Drone Follower

Avatar base not included, pictured for demonstration purposes only.

Not nearly as complex as those other popular suspicious followers.

This is just a simple physbone-based friend you can easily drop onto any avatar.

Please note that this is an Accessory, not an Avatar. It requires an existing avatar to add it to.

Features

• 1364 Tris
• 1 Physbone chain
• 1 Material slot
• Easy to add, no animations required
• Grabbable by you and others!
• Wings attempt to stay upright as the drone moves around
• Drone eye look follows your gaze (PC only)
• Optional VRCFury prefab for even quicker set-up.

Compatibility

• Designed to work with any VRC avatar. SDK version must be new enough to support Physbones 1.1 (3.2.0 or newer, in theory).
• Quest-compatible version included (drone eye look not supported on Quest due to lack of support for animation constraints)
• Version 3 and up require Unity 2022.3.22f1 or newer.

Includes

• Blender Project File
• 2k PSD and PNG files for all textures
• Unity Package with prefabs and example scene
• Simple instructions for adding to your existing avatar project.

Requirements

• An existing VRChat avatar project to add this to.
• Some knowledge working with VRChat avatars in Unity
• Current Version of Unity 2022 for VRChat (2022.3.22f1 or newer) for Windows
• Latest VRChat Avatar SDK 3 (Made with VCC SDK 3.6.0)
• (Optional) VRCFury 1.912.0 or newer

Optional

• Blender 3.6 LTS or newer (only required to customize models)
• Photoshop CS6 or newer, or other image editor that supports PSD files (only required to customize textures)

Patch Notes

First release - 11/16/2022

• Initial release.

Patch 1 - 4/12/2023

• Update license.

Patch 2 - 1/13/2024

• Update SDK to 3.4.2.
• Adjust physbone radius curve to make grabbing more reliable.
• Update packed metallic map using blender compositor.
• Adjust texture import settings to match recent best-practices.

Patch 3 - 06/03/2024

• Add VRCFury version of the Prefab (optional).
• Add Furality Umbra themed textures and materials (optional).
  • Add VRCFury prefab to link the drone with the Furality Umbra edition Eclipse (optional).
• Move physbone to drone-follow-root to prevent it picking up other random children as physbone transforms.
  • Move drown-follow-mid to above the drone so that the wings tilt the correct direction for the direction of movement.
  • Take advantage of new physbone settings to make drone move much more smoothly.
• ⚠️ This version was created in Unity 2022 and thus likely only works in Unity 2022.3.22f1 or newer!
  • Furality Umbra materials and VRCFury variants will not work in older versions on Unity.
  • The base prefab appears to continue to work fine, but no guarantees!

Patch 3.1 - 06/07/2024

• Fix new physbone setup causing drone to go sideways when grabbed.

License

The assets are provided "AS IS", without warranty of any kind. In no event shall the author be liable for any claim, damages or other liability, arising from, out of or in connection with these assets.

Rights

• ✓ You may edit and customize for your own personal use.
• ✓ You may edit and upload for personal use onto VRChat, Chillout, Resonite, and other social and game platforms.
• ✓ You may edit and re-purpose for use with a VTuber or other virtual avatar.
• ✓ You may purchase and edit this model as part of commission work, as long as at least one copy is purchased per user involved.

Restrictions

• ✗ You may NOT use to promote any form of hate speech, through your own actions or through modifications to the model.
• ✗ You may NOT resell or redistribute the model or parts, even in heavily modified form.
• ✗ You may NOT claim the model as your own work
• ✗ You may NOT use the model or assets for any commercial purposes.

Have Fun, and don't be afraid to get creative!

Feel free to share your creations with me at @lackofbindings.bsky.social or the official Discord!