How to edit an avatar?

[Gege]

Hello

I really love an avatar but I want to put my spin on it and add emotes and more complex goco with multiple hairs and accessories

However I got no clue how to do so and I can't find any recent youtube video

Any help is very appreciated

[Jermatastic]

Hey @Gege ,

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Getting Started with Unity

• To get started with learning Unity and how to work with VRCFury and all that jazz, I can only recommend watching the videos by
  PxINKY < Link
  They have a great variety of videos on how to work with Unity and how to edit avatars, and the tutorials are pretty easy to follow.
  Even though they may only edit furry avatars in the videos, the process is practically the same for every avvie

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Personal Recommendations

• Adding accessories and hair is pretty easy to do, especially with the right tools. Threre's a bunch of plugins that significantly reduce the load when it comes to creating and testing avvies. (VRCFury, Gesture Manager, Avatars 3.0 Manager, Pumkins Avatars Tools) < All of these can be added via the VRChat Creator Companion and/or found by googling.
• For shaders, I can recommend poiyomi < (linked) and liltoon, poiyomi is however much more difficult to work with at the beginning, significantly more feature rich though
• If you want to edit textures, well, I can only recommend getting Photoshop and Adobe Substance 3D Painter, it is adobe though so
• As to emotes, I'm quite unsure of how you'd go about doing that but it'd probably involve adding blendshapes in blender and such, very unfamiliar territory for me, but I'm sure there's tutorials out there.

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Godspeed, don't get discouraged, and by the gods have patience, Unity is a cruel mistress!

[Gege]

Thanks a lot! been working on learning ever since this post, got used to Blender and how to add things using VRC companion