Arko Shark for VRChat (PC & Quest)

This avatar is SFW only. You can find the alternate version at https://arkorenart.itch.io/shark

The Arko Shark is an expressive, highly polished and optimized shark avatar base for VRChat on PC and Quest! Featuring body customization through sliders and blendshapes, several textures for customization, and files to help customize and make your own!

Want to try out this avatar before buying? Check out my booth in Furhub on VRChat!

Avatar Features

This avatar includes:

• Good performance rank avatar for VRChat PC
• Medium performance rank avatar for VRChat Quest
• Full body compatible!
• Physbones on Ears, Tail, Hair, Chest, Back Fin, and Rear
• Hair and Ponytail length adjust sliders (Ponytail can be turned off)
• Tail control puppet and tail sway animation with speed slider
• Combo expressions - Left hand controls mouth and Right hand controls eyes - 48 possible expressions!
• Ear movement on expressions!
• 44 blendshapes for body/face customization
• ArkoShark Setup tool to easily swap textures and change blendshapes without fumbling with the Unity inspector (found in Arkoren > ArkoShark Setup Tool at the top of the Unity window)
• Setup tool also allows you to generate atlased textures for Quest to keep your avatar optimized!
• 7 premade body textures including: Default, Tiger, Blahaj, Sand, Pink, Dark, and Great White
• 10 eye color textures (Default, Blue, Brown, Gray, Green, Orange, Pink, Red, Teal, and White)
• 10 hair color textures (Default, Black, Blonde, Brown, Ginger, White, Pink, Red Fade, Teal Fade, and White Fade)
• Easy to modify Poiyomi materials
• Custom icons for the expressions menus
• Unitypackage with files and scenes included for easy avatar uploading!
• FBX, PSD, and Substance Painter files
• If you purchase the base version and want upgrade to the 18+ version later, please contact me for a discount equal to the difference ^^

Check out the community discord (18+) to get help or follow for news on new avatar and clothing/accessory releases, VRChat events, and more! Boosting the server will give access to my WIPs channel! https://discord.gg/catmooncafe

This avatar uses Poiyomi shaders! If you want to alter the materials, please download it here.

If you want to change the expressions for VRChat, use ComboGestureExpressions

TERMS OF SERVICE

1. This avatar is for personal use only. Do not upload any part of this avatar as public or to multiple people's accounts.
2. You can use parts of this avatar on other avatars as long as they are for your own personal use.
3. Selling this avatar or any of its contents, even if modified, is prohibited.
4. Do not share any files, with the exception of as part of a commission, in which at least one copy of the avatar must be purchased per commission before sharing files.
5. Creating and selling assets like clothes for the avatar is okay, just don't include any part of the avatar or its files except for the armature.
6. You are free to use this avatar for monetized streams and videos. Otherwise, use this avatar for non-commercial applications only. Crediting is appreciated ^w^
7. I am not responsible for any misuse of this avatar, e.g. action on your account for improperly using the avatar, not tagging properly, etc.
8. Using any portion of this package or any images/videos from this page the purpose of training AI is prohibited.
9. Do not remove the credits graphic from the avatar unless it is heavily edited (but still give credit when possible).

If you have any issues or suggestions for this avatar, please feel free to contact me! www.arkoren.art

Change Log:

2/25/24 -No Version Change (SFW package only)

• Added missing extra texture options

2/25/24 - v1.1.2 (SFW package only)

• Fixed hand gestures not working (Updated FX Layer)
• Removed Gesture Layer (No longer needed)
• 18+ version will get this change in the future but is currently working as intended, gestures were only broken on SFW package

12/11/23 - No Version Change

• 18+ Version - Fixed missing FBX in zip file

9/15/23 - v1.1.1:

• Reverted body materials to Poiyomi 8.0 due to shading bug
• Fixed bugged blendshapes on SFW Quest version

9/11/23 - v1.1:

• Added Quest avatar versions
• Added ArkoShark Setup Tool
• Removed AvatarShapes Tool (functionality in the new tool)
• Added 15 new body customization blendshapes
• Adjusted weight paints on thumb/pawpad
• Added squish to tail/fin physbones
• Added hair toggle
• Updated body materials to Poiyomi 8.1
• Updated material shading settings
• Fixed weight painting where tail connects to the body
• Added compatibility with Harness DLC
• Updated thumbnail render
• 18+ version - Adjusted shape/topology of fem 18+ parts
• 18+ version - Updated 18+ normals to fix lighting issues
• 18+ version - Fixed shading issue on fem 18+ parts texture and SPP/PSD files

6/30/23 - No Version Change

• Fixed Fade Main layer on SFW Body PSD

6/2/23 - v1.02

• Fixed .fbx flipped normals on top teeth
• Fixed missing roughness mask on body materials' Reflections/Specular section
• Fixed seam issues with shading on body textures (hands and blush)
• Adjusted amount of shading on the hands for body textures
• Adjusted rim lighting and roughness mask around eyes
• Updated SPP and PSD files with the above texture adjustments
• Slightly changed the Thigh Squish and Hide Legs blendshapes (for later possible addons)

5/31/23 - No Version Change

• Added PSD files

5/30/23 - v1.0: Initial Release

v1.01:

• Fixed missing hand animations in Gesture layer
• 18+ version - fixed 18+ animations