avatar-help

[torpid hinge]

by double clicking on the prefab file?

[pine valley]

Oh, right, this thing was generated in-unity

[balmy barn]

convert through blender and not that univrm thing , it spits out a avatar thats terrible for performance and wierd names

[pine valley]

yeah, it would be best if you had an actual FBX file here

[supple aurora]

Quick question, I sadly didn’t found any type of hair for the mayu avatar, so I bought some hair from the Rexouium avatar… is there any way to easily set it up for the mayu?

[torpid hinge]

what file type should i convert it to

[somber sequoia]

.fbx ideally

[torpid hinge]

alr, i'll try to find a way to put it to fbx

[somber sequoia]

vrm plugin for blender

[supple aurora]

alligned it already, but what now?

[pine valley]

That should be it! This hair is "self-contained"; it doesn't need to be merged into your armature

Some hair models need to follow your neck/shoulder bones (think about really long hair)

[somber sequoia]

I've used that one before - kinda high poly but it looks great

[pine valley]

in that case, you'd see an entire skeleton in there, and it would need to be merged in

[supple aurora]

so no armature links or stuff like that?

kinda new to the unity stuff 😅

[dawn oak]

how to mirror a hairstyle without the physbones breaking?

and how to get gloves to fit on hands for the same base, milltina gloves never work on milltina for me bc the hand rotations always diffrent

copying everything in an armaturel ink doesnt work for me bc hte thumb gets broken

[night ember]

unless controlled via a constraint anything that is a child of another object like the hair being a child of head
it will always follow the head bone

armature link is only really used when you are needing to have it follow multiple bones like an entire arm or leg etc

[pine valley]

Right. The entire prop (and all of its own bones) follows your head around

[raven jacinth]

i'm having this issue where my constraints won't stop enabling themselves

[pine valley]

An animation must be turning them on.

keep in mind that, even if your animator isn't actively playing an animation that controls the enabled property, it always controls the property

(as long as any of its animation clips control the property)

[vague spade]

hey! im kinda lost, why is it all pink

[obtuse trail]

missing or unlinked textures

[somber sequoia]

why not? Pink is a lovely colour.

[vague spade]

TvT

[dawn oak]

i cant figure it out

[obtuse trail]

its more like pepto-bismol, but that could be because I need some 🤢

[somber sequoia]

yeah this pink is a bit... intense

[vague spade]

how do i fix this pink

[obtuse trail]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGgR_yXJ7nA

[torpid hinge]

ok got it to work

[vague spade]

im ngl im kinda too slow.. im still confused cuz i used all the things i needed and its still pink

[obtuse trail]

there are other tutorials on yt. This is a topic just about every vrc youtuber covers, you just have to find the right one for you.

[keen pewter]

ey i got the same problem as that dude but with the diference my model dissapeared

[ornate stump]

Model disappearance after updating FBX file isn't the same issue.

[keen pewter]

i exported it as kazin told me to "fix" the problem of the feets sinking to the floor

[ornate stump]

You issue isn't about export settings. Your problem is your model had been "Unpack Prefab" in the scene.

[keen pewter]

unpack prefab?

how do i fix it?

[ornate stump]

That mean your model in the scene can no longer update its data with its fbx file.

[ornate stump]

Start over and do not Unpack Prefab.

[keen pewter]

i shouldnt followed kazin advice then

[supple aurora]

tried to upload it... well... something is not working anymore :c

[ornate stump]

That solves a different problem.

[keen pewter]

yhea i dint have this problem until i followed kazin advice

[somber sequoia]

oh is that what it was? I never saw a clear enough image of the hierarchy

[somber sequoia]

I was pretty clear about that being the way I do it, you always have to adjust for your own situation.

[keen pewter]

i tried to export it again idk if its blender doing the biggest of the numbers on me

[ornate stump]

There is a few reason why the model disappear after updating the fbx file.

[somber sequoia]

That looks like you might have to redo the rig setup in Unity

[keen pewter]

kazin i live in a country with eletrical problems where i have frecuent eletrical cuts

[somber sequoia]

okay?

[keen pewter]

i passed 3 weeks working on that model

good thing i saved the blender file

[somber sequoia]

Good, always make backups

[keen pewter]

[supple aurora]

was able to fix it... but the hair isnt moving :c

[keen pewter]

if i knew i gonna lost all my progress for fixing the heels problem on blender i would make a backup of the fbx file before touching it again

[somber sequoia]

I use git for this, so I can be sure I can revert back if I do something drastic

[keen pewter]

this is a bones problem?

[keen pewter]

i gonna google what that is

[somber sequoia]

it's source code control

works for things that aren't "code" too

[torpid hinge]

so as @pine valley @balmy barn and @somber sequoia said, i converted the vrm to fbx, reexported it as fbx and uploaded it to unity, now i was able to fix the shoulder bug in the armature, making it export now

[keen pewter]

doenst sound like it can revert the problem

wich idk what another info i can provide to fix it

cause i dint even used a prefab archive on the model to start with

ey this is not one of the bones?

[somber sequoia]

that is very far zoomed in, what even is it?

[keen pewter]

i put the fbx file on the scene as i started to work with

and i notice that

i used the fbx file on the scene to start working on the model before all this mess happened

now im noticing that on the chest

ey this is wasnt like this

what happened here

my mesh got inverted or something?

theres not a mesh what happened

[supple aurora]

How do i fix it that the hairs arent "stiff" anymore? the hairs do have physbones...

right? the physbones should be "NurbsPath"?

[keen pewter]

ok everything connected but not fixing yet for that big mess

[keen pewter]

ok im wondering if my fbx.meta archive is bad

[cobalt cloak]

i use the boop counter for my boops how do i add an animation to the boop

[keen pewter]

good thing i sended to a friend the unity package of my project before starting to search ways to fix the heels

he reminded me he have the unity package when i asked him for help to fix that

now since i have a backup

[eternal aurora]

Hi! I made a duplicate of an avatar in order to edit a component of it without affecting the main one! How do I take the edited component off of the duplicate avatar and apply it to the main one? I tried copying it and the armature and pasting it into the main one but it doesn't show up

[keen pewter]

for example select the component on the 3 point of the right side and press copy component

on the main one you have to create a new one of the same type of component

and press paste component values

@somber sequoia now that i have backup i want to know what is the step im missing is for example here when i pass the fbx file to blender maybe something it shouldnt modify itself?

[somber sequoia]

I don't usually change any settings when I import .fbx files

[eternal aurora]

Ah, thank you! And sorry!

[keen pewter]

you are welcome and sometimes is tricky cause it looks like it doesnt copy just press copy again later of creating the component on the main you are working with

[keen pewter]

then what is happening? is too weird to have this problem when i pass to unity again

[somber sequoia]

I have no idea what you're doing or the results of it, so....

[keen pewter]

heels sinking to the floor

[somber sequoia]

I already explained what I would do to fix it if it were my model

[keen pewter]

yhea but then the model bugs when i exported the fbx back again to unity

and im exporting as you told me

something it shouldnt is selected? @somber sequoia

the geometry

[somber sequoia]

I really can't help you with this right now, I'm working and then going out.

[keen pewter]

a

[somber sequoia]

but as I said, the only thing I change are "apply scalings" and the leaf bones checkbox

[keen pewter]

it was scale? it wasnt aply all transforms?

so that was the problem

ok now i know what happened so always is "aplly scale" instead "aply all transforms"

[keen pewter]

your materials got corrupted check if your shaders are marking error

if they do selected them back again

[vapid slate]

i added an audio to my bell collar. how do i get the sound to play whenever i move?

[keen pewter]

like if they are poiyomi

or liltoon

selected them again

[zinc fractal]

Chat, would I be able to put booth clothing on this model with VRCFury?

(lwky dont know how to make avis but we are learning fr)

[keen pewter]

you could of course

but make sure is clothes already adapted to that model

if not you gonna need to use eden auto morpher and the mesh editor to adapt them to the model

[vapid slate]

what are u talking about .-.

[keen pewter]

about putting clothes to that model

[eternal aurora]

Sorry to be a bother, but there's a part two to my issue... So what I've basically done is create a wrapped variation of a tail to my avatar in a duplicate. And I'm not sure how I'd be able to get the tail from the duplicate over to my main one so both would be toggleable.

[zinc fractal]

h u h

wuzzat mean

[keen pewter]

mmmmmm maybe you can separate it and make work the wrapped tail as a toggle object? before moving or modifying make a backup of that so you dont lost your progress

but now im interested

how you make it looks wrapped around the body?

