@Wyldanimal

Apologies for wasting your time.

Between my original post and your reply I had actually found the solution and deleted my post because it was the last on still on the list.

This may be something to with Daylight Savings Time.

Again my apologies for having troubled you unnecessarily but thanks for the response.

Number6 - 7 min ago
...
I found that the right hand model in the scene was not affected by the lighting changes when I had scale: -1.0, 1.0, 1.0 set. If I REM'd out the scale then the lighting effects worked.

Has anyone else seen this problem and do they have a solution?. I don't want to clutter up the shared scenes thread with what is really some personal test scenes but I can put them into a Dropbox folder if anyone wishes to have a look.

My Third tutorial Address this.
www.virtuagirl.com/forumPost.php?foId=8&ftId=27410#427844

But since you have both Non-Rotated and Rotated Sprites, you Will ned Both Positive Z and Negative Z lights.

Early on, My experiments with Lighting, Showed that the Lighting is Done, Before Rotation.
So with Lights in Z positive, The Normal Side of the Sprite is Illuminated.
Once you Rotate the Sprite, you See the non-Illuminated back Side.

The Solution is to Place the Light in Negative Z, Behind the Sprite, So that once it is Rotated, you Now See the illuminated Side.

Sprite Ambiance affects Both Sides...


Edit: Humm. Very Strange. I had replied to a post by Number6. Even Copied and pasted part of it.
But that Post has gone Missing.
attached is a Screen Capture of it.

Ok... Trying again with this. Sorry for the delay. My connection went awol yesterday :(

DocDoom:

Fixing issues in Fullscreen mode is not always easy. Some girls are encoded at a larger size and recently we've seen more of this. Not much we can do about that except reduce the standingHeight and sittingHeight parameters. This will of course reduce the size of older clips and may make some scenes less than... optimal! Trying to be PC correct here :)

Using scale or rotate around Y axis are great tools to allow us to set which side a girl appears from and fix mirrored images. I habitually use scale: -1, 1, 1 in all my scenes where necessary ;) I also do this in other member created scenes to fix the mirror images, providing the clips will work as the scene creators designed them to. :)

a fullscreen capability to employ more than 1 card of the same model,

I believe this option is coming with the new V4. We should be seeing a Beta version within a couple of weeks...

Hmmmm... 7 of 9. I'd say me 8 on that score but extremely unlikely, buddy. Pity :(

7 of 9. Well that too... :)

Me also!!!!

Count me in as #5.
I really loved the production quality of the Dorcel cards (Anna Polina and Anissa Kate were aboslutely amazing there).

And now 4
also a filter for them would be nice, every time i think i got all of them i discover one girl i missed

Me THREE!

ya me to.

Ok... We really need to move this to the discussion thread... My response is going on there right now :)

www.virtuagirl.eu/forumPost.php?foId=3&ftId=27449&storageRemoveTopicItem=1&gotolastpage=1#post482708

edit by MOD: for members Not in the EU. try this Link

www.virtuagirl.com/forumPost.php?foId=3&ftId=27449&gotolastpage=1#post482708

@HombreSinSombra
It wasn't a big deal really - just changing texture source paths and renaming a couple of directories and using the + sign at the beginning of the .scn file names. Best to get it done when it is fresh in my mind.

I have a lot of good fullscreens now - some from you, also WyldAnimal and yidincrete, so it was time I gave something back.

There are quite a few little things about fullscreen which I wish could be improved.
For instance - the InOut change in 3K cards messes up some scenes; some cards are very 'tall' - e.g. Lucy Li and Belle Claire sometimes lose their heads; the necessity to rotate round the y-axis to get writing on models or clothing correct (or setting x scale to -1, which does exactly the same thing). It would be nice to filter clips in the scene code more, or to set the width of the clipSprite 'stage', and I would really like to create a fullscreen capability to employ more than 1 card of the same model,

All-in-all, I have learnt a lot from you guys, and the world of Fullscreen is great fun, and quite challenging.
The new version, which has been around for about a year now, was a vast change and vast improvement, and I am looking forward to the November 2015 release.

man that was a great stretch of cards. would love to see that collaboration return. any chance of this?

When VG added 3K cards a little less than a year ago, they also added a new way of playing a series of cllips from the same card using special transition clips. For some reason, they called that mode interactive. All new cards are now released in this interactive format but a few of the interactive cards are not available in 3K resolution due to technical problems.

what is "VIRTUAGIRL INTERACTIVE" ?

She is Magical.

