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This guide originally comes from an image by Anon. <sup>[ [[#Sources|Source]] ]</sup>

{{Note|This guide was originally written for Blender 2.7 and an older version of Unity. YMMV.}}
{{WIP|This guide currently uses the original text from the image, and will (eventually) be updated with better info and clearer pictures.}}

== Basic Slime Avatar ==

# Open your usual avatar in [[blender]]. 
## Assign all the geometry you want to be made of slime to the same material.
# Go get [[Arktoon's Shaders]] from https://github.com/synqark/Arktoon-Shaders/releases
# Import your avatar into Unity.
## Set the slime material as <code>arktoon/FadeRefracted</code> with the settings on the right.  
## Change your eye material to the same shader (can be a second material with emissions and stuff, but same shader) or they will be visible through your avatar's head and eyelids. <br />[[Image:SlimeShaderSettings-Orig.png|400px|center|right|Unity shader settings.]]

Upload to VRChat and you're done!

== Advanced Slime Mode ==

# In Blender on your usual avatar, create a new primitive sphere and squash it down into roughly the shape of a puddle or blob.
# Smooth the blob's normals in Edit Mode so the faces are nice.
# Add a new bone to the armature. Leave the bone unparented.
# Weight paint the blob entirely to this new bone.
# Assign the geometry of the blob to the same slime material as the rest of the avatar.
# Merge meshes with [[CATS]], import into Unity and do the same as normal slime. Done!

=== What does the blob do? ===

VRChat uses the hip bone to keep track of your avatar's position a lot of the time, not the armature.  Because the blob isn't parented to the hip, it will "stay on the ground" when your avatar crouches or goes prone or uses [[playspace mover]] to get extra height. It will still jump when you jump and will still remain below your head when you move around the world.  

Also, because it shares a shader with the avatar's body and arktoon can z-fill, it will appear to merge with it's own avatar's legs or other body parts that intersect with the geometry.

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[[Category:Tutorials]]
[[Category:VRChat Tutorials]]