a Midsummer Day special ...

Concerning the scenes FG362 and FG363 it happens often that the name of the girls as well as the titles exceed the frame, what makes that they are incomplete.

@ComteDracula merci pour votre rapport.
J'ai corrigé tous les titres des scenes pour qu'ils n'empiètent pas sur le côté de l'écran
De plus, pour FG361, j'ai baissé le taux d'itération du nuanceur sky fractal de 150 à 96
Cela devrait aider à le rendre moins saccadé

@ComteDracula thanks for your report.
I have fixed all the model titles so they do not encroach on the side of the screen
Also, for FG361 I dropped the fractal Sky shader iteration rate from 150 to 96
This should help make it run less jerky

https://scenes.virtuastripper.net/ET_FractalGarden361-371.zip
Delete the old zip...Re-download again , as before . ..
Extract the zip straight to ../scenes folder. Allow merged folders
and allow to overwrite any existing same name file.

I figured it out and to why most of my cards have the update by them.... Its because on some cards I had deleted the preview part of the card because i dont need the previews on the cards so it saves space... I discovered this by looking at a row of cards (10 cards). The entire row says update on them. I looked at the properties of my D:VGHD folder where all the cards are and wrote down the number of the space which gives it down to the KB. I then took the entire row and updated all ten cards. Then went back to the D:VGHD folder and looked at properties again.... it went up a significant amount.... I wrote that number down as well... I then went back and deleted the preview shows from all ten cards and went back and checked the D:VGHD folder and it was BACK to the orginial space before i updated... so all these cards that need to be updated is for the preview shows I am taking... since the total space went up by the preview amount and then back down when i deleted them... and i am talking to the KB..... It would be nice in the future if we had an option in the settings to never download the preview of shows from the start... that way some that dont want the preview never have to worry about it on any cards they get.....

Does anyone think this could be it???

Thanks

I tried simply animating the lake water but you can notice the outer edges slightly moving which in turn creates these fine noticeable lines.

You will need to use a mask to place in front of the water. This can be your existing background image with a transparent hole in it where you want the water to be and the water is then the watery part of that same image that you "cut" out of the original background. You then slightly enlarge the image of the water so that it overlaps the hole. You can do all of this using a single image which you include in the scene twice. The editing procedure in Gimp is

Load your original image
Add an alpha channel
Select the area of the image that corresponds to the water
Make the selected area transparent
Save using the option to retain colour information in transparent areas.

At step 4 be sure to use the option to "feather" the edges of the transparent area so that there are no hard edges to the "hole" that you are creating but instead the transition from opacity to transparency is gradual (but still rapid). Feathering is a setting that you can select on the tool you use to cut the hole in the image. You can also "touch up" an edge later by applying a blur to a region that is slightly larger than the hole or by running a blur tool manually along the edge to smooth off any "jaggies". If you do either of these use a magified view when doing the editing so that you have good control over the the area that is being acted on. In some cases a final touch up can be resorted to in which you use a high magification and manipuate the colour and opacity of individual pixels or small groups of pixels in order to eliminate ***** blemishes that for some reason catch your eye in an irritating way. I most often need to touch up edges in images created by others who have used simple "cookie cutter" tools to create hard edged holes, presumably cause they did no know about feathering or because a simple editing program did not have that as an option.

In the scene file you then display the background image twice - first as with 'blend: false' in order to be able to see the water which can be animated using a suitable shader and then with 'blend: true' so that you can see the water through the hole. But you display the first version with a scale factor of something like 1.1, 1.1, 1.0 so that it is slightly larger than the "hole" it goes in front of it. You may also need to slightly reposition it.

Now, because you want to have the boat be "in" the water rather rather than in front of it you need to use a slightly more complex method than the above, in particular you will need to use more layers in your scene - one for the water behind the boat, one for the boat, one for the water in front of the boat and one or more for the rest of the scenery. In this case you can't use the trick of using just one image displayed twice but will have to use several separate images each in their own file. These can all be copies of the same original image with different parts made to be transparent - that way you have no problems lining them up in the scene.

