Wasn't thinking that at all.

I have been thinking about how this should work for months. You guys have only seen it for a few days. I'm purposely not telling you all about how it works, so I can see how you think it should work.

One thing you all should think about is that VSS is NOT about figures and skin.

Really think about that for a second. What is VSS?

It is a way to apply materials to hundreds of actors (props, body parts, whatever) ALL FROM ONE PLACE.

That's what it REALLY is.

Imagine you're using one of those sci-fi construction sets. You have 200 different wall pieces loaded, spanning 10 or 12 different types.

Now you decide you want to change the color of the wall structures.

Boom - you need VSS.

Imagine you're making a garden with dozens of tree props. You decide to change the bark or leaf shader on all of them.

You need VSS.

There are lots of other scenarios where you have lots of material zones that you want to tie together and you don't want to spell it out, one by one, piece by piece. You want it to be automatic. If you add more, they should be shaded automatically. There should be a way for the tool to know the rules about things. That's what all the rule zones are for. I haven't told you about the rules very much at all. There are some incredibly complicated scenarios that it can accomodate.

And - there is the one-click any figure. Which is all I've let you play with at the moment. Because you'd need serious documentation to safely work with a shader that automatically applies itself to only all, some, or none of your scene content.

Can you imagine what I'd be dealing with?

Tester: "I clicked Synchronize - nothing happens."

Me: Now I will ask you 100 things about rules that could have prevented it from doing anything.

Right now we've got people for whom this works badly or does not work (buttons don't work, displacement applied incorrectly) etc. I'm going to get everybody working correctly in the simplest possible scenario (one-click) before we get into all the ways to configure the system.

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