Sylvafen | A Furry Fox-like VRChat Avatar

Say to hello to the Sylvafen! A cute species of woodland fox-like creatures.

Public Version | Try it before you buy it!

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Visit the roadmap for upcoming features and bug tracking

10/28/2024 | v1.3 | Full Face-Tracking Support!

Avatar Stats

• Total Poly Count: 66,339
  • Character Mesh: 56,135
  • Outfit: 10,204
• Mesh Count: 2
• Material Slots: 3

VRChat Features

• PC Medium Performance Rank with all features and clothing enabled
• Quest/Android Very Poor performance rank with all features and clothing enabled (near-complete feature parity between PC and Quest versions)
• Highly integrated, organized and compartmentalized functionality with VRCFury - Easy to optimize and remove features for further optimization and customization.
• Quality body presence, quality full-body tracking, and smoothly-blending animations and behavior
• Professional shader configuration with options realistic and flat shading toggles along with various fix toggles so you can look good in every world
• Cute and expressive gestures with a thoughtfully constructed animator that seamlessly blends all interactive behaviors and expressions
• Cute outfit with drag-and-drop functionally for adding and removing it from your avatar
• Three body texture variations and two outfit texture variations
• Poseable and puppet-able toe beans and a grabby toe gesture toggle
• Expressive head pat and boop interactions
• Idle animations like ear twitching and tail wagging; seamlessly integrated with the expression system
• Customization shapes for body, face, ears, and more
• BETA Face-Tracking support (Work-in-progress, animator built to be plug-and-play with Adjerry91's UE face-tracking template)

What's Included:

• Blender Project with character model, clothing, and exploded mesh for exporting to Substance 3D Painter
• Substance 3D Painter Project with labeled layers for easy coloring and choosing texture variations
• Ready-to-upload Unity Package

Requirements and Dependencies

Unity Package

• Unity 2022.3.22f1 or newer
• VRCFury 1.985.0 or newer
• Poiyomi Toon Shader 9.0.57 or newer

Substance Files

• Substance 3D Painter 9.1.2 or newer for texture editing

Blender File

• Blender 4.1 or newer for model editing/re-exporting

License

You may:

• Use this content for personal use on social platforms, social media, game mods, streaming and recording, and animation projects primarily distributed therein
• Edit this model in any way for personal use
• Take and receive commissions to modify this content provided both parties own it
• Make and sell third-party accessories and clothing for use with this content and include its armature in said products

You may not:

• Resell, redistribute, or claim ownership of this content, either directly or as part of another package, including modifications to this content
• Sell or claim ownership of this content, including modifications
• Make publicly sharable versions of this content in social platforms like VRChat, Resonite, ChilloutVR, etc
• Use this content for commercially distributed games, movies, or advertisements that fall outside of the scope of selling third-party accessories for use in this content, without my explicit permission (although we can discuss terms for this upon request (Contact: jolts@jolts.dev)

This avatar will be updated periodically as platforms continue to improve and add more features or as bugs/issues come to my attention.

Change Log:

10/29/2024 | v1.3.2

Hotfix

• Cleaned up weight painting around hands

10/28/2024 | v1.3.1

Hotfix

• Fixed boob blendshape clipping

• Fixed potential issue for those using Gesture Manager by clearing out the 'Controller' field on the prefab animators

10/28/2024 | v1.3.0

Face Tracking, Performance Improvements, VTubing, and Polish

• Updated ToS to allow cloneable/public uploads on VRChat
• Improved Boobs blendshape
• Added floof-pressing blendshape for hoodie
• Improved normal blending around base of ear floofs
• Fixed tail collider toggle
• Fixed shoulder floof not hiding at correct times with harness asset equipped
• Cleaned up 'Red Fox' texture in substance file
• Defaulted 'Flatten Lighting' toggle to 'On'
• Improved face-tracking shapes across the board
• Added various face-tracking animations for tongue, ears, and tail
• Added face-tracking prefabs
• Added VRM 0.X prefab for VTubing (with additional support for ARKit shapes!)
• Updated hand muscle settings to fix clipping issues with Steam Input 2.0 (Thanks Blu!)
• Removed texture swap options from the 'Standard' Sylvafen prefab save on VRAM usage
• Reduced body mesh poly count by a few thousand (Mostly in the floofs). Should let you put a few clothing items on now without going over the 'Very Poor' threshold.
• Changed rest pose of toes to be closed by default, increasing compatibility with other programs
• Created parent/root bones for similar Physbones in order to optimize Phybone component counts
• Created a default 'Optimized' prefab, removed Butt and Toe Physbones from it to achieve a 'Good' rating by default. Fully-featured Fen can still be found under the 'Base' Prefabs
• Changed texture filtering on 'Bits' textures
• Reduced VRAM usage via compression settings
• Added constraints to tongue physbones
• Made separate 'Collar-Only' and 'Sock-Only' prefabs for those who want to further optimize their poly count and add overhead for other clothing items
• Updated documentation

7/30/2024 | v1.2.2

MMD Hotfix

• Fixed MMD Blendshapes getting optimized out of avatar uploads
• Updated ReadMe

7/26/2024 | v1.2.1

Minor Update

• Improved weight painting around legs and groin area / improved various clothes clipping situations

• Lowered glossiness of beans

• Lowered unpacked filesize

• Fixed collar clipping into chest when laying down

• Reduced physbone jiggle on toes
• Added butt bones with physics; by popular request

7/23/2024 | v1.2

MMD Support

• Full MMD support with Japanese blendshapes - Get out there and dance!

• Fixed eye shader producing a white outline around iris

• Fixed body color masking making the mouth change color with the hue slider

• Reworked customization and puppet menus to be more modular and easier to individually delete

• Added GoGo Loco by default on all prefab variants

• Various clothes clipping fixes

• Added nose boop physbone

• PoV Snoot now saves properly

• Added better constraints to tail movement

• Fixed ear animation not looping on the smug gesture

• Updated ReadMe

7/16/2024 | v1.1

Minor Update

• Separated public packages out to their own prefab variants
• Improved sleep blend
• Renamed Snoot menu option to 'PoV Snoot'
• Changed base textures to color sliding for better customizability without requiring a custom re-texture
• Improved collar texture
• Made head and nose contacts larger
• Improved underwear and sock weights/deforms
• Added bulge blendshape to panties
• Improved texture density on clothes
• Shader improvements to the eyes
• Embedded texture files in .blend
• Restored default camera in the Unity Scene file
• Fixed a typo on the piercings toggle
• Swapped piercings and skirt order in the clothing menu
• Lowered gravity on the tail

7/14/2024 | v1.0

Initial Release!