Actually, in this particular scene I don't think I would bother to animate the water, just gently rock the boat. But it is an interresting excercise that you might want to do it if only to learn how to do it. My "ReHa" scenes have a couple of "Small Pool" scenes that you might want to look at.

https://www.theemusnest.eu/scenes/Zips/TheEmu%20=%20ReHa.zip

Also in another scene that I am also working on I was wondering if I can change the background picture in a scene with another background picture while the scene is still active

Yes, I do that in quite a few of my scenes. Just animate the opacities to fade them in or out. The transitions can be fast or slow depending on what effect you want to achieve. See my "Tardis Conservatory" scenes for examples of this

https://www.theemusnest.eu/scenes/Zips/TheEmusTardisConservatory.zip

I also use it in my "transmats" scenes - though the transitions there are more heavily disguised. It is also used in a few of my "misc" scenes.

Thanks @EverthangForever

I had a quick look at your latest scenes. Excellent work.

I'm remaking slight jerks in the girl's movement on the FG361 scene. I was wondering if the girl's name and the card title could be a little less towards the frame. They are really at the extreme end of not being fully visible, with longer titles.

Concerning the scenes FG362 and FG363 it happens often that the name of the girls as well as the titles exceed the frame, what makes that they are incomplete.

Merci @EverthangForever

J'ai regardé rapidement vos dernières scènes. Excellent travail.

Je remaque de légères saccades dans le mouvement de la fille sur la scène FG361. Je me demandais si le nom de la fille et le titre de la carte ne pourrait pas être un peu moins vers le cadre. Ils sont vraiment à l'extrême limite de ne pas être entièrement visible, avec des titres plus long.

Concernant les scènes FG362 et FG363 il arrives souvent que le nom des filles ainsi que les titres dépasse le cadre, ce qui fait qu'ils sont incomplets.

This is what i did....

First I copied the enter VGHD folder from my old computer which was E:VGHD to my new computer which is now D:VGHD. To copy that took almost 25 hours... but it got them all over.

Then I downloaded and installed istripper on the new computer. I then logged into my account. Went to settings and told istripper the location of where I want to download new files at.. which is now D:VGHD. I then synced the server and hit rebuild collection... but nothing really happened. All my models are there but they all say update.... IF i hit the update button, it seems to download something.. but not the entire file because they are there.. i can see the shows, etc and they are not greyed out...

If nothing can be done.. I can live with the update on all of them...

https://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/29408/73?post=743989
Lately when confronted by demanding shaders, I have noticed that
my previous practice of running them from reduced size substrates
in a framebuffer leads to more stutter than mounting them straight
onto sprite nodes. Looks like the less rescaling thats done, the better.

The shaders I still run from framebuffers are easier ones that can benefit
from post processing by antialias or other shaders in post camera nodes.

FG361-371
Another eleven selected WebGL shaders converted to OpenGL to run
&/or remix on iStripper's OpenGL platform. FG367 uses pole & cage clips.
FG371 uses only pole clips. Standing or floor work randomly applies to
all other scenes.

https://scenes.virtuastripper.net/ET_FractalGarden361-371.zip

zip size = 180 Kb .
Extract the zip straight to ../scenes folder. Allow merged folders
and allow to overwrite any existing same name file.
https://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/27449/127?post=743990

Hello Everyone! I just started to read this forum and I'm only on page 33 so If these questions have already been asked I do apologize and would appreciate a reference point to deal with my scene issues. I'm totally new to creating scenes and have submitted 8 of them all at once and realize after submitting them that I had a lot of mistakes in all of them in which I do profoundly apologize for. Sandi my gf warned me to just submit one at a time and I should have listened as I have spent the last month trying to fix each scene. I have no coding skills/knowledge whatsoever but I am doing my best to learn everything I can and I really luv creating scenes with the help of my gf.

I'm having problems with animating the water in my "Camping" scenes. I have managed to get both boats rocking as suggested but I had to recreate masks for under and sides of both boats to prevent the girls feet, hands or hair from being exposed. I tried experimenting using framebuffers but I'm still having problems with using them. Obviously I still don't quite understand how to use them properly but I would luv to understand how to use them more proficiently. I did resize the white boat slightly to compensate when trying to use a calm water shader but I'm having problems for some reason with using shaders. It seems so straight forward and I feel like a dumbass but I can't seem to figure out why the refraction shader is giving me such a hard time with this Camping scene???

