All you need to start creating a polished scene. All free.
- "Quality" switches to high-quality lighting settings.
- "Performance" switches to high-performance lighting settings.
- "Chains" cycles between previously saved chain hook setups.
- "Furniture" cycles between previously saved furniture setups.
- "Room" cycles between previously saved room setups.
- "Center mark" shows you where the center of the 3d space at 0-0-0 x-y-z coordinates is.
- "FX" toggles tone mapper post effects.
- "Light" cycles between previously saved lighting rigs.
- "GI" cycles between previously saved global illumination setups.
- The exposure slider lets you set how bright everything is overall.
All this with a tablet in your hand.
And you can call the tablet to your hand with the watch button on your VR hand.
This uses and showcases the following:
Check the instructions below for a quick and frustration free installation.
If you want the tablet to control more, like the action, the looks, the camera, check epiCreator (which is also free and comes with many scenes).
Credits
Required plugins and assets by MacGruber, TiSeb, MR, Register, Scamp, TheScenes, TGC, NoStage3, Vamtastic, VamxFan, Blazedust, hazmhox, MeshedVR, ky1001, and SPQR.
Instructions
Download and install VaM. Download this package and the txt file that lists its dependencies, and place them in the AddonPackages folder under your VaM installation. Start VaM.
If it's your first time with VaM, you might have to accept a bunch of security options like access to the hub, and allowing plugins. Without these, the functionality of VaM is severely limited.
In the menu, go to File/ Open Package Manager / Scan Hub For Missing Packages / Missing Referenced Packages / Download All
Now you have all you need to run this, for free.
To start: Open scene / epiCreatorLiteStart
When you click a button, wait long enough for VaM to load everything before you click it again. Otherwise you'll get an error that a SubScene was loaded when another one was still loading and things will stop working. Chill.
Remix your old scenes, quick and easily
1. Remove the lights and the environment from your original scene.
2. Either use JayJayWon's UIAssist (Free) to change the female look to one of my looks but also keep the original scene clothing on her (things that the scene animation/action/logic might trigger like fluids or undressing will still work this way). Or alternatively remix a look for your own personal use.
3. Change the male look to one of mine if you want (No hair on the guy! It kills performance for something that nobody cares about).
4. Set everything like "Global illumination master Intensity" to the default values on the "Scene Lighting" menu.
5. Save.
6. Open epiCreatorLite. Merge load the scene you just saved.
7. If you want to replace the original furniture like the bed, or table that was on the scene, you can use the furniture button to bring in different ones (one by one) and take them out of the epiProps subcene to place them manually wherever you want them to be in the scene.
8. Move the "Center Here" button (UIButtonToCenter) to the floor right under the main character. Press it and these subscenes will be centered there instead of at 0 0 0 xyz coordinates: epiChains, epiFurniture, epiFx, epiGi, epiLight, epiLogic, epiProps, epiRoom.
9. Move epiTabletStation manually to wherever you want the tablet to stand. Press the T button twice to call the tablet to sit on it.
10. Turn the centering button atom (UIButtonToCenter) off so that it's out of the view..
That's it. Your scene is now in this epiCreatorLite where you can change the room, the lights etc. with the buttons on the tablet. Tweak to your liking. You can start by rotating the epiLight SubScene to see if the lights fit your scene better (As the rigs are made with 360-degree VR in mind, you can simply rotate them to get a different aesthetic)
When you get used to it, it takes you 2 minutes to transform years old content like the HandCloth scene found in MeshedVR.OlderContent.
One caveat: If you're sharing on the hub (not just keeping it for your own personal use) removing dependencies properly requires manually copying/pasting things around and editing files in a text editor.
Some of the presets in epiFurniture use some textures or a script that are included in the package.
You use them in your scene, now your scene has epiFurniture as a dependency, epiFurniture has all these asset items as a dependency.
It ends up looking crazy.
You just used one room preset from this package and now your scene says it needs 10+ dependencies.
The solution is updating all the presets that use the textures/script that are embedded in the var, to using the same textures/script that are in your own package.
You can do that manually and your number of dependencies will go down from 10+ to 1-2.
The same thing applies to epiRoom and epiClothing.
