How to Upload an Avatar to VRChat (Quest and PC) | Vroid to VRChat Part 3

This video will show you the basics of using unity to upload an avatar to VRChat. This is directed at Vroid avatars, but will work with any avatar in an FBX format.
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[@VirtualPandaVR]

FIXES AND UPDATES: If you're doing a Quest avatar, then when you're installing Unity for the first time make sure to install the Android components (should pop up as an option that you can check when installing). If the "Extract Textures" option is grayed out for you, then make sure that you changed the Path Mode to COPY when exporting from Blender. Also if you're on Quest: If your eyes/any other parts of the avatar look messed up (pointy, deformed, larger than it should be) this is due to the QUEST shaders (as demonstrated this happens to the eye brow, eyeliner, and eyeline, which is why we apply those directly to the skin texture). To fix this for the eyes, you need to adjust the mesh in blender. I have a short video demonstrating how to do this in my Discord > avatar help channel > pinned messages. So if your eyes look weird and you want a quick easy fix, check that out here: discord.com/invite/zC7KgFpC7v For more help, join my Discord: discord.gg/zNGW6pMPZb

[@n1co_gg]

I CAN'T MERGE THEM WITH ATLAS always when i do this the texures are getting like you said crazy comined but then when i export out blender in unity it stays and i cant use it so i didnt merg them together and export it with more then 4 layers but now i cant use them or extrakt them so how i can fix this merg problem do i need to remake the texures in vroid and recreate all ?

[@VirtualPandaVR]

@@n1co_gg check the pinned message in the last video. You need to unpack the files in blender before creating the atlas OR use an older version of the vrm add on to import the avatar (an update broke it)

[@n1co_gg]

@@VirtualPandaVR oh thanks man

[@n1co_gg]

@@VirtualPandaVR I have still the problem i tryed all unpack all before and use the same VRM it still not work and i dont know how to fix :/

[@VirtualPandaVR]

@@n1co_gg it'll be easier to help you in Discord

[@lizardosomgaming9420]

I Never Thought The Hardest Part For Me Would Be Getting Unity To Run

[@dr.mystery5791]

Same man

[@SheLuvsMilli]

dude fr

[@HowJunior]

Fr, ive been at this for 4 hours and im still having a problem with it. smh

[@willowkepler]

A single, EMPTY unity project folder is ~2GB in size. I constantly have to delete older project files for new ones. Probably why some okay-ish computers can't run it.

[@Benkkullama]

me too. i may have got it working now.

[@The_Real_BA]

YESSSSS FINALLY! Ive been making Vroid avatars for my friends and they kept asking when this would come out. Im happy im subbed

[@eternallysami]

Awesome tutorial! Setting up avatars in Unity can be a bit confusing for beginners so this is really great! Nice work, Panda 🐼

[@Lyfalda]

Big tip for other peoples that I hope some will find and be able to use. If using the Poiyomi Shader and you have a few invisible textures only from one side, remember to go into the shader settings and set "Cull" to "Off" in "Rendering". This is the option that will hide the back of some textures, but you need this back for some avatars.

[@jamesonthegamerman9347]

honestly this is the best video i watched of this because i have no issue with what to download and told exactly what you need so thank you so much this made my day

[@chaysefox]

I find that holding down Alt changes the mouse cursor to an eye and allows you to move around your viewpoint. Also holding down Alt and right click-drag allows for a more fine "dolly" move in when compared to the wheel-move.

[@lonejohnwolf]

Oh my gosh FINALLY SOMEONE actually told me how to get this "unity" thing people kept saying you needed to make VRchat avatars!

[@h4rdcore00]

Mans finally done it, thanks m8, looking forward to the next one.

[@Anonymous-cn6zl]

That avatar in the intro fits you so much. Your voice sounds friendly and cute

[@notrealecho]

Thank you so much for uploading these tutorials. You're the best.

[@dozenbuzzard2662]

nice, been waiting for a while for this video it was very helpful!

