How to Make a Custom VRChat Avatar in Vroid FREE | Vroid to VRChat Part 1

How to make a fully custom VRChat avatar in Vroid, a free avatar creator. This is a more complicated method for creating a custom VRChat avatar than any of the others I've shown before (such as ReadyPlayerMe and Tafi), but it is probably the best method if you don't want to make one from scratch, but still have complete control over the look of your avatar.
In part 1 of this 3 part series, we will be making the avatar in Vroid. In the next parts, I'll show you how to take the avatar you made, and get it ready for VRChat.
This series is basically a conglomeration of information I've absorbed from several other KZbinrs, such as Phia and Argama Witch, while trying to make my own avatar. So go give them some love on their channels as well!
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0:00 - Intro
1:11 - Vroid Basics
2:05 - The Face
6:13 - Quest Shader Fix
7:20 - The Hair
10:27 - The Body
11:46 - The Outfit
12:43 - Erase Body Texture
13:46 - Accessories
14:19 - Look Editor
15:01 - Camera/test
16:12 - Expressions and Visemes
17:57 - Export and Conclusion
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[@VirtualPandaVR]

FIXES AND UPDATES: Turns out the texture converter (for quest) doesn't handle eyeliner very well, so I made this super basic Quest eyeliner you can add to the face paint instead. Download this one, or make your own. drive.google.com/file/d/1hFzcv1S4g14QxBgGgNrVR17EYv_OfDHi/view?usp=sharing Also for quest users, be aware that some clothes will have issues with shaders as well. This is something you can usually fix in blender, and I have a short video showing how to do that in my Discord (go to the Avatar Help Channel > Pinned messages). Also the Eyelids and eye highlights don't work with Quest shaders either. Either delete those or add the eyelids to the face texture and the highlights directly to the iris texture. For more help, join my Discord: discord.gg/zNGW6pMPZb

[@ren-the-destroyer2058]

Hi! I have quest 2 and I'm making my avatar on my computer but the texture converter isn't working for me. Idk what to do instead of using it.

[@ren-the-destroyer2058]

Will it work if I make my own brows and eye liner?

[@crafting_boy4268]

Cool brooo i never saw that🤩

[@toymomofthree7870]

YOU HAVE THE MOST AMAZING DISCORD COMMUNITY!! I'd been working on an avatar for my son for DAYS and blender decided to crash every time i went to atlas. I went to your discord and got an almost immediate response that tried to troubleshoot with me and when that didn't work he offered to run my file through blender and went above and beyond! This is what every discord community should be like!! A server filled with everyone helping each other, its a thing of beauty!! THANK YOU VIRTUAL PANDA!! You've earned a new subscriber forever and I'm telling everyone I know!!

[@HikikomoriDev]

This goes a lot in dense detail, I love that. It's like a high end art university lecture. That's how many tutorials should be. Thanks!

[@Guillvrmo]

This needs more recognition! This was so helpful, Thank you!!!!

[@eternallysami]

Really nice tutorial, very helpful. I tried Vroid a few years ago and it was hard to customise things how I wanted but it looks like they've improved it a lot. Looking forward to the other parts of this tutorial series! 🐼

[@VirtualPandaVR]

😁

[@bluebell1]

Excellent video! Thank you so much for doing it! Can’t wait for the blender video!

[@quipsilvervr]

Thanks very much for this video dude, I was literally in the early stages of building my Avatar on Vroid outside of Steam and this video came at the perfect time!

[@-Ralku-]

Awesome Video and really good explanation. Thank you so much! I can't wait to see the other 2 parts.

[@Sewersquatter]

yasss been waiting for thisss

[@arcanefusion8994]

very useful been trying for a little bit and probably one of the best tutorials

[@ofsnoigjo6456]

thank you so much now i can enjoy making avatars but without spending years learning blender

[@viperzgo1124]

I just love that your so specific fr

[@AsheraNiki]

Looking forward to seeing the last two parts as old tutorials don't have much of those what you explain, especially they are not so outdated and actual. I had to draw the skin texture, but now it has somekind of a converter - if I had known it before doing so...

