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Creating

Hubs

  • Community Meetup (Discord), who meet in-game to show worlds weekly and avatars monthly!

  • Udon VR (Discord), who meet similarly on the first Friday of each month for world builders!

  • Beyond that, other player communities’ Discord servers often have their own creating channels!


 

  • 🌎 Worlds - a community tutorial video series (text ver.), plus scripting primer

  • 🅰 Avatars - a starting point read, a community tutorial video series, and broad overview

    • Searching “where to find models for vrchat” seems to be replete with results, mind licenses!

    • Trying to find different kinds of avatar makers that perform a progression with an audience like iDream! Closest I've found is this series, but I would personally advise limiting if not muting the audio (this entry might be the least grating). You can definitely see a trend since 3.0 came out I think, where past avatar highlights were often restricted to epic scale and particles. (Might explain why I still see rules against avatars using such explosions of light and sound despite really not having seen them used in 2022.) Very open if anyone would like to suggest an alternate channel though, this here is a very… acquired taste.

  • A community wiki called VRCLibrary + two collections of personal and community shader knowledge

  • A knowledge index and another manifest of aforementioned decentralized resources

Past Journeys


  • My entry point for learning about this scene before I'd joined VRChat was the above video "My Year in VRChat" by CNLohr, which left me equally fascinated and stumped. How do I find a group of people inside a game when their work is by nature outside the game in their Unity or Blender program? Aside from bumping into creators by pure luck, so far my personal go-to source has been to either attend or watch stream recordings for:

  • Appreciating that in VRChat, learning to create's largely a decentralized effort. You'll rarely find a single silver-bullet tutorial to point to, esp. with so many official and fan resources growing stale or deprecated. Instead, experienced creators are often happy to talk shop with someone who's respectfully asked for help in an appropriate Discord channel.

  • Finding my creative aesthetic born out of my values ✳

  • Decided through a lengthy period of self-searching to redirect from Creating-first to Connecting-first, but here were some groups I'll note what frontiers lie open that I didn't really get deep into:

    • Poiyomi (YouTube tutorials, Patreon, has a Discord server for itself)

    • UdonSharp (creator's been hired by VRChat, so... #udon-questions in official VRC Discord now?)

    • VRCPrefabs (seemed a bit less easy to get into, but I see the logo in many notable worlds)

      • Would sometimes just get referred to as "the Prefabs community," if you ever hear that

Future Journeys

  • I still can’t help but wonder what might exist outside the English-speaking community’s bubble?

Section Credits

Thanks for help on this section: Faxmashine, pema99, Joker is punk, iDreamTheater, and the Discord communities at communitymeetup.net, StemVR, and VRCLibrary.

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