Lowpoly Fallback Protogen [VRChat model]

Ever tried getting a fallback version of your protogen avatar? It's not as easy as just decimating your current model, unfortunately.

As VRChat seems to want to implement a hard limit on polygons (a really low one as well) I thought I'd start making a fallback avatar that's REALLY low poly (I joke about it looking like a N64 character) and usable on quest.

The Unity project comes with 2 versions: 1 for PC and 1 for Quest. The only difference is the Physbones scripts count. By default the Quest version is at Good performance but you can read Excellent if you remove all the Physbones components as the recommended amount is 0. In both cases it can be used as fallback avatar.

I made the UVs in a way that resembles the NKD ones, they have some differences but it should be easy enough for someone using a 2D painting software to get around for simple patterns. I highly suggest using Substance Painter as there might be some inconsistencies with the UVs that I didn't notice.

How to use

IMPORT THE LATEST VRCHAT SDK FIRST

Import into Unity

The quest version just changes the amount of physbones scripts in order to have Good performance on quest.

If you want 2 ears:

- Under Armature select:

- spine > spine.001 > spine.002 > spine.003 > spine.004 > spine.006 > lower_ear.L

- spine > spine.001 > spine.002 > spine.003 > spine.004 > spine.006 > lower_ear.R

- Set the Scale (under Transform in the inspector) to: (0, 0, 0)

Optionally you can just remove them in blender c:

TOS:

- Don't redistribute or claim as your own work

- You can use this for commissions, don't bother asking if the client has the model, if the client wants to support me the model is really cheap, give them the link. Otherwise you can give them this for free as long as one of the 2 paid for it.

- Feel free to contact me for any fix or suggestions