DocMe 🎈🎨

Content-Creator for VRChat/Unity
Discord: docme
I like math + code = shaders
Got my Bachelors in Comp-Sci and AI.

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@Hazelabuboobies it got age restricted? ...

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Skin Touch is out as a Poiyomi module, free on BOOTH.

Your homies' hands can now dent your soft skin and clothes in VRChat, fingers and all. 💯

https://t.co/ijcA4ecsya

Thanks @zanariyo for the testing.

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@Artbyo3 As long as you have fun, you should keep working on it!

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@Ren_Protogen @zanariyo both users have to be on open beta for now. Once vrchat released it, everybody can see it that shows ur avatar.

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@ShotgunEnvy @zanariyo Thank youu

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@ShotgunEnvy @zanariyo So people don't get distracted.

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@Ren_Protogen @zanariyo Are you on the open-beta release of VRChat?

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@FreyjaNSFWW @zanariyo You can find the button/path to the settings.json under the settings menu in both VCC and ALCOm.

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@FreyjaNSFWW @zanariyo It is a pre-release package. idk how to enable it via the UI, but go to settings.json in VCC/ALCOM and then replace:
"showPrereleasePackages": false,
with
"showPrereleasePackages": true,

with any editor of your choice and restart VCC/ALCOM

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That's a bit confusing, you are right.
The toggle is built at upload, and it only does something when a clothing material also has Skin Touch ticked which mesh counts as clothing is detected automatically). I will make it give an info when there's nothing to switch and lets you mark clothing in the material or component by yourself, then it won't be confusing anymore.

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@Ren_Protogen @zanariyo Of course!

I already had this in there in the first version. You could create a map for each body part. But after thinking about it wasn't that good of an idea...

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@LIIIWorks Amazing!

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The presets are just custom settings for the whole material. You are right the preset naming doesn't make sense like that.
If you got an idea for proper preset names that won't confuse people, am open for feedback! (Softskin, Roughskin, Leather?)

People would have to make masks for different areas of the skin.

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@Feeling_Cloodi @zanariyo Will do thenn, you even said plz

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@Feeling_Cloodi @zanariyo I uhm made it for hands... but maybe in the next update? :D

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@LittleDragox That’s for the 2nd version. Could do it with masks.

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@flexuhVR Yes it works with self collision, check out the settings on booth.

When its turned off it costs no performance. It comes with Modular avatar and its own installer for toggles.

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@GlitchTheFox Only the one being touched.

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The touchening is happening soon as poiyomi module.

Added a few settings, different modes (optimized & higher quality) and some QoL features.

Will test a bit more in-game with some friends and then it will be available for everyone (hopefully tomorrow 🙏).

#VRChat

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Mine is "simpler" on purpose. Material Contacts give the shader the 8 nearest hand sensors every frame. It rebuilds each hand from them (palm plus three-bone fingers, scaled to each player's measured hand) and computes the dent per vertex and pixel, with no state between frames.

- Clipping through clothes: mask it, or give the clothes the same effect and adjust the settings, with the body sinking slightly more. It can and honestly will clip a little on tight layers.

- Metric units: everything is in cm on the avatar's scale: dent depth, flesh thickness, softness, and the hand size measured from each player's sensors.

- Anatomy: per-material depth, flesh thickness, pile-up and folds, presets per body part, plus a mask for parts that should give more. Masks for every property could come later.

- Jiggle, recoil, impulse, prediction: these need memory between frames. That's possible with a CRT buffer holding the last frames, so it's planned for a later version, as an option because of the performance cost.

- Natural, non-snappy behaviour: touches blend smoothly into one dent, and when more hands come close than the 8 slots hold, the farthest fade out instead of popping.

- Several people at once: the player id in each contact keeps everyone's sensors apart, so a finger never attaches to someone else's palm and two hands stay two dents.

- Math: the squish is based on Hertz contact theory (how a round object presses into an elastic surface), adapted for flesh over bone and capped at the dent depth.

It's honestly a sophisticated process to make this look good, since the shader only gets each sensor's position and rotation, not its shape or size.

I'll write a lesson/article about it in the future. If you want to read about Material Contacts (there is also one for CRTs), but it sounds like you already know enough :D
https://t.co/ZT2XamTbGy

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People can touch my skin now using Material Contacts and an own poiyomi module am working on.

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Poiyomi Contact Receiver Tutorial and Demo.

I worked super hard on this one. I wanted it to be simple for people without removing power from power users. Don't forget to show me what you make with it!!!

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