You're on to Page 5! Congratulations. Made my day.

What a week! Thanks so much EF and N6 (w/ TE & Lp). Some of your best stuff ever.

The only things that were too "laggy" for my computer to handle were from The Cave (all) and GrlsSandbox (5 - 8 only) -- a total of 10 scenes, that I disabled. But that means 35 new scenes now added. Nice.

Keep up the amazing. What a friggin trip.

So we are getting a few cards with tights and yogapants-ish, I like it.

Viola on of the latest to this type of outfits.

I would like to see some other colour then black.

Why?

I think that you would see More of the model sort of say.
Black colour hides all the curves and isent very telling compared to maybe white or some other colour,
as shadows blend into the colour black.

Anyways have good one everyone

YW, buddy.

I wouldn't bother with reducing the sittingHeight on the reflections. I tried that first and all you get is a shrunken reflection that doesn't match the movements of the model. I don't think it looks natural :)

However, by all means play around with this kind of stuff. It might just show up a new trick that works in a scene ;)

Wow, true to their word, Totem have done Lucy Li in a TombRaider theme! That has to be a MUST BUY :D
Thanks Totem :)

Thank you for the Lucy Li & Viola cards Team Totem.
:-)

The third Katya Clover card - yess!
Lucy Li - OMG Totem heard us! Thank you!
Belle Claire - looking forward!

Lucy Li <3

the next two solos

Score, Belle Claire for VG! I didn't think she was going to show on VG, loved her DB shows! Thanks for the update @crasherdnb

Belle Claire, Luci Li

Melisa, Viola, Katya Clover

Hey @HSS glad to see you back in the saddle here. sure..making the refections shorter or rotating a touch on x axis makes a whole lot of sense here, seeing as there is so little model reflection needed on this surface, and even that reflection is vagued out enough by the blue flecks for this idea to work admirably. Maybe even fiddle about with a sittingheight on reflections as well..I'll do it, and update the zip or someone else might like to have a go at modding this while I'm away. Go for it ~ I say !. Always great when the lateral thinkers arrive here. Gracias mucho!!!

edit: there's lots of room for improvement in BoyC's shader. Lighting is all wrong, it renders the sampler2D at strange angles in places, I want @TheEmu to have a go at turning those last maverick shadows maybe into more glowing balls or butterflies etc 😄 etc.

@ET: Downloaded your latest BoyC shader scenes. Thank you :)

As with No.6, on my GTX650, this stutters a little even with iterations at 10 :( I'll play around some more to see if I can find out why...

Edit: The problems I had with Windows 10 were not related to the updated driver. The driver actually works fine. I said the clipNameSprites were no longer playing correctly but then I found that somehow, the timer for displaying the names had changed from Always to every 15 mins! No idea how that happened :/
And yes, I ***** Windows 10! It's ***** :D The latest Nvidia driver is 355.60 :)

Re: The leg reflections. I hadn't come across this till now but after some playing around with one of your new scenes, I found that if you flatten the reflection on the 'Y' axis, the problem just about disappears.

scale: -1.0, -0.1, 1.0

Yes, at this '0.1' setting, the reflection is quite flat but imho, still looks fairly natural. Try it yourself and let us know what you think :)

And just to re-iterate your advice for everyone:

First RULE of Tweeking:..... Copy & Rename the shader
Second RULE of Tweeking..... Copy and Rename the Scene file
Third RULE ....THEN.. Tweek away on these new copies ONLY

bon anniversaire à
Emily Spencer et Jana H

I don't know Mac systems at all but Dorsai is probably correct. I believe the VG software works more or less in the same way for Mac and Windows. Chances are that Dyamaka has the 'models' folder twice in the file path. I once accidentally added the models to a NEW models folder on my external drive. I then ***** the same problem :/

On my ext drive, the pathway looks like this: My Computer > E: > Vgirls > models

When I added the extra models folder, it looked like this: My Computer > E: > Vgirls > models > models.

Then, obviously, the software couldn't find the models files. The software is only looking for the 1st models folder, NOT the 2nd :(

I'm also using a Mac with OSX 10.10.5 and I have my collection on an external drive.

If you would provide some more details, I'll try to help you.

1. When you said "I changed the drive path, but the app will not load any of my purchases." do you mean that your "My collection" tab in the application is now empty or that you can't download new purchases?

2. Can you open the preferences file com.totem.vghd.plist in the folder Users:(your account):Library:Preferences ? Is it readable? If so what do you see in the fields "system.DataPath" and "system.ModelsPath"? If the file opens as an unformatted HTML file it will be almost impossible to read and I can send you an AppleScript that will let you read those two values.

