An expressive shark avatar base!

The Arko Shark is an expressive, highly polished and optimized shark avatar base for VRChat on PC and Quest! Featuring body customization through sliders and blendshapes, several textures for customization, and files to help customize and make your own!

Want to try out this avatar before buying? Check out my booth in Furhub on VRChat!

Avatar Features

The Base Version includes:

• Good performance rank avatar for VRChat PC
• Medium performance rank avatar for VRChat Quest
• Full body compatible!
• Physbones on Ears, Tail, Hair, Chest, Back Fin, and Rear
• Hair and Ponytail length adjust sliders (Ponytail can be turned off)
• Tail control puppet and tail sway animation with speed slider
• Combo expressions - Left hand controls mouth and Right hand controls eyes - 48 possible expressions!
• Ear movement on expressions!
• 44 blendshapes for body/face customization
• ArkoShark Setup tool to easily swap textures and change blendshapes without fumbling with the Unity inspector (found in Arkoren > ArkoShark Setup Tool at the top of the Unity window)
• Setup tool also allows you to generate atlased textures for Quest to keep your avatar optimized!
• 7 premade body textures including: Default, Tiger, Blahaj, Sand, Pink, Dark, and Great White
• 10 eye color textures (Default, Blue, Brown, Gray, Green, Orange, Pink, Red, Teal, and White)
• 10 hair color textures (Default, Black, Blonde, Brown, Ginger, White, Pink, Red Fade, Teal Fade, and White Fade)
• Easy to modify Poiyomi materials
• Custom icons for the expressions menus
• Unitypackage with files and scenes included for easy avatar uploading!
• FBX, PSD, and Substance Painter files
• If you purchase the base version and want upgrade to the 18+ version later, please contact me for a discount equal to the difference ^^

The NSFW version includes the above, plus:

• Medium performance rank NSFW avatar for VRChat PC
• Poor performance rank avatar for Quest
• Very Poor TPS (Dynamic Penetration) NSFW Avatar for PC
• Full NSFW toggles, avatar can be used safely without showing NSFW features. Be wary if using NSFW avatars in public instances.
• Nipples toggle with 2 shape options and 2 texture options for size
• Toggleable Humanoid style penetrator with physbones and sizing sliders
• Animations for throb, particles, and hardness slider
• Separate TPS and non-TPS scenes.
• Toggle for TPS penetrator - compatible with other penetration systems (DPS). Poiyomi Pro required (NOT INCLUDED)
• 8 toggles for TPS Orifaces compatible with other penetration systems (DPS).
• Even more custom icons for the expressions menu
• More FBX, PSD and Substance Painter files

Check out the community discord (18+) to get help or follow for news on new avatar and clothing/accessory releases, VRChat events, and more! Boosting the server will give access to my WIPs channel! https://discord.gg/catmooncafe

This avatar uses Poiyomi 8 shaders! If you want to alter the materials, please download it here

To customize TPS Penetrator materials, Poiyomi Pro is required.

Also, if you want to change the expressions for VRChat, use ComboGestureExpressions

TERMS OF SERVICE

1. By purchasing and/or using any NSFW or Adult content licensed to you, you agree that you AND anyone using the licensed content are over the age of 18.
2. Any content licensed to you, including avatars and assets, is for personal use only. Uploading any part of this content publicly or to multiple people's accounts is prohibited.
3. You can use parts of any licensed content on other avatars, provided they are for your personal use only.
4. Selling or sharing licensed content files, including any of its components, even if modified, is strictly prohibited. The files must not be reused, shared, sold, uploaded to any website, or distributed. Exceptions for file sharing are allowed only for the purpose of commissioning modifications, provided that:
5. • One copy of the licensed content must be purchased per end user.
   • The files are shared directly with the artist and used solely for the commissioned work.
6. You may create and sell assets, such as clothing, for licensed avatars. However, no part of the avatar or its files, except for the armature, may be included in the assets.
7. The licensed content may be used for monetized video and streams, such as VTubing, paid renders and animations. Use for directly creating merchandise (such as figurines) is prohibited. For use in advertising other than commission work directly related to the avatar, please contact me for permission. Crediting is appreciated but not required.
8. I am not responsible for actions taken against your account on any platform for using or uploading the avatar.
9. The licensed content is intended to be used only with the most current version of the platforms or software listed on the product page at the time of creation. Compatibility of the content on other platforms or software, or older/newer versions of those platforms or software is not guaranteed.
10. Using any portion the licensed content or any images/videos depicting the content (including those found on any product pages), for the purpose of training AI is strictly prohibited.
11. Do not remove any credits graphics from licensed content unless heavy modifications are made.
12. Exceptions to the above terms (except term 1) may be given only with prior written permission.

All assets and content contained within this product's downloads, including adult (NSFW) material, were created for the purpose of being used for gender expression, body positivity, and artistic creativity. Minors under the age of 18 are prohibited from purchasing and using this product. The creator of this product is not responsible for how it is used.

If you have any issues or suggestions for this avatar, please feel free to contact me!

Change Log:

2/25/24 -No Version Change (SFW package only)

• Added missing extra texture options

2/25/24 - v1.1.2 (SFW package only)

• Fixed hand gestures not working (Updated FX Layer)
• Removed Gesture Layer (No longer needed)
• 18+ version will get this change in the future but is currently working as intended, gestures were only broken on SFW package

12/11/23 - No Version Change

• 18+ Version - Fixed missing FBX in zip file

9/15/23 - v1.1.1:

• Reverted body materials to Poiyomi 8.0 due to shading bug
• Fixed bugged blendshapes on SFW Quest version

9/11/23 - v1.1:

• Added Quest avatar versions
• Added ArkoShark Setup Tool
• Removed AvatarShapes Tool (functionality in the new tool)
• Added 15 new body customization blendshapes
• Adjusted weight paints on thumb/pawpad
• Added squish to tail/fin physbones
• Added hair toggle
• Updated body materials to Poiyomi 8.1
• Updated material shading settings
• Fixed weight painting where tail connects to the body
• Added compatibility with Harness DLC
• Updated thumbnail render
• 18+ version - Adjusted shape/topology of fem 18+ parts
• 18+ version - Updated 18+ normals to fix lighting issues
• 18+ version - Fixed shading issue on fem 18+ parts texture and SPP/PSD files

6/30/23 - No Version Change

• Fixed Fade Main layer on SFW Body PSD

6/2/23 - v1.02

• Fixed .fbx flipped normals on top teeth
• Fixed missing roughness mask on body materials' Reflections/Specular section
• Fixed seam issues with shading on body textures (hands and blush)
• Adjusted amount of shading on the hands for body textures
• Adjusted rim lighting and roughness mask around eyes
• Updated SPP and PSD files with the above texture adjustments
• Slightly changed the Thigh Squish and Hide Legs blendshapes (for later possible addons)

5/31/23 - No Version Change

• Added PSD files

5/30/23 - v1.0: Initial Release

v1.01:

• Fixed missing hand animations in Gesture layer
• 18+ version - fixed 18+ animations