Question A way to bind morph presets to specific clothing?

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I would like to have certain clothes be loaded with its related morphs automatically. Is there a way/plugin to do it?
I was even thinking to have a cloth load a morph preset via command triggers. But can you even do it?

 

[DJ]

With Vam 1.20 you couldn't but now, with 1.21 you can. Using the new "overlay presets" feature.

Normally, presets save every aspect of the model they're made for. And when you load them, the current features are replaced by those in the preset.

But with overlay presets, you now have the option just to save (and load) certain aspects of the model, and leave the rest unchanged. In this case, you want an appearance preset overlay that adds a couple of morphs and a clothing item.

To make your preset, select a model, go to "appearance presets" and press "load defaults. This loads the default base model. Remove all the clothing.

Now apply the clothing item your talking about and apply the morphs you want associated with it. No other morphs, clothing, hairstyles, textures, or anything.

Now go to "appearance presets", enter a name as usual, but instead of pressing "Create new preset", press "create new overlay preset". This saves the preset containing ONLY those items that are not part of the default model.

Your done. Whenever applied, that preset will add the clothing item and morphs on top of the existing model without changing anything else.

When saving an overlay preset, Vam lets you enter any name you like. But personally, I think it's very useful to be able to tell normal presets and overlay presets apart when I see them in my preset menu. So I'm using the convention of starting overlay preset names with "!". Like "!somePreset". This also has the advantage that if you sort presets alphabetically, it will list all the overlay presets first.

 

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With Vam 1.20 you couldn't but now, with 1.21 you can. Using the new "overlay presets" feature.

Normally, presets save every aspect of the model they're made for. And when you load them, the current features are replaced by those in the preset.

But with overlay presets, you now have the option just to save (and load) certain aspects of the model, and leave the rest unchanged. In this case, you want an appearance preset overlay that adds a couple of morphs and a clothing item.

To make your preset, select a model, go to "appearance presets" and press "load defaults. This loads the default base model. Remove all the clothing.

Now apply the clothing item your talking about and apply the morphs you want associated with it. No other morphs, clothing, hairstyles, textures, or anything.

Now go to "appearance presets", enter a name as usual, but instead of pressing "Create new preset", press "create new overlay preset". This saves the preset containing ONLY those items that are not part of the default model.

Your done. Whenever applied, that preset will add the clothing item and morphs on top of the existing model without changing anything else.

When saving an overlay preset, Vam lets you enter any name you like. But personally, I think it's very useful to be able to tell normal presets and overlay presets apart when I see them in my preset menu. So I'm using the convention of starting overlay preset names with "!". Like "!somePreset". This also has the advantage that if you sort presets alphabetically, it will list all the overlay presets first.

Thank you for your help! In addition, with your method, can I toggle the preset? ie. be able to undo the preset while leaving everything intact.

With clothing presets, I figured out a way to toggle them via command- receive atom=person, receiver= geometry, clothing preset.

 

[DJ]

You can toggle clothing presets? That's news to me. I have no idea if you could toggle overlay presets the same way. Give it a try!

 

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You can toggle clothing presets? That's news to me. I have no idea if you could toggle overlay presets the same way. Give it a try!

nwm, it was toggle clothing not preset. Actually I learned that from one of your older posts XD

 

[DJ]

I suppose you could make a second preset overlay that set the morphs from the first back to their default values. But that assumes they were set to default before you loaded the preset in the first place. There's no way to set them back to whatever value they had originally if they were in use when you used the first preset.