Time For A New Wardrobe! Release 1.17 Is Out!
Added 2019-05-21 22:40:26 +0000 UTCHighlights
- Custom Clothing Import
- Clothing Textures
- New Presets System
Download
The updater has been vastly overhauled, and this will be the recommended install and update mechanism going forward. This new version is a lot faster and a lot more reliable. The updater now allows switching which version your are synced to. This will allow rollback in case there are issues with a patch.
A lot of assets were changed in 1.17 due to clothing updates, so the update is fairly large in size (about 1/3 of full download size). It is still recommended to use the update method instead of full install, but full zip download links are included below.
- Updater Method (recommended): Direct (Extract contents of zip to existing VaM install folder and run VaM_Updater.exe to update. Or extract contents to new directory and run VaM_Updater.exe for a new install)
- Torrent (full zip download)
- Mega (full zip download)
Release Notes
Features:
- Updater complete overhaul. Now allows selecting version of VaM to sync. Major speed improvement. Major reliability improvement. Incremental build support (replaces unreliable binary patch method).
- Custom clothing import. Create custom clothing items. Full support for sim included
- Custom texture support for clothing, including addition of decal texture slot.
- Custom texture support for some atoms (more coming in future releases)
- New Presets system. Atom presets. Large variety of Person presets: Pose, Overall Look, Physics, Skin, Morph, Hair, Clothing (set), Clothing (per item)
- Materials – shader queue selection to control render order for better stack control
- Additional clothing controls: breast and glute physics multiplier control. Anatomy show/hide control
- More eye material control - eyelashes and whites
Content:
- Existing clothing items updated to support custom textures and additional material parameters. Many items updated to use standard clothing shader. Some items have added additional textures like normal maps for better default look.
- Official male->female shape morph added: MVR_G2Female (found in Actor section)
Bug Fixes:
- Grab + trigger hand toggle introduced in 1.16 has been removed. Back to old functionality which many were using to switch from quick grab to hold grab.
- Fixed issue with browsing directory when a specific directory was a substring of another
Tweaks:
- Memory usage greatly improved. Textures unloaded from GPU when no longer used. Assets unloaded when no longer used. Opening or clearing scene triggers additional cleanup of unused assets. Please note that if switching between skins, hair, or clothing, those items are not cleared from memory immediately to allow rapidly switching clothing items and retaining the loaded or changed settings. When Person atom is removed, they are purged.
- Reset morph basis on regular interval to prevent melting people
- Custom texture reuse. Loaded textures are now shared between all materials that use them to reduce memory usage.
- File path browse params now remember the last directory they were browsed to instead of just the global last browse dir
- Person texture import now supports png normal maps for mass import since tif files can be very large in size comparatively
- File/Directory browse now allows access to other drives on system
- Sim clothing now has sim enable param and toggle
- Entering a value on a slider that is not clamped now allows entry out of the current range
- Male groin-area clothing vastly improved. New wrap method added that can utilize the base vertices under the graft (genital) mesh.
- Improved exception handling for better stability
Comments
how do i get the red dress?
2019-06-04 08:16:20 +0000 UTCYes !!! I have same problem , I lost this feature , very useful !!! Please add again !
herve SACUTO
2019-05-31 17:23:05 +0000 UTCSomethin non cloting relevant. Please bring back the trigger grab hide hand feature. It's so important to switch between collision enabled hands for undress and a non colision (nothing-controllers) to pupeteer. Please just bring it back or make it as an option. Please!!
VR Ambassador
2019-05-26 20:25:33 +0000 UTCi'm confuse too with cloth, we need a tuto to explain everything
herve SACUTO
2019-05-24 21:21:24 +0000 UTCI’m a bit confused. Where are all the new clothing items like seen in this preview? or are there not any new clothing items? Not quite sure how this works just yet me to
2019-05-24 02:14:09 +0000 UTCI’m a bit confused. Where are all the new clothing items like seen in this preview? or are there not any new clothing items? Not quite sure how this works just yet
Cc
2019-05-23 15:58:50 +0000 UTCThank you, for this version 👍❤️
Konstantin
2019-05-23 04:33:21 +0000 UTCfile has to have the DUF extension. Also Meshed VR is putting out a patch to fix upload issues concerning this so I would wait for it to drop before worrying about the custom clothing.
Dorvak
2019-05-23 00:18:32 +0000 UTCIt is render order issue. You can go into catsuit materials Shader tab and adjust render queue until the issue goes away.
