Walk-Behind Snow Blower | VRChat Snowblower Avatar Gimmick - Push with Both Hands, Gaze-Aimed Chute & Snowballs [Modular Avatar / Quest / ABS]

The walk-behind rotary snow blower everyone in snow country knows - now on your avatar. Bring it out, grip the handles with both hands and push it as you walk. Turn the rotary on and snow arcs out of the chute, and the chute turns 360 degrees with your gaze.

Made by a creator who really clears snow in Hokkaido, Japan. The first Quest version in the snow series.

■ Push it

• Appears in front of you and both hands grip the handles (fingers closed)
• The grip height is matched automatically from your eye height, VRChat avatar scaling and the Size dial - different avatar heights work too
• Hand height fine-tune dial for avatars with different proportions
• Walks with you and faces where you face; leans forward if the grips are too low
• Rubber crawlers turn with your speed and in opposite directions when you strafe, like big crawler machines
• Place it: leave it in the world and walk around it

■ Rotary

• The auger and impeller spin and snow arcs out of the chute (about 15 m away, 3.5 m high)
• The chute follows your gaze (360 degrees, the mouth tilts up and down)
• The snow flies in world space, so walking or turning the chute leaves a curved trail (PC)
• Engine idle and rev sound, white exhaust, blower hum (PC)

■ Snowball battle (ABS tags)

• 40 cm snowballs thrown out of the chute where you look, 12-72 per run (Quest 6-36), 6-30 m
• They burst into snow on landing
• Fireworks fly up out of the chute instead (PC)

■ Look

• 7 colors (red, yellow, orange, blue, green, white, black)
• Size 0.5x to 1.5x (the hands follow)
• Headlight (a real light on PC)

■ Quest version

HandBlower_Quest: 1 skinned mesh, 1 material (VRChat/Mobile/Standard Lite), 5,788 triangles, 20 bones, 6 contact senders, no particles, audio or lights. On the VRChat SDK sample robot every item it adds stays within Medium (the overall rank depends on your avatar). Same menu and parameters as the PC version, so PC and Quest players stay in sync. The snow stream is a shape animation and snowballs squash and vanish on landing.

■ What's included

unitypackage (prefabs HandBlower_MA for PC and HandBlower_Quest for Quest/Android, models, materials, sounds, animations, menus), English & Japanese README

■ Setup (Modular Avatar)

1. Import the unitypackage
2. Drag HandBlower_MA (PC) or HandBlower_Quest (Quest/Android) onto your avatar
3. Upload as usual

No manual animator editing needed.

■ Specs

• PC: about 23k triangles, 1 real light, 42 particle systems, 12 contact senders. Performance rank "Very Poor".
• Quest: 5,788 triangles, 1 skinned mesh, 1 material, 20 bones.
• Both: 11 parameters (46 synced bits). No stations (you push it, you don't ride it).
• While pushing, hands and fingers are animated (also in VR). Avatars with very different proportions may be a few cm off the grips - fine-tune with the Hand height dial.
• Unity 2022.3.22f1 / VRChat SDK - Avatars 3.7+ / Modular Avatar 1.18+
• No ABS data is included (ABS is a separate product).

■ Terms

Use in VRChat, streams and videos OK. Modification OK. Redistribution or resale (including modified data) is prohibited.

Japanese shop (BOOTH): https://marukichi.booth.pm/
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