avatar-showcase

[ebon verge]

With write defaults I find you tend to need to duplicate poses across many animations. If you want to change it, you have to change it in a ton of animations so they all flow together

Without write defaults you can just have it persist and not be in all the other clips

With write defaults masking becomes sort of mandatory

[covert agate]

write defaults on and off both have their benefits and downsides, in the end they're different workflows for different things when you think about it

personally prefer on but I see the use in having it off in some situations where you want certain attributes to persist

[left bone]

i'd much rather have this because it tells you at one glance what animations can be active concurrently

[true needle]

Made 3 avatars so far with wd off , for what im doing they seem to just add alot more work for the same behavoir

[ebon verge]

I’m sure they have a reason for recommending write default to be off in the future. I’d just like to hear it

[covert agate]

I can think of two reasons why that may be recommended

one, I'm unsure but I heard something about it helping with performance, as with write defaults off it'll affect less things at once, while with it on it has to reset anything that is left unaffected at that moment

and two, it would align with their own workflow of having write defaults off

[ebon verge]

I don’t mind doing it, I actually didn’t know about it until the docs recommended it. I actually like how animations behave with write defaults off, they are more like macros that edit the parameters and it stays that way which is what I thought would happen initially

[left bone]

#1 conceptually write defaults should be more performant at resetting than doing it with animations, as long as you're resetting everything, which you probably are

and it's not like VRC itself uses a lot of animations, it's all user content

[ebon verge]

The implementation of write defaults is that every single parameter is inserted into the animation clips at runtime so it’s really just bulkier animation clips

I don’t know if that actually means it’s less performance though

I know there’s general increased lag with avatar 3, I don’t know if write defaults is the cause, I think people are just asssuming that it is

[covert agate]

I think the lag is rather because of the synced parameters being a thing

[ebon verge]

Weren’t they always?

[covert agate]

I really don't understand how they do it but I see so many people fill up that list completely for no reason

[left bone]

pushing 16 bytes per avatar per network update is absolutely and completely negligible

[covert agate]

yea that's also true

[ebon verge]

It’s not even per update, they don’t change often

[left bone]

for context, each full body tracker will add 12~24 bytes.. it's really not an issue

[ebon verge]

And fullbody changes constantly

[covert agate]

well that debunks my theory then

[finite spoke]

The WD workflow change is because WD on has side effects for other layers. If VRC uses WD on by default, it will affect anyone that tries to animate with WD off. Specifically, undesired property values will persist while mixing WD on and subsequent WD off layers. With VRC choosing WD off by default, custom layers can be made with either WD on or WD off in mind. WD off is what I recommend if you want custom layers other than your own to work on your avatar without the need to refactor them, because you can't very easily/successfully mix WD on and WD off layers, and anyone making avatar packages is going to be following the VRC standard. Otherwise, they risk their assets not working with VRC standard animation workflow.

Aside from that, WD on is more work if you are making complex state machines, because you will need to have the whole layer rest on a state in order to persist values, or keep adding properties to your animations to prevent a reset to default

In many cases this will straight double your state machine complexity

You're free to do whatever works and is most comfortable, but one day there is likely to be a "don't use rig hacks"-type situation and something you want to do will be problematic because of deviation from the standard

[ember dock]

i wonder when rig hacks will ever be disabled

maybe in 5 years

[grim belfry]

Remember AV3 general? Yeah, me too

[random helm]

https://streamable.com/w1bc7w

[grim belfry]

@random helm, for the halo clothing changer thing, was that a blend tree that you are slowly minipulating from 0 to 1 using another Layer and the Parameter Editor?

considering you were able to start from a part of an animation and switch it the other way

[ebon verge]

Not mine but I’m guessing it’s a clip with normalized time using a parameter. Transitioning it from 0 to 1 and back would play and reverse the animation

[grim belfry]

Oh, is that how those work?

I have never really gotten too technical with Animations as I have always done 2D devwork in unity

[ebon verge]

Normalized time just plays a given part of a animation based a Float. There’s probably other ways to do it not sure if that’s what he’s using

[grim belfry]

I see

I was wanting to do something similar with weapon summons

I wanna make it feel super Twilight Princess-y

[atomic shell]

This isn't too impressive but I want to share its adorableness!

I adapted VRLab's follower package to create a chain of adorable dinos that follow me/each other around, and as they speed up to catch up with me their custom walk animation speeds up to match. Multiple size options and people can ride on the big ones 😍

[astral sand]

Anyone know who made this avatar?

@ me if you know

[copper dirge]

Wrong channel.

[astral sand]

Where then @copper dirge

[copper dirge]

There isn't a channel for "where can i find this avatar?", that question is frowned upon.

If you knew how regularly people disrupt conversations with that question you would understand why.

[astral sand]

I guess

Im not trying to be an annoyance or something, jsut its my last option and I hoped someone would know

[copper dirge]

Besides, most cool avatars you see are private, so you can't get them anyways.

[astral sand]

This one, surprisingly, was public

[copper dirge]

You could have just cloned it, provided they had cloning enabled.

[astral sand]

Nah I got it from an avatar world

but idk the creators name so i cant find the world

idk the name of the world either

[copper dirge]

There is a "view avatar author" button when you select someone in the quick menu. But to see the author name of an avatar you are using you have to go to the VRChat website.

[astral sand]

Doesnt work when the avatar is deleted

the person who makes them changes the world every once in a while

and deletes the avatars so he can update them or something

so then I lose the name

and the entire avatar

[copper dirge]

Oh, nothing you can really do about that unfortunately.

[astral sand]

Yea Ik

thats why I tried here

Hoping that some rando may have used the same avatar and knows the name

[errant narwhal]

@true needle tried to do the thing u did

[woeful brook]

This would be a really cool avatar

[ebon verge]

While I agree, this is not the purpose of channel

[dreamy sand]

This is really just starting to turn into a joke.

[whole karma]

#avatar-showcase turning into #general-media 😔

[lean torrent]

@astral sand filn made it

[harsh tapir]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/751213815450042410/778770297934839848/unknown.png?width=1442&height=643

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/751213815450042410/778772098607874088/unknown.png?width=934&height=677

It works!

[ember dock]

what shader lib is that

amplify?

also that avatar reminds me of a creator but idk who

[harsh tapir]

It's Amplify, yeah. I'm super new to Unity, but super used to game engines, so I prefer making my own shaders

[ember dock]

theres a free thing made by unity that is much like amplify

called shader graph

[harsh tapir]

I might check it out, but Amplify is basically a carbon copy of the Unreal graph editor

which means I like it

a lot :v

[ember dock]

shader graph has been giving me a ton of issues so i havent used it much

[harsh tapir]

Then it sounds like I might not want to check it out!

[copper dirge]

called shader graph
@ember dock Shader graph only works in the scriptable render pipelines, not the default renderer. So they won't work in VRChat.

Unless there is some form of workaround i don't know about anyways...

[harsh tapir]

Gottem

[wind otter]

danm i like that model

[bright pelican]

THICC fur base

[true dock]

last pic kinda weird

[true needle]

🤔 3.0 features?

[whole karma]

probably its fbt using av3.0

[dreamy sand]

This has nothing to do with 3.0

[bright pelican]

🤔 3.0 features?
new avatar descriptor

also try to make the fur more fluffy

[dreamy sand]

People aren't showcasing 3.0 AVATAR FEATURES anymore. They're just slapping a descriptor > upload and call it a day.

[true needle]

There's no other avatar 2.0 showoff is there, should just rename it #avatars-showoff 🤔

[dreamy sand]

Even tho we're suppose to show creativity and the possibilities you can do with the 3.0 features.

@true needle True tbh.

[bright pelican]

btw, how do you make a gif? i want to show you my plane

[true needle]

Gyazo is easy to use , bit limited on lenght

[bright pelican]

it's fine

[bright pelican]

well, it's very limited :Р

https://gyazo.com/599d4b1f42464256bfd75a3c62e85d78

i can't show it properly, it uses 2 puppet menu to control, so i need to ask some of my friends in vr to show it ;D

I made it the same as in childhood: as soon as you are a little distracted, it will fly out of your field of vision or crash into the house :в

[astral sand]

@astral sand filn made it
@lean torrent THANK YOU SO MUCH

Do ya happen to know if they had disord?

