BrowserAssist is a plugin that provides an alternative browser to VAMs Scene Browser. It has a range of features beyond those provided by the default VAM Scene Browser and aims to be more performant.
Main features are:
- Browse multiple different types of resources e.g. Scenes, Appearance Presets, Clothing Presets and all other preset types.
- Browse and load plugins. Additional resource types (e.g. plugins) will be supported in the future.
- Filter packaged resources by their Creator name
- Apply user definable Tags to resources/files and then filter the browser results by those Tags.
- Filter packaged resources by VAR License type
- Select multiple groups of resources (e.g. Scenes) and apply Tags and Hidden or Favourite states as a bulk operation
Installation Instructions:
- Download BrowserAssist.var from JayJayWon Patreon site 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, 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 3 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.