I did not expect to see Anya Ivy here, well played Vegas studio!

I'm gonna break the 'rules' too... Doc, you fixed all that in less than 24 hours??? Damn! I thought I was keen when I started here! Take a breather, buddy. You don't have to do everything RIGHT now. Hell, most of us get a little sluggish when fixing or updating things. Do it when you can and chill out a little :) I doubt many or anybody will ***** ;) DON'T put pressure on yourself. This is all just for fun, right? So enjoy what you're doing without any pressure to be perfect. None of us are!

Still... I'm impressed, buddy!
HSS.

@Falcon: Yeah, I've seen enough movies to know that ;) This is probably the backdoor entrance. Pun INTENDED. Nothing wrong with being frugal. I'm a mine of information on that score, (Not always by choice).

I have re-uploaded the scenes HDE-Fashion Show.zip and HDE-Home Entertainment.zip.
I made 3 ***** changes as WyldAnimal suggested:
Scene names now begin with a "+" sign;
All directory paths now use "/", not "\".
Scene names and Directories no longer contain the " " character.
I cannot test the second change because I don't have a MAC, but I hope it will help.

DrDoom9 - 11 hour(s) ago
@WyldAnimal
I apologise for breaking the rules.

No Problem.. It's not so much a RULE as it a Suggestion to keep the threads from getting too far off track..
I'm just as Guilty.. Doing it Now as a matter of fact... LOL Thanks for sharing your Work..

Thank you Kaiju and celine, I looked up Nekane and Anya Ivy, and I can't wait to see their cards! So glad you reopened this topic!

@TheEmu

I'll have alook at the shaders that aren't working and see if your suggestion works.

Thanks for the update. I've downloaded your latest zip files and hope to be able to find some time to play with the complex shader over the weekend,

Just for the record I have an ATI/AMD graphics card not an NVIDIA but I am hoping the suggestions/improvements you have made will help with that as well.

Many thanks for all your efforts.

@DrDoom9

I really admire your patience. It must have taken hours of work to get those car/bike wheels to rotate correctly.

The artwork is great and, again, it must have taken an awful lot of work (and artistic talent) to create the individual elements that make the scenes so realistic.

@DrDoom,

No problem. The scene thread my scenes are in was started over 500 days ago when the Full Screen capability was first added to VGHD. There have been a couple new threads created since then, so updates to previous scenes could get lost in the shuffle. Press on. You're doing fine!

@Hombre,

RE: "TOTEM PROD" and "...who's doing the 'Prodding' "

We Las Vegas residents have this saying..."What happens in Vegas STAYS in Vegas".

And we aren't cheap. We're frugal.

8-)

Sorry. Couldn't resist this...

On the entrance door, it says 'TOTEM PROD'. So who's doing the 'Prodding' ???

Cheapskates could have put the full word,' Productions' on a separate line to fit the door ;)

Looking forward to seeing Anya :D She does look HOT!

@DocDoom ;)

Just read all the posts in the upload thread. You included ME in all that??? Buddy, regarding shaders, my knowledge is extremely limited and I just made a couple of ***** tweaks to existing code I got from ShaderToy to see what happened.

TheEmu, closely followed by ET now, are the maestros in that department!

Don't worry about not using shaders. There are many Fullscreen fans who prefer normal, realistic background scenes too. Besides, many computers struggle with intensive shaders (mine included).

So keep going as you are until you get bored and want to try something new! You've figured out animations already and that's great :D Pretty much anything in a scene can be animated. I believe the only limits are your imagination and what you want it to look like (and your time of course).

For me, it's great to see new talent coming along. Gives us all a wider variety of ideas and choices. So welcome to the club, Doc! Nice job :D

Can't wait for Anya!

I'm also glad this thread is active again. I love "sneak peeks" 😉. They build anticipation which is always good.
Looking forward to Anya Ivy -- that's a real good signing Totem.

I love this thread/topic. I have always been a sucker for behind the scene pics. Thank you for sharing!

Happy to read this fallen0ne ! she's really cute in her shows, I can't wait to get her first card online!

@FalconAF
My apologies for not citing you in my list of acknoledgements.
I thought your bedroom scene was great, giving so much scope for masking, zooming etc.


I have also had help and encouragement from Number6, whom I should also acknowledge.

@WyldAnimal
I apologise for breaking the rules. It is the first time I have dared to post my work amongst such illustrious company (who understand really complicated stuff such as framebuffers and shader scenes).
I will make the amendments you have suggested.
Thanks again for your help, and for hosting the scenes.

