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Lighten Up

Plugins + Scripts Lighten Up

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Hello everyone! VAM Moose here!🤗

I am releasing my very first VAM Plugin. I made this because I wanted to learn how to program plugins in VAM and thought of a typical use case that I and maybe you might have use for!

As we all know, VAM looks amazing with it's realistic lighting and physics, but we also know that it is an absolute resource HOG, especially in VR!

My use case for this is I used to try other people's scenes out to enjoy their animation, but often the lighting is made to make the scene look good rather than run good. I then spend a lot of time finding every light to turn off the shadows. Well no more! With Lighten Up, at a press a button, you can quickly kill all the shadows to "Lighten Up" the performance load and enjoy! Is it a really busy scene with a lot of persons and effects? Take it even further and drop lights entirely and rely on Unity Ambient Lighting for MEGA FPS boost!. It might look ugly, but you should be able to find out what lights are actually worth keeping on.

I built this plugin inspired by GiveMeFPS by @redeyes but basically for Scene Lighting. Get big FPS boosts by just disabling Light Shadows. Go even more aggressive by disabling all lights and relying on the Unity Ambient Lighting to light your scene. (Some objects may need to have their Global Illumination Filter set to 0 to see them with no pixel lights)

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I have also included a Demo Scene. Scene Authors can create custom UI shortcuts to this plugin as a nice quality of life option to improve FPS.
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Huge thanks to @everlaster and aThroneOfLies on the official VAM Discord for their assistance!

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FPS for the win!
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Positive
Version: 1
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An easy 5 stars if there ever was one.
Saves me a TON of time when opening new scenes that are light heavy, since up to now I had to go through every individual light. With this plug in I simply click 'Unity Ambient Lighting', and then enable only the lights I like or simply use FocusOnMe.
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I actually find this extremely useful. Much easier than hunting down each light when loading up new scenes in VR! Thanks!
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