BrowserAssist (Free)

Plugins BrowserAssist (Free) 1.15.3

BrowserAssist is a plugin that provides an alternative browser to VAM's built in Scene Browser. It has a range of features beyond those provided by the default VAM Scene Browser and aims to be more performant.
This is the Free version of the full plugin available here: BrowserAssist (Full)

Differences between the free and paid version are:
FeatureFree VersionPatreon's Version
Scene Browsing & Loading
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Preset Browsing & Loading
Appearance Presets​
All Person Preset Types​
Non-person Atom Preset Browsing & Loading (e.g. CUA Presets, Light presets etc)
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Plugin Browsing & Loading
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SubScene Browsing & Loading
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Clothing Items Browsing, Loading & modifying VAM Clothing tags
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Saving Presets & Scenes
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Support for 'Real Clothing' when loading Clothing and Appearance presets. Options to automatically lock clothing items that are part of a person's look e.g. eye shading etc.
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Filter packaged resources by Creator
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Filter packaged resources by VAR License type
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Filter local resources by folder (optionally include resources in sub-folders)
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Apply user definable Tags to resources/files and then filter the browser results by those Tags.
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Mark user defined Tags as 'Hidden' type - forcing all tagged resources to be treated as hidden.
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Create Combi-Tags, which automatically tag resources based on user defined logic combinations of other tags. For example, create a combi-tag is set for all resources that are tagged 'Female' and 'Blonde' and not 'Futa'.
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Filter by logic combinations of Tags directly on the main Resource Browser
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Select multiple groups of resources (e.g. Scenes) and apply Tags and Hidden or Favourite states as a bulk operation
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Appearance Preset Scale Suppression. Load Appearance Presets without changing the Scale of a person.
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Create New Atom directly from Presets
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Re-position new and existing atoms. New atoms can be positioned relative to other atoms or vr controllers/headsets
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Delete local resource files and VAR packages
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Random resource loading for current selections or browser filter results
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Move, rename, delete and create local folders
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Rename local resources and specify alias names for package resources
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Modify resource thumbnails
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Installation Instructions:
  1. Download latest BrowserAssist(Free) var file from VAMHub and place in the AddonPackages folder
  2. Start VAM and open Session Plugins page.
  3. Use Add Plugin and Select File to select the BrowserAssist.cslist file from the downloaded VAR package.
  4. To set BrowserAssist to always load on VAM Start, navigate to the Session Plugin Presets page. Select Change User Defaults and then press 'Set Current As User Default'
  5. To enable support for Browser Assist to Hide, Favourite, Save, Rename or Delete Files, there is a windows batch script that also needs to be run from Windows Explorer (you may need to be a Windows Administrator to successfully run it). This batch script will create some symbolic folder links between different folders inside your VAM folder structure. This will allow Browser Assist to have write access to 4 folders under the main VAM folder. It is required because (without the symbolic links) VAM plugins cannot write to most folders in the VAM installation - which is required to set a Hidden or Favourite flag on a resource. To enable this functionality, the following steps will need to be performed once:
a) Install BrowserAssist as a session plugin in VAM
b) Execute the following batch file from Windows Explorer: VAM\Saves\PluginData\JayJayWon\BrowserAssist\CreateBASymLinks.bat
c) Reload BrowserAssist plugin in VAM
Symbolic links require an NTFS file system, so this feature will not work on FAT32 or exFAT formatted drives.
WARNING: In theory, enabling this feature potentially allows a malicious VAM plugin to delete any or all files in the Custom, Saves or AddonPackagesFilePrefs folders under the main VAM folder. Ensure that you apply an appropriate level of caution and only source plugins from reliable and trusted creators.
Note:
The multi select feature of BrowserAssist is very powerful and allows you to apply tags and set the hidden or favourite status of many files/resources with a single click. In some scenarios this may not be easily reversible and requires some caution. For example, you can select every scene in your entire VAR library with a single button press and then instantly make them all set as Favourite (or Hidden) with a second button press. If the scenes were previously a mixture of Favourite and not, its not possible to revert to that mixture without going through each scene and individually setting its Favourite state.
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JayJayWon
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Latest reviews

many thanks.
wow! this clothing browser update is amazing, we would all be so grateful about this!

May I know is there any feature that we can browse asset when adding it to CUA?
JayJayWon
JayJayWon
Browsing of CUA Asset Bundles will be in a future version
This is simply an upgraded replacement to the existing file browser which makes it a "must-have" in my opinion. The only downside is that it doesn't yet "save" (at least not the free version), so you can only load (and copy and delete and rename) existing files.
I also wanted to give a shout-out to the creator JayJayWon for taking some time to help me troubleshoot the plugin when it wasn't showing up.
JayJayWon
JayJayWon
You can save files in the free version. You need to follow the installation instructions to enable the SymLinks functionality first.
Note! This is not a web browser plugin!
It is an awesome plugin for browsing scenes and assets in VAM.

I put off getting this plugin because based on the name I thought it replaces the built-in VAM web browser, which I don't use that much. But this is way more useful! Only criticism for this plugin: change the name.
Does anyone know why I can't find a delete option? My install looks perfect and fine except no delete option
JayJayWon
JayJayWon
You need to carefully follow the installation instructions (specifically step 5). Probably best to ask questions on the Discussion tab (or Discord) rather than in reviews.
Absolute musthave!
Lighning fast compared to stock interface.
Great plugin. I think the next gamechanger would be to import the look directly from the scenes.
JayJayWon
JayJayWon
That should be in a future release - although it’ll probably be in the Patreons version.
JJW supports the shi* out of this plugin far beyond what you'd expect for even a paid plugin! Thank you JJW
!super
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