Part 2

@arise77
OT

I used to work in customer service so I know exactly waht you mean. I know it's hard to be shouted at even threatened for other people's mistakes.
I'm sorry to hear about what you experienced, but as you said, we also learn a lot from these situations.
Talking about customer service, I think @Manue is doing a great job, and she's probably on her own most of the time.
Everytime I contacted her, she has helped me out and I'm very ...

From my own Expierience for that almost 7 Years in these Company, i'm drawing my Hat in front of @Manue or
in Front of everybody else from the Customer Care.
Because it can be a crappy Job when you have Yelling and Crying Customers.

@ComteDracula be sure i know that you are not Yelling and Crying, just to make sure 😉

And also the following Fact, after some Conversations with my Doc.
This Time/Expierience in this Company, definitely broke something in me, that is for sure.

And my Hope is being so personal, that someone is reading this here to getting aware of the Fact,
that the Human Soul is more breakable as you could Imagine.
Then on the other End is sitting a Human out of Flesh and *****, and believe it or not with a breakable Soul.

And last but not least, we all know that there are people out there which are be able,
to Break the Mind from someone else. These Individuals are known as:

Soziopaths https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soziopathie (unfortunately not available in English)
Narcissists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism
Psychopaths https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy

It is unfortunately an overall Problem with our Humanity, the only thing we can do is take care about ourself,
to not get influenced from those People.
OT/

End of Part 2

Just in case :) Part 1 (it will be three in Total)

@arise77

I think it was kind of a letdown for long time members, because we were used to a way of getting cards for a certain price,
but with the introduction of cards only obtainable through gambling, it kind of felt like Totem was tricking us suddenly.
So yes, after some time, you take things for granted and you don't expect this from a company you're used to.

Trust me or not :) i know exactly about Disappointment and how hard it can hit the one or the other,
or even for both ourself. And when i'm coming back to these Customers which i mentioned before,
they were not aware of that the Fact, that they lost Money through the Backdoor.
And yes that is Fraud, no Question about that.

And here on iStripper we have the Fact, that every Customer can see that he needs to Gamble to obtain these
SEC Card's, at least at the Moment you have to play a Gambling Game.
So we are talking definitely about Gambling Games.
Regardless what's happening in the past, at east for myself.
Sure, without a speaking about the Odd's but for sure speaking about the Rules for these Games.
And the Rules are always mentioned in the specific Topics, for those kind of TGIF-Events.
But this would be another Topic, and i will not go deeper into that.

And yes it is not the exact same Situation, i'm aware of that, but in my Opinion here is no Fraud.
Everyone can see those specific Topics, they are Public and everyone can say YES or NO to those Games.
And also everyone of us can see, how much Money you have to pay for an specific Amount of the virtual Credits.

Also maybe, what is helping myself in different Situations:

Don't expect anything from anybody, Except from yourself. And you will not get Disappointed any more.

Maybe this could be helpful for someone else.

End of Part 1

There is an update on the cards, when we made one or several corrections. That can be an error of tag or level, some transparencies on the outfit due to the green screen, ect..

Indeed you can refer to the forum "Bugs & Fixes / List of corrected" shows to see why there is an update on a card, which has been corrected.

https://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/44954/1?post=667277

https://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/44955/1?post=667279

Short answer: The odds are ALWAYS better for Totem than for you. House always wins.

My stats on this one:
150 cards (1500 credits) gambled, 1300 credits + 1 SEC won.

That SEC cost me 200 credits, or roughly $16.65 USD, as I usually only buy credits when they are on sale with the +20% bonus.

That's more than 10x what a normal card costs.

Whatever the unpublished odds are on this one - they are NOT in your favour. I really, REALLY wish there was a way for PREMIUM, TRIPLE DIAMOND members to just get the cards without this gambling rubbish.

It's not fun. It's not fair. And it totally degrades my opinion of Totem's business practices.

By the way, is the "Flying Dutchman 😱 Challenge" still available ?

Dont know where you find these beautiful specimens but they are AMAZING in every way....Dont know if I should salute her or my penis should salute her .She will def do well and I would love to see more of her..good luck kiddo....you got this sexy mamma😉

Just a quick post wanting to ask what the updates to some of the existing cards do? I've noticed it's Inna Innaki's Night Shift, Florane Russell's Yes Daddy! and Eva Elfie's Trouble Maker this time. I do remember there were some other cards a while back.

My best guess is that iStripper updates them to have 4K but would like confirmation.

titiii_bedroom_neon
2 scenes

https://mega.nz/folder/8doXEBza#Q9mC0oU0r6Net2ZTjIm1Jg

@Stanton

previous message was too long so it got cut 😄

About loyalty, I know our loyalty is valued in a way because there are humans behind companies who do care. This might have sounded a bit extreme. Let's say the gambling makes it look like our loyalty doesn't matter so much.

