VRChat Avatar 3.0 Tutorial - Color Change (Radial Puppet)

This video is pretty outdated. Please only use it if you're already familiar with Unity or making avatars with SDK3. I will eventually have a video out that is much more beginner friendly.
This video goes over how to make a color changing slider with the radial puppet menu in Avatar 3.0! This will also work for things other than changing color, like with blendshapes. You know exactly what I'm thinking of.
Poiyomi Toon Shader: github.com/poiyomi/PoiyomiToo...
Music used: • Michael Wyckoff - Zomb...

[@mcgeeb2885]

There must be a missing step because both my friend and I both tried this and the wheel does nothing in game. Edit : Found my solution. It was the Poiyomi shader locking the material before the upload. I guess you need to right click on the material properties you want and a clock icon will show up and then it will be able to animate in world with the radial toggle. This way the material is still locking except the part you want to be able to animate.

[@MetaPlay23]

Thank you so much I was going crazy because of this! Even though its says what to do I didn't understand you have to optimize the shader after you right clicked on the slider. I thought it needed to be right clicked while you animate lol

[@TheWackiestDemon]

I'm so confused how do you stop it from locking?

[@mcgeeb2885]

@@TheWackiestDemon Right click material properties you wish to animate, a clock will appear beside the property signifying that it can be animated. For this case, it's the Hue Shift.

[@TheWackiestDemon]

@@mcgeeb2885 I'm really sorry where do you find material properties?

[@mcgeeb2885]

@@TheWackiestDemon Can you send me a message on Discord Stormchaserguy#9882?

[@P4tr0ll]

Your tutorials are a blessing. There's a bunch of other VRC tutorials but all of them take 10 or more minutes to explain way simpler topics VS your 1-2 minutes of straight to the point videos

[@Thoreaufare]

I appreciate the brevity and clarity of this tutorial. Thanks.

[@D2Davis]

Amazing tutorial, works like a charm. I substituted the hue slider with shapekeys so I can give my avatar horns of various sizes and it functions as it should. Thank you for not beating around the bush.

[@OfficalRowen]

Dude, I love your tutorials so much. They're so short and just straight up give all the information I need in just a minute or two, thank you so much

[@Nicknero]

Thanks for this quick and easy tutorial. I always wondered how to apply analog variables to your avatars for all kinds of purposes. But apparently the blendtree thingy is the answer. Helped a ton!

[@teadrinkingturret2088]

Thank you for your tutorials, they are so straight forward I could not get my head around 3.0 and these are helping immensely.

[@Eboness]

i love your tutorials, they always help me get what i need done much quicker than other videos

[@Cazra-VaporwaveWitch]

These videos are short, clear, and to the point. They've really helped me out a lot with understanding some of the more advanced topics of 3.0 avatars! Thanks!

[@tonk8183]

Still works like a champ to this day. Thank you for this.

[@SoulRetriever]

These videos are great, simple and to the point, keep up the great work :)

[@akimbodice6955]

Straight to the point, no pointless exposition, as how all things should be!

[@antfr1993]

For Poiyomi 7, you need to right click hueshift in spector before you lock the shader otherwise the radial puppet slider won't change color in game

[@HiritoSan]

wdym right click, when making the animation for it?

[@waberoid]

Quick, informational, and right to the point.

[@BagelDaze]

Very grateful for your videos, I hope you continue to make more

[@bonedaddy421]

dude your tutorials are the best very easy to follow simple and straight to the point thank you so much

[@poiyomi]

Great video

[@urzapolariz]

This is much, much easier to do these days with just one animation and use of the Motion Time option with Parameter toggled on (in the animator panel), then just choose the parameter you're going to be changing. Then in your single animation (animation panel), you just need two keyframes - one with the min value, and one with the max value - done.

[@unarei]

or another way: instead of 1d, use set blend type to "direct". have one animation that sets it to the max value, and have the default on the avatar be the min value. add a motion field and drag in your animation clip and set the parameter. you can even set multiple things at once from different parameters with just one layer and one blendtree.

[@JusFoNo]

Recognised the Boneworks soundtrack, incredible tutorial ^^

[@rohartmartin8329]

Your tutorials are perfects ! Fast, clear and simple ! But if maybe you can make a tutorial for how to change appearance that would be great ! (basically imagine you have multiple armor on your Avatar but you want to change the look without changing the avatar itself but just use the 3.0 option)

[@coneyfloralis]

awesome Tutorial

[@FakeItToPlease]

That single frame of Hugh though

[@mr.infernal1380]

I am actually impressed that you made this tutorial that short but, thats not what I've been looking for. Could you show how to make RGB lights?

