General

Community

• VRC Prefabs database - Collection of prefabs, shaders, and tutorials
• VRC Unofficial Wiki - Unofficial wiki maintained by english speaking VRchat community
• Japanese VRchat Wiki - Unofficial wiki maintained by japanese VRchat community
• VRCLibrary - A wiki for VRChat creators to learn, share and collaborate. Anyone can contribute!
• Japanese VRchat Wiki - Unofficial wiki maintained by japanese VRchat community
• Japanese VRchat Wiki - Unofficial wiki maintained by japanese VRchat community
• VRC Prefabs database - Collection of prefabs, shaders, and tutorials
• VRC Unofficial Wiki - Unofficial wiki maintained by english speaking VRchat community

Official

• Official VRChat documentation - Official VRChat documentation!
• Frequently Asked Questions - Official VRChat website FAQ, start here!
• VRChat Creator Companion Documentation - Official documentation for the VRChat Creator Companion.
• VRChat Ask Forums - Official VRChat forum
• VRChat Ask Forums - Official VRChat forum

Resources

Shaders

• 3dtextures - Free seamless textures with PBR maps
• Artstation - Resources for artists and marketplace
• Blendswap - Models, some may need cleanup
• Booth.pm - Indie marketplace with huge selection of goods and tools for VRChat
• Freesound - Audio, a lot needs cleanup
• Game Art Cheatsheet - Most common glitches in game art and how to solve them
• Kenney Assets - Free game assets, no strings attached
• Lowlypoly - Low poly 3d models and game textures, many are free
• Małopolska’s Virtual Museums - 1,000 cultural heritage 3D models launched to the public domain
• Nobiax Assets - Ton of free assets of high quality from Unity assetstore
• Open Game Art - Free to use assets including models and sprites
• Photo resources for making textures - Make seamless textures
• Open source fonts - Twitter thread full of beautiful open source fonts
• Polyhaven - Public 3D Asset Library
• Soundbible - Good place to find quick sound effects for free
• Sketchfab - Tons of downloadable 3D models and marketplace
• Smithsonian open access - Tons of CC0 models and content
• Texture Ninja - Textures that all belong on public domain (CC0)
• Ultimate Stylized nature - 60+ Lowpoly nature assets, with seamless textures and normal maps
• VRChat API - Unofficial VRChat documentation and collection of libraries
• The Base Mesh - 100% free CC0 asset library updated weekly
• JustSleightly Notes - WIP Knowledgebase for VRChat dev
• Sketchfab - Tons of downloadable 3D models and marketplace
• JustSleightly Notes - WIP Knowledgebase for VRChat dev
• Soundbible - Good place to find quick sound effects for free
• Sound archive - Over 150GB of free sound effects, royalty-free and commercially usable

