Tutorial - Animal Ears and Tails using Vroid (and Unity) 

wait, it's all hair? always has been.

I knew you are a witch, but it still amaze me every time you show us your magic. (*'▽')✨✨✨✨

This helped me a whole lot with the character I've been working on. I hadn't considered just how much you could do with that hair tab, and now not only does my boy have some fancy ears and a tail, but I made some goggles and a neat scarf too. Thanks so much for this tutorial, it really expanded my horizons with the kind of stuff that can be made in vroid.

Your model? Amazing. Your tutorial? A life saver. Hotel? Trivago.

Ooh so this is how you make ears and tails :P, i only knew how to make a hat.

I tried this and everything went south. Well, congratulations to the people who did it. 😅

oh damn, I actually didn't know you could bypass the slider limits by manual input :o

This helped me a lot to figure out how to fix my character neckerchief/scarf made with the hair tool so it would stay fixed on the shoulders rather than clipping around with the head movement. Thank you for your tutorials!

I couldn't figure out what shape the mesh should be in to make a tail, this helped a lot! Thanks!

your little tutorial here helped me setup a character of mine. my avatar is a nine-tailed fox, and i had no clue how to use vroid studio. but now i have a basic grasp of the program

i was finally able to make a somewhat good bunny girl model thanks to this video so thank you so much for making it!!!

Your tutorial helped me fix the bat ears on my model! Thanks!

Zod, this is so much better than slaving away for a Sims4 custom content. Thanks so much for the tutorial! You gave me a new purpose to use my artistic skills.~♥

i used this tutorial so many times cuz i kept forgettin whenever i re-exported my model and now i come back once more

"How to attach a tail to the butt?", a fundamental question way more important than it sounds like! xD . But just like hair can be anything, does that mean that this plugin allow hair groups to re-attach anywhere? For exemple when making wings? That opens quite alot of possibilities

the idea of a hair hat is verry cused and i love it

this helped me SO well. when i first became a vtuber last year, i saw this video and immediately closed it because "i cant learn unity" but last night i was able to do it 🥺 thank u so so much

Hopefully you can do a tutorial on Teeth and horns of possibly. Love the content tho honestly you earned a sub!

When I open my prefabs I don't have the "joints". I've tried every combination in the tool to assign the tail, but receiving "No 'SkinnedMeshRenderer' attached" to my object I place in the top of the BWT. Any tips?

I'll probs add a tail to my Nexxus avatar for VRChat 😁 Great Video!

If you're struggling because it is only hair 001 and nothing else under hairs in Unity, VROID, Camera/Exporter -> Export On export info, go to Material Reduction and Uncheck Combine Hair Mesh. Export as normal after that.

How do you install the bone weight tool? I can't seem to figure this out

It took hours but I finally figured the ears out super helpful video

Hey, if I may ask, what facial/body tracker do you use?

What application do you use to put your character on the screen? :

*_i still enjoy your content even tho i have no clue how to work either of these-_*

ive been trying to add 3d versions on with other apps but it just confuses me so this was super helpful!

I love your tutorials I'm new to Vroid and I have a OC that is a neko and I've always wanted to know how to make neko ears thank you so much

i don't know where i went wrong, but I can't do this because I don't have a hair joint. I have no idea why it doesn't work?

i got a pop up saying "There is no 'SkinnedMeshRenderer' attached to the "HairJoint-7fd24a9f-091c-422d-90bb-2869f9667c3a" game object"

Hi! I'm sorry if this question is something you answered in the video, I don't know English and I wanted to know if Vmagicmirror could be used with Vroid models, but which program can be used to capture facial movement with Vroid?

As a chimera bunny this help me way too much

Hi overthere ! Perfect tutoriel has usual, i have à question, do you find something to make some blendshape on your ears or tail ?

Followed this tutorial and another tutorial, but I'm getting an error saying "the root transform should have default translation, rotation, and scale", been looking online and can't find a solution

It was very helpful. Thank you!

Thank you so much for this tutorial. I'm importing at unity atm and its my 1st time. (i have a tail on my avatar)

Hi, i dont know how to export the model from unity xD it says "Require animator.avatar." is some video i can see to fix it? nevermind i found the solution: download the lastest version of UnityVrm, in my case it was UniVRM-0.61.1_7c03.

another way (tho this is more complex) is to make the model to pmx and go to pmx editor and add some ears and a tail

very helpful tips! thanks so much

Great tutorial.

do you need japanese setting on on your computer in order for this to work? perhaps i just need to try a million more times but the asset doesn't seen to work for me even tho it says it installed correctly.... 😬

My all hair is importing as 1 hair all the time T^T What do I do now T^T

Is there any way to kinda smooth out that diamond shape more? I've run into issues when trying to make fox tails and fluffy cat tails where at certain angles, that diamond hair shape is super apparent, even with smoothing out the taper of the hair as you did. If there isn't anything to be done about it, that's fine, I'm just curious, more than anything.

hey i got a question real quick! i was trying to do this for a while but i don't have the hair joint part, can you tell me what i'm doing wrong??

