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I’m gonna try get mine soon. Considering my history with tech I can only imagine good things ;P

There’s easy and there’s also “I know this highly technical process because it’s been drummed in to me for years”, which I’d argue better describes the VRChat avatar workflow. Nothing that Resonite offers is technically any harder (arguably it’s easier in many ways) but they have no knowledge of it.

As a veteran of both platforms, I have always found the VRC SDK to be much easier to use since I can use VRCFury and whatnot, ans every time I've tried to set up the same avatar in Resonite, it felt more clumsy or complex, and alwyas have to have someone come help. x-x

Yea Fury usually helps things along, but having also been using it for a long time it's caused a lot of frustration too. (Seriosuly why are some parameters it generates locked to be autonamed, and thus can't be used to activate other animations in the animator)

But I think the comparison is also somewhat unfair. Because Resonite just hasn't had some of those tools developed by the community yet. But a good ammount of tools still have through modding the game. Like bone transfers for outfits especially is a time saver I use. Resolute has a good list of mods

tbh anybody who says vrc is easy is wrong lol the vrcsdk is fine for what it is, but i really can't call it easy having to find your way around unity just to upload a premade avi, at least resonite doesn't make you register for an entirely separate proprietary engine just to have an upload button

even just the process of registering for a unity personal license, downloading a multi GB engine and figuring out how to import the unitypackage and upload the avatar, even if the avatar is fully premade thats a lot of friction and a large chunk of unity's features are irrelevant for an avatar maker

as a creator the vrchat sdk is fine, it has pain points and i don't like unity but thats just me but as a user, its really not smooth, and it being this way has lead to a lot of people sharing their PWs so someone else can upload for them (which is signifying of a problem, and is kind of yikes imo)

Actually setting up a vrchat avatar from scrach, importing an fbx, configuring the textures render and shaders, messing around with bone names and attaching an avatar descriptor is in my opinion just as involved as setting up an avatar from scratch in resonite, if not the same minus the bone stuff

And for the easy route. For vrchat all you have to do is drag in a unitypackage, follow avatar creator instructions if needed, and then upload. In resonite, you just need to do the exact same thing with a resonitepackage. Drag it onto the game window, equip the avatar. Done.

The problem is, avatar creators have to actually set that package up in the first place, the *same* as for the unitypackage Problem is, most don't So you just end up with vrchat being ""easy"" because it's a .unitypackage and resonite being hard because you actually have to do the setup yourself