Question What is meta.json file?

[redviking]

I'm used to download var files but once in a while some creators will have the file meta.json included for all their looks and/or scenes and will be in a zip file containing the folders saves and custom next to the meta.json file. Are we supposed to paste that in our vam folder everytime? So far I never had any trouble not adding it but I wonder if I should? But if I do its just going to replace the last one everytime. Should we bother with this?

 

[RandomVAMUser]

I'm used to download var files but once in a while some creators will have the file meta.json included for all their looks and/or scenes and will be in a zip file containing the folders saves and custom next to the meta.json file. Are we supposed to paste that in our vam folder everytime? So far I never had any trouble not adding it but I wonder if I should? But if I do its just going to replace the last one everytime. Should we bother with this?

-don't extract .var files, simply put them inside AddonPackages

-each .var has own meta.json (legacy .vac files also have meta.json, but they are bit different & they usually go inside Saves/scenes)
you can open/read it with any text editor, basically it has all key info about package like:
packagename, creatorname, client version used when created, content info, dependencies, etc...

-however... if you downloaded .zip (not .var)
than maybe creator didn't actually package it (maybe they manually zip it from AddonPackagesBuilder)
or for some reason .var got converted to .zip on download