Paid Plugins + Scripts BrowserAssist

New Features:

• For VAR Package browsing (Select 'VAR Packages' under Resource Type), there are now two new tag options in the Tags panel. These will apply the following VAM settings
  • 'Pre-load Morphs' marks a VAR package as a 'Morph Pack' ensuring any containing Morphs are available in the VAM Person Morph browser. VAR Management rules can also be configured based on this setting.
  • 'Ignore Dep Errors' marks a VAR packages with the 'Ignore Dependency Errors' toggle (available under User Prefs of VAM Addon Package Manager UI). Tagged VARs that have missing dependency errors will not be reported as having Missing Dependencies by either BA or VAM.
  • Both of these tags can be bulk applied to multiple selected VARs.
  • There is a pre-requisite to re-run the CreateBASymLinks batch file located in VAM\Saves\PluginData\JayJayWon\BrowserAssist\
• New Combi & multi tag filtering options to filter VARs based on the 'Pre-Load Morphs' and 'Ignore Dep Errors' tags.
• New Combi & Multi tag filtering options to filter VARs based on Morph Count, Dependency Count and Used By VAR count. e.g. so you can now filter to show morphs that have more than x VARs that depend on it (i.e. the reverse of dependencies).

New Features:

• In VAR Packages browsing, a new resource tab to see Direct Dependencies - i.e. VARs that are immediate dependencies of a selected VAR. This view will also show where dependencies are missing.
• In VAR Packages browsing, a new resource tab to see All Dependencies - i.e. VARs that are immediate dependencies of a selected VAR and all of their sub-dependencies. This view will also show where dependencies are missing. Where a Direct Dependency is a 'latest' version dependency, then this view will show the specific version (e.g. creator.varname.1 or creator.varname.2) of the VAR that will be considered dependent currently.
• In VAR Packages browsing, a new resource tab to see Used By dependent VARs - i.e. VARs that are currently Used By the selected VAR. Effectively this is the inverse of a Dependency.
• Where VAR Management is active (i.e. Offloading or Disabling VARs automatically), manual dependencies can now be added. These manual dependencies (and their sub-dependencies) will be automatically Enabled by VAR Management when required. This allows the correction of VARs packaged with dependencies missing from their meta.json files.
• Some minor improvements to the plugin startup time.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug that was causing Combi tags on Clothing items to be duplicated as VAM Clothing tags.

Bug Fixes:

• Implemented a fix for the slow process when deleting multiple VARs.
• Implemented an option (available in the plugin UI under general settings) to trigger a rescan of VARs when a VAR is deleted.
• Implemented a fix for SELF references in presets that have been extracted from VARs into local folders.

Improvements

• The advanced tag filtering options now show tag category colors and allow the list of tags to be narrowed by tag category.

Bug Fixes:

• Resolved a bug (introduced in v1.32.0) that caused BA to crash on startup if BA had not been previously run in that instance of VAM.
• Resolved a bug that caused an error on startup in certain scenarios where VARManagement was not active but a VAR was disabled in VAM.
• Resolved an issue that was causing thumbnail images of resources to not always be loaded if using the filter by Resource name

Improvements

• Implemented some performance improvements that may reduce BA startup times

New Features:

• VAR Package resource type now provides a browser view by Packages. This view will support a range of VAR Management features in the future. Initial features include
  • Ability to offload, disable or enable individual packages (when VARManagement is enabled). This will not modify any VARManagement rulesets.
  • Filter to find VARs that have any missing dependencies.
  • Sort VARs by the count of Morphs and see the number of Morphs in each package (allows identification of packages that will have the largest fps performance impact)
  • Tag VARs and then use those tags in VAR Management rulesets
  • Info panel now contains stats on:
    • Morph Count in each VAR
    • Dependency Count (and missing dependency count). i.e. number of VARs that each VAR has a dependency on.
    • Used by Count - shows the number of VARs that depend on the selected VAR (the reverse of dependencies). This allows identification of VARs that can be deleted without breaking other VARs.
• New visual queue (a small purple square icon - similar to the green (favorite) and red (hidden) icons) in the Browser window indicates when resources have been offloaded or disabled by VARManagement.
• If the SymLinks to AddonPackages is not working then, the VARManagement tab in the plugin UI will now be visible but with an appropriate warning.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a performance bug that was impacting fps after repeated loading of scenes (when VAR Management was being used).

New Features:

• Hair browser (similar to Clothing browser) provides an alternative Browser to the VAM Hair browser with all the extra BA features (e.g. being able to bulk Tag multiple items etc.)
• In Desktop mode, the Browser restores the last docked position (i.e. left, right or expanded) when restarting BA.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug importing appearance presets from Scenes with missing VAR dependencies when using the Only Suppress Real Clothing option

CAUTION: Before using this version of BA, it is recommended that existing users take a backup of their Meta data using the backup tool in the plugin UI under "Global Settings > Backups". This version introduces support for a new Resource type (Hair) which has a slightly increased risk of causing Tag data corruptions (there are no specific known issues that would cause corruptions, but taking a backup is just a sensible precaution).

VAR Management: Users of the BA VAR Management feature with large numbers of Offloaded or Disabled VARs, may experience a slow BrowserAssist start on first using this release. BA needs to re-scan every VAR for Hair items and will need to re-enable all VARs to achieve this. VARs will be returned to their previous state once re-scanned and normal BA start times will resume after the first BA start up.

Resolved a bug that fixes issues with Importing of Presets (etc.) from local Scenes (i.e. not in VARs) when dependent VARs are offloaded using VARManagement.

New Features:

• BrowserAssist VAR Management. Improve VAM performance by offloading or disabling VARs that are not required. BrowserAssist can still browse all content, even when the VAR is offloaded or disabled. VARs are dynamically and automatically re-enabled on demand when a resource load occurs from BrowserAssist.

Bug fixes:

• Removed an error when loading presets with clothing SELF references
• Folder browser options for Moving, deleting and renaming were not available for resources other than Scenes

New Features:

• New Timeline Import option (Patreons Only) to import and play Timeline animations directly from Scene files. This will replace any existing Timeline plugins on the target atom. Some errors may be reported by the Timeline plugin - due to dependencies on Atoms in the source scene which dont exist in the current scene. Feature works best on simple Timeline setups (e.g. VAMTimbo animations) rather than from more complex scenes.
• New option to Suppress loading Pose Morphs when loading a Pose Preset (or Importing a pose from another scene)
• New option to Suppress loading the root node when loading a Pose Preset (or Importing a pose from another scene). This is useful if you dont want the target person to move location (some pose presets can have the root node included - determined when the preset is saved).

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug in the CreateBASymLinks batch file which caused issues if the folder VAM\Saves\Person did not exist.
• Text fields through out the plugin now allow selecting sections of text by dragging the mouse cursor.
• Fixed a bug where using the <New Atom> target for Clothing Items was not creating a new Person.

Bug Fixes:

• Resolved a bug introduced in v1.28.0 that caused VAM errors when importing certain appearance presets from a scene.