Tutorial Vrchat Avatar Custom Textures [StillWorks2023]

hi playerfrankie18 here and welcome to another video if my voice sounds a little bit weird because i'm using a different headset and sorry for the late upload today we're going to be doing the texturing custom texturing with blender as promised so before we get started i'll let you know the two things you're going to need of course you're going to need blender easy to to get it right here mostly all you needed it pretty much it doesn't matter which blender actually i think but i recommend um 2.0 you're going to need the cat's plug-in from github i don't know pretty much you scroll down here and it even tells you how to do it that's funny but i'm going to show you anyway because all this information is i'm not even going to go through it is a bit stupid and you do not need to go through all that as always since we're doing a tutorial video it might be a little longer than usual also there's other places you can get the to get the cat's plug-in so you could go right here and get it probably as well so i'm going to exit out of here as i said want to let you know is i'm going to work with where we left off last time we're going to be working on the same project to show you how it all works so let me find it so here we are on playerfrank18's youtube video at a project that i made in the last video if you haven't checked that out yet you might as well check it out so you don't you can follow along i'm going to let that load in the background as always i didn't do too much in the last time i just showed how to put the textures on so as always i'm gonna chill and relax and um just chill with you guys please forgive any background noise that's in the ha and in my background people i live with are kind of confusing that's why it's hard to make youtube videos in a noisy environment i don't live by so you know i gotta relax might as well at least have blender open so what you first come up when blender loads is this screen so um yeah this is what comes up don't worry about this box in the middle you don't need to worry about that so um now that loaded of course that's good um so we need to get the cast plug in and if you guys haven't done it yet so what you would have to do is go to edit preferences and then hit install plugin now where usually if you just downloaded the plugin do not unzip it with winrar or anything just click on it that's when it's in your downloads folder the actual zip file and it just hit install add-on and it will add it once that is installed and you made sure it hit actually made sure to hit the check box that is literally right here see i have it then what will you do is go to cats and then import a model now this is going to be a little confusing if you don't know what you're doing because not many people tell you this so there's this model we had earlier right make sure to sign in as always as you probably noticed i did not build in the last video if you haven't checked that out please do um i just textured the thing now i need the fbx for this model the fbx is where well everything's in since it's an ngkd protogen right what we're gonna do is i actually this is the fbx right here this is the fbx now it's in nkj protogen right by my assets folder so i can actually get out of this for now because i do i don't want to exit out but it's gonna take up my performance and we need my performance for this so import documents because that's where mostly everyone's project is going to be unless you got a custom document it would probably be wherever you put it and i'm going to look for my youtube video thing right we're going to go to assets nk protogen because that's where it's at it all depends on what model you have and what files so remember that too i'm going to try to slow myself down a little bit kind of in a hurry today so as i said it's with as before as just like the project was in we import hit the port button now we wait for the avatar to load in here oh look how pretty that boy is now as you probably noticed doesn't have those textures from the project well don't worry about that we can just make something new out of it so what we're going to do is it's right now set to layout so just go to texture paint i'm now taking it go to image well can't do image right now so we'll do open go to documents go to your project i double click by the way b note assets okay protogen textures or wherever your textures are of course and wherever your avatar is at i'm gonna pick this one up this is the protein texture or body texture here it is now over here on the right is something really interesting click on the triangle and then click this little material icon it should be set to body since we're doing a protogen and i want to get all the textures on every single piece i'm actually going to have to do this a lot and i don't like doing it that way but that's how it has to be done to do what we're going to do for this specific avatar when you're just doing with most avatars be noted this you only have to do the body for unless you want to do more of the parts that are in the avatar so we'll do the simplest we're going to click on this base color image texture now here's where the fun stuff comes in since we already have it here right all we need to do is look for that texture here usually it always comes with the texture but sometimes it comes with the render result and that becomes a bit of a problem and well you know the rest we're going to do the same thing image texture make sure it's set to the one that you chose to bring in and do it with everyone that's if you have this see the protogens are that way it all depends on the avatar you have usually you only have to touch the body most of the time whoops let me just get this done for you guys as fast as i can i don't need to touch that one image texture okay do the next one um i don't usually do the claws touch the claws but we don't need extra screen and it looks like just screens in general we have to do actually i believe it or not i'm silly i haven't done this in a while please forgive me okay so that's all done and you should be able to draw on the avatar really but we have one thing it's still set to object mode right if you get this box you might want to remember that so we'll hit this little box up here hit texture you can move the avatar using