How to make your VRChat avatar cross-platform with VRCQuestTools

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0:00 Intro
0:53 Getting started
1:32 Duplicate main avatar into a new scene
2:15 Use VRCQuestTools to convert the duplicated avatar
3:26 Remove unnecessary physbones
4:19 Fix any shaders that don't look right
4:45 Switch build platform to Android
5:31 Remove PC scene
6:08 Ready to upload!
6:28 Last-minute optimization tip
7:09 Outro

[@elikathegobby]

man- iv been intimidated making cross platform avatars for about 2 years now and no videos i found could make it sound any less intimidating your a life saver and just uploaded my first cross platform avi! thank you!

[@xxminminxx1464]

Thank you SO much! I've been trying for a while now to upload a avatar to be compatible with both pc and quest, I've seen so many videos and yours the only one that helped me

[@thedeathwolf5177]

thank you so much! This has been a life saver though it did for a moment make my texture inverted on the darker colors. Thankfully that was fixed by setting the texture from "default" to "normal"

[@neonthehybrid8047]

Aww you're a Godsend man. I've been trying to figure out how to do this for months!

[@Jackiebrah]

I got recommended the tutorial at the right time lol, I spent 30 minutes struggling with optimizing my avatar for quest and now I was able to fix it

[@v_Magica]

bro is genuinely a godsend for making this video, helps me immensely. thank you dearly

[@YokaiTemple]

YOU ARE MY GOD DAMN HERO!! I've been trying to figure out how to make my avatars quest compatible since 2021 and no tutorial nor suggestion helped no matter what I tried. I tried so hard and followed instructions so close only to fail. I was finally able to make an avatar quest compatible today for the first time!😭💖

[@Malacha1]

Thank you for making this! Even though I had a couple snags, the tool told me what I had to address to make it work.

[@a.m.e..l.i.a.]

so many videos i watched, so many days it took (3), and this was all i needed. literally took an hour with the worst pc in the world. ty!!❤❤

[@itzdubstep1265]

Oh shoot, I actually needed this video yesterday! Thanks man!

[@Natural_B33]

This was Super Helpful Thank you so much I just Got in to avatar making and I didn't know how to make PCVR avatars But this Helped me alot

[@LuckyAppleGaming]

This was toooooo easy thanks for the tutorial!!!!

[@asc114]

Very straightforward and well explained, thank you man.

[@8dh73k0]

Worked like a charm. Thanks bud. :)

[@CrossReport]

Thank you so much this helped me!

[@fancycat8128]

Thank you, this was sutch a BIG help!!!

[@ApertureBonnie]

Thank you so much for this.

[@jordancrawford5955]

Amazing video and I really appreciate it plz do more 👍🏿

[@thetwistedgamer370]

You are a bloody lifesaver. Thank you so much.

[@0_TECHO_0]

This was so easy thank you

[@rosseenglimmer8962]

This tutorial helped with converting my avatar to quest. Thanks so much. Mew

[@gdc_tron9030]

this tutortial is so helpful thank you

[@thegreatderp3520]

6:04 so we aint gonna talk about the deactivate menu that prob like a good 50% of people pressed then wouldn't be able to upload the character and not know how to undo this. (including myself)

[@Flow95]

This is kinda absurd that you really have to do all of this just to get an avatar to work on the quest and PC. I don't even get why quest avatars can be uploaded to just NOT work on PC to begin with.

[@night9246]

Trust bro this WAYY better then doing it manually

[@thewizardbrand]

Skill issue

[@vixenoreos]

this video was a godsent thank you so much

[@Joe_334]

The mane on your avatar reminds me of a model I made in PS2's Graffiti Kingdom. The only difference is he was more lion like.

[@Mamaleaf]

Ur welcome for this!

[@BlueFlames1897]

Nice guide

[@JeviltheJesta]

thanks now my friends can see my scuffed avatar also suggestion could you try to make a video for brining rigs into unity

[@chaos4000]

BUT how do you make toggles work cross platform like if certain toggles are not working for quest or something like that

[@noblecat-b312]

I have a problem. In VRChat the photo and description is correct... but the model isn't. Also on the platforms it is "only mobile". Is there any way to fix this?

[@Firefox0879]

Thanks

[@frogzet502]

now question. what if the avatar has several models in the unity package already

[@naruzaejs]

I have a question, the PC resolution would show on his high res form when someone's using a pc device or another vrset that is not quest? Or is it gotta look like the toon and low res form like quest?

[@CuddleBean]

What does vrc quest tools do? SURPRISINGLY MY AVATAR WAS ABOUT 33 MB AND IT DIED DOWN TO 12 FROM ME USING THIS? It still looked decent and not blurry? I was shocked 😮 New subscriber!

[@bxunnsy]

could you make a tut for making quest only to pc and quest compatible?

[@ms_spinsesh]

Great tutorial! Does this method make it so that the toggles on both the PC and Quest version of the Avatar work in sync? meaning if I remove a hat from the quest version the PC people will see the hat removed as well? Right now I'm kind of struggling with that issue when I upload a PC + Quest compatible avi. The toggles just don't work the same and if I remove the hat on Quest, the PC person still sees the hat on.

