Naturalis v1.1-alpha6 release

I took a few days off from VAM and development, and I'm still kind of ramping up the production line. Even a small relatively short break can stop the flow, so to speak, but it was much needed. I didn't want to keep you waiting though, since there's already some improvements in this smaller release! :)

New forward droop breast shape

The new shape makes use of the Large Breast Hang morph from Tenstrip.Morphs.1.var to improve the forward droop shape (the Tenstrip package is not required). When leaning forward, breasts are less conical/pointy, expend more at the center of mass and shrink at the base.

This shape is only applied when leaning forward - in other poses, the old forward morph shape is applied. (In a 45 degree lean-forward angle it'll be halfway between the old and new shapes).

Due to the way the new morph shrinks at the base, it's recommended not to use the Breasts Size morph at values higher than 1.000. Too high Breasts Size values can cause vertices at the base to overlap and produce a seam that becomes very visible in certain lighting angles. In the below video you can see how limiting the Breasts Size to 1.000 and using some other morph like Breast Large to increase size further fixes the issue.

Video: v1.1-alpha6: Forward hang and Breasts Size morph

The overall amount of forward morphing is now the same with soft physics on/off. However the individual forward morph values a bit different. The result is overall a more consistent shape with soft physics on vs off, however with soft physics off, large breasts are pulled apart more to prevent clipping due to lack of soft physics self-collision. With soft physics enabled, the breasts droop closer together compared to before.

Clothed breast size reduction morph

TittyMagic clothing profiles now have a Reduce Size slider which can be used to better match the clothed breast size to the naked breast size. It's intended to be used with clothing that fully covers the breasts.

A common issue with clothing is that there's a significant gap between the item and the skin. The gap is needed to prevent clipping, but causes the breasts to look larger when the clothing is supposed to be just a thin skintight fabric. The gap can be caused by any combination of Surface Offset, Thickness and sim cloth properties (mainly collider radius and power).

Toggle the item on and off to easily check if the breast size looks the same clothed and uncovered.

Currently the morph transitions instantly between the given value and 0. Transitioning its value over time looked weird. But it might be useful to have a separately configurable timer for it in cases where you trigger the profile inactive during a sim undressing animation. I'll do some testing with regard to that.

Since the morph changes breast shape without a calibration, it will automatically apply some Depth In morphing. If needed you can compensate for that with a negative value on the Z Morphs Offset slider.

You can also use it to shrink breasts as if compressing them with very tight clothing. However in the future, the plan is to make this simple solution mostly obsolete with a runtime-generated compression morph that's specific to the clothing item - this would be part of a separate skindentation system (see the previous WIP post).

Fixes

• Fixed upward morphing shape caused by the previous alpha's change in how breast depth is calculated: upward morphing no longer applies any Breast Zero and Breast Flatten morphs, and the overall amount of upward morphing is reduced by about 15%
• Prevent clothing physics and morph adjustments from impacting the calibration result.
• Asymmetric clothing: Z Dampening is also copied to the right profile when Is Symmetric is toggled off for the profile for the first time
• Asymmetric clothing: Morphs angle offsets are synced when toggling Is Symmetric on/off.
• Fixed issue where BootyMagic used the old alpha4 calibration data if a scene which was saved with alpha4 was loaded with alpha5. It will now calibrate on scene load. (Future alphas and the eventual v1.1 early access load the current calibration data on scene load.)
• Fixed clothing item label not being shortened if UI not open when clothing item enabled for the first time

-everlaster