hello starryk

i ave a problem whit the new version of your manager, 2.11.2, after one clip playing i ave this message

Sorry, an error occured: java.lang.NullPointerException
at de.starryk.vg.regread.Regread.setnaechsterclip(Regread.java : 285)
at de.starryk.vg.regread.VGPlaylistControlFacade.prepareNextClipForPlaying(VGPlaylistControlFacade.java : 74)
at de.starryk.vg.regread.NextClipRequiredState.run(NextClipRequiredState.java : 20)
at de.starryk.vg.regread.Regread.run(Regread.java : 210)
at java.util.TimerThread.mainLoop(UnknownSource)
at java.util.TimerThread.run(UnknownSource)
[...]

it's a first time whit your manager to do this

i update java to try but it's the same way

edit:when i past whit the favorite toolbox to get and play a playlist it's working well

@Rex

There seem to be two problems with the Fullscreen cached images

1 - The disk size required to store them (not a problem for me, but I have seen complaints about it)

2 - The fact that they clutter up the scenes directory

The first can be handled as you suggest by making the caching optional

The second can be handled by storing them in a different directory rather than in the scenes directory itself. Instead of appending a suffix to the .scn filename you append a prefix specifying a directory at the same level as the scenes directory - .e.g. instead of storing the cached image in data/scenes it is stored in data/scenescache.

Please note that currently I have over 4000 scenes installed plus a few thousand I keep elsewhere to prevent overwhelming the system. At point I had over 40000, though that was a temporary situation where I autogenerated a large number of scenes to allow me to explore how the various movement types interracted. The main reason why there are a large number of scenes, at least in my case, is that when you want to have several scenes that differ only by changes in a few parameters it is necessary to have a scene file for each combination of parameters.

@Rex:

About 2): this is about enabling and disabling cards so that iStripper plays them on its own without a specific playlist.
Yes you could use a playlist all the time and then the random option so it behaves as if only the cards on the playlist are enabled. Still the users like DrDoom9 and also Wyldanimal want an option to use a playlist or some other kind of list to store and load the current enabled cards just like it worked in .84 and previous versions.
Of course the new playlist feature is superior to the old one as it allows real playlists even on a clip level. Still people miss that specific feature to have more control over large collections.

About 3): well i said before that fullscreen works the wrong way it tries to find a clip for the current scene even if more than one scene is enabled. it should work the other way around looking at the clip and then choosing a scene that allows this clip type. But i think you already got that one on your list for a future update.

About 6): I am not sure about this one. on the one hand its cool that all cards have the same price and i bought some "older" shows when the new pricing was established that i missed when they were on discount, on the other hand at least for me it might be to your disadvantage because with the old 7 day discount i felt more inclined to buy new shows when they came out because i found them interesting and wanted to get them on discount. Now i often think : Well you got all the time in the world. you don't need that show right now you can buy it still later... and then i don't buy them at all.
So in the end i think you should look at your sales numbers and decide which system works better for your company.

We’ve been working with the community for month trying to accommodate the needs of new and advanced users. With .84 expiring soon and now more and more users are switching to iStripper, there is still a bit of time to list and fix the most annoying remaining things for advanced users.

Let’s work together again to produce a shortlist.

1) Fullscreens have been designed with 10 to 50 scenes in mind. We never thought users would have 1300 scenes at all. When the calculation time was reported to be too long, we added cache files. Now we’re getting ***** for cache file size, I don’t see other solutions that a check box in advanced settings to forbid any display of preview in Fullscreens. Folders will come back, but not before the end of june. If you see other ways to fix the fullscreen issues, let’s talk about it.

2) Playing the girls you want. DrDoom9 says « I cannot see how to disable all cards, then load a playlist so I just get the girls I want ». Can you please be more specific? If you go to My Collection, hit Ctrl+A to select all cards, then the check mark in the top of page (where action on multiple cards appear when you select more than one) to disable all cards. Then load your playlist, check random and loop and make sure the On/Off button is green. Let me know what I am missing here.

3) Using a playlist for Fullscreen. FalconAF, can you explain why you find this impossible in iStripper? On Stage tab will pickup random clips from your collection if Next is empty, but if you load a list of cards and clip in there, they will be used by either the desktop or the fullscreen. Let me know what I am missing here.

