Slipfin Alien VRC Avatar

(special thanks to Kinrii, Senky, Redrosid, Mystical, Micca, Lyzak, Slash, Nerhri and Tokyozilla for help making this avatar a reality)

Slipfin Alien VRC Avatar for PC - Come be squishy with us!

Terms of Service further down!

This package includes as of Version 1.0:
- UnityPackage for the Slipfin Alien Avatar - crashland and settle anywhere with this creature-shaped friend!
- Blender file of the avatar.
- Substance Painter (2022) file for the textures used in the preset versions.
- Readmes with Blender export settings, shaders used, and where to get them (Poiyomi Toon 8.x and the Furality Sylva Shader)
- Small concept art pack with species lore and sketches!
- This project includes and uses the Furality Sylva Shader by Furality, Inc. (https://furality.org) with permission.
- Readme with general info about setup.

Super easy setup, with the included readme:
1) Create an empty avatar project
2) Import Poiyomi and Sylva Shader and VRCFury (links to Creator Companion repositories provided in readme).
3) Import the Slipfin Alien unitypackage and doubleclick the Slipfin Scene in the scenes folder - you're ready to upload!
4) Log into the VRChat SDK, in the top dropdown, select the chosen avatar version, fill in your info, and hit publish at the bottom!

This avatar is set up with and requires VRCFury - a Creator Companion add-on - for gestures and toggles to work. You can add it to your VRC Creator Companion here: https://vrcfury.com/download/
This tool lets you easily set up gestures, toggles and has a bunch of other useful features. It is entirely non-destructive, as it only adds its components on build/play.
KNOWN ISSUE: Due to a Unity Bug, rearranging gestures in the VRCFury Gestures Script can crash Unity to desktop. The fix is to add new VRCFury Gesture Manager scripts, each with a single gesture, and arranging those instead. I will try and do this for the release version in a future update!

Avatar features:
- FBT ready!
- 32008 Tris
- 8 Physbone Scripts for expressive Tail, Toe, Armfin, Ear and Tongue physics!
- 5 blendshapes for modifying the look of the fins!
- Good VRC performance rating - optimized to sub 30mb texture memory & sub 5mb download size!
- VRCFury gesture controller and toggles with tail puppet!.
- Tail Size Slider - you like big tails, right?
- Hue/Saturation/Brightness sliders on Poiyomi version, so you can upload right away and customize in game!
- Snout Universal Collider - you can push other people's physbones or world objects with your nose (VRCFury script).
- Floor, leg and body colliders for your tail, floor collider for your feet (togglable)
- 2 versions, with Poiyomi and Sylva Shader material presets respectively! The Poiyomi version has hue, saturation and brightness sliders set up, but those properties cannot be animated on the Sylva shader. You can, however, manually hue shift the texture files themselves and add them back into the material.
- Unity 2022 project.
- Safe for work!
- Requires no paid third-party assets!

Terms of Service / License agreement:
As an owner of this avatar license, you may:
1) Modify the avatar, morph it, splorp it, and edit it however your heart desires!
2) Upload the avatar to VRChat, for personal use.
3) Offer commissions to retexture, edit or modify the avatar - BUT ONLY to anyone who has also purchased and owns a copy of this avatar.
4) Share or sell add-ons, clothing or assets for the avatar - BUT ONLY so long as the add-ons require the user to have purchased this avatar package and you link back to this page (gumroad purchase page for the Slipfin Alien Avatar) and credit me for the avatar.
5) Use the model for any other non-commercial personal projects or games with proper credit given - such as Resonite, NEOS ChilloutVR, Vtuber stuff etc etc [ex: someone asks where the model is from, credit is given where it is due and information is disclosed that leads back to this gumroad page - https://scritt.gumroad.com/l/slipfin]

You may not, and agree to not:
1) Redistribute or resell files herein.
2) Take credit for the species, model, or its base assets.
3) Upload public or general-use versions of this avatar. I have made two demo versions which will be available publicly in game for this purpose!
4) Use any files herein for the purpose of training generative AI
5) Sell physical merch of Slipfin Aliens.
6) Use Slipfin Aliens or any files herein to make hateful imagery.

You agree that you are personally responsible for any use of this avatar that may violate the ToS of VRChat or whichever platform you use it on, and that I cannot be held responsible for any detrimental result of how you use the files herein.

The files herein work in VRChat as of February 2024 - I cannot guarantee VRChat will never alter their game engine or SDK in a way that could render the files herein unusable, or cause them to require additional setup work.

Parts of this ToS have been taken from or inspired by Tokyozilla's avatar ToS, with their permission.
This project includes and uses the Furality Sylva Shader by Furality, Inc. (https://furality.org) with permission.

Slipfin Aliens are (c) myself since 2021 and I use them as a trademark for licensing and merch purposes.
Thanks to everyone who helped test, take photos and provide feedback, and thanks to everyone who made this avatar their own!

(c) Stripe/Scritt 2024