Loading scenes, sometimes UI can't open anymore

[lifesuckz69]

Any idea what that could be? Lately when i open scenes (never the first one, just after a random amount) the UI button is dead. I can click it, get the clicking animation on the button, but nothing opens. At that point I can only ALT+F4, cause I can't turn the programm off without the red button and also can't try to load something else. Everything works, just the menu overlay does not open.

 

[atani]

Did you try doing a configuration reset and if that's not enough a core integrity check from vam_updater.exe?

 

[lifesuckz69]

Did you try doing a configuration reset and if that's not enough a core integrity check from vam_updater.exe?

I did not. Didn't even know about that, so I'm going to try that. Thanks.


Update: It still does it. The reset and integrity stuff was still a good tip, cause everything opens a bit smoother now.

 

[atani]

I have no idea on what might be happening, never had such a problem. Try seeing the error log if something's off.

 

[wileyc2k23]

In VR, I have noticed this in certain scenes the UI will not show when I press the menu button on my controller. I found that moving around in the scene, and finding a certain location within the scene, the UI will reappear. The menu will disappear as soon as I leave the location again. At least I can exit the scene without forcing VAM to close.

Maybe someone else has some more insight. I just started looking into this myself.

 

[atani]

99.999% sure it's because of Post Magic in the scene. Kill the plugin.
Could be in any atom, but usually the atom name gives a tip it might be the one.

 

[Thogapotomus]

99.999% sure it's because of Post Magic in the scene. Kill the plugin.
Could be in any atom, but usually the atom name gives a tip it might be the one.

This fixed the problem for me. Killed Post Magic in the Scene Plugins and menu control returned. Thank you!

 

[Furbots]

How do you kill the plugin in the scene if the menu doesnt open? I'm having the same problem

 

[BDYRippa]

Only fix I found for that is restarting VAM entirety then UI works which sucks can't kill a plugin if UI won't even respond fwi who ever has this problem

 

[beam95]

This has happend a couple times to me recently in VR, I believe i could still open the menu from the monitor on the computer, should be able to locate the plugins after that.

 

[LubaFoto]

I already said this before, IT does work for some people, if you put Post Magic away from you (if you can edit the scene in desktop) it does fix the problem in VR. Actually if you start moving close to post magic it will kill your UI and move away UI comeback.

 

[hazmhox]

"move close to post magic"? fuu?

Post Magic is a post process pipeline, your position does not matter. If it does, you either are not talking about Post Magic, or you are confusing different aspects of post processing.

The reccuring situation where Post Magic kills your UI is when you have several instances of it. For instance, if you use it as a session plugin and you have another post magic or moyashi in the scene.

The other situation is when the window camera is enabled BEFORE post magic. You should always ensure the window camera is disabled before enabling post magic, especially in VR.

 

[zqwvc1419]

Restart VaM.

 

[SortaLewd]

If you guys use BrowserAssist you can get around this by making an empty object preset with postmagic on it and just load that through BrowserAssist when this occurs. You'll need to setup a hotkey to open BrowserAssist since you can't access it normally through the UI.