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VaM 1.x Is there a way to play a video file from inside the scene?

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I feel like I'm missing something fairly obvious here, but I've tried several methods and different plugins and I can't seem to figure it out.

I'm making a scene that has a video playing in it. I can use all the VAM built in tools to play the video, easy.

But I'd really like to make it easy for a user to be able to change the video inside the scene.

Ideally a UI button that opens up the VAM file browser and lets the user select the video (or videos) they want to play.

Is this possible? It seems like it should be.
 
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It's not possible to play videos outside of VAM's folder.

It's possible to code the UI for this, and code something that would do the job to update a video player atom... but the limitation is for the source, which would require manual user setups ( creating a symlink for instance ). Or asking the player to move the video files.
 
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hazmhox said:
It's not possible to play videos outside of VAM's folder.

It's possible to code the UI for this, and code something that would do the job to update a video player atom... but the limitation is for the source, which would require manual user setups ( creating a symlink for instance ). Or asking the player to move the video files.
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Thanks for the quick reply!

It would be okay telling the user to move video files into a VAM folder that could then be accessed by the video player. But I can't seem to find a way to make a UI button that will even open the VAM folder browser.

I've seen other plugins (I can't remember the name) that lets people change appearances of characters, when the UI button is clicked it opens up the appearances folder directly (instead of having to go into edit mode). Something like this would be ideal for video, but I can't seem to figure out how to make it work.
 
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ShinyAndroid said:
It would be okay telling the user to move video files into a VAM folder that could then be accessed by the video player. But I can't seem to find a way to make a UI button that will even open the VAM folder browser.
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Yup Appearance Swapper. This is something that needs to be hacked and coded like I did. Nothing is provided to access the file system without plugin.
 
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Note: beyond the logic of the plugin you would also need to code the "in world" UI :p
 
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Did you try this?
hub.virtamate.com

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Media Player with Photo Slide Show, Video Player, and Audio Player Options. On June 1, 2024 (2 weeks ago) @PluginIdea was kind enough to post an update that they removed all locks on their free version of their Photo/Video plugin SlideControl...
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