1.18.0.6 Released And 1.18.1 Update
I felt there was need for another patch release to address issues and bugs found in 1.18.0.5. Release notes below. Use VaM_Updater.exe to get the patch. If you are having trouble with updater, several users have reported on-screen-display applications like MSI Afterburner + Riva Tuner are causing the updater to not work. I'm still attempting to repeat this on my system to see if it can be fixed on my end. In the meantime, if you have this application or another like it, try disabling or exiting before running the updater.
1.18.1
1.18.1 has been further delayed due to this additional patch work, but my feeling is quality should come first before new features are worked on. Now that 1.18.0 is in good shape, I will be entering a cave and will be unresponsive to direct messages and inactive on Discord for how many ever number of days it takes to complete 1.18.1. Here is what you can expect from 1.18.1 when it arrives:
Hair Sim V3 - this system uses skin wrap instead of static mesh for the scalp. This allows hair to adjust properly to different head shapes from morphing.
Custom Hair Styles - you will be able to make new hair styles using hair sim V3 and a number of in-game tools for grow/cut/comb. These new styles will show up as new items in the hair chooser and can be easily shared with others.
Custom Hair Scalps - you will be able to import custom scalp meshes to grow hair from. This import will work a lot like clothing import, only you can grow hair out of the mesh vertices. This should allow using hair sim system for other types of hair (face, body, etc.)
Multiple-hair enable - you will be able to enable multiple styles at the same time, allowing for mix and match and varying physics on different pieces of an overall style. This also allows for hair on different regions to be active at same time.
Hair Tagging and Filtering System - similar to clothing tag and filtering in 1.18.0
1.18.0.6 Release Notes
Tweaks:
Improved custom morph checking - now checks to make sure custom morph is unique by both "id" and "displayName" since that is what is required internally for everything to work correctly.
Synced up built-in tags from clothing creator and clothing browser. Fixed UI sizing for the panels
SteamVR - Teleport now allows multiple clicks to teleport multiple times without having to take thumb completely off of pad
Made X buttons on text entry fields bigger with bigger click zone
Exposed JSON param for setting is pose loader uses snap or not
Bug Fixes:
Fixed issue with load hang (stuck in Restoring atom Person) when reading a custom morph that had a null displayName
Fixed grab and teleport navigation to work in all modes again
Fixed several places where textures were not getting freed, leaking memory
Fixed cylinder and tube atom collision issue
Fixed some Ren skin texture options swapping in incorrect specular texture
Fix for file browser to properly support file names with “.” In them
Fix for transient morphs not working with merge loading
Fixed Vive Tracker unpossess not working when using 2-Stage Possess Without Clear
Fixed load pose or other manual manipulation of a possessed control breaking ability to grab. The manual manipulation was not clearing the possessed state.
Fixed bone morph conflict between male and female banks causes bad results in bone positions and orientations
Fix for when other gender morphs are disabled, their bone offsets were still being applied and not getting reset back to 0
Comments (29)
Where do I enter my key? I joined as a Creator but I see nowhere to enter the code on the main screen and am limited to free content.
having same issue cept mines the keys posts i can see all others
Well, i just joined Creator Tier and cant access any (even no lower) tier postings, and also so no keys :( any advice?
Did you make sure your payment went through alright? If you go to the top of this page, click the "Overview" tab next to the Posts Tab,. Then under his Avatar/name/info, there is a box that says "Featured Tags" with the word Keys in bold lettering. Click that. It should take you right to the post for your key. :) And welcome to the VaM Club!
Oculus Quest? Does it work with this game?
In November an update will allow quest to be used like a rift through USB-C cable. They are calling it the Oculus Link.
