FIXES AND UPDATES: Just use the correct version of Blender and everything should work. I was on v2.93 To everyone having issues with the textures turning into one color (one texture) when create a material atlas (in Blender), try using the same version of the VRM Add On that I use in this video (2.1.11). OR before doing the atlas you can unpack the files by going to File > External Data > Unpack all files (Thanks tucker in the comments for finding this). If you're having issues (like with eye tracking), then before hitting Fix Model, click the wrench and disable "Keep Upper Chest." Then continue to edit the model as usual (not sure if this breaks something later on, but someone said it worked for them). If you're having issues installing the material combiner plugin, make sure you downloaded the correct files. On the download page it explicitly says to download NOT from the assets section, but from a link in the CHANGES description. For a lot of issues, make sure you're on the right version of blender and start over with a brand new project. Make sure you're following the tutorial EXACTLY. Sometimes bugs just happen and you need to go back a few steps and make sure you didn't do anything wrong. For more help, join my Discord: discord.gg/zNGW6pMPZb
For anyone having trouble with getting the eye tracking to work because neck is not connected to chest.... Turn off upper chest in the fix model options first. Thanks for the wonderful tutorials. I'm finally getting somewhere. Cheers. Doh should have expanded the fixes. Your a star Sorry
Fixed a problem. If your avatar imports into Blender fully colored and when you click "Fix Avatar", the eyes turn white, just do the wrench and uncheck "Combine Same Materials". This should fix that problem (and hopefully not cause others). Also make sure you're using BELOW version 2.16 of VRM cuz 2.16+ is not compatible with the material combiner and causes all sorts of issues with atlasing.
@@kachow08ify No idea as that ended up working for me. Sorry. Though oddly enough, with another VRoid model, I didn't have this problem. Not sure what the difference was. Best of luck getting it to work!
Thank you for making an in depth tutorial that doesn’t just settle for problems and uploads. I’m genuinely trying to learn these things and this is actually helpful.
can’t wait for part 3. my friend has been trying to make a vroid avatar for vrc. but no matter how many videos we’ve watched nothing has worked or things have been wrong. your videos seem a lot more extensive and explanatory though so i’m hoping this’ll be the one to get it to work. ;;
I can't wait for the next part. I spent a stupid amount of time toying with the thing in VRoid. Then, with blender here, I was able to fix sooo much I didn't like. Like, I gave myself the duck-footed stance I have in real life hahaha.
Try going onto editor and click the neck bone, then click the bone image on the right of your screen and it should say neck, and you should see a thing called relations, your gonna wanna click on that, and if it says the bone is parented to upper chest, your gonna need to change that to chest. Hopefully this wasn't too confusing and helped lol
Also if you need to reduce more polygons you can remove some of the skin under the hoodie and pants by deleting the vertices. You would not need it anyways on a quest avatar
I have some problemes with the VRM plugin it doesnt show me anything on blender ( I found out that working with unity is easier so idk it works for me better)
hello if anybody is having problem witch merging all textures together you need to downgrade your VRM to version 2.15.26 and downland material combiner addon dev build and remember save Vroid avatar to 0.0 not 1.0
3:53 for anyone else who got the following error: Eye tracking will not work unless the bone hierarchy is exactly as following: Hips > Spine > Chest > Neck > Head Furthermore the mesh containing the eyes has to be called "Body" and the armature "Armature". If you were also unable to solve by repeatedly clicking, I was able to fix it by creating the Neck's parent bone to the chest. For some reason it was set to upper chest.
You need to go into Edit mode on blender which can be found at the top left, you're usually defaulted to Object mode, go to click on each bone to find the Upper chest and delete that one. It will automatically set the chest to the parent of everything else and ya should be good to go. Can't explain too well but hope this helps everyone c:
Issue that I ran into that I was able to figure out: When you go to Atlas, it may say "Install Pillow". Go ahead and install, then restart blender. If it still just shows "Install Pillow", just hit that again, restart again, and the option to generate materials should be there!
