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VRChat on Quest: Avatar Performance Woes

Or, "Why Is Everyone Gray Robots?"

If you apply VRChat on the Oculus Quest, you lot have probably seen your fair share of the "gray robots" — the generic placeholder avatar that VRChat uses in place of a user'south avatar in diverse cases. You've probably also noticed that in that location are a lot of them.

Why am I seeing a gray robot?

There are two main reasons you'll see these placeholder "gray robot" avatars: Very Poor performance rank avatars, and avatars without a Quest asset available.

When an avatar is ranked "Very Poor" on VRChat for Quest, it is hidden by default. It volition show every bit a gray robot with the text "Perf Blocked" on the breast, and you tin't see it until you click "Bear witness Avatar" on each user you lot find wearing 1. We do this to prevent operation problems on the Quest.

In addition, y'all'll see more grey robots when you find someone using an avatar without a Quest version. These robots volition show up with the thumbnail epitome of the avatar on their chest. Clicking "Show Avatar" on them won't do anything. Think of it like trying to put a Blu-Ray disc into a DVD player — the role player has no idea what the information is.

Okay, only why are in that location then many gray robots?

Hmm, I wonder why?

The primary reason for placeholder avatars on Quest is the "Perf Blocked" reason. The vast majority of avatars used on the Quest version of VRChat are ranked as Very Poor, and therefore are hidden by default. Out of the Very Poor avatars on Quest, most of them exceed the limits by 10x or more. This indicates that many Quest avatar authors are not making whatsoever attempts to optimize at all, and are instead uploading avatars intended for PC usage.

There'due south a few reasons for this. Making a "Good" or "Excellent" avatar on Quest is difficult. The limits are quite stringent. We need to make it easier to make avatars that fit inside the limits — or re-evaluate the limits themselves.

Our goal is to have as many avatars showing as possible. However, if we show many of these Very Poor ranked avatars at the same fourth dimension, FPS drops, system retentiveness fills up, and your performance tanks. In the worst cases, VRChat will send you lot back to your Dwelling house or just crash outright.

The secondary reason behind "grayness robots" is when an avatar hasn't been uploaded for Quest. This is a harder trouble to solve.

Since substantially 100% of the content on VRChat is user-created, we're going to be taking some steps to mitigate both major causes of the "grayness robot problem".

How is VRChat going to accost Very Poor avatars on Quest?

Let's start with the "Perf Blocked" grayness robots. At that place's a few pathways, but we're starting out ho-hum. Hither's our program.

Get-go, since the hardware landscape has changed a bit (and after some extensive benchmarking), we will be increasing the limits for the Very Poor, Poor, Medium, Good, and Splendid Performance Ranks . This will get in easier to create avatars that fall inside the limits, and hopefully encourage authors to create optimized avatars. Initially we volition be increasing the limit on polygon count for Oculus Quest specifically.

Haven't seen eyebrows like that since Amarao

This is an approximate doubling (plus a flake more than) of the previous limits for polygon count. Nosotros accept some boosted ideas for the Operation Rank system that may allow us to be more specific with where we're applying pressure. If/when we determine to change or implement other limits, we'll let you know. These changes will be coming out in our next release, which is currently in Open up Beta.

To be clear, the above changes exercise non touch on VRChat on PC.

Additionally, we will exist taking some preventative measures to help "close the tap" of Very Poor avatars. Most of these avatars come from avatar worlds, so we will:

1. Find the most popular avatar worlds with Quest avatar pedestals that are mostly (or all) ranked as Very Poor.
2. Contact the authors of these worlds and request that they either optimize the models they have uploaded, or to remove them.
3. If no action is taken, the worlds will be removed from search.

We have farther deportment planned, but for the moment, we would like to enact these changes and see how the community adapts. Our hope is that the loosened limits along with the pressure level to improve avatar performance will help reduce the "grey robot" problem, as well as improve performance overall.

We volition begin this procedure around the same time our next release goes out.

Alright, but what almost PC-only avatars? They're robots too.

Avatars that but have PC assets appear as a gray robot on Quest. We plan on addressing this with the Avatar Fallback system.

With Avatar Fallbacks, you will have the ability to cull an avatar to serve as your Fallback. If someone from some other platform is looking at your avatar, merely your avatar lacks an asset package for the platform they're on, you will instead look like your Fallback.

You will be able to choose from a list of our default avatars equally your Fallback. In add-on, you tin can upload an avatar yourself to act as your Fallback avatar, but it must have a Operation Rank of Good or better and it must be marked every bit a fallback during upload. (That does mean you lot'll need to reupload to use it). This fallback will be the same no matter what avatar you lot're currently wearing.

As an example, if you are wearing a PC-but avatar while speaking to your friend who is on the Oculus Quest, they will currently run into you equally a "gray robot". With the Fallback system, you volition instead be able to choose how y'all appear to your friend while wearing any PC avatar that doesn't accept a Quest version! Y'all can even choose i of your ain avatars as your Fallback, every bit long equally it meets the requirements given in a higher place and has been tagged accordingly during upload.

Avatar Fallback is a make-new feature! You lot tin read more than about in our documentation. It'll be coming out in our next release, which is currently in Open Beta.

Nosotros're making these changes to aid solve (or at least mitigate) some of the more hard problems for our Oculus Quest community — "anybody'due south a gray robot", and "wow, where'd my frames go after i clicked 'testify avatar' on that wolfboy?"

We deliberated quite a long time on how to address these issues! Nosotros decided on an approach that would both permit easier creation of avatars on the Quest platform, while also applying force per unit area to create performant avatars. We desire to avoid difficult limits on operation ranks on VRChat for Quest, simply it may be an eventuality.

Going forward, we will continue to implement both technical and policy changes for VRChat on the Oculus Quest / Quest 2 to avert the aforementioned "grey robot" and performance issues. In addition, we're continuing our ongoing performance piece of work for VRChat on Quest and PC.

We believe these changes will benefit the VRChat community every bit a whole, and volition go far easier to brand a performant Quest avatar!

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Source: https://medium.com/vrchat/vrchat-on-quest-avatar-performance-woes-1a3cc228a442

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