How to make a Quest version of your VRChat avatar
Updated Nov 12, 2026
Quest headsets and Android phones can’t show PC avatars. To be seen by those players, your avatar needs a second, Android version, uploaded to the same avatar. Here’s how, and what to expect.
Before you start
- Easiest: a base with a Quest version. Bases listed as Quest対応 usually include a ready-made Quest setup. Use it. Check that your outfits also have Quest versions (Quest版同梱), or are simple enough to convert.
- Install Android support. In Unity Hub → Installs, add the Android Build Support module to Unity 2022.3.22f1.
- Make a copy. Duplicate your avatar in the scene (or use a second scene) for the Quest version, so your PC version stays untouched.
1. Switch to Android
In the VRChat SDK window, set the build platform to Android. The first switch takes a while: Unity reimports every texture.
2. Use mobile shaders
Android avatars can only use VRChat’s mobile shaders. Change every material on the Quest copy to one from VRChat/Mobile, usually Toon Lit or Toon Standard. Expect a simpler look: no glow, rim light or fancy hair shading. That’s normal for every Quest avatar.
3. Get under the limits
Quest limits are tight: to stay visible by default, the avatar needs to be Medium or better.
| Stat | Medium limit (Quest) | Poor limit (Quest) |
|---|---|---|
| Triangles | 15,000 | 20,000 |
| Texture memory | 25 MB | 40 MB |
| Skinned meshes | 2 | 2 |
| Material slots | 2 | 4 |
| Bones | 150 | 150 |
| PhysBone components | 6 | 8 |
That’s why Quest versions are usually made by the base’s creator, with a reduced mesh. If you’re converting yourself, start with Avatar Optimizer: Trace And Optimize, Merge Skinned Mesh, smaller textures, and deleting hidden body parts.
Some components don’t work on Android at all (cameras, lights, audio sources, cloth, Unity constraints); the SDK lists what’s removed. Modular Avatar’s Platform Filter lets you keep things on the PC version only.
4. Upload to the same avatar
Your Quest copy must upload to the same avatar as the PC version, so VRChat shows each player the right one. That’s set by the Blueprint ID on the Pipeline Manager component. If you made the copy after uploading the PC version, it already has the same ID. If not, copy the ID from the PC avatar’s Pipeline Manager into the Quest copy’s. Then upload with Android selected.
In VRChat, your avatar now shows a PC and a Quest icon.
If it’s still Poor or Very Poor
Quest and phone players see a fallback avatar instead of yours unless they click Show Avatar on you. Most won’t. Getting to Medium is worth the effort.
Read the basics in Quest vs PC avatars. On Kisetto, the Quest filter shows items whose store page lists a Quest version.