Situation: Wanting your BF to get on VRChat more, sadly he cannot as he’s been working his tail off (and working late) to make ends meet.
Solution: You make a huggable ‘full-sized doll’ of him. Aka make the model wiggly, but exclude the head and arms.
It.. works alright. It’s not perfect, as it doesn’t wiggle as much as I’d like (feels too
stiff), and it isn’t really staying ‘glued’ to my hand. But the blame goes to how rigging is used in Unity. Can’t make the neck down as dynamic bones, as it has to be a ‘root’ bone that connects to all other bones (aka the Hips).
Sucks, but.. I can’t do much. It’s either that or I add every. single. bone as a dynamic bone.
Anyway, it’s alright. It could be worse. Still love the idea.
Though I had an issue with the sound. Yes, I did it again: I recorded Jero. This time of him saying “Awwww!” The problem was the range of the sound wasn’t being heard, and I had to move the source to the hips instead.
I hope to one day record him saying “I wuv you!!” and combine the two. So all I’ll hear when activated.. “AwwwWWWW! — I wuv you!!”
Oh god… my heart… help!!
melts into a puddle from Jero’s beautiful British voice
And I’m back! (lol)
Now sadly (with this idea), its as far as I can go. And the ‘thanks’ once again, goes to Unity. I know I said this before and I’m going to end up repeating myself.
Had.. *erm* NSFW ideas, and ideas of wholesome animations of him actually hugging and and snuggling me, but…I can’t do an idle animation in the Armature (as it can’t find the Animator there). It’s looking for this when setting up or editing an animation;
And that isn’t present when putting the Animator component in the Armature (as sadly it’s part of an avatar).
I can definitely have arms (etc..) moving, but I have to manually set up the
animation (using the Armature). And since you cannot put an Animator into the main avatar (as it’s supposed to be seen as an object and not an avatar).. yeah it’s not good.
But, I am happy to have a cuddle-sized version of his avatar. : )