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[Eclipse9]

Hi, thanks for the great plugin, and sorry if it has been addressed before, but what about hair transparency? I have something planned involving "ghosts", and as it is now, they would all need to be bald

 

[HAL9001]

Hi, thanks for the great plugin, and sorry if it has been addressed before, but what about hair transparency? I have something planned involving "ghosts", and as it is now, they would all need to be bald

Totally different kettle of fish, and I don't think the hair shader has an alpha parameter. Have you thought about controlling hair width?

 

[cmramlow]

Hey @HAL9001!

If you're still around my ol' amigo, just now trying the option to create our own masks and in testing your default mask (or mine own) they seem to leave line gaps.

In this example I'm using the lower body group, per image

Initially I was using the NorthernShikima.SkinMircoDetail8 plugin with tessellation but as a test removed it and with or without tessellation, I still have gaps

Am I missing something or is there a way to use the masks with tessellation with no gaps at the top/bottom of the mask texture?

Thanks!

 

[Gabberjaw]

mfw I didn't update from 5 and was trying to drag and rapidly click the "OFF" for toenals and feet for like an hour

 

[Gabberjaw]

Hey @HAL9001!

If you're still around my ol' amigo, just now trying the option to create our own masks and in testing your default mask (or mine own) they seem to leave line gaps.View attachment 419230

In this example I'm using the lower body group, per imageView attachment 419229

Initially I was using the NorthernShikima.SkinMircoDetail8 plugin with tessellation but as a test removed it and with or without tessellation, I still have gaps
View attachment 419231

Am I missing something or is there a way to use the masks with tessellation with no gaps at the top/bottom of the mask texture?

Thanks!

Tessellation (automatic bodysmoother or HS subsurface scattering tessellation option) creates these when you have that bodypart alpha masked.
Alpha mask turns off those features on selected bodypart. Even if you remove the tessellation, it won't get instantly fixed, the body will look worse.

I just entirely skipped using bodysmoother where I use alphas. It's not just this plugin, its all alpha plugins.

If you look carefully your butt looks blocky as hell compared to other bodyparts so pretty sure its the same scenario on your end aswell as what I deducted.

 

[HAL9001]

Tessellation (automatic bodysmoother or HS subsurface scattering tessellation option) creates these when you have that bodypart alpha masked.
Alpha mask turns off those features on selected bodypart. Even if you remove the tessellation, it won't get instantly fixed, the body will look worse.

I just entirely skipped using bodysmoother where I use alphas. It's not just this plugin, its all alpha plugins.

If you look carefully your butt looks blocky as hell compared to other bodyparts so pretty sure its the same scenario on your end aswell as what I deducted.

Simple reason: VaM does not have an in-built shader that does tesselation AND Alpha, so it's either/or.

 

[Gabberjaw]

Simple reason: VaM does not have an in-built shader that does tesselation AND Alpha, so it's either/or.

Yea, figured it might be something like this, thanks for confirming!

 

[Gabberjaw]

Idk if it's me or others get this too... 95% of the time, the plugin doesn't load between sessions on the persons where I have it set.
Scene loads, settings are correct. Alphas are dead... any idea what's going on?

 

[HAL9001]

Scene loads, settings are correct. Alphas are dead... any idea what's going on

What do you mean with "Alphas are dead"?

 

[Gabberjaw]

What do you mean with "Alphas are dead"?

that every bodypart is visible even though in the plugin it says OFF.
I reload the plugin, I set the alphas, it works. I save, I close vam, I open vam again, and the bodyparts are visible again...

 

[HAL9001]

What other plugins are on the character? If there is one of them also messing with the shaders, maybe that one overrides GGG?

 

[Gabberjaw]

What other plugins are on the character? If there is one of them also messing with the shaders, maybe that one overrides GGG?

nothing like that, bodylanguage, easygaze, better bends, appearance loader

 

[HAL9001]

nothing like that, bodylanguage, easygaze, better bends, appearance loader

Hm, I tried those in the GGG demo scene, and none interfere.
Are you using the latest version of the plugin?
Can you try to reduce your scene step by step until there is literally only a character left and see if there is any plugin or scene element that might interfere with GGG?
And maybe attach the scene file here so I can have a look at it?