Forum: Virtual World Dynamics


Subject: Restarting the development of VWD

VirtualWorldDynamics opened this issue on Jan 24, 2018 · 306 posts


tomyee posted Thu, 25 January 2018 at 1:35 AM

Gérald, will there still be a 32-bit version in the future? I ask only because I am still on 32-bit Windows XP, am hoping that I can continue to use VWD (there are already many programs I use that are now Win7 only, and already that feels like I am old and ancient lol, I cannot use any newer versions now...)

I also got a chance to use VWD again last night (haven't had much time for Poser the last few months sadly) and I was thinking that there are 2 features that would be nice to have:

  1. snapshot feature: sometimes I am watching a simulation, and I stop it, maybe change a few settings, then continue the sim only to discover that my changes made things worse, not better... It'd be nice if when a sim is momentarily stopped, I could tell VWD to take a snapshot of the state of the simulation. If I restart and things go bad, I can revert back to where I took the snapshot and try different settings to see if they give a better result.
  2. ability to paint an area of the cloth to be stiffer or softer/silkier: since there is no presets for different materials like cotton, wool, etc. I am forced to always test out settings over and over again until I can get something that looks good. Sometimes I see the sim results are close to what I want but one or two areas of the cloth are too stiff or too soft, whatever. It'd be nice to have a paintbrush where I can paint over some vertices on the cloth with new spring settings, then continue the simulation and hopefully those areas will soften up or stiffen up more based on how heavy I painted that area (similar to a weightmap brush)