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Life 9
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.Another tiny maintenance update, sorry about that. However, when our Supreme Lord (MeshedVR) reports an issue, you f...
Life 8
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 just a tiny maintenance update: Making sure breathing morphs are reset to default when disabling/removing th...
Essentials v5 - SuperShot/SuperVideo
These are your most essential MacGruber tools in a convenient single VAR package.Version 5 fixes PostMagic support and has some smaller new features for SuperShot and SuperVideo. Check the version 4 post for more details on what this plugin package is good for.Changelog for Version 5 SuperShot: Fixing compatibility wit...
Essentials v4 - SuperShot/SuperVideo
These are your most essential MacGruber tools in a convenient single VAR package.Version 4 introduces two new plugins, SuperShot and SuperVideo, which replace the old SuperResolution plugin and bring a huge amount of improvements over the old plugin.Overview SkyMagic: Allows you to create cubemaps within VaM to be used...
Essentials v5 - SuperShot/SuperVideo - Download
MacGruber.Essentials.5.var (via MEGA)This is an EarlyAccess release! Download will be available for free under CC BY-SA license after August 30, 2020. You are allowed to reference these packages in your own VAR packages, even if they are paid or use a different licence. Links to my Patreon are always appreciated.Uncha...
Monthly Report: July
Time for another monthly report! This time there is also a poll at the end, I would appreciate if you could take the time to answer it!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 month are. It is intended to help yo...
Life - IdlePoser v4 - Tutorial
The tutorial was updated with new screenshots to match the new UI and and cover the new features. Also added 2 more pages giving some background on Bézier curves and a tips & tricks section. I hope it helps a bit those who had trouble understanding how the plugin works.Find it here: https://hub.virtamate.com/resources...
Life - IdlePoser v4
IdlePoser is a solution for idle animation, part of the Life plugin collection. This new update brings a number of usability improvements and some new features: Improved curve debug render, now with colors to highlight the different state groups! Transitions can also be rendered now. Improved Bézier evaluation using B...
Life - IdlePoser v4 - Download
MacGruber.IdlePoser.4.var (via MEGA) MacGruber.IdlePoserDemo.4.var (via MEGA) This is an EarlyAccess release! Distribution is NOT allowed before July 5, 2020. Afterwards this will be under CC BY-SA license. However, you are allowed to reference this package in your own VAR packages, even if they are paid or use a diff...
Monthly Report: June
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 indicated in the release of IdlePoser v3 last week, I will continue work...
Life - IdlePoser v3 - Tutorial
Since the response to IdlePoser was a bit slow, I assume it might not be clear for many what it can do and how to use it. Hence a short 7 page tutorial!The tutorial is a free download....shameless advertisement for IdlePoser, which is still in EarlyAccess. As usual, it's released under CC BY-SA license.https://hub....
Life - IdlePoser v3
In the last few weeks I continued working on my idle animation solution, called IdlePoser.After the prototype released a few weeks ago, it's time to make a proper release. There have been countless bug fixes and usability improvements. Morph capture and debug rendering have been implemented. Obviously I also spend ...
Life - IdlePoser v3 - Download
MacGruber.IdlePoser.3.var (via MEGA) MacGruber.IdlePoserDemo.3.var (via MEGA) This is an EarlyAccess release! Distribution is NOT allowed before July 5, 2020. Afterwards this will be under CC BY-SA license. However, you are allowed to reference this package in your own VAR packages, even if they are paid or use a diff...
Tutorial: Custom Audio for Life 7
This tutorial gives you an introduction on how to add custom breathing audio and matching animation data to the Life#Breathing plugin. Adding audio to the plugin is a bit complex and most importantly, very time-consuming. This is because we want our animations nicely synchronized to the audio, which requires some data ...
Tutorial: Custom Audio for Life 7 - Download
CustomAudioLife.v7.pdf (via MEGA) CustomAudioLife.v7.Unity.zip (via MEGA) CustomAudioLife.v7.Source.zip (via MEGA) This is an EarlyAccess release! Distribution is NOT allowed before June 19, 2020. Afterwards this will be under CC BY-SA license. However, you are allowed to reference this package in your own VAR package...
