Product Description
$35 - Launch Price
Sunclaw Raptor - a very bitey creature avatar for PC VRChat!
Has face- and eye tracking, non conflicting animations, digitigrade leg toggle, handcrafted topology and UVs, many performance optimisations, toe puppet.
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V0.96 - updates planned:
UV tile discard
Additional textures and materials
Mana Wings add-on (WIP currently bundled)
Animator expansions
Documentation
Try it for free:
Hue Shift, Several Customizations, No Watermarks, have fun!
Add-On showcase:
Shorts by Morghus: https://morghus.gumroad.com/l/sunclawshorts?layout=profile
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Prerequisites:
VRCFury
Poiyomi Toon Shader
Furality Umbra & Somna Shader
VRChat Creator Companion
Jerry's FT Templates (Unified Expressions)
Proficiency with the Unity Engine (This project has custom animators and VRCFury setup - technical support discord forum available)
A PC - this base is not currently quest compatible
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Features / Included Files:
Includes Unitypackage, a messy Substance Painter file, and a clean .fbx with an exploded view to make a fresh substance painter file.
Face Tracking:
> Custom implementation using in part Jerry's FT (Unified Expressions) and in part custom animator layers referencing parameters from Jerry's FT.
> Tongue tracking toggles under Face Tracking/Additional Options.
Digitigrade Legs:
> Stripe Digi lets you toggle between digitigrade and plantigrade leg motion. Calibrated to not scrungle your calves into your thighs! The more your legs bend, the more digitigrade the leg movement, except when your feet are on the ground! *inspired by Kinrii's Digitigrade rig
> Custom toggleable toe puppet system! Move your foot in or outward to splay toes in that direction, or down to curl your toes.
First Person Snout:
> See your own face and facial expressions in VR!
If you notice clipping, turn Forced Camera Near Distance to "Dynamic" under Graphics Settings in VRC.
VRAM optimized:
> Hand-packed custom UVs optimized for texel density. Get more pixels per pixel. Higher density for head, hands & feet.
> 21MB texture memory in default config - largest texture on demo avatar is 2K resolution!
> 8MB mesh memory
> 37K Tris
> Good VRC Performance Rating
> 1 Skinned Mesh (+1 for optional Mana Wings add-on)
> 4 Material Slots (+1 for optional Mana Wings add-on)
Custom animator:
> Non-conflicting blink controller - drive one Left Blink and one Right Blink animation with multiple input parameters in a single blendtree. Never overblink due to gestures!
> Non-conflicting jaw motion controller - smoothed parameter driven jaw with bone animations!
> Non-conflicting tongue motion controller - fully parameter driven!
> Non conflicting animator layers let you use gestures alongside facetracking at the same time (if you really like puppeting your avatar)
> Hue shift sliders for body and eyes independently.
> Various customization options, alternate horns & face shape blendshapes.
VRCFury Gestures:
> A handful preset gestures for various moods!
Audiolink:
> Includes Furality Umbra material set up for smooth reactive audiolink patterns.
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Terms of Service / License agreement:
This product is a license to the avatar assets contained within.As an owner of this avatar license, you may:
1) Modify the avatar, 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 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 does not bundle or contain any part of the base assets included in this product. If you sell add-ons for this base, you must link back to one of my stores where I sell this base (Gumroad or Jinxxy).
5) Use the model for any other non-commercial personal projects or games with proper credit given - such as Resonite, 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 page]
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 a demo version which will be available publicly in game for this purpose! You MAY upload a public demo to showcase add-ons you have created for the base.
4) Use any files herein for the purpose of training generative AI.
5) Sell physical merch of the avatar or species.
6) Use the avatar, species 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 May 2025 - 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 avatar base makes use of Furality Umbra and Furality Sylva shaders, in accordance with Furality's license agreement.
Special thanks (testing, design, tech and development):
Nerhri, Apois, Kinrii, Zulie, Marty, Korvyn, Viel, Micca, Redro, Royalty, Krazen
If you helped with this and I forgot your name, DM me, and I'll add you.