[eternal aurora]

I just took my time with it and posed it one bone at a time. I did need to go back to adjust it accordingly at points but just taking my time with it and checking it's the way I like it

[keen pewter]

maybe separated it then and make it work as a toggle could work...lets wait for someone else to help you on that

maybe someone know a easy way to do that

[keen pewter]

the modelers make clothes for specific models like for example shinano manuka miltina shinra

but when is custom models you have to check if theres already clothes for that avatar model on the store

cause if dont, you have to manually modify clothes to fit that avatar

[zinc fractal]

how hard is that?

[keen pewter]

with the right assets like eden automorpher it can be something easy

[keen pewter]

for the form of the body i think the creator used as a base or reference the avatar called Moe

[eternal aurora]

It's okay, I figured it out!

Nevermind, I did not, in fact, figure it out... It was working fine but the moment I enabled the Avatars Emulator, it was gone

[trim rover]

i'm having some issues using the new raycast component

for some reason i can't get it to rotate with the head

it just gets stuck facing the same direction in world space

[coral coyote]

how to fix my avatar going in like this in blender?

[proven quail]

You might need to be more specific on what the problem actually is.

[coral coyote]

nvm got it

[keen pewter]

Remember if you turn it as a toggle you have to deactivate pressing this so when you activate the toggle it turns on that wrapped tail

But the thing is

You have it to turn off the unwrapped tail once you use toggle?

Is a component of modular avatar but i dont have electricity to show you wich one it is

Vrcfury have it too

[eternal aurora]

Currently I have them between duplicates. The unwrapped tail is in the regular one and the wrapped one is in the duplicate

One thought I did try was to try and make the wrapped one into an animation I could apply on the first one but that didn't work out the way I had hoped, so I'm back to square one

[sleek panther]

i lost my hierarchy what do i do </333

and the bottom bits

[hot hull]

Can someone teach me how to make Avis idk what to download or what to do, I wanna make Jhit Avis

[sleek panther]

https://discord.com/channels/189511567539306508/730948028608938035

[hot hull]

Idk how to start making them tho

[sleek panther]

youtube

evb starts somewhere

[hot hull]

[gray badger]

Is there any way to pack up unity files with the VRC avatar descriptor/physbones, and VRCFury toggles still in tact?

I'll ask in here and on reddit for good measure maybe

[teal oriole]

Guys my avatar failed and I don’t know the errors

How would I know

[foggy wadi]

Check the console

[obtuse trail]

Shift + Space with your mouse cursor on the Scene window

[sleek panther]

did u just wanna show off the my melody figurine?

[teal oriole]

Idk how to fix it :(

that’s the thing

[real adder]

how do i add gogoloco to pc and quest avis?

[plain mural]

I can't figure out what the problem is. When I export the model with these settings to Unity, the weight paint seems to break, although in Blender, when I rotate the same bone, everything looks completely fine

Maybe it's because I used envelope bones on the tail? This shouldn't affect anything, since they're just weights

Unity also doesn't have any modifiers or anything, just a plain fbx file

[plain mural]

I'm encountering this problem for the first time, and I had the "only deform bones" checkbox checked, and I thought that was the problem, but unchecking it and re-exporting the model didn't fix it

[real adder]

how do i add gogoloco to pc and quest avis?

[plain mural]

use vrchat creator companion and install it by this link - https://gogoloco.net/

[real adder]

what about after i download it what do i do with it in vcc?

[plain mural]

Go to the project settings and add gogoloco

Honestly, sometimes it's easier and faster to watch tutorials on youtube than to ask people on discord and wait for their answers

[real adder]

dosent vrcfury automatacly add gogoloco>

[plain mural]

as far as i remember no

[real adder]

ok so how to i add them on pc and quest?

like i already have the avatars uploaded but with no gogoloco

what do i do?

[foggy wadi]

Im guessing you select your avatar

[real adder]

no nomore guesses i want a real awnser

[plain mural]

just read

[real adder]

read what? where do i even put it here dude?

?

[supple marsh]

Just put your avatar in there

Then select which gogoloco prefab you want

[tranquil kernel]

is there anyone that could help me upload an avatar i got?

[left gull]

you really shouldn't account share (and if its a P2U you shouldnt file-share unless the creator allows it) which is what you'd have to do if your wanting it uploaded to your account

if you've got a PC that can run unity there should be some how-to guides on uploading here: https://discord.com/channels/189511567539306508/1139228456090087495

[tranquil kernel]

i was more or less hoping someone could tell me how to fix the error code i kept on getting 😅

[real adder]

in where? what am i looking for?

[supple marsh]

Your avatar in the hierarchy

Put it in the thing that says select your avatar in the hierarchy

You can just drag it into there

[real adder]

all it shows is parts of the body and assets and secen

[manic copper]

hello, im trying to upload an avatar but its not working. There is not id attached.

can somebody help me

i have no clue whats wrong

[jolly oxide]

I'm pretty sure it says it's missing a script

[manic copper]

ooh ok any clue how i fix it

[jolly oxide]

click on the Avatar so it shows the animator and scroll all the way down and see if it says "script missing" anywhere

[manic copper]

okkk ty lol im dumb w unity

[real adder]

idk what to do help me please

[jolly oxide]

you're good we all go through the same experience

like I'm having the same experience with something I've never experienced so that's why I'm here💀

[jolly oxide]

you have to move your avatar into where it says "none 'game object"

[keen pewter]

your avatar root goes here

[jolly oxide]

^

so I've actually never had this before and I really don't know what it is but every time it's just about to upload the Avatar it gives me this

[real adder]

these?

[jolly oxide]

yes

[keen pewter]

yes the one what says player (PC)

[real adder]

theres a pc and quest verion too

what do i do that after i do after the pc?

[jolly oxide]

and I've went back to one of the other avatars to try to upload that "which I know works" and it gives me the same error

[keen pewter]

yhea the quest version is for the vr glasses i think

is a lighter version of the avatar

[jolly oxide]

drag that into the place they highlighted in the picture

[real adder]

vr glasses?

[jolly oxide]

I'm assuming no one here knows why I'm getting this

[jolly oxide]

The Meta Quest headsets

[keen pewter]

check if everything is updated

even on the Vr creator companion

that error only comes when some of the scripts are outdated and it doesnt work anymore

[real adder]

what do i press?

[jolly oxide]

everything says it's up to date🥺

[jolly oxide]

most people click all

the left one

[keen pewter]

if you use vrcfury you use the left option

right option for the modular avatar

being honest i dint do it like it

i created everything and even installed it as a unity package

more tedius but i know what things i have on the avatar

[real adder]

whats the diffrence?

[keen pewter]

vrcfury is supposed to be the easy way

[keen pewter]

even here?

[real adder]

all or beyond?

[jolly oxide]

none of them say that they're out of date

[keen pewter]

i use both of them

i guess the All option

[keen pewter]

it sounds something of the same avatar is missing

show again what the error says

when you tried to upload the avatar

[real adder]

huh? cant i chose 1

[jolly oxide]

just click the left all

[keen pewter]

it says is a object of the avatar you are using

[keen pewter]

use add gogoloco all

[jolly oxide]

what that mean thoo

[keen pewter]

what on the hierarchy says? like theres some error there?

[jolly oxide]

also it's giving me the same error on an avatar I uploaded like a month ago and it uploaded successfully🤷‍♂️ (a month ago)

[keen pewter]

i read on one of the errors one of the prefabs failed

[jolly oxide]

it doesn't say I'm missing anything

[jolly oxide]

I don't think I sent that one

[jolly oxide]

cuz they only error I'm getting is the one in this picture

I might just try to upload it tomorrow maybe vrchats buggin a bit

[real adder]

ok i pressed it but nothing happened

[keen pewter]

the duplicated one you turn it off

turn it off i mean like this

[real adder]

what do i do nothing happened

[keen pewter]

when you create the toggle on the duplicated one what it needs to be inside of the principal avatar hierarchy, you use the object toggle and set the duplicated as ON and the tail of the main avatar as OFF

that way it gonna change the unwraped tail to the wrapped tail everytime you use the toggle

[real adder]

i pressed gogoloco all for fury but nothing happened

[keen pewter]

of course be sure is linked to the avatar so it follows it and dont just stay there floating

[keen pewter]

check on the inspector if the gogoloco things are on the avatar like this for example

but you have installed vrcfury on your unity right?

[real adder]

yea

[uneven canopy]

could someone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong when uploading this avi?

[real adder]

theres nothing

[keen pewter]

ok press play mode and then gesture manager and something like this it should show up

[keen pewter]

open the expresions option there

it already haves a locomotion there

[real adder]

ok so do i do all the same thing for quest?