[lean torrent]

No, they actually have me blocked lmao, long story

[dark nimbus]

@bright pelican ShareX + streamable.com 👌

[ebon verge]

Streamable deletes my old stuff stuff :(

[visual wagon]

Changeable colour I did lmao

[ebon verge]

Nice shader

[harsh tapir]

I made it ( ´ 3 `)

You can buy it in a day or two when I'm done putting it together

Or if you just want the raw model you can buy it from me now I guess, but it'd probably be better if you wait a bit

😍

[ember dock]

does it not have dynamic bones yet

also u should set transition duration to 0s so that it doesnt blend stuff like spritesheets moving

[ebon verge]

Looks great can’t wait. May I recommend: custom menu icons

[harsh tapir]

That's a good idea, I'll slap some together

[quasi perch]

working on a gpu particle system that does not use camera's, so non friends can see it as well.. still has some issues like it not working in a lot of worlds for some reason.
@left bone Bro do we have like the same brain this is one of my projects on my docket too except with different application

[left bone]

i fixed the issues with my system.. works nicely now

[long pelican]

just some sudo randomized ear twitching, depending on the visime parameter, with a 5s cooldown :3

(and disable it if I make a facial expression which mostly invoke ear movement as well)

[drowsy haven]

Who needs full body

[long pelican]

nice :D not really a lot of use for FBT users, but still nice

how do you deal with the viewpoint?

[drowsy haven]

my head follows the viewpoint perfectly

no need to do anything

[long pelican]

hm...

[drowsy haven]

the poses are triggered by the upright parameter

so when I get to certain heights, it switches

[long pelican]

I wish that would be true for index users... they really need to fix that...

[drowsy haven]

but the pose always blends to accommodate where my head should actually be

this is a rework of the built-in standing-crouching-prone system

I just added a step between crouching and prone, for sitting or crawling

(and a toggle to switch between relaxed, and normal)

doesn't work for desktop users, only 3 point vr

(the new step anyway. the others should still work)

[primal rain]

Cat-girl.

[drowsy haven]

That's a different take on what that means haha

[lean torrent]

Purrfect

[hallow dirge]

It looks like it’s gonna tell it’s mummy and doddy on u because u stepped in here walking path

[ashen marsh]

@harsh tapir i would personally recommend using a texture array in place of a sprite sheet for texture swapping, amplify comes with a utility to create them

https://wiki.amplify.pt/index.php?title=Unity_Products:Amplify_Shader_Editor/Texture_Array

you might find it a little more versatile

[harsh tapir]

@ashen marsh Thanks, I will check it out!

[random helm]

First Avi 3.0 😊
https://streamable.com/w1bc7w

[vocal storm]

comming soon in vrc+

[grave hinge]

gotta model fast

[modest zealot]

That was pretty fast

[grave hinge]

i did it as fast as i could

that's why it has a few errors

[woeful brook]

Do I need VRC+ to view the avatar?

[shy isle]

You made that in 10 minutes?

[feral storm]

Please don't ban me.
VRC+ Nameplate Tag with a particle + animator when talks.

[timber bay]

Almost looks like an entirely different game! Nice job!

[wheat halo]

^ i modeled her completely from scratch, there are definitely issues with it but i'm proud of it and i've learned so much for the next avatar i make, so excited haha

[drowsy haven]

reminds me of Lili from Tekken

[wheat halo]

it's supposed to be Katya from Archer

but i'll take it haha

[final valley]

I knew it was Katya from Archer immediately, great job!

@wheat halo ^^

[wheat halo]

😄 thanks so much @final valley

[timber bay]

added an umbrella to one of my avatars

[velvet crow]

bruh

[wheat halo]

Aaaaahhh I've wanted to do this

That is so cool

[timber bay]

It's basically a bunch of shapekeys, I have one where it's hidden inside the hand, one where its "toggled" but closed, and then one that opens it.

My parameters are 0 = Toggled off, 1 = Toggled on(closed), and 2 = toggled on (open).

[celest knot]

I made a gun

to controll it I need to use only fist gestures except loading which is point

[lucid nebula]

has someone figured out how to move the viewpoint with an animation yet?

[drowsy haven]

not that I know of

[lucid nebula]

:c

[upper field]

a bunch of Temporary Pose Space state behaviors with +0.1 delay time to each one until the animation is done

[ember dock]

doesnt work too great, but im waiting for remeasure avatar to come out again

so u can scale the avatar

[frank agate]

anyone know any good get rich quick schemes

[rose matrix]

Make an onlyfans

[lean torrent]

Sell a kidney

[vestal gorge]

anyone do any commission work?

[rancid plover]

Basically i just put the velocity parameters into the FX layer so it would trigger an animation moving the parent contraint from hand to foot

It's more fun riding in FBT then walking

[left stump]

are you making avatars in Blender?

because i dont have VR glasses and i just want to make an avatar but i dont know how to do it so maybe i can get some help 🙂

[long pelican]

your first bet would be searching for some tutorials on youtube

[left stump]

i did

but there was things that i dont understand like where are they drawing and how where do they get clothes

[long pelican]

most people use existing assets... some just sculpt it themselfs, I did some of my clothes with cloth simulation

I guess it's a bit more complicated than you might think it is. Don't forget that there is a whole industry for 3D Designers...

[left stump]

is it called Drape?

[long pelican]

hm?
you mean for the cloth simulation?
I used blender and Marvelous Designer

[left stump]

ohh

im literally so bad at it 😂

[bright pelican]

There is no shame to be bad at something, shame is not learning how to get better.
Anyway, please, use another channel for questions, like #avatar-help or #avatar-rigging

[left stump]

okey

[modest swift]

an avatar I made completely from scratch at 14k polys and 1 material

[main crag]

Yep, like I said. Super Sentai got absorbed by Venom.

[true dock]

looks like groot

[acoustic steppe]

Burnt groot... "I am soot"

Looks cool tho.

[bright pelican]

he is just tired

*ba-dun-tss*

[crimson heart]

https://twitter.com/VonVivianov/status/1331309543981256708?s=20

[random helm]

Buddy of mine buys avatars out the ass and I decided to give him the gift of 3.0, we just threw literally everything we could think of at this avatar

https://streamable.com/w1blwn

[ebon verge]

I need to add a yo-yo. I am easily amused and can mess with those for far longer than seems sane

[silver mesa]

Ok i've seen spring joints controlled by one hand but i havent seen a two handed spring joint, unless its just two parent constraints with half weights? or possibly something else? 😄

[lean torrent]

You put a parent constraint on the anchor object and parent that to both hands

[steady wharf]

woa that yoyo is impressive, nicely done

[ember dock]

i guess the yoyo need rigidbody

[radiant fog]

do anyone know avatars with cool animation

[bright pelican]

<@&397642795457970181> ▲ posting the same question or statement across multiple channels ▲

[timber bay]

I got around to sorta fixing some animations on one of my models, need to figure out how to fix that weird glitch with the texture swap.

[timber bay]

👀

[hidden briar]

something i started making on and off today

[blissful terrace]

I am looking to commission a custom Avatar - Please DM me with fees, Approx time needed to complete and an example of work would be nice 🙂 if interested... I will provide more detail and scope, then.

[elfin zinc]

Does anyone have any YouTube channel recommendations that would have detailed tutorials on how to create an avatar, including what programs to use?

[ember dock]

well the programs u might use depends on the quality

and also pereference and budget

some people sculpt in ZBrush or some vr sculpting games

others do it in blender or not at all

and then theres the modelling phase where u make the model with simple shapes

usually in blender or maya but for vrchat prefer blender

[alpine thunder]

i think the hardest one to find is a alternative to substance painter for cheap

[ember dock]

materials can be made in stuff like photoshop or gimp but tools like substance painter/designer are amazing and make it a million times easier to get high quality assets

and u would need to learn how to use all this software individually

and combine ur knowledge over a couple of months into making one avatar

[brazen marlin]

im making a christmas combine dubbed "clausbine"

[next raptor]

Probably will add some 3.0 gestures / anims, but this is where it's at rn 44k polys / 4 mats

[hybrid cradle]

does ayone have ny good avatar worlds that are big and quest compatible?

