Suggestion For Character Creation

[Esoteric]

I have played Custom Maid 3D2, and a lot of the Illusion adult games. So the biggest thing I miss so far is a more straightforward character creation. I did the first two tutorials and spent the next 2.5 hours or so learning how to create custom characters.

I mainly get games like this to create dream waifus and pose them. I dont "play" with them all that much. That being said, I just find the process of creating the girls I envision in my mind to be quite convoluted and tedious compared to other games like this. I do understand that you can do so much more with this program/game... and FYI, I don't regret my purchase and I am very happy overall.

I just want an easier, more sorted way of creating what I want. Whether it is a stand alone part of Virt-A-Mate/VaMX that solely focuses on Character creation or improvements to the the interface/UI like a sorting feature that simply allows for a more streamlined character creation process.

If this is possible, it would be great!

Anyways, thanks for this game, after only 3+ hours I know it's something special.

[vamx]

Definitely. Compared with the games you mentioned character creation in VaMX misses a sort of middle ground. There is the really easy options, which are either loading someone else's created character or using the vamX menu (don't miss Female -> Fantasy Character Builder!) Then there are the really complex Virt-a-Mate menu tools. The problem here is that instead of perhaps 10 different sliders where you can change aspects of her looks, there are thousands of morphs that can be combined.

It's certainly possible for us to choose about 10 or 20 key morphs and make a nice creator scene, so that's certainly on the list now, thanks for your suggestion.

Meanwhile, here are some awesome and simple ways to do what is currently simple to do. I'm going to assume you know what the Virt-a-Mate menu is, if you don't please first check the vamX help section USING THE VIRT-A-MATE MENU SYSTEM from https://sxvr.com/vamxuserguide/

1) If you can start by loading a look that has roughly the shape you want (breast size, curvy vs thin or muscular, etc.) you've taken care of the hard to change stuff.
2) Save your look by enabling Edit Mode in the Virt-a-Mate menu, then selecting the female by pressing Cycle Select person (icon of two people). From the default tab you can press Save Look... or from Appearance Presets type a name and save from there.
3) From this same Control & Physics 1 tab of the person, you can change her scale. If you make the scale much different than 0.9-1.2, many poses won't align properly. Poses align best at the standard scale, but still, this is a useful thing to change.
4) From this same person edit area you can load new skins from Skin Presets, but it's easier to use the vamX menu system by going to Female -> Customize -> Load Skin (or Random Skin). Load skin from this menu simply puts you in a folder with a bunch of skin choices.
5) Same goes for clothes (like 4, but loading clothing presets).
6) Same goes for hair (like 4, but loading hair).
7) Save again. There are a limited number of morphs that can be applied on top, by going to Female -> Fantasy Character Builder -> Then press the left arrow to go to the last pages where you can set a limited set of morphs.
8) For the "real deal" where you can edit anything, in the Person editing choose Female Morphs, then search for whatever morph names you might want, and change their values. You can "Fav" morphs that you like, and then later sort by Only Favorites. This way you can sort of build the scene that I'll build later, which is an easy way to change your favorite morphs.
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[Esoteric]

@vamx, thank you so for your response. It is rare for a dev to listen and respond so much to their customers. It is greatly appreciated! 😁 I will definitely take your advice and just work with it and learn until i master it. (If that's even possible, haha). I'd like to try and sort the morph sliders based on body area. Eyes, nose, mouth...so on and so forth. I'd find that easier and less tedious.

I do understand that a program that gives you this much control, along with all the options it has...there may be no easy, direct way of implementing it in "simple" manner.

Just the fact that you understand where I'm coming from and are willing to work on it some is truly all I needed to hear.

Thank you again!

[Esoteric]

Hi! So I have put in many more hours in the past few days.
I've learned, more or less to find the sliders I'm looking for. Still a little tedious but it is better than when I first started. Since I will mainly use this program to create and pose girls, I am focusing my input there.

A few things I miss the most from other games like this are, in order...

The ability to pose and move my characters on the fly like in Custom Order Maid 3D2. The system they have in place there to pose characters is very well done and easy to use. You select a body part, and then have access to move and rotate the way you want to. I'd Also add an easier way of changing expressions.

Easier ways to change colors, Hair, eyes and skin tone.

Also Make up customization. (eye shadow, blush and lipstick etc. etc ) would be really nice to have at a later date, if possible.

Again, there is a lot of good stuff in this program. It just kind of seems thrown up against a wall though. It needs to be streamlined and made simpler.