VaM 1.x New to vam. Need some help with understanding how the program works.

[Vamlookerlearner]

I’ve watched a couple of videos so far, and I’ve learned some body positioning, changing characters, and body morphs. Just some basic stuff. Now I’m trying to figure out how to do animations. I‘ve found a key frame animation video from JustlookinForNothing, and that’s still too technical for me. I just wanna learn how to use plugins, know which one are essential currently, how to add animations to characters, how to match animations to a pair of person atoms, how to save animations, how to make a woman moan at the correct timing as the guy shoots ropes, how to make characters perform a series of actions with a button that floats in the room. that sort of stuff.

This game is amazing, and I’m excited to make some expansive animations. Also, is it frowned upon to take some animations from other people’s scenes and adjust them to taste? If It is, then I’ll keep them to myself. How would be able to do that?

Do you guys have any recommendations for videos and learning?

 

[atani]

All the guides/tutorials are in the Wiki > Guides, check everything you want, multiple times if needed. JustLookingForNothing's videos are several years old by now, many things have changed since then, so try to see more recent guides basides those.

Animations will require a lot of time and effort, well, just like with anything if you want to be good at it. Worthwhile? That depends on you, to me it was.
For personal use, you can take any content from anyone and adjust to your interests. What you can't do is share content made by others that goes against their content licenses (see policies/copyright pages).

 

[Vamlookerlearner]

My goodness, I didn‘t know there was such a wealth of knowledge in the wiki, and updated at that. Thank you for the recommendation.
Do you know if they include recommended plugins for streamlined animation processes?

Now that I got my handsful, I’ll probably won’t be back for a while. lol

 

[atani]

My goodness, I didn‘t know there was such a wealth of knowledge in the wiki, and updated at that. Thank you for the recommendation.
Do you know if they include recommended plugins for streamlined animation processes?

Now that I got my handsful, I’ll probably won’t be back for a while. lol

If you're going to see it all, see you in a few years

Recommended plugins are subjective, there's many ways to do things, just go with whatever you want and see if that works out for you.

 

[Electric E-Boy]

I think the most used plugin for animation should be Timeline by AcidBubbles. Also MoCap is a great way to get realistic animations, but you would a good setup for it (for example good trackers or great cameras + software, there are different ways, big topic).

Timeline - Plugins + Scripts -

Timeline ? Do you like Timeline? Support me on Patreon and get early access to new features: https://www.patreon.com/posts/39197180 ? Need help creating animations or want to share your works of art? Join us on Discord...

hub.virtamate.com

The wiki has great tutorials for it in the "scene creation" section. For example Ispinox has several tutorials about it, also one about cum clothing (what you mentioned). Also there are beginner tutorials on youtube.

04. Scene creation

Guides directly related to creating/editing scenes: Updated: 2026-02-26 Criteria: Related to scene editing and making Guides: https://hub.virtamate.com/resources/small-list-of-tips-and-tricks-for-scenes-and-plugins-creation.64835/...

hub.virtamate.com

Specific guides i would recommend:

Cumshot Tutorial for Timeline using Fluid and Clothing Alpha - Guides -

For this guide you only need the TIMELINE & FLUID plugins and the CUM CLOTHING you want to use in your scene. For any questions you have just ask them in the discussion tab. I'll be happy to help Thanks to @Acid Bubbles and @hazmhox for their...

hub.virtamate.com

Workflow for a 30 seconds animation - Guides -

Before I did VAM scenes, I worked in animation at a game dev studio. A studio that still has top tier games played by thousands to this day. Other people did the mocap, what our team did was, fixing clipping, collision issues and tracking errors...

hub.virtamate.com

asco's Timeline Tutorials (1-5) - Guides -

These are the first five tutorials in a series I've been working on to help beginners learn Timeline. The videos combined are just under an hour and are all located on this page. There is a supplementary var file and zip file as optional...

hub.virtamate.com

 

[Vamlookerlearner]

I think the most used plugin for animation should be Timeline by AcidBubbles. Also MoCap is a great way to get realistic animations, but you would a good setup for it (for example good trackers or great cameras + software, there are different ways, big topic).

Timeline - Plugins + Scripts -

Timeline ? Do you like Timeline? Support me on Patreon and get early access to new features: https://www.patreon.com/posts/39197180 ? Need help creating animations or want to share your works of art? Join us on Discord...

hub.virtamate.com

The wiki has great tutorials for it in the "scene creation" section. For example Ispinox has several tutorials about it, also one about cum clothing (what you mentioned). Also there are beginner tutorials on youtube.

04. Scene creation

Guides directly related to creating/editing scenes: Updated: 2026-02-26 Criteria: Related to scene editing and making Guides: https://hub.virtamate.com/resources/small-list-of-tips-and-tricks-for-scenes-and-plugins-creation.64835/...

hub.virtamate.com

Specific guides i would recommend:

Cumshot Tutorial for Timeline using Fluid and Clothing Alpha - Guides -

For this guide you only need the TIMELINE & FLUID plugins and the CUM CLOTHING you want to use in your scene. For any questions you have just ask them in the discussion tab. I'll be happy to help Thanks to @Acid Bubbles and @hazmhox for their...

hub.virtamate.com

Workflow for a 30 seconds animation - Guides -

Before I did VAM scenes, I worked in animation at a game dev studio. A studio that still has top tier games played by thousands to this day. Other people did the mocap, what our team did was, fixing clipping, collision issues and tracking errors...

hub.virtamate.com

asco's Timeline Tutorials (1-5) - Guides -

These are the first five tutorials in a series I've been working on to help beginners learn Timeline. The videos combined are just under an hour and are all located on this page. There is a supplementary var file and zip file as optional...

hub.virtamate.com

Nice! Thanks for the streamlined recommendations
I’ll go watch these first, then attempt to make stuff.

 

[Vamlookerlearner]

If you're going to see it all, see you in a few years

Recommended plugins are subjective, there's many ways to do things, just go with whatever you want and see if that works out for you.

I just looked toolkits. Didn‘t know you were such a goat lol.
I thank you and electric E-boy for helping newbies when you can
Are your templates made in 2022 and 2023 still relevant to today’s uses?
will probably try them out once I get the basics down.

 

[atani]

If it still works then that content is relevant. 2022/23 is still recent content considering that VAM1 was then more or less the same version you currently have.
If you want to use my templates, of which the most recent is NEXT, to understand how it works, keep in mind that it's not very accessible to beginners in that way. The older ones may be more accessible, since at the time I also knew less, but because of that they also are very messy in comparison.