[vagrant sleet]

Does anyone know of a sloth avatar that I can use 🙂

[dreamy sand]

Does anyone know if this channel could be used for its actual purpose...

[ember dock]

does anyone know what avatars-3 is

||/s||

[woeful brook]

@next raptor bruh

[drowsy star]

https://youtu.be/7meFXmBP_mQ

Still a WIP, but I felt like showing what I've accomplished so far.

[main crag]

Is that z-buffer normal? o_O

[drowsy star]

Z-buffer?

On the mute icon?

[main crag]

Mhm.

[drowsy star]

Ah, see, if I could figure out why Unitychan toon does that, I'd fix it myself.

For some reason, I can't use another shader.

[main crag]

Seems to only happen in the mirror(?)

[drowsy star]

OH

I get it. That moment in camera in the beginning during AFK.

It didn't seem to do it in mirrors.

[lost hinge]

I need to know where i can get some Lewd anime girls for vr chat on my oculus quest 2

[main crag]

Wrong channel.

[timber bay]

Finished this model today! It still has a few issues I gotta polish but it's working pretty well.

[silent crown]

This is my first model made in Vroid Studios, he isnt perfect and there is some clipping but I'm proud x

[crisp pollen]

that looks really nice

[woeful brook]

3.0 having custom menus(even with some issues with emotes not showing other objects), made me have a lot of fun using dumb funny funny reference stuff

Adding on, I feel like I've used Vroid before, but this is the first ever Vroid model I've done from what I can remembered

New version

[woeful brook]

That’s amazing

[void tinsel]

I made an anime Cortana, but didn't know if it's too lewd to upload. Thoughts?

[ember dock]

ive seen way lewder stuff so

[finite oxide]

I mean, the original Cortana looks like it’s not covered by much clothes, so I would say it’s fine... but also some people could see it as bad... so I would say it’s fine but be careful

[smoky edge]

i would put some lines so they would look like circuits and it would look less like a naked woman

but it looks good so far

[atomic shell]

I decided to make a feature-rich particle focused Kon variant using avatars 3.0 (currently waiting for approval to make it public.) It has:

• A magic wand that can write, shoot sparkles, or shoot a particle heart bomb
• Desktop arm control for head pats/control of the wand/etc
• A Kon fairy helper that displays information on how to use various effects/etc depending on which submenu you have open
• 12 facial expressions
• Color changing for clothes, hair, ears/tail, and eyes, as well as several presets you can choose from, and an emission toggle for maps with bloom
• A toggleable particle trail
• A "particle body" mode in which your entire body becomes rainbow particles
• The ability to drop particle clones as you move around, which you can then dissolve or explode

It is a lot, and of course it's well over the particle limit for rating, among other things. However the effects are as limited as possible, I really put a lot of effort into optimizing them. And using avatars 3.0, things are designed in such a way that only certain components can be active at a time. Even with the max effects active I don't drop a single frame maxed out in VR. I also want to mention that I used VRLabs' awesome particle shader as well as their follower package for the helper fairy. They have a lot of really great stuff: https://github.com/VRLabs/VRChat-Avatars-3.0

I might add more effects in the future. Can't wait to make it public, hopefully midori gets back to me soon!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgNHxV3Augk

[copper valve]

Just finished my very first 3.0 avatar and im very proud

[copper valve]

My second 3.0 avatar

[woeful brook]

@copper valve those are awesome my dude

[copper valve]

thanks

here is my third

changes colors on its own

[tight panther]

Randomly found it and i think it halirous so happy i found it

[copper valve]

omg

[copper valve]

that is pretty funny

[tight panther]

Who ever created it saved my day

[ember dock]

tfw u use #avatar-showcase not only to show off an overused model with nothing added to it + its not even for vrchat

[abstract pond]

I've managed to create Mirror Clones

[smoky edge]

wow

[atomic shell]

Took me way too long to realize you weren't in front of a literal mirror, I was wondering what exactly you were trying to show lol

[ebon verge]

Is that a copy of the armature? Or some camera or shader shananagans?

[dawn wyvern]

Shhhhhh

I saw nothing

[tight panther]

I didn't see anything

Oh

[ember dock]

this channel for showing creations with avatar 3.0 system

[ebon verge]

People just see “avatar” and “showoff” and don’t read the description. I wouldn’t expect it to stop lol

[drowsy topaz]

I hoping for an avatars-2-showoff and maybe an avatars-1-showoff just to shake things up

[ebon verge]

That’s fine just be aware that people are gonna say wrong channel

[abstract pond]

It looked fine on vr but on the video it looked pretty confusing yeah lol, my bad
No shader or world tricks, it's an actual mirror clone and it doesn't have to be the same avatar either. Can be 2 different avatars

[ebon verge]

Is it rotation constraints?

[abstract pond]

Nope, rotation constraints aren't able to have a weight below 0 otherwise they don't work, so you can't use them for mirroring

it does have rotation constraints though

[drowsy topaz]

Constraints can have negative source values, which mimics negative weight

[ebon verge]

My line of thinking was do a regular clone and then scale it’s parent game object by -1 on a axis to make him mirrored

[drowsy topaz]

I've avoided doing clones due to file size and performance issues. I've got enough of a performance impact with Final IK 😅

[ebon verge]

I’d probably hide it on a separate blueprint so it doesn’t trash my performance rank

[ember dock]

u can use negative weights if u want to do stuff like world constraints

also yea u can use them for mirroring

the only parts needing negative weight are common ones like the torso

the rest can be reflected, left joints to right joints

[abstract pond]

A Negative weight on a rotation constraint causes it to do nothing.
Reflecting the parts or/and using only rotation constraints is not enough to make it behave properly when facing different directions.
Using a negative scale only flips the visuals

Trust me, not as easy as you think

[ebon verge]

P sure you can use normal 1.0 weights and have a parent Game object with -1 scale

Benifit: model gets mirrored too, if you have asymmetrical hair or w/e

[drowsy topaz]

I've never realized how much I dont care about mirrored, just nullifying rotation is a blessing lmao

[abstract pond]

I wish it was that way Adeon, however this is what happens using that way

[drowsy star]

Probably taking advantage of the order of Anim, IK, Constraints, etc. I don't remember the actual order. Was going to use it to have a tuar that worked in FBT, but gave up on the tuar.

Something like letting Final IK run things in reverse with constraints and animations helping to flip the model twice every single frame.

[ebon verge]

Mirror clones that don’t reverse you are cooler anyway. You can do secret hand shakes

(Joking, awesome that you got it working)

[abstract pond]

I need to learn IK before I understand what you mean Saigo lol, maybe?
Thank you Adeon, it took me a while to figure 👍

[drowsy star]

TBH, what I described would be the most useful and probably the easiest method.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[ebon verge]

I think that’s a new record. Not even a avatar, just a texture.

Can it be beat?

[worldly pawn]

i think i win the showoff contest

[ember dock]

imagine if u could make a delayed copy of urself so u could make animations that loop

like 10 of u jumping over something or handshake with urself 3 times

[ebon verge]

Working on my new 3.0 avatar. I don't have any features yet but I did make one of the verts for it in blender so far, wanted to show it off.

Any feedback is welcome

[main crag]

... I thought there was a dead pixel on my screen all of a sudden.

[iron gate]

sorry I forgot which channel I was in. i'll move it

[bright pelican]

Working on my new 3.0 avatar, just installed blender. Look at this beautiful icon

please don't criticize me, i'm new and I was banned from google search

[woeful brook]

@ebon verge HA!

10/10

[ember dock]

look at my roblox avatar its cool
maybe in 2 years i will make it a 3.0 avatar
in the mean time let me prematurely show it off
just imagine it has a cool holographic hand menu

[bright pelican]

Thank you Wulfe, very cool!

