The Mike'Vali is an avatar base based on the original Avali species idea.

Living on a frozen moon named Avalon, Avalis have evolved to survive in this radically different habitat compared to Earth. They might be fluffy, small and adorable at first glance, but some of them might be quite on the defensive side if they treat you as an enemy.

The Mike'Vali is a sub species of Avalis, which are varied in beautiful looks! Their body patterns vary from individual to individual and they are each born with one of three tail shapes. Some of them can even be born with a rare condition called "luminesite", which makes their accent color glow in the dark! This condition also varies, with some having the full condition and glowing a constant light, some others only partially have it and their glow fades in and out over time. One things is for sure though: they are smart and they are aware of being cute fluffy space chickens! (but don't call them space chickens like that or they will go very hostile on you)

Features

• Absolutely adorable space chicken with collar included!
• Full asymetrical UVs for complete customisation of each sides!
• Digitigrade legs setup with an optional Plantigrade mode!
• Custom "EZRecolor" shader letting you easily change the color of different parts of the Mike'Vali through the Unity inspector! (prefab with example materials included) Unlike other solutions, EZRecolor can be baked into textures for reuse in any software and platform using the EZRecolor Baker!
• 3 different tails to choose from!
• 30+ body customisation blend shapes! Including:
  • Wings size (single blend shape or individual parameters)
  • Feathers visibility and length settings
  • Face adjustments
  • Female mode (adds breasts and or eyelashes)
  • And many more!
• 20+ expression blend shapes! (35+ if including ones split into left and right sides!)
• Face Tracking blend shapes (using VRCFaceTracking)
• Puppets for the ears and the tail!
• Tail wag via a slider or from nuzzling!
• (VRC) Quest & Fallback support!
• (VRC) Performance Rank:
  • PC: Good (most PhysBones disabled), Medium (some PhysBones disabled) or Poor (all PhysBones enabled OR EZRecolor enabled)!
    
  • Quest: Good (Fallback) or Medium/Poor! (Non-Fallback with more PhysBones)
• (CVR) Full Advanced Avatar Settings setup with multiple options available!
• (Beat Saber) Dynamic expressions during gameplay! Do well and your Mike'Vali will be happy! Do poorly and it'll start to be worried.
• (Blender) Subdivision Surface modifier with premade creases for ultra high poly cinematic renders
• (Blender) Wiggle 2 support for Dynamic Bones like physics

What's Included

• Full source files (Blender, Photoshop, Affinity Photo files and Substance Painter Project 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

Terms of use

This avatar follows Mike Da Bird's Universal Avatar License. Click the image below to read them:

Extra terms:

• Since the original species idea isn't mine, I do not take credit for it, Ryuujin is the original author. However, all assets for this 3D base have been made by me. This model is based off their species and lore, but isn't 100% cannon (read on their full original lore on the Official Avali Wiki). It is an open species, so feel free to do whatever you want with the base as long as you do not take credit for the original assets.
  

The font used for the Mike'Vali logo is custom and not actually a font file. The titles are using Bowlby One, found here:
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Bowlby+One

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

Original species created by RyuujinZERO

Requirements

For Unity import only:

• Unity (2019.4 and above should do)

• Dynamic Bones

• Import only the base package of the Mike'Vali

• To edit the shaders, you'll also need Amplify Shader Editor 1.9.1.05

For ChilloutVR:

• Latest CVR CCK Unity version (2021.3.23f1 as of writing this)

• ChilloutVR CCK 3.7

•  Dynamic Bones (if you don't have it, you can try to use the Dynamic Bones Stub package to preserve the prefabs DBs)

• Import the base package of the Mike'Vali and its included CVR package

• To edit the shaders, you'll also need Amplify Shader Editor 1.9.1.05

For Beat Saber:

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

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

• Import the base package of the Mike'Vali and its included Beat Saber package

For Blender animations:

• Blender 4.0 or later

• Wiggle 2 (AKA Wiggle Bones 2) add-on (optional to simply open the project, but heavily recommended as there are wiggle bones set up on the Blender rig)

For Substance Painter textures

• Substance Painter 2023

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 Mike'Vali and its included VRC package

• To edit the shaders, you'll also need Amplify Shader Editor 1.9.1.05

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

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

Contacts

Socials

     

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Streams and Videos

                   

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Discord community (with avatar help channels)

     

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