I said I can’t wait for part 3 in an earlier comment but bc I was really excited for it. Work is work, p3 will be ready when it’s ready. No pressure ❤️
I am having trouble getting the "Add-Ons" added to my Blender, I keep getting an ERROR for the cats plugin and the other two wont add on or at least I cant find them to check them off. A little help please?
Try downloading the other files from the githubs, i had the same problem so i downloaded every file i could from each page, ran blender as administrator then tried every single one, eventually one of each worked, hope this helps…
holy moly good stuff mang. cant wait for 3! like really cant wait.... all these free avatars in the worlds either dont vibe with me, have ridiculous tails, or the thumb on the hand is cursed af.
same here. If I atlas any of the skin materials they all turn white, If I atlas my hoodie with anything else, everything takes on the texture of the hoodie. Been trying for like an hour and I can't figure this out.
Hey y'all! If you have already changed to an older version of VRM and the Material Combiner still isn't working, try using a slightly older version of the material combiner. That fixed my issues!
I hit a bit of a road block, whenever I tried save atlast the entire model and textures just break and disappear, I even downloaded VRM 2.1.11 but it does the same thing. Do I gotta restart the entire thing? Edit: Had to restart the blender process, it works fine now
im a bit stuck with the same issue only I think I now have the correct atlas combiner, but now it wont even let me use the activate the correct add on. :( So when you say restart do you mean completely reinstalling everything or going back to step one of importing the vrm file for the avatar?
@@2xenos1 I just simply deleted all my progress after installing the correct VRM version, closed out of blender and reopened it, and did everything again from importing the vroid model to exporting it after I was finish with the blender process, I'd probably double check the addons just in case if they were uninstalled or were unchecked
@@Bylethisop Thank you very much for the reply, I ended up finding this solution by just accepting thats prolly what you did and so must I... so I did, was my fifth restart so I wasn't trying to do all that again but nonetheless now my avatar is published! thanks again:)
Guys to anyone whos following this tutorial; The Github download for the material addon has a different download link, just make sure to read the creators note above the versions. There the link will direct you to the new version
"To everyone having issues with the textures turning into one color (one texture) when create a material atlas (in Blender), try using the same version of the VRM Add On that I use in this video (2.1.11). OR before doing the atlas you can unpack the files by going to File > External Data > Unpack all files (Thanks tucker in the comments for finding this)."
1:41 I've downloaded Blender 2.93.8-windows-x64 and updated versions of each add-ons. Everytime i go to install the zip file into blender nothing happens. I even looked up their names in the blenders search bar and did not find my add-on. Because of this i can not import my vroid model.
17:35 this does not work for me. I already tried the VRM + Materual Combiner Addon posted here and different versions but "save Atlas to..." does not work. It just removes all and applies the hair texture to the whole body. No window opening to select a save folder.
I still have to test this but when looking it up, it appears that there's one optimization fix that brings the polygons down MASSIVELY. Select your body armerture, go to edit mode, click and drag to select all of your model then in the "Face" menu, click "Tris to Quads"
For anyone on quest or anything at that trying to keep the model looking good but the decimation process is too tedious, to get consistent results, use smart decimation and set it to 14000.
I'm only having one problem and I'm confused if I'm the only one but The addon "Shotariya's Material Combiner" won't let me check the box, it keeps saying "Traceback (most recent call last)" and "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named "material-combiner-addon-2" Is there any way to fix this?
Several issues; Fix model does not load the textures properly, atlas compiles the material into one but has the model white in Unity, re did everything and still nothing, even though I'm back tracking to fix it.
Hey Panda amazing tutorial as always! Personally i am fairly exsperianced with blender and have many hours in photoshop so am naturally quite pacient and ellimante and test problems until somthing works. However I only have just now stupidly seen that you should use the older VRM Addon and it has vixed my issues, I think this may be the main cause for most negative comments. Please could you pin a seprate comment to futher emphasise this point! Stay Safe! - Garron
great video! although for me the mirror mode doesn't work, and the material combiner keeps generating problems, basicly it does all the textures wrong within the atlas
I tried that materials thing with the atlas btw and it just straight up broke my avatar. I believed you when you said it would look normal in unity, it didn't... I had to come back here and re-blend my avatar from scratch, luckily I had only made a few minor changes in blender in the first place.