3. Have you tried to reregister with the Totem server by right-clicking the "Synchronize with server" button in advanced settings?

If your problem is cause by the preferences file (and it probably is) deleting and reinstalling the application isn't enough because the existing preferences file isn't changed. Double check your storage folder location in the Advanced Settings tab and check the full path, not just the name of the immediate parent folder.

I decided to tweek the BoyC TheCave fragment shader as much as my Nvidia card would allow without croaking. So here is the result thus far. As per usual, I've tried to describe whats happened in the code comments as much as possible.
The biggest (most demanding I guess) changes here are I've added more rendering cycles at line 172, increased iterations to 128 and increases to fade and z scale depth, repathing at line 189 and I've cut out the original shadows code entirely because imho it wasn't very aesthetic anyhow.

The modified shader still has a long way to go lighting-wise however the journey route is now varied from the one above (path no longer follows that little guiding light even though light is still travelling about). If you have a Graphics card equal to or higher than my NVidia GTX 660ti these scenes should run ok, otherwise you may find they will stall a lot or may not even run at all. I hope they do.Goodluck & happy experimenting.! Zip = 3.31 MB (2 new scenes are named 'uber tweek';-)

scenes.virtuastripper.net/ELECTRICAveNewTunnelMods03.zip

Edit: 21 Aug updated to include @HSS adjusted model reflection to make masking redundant
(see discussion http://www.virtuagirl.com/forumPost.php?foId=3&ftId=27449&gotolastpage=1#post478431) Thanks @Hombre, also resized Surface_Texture sampler2D to 1920 x 1200 to better suit @Lunarpup&#039;s art. Zip = 3.31 MB

scenes.virtuastripper.net/ELECTRICAveNewTunnelMods03a.zip

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Hi
I had to move my collection from the hard drive to an external drive. I changed the drive path, but the app will not load any of my purchases. Tried to deleete the app and downloaded again. Still the same problem.

Any ideas. I am on a Mac using Yosemite.

sitting pic shows what happens when you stroke out the "//track back to get better resolution" part in the shader code.. not recommended, but tweek..you can **

@Number6 thanks for the support re reflections. However drat!~!..that Cave shader I was dearly hoping, would cut down on the GPU load because it has so much shadow..
Not to worry..our short-winged friend no doubt can/will throw some more light on this ..said he might be away for couple of weeks during last visit, and I'll be gone next week so won't know if there is a solution... I know the Cave does two passes (on the same thread?) ~one to render (above pic), and another pass to fill each alternate 'slice' of the scene where there is no produced graphic and its this progression within the main (void) and how it's handled which could be the problem. but TheCave they say on the shadertoy website is based on old-school programming & like you, I'm tweaking around the edges just to see what it does, more than acheiving any further outcomes atm. Awaiting more ideas ;-)

**Edit: Well there are outcomes a plenty once you stroke-out the const float ShadowIT=15.0 line and the rest of..//shadow calc below
//for (float x=1.0; x<ShadowIT; x++)
// if (Dist2D(Pos+ld*(x/ShadowIT))<threshold)
// {
// lv=0.0;
// break;
// }

I'm really happy with outcome now Unfortunately the rest I've done since, probably demands uber GPU
float fade=32.0; // increased to 32.0 from 0.0 this makes everythng smoother ~ET
const float numit=128.0; //raymarch precision. better detail throughout.~ET
const float threshold=1.20; //defines the thickness of tunnels
const float scale=2.0; //
The ***** blobby shadows are gone & the route lights up everywhere.
New paths by uncommenting & tweeking the below ~ETc
lp=Position3D(time+0.2,lighta,lightb,lightc,lightd);
the more one tweeks, the better is possible, depends on GPU ofc.

First RULE of Tweeking:..... Copy & Rename the shader
Second RULE of Tweeking..... Copy and Rename the Scene file
Third RULE ....THEN.. Tweek away on these new copies ONLY

At a guess you've got a filter set that is causing the card(s) not to be displayed.

In the attached capture I have set a filter for cards that haven't been downloaded. All the other cards show as hidden.

You need to ensure all the boxes in the filter have a tick in them to display all the cards.

HTH.

@EverthangForever

Regarding the above - I stoppped using reflections for table scenes a long time ago for exactly the above reason.

Regarding your two new scenes - I am really struggling with these. My graphics card really does not like the BoyC The Cave shader. It doesn't seem to matter what I do the shader stutters. I've slowed it down even more and reduced the iteration value from 75 to 5 and it still stutters. Of course with the iterations reduced to 5 there is so much detail lost it becomes meaningless anyway.

