Things I've learned that are important to know ...

• when a moderator gives you instructions know that they mean well so be kind to them
• whatever you post here in the forums can be viewed by all users forever
• ***** is not tolerated
• friendliness is rewarded and it's a two-way street
• if you don't know just ask
• often the question you post here has been answered somewhere else in the forums
• when posting questions in the forums remember to come back for the answers
• the term 'new user' is open to interpretation
• bronze members (or lower) can be very experienced
• new users to the forums can be experienced users of the software
• long time users of the forums can be less experienced than you are
• although the program offers regular updates, you are not obligated to install them
• new versions may remove features that you like and want to keep
• old versions will continue to work with all of the cards currently in your collection
• support for the older versions will be much more difficult to obtain in the forums
• new questions about features in older versions may ***** everyone
• running the software for the first time after a very long absense may need a reset
• no matter the trouble there is always a solution
• not all features are documented
• some features are difficult to find without help
• some features will only appear when you increase the number or variety of cards in your collection
• some features are hardware-dependent and won't appear if you lack some sort of extra device (dual monitors)
• the forum is a valuable reference tool in spite of the fact that it is based on older technology
• there are free add-ons available which overcome certain shortfalls in the progamming

Holy crap, Beastman! I love it! I'm gonna play around with spinning the name as well now :) Is there anything we CAN'T do with this stuff???

Thanks for that and also for the extra info on 'animate.' I knew it changed your RGB colours but I wasn't sure why, till now :) I'll change that so it just goes back thru the colors in reverse order. Ie: R,G,B,G,R.

Guys, you need to check out Beast's mods to my scene. It looks awesome! Simply copy and paste his code above into my .scn file just above or just below the two clipNameSprite bits and comment out my originals //. If you prefer Beast's changes then you can delete my originals :) Be careful with the open and close brackets tho{}

Edit: (A couple of hours and tweaks later...) Beast made the names swing and they look REALLY cool!

Now I've taken the names for a multi-dimensional spin! Check this out in my, or your own code ;):

clipNameSprite {
color: 0, 0, 0
pos: -1000, -1100, 0
hotspot: 0, 0
scale: 14.0, 7.4, 0
rot: -90, 90, -90
source: clip
animate: .5 , PingPong, InOutQuad, color, 0, 0, 0.8
animate: .3 , PingPong, InOutQuad, color, 0, 0.8, 0
animate: .5 , PingPong, InOutQuad, color, 0.8, 0, 0
animate: 7.0 , PingPong, InOutQuad, rot, 360, 360, 5760
}

clipNameSprite {
color: 0, 0, 0
scale: 13.6, 7.0, 0
pos: -1000, -1090, 0
hotspot: 0, 0
rot: -90, 90, -90
opacity: 0.5
source: clip
animate: 7.0 , PingPong, InOutQuad, rot, 360, 360, 5760
}

This works on a 3D cam scene. Not sure if it will work on a 2D cam but I doubt it :( That probably needs a few more tweaks...

Edit: Trying to figure out a way to make the spins pause for at least a second or two before spinning off again. It appears that the clipNameSprite function only lasts a set amount of time and anything we add to it can't change this time duration. I've tried spinning the names faster with more than 20 times the rotation speed but it still won't pause in the middle, long enough to read the names :/

The software allows up to 5 seconds to display the names in desktop mode. Is there any way to micro control this in Fullscreen?

default file locations (Windows 7, VirtuaGirl for PC 1.2.0.60):

C:/Users/[User-name]/AppData/Local/vghd (all vghd program and data files)

C:/Users/[User-name]/AppData/Local/vghd/bin (main programming)
C:/Users/[User-name]/AppData/Local/vghd/data (program data)
C:/Users/[User-name]/AppData/Local/vghd/models (model animation files)

