Hello guys.
First of all SORRY for my grammar if you can't stand it please dont even read it. There is no useful info, only questions of noob.
i'm new to vam and still trying to figure basic things. I like to customize characters, body, makeup and clothing and maybe some poses (really strugling with this).
1. How do you manage ur "AddonPackages" collection ?
I have dowloaded tons of stuff from this forum, but its not like im going to use all of this and there is some garbage items with bad textures or bones (mainly clothing).
Then im using "missing reference packages scan thing" and this is like hell, somehow i ended up with scenes and stuff that i never wanted but it seems that it need to be downloaded or that scan thing is messing with me.
What im trying to say here, i deleted whole collection and redownloaded authors that i really like. But just few days and im alrdy with 100gb collection and i havent downloaded all i wanted. The worst part that vam launch takes longer time. Fresh installed - 1-2 sec and with that massive collections takes longer about 15-20 sec. But as i alrdy said, most of things there is useless for me and never going to be used, especially things that hub scan want me to download.
2. How and where do you look for missing addon packages ? I tried to google but havent find any and give up, hub says "not on hub".
3. How do you apply any animation that someone alrdy write to chacter that i just made ? And why can't i use any of "night queen" chacters ? Even if im trying to apply apperance of her chars i can't even find em in that apperance tool. Currently im manually open her chars and save apperance. Idk if im doing something wrong or im blind. lul
1. this is the true vam experience, clunky, slow, bloated, buggy af and so fucking frustrating sometimes you'd want to pull your hair out. theres no way out of it lol. vam doesnt have a good way to manage packages. so u will end up downloading all sorts of useless garbage packages as dependencies. my only advice here is to simply not download those dependencies. check each of them to see if its worth it and if not skip. and ignore the "missing dependency" warnings, the are inconsequential anyway.
my old vam install was more than 600 gigs filled with useless shit. now its around half that 320 gb. i also have used this tool in the past,
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highly recommended. another advice is when you see a clothing or hair that u dont like within vam, click on that cube icon, which opens up addon package manager where you can delete them. again ignore those "missing dependency" warnings.
2. if it says not on hub, then its means the page of that specific item is not setup properly to download within vam. this could be cos the author might be linking directly to their patreon or some other site. or it just doesnt exist on vamhub. theres no good answer for this, you have to ask around.
3. check how animataion is applied. if its with
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plugin, open its ui > More > import/export > export. now u can import it anywhere. if its made with vams built in animation thing, use
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to import/export it.
And for appearance issue, yea thats how most people do it, really fucking annoying. they dont ship appreance presets, they just include the scene only. you have manually open up scene and save it as a appearance preset.