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  • Welcome to Breakroom
  • GETTING STARTED
    • Helpful terms
    • UI tour
    • Keyboard shortcuts
    • Customizing your avatar
      • Choosing a starter avatar
      • Editing avatars in the Outfit window
      • Using the Sine Wave Shop
    • Controlling your avatar
    • Controlling your camera
    • Communicating with other users
    • Using the conference system
      • Troubleshooting audio and video issues
    • Using Breakroom for Training
    • Settings
    • Language and accessibility
    • Reporting issues
  • EXPLORING BREAKROOM
    • Region navigation tools
    • Bookmarks and teleport invites
    • Using the Explore window
    • Using the Meetings window
    • Networking with other users
      • People
      • Groups
    • Snapshots
  • BUILDING NEW WORLDS
    • Breakroom Dashboard tour
    • Creating and managing Regions
    • Default Landing and Orientation Regions
    • Region settings
    • Region template descriptions
  • CREATING CUSTOM EXPERIENCES
    • Branding tools
    • UI customization options
    • Filtering the Sine Wave Shop
    • Selecting default avatars
      • Default avatar collections
    • Using the Region Editor
      • Editing and moving objects
      • Editing terrain and sky
      • The Region Editor ADVANCED window
    • Exploring the Breakroom Toolkit
      • Breakroom Video Player
      • Breakroom Web Browser
      • Breakroom Image Viewer
      • Breakroom Info Kiosk
      • Breakroom Teleport Portal
      • Breakroom Web Collab
      • Breakroom Note Board
      • Breakroom Games
      • Breakroom Reactives
      • Breakroom Orientation Quest
      • Breakroom Tour Cameras
      • Conference rooms and booths
      • Add-on seats
      • Breakroom Start Here UI
      • Breakroom Basic Emojis
      • Breakroom 360° Video Player
    • Managing your Media Library
  • OPENING THE DOORS
    • Seats and concurrency
    • Creating and managing user accounts
      • World-level user permissions
      • Region-level user permissions
      • Single sign-on
      • Eventbrite integration
    • World Stream
      • Purchasing and managing World Credits
      • Pre-allocation campaigns
      • World Stream viewer toolbars
      • World Stream keyboard shortcuts
      • Troubleshooting World Stream issues on Chrome
      • Troubleshooting World Stream issues on macOS
    • Desktop viewers
    • Privacy Policies, EULAs, and data collection
    • Analytics
    • Toggling World availability
  • RUNNING YOUR EVENT
    • Understanding the conference system
      • Voice zones, zone types, and conference permissions
      • Voice chat and spatial audio
    • Customizing the conference system components
      • Adding breakout areas
      • Creating custom voice zones
      • Setting up Presenter and Audience zones
      • Designating triage zones
      • Troubleshooting duplicate zone errors
      • The RoomFurniture component
    • Setting up Breakroom for Training courses
    • Moderator tools
      • Broadcast messages
      • Crowd management
      • Audience questions
      • Raised hands
      • Presentation controls
      • Hidden UI toggle
      • Participation
      • Audio streams
  • TIPS FOR SUCCESS
    • Region Editor best practices
    • Onboarding new users
  • ADVANCED TUTORIALS
    • Uploading your own Region
      • Installing Unity and the Breakroom SDK
      • Reducing poly counts on CAD files
      • Uploading a Region from Unity to Breakroom
      • Creating and uploading custom chairs
      • Testing items on the preview server
      • Pushing items to the live server
      • Installing the conference system components
    • Uploading your own virtual objects
    • Uploading your own virtual clothing
    • Creating and copying avatar shapes
    • Installing the Quest System
    • Registration and grid APIs
    • Video streaming
    • Sinespace scripting documentation
  • HELP
    • Where to find support
    • Tutorial video playlists
      • Platform basics
      • Dashboard
      • Moderator tools
      • Breakroom Games
      • Creator Core
      • Breakroom for Training - Students
      • Breakroom for Training - Instructors
      • Breakroom for Training - Dashboard and Backend
    • Account management
    • System requirements
    • Troubleshooting network ports and firewalls
  • RELEASE NOTES
    • Breakroom SDK
    • Breakroom Viewer
    • Breakroom Dashboard
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  • Overview
  • Helping users select a starter avatar
  • Editing your default avatar collection
  • Uploading custom default avatars
  • Creating a custom default avatar
  • Uploading your custom default avatar to Dashboard
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  1. CREATING CUSTOM EXPERIENCES

Selecting default avatars

Breakroom's default avatars allow both new and seasoned users to pick a look and get right to work. Learn how to select and upload your personalized collection of default avatars.

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Last updated 10 months ago

Overview

Helping users select a starter avatar

Editing your default avatar collection

To select or change your default avatar collection, follow these steps.

  1. Click on the World Customization > Avatars tab.

  2. Use the Select Default Avatars drop-down menu to pick an avatar category.

  3. Scroll through the collection of avatar cards, and check the boxes to highlight the avatars you want to use.

  4. Click the Save Changes button.

Uploading custom default avatars

Creating a custom default avatar

At this point, it will be helpful to take a picture of your finished avatar using your computer's built-in screenshot functionality. We recommend that you save this as an 800x500 image (JPG or PNG), with a maximum file size of 5MB.

Uploading your custom default avatar to Dashboard

To upload your custom default avatar, follow these steps.

  1. Click on the World Customization > Avatars tab.

  2. Use the Select Default Avatars drop-down menu to select the Uploaded avatar category.

  3. Click the Upload Outfit button.

  4. The Custom Outfit IDs drop-down menu will appear. Use this menu to select the outfit ID of your custom avatar.

  5. Click the Browse link in the "Upload an image for the outfit ID" panel. This will launch a standard file import window on your computer. Select the saved image of your completed custom avatar, and then click the Open button.

  6. Click the Upload button.

Breakroom is a multi-person simulation that uses to represent where people are—and, perhaps more importantly, who they are. To streamline the onboarding process, Breakroom allows you to curate a set of default that users can wear while they familiarize themselves with the platform. and can make changes to the default avatar collection at any time through the .

Users can pick a starter avatar when they for an account on your Breakroom World. Once logged in, they can change their starter avatar at any time using the . Most starter avatars can also be customized using the .

Most low poly avatars have little to no advanced customization potential. They do not consist of different components that can be swapped in and out (outfit, hairstyle, etc.), but function as self-contained "costume" avatars. If you want to use low poly avatars for your event, you can to offer additional low poly avatar options for your users.

Navigate to your .

You can select up to twenty avatars from any combination of categories. Detailed category descriptions are .

If you prefer, you can offer your users a completely bespoke collection of default avatars. Users can access these avatars during sign-up or through the Start Here panel, as above.

Please note that only outfits that use your or content provided by Breakroom will appear in the Uploaded category. If you create an outfit featuring third-party creator content purchased in the , that outfit will be excluded from the list.

To begin, create a custom avatar using the . We will refer to this unique avatar configuration as an outfit. When you save your outfit, take note of the final number that is appended to the outfit name. This is your custom avatar's outfit ID.

Navigate to your .

The avatar can now be to your default avatar collection. The avatar image you uploaded will appear during new user registration and in the Start Here UI.

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Pictured: The Dashboard > World Customization > Avatars tab.
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Pictured: The Dashboard > World Customization > Avatars tab, with custom avatar upload options enabled.