'I made my own avatar recently and started playing around with blendshapes. Ended up with a character maker of sorts, though it's not incredibly in depth. There are two scene files: Male and female. This includes xiexe's toon shader, and some gestures. One of the gestures activates a dbz aura, credits at the end of the description.
You can customize within unity by selecting the mesh ("Body" in the avatar hierarchy) and setting values for the blendshapes in the inspector (You can see all the shapes in one of the previews here). Mix and match to get what you want! (While not shown here, female shape works with all other shapes, albeit with some rough spots you'll have to smooth out.)
If you do this in blender instead, mix and match, make a new blendshape with the mix, then set that as the basis shape. By doing this, you can smooth out and/or manually modify whatever you may need without compromising the visemes too much.
While you can use the default texture and add color to it, I recommend painting a new texture in blender, mostly because the eyes and mouth share the same texture and material.
The body texture needs to be imported with mipmaps disabled!
The default one is already set up, but for new ones, click on the texture file (not material, texture) and on the inspector disable "Generate Mip Maps".
If you don't do this, the model will look very strange when seen from a distance. This is my mistake for not leaving a big enough margin for textures, sorry!
If you have dynamic bones installed, the tail and the female version's breasts have them set up (or at least, they should. I've shared stuff with dynamic bones with a friend and had issues with them not saving the root bone)
If you don't like being butt *****, mmd clothes are surprisingly compatible, albeit with a couple of clipping issues if you don't delete whatever would be hidden by them. My own avatar uses mmd t-shirt and cargo shorts that were resized to fit. Just remember to rename the clothes' bones to the same as the original skeleton's respective bone
Credits:
xiexe's unity toon shader
https://github.com/Xiexe/Xiexes-Unity-Shaders/releases/
Aura is from "DBFZ Ssj Goku FULL BODY (34k poly) By: CrypticLight"
https://vrcmods.com/item/2504-DBFZ-Ssj-Goku-FULL-BODY-34k-poly-By-CrypticLight
Edit:
This is just for kicks, if you decide to make something else out of this (maybe even improve it) feel free to share anywhere as long as you mention me.
Edit2:
I'm loving these comments already. Keep 'em coming :P
Edit3:
180 downloads and -8 points lol I'm even on trending.
Furries be like yoink and decent people be like "**** no"'
Comments
Congratz, you found this old thing of mine! I was real bad at UVmaps, so the texture looks almost corrupted. That's just how the texture is. I STRONGLY SUGGEST you paint on the model itself (ie blender's texture painting), rather than editing the 2d image.
4This is the first time i've seen a non-toxic comment section in VRC Mods lol. And they call furries the weirdos? Every anime av post has lewd spam **** in it. xD ironic
4I noticed this was from a year ago. Have you ever made a updated version or is this the only base?
2How do i change the color of the character?
1I'm sorry for being stupid but how do you get the model into blender? I can only get a unity package which isn't supported by blender, there was an option to export as fbx in gameobjects I believe, but I can no longer see it.
1How do I use this, I'm a new user and never used unity ever and I'm so confused, anyone got a adhd friendly tutorial?
0This is an old model so idk if anyone will reply, but is there a model I can put into blender so I can retexture it easier? I can't get the FBX export to work, so I cant change the avatar from a unity model myself
0Thank you for this model, It's greatly appreciated.
0If anyone still sees this thing, I'm having trouble setting up the eyelids. it didn't come with an avatar descriptor, so I'm having to do all that by myself.
0Yoooo this is dope as hell you just saved so much work for me! Thank you so much dear kind sir appreciate it for real!
0why cant i make nazeem from skyram
0I am not sure how to paint new textures while keeping them mirrored on the other half in blender, i know i am new to this and would love to use this, but i am at an impasse. thanks for the time in creating the model though
0It wont let me upload to vrchat
0your avatar is vary curupt
0your avatar has currupted trxtures
0reported for herasy
0incredible work on this! i've been looking everywhere for a model like this one, you're a lifesaver! thank you! <3 (saves me from having to model something myself aghh)
0imagine searching "furry" on VRCmods and insulting someone's model when the best you can do is slap MMD model parts together and call that an avatar
0I can't decompress it?
0I don't like that all the model is just 1 texture, to be honest, it should be better if some of the parts were separated, like eyes, mouth. And in a more clear and clean texture, I don't even know what is what. And I can only be a grey furry, I did upvote, don't worry, it's just, telling what is really wrong on it.
0@Prinnygod I could give it a shot, though don't expect great quality because I'm not used to neither drawing nor sculpting anything with scales (I would essentially make a cartoonish argonian and add blendshapes for other stuff). Any suggestions on optional parts, like fins and horns?
0Neat. Would it be possible in the future to make a base for lizards?
0Aww, thats a fantastic Idea! thank you! i can finally make my fursona like she actually is than a nanachi^^
0anything that is furry in here is always getting down voted.. smh stupid weebs
0Dynamic bones aren't working for me.
0Downvotes Incoming
0Vrchat is officially dead
0I've been waiting for something like this. Thank you for this blessed creation.
0works great with dog run animation
0I agree with SmolFluff here if you wanna criticize something at least make your criticism constructive
0CRINGE
0tfw people insult somebodys work cause it's "furry"
0get a life and make your own model fucktards
ew gross furry why what is wrong with you this is an abomination you are part of the problem
0for once i would like to say can we just keep the anime characters in vrchat? its better without furries
0eww furry
0OMG I LOVE YOU
0OH GOD, BLESS YOU.
0gay
0sexy
0Seems interesting, I'll give it a shot and let you know what I think. Its definitly more cartoonish than my current model which is generated from a program that does super realistic stuff.
0OMG YES.... VR CHAT IS GONNA BE LIT
0o god what have you started
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