Thanks for your kind words, let's enjoy the girls and stay positive.
Take care and have fun! 😊👍

Je précise que je respecte beaucoup @Sexy3DBoy.

Par contre je trouve que ses propos sont l'exemple parfait que je parlais de certaines personnes, qui vont conforter Totem dans sa décision de ne rien changer.

@ComteDracula
C'est réciproque pour la marque d'estime.👍

Il n'est pas acceptable d'être sur le terrain de la revendication
avec une société dont le business est basé sur du
divertissement privé! Quand on entre dans un casino sur le
strip de Las Vegas, on ne peut pas y dicter ses propres règles.
Quand on pénètre dans un strip-club, là aussi on ne peut
pas y dicter ses propres règles. En y entrant, on en accepte
tacitement le règlement qui peut par ailleur évoluer au fil du
temps.

iStripper joue sur le terrain de la passion humaine, c'est un
fait mais cela n'ouvre pas à de quelconques droits sur les
SECs et à une justification de leur part.

Les seules fois où je me suis exprimé sur leur activité, c'était
au travers d'un survey, ou face à des problèmes techniques.

Quand ils ont pris la décision en 2017 de stopper leur activité
avec l'Amérique du nord, ça m'a foutu les boules mais c'est
leur choix, pointbarre.

Ceci dit et à contrario, les revendications ont peut-être permis
d'avoir celle de Nici, mais il faut savoir mettre un terme à ce
type de mécontentement!

Et je ne cherche pas à les conforter dans leur décision, c'est
leur business!

Wuuuuuuuuuu huuuuuuu! Stasy get new boobs?

@arise77
But you are talking from Long time members, and we all know, when you are doing a specific thing too long,
like using iStripper, it will get in most cases Boring over Time. Even if you still like/love the Product.
Maybe it is not the case on yourself, but i lost in my past track on many things which i was doing way too long.
And i was trying to find something new and satisfying on that specific thing, but i was not be able to do that.
And who knows wher i'm standing lets say in 3 or 5 Years for myself and on iStripper.
I can't really tell you today. But i know one for Sure, I Love Girls, and iStripper is giving me an easy and
very convenient way to Access different Type of Girls. Even if i can see them only on my Screen.
That is indeed a good/important Point, but we (including myself) didn't talk to anyone from the Team in personal
about those internal things, because we are not be able to get involved in to internal Discussions.
And further about Loyalty.
I'm not naive, I know a business doesn't care much about my "loyalty", and is just looking for a way to keep the big wallets coming and attract new customers, and try to make everyone spend as much as possible. Business is business.
That is not a 100% true. As i told earlier in this Topic from that Company which i was working for almost 7 Years.
Of course i will not telling any Names or Persons, but my Boss would liked to give his Customers something back.
And not only as a short period Solution, No as an Long Term Solution for all New and Long Term Customers.
At the end, he had to pay more as he could imagine to have Money for that.
It was ruining almost his Company and many many Customers were pissed off, understandable of course.
And it ended with the Situation where many Customers came in the Store and smashing their
***** and disappointment on me.
Only on myself, i was their match ball for their ***** and offending speaking.
They were Insulting against me on and on, but my Boss was sitting in his Office as like happened nothing.
Until to an specific Point, where he had to call the Police, because of an very mad and nasty Ranting Customer.
Gladly there were no Weapons in play, but he threatened me physically.

And until today i ***** my Boss for that, what he was offering his Customers,
and not thinking about the consequences. Even there was a good Intention in the Background.
Until today i can't get this Situation out of my Head any more.
And i'm thankful to that Customer that he had no Knife or Gun in this Situation with it.
Otherwise he shall ***** in Hell forever.
And this is one of the Reasons why i'm sitting at a Psychologist, because of that ***** in my past.

When one is getting Nasty against someone else, who is not fault for his Situation then you can still handle that.
But not 10 or 15 Customers per Day, against one Employee, and yes it is a true Story.
And we are talking from an Timeline of almost 3 Months.
And at the End, you can't satisfy everyone like i was saying before. It is not possible, because we are all different.
You know > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHbzSif78qQ

So with that saying, we don't know who the Teammembers are, or what they are planning,
but i had this Year PM Contact to one specific Teammember.
I will not give any further Details to this Contact/Conversation of course.
But from my Perception with this Conversation i will not believe that Totem isn't aware about our Loyalty.
No way, because this Conversation was just too good, even it was short.

Thanks again to my Conversation Partner at this Point 😊 just in case you are reading here in this Topic.
I agree we should relax about this, be patient & enjoy the girls.That's right, i'm here for the Girls on iStripper, i will further put my Money in it,
and hoping further for an native Linux Client.

