@HSS thats a great first scene. I like your quest in attention to detail with perspective and proportions in all that you do. Tks lots for the shares interfaces tweeking.

@TheEmu, Entirely agree re needing a new clipsprite attribute 'shadow'. As a newbie I remember frustratingly ***** up a lot of time, as have many others treating shadows as independent clipsprites and reflections similarly have a nightmare of masking to do once taskbar clips drift Ypos lower :(

@Wyld thanks for the fragment shaders. Plenty of applications for those !

@Wyldanimal

I am sure that it would be possible, and probably rather simple, to use a fragment shader to create a shadow or a reflection though I have not yet looked into using shaders that way. The trouble is you would have to keep on doing it every time you wanted one that was just a little bit different - different size, different angle, different depth of shadow etc. Not a lot of extra work once you have done it once but rather more than it should be.

I think these sorts of effects ought to be offered as a standard option for a ClipSprite using a new attribute "Shadow" with parameters defining the direction, size and depth of shadow, preferably with animation support. A similar property could also be provided for reflections. Failing that adding a shear capability on top of rot and scale would allow you to do the same sort of thing working at a lower level. This sort of thing ought to be relatively simple to add to the current software.

Snow Scenes 1 & 2 were built partially from one of the other Shade scenes I had.
I just reused the same clipsrpites.

In scenes 3 and 4 I removed the rotating clips as they didn't really contribute to the scene I was working on.

@TheEmu
I do agree that there isn't a really good Shadow effect.
Although I haven't experimented enough with the fragment shaders.

I'm wondering if it's possible to create a shadow effect using texture0 in the shader?

I assume that no new votes are likely to be posted before the New Year, although there are still over three days left.

If anyone would like a copy of my Excel spreadsheet showing all votes cast, please send me a message with an email address to send it to. (Not here on the Forum.)

Is it too early to declare Melisa the winner, and still champion?

Happy New Year to all members. Oz

@Hombre Sin Sombra

It looks fine to me as well - and I recognise the building its based on, Sefridges in Birmingham.

@Wyldanimal

I have only just got round to installing your Snow scene, it is a beautiful Christmas card. The shadows got me thinking. There is no really good way to do shadows with the current software, and the rotated shadows in this scene ***** because of that shortcoming. This is a pity because shadows and reflections can add quite a lot to a scene.

It seems to me that better shadows and reflections of a clip might be obtained by shearing the clip's image rather than rotating it. For a standing performer this would leave the shadow's feet as close to the her feet as possible while moving the shadow of the head significantly. It would require that a shear option was added to the software to accompany rot and scale, but that should not be difficult for Totem to do.

@Hombre Sin Sombra

It looks fine to me. The first one is always the hardest. The next scenes seem to flow naturally from there. I think most of us on here started with relatively simple scenes and worked up to the more complex ones.

The back pole is a little tight with Jewel - the top of her head occasionally gets cropped slightly but I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. She looks as if she is about 9'6" but the stats say 1.82m which is just about 6'.

Unless there is something particular you want to add to this scene, I'd move on to your next one. You can experiment as you go along, maybe add some motion or lighting or background colour changes, dependent on the background you choose.

@Wyldanimal

Those shaders look great and they appear to work reasonably OK with my graphics card which is good (for me). It really struggles with some of the other shaders.

well that didn't work either lol

Holy crap! Beast. Are you trying to drive us insane??? Hehehe. I just had Danielle Trixie, way larger than normal on your 005 Sitting and she looks so much larger than life! Great stuff, Beast. I will learn from the master ;)

I've been playing with a fractal scene that I adapted from a Shader over at Shadertoy.com

Here are three New Shades Scenes
In the fragment Shader files, you can play around by editing the values
at the beginning of the shaders.

http://scenes.virtuastripper.net/Shades3.zip

The third one, I'm still tweaking, but I've included it anyway..

Currently, I have the model commented out of the Scene files, so all you see is the Shader.

Ok, guys. Been playing around with this for a couple of hours and I think it looks ok now :)

It's a fairly simple, static background with 3 girls all on the poles but I spent time resizing and positioning the clips to centre on the 'bubbles'. I just thought this was too good an image to waste ;)

I also tested this with 3 of the tallest girls I have, Lyen Parker at 1.78 m, Angel Kiss at 1.76 m and Chiara at 1.75 m. There are taller girls here, I know but these all stayed well within the boundaries :)

I've uploaded it to GoogleDrive:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0q3PJ8LyTh8Zl9oblhSYThVTlE/view?usp=sharing

Edit: As always, download the zip file and extract the whole thing to your Scenes folder in VGHD. I didn't add any logos or anything fancy to this yet. If you're not familiar with Google Drive, when the page opens, look at the top, just to right of centre. There's a vertical arrow pointing down. Click this and then save as you usually do at the bottom :)

Now, if any of you guys think this might be worth doing something a bit more special with, please feel free! ET?, Number6?, TheEmu?, ZZ?

