VRChat Merging Hair and Clothes to your avatar in Blender 2020
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- čas přidán 10. 07. 2024
- A quick tutorial about merging clothes and hair both with and without armatures to your custom VRChat avatar in blender
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0:00 Moving in BLender
1:23 Importing and Editing Hair
5:05 Merging the Hair
7:00 Importing and Editing Clothes
12:24 Merging the Clothes to the Body
15:39 Final testing and End - Zábava
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also really love these videos there so helpful and motivated me to make my own model instead of using my borrowed one thank you so much
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7:58 An easier method to select lose part of a mesh is to hover with the mouse above the part that you want to select and press L.
well i more like this video bcs you are the only one who solved my problem xD
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ty so much
It will only connect the bone but leave the mesh hair how do i fix that?
Am i being dumb as i still cant connect the hair to the body
Me too its not workimg
Didn't work for me either. What I did was deleting the unnecesary armatures and using the "Object Constraint Properties" on the Mech I want connected. There I selected "Add Object Constraint" - "Child of" - select the original Armature as a "Target" and select the corresponding Bone (Example my horns are connected to the head bone). Press "Set Inverse" if the Mech jumped somewhere else after being assigned to a bone. Seems to be working fine for accessoires but I don't know how it will fare with clothing during movement. (Only started with Blender two days ago so I could be doing some unneccesary bs but it's working for me right now)
@@DarkmastersSCHINKEN when i do the object contraint thingy, for some reason when i go to merge the meshes (the hair with the body) it usually takes the effect off and the hair stops moving with the body, is there anything i can do? i'm scared that when i port the model into unity i wont work properly
tysm
So my clothing has no bones and I followed your instructions to attach and shape them to the body but they wont move with the avatar in pose mode unless all the meshes are joined together, however I would like to avoid this in order to make toggle animations on some clothing Items. is there any way I can keep my meshes separate yet still allow them to move with the avatar?
For some reason I can’t join the hair & body armatures. When I do, instead of combining into a single armature, the hair armature disappears and is replaced with something called Body that now represents the hair but refuses to merge with the armature. I was able to make this work a while ago but completely forgot how.
When ever I use fix model after doing the data transfer changes it undos everything I did
6:54 I've done everything right but when i go into pose mode and move the neck bone, my models neck isnt moving with it. What do I do?
So I'm merging the hair and I did all the steps including bone parenting, but when I go into pose mode the bones move by themselves leaving behind the mesh. is there a way to solve this problem???
hey question how set up a shortcut for fixing modles i needed to know how to do that
are horns, tails, and animal ears the same process as adding hair? cause I want to add all three to my model I'm currently working
Thanks Yup, same process, just remember to parent any bones they have to the body, like Ears to the head and tail to the hips
when export the model and import it into unity it does not decompress?
I have an issue, I merged the mesh of my blouse with my model as instructed in the video, and it does move with the armature, however a small part of the mesh of the blouse pulls out into a triangle when I move the arm bone for some reason, how do I fix that?
Nevermind, I was able to fix it! What I want to add though: Thank you for these amazing tutorials, you're a saint to a blender noob like me, lol
I'm having an issue where once I combine the body and the hair, the bones fir the hair and the model do combine but the hair resets back to the feet and I don't know how to stop it from doing that and match with the bones
When i use the Fix model tool and then try to go pose model to see if the body moves with the armature but only the armature moves. While before i use the Fix model, it works perfect. Sorry if its a stupid question. Im a total noob
i have a problem where Blender will automatically atlas some of my textures on export :/ I have 11 materials in unity and I end up with 9 in unity. I've been trying to fix it for a while
whenever i merge, the mesh of the hair movies above the head
what do you do if the Dress has an armature? to the point where it even has full on arm bones and everything, do I still just merge the Armatures together?
You can merge it with the Body Armature, Fixing the model should remove any unnecessary bones
when i did the merge it went well, but when i clicked fix model, it all turned into the base color.
where did i go wrong you think
Where do you get all your clothing for your models?
WHere do you find clothes and hair?
whenever i combine them the hair suddenly go back to original position
edit: i completely forgot fix model lol
Hey bro, I was sticking with you until the clothing part. I have a hoodie that has bones within it and CTRL+J to the body works but when I move the avatar in edit, parts of the hoodie don't move and some do with the body. Anyway to fix?