Tutorials

Avatars

• Creating Your First Avatar - Official documentation and best quick start guide
• Avatar Optimizing Tips - Official documentation on optimization
• Silent's free avatar model guide - covers the best freely available, properly licensed avatars + licenses Silent found
• Sprite/Pixel Avatars without Blender - Learn to make Doom sprite avatars
• Blender to Unity avatars - Tutorial by Mechlai on importing avatars from Blender
• Cat's Blender Plugin Overview - Youtube video showing Blender plugin to save time making avatars
• Maya to Unity avatars - Tutorial by Mechlai on importing avatars from Maya
• VRC Avatar Tutorials (English) - Simple to follow video guides and short tutorials from vrcmods
• VRC Avatar Development - List of resources for MMD models and guides for making avatars
• Quick Start Mixamo Guide - Slightly old article on making avatars with Mixamo
• Avatar Creation Tips - Various tips and guides for customized avatars from a fan wiki
• Configure Dynamic Bones - Easily configure Dynamic Bones in Unity
• Weight Paint in 5 Mins - Tutorial for Blender 2.8 on weight painting
• VRChat FBT Fixes - Fullbody Avatar Mega-Tutorial
• Convert Unity avatar to VRM - How to convert Unity Avatar to VRM - VRChat
• How to take your avatar with you - VRChat to VRM guide using UniVRM
• TextureModifyTool - Booth page of tools to help modify avatar
• IK 2.0 11 point set up - Set up rig in blender ready to go for fitting your modelling to for IK 2.0
• Modular Avatar - Drag-and-Drop Avatar Assembly
• Porting PC avatars to Quest - VRChat tutorial by Rantis on making Quest avatars
• Quest avatar optimization for MMDs - How to port your MMD avatars over
• How (Not) to make your avatar Quest compatible - An alternative guide for achieving Quest compatibility
• Optimize World - Tutorial for shrinking file size down for large maps
• Make Your Game Run on Quest (GDC) - Tips on getting the most out of the Quest hardware
• Polytool for Unity - Helps with optimizing avatars within Unity
• Whitelisted Avatar Components - Official documentation for components you can use with avatars
• Whitelisted Avatar Components - Official documentation for components you can use with avatars
• Combo Gesture Expressions - Easily generate Avatars 3.0 animator layers for hand gestures to control face expressions
• Pumkin's Avatar Tools - A toolbox for easily setting up VRChat avatars in Unity
• d4rkAvatarOptimizer - aims to reduce skinned mesh & material count for VRC avatars 3.0
• Inventory Inventor - Make inventories fast with Inventory Inventor!
• VRM converter - VRM converter for VRChat
• Avatar Image Reader - Encode chars from Internet as images for VRChat Udon avatars
• AvatarModifyTools - Tools to help you modify your VRChat avatar in Unity
• Avatars 3.0 Manager - A tool for managing playable layers and parameters for Avatars 3.0
• Marker - A marker for drawing anywhere with your avatar
• Player Tracker - Tool which lets you select players and attach a Contact Tracker to them
• Among Us Follower - A very simple tp setupu self contained crewmate / avatar pet follower
• lil Avatar Utilities - Utilities for avatar modification
• Avatar 3.0 Emulator - Emulator for VRChat's Avatars 3.0 system
• VRCFury - Non-Destructive Tools for VRChat Avatars
• ComboGestureExpressions - Unity Editor tool that lets you attach face expressions to hand gestures
• VRCQuestTools - Convert Avatar for Quest
• Sprite/Pixel Avatars without Blender - Learn to make Doom sprite avatars
• Configure Dynamic Bones - Easily configure Dynamic Bones in Unity
• Make Your Game Run on Quest (GDC) - Tips on getting the most out of the Quest hardware
• Sprite/Pixel Avatars without Blender - Learn to make Doom sprite avatars
• Configure Dynamic Bones - Easily configure Dynamic Bones in Unity
• VRChat FBT Fixes - Fullbody Avatar Mega-Tutorial
• Make Your Game Run on Quest (GDC) - Tips on getting the most out of the Quest hardware
• VRC Avatar Tutorial (Japanese) - Japanese guide on making and uploading your own avatar
• Avatar Image Reader - Encode chars from Internet as images for VRChat Udon avatars
• VRC Avatar Tutorials (English) - Simple to follow video guides and short tutorials from vrcmods