I tried simply animating the lake water but you can notice the outer edges slightly moving which in turn creates these fine noticeable lines. I also tried using a refractor shader to get the water moving more naturally but I spent the last 3 days trying to get it to work properly and still had no luck. I know if the scene was simpler with a rectangular type of pool I would have been more successful but with the boats in the water and the grass in front of the tent opening blocking some of the water near the shoreline it is causing me all kinds of problems.

At the risk of sounding like a quitter I am really considering just leaving out the lake animation altogether for now until I truly understand how to use shaders but it would look so cool with the water moving to give those scenes some realism and to finish them so I can move on with fixing my other scenes.

Sandi took off to Calgary with her friend for the week and I had to stay back because of work so I miss her input and suggestions and I miss her Gimp skills as I had to learn how to use it beyond just the masking as I was doing. She does all of the graphical editing as she is still learning the in's and out's of the program and I can't seem to get rid of the grass in the opening of the tent without destroying the water section lol. What a mess I had made lol. It started off good but as I got into the shoreline It just looks ***** when I tried replacing the grass in the tent opening with the water lol.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! I have studied every water scene I had and still no luck. The closest I came to finding a solution for this particular scene was "Nasashie's Waterfall" scenes but I just couldn't get it to work for me in my Camping scenes. The grass and the boat masks is causing so many complications but I would luv to find a solution if possible.

Also in another scene that I am also working on I was wondering if I can change the background picture in a scene with another background picture while the scene is still active (without restarting that particular scene) and creating a delay between each background pic as it appears? I am not quite sure how to time each background pic to appear in let's say 15 second intervals. I think inserting node's may solve this problem like when animating the camera to go in various locations but I still don't know how to add a timer for each pic to appear in a timely fashion and then repeat the whole sequence once all background scenes have passed.

I know I am taking on a lot on considering I'm a newbie to scene creations and have no coding experience but I find it best to learn all that I can in the beginning so that I can create cool and unique scenes in the near future. I realize after I had submitted all of those scenes that there is much more to just creating basic scenes. Maybe I am a perfectionist to a certain degree but I really want each scene to be as perfect as It could be not just for myself but for all members to enjoy without the need to make a dozen or so upgrades to each scene every single time. I sure learnt a lot from my rookie mistakes lol.

Thanks as all suggestions and/or solutions would be greatly appreciated!

@Calgon

There are two ways to acheive what you want

Firstly, you can specify for yourself where the hotspot is within the object - but you can't do this for ClipSprites.

Secondly you can nest whatever you want within a node, offset it from the node and apply the rotation to the node, something like

Node
{ Pos: 500, 200, 150 // Position of the node
Rot: 20, 10, 77 // Rotate it and everything nested within it
Sprite // The thing to be rotated
{ Pos: 100, 200, 300
Source: ThingToBeRotated
}
}

You can nest nodes to any depth you want applying offsets and rotations at each step relative to the previous one.

You can animate: the various Pos: and Rot: values at each of the node to build up very complex motions.

You guys are great. thanks.
I used to be more computer "smart" but now I just use...
(Sorry to pull away from the main topic)

Hi

I'm trying to rotate an image about a point that is not the hotspot that is not in the same plane as the image - does anyone have an example of how to do this if it's possible ?

BTW, you could also play 2700p with HP Reverb G2, just give it a try to see.

@WjsnW

Bienvenu sur le forum.

Il existe un outils très pratique que j'utilise régulièrement pour traduire sur le forum.

C'est DeepL

https://www.deepl.com/fr/app/

C'est une application gratuite.

Je l'ai installé sur mon ordinateur.

Il suffit de surligner le texte avec la souris, et faire Ctrl +cc pour voir la traduction dans une petite fenêtre qui s'ouvre. Les langues peuvent être sélectionnées au choix. Dans mon cas la langue d'origine d'un côté et le français de l'autre.

Je l'utilise fréquemment et c'est très pratique. C'est avec cet outil que je fais mes traduction en anglais, que j'écris sur le forum. Souvent je met les deux langues dans mes écrits.

She lost some weight. Don't get me wrong, she still looks incredible but, her breasts aren't as plump as they used to be...

