VaM 1.x If I download a scene and edit it and save can I delete the original VAR?

[Battletoad08]

I download some scenes and I want to edit and change some things, removing alot of assets so it runs smoother. I save it a different file name, can I delete the original VAR file? My addon packages folder is almost 1TB and it takes 5 minutes to load a scene after years of editing.

Thanks.

 

[hazmhox]

If there's assets/things included inside of the var, potentially not if you don't change all paths to the local version you extracted.

 

[Battletoad08]

If there's assets/things included inside of the var, potentially not if you don't change all paths to the local version you extracted.

I basically just keep the animations and switch them to my looks. I use passthrough alot so I need to remove almost all object's.

 

[Origin69]

I download some scenes and I want to edit and change some things, removing alot of assets so it runs smoother. I save it a different file name, can I delete the original VAR file? My addon packages folder is almost 1TB and it takes 5 minutes to load a scene after years of editing.

Thanks.

It will also be effected by how many dependencies var's the original scene is drawing on too. If you delete them, but the scene has them listed then you will get error messages that they are missing. You can use this plugin to view what is being used in the scene.

DependencyViewer - Plugins + Scripts -

DependencyViewer is a script for finding all dependencies in the scene, and their sub dependencies. And downloading dependencies from selected scene, or from meta.json file in package. You can scan current scene or select VAM preset .vap ...

hub.virtamate.com

You can have more than one Vam install folder. I keep 2 main ones. One has everything i've downloaded so far in the addon packages folder for playing around and viewing other peoples scenes, the other just has the things I need for making and testing scenes and creating my own morphs, looks and clothing. The slimmed down version loads way faster.

 

[Hipper]

My experience (which is only four months!) is 'no'.

I downloaded a scene, removed assets I didn't want, saved under a new name (so now stored in my 'VaM/Saves/scene' folder), then remove the original file from VaM (using File Explorer, removing the file from 'VaM/AddonPackages' and storing it out of VaM to test what would happen). I suspect, as Hazmhox indicates, the paths to the assets used in the saved file are still collected from the original var file.

However, if you remove the assets you don't want from the scene, then save the original file, that works. Of course this means the scene is permanently changed on your PC but you can still download the original from the Hub, if that's where it came from. I mostly removed Person atoms but also some objects like chairs.

That's my expereience anyway!

Loading times for scenes with scenery, like classrooms, still takes time though. I just do something else, on my PC or clean the house!