Old VAM scenes - best practice?

[StrangeFellows]

I still have a VaM 1.14 folder (19 GB) and a VaM 1.17 folder (34 GB). I am sure there's some good scenes in there, but not sure how to access them from 1.21.

What is best practice for these old scenes? Should I just rip the bandaid, delete, and move on with my life?

 

[Clownmug]

If there are .vac files in those older folders you should be able to just copy them to the "saves/scenes" folder of the current VaM and it'll open the scene after extracting the assets. I'm not familiar with older versions though, so I don't know if there were other file types that were used.

 

[SlimerJSpud]

My Jeanie in her Bottle scene was a vac file. It loaded up OK, but I converted all 25 poses to modern pose presets, then saved the scene in the current format. If all you want to do is play the old scenes, they should work. If you want to make changes, they should be updated.

 

[DJ]

For anyone wondering, the old scene sharing file type is *.vac. In those days, there was no such thing as "referencing another scene" like we have with .var files. Every single non-Vam standard asset used in the scene was included in the .vac file. When you open a vac file, a folder with the same name as the vac was created in the same directory as the vac, and everything was unpacked into it. This led to a hell of a lot of resource duplication, which is why .var files were introduced.

 

[StrangeFellows]

Awesome, thanks. Initial testing looks promising. I'm going to create a sub-folder within the Scene folder ("OLD scenes"), dump them all in there, then triage. Will be great to see if the old sapuzex scenes have stood the test of time!

 

[atani]

Awesome, thanks. Initial testing looks promising. I'm going to create a sub-folder within the Scene folder ("OLD scenes"), dump them all in there, then triage. Will be great to see if the old sapuzex scenes have stood the test of time!

A resource with all the Sapuzex scenes exists here, unless you're eager to spend a lot of time redoing the work. They should work on the latest VaM, but the multi-scene setup is a pain compared to today's use of TImeline in a single scene.

 

[StrangeFellows]

A resource with all the Sapuzex scenes exists here, unless you're eager to spend a lot of time redoing the work. They should work on the latest VaM, but the multi-scene setup is a pain compared to today's use of TImeline in a single scene.

Oh wow! Thanks for the tip! Not sure how I missed that!