@WjsnW
Le traducteur ne fonctionne plus depuis longtemps à partir du programme. Aucune mise à jour n'est prévue à ma connaissance.

Helloo ^^

Vous avez pas des problèmes avec l'option de traduction ???

Chez moi elle ne fonctionne pas

Beautiful girl! I am happy to own all of her cards so far.

Hello!!!

Your patience is finally being rewarded today! Discover Kitty's first show from her Take 2! 😍
What a nice feeling to know that there are many more to come!😈
Her sensual performance in "Forget-Me-Not Fantasy" will have you wanting more, although I'm pretty sure you haven't forgotten her!😜



Hope you enjoy her amazing comeback! 💋

@EverthangForever

You can do similar things with individual components - e.g. one of

gl_FragColor.a = gl_FragColor.r;
gl_FragColor.a = 1.0 - gl_FragColor.r;
gl_FragColor.a = gl_FragColor.r * k1;
gl_FragColor.a = 1.0 - gl_FragColor.r * k2;
gl_FragColor.a = ( 1.0 - gl_FragColor.r ) * k3 ;

where k1, k2 and k3 are 'constants'. These make the the transparency vary with how red a pixel is. Of course the 'constants' can be time varying for even more interesting effects. You could even do it for each of the r,g,b, components with different time varying behaviour to have the differently coloured parts appear and disappear at different times.

@TheEmu thank you so much for your explanation of how to make the white areas in a scene transparent

..."invert" each component by subtracting it from 1.0

We should be able to put this one to great use , as we already do with the black areas to transparent
'gl_FragColor.a' code line. Much appreciated 👍

In the settingsWhat is the display frequency set to?

OMG ! What an idiot I've been, that was the problem the whole time, I'd had it set to 15 minutes. Thanks 😳

Expanding on @Wyldanimal 's post.

By default iStripper will create the folders and registry entries in the way exemplified in his post. It does, however, provide a built in mechanism by which you can change the location of the 'models' folder but not that of the 'bin' folder nor that of the 'data' folder.

Unless you are confident in your ability regarding editing registry entries (and even if you are) I would advise only changing the location of the models folder, and do that via the iStripper settings page.

It sounds like your folder structure is NOT standard, and that could be part of your Issue.

folders of all the models, there is a folder called data

Normally, you have one Main VGHD folder, and in that Folder are Three SubFolders.

for Example my Main folder is

C:\Users\WyldAniaml\AppData\Local\vghd

And I have Three Subfolders

C:\Users\WyldAniaml\AppData\Local\vghd\bin
C:\Users\WyldAniaml\AppData\Local\vghd\data
C:\Users\WyldAniaml\AppData\Local\vghd\models

in the registry there are Three Keys that tell the App where these Three folders are.
Registry Branch

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Totem\vghd\System

Keys:

MainPath = C:\Users\WyldAnimal\AppData\Local\vghd\bin
DataPath = C:\Users\WyldAnimal\AppData\Local\vghd\data
ModelsPath = C:\Users\WyldAnimal\AppData\Local\vghd\models

The Path on the HDD where the files are Must be exactly the same as the Values set for the Registry Keys.

@ComteDracula , merci pour ce bon retour. .. Oui c'était FG357 que j'ai dû tout couper
retour à l'os, afin qu'il fonctionne sur mon PC. Par conséquent, il est devenu nécessaire d'éliminer même les pos animations de scenes models là.
La prochaine étape consistera à examiner sérieusement le code de shader réel avec beaucoup de ces
shaders difficiles, plutôt que de simplement éditer le code scn. En particulier, j'imagine, la quantité d'itérations, le nombre de couleurs et le redimensionnement impliqués doivent être abordés.

@ComteDracula , thanks for this good feedback. ..yes it was FG357 that I had to cut everything
back to the bone, in order for it to run on my PC. Hence it became necessary to even eliminate model pos animations there.
The next step will be to seriously look at tweeking the actual shader code with many of these
difficult shaders, rather than just editing the scn code.. Particularly I imagine, the amount of iterations, numbers of colors and rescaling involved needs to be addressed.