Meshed VR
2019-05-22 21:37:30 +0000 UTCthere appears to be a bug with the catsuit that messes up scalp texture. i think its making changes to scalp offset and thickness
BY
2019-05-22 17:50:34 +0000 UTCso pls help me here, trying to load the cloth file but there is no file?
asfaroth
2019-05-22 17:17:42 +0000 UTCMeshed VR, you are my all-time favorite developer <3
Ricky
2019-05-22 16:30:58 +0000 UTCYep
Evil Ash
2019-05-22 14:58:51 +0000 UTCThat makes sense as to why I couldn't load. Whats the exact path for the stock location? You think it would be possible to just create the folder path it specifically wants if you don't have Daz installed?
Dorvak
2019-05-22 14:26:18 +0000 UTCThere is already an issue using the clothing creator. If you have other locations, drives, then the content will not load. It just reads, Reading libraries. This if not good as I don't want to have to redownload a product just to move it in the documents location using up space. Anything that is the stock location loads, Documents/DAZ3D/Studio...etc
2019-05-22 14:10:11 +0000 UTCI'll be putting out a patch today. I'll also put up some kind of clothing import quick-guide
Meshed VR
2019-05-22 11:07:05 +0000 UTCSuccess - via new updater - placed two files in VaMhome, ran updater, creator key works. Thanks Meshed.
SWX
2019-05-22 11:06:41 +0000 UTCPeople were generally not happy with my selection of saves, etc. clogging up their folders, so no built-in presets were included to prevent this same issue.
Meshed VR
2019-05-22 11:06:18 +0000 UTCYes I am in 1st wave of Index preorders
Meshed VR
2019-05-22 11:05:09 +0000 UTCThere is issue with determining the DAZ libraries automatically from the registry that seems to affect some people not using the main public DAZ library. I might add a manual library selection if I cannot fix the auto method.
Meshed VR
2019-05-22 11:04:49 +0000 UTCworks great, thanks!
Jonathan
2019-05-22 09:02:09 +0000 UTCThank you for this!
2019-05-22 07:52:16 +0000 UTCwarum Funktioniert das nicht ?
Toshie27
2019-05-22 06:46:28 +0000 UTCGreat work thanks! :-)
2019-05-22 06:16:16 +0000 UTCI guess im going to wait for the patch for this update, or until more explanation on how it works.....
Dorvak
2019-05-22 05:26:38 +0000 UTCTested it.. Question. All this talk of new presets and I don't see any built in presets??? Also the male 2 and 3 skins are messed up around the crotch area. Texture issue?
eclypse
2019-05-22 05:15:13 +0000 UTCHave tested uploading multiple different clothing items and it doesnt work....
Dorvak
2019-05-22 02:06:21 +0000 UTCThanks for the update, looking forward to checking it out :) New launcher looks good too. Were you able to preorder an Index and controller? Looking forward to the new controls!
Patron
2019-05-22 01:31:17 +0000 UTCNo
Toshie27
2019-05-22 01:04:36 +0000 UTCSomeone let me know if you've actually been successful in uploading a custom clothing file
Dorvak
2019-05-22 00:39:03 +0000 UTCbei mir wird erst gar keine Kleidung angezeigt. jeder Ordner wird als Leer Angezeigt ?
Toshie27
2019-05-22 00:14:53 +0000 UTConly issue im running into is uploading clothing. I am selecting the duf file and it doesn't import. It just says reading libraries forever. I've waitied 10 minutes just to see if it needed time and its still saying reading libraries.
Dorvak
2019-05-22 00:13:25 +0000 UTCSorry habe 1.17 neu Installiert aber es gibt keine Neue Kleidung ?
Toshie27
2019-05-22 00:04:17 +0000 UTCYou have to download the new updater
Dorvak
2019-05-21 22:54:43 +0000 UTCvery gooooood. l'm happy
Patrick Bedard
2019-05-21 22:54:08 +0000 UTCFinally, now more melting women!! Haha
eclypse
2019-05-21 22:50:06 +0000 UTCStrangely, the updater doesnt see 1.17. It shows the 1.16.0.2 release as the latest.
2019-05-21 22:49:29 +0000 UTCtime to test it out
Dorvak
2019-05-21 22:45:48 +0000 UTCYESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!
Dorvak
2019-05-21 22:45:39 +0000 UTCAwesome!
eclypse
2019-05-21 22:41:30 +0000 UTC