[@itzblacki5427]

oh my god finally i was having such a hard time trying to figure it out

[@austintobi8270]

I highly recommend dropping by a doppelganger world when testing avatars. It just lets you get a good look from an outside perspective to check all the nooks and crannies you might miss in a mirror :)

[@itserror3330]

Can you recommend a world for this?

[@austintobi8270]

@@itserror3330 I use doppelganger 2019 but it's only available on pc :)

[@unknxwn_87]

TYSM I had just got the stuff for quest and uploaded it (it was quest only) but the ending rly helped! :D

[@layon3r222]

very nice, waiting for the next episodes

[@JAYYTHATMF]

Yayyyy I have learned to do it already but I’m glad this video and I’m so ready for the next video l

[@selfiechannel]

Dude it's night time and I'm just chilling, listening to lo-fi music, and following your tutorial and then the glitch sound at 2:40 made me jump. I almost let out a loud one.

[@lucasthecactus5545]

same

[@breadnbutterpk]

Thanks so much I tried to figure the textures out and I think ik what I need to do now🙏

[@seekra5920]

Woo!!! Thank you so much man!

[@bellekeene3185]

Okay so I extracted the textures and the materials and I did everything that you said would make the character look normal but my character still looks insane

[@ryangonzalez4646]

me too

[@cypoux]

I can't even get the textures/materials from blender to unity... :(

[@Power-Mad]

Thank you! Was having trouble finding where to put the ID until now for a cross platform.

[@AdmCornFlake]

FYI, if you didn't notice, the outlines aren't there anymore for his avatar. You have to add them back with the shaders if it's supported (poyomi's shader supports it)

[@VirtualPandaVR]

Yeah noticed that too. Whoops.

[@Hunter248GM]

May I ask how you do this? or better how it's called and where to find it?

[@Hunter248GM]

May I ask how to do this? or better how it's called and where to find it?

[@liammontgomery1825]

@@Hunter248GM When you go to select the shader, you would pick Poiyomi Outline instead of Toon. There will be a menu option in that window now for Outline that you can tweak how you want. You need Poiyomi version 8.0 at the time of this comment for this.

[@rony9225]

you just saved my vrchat experience

[@kapf_9465]

Amazing!✨✨

[@Cocochioo]

i cant find the VRC avatar descriptor, idk what seems to be the problem

[@madaragog2689]

Thanks dude

[@Medium-X.]

Tbh found new respect for modelers now, just making an simple avatar with no special effects or special features is hard enough I can only imagine how it is when adding those features in😨😨

[@Spidoc]

You can move in your unity scene using right click and wasd

[@unfixedgalaxy5816]

The vrc avatar descripter isnt popping up in the components for me for some reason, and i did install the vrchat Sdk and stuff

[@9001bigman]

What do you mean when you say change the path mode to copy when exporting from blender?

[@BonkedSpyCrab]

Great tutorial, spent a day trying to understand othe videos but yours helped me a lot. I just have one problem. Everything works fine except the hands. When i try to move them in VRChat they just stand still. Any help would be apreciated

[@lagdemon6065]

Great, but how do we get the gestures set up and everything?

[@mr.shgamingguy]

Very cool

[@butterbaby4972]

Wish this tutorial was a little kore helpful for new people who havent done this because im sitting here reading the comments and still have no idea how to fix my texture problem.

[@HowJunior]

Whats the problem?

[@KittycatCaroline39]

same here bud, same here.

[@xliminalityaurax]

Is there a way to add "cull off" for the quest shader? The I side of my neck collar is gone from the front view.

[@mrmanhasaplan]

The avatar I used came with everything, so I kinda just had to use trial and error to figure it out. Thanks for trying to help though!