Community

• Tupper's VRChat Tutorials - Youtube channel with tutorials for VRChat
• Creating Content for VRChat on Oculus Quest - Official guides for making cross-platform VRC content
• Setting up Unity for creating Quest Content - Read about how to set up Unity for creating Quest content.
• Quest Content Optimization - How to optimize your content properly for Quest.
• Cross-platform setup - Limitations you'll need to keep in mind while creating content for Quest.
• Blender Guru - Blender tutorials and general artist advice
• 100 Blender 2.8 tips - Tips and tricks for Blender 2.8
• Create hair in Blender in 5 minutes - Easiest way to create hair in Blender
• 20+ Styles of 3D Modeling in 20 Minutes - Mostly Blender tips, tad bit of Zbrush
• IanHubert Tutorials - Amazing lazy tutorials for learning Blender
• Substance painter basics - Using substance painter for VRChat avatar/model creation
• Occlusion Culling Guide - Use occlusion culling to get the most rendering performance out of your scene
• How to animate NPCs in your world with MOCAP - Record animations for NPCs using MOCAP in VRChat
• Game Assets in Blender - A complete workflow video tutorial for modeling game assets in Blender
• You should probably be using Cinemachine - How to create virtual productions with almost 0 scripting
• Silent Cel Shading Shader - Shaders for Unity for cel shading with several guides
• 100 Blender 2.8 tips - Tips and tricks for Blender 2.8
• Create hair in Blender in 5 minutes - Easiest way to create hair in Blender
• 100 Blender 2.8 tips - Tips and tricks for Blender 2.8
• Create hair in Blender in 5 minutes - Easiest way to create hair in Blender
• How to animate NPCs in your world with MOCAP - Record animations for NPCs using MOCAP in VRChat

OSC

• VRChat OSC for Avatars - Announcement post and github links to discussions / bug reports
• OSCKeyboard - Enable keyboard typing in VRChat using KillFrenzy's VRC Avatar Keyboard
• node-osc - very basic OSC client (so far) implementation based heavily on pyOSC
• whispering - OpenAI's whisper with OSC and Websocket support for live transcription / translation in VRChat and Overlays
• VRC Discord OSC - python app for VRChat players to receive discord notifications on their avatars
• VRCOSC - Show heartrate, time, hardware stats, detect custom VRChat gestures, control Spotify, and more via OSC
• TTS Voice Wizard - Speech to Text to Speech, song now playing
• VRC OSC Scripts - Alternative OSC scripts for speech to text and audio now playing
• VRCFaceTracking - allow AV3 Avatars to interact with Vive SRanipal Eye and Lip Tracking SDK
• MagicChatbox - OSC chatbox companion, manager, editor

Shaders

• Shaderforge - Free node based shader editor that just went MIT license
• Poiyomi Shaders - Free and paid versions of the defacto VRChat avatar and world shader
• ShaderProject - Container for all sorts of handy shaders in Unity3D
• Silent's Cel Shading Shader - Modfied toon shader
• Glow Fade Effect
• Hologram Shader
• Low-poly Shader
• WaterShader | PanningOutline | TextureOverlay | DistanceColorSwap | ScanLine
• Fake Glass - (ab)uses some Unity features to produce glass-like glass
• ParticleCloud shaders - Interactable shader-based particle system for VRChat/Unity
• Shaders - Big mishmash of reworked, original, and mixed shaders.
• Hair with Anisotropy - Transparent hair shader for realistic hair made by s-ilent
• Fake lights - Adds fake lighting and volumetric fog to the area made by s-ilent
• Skyprobe Fog - Area fog that uses the reflection probe to create fake atmospheric scattering
• Crispy Foliage - Plants that blow in the wind
• glsl2hlsl - WIP shadertoy to Unity converter
• Shader knowledge - Trying to document obscure technical VRChat knowledge abotu shaders
• liltoon - Feature-rich shaders for avatars
• Shadermotion - Shader-based human pose encoder/decoder made by lox9973, stream mocap from VRChat
• LTCGI - Optimized plug-and-play realtime area lighting using the linearly transformed cosine algorithm
• Thry Editor - General Unity Shader Inspector/Editor with focus on vrchat
• orels Unity Shaders - A collection of Unity shaders
• Hekky Shaders - Free shaders for world creation
• Mochie Shaders - Free and paid versions of the defacto high quality VRChat world shader