@@karma3574 First I made my avatar with 11 materials as I thought I had no choice, but then when I realized my avatar was definitely a bit too tall (probably over 7 foot) I decided to go back through the process right after I finished choosing my avatar's appearance in VRoid. I noticed you could change the materials right there in the export menu, and instantly tried going to 2, I was amazed when it worked just fine. Definitely was tedious having to remember literally everything you said to do in this and the next episode, and I did have an unexpected problem I managed to fix before making a test build and calling it quits for the day when it was practically perfect.
When I combined materials my avatar looked gray and plaid with no color. Then when I moved into Unity, I was unable to extract textures. Any ideas how to fix this, I’ve been stuck at that spot for hours?
I have a problem, when i do the quest optimization of Altas Materials it say that i need to download the material combiner because it isn't installed, how can i solve it? Anyways good video! I also can't enable the material combiner add-ons
Hello thanks for all your videos, I have an issue with atlas telling me mettalic roughness is missing in material combiner I dont know what to do I'm checking every forum there is but no result
Why does my avatar not render right when I try to combine the textures? Fixed! If you have that problem too then maybe try going to blender>file>External data>unpack all into files, and then pick the top one.
"To everyone having issues with the textures turning into one color (one texture) when create a material atlas (in Blender), try using the same version of the VRM Add On that I use in this video (2.1.11). OR before doing the atlas you can unpack the files by going to File > External Data > Unpack all files (Thanks tucker in the comments for finding this)."
Hi I was starting the atlas part but I had a problem it says python imaging required and I don’t know what it is (I use Mac) and I have a quest headset what do I do please help
i had this issue also and it was because i had installed blender from the windows store. once i used the installer directly from the blender website all i had to do was click install the Pillow button. might be the same if you installed blender from steam
hey i watched your first part but i’m having an issue i pressed fix model yet it didn’t fix my model it just kinda broke it like random colors some missing textures etc any idea how to fix it? :(
Yeah I had the same problem Im pretty sure, try turning off the delete transparent meshes in vroid studios, yeah it does add more polygons to your avatar but it will probably fix the problem^^
@@evievrc thank you! but also when i converted my avatar to vrc the transparent parts showed up as black spots or areas on my avatar, do you know how to get rid of transparent areas in blender?..
@@onlyguy2 Sorry for the late reply, but yeah You can open the textures in paint 3d and retexture some areas and re apply the changes to your avatar, that should fix the transparency and black spots. So basically just color over the texture where you see the black spots appearing
My experience with this tutorial: At the fix model section I had to disable combine smae materials sin the settings just right to it so my eyes didnt disappear. And at the atles section I had to install something that disabled the plugins installed before, that confused me for a minute there.
What if I want to decimate the face of my model; will it still be able to have face expressions/animations? All this reducing polygons section made me realize I can actually make a low polygon version of my model by myself to give it the PS1 dimension feel.
![VRoid to VRChat [Advanced Tutorial] All Blender Fixes & More!](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Qbwl9XIONuQ/mqdefault.jpg)
FIXES AND UPDATES:
Just use the correct version of Blender and everything should work. I was on v2.93
To everyone having issues with the textures turning into one color (one texture) when create a material atlas (in Blender), try using the same version of the VRM Add On that I use in this video (2.1.11). OR before doing the atlas you can unpack the files by going to File > External Data > Unpack all files (Thanks tucker in the comments for finding this).
If you're having issues (like with eye tracking), then before hitting Fix Model, click the wrench and disable "Keep Upper Chest." Then continue to edit the model as usual (not sure if this breaks something later on, but someone said it worked for them).
If you're having issues installing the material combiner plugin, make sure you downloaded the correct files. On the download page it explicitly says to download NOT from the assets section, but from a link in the CHANGES description.
For a lot of issues, make sure you're on the right version of blender and start over with a brand new project. Make sure you're following the tutorial EXACTLY. Sometimes bugs just happen and you need to go back a few steps and make sure you didn't do anything wrong.
