vamX 1.14 - Thrust, Clothes, Looks, Voice

vamX

I assume in step 3 you are reloading vamX from the Scene Browser from the Virt-a-Mate startup page? I was in Desktop mode but it should be the same I couldn't reproduce it, but I do have a couple of possible solutions for you. The body disappearing is very likely to have to do with the ImprovedPoV plugin. Try 1) Going to Plugins then pressing Clear All Plugins & Enable (first button). Let me know if that helps. You can also try editing the female atom and if you find the ImprovePoV plugin, remove it. Are you loading any session plugins or using any other plugins in general?

ja22

Uhh... actually I think I may have isolated the cause of the floating hair (at least for me), may I ask a huge favour and ask you to test something on your setup? 1. Load vamX 1.14 from the main UI page. 2. Select the dance scene 'Booty Bounce' - On mine this loads normally at this point. 3. Reload vamX 1.14, go to female voices and select French. 4. Select the dance scene 'Booty Bounce' - On mine I now have floating hair. It doesnt matter how many times I do 1 and 2, it will load normally, as soon as I do 3, the animation scenes have the problem. Note that I am doing this in VR loading through Steam.

ja22

Yep, will give going back to 1.13 a try (cant get 1.15 yet) will let you know

vamX

Unfortunately it's not possible to maintain possession while loading a new male pose. In the vamX possession 7 button menu, underneath, you can uncheck loading male poses, so that when switching poses you would manually move the male into place. This is best for if you have Vive trackers and full body posession. Otherwise, you can use the vamX quick possession to just put your head back and place and use both controllers grab buttons to quickly grab / possess the hands. This is all in the VR tutorial in vamX.

vamX

Very strange, have you tried going back to 1.13, or forward to 1.15. Can you give me a step by step of how you create an error, along with screenshots? What graphics quality settings do you have set? Perhaps reset your graphics quality settings to medium and see if that helps.

ja22

I am seeing some extremely odd effects from this version. 1.13 worked fine, however 1.14 has two strange issues even after rebuilding VAM so it was base app only, with the ONLY Addon being the var for 1.14. The first issue I saw was that for some of the dance scenes, if it was the default model, all that was present was the hair. Just floating hair. If you attempted to then switch appearance preset, the new preset would appear, but laying down like in the default vamX scene. The second strange issue is that even in non-animated scenes, if I loaded another appearance preset on the default female, the eyeballs would be bugging out like Arnie on the surface of Mars in Total Recall. I assumed this was due to conflicts somewhere with other addons, so I completely rebuilt VAM from the updater in an empty directory, and put only the 1.14 var in the addons, same exact issues. I assume if everyone was seeing this there would be more comments, so it may just be my config, but I am stumped.

Wunu

Every time I change pose I lose possession of the male. How can I always keep possession so that I don't have to re align every time a new pose is loaded?

vamX

You only need the latest version of the AddonPackages

trxct

Hi, should i download the previous addon packs or no, i got the packs for 1.14?

vamX

Not really. There has been a major release at least once per month (since the start of vamX). Features are a surprise, unless they are announced or discussed in posts specifically made for that. The latest one of those was https://www.patreon.com/posts/56064883 and I'm still working on some features discussed in that post, specifically the idea of more animation. Stay tuned, feel free to request features, and I'll try to keep cool stuff coming to your inbox.

vamX

I'll look into that, its a small button, but yes it would cast a shadow.

vamX

Sounds strange, can you upload an image somewhere. It shouldn't do this of course.

vamX

In many poses you can accidentally get anal. Try a few different male looks from the Male tab, and you'll probably end up in anal in many poses. Some chair poses specifically say anal. There is also a penis position slider, but that needs improvement, but should also be able to adjust for anal, maybe.

John Page

Is there a timeline of planned released uptdates?

I just noticed this. That although the vamx toolbar no longer casts a shadow. I think the hide button is casting one now.

why does the vamx interface go blank when I try selecting poses?

nerobravo

will there be an easier way to switch to anal in any upcoming updates?

vamX

Noted. Basically we are running complex formulas here that are trying to work for all possible positions without causing the penis to slip out (which it still does, but could do much more if we increase that top range of the woman's thrust). Will try to improve over time.

Zimbabwae

Also the thrust slider helps a LOT with the vigor (great feature!), but it may need to go even farther or perhaps have more influence specifically on the female. For instance, compare bed/cowgirl pose maximum thrust / max stimulation setting versus moving the female ThrustAPStep1:control up about +0.2 in Y axis from the maximum thrust value. The latter female looks much better/vigorous even compared to maximum thrust slider values. Similar issues in other poses, but that's a very clear example. Such changes would be relatively easy to tweak manually to taste but AutoThrust resets the position in a few seconds.

vamX

Will do. I'm a little back logged in features right now, as I have some pretty big things I'm working on ;) But I agree, this should happen and I'll put it on the main feature list. It may take a few months ...

Zimbabwae

Yes - would help with mismatches in size or for female female scenes

vamX

To help fix alignment?

Zimbabwae

Another impressive update. Lots of great stuff in this one and the thrust slider is excellent as are the new voices. I'm wondering if more control can be added to the penis position slider as well? Instead of just a simple slider that adjusts in one plane, have two planes of control?

vamX

I wouldn't be so worried about Caching completing fully. If it cache's most items, then things will run that much faster, and sometimes you'll run into things that aren't cached, and they will be cached once you load them normally for the first time. I believe the bottleneck in your system is the 16 GB of RAM. You would probably need 32. It doesn't matter the speed, I think, but rather its always progressing through the same order and old items aren't fully purged, so you just run out of RAM. Again, it's more of an added bonus feature, you don't HAVE to cache everything, and you could do this manually, for example for skins which are cached at the end, by just taking a minute and opening each skin in order (even while they load) and be done with it. Let me know if this isn't sufficient for you.

Skyeve

I can't get the clothing and skin caching to complete even after 20 attempts without it crashing, and I even tried it in Desktop mode with all performance settings turned down to low including resolution scaling downward. I know that this speaks more to either how underpowered my PC is or to how unoptimized VAM is, so I don't blame vamX, necessarily, but I wonder if it would help if there was a performance friendly caching option that intentionally cached everything slower so that there was less chance to crash? I don't know. My PC specs are i5-7600K, 16 GB RAM 2667 MHz, RTX 2070 Super, M.2 NVMe SSD.

SuperSamot

Oh baguette is hard

ALX.V

French voice! ooo la la.

Nawen

Really loving this one, wow the animations stand out, Thrust size makes other options like "Thrust and Roll" look so hot in some positions, like oral. I also like the Mood updates, and haven't messed with clothes too much but so far good and has me curious about the next version =o