Download/Install Instructions
Since this is a beta, you must check the "Beta Opt-In" box at bottom of updater. I plan to move this release out of beta in about 1 week. Note you must re-download the updater as mentioned in post earlier today in order to get this update or any others:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/current-updater-35007081
Release Notes:
Features:
Add-On Packages System – Builder allows creating content for others to use. Manager allows managing packages full of content from others in an easy-to-use way. This is the future of content delivery and consumption in VaM!
Improved file browsers, with new shortcuts system for easy access to add-on packages and other folders
Improved memory management. Added button to unload inactive clothing and hair items to free memory. Skins now auto-unload when switching (can be disable to keep existing behavior of keeping inactive skins in memory)
Improved character loading and preset loading. Much smoother transitions.
Auto genital texture creation improvements: manual hue & saturation adjustments. Auto-generation of specular, gloss, and normal textures. Generated textures can be saved out for further refinement.
ImagePanel* atoms – added ability to tile images and gifs
Content:
Sample add-on packages from community providers. Special thanks to DJ, Jackaroo, JayC_Re-animator, NoOC, NoStage3, Vince, and Xstatic for allowing us to include their content!
Two new female skins from Ren: Mia and Kayla
Two new male skins from Jackaroo: Lee and Julian
New “Male Custom” skin from Jackaroo with source textures included in Custom/Atom/Person/Textures folder
Two new additional female skins: Lilith (Female 16) and Lorraine (Female 17)
Two new additional male skins: Lee (Male 8) and Scott (Male 9)
Hundreds of new male morphs
Body tattoo options for Danika and Adrianna skins
Added ImagePanelTransparent and ImagePanelTransparentEmissive atoms
Added 130 new short breath and sigh sounds from PixieWillow: https://www.patreon.com/PixieWillow
Tweaks:
Added error reporting for bad texture paths on clothing and other atom materials
Clothing and Hair items now show creator name and version number (for packaged items)
Improved plugin error handling for easier debug
Image thumbnails now have white background to better show transparent images
ImagePanel* atoms now have Alpha Cutoff param for adjusting transparency cutoff value
Bug Fixes:
Person atom can now be properly moved while off without causing a giant glitch when turning back on
Fixed missing hair material control for Tyler
Fixed issue with plugin compile failing after loading a plugin with a lot of lines in it
Fixed issue with face and limbs custom normal textures not releasing memory when no longer used
Fixed issue where clicking directory buttons in browsers would cause load of additional copy of thumbnail images into cache
Fixed issue with moving around while textures loading. No longer snaps long distances or angles
Fixed issue with creator name user preference not properly setting UI element on startup
Fixed preset delete/rename
Fixed issue where VR keyboard would not go away