Regolo Engine 1.20

Hi guys, welcome to the new Regolo Engine 1.20!
It's a special place where virtual girls can feel touch and climb stairs.
Are you ready for a crazy ride in the twilight zone?

The 1.20 videos

1.20 promo video 1080p

1.20 promo video 4K

An important notice before going on

90% of the behaviours introduced in this release don't have precalculated animations, there is not a specific spot to land the controllers on nor any patterns to understand the coordinates. The movement is solely based on the girl's hands tactile feedback.

Also, I noticed the last two release I zipped rooms with audio preloaded. It can cause slowness at the start and ruin initial settings, so please use the new 1.20 rooms without audio preloaded (or delete the audio files from the previous rooms if you want to use them)

What's new

Here's an overview of the new stuff, check the next paragraphs for insights and instructions on some of them.

The new behaviours and the girl-UI options are accessible from the wanderer mode.

behaviours

• discovery (dual)
  - girl can now explore the boy with her hands
  - interaction is based on tactile feedback
  - uses perception system 2.0
  - not bounded by your position/rotation and yet capable of following your stance
  
• climbing
  - now the girl can understand vertical obstacles
  - limited to regular stairs so far
  - can recognize them and climb them to the top
  
• mix@stairs
  - now the girl can understand vertical obstacles
  - limited to regular stairs so far
  - can recognize them and climb them to the top

new features

• perception system 2.0 improved again, now is able to understand the hands tactile feedback
• perception system now is able to recognize a staircase
• girl general tactile reactions in this release are more stable
• now you can change boy positional and rotational speed since the beginnig modifying the related options in the config file (boyPositionalSpeed and boyRotationalSpeed)

UI

• now you can change boy positional and rotation speed from the girl ui (third level)
• further perception 2.0 options added to girl ui

misc

• new room provided with pre assembled stairs to try out the climbing ability (StairsRoom)

fixes

• now not finding a proper furniture in the latest behaviours is finally managed, the girl just comes back to idle without nasty consequences. The impacted behaviours are Masturbate leaning, Doggy @support, Mix @seat and Mix @bed.
• deleted all the audio from the latest release rooms, now the initial positioning issues should be solved

current known bugs

• some users report issues sitting on chair, investigating
• some bad body rotations to girl can happen while in dual discovery, just move away and come back after the girl restores the position

As always, if you notice something that is not working fine please let me know and I will try to fix it asap hopefully faster than this month). Thanks in advance for this one too!

Animations? Where we're going we don't need animations!

As promised I have expanded the discovery, and I did it in the best possible way, that is giving the girl the hands tactile sensibility. When I started to plan it I sincerely scratched my head for several days trying to find a good way to implement it. I also though it was impossible at a certain time. Interaction with girl was nothing compared to dynamic interaction and mapping of the boy's body, believe me.

The result is a super flexible and interactive behavior though, that basically disrupts the limits of the predefined animations. Sincerely, I don't know how far this can be pushed, but even with all its current limits it already represents an important jump forward. 

So let's go digging it:

• you can enable the new interactions selecting "Dual" under interaction type menu. If you select "Only girl" after then you come back to the 1.19 discovery version of the behaviour. All the options above it can be used to modify the girl's movement/approach (but are ineffective in the "Only girl" version)
• basically she touches you and follows your body's skin with her hands, while she moves around you
• she lowers her body depending on where she is exploring and she will come near if disposition raises. When her body touches yours it reacts
• you can lower the boy's head to kneel and even more to lie down, to dynamically change the scene.
• you can set hands and head speed through exploration speed (use it since it can change the experience a lot)
• you can also change stability of the body (how much the body reacts to hands movements) and the speed of such reaction. These also change the experience a lot
• you can use head and hands or exclude one of them, but heads is still a bit buggy so I left unchecked at the beginning. I would use just hands for now, even if in some occasions head can give a lot of fun.
• you can set a minimum height and she will never explore below it
• you can grab her hands and reposition them wherever you want, she will start over from such spot. It's not guaranteed that she will linger on that spot though, if you want her to stay there you have to use the focus option
• "Focus" option to have her hands/head to linger on a specific spot. After having enabled it grab her hands and reposition the hands and they will stay there (or otherwise she will choose the lingering spot by herself). I think this is one of the most interesting feature of the two new behaviours since basically creates animations alone and can make a lot of entertaining combinations.
• you can force the direction of the hands in case the girl stubbornly doesn't want to go where you want
• you can enable delicate touch to soften hands sensibility
• since everything is driven by the girl hands touch, the boy can move and rotate, even lower himself as he wishes
• an important warning about this behaviour: it's the most free so far, it depends a lot on your imagination and how you drive the girl.
• also, as I wrote in the known bugs too, girl can come too near sometimes because high disposition and remain stuck in your legs or others, just move away and come back after the girl restores the position
• final warning: when you select dual the general tactile reaction is pleasure, I recommend to not change it. When you select again "only girl" it will become random once again

I wrote a lot, but as last thing let mw say I really worked a lot on this, so I hope you will enjoy it or at least find it interesting 😋 .

A new dimension

At a certain point I had this crazy idea of adding verticality to the girl world vision, so I started working at the climbing system. It's still very simple so far, it works on stairs only, and fairly regular ones. On regular stairs it's very robust though and can already climb a lot of stairs types, with steps not too tall and not too narrow. 

