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Monthly Report: January

Hello! It's this time of the month again. I'm still working on that scene I talked about. This turned out more time consuming that expected. Well, kind of expected. I'm still figuring out how I want to solve some problems, that's why I won't commit to any particular release date or feature set, it w...

Essentials v7: PowerHandles

Your most essential MacGruber tools in a convenient single VAR package. Version 7 introduces the PowerHandles plugin that was teased a week ago and is intended for heavy users of the VaM Desktop mode. I was annoyed by often accidentally rotating instead of moving and vice versa. Check the video here. See the changelog ...

[WIP] PowerHandles Plugin

Just a little idea I had on the side to for easier placement of stuff when using VaM Desktop mode. I was annoyed by often accidentally rotating instead of moving and vice versa. So now you can only see/use the move handles when holding CTRL and the rotation handles when holding ALT. You can also use the global coordina...

Tutorial: Installing VAR packages from Patreon

Why does something as simple as installing VAR package need a tutorial? Well, glad you asked. When downloading from Patreon it can apparently it can happen with some configurations that a .VAR file is mistakenly renamed into .ZIP by the browser. That is of course not recognized by VaM, causing unknowing users to try ex...

SecretRoom v5: Demo improvements

Just some minor improvements and fixes for the demo scenes: Fixed mouth opening weirdly when breathing for one of the characters. This was caused by "Drive Jaw Angle From Head Audio" somehow being enabled in the appearance preset I used. Improved struggle animation in Room4Demo. Properly parenting a number of a...

Life v12: Gaze Improvements

My Gaze plugin, that is part of the Life package, always had trouble if the character was not upright. This bug was in there since the beginning when it was originally released as demo for my VaM ScriptEngine release back in 2018. Uh...that was the dark ages of VaM!Anyway, I refactored a bit and the issue is fixed now!...

Monthly Report: December

Hi! In the beginning of this month I had a poll and my patreons (you!!) voted for me building a fancy scene. So I'm working on that, but it will still be a while. Note that can't commit to any particular release date or feature set, it will be done when it is done.The current plan is a Femdom POV handjob scene ...

SecretRoom v4: AdjustableChair

SecretRoom is not just one room, it's a playroom construction kit. Version 4 mainly adds the "AdjustableChair" that was teasered already a few days ago. However, I also took the time to update the included demo scenes, using current plugin versions and improving animations by using IdlePoser instead of bori...

[WIP] Adjustable Chair

Some additional 12h of work and about 15 iterations later. Having the sliders exposed via plugin means you can animate everything if you like, hence new video here.

[WIP] Adjustable Chair

Just sharing some quick video of work-in-progress stuff. Obviously not done and intended to be used in the scene I'm building. For video click here.Also testing how well Patreon accepts videos hosted on Redgifs. Sorry that I had to post, delete and post this again, apparently embedding is not supported properly.......

IdlePoser v6

This is the LogicBricks upgrade for IdlePoser, allowing to synchronize multiple IdlePosers or other kinds of external control through triggers. Also IdlePoser itself can trigger things as well now. If you check the video, the difference is that now the 3 IdlePosers can change their pose/state all at the same time, anim...

Final Results: It's a scene!

Final results of the poll are in! As explained earlier, I weighted the votes by pledge amount. The blue bars are the result, the grey just for comparison. The next project will be a fancy demo scene! At this point I haven't even started making solid plans as it was not clear what I would be working on. Technically ...

Interim Results

Just a quick interim result showing how far off the overall votes are from votes weighted by pledge amount. This experimental poll on what I will be working on this month is still open till Friday.

Monthly Report: November

Hello! I want to try something new this time. This time I give YOU a few options what I will be working on in December.With some Excel magic I will be multiplying your vote in the poll below with your active pledge amount you have at the time I do the evaluation sometime next weekend. If you pledge 5€ instead of 1€...

Life 11: More customization via LogicBricks

As mentioned earlier, I spend this month on making my Life plugin compatible with LogicBricks. This is a huge step forward! For example you are no longer limited to control AnimationPatterns, you could also have Life control a Timeline animation, if you like that more. The old DriverThrustSFX sub-plugin has been replac...

LogicBricks v5: Value triggers

LogicBricks is a collection of now 23 reusable logic plugins to quickly build simple logic without coding. These go from a simple Relaythat just groups triggers via Counterand Blendto more complex bricks for RandomChoiceand a very powerful StateMachinebrick. There are now two demo scenes with altogether 19 examples to ...

