Impostors

In addition to show for performance blocks, it would be great that imposters load instead of the boring gray prism, since imposters are really lightweights.

I think it would be cool to have an option that keeps impostors enabled, even if the avatars in the instance aren't blocked. I think the effect looks neat, and it could act as some kind of high-performance mode.

Please run physbone components for a few seconds before impostor generation to allow hair, pistons, skirts, and especially tails to fall into rest pose. Many avatars with tails have the tail modeled sticking straight out for better deformation when bending, but this also causes the tail to be sticking straight out in the impostor. Add a side note honestly I think all components including physbones and constraints should be run during impostor generation. If you're have this system which takes a snapshot of an avatar, thus negating all performance cost, it seems silly to capture said avatar without it fully running.

I would like to wear Impostor avatar directly. Currently, users can wear their fallback avatars. (Fallback avatars uploaded as separate avatars can be worn directly, and uploads for Android can be viewed if we have Quest/Android mobile). Impostor is the only one we can't wear and see it directly. If we can't see it directly, we won't know if there's a problem.

Take, for instance, Shade the Bat's Awtter model. The model features a sizable head and legs, but when the imposter generates, the torso appears unusually diminutive, bordering on disturbing. In actuality, the torso should maintain a substantial width rather than being unnaturally compressed.

Impostorization failed Uh, oh, the last time we tried to generate impostors for this avatar, we had a problem: An unknown error occurred Some errors will always recur because our impostor system can't process this avatar. Others may be fixed over time.

Issue: The (relatively) newly added "VRC Impostor Environment" component has no documentation for it listed in the docs. This makes it relatively hard for people to: Find out that this component exists Know what this component even does Expected Behaviour: There should be documentation for the "VRC Impostor Environment" component that explains what it does / what it is for. I assume that it is supposed to change the Skybox used during the Impostorization process, but as this component currently isn't working , I have no way of actually knowing that this is the case.

Avatars that have a custom fallback reflection set in their materials heavily affect the clarity of their impostors.

Hello, wouldn't it be a better solution to add an additional tab in avatars with already generated impostors, instead of generating them for a specific avatar? In my case there are a few specific reasons: I often don't update my avatar, I just upload it as a separate version, because when I mess something up, I always know that I can use different avatars, there are also people who don't create master avatars, only a few specific variants with a few clothes, if creating an impostor will be took as much time in the future as it does now, creating a dozen or so impostors will simply be terribly time-consuming to generate for each separate version. After a wave of problems with avatar rippers, of which I was a victim, I know that rippers are still able to extract avatars straight from the vrchat cache, and this causes me to use an avatar protected with DexProtect so that the situation that affected me would not occur. it never happened again, unfortunately, it will not be possible to create an impostor from such a secured avatar, which means that this function is still useless for me, and I must admit that I previously tried to create my avatar in the Quest version, but with poor results, because the requirements for the quest are too restrictive, and the level of advancement of my avatar is simply beyond the ability to create one that looks good and has any good performance to be visible to others. I think that not everyone wants to be visible to others in the same way, but simply to be visible differently than a robot, but they also like to change avatars often, including public ones, which makes the use of impostors also useless, because we are not able to able to generate impostors for public avatars, and even if the author of a given avatar had such an opportunity, imagine how many avatars would have to undergo such a transformation, where in fact many authors, after completing a public avatar, usually do not return to it. I think these are three strong arguments for simply adding the option of choosing an impostor yourself, instead of generating it for each specific avatar separately, because I must admit that I really like your new idea, it finally solves the problem of the lack of Quest avatars, but it requires slight refinement so that everyone is satisfied. I would also like to know what other people think about this idea?

Enable users to create Imposter avatars seamlessly using their own hardware through the VRChat SDK. This functionality provides a preliminary glimpse of the avatar's appearance, allowing users to refine and make adjustments before uploading to VRChat. This not only streamlines the creative process but also avoids unnecessary consumption of VRChat's server resources through repetitive regeneration and reuploads.