1.18.0.5 Released (no longer in beta) (Patreon)

This week we made and released several revisions on the 1.18.0.X Beta branch to fix bugs and make additional tweaks to give 1.18.0 more polish. Thanks to everyone who participated in the beta and gave valuable feedback! Today we finished up with 1.18.0.5 which is out now, and is now the default release for everyone. If you haven't moved to 1.18 yet, now is the time! Just run VaM_Updater.exe to get it. Please see this previous post for more information on that release: https://www.patreon.com/posts/1-18-0-beta-30121316

The additional release notes for changes since initial 1.18.0.2 release are here:

1.18.0.5

Features:

• Added new option to clothing items to allow selecting wrap to smoothed verts instead of raw verts. Gives better results for areas around soft-body physics. Gives worse results for some things like shoes.

Content:

• Added back Red Rabbit Dress

Tweaks:

• Added new check for custom clothing item unique ids. This was quietly causing issues before but is now reported to show what items conflict
• Added clear tags filter (X) button for clothing browser
• Added clear names filter (X) button for clothing browser
• Fix for some skins missing texture set and custom texture conflict resolution settings
• Other tags in clothing creator and clothing browser are now sorted
• Fixed problem as best possible with animating bone morphs (like Tongue Length) when interpolation was on that could cause really bad distortions and lag on joints (like jaw). In general animation of morphs with bone changes (the ones in red) should be avoided, but this makes it better.
• Changed clothing items that wrap to glute soft-body area to use new wrap-to-smoothed-verts option for better look and remedy some clipping issues

Bug Fixes:

• Fix for dynamic loaded object (skins, hair, clothing) presets not working if the dynamic object was already loaded.
• Fix for clothing items with same UID cause error on Person instantiation
• Fixed blank female eyelash texture 4
• Fixed Ren skins not working with genital texture creator
• Fixed issue with Only Favorites toggle in morph browser not working
• Fixed Librarian Glasses glass material to not cast shadows
• Fixed issue where load pose would mesh up custom loaded skin textures on some skins
• Fixed issue with Preset favorite dropdown going under custom item panel

1.18.0.4

Tweaks:

• Clothing: Custom clothing item thumbnails are now processed per page instead of all at once
• Clothing: Custom items now show current tags in on the Presets tab (next to button where you can open in Clothing Creator)
• Clothing: Custom save now remembers current tab on clothing UI if it was not a new item
• Clothing: Keep clothing quick tags side panel open when loading another item
• Clothing: Added back manual clothing refresh for those dropping in new folders
• Clothing: Custom Clothing item now has a thumbnail
• Clothing: Manual clothing refresh now takes into account items that were removed from disk
• Clothing: Added user-created custom tags to Other Tags
• Clothing: Spaces in tags and beginning/end or before/after comma for manual entry are now auto-trimmed
• Clothing: Added "Missing Tags Only" filter to the clothing selector to help find items that are not yet tagged
• Clothing: Now show thumbnails when browsing existing clothing items in the file browser
• Morphs: The Zero*, Set*, and Animatable* buttons are now command menu popups to help prevent accidental click
• Morphs: Added 2 new morph categories for the dropdown: BuiltIn and Animatable
• Morphs: Fixed morph name search to be case insensitive
• Presets: Preset files are now filtered on load to only restore the storables that preset is responsible for. Allows copying more general preset files to other more-specific preset types.
• Fixed popups to have back panel sized correctly
• Fill in of Female Custom diffuse and specular texture white bands with neutral colors to prevent seams when viewing at distance. Fixed both in game and on-disk copies
• Changed grab world to not prioritize select anymore - seems most don't like it
• Set texture path text boxes to best-fit to allow showing longer paths

Bug Fixes:

• Clothing: Fix for custom texture loading. Process custom clothing thumbnails in a different way to not block the main texture loading.
• Clothing: Fixed filter by author case sensitivity issue
• Morphs: Fix for morphs not properly resetting on skin connect causing collider issues (penis most obvious).
• Morphs: Fixed X button on search field for morphs
• Morphs: Fix for tab numbers over 99 not displaying correctly
• Morphs: Fix for tongue morph change causing jaw open issues.
• Presets: Pose preset load pauses simulation on physics meshes and does not resume (results in no collision)
• Presets: Fixed presets getting extra storables that did not match the type being stored (physical vs. appearance)
• Presets: Fix for morph preset file affecting hair and skin
• Presets: Fixed preset and preset fav conflicts on items that share a common directory (like AlphakiniPantySim and AlphakiniPanty)
• Fix for load of textures taking longer if UI is closed
• Arm all controlled nodes was only working for position link, and not rotation link
• Node comply JSON params were not correctly registered as physical params
• Fixed seam issues on Ren skins

1.18.0.3

Bug Fixes:

• Fix a couple of cases where plugins were broken due to removed public methods on various classes. Put those methods back so the plugins would work again.

More details on some items on Trello:

https://trello.com/b/LDlEpfvk/virt-a-mate-public-plans

Enjoy!

Meshed