important to those making this now: make sure you enable synced and saved to the hue expressions parameter, this will allow others to see it and it to save when you change worlds
Thank you for a very quick and concise tutorial on this, kept coming across older blendshape ones usually longer than 10 minutes, this is way easier! Absolutely splendid.
Glad this helped out! I used to make sliders with a different method as well for the longest time, but I swapped over to this and have been using it for quite a while now and found it to be the easiest and quickest way to make a slider!
That is awesome! I was hoping it would be easy enough for people to apply this video to other sliders if they needed to since it covers the basics for what ya would need! Glad the slider works for ya and your emission in worlds!!
whats the odds?... i was looking for a tutorial like this yesterday and didnt find any and now... the day after... youtube recommended me it on my front page... thank you and youtube! ❤
I had some issues with this where I followed the steps pretty much 1 to 1 and when trying to test the slider it would never work. My solution was related to something you mentioned in another comment, where first of all the animator controller was set to something completely different (in the prefab menu), and what I had done was saving these layers and parameters to that controller, so when the model loads and starts using the actual FX controller (which it loads somehow now instead of the one I had been saving stuff to), my animation parameters and layers dont exist anymore. So in short, check that the animator controller in your prefab is the correct one and the one you are saving these layers and parameters to, hope it helps and saves someone time.
I believe poiyomi shader has an option under the color adjust section that is "hue shift" and you can input a number that determines how quickly it shifts at a constant speed. You could set up an animation where "off" would set the speed to 0 and "on" would set the speed to whatever you like. You'd just use a boolean to toggle between "true" and "false" allowing you to swap between the off and on animations.
@@Kazuma25-36 you could set up a toggle for the hue shift that i just mentioned and then set up a separate control for a hue slider as shown in the video if you wanted to.
im not sure what is not working for me. The animation plays properly and is changing the correct things but when in play mode it doesnt do anything still. all my parameters are setup correctly and are linked together so idk why its not working while in play mode
Really sorry about the late response! I'm not sure if you have it figured out by now, but you will want to make sure that your FX controller is in your animator component on your avatar's base so that you can test the float in unity.
There is a way to assign a animation to a face expression? For example, I wanna make the tail wag when i click in the smile face expression, make the ears fold back when in angry expression
You can, I actually do that with my headpat contacts and nose boop. You would just want to make an animation for a tail wag, and then have a transition to it that occurs with the same transition conditions as whichever face expression you want it to line up with. I.e. if you have happy face on finger point (gesture right/left = 3) then you'd want to set your tail wag animation to occur with those same conditions.
I came back here and I facing another problem. The keyframes of the material isn't being created when modify the parameters like you did (0:50) to create the hue shift, i have to add it manual in Add Properties! There is any solution?
You'll want to make sure that your FX controller is in your animator component on your avatar's base, then click on your avatar in the hierarchy and go to the animation tab and a list of your animations should pop up and let you record the animation how i did.
@@Wolfy527 Also i figured out you need to access Hue Shift slider on your material directly on a mesh, rather than doing that on a material picked from project explorer. Hope that makes sense.
My next video that I am making is actually covering navigating through unity and setting your UI up similarly to mine. It'll cover shortcuts, UI, and just some helpful tips and tricks that I and some other avatar creators have discovered while working in Unity!
Sorry about that! I had quite a few people tell me it was difficult to see what was going on with the videos being in 1440p and they asked me to zoom in on things to see easier, but it can make the video a bit harder to follow when moving around the UI quite a bit.
How does one do in 7.3 version? When I right click it only pops up a clock or whatever next to the "hue shift" but it does nothing when recording in the animation. I have made sure that it is the right material in the right animation controller and that I am recording the change. I have had problems with light in 8.0 so I rather not use that one.
The clock in 7.3 is the same thing as the A in the 8.0 version of the shader. It's just indicating that the value can be changed after being locked in on the shader. You'll want to make sure that you right click "Hue Shift" or whatever value you might be changing before you start recording your animation so that it doesn't actually record the animated part being turned on. You'll also want to make sure that the hue slider you're changing is the correct one. The one I used as an example in this video is for the base color of your material, but if you're trying to hue shift an emission, then you'd want to go to the emission section and find the "Hue Shift" in that section and do this process there.
idk why for me it wouldnt record when i try to change the emission strength and hue. i tired locking and unlocking. am following this video step by step and still not working ; v ; help
You'll want to make sure that you are recording your animation in the correct FX Controller (should place it in your animator component) and that you have your avatar selected in the hiearchy when you are trying to record it. Unity can be a bit finnacky at times and has the animation tab greyed out when trying to record unless you select your avatar in the hierarchy.
