What is a "Hair Plugin"?
It turns out that you can trick VAM into loading plugins when a hair is put on. These plugins don't go into the default Atom plugin UIs and are generally their own separate thing.
Hair Plugins are very similar to Clothing Plugins and I recommend going through that guide...
This plugin allows CUAs to be loaded when clothing is put on. The CUA can be attached to bones, skin, or the loaded clothing item, similar to https://hub.virtamate.com/resources/attach-to-vertex.45482/
Usage
If you haven't worked with clothing plugins before, please look over the overall guide...
This plugin sets an object's position to a vertex on a person atom's skin, clothing, or hair.
It needs to load the vertex positions from GPU buffers, which is slow. Expect performance to suffer to some degree (especially if using multiple).
Usage
Add to an atom (e.g. CUA)
Select Person...
Adds cloth physics to CUAs and built-in props.
Note: This is still pretty early in its development. Ping me if you find bugs not listed below. 🙏
Usage
Add to CUA or built-in item.
Select mesh from list.
Press "Create Cloth"
Configure as needed
Bugs / Missing Features
Saving/Loading from...
A small plugin that adds the ability to change "Link To" settings and parent atoms via trigger.
Thanks to @Ashen Ryder for the idea.
Usage
Add to an Atom
The atom's main controller (named 'control') will now have a parentAtom selector that can be modified via trigger.
Each other controller...
Changes the color of hair based on a texture.
Usage
Add to a Person Atom
Select hair from dropdown
Select texture
The bottom of the texture is the hair root, the top is the tip
Each hair will show a full gradient
Left to right are individual hairs
Hairs are not ordered in any particular...
Clothing plugin that lets clothing be wrapped to other clothing rather than just the body. Doing this allows double-sided, multi-layered, or complex clothing to have its simulation be based on a simpler single-layered clothing. This prevents common issues like having the layers constantly clip...
A clothing plugin that allows setting morph values when a clothing item is put on.
Currently in an early phase. Feedback welcome.
Notes
Currently will set values irrespective of what they were before.
Removing the clothing will attempt to set the morphs to whatever value was set when the...
Small plugin that enables hair of other genders in the hair selector.
Some hairs will work better than others. Pubic hair will likely not work at all.
Thanks to @aexikoa for the idea.
Usage
Add to Person atom
Open plugin UI
Configure as needed
Press Go
It should work across save/load...
Disables most body textures and physics except for selected bodyparts. Originally designed to replace the built-in VR hands. Thanks to @WeebUVR and @giallone for the idea!
Clothes work to some extent as well, but will deform.
Note: Still a WIP, but I wanted to get a version out for people to...
This plugin adds a mesh collider to the head of the penis for more or less 'perfect' collision with other objects in the scene.
Will work fine with physics meshes (lips and vagina), but will not interact with clothes. Note, however, that the 'base' colliders will still collide with clothing...
A small plugin that lets you customize some of VAM's built-in eyelid behaviors.
Based on a request from @CuddleMocap.
Usage
Add to a Person Atom
Sliders on the left modify blink settings and how the eyelid behaves when the model looks up or down
Selectors on the right can be used to change...
Yet another plugin for attaching CUAs to people.
Similar in spirit to @zgock 's CUAAutoFollow, but a lot less ambitious and a little simpler. That one allows following morphs and controllable offsets.
https://hub.virtamate.com/resources/cuaautofollow.20145/
I know it overlaps with several...
Allows moving plugin UIs to other areas of the screen.
Original idea by @ascorad.
Usage
Add as a session or atom plugin
Open a plugin UI
Click and drag "Drag" button to move UI.
Use "Dock" button to reset
Notes
Only tested in Desktop. Unlikely to work for VR.
Each atom's plugin UIs are...
A small plugin that replaces VAM's default image loader with one that avoids compression.
This doesn't make much of a difference in most cases, but in some specific circumstances can visibly improve texture quality.
Disclaimer: Might have adverse effects on performance, or prevent textures...