Stairs must have at least 2 steps to be accepted by the girl, but she will try to climb it to the top if she recognizes a feasible shape. There are a lot of scenarios that can be used now and probably even better in the future, like a multi floor house scenario.

I added a new room with prebuilt stairs (StairsRoom). If you use it, remember that the girl will always choose the nearest staircase, so in case approach the one you want to try with the girl before activating the behaviour. There's a new stairs in the apartment room too.

You can create new ones too, obviously, it's very easy, you can use any piece of furniture regular enough to be stacked as steps (I use IslWallPost a lot, for example, and I change their physical properties to enlarge them). Just be sure the steps are not too high or too narrow.
So please, create safe stairs for our baby 😁 .

You make me wish I had three hands

So after having created the hands tactile system and the climbing system I thought: "why not having the girl exploring herself on the top of a stair?". And so the new mix@ stairs was born.

Some details on it:

• after she climbs the stairs she will seat on the last step recognized by the climb system and will start to touch herself.
• she will choose autonomously how and where to touch herself, driven by disposition that will change intensity and speed.
• while the disposition grow she will prefer some body parts respect others
• you can grab her hands and reposition them where you want, she will start moving from there and reach the part she prefers
• if you want her to linger on a specific zone you can use the focus option, the most useful in my opinion. Basically after having selected and every time you grab her hands after it she will stay on the next spot she will touch.
• you can as usual change disposition and lock it
• last but not least, using touch feedback enables compatibility with any model, since it's all perception based and not size based. In the video I showed a big breast in action for example. i didn't change anything to have her touch it properly.

For now the touch system is still gross, it doesn't have a proper distribution system, recognizes where it is but it's not able to regulate the whole hand. I think there's room to improve it massively and that this is already on the right path. It's incredible the animations she puts in place without having defined one of them previously.

Also, I know it's not a proper mix behaviour, but it will grow next month and it has already a good dynamism so I honored it with such name on trust 😁

How to use it

Regolo Engine 1.20 has been built and tested on VaM 1.20.77.9.

• download your version
• put the zip file in the VaM folder and extract it there:
  - dll and config file will be placed under <VaM>/Custom/Scripts/RegoloVR
  - room files will be placed under <VaM>/Saves/scene/RegoloVR
  - Audio and Dance folders will be placed under <VaM>/Custom/Sounds/RegoloVR
  - assetbundles will be placed under <VaM>/Custom/Assets/RegoloVR
• [optional] put the songs files you want the girl to dance in the  <VaM>/Saves/scene/RegoloVR/Dance folder
• [optional] edit the proper config file (RegoloEngine_E.json for Enchanter or  RegoloEngine_I.json  for Illusionist )
• load the proper room (RegoloEngineRoom_1.20_E for Enchanter or RegoloEngineRoom_1.20_I for Illusionist)
• [optional] load a different room in case:
  - load the skeleton room instead if you plan a merge load with another scene
  - load the playground room instead if you plan to test the new smart walking behaviour
  - load the apartment room if you want to test smart walking again or behaviours that use perception system
• load the plugin on the girl (the dll file)
• [optional] choose an anima or obsession to use the old engine, select "Wanderer anima" instead to use the new one (a new dynamic UI will appear on the gilr's head)
• [optional]  change the UI options as desired
• possess the boy or align with him

Detailed instructions about dance folder and dance UI can be found in the 1.8 release post.

It's highly recommended to disable soft body physics to enhance the experience and avoid undesirable effects. In fact the many random frictions caused by most of the behaviours generated by the plugin cause unpredictable soft-physics reactions.

Change physics update cap to 1 if you experience trembling issues.

Also an important recommendation: safest way to start over the plugin execution is to clear it, reset girl's pose manually (from the person -> control panel) and then reload it. The plugin tries to automatically reset the pose at every start but it's not always perfect.

Please remember the furniture list known by the girl, below. You can delete and add duplicates but there always must be one and only one couch with the guy over it. Also, don't create steeplechases and create a regular environment as the standard room provided, please.

"AptSofa" (mandatory and just one) beside the sofa there should be at least one of the following known furniture (PlayerNavigationPanel for example, and they can be also more than one for type)

"DreamHomeWebTV"
"DSBR_Bench"
"AptPatioChair"
"AptBookShelf"
"DSBR_Bed"
"AptChair"
"AptCoffeeTable"
"AptSmartTV"
"AptSmartWebTV"
"AptTVStand"
"PlayerNavigationPanel"

Limitations and caveats

- Consider always that anima and obsessions are mutually exclusive. Every time you choose one of them you lose the previous settings. You can check your current choice looking at the yellow info box at the lower left corner of the UI.

- The Enchanter room tries to load 500+ audio files at the beginning, but it doesn't need to do that again if you just reset the plugin.  The songs for the dancing load at the beginning too (but can changed and reloaded in real time via UI).

- Being it totally procedural, there can be better and worse runs.

- Some behaviours have really a large spectrum of possibilities, so some unlucky variations are unavoidable.

In the end

I'm very excited for the hands tactile feature, guys, it was painful to develop but now I have an incredible tool to be used. The engine has grown a lot since the beginning but this one is really something special. I hope my imagination will leave up to it .

We will find out already in a month, I guess.

1.21 will be out in April, see you in few weeks!

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