You likely need to go to your avatar's Parameter list and toggle the "Synced" box for each parameter you want others to see. Without that, any changes to those parameters in your menu will only apply on your local client.

It actually already is! You can grab it at vrchat.com/home/avatar/avtr_28d70384-b381-4bf8-ad50-16563afc5314

You can prevent this by unticking the "Looping" checkbox at the top of the first particle system.

​@@ToolboxMotley thank you Now I will create an emote where the robot avatar self-destructs and then regenerates.

A response you shall receive, and quickly too, as I am presently awake and at the computer! I actually took the texture used for the Mute Cube itself, and adjusted the Tiling and Offset values for the particle system renderer to focus in on each individual word.

@@ToolboxMotley Ah. That is efficient. Im currently trying to figure out some way to just have dynamic text rather than textures for every possible thing I want for text. If only VRC would let you have a text mesh pro on your avi haha! Guess if nothing else, I can just use textures.

Shoot, KZbin didn't notify me about this comment. :( That sounds like a potential Write Defaults issue. Do you know if the pre-existing animations were set up with Write Defaults turned off? If so, you'll need to set Flight's animator states to Write Defaults Off as well, and create a dedicated Off animation for the flight. I have a video about Write Defaults elsewhere on my channel if you want more info on Write Defaults. I'm really sorry it took me so long to get to this. :( I don't know why I didn't get any notification.

@@ToolboxMotley I'll check it out

Sounds like they're not synced. Synced is a relatively new setting added to the parameter list, and unfortunately, it's off by default. You'll need to go to your avatar's parameter list (not the controller parameter list), and click the Synced checkbox for all the parameters that drive things you want other people to see.

@@ToolboxMotley i have been having the same problem as anonshrimp8299, I wanted to ask how would i find the avatar's parameter list?

My avatar? I named it "Techameleon". You can use the public variant via vrchat.com/home/avatar/avtr_28d70384-b381-4bf8-ad50-16563afc5314 :)

If you bring up your menu and click someone in-game, you should get a screen that allows you to change how you see the person's avatar, either hiding it completely or showing their Fallback avatar, which typically has a far lower performance cost and fewer, if any, particle effects and other features.

Yeah, you'll need to make the Menu and Parameters for your avatar, first. If you right-click in the file explorer section at the bottom, you can select Create > VRChat > Expressions Menu/Expressions Parameters. After making them, just drag them into the relevant fields in the Avatar Descriptor to start working with them. :) If it won't let you drag them in, check the avatar in the Hierarchy so see if the name is colored blue. If it is, right-click it and select "Unpack Prefab Completely", and that should give you access.

@@ToolboxMotley Alright, so I was able to make Expression Parameters and Expression Menu and drag them into the relevant fields. I followed until the end and then I tried uploading the avatar, thinking I was done. But, apparently, the upload process was stuck on "Refreshing Data" and I received some errors in the console. I then redid everything, thinking that I might have missed something throughout the guide, but I still get stuck on the "Refreshing Data" (with different errors this time). I'm not sure where I went wrong. My guess is that I might have dragged the wrong head bone into the source at 1:30, but my avatar doesn't have an explicit name for the head bone; it's just called "Body" (shows the orange outlines of the avatar's head in the scene). Do you know which part I could have gotten wrong?

I have the feeling that far fewer people are searching for tutorials on "How to add slow-falling to your VRChat avatar".

Your Write Defaults setting won't make any difference in whether someone sees your objects when their Safety Settings are disabling your animation. What they see of your toggles depends on which ones are on or off by default in the Hierarchy; if you have a shirt turned on by default in the Hierarchy (Animation Controller irrelevant, in this case), they'll see it. Whereas if the shirt is turned off (name is greyed out) in the Hierarchy, it won't show up if they have animations turned off. Hope that clarifies things. :)

You won't be able to use it if you yourself are playing as the Quest variant, but that shouldn't prevent the PC one from working. I could see the small size potentially causing issues, but there should be *some* setting that would get it to work. Can you list out the Flight Platform's Transform settings, as well as its Collider settings? Have you made sure the object is placed *in* the avatar rather than underneath it? (When collapsing the avatar in the Hierarchy, you shouldn't be able to see the flight platform's object in the list.)

I got it working now! Just had to move the flight platform under the viewport rather than my avatar. My avatar's viewport is janked for some reason and has to be off to the right or it doesn't work. Unfortunately now whenever I try to create the on and off frames for the flight platform, it switches the animation window to be of the flight platform instead of letting me switch it on as an animation. Edit: I got that second part working too. I had to lock the animation window, which then allowed me to do what was needed.

I'm now having an issue of it drifting downwards instead of staying in place. How can I fix this? Edit: I figured out that the downward drift is world dependent. I wonder if there's a way to counteract it though.

