Your "Package" Has Arrived. 1.19 Beta is Released!

Download/Install Instructions

Since this is a beta, you must check the "Beta Opt-In" box at bottom of updater. I plan to move this release out of beta in about 1 week. Note you must re-download the updater as mentioned in post earlier today in order to get this update or any others: 

https://www.patreon.com/posts/current-updater-35007081

Release Notes:

Features:

• Add-On Packages System – Builder allows creating content for others to use. Manager allows managing packages full of content from others in an easy-to-use way. This is the future of content delivery and consumption in VaM!
• Improved file browsers, with new shortcuts system for easy access to add-on packages and other folders
• Improved memory management. Added button to unload inactive clothing and hair items to free memory. Skins now auto-unload when switching (can be disable to keep existing behavior of keeping inactive skins in memory)
• Improved character loading and preset loading. Much smoother transitions.
• Auto genital texture creation improvements: manual hue & saturation adjustments. Auto-generation of specular, gloss, and normal textures. Generated textures can be saved out for further refinement.
• ImagePanel* atoms – added ability to tile images and gifs

Content:

• Sample add-on packages from community providers. Special thanks to DJ, Jackaroo, JayC_Re-animator, NoOC, NoStage3, Vince, and Xstatic for allowing us to include their content!
• Two new female skins from Ren: Mia and Kayla
• Two new male skins from Jackaroo: Lee and Julian
• New “Male Custom” skin from Jackaroo with source textures included in Custom/Atom/Person/Textures folder
• Two new additional female skins: Lilith (Female 16) and Lorraine (Female 17)
• Two new additional male skins: Lee (Male 8) and Scott (Male 9)
• Hundreds of new male morphs
• Body tattoo options for Danika and Adrianna skins
• Added ImagePanelTransparent and ImagePanelTransparentEmissive atoms
• Added 130 new short breath and sigh sounds from PixieWillow: https://www.patreon.com/PixieWillow

Tweaks:

• Added error reporting for bad texture paths on clothing and other atom materials
• Clothing and Hair items now show creator name and version number (for packaged items)
• Improved plugin error handling for easier debug
• Image thumbnails now have white background to better show transparent images
• ImagePanel* atoms now have Alpha Cutoff param for adjusting transparency cutoff value

Bug Fixes:

• Person atom can now be properly moved while off without causing a giant glitch when turning back on
• Fixed missing hair material control for Tyler
• Fixed issue with plugin compile failing after loading a plugin with a lot of lines in it
• Fixed issue with face and limbs custom normal textures not releasing memory when no longer used
• Fixed issue where clicking directory buttons in browsers would cause load of additional copy of thumbnail images into cache
• Fixed issue with moving around while textures loading. No longer snaps long distances or angles
• Fixed issue with creator name user preference not properly setting UI element on startup
• Fixed preset delete/rename
• Fixed issue where VR keyboard would not go away