LogicBricks v4: More bugfixes

Another bugfix update for LogicBricks. Again, thx @ TGC for reporting those issues! RandomChoice: Fixed UI not being updated on load. StateMachine: Fixed initial state setting having no effect.Note that you can easily update your scene to the new version by opening your scene JSON file with a text editor (e.g. Notepad+...

LogicBricks v3: Simple logic without coding

LogicBricks is a collection of 11 reusable logic plugins to quickly build simple logic without coding. These go from a simple Relaythat just groups triggers via Counterand Timerto more complex bricks for RandomChoiceand a very powerful StateMachinebrick. There is a demo scene with 14 examples to spawn some ideas.LogicB...

Monthly Report: October

It's this time of the month again! Two weeks ago I released a number of maintenance releases with bugfixes and minor improvements, making the more proper release of my Connect plugin possible.A week ago I released LogicBricks.2, which allows you to easily make more complex scenes, by using reusable scripts that con...

LogicBricks v2: Simple logic without coding

LogicBricks is a collection of 11 reusable logic plugins to quickly build simple logic without coding. Since this got a surprising amount of likes in very short time there seems to be a need for this. So I changed plans and added a LOT more LogicBricks. These go now from a simple Relaythat just groups triggers via Coun...

LogicBricks v2 - Download

This is an EarlyAccess release! Download will be available for free under CC BY-SA license after 2020-11-02. You are allowed to reference this package in your own VAR packages, even if they are paid or use a different license. Links to my Patreon are always appreciated.

Connect v2

Connect is a plugin that allows you to control audio-driven E-Stim devices. The package also includes VirtualLock, a plugin for virtual self-bondage in VR. In combination that means, if you do not behave, your dominatrix will punish you...in real life!Changelog for version 2 VirtualLock: Improved breach behavior. You c...

LogicBricks and SecretToys

Nothing new, just releasing the separate small VAR packages that were used for the Connect demo scene in preparation for the free release of Connect soon'ish.LogicBricksEventually this is intended to be a collection of small reusable logic plugins to quickly build simple logic without coding. Still very small "...

Essentials v6 - ParentHoldLink and Bugfixes

Your most essential MacGruber tools in a convenient single VAR package. Version 6 introduces an improved version of Blazedust's ParentHoldLink plugin and also brings various bug fixes for SkyMagic and SuperShot.Changelog for Version 6 ParentHoldLink: The build-in ParentLink feature in VaM that can link one atom to ...

Currency change to EUR

Dear patreons! As you might know I'm based in Europe. Patreon recently added the possibility to change payout currency from USD ($) to EUR (€), which I just did now. This helps with declaring taxes and more importantly avoids paying double conversion fees (2 x 2.5%) when you convert from your local currency to US...

Monthly Report: September

This Patreon has been running for a full year now! Therefore I wanted to pickup on things I promised some ages back. However, the release this month came a bit late because this had a lot of moving parts. Getting everything done in a single month was certainly a challenge. Well, it's still not done, but I didn'...

Connect: Controlling E-Stim devices and virtual self-bondage

Connect is a plugin that allows you to control audio-driven E-Stim devices. The package also includes VirtualLock, a plugin for virtual self-bondage in VR. In combination that means, if you do not behave, your dominatrix will punish you...in real life!Content Proof-of-concept demo scene: Essentially the girl is whippin...

Monthly Report: August

It's this time of the month again! I'm posting a report like this near the end of each month, reporting on what I worked on behind the scenes and what the vague plans for the next month are. It is intended to help you decide if you want buy-in on the coming month or not.SuperShot / SuperVideoThe majority of my ...

Life - IdlePoser v5

IdlePoser is a solution for idle animation, part of the Life plugin collection. This is a maintenance update fixing issues with VaM 1.20: Fixing morph captures which were broken with VaM 1.20. Since the new VaM version removed the "Animatable" checkbox for morphs, I had to re-implement the morph selection entir...

Life 10

Yay...more tiny maintenance updates, sorry again.Changelog Reset duplicate morphs used by old versions to avoid causing references to multiple versions of Life. Long months ago several people complained about low volume. I wasn't able to repro this back then, but since a few weeks I had this myself, despite nothing...