[@katharinavonwalde2222]

:o omg i needed that vr wave.... ty for the intro

[@lemzeljr8846]

I can’t wait for the next video this was so helpful

[@SuperDuckyWho]

Oh wow, is this new? I went through HELL trying to make a custom model in Blender to just stick horns onto, this looks so easy!

[@parley8887]

This tutorial was very easy and straightforward to understand thank you!

[@limatsuki]

waiting on the part 2 patiently xD

[@moon_phaser_410]

Can I take a minute to say that I think it is incredibly wholesome that you are making an avatar for your wife UuU

[@roguehiro9503]

2 years since I used the app and it changed a LOT

[@LittleBoxFox]

thank you this is gonna be soooo helpful for making a more custom avatar in vroid

[@SSSNAIKE]

Thank you now I can play vrchat in quest 2!❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@joelmorrasca9810]

This playlist was super helpful! do you have/know someone that has tutorials on custom/complex world creation? Love the work! keep it up!

[@azthawed]

I tried vroid but i didn’t know how to use it, thanks for tutorial now I can do it

[@animationmonster1515]

Awesome 👍. Thank you so much!!!

[@repairstudio4940]

Soooo much simpler than the 4 hour course I subjected myself too earlier today...oh wait it is day right? ☀️ 🤷‍♂️🌙

[@TechnoGlowStick]

This feels like the sims! 😃

[@tawni2806]

Omg i love you! Thank you ❤

[@moseschong33]

as someone who has a learning disability this taught me a lot thanks for that.... imma go subscribe and like the video now

[@nefwaenre]

Zod, this is so much better than slaving away for a Sims4 custom content. Thanks so much for the tutorial! You gave me a new purpose to use my artistic skills.~♥

[@plebalians_stuff5409]

very easy to follow thx!

[@idiotgemr1198]

I'm preparing for when I get a vr headset so thanks for the video it helped a lot

[@yeetzysvr8062]

this isn't the best way to do it. the easiest and most effiecent is the get the VRM to VRoid converter unitypackage from booth, and enable dynamic bones if you want by before converting the vrm to a vrchat ready model, is putting the dynamic bones package in and then converting it over, and i reccomend something like pumkins avatar tools to select the avatar and enable dynamic bones.

[@yeetzysvr8062]

btw if your concerned about quest support then, they will be auto-disabled when switching to quest in unity.

[@dr.mystery5791]

Note for Quest Texture Conversion: After reading the free tools description it appears this will not work for male avatars due to he free version being v.2 while male avatar support added in v.4 (God may this help some poor soul who got stuck as me)

[@derpythean-comdoge8608]

so what do we do?

[@elijahtuxhorn3345]

Well... Shit. Guess I'm making a female avatar then until I can find something that works for a male one

[@derpythean-comdoge8608]

@@elijahtuxhorn3345 add eyebrows to face texture yourself.

[@Anigeek1246]

fuck

[@moltenhydrogen2218]

by the way guys, 200 yen is a 1.50 USD. A small payment to make imo to make your avatar presentable to a vast majority of the VRChat user base. I bought the v4 version and I can tell you that the masc settings works perfectly, including eyeliner.

[@adlinreese]

This is amazing thank you.

[@ultra3672]

very helpful tutorial thank you

[@Crazystupidmariofan]

I just really want to say I'm not one for ads, but I've never been happier to hear that there are prescription lens for my VR headset because my glasses barely fit and it's a pain. I never thought I would need glasses to see in Virtual Reality as well as the real world.

[@theflyingwhale5778]

Thx for the video, goddamn that last export was a TASK for my laptop lmfao. But how can I change the preset of the AIUEO thingy? I don't really understand that part. Also how did you add the quote thingy on the hoodie?

[@katelyn_gachaxd713]

Thanks this is very helpfull!

[@aki0n0theghost]

this video totally helped me

[@Niko_Niko_Ni-]

The video was very detailed and helpful... But, the end of the "Quest Shader Fix" was very confusing for me, I have no idea how you hid the "previous eyeliner and eyebrow" and whenever I try to follow through with it, They both become very off, and it just overall doesn't really work as expected, I think I'm doing it wrong but I can't find out what.