Do you happen to know how the animation works? Is it a Particle System? If so, you'd want to make one animation that turns on the sword object while turning off the Particle System's "Emission" module, and then another animation that turns on the sword object as well as turning on the Particle System's Emission. After that, just set them up in sequence in the Animator. Off goes to On when "Sword" Equals True, and On goes to Animated when "SwordAnimation" Equals True. If it's not animated via Particle System, you'll have to elaborate on how it's animated, exactly. :x

@@ToolboxMotley its not a particle, its a Sword that have switches and buttons, the Sword is called Ohger Calibur from King-Ohger, And I got it from Sketchfab

Do you have the VRC Station's object turned on when you upload the avatar? If it's only turned on via animation, VRChat won't acknowledge its existence. Are you generally playing the avatar at a different size scale than what you uploaded it at? Some positioning-related components break when scaling is in play, such as Parent/Position Constraints. I've not tested to see if Collider components are the same way. I doubt this since you're looking at this tutorial, but are there other chairs on the avatar? An avatar can only have 6 maximum. If you're using an avatar base that might have chairs already on it, or the GoGoLoco prefab (which adds chairs to its flight function), your new chair may just be getting shoved out. I've had a rare couple instances where certain people just can't use my chairs despite having my avatar shown, or even being on my Friends List. I've not determined the cause of this; might be a setting I haven't found buried in the VRChat options. Could you grab a different avatar that has chairs on it, and see if the same people can use those ones?

Yeah, they recently added a "Synced" option to menu parameters that has been confusing loads of people. X) Go to your Menu Parameters list (the one that appears at 4:45), and turn on the "Synced" box for the parameter you're using, the one on the far right. By default, parameters are non-synced now, which means that they won't send their on/off status to other players, so any animations using them only take effect for the person wearing the avatar. It's a great addition, but they really need to have it turned on by default instead of off. :x

@@ToolboxMotley i will try now and update you once iv done it thank you for the fast reply

@@ToolboxMotley it says for the synced option that every single parameter right now has a ticked box and iv tried in vrc yet nothing shows?

Sounds like a Write Defaults issue. I've got another video on how to deal with that (just look for "Write Defaults", should be the latest video), but in a nutshell: you're going to need another animation for the Off state that manually deacrivates the flight platform.

Double-check your Transitions to make sure that it returns to the Off state when your Parameter is turned off, first. If that's not it, it may be that you have Write Defaults turned off for your avatar. You can check my Write Defaults video to see how to fix it; it's a somewhat involved process, but it basically involves making another Animation that specifically turns off the object you're toggling, rather than depending on that object's default state in the Hierarchy.

Stacking sound effects isn't really viable unless you make multiple objects with that sound effect, and have them trigger sequentially as the high five is activated. However, you can have it restart each time the high five activates. Change the animation so that, instead of simply activating the sound effect for one second, it instead *turns off* the sound effect in the first frame, and then turns the sound effect on in the next frame. This resets the sound, allowing it to trigger as soon as it turns on again (which is right away, since the second frame turns it on). As for particles, give the system a really high Emission Rate Over Time so that it's guaranteed to get some particles out, and then make your animation turn on the emission for one frame before turning it right back off so as to not constantly emit particles. Finally, on the animation state that contains the high-five animation, create a new Transition straight back to the same state (from "On" to "On"), with Exit Time and Transition Duration set to 0, and the Conditions of "High Five Equals True" and "GestureRight Equals 2". This makes it so that the animation can restart if the conditions are met again while it's still playing.

Sounds like you're working with a Quest avatar. Instead of using a Parent Constraint, you'll have to put your desired object straight on the armature bone that you want it attached to.

Yup! Just add a basic toggle for whether you want it to be on or off (I have a tutorial on toggles as well, if you need that information). Then, in the Transition for turning on the sound effect (in your FX Controller), add a second Condition that requires the toggle to be turned on.

It sounds like the scythe might have an Animator component of its own. Try bringing up the animation window with your avatar selected, and click the lock icon at the top right. That will prevent the animation window from switching to other Animators.

I'm afraid I haven't learned much about how to mess with Locomotion-based animations, yet. I'll have to dissect GoLoco at some point to figure out how it works. Sorry I can't help with that. :(

@@ToolboxMotley An Easier one to reverse engineer would be the older "laydown / Sitting Animation prefab" by Nirvash on vrcarena. I personally use this over gogo myself but it also has a playspace system and from what i can see the animator is a lot simpler.

