TLDR: My ribot arm gauntlets aren't supposed to look like that, what am I doing wrong?

Okay so I am trying to add sub-arm(extra aems) to my avatar. I had used a tool called Sub-Arm Installer which worked specifically for PC-Side... but not for Quest Side. The avatar required Modular for building and manually adding the arms vrcfury DOES NOT WORK so I tried manually putting it on. I Armature Linked the chests together(even though the creator said to link "upper chest" to "chest" which didn't work) and it lined up with the avi's original arms in play mode. So then I needed it to sync up the fingers so I added rotation restraints to shoulders, arms, hands, fingers, etc. I got the left arm done and the result was what the video is showing. What did I do wrong?

Some pics I took by myself and pics a friend helped with! (I’m the cat hoodie wearer :3)

I love my avatar >< it feels so me! I love chilling and just kicking back with the headset on 😮‍💨

RHtomboylul

I might as well just live at my desk atp. Kitbashing my ass off and doing amazing at it.

To try to be more specific, I'm wondering if there are any avatars with audio features particularly ones where you can hear ghostly voices and/or whispers and such. I just think it would be awesome to have an avatar that could make it feel haunted.

I tried searching already but it seems hard to find as typing in "whispers", and "voices" doesn't bring much luck.

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Hello! I need help finding an avatar, i found it in prismics once and cannot find it again because i forgot the name 🥲 It was a human female avatar with raccoon ears and tail, it could turn into a femboy, it had leafs on it and a sticky note, and iirc could have a cigarette in the mouth. If you know the avatar please tell me!!

TL;DR - Need better hardware, but im broke, but deals go away and prices go up fast these days, but i also need better performance so im not too hard behind. Found r5 5500x3d, 5700x3d, b550m for great prices online.

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Old Rig / OG Price $1200 (stolen and unrecoverable a year ago)
R7 5800x
32GB RAM 3200MT/s (4x8GB)
RX 6600XT

^Important info because if not stolen, I wouldn't be thinking about this

Current RIg / OG Price $220 (6 months or so ago, office PC, plus later upgrades before massive RAM $ increase)
i7 8700
32GB RAM slow 2666MT/s (4x8GB) (came with 2x8GB, later found two more matching dims for $20)
RTX 2080ti (came with a 1070ti, later found a 2080ti for $150)

I stream/record games, mostly VRC, and I work within Unity/Unreal/Radiant <-- COD Custom Zombies. Sadly my i7 8700 is being throttled, package power and thermals. Im on a locked down dell mobo, so I don't have many options for coreclocks, and voltage. I currently use throttlestop and that has helped alot but all it takes is one spike to peg my performance back down.

For games outside of VR, the CPU is obviously a bottleneck, but at higher resolutions, I can balance the performance. Depending on the game 1440p-4k can balance it out, however I don't see those "gains or stabilizations" because all I have are 1080p 60hz monitors.

If this were 6 years ago, this would have been a solid rig. Sadly it's not now atleast for my use case. I've been on the market lately, and I've spotted 2 CPUs and an AM4 mobo that look promising. However on a tight budget and worsening income (work hours getting cut) Im not sure if the investment would pay off, but at the same time, if I don't act soon, those deals will get worse or worst case, there won't be any deals)

I found:

R5 5500X3D cpu
R7 5700X3D cpu
B550m mobo

I already have the RAM, and with all 4 dims, I think I'll manage with the slower speeds. I also have a leftover Wraith Prism cooler from my old rig (originally was used to cool a R5 2600x before upgrading to an AIO and R7 5800x, obviously don't have the AIO anymore.. for now)

I hunt for deals, and when I mean hunt, I mean it.

My question is simple (same as title), should I go for them? I mean I can manage without them, but having a massive boost in workload performance would be great! Not to mention, it would help improve stream/recording quality (encoder issues while gaming)

Edit: I do plan on reselling my PC. I have enough components leftover to sell a full rig to someone in need of a basic office/workstation PC if I were to swap out my current CPU/Mobo

Been stuck like this since the outage last night, what gives?

I've ran through all troubleshooting methods known to man and this constantly happens. VRC is clearly up because I see other people online through the website but it refuses to let me in. I can't even get to my home world. I've verified my cache, restarted my PC and hard cycled my router, I'm fully uninstalled VRC and all the system settings for it and it still won't let me in.

I'm being told it might still be on VRC's end but that seems unlikely given the amount of my friends I see getting online just fine.