[tight panther]

I didn't make it but reminds me of spongebob the clothes

[bright pelican]

#vrchat-pictures

[tight panther]

Go on?

[bright pelican]

just saying that there is a separate channel for screenshots. this one is for demonstration of 3.0 features
but it looks like no longer

[finite spoke]

1st half avatar physics working with 3.0 enabled fixes. Second half is without

[outer sand]

@finite spoke are they interactable by other players?

Because being able to generate objects other can interact with would be pretty pog

[finite spoke]

I don't know what happens if another player with a collider touches it tbh

[outer sand]

wanna try out?

im not in VR rn but my avatar ought to have colliders

[finite spoke]

You asking me if you want to touch colliders? We just met

[outer sand]

😳

[finite spoke]

It'll probably do nothing

[outer sand]

dont think it will maybe try and find a way to do make it something that would be groundbreaking tbf

[bitter roost]

dunno what to add xD

[nocturne basalt]

first complete avatar i’ve made (ignoring the testing stuff)

surprisingly it has a green for optimization

[tulip meadow]

i want to die

16 entrances and 16 exits

i know this isn't really that impressive but like

this is pain

i'm making a minecraft avatar with 16 skins you can choose from

i got not equal and equal backwards

had to redo all 32 transitions

but i mean it works

[true needle]

just for a reference, you could do it without half of those transitions

This does the same thing , 0 is wait

[tulip meadow]

well dang

ill do that in the future

[ember dock]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

if u look at the Gesture template it should make it obvious

[tulip meadow]

being completely honest, i completely didn't remember

that's how i've done my animations, but im really glad there's a better way to do it

[woeful brook]

how?

[bright pelican]

it's about those people who do not try to find the answer to their question on their own

[tight panther]

This is where we show avatars right? If so I didn't make this, but I love it! It's in public avatars section. It makes me all in between hyper-happy and confused. Because I think should I really post this?

[lean torrent]

@tight panther no this is where you showoff the features of any avatar 3.0 avatars that you made. #vrchat-pictures is where you'd post that

[tight panther]

@lean torrent thank you

[celest dragon]

@finite spoke May I ask how did you fix physics/intersecting colliders? I'd love to make proper ragdoll stuff. Or are you gonna release it as an package on your github?

[quasi perch]

@celest dragon its already on the vrlabs github and discord!

[celest dragon]

Ohhh

I just missed that, thank you

[final mason]

I have learned so much 3.0 over the course of 3 days and my brain is smooth. I hope this paid off well

[copper dirge]

This isn't a model showcase channel. This is for showing off avatars made with SDK3 features.

[vagrant gazelle]

Oops sorry 😅

[lean torrent]

@final mason A gun was my first 3.0 project too, but damn you went way above anything I did. Honestly thought that was one of the guns in the world

[tulip glade]

there's no knockback on the gun though

[copper dirge]

You could easily do that with the force option in the collision settings, provided this is powered by a particle system anyways...

Wouldn't work against other players though since you can't physically interact with their colliders.

[ember dock]

gesture controlled or do u use some of the particle grabbable prop stuff

[finite spoke]

looks like gestures to me

Cause the way the magazine is dropped

[drowsy haven]

Very cool. Does it run out of ammo? A state machine where you can keep firing until it runs out and are forced to reload would be a good use of 3.0 states

[tulip glade]

and dont forget the sound effects

[final mason]

yee, it's just gestures

@drowsy haven no, but I would like to learn about how to work this! it would be really cool

[drowsy haven]

Make a layer and just have every bullet be its own state

Transition through each state as long as your trigger pull gesture equals 1

Make the last state have different transition conditions, like the gestures for reloading for example

And loop it

I haven't done it myself, but that's how I would handle it

[final mason]

That makes a lot of sense! I'll see what I can do

thanks for the tip

[ember dock]

u can make it independent of firing also

u can make firing in one layer

and in another layer u control a parameter called Empty

easier to manage

[hasty flume]

https://gyazo.com/c2d0065d2cfd7f02c69b842c488282a5 wip

[tulip glade]

im doing all the colossi, and heres the latest on the one im working on rn

Basaran, all the bitmaps correct, and facing forward, as it should

[drowsy haven]

Are they life-sized?

[heavy patio]

That would be cool

[tulip glade]

close

I really wish I had some help, but thats wishful thinking as of right now, so I'll just do it all myself

[tulip glade]

yes, or at least as close as I can get with the models and blender stuff

[frank magnet]

don't suppose anyones done any of the big lez show characters and wouldn't mind sharing/selling? 😆

[tulip glade]

ha

[random helm]

coming soon 👀
https://streamable.com/6snlui

[main crag]

I love the deer head.

[random helm]

❤️

hahah

i rigged and did the visemes for it idk why i did it but im happy i did

[woeful brook]

@random helm nice

[random helm]

tyyy

[slow rampart]

@random helm that's nice and all but i wonder how's the avatar performance score on that

[random helm]

awful

abysmal

but thats because VRChat looks at wholistic numbers, ive designed it to be as performant as I can

shes 22mb, and my friends and I were hard pressed to tell the fps difference between her and any other VeryPoor avi

most of the effects cannot be active at the same time

[vale halo]

@random helm looks good

[random helm]

❤️

[green helm]

Wow, this is pretty fantastic! Really impressive example of Avatar 3.0, you killed it.

[random helm]

Ooommggg I'm honored ❤

[bright pelican]

for the first time I see how someone from the VRChat team wrote something to this channel, looks like you really amazed them, nice work!

[abstract pond]

Dunno where else to post these as there isn't exactly a channel for this but here it is anyway
A small tool dedicated to making clips of toggling objects on and off faster
Select the objects you want to toggle, Right Click > Quick Actions > Quick Toggle
Choose their toggle status > Create Clip, done.

Automatically detects Root if no root is set
Automatically names clips
Highlights created clip
Is Gesture to create clips with 2 frames and loop time on

Am I allowed to post github download links here?

[gilded olive]

thank you dreadrith, very cool

[abstract pond]

Love the idea of dropping consumables and banishing people

[lean torrent]

@drowsy haven I love what you did with the glasses! I'm definitely gonna do something similar in an upcoming avatar. Have you thought about adding a toggle that changes the x-ray mode into a minimap? Would just need an extra camera with a modified near clipping plane

[drowsy haven]

Ye! i was going to but I completely forgot tbh! thanks for reminding me!

[bright pelican]

It seems to me, or is it much easier to do such animations manually? I have no doubt that someone will definitely need this thing, but it makes an already simple action a little more complicated :/
On the other hand, I will say that it is easy to criticise, I have not written a single script; D

[abstract pond]

then don't use it ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[bright pelican]

nice tip ;D

[abstract pond]

anytime 💛

[ember dock]

i usually write my own plugins and tools in most programs, it makes doing common and repetitive tasks much quicker

for example i have scripts to generate whole entire animators based on simple things like what toggles go on what layer

and plugins i made for blender to make character setup and rigging go by in a flash

but most of them are private only and plan to stay that way probably

most have specific use cases only so unless ur following my workflow it wouldn't be as useful

[bright pelican]

I do not argue, plugins are really a very useful thing, it's just that turning on and off is done in 4 clicks

[abstract pond]

You're thinking of only making one animation Onii, in which case sure it's not much faster. However the time grows exponentially longer with each object you want to make an animation for with extra clicks depending on what items you want to toggle on and off together.
This tool is dedicated to making all of that take a constant amount of time rather than exponential. You can even just press enter after pressing Quick Toggle and it'll create the clip due to it automatically focusing "Create Clip".
It saves creating a clip, it saves activating and disabling record for each new animation, much easier creation of an "inverse" toggle for the sake of write defaults, stuff like that. Small extras together make a big help

You also wouldn't have to go through the need of having to place the clip in the animator just to record it, or to place an animator controller on the avatar at all

[bright pelican]

huh, in this way this make sense

[ember dock]

mine also makes selectors rather than toggles

toggles would just be a selector with on and off

[abstract pond]

selectors?

