@EverthangForever/@TheEmu

Is there any way of animating the colours in the background JPGs in the tunnel shaders? Similar to the JPGs in a normal scene?

I have some abstract JPGs which I think would look absolutely stunning in the tunnel full screen scenes if the colours could be animated.

See attached screenshot.

electricavenew Updated 16th May incl. Zoom Centered model SCN mods
I've thrown together a SCN mod for animated central position of model which dwells her larger at close to camera position, mostly anyhow, using a gentle bounce. I hope I've got the props ok on the splash titles @TheEmu. Anyhow its my best effort at a SCN template if peeps wanna use it. Let me know if needs further changes.
~Note @TheEmu has to yet complete the text preamble in his SCN codes if you're sharing this, because your files might need updating with his attributes/comments etc.some time later. Enjoy / remix prop @TheEmu Tunnel A , its a wonderful shader. Our first major VGPlayer specific generic shader, with a bunch of new Uniform SCN tweakers especially in the later 'Active' series.

scenes.virtuastripper.net/ELECTRICAveNew003a.zip
Edit: the earlier Electricavenew sitting models still use IQ's square tunnel. I've included the classic Lunarpup's jpg's (as normal and rotated) kindly uploaded by @Number6 as JPGs yesterday. I'll add some sitting 'taskbar' scenes using Theemu's brand new shader shortly..if I can just stop watching this long enough 😛. All my old posts pre-share-thread scene download links have been re-activated. This update 13,375 KB, 17th May.

O M G this is nothing short of amazing ..agree #Number6 seaming tiles will be the least of our concerns..wowow We're able to skew centers for our models and maybe animate that..now I'm drinking same as you hehe Bless you Emuuuu
No.6 ~love the Hendrix double header btw 😄😎
Guys load your favs playlist ...just paste your fav pics (just the JPG or PNG files themselves ~ not the folder ) into .../Scenes/TheEmu = Experiments with Tunnels/Images/
and have a great weekend... 'up' very late~ lol.

@EverthangForever

Have just tried one of @TheEmu's tunnel shaders with a few of the seamles tiles I did for ElectricAveNew.

Looks like they may be OK.

Have attached a couple of screenshots.

The interesting thing now will be to see how seamless we can make the tiling as per 'optionaly flipping it to partialy eliminate discontinuities between wall tiles'..very grateful for your efforts @Theemu

@TheEmu

My thanks also - this seems to have cured the problem for me as well.

@EverthangForever - At first I also found it odd that the shader worked with the Intel graphics processor, but having found the cause its understandable. The pow function should not work for negative first arguments as such things as pow(-.1.0,0.5) means the square root of -1.0. The proper GPUs were handling it correctly but the Intel graphics processor seemed to be evaluating pow(a,b) as pow(abs(a),b). In future I must remeber to check everythings with both GPUs.

ohhh thank God, ..I supposed it was in the shader because double stroking out the shader produced the full image no worries.Its interesting that the intel processor didn't do this however...thanks muchly ~Dankeschön 😄

There was an error in the shader used for the Experiments with Tunnels scenes. It resulted in only a quarter of the screen being rendered - though everthing worked when using an Intel integrated graphics processor rather than an external GPU.

This has been fixed and the version on TheEmusNest.eu has been updated, so if you took it earlier then please download it again.using the direct link

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

Paula Shy

@EverthangForever and @Number6

I have found the problem. Its in the TunnelRadius function, which is only 4 statements long.

It looks like the pow function has a problem when the first argument is negative, which is reasonable.

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Yes, that was the problem.

You can fix it by adding the line

qq = abs(qq);

so that the function becomes

float TunnelRadius ( vec2 uv )
{
vec2 qq = uv * vec2(1.0,tunnelAspectRatio);

qq = abs(qq);

qq.x = pow ( qq.x, tunnelSectionShape );
qq.y = pow ( qq.y, tunnelSectionShape );

return pow ( qq.x + qq.y, 1.0/tunnelSectionShape );

}

I will update the version on the EmusNest

@EverthangForever and @Number6

I have a laptop that has two GPUs - an integrated Intel graphics processor and an NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M.