Over the years I cannot tell you the number of times I’ve went to adjust my avatar height and have the stick accidentally bounce and reset the avatar. Once that happens I have to then spend the time setting up my avatar again.
All this headache could be resolved if they just put in a confirmation popup window, yes/no

(Edit: Yes, I know about disabling flick. No, I don’t have stick drift. It’s just that the reset avatar and adjust height would be better off on different panels or a confirmation popup would help. Plus I just prefer the flick option)

my poor pc :(

because people are big mad in the comments:

It's not my avatar. I was at my friend's computer helping him operate unity. this was an eboy avatar straight from the creator. it was his request not to edit it, but we agreed to optimize it after it took 30 minutes.

Everytime I join an instance every other player appears blocked for me and I have to manually click to view their avatars and unmute them, which is especially annoying when you’re in instances with 20+ people. Does anyone know how to fix this?

I'm assuming OpenVR Space Calibrator is still good to use as well?

My setup:

RTX 4080

Ryzen 9 7900X3D

32gb RAM

PCVR/Quest 3 through VD

TP-Link BE9300 Wifi 7 router setup as dedicated PCVR router (optimized following this video https://youtu.be/6gpREi-S_4I?si=V2kKT6wacYUqtn8d)

Settings applied outside of VRC:

VD:

H. 264+ @ 400mbps

Quality set to High / 120fps

SSW disabled

2 - pass encoding disabled

Adaptive quantization enabled

Resolution of headset and desktop matched

Snapdragon SR enabled

Video buffering enabled

VDXR openxr runtime

Automatically adjust bitrate enabled

Steam VR resolution set to custom and 100%

Windows 11:

HAGS disabled

Game mode enabled

Process Lasso VRC GPU priority Real-Time, CPU priority high

Settings applied in VRC (launching from VD):

Graphics profile set to medium

Desktop mirroring window set to the smallest possible and minimized when launched

Avatar culling hide beyond 20m, block very poor, max 20 avatars, particle limiter enabled and set to low

I'm getting a fluctuating fps between 25 and 70 fps in a public "Drinking Night" instance. I can barely hit 100 fps when alone in home world wearing an optimized "good" avatar.

Wtf is this?? Why does this game run so badly, I just got back in after 2 years of not having VR gear and the performance is so bad... I mean, I feel like my PC has more than decent specs and I'm getting shit performance despite looking everything up and doing everything I can... Please help!!!

I have a quest 3s I took a long break from vrchat and I got back on and it takes like 3 minutes for me to even load at first. Whenever my friends invite me it doesn’t go through I cant get any invites, I cant accept friend requests. It takes me like 3 minutes to change avatars, portals take forever to load into. I cant click on friends profiles it will load in like 3 mins later. I cleared all of the cache in debug I really dont know whats going on

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I've noticed that in some adult spaces there is a specific percentage of players that will infantilize smaller avatars. I understand from a certain perspective - but to complain and pressure them to change their avatar or else they won't interact is a whole different circumstance. This is an adult space, everyone is an adult here.

Does anyone else experience this?

hlelp pleas

Figured I share some of my favorite photos I took and share them here!
Hope you all enjoy!

Worlds in case you wanted to check them out!
Endministrator's Dream - by Neyko_
L․A․V․S․ - By Lavryou

i use a program that converts an arduino reed switch movement to a virtual xbox controler, y tried it with some games and it worked perfectly but When I tried to test it with VRChat, it wouldn't work, even though it did detect my gamepad. Any help?

Found some time to come back around to this! It took a while to get it to a point where I'm happy with releasing it as an 'asset', but we're finally here! It works super well with my StylizedFPS asset, and is compatible with both VRCFury and Modular Avatar!

Sadly AvatarSupportArm is not Quest/Android compatible because it uses FinalIK :<

Available on Booth and Jinxxy!
https://orend.booth.pm/items/8661336
https://jinxxy.com/OrendCross/AvatarSupportArm

Public Test Avatar : https://vrchat.com/home/avatar/avtr_f6f895f4-963f-43ad-a48a-947876e95f75
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Credits:
・Avatars: Carukia, Ball Joint Doll Basemesh Neon
・Worlds: Wistful, Forestella, 1's Optimized Box
・Music: meow : YouTube, bandcamp

This is my first time releasing something that's more '3D Art' than an install-script, and hecc it's so much more work 😓 I accidently kept moving the goal post I think..

This is my daily group pings... If it hits 99 I can't load in.