My custom skin color in the header text actually doesn't work in .516 so I switched back .514 for now. I only just modified it yesterday so I will be sad if it doesn't work moving forward. I was just getting used to it even if it is a little weird. I have green text, red for cursor hover over text, and cream for selected. Oh well. 😕 😄

Unless Each Biders Bid is Separate, and to Increase your Own bid, it must be 10% higher then your previous Bid.
Then that Moves you up or down the current list of High Bidders?

Perhaps that is more how it will work?

I don't think that it works that way, as I understand it you bid for every card seperately, so you can just outbid the last in the row and don't have to outbid the highest bid.

If that were the case, then every bid after the 1st bid would all be the same.
Till All the cards are sold.

for 1000 cards,
one bid of the minimum, followed by 999 bids of Minimum plus 10%

I think the 10% increase per Bid is Much too High !!
for a Legendary card,
by the 200th card / Bid, it will cost 20000 Dolz or $200 at the current DOLZ price.

I don't think that it works that way, as I understand it you bid for every card seperately, so you can just outbid the last in the row and don't have to outbid the highest bid.

They want to be sure it is easy to set up a new account, that's what is being tested.

Also, Guillaume just posted that "Dunno where that topic was raised, but this version also fixes 2 small bugs: the skin color in the header texts and the infinite loading splashscreen. If you need to have the corrections, feel free to get it from the website or from the update check in the settings"

Increase each Bid by 10% of the 1st Bid.

I think the 10% increase per Bid is Much too High !!
for a Legendary card,
by the 200th card / Bid, it will cost 20000 Dolz or $200 at the current DOLZ price.

A bid Increase of 1% or 2% per bid is more likely to create More bidding.

For a Limited edition card,
By the 1000th card / Bid it is 20180 Dolz or $202 at the current DOLZ price

10% per bid increase is just way to high !

The full screen scene info box can contain html links 👍I've been using this to link some of my scenes back to their Shadertoy page, which has been a big time-saver for debugging.

All the shared Fractal Garden shader conversions contain provenance links in their .fsh code comments if people are looking for them. For shared work, I prefer this rather than it being displayed openly on the iStripper player scene caption no matter how convenient that is for use at home.

What do you folks think would be a reasonable offer for Sia Siberia's NFT ?There doesn't seem to be a lot of trading going on at the moment for the other cards on OpenSea with prices varying quite a lot. I'd love to see a nice liquid market with low trading costs.

You are asking people to show their hand up front - anybody serious about buying the card will not do that.

If you go to the Dolz.IO site you will see the following

What is the minimum bidding amount per rarity level to obtain a trading card?
Legendary: 1000 DOLZ
Epic: 400 DOLZ
Rare: 300 DOLZ
Limited: 200 DOLZ

What we do not know yet is how many cards will be released at each level.

Apparently .516 has some changes to setting up a new account that they wanted to test- and that only works well with new users.

I don't buy it. By far the biggest problem that I am aware of with "setting up a new account" was with existing users who are updating or reinstalling iStripper accidentally clicking on the "new account" option when the setup program starts. I very much hope that that particular wart has been addressed.

If new users have never seen the old version how can they be expected to know if the new version is an improvement or not? So how are they expected to be able to provide meaningful feedback? Come to that how are they supposed to know that any such feedback is wanted?

Apparently .516 has some changes to setting up a new account that they wanted to test- and that only works well with new users. That's why they did not enable auto-update on that build for the rest of us. And also why it's on the web site for new users.

Was it even released? Thre's not a lot of interest in trading those cards at all, is there?

EDIT: I saw it's slated for release next week.

Anything above a few bucks is too much, IMO.

@Wyldanimal

You said something similar 514 - which then turned out to be a beta.

In my opinion If 516 is not a beta then there really ought to have been an offical announcement of that fact by Totem. Leaving it as an almost invisible option for existing users unless you go looking for it is silly.

As far as I can remember Totem did very visibly make an announcemeny for all previous official releases.

The Team needs to get feedback from New Members

The team also needs to get feedback from old users, including those that avoid using beta versions of software. In my opinion feedback from existing users is rather more important than feedback from new users who have nothing to directly compare the new version with.

It is still not entirely clear to me whether 516 is a beta or not (though I lean toward "not").

@Calgon

The full screen scene info box can contain html links 👍I've been using this to link some of my scenes back to their Shadertoy page, which has been a big time-saver for debugging.
For a different project, I want to link to an html file in a scene sub-folder rather than a web address but not sure how to address this. Anyone have any ideas ?

This html syntax works for me:

<a href="file:///C:/PATH/FILENAME">LINK TEXT</a>

V 516 is targeted at NEW signups.
There was no Automatic update from 514 to 516 for this reason.
The Team needs to get feedback from New Members
so this is the reason that 516 is the Download from the Main Page.