By default I use the Intel graphics processor, and it runs these new scenes with no problems.

However, I just started VGHD using the NVIDIA GPU, and had the same result as you two.

Unfortunately I will not be able to investigate much as I will be away from early tomorrow morning for almost a week.

@TheEmu what card / MB are you using ? I can run just about anything before, my screen resolution is only 1360 x 768 on plasma. ***** VGPlayer and downloader and restarting ..to no avail srry. 😢
What I can see looks amazing though...
@Wyld [email protected] know more ???

I can't imagine what the problem may be because nothing in the shader itself splits the screen into quadrants.

Possibly its just too much for your system - but thats very unlikely, the shader itself is not particular heavy and are the supplied images are not large.

I have in the past had some strange things happen when running various scenes and the only way to recover has been to quit VirtuaGirl completely via the Quit menu item on the Systray icon (or by killng it via the Task Manager) and then starting it again. Whether or not it will have any effect for this problem I do not know.

I am getting exactly the same top right quarter tunnel as you. Its a problem with the code NOT your card.. so ! expect a result will be soon ;-) me.. Nvidea Geforce 660 Ti

@TheEmu

I have just downloaded the new tunnel shaders but unfortunately my play time was rather short.

There must be something seriously weird with my graphics card. I am unable to get any of the tunnels to work correctly. I just get a single quadrant displayed in the shader - the other 3 quadrants are blank. It is the same on every single one.

I have tried removing the comments from the shader as you suggested but to no avail.

It is a Gygabyte Radeon R7 260X card with 2GB memory. I have the latest drivers from AMD (although I'll check to see if there has been another update since last November).

I don't know if you can shed any light on the possible causes?

Screenshot attached.

Eufrat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4DQCLhFIg4

@Theemu, if I run another framebuffer layer of the above with alternate depth setting, I'm hoping I can get the front butterflies to also seamlessly fly around the model or sinusoidally (figure 8 ) around 2 models. I've also been playing with temporary opacity 0 as an animation property and sideways (rotate texture2Ds y 90 degrees) in animation lines to attempt to give periods of 'rest' to the relentless continuity of movement. @Emu's fog is interesting too. Someone surely must play more with that soon. I will struggle on. :-)

Incidentally, if peeps are getting screen freezes during fullscreen, hitting S key does work..you just have to be patient and wait a while for it to go on. go make a coffee or something ;-)

@Number6 ..'if the backgrounds ar becoming more important than the girls, I think we are on to a loser. '.
My approach all along with this has been as follows:

• Follow Totem's lead in putting randoms together to provide 'infinite variety'. This means many random girls with many random contexts. The contexts are the scenes.
  
• Use any means to give an illusion of 3D to the models
  
• Use animation to focus attention on the model. In this way the tunnel scenes draw the eye to the model using perspective changes.
  

I think its wonderful the outcome, thanks to people like yourself and others.
@Theemu, Just posted the Uber http://www.virtuagirl.com/forumPost.php?foId=3&ftId=29408&gotolastpage=1#post472017Shader of tunnels. I may be away for some time ❤️😎😄

Diana Doll is quite often on myfreecams

A couple of days later than expected I have finnished and uploaded my first "tunnel" shader and a series of experimental scenes that test its various aspects. There are a lot of test scenes - because there are a lot of possible variations.

As always you can get it via the downloads page at http://www.theemusnest.eu or by using the direct link

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

It is capable of generating tunnel walls from any image, optionaly flipping it to partialy eliminate discontinuities between wall tiles. The tunnel shape, position and orientation is configurable. The tunnel wall tiling may be simple or twisted. A few other things are also configurable. All configuration is via "uniform" declarations in the scene file.

Everything is described in detail in comments in the shader.

