Too many Scenes. What you all do?

[Deleted member 1503]

I've had VAM awhile now. When I first got it I just pretty much downloaded everything, way more time spent downloading then using it actually. Lots of JUNK/outdated stuff and signed up for a bunch of paid stuff for a few months. Well over the 2k view limit within VAM. The old easy Mate IV (now it's old anyway). Without spending a TON of time how do you all keep this organized? I'm thinking of just deleting everything, redownloading VAM and sticking with just high quality free content published to HUB now and then.

 

[bumblebaetuna]

Yeah my first mistake was doing this, especially the Easy Mate stuff. Second mistake was not clearing it all out once I realized. Now I've got too much.

Someone here mentioned getting rid of the scenes content creators use to show their characters/allow easy import. But I'm not sure the best way to do that. Delete scene JSONs from VARs or import VAR content and delete VAR, etc... everything I think of could potentially mess up something else.

I've been writing various tools for myself that help organize morphs specifically, but honestly I'm probably going to end up pulling the content I 100% know I use then backup/remove everything else. Add things if I need them.

 

[luminous]

the scene collection from easymate is helpful early on to give you ideas of what is possible. bumblebaetuna is correct you should try it simply now and create your own scenes starting with an environment you like and character. patience pays off otherwise the experiences can feel somewhat shallow because scenes are customzed for their creators usually rather then you. experiment with morphs, some plugins, cloths, lighting treat it more as fun sandbox then a scene player. i'm relatively new too but had the same issue as u

 

[mantronix6]

Good advice, I have deleted everything bar my morphs and textures. I will work at creating my own scenes. Good advice too as I have saved so much space on my hard drive probably about 3/4 of 256GB drive!

 

[vamurai]

I know this is an older post, but thought I'd mention that I run two installs of VaM now. One has all the "junk" - lots of outdated stuff, every package/scene/look/morph I've ever downloaded, probably even still has significant portions of EasyMate. I recently installed the second copy as my "development" space. While I primarily use it to create new scenes, only installing the plugins I need for the project I'm working on, I also use it to test scenes I've created (seeing if it properly gets all of the packages it needs.) It's also useful for general troubleshooting for other packages you install. Is this package wonky because the creator messed something up, or is it my nasty, trashy installation with all of the other add-ons that's causing it?

 

[vamurai]

i even think vam runs a little better as well as far as loading stuff goes.

100%

A clean install without a bunch of packages loads everything faster. Decompressing it all further improves load and access times.