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Anyone who’s tried to learn creating content for VRChat understands the lack of collected, concise learning materials. Tutorials are scattered, with many being barebones, outdated or go against best practices (including VRChat’s official documentation). The go...

The geometry of the models are called a mesh, and are made of polygons, or 2D shapes: triangles (3 sides), quads (4) and n-gons (5+, typically undesirable). These polygons are made of vertices (the points), edges, and faces. Originally posted by ck12.org: ...

To upload custom content to the game, you must install a specific version of Unity, the VRChat SDK, and use a VRChat account (not Steam or Oculus) of at least New User (Blue) ranking. Installing Unity Follow this official tutorial by VRChat to get started by...

The following section on materials will cover what is needed to know for both avatars and worlds. Specifics for avatars and worlds will be covered in their respective sections. Color or detail is applied to the mesh by using a material. It combines a shader ...

Optimization is incredibly important for VRChat. Being in VR, it should run at a high frame rate so the users can play the game comfortably. I’ve experienced many times when my friends or I had to quit because we were feeling too nauseous. Material Slots Eac...

Organize your files! It sounds boring but it will save you a ton of headache in the long run!I would recommend creating a dedicated folder for VRChat project assets, and splitting the assets up by first: Avatars Worlds And then: Textures Models (if ...

For those interested. Learning Blender is not always necessary. There are plenty of 3D assets, including free ones, that you can find on the Unity Asset Store or Booth. As experts like Blender Guru have said, it is generally more efficient not to make your ow...

Finding avatars Avatars are commonly found on digital asset marketplace sites like booth.pm and Gumroad. Jinxxy is another alternative, more similar to the content on Gumroad. Avatown is an alternative that kind of sells everything. Booth: Anime girl aesthet...

CATS CATS is the Swiss Army knife of VRChat avatar creation in Blender, especially when converting non-VRChat avatars into ones that are VRChat compatible. It also makes it easy to fix a plethora of problems that come with 3D models. CATS Documentation (lear...

VRoid For those who don’t want to deal with much of the nitty-gritty involved with most workflows of avatar creation, and instead would prefer a more cohesive, traditionally artistic approach, there is an option called VRoid. What you do is create a model us...

Have you ever wanted to make your own world, but never new where to start? I am currently making a step-by-step tutorial series about how to make your own room in VRChat for the absolute beginner! The entire playlist

The easiest and most comprehensive way to learn world creation is by watching the tutorial series linked at the top of this guide: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPdWkxUSZ65Fp6ICr\ I recommend using VRWorldToolkit: a Unity Editor extension for making VR...

Pickupabble objects require 3 components: Rigid body: allows object to interact with physics [called a rigid body because there is no deformation] Collider: allows the collider to collide with other colliders (so the object will not simply pass through e...

Prefabs allow for an object and all its components to be saved into a single asset.These are especially useful for things like light fixtures or pickupables! Combine a light source and a 3D model into a prefab! Combine a pickupable, its vrc_pickup script and...

Types of lighting: Real-time- calculates lighting every frame Baked- pre-calculates lighting on the editor’s computer and generates light maps (textures that contain lighting and shading) which are overlaid on those objects Mixed- combination of baked f...

Have you ever pulled on a door handle, only when you should have pushed? Level design, like door design, is best when you never even notice it.Through level design you can make people perform actions subliminally. It may sound obvious, but people won’t do what...

Particles[docs.unity3d.com] An important note about particles, you may have seen that if you roll your headset in-game that particles will rotate with your head motions. Untick “Allow Roll” under the renderer tab if the option is present. This will fix the ...

You can easily apply post processing to your scene by using the quick function in VRWorldToolkit. Read Silent’s post for more info. Motion Blur, Depth of Field, and any Screen Space effects (reflections, ambient occlusion, etc.) should not be used in VR. If ...