But i really really don't care about the SEC Cards, because i have 1918 other Shows to
enjoy over and over every Day. So please to all have a great Time on iStripper 💚 👍

@Stanton
I think it was kind of a letdown for long time members, because we were used to a way of getting cards for a certain price, but with the introduction of cards only obtainable through gambling, it kind of felt like Totem was tricking us suddenly. So yes, after some time, you take things for granted and you don't expect this from a company you're used to.

I don't know anyone from Totem personally, so you're right we don't know what's happening behind the scenes.

I used to work in customer service so I know exactly waht you mean. I know it's hard to be shouted at even threatened for other people's mistakes. I'm sorry to hear about what you experienced, but as you said, we also learn a lot from these situations.
Talking about customer service, I think @Manue is doing a great job, and she's probably on her own most of the time. Everytime I contacted her, she has helped me out and I'm very ...

Anastasia came back to our studio and she was even hornier than the first time!
Get her new VR180 here: https://www.istripper.com/vr180/detail/d06737cd888d3f11 😍

And don't forget to check out Stella's VR video, released few weeks ago: https://www.istripper.com/vr180/detail/1897b71281c8f401

@RAGORN Merci. 😀

@TheEmu & @ComteDracula I think most of us don't mind an SEC given as part of a package like for the advent calendar or August pre-order lately. There's a simple way of getting it: you choose if the SEC is worth a 24/30 card pre-order.
I got 2 SECs this way, whenever I wanted it I would go for the pre-order; if not, then I pass.

Totem introduced SECs

Some people ***** about the rules for obtaining them.

Totem changed the rules to go some way to meeting the original objections.

Some people ***** about the new rules for obtaining them.

They could have simply stuck with the original rules.

I am pretty sure that no matter what they do, short of selling them as normal cards for the normal price, will attract complaints.

@TheEmu you make it sound like Totem made the first SECs "available" to win in order to satisfy ***** customers. I don't remember anyone asking for these cards to be obtainable only through gambling.
Don't you think Totem might have simply wanted to make more profit out of the these first SECs, otherwise useless?
Plus, look at the ratio now, of all SEC cards, how many could you only get through gambling? That shows Totem favours this way.

Joker cards were also introduced, why not allow members to get Joker cards (which doesn't involve gambling) to exchange for SECs, since these will "never" be for sale?

Having another way of obtaining SECs doesn't mean the gambling has to go away. If people still want to go for that one, Totem can keep it.

@Grabandt

But there it shows me this topic that I have not opened.
I can only find my topics if I enter my topic in the search bar.
Then it shows me my subject.

Then you shouldn't Hijack this Topic, and put a Request in the proper Section on the Forum. As a Member since 2011 you should know how it goes 😉

@Grabandt

Why can't I find my new topics in the forum?

Inside the Client
Click on your Profile > Posts > there you have it.

Inside a Webbrowser
Click on your Username up right > choose My Profile from the Drop Down Menu > Posts > there you have it.

It seems people are getting tired of this, I support this website on every way possible but last time I tried this game of chance I spent 300 credits and no card, I don't know what the rate is and I no longer care, I'll have to live with these special events, but I'm not spending any more money on these special event cards. But with all honesty, if there's ever another website that starts doing these kind of shows I'll definitely give it a try.

I think we all would at least try out the competition to see how it is.

Competition is always good for the consumer, and arguably, for the companies, as well, as it makes them innovate more.

I remember that outside of the Russian copycat sites that used stolen code there was a US-based site a long time ago that shot similar content to then-Virtuagirl, but it's now defunct and you can't even check what it was about anymore, outside of a few poor gifs.

@sh42n81 resolution: 20 // determines how the Light is rendered // 20 is the default if you dont specify resolution material: true // will be affected by the lightsThe higher the Resolution is, the smaller the graininess of the light is.But it also adds significant GPU cycles to render higher resolutions.odd values for Resolution have a strange added effect.I have some samples that demonstrate it's affect http://www.virtuastripper.net/WA-lights-2.zip

Although I don't doubt @wyldanimal about this but when I tried using higher values for resolution: I did not notice any significant effect. There has to be some effect on the GPU load but what this parameter does is to control how many triangles a sprite is divided into (the default being two) and the work required to do this is quite light unless you specify a ridiculously high number.

There is some work done for each vertex of the triangular mesh established by this subdivision into trianlges and this is done in what is known as a vertex shader. It is possible to use your own vertex shaders in iStripper as well as the more commonly used fragment shaders (you can use them to distort the images by moving the vertices). But the default vertex shader does almost nothing, and even quite complex vertex shaders are unlikely to greatly affect the overall GPU load because there are so few vertices (normally by several orders of magnitude ) compared to the number of pixels that fragment shaders work on. Of course if you do specify a ridiculously high number of triangles are to be used then you pay the price.