Tools

• Unity - The version of Unity that VRchat uses with its SDK
• Unity Profiler - Helps you optimize your game by analyzing performance
• Introduction to the Profiler - Introduction to the profiler and its basic sections
• Blender3D - Powerful open source 3D modeling engine
• Material Blender addon - Get lower draw calls by combining textures without quality loss
• Useful Addons for Blender 2.8 - Great addons with links in the description
• Mixamo - Rapidly create, rig, and animate game-ready characters all in one place
• Mixamo in Blender - One click solution to create an IK rig and bake animations
• How to 3D photoscan - Photogrammetry tutorial for meshroom and Blender
• Dust3D - Cross-platform open-source modeling software
• SUVA - Turn your VRChat avatar into a Vtuber for use on Twitch
• Open Broadcaster Software - Free and open source streaming and recording program
• How to Stream Oculus Quest gameplay - Use OBS and ADB to record/stream Quest
• Renderdoc - Get frame-debugger information while in VRChat instead of just in Unity
• Materialize - Turn single textures into PBR maps
• Multi-user Blender plugin - Collaborate real-time in Blender
• Convex Collider Creator - Tool for crafting convex mesh colliders in the Unity Engine
• Tree It - Free 3D tree generator with adjustable LOD
• Resource Checker - Designed to help bring visibility to resource use in your scenes
• Copy Bounding Box - copy boundings from a SkinnedMeshRenderer to all objects within a GameObject Root
• Blender3D - Powerful open source 3D modeling engine
• CyanEmu - VRChat client emulator in Unity, works with SDK2 and SDK3
• Mixer - Add-on for real-time collaboration in Blender.
• Unity Resource Checker - Editor utility for unity to help check resources in the current scene
• VRWorld Toolkit - Unity Editor extension to make making worlds easier
• Momoma Tools - Unity extension tools created by momoma
• Nara's Unity Tools - Tools, specifically for the creation of (performant) avatars for VRChat and ChilloutVR
• Join modifier and shapes - Join blender objects that contain modifiers and shape keys into a single object
• Discord2VRC - Discord bot and Web server for dynamically loading images uploaded to discord into VRChat worlds
• SmartTexture - Unity tool to pack texture channels into a single texture.
• Blender addon substance painter - Pipeline/Workflow import/export for Substance Painter.
• Skinned Mesh Armature Remapper - Unity Editor utility that can transfer skinned mesh renderers from one armature to another
• VRC FriendPlus - Browser extensions to make VRChat Web a little more useful
• glTFast - Efficient glTF 3D import / export library for Unity
• Blender-xatlas - Rough add-on for Blender allowing you to use Xatlas to unwrap and pack your uvs
• Unity CC0 textures importer - Import textures directly from CC0Textures.com into Unity
• Dread Scripts - Variety of Scripts and Tools for improving Unity workflow, usually focused on VRChat
• Avatar Performance Tools - Avatar evaluator and VRAM checker
• Blend Tree Builder - Unity tool to make VRC Blendtree creation easier and faster
• Blender Asset Creation Toolset - Many Tools for Game Asset Creation
• VRCX - Friendship management tool for VRChat
• Useful Addons for Blender 2.8 - Great addons with links in the description
• Intel Graphics Perfomance Analyzers - Get the drawcalls in real time
• Materialize - Turn single textures into PBR maps
• Useful Addons for Blender 2.8 - Great addons with links in the description
• MagicaVoxel - Free to use voxel editor, great for world building or avatars
• SUVA - Turn your VRChat avatar into a Vtuber for use on Twitch
• VRWorld Toolkit - Unity Editor extension to make making worlds easier
• Skinned Mesh Armature Remapper - Unity Editor utility that can transfer skinned mesh renderers from one armature to another
• OyasumiVR - Software that helps you sleep in virtual reality, for use with SteamVR, VRChat, and more

Udon

• Video player - iwaSyncVideoPlayer test world
• ProTV - Ready-made udon video player solution
• Contextual Buttons - Breakdown of a more complex usage of buttons by Vowgan