New features

• Garments cover now has an optional removal mask.
  • References a texture builder mask in body.
  • Force removes fur/appendages according to the mask.
• Tessellation setting in Preferences.
  • I noticed tessellation causes extreme slowdowns on weaker systems. Therefore implemented setting.
  • If you don't have a powerful computer, it's advised to use lowest tessellation setting.
  • Default tessellation reduced from 5x to 3x (HIGH to MID).
    • (Used to be hardcoded at 5x.)

Improvements

• Corrective shape keys
  • Reduced required skinning invokations per iteration by 43% (from 7 to 4) for corrective shape keys calculation.
  • Corrective shape calculation now works with bone scaling.
    • (Which means corrective shapes are computed on the actual model rather than a model with all bones set to scale 1.)
    • (This was a major technical challenge to implement and one that not even Blender is capable of doing at the time of writing these notes.)
    • (This will pave the way for custom offsets in the next major release.)
  • Increased iterations from 20 to 35 for better shape accuracy.
    • (Old computation was 20 iterations times 7 required skinning invocations = 140 invocations.)
    • (New computation is 35 iterations times 4 required skinning invocations = 140 invocations.)
    • (Same number of invocation but 75% better accuracy.)

Changes

• Pose mode now has a pose clothing feature again.
  • (Overrides clothing's pose clothing settings if enabled.)

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue where the app would crash on older/slower systems.
  • (The most difficult/illusive bug I've encountered in my entire life.)
  • (Required significant time investment and purchasing of old hardware to test with.)
• Fixed an issue where creating a new appendage group while another one was selected would cause improper behavior.
• Fixed an issue where fur cover feature for clothing wouldn't work properly for some authored fur parameters.
• Fixed a memory leak connected to fur cover map baking.