0.1.8

Open beta · 8 September 2026

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Uploads got faster, and avatars looking white after a bake are fixed.

Check before updating

Backup: back up the project before installing.
Re-bake: materials you already baked need baking again for this fix to apply.
Re-upload: upload your VRChat avatars again.
Only when moving from an old install: pull out files you saved inside Assets/StudioRaming/MingToon first.
Do not delete MingLightController or the whole StudioRaming folder.

Color Presets — save and apply the whole Shadow Color tab, the rim and depth tints, and HSVG.
The factory palettes are seven: Neutral, Warm Tone 1, Warm Tone 2, Cool Tone 1, Cool Tone 2, High Saturation and Low Saturation.
Overall Saturation — applies to the entire final output. 0 is monochrome, 1 is neutral.
SSAO Color · Rim Shade Color — set them directly in Quick Settings alongside the band colors.
UV Source · Mask UV Source — choose the normal layer's UV and the mask's UV separately, from UV0 to UV3.
Importing a DLL downloaded from BOOTH installs the required packages automatically.
It checks for a new version when Unity starts and shows a notice. It installs only when you press Update.
The Manager's update panel shrank to two lines, with Check, Update and Patch Notes gathered in one place.

When Rim Shade Color has a blend opacity of 0, it uses 1st Shadow Color just as before.
The default texture bake policy LosslessOnly does not rewrite original pixels.
It runs only when both Reviewed Texture Rewrites On Build (Opt-In) and Optimize On Build / Upload (Applies To Everything) are on.
With those on, texture layers and normal layers are each merged into one texture right before upload.
Individual masks are packed into RGBA, and the Outline tab's Width Mask goes in too.
Color space, mips and compression can change pixels. Compare before and after the bake yourself.
If both of the normal layer's UVs are the default UV0, the UV router is not compiled.
Install and update notices follow the system language; Manager labels follow the inspector language.

Fixed: uploads took far too long. First uploads are 3 to 50% faster.
Mostly fixed: characters uploaded after a bake looked white.
Fixed: an MLC issue where a BRP-only project checked for URP that was not there and blocked the upload.
Fixed: lilToon conversion changed the SSAO color purity.
Fixed: conversion turned the emission mask off, and compression altered the mask data.
Fixed: outline normal correction varied with model size.
Fixed: when a bake was interrupted, partially generated files contaminated the next run.
The Manager's Patch Notes button now links to the latest documentation.

How much faster it gets depends on the avatar and the environment.
The fix that makes fallback emission black is in 0.1.7 hotfix 1.
Materials baked before 0.1.7 hotfix 1 need baking again and re-uploading.
Cleaning up an old install is a one-time job. It does not repeat on every later update.
Users who installed through VCC keep updating from VCC directly.