Tutorial: Creating Life03

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 and can apply these ideas to your own VaM scenes. It ended up to be a 2300 word PDF of 11 pages, with lots of pictures. I hope you like the format.

Why is this no fancy video tutorial that are popular these days? First, text with images is FAR less time consuming to produce than a video. The time I can spend on VaM-things is limited. I'm already spending the maximum time I possibly can on VaM, at least when I want to keep my sanity. Producing more elaborate tutorials would be time I can't spend working on improving my plugins and other stuff I produce in VaM. Second, I personally don't like video tutorials. Text is searchable, you can more easily go back and forth, just skim through it and skip the boring parts. Maybe I'm just too old.

The reason I choose to do this particular tutorial first was because it was the easiest one to do. There have been other requests for a guides and I wanna do them at some point:

• How to export stuff from Unity. My plan would be to provide a ready-to-go Unity project for this, which would include AssetBundleBrowser, ProBuilder, ProGrid and my own little helper tools already setup correctly.
• How to extract AssetBundles back into Unity, modify them and re-export into VaM.
• Maybe some introduction guide into using ProBuilder to build your own custom environment.

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2 week EarlyAccess for Patreons. On Feb 29, this will become freely available to the community as usual. Download: https://www.patreon.com/posts/tutorial-life03-34034038