Virt-A-Mate Keyboard Shortcuts

Lets you bind keyboard / joystick bindings to many commands in Virt-A-Mate

Installing

Requires VaM 1.19 or newer.

Download LFE.KeyboardShortcuts.(version).var from Releases

Save the .var file in the (VAM_ROOT)\AddonPackages.

If you have VaM running already, click on the Main UI > File (Open/Save) > Rescan Add-on Packages button so that this plugin shows up.

Demo

Quickstart

Add the plugin to your scene

• Click Add Plugin on either an atom or the Session Plugins tag from within VaM.
• Click Select File... and choose LFE.KeyboardShortcuts.(version) on the left.
• Choose the ADDME.cslist file

Configure your keyboard shortcuts

Click Open Custom UI on the KeyboardShortcuts plugin.

The dropdowns at the top will let you filter the keyboard shortcuts by category and subcategory.

Recording a shortcut

To record a new keyboard shortcut, find the command you would like to modify and click the grey button to the right of the description.

Then press the key combination that you would like to use to trigger that command.

Some joypad axis will work but it is limited by the setup of the Unity engine itself. If it works for you then horray! If a command has some sort of "Increase" or "Decrease", then this program tries its best to map one direction of an axis to the increase side and one to the decrease side based on the context.

Clearing a shortcut

Click the selected shortcut grey button.

Hit the ESC key

Saving your shortcuts

Anytime you record or clear a shortcut, the settings are automatically saved in the (VAM_ROOT)\Saves\lfe_keyboardshortcuts.json file

Resetting all shortcuts

Delete the file (VAM_ROOT)\Saves\lfe_keyboardshortcuts.json in order to set all shortcuts to their default.

Command List

Global Actions

These are commands that will likely apply no matter what atoms are in the scene.

Command	Notes
Animation Speed > Increase
Animation Speed > Decrease
Atom > Select Next	Select the next atom alphabetically even if it is hidden
Atom > Select Prev	Select the previous atom alphabetically even if it is hidden
Atom > Select Next Visible	Select the next visible atom alphabetically
Atom > Select Prev Visible	Select the previous visible atom alphabetically
Camera > Move > Direction	Move the main camera in the direction that you want
Camera > Look > Direction	Rotater the main camera in the direction that you want
Error Log > Toggle
Message Log > Toggle
Field of View > Increase	Increase the FOV by 10
Field of View > Decrease	Decrease the FOV by 10
Freeze Animation > Toggle
Freeze Animation > On
Freeze Animation > Off
Mirror Reflections > Toggle
MSAA Level > Increase	Choose the next highest MSAA level. Does nothing if already at the lowest.
MSAA Level > Decrease	Choose the next lowest MSAA level. Does nothing if already at the lowest.
Performance Monitor > Toggle
Pixel Light Count > Increase
Pixel Light Count > Decrease
Play/Edit > Set To Edit	Turn on Edit Mode
Play/Edit > Set To Play	Turn on Play Mode
Play/Edit > Toggle	Toggle Edit/Play Mode
Rescan Add-on Packages
Hard Reset
Scene > New Scene
Scene > Open Scene
Scene > Save Scene
Screen Shot > Mode > Enable
Soft Body Physics > Toggle
Time Scale > Increase	Increase time scale by 0.10 - holding SHIFT makes this 0.5
Time Scale > Decrease	Decrease time scale by 0.10 - holding SHIFT makes this 0.5
World Scale > Increase	Increase world scale by 0.00025 - holding SHIFT makes this 0.001
World Scale > Decrease	Decrease world scale by 0.00025 - holding SHIFT makes this 0.001
Add > Atom Type > Atom Name	Add the atom of the given type to the scene

Selected Controller Actions

These are commands that will be run against the selected controller. They do nothing if no controller is selected.

!!!!! Be careful of overlap between setting these and setting selected atom actions.

Position > [XYZ] > Interpolate 0 - 1 | Set the AXIS of the atom to something between 0 and 1. Probably only useful when assigning a joypad axis. Position > [XYZ] > Increase / Decrease Small | Increase or decrease the given AXIS position by a maximum of 0.5 units per second Position > [XYZ] > Increase / Decrease Medium | Increase or decrease the given AXIS position by a maximum of 2.0 units per second Position > [XYZ] > Increase / Decrease Large | Increase or decrease the given AXIS position by a maximum of 5.0 units per second Rotation > [XYZ] > Increase / Decrease Small | Increase or decrease the given AXIS rotation by a maximum of 0.25 rotations per second Rotation > [XYZ] > Increase / Decrease Medium | Increase or decrease the given AXIS rotation by a maximum of 0.5 rotations per second Rotation > [XYZ] > Increase / Decrease Large | Increase or decrease the given AXIS rotation by a maximum of 2.0 rotations per second

Selected Atom Actions

These are commands that will be run against a selected atom. They do nothing if no atom is selected.

!!!!! Be careful of overlap between setting these and setting selected controller actions.

Command	Notes
Delete	Delete the selected atom
Hide > Toggle	Toggle the atom hidden or shown
Show UI > Tab Name	Show the selected Tab Name. If that tab name does not exist on the selected atom, this does nothing.
Position > [XYZ] > Interpolate 0 - 1	Set the AXIS of the atom to something between 0 and 1. Probably only useful when assigning a joypad axis.
Position > [XYZ] > Increase / Decrease Small	Increase or decrease the given AXIS position by a maximum of 0.5 units per second
Position > [XYZ] > Increase / Decrease Medium	Increase or decrease the given AXIS position by a maximum of 2.0 units per second
Position > [XYZ] > Increase / Decrease Large	Increase or decrease the given AXIS position by a maximum of 5.0 units per second
Rotation > [XYZ] > Increase / Decrease Small	Increase or decrease the given AXIS rotation by a maximum of 0.25 rotations per second
Rotation > [XYZ] > Increase / Decrease Medium	Increase or decrease the given AXIS rotation by a maximum of 0.5 rotations per second
Rotation > [XYZ] > Increase / Decrease Large	Increase or decrease the given AXIS rotation by a maximum of 2.0 rotations per second

Specific Atom Actions

These are commands that will be run against the atom with the selected ID, EVEN IF IT IS NOT SELECTED.

This means that a command to ShowUI > Plugins will first, select the atom, and then run your selected command.

Additionally, commands to target specific free controllers and plugins can be

Command	Notes
see "Selected Atom Commands"

Targeting Plugin Commands

Any Params that a plugin exposes can be targeted.

In order to trigger a plugin Params with a keybinding:

• select the specific atom that has the plugin installed in the left hand dropdown
• select the specific plugin in the right hand dropdown
• set keybinding for the dynamically generated commands available

Commands	Notes
Plugin > Show UI	open the plugins configuration UI
Boolean Param > Toggle	Toggle the Boolean Param on or off for the plugin
Boolean Param > On	Set the Boolean Param On for the plugin
Boolean Param > Off	Set the Boolean Param Off for the plugin
Action Param > Call	Trigger the custom Action Param for the plugin
Float Param > +0.01	Increase the float param by a maximum of 0.01 (if joypad axis is bound, increased/decreased amount is interpolated)
Float Param > -0.01
Float Param > +0.10
Float Param > -0.10
Float Param > +1.00
Float Param > -1.00
String Chooser Param > Next	Select the next item in for the given String Chooser Param of the plugin
String Chooser Param > Prev	Select the previous item in for the given String Chooser Param of the plugin