Life 7
This is just a tiny free update for those of you who would like to add custom breathing audio. It is adding the breath debug tool mentioned in the custom audio tutorial. This allows hot-reloading the JSON database without having to rebuild the AssetBundle and manually queuing of specific audio files. Also fixes the rhy...
Monthly Report: May
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 month quite some time went into an unplanned project...which is Meshed...
Life - IdlePoser Prototype
Life is a collection of plugins intended to essentially awake a character, let him/her come to life. Central part so far was the audio-synchronized breathing, which can be used to drivecomplex animations. This month I started working on an idle animation solution, called IdlePoser.Today I'm releasing an early stand...
Life - IdlePoser Prototype - Download
MacGruber.IdlePoser.2.var (via MEGA) Requires MacGruber.Life.6.var This is an EarlyAccess release! Distribution is NOT allowed before June 8, 2020. Afterwards this will be under CC BY-SA license. However, you are allowed to reference this package in your own VAR packages, even if they are paid or use a different licen...
Essentials Plugin Package v3
These are your most essential MacGruber tools in a convenient single VAR package.Overview SkyMagic: Allows you to create cubemaps within VaM to be used for customized global illumination and ReflectionProbes. This can immensely improve shiny materials like metal, latex, leather, etc. SuperResolution: Take ultra-high re...
Essentials Plugin Package v3 - Download
MacGruber.Essentials.3.var (via MEGA) MacGruber.SkyMagicImporter.3.zip (via MEGA) (Unity Plugin) SkyMagicGuide.3.pdf (via MEGA) (Tutorial)This is an EarlyAccess release! Download will be available for free under CC BY-SA license after May 15, 2020. You are allowed to reference these packages in your own VAR packages, ...
Monthly Report: April
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.Note while I will of course continue to release stuff, I will have to reduc...
SecretRoom 3: Playroom Construction Kit
SecretRoom is not just one environment, its an AssetBundle containing a kit of matching parts you can use to build your own custom playroom room. A couple of scripts help with keeping everything aligned nicely. Here is a video showcasing what can be customized.New in Version 3 New set of heavy metal handcuffs and ankle...
SecretRoom 3 - Download
MacGruber.SecretRoom.3.var (via MEGA) MacGruber.SecretRoomDemo.3.var (via MEGA) Dependency for Demo: MacGruber.Essentials.2.var (MEGA / Patreon) Dependency for Demo: MacGruber.Life.6.var (MEGA / Patreon) Dependency for Demo: NoStage3.Hair_Shoulder_Wavy.1.var (MEGA / Patreon)This is an EarlyAccess release! Download wil...
SkyMagic: Scene customized global illumination
(MacGruber Essentials Plugin Package v2)This one is NOT an April Fools post :P During the extended Easter weekend I had another attempt at my trial&error research for making custom global illumination work in VaM. I had a new idea to try. After already wasting a weekend on this back in September, this time there was gl...
SkyMagic / Essentials Package - Download
MacGruber.Essentials.2.var (via MEGA) (contains SkyMagic Exporter and Loader) MacGruber.SkyMagicImporter.2.zip (via MEGA) (Unity Plugin) SkyMagicGuide.pdf (via MEGA) (Tutorial) MacGruber.SkyMagicDemo.1.var (via MEGA) (Demo Scene) Dependency for Demo: NoStage3.Hair_Long_Backswept_Pony.1.var (MEGA / Patreon) Dependency ...
Hathor: NextGen render pipeline + RTX Support
(April Fool Joke)Hathor is a FULL replacement of VaM's render pipeline with some of our NextGen engine tech. This runs in REALTIME, actually slightly faster than a common VaM scene! More details and FREE download here: https://www.reddit.com/r/VAMscenes/comments/fsteru/hathor_plugin_for_vam_nextgen_render_pipeline_...
Monthly Report: March
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.March has been a busy month which has seen 3 releases of the Life plugin! T...
Life 6
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 version focuses on adding mouth breathing and a new orgasm system. Find a fancy video here.New features Added 3...
Life 6 - Download
MacGruber.Life.6.var (via MEGA) This is an EarlyAccess release! Distribution is NOT allowed before April 10, 2020. Afterwards this will be under CC BY-SA license. However, you are allowed to reference this package in your own VAR packages, even if they are paid or use a different licence.
