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

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Chief_Master

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NEED HELP ON IMPROVING FPS!

My pc has RTX 3050 hybrid GPU (4GB dedicated GPU memory and 7.7 shared memory), 16GB RAM (40% used on idle), and 512GB SSD.

With 1 person scene or simply loading a look, I get up to 60FPS cap, when with 2 persons, it significantly drops to 18-25FPS, and sometimes lower with 3.
I tried redeyes' FPS plugin but it would only improve until 25FPS even if I turn off both the physics settings and put everything to low from the native settings.

VAM will always allocate all the RAM leaving 5-10% and with VRAM, only the dedicated memory is used.
Is it the RAM or the dedicated VRAM or something else?
What could be the issue here?
 
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Chief_Master said:
NEED HELP ON IMPROVING FPS!

My pc has RTX 3050 hybrid GPU (4GB dedicated GPU memory and 7.7 shared memory), 16GB RAM (40% used on idle), and 512GB SSD.

With 1 person scene or simply loading a look, I get up to 60FPS cap, when with 2 persons, it significantly drops to 18-25FPS, and sometimes lower with 3.
I tried redeyes' FPS plugin but it would only improve until 25FPS even if I turn off both the physics settings and put everything to low from the native settings.

VAM will always allocate all the RAM leaving 5-10% and with VRAM, only the dedicated memory is used.
Is it the RAM or the dedicated VRAM or something else?
What could be the issue here?
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CPU. Play without soft body physics and tone down hair. There are a couple of fixes and tweaks you can do.
Pretty sure I explained everything and more in this thread here multiple times.
Just search for "FPS" within this thread and you should find my and other helpful tips.
 
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Chief_Master said:
NEED HELP ON IMPROVING FPS!

My pc has RTX 3050 hybrid GPU (4GB dedicated GPU memory and 7.7 shared memory), 16GB RAM (40% used on idle), and 512GB SSD.

With 1 person scene or simply loading a look, I get up to 60FPS cap, when with 2 persons, it significantly drops to 18-25FPS, and sometimes lower with 3.
I tried redeyes' FPS plugin but it would only improve until 25FPS even if I turn off both the physics settings and put everything to low from the native settings.

VAM will always allocate all the RAM leaving 5-10% and with VRAM, only the dedicated memory is used.
Is it the RAM or the dedicated VRAM or something else?
What could be the issue here?
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1. make sure you have few lights in your scene. You can even turn off all lights and modify Scene Lighting to make things look better. VAM will look more "anime" that way, but you'll get a big performance boost, especially in VR. IMO it's better to turn off lights and increase render scale in VR to 1.5 or more. You get more detail and it runs faster. If you have 3 lights in your vam scene or more, you're playing it wrong imo. Multiple lights are meant for rendering, not gameplay.

2. make sure you don't have too many hair items with physics. If you have a base hair, then a ponytail as a separate item and bangs as a separate item, you should turn off physics for the base hair. If it doesn't move much, you don't need physics.

3. make sure you don't have too many clothing items, and especially not with physics.

These are I think the big ones to look for. Other than these, it depends a lot on your PC and your vam scene. What you wrote is probably not happening in the default scene I imagine. If your PC is not very good, you might want to stick with hair that doesn't have physics (buns, etc). Same with clothes, only use physics for skirts/dresses. Other than those, you probably don't need clothes physics that much.
 
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Chief_Master said:
NEED HELP ON IMPROVING FPS!

My pc has RTX 3050 hybrid GPU (4GB dedicated GPU memory and 7.7 shared memory), 16GB RAM (40% used on idle), and 512GB SSD.

With 1 person scene or simply loading a look, I get up to 60FPS cap, when with 2 persons, it significantly drops to 18-25FPS, and sometimes lower with 3.
I tried redeyes' FPS plugin but it would only improve until 25FPS even if I turn off both the physics settings and put everything to low from the native settings.

