Hi, yes, this is very possible, you can just select the persons (the side and angled version probably) and remove them yourself, and save the scene as a new scene, and keep using that as a companion save. Maybe I'll add another .var where this is already done to keep it simpler for users.
I'm unhappy to hear that. Can you maybe try running a cmd (windows-key, the press cmd and enter) and then go to the directory where the .exe is located and try to run it from there? Maybe it will show you some error message? Do you use windows 10?
Yeah, probably a false positive, (see above, my reply to another user).
The .exe file is in the zip file. You need to unzip it, and there you will find within the directory "VAM Evolutionary Character Creation v1.1.0" a file called: "VAM Evolutionary Character Creation.exe". That is the file you need to run.
I think you can set the scale by using a template file with a certain scale. But if you mean, that you use different parents with different scales, that won't make a difference. But you can make sure, that all the generate children by the program, are all dwarfs for instances, by using a template file of a dwarf.
yes mate ,win 7 pro 64bit, thanks for the reply.
Can you give the update a try? I hope that fixes your problem with the missing dll!
Hi mate , thanks for this . it works Great and no moaning from Avira .
Yeah, I considered your use case, which is very interesting. Actually there was a police suspect profiling software solution I saw online somewhere (but I can't find it anymore, unfortunately) where they used a similar method. This was a digital alternative to the pencil drawing of a suspect. You would have 20 faces and then the question would be: pick the face which looks closest to the suspect you saw. And then based on that, another 20 faces. Etc. After about 10 of these runs, you would get pretty close results to the actual suspect. To prove this case, they did this for moviestars. And it was possible to get a reasonably similar picture as a moviestar using this method. Again: I can't find this link anymore (I have been looking for it) so I have no more details. Maybe your google-fu is stronger than mine...Okay, hear me out on this one, cause I dunno if I just randomly lucked out on this, or if this is something you can make more streamlined or tweaked to achieve results. But would using this evolutionary rating system allow you to (eventually) achieve a DESTINATION look, rather than a "hot or not" type of rating like intended?
Basically for those that, saaay, want to morph an existing characters look into that of one we already know (basically brute-force look-a-like creation). I know it'd pretty much be us eyeballing the resulting children produced and going "Yeah, that KINDA looks closer" and then rating them out of 5.
I tried going through 50 generations just to see what would happen if I tried to morph an existing character with a general body type of the person I was trying to end up at. After about 20 or so, the children all kinda level out to a single look and won't skew all that much to make any more solid decisions. Re-running the tool resets the morph variation again, but obviously all the previous rating data is lost and it's just morphing again from the close-ish model.
End result looks pretty good, I'd say I achieved about an 8/10 closeness, but trying ANOTHER model is proving difficult. Adding a TON of other looks to my Appearance folder help with the variation, but again, you're basically stuck with approving child models that may only share ONE feature you like (whether it be body, head shape, or just the way their eyes look. As of right now we can only add the WHOLE model morph to the gene pool, and the results of the morphs we DON'T want might skew our favouritism for future generations.
Dunno HOW you would go about streamlining that process. Unless you add separate ratings for different child aspects like SPECIFICALLY rating head, torso, legs, height, etc. THAT is something I would GLADLY spend the time rating and refining to get the look I'd want, hell I'd even go as far as even just PURELY a head generator with specifics for eyes, mouth, jawline, etc. and just "transplant" morph that head morph onto a body of my choice!
Clearly I've been doing a lot of thinking on this one, as I'm sure you have while making this system.
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Intrigued to see what ya cook up for the update!
Just for clarity, maybe you already gathered as much, but the app (if you use Gaussian Sampling, which I recommend if you have 20+ appearances) creates this blueprint based on ALL appearances, and then, samples from that blueprint. That is only for the first generation. After that, using crossover, (basically flipping a coin for each morph in both parents and deciding which to use for the child) the childs are generated. So at some point, at generation 10+ or something, the highest rated childs will have overlapping morphs, since the childs you like will probably have some of those morphs in them. So if you rate fairly, at some point your favorite morph settings will "converge" so to speak. (That is the beauty of the process).
I have a 3840x2160 monitor with 200% scaling in the Windows display settings. So it should be the same size like on a 1920x1080 monitor. Pretty sure it was the window with the 'Generate Next Population'-button at the bottom.
Yeah, so I have been going back and forth on that. My first version of the app actually had this, since I totally agree with you, that easier is better. But then I am restricting other users who might want to organize their appearances in different folders. Someone might have custom/person/appearances/girls and /custom/person/appearances/males and /custom/person/appearances/futas as directories, or whatever structure, and that would all be unusuable with the app. So I decided to go with this version where you can choose this. It's a bit more work, but allows for much more flexibility.
This happens. Just a quick check: did you set min morph treshold to 150? Because if you did not, you could end up with custom morphs and they can really mess things up. Better to set the min morph treshold to 150 and only use the appearances with morph counts higher than that. Keeping the head / body separated is a much requested feature, and a feature I'd love to have myself, but at this point it's quite a challenge for me to know which morph influences what part of the character. The Carmen morph for instance, modifies the whole model from top to toe. So it's not an easy task to decide which morph should be seen as a "head" morph or a "body" morph. Unless you have a suggestion how to approach this?
I added a "use small rating" button on the options window, to fix that problem. There is a big update coming up though, which hopefully fixes all of this3. Like @kjm00 I can confirm that I once had a window that was to tall to fit my screen. For some reason now I'm unable to reproduce it for a screenshot. Weird!
. With this big update, all the rating can be done within VAM.This should also be fixed by the new update, where everything can be done in VAM!
That's on purpose. Did you connect the app? There is a tutorial video coming up, but it's rendering.
it doesn't say so, but it is working. as you can see it's accepting the ratings (after i remove the UI blocker)