4) Missing functions. We’re working on a tutorial for new users and another one for advanced users to explain how to use the software as we see advanced users thinking functionalities are missing when they just got moved. I see a lot of advanced users missing the filters tab on the left or not knowing new actions appear in the title bar when you select more than one card at once.

5) CPU no change where made to the rendering engine at all so I don’t understand why you see any difference. Do other users see a CPU usage increase? Is it solved by the allow streaming of clips checkbox? Let me know what I am missing here.

6) Early-buy-discount pricing. We thought lowering all card prices from 30 to 25 credits and removing the 20% discount was an improvement. Did you guys prefer the discount for 7 days?

7) Pop-up nag window. iStripper as a better notification system, but .84 has nothing else to offer but this window. We have no other way to communicate with the users of .84 but this. If you have other ideas on how to make them aware of iStripper now and tell them soon about the expiration of .84, I’m all ears.

8) Skins will come back, they are scheduled for version .130 to be released within 2 months.

Am I missing other things?

Thank you Starryk for all the work you did on the updates.
I think from now the word "Essential" should be placed before "Addon" replacing [VGHD] in the
title of this Sticky, because it certainly is.

Gloria Lana Rey Vanessa Mio Randy Ayn :)

I wonder if the cut-off date is due to an impending clip format change which means new shows won't play with the old client. This has already happened in the past. I like the concept but if it causes the issue where you can't playback new content, which would you rather have? The old style client or the new shows?

Does iStripper support skins like VGHD was? Im thinking upgrade or not upgrade...

@Dr.Doom,
With my rig on iStripper I am having no problem running your DrD = Studio V1..scn fully populated with 9 different model cards. I do have stuttering and early exit of fullscreen only when I run more than 3 cards of the same model co-incidently.
Like @Theemu says for v84, running large numbers of same card clones in a fullscreen scene is never a problem for me in iSt either.

@freewheeler

On the card display there is a trashcan labelled "Delete this card". Right click for the delete menu. You can delete disabled clips as one of the items on the menu.

I mosty miss the ability to delete disable scenes, unless I'm missing something.

Fair points, buddy :)
On the flipside, an advanced user thread might be intentionally directed at users who already know their way around the software and are able to suggest logical or even aesthetical improvements... A new genius member is probably a little rare...

We've all seen some, how should I put it? Less than intelligent remarks here. (YES! I'm guilty too).

I agree with WA's suggestion that it should be kept on topic and without the silly comments that sometimes affect other threads, more often than not by new members :)

Agree with @Wintergreen, however remember that @Rex mentioned that the expiry end of June is hard written into the VGHD player's existing code and likewise I suspect with the nag box.
People respond angrily as though Totem Team is totally responsible for this. It may well have been a time constraint ***** upon the Team by financiers or other stakeholders. We don't know.

I think that a lot of the negative vibes are coming from the end-of-June absolute deadline and the new pop-up nag window. So I have a suggestion... I think that Totem should create a version of the old software called 1.0.2.84b which is identical to 1.0.2.84 except that it extends the cut off date by one full year. Maybe it also has a kinder, gentler nag screen. This would take the pressure off the team to address all remaining issues in just a few weeks.

And those of you who don't like the new software would also need to work during that year to constructively criticize the aspects of the software that you think still need some work ans accept the fact that the old user interface's days are numbered. You can't expect it to survive forever.

I hope we all can work together here.

@WA @HSS.
Not sure about confining the proposed advanced users thread to peeps who have more than 100 cards. If we get a genius member from the Shadertoy or GLSL Sandbox crowd come to visit us one day, its likely he /she will not qualify to join discussions . The way things were in VGHD they did not even have access to clip manager until 100 cards. It may be better to use such a thread to beef up the existing FS Tutorial thread into an iStripper compatible version to at least make things more succinct for users without losing the history. :-/

Well said. Most who know me by now know that I will ALWAYS back-up and support Totem's actions/decisions IF I believe they are good for the community and the future of VG :)

Beast, I agree that we need another 'Sticky' thread for advanced users to argue our cases. Maybe only visible to Platinum and above? From there, we can always filter and help newer members with their issues elsewhere :)

So I will admit I am currently not a huge fan of the new iStripper interface, but I believe this just because it's new, and over time I'll get used to it (and might enjoy it more).