[@BornatoBTW]

Important detail you missed to talk about: Inside the Blend Tree, there is a field called "Parameter". You gotta set that to your "Hue" parameter, otherwise it will NOT work. Also, the trick might prove itself difficult with Poiyomi version 7 or higher, as now you need to keep it "unlocked", as Stormchaserguy74 stated: "I guess you need to right click on the material properties you want and a clock icon will show up and then it will be able to animate in world with the radial toggle". This might change with upcoming versions of the shader, though

[@Seulji]

are you saying something different to what he just said here? 0:47 "Make sure the parameter here is set as the float parameter you made" aka the Hue parameter he made... You had me thinking he missed something but he didn't lol And yes you simply need to right click the name of the thing you want to animate in Poiyomi's version 7 shader. With Hue Shift as an example, right click on the word Hue Shift, or on either side of it.

[@BornatoBTW]

@Seulji I didn't even notice he was talking about that parameter. Explaining this to somebody who's still learning 3.0 by just saying what you gotta do can be very confusing and can get a lot of people confused/frustrated quickly. I didn't notice he mentioned it, as I myself had trouble setting this up when I was learning, so I guessed it'd be useful to make it clearer

[@Seulji]

@@BornatoBTW Yeah I understand how it can be easily missable, at least you pointed it out just in case anyone else misses it too

[@rockittt]

Nothing happens when I right click on the property it just acts as another left click to me.

[@Seulji]

@@rockittt Hmm... Are you clicking next to it, on the left?

[@ImpactVirtualReality]

This was great but setting the animation key frame for the hue is ambiguous. I cant seem to bind the hue value to the animation and was hoping for a quick second to expand on that.

[@MidinVal]

Gotta love Boneworks music man, good for almost everything lol

[@livb4139]

Could you make a tutorial on how to overwrite the default vrchat ik animations pretty please? I very much prefer how the old crouching animation behaves in vr than this new one 3.0 comes with and I also had a laying down animation in 2.0 of which I have no idea how to put in 3.0

[@ramonbullock6630]

Hey! Like this edit :)

[@SuperRederic]

Hey great vid but was wondering if you make a tutorial for how to make a toggle so you can have several sets of different gestures

[@Cipher00007]

" I will eventually have a video out that is much more beginner friendly." So uhh hows that going?? XD Great vid btw, straight to the point just how it should be.

[@IQDESTRUCTOR]

Trying to figure this out with detail texture tint for a masked effect on poiyomi instead of hueshift, but the keyframes are grabbing up the RGBA values instead of the HSV values and making the blend tree have nothing to do so idk what to do now

[@SirWaffly]

Thanks!

[@ayaya3182]

Thank you so much~!!!🤍🤍🤍🤍

[@darkpurplec04a91]

haha 0:31 a guy when says "hue"

[@M33tmYLoAF]

it's nice to see someone make a tutorial that tells you exactly what you need to know and isn't fucking 20-30 minutes long

[@heyitsenso]

"I'll name mine hue" I saw that lol

[@TheElemynt]

I'm not nearly familiar with Unity enough to follow this video and do the things you say to do x.x

[@DCN2049]

How would one set about and do this for Quest shaders?

[@MrSuperkiller3d]

Hey could you make a tutorial for the RGB colors ? So basically the animation continuously changes colors like a RGB keyboard but I have no idea if the parameters need to be floats or ints or bools

[@M33tmYLoAF]

can you make a tutorial for the AFK function?

[@antfr1993]

So how do you do these for clothes? I seen one of WetHub discord avatars with radial menu but for clothes; like changing through like 4 outfits avatars outfit with the radial menu. Same thing for hair, they used the radial menu to decrease length of hair

[@9393andersson]

witch skinned mesh renderer should I use in the animaton?

[@Makanoyasha]

bro, you created this tutorial for people that already know this, bet people fell off at 20 seconds in.

[@SlayerHankgaming]

im trying my hand at radial audio for the radial puppet do you plan on making a tutorial for that?

[@carafurry7862]

Hi, I'm not shure if your still doing tutorials, but is there any chance I could make a menu that alows me to switch a caricatures amount of legs, like having separate models that one could switch to without having to put it into the avatar select menu, I also kinda wanted to have an animation of it sorta jumping up and separateing the legs, or arms... Kinda like in hasbin hotel when angel dust pulls out his 3 set of arms 😊

[@SlimeRancher2000]

Is there a way to make the radial puppet color change control multiple models at once? Such as both the avatar AND a held object?

