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AutoSaver

Plugins + Scripts AutoSaver

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Description
AutoSaver helps you save your work on scenes by automatically saving your scene to a selected directory once every X seconds/minutes.

Credits
AcidBubbles for tons of code on GitHub under MIT, MacGruber for publishing tons of plugins I browsed through for finding specific APIs and thanks to both of them + hazmhox for helping me out in Discord to grok how scripting works.

Usage
- Add AutoSaver as a "Session Plugin" (suggestion)
- Open the Custom UI
- Click "Select Autosave Directory"
- Chose where auto saved scenes should go into (create new directory for less noise)
- Activate "Autosaving Enabled" to start saving automatically every 5 minutes

Now use VaM normally. Once every 5 minutes, your scene will be saved with a timestamp as the current filename, together with a screenshot into a new file, in the selected directory.. This does not overwrite your "main" save file, so make sure you still continue saving like you normally do.

This is just to give you something to recover from, in case VaM crashes, something happens that ruins your scene or you want to go back in time.

Known Issues
- Reopens UI if hidden when auto saving happens
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Positive
Version: 0.0.1
Posted:
Sadly my VAM crashed in a very nice scene (my fault)... now I'll not have that problem anymore, thanks for this solution!
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Positive
Version: 0.0.1
Posted:
My savior!
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Positive
Version: 0.0.1
Posted:
Man... You get into the zone in making a scene, then forget to save for a few hours, change the intensity of a light to a manually-typed value... and VaM crashes.

That's how I ended up here this morning. Wish I'd have installed this sooner!
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Positive
Version: 0.0.1
Posted:
Autosaves with auto timestamps of separate files. Nice.
Will greatly help everyone who messes with scenes.
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Positive
Version: 0.0.1
Posted:
Don't tell me you never crashed without saving. I support this kind of awesome initiative. Thank you!
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