[@ZommvIeMunnKy]

For the people still having issues extracting the textures, I changed My Blender version to 2.9.0 and it worked! Now I'm only having issues with the SDK, it says "this avatar has mipmapped textures without 'Streaming Mip Map' enabled" now, whenever I enable it, the SDK builder screen goes blanc, I've read that it has to do with the Avatar missing and Animator, but I've already fixed that, thats the very last thing for me :'(

[@mehana6022]

i heard that sdk3 is no longer support in2023, u might want to check creator companion on youtube, i dont know if this help but wish u luck :

[@Ceeerealll]

hey panda, i was wandering if you could help me with this one thing, so when i get to the avatar discriptor i dont have a edit option anywhere, pls help

[@mrmillmill]

Would this custom avatar be visible in Horizon Worlds app on quest?

[@RamenIsSuper]

heres a fix to the messed up textures with the mobile shaders, open up photoshop or some editing app and find your textures, right click and press open in explorer then, add a layer behind the main textures and color in the background to the color that would usually be behind it EXAMPLE: eyebrows get the color of the skin for the background (im not very good at explaining)

[@Kryreth]

Just a heads up poiyomi shader gui in unity no longer works, i had to go to rendering cut first before applying poiyomi shader to my model (best i can get for now)

[@SanityVideo]

I'm terrified what people might do with the ability to upload two versions of an avatar that show up differently on different platforms, especially since many of those users have no way of seeing how their avatar appears on another platform.

[@VirtualPandaVR]

Never thought of this lol

[@flare5282]

Yeah I've thought about maybe an avatar that tells you what platform you're on. And maybe it roasts you on quest. Or in a world with 1 pc user not including yourself, you can make them go insane. Like it's a dog and it has fake eyebrows on PC but not quest. Don't even say a word. It will happen naturally if everyone has the avatar.

[@SuperDuckyWho]

I've actually seen some avatars that are Quest avatars where their textures aren't quite showing up right and been told my textures aren't loading by Quest players. It's kinda funny but I do hope they fix it one day.

[@luck33_star]

I mean, the worst I've seen was on quest, someone looked like a furry, but for PC users they were a creepily realistic version of a minecraft villager

[@luck33_star]

I'm a PC user btw so that avatar was... dear lord XD

[@Karrfis]

Something is wrong with eye bones in newer versions, if you dont care about eye tracking, you can stop your characterseyes being backwards by deleting /not assigning eye bones , else you will need to do some work on them in blender to get them working properly

[@joshuaisaacs6829]

When trying to test my avatar I get a "Spine hierarchy missing elemets, please map: Chest" problem and there isn't an auto fix for it. If anybody has any advice that would be great

[@yllid]

im kinda confused, im currently doing the material shaders and i cant find the rendering preset. if anyone knows a fix or what i did wrong its greatly appreciated

[@project_lizarddd9046]

Thanks for the video! It’s all been working out great except for the extract textures and extract materials so can someone help me with that?

[@JustAlesan]

I guess you have problems with the atlas? And couldn't save any (real) textures?

[@ByonicINC]

I was wondering why the extract texture was grey out. i put in the save file for the model from blender and not the export model lol

[@Swan_Johnson]

for quest do you recommend using the android build settings?

[@CaptAytan]

How come I don't have the VRC_Avatar_Descriptor component? it's the only thing that's causing me a problem here, I can't find it.

[@MrDirtyCraft]

I have this issue that I dont have the Left/ Right Eye Elements to choose. Only Eye_L and Eye_R. How do I get the other?

[@LordD0g]

In unity, my model turns to black when I add material and texture model and it loses so many items when I add the shader

[@mwoaa_]

I don't know why the extrac texture is still gray even if I do the pin instruction, Help me pls.

[@misakikitty]

hi! wondering if you know why whenever i press either build & test or build & publish, it doesnt take me to the upload bage but just adds a prefab of my model in the assets instead?

[@Seffsha]

bump

[@theofficialgkelle]

How do I find the animation types Bc when I clicked on the avatar on the assets, I can’t find it somehow?