[@lisehg5918]

could I use this method to stetch bones? I want to make it so I can enlongate my avatar's hair and shorten it on the ¨slider thing¨

[@quwane]

legacy animationclip not supported in blend tree" - when trying to insert these 2 animations into blend tree

[@AkuKami]

0.31 I see you ;) good vid btw

[@jenluvsgames1999]

Can you essentially pull of the same thing but with a body piece that moves?

[@Wrenchy247]

What if you wanted to BlendShapes with a radial puppet? Is there a tutorial on that?

[@Happysealdog]

curious can you use this exact system for making Emissions on a avatar?

[@OutOfNameIdeas2]

is there a way to have one part of the shift be white or black?

[@yaradotexe]

ok and how do I know which material skinned mesh renderer to pick to do that with? how do I make the animation? What do I do?

[@kenzie2191]

I'm trying to use this method for body slider shapekeys, do you know if it's possible to set it so it's at 0% on spawn by default? Currently going from 100 to 0 increases muscle/fat/etc, but that's kind of counterintuitive. I can't think of a way to fix this though, honestly.

[@MajorNash-SC]

I was able to get 1 radial to work, but I tried adding a second one for a separate piece of clothing, but it won't work at all. I've checked everything and can't figure out why, any suggestions?

[@YumeSoraAkii]

Followed everything step by step but when I go to add control it’s locked I can’t add anything it’s greyed out am I doing something wrong?

[@demonicbear3442]

I know it’s not the efficient place for my question, but is it possible to add more than just the hue slider? As in adding value slider as well

[@jjbionicle]

Are there any quest compatible shaders that have a hue slider?

[@antfr1993]

Hey anyone else having trouble with poiyomi 7? With poiyomi 6 it works but for some reason poiyomi 7 is not working. Also using lastest sdk and hair change worked fine with poiyomi 6 but dont know why poiyomi 7 doesn't work. Okay I figured it out. With the new locking feature for Poiyomi 7 that optimizes things upon upload, you need to right click hueshift so that an animation clock shows allowing animations. Apparently locking will disable animations

[@Enyaron]

Can't seem to get the Parameter Rotation to show the Hue one I made. Not sure what I'm doing wrong either as I've followed this too the letter. =/

[@weswesotrashed3754]

My skin mesh renderer doesn't have a + next to it help please.

[@codedwarriors4806]

Not Sure what is wrong but when i try to hue shift a material, nothing happens, ive tried ones with and without textures, using the V6 poi

[@fizzdrop9740]

it seems to not work for me and when i get into the game the model is constantly changing colours in a cycle and the toggle wont work?

[@Modshade666]

I followed your instructions to the letter and the avatar I added the radial puppet menu to didn't change colors. RIP

[@5olace]

the hue changes my whole body mesh as a whole, and not just the hair which is wut i wanted to add the hue change to

[@evaversteeg6409]

either seperate the meshes in blender or use a version of poiyomi where you can check and uncheck the hueshift slider for each material

[@antfr1993]

Does anyone know how to do color change with two different avatar features without the enabled hue shift affecting another radial slider? For example, like having a radial puppet slider for eye color change and one for hair color change. I attempted to try this but enabling hueshift for both results in both meshes changing color at the same time. I want one the hair the change without affecting he eye color and vice versa. I see its possible with having one radial puppet slider with hueshift and the other slider with emissions but thats not what I want. Anybody have any clue on how to do this or have a work around?

[@WulfgangGott]

ever find a solution?! @sippbox do you know?

[@foxplayz3117]

Create a seperate Hue Shift Paramater that is only tied to animation0 and animation1 that only has the specific material render meshes you want selected

[@dasveit]

Please upload an updated tutorial tat does not use blendtree :)

[@tuxedo123]

I have the issue of when I make the parameter like in the step: 0.34 secs into the video. I choose float,, but it somehow changes it automaticly to INT -- and I cant figure out why

[@bigboibill1209]

When you put the parameter into the ExpressionParameters you need to set it as a Float parameter in there.

[@Lupain]

Any way to use that for Quest Models? I saw one Model with Bodymass change and Color changing options. I'm just curious how this guy make that with Quest Shaders.

[@dolbysukie]

I wanna know too

[@ChatDuChaos]

You forgot to talk about set "hue" in the parameter of blend tree ;)

[@galaxial4826]

+1

[@Seulji]

0:47

[@_end3rguy_]

how would i do this to a matcap?

[@porterdavidson5421]

NOTE FOR THOSE HAVEING ISHUES make sure you have the first letter capitalized for your parameter, i dont get it, but it doesnt work if its not

[@Stealth-unit]

any idea why my Radial Puppet Starts at 50% rather it being at 0%?