I have made a few more ***** updates to the Complex Functions shader and its associated scene files. These are:-

1) Two new uniform control parameters, PrePower and PostPower
with new scenes using PrePower. PostPower is mainly provided
to maintain symmetry the Pre and Post parameters.

2) Corrections to the E series of scenes.

3) ***** updates to the text files, and a new one outlining the
properties of floating point numbers.

4) Some optimisation/load reduction aimed at NVIDIA GPUs.

5) Reduced the function durations to 15 seconds each so that a
group of 20 functions can execute in 5 minutes.

The new PrePower uniform control parameter is described in the source of the shader. Its main purpose is to enable the generation of rounded rectangles trim regions rather than rectangular or eliptical ones.

There were errors in the series of "E" .scn files. This was due to a bad mass edit and has been corrected in the newly uploaded version.

The modification to the text files are ***** either updating them to agree with the latest sets of scene files or adding a little detail to that already provided. A new text file provides a simple description of floating point arithmetic and how some of its features impact the behaviour of the Complex Functions shader.

Number 6 had previously reported that he had observed some judder when running these scenes using his NVIDIA GPU. I found that when I used my NVIDIA GPU the performance was borderline. At first I thought this a little odd because I have no performance difficulties using when using the much less powerful Intel Integrated Graphics processor in the same laptop. However, at least for this shader, the difference between the
Intel and NVIDIA compilers more than compensates for the weaker Intel hardware.

I have made a few ***** adjustments to the shader to try to improve its performance when run on NVIDIA GPUs. One such change was to change the default for USE_IF_BASED_FUNCTION_SELECTION which had used to avoid some problems I had earlier run into, but which were no longer relevant.

I also made a few ***** tweaks to help performance, mainly to the data panel code including adding a set of #defines that control how much of the data panel is generated. These are

USE_EMU_DATA_PANEL_PART_1
USE_EMU_DATA_PANEL_PART_2
USE_EMU_DATA_PANEL_PART_3

and are described in the shader source. They allow the shader to be configured such as to selectively omit parts of the data panel. As it seems that the performance of the NVIDIA GPU when running the shader is particularly sensitive to the data panel these provide a useful way to improve performance without sacrificing the whole of the data panel functionality.

The function duration specified in every .scn file has been reduced to 15 seconds, this allows a set of 20 functions to execute in 5 minutes. I thought I had already done this but was wrong. I have also added a
explanatory text file regarding the timings of functions and function iterrations.

Because the Complex Functions shader is used in some of my non-experimental tunnels scenes I have replaced it there and also uploaded that set of scenes.

The direct links to the files zip files are

http://www.theemusnest.eu/scenes/Zips/Experiments/Complex%20Functions.zip
http://www.theemusnest.eu/scenes/Zips/TheEmusTunnels.zip

Thank you for sharing Celine. I welcome more diversity and I will be buying all of Anya Ivy's cards.
Keep up the great work team Totem.
:-)

Let's have a break between 2 outfits :)

Anya Ivy hairdressing in our Vegas studios, God it *****, hehe !

bon anniversaire à Adrianna M
qui fête ses 39 ans aujourd'hui

ps: elle n est pas née le 22 mais le 11 octobre 1976

@Number6

About 9 days ago you said

"I have had a few similar problems with some of the Shader Toy shaders - they work OK in the web browser but when you try to convert them for use in FullScreen they just come out all black and there is no error "Toggle Log" button showing in VG."

I also have had this happen quite often. In most cases I have found that it is due to the shader not setting the .a component of the gl_FragColor output. When this is so it can be fixed by adding

gl_FragColor.a = 1.0;

just before the end of the shader's main routine.

I have recently been examining my whole collection of ShaderToy.com and GlSandbox.com derived shaders and found that there were a small number that, for other reasons, did not work when using my NVIDIA GPU but were OK with the Intel Integrated Graphics Processor. There were also a few that had very different results depending on which GPU I was using. I have fixed several of them and will be investigating the others over the f week or so after which I will re-upload the whole set again.

Also, with regard to stuttering when running the Complex Functions shader scenes. Soon after you mentioning it I noticed that I was seeing some barely discernable stuttering when I ran with my NVIDIA GPU. Its amazing that the much less poweful Intel GPU has no trace of stuttering given that the NVIDIa GPU has very much more powerful hardware. On investigating I found that it was mostly due to the Data Panel - it seems that the NVIDIA GPU may be terrible at handling integer operations which are the core of the character generator. I have tweaked the code which has definately improved matters and added a set of #defines which allow you to reduce the amount of data in the panel and this completely eliminates all traces of stutter with my system. I will be uploading the updated files just as soon as I have time to get everything together and zipped up - I may even be able to do this sometime today.

