Add Hair Ears & Tail to your VRChat Avatar in Blender EASILY, Merge Armatures & Add Alpha Materials

In this video I will be going over how to add hair, ears, and a tail to your VRChat Avatar in Blender, including merging armatures, setting rest pose, and editing materials with Alpha!
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
0:28 Adding Hair
2:54 Fixing and Naming the Hair Armature
4:13 Setting the Material and Alpha Transparency
6:19 Merging the Armatures
7:25 Adding the Ears
8:03 Editing the Rest Pose
10:00 Applying Materials & Merging Armatures
11:20 Adding the Tail
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Model Asset Credits:
Base/Eye textures: Zinpia Fit Base zinpia.sellfy.store/
Head: Sivka Amelia 23mink.gumroad.com/
Face Texture: Miing miing.gumroad.com/
Base texture & Bikini: HoneyLabs honeylab.gumroad.com/
Ears/Tail: JinxieWinks winks.gumroad.com/
Choker: YamuVR yamuvr.gumroad.com/
Sweatpants: Nessy nessyvr.gumroad.com/
Body normal map: Senespera senespera.gumroad.com/
Rings: DaddyIssuez payhip.com/DaddyIssuez
Hair, Tank Top: Saikura
Zip Shorts: MEEVA payhip.com/MEEVA
High Tops: 3's Lodge threes.gumroad.com/
Slip Ons: Sezzy sezzy.gumroad.com/
Nails, Boxers: Oshen oshenvr.gumroad.com/
Hair Textures: Cicieaaa cicieaaavr.gumroad.com/
Arm Fishnets, Leg Warmers, Tattoos: Made by me
SPS Configure, Flashlight, and "Lollipop": Wholesome wholesomevr.gumroad.com/
AV3Creator Script: Rafa rafacasari.gumroad.com/
GoGo Loco: Franada franadavrc.gumroad.com/l/gogo...
Shader: Poi Toon 9.0.40 / posts

[@0ne-Onee]

Really liking all these tutorials , its nice because a lot of tutorials are around 2 or 3 years old or possibly even older lol

[@AskAmberOfficial]

Yeah just like my older ones hahaha I am so glad I decided to make new videos!

[@WinseAndWepeat]

Thanks for putting in the huge amount of time and effort to make these tutorials. I've even more impressed by the how methodically complete your process descriptions are, they cover any possible question or confusion that might come up for people who don't know Blender as well as you do! The info that you're covering is especially useful for me as I import and prep VRM avatars from Blender --> Unity, and most of the time I have to spend a lot of time fixing up the models before exporting to a Unity-friendly FBX. Been sort of stumbling along in Blender, but your videos help me out tremendously!

[@AskAmberOfficial]

I'm so glad these are helping you out! Good luck on your avatar!!

[@amoenus_dev]

Watching and enjoying your tutorials in preparation for kitbashing my avatar while I wait for the base commission to finish :) Thinking outloud. I wonder if the best practice would be to rename Top Orange and Green Armatures to Something like avatar and armature (Base) respectively and then for children follow same naming convention - tail, armature (tail); shoes, armature (shoes) etc. But I would probably go even further with naming materials, textures etc. I would be tempted to separate stuff in folders as well. For each item it's own folder and separate `shared` folder for stuff like metal material

[@AskAmberOfficial]

Fix model often changes the orange name so if you rename anything, do it after all the fixing is done, that would be my recommendation :)

[@kaileyleatherwood632]

how do u make to ewar the tail doesnt merge with the body? so i can add physcbones

[@LoafiOfBread]

What happens if your cats plug in isn't working?.. Hey I'm new to this and your tutorials have really been helping me out!

[@mrgold64]

how do you open the Model box thing? the one that fix the model and so

[@mrsweetkandy7673]

It's a plugin called CATS. Not sure why they didn't mention it edit: they do mention it at some point (not directly)

[@cherrygirl8204]

What if I want add multiple hair,ears,etc? Do I need to merge too?

[@AskAmberOfficial]

Yes you can merge the armatures exactly as you would a new fbx, but leave the meshes themselves unjoined from the body so you can animate them on and off within Unity when the time comes! Easy peasy!

[@ashleyfrench9109]

I keep trying over and over but in pose mode my hair doesnt move with my head. Please help.

[@Airo_19]

Make sure to parent your hair/ears under the head-bone

[@Airo_19]

Hips > Spine > Chest > Neck > Head > (hair or ears)

[@nikkiroma309]

I'm also having trouble trying to get my hair to move with the head.

[@Airo_19]

Make sure to parent your hair/ears under the head-bone

[@Airo_19]

Hips > Spine > Chest > Neck > Head > (hair or ears)