I have a 4TB drive external for my models/data. My biggest concerns are:
1. Replacement of all via redownloading is too costly in time and data cost.
I will need buy same storage space elsewhere for a backup copy (double cost) for when this drive fails
2. Virtuagirl Player requires a connection to call home in order to continue to work..
If Totem ever sell the business, how will be our past investment guaranteed protected ?

J'ai un disque de 4 To externe pour mes modèles et les données. Mes plus grandes préoccupations sont :
1. remplacement de l'ensemble de redownloading est trop coûteux en temps et les données de coût.
Je vais besoin d'acheter même espace de stockage ailleurs pour une copie de sauvegarde lorsque ce disque tombe en panne
2. Virtuagirl Player requiert une connexion à appeler maison afin de continuer à travailler...
Si Totem jamais vendre l'entreprise, en quoi notre passé investissement garanti protégé ?

Edit: FYI we discussed the notion of Totem selling a packaged external terabyte drive with its own auto update 64 bit operating & management system to plug & play to any (sic. I meant the user's registered..) PC or mac USB back in...
http://www.virtuagirl.com/forumPost.php?foId=8&ftId=24631
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Agreed. I don't care for the pornstar-style exhibition approach, but a girl (or two) that sound like they are really enjoying themselves makes for an ideally intense experience.

^^perso j ai un HDD ,esterne de 1T juste pour les modeles, mais j avoues que 1T c est nettement pas assez
j ai donc effacé pas mal de cartes et j ai quand meme plus de place pour en prendre des news^^
mon problemes et que je peux pas me resoudre à effacer les modeles que j ai aps effacé la 1ere fois ^^
mon coté sentimental sans aucun doute :p
mais j avoues que l idée de @manue est assez bonne , les telecharger pour les voir et les effacer ensuite^^
ton topic m aura donc été utile !merci!!

😄

I hear you, health issues can test the patience of a Saint. Keep on fighting!

Anyhow, with regards the Pricilla Jones cards, contact Totem for re-imbursement of equivalent credits to spend on new cards.

I have the view that when the moaning is that excessive and/or clearly faked it is off-putting. There isn't that option in your pole though. I'd vote for 'Keep it real or don't bother' if that was a choice.

I am not a patient man (comes of the state of my health)
Still i am not reloading ALL of the cards so ill have space for new ones
its no great loss (lost three Pricilla jones cards for good of course)

@Number6
I'm not sure now, but before Framebuffers we used to nest sprites in quads to animate/orient them independently. If you nest quad brackets around all of it with the shader relating directly to the quad, then rotate the sprite the shader might work on it normally because its in the same node wrap & only relating shader orientation directly to its quad rectangle. You could try putting the quad which you haven't rotated below the scene out of the way or make it opacity zero and still maybe get the shader to work on the sprite at shader's original angle independently that way. Don't know..Its worth a try, but I suspect we will some day need some SCN uniform setting to overide orientation of shaders. @Wyld would know about quad *****. Use Notepad ++ so you don't lose track of closing brackets.

I decided early on to start recycling textures as much as possible and avoid duplication, however ETImages still managed to become bloated with try-outs and rotations. Then it became Textures/ Surfaces - 512x512/ ..to match @Theemu's and same happened there because I couldn't be bothered repathing all the legacy SCN files..Lol ;-)

@Apasas
Thanks for understanding my frustration.
"You are just as likely to get frustrated and leave as you are to buy more."
I have already started to lose interest. I've not even bothered to fire up the program today. There's not really much point in purchasing any more credits because I could use my hard earned money on another adult site. One where they give you what you're paying for, even for new members!
I know this may seem petty, but I need to spend my money wisely. Totem's attitude towards new members is counter productive.

I really wanted to enjoy this site/program.

@EverthangForever

Glad you liked it. I was quite chuffed with it which is why I posted it so quickly.