[rough needle]

3.0 Deers ;3;

[cold jackal]

nice

[primal holly]

an avatar I made one time

It was very poorly made

I might go back and remake it with more time and effort some day

[shrewd gulch]

It looks really good

[primal holly]

eh

[lyric shuttle]

I made an Abyss Watcher with both phases because I got bored.

Yes, it's public. Watcher gang.

I'll throw a video of me flexing it in sometime tomorrow probably.

[finite spoke]

physics prototype im working on

[ember dock]

imagine if u could sync that

[finite spoke]

it does sync

it's a raycasted target, it's eventually consistent

as long as my rotations are synced, this will be more or less synced

[coral kettle]

Anyone can make an avatar for me? I will pay $

[main crag]

Already answered your question.

[final mason]

with a suggestion from @drowsy haven,
and after more tedious researching, I figured out my own system of ammo capacity

I'm still barely learning how to do 3.0 stuff

also yes lack of recoil, it's a bb gun

[drowsy haven]

amazing work!

[primal holly]

what's 3.0?

oh sdk2

thats what i use

[drowsy haven]

No. Sdk3 is Avatars 3.0 (and Udon)

[primal holly]

im confused though, whats the difference between 3.0 and 2.0

oh, I'm an idiot

thanks

[drowsy haven]

No problem. If you have any more questions you can ask them in #avatar-general or #avatar-help

[wind otter]

ah yes avatar 3.0

[bright pelican]

photo realistic

[tulip meadow]

i put the entire bee movie script into expression menus

all 244 linked together expression menus were generated by a program i wrote myself

here's the code for converting a text file to menu if you REALLY care about that kinda thing https://github.com/Knucklesfan/VRChatTextToMenu

[woeful brook]

this is the way

[ember dock]

wheres the 3.0 behavior

[bright pelican]

after PAPA TUNA's post, i'm not sure that's still 3.0 showoff

[bright pelican]

if it's not an avatar 3.0 feature, please, use #vrchat-pictures channel

[bright pelican]

please, use #3d-modeling. #avatar-rigging or #vrchat-videos for this non included 3.0 features video

[lofty grove]

@final mason Nice gun, is the reloading and racking the bolt just gestures and well timed mimicking of the motions? Like does it need the new mag to be actually put in the right place?

[final mason]

Currently its just gestures, so all the things can be done without moving the left hand, would be nice to know how to also require positioning the hands where they're supposed to be. Would it work with collider triggers somehow?

Also nice Rem pfp

[lean torrent]

I'd imagine you could do some kind of constraint on the bolt with a particle trigger

But then you run the risk of desync unless you make things complicated, so honestly it's not really worth it

[drowsy star]

Just gesture and it'd snap to your hand. It's more involved than just adding a constraint though. Think about the pivot and such.

[timber bay]

a commission for someone

[lofty grove]

There is the old system of activating and deactivating objects via particles and colliders but nothing that lets you trigger something in your animator from that so till VRChat developes something for that we are stuck with mimicking.

[drowsy star]

Not true. There are updated systems that work with synced parameters.

But stop-action can easily over-complicate something.

[ember dock]

incorrect

stage parameter drivers can function on any animator in your avatar

regardless of where they are

so if you wanted to you could make a touch interactive system just like you would in the past

but u add a stage parameter driver and control the response in your main animator

[lofty grove]

Well then time to dust off those old stop action prefabs. Or better see if lindesu made something new.

[ember dock]

vrclabs already did a long time ago

[lofty grove]

Had their page open all these months and thought they were ded or so cause vrlabs.dev got no updates since 5 months ago. But it's all on a github

Bit of a mess but with all of that it should be possible to make a fully functional gun.

[ember dock]

sure but at the cost of still having worse performance than menu or gesture controls

[lofty grove]

Sometimes you just wanna see what ludicrous thing you can create. I'm sure it will be less of a performance cost than my 30 barrelled shotgun.

[drowsy star]

They try to be performant and they do have use cases where their prefabs are the most straightforward way to achieve something.

[drowsy star]

A lot of things they've popped out are much more intuitive than VRC's menus and gestures.

Not to mention they've put out prefabs that are much more optimized versions of things people would have normally used.

[ember dock]

yea but at least now u don't need particles enabled to see it or even to be near their avatar / have it loaded

so yea i agree its pretty cool but still unoptimized to some extent until vrc adds their own support for it

[runic sparrow]

Wip

[fast rivet]

Hot looking good

[runic sparrow]

Thanks, it’s my first one

[woeful brook]

That looks nice

[lone quiver]

anyone watch naruto

[real cliff]

Bro shut up

Lmao

You literally broke a rule of posting the same thing in multiple channels, and can't even keep it in channels it would fit in.

This channel was doomed as soon as avatars 3 released lol.

[ember dock]

wouldnt be doomed if it had sufficient moderation

[lone dew]

https://twitter.com/KoDrawsStuff/status/1337620854004350977

[white parrot]

white dragon avatar using megumin explosion magic xd

[white parrot]

had fun

[harsh coral]

If you don't mind me asking, how did you manage to put the ears on? I've been using vroid and I can't figure it out

[runic sparrow]

Oh, there’s a tutorial for that

[harsh coral]

Is there anyway you could link it?

[runic sparrow]

Yes, are we allowed to put links here?

https://youtu.be/bVJdsQ5YFxw

I hope so, but here

[harsh coral]

Thank you!

[runic sparrow]

No problem!

[kindred kindle]

whoops wrong channel

[lost slate]

I put a custom hard landing animation onto my slime avatar.

[plucky fog]

this is my custom mmd avatar who i wanted to publish its me but in the anime look

but i cant cause VRChat said wait

[ember dock]

his skin look super shiny

[austere crest]

yeah, unless thats the look you were wanting i would recommend using a toon shader like poiyomi or other ones. shininess can lead to very bad results in vrchat from my experience.

also you need to the rank "new user" to upload content. i would recommend just playing for a bit and ranking up yourself, that way you can keep the model on your account and reupload it easier.

[drowsy star]

Shininess is only bad with anime models that have shoddy topology.

No offense. Some people fix the mmd topology and standard looks just fine.

[austere crest]

no i mean how most of the worlds in vrchat have awful lighting and will either have your model black or ridiculously covered in oil shiny

[drowsy star]

Topology/normals.

That can be fixed with standard shaders made with VRC in mind too. Fallbacks for poor lighting. But Worlds with poor lighting can just make me look flat sometimes, and that's fine.

[austere crest]

ive had many models where i have a specular map turned way down or even just some metallic on it and have them completely ruined by alot of worlds. so i just dont bother with it.

[drowsy star]

A shame. Standard is a great shader.

[austere crest]

i use standard on 99% of my models

i love the realistic look it can give but alot of worlds on vrchat dont do it justice at all

[drowsy star]

Fallbacks

I get it though. I use to have trouble along with a bunch of my buddies like 2 years ago.

They started writing custom pbr shaders.

[austere crest]

how do i even do a fallback if the shader is working fine and its already standard?

[drowsy star]

Hey, I don't write shader code! They just had ways to check for reflection probes and lighting.

[austere crest]

yeah custom shader code is way outside of my spectrum of knowledge

if i knew how to do that stuff i would be having alot more fun on some models...

[drowsy topaz]

IIRC Amplify works for VRC if you wanna try node based, otherwise you just need to learn HLSL

[harsh tapir]

Amplify has been fantastic, strong recommend. Feels exactly like the UE4 material editor

which is to say, great

[lament basalt]

https://twitter.com/rosy_maple_moth/status/1338761763026857988

are link embeds off itc?

[main crag]

Mmmmmaybe?

Yep, seems so.

Only uploads work.

[lament basalt]

anyway , i imported an original character i 3d modeled, pretty happy with the results

[bitter roost]

Made a custom tail and a extra set of arms for my proto o3o

[lament basalt]

cool

[bleak river]

finished it just now!

