Status Update

These last few days I have been planning the future content that will be available on the patreon. I will mainly focus on the following three tasks:

  1) Create new content to improve the use of VAM.

  2) add new functionality to existing plugins.

  3) improve usability and access of existing plugins.

What's coming

I'm working on an exclusive GUI for Desktop and VR that will allow us to utilize the plugins in a much more comfortable way.

I have always felt that my plugins are very powerful but not so easy to use and having to switch between my different plugins inside the VAM GUI is a hassle, and I think the changes I made in VAM Portal was not enough for this purpose. So, with this new GUI I intend to solve this and make my plugins the most easy and comfortable to use.

3D GUI Features

• Show and hide the GUI at any time
• Move it freely from one place to another
• Access to all session plugins independent of the VAM main menu

About the layout, It would have (approximately, this is under development) the following configuration:

• Left panel: allowing to select the current plugin.
• Top (header) panel: allowing to switch between plugin and help.
• Center panel: showing the plugin content.
• Right panel: dedicated to secondary additional tools available for each plugin
• Bottom panel: intended mostly for options and plugin configuration.

To summarize this is what I will be working on

Creating the 3D GUI integrating all session plugins in one place, for this I need to achieve the following:

• Build main panels
• Freely adjust 3D position and scale of panels inside the scene
• Build scrollable containers inside panels
• Build layout controls inside containers
• Asynchronously load images from disk  
• Customize panels & containers with background images
• Integrate all session plugins with the GUI

Pose manager

• Control relocation buttons sensitivity
• Control the relocation of the entire pose and individual people as well
• Improve the setup spawn point location with raycast (point & set)

Mocap setup & player

• Extend the plugin up to 4 people
• Improve compatibility with latest Timeline versions (6 currently, I'm subscribed to AcidBubbles)
• Develop and publish scenes able to perform everywhere.

Spawn

• Add the setup spawn point feature to spawn
• Spawn more toys

I will be posting a new plugin soon called Enforce and a new Pose Manager update. After this I will be working on the GUI and playing with Timeline and Mocap Setup.