VamLightingDirector: Your Personal (and Completely Underpaid) Lighting Technician
We all know the feeling: the scene's lighting is a dream, the mood is perfect. But then you hit play, your character takes two relaxed steps forward – and suddenly stands in the dark, while your carefully placed spotlight dramatically illuminates the bare wall behind them.Until now, you basically had only two options for dynamic lighting in VaM: Either you torture yourself through the timeline and painfully set position keyframes. Or you simply attach the light directly to a body part via Parent Link – only to realize that every nod, every shrug, and even breathing transfers 1:1 to the lamp, causing your shadows to wildly jitter across the room. If you're sick of both, here is the solution.
The VamLightingDirector is a clever all-in-one manager that spawns, manages, and equips invisible lights with a solid dose of smart math. A single script that takes the tedious work off your hands, letting you focus on what really matters.
Highlights on the Menu:
Clingy, Solid Rock, or Searchlight (Follow, Static & Look-At)Do you want your accent light to gently follow your character's nose? The plugin does exactly that, completely stutter-free thanks to adjustable smoothing. Need a stubborn construction light that doesn't move a millimeter? Just turn off the tracking. Or use the brilliant Static Look-At mode: The light stays firmly anchored in place, but continuously rotates like a searchlight to keep your target perfectly in focus.Floating Desktop HUDEnd the constant opening and closing of the bulky VaM main menu that always blocks the view of your masterpiece! Just activate the Desktop HUD. You get a freely movable, scalable window right on your screen. This allows you to beautifully control the lights across the entire scene, adjust intensities, switch effects, and load presets – live and in real-time while your scene is running, completely without the intrusive menu in your line of sight.
The "One-Click-and-Done" Preset SystemSpent three hours tweaking a setup of five dynamic and three static lights? Save it! If you load this preset later in a new scene, everything is instantly back. The real kicker: Your static lights remember their exact world coordinates. Your saved hallway light will hang precisely in the hallway again, and not suddenly out in the garden.
Total Escalation & The Tabula Rasa Nuke ButtonYou are, of course, not limited to a single character. Slap the plugin onto as many atoms as your rig can handle. Every character in the room gets their own completely private gaffer. And what if you load a third-party scene that is totally cluttered with countless lights? One click on the "NUKE ALL LIGHTS" kill switch mercilessly destroys absolutely all Invisible Lights in the entire scene – not just the ones generated by the script. The ultimate reset button for a squeaky-clean fresh start!
The Anti-Wobble DampenerIs your character breathing so heavily they look like they just ran a marathon, and your light cone is nodding along to the beat? The toggleable "Flat Rotation" coldly ignores the forward and backward tilting of the body. The light stays extremely steady, no matter how wild the pose gets.
Party & Panic at the Push of a Button (Special Effects)Bring some life into the room without having to animate a single value. Choose organic flickering (Perlin Noise) for the perfect creepy basement vibe, or a strobe effect for the club. Feel like some colorful lights? Turn on the RGB loop – which comes with its very own dedicated speed slider. Everything runs automatically in the background.
We Have Cookies! (Custom Stencils)Load your own PNG textures straight from your hard drive and slap them in front of the light. Thanks to seamless rotation, you can build a spinning police siren, a disco ball, or flowing shadow plays in seconds.
Grab the VamLightingDirector, lean back, and watch the lighting finally take care of your character all by itself!
