THE AVIGEN - Avatar Base

The Avigen is an avian species that has augmented themselves with biorobotics. Either it's to repair lost limbs or simply to become stronger in different aspects of their physical activities, they all share this unique cyborg look.

Please be sure to read the MDB Universal Avatar License and this avatar's requirements before purchasing this base.

• Cybernetic proto-bird with real RGB screens and a full boot-up sequence!

• Easily customisable screen animations through the included sprite sheets and source files! (and documentation of course)

• Full asymetrical UVs for complete customisation of each sides!

• Custom "EZRecolor" shader letting you easily change the color of different parts of the Avigen through the Unity inspector! (prefab with example materials included)

• 4 different retextures included by default!
  • Cyber Blue
  • Golden Orange
  • Rainbows (A.K.A RGB Puke)
  • Cyber Split (half-half black and white)

• Tweak your body type with the included blend shapes! Make your Avigen fatter, skinnier, give it thicker hips, etc!

• (VRC) Performance ranking:
  
  • PCVR: Very Poor*
    
  • Android / IOS: Poor!**

• (VRC ) Physics Bones included with colliders set up!

• (VRC / CVR) Nuzzle other Avigens to trigger a cute facial expression!

• (VRC / CVR) Blue Screen other Avigens (or yourself) by punching or kicking them in the face! Need to reboot them? Boop them!

• (VRC) Full 3.0 radial expression menu support with custom icons and expandability in mind! Fold your wings, change your default expression, move your tail and more!
• (CVR) Full Advanced Avatar Settings setup 100% feature matched with the VRC version's feature set (through the Adv Settings list menu instead of radial menus)

• (Blender) Simple IK rig set up for easy posing

• (Blender) Full subdivision surface modifier setup with premade creases for a fully smooth geometry in cinematic content!

• (Blender) All materials are pre-equipped with node setups to easily animate the animated textures that you can find in the Unity setup! Plus, any values in them that you can modify without breaking things are color labelled!

*(MAR 10th 2023: VRC released their VRAM update, which unfortunately completely killed the Avigen's performance rating. Initially a Medium pre-update, it has now moved to Very Poor. Very luckily, after a quick examination of the Quest version, it seems it is still at a Poor rating. Yipee! please read this blog post for workarounds on how to bring back your PC Avigen back to Medium or at least Poor ratings)

**(AUG 12th 2024: VRC released their Uncompressed Size update, and likely killed that performance rank too. Please report back if the Poor version is still Poor in-game! Currently reports Very Poor in the SDK due to how it reads texture memory before export, which I want to remediate soon)

• Full source files (Blender files, PSD and Affinity Photo files, 4K, 8K and 16K versions and Substance Files!)

• Unity package, used to import the base assets without the extra fluff of game platforms

• ChilloutVR avatar package, ready to be uploaded with everything already set up!

• VRChat avatar package, ready to be uploaded with everything already set up!

• Beat Saber avatar package, including a .unitypackage fully set up to import in your Beat Saber Avatar SDK, modify the textures and export to the game as a .avatar file! (can be used with the Custom Avatars mod and LIV)
  

• VRM avatar package, with everything already set up and ready to be imported in your VRM SDK for export to VRM!

• Instruction files, including a readme

This avatar follows Mike Da Bird's Universal Avatar License. No extra terms are applied. Click the image below to read them:

The font used for the Avigen is custom made, but is reserved for my own use. If you want a similar alternative, you can use the free to use Audiowide font, found here: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Audiowide

Store link for crediting: https://mikedabird.itch.io/avigen

For Unity import only:

• Unity (2019.4 and above should do)

• Dynamic Bones

• Import only the base package of the Avigen

• To edit the shaders, you'll also need Amplify Shader Editor

For ChilloutVR:

• Latest CVR CCK Unity version (2019.4.31f1 as of writing this)

• ChilloutVR CCK

•  Dynamic Bones (if you don't have it, you'll currently need to delete them from the prefab yourself)

• Import the base package of the Avigen and its included CVR package

• To edit the shaders, you'll also need Amplify Shader Editor

For VRChat*:

• Latest VCC Unity version (2019.4.31f1 as of writing this)

• VRC SDK 3.0 (using VCC)
  

• OPTIONAL: Dynamic Bones if you want the base prefabs' DBs to work, else the VRC prefabs included have VRC PhysBones already set up

• Import the base package of the Avigen and its included VRC package

• To edit the shaders, you'll also need Amplify Shader Editor

• A 3rd party avatar protection system is HEAVILY recommended.
  

*not recommended due to severe avatar theft issues on that platform in particular.

For Beat Saber:

• Latest Beat Saber SDK Unity version (2019.3.15f1 as of writing this)

• Beat Saber Custom Avatar SDK 5.2.11 (follow the instructions on the mod's GitHub page on how to properly install it)

• Import the base package of the Avigen and its included Beat Saber package

For VRM:

• Unity 2020.3 or later

• UniVRM 0.108.0 (0.X version, not 1.0)

• Import the base package of the Avigen and its included VRM package

For Blender animations:

• Blender 3.2 or later

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