
Guides directly related to assets and various files
Updated: 2025-03-01
Criteria:
- Files in general: images, audio, assetbundle, JSON, etc.
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Guide to stop unwanted preset CUA from loading - Guides -
I am posting this guide because sometimes people run into this issue, and it can be frustrating as to understanding what is going on. Also, this issue can occur by mistakenly pushing a button, or sometimes it seems to occur after version...


CUA BlendShapes - Guides -
I've not seen many assets utilize BlendShapes, so I'll spread some awareness on how to make them. It's really quite simple. BlendShapes, as Unity calls them, are basically what morphs are to a person, but for CUAs. Moving select vertices around...


Blender 3.2+ Texture Conversion Templates (G3F/G8F/G9 to G2F) or (G2F to G8F) - Guides -
Blender texture conversion templates (Version 2) An updated version of my original texture converter template moved to Blender 3.2+ to support the current GUI 3x Blender templates that can be used to convert: G3F or G8F textures that you own to...


Baldur's Gate 3 to Blender - Guides -
Here are the steps I follow to export meshes from Baldur's Gate 3 to Blender. This guide is a summary based on this detailed tutorial and various specialized videos that focus on 3D model importing and editing. By following these steps, you...


How to use Google Street View images as improvised "Domes" (no Unity workaround) - Guides -
Retrieve a 360 panorama image of the desired Google Street View as described in the guide below. My reference's gonna be https://maps.app.goo.gl/wGtwAz5wuSh3AHrF6...


Make a sex doll box - Guides -
Have you ever peered into the empty eyes of a sex doll, contemplated its peacefulness, its serenity, effortlessly exposing your uneasy and disturbed soul? All this and more available now in VaM, BOX included!!! Only 99.99$ FREE with a like...


How to Implement a WoW-like Quest Hovering Icon - Guides -
Leave a reaction according to the value of this guide, thanks! There may be a better way of doing this type of thing and if there is please tell me about it. But for now, this is the way I know of doing it. Below are the WoW Quest Icon images...


Guide to Unity's Animator Controller - Guides -
This is a quick guide to demonstrate how to make a prefab in Unity that includes animation. In this guide we will create a goose that continually loops in an idle animation sequence. This same technique could apply to other prefabs and...


Create and Load Asset Presets - Guides -
A Guide on how to Create and Load Asset Presets



Load assets - Guides -
A Guide on how to load assets https://hub.virtamate.com/resources/ballards-diy-sex-toys.4204/


Give an object a texture - Guides -
Guide how to give an object a texture from a graphic file


How to make a Hat/Helmet from scratch - Guides -
Making A Hat Or Helmet From Scratch https://hub.virtamate.com/resources/helm-example.44692/ This is a guide to make a hat/helmet from scratch. The texturing aspect will be left to you. It's recommended you have at least a basic knowledge...


Farger's FBX Guide - Guides -
Note: in this guide I am using Unity 2018.1.9f1. I would like to highlight that this version will work with VAM, but you will likely want to download Unity 2018.1.9f2 so that you benefit from any improvements with that version. Note: to...


How to: open .var files in explorer - Guides -
Credit where credit is due: some random forum post here. Open regedit: ctrl+r and search regedit Find the right file: on my computer it's Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.zip but you can ctrl+f and search ".zip" and it should pop up Export the file...


anatomy of a VAR - Guides -
This guide means to show what makes a VAR a VAR A VAR is the prefered way to share content between VaM users, with the Hub hosting thousands of them as I write this guide. Yet, this file only exists from VaM version 1.20, if not mistaken, and...


Embed Youtube Video - Guides -
The WebPanel atom can be used to embed Youtube videos into a VAM scene, without showing the Youtube homepage as it would appear in a browser. Included is a demo scene with a such embedded video. Use the following steps to embed a Youtube video...


Add your room as a scene background environment using photos - Guides -
This guide goes about the use of 2D photos of a room and pretend it's passhtrough mode in a VR headset It's more of a long descriptive tip on how you could pretend to add your room in VaM in a easy way. There's no gimmick, no magic, this will...


quickspeech: quickly load and switch random audio speech - Guides -
Have you been playing around with Text to Speech like Uberduck, ElevenLabs, Tortoise, and many more? Maybe you are planning to, or already did, create collections of audio files with a person, video game character, you name it, saying all kinds...


Alpha textures: add transparency (or fake rips) to clothes - Guides -
Add transparency (or fake rips) to clothes Alpha textures are greyscale images that say how transparent things are: White (#FFFFFF or 255,255,255) is 0% transparent; Black (#000000 or 0,0,0) is 100% transparent; Values in between have...


How to use Blender to sculpt. - Guides -
Works with Blender 3.6 and lower! This guide will teach you how to shape the model mesh in any way you want using the sculpting tools in blender. Easy to follow along with. Click by Click guide for dummies. 47 pictures in total. Hit me up on...