It's really just the scene you created but speeded up. The jury is out at the moment until I see @TheEmu's random number version. I'm wondering if this one works so well at speed because it is cycling through rather than jumping around. If there are only ***** variations between several contiguous functions then the leap between them is less jarring than if it is going between two completely different functions. One thing I did have problems with was the images for the backgrounds. The ones I included work quite well with the scene but I must have rejected 50 or 60 other images whilst testing.

I'm not sure if the rotation thing I asked @TheEmu about is just a personal perception or not. I was just looking at a 90° left rotation so the image is portrait instead of landscape. As I said I felt some of the tunnels looked better with the image pre-rotated. I have a fair few directories with the images already rotated but as I pointed out it means the images are stored twice, once for portrait and once for landscape. This makes the zip files for the scenes larger than the need to be. I was going to add another scene to the zip file but it needs a fair few image files to work and with the pngs the zip was 200MB + so I abandoned it.

Unfortunately I can't see a way of doing it in the scene file unless I'm missing something obvious. If I do it with a sprite that includes the shader then it rotates the whole shader rather than just the texture file.

I suppose I could try it the reverse way. The landscape ones I want are background sprite images rather than tunnel textures so I could have a single directory of rotated images for the tunnel textures and then rotate them in the scene file if they are just going to be a background sprite.

Vicki: Gorgeus face, perfect body and sensuous moves
Aria Giovanni: Great curves
Sandra H.: Beautiful body and sensuous moves
Zuzanna: Beautiful face and great body

Hi there,

im interessted in your opinions regarding the moaning in DB cards. I myself am not a fan of the excessive amount of moaning and the often very loud volume.
The 2 new Tracy Smile cards are a pretty good example, she is gorgeous in every way, but the mashinegun moaning kind of ***** the mood for me :(
Maybe thats just me, so let me know.

cheers,

Darn

@Number6
Psychedelic (complex) 01 is a work of Art @No.6. Unique. I watched it to SomaFm radio & found it totally immersive. I had no idea the complex functions could alternate so well at such a speed to perfectly match the music beats. Everything (espec. the 'NeighborPixelLessThan' and footlighting ) fits and balances with the dancer. NPLT doesn't compete with dancer because its a muted effect like translucent & all the while the pair are drawing the viewer into the center beat like an unintrusive quicksilver. Brilliant composition and timing as usual.. Love the effect..please do more. Going back to watch at length. thanks lots for sharing this one. ;-)>

Edit: I had to rotate @Carchro's jurassic scene because the tunnel was up-ending it more than not. I could not include it as an open directory texture without doing so. I guess if i used it in a dedicated scene like you are describing, I would apply rot: 0, 0, 180 to the sprite in the SCN code.

@Wyld,
nice to see you back here. I wasn't fussed about it not being 3D, but tunnels do imply something distant is behind the model, so if you are interested in doing a split screen tunnel, I can try it on my setup. I think with full color 3D, everyone's waiting for glasses-free tech to become mainstream when the multi-nat corps finally decide they want to do so.
Here's that sky rose tunnel btw for anyone interested:
http://scenes.virtuastripper.net/ELECTRICAveNewRoseTunnelSky.zip

@Wyldanimal

It's bad enough in 2D - I've been watching one tunnel scene for over an hour :-).

I think I'd get completely lost in a 3D version :-)

I must admit though, it sounds really cool.

I've been tied up with too many different life events, so I've been somewhat absent.
I have a 3D TV that accepts different 3D input..
One of them is Side by Side images, One for Each eye, which are then combined into a single 3D image..

I'm hoping I can put Two Tunnels Side by Side. Each with a sligly diffent Angle, and X offset..

then use my 3D tv as the Monitor to Combine them into one 3D tunnel..

wow, you gave up too fast...
bad timming I guess...
there was a server issue... so when you installed your rights didn't get updated..

http://www.virtuagirl.com/forumPost.php?foId=4&ftId=30635&gotolastpage=1#post474668

@TheEmu

The random number thing sounds great. For me it would probably work really well with the scene I have just uploaded.

