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.
| Feature | Free Version | Patreon's Version |
|---|---|---|
| Scene Browsing & Loading |  | |
| Preset Browsing & Loading | Appearance Presets | All Person Preset Types |
| Non-person Atom Preset Browsing & Loading (e.g. CUA Presets, Light presets etc) | | |
| Plugin Browsing & Loading | | |
| SubScene Browsing & Loading | | |
| Clothing & Hair Items Browsing, Loading & modifying VAM Clothing tags | | |
| Clothing & Hair Item Preset Browsing | | |
| Clothing & Hair Item Preset Options to load just the material settings (e.g. colors and textures) or just the non-material settings (e.g. physics) | | |
| Custom Unity Asset (CUA) Browsing and loading | | |
| Scene & Session Plugin Preset Browsing and Loading | | |
| Saving Presets & Scenes | | |
| 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. | | |
| Filter packaged resources by Creator | | |
| Filter packaged resources by VAR License type | | |
| Filter local resources by folder (optionally include resources in sub-folders) | | |
| Apply user definable Tags to resources/files and then filter the browser results by those Tags. | | |
| Mark user defined Tags as 'Hidden' type - forcing all tagged resources to be treated as hidden. | | |
| 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'. | | |
| Filter by logic combinations of Tags directly on the main Resource Browser | | |
| Select multiple groups of resources (e.g. Scenes) and apply Tags and Hidden or Favourite states as a bulk operation | | |
| Appearance Preset Scale Suppression. Load Appearance Presets without changing the Scale of a person. | | |
| Create New Atom directly from Presets | | |
| Re-position new and existing atoms. New atoms can be positioned relative to other atoms or vr controllers/headsets | | |
| Delete local resource files and VAR packages | | |
| Random resource loading for current selections or browser filter results | | |
| Move, rename, delete and create local folders | | |
| Rename local resources and specify alias names for package resources | | |
| Modify resource thumbnails | | |
| Import from Scene - components of a scene (eg. Looks) can be imported into the current scene without having to load the scene or create presets. | | |
| Save Preset from Scene - Atom & Person Presets can be created directly from a scene without loading the scene. | | |
| Quick Filter Buttons - save and retrieve specific filter settings with a single button click | | |
| Import CUAs attached to Person atoms with appearance/looks direct from any scene. Replaces the need to use or setup CUAManager. | | |
| Tag Categories - tags can now be organised into categories and colored according to their category | | |
| VAR Management - offload VARs to increase performance whilst being able to easily access resources from the BA UI | |
Installation Instructions:
- Download latest BrowserAssist(Free) var file from VAMHub and place in the AddonPackages folder
- Start VAM and open Session Plugins page.
- Use Add Plugin and Select File to select the BrowserAssist.cslist file from the downloaded VAR package.
- 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'
- To enable support for Browser Assist to Hide, Favourite, Save, Rename or Delete Files and to Tag clothing items, 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:
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.
