Avatar Creation Process
The creation of an avatar is a creative process that takes in skills from a number of tools and there are a significant amount of caveats and things to keep in mind. Hopefully this page will outline the overall process, and highlight specifics that can be taken in a bit more modularly, and with an easier way to keep up to date.
The bones of this will be similar to the Tupper Megatutorial, which outlines the process from an mmd download to uploading to VRChat. It is now horrifically out of date but probably about 70% of the concepts and skills still apply even if you're not even using an MMD.
The Megatutorial outlines the following process:
- Find a base model to start with.
- Load this into Blender
- Clean and modify the model to work with VRChat/Unity
- Export this model
- Load this into Unity
- Configure and setup to be compatible with VRChat
- Upload to VRChat and tihs ahcmathen use
This general process is what the information here should help you with. Skills at every step here will be key in producing something you like.
Find a Base Model
Back in the day, MMDs (Nippon anime models made for anime dancing) were the main source of anime models. Nowadays the best source is Booth which is a poorly designed site that sells high-quality anime girl models specifically made for use in VRC. Gamerips are also a source of models; but they would be considered hard mode.
Easiest
Booth is the easiest source of models. The models that are made there are often pre-packaged for VRChat and can be uploaded without any work at all; skipping every step but the last one.
If you want to be lazy, and you're fine with generic anime girl that you can customise fairly easily, and one that is probably supplied with lewd parts, this is a decent place to start. Most people use booths nowadays with various levels of customisation; booth with heavy customisation is recommended.
Heavy customisation will require going into blender; modifying it and starting at step "Load this into blender" above anyway.
Best way to look through booths is to visit either a VKet (seasonal event held on vrchat, 2 times a year), or look for 'Avatar Museum' worlds which are big lines of avatars for you to look through.
Overall:
- May cost money
- High quality (usually)
- Made specifically for VRChat
- Lewd bits very common
- All rook same
Medium
MMDs are a massive repository of anime girl models. This is most recommended if you want a model from a specific show, gacha game, or some weeb shit that a nippon has probably made a model so they can make it dance to terrible music. Availability here is varied, quality varies massively, and nippons are notoriously falkey and guarded of their models and many specifically state they don't want their model used in VRChat. Relevant to you, however is that they come in the format required for Miku Miku Dance, and not for VRChat.
Places to find MMDs:
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Overall: