point shows but i just cant pull it

[somber sequoia]

pulling?

oh you're scuplting

[ornate stump]

You are selecting to edit shapekey so make sure the shapekey is active.

[jovial kernel]

I am wondering if anyone here can help
It is my hubby Arctic
He is saying that he can’t upload any avatars to his account
I mean when he tries to upload it into his account
It is saying Error

[supple marsh]

What kind of error though

Like, what did it say when he uploaded it

[jovial kernel]

I mean it just said Error
Can’t upload any avatars

to the account

[somber sequoia]

you really have to show the exact error

[jovial kernel]

I mean that is the error
I mean it shows that he can’t upload any avatars to his account

[somber sequoia]

okay well if that's the actual error, nobody here can help you with it, contact support

[jovial kernel]

Idk how to do that

[supple marsh]

Hold on what's his trust level

Because you have to be at least new user to upload avatars

[somber sequoia]

Yeah that's why I was asking about the actual error message, I thought it made that quite clear.

but if they don't want to provide that, who knows

[outer sphinx]

Does any one know how to fix and customize triangles on a avatar?

[somber sequoia]

I'm not sure what you mean by that

[outer sphinx]

Like fix the triangles on the files to fix like hair lines and stuff because I uploaded this avatar and I wanted to fix the triangles that holds the hair line so I can even it out

[somber sequoia]

can you show an image of this? I'm not sure what needs fixing

[outer sphinx]

Ya one second

[viral tiger]

You mean editing the vertices of a model?

[outer sphinx]

I don't know Im kinda new to tall this customizing stuff😅

Right now fixing some shaders but as u see I just wanna make the hair line and forehead a little smaller

[somber sequoia]

that sounds like you'd have to bring it into Blender and re-model

[outer sphinx]

How do I do that?

[somber sequoia]

... import into Blender and then do blender things

possibly "learn blender"

[viral tiger]

If the hair is a separate skinned mesh you can try to scale it, though it's unlikely for that to be the case.

[outer sphinx]

If I can't ill just pay the owner of it to help me fix it

Cuz I don't wanna end up messing up the head and stuff

[jovial kernel]

Ummm
I don’t know

[supple marsh]

Just ask him, could be why

Actually no you can just check his user profile

On the website

lol

[somber sequoia]

you can see it by looking - yes, that.

[supple marsh]

Yeah I forgot for a second

[jovial kernel]

Ok

[oak lichen]

It will not collide with Player right now , using FinalIK it used to work but the new raycast doesnt collide with Player at all. Only PlayerLocal

[onyx bloom]

It doesnt help me sadly :c the whole set up is different then my current one, i have no clue on what to select or put

[somber sequoia]

you'd have to describe your situation then

[onyx bloom]

one sec

this is what I see

very different then what the guy in the youtube video's set up is

none of these choices match what he selects

I think

[somber sequoia]

no idea what the video is, but you should probably manage your VRChat projects in VCC or Alcom, rather than unity hub.

if you haven't done this part: https://vcc.docs.vrchat.com/guides/getting-started

[onyx bloom]

ah ok! I'll down load it!

because I have a test avatar saved already, its a zip file :o

I guess what I need to do it upload it I think I dont know

I wanna add a few things to it before I do so, to get a hang of it

[somber sequoia]

start by opening the .zip

[onyx bloom]

why do I have to install unity 2022?

its 2026?

[somber sequoia]

Because VRChat runs on Unity 2022.

[onyx bloom]

also in teminal?

[supple marsh]

Vrchat runs on unity 2022

[onyx bloom]

ohhhhhh I see

[somber sequoia]

I'm not going to tell you how to use your computer, but you can't import a .zip file directly into Unity, so you'll have to see what's in there.

[onyx bloom]

Im not really technical, so thats an issue, Im assuming you meant extract the zip

[somber sequoia]

I don't use Windows, so really can't help with those details.

[onyx bloom]

oh I see :o

I mean, this is what I got so far :o (I extracted it)

but yea, if anyone wants to get into a vc, do let me know!

[frosty gale]

quick question about the standard toon shader that comes with the SDK, for PC use
since it's a stock shader, does that mean that it cannot be blocked by safety settings, and users will always see the shader as intended?

i imagine that's the case, right?

[ornate stump]

Blocking still happens as it's getting replaced by actual stock toon standard shader for sanitizing reason. But the end result should look the same.

[frosty gale]

right, that makes sense

so I guess technically it could be different if the stock shader in the client gets updated, but overall, good stuff

[jovial kernel]

I checked the website from his side and I don't see nothing

From what my hubby told me he said something security check thing on VRChat

[somber sequoia]

That doesn't block your upload though, but it is a thing you probably want to fix.