One query - would it be possible within the shader to rotate the image used for the texture, prior to the shader processing it?. I ask because I have found that with some of the tunnels they look better if the image file used is rotated. It is no great hardship to rotate the images (my graphics programme did 40 the other night in a couple of minutes) however it means having the image twice, one in its normal mode and one for the rotated mode. If it could be rotated within the shader only one instance of the image is required.

Also - you asked if anyone had found a use for Kali's Devil Inside and Miyake Yohei's NeighborPixelLessThan shaders. I haven't managed to do anything with the Kali but I have used Yohei's in the scene I have just uploaded.

I really like the black and white effect. My graphics programme does a similar thing for still images and you get some good effects when mixing with colour images.

In this case I wanted something that would change colour so I overlaid the shader clip with a duplicate of the unshaded clip and then reduced the opacity. This gave a sort of cartoon illustration type image but with the colour slightly washed out. I thought it looked quite good and I am going to experiment a bit more with this. For the scene it allowed me to animate the colours, It isn't quite as colourful as the complex shader background but I found the effect reasonably pleasing.

Many, many thanks for all your efforts.

Bonsoir,

Tu devrais demander au team, à Rex, ...

Car eux seul pourront d'aider au mieux dans le problème que tu as.

Bonnes chances.

you still actually have 4TB of individal bytes...
It's just with the Binary method of counting 1024's instead of 1000's
you don't get to 4,000,000,000,000 you only count up to 3,637,978,807,091

but it is still 4TB of individual bytes.

just like 100 decimal is only 64 in Hexadecimal.

Both are 100, just displayed in a different base.

1000 raised to the 4th power is 1 TB = 1,000,000,000,000
1024 raised to the 4th power is 1 TB = 1,099,511,627,776

http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/172191en?language=en_US

Currently I use a 5TB external USB drive.
I have it backed up on Two 2GB drives..

I can, move the drive from computer to computer.. as needed
I also have a Home network, and share access to the Models folder to Two other PC's

So I download Once, then can access from 3 PC's

posted here how I set it up:
http://www.virtuagirl.com/forumPost.php?foId=3&ftId=3821&pageNb=14#post474464

a few years ago, I was using symlinks and junctions to Split my Collect on Multiple HDD
I had some smaller 500GB drives and Split my collection up on 3 of them..
It worked great, never had any issues, but once I got a large enough Drive, I went back to a single HDD.

from Google:

Actuellement, je utiliser un lecteur USB externe de 5 To.
Je l'ai soutenu sur deux disques de 2 Go ..

Je peux, déplacez le lecteur d'un ordinateur à .. au besoin
Je dois aussi un réseau d'accueil, et de partager l'accès au dossier des modèles à deux autres PC

Donc je télécharge Une fois, puis peut accéder à partir de 3 PC

posté ici comment je l'ai mis en place:
http://www.virtuagirl.com/forumPost.php?foId=3&ftId=3821&pageNb=14#post474464

il ya quelques *****ées, je suis en utilisant les liens symboliques et les jonctions à Split mon Recueillir sur Multiple disque dur
Je ai eu quelques petits disques de 500 Go et Split ma collection sur 3 d'entre eux ..
Il a très bien fonctionné, jamais eu de problèmes, mais une fois que je suis un grand lecteur assez, je suis retourné à un seul disque dur.

Have updated the zip file at

scenes.virtuastripper.net/No.6_Fracedelic_Scenes_02.zip

It adds a new scene based on @TheEmu & @EverthangForever Tunnels with Complex Number Shaders. It is very similar to @EverthangForever's ELECTRICAvenue update above however it cycles through the all the functions very quickly producing a very psychedelic effect. It works well with music such as Hendrix, The Doors, Deep Purple and many others.

I have added a few image files/textures to go with it.

The MyGod!Its Full of Stars! scene file is also updated but no differences will be apparent. It has a couple of uniforms added and the latest version of @TheEmu's tunnel shader. The new uniforms are set at the default value. I have only added them in case someone wants to play.

