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1.18 Progress Update
🕑 Added 2019-08-31 20:21:04 +0000 UTCHi All!
1.18 is progressing nicely. These last few weeks have been very productive for our team. I realize it is taking a long time to get this release done compared to other major releases. There are multiple factors there:
- I took a well-needed vacation and summer is my least productive time of year due to family obligations. I've been back in full productive mode for several weeks now.
- There was a pretty large backlog of getting the other team member's contributions incorporated into VaM. This work is now complete, which means 1.18 is going to have a lot of new content
- As I was incorporating other member's work, I took the time to improve several features related to this content. Some details below.
- There has been a lot of community feedback about usability issues, so I took the last couple of weeks to make a vast number of improvements. Some details below (more on Trello). I plan to keep on doing this for each 1.X release to give it higher usability and more polish to keep 1.X living a healthy lifetime as 2.X work ramps up.
Listed below is everything that is already completed for 1.18
New Content
- Several new skins licensed from a very popular community contributor (stay tuned for details)!
- 200+ new morphs
- New atoms
- New clothing items
- Improved materials for a lot of atoms and clothing items including more texture sets
Morphs
- Improved categories and morph cleanup to bucket in proper category
- Advanced filtering (interface shown in the screenshot here) for quickly finding morphs you care about
- Quick set buttons: Zero, Default, Set/Clear Animatable
- Added favorites system
- Morph presets - can now choose to save/load appearance, pose, or both
- Added ability to use other gender's morphs for more variety
- Text now auto-sizes to accommodate long morph names
File Browser
- Path remember now works using groups of params that are in same category. Example: Makes selecting Person textures a lot easier since you will only have to find the directory once for all the params.
- File browsers now remember scroll position per directory
- Added sort options (A-Z, Z-A, NewToOld, OldToNew)
- Added directory display and order options (Show First, Show Last, Intermix, Hide)
- File browsers now have a keep-open option. Great for trying out different presets quickly!
- Search (text entry) field now active on all browsers
General Usability:
- Back button added to clothing and hair UI
- Added new toolbar tool/icon for cycle selecting between Person atoms for a much faster method to get to the main object of desire
- Atom UI now has oversized background to help aid with clicking just outside a button and have atom deselect
- Added button to arm all controlled controllers for record.
See Trello Board for more info.
Next week will bring my focus back on custom hair to wrap that up. I don't yet have an ETA on 1.18 yet due to the complexity of this hair work, and there is still a pretty long list of planned 1.18 items shown on the Trello board. It looks like 1.18 will probably be one of the biggest releases to date. Thank you for your patience!
Meshed and team
Comments
fubarLife123
How was the look of the model above achieved? Is there a Look/ Appearance Preset file for her?
Patrice Desy
Can you give me a precise tutorial on how to display hands for controlers ? I run the latest version and it doesn't work.
Ricky
I'm champing at the bit, for this update! Not to pressure the Devs and please take all the time you need, but I am holding off on some model and scene work to wait for this. The implications of the QoL improvements to my workflow are pretty huge. Please do a beta soon, if you think that makes sense. Thank you for taking all this stuff on!
Izyman69
yeah, not great. I remaped mine, and much better now. I did away with the grip button totally, use the thumb stick for menu scrolling, and the touch pad as a button to grab the world and move around. works pretty well. you can also adjust the angle of the laser incase you missed that update.
Spreadit
Is it just me or is the navigation and controls in general on the index completely fucked? Is it not fully supported as of yet?
Patron
Will 1.18 be another beta? The last non-beta is from June at this point.
AWWalker
IIIO.oIII
fubarLife123
The girl in the promo pic above sure is pretty!
Clayfacer
Which month?
If you take a look at the trello, it shows what they plan to finish for 1.18. I imagine they'll complete the last few things by the end of the month, or early into next month.
Clayfacer
Can we get an ETA
Funkie - Adult Games Dev.
Amazing work, keep up.
Looks great! ❤️
Ricky
Reading the list of planned features and looking at that picture of the UI, now I'm really excited for this update! Please take your time but I'm super eager to have it :)
No Thanks
The "only active" morphs is going to be so damn convenient - really looking forward to this.
Clayfacer
When can we 18 beta? With just morph changes
Newmark 42
I'm really pleased with the updates and roadmap for VAM... it's awesome to be a supporter and user of such a great project. THanks for all your efforts!
Ricky
Great news! Please take as much time as you need and keep doing the amazing work you're doing
Weest
So interesting to watch this get developed. I can't seem to figure it out but I hope to see it become laman-friendly some day :)
Clayfacer
Perfect much needed fixes
Sweet as a nut
DonovonPhoenix
Okay so really interested in this game? builder? designer? Is there a tutorial on how to install it and play? Nevermind I figured it out. Someday
AK420
Thank you so much for listening so well. I'm especially happy about the new buttons for zero/default. Can't wait for this release.
fredricred
Thank you for this awesome update. Many this updates are such a needed quality of life improvements that are much needed!
flclempire
awesome!
