VaM 1.x Position/animation switching through the press of a button

[assmaster12]

I make scenes animated using only plugins. I don't know if this is downright regarded but it's what I prefer to do because learning timeline seems annoying. I am just wondering how I could attach all of the plugins, atom positions etc to a button so I can have multiple positions per scene. No idea how to do this. I asked gemini and it seems like you can parent everything to something i dont really remember. All I know is when I parented everything to one thing, which I assumed I could then tie to a button to activate it all, my frames dropped tremendously so I abandoned this idea. I can sort of see why that would be, so maybe timeline is my only option. Anyway, just reaching out to see if anyone can help.

 

[SlimerJSpud]

Use pose presets. Get your characters in whatever pose you like then save a pose preset for each of them. Set up a button that loads the pose presets. Depending on how your scenes work, you can either activate whatever motion plugin (thruster) with the same button, or have a separate Action! button for each pose. Each pose button probably also needs to deactivate plugins that are not used in that pose. For example, you might have a BJ plugin active for one pose, and an autothruster plugin in another pose. You probably don't want them both active at the same time.

 

[assmaster12]

Use pose presets. Get your characters in whatever pose you like then save a pose preset for each of them. Set up a button that loads the pose presets. Depending on how your scenes work, you can either activate whatever motion plugin (thruster) with the same button, or have a separate Action! button for each pose. Each pose button probably also needs to deactivate plugins that are not used in that pose. For example, you might have a BJ plugin active for one pose, and an autothruster plugin in another pose. You probably don't want them both active at the same time.

fuck. that's smart. i didn't know you could have buttons change poses by loading them from a pose preset. good idea. thanks.