I am not sure why this one is such a problem. The Ice Cave shader that you used in your Fractal Garden 16 scenes is similar to the BoyC one (without the shadows) and it works flawlessly on my machine as does Unknown - e#25474.1 posted by @TheEmu although that one does not use textures. In fact I've got that working in tunnels and with overlays as per the scenes I did recently.

I'll have another go at it over the weekend but I am not holding out much hope.

What is a hidden card? They show up as a red card at the end of my collection.

@Lezardo, @Wyld, @TheEmu, @yidnincrete, @HSS, @No.6, @Dentrassy, others..scene makers UNITE .!
We need to vigorously lobby Totem to want to fix the legs reflection problem in the next issue. I don't see why Totem can't provide a bottom-up % or pixels range setting for a transparency 'mask' for the clipsprite node when we do reflections. We only need to use this option occasionally, but its very important..Its also impossible for us to apply our own masks effectively in shader rendered backgrounds (see above pic).

Unlike the width of the models render quad, the animation render canvas depth remains fixed throughout each clip, so this should not be rocket science to fix please as a Uniform OPTION for us for the coding of reflection clipsprites only.

Maybe then we can get more fronttable clips instead of the plethora of models emerging out of the ground..which is not much fun for floorwork (I quite dislike the term 'taskbar clip', ..its outdated & illogical to scenemakers).
A call to action guys. This needs fixing !!!

I hope I have some useful feedback. My Geforce driver build is 355.60 64-bit. The names seem to be working okay for me from the right-click options wheel as well as all other methods.

I deselected all scenes except Paris Penthouse multi to make sure the girl I right-clicked wasn't alone on screen.

It displayed names for the two girls on the podiums in the background but not the foreground.

Perhaps that is the correct behaviour and the actual right-clicked girl's name is never displayed via this method of triggering fullscreen? I don't know for certain but it would seem to make sense while implying if you right-clicked the girl to go fullscreen you already know the name of the first central performer of the scene.

EDIT - try setting to display name always if you haven't already for fullscreen mode. seems to make it work for main performer immediately too when right-clicking for me anyhow.

I will test out the other scenes next and see if the girl change after X minutes triggers the name to display normally too. I will only update the post if it doesn't work.

I'll check it and get back to you as soon as I can. I usually turn the girls names off so wouldn't have noticed the difference.

😄

😄

@Number6 its your best set..love all of it 😄 your RoadtoHell mod inspired more
the following is not for faint-hearted GPUs, its experimental..
Ever since experiencing Ryan Geiss' Monkey in 2002 I've yearned for the day that journey could be rendered indefinitely. Well in a way, dreams can come true it seems ;-)
After much huffing & puffing with the code syntax I was able to hack BoyC's shadertoy version of 'The Cave -MsX3RH' to be VGHD compatible. It still has to be refined further ~ like I tried to mask with a quadlet for the model reflection leg overhangs but can't quite get a shadered mask to disappear in the main shader's render. The Cave shader itself makes shadows which are too dark , and it backtracks 2nd renders under a threshold imperfectly so they are slightly out of alignment in the detail but this mod compiles ok now & plays without error or warnings ready for rebaking..thank heavens for that..I much like this grand Speleological journey !! Please upload or link to any improvements you can find, & I'll be forever grateful. Thanks a lot. Zipsize = 6.97 MB (note edit below)

I've slowed it right down to suit my music. If you want to speed it up or adjust it..there are comments a plenty in the code to play on with. Good luck ;-)

edit:20Aug ..whoops~ forgot to include stage ops01.png in zip. Now fixed :-) srry about that.

scenes.virtuastripper.net/ELECTRICAveNewTunnelMods02.zip

Salut,

Moi je récupère les photos, que je stock sur l'un de mes disques dur interne.

Quand je choisis une fille j'attend qu'elle soit disponible en démo dans le caroussel pour voir comment elle est, car ce n'est pas parce qu'une fille est bien en image qu'elle l'est en vidéo et vis versa d'ailleurs ^^
Et c'est pour cela que j'attend avec impatience la nouvelle version avec lequel on pourra mettre dans le caroussel les filles que l'on veux. plus pratique pour choisir une fille.

I use the highest resolution available for the card and my default download is 3K

I like video and picture especially in Classics :))

The best is 3K but many historical card in 1080 are also very good :))

@mysthys

J'ai fais différent test de lecture de VG sur différente résolution et peu importe de la résolution elle s'affiche à l'identique. Perso, j'ai un affichage 1600x900 et je peux t'assurer sans l'ombre d'un doute que la différence est énorme entre le 1080p et le 3k.