C:/Users/[User-name]/AppData/Local/vghd/data/a#### (card data -VirtuaGirl Classic)
C:/Users/[User-name]/AppData/Local/vghd/data/b#### (card data -VirtuaGuy)
C:/Users/[User-name]/AppData/Local/vghd/data/c#### (card data -VirtuaGirl)
C:/Users/[User-name]/AppData/Local/vghd/data/d#### (card data -DeskBabes)
C:/Users/[User-name]/AppData/Local/vghd/data/e#### (card data -VirtuaGirl Interactive)
C:/Users/[User-name]/AppData/Local/vghd/data/f#### (card data -Dorcel)
C:/Users/[User-name]/AppData/Local/vghd/data/emptyCollection (card bundle promotion)
C:/Users/[User-name]/AppData/Local/vghd/data/cache5 (program data)
C:/Users/[User-name]/AppData/Local/vghd/data/musics (user mp3 files)
C:/Users/[User-name]/AppData/Local/vghd/data/playlists (user definable within the program)
C:/Users/[User-name]/AppData/Local/vghd/data/scenes (user full-screen animation files)
C:/Users/[User-name]/AppData/Local/vghd/data/skins (user skin files)
C:/Users/[User-name]/AppData/Local/vghd/data/WebLocalStorage (program data)

C:/Users/[User-name]/AppData/Local/vghd/models/a#### (animation clips -VirtuaGirl Classic)
C:/Users/[User-name]/AppData/Local/vghd/models/b#### (animation clips -VirtuaGuy)
C:/Users/[User-name]/AppData/Local/vghd/models/c#### (animation clips -VirtuaGirl)
C:/Users/[User-name]/AppData/Local/vghd/models/d#### (animation clips -DeskBabes)
C:/Users/[User-name]/AppData/Local/vghd/models/e#### (animation clips -VirtuaGirl Interactive)
C:/Users/[User-name]/AppData/Local/vghd/models/f#### (animation clips -Dorcel)
C:/Users/[User-name]/AppData/Local/vghd/models/demoa (program data)

Note: '####' are used as place-holders in this example
each card has a unique 4-digit number ranging 0001 to 9999
[User-name] will be different on everyone's computer
the slashes are all reversed here (editing in this forum is tricky)

Caution to moderators: editing this post will remove all of the slashes if they are replaced with the more correct backslashes

I now still missing 4 cards then I have achieved my Goal !

Here is Naomi Nevena sexy upskrit.

VGLogger is still crapping on transition clips. I picked up a VI clip to get the dangling thing and vglogger reported an error and shutdown.

Pause function isn't working correctly. I think pause is working but when I resume it starts a new clip immediately.

When I stop PM and then perform a start I get 0 clips and 0 shows. Only way to get it going is to completely restart.


Note to users of vghd playlist manager. The easiest way to stop vghd from playing clips is to unselect all collections. Not even demo's will play. Now VG Playlist manager takes over. You don't need to disable clips or anything fancy. Works great.

Thanks for your contribuions and effort (which probably was not an easy upgrade) to your player.

3 points: Zuzana, Sandra Shine, Nikita Valentin, Monica Scott, Elody, Bijou, Bernadette, Antonia and Aria Giovanni.
2 points: Blue Angel
1 point: Jana Cova

Quote - A scene called Platform with replaceable background.
Feel free to add your own images ;-)

http://scenes.virtuastripper.net/ MrCrowley - Platform.zip


@MrCrowley

Thanks to you, and everyone else, for continuing to post these most excellent scenes.
There is an issue with using spaces in file names to download, please try to avoid spaces as web browsers interpret it a symbol that needs to be input.
In order to download the file the filename is
http://scenes.virtuastripper.net/%20MrCrowley%20-%20Platform.zip

Hope this helps anyone struggling to get the file and thanks again for all your efforts.

You see that's now how fast only missing 5 cards that I find so great !

I'm still missing 7 Cards !

Sorry Starryk I tried to send you a second pm but the system tells me your mail inbox is full... The thing is a few hours ago I told you the playlist manager doesn't work. Well it turned out that wasn't correct...to say the least. Long story short: I still had version 1.2.60. I simply updated my VG software and now everything works fine :D :D :D

@Lloydn Maybe you got the same problem? Did you check if you got the latest VG software installed man?

even when a show played on my playlist its not playing the fullshow...i set it on fullshow with playlists checked...am i supposed to do something different?....its not working like the old versions of playlist manager

this program isnt workin right at all..ive been playin with it...i created a playlist with it...i mean the program recognizes the amount of shows in my playlist...when i try to play them it plays demos...a simple thing like this should work...i mean im using this like when i had an older version of virtuagirl...well it is a beta...theres bugs..i dont know if im supposed to do something different here

I wish Ariel was back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is X-Mas really that early this year? ;-) Thank you very much Starryk! *going to download it right now*

Posted by moderator @Oquijan - 1232 day(s) ago
Poeople are afraid to camplain here? That's a novelty. Is kinda the local sport, lol.