My first official scene made from scratch :) Hope somebody likes it anyway :)

Cheers,
'EL' HombreSinSombra ;)

Perhaps right click on "Sync with server" and "Rebuild all" will do the trick ..

Pressing on with the Artshares, focussing on possible changes to RedRoom. This time 3 collabs -@Number6, -@HombreSin Sombra et _@ET.

http://scenes.virtuastripper.net/ArtShare003.zip

@TheEmu
Wow your taking this to a whole new level. Good work my friend

Rex posted yesterday that there is a problem with the Amber Cute card and that it is not being released in 3K.
Therefore it is cheaper.

Anyone who paid the 3K price for the card yesterday should contact customer service on Monday afterwards for a refund between the 3K price and the correct price.

@dar2112v

You might just be seeing a price gliche for some cards. When you click the card, that price is what you should pay. I've noticed this as well, when I was double diamond status. To me, I haven't seen this as a triple diamond member.

tried both of those to no avail. thank u

I just checked both the website and the VG interface.
There is a price reduction based on Amber Cute's newest card.
(Your picture of the VG interface and what I saw are not the same. Mine says it costs 1.6 credits before member discount.)

Please view the newest cards in the following topic:
http://www.virtuagirl.com/forumPost.php?foId=6&ftId=29343

Try clicking 'check for updates' on the individual cards.
Any files that were deleted will be added again, but also the picture will be added.

If necessary, you may need to close the program, then reopen it.

So I have not been paying as much attention to VG lately so I'm not sure if I missed this previously. Today I noticed Amber Cute was less than 1 credits but when I clicked it it was closer to 2 credits. Tara was 1.4 credits but again when I clicked the card it was again 3 credits minus some discount that brought it to just under 2 credits.

How much are the new cards and where do you get the FINAL cost?

The new pricing is a real turn off - it's too *****. I have no idea what I paid for the last few cards I did get.

@TheEmu

Thanks for this.

I'll have a play when I can but the festivities keep getting in the way at the moment.

Its good to know I can do something with them. I've never really worked with shaders before and getting my head around them could be a lengthy process. There should be plenty of room for it though - my head's fairly empty, or so I'm told :-)

OH YAAAA.

@Number6

You can reduce the GPU resources needed for the Fractal scenes by changing the value of the MAX_ITERATION parameter. Currently it defaults to 1000 which suits my laptop, but you can set it to any value you like.

You can either change it in the individual .fsh files, or more easily by changing it in the Fractal-IFS-A.kernel file that you will find in the directory

scenes\TheEmu = Experiments with Shaders\Kernels

and then, assuming that you are using Windows, running the script

Generate-Shader-Experiments.cmd

in the scenes\TheEmu = Experiments with Shaders directory. You can run this script simply by double clicking on it. The script will first move all of the existing .scn and .fsh files to a backup directory and then recreate them using the altered IFS kernel.

If you do this the iteration loop in the kernel will bail out earlier than it would otherwise do. You will lose detail near the edge of the central lobes of the Mandelbrot set, but otherwise should be OK. Just play about with the value until you find one that suits.

I am missing picture cards for anissa kate bourgeoise libertine and ava courcelles solo. tried searching for some info and couldn't find any. tried deleting and reloading them, no change. not a big deal. the shows are there. just kind of annoying.

thanks

JabbaTheHutt reported the following on Amber Cute's Play Time card:

"Amber looks great in this outfit and seems to have put in a nice performance - but this card gets 0/10 from me because...THIS IS NOT 3K BUT COSTS THE SAME ! ! !Even accepting as 1080 it's still very poor quality with out-of-focus aberration in full-screen mode. (Yes, I bought without checking as I assumed all new cards were 3K - now I know to double-check everything to avoid getting robbed in future.)Unfortunately, I can't give Amber a fair review because I'm too furious over the blurred mess on my screen... whether upscaled or blurred I simply don't care, the result is the same for the customer. There should be quality control to prevent crud like this making it to the store - Even if it was a freebie I'd still be disappointed, let alone cost the same as full quality 3K cards. Absolute rip-off.If there's no way to get a refund, all shows should meet a minimum technical quality, and this show fails significantly in that regard.This is NOT a reflection on Amber's performance"

Does Totem have any plans to update the card to fix the image quality issues he references? I would pick up the card if I had some assurance that an update was comming.

