4PAW by Voxian Products

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4PAW

Unlock the full potential of having four paws! With the 4PAW base, you can gallop on all fours and still reach the top shelf!

The 4PAW takes inspiration from many sources in which a semi feral character is able to run on all fours and yet still stand and walk like a human.

This avatar is a combination of many techniques found in my other projects, carefully integrated into a single avatar.

4PAW - Biped? Quadruped? BOTH!

FINALLY a fully featured feral has made it into VRChat! The 4PAW base has been built completely from the ground up with special emphasis on Full Body to allow for the most comfortable quadruped experience possible! Walk, Trot, Gallop, or Sprint with the custom locomotion systems included in this base!

But how are you going to play pool (billiards) with all four legs on the ground? Let's lift up that spine a bit, mix in some IK, and introduce a full set of biped locomotion! There we go, now you can run the table! (And maybe pickup the Aqua Pack to become a REAL pool shark?)

Features:

Biped? Quadruped? BOTH! - Simply playspace up or down to change your mode. When running as a biped, you will automatically go into a quadruped run after a short delay. If you would rather always be a feral, scale the avatar all the way up and then use the VRChat scale to shrink down.
Scale the Avatar but NOT Yourself - Yes! You can make the avatar bigger without making yourself bigger! This was specifically added to allow you to go into quadruped mode without having to use playspace mover (Scale the avatar really big, then scale yourself down in the VRChat menu). This could also be used to generally make yourself bigger if you want.
Full Body Tracking - Choose between many different options and offsets. Are your arms too long? Maybe your legs aren't quite the right length. You can adjust it all in game! Want to control all four legs with your legs, there's a toggle for that. When using full body, we try to keep you comfortably in control of your legs at all times.
Humanoid Offsets - There are MANY adjustments to get your hands matching up just right. You have full control over the offset between your hands and your pawbs. If you don't like the automatic hand offset when you reach too far, you can lock your hands to your hands with a toggle.
Custom Locomotions! - This base includes 35 custom locomotion animations to properly handle both quadruped and biped locomotion. The system also automatically swaps between modes depending on how fast you're moving. (Ferals can move much faster than bipeds!) You can even hop like a kangaroo or stumble around as a biped if you want!
8 Poses - Sit, Lay, Lay Sideways, Lay on Back, Sploot, Float, Sit Silly, or Sleep, You pick! All of these will appropriately handle your movements and accomodate for Full Body where possible.
Idles and Gestures - Ear Flicks, Tail Movements, Subtle Expression Shifts, Close your fists to control the eyes or tongue.
Fully Customizable Gesture System - Maybe you want the smile to be a peace sign instead of a finger point? This avatar includes a completely modular gesture system that allows you to choose which hand or gesture activates any of the expressions. Or if you don't like a specific gesture, rather than turning all of them off, just turn off that specific one.
3rd Person Camera - Desktop users rejoice! We haven't forgotten about you! Activate the 3rd person camera for a much better experience in desktop mode.
Direct Control Mode - When in Full Body, we found that it's often nice to have a mode where the arms, legs, and hips follow your movements directly. This mode will allow you to lean back in a chair and relax. If the "Auto FBT Poses" is active, this mode will automatically activate when you lean back far enough. You can also control the offsets of your hips while in this mode to get a better fit for your body.
Face Tracking - This avatar includes a full set of Unified Expressions. We even took it one step further and automatically animated the Ears and Tail based on your movements!
Boop and Head Pat - It would be a cryin' shame to not include these. The head pat closes the eyes, the boop closes the eyes and sticks your tongue out. You can even boop them back by pushing away physbones with your nose!
MMD Compatibility - Yep, sing and dance to your heat's content. Not only do we have the necessary blendshapes, we've also included 3 different types of MMD modes, "Direct Control" "Local Offsets" and "Automatic Steps"
Puppets - Just like on most avatars, feel free to puppet the Tail, Ears, Tongue, Toes, or Face Expressions.
Seats - Sit in chairs just like a human! You can even choose what pose to go into when you sit.
1st Person Snoot - For a more immersive experience, you can choose to see your own muzzle at the bottom of your screen. It's fully adjustable for the perfect fit.
Full Modular Setup with VRCFury - Literally just drag and drop features you want into the avatar to enable or disable features, systems, or accessories. Everything will automatically connect with VRCFury.
Customize your Look - Get the perfect look with over 70 Customizable Blendshapes and even sliders for things like "Eye Width" and "Spine Length"
Passengers - Become a taxi with this advanced seat system! This seat is forced upright and smoothed to your movements to prevent motion sickness. You can even control the height, rotation, and amount of smoothing.
Ghost Hands - When you aren't directly controlling your hands, a set of toggleable ghost hands will appear to give you an indiciation of where your hands are.
Flight System - Simply run forwards, look up, and jump to take off into the air! You can also dash or finely control your movements while flying. This system will automatically disable itself when you land and look down.
Quest Compatible - We already have all the locomotion systems ready to go, so we can remove the IK and upload to quest! We've also included an optimized version of the body with 19,640 triangles (polygons) to fit within the quest limits.

