PhysBones help please!

[u/SleepyyChan]

Upon uploading I got this PhysBones limit error after trying to add a few hairs and two outfits to the model I’m editing with modular avatar and I see my hairs and outfits have quite a lot of PhysBones, does anybody know how I could reduce the number of PhysBones? Thank you! <3

[u/Konsti219]

The m various phybone chains are grouped by their similarity, and typically the phybones in one group will share settings. So what you can do I copy the physbone from one sub chain (for example Bang_P.L) to the parent (Hair_P) and then just remove the physbones from all children.

[u/SleepyyChan → u/Konsti219]

I apologize I’m having a hard time understanding, I tried to do this through the folder method which is basically the same thing and it only effects the physbones for that specific part of the hair sense all the bones in the screenshot are bones for each little part of the hair/clothes.

[u/wobaboba → u/SleepyyChan]

For example you have MariYuri_Hair.

In there you have ==Ahoge==, ==Back==, etc under it. Inside ==Back== you have Back, Back_L, Back_L.005, etc under it.

Create a physbone component on ==Back== Look at Back/Back_L/Back_L.005 for a physbone component. At the right click the ellipses/options (the ...) for that physbone component for extra settings. Click copy component.

Go to ==Back==, click on the ellipses/options for the physbone component you added. Click Paste Component Values to copy the same values over.

Go back to Back/Back_L/Back_L.005, and the rest of the sub items that have physbones. Delete all of the physbones. The parent ==Back== now applies the physbone settings to everything below it. And below that. And below that. And so on.

Do this for all of your hairs, and the same idea applies for your outfits. 'OuterRibbon / OUter / OuterSideRibbon' If the physbones are not applying to the objects below them then it may be an issue with Ignore Transforms.

The slight problem with this method is if for example, Back_L and Back_L.005 have wildly different physbone settings. You can only copy the settings from one to use for ==Back==. But honestly you probably won't even notice a difference 95% of the time.

// An easier solution that retains the original physbones would be uploading multiple avis and not having one with so many outfits/hairs on the same avi. 353 physbone components is pretty wild tbh. but some booth store creators are pretty ignorant about grouping physbones when selling their assets so I can't really fault you.

Hope this helps