The number of vertices does affect the latter stages of the graphics pipeline, in particular fragment shaders, because certain of the inputs to fragment shaders (their so called uniform input variables) are calculated by interpolating between their nominal values at the three vertices of the triangle in which the pixel being acted on lies. If this interpolation is done by hardware then it should incur very little cost in GPU usage and will in any case be done for each pixel irrespective of the total number number of vertices, but I suppose that this may depend on the particular GPU which may be why @wyldanimal noticed a significant effect but I did not.

In reality, as always, things will be a little bit more complicated than the above outline but it may help to give you an idea of what is going on. One of the complications will be for pixels that lie on the boundaries between triangles and there will be more of these when there are more triangles and this will also increase the GPU load as the number of triangles increases.

I suppose that all this boils down to don't be surprised if using a large value for resolution: has a significant effect on GPU usage, but also don't be surprised if it doesn't.

slightly off topic...
@7171al71 use of a web page as the background for Desktop mode
reminded me of something I started some time back.

I thought I'd revive a project I wrote a few years back...

Not a scene or full screen
but an App to play visualizations as a background for Desktop mode.
it uses a custom form.
***** and drop a music file on to the app
you can also ***** and drop a video clip.
You can right click the music or video to mute the sound, If you want your Own music in the background.
You can edit the sample playlist and add your own Music and video clips to a playlist.
***** and drop the playlist to have an extended experience.

https://scenes.virtuastripper.net/files/MP4Player.zip

quick instructions
Download it to your local profile
make a folder for it.
unzip it
create a task bar or start menu shortcut to the app.

Important.
Open Media Player, and Select a Visualization.
you will have to switch from album view to Now Playing view Three dots bottom right
then QUIT media player.
This will be the Visualization that the App uses.

open the folder with your music or play list
start iStripper
***** and drop the media file to the app
minimize the folder

Demo Video
http://www.deskbabes.net/videos/MP4Player-002.mp4

edit:

After I ***** and Drop the edited Playlist to the app.
I left clicked in the App too give it the focus
now I can use the Media Keys on my Keyboard to switch to next or Previous Tracks.
That's what I was doing to make the tracks change.
The Last track was a Video Clip of fractal animations.
It was a saved clip in a folder ( Zoom-001.mp4 included in the zip file )

The advantage to this app
it plays local files on your PC or Network.
you don't need to be connected to the internet and use a web page or Youtube videos.
If the video clip has a bad soundtrack you can mute it, and play your own local music.

It'a a tool to experiment with...

Thankyou boys, Because of this conversation I just purchased iDancer for the curiosity! lol

So do you only have the standard version of iDancer, or have you added or improved something?

What you saw in that video is Not iDancer.
it is the iDancer Animations, being played by the iStripper GUI.
iDancer only allows for 1 dancer at a time, and the Dancer is based off the Music.

I'll send you a PM in private.

@Wyldanimal: very useful what you shared, super grateful !!!

I was doing a scene that wanted to integrate that and your contribution fell from heaven.
The code is easy to understand and the best of all is that it works super.
Mount the 2 photos and it worked !!! (Front and Back). With some time I will mount it in 3D well, adjust it and other things.
The scene I had written is in 2D, but the elements can be used by others for testing and other things. (https://tinyurl.com/downloadscene)

@Grabandt: what you are talking about is viable if the skin is made with CSS, you can add some animation stuff with some javascript.

The animated scenes are a bit complex and as for the lighting effects it is variable, I have tried many things to achieve them, some quite illogical, but they work.
Video 1: is based on 2 test scenes. Do not use ambient or lights commands, what I did in that minute was to give the parameters manually (the left spotlights is a .png that rotates and that in turn changes color in the same way as the casting scene is made, Cunado the scene darkens to fluor tones use the same principle.
Video 2 is different. I built it thinking in 3D, that is, the distances and behaviors will try to coincide with reality (there is a limitation in that since the software does not support .obj) and they are all 2D images, but handled as 3D objects, there are blocks of the command of ¨material¨ in some cases was: false and the color change was achieved with animated color transitions.
There is another limit which is the CPU load, in video 2, a lot of VFX. they were processed on the video capture, achieve them inside although it is viable, it takes a lot of computer to do it.
Video 1
https://youtu.be/AE_Ku_m-voA
Video 2
https://youtu.be/AE_Ku_m-voA

Anything that can help you, at your disposal.

if it helps i won the sec in about 12 scratch cards so i think the odds depend on how many cards you buy

@Grabandt

iDancer is a more modern version of MP3 Dancer
MP3 Dance is late 80's or early 90's
Like the origional VirtuGirl, the Dancers were only about 1 inch tall on the screen.

But it did have a few special effects, that iDancer doesn't have..

I don't think the sales volume fro iDancer, were high enough.
so I don't know the answer to if there will ever be new dancers added.

I had written to the team a number of times asking them to release the product.
Don't know if I played a tole in that, but they did finally release it.

I had been playing the iDancer cards for well over a year before it was released.
( I had discovered a way to Purchase the i series cards )
So they were added to my collection
It then took me a while to figure out how to play them, as the coding of the file names
does not match the standard cards.
So nothing would ever play.

