Sword Summoner

"A mysterious artificial life form, lab-grown and cybernetically enhanced to magnify its latent arcane powers."

Features

• 38.5k Polys (14.9k for Quest version)
• Medium performance rating on PC and Quest
• 4K source textures
• Avatar Dynamics and Physbones
• Custom sitting and lying animations
• Gesture-controlled facial expressions
• In-Game glow and bodysuit color control (Bodysuit color control is PC Only)
• 4 Preset fur patterns with and without bodysuit.
• 5 Toggleable clothing items (Glasses, Coat, Jacket, Pants, Necklace) (PC Only)
• Built-in Audiolink (PC only)
• Magical sword with particles and SFX (Particles and SFX are PC only)
• Flight system based on GoGo Loco by Franada (PC only)
• Quest version with "Medium" rating

Includes

• Blender Project Files
• Fully Configured Unity Package
• Photoshop and PNG Texture Files
• Alternate Blender and Unity files Optimized for Quest

Buy with confidence, try the avatar first in my VRChat avatar world.

Requirements

• Current Version of Unity 2022 for VRChat (2022.3.22f1 or newer) for Windows
• Latest VRChat Avatar SDK 3 (VCC Avatars SDK 3.6.0 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 - 4/15/2023

• Initial release.

Patch 1 - 4/30/2023

• Fix weight painting on eyelets on coat lapels.
• Fix coat parts sticking out back during hide blendshape.
• Fix headpat and noseboop conflicting.

Patch 2 - 5/29/2023

• Add physbone to prevent coat collar from clipping with your head.
• Quest textures are using ASTC compression as is now standard for Quest in SDK 3.2.0+.
• Add Furality Sylva version.

Patch 2.1 - 6/1/2023

• Improve physbone settings on furality cape.
• Add thumbnail for furality version.

Patch 3 - 8/1/2023

- Adjust textures to put bodysuit below panels to prevent it peeking between arm panels.

- Fix particle scaling for VRC Avatar Scaling Update.

Patch 4 - 9/3/2023

• Fix errant WD-on state in two-handed sword state machine.
• Replaced VRCPhysBone.AllowGrabbing with VRCPhysBone.GrabFilter.allowSelf in all sword animations as workaround for issue with with Unity 2022 beta.
• Updated some logic to be more lenient on being within the contact region while grabbing the sword.
  • (I don’t have to be as strict anymore now that physbones have settings to disallow others from grabbing).
• Replaced ColorChord mode with AL theme colors.
• Crop and resize thumbnails for upcoming beta SDK.
• Restore avatar dynamics fire feature.

Patch 5 - 11/14/2023

• Made sword fire color tint by selected magic color.
• Added flight to Quest version.
• Cleaned up files in preparation for face tracking add-on:
  • Animations are now split between Gesture and FX layers based on whether or not they animate humanoid transforms.
  • Sword Summon toggle moved into Options sub-menu.
  • Added layer mask to Action layer to prevent it overriding non-humanoid transforms.
  • Removed layer mask from Skins layer in FX animator to avoid known unity bug.
  • FX Layer now has logic for disabling facial expression animations.
• Fixed some body materials using wrong mask texture for sword dissolve.
• Replaced fallback cubemap in all materials with custom one to reduce odd shiny look in worlds with no reflection probes.
• Add custom Sitting layer that doesn't lock lower body while in FBT.
• Fix topmost button on coat not moving for breasts blendshape.

Patch 5.1 - 11/17/2023

• Fix pants fem hips blendshape not mirrored properly.

Patch 6 - 5/15/2024

• Added new toggle + new blendshape for slimming the shoulders for a more feminine look.
• Marked sharp the vertex normals around the edge of the wrists to avoid warping.
• Convert sword sound effects to using the new vrc_animatorPlayAudio.
• Update to SDK 3.6.0
• Update to Unity 2022.3.22f1 ⚠️

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 upload as public/cloneable onto VRChat and other social and game platforms, however:
  1. You must include a link back to my store page that is clearly listed somewhere.
  2. The platform in question must have a reasonable level of security to not leak source assets.
• ✓ You may edit and re-purpose for use as a VTuber or other virtual avatar, as long as credit clearly listed somewhere.
• ✓ 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 avatar.
• ✗ 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.

This time I decided to go a little outside my comfort zone and try a mostly-organic design. For all you robot-purists, don't worry the robots will return!

Looking forward to seeing all your cute kitties!

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