[keen pewter]

yhea

[uneven canopy]

so why is my avi pink? i need help-

[keen pewter]

on the radial menu it should shows up this if the gogoloco is on the avatar

[opaque briar]

you dont have a shader on your avatar go to your marerial look at the top where it says shader and put on whatever shader your using {probly lit toon or poiyomi}

[real adder]

it says this

[keen pewter]

grab one of the materials of your avatar for example the material body and drag it over the body on the scene, hold the click so you can see if something changes

pink body means shader failed or directly unity says i forgot the model have a material there

[keen pewter]

you installed vrcfury on unity?

[real adder]

yea it is

[uneven canopy]

so what do i click on next?

[keen pewter]

thats a body texture what you selected there

[uneven canopy]

which one do i click on though?

I'm very new to uploading so I dont know much

[keen pewter]

drag and hold this one over your avatar body

[uneven canopy]

and i do the same for the hair right?

[keen pewter]

yhea but with the one it says hair

[uneven canopy]

and if it shows this?

[keen pewter]

yhea i knew that can happen

press for example the first one

[uneven canopy]

okay

i did that

[keen pewter]

it should show up on the inspector the material, so you press there

it should show you the shaders you have on your unity

you select for example poiyomi or liltoon

[uneven canopy]

okay i clicked poiyomi

[keen pewter]

poiyomi / poiyomi toon

[uneven canopy]

okay

[keen pewter]

then it should take a time cause it gonna loads the shader to the material

[uneven canopy]

okay

[keen pewter]

once it loads it should show you the material with its normal colors

[uneven canopy]

and i just do that with the others?

[keen pewter]

yhea you have to do the same with every pink material you found

[prisma monolith]

How do I fix this?

this is a sudden problem appearing with my avatars that used to not have the issue listed

[keen pewter]

looks like you got enable a second layer on the material

or even a material mixed on the model

[prisma monolith]

the werid thing is this appears on my private human avatar too

I'll have clothes on and for other players on both platforms

only the jersey and my buzzcut appear

that and the body

The avatar by default should spawn in like this

but everyone else sees this

[uneven canopy]

so what if there a really tiny details that I need to fix and it isnt wanting to fix?

[keen pewter]

if is only a material on the model you have to check if theres not ennable a second layer on the main or if the alpha map is bad

[prisma monolith]

its entire toggles, not showing up on other ends

I figured this out because I had my alt acc in the same server as me, on pc

since my avis i make are the same on both platforms

I tested changing hairstyles on the vatar

and it only worked on my end

and nothing changed on my alts end

and ik its not anything to do with safety ranks cuz both accounts are trusted users

[keen pewter]

yo wheres ya pants? XD check if the object is linked to your avatar and if the tag is not changed to something like editor only for example

it should say is on untagged

[prisma monolith]

all of em are untagged im pretty sure

im gonna double check

also they did me so dirty my fit coulda been clean bro

yeah they're all untagged

[keen pewter]

they are inside the avatar hierarchy?

[prisma monolith]

wdym like the armature?

[keen pewter]

no no, i mean like this

[prisma monolith]

oh, yes

[keen pewter]

ok but is weird

can you show up the avatar hierarchy?

[prisma monolith]

gulp im guessing from this ss u know what type of avi it is so PLEASE i beg u dont be shocked by the list names

[keen pewter]

dont trust this cause it sometimes shows up old versions of the avatar

it trolled me before

[prisma monolith]

hell it even made a fallback that i never asked for 😭

[keen pewter]

you can censure it if you want

[prisma monolith]

alr

they're only ordered like this because they're all affected by the armature

so I didn't feel like putting stuff UNDER it

like how I did on the bumblebee avatar with the weapons

[keen pewter]

you have modular avatar? idk why but i think is not linked linked some of the clothes to the avatar

[prisma monolith]

modular?

[keen pewter]

is a asset that helps on adding clothes to the avatars

[prisma monolith]

ohh yeah no its not

i rigged them onto the armature in blender and imported them with the entire avatar

[keen pewter]

if you have put modular avatar is just doing this, right click the jeans and select modular avatar setup outfit

[keen pewter]

on the play mode the clothes follows up the avatar movement or pose?

if they dont i guess they simple are not linked to the model

[prisma monolith]

everything in the hierarchy moves with the avatar

no static items

[keen pewter]

you have a toggle or something there related with the clothes?

[prisma monolith]

yes, i use vrcfury to toggle on the items in the hierarchy except for the vrcfury gameobject and the armature ofc

so those worked fine

its a method i've been using for a long while

worked with the bumblebee avatar i made

and with this one

however idk if it was due to a recent update

but people aren't seeing stuff that I do on my avatar

like for example, on the other one

not only does it have the material swap issue

there are seats in the vehicle mode that are toggles for others to sit in

it used to be seen by everyone

now only the person who toggles it can see it

[keen pewter]

it sounds that the recent update make a mess there

maybe it messed the toggle config of vrcfury

[proven quail]

Maybe the parameters are being set to local and not global? If you are using vrcfury for the toggles I'm not sure why this would happen, unless there is some setting to make the toggles local/global? If you are doing things manually just make sure the parameters you use are in the parameter list, not just in the FX controller parameters, and set them to sync in the param list

[fierce fiber]

How do I access the channel to request avatar commissions?

[foggy wadi]

#1204490664637890580 VRCTraders

[fierce fiber]

Thank you kindly

[uncut steppe]

hey i'm making a robot character for vrchat, and i'm trying to find out if it's possible to make custom hand poses for grabbing instead of the vrchat default humanoid hand poses?
my robots arm and leg joints already don't align with vrchat arm and leg movements, but i'm fine with that. i just want to figure out how to make the hands at least move more robotically rather than contorting weirdly like they do now when i try to assign the finger bones to normal humanoid bones
i recently saw an avatar in a world with a claw hand that just opened and closed rigidly, and i was hoping to do something similar with my avatar!
however i'm not seeing any advice or videos online that align with what i need
i am pretty much brand new to vrchat avatar making (so far only made two similar avatars with rounded, fingerless hands meaning i know nothing about hand rigging and posing) so i would love any advice on this or to be redirected to a video that might help which i missed!!

[real adder]

how do i put in the flying toggle on gogoloco?

[foggy wadi]

Isnt it what the UFO one is for ?

[real adder]

no its the one with the stick figer with the red cap

[real adder]

this

[somber sequoia]

use the one with flying, was it "beyond"? I forget how they name stuff

[real adder]

i thought it was all?

[somber sequoia]

yeah could be. I haven't used it in at least a year

[nocturne stone]

there isn't a good unity-help channel or VCC help channel but... does anyone know how to stop unity hub from launching everytime i open up the vrchat creator companion? its started happening recently lol
please @ me if you reply 🙏

oh wait there is a creator companion channel

[proven quail]

It's gogo beyond

[sand cedar]

how do I apply multiple textures to an avatr if i can only apply one at a time

[queen plover]

im a trusted user, why is it saying this?

[gaunt knoll]

Make sure it's your account

Make sure your using the least SDK

Restart unity

[mortal tangle]

Can you help me blender stopped working

[lilac quest]

Hi, I'm starting modeling character and so avatars, is there any good model with very good topology/anatomy I could study somehwre out there?

[ornate stump]

Good study would be character from Hoyoverse. They are professional and provide free MMD models for their character, which you can import into blender with CATS plugin.

[sly birch]

whats the best way to smooth this transition out without having to make sure that both surfaces have a loop with the same vertex count, etc - like a modifier thing or something, maybe an addon?

[ornate stump]

There is no best way without matching loop vertex count.

[sly birch]

Sad, wouldn't like a shrink wrap with falloff or something work to "wrap" the neck around the head

[ornate stump]

You still get unmatched loop edge around the wrap itself.

[lilac quest]

Thank you! Imma take a look at these ^^

[timber wharf]

custom normals perhaps?

[sly birch]

I just want it to look smooth, no need to perfectly match it for my own personal model

[vapid oar]

Well it wont look smooth if you dont do it right

[obtuse trail]

Normal editing might help.

Maybe

[sand cedar]

I converted the model from pmd to fbx. I cant upload because it has no chest, is there any way to fix this? the rigging of this model is from the game its from

[somber sequoia]

If it has a chest bone, drag it into the appropriate slot.
If it does not have a chest bone, import it into Blender (or similar) and create one then update the weight painting

[sand cedar]

thats the thing im bad at rigging stuff

and im not familar with weight painting

i usually upload stuff alrdy rigged

[somber sequoia]

well, this one is not already rigged properly

[timber wharf]

just mixamo it

[sand cedar]

but mixamo causes the textures to go weird

and the model doesnt get accepted

[somber sequoia]

what do you mean weird?

