awesome-vrchat

One-stop shop for people interested in developing content for VRchat
https://github.com/madjin/awesome-vrchat

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General
- Official
  - Official VRChat documentation - **Official** VRChat documentation!
  - Frequently Asked Questions - **Official** VRChat website FAQ, start here!
  - VRChat Ask Forums - **Official** VRChat forum
  - VRChat Creator Companion Documentation - **Official** documentation for the VRChat Creator Companion.
  - VRChat Ask Forums - **Official** VRChat forum
- 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
Tutorials
- 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
- Avatars
  - Creating Your First Avatar - **Official** documentation and best quick start guide
  - Whitelisted Avatar Components - **Official** documentation for components you can use with avatars
  - 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 Tutorial (Japanese) - Japanese guide on making and uploading your own avatar
  - 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
  - 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
  - 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
  - Inventory Inventor - Make inventories fast with Inventory Inventor!
  - Whitelisted Avatar Components - **Official** documentation for components you can use with avatars
  - 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
  - Whitelisted Avatar Components - **Official** documentation for components you can use with avatars
- Worlds
  - Creating Your First World - **Official** documentation and fastest quick start method
  - Home Kit guide - **Official** video and project files for customizing your [Home Kit](https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/templates/tutorials/home-kit-vrchat-sdk-template-149278)
  - Community Guide: World Creation - Basic to advanced guides on making worlds in VRChat
  - Room tutorial - Extensive guide on building a room with Blender and Unity
  - VRChat World Trigger Tutorials - Youtube video tutorials made by CyanLaser
  - How to get good at baked lighting - Make worlds go from flat to believable 3D environments
  - VRC World Development - List of resources and optimization guides for building worlds
  - Detailed Building Modeling - Creating custom buildings in Blender - Lazy Tutorials
  - HDRI Haven - 100% Free high quality HDRIs for everyone
  - Texture Haven - 100% Free textures for everyone
  - Virtual Productions VRChat - Create your own stage and camera systems in Unity
  - VRchat HLS Guide - Solution & guide for streaming anything into VRChat
  - Zulubo Sounds - Free MIT License sound effects
  - C4Dcenter - Free 4K resolution PBR materials
- 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
  - Cats Blender Plugin - Shorten steps needed to import and optimize models into VRChat
  - 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
  - Mixer - Add-on for real-time collaboration in Blender.
  - 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
  - MagicaVoxel - Free to use voxel editor, great for world building or avatars
  - Meshroom - Open source photogrammetry software, easy 3D models
  - 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
- Udon
  - Getting started with Udon - **Official** and best place to start
  - Video player - iwaSyncVideoPlayer [test world](https://www.vrchat.com/home/world/wrld_e879a97e-2b09-4ca0-ab64-2dca2b20c443)
  - ProTV - Ready-made udon video player solution
  - Contextual Buttons - Breakdown of a more complex usage of buttons by Vowgan
  - Basic Buttons - Getting a simple button toggle working by Vowgan
  - Jumping and PlayerMods - Jumping and modifying the player's movement speed by Vowgan
  - udon update 1 - video of jetdog8808's experiments
  - Haptic Slider and Switch - Udon script to add haptics to sliders and buttons
  - Skipping Stones - Stones that skip on the surface of water when thrown.
  - Double Jump - Snippet for a simple double jump system
  - VRCBilliards: Community Edition - A pool table for VRChat SDK3 worlds
  - harunatab - Fully functional tablet for VRChat SDK3 (UdonSharp)
  - JiwaMirror - Mirror prefab with interesting shader effect
  - Smart Mirror - Smart mirror which can turn on when you walk up to it
  - Swim System 2.0 - Swim and dive underwater in pools, ponds, hot springs, deep sea, or any body of water
  - UdonSharp - a compiler for compiling C# to Udon assembly
  - USharpVideo - A basic video player made for VRChat using Udon and UdonSharp
  - Udon playground - personal experiments by the great jetdog8808
  - Udon Toolkit - Purpose-built Udon Behaviours and tools to make your own
  - Hyakuashi Udon Motion Recorder HUMR - Makes HumanoidAnimation from recorded motion via log file
  - Udon Audio Bank - Plays a random sound from a "bank" intermittently
  - Udon Surf - A prefab used to make VRChat surf maps
  - UdonExplorer - Unity Editor extension for easily exploring all UdonBehaviours in your Unity scene
  - VR Stage Lighting - Collection of HLSL shaders, UdonSharp scripts, 3D models, prefabs, and assets for professional stage lighting
  - Udon Splines - A simple spline system that works with Udon
  - Smart Object Sync - Drop-in replacement for VRC_ObjectSync that allows for better syncing of objects
- OSC
  - VRChat OSC for Avatars - Announcement post and [github](https://github.com/vrchat-community/osc) 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
  - 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
  - Poiyomi Shaders - Free and paid versions of the defacto VRChat avatar and world shader
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
  - cc0textures - CC0 PBR Materials For Anyone And Any Purpose
  - Freesound - Audio, a lot needs cleanup
  - Free Unity Assets - Mega list of free assets
  - 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
  - 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
  - 100 avatars - Hundreds of CC0 avatars (FBX + VRM)
  - Polyhaven - Public 3D Asset Library
  - Soundbible - Good place to find quick sound effects for free
  - Sound archive - Over 150GB of free sound effects, royalty-free and commercially usable
  - 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
  - Małopolska’s Virtual Museums - 1,000 cultural heritage 3D models launched to the public domain

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