It's 23:50 here locally...so technically its still July! As you probably saw, I just released the second LogicBricks StateMachine tutorial. That should get you covered on the advanced features of that plugin. I expect that I will need two similar tutorials for IdlePoser (Basics + Advanced) until I can really cover the details of how 2021-07-31 21:49:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the next LogicBricks StateMachine tutorial, this one covering the advanced settings. How to save the scene properly, switching states through trigger, syncing with animations, using cooldowns, disabling states and the multiple choice system. With a full 30 minutes it's by far the longest tutorial produced in this series so far.
LogicBricks: StateMachine - Advanced (30:13)
Finally finished the first of the StateMachine tutorials and it has been added to the LogicBricks tutorial playlist. It's introducing you to the very powerful and flexible LogicBricks StateMachine. Control and coordinate your scene through States. This covers only the bare basics of what is possible with this plugin, more will follow in later tutorials.
Figuring out how to explain what a StateMachine is was not easy. I was tinkering around the with t...
2021-07-18 16:29:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Your most essential MacGruber tools in a convenient single VAR package. Just a quick maintenance update for PowerHandles.
This month I was able to release 5 tutorials in total. Covering basics on the VaM triggers and two LogicBricks tutorials touching the bare basics. The two part tutorial on how to record video from VaM was kind of unplanned, I decided it was needed after having a long chat with Captain...
2021-06-27 12:34:27 +0000 UTC View Post
As already spoilered a few days ago, I have just added two new tutorials to my VaM Basics playlist on Youtube. The topic this time is how to capture smooth video from VaM and how to animate/move the camera.
VaM Basics: Video Capture - Part 1 (12:23)
Your most essential MacGruber tools in a convenient single VAR package. Just a quick maintenance update for SuperShot and SuperVideo. The last few days I was working on a tutorial for how to properly make video captures of VaM, but I noticed some issues with SuperVideo that are now fixed :)
As said in my Monthly Report, I started producing video tutorials. The first 3 cover a bit of LogicBricks as well as a more generic introduction to VaM's trigger system, which is kind of a requirement to understand LogicBricks.
As you know, I like to experiment. Since three patrons commented on the Monthly Report that these tutorials should NOT be EarlyAccess and nobody objecte...
2021-06-04 19:20:36 +0000 UTC View PostAnother busy month. As detailed in last months report, this month was mostly focused on LogicBricks, with one major and two minor releases as well as a fancy demo scene named CyberNight. Then there was of course the SpeechRecognition package with its own little demo, and last but not least two minor guides focused on using VaM efficiently.
The long-term plan I mentioned last time was to focus on tutorials. My plugins are no good to anyo...
2021-05-30 19:15:57 +0000 UTC View PostFor anyone interested, I just uploaded my profile setup for Acid Bubbles Keybindings plugin. This includes settings for IdlePoser. I think it will be helpful for creators who work mostly from Desktop mode. Obviously I use this in combination with my own PowerHand...
2021-05-24 16:19:56 +0000 UTC View PostJust a quick free guide how to use command line parameters when launching VaM to quickly switch resolution or window size. Maybe because you want to record video with a particular resolution or aspect ratio? How about making a side-by-side comparison video where you need to run VaM at weird 960x1080 resolution so you can combine two videos to 1920x1080?
Sounds useful?
Check here: 2021-05-24 11:52:06 +0000 UTC View Post
LogicBricks and CyberNight reached the end of their two week EarlyAccess and are now free! I used the chance for some maintenance.
A few weeks back I promised to look into speech recognition, as it would be an obvious good addition for LogicBricks. This can recognize simple keyword lists as well as more complex grammar using Windows 10 and Unity's speech recognition features. When starting with this project the assumption was I can wrap the simple looking API in a plugin and build a simple demo scene in just a few hours. However, making a reasonable plugin UI, implementi...
2021-05-16 09:37:04 +0000 UTC View PostJust a quick maintenance release.
LogicBricks is a collection of now 27 reusable logic plugins to quickly build simple logic without coding. These go from a simple Relay that just groups triggers via Counter and Blend to more complex bricks for RandomChoice and a very powerful StateMachine brick. There are three demo scenes with altogether 24 examples to spawn some ideas.
Additionally there is now a new mo...
2021-05-10 17:47:51 +0000 UTC View PostThis time of the month again, time for another monthly report!
The DoubleTrouble scene I had been working on continuously since December has now finally been released two weeks ago. This brought various improvements and fixes for LogicBricks and 2021-04-25 17:10:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi! I have just enabled tiers for my Patreon site. Note that there is absolutely no difference between the 3 tiers or between choosing a tier-less custom pledge.
