@EverthangForever

Number6 would have been using exactly the same Complex Functions shader as you. He had no problem because he is using a Radeon GPU and its associated fragment shader compiler and assembler while you are using an NVIDIA GPU and its associated software. Radeon's software obviously handles switch statements better than NVIDIA's.

@TheEmu...OMG !!!

Cannot thank you enough..All Complex Functions scenes now work perfectly on my rig..yay !!!..it appears @Number6 perhaps was using the earlier version zip and would have had similar problem, using the weekend zip, so we know now the problem was not a GPU specific issue, more of a limits variation. The new tunnel A release series and new uniforms and shaders you have promulgated on share thread http://www.virtuagirl.com/forumPost.php?foId=3&ftId=29408&gotolastpage=1#post473702 open up a huge vista of exciting creative artistic opportunities for everyone... really grateful for this, and as usual for your substantive comments & stepwise series variation which helps so much as a learning tool. Totally blissed & awed-out, bless you .

Edit: yes wrt transparent backgrounds being generated by specific shaders, you went through that exercise with Tunnel A early on and it was a great success without too much code adjustment, so it is only for specific shaders that the model/s might need to navigate that i was thinking of.

@EverthangForever

The problem of getting the performers move round an object produced by a shader is no different to getting them to move round a simple object where the image is a normal texture. I have done this in the past by using two copies of the performer and modulating their opacities (as was suggested by Number6) and it should also be possible to hard code the behaviour in the shader itself, though that would mean doing it for every shader separately for each scene and that is not really a practical solution. If it was possible to have two input channels for a shader then I could write one that took the clip image and another image and do the rotating. This would be easier than hand coding modulating the opacities in the scene file, but is currently not supported by the VGHD program - at least as far as I can tell.

However, even then there would be the problem of that many of the shaders from ShaderToy produce a plain white or black background where we would prefer a transparent one. In many cases it might be possible to use a simple post-processing shader to fix up these shader outputs - it would be very simple to code - but would only work if the colour you are fixing up did not occur in places that where you want to keep it. Although it would be a simple shader it would still add to the computational load and might be too much for some low end systems. Otherwise, I am afraid that the only solution is to modify the shaders themselves to generate a transparent background. In most cases this would be easy enough and in many it could be done using a single line addition to the end of the main routine, but the thought of going through all the ShaderToy.com exmples is a daunting one.

Three things.

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Firstly, there was a problem with the shader used for the Experiments with Complex Functions scenes that affected some users (see the technical discussion thread for more information). I have corrected the problem and uploaded a new version of the zip file. It can be downloaded via the direct link

http://www.theemusnest.eu/scenes/Zips/Experiments/ComplexFunctions.zip

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Secondly, over the weekend I have enhanced the Tunnel A shader by

1) Introducing a second family of tunnel shapes. This is
controled by a new uniform parameter shapeFamily

0 - The old round or rounded rectangular tunnels
1 - Sharp cornered rectangles or bulging rectangles

When shapeFamily 1 is used the old shape parameter still
has the same meaning as it did for shape family 0 though
the visible effect is somewhat different with the first part now
affecting how much the tunnel walls, floor and ceiling bulge.

2) There are 2 new control parameters, xyScale and xyScale2,
that both affect scaling in the x and y directions. The first
can be used to effectively stretch the texture such that,
for example, the floor part of the texture makes a better
fit to the floor part of the tunnel. This is very useful when
the new sharp cornered shape family is used. The second
has a more complicated effect on the final scene which
is partly explained in the comments in the shader source
and partly demonstatred in the example scenes.

3) The tileScheme control parameter has been extended to
allow specifying that the tile's x and y axes are swapped or
that its x or y axes are reversed. The effects produced by
this could also be acheived by modifying the original image,
but this is more convenient - especialy when the original
image is itself being generated by a shader.

The changes are fully backward compatible with the old version of
the shader. Refer to the comments in the shader's source for more
details.

