I haven’t managed to put much of a dent into my VRC Wishlist I wrote up back in September last year, and some of these annoyances are actually keeping me from wanting to hop into VR and be social because they bother me so much.
I noodled with the idea over on Mastodon of putting together some kind of bug-bounty style “Bod Bounty” for VR avatar work. Few of my projects are the kind of big, sustained “Entire model from scratch” kind of work that more professional VR artists take on, and social anxiety can make it tough to ask talented people I hang out with if they’d be comfortable (or even have the time) to do some model work and what they might offer in exchange.
So here’s my pitch – I’ve got three annoyances I’d like to fix, and they all seem like they’d be pretty straight forward to solve, if I actually understood Blender/Unity, so I’ll potentially pay you 45$USD to fix one of these annoyances for me.
If you reach out to me (See my contact page – ping me on Masto, bsky, discord, or hit up the blog name at gmail) with some good-faith indication you’ve got experience with VRC AV’s, or an idea about fixing my issues, I’ll pay 15$ for a 15 minute discord call to discuss the problem and share any relevant files you might need. Following that I’ll pay 30$ per fix. My estimate and assumptions are that each of these problems is likely under an hour of work, if that. However, I am open to negotiate and accept an invoice if your rate is higher than 30$/hour or I’m seriously underestimating the work involved.
With all that said, the rest of this post is describing my particularly pressing AV issues:
Avatar: Customized Foxipaws Felix Feline avatar. This AV’s baseline is immensely under optimized. I managed to make a somewhat lower poly version without all the bells and whistles but it has some lingering issues. Most of these asks likely require exporting to Blender and fussing with geometry and FBX files.
Issue 1: Wandering Tail? Syndrome: My “Friendly” baked-down AV has some extra geometry – It leaves a scrungled Lynx tail (or something) at the origin coordinates of the world that I can’t ever seem to delete properly.
Issue 2: Lack of Thiccness. I’d like the rather waifish Felix AV to have a bit more heft in the thighs, ideally done in some way that makes readjusting all of the clothing straight forward, or one set of clothes is adjusted alongside the remodel (Refs of Ghost are available on specifics.) I also want this to be a “friendly” (performance-wise) model, so this can either use my existing “friendly” version or export, modify, and bake down the full Felix model.
Issue 3: New Threads. I’ve got a Kimono model I’d like to add on to the Felix, including rough fitting and the VRCfury style toggle menus. I’ve done this with some clothes already but felt like it was a rough hack and figured I would include it here as an option as well.
If these sound like AV problems in your wheelhouse, reach out to me as outlined above!
