Understanding Avatar Performance Ranks

Master VRChat's Avatar Performance Ranks. Understand how performance impacts your avatar's visibility and stability in different worlds. Optimize your avatars for the best experience.

VRChat utilizes an Avatar Performance Rank system to manage the impact of avatars on world performance and stability. This system categorizes avatars based on their complexity, resource usage, and potential to cause issues for other users.

Understanding these ranks is crucial for ensuring your avatar is visible to others and that you can experience VRChat worlds without performance drops. Avatars are automatically assigned a rank by VRChat based on various factors, including polygon count, draw calls, texture memory, and shader complexity.

Here's a general breakdown of the ranks:

• Excellent: Highly optimized avatars with minimal impact. These are visible to everyone.
• Good: Well-optimized avatars with slightly more complexity. These are also visible to everyone.
• Average: Moderately complex avatars. May be hidden from users with lower performance settings or on less powerful hardware.
• Poor: Complex avatars that can significantly impact performance. These are often hidden from most users by default.
• Very Poor: Extremely complex avatars that are almost always hidden and can cause severe performance issues for others.

To ensure your avatar is seen and performs well, aim for the 'Good' or 'Excellent' ranks. This typically involves optimizing your 3D models, using efficient textures, and minimizing draw calls. VRChat provides tools and guidelines within its SDK to help creators understand and improve their avatar's performance rating.