The Experiments with Tunnels scenes have been expanded to cover
these enhancements. In the case of the shapeFamily the old A1 set
of experiments covers shapeFamily 0 and has been duplicated as A2
to cover the new shapeFamily 1.

The zip file can be downloaded using the direct link

http://www.theemusnest.eu/scenes/Zips/Experiments/Tunnels.zip

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I have uploaded a new set of scenes based on the Tunnel A shader and, mostly, using other shaders to produce the image used for the tunnel walls - which are therefore now constantly changing.

These are no longer "experiments" and are therefore not in the experiments directory.

They can be downloaded using the direct link

http://www.theemusnest.eu/scenes/Zips/TheEmusTunnels.zip

The zip includes a "long description" file giving brief descriptions of these scenes.

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The first and third of the example picture above are from the non-experimental Emus Tunnels, the center picture is one of the examples in the Experiments with Tunnels - though I will probably promote a modified version of it to be non-experimental.

@EverthangForever

At the weekend I ran into the same problem as you with the Complex Functions experiments. They worked fine when I used my Intel Internal Graphics Processor, and had previously worked with my NVIDIA GPU. It turns out that there is a limitation in the NVIDIA fragment shader compiler which limits switch statements to handling a maximum of 64 cases, and when I went past this limit the shader stopped working with the GPU. (To be technical I would call it a bug - the compiler itself generates code for any number of cases, but if there are too many the assembler chokes on it. The compiler should know about this limitations and either gracefully fail the compilation rather than letting the assembler generate an obscure error, or should generate different code that will always work).

Anyway, I rewrote part of the shader to work round the problem and uploaded it a few minutes ago.

I also uploaded an updated version of the Tunnel A shader. Amongst other things it supports a second family of tunnel shapes - this time with sharp corners.

I will announce these, and another set of scenes, in the Share Your Scenes thread.

oh yeah melissa's coming back...she puts on great shows

bon anniversaire à Angel Kiss
qui fête ses 26 ans ce jour

@Number6, so glad you're able to run the 2 framebuffers on rail tunnels example. I keep worrying how the AT Radeon descendent cards are handling transparency. @Theemu's latest dissertation on complex numbers is a real headspinner delving into math beyond 3D and I'm trying to get my old-school mind to adjust to understanding his instruction code. IMHO, Its somewhat of a Rosetta-Stone moment for us peeps, because in @Emu's long description.txt and in the adapted Bardo shader code, he starts to demonstrate the various uses of regular shader code syntax using the series examples. Hence it will be great if the bugs can be ironed out to make the complex number experiments work OK on everyones' VGHDPlayer.

Edit Ok, thanks, I'll try to wipe and reinstall the complex functions series again..maybe was an old version
Edit: Still no good. D'loaded Zip direct from @TheEmu's website & I'm still getting exactly same bug errors as detailed above. I may try updating NVidia drivers Reinstalling VGHD etc ...& see what ensues

@EverthangForever.

Not sure if it is of any help but have you had a look at @TheEmu's experiments with carousels?

He uses two sizes of clip (large for front and small for rear) and varies the opacity on them as the carousel rotates. Don't know if that is the type of thing you are looking for or even if it will work with the shaders you are trying. It may be a starting point.

PS loved the wobbly tunnel walls and the rail bogie in your recent uploads. I haven't had chance to try @TheEmu's new additions yet.

Edit
PPS - are you still having problems with @TheEmu's complex number shaders? I have just had a quick skim through them and they all seem to work for me. The static ones have a static back ground which changes over time. The dynamic ones have rotating/moving backgrounds (some just parts of the background - some all of the background). I am not getting any error reports (toggle log buttons).

Ok I to have some one boob out of this red head. The Red Fox.

Very nice legs she has there @stefnev1.

Now it is time for a red head and she is >>

The Red Fox sexy legs. Have a good week.

