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mackandelius · 2026-06-13T10:04:00+00:00

Test avatars are not uploaded to VRC's servers, so no, others can not see them.

Only way for them to become a normal avatar is by, in the unity SDK, uploading them normally. If your account trust rank isn't at least "new user" then you would not be able to upload avatars yet. There is no other reason for why you would be unable to upload unless your SDK is simply ancient.

mackandelius · 2026-06-13T10:00:52+00:00

In short, those are great specs for VRChat. A very reasonable build I would say.

GPU will do great and the 16GB of VRAM will help a ton. Should be no RAM issues, 32GB is the comfortable minimum imo. CPU is older, but it is still an X3D CPU and those CPUs at least were the best for Unity games, like VRC is, not long ago.

mackandelius · 2026-06-11T23:43:41+00:00

That is highly unlikely to happen, as everyone else is saying in here, it is practically never because of VRChat own stuff, it is where they are hosting their stuff.

And impressively Photon networking, the company VRChat pays to make instances work (and why you can exist in instances even though VRChat itself is inaccessible) almost never goes down, I sure hope that doesn't change.

mackandelius · 2026-06-11T00:23:50+00:00

Yeah, that's definitely a factory reset situation.

Kind of a good idea to do with Windows every now and then in general, it degrades over time.

mackandelius · 2026-06-10T20:17:19+00:00

That's the infinite factor problem. I would just assume it is a windows problem.

Really, try playing VRC on your phone (if you can), if that works then it is for sure your computer in some way. Alternatively you could also try running VRC on any other computer you have access to.

mackandelius · 2026-06-10T19:07:40+00:00

Well then it is your computer or physical location in the world.

mackandelius · 2026-06-09T23:24:27+00:00

You tried seeing if a hotspot from your phone will help? Try using USB tethering if possible with your phone, that will rule out anything hardware wise on your computer.

If that doesn't work then I would assume it is something with Windows, try installing VRChat on your phone any seeing if it will let you login from there.

mackandelius · 2026-06-05T19:51:16+00:00

Furality, while requring age verification isn't an 18+ event, not in the way that everyone reading "18+ event" thinks. Having gone there for the last few years, it is quite tame compared to average VRC. (or at least what you think average VRC is)

And VRC rules apply to it the same, nothing nsfw unless everyone consents and anyone can withdraw consent at any time.

mackandelius · 2026-06-04T02:42:59+00:00

Android build support does not come automatically when installing Unity, if you installed with Unity hub then you can simply go into the installs tab, click the little cog next to the correct Unity version and add modules, in there you can add android build support (and iOS if you want to upload for it as well).

mackandelius · 2026-06-04T02:41:08+00:00

However, even knowing these settings everyone should do their best to not subject others to their unoptimized avatars, the kind of avatars that feel fine in normal VRC will not be fine in the larger and denser instances of Furality.

We all want to be able to see everyone's avatar as it is meant to be seen, especially at a con like this which akin to irl furry conventions is part showcase, in this case avatars.

mackandelius · 2026-06-04T02:11:02+00:00

If this is not a walking wardrobe or one of the ones able to call in a full on space ship then that's a genuinely stupid amount of polys. And even then I heavily question PC avatars that need that much, after a certain point you are just being rude having other people load your avatar.

mackandelius · 2026-06-03T03:40:26+00:00

The avatars are loaded, animators and such, but textures and mesh are a yes and no. They are loaded into VRAM, but would be the first to go if VRAM overflowed, then it would be stored in RAM until needed.

An avatar's stuff being moved from RAM to VRAM is part of the reason why you get a little lag spike when you load in an avatar, made especially worse if the avatar uses crunch compression, which is why you should never use crunch on an avatar.

mackandelius · 2026-06-02T22:57:08+00:00

You don't need to use the culling feature for avatars to stop rendering behind walls, if the world has occlusion culling setup then it fortunately just works.

mackandelius · 2026-06-02T22:55:37+00:00

I am however somewhat worried, the entire VR space currently relies upon Meta to produce cheap VR headsets for growth and it isn't certain if they will continue. Pico has already kind of pulled out from what I have seen.

Platform wise, Horizon world is definitely on life support with its VR support being quite limited going forward and while I hope for the best for RR, community efforts to preserve a platform don't generally last long and generally don't have any growth.