Here's a video explaining how to set up clothes with bones. The just select both armatures and Ctrl+J to merge or use the merge option in Cats
czcams.com/video/K8_EA3hBhIA/video.html
@@Aggrotard Hey bro, thanks again but unfortunately, the right arm still doesn't move after everything I've followed on the video. The sweater moves weird with the left arm however and parts of the chest move and the others don't so it could be that the 3d sweater isn't meant for blender?
i was wondering where did you got the lollipop chainsaw outfit?
Ripped it from this model. www.deviantart.com/arisumatio/art/MMD-LC-Juliet-Starling-Common-Outfit-661217505
After trying several models, I can confidently say most tba models dont have "head" "hip" "waist" ... bones
When I do the hair the bones phase through the head ?
For some reason when I click generate data layers, it doesnt give me an option to hit apply. help?? D:
so what happens if the clothes that you use have skeletal structures similar to the body
You can use it to align the clothes with the base or if it already lines up, you can just delete the extra Armature
Okay so when i try separate the meshes it separates the body too and then when i move the armature it doesn't move the body or the cothes even when i fix it ?
When importing models do Fix Model a few times and make sure the Armature works in pose mode, also check that youre merging to the right Armature aka the Body one. Some times if not careful you might merge to the clothing Armature instead. Thats why I like deleting any clothing armatures before merging
Do you have any sugestion where to find the base model for body? I download a TDA version and clipping so much until i want to cry T_T
i get everything from DevianArt. For clipping i suggest deleting parts of the body thats hidden under the clothes. You also optimize your model and save up on polygons.
whenever i merge the hair it always moves slightly up or to the side after its merged. idk why
How do you get the huge "Model" Tab in the first place ? I'm trying to make custom Mario powerup suits and yeah I can't merge the squirrel suit and armature to my Odyssey Mario base model.
Its called Cats plugin
@@Aggrotard Okay thanks ! Finally merged my Mario's Armature and the suit thanks to your tuto ! Thank you again :)
What if I want the clothes to be toggable though? If I have more than one outfit, I wouldn't want my outfit to be tied to the body of my avatar
At 6:30 It doesn’t let me change hips. It says disabled : this property is for internal use only and cant be edited. What should i do ???
Make sure you're in Edit mode
can you make a tutorial on how to remove hair from an avitar and put it on another
I want to add a jacket to my model and also want to make it a toggle, any tips on how to do that? I've been loking around youtube and havent found anything....
In Blender make sure the weight paint works properly and the jacket moves with the body, then leave it as a separate mesh when exporting. Watch my video about toggles for the Unity part
Hope I'm not bothering you, but what if crlt + j isn't working? Because it won't merge the clothes.
Select your Body Armature, SHIFT + Click your other armature, move your mouse over your model and hit Ctrl + J and finally Fix Model. If the clothes/whatever you merged doesn't move with the body, move on to the Data Transfer part
@@Aggrotard Ctrl + J wasn't working often enough and I couldn't find out why. Thanks to this comment I understand that you have to have your mouse over your model as you Ctrl + J.
So you dont have to weight paint your clothes manually by hand anymore? is there a drawback to your method or is the result the same ?
you need to be careful what tou select as your source when doing the data transfer. You still get a more accurate result if you do it manually
@@Aggrotard ok thx for the quick answer!!
When i finish doing everything, my clothes do an A-pose while the body stays in a T-Pose. Moving bones does move both of them but since they're so close it's been impossible for me to just move the clothes back into position and make them fit properly again. I'll try again tomorrow and hopefully it doesn't happen again.
After importing the clothes, scale then down so they fit as well as they can, then use Pose mode to align them with your model. Go back to Object mode and add an Armature Modifier with the clothes's armature as the source and Apply
@@Aggrotard What if the clothes don't have an armature?
@@lostnotyetfound6013 you can try doing the same to your Body/base model, in my experience this doesn't work as well but it's worth a shot
@@Aggrotard Sorry, i don't understand what you mean by that. The clothes are just a model without an armature.