[sand cedar]

whenever i use mixamo to rig stuff, most of the time when i apply the textures it becomes light brown

[balmy barn]

convert pmd in blender, cats can remove all the useless bones/collider just using it to import in blender hey go poof

[sand cedar]

btw im on blender rn

should i screenshot the bones

[somber sequoia]

there's an image pinned in #avatar-rigging of what it should look like
(it has an optional upper chest shown though)

[sand cedar]

the bones look the same to me

[somber sequoia]

hip bone looks upside-down

[sand cedar]

which one is that?

[somber sequoia]

it's the root bone in the tree of bones, you can select it from the hierarchy in the outliner window that's at the upper-right by default

visually, the one in the spine that's pointing down, look at that diagram again, it's pointing up there.

[sand cedar]

i see it now

but how do i flip it

[balmy barn]

edit bone, w ( or just alt+f ) switch direction

[somber sequoia]

ooh I didn't know that was there

[sand cedar]

i reopened blender and ts happened

i cant swap modes

[ornate stump]

You have to select the object you want to edit first.

[gray badger]

Is there an easy way to pack all the dependancies with the unitypackage? Like keep all the info for the avatar descriptor and toggles for vrcFury

I haven't found a resource that's helpful

[somber sequoia]

right click the avatar root, and export

[uncut steppe]

hey sorry for asking again, but does anyone have any advice on my question here? if not that's totally fine!
i just want to know if it's possible to animate the hands to have custom grab animations instead of assigning normal generic human bones since my robot's fingers don't align with normal hand movements

[timber wharf]

@uncut steppe sure, you just read Gesture variable then play whatever animation https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/animator-parameters/#built-in-parameters

[uncut steppe]

okay, thank you!!!

[dire linden]

So I uploaded my avatar but she’s t posing and her face texture broke

[somber sequoia]

broken face texture that wasn't obvious in unity is likely caused by an animation swapping that material to a broken one.

[round comet]

Did you set the rig to humanoid?

[dire linden]

yesz

i fully rigged it now i turnerd enforce t pose and now it wont upload

[balmy barn]

if you stuck in T its broken humanoid, set it generic and back see if it spits out a error

pink just means you have a material thats assigned to a shader you dont have or broke ( select one and back to whatever you want to use often fixes that one )

[dire linden]

Ok ty

It says not mapped but it’s mapped

I just added toes

I’ll see if that helps

It says it’s not mapped wth

[balmy barn]

shoulders/chest gone missing

[round comet]

The chest is in the spine slot

Is that intentional?

[somber sequoia]

Spine is in hips slot too

[dire linden]

Yeah it doesn’t have shoulders in the model and it was auto mapped like that

[somber sequoia]

VRChat requires shoulder bones for a humanoid rig

[dire linden]

It doesn’t have any-?

How do I make vrchat shoulder bones?

[somber sequoia]

Blender

(or similar)

[dire linden]

Ok ty I’ll work on that later rn there’s an upd soon in my fav game UG

[gray badger]

What does the eye symbol mean on the folder icon? I can't select any of these blendshapes for my animation

I'm assuming maybe it has something to do with unpacking but I'm hesitant to mess with that since it gives so many warnings when you mess with it

[heavy zephyr]

That's just the icon for the renderer component.
Right click on your selected properties and click on add

[gray badger]

Oh! Thanks

Weird that it doesn't just add them when I select them

[bleak lynx]

Currently having that issue with avatars where the body lifts up when you move your head and the chest moves with head movement, the rigs fine idk how to fix this tho, happens when my fbt is on or off

[somber sequoia]

usually that means the view position is too far forward

[eternal glacier]

how do i fix my hue slider on my raruh?

[somber sequoia]

can you describe what's wrong with it?

[eternal glacier]

i cant get to fix it because i dont know how i linked it to my hair

the chromatix legs hue to my hair

[balmy barn]

depends on shader/mask/mesh , cant guess wich one you have - one material will affect all other if its some shader - to little info here

poi shader have it easy, just mask/rename it before locking

[eternal aurora]

Alright, I chose a new approach that I hope is gonna be a little more simple to deal with than what I was doing yesterday. So, I went back to Blender and posed up the tail model there. I saved the tail and the armature and bringing it over to Unity. But I can't get the wrapped tail to connect to the model properly even with VRCFury's Armature Link.

[balmy barn]

id just animate it in unity to curl around , easiest way is just drop something under whatever bone its ment to follow tail/ears/hats/ect super simple like that

[eternal aurora]

That's what I initially tried in Unity with a duplicate but couldn't get it working properly... Sorry I'm not really too experienced using either Unity or Blender, this is my first proper big project that I'm figuring out as I go

[balmy barn]

if you drop that mesh under hip it will follow it, dont need armature link unless it has a bunch of bones (entire humanoid exsample)

[eternal aurora]

That's kinda how it's holding it's shape. I tried to save just the wrapped tail on Blender but it wouldn't hold the shape even when I saved it, so the only way I could do that was just remove the avatar from around the tail and cut out all the other bones that aren't holding it together

It's a scuffed solution but I was getting frustrated with it and wanted to brute-force it to work somehow

...Well, a solution if it DID work.

[forest vessel]

alright im not sure why its doing this but I need to find out how to fix this for quest because it gave me 0 problems tryna upload this avatar for pc and now it says this Failed to build the Avatar, check logs for more details
UnityEngine.Logger:Log (UnityEngine.LogType,object,UnityEngine.Object)
(wrapper dynamic-method) UnityEngine.Debug:UnityEngine.Debug.LogError_Patch1 (object,UnityEngine.Object)
VRC.Core.Logger:LogError (string,string,UnityEngine.Object)
VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder/<BuildError>d__152:MoveNext () (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.avatars/Editor/VRCSDK/SDK3A/VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.cs:3309)
System.Runtime.CompilerServices.AsyncVoidMethodBuilder:Start<VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder/<BuildError>d__152> (VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder/<BuildError>d__152&)
VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder:BuildError (object,string)
VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder/<HandleBuildError>d__143:MoveNext () (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.avatars/Editor/VRCSDK/SDK3A/VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.cs:2989)
System.Runtime.CompilerServices.AsyncTaskMethodBuilder`1<System.Exception>:Start<VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder/<HandleBuildError>d__143> (VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder/<HandleBuildError>d__143&)
VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder:HandleBuildError (System.Exception)
VRC.SDK3A.Editor.VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder/<Build>d__141:MoveNext () (at ./Packages/com.vrchat.avatars/Editor/VRCSDK/SDK3A/VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder.cs:2874)
UnityEngine.UnitySynchronizationContext:ExecuteTasks ()

[balmy barn]

too generic error, look for others ( top red ones )

[forest vessel]

i sent the red error as a text messsage

[pine valley]

the second screenshot shows an error from the postprocessing library

i'd be surprised if that was causing the avatar upload to fail

it appears to be caused by by the Post-process Layer component (see https://discussions.unity.com/t/nullreferenceexception-postprocessing-ambientocclusion-isenabledandsupported/240392/4)

you probably have that on your Camera so that you can preview bloom

it sounds like you can get rid of that error by just removing and re-adding the layer component

[lunar flume]

Hey there! Trying 3d modeling for the first time in order to make an avi for my partner, what do you guys think? Any help its appreciated :)

Also, any good resources thast i could look into for blender?

[pine valley]

your project has compile errors

clear the console and look at the remaining errors

[forest vessel]

okay

[eternal aurora]

Okay I figured this out in case someone has a similar issue! I was able to export just the mesh itself from Blender and have it retain it's shape! Thank you for all those who were giving me advice on this!

[forest vessel]

I fixed it nvm !!

[obtuse trail]

very nice so far! You want the hands pointing down, though.

[lunar flume]

for the rigging?

[coral coyote]

I added the base and the clothing dropped the clothing into the base but the clothing didn't go on right or something?

[obtuse trail]

Yes, for rigging and other steps later on. You want a "neutral" pose like a T-pose, especially if you are learning. Arms and legs should be straight when seen from the front

Since you seem to be using separate meshes to join later, you may also want to do that for the upper chest

[lunar flume]

so get everything on a t pose and then straighten it

[obtuse trail]

Yes, pose should be like this

[lunar flume]

in order to not have to do it piece by piece im gonna mesh the major parts together first, so hands, arms torso, and legs

[balmy barn]

wat , A to T

unless you want to use blender modifiers to do the same without cats

[lunar flume]

I dont have it rigged yet

[obtuse trail]

Hes replying to someone else

[open spindle]

why is this doing this?

