Sylvafen | A Furry Fox-like VRChat Avatar

Say to hello to the Sylvafen! A cute species of woodland fox-like creatures.

6/11/2024 | v1.4 | Major rework!

VRChat Features

• PC Medium Performance Rank with all features and clothing enabled
• Quest/Android Poor performance rank with all features and clothing enabled (Complete feature compatability between PC and Quest versions)
• Highly integrated, organized and compartmentalized functionality with VRCFury - Easy to optimize and remove features for further optimization and customization.
• Quality body presence, quality full-body tracking, and smoothly-blending animations and behavior
• Professional shader configuration with options realistic and flat shading toggles along with various fix toggles so you can look good in every world
• Cute and expressive gestures with a thoughtfully constructed animator that seamlessly blends all interactive behaviors and expressions
• Cute outfit with drag-and-drop functionally for adding and removing it from your avatar
• Three body texture variations and two outfit texture variations
• Poseable and puppet-able toe beans and a grabby toe gesture toggle
• Expressive head pat and boop interactions
• Idle animations like ear twitching and tail wagging; seamlessly integrated with the expression system
• Customization shapes for body, face, ears, and more
• Expressive face-tracking support

Avatar Stats

• Mesh Count: 2
• Material Slots: 3
• PC Rating: Medium
  • Total Poly Count: 61,201
    • Base Mesh: 52,633
    • Included Outfit: 8,568
• Quest/Mobile Rating: Poor
  • Total Poly Count: 19,961
    • Base Mesh: 14,932
    • Included Outfit: 5,029

What's Included:

• Blender Project with character model, clothing, and exploded mesh for exporting to Substance 3D Painter
• Substance 3D Painter Project with labeled layers for easy coloring and choosing texture variations
• Ready-to-upload Unity Package

Requirements and Dependencies

Unity Package

• Unity 2022.3.22f1 or newer
• VRChat SDK 3.8.1 or newer
• VRCFury 1.1234.0 or newer
• Optional: Poiyomi Toon Shader 9.0.57 or newer

Substance Files

• Substance 3D Painter 9.1.2 or newer for texture editing

Blender File

• Blender 4.4 or newer for model editing/re-exporting

License

You may:

• Use this content for personal use on social platforms, social media, game mods, streaming and recording, and animation projects primarily distributed therein
• Edit this model in any way for personal use
• Take and receive commissions to modify this content provided both parties own it
• Make and sell third-party accessories and clothing for use with this content and include its armature in said products
• Make publicly cloneable versions of this content in social platforms like VRChat

You may not:

• Resell, redistribute, or claim ownership of this content, either directly or as part of another package, including modifications to this content
• Sell or claim ownership of this content, including modifications
• Use this content for commercially distributed games, movies, or advertisements that fall outside of the scope of selling third-party accessories for use in this content, without my explicit permission (although we can discuss terms for this upon request (Contact: jolts@jolts.dev)

This avatar will be updated periodically as platforms continue to improve and add more features or as bugs/issues come to my attention.

Change Log:

06/10/2025 | v1.4.0

Major Rework

• Fixed collar weighting - Physbones should work again
• Massively simplified prefab variant hierarchy. You now only have Sylvafen_PC and its child, Sylvafen_Quest
• This was done in the name of increased modularity and making upload/build times faster
• Converted base model and all clothing from A-Pose to T-Pose; improving compatibility with third-party assets and non-VRChat programs
• Moved default outfit into it's own prefab, making it more modular for those that don't want it
• Greatly optimized Quest/Mobile prefab - Poor rating with any single outfit!
• Bundled all third-party assets with the Sylvafen package to reduce the need for dependency management
• Migrated default shaders from Poiyomi to VRChat's new and very excellent Standard Toon shader
  • This also makes shader toggles/settings perfectly synced between platforms and reduces external dependencies
  • Poiyomi Shaders are still provided! They have their own lighting settings component in the Components Folder. Replace the Standard Toon one with this one if you want to use Poiyomi!
• Moved clothes prefab folder into the Sylvafen root folder
• Removed collar prefab as it's now part of the base
  • This might be temporary and reworked in the future - VRChat is adding a new optimization step in an upcoming update that will merge separated skinned meshes automatically, making skinned mesh count an unnecessary statistic to optimize
• Added ear fluff shape
• Added leg fluff shape
• Fixed animator errors when testing in editor
• Fixed socks clipping through hand in certain poses when hidden
• Fixed Harness clipping with certain body shapes
• Minor Substance file cleanup
• Created new easier to use Face-Tracking prefab - now packages ADJerry's template into the project without needing an external download

In general, this update was all about making the Sylvafen easier to use, maintain, and customize along with greatly improving maintainability, performance, and compatibility with third-party assets well into the future.