Tu devrais en essayer une pour voir la différence. J'ai lu que tu utilises le 1080p donc tu peux lire le 3k sans soucis sauf si tu utilises déjà la mémoire vive au maximum. Concernant l'utilisation du processeur, je n'ai pas observer de différence entre lire du 1080p et du 3k. Mon niveau d'utilisation du processeur reste identique.

Pas besoin d'avoir un écran en 3k, d'ailleurs cette résolution est inutile sauf pour le niveau de fps qui est de toute façon possible en 1080p. Sur le "sinon c inutile" en faite non et la différence est énorme. Je pense que l'on peux même comparer la qualité 3k de VG à du 1080p pure vidéo, c'est à dire sur le vrai standard 1080p.

Sérieusement, essais au moins une carte en 3k.

coucou a tous,
pour moi je prend meme pas le 3K, ayant un petit pc portable de vieille generation je doute que cela fonctionne
de plus mon ecran etant un full hd le 1080p me suffi amplement
perso je pense que le 3K est efficace si on a l'ecran adapté, sinon c innutile
quand au 720p je dit tout de suite poubelle car certaine video sont flou voir degueulasse a regarder

3K également pour moi

I remember when Anna Tatu's cards were being released, the top model surveys were going in full swing and she was receiving top ratings after the first 6 cards everywhere. There is a big gap in her card production numbers between body language 1037 and instinct 1549 reflecting the time of the change of cameras. The makeup lighting and costuming in the interim had also became much more classy and elegant & less heavy-sombre. I like to think she was a come-back. It gives me hope she can be coaxed back sometime. I hope all the baying for DB didn't put her off :-(

The subscription is the only reason why i have as many of the cards i do have. Since the subscriptions have stopped i have bought very few cards, in fact just one in about 6 months and that was a DB card. I have credits but no cards have come in that i find interesting enough to purchase since they cost so much now then before.

Cameron Dee is a fitting example, even though only at 3 cards now. She had two cards released 1DB and 1VG and we wanted more, but the next card didn't come for 7 weeks. I was excited to see her again, the longer wait had built anticipation perhaps. I don't know, but I know it's better than being oversaturated with one model too much over a short period of time. I have no problem with returning models just spread the love over more time :D

Are the release schedules just a victum of the business side?

3K all day for me.

I think it would be better for Totem if they'd shoot several scenes with a girl but don't sell them all at the same time but rather get the release order a bit mixed up. Things would get more interesting and the joy of seeing a girl again would be much higher. Just my thoughts though, but after all I've red in the forums, I'm not the only one. Not claiming to speak for the majority, though.

Pour la 3k est quand même meilleur, même si j'ai pas une grosse configuration AMD 4000+ 2,41Ghz et 3 Go de Ram (Tourne encore sous Windows XP service Pack 3). Bien sur je lance qu'une seule fille sinon cela rame trop

PS: Pour les fps, se sont des données techniques pour les téléviseurs que j'ai indiqué. Un moniteur dépasse sans problème les 60 fps.

Ah oui pour ce qui est de la puissance qu'utilise l'application, processeur et carte graphique.

L'application n'utilise pas la carte graphique mais suelement le processeur et la mémoire vive de la carte mère.
Donc en vue de mes tests, je recommande un processeur 4 coeurs minimum (à partir d'un intel i3/i5 toute génération confondu) et 4 Go de mémoire vive dans votre système.

Pourquoi ce minimum ?

Je suis équipé d'un processeur de la 5ème génération intel, un I7-5960X à 3GHz boosté à 4GHz pour le moment. Et lorsque je vois mon processeur tourner à 6% de sa puissance sachant qu'il y a quand même 16 coeurs et qu'1 à 2% est utiliser par défaut pour le système et le navigateur, ainsi qu'un core aléatoire qui monte jusqu'à 50%.

J'en conclu qu'un processeur à 2 coeurs est insuffisant, et qu'un minimum à partir du i3/i5 (4 coeurs) est nécessaire.
Pour la mémoire, 4 Go est le minimlum recommandé pour utiliser windows 7 et les applications sachant qu'après un test rapide sur l'une des dernières cartes en 3k les clips prennent entre 150 et 300 Mo. Donc au pire des cas assurez-vous d'avoir un minimum de 500 Mo resatnt pour VG.

Personnellement, je préfère le 3k. Bien que je n'ai pas d'écran en 3k, ces cartes offres une qualité bien plus supérieur que le 1080p et je ne parle pas du 720p qui est en qualité désastreuse. De plus grace à la 3k, je n'ai pas besoin de zommer comme un dingue pour que les filles occupent tout 'écran lorsqu'elles sont debout. J'utilise mon écran au bout de mon lit donc plus elles occupent l'écran mieux c'est.