[balmy barn]

animation is set to loop my guess

[open spindle]

i turned loop off

[balmy barn]

could also be a transition thing especially with any state set to 'transition to self'

[open spindle]

not that

[lone hedge]

for some reason every time i load gesture manager it does this

i use the one in VCC/Creator Companion

[lunar flume]

All done!

[lime hawk]

anyone know why my viewpoint is set way higher than what it is in unity?

and it worked just fine like yesterday

[lunar flume]

Now is time to rig yay

[obtuse trail]

Object mode, right click > Shade Smooth. 😁

[lunar flume]

does that increase my polygon count?

[obtuse trail]

no think of it as a camera trick

[obtuse trail]

you can also vertex paint if you dont want to deal with texturing and UV unwrap.

[gentle iris]

keep getting this error, changed nothing on my avatars quest version

[lunar flume]

I made sure to write it down

[cyan geode]

hi yall :D im wanting to learn how to make my own avis but dont know how- and i need help and im wonderin if someone can help me build the model im wanting i have a chatgpt imagine of what im wanting or the ideal of it atleast and in need of help and im on quest 3 but using my pc also :3

or atleast tell me of what i need to download to get started

[somber sequoia]

https://vcc.docs.vrchat.com/guides/getting-started/
https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/creating-your-first-avatar

[ocean berry]

would anyone know how to make poiyomi materials looks fiery like this dude

https://tenor.com/view/killer-instinct-2013---cinder-trailer-gif-16559995277168066738

damn

[lunar flume]

Hey! Sorry for the dumb question but, I have this 2 options for the model, one i applied a bulean modified to remove all the overlapping mesh from the model, it wont cause any problems when rigging or for future use rigth? or should I save and use the one that keep everything separated

[gentle iris]

anyone else randomly have their avatar increase in size for the quest version?, mine was under 10mb then randomly from adding nothing went to 11mb

[obtuse trail]

sorry, I don't use that method of modeling and I hardly use booleans.

It is a good idea to keep separate saved versions as you progress. Blender even has a "Save incremental" command that add a one to the save file version

[lunar flume]

oh nice! I thougth it was 100% nescesary

[gentle iris]

anyone know how to fix this issue?

[gentle iris]

i cant upload my quest avatar because it randomly increased in size and is making me remove too much to get down to 10mb

[lime hawk]

Does anyone know why adding my vrc fury assets screw up my viewpoint?

[gentle iris]

my avatar is stuck at 10.47mb and refuses to go lower, why cant the limit be 15mb

[foggy wadi]

Because quest stinky

[gentle iris]

like i added nothing and it went up in size, it makes no sense

[gaunt knoll]

You removed nothing as well it's more of an estimation

[gentle iris]

i removed a lot but its not decreasing

[true flower]

OK, I think I have this question phrased right:
I'm trying to upload an avatar for Android.
A prefab I want included is returning errors for unsupported shaders.
All the *.mat files I can find have been switched to VRChat/Mobile specific shaders.
Repeating for emphasis: All the *.mat files I can find
I must conclude there are files that use shaders, that aren't *.mat files.

So my question is, where should I look for files that aren't *.mats? Conversely, is there a way to reverse the search, and find the files that are using these specific shaders?

[gentle pewter]

this is how i make a seat right?

[cedar echo]

you need a station component

[gentle pewter]

whats that

nvm i got it

[fading urchin]

i need an avatar

[lime hawk]

Does anyone know why adding my vrc fury assets screw up my viewpoint?

[torn remnant]

Why cant i click to upload my quest avatar

[plain lava]

How do I make the transparent face visible for pc and quest

[lilac musk]

You need to make sure the android build is installed

[lilac musk]

Quest can't do transparent shaders

[torn remnant]

Were would i dowload it i cant find it

[lilac musk]

This explains it: https://creators.vrchat.com/platforms/android/build-test-mobile/#set-up-unity-android-tools

[fluid vortex]

importing a model into unity and started working on the mapping. is there a way to recenter the bones back to their normal rotation? it keeps applying a 180 rotation to the feet, head and tail.

[delicate crypt]

So I uh..
Added some extra fingers to Szepplins Mimi Sentry
Didn't weight paint them or anything as I only need the bones for interactions
And uh..
When I replaced with overrides, it combusted-

[somber sequoia]

often that's caused by bone roll for the humanoid bones not being 0. you can fix that in Blender, edit the armature, select each bone and set it

[fluid vortex]

I looked at all the bones in blender. they are set at 0.

wait... how is THAT possable?

[somber sequoia]

it's just a very very small number

but that's rotation, not roll.

if those are all 0 and the armature's rotation is 0,0,0 then I'm not sure what's doing it

[fluid vortex]

the joys of blender/unity....

so. did a test and re-zeroed a bone. its like it didn't do anything.

I have no idea where its getting these values. I looked at a few of them that are actually zero

[fluid vortex]

fixed it.... Stupid unity importer... the L and R of the bones were reversed.

[limber sail]

Hello, this is the first time im trying to upload an avatar and all i did was drag and drop the most recent Poiyomi Shaders into unity 2022.3.22f1 and it gave me this warning and then froze unity for a solid 30 seconds to a minute.

Should i be concerned and do i need to do something to fix this?

[lilac musk]

The yellow ones are usually safe to ignore. Its when you get the red errors that can start to be a problem

[limber sail]

ok, i looked it up and found that other people that had this warning also faced an issue where whenever they made a change or something their unity would freeze.

[grizzled vault]

i don't know if it's just me but i have been unable to change any options on the descriptor lipsync without resetting the entire descriptor. i have tried reinstalling the sdk but nothing seems to work

[wild orbit]

hellooooo

Does anybody know why my avatar keeps turning to the side whenever I hit play?

I have VRC fury, gesture emulator, and gogo Loco

My pov is all screwed in game and there’s so actually way to turn the pov to the side of any that ik of

[ornate stump]

Did you make sure that the model orientation is facing the correct axis?

[wild orbit]

Yesss it’s facing straight until I hit play mode

[timber wharf]

@wild orbit this and message below #avatar-help message

line should go forward

[ornate stump]

It's more deeper than just looking it in the unity scene.

[wild orbit]

Yeah ik I think it’s an animation, but none of the animations ever made my thing rotate and I remove them, but it was still rotating

or I heard it could be cause of an animation

[ornate stump]

It isn't about the animation either.

[wild orbit]

hmmmmm

u think it’s vr fury bug

[ornate stump]

Neither that.

[wild orbit]

It’s so weird I can’t find anything online either

[ornate stump]

I repeat again, it's model orientation. Do you see a white line at the avatar feet when you select your avatar?

[wild orbit]

Yesss

It’s perfectly straight

[ornate stump]

It's can only be straight. But what direction it's pointing?

[wild orbit]

I fixed it, when you go to humanoid and configure it, the head was skewed to the side, so I just realized it back into T pose and it fixed it

now we know 🙂

[ornate stump]

The root cause still is model orientation. Your fix only is band-aid solution.

[wild orbit]

idk if u understood what I said lol

it’s fixed

I found the problem

[ornate stump]

At surface level yes. But problem is still there.

[wild orbit]

the torso bone was turned to the side

I re aligned it

no it’s fixed the issue is gone lol what u talking ab

[ornate stump]

If you aren't going to intake my explanation then it's pointless for me to explain.

[wild orbit]

okay cause ur not making any sense lol

[ionic girder]

i am bashing my head into a wall trying to figure out how to make my roblox avatar into a vrchat avatar bc i think it'll make me play it more
i feel like its so simple and im just being stupid

like ive looked at tutorials but for some reason the .obj just refuses to show up when i import it into anything

[proven quail]

Did you look at YouTube tutorials?

[ionic girder]

yup

[proven quail]

What part are you stuck on?

[ionic girder]

putting the accessories into pmx editor
i click import, select the .obj with all the accessories, i set the scale to 3.5, i click new, i click done, nothing
nothing changes

[proven quail]

The accessories don't show up?

[proven quail]

I'm not sure, but maybe forums on using pmx editor would be more helpful, unless someone here has Roblox -> vrchat experience.

[ionic girder]

-# yea >_>

[ionic girder]

hope so ..

[quaint adder]

se tiver BR me chama PV quero tirar duvidas sobre o VR quem poder me ajudar

[gaunt knoll]

Not really the place to ask try #vrchat-general-1

[torpid hinge]

yo, i'm trying to fix the error in the first photo after uploading my model and if i try to rearrange it it shows the error of the second image

[proven quail]

Is the first error actually causing you issues in game? Usually it doesn't actually effect gameplay at all.