[dusky dock]

Festivized my Avi3 x3

[final mason]

It's me again with the smooth brain learning, I tried it on a pistol

[dusky dock]

noiiice

[stone solstice]

smooth as butter

[drowsy star]

ping 💜

[calm linden]

Hype to see cyberpunk assets in VR

[ebon verge]

Ho boy

[drowsy star]

Only last gen versions, please. 😏

[solar reef]

😬

[ember dock]

i want model for V and that one furry in cyberpunk

[austere crest]

i dont have any plans to touch cyberpunk but im just waiting to see how long it will take people to bring keanu into vrchat. cant wait to see lobbies filled with even more very poor avatars since i know people wont try to optimize him.

[hidden briar]

turned one of my drawings into an avatar because i liked the outfit

[austere crest]

looks really nice!

i wish i had modelling skill..

[whole karma]

time to learn modelling

[austere crest]

lol ive tried. literally 0% artistic skill or knowledge of that sort.

i could try to send a pic through of my 1 semi-okish looking model but i dont want to embarrass myself quite frankly xD

[drowsy topaz]

You can always start on less artistically bound things like robots to get practice. Can't expect to sculpt a masterpiece on your first go.

[austere crest]

lol ive tried that too

[drowsy haven]

@final mason Looks great!

[whole karma]

calling robots less artistic
ok buddy pal chump buddy pal amigo buddy ol friend biscuit

[austere crest]

well i think what he meant is that robots have a very low skill floor and a very high skill ceiling. robots starting out can be alot more simpler than the human form but at the top end can be infinitely higher in levels of complexity.

[whole karma]

that's more like it, Spirited knows how to word it

[drowsy star]

Yeah, I've got a few nearing the ceiling.. 👀

Ofc I didn't model those.

[drowsy topaz]

Artistically BOUND, I'm smhing my head at you rn

[whole karma]

[drowsy topaz]

Robots are also great because they are a good playground for unique IK

If you think your biggest weakness is artistic modeling you can always do the more practical stuff like IK and rigging

[whole karma]

nice shill for ik there

[drowsy topaz]

It's all I have 😔

[whole karma]

kinda wanna see Scionzenos making robo model

[drowsy topaz]

Travelling Merchant made a spider bot for me so I made it into a backpack if that counts

Still has some kinks to work out in game in relation to AV3 rotation problems

[whole karma]

eyy noice noice, and interesting concept, human using you as a backpack

[ebon verge]

That’s great!

[whole karma]

🤔 very interesting av3 avatar

hey <@&397642795457970181> check out that super cool av3 avatar

[limber aurora]

https://vrchat.com/home/avatar/avtr_1f6cf0dc-5250-4bcf-a726-9e93e31206df

Went from knowing nothing to this in about 2 dayssss

[indigo yarrow]

@real cliff the alt + s method seemed like it had good potential, everything that scaled well animated nicely with no clipping, but fingers and reverse normal areas made it tedious to work with, so material swap in the end
definitely something I can find use for in the future though

[woeful brook]

It cool to post my avatar even though I haven't been able to upload it?

[steady wharf]

@woeful brook go for it

[woeful brook]

Totally not a femboy (My first avatar)

[iron gate]

A fun little avatar 3 project I made ("a pretty customizable synced Avatar 3.0 menu.") https://twitter.com/Lyuma2d/status/1340030008656465920
I tried to focus on optimization, so the whole menu system is one drawcall. I hope more people experiment with custom GUIs (touch based? putting something on? Etc). The possibilities are quite vast.

[finite spoke]

https://youtu.be/sIVCvZvvDFg

[lilac kindle]

That's super cool!

[woeful brook]

Sorry had to do it this way, i dont know how to screenshot at the laptop

[edgy spindle]

did you make that?

[woeful brook]

Yes

[true needle]

win+shift+s , there you can take a snip screenshot

very handy and easy to paste anywhere

[woeful brook]

Function (FN) + Printscreen button?

[lilac kindle]

depends on your laptop

pc keyboards generally don't have Fn keys

[ember dock]

looks like just an upload of the gumroad coyote avatar

[royal pine]

Nothing mind blowing, but I got my clothes toggles set up with a custom dissolve shader.
The shirt dissolve if it's still enabled when you toggle on the sweater since they clip in each other.

[finite spoke]

Add the collision sounds

[meager tapir]

did you just say “nothing mind blowing”? bruh, you disintegrated my brain with that! that is amazing!

amazing man! does it have a random path or is it just the animation.

[cursive flax]

If I was too guess, by watching his arm through the mirror, he actually controls where it goes

[floral peak]

Finally got my WindowsXPsona Best Boi up and running!

Used the official Windows XP Visual Guidelines documentation which Microsoft made back in 2001 so people can make their own XP graphics

Had to abide the pallette restrictions

[ember dock]

made from scratch so this iwas result

[acoustic spindle]

How do you set something up to be steerable like that?

[lean torrent]

Rotation constraint

[bright pelican]

huuuuuh, i'll try that

[drowsy star]

Or just world mesh particle with local velocity.

Would be easier than a world space object that you could guide off wrist rotation. But using a moving game object would be more fun.

[bright pelican]

so which one is better?

[drowsy star]

Subjectively, using an actual game object. Just more work.

[ebon verge]

I love it

[gloomy shore]

https://twitter.com/nhentaivr/status/1340116121152851968

[terse ice]

Nicee

[lean torrent]

And that's how you know I need more practice with particles lmao

I've gotten so used to thinking in constraints

[lament basalt]

https://twitter.com/rosy_maple_moth/status/1341324673846489089

[ruby tree]

this was surely a pain because I don't know programs written in English (Unity🏄)that much

first avatar btw

[meager tapir]

that looks awesome especially for a first!

[wooden portal]

Dominance asserted

[humble mango]

Just moved my SDK2 avatar to SDK3.

[bold flame]

How do you publish

[humble mango]

New user then hit build for windows in the SDK

[bold flame]

I keep getting error

[humble mango]

#avatar-help

[bold flame]

No one helps so I was asking here

It looks like this

[torn meteor]

ask in #avatar-help not this channel

[bright pelican]

Look at the time, mate ;D
He already ask it in another few channels

[torn meteor]

ah ok

[oblique hamlet]

Am working on turning this into an avatar

[kind thorn]

noice

[meager tapir]

it looks really toony, is that a unity thing or vroid?

[torn meteor]

this makes me very happy, was wanting a ripped granblue naru lol

[drowsy star]

Good shading. Was waiting for rips from the newest game that was in development.

[oblique hamlet]

It’s Narmaya from granblue fantasy versus

She is a very powerful warrior of the draph race

[woeful brook]

my mobile discord's suffering just to load these gifs ._. looks nice tho

[main crag]

That looks epic, Naruko.

[drowsy star]

A generic-like 3.0 with those animations on gesture with your viewpoint set like a third person camera. 😌

[noble prism]

this avatar is almost done. just got make it quest friendly 🙂

my thanks go out Jar for give me img i was missing!

[dry hazel]

👍

[woeful brook]

@noble prism what did you use to make your own charecter ?

[noble prism]

i use blender. great tool

[low bison]

That looks AMAZING!!!!!!

[oblique hamlet]

Thank you!!

[hot sundial]

It looks really good. Something I would use as well

[cursive flax]

Dang that's dope

[finite spoke]

that's very cool, but imagine being spawned into existence like that and you're just like "thanks"

[ember dock]

daddy issues when naruto leaves

[vagrant urchin]

lol

[main crag]

I've seen that animation before.

[atomic coral]

nice spawn animation

[woeful brook]

thats so cool

[oblique hamlet]

Thank you! ^_^

[drowsy star]

The colliders though.

But I can remember doing similar on a model before figuring out stiffness and curves.

Also hopefully no 2D audio with world-sized range. 😅

[ember dock]

2D audio i always hate unless its like a party or club or something

u cant figure out where its coming from by ear

[woeful brook]

Cuteee

[alpine thunder]

First avatar

[woeful brook]

proto dances (actually 2.0 but I'm updating it to 3.0)

[balmy garden]

Noice

[dull token]

Off topic, but what world is that? That looks so peaceful

[marsh thorn]

think its called Yuki's home... but ive seen a ton of uploads of it. Think its some architectural render demo project or something that people are using

[drowsy star]

Might just search nomic, since their worlds are the ancient originals.