One thing I have noticed is that when browsing the test scenes it is advisable to allow a gap of a few seconds between mouse clicks. Click on the scene name, let the preview play for a few seconds and only then click of another scene name or on the "Launch the full screen" button. I have always had problems when flipping between scenes (clips getting displayed as white boxes etc.), but it is particularly bad with this series. I think the cause of the problem is the length of time taken to set up the scene, this shader is not particularly heavy but does have a lot of comments so it may simply be the time needed to read through it. You could try deleting all the comments if you have a problem.

as 4 me i'm holding on 2 my credits i'm waiting on ms. lynna and ms. henessy.u guys go on have BIG fun demo's we'll be good enough 4 me thank u . 😎

I have Heidi Romanova sexy legs for today.

Love the picture Celine.

good one

Rex adressed this in a previous thread recently: http://www.virtuagirl.com/forumPost.php?foId=27&ftId=30178

We offer each girl to do anal and we're paying extra for it. Some of them do, some of them don't. Recently we filmed more girl who also did VirtuaGirl, meaning they look better on average but they're less likely to do anal. We should be more lucky with the girls filmed in our new studio in Las Vegas.

I guess the girls aren't taking Totem's offer...

electricavenew Updated 14th May incl. extra frontal butterfly shader & mods

scenes.virtuastripper.net/ELECTRICAveNew002.zip

Thanks for the info, Dorsai. I didn't know about about Devin D, as I don't have her card(s).

Anna Marie Goddard was a Playmate long before VG. Devin Devasquez was also a Playmate, June 1985. There are probably others.

Anna Marie Goddard was featured in Virtuagirl 2, and she also was a Playmate in the US edition in January 1994. She now is on a Classic card #d036.

Which came first, Playboy or Virtuagirl?

Also, are there any more Virtuagirls in the various editions of Playboy?

Erica Fontes fête ses 24 ans aujourd'hui

Yes they are the ones. They work well as doubles and 4's, and the clarity here is good for the avenew style. I had a play with the uniforms @TheEmu adapted for the butterfly shader which are good with things like this.
Put an extra transparent quad in framebuffer for a front swarm around the model
texture {
id: Myquad
source: Textures/Surfaces - 512x512/Myquad.png

in the SCN...

framebuffer {
id: butterfliesfront
source: Myquad
uniform: depth, int, 2250 // Generate both halves of the swarm
uniform: cosThetaZFactor, float, 0.20 // Allow a large variation in size
uniform: zScaleFrequency, float, 0 // Enable bulk motion of swarm
//shader: Shaders/ET'sFrontbutterflies.fsh
shader: Shaders/ET'sFrontbutterflies.fsh
}

zScaleFrequency of zero stops the blob forming
cosThetaZfactor low keeps the size moderate

in the Shader...
reduced the number of bflys to 8 by #define SWARM_SIZE 8

//swapped colors around from original for front butterflies

//const vec3 butterfly_a_colour_1 = vec3(1.0,1.0,1.0);
const vec3 butterfly_a_colour_1 = vec3(0.90,0.10,0.10);
const vec3 butterfly_a_colour_2 = vec3(0.1,0.1,1.0);

//const vec3 butterfly_b_colour_1 = vec3(0.90,0.10,0.10);
const vec3 butterfly_b_colour_1 = vec3(1.0,1.0,1.0);
const vec3 butterfly_b_colour_2 = vec3(0.15,0.15,0.77);

//const vec3 butterfly_c_colour = vec3(1.0,1.0,0.0);
const vec3 butterfly_c_colour = vec3(0.6,0.6,1.0);
//const vec3 butterfly_d_colour = vec3(0.6,0.6,1.0);
const vec3 butterfly_d_colour = vec3(1.0,1.0,0.0);

I'll put it an update http://www.virtuagirl.com/forumPost.php?foId=3&ftId=29408&gotolastpage=1#post472017, as thanks to @TheEmu for his efforts.