[torpid hinge]

yeah, my arms go weird, lemme take a screenshot

[proven quail]

If you are actually having issues in game with the movement, the best thing to do is to edit the bones in blender, as to preserve the prefab link. Then you can re-export over the original fbx in the unity project by saving in that file location. Make sure to have scaline set to FBX all and leaf bones turned off.

[torpid hinge]

taken in prismics btw

[proven quail]

So what am I looking at here. The model way in the background?

[torpid hinge]

lemme zoom

[proven quail]

Maybe get closer to the mirror to get a good picture

[round comet]

Ayeee Timekeeper Cookie

[torpid hinge]

Here's how it looks much closer, don't mind my soundboard

[round comet]

Maybe turn osc on and off. I think some stuff gets weird if the arms are short

[proven quail]

So the solution should be the same, you need to import the fbx into blender to modify the bone orders and such

You could unpack the prefab, but it is unrecommended as it will break future imports and updates of the model. It's best to update the fbx directly via exporting over the original file location. Everything should work fine as long as you use the same export settings. Typically that's scaling at FBX all, and no leaf bones.

[somber sequoia]

Yeah don't unpack, that's almost never the right choice.

[torpid hinge]

can somebody go into the vc that i'll be in and teach me it?

i have blender

oh wait

there are no vcs here

just add me to teach it to me, i'll be available

[proven quail]

so i'm looking into it, and I don't think you can reorder the child bones easily? I am going into blender to check for myself but it seems to be an issue people have

are we sure that the bone order is causing the issue? If so, we may need to unpack the prefab. Try duplicating the avatar in the scene by clicking on it and pressing ctrl + d. Then right click the duplicate and unpack prefab. Try reordering the bones there in unity and see if that fixes the weird arm rotation.

[balmy barn]

I just name whatever Z_ if arm/legs have multiple bones and unity get confused

[proven quail]

true, blender should make things alphabetical.

[balmy barn]

extremely rare it matter , mostly its cause bones not straight and its trying to rotate the wrong way

[proven quail]

maybe opheebop should look at the rig in the configure rig? we'd see if the bones were aligned properly there right? or would blender be needed to check properly?

[somber sequoia]

Definitely don't tell people to unpack prefabs

I actually name mine (usually muscle deform or twist bones) starting with a tilde ~ so they clearly stand out

[torpid hinge]

to answer your question, here's unity's hierarchy

right at the shoulders

[somber sequoia]

ah yep, alphabetical order puts those extras before the hand bone

[torpid hinge]

should i do your method of adding a tidle at the start of the coliders?

[somber sequoia]

That's entirely up to you, but it works for me.

[torpid hinge]

also here's the rig configure menu details

should i delete the coliders?

[somber sequoia]

this image isn't really of any use to us.

[torpid hinge]

as seen in the hierarchy of before

[somber sequoia]

can't say what you should or shouldn't do about collider bones, if you want to use them, sure, it's fine. I personally don't in most cases.

[torpid hinge]

i think they're putting more problems on the model

by spacing before the main child bone

[somber sequoia]

yeah I'm not sure why you'd need separate bones for those, but maybe there's a reason

[proven quail]

sometimes unpacking the prefab is the most optimal option. it would be on a duplicate of the model to test if the bone order is even causing the problem.

[somber sequoia]

I have not encountered any case where that was the best option. Perhaps you have.

[proven quail]

rather than doing blender work and then finding out that the bone order was not the cause, Its just for debugging.

[somber sequoia]

oh sure, for debugging that's fine.

[proven quail]

again, I wouldn't unpack the original model, just a copy of it

[mellow cairn]

im trying to update an avatar, when i update the fbx the avatar doesnt change

[somber sequoia]

try to right-click the .fbx file and pick "reimport" - Unity sometimes doesn't do that automatically

[mellow cairn]

OKAYYY

tyy

also sorry caps lock lmao

reimport or reimport all

[somber sequoia]

just reimport, no need to do them all

[mellow cairn]

didnt work

:(

nvm i got it working

[crystal whale]

How do I go about making something "edible", such as, say, a stick of uranium in the hand.

I know I have to use contacts somehow to trigger an animation, I just can't remember how.

[ornate stump]

Every animation is driven by parameter. And parameter can be driven by contact.

[crystal whale]

This tells me nothing.

[balmy barn]

contact - receiver detect someones head - do stuff

[crystal whale]

How do I get the contact to trigger the animation?

[balmy barn]

[ do nothing ] << your parameter >> [ do stuff ]

receiver detect someones head it sets a parameter

you can test it in unity using av3/gm just use a gameobject have i collide with your contact

[crystal whale]

What do i do from here. What do i add? Or where do I add it from?

[proven quail]

So make a contact reciever on the 'food'. Have the tag set to head and the parameter type to constant. Then name the parameter, something like 'eat' or whatever you want. Then, you create an animation for the food being eaten (disable the food object, make a crunch noise, etc). You also need an animation for the food being spawned and not eaten (food object enabled) and an animation of the food toggled off (food object disabled). Then you go into the FX and add your parameter you made under parameters
Make it a bool

[balmy barn]

VRCContactReceiver is the one you want it can trigger a parameter when something in its collision tag is near/in it ( i always mix these up )

[proven quail]

Then create a new layer and you need to drag the three animations on the layer. You can right click to add transitions (arrows between states). You probably want arrows between the enable and disable of the food, and one arrow from enable to eat, then from eat to disable

Also make another parameter for the food, you can call it like, food or something. That will control the toggle for turning the food on and off ( it should also be a bool). So between enable and disable, food being true should go from disable to enable. Then food being false should go from enable to disable. Then, eat being true should go from enable to eat, and eat being false should go from eat to disable.

[crystal whale]

Is there like... a less confusing way to do this? I usually rely on VRCcury. 😭😭

[proven quail]

Finally, you need a menu item and global parameter to control the food on and off. So go to your avatar's menu and add an item. Name it whatever you want and set it to item and the parameter to food. Then, in the avatar's parameter list, add the food parameter, setting it to a bool and sync

[proven quail]

I don't believe vrcfury has complicated gimmick set ups like this. It's always best to learn the manual way to get the most out of your avatar though.

[regal tapir]

If I want a color wheel to adjust the color of parts of my avatar, do I have to have specially-downloaded shaders? Or can I use default shaders?

[proven quail]

Toon standard has a hue shift option.

Comes with the sdk

[balmy barn]

1 material fine, 2 you will be affecting the other unless its using a different material / seperate mesh (quest) , pc easier

[crystal whale]

Okay. So I have the animation ready and the toggle to turn the food on and off initially. As the contact receiver on the "food"

And the animation for eating

[proven quail]

Did you do the toggle with vrcfury?

It might not work with the gimmick if so

[balmy barn]

[ wait ] << false | yourparameter from receiver| true >> [ do stuff aka your animation] , (ignore the outfit name )

[regal tapir]

is that a poiyomi thing? I just downloaded that shader because that's what the tutorial has.

[balmy barn]

is it for pc or quest

pc poi fine

[regal tapir]

if you're asking me, it's for PC, I don't have the bandwidth to handle a quest-compatible avatar yet

[crystal whale]

I am so confused

[pine valley]

Does the VRC Raycaster not have a way to control the forward direction on the Raycast Target?

With the old FinalIK-based raycast, you got not only the surface normal, but also the direction you were pointing in

so you could twist your wrist to spin the raycast target around

I bet you can recreate this with an appropriate constraint setup

[balmy barn]

had one on a finger so i could point at stuff, but moved it to wrist after setting things on fire too much all over the place

only animated how far it can reach but they all seem to be animatable

[pine valley]

(actually, it's not just the direction you were pointing, since that wouldn't change as I twitsted my wrist)

so i should probably figure out what the old raycast is actually doing first, haha

whatever the behavior is, it allowed me to spin the object around the surface normal

[mellow cairn]

how do you export and share a project? (like when u buy an avi u get a package how do i go that)

[timber wharf]

drag avatar's root to assets. thatd give you a prefab. then right click and export as unity package

[mellow cairn]

okay tysm!

[pine valley]

you can also export the entire scene, which is nice if you have several related avatars

either way, it'll pull in every asset that the avatar needs

one note is that, if the avatar needs any scripts from your Assets folder, Unity will include every single script it can find

this can be a nuisance!

[torpid hinge]

so, should i delete colider bones or not?

yes i'm back

[crystal whale]

Do i put the animation in avatars FX or a separate one?

[somber sequoia]

FX for this

btw, this doc explains why: https://creators.vrchat.com/avatars/playable-layers/

[regal tapir]

While in Unity, my avatar somehow got stuck in this pose, which he made after I put in some animations. Anyone know how to get him out of this pose and back to the default? VRChat is trying to build him in this jacked up pose instead of the default.