[@therandomizer3841]

When ever i put my avatar into Unity Multiple bones disapear such as head and arms what am i meant ot do to fix this

[@nekoqueen22]

So I got a pre-made avatar from vrmodels and I need to figure out how to transfer it to my vrchat account

[@CIrAzYIX]

If I realize after uploading the first time that I have to change something in VROID do I have to do everything in Blender again?

[@shellshockhkmk7816]

how do i change the path mode to copy?

[@craftkatzyt]

So I wanted to know that if you have the issue of the vrc component not appearing is it because of the unity version or something else?

[@cypoux]

Ive don but I dont have the left eye/ right eye option, just the ones you dont use. I tried those though but the eyeballs dont react well to using them (eyes completely inside out and de synced). Any advise?

[@mrpmaewmaew]

when i made a project in unity it said "Project failed to open please check the logs" and when i open the log folder idk what to do

[@gooball2619]

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@aaronperez-mj8kg]

How long does it take for Switch to build target to android?

[@TechMan7.0]

Goat!

[@thepegpals501]

When I click the builder tab to test the avatar, the tab is completely empty. does anyone know why?

[@Not_Bdew]

I’m having a problem when uploading to vrchat. On the auto fix screen, I’m getting an error that says “spine hierarchy missing elements, please map: chest.” So far, I’ve remade my avatar twice and still it doesn’t work. Do you have any suggestions for this, because I really don’t want to lose my work. It won’t let me auto fix it and only gives me the option to “select”. EDIT: I fixed the issue. You have to go into the same menu where you mapped the jaw bone and instead find the chest (or missing element). Then, you have to click on it and find the missing bone.

[@Pumpkinofgorge]

Yeah, I had this problem, In blender go to edit mode and click the bones, make sure the 'Neck' bone has its parent set to 'Upper Chest', the 'Upper Chest' bone has its parent set to 'Chest', the 'Chest' bone has its parent set to 'Spine' and the 'Spine' has its parent set to 'Hips'

[@Not_Bdew]

@@Pumpkinofgorge yep, I realized that later on. Definitely a problem that should be specified.

[@munchymakums8666]

I was just having the same issue but then I read you fixed it! It's funny how this one little mess up and butcher this whole process. I'm just saying thank you because I would have NEVER figured out this was the problem.

[@Not_Bdew]

@@munchymakums8666 yw! Took me a bit to figure out myself.

[@JH-gg8je]

hello sorry but when i try to put the shaders folden in the unity it did not make me any shaders folder i must be doing something wrong but i dont know what is it can anyone help if is not too much trouble?

[@YiffaBasically]

bless u dode

[@YardsaleDale-1]

Your profile picture and name deserves a sub

[@PenutBitterJon]

um ive tried to "Extract Textures" and it wont work. ive done the copy path thingy and its still grayed out. does anyone know something i could do or somethin im doin wrong?

[@ryanbolek9975]

Word of wisdom ... merging your vr chat and steam account can upgrade your visitor status as well

[@Inotmysterio]

I need help when I drag the poiyomi shaders it doesnt import the scenes bit. And comes up with an error "warning: CS0162: Unreachable code decected"

[@affiqdaniel2791]

Please give me an answer how do you upload you vroid studio model from pc to pico 4 headset?

[@Anderchu2008]

One question, what about when it says that is only quest compatible when i followed all the steps, first it was pc compatible only and now it says that is only quest

[@lavender-mirai4011]

I’ve been working on this for the past week, even fixed the ‘grayed out texture’ button. But when I click it and make a folder for it, it does absolutely nothing. Avatar is still gray. I don’t think I missed any steps as I’ve watched all three parts more time then I can count. Anybody know a way to fix it?

[@jami_nnit]

when im exporting my avatar it doesnt show the builder tab thing it only says vrcavatardiscriptor required to build an avatar

[@babibunniie]

i cant get the rig tab and im going crazy cause when i click on the avatar the mesh or whatever i cant get it to pop up

[@specialwithaR]

I don't know if anyone else's had this problem but my untiy won let me extract textures or materials that buttons arent working

[@kyraa1933]

the extract textures still doesen't work for me even after making sure the path mode was on copy and that embed textures was on

[@techoek2466]

Having issues with build and publish for android saying error building player because scripts have compile errors in editor and files not found exception

[@jc11505]

For the Eye Look section, I don't have "LeftEye" and "RightEye". I have "Eye_L_end" and "Eye_R_end" in their places. What's up with that?

