HF patch issues in Studio

[Sonechko]

I've noticed when playing in the studio a number of features seem not to work when I updated the HF patch. Specifically I can't seem to switch characters or outfits when I have a character selected. This feature worked in previous patches but doesn't work in the newer ones I've noticed.

[cyäegha]

you'll have to elaborate on what you mean

when you say 'selected', do you mean you've selected a specific character in the side panel, i.e. that they have an XYZ node beneath them?

and when you say 'switching characters', do you mean between characters that have already been added to the scene, or switching a currently selected character out in order to replace them with another?

[Sonechko]

The option called 'change character' under the confirm option when the girl list menu isn't working. Prior to installing the patch if you selected a character in the workspace the option would let you change characters but that stopped working with some of the recent HF patches I've been using.

[cyäegha]

i've just booted up studio with 1.5 and... the function seems to work as intended, for males and females, with multiple different characters in-scene

this isn't the first time i've heard of, or experienced functions working on one machine and not on another
have you upgraded from older versions of HFpatch, or did you do a clean install of the current version?

[Sonechko]

I've done both clean installations and upgrades. The only thing I have typically saved in a backup are my character cards, poses and scene files. I'm using the 3.5 version that I got from patreon.

[cyäegha]

i don't really see a reason why it shouldn't work, but humour me for a second

load up a new scene with X character, doesn't matter who, and - making sure they're highlighted in the right-hand pane - attempt to change the character using that function, just to rule out any potential workflow order issues

if you have any cards that don't have additional outfits baked into them, i'd try using one of those, because that could be a potential culprit
i only say that because none of my cards have additional outfits baked into them, i save totally different cards for those

[Sonechko]

I'll have to try that when I'm at my computer though I'm not sure if it's anything on my end. I'll likely look through Patreon where I got the patch to see if there's any comments about it.

[cyäegha]

it's entirely possible that it's not; i've used the term 'gremlins' in the past to refer to other oddities and quirks that one person's install faces that work just fine on other machines

out of curiosity, have you run the updater in KKmanager?
1.5 has a hotfix for a handful of odd issues, though i don't know the extent of what it covers

just for the sake of consistency i re-ran the test, effectively exchanging two characters within the same scene and it does appear to work, so i can at least conclude that the function does work as intended, but there is one factor i have overlooked and that is that my install was upgraded incrementally from v2.10 through v3.5
that said, i don't have any reason to believe that should make much difference; i'm leaning towards the hotfix at this point

[Sonechko]

The plugin "KK_StudioTransgenderLoading.dll" seems to have been the source to the issues in the recent HF patch. I disabled it and everything seems to be working now.

[cyäegha]

that plugin is not installed by default, which would explain why i've never run into this particular issue, and it would be fair to suggest that this is why it wasn't pushed to the 'recommended' install branch

i won't lie, i had to go to the github release changelogs to figure out what said plugin even was, obvious name asides