Plugins E-Motion 4.0

Hello Everyone!

I just wanted to update all the E-Motion users to let you know there is a new version now available to my Patreon supporters, you can find it here :

Paid Plugins - E-Motion Final

The main purpose of E-Motion is to take care of all idle actions that you might want your character to do, without interfering with the characters pose or animation. This allows you to use E-Motion to bring a static pose to life, or to add...

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This is the final release of E-Motion before I begin work on its successor. You will find E-Motion Final is vastly improved over this version, its easier to use, more responsive and far more interactive!

E-Motion Final has the following updates and changes not available in E-Motion 4.0 free

• Vastly improved Gaze control system
  The system that controls where the head is looking and which target to look at has been reworked to more naturally switch targets and to better handle harsh angles
• Fuzzy Gaze Variation system
  E-Motion can track a target with the head, the eyes or both. The fuzzy locking system determines the angle limits for eye tracking and gaze variation offsets the desired gaze direction so that the character does not always look directly at the target
• Self Interaction
  E-Motion Final can arouse itself through self interaction. If the character touches their own chest or groin/butt with their hands, this will generate arousal and happiness, moreso if the hands are moving while touching themselves
• Interest Target Switching
  E-Motion Final has a new background system in place that monitors what your hands and their own hands are doing and modifies the current target interest level as well as that of the hand in question to boost the hands interest level during specific moments. This promotes E-Motion to switch target for a short time to the hand
• Expression System
  E-Motion Final has had a serious reworking of the brow, eye and mouth expressions and how they are selected and applied to the face. The result is far more natural looking expressions and better reactive based expression changes
• Smile Suppression system
  E-Motion Final has a configurable smile suppressor that can be used to temporarily prevent the character from smiling, if they have already been smiling for a decent amount of time. This allows the model to smile alot when happy without going overboard and looking weird
• Personal Space rework
  Personal Space in E-Motion controls how close the target must be before they become interesting. Previously if you were outside of this range, E-Motion would ignore the target. Now while the target is still uninteresting greater than this distance, it can and will be used as a target to look at regardless if the system wants to
• Voice timing and selection
  The system that selects voice lines to play depending on what is going on has been reworked to repeat less, and also has a new slider to set how likely the character will make moaning sounds when aroused and interacted with
• UI Update
  E-Motion Final had an update to the UI to group sliders together more logically and to make Personality tweaking easier
• Sex System update
  E-Motion Final had my inferior bulge morph system removed as there are far better plugins to do this that work properly (unlike my version!). The Sex option now also enables and disables the nipple arousal morphing
• Tweaks and the rest
  With all of the above changed, basically every other area of E-Motion had to be tweaked and updated so it all works together seamlessly. Nothing major here individually but all together the result is a much smoother and more natural system!

I will eventually move E-Motion Final to a free release once the new plugin has a test version

Hello everyone! Its been a long time but an update to E-Motion is finally here!

This update brings so many changes and adjustments I wont be able to cover everything here, so instead I will highlight the major differences and fixes as best as I can!

There are some major changes in the system and your older presets might need a little manual updating for them to work as they did before. The major changes come in the Eye Control section, Personality (mainly the addition of movement effecting mood) and the Distances and Angles tabs. Check these for new sliders and update them before resaving your preset.
Alternatively I have included several presets inside the VAR file to get you quickly started from scratch. I highly recommend you try these out anyway, as they are fantastic presets

I have updated the presets zip file on the release page. This includes the latest version of the external defaults file. If you are updating from an older version of E-Motion you don't need this file, but I still recommend you get it to ensure your defaults are what I intended them to be for all the new sliders


Major Updates

Total Expression rework - The Expression system has had a huge overhaul to how it determines which expressions to mix together at any given moment. Before it was a purely random selection from a limited number of choices depending on the current state or mood. The system still uses randomisation but now the randomisation is heavily weighted according the arousal and happiness. This not only greatly improves the number of options each state can select from, but selections are alot more appropriate to the current state or mood. The end result is much more appropriate expressions depending on whats happening, as well as much better looking expressions overall!

GLANCE SUPPORT! - E-Motion now works properly with the most amazing eye-control plugin out there. Glance. Turn off Eye Target Control in E-Motion and then turn on 'Use EyeTargetControl' at the bottom of Glance to have them both work well together. E-Motion controls the head and expressions while Glance takes care of the eyes. They work amazingly well together!