@cfrec2

I don't know about that Uniporn banner, but the other one is still available here:

https://www.istripper.com/img/newspromo/melena_oil.jpg?3

@Calgon - In Firefox I use this as my home page

file:///C:/Users/Public/Public%20Accessories/Internet/FireFox-bookmarks-as-start-page.html

and have used similar links to browse folders on my PC.

So I would have expected using the file: protocol like that instead of the http: or https: protocol would work - but it didn't when I tried it in an iStripper fullscreen scene link.

Maybe it's necessary to treat forward slashes in the flename as special characters.

The full screen scene info box can contain html links 👍I've been using this to link some of my scenes back to their Shadertoy page, which has been a big time-saver for debugging.

For a different project, I want to link to an html file in a scene sub-folder rather than a web address but not sure how to address this. Anyone have any ideas ?

I can confirm this : no auto-update for the 1.2.516 version. I had to "Check for updates" in the settings to download and install this new version.

What do you folks think would be a reasonable offer for Sia Siberia's NFT ?

There doesn't seem to be a lot of trading going on at the moment for the other cards on OpenSea with prices varying quite a lot. I'd love to see a nice liquid market with low trading costs.

I guess the team likes to keep members (including new members with no knowledge of testing betas) in the dark about some things. Not telling members that there is a new beta, and giving no warning that a beta is not necessarily a stable version, and that inexperienced users should not install does not seem like a good idea.

No team member has mentioned anything about version 12516, or that a new beta is available. This is in the channel for beta testing.
@vg4us created a thread there over two hours ago.
Nothing from the team.

@TheEMU
My problem with 516 is that there has been NO announcement by Totem as to its availability and status (unless it was done on Discord which is of no use to me).
I did not see it on discord either. By habit, I check for updates in settings in the morning.

None of the pop-up tooltips on the settings page (the question mark icons) appear to be working. Nor do the few that I haave checked elsewhere.

I remember a while back Melena Maria Rya had a couple of banners, would anyone know the links for them?

One was for her Tanned & Oiled card and I think the other one (not sure) was for her Uniporn card.

I did not run into the forum issue on my laptop after updating to 516. I have been playingshows on my desktop for over an hour now with no problems.

I have seen it quite a few times (well over a dozen using 514) but only when going from the Home page to the Forum immediately after the app starts. When I have managed to get the the forum once there has never been a repetition of the problem until I stop and restart the program.

Yes 516 did not seem to auto-update on my laptop when I booted it this morning Honestly, I don't mind that. I would rather "check for updates".

My problem with 516 is that there has been NO announcement by Totem as to its availability and status (unless it was done on Discord which is of no use to me).

I did not run into the forum issue on my laptop after updating to 516. I have been playingshows on my desktop for over an hour now with no problems. Laptop I started in fuullscreen and music stopped just like the desktop.

Yes 516 did not seem to auto-update on my laptop when I booted it this morning Honestly, I don't mind that. I would rather "check for updates". If auto-update is to become a peranent feature I would think informing the user that an update is available may be a good idea rather than silently updating.

With regard tothe problem @vg4us reported. When it has happened to me I had the same solid white window (not the whole screen), not even the usual busy indicator commonly seen when something is hanging.

I am using version 12514. I have not been asked to install a newer beta version.
Does not bother me. I wonder why though.

I see that 12516 is on the website but stilll not called a beta, and with no warning that is may not work well for some users.
(maybe the install has a warning, but by then it may be too late)

Ditto. I have neither been automatically updated nor invited to update. Nor have I seen any announcement that a new version of any kind is now available or what its status may be. The situation now is even more ***** that it was yesterday.

Can you please clarify what is going on.

@The EMU
I have had that happen quite often with beta 1,2 5.16, especially when I have gone to the Forum very quickly after the home screen first appears. If I wait until the top area scrolls three or so times then it never seems to happen.

That was the first time I seen that happen. Solid white screen.

Weird. I loaded the beta 516 and the forum screen was completely blank.

I have had that happen quite often with beta 1,2 5.16, especially when I have gone to the Forum very quickly after the home screen first appears. If I wait until the top area scrolls three or so times then it never seems to happen.

I suspect that there is a timing issue with the program waiting for some event that actually happened before it started to wait and this is due to the program being multi-threaded.

I rebooted and now it is fine.

I never needed to reboot, just to quit and restart iStripper.

I see that 12516 is on the website but stilll not called a beta, and with no warning that is may not work well for some users.
(maybe the install has a warning, but by then it may be too late)

I am using version 12514. I have not been asked to install a newer beta version.
Does not bother me. I wonder why though.