My reasoning is that currently about 2/3 of my Patreons pledge 1€ or less. The assumption here is that this is not mainly a lack of perceived value of my content, but rather simply the fact that Patreon sets "1" of whatever your local currency as the default. Don't misunderstand me here, I'm absolutely ...
2021-04-19 19:08:18 +0000 UTC View Post
The power of random combinations...not knowing what will happen next. This is the main idea behind using multiple animation layers acting independently at random. If each layer has a number of variations, the number of possible combinations basically explode. Linear animation is what you see in most scenes these days, because it's easy to do. While looking nice when done properly, it is more like a video. It will be boring after playing the scene once or twice, because you know what ...
2021-04-11 12:55:28 +0000 UTC View Post
This update helps with making the Gaze plugin more compatible with AcidBubbles Glance plugin. I have also added a demo scene that shows how Glance and Gaze can be used together to make characters look around randomly. See video above. Obviously the goal here is to use this kind of plugin setup in my 2021-04-07 06:13:04 +0000 UTC View Post
IdlePoser is a state-based idle animation solution. States are essentially poses, but they can be anchored to body parts or even other characters. This makes it possible for different instances of IdlePoser to interact with each other, creating kind of procedural animation. Version 9 is a maintenance release with some tweaks and bug-fixes. It's directly released as free since it is needed by the demo scene shipped with the free 2021-04-07 06:11:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Monthly Report is a bit late this month as all available VaM time in the last few weeks went into finishing the DoubleTrouble scene.
Current plan is to spend a bit more time on polishing the scene as well as producing some video. I guess I need to explain better what this is actually is and why its not "just another scene". Might of course be because it was released late on a Monday, shortly before the end of the month and there is currently nice sunshine weather i...
2021-03-31 09:13:32 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a beta release of my DoubleTrouble scene, that means there are likely still various animation glitches waiting to be found. However, I wanted to release the current state already for my loyal Patreons who waited patiently this long....originally this was supposed to be release end of December, maybe January after all. Well, time estimates are hard when half the plugin tech has to be invented first.
The scene is intended as a maj...
2021-03-29 21:52:11 +0000 UTC View PostIdlePoser is a state-based idle animation solution. States are essentially poses, but they can be anchored to body parts or even other characters. This makes it possible for different instances of IdlePoser to interact with each other, creating kind of procedural animation. Version 8 adds support for AcidBubbles Keybindings plugin, an extremely useful Duplica...
2021-03-29 20:55:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Still working almost every day on my upcoming scene. Currently there are 5 main action poses: 3 different handjobs, fleshlight and riding crop. Each of those comes with lots of variations and seamless transitions between each other. Altogether I'm currently at 247 animations, many of which are parented/anchored to other animations/poses. There are 10 IdlePoser (5 per girl) and one central StateMachine coordinating it all, with help of various LogicBricks, of course.
Still lots of work t...
2021-03-24 21:11:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Connect is a plugin that allows you to control audio-driven E-Stim devices. The package also includes VirtualLock, a plugin for virtual self-bondage in VR. In combination that means, if you do not behave, your dominatrix will punish you...in real life!
More details how it works and what hardware is needed on the Hub post. Scene wo...
2021-03-01 20:40:50 +0000 UTC View Post
IdlePoser is a state-based idle animation solution. States are essentially poses, but they can be anchored to body parts or even other characters. This makes it possible for different instances of IdlePoser to interact with each other, creating kind of procedural animation. Version 7 brings new features for better control of transitions, as well as various tweaks and bug-fixes. These changes, together with the updates of my LogicBricks and Essentials plugins are what 2021-02-27 17:30:50 +0000 UTC View Post
LogicBricks is a collection of now 25 reusable logic plugins to quickly build simple logic without coding. These go from a simple Relay that just groups triggers via Counter and Blend to more complex bricks for RandomChoice and a very powerful StateMachine brick. There are now three demo scenes with altogether 23 examples to spawn some ideas.
Your most essential MacGruber tools in a convenient single VAR package. Version 8 adds a toggle to the ParentHoldLink plugin to change its behavior, making it possible for characters to pick up and put down objects, like in this video.
Another busy month! I'm still working on that scene! However, I think now finally have most of the tech needed for this project together. This required a long list of improvements for IdlePoser and LogicBricks as well as some tweaks to ParentHoldLink, which is part of Essentials. 2021-02-25 21:41:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Working on IdlePoser, figuring out how to better smooth the transition between states. Instead of the fixed Smoothstep curve I want to use quadratic ease in/out curves with a linear part in the middle. Parameters a and b are the ease in/out times in seconds, while d is the overall duration of the transition, al...
2021-02-02 19:11:46 +0000 UTC View Post