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Getting your VRM ready If you bought your avatar from CryptoAvatars.io or you already have a VRM file, congrats! You don't have to do anything here, you can go to next section. This part of the guide is only for people who want to use one of our +100 free avatars or any fbx model for their meetings. Get your FBX ready, because you are going to turn it into a VRM file. For this part, you will need Unity 2019.4LTS and the last avaible version of the VRM plugin for Unity, which you can download right here: https://github.com/vrm-c/UniVRM/releases Once you have both, just create a new Unity Project and drag and drop the UnityPackage containing the VRM plugin. Get you FBX and texture into the project too, and create a new material. Make sure everything is correct. Things that you should be on the look out are:
Now everything is ready, is time to export. Select your avatar and go to the top left of your screen, to VRM → UniVRM 0.58 (or whatever version you are using) → export humanoid. Set the language to english, if you haven't already, and add a title, author and version of the avatar. Now click export and save it wherever you want. Nice! You now have a VRM file that you can use on the next steps. Basic VMagicMirror settings
Once you start it up you will see a green screen and another window in Japanese. We will set the language to English, of course. Now is time to load in our VRM file. Use the "Load File on PC" button to find your VRM file. The avatar should appear out of frame. Right below the load button there is and Adjust Size by VRM. Click it and should make everything a bit more on focus. It is very likely that the avatar arms might look broken, we are going to change that now. Go into the settings menu and into the Motion subsection and you will see Arm menu, and there are 2 options you want to look "Waist width" and "strength to keep upper arm to body [%]" You can tinker with those 2 options until you get a desireable result.
More VMagicMirror settings The basic stuff is ready to go, but, if you want to change anything else, these other settings might help you tune what you want. Changing the position of the camera Open the settings window and find the "Layout" menu. Here you'll find all the Camera settings you need. By checking "Free Camera Mode" you'll be able to move the camera all you want inside the View Window, where your Avatar is. Clicking with the middle mouse button allows you to move the camera and the right click button rotates the camera around. Using the scroll wheel up and down you can zoom in and out. You can also change the Field Of View (FOV) just below the "Free Camera Mode".
Changing the position of the devices around your avatar On the same "Layout" menu, you will see the "Devices" submenu, and just check "Free Layout". Once that's done return back to the screen where your avatar is, and you will find gizmos in each of the devices your avatar interacts with. Use the gizmos to reposition the devices to your liking. On the top left you can change if you want to change the position, the rotation and the scale of the devices, as well as changing if you want the gizmos to use the device as reference of coordinates by selecting "Local" or use global coordinates with "World". Finally, if you want to go to the Default camera, just click the button on the bottom and the camera should reset itself inmediately. Turning off all devices Now, if you don't want to have any device and just want your avatar to stand up and talk, you can disable all the devices on the same Layout menu. Just scroll down until you see the Device Visibility and there you can see different options you can turn on and off. I would suggest that if you turn off all the devices, you also select the "Always-Hands-Down Mode" in the Motion Menu. Changing the background You can change the background color if you dont wan't the bright green color of the chroma by going into the "Window" menu and using the Background Edit color option. Now is up to you how you want the background to look. You can also make the background completely transparent by going into the "Basic settings" just above the Background submenu and toggling the "Transparent Window" option. Setting up some animations
Saving and loading configurations Do you have your place set up and want to save it for other time? You can! Just head back to VMagicMirror Menu, not the settings, the menu where you can load your avatar, and on the bottom right, you will see different options under the name "Setting Management". There you can Save, Load and Reset to default if you want. Saving creates a .VMM file with all the information inside about how everything is set up. Once you have that file saved on a folder, you only need to click on load and everything will set up correctly. Zoom time Now is time to set up Zoom. This one is easy and fast. Since VMagicMirror is a program, you must use the "Share screen" option instead of a webcam. Find the window your avatar is in, and just click share. Be mindful, if it ever says that the screen sharing has stopped, because you minimized the screen or any other reason, you can always restart it by clicking Resume Screen Sharing on the menu toolbar that appears on the top or botton of your screen. This will make that your VMagicMirror screen is always sharing to other people even when you interact with other programs. Other Options: 3teneFREE Is a free, VRM compatible with similar characteristics to VMagicMirror. One of the differences is being able to highly customize the background, with the possibility of even adding other 3D models to the scene. Trouble-Shooting
If that still doesn't work, it's possible that the blendshapes are not correctly set up for the VMagicMirror. We are going to fix that, and we are going to need Unity 2019.4 LTS and the lastest VRM plugin for Unity which you can download it here. https://github.com/vrm-c/UniVRM/releases Just download the UnityPackage file and drag and drop into Unity to install it. Now do the same with your VRM. Drag and drop it into Unity. When it finishes loading all the file, it will appear a bunch of folders, referencing the VRM. One of these folders is called "Blendshapes". Enter it, and it will appear a bunch of different names. For the sake of simplicity, the only ones that we will take a look are:
For example, if you are on A, you need to find "vrc_v_aa" since thats the one that matches. Same for every other:
Drop it into the scene, click on him, go to VRM → UniVRM 0.58 (or whatever version you are using) → export humanoid and just click export, since it already has all the information inside. My arm is not bending correctly Unfortunately, VMagicMirror is still fairly early in development and this kind of things can happen. Just the way some of the IK are set up makes it impossible from our end to fix these kind of problems. If changing the arm parameters like I said before doesn't make the result better, you might want to try other program for a more permanent solution. Pedro Solans 3D ANIMATOR Junior 3D Animator improving every day possible. Videogame and cat enthusiast.
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