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In Blender 4.2:
You have to untick "Use Vertex Group" in the first panel unless you want the cloth being wrapped to only a group of vertices. Not sure how this works though (name of the group relevant?) or why the default is "on". If I leave it on it says BVH is None too, even with default Gen2Base.
Someone created a plugin that does exactly that, thought i haven't tried it myself.
Have you gotten to try northern.shikima's hair exporter with your plugin? As in, you export hair with shikima's plug-in. Put it into blender. Then try to export that back into the VAM files with yours?
Apologies—I didn't notice your questions earlier because I don't receive email notifications for replies in this discussion. Here are the answers:Looks great and promising but there are a lot of questions hehe.
1.- The scalp object has to be a vam one or can i just create my own scalp object inside blender?
2.- if i can create the scalp, does it have to have a specific number of vertices, or a specific distance from the genesis2 figure?
3.- if the scalp has to be from vam, how do i get it exactly as vam´s one?
4.- the dev utils section, what does it do?
5.- can i use mirror when editing the particles or does it screw the id´s or something?
6.- can i use blender´s hair dynamics and collision to pose it?
I did a fast try with it in blender. Created my own "scalp" object with an outside surface shrinwrap of 0.0002 distance, set the number of particles to the vertex number, disabled random, set the vertex group, posed it with simmetry enabled, but when i hit "calc" the addon says:
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Any help or clarifications apreciated
This result appears to be caused by not using a model with the correct character; please load the correct character using "Load Atom". For soft-fabric clothing, do not enable the vertex group function; this feature is intended only for rigid items like helmets or high heels. Enabling it constrains the clothing to a minimal number of triangular faces, thereby reducing deformation caused by the influence of other vertices. Additionally, there is a specific naming requirement: the vertex group must be named "anchor".
I have looked into that plugin, but unfortunately, my plugin is incompatible with his workflow; mine requires a strict one-to-one correspondence between scalp vertices and generated hair strands, whereas the hairstyles exported by his plugin have disrupted that alignment.
Thanks for your answer. Sadly, it looks the same with the default model in VAM 1.22.0.13. And yes, I used the base Gen2F in blender and "Use Vertex Group" was toggled off, as you can see in my previous screenshot. I repeated the whole workflow multiple times and the result was always the same.
This plugin supports converting curves into hairstyles, but it requires manually aligning vertices to the scalp—a tedious process when dealing with thousands of strands. Therefore, I will be adding an auto-alignment feature in the next update; please stay tuned.
Could you send me your Blender project file? It might be easier to troubleshoot the issue on my computer.