The new scene file (Psychedelic (Complex) 01) includes all the current uniforms for the Tunnel and Complex Number shaders. Many of them are set at the default value and are there in case anyone wants to play. I have put the uniforms in exactly the same order as they appear in @TheEmu's commented shader files to make it slightly easier to follow. It's starting to get to the point where we need some new tutorials (or a destruction manual :-) )

Dependent on where you extract the files to, you may get some nags about duplicate files. Tell it to replace the existing files so that you have the latest versions of the file.

Feel free to play with/modify asyou wish.

I sympathise with you @Garrett22. I have always believed that all members should have access to the clip selector right from the start. I remember the bad old days too well when I couldd't select the clips I really wanted to see.

i think the tactic is mistaken. You are just as likely to get frustrated and leave as you are to buy more.

Well i gave up and blanked the entire install which sadly has cost me everything
starting from scratch now

Je ne voulais pas parler de la mention française sur son profil mais bel et bien de la langue dans laquelle elles s'expriment.
Après par vulgaire, j'entend pas de séduction, de jeu avec la caméra, elles exposent directement leurs intimité et s'enfournent leur dildo, le tout en criant le plus fort possible (ça va j'ai le casque). XD
Quoique cette remarque en dehors du son s'appliquent aussi à des cartes VirtuaGirl.

Après comme le dis Altair, je suis mal tombé peut être.
Mais bon, avec une démo d'une animation unique, on ne peut pas se faire une idée malheureusement. Généralement je m'en sort bien.

Et il y a aussi une question de goût, mais je voulais vérifier si c'était pas général.
Les cartes deskbabes offrent un plus c'est que les filles peuvent parler, après si c'est pour dire des Oh Put... à longueur de show, c'est pas terrible.
La-dessus, Jana Cova et Ariel s'en sortent à merveille par exemple. Une préférence pour Ariel d'ailleurs.

I just installed the newest version and my collection is blank
there should be several hundred cards in there

They are still on the hard drive but I can't seem to direct the program to find them

Anyone got any ideas?

I've realised there is less 'noise' if you don't cram your textures with detail or mirror anything..Let the shader do ALL the re-iterations..Note that changing png to jpg loses transparency.
Having a lot of fun with these tunnels @TheEmu. Makes the girls more 3D-ish, imho, thanks lots 😄

that's not bad keep buying cards I see your silver so it won't take too long, the main problem is you didn't get the old prices 1 credit in the software cheaper prices for buying credit but hey, we were all in the same position with these features and unfortunitly this is how totem wanted to do things doesn't make the software any worse it just means we have to do things the hard way until the easy way is unlocked. I'm wanting to unlock the forum for free signed pictures from the ladies sadly this is tripple diamond 1500 cards I think, I'm only just hitting 450 cards :( will be a good year unless I spend over $1000 in one go.

Its been the way WA descibed it for a very long time. The bigger the dive the bigger the HDD, the bigger the "loss" 😭

Bonjour, Il y a plusieurs façons pour transférer vos collection, pour moi, j'ai télécharger sur un deuxième disque dur de qui est $GB dans la taille. Vous pouvez également stocker sur un périphérique NAS, tant que le dossier où vous collection est stockée et vous utilisez la fonctionnalité dans l'onglet Paramètres avancés pour pointer vers le dossier réseau Traduire avec Bing

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Bonjour,

There are a few ways to store you collection, for me, I download to a second harddrive that is $GB in size.

You can also store to a NAS device , so long as the folder where you collection is stored and you use the functionality in the Advanced settings tab to point to the Network folder

Translated with Bing

@InsaneGenius
"Setting to 1 clip then constantly clicking the girls' card will play 1 clip at a time at random"
This is my point. How frustrating is this, keep clicking until I get the clip I require. A clip should never be random. This is so unintuitive.

"you'd invest more money into buying credits if this item was already available then what's the difference if you just work your way up to this feature?"
Seriously? So it could take me 2 or 3 months to work up to this, so in the mean time I have to put up with being frustrated. This would mean I can't fully enjoy the cards I've already purchased. I just don't get it.

