SDK Bug & Feature Requests

If an AnimatorController is assigned to the avatar’s Animator, any properties animated by that controller will revert to their previous state when modified in the Inspector while the SDK Builder panel is open. This issue occurs with both VRChat-provided components and custom components used in non-destructive workflows. Reproduction steps: Assign an AnimatorController to the avatar’s Animator. In the AnimatorController, create an Animation that animates a property of any component. Open the SDK Builder panel. In the Inspector, change the property that is being animated. After about 2 seconds, the value reverts to its previous state. Expected behavior: Even when the SDK Builder panel is open, the properties set in the Inspector should not revert. A reproduction video using the VRC Position Constraint component is attached.

Reproduction steps: Attach a component that contains a SerializeReference to an avatar. Assign an AnimatorController to the avatar’s Animator. In the AnimatorController, create an Animation that animates a value in the SerializeReference. Open the SDK Builder panel. In the Inspector, change the value in the SerializeReference. After about 2 seconds, the value reverts to its previous state. The component that contains a SerializeReference is something like this. using System; using UnityEngine; public class NewBehaviourScript : MonoBehaviour { [Serializable] private class Test { public float TestValue; } [SerializeReference] private Test TestReference = new(); } Expected behavior: Even when the SDK Builder panel is open, the values set in the Inspector should not revert.

In the new SDK 3.7.6, it's now possible to build a world on Linux, but it is not possible to launch a local test with proton. Pls add proton support, similarly to: https://github.com/BefuddledLabs/LinuxVRChatSDKPatch

Reproduction steps: Create 2 gameobjects. Hierarchical relationship does not matter. Create a constraint (rotation, for example), and assign the the first object as a source for the second Lock the inspector to show the object with the constraint. The sources menu does not have to be expanded Delete the tracked object from scene view Unity crashes Reproduction video attached

Currently, the VCC always creates Windows projects by default. When installing Unity, the VCC should install the modules required for Android and iOS. It would be nice if users could choose Android or iOS directly instead of switching to it after project creation.

Problem Opening VRCSDK Builder page or changing the selected avatar will revert pose (transform) to rest pose defined in the 'Avatar' asset of the root Animator component. Cause of the problem In the OnGUIAvatarCheck method of the VRCSdkControlPanelAvatarBuilder class, it will call Animator.Rebind method to check the situations you call "nested armature". However, Animator.Rebind function will write the default pose defined in the 'Avatar' asset so it will revert any pose changes made in the editor. This is annoying since this will disturb creating animation clips and testing them in the editor. Solution One solution is to use Animator.Rebind(bool writeDefaultPose) private method and pass false to writeDefaultPose parameter, instead of passing true to it, which is the default value. This method is not available as public API but it will keep available until Unity 6000.2.0b4 (the latest available C# reference version . Another solution is to collect the current pose before calling Animator.Rebind and restore it after the call but this takes more code.

