Unity Virt-A-Mate [v1.22.0.3] [Meshed VR]

[bachou]

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 ?

 

[Cakemaster691337]

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. 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.

 

[bachou]

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

 

[Inhumanins]

Cap your framerate to 60 or whatever you feel confident with.
Don't use soft body physics and set the physics update rate to 2.
Add naturalis to the female atom for some immersion with low to no impact.
Reduce max pixel lights to 2 or disable all light sources and only use one single center light from the "focus on me" session plugin. Disabling all ligths can be done within focus on me with one click.
This alone will boost your fps significantly. You can also set the hair quality by each peace to fast, this reduces the shadows within hair layers and may look bad with more lights turned on but also gives quite a fps boost.
When it still hitches, your cpu could be the problem.
Make sure to use the CPU fix from the

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If you are playing in VR there is also a FSR mod for vam which gives a sharper image than before but on a lower resolution.
The 3050 is equal to my 1070 I've previously used in VR and it was alright.
I got 40-50fps with rare lags (no heavy 3+ person scenes) which is totally fine.

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.

 

[Cakemaster691337]

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.

 

[theMickey_]

But when I double check with a quick tool, this doesn't seem to be the case any longer?

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.

...but they don't show up when i want to replace them...

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.

 

[Velcrofly]

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.

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.

 

[SortaLewd]

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.

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.

AddonPackages

The CPU patch improved my load times by a lot. So there is that besides deleting the vars.

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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).

 

[Cakemaster691337]

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.

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.

 

[Cynikkkal]

You could try using google cardboard and VRidge, it emulates VR hands.

but cardboard doesnt include the vr controllers, vridge is mostly for viewing 360 media n stuff. Also u can make the cardboard thing diy

 

[_Alexander_]

Hey, is anyone familiar with faceform wrap for converting textures/uvmap to one usable for genesis 2 male or female uvmap?

 

[Deleted member 1959673]

Are you starting it in VR? Then it will be a black screen, with a small button to the bottom left to show desktop.

I click on Vam.exe and all I see is black no button anywhere, only mouse cursor is visible

 

[moc587]

I click on Vam.exe and all I see is black no button anywhere, only mouse cursor is visible

click on "VaM (Desktop Mode).bat"

 

[Deleted member 1959673]

click on "VaM (Desktop Mode).bat"

still a black screen

 

[evaw]

still a black screen

Next time try to w8, till it load

 

[Deleted member 1959673]

Next time try to w8, till it load

the download seemed to be corrupted somehow so I used the updater to fix it

 

[mikeriko]

how can i find the right morph when vam cant find the right missing var packages for example like these?

 

[theMickey_]

how can i find the right morph when vam cant find the right missing var packages for example like these?

What do you mean by "VaM can't find the right packages" -- is it because there are no open/unresolved dependencies at all? Or are there, but those packages are not hosted on the VaM Hub because they're paid ones?

In either way, you should read the description of the scene you downloaded and which gives you those errors, because in most cases the description lists all/most additional (paid/unpaid) packages this scene relies on. And when there are paid packages mentioned, you could either subscribe to those creators to download the package in question, or see if you can "find them elsewhere"...

 

[mikeriko]

What do you mean by "VaM can't find the right packages" -- is it because there are no open/unresolved dependencies at all? Or are there, but those packages are not hosted on the VaM Hub because they're paid ones?

In either way, you should read the description of the scene you downloaded and which gives you those errors, because in most cases the description lists all/most additional (paid/unpaid) packages this scene relies on. And when there are paid packages mentioned, you could either subscribe to those creators to download the package in question, or see if you can "find them elsewhere"...

what im try to say is that i already grab all the required dependencies but this timeline error (which seem to be missing morphs right?) still pop up so are there anyway we can do to get those morph?

 

[ergo36]

what im try to say is that i already grab all the required dependencies but this timeline error (which seem to be missing morphs right?) still pop up so are there anyway we can do to get those morph?

I search for .vmi files inside my VARs library that contain the morph description text in the errors. So for the first one I would search for "AA Mouth Kiss 1". First result was "AshAuryn.AshAuryn_Sexpressions_2_Point_0.4.var". Depending of how you have catalogued your VARs it might take a while. If they are all in a folder and you have tons of them that will take time. But if you put some morph collections VARs in a folder and search only them then it will be quicker. If you don't collect all the VARs then it's going to be difficult.

If you find the morph then you have to make the problematic scene load it. Here are some ways:

* Copy the morphs inside your "VAM_Folder\Custom\Atom\Person\Morphs\" and appropriate subfolder female, male, female_genitelia, male_genitelia. The good thing, this will make the morph available to all scenes without any further edits. The bad thing, this will make the morph available to all scenes and as VAM gets slower with many morphs this will impact performance with many morphs.

* Add the VAR containing the morphs as dependency in the meta.json of the problematic VAR scene. The VAR containing the morphs must have "preloadMorphs" : "true" in its meta.json.

* Copy the morphs inside your problematic VAR scene and in the appropriate folder. Change the meta.json of the problematic VAR scene to have "preloadMorphs" : "true".

One last method that I haven't yet tested and seems to be the one with the least performance caveats but with the most work. I want to have just one copy of each morph in one or more VARs and with "preloadMorphs" : "false". Each scene will have one or more of those VARs as dependencies. To solve the Timeline errors and to load those missing morphs I would add these morphs in the morph section of the scene in their default/neutral values. If that was managed then each scene would load only the morphs needed.

Choose your poison from above.
I also welcome any better solution from anyone else.