PREVIEW: Alive v74 (Patreon)

A very quick look at a few new things coming up in Alive v74:

• Characters will keep track of atoms that move around in the scene. They will focus every now and then on objects in the scene, without the need of extra plugins added on the objects and DIY setup (as it was the case until now)

• Objects that are being grabbed by you will catch the character's attention

• The vision system's hand movement feature has been remade so that hands move more naturally, especially vertically. In older versions, characters used to raise or lower their hands in unnatural ways when looking up and down, and the old logic was also more costly performance-wise that the new one

• There's new reactions (expressions and body movement) that happen when characters are touched

• There's also fixes in v74 to eliminate some of the mouth & brow transition issues that happened before when changing reactions