everlaster

Body Weight v1.0.2 (3.var)

• fixed error on initialization due to male genitals controllers not available yet - parameters for these will now be initialized on demand when loading a male skin

-everlaster

Naturalis v1.4-alpha10b (86.var)

Fixed two issues introduced in alpha10:

• Fixed issue where the calibration pose did not correctly update the hip joint rotation.

• Fixed issue where loading a scene saved with alpha9 (84.var) would complain about missing glute under curve morphs. Those morphs, like the g-force morphs, are now forced to the default configurations using the morphs from the current package. Saving/loading customizations to the morph configurations will be added later on.

Naturalis v1.4-alpha10 (85.var)

Hello everyone. This release contains updated glute g-force morphs, and all new g-force morphs for calves and upper arms, plus a few fixes.

Updated glute g-force morphs

The updated glute morphs are the first result of a new DAZ workflow for creating high quality morphs for animation. This workflow is the handiwork of a 3d artist/modeler that I've been exchanging ideas with and received some very valuable advice from for months now. I'll get into more details about that collabora...

Naturalis v1.4-alpha9 (84.var)

Shapeshift morphing system technical improvements

Alright. My goals with this release were to improve the thigh g-force morphs, and to implement glute undercurve morphs and anchor them to the thigh joint angle.

It turned out that simply implementing and configuring those morphs was not enough to get the effects I wanted. So I implemented a few technical improvements to the morphing system that allow more fine tuned control over how a morph's value is calculated. In short, each m...

Naturalis v1.3 free release

Naturalis v1.3 is now available for free on the Hub! https://hub.virtamate.com/resources/naturalis-free.35101/update/67562/

Although v1.4 is still in alpha, I wanted to get the new features and fixes in v1.3 out to free users. The free release includes a couple of fixes from the latest v1.4 alpha as well, including the fix to the 10-minute timed hiccup when VAM resets morphs. 2024-08-02 11:50:19 +0000 UTC View Post

UXPlus v1.1.1 (12.var)

• fixed bug in the plugins list Reorder function where incorrect plugin ids were assigned to triggers in the scene targeting the plugins when multiple plugin# numbers were updated in one go, causing the reordering to break triggers

• fixed error when right clicking some local custom morph sliders - RightClickMenu should now reliably identify the triggerable parameter

• the "pluginLabel" triggerable string parameter is now identified by RightClickMenu when right...

  2024-07-30 10:30:35 +0000 UTC View Post

Naturalis v1.4-alpha8 (83.var)

Hi! Back after a summer break of sorts. Didn't really plan it, it just kind of happened due to various circumstances. Anyway, all good, things are now progressing. Let's get to the content of this release - a quick summary:

• g-force morphs for the overall chest area

• added more morphs for the back

• various important fixes

Chest g-force morphs

As shown in the video, the chest morphs affect the broader chest area rather than just ...

Naturalis v1.4-alpha7 (82.var)

Hi, this is a small release that fixes some issues and adds marginal improvements to the in-plugin preset and clothing profile preset UI.

Fixes

• Reverted an earlier change from alpha6 in which I tried to load poses during calibration entirely in memory (without saving/loading pose files). It caused atoms linked to the person's joints to shift relative to their positions before calibration. Undoing this change was easier than trying to figure out how to make the in-memory ...

  2024-07-04 14:09:39 +0000 UTC View Post

UXPlus v1.1.0: Script presets (11.var)

This update introduces script presets for saving, loading and setting user defaults for individual scripts. The Alternate Plugins List module of UXPlus is now finalized and UXPlus is out of beta! 🎉

Hub update post: https://hub.virtamate.com/resources/uxplus.44333/update/66303/

The main Hub post is also updated: 2024-07-03 15:32:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Naturalis v1.4-alpha6c (81.var)

Patching some bugs:

• fixed bad pose loading logic in the previous two releases (alpha6 and alpha6b) that could result in errors due to interactions with other plugins during calibration, and crash the atom/scene due to physics corruption

• fixed issue where restoring the pose after calibration did not properly snap the joints to their stored positions

• fixed issue where the Monitor Morphs And Atom Scale user preference setting was overwritten by the equ...

