STICKY: Troubleshooting And Stretch Goals! (Patreon)

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TROUBLESHOOTING:

Until we move to var format (problematic for a few reasons including audio load times - will commit to that for version 1.0), there will be some issues with some users and conflicting scripts in their local vam folders. It obviously works for me, also on a clean install, but let's troubleshoot what's up for you guys.


If you're having issues try the following to see if anyone has asked before:

Problem A) Girl doesn't align right with other characters while interacting

Remember our scenes only have a generic placeholder person, your personal choice of replacement might have longer legs, arms, or be taller or shorter and this will affect positioning. To resolve this, ideally import a model of scale 0.98. As different models are all different shapes and sizes, aligning with a closed fist is nearly impossible without some scripting. After swapping in your model, after selecting the position, pause all motion and move her HAND or HEAD for example into position. If she's stubborn temporarily turning off collision or opening her fist and closing it again after alignment typically helps. Now you need to save your preference, so go to POSE PRESET and OVEWRITE the existing one for the scene.

Problem B) lip syncing frequently stops

Go to adamant's lipsync player and crank up the lip and/or jaw movement to a higher value in this case.

Problem C) if I change the model and give her the robe, not only do her <> clip through it, but I can't figure out how to open up the robe

No undress triggers in FA, only in The Golden Ticket, however, modifying the morphs on her that are clipping (like length or apply) can fix this. I'll consider using a plugin for this.

Problem 1) Girl is frozen on scene load

Typically when this happens you will also see:

!> Exception during RestoreFromLast of plugin#1_RT_LipSync_Player.RT_LipSync_Player: System.InvalidOperationException: Collection was modified; enumeration operation may not execute.

in your error log. That means VAM cached in its memory the old lipsync player from another scene....or you still have the old lipsync player attached to the girl...it will break either way.

If you're having issues make sure ONLY the following scripts are attached to your girl, not the legacy AdamAnt LipSync player but the VH34 one. If that doesn't work, delete the legacy lipsync player at Custom/Scripts and restart. ALWAYS DOWNLOAD LATEST AND OVERWRITE.

https://ibb.co/BwZgmYn

Only problem with this fix is CW still uses the legacy player, so ill patch those up. In the meantime, when you load any of those scenes, just attach the new player instead to the girl, select the same options like 'college with' and '<activity type>' and you should be good to go.
if using the new player only doesn't work DELETE THE LEGACY PLAYER FROM YOUR MACHINE and restart:

IT'S HERE:

Custom\Scripts\RT_LipSync

delete the folder entirely after making a backup before loading any scenes.

PROBLEM 2) FACE FREEZING ISSUES

If sound plays but the face freezes, there's probably a conflict with EmotionEngine versions. Go to the girl, open the emotion engine plugin, and load the latest var version and load defaults. she should start emoting again.

PROBLEM 3) THE SCENE FREEZES AFTER SAVING OR BREAKS ENTIRELY AFTER REPLACING THE DEFAULT MODEL WITH ONE FROM VECTERROR, ORREGON, OR ANOTHER CREATOR

THIS IS A BUG IN VAM! If you substituted looks via Load Look...you need to go to the girl and change the parent atom to NONE and then change it again to the subscene. This fixes the name and allows the file to save properly. This is applicable for all scenes with subscenes.

PROBLEM 4) I see a bunch of missing audio files

"Error - cannot load .wav file" isn't necessarily a problem - not all referenced audio is ready for the 1.0 release, or may belong to other projects. It's only an error if no audio plays for you. If so, check the directory structure and be sure to paste CUSTOM folder into your vam directory.

Corollary to Problem 4) Hey, dummy, why don't you make the scene a .var?

This is primarily due to the load performance loading audio files from .var format. I'm going to release a hybrid var/audio pack version for 1.0 of each scene, for now it's just too much of a hassle.

PROBLEM 5) When changing the look of the woman, she will only say one line, and then stop speaking.

Change look only via appearance preset, not load look and this should solve it

PROBLEM 6 NO EYE TRACKING) hello, sorry to disturbing you. I have a question on your scene when i change the default girl i lose the eyes tracking, any idea?

Change look only via appearance preset, not load look and this should solve it. be sure emotion engine is still turned on.

PROBLEM 7 NO SOUND) I loaded this into my general VAM folder (other mods installed) and the animations froze (though she was speaking).  So, I created a new VAM install with only this installed.  Now, the animations work but there's no sound.  Thoughts?

typically this means one of two things - either you didnt copy the files into the right folder (sound files) or you didnt select an activity type (she wont start talking until you do)


PROBLEM 8) JANKY/SPAZZED OUT ANIMATION) Until 1.0 some of the timeline animations are a little experimental. if she spazzes out, disable timeline on her atom and hit the activity button again.

PROBLEM 9) HOW DO I REPLACE THE MISSING TEXTURES?

Textures are not provided to keep the character generic. if you any of the great free resources creators out there as mentioned in the scene help text, I'll explain how to replace a character wholesale:  1) load his var 2) create appearance preset using the girl in his scene 3) go to my scene and select the girl, then choose load appearance preset 4) if you want to replace textures only, you can either put them in the right place manually or replace them manually, but I recommend appearance presets

IF ALL ELSE FAILS:

Older experimental builds had leftover vars in them like handanimator. be sure to remove all references to broken vars in your scenes.