But once I got them to play, I watched them on Full Screen for Months.
No Nudity of Course
but they were the High Energy dancing, that I felt is always been Missing from Virtual Girl / iStripper

I would enjoy cards that start out with high Energy Dancing on the stage, followed bu the Strip Routine.
But I don't think I've seen that type of Dancing in VG or iStripper, Only in iDancer.

Here is an Example
http://www.deskbabes.net/files/iDancer/iDancer-Max-002.mp4

I had made a series of videos, that I sent to the team showing it off.
with the idea, that seeing them in action would help push the release of iDancer.

We finally did see the release, and it was later added as a steam title.

Hi @781jingles
Please have a look on this Workaround,
https://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/42188/1
or this Post from here if the first Method isn't successful.
https://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/45480/1#post676320
In both cases i recommend you Turn Off P2P in your Settings before!
Hope it Helps 👍

@WyldAnimal

@sh42n81 resolution: 20 // determines how the Light is rendered // 20 is the default if you dont specify resolution material: true // will be affected by the lightsThe higher the Resolution is, the smaller the graininess of the light is.But it also adds significant GPU cycles to render higher resolutions.odd values for Resolution have a strange added effect.I have some samples that demonstrate it's affect http://www.virtuastripper.net/WA-lights-2.zip

Thank you, I'll give that a try--with caution about GPU load, of course. 😊

It seems people are getting tired of this, I support this website on every way possible but last time I tried this game of chance I spent 300 credits and no card, I don't know what the rate is and I no longer care, I'll have to live with these special events, but I'm not spending any more money on these special event cards. But with all honesty, if there's ever another website that starts doing these kind of shows I'll definitely give it a try.

started downloading my collection twice and both times it stopped because of an error during syncgronisation...,,hoipefully there is an ez fix....

The skin selection is stored in the Totem Registry under the ui Branch
it is only read during application start up
so it can't be changed on the fly, except by the app itself.

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Totem\vghd\ui
the key name is currentSkin

what gets stored in the key, is the name of the subfolder that contains the components of the desired skin.
So after you quit iStripper you can edit the key value
and then Start iStripper.

an app to do this could be written
run the app
it scans the skin folder and makes a list of the subfolder names.
Picks one at random
Stores that in the registry key
then starts the iStripper app.

as stated above, I've outlined this process before and one of the members has
created an app to do just that.

I had conversations with the Previous software developer.
He was going to add a routine to check this key, and update the skin if it had changed.
But it wasn't a high priority, and he didn't get to do it, before he retired from the Team.

side note:
I never revisited it with the new developer.
Which Curiously, had been an earlier developer who came back an re joined the team.
He had worked on MP3 Dancer with Rex.
That Tech, and the capture of interactive clip types,
was the basis for the Interactive clips now in iStripper.
Repurposing of early technology.

if you never saw MP3 Dancer
here is a demo video of it.
does the hanging and falling clip style look familiar?
http://www.deskbabes.net/files/iDancer/MP3DANCER.mp4

www.isworkshop.eu/index.php?p=randomizer

@Emu

OK,....
It would be a new topic for the forum, there would definitely be good ideas or suggestions.

I try, maybe I can get the skin changed every time iStripper is started.

@lukaszr has already done this I believe.

Have a look in th iS Workshop website.

@Grabandt - I have never looked at what is involved with skins so I would not know where to start.

@Grabandt

It would be possible to write a script that changed the skin selection such that every time you started iStripper it used a different, randomly selected, skin but I think that is about all you can at the moment.

Les SEC ne sont pas des cartes à vendre car elles n'ont pas de prix, il faut JUSTE les gagner
en criant "Victoire! j'ai gagné la carte trophée!" et je peux vous assurer qu'elle n'aura pas
le même saveur comme tout ce qui s'arrache difficilement dans la vie.

Et au risque de me répeter, ils ont fait un geste pour Nici, alors avec ça! merci iStripper.

Je ne voulais plus intervenir, mais je voulais juste faire une précision sur ce que @Sexy3DBoy vient de dire.

Je précise que je respecte beaucoup @Sexy3DBoy.

Par contre je trouve que ses propos sont l'exemple parfait que je parlais de certaines personnes, qui vont conforter Totem dans sa décision de ne rien changer.

Les gens qui jouent à des jeux, n'accepterons jamais que d'autres personnes puissent avoir des cartes à un coût qui pourrait être moindre, que le prix qu'elle pensent avoir payé. Cela va leur procurer un sentiment d'injustice.

C'est pourquoi j'ai dit que Totem avait ouvert une boite de Pandore avec leurs SEC.

Tout objet à une valeur. Il s'agit juste que les gens acceptent de les vendre.