For more help, join my Discord: discord.gg/zNGW6pMPZb
So uh, it’s been more than a week. We’re all waiting lol. No pressure.
@@h4rdcore00 I know. I'm getting slammed at work. Hopefully by the end of the week I'll have it out. Sorry!
@@VirtualPandaVR its ok do it when you got time or want to
@@VirtualPandaVR All good man. Take your time.
before you click fix model, click the wrench and unselect "keep upper chest." should work after that! thanks @The Plague Dude
For anyone having trouble with getting the eye tracking to work because neck is not connected to chest.... Turn off upper chest in the fix model options first. Thanks for the wonderful tutorials. I'm finally getting somewhere. Cheers. Doh should have expanded the fixes. Your a star Sorry
i did that, but it didn't work and it still gives me the error, :(
@@orionsantana7520 try pressing fix model again after. If that doesn't work then idk.
Your a life saver man!!!
Thanks man!
You do not want to know how long I've been trying to figure out an answer to this exact problem, thank you so much
Fixed a problem. If your avatar imports into Blender fully colored and when you click "Fix Avatar", the eyes turn white, just do the wrench and uncheck "Combine Same Materials". This should fix that problem (and hopefully not cause others). Also make sure you're using BELOW version 2.16 of VRM cuz 2.16+ is not compatible with the material combiner and causes all sorts of issues with atlasing.
THANK YOU!
So any ideas on what to do if it doesn't fix it? if you don't know it's alright i'll figure something out
@@P4P0W Glad I could help with that :3
@@kachow08ify No idea as that ended up working for me. Sorry. Though oddly enough, with another VRoid model, I didn't have this problem. Not sure what the difference was. Best of luck getting it to work!
@ModestNeko no problem! I ended up fixing it after checking the discord but thanks anyway!
As of now, dynamic bones work on quest, so you don't have to delete them anymore.
Thanks
I don't know why but I don't think it's working for me maybe I'm doing something wrong? And I would like some help
@@user-fv4wt2pl2u You could have too many
Thank you for making an in depth tutorial that doesn’t just settle for problems and uploads. I’m genuinely trying to learn these things and this is actually helpful.
I can’t wait for part 3!! I never thought it was possible for me to make my own avi and I just finished editing on blender thanks to you!
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can’t wait for part 3. my friend has been trying to make a vroid avatar for vrc. but no matter how many videos we’ve watched nothing has worked or things have been wrong. your videos seem a lot more extensive and explanatory though so i’m hoping this’ll be the one to get it to work. ;;
ruclips.net/video/VAsZWelNo08/видео.html
Awesome tutorial! I always found Blender to be a bit confusing, thanks for the simple explanation 😊
I can't wait for the next part.
I spent a stupid amount of time toying with the thing in VRoid.
Then, with blender here, I was able to fix sooo much I didn't like.
Like, I gave myself the duck-footed stance I have in real life hahaha.
ruclips.net/video/VAsZWelNo08/видео.html
Awe, I haven’t been seeing you in my feed. Not till I searched “VRChat avatars” 🥺❤️
I haven't posted much, just moved across country. But lots of good stuff in the works now!
Awe!! Happy homecoming ^^ 😌
yo my eye tracking thing says neck and chest bone arent connected how do i fix that
Try going onto editor and click the neck bone, then click the bone image on the right of your screen and it should say neck, and you should see a thing called relations, your gonna wanna click on that, and if it says the bone is parented to upper chest, your gonna need to change that to chest. Hopefully this wasn't too confusing and helped lol
Thank you so much for doing this!! Ive been waiting for an updated way to do this for months haha 😂😭 ur the best man tysmmmmm againnnn aaaaa
Dude. I need the 3rd part out like now LOL. Also this has been the easier videos to follow. My ADHD thanks you.
Mine too
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Appreciate the updated tutorial, I came back to vrchat and really wanted to update my vroid model, and spent so much time being so clueless
Anyone having issues with atlasing textures? Try unpacking your .blender file!