You will need to make a new project for this update!

10/29/2024 | v1.3.2

Hotfix

• Cleaned up weight painting around hands
  

10/28/2024 | v1.3.1

Hotfix

• Fixed boob blendshape clipping

• Fixed potential issue for those using Gesture Manager by clearing out the 'Controller' field on the prefab animators
  

10/28/2024 | v1.3.0

Face Tracking, Performance Improvements, VTubing, and Polish

• Updated ToS to allow cloneable/public uploads on VRChat
• Improved Boobs blendshape
• Added floof-pressing blendshape for hoodie
• Improved normal blending around base of ear floofs
• Fixed tail collider toggle
• Fixed shoulder floof not hiding at correct times with harness asset equipped
• Cleaned up 'Red Fox' texture in substance file
• Defaulted 'Flatten Lighting' toggle to 'On'
• Improved face-tracking shapes across the board
• Added various face-tracking animations for tongue, ears, and tail
• Added face-tracking prefabs
• Added VRM 0.X prefab for VTubing (with additional support for ARKit shapes!)
• Updated hand muscle settings to fix clipping issues with Steam Input 2.0 (Thanks Blu!)
• Removed texture swap options from the 'Standard' Sylvafen prefab save on VRAM usage
• Reduced body mesh poly count by a few thousand (Mostly in the floofs). Should let you put a few clothing items on now without going over the 'Very Poor' threshold.
• Changed rest pose of toes to be closed by default, increasing compatibility with other programs
• Created parent/root bones for similar Physbones in order to optimize Phybone component counts
• Created a default 'Optimized' prefab, removed Butt and Toe Physbones from it to achieve a 'Good' rating by default. Fully-featured Fen can still be found under the 'Base' Prefabs
• Changed texture filtering on 'Bits' textures
• Reduced VRAM usage via compression settings
• Added constraints to tongue physbones
• Made separate 'Collar-Only' and 'Sock-Only' prefabs for those who want to further optimize their poly count and add overhead for other clothing items
• Updated documentation

7/30/2024 | v1.2.2

MMD Hotfix

• Fixed MMD Blendshapes getting optimized out of avatar uploads
• Updated ReadMe

7/26/2024 | v1.2.1

Minor Update

• Improved weight painting around legs and groin area / improved various clothes clipping situations

• Lowered glossiness of beans

• Lowered unpacked filesize

• Fixed collar clipping into chest when laying down

• Reduced physbone jiggle on toes
• Added butt bones with physics; by popular request

7/23/2024 | v1.2

MMD Support

• Full MMD support with Japanese blendshapes - Get out there and dance!

• Fixed eye shader producing a white outline around iris

• Fixed body color masking making the mouth change color with the hue slider

• Reworked customization and puppet menus to be more modular and easier to individually delete

• Added GoGo Loco by default on all prefab variants

• Various clothes clipping fixes

• Added nose boop physbone

• PoV Snoot now saves properly

• Added better constraints to tail movement

• Fixed ear animation not looping on the smug gesture

• Updated ReadMe

7/16/2024 | v1.1

Minor Update

• Separated public packages out to their own prefab variants
• Improved sleep blend
• Renamed Snoot menu option to 'PoV Snoot'
• Changed base textures to color sliding for better customizability without requiring a custom re-texture
• Improved collar texture
• Made head and nose contacts larger
• Improved underwear and sock weights/deforms
• Added bulge blendshape to panties
• Improved texture density on clothes
• Shader improvements to the eyes
• Embedded texture files in .blend
• Restored default camera in the Unity Scene file
• Fixed a typo on the piercings toggle
• Swapped piercings and skirt order in the clothing menu
• Lowered gravity on the tail

7/14/2024 | v1.0

Initial Release!