Unless the development team released a buggy SDK or Poiyomi recently made a change I am unaware of, this very much does still work as I use it on multiple of my own avatars currently, among other uses like scaling my avatar up and down and even moving objects around with a float value.
Hmm, have you been able to identify which step might be breaking? Things that would be good to check are whether or not you have your FX controller in your animator component on your avatar's base, making sure that the animation did record properly, checking if the hue slider on the material is right-clicked (if you're using poiyomi) so that it knows it can be animated, and then also checking to make sure that you have a float in the motion time!
Tried this five or six times, got trouble making a hue slider for my avali, every time I load it in game it runs as if its set to a high speed instead of being a slider.
You'll want to make sure that you have a float parameter in the "Motion Time" on the animation and then use that float parameter for the slider itself to scrub across the animation. I would double check if you have your motion time set to a float!
Sorry! It was implied that you'd right click and create a "New Folder" and just name it "Slider" so that you can place your animations in it. Everything in the video is something that can be created by anyone who follows along, no prefabs or such anywhere.
@@tuesday6653 Well there's a multitude of things that can go wrong, so narrowing that down would definitely be the best thing to do. It'd be good to check that you right clicked the slider in poiyomi to make sure it can be animated when locked in, and you'll also want to make sure you recorded the animation itself properly, as well as that you're using the correct float in the motion time of the animation.
You will want to make sure that you put the parameter we create in the FX Layer in your "VRCExpressionParameters" list as well. It can be found by clicking your avatar's base in the hierarchy and then selecting the drop down for "Expressions" under the VRC Avatar Descriptor component.
I believe the best way for setting something like this up for quest would be something similar, but not exactly the same. You would end up recording multiple keyframes of the different colors across the color wheel for the animation to scrub across. I.e. Your first keyframe would be red, your second would be purple, your third would be dark blue, forth would be light blue, etc. until you make it around the wheel. Once you have done that, just make sure that the keyframes span across around a second long of an animation (or more) evenly and the rest of this video should be the same for quest from there.
So the float works in the editor in playmode but when i bring it into the game the slider slowly shifts the hue to be gray instead of the colors i wanted, and then back to my original color. Is there a reason for that?
Hmm, that is an odd issue. I can't remember if there is a saturation slider off the top of my head, but you might want to make sure you didn't accidentally record something like that instead. Other than that, the hue slider should remain colored throughout the entire wheel.
@@Wolfy527 in the editor when I adjust the float value, it works just find and the colors do change, but in game it just goes gray. th-cam.com/video/U3vyV7nMlS0/w-d-xo.html
@@Wrenosaur_ That is extremely odd.. I would just double check through the animation itself to make sure things are correct and also make sure that no other animations in your FX affect your eye color somehow. Or if you have an eye material swap that you're using the correct material and such.
With the saber FX properly merged into your own, there should be a "Plasmasaber/Net/Hue" float parameter that you will want to use for your in-game menu. If you're familiar with making a toggle for your in-game menu, then you will want to do the same thing, but change the type to "Radial Puppet" instead of "Toggle" and then put the prior mentioned float parameter in the "rotation parameter" slot, leaving the "parameter" slot above it with "none."
is there a way you could possibly make a video regarding how to make an RGB slow shifting animation using poi (like using the shift speed thing)? I cant find any vides on youtube, like at all
Hi, sorry for the slow response! In the newest Poiyomi there is a "Color Adjust" tab and under it is the "Hue Shift" tab. You'll want to check the boxes for both of these and then you can make an animation that adjusts the "Hue Shift Speed" which is a constant shift through hues, or you can use the "Hue Shift" slider and create a radial puppet.
Sorry for the late response! You'll want to make sure that your FX Controller is in your "Animator Component" on your avatar's base so that you can record / add keyframes to your animations properly.