VAM will always allocate all the RAM leaving 5-10% and with VRAM, only the dedicated memory is used.
Is it the RAM or the dedicated VRAM or something else?
What could be the issue here?
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Reduce hair curve and multiplier to something like 14~16 using Givemefps plugin (and increase hair width until it looks good)
Remove all hair from the male, including beards and body hair
Remove all lights using scene stripper plugin, add a single invisible light source as a spot light with reduced range
Remove all CUA from the scene
 
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ermousa said:
is there a VAM Desktop Version that doesn't need VR? or VAM always need VR??
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It works with both, you have multiple executables:
- VAM.exe - oculus
- VaM (OpenVR).bat - steamvr
- VaM (Desktop Mode).bat <-- this is for desktop
 
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Chief_Master

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Can someone post a direct download link for the var_browser.dll. I downloaded the one in Github and tried building it with Visual studio but it returned with so many errors. Also,how do I delete objects in a scene?
 
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Chief_Master said:
Can someone post a direct download link for the var_browser.dll. I downloaded the one in Github and tried building it with Visual studio but it returned with so many errors. Also,how do I delete objects in a scene?
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you dont need to built it from source lol. this is the link for release
You must be registered to see the links

this is for the source
You must be registered to see the links

they are different repos.
for deleting objects just click on them, goto Control and delete it there.
 
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brasileirinho said:
Not trivial.

The way I do it is using the character fusioner plugin, but I don't do it often, so it's hard to make a step by step guide.

From what I can recall, you save the look you want the head as an appearance preset, then load the look you want the body in a scene, load the character fusioner plugin, add a minimal amount value of the appearance with the head you want, then the morph you want will show up in the female morph tab. Set the unwanted head morph to zero and the wanted head morph to 1.

In other words, the look will have:
Unwanted Head morph > 1
Wanted Body morph > 1

When you add .01 value from the other look, it will be like this

Unwanted Head morph > 1
Wanted Body morph > 1
Wanted Head morph > .01
Unwanted Body morph > .01

Then you remove the unwanted stuff

Unwanted Head morph > 0
Wanted Body morph > 1
Wanted Head morph > 1
Unwanted Body morph > 0

It doesn't always work. Sometimes the neck will just collapse into the sternum, Idk why. So you can try other plugins, like the mass morph merger.
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I just go into the morphs of the model I want to edit. Say I want [model name]'s body but I want a different head I go into the female morphs tab and turn off the head morph. A lot of creators merge the model's morphs for the body, head, and genitals into 3 separate morph sliders, and are typically labeled "[model name]-body/head/gens". Setting one of the morph sliders to 0 should bring the body, head, or genitals to their default state (i.e the default body/head/gens). Then you can just swap in the morph you want to use. You might have to make some minor adjustments though. I've never had the neck collapsing issue before.
 
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BustedCog said:
I just go into the morphs of the model I want to edit. Say I want [model name]'s body but I want a different head I go into the female morphs tab and turn off the head morph. A lot of creators merge the model's morphs for the body, head, and genitals into 3 separate morph sliders, and are typically labeled "[model name]-body/head/gens". Setting one of the morph sliders to 0 should bring the body, head, or genitals to their default state (i.e the default body/head/gens). Then you can just swap in the morph you want to use. You might have to make some minor adjustments though. I've never had the neck collapsing issue before.
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Throw it onto your person as a plugin and you can create new morphs with head, body and genital seperated.
 
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hi, is there any tutorial on how to use this app?

like something to show me how to create a character and how to put said character I created in a scene
 
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elmicho said:
hi, is there any tutorial on how to use this app?

like something to show me how to create a character and how to put said character I created in a scene
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Creating a scene from the ground up would be very challenging for a beginner of VaM.
Iam working on a scene for like 6 months now and its still a mess, but almost shareable.

There is some addon called "VamX" which has alot of automated stuff you can set up your own scenes fairly easy with.
It's still limited but you can get some ideas and maybe inspirations on how you want to craft your very own stuff in the future.
Haven't tested the latest versions but I remember there is a tutorial scene which should explain alot.
You could also check YT.
 
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Tomboy Enjoyer said:
Creating a scene from the ground up would be very challenging for a beginner of VaM.
Iam working on a scene for like 6 months now and its still a mess, but almost shareable.

There is some addon called "VamX" which has alot of automated stuff you can set up your own scenes fairly easy with.
It's still limited but you can get some ideas and maybe inspirations on how you want to craft your very own stuff in the future.
Haven't tested the latest versions but I remember there is a tutorial scene which should explain alot.
You could also check YT.
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yeah i realized it's pretty freaking extensive this app

sadly i should've asked and looked it up before downloading it :ROFLMAO:

welp!
 
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