Did you make the pose and animation?

So with wings, I'd want to attach to the shoulder bones, right?

What part of the assets folder do you import the physics plug-in to? Does it go in the packages folder or just the general assets one? I’m asking because, the first time I put the VRM importer into Unity, I put it in the wrong folder so it wouldn’t work😅

Thank you for your work!!! Keep on doing your best!!! ^^

so Im trying to put the locations and such in the list but I'm getting this error "MissingComponentException: There is no 'SkinnedMeshRenderer' attached to the "J_Sec_Hair1_15" game object, but a script is trying to access it."

you can make alot with hair. I think that is how the snake pet I had done was made.

Did every single step, still couldnt get this to work properly. The root of where the tail starts is still connected to the head, even though the rest of the tail isnt. Ive gone through everything I can trying to figure out wtf to do and I just cant figure it out

my hair in general doesnt move at all in unity dunno why

Is it possible to make the ears more rounded instead of pointy?

aww these are really helpful but i wanna know how to do a fish tail-

I got to exporting and it says require animator.avatar.

Thank you a lot! It helped me so much!

for some reason when I try to export my model an error message pops up and it says that I can't export one of my hairs for the tail.

It works! Thanks you very much~

Do you know if this still works with the new vroid update? I'm trying to rig the tail with the new version and I'm not sure where I messed up

Is it possible to edit the body to make, for example, fairy wings and mermaid tail?

for me when i klick on hair it only marks all hair there? like there no seperate or anything

if its okay i would like advice on something Ive downloaded all that you said in the tutorial , got it to load correctly but i cant. turn the head to check the way you do is there something more I'm missing ? I'm currently working on my bunny tail to get it to stay in place , i still am learning how to make my own tail as well which is an even bigger process because its a tail like vaporeons and i have no idea where or what else i need to do i cant get the prefab thing to show up. but when i opened it it made me make save a prefab on its own. so I am not quite sure what I'm missing or if i missed steps or something i keep seeming to just be stuck getting to the next steps

Is it possible to make a tail sway left and right?

is there maybe a way to make the ears flop down with a blendshape? like if its a sad expression the ears can go down? :o

The tail still reacts to the head movement. Is there a way to attach it to the butt? I'm looking everywhere but still can't figure it out

Some of the HairJoint-long-number bones aren't showing up, the regular hair is, but the hair i used to make a belt is not?

You didn't put a link in the description, but that's okay. I forgive you. c:

What version of unity are you using? I dont have a tool option. Im using unity 2018.40. And bone weight wont get onto my unity software

is there an update to all this because i dont get the all the indavidual hair things and it doesn't transfer :(

Should the unity part still work? I only see one hair group under the group 'Hairs' which is everything, head hair and tail 21:55

5:08 how do you seperate the ear texture from the hair texture??

great video! :D are you able to upload the avatar to vrchat afterwards?

My ears are on a different Freehand Group from my hair but when I go to the Textures there's only one group showing and won't let me shade in the ears without coloring in the hair?

If I have a character with a thick reptilian tail and long hair, is it posible to keep the hair from clipping with the tail?

thank you thank you thank you! this helped so much!

Do you know if once your done, if there is a way to import it back into vroid, if not, are there any ways to continue editing the model, and how to import it into a tracker, or do I have to go complete the model, go to unity, and that’s it. Thanks!

but then i have too many materials and meshes to upload to vrchat. idk how to fix this

I can't get this to work properly and some things are very different from the tutorial now, which surprised me since this video isn't really old. All I do, step by step: - Import the UniVRM-0.73.0_af50.unitypackage plugin inside Unity. (I was using the last stable version before, UniVRM-0.66.0_39d5, with no success either.) - Click the button called VRM0 and click "Import", and import my character which is just a nude male model with the tail and nothing else. - Drag the character from the Assets list to the Hierarchy list on the left. - Since there is no "Open prefab asset" option like you show, instead I click Prefab -> Open Asset in Context. (There's another option called "Open Asset in Isolation" and many others, like Unpack). - Import the "BoneWeightTransfer.unitypackage" Inside unity, then click "Tools" -> BoneWeightTransfer. (I also tried importing both plugins before adding the character in Unity, no difference.) - Add "HairJoint(big random name)" in the first slot, Head in the second slot, Hips in the third slot. Click the button to start the plugin. - Get the error "MissingComponentException: There is no 'SkinnedMeshRenderer' attached to the "HairJoint-27e4fbf9-c5e0-4be5-8c7b-02aea77c0d31" game object, but a script is trying to access it.". - Click the "HairJoint(big random name)", and in the right panel with the infos I click Add Component -> Mesh -> Skinned Mesh Renderer. - I then click the Mesh area and change it to the one that looks like the tail. - Get the error "Bones do not match bindpose." and can't find any way to fix it. Try to run the plugin again, get the same error. - Add the Hair001 to the slot anyway and try to run the plugin, this time it says "Success" in the console. - Export and the result is a tail that spins like crazy when I move the head up/down from side view, it seems like the very base of it is properly attached to the hips, but then the next part gets attached to the head again. If anyone watching this video now was able to do it, please share which versions of everything you're using. I tried all the stables and all the "latests" versions of everything with no success for now. =(