I'm learning the same lesson. Trying to help the masses, I find myself repeating the same advice again and again. There must be a better way to guide new folks over the hurdles. Can the database be indexed?


Weabul

Starryk, you are one of my favorite people! Thank you for your effort, and I hope that Totem realizes your effort and gives you something tangible in return for your efforts!

Let me invite you to continue this discussion in @Dorsai6's poll. Here's the direct link:
http://www.virtuagirl.com/forumPost.php?foId=8&ftId=29622

a note regarding Animate

single component animate's are additive
animate: .4 , PingPong, InOutQuad, color, 0, 0, 1 // blue
animate: .3 , PingPong, InOutQuad, color, 0, 1, 0 // green
animate: .5 , PingPong, InOutQuad, color, 1, 0, 0 // red

each animate will add to the previous, so you will get a bit of red, a bit of green and a bit of blue, being mixed

If you Add an Animate that changes more than a single component,
that One replaces any prior single component animate.

so:
animate: .4 , PingPong, InOutQuad, color, 0, 0, 1 // blue
animate: .3 , PingPong, InOutQuad, color, 0, 1, 0 // green
animate: .5 , PingPong, InOutQuad, color, 1, 0, 0 // red
animate: .7 , PingPong, InOutQuad, color, 1, 0, 1 // red and blue

would be the same as this:
animate: .3 , PingPong, InOutQuad, color, 0, 1, 0 // green
animate: .7 , PingPong, InOutQuad, color, 1, 0, 1 // red and blue

that last animate changing both the red and blue values will take the place of the two previous single color animate line.
or so this has been the results of my tests..

on your fire and water scene..

I thought it'd look good if the name had a little swing to it..

clipNameSprite {
color: 1, 0, 1
pos: -1000, -1100, 0
hotspot: 0, 0
scale: 14.0, 7.4, 0
rot: -90, 90, -90
source: clip
animate: .4 , PingPong, InOutQuad, color, 0, 0, -0.8
animate: .3 , PingPong, InOutQuad, color, 0, 0.8, 0
animate: .5 , PingPong, InOutQuad, color, -0.8, 0, 0
animate: .7 , PingPong, InOutQuad, rot, 30, 0, 0
animate: .9 , PingPong, InOutQuad, rot, 0, 0, 30
}

clipNameSprite {
color: 1, 1, 1
scale: 13.6, 7.0, 0
pos: -1000, -1090, 0
hotspot: 0, 0
rot: -90, 90, -90
opacity: 0.8
source: clip
animate: .7 , PingPong, InOutQuad, rot, 30, 0, 0
animate: .9 , PingPong, InOutQuad, rot, 0, 0, 30
}

posted by doubleDiamond @softie55 - 5 hour(s) ago
I have 2 screens with different resolutions. Can you imagine, how ridiculous it looks, when half a girl is big on the left screen, and the other half small on the right screen?
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I have only one screen, and the working space slider doesn't even appear on my settings tab as a consequence. But there is discussion in other threads on this very topic. Here's a link to what's currently happening with the software, and a quick search of the forums will present you with much more insight:
http://www.virtuagirl.com/forumPost.php?foId=8&ftId=28474

Have fun!
Weabul

posted by diamond @gatonegro - 11 day(s) ago
I finally I developed a very friendly "clip player" where I can tag clips,
Feature #414: Follow Registry to play clips.
don't nkow what surprieses I will see when/if it is back.

@gatonegro Feature 414 is now restored, but your software will require a revision. Where can we get your free add-on?

@charliefoxtrott Others are also working on upgrades to their clip players. There are many to choose from. One of them may suit you nicely, and I'm certain this is the quickest answer to your current frustration.

Please review the following links for more on this topic:
http://www.virtuagirl.com/forumPost.php?foId=3&ftId=21341
http://www.virtuagirl.com/forumPost.php?foId=3&ftId=3821

I know you want an answer from Totem, please be patient. They are few, we users are many. A more experienced user posted this in another forum in response to a similar expression of frustration:
http://www.virtuagirl.com/forumPost.php?foId=9&ftId=29423&gotolastpage=1#post463095

Hope this helps!
Weabul

@szalka and the anonymous mod: Thanks, both of you.

Edit by moderator @Oquijan - 9 day(s) ago
Weabul, The fact that you can download something without paying for it doesn't mean that is made by nobody and that there is nobody owning a copyright.