I believe it is time to get a solution to the most plaguing issue (in my opinion) of AVPro: Audio Filters I do not think this is a "can't fix" situation. In this proposal I will go over the problem, considerations that have been discussed historically, and the solution I believe is feasible to implement with working sample code. ### Previous Cannys 1) https://feedback.vrchat.com/open-beta/p/986-avpro-player-ignores-lowpass-reverb-and-other-filters 2) https://feedback.vrchat.com/sdk-bug-reports/p/avpro-video-player-audio-filter-issue 3) https://feedback.vrchat.com/sdk-bug-reports/p/sound-effects-are-not-applied-to-audiosource-using-avpro-that-comes-with-sdk3 4) https://feedback.vrchat.com/feature-requests/p/usharpvideo-stream-audio-does-not-support-filters ### Crux of the issue As previously discussed in above canny #1, the current way of handling the AVPro speaker component (type named AudioOutput ) is that the component is implicitly created via AddComponent on the same game object. This has the critical drawback of being unable to respect any audio filters due to the DSP filter chain being _component order dependent_. The second half of this issue is that Unity has no runtime native way to change the ordering of components without fully reconstructing the references. This causes very obvious issues in regards to dependent scene references. (TCL's comment in canny #1 clarifies this as well) ### What has been considered Detecting and destroying/rebuilding known filter components after the implicit component is added. This is bad because all scene references to those components would be lost (eg: UI Events or public Udon variables). To avoid the lost components issue, a full scene search would be required in order to update the references which is costly and fragile. Placeholder components (shims) for each filter type that gets implicitly created after the implicit AudioOutput This is bad because it does not allow users to reference the actual filter components in the inspector (namely an issue for UI Events) Allow adding the AudioOutput script manually in scene and have the speaker search for it before trying to implicitly add the component. This is bad because it requires that the user import the AVProTrial package to be able to use built-in unity audio filters. This needs to be compatible with situations where the user does not wish to import that package so the dependency is decoupled from the feature itself. ### Proposed Solution A shim script that inherits from the AudioOutput class combined with a compiler flag for detecting if AVPro is present, and if not, then have a stub type of the _same namespace and type name_ which is _ONLY_ present in the sdk. Then update the VRCAVProVideoSpeaker to check for the existence of the shim component before creating an implicit AudioOutput, using it instead if found on the game object. This ensures that when the main shim script is loaded in editor, it is already a valid AudioOutput component and the component order is correctly retained so the Audio Filters will work correctly. In the SDK, the script type will check for the existence of AVPro through a version define, and if NOT present, will enable the AudioOutput stub class of the same namespace. An example of what it might be like: https://gist.github.com/techanon/41efc336604e148dde55862bff1778d9 I've tested this specific example in editor and it works there. Can't test in-client obviously.

Currently, upon reviewing the request headers, there does not seem to be any way to differentiate between string and image loading requests for the same URL. With the limitations of VRCUrl, it would be very nice to have a way to tell them apart. Some potential solutions include specifying a value for the Accept header, extending the User-Agent header, or adding a new VRChat-specific header. I believe the last option would be the least likely to break any existing worlds, but there are various pros and cons of each. An example use-case would be a system to download a mesh (binary data, string loading) and its texture (image loading) using a single URL. The server could use the headers to determine which content it should respond with. This would also be useful for decreasing the size of VRCUrl pools as used in YTS and other worlds. We are already using useragent-dependent responses between video player and string loading useragents, but we'd like to do the same with image loading too.

For some reason when focusing on the SDK window, it will animate/override a material on my avatar, specifically the emission 0 strength. Doesn't happen on SDK 3.8.1 or lower!

OS: Arch Linux (but any Linux would get the same results) Unity 2022.3.22f1 Unity project managed by ALCOM (a cross platform open-source alternative to VCC) VRChat SDK version is 3.8.2 Summary Setting Build Type to Build & Test Your Avatar in the VRC SDK window, then clicking Build & Test does not place the new avatar inside %LocalAppdata%Low\VRChat\VRChat\Avatars (as per documentation ), and it is thus impossible to locally test avatars. Why This happens because that directory does NOT exist on Linux; the virtual C: drive created for VRChat by Steam is inside its specific proton prefix, and as such the right path is more likely to be located near /path/to/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata/438100/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/LocalLow/VRChat/VRChat/Avatars/ . This path is not right for every VRChat installation, because Steam allows for multiple game drives. Solutions I see two potential solutions; one of them requires fewer changes and is less practical for users : After building an avatar for testing, if the environment is Linux, provide users the path to the compiled avatar asset so that they can move it over to the right folder manually If the environment is Linux, inside the VRC SDK window, in the settings tab, add possibility to set the path to either the root of the virtual C: drive, or just to the folder where the user wants to export their testing avatars Please, please do ask more info if you need it, I will happily provide them, and I'd be happy to see this bug fixed I have found the location, it is inside .local/share/VRChat/VRChat/Avatars/, I have not seen that documented anywhere, maybe updating the docs would be nice... ~~Also if you just give me the path to the compiled avatar I'd be happy, I really wanted to test it out so...~~ Also, I would gladly fix it myself if the sdk was open source... is that planned ? Is it forbidden, in the meantime, to go and decompile and fix stuff for myself ? What about publishing fixed dlls ?