The Bare Minimum
- VRChat Creator Companion (VCC): just use it, people that don't like it are stuck up and eventually you will run into problems.
- Unity Hub: pretty useful, also handy for when VRChat updates to a new unity version
- Blender: it's what I use. some people use Maya, that works too
Content Creation
For blender, see Blender Addons. These tools are available as VCC packages:
- Thry's Avatar Performance Tools
- VRCFury
- Sync Scripts
- https://creators.vrchat.com/worlds/udon/networking/network-details
- https://github.com/cnlohr/brokeredupdateandsync
- https://github.com/MMMaellon/SmartObjectSync
- https://github.com/Pokeyi/VRC-Animation-Sync
- https://github.com/Pokeyi/VRC-Floater-Sync
External Reading Material
If you know of any other guide worth mentioning, please message me!
Knowledge Bases
- Awesome VRChat
- General collection of VRChat tools.
- VRCLibrary
- General avatar and world building knowledge.
- Hai's Knowledge Index
- Advanced tools.
- Niche knowledge.
- JustSleightly's Notes
- Tools & performance notes.
- Niche knowledge.
- Silent's Shader Wiki
- World lighting & post processing.
- Shader Knowledge by Perma
- Niche shader knowledge for world creation.
- Shaders as compute with Udon.
- Orel's Blog
- Shader, world creation, and tools.
- Also small tips at Orel's Tips
- PiMaker's VRChat Unity Things
- Random collection of Unity assets and prefabs for VRChat
Individual Pages
- How I Optimize VRChat Avatars by Gummidot
- Avatar optimization.
- Current Best PC for VRChat by Tupper
- Hardware guide.
- Airi's Resource Databse
- Random collection of assets.
- MMD Shape Key
- Shapekey guide for MMD.
- VRCFaceTracking Unified Expression Shapes
- Facetracking shapekey guide.
- Lightmapping Troubleshooting Guide
- A really extensive guide to fixing lightmapping issues.
- Unity Texture Notes
- Notes about different texture formats in Unity.
- Convert ANY Rig to RIGIFY in Blender
- Video about generating RIGIFY rigs for animations.
Related pages
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