[@TheMightyGui]

I dont know whats wrong but i tried putting 2 sliders but they keep freaking out and changing colors rapidly without me doing anything

[@KindGecko]

Is this an outdated tutorial? I have followed each step properly but each time i try to mess with the radial menu it closes each time i try to rotate it to any percentage

[@ding5048]

i dont know why but i cant do a ani with a material or i dont know how to do that

[@badias90]

ok idk why but it doesnt record when I have change the hue colour on recording anyone who have resolve that issue?

[@zerosaber2242]

This only covers PC avatars. What about the Quest side?

[@naughtykid000]

how would i do this with liltoon?

[@digitalamethystofficial]

[@dawgwitdacrown]

thx, much love

[@bhoffman1967]

For Quest-only avatars, this won't work as VRChat doesn't support Poiyomi. Is there an alternative?

[@wolfythewolf6512]

Does it also works for the quest

[@willowreal]

is there a quest supported shader that has this capability? I've seen quest avatars with this hue slider built in but idk what shader it is

[@Axel230]

Looking for this myself I've seen some avatars on Quest with that option so it's definitely possible, but I'm starting to think they may have used a modified SDK for that

[@willowreal]

@@Axel230 ahhh i see, interesting Way out of my depth lol

[@jll2154]

how do you set the default state of the radial if you maybe want a certain color?

[@porterdavidson5421]

i.imgur.com/I5F25yE.png

[@alexis_7088]

Can you do a more detail video on how to do this? im a bit new on Unity and would like to know how to do this in a more detail way

[@Brewnette]

Poiyomi locks the material right now and it's stopping me from being able to change the hue in an animation after I've uploaded it, any advice?

[@lingling1411]

on the top there should be something like "unlock shader"

[@mcgeeb2885]

@@lingling1411 If you haven't gotten it already, right click on the material properties in the shader you wish to animate in world and then a clock icon will appear beside the property signifying that it can be animated. Everything else then will be locked when uploaded except that. In this case, it would be the Hue Shift.

[@MARWHAL]

im so confused at what u did at 0:23 where it looks like u duplicated something ???

[@lovdrop]

I made my own... what FX layer? 🥲don't know how to make one of those.. hnggg.. and how do I even open the animation timeline wahh.. very quick tut but assumes I already know things rip

[@Coach__Gaming]

im having a problem with the shades, when i put them on my materials the turn bright pink. is there any way to fix this?

[@porterdavidson5421]

make sure the materials have the correct texture set under "main texture"

[@GreenSoup2HoT]

2022: 1D drop down doesnt exist. double click the blend tree to open it.

[@aliceshirakiin7768]

I use poiyomi pro and when I make an animation with hue shift, it changes the hue on all materials instead of just the one I selected... what am I doing wrong?

[@tyler88882]

I need help with this too

[@aliceshirakiin7768]

@@tyler88882 So I watched some other videos and they said that unity can't animate just one material. You need to use a shader that doesn't use hue shift or has a different name/key for it.

[@maxiiminimum]

@@aliceshirakiin7768 or you could separate the meshes! its not ideal for optimization but it works if you just separate everything you want the hue changed of to one mesh and everything you do not want changed to another mesh

[@drkreuzer670]

Does this also work with dynamic bones?

[@porterdavidson5421]

in what way? the bones move the mesh, this works with shaders, wich color the mesh... if there compatable with eacother- then yes lol

[@Charlie59876]

how do i access the animation window you used?

[@porterdavidson5421]

i.imgur.com/SZggqdb.png

[@photontheblueflash7658]

I'm having an issue where the Thry Editor is clashing with the SDK. How to fix?

[@Sabbylea]

get rid of it

[@octo4676]

yeah so he forgot to mention that you should add an empty transitioning to the blend tree, make sure the empty has set defaults off

[@threexdimes]

What are the conditions on the transition from idle to blendtree states?

[@northbearNL]

For some reason recording an animation doesn't work with poiyomi, anyone maybe know why?

[@northbearNL]

nvm unity was being stupid, I could just do it manually.

[@fantayent1958]

I've done this numerous times with success but sometimes the radial wheel will cause the colors to auto cycle quickly. Do you know why?

[@fantayent1958]

I figured out what it was. It was one of the animations had a third set of "dots" at the end that caused the colors to cycle.

[@fxvei]

Followed the entire tutorial step by step and it doesnt work. it cuts off at 50% and when I click it doesnt even go to anything other than 0%