File > External Data > Unpack All Into Files
goat
thanks man that really helped me out ive been trying to figure this out all damn day ]
thank you so much, I was stuck on this
Thanks very much appreciated
Also if you need to reduce more polygons you can remove some of the skin under the hoodie and pants by deleting the vertices. You would not need it anyways on a quest avatar
when i put save atlas to it messes up my textures dose anyone know how to fix it ive been here for an hour tryinng to figure it out
When I load the VRoid Model into Blender the texture is fine but when I fix the avatar it ruins the texture?
did you find a solution? currently going through this problem
@@firulaisybonnie I don't think I did, I might of tried saving as a new file type or rexporting or something? I don't remember anymore, sorry.
Ayeee i've been waiting for this letsgoo!
how do u install add cats plugin in blender, i tried the source zip and the blender version but it didnt add into the add ons
I have some problemes with the VRM plugin it doesnt show me anything on blender ( I found out that working with unity is easier so idk it works for me better)
hello if anybody is having problem witch merging all textures together you need to downgrade your VRM to version 2.15.26 and downland material combiner addon dev build and remember save Vroid avatar to 0.0 not 1.0
Where do I get the material combiner addon dev build? In Blender it only lets me select the regular versions.
3:53 for anyone else who got the following error:
Eye tracking will not work unless the bone hierarchy is exactly as following: Hips > Spine > Chest > Neck > Head
Furthermore the mesh containing the eyes has to be called "Body" and the armature "Armature".
If you were also unable to solve by repeatedly clicking, I was able to fix it by creating the Neck's parent bone to the chest. For some reason it was set to upper chest.
idk how to do this I'm a 2D animator idk where anything in blender is
You need to go into Edit mode on blender which can be found at the top left, you're usually defaulted to Object mode, go to click on each bone to find the Upper chest and delete that one. It will automatically set the chest to the parent of everything else and ya should be good to go.
Can't explain too well but hope this helps everyone c:
@@GletscherMond Thank you
You have a greater sense of what a good and direct explanation is, Thank you very much
Issue that I ran into that I was able to figure out: When you go to Atlas, it may say "Install Pillow". Go ahead and install, then restart blender. If it still just shows "Install Pillow", just hit that again, restart again, and the option to generate materials should be there!
Part 2 was just as good as the first part! Thank you for the great tutorial man!
I said I can’t wait for part 3 in an earlier comment but bc I was really excited for it. Work is work, p3 will be ready when it’s ready. No pressure ❤️
ruclips.net/video/VAsZWelNo08/видео.html
Is the blender part mandatory? Because nothing is working on blender for me :(
hey panda! i have been waiting for this video!! love the videos
my avatar is fully pink exept the hair how do i fix that ?
I am having trouble getting the "Add-Ons" added to my Blender, I keep getting an ERROR for the cats plugin and the other two wont add on or at least I cant find them to check them off. A little help please?
Same Problem
This is the best tutorial I've managed to find so far, very thorough and step by step!! Thank you so much ^^
super excited for part 3, I'm having issues with uploading the avatar.
ruclips.net/video/VAsZWelNo08/видео.html
Another great video! You’re good at explaining how to do this. Thank you!
When I’m in blender and I try to install the addons it just says traceback module not found error
same
Same
You guys still have the same problem?
Try downloading the other files from the githubs, i had the same problem so i downloaded every file i could from each page, ran blender as administrator then tried every single one, eventually one of each worked, hope this helps…
Try downloading from the zip that have their name on eg: "cats-blender-plugin-zip" rather than "Source code zip"
when i do Atlas Materials and click select all then click save atlas to it makes two materials and makes my character look negative is that normal?
Honestly kinda hard to follow
It says I don't have the atlas thing downloaded
Can't quest have dynamic bones now?
I’ve watched a lot of tutorials and you by far made it the easiest for a beginner like me. You explained everything I didn’t understand
holy moly good stuff mang. cant wait for 3!
like really cant wait.... all these free avatars in the worlds either dont vibe with me, have ridiculous tails, or the thumb on the hand is cursed af.