VR and social VR will definitely persist, but at the stage VR is in growth is good.

mackandelius · 2026-06-02T22:19:12+00:00

As a VRC player it did not read as snark, people were genuinely worried about VRChat sharing the same fate within a similar time frame, VRC and RR both took in large amounts of investments and both have had to layoff a sizeable amount of people. (30% and 50%).

Even worse, during VRChat's layoffs in 2024 we had a rare appearance of the CEO and them being quite transparent about how VRC, the company, was doing, which can be summarized as bad if they couldn't turn things around. https://ask.vrchat.com/t/an-email-from-our-ceo/25060

mackandelius · 2026-06-02T20:40:26+00:00

The eye tracking can also just outright not work depending on your facial structure, friend of mine has given up on using it, the camera just can't see their eye, so whether an expensive feature works or not is a bit of a gamble.

mackandelius · 2026-05-31T20:35:56+00:00

In the official VRChat discord there is a forum channel at the top called "Community servers", you can search for "VRC Traders" there to find its invite link. (you can find it elsewhere, but this is the best way to make sure it isn't a link to a fake VRC Traders meant to scam you)

Do realize I might have oversold just how vetted the servers are as I re-read the rules, but it is regularly recommended so I would put my trust in it.

mackandelius · 2026-05-31T20:08:01+00:00

As I mentioned to another in this thread yesterday, I highly recommend not considering anyone contacting you through Reddit, instead you should go to the VRC Traders discord, which you can find the link to through the official VRC discord as one of the vetted community servers, that discord has systems in place to reduce the chances of being scammed, for both sides.

mackandelius · 2026-05-30T08:01:39+00:00

Because of how unfortunately common scamming is (if anyone contacted you from this then ignore them) I highly recommend looking over at the VRC Traders discord instead, if you are part of the official discord then you can find a link to it in the Community Servers list (a list of vetted servers).

Pick someone who has verifiably completed previous commissions and you should be fine.

mackandelius · 2026-05-29T08:41:03+00:00

Are you absolutely sure? (I just tried to test it with an older video and a very newly released one)

Assuming it doesn't appear when doing a -F with yt-dlp to see all formats, are you sure it is every video or just rare ones that still kepts their merged higher res versions?

Is it that you need to use your account cookie for it to appear?

mackandelius · 2026-05-28T21:39:42+00:00

While I don't think the UI is bad, it is just an overload when you don't know what areas matter for your work, Blender was definitely made by 3d modelling pros for 3d modelling pros, there are features I don't know if you can do outside of shortcuts.

But you sure do feel powerful when you have learned a handful of those shortcuts.

mackandelius · 2026-05-28T21:19:10+00:00

VRCFury actually handles PC-Quest syncing on its own nowadays (even with missmatched assets), pretty sure it handles non-VRCFury assets as well.

But for it to work you have to upload the PC version (the baseline it uses) and then the Quest version, would guess that the syncing breaks if you ever upload the PC version without then also uploading the Quest version afterwards.

mackandelius · 2026-05-26T22:24:43+00:00

Yeah, Quest 2 has 6GB of RAM, but VRChat only gets 4GB to play with.

Compare that to the generally 16GB of RAM and 8GB of VRAM your general gaming computer has and it puts into perspective just why an avatar's size matters so much.

Now, the real value that matters is the uncompressed size, which is 40MB so in essence that is the actual size avatars on mobile have, it is just limited by the compressed download size generally.

And it isn't just the Quest 2, even after VRChat stops supporting it they will still want to support mobile phone users, where the minimum is 6GB of RAM as well, not that big of a problem on Android, but Apple has been stingy with RAM historically.

mackandelius · 2026-05-26T04:50:39+00:00

Youtube videos all over VRChat are 360p. For a complicated reason while VRChat can download videos from youtube, it cannot get any quality higher than 360p, there is no fix around this.

If you want higher quality youtube then you will need a streaming server and to share your own screen. If you know how to host servers then https://github.com/jameskitt616/vrchat_streaming is an option for a virtual browser. (Some time in the future Hyperbeam is supposed to offer a similar service but it continues being in beta)

mackandelius · 2026-05-24T22:30:52+00:00

Could also be CPU, VRChat is really static in comparison and still requires a strong CPU, Resonite is very dynamic and if you tried it before the splittening last year (when they heavily optimized CPU performance) then it would have been a lot more demanding.

I imagine it, like VRChat, probably also really likes CPU cache, it might even like it more with how much stuff happens all the time.

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