@No.6: No apologies required, my friend. I took your words in the manner you intended :)
I'm about to start digging in the code for those 3 shaders. I'll probably have a headache very soon! AND, this could take a while so nobody hold their breaths!

@ET: I'll add your halo code later :)
The thing is, I see that some clips actually run quite smoothly on your scene. Some are 720P, others 1080P, some are 3K. So why is that? Obviously we can't change the coding for the clips. Hmmm...

hi all
how do i get the fullscreen mode to work with the private shows?...i tried but it plays the demos only...i use the VG playlist manager to play my cards...is there a way to use fullscreen mode with playlist manager?...

thanks
Lloyd

@Number6 whoops..yes I was editing that post to change Surface_texture opacity to 0.85, both halo's opacity: 0.1 to opacity: 1.50 and their ambients to ambient: 0.5, 0.5, 0.5 ( tried using SCN floodlights earlier with no luck ;-() ..anyhow i hope too that its merely a shader code change that can make this work for you..lets hope. I'm off for a week now (hence the rush) so in the mean time maybe @TheEmu will pop in. hope so..Goodluck experimenting guys !!

@HombreSinSombra

Sorry for the semi duplictae post - it looks a like @EverthangForever posted somethiing whilst I was editing my original post.

Apologies I wasn't trying to imply that you could fix this just wishing you luck in trying to do so.

I have tried a number of things - chances are you will try something different that may work. Also you have an NVIDIA card similar to (but not the same as EverthangForever). As you can see from my above posts I have an AMD card which has some problems with one of @Everthang Forever's shaders that no one ese appears to be having problems with, so my graphics card has some problems.

You may have a much better chance of fixing this than me, at least for NVIDIA users - hence the good luck wishes. I'd be more than happy to see this working.

I agree that there may be some similarities in the coding for the various cave shaders the have already been poted. If you can common/ coding beteen them then, for me, this would br great. I have cuople of scenes that would be great i f I could modify the shader code to acceept them.

Well, for those who are running the cave and trying to hack the code..I've found it rather less oppressive to lighten the blackness of the non rendered patches (shaded) areas. Its not a cure for anything, just bit easier on the opressive starkness ie: greys out the heavy black. Uses halo.png posted above.
below camera target..
sprite {
pos: 480, 200, 0
source: halo
size: 4000, 4000
ambient: 0.3, 4.3, 0.3
opacity: 0.1
}

sprite {
pos: -480, 200, 0
source: halo
size: 4000, 4000
ambient: 0.3, 4.3, 0.3
opacity: 0.1
}

good luck ;-)

@HombreSinSombra

Apologies I wasn't trying to imply that you could fix this just wishing you luck in trying to do so.

I have tried a number of things - chances are you will try something different that may work. Also you have an NVIDIA card similar to (but not the same as EverthangForever). As you can see from my above posts I have an AMD card which has some problems with one of @Everthang Forever's shaders that no one ese appears to be having problems with, so my graphics card has some problems.

You may have a much better chance of fixing this than me, at least for NVIDIA users - hence the good luck wishes. I'd be more than happy to see this working.

True... But that won't help the guys who are struggling with demanding shaders. There has to be a way to make these shaders run smoothly on lower-end machines.

We've seen some amazing shaders on Shadertoy for their mini competitions. Minimal code for awesome output. We just need to figure out a way to simplify the code...

I don't yet have enough knowledge but I can use trial and error techniques. Maybe this is not the most efficient way but with persistence, I usually get what I want :)

well i'm a man of my word if totem wants to charge me 10 credits for belle claire shows i,ll pay it but on the other hand i,m going to buy them any way.even if u don't charge 10 credits. ya score BIG for belle claire. :-D @crasherdnb good job man , good job.keep it up.

@Number6, I was holding back for sometime in deference to lower cards. Then i thought stuff it, I'll just keep going regardless for those gamers who upgraded their GPUs already. Occulus Virtual Reality breakout is just around the corner..Feb 2016 est..and Totem need all the help they can get NOW. Notwithstanding the Satan's spawn...my GXT 660ti (watercooled) @was $200 approx on Ebay more than 12 months ago. Go for it guys!! ;-))

@Hombre, HaHa false modesty will get you nowhere..come on ~you can transplant a new GPU now into a new rig later, no ?

@No.6: I'm not saying that I can fix this. It may be impossible for our GPU's to run this as well as ET's can :(

The thing that intrigued me was your statement about ET's Fractal Garden 16 being very similar to the Cave shader. They also aren't that far different, visually to the shader I used for my Magic Carpet Ride... That's got me thinking. Compare the code in these 3 shaders and look for what might affect the framerate speed. I'll dig into this tomorrow and see what comes up :)

@ET: I've been called many things in my time. But a lateral thinker? Thanks, buddy ;)

Melisa Bride? omg!! my dream came true!!! mustbuy!!! ty Totem

P.S. I am still looking for more Melisa cards!! Buying them all at once!

Yea, TombRaider card a must buy with Lucy Li, not for me, my preference for this card was VIOLA, i'm desappointed :(

They should just close and delete the desk babes casting subforum since they haven't had us vote on a new girl in months if not years. I guess Desk babes is not important to them anymore.

@MikeDreams

Thanks for your comments.

It is a shame about that "cave" shader of @EverthangForever's. It is a nice shader but, like you, it is just too much for my machine. Someday I'll be able to afford a graphics card that'll play anything and, knowing my luck, Totem will then abandon fullscreen support. :-)

@HombreSinSombra

Hope you have more luck than I did with the "cave" shader. I even edited the bit of code that repeats the texture overlay and another area where there are a few iterations. Unfortunately, as I said earlier in an earlier post, everything I do just reduces the quality so much that it becomes pointless.

Katya Clover's bite size boob

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