[earnest coral]

first avatar I made with super stupid looking face (on purpose)

[warped elm]

yuhhhhh

[earnest coral]

cool

[warped elm]

thanks 🙂

i wanna add special particles and all

but idk how

[earnest coral]

well gl

[dry cave]

My first and only avatar. It can do a couple of cool things

[woeful brook]

the second one got me laughing lol

[main crag]

Great use of animations.

[dry cave]

My only problem is that the sounds are constantly broken on them, and I need to reset my avatar until they aren't. Been trying to find a fix for it for a while

[warped elm]

anyone know of anything that look simlair to this?

as a model i can download

[copper dirge]

@warped elm This channel is not for requesting avatars (there isn't a channel for it in fact, that question is frowned upon because people interrupt conversations all the time with it).

[warped elm]

sorry ; /

[woeful brook]

Be ready as over 150 new quest and pc avatars with good proformance and amazing animations comes soon 2021Mid

[bright pelican]

sounds scary

[silver mesa]

Will there ever be an explanation of how you make your system work? or is there already documentation somewhere

[drowsy star]

2 parts theatrics, 1 part stop action.

Little bit of constraints for fun.

The state machine for the clip should be straightforward enough.

[dry cave]

added a couple new scanner modes for my avatar

[marsh thorn]

what shaders draw wireframes/normals/etc??? are there any keywords you can share to help me learn or maybe there's some sauce? 🙂

[dry cave]

Look up Neitris Shaders. They're on github

[minor crane]

Bro i wanna know how to make avatars that looks sick lol

[balmy cliff]

lol might do the other pups too lol

[random helm]

unlimited power

[balmy cliff]

lol can you select the image you want lol

[random helm]

1679 emojis

yea its on a radial haha

[balmy cliff]

yeah i gues you need to do some pagination or something

[random helm]

hhahahha probably

[true dock]

nothing special

[coral whale]

Whoa

[ionic pawn]

why does the FACE look so ACCURATE

[iron gate]

Updated the Avatars 3.0 emulator to make it easier to test expressions and view the animator!
https://twitter.com/Lyuma2d/status/1344389694511976448

[iron gate]

you can download it here btw to avoid going through twitter :-p
https://github.com/lyuma/Av3Emulator/releases

[lament basalt]

https://twitter.com/rosy_maple_moth/status/1344416471737368584

[thorny geode]

||IRL|| Me in VRChat Kmart

[lament basalt]

lol nice

[tepid edge]

I don't have a gun, but I have this. nice.

[true dock]

https://youtu.be/p07L84jEJ8Y my first cringe tutorial 🙂

[heady frigate]

is that a follower companion?

[tepid edge]

yep, inspired from NieR:Automata. :)

[heady frigate]

have a tutorial I can follow?

[tepid edge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdVvN3XK6NE check it out!

and I added some functions (color change, Gatling, Rotate) with my own

[heady frigate]

Thank you :3

[woeful brook]

Happy New Year!

^messing around with particles 🎆

[dry cave]

found a glass shader. got a great idea

[woeful brook]

lol it broke

[cinder aspen]

https://gyazo.com/405f1ff922f4f9fbe6d7742efccae56c

;-;

[waxen python]

that actually made me laugh way more than it should have

Also this is my first Laser FX that im somewhat happy with. Tell me what you guys think

made only with particle systems btw

[woeful brook]

nice 👍

[halcyon zenith]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/550537011224641537/795027322478526494/unknown.png not ported in yet

but man I learned something neat about hair in vroid

[bright pelican]

This channel has been created for showing 3.0 stuff. It's doesn't include just avatars uploaded with sdk3.0. For your screenshots and photos please use #vrchat-pictures

[minor axle]

for quest players who love halo

[fringe raptor]

i accidentally set the toggle to the wrong one

[drowsy star]

I'm glad you updated that one over to 3.0. It's one of the few tda avatars I appreciate. 👍

[bright pelican]

nice, but this channel was created for 3.0 features, not just avatar showoff. For your screenshots and photos please use #vrchat-pictures

[tranquil wasp]

ooohh, sorry, still learning ^^' @bright pelican

[elfin trellis]

a) That's a cool shader!
b) What world is this? It also looks really cool!

[harsh tapir]

a) Thank you!

b) The Shore

It's really cool, I like most worlds made by that author

[elfin trellis]

thanks, I'll have to check those out too then!

[woeful brook]

heyyy

[lament basalt]

https://twitter.com/rosy_maple_moth/status/1346493168011911169

[woeful brook]

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[ebon verge]

This is a new record I think it’s the first time I’ve seen someone expect an answer without even saying anything.

[dry cave]

this works somehow

[noble prism]

new custom skin avatar with custom afk

try make it look like a tiger 🙂

[magic ledge]

Watch the video showing off the SDK 3 functions here: https://youtu.be/4k3CdrP6K5w

[woeful brook]

Spent the whole day working on this! I think it turned out well 😄

[visual hill]

very nice!

[tough granite]

Does anyone have a broly avatar with animations

[woeful brook]

Yes

[grizzled flare]

anyone know where to find animal/dog/wolf avatars that arent furries?

[sudden ridge]

How did you manage to do this, if you don't mind me asking? Was looking at doing something similar

[dry cave]

A ton of animation states

There's a better method for sure, but this is how I did it

[sudden ridge]

XD

Also, does it actually count ammo, and is it the same I'm assuming hand gesture to trigger every stage?

[dry cave]

Yes, it does count ammo

[sudden ridge]

Im guessing it just changes a int parameter every time you press the button

[dry cave]

Pressing the trigger moves it to the next stage which is empty, so it doesn't toggle the one after that until I let go of the trigger

Eventually it will reach the stage where there is no more ammo

[sudden ridge]

Now does it actually acknowledge the position of the mag or did you just make it so you press the button again?

[dry cave]

Then I gotta do a series of gestures to reset the stages

It does not detect the mag position no.

[acoustic steppe]

As someone who has made a 30 round mag that is properly synced with anmo count. You don't want to... My hand still hurts thinking about all those connections

[drowsy star]

Would be easier with a single animation clip on normalized time with a control layer that drives the float parameter.

[drowsy star]

Like, gestureweight equals 1 (or less for hair trigger) transitions to an empty state with a parameter driver that drives "fire" float to .1 for 10 rounds (or .03 for 30 rounds), which exits to a standby on condition gestureweight less .5 or whatever value you want for trigger sensitivity. Then standby transitions to an empty state that drives "fire" float to .2 (or .06). Repeat for however many rounds you want, taking advantage of copy and paste. Much easier. All you'd have to do is connect the copy paste then change the driven float value.

Would cost a float parameter per gun though. But that means sync anyway, so.

Perfect sync actually. Then late joiners would even read you at the right round.

[heavy widget]

i finally did it !

[acoustic steppe]

it would make no difference in using a float or a int on how you'd set it up. you'd still need multiple states for each round just to handle the synchornization properly. and at only difference would be that a int would limit you to a 255 round mag. where a float could go much larger then that but i don't think anyone is insane enough to go and hand place that many connections.

[drowsy star]

Confused on how you'd use an int for your single normalized animation clip though.

[acoustic steppe]

you wouldn't use an animation clip in any of these.

the states are used purely for data management

[drowsy star]

If you use more than one state in animation in order to fire your gun, my point still stands.

[acoustic steppe]

or well in this case each of these has an animation that's just a single round fire animation with a looping sound source.

but this is a old setup

basically you use local variable that is triggered by your synced one that determines when you start/stop firing. that goes off once you enter/exit the ammo loop.

[drowsy star]

Plus a float could be used for two guns actually.

[acoustic steppe]

and that triggers the actual gun firing animations

There's a lot of different ways of achieving the same effect tho

i've done mag capped guns in like 3-4 different ways now and i still can't really decide what the easiest/most reliable variant is.

[drowsy star]

Using gestureweight and a single float makes everything so much simpler, tbh. Same effect, same sync. More utility. Less animation clips.

[acoustic steppe]

How is gesture weight relevant in all of this? you only use that as the trigger pull.

and in the example up top it is a single int.