Yeah well it's beautiful and all and there really nothing out there quite like this. VaM is unique, no argument there. However, once the wow effect settles down, I just can't, just can't get used to how everything clips through everything. Pull bodies through furniture, cuffs through skin and bones, no problem. Get a member or a prop into an orifice where it belongs - major issue. And once you manage to get it in it promptly pops out through the hip or neck or back, whatever. I know I know colliders and whatnot. Point is, this issue is central to VaM. No other feature is more important. Not VR, not clothing, not the UI. This is not DAZ. "Meshed VR", I implore you, please recognize this fact. Thanks.
It would be cool if you could apply clothing to an Empty. That way you could import static objects with editable materials through the clothing importer. Or better yet, it would be cool if there was a tool to import static objects from Daz like the clothing importer.
aucun soucis sur cette version de mon coté, une idée sur une date pour la 18.1 par hasard ?
1 Terabyte HD?!! Haha ya umm no dude. My VAM file is 21.9 GB and that's including a good number of scenes. My tiny 250 GB NON sata hard drive works just fine. VAM ran on a old i5, and now runs better on a Ryzen 2600g. Don't have or know what a grapiccart is so unfortunately cant comment on that one, but everything else you said is completely false.
Game crahs so many times.Unplayable
Well that was the most painful software installation in a long time. 9 GB should take exactly 2,5 h to download, but the installer apparently downloads one file at a time making everything slower. Then it downloads huge files of several 100 MB which repeatedly fail hash checking, resulting in downloading it again and again. As if that wasn't enough it makes it a fatal error to fail the hash check multiple times thereby introducing a manual component in the whole process meaning you have to babysit it or no further progress will be made. In the end it didn't take 2,5 hours, but several days to download measly 9 GB. A simple torrent would have been so much better, especially with hash failure. Any other way would have been better. And I haven't even mentioned that after all this when I try to run it Win 10 complains that the app can't be run on this PC. So I look for system requirements in several places, but can find no mention of any. Nowhere can I find info on whether the 32 bit installer is actually installing a 64 bit app or if the problem is something else.
If you want to be taken seriously you should probably stop asserting things about internet connections and machines that you know nothing about. "do not complain about the software" -- I see that you know nothing about software or improving onboarding experiences. The fact remains that a technology like torrents would not foolishly retry downloading 500 MB large chunks on a checksum error when 1 MB is enough. Not to mention designing the whole process so that it's necessary to babysit it. Why do you think there are checksums at all? Because these things actually happen. Sometimes it's the connection, sometimes it's the harddrive, and sometimes you get served the wrong data over and over again from the source (lookup "CDN" on Wikipedia if you don't understand how this could happen). If you fail to recognize that all this happens in the real world, then you're bound to design the process wrong. Don't deprave others from trying to improve things just because you have no desire to.
2 more things - it seems it's no longer showing which point you're hovered over, just the atom name. And the VR Leap Motion options always switches to collision off when closing, you have to reset it each time.
I don't know what it is, but it's been freezing/closing a lot in VR mode.
Invalid key. Invalid key. Invalid key. FFS. Anybody?
Solved. Went back to vers 1.17, used the key for 1.17 and it loaded fine as creator. Then I updated to the3 latest and it seems fine. Just in case anyone else runs into a similar issue...
It was my bad. My pledge hadn't gone through. Fixed that. But now it tells me the creator key is invalid *sigh*
Core repair didn't help. Went back to 0.5 version and the problem persists. Something in my settings? Anyone else having this issue?
Just updated and lost all my load buttons on the main File (open/save). I cannot open anything except New Scene which just puts me into a loop to the default loading scene. Help!
Vive Cosmos doesnt work? No controller signal
I can't wait to become a virtual hair dresser, lol. :D
Is the developer no longer creating demo scenes/content to show off new features? All these nice updates but I don't know how to test them...
There's enough creators out there to reduce the demand on the developer.
'quality should come first '... i think we can all agree on that. keep up the great work!
im so excited for custom hair. I cant wait.
thanks for breaking up the updates and not making me wait for these great changes
Ok, good updates, thanks for the information, we really appreciate the fact that you take the time and describe everything in detail.
HAIL!!!