You can, but it isn't exactly the same. Instead of recording the sliding bar on Poiyomi, Quest uses standard shaders, so you will have to record an animation per keyframe. I.e. your first keyframe might be red, second is green, third is yellow, forth is blue, and so on until you go around the color wheel. That way when you scrub across the animation it will be similar to how poiyomi's hue shift works.
@@FerGalicia That would work fine as well! There usually isn't one way to do things or necessarily a best way either! Glad you found something that works well for ya!
Sorry I don't understand what you're saying, but if you're havng problems with the hue slider, I only used a cube here as an example to show how to set up a slider, you'd want to use this with whatever you're wanting to create a slider for.
important to those making this now: make sure you enable synced and saved to the hue expressions parameter, this will allow others to see it and it to save when you change worlds
I forgot to mention that, but yes you will want to do that to save across worlds! Thank ya!
where do i do that?
Thank you for a very quick and concise tutorial on this, kept coming across older blendshape ones usually longer than 10 minutes, this is way easier!
Absolutely splendid.
Glad I was able to help out and in a shorter form at that haha! I appreciate the kind words!
one of my unity saviors
Super happy that the videos help out! Got some more videos that should be coming out soon!
subscribed, good tutorial! quick, easy, efficient. and you finally taught me how animating poiyomi materials worked! and by accident!
a whole year later and this helped me, thanks ur a life saver!
Thanks! I've been using the Blend Shape method previously, but this is much easier.
Glad this helped out! I used to make sliders with a different method as well for the longest time, but I swapped over to this and have been using it for quite a while now and found it to be the easiest and quickest way to make a slider!
Got it working perfect for my basic emission, so that I can adjust my avatar lighting on the fly!
That is awesome! I was hoping it would be easy enough for people to apply this video to other sliders if they needed to since it covers the basics for what ya would need! Glad the slider works for ya and your emission in worlds!!
whats the odds?... i was looking for a tutorial like this yesterday and didnt find any and now... the day after... youtube recommended me it on my front page... thank you and youtube! ❤
That is awesome! Glad you were able to find the video and hopefully it helped out!
@@Wolfy527 it did. thanks again for this tutorial :3
@@floofaxllaxll No problem! I have some more in the works!
@@Wolfy527 keep up the great work ^_^
@@floofaxllaxll Thanks! Will do!
I had some issues with this where I followed the steps pretty much 1 to 1 and when trying to test the slider it would never work. My solution was related to something you mentioned in another comment, where first of all the animator controller was set to something completely different (in the prefab menu), and what I had done was saving these layers and parameters to that controller, so when the model loads and starts using the actual FX controller (which it loads somehow now instead of the one I had been saving stuff to), my animation parameters and layers dont exist anymore.
So in short, check that the animator controller in your prefab is the correct one and the one you are saving these layers and parameters to, hope it helps and saves someone time.
I appreciate your concision. o7
Thank you for the tutorial, im using this to change the light saber color
That is awesome! Glad that the video is helpful and I hope ya enjoy the saber!
is there a way to make the hair change colors on its own without using a radial puppet and if so is there a way to make it as a toggle to stop it?
I believe poiyomi shader has an option under the color adjust section that is "hue shift" and you can input a number that determines how quickly it shifts at a constant speed. You could set up an animation where "off" would set the speed to 0 and "on" would set the speed to whatever you like. You'd just use a boolean to toggle between "true" and "false" allowing you to swap between the off and on animations.
@@Wolfy527 could i still use the radial puppet to manually change the color too or would that break it?
@@Kazuma25-36 you could set up a toggle for the hue shift that i just mentioned and then set up a separate control for a hue slider as shown in the video if you wanted to.
Thank you! Very quick.
Happy to help out!
I’ve done exactly as shown but it’s not recording the animation for it?
im not sure what is not working for me. The animation plays properly and is changing the correct things but when in play mode it doesnt do anything still. all my parameters are setup correctly and are linked together so idk why its not working while in play mode
Really sorry about the late response! I'm not sure if you have it figured out by now, but you will want to make sure that your FX controller is in your animator component on your avatar's base so that you can test the float in unity.
There is a way to assign a animation to a face expression? For example, I wanna make the tail wag when i click in the smile face expression, make the ears fold back when in angry expression
You can, I actually do that with my headpat contacts and nose boop. You would just want to make an animation for a tail wag, and then have a transition to it that occurs with the same transition conditions as whichever face expression you want it to line up with. I.e. if you have happy face on finger point (gesture right/left = 3) then you'd want to set your tail wag animation to occur with those same conditions.