[@VirtualPandaVR]

Sounds like other people are having issues with that tool as well. To hide the old eyebrow/eyeliner, go to edit their textures, then hide the old texture. Then in the face paint texture import the new Quest versions of the eyebrow/eyeliner from the tool. If it doesn't fit right, make sure you're putting in the correct settings in the tool. If it still looks off (the eyeliner) then try manually adding eyeliner by drawing it on the avatar (still in the facepaint section of textures)

[@dietaryfiberisasocialconstruct]

well, good news now, as the problems with eyeliner and eyebrow are gone pretty much.

[@MarbleADJ]

@@dietaryfiberisasocialconstruct ok good

[@stiltzeditz]

this is me from the "past" i havent used the program yet, but i think it would be cool!

[@kizuo22]

i figured it out... the missing pieces on the vid wew. took me a while but i get it now.

[@Rouge-Angel8]

so much stuff I might have to wait till I get a better pc xD

[@jgkdmdevienjjgg8866]

If you just erase parts of texture that wont do it much more optimized (it could be little bit more optimized if shader is drawing with cutoff mode). Triangles are still drawing, but with transparent color. You should remove invisible triangles in blender instead

[@xugo91]

how do you think i can do that ?

[@Wynfyd]

I know this comment was posted a while ago but I just want to point out that this is wrong. Once you export the vrm if you tick "Remove Transparent images" then it deletes that part of the texture. By doing so it reduces the triangles. Also either english is your second language or you a like 8 years old but your grammar sucks and there is no such thing as a 'transparent color'.

[@unfunny4346]

Nice tutorial,time to make gremlin

[@edgydreamy681]

I’m getting a VR headset for Christmas I’m gonna start working on this now so once I get VR chat it’ll be done

[@arthurbodet1231]

Hello ! First of all, thank you for this video series ! I'm about to use it as a guide to make and upload my own avatar. But since this series is almost 2 years old, I wanted to ask if I had anything else to know before following it (like new updates, outdated plugins...) or if it is still relevant as it is. Thank you in advance !

[@MyronKirigaya]

I would Just be careful with file versions

[@pvrvlyze_02]

At 17:35 does this apply to both the mouths fem and masc as well as mouth inside or is it just mouth fem for female avatars and mouth masc for male avatars along with mouth inside?

[@LovelyNyx7]

With the hair highlights is there any way to make it half of a certain color, and the other half a different color?

[@zippycheetah_6476]

can you show how to get the picture thing for the sweater pls?

[@Demonicwednesday]

I have a question about creating an avatar will these apps work on a laptop or do I really need a computer desktop

[@alexanderinabowl]

For the converter for quest what is eyebrow proximity and all the other stuff because it doesn’t show up in vroid

[@erobusblack4856]

Nice

[@mr.pirateguy]

I'm doing this on a PC. This would be my first. Hope it goes well

[@anti.playz301]

Really helpful tutorial. But just one Question: why erase if its not sticking out? (body for example) Edit: Nvm I got to the explanation part.

[@Bubus428]

Can i use vrchat to create a sort of 3d animation to add on my videos?

[@elementalnation1133]

To import do i have to have the cable thingy? To connect the vr or

[@maxtgth3fr13nd5]

For some reason, jackets with transparent texture (like…the type of coat with a necktie) have a problem similar to eyebrows. How do we fix this?

[@ThatKidVive]

That’s cool and make my main avatar

[@purplehatter550]

Is there a way to get custom animations for the avatars?

[@sombraowl6419]

Do you still need to do the eyebrow thing

[@repairstudio4940]

How do I undo changes in the texture editor for instance say I erased the face or something ... I see no way to correct it!????

[@_kerry_]

why clothes after changing textures are smaller and didn't fit on?

[@TheUnrider]

to change the texture you dont have to do anything fancy, that tutorial you linked showed how you import whole hais styles. For only texture you go on front, click on one, click right on material and then edit texture

[@mazar3899]

while doing the quest converter it makes the eyebrows very big on the avatar's face, how do I fix that?

