Then you use frequency separation to pull out the details layer and adjust the coloring of the base layer. The catch here is that, because you're affecting the entire layer in some way, you need to do the exact same thing to all of the UV maps - torso, limbs, and gens in addition to face, so the skin UVs match and it doesn't create a visible seam.
You can animate morphs. First, find the morph you want to animate, and check the Favorite box on it; then, when adding a Target in Timeline, add a Geometry target (the section below the joint node target section) and select your Favorited morph/s and add it/them. Once your morphs are available as a target, you can set the value to change from keyframe to keyframe.
Good question - I pressed the "Add Atom" button to add a CycleForce atom (with that lightning bolt icon). It also looks like I pressed the T key on the keyboard to make all the green target icons visible (there's a button in the main menu bar at bottom left too).
Oh yes, that and much more than that. This is just a (very outdated) tutorial for an animation creation plugin, I don't give you any clear view of VAM as a whole here. 4 For a great series of tutorials of the basic stuff to get you started, I recommend Captain Varghoss' set: www.youtube.com/@CaptainVarghoss There is a gargantuan resources repository in the VAM Hub (NSFW link, so I'll just suggest googling "VAM Hub" and navigating to the Resources section) with about equal measures of free and paid user-created content, including full scenes, clothes, hairstyles, full characters, assets, environments, animations, plugins that add/improve functionality, etc. - about 30,000 total. That's a lot of customization options. =) If you run into specific questions, hit me up on Discord (syrinxo), happy to help out.
Not that I know of. You can change some things, but if basic body scale or certain morphs are different enough, then it will mess up the positioning. Timeline animates nodes by determining their absolute location in space, there's nothing there that's relative to the character and its dimensions.
haha wait - did I actually mention MMD?? I don't recall. People do port MMD animations into VAM, though it's not something I've done. But I would advise caution - being an adult VR sandbox/simulator, VAM itself is probably not a topic to discuss with your daughter! 😂😂
@@Syrinxo I did not KNOW there was a difference. I just knew that VAM has superior graphics. My daughter is a professional gamer and coder and I am looking for things that will interest us both as I have always been terrible at video games. I am a PhD chemist, a nerd in her eyes.
If you go to the developer's Patreon site and subscribe at the Creator level, it will both send you an email and unlock the Patreon post that contains the key code for Creator level access. Once you have the code, it will work for that version of the game forever, including all future small updates until the next major release (which should be VAM 2.0, in fact, but we're probably a ways out from that).
Download everything to your [VAM]\AddonPackages folder. If it's a VAR file, as everything should be, then it will be available once you restart the game. The trick is knowing where to load it from, once it's downloaded. For example, a character might be packed as an "appearance preset" that you can load directly onto any person atom, or it could be packaged in a scene that you must open first. Not all creators are clear about what they're providing!
I didn't cover the basics for VAM and installing plugins, as this video was about how to use Timeline. Also, it is out of date, and the installation method has changed. But to answer your questions, you can download it from the VirtAMate Hub website (hub.virtamate.com/resources/timeline.94/) and put it in your VAM/AddonPackages folder like any other VAR package.
Great question! DAZ 3D has several different generations of human models. VAM uses the Genesis 2 platform, and Genesis 2 textures will work with VAM (though you do need to pick the correct in-game model for your texture -- specifically, Olympia skins don't match exactly with other G2F models). As a side note, we are all pretty excited for the beta launch of VAM 2 (hopefully before 2023), because it uses Genesis 8 (also compatible with Genesis 3, or at least easily convertible?), which as some significant improvements in both model geometry and texture UV map partitioning.
There is only a PC version, works for both desktop and VR: www.patreon.com/meshedvr Subscribe to get a code for the tier you want, you only need to pay once and then if you don't want to support the developer you can unsub and the same code will work forever for VAM 1. (VAM 2 will be coming out at some point, probably a few months for a beta release, which I expect will be supporters-only).
@@b_l_a_c_k-l_i_t_e If you're talking about one of the textures built in to VAM, that's not possible. Those textures are only licensed by DAZ to VAM for in-game use and aren't accessible. The only exception are the "Custom" skins; those are available in the VAM install folder at Custom/Atom/Person/Textures/[Female, Male]/Custom. Skins made by other creators, like myself, are in the Textures folder of their shared character VAR file (it is a renamed ZIP file , open with any ZIP utility). I hope that helps!
@@b_l_a_c_k-l_i_t_e I should add that VAM's built in textures come from two places, and can be bought. The first sets in VAM's list are on the DAZ asset store (make sure you are buying Genesis 2 skins only! G3/5/8 don't work in VAM and are not easy to convert). The later, better ones are made by RenVR, and I believe they're all also available on his Patreon for a pretty cheap subscription.
