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I wasn't exactly planning on making this but I found a lot of stuff while working on the new UI for Alive that might help others do new & very exciting things in VAM and I ended up creating a new plugin: VAM Widgets

This new plugin allows adding HTML/CSS/Javascript code to the web panel atoms. Creating widgets with html is a gazillion times easier & quicker than doing it through Unity or with VAM logic. One cool thing is that it works with transparency too, so you can do stuff like the round clock in the video. To make the clock I just copy-pasted this code https://jsfiddle.net/yLv2b1t9/ in the plugin menu. 

Some of the other widgets in the video:
drawing board - https://jsfiddle.net/mpv34a5j/
outside animation - https://jsfiddle.net/ns2aj75d/
tv menu - https://jsfiddle.net/0zry16kv/
there was also a sudoku puzzle on the table but forgot to record it https://jsfiddle.net/yhrageuq/


Files

PREVIEW: VAM Widgets

HTML/CSS/Javascript widgets in Virtamate scenes work in progress MORE INFO: https://www.patreon.com/SPQR_aeternum SONG: PIXL ft Nicole Millar - Crazy (https://soundcloud.com/pixl-music/pixl-ft-nicole-millar-crazy-download)

Comments

Anonymous

Wow so cool! This has some serious potential!

thomas d

Can you make news and weather widgets for a start, stock market, etc, etc.

Nawen

Wow thats amazing!, I'm so curious how far this could go in the future.

thomas d

I was thinking some other widgets might be a performance monitor, Sticky notes, that can easily typed into, this is handy when I am working on many scenes. An alarm, many times I have thought I was in VAM for 15 mins, and it was 45 mins. Battery life for my controllers? I am sure you have a bunch of goods ones, maybe even be able to pull up and view images from specific folders within my current scene. If I take a bunch of screen shots, I can instantly look at them. I am sure there are many many uses, This should be interesting. I would definitely used the clock and a breaking news banner in a corner. This could be your next big plugin.

SPQRAeternum

some of that stuff is no go, neither vam plugins nor javascript has access to system telemetry for security reasons

thomas d

I did think about how secure this stuff might be. I have always heard html and java script is not very secure.

SPQRAeternum

idk where you heard that but 98% of the websites on the internet run on javascript. it's pretty secure given that the internet is at stake and people are generally fond of the internet

SPQRAeternum

but for security purposes to be a bit safer you should avoid: - vam plugins - having internet enabled when using vam

thomas d

Hey had another idea for a widget, even its not real, pull up the appearances statistics and vitals, height, weight, temperature, heartbeat, 02 level, current mood, etc, etc, in a widget, maybe build some logic into it, tie it to Alive , ticklish and other plugins you have. I usually use multiples of your plugins at a time. Also name, where born, age, all that stuff, it would just be fun, relationship status, little pic, etc.

SPQRAeternum

you're getting a bit carried away in thinking that these are gonna just magically replace vam plugins, far from it their use is for decorative & interactive purposes, to bring more life to vam scenes. it's not to control or reflect what's going on in vam or plugins. they're like isolated small html pages, they don't know about VAM. you're probably thinking about my aeternum ui for alive, that's a different thing

thomas d

I understand, I was thinking more in terms, of your back end scripts collecting the data of models, or just making a lot of the stuff up, and send it to a db type of file then any scene using widgets could access the data and pull up all kinds of cool stuff by widget. Or just with in your scene have the data collected in a file real time, and then have the widget read it in the scene. I was just thinking its an easy way to nicely present data, that your back end scripts created. Something like what I described above, would be mainly entertainment, maybe 5 or 6 data markers from alive (agreed, I have no clue how much work would be involved or if it is worth your time) or so, made up crap and a small thumbnail pic in the widget, that presents it in a cool way (to start with). I mean, a sound file can even be created, so you hear a snip it of the girls voice introducing her self with in the widget. Yes I am getting carried away LOL! I love seeing how you are growing VAM. I have always liked widgets on my phone, and I am just throwing out ideas with out your in depth of knowledge to bring this stuff to fruition.