Plugins + Scripts VAM Evolutionary Character Creation

so the explanation seems a bit too simplistic, doesn't refer the viewer to the video at all and the appearance folder shown has nothing usable. I've spent several hours scouring every folder in my vam directory and given its size that's no small feat in and of itself and not a single appearance is available to use. that's over 600 files btw so it seems a bit hard to understand why I have no appearances I can use, select, see, what have you. might I suggest adding a little "maybe you don't understand" portion and try explaining what an appearance is, I'd really like to give this plugin a shot and have tried for many many days now but alas, the directions make it nearly impossible to know where and what I'm doing wrong and i so much want to figure it out!

I have been with VAM for several years now. I followed the instructions over and over again line by line. I am NOT using the steam version. I have the latest VAM update. When I open the app in VAM and click on Connect to App it keeps saying Please Click Connect to App When Ready... Be really nice if I cold actually get it to work. I have been able to connect a lot of apps to VAM over the years but this one is a head scratcher.

Excellent resource, but I cannot get any clothing to apply to a futa model I've generated. Surely this can be done, and if so, please let me know what to do or what I'm doing wrong. Thanks!

awesooomeee

Great way of making a new appearance based on your favourite appearances, very addictive and simple to use!

amazing addon, 100% must have

Juno motivated me to test this out.
It's absolutely awesome when you understand how to configure it! : )

If you're on the fence about trying this out, spend 20 minutes learning the interface and going through your first "Evolution". You'll be blown away.

"Ugly" models (yes, subjective) can easily be transformed into dream girls.

This is a great concept! Awesome idea. Thank you so much for also sharing it.

Sadly I have a problem, your app doesn't show anything in the window in step 3. I'm sure that my base dir for VAM is correctly set. I also have plenty of saved appearances in the game (all saved in-game using the "Appearances presets", this is what we want, right?).

Would you have maybe any suggestion on what the problem could be?

Superp done !! cool thing

A well executed system to help you quickly create new looks based off your library of favs.

very cool
i think it should have a scrollbar for some 2k or 1k screen.

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Loving the new update. Only thing is a lot (like 80%) of my looks aren't showing up in the initial child template selection. Used to work fine in the old version, not sure what's up that.

I love the concept behind this and can't wait to try it out.
But I have a slight issue, it can't find any of my appearances at all. I have triple and quadruple checked that I am using the correct folder destinations but it still says "0 appearances found". My files are placed nearly identical to the instructional video above as well.

It might just be me being dumb and missing something obvious...

Good

This is something I missed from HS2, of course it a bit more complicated in VaM but man you did a great job on that one thanks for the hard work and putting it up here for free !

Great concept, my main issue with it previously was having to switch back and forth between desktop and VR (because sometimes the models looked OK in desktop but were nightmare fuel when viewed in VR haha), so I am looking forward to trying the new version.

This is a must have addition to VAM, it did take me some time to get it to work as a new user so here are a few things I found out just in case other beginners also struggle a bit.

Step1: This step is easy, just direct to the folder the Vam.exe is in.

Step2: This step only works with VAP files, usually found in custom - atom - person - appearance. You can of course use a custom folder instead.
To create a VAP file, you don't save the Look or Look Preset. Instead save using the Appearance Preset tab.

Step3: This step browses the Appearance folder to find saved presets, you select the one you want the outcome to look like.
If for some reason you can't see anything here change the values in Step 7a in the app.
Set it to 0 to see all the appearance presets. The app only sees presets with more morphs than the selected value, 0 sees everything until you choose to narrow it down later.

Step4 + 5: This step lets you use all your appearances (which is probably a huge amount) just the favourites (narrows it down) or lets you select specifically (step:5).

Like with Step:3 if you can't see anything here adjust in Step:7b on the app.
With a lot of the looks I have downloaded the morph count is "low" because although the Looks themselves used a lot of morphs they got consolidated into "head" and "body" morphs so I had to use a low number for them to show up as choices.

(I'm not sure how to split the "head" and "body" morphs back into multiple morphs so if anybody knows how and is willing to help I appreciate it)

Step6: Use Gaussian Samples if you have over 20 added, use random selection if its under 20 as stated in the tutorial.

Step7: Options A and B are linked to what will be selectable in the early steps, I don't know what C does so I just left it, D is self-explanatory.

When I first tried to use this I could not get the app to connect in the game, I had all the dependencies installed it just would not connect. Using a new install of VAM it worked right away so I'm assuming I have a plugin somewhere that was active and causing a conflict, I just don't know which one.

If I would add anything to this it would be a few pose options so I could see how the characters that are generated look in a few different poses a bit quicker.

Overall I love this and highly recommend it.

Love it - this is a super great way to try out variations in your skins. For a future version you should consider making separate appearances for (say) three different skins, ie. 1a 1b 1c, 2a, 2b, 2c...etc. to add further variations