A guide to updating vars and plugins - Guides -
⚠ PLEASE: If you like this resource, consider liking and reviewing it for the community Take your time to read. I will not answer private messages asking questions about things that are actually explained in the tutorial. Intro VaM helps...


A guide to var textures optimization - Guides -
⚠ PLEASE: If you like this resource, consider liking and reviewing it for the community Take your time to read. I will not answer private messages asking questions about things that are actually explained in the tutorial. Intro VaM is...


Use Blender to Merge Male Gens Texture with Torso Texture for Futa - Guides -
This guide was made with Blender 3.3 I use Linux so some screenshots may differ slightly, I Apologize for any confusion caused by this. But it shouldn't be any different. This assumes you already have Textures. If you want to convert a set of...


How to create a simple tentacle-type bone animation with colliders (animated with IKCUA) - Guides -
A pictured guide on how to create a simple tentacle like object in Blender, rig it and create a bogus t-pose animation clip, then add a collider and animator controller in Unity.


How to make pubic hair that can be placed anywhere - Guides -
(AD)If you think I have done a great job, please rate me。 you can also browse my other resources,https://hub.virtamate.com/resources/authors/tap23.35619/ Of course I would be happier if you would sponsor me。(AD) First of all, you need to use ps...


How to Make AutoFollowed and SpringBoned CUA Hair with CUAAutoFollow and EZSoftBone - Guides -
This is Tutorial How to Make CUA Hair whith has Spring Bone and Auto Morph Follow. Requires: DAZ Studio(Making This Guide with D|S 4.15). Unity 2018.1.9f2 EZSoftBone(OSS SpringBone Library) https://github.com/EZhex1991/EZSoftBone also find in...


How to use Google Street View images as Sky Domes - Guides -
This is a tutorial on how to use Google Street View images as a skydome in VAM. I realize there is another tutorial on this posted back in January, but it's in Korean and doesn't really explain much in detail. I hope this offers more clarity and...


The definitive asset creation tutorial for VaM - Guides -
The definitive asset creation tutorial for VaM Introduction This guide is a set of information, tips, tricks and suggestions to easily build new Custom Unity Assets for VaM and also, first and foremost, avoid mistakes and optimize your content...


Creating Prefabs in unity - Guides -
MacGruber has a brilliant guide about assetbundles , including creating prefabs. https://hub.virtamate.com/resources/unity-assetbundles-for-vam-1-xx.167/ I have done this as simple 4 step by step guide to creating Prefabs thanks to Hazmhox for...


YouTube Tutorials - Guides -
I have started making VaM tutorials for YouTube. As we all know there are some great tutorials out there but sadly they are quite outdated. This is my attempt to update the information and have it easily accessible to everyone. I've just gotten...


Ipad LIDAR scanning your room and import into VAM - Guides -
I've struggled a lot with using photogrammetry to 3D scan my room, getting noisy and heavy meshes unsuitable for using as scenes in VAM. With the Ipad pro with LIDAR, and the new 3D scanning apps that have appeared, the process goes from many...


VAM tutorials channel on Youtube - Guides -
All my VAM tutorials. Dear community, it is time for me to move on and say goodbye. Two reasons: First, I lost the interest in this project, really tried to get it back with some pause, but I did not fire up VAM /VR for months now. I felt...


CUA Editor tutorial - Guides -
A few person on discord and on the hub asked if it was possible to control a custom asset through script... so after fixing a bug I had with mine with the help of meshed, I promised I made a tutorial to share the knowledge. So here we go. What...


Slapping Sex Sound Guide - Guides -
A simple video guide that teaches you in 2 minutes to put a noise during sex, and one minute more to make the noise with a random pitch to make it more realistic.


Custom Audio for Life 7 - Guides -
This tutorial gives you an introduction on how to add custom breathing audio and matching animation data to the Life#Breathing plugin. Adding audio to the plugin is a bit complex and most importantly, very time-consuming. This is because we want...


Normal Maps in VAM 101 - Guides -
A short guide to help you troubleshoot your Normal Maps. It assumes that you already know what a normal map is and that you have yours in the correct space (tangent vs world space and so on). Feel free to comment when you have correction...


Customized global illumination with SkyMagic - Guides -
SkyMagic is a plugin included in the MacGruber Essentials package. It allows you to bake and import custom global illumination into VaM. It can be used in a number of different ways: Bake custom reflections within VaM to have global illumination...


Unity AssetBundles for VaM 1.xx - Guides -
After some people essentially begged me to do it, I spend several evenings this week and the this entire Saturday on writing a tutorial on Unity AssetBundles. It ended up to be an 13 page PDF of 2700 words. Lots of pictures, obviously. This...


Tip to Share Assets/Folders Between Versions of Vam - Guides -
Update: /u/chokaphi on Reddit gave out a GUI solution to this: If you want a GUI way of creating the various link types in NTFS Grab Link Shell Extension (LSE) provides for the creation of Hardlinks, Junctions, Volume Mountpoints, and Symbolic...

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