Life is a collection of plugins intended to essentially awake a character, let him/her come to life. Central part so far is the audio-synchronized breathing, which can be used to drive complex animations.
This is an intermediate version I want to push for free to the community to get everyone onto VaM 1.19 as quickly as possible.
PostMagic adds post-processing effects to VaM, partially also to VR. Some of the effects have issues or are even marked as experimental.
Before you get your hopes up, this release is identical to PostMagic v0.2, except for some necessary changes to make it work with the new VaM 1.19+ packages. I stopped working on PostMagic long ago, since it will be obsolete with V...
2020-03-21 12:55:00 +0000 UTC View Post
These are your most essential MacGruber tools in a convenient single VAR package, this requires VaM 1.19. All plugins got their info text updated to the style I use for my all newer plugins now.
After some people essentially begged me to do it, I spend several evenings this week and the this entire Saturday on writing a tutorial on Unity AssetBundles. It ended up to be an 13 page PDF of 2700 words. Lots of pictures, obviously.
This tutorial covers:
(This is old! Check the new version here!) As teasered a few days ago, this update includes a number of improvements to the plugin collection:
Download: Life.v0.4-20200301.zip (via MEGA)
(Note: I actually forgot to include the AudioDistanceAttenuation plugin...reuploaded and link updated)
2020-03-01 14:36:24 +0000 UTC View PostThis plugin is an attempt at an improved audio distance attenuation curve over the Unity default logarithm curve. There is also an attempt to compensate for the apparent distance differences when dealing with different camera FoV angles. To say it in simpler words: This improves how the volume decreases with distance from the source, which was always a hassle in VaM. This plugi...
2020-03-01 14:35:47 +0000 UTC View PostHi! I'm posting a report like this near the end of each month, reporting on what I worked on behind the scenes and what the vague plans for the next months are. It is intended to help you decide if you want buy-in on the coming month or not.
Last month I promised to implement the remaining audio recordings for mouth breathing &...
2020-02-26 21:59:53 +0000 UTC View Post
This is just a minor release fixing two issues:
As you might remember, back in January I posted a commission for improved breathing morphs. Both DDQuidam (Patreon page) and TimelordToby (Reddit profile) provided a number of morphs. Thanks especially to DDQuidam for suffering through my rep...
2020-02-15 14:11:22 +0000 UTC View PostDownload: Life.v0.3.1-20200216.zip (via MEGA)
Download: Life.v0.3-20200215.zip (via MEGA)
2020-02-15 14:09:35 +0000 UTC View Post
I got various requests for a walk-through of how to build a scene like the Life03 demo that featured the Breathing plugin and its Thrust driver. This presumes general knowledge on how to build scenes in VaM. I’m trying to share why I’m doing some things the way the I do, and of course it puts some detail on the Breathing and other plugins used. Hopefully you will find this helpful ...
2020-02-15 13:49:41 +0000 UTC View PostDownload:
Hi! I'm posting a report like this near the end of each month, reporting on what I worked on behind the scenes and what the vague plans for the next months are. It is intended to help you decide if you want buy-in on the coming month or not.
Plans for the Life plugin series continue unchanged, especially of course the Breathing...
2020-01-30 16:48:51 +0000 UTC View PostThis plugin allows more fine control over VaM's VSync setting and as an alternative you can set a TargetFrameRate. Additionally you can make the game pause automatically when VaM you are working in other applications to reduce CPU/GPU load to almost zero.
Especially for video recordings I recommend this plugin. When you want to record at 30fps, you want your game to run at precisely 30fps...
2020-01-15 19:31:50 +0000 UTC View PostA while back I mentioned that I would like to have a proper inflating lung for my breathing plugin. So far I have not been able to find anyone who could make proper morphs that are of better quality than the ones that exist already. If you feel up to the task, contact me and make some $$$. If you are...
2020-01-15 19:17:43 +0000 UTC View Post
I spend some significant time in the recent weeks to keep improving the Breathing plugin as well as the connected DriverThrust sub-plugin, which are both part of the "Life" plugin set. This is a free maintenance release. The next release, probably in February, will include more sounds and be 2-week Early-Access again.
Hi! I'm posting a report like this near the end of each month, reporting on what I worked on behind the scenes and what the vague plans for the next months are. It is intended to help you decide if you want buy-in on the coming month or not.
This was pretty much detailed already in the 2019-12-26 14:29:42 +0000 UTC View Post
(This is an old version, new version here!)
This is a work-in-progress release of the Breathing plugin I had been advertising for a long time. I'm aiming to make some more tweaks on the weekend, but I can't guarantee it will finish before I disappear into the ho...
2019-12-18 22:18:09 +0000 UTC View PostThis is an old version, you likely want the new version here.
You will also need the "Breath1" morph from the Upperbody-Reloaded-Lite pack. Very likely you have it already, but just in case, 2019-12-18 22:17:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi! I'm posting a report like this near the end of each month, reporting on what I worked on behind the scenes and what the vague plans for the next months are. It is intended to help you decide if you want buy-in on the coming month or not.
As announced in the previous report I have been working on an improved version of the breathing plugin....
2019-11-27 20:21:39 +0000 UTC View Post
I rebuild the original SecretRoom environment from the ground up. This is much more flexible now, almost a construction kit for your perfect play room.
Hi! I'm posting a report like this near the end of each month, reporting on what I worked on behind the scenes and what the vague plans for the next months are. It is intended to help you decide if you want buy-in on the coming month or not.
TL;DR: Due to real-life reasons they will likely be no major releases in November. There will be no releases for the rest of...
2019-10-23 19:01:18 +0000 UTC View PostI usually don't do requests, but is was just a super quick tool requested by Alter3go. It allows you to toggle VaM's MSAA setting by hotkey. Press L to toggle between "off" and "8x", press K to toggle twice with some delay in between. Apparently this helps making Reshade's magic work. See https://www.youtube.c...
2019-10-20 14:23:04 +0000 UTC View Post
PostMagic adds post-processing effects to VaM, also to VR. Original post with more infos here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/postmagic-post-30542789
This version brings some minor improvements and additions:
By popular request I have add...
2019-10-12 12:43:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Some more small improvements:
If you put this plugin into your scene, for example as a session plugin, the...
2019-10-12 12:05:57 +0000 UTC View Post
(This is old, new version here!) Success! At least partial. This is still very experimental, but I manged to get various post effects working in VaM. Yes, you read correctly...VaM post effects in VR!
From the tech-side I'm exposing and mes...
2019-10-06 16:00:58 +0000 UTC View PostNote that this is an old version, get the newest version here.
(This was an 14-day early access, now made public on October 20, 2019.)
(This is old, new version here!) This quick update that fixes VR mode screenshots again, some changes in VaM 1.18 caused them to break.
If you put this plugin into your scene, for example as a session plugin, the VaM internal screenshot to...
2019-10-04 11:04:03 +0000 UTC View Post