AvaTAUR Hooves & Body Mod

To properly use this mod you must own Vox's AvaTAUR, and preferably join the Virtual Limbs Discord. Additional files may be available in the #VERIFIED-TAUR channel where we can share assets easily among people who are confirmed to own the avatar.

You can also ping me @nathahniel in the Virtual Limbs Discord for help!

⚠️Your face will not animate in MMD worlds.⚠️

I will be updating this in the future to include all features of the current AvaTaur. Outside of this aspect, it should perform exactly like a default AvaTaur.

These are .fbx files with shapekeys added. The blendshapes/shapekeys are not added to any in game menus. You slide them on before you upload your avatar. If you want to put them on menus that will have to be set up by you, I do not know how to do that.

Once purchased, an in depth tutorial is available for you to show you how to set up your preferred hoofy body type! You can always message me on Twitter @nathahniel or in the Virtual Limbs Discord for additional help!

Taur Body Options:

Deer, Horse, & Lamb (The v1 bodies are slight variations of the original body shapekeys, most notably for the horse body. The other two are pretty ignorable. Please check the shape and pick the one you want!)

To make a cow, use the Horse body for it's bigger hooves and turn on the cow rump and pin bone blendshapes.

Face Options (x9)

There are 9-10 new blendshapes based on ungulates! (Deer, horse, cow etc.) With a few extra for adjusting things for horse faces like moving the bridge of the nose and nostrils.

Upper body options

Slim upper body options (x3):

Slimmer Upper body, slim hands, slim hands without pawpads and claws. This works with the chest scaling built into the avatar. Ideal for less bulky creatures like deer. 🦌

Skinny upper body options (x3):

Ideal for a very lithe deer or a human. There are two skinny shapekeys for male and female with the pawpads and claws hidden away. An optional thinner neck blendshape is included as well.

⚠️ The shapekeys will probably not play well with the chest scaling built into the AvaTaur menus.

Hoof Options

Round & Cloven

Texture Options:

• Deer 🦌
• Cow 🐄
• Horse 🐎
• (.PNG & .PSD files included)

These textures were made in Clip Studio Paint and not Substance Painter so the files may not work in Substance. There also may be a seam or two as the base . PSD files I used from the AvaTaur lacked a bit of bleed outside of the islands that I had to add manually for several layers.

Advanced Info for modders/artist:

Due to the original avatar being made in Maya, I could not pull the .fbx from the unitypackage to retain all current shapekeys. It has been made using an older version of the file that had a .blend filetype exported that is available in the Gumroad purchase of your AvaTaur. 'Main Body 230523.blend'

Because it was made from an older file, the bone names in the .blend/.fbx are outdated. These have been renamed in the Unity side of things.

⚠️ Please use the Nat Hoof Mod v1 Prefab which has everything set up for this mod. It is also currently missing MMD facials/Shapekeys due to being made with the older version which was the only .blend file/file available in general that I could get imported into blender that retained face tracking and other necessary shapekeys for base functions.

If you want MMD facials to work with MMD motion data they will need to be remade.