Im getting an error message when I try the visemes it says, "python: traceback (most recent call last)" anyone know how to fix this?
When I press "save atlas to.." it doesnt let me actually save it anywhere, it just says "Duplicates were combined" at the bottom
same
Same, any fix?
When i atlased the materials, the textures went all wonky like the texture for the skirt was on the skin and hair and stuff. how do i fix this?
same here. If I atlas any of the skin materials they all turn white, If I atlas my hoodie with anything else, everything takes on the texture of the hoodie. Been trying for like an hour and I can't figure this out.
Try using version 2.1.11 of the VRM add on when importing the avatar. A recent update to the VRM addon seems to have broken it.
this whole video is a blessing
Damn. All these people got it and all of them are chillin while I cant even find my vroid file in my downloads 😭
thanks mate you gave a great tool to optimize my avatars
Hey y'all! If you have already changed to an older version of VRM and the Material Combiner still isn't working, try using a slightly older version of the material combiner. That fixed my issues!
Thank you so much!!! That fixed my issues!
I hit a bit of a road block, whenever I tried save atlast the entire model and textures just break and disappear, I even downloaded VRM 2.1.11 but it does the same thing. Do I gotta restart the entire thing?
Edit: Had to restart the blender process, it works fine now
how do you do that?
im a bit stuck with the same issue only I think I now have the correct atlas combiner, but now it wont even let me use the activate the correct add on. :( So when you say restart do you mean completely reinstalling everything or going back to step one of importing the vrm file for the avatar?
What did you do differently ?
@@2xenos1 I just simply deleted all my progress after installing the correct VRM version, closed out of blender and reopened it, and did everything again from importing the vroid model to exporting it after I was finish with the blender process, I'd probably double check the addons just in case if they were uninstalled or were unchecked
@@Bylethisop Thank you very much for the reply, I ended up finding this solution by just accepting thats prolly what you did and so must I... so I did, was my fifth restart so I wasn't trying to do all that again but nonetheless now my avatar is published! thanks again:)
thx youre helping me create my very first avatar!
when i try to enable the material combiner in the blender preferences it won't let me
this video is super helpful thanks for explaning well
Whenever I try to checkmark the Material Combiner, it says "ModuleNotFoundError". Am I doing something wrong?
(Edit: I figured it out!)
same here
Can you help idk what to do with that
how did u do it?
can you say how
@@exquelioxv241 On the github page don't download the zip file, but the other link above it.
when i imported the model all the textures were correct and it wasnt gray, is this normal/good?
Guys to anyone whos following this tutorial; The Github download for the material addon has a different download link, just make sure to read the creators note above the versions. There the link will direct you to the new version
for some reason when fixing the character the eyes become white and dont work
edit: fixed it by disabling "combine same materials" before fixing model
"To everyone having issues with the textures turning into one color (one texture) when create a material atlas (in Blender), try using the same version of the VRM Add On that I use in this video (2.1.11). OR before doing the atlas you can unpack the files by going to File > External Data > Unpack all files (Thanks tucker in the comments for finding this)."
When I combined all of the materials it turns into a blob of one colour have I done something wrong
Same happened to me. Suddenly my avatar was one big blob of a shoe texture :///
I combined the textures using atlas and tried manual but im still getting a error message that it has 11 materials when it should have 1
1:41
I've downloaded Blender 2.93.8-windows-x64 and updated versions of each add-ons. Everytime i go to install the zip file into blender nothing happens. I even looked up their names in the blenders search bar and did not find my add-on. Because of this i can not import my vroid model.
same problem here
same
Download his version I couldn’t see the rest of his versions but that helps out a lil
17:35 this does not work for me. I already tried the VRM + Materual Combiner Addon posted here and different versions but "save Atlas to..." does not work. It just removes all and applies the hair texture to the whole body. No window opening to select a save folder.