Try it on one card go into the data folder for that card and move all the files to a different folder so you can recover them you can recover them but what you want to do is empty out the data folder and let the app redownload all the files for the data folder and that should reset the update flag for that particular card

Okay, when you say data folder... Lets say card e0035. in the folder of e0035 there are a bunch of files..... but among all those folders of all the models, there is a folder called data and in the data folder is a folder labeled e0035 as well and in that folder is just one file, basically a pic of the model... which files are you saying to move? the pic file in the data folder or all those files in the e0035 folder?

@EverthangForever

FG353 has some ***** stutter/slowdown but still is pretty cool. It's one of those scenes that reminds me of the 'Dr Strange' movie. 😄😎
FG354,356,and 357 has some ***** stutter.

@EverthangForever. Also tested on my end with 4K cards.

I notice the same slight jerks/shuffles for the FG353 scene and slight jerks with the FG354, FG356 & FG357 scenes. Especially when there are more graphics in these scenes. This makes the percentage of my graphics processor increase.

@EverthangForever

FG353 has some ***** stutter/slowdown but still is pretty cool. It's one of those scenes that reminds me of the 'Dr Strange' movie. 😄😎
FG354,356,and 357 has some ***** stutter.

@EverthangForever. Testé aussi de mon côté avec des cartes en 4K.

Je note les mêmes légères saccades/ralentissements pour la scène FG353 et légères saccades avec les scènes FG354, FG356 & FG357. Surtout lorsqu'il y a plus de graphiques dans ces scènes. Cela fait augmenter alors le pourcentage de mon processeur graphique.

@Calgon I have made some adjustments to your code which gets the
clipnamesprites all visable (for all 10 models) Yikes..yes it is 10 !!!

I will PM that to you. You will have to play with it some more if
you want reflections & left-right correction on the buckets but the
names are all there now. 😉

For me it is on "always".

Pour moi c'est sur "toujours".

In the settings
What is the display frequency set to?

Try it on one card go into the data folder for that card and move all the files to a different folder so you can recover them you can recover them but what you want to do is empty out the data folder and let the app redownload all the files for the data folder and that should reset the update flag for that particular card

@Vortim

I would try using Synchronise With Server and Rebuild Collection. It will not take long, will not make matters worse but it may clear the Update flags.

Thanks, i tried that already and they all still say Update on them.. they are there and I can see the shows, but they all say they need to be updated.. I just dont want to download more and take up more space so I am not sure what it needs to update.....

Hi @Calgon,

Only people like @EverthangForever and @TheEmu could answer your question. Maybe they can edit the code to help you by uploading your scene?

That being said there is only one girl where I saw the name of the girl and the card displayed and it's the one in the first corridor on the left, the first one, if you don't take into account the girl stuck on the glass in the foreground. The name was displayed on the girl, at the beginning of a new clip.


Bonjour @Calgon,

Seul des gens comme @EverthangForever et @TheEmu pourraient répondre à votre question. Peut-être peuvent t'ils modifier le code pour vous aider en téléchargeant votre scène ?

Ceci étant dit il n'y a qu'une fille où j'ai vu le nom de la fille et de la carte s'afficher et c'est celle du premier couloir à gauche, la première, si on ne tient pas compte de la fille coller sur la vitre en avant plan. Le nom s'affichait sur la fille, lors du début d'un nouveau clip.

Thanks Mkst, that makes sense.

@Vortim

I would try using Synchronise With Server and Rebuild Collection. It will not take long, will not make matters worse but it may clear the Update flags.

Superb! 🔞🔥💖

Okay, I think i was successful for the most part. I was able to logg back in, I pointed the folder where all my models are to my second hard drive (which is where i transtered the models folder). I can see all my collection now, they are there, but everyone has Update written over them? The ones i had originally downloaded are there, they are not greyed out (the ones I didnt download are greyed out as they should be) but the ones that are downloaded and are lit up all say update on them If i click the cirlce to update, is this going to redownload all each card again? because i already have the entire folder with the cards on them... Also, is there a way to update all instead of having to click on each card?

Overall, I think it worked... just wondering about the update on each card question....

Thanks for any help....

Thanks @Calgon.Everything is ok. It's better with the reflection of the girls on the floor.Did you disable the name of the girl and the card, when starting a new clip? Because it seems to me that they appeared in your previous version, whereas I did not see them, with this corrected version of your scene.Merci @Calgon.Tout est ok. C'est mieux avec la réflection des filles sur le plancher.Avez-vous désactivé le nom de la fille et de la carte, lors du début d'un nouveau clip ? Car il me semble qu'ils apparaissaient dans votre version précédente, alors que je n'en ai pas vu, avec cette version corrigée de votre scène.