However, there is one thing that bugs the heck out of, and that is no way to go back. In the older interface, if you clicked on a card for instance, you got additional information at the bottom, or a new window was brought up over the existing. With the new interface, if you do this you are brought to a new window, and then have to re-navigate to get back to the last one. Now while it may not see *****, it's annoying when you accidently click something, or you are constantly having to click multiple times to go back to the previous page.

I would love if this new interface offered a back button, to do just as it sounds, go back to previous windows you were on. Additional it would be awesome if it supported the Back buttons on mice, much like Web Browsers and File Explorers do.

Thanks

Playlists/Now Playing
in VirtuaGirl, when you load a playlist
it loaded the selected girls as well as
the playlist.
With the new format, it only loads the
playlist.

Please update the saved playlists so
that it loads the selected girls when
you load a playlist.

Make the playlists load the selected
girls also.

Thanks.

Please Update Fullscreen Mode Playlists:
I really like the iStripper interface. It is easier to use and cleaner.
My comment/suggestion/issue with the new release is the playlists.

When you use the fullscreen mode on iStripper on a multi-girl
fullscreen mode, the playlists doesn't follow the playlist on the
menus. It should put the first girl in one spot and the next girls
in the next spot.

The fullscreen multi mode just puts any of the girls that are
active in the fullscreen multi scene. This is *****.

Please update the multi-girl fullscreen mode so that it
plays the girls off of the playist, or the now playing section
or something that makes sense, rather than what is highlighted.

Please update the Fullscreen multi-girl to play off the
Playlist or the now playing section rather than the selected
girls, please.

Made the upgrade to istripper today. Thanks for that great work guys everything seems to work just fine except for one thing: I can't reach my account/profile. And do I have to log myself in on the homepage every time I want to reach the forum? I can't find any quick link "community" button... :-(

@Starryk

Hey man thanks a lot for that update. I finally made the upgrade to "istripper" today. Thanks to you and your playlist manager I am still able to watch my shows the way I want to. Great work man thanx again! :-)

IStripper Playlist Manager 2.11.2 released

New Features/Changes

• Setting for Input Type from Main Dialog (Collection or Playlist) is now also remembered as requested by @nurebau32
  
• All major dialogs now have a Menu Bar with the Commands Menu
  
• The Main dialog now also has the Tools and Migration Menu
  
• The ClipInfo dialog doesn't have the Tools and Migration Menu anymore.
  
• New Options Menu on the main dialog with delay options as requested by @TracerKI
  

Details on the new Options Menu

It contains 2 checkbox items to use the delay defined in iStripper after each clip or after each show. (see first screenshot)
Checking both boxes has the same effect as checking only delay after each clip (because if the show changes so does the clip)
Please note: You can use the Playlist control options from the Commands menu during such a break and it will have an instantaneous effect, meaning if you use the Next clip command the nex clip will immediately start to play

Changing the settings in this menu has an instantaneous effect.
The setting is also remembered if you quit and restart PLM
ATTENTION: If you have set the value of Delay between shows in the iStripper GUI to continuously there won't be a delay between the clips even if you checked the corresponding option. The delay will be as long as it is defined in iStripper - 500 ms to make sure iStripper doesn't start playing a clip on its own.

Get it from the usual location
www.kp3d.com/VGManager.html http://www.kp3d.com/VGManager.html

Enjoy
Starryk

DrDoom9 make very valid points for why iStripper does not Measur up for us Advanced Users.

I don't think any of the Totem Team, Use VG or iStripper in a similar Manner, so it is not something
that they, them self, would have ever seen as issues.

For the New, or Casual user, iStripper is ( in my Opinion ) a move Forward.

It makes the common things about VG easy for the 1st time user.

But For the more Advance User, the Scene users, Scene Creators, Custom Skin Makers,
Playlist Users, 3rd party products....

It's mostly Taken away, made more Difficult, or even made Impossible for us to Use.

FullSceeen Scen View itself is Broken.
I've Had to Archive Almost ALL of my 1300 plus Scenes, just so it didn't bog down or crash.
I'm down to about 20 -30 scenes at a time...