I really can't enjoy this product as it is. I've now purchased a few cards and I've yet to watch a show in any detail. The frustration overrides any enjoyment. I have no control over what clip to watch. Keep clicking in the hope of getting to the part I want. Absurd!

I bought 50 credits at the start (seemed best offer at the time as it gave you 75 in total). I have a good few credits yet to use. I don't know if I'll use them until I'm in control of what I already have.

I'm in the process of setting up the feature created by WyldAnimal. I really hope I can get this going.

Sorry for the rant folks.

En même temps je ne vois pas d'autres solutions que le stockage sur HDD, ça me semble être la meilleure solution. Néanmoins tous les utilisateurs ne stockent pas forcément toutes leurs cartes.

Hello MuleReazaXXX userProfile.php?usLogin=v10809575,

En effet, beaucoup d'utilisateurs stockent leurs modèles sur un disque dur externe.

Vous pouvez également supprimer certaines cartes et les re-télécharger qd vous souhaitez les regarder : )

Manue

@EverthangForever

Currently I am working on a set more complex tunnel based scenes, though still using the same tunnel shader. I expect to have these ready for upload on Monday. If time permits over the weekend I will try to add at least a random function selection option to the complex function shader so that it can also be uploaded on Monday.

@TheEmu thanks,
Yes it would be more comprehensive to have some sort of random play of the complex functions available in the SCN code uniforms, because as it stands, only a recurrent identical portion of the 71 functions is being experienced by peeps who have their scenes cycled say to a maximum of 5 minutes duration only. Plus the interaction of randoms : random models, random scenes, random functions makes sense for maximum diversity.

Edit: The function list being embedded in the shader means artists who currently want to use a specific 2D sampler texture need to tailor that specific effect they want by also // editing the shader functions list and renaming the shader specifically for the scene. That would not be a problem, however one shader with SCN code function listing would likely be more efficient.

@EverthangForever. Currently the order in which the complex functions are used is fixed and you can only control the start point. The original intent of the shader was simply to investigate this area and it was more convenient to have the shader cycle through the functions than to have a separate scn file for each function. However, I had already been thinking that it would be nice to provide some more control over this feature of the shader and make it less of an "experimental" thing. I don't know when I will get round to doing it, but some sort of random order should be simple enough to implement, as would a user specifyable subset.

@garrett22 it just means you'll have to watch the hole clip and not parts of it or set the show duration accordingly 1 clip - 10mins or all clips. Setting to 1 clip then constantly clicking the girls' card will play 1 clip at a time at random though and if you have the option available right click on the girl dancing and click the repeat button to repeat that clip playing once, until you unlock this reel icon, as you said you'd invest more money into buying credits if this item was already available then what's the difference if you just work your way up to this feature? then you'll have it for life.

I've had VG for the past 4ish years I don't remember how long it's been there for but I've had it way before being platnium (old scoring system) so maybe as stated in a few more cards it will unlock for you.

Hello,
There is a possibility add new girl Lucy Zara from UK?

@garrett22,

I think the clip selector was an afterthought, possibly in (very limited) response to customer requests. I wasn't here when it was added. Making it a premium capability is consistent with Totem's philosophy of keeping the UI as simple as possible. That said, it makes sense to me that the clip selector should be made available to all customers.

I really do understand that loyal customers should be rewarded. This should be in cheaper/free credits etc.
The full functionality of the product should be for everyone. 'slow motion, pause/resume'. I can't believe this isn't open to everyone.
From my perspective, it's like this. I'm so frustrated with the program giving me lack of options that I really don't know if I'll continue to purchase anymore credits. However, if I could use the program as it should be, I would defintely be purchasing more.

Can you imagine signing up to say Met-Art and you only had access to the medium res galleries as a new member. You could only have access to the high res photos after you've been a member for six months. It would be ridiculous, yet it's kind of the same thing.

