Solved Scene Animation Recording

The data is recorded on your scene JSON file when you save your scene.
This is now a tool mostly ignored compared to the plugin Timeline that gives you a lot more control over recordings.

That means Scene Animation is considered a legacy feature. I think saving animations that way could end up with a very large json file. Large scene files may fail to load the next time.

Many thanks for your quick replies.

I understood it is recommended to use Timline plugin for animations.

asco's Timeline was recommended to me for animation in July and since then have learned to do what seems to me good work. Here's asco's tutorials which I found very helpful: https://hub.virtamate.com/resources/ascos-timeline-tutorials-1-5.31540/

I'm not saying it's easy but in three months I am now able to make little story backed films which is what I wanted to achieve. Of course there's a lot of room for improvement and plenty I don't understand but Timeline is the basis of all I do.

Thx for your hint Hipper!

I am still struggling with the so called 'recordings' in built-in and Timeline animation. I am used to find a recording somewhere in a file. But I cannot find anything like that. And if I do more than one recording, how can I select recording 1, 2 or 3? I am probably stuck in 'legacy IT' and not familiar with this new type of recording.

What I want is videos I can 'enjoy'! Like porn videos that can be downloaded except VAM gives me the possibility of being in complete control of the outcome.

I use only VAM Desktop for the moment. I imagine stories then set up different scenes in Timeline that when combined complete the story. I then record each scene by playing it practically full screen and using the Microsoft Snipping Tool to record what it sees on the screen (I haven't tried the often recommended OBS Studio yet). Of course I need to hide the UI - I get rid of the main UI pressing F1 and then set Timeline running and click 'U' to get rid of that UI. I record about three or four different views for each scene. Then I use a video software (Nero Vision) to edit, combine and add Audio to get the complete video.

Nero can also slow and speed up the video which I often find better then making fast movements in VAM because they don't go the full distance (for example a finger going in and out a vagina works in VAM at a repeat of one second but if I did that at 0.5 seconds in VAM the finger doesn't go in as deep. I therefore record from VAM with the one second timing (and of course slow down any other movements) and then double the speed in Nero.

It's true that the Snipping Tool has no adjustments for frame rate etc. - it only uses 30 fps - but it seems to me that it is the bit rate that is more important then fps. Mostly the quality is good. Poorer quality seems to be when I make a screen copy of a scene where the VAM camera is taking in a large view. If I close in on something the quality is better. My videos are 1920 x 1080.

If you have a current Nvidia GPU, the Nvidia App can record flat (2D) video at the same resolution you're running vam at, and with no loss of frame rate in game.

Ah, sorry, it is not about recording to mp3 - I did this successfully with the Eosin

Video Renderer for 3D VR180, VR360 and Flat 2D & Audio + BVH Animation Recorder​

plugin.

It is about the recording in Timeline or built in animation. They both have a 'record' button.

I understood so far the recording from built-in animation is stored in the scene (only one) and can be replayed. If I do another animation and record that the first one is overwritten. But where are the animation recordings from timeline?

Did you look in Saves/PluginData? One of those folders might have the saved animations, if they got saved to a file.

Slimer, you are fabulous. I finally found them there. Thanks so much!

Spooky. I'm intrigued. I never knew Timeline did recording so I tried it for a scene. I used these instructions, not that I understood it all!:


I did what you did - pressed recording and got an indication that recording was going on. It then stopped and that was it. Nothing came up to say how or where I should save the file.

We now know where the file would be (and I can't find any file there or elsewhere in VAM or on my PC) but how do you save it in the first place?

Ah, shame on me. Those files in that folder were the result of an 'animation export' I did, and not of the recording. Seems recording means keyframes are generated for each and every millisecond and then you can export this animation. I recognized that after the recording there is a black line on each control.

I experimented on a new Timeline animation, just two seconds long with the head moving from side to side. I selected the Targets - Head and Hip (there was no hip movement). Recorded and the instant I pressed record the keyframe for the head movement that I made disappeared and all I got was the 'black line' for both Head and Hip, but the head movement was gone.

I'm not sure what the point of this 'recording' is anyway as surely by saving the scene you are keeping the keyframes where you want them.