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    We have posted a new VaM2 dev log on Patreon, starting a monthly cadence of written progress updates between Beta releases. Highlights include the new Gizmos System, Selection Carousel, and Modes System with Context-Specific Editing. Beta1.2 is 15 of 21 items complete.

    Read the full post on Patreon, or follow progress on the public Trello roadmap.
Decal Maker

Plugins + Scripts Decal Maker

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This release allows near real time changes to textures.

Changed: Render system to allow much quicker changes.
Removed: "Apply" button.

Refactoring a lot of core code is still in progress. Things to be removed, Preview panel, cache, tempmanager systems.
Plugin takes longer to load and finish UI

Add: Preview panel. Toggelable panel that shows a live preview of what the layered output will look like.
Click Preview to change preview size.
LIMITS: Can only show aprox 9 textures depending on shader. Is not fully VR ready (Awkward placement).

Add: Specular and Gloss added to Bulk Bake system.

Fix: Clear texture was only 99% clear leading to slight tint issues at low alpha values.


Had time today to actually fix a few more bugs besides the necessary Hotfix so sorry for the close releases.

Fixes one eye VR issue with the Normal Map UI Slider (recompiled unity asset)
Fixes Normal Maps not saving slider value.
Changes load system to try and fix "Shader not found" < I hate this issue and hope it is really dead this time.
Changes Default texture reset system Faster but less robust.
This is just a fix to the DecalMaker Cache location no other changes are fixes implemented.
Beta 5: This release is testing some performance ideas and may be a little more unstable>

Changed: IMPORTANT: Updated the way Decal are blended to use pre-multiplied alpha. This will have some affects on looks but behaves better without the alpha rings the old method had.
Just provides a cleaner and more photoshop like layering.

Normal Maps are now using the same bulk bake and cache system as decals in Beta 4.

Added: Normal Maps slider now controls how Strong the Normal Map is. Range is -10 to 10
Default is 1 for "As is"
Negative values will "invert" the normal map which can provide interesting effects so left it as an option.

Fixed Is male Check added to decal panel genitals so the female cutouts will not applied to male genitals

Fixed: Aded action for Performload and made _savedData json public to allow external addons to load/save decals
Beta 4 released. This is version is to test the new bulk shader and cache systems.
Only the DECAL slot makes use of the new systems, if it shows no issues I will expand the same system to the other slots.

Adds: New Bulk Decal Shader. This shader layers 10 Decals plus the nipple/gen texture cutouts in one pass.

Adds: Baked texture cache system. Same basic system as VAM Texture cache. Located wherever VAM Cache folder is in a DecalMakerCache subfolder. This Cache will only store 80 entries and will auto delete the oldest cache file based on access time.

Fixed: Added proper flag to stop the decal maker shader asset from being saved in a scene.
Fixed: More fixes aimed at improving scene loading/UI setup

Known issues: If the VAM Skin Selectct window option to Unload unused on change is not checked then any changes Decal Maker has made will persist across scenes that use that skin even if decal maker is not present in the scene.
Fixes to better work with 1.20 VAM changes.
Reworked Addon and Save loading to try and fix incomplete UI issues.
Fix: The characters normal map was not being properly baked with Decal Makers normal maps.
Fix: Sync issue when changing characters. Decal Maker would still be applying textures to the previous figure not the current one.
Fix: Changed the way we reset textures to work with VAM's texture control. It is slower that applying directly but should be better at keeping Decal Maker and VAM Custom texture UI in sync.
Fix: Prefabs and presets can now work with VAR references.
Fix: Load Preset window should show relevant VAR preset shortcuts.
Fix: Texture Load window should show relevant VAR texture shortcuts.
Added: Normal Map Baking Completed.
Fix: Changing colors in the Color wheel should no longer reset Alpha to default.
Fix: PreFab UI properly clears prefabs and preview image when set to the Blank entry.

Since I feel the plugin is feature complete, moving status to Beta.

Example of 3 normal maps being Baked together.

Beta 1 NM.gif
Two UI additions:

Prefabs: Clicking on the preview image will make the currently selected prefab permanent. So a new prefab can be selected without replacing the first one
Alpha 9 prefab.jpg


Decal Panels: Now have UI buttons to close the current panel and open a new panel.
Alpha 9 decal panel.jpg
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