Quick question about .var .vac

[Jean boisvert]

Is it true that EVERY .vac should be placed in addon and EVERY .var in scenes?? I have a lot of look that have some .vac in the custom/.../... folder, should I place them in the addon folder? And If I'm not sure of where to put a .vac, can I just save it everywhere it might be usefull without problems? Thanks

 

[RandomVAMUser]

I have a lot of look that have some .vac in the custom/.../... folder, should I place them in the addon folder?

no

.var goes inside AddonPackages ONLY

.vac is legacy type of compiling content (it usually contains required stuff: custom/import morphs, sounds, assets, etc...)
.vac should go inside saves/scene/whatever
.vac is extracted on "ExampleScene.vac" load (inside same folder you placed it)
leaving .vac behind so you have duplicates (compiled .vac and extracted content)

File Types

VaM File Types. .json The basic scene file for VaM is the .json file. Also used for Subscenes \Saves\scene \Custom\SubScene .vac Legacy compiled scene files. These are not commonly used anymore. Originally the scene file when packaged into a "vac" for sharing would compress the assets into...

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