Il y a des objets qui ont même des valeurs sentimentales. Cela ne les empêche pas de les vendre quand la personne est décédée.

On parle ici de cartes, pas d'une vie humaine quand même.

Même les cartes de collection et rares peuvent s'acheter à gros prix dans les magasins de collection de cartes. Il s'agit pour les collectionneurs d'y mettre le prix. La différence avec ici, c'est que ces personnes peuvent les revendres à d'autres collectionneurs.

S'ils ont fait un geste pour Nici, rien ne les empêche de continuer dans ce sens.

Ce qui va ammener aussi une résistance, ce sont les gens qui ne sont pas prêt à payer plus cher les SEC.

Me concernant ce n'est pas grâve, car ils auront au moins une possibilité de les acquiérir en dehors des jeux de hasard.

Petit conseil, si vous ne voulez pas payer plus cher, n'empêcher pas ceux qui veulent le faire. Vous aurez la possibilité de jouer aux jeux de hasard, si vous pensez que c'est mieux pour vous.

Bon je me retire pour de bon.

SEC are not cards for sale because they have no price, you JUST have to earn them
shouting "Victory! I won the trophy card!" and I can assure you that she will not have
the same flavor as everything that is hard to tear off in life.

And at the risk of repeating myself, they made a gesture for Nici, so with that! thanks iStripper.

I didn't want to intervene anymore, but just wanted to clarify what @Sexy3DBoy just said.

I specify that I respect @Sexy3DBoy a lot.

On the other hand I find that his words are the perfect example that I was talking about certain people, who will reinforce Totem in its decision not to change anything.

People who play games will never accept that other people can have cards at a cost that could be less than the price they think they paid. This will give them a feeling of injustice.

That's why I said Totem opened a Pandora's Box with their SEC.

Any object has a value. It's just a matter of people agreeing to sell them.

There are objects that even have sentimental values. This does not prevent them from selling it when the person is deceased.

We're talking about cards here, not human life anyway.

Even collectible and rare cards can be bought at high prices at collectible card stores. It is for collectors to pay the price. The difference with here is that these people can resell them to other collectors.

If they have made a gesture for Nici, nothing prevents them from continuing in this direction.

What will also bring resistance are people who are not prepared to pay more for SEC.

Concerning me it is not serious, because they will at least have a possibility of acquiring them outside of games of chance.

Little advice, if you don't want to pay more, don't prevent those who do. You will have the option of playing games of chance if you think it is better for you.

Well I am retiring for good.

@Grabandt - There is no way that I am aware of that could do that without Totem rewriting part of their software.

@sh42n81

I do have one set of scenes that have something similar to what you are trying to do. They have a spotlight on a stage, with curtains that open and close. The spotlight illuminates the stage, the performer and the curtains when they are closed. The spotlight also fades up and down as the acts begin and end.

The examples are in my "Club Callipyg" scenes available from the same place in TheEmusNest as my other scenes.

I am not entirely satisfied with the spotlight as the pool of light it provides is rather angular, but it works adequately.

In my previous post when I said "One thing I do remember" I should have said "One thing I think I remember".

@sh42n81

resolution: 20 // determines how the Light is rendered
// 20 is the default if you dont specify resolution
material: true // will be affected by the lights

The higher the Resolution is, the smaller the graininess of the light is.
But it also adds significant GPU cycles to render higher resolutions.

odd values for Resolution have a strange added effect.


I have some samples that demonstrate it's affect

http://www.virtuastripper.net/WA-lights-2.zip

Je doute que la direction vous réponde.

Ah ça c'est quasi sûr,

Les SEC ne sont pas des cartes à vendre car elles n'ont pas de prix, il faut JUSTE les gagner
en criant "Victoire! j'ai gagné la carte trophée!" et je peux vous assurer qu'elle n'aura pas
le même saveur comme tout ce qui s'arrache difficilement dans la vie.

Et au risque de me répeter, ils ont fait un geste pour Nici, alors avec ça! merci iStripper.

@sh42n81

I am sorry but I can't think of any examples.

One thing I do remember is that the lights only affect the nominal "front" side of a clip or sprite. If you rotate them by 180 degrees about Y then you interchange the front and back which changes how the lighting affects them. If the nominal "front" side of the clip is facing away from the camera then you need to put the light further away from the camera than the clip in order for it to have any effect.

One ***** issue with this is that rotating by 180 degrees about the Y axis so that any writing on the model's clothing is the right way round is not equivalent to applying a scale factor of -1 to the X axis of the clip. The rotation swaps the front and back, the scaling does not. Another is that if you have two clips and rotate one by 180 then any light will affect the two clips differently.

I have a funny feeling that using the normal sort of camera position, i.e. with a positive Z component for the camera's pos: clause, results in it looking at the back any clip unless the clip is rotated about Y.

