timepants

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Hmm, I'm somewhat curious. Can you save animations as videos? Has anybody considered using virt-a-mate as a method of creating animations for their renpy games? Or would it just not be that great looking?
 

theMickey_

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Hmm, I'm somewhat curious. Can you save animations as videos? Has anybody considered using virt-a-mate as a method of creating animations for their renpy games? Or would it just not be that great looking?
I haven't seen any games (yet) which used VaM as a source for their renders/animations. Although it's possible to generate screenshots/movies from VaM (for movies people are using something like OBS to record their screen; and if I remember correctly there also was a plugin to create a "virtual camera" for recording, to which you could add commands like moving/zooming and so on, but I don't know if it's still available or working in 1.19).

I think the biggest problem with using VaM as render source is the amount of assets/clothes/looks you can get on VaM right now. Although is growing, it's still "limited" to some point. So that may be one of the things that keep people from using VaM to create stuff for their games.
 

Oldmantac

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I got most of my issues solved. Thank you for the help. I only downloaded the Easy Mate IV Lite because Mega was telling me I need to upgrade my account to get the whole 22 gigs.

I'm going through the tutorials on there right now and have to say I'm impressed. Holy shit! The only thing that could make it more immersive is if you actually feel whatever you are touching. Hopefully sometime before I die that technology will be available.
 
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DepravedRaven

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I got most of my issues solved. Thank you for the help. I only downloaded the Easy Mate IV Lite because Mega was telling me I need to upgrade my account to get the whole 22 gigs.
There is a well seeded, fast torrent for the whole 22 gigs, here is the magnet link (qBittorrent is a good, ad free open source client if you don't have one):

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:SNO3J7UR3LO332HFPT5EW2UMFKWUKNN4

I literally just found out about Virt-A-Mate, and I'm just getting started, have not tried the pack yet, but it's coming in fast right now.
 
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Oldmantac

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I can tell you that the tutorials that come with easy mate are very good. They're interactive so as you progress through them you actually perform what's being taught.
 

DepravedRaven

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I can tell you that the tutorials that come with easy mate are very good. They're interactive so as you progress through them you actually perform what's being taught.
Ok, so noob question...

When installing VaM, what do they mean by "2- Drop the patch in the roo(t) game folder and run it"?

I don't see any patch file anywhere, or is the "patch" the VaM_Updater.zip attached to the first post (which already seems to be in the main zip file)? Or are the instructions outdated, and now you start it up and enter the key numbers?

Thanks for your time.
 
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Oldmantac

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What I did was download and unzip the updater and then downloaded the game through the updater. According to his patreon this is the direction he is heading (similar to DAZ).
 

Oldmantac

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Are the characters in the built-in scenes usable to create your own content? If so how do I look them up?
 

Spillthebeans

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Are the characters in the built-in scenes usable to create your own content? If so how do I look them up?
Go into edit mode and select the character you want to save the look of, go to the control tab and click "save look". To load that character add a character "atom" to the scene and, just like how you saved the look, you can load a look on the selected character in the same tab.
 
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Tizona

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what happened to the post that mentioned a lot of different yiff party patreons for VAM? I wish I had copy pasted it to .txt file :(
 

Oldmantac

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I don't see why they don't create a forum where devs could give a preview of content then link to either the download (if free) or to their Patreon. It would allow much better organization. Reddit has to be the worst format they could have chose.
 

litccc

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I don't see why they don't create a forum where devs could give a preview of content then link to either the download (if free) or to their Patreon. It would allow much better organization. Reddit has to be the worst format they could have chose.

I think this is what you want. They also have an official Discord channel for developers and players to disscus.:)
 

theMickey_

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Yes it should do i use it fine with VR so it should work :) ive had mine since day 1 of release day July 22, 2013
I'm not sure it does. I haven't tested it in Desktop mode, and it's about over a year and a half that I used it in VR mode. But others are reporting that it does not work in Desktop mode.
 
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