if youre modeling, unity will be more simple. but you wont get the amount of control that blender offers. If you ask me, its a no brainer. Use blender. Learn the program. infinity better.

@spookyghostboo awesome! Thanks so much. I do feel more comfortable in blender while making avatars so I'm glad to hear this. Appreciate the response!

yes. kind of. its more complicated. if youre a programmer, it might be easier for you cause you'll understand more than me. every forum post ive seen on it, mentions scripting a toggle between multiple lightmaps. The way I do it, is I bake a light scene seperately in blender. take those texture bakes and use a special shader to simulate unity lighting. then I toggle between the objects that have unity baked lighting and the objects that have the blender texture bake. most people just use post processing tho to dim the entire scene

I think i need more simple things to model. after an hour of modeling, im like, oh god, this is going to be a 5 hour video. but thanks. noted.

light baking and rendering of any kind is the most intense part of the process for your computer. so depending on gpu/cpu your computer could really struggle with it. The higher the settings you use, the higher lightmap resolution you set on meshes, and the more stuff/lights you got, the longer it will take. Its a matter of finding a good balance for your machine to work within your restrictions. texture baking in blender for me takes a while.

@ it took about 20 minutes to finish. I ended up getting it to work but I’m missing some objects and the textures won’t load into unity. I also can’t find a way to download the textures I have in blender so I may have to go retexture everything.

@@_Nickiii_ I might have to see so pics to help. Just know you have to manually import textures into unity, it doesn't transfer over with the fbx. So once you figure out how to get the texture files, you can import them seperately into unity, create the material and then apply it to the objects

@ I see! I can share some picture over discord if you want. I’m fairly sure I have something messed up in the textures though. I get an error when trying to add the textures in unity. Something along the lines of a sub texture and can’t be added. I’m not too sure. The models I’m using are already textured so it could just be something I’ve gotta dig more into

@@_Nickiii_ yeah, feel free to message on discord. my username is: spookyghostboo no numbers. all lowercase

I updated the link

wait, i added the wrong files. lol. give me a second Ill find them and update it again

I cant find the original project files in my archives, but I did post this project for free on booth, so I've linked to the booth project.

What kind of files did you get from them?

@ theres a lot of them, i dont even know if i can name them all. its like if the package was unpacked in the folder.

@@DinRosen2015 i see. maybe try moving the main folder into unity and just see what happens. maybe theres an example scene in there somewhere. also double check the project listing on the store page. They might have instructions there. if no luck there, i cant really help without actually seeing it, so feel free to dm me screenshots on discord. discord: spookyghostboo

if you make it a public world, anyone can join it.

@@spookyghostboo Oh that's so cool, i will try it. Thanks a lot for this in depth tutorial! :)

it shouldnt matter. its possible something is different with newer versions of blender, so if something doesn't work, you may need to google it. I was modeling in blender 3.1.2

@ Thank you for the reply. I’m starting on this right now. Wish me luck 😁

@@SenpaiSkyy Good Luck!!

@@spookyghostboo I encountered issues with the current LTS version 4.2. Some features are missing or different, so I downloaded version 3.1.2 and will start fresh.

thank you!

yes, I use substance. And Yes, I sell it on booth. Im surprised its made its way to recroom.

@@spookyghostboo Yup, surprisingly a lot of people use your assets. I myself have never tried making VRChat worlds, but I love watching content like yours that instead of making a 15 min tutorial on how to do specific things, you show the WHOLE workflow and that is something I wish more creators did honestly!! The only thing I dislike about Rec Room is baking lights isn't an option yet, and they only let us use THEIR shaders, but I'd rather have something rather than nothing lol.

lol. 3 hours of me talking does not sound very relaxing imo

np!

honestly kind of forgot about them. If I don't use the in unity stuff, I tend to use the scripts I've had commissioned. I don't ever do anything crazy usually

@@spookyghostboo True, I definitely guess it can be overkill sometimes

are you editing the right uv map? You can have multiple in blender so its possible youre messing with UV2 instead of UV1 or something

and compiler errors

you may be having some bigger issues if youre getting compiler errors. You can add a new camera to the scene by right clicking in the hierarchy and selecting camera

maybe there is some kind of lock on it. If you go to the top of blender in edit mode, and look for the magnet icon. Is that highlighted blue. That would lock increment

to decrease bake times with the large objects, you could try decrease the size on the lightmap by changing the setting in the mesh renderer. As for the modular objects, I'm not really sure whats the best way to go about it. It might be worth trying to use a different lightmapper. bakery might be better for something like that.

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