I came back here and I facing another problem. The keyframes of the material isn't being created when modify the parameters like you did (0:50) to create the hue shift, i have to add it manual in Add Properties! There is any solution?
You'll want to make sure that your FX controller is in your animator component on your avatar's base, then click on your avatar in the hierarchy and go to the animation tab and a list of your animations should pop up and let you record the animation how i did.
@@Wolfy527 Also i figured out you need to access Hue Shift slider on your material directly on a mesh, rather than doing that on a material picked from project explorer. Hope that makes sense.
@@Alex-lf1fn was having this exact problem and it was your comment here that worked for me, thank you so much
I dont even understand how he has different tabs withing the animation menu, like, huh
My next video that I am making is actually covering navigating through unity and setting your UI up similarly to mine. It'll cover shortcuts, UI, and just some helpful tips and tricks that I and some other avatar creators have discovered while working in Unity!
im struggling to focus with not being able to see the entire screen
Sorry about that! I had quite a few people tell me it was difficult to see what was going on with the videos being in 1440p and they asked me to zoom in on things to see easier, but it can make the video a bit harder to follow when moving around the UI quite a bit.
YASSS
is the same thing with the body or is different??, i want how to put slider but for change the size for parts of body, tail or ears or hands, etc 🤔
So I just have to make this animation once and it’ll work for everything or have to make one for each part?
You'll have to make a slider for each thing you want to change on your avatar whether it is for hue sliders, saturation, blendshapes, etc.
@@Wolfy527 wait I can do this same method with blend shapes too?
@@Kazuma25-36 Yep! Blendshapes are values from 0 to 100, so you can animate them as well.
How does one do in 7.3 version? When I right click it only pops up a clock or whatever next to the "hue shift" but it does nothing when recording in the animation. I have made sure that it is the right material in the right animation controller and that I am recording the change. I have had problems with light in 8.0 so I rather not use that one.
The clock in 7.3 is the same thing as the A in the 8.0 version of the shader. It's just indicating that the value can be changed after being locked in on the shader. You'll want to make sure that you right click "Hue Shift" or whatever value you might be changing before you start recording your animation so that it doesn't actually record the animated part being turned on.
You'll also want to make sure that the hue slider you're changing is the correct one. The one I used as an example in this video is for the base color of your material, but if you're trying to hue shift an emission, then you'd want to go to the emission section and find the "Hue Shift" in that section and do this process there.
idk why for me it wouldnt record when i try to change the emission strength and hue. i tired locking and unlocking. am following this video step by step and still not working ; v ; help
You'll want to make sure that you are recording your animation in the correct FX Controller (should place it in your animator component) and that you have your avatar selected in the hiearchy when you are trying to record it. Unity can be a bit finnacky at times and has the animation tab greyed out when trying to record unless you select your avatar in the hierarchy.
It dosent work that way anymore, you cant change the colour with parameters in the animator.
Unless the development team released a buggy SDK or Poiyomi recently made a change I am unaware of, this very much does still work as I use it on multiple of my own avatars currently, among other uses like scaling my avatar up and down and even moving objects around with a float value.
I followed the guide but it didnt work for me for the part i wanted to have color hue
Hmm, have you been able to identify which step might be breaking? Things that would be good to check are whether or not you have your FX controller in your animator component on your avatar's base, making sure that the animation did record properly, checking if the hue slider on the material is right-clicked (if you're using poiyomi) so that it knows it can be animated, and then also checking to make sure that you have a float in the motion time!
Tried this five or six times, got trouble making a hue slider for my avali, every time I load it in game it runs as if its set to a high speed instead of being a slider.
You'll want to make sure that you have a float parameter in the "Motion Time" on the animation and then use that float parameter for the slider itself to scrub across the animation. I would double check if you have your motion time set to a float!
What slider folder? you diddnt actually explain where to find any of this
Sorry! It was implied that you'd right click and create a "New Folder" and just name it "Slider" so that you can place your animations in it. Everything in the video is something that can be created by anyone who follows along, no prefabs or such anywhere.