holding down your mouse button scrolling this way or using your scroll wheel to go up and down like this if you want to pan out you just go to this little hand here and just move your mouse by holding it down so there you go now as you probably noticed i recommend if you have it lower in the computer if you have a higher end don't worry about this but i recommend it so now you can just draw now what's funny is mine decided to default to a specific option so if we go here and we go to we click this little thing here and we go to tools and go to symmetry and set it to x it's already going to do what i just did on both sides but yeah you probably notice it's being textured now i don't want this color on here i want a different color so what we're going to do is as i want specific colors to pro for the fun of it so let's say i want this whole face here to be i want these eyes to be cute colors now it all depends on where it is on here for you i do it this on purpose you could just do that but that would ruin the avatar if that it's this type of avatar of course it'll put it on the main screen here so what you do is you would actually color this area in i usually touch a specific part so i know where the actual things are on here and i can just color this area in okay that's how you know where they're that but if you are i'm just giving you guys an example but and as intended i don't really want to have to show you all that i at least want to show you how to text it make the avatar's colors work [Laughter] i'm so sorry guys i'm just laughing because i'm trying to teach you guys something and i'm just having a good time trying to screw it around i'm just gonna create something random and call it a day right that's gonna lag my system a little bit let's just get all random with it right just throw a few colors here and there don't even give two crabs we call it the the torture proto it's a dead okay let's just change the color some more actually let's go with some weird colors just click scroll this up if you want more brightness and just go freaking crazy with it well before we do anything i am going to fix the screen because i don't think i want if i do use this texture i kind of want to fix it i actually am you i don't know what just happened did i just set this to smear what the heck oh okay i'm confused and that's something i did on my accidental side oh it's oh it's set to smear look at that that's funny um i don't want to set it this i want to get rid of smear but um i did i must have clicked this icon when i was touching it so it bugged it out but yeah like there's your half photos so sorry now when you want to save the texture you don't need the model you just need the texture so what we're going to do is image um we're going to go to save as you could put it in the documents folder and that's what i am going to do i'm going to just give it a whole bunch of numbers to be neat and a butt head and hit save and blender is gonna hate me for that but i think i i'm not gonna save this is a project because um i bugged something out and i don't know what i did i'll look at the back of the footage and we'll figure it out but my audio might be a little weird today because of the what do you expect so that's really all you need to do to make textures so let's go back to unity and actually show the drag we're gonna since i already you if you do if you want to you can put it anywhere but i usually put it to my desktop because i usually just like drag it in so i don't screw up so we're gonna wait for that to reload itself [Music] uh see somebody did that too with adding a little line to the to that protogen that's can be done i could have replicated that because it's too easy to make but i'm not going to do that because that would be rude to the person that made it this is my main avatar as you saw in the last video if you guys stayed tuned for that uh here it is now let's say i want to get this specif the color that specific weird texture i had on that proto-gen right so it's the nk one and i'm using just the main one materials that's where it's gonna be for me so this is somehow the main texture don't know what i'm thinking but so what we're going to do is find the texture i have it over on a different screen so i'm going to have to show you we're going to select all this also since i have a color on here we're gonna there you go that's starting to look familiar now isn't it i since i have a color on the actual texture we're gonna have to um fix that and i'm gonna actually have to add the texture in here in a minute i'm sorry i'm gonna have to keep doing this because um i have it on a different screen ironically i might actually keep my this my avatar might be funny most funniest avatar i've created just randomly for a youtube video i'm sorry if i'm a bit fast huh you already know i'm putting the texture on but if you want to say this is i just lost the ability to show you and selecting yeah i just picked up the texture i made and you see it's not even done yet we haven't even gotten to the parts yet so do this one add that weird texture i made boom starting to look familiar isn't it yeah it's it's it's weird um screens is the last one oh no that's the one that's the one that thing i did to the avatar and smeared it all over well that's it actually actually i thought that was about going to be a lot worse but that actually looks cool well yeah now all you have to do is like i did in my last video is head sdk but i do recommend auto fixing it when you have a new a new texture you do have to hit auto fix before you can upload build and upload it name it re-upload it you know all that kind of stuff so remember that and uh and check out the other video on the actual information and yeah the other video will tell you how to get the avatar uploaded making simple textures and this is for the people that want to get a little bit more creative with their textures i'm playing pranking and uh see you guys in the next one

Channel: playerfrankie18

Views: 71,786

Keywords: protogen, playerfrankie18, Vrchat, Custem, Textures, How To Make a avatar, How to make a Vrchat avatar, How to Make, proto, gen, 18, Tutorial Vrchat Avatar Custom Textures, Tutorial

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Length: 16min 18sec (978 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 27 2021