I still have to test this but when looking it up, it appears that there's one optimization fix that brings the polygons down MASSIVELY. Select your body armerture, go to edit mode, click and drag to select all of your model then in the "Face" menu, click "Tris to Quads"
great that physbones exist now
For anyone on quest or anything at that trying to keep the model looking good but the decimation process is too tedious, to get consistent results, use smart decimation and set it to 14000.
thank you i was stuck on that part
I'm only having one problem and I'm confused if I'm the only one but The addon "Shotariya's Material Combiner" won't let me check the box, it keeps saying "Traceback (most recent call last)" and "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named "material-combiner-addon-2" Is there any way to fix this?
This is happening to me too! Did you ever find a fix?
same problem
For some reason it's coming up textureless when I export it from blender
Like when you export to unity? you have to make an assets folder titled Textures and save and apply and your textures will appear^-^
Actually I'm try to use this this to make a Gmod ragdoll/player model
@@writer6659 ah okay
well yeah when you export your blender model it usually shows up with no textures Its kinda weird
Yes! Part 2!!
guys, I think u don't have to delete dynamic bones anymore.
Hey Panda, I cannot seem to install the add on files, any tips?
Several issues; Fix model does not load the textures properly, atlas compiles the material into one but has the model white in Unity, re did everything and still nothing, even though I'm back tracking to fix it.
hiya! this is currently my problem, did you figure it out?
@@breenofars3101 Separate by materials. I figured it out. Separate by material then fix model.
I'm Waiting For part 3 and get well soon
ALSO I CANT GET MY ATLAS TO WORK THEY WONT COMBINE
I have the same problem and i can’t find a solution 😭
Hey Panda amazing tutorial as always! Personally i am fairly exsperianced with blender and have many hours in photoshop so am naturally quite pacient and ellimante and test problems until somthing works. However I only have just now stupidly seen that you should use the older VRM Addon and it has vixed my issues, I think this may be the main cause for most negative comments. Please could you pin a seprate comment to futher emphasise this point! Stay Safe! - Garron
i cant for the life of me get it to work the combener just wont work
Was anyone experiencing an issue with Blender when exporting? I get a "Eyes not named 'Body'" error, and I'm not too sure how to fix it >.
Maybe next to the fix click the wrench
And deselect keep upper chest
this is amazing
great video! although for me the mirror mode doesn't work, and the material combiner keeps generating problems, basicly it does all the textures wrong within the atlas
Hey how did you fix the material combiner? I’m having a lot of problems with it because when I import it to unity I don’t have the right textures
Yeah I am having the same problems
@@pearlimagines1040 me too
@@ryangonzalez4646 my mirror dosnt work moving bones :( u fixed it?
when i export it to unity it says there are no textures to add to the model? i dont know what to do
i tried atlasing the close together and then everything else together but my avatar turns white.
I tried that materials thing with the atlas btw and it just straight up broke my avatar. I believed you when you said it would look normal in unity, it didn't... I had to come back here and re-blend my avatar from scratch, luckily I had only made a few minor changes in blender in the first place.
how did ypu fix it??
@@karma3574 First I made my avatar with 11 materials as I thought I had no choice, but then when I realized my avatar was definitely a bit too tall (probably over 7 foot) I decided to go back through the process right after I finished choosing my avatar's appearance in VRoid. I noticed you could change the materials right there in the export menu, and instantly tried going to 2, I was amazed when it worked just fine. Definitely was tedious having to remember literally everything you said to do in this and the next episode, and I did have an unexpected problem I managed to fix before making a test build and calling it quits for the day when it was practically perfect.
@@lonejohnwolf might have t omake a video on this i would appreciate that
@@dontaviousking9974 I wish, I can hardly remember anything I did with that whatsoever now.
When I combined materials my avatar looked gray and plaid with no color. Then when I moved into Unity, I was unable to extract textures. Any ideas how to fix this, I’ve been stuck at that spot for hours?
I have a problem, when i do the quest optimization of Altas Materials it say that i need to download the material combiner because it isn't installed, how can i solve it? Anyways good video!
I also can't enable the material combiner add-ons
HELP!!! when i click the fix model it makes my character really werid looking and i keep trying but it doesent work !!
Yeah, I have same problem. Do you fix it?