Control Head options - You can now control the amount of rotation hold and dampening applied to the head and neck by the 'auto configure' system to tweak to your liking

Body Motion Features - New option under Features to enable the body motion functionality. This is set to false by default and ensures that when you load the plugin fresh onto a character, the body will not be adjusted in any way until you tick this box

Minimum Interest - added to personality settings to allow you to set the minimum level of interest in a body part for the character to potentially focus on them

Movement Interest Rate - Body motion and movement now create both arousal and interest. this slider allows you to control how much

Dynamically Calculate Direct Angle - Under Distances and Settings you can now set the 'Direct looking angle' to be calculated automatically. This adjusts the angle according to how far your face is away from the character. Helps alot when the scene has drastic changes in distances between you and the character (like a catwalk for example)

Hand Self Interest - New sliders under Target controls that allows you to control how interested she can be in her own hands (and therefore how likely she will choose her own hands to look at)

New Smile Damper slider under Looks - This slider pulls the corners of the mouth down as a smile increases to lessen the facial change. really helps to make smiles look just right and prevent joker smiles!

Max Eye Open under Looks - allows you to adjust the open eyelid position to dial in the eyes to your look

Huge Overhaul of Body Motion - Angle calculations and movement have been tweaked and improved to be a bit more natural looking. Leg sliders have been added to allow separate configuration of the legs from the rest of the body

Arm Rotation Offset slider under Body Motion - Allows you to rotate the base angle of the arms in towards the body or away. works in conjunction with the position slider that moves the arms back or forward to give much more control over how the arms position themselves


Minor Updates

There is now an option under 'features' to enable and disable the help text

Head tracking will pause if your face gets really close to the character. stops the character from trying to look you in the face when you have your head on their shoulder or just below their chin for example

Blinking system will properly cause a blink if the eye target moves alot in a single frame, depending on how recently the character has blinked. There is a new minimum distance slider under Eye Controls to set how far the eye target must move.


Fixes

Direct Gaze from the character once again correctly follows with just the eyes until the angle becomes too great (for certain look states such as casual). not sure how this broke!

Fixed several issues with how the random points are generated so that they are easier to setup. Values are now direct VAM distances

Fixed several morph combinations for various looks to improve the over-all quality of the expressions and reduce how often a weird look will pop up

Fixed issues with head tracking at extreme angles. Now correctly disengages and goes to look at a random point instead

Fixed an issue that caused character to close their eyes for a very long time for no apparent reason

Several tweaks to how breathing morphs are mixed together to give the range on the sliders a bit more variety

Fixed issues where some sliders/options were not saving into presets (hopefully I got them all this time lol)

Lots of other small fixes to bugs/typos and logic errors. Everything is really starting to work properly without any oddities now!



Using E-Motion and Glance together

E-Motion now supports the glance plugin and they were made for each other. Glance is far more advanced thanE-Motions built in eye target system and really helps bring your characters to life, now you can use these two plugins together for an amazing experience. Using them together is very easy, with just a few steps required to configure both :

1) In E-Motion, under the Features tab, disable Eye Target Control
2) in Glance, at the bottom enable 'Use EyeTargetControl'
3) Configure Glance to your preferences. Keep in mind that where the character is looking (and what at) will effect their mood, so ensure you have set the appropriate values to get the character looking at what you want

I will update the video in the release page once Ive finished it and got it uploaded

When I first moved E-Motion to a VAR I didnt really know what I was doing, and as a result I included a seperate file for download that included the presets. This was not required and the presets could have been included inside the VAR itself. I have fixed this with this update, and now the presets are included so all you need is just the VAR to get started!

I have also been working on both the gaze system and the idle motion system to improve both of them and make them behave better.
Gazing is now much better at selecting an appropriate target and will disengage more reliably when the target is no longer easy to look at.
The random point generation system has had a huge overhaul and is now much easier to control via the sliders, with the randomness removed to make setting them much easier (considering you can't see them!) These points can also be overridden with actual objects in the scene so that your character will look at or glance at things in the room when they are in view, better grounding them into your scene.
The Idle motion system has had a bit of an overhaul in the arm area to make the positions the arms take a bit more natural looking, and so that they are more likely to interact with her breasts or abs which can be quite hot!

Finally a huge addition to E-Motion is built-in help. When E-Motion opens you will now be greeted with an overview help section, and opening any tab on its own will fill the opposite side with detailed help on what all the options are for! Hopefully this will help people to learn how to customize emotion and get the most out of it!