Adding an FX Controller will be essential for telling the avatar to trigger your toggle, so not adding it just means that the toggle won't work in the first place. It's not too hard to set one up, though. >In Unity's file explorer at the bottom, right click and create an Animation Controller. >In your avatar's VRC Avatar Descriptor, find the Playable Layers section and click the large button to show the eight custom Controller slots, then click the button to the right of "FX". >Drag the Animation Controller you made a moment ago into this field, and continue the tutorial at the point where it talks about modifying the FX Controller. Sorry for the lack of specific names on the buttons you need to press; I'm out of town right now and can't access my computer to double-check and fine-tune these instructions.

It's technically possible by editing the SDK, but goes against VRChat's terms of service. Unless they changed their component whitelist recently.

Dragging an animation onto a game object will add that animation to its Animation Controller file if it has one, or will create a Controller file and add an Animator component if it didn't already have one. You generally don't want Animators on any of your objects except for the avatar, unless you want that object to have an animation that constantly plays while it's turned on. You have to have the animation in the avatar's Animation Controller in order to be able to add new properties to the animation. You can edit existing animations without having them in the Animation Controller, and the animations don't have to be in the Controller attached to the avatar's Animator component for them to be usable in VRChat. Putting them in the Controller is just so that you can put together the animation in the first place. Hope that answers the question. If it doesn't, feel free to ask follow-ups; I imagine the repetition in my wording could easily cause confusion. X)

Too steep an angle may keep you from moving upwards. Does the flight let you move downwards, or is it always lateral with a slight drop? Are you using it on desktop or in VR? Is the Rotation Constraint sourced to the avatar's Head bone?

@@ToolboxMotley Its always lateral with a slight drop. Both. Yep.

@@craindemolik7231 It sounds like something might be wrong with Rotation Constraint. It might be a matter of being oriented differently than normal. Try finagling the "Freeze Rotation Axes" settings; instead of freezing the X axis, try the Z or Y axes. Make sure that the "Is Active" and "Lock" boxes are checked, as well. If that doesn't do the trick, it may be best to take some screenshots of the Rotation Constraint settings and animations, and send them to me on Discord so I can try to pick out what might be wrong.

@@ToolboxMotley Found the Error! Needed to freeze another axis. Thx a lot

That'd depend on the level of detail; if the arms need to roll the wheels, that'd take more time to set up, and thus cost more. If the arms don't have to move, it'd be much faster to set up. I'm also not a modeler, so you'd need to have the model itself already made. X) Custom locomotion animations are pretty tedious to set up in Unity, and I haven't done a lot of work with them yet. I've heard that they're easier to make in Blender, but I haven't looked into how that works, so far. Ultimately, I'd estimate the work to take 3 hours on the low end, up to 10 hours on the high end. At my current rate (subject to change in the future), that'd be $30-100. As I said, though, I'm not terribly experienced with custom locomotion yet; it's something I've been meaning to tackle at some point, so I may reach a point where I can do the work much more quickly, and thus much more cheaply. Time will tell.

Off the top of my head, you'd probably want to use Leviant's Ubershader for making something that pops up on people's screens. I'm not sure what you mean with the second sentence.

Like, can you make a video where your avatar can jump scare people? Because I see videos where they have fake loading character and the closest person gets jump scared.

254m? That is *gargantuan*. o_o Yeah, you'll probably want to make the platform larger, in that case. Try 25x, 5y, 25z to start with, then go down from there if it works.

The Is Trigger check should fix that. Is it possible that you might have other colliders elsewhere on the avatar that you're not aware of? The issue is that you're jumping off of your own colliders, yes? Or is it that other people are jumping off of the seat?

@@ToolboxMotley the former is the issue, jumping off of the collider the only collider I have on the avatar is on the back, and is trigger is checked, though my pc friend testing it still could fly with it. I should mention I moved the actual gameobject under where the seat should be since everyone was originally standing on yoshi. the collider is near the feet of the avatar

@@webbtail245 Very strange... I'm not sure why Is Trigger would be failing to prevent collision. If you can send me some screenshots of how you've got it set up, I might be able to find what's wrong. Or, better yet, if you're okay with it, a Unity Package of the project would let me dig through and find what might be the culprit.

@@ToolboxMotley are you deleting my comments or is youtube buggy

@@webbtail245 I haven't deleted anything. D: So I guess KZbin? Or perhaps connection hiccups.

Sorry about that, this is an older video where I didn't explain things quite as effectively as in my newer videos. X) You won't necessarily have an Animator folder; that's something I made for my own project for the sake of organization. You're basically just going to be looking in whatever location your avatar's FX Controller, VRChat Menu, and VRChat Parameters are stored. If you don't know where they are, such as with a premade avatar, you can click on your avatar in the Hierarchy on the left, and look through the VRC Avatar Descriptor component in the Inspector on the right. You'll find the FX Controller as the fifth Controller in the "Playable Layers" section. The menu and parameters will be under the "Expressions" section. Double-click the items in their respective fields to make the edits outlined in the video. Hope that helps!