@@vellicarh5479 nope just gave up lmao
@@AbusingEgo I fix it for myself. I downloaded blender from steam and put version 2.93 in beta versions, after these actions there were no problems.
should i be deleting dynamic bones if im using this on quest after the avatar dynamics update?
Hello thanks for all your videos, I have an issue with atlas telling me mettalic roughness is missing in material combiner I dont know what to do I'm checking every forum there is but no result
Something keeps going wrong with the Atlas. It just turns everything into a flat color and destroys the textures.
Try using version 2.1.11 of the VRM add on when importing the avatar. A recent update to the VRM addon seems to have broken it.
@@VirtualPandaVR Yep worked like a charm. Now I just got to actually put in enough hours to VR chat to upload the bloody thing.
@@00Monkeyz VRCHAT plus gets you instant access to upload avatars and worlds no playtime needed
Hey panda it’s been 2 weeks when is part 3 getting posted?
Tomorrow or Saturday I promise
for some reason whenever I extract the textures it doesnt wanna put any textures any way to solve this?
If anyone gets an Attribute error when using atlas, Uninstalling Pillow 10.0.0 and installing 9.0.0 made it work for me.
Why does my avatar not render right when I try to combine the textures? Fixed!
If you have that problem too then maybe try going to blender>file>External data>unpack all into files, and then pick the top one.
OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! TRULY A LIFE SAVER!!!
That doesn't work for me. It says "No textures to extract." How do you fix this?
Thank you kind soul 🥲
THANK YOU SO MUCH !!!
@@CH3RN0BL3did you find a fix same issue here
I don't know if anyone else had this issue, but when I pushed the fix model button, my eyes went white and I couldn't find a solution.
"To everyone having issues with the textures turning into one color (one texture) when create a material atlas (in Blender), try using the same version of the VRM Add On that I use in this video (2.1.11). OR before doing the atlas you can unpack the files by going to File > External Data > Unpack all files (Thanks tucker in the comments for finding this)."
When I hit save atlas to I I'm hit with a error saying no unique materials selected
Same here. Anyone know what this means or any fixes? :(
Whenever I atlas my model, it just goes to one plain color/texture for the entire model, is there some way i can fix this?
same
Hi! I need a hand with my knees going into a crouch position when lookiing down
Hi I was starting the atlas part but I had a problem it says python imaging required and I don’t know what it is (I use Mac) and I have a quest headset what do I do please help
i had this issue also and it was because i had installed blender from the windows store. once i used the installer directly from the blender website all i had to do was click install the Pillow button. might be the same if you installed blender from steam
when i try to checkmark the cats blender plugin it says module not found pls help i cant figure it out (EDIT) nvm i figured it out
How?
@@monkehbonkeh7574 don’t download the source code just download the cat blender plugin
hey i watched your first part but i’m having an issue i pressed fix model yet it didn’t fix my model it just kinda broke it like random colors some missing textures etc any idea how to fix it? :(
Yeah I had the same problem Im pretty sure, try turning off the delete transparent meshes in vroid studios, yeah it does add more polygons to your avatar but it will probably fix the problem^^
@@evievrc thank you! but also when i converted my avatar to vrc the transparent parts showed up as black spots or areas on my avatar, do you know how to get rid of transparent areas in blender?..
@@onlyguy2 Sorry for the late reply, but yeah You can open the textures in paint 3d and retexture some areas and re apply the changes to your avatar, that should fix the transparency and black spots. So basically just color over the texture where you see the black spots appearing
My experience with this tutorial: At the fix model section I had to disable combine smae materials sin the settings just right to it so my eyes didnt disappear. And at the atles section I had to install something that disabled the plugins installed before, that confused me for a minute there.
What if I want to decimate the face of my model; will it still be able to have face expressions/animations? All this reducing polygons section made me realize I can actually make a low polygon version of my model by myself to give it the PS1 dimension feel.
sadly my blend shapes didn't go over to unity and i have no idea why. this has been an amazing tutorial though!
I did all of it but didn’t see theres not a 3d part😭😭😭
the atlas won't save to my computer, making it not group the materials and I don't think I can make exporting work if I don't group it