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Alright! Spooky season is here, and with it, VRChat’s Spookality world jam. Of course, with a bunch of people jumping on new projects, that gives us the perfect opportunity to talk about Quest compatibility and other best practices. Now, the actual document...

First of all, uploading to Quest will require Android Support for Unity. The Creator Companion will install this on its own, but you can install it yourself through Unity Hub. In the “Installs” tab, find VRChat’s current version, hit the gear and select “A...

This next step only applies if you have a project that was made in the 2018 version or older, so most of you can skip this specifically. But if you have, make sure to open up your “Project Settings” window, go to “Editor”, and make sure that “Asset Pipeline M...

Since Windows and Android are dramatically different platforms, Unity compresses and formats files in different ways. Whenever you swap between PC and Android though, Unity will store the state of your files or “cache” them, for when you convert it back to th...

Now, to make things work on the Quest, VRChat has quite a few limitations you’ll have to follow for uploading content. Avatars are by far the strictest, though the added freedom in world making leaves a lot of things you’ll have to take into account yourself....

Trying to cut down on file size is actually pretty easy with some community tools. One’s VRWorld Toolkit will give you a full report of all the files that are being uploaded to VRChat after every build, so after testing your world or avatar once, it will gi...

One of the hardest things for the Quest to handle is transparency, you’ll notice that none of the shaders you can upload for Avatars even ALLOW it. For worlds, most if not all the shaders included with Unity will function, though keep in mind that some custom...

And the last big restriction for worlds is, of course, that non-file URLs do not work in Video Players. Let's break that one down a bit more. YouTube DL is the program VRChat uses for turning any random video url, like a youtube link or a soundcloud song, in...

And there ya go! Keep in mind this is by no means an exhaustive list, just a good start to get people knowing what a quest project will require and how to get going on one.   I hope this has been helpful for you and I look forward to seeing more Que...