Concernant la 3k avec VG, à voir certe la taille d'une carte est importante mais sachant que les fps sont réduite à en juger sur le rendu de lecture, surtout facile à voir lorsque les filles bougent rapidement.

Pourquoi dis-je une telle chose ?
A savoir que le standard vidéo en HD (720/1080p) est aux alentours de 24 fps (entre 23 et 25 fps), et ceci n'est pas une limite technique d'écran puisque nos écrans en 1080p peuvent supporter entre 30 et 40 fps voir plus pour les derniers modèle haut de gamme.
Concernant l'UHD (3k/4k/8k), ce standrad est en rendu 60 fps. Hormis le bitrate vidéo qui change beaucoup la qualité ce qui a pour effet de flouter ou de pixéliser l'image sur la réduction du bitrate. Le fps, trop bas, a un effet de saccade et malheureusement certaines personnes vois cette saccades et j'en fais partie. Et j'ai quelques vidéos en 60 fps pour faire cette comparaison visuelle.
Pour ce qui est du rendu bitrate vidéo, celui pour le 1080p est en moyenne aux alentours de 12-13 Mbps et pour le 720p de 5-6Mbps.

Donc je suis certains que la qualité vidéo ne respect pas se standard. Mais il met difficile de pouvoir donner une vague idée vis à vis de la taille par rapport à la résolution car se sont des vidéos bien spécial.

Bien dommage de ne pas avoir les données techniques des vidéos pour les connaisseurs.


En vue de toutes ces informations merci de ne pas vous acharnez contre Totem sur la taille des cartes car elles sont bien en dessous de leurs tailles véritables, probablement qu'elle soient 2 fois moins importantes qu'initialement.



Cordialement
Taion, emmerdeur de première sur la qulité vidéo....

I could ***** about the monotony of repeating models, but since I no longer have a subscription, I won't. I just don't buy cards if I don't think I will like them. For instance, I'm not a buyer of Viola's cards.

"TOTEM needs to make money to survive. We need to purchase cards in order for them to do this. Sometimes it is difficult to find a balance. " Yes, well said Number6.

It's interesting: the quality of the cards is higher overall, the price is certainly higher...but I spend much less money here now that I don't have a subscription than when I did.

J'utilise du 720p sur mon pc portable et du 1080p sur mon pc fixe mais c'est quand même bien d'avoir des cartes en 3K pour l'avenir. Je pourrais mettre du 1080p sur mon pc portable mais je ne vois pas l'intérêt, sur cet écran je ne vois pas la différence (1366x768).

@Franckyt13 les vidéos des cartes 3K peuvent désormais être téléchargées en 1080p il me semble :-) je trouve que cela s'est bien amélioré. À moins que tu ne parles de la qualité intrinséque de la vidéo ?

Pour ma part, je télécharge la totalité des photos et vidéos que je place sur un HDD externe, le principal intérêt est d'y avoir accès hors connexion.
Quant au choix des cartes, je me base essentiellement sur les photos gratuites, je télécharge que très rarement des démos.

EDIT: une petite erreur sur la question du sondage "Vous téléchargez ? (You DOWNLOAD ?)" mais ça va on se comprend 😉

I agree with Phlebiac - too many repeats.
I also think that the variety in outfits has reduced.
I am like Apasas, I like attractive girls in outfits that appeal. And I also purchase 50 credits to be spent when I am attracted to a new card.
I think Anna Tatu's popularity is well deserved; she is very attractive and a good performer, but the vriety of outfits in her cards is poor.
There has been a significant increase in 'Naked Feet', and a decline in 'High Heels' and 'Stockings'. For me, this is disappointing. I will buy any card with a passably attractive girl in stockings and heels. My fetish. It is a trap I always fall into, and I can be very disappointed (Maya Grand), but give me an open face, a radiant smile, long blonde hair, and a great bottom framed by suspender belt and sheer stockings and I'm hooked.
Maybe I have unusual tastes , as some of the girls I like are not repeated - e.g. Heidi Romanova.
I have nothing against Melisa or Tracy Smile, but why not Antonia, Aleska Diamond, Isizzu?
Many of my favourites have probably left the business now, or are aging - Jana H, Nikky Case, Ellen, Sandra H. Tempus fugit.

We all have different proclivities.

@Number6
I had to try your adaptation of 'TheRoadTo Hell_No.6.fsh' with const int ray_n=96;
Good GOD... the WHOLE thing lights up... its Amazing !!!!

I have Marta sexy upskrit.