I gave up on this after realizing I need dozens of mods just to be able to use one modded character. What were they(characters) called, atoms? It didn't make sense, it still doesn't.
Now don't get me wrong, I bet it is the best porn simulator/scene creator out there but it is also very... Let's say complicated/complex to learn and use. I mean look at that, you need a mod to optimize loading speed, that kind of feature should've been integrated into the program a long time ago... And last time I checked its thread people were talking about organizing their mod folders so it doesn't look like you are staring at a bottomless abyss. And when it comes to downloading mods besides organizing folders there is also the storage space problem. I saw several people talking about folder sizes as big as 500gb to 1tb back when I was following its thread!
Long story short, VaM is great(probably the best) if you can spare hundreds of hours to organize, learn and create things for porn.
I'll just say this first, if you want something you can open up and be done in 5 minutes VaM is not the game for you, which is what i meant when i said it's not plug and play. So save your time and skip the wall of text if so.
VaM certainly has a lot of downsides and devs are pretty bad aswell. They are working on VaM 2 which is at beta phase 1 and looks to be a worse version for now. However the community is huge and unlike other porn games if a game comes out you pretty much can expect a character in it to be available as a model in VaM. I have 1.7TBs of mods installed throught the years, you certainly don't need that much, i can't even go through all of the things i have in that list and most stuff i wouldn't even use but i'm a hoarder. It depends on how much of a gooner you want to be and how much of a hoarder you are. I'd say you can make a lot of things work with only 5-10GB. It seems daunting at first but i promise you it's not that hard to figure out, you're just not looking properly or don't want to spend the time.
I'd say at most it would take a couple hours to get the basics down. If you don't want to spend the time i can't argue with that, time is precious but for me this game has been my go to and it was a worthwhile investment to learn the systems. Easier than using blender to pose and waiting for renders.
The main site has an in-depth guide for everything you'd possibly need but it's very in-depth instead of a basic guide so it looks scary.
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There is also the guides section
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But i'd say it's best to start from this
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Basically it goes like, you first setup your game and anytime you want a new model in the game, if it's a free look and it's not from like 2022-3, you can just use the in-game mod browser to download everything automatically. However if it's paid or you want to do it manually you'd follow steps below;
- You go to the model page you want to use for example
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or F95 pirate download
- Download using the button at top right then go to dependencies tab and download them from the list. The game also allows you to download dependencies automatically from within the game so skip this step if you want to use that instead but it requires the dependencies to be available on the hub. You won't have a problem with this if you're downloading from popular creators.
- Put everything in AddonPackages (AllPackages if you're using the var browser mod)
- Open game and load the provided character scene using the green folder button
- After that you load a male model and use vamx for some ready to use animations
or can save the model as a look then load it in any other scene mod for example
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or make your own animations using plugins like
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(i found this plugin to be the easiest to setup a quick scene)
The game doesn't automatically update loaded mods so you have to click on the package button and rescan for them to show up in game without restarting (just click refresh button and load the scene again if you're using the var browser mod). And you don't need every single dependency if it's not critical, like clothes or assets like buildings, it'll just say it could not load the clothes but will load other stuff normally. Most popular creators use a set amount of dependencies so after a couple of models you mostly won't have to repeat that process except for clothes and hair for specific stuff like game characters, they are also usually small in size.
Hopefully this was a bit more informative to those that wanted decide to spend time or not.