Melisa! Wow, I hope team won't f'up their job. And am looking forward for comeback of Mandy Dee and Cindy Dollar! :)

bon anniversaire à Sabrisse
qui fête ses 26 ans ce jour

@Anyone,
One of the most frustrating creative blocks at the moment for scene makers, is lack of the ability to alternate whether the model is in front of, or behind a shader generated object at different times during the playing of one scene. It is going to be impractical to expect to adapt every new shader with uniforms, as was done by @TheEmu with the two quad exercise recently with butterfly swarms, in order to have the shader object appear to revolve around model/s.
Alternatively we need some sort of 'Clip uniforms' we can apply to animating appearance of the model to 'revolve' around objects during a clip, maybe sometimes at opacity zero for behind objects, sometimes at 1.0 opacity for being in-front of objects. This could overcome the need to adapt every new shader specifically for better model-object interactions, with instead better perhaps every shader which produces an 'object' like 'FlyGuy's Ring Twister just being recoded as standard to cast onto a transparent background, rather than black or white or other opaque..
In SCN, I've tried with duplicating same clipsprites before and after shader placement in the code using say..for the front clipsprite:
animate: n, loopforward, various easing functions, opacity, 0.0 or
animate: n, loopforward, various easing functions, color, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 (Sillouette screen)
however as of yet, all unsatisfactory or to no avail :-(

bon anniversaire à
Stacy Silver et Katie Oliwer
qui fêtent leur 34 et 26 ans

@TheEmu
Just a heads up...I'm unable to get any of the Experiments with Complex Functions http://www.virtuagirl.com/forumPost.php?foId=3&ftId=29408&gotolastpage=1#post473519 shader group SCNs to work at all, at this stage. It just displays the original 2D Textures as a static background on fullscreen throughout several clip changes. However there are a few bug errors reported in VGHDPlayer which might explain it..:-( see above) ~ All the other new downloads are great however & except for one or two they all work perfectly. Wonderful work, thanks lots 😉
Intel HD Graphics 4000
Nvidia GeForce GTX 660Ti
VGHDPlayer Version: 1.2.0.84 (Qt 5.3.1)

Alexis Adams sexy legs

In my opinion I think not only is she the Hotest, but she is also one of the few who really can dance while stripping that has a feeling of professionalism to it. My top 5 are:
1. Gracy *****
2. Sabina
3. Kami
4. Lorena
5. Playful *****

Cool, thanks

Harshie's is great, wish we just knew dates they would release 😐

Hi. I noticed at the top of the webpage on the right there was a button called live. Are live shows something just started? Is it up and running yet?
I clicked on live and got this box and gave me a password and $12 credited to my account. I clicked on create account and nothing happened. So I assume that it's not open yet. Has it been there for a while? Because this is the first time I noticed the live option on the website.

bon anniversaire à Lauren Crist
qui fête ses 25 ans aujourd'hui

Actually, the Team has been to the US a couple of times since the original VG was released in 1998... but most of the US adventures up to now has been more or less disasters. Take the now ***** trip to LA in 2008. It took almost 2 years before the first of those cards were released. Let's hope this time around they succeed! =)

www.virtuagirl.eu/forumPost.php?foId=3&ftId=2926

And from another topic almost two years later...

Rex - 2010Rachelle Rocks went through post production this week (yep, solved all the technical issues) and has been scheduled for release by mid march. The rest will follow ;)

www.virtuagirl.eu/forumPost.php?foId=10&ftId=2948


The story continues..... =)

See www.virtuagirl.com/forumPost.php?foId=25&ftId=29395 .

It has aways been odd to me though that she has only been the one american introduced. Also she is from texas. There to Las Vegas is 1200+ miles. A plane ticket is 200 dollars. The original american models shay laren and rachel roxxx were filmed in LA. That is even farther. As for being in Europe at the time I don't by that. If that is the case we would at least had some other encounters for the western world.

Well possibly by airplane..?
Maybe Danielle Trixie was in Europe at that time already?

Opening a studio in Las Vegas just makes thing easier for models living in the US..
to now be approached for VirtuaGirl/Deskbabes.