[drowsy star]

Gestureweight is a freebie synced float that you use to transition.

[acoustic steppe]

single synced int

gesture weight isn't a freebie though

[drowsy star]

It is.

[acoustic steppe]

that constantly changes as long as you have your hand closed.

[drowsy star]

You don't have to waste one of your sacred 16 with it.

[acoustic steppe]

using your controllers overrides gestureweight tho.

• you can't use them to detect a trigger pull if you use it for anything else.

[drowsy star]

That's why your gun is set up accordingly.

You want to fire your gun on anything other than trigger pull?

Would be a shame.

[acoustic steppe]

well if you use gesture weight as a control value you'd have to .

that's what i'm getting at

the way you describe would mean you can't use it for the trigger pull.

[drowsy star]

I'm trying to think of a way to respectfully express that what I described isn't that.

[acoustic steppe]

I just re-read what you said. that's litterally the setup i used.

[drowsy star]

You pull the trigger, gestureweight reaches 1 (or anything under that for your required sensitivity), it fires and stays at that state until you release trigger beyond a specified value.

[acoustic steppe]

only difference in the setup is that i do ammo counting locally and it exits to a state with a driver on trigger release.

so you're not constantly writing values every frame

[drowsy star]

The difference being that I'm driving a float on a single normalized animation clip that gives your sync even for late joiners.

[acoustic steppe]

what's the point of that animation clip tho?

[drowsy star]

To not use an animation clip for every separate bullet?

[acoustic steppe]

you don't use a clip for every bullet

[drowsy star]

To keep sync with a menu parameter?

[acoustic steppe]

you have 2 layers. 1 just has a looping animation. the other layer is just a bunch of empty states that do your actual ammo counting.

[drowsy star]

So you don't have a physical clip mesh, is what you're expressing.

[acoustic steppe]

what you wanne model all 30 rounds in the physical magazine?

[drowsy star]

If you have a physical magazine, you wouldn't use a single looping animation.

Are you sculpting them all? Like 10 poly a piece and you can actually fire them.

[acoustic steppe]

i mean that it's kind of pointless levels of detail to go and actually put physicall ammo in there as generally you can only see the top bullet anyway. which at that point you can just hide/show based on if you ammo count was 0 when reloading.

[drowsy star]

Hold it chief. Levels of detail is the name of the VR game, Buddy.

Ol' pal.

[acoustic steppe]

there's high detail and invisable detail though

[drowsy star]

I guess I don't see your gun and you don't see mine. But I understand your use case.

[acoustic steppe]

people wasting enough resources as is. i ain't gonna add invisable detail when it ain't needed for the immersion.

unless you walking around with a transparent mag

[drowsy star]

^

[acoustic steppe]

also i just realized maybe we shoulda moved this to general.

[drowsy star]

oop

[acoustic steppe]

conversation got a bit out of hand 😅

[acoustic spindle]

You use GestureRight/Left equals 1 (as appropriate for the gun holding the hand) PLUS the relevant Gestureweight. That means it only fires on the trigger pull.

[harsh tapir]

I'm avoiding stacking states in a float purely due to the lack of an "Equals" transition condition. I can't stomach having to add both a greater and less than check, it is upsetting

[acoustic steppe]

that's why i stuck with a int xD

[harsh tapir]

Hi4

[acoustic steppe]

Tho admittedly. if you wanne add a ammo counter a float is def the way to go. normalized ammocounter animation.

[drowsy star]

thank you

[acoustic steppe]

but if you want immersion you're not gonna add an ammo counter to you gun. at which point int is much more convenient and quicker to setup

[drowsy star]

I understand your use case. I just hadn't considered making a gun without a physical mag, tbh.

[acoustic steppe]

maybe i should start with that auto setup script i was planning to do sometime.

and it has a physical mag. you just only show the last bullet in the mag based on if the int is 0 or greater. so you don't need to transition through it over time.

since you can't see the others anyway

[acoustic spindle]

Can you use a state to increment an animator value, or only set it?

[acoustic steppe]

only set

[acoustic spindle]

Damn.

[drowsy star]

Exactly.

[acoustic steppe]

if we had add/subtract statements making guns like this would be a breeze

this whole conversation would be irrelevant lol.

you could make a 255+ round mag in 3-4 states.

but i'll just go back to working on my laser guided missile launcher. much easier to deal with single shot weapons anyway :P

[drowsy star]

Main issue with parameter drivers is smoothing for me. So I'd actually probably use a few empty states for each shot instead of just one.

Because of all of the motion of a physical gun being animated every shot is lost when you just go .1,.2, .3

[acoustic steppe]

hence why i said you'd only use that for ammo counting. the actual gun firing you do in a separate layer that you trigger independently

so you get a proper fireloop

[drowsy star]

3 layers for an immersive gun. I'll do it and report back this channel later.

[acoustic steppe]

I mean. immersive gun shouldn't need more then 2.

one to handle the ammo one to handle the rest of the animations

anyhow. we've yet continued to flood the showoff channel. crud.. i'm go be quiet now. (by going to bed for it is 3am, good night all)

[ember dock]

well main problem is that making the transitions as well as you would like it would be near impossible

cuz unlike most first person shooters where u can interrupt the firing animation by firing again before it finishes

cant quite do that with animators since we cant trigger a state immediately

not unless u have something like this

Any State -(if Firing and ammo)> ShootGun -> Idle
Entry -> Idle

this lets u interrupt transition to idle

gun will be auto tho

[severe walrus]

Scrolled up and saw this. Looks badass. Where'd you get that shader/how'd you do that?

[drowsy star]

3rd layer governs gun positions. 👉 👉

[acoustic steppe]

why can't that just be part of the animation layer tho? not like you gonna play a fire animation when it's on your back :p..

[acoustic spindle]

If the particle effects are parented to the gun, and they rigged the gun with its own parent constraint, they might have it set up for the gun to work in either hand.

[lost slate]

Interesting, looking at the layer, I assume it's all on the FX layer and using constraints, right?

[drowsy star]

Either hand, two hand, world drop, back. A lot of things.

Do I want it firing from my shoulder? Do I wanna jokingly misfire? Possibilities.

[drowsy haven]

Yep

[drowsy star]

I guess I could have a single layer with multiple substate machines, but which is better at that point? Probably another layer opposed to potentionally pentuple the states.

[azure pumice]

Looks really good i wanna see that in vr

[worn gull]

finally finished my first vrchat avatar!
https://twitter.com/lyninxmusic/status/1347704137807392769

there are still lots of tweaks i need to make, but so far i'm happy!

[formal cedar]

That looks so good. I love the hair colour and the eyes ^^

[unique nebula]

My Denathrius avatar ❤️love it so much

[woeful brook]

Denathrius is also my favourite Character in SL<3 His Villainy is just so godly

[bright pelican]

nice, but this channel was created for 3.0 features, not just avatar showoff. For your screenshots and photos please use #vrchat-pictures

[regal hatch]

i maked 2 in 1 avatar.
This feature is designed for other users who are lagging when changing their avatar.
mouth shape is possible.

[woeful brook]

i tried..

[narrow sand]

Welp, almost done, just need 2 more headsets

And Virtual boy ofc

[versed flint]

My first SDK3 avatar! Tutorials are very helpful

[woeful brook]

Not the coolest looking avatar but I was able to make it into quest compatible

[bright pelican]

Please use this channel only for demonstrate 3.0 features. For your screenshots please use #vrchat-pictures or #avatar-quest channels

[woeful brook]

U should let me clone

[versed flint]

Of course.

[versed flint]

@woeful brook I plan to make it public

[velvet token]

@drowsy haven please tell me how I can have a lightsaber like that

That's awesome

[drowsy haven]

Thanks! Pretty much everything you need to know is there in the screenshot of the Animator Controller! But if you're talking about the Lightsabers themselves, I'm using a dynamic bone for the trail, and particles with collision and subemission for the sparks!

[velvet token]

I'm a noob 😔

@drowsy haven

[drowsy haven]

Unfortunately I can't walk you through the entire process. You're going to have to learn a bit more about Avatar creation before any of what I said will make sense ^^;