Thanks for the comment!
I see — so you mean something like the Preset 1–20 feature in SexyFluids plugin: multiple selectable groups (via a dropdown), where each group stores its own preset internally within the plugin, and by switching groups—or calling them via Timeline/triggers—you can instantly swap between multiple pre-registered behavior sets.
That’s basically a “slot” concept, and I agree it would make the plugin much more useful.
By the way, do you have a preferred number of slots in mind? And would it be better if the slots could be renamed?
One note: I’m planning to stop updating the free version of RCA except for critical bug fixes, and new features like this would be implemented in the paid version—so if you’re interested, please consider that.
Also, as more settings have been added, the UI has been getting more complex, so I’m planning to optimize it by introducing a paged UI structure. Because of that, this feature would likely come after the UI restructuring work.
I can only speak for me from my perspective. I am using mostly Timeline or other State Machines. That means some trigger stuff, based on actions.
For such an use case, its not relevant if those Groups are pre named or you can give them custom names. Custom names are sure, more comfortable, but can make some problems at different points e.g. refreshing the name in Time line or in other triggers. And you know where the user are going to get a fix for it.
How many presets you need to store, depends also on the use case. I would say, 20 is far more than enought, but i dont know. Depends on the usecase and user. If you can put the plugin into an empty atom, and chose a target Atom (human), then you can use a second empty atom with 20 more presets. Or if you can load the plugin into the same atom again and again. Then dosnt matter how many preset slots you have.
But you got it what i mean. Its like sexyfluids presets. Preset 1 -> Chose a bunch of settings -> save it. then go on Preset 2. 3.. 4.. etc.
Then go to your timeline or some trigger machine, and load/start preset 1, play it once, or loop or whatever. Stop it (sets the settings to zero), start preset 8 etc.
I saw your content on patreon, but i am saying meanwhile to all creators, consider to think about a shop like selling method instead of a subscriptional. The thing is, after a short time, you have as customer 20 subscriptions with small fee's but in the sum, its a huge amount. At the end, the customer dont subscribe anymore. But afaik you can sell it as shop like also via patreon. Maybe there are also other methods to build a fanbase. Reddit already closed the vamscenes group a few days ago.