@sh42n81Your supposition with respect to filter: is correct. It was replaced with allow: and deny:I don't know about the use of ambient: but what you say sounds reasonable. I have rarely used the lighting effects so I have no real insight as to their effective use - its one of the areas I really should experiment with as there are some scenes that use the lighting to very good effect.

Do you have any that you could recommend that I look at to help me figure out how to make a clip appear as if it is being lit from one side, with the other side in shadow? As the model moves to that side, she should step gradually out of the light and into relative darkness. I would have thought that I could achieve that by positioning the light at a distant point along the x axis, but that doesn't seem to be working. That's why I'm checking out subtractive ambience now.

Tant mieux si mon point de vue et la conversation qui s'en est suivi a pu s'avérer utile @RAGORN.

Bonne journée à vous. 😊

@ComteDracula

À tout le moins, vous aurez initié une conversation intéressante, qui aura permis à un certain nombre de clients de faire connaître leur point de vue sur le sujet. Alors merci.

@arise77
I would like to Answer/Quote to you, because you made some interesting Points

something you might have noticed, a lot of people who express their dislike of the gambling games are long time members. You opened an account in 2018, when SECs were already around, so that was already the norm at the time.

That is true, in compare to yourself and many other Users, i'm not that long on iStripper.
But you are talking from Long time members, and we all know, when you are doing a specific thing too long,
like using iStripper, it will get in most cases Boring over Time. Even if you still like/love the Product.
Maybe it is not the case on yourself, but i lost in my past track on many things which i was doing way too long.
And i was trying to find something new and satisfying on that specific thing, but i was not be able to do that.
And who knows wher i'm standing lets say in 3 or 5 Years for myself and on iStripper.
I can't really tell you today. But i know one for Sure, I Love Girls, and iStripper is giving me an easy and
very convenient way to Access different Type of Girls. Even if i can see them only on my Screen.

When you've been collecting cards for 5/10 years, therefore supporting the company over time in some way,
and suddenly you're told there are cards you can't get even if you pour in hundreds of credits, it doesn't really feel like "your loyalty is valued".

That is indeed a good/important Point, but we (including myself) didn't talk to anyone from the Team in personal
about those internal things, because we are not be able to get involved in to internal Discussions.
And further about Loyalty.

I'm not naive, I know a business doesn't care much about my "loyalty", and is just looking for a way to keep the big wallets coming and attract new customers, and try to make everyone spend as much as possible. Business is business.

That is not a 100% true. As i told earlier in this Topic from that Company which i was working for almost 7 Years.
Of course i will not telling any Names or Persons, but my Boss would liked to give his Customers something back.
And not only as a short period Solution, No as an Long Term Solution for all New and Long Term Customers.
At the end, he had to pay more as he could imagine to have Money for that.
It was ruining almost his Company and many many Customers were pissed off, understandable of course.
And it ended with the Situation where many Customers came in the Store and smashing their
***** and disappointment on me.
Only on myself, i was their match ball for their ***** and offending speaking.
They were Insulting against me on and on, but my Boss was sitting in his Office as like happened nothing.
Until to an specific Point, where he had to call the Police, because of an very mad and nasty Ranting Customer.
Gladly there were no Weapons in play, but he threatened me physically.

And until today i ***** my Boss for that, what he was offering his Customers,
and not thinking about the consequences. Even there was a good Intention in the Background.
Until today i can't get this Situation out of my Head any more.
And i'm thankful to that Customer that he had no Knife or Gun in this Situation with it.
Otherwise he shall ***** in Hell forever.
And this is one of the Reasons why i'm sitting at a Psychologist, because of that ***** in my past.

When one is getting Nasty against someone else, who is not fault for his Situation then you can still handle that.
But not 10 or 15 Customers per Day, against one Employee, and yes it is a true Story.
And we are talking from an Timeline of almost 3 Months.
And at the End, you can't satisfy everyone like i was saying before. It is not possible, because we are all different.
You know > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHbzSif78qQ

So with that saying, we don't know who the Teammembers are, or what they are planning,
but i had this Year PM Contact to one specific Teammember.
I will not give any further Details to this Contact/Conversation of course.
But from my Perception with this Conversation i will not believe that Totem isn't aware about our Loyalty.
No way, because this Conversation was just too good, even it was short.

Thanks again to my Conversation Partner at this Point 😊 just in case you are reading here in this Topic.

I agree we should relax about this, be patient & enjoy the girls.

That's right, i'm here for the Girls on iStripper, i will further put my Money in it,
and hoping further for an native Linux Client.

But i really really don't care about the SEC Cards, because i have 1918 other Shows to
enjoy over and over every Day. So please to all have a great Time on iStripper 💚 👍

@sh42n81

Your supposition with respect to filter: is correct. It was replaced with allow: and deny:

I don't know about the use of ambient: but what you say sounds reasonable. I have rarely used the lighting effects so I have no real insight as to their effective use - its one of the areas I really should experiment with as there are some scenes that use the lighting to very good effect.

