ADRIFT VAM Tools and Plugins That Everyone Should Use

[PRES1DENT]

Following as176590811's post here it became clear that we mostly walk around blind in the VAM world.

So here is a thread where we can recommend each other tools and plugins for an easier VAM life.

1. ServerManager is the first tool that starts this thread because it's the one that gave the idea. It makes Windows Explorer show var icons as image previews instead of the universal 7zip icons.

Below I will just continue with my Session Plugins.

2.

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makes previewing and changing appearances much easier and faster. It also reduces Virt-A-Mate loading speeds if var offloading is enabled.

3.

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makes almost all of your appearances match all your scenes. Almost no more 'this look doesn't work in this scene'.

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makes it possible for you to see in every angle of a dark scene. No more need of adding light sources or installing lighting subscenes.

Other plugins recommended below shortlist:

• Arunty42

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   , (scanning for errors and softlinking presets. Not recommended to use with Browser assist offloading feature since it reads the scene.json instead meta.json)
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   (Still a solid tool for organazing scenes and picking out stuff you want to play with. It works with your meta.json file.)
3. Another Tool Creator and Vam manager :
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   maybe you like this more. Have not used this in a while maybe it got better.
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   is a solid linker and manager you can choose meta.json and scene.json scan. It is still in beta. Downside its in chinese but if you translate a few times you know what each button does

• as176590811

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   var browser help people who have massive var packages and take too long time to enter game.(
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• theblackestguy

1. GossamerVR.MorphFilterPlus - to remove life filtering in morph research (in the default config, vam trys to search what you write after every input and this can make the game very slow if you have a lot of morphs)
2. Blazedust.CUAM.CustomUnityAssetManager and VamCuaSuperglue
3. MVRPlugin.SettingsHideErrorPopups - make the error messages ingame apeears as a countbox on the icon instead of appearing as a message.
4. lockemx.LieStill - to move the view vertically while in VR without having to move in real live (for lying down or stand up positions)
5. jayjaywon.disablepostmagic - the name says it all
6. RedEyes.AutoSetPresetLocks - to block scenes from changing character appearance and clothing as you change positions or the scenes progresses
7. LGGCFX.LgAtomTool - to clean scenes from unwanted items and effects like lights and cuas that reduce fps
8. MVRPlugin.SettingsCycleNextPerson - make you need to press shift to select another person from the scene, so you dont need to cycle between all characters if you close the window

• Anand Neemish

1. I am a major fanboi of sfishere's Var Browser so I second as176590811's recommendation. sfishere's original DL post:
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2. VamEssentials' excellent tutorial on how to set up and use Var Browser:
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3. My silly little post on using VB (before VamEssential wrote his): F95 LINK
   
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[Arunty42]

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, (scanning for errors and softlinking presets. Not recommended to use with Browser assist offloading feature since it reads the scene.json instead meta.json)

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(Still a solid tool for organazing scenes and picking out stuff you want to play with. It works with your meta.json file.)

Another Tool Creator and Vam manager :

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maybe you like this more. Have not used this in a while maybe it got better.

Edit: After testing

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is a solid linker and manager you can choose meta.json and scene.json scan. It is still in beta. Downside its in chinese but if you translate a few times you know what each button does

 

[as176590811]

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var browser help people who have massive var packages and take too long time to enter game.(

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)

 

[theblackestguy]

I use a lot of plugins. Those are the ones that are aways on:

GossamerVR.MorphFilterPlus - to remove life filtering in morph research (in the default config, vam trys to search what you write after every input and this can make the game very slow if you have a lot of morphs)

Blazedust.CUAM.CustomUnityAssetManager and VamCuaSuperglue

MVRPlugin.SettingsHideErrorPopups - make the error messages ingame apeears as a countbox on the icon instead of appearing as a message.

lockemx.LieStill - to move the view vertically while in VR without having to move in real live (for lying down or stand up positions)

jayjaywon.disablepostmagic - the name says it all

RedEyes.AutoSetPresetLocks - to block scenes from changing character appearance and clothing as you change positions or the scenes progresses

LGGCFX.LgAtomTool - to clean scenes from unwanted items and effects like lights and cuas that reduce fps

MVRPlugin.SettingsCycleNextPerson - make you need to press shift to select another person from the scene, so you dont need to cycle between all characters if you close the window

 

[Anand Neemish]

I am a major fanboi of sfishere's Var Browser so I second as176590811's recommendation.

Here are some links:
sfishere's original DL post:

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VamEssentials' excellent tutorial on how to set up and use Var Browser:

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My silly little post on using VB (before VamEssential wrote his): F95 LINK

I am not dissing JayJayWon's Browser Assist with var management capabilities. It's just that VB works for me and I'm used to it.

P.S. I use to tell everyone that the downside of using VB is that in-game migration of content by VB is not accessible by VAM unless you reboot the game. The good news is that this is NOT TRUE. I recently discovered that you can tell JayJayWon's Browser Assist to Rescan the Addonpackages dir, and the VB's migration of content will be made available to the rest of the game.

P.P.S. I had a bad habit of tagging everything I liked (looks, scenes, etc.) as AutoLoad even though sfishere specifically recommended against doing so. After suffering through heap errors after 2 scene loads forcing a reboot, a month ago, I bit the bullet and started from scratch with a bare minimal autoload. Guess what? Not a single heap error in this last month despite having a huge var collection.

 

[Robert Monotoli]

Speaking of plugins, is there a plugin that allow you to save your current view/camera position to go back to later? Sometimes, I would get a sweet point of view in a scene I played, but, alas, there seem to be no way I can find to save the position or at least to get the coordinates.

Many thanks for the helpful recommendations above!

 

[pupucacc]

Can someone explain how to install servermanger to show var files with 7zip?

 

[DJLegends]

Can someone explain how to install servermanger to show var files with 7zip?

same never seen how to do it properly

 

[DJLegends]

Can someone explain how to install servermanger to show var files with 7zip?

read the 3 image files it tell you what to do correctly

 

[pupucacc]

I can't find varpreview handler file as shown in the second image.

 

[122Striker123]

Does anyone know the name of a VaM program that allows you to quickly extract an appearance from a scene?

 

[PRES1DENT]

Does anyone know the name of a VaM program that allows you to quickly extract an appearance from a scene?

What's wrong with VAM's appearance save feature?

 

[arenem]

Does anyone know the name of a VaM program that allows you to quickly extract an appearance from a scene?

Chokaphi's Preset Maker plugin (available on Hub, I think) automates preset extraction from VARs...it can create appearance, hair, and clothing presets from any VAR with a person atom, and you can filter by author or whatever. It's worth checking out.

 

[PRES1DENT]

Chokaphi's Preset Maker plugin (available on Hub, I think) automates preset extraction from VARs...it can create appearance, hair, and clothing presets from any VAR with a person atom, and you can filter by author or whatever. It's worth checking out.

Or use BrowserAssist's import function without needing to save appearance presets at all?

 

[arenem]

Or use BrowserAssist's import function without needing to save appearance presets at all?

Yeah, you could also do that, if you wanted. Is there a point you want to make?

 

[urta]

Hello.
I'm trying to install the server manager, but i keep getting this error:

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Is there anything else to do before the instructions on "how to install" images?