Glossary

The words AvatarDoc uses for VRChat and Unity things. Each thing has one name everywhere in the tool and in these pages.

VRChat and Unity terms

English	Note
Avatar	Chinese keeps it in English, as Modular Avatar does.
Avatar Descriptor	The VRChat component on the avatar's root object; a component name, kept.
Expressions Menu	VRChat's in game menu, and the asset that holds it.
Expression Parameters	The asset that lists an avatar's parameters.
Menu
Root menu	The top of the menu.
Submenu
Menu item	An item of the avatar's own menu or of another tool.
Toggle	A menu control that turns something on or off.
Radial	A menu control set with a dial from 0 to 100 percent (Radial Puppet). Never 径向 in Chinese; 轮盘 is the Wheel.
Button	A menu control that is on only while held.
Control	One item of an Expressions Menu; also メニューコントロール, 菜单控件.
Parameter
Parameter prefix
Synced	Sent to the other players.
Local	Only on your own screen, not synced.
Saved	Kept when you change avatars or rejoin.
Default	The value a parameter or a toggle starts at. A short button meaning "back to its own default" is デフォルト in Japanese.
Default on	A toggle that starts on.
On / Off	On the preset's narrow two way switch (ad.ui.preset.on, ad.ui.preset.off) Chinese uses 开 / 关, because 开启 / 关闭 does not fit there.
Bit	The unit of VRChat's parameter memory: 256 per avatar. Chinese keeps the unit, as Modular Avatar does.
Synced bits	"Costs no synced bits" is 不占用同步参数.
Upload
Build	NDMF says 构建.
Play	Unity's Play button, which builds the avatar like an upload does.
Tracking	VRChat driving a part of the avatar itself (blinking, lip sync); both translations say it in words.
Blinking	("Hold blink": まばたきを保持)
Lip sync
Viseme	A mouth shape for one sound, used by lip sync ("Hold visemes": 口パクを保持).
Face tracking	Face and eye tracking hardware moving the face through a layer of the FX animator.
Gesture	A VRChat hand gesture. The seven besides Neutral: Fist, Hand open, Point, Victory, Rock and roll, Hand gun, Thumbs up; グー、パー、指さし、ピース、ロックンロール、ハンドガン、サムズアップ; 握拳、张开手、指向、剪刀手、摇滚、手枪、点赞.
Eye
PC	The Windows version of VRChat.
Quest	The Android version of VRChat (Quest and phones).
Platform
Inspector	Unity window. Chinese keeps the window names in English, as Modular Avatar does.
Hierarchy	Unity window.
Scene view	Unity window.
Component
GameObject
Object	AvatarDoc's short word for a GameObject.
Prefab
Transform
Bone	A humanoid bone such as Head or Hand.
Hand
Head	The bone's own name, Head, stays in English in quotes.
Humanoid	Unity's rig type, kept.
Renderer
Mesh
Skinned mesh
Blend shape	Settled: Modular Avatar's Japanese spelling, and what the Chinese community says.
Shape	The short form in labels.
Material
Material slot
Shader
Property	A material property: a colour, a number or a vector of a shader. A shader property is シェーダープロパティ, 着色器属性.
Animation
Animation clip	Also 剪辑 in Chinese.
Animator	Chinese keeps it, as Modular Avatar does.
Animator Controller
Layer	An animator layer.
FX layer
State	A state in an animator layer.
Transition
Blend tree
Curve	One animated value in a clip.
Weight	A blend shape's value from 0 to 100, or a layer's weight.
Constraint
Asset
Icon
Undo
Tag	A contact's collision tag.
Collider	What touches a contact.
Anchor
Radius
Offset
Position
Threshold	The amount a PhysBone event needs.
Grab	A PhysBone event.
Pose	A PhysBone event: let go in a new pose.
Angle	A PhysBone event.
Stretch	A PhysBone event.
Squish	A PhysBone event.
Parameter Driver, Animator Layer Control	VRChat state behaviour names, kept.

AvatarDoc's own words

English	Note
Entry	One toggle, radial, submenu or trigger made in AvatarDoc. Kept apart from a menu item.
Row	A row of the menu tree.
Effect	What an entry changes: objects, blend shapes, materials, properties, animations, follows.
Target
Trigger	Effects that follow another control, a parameter, a blend shape, a contact or a PhysBone, with no menu button.
Override	Holds a blend shape at one value in every animation that uses it.
Preset	One button that puts several controls into one state.
Outfit
Outfit set
Piece	One object of an outfit.
Shrink shapes
Exclusive group	Only one member is on at a time.
Follow	An object that follows another one while the entry is on.
Keep offset
Grabbable	An object you pick up and hold in a hand.
Merged animator
Match write defaults
Path root
Menu asset	An existing Expressions Menu installed into the menu.
Declare	A parameter declared under Parameters.
Install into	Where AvatarDoc's entries land in the menu.
Install as
Install path
As submenu / Append items
Simple	The mode that shows what most avatars need.
Advanced	The mode that shows every tool. The Advanced fold is 詳細設定 in Japanese.
Component settings
Wheel	AvatarDoc's preview of the in game menu.
Wedge	One part of the Wheel.
Summary
Lock / Unlock
Preview	The scene preview.
Test mode
Convert	Turns a VRCFury, Modular Avatar or hand made toggle into AvatarDoc entries.
Remove originals
When	The trigger panel's rule.
Condition	A condition of a trigger.
Condition (comparison)	The comparison of a parameter condition.
Group	A group of conditions.
Requirement	An extra condition a trigger also needs.
Card	One condition, shown as a card.
+ And / + Or
Any of these / All of
Only while	The gate: a trigger works only while a switch is in a state.
Smooth	A blend shape trigger that fades with the shape.
Switch	A blend shape trigger that turns on at one value.
Starts at / Fully on at / Switch at / Swaps at	The four weight points.
Add / Replace	A trigger's mode.
Fixed / Pin
Follow source
Capture	Taking a blend shape's current values.
Capture icon
Hold the rest	Keeps the other blend shapes of a mesh at their default or at 0.
Touched by
Who / Self / Others
Touch / Closer than
Hold / Flip / Fade	A touch trigger's mode.
Contact starts	Headpat, Eye touch, Nose boop: なでなで / 目タッチ / 鼻ツン in Japanese; Headpat is 摸头 in Chinese.
Test hand	The sphere you drag in the Scene view in place of a hand, so the preview shows what contact triggers do.
Problem / Warning / Error / Info
Ready to upload
Blend time
Duplicate / Copy	Kept apart in Chinese: 复制 is the clipboard.
Copy to another avatar	Copies one AvatarDoc component to another version of the avatar.
Pick by hand when copying	A copy to another avatar never looks for this object by its place: the creator picks the object to use there.
Memory bar	Chinese avoids 内存条, a RAM stick.
Gesture faces	The window that gives each hand gesture a face, made of triggers.
Paused / Wins (while tracked)	What a gesture face does while face tracking is on: nothing, or show over face tracking while held.

Kept in English

These stay in English in every language:

• AvatarDoc
• VRChat
• Unity
• NDMF
• Modular Avatar
• VRCFury
• PhysBone
• Contact (the VRChat contact system; Japanese writes コンタクト, as the community and Modular Avatar do)
• FX (the FX animator layer)
• Write Defaults
• AudioLink
• Other product names, such as Poiyomi, Gesture Manager and VCC (the VRChat Creator Companion)
• Layer, parameter, shader property and asset names: they are the creator's own names, usually in quotes