[@pizza924]

For the custom colored hair, how do I download it, the custom hair that I’ve created

[@retropulse03]

This has been pretty helpful but I am STRUGGLING to find short male hair and some decent (short) beards. Otherwise I have my avatar looking pretty sweet.

[@simondragon206]

What about marsupilami avatar?

[@awttygaming2510]

please help why is mine when i first download it there avatars that I am looking at have like pixels around them and they don't look good please respond also do you still have to do that annoying thing for downloading new hair

[@bushakakhanh]

hey uhm, what if i want to create non-human avatar? like a tree for exmple

[@starberrytoast]

i don’t get the eyeliner and eyebrow part :(

[@TheVRSwordsman]

how do you undo mistakes with erasing the nails?

[@iNandolorian]

How do you open the VRoid texture converter?!

[@TheinvincibleSionisKai]

bro I'm stuck on how to actually open the texture converter. Like, I have it installed from the link but idk what the heck to do next.

[@HikikomoriDev]

19:15 that would be awesome for a PS1 game lol

[@Ethan-ym2cn]

Can you erase everything and just have an invisible avi in vrc?

[@deitylove4571]

Are these PC only or compatible with Quest?

[@nerdycatgoddess]

what blender version now works with vroid v1.26.0

[@repairstudio4940]

How do I do logos on the clothes???

[@FruitLoops_]

Did any of you get fonky results when converting the textures to quest? Mine got totally wrong in position and color

[@TimeGodRodent]

Yeah I gotten wrong position

[@FruitLoops_]

@@TimeGodRodent After looking it um, i got to th conclusion that it's likely xactly what it's supposed to do, due to Quests fonky shaders

[@sky30p75]

Hey, the converter isn’t working right. It keeps getting the eyebrows and eyeliner in the wrong position and color. It was working yesterday so idk what I did wrong. Great vid overall it’s been really helpful!

[@VirtualPandaVR]

I just made a basic eyeliner that you can use (check pinned comment). But the eyebrow part of the converter should work. If it ends up as the wrong color, use canva to make the texture itself the color you want. (This is better since shaders won't always work in vrchat, so the textures should always be the color you want)

[@ShadowGamer12478]

Can other people clone the custom avatars

[@kxiizy]

When I try to download the texture converter it says running it could be a risk is that correct so far? And should I run it? (For the vroid_texture_converter.exe)

[@TechSpec814]

It's fine. I used it myself

[@BeenDaRizzler]

can you pls make a chromebook version

[@user-xx5yv2kp3e]

I try to download the clothes but it kinda doesn’t work it’s kinda coming with a zip so I need help…

[@kopacka24]

is the vroid studio on vr?

[@Ghost_Zero00]

what do i erase when i have shoes and pants

[@SuperDuckyWho]

I have a question about a really basic issue I'm having... in the texture editor when I zoom in to the texture how do I scroll up!?!?! I'm getting so frustrated trying to get in closer to get something. Doesn't matter if I right or left click, all it does is paint.

[@vinofangelou]

If you hold shift and click on the mouse wheel at the same time you should be able to move the texture around, I had this problem for a short while too :0

[@matthewsapla52]

how do i upload the hair to vrstudio

[@animal_loverd2424]

Can you make a avatar world?

[@Veroxity]

i like ur voice lol

[@CallumTheIrish]

big problem with unity not extracting textures for my model i am now sad

[@Anigeek1246]

Vroid texture is not working for me anymore. does anybody know why?

[@asapandchris4333]

Would this work in mac?

[@uwusenpai6047]

I cant see the wrench?

[@ankahyt4751]

can you make it physbones

[@vanark901]

There’s no narrowness option on the Vising‘s what are you talking about

[@Dontmissbenny]

narrowness is mouth inside

[@Gliese710_]

i saved my model because i had to do something else and now it wont open

[@bellachan777]

The texture converter doesn't work for me. :/

[@LovelyNyx7]

Whenever i look at the animations my model is like laggy asf.