@Rex I see, it's so much deeper problem than I expected. With these USD and crude oil jumparounds Russian law ***** severe changes. That might be the case.
Also, even using Yandex, the prices are still dollar-level.

Thanks anyway, I hope you guys will find a workaround and make everything as it was before again. Thanks for what you do!

P.S. *nix version of VGHD any time soon? Or at least player module?

@TheEmu

At some point I will investigate more but what you have done looks amazing.

I've started with your shaders. Unfortunately my graphics card is just not up to the Fractal ones which is a shame because I have been playing around with static fractals for months trying recreate something akin to shaders. The psychedelic ones work fine but the fractals just stutter. I have the same problem with @Zebrazuk's recent shaders even if I reduce his down to 1080p.

Pity Christmas is now gone - I would've asked Santa for a new Graphics Card had I known. Time to check if my motherboard will support an i7 processor and upgrade when I have bit of spare cash.

Great christmas card, happy holidays!

@TheEmu: Thank you so much for your work. I agree with ET completely. All this recent stuff in particular is inspiring me to learn new tricks :) I still have to get up to speed on the more complex stuff as I'm not a programmer but it's great fun to learn!

I used ET's Red-room scene to play around and came up with a 3-girl scene including reflections (See S-cap). I sent the zip file to ET so he can add it to his folder if he wants to :)

This next year is going to be great fun here, guys. Thanks to all :D

@TheEMU imo your help by sharing your scenes and the way you have approached it is priceless. The whole presentation including the TheEmusNest website, its preambles, the ease of downloading and installation, care in structure of SCN file labelling to help navigation and breakdown into teachable segments is totally awsome. I like particularly your sense of incorporating time (clocks) very important in music. Infact, lately, all contributors, inc. the Artshares', @No.6 & @zebrazuk's amazing shader contributions and @Wyldanimal's ongoing kickstarts and coding oversight, & now this..there is now a scene pallet from everyone for us to paint an amazing medley of Totemworld scenes. Profoundly thankful to all who lend their help and contribute here. Sincerely,..a new Art form underway & you guys ROCK !!!

Thank you for the nice Christmas card. :)

"less than 1/3rd of the planet celebrates Christmas"


I would bet that a huge majority of the people on this forum celebrate Christmas.

Thanks to The3LeggedMan!

Over the last few months The Emu has been experimenting with the full screen mode and in the process has created a number of scenes that he now wishes to share. For this reason I have set up a small web site from which these scenes can be downloaded, this being

TheEmusNest.eu

The emphasis in these scenes has not been to produce beautiful setting, others have already done that better than I could, but to investigate the possibilities offered by various features of the scene generation software. In particular I have created a set of working clocks, a rotating carousel and, by using the fragment shader capability, sets of continuously varying psychedelic and fractal backgrounds.

Please visit the site, download a few scenes and let me know what you think.

Wishing you all a slightly belated Merry Christmas and may you all enjoy a good new year.

Yeeeaaahhh, The3LeggedMan - finally I won something!

I cannot believe it :)

thank you for the pic. You made my day^^

Happy Holidays to you!

@ChaoticEvil

My bad, I was talking the polls I created. But like everyone is saying, let's give the new models a chance. I made those polls, when Sabrisse came back.

Love the work you do guys. You guys are awesome!
Thanks for sharing your wonderful masterpieces with the community.

nice now i don't feel so bad.

Glad to hear people like the shaders it's fiddly work to convert them but I wouldn't say it's hard. I tried to make sure the active shaders in the scenes were easy to run. Just watch out which others you try as some are beasts. I'm off work until Jan 2 so next I'm going to try getting a little more creative maybe some layering.

I also started playing with the TV room. Built a new 2D camera based .scn for it as I find it more accurate to place things. Here's a sample of what I've done so far. Of course I had to add more girls.;-)

edit: Just realized I posted that image at 4k, ah well.
edit2: looks like the forum may have sized it down.

@ZZ: Just downloaded your latest 4k/shader updated zip.

On your web page, you said it may all work ok on 1080P but be ***** at larger resolutions.

