Naturalis v1.3 status - custom soft physics
Added 2024-01-18 18:46:05 +0000 UTCJust wanted to shed some light on what I'm currently working on.
I've made some progress on replacing the soft physics mesh with an entirely custom mesh. Building on top of the work done by Stopper on inner vagina soft physics, I can create and enable custom soft physics meshes for both breasts and glutes, and use them as drop-in replacements for the default ones in Naturalis. I can also use sphere colliders which is what the original meshes use - when creating a new mesh programmatically, VAM normally sets it up with capsule shaped colliders, but luckily, removing those and manually creating spheres works without breaking anything.
There's still issues to figure out before I can show it. I'm first trying to just copy all settings from the original meshes exactly so that the end result is fully identical, haven't quite figured all of that out yet. Once that's done, I will start adding new soft physics joints on the skin vertices that don't currently have any and figure out suitable configurations for those, and modify the other ones as needed. Once there's 100% coverage, I'll be able to show you a WIP!
-everlaster
Comments
The performance cost of soft physics scales with the number of simulated vertices. The original breast physics mesh simulates 111 vertices on each side. If all of the vertices within that enclosing area are selected, that's 243, and the number goes up even more if we want to expand the area. It might make sense to skip some of those 243 by default, e.g. to try to get it to around 200 or so - not sure. It'll also be necessary to be able to toggle between the old and new physics meshes, e.g. maybe you'll want the lower resolution for glutes and the higher resolution for breasts, and in another scene both at the lower resolution or something like that.
everlaster
2024-01-18 22:00:49 +0000 UTCinteresting. So what would this mean performance wise?
mutatta
2024-01-18 21:32:16 +0000 UTCYes, the potential for that was already proven by Stopper's implementation of inner vagina soft physics
everlaster
2024-01-18 19:40:19 +0000 UTCWhen you say new joints where they currently don't have any, does this mean there's the potential for soft physics in completely new zones, like stomachs and thighs for example?
Almighty Patty
2024-01-18 19:36:44 +0000 UTC