@ComteDracula .... I'm having major problems with the ClipNameSprite - they seem to appear sometimes and then when I try to tweak their position they don't show up at all. I've spent more time on this than the whole of the rest of the scene. Is it possibly a memory issue ?

@EverthangForever

The components of gl_Fragcolor vector are

gl_Fragcolor.r the red component - nominally ranges from 0.0 to 1.0
gl_Fragcolor.g the green component - nominally ranges from 0.0 to 1.0
gl_Fragcolor.b the blue component - nominally ranges from 0.0 to 1.0
gl_Fragcolor.a the alpha (opacity) component - nominally ranges from 0.0 to 1.0

they can have values outside of their nominal ranges but this is rare and when they are this is because they are the resut of some calculation. If you want to "normalise" such out of range components use the clamp() function to limit them to the range 0.0 to 1.0.

The length function applied to a vector calculates its length using the normal method you will have been taught at school - i.e. it is the square root of the sum of the squares of the components.

Pure Black will have r,g,b all equal to 0.0 while pure white will have them all equal to 1.0.

So if you want to make the white areas transparent then "invert" each component by subtracting it from 1.0 (optionally after clamping) and then taking the length. i.e. use something like

gl_FragColor.a = length ( vec3(1.0) - gl_FragColor.rgb );

@Socialhazard thanks a lot..good to know 👍

FG350 to FG356 use zoom animation on clips.

That could be contributing to the stutter. I'll try to refrain from using model pos animation
henceforth when da shaders look a tad too demanding.

@TheEmu thanks for the alternative shader. i must try it in a subsequent scene with appropriate
color qualifiers in the scn node 👍

• I know that you showed us how to use an alpha filter to render various black to transparent like..

gl_FragColor.a = (length(gl_FragColor.rgb)*1.0);

• I do not know how we can apply 'length' in a similar way for a 'white' background to make it transparent.

I don't have a Reverb, but since it's a Windows Mixed Reality headset, I would use the top category.

@EverthangForever

FG353 has some ***** stutter/slowdown but still is pretty cool. It's one of those scenes that reminds me of the 'Dr Strange' movie. 😄😎
FG354,356,and 357 has some ***** stutter.

👍 😎

The marketing team is considering this possibility:)

👍 Crazy things might happen 😆💰

L'équipe marketing réfléchit à cette possibilité :)

It's nice to send a message to the marketing team, but will there be a response to the request from that same team? To be continued.

C'est bien de transmettre un message à l'équipe marketing, mais va t'il y avoir une réponse à la demande de cette même équipe ? À suivre.

Hello,

May we get just 1 day when the 1100 credit pack with reload bonus option is opened for normal currencies as well not only for Cripto payment?
Please!

I have forwarded your message to our Marketing Team

It was @DANO70 's use of a shader to make a NameClipSprite be permanently displayed that prompted me to look into how it was working.

I think it's a pity that NameClipSprites do not have direct way of specifying, in the .scn file, how often and how long they are to be displayed - e.g. as a theatre hoarding or on a movie poster. I would also like to be able to isolate the model name or card title in order to display them separately in a scene.

https://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/29408/73?post=743871

I was the one that stumbled on it using the occluding shader along time ago. It was/is a great use for perminent model signs.

@DANO70 yes I thought it was a @TheEmu shader I saw used in his Act Cards on a small Stage scene
however it was probably your anim scenes I borrowed the colored names shader code from back then
..thanks lots 👍

Moving right along..
FG350-360
Here are another eleven WebGL shaders converted to OpenGL to run
&/or remix on iStripper's OpenGL platform. FG350 to FG356 use zoom
animation on clips. Standing or floor work applies to all scenes.

https://scenes.virtuastripper.net/ET_FractalGarden350-360.zip

zip size = 178 Kb .
Extract the zip straight to ../scenes folder. Allow merged folders
and allow to overwrite any existing same name file.
https://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/27449/127?post=743872
..remixed to The Beatles - 'Free as a Bird'