I'm trying to only put a watch on and once I press apply for the data transfer thing. my watch goes somewhere else not connected to the avatar at all. why is this happening and how can i fix it to stay on my left wrist?
delete any armatures you have on the watch, move it where you want it and merge the mesh to the Body mesh, you probably won't even need a data transfer
Do we have to get the clothing off a certain website cause im trying to put a hoodie on my character but amatures are not merging and i see your clothing and your doesn't have bone like structures to it
You can get the clothes anywhere, DeviantArt is just a really good place to find stuff. You can merge armatures with armatures and meshes with meshes but you cant merge armatures with meshes and vice versa
@@Aggrotard Alright thanks man appreciate it
@@Aggrotard Hey another question sorry for this many questions I'm just trying to get this straight so when I press fix model for my clothing it still shows up pink how do I fix that?
my clothes meshes wont merge with the body, i did ctrl + j and it just aint moving
Damn i watched this whole vid to see how you got it back into unity for upload after blender! It's such a pain to export it as an fbx then re set up literally everything to make it useable again. But I can't find a single tutorial that shows what people do AFTER what you showed here
Export to FBX and upload it to unity
yeah everytime i connect the hair it body just because bigger and the hair is inside the chest
I had the same problems as yours for the skirt, but even after doing what u did, the skirt won’t move with the body like the other parts do. What else can I do?
When doing the Data Transfer make sure you select the right mesh as the source. If you're working on a skirt it's probably Body. If it still doesn't work you need to manually Weight Paint everything
@@Aggrotard tysm for ur patience!!
@@Aggrotard I’m having the same issue as him what is weight paint
ctrl + j is not working for me! i've been trying for hours now and cant find a sollution!
How did you get rid of the Back of the head? Ive been trying for hours and I cant do it 😭 I need help badly
I did it! LMAO
yea but where to get hair and clothes from
if you dont mind can i ask one question sir
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Does anyone know why the hair mesh won't move with the bone in pose mode? I can't figure it out.
I would like to know as well ;-;
so i got a problem, ive spent legit 9 hours doing this and only now realise im not working with a body when i need to do the data transfer part, is there a way i can merge the clothing for it to be correct even tho my model doesnt have a body or no
it still has an armature that works like a body
It might be named something else too, the Source for the data transfer should be the mesh you're merging to, ex if you're merging a hat you'd select the Head as the source etc. what the modifier does is takes the vertex groups of the source and copies them and their weights on to the other mesh being merged.
Oh hey I found this video lol
I don't have ctrl on my keyboard what do I have to do?
Ctrl=Strg
What I do when I try to change a bones parent and it says “Disabled: this property is for internal use only and can not be edited
Check that you're in Edit mode
@@Aggrotard thank youuu!
the merging wont work at all :(
I was struggling with this and it turns out my Blender 3.0 install which has been buggy with file managment does not recognize various shortcut keys. Once I discovered this I was able to finish this process using the drop down menus only to have a material problem pop up for no apparent reason. I then attempted a fresh start, but from a new project the materials on the base were broken. A base I had used without trouble to start the project.
I'm using blender 3.0. There are no signs that the bugs I am contending with are a common experience. I am reinstalling via steam. Steam will better manage Blender updates, and steams install process is most likely better than the direct download that relies on Windows installer.
Sounds weird, it shouldn't really matter what version of Blender you use as long as its compatible with Cats. Personally i use blender 2.9
@@Aggrotard I just uninstalled blender via Windows settings but I didn't try to clean out anything manually. Sure enough the fresh install VIa Steam picked up where my first left off. Unfortunately that includes still having issues importing the base with materials. I've been pulled away from it for now though, but I haves some ideas to try out later.
Still it sucks though, I had great momentum on the project and it senselessly crashed and burned. It's not my first avatar. It was my first time to add clothing without bones though. I'm with you though, I think I will much rather add clothing this way than with the armatures attached in the future.
I had to stop halfway through this and when i came back my model had turn purple, pressing "Fix" doesn't help -.-
Your avatar has no materials set to this specific base or body. Yo make a material go down to the materials tab, press the + button and make a new material. I am not at my computer at the moment but that should help ^^
i have a problem with changing these hair bones connected to hips i just cant click on them its just kinda blocked
Make sure you have the Armature selected and youre in Edit mode, if edit mode isnt available go back to Object mode, select Armature and it should be available
@@Aggrotard and i got problem with merging clothes, when i try to merge them some kind of problem named "no mesh data to join" pops up
how do I do this without messing up the shape keys/blend shapes?
