VaM 1.x How to show actual scenes ONLY in scene browser?

[Fuchsschweif]

Whenever I install new scenes, there's a lot of nonsense added to my scene browser: Looks, empty levels and such.

How can I filter or search for ONLY actual scenes so I don't have to scroll past all the other stuff and doing guesswork?

 

[hazmhox]

You don't. They are scene, it's agnostic. You can hide them manually.

 

[Fuchsschweif]

You don't. They are scene, it's agnostic. You can hide them manually.

That will take ages if you download a whole library with dozens of scenes.. is there really no other way?

 

[hazmhox]

Again, a scene is agnostic by essence, how would you know what's inside of it without saying manually "this is X or Y".
No there is no other way around : )

 

[Fuchsschweif]

Again, a scene is agnostic by essence, how would you know what's inside of it without saying manually "this is X or Y".
No there is no other way around : )

I don't know, maybe VAM could automatically detected the thing that's having the most content in it and identify it as the main scene and show it filtered out or something. Or a clear distinction between characters, levels and scenes.

Anyways.. thank you

 

[hazmhox]

I don't know, maybe VAM could automatically detected the thing that's having the most content in it and identify it as the main scene and show it filtered out or something. Or a clear distinction between characters, levels and scenes.

It's pure text
Scenes are a set of coordinates, paths, values. You can have a "scene" look/appearance, with gazillions of buttons and the scene would "look like" it's something being when in fact it's not.

The best possible solution would be to simply sort by the category the .var comes from. But that data is not available ingame. This is possibly a good suggestion for VAM 2.
That said, I think we should do a "favorite" system instead of that wall of non-sense for VAM 2

 

[techwoof]

I don't know, maybe VAM could automatically detected the thing that's having the most content in it and identify it as the main scene and show it filtered out or something. Or a clear distinction between characters, levels and scenes.

Anyways.. thank you

This is an annoying limitation i tried to overcome as well, but there isn't much to do because the content you see in the browser are scenes. The issue is that many creators saves templates for stuff (characters, clothing demo/showcase, environments, plugin demo, etc) as scenes, cluttering everything. VAM doesn't have a tagging system for scene saves which makes it impossible to distinguish between those. I'm doing some tests for a VAR manager application and i wanted to solve this, but couldn't find an elegant way.

You can use JayJaywon's Broser Assist (paid plugin) to tag scenes, manually, and then filter them out. Or just use the 'hide' button on the built-in browser to hide non-scene saves.