I don't wish to come across as a moaner or fall out without anyone, I'm just trying to get my head around an absurd decision.

Was the time I had this program

www.virtuagirl.eu/forumPost.php?foId=3&ftId=29881

Maggie and Mila Jovovich. We need Maggie back to do an 'Alice' card :)

merci pour la precision @manue^^

Bonjour,

Je possède une grande collection qui augmente de jour en jour avec actuellement plus de 1000 modèles qui occupent tout de même 1 To (photos et vidéos bonus incluses).
A titre personnel, je possède un serveur de 16 To monté en RAID 5 (ce qui fait 12 To d'espace sécurisé disponible pour les données) et par précaution le premier serveur est copié en double sur un autre serveur de 16 To monté en JBOD. J'ai donc suffisamment de place pour stocker tous les modèles sur mes serveurs mais je me pose des questions concernant l'évolution de ma collection surtout si dans le temps je suis amené à posséder les 2000 cartes du site voir plus... Je ne souhaite pas renoncer à stocker mes modèles sur le serveur car je trouve pratique de pouvoir les utiliser immédiatement sans avoir à les télécharger (c'est un gain de temps et cela ne nécessite pas forcément de connexion internet).
Travaillant comme responsable chez Sony, j'adore les questions techniques alors je voudrais faire un petit sondage :)

Par curiosité j'aimerai savoir comment vous stockez tous vos modèles :
1) Téléchargement sur le moment en fonction des besoins ?
2) Stockage sur un disque dur ?
3) Autre solution à proposer ?

Merci d'avance.

Tout dépend de ce que l'on entend par "vulgaire", en tout cas je ne trouve pas qu'il y ai une différence de qualité entre les shows français et les autres, il faut juste bien les choisir. Dans les DB françaises j'ai un faible pour Lou Charmelle, après y'en a qui vont peut-être pas aimer c'est comme tout ^^

Anna Polina est née à Saint Petersburg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg Elle a vécu jusqu’à ses 10 ans en Russie avant de s’installer en France avec ses parents.

That is the whole point though, it is a reward for loyal customers who have spent months and years plus money building their collections and investing in the product. I mention further additional features with some caution because I know it will most likely aggrevate you further. When you become Diamond (formerly platinum), you get access to Casting sections of the forum, can view all bonus videos on the website, plus some additional playback features like slow motion, pause/resume in the client. Double Diamond (signs) and Triple Diamond Members (costumes worn by the girls) get even more features and discount but I don't begrudge them or consider it unfair I can't get the same.

As I alluded to though, some bonus features have been removed and a lot of people got upset about it at the time. At one point Platinum members got a free VIP card every month. This too was withdrawn the same time as Carousel discount (1 credit per card) and caused a massive uproar.

New customers don't ***** too much. You still get access to all the clips and bonus content for the cards you have purchased. Nothing in that sense is restricted. You can also use one of the clip managers made by community members if you so wish (more control than the client currently provides anyone). WA's is probably the most comprehensive.

www.virtuagirl.eu/forumPost.php?foId=3&ftId=3821

@goldiecharleston
That screen shot you show is just what I need.
While I understand that loyal customers should be rewarded (free credits is a good one), I however think the clips choice option should be open to all members. This is because early members won't be able to enjoy the shows to their fullest, until they have purchased many, many cards. This simply isn't fair. It's like new members are being discriminated from the full product.
I know this seems like an over-reaction, but we're talking about money here. It could take alot of members months to be able to have the full product.

I think the newbie Tracy Smile is very much like the US actress Jennifer Love Hewitt (Star of 'I Know What You Did Last Summer'; 'The Tuxedo' and 'Ghost Whisperer'). Similar to their faces, their shape and their height is still too.

OK, today coming Tracy Smile's two cards (0064 & 0065). She's beauty and sexy.
But where are the duos?

In new version today come the 65. card. Of this amount 40 cards were solo and only 25 cards were duo.
This solo cards volume percentage of a lot more than before.

Please give new duo cards!