@hazmhox
Hi I just wrote a review on how much I like this. I've used it in a number of scenes testing it out but finally dived deeper into using it in my scene White Apartment Harem...
White Apartment Harem An orgy scene with 5 beautiful ascorad models wearing cheerleader outfits: Evey, Ariadne, Trin, Amia and Amelia. The scene is built on the base animations from Ascorad's Moving Day and includes a Spy Cam view monitor with...
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and Get Her Pregnant...
Two girl scene with blowjob animations, anal, ATM cumshot in mouth on both, and vaginal cream pie animations on both to get them pregnant. Go through all the animations with your two favorite models like usual and then at the end you can choose...
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After spending a day trying align and fix buttons, and being close to just giving up on uploading a scene to the hub, I just switched everything to VAMStory Actions.
A few challenges I wanted to share to get your feedback, or see if maybe others may know of a possible solution to these challenges....
1. How to Trigger Buttons to Check/Adjust other Buttons/Sliders
On the Get Her Pregnant scene I have a button to choose Get Her Pregnant and originally wanted it to include a combination of options selected like Pregnant, Milk Squirting, etc. in that category. But the challenge I have is I don't know how to make it where when you click that button, it then will check the boxes on the menu or make the adjustments to the menu. What ends up happening is it will turn those on but leave them unchecked so it can get confusing and you have to toggle it on off to keep up with your settings. So I just left it on a generic Pregnancy Morph and let the user choose those additional options but I'd rather have it where it choose everything at once.
2. Updating Sliders/Dynamic Sliders
In Get Her Pregnant a challenge I have right now is going from Animation to Animation the Stroke Speed and Stroke Length are not being locked to my slider values on the menu. I put them to the max and then go to next animation and it's slow. So I have to toggle the sliders left and right to get it to sort of reset and start moving again at the speed I set originally. If it's dropping it, it would be nice to see the slider drop.
3. Dependency Issues/Clear Cache Option
When I created White Apartment Harem I tried out a lot of different models, outfits and music to see what I was planning to go with. When I went to package the VAR to upload it to the hub it listed a lot of dependencies for things I am not using in the scene. I tested out a futa option and thought about adding it to the scene but haven't, yet it shows a lot of futa related dependencies and the only thing I can think of is it is coming from rotating them through buttons or in the scene to try it out. If you look at the scene it says I am using around 200 dependencies but there are things that I am not using. After spending a few days trying to sort out some things and searching the meta.json and using notepad plus with json viewer and really trying to figure out what is going on, I see that there are some VAMStory Actions that seem to stay around after them are removed from the buttons. Even songs removed from a scene still show up in the meta.json after test packaging it and reviewing it before upload to the hub. If it's a user related error it may be related to switching modes between button and button toggle, or possibly a button that had the data on it but was converted to a spacer instead and maybe switching it didn't clear it out. This is probably the biggest challenge I have right now with using the plugin as it happened on other scenes as well initially. So I guess I am just trying to understand is it a user error, I dig through and don't find it and even removed a lot of spacers when I switched everything to sections without spacers but the dependencies are still there. When I get around to it I want to make a lite version with base models and see if I can get rid of them all or track down if it's really that high or if it's somehow coming from the buttons not clearing or updating the meta.json data.
4. Smaller Button Size Options
On White Apartment Harem I have the Settings Controller on the far right that lets you hide individual sections. I want it to be a 1 column row of buttons but the challenge is it won't let me resize the width smaller, it goes to 2 columns. No matter the combination of numbers I use for width, etc. It seems it does not recognize widths below a certain amount and has a max cap on changing. Originally the title text button was something shorter like Controller but I made it longer "Settings Controller" so it made sense that it was so wide. But I would prefer it to be the width of the average words but can't get it there with sizing.
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. Button Selection Tracking
On White Apartment Harem there is a music section where you can go through 17 tracks and pick a song to play. After clicking through a lot of them it's hard to tell which song is playing. It would be nice if there was to highlight the button that is active in that section with either a border or different color/glow. I know I can add text for on and off for each so that may be what I might try out for now but I'd have to adjust the text size on all or dimensions. I may just add a symbol for on version to see how that tracks/looks.
6. Importing Buttons into other Scenes Triggers Clear on People Sometimes
I notice that even if there is a Girl 1 in a scene, if I import the buttons in or restore them, sometimes it will reset the mapping. I go look at the buttons and it has cleared them from the backup. This may be more of a general VAM issue or maybe I did something else wrong. Mostly all mapping seems to carry over with no issue but the ones on people seem to reset even if they have the same name from scene to scene like Girl 1, Girl 2 and I have to manually remap them.