3 Neon Blades × 4 Glow Colours – Photon Saber, Energy Katana, Glow Greatsword [VRChat · Extend/Retract · VRCFury Prefab Included · PC + Quest-lite · Light/Dark] | Tidebone Studio

Glowing blades for VRChat avatars - a photon saber (single or dual), an energy katana and a glow greatsword, in 4 glow colours and 2 hardware finishes (Light / Dark), as PC and Quest-lite prefabs, linked to your hand bones. The blade extends out of the hilt when you switch it on and retracts when you switch it off. A one-click VRCFury menu builder and a "Fit to selected avatar" button are included.

■ What you get (Full)

• Photon Saber - a hilt with a wrist cord and a glowing blade that extends from the emitter; single (one hand) or dual (both hands)

• Energy Katana - slim 0.8 m blade, round guard, wrist cord

• Glow Greatsword - 1.15 m blade with cross guard, wrist cord

• The blade is one skinned mesh with an "Extend" blend shape: it grows out of the hilt when switched on and retracts when switched off

• 4 glow colours (Aurora cyan, Nova pink, Solar amber, Umbra violet) × 2 hardware finishes (Light = light silver, Dark = gunmetal black)

• 48 prefabs: 3 blades × 2 hardware × 4 colours × PC and Quest-lite (Quest-lite: fewer triangles, no cord, mobile shaders)

• One-click VRCFury menu builder: menu "Neon Blades", right-hand entries exclusive, left saber independent, saved choice; the hilts are linked to the hand bones

• "Fit to selected avatar" button: places the hilts in the fists of your avatar (humanoid, T/A-pose)

• Unity 2022.3, Built-in pipeline, no runtime scripts (the Editor menu tools are Editor-only)

■ Free Lite version

Photon Saber (single + dual) in 2 glow colours (Light hardware), the same builder and menu, same folder layout (import Full over it).

■ Setup

1. Drag Unity/NeonBlades_Full.unitypackage into your Unity 2022.3 project (VRChat SDK for Avatars installed).

2. Menu Tidebone > Neon Blades > 1 - Build materials and prefabs: builds the materials and 48 prefabs (3 blades × Light/Dark hardware × 4 glow colours × PC/Quest-lite) in Assets/TideboneStudio/NeonBlades/Prefabs.

3. With VRCFury installed: menu Tidebone > Neon Blades > 2 - Build VRCFury menu prefabs, then drag Prefabs/VRCFury/NeonBlades_<Light|Dark>_<Colour>_VRCFury (Quest: NeonBlades_Quest_...) onto your avatar root. A "Neon Blades" menu appears in VRChat: Photon Saber (Right), Photon Saber (Left), Energy Katana, Glow Greatsword - right-hand entries switch each other off, the left saber is independent (both sabers on = dual), your choice is saved. Switching a blade on extends it, switching it off retracts it.

4. Select your avatar and click Tidebone > Neon Blades > 3 - Fit to selected avatar: the hilts are placed in the fists of your avatar's hands (it uses your own bones, T- or A-pose). Fine-tune by moving the blade object under ToyMount_RightHand / ToyMount_LeftHand.

5. Without VRCFury: drag the prefabs from Prefabs/ onto your hand bones (origin = grip, +Z along the forearm) and drive the blend shape "Extend" (0-100) of the Blade_G mesh with your own toggle.

The saber uses one hand (the dual setup uses both), katana and greatsword sit in the right hand. Each hilt has a short wrist cord on a PhysBone chain (PC only).

■ Specs

Model triangles per blade (PC / Quest-lite): Photon Saber 1,502 / 564, Energy Katana 1,854 / 748, Glow Greatsword 1,594 / 640 (Blender counts; the Unity count is measured in the test run). Blade length extended: 0.95 m / 0.8 m / 1.15 m. 2 material slots per blade (hardware + glow). The blade is one skinned mesh with an 'Extend' blend shape (retracted = 0, extended = 100); no particles, no trails, no lights. PhysBone: wrist cord of 4 / 5 / 4 links per hilt on PC, none on Quest-lite. Glow = emissive material (lilToon emission on PC, VRChat Mobile Standard Lite emission on Quest-lite). Skinned meshes and PhysBones on mobile avatars count towards the Performance Rank (VRChat).

• Tested (batch, 05.11.2026): Unity 2022.3.22f1, VRChat SDK (Avatars) 3.10.5, VRCFury 1.1434.0, VRChat Robot sample avatar: import 0 compiler errors; all 48 prefabs checked (triangles, materials, emission, PhysBone, skinning and blend shape counts, PC and Quest-lite), 16 VRCFury menu prefabs built, VRCFury build checked on 4 of them (hand placement, Fit to avatar, PhysBones, menu, saved parameters, toggles) with negative controls. Lite: 4 prefabs and 4 VRCFury prefabs checked the same way.

■ Notes

• Needs the VRChat SDK (Avatars); the menu needs VRCFury (free, vcc.vrcfury.com) - NOT included. Without VRCFury place the prefabs on your hand bones by hand.

• Default size fits an avatar of about 1.5 m with normal hand proportions; scale the prefab to resize it.

• These are original designs: no film, game or brand weapons.

• Not included: avatar, VRCFury itself (free from vcc.vrcfury.com), sound, particle effects. Not tested in VRChat itself (PhysBone feel, other players' view).

• Images are Blender renders of the same models, not in-game captures. The grey figure shown is not included.

■ How it was made

How it was made: the models and textures are generated procedurally with the author's own scripts and Blender; an AI assistant was used to write the scripts (as stated in the license). The gallery images are Blender renders of the shipped models on a grey stand-in figure (not included), posed by script; they are not in-game captures.

■ Terms of use

Terms of use: VN3 license included (ja/en/ko/zh) in the License folder (TideboneStudio_NeonBlades_VN3_<lang>.pdf) - see the included PDFs (Japanese is the official text, English is a reference translation). Summary: use and edit in your own work (commercial OK) / redistribution or resale of the data NOT allowed / use as machine-learning training data NOT allowed.

■ Contact

For issues or questions, please message me via my Jinxxy store page.

by Tidebone Studio

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動作確認（バッチテスト 2026/11/05）：Unity 2022.3.22f1・VRChat SDK（Avatars）3.10.5・VRCFury 1.1434.0・VRChat の Robot サンプルアバターで確認：インポート時コンパイルエラー0、プレハブ48個すべてを確認（三角形数・マテリアル・発光・PhysBone・スキニング・ブレンドシェイプ、PC版とQuest軽量版）、VRCFuryメニュー用プレハブ16個を作成し、うち4個で VRCFury ビルドを確認（手への配置、Fit、PhysBone、メニュー、保存パラメータ、トグル。ネガティブコントロール付き）。Lite版も同様にプレハブ4個とVRCFuryプレハブ4個を確認。

利用規約：VN3 ライセンス同梱（日本語・英語・韓国語・中国語、License フォルダの TideboneStudio_NeonBlades_VN3_<言語>.pdf）。日本語版が正本です。概要：ご自身の作品での使用・改変 OK（商用含む）／データの再配布・転売 NG／機械学習（AI）の学習用データとしての利用 NG。