Jakari Revitalized - VRChat Avatar

Meet the Jakari! This is a felid-esque alien open species created by @ariverofstars on Twitter, made as an avatar for VRChat!

This avatar is a completely overhauled version of my original Jakari avatar, remade almost completely from the ground up, featuring many major improvements to anatomy, textures, optimization, and overall quality.

This avatar comes with both digitigrade and plantigrade rigged versions, with the digitigrade rig allowing for the ankle to bend realistically.

The model comes with a few different customization options via blendshapes, and will eventually be updated with more customization in the future. It also comes with MMD visemes, and ARKit FaceTracking, as well as blendshapes intended for use with Prefabulous Avatar to delete sections of the mesh for use with third party clothing for optimization!

This avatar also utilizes puppet menus for the ears and extra facial expressions- this avatar has TWO facial expression puppets, each with its own toggles- for a total of 8 extra possible facial expressions.

Default Jakari texture done by Elias/melon1te.

Want a test run? https://vrchat.com/home/avatar/avtr_c2a85905-38a4-4b97-ab12-90daa81d67be

NOTE FOR QUEST USERS:
You MUST use the "plantigrade" version of the avatar for Quest if you are not using the beta SDK with VRChat constraints. This is because Quest does not support the default Unity constraints necessary to move the legs with the digitigrade rig. Visually, there is no difference, but the bone setup is. The digitigrade version WILL NOT work on Quest if you're using the current released SDK. If you upload to Quest and your legs aren't moving, this is why.

If you want to use digitigrade legs on Quest, you will need to use the beta version of the SDK with VRC constraints.

Also, if your eyes appear black, turn off the eye lens- there's a blendshape for that.

!!!It is HIGHLY recommended to use Substance Painter to texture this avatar! Substance Painter makes avatar texturing a hundred times easier, + can easily create specular, emission, and normal maps without needing to do extra work- I use Substance Painter to texture all of my avatars, which means they DO NOT come with .PSD files! I do not texture with Photoshop and trying to export a PSD from Substance crashes my PC, just a fair warning.!!!

!!!!NOTE: THIS AVATAR IS NOT REFUNDABLE. This is a DIGITAL product- when you buy it, you gain access to digital files that cannot just be "taken back". You cannot "return" a digital product like you can a physical one. If you force a chargeback, I WILL fight it.

Uses GoGoLoco menus, as well as Poiyomi Pro(although Poiyomi Toon should function and convert well enough) for materials.

If you are having any technical issues with the avatar, join my avatar Discord and ask for tech help, OR add me on Discord(Tosca#8203) for tech help, rather than immediately assuming that the avatar is "broken" and trying to force a chargeback.

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TOS

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- You may customize this model however you like- you can even make public cloneable avatars with it.

- You may take commissions using this model, however if you're giving files, the other party must have also bought the model. You may also not upload commissioned avatars to the other party's account if they do not own the avatar off of Gumroad, you may only keep it as publicly cloneable on your own account. If a commissioner wants it private, they need to buy the avatar from me.

- Do not give out the model files to anyone that has not already bought and paid for it, for any reason.

- You MAY edit this model and then sell edits as bases for others to use, provided that anyone buying your base has bought the original model in the first place. You may sell mods of this model, but only to people who already own it.

- If you are commissioning someone else for textures for this model, and they do not already own the files, you may ONLY give out the substance file, and the substance file ONLY, for them to texture. If someone is compiling the entire avatar for you, or doing anything besides retextures, they must own it, or you will need to buy it for them.

- Reuploading or reselling this avatar or any of its included files, anywhere, where people can freely access it without paying for it directly from this page, is expressly prohibited. Respect artists, don't pirate our work or redistribute it. I work hard on my avatars and this is, quite literally, my only source of income. I will pursue violators to the fullest extent of the law if caught, because this is my livelihood and I ask for that to be respected.

- By purchasing this avatar, you hereby agree to all of these terms, accepting them as a legally binding agreement.

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If you buy, a rating is appreciated!! Ratings help me to be found on Discover, and can get me more sales!

Join my general avatar Discord for model updates, avatar help, avatar mods, WIPs, etc: discord.gg/7bkHRWPSwt

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9/9/24 - Fixed an issue where customization blendshapes would affect the hooves when they shouldn't.

9/15/24 - Fixed an issue where the avatar was using the wrong idle animation.

9/16/24 - Added two new ear variations without the tendrils. Also, apparently I had been including my original beta texture Substance file instead of the correct one with melon1te's texture, so that has also been fixed.