Probably also a lot less expensive as well.

Since the launch of the Las Vegas studio is now running, a question has popped up in my head. How was Danielle Trixie ever filmed when she is from Dallas, Texas USA? This a older card from the 700 series cards. Was totem already planning the USA studio back then and she was just trial run while they were scouting back then? I would luv to see her make a 3K series debut...

Off the top of my head...

037 Natalia & Monica
346 Kenza Suck & Sabrina Sweet
347 Katia de Lys & Sabrina Sweet
415 Blanche Bradbury & Nicole Vice

If anyone else knows any, I'm always looking for tribbing cards too.

In addition to the ShaderToy.com and GlslSandbox.com adaptions refered to in my previous post and its continuation I have also uploaded a new set of "Experiments". This time they are experiments with Complex Functions. As always they can be obtained via the downloads page at TheEmusNest.eu or by using the direct link

http://www.theemusnest.eu/scenes/Zips/Experiments/ComplexFunctions.zip

They all use the same shader which produces a number of, often beautiful, patterns based on functions of complex numbers. The shader is configured via a number of control parameters (uniforms) in the scene file.

The shader source is extensively commented explaining how it works and what the control parameters do. This is expanded upon in the accompanying long description file.

As well as producing nice backgrounds I have found this shader to be useful in understanding the basic ideas behind several other shaders.

An oddity is that even if you configure it not to use a texture to colour the final image you still need to supply one. This is not a feature of the shader itself but of how the VGHD fullscreen system works.

My previous post got cut off short even though the character count was said to be less than 4000 characters. I think it was not counting spaces or ends of lines. Here is the missing part


Others - Lallis - Fire Rose.scn
Others - Matthew Ready - Confetti Attempt 1.scn
Others - Micah Scopes - Inverting Texture.scn
Others - Mpcomplete - Mpcomplete.scn
Others - Shezard - Knotting.scn
Others - Tholzer - Hyper Dodecahedron.scn
Others - Tomo Alien - Depths of Neverminds.scn
Others - Wilston ***** - Magrathea.scn
Others - Xbe - Fires.scn
Others - Xor - Landscape Broadcast.scn
Others - Zephmann - Autostereogram.scn
ShakTool - John's Wood Grain.scn
Vgs - Bacterium.scn

Renamed

Others - Alexander Alekseev - Seascape.scn
Others - Flyguy - Bit Packed Sprites.scn
Others - Kig - Lightning Spark.scn
Others - Nrx - Dragoon.scn
Others - ShakTool - Pond Ripples Simple.scn
Others - Vgs - Droste Mandelbrot.scn

Updated

Others - Tomkh - Solar *****.scn

I have just updated my set of adaptions of ShaderToy.com and GlslSandbox.com shaders. They can be downloaded via the downloads page at TheEmusNest.eu or using the direct links

http://www.theemusnest.eu/scenes/Zips/ShaderToy%20Scenes/ShaderToy-Scenes.zip
http://www.theemusnest.eu/scenes/Zips/GlslSandbox%20Scenes/GlslSandbox.zip

If you have not downloaded the shader toy adaptions before you will also need to download the zips for Textures and Backgrounds directories.

The examples above were generated using Kali's Devil Inside and Miyake Yohei's NeighborPixelLessThan shaders.

Note, a few of the old scene files have been renamed to take them out of the "others" group and group them with a new shader by the same person.

One scene file has been modified to correct an error.

