v3.0.0: Soft Body Suite 3

A big new version of the suite: a fourth physics stage, much better clothes, two overall jiggle sliders, and a lot of speed.

New

• A fourth stage, Field, runs after Squish on its own remeshed cage: contact-driven flesh with the effect families Squish, Squish & Inflate, Ripple, Fat Jiggle, Penetration and Squish Organic. Switch it on with the Field · Master tick; each region then has its own Field Mix (0 = off), so you can blend it in as much as you like.
• Every painted region (breasts, thighs, ...) now has its own solver, cage, settings and motion, so adding a second region no longer changes how the first one behaves.
• Ripples can start from the outermost point, the touch point, automatically found nipples, or points you click on the body. The body's own movement can set them off too, with nothing touching it.
• New contact shaping controls: Splay, Ring and Lift.
• Clothes stay on better. A skin guard pass at the very end lifts cloth out of the body you actually see, with a "fix cloth sunk in skin" slider for clipping that is baked into the model. Floating accessories such as bows move as one piece, and leg straps follow a thigh region even when they are rigged to differently named leg bones.
• Region presets: save one region's settings and apply them to another, or copy everything from another region. There is also a Normalize weights button for paint picked from bones.
• A new Overall jiggle section at the top of the window has Jiggle strength (how big all the jiggle is, same timing) and Jiggle settle time (how quickly it calms down after a movement). 100% is exactly your tuned look.
• Paint edits now rebuild every stage, not just Squish.

Faster

Most heavy loops now run on all CPU cores through a set of always-ready helper threads, a lot of work whose result was never used is gone, and the Jell-o physics runs at the same time as the clothes are prepared. With Wobble, Jell-o and five garments following the body, a dance went from about 45 fps to a steady 60 fps (VNyan's cap) with the same look.

Upgrading from the classic suite

• The installer moves the classic Soft Body Suite (v2) and the old v1 Squish / Wobble / Jello Studio plugins into RetiredPlugins (moved, never deleted). Two soft-body plugins running at once would move the same body twice.
• On first start, Soft Body Suite 3 brings your classic settings and presets over by itself. softbodysuite.json is only read, never changed; the new settings live in softfleshfield.json.
• Prefer the classic suite? Install v2.0.1 Final classic edition instead.

Install

1. Download VNyan-SoftBody-Suite-v3.0.0.zip and unzip it.
2. Close VNyan and run install.bat. It looks for your VNyan folder by itself, or asks you to open it (the folder with VNyan.exe inside). Admin rights are asked for only if that folder is write-protected.
3. Start VNyan, open Soft Body Suite from the plugins menu and tick On.

The plugin files go to <your VNyan folder>\Items\Assemblies\SoftFleshField\. Guides: Install, Usage, FAQ.