A quick progress update
Added 2024-06-18 09:18:47 +0000 UTCHi, just to notify everyone that the update I planned a week ago to be released within a week is slightly behind schedule. Probably a few more days before it's ready. Thanks for your patience!
I decided to introduce a simple spring-damper setup that can be applied to the g-force morphs per region or per morph. These enable a much better control over how the morphs jiggle, compared to the previous "smooth frames" setting which just averaged the acceleration value over the previous few physics updates.
The spring and damper calculations depend on the mass of the morph's anchor joint. The smooth frames setting is also still used in the background, and it is automatically calculated from the mass of the anchor joint. Smooth frames essentially add inertia to morph jiggle, causing the vibration/oscillation to be delayed by a few physics updates (and slightly dampened).
The mass of the anchor joint can be set with the BodyWeight plugin - so there will be synergy between that and Naturalis. E.g. increasing abdomen joints mass for a model that has more belly fat will automatically influence the way the abdomen morphs jiggle. However, probably some adjustments still need to be made to the springs and dampers on a per model basis.
As the spring-damper implementation and everything needed for that in the UI is now done, I can finally work on the morphs themselves. There will be a quality pass on the existing abdomen and glute g-force morphs, the addition of glute Z axis in (push) and out (pull) morphs, and g-force/jiggle morphs for the thighs.
-everlaster
