Plugins + Scripts Skin Vertex Link

[Skynet]

Skynet updated Skin Vertex Link with a new update entry:

update v5

-- Minor fix:
- Visuals should render through the body without requiring post magic plugin

Read the rest of this update entry...

 

[bqbq]

Stopper pointed the direction, and you brought it to completion.
Reducing the performance impact this much… it’s truly impressive.
The real-world usability is also very well aligned with user convenience. Really amazing work.

 

[Skynet]

Stopper pointed the direction, and you brought it to completion.
Reducing the performance impact this much… it’s truly impressive.
The real-world usability is also very well aligned with user convenience. Really amazing work.

thanks!

 

[faaipdeoiad]

This is incredible, thank you!

I am having an issue though. It seems to get confused when there are multiple clothing items with this plugin added as a Stopper clothing plugin. I'm trying to use this to manage three piercings (from Qdaro's pack), but when I add the third plugin instance, the second clothing item's CUA disappears. Reload the preset from the second item's ClothingPluginManager, and then the third CUA disappears....

Ah, okay, it seems to be because of the way this plugin is naming the CUA atom it spawns. It looks like the name is dependent on the person atom ID and the plugin index, but since you can have a separate plugin manager for each clothing item, you can have multiple plugin instances with the same index in their respective plugin managers. My first clothing item doesn't collide with the other two because its SkinVertexLink is plugin#3, but the other two are fighting for the plugin#2 slot.

Edit: I was able to work around it by adding blank plugin slots to the manager until I got to a unique index, assigning a SkinVertexLink to the unique slot, and then deleting the empty slots and re-saving the preset.

Just in case it's helpful: I took a look at Stopper's CUAClothing plugin and fixed the naming collision issue in a local copy of SkinVertexLink:

// ...

public class SkinVertexLink : MVRScript
{
    // ...
  
  
    // TODO: this could probably use some cleanup; _dazMesh, _dazDynamic, and
    // _dazSkinWrap all end up producing the same Atom UID
    private DAZClothingItem _dazClothingItem;
    private DAZHairGroup _dazHairGroup;
    private DAZMesh _dazMesh;
    private DAZDynamic _dazDynamic;
    private DAZSkinWrap _dazSkinWrap;
  
    // ...
  
    public override void Init()
    {
        try
        {
            CollectParentItems();
          
            // ...
          
            // CUA Asset selection
            cuaAtomUid = _dazDynamic != null
                // Clothing plugin -- use clothing item name for unique naming per instance
                ? $"{containingAtom.name}#{_dazDynamic.name}#{name}"
                // Person Atom plugin -- use storeId for unique naming per instance
                : $"{containingAtom.name}#SkinVertexLink#{storeId}";
              
            // ...
        }
        // ...
    }
  
    private void CollectParentItems()
    {
        var parent = gameObject;
        while (containingAtom == null || parent != containingAtom.gameObject)
        {
            if (parent.transform.parent == null)
                break;

            if (_dazClothingItem == null)
                _dazClothingItem = parent.GetComponent<DAZClothingItem>();

            if (_dazHairGroup == null)
                _dazHairGroup = parent.GetComponent<DAZHairGroup>();

            if (_dazMesh == null)
                _dazMesh = parent.GetComponent<DAZMesh>();

            if (_dazDynamic == null)
                _dazDynamic = parent.GetComponent<DAZDynamic>();

            if (_dazSkinWrap == null)
                _dazSkinWrap = parent.GetComponent<DAZSkinWrap>();

            containingAtom = parent.GetComponent<Atom>();
            parent = parent.transform.parent.gameObject;
        }
    }
  
    // ...
}

Edit: shit, nevermind, I just tried reloading a scene I had saved previously and the restore behavior seems pretty broken. I'll keep hacking at it.
Edit 2: fixed. I did a "cleanup" pass wherein I accidentally deleted the if (_dazDynamic == null) branch lol. Probably needs more testing though.

 

[Skynet]

Edit: shit, nevermind, I just tried reloading a scene I had saved previously and the restore behavior seems pretty broken. I'll keep hacking at it.
Edit 2: fixed. I did a "cleanup" pass wherein I accidentally deleted the if (_dazDynamic == null) branch lol. Probably needs more testing though.

nice, i'm thinking the robust way to fix it is to spawn CUA atoms with random unique ID numbers, just like how it's done in Puppeteer plugin for its controllers. but im not sure its going the be backwards compatible anymore due that change