- Oct 13, 2020
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I'd like to follow up on mu own post because, thanks to the assistance received here and to further investigation, I was able to figure it all out!Please just tell me if I'm doing it right:
- whenever I download a scenes or looks pack, I dump them into my AddonPackages dir, sometimes just in the root, sometimes in some subfolders (with sub-sub folders) to try to keep things organized and have a quick way to delete a pack if I don't like it.
- I launch VAM and scan for missing dependencies and download them, using the built in
- then check for updates, again using the built in function
- on to the scene browser, I can filter for authors in the top right corner, usually no issues here
- from within the scene, I open the edit menu (U -> E) and after selecting the correct asset person, I load the look I want to use (Appearence presets -> Select existing)
here's what the problem lies: for some reason I have a very hard time accessing all the looks that are in the var directory. If I chose the "flatten" view in the green "shortcuts" pan on the left several are missing, and even using the creator filter only shows less results for the creators. Even the creator list itself is shorter than it should be.
Putting a serch string in the top right corner of the right pane (same as in the scene browser) sometimes also yelds no results or only a few.
This is driving me nuts, any hint will be much appreciated!
Some looks developers release their work as scenes, even if the scene contains nothing else than the person itself. This results in VAM not displaying them when loading a appearance preset during a scene. The simplest solution I've found is to install JayJayWon Browser Assist (which is awesome for many reasons!) and use its import feature to extract the appearance from the scene. After that you'll be able to load it in any other scene!
Hope this will prove useful to other newcomers!