Performance Ranks:

Quest Compatible Optional Features:

Passengers - 3 Constraints | 1 Station
Head Pat - 1 Contact
Tail Physics - 1 Physbone

Other Optional Features:

Callibration Detection - 2 Contacts
Eye Look - 1 Physbones | 1 Physbone Collider | 1 Constraint
Face Tracking - 2 Constraints | 1 Skinned Mesh Renderer | 166 Synced Parameters
First Person Snoot - 1 Skinned Mesh Renderer
Ghost Hands - 1 Skinned Mesh Renderer | 4 Constraints
Head Tilt - 1 Physbone
Camera - 4 Constraints | 1 Camera
Physbone Based Fingers - 10 Physbones | 10 Physbone Colliders
Flight System - 4 Constraints | 2 Contacts | 1 Physbone | 1 Physbone Collider | 1 Collider | 2 IK Components
Hooman Visual - 1 Skinned Mesh Renderer
Speed Troubleshooter - 5 Mesh Renderers
Default Animations - Nothing
Mirror Override - Nothing
Owner Menus - Nothing
Spine Physics - 1 Physbone
Tongue Physics - 1 Physbone
Snoot Boop - 1 Physbone
Toe Physics - 4 Physbones | 5 Physbone Colliders
Finger Physics - 2 Physbones | 5 Physbone Colliders
Rump Physics - 2 Physbones
Auto Fingers - 2 Physbones
Auto Toes - 4 Physbones | 2 Physbone Colliders
FBT Auto Poses - 2 Physbones | 1 Physbone Collider | 1 Contact
Leg Physics - 2 Physbones
Arm Physics - 2 Physbones
Ears - 2 Physbones | 3 Physbone Colliders | 6 Constraints | 1 Skinned Mesh Renderer
Horns - 1 Mesh Renderer for each of the 6 horns
Eyebrow Whiskers - 1 Physbone | 1 Skinned Mesh Renderer
Whiskers - 1 Physbone | 1 Skinned Mesh Renderer
Breasts - 6 Constraints | 2 Physbones | 2 Physbone Colliders | 1 Skinned Mesh Renderer
Extra Ears - 2 Physbones | 3 Physbone Colliders | 6 Constraints | 1 Skinned Mesh Renderer

Almost VTuber Ready

Although we don't currently supply a VRM for this avatar, it does have all of the necessary blendshapes and configuration to be used as a VTuber! With a bit of effort, you could set this up yourself or wait for us to provide a template file.

Take It for a Spin!

Below are links to the public versions of this base. You can favorite or clone them directly from the website!

4PAW - DRAKE DEMO

This is an optimized version of most things found in the base pack. This avatar is ranked "Good" on PC and "Poor" on Android (Quest). Some base features which ARE included in the base pack have been removed in order to keep it at "Good" rank. The Android (Quest) version is used on all the other public 4PAW avatars. It includes all features and systems available to Android (Quest) users.

4PAW - AIR DEMO

This version includes a set of wings in order to demonstrate all of the wing features included in the Air Pack. Some advanced features have been removed in order to keep it at "Poor" rank on PC.

4PAW - AQUA DEMO

This version includes many of the aquatic accessories found in the Aqua Pack. This version ranks at "Very Poor" on PC.

4PAW - LAND DEMO

This version includes many of the fluffy options found in the Land Pack. This version ranks at "Very Poor" on PC.

What's Included:

This purchase includes:

The Base Avatar
The Quest Avatar
6 Horn Options
Eyebrow Whiskers
Whiskers
Blend File
Unity Package
"DRAKE" Textures and Materials

The Substance Painter and Photoshop files are NOT included in this pack. This is to help keep the costs down for retexture artists. However, this means that if you want to do retextures yourself, you will want to pick up the Creator Pack.

4PAW - Creator Pack

The wing controls are NOT included in this pack. Please take a look at the 4PAW - AIR PACK for information on those systems.

4PAW - AIR

Addon Packs!

Most of the cosmetic accessories for this base are available in the form of addon packs! We have three of these currently available.

4PAW - AIR

4PAW - LAND

4PAW - AQUA

Aahhhgg Too Many Hoomans!

So how does it work??? Alright! Let's do this!