And with out a TREE type listing, Finding the Scene I want...

maybe an Advance users Bug / Features thread is What we Need to Start and Keep updated.
and to try and keep it Clean of off topic digressions..

I have no Doubt, that if Totem is Made aware of the Issues, and Why they are Important.
Totem will address and Fix them.

An issue, that Totem thinks only One Member is having, might not get the same Attention, that Many Members are Having..

So it is Importnat to Bring them Front and Center,

You're right about the hash sign inside of double quotes... I got:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /php/ajaxProcess_forumPostAdd.php on this server.Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS) Server at www.virtuagirl.com Port 80

Is there any evidence at all that Totem listen to serious grievances?

Yes. They certainly read these threads and reply. I've also seen them take corrective action. Since this issue requires programming and adddresses a change Totem probably thought was a good thing, correction may take a while. I agree that returning. Just to sum up what I've seen here:

1. We need the ability to easily cause the full screen mode to work with a predefined selection of cards.

2. We need the ability to easily create a list of cards to support item 1.

3. We need the ability to create and edit play list of the new style in more sophisticated ways than just adding or removing cards one-by-one.

3a. It should be possible to create a playlist from the Now Playing tab with one click.
3b. It should be possible to edit a playlist using all the filter capabilities and save it as a new playlist.
3c. It should be possible to create a playlist as the intersection of two existing playlists. (We can already merge two or more playlists.)

I did the survey. I have only ***** issues with istripper. The "new" over featured still does not go away even when I click all the cards I purchased. Other than that it runs well. I have not seen any crashes. Feature wise I think it' fine.

Hi Dr. Doom, I wasn't referring to your issues btw, just adding another comment as I explore iStripper. The problem you are having with deactivating models cards: I have referred to how you might overcome that in the Fullscreen Discussion thread.

@ET
​I am not changing erotic settings. More likely it is accessories that are either required or not required when a clip is chosen for fullscreen.

@WA and @FalconAF
Thank you for posting the answer to my question.
​The inability to activate/deactivate multiple cards using a simply text file ***** iStripper for me, as I am always doing it.

​And that ***** pop-up which started in1.2.0.84 yesterday !!!

Is there any evidence at all that Totem listen to serious grievances?

@TheEmu
​I couldn't have put it better myself. I was a programmer once. I thought hard about where I put read-only files, temporary files, user-specific files etc. I never mixed them up.

​@nurebau32
​Many many thanks for the "allow streaming" tip.
​At the moment I'm back with VG 1.2.0.84, but I will have to return (for the 3rd time) to iStripper soon, and
​I will certainly look into this. There are still other things about iStripper I cannot live with (ability to activate/deactivate multiple cards; playlists), but if you have hit on why my CPU is so stressed I really am most grateful!

@DrDoom9
Have you tested the effect on CPU usage of the "allow streaming of clips" in iStripper's settings?
When I am using your very enjoyable scene, Garage with 1 Car (moving) and 5 models (the swing disabled) with the "allow streaming" checked, my CPU usage is 60% average but with clip streaming unchecked the usage for that scene drops down to an average of 50%.
And thanks again for that scene and the Living Room scene too.

Not having tried iStripper, yet due to intermitant net access and a disk crash, I was not aware of the way in which the scenes folder now gets polluted with cache files. To my way of thinking a directory of SOURCES, such as the .scn files, used by a program should not be polluted in this way when running the program. In the "good old days" programmers would commonly put such things in a separate directory, perferably one somewhere else in the file system but if not then at least in a subdirectory so that they did not get in the way when doing other things and things could easily be cleaned up simply by deleteing the whole directory. It should always be possible to put sources in a read only directory or on a read only device without having any impact on the way in which they are used.

And here is a forum quirk I was unaware of ...
​If one types the hash character inside single quotes, the server tells you that you are forbidden from making the post. That is why the above 4 or 5 postings were made piecemeal.

And if you had to do something like that in iStripper now to use "playlists" for the Desktop mode, users who like using the Desktop mode would be screaming ***** murder. ;-)

So I find iStripper destroys my ability to use VG in the way I have grown accustomed to, without affording any new feature that I feel could be used to achieve the same result instead. I am extremely disappointed.
​Combined with the removal of early-buy-discount pricing, Totem must lose out on the changes they have introduced this year, and their reputation (which was good) has nose-dived.