[@Facad3x]

im having a slight issue, my avatar is quest compatable and when i test the quest toggles in vrc they all work, but when i play on the pc version and toggle stuff none of the changes i make are shown to quest uesers around me. its as if the toggles are desynced or something

[@Menma-Abyss]

Any advice for when the textures are SUUUUPER blurry and disocloured? Also theres textures that shouldnt be there (this model is made in vroid so it gave it eyebrows out of nowhere (so now it has two sets or eyebrows. One thats grey and the ones i textured right onro the skin layer) and the glasses have gone completly grey rather then see through. Any help? I cant fjnd the shader thing like you said around 4:25 in

[@eveeleevi]

It's only quest I did this without and it was only quest and I did it with this and it still is and also lost my avatar even when I saved it thanks alot

[@rodregepess1742]

i have a double sided texture, whata material should i use for that?

[@Splichood]

this has helped so much but i dont know how to bring down the download size, it won't let me upload unless its below 10mb.

[@hydra239]

ok im having trouble with this every time I try to upload it will the do the blue circle for a little bit then stop and make a sound idk what to do plz help

[@vanitytm6710]

what do i do if it just keeps making prehabs and when i go to play mode it says all compliers have errors please send help been struggling with this

[@HumanPanda_]

So.. it shows the PC people the '4k' one and questies the quest one?

[@mmdtailsu914]

I was pleased to discover your tutorial but ... I always get the error "Specified Cast Is Not valid" on all materials using Poiyomi ... When I search on the internet the only solutions are code lines that have nothing to do with VRChat. What can I do?

[@ArcadeLimeAde]

I followed all the steps, but when I changed to my avatar on quest I didn’t have any walking animation

[@doggo_official]

still to this day your tutorial is a FAT W😮‍💨

[@Kazuma25-36]

Which quest tool do I download? It shows others when I go to the link.

[@41nn_]

can you have toggles that are only PC but others that work for both

[@Mr_Itchy]

my upload keeps failing, it says "an attempt was made to transition a task to a final state when it had already completed" and i have no idea how to fix it

[@calvinchao05]

Honestly I had the VRC Convert plugin but never used the convert to android function. I literally scrapped 3 projects after several SDK errors preventing me from uploading a Quest Compatible version and this video solved my several long hours worth of issues in 7 minutes. I want to die.

[@nelladeraj]

oh hiee i remember uuu, i was just watching this cuz i was curious what questtools did since i just started using the CC. whats ur discord name again?

[@calvinchao05]

@@nelladeraj NELLLA!!! I forgot the name of it but I have the Unity files, I stopped using it because it was causing some clipping and toggle issues with the clothes but I can send it to you lol

[@jesterod]

does not work for me i cant convert it wont let me put my model in the convert area

[@anastacapter-sp1rz]

how to do the'' using same blueprint id as pcversion? please

[@vargalasvett3494]

Does this still work? I thought i couldnt get winterpaw avatars with clothes for the quest! This makes me want to try this!

[@The_Real_Riko]

My copy removed the eyes how do I give it eyes again I tried to add a texture for the eyes again but won’t work it’s dark and just not what it’s supposed to be

[@R0sie_Bl00ms_99_]

does anyone know how to get the Phys bones panel to open without getting the message after converting the pc avi? I have an avi I got that already had a converted version but cant figure out anywhere how to open the panel so that I can actually upload it ;-;

[@Noel_puppy]

When i use this to upload my should be pc quest avi, the avi is only quest. Then when i look at my pc avi in unity is says its built for android. Any help?

[@MASTERMAGUKU-]

Unsure what im doing incorrectly but when I upload my avatar, the quest and pc version is seperate from each other. They show as 2 different avis.

[@TheSAD999]

do i need to install quest compatible shaders? because all it did was turn my entire character black

[@Coolgamer_12]

so im at 2:40 and im trying to "Convert" and its not letting me- i followed all of ur instructions and it got to 18/54 then showed me an error saying "An error occured when converting materials. Aborted." and "InvalidCastExeption: Specified cast is not valid." idk what to do or how to get around it..

[@sdfsdfsdfs1606]

my avatar is still to big are there anymore optimizations i could do

[@angelstar513]

The VRC Quest tools tab is not showing up for me?

[@spyrothepirate6472]

When I press on android a thing a peer is telling me that it’s gonna take a bit, so I press OK, but then it disappears in. It never comes back, and I still can’t upload to quest because it never changed from Windows to android and it won’t it refuses to, but I’ve done everything correctly. So I don’t know what to do

[@Coppertie94922]

So the “convert avatar for quest” button is greyed out and I can’t press it. I’ve followed all the steps up to that point. What do I do? Edit: Nvm, for those having this problem, you have to add the VRCAvatar descriptor to the model

[@greasyweesie36]

whet do i do when there is no option for the control panel

[@pixlerosez8116]

The pc model, changes into pink while the new quest model turns normal? Is there a way to fix this

[@dion608]

if i make it quest like this do i still see pc version?

