Looks Xephne - Showcase

Xephne Showcase

Your neighborhood Alt-Elfette girl with a retro flair. She lives just down the hall, but you often see her leave for the night, frequently not returning until dawn.

Cozy by day, a Street Samurai filling contracts by night. Two vastly different worlds, a heartbreaker in both. It makes one wonder which one might be the cover for the other?



IMPORTANT: I build all my morphs for 2 Smoothing Passes!

• If you use more than 2 everything gets smoothed and rounded, and feature definition starts to disappear, especially in her face.
• If you use less than 2 her features will look exaggerated.

If you don't use 2 smoothing passes, then that will make Xephne sad.

You don't want to make Xephne sad, do you?



Settings and Performance

Please use 6 pixel lights. The scene will not look correct without this setting enabled.

If you are having any performance issues, the simplest fix is to lower your MSAA settings. In this scene, the biggest performance hit is comes from a combination of pixel lights, particle hair, and MSAA. These three things interact and stack in a way that can have an outsized impact on GPU performance.

I have included a Performance Toggle in the scene that should moderately improve performance when switched on.



Morphs

I have included an alternate body morph, which you can toggle on/off using the G2F Align toggle.

I have tested her morphs in numerous poses and scenes, but since Xephne is a custom morph and I can't test for every possibility, there may be some scenes and animations where her gens are not properly aligned for seamless interaction.

If alignment does become an issue, using this alternate body morph should resolve most issues.



Customization

A selection of poses and six total outfit configurations are included to explore Xephne across both sides of the Showcase.

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Related Resource​

If you're looking for the standalone character preset, see:

Xephne - Look



Special Thanks


I wanted to give special thanks to a few creators whose work inspired me creatively and/or was invaluable in actually constructing the scene.

@supperGR for his wonderful SnapSHOT! photo shoot scene. Their setups and rigs allowed me to see my work in a new light (pun intended). I borrowed and modified a couple of lighting rigs from this scene, and learned a lot about the use of bold backdrops, LUTs, and general composition from studying their work.

@RenVR for their amazing skins. I keep coming back for more. Much of Xephne's skin is adapted from @RenVR's work.

Special thanks also go to the following plugin makers, who not only allowed me to do things I wouldn't have been able to otherwise, but also worked with me directly, either fixing a blocking bug or even adding a feature simply to help me out.
@Nickon7777 for their update to HeelAdjust, @StudioMF for their ShadowCastDisabler plugin, and @Mxx for their work on the CUAShadowFixer plugin.

Thank you all, and thank you to all of the other creators on the Hub
Every one of you inspires me and contribute to making this community stronger, and VaM a constantly improving sandbox to make cool shit in.



MUSIC


“Gut Bucket Blues”
Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five

Recorded November 12, 1925, in Chicago
Columbia 36152
Matrix: Co 27488-3

Personnel:
Louis Armstrong — cornet
Kid Ory — trombone
Johnny Dodds — clarinet
Lil Armstrong — piano
Johnny St. Cyr — banjo

Flat transfer by Cliff Bolling of Cliff’s Vintage Music Shoppe, from a 1951 Columbia 78 reissue pressing of the original 1925 recording:

Cliff Bolling - cdbpdx.com

Light restoration and preparation for environmental playback by @Metix.

The underlying 1925 sound recording entered the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2026.

This recording is separately sourced public-domain material and is not included under the Creative Commons license applied to the other contents of this resource. No authorship or exclusive rights in the original recording are claimed.


Synthwave Loop
"Spicy Crunchy 80s Synth Loop 2 [150bpm] [D Sharp Minor]"

Composed and recorded by deadrobotmusic via Freesound.org
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)



Licensing Note

This scene is licensed CC BY-NC-SA due to the reuse, modification, and redistribution of several assets (lighting rigs, textures) that are also licensed under CC BY-NC-SA.

Attribution Note​

If you are a creator and see your work included here that is not attributed, improperly attributed, or used in a way that conflicts with its license, please feel free to contact me. I will gladly correct any oversight at the earliest opportunity.

VaM projects like this tend to evolve over time, and while I’ve done my best to track and credit everything properly, there is always a chance that the origin of a resource, or a modified resource, may have been lost along the way.

If something slipped through, my apologies, and thank you for your understanding.