Despite having fewer limbs, I quickly found the 4PAW to be even MORE complex than my previous release of the AvaTAUR. It's more of a combination of the AvianTAUR and the AvaTAUR, let me explain.

Just like all of my other products, I am using a set of whitelisted scripts from Root Motion's Final IK system. This allows me to generate automatic steps and solve how non humanoid arms and legs should move. On the AvaTAUR, I was able to directly link the front legs with the humanoid legs, but that definitely wasn't going to work here. Instead I needed to do something similar to how the legs on the AvianTAUR work. As such, I made a system using the new VRChat local constraints to follow my real legs, but with a significant offset. I then use IK to link the visible legs to these. Unfortunately the humanoid legs are not the same length as the character's legs, this is why you'll find "Leg Length" and "Leg Offset" sliders in the menus. When not using full body tracking, I ignore your real legs and instead use automatic steps to make you walk around.

But this only solves for the hind legs, this avatar has FOUR legs! So I had to do this system again, but inverted for the front legs. This is accessible in the menus with the "Control All Legs" option. When not using this option, I default to automatic steps. However, it looks kinda strange for a quadruped to pick up BOTH front legs... so I intentionally lock one hand to the floor and let you control the other.

When actually walking, I ignore all of these controls and use a set of locomotion animations that I created specifically for this base. Due to being both a biped and a quadruped, I needed a full set of humanoid locomotions, as well as a set of feral locomotions! (It was a LOT to animate!) While making the animations, I found some variants I really liked, such as the Kangaroo Hop, so I added those as toggles.

"I have long legs, and little arms. I'm just not sure how well this plan was thought through."

So the final hurdle was something new I needed to figure out. This avatar is proportioned completely different from a standard human. Specifically, when waving your arms around, it's very easy to force the arms completely straight. So I made a set of local constraints for the arms as well. These local arms can be scaled or offset as much as I want from the originals and then IK is used to attach the visible arms, but when should I swap between directly controlled and locally controlled? I added ANOTHER set of invisible arms which are always trying to reach your real hands. This set has a contact to detect when it's close enough to your real hands and automatically swap control. (This system can be disabled in the menus with the "Lock Hands" toggle) To help show you what is happening, I have a set of ghost hands that appear whenever you are not directly controlling your own hands.

All in all, this avatar is much more complex than anything else I've made so far, but by using many optimization tricks I've learned, it actually performs better than the AvaTAUR! <3

Support:

If you have any questions, run into any bugs, or need help making custom edits, head over to the Virtual Limbs Discord! Feel free to contact me on there for anything that might come up.

https://discord.gg/limbs

Credits:

VRLabs - https://github.com/VRLabs

Final IK Stub
World Constraint
Raycast
Local Mirror Detection
Calibration Detection

4hiziri - https://github.com/4hiziri/Unity-BlendShapeCopyExtension/

Blend Shape Copy Tool

Senky - https://vrcfury.com/

VRCFury

Special thanks to these wonderful beans!

♡ BlackbloodQueen - For the fantastic "4PAW" logos.

♡ LaserRaptor, Sacred, and ManyBlinkingLights - For help with troubleshooting and brainstorming solutions.

♡ TheCatnamedFish - For her AMAZING work on the textures, the advertising material, and continued support.

♡ Art by Ashley - For demonstration and troubleshooting of the Face Tracking and a bunch of work on the icons!

♡ T0X and Ewwgene - For help getting everything converted from Maya to Blender.

♡ Levin - For helping with the demo video.

♡ Labrador - For their enthusiasm and SO much help in troubleshooting the early versions of the model.

♡ SalemAdams, Zidane, and RyeBreadDragon - For their help in testing and troubleshooting.

♡ Everyone in Virtual Limbs - For so much interest in this project and keeping me going!

And to you! Even if you don't purchase this pack, I'm happy to see people are curious and interested. You make it all worth it!

Virtual Limbs:

If you're interested in this type of content, consider joining the Virtual Limbs group! We are a group dedicated to avatars with non-humanoid body types, extra legs, arms, heads, ect. We run art jams, game nights, world explorations, and hangouts.

Join the VRChat group here:

https://vrc.group/LIMBS.9050

And Join the Discord group here:

https://discord.gg/limbs

Related Tags:

Dragon, Drake, Quadruped, Biped, Feral, Face Tracking, VSeeFace, Charr, Demi Feral, Semi Feral, Felkin, Lizard, Salamander, Creature, Monster, Full Body Tracking, FBT, Quad, Reptile, Serpent, Wyrm, Wyvern, Lindworm, Amphithere, Furry, Therian, Therianthropy, Bat, Raptor, Lion, Shark, Dolphin, Axolotl, Angler, Eel, Leviathan

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