This is a subscene for a lighting rig to simulate caustic lighting, generally for use in underwater environments.
Should be pretty simple to use, but there are some caveats.
Simply add the CausticLighting subscene to your scene and it should start working out of the box. The trouble starts...
I made a campfire sparks particle system to go with @Norm's great Campfire asset.
I also made a nice dynamic lighting rig for a scene I'm working on, with flickering, subtle, and shifting lighting, so I decided to include the entire lighting rig and campfire system as a plug & play subscene as...
Did you ever downloaded a look because it was looking 'nice' on promo ss?
And when you used it in different scene it was ... uhm... something else?
Over a years it happened for me many times. So i started saving up lightning rigs from the looks, scenes i liked. Many times lighting made me to...
Lighting rigs made with VR and photography in mind
Showcased in epiTemplateLite, a scene/tool optimized for Creators, with an interface for VR and desktop, and a selection of multiple performance/quality levels. epiTemplateLite is aimed at creators so that they can quickly incorporate this...
✨ LightAssistant v1.1 — Intelligent Lighting for Virt-A-Mate(early release)
LightAssistant is a powerful, easy-to-use lighting toolkit that brings cinematic, studio-quality lighting to your VaM scenes with a single click.
It automatically scans your scene, builds complete lighting rigs, adjusts...
Some lighting rigs for your dolls. Place in subscene, snap the subscene to the head, and then parent the subscene to the head of your doll. This is my first lighting rig resource and I'm used to blenders lights, so things may look weird. Just let me know if there's any issues. has been tested...
##Updated to var format##
The new SubScene atom is a great way of saving and re-using lighting setups between scenes, or even quickly switching out lighting setups within the same scene for a different look. This is a collection of lighting rigs suitable for mainly dark and solo/couple model...
Lighting Manager for Virt-A-Mate
Lighting Manager is a plugin designed to simplify and enhance lighting setups in Virt-A-Mate (VaM). It automatically creates and positions a 3-point lighting rig (Key, Fill, Back lights) around your Person atom, providing professional-quality lighting without...
DIsclaimer : I am by no mean a light expert, not even a debutant, I'm just playing around and posting the rigs I end up using for my own screenshots.
I can't recommend enough to use this plugin by stopper for screenshots : https://hub.virtamate.com/resources/light-options.37554/
Cheers
PS : I...
12 portrait lighting rigs using subscenes. should be positioned with the head (and parented to it as well, if animated). Some dramatic, some subtle, some weird.
These lights are all set to high settings (very high shadow quality and forced pixel) so take caution if you have a weak computer...
The most realistic lighting I think you can get in VaM, automatically. The goal of this plug-in from the start is to light the people in the room as if the light is really coming from the room. That means it takes on the characteristics of the room itself, like real light would. And doing all...
This GI aims to be as color neutral as SkyGray but at the same time give contour and complement spotlights that light from above. It combines well with epiLight (Lighting Rigs).
This package also has some textures and a modified version of the Vamifier plugin that I use in my scenes and...
Requires VaM v1.20 or newer
Lumination
Lumination is a lighting rig plugin that controls multiple InvisibleLights in a single user interface. It allows conveniently setting up and adjusting lighting in a scene, and offers automatic control of light sources relative to targets in the scene...
This scene contains:
4 light configurations (P69 Day, P69 Night, Epi 4spots2points and MXT 4spots)
3 MXT light rigs in total:
2 additional MXT light rig subscenes (Lightrig_2S/3S) can be loaded into the scene's subscene.
2 custom handmade LUTs (MXT Cinema and MXT Drama) that I personally use...
11 more light rigs for your dolls. Align to head, and parent to head if animated. Or don't, cause itll probably look better still. Mostly headshot lighting but i'm sure most of them would work in general anyway.
Examples:
✨ Light Creator — A Plug-and-Play Lighting Preset Repository for VAM
Overview
Light Creator is a plug-and-play lighting preset repository designed to share my original lighting shape and rig designs — from simple single moving heads to large-scale concert lighting arrays. It enables creators...
A collection of light rigs that I've made and used over time saved as Subscenes.
I personally set the scene light to 0 or very low.
The rigs have 4 lights mostly plus some additional that are tagged (extra) which are off by default. You can choose to turn them on based on your computer specs...
This guide shows you how to set up a simple 3-point lighting rig
to keep your scenes bright, balanced, and realistic without sacrificing FPS.
Remember: the more illuminated areas you have, the worse your FPS will be.
You only need as much light as you actually see.
Keep only your field of...
[Improvements ver 9-10] (30-Jun-2025)
Finally, you can control multiple persons at the same time (up to 3).
and Improved to keep beats accurate. (RealTime/GameTime).
[Improvements ver 8] (07-Jun-2025)
I'm not sure if this will be useful, but I added a function to rotate the front of the body...