Ok, Heres the prob....
1 - not one single card that was purchased shows in my collection anymore.
2 - according to my acount on website shows 58
3 - the last card that I purchased says I only need 5 more for Platinum
4 - have deleted folders data and models tried to rebuild all gives 23
5 - have restored data and models folders from backup
still nothings shows up in my collection.
Anyone have an idea how to fix this.

Thanks
Azh

No more girls doing anal? It's been a long time since a new card included it. Even with anal queens like Alysa & Kira Queen it's conspicuously absent. What gives?

@EverthangForever

Attached is the tiled files you requested (at least I hope they are the right ones as I am into my third bottle of wine).

With regards to PSP I have been using it for 20 years. It is not perfect but I find it very useful. I think the files you saw were a jpg conversion from an an origianls jpg source so there will always be some losses. It depends on whether or not the audience is looking at the girls or the backgrounds.

Pesonally, although I love this, if the backgrounds ar becoming more important than the girls, I think we are on to a loser.

@EverthangForever,

Totem has been posting fair warning all along. Claiming they don't is just wrong.

That fair warning is in the form of a tag. Just like "Naked Feet", "Big Boobs", "High Heels", "Lingerie" and so on. Totem and the QA team try to make sure the cards are tagged properly. Some things are missed though. There's a thread for reporting incorrect or missing tags when that happens. How about using that instead of accusing Totem of foul play.

Forum http://www.virtuagirl.com/forum.php > Bugs & Fixes http://www.virtuagirl.com/forumTopic.php?foId=4 > Incorrect or Missing Tags http://www.virtuagirl.com/forumPost.php?foId=4&ftId=20598


www.virtuagirl.com/forumPost.php?foId=4&ftId=20598

Need a new laptop/convertable this year and wondering what the minimum requirments are to run VG. IM thinking of either a surface pro 3 with 8gigs ram, or the new surface 3 with 4 gigs. Anyone have experience or knowledge to share would be appreciated.
thanks

This is very exciting @Number6. Yes the above saved straight into ../Plaftexrot01 folder work and they are really great...I'm tempted to buy Paint Shop Pro if its possible to tile inverted copies so easily. The only issue I'm having is the jpg (smaller) images you posted earlier wonderful as they are, seem to look a little flatter than my huge PNG of same ie: less botryoidal, bulbous 3D-ish. However I played with PaintShop Pro years ago and the range of filters incl 3rd party ones available to possibly counter this is enormous. Can I ask you do an experiment for me please ?..tile the LP_AHj.jpg (its 6.59 MB in the ..ETScenes/Textures/Surfaces - 512x512/ directory). I'd like to see the outcome and compare the manual Lunarpupbi.png in the ..ETImages/Plaftexrot01 folder. The only issue qwith reverting to JPG would be the loss of transparency effects, but peeps can magic wand their black to transparent PNG saves if they care enough. If PSP does the tiling as easily & well as you've shown, I'm gonna buy PSP. I've resisted it for a long time lol..knowing once I get lost in the PSP filters, I'll probably never come out hehe 😛

btw..I've gotten over my sulking about @Rex paying model incentives to suit a select group of users..so may start reinstating the old zips I deleted from server earlier. I hope Totem will post fair warnings at the point of sale in future.

we at dolphin world say WE LUV U MS.CELIN thank u .ya me to D109.😎

@EverthangForever

For transparency you have to use PNG - IIRC JPG does not support transparency. I use 1st generation JPGs from PNG only when there is no transparency. It keeps the file size down.

I've also discovered that my graphics programme (Corel Paint Shop Pro) does seamless tiling automatically. It is not quite as good as yours as it mirrors the edges in an image and does a bit of partial transparency when it mirrors. Consequently it does mess with the image a little bit but the central portion of the image generally remains untouched. It appears to work quite well and has two major advantages. First is the image pixel dimensions remains the same in the tiled image. Second is that it is done with a couple of mouse clicks.