Thank you for the clarification of the legal jargon. I did not know that! Lesson learned.

Humbly,
Weabul

Thanks for your efforts, Starryk! Still waiting for the full release version 1.2.0.66 to come down the pipe.

Awesome, Starryk!

Thanks for your hard work, hope you didn't spend all of your weekend on it.

YEAH !! It's here !! Thank you sir for your hard work. Downloading now.

Here it is

VG Playlist Manager V 2.8.1

New Features:

• Support for VirtuaGirl 1.2.0.66 and higher.
• New filters for the new Collections VG Interactive and DB Interactive
• New Cliptimer on the clipinfo dialog which shows the calculated remaining play time of that clip as a countdown
• New systray Menu Function "Next Clip"
• Option to include Transition clips into the playlist (per default excluded)
• Option to include Disabled Clips was replaced by option to include transition clips

Important: THIS IS A BETA VERSION! Usage at your own risk!
For now don't start a playlist if you have set the number of girls in small mode higher than 1. It will not work correctly then.

Don't run more than one Instance of my program or you will just get a slide show!

Don't rely too much on the cliptimer. Its ok for telling if the clip will run for another 2 minutes or end in 30 seconds but not for determining if it will run for another 5 seconds or 15. I won't answer to ***** about the inaccurate timer!!
All other bugs can be reported via PM

The program can still be found here:
http://www.kp3d.com/vgmanager.html

To just update the program file just replace the vghdplay.jar with the one included in this zip:
http://www.kp3d.com/archives/vgplaylistmanager28Jar.zip

@DANO70: ok your feature request has been noticed. I see what i can do.

Hi everybody,

the issue with the progressive hotness is not the only frustating item in the player.
I have 2 screens with different resolutions. Can you imagine, how ridiculous it looks, when half a girl is big on the left screen, and the other half small on the right screen? This happens frequently in small mode.
On my large screen I want to work and watch the girls on the smaller screen. I didn't find a way yet, to tell the player only to use the right screen. The "Settings/Desktop/Working space/Sarts on: Right side" seems to be ignored.
With the old player this worked - so it is possible.

I also would apreciate it, if I could define a playlist not only for complete cards, but also for specific clips. What's so difficult about playing a list of clipfile-names insted of card-numbers?

Guys!
This boob debate: Here is Ariel side of the page Boobpedia.com
See the table data of body: what size her bra? 36C





Edit by Mod:
Pic cropped to remove Copyright Material.

You are not a beginner and know very well what the pic posting rules are, szalka. I should've just removed the pic completely but, I took the time to crop it instead.

@Hombre you hit the jackpot with this latest remix amigo. Ultra closeup taskbar with melty background and flashing perspective model name. Isizzu comes right into my room voila3D with this one hehe. Nice going ~ keep coding & //commenting your changes guys, it all helps the learning journey ;)

3 - ashley bulgari,laura,melisa,nadine,playful *****,nicol vanilla
2 - lorena,natali blond,tavalia,kari
1 - gina devine,silvie deluxe,sandra h,helena karel

I agree!! what is up with these new demos? we only get 2, as opposed to the 3 that there used to be, and now every model is doing this beckoning gesture?! I have turned down more hot babes lately because of this, which some director at totem seems to think is a good idea. wrong! we pay to see these girls dance and strip, and that still needs to be represented in thier demos. what is up with Totem Lately? as stated above, this seems to have started with the dorcel cards, and now there is just no variety at all. so, why should I spend my money, Totem?

I just deleted my last post as it was getting too complicated. I've rehashed my Fire and Water scene using many tweaks including Beast's clipNameSprite code from his 'Shades' album (with a few more tweaks) and also added lezardo's new framebuffer with antiAlias shader code. This really does make a difference to older cards in particular :) Thanks to both of you guys, mucho!

The download is on Beast's sharing thread.

So this is how my Fire and Water 3 looks...

Edit: Oh. I deleted the shadows under the models. Most clips worked just fine but some of the older cards were way out of whack :(

I've posted a spin-off of this thread to the ideas forum with the title Add Support For Secondary Models Folder. I've included a poll.

I would be more than happy to become one of the first beta testers, Starryk. ;-) But no hurry, take your time and I really appreciate your efforts!

