March 18, 2020

Your "Package" Has Arrived. 1.19 Beta is Released!

Download/Install Instructions

Since this is a beta, you must check the "Beta Opt-In" box at bottom of updater. I plan to move this release out of beta in about 1 week. Note you must re-download the updater as mentioned in post earlier today in order to get this update or any others: 

https://www.patreon.com/posts/current-updater-35007081

Release Notes:

Features:

  • Add-On Packages System – Builder allows creating content for others to use. Manager allows managing packages full of content from others in an easy-to-use way. This is the future of content delivery and consumption in VaM!

  • Improved file browsers, with new shortcuts system for easy access to add-on packages and other folders

  • Improved memory management. Added button to unload inactive clothing and hair items to free memory. Skins now auto-unload when switching (can be disable to keep existing behavior of keeping inactive skins in memory)

  • Improved character loading and preset loading. Much smoother transitions.

  • Auto genital texture creation improvements: manual hue & saturation adjustments. Auto-generation of specular, gloss, and normal textures. Generated textures can be saved out for further refinement.

  • ImagePanel* atoms – added ability to tile images and gifs

Content:

  • Sample add-on packages from community providers. Special thanks to DJ, Jackaroo, JayC_Re-animator, NoOC, NoStage3, Vince, and Xstatic for allowing us to include their content!

  • Two new female skins from Ren: Mia and Kayla

  • Two new male skins from Jackaroo: Lee and Julian

  • New “Male Custom” skin from Jackaroo with source textures included in Custom/Atom/Person/Textures folder

  • Two new additional female skins: Lilith (Female 16) and Lorraine (Female 17)

  • Two new additional male skins: Lee (Male 8) and Scott (Male 9)

  • Hundreds of new male morphs

  • Body tattoo options for Danika and Adrianna skins

  • Added ImagePanelTransparent and ImagePanelTransparentEmissive atoms

  • Added 130 new short breath and sigh sounds from PixieWillow: https://www.patreon.com/PixieWillow

Tweaks:

  • Added error reporting for bad texture paths on clothing and other atom materials

  • Clothing and Hair items now show creator name and version number (for packaged items)

  • Improved plugin error handling for easier debug

  • Image thumbnails now have white background to better show transparent images

  • ImagePanel* atoms now have Alpha Cutoff param for adjusting transparency cutoff value

Bug Fixes:

  • Person atom can now be properly moved while off without causing a giant glitch when turning back on

  • Fixed missing hair material control for Tyler

  • Fixed issue with plugin compile failing after loading a plugin with a lot of lines in it

  • Fixed issue with face and limbs custom normal textures not releasing memory when no longer used

  • Fixed issue where clicking directory buttons in browsers would cause load of additional copy of thumbnail images into cache

  • Fixed issue with moving around while textures loading. No longer snaps long distances or angles

  • Fixed issue with creator name user preference not properly setting UI element on startup

  • Fixed preset delete/rename

  • Fixed issue where VR keyboard would not go away