Renard Fox (Base) VRChat Avatar

This fox is ready for some VRChat shenanigans!

Designed with expressiveness as the number-one priority, Renard’s got over 30 custom gesture-driven expressions, with each expression further tweakable via additional puppet controls found in the radial menu!

Avatar Features:

• Fullbody-tracking compatible
• 3 different body textures (Red, Cross, and Arctic), swappable in-game
• 8 eye colors to chose from, also swappable in-game
• Dynamic ears and tail with colliders
• Full suite of facial visemes
• 60+ individual blendshapes
• Custom hand/gesture animations improve upon generic VRChat gestures
• Idle animation includes breathing, tail swaying, and periodic ear-flicking
• Make real-time adjustments to the tail, ears, toes, eyebrows, pupils, mouth, and tongue on TOP of existing gesture expressions and animations
• Extra twist joints make wrist, shoulder, hip, ankle, spine, and neck movements more natural without interfering with VRC or FBT functions
• Built-in tapetum lucidum automatically adjusts Renard’s eye-glow to the brightness of the world you’re in
• 5 preset Renard sizes included (mini, 4ft, 5ft, 6ft, and massive)
• Digitigrade AND Plantigrade versions!
• Optimized for VRChat (with a rating of “Medium”). Because of poly-count limitations, Renard is NOT currently Quest compatible. Note: To hit the target poly count all body geo that is completely occluded by other body parts or costuming has been deleted--in other words, Renard’s got no body mesh under his clothes. 
• Free access to any future updates and improvements to the base avatar

Feel free to try-before-you-buy at this cloneable avatar world!

Also feel free to join the discord server for friends, help with avatar customization, troubleshooting, showing off your mods, and more! 

Included Files:

• Ready-to-upload Unity package
• FBX file (Contains the model, rig, and material assignments)
• Substance Painter files (2 files, one is the default model and the other has the mouth open and eyelids closed for painting those hard-to-reach areas) with pre-made layers, gradient-maps, and masks in order to make retexturing much easier
• Photoshop file (for those who would rather not purchase Substance), also with pre-made layers, gradient-maps, and masks
• Individual PNG texture files
• Simple read-me for more instructions

Software Versions used in Renard’s creation:

• Unity 2018.4.20f1
• VRChat (Avatars 3.0/VRCSDK3)
• Substance Painter 2018
• Maya 2020
• PoiyomiToon 7.1 (Free)
• HaiVR Combo-Gesture-Expressions (Free unity package for creating additional combo expressions)

Simple steps to upload the included assets to VR Chat:

• Launch Unity 2019.4.31f1 and create a new project.
• Import the latest VRChat SDK package via Assets>Import Package>Custom Package
• Import the Poiyomi Shader package via Assets>Import Package>Custom Package.
• Import the Renard Avatar package via Assets>Import Package>Custom Package.
• Open the Renard VRChat Starter scene via File>Open Scene and select Renard_VRChat_Starter from the available options (full path: [project path]\Assets\Avatars\Renard\Scenes\Renard_V2.0)
• Make your modifications. For example, in order to edit Renard’s eyecolor textures you could swap out any of the included “body_meshes_diffuse_[...].png” files under Assets\Avatars\Renard\Textures\ for a custom texture of your own.
• Login to VRChat via the VRChat SDK menu (click “Show Control Panel”, you’ll then be prompted to log in)
• Select your avatar in the “Builder” tab and click Build & Test or, if you’re feeling confident it will all work, Build & Publish for Windows. Name your avatar how you’d like and change the cover picture by swapping out the texture on the “Thumbnail_Image” game object for one of your own. There is a camera included in the scene titled “Match_VRCCam_to_this_when_publishing” that is already focused on the thumbnail image, just match the VRC cam era’s settings to that and you’re golden!
• Enjoy your avatar!

Terms of Use:

When you purchase these assets you are agreeing to the terms of service below.

YOU CAN:

• Customize and edit the model the way you want for yourself.
• Sell commissions to modify, reskin, or otherwise customize the assets for another person, as long as both parties have purchased the assets.
• Use the model in NeosVR, VRChat, SUVA, VSeeFace, and Beatsaber, though note that this avatar currently only comes pre-set up for VRChat.
• Upload cloneable versions of these avatars on VRChat
• Use the avatar for Youtube and Twitch, but you need to credit the product with the following link: https://edisonfox.gumroad.com/

YOU CANNOT :

• Resell, redistribute, or give any Renard-related content to others (even to close persons). This includes adoptions or modified versions.
• Share files for technical support to someone who is not @certified
• Remove the tag (or credits on the tag) inside of the chest, although you can add your own name to the credits if you have made edits.
• Use inappropriate edits on public worlds. Please do not share any files of any variant of the default base you make. Custom texture files are fine to share.
• Claim to be the author of this model.
• Use these assets for any purposes of hate, bigotry, to cause harm, to cause fear, or in relation to any politically motivated message or agenda. This includes but is not limited to modification of the assets or using the assets in association with such purposes.

Note: I fully understand that what you do with these files after you have purchased them is entirely up to you and is, frankly, out of my control. I would, however, like to personally ask that you please not use Renard for the creation of non-safe-for-work content. Making content like Renard is how I make a living, and I try to keep my brand safe for everyone. I hope you understand <3

A less-personal-and-more-legal note: EdisonFox reserves the right for this model to be used in advertising, games, artwork, and applications.

Recommended Re-texture/FX/Mod Artists:

• Cloud Husky Landar (https://linktr.ee/Cloud1516)
• r.fox {7SD} (telegram @rfox7sd)

Disclaimer

The assets are provided "AS IS," without warranty of any kind. In no event shall the author be liable for any claim, damages or other liability, arising from, out of or in connection with these assets. The author shall NOT be responsible for any administrative actions taken against you for misuse of the model, or if you break VRChat's (or another platform’s) TOS. If you have any questions, assistance, or suggestions, please join our discord.

UPDATES!

March 8 2022:

• Full face- and eye-tracking setup through OSC for those using Vive's new tracking hardware (shoutout to @WizOfGames for his work on this and to benaclejames for his facetracking code (standalone version free but REQUIRED) found here: https://github.com/benaclejames/VRCFaceTracking)
• Updated all files to the newest Unity version and VRC SDK
• Improved shoulder weightings ahnd texture files
• Additional UV islands for heterochromeo eyes and an optional tail stripe

August 9 2022:

• Full conversion to VRChat's new physbones system, complete with colliders

September 21 2022:

• Addition of digitigrade version (using full spring solve for the legs)