  2024-06-29 08:55:27 +0000 UTC View Post

Naturalis v1.4-alpha6b (80.var)

• Fixed issue present since v1.4-alpha4 where clothing profiles did not save correctly

• In the G-force Morphs tab, updated the Reset button of the primary/secondary anchor to restore the anchor selection and sliders/toggles to the defaults for that morph (instead of unchecking the boxes and setting sliders to 0)

The Hub resource is also updated: https://hub...

Naturalis.79.var fixed and reuploaded

Fixed compile error in the previously uploaded plugin var. The version number is the same, I've just reuploaded the fixed version - be sure to download it again: https://www.patreon.com/everlaster/membership

v1.4 alpha6 release post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/naturalis-v1-4-106676735

-everlaster

Naturalis v1.4-alpha6 (79.var)

After much ado, a new release is here 🎉

Summary:

• I ended up redoing the abdomen g-force morphs, it was easier than to try to fix issues with the previous morphs (more on that below).

• added and improved glute g-force morphs

• introduced thigh g-force morphs

• the way that g-force morphs jiggle can now be controlled with springs and dampers

• implemented morphing regions that allow adjusting the multiplier, spring and ...

  2024-06-22 18:46:45 +0000 UTC View Post

A quick progress update

Hi, just to notify everyone that the update I planned a week ago to be released within a week is slightly behind schedule. Probably a few more days before it's ready. Thanks for your patience!

I decided to introduce a simple spring-damper setup that can be applied to the g-force morphs per region or per morph. These enable a much better control over how the morphs jiggle, compared to the previous "smooth frames" setting which just averaged the acceleration value over the p...

Development status

Progress in Shapeshift:

• work on improving the UI

• grouped the joints (anchors of g-force and angle morphs) into regions, and added sliders for setting morphing multipliers per region so you don't have to tweak each individual morph just to have more/less effect on a specific region

• the smooth frames setting of g-force morphs is now also a region setting, and by default each morph uses the region setting, but morphs can also override that and use thei...

  2024-06-12 13:34:18 +0000 UTC View Post

Naturalis v1.4-alpha5 (78.var)

This release includes fixes/QOL updates and some UI changes.

Updated main tab layout

I updated the main tab layouts of TittyMagic, BootyMagic and PussyMagic to make better use of the available space. The Naturalis user preferences button is split into separate General and Calibration preferences buttons, and the Preferences & More section can fit some additional content later.

Other changes in this view

• The advanced soft physics help texts mention the pe...

  2024-06-03 11:31:38 +0000 UTC View Post

Naturalis framerate testing: Part 2

Continuing from https://www.patreon.com/posts/naturalis-105368543

I've now tested the advanced soft physics features as well. Local distortion physics, depth physics and spread physics (all of which continuously adjust soft physics parameters) will absolutely choke my Ryzen 3700X in the two person test scenario with all soft physics on and cycle forces running.

There's some small optimization...

Naturalis framerate testing

I've been doing some thorough testing of the performance impact of Naturalis v1.4. At a high level, there's some code that would benefit from optimization, but the impact of optimizing code is going to be very small in comparison to optimizing the morphs.

To everyone not yet using the unofficial CPU performance patch, you should! In my testin...

Naturalis v1.4-alpha4 (77.var)

Hello!

This release contains the new Shapeshift module which includes

• The previously showcased abdomen g-force morphs

• New glute g-force morphs! (Check the attached test scene.)

• A couple of simple g-force morphs for the back (no visible jiggling, just shifting slightly with gravity)

• The Bone Offsets feature 2024-05-28 21:23:16 +0000 UTC View Post

Shapeshift WIP: abdomen g-force morphing

The video demonstrates how gravity affects the abdomen shape, how moving joints connected to the abdomen produces jiggles, and the dramatic difference when vibrating the belly with a cycle force.