The full list of changes is

New GlslSandbox scenes

Brandon Fogerty - e#22887.0 - Endless Tunnel.scn
Brandon Fogerty - Energy Field.scn
Gigatron - e#25240.0 - Twinkling Stars.scn
Harley - e#25595.1 - [Tunnel].scn
Inigo Quilez - e#23042.1.scn
LJ - e#25481.0 - Starscroll.scn
Nimitz - e#25412.1 - [Procedural ordering].scn
Reiner Nijhoff - e#23057.0 - [Rainy Street Scene].scn
Unknown - e#21515.101.scn
Unknown - e#21515.103 - [Fractal Lips].scn
Unknown - e#22909.0.scn
Unknown - e#22917.0.scn
Unknown - e#23080.0.scn
Unknown - e#23307.1.scn
Unknown - e#24114.0 - [Flame - 01].scn
Unknown - e#24118.0 - [Flame - 02].scn
Unknown - e#24121.0 - [Flame - 03].scn
Unknown - e#25200.0 - [Cartoon Waves].scn
Unknown - e#25389.1 - [***** Flag].scn
Unknown - e#25466.0 - [Scrolling Snow].scn
Unknown - e#25474.1.scn
Unknown - e#25579.0 - Fire Flame.scn
Unknown - e#25592.8.scn
Unknown - e#25601.0 - [Wrapped Seascape].scn

New ShaderToy scenes

104 - Triangle Fractal Bump.scn
104 - Worley Fractal Bump.scn
Alexander Alekseev - Wet Stone.scn
Cabbibo - Monolith Smoke.scn
Cabbibo - Monolith Sparkles.scn
Dave Hoskins - Frozen Wasteland.scn
Dave Hoskins - Squiggles.scn
Den - Inside Mandelbulb.scn
Den - Outside Mandelbulb.scn
Dila - Echoplex.scn
Dila - Machine Room.scn
Dila - Silo.scn
Dr2 - Bird Flock.scn
Dr2 - Stairway to the Stars.scn
Eiffie - Playing with Refleks.scn
FlyGuy - Ring Twister.scn
Gaz - Bats.scn
Gaz - Stairway.scn
Guil - Fire Revisited.scn
Guil - Stormy Flight 2.scn
Guil - Stormy.scn
Guil - Voroni 2x2x2.scn
Inigo Quilez - Angels.scn
Inigo Quilez - Fractal Tiling.scn
Inigo Quilez - Twisted Columns.scn
Jcreed - Feiry Feigenbaum.scn
Jcreed - Fluid Feigenbaum.scn
Kali - Carved Trees.scn
Kali - Cosmos.scn
Kali - Devil Inside.scn
Kali - Emerging Tower.scn
Kali - It's a Kind of Magic.scn
Kali - Tetrominos.scn
Kig - Signal Field.scn
Miyake Yohei - NeighborPixelLessThan - 01.scn
Miyake Yohei - NeighborPixelLessThan - 02.scn
Miyake Yohei - NeighborPixelLessThan - 03.scn
Miyake Yohei - NeighborPixelLessThan - 04.scn
Nimitz - Curvature Average.scn
Nimitz - Parallax Mapping.scn
Nimitz - Promethean.scn
Nrx - Mysterious Octopus.scn
Others - Antoine Clappier - Toon Cloud.scn
Others - Archee - Asteroids.scn
Others - B B Colinsworth - Geyser(Fast Water).scn
Others - Ben Raziel - Flappy Bird.scn
Others - Carlos Urefia - P6mm Inversion.scn
Others - Christina Coffin - Heartwing Angle.scn
Others - DaKrunch - Manta Ray - MaxDist=05.scn
Others - DaKrunch - Manta Ray - MaxDist=07.scn
Others - DaKrunch - Manta Ray - MaxDist=10.scn
Others - DaKrunch - Manta Ray - MaxDist=15.scn
Others - DaKrunch - Manta Ray - MaxDist=25.scn
Others - David Bargo - Domain Colouring.scn
Others - Denzen - Faking Gold and Murder.scn
Others - Echophon - Exploding Blob.scn
Others - HugHsk - 2015-05-12.scn
Others - Hypothete - Mat3 Toy.scn
Others - Jimmi Kael Kael - The Barsoom Gate.scn
Others - Kuvkar - BadLand.scn
Others - Lallis - Fire Rose.scn
Other

@EverthangForever

The black line that you see in the example you posted using the tunnel test texture is not an artifact. The tunnel test texture image deliberately includes a black border so that I could see exactly where the individual copies of the image were when tiling the tunnel. If you are seeing a similar thing when using other images please check if the image does not have something like a black strip at one or more of its edges - I have seen quite a few backgrounds with a definite black strip at the bottom and some other images with a strip of noise that is a pixel or two wide. If so the easiest way to fix it is to edit the image itself to get rid of any edge blemishes.