i might be using the wrong version of unity, but it all worked until about 21:53, i only have one hair, "Hair001", (not using this tutorial for tails exactly but it still seems to be a help) how do i fix this? I selected the "change hair crosssection" button when exporting i think so that might be related Edit: Crossection isnt related, what do i do D:

After tool asset installation i still haven't the ''Open prefab asset'' right clic option. Any idea how to resolve?

Your hat is amazing!

Silly question: How are you getting mirror control points to work? It only does one at a time for me. Also I appreciate the video even if I'm late. Its helping me alot to go through these.

hello argma :3 your tutorial was very helpfull. however on the bone changing part in unity it seams that your first pass on to move the hairJoint is not needed because it does not contain the bone itself, it's the hair## that has the reference of the bone needed. aslong has you have moved the joint to the hips then use the tool on the hair## it will work :3 notice that you did get an error on the hairjoint because the tool cannot access it it does not know what to do with it. thank you again for the tutorial keep up the work :3

Hey Argama! Thanks for the tutorials, they've helped me a lot in making my model. I just have one problem; when i go to look at the individual hairs in unity, for whatever reason, it's counting it all as one hair rather than giving me each individual hair. Idk what to do about it and was hoping you could help me.

Thanks!

How do you connect the tail so there is no gaps? like the tail is floating for me.

hi thanks for the vid!!! um >.< any tips for round ears? like for a bear or hamster type character.... i tried but they didnt turn out quite as nice lol

ok so I downloaded unity and got the unity3d vrm package thing installed - how do I import my vrm model now?

I'm having trouble exporting my vrm after fixing her tail, wings, and accessories to not move with her head. I'm using Unity 2019.4.27f1 and UniVRM 0.53.0. When I go to export my model it says "Require animator.avatar".

Is it just as easy to split up the bone groups in Blender OOI?

what music did you use in this video

Here's the link sigepon.booth.pm/items/1784758 for Unity_BoneWeightTransfer_v0.1

Btw how are you tracking your hands?

What is the song playing in the background?

All I'm finding is joints, is this an issue with version, or the model? also It wants an ExportRoot, and idk what that is lol

I have a second, semi transparent, floating tail above my head. Not sure what I did wrong lol, any ideas?

Ok, so I got the bone weight but what's weird is my avatar disappears when I press play? o.O

I can't get the tail bones / animation right. When I'm watching this video I see you click onto 2 different layers with different settings for the tail. I tried both settings but can't get a tail to stay attached / close to the back. Any advice? :3

Amazing looking avatar, but oh my god, 100k triangles and no material reduction. I am gonna guess the number is inflated by that hat, which is not included in the final mesh. Still, low-spec players in VRChat will hate you if they don't have the avatar filter on. Having multiple materials is really bad as instead of the GPU rendering a mesh just once, it has to render it multiple times, which is why I recommend to use as few materials as possible. I also noticed not going into mesh simplification and ticking off on removing transparent parts. What this does is that it removes parts of the mesh that is made invisible by the texture as it still has to be rendered. Taking the time to remove the parts of the body texture that will not be visible will trim of a decent amount of triangles depending on how much of the body is made invisible. My current avatar is about 12k triangles, though I did export it without material reduction as I then imported the model into Blender, used CATS plugin to fix the model and then used CATS material combiner to combine everything into a single material using a 4096x4096 texture atlas. After setting up shading and the material within Unity, my textures and shading maps came in on about 5mb (medium quality with crunch compression at 100%) ranging from 512x512 to 4096x4096 depending on their use. Minor perceivable loss in quality as it is mostly flat shaded. Sometimes... I really do wish VRChat had some stricter limits on PC to encourage people to optimize their avatars.

how would you do it so you can link fox or cat ears to like eye brows so when you raise your eye brows the ears move ?