@DrDoom9, I very much enjoyed seeing all of your new http://www.virtuagirl.com/forumPost.php?foId=3&ftId=29408&gotolastpage=1#post482508 scenes.
Its a great help to people wanting to experiment with masking & script animations.
In particular, I like the Garage scenes with the rotating car & motorcycle wheels and the movements of doors etc.
I've been waiting for someone to fix that original bedroom scene bedspread left-corner mask of @FalconAF's, and you've done a masterful job with all your masks and graphics here.
The only thing I suggest is that people make a DrDoom sub-folder of the scenes directory first if they don't have one yet, and extract into that. More power to you, & thanks lots for sharing.:-)
____________________________________________
Share your Scenes: (posts with d/load links only) http://www.virtuagirl.com/forumPost.php?foId=3&ftId=29408&gotolastpage=1#post482508
Discussions (Fullscreen current tech issues etc.) http://www.virtuagirl.com/forumPost.php?foId=3&ftId=27449&storageRemovePostItem=1&gotolastpage=1#post482514
Tutorials (basic Scene construction tutorials) http://www.virtuagirl.com/forumPost.php?&foId=8&ftId=27410&pageNb=4

Here is another tip.
if you create a Scene Group. add a + to the begining of each Scene's file name.
It will show up in the GUI scene list with a + sign so we know it's an Expandable Scene Group.

Yeah I know.. I broke my own rule twice now...

Jplus - 1 hour(s) ago
To FalconAF，I can not see the backgound in "The fashion show" and "Home Entertainment", only girls presented in screen with black background. I use Mac.

I'm going to break my Own Rule Here and Post this.
To make your Scene compatible for both Windows and Mac
use the "/" in all of your Paths to your resources instead of the "\"

you can open the .scn files in any text Editor, and do a search and replace for "\" to replace it with "/"
that will fix the .scn file.


PS. the two new Scene Zips were created by:
DrDoom9
not FalconAF

These have not been fixed yet, but are the Links to the two Zip's

scenes.virtuastripper.net/HDE-Fashion%20Show.zip

scenes.virtuastripper.net/HDE-Home%20Entertainment.zip

PS: instead os a blank Spce in the Name use either a dash - or an UnderScoure _
it will make the URL look nicer.

Thanks for your Work and Sharing your Scenes DrDoom9.

PPS: I would also recommend the same for your Folder names.
use the _ or - instead of a blank white space.

To FalconAF，I can not see the backgound in "The fashion show" and "Home Entertainment", only girls presented in screen with black background. I use Mac.

The bedroom scene was originally created by me and uploaded in my post on Page 2 of this thread (there are two of them...a wide aspect ratio you used, and a standard aspect ratio one):

http://www.virtuagirl.com/forumPost.php?&foId=3&ftId=27449&forum_search=scenes&pageNb=2

But that's OK, I don't mind anyone making changes to them. Looks good. Nice work! ;-)

OMG another Duo Lucy Li with Izzy, very very thanks :))

I have uploaded 3 scenes under the general title "HDE-Home Entertainment" to http://scenes.virtuastripper.net/
The scenes are "Bedroom", "Garage", "Living Room".
The HDE-Home Entertainment.zip file is 20 MB.
They are CPU intensive as they have many clips and quite a lot of animation. There are no shaders.
I am indebted to WyldAnimal, EverthangForever, yidincrete, HombreSinSobra, MrCrowley for their examples and techniques. In particular I used the Bedroom scene I saw on EverthangForever's early posting, and I hope he will not mind too much as I have made extensive changes and additions.
All scenes were created using PhotoShop Elements V13, and work on VirtuaGirl V1.2.0.84.

I have uploaded 3 scenes under the general title "HDE-Fashion Show" to http://scenes.virtuastripper.net/
The scenes are "ClubStyle", "Romanesque", "White CatWalk".
The HDE-Fashion Show.zip file is 14 MB.
They are CPU intensive as they have many clips and quite a lot of animation. There are no shaders.
I am indebted to WyldAnimal, EverthangForever, yidincrete, HombreSinSobra, MrCrowley for their examples and techniques.

Lucy Li and Izzy, Anny Aurora

@crasherdnb good job guy keep it up.

Marina Visconti, Lady Dee