[@gay_satan666]

do i delete custom keywords? or keep them as they are listed as my materials and textures? its under the autofix but has me choose what to delete

[@-luna-moon-]

KEEEP DONT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE I DID it fucks up the sdk, idk if you already did it but hopefully anyone coming by this comment reads mine

[@ToastieTheBread]

How come I cannot see the avatar descriptor in the unity thing when I try to add a new one? I cannot figure out a fix and would like some help on here or discord.

[@builderbuddy6126]

heres a question how do convert, WITHOUT going to blender?

[@samuelkelm6812]

3:48 Im having issues here, in your other video when i saved to the Atlas you mention how it looks there wont be how it looks in Unity, but when i make the textures folder it looks exactly how it did after saving everything to the atlas, to describe it to you the entire model stays gray but only the jacket the model has gets color and texture

[@VirtualPandaVR]

I believe there's a fix for this in the pinned comment of the last video. When I say it'll look better, you gotta look at the video to see what I mean. Obviously if in blender the entire model turns gray, something wrong happened.

[@medcos5366]

I found that using vrm add-on version 2.1.11 works. The newer version gives me the gray/white model as well. took me a whole day to troubleshoot this. Cheers!

[@kodyproductions308]

@@medcos5366 So how exactly do you get previous versions?

[@rapidey3movement360]

I'm stuck at that same step. I can't see an option to download an older add on build

[@bjornikd]

I installed the Vrchat SDK, but it doesnt show up at the top. What do I do?

[@VtuberCl1ps]

The extract textures button is Greyed out and I can’t push it

[@kyroncarl7437]

The avatar I have is a VRM file and when I impost it to unity it isnt uploading into the workspace

[@likeok3009]

help my avi came out green i think its because of a step in the last video where it was told that if the avatar looks weird it would fix - it turned green there and now it is on unity bruh

[@kazu_6969]

I am new to this, I am hsving serval problems with SDK on my model like heave too many animations or what not, I know nothing sbout unity yet. I cant even test my model, man this is so hard for beginners

[@RileyGorFreeman]

i like your avatar

[@Blissid_Kun]

When I drag the VRChat SDK and click all only a few get a check mark how do I make all of them turn on?

[@yukima920]

I tried your method of making a crossplatform avatar but for some reason It doesn’t work, is there a step I am missing?

[@maxinemaxie_]

Strange thing is that the vrchat sdk menu in the top only has "Reload sdk" as an option. I am absolutely stumped on why the vrchat sdk menus and everything are completely different. Please help me!

[@shadowfox5595]

thank you

[@noodlesdoodles5935]

i followed all the steps to the T. but for some reason ive found some differences with my sdk, and when i try to open up the vrc sdk console the drop down menu only shows the option to reload sdk. no matter how many times i click reload nothing changes. ive also checked if the unity console shows any errors and it doesnt so i really dont know whats up but i cant upoad avatars because of this issue

[@maxinemaxie_]

I have the same problem, does anyone know how to fix this?

[@mariastra563]

for me there isnt an sdk folder

[@aidendoull]

Extract Textures is still greyed out even after i double checked i had changed the Path Mode to copy, which i did. i have no clue what to do. please help!

[@illumi747]

Im having a problem where when I combine all the materials(i think) into an atlas it makes the avatar go all black and wont work in unity

[@HowJunior]

im confused, so you hit the hub twice yet mine takes me to the one i downloaded and thats is? because ive been at this for a good 7 hours and i keep getting error after error.

[@dzvxvxngeance9206]

no matter what i do my textures and materials wont be the same when i take the fbx file into unity