Merging shouldn't do anything to blendshapes Unless there are duplicates in which case they might get merged, check the shape keys names before merging
@@Aggrotard Thank you for this. I was just using the proportional editing tool and made the ears on my model pointy and moved hair a bit for the ears, this was on the basis layer. I then checked the shape keys and notice when they went to 1 they changed the model to not having the pointed ears and hair not being moved. :< Some suggested that I could try separating the mesh but then I ran into the problem with the hair as that has it's own armature. I kind of got the hair armature way from the rest of the body along with the rig. Now the ears and hair are separate, but I'm not sure if that the right thing. If I join ears and hair again to the body's armature, the shape keys affect them again. I heard something about propagate to shapes. I'm not sure how that would work though.
I don't know what I"m doing wrong but the armatures aren't merging
Make sure you're in Object mode and that your mouse is hovering over your model
@@Aggrotard *Okay so I was just stupid lmao thanks*
I can't find sculpt mode, I need help. I have the newer version of blender.
Go to Object mode, select your models mesh and you should be able to go to Sculpt mode. Also i recommend using Blender version 2.83 the newest one doesn't work well with Cats plugin
@@Aggrotard Thank you very much for replying so quickly
What about unity?
I like how your model and hair have so little bones, i got a hair model off of deviantart and it has as much if not more bones than the actual body and it had a whole body of bones aswell what
is CATS built-in or do I have to download this from somewhere?
github.com/michaeldegroot/cats-blender-plugin/archive/master.zip
@@Aggrotard Thanks! :)
I CTRL+J'd everything and now I cant seperate it. My hair and shoes are connected but my hoodie and pants dont move. I tried to go into edit and select the hoodie and pants to separate them but I cant undo far enough to undo my merging. I have a perfect avatar that now goes to waste.
There's a button in Cats called Separate by Materials
@@Aggrotard so does it turn back the hoodies and pants I made into mesh again?
my hair has a whole body of bones attached to it what do i do
im late but i saw on one of his other comments with a similar situation, he said to merge them with the body armature, and then fix the model so it should get rid of unnecessary bones :)
It took me like 16 times of reviewing the hair merging to get it right. And for some reason my left cntrl button doesn't work for the command but the right one does. Bit weird and idk how that works, xD
Make sure before hitting Ctrl+J to merge that your mouse cursor is over your model, otherwise it won't work
@@Aggrotard Ah that makes more sense. I don't think I had it over the model at all. xD Next up to try and find some male out fits to put on him. xD Thanks for the reply, you didn't need to reply so fast i imagine it's late for you. It's like 3 a.m. for me. xD Thank you again though. :D
idk why but when i do the thing to get the clothes sticking to my arms there is no apply there
If youre using Blender 2.9 or newer the Apply should be hidden under a drop down arrow next to the camera button
@@Aggrotard k ill check it soon thnks!
Okay so like how do you UNMERGE HAIR SOMEONE HAS MERGED THE BONES OF TO THE BODY
My clothes still won’t mesh with the body 😪
Strange whenever I move the bones only the bones moves not the model
If it's just one mesh and one armature you can give the mesh an Armature Modifier (wrench icon) and put the armature as the source
@@Aggrotard alright that worked thanks
The fix model button destroys IK links for me which I absolutely hate
hello sir
i'm pressing Ctrl J in object mode and nothing is happening.
it still presents as 2 armatures
everytime i merge something, my blender crashes
it was doing the same for me when i would try and fix model, it eventually would let me.
going a little to fast and its hard to follow and the cloths dont want to connect with the body
Not sure why there isn’t a “apply to mesh as is” option. They really need to make overly fucking complicated.
whenever i merge the clothes to the body and remove the vertex stuff and replace them the pants no longer move with the pants
Same issue but for my entire model it’s really annoying
doesnt merge for me
CTRL+J is so finicky!!! Sometimes it works as advertised, but God help me if I accidentally CTRL+Z.....then it suddenly won't work anymore.
Before hitting Ctrl+J move your mouse cursor over your model then hit Ctrl+J
@@Aggrotard I’ll try that, thank you. 😣🙏
@@Aggrotard i did that and still nothing (hair doesnt have bones)
ctl j doesn't even work
how do you this with furrys?
just dont be a furry lmfao
dude you don't show us how to actually get the hair or anything thats the main thing i need were did you get it from?
terrible tutorial. couldnt figure out how to merge the hair because the controls were changed and you didnt show us how to change them.