@@Wolfy527 Managed to figure that out, all for it to not work in the end
@@tuesday6653 Well there's a multitude of things that can go wrong, so narrowing that down would definitely be the best thing to do. It'd be good to check that you right clicked the slider in poiyomi to make sure it can be animated when locked in, and you'll also want to make sure you recorded the animation itself properly, as well as that you're using the correct float in the motion time of the animation.
can you do a tutorial for a clothing slider
A clothing slider, like using a radial puppet to swap between outfits essentially?
for parameter rotation i dont have any choices. just none
You will want to make sure that you put the parameter we create in the FX Layer in your "VRCExpressionParameters" list as well. It can be found by clicking your avatar's base in the hierarchy and then selecting the drop down for "Expressions" under the VRC Avatar Descriptor component.
Quest ver since your using poiyomi?
I believe the best way for setting something like this up for quest would be something similar, but not exactly the same. You would end up recording multiple keyframes of the different colors across the color wheel for the animation to scrub across. I.e. Your first keyframe would be red, your second would be purple, your third would be dark blue, forth would be light blue, etc. until you make it around the wheel. Once you have done that, just make sure that the keyframes span across around a second long of an animation (or more) evenly and the rest of this video should be the same for quest from there.
So the float works in the editor in playmode but when i bring it into the game the slider slowly shifts the hue to be gray instead of the colors i wanted, and then back to my original color. Is there a reason for that?
Hmm, that is an odd issue. I can't remember if there is a saturation slider off the top of my head, but you might want to make sure you didn't accidentally record something like that instead. Other than that, the hue slider should remain colored throughout the entire wheel.
@@Wolfy527 in the editor when I adjust the float value, it works just find and the colors do change, but in game it just goes gray.
th-cam.com/video/U3vyV7nMlS0/w-d-xo.html
@@Wrenosaur_ That is extremely odd.. I would just double check through the animation itself to make sure things are correct and also make sure that no other animations in your FX affect your eye color somehow. Or if you have an eye material swap that you're using the correct material and such.
In regard to the saber video... how do we select the blade color item or blade light to be used to set the animation? Or is that unecessary
With the saber FX properly merged into your own, there should be a "Plasmasaber/Net/Hue" float parameter that you will want to use for your in-game menu. If you're familiar with making a toggle for your in-game menu, then you will want to do the same thing, but change the type to "Radial Puppet" instead of "Toggle" and then put the prior mentioned float parameter in the "rotation parameter" slot, leaving the "parameter" slot above it with "none."
is there a way you could possibly make a video regarding how to make an RGB slow shifting animation using poi (like using the shift speed thing)? I cant find any vides on youtube, like at all
Hi, sorry for the slow response! In the newest Poiyomi there is a "Color Adjust" tab and under it is the "Hue Shift" tab. You'll want to check the boxes for both of these and then you can make an animation that adjusts the "Hue Shift Speed" which is a constant shift through hues, or you can use the "Hue Shift" slider and create a radial puppet.
thanks mate
No problem! Happy to help!
I can't add key frames
Sorry for the late response! You'll want to make sure that your FX Controller is in your "Animator Component" on your avatar's base so that you can record / add keyframes to your animations properly.
Can this be done in quest avatars?
You can, but it isn't exactly the same. Instead of recording the sliding bar on Poiyomi, Quest uses standard shaders, so you will have to record an animation per keyframe. I.e. your first keyframe might be red, second is green, third is yellow, forth is blue, and so on until you go around the color wheel. That way when you scrub across the animation it will be similar to how poiyomi's hue shift works.
@@Wolfy527 thanks for the reply!! This is very helpful.
@@Wolfy527 but also I kinda actually figured it last night, I'll add a color palette to the atlas and use that with offset
@@FerGalicia That would work fine as well! There usually isn't one way to do things or necessarily a best way either! Glad you found something that works well for ya!
@@Wolfy527 thanks!
create nothing in animation (Cube : Mesh Renderer.Mat for you)
Sorry I don't understand what you're saying, but if you're havng problems with the hue slider, I only used a cube here as an example to show how to set up a slider, you'd want to use this with whatever you're wanting to create a slider for.
i need help
Sorry I am late to getting to responses, do you still need help with anything or did you get things sorted out?
thank you
You're welcome! Thank ya for watching!