1.18.1.4 Released - Hair Style Tool improvements and bug fixes

To follow up on last week's 1.18.1 Beta release, 1.18.1.4 is now fully released and brings a lot of improvements and bug fixes. Thanks everyone for the testing and reports!

Run VaM_Updater.exe in your existing install dir to get the update. If you don't yet have VaM, make a new folder in a non-admin-protected area, and extract the contents of this zip, and run VaM_Updater.exe to get VaM. See the overview page for more info in general.

Release Notes

See previous 1.18.1 Beta release post for all changes since 1.18.0 and some tips on how to use the new hair styling features

Features:

• VR motion controller triggers now control hair tool strength when tools if hold grabbed. Triggers change strength for 0 to the value set in the UI for the tool. Allows very precise control and deactivation when tool is in middle of hair.
• New hair style mode parameter : Up Hair Pull Strength. Used by all tools to control how much changes to lower parts of hair will pull on the higher parts of hair. This gives vastly more options for the styling tools

Tweaks:

• Improved styling tools in general
• Improved hair cut and grow tools that hold style a bit better
• Clicking “Generate Hair” button now forces regeneration of all hair
• Physics sim is now always enabled in style mode even if checked off on physics tab since style mode requires physics to work
• Allow shorter buzz cuts
• Scale mask edit now shows wireframe of mesh to aid with choosing vertices – a complete triangle is necessary to generate a hair strand so this should aid with single strand areas
• Style mode now renders all simulated strands exactly in the simulated positions
• Newly created clothing and hair items now create UID from creator name and store name to help prevent UID conflicts
• Hair and clothing creator now gives and error and does not store when UID is not available

Bugs:

• Fixed Long + Straight (Old) hair
• Position/Rotation missing handles fixed
• Scalp mask edit and style modes now exit properly on disable or destroy of hair
• Fixed hair scale issues
• Fixed issue with create new item button remaining after item was saved
• Fixed issue with create new item button not getting live updated as changes to the name fields happened
• Fixed issue with style mode root radius not working
• Fixed issue with hair pull tool destroying hair by pulling into a singularity
• Fixed issue with hair growing between switch from style mode to normal mode
• Fixed tracker possession not working in many cases