[solved] I moved to a new PC and suddenly my vtuber isn't working. Error says that the model3.json is broken or missing, but nothing is different than before.

[T.TV/RookTheBardling]

I tried several things like reinstalling, nuking my model and replacing the file with the original upload from the artist I commissioned, restarting my pc, and all the other basic/little fixes suggested by others I've asked. I'm getting really frustrated and don't know what to do.

[Denchi]

Originally posted by T.TV/RookTheBardling:

I tried several things like reinstalling, nuking my model and replacing the file with the original upload from the artist I commissioned, restarting my pc, and all the other basic/little fixes suggested by others I've asked. I'm getting really frustrated and don't know what to do.

What files do you have in your model folder? Could you post a screenshot of everything that's inside there?

[T.TV/RookTheBardling]

Here's a screenshot of everything inside the folder: https://imgur.com/a/6PpJgi5
again, this is the same folder the artist initially gave me and it worked on my old computer fine. If I've broken something, I can't tell what.

[Denchi]

Originally posted by T.TV/RookTheBardling:

Here's a screenshot of everything inside the folder: https://imgur.com/a/6PpJgi5
again, this is the same folder the artist initially gave me and it worked on my old computer fine. If I've broken something, I can't tell what.

I see "rook.model3.json" is lowercase, while everything else has "Rook" in uppercase. Most likely that happened while copying stuff around. Try renaming it to "rook.model3.json" and see if it works then.

[T.TV/RookTheBardling]

I'll give that a shot in a second, thanks in advance!

[T.TV/RookTheBardling]

Unfortunately, changing it to capital doesn't seem to have done anything

[Denchi]

Originally posted by T.TV/RookTheBardling:

Unfortunately, changing it to capital doesn't seem to have done anything

Feel free to send me the model and I'll take a look ([e-mail] or DM "denchi" on Discord)

[T.TV/RookTheBardling]

I'll send on discord because I forget to check email, my discord name is pegasus_rook_7890

[T.TV/RookTheBardling]

SO
I got it fixed, turns out, my files *were* corrupted, and it was because 7zip on linux, or ar least the version I was using, doesn't like .rar files and it was wigging out.

Note for peeps who might come across this in the future, I used a CLI utility called "unrar" to unzip it and it works fine now.

Thank you to everyone who helped me with this, in and outside of this thread x3