Are you starting it in VR? Then it will be a black screen, with a small button to the bottom left to show desktop.
does the latest version of vam no use dependencies? i have a fresh installation of it and i can't find a folder for it. where do i place them now?
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The game becomes much slower if you have a ton of VARs and afaik the only option you have once you reach that point is reducing the number of VARs you have by loading only what you need, or just dealing with the load times.
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The CPU patch improved my load times by a lot. So there is that besides deleting the vars.
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could anyone tell me how to do these things ?
1: i have downloaded a scene with two characters in it, how do i replace those characters with another characters i have downloaded ?
2 : how do i delete / make a character transparent ?
3 : i downloaded a scene with animation, i then loaded my character, how do i load the animation from the scene ?
1: i have downloaded a scene with two characters in it, how do i replace those characters with another characters i have downloaded ?
2 : how do i delete / make a character transparent ?
3 : i downloaded a scene with animation, i then loaded my character, how do i load the animation from the scene ?
1. Select the Person Atom, shortcut is to click the icon with two people on it, or select a part of it and 'select root'. Then you can either click 'Load Look' in the Control tab, or load a preset in the 'Appearance Preset'. Where you'll find your looks depends on if the .vars you download have saved presets in them or not.
But the best way is to download the BrowserAssist-plugin, then you can either import a preset directly from a specific scene, or list the presets, all of this is a much better UI than the default browsers.
2. Same as above, select the person and in the same Control tab, click the Remove button. Or you can download GoingGoingGone-plugin and you can make parts of a character transparent/invisible.
3. Some scenes starts animation immediately on load, others require you to press the play button, but most newer scenes have buttons to toggle start and reset and such. Some require you to press some button, usually F3 for those I've seen.
If you want the animations in other scenes, then you will have to export the timeline script, if it is using that and load it into the other scenes character, too much hassle.
i have downloaded some characters but they don't show up when i want to replace them, when i tried to save them it saved as a json and jpeg, i do have the .var file in AddonPackages but they don't show up
I see..., i already tried the cpu fix, that help me well..., I got like 40-60fps right now.
I don't know if this scene is heavy, but I'm using ABC tits (hip dance), vamgrandfather (a lot of it), and my FPS was stuck at 50. I feel like the FPS drop is caused by the character I loaded. It ran smoothly 60fps during the initial scene, but after I replaced the female character with mine, the fps drop into 40fps-50fps.
So, I've been under the impression that .vars are required to be named in a very specific way, '[creator].[package].[version].var' according to the values in the meta.json file to be able to found by the game. But when I double check with a quick tool, this doesn't seem to be the case any longer? I'm still able to find scenes, plugins and what not that does not follow this convention.
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This is still the only valid naming for *.VAR files. And any officially approved *.VAR file available from the Hub will fit this naming convention.
Depends on how the creator of the character you've downloaded decided to make the character available within VaM. Some *.VAR files only contain a scene with the character, so you'll have to load up the scene, select the character, and save its look or appearance to use it. Some creators only provide appearance presets or looks instead, which you could use directly on any character. So you'll have to figure out what the *.VAR file includes (a scene, a preset, or a look) and proceed accordingly.
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There is also a tip I found on here of deleting the cache. I had an almost full external drive. I tried that tip and after it was half empty again. The tip explains it better than I could but VAR seems to cahe a lot of files for future use. I didn't notice a significant slowdown in load time after deleting the cache.
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I actually turned caching off a while ago to see if that'd help with my memory filling up. I have 32gb ram and when I check task manager it's up at 90+% when running VaM.
Oh yeah, I'm also running the CPU patch, forgot to mention it. By chance, do you experience any crashes? I have been experiencing a bunch, not sure if it's due to wonky session plugins I might have, or if I just have too many VARs(I have 7.2k lol).
Yes, but why do they still show up in game if they have invalid names? Previously I've downloaded vars and been told to rename them, yet, I now found scenes, plugins, etc that still show up correctly with incorrect names?
Ex.
VL_13.Business_Blazer.1.var > VL_13.Business_Dress
14mhz.Plugin-AutoFlutterGenitals.1.var > 14mhz.AutoFlutterGenitals
vvvevevvv.Tekky_Cat_Outfit_no_preset.1.var > vvvevevvv.Tekky_Cat_Outfit
Dnaddr.AbbyCyberStyleHD_v1.1.var > Dnaddr.Abby(CyberStyle)HD_v1
Last one might be if it disregards special characters, it matches with spaces being replaced by _ as well so that might be it, but the others are pretty wrong with extra text in them.
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but cardboard doesnt include the vr controllers, vridge is mostly for viewing 360 media n stuff. Also u can make the cardboard thing diy
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Hey, is anyone familiar with faceform wrap for converting textures/uvmap to one usable for genesis 2 male or female uvmap?
I click on Vam.exe and all I see is black no button anywhere, only mouse cursor is visible
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