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Can I unpack the Looks .vars and create 2 different packs, one for all the looks and one for all the textures?
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You can unpack and repack all the var you've got. Just don't share them please. Also I highly recommend to not do that at all, because it will counterfeit your dependencies. Once you've deleted the original *.var file because you've previously unpacked/repacked it, and another scene/look has this *.var as a dependency, VaM will re-download the original *.var file (if it's on the HUB) and you'll end up with multiple versions of the same stuff.
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Interesting. But I just want to do this to Dnaddr's looks. They are not on the hub. Altoghether they are 3GB...
To unpack and repack these, can I just manipulate them as normal folder or I'm going to need a special tool?
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*.var files are just ZIP archives, and you can use whatever tool to handle those. Again, I highly advise to not do this, but it's up to you. :-D
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Thanks again for helping me out! VAM can be the best sex sim out there, but it can also be the worst software if you can't customize it properly, and it's very hard to understand everything
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Completely agree.
VAM is like Blender with a scaling learning curve, and I think that's the main reason it's so underrated.
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Anyone have tips on audio triggering with Timeline? I'm having problems to make a AudioSource play a slap sfx consistently. It doesn't play it randomly, even though Timeline is triggering it perfectly every single time.
Same happens if I use any collision trigger.
Is the sfx too short? Too quiet? Is there a better plugin/atom than the crappy AudioSource that appears to rely on sample loudness to play it?
edit: I added a Audio trigger line in Timeline, it seems it does not like triggering short audio samples in other atoms. Switched to a normal Trigger line, seems to be working now.
Same happens if I use any collision trigger.
Is the sfx too short? Too quiet? Is there a better plugin/atom than the crappy AudioSource that appears to rely on sample loudness to play it?
edit: I added a Audio trigger line in Timeline, it seems it does not like triggering short audio samples in other atoms. Switched to a normal Trigger line, seems to be working now.
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What's useful is to learn the folder's structure; What goes where, saves, assets, textures, morphs, vars, unity assets etc. For everything else including conversions from daz or within there is youtube.
The issue isn't the GPU; Vam uses four CPU cores, no more, for hairs cloth and body physics.
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For sure one of the things that might improve in VAM 2.x would be loading time... it... is... sometimes... slow...
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I hope this improves, cant get a quick nut if the damn thing takes too long to load
They released some Alpha footage a couple weeks ago I think, where they showed almost instant scene and looks loading, and the best part it's all multithreaded. No game freeze up when loading new stuff into the scene.
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Loading times are bad indeed, don't even know why the caching option exists, makes almost no difference since the engine struggles to do anything most of the time. There's a huge bottleneck in data read and write somewhere.
There's also a slight memory leak over time. Usually sessions hover around 8 to 10 gb of RAM use (OS resources included since swap and paging files seems to be used even if you have absurd amounts of free RAM), but after an hour or so, a gb starts to be added for no reason at all (no additional atoms or anything new added to the scene, etc...).
I blame Unity not the devs. KSP for example, which is another game heavy on physics and parts quantity, runs like shit too because of Unity's inherent bad resource management and use on any PC. Also suffers a lot from the same issues VAM has, like collision detection and efficient physics calculations.
There's also a slight memory leak over time. Usually sessions hover around 8 to 10 gb of RAM use (OS resources included since swap and paging files seems to be used even if you have absurd amounts of free RAM), but after an hour or so, a gb starts to be added for no reason at all (no additional atoms or anything new added to the scene, etc...).
I blame Unity not the devs. KSP for example, which is another game heavy on physics and parts quantity, runs like shit too because of Unity's inherent bad resource management and use on any PC. Also suffers a lot from the same issues VAM has, like collision detection and efficient physics calculations.
Is the sound you need very specific?
If you need general sex sounds,
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is great: Aside from the obvious moaning and orgasm sounds, there's also pelvic slap sounds, vagina squishes, blowjob sounds etc. Manual and automatic triggers. It's really a versatile and easy to setup plugin, everything can be triggered in Timeline.
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also might help you. Haven't tried out that one yet tho.
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Thanks for the reccomendation. Funny thing, I already have it downloaded, remember using it somewhere but then going back to Timeline+AudioSource combo, dunno why. Gonna try it out again anyway.
Also, I edited my post, problem was: I used a Audio trigger track in Timeline instead of a normal Trigger track. But why it doesn't work with the Audio track triggering? No idea at all...
Nice, gonna check them out, thanks.
The sample isn't specific, was just trying anything I could find fast.
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I'm sure it can't hurt, but I solved many performance issues just by adding 16GB of RAM, (I had 16GB now I have 32GB), so the solution you are looking for might be less expensive than a 4090 card... Be sure to have the game installed on an M2 SSD and optimize from there.
Use the official downloader, and one of the keys from first post...
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thank you!, does anyone have an updated key for the latest updates, please? <3