Hi, thanks for your question. Yes, there is software that can take a photo of a face (if it meets requirements) and generate both a texture in the Daz3D Genesis 2 format (which VAM uses) and a morph to provide a rough approximation of the facial geometry. This program, called "FaceGen," is easy to use. However, making the final product look good - realistic and high-quality - takes a lot of skill and work with additional programs, such as Photoshop and SubstancePainter. Even more so for creating a very close likeness. The shape, as well, will take a lot of work to be close to the original.
Olá, Senhor Brasileiro! Se você estiver procurando por personagens Valorant para VAM, tente usar a Pesquisa em hub.virtamate.com/ Posso ver que duas pessoas criaram modelos Jett, Viper, Sage, Reyna e Killjoy. Parecem bastante bem feitos. Desculpe pelo português ruim, boa sorte com sua jornada no VAM!
Thanks for calling this out. After taking a look, seems like RU-vid has recently messed with the soundtrack channel. It wasn't like this originally. I've tried turning down the mix level, we'll see if that helps once it updates.
Ah, yes! That is the correct question to ask! Here is a guide that will take you through the process to allow painting (including projection painting and texture wrapping) across UV seams. You see why I didn't include it in my video, ha! hub.virtamate.com/resources/vam-daz-gen2-to-substance-painter-udim-guide.2616/ If you find any of it confusing, click the "Discussions" tab of that page to likely find the answer.
@@hankb7725 Yes, this part of the guide is a bit unclear. You need to open the OBJ file in a text editor (I recommend Notepad++) and do a search-and-replace to replace all instances of "usemtl" with "g" (there should be 29, iirc). This will allow Blender to see the various body parts as part of a group, which allows painting over seams, rather than using the uv map separations VAM provides in the accompanying MTL file.
Thanks for calling this out. After taking a look, seems like RU-vid has recently messed with the soundtrack channel. It wasn't like this originally. I've tried turning down the mix level, we'll see if that helps once the update goes through. If not, I'll just remove the music entirely.
the face gen its a good tool! thanks, If I support you in patreon, I could ask you how I can import a model exported from face gen in virt to mate? Thank you.
Hey, thanks for your interest! I never say no to a new patron, but you dont' need to pay to get VAM help. =) Are you on Discord? Easier to answer your question there than typing it all out in a comment here. DM me: Syrinxo#7496
Great video! Have two quick questions. Is there a way to toggle between desktop/vr mode? What I mean is do all the UI work on desktop, quickly throw on my headset to move the nodes? Also at 12:07 you rotate the whole room, like your view, how did you do that?!
Thanks! (though it's old as hell) Desktop and VR mode are two separate programs; you'd need to save your scene, shut down VAM, and restart it in the other mode. I don't think any VR programs can "hot-swap" back and forth the way you describe, not that I've seen at least. In desktop mode, just hold right-click to rotate your view around your focus point. If your focus point is very near, then it'll be like looking around in first person; if you zoom out far, then you'll rotate widely. Mouse-wheel to zoom in and out from the focus point, and hold middle mouse button to move on the X/Y axis without rotating. Select a node and press F to set it instantly as your focal point.
Super helpful video Syrinxo! I love your creations and honestly would love to support you on patreon if you intend to create more tutorials like this! Heck even if you don't want to make dedicated tutorials even showing your process "vids of development" so I can try to learn to make higher quality models and textures I'd be appreciative! If you have knowledge of how to create and then export custom morphs from Blender I would totally be interested in that as well and based on your Shakea and other models I imagine you had to create those in something like Blender? (plus, it would help the community in general with more people trying to push the boundaries until 2.0 comes out! Thanks)
Are you talking about the Timeline plugin, or VAM itself? Also, the links in the description are out of date (sorry, will update), there is now a VAM content Hub site where the latest version of Timeline (and literally everything else) is hosted: hub.virtamate.com/resources/timeline.94/ To install VAM, these days I believe you simply download the updater to the directory where you wish to install the game, and then run it. It will download the rest of the game and install it into the same location as the updater. You will need a code to get anything more than the basic demo, including using plugins I believe - see the VAM patreon page for details. To install Timeline, download the VAC file to [VAM root]/AddonPackages (as with all VAC files). That's it. To use it in the game, select your character, the Plugins tab, "Add Plugin," select file, and it will show up as "Acidbubbles\Timeline" in the VAC list menu on the left. Hope that helps.
