[GUIDE] Newbie-friendly guide for making a custom avatar from scratch

Thank you for making this. :sparkles:

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Honestly id pay for someone to make me a custom avi

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I think that’s what commissions are, look up open VRC avatar commissions :3

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EDIT: Problem has been solved.

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[This tutorial is very helpful. Unfortunately, it is not possible for me to successfully finish the avatar. When I am in step “Texture Atlasing” it says that there is “Material Combiner” needed. I click the link to download it and… it does not work. Without combiner I cannot atlas my textures and I can’t fix shaders in Unity. All of this leads to me failing to make my first avatar.
Here is the link to Material Combiner:
https://vrcat.club/threads/material-combiner-blender-addon-1-1-3.2255/
Please, fix this.]

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Question: my current modelling platform is Blockbench, a software that promotes that it makes Minecraft models but can be used for general low-poly modelling. (and unfortunately, until I test otherwise, it’s my ONLY option, given that Blender refused to even open the last time I tried it.)

Given that it lets you group parts into folders named “bones” and set pivot points for them, is this enough to successfully rig a model for use in VRChat, or is proper rigging available ONLY through Blender/Unity?

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I mean, definitely possible, but I’d recommend figuring why Blender isn’t working first because otherwise you’ll keep running into roadblocks.

What OS are you running? Windows 10? 7? 8? Etc

Where are you getting Blender from? Steam or their official website?

Have you tried using video tutorials to see if any of them help?

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I tried to set up the blender 2.9 but I can’t find a download for it anywhere. If I use Blender 4.2 how do I add CATS?

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Like 4 years later and i just wanna say how glad i am to find a good tutorial for starting out. Gonna take this nice and slow and hopefully add my model into vrchat

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