I have had another insight with respect to log warnings during my lunch break while reviewing "Dark Background 2" for clues to a lighting effect I'm trying to achieve. I think @WyldAnimal did this one many years ago. I have been viewing it a lot over the last few days and it turns out that my "filter" and "ambient" warnings are coming from it.

This scene has "filter: table, top" applied to the clip. I presume that "filter" was once used where "deny" is used now. I changed it to "deny," the log error went away, and I no longer have models growing out of the stage! 😂

It also had "ambient: -4.0,-4.0,-4.0" applied to the background sprite, which you apparently can't do anymore. I commented it out and that took care of the "ambient" error. This is slightly disappointing because that's where I was looking for the solution to my lighting problem.

On the other hand, the "ambient: -2.0,-2.0,-2.0" being applied to the camera node doesn't seem to be throwing any errors, so maybe my answer lies there. I guess the background ambient property wouldn't have been relevant, anyway, because it would have been ignored if it was invalid.

The Dark Background scene kind of gets at what I'm after for my scene. It is helping me to understand how lighting works, but I still sense that I'm missing something...

I'll draw you a picture @TheEmu,

There are people who are both "collectors" and "gamblers"

Sorry for not having specified this category of member.

Your speech just keeps us going in circles @TheEmu.

I am withdrawing from this discussion, which I feel will end in "fishtail".

Either way, I try to say my thoughts in the most sensible way possible.

I hope so at least.

Make way for others.

And let's continue the fight.

"Those who want these cards should no longer participate in games of chance"

Thanks for reading me.


Je vais vous faire un dessin @TheEmu,

Il y a des gens qui sont à la fois "collectionneurs" et "Gamblers"

Désolé de ne pas vous avoir précisé cette catégorie de membre.

Votre discours ne fait que nous faire tourner en rond @TheEmu.

Je me retire de cette discussion, qui je le sens va se terminer en "queue de poisson".

De toute façon j'ai essayer de dire ma pensée de la façon la plus censé possible.

Je l'espère du moins.

Place aux autres.

Et continuons le combat.

"Ceux et celles qui veulent ces cartes, ne doivent plus participer aux jeux de hasard"

Merci de m'avoir lu.

@TheEmu & Voyeurpervers

My prediction is that if the SECs were simply sold at a price that was even slightly above the cost of a normal card, let alone the much higher price that we think may be necessary to make up for the reduced participation in the gambling games, then there would be as many, or perhaps even more, complaints than there are currently.

It would, of course, be a different matter if the cards themselves were special, but they are not.

Ce a quoi Totem devrait penser est que acheter des cartes spéciales 100 ou 200 crédits pourrait être envisager par beaucoup d'entre nous. Ce qui gêne est que même dépenser plus aux jeux de hasard ne garanti pas l'obtention des dites cartes. 100 ou 200 crédits devrait permettre a Totem de rentrer largement dans ses frais.

Comme @TheEmu, je suis convaincu que le fait de vendre certaines cartes bien au-dessus de la valeur normale engendrerait encore plus d'insatisfaction. Ce qui est certain, c'est que je ne paierais pas 10 ou 20 fois la valeur d'une carte pour le simple plaisir de financer Totem. J'apprécie énormément le logiciel et les efforts de l'équipe afin d'offrir un produit de qualité, mais je ne jette pas mon argent par les fenêtres.

Il y a certainement d'autres moyens d'accroître les revenus d'une entreprise que de "contraindre" ses clients à gambler.

As @TheEmu, I am convinced that selling certain cards well above their normal value would lead to even more dissatisfaction. What is certain is that I would not pay 10 or 20 times the value of a card just for the sake of financing Totem. I really appreciate the software and the team's effort to deliver a quality product, but I'm not throwing my money away.

There are certainly other ways to increase the income of a company that "to constrain" customers to gamble.

It is certain that there may still be discontented (there are always), but at least collectors will have a possibility of acquiring these cards.

But collectors like both of us do have the "possibility of acquiring these cards". The proof of that is seen every month in the list of largest collections.

Neither of us like the current situation, but the solution is not as simple as you say it is.

@TheEmu,

You have the right to think what you want, or make the predictions you want, the reality is that currently only "gamblers" can acquire these cards.

It is certain that there may still be discontented (there are always), but at least collectors will have a possibility of acquiring these cards.

Because collectors like me are ignored in Totem's decisions.


@TheEmu,

Vous avez le droit de penser à ce que vous voulez, ou faire les prédictions que vous voulez, la réalité est que actuellement seul les "gamblers" peuvent aquérir ces cartes.

Il est certains qu'il risque d'y avoir encore des mécontents (il y en a toujours), mais au moins les collectionneurs vont avoir une possibilité d'acquérir ces cartes.

Car les collectionneurs comme moi sont ignorés dans les décisions de Totem.