​Then, the playlists. The VG playlists were simple text files. Because of the # delimiter, one could easily see which cards were in them by including the model name and card title on the same line. They were easily editable. The .vpl files are not simple text. They contain NUL and SOH characters. There is a null between each character of the card name, and there is no way to comment in model name or card name.

Then, am I alone in finding the CPU hit *****? I have quite a powerful PC, and it is not sparse of memory either, and VG fullscreens such as those excellent creations of TheEmu, contain up to 12 or 15 independent (not clone) clips. With VG I can get up to 8 or 10 of those fullscreens to work smoothly, but iStripper doesn't cope well with 3-girl scenes.

On the other hand, the inability to 'deactivate all cards' then, via a playlist, activate the cards I want, is more than annoying. It is a disgraceful removal of a facility that I use all the time. For instance, my 'Bikers' fullscreen requires that 3 cards with motorbike accessories be activated, an no other card with accessories be activated. This I can do easily with the old VGHD playlist load facility, but not any more (with ease, at any rate).

​Yes, the cache files are not very big. On average 100Kb. The scene files are 10Kb or less.
​But 100Kb multiplied by 550 scenes is 55MB. But if I'm honest, it is just the number and location of the cache files that I find mildly annoying; they 'mess up' my clean directory which in the past only contained .scn files, all of which I habitually tweeked.

Now it seems that I am Forbidden from posting.

So I will try piecemeal ...

i'm not happy with I stripper just yet, were with one mouseclick you could change girls now this is no longer possible.
How can I install virtuagirl again and ignore I stripper?

It's always fun to see who's in the bargain bin when you log on. In other topics; when is the software update coming? It's been a while...

Over on the " iStripper what a mess " thread someone asked how to activate/disable all cards.
~In order to select multiple model cards for your fullscreen shows:..

hold down cntrl key and click any card. This highlights the card with a thin red outline.
If you keep cntrl held down , left-click will highlight subsequent selections as well.

Typing cntrl -A highlights ALL cards

When you have completed selections, you can :
~Start playing selected in a sequence ( 2 methods..see above )
~Trash selected cards
~Activate or deactivate selected cards using the red Tick icon

Edit: If you are contemplating installing the new iStripper, I found it is useful to first:
~Set up a temporary directory 2 levels down from ../scenes folder to transfer less favorite fullscreen SCN's into & so keep the number of scenes remaining at first level which will be processed during the upgrade, within a manageable amount of say 3-400 scenes.
~Make a shortcut on your desktop to http://www.virtuagirl.com/forumLastPost.php ( or ..virtuagirl.eu/..)
Unless you familiar with HTML you may prefer this link to get back to the familiar forum webpage for making easier posts. As an iStripper user you may need keep your user id: and password handy, to login to the old Virtuagirl website forum.

I am on it same. Now I do not has rush for decide buy or not. I have more time for decide and usually it is not buy.

This is true, I have a few dozen demos downloaded and plan on buying several of them, but I'm in no rush. And as time passes and newer girls come out, I even lose interest a bit. Basically the same thing that happens to me with actual women.

Yes, I have a small app that does just that...

but you have to
1) Quit VG or iStripper to save the Setting to a File..
Models.lst is not fully updated and written to the Hdd, till you Quit VG or iStripper

then to replad the file
1) Quit VG or iStripper
2) Reload the file so it modifies the models.lst
3) start VG or iStripper
4) Rebuild collection so the change takes affect.

It works, but it's not like having a Built in Save and load Collection Function

You Have to Quit, Load, restart, Rebuild every time.....

Gloria looks to be one fine lady. Gonna stash some creds just for her.

I haven't tested this, but it should be possible to hack the models.lst file. In v1.2.0.85 (Mac) is wrote a script that hacked the models.lst file to enable and disable clips. Since there is an enabled flag for each card in that file it should be possible to set that flag. Obviously it would be easy to read an old-style play list to determine which cards to enable or disable. This would be a hack. You would need to do it with iStripper shut down.

I have not yet examined the iStripper models.lst file to see if there are any format changes, so this is just speculation.

Did a quick search on Pammie Lee........most definitely looking forward to her cards !!!!

Gloria....looks very interesting !! @crasherdnb Thanks for the update.