The abdomen/belly region was natural choice for implementing the first set of morphs for many reasons:

• it doesn't have soft physics, so it really needs some jiggle morphs

• it's a region that connects the chest area to the hip, and the morphs of those regions will sli...

  2024-05-25 17:05:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Development status

Hi. I've made some good progress on the technical side and UI. Not much progress on the morphs yet, however I'm pretty confident that the acceleration based morphs won't take long to create.

The joint angle based morphs are more labor intensive to do because of the requirement to start the sculpting of each morph from a different pose (specific joint at a specific angle), and those poses can't be done within DAZ on the base Genesis 2 figure because of how the bones are positioned and ro...

Development status

Hey everyone, just checking in with a progress update.

Developments since the last update

• Joint angle morphing system requirements are mostly done, it works similarly to the acceleration system but the lower and upper limits are defined as joint angles rather than as G-forces

• Morph values are adjusted along a smooth curve, so that they change more slowly near the lower and upper acceleration or angle limits

• Support for morph values to be inf...

  2024-05-10 10:48:46 +0000 UTC View Post

UXPlus v1.1-beta3b (10.var)

VAM no longer hangs and eventually crashes when reordering a plugins list that contains a particularly large Timeline instance.

That's it! Since this fix is unlikely to be relevant to many people, I didn't send the link to everyone's inbox. You can find it in the membership tab. :)

-everlaster

Joint Acceleration Morphing tech showcase

Hi.

A month and a half ago, I laid out a rough plan for Naturalis 1.4 in this development status post.

The idea was to release a separate general joint angle morphing plugin, and then develop a new morphing system with new custom morphs for Naturalis. I've made some changes this plan, and I'm very excited to let you know what's coming!

Joint Acceleration Morphing

Firstly, when...

Naturalis v1.4-alpha3 (76.var)

A small patch and technical update, no new features.

• Fixed issue where the simulation of gravity that the plugin runs during calibration did not stop at the end of calibration until you navigated into the plugin UI and out again, or manually clicked "Stop" in the gravity controls panel (introduced in v1.4-alpha2)

• At the end of calibration, the plugin now restores the use of gravity on each joint in the body to the value it was in before calibration began (i.e. tru...

  2024-04-26 11:54:19 +0000 UTC View Post

Body Weight v1.0.1 (2.var)

Link to Hub update post (same as below): https://hub.virtamate.com/resources/body-weight.45962/update/63076/

Save mass values with pose

This will save the masses into VAM's joint controls (chestControl, hipControl etc.), and the masses will then save with the pose and scene, and ...

Body Weight v1.0 (1.var)

Hello! Here's a small new plugin that allows you to adjust the masses of different regions of the body, and includes defaults that distribute the mass realistically for a total of 60 kg.

The default mass in VAM is weird, the person only weighs 27.4 kg and the mass is not distributed correctly. It's also a surprising that the masses of different joints are not adjustable in the UI by default, with the exceptions of breast and glute mass.

Check the Hub post for a demo video and mor...

Naturalis v1.4-alpha2 (75.var)

Advanced soft physics features are now implemented in PussyMagic!

PussyMagic Advanced Soft Physics

Check out videos in the Hub update post: https://hub.virtamate.com/resources/naturalis.33647/updates...

Naturalis v1.4-alpha1c (74.var)

• fixed bug where the plugin didn't properly wait for all three scripts to be fully initialized before creating the UI in Skin Materials 2, causing that tab's content to disappear

  • I wasn't able to reproduce the issue on my installation at all, but reportedly it works now, fingers crossed. Thanks to patron Ulrich Berghegger for the logs and for testing!

• fixed error during initialization when adding to male character

I might have jin...

Naturalis v1.4-alpha1b (73.var)

• fixed silent error on scene load / plugin preset load

• fixed occasional error when removing plugin

Any further bugs - please report! Thank you. The more info you can give the better.