[somber sequoia]

When animating, if you select a different animation after you're done working on one, it'll reset the pose.
If it's stuck now though, Pumkin's tools can reset that.

[regal tapir]

What're those tools?

[somber sequoia]

Its a unity package you can get

no, I do not have a link. It should be easily searchable by that name though (note spelling)

[regal tapir]

Found it. I've finished what I've been trying to do and built the avatar before it messed up, so I'll just note these for next time.

[flint grail]

this is in unity. Does anyone know why this keeps happening to me and how to fix it? I just rebuilt the entire avatar and it's still doing this. It does not look like this in blender. PLS HELP

[regal tapir]

Do you mean why it's all the same color, or why it's stuck in a T pose? or what

[flint grail]

no im sorry, the arms are not supposed to be bent like that

[balmy barn]

that ? , id never use force T pose it does wierd things like that , straighten up bones in blender

[flint grail]

i dont know why it happens. I've tested the model before and after adding everything, im not sure what but it happens somewhere down the line

[balmy barn]

check in blender , should be similar to that

[somber sequoia]

looks like something shifted a bone, that's weird

[flint grail]

everything looks perfect in blender which is why im at a loss. ive never used force tpose

there is no deformity in blender at all

[regal tapir]

I'm assuming the bones are connected in Blender too? Pretty sure they have to be connected and not just have nodes in the same place

[somber sequoia]

can you more clearly show the chest -> shoulder -> upper -> lower arm bones together? Ideally highlighted so they stand out

[regal tapir]

Beyond that idk how to help, I'm kinda new here

[somber sequoia]

they do not need to be connected as Blender understands what that means.

[flint grail]

I tried to make it easier to see

[somber sequoia]

it's not, there's a bunch of extra bones there, I'm not sure what's what.

oh

sorry zoomed and I can see the outline,now

yeah that looks fine

[flint grail]

exactly

:(

i think its something in unity but i cant figure out what, like its translating something wrong

idk what this means but

maybe its something to do with the twist bones

[somber sequoia]

wait, incorrect bone used for the arm bones maybe?

verify the arm bones listed in the rig setup are the ones that should be there

[flint grail]

they are

[torn remnant]

Does anyone know why It wont let me check list android as a upload device i have the unity it told me to download

[somber sequoia]

that happens if you installed unity via standalone package, you can click "official releases" and then the link for the archive site, and grab the separate install packages for the components you want to install

(unless you use Linux, in which case they do not exist, so you have to reinstall the editor from the archive link instead)

[somber sequoia]

or... click "manage" there - does that let you?

[somber sequoia]

ah yep, gotta do it via standalone packages then

[torn remnant]

So wait what do i do….. explain to me like your explaining to a very dumb tired person lol

[somber sequoia]

I did already

here: #avatar-help message

[crystal whale]

Still trying to figure out the contacts for eating the uranium. What the heck am I doing wrong?

@proven quail

[nimble crane]

wondering if someone could help me with my avatar i would really appreciate it!

[somber sequoia]

that's what this channel is for. Post details, ask specific questions.

[proven quail]

I wouldn't go from any state. I'd have a different set up like described in my explanation. I can draw a picture on my phone but Im in the car at the moment

[nimble crane]

well ill just post a screenshot of what errors i have

the main point is preventing me to upload because i had to update my avatar is the armature and when i tried the auto fix it did nothing for 10 minutes

[proven quail]

Also uranium eat should be a bool or int, probably not a float. It sets the parameter to 0 or 1, so you aren't going to be hitting 0.5 values

Also the parameter in the contact reciever and the parameter in the FX have to match names, or else they won't talk to each other

[somber sequoia]

kinda curious what that first error is and why you say "my avatar is the armature"

[crystal whale]

Okay so once that is all done, what next?

[nimble crane]

i prob didnt mean to say that lol

its just thats the main error i got and the rest is okay ig, i just want my performance to be better

[somber sequoia]

looks like mainly too many physbones and too many triangles, check #avatar-optimization and #quest-optimization for help with those

[proven quail]

You need to add the toggle to the avatar menu. Open the main menu and open any subfolder menu you want the toggle to be in. Then add a menu item and set it to toggle. Name it uranium or something and then set the parameter to the one turning the food on and off. In the drawing it's 'food'

[crystal whale]

Okay. That's done already.

[proven quail]

Then, you add your parameters to the avatar's parameter list. Add 'food' and 'eat' as bools and set them to sync. 'food' can be set to save, but 'eat' should not have save.

[crystal whale]

The eating sound works when it comes into contact with a receiver labeled head, but the uranium isnt disappearing.

[proven quail]

Does the eat animation disable the object?

[crystal whale]

Yes.

Disables the object and plays a sound.

[proven quail]

And the sound is in the same animation

Hmm

[crystal whale]

Yes

[proven quail]

Something else might be keeping the object enabled. Make sure you don't have another layer or toggle messing with the uranium (anything like a vrcfury toggle would mess with it)

[crystal whale]

Oof. Aight.

Lemme disable the vrcfury toggle that auto applies.

How would I then re-add the toggle not through VRCfury

[proven quail]

The picture made both controlls the toggle of the uranium and the eating

So 'food' controlls the on and off

You need them all on the same layer so that the states don't mess with each other.

[crystal whale]

But there's no toggle showing up when I go into Playtest mode?

[proven quail]

Did you make a toggle in the menu?

[proven quail]

This one

[crystal whale]

Which menu?

Is the main menu?

[proven quail]

The radial? Yeah main menu of the avatar

It's near parameters in the descriptor

[crystal whale]

Where next?

[crystal whale]

Did that.

[proven quail]

Add an item. Set the name to Uranium, type to toggle, and the parameter to food

[crystal whale]

How do I add the item?

[proven quail]

Click the +

It might yell at you about the parameter but don't worry, we are going to fix it by adding the pareters to the parameter list

[proven quail]

You don't want Eat there, you want food.

Eat is for the contact to manage, food is for the menu

[crystal whale]

Okay? But the parameter is named "Eat"

I thought they had to be the same.

[proven quail]

You need two parameters.

One controls on and off. One controls eat. You don't want your menu to control eat, the menu needs to control on and off

[proven quail]

See there is 'food' and 'eat'.

You need to add 'food' to control the on and off of the uranium

[crystal whale]

Bool or float?

[proven quail]

Bool

Bool means true/false

[crystal whale]

Okay.

[crystal whale]

Okay. Still saying not on the parameter list.

[proven quail]

Yep. We are going to add them next

[somber sequoia]

remember that spelling and capitalization matters.

[crystal whale]

They match exactly.

[proven quail]

You can find the parameter list in the avatar descriptor. Add two parameters with the + and make them bool. food should be set to save and sync, and eat should be set to sync, but not save

[crystal whale]

Done

The parameter is now showing up as food.

[proven quail]

Did you add eat as well?

[crystal whale]

To the menu or the parameters?

Parameters yes, menu not yet.

[proven quail]

I've arrived at my destination, I'm going to ask that the kind people on this chat continue working with you. You've done well so far. Manual toggles can be a lot. But everything should work now

[crystal whale]

Thank you for your assistance, kind and patient stranger.

[proven quail]

Npnp

[crystal whale]

This where I'm at.

Only thing I need now is figuring out how to stop the uranium from coming back after it's been eaten and how to place the toggle into my already formed submenu

[frozen sparrow]

struggling with weight painting,
I robust weight transfered the weights from the pants onto the straps and buckles, but once I test post, the buckle close to my hip goes all wonky

[somber sequoia]

weight painting is fun.

(no it isn't)

[crystal whale]

So how do I add stuff to a sub menu and get the toggle to stop looping?

[somber sequoia]

make a new menu item of the type submenu, make a new menu file, drag it into the submenu slot

[crystal whale]

Will all my vrcfury stuff in the submenu go in there or no?

[somber sequoia]

I don't use Fury so can't help there

unless you're using Full Controller, in which case you can prefix your menu items with some text before / to put it in a submenu. i.e. submenu/menuitem

[crystal whale]

I just did something I think it might work?

Now just to fix the animation looping. I want the uranium to stay gone when it's eaten.

[somber sequoia]

make sure you don't have the loop checkbox enabled on the animation clip

[crystal whale]

None of them are checked.

And my thing didnt work with vrcfury toggles.

Still looping.

[balmy barn]

look at you controller in playmode , see what transitions doing (av3 handy)

[crystal whale]

Where?

[waxen shard]

You mean... you want an artist for your avatar?

[crystal whale]

@balmy barn im not seeing anything thats causing it to loop

[crystal whale]

Hello?