[main night]

i know the raycast component just came out essentially but does anyone know how to use it?
As well as contacts?
Im trying to mimic how this person on twitter did this bug leg thing with said raycasts and contacts
https://x.com/Acro_Monochrome/status/2053152830861812189

the example is shown in the twitter link

[somber sequoia]

there's a whole discord for multi-limbed characters like that, the tag is simply Limbs - I'd try there

[main night]

like a whole server?

[somber sequoia]

yep

[main night]

alrighty thankss

[jovial kernel]

Oh ok

[jovial kernel]

Something like that

[vagrant sapphire]

?

[jovial kernel]

I mean when my hubby tried to upload an avatar to his account it said that

[vagrant sapphire]

mine is wery nonreason 😭

[jovial kernel]

Why

[vagrant sapphire]

it says the upload failed reason but on console nothing

[vagrant sapphire]

i get this from ai support that i opened

didnt helped much

[near mulch]

what are you uploading it to?

[vagrant sapphire]

NOW it gives a error
Failed to upload file
😭

[vagrant sapphire]

Public
VRChat

i use unity

[near mulch]

i mean system wise

windows android ios

[vagrant sapphire]

windows

[near mulch]

idk maybe change the name idk

having oiled in the name and saving it as a public might be flagging it or something idk

I haven't had that error message nor do I upload my avis public

[vagrant sapphire]

What

[somber sequoia]

I'd just restart unity at this point

[vagrant sapphire]

i did Atom Darked Avatar

[vagrant sapphire]

im gonna do it if its giving me the same error

[obtuse trail]

Man just when I though I was getting used to animators... 🪦

I want to be able to pick up a basic VRLabs follower (the floating lamp). When the left hand (sender) enters the contact, it should trigger the animation for the parent constraint to switch to the empty on the hand.

Anyone know what I am missing?

[timber wharf]

first try dragging grab layer below, lower layer = more priority for animating the same properties

[obtuse trail]

nothing so far

[heavy zephyr]

You selected allow self but the sender you are using for your testing isn't on the PlayerLocal layer

[obtuse trail]

I just turned on "Allow Others" and it still doesnt work

[heavy zephyr]

It's also not on the Player layer-

[heavy zephyr]

In short, just change the layer of your dummy sender to be PlayerLocal to simulate your own hand properly

[obtuse trail]

Trying to understand what you mean. what Layer?

[heavy zephyr]

Top right of the inspector window, currently set to "Default"

[obtuse trail]

changed it, still no effect 😞

[heavy zephyr]

Are you using the avatar emulator or gesture manager?

[obtuse trail]

gesture manager

[heavy zephyr]

Try the other one then? Sometimes one works better than the other.

Gesture manager might have a "clickable contacts" option somewhere iirc if you wanna try that otherwise

[obtuse trail]

yea, same as before...

[heavy zephyr]

Then I can only guess your animations are f*ed somewhere.

Using the avatar emulator you should be able to click on the receiver and see if the value changes at least

[zenith fable]

I dunno how to upload avis qwp what do I use

[heavy zephyr]

Look up tutorials online and read the docs!

[zenith fable]

There's docs

[zenith fable]

I've checked the vids but make me confused worse

[somber sequoia]

https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/creating-your-first-avatar

[heavy zephyr]

Also https://docs.vrchat.com

[zenith fable]

Thankie

[brittle grove]

I'm using the poiyomi export template for substancepainter to export some textures for an avatar, do I just click list of exports and export everything? or do I need to do something besides having this template? I'm not the best with spp!

[somber sequoia]

That template will export all of those files, if they apply to whatever texture work you did. Like if you have no AO channel, it won't output that file.

[brittle grove]

so when I go to the list of exports it'll just export those files?

[somber sequoia]

when you click the export button, it'll export whatever's in the selected template.

[brittle grove]

okay, I just can't click the export button in that menu

im sorry if this is a little dumb sounding, i really am in over my head

[somber sequoia]

that's the export template setup dialog

Adobe (and others) have made a whole bunch of tutorial videos for this

I mean, not specifically Poiyomi output but using Substance Painter in general

[brittle grove]

oh i see

[smoky kernel]

can i use data transfer to attach the clothes so it makes the avatar's clothes move with it?

[somber sequoia]

Yes, but its not great - try the blender plugin Robust Weight Transfer

You'll still have to manually touch-up the weight paint after, but it should get you close

[smoky kernel]

thanks a bunch

no wait that was what i did

and then i used vrcfury and didn't work

still need help 😭

[somber sequoia]

with?

[smoky kernel]

what do i do after putting the robust weight paint transfer