Confirmed music broken in fullscren mode. Plays only one sog.

Weird. I loaded the beta 516 and the forum screen was completely blank. I rebooted and now it is fine.

Merci @EverthangForever. Très belles scènes. Tout fonctionne bien pour moi. Merci aussi à @Calgon. 😊

@EverthangForever

much obliged 👍

... You're welcome.

I've amassed over 1500 shaders... many first converted by yourself ... and still you find new ones I haven't seen before. 😊

https://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/29408/79?post=764696
Srry I meant @Calgon , thanks to you for the textures link..much obliged 👍

FGA056-FGA067
Twelve selected WebGL shaders remixed & converted to OpenGL
to run &/or remix on iStripper's Fullscreen OpenGL platform.
Standing or table work randomly applies to all these scenes
unless otherwise captioned.

https://scenes.virtuastripper.net/ET_FractalGardenA056-A067.zip

zip size = 3.1 Mb
Extract the zip straight to ../scenes folder. Allow merged folders
and allow to overwrite any existing same name file.
https://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/27449/151?post=764697

JonC001

Custom image not usedOdd, that I do not remember seeing anything about that.However, it is still used.If you see my images, you will see that the custom image is the one being replaced. The custom image is being replaced by the regular image, but same file name. The normal card image file name is not added, or changed.

I just posted that Directly above your Post.
https://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/52963/12?post=764676

the app is downloading the standard Image and saving it over top of the aXXXX_custom.jpg
So that
a Member created custom image is no longer being used, it is replaced by the standard image.

obviously a side affect of a change in the app. Or a Bug as we call it.

Prior versions Searched the data folder for the card image to display.
if a aXXXX_custom.jpg was found, it was used 1st.
If no aXXXX.custom.jpg exists
Then If
a Non-Standard card image was found the correct card images was downloaded to replace it and used.

but something in the app changed, and now it is replacing the non-Standard aXXXX_custom.jpg with the standard one.

Obviously an unwanted side affect of something else.

A different Issues in Full Screen or Screen saver only ONE song plays then the Music stops

That is an absolute ***** for me. I thought I'd broken something at first. 😭😭😭😭😭😭

Custom image not used

Odd, that I do not remember seeing anything about that.

However, it is still used.
If you see my images, you will see that the custom image is the one being replaced. The custom image is being replaced by the regular image, but same file name. The normal card image file name is not added, or changed.

Maybe have a read of this QT post. QT GUI
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtgui-index.html


QTQuick3D
https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/quick3d-examples.html

Would Need feedback from the iStripper Devs, as to what QT modules are used to render the Scenes.

As reported elsewhere:
Cards Not Owned
aXXXX_custom.jpg
Image is no Longer Used
The APP is Downloading and Replacing the custom Image with the standard Image

@guillaume

Correct me if I'm wrong, what you reported here is only a display problem. The music correctly plays but the first time they're added, they're not checked in the Music tab while you would expect them to, is that right?

Correct,
It is only a display Issue.
Checked Music still plays as Intended, in Desktop mode
but the check boxes are not Displayed correctly.
( A different Issues in Full Screen or Screen saver only ONE song plays then the Music stops )

@Calgon

If your GPU's driver / OpenGL fragment compiler supports a function then you should simply be able to call it from a fragment shader (similarly for vertex shaders). However which functions are available is dependant on the version of OpenGL so you may have to use a version directive in your code to override the default version established by iStripper. If you do manage to "raise" the OpenGL version in this way then your shader may not work on other peoples systems.

Why the messages are classed as warning is anybody's guess. Mine is that they ought to be simple informational messages but that something in the system only allows warnings and errors through to the log

I've always thought that WARNING may be a translation issue.

I think it should say ATTENTION or as you say maybe FOR INFORMATIION

@TheEmu thank you, much obliged 👍

@TheEmu

However, I think that most, if not all, of the things referenced in those "warning" messages are functions provided by the OpenGL API rather than by the shader language.

Am I correct in thinking that you wrote this bit of code:

vec4 texture2D_Fract(sampler2D sampler,vec2 P) {return texture(sampler,fract(P));}
vec4 texture2D_Fract(sampler2D sampler,vec2 P, float Bias) {return texture(sampler,fract(P),Bias);}

Was wondering if we can do similar for a CubeMap ?

I found this reference...

vec4 textureCube(samplerCube sampler, vec3 coord)
vec4 textureCube(samplerCube sampler, vec3 coord, float bias)

Here:
https://thebookofshaders.com/glossary/?search=textureCube

but I haven't been able to get it to work yet. If it's even possible.

@EverthangForever

Where does one access the
full definition versions of these textures ?

That one I did find :)

https://shadertoyunofficial.wordpress.com/2019/07/23/shadertoy-media-files/