@proven quail ?

[somber sequoia]

hi!

_Lilyyy__6 did imply they weren't available anymore

[hollow trail]

Anyone else ever had (and fixed) an issue upon creating an expression menu in the assets folder, which it then gets stuck in a loading loop?

[torn remnant]

how do i fix this im new to pc`s

[hollow trail]

No matter what I do It keeps loading forever and wont stop

Im almost 100% certain it would still be loading overnight if I left it to

i am completely unable to make avatars because of this issue

[proper orbit]

Would anybody know why this is happening? It’s not the blueprint and they have tried reloading their unity and nothing

[somber sequoia]

are those the only 3 errors in the console?

[proper orbit]

This is the full console the only red error are related to the validation tho

[somber sequoia]

yeah I was asking about errors only - errors are red.

[proper orbit]

Ok then ya that’s it

[somber sequoia]

how annoying, nothing of use there.

[proper orbit]

No and it says it’s the blueprint but they said it’s clear there is no ID in the blueprint at all

[somber sequoia]

yeah the blueprint thing is a side-effect of previous errors, 99% of the time you should ignore it unless it's literally the only error.

[proper orbit]

What’s weird is the avatar works fine for me it’s only when I send it to them it started having issues

[hollow trail]

?

[proper orbit]

I had them clear everything and reimport and this is everything

[valid marsh]

whats a good way to make an avatar go invisible?

i've tried two things, making the root bone realy small, which made it stuck in the ground when turned off, and i also tried turning the mesh off, but then it wouldnt turn visible again for other people

[somber sequoia]

Personally I use Poiyomi's dissolve feature to do it with a cool effect, and then it's basically alpha = 0 in cut-out mode

[valid marsh]

i need to do it for quest too

[somber sequoia]

you probably want to unlock and relock those shaders, but still , the errors aren't helpful unfortunately

[valid marsh]

im also not using poiyomi

[somber sequoia]

ah, no alpha there then. Disabling the mesh renderer doesn't work either 'cause then your animator gets disabled.

[valid marsh]

actually, making a multiply material with no texture makes the material invisible, what if i just replace all the materials with that in the animations?

would that work

[somber sequoia]

sure, that'd probably do it

[valid marsh]

i'll try it

[somber sequoia]

good idea. Please report back if it works, I haven't tried that

[valid marsh]

i will

it works

[somber sequoia]

ah, very good to know

[timber wharf]

@valid marsh proper way is to have a tiny cube (or namehider or anything) still on btw. avatars do break when no renderer left at all.

[smoky kernel]

how do i disable backface culling in unity

[somber sequoia]

depends on the shader, usually it's at the bottom of the inspector for the material

yes, it's per-material

[smoky kernel]

lemme see

i must have gone blind or something

[somber sequoia]

That shader doesn't have this feature

[smoky kernel]

so where do i disable it then?

[somber sequoia]

you don't for that shader

[smoky kernel]

ok then

[spice ruin]

hey all, I'm trying to create a novabeast avatar, and everything but the visemes are going well - I see the shapekeys for them in blender and they all work properly, but unity isn't detecting them. There's no face mesh, everything is just on the body itself. Any idea how I can get the blendshapes to work?

Image of unity not showing visemes, and of blender showing both shapekeys and the vrc.v_oh working properly within the fbx.

[somber sequoia]

do you see the blendshapes on the 'body' mesh in Unity though?

if you exported from Blender with an un-applied modifier, it'll remove the shape keys before export and they won't be present in Unity.
Solution: deal with that modifier before export.

[spice ruin]

ah yes... so I completely forgot that my friend was trying to help me with the clothing and teaching me about simulations in the sculpt tab - removed those, so hopefully that worked, I'll update if so!

[somber sequoia]

that might be it

[spice ruin]

the only other modifier that's there is a smooth by angle, is there a way to apply that without removing the shapekeys?

or do I have to deal with the low poly look for now

[somber sequoia]

I use this, perhaps it also works for you: https://github.com/przemir/ApplyModifierForObjectWithShapeKeys

[spice ruin]

Seems to have worked, thank you so much!

I was scared because last time I used a similar program it just erased all my shapekeys entirely 😅

[somber sequoia]

make backups!

Even this tool only works sometimes, not all modifiers are easy to deal with

[spice ruin]

i mean not scared, I do have backups, "scared" because I just had to remake the few shapekeys that there was since nothing else worked

[somber sequoia]

I should say, I've had it work most of the time, but I don't use a lot of modifiers on avatars.

[spice ruin]

Okay so apparently I didn't understand what the smooth by angle was doing... guess it just made it look different in the viewport and I didn't really need it? Shoulda just tried deleting it first, anyways still thanks for your help lol

Almost like it was unsmoothing to 30 degrees

[cold perch]

It says I need a name and thumbnail but I already have it- this happened before and the person that helped me doesn't talk to me anymore. So I need help bc idk why it's doing this

[regal stone]

Shoot me Dm let me solve it out for you

[cold perch]

I couldn't figure out how to screenshot on pc, and I do have the name and thumbnail bc I had to add the blueprint ID from the pc version 🤷🏻‍♀️

[buoyant sentinel]

does anyone know how to contact this guy i need to ask him if he can update his quest version of "nocturne in the moonlight"(really good castlevania alucard) because i see the stuff on pc through my geforce now vrchat but i cant use it on my quest cause the controls are broken and isn't half as good.

[fathom flicker]

Guys my avatar has already gogo loco i want to add the NSFw version it doesn't let me add what do I do

[foggy wadi]

You cant be serious

[fathom flicker]

I am

Plss help me

Gpt says to remove the prefab but there is no prefab

@foggy wadi pls

[buoyant sentinel]

theres no gifs in this fucking place wtf

[fathom flicker]

Can ya help me 🙏

[stable citrus]

https://discord.com/channels/189511567539306508/344556143353397263

[fathom flicker]

Sorry

[proud jasper]

Is there anyone here with substance painter experience that could possibly help me out? I wanna put emissions on a base that aren't for the actual base I'm using and I'm wondering if anyone can help with that

[ornate stump]

You should explain the actual problem you're having.

[proud jasper]

Oh sorry I'll update it now

[ornate stump]

If you have to ask that kind of question, you have to go to vrcfury discord.

[proud jasper]

Updated now

[ornate stump]

You have to explain more detail of why you can't do that, where you got stuck, and so on.

[proud jasper]

I'll Google it probably be easier because I dont know if substance painter has a select tool so I can move the emissions onto the body that way

[fathom flicker]

Bro In vrc fury gogoloco word is banned

They don't provide help for gogo loco

How to fix this

[ornate stump]

Do you know where your avatar descriptor is?

[nimble crane]

hii im just wondering how do you fix this because this is the only error i get stopping me from uploading my avatar

[ornate stump]

Yellow exclaimation icon is a "warning" which doesn't stop you from uploading.

[nimble crane]

well when i go into vrchat my arms are up in the air and a part of my leg is missing

[ornate stump]

That is a different issue from unable to upload?

[nimble crane]

yes

[ornate stump]

So it doesn't stop you from uploading, but rather the avatar pose just messed up. You have to check rig configuration of the model fbx file and ensure that all bone are assign correctly.

[nimble crane]

it is in enforce t pose

[ornate stump]

Can you edit the model in blender? You will have to flip hips bone direction in blender.

[ornate stump]

Can you also describe whether the screenshot is showing what it already is or you just changed something?

[nimble crane]

im in the menu of it figuring out the next part of how to flip the hips bone

[ornate stump]

The core bones are in correct directions. But your another different problem could be the arm bones because they arnn't aligned correctly with the arms, hands, fingers.

[nimble crane]

how do i fix that?

[ornate stump]

Move the bone around in edit mode for armature.

[nimble crane]

how do i move it? -w-

[ornate stump]

There is a Move Tool once you got in edit mode.

[nimble crane]

so i just got to move the legs and pelvis?

[ornate stump]

No. Those already are correct.

[nimble crane]

so i need to fix the arms, hands, and fingers?

[ornate stump]

That's for different issue. If you want to fix it now then sure.

[nimble crane]

sorry your kind of confusing me what am i trying to fix?

oh the hips lol

[ornate stump]

The leg and pelvis bones issue.

[nimble crane]

so where do you want me to move them?

[ornate stump]

No. I said it's correct already so you have to do nothing.

[nimble crane]

okey so what now?

[ornate stump]

Screenshot rig configuration menu again but show full unity screen.

[ornate stump]

Chest bone is now missing?

[nimble crane]

i fixed itt

[ornate stump]

Is this the new model you just fixed the arm bones or previous unchange model?