VaM 1.x What would you use morphs found in a VAR for?

[hasback]

Imagine you could see and interact easily with all the morphs in your VAR collection. What kind of jobs would you want to be able to do with the morphs found across your VARs?

How would you know you have found what you are looking for, to do what you would want to do with a specific morph?

 

[LeChuck99]

Try this. Its one of the best plugins if youre wanna know, which morphs could morph the chosen point on the body.

Morph Finder - Plugins + Scripts -

This plugin allows finding all morphs that move a selected vertex in a given direction. Disclaimer: Haven't taken the time to polish this one much so it's missing a lot of features. Wanted to at least get it out there in case it helps someone...

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[hasback]

That's really cool! So them just being listed in the VAR as vmbs is pretty meaningless, if you don't have the visualizer plugin and can't confirm their area of effect with a plugin like Morph Finder. Is that correct?

 

[LeChuck99]

VAM listing ALL Morphs from inside the VARs. There are already good plugins for sorting and managing them.
For me personally, i have tons of morphs, so i am using more the morph finder instead of sorting them.
e.g. i want to morph a body part for scene for something special, then i am going to morph finder and checking it out, which morphs interfering that area und testing it out, if there is something what i need.

e.g. this morph manager

Morph_Manager - Plugins + Scripts -

🧬 MorphTagTemplates: Welcome to MorphTagTemplates! This plugin is designed to completely overhaul how you manage, filter, and save morphs. Instead of scrolling through endless lists, you can now use a modular "LEGO-like" tag system, smart...

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[hasback]

These are great! Thanks for explaining your workflow.

I was originally wondering what people would do with morphs outside of VAM, if anything. For example, a VAR manager that list the morphs found in your VARs. But outside of VAM.

Why? IDK. That's what I was wondering? One use case I'm thinking about is finding duplicate morphs across VARs and creating a merged set.

 

[LeChuck99]

idk. The thing is, if you get custom morphs from creators, provided in their var's, then you have to let them as they are, because their scene would not find the morph anymore, if youre "cleaning them up" merging them etc.
Sure, you can copy the Morph from the VAR, inside to the VAM Folder and delete it in the var, but if there is an update for the scene (var file), then you get it again inside the new var. But maybe what can make some sense, if you create a copy of morphs under a new tree and name, so you can sort your favorite morphs for your own interests. e.g. morph with the name s72-2 copy to "my_morphs/chest/costalzone_02"
So you dont have to remember that one of the costal zone morphs are named s72-2 because you did copy it into your "favorites" folder/tree with an proper name.