Well, I can report that on my, mid-range 1080P system, it all works perfectly! Thanks for that, buddy... awesome shaders :D

(Geforce GTX650 2GB ram). I just downloaded the latest drivers from the Nvidia site today. WORLD of difference to everything. New Beta update was 3 days ago I think (347.09) I believe this is now OpenGL 4.5 :D

Edit: You said some were trippy. This one has to be my favouite! Beautiful :)

I'm not sure what settings you have. These settings apply to the current version.

In the picture you see my filter settings. There are all activated cards visible.
Note: The filter settings are only taken when the search box is empty.


The main filter 'Always show' can be turned off - that's no problem.
Any other main filter must be activated or partially activated.


The main filter 'State' is activated - all sub-filters are enabled.

The main filter 'status' is partially activated - not all sub-filters are enabled.

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If you have problems with your account, then please contact the customer service.

Due to changes in Webmoney internal policy, we had to make a transition to a new type of integration.

Unfortunately this new integration (via PayMaster24) does not allow us to charge our customers in RUB (unless we open a company in russia...). We're working on the issue with WebMoney, meanwhile, if you want to use Webmoney to purchase our products, you need to exchanged WMR to WMZ or WME before buying as we can only accept USD and EUR.

We also added the Yandex payment option (though epoch).

I know it's the worse time to switch to USD only for Russian customers with the RUB going down, but we Webmoney lest us no other choice.

We're actively looking for another third party biller in RUB or find an agreement with Webmoney without opening a company in russia.

On the bright side, VG app totally evolved, adding all new stuff. Now we just need a proper linux version, which will never happen.

*NOTE*

I found a glitch in the screensaver,
and it's only useful for those,
who got stuck with an old monitor
or don't own a FullHD monitor, probaly a LED monitor.

i own 3 monitors and CRT and LCD monitors got bucket by black bars,
still on a HDready monitor is see black bars, small ones but they are there :(

On my LED FULLHD i see no black bars :D

Okay back to the glitch..

Download as many screensavers you can, choose the model of your choice,
now cycle thru the screensavers with ur right mouse button,
untill u see "no clips are available for this scene"
and hopa there it goes, it turns full screen at the next screensaver :D

U can wait until the next screensaver turns up or don;t wait and press the right mouse button to skip waiting, this doesn't work with al cards, most deskbabes cards works with this glitch.

Was looking for this in a long time, since the new screensaver norms.

Did anybody already posted the classic club?, if not...
u can download it from here, if u like 2.

Greetings, Cup.


http://www.datafilehost.com/d/52c577b1

Nikky & Mina at Christmas

Great Thanks! taking a quick peep in here :-) and you might be feeling lucky,
i have a lot to share, next i will bring back the old stripclub(classic club).

i Hope i'll not get banned for this :p

Salut, Cup.

Good job @Apasas

When Tracy received her Christmas gift...

Have updated my Xmas scenes file to include the corrected .SCN file for the fractal scenes. Thanks to @Wyldanimal these now work in the new Beta (56).


scenes.virtuastripper.net/No.6_Xmas Scenes.zip

If you have already download the erroneous file and just want to update the SCN files then you can use the following link.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/uz2nne68azt3pxr/No.6_Xmas%20Scene.zip?dl=0

Please note this only contains the SCN files. If you haven't downloaded the original file then this will not work.

In either case download the zip file, scan with your anti-virus and then copy to the scenes folder. Right click and select extract all. It should prompt you to extract to the No.6_Xmas Scenes folder. Select extract. When prompted tell it to "Overwrite" existing files.

Sorry for the errors in the original upload.

Thanks to all for the new shares. When I've sobered up enough I'll download them and try them out.

Hey et big welcome @Cupidostar. Love your Blue starburst lake surrounds and the lit conservatorium. Nice to have more taskbar scenes. Nice to see some more water cascading too. I like the Big Waterfall. For me, I had to set it flowing a touch slower to match better my music, eg: below, but its a great scene ;)

//animate: 1.7, loopforward, linear, pos, 0, 1100, 0
//animate: 1.7, loopforward, linear, opacity, -0.9
animate: 24.7, loopforward, linear, pos, 0, 1100, 0
animate: 12.7, loopforward, linear, opacity, -0.9

@Hombre nice going. So now fill the room with new Y pos and standing height girls = party woohoo !!

@Zebra, Thank you so much for your supreme effort!!!now we have context for combining more shaders into SCNs than ever before. Its a shame we can't put a syntax expression for 'select Random shader' like we can for select random image with a simple ../