Not sure what you mean by "launch plugins," but the best place to get plugins and assets is at the VAM Hub: (NSFW link) hub.virtamate.com/resources/ hope that helps?
Link is in the description, sorry it's not particularly clear that it is what it is: www.patreon.com/meshedvr The download itself is free. When you subscribe, it unlocks whichever post with the keycode appropriate for your subscription level.
@@danielc121 Simply get the installer and install the game ( www.patreon.com/posts/downloading-and-32794384 ). The game will run; you could then enter any keycodes from the start screen. If you do not enter a keycode, only the free version is available.
In the install directory, there's a file "VAM (Desktop Mode).bat". You know, as shown in the first 20 seconds of this video. xD Alternately, you can open VAM_Updater.exe, there's a "Launch Desktop" button in it. If you're doing that already but you're still seeing just a black screen, then something else is going wrong. First I'd use the VAM Updater to verify file integrity (click Options), and if that doesn't work then maybe delete the whole shebang and reinstall. If that doesn't work then it's probably your graphics card not playing nice, but I can't troubleshoot for you from here, so I'll just wish you good luck! If you join the VAM Discord channel (available from www.patreon.com/meshedvr), you're probably going to be able to get a lot better real-time help from someone.
VAM is very demanding. At least, it can be, depending entirely on what's in your scene. A single person with no soft body physics and no hair or clothes won't lag at all. Settings are only a small part of it - what's in your scene is what determines the performance demands. Here's a guide for how to maximize your FPS, to hopefully do more before hitting unacceptable FPS: hub.virtamate.com/resources/improving-fps-in-vam.445/
You need the key. Go to www.patreon.com/meshedvr and subscribe at the Creator level, then the latest Creator Key post (www.patreon.com/posts/release-1-20-key-40460994) will be unlocked. Type the key into VAM to unlock Creator mode. You can unsubscribe and everything will still work, you don't need to stay subbed for more than that one month (though I encourage it to support their work on VAM 2.0).
Thanks for the tutorial! Opening this program for the first time is truly overwhelming. One question for now, how do you delete objects? I put in the floor and a wall but then I didn't want the wall after all, but since I couldn't find a delete button I had to reload the scene.
I can only speak for Creator version, not sure if you've gotten a key for a lower tier. Select the object and go to its "Control" tab. At the top right is a Remove button. If you have other questions like this, hit me up on the VAM Discord (you should have an invite if you subbed to the VAM Patreon), happy to help out when available!
Ah, no, not at all, haha. What in my video gave you that idea? Might be weird to see this kind of project actually completed, but in fact it is. The current version is 1.20, feature-complete, and there will be no more updates as the devs have switched to working on VAM 2.0, a near-total rewrite to enable the use of more modern technology (namely, a Unity update for new graphics features and improved performance). If you want to see the booming community output, check out [NSFW LINK]: hub.virtamate.com/ Two other things to note: 1) it's less of a "game" and more of a sandbox (though people have made games WITH it), takes some smarts to get what you want out of it; 2) I'm not affiliated with the developer, just a creator/user posting some vids to help out the community.
Bwahaha! It's so true! But not reeeally. Because, it's not at all about pulling your pud, in the long run. Spoiler alert: boppin' your buddy is just the "hook" to get you into it! If you spend any significant time creating something, it loses its fap appeal... like, if you spent days painting a nude girl, you can't sit down when the painting is done and yank your crank to it like the freshest thing on PH. It turns from porn into art, mentally. But you DO get the very satisfying fulfillment of creating something awesome! Possibly even artistic. Plus: who doesn't enjoy spending hours literally playing with boobs? Of course, YMMV.
@@Syrinxo True... Anyway your video is quite useful but the UI has some strange behaviors and design, for example I tried to style a girl's hair and messes everything up without a "cancel" button. A true PITA. But it's an amazing tool. I'm creating a friend of mine who refuses to make sex with me, let it be.
could you make tutorial about how animate fingers? I sort of figured out the timeline, but I can't animate the fingers. they do not stand out and when I change the morph, new keyframes do not appear on the timeline
Favorite (little checkbox) the hand/finger pose morphs you want, then in Timeline they will show up under Parameters - Geometry when you go to Add Targets. Add them, of course, then go back to the main Targets tab, and you'll see the parameter sliders on the right. Use those to set the value you want at whatever time or keyframe the animation is currently at.
@@Syrinxo like for fl studio)) could you tell me how I can switch to camera view in vam. I see camera in creator mode but dont understand how to switch to this
@@СергейПавлович-г2и Press M on the keyboard. First make sure the Camera itself is turned on (Camera tab of the WindowCamera atom) or you'll just get a black screen.
