everlaster

Naturalis clothing covered soft physics WIP

Added 2023-07-05 15:50:37 +0000 UTC

The implementation of clothing covered soft physics adjustments is coming along. The effect shown in this demo doesn't yet smooth out for the soft joints near the edge, it's just the same increase in value for all of the detected joints. But even this rough version already looks pretty good, I'd say. Apologies for the video being a bit choppy, but it should give you the idea! Both glute softness and breast softness are 100 in the video.

How it'll work in practice:

1. Detect soft joints in a given radius. What this does is it refreshes the current locations of the clothing mesh's vertices and finds all soft joints that are within the given distance from any vertex.

2. Adjust the soft physics parameter values for the detected soft joints

3. Save the profile.

4. When the profile is loaded, it will apply the physics adjustments for the given joints without having to do the soft joint detection (step 1).

The % increase sliders adjust the value of each joint between the current value (calibrated value along the soft physics gradient + any manual offset) and the parameter's max value. This is to ensure the same profile works with any softness/size/manual offset etc. You can e.g. set an extremely high fat spring which will make the covered area very rigid. Since the uncovered skin is still governed by the normal soft physics values, it'll look like the fat is jiggling "under" the rigid clothing. This works for materials like leather or perhaps even metal, but if you make the item transparent it'll probably dispel that illusion.

I will generalize this implementation to work with any soft physics parameter apart from the fat back force ones.

Stay tuned!

-everlaster

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Resources used in the video:
- AnythingFashionVR.Skimpy_bikini_with_presets.1.var
- ddaamm.hair_short4.var
- Hunting-Succubus.Enhanced_Eyes.3.var