Guides Clothing Plugins

What is a "Clothing Plugin"?
It turns out that you can trick VAM into loading plugins when an item of clothing is loaded. These plugins don't go into the default Atom plugin UIs and are generally their own separate thing.

What can I do with a Clothing Plugin?
A clothing plugin can do anything a regular plugin can do. What's nice about clothing plugins is that a user doesn't need to load them manually. They're added automatically when an item of clothing is put on for the...

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DJ said:

Stopper never stops! Lol!

Could this be used to give a single clothing item various "undress" states? Some of the built in clothing has a dropdown for different states, but for imported clothes, the only option has been to have separate clothing items for each state, which works but is a pain in the ass.

If such a thing seems feasible, could you put out a template for creators to use? People who make clothes but don't know a thing about plugins?

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Umemaro1488 said:

I don’t know about you, but after trying this workaround, I noticed pitfalls, because of which at the moment (and maybe in general) this feature will remain an “idea”, namely: This only works with single objects such as rings, watches, earrings and other decorations. (Even here there are problems)
Forget about clothes, because they become completely static and are attached only to a certain bone. Plus my textures are not displayed. Just a white object. I don't think anyone can tell me how to fix this.
Well, the main problem in all this is the game itself, which completely depends on the character’s morph and the soft physics of the character’s body. In general, you can forget about getting rid of deformations of clothes and jewelry. It's a pity.

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ossa said:

The message "Plugin file Stopper.ClothingPluginManager.3: /Custom/Scripts/Stopper/ClothingPluginManager/ClothingPluginManager.cs does not exist" is displayed, and the plugin item does not appear in the UI. I would appreciate any advice you can provide.

"ClothingPluginManager.3 & 4 are installed in the AddonPackage.

Following the steps, I created them using Create New Item, and edited them by opening vaj from the Custom folder.

As a precaution, I also placed ClothingPluginManager in the Custom folder and tried it, but there was no change."

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ttandjack said:

can you help me to see my vaj?
i can't make plugin appear in my UI

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"storables" : [
      {
          "id" : "NoOC:AkaliMore-Top222",
          "plugins" : {
              "plugin#0" : "Stopper.ClothingPluginManager.5:/Custom/Scripts/Stopper/ClothingPluginManager/ClothingPluginManager.cs"
          },
      },
      {
         "id" : "NoOC:AkaliMore-Top222Style"
      },
      {
         "id" : "NoOC:AkaliMore-Top222WrapControl",
         "wrapToSmoothedVerts" : "false",
         "surfaceOffset" : "0.0004",
         "additionalThicknessMultiplier" : "0.0004",
         "smoothIterations" : "1"
      },

Stopper said:

It looks like you missed part 2 of the guide. You need to add a storable for the plugin manager.

Code:

"storables" : [
      {
          "id" : "NoOC:AkaliMore-Top222",
          "plugins" : {
              "plugin#0" : "Stopper.ClothingPluginManager.5:/Custom/Scripts/Stopper/ClothingPluginManager/ClothingPluginManager.cs"
          },
      },
      {
         "id" : "NoOC:AkaliMore-Top222Style"
      },
      {
         "id" : "NoOC:AkaliMore-Top222WrapControl",
         "wrapToSmoothedVerts" : "false",
         "surfaceOffset" : "0.0004",
         "additionalThicknessMultiplier" : "0.0004",
         "smoothIterations" : "1"
      },

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ttandjack said:

Thanks for your reply！
I did miss that part
Now I've added it
The vaj file is as follows
Now reload can fully load the clothes
But i still can't pop up the plugin ui on my clothes
Is it possible that this clothes does not support adding plugins, or I need to change some settings in some places？

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Stopper said:

Does it give you any errors? And do you have the latest version of the clothing plugin manager downloaded?

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ttandjack said:

I truly have downloaded yours [Stopper.ClothingPluginManager.5]
the error is:
Compile of Stopper.ClothingPluginManager.5:/Custom/Scripts/Stopper/ClothingPluginManager/ClothingPluginManager.cs failed. Errors:
!> [CS1540]: Cannot access protected member `MVRPluginManager.RemoveAllPlugins()' via a qualifier of type `MVRPluginManager'. The qualifier must be of type `Stopper.ClothingPluginManager.Destructor' or derived from it in <Unknown> at [373, 15]
!> [CS]: Mono.CSharp.InternalErrorException: (366,16): Stopper.ClothingPluginManager.Destructor.OnDestroy() ---> Mono.CSharp.FatalException: Cannot access protected member `MVRPluginManager.RemoveAllPlugins()' via a qualifier of type `MVRPluginManager'. The qualifier must be of type `Stopper.ClothingPluginManager.Destructor' or derived from it

I can't understand its meaning

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Stopper said:

Are you running the latest version of vam? MVRPluginManager.RemoveAllPlugins() should be public, not protected.

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dksk2233 said:

I can't see the plugin UI... trying to solve this problem for many times, but I just don't know what's wrong. Help Plz

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cmramlow said:

Hey @Stopper I got this to work fine when we were on version var 3 but now on version var 7 I get double the clothing item when expecting 1 & forcing reload does not load in the textures like it did before.

I've reviewed your main overview and all this discussion thread. Is this a bug, or is it more likely I'm doing something wrong?

Maybe these now have to be in a var? I always remove hair and clothes from vars since I'm trying to limit to under 6000 vars.

Attached is the .vaj file. Since these are paid VL cothing items I can message you the full file link if needed. Thank you!

Code:

{
   "components" : [
      {
         "type" : "DAZMesh"
      },
      {
         "type" : "DAZSkinWrap"
      },
      {
         "type" : "DAZSkinWrapMaterialOptions"
      },
      {
      "type" : "DAZSkinWrapMaterialOptions"
      },
      {
      "type" : "MVRPluginManager"
      }
      ],
"storables" : [
{
"id" : "VL_13:Earrings_Q_Neck_LOW",
"plugins" : {
"plugin#0" : "Stopper.ClothingPluginManager.7:/Custom/Scripts/Stopper/ClothingPluginManager/ClothingPluginManager.cs"
},
},
{
         "id" : "VL_13:Earrings_Q_Neck_LOWWrapControl",
         "wrapToSmoothedVerts" : "false",
         "surfaceOffset" : "0",
         "additionalThicknessMultiplier" : "0",
         "smoothIterations" : "0"
      },
      {
         "id" : "VL_13:Earrings_Q_Neck_LOWSim",

Doubled clothingView attachment 363948

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