Where can I download the beta or final profram?
Thanks in advance.

halo

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I haven't used this awesome addon in quiet awhile for obvious software changes of course. But I would like to request a future feature. If it's even possible that is. A "continuous looping" option of created playlists. I hope you get what I mean. Instead of the app simply stopping when it's done with a playlist mabey loop back to the beginning infinitely or I stop it manually. If it can't be done it doesn't matter I'll still use it when it usable again. Thank you for your great app sir.

I have one more idea to add to this discussion, expanding on what's been said in the past (and the future):
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posted by doubleDiamond @Virt4B in a future off-topic thread:
http://www.virtuagirl.com/forumPost.php?foId=8&ftId=29503
best solution I see is the possibility to use more storage folders like discussed in this thread:
(pointing here, to this thread)
It would be very cool if the software could handle more storage folders on different external drives at the same time.
That would be a great invention for the future of this software cause data will keep on growing...
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In this thread, @WyldAnimal discusses the possibility of splitting the models folder over 2 hard drives, but it's technical, risky and cumbersome for new users. If I understand correctly, I can see that his example could, in theory, be multiplied to allow for expansion across several HD's, perhaps with a separate desktop icon for each drive. This option still limits access to the clips on only 1 drive at a time, per instance of the VG software. (I don't know if you can run more than 1 instance - not my point here anyway.) It's a work-around to the software. As is the suggestion that I buy a bigger drive each year to replace the one I already have.

Expanding on @Virt4B's thoughts, if Totem would expand the selection box to include the possibility to add several "location of my shows" instead of just one and write all of those locations to the registry. In theory, you could then use several USB drives to save your models and still be able to access all clips seamlessly in one instance of VG. The aim here is to incorporate this idea into an idiot-proof program-controlled spanning of several drives. Then again, maybe that's more trouble for the developers.

(Sorry to dig up old memories by resurrecting this thread... Perhaps someone will adjust my knowledge of the rules of etiquette?)

I will be unavailable for the Next week or so due to an unexpected family issue.
So this project has been placed on hold till I can devote some time towards it.

To all my friends who have sent me well wishes. Thank you.
see you all soon.

I hope you get double diamond status, SweetAngel. And good luck to you, on the triple diamond status.

Thank you very much, Starryk! And take your time.

It has taken me a long time but you will also create once !

http://scenes.virtuastripper.net/Fire-And-Water-2.zip

I've redone this scene as I originally intended it to look. Now the fragment shader is working on the background image, along with the vertex shader, instead of on the name or model :)

Edit: Ignore last upload. Rehashed scene just uploaded:

http://scenes.virtuastripper.net/HSS-Fire-And-Water-3.zip

This has a few more tweaks including @lezardo's antiAlias shader :)

Ok sorry that i didn't finish my modifications in time.
I encountered some problems that i hadn't expected.
But good news is that i solved the problems.
Still there are some things that remain to be done.
For now i will put the virtualgirl and virtuagirl interactive cards into the product filter for virtuagirl and will not make a seperate filter for vg interactive. Same goes for deskbabes
That is on my todo list however.
I will add the command next clip to the systray menu as that should be quick to make.
So with 24 hour delay you will find the new version here. But if ever a version was beta then this one. I did some testing which was one thing that costed much time today as i have to watch at least 3 clips in a row to make realistic tests.
But this new beta has many internal changes in the source code i made over the last year. Mainly to make the code easier to maintain. You will be my beta testers if you will use the new version.
One interisting thing is that my addon is able to play the transition clips at will even in full size.
Theoretically it should be possible to use the fitting transitions to connect the clips. but that will be a hell of work so this is more of a long time goal.
For the beta version the transition clips will be filtered out as otherwise they would be played one after another and that makes no sense at all.
so thats for the status update folks. Tomorrow your wait should finally be over.

@SweetAngel - Your goal of 750 cards is very close, well done! I too hope to reach double diamond status, but you will beat me to it :)

Finally it is almost time there I am only 10 cards to get my goal of 750 cards for Double Diamond has achieved status, I always had to open a theme to because this is my first big goal at Virtua Girl and DeskBabes, my next goal is to then have 1500 cards and because to achieve triple diamond status whether they are normal Vg cards, Classic Vg cards or DeskBabes cards, this is of course subject to my letzes Double diamond status I hope you annoyed that not a bit but it has been as said above my goal or rather my dream and now I am only 10 cards up to the age Tuesday I'll probably have reached at the latest!

Best regards your HoneyCocoKiss!