VaM 1.x What is the best way to do staged undressing?

[PMan52]

So not SIM enabled, more to do with clothes that have undress stages. I have added them all to my character and used alpha settings to hide unused ones then added buttons to switch between. This works well but is intensive and unless I create triggers for SIM enabled etc. too it can tank my VR FPS.

I looked at Preset/Appearance Loader and Quick Dress but this still triggers loads which I'm trying to avoid to make it seamless.

If anyone has any recommendations or other methods I'd really appreciate it.

Bonus question on this: is there a way to make a slider that runs from fully clothed to undressed in stages instead of smooth alpha transitions?

E.g. Left Side - Full Clothed, Middle - Clothes Open Right Side - Nude

 

[atani]

A slider is not a great option as it deals with floats/values and you want discrete options for the clothing states. Possible, but much more complicated to set up and not a good experience.
A button is much more fitting to the task; when paired with a logicbrick sequence choice with the button triggering tha, you can set any number of choices and change them in sequence with that single button. Each choice can also change the button text to clarify what result is the next in sequence.

Unless you start with all the clothes in the person, the only way to add new clothes during the scene invovles loading a preset. They're either there from the start or they're not, and if they're not they need to be loaded first.

 

[PMan52]

A slider is not a great option as it deals with floats/values and you want discrete options for the clothing states. Possible, but much more complicated to set up and not a good experience.
A button is much more fitting to the task; when paired with a logicbrick sequence choice with the button triggering tha, you can set any number of choices and change them in sequence with that single button. Each choice can also change the button text to clarify what result is the next in sequence.

Unless you start with all the clothes in the person, the only way to add new clothes during the scene invovles loading a preset. They're either there from the start or they're not, and if they're not they need to be loaded first.

Ok thanks for clarifying! It's a bit cumbersome but I guess I can turn off SIM etc. to save on FPS.