At present the only way to make the tunnel's corner sharper is to use a higher value for the first component of the shape uniform. In theory the corners would be square if this value was infinite. In practice the degree of squareness will be limited by how well the GLSL pow function handles large values for its second parameter. Just try using larger values, e.g. doubling it each time, until you are satisfied or it make little or no difference. I have always had it in mind to add an option to make the corners exactly square but have not yet got round to it.

Searched for tribbing and nothing came up. I'm looking for the best tribbing cards out there. It doesn't seem to be in the filter options, too bad. Wish it was. If anybody knows of any great cards that feature this, please post here and I'll buy them. Thanks.

Ms Lynna sexy legs

This came up a few months ago. If I remember correctly, somebody mentioned writing a script to delete demos from the models folder from the cards one doesn't own. All well and good.

Then one can set the carousel to only download demos of your choice. (ie: turn off automatic download of demos).

Sorry but I don't remember if anyone wrote a script to do the first part. (Jump in here if you did!)

I don't see this as a ***** concept. Totem are in the business of selling cards and need to keep their products in full view of their clients. Any card a member doesn't own yet is a potential sale. I realise that as our collections grow, the choices dwindle so we have to put up with a fair amount of repetition. Once a member owns every card to date then the carousel remains empty until new cards are released. A few suggestions were made to keep the carousel interesting but I don't recall anything being done about it.

So, to answer your question, yes it can be done either by a script or deleting demos one by one manually.

Personally, I don't worry about the repetition. If I don't like a girl, I don't buy her. Just skip to the next girl or do something else. No big deal :)

Is there a way to disable forever demo cards that you know you will never buy. It is annoying to look at the demo list and see that 90% of the cards that are there I will never buy. Instead I have to go to website or Virtual Girls Store to see if something is new. It just seems like a ***** concept. FYI, I have over 1400 cards so I can''t imagine how people with a few deal with this hassle.

Some of the outfits are great and many of the models have great bodies but they are always on their knees or back! Can we get at least one clip that they strip standing and make a note of it on the card description so buyers know it will happen. This is the main reason I don't buy DeskBabes cards. Checkout this outift on MsLynna, she needs to be standing stripping in at least in one clip. Why let that body and outfit go to waste.

These American girls look promising...

she's coming back for more. who? SAPPHIA .A coming soon 2 a virtuagirl near u .

@crasherdnb u did it again hot bodys all day . friday looking good.

Je n'aurais pas cru qu'il ai était possible de faire naître autant de beauté et de malice dans un même jour^^
(Oui, elle font toutes les deux parties de mes préférées^^).

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bon anniversaire a Anna Tatu qui fête ses 24 ans
et à Carmen Gémini qui fête ses 29 ans

Cameron Dee looks great !

And nice to see Melisa is back :)

Man I really hope Melisa will finally return tomorrow. Forgot to mention Tracy Smile!!! 😛 IMHO she looks gorgeous, can't wait!

Melisa and Aphrodisia ... There is no word in the world that I can find that could do it justice! :3

Brynn Tyler? *Oh no...my fake boobs sense is tingling...again* Cameron Dee however looks quite promising. Hope to see her soon! I am in fact very curious about the Vegas cards.

Hmm. Fine looking girls approaching:) keep up the work we want see beautis.:P
And of course more more more Melisa:)

I'm liking the Vegas selections, so far. Let's see how they perform. I'm wondering if they'll mimic what's come before them (Euro babes), or if they have their own style. My guess is they'll have a more agressive style, but we'll see.

I'm very happy. More American Pornstars :D