Companion Robot SPARK | FREE | VRChat Avatar Gimmick - Park-Care Robot Pet on Wheels That Follows You [Modular Avatar / Quest]

Product Description

FREE. "SPARK" is a park-care robot with a bell-shaped sage-green enamel body, a round bronze head with blue eyes and three wheel pods. It rolls along behind you on your right.
It carries a water tank and hose on its back, pruning shears on its right forearm and a watering nozzle on its left forearm. It looks around, blinks, looks up at the sky and sniffs flowers.
Just drop it on your avatar (Modular Avatar). A Quest prefab is included. The second free companion robot (the first, PIXEL: https://booth.pm/ja/items/9088108).
Made by a one-person workshop - if you like SPARK, a ♡ or a comment helps me make the next one. If you would like to support development, a Supporter edition (same contents, ¥300) is on BOOTH: https://booth.pm/ja/items/9118409

Features

Follows you at your right-back (about 65 cm) and faces the way it goes (forward, sideways, backward)
Its wheels turn exactly as fast as the ground passes, so they never slide; when you start moving sideways the front pod turns first, like a caster
Idle: looks around, tilts its head, looks up at the sky, sniffs a flower, blinks
Jumps with you (arms back) and its spring dips on landing
Wave: stops, raises its right hand and waves (turns itself off when done)
Water: raises its left arm and sprays a shower from the nozzle - a fan of streams, falling drops and a puddle, all as a small animated mesh (no particles)
Prune: flips out the shears on its right forearm and snips three times
Brush snow: sweeps snow away with both hands (Wave / Water / Prune / Brush start while you stand still)
Stay here: it stops (wheels too) and keeps looking at you
Size dial 0.5x - 2x (1x = about 74 cm tall); the follow distance scales too

Lightweight

1 skinned mesh, 1 material, 20 bones, 2 VRC Constraints. PC 7,436 triangles (Standard) / Quest 3,521 triangles (VRChat/Mobile/Diffuse). No lights, particles, audio, LineRenderers or PhysBones. 14 synced bits (6 if Size is set to Local Only). Works together with PIXEL (26 bits in total). Quest note: your avatar becomes Very Poor (hidden for other Quest users by default) if, before adding SPARK, it already has ANY of: 16,480+ triangles (+3,521 goes over 20,000), 4+ material slots (+1 goes over 4), 131+ bones (+20 goes over 150), or 2+ skinned meshes (+1 goes over 2). Please check in the VRChat SDK Builder first.

Setup

Import the unitypackage, drag CompanionSpark_PC (or CompanionSpark_Quest) onto your avatar, upload. No manual animator editing. Requirements: Unity 2022.3.22f1, VRChat SDK - Avatars, Modular Avatar 1.18+.

Terms

OK to use in VRChat and elsewhere, streams and videos. Modification OK. Redistribution or resale (including modified data) is prohibited - sharing this page is very welcome.