Have attached a sample from one of @Lunarpup's fractals. Give it a try in the ElectricAveNew. It seems to work fine.

I've got album covers, fantasy art, Dr Who, allsorts in the Electric AveNew. It's a good job I'm on holiday. I was playing with it until 4:00am this morning. :-)

oh yeh... ;)
celin

Thats great@Number6, It appears your graphics editor can optimise the pixel resolution for JPG a lot better than most. I regret I cannot do this at my end properly with GetPaint ( I have trouble saving transparent on conversions to JPG ) so if you can convert and alter your paths , then great I can stick with PNG. I don't wanna put any pressure on @TheEmu but I know he's trying to cook up an in-shader-GPU 'seamless' form of duplication/inversion of Texture2Ds which could be the answer. Hope so ;-)

Edit: Note for developers~ I've had the Avenew running for several hours now with only one freeze stall.~ that was fixed by hitting the S key.

Perhaps you guys haven't seen but, it's been said many times that all the girls they've approached that actually work in strip clubs have absolutely no interest in being on the internet, on an adult site. They tend to want to keep it in the club. They don't want this kind of exposure.

That will very likely still be the same way here in The States. If you're expecting girls from strip clubs, you will probably end up being disappointed.

Although......Anything can happen.

What happens in Vegas goes straight to video.
😛

No, wait a minute. I meant........What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
😉

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MS.LYNNA and Ms. HENESSY. i'm hoiding out 4 these ladys that are coming.if she's like her db show she'll be a HIT. i mean ms.henssy. thank u totem. and u 2 crasherdnb 4 finding these hot women. 😄

That looks very promising to me. Can't wait! I already bought myself some new credits today! 😉

@EverthangForever

I was wrong in my above post. :-(

I've downloaded your ElectricAveNew zip and I've been playing with the walkinginspacearot02.png file. Although the file size probably doesn't help, it now appears to be the file pixel dimensions that is the real problem.

I am not sure why. I have used files with much bigger pixel dimensions in other scenes and they haven't been a problem. I can only assume that it is something within the shader itself and the way it renders the deformation of the texture, that is causing a problem with my graphics card for larger images.

I discovered this when I saved the above file as a JPG with same pixel dimensions, instead of PNG*

This kept the same file pixel dimensions but reduced the file size to around 5MB instead of 23MB. The result was that it still stuttered. Having played with different size reductions I have found a 25% reduction in size is about the maximum my graphics card can work with.

Again I have attached a couple of screencaps to show that there does not appear to be a very noticable drop in quality. The first is the original PNG file and the second my reduced size JPG.

Now that I know exactly what the problem is, I can easily re-edit the images so that they work without stuttering. Also I don't need to use the 50% reduction I was using yesterday.

• I know JPG is a lossy format but if there is no transparency in the image, a first generation JPG (from a lossless source such as PNG) on the lowest compression setting does not usually produce that much of a loss in quality. It generally tends to be when you start with a JPG and save a number of times that the lossy bit start to become very apparent. Also my graphics programme has a lossless encoding option for JPG (how that works, I have no idea).

Return of Ms. Lynna and Henessy's VG debut.

2 new Eileen cards and 1 new Red Fox card

And of course Suzie Q's fitness studio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rG9otmu9WY

@Number6
Thanks for looking at this.
I do have progressive hotness set in the Fullscreen options, but not on the desktop.
So I agree, it looks like the same bug you refer to in your link..

I'd like to believe it is more complicated than that..

Sure you can find the hottest ladies on the planet but if they can't be "interactive and interesting" enough during their shows... well that would be a shame.
Of course there will be exceptions...

On the other hand you might find these real gems of girls that are very "interactive and interesting" but lack in the visual aspect of their shows.. for a multitude of different reasons like tattoos, piercings, sizes, body mods.
Of course there will be exceptions..

Considering the many different people on here having different tastes..
We can all wish for something perfect but in the end.. some of us will be dissappointed by some cards and others will love them.