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Important Clarifications for Overall VaM2 Development Process We have seen many community comments about how VaM2 is missing major features like accurate skin collision, clothing, hair, etc. that VaM1 already includes. We wanted to address those comments to set everyone's expectations a little bette

Overview This release of the VaM2 Addon Kit is exclusive to our Patreon Creator tier backers. Please do not distribute. This Addon Kit is a Unity project that can be used to make addon content for VaM2. We use a development version of the Addon Kit ourselves to create all of the content you see in V

Highlights: Full VR support New modular UI and UX system with support for custom addons Major improvements to the included UI an UX Improved file browser and save system Performance improvements New addons: 13 new skins, 2 new alternate gender figures, 8 blend shape packs See our Trello board for mo

In our last post we mentioned the next post you would see from us should be the announcement for VaM2 Beta1.2 release. We worked hard this last month to try to meet that goal, but we are not quite to completion. We have decided to take another week for more polish, bug fixing, and to include additio

Overall Progress Update This month we completed 4 more items on the VaM2 Beta1.2 Release Trello list out of a total of 22 items targeted for the release. We added and completed an additional item (Save Scene Screenshot System) this month while working on the completion of the File Browser item. Thes

Improving Our Communication Today, we are starting a new process of doing monthly VaM2 development log posts to better communicate with our Patreon backers. Our original intent was to do regular beta releases of VaM2 every 2-3 months to avoid the need to do development log posts. The thought was to

This minor release is mostly to fix bugs from Beta1.1, but it does also contain some new features and tweaks. Please see the Beta1.1 post for more general info on VaM2 here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/vam2-beta1-1-has-134352549 Highlights: 5 New Features 2 Tweaks 6 Bug Fixes Download: We haven't

This minor release fixes a number of issues with the Beta0.1 release of the VaM2 Addon Kit. This release is exclusive to our Patreon Creator tier backers. Please see our previous VaM2 Addon Kit Beta0.1 release post for more general info on the Addon Kit here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/vam2-addon

There was an issue with regional localization that was preventing many users from loading the included scenes. This patch addresses that. Please get the new version here: Download

Hey everyone! We’re thrilled to announce that VaMMoan 2 (VAMM2) is now available! Community member hazmhox has truly outdone themselves for this one, and hazmhox has officially partnered with us this time around! VaM2 audio is still a ways away, so here is a sneak peek of some VaM2 content that is a

The VaM2 Addon Kit and Character Model System provides powerful tools to simplify and accelerate the time it takes to import and create character models in Unity for use in VaM2. Here are some of the highlights: Replaces 100s of steps that would normally take days or weeks of manual work with a shor

Here is the latest VaM2 progress report. A lot of time was spent on the reorganization and automation of the VaM2 Addon Kit to make it much easier to use. The VaM2 Addon Kit is the primary way to add new content to VaM2 and it is what we also use internally to create all the assets within VaM2, incl

Hi all- I’m here to give an update on VaM2 progress. VaM2 is the next generation of VaM. VaM2 and Hub improvements are all that we are working on these days. The original VaM is no longer being developed and is in the loving hands of the community for further improvements. Check out the Hub ( https:

Hi all- More details about what the video shows are further down in the post if you watched that before reading the post. VaM2 Progress Update We made a significant change in our VaM2 development work over the last few months which is why it has been a long time since the last progress update. For t

I know it has been a long time since the last post here. For this, I apologize. Please do join our Discord server for more mini updates and information from me, and I will do a better job posting to Patreon with more frequent progress updates. If you want more direct interaction, I usually post in t

We have posted a progress report over on the Hub. Please check it out if you are interested in following the development progress. https://hub.virtamate.com/threads/vam-february-2022-2-x-progress-report.18007/ As always, thank you to all backers for believing in us and helping us make VaM2 a reality

The first VaM2 alpha has been released! VaM2 is the next generation version of VaM. This first alpha is meant as an experimental tech demo to showcase most of what has been worked on for VaM2 to date. The UI and control scheme used in this alpha is just for this alpha and does not represent what wil

This video shows some of what has been worked on in the last couple of months. There is a lot more to report on beyond what is shown, so I'll be typing up a longer text-only progress update and get that out soon. I didn't want to delay any further, so the video is coming first this time. I apologize

I was trying to get the September progress update done before the end of September, but it is clear I'm not quite going to make it based on where I am currently at. The progress update will be out next week. September was very productive and we have made significant progress in multiple areas. The v

If you haven't read our previous VaM2 progress update, please read that 1st as it contains a lot of information that we don't want to re-post here. Most of this information is still relevant. Here is the link to the previous progress update: https://www.patreon.com/posts/vam-2-x-progress-51840802 We

It has been a long time since our last update. For this, we apologize. We will try very hard to work on better communication of progress going forward. Thank you for your patience! We have been very busy and we wanted to wait until we were at the point where user-facing progress could be effectively

1.20.77.9 is a very minor update to fix a couple of bugs reported on the Hub and also to implement a small tweak request from a plugin creator. We expect there will be few or no more 1.X updates going forward as all work has shifted to 2.X. Please keep this in mind when reporting 1.X issues or reque

Hi all- I know it has been a while since I last posted. My apologies for that. I needed to take some unplanned personal time off after the last release to recuperate and reset. This project does not exactly have built-in holidays or downtime, and I often work 7 days a week, so I take time off as nee

VaM Hub The VaM community has grown significantly over the life of this project, and with that growth, a new way to connect and share VaM content is clearly needed. At project launch we used Reddit as a way for the community to connect and share. Reddit was never ideal, but it was better than nothin

A little video showing some experimentation with the HDRP skin shader in VaM2. This shader has a blur pass which can allow for various levels of softness, including full-on fantasy (Illusion mode?). Bloom post-processing is on here, but at a very low level. Another aspect this video shows is the aut

Note: Images shown here are demonstrating some of the work done for VaM2 using DAZ Genesis 8 models and Unity's new HDRP rendering system Hi All! Lot's of big plans for VaM in 2020! I'm more excited than ever for the future of VaM, all thanks to your tremendous support! So thank you for continuing t

This last week brought a lot of work on the VaM2 platform. After each VaM release some time will be spent on VaM2 to make progress towards the future for VaM. Due to this parallel work, VaM releases will not always come out on an exact monthly basis as has already happened with the last couple of re

I'm back from a very nice and greatly needed holiday and wanted to post my thoughts on what I hope to accomplish with VaM in 2019. But first, let me thank each of you for an amazing 2018! I am honored and amazed by the amount of support on this project and also the incredible community working on pl