[@mal0-ver1.0.0]

My avatar still reads about 11.17 mb and it can't be uploaded. Help?

[@JosephStardust]

So if I wanted to reduce poly count I would have to go back into Blender right? If that's the case then I don't wanna have to start over and create my prop toggles, animations, and facial expressions from scratch again. So if my model has a lot of polygons (say 200K+), 512x512 is good enough for Quest users? It'll still be automatically blocked regardless but I at least want them to see what my model is in the first place...

[@JohnieCanine]

I don’t think 200k polies will work on Quest at all sadly.

[@mini_ivo7631]

done all of this and uploaded it but questies are saying all they see is a robot even when they show my avi

[@RedRosemary]

the menu for vrcquesttools keep disappearing for me i dont know why

[@AkiMusu]

Hello! is there a way to get it from 50mb to 10mb as well?

[@Polly-ss9fr]

When I uploaded my avatar it shows an error bot and I’m not sure how to fix it

[@LocalEditor-b3i]

Okay but what happens if the Thing doesn't show up on the task bar

[@Tipsyfr]

what do i do if its stuck on building avatar and nothing happens?

[@its_4life]

i purchased my avatar. it keeps failing to build the avatar and literally wont give a me a reason why...

[@BananVR1221]

ok so uhm it says i already have the quest thingy but i dont :(

[@HibachiKitty207]

Okay I need help I cannot find a way to move over my avatar after making a duplicate. There are so many arrows I’m extremely confused is there a way you can help me privately 😭

[@floofyboi4099]

it keeps saying build failed:avatar validation failed is there a way to fix this

[@cherrygirl8204]

How to fix blush...or deleted...hope someday have a tutorial please :c

[@Deathbatman]

Can someone help me my avatar is 22.50 mb and I have no idea how to get it to 10 nothing is working

[@yeahimcookie7874]

After I did this it says Lower leg is not first child of upper leg or foot is not first child of lower leg anyone else have that problem?

[@grab2880]

how do you make a 2D avatar cross platform

[@monkpunk29001]

i click build and publish but it doesn't do anything

[@angelihere3824]

Hi, I have a question now it says that the second avi is only for Quest but I wanted it Pc and quest how do I do that?

[@just.kowski6816]

Okay so basically you know how when you open unity its just uploading for pc right? Yeah swap the platform from Android back to pc then upload it!

[@alis1697]

Sadly it's not working for me, because I got a window which says "an error occurred when converting materials. Aborted)

[@Shirou7000]

idk how r u doing this so your avatar is under 10mb... every time i try to convert something the size is too big :/ that's the main reason i looked for this video

[@crowxcrazyhead2917]

ITS NOT UPLOADING AND I NEED HELP PLEASE

[@angxlVR]

Ok so, I tried to upload an avatar for the cross platform. I did all the steps you did, and I'm at the upload page. I'm not sure if the cross platform button is supposed to be greyed out. Idk if anyone else is having this issue, but I have this every time I convert majority of my avatars for cross platform. Am I doing something wrong? Please come back to me when you can.

[@noblecat-b312]

same thing happened to me, the avatar isn't in the game it's just the robot. And the platforms says "mobile only"

[@cloudberry7975]

Does this also convert materials used in toggle animations?

[@JohnieCanine]

I believe so

[@lix9835]

This didn't work for me even though I followed everything correctly... It still shows as only PC compatible. I really wish this could work because I really like the avatar... But ah well

[@ReddyReddson]

Hey I have a tiny problem, after the conversion with tools to the Quest version, my eyes are just blank white, something broke :/ Any idea how to make it work? I am really helpless with unity :D

[@JohnieCanine]

The eye textures probably have some transparent part over the actual eye texture itself. Usually that happens when it’s a texture like that on the VRChat shaders because that shader doesn’t support transparency.

[@TabsterVC]

the vrcquesttools isnt there beside my file, edit, assets thingies in the toolbar

[@JohnieCanine]

Don’t use it with the Creatir Companion

[@miniminchen48]

My Avatar has 17,30 mb and doesn´t will upload..(Maximum size is 10 Mb)

[@magentalizard1250]

Converted and now my avatar's clothing, eyelashes, and eyebrows are chunky and messed up.......

[@MMS1721]

My avatar has regular glasses and when it converts, it just blackens them out where my avatars eyes are unseeable. Any ideas on how to fix this?

[@whyyoutubewhy5910]

you would have to remove the lenses as quest cannot use transparency sadly

[@VintageFenrir]

OMG I TRIED TO FIX IT AND COMPLETELY DESTROYED MY WHOLE PROJECT

[@Eb.third.position]

didnt let me publish it

[@ryansrandomvidsandmore1852]

I really need help with this part. When I go to build settings to switch to the Android platform, there is no Android module loaded. Can you please help me out with this section, I've been trying to find a way how to fix it but there's no answer. Please and thank you, it will really help me out a lot.

[@hydra239]

if it says no module then you have to download it, the download link should be right under or above where it says no module on the switch to android thing