you can find him through the creator update threads. open drives incognito mode. they are maintained by same person you mentioned from old thread.
Lower the physics steps on hair and clothing individually, those are responsible for most of the GPU usage.
Possessing someone is meant for VR I think, with the motion controllers for the hands. There's a plugin "Embody" which is way better anyway for first person view than the default possess feature. (And strongly recommend the "improved POV" plugin)
I wouldn't try to create custom animations as a fresh user. That's some more advanced stuff. Even for experienced users, without a VR headset and motion controllers it's horrible to create animations. If you still want to dig in google "animation patterns" or "Acidbubble timeline". Again, not really practical without motion controllers.
Yeah VAM has a very steep learning curve. When you download a character with the built in asset browser, there's a blue button to open the scene directly after downloading. After you opened the scene you click on the character and create an "Appearance Preset", put in a name and take a screenshot for it to save. Just leave the default save destination.
There's no real way around experimenting with downloaded scenes to learn how to use VAM. There are some tutorials out there, but most of them are outdated, so you have to adapt the workflow for the new interface. For me, after like 10-15h I slowly got the hang of it, hours of googling and experimenting. Learn how VARs work, learning the menus and scene management etc.
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I'll go from top to bottom regarding your questions
yes but the fps could chug in some scenes. adjust your settings accordingly.
I just wanted to say thank you both for taking your time to answer my questions but I already uninstalled it and I don't think I'll ever come back to it.
that's fine. but to be fair you did try to do advanced stuff first and honestly, it's really not too hard to get started. it basically goes. download all the stuff you want->load up scene->change the characters you want to use->possess the male>fap. people tend to stick with Vam even with the performance issues and general jankiness due to it having a truly insane amount of customization and content. to each their own I guess. I used to have honey select and Koikatsu too but found the customization and content very lacking. maybe when Vam 2.0 gets a complete release the UI would have been streamlined and be more user-friendly so do try it by then.
Trust me, you're going to want to check it out in VR. and for what it's worth, I had to install and uninstall vam like 3 times before I finally understood it and now I can't go back to any other game
Compared to other "Games" lot of Dev and Hardware Resources go into the Full Realtime Simulation and Creation Part of Semi and Realistic Characters Hybrids/Humanoids/Human Clones.Like yourself I'm graduating from Koikatsu and Honey Select 1\2 .. give VAM a chance -- but you'll need to change your mindset a little. It's like a sandbox of tools which you can customize. Once you get the hang of it you'll never go back to those older apps\games.
Like some mentioned above, VAM isn't really a game.. it's more like making your own pornhub with your own actors. And you're the director.
The thing with HS and KK is that you're stuck with the animations from Illusion.. and even if you add new characters, its the same set of animations and levels. (Which gets boring IMO) VAM doesn't have that limit as the community can pretty much do everything from updating the code to animating new scenes. etc etc
I couldn't make any smooth gifs.. but this is just an example of hot swapping characters without leaving the "scene" and don't know if you can notice the realtime hair. Unlike the plastic hair that clips the floor in HS2 for example
Oh and VAM let's you customize facial expressions.. of course you need to install the plugin. That's Ada (from RE2) looking mad if you can notice.
Another big plus with VAM -- u can add your own lights .. so you can control the mood. Unlike HS2 which just gives you these preset post process stuff.. which still makes the scene look awful.
There's a whole other bunch of stuff like being able to move the actor's hands, legs while in the "action" .. but there's just too much. You'll need to discover all this by playing around in the VAM sandbox.
Ok, so as you don’t seem to be honest on your anwser let’s take it point by point, with elements that EVERYONE can check by themselves :
